October 31, 1969 (continued from page 1) sipp.i $16,000 a month not to plant crops, while that same state allots $B.OO a month to feed a starving child. Gregory warned all who per petuate the sick system that a new breed of black man and a new breed of student are emerging. The panty-raid mentality is passed and the day is approaching when a “Brooks Brothers suit and a haircut” will no longer be substi tutes for human compassion. He urged students not to make the mistake of using college as a means to make a living. Instead, he told his listeners to learn to live. ’’Don’t try to be somebody, hell, you were born somebody!” pro claimed Gregory. He also told his predominately youthful audience not to look for their image as it is mirrored in the “white cracker, right-wing, estab lishment newspapers.” “Every Establishment newspaper in Amer ica is too immoral and degenerate to discuss what you are all about.” On gun legislation, Gregory pointed out the insanity of need ing a prescription to buy medicine, but not needing a permit to pur chase a gun. Assassination of any public fig ure, regardless of ideology, says Gregory, should be a matter of national concern. The same re sponse must be felt for all victims, for George Lincoln Rockwell as well as for John Kennedy, for Malcolm X as well as for Martin Luther King. Until we learn to value all human life, no one’s life has value. A truly non-violent man himself, one who “would rather be killed than kill,” Dick Gregory made it explicit that he did not come to WELCOME CAPITOL OLMSTED PLAZA Women’s Mod Shoes Dress Boots Jodpher Boots ($6.99,-up) Handbags ($2.99) Nylons (3/$1.00) CANCELLATION SHOES 10% DISCOUNT! On first pair of shoes or boots purchased on or before November 5, 1969, with this advertisement. GRAND OPENING On Wednesday, October 15, Mor atorium Day, Strom Thurmond, Republican senator from South Carolina, addressed a full house at the Forum. Senator Thurmond set the tone for the evening, when he declared of himself, “I’m often wrong, but I’m never in doubt”. The senator was certainly not in doubt about military spending. 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By far the most dramatic mo ment came when Gregory read from our Declaration of Indepen dence, the document which estab lished a precedent for revolution when guaranteed human and legal rights are denied. After an enthusiastic standing ovation, .Mr. Gregory received questions from the audience. He cited a long list of defeated amendments, which had been de signed to curb Pentagon spending, in order to show the audience that he and most other senators had America’s security in mind when they voted to begin production of such “defensive” investments as ABM and SST. Moving quickly from missiles to law and order, Thurmond scarcely gave his critical audience a chance to protest. He stated uneqivocally that he thought dissent was healthy, but he also believes those who dis sent militantly on college cam puses and elsewhere must be pun ished for all the.ir unlawful ac tions. Dr. Benjamin Spock, the final speaker of “Impact Week” ad dressed a large and assenting au dience at HACC, Monday, October 20. Concerning himself mainly with the Vietnam war, which he labeled “an abomination,” the 66-year old author and baby expert stated that the limitations of Nixon’s person ality render him incapable of end ing the conflict. “Only the Amer ican people can end it ... by closing in on him (Nixon) and applying pressure, pressure, pressure.” Part of the pressure, he added, would be the November 14-15 march on Washington. Looking to the future, Spock called for a post-war movement to work for amnesty for persons imprisoned for draft resistance and anti-war activities. Although calling for militant ac tion against the war, the doctor rejected the use of violence in so cial protest. In all, though, both Doctor Spock and “Impact Week” itself were well received by students and the involved public alike. Hopefully, more such stimulat ing events will be promoted and presented in the Harrisburg area. SMART CAPITOL CAMPUS STYLES START AT THE DAVID MARTIN FASHIONS FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN Open Thursday and Friday Evenings Middletown Page 4 STORES Elizabethtown
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