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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.
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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.)
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