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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington Digest American 'Know How' Aids In Development of Nations , By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON—When the various departments of the gov ernment began to gather data for the President to be used as the basis far preliminary legislation for his “bold new program” of es tablishing the machinery of world cooperation for the develop ment of undeveloped countries, it was a surprise to many to learn than many of these agencies are by no means starting from scratch. The department of agriculture of course. Las had the longest and most successful record in this line—a good 10 years. In 1939 it had become afl too evident that in a world where the free flow of trade was threatened by rising anti-democratic hegemonies, we had to look to our nearer neighbors for many things which we did not produce at home, and which they could, but did not, produce themselves. Congess was quite willing to authorize the department of agri culture to lend some of its techni cians to other coun tries and to help such countries as were willing to co operate to set up agricultural s t a- tions for the pur- p o s e of putting American techni ques into action. For those who may have ques tioned the expendi ture in this connec- BAUKHAGE tion, there is some satisfaction in not ing that the experiment paid, from the standpoint of all con cerned including the peoples of the countries involved. On the average the Tinted States puts out one dol lar lor each three dollars spent by the other countries. In 1943 Latin American countries were ex pending $600,000. In 1948 they in vested $1,178,000. The countries in which the statims are located, an official of the department explained, soppUes "land, buildings, asso ciate technicians, office and service personnel, equipment and supplies available within the country, and funds for op erating expenses.” The United States supplies the “know-how" and the specialized equipment necessary. The plan pays out, the depart ment explains, this way. Assistance in raising crops such as cocoa, cof fee, certain fibres, medical plants, tea and rubber, has increased the revenue from them. They are prod ucts in demand in this country, we don’t or can’t raise. The dol lars they earn are turned into many manufactured products which these countries purchase from us. In tiie last special report issued by me American military govern ment on the Licensed Press of Ger many, we have an example of an other type of experience which me United States has had in attempt ing to provide me "know-how” for a foreign nation. Some of the seeds which have been planted and which it is hoped will grow, thanks to the application of American techniques, are those which should produce a free and democratic press in Germany. It would be somewhat rash to try to teach me Germans all about me publishing business. After all Gutenburg, who invented printing, was a German, and ever since his time the Germans have taken me lead in many of me mechanical processes connected with me pub lishing business. But when me American occupation forces moved in, mere was nothing mat resem bled a free press in Germany, and if mere had been it hardly could have flourished under me condi tions which men existed. Even to day me best we can expect is a “nearly free press” and mat is what it admittedly is. In me United States zone and in Berlin mere are now 56 news papers licensed by me United States. These papers own a cooper atively - operated news agency. These publications are not, and never have been, “pre-censored.” They are carefully read by me military government officials, and some have been suspended, after warning. But these occasions have been few. The mission of me military gov ernment in me field of me press, as planned and applied to date, has for its first point: "To help democratically- minded and trustworthy Ger man publishers and editors to build an objective, free, demo cratic press in me U. S. Zone in Germany and to prevent me resurgence of Nazism, militar ism, racism, pan-Germanism, or nationalism in me news paper and news agency field." The special report explains that controls which were imposed when me papers were first established in order to conserve scarce mater ials, supplies, and equipment and in order to train editors, publishers, and journalists in me tradition of a democratic, free press have been progressively lifted so mat for two years at least me U. S. zone has had a "nearly” free press. The eventual goal has been from me start an absolutely free press to me extent mat mis condition obtains in me United States and Great Brit ain or other democratic countries. What have been me results? In me view of me military govern ment: “Democratically-minded and trustworthy German editors ami publishers have established a solid core of Independent and democratic newspapers In me U. S. area of occupation. They have been encouraged to main tain their independence and ob jectivity against all attacks and to resist me encroachment of government or of other spec ial Interest groups and protect their right to bring me news of Germany and me world to me people of Germany and to com ment upon it." The question mat remains, how ever, is this: when me controls and me existing regulations are re moved, will me Germans graduate from a “nearly free press” which me Americans have encouraged to a genuinely free press which Amer icans consider an essential of democracy? Will me Germans, who for centuries have accepted control and regimentation from above, be able to start out afresh and make use of me democratic techniques to which we have at tempted to expose mem? That is one kind of “know-how” it is hard to pass on. • • • Haylift Whips Winter Blizzards The winter storms which attacked me range country and presented what looked for awhile like a major tragedy to me cattle industry didn’t turn out to be as bad as some people feared, but it might have been con siderably worse if it hadn’t been for what happened in me Pacific islands in World War II, The Japs used to say mat me American’s most terible weapon was me bulli dozer and, of course, me Sea-Bees wrote epic history on a clean slate. The same might be said of me air force, so far as me snowbound ranchers, especially those in Neva da were concerned. There me hay- lift took them over me first, worst hump of me storms. The Great Plains always have furnished hazards unknown to other parts of me Norm American continent. As C. Warren Thornwaite, soil conservation expert of me department of agriculture says of me Great Plains: “In a desert, you know what to ex pect of me climate and plan accordingly. The same is tr e of humid regions. Men have been badly fooled by the semi- arid regions because they are sometimes humid, sometimes arid, and sometimes a cross be tween me two. Tet it is pos sible to make allowances for this, too, once me climate Is understood." One of me worst blows in ths winter storms was struck in th^ southwestern part of me area af ; fected, southern Nevada and northi em Arizona, where ordinarily ther^ is all-winter feeding. There arq low altitude ranges mere which make it unnecessary, under normal conditions, to provide winter feed When these were cut off mere just wasn’t any feed available. The early settlers who struck west were suspicious of me plains. They didn’t realize mat me gama and me buffalo grass which cow ered those plains and provide^ plenty of sustenance for me mil lions of buffalo which roamed men; unmolested, could resist drought a: efficiently as it does. For miles mere would be no water in sight to me man in me prairie schooners, so they took for granted me land was not liveable and pushed on tc me coast. The grass, as long as it was mere—and me buffalo were good conservationists and didn’t overgraze it—reduced me nm-oft after rains and prevented erosion. But me first adventurers had westward-ho written in their hats anyhow, and they headed towarc the coast. Then came me farmers. The cattlemen were driven further west, me plow broke me plains and dug me dust bowl. But agriculture is a closer-kni- industry now and it had manj means of assistance besides th< army upon which to draw to hell combat the recent blizzards—hell which me early plainsmen didn 1 ' have; me department of agricul ture had its organization; me for esters had equipment easily pressed into service. AIDS BLIND HOUSEMAN Seeing Eye dog Moki. still has functions to perform, even if his master, Robert Coleman, has taken to horseback riding. Here Moki stops horse and rider at a traffic light in Chicago. Cole man’s three-gaited mount is Northern Star WALLOWS IN MEDICINE . . . Taking his medicine with obvious relish is five-year old Kenneth A. Curtis, Jr., who Is suffering from nephrosis, a kidney ail ment. A doctor prescribed water melons as a possible cure. REMEMBER HIM? . . . This is former President Herbert Hoov er as he appeared before con gress to testify In behalf of me proposal to cut down expenses of government. He heads a com mission studying me subject and has made many recommen- datiocs. CROSSES POLE . . . First Lient. Margaret C. Flynn, Philadelphia nurse now serving with the air force in Alaska, has won me dis tinction of being the first woman ever to cross the North pole. She went along in a B-50 bomber. The cadets may never have be lieved it, but women are quar tered at West Point now as evi denced by this photo of WAG’S Jewel Strutzenberg of Chicago, (kneeling) and Marjorie Hart of California, Mo., as they inspect me grave of Molly Cor bon. Rev olutionary war heroine. BENNY -SPONSORED MARCH COMES TO END ... Ye old covered wagon, shown above, arrived in Washington with a carload of pennies, the end of a coast-to-coast trip sponsored by Jack Benny to raise funds for the March of Dimes campaign. Left to right: Rep Helen Gahagan Douglas of California, acting i^ behalf of Benny, presents check to Assistant Treasury Secretary Edward H. Foley, Jr., as Janet Glenn. 10. who was stricken with polio last year, bolds Benny's violin WARILY WE ROLL ALONG! Never underestimate me driving power of a woman on a long distance vacation trip by auto. She will proclaim me “we-will-just- take-it-easy” motif and subscribe to all your notions on me folly of confusing a flivver with a jet plane. But let her take the wheel, and you are in for a long interval of blurred landscapes, intricate weavings and hair-raising attempts to bounce over hill and dale, with minimum time out for deep breaming. * We are back from me Southland convinced mat me Little Woman is at heart potential material for me Berlin airlift. Our recollections consist largely of an unending series of cries such as "What time do we get going tomorrow?” If we leave at dawn we could make Wal- lakapatiak,” “A few hours of night driving won’t matter” and “Look at me map again; is it only another 400 miles we have to make in me next half hour?” • Looking back, the journey of some 2,500 miles seems to have been a battle for highway pri orities, a ceaseless striving to pass slower-moving vehicles, a jockeying for position on four- lane highways, frequent in quiries of “Do yon smell some thing burning?” and a six-day denunciation of southern driv ers who seldom do better than 20 miles an hour and to whom our hat is now off in tribute and ( admiration. * Our impatience with mem was great for a time. They move for nobody and, by all standards of northern drivers, they are prac tically parking with me motor run ning. The wife still minks they would do better between given points by pogo stick. But we con tinue, three days back home, t« have a sensation of having spenl six days passing me car ahead on a roller coaster. It has affected us strangely. At breakfast our firsi day home we inquired anxiously how much further ahead of us lunch was. CUUR'l WOULD PROTECT SNAKES . . . Usually It’s the ether way 'round, but a Yorkville, N. Y., court had Zorita (above), night club entertainer, arraigned on ASPCA charges mat she was crael to snakes by placing scotch tape on the reptiles as they did their act. She is shown here with her pet python, "Elmer,” which Is being petted by Iter 20- month old daughter. Tawny. Ball was set at $1,500 and me snakes con fiscated. "Elmer” is a 10-foot-long rock python. HAS HIGH HOOPER ON THE NETWORK ... It looks easy enough when you watch an expert like Juan Montalvo toss a 25-foot net 40 feet nut into the briny. But Juan has been doing this since he was 12 on his native Cabras island. Puerto Rican fishermen make these nets from five spools of nylon at a cost of about $16. When expertly handled, me net will cover a large area, trapping mullet, red snapper and other small fish which travel in schools. Using it is a definite art, however, and the beginner would have little luck with me net. At lunch we sought a scale of miles to measure me distance to dinner and see if we could find a shorter route. • - A memory mat lingers is of trying to read me metal signs marking great historic battle points in the Civil war from the auto window. All me way down the best we could do was to get me first three or four words like “At mis crossing General Lee ...” • It is good to be home. “What are you squawking about?” demands the Little Woman. "We stopped to eat and sleep, didn’t we?” (We are not so sure. Our impression is mat we just reached out of me car win dow with a meathook and made a snatch at passing mules.) P.S.—She insists she never did over 50 per hour, as permitted, and mat we are just a high-wheeled cyclist by nature. • * • NETWORK NOTE Some work early. Some work later. And some go on like William Slater. * • • CAUTION NOTE Ancestor worship is all very fine. But I’d hate to pray to some of mine. Ye Gotham Bugle & Banner Chet Clark, a rip-snorter on the harmonica, won first prize on Art Godfrey’s video show, but Guy Ray mond in a hill billy bit was mighty funny . . . Boris Karloff has been having such dismal breaks on Broadway mat we will bet he would jump at a new play in which he garrots six playwrights and poisons a dozen dramatic critics . . . "My Darling” from "Where’s Charley?” is this department’s favorite musi cal number . . . We predicted mat Margaret Truman, returning to the concert stage, is going to show an amazing development in confidence and charm . . . Brownie Leach, hom-tooter for me Kentucky Der by, Is in Gotham with Colonel Matt Wynn, youngest brother of Daniel Boone. • Walter Gieseking, me German pianist, it would seem, played me piano in mis country entirely by jeer. • He I* the only pianist ever to give a recital while in midair. Had we had time to ask a request num ber it would have been me Moon light Sonatzi. DAUGHTER OF STAR MAKES CAMERA BOW . . . Making her camera bow with her famous mother is Deborah LesUe Dozier, who was born November 5, 1948. She is cuddled in the arms of her mother, screen star loan Fontaine. Deborah’s father is motion picture producer William Dozier. Already the little lady is giving promise of such beauty as may win for her In later years something of me recognition her mother has woo in her screen career. It now seems certain mat Rita Hayworth will be me bride of Aly Khan, son of me Aga Khan, richest man in me world. Never again will Rita be able to read a movie script and say, "But it’s all so impossi ble.” At least she won’t be able to out her heart in it like she used Predicts Grain Surplus FORTHRIGHT Secretary of Agri culture Charlie Brannan warned a closed-door senate session recently mat me government may have to buy up 800 million bushels of grain this coming year. Reporting to a private session of me senate agriculture committee, Brannan explained mat farmers are overplanting grain and cotton, mat prices may go into a tailspin. In mis case me government will have to take me Crops off me farmers’ hands. The money to do mis Brannan ecu tinned, is limited. “Next year,” he declared, “it Is entirely possible we will have all of our working funds committed.” Though the secretary of agri culture could use more funds to protect support prices, it isn’t likely that congress will add to me four and three-quarter mil lion dollars now available. This means me government probably will be forced to low er support prices. Sen. Milton Young, North Dakota Republican, asked whether Bran nan favored support prices kept as high as 100 per cent of parity, such as demanded by me Farmers Union. "It is desirable,” replied me sec retary of agriculture, “but looking at me other aspects of me price- support program, I don’t believe it is at all possible.” He pointed out mat me agricul ture department not only couldn’t stretch its money mat far, but mat 100 per cent of parity would en courage even more overplanting. Result would be an oversupply of commodities supported by me gov ernment and a scarcity of com modities not under me price-sup- port program. In me end, it would be me house wives who would pay me bill, cau tioned me secretary of agriculture. Abundant commodities would cost more because of me high prices paid by me government to farmers, while scarce goods would cost more because mere wouldn’t be enough to go around. “The American people,” Bran nan shook his head, "will not stand for extreme costs.” Thomas’ Elevators Senators were amazed and amused when Chairman Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, me specu lating senator, put forward an idea for curbing speculation. The man who was once up to his neck in me commodity market urged lay ing aside tremendous stocks of cot ton and grain in order to discourage speculation. By taking large bulks out of circulation, Thomas urged, me speculators would have less to work with. One senator bit his tongue to keep from smiling. For it was me very same Thomas who delivered speeches on me senate floor blast ing me OPA for trying to restrict speculation, together with other speeches bound to influence me commodity market, following which his friends cashed in. When col leagues started investigating Thomas, he scared off super-snooper Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan with a letter threatening to expose some of Ferguson’s activities. NOTE—Maybe me reason Thomas has changed his tune, now favors government purchase of ware houses and grain elevators, is that his speculating friends. Dyke Cul- lum, has been urging mis course of action. Brannan Says ‘No” Secretary Brannan didn’t mink much of Senator Thomas’s sugges tion. He wants congress to remove me GOP-imposed restriction limit ing me storage space which the government can lease, but he did not want the government to go in to me business of buying or con structing elevators and ware houses. The agriculture depart ment would rather help farm co ops build storage, he said. The secretary of agriculture also dropped this significant hint to me closed-door senatorial meeting: \ This year’s crop will not be used as a basis for figuring future acreage allotments un der crop controls. Many farmers are planting heav ily in order to increase their acreage allotments, Brannan explained, just in case crop controls are ordered. But expended production won’t do mem any good, because this year’s crop won’t be taken as me yard stick. Citrus Fruit Florida’s Sen. Spessard Holland raised me question of price sup ports for tree crops—such as Flori da’s citrus fruits, tung oil and pecans. He cited a letter from Ralph Trigg, head of production and marketing, reporting mat me agriculture department contem plated no supports for tree crops at me present. Brannan replied that these com modities are indirectly supported by heavy government purchases for school lunches and me European recovery program. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS tc INVEST. OPPOB. SEWING MACHINE DEALER WANTED Kew Shelton and rebuilt Singers; exclusive territory; co-op adv. plan. Write Shelfon Sewing Machine Co. no E. Broad St., Richmond. Vs. 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