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Answers Gossip About lke's
Religion With Full Account
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —An ancnymous cOr=-
respondent from Hagerstown, Md., writes in green
ink on pink paper: “Please tell us what the General
Eisenhower religion is. Why isn’t that always
brought out first?”
Because many people think in these terms and
because there has been some gossipy nrisrepresen=
tation on the subject, a full answer becomes import
ant. Part of the whispering campaign about it seems
to stem from the 1915 West Point year book. Beside
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s graduation picture are sa
tirical references to “Ike . ~ . the Swedish-Jew.”
Actually, the “Eisenhauer” — meaning “iron
hewer” - family s of straight German and Swiss
descent. As a boy, Dwight Eisenhower was brought
up under the strict puritanical teachings of what
was known around Abilene, Kansas, as “The River
Brethren.” This was the Mennonite sect to which
his parents belonged.
None of the seven Eisenhower boys was particu
larly religious, however, and today General Eisen=
hower’'s official Pentagon biography and “Who'’s
Who” de not give him any church connection.
When Rev Billy Graham, the evangelist, recently
saw General Eisenhower in Paris, the question of
religion naturally came up. The general replied that
he was a Protestant,
The reason given on why the general never
joined any particular church is that in his 35 years
in the Arnry, most of it at various military posts and
camps, he accepted whatever interdenominational
services were offered by the chaplain on duty.
General Eiggnhower was married to Mamie Ge
neva Doud by a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. M.
Williamson, at Dénver, C 010.,, July 1, 1916. The
Doud family was Presbyterian and Mrs. Eisenhower
adheres to that faith, though her husband never
joined her church.
GOT RELIGION AT HIS MOTHER’S KNEE
Milton Eisenhower, the general’s brother who is
now president of Penn State, is an Episcopalian, his
wife’s church. Another brother, A. B. Eisenhower,
now executive vice-president of a Kansas City
bank, says:
“I can say that Dwight got his religion at Mother’s
knee, with the help of Dad’s slats out in the wood
shed. I think he is pretty much like I am, In all my
years of experience in meeting people and lending
money, I have never asked anyone’s religion.”
The religious history of the Eisenhower family,
however, is of more than usual interest. In the 16th
century, the General's ancestors were forced to
flee from Germany and settle in Switzerland, be=
cause of religious persecution. They were among the
early reformationists.
. A hundred years later the Swiss Eisenhowers mi
grated to Amecrica, They settled in Pennsylvania at
first and then in the 1870 s migrated to Texas with
a colony of “Swiss Brethren of Christ,” the sect to
which the family belonged. A number of the gen
eral’s forbears had been preachers in this Mennon
ite sect.
At Abilene, Kans., where the family moved
shortly after Ike was born, the father worked in the
Belle Springs cemetery, a cooperative run by the
Mennonites.
When General Eisenhower became president of
Columbia University in June, 1948, he was asked at
a press conference if it was not true that Columbia
expected its presidents to be religious leaders?
SAYS FAITH IS FOUNDATION STONE
The general replied: “I am one of the most
deeply religious men I know. That doesn't mean
that I necessarily adhere to any particular sect or
organization. I do not believe democracy can exist
without religion, and I do believe in democracy.
Most men who have gone through six years of war
cannot help having a religious faith.”
In General Eisenhower’s address on receiving
“The Churchman” award for the promotion of good
will and better understanding among all peoples, at
New York on November 3, 1946, there is this fur
ther quote:
“Therefore 1 say that fundamentally one of the
foundation stones of democracy is a deep and abid
ing faith among the masses cf the people that prac=-
tice democracy.”
In a message to the 16th annual convention of
Army and Navy chaplains at the Pentagon in Octo=-
ber of that same year, General Eisenhower wrote:
“Religion has always been the most effective
process of developing human character strong
enough to forget the motivation of selfishness and
to act in the large concept of duty to God, to human
ity, and to country.
' “The continued and efficient action of the citizen
in the interest of more excellent character will be
a realization and a dynamic contribution toward
the solution of urgent world prolems now de
manding our attention. Religion nurtures men of
faith, men of hope, men of love. Such men are
needed in the building of a new world reflecting the
glory of God.”
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but how do they get stations to play setting exer
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Candidates’ Write-In Resulis
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Are Poor Index To Popularity
Senator Taft’s lopsided victory in the Illinois pri
mary was the expected. He had the full support of
the potent GOP organization, and very little for
mal opposition.
Harold Stassen, former Minnesota governor, was
the only man on the ballot against the Ohioan. Taft
rang up more than 865,000 votes against Stassen’s
150,000.
General Eisenhower was not an official entry,
but he figured in the contest as a write-in candi
date. Less than complete returns showed him edg
ing toward the 140,000 vote mark.
Naturally enough, the Taft camp is pointing to
his showing as “pitifully small” in comrparison to
the senator’s total. But it is time to strip away fan
ciful talk and face a few fundamentals about this
write-in business.
Because of the Minnesota and Nebraska write-in
results, the rather giddy notion has got about that
a write-in candidate is virtually on an equal foot=
ing with a formal candidate whose name is 'on the
ballot. In other words, a lot of people are assuming
that a fair test has been had when a write-in choice
has been matched against a formal entry.
This is emphatically not the case, as the Taft
people themselves would be the first to point out if,
in any instance, Eisenhower were on the ballot and
the senator merely a write-in candidate.
It is axiomatic in politics that the write-in chore
is a difficult one for the voter to perform, and that
any such result refiects only a fair percentage of
the support a write-in choice nright get if he were
on the ballot.
In the Illinois primary, Eisenhower’s showing, by
any reasonable comparison, was a good one, It
ought to be remembered that the highest write-in
total ever hung up for any man in U. S. history was
146,000 for a mayoralty candidate in New York
City during the 1930’5. There is nothing “pitifully
small” about a total that approaches this record.
Furthermore, unlike their counterparts in Min
nesota and Nebraska, the Eisenhower leaders in
Illinois did not officially sponsor the write-in. Local
Ike clubs pushed it, and Governor Lodge of Con
necticut made a two-day stumping tour of the state,
But these things hardly amount to a full-scale
effort.
Under the law Eisenhower could have formally
entered Illinois, since his written consent was not
required. His Washington men chose not to enter
himr because they-believed the situation unfavor
able. They were thinking of the organization’s
heavy leaning toward Taft, and the prospect that
Illinois, tending more toward isolationism than
many states, would inevitably be good Taft terri
tory.
Events seem to have borne out their fears. Yet
those events did nat constitute a “stinging defeat”
for Ike, as one reporter had it. His write-in was
highly respectable. But there are marked limits to
the write-in technique, especially when the effort
is only a modest one,
Taft won a handsome wctory in Illinois. It re
affirms the fact that the 1952 race is a real contest.
But no political realist regards the result as em
barrassing to his chief opponent.
Those 'Rejected” Medals
Parents whose emotion takes the strange form of
“rejecting” service medals awarded posthunrously
to their sons should study the example set the other
day by a Gold Star mother in Michigan. While
conceding that “not everyone agrees with the ad
ministration,” she deplored the “twisted thinking
of those who attract nationwide publicity by send
ing medals back to the President.”
The parent who returns a medal because he dis
likes Truman is overlooking a simple but important
point. It is that neither he nor the President is a
principal in the presentation. The President merely
acts as the representative of a grateful nation. The
parent, for his part, is acting for his son, and
therefore has no business injecting his personal
rancor into the situation.
One is naturally reluctant to criticize the emo
tional reactions of a bereaved parent. However,
after the parent himself has chosen to make his
feelings a public issue, it is nc more than fair to re
mind him of the danger that he may be misrepre
senting the very person for whom he is supposed to
speak—his own son.—Windsor (Colorado) Beacon,
If Germany had the right to formr alliances and
to choose her allies, we should at least know where
we stood. If not, she would become the arbiter of
Europe and . . . probably be drawn toward the
adversary (Soviet Union), Never leave Germany
to herself is my principle. — Robert Schuman,
French foreign minister,
There are 50 percent fewer Communists in the
Chamber of Deputies than before the last election.
There are fewer Communists mayors, fewer Com=
munists in local assemblies. — Mme. Maurice
Petsche, widow of one-time French finance minis
ter,
1t is subversive activity (for citizens not to be)
actively concerned when any issue of freedom of
speech, of the press, of assembly, or of religion is
raised.—Senator Leverett Saltonstall (R.-Mass.).
Expediency and the false doctrine that the end
justifies the mreans will . , ~ bring us back step by
step to tyranny (unless the courts remain wholly
free of control or influence from the executive
branch of the government). — Harold R. Medina,
federal judge. :
1 can usually {ell the approach a guy is going to
use by the shape of his nose.—Lisa Kirk, singer,
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Baby Oil Boom In Northwest Basin
Opens Up Vast Untapped Sources
By RICHARD KLEINER
WILLISTON, N. D.—(NEA)—It
was Friday the 13th. July 13, 1951.
There was a hot sun beating down
on Newell Berry’s wheat fields in
Dawson County, Mont. What hap
pened in a corner of his 4000 sun
swept acres on that lucky day may
change men’s lives for years to
come,
Northern Pacific No. 1 came in.
That means oil. On that first day,
1656 barrels flowed out, black gold
gushing up from the ground that
had known only the hoofbeats of
Indian ponies and the rumble of
Berry’s diesel-drawn combine.
To Berry and his neighbors, the
discoverv meant a slight easing of
their total dependence on wheat
and their great fear of a wheat
king drought. To geologists, it
meant added proof that the fam
ous Williston Basin was a vast,
untapped source of crude oil.
It meant most to America, how
ever. It meant strength, Oil is
possibly the most vital natural
resource; vital both to a civilian
economy and to the machinery of
war. Oil in the Williston Basin is
another powerful weapon in the
arsenal of democracy.
* * *
The dream of oil in that irregu
lar area—about 100,000 square
miles in the Dakotas, Montana
and up into Manitoba and Sas
katchewan—isn’'t a new one. Ge
ologists have long suspected there
was oil present, because the area
met all the geological tests.
Hundreds of thousands of years
agoy it was the bottom of a great
ocean that stretched from Alaska
to the Gulf of Mexico. When the
sea withdrew, vast pressures and
bacterial action transformed the
mud and silt—the remains of bil=
lions of marine animals and plants
—into pools of oil.
Wherever oil is found, that is
its history. The same ocean that
once covered the Williston Basin
also covered the known oil fields
—like Louisiana, Texas, Oklaho
ma. Another clue was the pre=
sence in the region of sandstone
and limestone rocks, which can
hold droplets of oil in the tiny
spaces between the grains.
Geologists knew that all signs
pointed to oil in Williston. But it
was easier and cheaper to get it
elsewhere. Williston is a remote
area, and it costs a lot to move in
the heavy oil drilling equipment.
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It wasn’t until the cold war inten
sified the need and known re=-
serves dwindled that it became
worth the expense to explore Wil
liston seriously.
* * *®
Amerada Petroleum, a relative
ly small company, brought in the
first well in April, 1951, near Tio
ga and 35 miles from Williston, N.
D., the center of the basin. Since
then, Amerada’s stock, listed on
the New York Stock Exchange,
has gushed from 94 to a high of
234. It went up 11 points the first
day.
Alfred Jacobsen, Amerada’s
president, compares the Williston
area to a saucer, Viewed as a
cross-section, it’s deeper in the
center and slopes upward at the
edges. Around the rim of the sauc
er, the deposits are so shallow
that there are often out-croppings
of oil-bearing rock on the sur
face.
“The -area,” says Jacobsen, “is
not defined by a line, where you
can say here is the Williston Basin
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and here is not. There’s no place
where you can have your right
foot in oil land and your left foot
out.
It’s such an indefinite area that
the rolling Williston Basin coun
try is dotted with dozens of “dry
wells.” Hundreds of thousands of
dollars were poured into wells
which didn’t produce, even though
they are in the basin. But each
non-productive effort contributed
something to the overall geologi
cal knowledgs o£ the area.
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From these failures and from
field studies and exhaustive tests
with modern instruments, new
geological maps of the area were
drawn. These paid off.
Amerada’s find last Spring,
called the Clarence Iverson No. 1
after the farmer who owned the
land, was important because it in
dicated that the area was produc
tive.
“Nature doesn’t play fricks,”
Jacobsen says. “We knew that we
couldn’t be lucky enough to hit
the one spot in the basin with oil.
We expected that there would be
more than just one well—and
more than just one field, too.”
Northern Pacific No. 1 was the
proof that Amerada’s strike wasn't
a freak.
Amerada now has “six or sev
en” operative wells on its 400,000
acres. Gulf has leased some 1,000,-
000 acres in the basin, much of it
in Canada. Shell has tremendous
holdings in Montana, and it was a
Shell erew that brought in North
ern Pacific No. 1, near Richey,
and another in Prairie County.
Many other companies are drill
ing. Standard Oil of Indiana is
considering a refinery in North
Dakota, A pipeline from North
Dakota to eastern refineries is in
the talking stage.
For GSPA Meeling
Plans moved forward this week
for the 25th annual Convention of
the Georgia Scholastic Press As
sociation to be held at the Uni
versity of Georgia April 25.
The convention, sponsored an
nually by the University’s Henry
W. Grady School of Journalism,
will be attended by high schgol
editors and reporters from across
the state. Advance indications are
that more than 700 high school
journalists will attend.
A highlight of the meeting will
be an address by Eldon R. Lindsey,
southern regional correspondent
for the Christian Science Monitor.
Lindsey will speak to the conven=
tion on how high school newspa
pers can incorporate the same high
standards and ethics which have
made Christian Science Monitor
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, university in the United States, the University of Georgia.
Chartered in 1785 and established soon afterwards in
Athens, the University is today a center of learning in
i many fields. Athens also boasts one of the largest pouftr_v
processing plants in the world, turnin (f out more than a
: million chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks monthly.
Other plants produce plywood, paper containers, fertil
izer, tire cord, piece fides’ hosiery, overalls, cottonseed
oil and other widely diversified products.
| In this and other Georgia counties, the United States
' Brewers Foundation works constantly to maintain whole
{some conditions where beer and ale are sold. Close atten
tion is given areas near camG;:;of the Armed Forces, and
{both military officials and rgia law enforcement offi
cers have commended the Foundation’s self‘;;eagulation
program. Retailer educational meetingsoffer sound sugges
tions for continued eperation in the community’s interest.
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an outstanding national ang inty
national paper.
Lindsey, who has been eonnect.
ed with the Monitor for g Rumbep
of years, has written al] types of
stories for newspapers, inc| B
regular features, A widely traye!.
ed man, he began his traye. .
a student by working his .
across the Atlantic, :
During the GSPA conve .
cups and trophies will be g, ded
to Georgia high school pg,. ..
which have been the most | s
standing during the year. Trophies
for both mimeographed ang print.
ed papers will be awarded f, the
best work done in news, editoyi.. -
sports, features, advertising, ~ |
community service, with special
awards going to individual high
school journalists who have 1.,
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