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PRESIDENT TRUMAN two years ago announced his Point Four Program to furnish technical assistance to

under-developed countries. Since then, efforts have been made to stretch the title to cover a lot of things—from Nelson Rockefeller's world-wide Marshall Plan to Britain's dream that we might be induced to take over her debts to India, Pakistan and Egypt. ~~ - Despite such obstacles, Dr. H. G. Bennett, the technical

program's basic purpose. And that is to assist the people of areas to help themselves, If is being done without dumping a lot of money into hands of people who are not prepared to make intelligent of it. And such money that is being allocated seems y to pay sound dividends. of _the most promising Bennstt projects has just : announced. Four new schools—agriculture and en- - gineering, preventive medicine, economics and finance, and public administration—are being established at the American University of Beirut, to train “Point Four fellows” in

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nyission. The students must agree to spend at least a year 4 In the public service of their countries after completing ii" their courses. The 118 who will be graduated yearly are "expected to form the nucleus of experts and teachers for ‘ithe further spreading of technical knowledge in their countries. % All of the Arab states are in dire need of technicians in these particular fields. And the University of Beirut, the largest American university outside the United States, is renowned throughout the Middle East for its contributions to the leadership of that area. Most of the diplomats representing Middle Eastern countries in the United Nations and at major diplomatic posts in Washington and London won their diplomas at this institution. It was founded by «missionary effort long before there was any thought. of i “bold new program” of official American assistance abroad. - Of particular pertinence at this time, it may be noted that the American University of Beirut does not have Com- .- munists on its faculty or permit them in its student body. Ct y it is not likely to turn out graduates who will e the hand that fed them.

tion's Fat Boy SEN TOR PAUL DOUGLAS of Illinois fired another one ° of his sharply effective salvos the other day at wasteful The former Marin hter and economics professor the nition could save between $1 billion and $2 billion ar by going on a fat boy's reducing diet—eutting out ‘hot fudge sundaes and chocolate creams, and stickingsto. “skimmed milk, vegetables and eggs.” Fi For a starter, he said, we could stop buying expensive “automobiles to haul the big shots around Washington, He % mentioned, without naming him, one under secretary who ‘has a ear for himself, uses another for his wife and a third «for his children when they're home from school on &.° He cited, too, the 25 limousines in the Pentagon motor “pool, and the fleets of new, high-priced cars maintained by other departments, with chauffeurs to drive “hundreds” of government employees aBout town, all nice and fancy. Also, ithe great number of secretaries and typists, the mahogany desks, thick carpets, useless publications and senseless 5» LJ - BUT lopping off these frills isn’t enough—it's the outrageous, easily deferrable pdrk-barrel projects of Congressmen that offer really big opportunities to save money. Again, the Senator gave an example: The $7 million Jim ‘Woodruff Dam as a Florida power project. Florida is not a mountainous country, and power won't be available there for two and a half years, he said. The $7 million authorized in the budget for this dam would pay for two B-36 bombers, or 46 jet fighters, or 58 tanks, or 115,000 rifies even at present inflated prices. 4Dr it would maintain a battalion of soldiers for a year. &= It will be hard, as Sen. Douglas says, to trim the pork. vr have a pernicious habit of ganging up elp each other log-roll their pet projects through in the ace of demands for economy. : But it must be done,” he adds. The taxpayers will gpoiour heartily in that, They'd love to see some of the lard alén off the pampered fat boy they're maintaining in

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LONDON, June 8—The Labor Party's narrow victory in the first tests on its budget prdbably means it can hang on to office, until next winter, ; A long Parliamentary recess is only a few weeks off and the Tories apparently are unable

. to unseat the government, although it has a

majority of only five votes. Aneurin Bevan and

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his leftist supporters control 25 Labor votes and can cause overthrow of the government any day, but are of rank-and-file reaction against leftist disloyalty. The government will refuse to resign on any snap defeat. On a genuine division it can

If the Labor Party unexpectedly outvoted in Parliament before the summer re-cegs--through absence, illiness or sahsentation by a few Bevanites—the Tories ‘certainly would win a general election. -

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Latins Confused by U. S. Sales—

WASHINGTON, June 8 Staying at my are a pair of old Priends from South America, who flew up to the States to do a little shopping. They are goggle-eyed. While his wite explored the department stores, Don Jacinto went looking for an automobile to ship back . : home, He knew exactly what he wanted, namely, a long and handsome convertible with one of those thunderclap engines and lots of push - buttons. The price, a3 he well knew from studying the literature was

He thought they'd be scarce, but the man had a fleet of them. .The problem was, what color? He chose a beauty, dove gray in color, and was

~ about to peel off his traveler's'checks in pay-

ment thereof, when the salesman said, of course, thers was the little matter of a discount. Don Jacinto didn’t undérstand. The man said he didn’t really eharge $3600 a copy for these motor cars, but was glad to sell them for $3100 to good customers like him. Don Jacinto walked out of there with $500 more than ‘he thought he'd have. This gave him an idea. He'd always wanted a movie camara de luxe, retailing for $420, and obviously he could get one now for free and still be $80 in ths black. So he dropped by the camera store, There was the $430 movie machine, all right, with a $420 price tag om it. But when Doh Jacinto went to pay for it, came up again the mysterious matter of the discount. The elerk Wouldn't accept the $420. He said he was selling cameras for $340. My friend told him to wrap it up (before

PRICES . . . By Earl Richert

Farm Price Support Drops 64% in a Year”

_ WASHINGTON, June 8—Government spending for farm price support operations has dropped 64 per cent

in a year.

And total government investment in farm price support loans and purchases as of May 1 was 42 per cent

below a year ago.

he changed his mind) and hurried home, feeling a little groggy. There he met his pretty wife, Marcella, who was surrounded with boxes of female frippery. She said she'd had a very odd experience. * Found exactly the dress she wanted, price at $49.95 only this figure was crossed out and the new mark sald $29.95. But that was ob-

literated, too, and the actual price she paid was 5

$17.50. Don Jacinto said in his politest Spanish that North Americans were wonderful people, but did I think maybe they were a little crazy? All his life south of the border; he continued; he'd read how in the United States prices of merchandise were marked clearly and plainly and an¥body who tried to haggle insulted the storekeeper. 80 he’d done no bargaining. The merchants, he. continued, had in reverse. They were not content to charge him what the price lists said. They insisted on taking less. This, said Don Jacinto, was a peculiar thing. He was a businessman, himself, and he could not understand it, Would I kindly explain?

Not Convinced

MY SPANISH is not of the best. But I tried to tell him he'd arrived at the exact psychological moment when stocks of luxury such as he was buying were a drug on the market. Not many North Americans were ordering $3600 convertibles, even with discounts. And furthermore, I said, he'd chosen a brand of motor car which was not too popular with the local public. As for the camera, I tried to tell him that rich as my compatriots all were, few were shelling out $420 for the pleasure of making home movies. I don’t think I was able to convince him. Doan Jacinto sald when he got back to’ South Afnerica, he intended to tell all his friends what they were missing in the pleasantly peculiar north. Marcella said she wasn't ready to fly back yet. She wanted to look some more in those wonderful stores with the crossed out price tags.

SIDE GLANCES

stituencies in the last election, the Tories need 8 shift in the popular vote or less than 2 per cent for victory. Average Tory gain in byelections during the past six months has been about 5 per cent’ On the basis of past experience with the relation of by-election results to a subsequent general election vote, this indicates a probable § per cent shift to the Tories. Hence the Tories claim a minimum Parliamentary majority of 100 seats if there is an election soon. So they would have a large enough margin for an effective government, which Labor now lacks and which the Tories would have lacked in any general election last summer. : Of course Labor hopes the tide will turn in its favor by next autumn or winter, but that’s unlikely, There are two chief reasons why Labor has lost the middle-class vote, which , holds the balance of power in elections, > + #

ONE IS a familiar cause in democracies gen-

erally—the people get tired of officeholders and want a change for change's sake. That's how

Labor got elected at the end of the war-—people

were tired of Winston Churchill. Now many are tired of Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Actually, Mr. Attlee as an individual is more popular today than Mr. Churchill although the Labor government as a whole is losing public confidence, Just as Mr. Attlee is stronger than his party Mr. Churchill is weaker than his, Short of a war emergency, Deputy Tory Leader Anthony Eden would be preferred by most Britons over Mr, Churchill. But the old man insists on keeping it a one-man party. On the balance, however, the Tories have more experience and abler administrators than Labor. And as the Labor government loses its best—Iike Ernest Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps —and wears out its Attlees and Herbert Morrisons, the need for a more efficient government becomes clearer to the public. The second reason why the Labor government is losing decisive middle-class support is austerity. After 12 years of war and post-war deprivation the already low living standards

are . Especially for the middie class, It's going to get worse because the effects or rearmament hardly have begun. As inflation grows and us austerity deepens, the Labor gov« ernment doubtless will become less popular, especially in the hard winter ahead. That won't be because Britain rejects the welfare state, On the contrary, it will be because rearmament cuts into social services. The

public is overwhelmingly in favor of the welfare

state and the Tories’ shrillest theme song in campaigns is denial of the Labor charge that they'll cut social services. Nor is nationalization an issue. The public isn’t interested. The Tories say they won't de« nationalize any industry except steel, which Mr. Attlee didn't want but had to take to pacify the Bevan left wing. Despite the fact the British public is not sold on rearmament at the expense of social servIces and wants a compromise with Russia to prevent war, the Labor government can't be defeated in a general election directly on these issues, That's because the Churchill defense policy iz even stronger than Mr, Attles’s. It's the indirect effect of rearmament on liv< ing and working standards that’s ‘sinking the Labor government, even though the working class has no faith in the Tories and the middle class has very little. :

On Page 2 of Parade you show five photos of a 4'53-year-old boy dropping a cat to see if it will land on its feet, which it does, said cat having grown enough to do the flip. They will accomplish this much younger, but how young does a child know? Please, why is such a small child given credit for anything but what any normal child that age has? Anyone knows he has been posed and was taught what to do by the photographer. However, it is not only the honesty of the subject I am driving at, but the act of.

compelling of the helpless young ‘animal to perform what it does not enjoy doing. Don’t believe dt¥ Look at the expression in that cat's eyes. :

When 1 lived in Chicago a few years ago, a similar picture or pictures of cat-dropping appeared in one of the Sunday papers. A few days later a letter was written to the public column telling the results. This picture had started a series of cat-dropping about the writer's neighborhood by children, injuring very young kittens which were toe young and helpless to protect themselves by the flip and being handled by such inexperienced individuals the little things suffered many leg Injuries and even broken bones. They did not choose a soft bed to drop the cats on, either. Children are naturally curious and inexperienced and therefore oftentimes cruel because they have so little knowledge of suffering they may infliet. « + « How much better to picture in one’s mind the little boy playing nicely with his pet, playing mouse. He wiggles a tos under a thick blanket and the cat goes through very comical antics hunting the mouse. The boy has fun and the cat has freedom. ~~Mrs. Elanor MeCormie, 811 X. 24th St.

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3 : ” ah Youn tiga ray B" | ‘Let "em Beef’ MR. EDITOR: I noties that all the papers are carry-

ing headlines ahotit a beef shortage, beef strike and beef black market. You would think by reading these headlines that we are all going to starve to death tomorrow if we do not let these cattle growers have their way and proceed to wreck the whole antf-inflation setup. Far as I am concerned, if these cattlemen want a fight, they could have one. I haven't been able to afford beef or steak in a long time anyway. We can eat eggs, poultry, fish, pork and cheese. There will be enough beef for peoPle who are ill and must have it. If the gentlemen want to turn their cattle out to grass and sit and twiddle their thumbs, let them. Winter is coming and there won’t be any grass, so they can buy hay and grain for the stock, and just go on letting them eat themselves into the poor house. > + * IF THE packing houses must lay off the beef dressers, let the government put them on an emergency committee to block the black market, We might as well pay the workers as the cattle barons. I am sick to death of these special groups saying they do not like to be regimented. I don’t like to work every day and have my pay frozen either. I don't like the chunk that comes out of my check for taxes either, but there are some things we have to do. I don’t know of any boy who likes the regimentation of the Army, Navy and Air Force either, but that doesn't stop the government from’ drafting more and more of them. . If it 1s a fight the cattlemen want, okay, let them find out the country is bigger than any group in it, —By F. M., Clty,

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LABOR. .. By Fred Perkins

New Wage Wrinkles Make Control Tough

WASHINGTON, June 8—Experts who worked on it both times say wage control is twice as hard now as in World War II. For that reason formulation of a general over-all policy by the Wage Stabilization Board is still in the talk

bb the alert ones, the care-

The Korean War did this. It sent prices of many

farm commodities well above the government support levels. And it enabled the government to get rid of large amounts of its holdings. A year ago, for example, the government had nearly $900 million Invested in cotton, either through loans or actual purchases. Today, all this cotton is gone at no loss to the government. This shows how fast things can change. Only a year ago Congress was voting an extra $2 billion for Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan's checking account with the U. B. Treasury for price-sup-port purposes.

» ~ ~ § WITH approximately $4 billion already tied up at that time A purchases and loans to hold up farm prices, it looked as if the old \ account limit of $4% billion was inadequate, + But the extra $2 billion was never touched, And today the old $4% billion limit appears are ffieial orf ein . who've been through the mill, say the situation could change

As of May 1, the government had only $2.2 billion tied up in commodities actually on hand and under loan. A year previous the total government investment in price-support loans and purchases was $3.9 billion, ~ » » AND actual spending by the Commodity Credit Corp. (the price-supporting agency) is down more than $1 billion. The Treasury reported that as of May 31, CCC had spent only $506 million since the beginning. of the fiscal year last July 1 as contrasted with total spending of $1.6 billion for the same period a year earlier, Today, the bulk of the government’s holdings are in corn, wheat and linseed oil—all necessary” and storable commodities. The governmeént has withdrawn its remaining stocks of vital tung oil and turpentine from the market, as well as a large quantity of rosin for stockpiling purposes. Butter, which threatened for a time to supplant dried eggs and potatoes as the chief price~ support headache, is no problem currently. The department has purchased only 221,000 pounds of butter for Pprice-

Aupport purchases this year, At

the same time last year, it had

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more than 137 million pounds on hand. nl » » AND the department, which dropped its egg price support program on Jan. 1, has been getting rid of its dried eggs at

a fairly rapid rate, through sales a at bargain prices. Now, government's stocks

of" ‘888s are down to 39

million pounds, only a little more than a third of the 108. million pounds it owned a year ago. The same is true of the 217 million pounds of Mexican canned beef which our government. bought in

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stage. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston asked for such

a policy a week ago. Main reason why the job

of controling wages is more difficult now than in World War II is the number of new wage wrinkles union leaders and, management men have worked out in the past six years. They are known by such names as productivity inannual improvement factors, and cost-of-living equalizers. There are also a number of “fringe” issues, such as pald vacations and pension plans, which some management men assert and labor men deny should be included in caleulation of wages. = » ~

ALSO, there is a much wider use of “escalator” clauses in

name for it, was going on in World War II, but the War Labor Board refused. to consider it. : All of these factors have to be fitted into a fair and eomprehensive national

George W. Taylor. The problem is not as simple be “indicated by

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“wage frepue”—announced Feb.

15 and still technically in ef-

fect — limiting wage increases to 10 per cent of the levels prevailing on Jan. 15, 1950. Many exceptions already have been made to that for> mula—all on the liberalizing side <~and the formula itself pledged that it would be fully reviewed hefore July 1 in the light of the cost of living. The Wage Board Wednesday disposed of what Mr. Taylor called “a piece of the problem” ~-approval of productivity raises as provided in the labor contracts of General Motors Corp. and' similar contracts made by other companies and unions before last Jan. 25. Eventually they will give about a million auto workers an additional 4 cents an hour. But employers are forbidden to raise prices on the basis of such wage hikes,

THIS board “action followed two sessions ' with Stabilizer

was wanted by some of the board members, particularly the labor members. Mr. Johne ston told the hoard that essen $ially he wants to stick to the 10 per cent limit on wage

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