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BY PETER EDEON
NEA Washington Cerrespondent
CHICAGO.—(NEA)—Ike Eisenhower, by virtue
of having been picked as Republican nominee at the
Chicago stockyards amphitheater, becomes a two
million-dollar baby, on the hoof. That is the mini
mum estimate placed on the expenses of all candi
dates and the Republican National Committee in
the 1952 presidential contest to date.
While this expenditure, scon to be equalled or
surpassed by the Democrats, is something of a nat
jonal scandal, there never will be any accurate fig
ures released. The reason is that the Hatch act and
the corrupt practices act place no limit on the
amount of money that nray be spent by any candi
date for a federal office in primary elections.
Sinege they’re not required Lo do so by law, treas
urers for the several presidential candidates are
reluetant to give out how much they have collected
and spent. Only congressional investigation could
pry out the figures, if authorized to do so.
IXE'S TILL SOCKED FOR $1 MILLION
. Howard Peterson of Philadelphia, who has been
in charge of morey raising for Eisenhower, esti
mates that the general's primary campaign will cost
close to & million dollars. This is before all the bills
are in.
Peterson points out that radio time for the gen
era’'s major speeches cost $2,000 a minute. Thirty
minutes, $60,000. Eisenhower headquarters spent
$75,000 on Chicago newspaper ads every day they
ran during the convention. Lesser expenses ran
down to S6O a day for a steam calliope. But they all
added up. :
76-ROOM HEADQUARTERS
Eisenhower and Taft headquarters each had from
70 to 100 hotel rooms in Chicago. In addition, each
candidate had a big ball room which served as club
headquarters for delegates and kibitzers. Ike’s man
azers also renied the Blackstone theater and enter
tainers for two free shows a day during convention
week.
Though some of the voluntcer workers paid their
own hotel bills, as individual campaign contribu
t'ons, the total cost was several thousand dollars a
day, not counting the cost of favors.
MANAGERS ENDED IN RED
Ben Tate, fund raiser for Senator Taft in many
of his campaigns, puts a more conservative esti
mate on his expenses. As a premium, Tate says
Taft's expenses will run 50 percent more than in
1948. Taft’s unsuccessful campaign for the presi
dency cost about $200,000 that year, of which $40,-
000 was spent in Philadelphia.
Governor Ear! Warren, ex-Governor Harold
Stassen and the various backers of General Mac-
Arthur spent considerably lesser amounts,
Democratic National Committee got a $250,000
contribution from Chicago to cover convention ex
penses. But it isn't expected to cover. All Republi
can political managers in Chicago, in fact, admit
that they ended the convention in the red.
LITTLE-ENOWN FACTS ABOUT MAC
General Douglas MacArthur’s appearance in Chi
cago gave several surprising revelations as to his
health, Every time the general took a drink of
water, he slid the glass from the right side of the
rostrum to the left with his right hand, then raised
the glass with his left. -
The genergl also turned the pages of his manu
script with hig left hand. By this he did not reveal
a nervous tremdble in his right hand.
The general did not wear glasses to read the big
type of his manuscript, but his eyesight is known
to be impaired.
SENATOR CONCEIVED “FAIR PLAY” FIGHT
Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas is now given
credit for conceiving the idea for General Eisen
hower’s “fair play” campaign to win him contested
southern delegations at the GOP convention.
Senator Carison has been one of General Eisen
hower's campaign co-chairmen right from the start.
He made little noise and attracted little attention
to himself during the primary campaign. But at
Denver he saw the political advantage of hammer
ing away at this fair play canrpaign, .
Ike's other backers picked it up and made the
most of it.
BATTLE OF SOUND TRUCKS
The psychological battle of the sound trucks in
Chicago went on all the time. The Eisenhower
people were accused of stealing Taft slogans and
SoNgs.
Tke's press agents even wrote their own words to
the tune that was Taft's campaign song in 1948,
“I'm looking Over a Four Leaf Clover.” They made
it, “I'm Looking Over Dwight Eisen-hower.”
Taft forces had a yell, “Taft for me. Taft for you.
Taft will win in '52.” An Tke gag writer imme
diately changed it to “Ike for me. Ike for you. Taft
can’t win in ’52.” Loud speckers blared it every
where,
The (Supreme) court’s opinion (on movie cen
sorship by states) marks a great step forward to
ward removing the shackles of censorship from the
screen~Meotion Picture Association President Eric
Joianston, »
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At a called meeting of Mayor and Council Satur
day, with Council sitting: as a committee of the
whole, Mayor Jack R. Wells was authorized to bor
row the sum of $35,353.00 {or improvements to city
school plants which the Board of Education termed
“necessary to protect the property provided by
previous bond issues.”
The committee report, presented by its chairman,
Walter N. Danner, councilman from the Third
Ward, said that “it is understood that the present
advalorem tax rate and other revenue measures of
the city will not provide sufficient income to retire
this loan. This committee will study ways of raising
money to provide the funds requested in this report
of the Board of Education.”
Under existing law when the Board of Educa
tion requests funds, such amount must be provided
the Board, by the Mayor and Council, or an ade
quate amount,
After being authorized to borrow the money,
Mayor Wells in a brief statement asked Athenians
to suggest or recommend to members of Council
ways in which the revenue to retire the loan could
be secured.
That is a sound request, to our way of thinking.
It is far too often the case here, as well as else
where, that citizens elect officials and then forget
the whole thing until time for another election. If
things go well, the citizens are satisfied. If they go
go wrong then the elected officials get the blame.
But seldonr have they been offered the advice and
counsl of the citizens generaily.
And it is obvious that the opinions of numbers
of citizens more truly reflect what the people
themselves want than if public officials have to
decide the matter themselves without benefit of
knowing what the people feel and desire.
The fact that public officials are elected to office
does not, overnight, change them substantially from
what they were the day before the election. There
is no magic formula. They remain just the same as
their next-door neighbor and they are just as de
pendent upon their neighbor for advice after elec
tion as they were before.
We think the city would benefit immeasurably if
the citizens themrselves abandoned the practice of
throwing aside their responsibilities after an elec
tion, and continued to evince their interest and re
sponsibility in seeing to it that their elected repre
sentatives are continually kept aware of wishes of
the people.
Athens has above-average city government as it
is, but that average can be ccnsiderably bettered if
the people generally speak out plainly, and since
Mayor Wells has asked them to do so, we hope that
such expressions will be forthcoming, because we
firmly believe that the opinions of a large number
of people is more truly the democratic -expression
than if a decision has to be reached by a handful of
elected representatives.
Let’s try it this time and see how it works,
Canada Carrying Seaway Ball
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Makes Congress Look Foolish
Congress seems to be able to procrastinate on
many issues and get away with it. The question of
statehood for Hawaii and Alaska is a prime exam
ple. Again on the matter of the St. Lawrence Sea
way, congressional delays have had the effect of
avoiding decision.
Unfortunately for Congress, this is an interna
tional issue involving Canada as well as the United
States. And Canada, tired of waiting for this coun
try to make up its mind, has decided to build the
seaway alone,
The seaway admittedly is one of the thorniest
issues ever to hit Congress. It has been kicking
round Capitol Hill for decades and lately has been
coming up for legislative consideration every year
on the year,
This is not the place to delve into the pros and
cons of the question—these have been argued long
and lustily.
The Important point for American interests is
that by not taking clear action one way or the
other, the Congress has passed the ball to the Cana
dians, who now have the initiative.
By contrast with their simple determination to go
ahead with the project, our lawmakers’ continual
backing and filling over the seaway makes them
look weak and vacillating.
Probably they never believed the Canadians
would carry out their threat to go it alone if we did
not pitch in. They imagined they could enjoy in
definitely the luxury of indecision. The rude shock
is now upon them.
Reports from Canada have it that the seaway will
pay for itself. This is the testimony of experts.
Furthermore, there are indications that when it
goes into operation American shippers and vessels
may find themselves footing more of the bill than
they expect.
This might be accomplished by charging low tolls
on products like wheat, which the Canadians ship
n volume, and higher tolls on motor cars and other
manufactured goods produced in America.
So while seaway bills gather dust on congres
sional shelves, Canadian dredges and bulldozers
will swing into action and make the controversy on
this side of the border largely academic.
Congress is supposed to be the greatest national
legislature in the world. But on this issue at least it
looks as if they were vastly cver-rating themselves
and underestimating the will and the enterprising
spirit of our Canadian neighbors.
And in that miscalculation the Amrerican law
makers appear rather foolish.
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will cry that the (West German peace) treaty back
fired in their faces.—Communist propaganda leader
Gerhart Eisler.
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Candidate Eisenhower
By WADE JONES
NEA Staff Writer
One of Dwight D. Eisenhower's
first and best boyhood friends,
R. G. Tonkin, of San Antonio,
Tex., gives these reasons for Ike's
success: “His passion for work;
his grin, and Mamie (his wife).”
Others are inclined to include
high up on any such list the train
ing Ike got at home-—long hours
of hard work and an atmosphere
of gentleness and religion which
have given him a deep sense of
spiritual values which today af
fect much that be says and does.
Ike was born David Dwight
Eisenhower on Oect. 14, 1890, at
Denison, Tex. Two years later
the family moved to Abilene and
later still his mother switched his
first two names around becouse
she disliked nicknames and
thought Dwight as a first name
would be less susceptible to short
ening than David.
He is of German stock on
both sides of his family. Both his
father and mother were deeply
religious. Hia father was a lead
er of the River Brethren sect of
the Mennonites, and his mother,
an ardent and life-long pacifist,
eventually joined Jehovah’s Wit
nesses.
There were seven Eisenhower
children, all boys, and four of.
them, besides the General, are
still alive. They are Milton,
president of Pennsylvania Stfie
College; Arthur 8., a Kansas Cily
banker; Edgar N., an attorney in
Tacoma, Wash.,, and Earl D., a
Charleroi (Pa.) mining engineer.
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Ike’s father worked in Abilene
as a mechanic at a creamery, and
the family was poor. Ike once
had to wear his mother’s high
button shoes to school.
Speaking of his parents, Ike has
said recently, “And they were
frugal, possibly of mecessity, be
cause I have found out in later
years we were very poor, but the
glory of America is that we didn’t
know it then.”
_Another of those contradictions
in Ike’s life, this one with a heavy
touch of irony, came up when the
future general was whipped by
his war-hating mother for play
ing soldier. Alden Hatch tells
about it in his book, “General
Ike.”
* . *
“You see,” she told Ike, not yet
in his teens, “I remember that
other war, though I was only five
when it ended. We were Virgin
ians, but Father held to the Union
side. He believed that the North
was right, and that slavery was
all wrong. So all our neighbors
suspected us. ‘
“Once, toward the end, Confed
erate soldiers stormed through
our house looking for my older
brother. -
“When the Yankees finally
came, they weren’t any better.
“That’s the way war makes
men, like cruel animals. They
seem to forget our Lord and his
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teaching of love. Christ forbid
that you boys should ever grow
like that.”
She didn’t know then and her
little son didn’t know that a little
‘more than 10 years from then he
would be embarking on a military
career at West Point and that she
would cry about it. But she knew
10 year later that West Point
‘was perhaps the only way her
son could get an education, so she
-dried her tears and said bravely,
“Splendid. I knew you could do
it. s
And the strangely unwarlike
Eisenhower still reflects much
that his mother believed with
statements like: “Total war would
be the suicide of our generation.
We must train the youth of
America to avert World War 111,
not refight World War 11. Bél
ligerence is the hallmark of in
security.”
Ike, like his brothers, worked
extremely hard as a boy in the
often futile race to make ends
meet. He helped his mother with
the washing, cleaning, woodcut
ting and cooking. He still likes
to cook and is pretty good at it.
But there was still some time to
play and Ike was good at sports.
Later, at West Point, he was a
star halfback until he injured his
knee severely., Today he’s a good
golfer and shoots in the low 80’s.
Ike, who had always been good
in English and history, wanted to
get an education somewhere —
he- didn't care too much just
where—so he took the Kansas ex-~-
aminations for both Annapolis
and West Point.
He got the appointment to An
napolis, but learned to his dis
may that by the time he entered
the Naval Academy he would
be over its age limit. Then,
fortunately for him the top man
in the West Point exam failed to
pass his physical exam, and Ike
got the appointment.
He graduated from the Point
in 1915, ranking 61st in scholar
ship in a class of 164. In conduct,
he wasn’'t so good, ranking 95th,
He got several demerits for ever
sleeping and swearing, Class
mate Omar Bradley stood sixth in
conduct.
During his first couple of years
at the Point, Ike gave no indica
tion that he would follow a mili
tary career after graduation. What
decided him is not definitely
known.
A year after he got out of the
Point Tke married Mamie Geneva
Doud, daughter of a prominent
western meat packer. They had
two sons, Dwight Doud, who died
when a baby, of scarlet fever, and
John Sheldon Doud, a West
Poniter and now an Army major,
married, and wilh three babies
whom grandaddy Ike adores.
Ike didn't get overseas in World
War I because he and many other
young officers like him were
needed here to train the troops
who were going.
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Oconee Siudenis
Wriie Letier To
Other Athenians
EDITOR’S NOTE—The story
which follows is a letter to Mr.
and Mrs. Athenian and their
children, especially those chil=
dren who aren't taking advan
tage of the Recreation School
facilities provided at local edu
cation plants. ¢
We are having a wonderful
time at Oconee Street this sum
mer. Each one of us works with
what we like best. Some of us
have been enjoying spatter paint
ing, rythms, making tea coasters,
while others like working with
wood, leather, and baton twirling.
Everyone joins in the fun and
I Co anies
TAKE PLEASURE IN
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to it’s Agency force in Athens, Georgia. Mr. Branch was graduated
from the College of Business Administration at the University of
Ceorgia with a Major in Insurance. In addition to being in the
upper 5% of his class, Mr. Branch was elected to membership in
the Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Camma Sigma National Honorary
Scholastic Societies. It is with pride that we add another capakie
man to our Agency force.
Joseph Q. Tuck
DISTRICT MANAGER
Augusta, Georgia
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We had a wonderful time at our
picnic at Memorial Park. We es
peclally enjoyed looking at the
animals and walking down the
trails. We made some pictures
of the group at the snake pit, and
other interesting places.
Some of our pupils have been
attending the art classes at Chase
Street that is being taught by
‘Mrs. Natalie Cole. This is a won=
;derful opportunity for these stu
dents to learn more about art and
how to paint.
Miss Mary Woods, our princi
pal, visited us on Wednesday
morning. She was very nice to
us. All of us were treated to a
popsickle. We are always glad to
see her and would like to thank
her again for her treat to us.
Those of you who are not tak
ing part in one of our fun schools,
wouldn’t you like to join us.
—An Oconee Pupil
Muscogee Man,
102, Rej
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'Sunday « :and: » immediately ..
nounced with a twinkling sniie
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tertained a horde of 236 relati,..
and friends and had a big cake 1,
light up his still-bright eyes,
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who has been a Democrat 1.
great part of his long life,
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Democrats are ‘wore out’”
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recently is a sudden rejection of
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