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Make Our Dollars Work

THs CONGRESS will vote billions for military and economic aid to foreign countries — countries which we hope are arrayed on our side in the campaign to stop Communist aggression. : The billions already spent on this program, and the billions yet to be appropriated, are America's investment. in-world security—which includes American security. In the long run, if ‘the program successful in preventing another world war, it will be cheap investment for the returns to be gained. But no investment is cheap if it is not prident. Every dollar spent on foreign aid must be a dollar put to good purpose, from which a reasonable return may be expected—

in terms of world security. # . ” . ”. ” ”

BEFORE PASSING on an appropriation of $6.9 billion for foreign aid, the Senate voted to pend the bill to the Armed Services Committee for a good, hard look-—even though the Foreign Relations Committee already had approved the measure, after cutting it a billion dollars below the administration request. This was a logical action because the major share of

: > Be Ry ee rmed Services Committee is particularly equipped. was logical because, as Sen. Knowland of California said, the forelgn ald program needs to be integrated with our own defense program. If it is not integrated it becomes ineffective and wasteful. ; = Yet the petulant chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Connally of Texas, violently opposed this action. He said the vote to send the bill to another committee was a vote to “reject and affront and almost insult” the Foreign Relations Committee. ; 1t was Sen. Connally who prevented the two committees rom considering foreign aid jointly, which would have been the more efficient course. In a measure as complex and vital as this, calling for the best of available judgment, there is no room for a jurisditional dispute between committees. In over-riding the jealous Connolly, the Senate took a step toward making our foreign-aid investment pay off—in security dividends.

Alaska Is Booming

THE population of Alaska has increased 20 per cent since vthe 1050 census, making it the fastest growing region under the American flag, the new report of the Alaska Development Board discloses. iy Construction begins this month on the first pulp mill which will tap the enormous and almost untouched-forests of southeastern Alaska. This mill alone will provide thousands of new jobs, and there is room for many more like it. There will be more, too. Americans are flocking to Alaska faster than housing can be built for them. Tourist travel set a new record last summer and is expected to set

another this season. :

. » . ” . » ALASKA'S government, limited though it is in the absence of statehood, is functioning well. It has built up a treasury surplus, and has developed an efficient taxation system to cope with its mew problems. Its people are voting in good numbers, their primaries last week showed, and prospects are for a heated Repub-lican-Democratic contest in the fall. In view of all these things, it is difficult to imagine how anyone could say that Alaska is not ready for statehood. Yet the Alaska statehood bill lies on the shelf in the Senate, put there by a margin of one vote several weeks ago. It has been debated fully. It could be taken off that shelf and passed quickly if the Senate would recognize the facts, It is high time that was done.

Hey, Watch Out

SOMEBODY'D BETTER pass the word along to the Capitol police or we might wake up one morning with no quorum in Congress. "The police put the arm on a visitor and had him carted off to Gallinger Hospital, Washington's municipal head-feel-ing establishment. All the man was doing was throwing money around in the Capitol corridors. Is Gallinger Hospital big enough? Can a Congressman give his “aye” or “nay” from the confines of a restraining sheet? Can he do any log-rolling whilst fitted in one of those vests with no sleeves? Probably not. Somebody ought to warn the Capitol "police to quit pinching people for hurling money around. Some Congressmen may be pretty sorry, but they're all we have.

Formosa Paying Off

AJ. GEN.'GEORGE H. OLMSTED, the Defense Depart ment’s director of military assistance, and Harlan Cleveland of the Mutual Security Administration have given Congress a heartening report on Formosa. * "A year ago, Gen. Olmsted said, we had grave doubts the Nationalists could successfully defend their island against Communist attack. Today, our attitude is one of “well-founded confidence.” ; Mr. Cleveland painted a bright picture of social and al reform. There are fewer Communists on Formosa, said, than anywhere else in Asia.

8 GEN. OLMSTED and Mr. Cleveland speak from the pecord and with access to the facts. Their report should go & long way to refute some of the half-truths, innuendoes ‘and disortions that have clouded the air recently, The professional o of aid to Formosa bave worked over.

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FOOLED THEMSELVES . . . By Jim G. Lucas Army ‘Finds’ 2 New Divisions, Thanks to Mrs. Anna Rosenberg

WASHINGTON, May T — The Army has “found” two new divisions without adding a single GI to its muster rolls. It wae simply a matter of making the most of what it had. That's all there was to it. For years, the generals have believed a 1,500,000 man Army produced 18 divisions, no more, no less. A 20,000-man division added up to 60,000 men when you counted support troops. Another 300,000 were needed as instructors. That is, if you went by the books. Another large group was one of trained soldiers who were labeled replacements. They didn’t do much except stand by and wait to be called into the game. Last spring-under congressional pressure--Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, told Congress he'd try to do better. He said he might squeeze more divisions out of his manpower.

Took Him at Word HIS GENERALS didn’t think so. But Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, assistant defense secretary,

took him at his word, Starting {fn June with

Lt. Gen. Clovis Beyers, then Army personnel chief, she held almost daily conferences. She did a lot of needling. Bhe continued on Lt. Gen, Anthony McAuliffe, who took over when Gen. Beyers went to Korea as a corps commander. Bventually Gen, McAuliffe came up with a formula. It meant scrapping one of the Army's engine personnel policies. But it worked. Here's what happened: Mrs. Rosenberg questioned the need of the big replacement pool. Why not, she argued, pit those men in other divisions, thus increasing the number ready for D-Day? They'd continue to train. ‘Then, if replacements were needed, some divisions could be raided to fill up the holes. The Army finally agreéd. In doing 80, it came up with moré than 100,000 men who'd beén held in reserve. As a result, it could call up two more National Guard outfits—the 37th (Ohio) and 47th (Illinois) divisions. Neither call-up had been in the cards in the old 18-division plan. The Army had been convinced it couldn’t afford to support them. Each had between 7000 and 8000 men—riostly officers and non-coms. Men from replacement pools brought them up to strength. Ex-replacements became support troops.

Army Surprised

TO ITS SURPRISE, the Army found it hadn't, either, stripped itself of replacements.

/It probably has a surplus today—or as much a

surplus as the Army will ever admit it has. The Korean War has been a modified sort of universal military training. It isn't universal, of course, because men are called in quotas to fill specific needs. And it hasn't called many under 21. But it has provided a pool of 500,000 combat-trained soldiers. Some have stayed in the service. Those going out remain in the reserves for six years.

Thus, Army personnel people admit, they're

probably ‘in a healthier condition today than they've been for years. As of now, at least, they have a steady flow of men who've had the

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best kind of training—combat. And they have two divisions they hadn’t counted on. There are still problems. The Army has an annual 800,000-man turnover, and an annual loss of 6 per cent. More than half of its men are serving two-year hitches. It's starting a drive to persuade more to stay in service.

Word of Praise DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT LOVETT recently told Congress: “Mrs, Rosenberg has done an extraordinary job. We have two additional divisions out of the manpower set up for 18 divisions. That is a pretty good test. We have made much more effective use of them. But there is a long way still to go. It just takes daily pressure and drive to keep on top of it, because it can slide out {from under you . ..” No one knows that better than Mrs. Rosénberg. She's still driving. Right now, she wants to squeeze out another division, for a total of 21. Don't bet she won't.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

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Will Go Before Congress Soon

WASHINGTON, May T7-Congress will be called upon to approve an entirely new ‘entity in Américan government when the new constitution of Puerto Rico comes up for a vote. From that tiny island, with its vast population, has come one of the greatest statesmen of a Latin people to explain the new setup, which makes the island neither a full-fledged state nor yet a territory of the United States. He is Luis Munoz Marin, first elected governor of the island. With his native colleagues, Gov. Marin is the architect of this new constitution. It has been overwhelmingly approved by Puerto Rican voters. An expert political orator, in both English and Spanish, Gov. Marin mounted the rostrum’ at a National Press Club luncheon in his honor and explained the details of this new governmental device. b

Freedom in Writing : HE EXPECTS congressional approval of it before the 82d Congress adjourns. His description of the constitution was summed up by saying it merely puts into writing the freedom and democracy which already prevails and permits “the law to catch up with the facts.” It will give Puerto Rico complete autonomy’ plus U. 8. favor and protection. This new status will be in a class of its own, differing in many important respects from Hawall, Alaska, Guam, Samoa and the Virgin Islands. It will have as much local self-government as any of the 48 states and far more than Washington, D. C., which has none. It provides a commonwealth status for the island, which will support its own government but not be assessed any federal taxes—at the present time, Gov. Marin explained all the local taxes are now needed to solve the {sland problems, which have produced two of the most awful slum areas in the otherwise beautiful city of San Juan. Already housing projects are making inroads in cleaning these up. The islanders expect the constitution to give all of their efforts a new fillip. .

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MR. EDITOR! Henry Ford once sald “history is a lot of bunk” and no truer words were ever spoken. The. reason is, of cburse, that the historians always tell the times when our country was in the right but omit mentioning anything about the times when we were in the wrong. It is something like an obituary when all the good points are told about the deceased but they fail to mention his streaks of cussedness. Over in Russia the historians are telling the people about how Russians invented almost every machine on the face of the earth. Hitler had his historians and so did Mussolini and now we have 42,000 government propagandists on the public payroll who are writing Fair Deal history. . Incidentally, that compares to 85,000 people it took to run the entire government before F.D.R. became President. However, 42,000 paid propagandists haven't even been enough to cover up all the scandal, communism, confusion and corruption of the Fair Deal. However, to get back to history, F.D.R. had one written just before his fourth term election. It had just 80 pages which made it easy to read

and was distributed in England and to many in

RETALIATION . . . By Ludwell Denny

Capitol Opinion

Backs Dulles’

Proposal to Warn Russ, China

WASHINGTON, May 7-—Majority opinion here supports John Foster Dulles’ proposal in Paris yesterday that the Allies warn Russia and Red China they will fight any armed aggression in the Far East. Officials are not as certain as Mr. Dulles that such a warning would automatically prevent war. “If a potential aggressor knew in advance that his aggression would bring that answer, then I am convinced that he would not commit aggression,” Mr. Dulles told the French Political Science Institute following his conference with Gen. Dwight BEisenhower. But there is widespread agreement here that it is dangerous to leave the Kremlin in any doubt regarding the policy of retaliation.

Why Warning Withheld

FAILURE to issue a formal advance warning Is due to the delicate Korean truce talks, the negotiations with Russia concerning a Big Four German conference and the feeling of some of our Allies that action now would be premature. American-British-French agreement “in principle” was obtained hére in January at the military conference on Far East defense, when Prime Minister ‘Winston Churchill was visiting President Truman. A series of official statements were made at that time as a hint to Stalin. “A broad harmony of view has emerged from these discussions, for wé recognize that the overriding need to counter the Communist threat in that area (Far East) transcends such divergencies as there are in our policies toward China,” according to the Truman-Churchill statement. :

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Norris City, Il, the Btandard Oil Co. had what the industry calls a tank farm-a layout of giant tanks to store oil by the millions of barrels. And no oil to put in ‘em. That was in 1049. A fast thinking broker talked Cargill, Inc, of Minneapolis, Minn., one of the world’s .greatest grain companies, into buying the layout tof hold corn. 11 those

they'd hold maybe 5 million bushels. Bo Cargill bought the tank farm for $225,000 and sent its lawyer, Watson B. Grimes, over to the: ture Department © to see if it wanted to store any . corn. It did. And how it did Corn was running out of its ears, - Mr. Grimes made a deal on S ©. the spot for the taxpayers to

ing 5 million bushels of corn into the tanks, keeping it for

out again. Then Cargill went to work with its sand-

blasters, cleaning the oil dregs

British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was more specific: “It should be understood that the intervention by Chinese Communists in southeast Asia—even if they were called voltinteers—would create a situation no less menacing than that which the United Nations met and faced in Korea. In such an event the United Nations, I trust, would be equally solid to resist ky

Prompt Action

MR. CHURCHILL told Congress that British response to any breach of a Korean truce would be “prompt, resolute and effective.” And he praised American refusal “to allow Chinese anti-Communists on Formosa to be invaded and massacred from the mainland.” Despite these gener:lities, however, Mr. Churchill, when he later came under attack in the British House of Commons, was gable to deny that he made any specific commitments. Would Mr. Churchill, in event of further provocation, have Britain "join America in a retaliatory sea .and air war directly against the Red aggressor? The answer apparently depends on whether he would carry Parliament with him. At the moment, he is less strong than he was in January.

Ask for Help

THE FRENCH are interested only .in IndoChina. They are asking for help, not offering it. American military experts share Mr. Dulles’ opinion that Western land forces should not be committed on the Asian mainland, or at a time and place of the enemy's choosing; that any retaliatory action should be by Allied sea and air forces, where and when we choose.

Making production keep pace with reproduce tion has long been the bane of the Puerto Ricans, Gov. Marin reported that for the first time the birthrate has remained static. He cited Puerto Ricans fighting alongside Americans in Korea as being one possible causde. Also the immigration to New York City has been rising steadily upward. Puerto Ricans enjoy the same rights of unrestricted movement as any other Americans.

‘Good Americans’ “IT IS A Latin American country, composed of good Americans,” Gov. Marin explained, “Under the new constitution the present U. 8, defense bases will be retained and it will be also a eivic base for understanding better both North and South Americans. For here they can meet on equal terms, neither being the guest of the other. “There will be no red carpet, red tape or red herring. In fact Puerto Rico is the most redless country you can find.” » The island already is being used to train Point Four personnel, he-said. Here they have the know-how, good will and democratic ideals that are needed to demon-

. strate how an under-developed country can be

taught to. help itself by modern American

methods.

‘Deed to the House’ “APPROVAL of our new constitution will be like getting a deed to a house,” Gov. Marin declared. “It then becomes a home.” Paul A. Coburn writing in the May issue of the Pan-American Union magazine “Americas” summéd up the situation as follows: “Approval of the commonwealth status will not. of course, constitute a grant of democracy. it the Congress of the United States could do that, it would undoubtedly be glad to pass a bill at the present gession giving it to the whole world. “What it will grant is formal recognition that the Puerto Ricans have achieved democracy and. are entitled to exercise it.”

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the Armed Forces and was called, “A Short History of the United States.” It only took 20 pages to tell all of the U. 8. history up until 1932 and the other 60 pages were for the years F.D.R. was President with special stress placed on F.D.R. and his wife. While no complaints were heard from his fawning New Dealers, some Republicans actually claimed this history was distorted. Historians, of course, have quoted froth economists to show why Wilson was not responsible for the depression after he had his war. Well much the same can be said for economists. They also make out a case for their employer, be it government, businessman, farmer or union. I mention all these things because of a diatribe against me by E. W. Urfer who quotes fon: economists tb prove the sanctity of Wilson and claims it is a distortion of history to mention Wilson's war, Roosevelt's war and Truman’s war. He says the historians don’t tell it that way. Well, after all, Mr. Urfer, who was it that took us into these wars? Was it the men who write history or was it the warmakers who have taken us into three useless, fultile Democratic wars and are responsible for the mess we are in today? Of course, wars with other names might not smell so rank, but why shouldn't they be called Wilson’s war, Roosevelt's war and Truman's war when their philosophy and government wouldn't work without war? —By C. D. C., Terre Haute ‘I'm Hegrisick’ MR. EDITOR: Congratulations, Mr. Oscar W. Cooley, for your magnificent article in the Sunday Times, Apr. 27. Yes, our country is in grave danger from within and from without. Let me say we got into this mess because our leaders perjured their oath of office to defend the Constitution against domestic as well as foreign enemies, We need but examine the facts to see that this 1s true. The politicians of this country have embarked upon a murderous and suicidal policy in order to maintain an obsolete economic order with taxes and war. I don't know how the rest of the people feel about this Korean invasion but I am heartsick over it. —Charles W. Burton, 911 E. Maryland St.

Lobbyists’ Government MR. EDITOR: Recently there Was an article in the paper regarding a Mrs. Edwards, crusader for better government. Keep up that crusade, Mrs. Edwards, you may be a factor to form anew the government of the people. Many seem to have a very bad memory, We seem to have forgotten that GOP does not stand for good old party at all, but still stands for that great and very wonderful cause, Abraham Lincoln's government of the people, and we so-called GOP’ers have let that government of the people perish from the earth, and in its place we have a government of lobbyists—and where we have a government of lobbyists, the product is factional laws. If we have not the ability, plus principle, to make laws fair to all concerned in those laws, we should not ask to go to the legislature. There seems to be only one hope, more women in the legislature. I do not believe women legislators would ever vote to license lobbyists. ~The Traitor, Clty

NATURE TAKES COURSE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

U.S. Corn Supply ‘Cooks’—Also Taxpayers

= WASHINGTON, May T7—At.

tanks with grain, said he, and .

* pay Cargill $622,500 for pump-

one yeat, and then shipping it

from the tanks at a cost of the

$150,000 more. By Sept. 1 the Commodity Credit Corp., of which we taxpayers are the sole stockhold-

ers, was shipping corn to Nor-\

ris .City by the trainload and the dozens of trainloads. There soon was such a_glut of corn there that an embarga had to be declared on further shipments. Then it rained. Frantically Cargill siphoned corn into its oil tanks and then, I regret to report to my fellow stockholders, nature took its course. The damp graln got warm. Then hot. And by winter an inspector went out to Norris City for a look. As it happéned that day, a blizzard was in progress and the temperature outside the tanks was 14 below zero. Very unusuai, said he, shivering at the memory. So he opened up some of those tanks, climbed in with hid thermometer, and’ discovered that the temperatures of the corn ranged from 105 to 115 degrees. It had been cooking for months; it still had some more months to simmer.

government still hadn't ordered out its corn. Cargill sent in a bill under its contract, anyhow; for $37,500 for removing it. The following year the government wanted its corn, This time .Cargill actually did ship it. We stockholders paid another $37,500 for the job. Trouble was now that about two-thirds of our 5 million bushels had cooked so long it had deteriorated. Loss on that nobody knows exactly, Or even inexactly. : All this is a matter of record now before the Senate Agriculture Committee. So I got to

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talking to Sen. Edward J. Thye (R. Minn.), who is a bigs time farmer himself at Northe

‘field, Minn.,, when he isn’t here

making laws. I wanted to know what went on in those tanks. Were we making millions of pounds of mush? The Senator said that a while back, when he was here on official business, his farm was in charge of the hired man. When he got back, he noticed immediately a peculiar smell. Hot grain, his nose told him. Sure enough, there in a storage bin was 300 bushels. The

Senator stuck his hand in it.

Hot and mushy.- He rushed to town for some disinfecting material. He turned the grain and he fumigated it, but he was too late. Had to feed it to his chickens, t .: Had it gone a little longer, he added, it would have become an evil-smelling woup, suitable only for fertilizing the fields, Moisture did the dirty work. The loss was farmer Thye’s. « ~ Considerably different somehow from what happened at

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