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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Truman Signs Bill for Extension
Of European Aid Another 15 Months;
U. S. Launches Bond Sale Orive
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BOND DRIVE:
Plan for Security
Kick-off speaker at the opening
of the "Opportunity Bond Drive,”
in which the government hopes to
sell one billion, 40 million dollars
worth of U.S. savings bonds to its
people. President Truman keyed
his remarks to the need for nation
al security.
HE PICTURED the bond drive as
providing another opportunity for
purchasers to assure security for
themselves and their country.
Among other things, the President
said:
“We know that we cannot have a
sound and secure nation unless se
curity is the common possession of
our people. Farmer, factory work
er, banker, merchant, school teach
er, housewife—all are buying se
curity for themselves and each
other when they buy savings
bonds.”
He added that “every bond they
have bought has given them much
more reason to feel secure about
the future—their own and their
country’s.”
THE PRESIDENT said the kick
off dinner was to honor three mil
lion volunteers in the bond sales
program, and declared they would
be joined by another 250,000 news
boys who would “ring the nation’s
doorbells, bringing the message of
the Opportunity Bond Drive into 12
million American homes.
Top question plaguing bond offi
cials was the recession in employ
ment, lower prices and less con
sumer cash interfering with the
bond drive’s reaching its goal.
Men Who Found Kathy
Remembered by Mail
The men who dug for little
Kathy Fiscus, 3-year old who
died in a California well shaft,
were being remembered aU
over the nation.
Mere than 2,200 letters bad
been received by the Kathy Fis-
cns rescue fund from virtually
every state in the uniom Mayor
Clark E. Bell, San Marino,
chairman of the fund committee,
said the first envelopes opened
contained $1,020—an average
contribution of $5.10.
Donations ranged from 10
cents to $50. It was pointed out
that if the average continued, it
would mean a total of more than
$11,000 for the men who worked
for 52 hours to reach the child
who feU to her death 92 feet
down the weU pipe.
AID BILL;
Has Truman Okay
A bill to give 5.58 billion dollars to
the European recovery program
over the next 15 months—with one
billion available at once—was
signed by President Truman.
MR. TRUMAN, as is a quaint
capital custom in such matters,
signed the bill with several pens—
eight, in fact. Even Mr. Truman,
himself, was moved to observe jest
ingly that “this will probably look
like a forgery, but it really isn’t.”
The bill which Mr. Truman signed
allots more than one-eighth of the
entire budget of the United States
to foreign aid.
Mr. Truman, ever a meticulous
man, carefully wiped the points of
the pens, handed one each to seven
witnesses to ihe signing, and kept
one for Sen. Arthur Vandenberg,
who was unable to attend.
THERE WAS a check and bal
ance in the bill, however. With the
billion dollars to be made available
at once, aid could be kept flowing
to the Marshall plan countries of
western Europe until congress votes
the rest cl the cash later.
CHURCHMEN:
UN Asks Facts
The United Nations wasn’t heed
ing protests of Hungary and Bul
garia against its consideration of
the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty
and Protestant churchmen. Instead,
the UN invited the two Soviet
satellite countries to tell their
stories of the imprisonment of the
Cardinal and other clergymen.
THE RUSSIAN delegation indi
cated the two nations would disre
gard the invitation, since both Hun
gary and Bulgaria have contended
the trials were internal matters and
no business of the UN.
The world organization, however,
voted 30 to 7 to put the church
cases on its agenda and to go on
with a full discussion of them.
U. S. delegate Benjamin V. Cohen
argued the committee should delay
inviting any nations or churches to
send spokesmen until it decides
how it wants to deal with the ques
tion.
Russia’s Jacob A. Malik indi
cated the two Russian satellites
would reject such an invitation and
accused Bolivia of violating the UN
charter by seeking to invite re
ligious organizations.
To the casual observer, the entire
matter was even less than a tem
pest in a tea pot. Whatever the UN
might find as a result of rehashing
the convictions of the churchmen—
what could UN do about it? The
force of UN in world peace reten
tion efforts has been so meager as
to cause critics to begin comparing
it already with the old League of
Nations which died of impotency.
OASI COST:
In Billions
American taxpayers in covered
employment would have to dig into
their pockets to the tune of 3.75
billion dollars by 1955 to finance old
age and survivors insurance under
the proposals advanced by Presi
dent Truman and his administra
tion.
BY THE YEAR 2,000—when the
program is expected to hit its peak
—the proposed cost would have
mounted to approximately 13 bil
lion dollars.
This estimate, made by the Re
search Council for Economic Se
curity, Chicago, is based on a re
port from the advisory council on
social security to the 80th congress.
Of a labor force of over 60 mil
lion, OASI now covers about 35
million, or roughly three out of five
jobs. Coverage is now limited to
persons employed in industry and
commerce. It is proposed that the
system be extended to cover the
entire labor force.
In presenting both sides of the
question, the council’s report in
cludes a full page of pros and cons.
Each side might be summarized
as follows:
ON THE ONE HAND, if em
ployees of commerce and industry
are entitled to this protection, why
not employees on the farm and in
the household? If the goal of the
system is to provide even a mini
mum of subsistence, benefits must
be raised now to keep in step with
living costs. An adequate OASI
system will reduce substantially the
heavy burden of old age assistance.
On the other hand, opponents of
the proposed extension point out
that of those excluded, the majority
are either protected by other
systems or are able to provide for
themselves, while the lowest in
come classes are employed too
irregularly to earn insured status
under any program. If the cost of
living is a valid reason for raising
benefits now, then logically the
whole system should be geared to
the cost of living, fluctuating down
as well as up. The bigger the
system, the better the promises of
bigger and better pensions.
Mrs. Barkley Graham, weigh
ing only 95 pounds, has become
the first woman sheriff of Mc
Cracken county, Kentucky, birth
place of Vice-President Alben W.
Barkley. She succeeded her hus
band who resigned to become Pa
ducah’s chief of police.
FARM SURPLUS:
May Hasten Subsidy
The administration’s rarm ex
perts weren’t being too subtle in a
movement to hasten payment of
direct subsidies to farmers. They
were pointing out in the capital
that an over-supply of pork and
milk expected within the next two
months, may require President
Truman to ask immediate authority
for such action.
SECRETARY of Agriculture
Brannan said he already had dis
cussed such a proposal with the
President. At the present time the
government is committed to sup
port prices of those commodities
by buying any surplus and taking
it off the market. This is supposed
to keep the retail price up.
Farm legislation passed by the
80th congress authorized direct pay
ments to farmers for pork and
milk, but this law does not go into
effect until January 1, 1950.
Meanwhile, the agriculture secre
tary said consumer prices on pork
and milk probably would fall if the
admisistration was allowed to make
direct subsidy payments to produ
cers.
DESPITE much sentiment to the
contrary, Brannan said his depart
ment has had a "quite favorable”
reaction to the proposed farm pro
gram which, briefly, would let farm
products find their own price level
through supply and demand, with
the government paying the farmer
the difference in this and the sup
port price in cash.
Congressional critics of the farm
program declare its cost will run
into billions of dollars and that it
will benefit neither the farmer nor
the taxpayer, because, in the end,
the farmer and the taxpayer will be
paying additional taxes to finance
the program.
CANCER:
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84.38
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42.19
67.38
112.51
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157.60
Rural Housing Off
COMPARATIVE BENEFITS . . . Under present provision of the social
security law it is assumed the worker has 10 years of coverage. Under
proposed provisions, however, monthly benefits would not be affected
by length of time spent in covered employment. Chart, prepared by
Research Council for Economic Security, offers comparison of present
benefit scales with those proposed in the administration program.
ACCIDENTS:
Fewer Noted
Hope was indicated that the ap
palling toll of death and injury on
U.S. streets and highways might be
lessened. The National Safety Coun
cil reported that 92 cities of more
than 10,000 population went through
all of 1948 without a traffic death.
The council reported that Med
ford, Mass., with a population of
67,477, was the largest no-death city
last year.
According to Senator Fear (D.,
Del.) some of the nation’s worst
housing conditions still exist in
rural areas—a conclusion familiar
already to many, many Americans.
The senator’s statement was made
during a hearing by a senate com
mittee on the multi-billion-dollar
housing bill pending in congress.
There has been little talk of rural
needs in discussion of the housing
problem to date, although that need
is as pressing, almost, as anv other.
Progress Seen
The men in white who wage an
unceasing battle against cancer
caught a glimmer of hope—they
felt sure they had discovered, as
they put it, “what is for all prac
tical purposes a simple, cheap and
reasonably sure blood test for can
cer.”
THE ANNOUNCEMENT was
made with the customary caution
and restraint of the men who work
with test tubes—“reasonably sure”
was how they described the test.
But if they had made such a dis
covery, it was a great stride for
ward toward victory over the terri
ble disease.
According to the announcement,
comparative studies at the Uni
versity of Chicago of the blood
serum of cancer patients and nor
mal and other non-cancerous indi
viduals had revealed significant
differences that led to the state
ment of the new cancer blood test.
Report of the university findings
was made by Professor Charles B.
Huggins, who 10 years ago origi
nated a new treatment for pros
tatic cancer which has kept more
than 25 per cent of the victims
alive and well for more than eight
years.
DISCUSSING the new test, he
said that tests on almost 300 indi
viduals—equally divided into cancer
patients, apparently healthy per
sons, and patients with non-cancer
ous diseases—proved positive for
all cancer cases, negative for all
normal persons and negative for all
others tested, except those with
lung tuberculosis and massive
acute infections.
Inasmuch as tuberculosis and in
flammatory processes can be read
ily diagnosed, it was explained, the
test was not expected to confound
cancer with other conditions.
KIWI:
Rare Chick
Nature lovers in New Zealand
rejoiced. A sturdy male kiwi chick
was hatched at the Hawke’s Bay
game farm, bringing to six the only
known existing family of this noc
turnal, flightless bird which was
thought to be extinct until a few
years ago.
The male bird spent 81 days on
the latest egg before the newcomer
burst through the thick shell.
PACT BEARER . . , Herbert
L. Miller, White House record
clerk, is shown as he left the
White House with the North
Atlantic pact and President
Truman’s message to the sen
ate, in which the chief execu
tive urged ratification of the
treaty.
A VERY COCKY COCK ROBIN . . . Here’s a robin so belligerent he
fights with himself. In the upper left photo, the bird wearing a red tux
edo shirt imbibed too freely of the spring air and in the state of season
al intoxication, squared off to fight with his own reflection as seen in
an automobile hub cap. The other pictures show the battle as it waged
to and fro. The little fellow refused to give up and so the owner of the
qar moved it before the bird could kill itself.
APPLE BLOSSOM QUEEN . . .
Miss Margaret Thors, daugh
ter of the Icelandic minister to
the United States was chosen
from 100 nominees as queen of
the 22nd annual Shenandoah ap
ple blossom festival at Win
chester, Va.
BRONX BELTER ABROAD . . . Steve Belloise, the balding Bronx
belter who holds the distinction of being one of the world’s top welter
weight prizefighters, shows admiring Parisians the mitts with which
he hoped to pummel Frenchman Jean Stock when the two met in the
capital. Belloise has signed for several fights in Europe, but his goal
Is a go with another Frenchman—champion Marcel Cerdan—for the
Utle In his weight class.
TOUGH JOB . . . This man has
the toughest Job in town—po
lice chief of Evarts, Ky„ where
five chiefs, one of whom was
killed, preceded him in five
months. He is Robert McLain,
23-year old ex-marine.
'HIS LAD DIED FOR 10 MINUTES ... In bed at home in St. Albans,
jf. Y., six-year old Tommy Billings points to scar on chest, memento
ft St. Patrick’s day adenoids operation at St. Albans naval hospital.
J'ommy died on the operating table and his heart was stilled for 10
i fciinutes until attending surgeon Lt. Comdr. Richard Gailiard made in-
1 tision in chest, inserted finger and massaged heart until it started
^eating again. The boy’s mother declared it was a miracle.
TEARS CEASE . . . Shirley
Anne Martin, 11, of Syracuse,
N. Y„ captured national atten
tion when a broken statue of
St. Ann, mother of the Virgin
Mary, wept whenever she
kissed it. Priests and newsmen
witnessed the “miracle.”
SENATE LEADERS STUDY TRUMAN MESSAGE . . . Sen. Tom Con-
nally, Texas Democrat and chairman of the senate foreign relations
committee, and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, study
a certified copy of the North Atlantic alliance In which President Tru
man ur^ed American participation. Truman asked that the pact be
ratified speedily and declared its Intention was to secure peace and
preserve small nations from aggression and brutality.
CANCER FIGHTER ... Dr.
Stanley Graff, of Columbia's
college of physicians and sur
geons, has announced identifi
cation and isolation of a cancer
virus found in animals. The dis
covery will advance research.
Recess Is Refresher
D espite talk about the boys
“needing a rest,” real story
behind the 10-day Easter recess
of the house was that Speaker Sam
Rayburn and majority leader John
McCormack sent their charges
home for a “refresher” course.
Rayburn and McCormack were
chiefly concerned over another
G. O. P. Dixie coalition against re-'
peal of the Taft-Hartley labor law,
and they thought some elbow-rub
bing with the folks at home might
be the best preventive. The strat
egy applies to Republicans from
industrial districts as well as Demo
crats.
Meantime, local AFL and CIO
leaders were planning to give
the returning politicos a stiff
workout during the 19-day
“vacation.”
Rayburn and McCormack are
keenly aware that the Taft-Hartley
vote will be a crucial test they can’t
afford to lose, if they are to keep
northern city Democrats in line
on other administration measures.
Ever since the G. O. P.-Dixie coa
lition against rent control, there has
been talk of a northern “revolt,” or
a coalition-in-reverse, in which
northern Democrats would gang
up with Republicans to block
southern farm bills.
Rumbles of Revolt
At a dinner meeting with North
and South freshmen Democrats
last week, Rayburn and McCormack
heard increasing rumbles of “re
taliation” against southern coal
itionists. This wasn’t all cloakroom
whispers. Quite a number of big-
city Democrats, who believe in
carrying out Truman campaign
promises, have spoken out openly.
Among them are freshmen
Democrats Anthony Taueriello
of Buffalo, N. Y., and Earl
Wagner of Cincinnati, who
angrily told McCormack the
time had come to “stop ap
peasing and start hitting back”
at southern opponents of the
Fair Deal program.
“I’ve had enough,” bluntly as
serted Tauriello. “I was elected on
the Truman program, and I believe
in the whole program. I’m tired
of seeing the program delayed and
undermined by members of my
own party. A lot of us think it’s
time to start retaliating.”
At the dinner, Rayburn and Mc
Cormack made strong pleas for
harmony. Since then the grumbling
has somewhat subsided.
G.O.P. Hope
Oregon’s b u s h y-browed Sen.
Wayne Morse, considered a black
sheep by old guard Republicans,
nevertheless has a strong though
secret following in congress.
This group not only takes its
political cues from Morse, but
is quietly boosting him for the
vice-presidency in 1952. He Is
the only Republican, they feel,
who can take votes away from
the Democrats in their greatest
stronghold—labor.
Leaders of ttie Morse movement
inrlude such congressmen as John
Phillips of California, H. R. Gross
of Iowa and James Golden of Ken
tucky—all progressive Republicans.
Morse, himself, didn’t learn of their
support until he was invited to
talk off-the-record the other day
before a gathering of about 20
Republican congressmen.
With characteristic bluntness.
Morse tore into the ills of the Re-
! publican party.
“I speak only of the senate,"
he declared, “but in the sen
ate, we have a few who hold
policy meetings. The rest of us
read about it next morning In
the papers and are called ten
gether at 10 o’clock to confirm
it."
He accused G. O. P. leaders in
congress of playing turtle during
the last election.
“It wasn't Dewey’s Job to defend
the 80th congress,” said Morse. "It
was up to our top leaders in con
gress. A lot of them suffered
political laryngitis.”
As for the G. O. P stand on labor,
Morse snorted: “We’ve got an anti
labor label on our party, and we’ll
keep it until we liberalize the Taft-
Hartley law.
Barkley Humor
Vice President Alben Barkley
brought down the house with this
story at President Truman’s "har
mony” dinner with freshmen con
gressional Democrats. Here is the
Barkley story:
A minister sermonizing to his
flock on the virtues of friend
ship inquired if there were any
members of the congregation
who could honestly say they
had no enemies. An aged man
with a long beard arose in thi
rear of the church.
“Ah, I am glad to see that there j
is at least one among us who can
answer my question,” beamed the
minister. “How old are you. sir?”
“One hundred and four years.”
“That’s truly remarkable,” said
the reverend. “Do you mind telling
us how you have managed to be
without enemies in such a long life
span?”
"Because,” said the old man, “I
outlived them sU.”
Newfoundland's Future
I N CHICAGO there Kved, within
a block of my home, a family
that owned a Newfoundland dog.
He was big and black, with a thick
coat of curly hair, characteristic of
all Newfoundlands. He was a beau
tiful animal, and a dignified, cour
teous gentleman.
Twice each day he walked around
the block in which he lived. He paid
no attention to other dogs, or to
people he met. I passed him many
times before I detected a friendly
glint in his eye, and a wave of his
magnificent tail. After we had
struck up an acquaintance we
walked together on many occasions,
and I appreciated his campany sc
much that I wished to know more
of his kind. It was not long after
wards that I arranged to visit
Newfoundland, which I presumed
was his native habitat.
I arranged with two friends,
fishing companions of many sum
mer pilgrimages into the northern
bush, to accompany me. They were
interested in the gamey, hard fight
ing land locked salmon, reportedly
denizens of Newfoundland lakes.
From Sydney, Nova Scotia,
we crossed Cabot Strait, and
landed at Port an Bas. On the
dock, as I stepped ashore, I
asked a native about Newfound
land dogs. He had never heard
of such an animal. “In fact,’’
he said, “there not only are no
Newfoundland dogs, bnt there
are no dogs of any breed on
this island.” I found that to be
literally true, and have never
discovered the homeland of my
Newfoundland dog friend. He
may be a dog without a coun
try.”
Neither I nor my friends caught,
or saw any one catch, a land locked
salmon. That trip was a total loss
except that I saw at first-hand what
is today a new province of the
Dominion of Canada, and, because
of that, is still in the limelight
today.
From Port au Bas, on the south
west coast of the island of St. John
on the northeast coast we rode the
narrow, narrow-gauge railroad, that,
in 48 hours, traversed the 540 miles
between the two island ports.
Throughout more than 500 of those
miles there was but one town. It
is inland, some 150 miles from the
north coast. Its one industry. •
paper mill, produced print
for the London Daily Times. Ne
foundland forests provide the
material.
Aside from that, there are ue
towns, no farms, no houses in
the interior of the island. There
are only forests and great herds
of elk. It Is elk meat and fish—
principally cod, not salmon—
that form the main food sup
ply of the people, and fish, pulp-
wood and paper constitute the
island’s chief exports.
Newfoundland is, or was in th«
mid-20s when I visited it, pioneei
crude, but it was attractive and-
interesting in a wild way. The fish
ing villages that line the coast are
scrupulously clean, but all much
alike with the exception of color.
Each village had its particular
color scheme, with all houses and
the one church faithfully following
the village colors, but no two vil
lages were alike. The range is all
the way from white, with green
trimmings, to a combination of red
and brown, and every color be
tween the two. The fisher folk are
largely of Irish descent, with those
of each village representing some
one town, one county or small sec
tion of the old sod. Each village has
but one church.
The transportation was provided
by that narrow, narrow, gauge rail
road across the island, or boats
around its coast line. Aside from the
streets and roads in St. John, and
a few miles beyond that town,
there were no highways, and but
few trails.
At the time 1 visited New
foundland the man who occu
pied the big white house on the
top of the hill was named Reid.
He owned the railroad and the
bathtub-sized little steamers
that served the fishing villages.
He was the “pooh-bah” of New
foundland.
Such, briefly, is Newfoundla&d
as I saw it, and I presume it is
much the same today. It was the
first English colony on the North
American continent. To a large ex
tent it is as primitive today as it
was when the English sea captain,
John Cabot, landed on its shores,
and took possession in the name of
King Henry VII in 1497. Nearly
500 years, and still a primitive
frontier. Will it go forward under
Canadian rule?
• • •
The money the government pays
out, we, the people, must pay in.
When Joe Doak gets a pension from
the county, state or federal gov
ernment, his neighbor, Joe Smith,
must help to pay that pension.
When the state gets money from
the federal government, the people
of the state must pay it back in
taxes. When the government pays
a subsidy to any class, regardless
of the form it takes, the people
pay it back as added taxes. What
ever the government spends we pay
for.