Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-09-12

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housing units yearly from 5,00'
to $4,000.
Nixon in 1949 voted against pro
viding appropriations for public
housing. The next year Nixon op
posed bill to permit the gov
ernment to lend money to buile
cooperative housing for middle III
come groups. In 1852 he votec
to cut public housing units from
$4,000 to 5000.
Rent Control: Sparkman sup
ported continuation of fedora
rent control.
Nixon on June 5th voted tC
place rent control in critical de
fense areas in the hands of Local
officials, who usually respect the
wises of real estate interests. In
1888 he voted to give local boards
everywhere final decontrol auth
ority.
Aid to Education: Both Spark
man and Nixon voted for funds
to relieve school shortages in de-
fense areas.
Nixon voted against increasing
federal aid to medical schools and
for students. Sparkman voted for
the measure.
Civil Rights: Sparkman was one
of the drafters of the Democratic
Party platform and has stated he
will stand on it. In Congress he
voted against civil rights meas
ureS.
Nixon during the earlier part
Of his career as a Congressman,
voted against the poll tax and a.
| gainst segregation in the SPARS.
In January 1850 Nixon voted
against curbing the power of the
Rules Committee to block civil
rights legislation. In February
1850 he voted against an FEPC
bill with enforcement powers. AS
a member of the Senate Labor and
| Education Committee on June
oath, 1852, Nixon voted against
favorably reporting the Humph-
rey-Ives FEPC bill out of the COM
mittee for action on the floor of
the Senate.
Military Aid: Sparkman voted
against placing an arbitrary limit
on the number of troops to be sup
piled as our nations share for the
NATO Program.
Nixon in 1851 voted to deny the
President the right to send more
than 4 divisions of troops to Eu-
rope for the NATO program.
Foreign Aid: Nixon in August
l949 voted to cut the Military AS
sistance Program by S75 million
This included $50 million in mill
tary supplies, guns and ammuni-
ton for the Republic of Korea.
, In January 1850 he voted against
giving the Korean people funds to-
buy food and clothing and to
build up their industries.
Sparkman voted for full eco
nomic and military aid for Korea.
In 1948 both Sparkman and Nixon
voted for the Economic Coopera-
ton Act. In 1851 and 1852, they
opposed $5OO,OOO, 900 cut in Mu-
tual Security Administr i o n
Funds.
Rights and Politics"
Commenting on the argument
that it will be difficult to convince
Negroes to support the Democrat
ic ticket, Albert M. Lilliefors, in
letter to the Editor of the Wash
ington Post published August II
has this to say; Negroes have
the same interests as other citi-
zens, and will benefit along with
others from the greater stability
of the whole economy that the.
New Deal and Fair Deal have
brought us.
Progress depends in part on
the security and welfare of white
Southern and Northern workers.
These people see the Negro as a
threat to their precarious secur-
ity and standard of living. It is
necessary for continued interrac-
ial progress that these people
maintain and strengthen their po-
sition in life. The New Deal and
Fair Deal programs help them
too.
AS long as the Democratic
Party is so obviously the party of
the majority of liberals it will be
the party of the majority of the
people who favor civil rights"
Chief Author of the Civil Rights
Plank of the Democratic 1852 plat
form was Senator John Sparkman.
At So Senator Sparkman is one
of the few successful Southerners
in public life who have made their
record as progressives. He was a
lawyer when he first came to
Washington in 1887 as a Congress-
man from Alabama. There he
rose during the New Deal to the
post of Majority Whip, the chief
aide to the Majority Leader, be-
fore he won election to the Senate
in 1916 for short term. He was