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Show powerful pressures put on leaders these days. How would such an one stand up to these adverse influences? It is imperative to scrutinize the background of every candidate for the perilous days ahead need men of iron integrity. Foreign Language In Early Grades There are so many fronts to which a person can give his attention these days that it hardly seems possible for one person to be able to keep up with all that's going on. This is not only in ternationally, but nationally and locally. For exaimnle '-t Am, - folks who have children going to school in the Granite district. You know mere is a great to-do right now about teaching children in the elementary grades foreign languages. lan-guages. How many teachers are equipped to do so? The department knows they have very few so what do they tell them? Go right ahead and do it, it isn't necessary that you know the language yourself. your-self. There will be a fifteen minute TV program and you can learn it right along with the children. A little more time on qualified English instruction would not be amiss. At least this is what one well-qualified principal in the district thinks but he dare not speak his piece. On the national scene' the band wagon of Senator Kennedy is rolling right along. But how many ever looked into die background of this personable young man to see where he gets his money? How many realize that me Kennedy fortune was amassed on the importation and exportation of whisky? The use of intoxicating beverages bever-ages is a moral issue in America. There are millions of Americans who recognize the evils of the traffic though disagree on how it should be bandied for the best good of all. Nevertheless, while we argue about how to control this industry, how many homes, ' meanwhile, have been blighted by strong drink? How many accidents can be laid to the door of alcohol? How many people gone to an untimely death through its consumption? con-sumption? Do we want a man in the White House whose fortune was made or has come to him through preying on the weaknesses of his fellow-countrymen? There are |