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In East Indies, Marshall Plan
Finds Itself in Peculiar Spot
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Wushington Correspondent
WASHING.FON-“ (NEA) —A nasty situation
h:av arisen in which it is claimed that American
Marshall Plan aid to the Netherlands is being
used to suppress self-government ambitions of the
Indeonesian people in the Netherlands East Indies.
It grows out of these somewbat complex develop
ments:
Before the war, the Dutch ruied the Nether
lands East Indies by right of conguest and coio
nization. ‘lt is a rich archipelago covering an area
bigge? than the United States in the soutewest
Pacific, including Sumatra, Java, part of Borneo,
the Celebes and western New Guinea,
Early in the war the Japs drove the Dutch out.
Then the Dutch government—itself exlied in Eng
sand—promised self-government to the Indonesian
PfEODle, with egual status in a postwar Dutch em
pire. 5 # :
. When' the swar: was quer, British-Ingian and |
Dutch troops, using in part American lend-lease
arms, were used to suppress a ntaive Indonesian
Republican government that had sprung up as an
underground during the Jap occupation.
Negotiations broke down between the Dutch
and this “United States of Indonesia,” as the Re
public calls itself. Civil war broke oui. The United
Nati_bfis Security Council in November, 1947, set
up & Good Offices Committee of the United States,
Australia and Belgium, to mediate a settlement.
This committee negotiated the Renville truce
agreement in January, 1948, :
! The Dutch government then blockaded the Re
publ:ean areas, préventing the native government -
from trading or obtaininy any supplies from the
butside world except by smuggling.
HOW MAKSHALL PLAN GETS INVOLVED
. Now here is where the Marshall Plan enters the
picture:
There is no American aid program for Indo
nesia. There is, however, a $270,000,000 first-year
“aid program for the Netherlands proper, as an im
]éortant part of the European recovery program,
. In order ot hasten recovery of the Netherlands
¢conomy, an additional $84,000,000 of Marshall
Plan money has been earmarked for spending in
Vfindonesiu. Mind you, this is not as aid for Indo
nesia) ‘but as ad for the Netherlands.
Of this $54,000,000, $17,060,000 has been allo
cated for food—principally rice, wheat flour and
doiry products from the United States. Thirty-one
iuillion dollars' has been allocated for the pur
éhase of textiles in Japan. The other $36,000,000
has been allocated for farm machinery, mining
machinery and sundries—principally hand tools
and ‘hardware.
#+ All this aid, however, is going only into the
areas contrclled by the Dutch government. Be
¢auge of the blockade which the Dutch maintained
d\rex' the Indonesian Republic areas, not one cent’s
fizorlh of this aid will go to the people in the na
tive government areas,
: This«is only a part of the apparent unfairness of
the .situation. Goods supplied to ihe Dutch for use
in Indenesia under the Marshail Plan are sold to
f»ri\‘ate ind‘uslry for Dutch guilders. This maney
goes into the so-called counterpart fund. But none
of “this counterpart fund is to be spent for reha
bilitation in Indonesia. It is all being earmarked
to.aid recovery in the Netherlands proper.
iThe official positien of ECA —the Economic
C'q-operation Administration handling the Mai
shall Plan—is that under the Jaw it cannot assist
fhi: Indonesian Re-pubhé — only the Dutch colc
nies, ECA is said to be interested in seeing the
Dutch and the Indonesians settle their diffecences,
biit only because this would hasten recovery- im
the Netherlands,
It 1s largely because of this $354,000,000 worth
of Marshall Plan aid that the Dutch government
is able to finance its army and naval forces of
130,000 men, at a cost of $365,000,000 a year, to
hold the Indonesian Republic in check.
Without going into the the merits of the dis
jipte-_ between the Dutch and the Indonesians, this
would appear to be contrary to American e
iples of demoeracy, Certainiy no backer of the
;z':rshall:'l’lan principle should feel any too
huppy about American aid being used to suppress
any peaple’s liberties, any plage in the w.orld.
4The idea that the Indonesian Republic is Com=
upist-dominated’ has Dbeen advanced by the
Dutch, but is denied by representatives of the
nited Siates of Indonesia in the U. S. Their
claim is that they have recently wiped out the:
- Communist blocs and Killed their three principal
&« The KuKlux Klan
. It is sa;fe tfoj.:ay that a vast majority of
€ people o merica are o §
Ku Klux Klan. it uin.
The organization has its rights under
th(? American Constitution though its
chief principles are not such as constitute
true Americanism.
It is ostensibly a protest against Cath
olics, Jews and Negroes, all of which are
un-American and not worthy of endorse
ment. ;
As long as they stay within proper and
legal bounds, Klansmen are entitled to
wear their regzlia as other seeret organ
izations wear their regalia. Their three
major operaticns are in the wrong direc
lion and do not represent the true Amer
ican spirit for this is a country dedicated
to religius frecdom and opposed to racial
antagonism.
But insofar as terrorism is practiced
they are beyond the pale. The wearing of
masks and the burning of fiery crosses are
evidences of terrorism and should not be
tolerated. The fact that masks are worn is
evidence that the members of the Klan
are not willing to show their true colors
and face public condemnation. The burn
g ot fiery crosses is evidence of threats
and terrorism and an insuit to an emblem
that really belongs to the Christian relig
ion and should not be desecrated.
The wearing of white robes as regalia
is a regulation the Klan can require just
as other organizations choose their rega
lia. The wearing of masks and the burn
ing of fiery crosses should cease, even if
it should be necessary to issue the man
date of the courts against such practices.
The Klan is not confined to Georgia or
the South. There was a time a good many
years ago when the strongest Klan move
meat was in the state of Indiana and its
Grand Dragon in that state, a man named
Stephenson, served some time in the pen
itentiary on a murder charge. - .
But wherever the Klan exists the wear
ing of masks and the burning of fiery
crosses should be prohibited. Religious
and racial intolerance are to be condemn
ed and in all respects the Klan should
stay within the law and masks and fiery
crosses should be banned by law. They
are the evidences of threats and terrorisni
and do not fit into the American picture.
Our Turkish Investment Is
Paying Off.
Much doubt has been expressed as to
whether it was a wise step to‘extend fi
nancial aid to Turkey to build'up the mil
itary equipment of that nation. But now
come reports of the situation in Turkey
that tend to dispel such doubts.
An authorized American official has
made a thorough investigation as to how
the Turkish government has spent the
hundred million dollars of military aid
given by the United States and has reach
ed the conclusion that it has been wisely
and honestly spent. The news is quite en
couraging. ’ 1
The Turks have always been good
fighters but have lacked the proper
equipment and training. This American
aid has enabled them to build up a for
midable army that will be able to give a
good account of itself if Russia should
attempt to coerce them in order to even
tually secure control of the Dardanelles
and spread Russian Communism to the
Mediterranean.
It may be that Stalin has no special de
sire to meet the Turkish army on the bat
tletield, for in spite of Russian predomi
nance in numbers that would be one scrap
in which Russia might not wish to engage.
It may also be noted that Russia has
‘made no threats in that direction. 4
The extension of proper military aid to
Turkey and:Greeces by the United States
may result in building up a bulwark
against the aggression of Russia and her
satellites that would thwart the Commun
istic drive towards the Mediterranean.
It is gratifying to Americans that the
money this country has gvien to Turkey in
the shape of military aid is being wisely
expended. ot g o
I haven’t »bother’ed much about televis
ion. . . . It seems to be nothing but radio
fluoroscoped.—Comedian Fred Allen.
"~ He {General Eisenhower) is 8 br_nlhant!-
conversationalist. I've been listening to!
him for 30 vears and ,he still fascinates
‘me.—Mrs. Eisenhower, . .. o .sn
TilE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
ECHOES FROM MEMORYLAND
Christmas Seaso:sT)'f Yesterday And Today
BY T. W. RLED
The "custom of celebrating
Christmas is old and yet always
bears the bloom of youth. Prob
ably it would be for the most of
us the last custom of all that we
would be willing to throw into the
discard.
To the old it is the season of
memories; to the young one of the
joys of youthful days; to the chil
dren, one of anticipated pleasures
and the fulfillment of bright
dreams.
Too many there are who give
way to the indulgence of unmanly
habits, but to the vast majority it
is the manifestation of love tow
ards the little tots around the fire
side of home, while to thousands
it is the opportunity afforded to
remember with gifts the poor, the
sick and needy and the under
privileged who otherwise would
not participate in the joys it
brings.
Back in my childhood days there
was no abundance of toys in the
storage warehouse of old Santa
Claus, but the jolly old fellow with
his flowing white beard and rosy
cheeks and his reindeer steeds al
| ways swept through the air to the
music of jingling bells, mounted
the rooftops of palace and hut,
come down the chimneys, sought
out the stockings, filled them with
fruits and nuts and candies and
y beneath them in front of the fire
{place left a few toys for the
,amusement of the little children,
1 generally a rosy-faced doll for the
Ilitlle girl and a kit of tools for the
rambunctious boy.
‘ There were few electrical gad
gets in those days of the long
ago but we boys did not miss them
so very much. We could take
those little saws and hammers and
nails and build houses and rail
road trains for ourselves and fre
| quently mutilate some piece of
'furniture and experience the feel
ing of a hickory switch after
Christmas Day was over. |
1f we wanted a railroad train,
ywe built it ourselves, and we all
,wanted one, of course. It was|
made up for the most part of little
,scraps of lumber that we managed
i to pick up here and there that we
sawed into convenient lengths for
the box cars and for the engine
(with its smokestack we would
'fasten on one end of a wood bleck
,an empty spool of thread and ima
‘gine it was blowing out puffs' of
smoke. We had to hitech these
icars together in some way and
,we had no automatic' couplers, §
manufactured the coupling pin: |
lout of small pieces of wire into
something resembling the gem c‘iM
jof the present day. Then we!
would pull that engine and thnse}
lcars around the floor of the din
ing room and through the hafl-l
ways and make the trip to Chat~
tanooga and back. The names of
our engines were usually the Et’g
wah, tne Qostanaula or the Cona
,sauga, : |
l Watch the Children .
Came the day when the toys of
Ichildhood were laid aside and th
Ilove shown us by our parents :
| transferred to our mature spir
,and the joys of Christmas came to
'us as we watched our children en
joy the visits of Old Santa. K
{ One night the old fellow stum
bled in the hallway, spilled his
‘oranges and apples all over the
Ifloor as well as his supply of toys,
woke up the two children and had
to stay up himself until nearly
‘daylight before he could fill up the
stockings and arrange his gifts
around the grate fire.
The clock was ticking on the
mantel and the Ingersoll watch
the jolly old fellow had left my
boy was ticking away almost ag
loud as the clock, when the little
fellow woke up and insisted that
he heard two clocks a-ticking. I
told him he had lost his mind and
was seeing things double, but he
kept .on insisting that he heard
two clocks a-ticking until later on
he got up and solved the mystery.
. My little girl, at a very early
jage, got it into her head that she
{was a teacher and that I was her
pupil. T humored her and went to
school as regularly as if I was
really a boy and sitting in the
classroom. . She took great pride
in teaching me how to spell “cat”
and ‘“dog,” how to read the sim
ple text-book of those days and
how to find Athens and Atlanta
on the map. One Christmas morn
ing she was mystified by finding
a small blackboard that Santa had
left her and across it the old fellow
had written her with chalk a lit
tle note. But she had never seen
such writing and she called on
{her daddy for a translation. I
told her that it was written in the
llanguage of Santa .Claus. I had
no trouble in translating it for her.
It was in Greek and I had a pret
ty fair knowledge of the Greek
language. It was “I* love you”
written in Greek. y
Come later days and a grand
daughter whose parents lived .in
Atlanta. Old Santa, with his own
hands, had buiit for her a splen
did doll house with furniture and
electric lights in it. I went over
to see her enjoy that Christmas
morning. I hid myself behind the
piano and witnessed the happiness
that came to the little girl as she
saw that doll house and the other
toys. She did not know that I
was in the house, and her mother
told her that Santa Claus had
brought her another present and
had hidden it somewhere in an
other room. Then she began her
search and after a while looked
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behind the piano and found her
granddaddy.
Two other grandchildren blessed
my life, the son and daughter of
my younger daughter, both now
members .of the Sophomore class
in the University of Georgia. My
grandson served three years in the
United States Navy in World War
1’
The years rolled on and that lit
tle Atlanta granddaughter became
the mother of four fine children,
two girls and two boys, and this
Christmas they are enjoying the
visit of the jolly old patron saint
of the Christmas season. The
pleasure of the Christmas season
for me would be completed if I
could be with my four great
grandchildren Christmas morning,
but, physically unable to make the
trip, I will have to compromise and
be with them only in imagination.
- These memories are all personal,
but they are typical of what comes
at this season to thousands of men
of my age. They never lose their
fragrance. They are a part of our
immortality.
I have no patience with the cri
tic who says we should not teach
our children to believe in Santa
Claus. For Santa Claus is noth
ing but the spirit of love and
Christ - Himself is nothing more
than the Spirit of Omnipotent and
Universal Love,
According to its annual custom,
the Henry C. Tuck Class of the
First Methodist Sunday School is
playing Santa Claus, not to the
little children, but to grown-ups.
For eleven years it has been my
pleasure dand privilege to be the
teacher of that class. Those to
whom we are playing Santa Claus
embrace a number,of the sick, the
shut-ine, the poor and the under
privileged. They are the class to
whom the heart of Santa Claus
always goes out, for we are en-
Joined as a part of the Omnipg
tent lover of mankind to exempli
fy His life and teachings. Sunday
morning some fifty of the little
Sunday School children came
down to the class and sang sev
eral sacred songs appropriate to
the season. So in that way we all
had a Yoretaste of the real spirit
of Christmas.
,
The following members of the Athens Autfimobile Dealers As
sociation will close at 1:00 P. M. Friday, December 24th and will
re-open Monday‘morning, December 27th.
We want to thank our customers ;nd friends for their valued
patronage through-out this year. We appreciate not only the busi
ness with which we h.a\'re been favored, bqt also thé opportunity to ,
be of service in the future. : '
We sincerely wish for all of you s
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
: : ATHENS AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION
ATHENS TRUCK & TRACTOR CO.
. BROUN MOTOR CO.
DOWNS MOTORS, INC.
CHRCIA MOTORE. e i
PAUL IMPLEMENT CO.
SILVEY MOTOR CO.
C. A. TRUSSELL_MOTOR“CO. A
Gullies Cost
Farmers
Says Brown
How much does it cost to own
a gully?
Commenting on this question,
John G. Brown, Chairman of the
Clarke County Agricultural Con
servation Committee, says that
few farmers stop to consider the
cost of a gully.
He points out that there are
three major cost items: the break
down and loss of the organic mat
ter in the soil, loss of the topsoil
that is washed away and most im
portant of all, a decrease in the
productive capacity of the farm.
The cost of the breakdown in
soil structure must be figured in
terms of food lost. It may never
be possible to fully restore the land
to what it would have produced
'had it been properly handled.
Positive Loss
Topsoil washed away is a posi
tive loss to the farm and it may be
a permanent loss in terms of future
production. The production which
would have been possible had the
topsoil been held at home is the
yardstick for measuring this loss.
The gully itself may be healed
in time by grass or other fast
growing sod-forming plants. But
it may always be a threat to the
farm and may never be brought
back into full production.
‘When you stop to think of it,”
says Mr. Brown, “no farmer can
afford a gully. In fact, gullies
cost more than the Nation can af
ford. The production from that
land is needed to maintain a good
standard of living. The farmer
needs it and the country needs it.
“And it will’ cost the Nation a
lot less to help a farmer prevent
HEY
BOYS & CGIRLS
Benson’s Big Christmas
Party Will Be At Ca.
Theatre Friday Morning.
Doors Will gpen 9:30,
Everyone Invited. En
trance 2 Benson’s Bread
Wrappers. Bring Your
Wrappers, Come Early.
Merry Christmas To Every
One. -
"BENSON
the gully than it will to allow the
gully to dig its way into the limit
ed supply of lifegiving topsoil,”
A dealer who sold unsavory
meat was pilloried, and the rancid
flesh burned in his face during
‘Elizabethian times,
In order that our employees may have 3
Christmas vacation, our offices and warehouses
will be closed from noon December 24th, uniil
Monday morning January 3rd, 1949.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1948,
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WINTER GRAZING
According to Extension Service
agronomists, farm People in Gegy
gia can mak2 no better resoly
tion for 1949 than to have win
ter grazing on every farm ip the
state with livestock, including
poultry.