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PAGE EIGHT THE DECATUR REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, June THE DECATUR REVIEW Llh: Way by Kyle the TV Needs Lincoln-Douglas Debates Campaigners, Broadcasters Trying to Avoid the Political Harangue 'The Community Paper" Street Widening Program Needed and New York is not new but this is one of the biggest deals ever made. The building to be erected will be the largest in thev world. It will house a merchandise mart and be a permanent world's fair of goods to be sold. Air rights often are purchased over low buildings to assure light for tall buildings to be erected on adjoining property. Recommendations by the citv traffic-parking Commission for more streets with parking restricted to one side is an indication of the street-widening program that Decatur needs and must be inaugurated soon.

Restricting parking to one side of many of Decatur's streets is necessary for safety and the movement of increasing traffic. Parking on both sides is not only a hazard to auto traffic but to the movement of fire department equipment and ambulances where a few minutes is important in the saving of life or property. Decatur is far past the point where two or three streets in each direction should be expect gr "-www- i -kJk 'mi in. mi iir mil 13,700 Decatur Pupils, But 1,100 Votes RICHARD deplores set, By ROSCOE DRUMMOND Washington Vice President Richard Nixon has reached some original and ar resting conclusions concerning the use of television in political cam paigns. He is convinced that a good deal of fresh thinking is needed if TV is to continue to be an effective instrument of campaigning and as a beginning he offers the following judgments: That the set speech of a presidential nominee, showing him on the television screen haranguing a big rally or smugly reading nis teleprompter in the studio, is on the way out.

That, such performances won't anv longer attract good audiences or hold That only a major presidential pronouncement or some very special such as the build-up which preceded his explanation of the "Nixon fund" in the 1954 campaign, will produce and sustain the interest of art adequate TV audience in future campaigns. That political telecasts will have to be far better produced than in the past and that there will have to be some form of audience participation perhaps an adaptation of Secretary Dulles' recent foreign policv report to the President plus running comment and questions .1 in tne presence ot several members of the Cabinet. Mr. Nixon is inclined to think that in future campaigns the nominees will have to take on unrehearsed, off-the-cuff questioning if the candidates are to get the voters, in any large numbers, to stop, look and listen. This makes a good deal of sense.

Unless Mr. Nixon's advice is heeded, I suspect that set campaign speeches will attract smaller audiences than they did in 1952. Then television was still a relative novelty to many millions of viewers. Novelty will no longer be enough. Political performances on TV will need to have pace, movement and conflict.

This is why I am attracted to the suggestion recently made bv Dr. Frank Stanton, president of. Columbia Broadcasting. He savs that CBS would provide free tele- ONE OF big candy manu facturers of the country says the replacement of "the little store around the corner" by supermarkets has cut down the country's candy eating. Supermarkets are doing more and more business but children do not run to supermarkets like they used to do when the corner grocery store was in business.

I can recall when 50 years ago I worked in the summertime for Jeff Mosley who had a candv store in the 100 block South Main street where Curly Jordan now has a store. On one side of the store was a long candy case with penny candv. Children would come in and lean against the glass case and say they wanted a penny's worth of this and a penny's worth of that. Some times the total was a nickel but not often at the penny candy case. Children can't do that at the supermarket although the displays are attractive and in good variety.

According to Robert B. Schner-ing of Chicago, president of the Curtis Candy sales of candy in a supermarket do not equal the total turnover in the small stores that have been replaced. Last year the consumption of candy was 16.9 pounds per person. In 1944 it was 20 pounds per person. THE WRITINGS of Alexander Hamilton are to be published in ten volumes.

Columbia University will collect his papers, edit them and publish them. The project w.ill be directed bv Dr. Harold Syrett, professor of history. The project will cost with the Rockefeller Foundation and Time, helping finance the project. AN ENJOYABLE visit from Prof.

H. H. Kaeuper, first head of the Millikin University School of Music, now the Millikin Conservatory, brought up the subject of how many members of the original Millikin faculty are still alive. In addition to Mr. Kaeuper we immediately added A.

T. Mills and Miss Eugenia Allin of Decatur, Mr. Mills having headed the History and Political Science department and Miss Allin the library and the Library Science Department. Am8ng the assistant instructors of the first faculty, Miss Emma Baker lives in Decatur. She was an assistant in the Art Department headed by Prof.

William H. Varnum. Miss Lucy Penhaegon who was an assistant in the English Department is now Mrs. O. C.

Montgomery of Columbus, Ohio. There may be some others of the. original faculty alive but many have died. Millikin opened in the "fall of 1903 and that year the first class I attended was an 8 o'clock Latin class conducted by Dr. J.

D. Rogers. AIR RIGHTS above the Pennsylvania Railroad station in New York City have been sold for 30 million dollars. A 100 million dollar building is to go up above the station. Sale of air rights in Chicago Words, Wit By WILLIAM Cooking With Words Apparently my recent remarks about hushpuppies hits of corn-meal mush fried in deep fat have stirred considerable curiosity among readers of this column about.

all manner and variety of phrases having to do with cooking and eating. Quite a few who wrote for the hushpuppy recipes I rashly offered had interesting comments to make. A San Bernardino, correspondent bewails the inadequate treatment of cookery terms in most dictionaries. "A few of the better cook books," she writes, "contain brief glossaries of terms most used in cooking. But nowhere in the general dictionaries will you find adequate definitions of many' common cooking terms.

"Shortly after the war," she continues, "my son brought home his very pretty young bride. She frankly confessed that she knew little about cooking but wanted to learn. After demonstrating a few simple recipes to her, she said she'd like, to be left alone in the kitchen to make a dessert she knew my son liked. "A half-hour passed and all I heard from the kitchen was silence. When I investigated, I found the poor child seated at the table, ingredients spread out in front of her and a look of patient resignation on her face.

Naturally I asked what was go--ing on. 'Not very she re a Censorship Warning vision time for a series of "Lincoln-Douglas" type of debates between the tvvo major 1956 presidential candidates if Congress would amend the communications law to make it possible. Dr. Stanton's suggestion has two advantages. Its incidental advantage is that it would greatly reduce the costs of national campaigns by giving invaluable TV time to both sides even as newspapers give thou FRANK STANTON seeks fresh, lively debates felt it was in the public domain.

This view was not held, however by the National Security Council. That Thursday's NSC's meeting turned, apparently, into a prolonged outburst of righteous indignation. Here, once again, the American people were being told facts of the utmost national importance but facts which the NSC wanted to cover up. It did not matter, of course, that these reporters had had no access whatever to classified information. That point was not even tested.

The chief of the agency that employs Messrs. A and had been at die NSC meeting. Without further ado he re turned to his office and issued the edict that led, in turn, to the em barrassed telephoned call already noted. He did this, moreover, with a full understanding of die rules that have always governed our friendship with Messrs. A and B.

In present day Washington, which is more zoo than metropolis, wise men keep business and friendship strictly separated. It anv official is vour friend, and vou feel you must' discuss public questions with him, you ask formally for an appointment, and you go formally to his office. The agency chief knew of these Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST Thunder Storm Time was that mother used to say: "Let's put the knives and forks away. The table-we must quickly clear.

A thunder storm is drawing near. And dad would smilingly declare: "Of lightning forks we must beware. "So bolt your meal and call it quits Before a fork of lightning hits; And then you children, one and all, Beneath a bed with mother crawl. Your father's the courageous type. He'll sit out here and smoke his pipe." "Your father," mother would reply, "Is useless when there's danger nigh.

He says so many silly things. I'm tired of every joke he springs. I dread a storm, but I detest Your dad's old fork of lightning (Copyright, 1955) Day by Day Ten Years Ago 1945 Decatur is one of 431 cities in the country which operate parking meters. The Macon County Veterans Center interviewed 593 servicemen last month. A North Oakland Street resident is quoted as saying: "Maybe we will have to go to jail for it, but we have used some of our ration sugar this week for making three cherry pies." A number from Decatur saw Hoop, Jr.

win the 71st Kentucky Derby by six lengths with Eddie Arcaro aboard. Twenty Years Ago 1935 Out of 1,377 health inspections in the first andisixth grades made by the school health department last year, 758 showed defective health, according to report by Miss Alma Vaupel, supervisor. Commander Lybrand P. Smith of the U. S.

Navy, son of Mrs. C. E. Smith of Decatur, received the degree of doctor of science from the American University at Washington, this week. Sally Rand appears in person today at the Lincoln theater.

F. Harold Van Orman of the Orlando hotel has been selected by the American Hotel association as the second best hotel operator in the United States. First place went to Ralph Hitz of the Hotel New Yorker in New York. Thirty Years Ago 1925 Dr. A.

R. Taylor, president emeritus of Millikin University, received the degree of Doctor of Human LcttCTs at Millikin graduation exercises today. Sen. Charles Deneen gave the address. An unsolicited gift of $20,000 from Dr.

and Mrs. L. P. Wal-bridge to the Decatur and Macon County hospital was announced today. Thomas Quinn, manager of the Postal Telegraph company in Decatur, announced the leasing of new quarters in the 200 block North Main street.

Charles Lee was elected president of the Millikin alumni in the annual meeting last night. Fifty Years Ago 1905 A class of 65 pupils was graduated from Decatur high school in the 38th annual commencement. The two-year old child of Mrs. Addie Cochran caught her hand in a six horsepower engine running with 80 pounds of steam and stopped the engine. She was not badly hurt.

It is hinted that the Springfield division and the Middle division of the Wabash arq to be reunited and the division headquarters at Springfield abolished. experts of other years have put 500 or 600 feet as the limit. But it can be said that some of these parkers have been spoiled through the years when they could park in front of their own business houses and remain there all day. Now the time has come when they should submit to some discipline. It is like the case of the farmer in the early days of hard road building who wanted the highway to go "by my place." In these tight parking days we can't have everything made to order.

ed to carry the traffic. Spreading traffic avoids congestion and the traffic moves easier and with less confusion. But at least two lanes wide are needed at all times. Decatur is only one of many cities where street widening has become imperative and where one-side-of-tiie street parking has been necessary until the widening could be done. Wide parkings have been eliminated in many cities to provide wider streets.

Decatur has some subways to look after this year and next but it is not too early to be preparing a street-widening program. Widening of several streets, in all parts of the city is long over-due. schools and elementary schools. With three members cn the board, it is necessary that the closest interest and attention be given to the selection of those members. Yet, only 1,100 district voters turned out to participate in the election while the total enrollment in Decatur schools is 13,700.

Where were the parents of these children? Since both candidates were considered qualified to do the important job, the stay-away voters may have been saying by their absence that either candidate was acceptable. If that was not the case many were not exercising their right and obligation to express a choice. Welcome Total inoculation this summer then is out of reach, but the new safety tests mean that parents need no longer fear the vaccine. The government now is certain that all vaccine will be as safe, pure and potent as possible. Instead of an overnight victory against polio, it now may take a year, or two or more.

Even then the victory should be achieved much more quicklv than any medical victory over any other disease in the past. The government's substitution of safety for speed should bring back the public's confidence in the vaccine and the mass inoculation programs. From there the country can proceed slowly, sanely and safely to a final victory over polio. And in 1953 a six-day smog blanketed New York City, stinging the eyes and noses of millions of residents. Other cities like Pittsburgh, Chicago, St.

Louis and especially Los Angeles have experienced similar conditions. Usually the atmosphere is a great self-purifier, for wind, rain and sunshine keep the air fresh. Often, however, the contributions of man and nature to making smog get together in the air, and there is serious trouble. States, cities and industry have done much to reduce and to prevent the pollution of the air, but there still is a shortage of information of the cause and effect of smog. A few million dollars to set up an effective anti air pollution program will be money well spent.

Nam Rises The Diem government also has been making vital legislative and agrarian reforms which have boosted the people's loyalty to the Premier's leadership. Finally, the French taint to the government has gone. The French have bowed out officially with the resignation of Gen. Paul Ely as commission general. In his place the French have named an ambassador.

It was the United States that supported Premier Diem when others were calling for a change. Because the U. S. government stood fast, the Free World now has a stronger, more united and dynamic government in South Viet Nam a government that can cope with the Communist Editors bank's customer parking needs. Quincy banks that have provided customer parking have the facility on property either adjoining or adjacent to the bank itself.

In several cases it is only a few steps away. The question arises how far will bank patrons walk to use a parking lot. Some of the traffic In Washington Wise Men Keep Business and Friendship Separated IT IS estimated by the Association of Travel Organizations that Americans will spend 22 billion dollars this vear on travel in the United States. More than half of this amount will be spent on travel among the states. Almost 85 per cent of the estimated 66 million vacationists will travel by automobile.

Here is how the money is spent: 27 per cent for food, 21 per cent for accommodations, 14 per cent for purchases other than food, 11 per cent for entertainment and 5 per cent for services such as laundry and barbers and 22 per cent in transportation costs. "AS IS NOW actually being shown on the screen, color TV no longer can be recommended as the best viewing," says Jack. Gould in the New York Times. "Black and white is better." Mr. Gould is the television critic of the Times.

He adds: "For all the talk to the contrary, quality black and white television and quality color television do not yet appear compatible. If the color is good, the black and white is apt to be fuzzy and lacking in contrast. "If the black and white is satisfactory, the' color pictures are sea of peculiar blues and reds harsh, unreal and monotonous tones." Nevertheless color spectacles will be on TV again in the fall. The first for NBC-TV will be a full-length color movie, "The Constant Husband." Because of a transmission breakdown, millions missed the last third of the play in which Ezio Pinza starred recently. It will be repeated next Sunday night.

Haleloke, recently dismissed by Godfrey, has a job in New York with a' company that promotes Hawaiian entertainment, food and decorations. BY THE WAY the gasoline tax in Maine has been boosted to 7 cents a gallon over the governor's veto. Rain not only keeps the lake filled but makes business for' lawnmowers. The first strawberry crop is about over on my everbearing border but the late summer and fail will bring on another supply. "Wilderness Road," a historical drama by Paul Green, will be presented at Berea College, Berea, starting June 29 and continuing through the summer.

The play is now in rehearsal the cast and staff being from the southern mountains. Traffic jams at Eldorado and Main used to come at peak morning and evening hours. Now they occur several times day. and Wisdom MORRIS plied. 'I'm following the recipe but nothing seems to happen.

It said to separate two eggs, so I did. I put one at this end of the table and the other down there and nothing "Well, I explained the special meaning of 'separate' to her (Note: For the benefit of male readers, it means to separate the yolks from the whites). But, would you believe it, when we looked it up in the dictionary, this meaning was not there." My correspondent is correct. No single aspect of our everyday speech has been so" slighted as the language of the kitchen. Perhaps it's because most lexicographers are men and not the kind of husband likely to lend ahand in the kitchen, either.

However, at least one topflight dictionary editor has assured me that his work-in-progress, due for publication in 1957, will have full coverage of cooking terms. Patience, girls, patience! (Copyright, 1955) DO YOU KNOW? The National Education Assn. says adequate classrooms provide 30 square feet of floor space for each elementary school pupil and 25 square feet for each high school student. Most marble 3s very old rock, much of it from the Pre-Cam-brian eras. Dr.

George D. Flaxman has been elected to the Decatur Board of Education replacing veteran member Frank Walker. Both candidates were qualified, Flaxman by his special interest in school affairs and Walker by his record during three terms on the school board. There were no controversial issues to be settled in the election. Nonetheless, there should have been community-wide interest in the election to name a member of a Board of Education which administers a school budget of nearly four million dollars and which is in the middle of an expansion and improvement program of new high New Polio Vaccine Tests The new watchword in the Salk polio vaccine inoculations, according to Surgeon General Leonard S.

Scheele, is safety. Prior to the stoppage of the whole mass immunization program because of the Cutter Laboratories incident, the safety tests were inadequate. Dr. Scheele says that now the safety requirements have been increased to the point where the chances of a child contracting paralytic polio because of injection would be 1,000 to 1. This added amount of safety definitely will cut down on the amount of vaccine and there will not be enough to inoculate all children from one through 19 years of age.

Clearing the Air of Smog A few davs ago the U. S. Senate voted to appropriate 15 million dollars over a five-year period for the study- of methods of preventing and abating air pollution. The action did not get much public attention, but the measure is important and should be approved by the House and the President. Like water pollution, air pol- lution is a great potential hazard to man.

When concentrated in an area smog and "smaze" a mixture of smoke, ground haze and water droplets can increase the death rate and damage crops, buildings, machinery and clothing. Seven years ago in Donora, Pa. a week-long atmospheric pall reached toxic density. Twenty persons died and 6,000 were affected. A Strong, United Viet Only a few months ago the outlook for South Viet Nam was gloomy.

The government opposing the Communists seemed to be falling apart as military, political, economic and agricultural troubles beset it at every turn. Today there is good reason for cautious optimism about the future of the independent country. No longer is there reason to believe that the land will fall into the hands of the Communists in the 1956 elections or by reason of a weak, ineffectual government. The government of Premier Ngo Diem is growing stronger each dav. Already it has crushed the Binh Xuyen private army and is now mopping up the last remnants of the Hoa Hao sect.

Other Too Far Away? In Quincy Herald-Whig A Decatur bank has just leased garage property which it plans to develop for customer parking. The property is 1 Vi blocks away from the banking house but it comprises a 100 by 150-foot area, probably sufficient for the NIXON smug speeches sands of columns of free space. Its compelling advantage is that it would create political telecasts which would meet all of Vice President Nixon's tests pace, movement and conflict. The "Lincoln-Douglas" style of political debate would be pro-voter all the way. Some of its special values would be these: It would galvanize public interest in the campaign issues as nothing else could.

It would clarify and sharpen the significant differences between the nominees. It would put the presidential-candidates on the screen simukan; eouslv and would greatly assist the voters in appraising their relative qualities and qualifications. It would enable conflicting campaign arguments to catch up with each other much sooner and at once increase the hazard and reduce the temptation to relv on exaggerated campaign arguments. I can't say that all presidential nominees would like this tvpe of campaigning; I am sure all the voters would like it, and I can't escape the conclusion that a campaign ought to be geared for what's good for the voters whetlier it is good for the or not. rules.

He told Messrs. A and and he later told these reporters, that he was confident the rules had always been and would always be most strictly enforced. He did not fear anv improper disclosure. But he greatly feared the attack that would develop on his agency, if it became known that important subordinates of his dared to continue an old friendship with per sons who dared to write about facts of the highest national importance. No doubt he was right.

He had observed the scene at the NSC meeting. He is one of the finest men in Washington. He and Messrs. A and had. no course open to them, in the circumstances, except to put the welfare of their agency first.

What is not right, however, is the mephitic, die almost psychotic atmosphere diat forces this kind of invasion of private life, to carry out reprisals against reporters who are doing what they conceive to be their public duty. What is involved here, in fact, is a radical change in the American political system, and very near-lv an amendment to the American Constitution, that is being shoved through behind the backs of the American people. (Copyright, 1955) crats, manv of whom, such as Gov. Averell Harriman of New York and Gov. Mennen Williams of Michigan, are close personal friends.

Second, he thinks it's only fair to the Democratic party to have its potential line-up known well in advance, so as to require no last-minute fence-building as in 1952. Finally, Stevenson tells friends quite frankly that he har. a lot to learn. Despite his experience as governor of Illinois, as assistant to Naval Secretary Frank Knox, and his work in the State Department, he says he found he had a lot to learn during the 1952 campaign. So he's having sessions with such close friends as Arthur Schlessinger of Harvard and ex-Sen.

Bill Benton of Connecticut to get ready for 1956. By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP Washington For a great many years, American correspondents in Moscow have wisely warned that their own dispatches are slanted, because of the Soviet censorship. In the opinion of these reporters, it is now time for Washington correspondents to send out a similar warning. This being peacetime, the Eisenhower administration is not yet using the conventional blue pencils. Yet this administration is practicing a widespread censorship, which is no less effective in slanting the news because it is insidiously indirect.

The censor's pressure is felt by every Washington reporter who still bothers to wear out his shoe leather to do his real job which is to transmit facts of vital national meaning to the American public. As an example of the sort of thing that is now a matter of course, consider the curious episode that led these reporters to the rather grave decision to give a censorship warning. It happened not very long ago, when one of us had just returned from a six months trip in Asia. After this long absence, two of these reporters' best and oldest friends in Washington proposed a happy family reunion. The ladies of the three families laid agreeable plans.

The logistics of the party, although somewhat elaborate, were smoothly completed. And then on the very eve of the reunion, there was a somewhat embarrassed telephone call. Messrs. A and as we may call our two old friends, both hold high posts in the same government agency. They had been bluntly told that their official positions would be compromised if the party were held as planned.

Behind this extraordinary episode, there was another no less extraordinary. During that week, we had published a report on the problem of an American satellite. The Soviets have already announced their intention to build an earth-satellite, and have placed their leading physicist, Peter Kap-itza, in charge of the project. For this and other obvious reasons, the satellite problem seemed to us reasonably fateful, and therefore we AdlaiWillRun No. 1 Democrat Has Decided Not to Wait By DREW PEARSON Washington It was no accident that a rash of stories came out of Washington and Chicago recently that Adlai Stevenson would definitely run again.

As early as April 20 this column quoted Adlai's son Borden that his father would run. But the recent rash came from Stevenson's law partner and made it clear that whether Eisenhower runs or not, Stevenson will. Various other Democratic candidates have been lying low, waiting to see whether Ike would run. But Stevenson has decided not to wait. In the first place, he doesn't think it's fair to the other Demo.