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105 ANGELES. CALIFORNIA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, I960
NO 2à
ASSC CRITIQUE
students Oe.cnbe Ex-Governor Brands. State Senate
Senate as Inert' As Being Irresponsible to Public
Cow County Senators Imperil Southland Future, Says Knight
By I.OURDES EUGENIO
Troian altitude toward student government, is one of indlilcrencc and characteristic lukewarmness, a Daily Trojan pall revealed yesterday.
The question asked in the survey was whether or not ( students think that, the Senate is representing them	in
-—-------------------------------the best possible way.
Sharon Berman, a phychology major, summarized the general reaction of students to the question by saying, "I don’t feei that the average student walking	on
campus is aware of whether	or
not he is represented."
Twenty students said that in their opinion the Senate is not accomplishing anything in their ¡merest.
UCLA Paper Charged With Political Bias
Charges of "smear tactics" »ere leveled against the UCLA Daily Bruin yesterday by County Republican Chairman Pat Hillings.
In ■ telegram *o the I CLA Board of Trustees L’SC graduate Hillings claimed that the Daily Bruin was showing a partisan altitude in the election campaign •nd that such an attitude was improper »* ■ public-supported school.
Protests Smear
•'I strongly protest the smear tactics of the Daily Bruin against Republican Presidential Candidate Dick Nixon and other Republican candidates." Hillings' telegram read in part.
The Republican chairman went *rt in sav that he. »* * taxpayer. deplored the fan ihai the newspaper in a state-suppoi ted nniversity was allowed to show' such impartia!it>
Contacted by the Daily Troian. Daily Bruin Editor Mort Saltzman < no relation) explained that Hillings was referring to an editorial cartoon of Nixon that bore the subtitle. “Would you buy a used car from this man?”
Kennedy, To«?
The Bruin editor said an accompanying editorial, which he felt. HUlings had not read. iold leaders thai a similar cartoon on Kennedy would be printed lampooning the Democratic candidates appearance. The cartoons were being run io show students some of the extra-academic aspects of the campaign, he said.
A reply released by Byron Atkinson, acting dean of students at UCLA, reads in part:
“The UCLA Daily Bruin is a student paper edited and under the financial auspices of the students. No tax money is used in its publication and il is solely ihe expression of the student body, not the administration.
‘The Daily Bruin, like other American newspaper, enjoy our traditional freedom of the press t«* evaluate the news and exercise it* editorial jvidffmem,” the release note*.
Demo, COP Show Opens At Library
Campaign materials of both Richard Nixon and Jack Kennedy are being displayed in an exhibit on the main floor of Dohenv Library.
Not Serving In Capacity
One group agreed that ihe.v have never been informed about the Senate and w'hat it is doing for them, They also agreed that the student leaders are not serving in the capacity in which they were elected into office
“Thev’re .iust a bunch of politicians.” said Mary Jo de los Reyes, a sophomore pre-nursing
student.
Mary Woodard, sophomore art major, thought, that the problem arises from the fact that the Senaie is given very little publicity. She felt that this makes it impossible for the average student to know what's going on within the legislative body.
One Senator Praised
Mike Thorpe, a sophomore in speech, felt that Mike Robinson, senator for the communications area, is doing his share of the job very effectively.
"Robinson works wath the help of four directors w’ho he assigned to get the general opinion of students in their field and from this opinion survey, he votes on his legislation accordingly,” he said.
A humanities junior Sheri
“STOP GAP" PLAYERS Four Trojan thesbi-ans go through the paces of one of their "avant garde” productions. Caught in the act ?re Lowell Thomas, Helen Benjamin,
Rudy Vegar and Jane Ouint. “Stop Gap” productions will continue th# experimental play tradition this season.
Chekhov s Brute Continues Experimental Play Series
By PENVV I.ERNOITX	Thirty	experimental	plays	are
Daily Trojan City Editor scheduled per year with an av-A new version of Anton Chek- ierage of three week's rehearsal hov's “The Brute." to be pie- allotted to each. The dramas are
Bobe »aid she has never heard senied tonight. tomorrow' and
from any of the representatives at all. adding however, "It might he my fault
interest and enthusiasm."
Three accounting seniors (continued on page ?>
I Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Slop Gap Theater, will continue a
because of lack of pgprjpu,« tradition started 15 year« ago that of the experimental play.
Tonight’s drama like all of those that have preceded it since 1946. is the result of a lab whose end result is audience enjoyment ! and student experience.
“Through these plays we attempt to give students an opnor-tunity to direct, act in and handle all aspects of a particular drama.” says Dr. James H. Butler; head of the drama depart-
usiiallv one-acts and are given in a series of two or three in one night.
^'hallenging n«\«
The students choose the plays to he performed in line with the
England from the pen of one of the ‘‘angry young men” writing there today.
The Russian drama relates the story of a widow whose husband ha just died. While she is mourning, a neighboring farmer comes to her house to collect money owed him by the deceased husband. Since her mourning is
director's wishes, the talents of onlv half-serious because her
Ratio Favors Trojanes on Marital Quest
Although women may be ment.
starting to outnumber men throughout the world. USC remains the ideal place for hus-hand-hunier*.
The ratio of men to women it 3.® to i nn campus, reveals Registrai David W Evans Evans
He adds that these dramas
the group and advice from the drama department faculty. Dr. Butler usually appoints the directors on the basis of their past abilities and experiences.
“The students attempt to produce new’ or challenging plays as much as possible, often drawing on the writing talents of USC students.” says Dr. Butler.
For instance. “The Brick and the Rose” bv Luis Carlino, a
also adds that the ratio paratively stable.
plav a very important role in the USC student, was produced by
the group. Response to the mod ernistic play was so enthusiastic that it was later produced on TV and performed hv a professional cw'Oiip in 1 ,os Angeles, he illustrated.
Tlie students’ search for chal-
training of the drama student here at USC.
'»flirtent Direction
"T hp.se productions actually gel verv 11 * t If- faculty direction.
com- They are completely in the hands of the students. Consequently.
husband was a ‘‘brute” of sorts, the tw'o forget the money by falling in love.
Dr. Butler points out that the difficult farcical technique needed for the play gives the performing students excellent dramatic pfaetice.
The Chekhov play will be directed by Bave Kent and will feature Ginger Hannon. Gordon Hoban and Leslie Blank in the cast.
I ni<|iie Treatment
The drama department head feels that USC« treatment of such experimental plays is unique among college campuses in the United States
"Our department places a?
By HAL DRARF. Assistant City Editor
Goodwin J. Knight branded the California State Senate as “completely irresponsible” during a speech before the Faculty Club yesterday.
In a strong plea for Proposition 15. the former California Governor said the "cow county” senators were “strangling" Southland interests.
Proposition 15 is an initiative measure that would call for a reapportionment of the State Senate to provide greater representation for Southern California counties to eliminate control of the body by the lesser-populated Northern counties.
Bipartisan Opposition It has been opposed by leaders in both parties.
“In 1948 I campaigned against reapportionment." Knight said, “but in those days we had a responsible State Senate.”
Knight charged that the present Northern senators are men who think there is nothing in Southern California except smog and money.
"These irresponsible men can block anything that enters the Senate. Some are obsessed with a hatred and jealousy for the prosperity of Southern California.” the ex-governor noted.
Cites Examples Knight cited as an example a bill put through the Senate that charged the State Treasury with one-half of all the taxes assessed in five Northern counties.
“There are a lot of people in Los Angeles who would like to get that kind of service.” he said.
"We haven't got a ‘federal plan' when Southern California, with fiO per cent of the state's population and paying 65 per cent of the taxe«. has to go begging with its hat in its hand for representation." Knight argued.
Currently a news commentator on a local television station, Knight appeared before the fac-
ulty luncheon to speak on issues in the current presidential campaign.
He told the group that the ; candidates should rely more on I the knowledge of university scholars than the "images” of newsmen and TV experts.
Claiming that Ihe country has been on "an economic sleigh ride” for the past 15 \ears. Knight charged Senator Kennedy would not be able to fulfill his campaign promises.
“We are in a recession right now, and it's not going to just flicker and stop. Where are we going to get the 518 billion to finance the Senator’s platform?.” he asked.
Both candidates. Knight said, are going to have to face the “economic facts of life.”
Referring to himself as a “prophet of common sense” ^
rather than a "prophet of gloom and doom.” Knight pointed out that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped over 120 points in the last year.
“The enormous inflation in stock prices is not going o last.” he said. “Stocks can no longer sell at 40 times their earning power.”
Knight endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket “wholeheartedly and enthusiastically." saying he felt the pair would contribute most to the stability of the nation.
"Richard Nixon has not been a 'figurehead' but, instead, has been very active in the practical application of President Eisenhower's policies,” he explained.
“Henry Cabot Lodge's experience in the United Nations is invaluable and should be put to use.” the former governor added.
King and I ning
Opei
Set
I work and two other plays front I terested in them,” he explains, j time is 8:30 p.m.
Rivals TeSI Different Views
Purpose of the exhibit is to stimulate interest in the campaign and the election and to •ncourage USC student' to read
■	hoiit the candidates and the iT S. government, said Robert Knutson, inference department librarian, « ho arranged the display-.
The bi-partisan exhibit contains brochures, bumper and windshield stickers, pins, material on party platforms and hats. Knutson said.
Also included in the display eie background materials on both candidates, their respective stands on various issues, copies of reports to party workers on th? progress of the campaigns
■	r»d hook' on the American presidency anr* gene'a' informa-♦ ir\ry rsr\ the U. S. ffO'Cl’nmeiit.
I" addition, large posters of both Nixon .-.nd Kennedy are displayed. Each poster is flanked ^•ith a picture of the first president in each party: Abraham Lincoln for the Republican party and Thomas Jefferson for the Democratic party.
An autobiography of Nixon is on exhibit beside a large poster of the vice-president, while the book. 'Strategy.' of Peace. ' written hy Kennedy, is placed by thf Democratic candidate's P0“t«-ij
The«* encouraging figures	more	students and more respon-	lenging drama	is exemplified by	much emphasis on	these	plays
were in marked contrast to a	sibilitv are often involved in	tonight’s experimental	theater	as those produced	in Bovard,
recent UPI article, which related	them	than in many Bovard main-	fare consisting	of the	Chekhov	and the students are	just	as in-
the beliefs of two Houston doc- 1 stage	productions,” he notes,
tors that the day will come whep there will be five women lo every two men.
Future May Be Dismal If the standards of living today continue and if the human life expectancy hits 100 years, the future of womanhood is dismal. said Dr. Homer Taylor, a general practitioner, and Dr.
Robert Norris, a gynecologist, in the article.
The doctors make the pill ev en more bitter by adding that much of the trouble is due to the women themselves. They point out that the life expectancy of a man is sometimes shortened because “a woman’s ambition will drive him to his grave.”
They reported that . other causes for ihe shortened life span are due to men and society.
"Disrej;»rrt Advice**
"Men disregard their health mote than women. They seldom go to the doctor fo* a check-up. and e'en "hen they d.o go. the
advice often disregarded," fhe ; doctors said.
:	Also,	"a lifetime of struggle”
wears the man down. Usually, he is responsible for keeping things together—“both at home and in his job,” they noted.
“The female definitely is the stronger sex,” Dr. Norris asserted. He also said that there is i more lung cancer in men than women and four times as many men as women have heart trouble the corona rv, not romantic, varietv.
Ticket sales will begin today for the drama department's production of Rogers and Hammer-stein's oriental musical. “The King and I,” which makes its debut \’ov. 3 in Bovard Auditorium.
All sealî are reserved, and price« are 3*2 and -?2.50. Students possessing activity books may receive a dollar discount.
The production is slated for Nov. 3. 4. 5, 11 and 12. Curtain
New Taxation Policy Presented to Institute
A new internal Revenue Serv-benstve regulations adopted by ice policy gives greater freedom the Commissioner rtf Internat to individual employees who Revenue this year prescribe in wish to postpone collection of certain areas a different treat -their salaries or wages until ment from the former regula-sometime in the future to avoid tions. Chase pointed out. high Federal income taxes.	As	a general rule, voluntary
This was reported yesterday to demolition or removal of a 500 attorneys and accountants building used in busines or held attending the 13th annual Insti- for production of income is a de-
¡ ductible loss.
The US CFedeial Tax Institute will continue today and tomorrow with lectures by attorney* in Bovard auditorium.
Housing Drop Hurts L.A., Realtor Notes
People in Los Angeles County today are selling $40,000 houses for $900 down payment when three years ago such homes were sold for $7000 to $8000 down, says Dr. G.Preston Martin, USC real estate specialist, in looking at the current housing slump.
Home building has taken a sharp decline on hoth the local and national level. The United Stales On*!!« Rureaii listed a" estimate that private hottsinr
construction ha; dropped 17 per cent during th® pas,. month This level is nearing the low-reached in th* recession of 135? Economy Afiected A possible result of the dip cerning tax problems in the de- j will be further declines in m-
tute on Federal Taxation on campus by attorneys l^awrence E. Irell and Lawrence M. Stone of Los Angeles.
Relieve« Taxes
The principal purpose of deferring compensation is in relieve the employee from the burden of high taxe« by spreading high cuifcnt earnings over a longer period of years, they ?aid.
’The government's new ruling apparently permits an employee to arrange a deferred compensation plan himself. In the past such an arrangement had to include 70 per cent of all employees of a company.” the attorneys noted
Although somewhat ambiguous. the new ruling appears lo take the position that it is unimportant whether the employer would have been willing to agree to pay the compensation at an earlier date, the speakers said.
\ ru Policy
However, the current policy.
m effect r,r!iv about nine month clearly sanctions only arrangements where an unfunded or unsecured promise by the employer to pay is present.
Other new regulations con- j
By CHRIS Mf.HT
Whatever their differences on various other issues may he. representatives of both t ie Republican and Democratic parties agree on the fact that they disagree.
Two USC profesors, each actively participating in the presidential campaign, were asked to comment on the view's of the organization called “Americans Sitting This One Out Together,” a group formed to see that a I substantial number of people do 1 not vole as a protest to w'hat they call the "bipartisanism" of the candidates.
ASTOOT (their own choice of
nickname i memhers "are dis-gUStprt with the lark of a meaningful choice on the ha! lot and with bipartisanism on the crucial issues of our times.”
“We abstain until w e can v ote for candidates who stand and work for peace, for civil-nghts decency, for the advancement of labor, for the farmer, for the consumer and for the welfare of all children, irrespective of race.” say the members.
Dr. Carl Q. Christol, political science department head and co-chairman of Southern California Scholars for Nixon, and rv. Russell Caldwell, professor of history and spokesman for the
DR. CARL O. CHRISTOL
agrees to disagree
Democrats, disagree with the ASTOOT position.
They agree that there are basic areas of disagreement not only between the two parties, but also between the presidential candidates.
Dr. Christol stated that the choice on the ballot is “getting clearer a 11 the time.” Dr Caldwell agreed, adding that (here are "profound issues" in this
campaign.	%
DR. RUSSELL CALDWELL
. definite spbt
Dr. Caldwell felt that the two most basic points of difference in the campaign are the questions of whether or not we will have “a type of planned economy which provides complete employment and full production and, in the field of foreign policy, the issue of whether or not the Republicans have lei the eounfrv down over promises maHe in 1Dn‘2 and ’956."
Dr. Christol said that the con-
troversies in Ihe campaign revolve around the questions of foreign policy, the attitude toward the USSR, health, education. medical aid. civil rights and the personalities of the candidates.
In actual evaluation of ASTOOT. they disagreed strongly.
Dr. Christol characterized the group as anti-intellectual, ignorant and uninformed.
He said that “people who make statements of the sort which ASTOOT members have made don’t deserve to lie commented upon."
Dr. Caldwell slated that he did not believe this group, in deciding not lo vote as a protest against the two ranHidatns and
parti«, is anti-intellectual.
4 second idea in the philosophy of ASTOOT i? found tn their desire to “stop the biparti-sans from spending staggering sums for war preparations in the guise of national defense. There is no defense against hydrogen bombs.
Dr. Caldwell stated that AS-TOOT’s criticism on this point is true. He said that both parties are talking about military strength and that neither ha« had the courage fo put forward a |’P3| program fo»- a prarp
pzencv.	m
molition. retirement and abandonment of property were discussed by attorney Charles H. Chase of Los Angeles.
“The demolition of existing buildings and the retirement or ahandonmem of property create« a problem as to the proper treatment for income tax purposes of the unrecovered cost of the asset w hose usefulness j«
terminated." he said.
The comparatively compre-
Drama Club Quits Trolios
The National Collegiate Players. professional dramatic organization, has withdrawn from Ihe Trolios competition, announced Boh Riheller. Trolios chairman. Riheller claimed p r e « s u i e
brought on W\ the living gj nii|K and other participating organisation s caused the players u' withdraw “These groups fe!f they
could not compete with the professional quality of performance put on by the N.C.P..” said Bil-heller.
Tom Costello, N.C.P. president, said the Players would perform their scheduled act but solely
for the entertainment of the audience.
He added that the group
would continue lo make Ms services avai]ahle to participants in
the shr-o in an effort to improve the performances.
! dustrial production and retail I sales, affecting the total na-I tional output of goods and services.
"Releasing credit solved the recession of 1958, but it will not counteract the housing dip of today. We've reached a turning point. People who want housing, in genera), already hav e a nice house.” Dr Martin ?aid The answer may come in time, he felt. “Now we are waitngi for a new crop of buyers, college students. The World War II bulge has been taken care of. Even in Southern California this is true,” he continued.
Three million housing units have been constructed since 1958. he pointed out.
lieHine Expccfeit An anonymous government official staled in a recent article that “we did not expect this kind of decline We had thought that the release of credit would
stimulate home building N»eau-f it ha - always worked in the past."
Dr Martin disagreed. ‘This i? no great surprise. Economists said it was coming all along.” “The twist is that it comes at the end of a presidential term. It has become an eelction issue for both canddiates,” he noted.
“Senator Kennedy says he will alleviate the decline by making
credit more easily secured Candidate .\'i\on savs that tht~ not fhr	tr* pnmb:*t »h**
Jem,” the prof eui enr ronrlJiHr'i.