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Show PK SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1952 THE JOURNAL 2 THE READER'S DATE BOOK- - -- SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World National Sunday School Week Will Be Observed April 14-2- 0 Gen. Eisenhower, Sen. Kefauver Win in New Hampshire Election The director of the Chicago Crime Commission, Nathaniel Leverone, has been named national chairman of Sunday School This activity seeks to give recognition Week, April to the continuing constructive work of Americas Sunday schools and to urge greater attendance on the part of both parents and their children. In accepting the chairmanship of Sunday School Week, Mr. Leverone, also director of the Chicago Better Business Bureau, said We must have men who will call attention to the fact that the truths expressed in the Declaration of Independence are just as true ment in America. 14-2- 0. NEW HAMPSHIREPolitcal dopesters, both Republican and Democrat, have spent days trying to read a national trend Into the results of the New Hampshire preferential primary. No one can be sure how the results can be applied to the nation as a whole, but there are several noteworthy facts as a result of the election which the average home town voter can apply to his own area. General Eisenhowers victory is an Indication of the respect and popularity he commands from the average voter. This Is Important when it Is remembered that Eisenhower backers effort in the contest. On the made no all-oother hand, Senator Taft stumped the state as If campaigning in the presidential race itself. There is one obvious conclusion. Except for Ohio, and perhaps, a few other strongholds, Eisenhower appears to be the GOPs best vote getter. Whether or not he can get the nomination, of course, still remains in serious doubt. On the Democratic side of the picture, Senator Kefauver pulled something of an upset by defeating President Truman, who had the states Democratic machine behind him. As a result, it is reasonable to assume that the Tennessee senator has a far greater vote getting potential than political forecasters realized, or President Truman is so unpopular the votes went to Kefauver as a protest of the Truman administration and policies. It should be remembered, however, that results of the preferential contest are not binding on the states convention delegates, either Republican or Democrat. Taft still retains a majority of the Republican convention delegates. Encouraged by the New Hampshire result, Eisenhower backers may now begin their all-odrive to corral delegates and thus the nomination. Kefauvers victory in New Hampshire does not mean he is as popular in other sections of the country. Truman still has the nomination tied up if he wants it. Some observers believe, however, Truman will now hasten his decision about running, if he has not already made up his mind. By a quick announcement he might check growing Kefauver popularity. ut ut house-senat- e economic committee re The no should increase in tax rates be has there that general portedly agreed this year. It was not exactly surprising news to the nations taxpayers, since congressional opposition has been expressed from the moment President Truman announced his record $85,000,000,000 spending budget. The committee went on record as favoring a $10,000,000,000 cut in the budget. By closing existing fax loopholes, the $10 billion budget cut, and with surpluses which go into government trust funds, the committee said it believed the budget could be balanced. The President had asked congress to close the tax loopholes in his annual economic report, but had also asked an increase in taxation by whatever additional was necessary to boost government income by $5,000,000,000 a year. TAXES ... all-fai- th today as then. We must not take these truths for granted, we must work to preserve them, recognizing the great danger in the rapid spread of communistic atheism among our people. A truly great influence in making Americans is the t contribution of Sunday School Week. It is significant that the Laymens National Commitit group of religiously tee, a concerned business men and women, selected the Director of the Chicago Crime Commission to lead the national observance of Americas eighth annual Sunday School Week. The past year has seen a revelation of the moral decline of our youth through the fixing of athletic contests, the misuse of public confidence, and the increasing use of drugs and dope. Mr. Leverone is the founder and chairman of the board of the Automatic Canteen Company of America. He is the father of the modern vending machine which idea he conceived after noting the robbery of ACCUSED AS SMUGGLER . . . poorly serviced machines which Cairo newspaper says the govern- took coins and gave nothing in re- ment of Yemen has accuse Wendell Phillips, California archeologist, of smuggling a statue of the Queen of Sheba from Yemen. Wendells party flod from Yemen under gunfire by tribesmen. Dr. SEEKS CITIZENSHIP former Izaak Alkalay, Brooklyn, chief rabbi of Yugoslavia and senator there, has signed a petition for final U.S. naturalization after 10 years here. lie is now chief rabbi of the sephardic Jews in America. Kiwanis to Sponsor National Vote Campaign better non-prof- w yw - AVERAGE FAMIL- Y- recent economic survey reveals there has been such a vast shift in income distribution in the United States in the past 20 years H can be classed as a social revolution. The survey reveals the very poor have become fewer by of their 1939 number. And the poor have become better off. Where three out of four families had incomes of less than $2,000 a year in 1939, only one out of three fell into that class ten years later. two-thir- The well-to-d- o d. e ds and the rich have become more numerous. In the late thirties, one family in about 50 was in the $5,000 and over income class, and one out of 100 was in the $10,000 and over class. Ten years later, one family out of six was in the $5,000 and over class, and one out of twenty in the $10,000 and over class. Over the years the very rich have become poorer because the rise in labor incomes has been accompanied by a decline in property incomes. The share of the upper 1 per cent of income receivers in total incomes has declined in 35 years from 16 per cent to 9 per cent. POLITICAL PRISONER . . . Secretary of State Acheson and Senator Moody of BTichigan have been NEW WATCH- -A fantastic achievement In the science of time- asked to intercede for Saul Saul-so- n, keeping was revealed when Elgin researchers took the wraps off their 23, Detroit, held in Argentina latest development a conventional sized wrist watch that stores its own as a political prisoner. He was arsource of electrical power rested on suspicion of mixing in loand will operate more than cal politics. a year before its tiny energy capsule expires. The electronic watch of tomorrow is still in the laboratory but its sponsors claim it will eventually revolutionize personal timekeeping. Its motor, the smallest practical unit ever built, replaces the mainspring which has been used in all watches made the past 450 years. Also eliminated is the winding mechanism, since the energy capsule does that job. The capsule itself, smaller In volume than a penny, discharges power at such a constant rate that the new watch will keep perfect time. DI MAGGIO TO STAR . . Joe Di- And when it expires, a watchmaker will be able to insert a new one in a Maggio smiles as he holds up a contract he signed in New York to few minutes at nominal cost. to be Some estimate of the infinitesimal size of Elgins power plant was star on a television program Joe called Dugout. be DiMaggios opergiven in the description that 10,000,000 electronic watches could tt light bulb. And His program, aimed at the youth of ated from the power consumed by a single America, will be seen and heard eventually they hope to make it smaller still, applying the same prina.m. ciple to a womans watch. 100-wa- Kiwanis International will spon-so- r a great, nation-wid- e register and vote campaign for the next nine months. The plan was adopted by the board of trustees during a three-da- y meeting. The campaign has been named the Ballot Battalion and was' presented to Kiwanis clubs throughout the nation during the month of March. In announcing the plan, Kiwanis president Claude B. HcUmann, a Baltimore, Maryland utilities executive said, We are a service organization and we think it is high time for service club members to get into politics. Service clubs in general have been shy of the word politics for much too long. Americans are kidding themselves if they think they are living under a representative government, when less than 50 per cent of the eligible voters go to the polls. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote and the breakdown of morals in government is largely due to our own neglect. We can and will do something about it! Although the Ballot Battalion plan is comprehensive it is a (Simple one. More than 3,400 Kiwanis clubs will be urged to spearhead the formation of a Ballot Battalion in their local communities. All patriotic community organizations, both mens and womens groups, will be asked to join the movement. A general chairman and an' executive committee will be elected during the initial meeting of the Action Ballot Battalion. committees will be comprised of members of all participating groups. The Objectives of the Ballot Battalion are three-folThey are: To conduct communitjn-widcamto paigns register every eligible voter; to assist the general public in obtaining the views of all candidates, and the principles for which they stand; and finally, to sponsor n Get Out The Vote campaigns on a community-wid- e basis, j utilizing all available media and community leadership in promoting such campaigns. Discussing the organization plan, President Hellmann said, The Ballot Battalion is much, much bigger than any one man or one organization. To be successful, it must be d comprised of every group within the community. Obviously, someone must spearhead the program and enlist the cooperation of other groups within the community. Kiwanis clubs are nonpartisan and will provide the initial leadership. Once the Ballot Battalion is formed, it must not be used to identify or glorify any one particular group. It will be an opportunity for every loyal, worthwhile community organization to join hands with others in a successful campaign to develop an informed and active citizenry. Officers of Kiwanis International also announced that they will cooperate with other national organizations in the preparation and use of display and publicity materials to implement the register and vote campaign. This will avoid duplication of efforts and will make it possible to utilize existing funds for the organizing program, it is said. They further stated that the Ballot Battalion organization handbooks will be available for use by any local or national group. (Released by WNU Featirea.) non-partisa- Nathaniel Leverone turn. During World War II he was Director of Salvage for the WPB for the state of Illinois, and served on the Army Council as chairman of the Air Force Committee. One hundred and sixty-- s even years ago Americas first Sunday school was founded in Virginia, the first such school anywhere in the New World. This was just five years after Robert Raikes established the worlds first such school in Gloucester, England in 1780. Today there are better than 215,000 such schools across America which weekly bring a knowledge of God into the maturing minds of children, and of their parents. Few organizations have become so much a part of the American landscape as has the local Sunday school. Frequently it was the first religious organization of any type to reach a new community and Jts service to the church during the past eight generations is unmeasurable. During Sunday School Week this year men and women of all faiths and positions will be renewing their allegiance to the Sunday school of their choice. On April 20, parents will accompany their children to the local Sunday school and during this 7 day observance recognition will be paid to past accompiish-Sundayments of the Sunday school move s. civic-minde- |