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Passing Hot Potafo Buck Burns
Taxpayer - As Usual
BY PETER EDSON ¥ ~
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —Potato politics now
being played in Washington are even rougher than
the proverbiel peanut politics. It will have cost
the taxpayers half a billion dollars by the time
tire last of this year’s potato crop is disposed of.
And the end is not yet,
President Truman holds Congress to blame, Po
tato state congresesmen say Department of Agri
culture is to blame. Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan has now proposed to dump an
estimated 25,000,000 bushels to saveé from $15,000,~
000 to $20,000,000 in transportation charges which
he says the Gore-Anderson farm bill does not au
thorize him {o spend,
And sos ‘this economy the secretary is being
charged with playing politics himself—wanting to
make the present farm bill look bad so as to ad
vance the cause of his own farm plan.
To get &t the bottom of this whole disgraceful
chapter of bad government and bad legislation, it
is only necessary to go back and look at the record.
It begins witn the so-called Steagall amendment
to the 1842 farm bill, It provided that for the war
and twe years after, farm products on which the
governmeni wanted increased production should
be protécted by 90 percent of parity price sup
ports. Among these Steagall amendment crops was
potatoes.
For the 1842-45 potato crop, this 90 percent price
support cost the government $40,000,000. If the
thing had stopped there, it might not have been s 0
bad. But President Truman did not declare the
emergency over tild the end of 1946, So potatoes
had to be supported through the 1948 crop year.
I'he cost was $91,000,000 for 1946, $45,000,000
for 1947, $224,000,000 for 1948, For the 1949 crop
the cost is now estimated between $80,000,000 and
$100,000,000. So the total may be $509,000,000, all
of which was* foreseen and forewarned against.
CONGRESS GOT TWO-YEAR FOREWAKNING
On November 29, 1946, Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton B. Anderson wrote the Congressional Com
mittees on Agriculture, telling them this potato
problem was comring up, and that the whole ques
tion of price supports needed prompt considera
tion, ;
On January 22, 1947, Anderson conferred with
the commitiees. He made a long statement on the
problem, but was careful not to tell Congress what
it should do. He said, in fact, that he hoped the
secretary of agriculture would not be accused of
opposing -supports.
On February 26, 1948, Anderson again wrote
Congress that, “unfortunately, no legal action has
a$ vet been taken.” But in June, 1948, on the last
di}y of the session, the Republican Congress did
pass the Hope-Aiken farm bill. It authorized flex
ibje price supports of from 60 to 90 percent of
p‘irity.
iSecretary Anderson was elected to the Senate
iflom New Mexico that fall, Charles F. Brannan
b‘Lcame secretary of agriculture, November 17,
1948, Secretary Brannan cut 1949 potato acreage
goals by 17% percent and cut potato price sup
ports to 60 percent of parity.
‘This was the first step in the right direction,
though it was two years late'and it was inade
quate. Potato farmers began to plant their rows
closer together and apply more fertilizer, This,
pius good potato weather, jumped the yield from
the average of 111 bushels an acre in 1928-39 to
211 bushels an acre in 1949,
In October, 1849, Congress passed the Gore-
Anderson farm bill, It kept potato price supports
at 60-90 percent of parity, But then it made some
technical changes which complicated things all
out of whack.
Under the Hope-Aiken law, the government had
been authorized to distribute surplus foods for
relief and gchool lunch programs. The money to
pay the freight came in a provision which set
aside 30 percent of the previous year’s customs
receipts for surplus distribution. The Gore-Ander=
son bill specified these customs receipts should be
used “principally” for crops not under price sup-
ports.
RECIPIENTS MUST PAY THE FREIGHT
The Gore-Anderson bill also provided that
freight costs on potatoes given away for private
charity er to convert into alcohol must be paid
for by the recipienf, Congress may not have in
tended to slow down potato distribution in that
way, but that’s what it did.
And ex-secretary, now Senator Anderson, though
he still believes the primary resporsibility rests
on Congress, takes the position that the decision of
. whether to dump or not to dump potatoes is an
B "Sdministrative matter for his successor; Secretary
Brannsn, t handle, Senator George Aiken of
- Vermont and Senator Thomas of Oklahoma join
i hint in saying this is not a problem for Congress.
New Reactors Will Keep U- S.
Ahead in Atomic Science
The United States now has at least nine atomic
reactors in operation, It has five more under con
struction and is doing research on four more, This
total of 18 reactors planned, building and in opera
tion, represents America’s lead in the peacetime
development of atomic energy.
The American battery of 18 reactors should be
completed and in operation by 1953. It represents
an expenditure of $45,000,000 up to last June 30,
with a planned program for $145,000,000 to com-.
plete construction within the next three years. -
In addition to this $190,000,000 total, there
should be added research costs of $87,000,000 from
fiscal 1949 through 1951,
This brief summary of America’s atomic energy
“plant” is revealed for the first time in complete
form in the seventh semi-annual report of the
Atomic Energy Commission, just sent so Congress.
The figures given above do not include operat
ing costs nor complete installations at Hanford,
Wash., where plutonium is made for the atomic
bomb. The Smryth Report published in 1945 re
vealed that three reactors were in operation at
Hanford. The seventh report reveals only that a
new reactor to produce plutonium was completed
at Hanford last year. This would bring the Han
ford units to four in operation. Total cost of the
Hanford development has been estimated at $338,~
000,000 as of last June 30.
The other reactors listed as in operation include
two at Argonne Laboratory, Chicago, one at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., and one at Los Alamos, N. M. All
these reactors have what is known as slow, or
thermal neutron energy range. They are in effect
water boilers, meaning that they are kept cool by
circulating water through the reactor, The neu
trons in these reactors are slowed down by gra
phite moderators. During the war these installa~
tions were called piles, but the name reactor:is in
more general use NOW. ;
In addition to these slow reactors, there is one
fast neutron plutonium reactor at Los Alamos, in
which fission energies above several hundred
thousand electron volts are created.
It is in the nine new reactors in various stages
of research, design and actual construction that
the dreams of harnessing atomic energy for use
ful power development are beginning to unfold,
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Stage Is Set in Indo-China For
Battle to Stem Red Tide
One of the greatest ironies of the postwar strug
gle against world communism is that it should
reach its present climax in a struggle for Indo-
China. It is a country slightly larger than Texas,
but with a dense population of 25,000,000.
Indo-China has been a French colony since 1880,
Before that it was a part of the Chinese empire.
French civilization, colonization and religion have
spread a thin veneer on the people, But they are
of small and tough breeds, and of many fatalistic
pagan creeds. They are traditional enemies of the
Chinese, who subjugated them for centuries. One
of the remote hopes for a somewhat bloody out
come of the present crisis is that if the Chinese
Communists now start furnishing arms to subdue
Indo-China, the people will turn in revolt,
French Indo-China has been divided into five
states—Tonkin, Annam, Cochin-China, Chambodia
and Laos. The last two are now recognized as in
depedent kingdoms by France. The first three have
been united into the Viet Nam Republic. France
recognized it as independent in 1946, under the
Communist leader Ho Chi Minh., Then two years
later the French reversed this recognition and con
ferred it instead on Bao Dai, who in 1945 had ab
dicated as Emperor of Annam,
The struggle between these two independence
movements of Viet Nam is the cause of all the
trouble. The French colonial army in Indo-China
controls the cities and ports. In the country are
the guerrilla forces of Ho Chin Minh, perhaps
100,000 strong., So far, Ho's forces have not waged
war in Cambodia and Laos, though it he wins the
struggle for Viet Nam, that may be expected,
~ The cost of maintaining order and supporting
Bao Dai takes perhaps half of the French military
budget. France today would probably be operating
on a balanced budget if it did not have to main
tain this army in Viet Nam, Yet this very army is
considered the bulwark that keeps the Chinese
Communist armies to the north from extending
theit conquests down through southeast Asia to
overrun Indo-China, independent Siam and pos
sibly even British Malaya.
With France continuing to give complete sup
port to Bao-Dai, the United States and Great Bri
tain gave prompt recognition to his Viet Nam
government. And with Communist China and
Russia supporting Ho Chin Minh, the battle for
Asia shifts from its uncertain danger spots in
Korea or Formosa to &n immediate threat in
Indo-China.
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It would me most unfortunate if, in these critical
times, we. allowed the bipartisan: foreign policy to
be destroyed. That must not be allowed to happen.
—Chairman John Kee (D), West Virginia, House
Foreign Affairs Committee,
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ANGER IS POISON
In yesterday’s study we saw that
the stomachis made for good will
and not for ill will. Good will “sets
up” the stomach and ill will upsets
it! What is true of the stomach is
true of every other portion of the
body. A counselor tells me that he
knows of no single thing that
causes more havoc in the human
body than resentments. For resent
ment is poison.
A doctor was baffled over the
cause of sickness in a baby. One
day in visiting the child he came
into the home while the parents
were quarreling, and saw the mo
ther suckling the baby meanwhile.
The doctor threw up his hands and
said, “Now I know what is the
matter with your baby—you are
poisoning it by this ill will.” The
poison was in the mother’s milk
put there by anger. In two days the
child was dead.
A missionary in China did not
want the wife of the doctor to vis=-
it her when she had her baby. The
knowledge of this upset the doc
tor’s wife—there were strained re
lations. The flow of the mother’s
milk stopped two days after the
child was born. The upset with
the doctor’s wife was responsible
for the stoppage.
A doctor in the Mayo Clinic told
me that he could see a stomach
ulcer healing before his very eyes
on the X-ray pictures when a pa
tient surrendered her resentments.
A pastor had his heart set on a
certain appointment. When he did
not get it, his wife became embit
tered and ill and died shortly
afterward, and he himself became
spiritually so upset that he left the
ministry. Resentment killed the
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all diseases, for there are contagi
ous diseases and they are real,
and there are structural diseases
and they, too, are real. But In all
probability 60 per cent of diseases
root in the mental and spiritual.
O God, I see that I pass on to
my body the health and unhealth
of my mind and soul. I want, then,
to be healthy in soul and in mind.
Therefore I would take into my
very being the health of Thy mind.
Let me be saturated with Thy
ways and Thy thought that I may
‘live in radiant health through and
through. Amen. }
TELEVISION FOR THEATERS?
CAMDEN, N. J— (AP) — Will
television get into the movie
house? Twentieth Century-Fox
Film Corp. and the Radio Corpor
ation of America (RCA) have
signed a new contract “for cooper
ative reseach looking toward fur
ther advancement of the applica
tions of large-screen television in
the motion picture industry.”
W. W. Watts, RCA vice presi
dent, reported that “various groups
are drafting plans for commercial
installations, as well as for special
programming for the theater and
methods of program distribution.”
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IPOH, Malaya— (AP) —Book
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