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‘Misinformation About China RITING to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Acheson said that although China had received “over $2 billion” in United States assistance. . since VJ-Day, the Communists now hold almost all the important areas of China from Manchuria to the Yangtze River, . . The Communists have captured the bulk of the military supplies shipped by this country to the Nationalists since VI-Day, he added. This would seem to mean that we have given China more than $2 billion in military assistance since VJ-Day, and that most of it has fallen into the Communists’ hands. Neither conclusion is correct. “ The $2 billion figure used by the State Departuent to discredit Chiang Kai-shek's government is made up of three major items, (1) lend-lease, (2) the value of surplus military goods sold to the Chinese, and (3) the American contribution to UNRRA. None of this was assistance in the war against the €Eommunists. Mr. Acheson should correct any impression that it was.

LEND- ‘LEASE expenditures since the ar . end large‘ly in services, included carrying out the terms of the Japanese surrender agreement. Thinese troops did the job there that our own troops did in Europe. We also charged China the cost of flying supplies over the ‘hump during the war. Our service gharge against China was $607 million; against Britain it was $426 million, against Russia $79 million. Yet, although we used Chinese troops and Chinese labor, the Chinese were credited with only $3.6 million in reverse lend- lease against $191 million for Belgium. “Much of the surphus property sold to China was in junk condition, and its value was questionable. But we have President Truman's word that “no weapons which - could be Used in fighting a civil war were made available.”

WE HAVE given China almost no military assistance,

in the war against “he Communists. - No heavy equipment. Only about $9 million in small-arms ammunition. i Anything the Communists have captured must have “been delivered to China before VJ-Day. We maintained an arms einbargo against China from March, 1946, to May 28, 1047, while we were trying to force a Communist coalition there. No military funds were voted April, 1947. Only one of the three ships carrying the initial cargoes under this program reached the Chinese mainland. Two docked at Formosa, out of Communist reach. By that time Nation- : alipt. China had collapsed. © It may be too late to save China from communism. But it was not too late in 1948 or in 1947, when the State Department opposed military.aid | for China just as it does today.

The CVA Proposal ings PRESIDENT Truman has made an excellent case for creation of a Columbia Valley Administration to develop power, irrigation and flood control in the Pacific Northwest states, The project, in many respects, would resemble the Tennessee Valley Authority, but with important differences. Whereas TVA started almost from scratch, two huge dams—Grand Coulee in Washington, and Bonneville in Oregon—already have been built on the Columbia. They 4 have been major factors in the rapid growth of population, ‘industry and agriculture in the region. Mr. Truman believes that the river's present output of electric power can be multiplied 10 times by future construction of ather dams.

AT PRESENT, development of the "Columbia is being directed by field representatives of various federal agencies, headquarters in Washington, D. C. The proposed CVA, taking ower the work these agencies are doing, would have its headquarters in the Columbia Valley, easily accessible to the people who live there. It would be accountable to the President and Congress, but could keep closely in touch with the wants and needs of the region it serves—a principle which has worked well in the case of TVA. The CVA, under Mr. Truman's proposal, would not be given control of federal programs for soil and forest conservation, mineral explorations and development, fish and Bridie conservation and the like. It would, however, be * held responsible for helping to plan and co-ordinate such

~ Among vu. 8. rivers, the Columbia ‘ranks second only . to the Mississippi in the volume of water carried to the sea. It is one of our greatest natural resources. Congress should give earnest consideration to the President's plan = for its better development.

Another Veto Victim "WHEN Russia and the United Sates were unable to agree on a government for a united Korea, this country submitted the issue to the United Nations. ‘The United Nations appointed a commission to supervise elections for the establishment of an independent Korean government. The Red army refused to allow the commission to entér. its occupation zone of North Korea, so the election under United Nations auspices was held only in the American * zone. Now the Soviets have vetoed the application of this ~ United ‘Nations-sponsored nation for membership in the United Nations. President Syngman Rhee of the Korean " Republic cahnot understand why such a veto should be binding on the other members of the United Nations,

: “18 THERE any parliamentary. practice in any democratic organization in which one member can veto the will

of the overwhelming majority?” he asks. “How can such

prestige, bow to the dictatorial regime in Moscow_as its and super-government?” Eh : IO nd. to President Rhee's question will be found in Charter of the United Nations which gives the veto ae members .of the Security Council bite States, Britain, France and China,

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TRAVEL... By Fred Sparks

Europe Schemes |g

To Gyp Tourist “Biggest Project: To Separate

Americans From Their Money

PARIS, Apr. tourist year slowly rubbernecks into view, the underworld--as well as the hotelkeepers—pre-

pare to greet tripping Yanks,

18 As -the biggest post-war |

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.1 had a fine chat with a wrinkled police vet- y ge eran of a hundred thousand European sins, and |

he tells me that from the still icy coast of Oslo

to the sun-tanning shores of Capri the slinky

set are preparing a raft of novel fast ones. Their problem: To separate (A) the American tourist from (B) his money. "In Italy pickpockts are actually attending. classes to Improve thelr wallet-lifting techMy friend advises. tourists: “Button your léathers inside your jackets—don't Keep - them on your hip.” Shipments of painted ladies, good- -time girls and dance-hall Gerties will soon leave the industrial cities in droves for such gay spots as Paris, Rome and the Riviera. .

Dancing Partners

- THE GIGOLO business, I learn, is pretty well shot. The dignified white Russian counts and dukes who could be hired as dancing partners before the war are creaking with age. Nobody decent has replaced them. Strange as it seems, some of the good gigolos operating now are ex-GI's, who came to Europe with Ike and just stayed put. Some of these former doughfoots are not gigolos in the {rue sense, although they will gladly squire madame

to the local gay joint. They're more like guides, |

knowing the countryside and the language and American tastes, But some of the gigolos have more in mind than explaining the newest rhumba or the pictures in the Louvre. Their object: Blackmall . ., kiss and tell. Last summer a college girl, daughter of-a rich American businessman, got herself in an

- ugly little blackmail mess with a patent leather

Swiss kid. She had to be rescued with a thick

“package of greenbacks,

‘Charity’ Racket

A POPULAR current crime is the old “charity” racket, brushed off for this Marshall Plan era. Most Yanks coming to Europe still think that half this continent is starving. Not everybody is lapping up pate de fols gras, but swollen bellies are few. Playing on American heartstrings, sharpies check their arrival with bribed hotel clerks and bellhops. Then they appeal to the tourist in the name of “French war wounded children” or “Dutch victims of Nazi terror.” Often they have one poor sick child as a “display” piece, lugging the baby around from hotel to hotel to underline the “authenticity” of their appeal. My police chum insists there are plenty of substantial, registered, charitable outfits around Europe without slipping a stranger a crisp tenner. This stranger, like as not, believes that ‘charity begins at home—in his own bank account.

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue ®

LITTLE KATHY"

We'll all remember Little Kathy Whose life on earth has ended, The tearful hearts throughout the world Will go on and on unmended,

We wonder why it had to be And why she had to go, But her journey is the kind We all would like to know,

Precious darling Little Kathy, ‘Her memory always clings, 1 know she must look lovely In her tiny little wings.

Where she is she could not be Any more content, ‘There, too, she has her, Jiaymates And a lifetime to be spent.

80 try not to be sad towards Him For taking her away, You'll see your little girl again On that wonderful Judgment Day!

~-~ANN PERKINS, Indianapolis, Ind. ® ¢

PURITY

Mother Lily is quite busy Making costumes for each child, And she prays that Easter Sunday Will be sunny and quite mild, As she dresses John and Susan, Adds a touch that makes things right,

| Getinc Past Recs ptionists Is Problem

NEWS NOTEBOOK .

By | Peter Edson

Behind Seatics at the Capital

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18—-Navy nervotsness over the switch from Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who was -a Navy man, to Louis Johnson, who was an Army man, is beginning to show in touchy tempers at the top. At a recent cabinet meeting, Navy Secretary John L. Sulli®n announced he would like to discuss plans on a few naval activities. He

was politely but firmly told he was out of order,

Mr. Sullivan slammed his papers down on the big table, made a few remarks about nogbody paying any attention to naval affairs, and said he guessed he wasn't needed any more. The President had to soothe Mr. Sullivan by

assuring him that he was wanted, and then

‘patiently explain this wasn’t the time to take up his subject.

Spain's Economy May Crumble . POSSIBILITY of Spanish economic collapse within six months is being given serious consideration. Big question is what will happen to-Franco government in event of business and financial crisis. Informed opinion is that Franco government is no worse than other governments Spanish people have had before, and some have been terrible. If a free election were held now between continuation of the Franco government and return to the Spanish republic, Franco would probably win. People of Spain still remember that the republic which Franco overthrew didn’t work very well, either. But when Americans talk to representatives of Franco government about the need for economic and democratic reforms to save the present situation from becoming worse, nothipg happens. The Spanish people and Franco's Falangista Party leaders just don't know the meaning of democracy in the American sense, Howard Hughes is still having his troubles with the 100-ton flying boat he first flew on

‘Barbs—

A NEBRASKA farmer was accused of shooting at his hired man. That's a new way to make a hired hand move. ® & #4 BULLS weighing 2000 pounds live in Italy.

Just imagine how much veal some butchers.

would get from one. ¢ & o THE Texas girl who admits shé shot her husband is so beautiful they may not believe her. ® >

Nov. 2, 19047. It hasn't flown since, though Hughes says it will make another test flight “very soon.” He has ripped out the whole complicated system and installed a new one. When Owen Brewster's Senate committee investigation of the aircraft contract was front page news two years agb, cost of the thing

* was ET million. ‘Jeffers ian’ Dem o crafs ep

ONE out of every three U. 8. school children is now receiving aid from the school lunch program. It now covérs 6,900,000 children in 48,000 schools. More than a billion school lunches- wilt be served this year, and one out of eight will be served free to children who can't pay. Only two out of every nine big game hunters in U. 8. national forests ever shoot a bear, a deer or an elk. April issue of “pemotratie Digest” prints on its cover a broad hint to the Southern ‘‘Jeffersonian” Democrats who go all-out for filibusters whenever the civil rights issue comes up. Beneath a photograph of the heroic Thomas Jefferson memorial statue are quoted the two

inscriptions which are carved into the walls of _ the memorial building. One is Jefferson's state-

ment: “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws or constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discov eries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must. advance also to keep pace with the times. “We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain. ever under the regi. men of their barbarous ancestors.”

‘Men Created Equal’

THE other is a quotation from Jefferson's famous preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. ° “We , . . solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states .. . and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the

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public Is Pawn of Politician’ why

- By E. Bowman, 2831 Station St.

Public officials make the claim that they are public servants. This statement is for a

purely psychological effect during election campaigns

Servants proposition their boss for wages and working conditions. But public officials make their own salaries and working conditions, We seldom see photographs of the U. 8. Congress. in session. The reason for this: They don’t want the public to see how many vacant seats are in evidence or how many members are asleep at the switch. Before election day candidates take you by the hand; after election day those elected take you by the neck. Public officials are supposed to guard the public welfare. But if all the waste in publie money had been avoided, we would not. now be in the red, and it wouldn't be necessary to tax persons who have less than $5000 worth of prop= erty or less than $4000 income. Think of the millions of dollars wasted in foreign relief. Machinery piled up to rust away in Greece. Sur« plus food plowed under with bulldozers. Millions of dollars worth of supplies sent overseas gratis, finding its way into black markets. Some publie officials are responsible for such conditions. Take our local conditions. Every public ofs ficial who has to do with money is not held aes. countable for his acts regarding such publie funds. Public officials are not public servants. The public is the pawn of political public officials. And until such time as the public demands 8 strict accounting of the actions of such officiais it will regain as is. * *

| ‘Abolish Rent Control’

By George E. Moore, City "With reference to the Public Housing Conference, I will say that I. travel over this city and see and know many places that used to be rented that are not now rented because of the low rent ceilings. These rooms and house# are built, ready. for occupancy, and definitely can rent for some less -than a new place, built by high-cost - labor “and 1.aterial. It is just not a fair deal for the politicians to keep thi€ property off the rental market. They are gradually squeezing all of our Ameri~ can freedom away from us. What is the reason that our organizations do not get together and get these homes rented again? When we take government aid, we only - promote communism in America. Let Washing»

ton and our states help us by getting back to

a taste of freedom, by freeing these rentals and’ get everything back on the market for rent. We were given raises to take care of additional costs. Let's put part of it in rent and get homes now. : * ¢ an

‘Dig Their Own Graves’ By Hiram Lackey, Martinsville, Ind. Politicians dig their own graves. Selfishness Then they ask: “What is wrong with the party?” . or

What Others Say—

IN the world of today, the security of the U. 8. cannot be defined in terms of boundaries

and frontiers. A serious theat to international

peace and securityanywhere in the world is-of direct concern to this ecounty.—Secretary of State Dean Acheson. * & o

TO the millions in the world who cry in their despair for a new day of freedom and justice, we here in America, out of our strength and by our example, can give hope and comfort.— President Truman. * ¢ 9 THE size of the defense job we have is not of our choosing. It has been thrust on us by the intentions of the world today. América is coms mitted to defend its own natural interest and the principles of. world Semoerany: — Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. ®* ¢ 9

I COULD smile, but it would be artificial.—= Andrei Gromyko, Soviet delegate to the UN; asked to smile for photographers upon his are rival in the U. 8, : * © 0 : PURE science can flourish only in intel= lectual freedom. War and prepdration for war forbids such freedom, In the Soviet Union the situation is much worse, Science has hecome the servant of the state to such an extent that the

an Rugust body of nations, at the sacrifice of honor and

Mother-like . . . she thinks her children Look their best in purest white.

~ROSE MOSS, Indianapolis, argue?

AN Illinois judge rules that kissing a girl in an auto is all right.

Does anybody want to honor.”

protection of Divine Providence, pledge our lives, our fortunes and our *sacred

we mutually only true science is that approved by the leaders of the state.— Dr. Frank Boas, of the Columbian

College of Physicians and Surgeons.

FARM SUBSIDY ...By Earl Richert

Price Support Trap

WASHINGTON, Apr, 18—Behind that new paint on your house, that new linoleum on your floor or that oflcloth on your kitchen table lies possibly the clearest postwar example of the difficulties of government planning. All these products use Hnseed oil and on linseed ofl hangs

the story; Lo

Back in late 1048 our Agriculture Department officials got sore at Argentina--and not over politics, especially, We had been importing large quantities of linseed oil from ‘Argentina for years and during the war the South American country sold ft to us within the ceiling price.of 14.3 cents a pound.

_But after the lifting of OPA, Argentina’ decided to cash in, Her government hoosted the price to nearly 37 cents & pound within ‘a few months, It would not deal with the U. 8. private trade, insisting on selling only to our government. Also, the oil had to come here in their ships, ’ ;

Money for Farmers WELL, this was too much for George L. Prichard, head of

—the fats and oils branch, and other department ¢fficials.

They decided that if Argentina was going to charge high prices for linseed oil our farmers might just as well get the money. So they announced the government would maintain a floor of $6 a bushel under the 1947 crop of flaxseed—from which linseed oil is made. This flour amounted to about 146 per cent of parity—the highest support level ever used by our government for any commodity, It was designed solely to encourage production. It worked--and how! From 22% million Sushels in 1046, domestic production spurted . to 50 million bushels dn 1947. And it wasn’t hapd to dispose of the erap. It looked as if we could do it again in 19048, We still needed linseed oil and would have to pay high prices for it abroad. So they left in effect the $6. foar--aquivalent to almost 27 cents a _pound on-linseed oil,

Twice Amount Needed

THE farmers, aided by weather, really went at it then. They produced over 52 million bushels. ~—But-that 52 million bushels was just about. twice what we needed and our government was caught. It now has about $186 million worth of this high- priced flaxseed or linseed oil on hand.-an amount equivalent to a year's -domestic needs, spent last year on A<bomb production. “government now has lowered the floor for the 1949

crop to $3.99 a hushel (90 per cent of parity). But now it ap-.

(pears the farmers will plant 4,700,000 acres to flaxseed this

The $186 million is about equal to what we

SIDE Sunes ‘By Galbraith

COP. 1909 BY MEA SERVICE. WC. ¥, mato uv Spar. ors. "Most of my ancestors were doctors, Bankers and lawyers— Uncle Henry here was the only one who ‘ever did anything worth mentioning! He was 8 cowboy!"

about 6 cents a pound or more when the new crop is -harvested. That makes it difficult for the department to dispose

of the 27-cent a pound oil it.now has-on hand. Mr. Prichard has

announced, however, that the government will not sell any of

its seed or oil before June 30 at less than cost. And he figures:

the trade will ‘have to buy some of the government stock before then. Mr. Prichard says he is not worried about the surplus; that he'd rather have a.surplus than a scarcity. “We haven't had one complaint from .a user of linseed ofl in this country.” he said. + He pointed out that the support program produced linseed oil at a price about 10 cents a pound cheaper than Argentina had been charging and also that domestic business was created

Joa about 55 per cent more ‘than the government wants | by turning the U. 8. into a major flaxseed-producing country.

Te lowered floor mess that Used of price wil drop

He said the department in its programs must plan fi i; Sundance nid Not far searelty, . - ? or

PREPAREDNESS . . . By Jim G. Lucas ‘Security Training’

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18—The American Legion plans another drive — with plenty of oomph -— for universal military training. The opener will be a nationwide letter-writing campaign between April and June. In substance, they urge that something be. done—pronto. This time, aceording-to Erle Cocke Jr., chairs man of the Legion's National Security Commission, it won't be called universal military training. It'll be National Security Training. Mr. Cocke, a World War II veteran, has been in Washington recently trying to revive what most other people considers a lost cause, It's not lost to him. He says he's alive:today because he knew how to take care of himself — “I was trained.” A husky, 29-vear-old from Dawson, Ga., Mr. Cocke says “technically” he is general industrial agent for the Central of Georgia Railway. Actually, he says, he “works for a living about one Cocke. day a week.” Other days, he's chairman of the National Security Commissoin, Georgia state commander and an active candidate for National Commander—“they can't beat me.” —Frle was a student at Georgia University when he was called as a second lieutenant in 1941. -He was wounded by Allied bombs in ‘Sicily and by German snipers at Anzio. In January, 1945, the Germans captured him in the Colemar pocket. Mr. Cocke escaped three times. Unfortunately, he was captured three times. Mr. Cocke says he was “plain unlucky.” The German officer who questioned him twice was a Princeton gradu-

Mr. Cocke

ate, knew all about TVA. The Germans. decided-to_ shot Erle

‘Should Have Been Shot’

ACTUALLY, Mr. Cocke says, he bears no grudges. He says he doesn’t blame them; by their rules, he should have been shot, “I don't think,” he said, “that they minded my getting away so much as those five yards I liquidated. Anyhow, it was fun.” So they shot him, but not fatally. Mr. Cocke said his execu~ tioners were poor shots. He flinched, and they only got him in the left lung, nicking his heart. They shot him twice in the stomach at close range (he has about one-third of it left) and administered the coup de grace over the kidney—“a damned fool thing to do if they expected to kill me.” Left for dead, he was kept alive by German civilians who wanted an “in” with our troops, and then he was rescued French. Following treatment in 11 hospitals in the United States —he underwent 17 major operations—he was released in Feb

ruary, 1947. -. Mr, Cocke Sen, Millard Tydings promised to hold hear Tydings said he

ings on National Security Training in May. Sen. hadn’t-—"not definitely” but there's a chance. ’ If he gets his hearings, Mr. Cocke promises a “new look.” The way he sees it. the Army has made a mistake in se > its witnesses secretaries and generals with plenty of ta : “ut 20 appeal. Mr, Cocke will do it differently, ? RRS

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