Wednesday, October 19,1988 The Battalion Page 5
Warped
by Scott McCullar
Waldo
by Kevin Thomas
THEN AGAIN, I GUESS
THE COWS HAVE THEIR
OWN WAY OF RUNNING
FREE TOO-..
Libertarian campaigner
travels presidential trail
JERSEY VILLAGE (AP) — The
presidential campaign motorcade speeds
down a Texas freeway at about 75 mph
— a radar detector perched on the dash
board of the lead car.
It seems almost appropriate that when
the entourage makes a quick stop for
lunch, the candidate who favors a return
to the gold standard as backing for
American currency orders his driver to
pull under the McDonald’s golden arches
for a cheeseburger.
This is no ordinary national political
campaign.
No Secret Service agents. No police
escort. No freeway roadblocks. No ac
companying horde of reporters and cam
era crews and no frantic campaign staff
ers or advance people.
And the “motorcade” consists of three
cars, the candidate in the front seat of a
four-door Ford and two reporters weav
ing their vehicles in and out of traffic
desperately trying to keep pace.
If a dark suit and light blue shirt and
red striped tie make for the classic uni
form of a presidential hopeful, then Ron
Paul is playing the part correctly.
But that’s about where the similarity
to people like George Bush and Michael
Dukakis ends.
Paul, 53, a former four-term Republi
can congressman from Lake Jackson, is
the Libertarian Party nominee for presi
dent. Although his campaign is low-key
and operating on a miniscule budget
compared to Bush and Dukakis, he will
share a ballot spot next month with his
better-known rivals in 47 states and the
District of Columbia.
“The odds aren’t very good,” he says
of his chances for moving into the White
House in January. “But the odds are very
good that we are going to take hold in
this country. We’re realistic in knowing
Libertarian candidate Ron Paul will
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we’re not going to be elected this year,
but we’re not a fly-by-night operation.”
Paul’s campaign is not so much aimed
at electing him but about promoting the
philosophy of the Libertarians, who
claim a membership of more than
200,000 nationwide. The party has
fielded a presidential candidate since
1972 and picked up some 250,000 votes
in the 1984 election.
Paul, by profession an obstetrician and
gynecologist, he rarely refers to himself
during campaign appearances, preferring
instead to tout his party’s goals of a com
pletely free marketplace, unbridled civil
liberties and a non-interventionist for
eign policy.
“We’re spoiling the comfort of the
politicians who won’t deal with the prob
lems and are bankrupting the country,”
he says. “That’s a great role.”
Paul, who during his congressional
term once proposed changing the color
of money from green to pink and blue
and yellow, among other things favors
abolishing the personal income tax and
the Internal Revenue Service, disbanding
the FBI, pulling U.S. troops out of Eu
rope and the Far East and getting rid of
all drug laws and making illegal drugs le
gal. He’d also let private firms handle
Social Security and get the government
out of public education.
Paul says he quit the Republicans after
becoming disenchanted with Ronald
Reagan.
“He told me he would get the govern
ment off my back,” he says. “But look
what’s happening. If you look at the IRS
or DEA or INS or whoever, they’re not
off our backs. They’re into our wallets
and into our bedrooms and into our pri
vate lives more so than ever before.”
His rather populist message draws a
smattering of enthusiastic applause dur
ing campaign appearances. On the drug
issue, however, some of the opposition
can get hostile, especially when Paul
suggests it should be left up to the indi
vidual whether to use narcotics.
Joseph Azmeh, 19, a University of
Houston student said after a recent Paul
campaign, “I was in favor of everything
he said until he got to the drug issue. I
have a small brother and he watches TV
and I know how advertising affects
him.”
Paul believes making drugs legal
would reduce crime by 50 percent and
eliminate the profit motive for drug deal
ers since the substances would be readily
available.
“It’s pretty hard to get a young person
to work for $4 an hour when they can
make $400 a day pushing drugs,” Paul
says. “Those profits and high salaries
would be gone if drugs weren’t so artifi
cially pumped up in price.”
And he insists it’s wrong that the gov
ernment is so involved in anti-drug pro
grams when the teaching of other dan
gers to children is handled by parents at
home.
“It’s gone mad, it’s an obsession,” he
says of campaigns like Nancy Reagan’s
“Just Say No.” “What I’m promoting is
liberty and freedom of choice and indi
vidual responsiblity.”
After nearly 10 months full time on
the campaign trail, after appearances in
nearly all of the states, he says he has a
feeling of “tiredness but not futility.”
Expert: Costs
of fall clothes
may escalate
By Michelle Carney
Reporter
A rejection of recent clothing trends
and an increase in the cost of labor is
driving fall clothing prices up, said Dr.
Ann Beard, a clothing and textiles spe
cialist with the Texas Agricultural Serv
ice at Texas A&M.
“Consumers can expect a big jump in
prices this fall,” Beard said.
Many women, especially career
women who support the clothing indus
try, didn’t like the styles offered, she
said. An example is the mini-skirt.
Career women want more conserva
tive clothing for the workplace.
Another factor influencing clothing
prices and sales is the economy. The
stock market slump in October had some
effect on the buying market. Beard said.
People have taken on a wait-and-see atti
tude and replace only what has to be re
placed, she said.
“Higher prices may encourage con
sumers to be more conscious of what
they’re getting for their money — espe
cially in the big-ticket fall and winter
clothes made of wool,” Beard said.
Although the price of wool has
doubled in the past year, that is not the
only cause for increasing wool clothing
prices this fall, Rita Kourlis, director of
wool marketing for the American Wool
Council, said.
“The cost of the wool is only three
percent of the retail price for the finished
garment,” she said. “So, in a $300 suit,
only about $10 goes for the wool.”
Everything along the way affects
clothing prices, Kourlis said.
“There is somewhat of a trickle effect,
with the cost of wool yam and fabric in
creasing as the price for raw wool goes
up,” Kourlis said.
Beard said that in an attempt to help
keep the cost of winter clothes down,
consumers are purchasing wool blends.
Blends, a combination of wool with
other fabrics, are increasing in popularity
because consumers get the best of both
fabrics, she said. Blends are also more
durable and there is no difference in look
or feel between blends and actual wool.
Beard said.
To avoid high clothing prices, many
people avoid buying clothes, she said.
But climate changes, job changes and
school force people to buy despite high
costs.
To help consumers get the most for
their dollar, Beard suggests that they not
avoid buying, but make careful selec
tions.
People should shop more for quality
items and for styles that will last, she
said. Sticking to moderate styles allows
consumers to get the best out of their
clothing budget, she said.
“You don’t want to be too conserva
tive or too trendy,” she said. “Trends are
nice occassionally as accents because
they add spice to life.”
Comparison shopping is one way to
stretch dollars. Too often people are hur
ried and don’t take time to look at what
they are buying, she said. Some clothing
manufacturers skimp by using less qual
ity interfacing and cheaper buttons. This
keeps prices from rising as fast, she said.
“Be astute when shopping,” she said.
“Inspect clothes and don’t rely on brand
names because many brands put out
clothes of different qualities. Brand
names are not always a guarantee.”
Although it is too early to predict
prices for Spring 1989, there is definitely
a noticeable price increase for fall. And,
as long as the buying slump continues to
increase prices, consumers need to be
aware of where their dollar goes and how
to get the most for their money.
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