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who didn't, about the lack of uniformity. At the same time
I was trying to draw a pay scale for the health workers in the
state of Florida, and trying to drive through the concept I
gathered, that everyone should have the same increase unless
there was a merit increase for some outstanding service; I
believe in that. Either they ought to be fired or they ought to
be given the same raise.
P: How do you feel about the unions coming on to campus?
L: I think that the fact that the university wouldn't set up
such a system and they fought it; the university administration
led to the unions. I feel we wouldn't have a union it they had
developed--I hesitate to use the word democratic administration--
but developed an open administration with faculty participation.
P: Are you optimistic about the future of higher education in
Florida?
L: Not especially. We have too many junior colleges and too many
universities in my judgement. I favor more technical training
among our younger people. I'm actually in favor of some type
of universal service instead of other types of required service.
I think we may have that some day. The universities have such
a vested service in our young people, though, that they'll kill
any proposal for universal type of service like that. But I
believe that there needs to be a certain type of discipline among
our young people that we don't have today, and that universal
service would require it. I have dared to make this statement
to some of my friends and it shocks them when I say that the day
may come, mind you, yes, it may, when a lot of the people who
are now frightened of the Soviet system, that's what I'd call it
rather than Communism, may embrace it in the interest of social
discipline. A lot of the difficulties we're having with young
people, and with other people too in our country and the other
parts of the world today, are the great inequalities in wealth.
And the obvious fact of great inequalities; you see it on television,
the way the wealthy people live; you see in the movies how the
wealthy people live. The movie stars never lived in a hut, and
yet there are so many people who know what kind of houses they
have to live in and how can they believe in the system we have?
P: Are you badly disturbed by the behavior or lack of discipline of
young people on the campuses today, the prevalence of drugs and
the so-called sexual immorality?