Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1964 — Page 11

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Reapportionment Act Not Final Solution

By HORTENSE MYERS United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Officers of the Indiana League of Women Voters, whose knowledge of the state’s reapportionment problems exceeds that of some legislators, are concerned because too many Hoosiers regard the 1963 act as a fined solution. “Most people feel we have reapportiqnment of our legislature now,’’ said Mrs. I. J. Kiwtney, Indianapolis, editor of the Indiana Woman Voter, the Better Deal Slogan For Pres. Johnson By ALVIN SPIVAK United Press Internatinal WASHINGTON (UPD—Backstairs at the White House: While President Johnson’s aides hesitate to comment about his campaign slogan for this year, Democratic headquarters has made it practically official. “LBJ Goal; ’Better Deal’,” was the main headline in the latest edition of the party’s official publication, "Democrat.” The “Better Deal” slogan came to the surface relatively unobtrusively two Sundays ago when Johnson, interviewed for television, was asked if any “handy label” had come to mind for his new administration. “I haven’t thought of any slogan,” the President replied and then added with a trace of a grin “but I suppose all of us want a better deal, don’t we?” The questioner had recalled that preceding administrations flburished the labels a New Deal, Fair Deal, Great Crusade, and New Frontier. Two nights later, in a political speech at a Democratic fund raising dinner here, Johnson used the “Better Deal” slogan twice, in passing. White House reporters asked the President’s former pre s s secretary, Pierre Salinger, and his new one, George E. Reedy, whether this was significant. Neither would say. Reedy, as press secretaries so often do, told reporters . Johnson’s words spoke for themselves. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” was born with as little fanfare as Johnson’s “Better Deal.” Judge Samuel Rosenman, an FDR braintruster, put the words into a revised draft of Roosevelt’s speech accepting the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination. Harry S. Truman, in the first volume of his presidential memoirs, told of how his 21point message to Congress on Sept. 6, 1945, setting forth a domestic program “marked the beginning of the ‘Fair Deal’.” Truman didn’t say who conceived the “Fair Deal” nametag, but the speech also was drafted by Rosenman, then counsel to the president. It has been widely assumed that the late President John F. Kennedy himself decided upon “New Frontier” as a campaign slogan, used for the first time in his nomination acceptance speech. Whether it was Kennedy or his speech writer, Theodore Sorensen, is something the latter may clear up in the book he is writing about his departed chief. Sometimes speech writers fill in such historical blanks. Sometimes they don’t.

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league’s publication. “They think because the 1963 reapportionment act has been put into effect we are through. That act doesn’t provide legal reapportionment,” she said. , Mrs. W. Foster Montgomery, president of the league, said all 35 league units have scheduled a council meeting May 21-22 in Indianapolis at which the organization may make its position on the 1963 act more precise. The league has been battling since 1949 tor an “equitable and workable” method of reapportionment and has made an intensive study of inequalities. At first it favored apportionment of both houses on population under terms of the Indiana Constitution. But in 1956 it supported a combination of population and geography for one house. However, Mrs. Claude Thomas, legislative chairman for the league, said the 1956 support does not mean the organization thinks the 1963 plan for the Senate is good. “We think it is legal but not Constitutional,” Mrs. Kwitney said of the 1963 plan which was validated by the Indiana Supreme Court and put into effect by the Indiana State Election Board. Mrs. Montgomery said that the federal census should be the basis for the population count for reapportionment, that women as well as men should be counted, and that the revisions should be made every 10 years with arrangements for an outside agency to do the reapportionment if the legislature does riot. The president said that so f ar the women have not attempted to study or take any stand on the congressional districts which also are out of line in representation. “This study is complicated enough already,** Mrs. Thomas said. The Indiana Traffic Safety Foundation has decided that if you want a problem solved, go to the women and ask them to do the work. As a result the foundation is sponsoring a traffic safety conerence for women leaders April 8 at the Indiana University -Medical Center. SCHOOL REPORTER , (Continued From Page Two-A) banquet possible. — A. C. H. S. — Saturday morning the tourney team, student managers, cheerleaders, and several sponsors traveled to Indianapolis td view the state basketball tourney. The group stayed at the Harrison Hotel Saturday' night. After attending a morning church service, they headed north for “home, sweet home.” Tired, but happy, the group arrived at A.C. about 4 Sunday afternoon. — A. C. H. S. — , Because she is a member of the National Honor Society, Kathy Michaels has been given an opportunity for a scholarship to the speech and hearing clinic. This clinic is to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington. — A. C. H. S. - The FFA has elected its officers for 1964-65. They are as follows: Steve Kaehr, president; Bob Kershner, vice president; Barry Isch, secretary; Larry Sipe, treasurer; Norm Brokaw, sentinel; Phil Isch, reporter; and John Steffen, parliamentarian. — A. C. H. S. — Vacation rolls around again! Adams Central students, as well as faculty, will enjoy the Easter holiday with a vacation from March 27 to the 30th. Isn’t that great.

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Behtad the smbm, be to readying a plan for top-to-bot-tom revamping of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, when the treaty that created the alliance cornea up for renewal in 1969. He will demand a much bigger say for France and the other European members and much less American “domination** as the price for continuing the alliance.