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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER October 19,1960 Our Great Debate Faculty Discuss Issues In recent off the cuff interviews, Sister Mary Liguori, B.V.M., (political science), and Mr. William Warner (philosophy), agreed to answer pertinent questions on the present politi cal campaign, put to them by the editorial edi tors of the Skyscraper, We invite student opinions on this article or on any relevant political issue for presentation in our last pre-election issiie. Comments should be placed in the box on the SAC board by Tues day Oct. 25. Question What do you feel are the outstanding qualities of each candidate? His weak points? His strong points? Answers: Sister Mary Liguori: Though both men are qualified educationally, culturally and intellectu ally, Senator Kennedy has made it apparent through his speeches and the debates that he is better able to utilize his experience and informa tion. Many references have been made to the Senator's age as a potential handicap. On the contrary, there is too little difference to merit mentioning. At the end of his first term, should he be elected, Kennedy would be as old as Nixon is now. Mr. Warner: Nixon's strong point is his ex perience. He has been close to the policy-making of this administration. Even as a Congress man he was a nationally known figure while Senator Kennedy has been in a position of rou tine legislating. He was a relative unknown until only recently. The following is what a few prominent Demo crats thought of the Senator only a few months ago: Harry Truman Senator, are you certain that you are quite ready for the country or that the country is ready for you in the role of President in January of 1961? Senator Byrd (Dem., West Va.) Kennedy lacks the age and experience to be President. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (Dem., Texas) The Vice Presidency is a good place for a young man who needs experience. It's a good place for a young man who needs training. Question Do you feel that Kennedy's religion will help or hinder him? Answers: Sister Mary Liguori: Four-fifths of the United States is Protestant. It is only reasonable there fore that Kennedy's Catholicism will probably put him at a disadvantage. Nevertheless, it should also be considered that Kennedy would not be Kennedy without it. Mr. Warner: Kennedy's Roman Catholicism has been overplayed. It will do more to help him as it is perhaps building up a sympathy for him. In a recent poll it was shown that just as many people are for Kennedy because of his religion as are against him for the same reason. Question Evaluate the great debates. Answers: Sister Mary Liguori: In the debates thusfar, Senator Kennedy has proved that he can meet the issues. Vice President Nixon, however, has been inclined to muddle the issues and answer Coming Up Sharpen up those political I.Q.'s The No vember 2 issue of the Skyscraper will include a political questionnaire of candidates for city and state offices. This article will be the last in a series of features on the coming elections. 3k* Sk v Scraper Vol. XXXI October 19, 1960 No. 2 The Skyscraper li published semi-monthly. October to May inclusive, except during vacations and semester examina tions by the students of Mundelein College, 63 S Sheridan Road. Chicago 40. Illinois. Subscription rates are 1.76 per year. Entered as second class matter, November 80, 1982, at the U.S. Post Office, Chicago Illinois, under the act of March 8. 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press Association. STAFF MEMBERS Editor in Chief Kathleen McGuire Associate Editors Dorothy Nelson, Mary Ann Makowski News Editors Patricia RigKs, Barbara Brzezinski Editorial Editors Mary Ann Makowski, Joanne Twomey Feature Editors Dorothy Nelson, Virginia Piecuch Sports Editors Lili Chin. Mary Jo Murray Columnists Kathleen Gottschalk. Mary Ann Eiler, Mickey Meindl Staff Artist Maureen McCue Staff Photographer Marion Bakula Staff Assistants Jo Ann Drossart. Patricia Malinski, Anne Miller, Charlaine Novotny, Sheila Smith. Phvllis Wrieht. Moderator Sister Mary Donatus, B.V.M. or talk about things not under discussion. No debating technique is necessary to misinterpret the question and then demolish the misinterpreta tion. For example: Mr. Kennedy said: I want what is good for labor and the country. Mr. Nixon says that Mr. Kennedy says I want what labor wants. Mr. Warner: The debates are not accomplishing too much. Each party reads into their candidate what they want to hear. Question What do you see as the basic difference in the platforms? Where do they differ most greatly? Where are they most similar? Answers: Sister Mary Liguori: In general, one could say that both the Democrats and the Republicans are for God and against sin. In particular, however, once again the parties differ in the amount of emphasis they place on the role of government in American society. The Republi cans can generally be counted on to promote the welfare of business, while the Democrats are more dedicated to the general welfare. Although the Democratic platform has been termed socialistic, in reality, it isn't any more so than the Republican. The issues contained in the platform show a concern for the common welfare and not just for that of the few. We tend to forget that the state has the duty, speci fied in the Preamble, to promote the general wel fare. Americans have generally assumed that the government fulfills this function by doing nothing. In practice, however, the welfare of business is promoted. Nor is the Democratic platform one that par ticularly reduces individuality. Any arrange ment between individuals curtails freedom. That is no reason to say, for example, that a corpora tion would appreciate the freedom of non-cor poration. Mr. Warner: As far as the platform goes there are basic differences between the parties. In economics there is an adage that you can't spend more than you get. It is difficult to see how the Democrats can reconcile their spending ideas without getting us deeper into debt. The Republican civil rights platform has been criticized as weak. It is realistic. There is a lack of similarity between current Democratic thinking and what they are promising. As far as the farm issue is concerned we are in a mess right now. But it is a mess that we inherited from the Democrats and Secretary Benson has simply been making the best of a bad deal. Richard Nixon is as much a friend of labor as John Kennedy. Kennedy did go after Hoffa but he has soft-pedaled Reuther and other labor leaders in the violence at the Kohler plant and the Perfect Circle company in Indiana. The Democratic trend toward the strong Fed eral government is a threat to the sovereign rights of the state to provide for the people. Question What help would you recommend to the unde cided student? How can student activities or classroom work aid the voting student? Answers: Sister Mary Liguori: Any activities or articles which help to give the student more insight into the issues and more material from which to de cide are helpful. The political science depart ment is presenting a movie entitled Where Were You? Oct. 24 to show the benefits of par ticipation in primary elections. Students should study the issues carefully, decide upon the is sues and then vote for Kennedy MR. WARNER: To the undecided student the important issue is who can take care of the interests of our country, Mr. Nixon or Mr. Ken nedy; one who favors economy in growth or the one who advocates unlimited spending; one who is familiar with present conditions and who is feared and respected by Communists or one who must acquire comparable experience on the job. In domestic affairs we need more private en terprise and less government spending; more sound money policies in place of pie-in-the-sky and probable inflation. In these two areas Nixon is our great hope. Finally, judge the candidate by his philosophy of government, the party platform he has prom ised to carry out, his voting record, his accom plishments, his ability and experience. Above all, do what is best for your country and be sure that fiscal policies and wild spending do not burden you and your children in perpetuity. Good looks and charm are not criteria for select ing the next president. China Bowl Football Atmosphere Distorts UN Vision The United States wins, 42-34 The tenth annual Red China Bowl game is over, and once again debate has been postponed on admitting Red China to the UN. But the victory is not a total one. The motion was passed by a narrower margin than ever before, and some ob servers predict that next year will mark its defeat. The fact that the U.S. sponsored said motion lends itself to much politicial speculation, especially in this campaign year, on the significance of the vote. The issue itself is thrust into the background in favor of an interpretation of the out come in the light of American prestige. We have reached an all-time low in U.S. prestige thunders one side, while the other claims a victory for American diplomacy. By implication, a vote against the motion can be interpreted as a vote against the American way of life. But what of the nations who played a part in narrowing the margin of Ameri can victory? Are Ireland, India and Den mark to be considered anti-free world? For right or for wrong, they cast their votes in accordance with their convic tions, without regard to taking sides in a U.S.-Soviet bloc conflict. Tomorrow, on a completely different issue, they might well vote for a U.S. proposal, again with no commitment to our over-all policy. It is a distortion of the actual facts to reduce every international issue to a two- sided contest in which everyone who isn't for us must be against us. Furthermore, it lessens America's chances of ever con vincing independent nations that our position is the right one. Advise and Consent' Significant; Questions Essence of U.S. Politics by Lili This is a story about America, a golden legend, built atop a certain Hill, in a certain District, with a certain message. Advise and Consent, bestseller by journalist- correspondent Allen Drury, tells a significant story about the essence of the American govern ment. The characters are very familiar names in news headlines, important looking faces from TV newscasts. They represent to the hundred millions of Americans and to the much U.S. dollared free world, the power and pride that is America. There is a term-too-many President strug gling to get a Senate confirmation on the man he has nominated for U.S. Secretary of State. There is the controversial nominee himself, but most important there are the Senators on whom the future of a man, and a nation, so often de pends. The political battle between the White House and Capitol Hill rages on. The goal: that this golden legend of a nation might not crumble in the face of uncertainty. The price: a man or two whose integrity and good intention are smeared and crushed in the battle. Those who attended the recent lecture by John Madigan of the Chicago American remember his calling our time one of Mixed Decisions. Rich and kind-hearted Uncle Sam, said Mr. Ma digan, looks over the globe and cannot make up his mind about whom to Americanize, whom to defend, whose government to recognize for the good of world peace and America. Drury's ideas ran along the same vein only on a national scale. Let's start looking for the answers in our own backyard, the message seems to urge. Let's first understand our own government before giv ing the blueprint to Asia or Africa. Who really does the advising and the consenting in our na tion? How wise are they? The reader of Advise and Consent will find it hard to finish the book without nailing her- Chin self down to think and perhaps start looking for an answer somewhere an answer that may begin to fill that part of our black-and-white newspaper education with nuances of grey as well. Ice Follies, Corot Exhibit Highlight Oct. Activities by Mary Ann Eiler DANCE ESCUDERO, Spanish dancers and musicians, Civic Theater, 20 N. Wacker Drive. Oct. 22, and 23, 8 p.m. Tickets: 2.20- 4.40. MUSIC CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Orches tra Hall. Concerts every Thursday 8:15. MANTOVANI, Orchestra Hall, Oct. 23, 3:30, Tickets: 2.20- 5.50. FINE ARTS QUARTET SERIES, Prudential Bldg. Auditorium, Oct. 19 and 31, 8:30, Tickets: 75 cents- 3. OPERA THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, Lyric Opera House, Oct. 26, 29 and 31. 8 p.m. LA BOHEME, Nov. 2, 5 and 7, 8 p.m. Tickets: - ?2.50- 9. SPECIAL EVENTS ICE FOLLIES, Chicago Stadium, now through Nov. 6, Shipstad and Johnson silver jubi lee, Tickets: 2- 5. COROT EXHIBITION, Art Institute of Chicago, now through Nov. 13, painting, prints and drawings. Largest exhibit ever held in U.S. SHAM AND REALITY IN AMERICAN POLI TICS, Chicago Forum of Adult Education Council, Oct. 19, 8 p.m., Hotel Sherman, Stu dent Ticket: 75 cents. THEATER CHECKERBOARD 1960, Northwestern Drama Group, Thome Hall, Lake Shore Drive and Superior, Oct. 21-30. Tickets: 1.50. SPORTS NORTHWESTERN U. VS. NOTRE DAME at Dyche Stadium, Evanston, Oct. 22. Tickets: 5. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. PENN STATE at Urbana, Oct. 22. Tickets: 5.
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