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. .v. m THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C ra WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Billion Dollars Cut From ECA Fund By House Foreign Relations Group; Truman Plans Speaking Campaign (EDITOB'S NOTE: Whes. •pinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not neeessarlly of this newspaper.) FOREIGN AID: Billion Lopped Whether it portended a more realistic view toward European re covery needs, or was just sympto matic of a seasonal purse-tighten ing effort on the part of some con gressmen, there were major head lines in the fact that the house for eign affairs committee lopped a billion dollars off foreign aid re quests for next year. Slashing a proposal made by President Truman, the committee went on to recommend that the ex isting gap in foreign relief be filled with U.S. farm surpluses. THAT WOULD make sense to most Americans, probably, except those so energetically and enthusi astically committed to foreign aid without any limit or restrictions, that they brand as narrow isola tionists anyone who argues that U.S. welfare ought to be considered along with welfare of other na tions. Paul G. Hoffman, foreign recov ery administrator, was unable to say immediately what effect the foreign aid plan slash would have. He aaid he would prefer to study the proposal and ascertain what kind of farm surpluses the govern ment has in its bins, and whether Europe needs them. HE SAID he already knows these surpluses include wheat, cotton and tobacco. A house committee mem ber also named these three and added com, oats, barley, fats, oils and dairy products. No mention was made of the huge surpluses of potatoes and eggs which America also has on hand. Hoffman, who most likely would end up opposing surpluses in lieu of cash, would be hard put, it ap peared, to make the average American believe that a war-rav aged Europe couldn’t use, or didn’t need, such items as eggs, potatoes, com, fats oils and dairy products. There are many American families right here at home who would be delighted if they ever had a suffi ciency of any of these items. RED CURBS: Caution Urged The federal justice department has warned congress to “move with caution*’ in acting on anti' Communist legislation, sorpe of which, the department said, would “inflict punishment on named groups- without jury trial.’’ THUS the nation is treated to the ironical paradox of having the restrictions of its own constitution prevent an action designed at pre- ser/ing and protecting that con stitution. As an example, Peyton Ford, as sistant to U.S. Attorney General McGrath, told the house un-Amer ican activities committee “it is by no means certain’’ that the con stitutionality of such legislation could be upheld. AS ALMOST every schoolboy knows, the constitution was kicked around plenty during the days im mediately preceding World War 33 on the pretext that such viola tions were for the “safety of the nation.” It seems regrettable, then, that a little leeway couldn’t be taken by these same patriots when it comes to preserving the i “safety of the nation” when war again is openly talked and envisioned. RENT CONTROL: Soon to Go? Federal rent controls soon would be a thing of the past, if a partic ular action of congress could be construed as an indication—and it was so constmed by everyone in Washington. CONGRESS gave the President a broad hint that there may not be .any rent controls after June 30, when it sent to him a money bill that included funds earmarked to pay off employees of the rent con trol agency. Hie senate completed legislative -action on the measure—a 783 mil lion dollar deficiency bill—to pro vide extra money for various fed eral agencies for the year ending tn June. ■ INCLUDED in the measure was lour million dollars for the office trf housing expediter Tighe E. Woods. Of that amount, more than two and one-half million was to be used to pay for the terminal leave of employees. The other 1.25 was tor operating expenses for which Woods had asked 3.6 millions. LEOPOLD: Storm & Strife The future appeared rugged for ex-King Leopold of Belgium and almost as rugged and surely as un certain for his troubled country. The fight to restore Leopold to the Belgian throne, which he abdicated when the German hordes overran Belgium, had become a bitter one. The monarchists won a victory at the polls on a referendum on res- toration of the monarchy. Easter Seal Child Six-year old Russell Miller, Columbus, Ohio, the 1950 East er Seal Child selected by the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, feeds a horse on a neighbor’s farm. Russell, has had cerebral palsy since birth. EASTER SEALS: Help a Child The generosity of the American people during the 1950 Easter Seal campaign, which ends April 9, will help bring new life and hope to many crippled children. SIX-YEAR-OLD Russell Miller knows that, as does his family, for Russell, who has had cerebral pal sy since birth, is now able to start walking by himself—because of the help and treatment he received through the auspices of the Na tional Society for Crippled Children and Adults. He was chosen the “Easter Seal Boy for 1950” be cause he typifies the thousands of cripplfed children who have been similarly helped through this or ganization. This year’s Easter Seal, which symbolizes the conquest of a handi cap by a crippled child, shows a small boy abandoning his crutches and starting to walk by himself. RUSSELL is a handsome Ijpy, with bright and friendly eyes. He is eager to learn and does every day chores, despite his handicap. At home he is an accepted member of the family and does not expect or receive any special privileges. But, if it were not for the guid ance of medical specialists, the de termination of his mother that he would walk and play again like other children, specialized care and other Easter Seal services he re ceived, Russell’s resulting rapid progress certainly would never have taken place. The American people were re minded that during the Easter Seal sale, no job and no contribution would be too small to do its share in helping crippled children walk again. PRESIDENCY: AH Aboard! President Truman was getting ready to hit the trail again with his gospel of the need for electing and reelecting Democrats, ^t was believed his spring and fall cam paign tour would match the inten sity of his 31,500-mile “give-’em- hell” campaign of 1948. PLANS were for Mr. Truman to hit the road early in May for a rear-platform speaking swing that would carry him into Washington state about May 11 for the dedica tion of Grand Coulee dam. It would wind up with a “fighting political talk” in Chicago stadium the night of May 15 at a giant Democratic rally. The trip will include “off-the- cuff” talks to crowds around the railroad tracks to and from the west coast, and plugs for Demo cratic candidates and Fair De^l measures. For the fall campaigning, an even longer, more intensive tour is being planned, for then the Presi dent will go into a score or more of states to slug it out for Demo cratic congressional candidates. MR. TRUMAN’S amazing suc cess at this type of political war fare is the chief reason, surely, why he has decided to engage in it again. Admittedly no orator, the President, nevertheless, did suffi ciently well for himself in the 1948 campaign to make it seem logically good strategy to pursue similar tactics this time. British Get B-29’s The first of American armed aid to Great Britain was between 70 and 80 B-29’s which were started for England in ceremonies at An drews Field, Washington, D.C. Kentucky’s Sen. Virgil Chapman represented the senate armed ser vices committee at the exercises. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson declared that the first four bomb ers which took off “will be followed by a growing volume . . .” SECURITY: Cries of 'Foul' President Harry Truman and Generals George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower have no ap prehensions about the security stat us of U.S. state department per sonnel. The President declared there was nothing to a rumor that U.S. Chief Justice Fred Vinson was to replace Dean Acheson as state sec retary, and the two generals de clared that U.S. Ambassador Phil ip C. Jessup was practically be yond reproach from any angle, but particularly so as regards any taint of communism. ALL THESE manifestations of support of Acheson and Jessup stemmed from charges by Senator McCarthy that many state depart ment personnel were Communists or leaned strongly toward commu nism. Jessup hotly denounced Mc Carthy’s charges as “utterly irre sponsible—a blow at American for eign policy,” and an actual aid to world communism. Generals Mar- shall and Eisenhower supported Jessup. Marshall, he said, was “shocked and distressed” by the attack upon Jessup’s integrity. Eis enhower said no one who knew Jes sup would question “the depth or sincerity” of his devotion to “the principles of Americanism.” Under questioning, Jessup, dur ing his examination admitted that he appeared as a character witness for Alger Hiss, former state de partment attache convicted of ly ing when he denied he had slipped out secret U.S. documents to a So viet spy ring. BUT at the end of an hours-long session of Capitol hill, McCarthy still was insisting that if senators could get a look at the complete files on Jessup, “the importance of taking action” would be demon strated. McCarthy was not per mitted to cross-examine witnesses. As for Secretary Acheson, Mr. Truman thoroughly demolished ru mors, concerning the former’s re moval and declared, instead, that Mr. Acheson was running the state department “admirably.” POTATOES: Again & Again Another chapter in the dizzy round of potato price supports was in the making if the nation’s farm ers planned script were completed. For, according to reports reaching federal agricultural department heads in Washington, farmers were shaping a pattern of production that would create another potato surplus and add to an already big supply of livestock and feed grains. ACCORDING to an agricultural department survey of producers, March 1 planting plans indicated a potato acreage which — at 1948-49 average yields to the acre—would produce 54 million more bushels more than the government goal of 335 million bushels. Such a crop would make it neces sary for the government to spend additional millions of dollars to buy up surplus Supplies to support grower prices. Potato price sup ports already havi cost the govern ment about 500 million dollars since 1943 and have led to demands for more rigid controls on future crop*. SO UNREALISTIC was the fed eral program of potato price sup port that the cries of condemnation and censure may have some result after all. For instance, the senate had been considering a catch-all farm bill which, among other things, would deny price supports to potatoes grown outside a strict quota system in 1951. Public indignation was under standable. The pattern of subsidiz ing expanded potato production with ever-mounting surpluses was causing even the most blase tax payers to become irascible about the situation. Ingrid's Daughter This exclusive photo, taken about a year ago, shows Pia Lindstrom, 12, daughter of In grid Bergman and Dr. Peter Lindstrom. The picture was taken before her mother went to Stromboll to make a picture with the Italian director, Rob erto Rossellini. Pia is the ob ject in a bitter custody strug gle between Ingrid and Dr. Lindstrom. BERLIN: Up to Reds If there is any rioting or violence in Berlin during May 27-30, while a Red youth rally is being held, the Communists themselves will have to shoulder the blame and answer for the accounting. That was the word of John J. McCloy, U.S. high commissioner for U.S.-occupied Germany. He declared he saw no need for extra troops, but “we are prepared for trouble, even though wo ara not seeking any.” CALM AFTER STORM . . . Virginia Hill pauses for breath during fracas in Chicago hotel when newsmen questioned her about marriage to Hans Hauser, Austrian ski ace. The couple had been behind locked doors at the hotel and the melee occurred when Virginia came out of her room. One photographer’s hair was pulled and a camera was knocked from the hands of another. She was once girl friend of “Bugsy” Siegel. Truman and Destiny LOWDOWN ON STYLE . . . Miss Jean Peterson, Chicago, shows the latest for yojing ladies. It’s a snow-white creation of birdseye, unchanged dimensionally at 30x30 inches, and gathered simply, but effectively, at the hipline — by safety pins. RUHpi NOT SO CLOSE AS IT LOOKS • . . Camera angles create the illusion that the chutist is about to be buzzed by the oncoming plane after he had dropped from another plane. But the chutist was in the clear and the plane passed over his head as he soared downward. The para chute is a newly-designed model with extended skirt, making it a bigger envelope than has been used in the past. The navy’s parachute experi mental unit tested the “laundry chute” escape hatch in a Douglas Sky Knight over El Centro. Calif. WE COULD HAVE SPARED YOU THIS . . . Mary of the nursery rhyme has a real-life emulator in Zona Beth McElhaney who has a pet lamb that follows her to Clinton school in Findlay township. Pa. The lamb sits on her lap while she does her lessons. AMNESIA VICTIM . . . This un known girl presented herself at New York’s Bellevue hospital and said she didn’t know who she was. She is thought to be 22, weighs 110-pounds, has blue eyes and was wearing a black fur. blue skirt, blue sweater. p 4 5 ii'' •• •' ^ : ; v * m fes ip iaM * \ "jjjMm BSUgSgl jr F OR SOME TIME there has been a running, private debate be tween the White House and the state department over the all-important question of whether the United States should make a new, drama tic peace overture to Russia. This dates back even to the days when Gen. George Marshall was secretary of state. Recently, how ever, with the advent of the hydro gen bomb and Winston Churchill’s demand for a meeting with Stalin, the debate has become more acute. President Truman has long felt and expressed himself in private that if he could sit down with Stalin, they could thresh out a lot of the world’s problems. Yet he can’t help being irked at Stalin for being aloof, and for ignoring re peated hints that he, Truman, would be glad to talk to him if he came to the United States. CRADLE—OR GRAVEYARD—OF ONE WORLD . . . This view of the United Nations* secretariat building. New York, which is practically ready for occupancy, shows the towering skyscraper monument to peace, through rows of steel posts which could be taken for grave yard markers. CUTE STUNT . . . Because she was too pretty, June Sanders. Hollywood, told unemployment in surance officials, she lost her job as restaurant cashier. She laims male customers crowded around her cashier’s cage, slowing opera tions, so she was fired. RETURNS TO BACK HER ROYAL FATHER . . . Princess Josephine, daughter of King Leopold HI, smiles from doorway of plane that brought her from Switzerland to Belgium to vote in the election to de termine her father’s future Status. Leopold interpreted the referendum as a call to duty and asked the nation’s parliament to make him king in fact or declare he should abdicate. In the election, 57.68 percent of the voters went on record in favor of his return. CZECH CHECKS OUT ... Dr. Vladimir dementis, poet and author, has resigned as Czecho slovakian foreign minister. His resignation aroused speculation about a crisis in the cabinet that Overriding this, however, is Mr. Truman’s mystic sense of his own destiny as a peacemak er. To old friends and members of his staff he speaks of this again and again. Daring the visits of White House callers he will sometimes walk to the world globe at one side of his desk and say: Marshall Said “No” man.’ Later he worked out with his in timate adviser, David Noyes, and Chief Justice Fred Vinson the idea of sending the chief justice to Mos cow for a talk with Stalin. When this got back to the state depart ment, it was immediately transmit ted by Acting Secretary Robert Lovett to General Marshall, then attending the U.N. assembly meet ing In Paris. Alarmed, Marshall flew home for a quick two-day con ference, during which Truman agreed not to make any peace move until it was cleared with our west ern allies or until Russia gave some tangible sign that it wanted peace. Jerky Mr. Truman In the last few weeks, the presi dential restlessness for a peace conference has been evident again. A shrewd diviner of public opin ion, Mr. Truman understands the American public’s desire for one more talk with Russia before going full tilt into a hydrogen arms race. Yet many of his advisers were disappointed when he rushed out an abrupt press release telling the world that the United States would make the hydrogen bomb. They felt that he missed a great opportunity for a world-wide radio broadcast reviewing this country’s many, many moves for peace, a broadcast that would put the onus for the arms race where it belongs—direct ly on the Russian doorstep. The state department was al so upset when Mr. Traman hur riedly granted an Interview with New York Times corre spondent, Arthur Krock, after Krock shrewdly cornered him at a dinner party given by Sen. Brien McMahon of Connecti cut. The President, in festive mood, definitely promised Krock the interview, and kept his word immediately thereafter, despite a previous promise to Secretary Acheson that he would make no public state ments on foreign policy with out state department clear ance. While the state department isn’t going to admit this publicly, what it objects to in regard to current White House peace thinking, are two things: 1. The jerky unexpectedness of Mr. Truman’s ideas. There is no continuity. The president can be bawling out Stalin one day, as he did to the amazement of Winston Churchill and Jimmie Byrnes at the Potsdam conference. And later he can be telling friends that Joe Stalin is a man who would be rea sonable if you could only sit down with him at the same table. 2. The Russians, in contrast, have a fixed, firm continuous policy— namely, to break the democratic systems of the free world. Troublt Inside Russia These are the state department’s ideas; and most diplomats and diplomatic observers believe these ideas are correct. The inescapable fact is that the 14 men in the politburo, who really make Soviet policy, are not going to change, no matter what Traman or anyone else in the U.S.A. says or does. As previously pointed out in these Columns, all is not well either in side the satellite countries or in side Russia itself. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS A INVEST. OPPOB. Complete Sawmill, D 8800 CaterpiUex Diesel Power Unit 110 H.P.. OI Frick Mill Tower Edger. 29 Wood Planer; been used 9 months. All for $4,800. Will finish in 3 weeks for delivery. P.O. Bex 7, Mnrdeek, Florida. FOB SALE—Wrifht’e Wasberette, Ox ford. Miss. Home of Univ. of Miss. Pop. 10,000. Business excellent. Priced to sell. MEN—WOMEN Are you Interested in a business of your own? 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