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EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1952
Public Kindergartens Should Be Postponed
With great reluctance we advise a
"No" vote on the three kindergarten
measures which come before the voters
of the Eugene school district in Tues
day's election. This is the first time in
25 years we have opposed any program
for the expansion of our school facilities
or the improvement of its curriculum
and teaching staff. We do this because:
1. Although we believe kindergartens to
be a sound part of education, ultimately to be
desired, they do not come under the heading
of NECESSITY.
2. Our present "tax base," within the 8
per cent limitation, is only S430.000 against
an operation budget which has grown to more
than S2.3 million annually, .less than one-fifth
the actual requireomnt.
3. Every spring since 1P4S. we have faced
the nightmare of going to the people with
special elections to vole the budget above
the 6 per cent limitation.
4. Even with big increases of state aid,
the net which must be raised by local taxes
shove the fi per cent limitation is now more
than SI million a year, or more than 20 mills
in our school tax structure which was 47.5
mills last year.
5. In November the people of Oregon will
vote on an amendment, which if adopted,
will permit the people of our district, by vote,
to adopt a realistic tax base for the future.
6. Unless or until we can get a realistic
tax base, we see a positive hazard in adding
functions.
7. Kindergartens would require $250,000
in bonds for added rooms and S84.000 a year
for initial operations in taxes an addition
of 4'4 to 4 "4 mills for operations and debt
service.
8. This addition alone would not "break
us," but we must keep in mind that we still
need at least. $3 million for additional schools
in the next 5 years, with more teachers and
if inflation continues substantial increases in
teacher pay and other costs, if we are to main
tain the QUALITY of our schools.
As we see it our problem is like
choosing between buying a new hat or
a new pair of shoes when you can't
afford both. We'd choose the shoes.
(Somebody is sure to say you could tell
that by our hats.)
The kindergarten issue is presented
in three separate questions under an
attorney general's ruling:
Shall we adopt kindergartens Into our
public school program?
Shall we authorize $250,000 bonds to pro
vide kindergarten rooms at our grade schools
(all except Bailey Hill and Willagillespie and
Magladry where the plan would be bus
transportation for the little kids to nearby
schools)?
Shall we .vote an extra operating levy of
$84,000 lo become effective in the year he
ginning September 1953?
(We are almost tempted to urge a YES
vote on the program and a NO vote on the.
financing, because we think it would be de
sirable for the school board to start building
kindergarten rooms into all future grade
schools, but since the board could do this
without a specific mandate we think it best
to leave the planning to their discretion.)
We recognize the sincerity of the
many people whoi think kindergartens
should not be delayed. We realize that
the present tuition system is burden
some to many young parents and unfair
to those who simply cannot provide $6
a term to give their tots kindergarten
advantages. .
If kindergartens are adopted we shall
give full support to the program through
the years to come, but we want to re
mind the ardent kindergarten sup
porters: 'You'd better not forget to vote for the
lax base amendment for a realistic tax
base when the time comes! And if those
measures fail, you'll have to remember to
turn out year after year when it comes time
to vote a budget over the 6 per cent limita
tion!" We think the kindergarten support
ers have "jumped the gun" a bit.
(We have harrowing memories of 1928
when it took four special elections and we
were into December before a school budget
could be approved. We recall the depression
years, the competing demands of city and
county needs on tax resources).
Maybe we are super-cautious, but we
think it might be prudent to postpone
kindergartens just a few years till we
"sort, of stabilize" our many community
needs.
Inherent Hazards in Our Precious Rights
When a group of ardent young Dem
ocrats or should we say anti-Republicans
appeared at Saturday morning's
station-stop rally for Vice Presidential
Candidate Richard Nixon with banners,
they were undoubtedly within their
rights as American citizens as laid down
. in the First Amendment which specifies
among other precious privileges free
dom of speech and the right to assemble
peaceably.
That a mild form of riot ensued, how
ever, we accept as "in the course of na
ture" when you learn that their banners
bore such slogans as:
"No Mink Coats For NixonJust $16,000
Cash."
"Shhh Don't Speak of $16,000 or You're
A Communist."
Not that we are ready to approve or
condone the Republican candidate, be
cause we think he has a lot of explain
ing to do. But when some of these same
Democrats ask the editor to take up his
cudgels in defence of their "freedoms"
we just chuckle:
"Sure you had a right In plant your ban
ners behind the GOPs elephant, but what in
Tnphct did you think would happen? What
will happen when Stevenson and Sparkman
come through here if some young Republi
cans appear with insulting banners (as they
probably will)? Weren't you kinda asking
for trouble, all the time?"
"Ah, but why were liie police so slow in
giving us protection? What about that, ele
phant trainer who slashed one of our boys in
the wrist with his hook? What about Chief
Brown requiring a citizen to swear to a war
rant although he saw the act committed? What
about permitting sound trucks to bellow
through the streets announcing the Nixon
meeting when we couldn't get a permit for
our Democratic congressional candidate a few
years ago?"
We still laugh! There are some inher
ent hazards which go with our precious
rights. There is no law which says you
couldn't give the OSC cheer at an Ore
gon rally, but it isn't exactly safe. The
constitution guarantees religious free
dom, but a church picnic is a poor place
for an anti-church speech.
Politix is one of our more emotional
sports and waving Democratic banners
at a Republican rally, or vice versa is a
hazardous occupation like tearing down
the goal posts before the last quarter is
finished.
We shall fight to the last lo defend
everybody's constitutional rights, but we
shall waste no sympathy on anybody who
gets "a sock in the kisser" when he's
asking for it.
What About Candidate Nixon's $16,000 Fund?
Revelation of the $16,000 fund placed
at Richard Nixon's disposal as a member
of the United States Senate raises some
questions as to his fitness lo he a can
didate for Ihe Vice Presidency of the
United States. But we approve heart
ily of the statement of the Democratic
presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson,
that judgment should be withheld till all
facts pertaining to the sources and use
of tin's fund have been laid before the
public'
Candidate Nixon claims that this is a
"smear," that he personally never had a
penny out of Ihe fund, thai it was raised
by patriotic Californians lo defray the
cosls of publicizing Ihe Nixon activities
against Communism, costs which other
wise might have had lo be horn by the
taxpayers. The question remains:
"Is this an elhical practice? Especially Is
it ethical in a man who assumes the role of a
crusader against corruption in government?"
Many months ago we instructed our
Washington Reporter. Bob Smith lo dig
deep into the "pr-rquisiles" of our Sen
ators and Congressmen, and so far he
hH( had finlv naHi.nl enrroie . II'. u..
been mystified for a long time, by the.
voluminous special mailing and publi
cations "at no cost lo the government."
which we get from so many of our leg
islators. It may be that Candidate Nixon is no
better or no worse than scores of his
colleagues, and that may be why Candi
date Stevenson is so patient and toler
ant. We hope this Nixon business will
lead to a thorough airing out of the
whole situation on both sides in Cong
ress. "How far is a member of Congress put un
der obligations by outside contributions?"
There are many degrees of "embar
rassment." The trouble has its roots in
our unwillingness lo give our represen
tatives enough outright salary and al
lowance lo put them above "outside
help." We'd like to see Paul Douglas, of
Illinois put in charge of this research.
We are not ready to condemn Nixon,
but we are disturbed that such a bright
young man should let himself into such
a mess. It is particularly unfortunate
lhat. the "little stink" diverts from at.
trillion lo Ihe "big stink" which centen
on the White. House.
Marquis Oindi . 4
Differences High
In Campaigns
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CHILD!
CAMPAIGNING WITH GOVERNOR
STEVENSON One thing about this presi
dential contest has not always been true
in the past campaigns.
The two candidates arc
dissimilar, utterly, dis
similar, in almost every
respect.
To begin with, they
could hardly look more
unlike than they do, with
with the single, exception
that they are both almost
entirely bald. While
Stevenson is on the short
side, somewhat stocky,
he has a brisk. Quick
tempo that comes out in everything he
does. Ike appears in contrast to be massive,
slow-moving, deliberate.
It is, above all, in the way in which
each candidate approaches the. campaign
that the contrast comes out. Stevenson is
talking about the issues of the day and in
considerable detail. He is attempting by
reason to persuade the voters, or enough
of them, that he understands the problems
before the country and is capable of lead
ing the nation through continuing storms
ahead.
While this is an oversimplification. Ike's
approach is an emotional one. As he frank
ly told the workers in the Citizens for
Eisenhower office in New York, he be
lieves people are reached through emotion
rather than reason.
He is appealing to deep impulses of
loyalty, patriotism, religious faith.
DESIRE TO RETURN
With Eisenhower this often seems to
add up to the desire of a great many Amer
icans to return to a simpler way of life
when the burdens of the world would not
rest on American shoulders. When Ike
throws out the hope of a time when "your
sons" will not have to serve in armies
sent overseas, he skirts the isolationist
position. This is a long way from his own
recorded stand for universal military train
ing. Stevenson lakes a pretty stern line
about the future. He talks about the serious
responsibilities ahead if America is to meet
the threat of Communist aggression. This
generation, he has suggested, may not see
the end of Ihe time of trial and trouble
through which we are now passing. It is
only if the nation meets this challenge
that we can see ahead in the further dis
tance peace in a world of freedom.
This sternness is, of course, seasoned
with the now highly controversial Steven
son humor. It comes natural to him the
irony, the sarcasm, even what seems now
and then to be flippancy. It is a part of the
fluency with language that comes out in
almost every speech he makes. And, for
many, those speeches are a joy to read in
the way in which the telling points are
knit into a tightly constructed whole.
DOESN'T LACK SERIOUSNESS
The humor does not mean that Steven
son is lacking in seriousness. Rather, in the
view of this reporter, it is an escape hatch
(or a man who all his life has been in
tensely serious. He assumes that others also
will welcome the break in what is for him
an undertaking freighted with toil and care
and continual worry.
Stevenson is far less capable of really
relaxing than is Eisenhower. In the past, at
least, when Ike had finished a job, he put
it out of his mind and turned to bridge or
canasta or to western stories, which he
reads voraciously. Many Eisenhower sup
porters have privately complained of this.
They say he had not done his homework.
Rarely, except in an occasional game of
tennis, does Stevenson let go of it it beink
the situation, the problem, the crisis. He is
like a very alert terrier who gets a hone,
worries it, shakes it, never lets it alone.
Some have, wondered how he stands the
concentration he brings to everything he
does.
That same concentration is going into
his campaign. Stevenson is acutely aware of
how much he must make up for in the
ignorance of most of his fellow Americans
about who he is, what he stands for and
what he has done up to now. When this
campaign is ended, perhaps no candidate,
in our political history will have covered
so much ground, both literally and figura'
lively. He means to discuss every phase of
each issue in as thorough a fashion as time 1
will permit. And if it is humanly possible,
he is going to get into every corner of the
United States to carry on this discussion.
TRENDS ARE SHIFTING
So here they -are, these two so very
different, men, going .around the country in
the traditional way, offering their wares
to the. voters. Hope rises and falls mer
curially. Two weeks ago the Stevenson
camp was full of confidence that was cer
tainly unreasoning. Now there has been a
noticeable shift. The Eisenhower backers
are jubilant at the enthusiatic crowds
turning out to see their candidate. And the
men around Stevenson are beginning to
realize the formidable task ahead in making
their man known. That is what, this latest
strenuous tour is about, just as it will he
in the days ahead in the cities and towns
and crossroads of America.
CnpvrljrM, 1052, hy United Feature Synrtlralp, Inr,
UNITED NATIONS
DEADWOOD (To the Editor )
The international magazine
"United Nations World" recently
distributed 10,000 questionnaires
for the purpose of guaging pub
lic opinion to the UN. One of Ihe
questions was "Do people relate
higher taxes with our present
policy of internationalism?" An
swers were: Yes, 82; No, 18.
Second question: "What do peo
ple think of Ihe UN?" Answers:
Favorable, .19; Unfavorable,
61. Third question: "Are peo
ple going isolationist?" Answers:
Yes, 67; No, 33. These an
swers indicate a growing suspi
cion of our foreign policy and a
belief that Ihe UN is a ghastly
failure. Truth may yet prevail.
Left-wing ballyhoo and propo
ganda sold us the UN. We are
told it was a NEW and sure-fire
In The Editor's MailBl
way to peace. Actually the UN enemies in Korea arel Ihe North
is not new at all. Much of it.
was copied after -Ihe dead League
of Nations. Prof. Eelix Morley,
UN advocate, states that, the UN
Charter is essentially nn adap
tation of the League Covenant.
The magazine "National Repub
lic" points out that in many of
its articles the language of the
UN Charter is lifted verbatim
from THE LANGUAGE WRIT
TEN BY STALIN IN THE SO
VIET CONSTITUTION. Here wn
see the find hand of Alger Hiss,
Russian espionage agent, who
helped to draft the UN Charter.
The UN was lo he an "Imple
ment" of peace. Next came the.
Atlantic Pact, a device to "im
plement the original implement.
How far can internationalist ab
surdity proceed?
But. let's take inventory. Our
tO liJ:.
while
VM'U
Ihe
Conn
Ptit,
Nit.
Koreans and the Chinese Reds
who are not members of the UN,
hut who are hacked by the Bus!
sians who are. comrades in the
UN. We now profess an interest
in Formosa after we deserted
our faithfully ally Chiangkai
shek. England, member of ihe.
UN, does business with the Chi
nese Reds who are not memhers
of Ihe UN and with Ihe Rus
sians who are. At. the same time,
we hack Ihe Japanese, our re
cent enemies, who are not. mem
hers of the UN in an effort tn
hold our Far Eastern outposts
agai'ot the Russians, memhers
of the UN. We fired General Mac
Arthur when he. had the Com
mies on the run and we have
since listened tn their lies and
infinite whit thav inomseitj iu:
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strengtn. we nave extended aid UikJ
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Editors Like Presidential Primary
encountered i ,'-"
n',r triple lh, 'J
know that the UN
WASHINGTON (NEA) A
national presidential primary
election in 1956 is favored three
to one by U. S.
newspaper edi
tors in every
stae polled on
the question by
this column.
A much slim
mer majority
54 per cent to
36 per cent
favors a change
in Senate Rule
No. 22 to limit
debate and pre-
EDSON
November for majority control of
one vote.
Fifty-three per cent of the edi
tors think the GOP can turn his
trick, while only 35 per cent thi.'k
Ihe Democrats will retain their
majority control of the House
next year. Twelve per cent of the
editors would not hazard a guess
on this.
Only in Ihe. Southwest was this
sentiment reversed, 53 per cent
of the editors in.that area believ
ing that, the Democrats would
carry the lower house as well
as the Senate.
It is notable, however, than 10
per cent of the editors predicting
question were revealing. "Afraid
he'll follow the Dewey line, un
fortunately," said the Huntington
(Ind.) Herald-Press.
"He'll be liberal," commented
the Seminole (Okla.) Producer,
"but not socialist."
The Manhattan (Kans.) Mercury-Chronicle,
Knoxville (Tenn.)
News-Sentinel, San Luis Obispo
(Calif.) Tribune-Telegraph and
others think Elsenhower will he
liberal on foreign policy, conser
vative nn domestic.
billi
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hi
vent filibusters. Ten per cent of
the editors polled expressed no a Republican Congress next, year
opinion.
It is the overwhelming vote of
northern editors that accounts for
this result. Southwestern editors
favor no change in the present
rule, 56 per cent to 44 per cent.
Southeastern editors stick with
the present rule five tn one
77 per cent tn 15.
On the Taft-Hartley labor re
lations, 35 per cent, of the editors
say no repeal and no change. The
other 65 per cent think the law
should be amended in varying
degrees to remove inequities
and even to strengthen its re
strictions. These are the highlights of this
poll on what are probably the
three most controversial issues
facing the new Congress which
convenes in Washington in Janu
ary, 1953.
On the political make-up of
this new 83rd Congress, most edi
tors feel that it will have Repub
lican majorities in both houses.
But the number of editors pre
dicting a Republican Senaie is
much smaller than that predict
ing a Republican House of Repre
sentatives. In the last Senaie. (here were
50 Democrats to 46 Republicans.
Senators whose seats are to he
filled in the 1952 elections num
ber 3515 Democrats and 20 Re
publicans. The Republicans must
therefore win at least 23 of the
35 contests to obtain a 49-47
majority.
SEE CLOSE SENATE RACE
On the outcome of this Senate
race. 43 per cent of the editors
think the Republicans will win
control, while 41 per rent think
the Democrats will retain their
small majority. Sixteen per cent
of the editors were unwilling to
make a prediction.
Fifty-four per cent of the south
ern editors think the Democrats
will retain control; 52 per cent of
the northern and western editors
think the Republicans will gain
control.
In the last House of Represen
tatives there were 235 Democrats,
209 Republicans. The Republicans
must win at least 218 seals in
qualified by saying, "Only if Ike
wins," or "Only if there is a
Republican landslide."
As a corollary to this question
of whether Republicans or Demo
crats would conlrol the next Con
gress, editors were asked their
opinions nnw hat kind of a Presi
dent General Eisenhower would
make if elected. Would he he a
"liberal" leader or a "conserva
tive"? The division was remarkably
close among Ihe 9fi per cent who
answered. Thirty-eight per cent,
think Ike will follow a liberal
course with 37 per cent think he
will be conservative.
NOT A MIDDLE ROADF.R
What this would seem to indi
cate is either that Ihe general has
not made his own position clear,
or else that he is really a "middle-of-the-roader,"
which he him
self says he is. But only 17 per
cent of the editors so ticketed
Eisenhower.
Comments of editors on this
STRAY CATS
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feen another v,i,
fount., j....
been he J.,-.- w
The Buffalo (N.Y.) News thinks dogs, by pZ
he'll be a liberal, "preaching en- what ei5e 1
liphtenpd cnnsnrvalism " nH n... .
- ,,, ,ne yean eJ u
Many editors also had sharp country there hiiJ
v,.,tM,,n me in .-ir i-ia inr .nances nr in.i.. I
changing the Taft-Hartley law, wav to our dmr 1 1
.ivnic iiiiiiuai.-i mivt-ii jn n0j(S i
rule and installing a national ily of small xillerj!
presidential primary in 1956. down Ihe drivetn
On this last-mentioned issue, even drink milk fc,
Ihe Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal it is a ymn i
opposed the proposition with the cnuldn'l have tomsl
miM-i viuiiMi, iniiiK wnai a nuey it way man tnWJ
T . u .i ...:,u ii, ...l.i . '
uiiiik uuuiu im iwiui id. nun wnai are we 0 a
.strengthen tne primary system wncn we already hit
in the states," recommends the four citi to feed.
i'onca city (Okla.) News and Besides pmiu
several other newspapers. lo get rid of Hu, J
"Amcnn me jati-rinruey law ""i aauwier stliii
lo curb Ihe' power of the labor keep them and Ikm
bosses," recommends Ihe Living- ' upset. We ban bj
ston (Mont.) Enterprise. perience with Hi W
"Just use it," is Ihe substance nn find lhat tkjijj
of advice from the Baton Rouge mm Ihe rescue ff I
(La.) Stale-Times. rnals. I vouldthai
Summing up southern opinion letters in the Rtjire
nn Senate rule changes, the Rock Mfling this probles
Hill (S. C.) Herald says. "The how others have
present rule protected liberal Sincere!;,
minorities in Ihe past. It. now pro- '
teets conservative minorities. It Mr!. C.
should be kept as a protection for HI. 1, In:
all future minorities." SpriijteH
WASHINGTON OUTPOST-
Past Two Weeks 'Explosive7 for Senator
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Fi-jElster.Gimrrt Correspond? nt
WASHINGTON The diary of
Sen. Wayne Morse should such
an explosive account of history
exist would very likely have to
be lined with asbestos lo hold
safely the Oregon Senator's en
tries during his inflammable
eight years in politics.
If one were to tear nut the
pages of the past two weeks, cool
them on dry ice until safe to
print in this space, they would
si ill portray some of the inner
thoughts of Morse, one of Ameri
ca's most active political vol
canoes, as follows:
Tues., Sept. 9 Got hark from
air base inspection trip lonight.
Ducked reporters. Better He low
lo see if Eisenhower campaign
is as had as it sounded from
Europe.
Wed.. Sept. 10 McCarthy has
won landslide victory In Wiscon
sin primary, which means demo
goguery is an easy road to po
litical victory this year. Ike on
TV tonight clasping Jenner to his
bosom in Indianapolis , . . dis
gusting. He thinks he needs them
lo win in Nov. but they'll cut his
throat in Jan. They're rotten
apples, Ike, we can't afford to
keep in the GOP barrel. . . How
can I in all honesty campaign
with them on the team.
Thurs., Sept. 11 Ralph Cake
called the office from New York
asking where I could be reached
in Europe for an important Irans
Atlantic telephone call about the
campaign.
Fri., Sept. 12 Called Cake
hack (his morning and that . . .
had the gall n ask me to sit. on
Ihe platform with Eisenhower at
A.F. of L. convention with no
assurance that Ike wouldn't sup
port Ihe Taft line ef j
. . .Told Cake I
In endorse Ihe speB
nrncnnro nn lilt EkT
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conference i
morning, bid
npaciilant Kl
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"He iri'l direct rhj path."
Prop. J.-5
We learn of David's kinely son . , ,
The wise and worthy Solomon , , ,
Who prayed that God would make
him wise . . , Not gveat nor wealthy in
Ihe eyes ... Of Israel and let him
huild . . . The temple that it be ful
filled . . What David promised he
would do , . . And Solomon would
carry through . , . God's plan and to
Him dedicate . . , A dwelling place,
grand and ornate.
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