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Show 6A DESERET NEWS, If s r in Vtnm, Wednesday, October 16, 1968 A?? The Generation Gap, It's Unresolved Crises rela- whitg-blac- tions rise in crime end ether unresolved cnees mere rather then are seen as the ffontiahon gap it am causes of the widespread dts e on 'hat hat alienated American Youth and a struoqle for ncowras minority power" These finding art disclosed today by public eoimon pert Samuel Lubcll By SAMILL LI BELL It may conm as a Martlmg finding in view cf the widely hold belief that young people (onsti-tut- e today an "alienated generation given to battling with y i (or being b a ttled by) the Chicago polite, dis-- r e u p ting campuses and engaging col-leg- in endless hippie and antiwar demonstrations Still, my interviews with the nation's youngest voters those who will mark ballots lot president for the first time this November reveal that Hu y will be voting almost exactly uke the rest of the coun-tiy the first voters who have Democratic parents, with another 10 per cent still undecided Roughly a third of thee Democratic first voters are swinging to Nixon, only about one in 10 to George Wallace. In the South, Wallaces appeal to younger voters runs quite strong, but in the Northern states he fares much more poorly than with adults. LESS LRimiC Tins suggests that, If anything, the youngest voters may be less erratic in their political behavior titan 6ome older people or more devoted to a two party system. So strong is this voting similarity between young and old that we would do well to take a critical look at the much publicized "generation Does it really exist? gap. A.e college demonstrations merely the work of a tiny, student minority? Are they Communist organized? What has led to the belief that our youth are such alien com politically compared with the rest Of America? THEY DIFFER own answers to these My and related questions are based partly on intervie"S during this campaign but on two intensive mainly HOW First voters, witn Republican parents, are going for Richard Nixon with relatively few defections. In contrast, Iluliert Humphrey seems to be holding only about half of - studies, conducted over the past three jears, of how young people differ in their thinkirg from their parents. In the second survey, financed by a Ford Foundation grant, an effmt was made to determine just how young and people differ most from their parents, least and what have ben the basic causes for campus rebellion. Ten key items were taken relifor intensive analysis tion More than ball would give their own children much the same upbringing they them-sees had In personal living, as with taking marijuana and LSD, the new generation does differ markedly But theie was only a moderate spillover of drug use into political feeling students included admirers of Barry Goldwater and William Buckley as well as self described radicals. s of More than students interviewed would vote for the same politih gious feeling, family upbringing and the use of drugs; whit political paity a young person favors, and his career choice, compared with how his parents vote and his fathers occupation. PROBE ATTITIDES Also included weie five questions which probed attitudes to the Vietnam war, what should be done about the draft and whether patriotism PLl(LS cal party as their parents. fell PE It was when our analysis turned to student responses on the war, the draft and career choices that a pattern of meaning took shape. It then became evident that the campus disruptions are part of a deeply-rootecrisis that is shaking our With each of the roughlv at 28 different campuses we traced through the impact of each of d items. whole society. A few statistics supplied by the Census Bureau may be What emerged rather strongly was that there was more continuity than gap in the attitudes of parents and their offspring. With orly one in every 10 COINCIDE It would have been a miracle if uny society could have absorbed all these youthful millions into the existing occupational and social struc-tui- e without difficulty. As it happened, though, 1965, when this leap in youthful numbers began, also was the year in which President Lyndon Johnson plunged the nation into involvement in deepening Vietnam The draft system bad not bepn adjusted to the fact that the available manpower exceeded by far any conceivable military need. Simultaneously, at every college and university I interviewed that year, I found a restless searching for new kinds of occupational choices which students hoped would prove more meaningful than what their parents had done. three-fourth- 500 students interviewed 10 year the is important. thee one year later their number jumped to 3 800,000. This astonishing leap of a million more youths m a single year reflected the record number of babies sued by soldiers re turning home in 1946 after the end of World War II By 1972, the i ew crop of 18 year-old- s 's expected to top 1 million ea( h students interviewed did these 10 items link up into a pattern of general revolt or "aliena- revealing. As late as 1964, youngsters reaching the age of 18 still numbered only 2,800,000. Just Although the expansion economy during lecer.t years has met part of the youthful need to fit oneself into society the war and the dratt have heloed frustrate it. Much of this frustration has been dammed up on the nation's the campuses In short, nn Interviewing college students over the last three years points to the conclusion that the prevailing of in which dissident dialogue be represented would groups and listened to. But my interviewing indicates that our universities are inefbeing d.srupted less by than fective communication of existence continued the by an unresolved crisis that lie beyond the reach of the universities Nor is this danger of confined to the special difficulties of the young My campaign reports this year have tnea to search out the main cause of dissension that divide this country so deep'y. I have found a whole the succession of crises war in Vietnam, white black relations, the upward burst of crime, the complexit.es of urban and rural change none of which we have had the ability or time to resolve. The crucial question po ed by this fateful election which no candidate has even mentioned may well be whether any president tan govern our nation unless this chain reaction of unresolved crises is broken ADVBRTISiMEHT advertisement n unrest at so atmosphere many schools stems from the fact that so large a part of our youth still has not been assimilated into our social and economic structure. The basic e'eavage has not been a generation gap of misunderstanding between the young and their parents but a "fitting - into - society gap. This distinction is critical for why this has been so tuibulent an election year and what lies ahead for the next president. In speeches campaign Richard Nixon has emphasized how important it is for any president to have the support of both young people and Negroes to be able to govern effectively. 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