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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 19, 1864
Cranberry Conformity
"World are you ready?" This is the motto of this year's senior class.
When I hear or see that little phrase, I can't help thinking that the world is ready, but are our seniors.
Ever since the first senior gathering took place last week I am more convinced than ever that the answer to my thought is no.
WHEN I WALK ACROSS the campus now I see that students are still not coperabulating and that a hideous shade of red referred to as cranberry is spread over the upper torso of a goodly number of students. These students are seniors. Future leaders, supposedly, of communities, states and heaven forbid, our country.
This fungus-like growth that has enveloped their bodies and apparently their minds is nothing more than a sweatshirt. Yet, it also appears to be their calling card for the world that awaits.
However, fellow members of the senior class the world does not await your coming. It will continue along its non-stop course without even giving you a second glance. You are going to have to find a place where you can step aboard that merry-go-round of life with your diploma in one hand and your senior sweatshirt, of which you seem to be so justly proud, on your back.
I MUST ADMIT I am impressed with the sea
of cranberry that I see going to class these days. I would wager that never before in the annals of man have so many people been influenced by nothing more, and nothing less than an animate object, an article of clothing, the cranberry sweatshirt. My congratulations to you, cranberry senior sweatshirt.
The conforming of the masses to anything and everything is not unusual. And, since cranberry sweatshirts are actually only par for the course, once again I am probably beating my head and my typewriter against a brick wall.
Of course I realize it's nice to be a senior. It's only natural to scream to the heavens that the last mile is being trod. But, fellow graduates of 1965, must such screaming be in cranberry.
If I may be granted license with an old cliche,
"Deeds and actions speak louder than cranberry."
HOWEVER, I MUST ADMIT that after viewing the actions of the past several days I am left with one thought.
"Since conforming to any idea of ideology, no matter how ridiculous, is so easy; and because our cranberry idol offers us so much asking little in return, except in my estimation my self-respect, why are our sweatshirts not gold?"
— Jim Langford
The Legality of Gambling
New Hampshire has tabulated the results of the country's first legal lottery. And the facts not only look good for the state with a legal lottery but also for the country.
With less than a year to sell tickets on the lottery after it was legalized, New Hampshire plunked about 2.5 million dollars in the treasury for the state's school system. Legislators battling for and against federal aid to education might well stop and look at New Hampshire's experience.
TICKETS SOLD IN THE lottery totaled $5,-730,093. The winner's rewards totaled about 1.7 million dollars, and the prizes ranged from $100,-000 down to $202. New taxes, in fact, may not be needed this year to support the schools. With ticket sales for next year's lottery already begun,
officials predict a 10-million-dollar income for the state.
THE QUESTION OF A LEGAL lottery already is being considered by other states. Rhode Island's voters will determine in November whether a convention should be held to amend the state constitution to allow legal lotteries in that state. Supporters of the amendment look forward to Rhode Island receiving 15 million dollars for its efforts. Additional statistics from New Hampshire's lottery next year may prompt other states to follow the example.
Conservative leaders opposed to federal aid for education should adopt the legalized lottery as their "war cry," while liberals would do well to reconsider their position.
— Nancy Schroeter
Farm Issue Overshadowed
(The following article is one of a series dealing with states and the nation's prosecution by election. They will be run in contesting with the election on campaign issues until the election.)
Overpowered by such concerns as nuclear arms and civil rights, agriculture can be called an election issue at this stage in the presidential campaign of 1964 only by exaggeration.
But even if the farmer has not been the source of campaign distribe, it may be that what the little candidates are saying about agriculture will prove decisive in the Midwest, an area neither Sen. Goldwater nor President Johnson can claim at this point.
JOHNSON, WHO with some stretch of the imagination can be called a farmer, believes the farm policies of his and the Kennedy administration have been successful. He believes current programs and efforts should continue and be expanded.
The Democratic platform calls for support of commodity programs to open new markets, consumer programs such as the Food Stamp Act and the school-lunch program and community programs such as support of the Rural Electrification Administration.
Goldwater wants to take the federal government off the farm. He has proposed changes, reductions and, in some cases, curtailments of farm programs which have been created in effort to solve the nation's perplexing farm problem.
Slapping the Democratic administration under a section titled "Betrayal of the Farmer," the Republican platform says "it has broken its major promises to farm people."
GOLDWATER HAS SAID he wants a "free and prosperous American agriculture with a minimum of federal controls and interference." He proposes a voluntary system of farm price supports. The Arizona senator and his running mate, William Miller, have voted consistently against farm measures in the House and Senate.
Goldwater has suggested that the REA be abolished. Hubert Humphrey, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, said at Little Rock in September that Goldwater has voted yes on only two of 37 proposals in the last 12 years on legislation which would benefit rural electricity consumers. Humphrey said both of Goldwater's yes votes were on bills which favored Arizona.
SPEAKING AT THE SAME gathering on a different day, Humphrey, the only Midwesterner among the four candidates, said election of Goldwater would mean "the death sentence to agriculture." The Minnesota senator read a sentence from Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative" in which the Arizonaan says he would end farm subsidy programs.
Goldwater told farmers at the National Plowing Contest at Buffalo, N.D., he would get the government out of farms. He said he believes a gradual decline in farm supports would be good for the farmer.
Speaking at Des Moines last month, Miller blamed the farmer's "cost-price-squeeze" on the "ill-conceived" schemes of "confused and inept" Democratic bureaucrats.
And it may be because of Goldwater's stand on farm subsidies and other economic matters that Johnson is running stronger in the farm belt than Goldwater. Even in such Republican strongholds as western Kansas, Johnson is sure to make a good showing.
Polls and surveys have shown Johnson and Goldwater running close in the farm belt states, but the reasons for this usually have been attributed to issues other than agriculture.
From present indications, agriculture may have little impact on this year's election. While the farmer is concerned about how much his hog, wheat or corn will bring, he also is basing his vote on other matters to a high degree.
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