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/ s- Thursday, August 23, 1951 / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE ■ V t i % V % k 4 ♦ ► ^ B * ) ) 'I * Pajre Sere* President's Aid Program Would Cost S. C. $65,450,000 Columbia, Aug. 18.—If the eight and a half billion-dollar foreign aid and military assistance program proposed by President Truman should win approval by congress, the taxpayers of South Carolina will be called upon to pay an esti mated $65,450,000 as their share of its cost, according to studies made by the South Carolina State Cham ber of Commerce and released in Iheir statement today. The State Chamber pointed out that the President’s foreign aid pro gram, gs all other federal spending programs, must be financed by taxes collected from the people of the 48 states, who are the sole source of all federal tax income. The Chamber further pointed out that South Carolina’s share of $65,- 450,000 is nearly twice the amount to be paid for salaries to public school teachers in our state during the coming year. Making another •comparison. South Carolina’s share figures to be $31.06 for every man, woman and child in the state. As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE Special to The Chronicle. President Truman believes that ffood control in the mid-west de pends upon the choice of congress men. He has called for the election of more “forward-looking liberal- minded members of congress.” The President is highly critical of “shortsighted people who can’t see beyond their purely local in terests.” He is referring in this*quo- tation to this summer’s disastrous Missouri-Kansas floods. He criticizes congressional re fusal to authorize flood control dams on the Kansas river and its tributaries. Truman’s views were expressed in a letter to C.I.O. President Philip Murray who asked him to create an emergency commission to draw up a river control program for the Missouri valley. • • • • • There may be a new price turn upward. If so, there will be two reasons: government defense spend ing at about $50 billion a year and cutback of civilian production. More money in the economy and less goods act together to create' a spiral. All this is in the face of Truman’s description of the bill to amend and extend the defense pro duction act of 1950—the bill that’s supposed to constrain inflation—as “the worst I ever had to sign.” • • • • • Neither Senator John Butler of Maryland nor Senator McCarthy, his supporter, have reason to be too happy over a document issued by a senate subcommittee on the I election tactics by which Butler defeated Senator Millard Tydings. Evidence is clear that a smear cam paign was conducted against Tyd- ings and the Maryland voters were told that the Tydings committee report on the state department loy alty cases showed a sympathy with Communism. The truth is, Tidings refused to convict accused persons on insufficient evidence and was punished for his fair-mindedness i with a “despicable back-street type of campaign” by Butler. • • • • • * The two Harrys — Truman and Byrd — are the outstanding leaders of the dissident factions in the J< Democratic party. Byrd is the voice: of the rebel Southerners, and es-1 pecially bitter to Truman is Byrd’s continual harping upon alleged fees^ receive<l by Democratic Chairman! William Boyle after successfully; petitioning for certain clients loans from the R.F.C. Byrd is remanding a thorough investigation of Boyle’s activities and his ouster from the party leadership if he is found, guilty of any political influence on the R.F.C. to obtain the loans. Byrd, as if assuming Boyle’s guilt, declares, “The time has come when this moral deterioration at Washington must stop and those guilty of such acts must be exposed and punished. Satirizing the Southern hospital- 1 ity to Northern G.O.P. overtures, i the Detroit News recently carried a 1 cartoon, showing a composite Dixiecat-Republican exclaiming to a psychiatrist, “I’m all mixed up, Doc! When I am hating Truman, I hate myself.” • • • • • Some Republican legislators are blaming the defection from honor of the 90 West Point cribbers upon Truman’s administration. • • • • • Besides Truman’s $10-billion de-! mand for new revenue, foreign aid authorization and regular appro-: priations, congress still has on the! agenda: Formal termination of the war with Germany; statutory banning of exports of military items to Rus sia and satellites and cessation of aid to countries making such ex ports; authorization of transfer of 24 destroyer escorts to France, Den mark, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil and | Great Britain, which the house has | authorized; $5.8 billion dollar pro- 1 gram of construction of military, I bases and facilities; legislation to • control interstate criminal activi- ! ties. • • • • • There’s a report that in 1948 Sen ator Kefauver condemned all sen ate and house subcommittees. He declared he favored abolishing alii such committees to keep the vau deville actors out of congress and save the taxpayers money. He de-1 dared that these committees had to do something sensational and grab headlines. Truman Set To Reopen Fight For Strong Controls Washington, Aug. 22.—The White House said today President Tru man has decided definitely to ask congress for stronger price control powers and hopes to send a mes sage to the Capitol by the week end. Word yesterday that Mr. Truman was considering reopening this is sue — only three weeks after con gress passed a bill he didn’t like — got a cool reception from some key legislators. Two senators voiced displeasure in the senate yesterday at the re port then that Mr. Truman might reopen his fight for stronger con trols. SAY •1 SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE” "SMALL BUSINESS” By r. WILSON HARDER Senate delay on House $7 bil lion tax boost bill, causes con cern among bureaus and offic ials. Every day of delay is just another day the public will hear more about the squandering of American wealth. * * * House vote on record-setting tax boost was~ ' clcse; could have be?a vot ed dawn ::nd a jrtn - pur '.san a.. .:. ”e p r e- * * in the Senate trend is lass and less to vote on issues C. w. Harder on straight party lines. * * • Thereby hangs cause of an guish in certain quarters. Not only are many Senators voting on a non-partisan basis, but Sen ators are Investigating. Mac- Arthur Incident shows that. * * • Senators are also becoming more and more concerned with the soundness of the American economy. At one time lip service was paid American small busi ness but now Senators are dig ging deep into facts. * * * Sen. John Sparkman (Ala. D) as chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, has launch ed searching investigations of bureaucratic moves that threat en business existence. * * * Nightmare of many bureau crats is thaf before Senators act on new taxes they will probe. * * * If so, hesds may roll. As Sen. Estes Kefauver demonstrated, it is dangerous to try and fool an aroused Senator. * * * Last week, this column report ed that ECA release No. 2300 announced $7,700,000 gift to Brit ish to help develop her African colonies. The release reported that coal and manganese mines, ©Nitloatl rtSmtlM * iDdtvtaSwrt Butlnm and other projects would be de veloped with American money. * • * It Is now learned how money was spent. Of the $7,7M,000, 14,261,000 has been in tobacco given to the British African col onies and the balance leaa than $34 million, is food. * * * Such disclosures could wreck plans to saddle American people with billions of additional taxes. * • * Some Senator is bound to ask why Americans should pay tax es to send millions of dollars of tobacco to British Africa. * * * The letters FTC are supposed to stand for the Federal Trade Commission. Many now say they stand for the Federal Tweedle- deedee Commission. • * * So far, Commission has refus ed to use its power to combat monopoly price cutting to de stroy competition. * * • But this does not mean that in a dire emergency the FTC is incapable of risiqg to the great heights of a mole hilL * * * In Weymouth, Mass, a Lincoln and Paul Mathews are co-part ners in a shoe business. They called their little firm the Math ews Guild. * * * But no longer. FTC held that the term guild, instead of com pany, or some other term, might lead some people to think it was an association instead of a com mercial enterprise. * * * Americans can take great comfort in the ferocious vigi lance of the FTC. 0 * * Unhindered, monopolies may bankrupt 400,000 independent American businesses. * • * But Americans are assured If any small outfit threatens to un dermine the American system by calling their small company a guild instead of a company, the FTC attacks at dawn. L 5. C. Farmers Told To Hold Cotton Crop Columbia, Aug. 20.—South Caro lina farmers were advised today to hold their cotton off the market and wait for higher prices. Clemson College Extension Ser vice, State Farm Bureau and other agricultural groups held a meet ing here to launch an educational program aimed at aiding cotton farmers to get better prices for their expected 1951 bumper crop. Farmers were urged to store their cotton until the pi'esent price slump is relieved. They would take advantage of the Commodity Cred it Cotton Loan Program to tide them over until they are ready to sell. State Agriculture Commissioner J. Roy'Jones reported that there is amjjTe warehouse space in the ‘ state. He said storage space is available now for 441,000 bales of 1 cotton and more warehouses are being approved daily. Fa W. Blease of the Production Marketing Administration said 89; banks in the state were now ap proved to make commodity credit loans. President E. H. Agnew of the State Farm Bureau placed, the blame for the current price situa tion on the farmers themselves. A lot of emphasis was placed on the need for 16 million bales in 1951, he said, and “we swallowed the hook by doing such a good job of it.” Agnew predicted that if only half j the state’s cotton farmers used the loan program and stored their cot- 1 ton, prices would be stimulated by, Christmas. 1952 PoliticoTTalk Picks Up In Volume, But Still Indefinite Washington—The 1952 presiden tial election still is more than a year away. But the political ex perts already are beating gums about events ahead. But they’re being pretty cagey about it—they have to—because the future is uncertain. As it stands now, the picture can be summed up briefly: Republicans — Gen Eisenhower and Sen. Taft of Ohio are the two most prominently mentioned for the Republican nomination. Taft is running for it as hard as he can. No one can predict at the moment what Eisenhower will do; he may want no part of it; or he may think he’s more needed in uniform because of a war or because he thinks his job of re building Eurolpe’s defense isn’t finished. Democrats — President Truman j has given no hint of whether he’ll! seek re-election. Apparently await-{ ing his decision, most of his fellow' Democrats have remained pretty] mum on any other choice of their | own, if any. They don’t seem to have a wide! choice. Given most mention as pos sible Democratic candidates if Mr. Truman doesn’t run are these three: Sen. Douglas of Ulionis and the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Vinson and Associate Jus tice Douglas. The Supreme Court is not a place for developing political at tractiveness and the two justices don’t have much popular basking: and as for Sen. Douglas—the Presi dent is reported to dislike him in tensely. The experts ridicule any sugges tion that if Mr. Truman doesn’t run he might, if he wanted to, be able to persuade Eisenhower to, take the Republican nomination. Republican backers of the Gen eral claim to know he is a Repub-1 lican and would run only on the, Republican ticket. Only last week] the President said he doesn’t think the General is a candidate for the Democratic nomination although that doesn’t rule out the chance he ! might try to persuade the General to be the candidate. If Eisenhower ran as a Demo-] crat a lot of Republicans backing] him now as their candidate would ! be badly embarressed. They could not very well campaign against him later. From what he’s said in the past, Eisenhower doesn’t seem very close to Mr. Trumans thinking on do mestic affairs. The President has urged much wider economic secur ity for everyone, for instance, through a National Medical Health Program. While he was still active as pres ident of Columbia University, Eisenhower once said people look ing for security could find it in jail, a remark which brought him criticism, even from his own stu dents at Columbia. But the General is much closer to the President’s views on foreign affairs than he is to Sen. Taft’s. The General and the’ President both want strong military alliance with Europe, backed up by a lot of American aid. Taft, from aw'ay back^ hasn’t been very warm about - 'c!05e T 'Tu? r ups with Europe as a few items from his record w r ill show: He { was against lend-lease before we got into World War II, although he supported it after we did; he was against sending 50 destroyers to Britain even when she was backed to the wall by Nazi Ger many; he opposed the legislation which made us an active part of the United Nations; and he opposed) the Atlantic Pact which put us into the present alliance with Eu rope as part of which Eisenhbwer is now in Europe, trying to build up western defenses. Still, the experts don’t seem to think the following could happen, even though anything seems pos- sigle in politics: If Mr. Truman doesn’t run and Taft cinches the Republican nomi nation, Eisenhower might accept the Democratic nomination because he differs - so much from Taft on foreign affairs. No Word On Stand Iran Taking About Final Oil Ultimatum Teheran, Iran, Aug. 22.—A Brit ish ultimatum to Iran in their oil dispute talks expired today with out an Iranian reply to the latest proposal by Chief British Negoti ator Richard Stokes. The ultimatum expired at 3 p.m. (T:30 a.m. EDT). However, the Iranian cabinet and the government's mixed Parlia mentary Oil commission were meeting in a special emergency session to draft their reply. The meeting was held at the home of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. (This dispatch was telephoned to the United Press London bureau after expiration of the deadline. There was no immediate indication whether Britain had granted Iran an additional time extension be cause of the fact the meeting was still in progress). Stokes’ ultimatum demanded that Iran reply to a compromise pro posal under which the country’s nationalized oil fields would he put under supervision of a British gen eral manager. The British negotiating mission was prepared to break off talks and return home. British said Stokes would tell Mossadegh his departure plans tonight unless Iran presented an acceptable proposal in the oil dispute. Western observers saw virtually no hope that Iran would yield to the British demand. Stokes had informed Mossadegh by letter this morning that his del egation would return to London immediately if Iran did not accept the British compromise by noon. The collapse marked the second time since Iran decided last March to nationalize British oil interests that negotiations for a settlement have failed. The first effort, two months ago, lasted less than a week. The deadlock centered around Britain’s compromise plan for a British general manager to run the industry in Iran. “There is no point in continuing the talks unless the principle of a general manager is accepted,” a British spokesman said. Polio Coses In State Less Than In 1950 Columbia, Aug. 20.—Sixty-eight polio cases have been reported in South Carolina during the 1951 polio season, compared to 217 caa- es at the same date last year, the National Infantile Paralysis Foun dation said today. Spartanburg county has been the hardest hit, reporting 21 cases and two deaths, Mrs. Genevieve Brown and Clemson College Foohball Player Jim Calvert died from the dread disease. The only other fa tality in the state was reported in Greenville. The national total to date show* 8,366 cases compared to 8,733 at tlje same date last year, the Founda tion said. These figures back up statements by the health experts and Foundation officials that the nation as a whole has experienced a relatively light polio year. However, Paul F. Hungerford, South Carolina director of the Foundation, said the cases in South Carolina seem to be more severe this year and have more lasting effects. 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