Show Why Should Young Voters Support T 1 Your Party in Tuesday's By STEPHEN R. BECK Young Democratic Club In this I would like to express why I am going to vote for those candidates running for office on the Democratic I believe my opinion will best exemplify the major reason all college students should vote Democratic on for is my first opportunity to vote in a national I first of all believe in the Democratic The reasons for my belief in this platform can be summed up in one word much been said about the unique history of this year's It has often been said that the Democratic party is the party of the that the ideals of the party more closely appeal w. Jj to the desires of the major- T of This com- l Mm mon description of a Ek iBb can ke strongly Wim supported by Democrats and the greater m Democratic registration all the country is proof nat it represents the There of good reason for this majority Recent history tells us that yS greatest amount of rk acted legislation which di-ti affects the good of the people has the w Democratic leadership of a This by the is still being fought by the Social security medical care for the aged through social federal aid to and active foreign policy such as the policy and the Marshall and just the Peaceful change have been enacted or proposed by sincere Democrats who care about their constituency the majority of the American This year's platform is not a device contrived by politicians to win the support of a gullible public as Republican friends would have us It is a set of programs which have been drawn up by thoughtful representatives of the people of this How many of the readers remember the platform hearing on by the Democratic National Committee during the early part of the At the led by Averell all citizens were invited to speak in behalf of all issues which they felt needed to be written into the National Party I was at the hearing in Salt Lake and I saw what will always be to me a great example of our great political system at witnessed people of all ages and occupations bring forth and suggestions to be written into a so that some day those utterances would become my went on in all areas of our great And when it came time to write the final all this data was read and listened to recordings taken at the by the platform committee for final Not all the material was it is but the greatest those most pertinent to majority were It in a platform drawn up by the The opposition has called it the work of purposely designed to inflame the imagination of Those egoists are the American Your friends and neighbors wrote that platform-not a governor from one It is a sincere And now something should be said about Senator John He done an excellent job in carrying his party's programs to the American not diverting to tactics of name calling and glorious By MEL BEARD Young Republican Club Before the American people can safely place their destiny in the hands of any political they have the right to know the answer to this Has that party acted with foresight and in the best interest of the The answer can be gleaned from the with this in I am submitting excerpt from the President Roosevelt was elected on a New Deal platform in In the latter part of 1934 his program began to show some effect on the but during those one-and-a-half intervening nothing was done to check the downward In 1939 employment was still below the 1932 It took a world war to achieve the full employment Roosevelt promised under the New r In 1958 a similar situation A The economy was in a slumP- Democrats HI were crying depression and large ment spending to offset the I Their program would have no effect for least one By ignoring the cries of the Democrats J s and taking close to 50 inter mediate the administration had running at their 1957 levels by the end of The war record offers some fascinating Throughout the both Germany and Japan were arming for a world while our Democratic administration was concerning itself with and Who can offer an excuse for this nation being so unprepared for war when it came that it was three and one half years of death and misery for our boys before we were able to take the Who can help but wonder if war would have not been averted if the same policy of military as is practiced under the present Republican had been followed World Communism received tremendous impetus during the administrations of Roosevelt and for it was Roosevelt who gave Soviet Russia the respectability of diplomatic recognition by this and Truman who continued to send millions of dollars of lend-lease capital goods into Russia even after it became very apparent that she was mis-using these goods to give herself a position of pre-eminence at our in expense eastern as the and general hostilities were drawing to From 1946 to 1952 all or parts of 14 nations fell under the communist steam but appeasement and retreat did not bring When the communists took Truman's word that he would not defend a war resulted which caused American DO WE WANT THIS TO HAPPEN ON Contrast this with Eisenhower's record Since 1953 no nations have fallen behind the Iron Curtain- parts of four have One all or useless war was and others PP averted by a policy of f the and for peace |