Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 18

I. (. fens Oikland, May 13, 1950 THIS IS THE FOREST PRIMEVAL Economy Bloc Sets: Back Administration And Pushes Drive to Cut Extravagance FARM PLAN PRESSURE OTHER Fit LOW ly Ab'SCHUSTIR sents an effort to trim the swollen payrolls in the many agencies. It would do this, not by an abrupt order of discharge, but by limiting "number of iobrycaricie that can be fmed." As the normal Civil Service employee' turnover" is about 2 per cent! "rollican droo at SDDroxi- -v ST t. AIAA fh.

JBfi nil mm (1 Economy which, up to the moment, had been preached more than practiced in Con gress has been displayed In the House and, unless there are some second thoughts, given chance to exercise over a period ol years. Led by Republicans whose efforts to saye pubjic money, largely have been defeated the House has cut $600,000,000 from the appropriation bill and approved a means which may save $400,000,000 more. These savings are estimated ones; they may to" be higher" or lower. But with the slashesqrnade by-the Appropriations mittee before the bill reached the floor, the represents those actually s. disHnrtlv a maior Setback for Administration, reflects trie to put an end to' waste and aa.yeR sjyhg Jeto to do something along this line prsidenti)uv guard the taxpayers' "interest votes to enable the Republican economy advocates to score an victory.

There will be another Senate with predictions-Fair Deal department spokesmen, will to supply opposition. Public Have weight the Seriate. bilj -as it will he considered lay the Senate Is approxiriialely" $2,118,000,000 -soaring figures the President requested. The larger and general slah is intended to force savings in governmental areas where it has been shown to the satisfaction of most. members savings can and should be made.

cut of $400,000,000, or whatever amount it may turn out to be, repre MM OPPORTUNITY rLwquat TAlTKhan (this is the only correct form ofiiis name), the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who is due in this area shortly as part of his good will tour of the ttaited States will learn, we trust, something of the true temper of the American people. On a radio program earlier this month Liaquat All Khan said that the people of Asia are "under the impression' that the United States is interested only in the possibility of war with Russia and not in the J'peace lot lhe world." They also feel that TODAY AND TOMORROW-r An Important Event and Pleasant Surprise this city a population o( more here in 1940- A showing for the the county and counties, carries with it many benefits and should bring home importance of having the count complete as is possible. The fact recorded a great gain need not interest in having the full story world. of Commerce is stressing highway allocations, repre- tTohmnCdngresshd lhe" Slate Legislature, grants and many other community area financial benefits are based for it is the census that among cities farid wuriUes." cent, error in the Oakland cost the city some $115,000 a Alameda County over $400,000 in period. It is similarly important as a state, be given accurate enumeration.

for his own sake and that ought to be counted. -He census officials know if they him. The Chamber is asking ascertain if all workers are announces that any who are report the fact to its research likelihood California will go into records of this decennial census State in the Union and Oakland up to a city of close to the Let's all be counted. have had the illusion which is entertained by many in Washington and in London that this resurgent and powerful Germany can be "enmeshed" or "integrated" into being a useful, reliable secondary ally Of Britain and of the United States. In a Franco-German partnership the Germans will acquire such independent power that they can have a forejgn policy of their own.

the U.S. is not doing "aU that it should do to secure peace." We surmise that this was a cinrumlocution to express the Prime Minister's wn feelings on the matter. If so, then he has an excellent opportunity to obtain a better perspective of American foreign policy and the public opinion that supports it The American people, It is true, are intensely interested in the possibility of a war with Russia, but obviously the word "only" puts Liaquat All Khan's statement out of focus. Since the VS. is the prime target of Soviet attack and since we are the strongest world power standing in the way of Russian why should we not be concerned with the chance of a war Soviet expansion colors almost "every problem in the con-tempwary world, including the security end peacV Pakistan and India, and every statesmjql ift power today needs to be concerned vilh it Those who are not are certainly 4elict in their duty.

As to the part that the United States is mmthl th 4.1.. J9 needed. Thi. mnv th Truman aistently Fair Deal and lately, as election Beared, has returned to the fold on foreign policy. Mr.

Boyle quietly slipped Senator Taylor the patronage and indicated that the presidential hand would not be withheld in Idaho. President Truman'' in turn deemed it politic to disclaim any invitation to Senator Taylor to board his train. Ha then look a. firm stand squarely in the mid- maining number popular demand extravagapce of Congress despite wha would rallied sufficient important test in the leaders, and do their utmost opinion will Oakland give number cduhted of the kind neighboring calculable to us all the as close to that we have lessen our told to the Our Chamber the points that senta i school and upon population, fixes our standing Thus, a 5 per census could year and the same that California, figures in the The individual, of his community, may let the have missed employers to counted and missed may department" In all the official as the second will step 500,000 class. Whatever coffee front round of price brands has level was The coffee defended and appear, is largely herself.

Volume report, has a year ago. bag-packaged price. As to what, growers and as yet no to emphasize price ing part the trade, not only nations. By Mark Sullivan The speech President Truman made about his farm policy at Lincoln, this week, was interpreted as an appeal for the farm vote in the coming congressional campaign, Thk judgment is practically universal and is hardly subject to dispute. The judgment supported by what Mr.

Truman did in hk own campaign for the Presidency in "1948. To the" Democratic Na tional -Convention, that, nated him he said that if farmers did not vote for him they would aasfcjiHigrateful people worlcLlLThen, his campaign, he promised that addition to continuing price support for farm crops he would bring about a special benefit, provision by the government for storage facilities for crops. The appeal was successful. Thk year the farm policy Mr. gram, named after his Secretary of Agriculture, the "Brannan as iq jnanx.ops a continuation of the present method of price support and as to other crops is a substitute for price support in the form of direct cash subsidies to be paid by the government to farmers.

BID TO CONTROVERSY Inherent in the Brannan plan, or associated with it, are several conditions which make it specially contentidus politically and give it a National importance more deep-reaching than is commonly undeastood. The Brannan plan Wad written wholly in the Department of Agriculture. When it was laid before Congress by Secretary Brannan it encountered opposition; Congress rejected it The opposition continues, not merely from Republicans but from members of the Democratic majority, including important leaders responsible for policy about agriculture. To what extent Democratic Congressmen and candidates rurming for election this year resist the Brannan plan through individual conviction, or feel obliged to support it because President Truman has now made it his pnlicy, gives the coming campaign a special interest and importance. LEADERS OPPOSE In the relation of the Brannan plan to farmers is a similar anachronism, and a similar source of interest in the coming campaign and doubt about the outcome.

To the leaders of the two great National farm organizations, the American Farm Eureau Federation and the Na tional Grange, the Brannan pian -came with- as little foreknow 1 -edge as to Congress. The leaders of these organizations are opposing the plan. All thk adds up to an extraordinary spectacle in the coming not merely provocative ahitf dynamic politically rerhing deep into our na-'innal economy and system of fcnvsrnmcnt Within the executive branch of the government the Department of Agriculture writes a policyi about a fundamental National interest. This policy President Truman adopts, makes it an issue in a congressional campaign. What Mr.

Truman and Mr. Brannan are doing an attempt, to "sell" their plan to farmers, to per-' suade farmers to accept a plan and policy bureaucraticalfy conceived, against opposition fyom leaders PRESSURE PUT ON There is a deeper aspect. An agriculture policy bureaucrat-ically conceived has been rejected by Congress. Mr! Truman and- Mr.v Branmm are' ww attempting" to go over the heads Of Congress, to put pressure on Congress and on individual members and candidates. From the' National point of view the issue is whether there shall be a transfer of policy making branch of government, to the Executive branch.

Qne example of such increase that would follow if the Brannan plan wergjadopted, is contained in a' bill embodying the plan" which was introduced In Ongressv "Farmer shall furnish such proof of their storage, anrf marketing in the' oYnt of records reports sale receipts, or otherwise, as the Secretary mfy Any such person jailing tof-makeany report juexp: wax cecur u. aaicquttEO- sustt I'hroWftffffiQiity of iBisr demeanor and upon convict jon be fined not more than $500 There more in the coming campaign than summer politics. CrH(kC last, tw Tk Tiikaa SATISFACTORY New Boss: "Jrlave you any letters of reference?" New Salesman: "Sure, read Nw To whom it "may concern: Bill Smith- worked-for-0s-f6kne and wexare aatkfied.wr-Chicago Daily News. MOTHEB Because of you, tin 1 sunt inoea is strong; ULiuxi Whose heart o'erflows with Because of you, nwr im. J.

L. Because or you. CUe's heavy -loads grow light Because tf hold me fast; Because of you, Whose love no storm can blast; With tratitade, My feeart ttd voice I raise To you, MOTHER detr, This hymn ofjrise. CONSTANCE W. CAMP MOTHER So much we write for Mother from a grown up point of yiew; But now for some of" Wee One's thots to give phase that's new so sweet face I'd watch with joy -I couldn't talk or move, but he knew best my favorite toy.

Then Mother was the one to help" support a little back. Of cheerfulness, and sunshine, in those days I didn't lack With baths and food, and good fresh air, how fast she watched me grow-Then comek the day she took-, my hand to help me walk real slow. Some years have passed and Mother went her child in school to start, A lot of other boys and girls with me much good were taught. Then as I went from class to class, 'twas Mother who was proud To think that her own little girl so soon could read aloud. The years are gone by all too fast for Mother, anyway, By now a daughter grown, we see, so happy and so gay-She's Moon from school to graduate and take up a career The night is here and Mother proud, just sheds a happy tear- RUTH N.

HANNAH MOTHER Dear Mother, heart of all the world, A tender, loving memory! Your treasured looks, the flow- ers you love, Shall e'er remain with me. 1 see your smile when thoughts of. you Caress, enfold me in their cheer; Your golden words, your noble deeds, I hold forever dear, Shall grief e'er lessen love divine? Our faith a surer stronghold gives; And this I'll say through banished tears My darling- Mother lives! BESSIE I. SLOAN TO MT MOTHER You, who navel protected And never neglected; Who have soothed my fears Thsaugh these many years; WJsris always giving To make happier living; The returns I make You help me with my work, Duties you never shirk. You have taught me how to pray And how to follow the proper y.

You have made our home a Into it, 'tis a joy' toj come. You say your, task is small; No! Tk the greatest of all. One, of the precious few You who have ever been true, Can understand, when Mother! I love you dearly." -JOAN SPEARS PEARSON FOSTAL WASTE 1 TEditor: There is such a lot, of talk about econonov injovern- men Vlbut n6 Jona does anything about it In the Postoffice an effort to cut cost has roused vn storm protest, and rightly aii The" real econ-: omy that eould practised, here Heverrnmone y-wil'ori of mjr duties ia a pubHeaftoopen and; disv ficKjtoait iroutht lite floodafr psroph broadsides, etc; 1 no worth lhe paper Which it was printed, yet the taxpayers had to pay for it and tt helped to ina red Ink for the Then the arovernment officials aU kinds who have what called privileges load the mails with a lot of, junk, all of which costs money. Now where should the economy eomt in? Not fa the public "serv ice, but in this, franking busi- s-ELIZABrTH H. SLOAN.

lrvmstoav fr I i ft -i I 1) 4 f. "playing iaworH affaWto secure peace, we WOMEN AND COFFEE trust that fiaquat All Khan has the opportunity to study some of the economic and By Walter Lippmonn ests of many kinds in every country immediately concerned and in other countriesas well. There ought to be no hesitaUon, it seems to me, on the part of the American Government in giving the proposal its full and active support in Bonn, in Brussels, in London and elsewhere. For this is a bus which we simply cannot afford to miss. OUR ROLE The terms of the partnership will have to be worked out by the French and the Germans.

Our first role in the business is to do what we can. to SjPe-ta it that there is no interference from the outside. Then it is our right as an occupying power and our interest in the broadest sense to encourage the Germans and the French to believe that tht risks will be less and the prizes will be greater if they are bold and magnanimous. For France and for Germany, after the terrible-war and in the face of a war that would be so much more terrible, there is no safety now except in audacity. The Frencn proposal is bold and is magnanimous.

Only five years have passed since 'e end of the crudest and mosCde-grading of all the Franco-German, wars. It is a bold and magnanimous act on the part of the French Government, which is among the victonC.to propose to its hereditary enemy, which is defeated, that they enter into a full and equal, and indeed an 'intimate, partnership in European affairs. In taking the decision to make the 'proposal the French Government must have realized that this meant the revi vaV of the political and economic influence of Germany in Europe. In any such equal industrial regime as the French are offering the Germans are bound by their tech nological, and it is that is perking on the pleases the housewives. A third cuts on the vacuum packed been announced since the peak reached early in the yefr.

rise was variously explained, assailed. The decline, it would the work of the housewife, of retail sales, trade sources dropped about 50 per eent from And women have been buying coffee funs cheaper in this decline means to coffee, international trade, we have information. The situation appears' again the old relationship between "and volume limd the delermiri- woman buyer may have in the of her community but among social programs being considered in Congress for the Asiatic countries. They involve the xpenditure of millions of dollars for the in Asia which is menaced by the Communist advance This is the immediate and urgent approach to the problem of securing peace in that part LETS ALL EE COUNTED The task of counting all of the people in the "United States proved too large for completion in the, single month of April as was first Extension the time well into, and perhaps through May, is adding -to the totala butit becom evident that for one reason or another a considerable number of persons will be left out unless they speak up and make their presence known. Incomplete and unofficial re turns-, from The French proposal to Germany, announced Tuesday evening by Mr.

Schuman, has taken the world by surprise. But it is a very pleasant surprise. The French Government has proposed to the German nation much more than concession on this and that. The French have proposed that they take the first but also by all odds the most important step towards a final liquidation of the Franco-German conflict in Europe. The essence of the proposal is that the big-industries of Western Europe, fundamentally coal and steel, which are in' Germany, in in the Saar, in Luxembourg and 'Belgium, shall all be brought under the same a common system of industrial law and regulation.

The operating conditions, the trading rights and arrangements, the labor standards are to be made approximately equal despite the fact that the industrial region is under four or if one counts the Saar, five different political governments. FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE The French Government has thus made a fundamental change in its attitude towards Germany. Iri place of dismemberment and prolonged inequality M. Bidault and Jil. Schuman are offering Germany full equality and a full Franco-German partnership in European affairs.

This is the boldest, the wisest, the most far-reaching- and constructive act of statesmanship since the end of the war. Chancellor Adenauer was quick to see the immense significance of the French proposal. If that proposal can be consummated, then iir the FrancoGerm an partner ship there will come into existence the nucleus of a European power of that "third force" which is so indispensable to the stabilization of Europe and to peace in the world. tiff THwerr'wrthis' "maefiTtuae can be carried 'through without a struggle against vested inter. LETTERS TO BUDDHISTS Editor: In behalf of the WYBL Convention Committee and the community of the ay Area, we would like to express our sincere appreciation for.

the publicity you have given us publicity you ha ve given us dur-int our recent Buddhist League Convention held in San Fran- ttfcb cm April 29-30. Through your articles of the Western Yotfng. Buddhist League "Con? vpntiorfr e- pteaaed -in- noto tharr religion's history, and' activities have" been, extended to the public 1 MANY GOOD jCHURCHES Editor: One cannot help reading about the Thomas Patten "jcaser- The' timeand money, in-Solved on both aides would feed and clothe a god many orphans and people in need. -r-. It seem strange fhjat people -inour civilized world would fall for such thjnpjpAeond what haboened to the churches and God in whfch phes pcfple were broutht up oy their OUR POLICY? What will that policy be? Some among us hope and believe, that the Germans, having achieved full equality with the West; will therefore turn their backs on the East.

I believe this to be a miscalculation. The living as they do in the middle and not on the Western fringe of Europe, will have as they have always had through, out their history an Eastern as well as a Western policy. My own belief is that a Franco-German understanding would on the part of the German? be followed by something like at the least a Bismarkian -policy of "reinsurance" with the Esst. But within the, framework the Bidault-Schuman policy it would be possible, indeed necjs-sary, for France to participate as an equal and fully informed partner in any German negotiations' with the East. One of the prime facts of European life, which is not always fully appreciated in London and in Washington, is that Germany must have relations to the East She can wage war to the East.

She can make deals with the East. But what is impossible for Germany is to haye no relations with the East. We can get along without relations with Eastern Europe and with Britain can get along, But not Germany. And any conceotioh of European and the contrary is sure to lead to disappointment and to failure. Corrifkt.

1M, far Tkf TrifciM Editor: Several months ago there appeared in your column a pathetic appeal for magazines from "Ann Fleming" of Dublin, Eire recuperating from a Song illness, etc. Well, I sent just one, magazine Shortly after that I received a long mimeo-graphed letter of thanks in which she thanked me so much for all of the books that she had received from me. This made me somewhat doubtful and the Houbui increaaed later when art- ther; mimeographsd ppH came 'ior more books and-es-r how could not picture the poor lady in such need of readin has become Mr. J. Fleming of front a lone illness.

The whole thin might bear, investigation but knyhew I kyMtw that I am cured of, hf mg )ib -A. N. T. A OskJand guts and discipline to play a leading part Moreover, "the French cannot THE FORUM 'Booby-Trap ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU-MAKS SPECIAL, May lS.r-1 we were-both -teyjed aboard the PrcsidentV said Sen. Glen TaylorV'Tieino-" erst, to Victor Johnston, Republican flying watchdog, as they met on the train platform at Boise, Idaho.

"Yea. but there's a retorted Mr. Johnston. Tve got 200,000 witness TW I Ha lkbj4eSAm MmtdatlAM 'waslheir idea to i changer HFHetliA ABMSACTOM HRE die by shaking Clark's hand a "with Democrata. He satd he Pocatello and Taylor's at Boise.

predated it a uta am ea huhwwui 7 -from Mr." Johnston, who good benefit did they expect to gain? Why wasn't the old religion good enough? There are a good many religions and churches teat have been built for centuries And. they have done good feti society MARK 4. Oakland. i ECONOSt TRlf EditorrTbc present AdminU-" tratton; Washington, CTi're getting economy imnded, or are 'they? Anyway cut '-'fcwaJMtesrtal, ajeryjcjr and ployment on the increase. The President says that he can cut ly Dorii FIceson regular Republicans is forecast against Sen.

Wayne Morse of Oregon but Be is slated to win the primary and election. Morse is too liberal for.many of the party; the doctors and lumber-' men are opposition. Perhaps incautiously the President -spoke warmly of Morse and. also praised Oreron Republicans who so often vote in Iowa, Republican Sen. Bourke Hkkatuooper Js to trwi-.

ble: if the DemocraU close ranks after a hot primarycontect now "in process, ty lire givea a chanea to.takc the seat, In Washmgtoa, SwClTarren Magiiujo af ith that. erners. No senators areWislae braska, Montana and Wyoming lndtontanv. it im hnmaiKu from here to tell whether the Republican are money's worth ftom Mri Johnston and his new aide, Philip Wlllkie, WendeU WilJkie'a aoo. But-ttey definitely render a publie ealth service.

They hire nice, comfortable hotel rooms by the railroad stations where the denizens of this traveling showers, can get hot baths in a ed 44; aaet fdf stuater yamannwsrtisl amazing smallneaa ef thePreai- -dent's, crowds. It tapsed Sena-for Tajdort aituatwa "tateif "aeatiy, however. What has happened that "Idaho Democrata have booby-' traoDcd Harrr Truman to one ttons with which states aome- times afflict Presidents. The regulars understandably would like to furja Henry Wallace's former running mate, Mr. Tayr Jor.

But they have perversely chosen for the honor ex-Sen. D. Worth Clark, whose record of reaction and isolationism place him well to the righj of Sen. In this dilemma. National ieal polincos and.

press give ayfce to edgeThey say he runs a tremendously effective; and efficient effice'ra waJftlng- tea which even bua1neanen Jprake for Its serviet te them, And the folks are said to ga for thai pUin-country-toy-playing-. the-banjo act. Clarkrasched uled to fight for the i-rear term. The late Judge Miners unexpired four-year term also open and toe Republican governor; Robins, is muttering about -Bat a scandal has broken in the state purchasing office and, while it does not directly touch him, he said to he vulnerable to the charge that he has dithr dallied over eDos- Tin it Idalwans aboard the train by the President Offers little that the defense expenses another matter thai she had to get up year, as the cold war is that type of an appeal and dis- improved, regardless of the fact patch it to' Oakland, an enemy right now looking Now, by the letter in your col-over our back fence. But he and' umn tonight it seems as though his vfaroily can take a private dear Miss Ann Fleming has trsin tour from the Atlantic to changed both name and sex and Chairman William rot.ithey,d rather to the tried and true political crat if running this the Pacific and back, at the ex- dedicatine a much dedicated dam, but which we all know for political rea- see it Alameda.

-ects- to-be ueve, Emnnmy If. I rnnot blank-blank but he our blank Maiu douhtedly. most of them did have a former church. What 1 1.