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“Revolt in the. UN

secant wks an th Internationsition of Jerusalem, Both setbacks were due to combinations formed by blocs of small nations. In one case, the views of Cuba, Ecuador and Peru prevailed over those of the United States and Russia. On the other, an Australian proposal was development. adopted which was Soptrary to the American and British Two Bills Introduced positions,

ts in the United Nations. The first came when we

gone unnoticed,

are beginning to think and act for themselves. On the stall have introduced their own, China issue they were clearly right, So right, indeed, that Dr. Philip C. Jessup, the American delegate who opposed the Cuba-Ecuador-Peru resolution in committee, reversed himself and voted for it when ft reached the General

Assembly.

80, BELATEDLY, America is on record, as it should have been from the outset, in favor of considering China's charges against Russia. The 35-t0-11 committee vote in favor of creating a permanent international regime in Jerusalem found America and Britain in the minority, Russia voting with the majority. But-the result was a victory for Australia and the ‘Latin American republics, for here the Soviet bloc simply Would Create Bureau . went along with the tide. The vote for complete internationalization of Jerusalem is acceptable to neither of the

ever, country.

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“WORLD AID... By dim G. tues

a dda - ES Clash Seen on Es Va Bn a 5 Foreign Policy.

Split 9 Bipartisan Setup ~~ Looms on Point 4 Program - WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—~What may be the first break in the bipartisan foreign policy is

developing in plans for Point 4—President Truman’s “bold new program” for aiding under-

In many parts of the world, Point 4 is the most important single factor in U. 8. foreign. relations. State Department men say it is a favorite subject for editorials abroad. In this country, except for the flurry when 7 President Truman proposed it in his ina al in two days the United States has suffered de- address, it has aroused little interest. pe sult, the split on the House Foreign Affairs Com-

to sidetrack China's charges against Russia, the = mittee over just how Point 4 will operate has

Essentially, the argument is over rival bills ~introduced by Chairman John Kee (D. W. Va.) and Rep, Christian Herter (R, Mass.) and different concepts of foreign economic

MR. KEE has Introduced the State DepartThis indicates that, right or wrong, the smaller nations ment bill, Mr, Herter and Sen. Leverett Salton.

The Kee bill would authorize appropriation of $40 million, creation of a Foreign Economic Development Administration and technical assistance to underdeveloped areas. It would, howleave the initiative to the participating

The State Department wants to avoid any appearance of coercion or imperialism, It seeks guarantees and-—where feasible—trade treaties to insure foreign investments. It leaves financial and industrial development of underdeveloped areas to American capital, But it does not make these provisions a condition for aid, In many cases, a State Department official says, we may have to give technical assistance in advance to show that we are not out to exploit and give nothing in return,

He would, for instance, limit assistance to those countries signing commerical treaties with = - = ——— the United States—treaties signed before a dolaw — ar is advanced. The treaties would require tech-

HOWEVER. it hha “nical missions to investigate business oppor- : ‘are prepared to take matters into their own hands when - prompt reson of spntrovermies” and 4 prompt = = Mr. Herter would prohibit;

after two years, any Export-Import ‘Bank loans to countries failing to sign such treaties. ~The government's biggest -lending “agency

FINALLY, Mr. Herter's bill would require appointment of joint commissions to survey and carried responsibility for report on needs and resources of underdeveloped

putting areas; modification of foreign regulatory and * the big | rs_on notice tax laws to encourage the flow of American capital and changes in foreign fiscal policies. At this, the State Department throws up its hands in horror, The Herter plan, it says, is intervention at its worst. Joint commissions, the State Department fears, would become

MR. HERTER rejects this as impractical, He would create a Foreign Economic Development Administration with a $20,000-a-year administrator and a $15,000 deputy, He would provide concerned, Israel and Transjor- = money for technical assistance, but he wants

iby is occupied by. the armies of those advance assurances of co-operation.

THE LUSTRON LOAN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—To taxpayers, a $37% million question right now is: Can the Lustron Corp. make and sell its pastel-colored, steel houses at a profit? The answer is expected soon from the Re“eonstruction Finance Corp. which has invested

$125 million more.

has been trying to find out for nearly a year whether there is potential profit inthe Columbus, O., corporation. As recently as August it was operating in the red at the rate of $1,500,000 a month, The RFC's own examiners and engineers have kept a watchful eye on Lustron’s operations, At least two industrial engineering firms were paid to poke around the vast, sprawling plant which is thoroughly geared for the mass production it hasn't achieved.

Twe Main Points

majority votes, the larger nations may conclude yyper.jegisiatures writing laws and policies for HARVEY GUNDERSON, a director of the is in order. foreign governments and mean even pon says It is now satisfied on twe major d resentment by her arrogant attitude tually that Uncle Sam is involved In oY points, Britain Jor Ground by by, phase of their ation, ent ONE: That the prefabricated Lustron home ; “ gro wich”, say no f4eapecting _Sovernmen’ is a good house. It features two bedrooms, compromise on moral where her, Wild accept those terms. Furt SPOR. ceiling radiant heat and such enticing gadgets are involved. i = bi Department says the Herter plan would ,.°, comingtion clothes-dishwasher, a bedroom SEAT Diiagr 2400s the Export-mport Bank out of business. vanity with a built-in 21-ft square mirror and this ermal : at more "one State Department official says floor-to-ceiling kitchen cabinets, : Sosertiviod Nationalist China than to a wise, would “play directly into the hands of the Reds.” Mr, Gunderson said.a recent suryey of ownCa : teh tdi. + Bince Point 4 was proposed, the Communists = i or Lustron houses showed a unanimous k security and p feel that since 4 ccd > O8 "have denounced it as a scheme to grab profits. gayistaction with the house, which comes in

They say they are” ences must be sett]

Better Drop DoT hua pany have is cms. SS YUeitioha Ahgut pescal’ incomes of avery Sth Congress.

1 incomes are over or under $10,000 and if under, to make id So And the sun is shining bright

‘Various Republicans charge that this is a sinister

BUT, tout or not, the Consus Brrend's pian seems unwise. Most people regard the size of their incomes as some- * thing which specific law requires them to tell the income -

giant bare and tall, Without a leaf u Or any robe At all,

ators’ questions and be less than frank in andwering. With out a complete check on the accuracy of all answers—an . impossible job—the statistics could be far from dependable. “THEN, too, the enumerators are “to "be temporary political employees. And, despite the law, supposed to punish them for making any other than official use of the _information they collect, there would be wide suspicion that ansWvers about incomes might be used improperly. ~~ The Census Bureau posed similar questions in 1940. But there was a storm of public and congressional protest, all but a tiny percentage of the persons interviewed declined to answer, and the-bureau made no attempt at compulsion. It would do well to drop its plan to ask those income questions in 1950,

Doctors’ Error © THE American Medical Association may have reason to regret its governing body's decision to raise funds to b Wom “nationalized medicine” by levying $25-a-year compulsory membership dues, Doctors who don’t pay within 30 days after delinquency hon prices, “ niotiees are mailed are to-be dropped from the AMA rolls. . “ . ~~ This penaity compares, in lesser degree; to that of workers unr ne Dann oan .ousted from a closed shop union for refusing contributions the last session of Congress, to union political Activities of which they do not approve.

there were again predictions ; thm a bumper, crop of pigs “IT IS possible for a doctor to practice medicine without {-would glut the market this fal]. "belonging to the AMA, but in many comniunities he would na Raving to ‘ support ho 2 pri 1 i ms be hn re. ong i Tr. BB ,man administration's compulsory health insurance plan. x RE no doubt, will gladly chip in the $25 finance the t.

hog calling,

been dire warnings that the

that prices would go below the farmers’ costs of production. The only alternative offered to save this situation was that the government would have to go into a big hog-buying program to support the market. A year ago, when there was considerable fear of a big surplus spring pig crop, the situation was saved by the purchase of many million dollars’ worth of pork for Great Britain and other Marshall Plan countries. That took the surplus pig population off the market. It left a reduced supply for

© But matters hayen't worked out that way at all, and the experts have been confounded.

pened to prevent the catastreo-

much as $250 million. hab any "ho may be out o of sympathy with that fight bene to Prevent Whe corastror

summer, For the AMA. will need publi stan la Poy it 18 to win this battio—and a Jargs mer demand for pork has peen will consider the Sompusory dues heavier Ea LE rf

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ng realistic. The differbefore January when, State Department officials say, Point 4 may be the first foreign policy matter to come before

MY GIANT

To which Herter og. men say ‘“phoofe.”

In leaves that fall, when he's asleep. But oh, in winter, you should see M

n his head

. Until the snow begins to cling, “And then my giant's an ermined king.

Farm Guesses Flop

WASHINGTON, Dee. 10-—-Once again the economic farm prophets have proved themselves not as smart as they thought they were. This time they have had to show red faces on their

Two seasons in a row, now, there have heen official cries of alarm that the farmers were producing too many pigs. There have

market would be glutted and

American consumers, at fairly

‘in the two months following.

Two things seem to have hap-

i likelihood-of a glut is mini-

colors like canary yellow and aviator blue. : That Lustron can turn out the houses in large numbers—at the rate of 100 a day in three shifts if necessary. Profit—and not production—is the big puzzler. And qnly through Lustron profits can the government expect to get much of the taxpayers’ money back, That's why the Lustron payroll is beig held to a minimum, why production is keyed to open orders and why the RFC has insisted that such frills as a $50,000-a-year public relations service be dropped.

Are sure a frightful sight to see, Lustron sells its houses to dealers at the Democratic scheme to pry into private affairs and get But sh-h my giant is just a tree. company gate for about $5000. or Gunderson ormation which government's 's business : says it cos rom 0 0 make one int Bom of the ts My giant in summer wears his hair house, although that cost would go down with It probably is not. More likely, its purpose is merely to All bushed out like he's crowned, continued big scale production, Even so, that's collect more or less useful statistical data from a larger But when the gutum breeses blow a large gap to close before black figures can part of ) : He lets it fly around, be entered in the books. the country’s population than less comprehensive Until our yard Is covered deep, By the time a site is provided and the house

is financed and erected it costs the purchaser from $10,000 to $14,000, depending on the part of the 'country in which he lives and the kind of lot he buys. If the RFC decides to go ahead with Lustron, it will have to pump more millions into the venture. Mr, Gundersen concedes that, but he emphasizes that the decision has not yet

tax Bollea hilar | jos pledge of secrecy, but which they Opal McGuire, $14 Broadway been made. dislike to discuss other persons, Many such people would resent the census eénumer- AGRICULTURE . . . By Peter Edson ! SIDE Gl ANCES

and with plenty of pigs in the pens to eat it up, the supply of pork has been good and prices have been relatively lower than for other meats. The second factor is that farmers this fall have been marketing their hogs at lighter weights, Instead of fattening to 300 pounds, they have sold more hogs at 200 to 225 pounds. The result of all these practices has been that hog prices have been from 15 cents to $1.20 a hundredweight above suppart price levels throughout the fall. And the government hasn't had to enter the market to buy up any surplus. ~. - o

THE fall run of pigs to mar. ket usually begins in Beptember, increases during the next two months, reaches a peak in December, then fails off again

Government support prices are varied from month to. month in an effort to create an even run of hogs to market through. out this period. There is still a possibility that farmers may be holding back some of [their hogs to market later at heavier weights and for higher prices. But marketings have been from 20 to 40 per cent heavier than’ normal so far this fall. 8o the

enough science for accurate prophecies. The tides and the "phases of the moon can be pre

“mized and the predicted fall h ket crisis isn't goin - for as far ahead as anyone Bos aT n 8 want# to know. The weather

” POTTY .

“the money in Lustron and-has been asked for

economics still isn’t an exact

dicted with absolute accuracy

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GREATEST ~ LION _TAMEK

. . . By Charles Egger Where's Profit in Steel Houses?

If the RFC gives up on Lustron, begin foreclosing on the collateral it holds as security for the loans, some of which are already overdue. As partial seeurity, the RFC holds the patent rights on the process used in enameling the steel for the house. Moré optimistic than Mr. Gunderson or any of. his associates ghout the eventual success of ~the Lustron house is Carl J: Strandiund; the «company's $30.000-a-year president.

Ready to Make Money

MR. STRANDLUND says he believes Lustron is about ready to make money. an order for 2000 houses from Park Forest Homes, Inc, of Chicago, which plans a huge development south of that city, Park Forest, incidentally, also is an RFC Jeneticiary, haying obtained loans totaling $6,394,000 Also among Mr, Strandlund’s nopes are more government orders for houses like the 60 the Marines bought and erected at Quantico, Va. better financing arrangements with the Federal Housing Administration and, of course, more operating money from the RFC Strandlund has been optimistic ever since the idea of a government-financed company to help beat the housing shortage first was advanced. That was in 1046 Strandlund, as vice president of the Chicago was in Washington trying to wangle permission to use vitreous enameled steel to build filling stations,

But Mr.

Vitreous Enameling Co,

was still being allocated then:

He was turned down but the housing proposal came up. Mr. Strandlund was given the. impression that steel would bé made to him if he made houses instead of filling

stations. ’

With the backing of Wilson Wyatt, then housing expediter, he tried for a $52 millon loan from the RFC to get started. He didn't He tried again early in 19047 on a smaller scale, but he couldn't raise the $3,500,000 he needed to get the RFC interested in

get it.

advancing the loan.

Greatly Impressed

ON June 30, 1947, the last day on which the RFC had authority to make a particular type of loan which Strandlund-—-as Lustron—was seeking, Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman sent a letter to the lending agency. Mr. Steelman said he was greatly impressed He said he had discussed the subject with President Truman Steelman’s views, And he concluded by urging that the Lustron

by the Lustron proposal, who was in accord with Mr.

application be approved.

That same day, the RFC approved the first At different times, that amount has been moved Bp to the present

loan—for $15 million.

377% million.

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. Hoosier Forum’

“0 do nal saree wih 8 word Tha¥ you soy. but] will defend to the death your right fo say it."

e = ‘Americans Hating Americans’

now. .

Republicans.

just that,

New Deal? I pote you are that mean- you live in. a f getting your living from chon for not raising more stones? You are very Insulting to the

The Democratic Party (or I will be decent eniough to say the New-Dealers as 1 still helleve the real Democrats have a little sense) ha turmed this country into a land of ty ' selfish, hating individuals, trou. bles and strikes are Take off When conditions get in such a shape that cry be for more money, the excuse is some other unreasbnable thing. It's simply a slick scheme to get Americans to hating Americans, In the last 16 years the New Dealers have done nothing but experiment with very ile good coming out of it. publicans- move slowly but economically, What was our debt under Hoover? It's a good thing we don’t owe it to Russia and it will never be paid unless some men get in . that can think before through the Hoover administration and I say he had started on the depression and. would have had us out of it in six months by tightening up and cutting corners, spent us out of fit, do you do in your home when you get in a jam? Rush out and make a lot of new debts? do you like paying the prices for coffee, butter, coal, turkeys for example when the price ‘Is forced on us by artificial means? I don't expect anyone to become a Republican unless he wants tc, but I would think that after thinking a little they would be looking for something more than sand to stand on. ®* ¢

‘Too Many People to Feed’

These union primarily tented | te do

your dark glasses and od bok.

As you say, the ReWhat is it now?

they jump. I lived

But Mr. Roosevelt

Now isn't that silly? What

By W. H. Edwards, Gosport, Ind. The principal problem of Europe is that it has

more people to feed than the land will support.

But each nation wants its excess population for

future

it will

its people must

ai wriake an

He has

forced onto

The peopl are reaping a

order,

when Mr.

Steel

loads of food ai. the low-income tual friendship with all ether nations, But ‘they want other nations to put their own houses in

“Cannon fodder.” That is where “Uncle Sapp” comes in to the tune of billions. England, including Scotland and Wales, has an area of 50,874 square miles and a population of above 40 million people, twice as many as the land can sustain. The State of Illinois, by. comparison, has an area of 55947 square miles and a population of around eight million people. France has an area of 212,659 square miles in. comparison with the area of Texas which is 213,644. Yet, France has a population of 40 odd. million te Texas’ six million and more. All other countries of Europe are greatly over-populated, so our SF Jseinment decrees that continue. being taxed to desper~ ation to feed, clothe and furnish war materials --t0- Westémn Europe -in-order-to *'s

widespread F til foreign ideologies might take root and grow, The majority of U. 8. citizens do not want communism grafted onto our homeland's body. Neither do the

How’

"nt a continued price inflation

ind, besides the ones who of profits from the ship- , «rious household appliances le cannot afford, want mu-

We wonder if that bear that walks like a man is not managing to climb our uncie’'s bee tree and getting its share of the honey while the bees are in a huddle, trying to find ways to extract more honey from “Uncle Sapp.”

What Others Say—

THE question we are to face frankly is whether our economy can stand (the) tremen-

dous burden (of pensions for workers) without

available

deterring industry as well as the worker and reducing too much the worker's standard of living.—8Sen. Rover} A Tent (R. Ohie), * .

A FEW years ago we heard a great deal about the so-called Morgenthau plan which was designed to turn Germany into a goat pasture, Do we now have a Morgenthau plan for the United States?—Guy Gabrielson, Republican national committee chairman, * ¢ ¢

I'D LIKE to nail down the fantastic estimate that if all American farmers were subsidized at

the rate suggested for milk ‘ministration proposals woul annually. —~Agriculture Secretary Brannan. *

congressional

Chicago.

roducers, the adcost $19 billion

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IT'S A sorry day for America when Admiral Denfeld, or anyone else, can't come before a

committee and state their

opinions without bein, tehed.—Sen. 1 Bridges (R. N. H.). & pun oo “

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By Galbraith BIG BUSINESS . . . By Bruce Biossat

COL S00 BE WEL SRSA wn TM BAN. BB. BAT. Beg i oo “| haven't seen anything hidden around yet—did we walt tee long to start being good?"

ahead. It will rain or snow, or *

it won't. But business cyelon and the

_ups_and downs of farm. crops,

consumer demand and general prosperity or lack of it are still in the realm of

on

e unpredict- nas market, through its

el Study of Monopolies

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—What historians lik e to call “business community” may take some heart from Secretary of

Commerce S8awyer’s plan to go into the problem of

The announced objective,

monopolies.

of course, is to set u to study co-ordination of all government efforts Pa cominittes

stamp out

monopoly and unfair trade practices. President Truman asked for

the inquiry. But from the businessmen’s standpoint, probably the most important thing about this program is that Mr. Sawyer promises to dig into confusion and overlapping of federal laws on the subject, and to attempt to clarify exactly what is considered right and wrong. ! ” . =»

MR. SAWYER said executives frequently have told him they want to operate legally, but actually do not know whether certain business practices are lawful or not. The whole question of bigness in industry is due for attention. If this issue is really tackled earnestly, the investi. gation could be a milestone in economies history, For right mow there is more than a faint hint that bigness is viewed by government antitrust officials as an evil in itself. Yet the judgement of numer.

ous economists and other observers_is that this notion is

an unproved propesition. They contend. the government is

stretching the antitrust laws

when it tries to use them to destroy bigness-on the assumption it is inevitably a menaced to free competition. . e .

. THE truth of this matter is’ ce to the.

of vital the highest standard of Mving 8 d of in Bir eH To what ng bigness in evident

indugtry, economics,

contributed to this standard? If business were generally smaller in organization, would the standard be higher or lower?

The answers to these ques

_tons,are too critical to be left

‘to Justice Department lawyers who may or may not have a real grasp of their country’s economic development, The plain fact is that the “bigness is bad” theory of monopoly represents a new idea not set forth in the antitrust laws or even necessarily. implied hy them. The theory is so sweeps in that it deservés to be exe plored exhaustively by the nation’s finest economic brains "ss

ONE economist who has given long and painstaking study to the government's anti» trust suit:against the A. and P, declares -that the gravest as pect of this move is not the

possibility that the food chain may be broken {nto several smaller units. great danger, he says, is t this case

may be decided in virtual ignorance of the economic facts governing bigness. } To any American, the ke ing of any major policy de cision in an

am if it means

“a

GOVERNMENT support of research does not /.endanger the independence of an endowed university unless such support is too large a proportion of the total expense of the institution.,— Robert M. Hutehins, chaneellor of Univ ersity of

atmosphere of

serious grappling with the is-

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