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The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 18

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The Courier-Newsi
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Democrats Prepare to Open-Tempestuous Convention the draft act was revised. If sources of energy and com with a voluntary program in which those who serve the na What the Leading Candidates mitment in our young people that had been done, at least we through a new system of na would not be in the position now tion are reimbursed sufficiently to attract a competent volun tional service which not only distributes the burdens of cannot produce the jobs necessary, the government must the employer of the last resort." Aug. 13 statement. McGOVERN: "We need 2 million jobs, to provided by the government as employer of last resort if private efforts fail." Aug. 15 should not become the employer of the last resort.

It should, rather, act to generate the maximum number of jobs for the disadvantaged in both the public and private sectors." June 15 statement. MCCARTHY: "But if the private sector ave to Say on ssues military service fairly, but offers incentives and op teer force." Aug. 1 0 Washington. Jobs HUMPHREY; portunities for contributing to In our desire for change, we i propose an improved minimum of facing the prospect that all graduate school students would have to be drafted in order to make a mistake which was made four years ago look like something less than a mistake." April 18 in response to a question at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He said some of Gen.

must not abandon or destroy our domestic needs." May 10, Omaha. wage law, better unemployment NEW YORK (AP) "I shall run on the record of the Ken-nedy-Johnson, Johnson-Humphrey Administrations, but The federal government the institutions and the prin compensation, government con On retention of Selective ciples that have provided so tracts to privte Industry and to much for so many. I say let Service Director Lewis Hershey: state and local governments to I won't rest on it." Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. a man have a stake in his coun employ the ghetto residents, "I have my own preference "I shall raise the issues for tiersney selective service for the director of the Selective try a od, a business, a stock, a bond, a home, an Area Delegates, Alternates At Democratic Convention federal-type public works, possibly a negative income tax final judgment, talking not rulings ''are inexcusable.

merely about the war, the education and he will love Service System. The Humphrey Administration will make the for those who can't work, farm Noting that Hershey is nearly subsidies to stop the flow of needed change." Detroit, Aug. cities, or racism, or violence, but also about the deeper questions. For this is the year in and defend it." May 1, Washington, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in warning against people to the cities, resubsidiz- 2.

1968. 75 years old and has been head of the Selective Service program since World War II, he said "that is simply too long to ed public housing and resubsi Delegates-at-Large dized public education Ju which matters of the spirit have become issues of the day." McCarthy "I do not think I would favor a completely volunteer army. I ly 29 magazine article have one man in charge of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy. McGOVERN Richard J.

Hughes Princeton Robert J. Burkhardt Trenton John V. Kenny Jersey City Robert B. Meyner Phillipsburg Harrison A Williams Westfield think that what you must have is a draft which is related to "All I can offer to the cities violence, looting and arson. McCarthy "I believe that America is not going to meet the problems of the cities, or poverty or of racism until it accepts the need for a redistribution of power in is to say that I regard the in national policies, which are ac "I believe very deeply in the twin goals for which Robert Kennedy gave his life and end to the war in Vietnam and a passionate commitment to selective service." May 4 Scottsbluf, Neb.

McGOVERN "We should end the draft of our young men now and replace that unfair and wasteful system ternai decay ot our cities as a Alternates ceptable." Jan. 14. threat to our entire society and "I think it was a mistake not if elected president I will give Arnold Bloom Englewood George Brunner Haddonfield Alice Dolan Jersey City political and economic in to use the lottery system when stitutions. Poverty cannot be that subject the highest priori ty," Aug. 13 in New York.

ended until power and responsi Twelfth District (Cont,) Alternates John MacDonald Union Lorraine Lewis Springfield Richard Samuel Westfield Catherine White Plainfield Frank Witkus Thirteenth District Delegates Francis G. Fitzpatrick Bayonn Robert Slade Jersey City James J. Kinneally, Sr. Rahway Mario G. Mirabelli Elizabeth Cornelius E.

Gallagher Alternates Florence McEntyre City Max Resnick Jersey City Frank J. Ziobro Bayonne Reuben R. Redfield Elizabeth Leslie Cunningham Elizabeth James W. Kelly, Jr East Orange Patricia Q. Sheehan Brunswick Helps Plan Peace March "If peace came tomorrow, bility are democratically shared heal the divisions in our life here at home." Senator George S.

McGovern. The words were spoken by Humphrey, McCarthy, and McGovern in their quest for the Democratic presidential the domestic danger would con Black people are poor be GLEN GARDNER When the tmue. The next president of the cause they are powerless and United States will either deal powerless because they are National Mobilization Committee to End War In Vietnam sets up its demonstrations and pacifist magazine, "Liberation" for 10 years, has a print shop in his residence in Bethlehem Township but his publishing office is in New York City. creatively and energetically nomination. Here are some of black." June 20 in New York.

with our troubled cities or he Fifth District Delegates Winston W. Bostick Chester Richard J. Driver Somerset Daniel M. Gaby Millstone peace marches" at the Demo will preside over four years of My program is simple: just the other things these three men contenders for the nomination to be decided at the unprecedented violence and back up promises with performance." confusion," Aug. 15, National Edwin C.

Kruse Chatham cratic National Convention Sunday in Chicago, a North Hunterdon resident will head the action. convention opening in Chicago Press Club, Washington "First we need federally aid John P. Snyder Madison Alternates ed mass transportation to get Draft HUMPHREY He is David Dellinger, Glen the unemployed from the ghetto Malcolm L. Goggin Denville S. Lloyd Newberry Morristown Aug.

26 have been saying about the issues: Vietnam HUMPHREY "Let me make it crystal McCarthy Supporter- Clean but Unshod CHICAGO (AP) The "Be Clean for Gene" strategy among young supporters of Sen. Eugene McCarthy's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination has resulted in a neat, well-scrubbed, beardless image on to where the jobs are I also We must "capture the re- Gardner RD, who has served as one of a three-man committee to plan these demonstra-; tions. George A. Pierce Madison Irving E. Shaffer N.

Plainfield Jere B. Stern Mountain Lakes 18 THE COURIER-NEWS Plainfield, N. Wednesday, August 21, 1968 The National Mobilization clear, lnis nation nas no in Fifteenth District Delegates H. Mat Adams Edison Ralph P. Barone Aldrade B.

Cooper, Jr Brunswick Roy E. Etsch Monro James J. Flynn, Jr Perth Amboy Alternates David B. Crabiel Daniel W. Horgan S.

Brunswick Katheryne C. McCormick Mary W. Serafin South River Thomas Weber Metuchen The Candidates his campaign staff. Committee is a coalition of about 100 anti-war groups and is responsible for the peace march in New York in April, Twelfth District Delegates Barbara Grunther Millburn David Kelty McGuire David Rothschild Millburn Elmer Sullivan Roselle 1967, and the march on the Pen But one young man wearing a McCarthy button, apparently feeling the urge for self-expression, startled many guests in a convention hotel by prowling the lobbies in bare feet. tagon last Oct.

21. Dellmger, who has been own er, editor and publisher of the Jocab Trapp Summit fi WF1- ears tention at least I believe the people of this country have no intention of leaving the peoples of South Vietnam at the mercy of an aggessor. think the people of this land want a peaceful settlement of this struggle and want it as soon as possible. And they don't want to sell out, artd if I'm president of the United States they won't get a sellout." Aug. 7, before Catholic War Veterans in Minneapolis.

"I believe the present limited bombing of military targets in the north should be terminated as reciprocity is obtained from North Vietnam." July 27 in Los Angels. Q. Are you prepared to offer a cease-fire? A. "You bet we are. We're prepared for a cease-fire any hour of the day.

However, Hanoi has shown no such interest. But it may. I think we ought to keep pounding away at it." June 23, to editors of The New York Times. McCarthy "There is unlikely to be a cease-fire or a significant reduction of military activity until the United States is prepared to admit that we will accept a new government in South Vietnam and that preservation of the present regime in Saigon is unachievable without large-scale and long-term occupation by American troops." Statement, July 24. "I have opposed the bombing since early 1966 the bombing has been moral and political liability a new government appears to offer the only hope for the end to the fighting the situation in South Vietnam can ultimately be stabilized only by resolution of the issues between the Vietnamese themselves The present government in Saigon will eventually have to enter into negotiations with the NLF National Liberation Front as well as with other groups in the South." July 24 Statement.

McGOVERN "For nearly five years I have warned, on the floor of the Senate, against our deepending involvement in Vietnam the most disastrous political, moral, diplomatic blunder in our national history." "Let us face it there will be no meaningful negotiation VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY mmi-to-maxi lengths wmm iffi I for campus or career 'tftA mm 'K- until the bombing of North SENATOR EUGENE McCARTHY Hot foot back to 'school, or on the job in happy legs from Sears! Stretch nylon hose in styles that really do walk happy! The knee-hi's: rib-mesh or sharpie diamond lunts; The full lengths: mini mesh, or maxi diamond knits. The panty hose: cobwebby for both Vomen and children. The footer patent vinyl skimmers that fold up and come away in their own plastic bag; flexible composition sole, heel. Colors: turned on.

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The loss of American youth and the slaughter of the Vietnamese should stop now." Aug. 10 announcement 'of candidacy. The Cities HUMPHREY "We'll have to apply the same techniques to the ghettos and slums as we do in our foreign aid programs." He referred to long-term, low-interest loans to help Negroes get businesses started. Says America "must decide this year, the hard way with no quarter asked and no holds barred how to make civil rights into civil results." The litany of progress is not 'burn, baby, burn' but 'learn, baby, learn' and 'earn, baby, earn'" May 14 in a Detroit Negro ooo SEARS COMPLETE DEPARTMENT STORES FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED: BAY SHORE BROOKLYN HAtKENSACK HICKSVILLE HUNTINGTON NEWARK Sears iLir-tif ntiiLiciafiis ilMlrtM riTV UfATrUIIMr VAAYMP WHITP PLAINS -J liln'MIMfflfflft'fflUli SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Also on Sale at Sears Passaic Lester Maddox George McGovern 1.

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