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U. S. Aid so Southeast Asia
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —Five governments of
Southeast Asia now have plans and requests for
technical assistance on file with the U. S. govern
ment, Total cost of the proposed aid projects is es
timated at $64,000,000 for the next 15 months, They
will require the services of some 350 technical
experts in the fields of medicine, education, agri
culture, mining aad engineering.
Viet Nam—lndochina—hag asked for the largest
assistance, about $20,000,000. The remainder has
been requested by Burma, Siam, Malaya and Indo=
nesia, Burma and Siam may make additional two
year, $1,250,000 engineering contracts with U. S.
firms,
All this technical assistance is exclusive of any
military assistance which may be furnished by the
U. S. government to Viet Nam, in its war against
communism. It is also over and above the SIOO,-
000,000 Export-Inmort Bank credit authorized for
Indonesia,
Most sifnificant news in these disclosures is that
assistance can be given to Southeast Asia for “rea
onable” amounts,
Funds for this aid are believed to be immediately
available from the $100,000,000 of unspent Mar
shall Plan money earmarked for China.
It is believed that this technical assistance can
begin to flow to Southeast Asia without waiting for
congressional appropriation of Point Four money.
1t additional legislation is required, the program
may be too late, 8s the need is considered desperate
to bolster up the new governments in this area.
There is a six-months’ recruiting job ahead to
find the necessary technicians. Most of the mate
rials required are hand tcols, farms tools, basic ma
chine tools, mredical supplies and similar equip
ment which it will take some time to ship. But aid
can begin to flow soon,
This speed-up in aid to Southeast Asia comes as
a result of the State Department’s sending a spec
fal economic survey mission to the area last Feb
ruary. Head of the mission was R. Allen Griffin,
publisher of the Monterey, Calif., Peninsula Herald
and former assistant to Marshall Plan Administra
tor Roger Laphanr in China,
Summary reports and recommendations were sent
back to the State Department as the Griffin mission
completed its survey in each country. So there has
been ample material to work on in considering re
quests for aid from the various governments,
When the mission first artived in Viet Nam, it
was greeted in ene civil war-ravaged village 12
miles fronr Hanoi by an arch bearing signs, “Com
munism—No! Colonialism—Never!”
This was typical of the reception throughout the
area. Local governments were extremely suspicious
of the English-speaking, though American, do
gooders, Native officials looked constantly for the
catch in every offer of aid. If tough conditions had
been demanded, it is believed that local officials
would have taken to the hills and had no part in
the deal,
Viet Nam presented a special problem. The
French are giving the Viet Namese invaluable mil
itary protection in the open, shooting wars against
Ho Chi Minh and the Communists, but doing little
to build up the country’s econonry. On the other
hand, in a non-shooting war which is mostly noise,
the Viet Namese seem eager to do everything they
can to hurt the French and drive them out of the
country.
This opposition to the old colénial powers was
also found strong against the British in Malaya and
Burma, and against the Dutch in Indonesia, Euro
pean technicians are being kicked out as fast as
possible, The result is that all these countries are
desperately short of top government administra
tors, doctors, farm experts.
The big pcoblem in Viet Nam was found to be
increasing rice production and fighting malaria and
other tropical diseases, particularly in the rich Red
River valley., Heavy machinery for repair of dykes
and irrigation canals is also needed..
In Burma, & shortage of skilled labor and too low
government pay scales for technicians were found
to be an econonric bottleneck. There is also a need
for hand tools and railroad shop equipment. Con
sideration was given to procuring them in Japan.
Indonesia, on the other hand, had a surplus of
skilled labor but a lack of organization for multi
shift operation and an inability to organize resour
ces available. Recommendation has been made for
revival of the country medical service that existed
under the Dutch prior to the war, and the furnish
ing of 40 mobile hsalth units.
All the countries are potentially dollar rich, be
cause of their matural resources. But simple health,
education and welfare are luxuries for most of the
people, :
Their new governments all want to start with
TVA’s, and go on from there. But their capacity to
use this high technical development simply does
not exist, That is why it is considered unwise to
furnish more aid to Southeast Asia than is now
being proposed. .
Candidates’ Similar Atfitude
Toward State Services
While they may differ somewhat in their ap
proach to the matter of financing services such as
the common schools, health protection, the Univer
sity of Georgia System, welfare agencies and high
way construction, a study of the platforms of the
most active candidates for Governor, including in
cumbent Herman Talmadge, former Governor M,
E. Thompson and C, O. Baker shows beyond doubt
that they all accept without qualification the prin
ciple of governmental support for these and other
important public services.
The fact that the candidates do not materially
disagree on these matters of concern to the people
may account to a marked degree for the apparent
lack of interest in the gubernatorial primary.
If the gubernatorial candidates did disagree ma
terially on state support of the aforementioned
services perhaps public interest in the campaign
would be greater than has thus far been manifested.
The people seem to feel that whoever is elected
Govérnor will promote to the best of his ability all
vital public services and, insofar as he is able, see
to it that they are adequately financed,
So, it would appear that since there seems to be
no mraterial issue between the candidates in mat
ters affecting the people as closely as their gov
ernmental services, they have not become worked
up over this election as they have been in past
elections,
House Budget Cuts Leave
Something so Be Desired
How much money would be saved under the sin
gle package $28,901,165 appropriation bill approved
by the House is a matter Republicans and Demo
crats dispute. There’s serious doubt, too, whether its
economy features are practical,
The measure includes two last-minute amend
ments the GOP House leaders say will mean a sl,-
000,000,000 savings in the year starting July 1.
Democratic Chairman Clarence Cannon of the Ap
propriations Committee calls the clainr “extrava
gant and preposterous.” ;
Here's what the amendments do:
One places a top limit on the amount the various
departments and agencies may spend eon salaries,
travel, communications, printing, rent and utilities.
It's an across-the-board slash, not a cut in specific
budget items, Repuwiicans predict it'T: ctop off
$600,000,000. )
The other change would prohibit the filling of 90
percent of federal Job vacancies after Juiy 1, The
aim, of course, is to reduce gradually (and pain
lessly) total government personnel. A saving of
$400,000,000 is forecast.
Admittedly this is a way of cutting down with
out nmraking the lawmakers wince too much. A va
cancy doesn’'t scream out in protest as does a dis
charged employe.
Federal officials estimate 200,000 workers would
eventually be eliminated from the payroll by this
device, Some observers fear this indiscriminate
method of effecting reductions might gravely im
pair the efficiency of some departments,
Nevertheless this plan is not without some merit,
when you consider the need for econonry and the
politician’s reluctance to authorize outright firings.
Senator Douglas of Illinois, a careful student of
federal economy, suggested the idea some months
ago,
There's far less to be said for the other limita
tion. An arbitrary limit on salaries may actually
compel discharges in some agencies before money
saving economies develop. A ceiling on travel or
printing may be too liberal in one department and
too severe in another,
Any agency's expenses have to be viewed as pert
of a whole and related to the agency's general pur-~
poses. The decision to reduce specific outlays is the
job of Congress, which alone can take responsibility
for the overall functioning of a department. This
amendnrent passes the buck.
Possibly, though, proposals of this character are
the best we can look for in a Congress that applies
great lung power and little action to the economy
problem.
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Typical Callousness
After 19 months the Chinese Communists have
released the two American airmen who had the
misfortune to make an emergency landing in Red
held territory near Tsingtao.
Countless appeals were made to Communist au
thorities for their release, all to no avail until now.
When the two finally were allowed to go, the Reds
offered a trumped up charge of espionage as ex
cuse for the long imprisonment.
But from this distant vantage point it looks as if
the Communist regime saw in the incident another
opportunity to humiliate the U. S.—and white men
generally—in the Far East, Having poured it on
this long, they may finally have decided the cap
tured airmen were no further use to them,
To Reds everywhere, human beings are grist for
the propaganda mills, :
The best umpire I ever saw was laid out in a box.
—Jaek Onslaw, nranager of the Chicago White Sox
baseball club.
We are only 316,000 (unemployed) away from
the danger mark of 5,000,000. . . . The machine is
displacing the man,—ClO President Philip Murray.
THE BANNER-HERALD. ATHENS, GEORGIA
Poor Man's Philoopher Wrifes
"Please Omit The Gold Watch”
BY HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK—(AP)—Big wor
ries ‘rarely make you happy. It's
the little day-to-day worries that
really make life a pleasure.
And one of the things I fret
about most often is just what I'll
do if my fellow employes give me
a gold watch when I retire from
work — 26 years from now.
This problem usually comes
into my mind every morning when
the alarm clock goes off. Here is
my daydream:
I have reached the age of 65,
and the boys at the office are
throwing me a farewell party.
Everybody has said a lot of nice
things and over the corner one of
the younger fellowg is remarking
“look how gray he is — how lohg
do you think he’ll last?” and an
other is saying, “well, 1 never
thought they’d be able to pry old
Boyle off the payroll.”
Big Speech .
It is time now for the big
speech by “the old man” —the
head of the firm. Actually he is a
brisk young man of 19, as by then
teen-agers will be running the
world.
Rising and looking at a card in
his hand to be sure he has my
name right, the “Old Man” says:
“Boyle, the place won’t be the
same without you — hut we’ll do
our best to carry on, and I have
a feeling we’ll be able to. In token
of your 41 years of hard work”—
the sound of hollow laughter ech
oes around the room — “I want
to give you this small remem
brance from your fellow workers.
Godspeed!” 3
He then opens a box and hands
me—a gold watch.
Now right here is where my
worry comes in. What do I do? Do
I accept the watch, tears running
down my aged cheeks, and mur
mur brokenly, “gee, boys, it’s too
much. You shouldn’t have done it.”
Or do I do what I know I'd se
cretly like to — take the watch,
hurl it our the window, give a
magnificent bronx cheer, and
stalk out?
1 certainly hope I'd have the
moral courage to do the latter.
Perhaps that would start a trend
toward giving men at retirement
something more useful.
Ticking Watch
_Presenting them with a gold
watch is like retiring a brewery
horse to green pastures with a
quart of oats and a set of new
silver-plated horseshoes. They
will have time enough on their
‘hands without being further re
‘minded of their age by a ticking
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watch. You might as well give
them a hand-painted perpetual
calendar.
This whole custom of “bon voy
age” gifts at 65 needs to be adjus
ted to the facts of the ind‘vidual
case. If a man doesn’t own a watch
by then, why give him one at a
time when he may not want to
ifr,itter away his strength winding
t?
Perhaps he’d rather have a bus
ticket to Florida. Or a lifetime
gass to Yankee Stadium. Or a new
earing aid so he'll be better able
to hear his wife’s interesting ob
servations -on the mistakes he
made during his career.
As for myself, all I want is a
motor-propelled wheel chair and
a subscription to the Police Ga
zette, A friend of mine downtown
has an even more interesting wish.
“If they’ll just give me a race
horse when I retire, I'll be satis
fied,” he said. “That’ll give me a
chance to win enough to come
back and buy out the firm — and
run it the way I'd like to.”
But— please omit the gold
watch. Or, better still, give it to
me now.,
Put some new shelving in your
kitchen to give your “work room”
a lift,
Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY,
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Athens, Georgia
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
New York and East—
-11:22 a. m—Air Conditioned.
8:45 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
East—
-12:15 a. m.—(Local).
Leave for Atlanta, South and
West—
-5:50 a, m.~—Air Conditioned.
4:25 a. m.~—(Local).
4:57 p. m.—Air Conditioned,
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Arrives Athens (Daily) 12:35 p.m.
Leaves Athens (Daily) 4:15 p.m.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
From Lula and Commerce
Arrive 9:00 a. m,
East and West
Leave Athens 9:00 a. m,
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Week Day Only -
Train No. 50 Departs 7:00 p. m.
Train No. 51 Arrives 9:00 a. nmm
Mixed Trains.
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POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
1 hereby announce my candi
dacy for re-election as Clarke
County Representative subject to
the rules and regulations of the
June 28th Democratic Primary.
Your support and influence will
be greatly appreciated.
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