Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1952 — Page 9

SECTION TWO

Personalities In Spotlight Os Jap Voting

TOKYO, UP*j-*Japan’s first national elections since the occupation will measure the power* of old leaders and old nationalism to regain control of this pivotal nation. The campaign may force a show-

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to the polls Oct; 1, to elect a new House. of Representatives from which in turn a new government will be formed. But riding on the fate of the personalities clashing in the racd is the key issue of whether; Japan is ready to turn hack to \the wartime and prewar leaders, . now freed from the; "purge” Imposed py the Allied occupation 1 . \. ! : I Central figure in. the comeback bid of the old leadership is Ichiro Hatoyama, Liberal party leader: who was purged by MacArthur in 1946 for ultra-nationalistic writings. Premier Shigern Yoshida rose to power on Hatoyama’s exclusion. Many political observers predict- the 69-year-old Hatoyama will be Japan’s next premier. Mamoru Shigemitsu, pOg-legged wartime foreign minister who drew the lightest sentence of tjte Tokyo war crimes trials, is bidding for power as newly installed- president of the Progressive party only a\ few months after being freed from Sugamo prison. The dark horse of the returning old leaders is Npbusuke Kishi, former commerce and industry minister who now heads a group of' ex-purgees called the Japan Reconstructioh league. These men. all in the conservative camp, have the magic ! names, and the political experience absent from the Japanese political scene since the war. Their presence in the rape will further reauc*; the already small chances ot a swing toward the left. The once - powerful Socialists, splintered in two factions, and the Communists, virtually disintegrating without top leadership as 'ah; open political party, are given no chance of breaking the five-year rule of conservatism in Toyko. When •' Yoshida suddenly dissolved the Diet’s lower house Aug. 28 and called a new election for Oct. 1, the party alignment in the 466-member House of Representatives was: Liberals, 285: Progressives. 67; right-wing Socialists, 30; Communists, 22; left-wing Socialists. 16;

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Third Club, 6; Cooperative Party,; 5; Farm-Labor, 4; Independents. 2; vacancies, 29. / . There is no evidence to Indicate a. swing away from ttie | top-heavy right-wing trend voters showed in electing the Liberals to pouter in The growing strength pf the an-ti-Yoshida Hatoyadia camp withins his oivn Liberal party was the immediate factor, that led the Prime Minister to his distasteful decision to hall for a new election. Though he insisted up to the last minute that he would fill out his term to next January, a succession of defeats in the selection of party officials led him to the decision he must get a new mandaty from the people. ! -Both right and left-wing Diet groups have joined in urging a more independent foreign policy and a clear-cut policy on rearmament, but with differences. The (left wing opposed even the creation of the national police reserve as “rearmament” and charged it violated the no-war clause of the Japanese constitution. It claimed the peace treatfy which left opt Russia and Sled China, the. U. 9.Japan Security Pact, and the establishment of U. N. bases in Ja-I pan were of Yoshida’s "subservience” to the United States. The right-wing groups urged outright rearmament] on the side of the free world and revision bf the no-war \clause. They supported the controversial treaties Yoshida had, signed but criticised Yoshida for “weakness” in bargaining with the free world. | These attacks 'foreshadow the issues around whiyh the next election will be fought. 3-Legged Killer Snared ELK GROVE, tjaiif. UP —California state trappejrs finally caught a three-legged coyote that had killed 30 lambs in 30 days. The animal apparently came out of the Mils into this valley town because its crippled condition made it impossible to compete with other predatory animals in the wilds.

Reds And Free World Vie For Japan's Trade TOKYO (UP) — Japanese businessmen are ih .the enviable position of being able to sit i back and enjoy the spectacle of the Communists and the - free world bidding against each other for the privilege of doing business with Japan. Nationalist China, with an encouraging .nod from the United Slates, is J intensifying its efforts to. divert Japanese trade . away from the Commuhtsts occupying the mainland. It is part of a dualpurpose effort to strengthen its own economy at the expense of the Reds. - , Former Nationalist Prime Minister Chang Chun, now visiting Japan, as Generalissimo Chiang Kai - Shek’s personal representative. is spearheading the fight by; dally contacts with Japanese businessmen in all parts of the counJapan Needs Trade His biggest asset is the presence of sortie 12,000,000 Chinese scattered throughout southeast Asia, niost Os whom are loyal td the Formosa regime rather than to the Reds. Chang believes he can offer Japan the cooperation these Chinese in exchange for giving up trade with Red China. The Japanese are st|ll undecided. Alf parties are aware that Japan mpst trade in order to survive. They also recall that mainland China before World War II rasa big factor in Japan’s eoonomyi taking roughly a third of Japan’s total exports while supplying such vital raw materials as coal and iron ote. Japanese merchants have been exerting Increasing pressure on the United States and its allies to be allowed to trade with Red China, and, shortly will be admitted into the Paris organization set up by the five principal Western powers to coordinate their trade policies toward nations . behind the Iron Curtain. 4, With that opening wedge the Japanese foiight for a less rigid interpretation of the type of goods on the allies’ embargo list, and won further concessions: permission to ship textile machinery, woolen goods, paper and dyestuffs to Coriimunist Gitina'. Now’ Japan is preparing to seek

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The Presidential elections of Nov. 4 offer American men and women voters an opportunity to redress what has become a national shame in failure to exercise democratic franchise. 1 1 More than three score private and commercial organizations across the country have pledged themselves to support the National Non-Partfean Register and Vote campaign, Sparging the drive is the American Heritage foundation, whose headquarters are in New York, -Stress, Is On the fact that none'of us would sell our right to vote InI’secret 1 ’secret and have that vote honestly counted. However, figures prove that abdtlt 50 percent of Americans have been throwing away that right to cast, a ballot. Here is the sad picture the rest of the iworld gets of Americans who have shed blood and spent billions to carry our democratic heritage across the seas: In 1880,. 78-4 per cent of eligible Americans' Voted. Ip 1900, 73.5 per cent. When women voted for the first time in 1920, the total national ballot dropped to 49.3 per cent. In 1940, it rose to 53.4 per cent, but In 1948 it fell once more to 51 per cent. more concessions. , • > Goodwill A Factor The Chinese Communists}, shopping for], strategic materials and aware that trade is a time-honored method ~of 4 political infiltration, seem just as eager as the Japanese; for mutual trade. They have offered a £30,000,000 trade agreement and are reported willing to settle accounts in yen through a Japanese bank in addition to shipping fitst and collecting payment later. The Chinese Natioalists, eyeing these developments I with growing concern, began urging Japanese firms to cease, and even started compiling a black list of firms which' they will boycott for trading with Jthe Reds. But their biggest ace in the hole is the goodwill of Chinese merchantS in Southeast Asia where they of the business. Chang , Chun has proposed a conference of these loyal merchants to beheld in Formosa next month, at which they wfll Be urged-to cooperate with }the Japanese. Japan has long been anxious to

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Votes cast in that national elect lion of 1948 were 48,680,416 (the largest total ever) but at that were only 51 per cent 0f all eligibly American men and. women. When it comes to local elections, our national average for recent municipal, county, state and congressional ejections is a puny 20 per cent. | Even mory disheartening is the fact that , more than 29 million American citizens were not even registered tp vote as of Jan. 1, 1952. ’ Despite these cold statistics on the disinterestedness many of our 95 million eligible voters, the Register and Vote Campaign

expand into Southeast Asia and is listening to the bidding with much Interest. The one big drawback howeVer, appears to be Britain, which fears Japanese competition in that rich market area. As bf now, the Japanese are sitting back with ears cocked for the next highest bid.| Election Interests Dutch Bulb Growers HAARLEM, Holland, (UP) — Dutch farmers who are currently shipping half a billion flower bulbs to American gardeners are watching the election campaign in the United States with coijnmercial interest. .. z >|c ** What Americans do at the polls in November will 1 determine whether the “Eisenhower” or the “Stevenboh" tulip will be the novelty item blooming in next year’s i backyards. ' -t jNo jockey club ever considered e( liew thoroughbred’s name as carefully as professional bulb baptizers pass on a new tulip tag. Tulips must have their names, pedigrees and colors registered with the Royal Horticultural Society of England and the Netherlands Biilb Growers' Association. With over 2,500 tulip varieties already named, it’s hard for a grow-

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’ has set, itself the ambitious task of stirring millions to the more active citizenship the nation needs. Every effort of personal appeal, commercial advertising and radio * and television is beamed to getting the nearly 30 million citizens not registered oiito the voting lists. The goal of 63 million votes on Nov. 4 is set. While this would represent 15 millioh more votes than ever before in United States history, it would still fall be|ow the 78.4 per cent of eligible (voting In 1880, when our record for active citizenc t ship began its dangerous decline. ie Compared with |our'sl per cent lt vote in 1948, here are contempo- !• rary , percentages: from abroad: ■ “• Belgium (March 1950), 90 per cent; s > Italy (April, 194&J, 89 per cent; R England (October, 1951), 83 per n * cent; 'Canada (June, 1949), 75 per •0 cent; Sweden (September, 1951), 80 per cent; France (October, 1945), ie 75 per cent; Israel (July, 1951),, n 72 per cent, and Japan (June, 1951), n 71 per cent. 1> As a lesson to the Americans; who abuse their precious fran» ' n chise, that 89'percent Italian vote' l >’ in a crucial election paid well in s » successfully stopping thy Comma- 1 ' n nist bid for power. 1 j

•er to find a new .one that describes! his flower. Naming Customs Change The Eisenhower tulip is still rare and expensive, and nobody has yet officially applied for the Stevenson or Adlai name, but there are several unnamed new varieties ready if the vote goes that way. A new tulip i represents a considerable investment; it takes seven, years to breed one. Tuli p-naming has passed through many stages in the past 300 years. At one time the growers gave them names like Praecox pur-purea-varia, then took to calling them after famous gardeners and local celebrities. That gave rise to designations like G. W. Leak anij , Mrs. John Scheepers. For .a while . they named all tulips after admir- ’ a l ,s - > 1 , By the time frost hardens the ! ground there will be at least 350;000,000 tulip bulbs planted in U.S. soil, their names a reflection of old , and new naming habits: Clara Butt, Red Emperor, Farncome Sanders. Harvest, Blue Parrot and Orange Favorite, among many others. Bulb growers here say U. S. garden editors have done such a good job stimulating an interest in gardening that bulb sales have risen and are continuing to . rise along with those of other garden materials. Trade in a Good Town-^-Decatur.