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G.I. BILL A SUCCESS
The G.I. Bill of Rights, set up for veterans of
World War II on June 22, 1944, has expired. During
the twelve years of its existence, nearly 8,000,000 ex
servicemen attended school and college, took on-the-job
training, or worked on farms.
While the whole program cost the government a
total of $14,000,000,000, it is agreed that the project
was an outstanding success. A total of 2,200,000 veter
ans took advantage of the G.I. bill to go to college or
graduate school, with up to $500 in tuition fees, and
subsistence grants ranging from $75 to $110 d month
from the government.
While there were considerable misgivings about
the wisdom of the program at first, educators soon
found that the G.I.s who took advantage of the oppor
tunity to further their education were characterized
by maturity and strong motivation. Contrary to expec
tations, few veteran students gave up before complet
ing their educational objectives, and thousands went on
to graduate studies.
While the G.I. bill for World War II has come to
an end, the Korean veterans, 350,000 strong, are on the
nation’s campuses and in the classrooms. While this
is not a large number in comparison with the 8,000,000
World War II veterans who took advantage of the
opportunities offered by the program, they are being
made welcome by educators, who have been impressed
with the success, the seriousness and the deeper sense
of values demonstrated by their predecessors.
Among the several resolutions presented at the
4th annual convention of the Alaska Hospital Assn.,
was one that might improve the financial burdens
and problems facing many of the voluntary hospitals
because of their charitable nature.
The recommendation is that hospitals require an
advance payment from all patients who do not have
membership in Blue Cross or other medical or hos
pital insurance groups.
“The “underdeveloped” countries have remained
underdeveloped chiefly because of their own hostility
to the profit-seeking system.” —Henry Hazlitt in
Newsweek.
Stevenson Opens Campaign By Lighting Into The GOP
By WARREN ROGERS JR.
CHICAGO, (/Pt — Adlai Steven
son opened his campaign for the
presidency with a demand for
Democratic leadership to end
what h? denounced as a Repub
lican “interval of aimless drift
ing.”
He became the 1956 Democratic
standard bearer with the same
words he used when he unsuc
cessfully undertook to beat Presi
dent Eisenhower in 1952:
“I accept your nomination and
your program.”
But this time, he pledged Fri
day night, there would be a dif
ference because “we will win.”
Then in a 35-minute speech in
terrupted 53 times by applause he
lambasted the Eisenhower admin
istration and the Republican
party.
Patches Wounds of Democrats
At the outset he patched up the
wounds of his own party. He sal
uted former President Truman,
who had opposed him as too weak
a campaigner, and he praised Sen.
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who
had fought him for th# top spot
in pre-convention primaries.
With harmony reigning su
preme in the Democratic leader
ship, Stevenson lit -into the Re
publicans. There was no trace of
the quipping which brought him
some criticism in 1952. Nor was
there much of “moderation,” a tag
some fellow Democrats hung on
him during the conventjon jock
eying. Indeed, he had this to say
about “middle of the road” phil
osophy:
“The country is stalled on dead
center—stalled in the middle of
the road while the world goes
whirling by . . .
“I say it is time to get up and
Saturday Baseball
By the Associated Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4-6, Baltimore 1-2
Cleveland 8, Kansas City 1
Washington 9, Boston 7
Chicago 2, Detroit 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 13, Milwaukee 4
Brooklyn 9, Philadelphia 2
Chicago 8, St. Louis 1
Pittsburgh 9, New Cork 1
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 2, Vancouver 2
Portland 3, San Francisco 2
Hallywood 7, Sacramento 6
San Diego 6, Seattle 2
Sunday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 3, New York 2
Cleveland 5-2, Kansas City 2-1
Chicago 1-4, Detroit 3-1
Washington 7-11, Boston 5-10
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 1
Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 2
St. Louis 6-1, Chicago 0-3
New York 7-3, Pittsburgh 6-2
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
S. Francisco 5-1, Vancouver 4-5
Seattle 9-9, Hollywood 4-5
Sacramento 4-0, Portland 2-1
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get moving again. It is time for
America to be herself again. And
that’s what this election is all
about . . .
“What we need is a rebirth of
leadership — leadership which
will give us a glimpse of the
nobility and vision without which
peoples and nations perish.”
Stevenson left no doubt about
where he thought that leader- j
ship should come from as he de
cried the Eisenhower regime’s ef-1
forts at home and abroad.
Abroad, Stevenson said, the!
Eisenhower regime has caused
the United States to lose face and
let slip its grasp on free world
leadership. He . called for “new
programs to meet the challenge
of the vast social revolution that
is sweeping the world.”
At home, he said, the Republi
cans “have done nothing to help"
the small farmer, small business
man and others of low income.
Objectives Not For The Timid
“Our objectives are not for the
timid,” Stevenson said. “They are
not for those who look back
ward, who are satisfied with
things as they are, who think
that this great nation can ever
sleep or ever stand still.”
Stevenson said he would not
make health an issue if, as ex
pected, Eisenhower is his Repub
lican opponent again. That is a
matter between Eisenhower and
the American people, he said. But
he does intend, he added, to talk
of “the condition and the conduct
of the President’s office.”
The Democratic nominee ac
cused “the men who run the
Eisenhower administration” of
trying to manipulate American
minds through “the art of adver-^
tising.” He predicted the Repub
licans would have a “torrent of
money” backing a campaign to
“merchandise candidates for high
office like breakfast cereal.”
Stevenson said the Republicans
are “a house divided.” He said
they practice “a personality cult”
and “smother us in smiles and
complacency.” At the same time,
he said, “President Eisenhower
(is) cynically coveted as a candi
date but ignored as a leader.”
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