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Show Council Hears Report on Conference 'The White House Conference on Youth represented the most glib part of scoiety and these are usually the most liberal,' stated Reed Halladay Thursday Thurs-day at the Women's Legislative Council meeting. He said the conference attempted to represent repre-sent the whole world in a nutshell nut-shell and the government tried to give the impression of concern con-cern about youth, but in his opinion "failed miserably." He told how he was "shot down" by his own generation at the conference when he expressed ex-pressed the importance of traditional trad-itional family life. They told him instead that a family can be anything you want; two men, one man and five women, vice versa, or whatever you want. However, Mr. Halladay assured the audience, "I still have the greatest respect and confidence in youth and adults alike.' Pie assured them that only good can come out of a conference of this type and said that follow-up groups have been organized to glean the best of the conference. The youthful speaker chided adults in general for not standing stand-ing for what they believe. "You know you're often right, but too many of you are afraid to say how you feel." He said, "Personally I do not feel there is a generation gap, but a communication gap and an empathy em-pathy gap." Commenting upon his recent campaign for city commissioner commission-er and on politics in general, Mr. Halladay said, "We need to elect a man who, when he blows the whistle, you'll walk 50 miles to vote. And when he visits a foreign country, they'll line the streets and throw rose petals in his path." He said a president can hire brilliant minds to guide him, but we need this kind of leader at the head of our country to unite the people." |