The Stetson Reporter

Vol. 83 Friday, Oct. 23, 1970 No. 8 Anderson Speaks At Stetson A Trillion dollars for security in an un-safe country. Thursday, Mr. Jack Anderson, nationally syndicated columnist, co-author of the controversial column, ''Washington Merry-Go-Round" with the late Drew Pearson, spoke to several hundred persons in the auditorium of Elizabeth Hall. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Artist and Lecturer Series and the Student Government Association. Mr. Anderson warned that now is the time of year that political candidates are seeking election. He asked that the audience be wary of simple solutions offered by the candidates, as there are no simple solutions to our problems. The problems are complex and so must the solutions be. Anderson warned that no one can offer any easy solution to the problems that face America today. He said that "We cannot end crime by putting on bumper stickers. We cannot end the Vietnam War by reciting the Scriptures." University's Economic Impact On DeLand Set At $17 Million By SAM FENTON Sun News Staff Writer Edward Furlong; dean of Stetson University's business school, told West Volusia Realtors last night that statistics show Stetson University pumps more■ than $17 million into the local economy each year. Answering recent charges that Stetson isn't paying its way, Furlong said the university has an annual payroll in excess of $3 million, provides jobs for 390 full- time and 50 part-time employes, and has 2,000 students in DeLand who spend $1,000 each per year. Furlong said Stetson University gives the community other, intangible advantages such as access to instruction in many fields, meeting places, refresher courses and graduate courses. He added that Stetson faculty members and their wives are also active in social work and teaching in the DeLand community. "There is a general cultural lift to any community that has a college," he said. Referring to the university's economic impact on the community, Furlong said Stetson has completed $7 million worth of construction in the past five years. "This has got to be a lift to the community," he said. Furlong indicated that students and university officials drive more than 1,500 cars on and around the campus. "These vehicles have to be serviced," he said, "and the average student spends $265 a year on his car, according to national averages." Furlong said the university would soon be building a new field house that would benefit both the university and the community. . The business school dean' told, realtors that any. money cir culated in a community has a mutliplication factor. He said that the $2 million students spend each year is circulated and recirculated giving an actual economic impact of $6 million per year. He told the group that Stetson University is a selling point to area realtors. "The university makes it easier to sell real estate in this area," he said. Furlong, a former mayor of DeLand, said Stetson "couldn't really be separated from the community. It is a way of life that has grown with DeLand," he said. Furlong: said that although there are some Stetson.student groups "that looked like they might belong to the Mafia," Stetson students are good students and "as conservative a group as you can find." . By way of explanation of how we arrived at such a state of complexity in our problems, Anderson spoke of America's obsession with security — an obsession which grew out of World War H. He explained that at that time a madman threatened to take over the world. America was caught by surprise. Anderson said: "We fought and died. We wanted to make this country safe. We wanted to make this country secure. We wanted to be sure that this type of thing could never happen again. We went through this and became obsessed with security." He stated that our emphasis on security and our out-pouring of funds for defense have created great problems at home. As Mr. Anderson put it, "In guarding our front door against foreign powers, we have left the back door at home open." Anderson. pointed out that in spending 82 million dollars and 49,000 American lives to put down a guerilla war on the other side of the globe, we have left our guard down and allowed a guerilla war to start here at home. He noted that since World War U, we have spent the infinitesimal sum of 1 trillion dollars to make the U.S. safe and secure. And the country is more un-safe today than at any other time since the Civil War. The guerilla war that Anderson spoke of is the one being waged right now in the ghetto. It is the one being waged by the militants. The people in the ghetto have long cried for law and order, for they are the true victims of crime. For years their cries have been ignored. Now someone is listening. The militants, are listening. And they are answering. They are going to the ghetto and establishing law and order - the law of guerilla warfare ahd the order of an army dedicated to the overthrowal of America. Anderson said that the majority of the ghetto-dwellers are-still on our side, though he doesn't know why. He said that in order to win the people over to their side, the militants have planned a role for us. "They want us to brutalize with our billy clubs and bayonets, to antagonize and radicalize the ghetto against us." "And we're doing it" he added, saying that we are bringing about a revolution — a revolution that we will win but to recover from, will take 150 years. He suggested that it would be easier to solve the problems before the revolution than to try to recover after the revolution. In our search for security, Anderson said, we have troops in 68 foreign countries. That is more than any other empire ever had. He noted one main difference between America and former empires, however: Whereas the others drew from their satellites to enrich themselves, America gives from herself to enrich the other countries. He also pointed out that America has treaties with 42 countries pledging our support should they ever be threatened. For example, the lives our young men and the finances of our nation are pledged to the support and defense of To go -where ever that is. Speaking in reference to Vietnam, Anderson depicted one , soldier sinking into the quicksand of the. Mekong Delta. As the sand rises higher, pulls him down, and begins to choke out the breath of life, he should not spend too much time in complicated debate over how he got there; rather, he should concentrate on how to get out. That is the position, of the United. States, Anderson said, and we should also attend to the problem at hand: how do we get out? Anderson attacked the oil companies in the United States for taking tax money that could > be used elsewhere. He said that when an oil company avoids paying a dollar because of a tax loop-hole, it is the same as if they took a dollar from the tax people.> It is the rich that can afford to figure out how to benefit from taxes. If a mistake were to be made in the poverty program and a needy family were to accidently receive too mcuh money, quite a fuss would be raised. But when the mistakes involve rich persons, nothing is said. Speaking on the poverty program, Anderson referred to the debate concerning aid to dependent children. He said that the outcome of the debate was that a ceiling was set on the amount of aid a dependent child could receive. In Mississippi, the ceiling is $9.20 per month. When a report indicated this amount was not enough and an envestigating team reported they had seen children in Mississippi suffering from bloated bellies and scabs on their heads — the first signs of malnutrition and un- dernourishment, Senator James Eastland claimed that there was . no hunger in Mississippi and that his state was being slandered. (Continued on Pag* 2)