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Editorial
18 Is Mostly Too Young
HELPING TO BRING "alienated youth” back Into
“the mainstream of American society” by lowering the
voting age to 18, as recommended by the National
Commission on Violence, sounds like a good move on
first thought but maybe a bad one on second thought.
Does alienated youth want in the mainstream of
American society? The mainstream of American Society
Is ‘‘the establishment,” and that’s what the dissidents
are against.
If lowering the voting age to 18 is sensible, why not
17? That’s only a year younger. Why not 16? Then 15'’
You could find a good many teenagers who would
vote more intelligently than their elders. But it’s not
likely many of the dissident types would. More likely
they’d march back and forth in front of the polling
place shouting all the candidates are lousy and nobody
should vote.
The voting age was set originally at 21 because a
person of that age was deemed sufficiently mature to
make proper decisions (never mind looking around you
and wondering).
The percentage of persons 21 and older who are able
to make proper decisions is a good deal higher than the
percentage of teenagers. We have to go with the greater
percentage.
Tfce democratic process won’t permit what might be
the ideal voting eligibility: Anyone can vote who has the
civic savvy to know why he is voting the way he is vot-
ing. That would bring in a lot of 18-year-olds and leave
out the crackpot types. It also would eliminate a lot of
elders who don’t bother.
We wonder how many voters would be left to vote if
we all had to understand each issue and know some-
thing about the background of each candidate—as we
should.
Well, it’s not likely a large percentage of 18-year-
olds could qualify. And it’s time a larger percent r,e of
their elders did.
The Manion
Forum
By MARILYN MANION
HOW TO
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Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF----
A MOTORCYCLE cop flagged an elderly lady on an inter-
state highway and asked her how come she was speed-
ing at a steady 65 in a 35-mile zone. ‘‘I thought I was obey-
ing the law,” she pro-
tested. “I saw several .
signs saying 66.” "Ma- ' '
dam,” explained the cop
wearily, "that is the route
number of this highway.”
“Goodness,” she reacted,
"how am I supposed to
know that? You should
have seen me back there
aways on Route 322!”
A mean old curmudgeon
kept hearing that a retired
merchant down the road
was the best-loved man in
the state, and one day de-
cided to find out for himself the reason why. No sooner had he
seated himself in the old merchant’s parlor than a couple arrived
who obviously had been having a prolonged argument. The mer-
chant listened patiently to the wife’s story first, then the hus-
band's. After each recital he nodded approvingly and judged em-
phatically, "You are absolutely right.” The couple departed de-
lighted with him.
"I don’t get it,”’ worried the curmudgeon. "It’s impossible for
both of them to be right.”
The popular old merchant nodded. “You’re right, too!”
• • •
A New Jersey motorist whose car is in the repair shop more
than It's in service claims that at least one morning last week the
windshield wiper was working perfectly. He found a parking
ticket tucked under it.
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OVERHEARD:
Angry golfer: “How do you like that? I come out here for
exercise—and, instead, I get a hole in one!’’
Motorist’s wife: "Yes, there was a motel on the road back there
aome place, but we passed It NEONS ago!”
Travel agent to stingy customer: "For the trip you think YOU
can afford, sir, I suggest that you Join the Navy.”
C m». by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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For those nn the outdated |
<idp of the generation cap *
m »k»m trends »«■< >""•'* i
people hold little _ Imp-- Th e
iiirnmentan on these trends
holds even less.
A case in jx>;nt is ’he phe-
nomenon known as "st ident tin- 1
rest." Uncounted roil lions of
words .hive p-uivd forth (ivm
Writers ''VelievTl.»l>. et-.lca'ors
ind news analysts and most
*f the verbiage has attempted j
t ■ rationalize the students ;r- :
• i floral behavior Thus. the|
; lealistic younger generation is
rightfully refusing to support,
an immoral war in Vietnam
They are correct tn rebelling
against the study' of outdated:
irrelevant courses. Who can
Name them for the.- disgust
at a hypocritical society? And
so on and on and on.
Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson.
President of Brigham Y o u n g
University, takes a very differ-
ent view. Speaking over the
Manion Forum radio program.
Wilkinson presented some no-
nonsense, hard-httino nomment< !
as to why the ie.ds are rowdy. i
and what schools' should do a- j
hout it Here are some of hts
remarks:
“The present campus dis- j
t.'urbanccs and disorders are an
outgrowth of general disrespect
for law and order in this
country and the failure of Go-
vernment officials to e n o r c e
that law.
"I think that any student
who e n g a g e s in disturbances
that d i sr upt the program of
the university should be sus-
pended. Indeed, our students
are fold each year that should
they participate in disturbances,
expulsion would automatically
follow, and they know that we
mean It.
“I will go further than that
and state that in m y judge-
ment any student who would
attempt to destroy the faciliies
or buildings of an educational
institution created by our Gov-
ernment or made possible by
philanthropy under our system
of free enterprise, or who, by
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any revolutionary tactic
would, attempt to destroy our
Government which gives our
students more opportunit.es than
they could obtain in any other
nation in the world, should
have his ’•evolutionary dreams
fulfilled by having his citizen-
ship revoked and, like Phili p
Nolan, become a man without
a country.
"I would permit these stu-
dents, after they have repented,
to again apply for admission
to the country which ofers
them the greatest opportunities
in the world. By that t ime j belief
they might appreciate its bless- ] rn^.r
ings.
my judgement, that we should
r>>t make it a sanctuary or a-
svium where officers of t h e
law cannot get to the students.
Both university officials and1 racier and leadership .s more
law ofidals have the responsi-1 important to our society than
bility for maintaining law and a genius who is an anarchist.
"I think universities should
start thinking about some new '
admissi n requirements. I sub-
mit that a young man of cha-
ts
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o-Sr tot-.. ’■ r d liorse-p’i'. •" T r' ■
Wiilr-r Metlh'iii, in "Cffe.vtis .Flower", th
night end it w.-s pure delight Ingrid I'*1"-
nr n r.e-.-er has be<'n better. Cto'dle Ha .-.n i
1- I ;n look at but prif‘ -sionrl in niton Jr. -
V- n to h - customary hilarious end Mr.
” I c->n see him now. mutt*" ug "He-.-,
r-<'\ :.t nr'; Acting v. 1th B-u-m a yet:" • 1
tv ■'<■.-'-'tupleiR pnrfortr'r. That beautiful r.i>-
t-.ry’ ' rf bis- lets hint- play everyth'n.g1 from
pi ■ in .the fare to.tragedy and if one dry. he
.t.-'rrs tit as King Lear, I for one won't i‘-o
iViirp’-i ~ -.1.
It got me wondering, though Can Matthau
.he fur cf the lad of the actors developed by
•• c.nd.-.Tui.- now-gone' field of "live" television, and
l-.erc ■- - the actors of tomorrow going to learn
Mon t t-11 m.e about t!ie little theater group in Wop-
., . I ,.- :... to know where the -'re going to leara
1! in l.- * '.i tiii’e.
airr.-'v r live TV. They Used to do a show called "Danger”
v I- - Gr.nd (Vnt -:d T retinal building here and. one uucx-
j.l.-.'n; e-'eniiig. I fraind myself in one of the dramas, playing
a 'f-riy-hn.rod old barber. The makeup man flaked the gray
through mv go'dui lochs, assured me Barrymore started this
way, and sent me oik for my scene. I had to give a shave to
Robert Middleton and while I had no lines, I gave it my all. I
remember that Sidney Lunt was the director and years later I
ran across him on the set of “Sin-,estruck,” and asked him if he
recoiled dire'‘lug me lie looked at mo coldly "Yes,” he -ild.
"You were lousy."
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THi. BIG THING about thal particular show, though, was the
nst. Middleton was a crook in it—and Bob has gone on to be
sin.star Sydney Greenstreet's successor in films. Joe Maross was
a cop: he, too. gets plenty of work in dramas and movies now.
Nina Foch was the heroine. And the chief crook was Matthau,
loping from set to set. without missing a beat, throwing away lus
lines beautifully -and learning his business. There were others I
don t immediately remember.
fn a way. . hows like "Danger”— and “Playhouse 90,” “Studio
One," "Kraft Theater," etc.—were repertory for the young, ser-
ious actors. They played different roles every week and they had
a ba'l and laughed their heads off when, let’s say, Lee Traev
tried to get his gun out. But—they were acting. Just os you learn
to write by writing and to lay bricks by laying bricks, the only
real way to learn acting is by doing it.
order on our campuses.
"In my opinion, there are
a number of causes which art-
responsible for the revolutionary
attitude now being taken b y
students.
“In the first place, because
of the permissive attitude i n
their homes, many have no
in God and the divine
of the universe. Many
of them do not accept the Ju-
I submit that universities
should devise some formul a
think not only in terms <> f
scholarship, but also in terms
of character and go id citizen-
ship.”- American Way Features
“Theodore Roosevelt stated daeo-Christian moral code,
the philosophy which I think | "Next, it is now definitely!
we should follow. He stated! established that many of the 1
that no man is either below : leaders of these riots are hard- )
or above the law. As applied core Communists. It is now
to a university this means, in j well established that many of
these student Communistic lea-
VOU MAY SAY that off-Broadway Is giving tho young actor
..................................I a chance to learn his trade but I'm not sure you would be saving
whereby admissions officers! off.Broadway, with its “Ilalr” and “Futz” and the other
boring Now shows,'is so undisciplined that genuine direction—
that means a director w-ho gets apoplectic and veils to make your
hair curl when you blow a line or a piece of business—seems
totally missing. Who is around to tell them, as Noel Coward did
in London the other day, "Learn your lines and don’t bump into
people" ?
I realize I am beating a dead horse. Video tape is so perfected
now and gives such an illusion of “live” performing that it is
impossible to see the medium returning to the old way of doing
it. But alas, It make3 for the same bits-and-pieces way of acting
that the movies use, and there are precious few solid performers
developed by the films.
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to another, inciting these riots.
"Another reason is that
many of the dissident students
have the mistaken belief that
our country owes them a liv-
ing or a college education.
Many of these students also
have the false philosophy that
things can be changed over-
night by legislation or the po-
wer of the state.
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339th day of 1969 with 26 to I
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On this day in history :
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confirmed the discovery of gold
in California, which led to the
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abolislH'd when Utah became
the llOth state to ratify the 21st
amendment.
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former governor and senator of
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