The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 March 1968 — Page 5

Wednesday, March 12, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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Flag ceremony part of campus life Problems face LBj and nation’s homebuilders

TAFT. Calif. UPI-Junior college students in this California community want it known that they don't care to be stereotyped with protesters and draft card burners. Each morning students at Taft College, at the southern tip of the oil and farm rich San Joaquin valley, stand reverently while classmates hoist the U.S. flag in front of the administration building. As the colors ascend the pole, the 500-student campus echoes with the sounds of '‘America the Beautiful,' 1 played on the college chimes. The flag-raising ceremony was initiated by the student council “to show that students are not, in the majority, a group of draft

card burners and protest marchers.” Student Vice President Dale Lardy said response to the daily ritual has been completely favorable. “A few students seemed confused at first.” he said, because they were not sure just how to show proper respect for the flag. But since the first ceremony information about flag etiquette has been distributed and the ceremony now is fast becoming a part of the normal campus life. The entire ceremony is carried out by students, with the blessing of the college administration. Taft College President Garlyn Basham said he is proud of the

students for originating the plan and carrying it out. Using a present-day phrase, Basham said the students were “turned on by a mature posture of patriotism.” “This type of action generates student power at its constructive best in direct contrast to the drug-genecated euphoria so frequently found on college campuses nowadays,” he said. Basham said he felt the students’ attitude was “a deliberate outgrowth and expression of the ideals of this small community and this college.” Taft has a population of 5.000. Student leader Lardy said the flag ceremony “serves as a positive indication to members of the country’s armed forces.

WASHINGTON UPI - Presi lent Johnson and the nation's homebuilders are faced with a proolem — where to get tde men to build 26 million units of housing in the next 10 years. There are other problems too, ot course. Money, or the lack of it. Demand, or the overabundance of it. And half a dozen other problems ranging from Congressional indifference to bad weather. But when the President called for 6 million units of federally assisted low-income housing and 20 million more privately constructed units, he also was calling for the manpower to put those units into place.

And as anyone who has ever hit his thumb with a hammer knows, it takes a heap of skill to make a pile of lumber a home. So the problem is not one of rounding up enough manpower; it’s getting skilled manpower. To top it off. the nation's pool of skilled builders is shrinking. Latest statistics indicate there are nearly 3.8 million men in the 20 building and construction trades, ranging from the unskilled to electricians, plumbers, marble setters and other skilled craftsmen. To keep pace with demands for housing through 1975 alone, housing industry experts believe the pool will have to grow to 4.5

million men. This does not take into account the six million-unit crash program for low and mid-dle-income housing set by the President. Simple arithmetic shows that the difference between 3.8 million and 4.5 million is only 700,000. But it isn't that simple. One complication is that more men are leaving the building trades than are entering them. The average age of skilled building trade laborers is much higher than for most occupations —and between now and 1975 a greater number of them will be dropping out of the labor pool due to retirement, changes to less demanding work and death.

So instead of 700.000 men. in-

dustry experts predict they will have to find 2.8 million men to make that 700.000 net gain. And again this gain is aimed oniy at keeping up the pace — not moving ahead on the 6 million units as the President has asked. What the real figure will have to be to meet all the nation's housing needs is still being added up. One suggested solution is to use the youth of the ghetto as a ready source for this trade pool. They could be trained, have their earnings boosted, help rebuild their own slum areas, provide better homes for themselves and ease the critical housing shortage for the whole country.

But this solution does not advance a way to actually get these young men on the job. This raises other problems. There is the problem of the racial discrimination which has riddled the building trades unions for years. Tnero ;s the problem of motivating a s.am youth to go through the long and difficult apprenticeship which the skilled trades require. But problems or not. this is the proposed solution being eyed by both government and industry. Whether it develops or is discarded, no one on either side of the conference table will — ; or can — say.

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