YD's Committees To Study Draft, American South

The Executive Committee of the Harvard Radcliffe Young Democrats last night organized four subcommittees to make policy suggestions on the draft, the Boston School Committee, U.S. domestic policy, and the declining interest in civil rights.

In another development, Ira A. Jackson '70 asked the Executive Committee to propose lowering the national voting age to 18. He said student lobbyists could create great pressure on legislators.

Newly-elected club president Harlon L. Dalton '69 said the four subcommittees, drawn from the general membership, will do away with the "elitism" of the ruling Executive Committee, which he condemned during last week's election campaign.

The subcommittees will make policy suggestions to the Executive Committee. The nine club's general membership will vote on the subcommittee's recommendations whether or not the Executive Committee has approved them.

During the meeting Barry F. Johnson '69 proposed sending 40-sponsored Northern businessmen, educators, clergymen and students to the South to keep alive the flicker of "liberal interest in the Southern moderates who have seen the light" concerning civil rights.

Johnson is not a member of the Executive Committee, but Dalton had invited him to the meeting to ask the Committee's approval of the project. Johnson had formed a Committee on the American South independent of the YD's with other Southern Harvard students and students from the University of South Carolina.

Johnson said the plan would cost the YD's three or four thousand dollars.