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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1960
NO. 27
Republican, Democratic Civil Rights Planks Attacked In AWS Partisan Political Debate
Pharmacists $20 PRIZE OFFERED
Will Originate New Society
Lower division pre-pharmacy majors will now have a greater chance to become acquainted with their future profession due to the establishment of the Pre-Pharmacy Society on the USC campus.
Rho Pi Phi, professional pharmacy fraternity, will sponsor the group, which will hold its first meeting in the last part of November. Pre-pharmacy students at junior colleges in the area will also be invited to join.
“The average pre-pharmacy student is not well-informed about what his future holds and what will be required of him," a recent pharmacy bulletin stated.
“The new group will attempt ' to solve this problem and to give members information about curriculum arrangement, pro- j graming and employment be- i cause students are often poorly advised as to course require-ments,” explained Dr. Edward | S. Brady, pharrpacy professor.
Various pharmaceutical manufacturers will speak at the society's meetings, representing such specialized fields as hospital and manufacturing pharmacy.
Demos Plan Vote Recruit
“Get out the vote" campaign plans will be discussed by the Trojan Democratic Club today in anticipation of Sen. John F. Kennedy's appearance on campus Nov. 1.
The meeting, scheduled for 2:30 p.m. in 106 FH, has been called by Larry Young, club president. He reported that TDC j members are now' signing up ! volunteers for election-day work.
According to Young, TDC distributed 1000 pieces of literature j regarding Kennedy in precints surrounding the university. The club agenda will include an evaluation of this work.
In other club activities. Young announced that Rosalind Wyman. Los Angeles city council member, will speak at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday at the YWCA.
Mrs. Wyman's topic will be “Why a Woman Should Be a Democrat”
IN EDITORIAL CONTEST
Twenty dollars in prize money was offered yesterday for the best student-written editorials telling why. either John F. Kennedy or Richard M. Nixon should be elected president.
The prize winning editorials will he run side by side on page 1 of the Daily Trojan on Monday, Nov. 7, the day before election. All full-time USC students are elegible to submit entries.
The winning editorials will be selected by faculty members who have served as spokesmen on campus for the Republican and Democratic parties. Dr. Carl Q. Christol, professor of poliiical science and chairman of Scholars for Nixon, will head the faculty committee to pick the best Nixon editorial. Dr. Russell L. Caldwell, associate professor of general studies and history and long-time campus Democratic spokesman, will choose the Kennedy editorial.
The S20 in prize money, which has been put up by Frcderic C. Coonradt, associate professor of journalism, will be split equally between the winners.
“We would be‘glad to increase the prize money if anybody wants to add to it,” said Coonradt. “If the Trojan Young Republicans, for instance, want to sweeten the kitty to go to he Nixon winner, it would be fine with me. Of if there are some Democrats who want to boost the payola to the Kennedy winner, that’s fine too. We would even accept contributions of money to be split down the middle.”
55 UC Editors Quit In Mass Resignation
Mass editorial resignation on all campus publications came to the University of California at Berkeley Sunday as 55 editors demonstrated their protest over new control measures.
The squabble arose when the campus newspaper, the Daily Californian, published an editorial signed by the paper's editorial board supporting a candidate for the office of representative at large.
Dustins: Fails
The Associated Students exe-: eutive committee tried to oust j editor Dan Silver and his staff \ Friday, but failed.
The committee then voted a change of by-laws putting campus editorial jobs under its supervision. Before, all editors ¡ had been chosen by the paper’s | editorial board.
As a result, all but four members of the Daily Californian staff walked out along with edi- ; tors of the literary, humor and ! engineers' magazines and the year book.
The protesting staff published a Swan Song edition today say- j ing "We resign” and that they | refuse to go back.
“Thev feel freedom of the '
press has been squelched,” reported Arnold Lester of the UCLA Daily Bruin.
The group will not publish a rival paper to the Daily Californian called the Independent Californian.
The remaining four staff members rounded up 300 volunteers to publish tomorrow's paper including members of the football team to write the sports page, and members of the Hearst family to write the editorial page.
It will be published under the new by-law of the Associated Students executive committee with editorial jobs under the committee’s supervision.
Defeated Candidate
The candidate the paper had supported, Mike Tigar, was defeated in the final election.
One of Tigar's opponents. Rod Briggs, who was also defeated, had said he would attempt to change the Daily Cal's by-laws to prevent the paper from endorsing a candidate.
Appearing on every editorial page of the paper in the statement, “Editorials reflect the Daily Californian’s views and make no claim to represent student of University opinion.”
Koestler Book Will Undergo Forum Review
"Darkness at Noon," a novel by Arthur Koestler, will be presented in today’s Philosophy Forum, to be held in Mudd Memorial Hall at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon.
The stage adaptation of the work, written by Sidney Kingsley, will be directed by Dr. Herbert M. Stahl with interpretations by Dr. W. H. Werkmeis-ter of the Philosophy School.
The question of the end justifying the means is answered in this description of Koestler’s concern in the Moscow Trials of 1937.
Kingsley, in his stage adaptation, maintains the original theme questioning whether man, the individual, or mankind is more important. The end result is also explored.
Rubashov, the main character, will be read by Clifford Reimes of the drama department. Rubashov was the last of the old regime imprisoned for “political divergencies.”
Ivanov, played by Murray Rose, is determined to get a confession from Rubashov before he sentences the prisoner to death. This is a long process, but ultimately Rubashov, his mind broken by prolonged torture, rationalizes the confession.
EN GARDE — Republican Vince M. Townsend and Democrat Richard B. Cartwright stand together only in body, for in mind
they are far apart, as they demonstrated during the AWS debate. The two politicians took turn blasting each others party.
Student Relates Hiking Trip In Rugged Soviet Mountains
Dinner, Talk Set Tonight
Problems confronting the young professional man in industry will be discussed tonight at 6:30 at a dinner lecture in the Faculty Lounge. The lecture is sponsored by the Relations with Industry Committee of the American S(»iety for Engineering Education.
John Gammell, director of graduate training at Allis-Chal-mers Manufacturing Co., will lead a discussion of the development of industrial leaders.
The meeting has been opened to all persons in industry or government concerned with the development of the young professional man.
Price of the dinner is $3.50. The discussion will follow»at 7:30 in the same room.
(Editor’s Note: This is the third in a Tuesday series of articles on Russia. This week Miss Campbell describes her adventure in a Sputnik camp.)
By HEATHER CAMPBELL Turning our travelscope from sightseeing to sports, my experiment group boarded the train bound for Sochi and our sports camp, leaving Moscow, Leningrad and Tbilisi behind.
Exhausted by our rigorous eschedule of sightseeing in Moscow, Leningrad and Tbilisi, my Experiment group boarded the train bound for Sochi and our sports camp.
While in Moscow all of us had been somewhat disappointed lo learn that our camp stay, originally scheduled for the southern part of the Georgian Republic, hid been changed to an international sports camp in the Russian Republic. We had been looking forward to the opportunity of meeting some non-Russian people as well as Russians. Furthermore, we had learned that we would be with the Lisle Fellowship group, one of t h e five
others participating in this sum-S mer exchange program.
Smaller Groups Most of us felt that the smaller the group, the more able we | would be to assimilate ourselves ¡into the life of the camp. Fortunately, our apprehensions and fears about the limitations whi?h this change would impose upon i us profed to be needless.
Our first impression of the camp in which \ye would be liv-in..' for 15 days was very favorable. The Sputnik International Sports Camp was the newest one in all of the Soviet Union and was officially opened with a banquet and dancing the very evening that we arrived. During the festivities wa met some of the more than 200 Russians. Poles, East Germans and Finns ! who shared the camp with us.
Active Participation During our stay, we participated as actively as we could n the daily routine. Our schedule included exercises at 7:15 a.m., breKaSt at 8 swimming in the Black Sea or an excursion into the nearby Caucuses or Sochi
at 9 a.m., dinner at 2 p.m.. a quiet hour after dinner at 3 p.m., sports at 4 p.m., supper at 7 and a movie or dance at 8:30.
During the early mornings and late afternoons we could play basketball, volleyball, tennis, ! pingpong or billiards. We were expected to be in bed by mid-\ night, and most of us were only j , too happy to cooperate.
Most Enjoyable
One of the most enjoyable activities of all was hiking in the nearby hills and mountains. Some of the more experienced members of our goup chose to go on a fou-adyr hike in the Cau-
The first morning was not bad. even though we sloshed our way through several streams and found ourselves in danger of being bounced off the sides of the hills by our heavy packs. In the afternoon, however, we left all our equipment 2t our base camp and proceeded very rapidly up the side of a steep mountain and halfway down the other side where we abruptly stopped.
Both Platforms Struck Down During Battle
By HAL DRAKE Assistant City Editor
The civil rights promises of both American political parties were attacked >esterday during the final AWS-sponsored debate on the 1960 political scene.
A scant audience of less than 50 persons heard Republican Vince M. Townsend describe the Democratic platform as “pie in the sky." while Democratic speaker Richard B. Cartwright charged the Republicans with failure to support adequate civil rights legislation.
Townsend, GOP candidate for assemblyman in the 63rd District, claimed the Democrats neglected to specify any means by which they intend to carry out their civil rights promises.
Conspicious Aspect
“The most conspicious aspect of the <Democratic) platform is not what is in it, but what is not in it.” Townsend said.
An active member of the NAACP. Townsend argued that the distinguishing feature in the two platforms is the Republican attempt to eliminate legislative drawbacks to civil rights legislation.
"The Republican platform promises that efforts will be made to change Rule 22 of the Senate. A similar pledge is conspicious by its absence form the Democratic platform,” the Republican claimed.
No Time Limit
Rule 22 is the “no time limit” allowance in the Senate that allows filibusters to blocade legislation.
Townsend insisted that the presence of this rule has allowl ed a minority of Senators to "lock up tight” any possibility of achieving effective civil rights legislation for the past 80 years.
He referred to the 1957 and 1959 civil rights bills as “emasculated skeltons.” claiming that Southern Democrats in control of Congressional committees have prevented passage of measures "with any teeth in them.”
“We have little hope in reliability of any Democratic promises as long as these men ra-main in control of the legislative process,” Townsend said.
Democrat Cartwright, a last-minute replacement for Assemblyman Jesse Unruh. argued that a Republican coalition was re-spnsible for the lack of civil rights legislation.
Latin American Trouble Spots Earn Campus Comment
Cuba Takes Russian Aid
“Cuba has found a good friend in Russia. She has given us everything the United States has taken from us.” said a USC architecture student who arrived from Havana three weeks ago.
Ruben Marco is a native Cuban and eager to talk about the Cuban revolution with any American who will listen.
"Castro has told us many times. ‘Feel sorry for the American people, because they don’t understand our situation. Just try to explain it to them but don’t make them angry.’” the USC sophomore said last week.
Russia May Be Favorite
Unless United States foreign policy towards Cuba changes, Cuba will turn completely to Russia. Marco cautioned. “In fact, the Latin American island has already taken some steps in that direction." he added.
After the United States cut its sugar quota. Russia’s Miko-yan came to Cuba and agreed to buy approximately 150.000 pounds of sugar and to loan the country S200 million to be paid in 100 years at one per cent interest, Marco explained.
The same loan from America would have to be paid in 20 years at four per cent, he said.
“Castro said we would have
"VIVA CASTRO"—USC sophomore Ruben Marco is a Cuban and a Castro supporter, and he's proud of both. Majoring in architecture, Marco is standing before one of his paintings. On his blazer is the emblem cf Cuba, and the flag he is standing beside — also representative of Cuba.
to be nice to Mikovan because he represented business,” Marco related.
However, the architecture student doesn't believe Russia can or will make Cuba a Soviet sat-
ellite. “The people realize what a rough dictatorship could do to the country,” he said.
Marco has lived in the United States for almost two years, attending school part of that time.
“I have a hatful of good feelings for the U.S. people. That’s why it hurts me so much when they get so much yellow press. They don’t know the facts about what’s happening in Cuba,” Marco said.
False Alarm
In explanation, he told about his last night in Havana three weeks ago when he spent the evening going from house to house saying goodbye to his friends. The next morning in Miami, he read in the American papers that bombs had exploded the night before in the part of Havana where he had been.
“That wasn’t true. I was there,” he point ed out.
Fidel Castro is extremely popular with the Cuban people, Marco said. “People will come from all over — in hordes, in trucks, like cattle—to hear him.”
Once three million people demonstrated a vote of confidence for him. he said.
Castro Dependable
Tlie main reason for such support is: “Castro gives us what he promises. He doesn't say, ‘We are going to build a hospital.’ He says, ‘We are building a hospital.’ And you look and you can see the foundations already going up,” the USC student explained.
“That’s why we love him. It’s so different now from the Batista regime,” the Cuban commented.
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Common Cause of Latins Brings Shared Sympathy
Cuba is receiving sympathy from the other Latin American countries because they have many of the same problems too, Professor Donald W. Rowland, of the USC history department, said last week.
In explaining the recent developments in the Cuban situation, Dr. Rowland pointed out that there are three main economic problems in Latin America—control by the wealthy and by foreigners, corrupt governments and economies dependent on one crop.
"The trend towards ‘aggressive, radical nationalism’ is not found in Cuba alyne. Venezuela is now heading for revolution,” he said.
“Aggresive, radical nationalism" is an attempt to make fast changes without time for adjustment and without concern for immediate consequences.
A new Cuban law will make all renters the owners of their properties. Rent will now apply to the purchase of the property, and the government will support the former owners with a monthly stipend.
“This will stop private building for rental purposes and may
cause the sale of much private ! property,” Dr. Rowland explained.
“It will mean a greater responsibility for the government and may become a burden. Where is the government to get the money to pay the owners?” he asked.
Because of the mass nationalization of American firms, production will decrease due to less efficient management, he said. “I doubt if the Cubans have the technical knowledge to keep the firms going. A drop in values should result,” he added.
The theory of government confiscation of property is that money is transferred from the middle and upper classes to the state for the benefit of all classes, the history professor explained.
“This is a pretty heavy load for the government to carry. It is consequently resulting in a period of disorganization because of scr much responsibility at one time,” he said.
“However, t h e gov ernment stT1 seems popular with the people. The question is, will it remain so if the government cannot pull througfc economically.”
Situation Calls DT Attention
In order to update readers on the Cuban situation and other vital Latin American areas and problems, the Daily Trojan is presenting four articles concerned with the U.S. and its southern neighbors. They treat of the opinions, experiences and hopes of these USC Latin American students—one from Cuba—a university history professor and an Uruguayan educator.
Castro Rule Discredited
By KAREN GUSTAFSON*
“I consider the actual government of Cuba a mobocracy." a Mexican student at USC said last week.
A Venezuelan student countered with, "The Cuban revolution is just another big step on the path toward democracy.”
?»Ianuel Pinero of Mexico and Helena Vegas of Venezuela, both : international relations majors at USC. may reflect the conditions j of their native countries in their opinions on the Cuban situation.
“Mexico has h^d the only true (Continued on Page 2)
★	★ ★ Hunger Foils U. S. Efforts
Bv PENNY LERXOI X Daily Trojan City Editor
Latin American minds would ; be more receptive to the United ! States' philosophies if Latin American stomachs were less empty, an Uruguayan educator said yesterday during a campus tour of USC.
Dr. Cesar R. Bordoli, secretary of Uruguay in Montevideo, described his impressions of the United States in North and South America (luring a campus : tour hosted by Drs. Laurlelino Moreno and Hector H. Orjuela of the USC Spanish department.
Also campus guests were Dr. Octavio Aguilar, a Guatamalan : lawyer, and his wife.
Dr. Bordoli pointed out that it is difficult to consider the philosophical merits of either communism or democracy when one has to worry about getting enough food to eat for the day.
Living Cost Increased
“The cost of living in many ! Latin American countries is fast outdistancing wage increases to the point of starva-! tion. Thus, aid — particularly American aid—is extremely im-! portant and necessary,” he said.
| However, he pointed out that (Continued on Page 2)