The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07


indignation or segregation - only with
preserving constitutionalism and con-
servatism as the foundation of Amer
icanism. oddly, YAF has not taken
hold in Southern schools)
Last fall Young Americans for Free
dom held national conference at the
small town Of Sharon, Connecticut -
where they could be detached from in
fluences Of Individual colleges, or in
fluences of any individuals except stu
dents who attended and student bodies
sending delegates. There they adopted
their platform, calling it simply "The
Sharon Statement"
(The Sharon Statement is printed in full
this page.
The Student Committee for Congress-
ional Autonomy concentrates on main
tanning the right and the freedom of
Congress ''to investigate attacks on
American constitutional government or
any part of it,
Thus SEGA is the campus organiza-
ton fighting against the nationwide
organizations of "liberals' - including
many college faculty members = who
want to destroy the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee and which
have failed again this year but will keep
trying year after year.
SEGA distributes nationally the
motion picture, cooperation Abolition"
and arranges counter-attacks in behalf
Committee when the latter is attacked
by self-styled supporters of civil Ii
berries" Two brothers, John and James
Kobe, students at Northwestern Uni
versity, Evanston, Illinois, organized
it.
The Student Committee for the
Loyalty Oath was another volatile
campus group. 1t lost it's fight to de-
feat efforts of President Kennedy Gas
a Senator) last year to repeal the
loyalty oath for federal scholarships,
but is set fires of Americanism and con-
servatism on many college campuses.
Young Americans for Freedom does
not hesitate to help political party con-
sentative organizations. This necessarily
means Republican Party youth groups,
for there are no specially organized con-
sentative groups in the Democratic
Party, young or old. Youth for Gold
water and also the Young Republican
National Federation had backing Of
YAF members last year; not because
they we're Republican but because they
were conservative. YAF would just as
readily further Democratic groups if
there were any of the truly conserva-
tive type.
The growth Of YAF is illustrated in
the fact that last week six months
after its Sharon Statement - it staged
huge banquet in Washington at which
it gave awards for conservatism to a
number of Americans. Among them
were Rep. Walter, Chairman Of the
House Un-American Activities Com
mittee, George Sokolsky, Times column
list; Admiral Lewis Strauss, whose
Eisenhower nomination for secretary of
Commerce was rejected by the Democ-
ratio Senate; William Buckley Jr.,
editor of National Review, and Senator
Barry Goldwater.
One thing all OF these youths doing is
TO spread knowledge, to inform. TO educate.
They have found that youth itself was being
lured into liberalism and thus away from
conservatism and toward socialism because
of lack of information.
Effectiveness of conservative youth
movements, campus and otherwise, is
shown by the fact that last fall candi-
dates for the Congress put forth or
backed by these organizations won in
30 House elections - in each instance
a principled conservative Republican
winning over a liberal" Democrat In
each instance the victor was in the sos
i'll age - sometimes. barely old enough
to be eligible for the post sought
None of this means that conservatism
now is permeating every college campus.
1t simply means that among young peo-
pie today = particularly in some of