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LT n the Marshall Plan § watchdog principle is paying off in the congressional ~~ * committee set up to check on Marshall Plan operations. |“ That committee's report on the first nine months of the * Buropean economic aid program is an excellent. contribu. “tion, even though some of its criticisms are open to debate. . * This outside survey will be of most value if it is kept in perspective. The good is to improve the Marshall Plan— not to destroy it. Criticism of details in operation should not obscure over-all achievements. gT EF “The most severe critics must admit that the plan has _ greatly increased foreign production and prevented such :. key countries as France and Italy from falling under Communist control. Considering the terrible odds, Administra- ~~ tor Hoffman, Ambdssador-at-Large Hartiman and their ~ associates have an exceedingly high batting average.

e «aw 8 EE NEVERTHELESS, actual operation has revealed cer- * tain weaknesses. Some are in the legislation passed by Con- ~ | gress, others in administration, still others, of course, are | caused by inadequate co-operation by certain foreign gov- | * ernments. Tt is all the more necessary to trace and correct these faults now because the real test is ahead. The plan's objective was to make the aided governments self-supporting _by 1052. The Europeans now say this cannot be done— among the major recipients only Britain is producing on that schedule, -Most of the others are unwilling or unable

fresh look and a firmer hand by the donor are in order. Among points raised by the congressional committee the failure to make progress in financial reform is funda“mental. We agree that “ECA in considering the 1949-50 assistance program should require that each program lay a | foundation for a sound currency.” Likewise the ratio of | Jeans to grants has been too high—better an outright grant 3 than a disguised loan which cannot be paid off. ‘. ON THE “controversial issue of dismantling German plants, middle ground should be found where German production speeds European recovery and eliminates Ameri-

= plants to menace our future security.

terials in part payment for our aid. Congress authorized for that purpose only five per cent of the small local currency counterpart funds. From that present potential of $193 million the ECA has collected only $22 million worth of materials for stockpiling here — and that only from Whether a new agency should be created to get bigger and faster stockpiles from abroad, as the ECA desires, or - + whether the ECA should be given higher priorities and : more authority for this purpose, as the watchdog commit- * tee suggests, Marshall Plan money must be used to bargain « from broadei-steckpile contracts. This" i "esberitiuT 5 dur defense. * : TUR al BM

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~ The Japanese Must Getto Work : . MacARTHUR'S headquartérs has told Japanese “trade unions there can be further wage increases only as production is increased, and that management must have its fair share of any future profits as an incentive to the - - country’s continued development. _ : : _ This may appear to be emphasizing the obvious: But _ the A B C's of economics should have been spelled out to -= the Japanese long ago. Better understanding of the gravity of Japan's economic outlpok is needed, both there and in- ~ the United States. ; At the beginning of the occupation, when our policies were colored by Morgenthau thinking, the theory seemed to be that the Japanese must embrace democracy before . anything else could be done about them. ~~ American-model trade unions were introduced before there was much stress on such workaday things as production and gainful employment. Strikes began almost as soon as the new unions were organized. These were at our expense, for the American taxpayers are subsidizing Japan «0 the tune of $1 billion a year.

NOW Japanese management and labor have been told there is no room in their country for “emotional economic theories"—that they must get to work, with a 300 per cent increase in exports as one of the targets. Even without more work lags or sabotage, Japan faces a long, uphill struggle to attain any degree of economic . sufficiency. Loss of Manchuria, Korea and Formosa has restricted her people to their own small islands, which agriculturally, at least, they have exploited to the utmost for generations. A greatly expanded export program offers their only hope _ of salvation. Such manufactures as textiles, toys and other handicraft products, for which the country is particularly adapted, promise little. more than a bare livelihood. And the dubious economic outlook now has been further clouded by the Red tide which has engulfed Manchuria and North

be a complete answer to the Japanese problem,

Expert Testimony . L DSAY WARREN, Comptroller General of the United States, has urged Congress to grant President Truman's request for broad authority to reorganize the government’s executive agencies. He also has expressed hope that the Hoover Commission will recommend “bold” reorganization plans. ; Before he became official “watchdog of the Treasury,” Mr. Warren was a Democratic member of Congress for

More work is indicated, surely, but even that may not

_ the waste and needless cost imposed on the country by an 4 Juergrown and helter-skelter bureaucracy. This is what na “at is a hodgepodge and crazy quilt of duplications, overlappings, inefficiencies and inconsistencies. It is probably an ideal system for the tax eaters and those who wish fo keep themselves perpetually attached to the public teat, ~ but it is bad for those who have to pay the bill. It needs

the greatest pruning job in all history.

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to pay the price in austerity and spartan methods. So a |

can subsidies, but without restoring enough potential war |

The most inexcusable weakness of the Marshall Plan | “is its failure to obtain from abroad adequate strategic ma-

many years. Few men have such thorough knowledge of °

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Barton Rees Pogue r PORTRAIT NO.

are youth personified. Y The way you walk,

fri of lovely youth. slim as a shining sword, and I think you are

made of tempered metal. You would not »reak easily. Sa You have not yet known grief, nor serious

hurt, perhaps. When they come (for life is -

not always kind, child), I think you will throw up your head, clench your small fists, and re-. fuse to admit defeat! lightful just now. Don't grow ~MABEL NEWNAN, Oakland Oity.

THIS MIGHT HAPPEN This world would be far greater : And mean so very much ; If smiles and cordial-greetings Combined with human touch.

It would be well and helpful If friends were really true The world could be most heaven If love kept smiling thru.

And life could be so wonderful If we searched for the good There is more goodness than we know If all were understood.

How fine if everyone would say And do the kindly thing, A something noble, sweet, sincere And worth remembering. ~—GRACE PORTERFIELD daz, Greenwood.

* SNOW IN TOWN «

Only this wintry slush, Only this sordid gray Beneath the rubbered feet To tell snow came this way.

A boy upon his sled Sits still, with eye shut tight, As if a with, held close, : Could make the world grow white.

A peldier shouts as if » He'd like to kick the day A little puppy runs . And frolics in his play.

A little girl holds high A bit of salvaged snow, And licks it with her tongue Intently and just so.

A lady wades the grime And breathes a gentle sigh For whitened fields and trees In winter's long gone by.

There's nothing strange in this, There's only this to say: Each meets a sullen world His own instinctive way! =NORA ASTIMAN, ladianapulin.

* 1 JUST SEEMED QUEER “Poets are queer people.” That statement ve heard from more than one source. As e that is not so: I know that cartoons

show poets with funny ties and long, flowing hair, t most of them are just like other folk. Many of them write poetry from childhood. Some do their best work in their youth. - Others do not write seriously until late in. life. Maybe they seem queer because most of them, at least part of the time, live with their

ts--~dreams, if you wan} to call them

Many of etl ‘Pénibmber their first poem heart.” I remember writing my first poem, I do not now have a copy of it. I do recall that my family thought I was “a little queer,” for sometimes a new poem would be shaping itself in my thinking, and I didn’t aiways apprehend at first, when someone spoke to me.

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.In those days, we burnt wood for cooking and for heating. Preparing wood for an entire day in winter was somewhat of a chore. Often we hauled up poles of ash and beech, and stored them outside. Then after school my father and I would lift a large pole onto a “horse.” With a two-handled saw we “worked it up” into lengths suitable for the stoves. It seemed like the rhythm of the saw would start me on the rhythm of a poem. Meter then was unknown to me, and I didn't know how to scan poetry. Ofter the rhythm of any new poem got out of step with the rhythm of the saw, and then my sawing ‘was bad, My father would say: “Son, don't ‘ride’ the saw! Queer, any more, you don't seem to keep your mind on your work!” See, I wasn't queer, I just seemed queer— to someone who didn't know how to write poetry. ~ GEORGE 8S. BILLMAN, Anderson.

RETREAT IN ASIA . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

China's Rule Shaky

OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 31—-What is being bravely said in the aftermath of the Republican dogfight is that the party must still have life in it if it can stir the kind of passion and fury heard here last week.

While this has a certain validity, it is at the same time hard to see how any organization so torn by feuds and factionalism can reshape itself in a new and vigorous fashion. After that close vote of 54 to 50 in favor of Chairman Hugh Scott, Mr. Scott's critics are predicting that in six months there would be another showdown and then the victory would belong to them. . ; “Candidates come and candidates go, but

France, national committeeman from land as he introduced the resolution to remove Mr. Scott as chairman. As two or three speakers had the candor to suggest, that may be the thing chiefly wrong with the party. The national committee today has the look of a permanent receivership for an institution tottering on the edge of bankruptey.

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e I saw the figure, which was

of the committee was well over 60 and it must be considerably above that now. With few exceptions they have come out of the remote past, bringing with them utterly unchanged the ideas of the past. > Yet, no one proposed what was the only logical way out of the dead end to which the party has come. That would be for the entire committee to resign. : For if Chairman Scott was guilty of losing an election, and that was the principal crime alleged’ against him, this same committees is guilty of losing five elections, “These are the same men and women who went through the Hoover, Landon and Willkie campaigns and the first and second Dewey contests. They are permanently frozen into that tableau of the retreat from Moscow, Yet, out of a deep sense of frustration, many committee members were interested only in finding a scapegoat for last November. As they drummed Wendell Willkie « ut of the party for his failure, so they wanted, out of a double distilled bitterness, to read Mr. Scott and, through him, Thomas E. Dewey out of the Grand Old Party.

SIDE GLANCES

NATIONAL POLITICS : “ee New Showdown in GOP Forecast

this committee goes on forever,” sald Jacob

some years ago, the average age of members

By Marquis Childs

What became increasingly apparent as passion boiled beneath the surface was that the Scott-Dewey opposition had nothing positive or constructive to unite around. The best they could dv was to turn back to Roy E. Dunn of Minnesota or Ralph F. Gates of Indiana, idwestern part of

the era of the party's : 4 In the long, unhappy debate some speakers recomended that a little soul-searching by the committee itself was in order. One of them was a woman, Mrs, Consuelo Northrop Bailey, national committeewoman from Vermont.

Self-Examination MRS, BAILEY began with something like an apology. She said she had been a member only years and had waited all that time to speak her mind. With this preamble she read to her colleagues—in- good old Vermont common sense —a much-needed lecture about self-examination. Yet most of the committee,

who represent the rural m

“of the committee is in itself a sign of how far

removed it is from the mass ofs the voters in,

the great cities who decide national elections. There are only two Negro members an: they are from Mississippi. In the long Republican tradition of the hand-picked delegates - whose votes are bartered for, no single reflects the city voters of Italian, Polish, Irish or Blavic origins. Here are the names of the old minority who once dominated politics as well as business and finance. In the face of the angry attacks directed at him, Mr. Scott conducted himself with quiet dignjty and thereby won friends and admirers. _He is not-at all the conventional type of politi. cian, may be one reason the old-timers distrust him, 7

- . War Veteran Issue BUT AS one of his defenders poinfed out, he is the only World War II veteran on the committee. IT le had-been tossed out here, veterans and younger voters would have taken it as a sign that they were not wanted in the Republican Party. . As Mr. Dewey well understood in the campaign, it was precisely the younger voters who have been alienated. If Mr. Scott can reconcile a 54-to-50 division within his committee and begin to win back the generation, then we will have proof that the GOP is alive and not merely in a state of quarrelsome senility.

“By ‘Galbraith

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I have ridden my bicycle some 3000 miles on Indiana roads and have seen just two State Police cars, both for only a short time. I think in. some way there should be enough police so that you will see more than two In , 300 hours. I have never had need for them someday I might, and I should like to have them available. " : * *

slum clearance. Of all the vital things that

| should have been said, they fail to mention the | price they are offering for the houses. I don’t

object t9 redevelopment if they would pay us enough so we. could get another home. What they ‘are offering is not enough. About onethird of the value is all they are willing to pay.

What Others Say—

I DON'T think the American people have this world conflict in a sharp they (in-the Kremlin) are

what it is—an attempt by the gang Politburo to take over the world.—Paul G, Hoffman, Economic Co-operation’ Administra tor. } . +

—. mands’ must be reduced so that money for pro-

ductive enterprise will get into productive channels”

of the board, National Association .of Manufacturers.

: TAFT-HARTLEY LAW... . ; By Fred W. Perkins

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President Li detain himself for punishment as a “war criminal.”

continued resistance in South China. 3

SHANGHAI Jan. 31—Deterforation “of the Li Tsung-Jen “Kerensky government” in the face of Communist demands for detention of Nationalists “war criminals” has reached an acute state.

The Communists in effect have been asking that acting |

That's pretty difficult for Li, but still easier than deterition of Chiang Kai-shek, T. V, Soong and other military and civilian members of the Nationalist government who are well beyond Li's reach, even if. he had the power and inclination to comply. Like ‘Kerensky's regime of the Russian revolution that filled the brief gap between the Czars“and the Communists, Li's government has become a virtual pushover. It probably couldn't survive one more freshening of the Reds’ “war-criminal” list unless it gets out of Nanking on schedule next Thursday. |

May Stall in Retreat Co oo

THERE 18 even grave doubt that the government coul move to Canton—in one piece. Also, the possibility that Li, whosé name was omitted from the latest: blacklist, perhaps significantly, himself may dally or decline outright to join the southward refreat.. The Communists have broadcast their disapproval of the Nationalist evacuation to possible zones of

__ Evacuation of eivil and military personnel already has turned Li's government into a kind of ‘tall trying to wag the dog. Withdrawal of whatever ministers are still left in Nanking undoubtedly would squelch all chances of a negotiated peace at this stage—if indeed they ever existed. To qualified obsérvers the present psychological warfare between the Communists and the Nationalists looks like a | two-way stall for time. It is true acting President Li personally and earnestly inay desire even a one-sided settlement with the Reds. His viewpoint probably is shared by some other government officials, especially those not yet publicly blacklisted by the Reds. : : © The Communists haven't budged from Mao Tss-Tung's eight-point basis for peace--or more exactly, surrender. They

report current here last night was that Premier Sun and acting ~ Foreign Minister Wu Te-chen have come ostensibly for peace efforts but actually are en route to a place of greater safety. ” ot d It even suggested that thelr departure from Nanking was

schedule. One are both members of the so-called the diverse elements of the Kuomin from Nanking tion over-all control used to be Chiang’ moved info Nanking more as a’ for acting President Li than

"Do you suppose the boss wants me to clean this fila? He just - said, 'this file certainly needs a good cleaning'==l- » wish he wasn't so vaguel™

+ ton cannot be “steamrollered” in such a

Labor Deadlock Seen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—The big drive to repeal the TaftHartley law, ‘which is getting off-to a slam-bang fighting start in the Benate, may produce exactly nothing, according to Sen. Wayne Morris (R. Ore.). ; k He no legislation whatever on this subject if it

says. The Senate Labor Committee, controlled by supporters: of organized labor, has announced it-will give only a dozen days to hearings on the explosive subject. Sen. Morse, who voted against the Taft-Hartley law and has taken the side of ore ganized labor on numerous occasions, contends repeal legisiabrief time, “The labor leaders,” he sald today, “are being sold down the

river by their proclaimed friends. They apparently do not know

it yet. The whole performance is a great disservice to labor

| - just for the sake of ohe big grandstand play.”

Fight to Finish 2 HIS EMPHATIC views are mild in comparison to those of Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) and other supporters of the Jaw. . Taft disclosed his plans for a finish fight by introducing 15

Mr. amendments to the repeal bill. The amendments merely of Taft-Hartley sections, hin om bog ig Bo If all were adopted the result would be the Taft. law under another name, :

If the amendments-ure rejected by the commities, as: ex-

pected, they will provide opportunity for extended floor discission, Sen. Taft said. “His aim is to force his opponents to say what is wrong with each section. ‘ a

fight For sides whanged away at each other, with Sen. Claude Pepper (D. Fla.), delivering most of the blows for the anti-Tafts. . Mr, Morse's predictions of negative results are baged on the

a Ht Te 1 in iaeanie 14 leh 1 all 3nalf Jre-Sitction Strength. Of the 96 Senate n ve

predicts r gets into a fight on, the Senate floor whera it's headed for, he

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