Lodge Proposes Economic Board

George Cabot Lodge '50 brought his campaign for the U.S. Senate to the Winthrop House Forum last night. He told an audience of about 100 that the main issue of the campaign was "whether or not we should have a Senator in Washington who can make an independent decision, free of familial or fraternal ties."

Lodge devoted most of his 20-minute talk to a discussion of economic issues. He proposed the establishment of a federal council where representatives of industry, government, and labor would meet regularly "to consider economic problems objectively and dispassionately."

Our main failure is economic policy has been an unwillingness to plan ahead, Lodge said. "We have been afraid to think," he claimed.

Lodge criticized the Administration for its unemployment policy, particularly for a vocational retraining program which "will train people badly for jobs that don't exist." Whatever retraining is necessary should be carried out by industry, and should be supported by government tax incentives, he said.

He also pressed his contention that the election of Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy '54 would create an impossible conflict of interest between the executive and legislative branches of the government.

If Ted disagreed with the President it would create "an embarrassment that no patriotic American would want the President to bear," Lodge said. He maintained that Massachusetts needs a Senator "who can embarrass the Administration into giving us our proper share" of space contracts.