The Most Republican Democrat The Title of Iowa's Guy Gillette
The senior senator from Iowa, Guy Mark Gillette, is perhaps the most Republican Democrat in the Senate. His party voting record for the 83rd Congress shows that he voted in agreement with the majority of his party 42 times out of 89 roll calls, or 47 percent of the time.
The 73-year-old gentleman was born Feb. 3, 1879, in Cherokee, Iowa. He was graduated from Drake university with an Ll. B. degree in 1900. After his admission to the bar in Cherokee commenced his career in Cherokee and served as prosecuting attorney of Cherokee county from 1907-1909.
Sen. Gillette, who served as a sergeant in the Spanish-American war and as a captain in the infantry during World War I, started his active drive upward in politics when he became a member of the state senate in 1912 for a four-year term.
He was elected to the 73rd Congress in 1932 and re-elected in 1934. He then served a term in the Senate from 1936-38, and was re-elected for the term 1938-44.
Sen. Gillette, who has been one of the most prolific introducers of bills into the enate, is holder of honorary doctor of laws degrees from Drake university and St. Ambrose university.
After a four-year layoff from the national scene, he was elected once more to the U. S. Senate in 1938 and became majority in the history of Iowa.
In evaluating his party unity stand during the first session of the 83rd Congress, it is noted that Sen. Gillette was in accordance with the majority of his party 78 per cent of the time out of 46 roll calls. His party unity stand during the entire 82nd Congress, 201 roll calls, shows that he was in accordance with the majority of his party 71 per cent of time.
During the 82nd Congress, Sen.
Gillette was in bipartisan support of propoals 79 per cent of the time. During 1953, his bipartisan support on 43 roll calls was 67 per cent.
The senator, whose term of service expires in 1955, has not announced his candidacy for re-election, even though he is regarded as the strongest vote-getter in many years in Iowa. He talks up other, younger candidates in his home. Senators in South Carolina apparently indication that he now considers himself too old to be of service to his country and state.
During that year he was a co-signer of a bill that would permit the then President, Harry S. Truman, to travel Europe if he deemed it necessary.
One of the most active senators on Capitol Hill, Sen. Gillette introduced close to 80 bills, ranging in subject matter from foreign relations to labor. Included in the bills was one suggesting the entrance of Alaska and Hawaii to the Union on equal basis. Senator Gillette is strongly in favor of the United Nations.
Sen. Gillette is on the Foreign Relations committee, the Rules and Administration committee, the Select Committee on Small Business, and the Joint Committee in the Library.
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He also opposed the nomination of Philip Jessup by President Truman as U. S. delegate to the Paris UN meeting. Senator Gillette was then on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee. He opposed the nomination because "a considerable segment of our people lack confidence in him."
To give an idea of his proposed bills, and also of his political ideas, one must look only at several of his proposals during the 81st Congress, or in 1951.
He proposed an extension of the Commodity Exchange Act to include coffee and also proposed amendments of certain provisions of the CEA.
In the education and welfare field, he came out for educational aids and tighter reins and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
With regard to foreign policy, he was in favor of prohibiting the importation of hog meat, aid to refugees and for peace and freedom by the world.
Under labor, he proposed a higher railroad retirement pay, amounting to one-half of the average pay rate individual's five highest-paid years.
With regard to military service and veterans, he proposed a 400,000 man limit for the Marines, and release from active duty of all reserves who spent 12 months or more in military service during World War II. He also came out for creating a committee on veterans' affairs.
While giving just a cross-section of his proposed bills, it is easy to see that he could be called either liberal or conservative. He is for foreign aid, for saving the government money from high officials (including senators), for Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood, and for an MVA authority.
On taxes and economy, Sen. Gillette proposed the establishment of a Missouri Valley authority for unified water control. He also wanted to establish a Missouri Basin Survey commission.
Concerning miscellaneous bills, he came out for a pay raise for government figures and a repeal of their expense accounts.
Perhaps it is obvious to the trained observer that Sen. Gillette is liberal, a conservative liberal. At any rate he does not let party lines disrupt his opinion of what he thinks is best for the United States and the residents of the state of Iowa. —Ed Howard
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The rising price of coffee has made its mark on University life. No longer going out for coffee, students are now making popular the "malt" hour, using either the beverage made with ice cream or the one made from yeast. You pay your money and you take your choice, as the saying goes.
Regardless of what happened to the ground hog, spring must be on the way. How can you tell? A sure sign is the re-opening of the ice cream shops which sell those curly-topped cones.
In Illinois library officials have stamped a book of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen "for adults only" to save the 100-year-old volume from grimy fingers of grade school youngsters. Could be the officials should make soap and water available in the state library. And what about the grimy-fingered adults?
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United States of Indonesia A Tribute to UN Success
A living tribute to one of the few successful peace-making missions of the United Nations is the United States of Indonesia.
Covering a lateral distance of nearly 4,000 miles, and a north-south distance of over 1,000 miles, the archipelago practically forms a bridge between the continents of Australia and Asia.
With its capital and center o. economic and political activity on the island of Java, the Indonesian archipelago, better known in the past as the Dutch East Indies, is a vast group of islands strewn from the eastern coast of New Guinea (will partly be a Dutch colony), above the north-eastern point of Australia, to the island of Sumatra, ending in the Indian ocean below Burma.
It is primarily because of the volcanic origin that many of the islands are good agricultural producers. The key island of Java is the most intensively cultivated and contains 50 of the archipelago's 73 million population.
The natives of Indonesia are chiefly of Malay stock, while the foreign population includes Europeans, Chinese, Arabs, and Indians.
It was under the control of the United East India company that the commercial importance of the islands became apparent. The UEIC made little attempt to control the people except wherein it helped trade, and expanded its territorial control only as a means to hold a trade monopoly in the islands.
Historically the Indonesian archipelago has been an important area. The Dutch took control in 1589 with tribute than colonization as the chief aim.
The majority of the Indonesian islands (there are more than 3,000 in all) are of volcanic origin. Of the larger islands only Borneo and New Guinea are non-volcanic.
Because of pressures in the Netherlands this imperial attitude began to taper off, and ended with the coming to power of the Liberal party in 1870. Under the new policy the Dutch started to give democratic rights to the people of the islands, and this policy was still
Under this system the people were forced to work on their own land and furnish their products for export. This was, in essence, a colonial period, and all of the exploitation peculiar to the colonial policies of European countries during that time were practiced by the Dutch.
The Dutch government took over the archipelago in 1789 when the UEIC collapsed because of bad management, and instituted a forced "cultural system" which lasted until midway in the 19th century.
developing when the Japanese took over at the outset of World War II.
The Japanese invasion made the rest of the people of the world realize how important were Indonesia's exports. In 1939, in terms of percentage of total world production the Archipelago's figures were chinchona bark, 90 per cent; pepper, 86 per cent; kapok, 65 per cent; rubber, 37 per cent; sisal, 33 per cent; tea, 19 per cent; and tin, 17 per cent, to name a few of the more important products.
The political development of Indonesia was naturally slow in getting started because of the long period of domination by the Dutch.
In 1854 a Parliament or States-General was formed which gave the Indonesian people some element of self-control and afforded them a means with which to make their wants and complaints better known.
Around the turn of the century nationalistic movements began to take definite form in Indonesia, with several minor revolts on a small scale. The big demand, of course, was for independence from the Dutch, and the leader who came to the front during the unrest of the 1920s was Sukarno.
During the 30's movements were curtailed because of the world-wide depression, and when the Japanese occupation came in 1941, Sukarno and another leader, Mohammad Hatta, threw in their lots with the Japanese in an attempt to gain their independence from the new masters.
When the war ended in 1945, Susarino formed a government and declared Indonesia's independence.
Acting in behalf of the Dutch, the British moved in and declared the new republic invalid. A period of strife and police actions followed with the Dutch refusing to deal with a government set up by the collaborators.
Finally, in 1947, with both sides conceding several points, a United States of Indonesia was established under a federal setup. But this felt through a short time later and the Dutch resumed military police actions.
The Dutch have as their ultimate objective the domination of the governments of enough of the states to control the archipelago, while the nationalist leaders are attempting to completely unite all of the areas or states into a strong union completely excluding the Dutch. —Don Tice.