1971_10 The Daily Collegian October 1971

              EX-NAVY OFFICER
Anti-war activist attacks
government's war policies
Daily
Collegian
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1971
Socialists challenge election
qualifications to get on ballot
Like the first crocus In spring,
the first political organizer on
campus In a presidential campaign Is a sign that things are
warming up.
Clare Fraenzl, a representa-
party, was at Fresno State College this week giving a progress
report on the group's effort to
have their candidates' names
placed on the general election
ballot In 1972. The Socialists
have nominated Linda Jenness,
30, of Atlanta, Ca., for president
and Andrew Pulley, 20, of Chicago, for vice president.
The group will have a difficult
time getting on the ballot In California unless they are successful
In their suit to challenge the constitutionality of the stiff election
requirements.
decisions In Illinois and Georgia,
and have been placed on the ballot In 42 other states, according
to Miss Fraenzl.
to the presidential ballot hinges
on being designated a Qualified
party. The Qualified Parties In
Collegian News Editor
•The reality is that we, with a
record of 200 years of feeling
that power la evil, have allowed
our leaders to dress power up In
very high sounding and self-
righteous costumes. In the end
we are the last to recognize that
self-deception.*
These are the words of John
Kerry - Vietnam veteran, winner of the Bronze Star, the Silver
Star and the Purple Heart, ex-
navy officer, ez-congresslonal
candidate, and currently one of
the most vocal of the anti-war
•We're trying to bring to this
country the horrible fact that we
wore uniforms and got medals
and were the terrible Instruments
of a foreign policy which required
that men pull triggers In order
to settle political differences.
We are trying to wake the country
up and turn It around before It Is
Kerry spoke I
crowd of about 300 in the Fresno
State College Amphitheater yesterday, receiving a standing ova-
tlon at the end of his hour-long
speech. He read briefly from a
new book he helped write, entitled 'The New Soldier' and
quoted from letters his organization, the Vietnam Veterans
Against the War, had received.
•To me It is not a question
of can It be done. There are a
lot of things I don't like about
the system — there are a lot
of things corrupt within it. But
my basic belief is that the sys-
Kerry. It Is a problem of dignity
and spirit. Kerry says that many
minorities feel that they have arrived too late to share In the
wealth that the original nationality groups now have a strangle-
•How do you do what President
Nixon Is asking" us to do in tUs
country? How do you tell a man
fighting for a war he didn't believe In, that he didn't want to go
to, but had to go to because he
couldn't get out of It like everyone else; how do you tell him that
there's a sense of honor In that
death?"
Attacking Nixon's statements
about winding down the war,
Kerry said that the reality Is
that the Vietnamese will go on
fighting and killing each other
long after the last American has
died there. 'It should be an obscenity to everybody In this country that since Nixon has assumed
office he can claim credit for
one third of the casualties of the
war,' Kerry said.
•Winding down the war Is a
logical as well as a moral obscenity. Nixon Is telling us that
he can accomplish with 50,000
support troops what he couldn't
accomplish with 500,000 troops
and the heaviest bombing in the
history of mankind.*
Kerry also questioned out commitment to democracy In South -
the state now are the Democrats,
Republicans, American Independents, and the Peace and Freedom Party.
If a party has been on the ballot In the last presidential year,
it needs to poll only one-tenth
of one percent of the registered
voters each year to retain its
Qualified Party status. This Is
done through a simple tally by
each county clerk every January
and forwarded to the state.
A group like the Socialist
Workers Party that was not on
the   ballot  must have petitions
tered voters, or over one hundred thousand signatures. A dlf-
Thelr presidential candidate,
Linda Jenness, Is active in the
feminist movement and a strong
peace candidate. She has mounted
unsuccessful campaigns for mayor of Atlanta and governor of
Andrew Pulley, a Black, was an
opponent of Congressman Ron
Dellums of Berkeley In 1970.
He Is a Black liberation activist,
currently In Germany talking to
Black GI's.
Legislation will bring back old 'CCC camps
Kerry on promises: "The
bombing which we wouldn't do,
and we did, the Invasions which
we wouldn't do, and we did, the
lng powers, and the spectacle of
a Supreme Court which wouldn't
even rule on the Constitutionality
Of the war, or the Congress which
Kerry on resistance: 'Can you
talk about resistance when we
see what happens to those who
resist, bow quickly they are taken
to trial and then to Jail - what
happens to them when they break
their spirit that way?*
What Is  the alternative? According to Kerry, one a!
Is to feel that you as an'
be useful In the fight. "You must
. use the capacity which each man
has to organize,* Kerry said. If
the worker and the student, for
Instance, were to get together, It
would be all over.*
Kerry also attacked the GI
Bill, which be said Is a lure to
get men Into the service. *Try
to go to school and live on $175
a month,* Kerry said. %
•We have to set ourselves the
goal of saying th.~ t we are not
going to be remembered as the
of all
no opposition in his drive tor
re-election. Kerry also accused
Nixon of delaying our withdrawal
until next fall for purely political
Kerry, a New Englander and
very British-sounding, made his
points quickly and well. He told
the audience that the American
- system Is the most responsive to
change and Input from the citizens, but that they have a responsibility to work to change that
which they'flnd wrong.
•What has been corrupted is
not the system, but the ethics and
the people who are ruling that
His finger stabbing the air,
Kerry gave his formula for
changing the system that he says
has become so corrupt. The
formula Is Involvement. Every
one of the eight million students
In the country can become an
effective means for change if he
will only become Involved.
•The reality Is that the minorities In this country are still effectively closed out. We have
promised them over and over for
years a world they cannot touch.*
Kerry told of fighting beside
the men he refers to as those
who *do not become the professionals In America.* The problem is not one of bow many
millions of dollars we pour into
their   problems,   according  to
have made the
je quiet until
entire nation re
e done In thens
dom and democracy.'
The large number of Black and
Chieano casualties In proportion
to their number in the total population also came under fire from
Kerry, who said that the American people must be taught not to
accept that kind of duplicity from
HELP WANTED
The Job pays $2 a day for
about one hour of work. -
Applicants must be available from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Monday through Friday, and
must have their own car In
which to make deliveries.
Further information concerning the position may be
obtained at the Dairy Colle-
SACRAMENTO-The old «CCC
camps of the 1930's may be back
In full bloom next summer as a
result of a little known bill working its way through the California
Legislature.
Assembly Bill 284, approved
Sept. 9 by the Senate Finance
Committee, calls for a Joint federal/state/local effort to provide
conservation education and employment for as many as 6,500
California students by next sum-
Assemblyman Ernest N. Mob-
- ley (R-Sanger), author of the bill,
said participants would live and
work In mountain facilities during
the summer months under forestry service supervision.
■Youth wouldobtatna minimum
salary for their work experience
and academic
Mobley said the work activities
would include meadow erosion
control, timber Improvement, and
maintenance of trails and other
recreational facilities. He described the activities as being
reminiscent of the "CCC* public-
camps of the '30's.
The State Resources Agency
will administer the new program
in cooperation with the U.S. Forestry Service and
local governments.
Mobley's legislation provides
authority for California to Join in
the federal pilot Youth Conservation Corps which began this
r. In all, about 200 California youths participated in the
first-year effort. Sixty Fresno
County boys participated.
A spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service said this year's effort was so successful it Is likely to be greatly .expanded next
year. He said U.S. Senator Henry
M. Jackson (D-Washlngton), has A NEW PIECE of sculpture has arrived for display at the Fresno
Introduced .legislation to fund a State Art Building. It Is called'Column,* created by Gerald Walburg,
100,000 man program for next an Instructor at Sacramento State College. It will be on display for
year. About 6,500 participants one year. The piece Is 26 feet high, cornea In two parts, and took
would be from California.