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Somewhere amid the mass of publicity, documents, and delegates that have accumulated along with the inception of the National Students Association, something got lost. This was the list of answers to those who want to know the what-good-is-it and the why-vote-for-it of NSA. A reconstruction of that list is necessary. Without it, NSA may not receive the strong majority on the ballots today and tomorrow that is needed to convince the Student Council that undergraduate backing warrants ratification...
Question number one: Why vote for an organization that is going to serve as a nationwide megaphone for raucous, political minorities! Answer: Vote for it because it will not be political. It cannot be political. At the Chicago meeting last December, political groups, which formed a large percentage of the delegates present, were hushed to a quiet, ten percent voice. The Constitution, put together in Madison early this fall, cut out factional student groups completely. No religious or political organizations will receive representation in NSA. The Association, and its regional boards, will consist only of representatives from entire student bodies...
...decisive vote for Clements, a liberal Southern Democrat, was tempered by current Kentucky political history. Traditionally Democratic Kentucky has elected only two Republican governors since 1923; the G.O.P. had won in. 1943 against a Democratic opposition weakened by internal strife...
...conclusions could fairly be drawn from last week's vote: 1) the race for 1948 is wide open, and neither Republicans nor Democrats are in a position to coast; 2) politicians who trumpet about national trends are only talking politics...
...Philadelphia, Mayor Bernard ("Barney") Samuel's pachydermatous machine was too much for crusading Dick Dilworth, the Democratic candidate (TIME, Oct. 27). The machine delivered the vote in the solid downtown wards and buried Dilworth* under a plurality of more than 90,000 votes. Republican control of Philadelphia, undisturbed for 63 years, was secure for another four...