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Holton Stresses Regional Cooperation,
Calls For Increased Youth Involvement

By JEFF LANE

C/D David Ritchie

"We Are Clearly Not Going To Get Anywhere..."

"I can't come here as an
expert in government,"
remarked Governor A.
Linwood Holton in an address
sponsored by the University's
Student Legal Forum Friday
night in the Chemistry Building
auditorium.

Respectfully received by a
conservative audience which
included President Edgar F.
Shannon and the Board of
Visitors, Gov. Holton appealed
to the youth of the state to
join with him in an "anger of
involvement."

Mr Holton declared, "I
would like to see flaring on our
campuses and in our law
schools the kind of anger that
motivated Britain's Angry
Young Men of the 1950's – an
anger with things as they were
coupled with a belief and a
vision of what things might
be."

Calls For Involvement

Calling for more
involvement in government by
young people, Mr. Holton
commented, "We are clearly
not going to get anywhere if
our best educated young men
and women under thirty regard
those of us in middle age as
antagonists rather than ales."

The first Republican
governor in the state since
Reconstruction, Mr. Holton
stressed the importance of
regional cooperation for
solving problems too
widespread to be dealt with by
individual cities.