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.”
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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