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"THE KENTUCKY

Monday Afternoon, Sept. 1], 1967

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

SDS To Provide Students
With Counseling On Draft;

Planning Nearly Completed

Draft counseling for UK‘ Stu.
dents, is in the late planning
stage and should begin soon,
accordhg to Roger W00ck, a
member of the Students for a
Democratic Society (805) and
also of the Citizens for Peace
in Vietnam.

Woock announced the plans
‘~~yesterday at a meeting of the
Citizens for Peace in Vietnam,
but 895 will sponsor the draft
counseling. The plans call for
setting up a counseling office
here with definite hours to serve
all UK students wishing to avail
themselves of the program.

Woock, who is a transfer stu-
dent from Bellarmine College in
Louisville, has had previous ex-
perience in draft counseling. He

expects to do much of theeoun-
sitting here, and also to train

others a: made.

The counselhlg will combt
d helping students retain their
2-8 standing in cases resulting
from administrative error, Woock
said, and also of obtaining con-
scientious objector standings for
students who warrant them.

Woock said the counseling
would deal with ”any problems
that students encounter with the
draft."

Will Broaden Scope

After establishing itself on
campus, the draft counseling will
move out into the community
and become "more of a com-
munity project," Woock said.

No exact date for the begin-

Split ls Threatening
Revitalization Of SC _

By DARRELL CHRISTIAN
Student Covemment faces probably the mosLdecisive year in its

history.

President Steve Cook has
pomised to fiansform the repre-
sentative body from one of stag-
nation to a "dynamic force" for
University students. This means,
he says, a progressive year —
”moving into areas of policy and
service and away from petty is-
sues of who gets to speak on the
floor at what time, etc."

But Cook also sees danger in
a developing conflict with SC
representatives, and admits his
goal can be. accomplished only
”if I can get people to work."

One of Cook's major platform
issues, creation of an ombudsman
to represent views of individual

News Analysis

students on specific issues, met
opposition last Thursday at the
assembly's first meeting of the
year

 

 

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Appoints Ombuds men

He appointed Ellis Bullock
and Robert Valentine, both AGIS
seniors, to an executive commit-
tee that would function both as
cmbudsmen and in an advisory
capacity to Cook.

Opposition came from nearly

half the assembly and approval:

failed on two separate votes.
However, Cook had authoriza-
tion to finalize the appointment
without the representatives' ap-
proval.

What this one incident could
mean to SC's ”progressive year"
is not certain at this point.

But Cook expects more splits
that will ”bog us down all the
way around.

”Any progam shouldbeques-
tioned - and questioned fur-
iously," he said. “We have to
take a long look at all prograrm,
but a situation likelast Thurs-
day doesn't allow us to take
this look."

Reason for the split seems to
be just as vague.

”It could possibly be due to
the fact that they (the repre-
sentatives) are new to Student
Covemment and really don't
know yet that they have to look
at all sides when they introduce
or vote on legislation," Cook
said. i

Continued on Page 7, Col. 3 "

 

The glow of a glass—enclosed candle, reflecting the graffiti of an

 

empty peanut can, all adds to the atmosphere of Nexus coffeehouse,
located in the Presbyterian Youth Center. Appearing to be perched
above the an, a singer plays intently.

ning of the counseling has been
set at this time, nor has the
tooatkn‘d the office been w
tablished. .

Don Pratt, who has been ac-
tive in antiwar demonstrations
here, praised the educational pos—
sibilities of the counseling ser-
vice.

“It will be a means of dis-
cussion," he said," ”which will
enable people to ask about the

Continued on Page 3, Col. 3

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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K‘ERNEL

Vol. LIX, No. 10

 

The International Center, Room 116 in the Student Center, was an

appropriate meeting place for Ahmad Shaban, Nabeel Haidar and

Hanna Matta Wakim as they discussed the Arab-Israeli war. All are
civil engineering students from Lebanon.

Lebanese Engineering Students

Criticize US, DefendArab Cause

By JACKIE ROSS
“The Lebanese people are not
all against the United States,"
said Nabeel Haidar, a Ph.D.
candidate in civil engineering

from northern Lebanon.
“We're not against Judaism
as a religion, over 10,000 Jews

 

 

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Miss Ohio, looks more like a
wash woman than a Miss Amer-
ica contestant as she performs
a song routine at the competi-
tion in Atlantic City, N.J. Debra
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Kan., won the 1968 crown.

 

live in complete freedom in
Lebanon," added Hanna Matta
\Vakim, a freshman in civil
engineering from Beirut, Leb-
anon." But we are against ex-
treme Zionism."

“I don't think the United
States is following a wise for-
eign policy," commented Ahmad
Shaban, a junior civil engineer-
ing major from Beirut. “Look
what’s happening in the Middle
East and Vietnam."

The three UK students were
discussing the role of the United
States in this summer's Middle
Eastern war. They're proud of
their nation and lineage and
defend the Arab cause in the
war.

“It was said that the Arab
world was the aggressor because
they blocked shipping. People
forget that Israel had threat-
ened to invade Syria," Haidar
said. "The average American
who believes what he reads has
the wrong idea about what went
on in the war.”

Haidar suggested that remov-
ing one million Arabs from
their homeland in 1948 to
make a political home for the
Jews was a mistake, not only
politically but for humanitarian
reasons as well. It was this ac-
tion which provided the basis
for tension between the West
and the Arab world.

Some Arabs For Us

“But not all Arabs are against
the United States,” Haidar
added. However, all three of the
men expressed confusion at
American attitudes.

“This government c r e a t e 5
problems because they try to
be the world's police force,"
Wawik said. “No one gave the
United, States this right.

“Let the world live as it
wants, and do not try to inter-
fere with it,” suggested Shaban.

The threat of Communism is
not really serious in the Middle
East for religious reasons, Wa-
kim reported.

“The Middle East would
never be Red," he said. "For
example, Lebanon would hate
to see the USSR control the
Middle East because Islam and
Communism w o u l d never
agree.”

Some Lebanese Communists
now are in jail. “The Commun-
ist party cannot function in
Lebanon. It is prohibited," re-
ported Wakim.

U.S. One-Sided

The Lebanese students claim
that the United States was one-
sided in the war, favoring Israel.

Haidar said the abstaining
vote cast by the United States
in the United Nations debate
on Israel's occupation of Jeru-

Continued on Page 3. Col. 2

Smoke And Colored Lights

By BOB BROWN

The room is very dark. The sound of whispers
and the dull thud of glass against table can be
heard above the mournful but harmonious sounds
of a spotlighted singer and a mellow guitar.

The smell of smoke mingles with espresso, pea-
nuts and recently consumed alcohol to lend a
mood of contentment which changing colored
lights upset now by exciting the senses, now
by depressing them.

It's not a local night club; you're at the Pres-
byterian Youth Center in what’s known as Nexus,
the Rose Street coffee house.

Candlelight And Burlap

The candlelight, the burlap-covered tables and
peanut shells on the floor, the nude paintings
on the walls and the off-color poems and jokes
that are part of the weekend entertainment may
not fit your conception of the church's role. But
it need not, for Nexus is neither connected to,
nor administered, limited or censored by the
church. The coffee house is an independent
undertaking that was organized by campus min-
isters. No church either oversees or claims any

contact with Nexus, aside from the fact that the
space is donated by a campus religious group.
The only overseer is the Nexus Coffeehouse Com-
mittee, and the only rule is no alcohol.

Nexus was formed in the spring of 1966 as a
place for collegians to share their talents and have
a good time without continually having to buy
drinks. It was also meant to provide a contact
between students and faculty; the word “Nexus,"
in fact means “Link."

Students Furnished It

Everything from the entertainment on the stage
to the art on the walls is furnished by students.
The hope that the faculty would avail itself of the
atmosphere has dimmed, however, according to

_ the Rev. T. Douglas Sanders, the campus Presby-

terian minister and an administrator of Nexus,
even though an occasional educator and his wife
do drop in.

A 50 cent donation at the door and college-
student status entitles one to all the coffee, pea-
nuts and entertainment he wants. The enter-
tainers, usually folk singers, donate their services
to crowds of what Mr. Sanders estimates to be
around 200 academicians each weekend.

 

  

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Minislrirts . Lead To Rheumatism

The Associated Press

BELGRADE -— A Yugoslav
newspaper reader claims mini-
skirts cause rheumatism, are
harmful for the economy, are
immoral and should be banned
by law.

The protest against the short-
skirt fad, which has swept this
country and others, was pub-
lished last Weekend in the weekly
magazine Svet—The World—of
Belgrade.

It was signed by a woman
who described herself as a ”De-
fender of morality," from Prije-
polje,’ a central Yugoslav town.

In her four-point explanation,
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”gaze at the skin above the
knees" of miniskirt wearers, and
continue thinking of this while
at work.

This causes lower productiv-
ity, their wages drop, which
causes stagnation of economy.
she added.

Jeopardizcs Industry
The fashion also jeopardizes
the textile industry, and in a
few years social insurance will
suffer, after the number of rheu-
matic patients increases because
of bared knees and thighs.

”The miniskirt further una-
voidably causes a lowering of
morality, which also means an
increase in the number of illegit—
imate children," the woman as-
serted. ”Who is going to take

. care of the babies found on park
I benches with a note tucked in."

”Defender of morality" also
proposed a SIS-article law for ban-
ning miniskirts defining precisely
the miniskirt and offenders cover-
ing seamstresses, fathers and bus-

bands.

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In London, however, the ab-
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l’atrick Cordon Walker, the
new education minister, says girls
returning to school in Britain
this fall will not be forbidden
to wear miniskirts as long as
school heads approve.

Cordon Walker, 60, and a
father of three grown daughters,
said he had no intention of copy-
ing French Education Minister
Alain Peyrefitte's recent ban on
short skirts in school.

”I rather like miniskirts," said
Mr. Walker, although, mind you,
they look better on young girls
than on older women. I think
one has to adapt oneself to these
changes.

Sees No Harm
“If a girl can wear the ‘mini'
at home, why shouldn’t she wear
it at school? I can see no harm
in it at all."

British schoolgirls traditional-
ly wear uniforms to classes.
School heads dictate the dress,
and most seem to allow short
skirts.

As one headmistress said, ”We
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Ouch!

Bob Sheray, University of Kentucky Karate Club member, demon-

strates an invincible head as he splits a concrete block during a

Karate Club demonstration Friday night. Starting into its second
year, the UK Karate Club welcomes newcomers.

UK Researchers Investigate Hams,

Problem Of ‘June Sweat9 Solved;

When University of Kentucky
researchers began their study of
the curing of hams about 12 years
ago, they didn't know it would
mark the beginning of a multi-
million dollar industry in the
state.

Dr. James Kemp, UK profes-
sor of animal science, began his
research with the idea of speed—
ing up the curing process of ”old
country” ham. Traditionally, a
rule-of—thumb was that hams take
a year of curing and aging.

”No ham is worth its salt
unless it has gone through the
June sweat," was the feeling
of 99 percent of Kentucky ham-
wters, he said.

”The idea that hams could be
cured in a matter of months was
suggested to me by Sam Cuard,
a former editor of the ‘Breeders
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Old Adages Ring True

“Old sayings and adages are
often more truth than fiction,”
Dr. Kemp said. as he and his
associates discussedthenecessity
of the ”lune sweat" for a tender
moist ham. They questioned the
fact that it had to be that par
ticular month.

"Changes in the quality ofthe
meat are brought about by en-
zymes — organic compounds
which act upon proteins and fat
in the meat, creating change."
Dr. Kemp explained. By inject-
ing the ham with additional en-
zymes, the researchers found they
could bring about changes more
quickly.

Enzymes go into action dur—
ing higher temperatures, he
added. After killing the hogs in
the fall of the year, the tradit-
ional process was to cure the meat
with a mixture of salt, sugar and
saltpeter. Often, molasses, pep-
per, and other seasonings were
added.

Winter weather was ideal for
keeping the pork fresh and allow-
ingthe salt to penetratetherneat.
Then with the arrival of warm,
humid weather, the ham would
”sweat" and shrink.

"A ham has to lose moisture
before the best quality of taste
is reached," Dr. Kemp said. “A
20 pound ham will shrinkto about
15 pounds before it has completed
the aging process."

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The UK scientist has found
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the heat in the agingfrtxnn, the
process is speeded up by four to
five months with less chances of
sourness, saltiness or general
spoilage.

These findings have been re-
ported to the University's exten-
sion workers and outlines ofthe
quicker ”country-style" process
are now available.

”Kentucky has approximately
a dozen country ham processors
currently in operation—a three
million dollar industry," Dr.
Kemp said. We predict this figure
will double in size in the next
few years. ..

One Western Kentucky pro-
ducer, who now markets arormd
35,000 hams a year, is expanding
his operation to produce 75,000
hams each year.

Lower Prices

The price of old country hams
always has been high, Dr. Kemp
added, but the mass production
of country-styled hams will lower
the price per pound.

”Country-styled hams are sli-
ghtly milder in taste than old
country hams," the UK professor
said, ”but most young people and
'city' people prefer the milder
taste."

The fourth annual Kentucky
Country Ham Sflfiw was a fea-
ture this year 0 the state fair
in Louisville, and all hams
entered in the competition were
cured and aged in Kentucky by
residents of the state.

The Kentucky Department of
Agriculture has a special stamp
or label for hams they consider
”best" in quality. Minimum stan-
dard specifications for these
”gourmet" hams are detailed in
terms of weight range, type of
cut, trim color, shape, saltiness,
mold, aroma and age. '

Dr. Kemp advises that the
best way to judge a good ham is
by the aroma. ”By probing at
the aitchbone, near the base of
the cushion, the consumer can
test the aroma for acidity or
sourness and strongness or ran-
cidity."

Hams aged under controled
conditions must age a minimum
of five months from the datethey
are placed in cure. Hams aged
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YM-YWCA Sponsor—s seminar Ton—rs;

Appalachia And UN Featured Topics

The University YM- YWCA
will again sponsor several tours
this year, including the United
Nations Seminar and the Appa-
lachian Seminar.

Ann Stallard, YWCA presi—
dent, said the UN Seminar will
be held Oct. 18-22 in New York
City and the Appalachian Sem-
inar will be held Sept. 29-Oct. 1.

The topic of this year’s UN
seminar is The Middle East Cri-
sis: The Role of the UN. In-
cluded in the program is a fac-
tual and informative talk on pro-
spective U.N. careers.

Brint Milward, co-chairman
for the seminar, said “the tenta-
tive delegates we will be meet-
ing with are from the U.S.S.R.,
U.S.A.,
and Mali or Kenya."

To Cost 895
Total cost of the Seminar is
$95.00 per student including

round trip transportation be-
tween Lexington and New York,

Israel, Egypt, England, .

hotel accomodations for four
nights, insurance and program
and tour fees at the UN.

Anyone wishing to make ap-
plication for the seminar should
contact either Brint Milward or
Diane Jordan, co-chairmen, or go
to Room 204A of the Student
Center. The deadline for appli-
cation and fee payment is Sept.
30.

The purpose of the seminar
is to expose students to the views
of other nations On such issues
as national-intemational prob-
lerm. By meeting with the deli:-
gates both formally and infor-
mally, they hope to accomplish
this end.

Miss Stallard also said the
YWCA hopes to cooperate with
the Student Center Forum Com-
mittee in bringing Malcom Boyd,
author of “Are You Running with
Me, Jesus?", to campus. But
plans for this have not been fin-
alized.

Newman Center Offers
Catholicism Courses

A wide range of religious education courses is being offered at

the Newman Center "to provide
tion for Catholic students,
the Center.

Lynch said that the classes
are open to persons of all faiths.
Offered to interested non-Cath-
olics is an inquiry course teach-
ing the fundamentals ofCathol-
icism.

Religious education classes for
freshmen start today and are de-
signed to offer the incoming Cath-
olic student a varied selection
d discussions on God, redemp-
tion and church, Lynch said.

Specifically for sophomores
and transfer students is an in-
depth study of the Vatican Coun-
cil's ”Constitution on the Church
in the Modern World" and “The
Individual Catholic's Position in
Society. ' The Catholic church
and its liturgy is one of several

courses open to juniors and se-.,

niors.

A leadership program in pub-
lic speaking and meeting people
will be offered through Novem-
ber by Don Byrne, UK‘faw stu-
dent.

Other teachers are priests who
serve the Newman Center.

Further information on the
courses can be obtained at the
Center.

a college-level theological educa-

" according to Tim Lynch, president of

Lebanese

Confirmed mm Page 1
salern proved this. He said the
American attitude on the ques-
tion altered the image the Arab
world had had of this nation.

“After the Middle East war
was over the people didn’t think,
the United States bombed Arab
lands, as Nassar. had claimed.
And no one can blame the
US. for sending guns and
money to Israel, because every-
body was sending money and
guns to someone. But the
United States gave popular sup-
port to Israel,” Naidar said.

The misleading information
about the war came from one-
sided American journalism, Nai-
dar charged. "Why are Amer-
ican papers so one-sided? Be-
cause the press is controlled by
jews or Zionists."

Despite this, Shaban stated,
“We look with hope toward the

.United States as the leading
democratic nation of the world,

hoping it will have more bal-..

ance and more wisdom in for-‘

eign policy.

A panel made up of YWCA
members who have been outside
the United States this summer
will discuss ”Y Around the
World" Sept. 12. Members of the
panel are Peggy Cooley, who
toured Asia under the sponsor-
ship of the United Christain
Movement; Candy Taylor, who
was in India for the National
Student YWCA; Donna Kirtley,
who rworked in Bogota, Col-
ombia, in the YWCA work camp
program, and Miss Stallard, who
was in Europe under an inter-
national exchange program.

COUNSELING

Continued From Page 1

government's moral rights to
conscript persons."
Pratt said of the counseling
program, ”This is a tas ‘that
will require help, particularly in
high schools. "
Peace Vigils To Start

He announced that the Peace
Vigils which were conductedlast
year will begin again at noon
tomorrow on the Student Cen-
ter patio.

Pratt also called attention to
”White Wednesday." He said
that everyone on campus “who
is in favor of de—escalation or
withdrawal from Vietnam"
should wear white armbands
every Wednesday to show their
feelings.”

The Citizens for Peace in Viet-
nam is conducting a ”write-in"
to neWSpaper columns and to
congressmen. The group wishes
to air its views on the Vietnam
conflict as widely as possible,
and the members feel that this
is an effective way to do so.

The "write-in" is being car-
ried out in conjunction with the
group's involvement in "Negoti-
ation Now." This is a movement
to obtain as many signatures as
possible from the community to
go on record against the war.

 

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A Yellow Menace?

(Xfering valuable insights and observations on life, "The Wall"

comes through again, but does it know something that the Kernel

doesn' t? The fence surrounds the construction site Mind the
Administration Building.

UK Researcher Named
To State Education Post

' FRANKFORT — Dr.

Carl Lamar, former director of research. in

vocational education at’ the University, is the new assistant super-
intendent in charge of vocational education in the State Depart.

ment of Education.

He succeeds E. P. Hilton,
who retired after 27 hears ser-
vice in the Department, where
during the last seven years he
was head of the Bureau of Voca-
tional Education.

Hilton will remain as advisor
with the Department until Jan-
uary 1. Dr. Harry E. Sparks,
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion, said Lamar is ”the number
one man in vocational education
in the country.” For the past
year Lamar has also been direc-
tor of the Kentucky Research
Coordinating Unit in Vocational
Education.

He is a native of Hancock

County. He received a 8.8. de-
gree at Western State College in
1937, a master's degree from the
University in 1949 and hifdoc-
torate in vocational education
from UK. in 1957. He has held
various vocational education
posts in U.K.’s College of Ed-
ucation since 1%6. ‘

Dr. Lannr began his career
as a teacher of vocational agri-
culture in the Meade County
school system in 1937. After re-
turning from military service in
1945, he taught vocational agri-
culture at Jefiersontowa High
School'in I946 andrejoinod the
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Students Need Ombudsman

Thursday night Student Gov-
ernment President Steve Cook
asked his assembly for their ap-
proval to a temporary appointment
of a student Ombudsman. The as-
sembly declined. .

In announcing the duel appoint-
rnent of Ellis
Valentine—which did not necessi-
tate legislative approval — Cook was
asking for the advice and consent
of the body regarding his action.
{The executive appointment, as he
explained to the delegates, was
only to last until they themselves
would produce legislation creating
a constitutional ombudsman. Hav-
ing heard the delegates decline con-
sent. Cook asked for suggestions
of other people to fill the slot; in—
stead the emergent discussion cen-
tered on whether a need really exist s
for the position; ultimately no ap-
proval came. whereupon Cook pro-
ceeded with the executive appoint-
ment anyway.

lt seems to The Kernel that
Cook's ombudsman program is a
good idea. As an obvious example,
take the bewildered freshman just
arrived on campus who may have
been persuaded out of a class be—
cause the teacher found it had too
many students; no other class sec-
tions being open, he may have had
to carry fewer hours than.was de-
sirable. Given his relative in-

nocence, the confusion and rush of
beginning a semester, and the some-
times super-efficiency of secretaries

  

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in turning students away, he very
likely would not know when! to
turn. The notion of a student orn~
budsman whose charge is to handle
such problems would be an ideal
outlet for the freshman.

Yet SCA representatives de-
clined support of the temporary om-
budsman, and evidently they did
so not on the basis of the parti-
cular appointments but on doubt
of the positions value. At this
point we can only ask why, what
led them to such a conslusion?
Why is it they doubt the value of
a position whose purpose is to fur-
ther help the University student?

As the University grows in scope,
size, and bureaucracy, the need for
a student ombudsman-type position
on campus becomes ever more pres—
sing. The need for someone who will
deal with students on a person-to-
person basis in the, midst of ris-
ing anonymity in fact is vital to
the kind ofimiversity we ought to be
building. . '«

Therefore we are glad. very glad.
that President COok was not sty-
mied by the opposition of the SCA
representatives. We are glad he
went ahead to appoint Valentine
and Bullock as joint ombudsmen

and commend him for the strength

it took to do it. Our hope is that
the example will prove strong
enough to convince the assembly
to speedily develop a constitutional
ombudsman whose office will be
permanent.

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New Ethic May Kill Civilization

By FRANK BROWNING
Editorial Page Editor

”Undermining civilization" was the
phrase Dr. A. B. Garrett used Thursday
night to describe his fear of what the so-
called poverty dole is bringing on.

The middle-aged Chemistry Depart-
ment chairman from Ohio State Univer-
sity spent an hour and a half talkingto
the local chapter of the American Chem-
ical Society about what it's like to live on
”the growing edge of knowledge."

He asked the big questions. the uni—
versall questions: about the searchtointer-
pret the universe: about learning to live
effectively within that interpretation;
about communicating the natureofreality
between men.

These questions he called a personal
philosophy of a liberal education. And by
them he was excited.

Excited, ultimately. about "the Viabil-
ity of human civilization." Excited but
not altogether unafraid that civilization
would crumble should man ever lose his
desire to search. to learn. and to corn-
municate.

Undercurrent Destroying Desire

Afraid that in fact this desire was be—
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the practiced poverty program or even by
what someone in the audience labeled "a
great undercurrent of anti-intellectual-
ism" which is rejecting the output of
contemporary researchers.

He may be right, for there are some
very basic assumptions that Dr. Carrett
made when he warned our civilization
nmybe undermined by what's happening
to the poor.

He may be right, when he fears the
apparent anti-intellectualism of the great
undercurrent who refuse to depend upon
the intricate machinations of what passes
for scholarly research.

For on both fronts, Dr. Garrett‘s eivil~
ization. and most of the premises upon
which it is built. is being challenged by
a new ethic. That new ethic is best ex-
pressed by a member of the ”undercur-
rent,”

”What wcfsc got to learn is that
there's nothing urong or bad with gis»
ingmoney or possessions away."

Still considering all his statements
about how man must learn to live with
himself. Dr. (Jarrett missed the point.
to his argument was
the motion that ”by removing the urge
to achieve. you undermine the urge for
civilization to continue to progress."

Manifests Puritan Ethic

Boiled down, his notion merely mani—
fests a different approach to the old
Puritan ethic. equating a better life with
progress plus accumulation. it is just
this notion that the new t’illfF-‘(tf non—
accumulation —~lllicumliitimull)‘ rciects.

Removing thc stigma mi gising is the
core aim of ”the great undercurrent.”
tor the goal is to clinnnate the belief
that giving to the puor is only a stimulus
which helps then; accumulate for them-
selves. Better yct. they would tell Dr.
Garrett. is that the poor should simply
ask for their needs —-and receive them-
and when they are .lske‘tl for help, they
too will give whatever they have—not
internally int naturally.

(Iertainl, such an ethic is designed
to undermine Di (Jarrett's civilizlation.
{One might even my its good-faith nziicvete
is enough to knock the wind from his
civilization.)

And the reason they are out to un-
(lcrminc his civilization is the quite sim-
ple disillusionment that the quality of
life is not, as the chemist suggests. irri-
proving, and that it has not been doing
so for many. many years.

 

  

 

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