Pearl, Morse address Younq Demos
Pearl makes
first speech
of campaign
By JOHN LANIER
Of the Emerald
“Politics should be made easier
for everyone to become involved
in and it should be fun . . . We’re
gonna have a ball, and . . . we’re
gonna win,” said an optimistic
and enthusiastic Arthur Pearl,
candidate for governor.
Pearl, who announced his can
didacy Friday in Portland, made
his first major address as a can
didate to the state convention of
the Young Democrats Saturday
in 180 PLC.
By making politics enjoyable,
he said, his campaign will serve
to get more people directly in
volved in the political process,
the result of which would be that
“we can sweep out of state gov
ernment every single phoney and
every single hireling of the as
sociated Oregon industries.”
"We’ve got to get across to
the people of Oregon that indus
try is robbing them blind,” Pearl
told his predominantly student
audience.
“The poor pay all of the taxes
and the rich don’t pay any,” he
said, . . and they (the rich)
continue to elect people to office
who won’t let them be taxed.”
“We have the best legislators,”
Pearl stated, “that money can
buy.”
When the President authorizes
hundreds of millions of dollars
to be spent on such programs as
a supersonic transport, a “tragic”
situation in itself in a world in
which millions are starving, Pearl
said, it is the citizens of the
United States, as the funding tax
payers, who take the economic
risks, but it is business that gets
the profit.
Attacks McCall
“If we take the risk,” Pearl
said, “We should get the profit.”
Pearl said we have “a lame
duck president, a lame duck gov
ernor, and lame duck legislators,”
and he scored “the absolute in
ability of elected officials today
to see beyond their noses.”
They lack “the courage and the
intelligence ... to solve the
enormous problems facing this
state and nation,” he said.
Pearl attacked his probable op
ponent in next year’s election,
Governor Tom McCall, saying,
“we’ve got to get politicians to
tell the truth ... if we got Mc
Call to tell the truth he’d be
‘Silent Tom.’ ”
He criticized McCall’s support
of Nixon’s Vietnam policies.
“Nothing that has been said by
the Governor or the President in
the last week (about Vietnam)
makes any sense at all.”
Pearl said he doesn’t think Mc
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Vol. LXXI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1969
No. 35
APPROXIMATELY 70 DELEGATES at the Young Democrats convention this weekend heard Art Pearl
(left) make his first major speech since announcing his intention to run for the Oregon gubernatorial
seat Friday. The body also voted to support Wayne Morse (right) if he should decide to make a bid for
a congressional seat. Photos by Matt McCormick and Charlie Thomas
Convention delegates seek to
'return party to people
Arthur Pearl, Wayne Morse, a new Constitution
and new state officers highlighted the state conven
tion of the Young Democrats held this weekend
at the University.
Billed as an effort to “revitalize” YD’s and to “re
turn a political party to the people,” the conven
tion began Saturday afternoon with a series of
informal seminars. The nearly 70 YD’s in attend
ance broke into three groups to discuss “Revi
sion of YD Constitution,” “Return a Political
Party to the People,” and “Dirty Politics.”
That evening University education Professor
Arthur Pearl addressed the group in his first speech
since he announced his candidacy for governor
Friday in Portland.
Pearl lauded the group for its effort to “re
vitalize” the YD organization. “Unless we really be
gin to take seriously the revitalization of YD’s,”
he said, “there won’t be many old Democrats in
the future.”
Pearl was introduced by ASUO President Kip
Morgan, who said the purpose of the weekend
convention was “gaining control of the decisions
which effect us.”
“We (students) have been leading the fight
against racism, and yet we really have no con
trol over the decisions which affect our lives,”
Morgan stated.
Students, Morgain said, are “completely sub
servient to those who have the right to give
grades.”
“If we are going to . . . solve our problems,
then we are going to have to stop begging,” he
said, and “we are going to have to take control
of those positions ourselves.”
Morgan sees a revitalization of YD’s as an effort
in this direction.
Sunday the convention adopted a new constitu
tion aimed at ending the organization’s “subser
vience” to the Democratic Party, according to State
YD President Peggy Bradley.
The new constitution states: “The purpose of
the Young Democratic Clubs of Oregon shall be to
implement and strive to realize the goals and
ideals of the Constitution of the United States
and the Bill of Rights and to enlighten and edu
cate the Democratic Party of Oregon and elected
officials of the needs and desires of the people
of Oregon.”
“This organization,” it continues, “shall strive to
influence the policies of the Democratic Party in
this State and nationally.”
Membership in the organization is open to any
Oregonian between the ages of 14 and 35 “who
considers himself to be a Democrat.”
Sunday afternoon former Sen. Wayne Morse
addressed the group. After his speech the YD’s
voted unanimously to support Morse if he seeks
the Fourth District Congressional seat.
Wayne Morse
gains support
at YD gathering
By ART BUSHNELL
Of the Emerald
Wayne Morse returned to the
University classroom Sunday
and left with the state Young
Democratc convention’s unani
mous support for a congressional
bid.
Morse, a former dean of the
University’s law school, gave a
lecture in political science to
about 175 youthful politicians and
observers who had gathered in
180 PLC for the afternoon ses
sion of the statewide meeting.
The former old tiger of the
Senate emphasized party unity as
he told the young people what
their role is in returning the
Democratic party to national lead
ership.
They reciprocated by singing
"Happy Birthday” to the former
Senator on the eve of his 69th
birthday and by voting unani
mously to support him if he de
cides to try for Oregon’s Fourth
District seat in the U.S. Congress.
Morse lauds unity
Morse cited a need to examine
the unity of the state’s Democrat
ic party and to find out what the
financial status of a bid for the
seat would be before deciding
whether or not to run.
He told the group if he re -
entered politics, it would prob
ably be in the congressional
race, as his experience was legis
lative rather than executive.
Morse, who has been asked to
return to the classroom as a reg
ular instructor, made the tran
sition from the fiery war critic
who spoke last Wednesday in fa
vor of the Moratorium, to the
guest lecturer guiding his pupils
to understand political tenets.
He told the group a unified
party was a necessity for success.
“Any chasms that develop be
tween the young and senior Dem
ocratic parties in this state have
to be bridged, or better yet, fill
ed up,” he advised.
Stresses committees
Morse added the young and old
should become equal partners in
the state’s political processes, if
the party were to function as
a whole and be successful.
He stressed the importance of
politics at the committee level
and advised the young Democrats
they should be filling more and
more of the committee positions.
“A party, as far as winning
elections is concerned, is just as
strong as it is at the commit
tee level,” Morse told them.
He instructed the young peo
ple to “get it out of your heads
if you think that only the young
are concerned about your views.
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Few answers seen in housing crisis
Editor’s Note: This is the last in a
series on off-campus housing.
By BILL BUCY
Of the Emerald
There aren’t many solutions to the
housing problem in Eugene and they all
cost money.
This is because the problem is so mas
sive and widespread that it will take
a large concentrated effort by many agen
cies and institutions to solve.
One solution suggested by the Central
Lane Planning Commission, is to main
tain the area around campus for high den
sity housing by enforcing zoning codes
and limiting the number of commercial
enterprises moving near campus.
The maintenance of older homes in the
area is essential to the success of this
plan.
This would aid students who want to
live near campus and would keep the
University community together.
The Central Lane Planning Commission
has come to the conclusion that this is
physically possible between High and Al
der from Franklin to 19th.
The commission, in a study completed
last summer, also found out that if t h e
Amazon Parkway and Ferry street con
nection doesn’t cut in on existing hous
ing this area can house the majority of
students off campus when enrollment of
the University reaches 20,000.
By keeping the area around campus as
they are and enforcing housing codes to
assure at least minimum standards, about
9,200 students can live around campus.
CLPC also recommended that the area
south of 19th St. and east of campus be
maintained for use of married students
and faculty members.
FEDERAL AID MAY HELP
A program already in existence that
could aid married students in finding hous
ing is the federally subsidized leased hous
ing program.
As the program now works a local hous
ing agency leases houses and apartments
and sub leases them tc poor families. The
federal government then subsidizes part
of each month’s rent for the family.
Acceptance to the program is based on
immediate need, date of application and
residence within the city at the time of
application.
Applicants must have resided in Lane
County for at least six months and must
sign a lease for a minimum of one year.
Income for families applying cannot ex
ceed $3,600 for three people. As income
goes up the federal subsidy decreases un
til the renter is self-sufficient.
Minimum rents for non-elderly families
are $55 for one bedroom and $60 for
two bedrooms with utilities included.
Types of housing under this program
are houses and apartments throughout
Eugene. The only hitch for married stu
dents is that the homes aren’t always close
to campus.
CLPC sees the solution to students living
farther from campus in parking and bus
service.
Parking structures could be built around
the edges of campus. They could be paid
for by fees charged to those using them.
NEGOTIATIONS PURSUED
The University is already operating a
bus service between the Westmoreland
married student housing project and
school. The buses run hourly five days a
week between 7:30 a.m. and 4:45 p.m.
The buses, costing $55 a day, are paid
for by students who use them. The fee is
$6 a month for unlimited rides or $2 for
10 rides.
Right now the service is subsidized by
the University, but if parking structures
were built, money could be diverted from
them to make it self-sufficient.
If there were great concentration of
students in certain areas of the city, the
service could even be expanded.
With an expanded bus service, federally
financed student housing could be built
farther away from campus.
Negotiations are going on between the
University and the Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development for a $1.5 mil
lion project. If it is built it will have 90
per cent married student housing and 10
per cent single. No details have yet been
released.
Without the help of federal and city
governments, little can be done on a large
scale to solve the housing crisis. Almost
every recommendation made by CLPC in
volved some form of governmental help.
The University is having troubles pay
ing for what housing they have. Dorm
rate increases and rent increases at West
moreland are an indication of this.
The ASUO housing office has just been
organized and hasn’t had time to plan
any action.
Something must be done though, and
soon.