University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. UX
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1967
NO. 31
PREDICTION FOR '68
GOP nominee to be named on 3rd ballot
The 1968 Republican candidate will be chosen on the third ballot, F. Clifton White predicted yesterday.
Speaking before the Trojan Young Republicans. White said that favorite son candidates will control about 690 of the 1.333 delegates, with a total
Topping sees close RTD vote
The results of a tax election to raise funds to develop a rapid transit system for Los Angeles will be close. President Topping said yesterday. Dr. Topping is the chairman of the Los Angeles Rapid Transit District Board's Planning and Finance Committee.
“I suppose it will depend on how many people have been caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic in the past two weeks and how bad the smog has been," he said.
The RTD directors plan to include a proposal on the 1968 election ballot calling for a tax increase on gasoline to raise funds for the proposed $1.5 billion rapid transit network.
At a news conference yesterday, Dr. Topping, a board member since 1964; Jack Gilstrtip. assistant general manager of RTD; and John Curtis. director of rapid transit planning, explained the details of the plan of the 62-mile network.
They expressed hope that the long-discussed transit proposal can be presented to the voters in Nov., 1968.
Gilstrap told reporters RTD favors extension of the sales tax to gasoline. with the resulting money to be used either for rapid transit or for street improvements.
The RTD leaders also said they would support any feasible alternate financing plans submitted.
Dr. Topping rejected a suggestion for the creation of property tax districts near transit stations. The suggestion was made by a citizens committee foreseeing increased land value in areas where stations will be located.
He explained the land values would not increase appreciably since transit routes would be close to freeways. In those areas, land values would already have increased, he said.
The preliminary plans presented at the conference spelled out for the first time the precise routing of the 73 m.p.h. electrically powered trains.
In general, the proposal contained very few changes from previous proposals made by the RTD.
The overall size of the transit network was reduced from 64 miles to 62 miles, by elimination of several legs of the massive system.
The RTD officials said yesterday's session was the first of many which are to be held between now and May, when final plans for the RTD are scheduled for completion.
of 667 delegate votes needed for nomination.
He should know.
In the 1960 presidential campaign, he served as director for the nationwide Volunteers for Nixon-Lodge. From 1962 through 1964 .he created the campaign that resulted in the drafting and nomination of Sen. Barry Goldwater as the GOP presidential candidate. After the S^i Francisco convention, he organized and directed Citizens for Goldwater-Miller.
White, who has been described by Theodore White, author of ‘‘The Making of the President 1964,” as a "technician of politics — one of the finest in America," said that the number of favorite sons will necessitate at least three ballots.
The first will be totally inconclusive. the second will eliminate the half-serious favorite son candidates, and the nominee will be selected on the third or fourth ballot, said White.
"Even if a candidate should sweep the primaries, he probably won't have enough first ballot votes," he explained.
White said the candidate who can get the men controlling 667 votes into a smoke-filled room will be the nominee.
Referring to the primaries, he said that even though George Romney could campaign well in New Hampshire. Nixon should win that primary.
The remaining primaries in Wisconsin. Nebraska and Oregon require the particular secretary of state to place the names of all mentioned candidates on the ballot.
The outcome of these primaries, he said, largely depends upon who is placed on the ballot.
He said that Nixon presently has the strongest organization.
White said that Goldwater's influence at the convention will largely be confined to saying who the candidate won’t be, as only 25 per cent of his delegates will return in 1968.
"Barry never did understand." he said, “that delegates win the nomination.’’
Even though White was very influential in the selection of the 1964 GOP candidate, he is not supporting any candidate for the 1968 nomination at this time.
The indecision of F. Clinton White, one of the top political organizers in the nation, is typical in GOP circles.
The large numbers of attractive candidates, and the apparent vulnerability of Presdent Johnson all contribute to this indecision.
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At 9:30 Sunday night the men in Marks Tower organized this "light card stunt" for the edification of passing motorists on the Harbor Freeway.
ECONOMIST'S OPINION
Capitalism needs ethic for survival
Economists used to call it the Protestant Ethic, but Dr. Spencer Pollard has changed its name, insisting it's the only way capitalism can combine prosperity and freedom.
“Not many people, think of ethics and capitalism as closely related in practice, but capitalism can only live up to its promise if its citizens practice certain ethics.” Dr. Pollard, professor of economics, said in an interview.
He has changed its name to the Prosperity Ethic because it is found in such non-Protestant religions as Shintoism and because not all Protestants. such as those in Appalachia, practice it.
In his book. “How Capitalism Can Succeed." Dr. Pollard said the Prosperity Ethic includes an ethic for all classes.
The poor must be willing to work reliably and to control population increase; the rich must be willing to pay high taxes and be active in economic development.
Religion must favor science and family planning; government must turn away from expenditures on militarism and toward helping people to be economically capable; businessmen
must seek their profits from diligent service to customers and not from profiteering and dishonest advertising. Dr. Pollard said.
"The poor results of American foreign aid to the poor nations can be attributed in major part to the lack of a Prosperity Ethic among economic classes.” he said.
"The foreign aid sent to Europe after World War II was effective because the necessary ethic was in existence. But most of the underdeveloped nations of today just don’t have the proper ethic.
“Their rich people will not pay taxes or be helpful to the economy. Instead, they regard their wealth as God-given and untouchable. Their poor are too often immobilized in a caste system or are primarily devoted to raising large families.
‘‘Their religious leaders encourage
Term paper panic hits many campus libraries
Approaching term paper deadlines may mean later hours for students, but those in need of library services will still find Doheny Library closed at 5 p.m. Friday nights.
Last semester it remained open until 10 p.m.
“A survey taken in the spring semester showed that Friday night was the quietest night of the week.
Student rights report to top ASSC meeting
A report from the ASSC Standing Committee for Action on Student Rights will highlight the Executive Council meeting today at 3 p.m. in the President's Conference Room, at the end of the south wing in Bovard Auditorium.
The council meeting is open to all students.
The report was tentatively set on the agenda late yesterday afternoon as one of the final steps preceeding the adoption of the new Student Literature Code.
The council will also hear reports by a subcommittee established last week to discuss the feasibility of ASSC sponsoring a Watts Teach-in before Christmas vacation.
The proposal, presented by SDS President David Lang, has been studied by Bob Lutz, Andrea Aber and John Wardlow.
Other items under consideration from bst week's meeting include a Constitutional amendment allowing the election of graduate student representatives and a report on progress being made in the establishment of a campus literary magazine.
ASSC President Marty Foley said the council would also look into the possible affiliation with the ASSC of the new USC Stage Band; student participation in the Travel Information Center, a program sponsored by the National Student Association; and a connection with the Associated Student Government Convention.
The meeting will also include reports by Norm Wilky. vice-president of student activities; Bob Lutz, vice-president of university affairs; and Mark Meador, ASSC treasurer.
Foley requested Meador’s report last week in response to some criticism that the ASSC was going off in a number of directions without stopping to take stock of its accomplishments and plans.
The report was also prompted by a general fear that the ASSC would lose up to $1,000 because of poor ticket sales for the Lou Rawls concert Thursday.
Final ticket sales brought the concert’s gate to within $500 of breaking even, however, and Foley said yesterday that the ASSC now “seems to be in pretty fine financial shape.”
The Library Committee decided to close Doheny Library Friday night to provide better service and more staff the rest of the time.” Miss Edra Bogle, assistant librarian for public services, said.
“Doheny Library will not reopen Friday nights unless there is a demand for it by the students. However, College Library is open until 10 p.m. on Fridays,” she said.
The Library Committee, 25 faculty members appointed by Dr. Topping to work with Dr. Lewis F. Stieg, head librarian, has decided. however, to have longer library hours during finals on a trial basis this semester.
Doheny will be open until 10 p.m. and College until midnight nightly.
The survey, which was conducted each night of the spring semester at 7:30. found that an average of 115 people used Doheny Library Friday nights. At this same hour Sunday and Wednesday nights, an average of 171 and 178 people, respectively, used the library facilities.
Although an average of 425 and 479 books were checked out Wednesday and Sunday nights, only 224 books were checked out Friday nights.
College Library, which will remain open on Friday nights, has
40.000	books on its shelves. It checks out as many books as the main desk in Doheny which has more than
600.000	available to students, Miss Bogle said.
Doheny Memorial Library is open from 8 a. m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 to 10 p.m. Sunday.
College Library, on the ground floor of Doheny, is open 8 a.m. to 12 midnight Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 12 midnight Sunday.
Hanging loose: New guide for modern world
DR. SPENCER POLLARD "Prosperity ethic"
a purely meditative life and hold science in contempt. Their governments are preoccupied with militaristic solutions.to ancient hatreds. Their businessmen are often indolent and non-innovative.”
The situation in the poor countries is not helpless, he said, since all have had periods of relative prosperity somewhere in their history. By looking backwards they can bring about a reformation of their Prosperity Ethic just as Luther and Calvin did for Protestantism.
Today's college students are increasingly becoming a generation of church dropouts. University Chaplain John Cantelon believes, but they ara neither faithless nor irreligious.
The key to resolving this seeming contradiction is the “hang-loose ethic,” characterized by three beliefs:
•	Irreverence — there are no sacred cows, no hallowed institutions beyond scrutiny.
•	Humanism — the ethic stresses what is valuable to man above everything else. The widespread use of tranquilizers, the pervasive materialism and the alcoholic retreat of the adult generation are all indications to the young that this is not the best of all possible worlds.
•	Tolerance — the young generation does not make judgments, at least not of those who do not interfere with its own self-expression.
Dr. Cantelon said the new ethic is also characterized by the placing of a high value on the pursuit of experience for its own sake and the premium now placed on spontaneity.
“If religion is a matter of man's ultimate concerns and is related to such values as goodness. love and decency, then today’s young people are religious.” he explained.
ABANDON GOD
“But we must admit that the intellectual leadership of this college generation has. to a significant extent, abandoned the God of their fathers along with the old theological corola-ries associated with Him.
“For many, the traditional language of Christian worship has no more meaning than magical incantations."
Dr. Cantelon characterized today's collegians as the first post-Puritan generation in American culture.
As such, he said, they are a generation opposed to the classical Protestant Ethic, and one that rejects the rigid patterns of a highly-structured society.
“College students today have a religion of love,” he explained.
“Their concern is. ‘How does institutional religion influence people's lives?’
CRITICAL YOUTH
“These young people are critical of the hypocrisy of their church-going parents, who have sent them to Sunday School and taught them moral
'COLLEGE' LISTS REMAIN OPEN
Students who wish to attend classes in the Experimental College but have not yet registered may attend any classes they wish Monday and register later.
Beginning Friday, the Daily Trojan will publish lists of classes they open. A complete list of
as
classes, times and be posted outside Union.
locations will the Student
Thirty-nine classes ranging from Billiards to Buddhism have been scheduled.
values, but who fail to live up to those values themselves.”
Dr. Cantelon believes, however, that the faith of the “hang-loose generation” does have some significant limitations.
The first is their lack of any historical sense, he said. This makes them “totally insensitive to the historical dimensions of lasting faiths such as Judaism and Christianity.”
A second lack is young people's failure to appreciate the function of institutional forms, without which, he explained, there would be no transmission of the values of love and tolerance they now cling to.
Catholics still first in survey
The Roman Catholics on campus, despite a decrease of 613 members this year, again lead all other religious groups, a survey has revealed.
The survey, conducted by the office of University Chaplain Dr. John Cantelon. indicated that the 1.302 students who marked the Roman Catholic preference were 28 per cent of the 4.786 students who turned in religious preference cards.
Those of the Jewish faith totalled 607 while 590 students indicated they preferred the Presbyterian church. Methodists comprised 10 per cent of the total followed closely by the Episcopalians with nine per cent.
There were also a few crank cards turned in, such as the Little Chapel of Lightning Bolts. Cosmic Conscience and Computer Programmer. These joined last year's group of the Druids. Sun Worshippers. Cape Crusaders and Psychedelics.
The total preference list for this semester is:
1.	Roman Catholics....................1302
2.	Jews ............ • • •	607
3.	Presbyterians ........................590
4.	Methodists ........................461
5.	Episcopalians . ............408
6.	Bantists (American) --------175
7.	Lutherans (American) ...	171
8.	United. Congregational. Community .. • •	137
9.	Mormons
10.	Lutherans (Missouri Synod)	85
11.	Moslems................................78
12.	Buddhist ..............................77
13.	Unitarians ............................73
14.	Christian Science ..................72
lr>. So. Baptists	........
16.	Orthodox . . ................61
17.	Disciples of Christ.
Christians	.........
18.	Seventh Day Adventists . .	30
19.	Hindu	.........
20.	Church of Christ Fundamentalists ....................21
22.	Quakers .................
23.	Agnostics ..............................H
24.	Athiests .................
25.	Nazarene ..............................7
26.	Other ......................................287
27.	Misc..........................................161
EXPERT TO TALK
Impact of Viet elections
“The Impact of the Vietnam Elections on the Viet Cong” will be discussed by Cmdr. Hammond Rolph, associate at the Research Institute on Communist strategy and Propaganda in the second of a series of “Briefings on the Communist World” today.
The briefing will be held in the VKC Kinsey Lounge at 12:30 p.m.
A former naval intelligence expert on the Far East, Cmdr. Rolph has a background of 25 years of specialization in East and Southeast Asian affairs, Chinese military doctrine and Communist revolutionary warfare. He presently is serving as
executive assistant to the director of the School of International Relations in addition to his institute post.
He recently coauthored with Dr. Rodger Swearingen, director of the institute, a documentary study entitled “Communism in Vietnam.”
The book, published by the American Bar Association, was the product of extensive research and four trips to Vietnam.
Other briefings this semester will focus on military implications of the Sino-Soviet dispute, Soviet-satellite economic relations and Eastern Europe.
Each briefing will feature an institute specialist with both academic
background and field experience in the area of discussion.
Gen. John Kang, former South Korean military officer, will be the third briefing speaker. He will discuss the “Military Aspects of the Sino-Soviet Dispute” on Nov. 14.
Dr. William Caldwell, associate professor of journalism, will speak on “Eastern Europe in Flux“ on Nov. 28.
“Soviet-Satellite Economic Relations” will be the topic of a briefing on Dec. 12 by Dr. Alan Browne, associate professor of economics.
All the briefings are open to the public. Following each briefing, ques-tion-answer periods will be held.