ger of giving the government
power to set prices. Even now,
such power can be misused. It
could happen that price control
now might well obstruct the
building of homes, hospitals, and
factories—five years from now.
Free markets and free prices are
the only sane controls. These have
given America higher wages for
workers, better income for farm
ers, and better living conditions
than any other system.
All those countries which have
adopted slave-state methods are
now coming to our doors to beg
food and clothing from our free
economy. In the interest of our
own future, let us insist on for
ever keeping free. We know well
this is best regardless of how high
the waves of apparent or real
emergencies seem to roll. Let us
have the courage of good citizen
ship to do what we know we
should do.
Children Study
Spanish In Tucson
((/P) Newsfeatures)
TUCSON, Ariz. (/P)—If Tucson
educators are successful, every
child graduating from elementary
school in the future will have a
working knowledge of Spanish as
well as English.
Starting in the first grade, chil
dren now are being taught to
speak both languages. From the
third grade on the youngsters will
also be taught to read and write
Spanish so that by the time they
reach junior high school they will
be almost bilingual.
Johnathan L. Booth, supervisor
of elementary schools, says the
Spanish program is not cutting in
to the time devoted to English or
any other basic subject. He says
"it is part of a movement in the
southwestern states to acquaint
English-speaking students with
the Spanish language and to cre
ate a better understanding be
tween English- and Spanish
spaeking peoples."
Boothe reports similar programs
in Texas, New Mexico, California
and Florida.
In Tucson two 30-minute pe
riods are devoted to presenting
and using new Spanish words in
each elementary grade each week.
Teachers devote incidental time
daily for practicing words already
learned.
In Tucson teachers who know
little or no Spanish are learning it
with the children. It isn’t uncom
mon for them to read to an atten
tive class “Goldilocks y los tres
Oros” instead of “Goldilocks and
the Three Bears."
Swift Waters
Undermine Alcan
Highway Bridge
» OTTAWA, (/P) — Government
sources said Friday the north pier
of the 2,130 foot Peace River sus
pension bridge on the main link
of the Alaska Highway has been
undermined dangerously by swift
water.
The Canadian government is
planning immediate repairs esti
mated to cost $250,000. The bridge
near Dawson Creek was built by
the U. S. public roads administra
tion at a cost ofabout $4,000,000
during the war.
Army engineers checking the
structure found that floods of last
spring had scoured a deep hole
beneath the pier. It was believed
that future run-offs might topple
the bridge unless (he foundation
is strengthened.
Ask Repeal Of
Interim Shipping
Agreement
JUNEAU, (fP)—A petition filed
last week with the maritime com
mission at Washington asks can
cellation of the emergency interim
shipping agreement between the
commission and three Alaska
steamship operators, Atty. Gen.
Ralph Rivers said Saturday.
The petition declared that the
Territory has been saddled with
the “extortionate costs of uneco
nomical operations by uncontrol
led carriers,” he said.
Other charges made, Rivers
said, were that the steamship op
erators have failed to conduct op-|
erations in accordance with needs
of the Territory consistent with
economical methods, that they
have not speedily handled the
loading and discharging of car
goes, that they have “bunched
sailings,” and that the overhead
of the Northland Transportation
Co. is in the “neighborhood of 20
per cent of gross revenue, a most
unusual proportion.”
To be well thought of, think of
others.
t New Hampshire
WILL Support
Gen. Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, OP) — Senator
Tobey (R.-N. H.) declared Satur- (
day “nobody” can stop a cam- ■
paign to line up New Hampshire’s!
votes for the Republican Presi
dential nomination behind Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower—“not even
the general himself.”
Tobey said he thinks Eisen- j
hower has a “good chance” to win
out in a convention delegate bat- j
tie with supporters of Gov. Tho-!
mas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stas
sen in New Hampshire’s primary,
election March 9.
Eight of the first 17 to file for!
election as delegates Friday were
pledged for Eisenhower, two for
Dew'ey rnd one for Stassen. The
filing deadline is a month away.!
Tobey told a reporter he may
make some speeches in the state
for an Eisenhower slate of dele
gates. Among those who ti.ed Fri
day wras the Senator’s son, Charles
Tobey, Jr.
The Senator, at the same time
was elected as a membe** of the
board of directors o.' the Draft
Eisenhow*er League, with head
quarters in New York.
Eisenhower, ill at home wi*h a
cold, made no comment on the de
velopments, which projected him
more forcefully than ever before
into political discuss’ons «long
with two other top ranking war
time military leaders.
Supporters of Gen. Douglas Mc
Arthur announced in Chicago Fri
day he will be entered in the Ill
inois Presidential preference pri
mary April 13. He received 550.
354 of the 793,198 Republican
votes cast in the 1944 primary.
The balloting in Illinois is ad
visory only, not binding on the 56
convention delegates. Consent ol
the candidates is not required. 1
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