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We'd Like to Like Ike, But... Dwight D. Eisenhower is a very personable man. He has great cTiarm and warmth. He appeals to people because he is “just plain folks.” And yet we are disenchanted. The general says that he is on a crusade. He wants the people to join him. The general knows something of crusades. He led one in Europe. But he hasn’t made that necessary transition from the military to the political arena. The voter is not a battlefield soldier. He wants facts, not emotion. He wants solutions, not attacks. He wants reasons, not appeals. Eisenhower is an intelligent man. He is president of a large university and acquainted with students and education. \\ e are disappointed that he so underestimates our intelligence. The Republican presidential candidate speaks soberly of ideals—honesty, thrift, friendliness. This is good. But how will such ideals be implemented? The general speaks of implementa tion only in generalities. We wonder if he has the necessary grasp of the facts to make these ideals realities. Eisenhower is not a good speaker. We discount this. \\ hat bothers us is his approach. Politicans are expected to speak in glittering generalities. To make their appeal as broad as possible, they must not discuss details but rather present all-incompassing platforms. We have learned to expect this from politicians. Eisenhower says he is not a politician. He has self-named him self a crusader. With such a title goes a responsibility. A cru sader must be a step above the average. He must lead the way. The American is aware of the goals he is striving toward. He wants to kno\y how to get there. Eisenhower doesn't tell him that. We heard the general's speech Tuesday night. We met him on his train and shook his hand. We'd like to like Ike but we have doubts. Eisenhower is a self-styled crusader. He has a goal. But the troops don't know how they are going to get there. Innate Ability ff£u t Tm sorry young man, but this class is only open to psychology majors.” EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald published Tuesday through Friday during the college year except Sept. 17 and 19; Nov. 27 through Dec. 1; Dec. 4, 9 and 10; Dec. 12 through Jan. 5; March 5, 10 and 11; Mar. 13 through Mar. 30; and May 30 through June 4, with issues on Nov. 8, Feb. 7 and May 9 by the Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year; $2 per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written by editorial staff members. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. Larry Hobart, Editor Jim Shea, Business Manager Helen Jones, Bill Gurney, Associate Editors Jim Haycox, Editorial Assistant Al Karr, Managing Editor i\cws r,cutor: Muy rraser Sports Editor: Larry Lavelle Asst. News Editors: Laura Sturges, Len Calvert Asst. Managing Editors: Judy McLoughlin Paul Keefe in at 1 Advertising Manager: Carolyn Silva Advertising Manager: Sally Thurston Classified Advertising Manager: Beverly DeMott Layout Manager: Jim Solidum Japanese Election Aids Democracy Liberals Winners, Communists Out; Rearmament Issue By Yasuo Kurata While the war clouds were hanging ominously low over Ko rea, the barometer of democracy registered a sharp rise in Japan last week as Premier Shiegru Yoshida's conservative Liberal party clinched a landslide victory in the general election. This situation developed out of very stormy political weather which had reigned in Japan dur ing the past five months follow ing the end of the Allied occupa tion last April. The Yoshida government which signed the peace treaty with the Western nations came under fire by occupation parties regarding post-occupation “readjustment issues,” including Japan's rearm ament, while the Communists went all-out to whip up anti American feelings among the people. Results Erase Fear Freedom failed to roll on the rails laid by occupation authori ties, and a train of unhappy oc currences followed in the wake of the outgoing occupation forces to the great anxiety of’the West, particularly the United States, who gave this freedom under the Japanese peace treaty. The recent election results, however, have erased such fear, and the Western nations are feel ing at ease at the victorious emergence of Japan's conserva tive forces who won a “shut-out” game from the Communists. It is true that occupation pol icies have been subjected to se vere criticism in the independent Japan amid a flood of "Now It Can Be Told” publications, but this does not mean that the Jap anese public opinion is being in fluenced by Communist propa ganda. seeds Coming Cp The seeds of democracy sown laboriously by U.S. occupation authorities during the past seven years are definitely coming up on the land of Rising Sun, while those of Communists-sown wild oats have run against the rocks. The Liberal party which emerged from the general elec tion with a majority of 240 in the 466-seat lower house will natur ally tend those up-and-coming “democratic seedlings.” The Lib erals formerly held a 285 ma jority. Two other major parties—Pro gressives and Socialists — won 85 and 111 seats respectively. The Progressive party led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, wartime Foreign Minister who signed the terms of surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, scaled up its Diet strength from the previous 68 to 85 seats. Socialists Split Of the 111 Socialist seats, 57 went to the Rightists and the rest to the Leftist, both factions being irreconciliably split apart to the detriment of their parliamen tary activities. Independents and splinter parties garnered the remaining 30 seats, thus slamming the door to the 107 Communist candi dates. As far as this new parliamen tary line-up is concerned, the “Communists-in-Japan” problem seems to have settled, but it is still too early to conclude that the “Red seeds” were all dead underground. It is a foregone conclusion that the new Conservative govern ment will tighten its control on internal subversive activities in volving Communists. The Reds, on the other hand, will naturally step up their un derground campaigns centering around the eight Communist leaders who have been “missing” since 19.r>0. Rearmament of Japan has been a controversial i s s u e both at home and abroad and it formed the main theme of election cam paigns of all parties. Pre-elec tion public opinion polls showed that over 50 per cent of Liberal supporters expressed themselves in favor of the rearmament. As a matter of fact, however, the rearmament in terms of jets and A-bombs is financially beyond the reach of present- day Japan, and the issue has neces sarily been narrowed down to the minimum self-defense needs. Already in arms for such de fense purposes are 110,000 police reserves and 20,000 marine secur ity forces. They are equipped with American guns, frigates and other necessary weapons which have been leased to Japan under the US-Japanese Security Pact. Run and Butter Problem Meanwhile, the Japanese econ omy is faced with its own version of the gun and butter pioblem with defense appropriations cut ting rather deep (28 per cent) into the total budget expendi tures for the current fiscal year. Production of major basic in dustries is now well above the pre-war level. The 1951 production figures included 43,433,000 metric tons of coal, 5,502,000 tons of iron and steel and 41,433,000,0000 KWH of electric power. Responsible for such industrial expansion was the so-called "Ko rean boom” which had brought to Japan upwards of 560,000,000 in the form of UN military pro curements since ine raiuimm <u the Korean War in June, 1950, up to the end of June this year. Consumer rmiliirllon Up This windfall boom has also considerably stepped up consum er goods production, particularly textile goods, but the food pro duction is far from sufficient to feed H3,000,000 people: Japan has to import 3,000,0000 tons of food annually. In spite of the bright industrial backgrounds as such, Japan's trade position is dangerously vi carious with her trade gaps be ing barely met by dollar revenues from the above-mentioned war procurements. Roughly speaking, Japan’s trade structure is such that she imports major materials plus foods from the dollar bloc and ex ports products made of those im ported materials to the sterling areas. Exports hailed It naturally follows that her exports to the dollar areas must be promoted to secure those bad ly needed materials, but actually her efforts in this respect have so far failed to pay off due mainly to the high production cost re sulting from technical setbacks in major industries. In point of her sterling trade, Japan is suffering from over holdings of pound sterling ac cruing from import difficulties from the sterling bloc whose ex port offers do not measure up to Japanese material requirements. How to meet these trade diffi culties will undoubtedly be a pregnant issue confronting the newly elected Japanese govern ment. Radio Review_ Politics to Alter Listening Habits -by Don Collin With the weather and the World Series affecting the stu dents’ scholarly habits, the ad Collin vent Df KWAX and the con tinuing presi dential and lo c a 1 campaign will soon affect AM listening habits. Ike’s speech of yesterday to be broadcast lo cally over all stations sometime between 6 and 10:30 p.m. KASH handles at 8:15. Truman had good reason not to stop here. Last time through he swallowed his foot. Back during the '48 campaign he told a Eugene audience that Joe (Stalin) wasn’t a bad guy, he was a prisoner of the Politburo. In addition to all the paid time for politics, radio is giv ing over time to a lot of those pro and con or “Is zat so Sen ator? Well, let's hear what Gov ernor so-an-so has to say.” KERG is fostering a couple of Sunday shows of that nature . . Capitol Cloakroom (11. a m.) and Pick the Winner at 1:30 p.m. ABC-KEX presents an hour of issues and conditions at 7 p.m. Sunday . . . Meet the Press and American Forum. Eugene radio news: Bing Crosby returns Thursday (6:30 p.m.) on KERG ... KWAX starts a new series "Jeffersonian Heritage” tonight at 7 p.m. . . KUGN drops ABC this Saturday and becomes strictly National. KEX to serve Eugene with Amer ican until KASH and ABC work out an agreement. Eugene Television news: Hold up on Eugene TV is KORE and KUGN application for the one VHF outlet assigned here. No applicant for the UHF sta tion as yet. The loser's consola tion is the Ultra High which is also the color ban. If the two stations would flip a coin, TV could be here by spring term rather than the fall of '54. Fords With Beds? A card showing up on Fords around campus reads "Let me fix your car so you can make a BED in it.” How come this blanket coverage of the campus and discrimination against oth er models? HASH is dishing out some good classical music Sunday in addition to their daily Din ner Hour Concert (5 p. m.) "Favorites of the Famous” (7:30 p.m.) features A1 Good man and his comments on his favorite disks . . . Concert Hall at 2 p.m. and Symphony Hall at 8 p.m. KKRG’S Invitation to Music (Sunday, 11:30 a.m.) presents the Italian music festival . . . N. Y. Philharmonic returns Oct. 19. Those that saw Glen Hardy's broadcast last Thursday were disappointed when the fizzzz did n't fiz. The hissing of the ef fervescence has been recorded for some years now' after a stagehand omitted water from the glass and wh£n the pill dropped a great "clunk" was heard by all. Grid Broadcast Football games coming into Eugene this weekend will be Oregon-Cal on KORE, Stanford OSC over KUGN, Notre Dame Pitt (Casanova’s ex) and Geor gia-Maryland aired on KEX. Sun day afternoon KEX-FM (if you are still in Portland) or KUGN will carry a wire re-creation of Green Bay-Rams game. Also Sunday, KWAX will rebroadcast the Oregon games at 2 p. m. through the courtesy of Tide water Associated, KORE and
