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1 1 From Oregon's Press IOSC Among U.S. Leading Colleges For Doctor's Work MAIL TRIBUNI, M.dfori, Ob Oregon's newspooen ore. nnrll i j ...n ...... , editarink nrti,L. i "r. ana wen-eanea. int following art irrmlv HKor nrul . j" . 8norai interest, ineir publication doe. not imply ...ner approval or d.sopprovol on the port of th. Moil Tribun. of th. opinion, Petition Thij occurred July 4, 1951 in Madison, Wis. A reporter for The Capital Times started down the street with a "peti. tion" that contained the pre amble of the Declaration of Independence, six of the first 10 amendments to the Consti tutionthe so-called Bill of Rights and the 15th amend ment to the Constitution. The "petition" concluded with the pledge with which Thomas Jefferson ended the Declara tion of Independence. The contents of the "peti tion" were clearly labeled and furthermore the reporter ex plained them. We thought the story so interesting that we put that Issue of The Capital Times In our files. Here is the itory: Out of 112 persons Inter viewed ai Madison's Fourth of July celebrations Wednesday, only one man had the "courage" to sign a "petition" which consisted exclusively of sections from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Fear of the "consequences" of putting their names on pa per was the reason given oy the majority of. those ap proached while they celebrat ed their "independence." Many of them said they were afraid to sign any petitions. Twenty of those asked to sign the document asked the reporter If he was a Com munist. "You can't got me to sign that I'm trying to get loyalty clearance for a government Job, was the comment of the first person asked to sign. A Villas park picnicker. who said he was a lawyer, read the document carefully, nanaea it back to the report er, and said, "You're trying to pull something that isn't In the constitution." The lone signer was Went worth A. Millar, 806 Univer sity Ave., an insurance sales man for the Mutual Service Insurance Co. "Sure I'll sign the Declara tion of Independence and the Bill of Rights we were never closer to losing the things that they stand for than we are today," Millar said. "Get the hell out of here with that Communist stuff," another fourth of July pic nicker said bluntly. "I can't sign that paper be cause I work for civil serv ice," a young woman de clared. Several of the persons asked to sign the "petition" mis took it for a mimeographed pamphlet that was distributed throughout the city Wednes day by the Madison chapter of the American Peace Cru sade. The "Peace Crusade" pam phlet asked for removal of American troops from Korea and asked that congress make "no more laws taxing the workingman to pay for the rich man's war in Korea." One woman, who said she was waiting for the fireworks at Vilas park, read the peti tion carefully and refused to sign it: "Young man," she said, "are you trying to tell me that this Is a copy of the De claration of Independence?" She read aloud the section of the preamble which says, "That whenever any form of government becomes destruc tive of these ends, it is the riiht of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. . ." "That may be the Russian Declaration of Independence, but you can't tell me that it is ours," she said hotly. "I see you are using an old Commie trick, putting God's name on a radical petition," an elderly man said after he had read the petition. "Just go away and leave us lone we want to eat our dinner." another said. "Why is it that here In Madison, every time there is a holiday we have to be sub jected to a gang of dangerous radicals from the university?" Jacob!. The volume was pub ne.a.d5ied testiIy- lished in London in 1897. i a sign in a minute, but i a oe on the job tomorrow,1 another said. Darkness called off the search for other signatures Pendleton East Oregonian. Printer's Devil Nearly every industry has special words which mean something to that trade and none other. The newspaper business is no exception. In iact, it may have a greater trade vocabu lary than most. And, along with loggers, a newspaper man's language is usually on the colorful side. John Henderson, production manager of the Herald and News, brought us a conv nf Linotype's house organ, Straight Matter, which solved tne mystery of the oriein of the term "printers' devil." The house orean editor looked it up in the library of nis company's director of ty Here is what Mr. Jacobl wrote: "This trade term originat ed in Italy. Aldus Manutius was a printer in Venice. He owned a slave boy who helped hirn in his office, and some of his customers were supersti tious enough to believe that the boy was an emissary of Satan. "He was known all over the city as 'the little black devil' from his dirty appearance as his face and hands were gen erally well smudged with printing ink. "Desiring to satisfy the curiosity of his patrons, Ma nutius one day exhibited the boy in the streets, and pro claimed as follows: " 'I, Aldus Manutius, Printer to the Holy Church and the Doge, have this day made pub lic exposure of the Printers' Devil. All who think he is not flesh and blood may come and prick him!' " The Mergenthaler Linotype company is interested college has become one of the , OSC has averaged 48 due nation's malor institutions for Inr'i rtoaren 0t.nH.1ntn. H. ,..!, doctor's degree work, accord- each of the past five years, ing to national reports re- That number is expected to ceived by President A. L. double beginning in 1961 Strand. 'when it is anticipated that rcyuris snow mat usi; ; more than 100 doctor s de grees wm be conferred at June commencement. Nearly half of the record number 750 graduate students enrolled this year at OSC are working for their doctor's de grees, according to Dr. H. P. Hansen, dean of the graduate school. OSC has one of the ranks seventh In the Far West and forty-seventh in the nation in the number of doc tor's degree graduates in the five or completely unauthori tative, on the origin of xhe term. Printers' Devil. Klam ath Falls Herald and News. highest percentages of its graduate students working for oociors degrees in the coun try. Dean Hansen noted. Enrollment Increases Graduate school enroll- Washing ton -4?D- Mrs. Col- lis P. More. Republican na. tional committeewoman fromSTeS . ye.a,T slnc" 1934-n- in u j Tl,e otllc'' five Western Oregon, will head a seven. .....,. i ai-iiuu.s tmfuu oi uat are woman delegation from that I from California. University of Gfnt. at ih Ai..U . r . , ..... u.u.i. nb utc cigiui. a. .until ue- piiDiican women s Confer- ... . . w.cgu,, a, e nas in-, oitlerent foreign countries, i mni,l ... 2S rL:Z!Sl""!"H degree candidal lowed by general science, mathematics, botany, phy. sics, zoology, agricultural eco nomics, soils, entomology, electrical engineering and for est management. out of every 10 students onjtific fields with 155 working campus is taking graduate : for doctor s degrees in science work, Hansen added. Practically all of the doctor's University of Washington is! degree dissertations are con- tlie Nnrthu'Uft InaHnc n.i.U nn 1 Cmnil o.i.h -- "in. ...I uMit icsearcn. average of 107 doctor's de- Chemistry is the depart- ence Saturday through Thurs- aay. Estimated 1959 advertising investments again show that Oregon is 64th. more money was spent in The OSC graduate school daily newspapers than in tele enrollment Includes students vision, masazines, radio and from 43 states and from 18 outdoor combined. We Give GREEN STAMPS ELLIS MARKET 820 Crater Liki Avenue pographic development and found the answer in Gesta I knowing if anyone has any jyniiaiiiinai oy diaries t. lower explanation, authorita- Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop THE CATHOLIC ISSUE Eau Claire, Wis.-In a mild grey drizzle, Sen.' John F. Kennedy shook hands for votes at the gate of the United States Rubber Com pany here. The hurry. ing workers poured out of the big, bleak factory. The tall Senator Joseph alsop tirelessly flashed his self-deprecating smne. xoung Teddy Kennedy, a fine figure of a circus-bark er, shouted "Shake hands with the Senator, shake hands with the Senator" to these people who mainly wanted to get home to their suppers. Alto gether, they added up to a pretty bizarre scene, especial ly when you remembered the prize Kennedy was seeking. The scene was played at the close of a dawn-to-dusk day of campaigning right through western Wisconsin. The day took Kennedy from New Rich mond on the Minnesota bor der, down through a long string of little country towns, to this small industrial city. The day's events ranged from a crowded enthusiastic lunch eon meeting in the basement of a Methodist church to a street corner speech delivered from the roof of an automobile. JUDGING from the crowds and their resDonse to Ken nedy, this was a decidedly successful day. By practical political standards, moreover. this day s work by Kennedy had a special interest of its own, because of its locale. Most of the time was spent in Wisconsin's ninth Congres sional district. This is one of the Minnesota - oriented, pre dominantly Protestant, pre dominantly farming districts that Kennedy at first almost conceded to Sen. Hubert H Humphrey of Minnesota. Yet here was Kennedy, campaign ing hard in the ninth in the belief that he now has about an even chance to carry this district. A belief seemingly confirmed by the public polls. This only serves to under line a point of utmost poten tial importance, which is also just about the only point of argument between the Hum phrey and Kennedy camps The point is that Kennedy ap pears to be gaining far more Catholic votes than he is los ing Protestant votes in this crucial primary, HIS Catholicism has unques tionably helped Kennedy very greatly in the Catholic district of eastern Wisconsin; but' It has not handicapped him fatally In the Protestant western districts. In the latter group of districts, he has at least gained ground since the real fight started, although it is still uncertain whether he has gone over the top, The final answer can only be given, of course, by the voting next Tuesday. A few observers, notably the ex tremely able Alan Otten of the "Wall Street Journal have found that most of the still-undecided voters are Prot estants. The people could per. haps swing solidly against Kennedy at the last minute. But as of now, it is generally supposed that Kennedy s Ca tholicism, like his alleged youth, has been a major as set rather than a hindrance. If this is correct, the lesson or Wisconsin will have far reaching national significance For Wisconsin, it must be re membered, is not a heavily Catholic state, like the New England states. Its Catholic voters comprise only about 30 per cent of the electorate. This is about the same per centage as .in New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. It is well under New Jersey. It is a bit above California, which has approximately 22 per cent Catholics, and Michigan, with 24 per cent. But on balance, the Wisconsin situation pretty well typifies the situation In the big, key states where the Catholic vote is the most im portant awing vote. N these states, the Catholic vote is the most important swing vote precisely because Catholic voters, once rather solidly Democratic, have been drifting more and more into the Republican party in re cent years. In New York, for instance, the wisest politicians and pollers believe that in the Catholic families that sup ported Alfred E. Smith, about half the present-day voters plumped for Dwight D. Eisen hower in 1952 and 1956. In New Work, therefore, a Catholic Democratic Presi dential nominee who could tempt 450,000 of these newly Republican Catholics back into the Democratic party, while losing only 50,000 nor mally Democratic Protestant votes, would impose a special handicap of no less than 400,- 000 votes on his Republican rival. It would not be an in surmountable handicap, since President Eisenhower carried New York by a million and a half votes. But it would be a very heavy handicap. This in fact explains why the New York delegates are tending to wards Kennedy. This tendency in New York and elsewhere will be power fully stimulated if Kennedy wins by a good majority in Wisconsin. No one can com plain, either, if part of the rea son for a strong party Wis consin swing to Kennedy is a reassessment of what is . called "the Catholic issue." Catholic voters cannot be! blamed for resenting the un-j written rule excluding Catho-j lies from the highest office. At ; least until the silly rule hasi been decisively broken. (Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribun, Inc.) Are You Pickling Your Seed In Acid Soil? A soil test will tell you. See your district SCD office, your County Agent or local ASC office. AGRICULTURE LIME DISTRIBUTING COMPANY BOX 637 UL 5-1245 GOLD HILL, ORE. 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