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Star Program
5Ut* port* with Wilmington favored
in proportion with Its resource*, to in
elude public terminals, tobacco storaga
warehouses, ship repair facilities, near
by Sites for heavy industry and S5-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern Nor®
Carolina agricultural and industrial re
sources through better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on tha region’s recrea.ion
advantages and improvement of resort
accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina's farm-to-market and primary
roads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City’s In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization of Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina s healtii facilities, especially in
counties lacking hosDitals. and includ
ing a Negro Health center.
Encouragement of the growth of com
mercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and County gov
ernments.
GOOD MORNING
The man who rules his spirit, saith the
voice that cannot err, is greater than the
one who takes a city. If each would have
dominion of himself, would govern wise
ly, and thus show a true courage, knowl
edge, power, benevolence, all the princely
■oul of private virtues, then each would be
a prince — a hero — a man in likeness of
his maker. — Mrs. S. J. Hale.
High School Band Is Tops
The people of Wilmington, who have
long been proud of the High school
band, have additional reason now to
take especial pride in the organization.
Competing before thirty thousand
spectators at the North Carolina To
bacco exposition in Wilson with high
school bands from Raleigh, Wilson, Kin
ston and Washington, the Wilmington
players took first place and brought
home a coveted trophy to add to their
growing list.
The grading was on neatness, musi
cal and marching ability. Lieutenant
Lacock, the conductor, and his assist
ant, Mr. Richard Dobson, deserve great
credit for this victory, but so do the
boys and girls in the band.
It is not yet determined whether
the group will attend the Harvest festi
val in Selma on September 3, but it is
to be hoped that it does, and places
first there too. At any rate every prep
aration must be made to send the band
to the State Music festival in Greens
boro next spring.
Tin Communist Strategy
The New York Liberal party, which
broke with the American Labor party
in the Empire state when the Labor
party subniitted to communist domina
tion, has as its chairman Mr. Adolf A.
Ber’e, Jr.
Mr. Berle has reposed in a variety
of political beds in the past. He was
among the chosen few who foisted
Fiorello H. LaGuardia on New York
City as mayor. He supported Thomas E.
Dewey when he first ran for district
attorney. He was a member of the ori
ginal Roosevelt new deal, and was re
warded with an assistant secretary
ship in the State Department under
'Secretary Hull. Now he heads a politi
cal group which he declares is neither
pink or black or any other pastel shade.
Whether his frequent change of al
legiance entitles him to consideration
either as a leader or a prophet is a
moot question. But he gave voice to an
utterance in New York a few days ago
which at least deserves a hearing. The
communist strategy in the United
States, he declares, is to defeat Presi
dent Truman next year and elect ar
isolationist President and Crongress.
He added the communists will unit<
with “backward” members of the Re
publican party in this program.
“This should not seem so surprising.”
Mr. Berle said. ‘The most reactionary
elements in our country co-operated
with the Hitler regime for business
purposes. They sold scrap iron and
aviation gasoline to Japan. They are
now intent on doing business with Rus
sia.
"Their program ealls for undermin
ing the present State Department poli
cy whenever it is possible.”
Mr. Berle’s declaration is not sur
prising. How he came to omit “back
ward” democrats from the alleged coali
tion, however, is. Assuming he meant
'to define "backward” as radical, we
know the Democratic party has as many
such members as the Republican party.
The communists are baiting their hooks
for everybody of this ilk, whatever
their former political affiliation may
have been.
We cannot easily believe that the
rank and file of the major political
parties in the United States will per
mit any group, whether in the liberal
or the communist camp, to elect an
isolationist president in 1948. The day
for isolationism is past.
Whether the next president of the
United States was the candidate of the
republicans or the democrats, we are
I confident he will not have been misled
j by the Kremlin’s ideology or try to
| count his nation out in international
affairs, as the communists would like.
Cost Of Government
In an analysis of an article dealing
with the cost of government and the
people’s food bill, which was written
by its Washington correspondent, Mr.
Harry Wohl, the St. Louis Star-Times
notes that figures can become so huge
“they cease to have meaning the
human mind can comprehend.” The
figures in Mr. Wohl’s article “cannot
be understood even after hours of ex
planation.”
To make them comprehensible, the
Star-Times editor, odviously after hours
of study, reduces them to terms we
lean grasp by the process of compari
son. “In the year 1929,” he writes,
“the people spent 19.6 billion dollars |
for food and only 3.7 billion for gov
ernment. In other words, government’s
cost was 18.9 per cent of that for food.”
These are figures we can understand,
as are those that follow:
“By 1945 the food cost had almost
doubled, being 36 billions. But the cost
of government had been multiplied by
25, rising to 90.5 billions.
“By 1946 the food cost had more
; than doubled since 1929, being 42.9
billions. But while the cost of govern
ment had declined slightly, it was still
more than 12 times that in 1929, or
44.9 billion dollars.”
Why has this happened? The Star
Times believes the cost of World War
II “wouldn’t have been anywhere close
to its tremendous peak had it not been
for the short-sighted government poli
cy that inflated everything to encour
age war production. Prices were infla
ted. Wages were inflated. Hence the
staggering increase of 2,400 per cent
in the cost of government from 1929
to 1945.”
This is the national picture, Being
thorough and painstaking in his task,
the Star-Times editor carries his com
parison to its logical conclusion. “Let’s
look at the same figures reduced to
terms of each individual inhabitant of
the United States. In 1929 the Ameri
can man or woman said: ‘This year I
am going to spend exactly $162 for
food, and I am going to buy $31 worth
of government.’ In other words he
spent less than one-fifth as much for
his government as he spent for his
food. But what has happened? By 1944
this same individual had to say, ‘This
year I shall spend $229 for my food
and God help me, whether I like it or
not, I shall have to spend $699 for my
government.’ In other words, his food
cost in 1944 was 41 per cent greater
than in 1929, but his government cost
was 2,154 per cent greater.”
What this all boils down to, we are
: told, and cannot believe differently, is
that the people en masse are on a road
that will lead straight to national
bankruptcy. “Unless the pressure of
public opinion forces the Congress to
cut government spending by billions of
dollars and restore the integrity of the
United States Treasury, there will be
no getting off that road.”
Every last mother’s son of us has
been feeling the pressure of federal
extravagance and waste since the in
flationary spiral started with the out
break of World War II. But we have
had only a vague idea of wrhat it was
doing to the national and the individual
economic situation. Here it is told in
plain and simple terms.
The Star-Times has performed a
valuable public service in telling the
story of our frustration in a way we
can all at last comprehend. Unless we
are extraordinarily indifferent to our
fate we will see that the second session
of the 80th. Congress does some con
structive work on dometic relief legis
lation.
As Pegler Sees It
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1947, By King Features Syndicate,
Inc.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 17. — It is useless to
look to most of our Washington journalism for
passably honest analysis of any issue involv
ing the name of Roosevelt and the corruption'
that he bequeathed to a morally immature
people who babble that it is wrong to expose
the wickedness of his regime because, there
by, we create sympathy for the master rogue
himself and defeat our ends politically. Dam
mit, most of these sodden hangers-on think
only in terms of political and material loss or
gain. Don’t expose the graft and hypocrisy,
the treachery and the continuing impositions
of this breed of parasites because, in the
first place, the boss was a great man by the
same measures that made Hitler and Stalin
great. Don’t speak ill of him because he is
dead and can’t talk back as though he didn’t
have a hundred thousand venal hacks to write
hi* defense if there were one in Christian
moral*. And Hitler and Mussolini, too, are
dead, but, by some special clause in the rule,
enjoy no such immunity.
This queer, depressing reaction to the ex
posures of the conduct of Elliott Roosevelt and
Howard Hughes has been expressed in most oi
the privileged newspaper comment on the
sorry show presented by the Senate’s subcom
mittee. Granted lhat Senators Brewster and
Ferguson did mishandle their job and yield the
initiative to these two audacious adventurers,
is that something for American journalists to
gloat about who profess to have any concern
for decency in government? Is that any ex
cuse to applaud these two and their success in
getting away with a defiance that should be
the sorrow of all good citizens?
As the game has been scored to date by
this corrupted journalism so long exposed tc
the cynicism of the greedy opportunists of the
Roosevelt revolution, it would seem that the
Senators had been caught in some flagranl
misconduct and had convicted themselves un
der the clever prosecution by Elliott and a
man who frankly resorted to the hiring of
pretty young women for ulterior motives.
Senator Brewster was accused of offering
to call off this inquiry if Hughes would agree
to the provisions of a bill to combine the best
elements of the big cut-throat American over
seas Airlines for patriotic reasons. The object
was to concentrate their diffused strength and
enable them to compete in unison under the
American flag against subsidized Overseas Air
lines of other nations. Those subsidies, inci
dentally, are paid by the American taxpayer,
who thus plainly is subsidizing competition
against the American lines. The object oi
Brewster's bill was to stop the hacking and
slashing between the Americans, and save their
strength for the competition with other na
tions. It may be an unwise proposal, but to
suggest that it was a crooked scheme to put
Howard Hughes out of business for the bene
fit of Pan-American is merely to accept
Hughes' own motivated, reckless and utterly
irresponsible pleading in his own interest. That
pleading was whooped up. incider tally, as a
counter-blast to the disgusting disclosures tha1
his company had resorted to the practice oi
backslapping and pouring ..drinks for Army
officers, and apparently for others, and pro
viding women for them, at company expense
and keeping nickel-by-nickel accounts of the
expenses.
vvnat Kind of hospitality is that, anyway? j
What kind of man would do that dirty trick tc |
his guests and preserve the records so that !
they could later be used to influence sensi
tive or vulnerable members of these happy
little Companies? Does a decent man thrust
his guests unknowingly into the society of pro
fessional young women about town and then
file away in the vault memoranda that this
girl got $7.5 and that one $100 and that one
yonder a $20 bill and $175 worth of nylons be
cause she was “charming?” Certainly nc
man or woman of the world will overlook the
scandalous possibilities here. This Hughes is
no boy. He has been around Hollywood and the
Waldorf fo; years, and most of the hot New
York and Las Vegas night clubs, and he
knows plenty. He knows enough to duck when
the photographers try to take his picture with
women who might get predatory ideas.
Brewster, the poor oaf, let Hughes muddy
him up with insinuations that Brewster was
earning some pay from Sam Pryor and Juan
Trippe of Pan-American in offering this bill
to combine the Overseas Airlines. Brewster
bounced himself over his own ostrich-egg skull
with his own gaudy red circus bladder and
didn’t even, have the presence of mind to ex
plain that Pan-American also objected to hit
bill just as angrily as Trans-World did. The
Senator seems to have forgotten to point out
that almost two years ago Pan-American fil
ed official documents petitioning the courts
to redress an injustice done them and a great
favor granted Hughes in the allotment or routes
abroad to American Transocean Lines.
General H. H. Arnold, who finally autho
rized the contract given Hughes for 100 fast
reconnaisance planes, urgently and aggressive
ly recommended by Elliott Roosevelt in the
grotesque role of flying general, admitted
pointedly that he did this by a “verbal” order.
Is that the way they were doing business in
the air lorce in itjms of $22,000,000? They cer
tainly had plenty of typewriters and WAC's
to run them, but this order was “verbal.”
Johnny Meyer admitted that he squander
ed enormously of Hughes’ money on drinks,
luxuries- and other entertainment for Elliott
Roosevelt, the son of the President, and spent,
specifically, $1,400 on Elliott’s third wedding
alone. And he admitted moreover that this
money was spent on this young rounder sole
ly because Elliott recommended that Hughes’
company get this job.
Yet this vulgar extravagance in time of
war was kissed off as a normal and customary
sort of thing in American business, and Ellioti
had the gall to criticize General O. P. Echols,
of the material command, in a manner of nasty
insinuation, because Echols, after the war,
went to work for a group of aviation interests
as a civilian. This virtuous rebuke came, mind
you, from a fellow who had trimmed suckers
of fortunes on the strength of his father’s
name and had served as president of a thing
called this Aeronautical Chamber of Com
merce when he knew no more about flying
than any juvenile- hedgehopper in a June-Bug.
but — mind this — but when his father was
President of the United States.
Quotations
We must find a way to bridge the torrent
of doubt and suspicion between the eastern
and western powers or the eventual result
would be conflict.—Eric Johnston, president,
Motion Pic.ure Producers, Inc.
Production and only produc ion which
creates a balance of supply and demand is
the only sure cure for the increasing wage
and price spiral. — George M. Humphrey,
Pittsburgh coal and steel executive.
The toughest thing about success is hat
you’ve got to keep on being a success Talent
is only a starting point in business You’ve
got to keep working that talent.—Irving Ber
lin, song writer.
We keep the Iron curtain down on how
much we don't know, which is practically
everything. — Charles F. Kettering, General
Motor* enginter.
1947 “MARRY-THON”
Economist Discusses Socialism
BY ROGER W. BABSON
BRIDGEPORT. Conn. I wanted
to visit some typical New Eng
land city to learn how its people
are feeling. As Bridgepirt perhaps
suffered most through the depres
sion of the thirties and then-- ac
cording to Newton’s Law of action
and Reaction - prospered most
later during World War II, I am
writing from here.
Bridgeport is a city of about
150,000 people. These people have
had a reputation as being radical
and for many years have elected
a socialist mayor He, however,
tried hard to be fair and has had
the vote of many conservative peo
ple. At one time Bridgeport was
the only city in New England with
a socialistic government.
During the recent war these peo
ple prospered greatly. Not only is
this a large center for small ma
chinery and tools of all kinds, but
it makes guns and ammunition
even is peace times. Hence, it was
and is a war city. The conversion
to peace time products was dif
ficult and much unemployment
was forecasted for 1946 and 1947,
but this has not come about.
Bridgeport continues to be pros
perous. Certainly if tnis applies
.o Bridgeport it should apply to
most manufacturing centers in
New England and elsewhere.
The truth is that the entire Unit
ed States — ae President Truman
has recently pointed out - is at an
all-time high. We have more em
ployment and greater sales today
than ever before in our history.
The only disappointed people seem
to be those of some summer re
sorts who had planned on a re
cord year which hae not occurred,
roo. many people seem to be eco
nomizing during vacations. They
take only a twenty dollar bill and
pne suit of clothes and change
neither during the trip: This how
ever is not a bad sign. These
people are saving money foi
something which will last longer
and perhaps give them a little
racation each day of the year.
When the stock market was at
liw ebb — some months agi —
many readers criticised me for
being optimistic during the early
months of 1947. They felt that my
forecasts for a “good 1947’ would
be wrong. Each month, however,
has confirmed my optimism. In
vestors who cashed in hall of their
profits did a safe thing; but the
“smart ones” who sold every
thing are now disappointed bears.
—A Bridgeport socialist, who
knew that the United States money
in circulation had tripled from
.$8,000,000,000 in 1940 to over $24,
foO,00,00 today asked a local
banker: “Why am I not three
times at rich now as I was seven
years ago?” This interested the
banker enough to take a Gallup
Poll of the next 100 women leav
ing his savings bank. He asked
each woman how much money
sht usually carried in her pocket
book before World War 11? These
women usually replied: "About
forur or five dollars”. He then
asked them to count how much
they now had as they left the
bank after making their weekly
deposit. He found that all the
women of Bridgeport were averag
ing twelve to fifteen dollars in
their pockets, -- or three times
what they formerly carried.
But why do these people vote
the socialistic ticket? The answer
is because Bridgeport has an hon
est Mayor Jasper McLevy, who
leads the Socialist Party but who
truly loves the people. He looks
at every boy and girl as if it
were his own boy or girl. He has
a heart, generous with the poor
enforcing the laws and especially
protecting youth He is more than
Politics And Sugar
BY PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON — Biggest politi
cal enigma of the last session of
Congress was the Sugar Act of
1938. A Democratic White House
administration, supposed to be op
posed to cartels, allowed the U.S.
mainland and off-shore sugar pro
ducers to dictate a bill which sets
up a virtual sugar trust. A Re
publican Congress supposed to be
dedicated to free enterprise pass
ed a bill which is full of controls.
It was smart politics, all right,
to get the bill passed this year.
That avoids seven months of
wrangling in 1948.
When the industry-written bill
hit the House floor a little over
a month ago, however, it imme
diately drew fire. Rep. John W.
Flannagan of Virginia, former
chairman of the House Committee
on Agriculture, in which the New
Deal’s original sugar quota con
trol legislation had been written,
called the new act. “the most vi
cious piece of price-fixing ever
proposed in Congress. I am in the
role of the lone wolf,” said Flan
nagan. “I am the only one who
will oppose this bill.”
Flannagan wanted to know what
the Stale Department’s 202-e
amendment to collect claims from
sugar-producing countries in de
fault to U . S. citizens really
meant. Who would produce the
sugar that would be cut from the
quotas of these defaulting coun
tries? Hastily the bill was amend
ed to give such quotas to U. S.
producers.
One of the changes which Secre
tary of Agriculture Clinton Ander
son had proposed was to strike
out several provisions carried
over from the old Sugar Act o.'
1937. The required U. S. sugar
growers to pay their labor a fair
wage and to observe child labor
standards.
On Flannagan’s insistance, plus
pressure from CIO sugar workers’
union and the Florida and Louisi
ana cane growers, these pro
visions w'ent back in. That w-as
the only fight, however, made
against the bill in the House.
In the Senate, the bill had a
much narrower squeak. With only
five days of the session remain- j
ing, Sen. Dennis Chavez of Newj
Mexico began to get excited about
Sction 202-e. He offered an
amendment to kill it. The sugar
lobby boys began to sweat black
strap molasses. If the Chaaez
amendment carried, the bill would
go back to the House. There
wasn't time for the House to act,
and, in that case, their bill would
be dead.
It came up for final considera
tion on the next to the last day
of the session.
The debate was hot and the vote
was close. But in the end the State
Department’s Section 202-e was
kept in, 42 to 40. After that, pas
sage of the bill was a mere for
mality.
The fight since then, however,
has gone on unabated. The sugar
industry people and the Depart
ment of Agriculture feel that the
act has been given a black eye
because of the State Department
amendment, which hides the other
provisions of the bill. The new
bill, they claim, will stalize the
industry and insure supply in line
with demand at fair prices.
In working out wartime con
tracts for the Cuban sugar crop,
the U. S. government provided
that the price of the sugar would
advance automatically as the cost
of living index and the cost ol
food index went up.
There are certain price guaran
tees for domestic sugar producers
in the new bill, carried over from
the act of 1937. There are benefit
payments to cane and beet grow
ers who stay within the:r allotted
acreages. And if growers are also
producer,,, they are guaranteed a
fair price for their cane or beets,
regardless of the price of refined
sugar.
Money to pay these benefits
comes from a tax on the refining
of raw sugar imported into the
United States. Normally the re
finers want a low price for raw
sugar which they refine. In this
bill they have gone along with
the rest of the industry to support
a higher stabilized price for
everybody. But at the most, indus
try spokesmen claim all these
guarantees would raise the price
of sugar to the consumer fr«n
1*4 to 3-4 cents a pound.
Mayor of the city; he truly is the
loving father of the city and all
ite people. Let us not think only
of money when people talk social
ism. There are many things much
more important than money by
which cities and people should be
I continue to be optimistic for
judged.
the many “Bridgeports" in the
United States although sometime
there will be a day of reckoning
for all unless we think more of
other people and get out of debt.
The next panic will come suademy
"like a bolt from the blue”. Al
though our domestic situation is
good the foreign situation is very
bad. There are no prosperous
“Bridgeports” in Europe. Com
munism is very different from
socialism.
Comments
ONE WAY TO STOP IT
Another North Carolina town has
disclosed i t s sensitiveness to
literary- criticism. Some Rocky
Mount citizens resent Martha Gell
horn’s reference to the train
tracks which bisect its main busi
ness district and her remarks ap
ropos the unkempt condition of its
streets.
Well, there are more ways than
one to respond or react to critic
ism. One is to grow hot under the
collar about it—a process which
gives an individual or town ap
preciable publicity but tends to
focus more attention upon the de
fects criticized, if real. Another
is to ignore the criticism, which
usually has the effect of causing
it to pass without more than pass
ing public notice. But where the
criticism is justified, the best re
sponse is to do something def
initely remedial about the situa
tion or conditions that have been
spotlighted for attack.—Twin City
Sentinel (Winston-Salem).
WHO SHALL HAVE THE RUHR
Holding out for socialization of
the mines and factories of the
Ruhr, Ernest Bevin wants to know
who is going to have these in
dustries if the people do not.
Given a choice in the matter, the;
people would probably be willing j
for somebody to take them over!
who can make them produce _1
Greenville (S. C. i News. '
Drug Brings'"
Hive Reliei
BY WILLIAM a. O’BR.rx 4
Benadryl brings .w ..’ M. n
lief to most patients h
attacks of hives- , “h »c-,
chronic hives ten,"’ toSe > -
soon as the drug is Z = i
are pockets of - ■ :
with the difficulty caused
collection of histamine , «»
sues. Benadryl neutral ‘
chemical. 11Zes flj,
The number of hives
otne time runs from ore ,l*sent «t
hundred, and the s;?( ■ Severj
head to as large as 5 ? j
hand. Fluid accumulat*™ °* k
from those which are
to large, deep, d;
ings. In all forms .
iug and swelling are w -
complants. ""
Any part of the both- n
affected by hives, b' ki
constricted by clothing s,14
apt to be affected. In pers' rcoK
are subject to hives iC;
tendency for the coart;*;0*, !* - «
back in the same , ■ ■ *
two-thirds of ail p( 0 ,
one or more attacks 0f hm.
their lifetime. ""cs
Hives have an unpredfev
course. The majoritv 0f ,
ings flare up. last a few d’Wt“'
a week, and then disappear'V1
condition can become chronic 01
until now, this type has v1*
noted for its stubborn* rev**
ance to most forms of treatme-.'
Large swellings in vital
such as the throat, may vi"
with breathing, and intense'-'
ing, insomnia and disfiguren,,|
interefere with the victin
ing powers.
Paul A. O’Leary, m. d v. !
Clinic, reports that : . ac-f‘“1
tacks of hives, benadry] .
the majority of patien s
few hours to days.
Benadryl should not be ,
cept under a physicinV directio
because it may also cause tin -
ness, dizziness, weaknss and -
ness of the mouth. These <jV
culties develop early 3. te-H
disappear as the drug b c»
tinned.
Foods such as shell .. <■ ....
berries, eggs, and cho J
drugs such as quinine, bare■'
rates iodine and headache
dies are the commonest causes r
hives. Hives also may be t< J
by light, heat and cold. Whe ■
cau«e in known it is adv>ittt'
avoid toe food or drug eve
treatment is effective m ra f
cases.
QUESTION: Some time ago yn |
mentioned that vitamins res::.<;
gray hair to its original
ANSWER: Wrong. There • •
scientific proof that gray hsi. -;
been restored to its or.ahial 1
by the use of vitamins.
Just In Fun
HIDDEN MOTIVE? ’
Rufus, a Negro with w:ir
ways, courted the Widow Wr
while she bent inbus or.- .
her wash-tub. His remarks w*
more and more romantic,
iength, he offered a propc-A i
marriage.
"Are y ou sure you love r.t1
sighed the buxom widow, as ia
paused in her wringing
"Sho’ Mandy, shoY' Rufus is
sured her. "I loves you."
Mandy picked up anotner M
ment and meditatively rubbed 1
over the washing-board. In St
mind, hope seemed to be core:
ing with doubt. Suddenly o
raised her head. and. fixing»«'
eye on her waiting Romeo, H
demanded:
“Look here. Rufus, you aY'.c;
yo’ job, v*ls you?" — Wail S:.i5
Journal.
RHETORICAL QLEST10N
Meeiing a casual acqui
on Fifth Avenue ore day, Or
Levant so far forgot himself t< ■
inquire politely: “How are
toda.v, Williams?’’
Williams proceeded o greet'
car an unsparing account oil
most lamentable conditio::,
ting not a single ache c. pa
After five minutes of the w:'
recital, Levant shrieked. Br ’
dear fellow, I d.dn’t mean .
ly!”—Wall Street Journal.
GAS FLOWING
Detroit reports a natural
well flowing at the rate ct J :
cubic feet a day. b.r : :
to give the gentleman's rs'*JJj
tell what office he seek; |f
phis Commercial Appeal. 1
The Science Bil 1
An Editorial From The Wall Sti •cet Journal
mien it was proposed that the
federal government make a major
financial contribution to scientific
research, there immediately arose
the fear that government would
soon dominate the field; that such
a lever for state control of the
economy would be just too temp
ting. ^
oJP1!6 t°talitarian rulers had so
employed science. There was and
is happily not as much as there
en°ugh of tha spirit in
Washington to justify the fear that
it could happen here.
So when Congress set up a,Na
tl.°.na.1 Science Foundation.? it pro
vided government money to be
spent at the discretion of a group
f citizens almost free from sup
erv-ision. President Truman vetoed
he bill and many scientists seem
surprised and disgruntled.
It is a commentary on the
scientists’ understanding 0f poli
‘‘cs tuha‘ a group of them ever
ought that such an arrangement
would or could be set up or long
continued if set up. Had Presiden.
Human consented to this bill, it
™thave been a comparatively
short time before some committee
of Congress would be looking into
he expenditure of the government
funds. The committee undoubtedly
wouid be able to show that they
ad been spent in some cases un
wiely and without reults. The
upshot would be some verv red
aced scientists and the imposition
of the political control they dread.
There are some facts of life that
our scientists—probably the most
uneifih and practically ideaiitic
group in the world—must learn.
Messing with politics invites pol
itical domination. Year* ago the
railroads and some
dared themselves
learned the lesson. T:.e
industrialist who 'Mgr-'
their creature learned i' l"'
cost. Most, although
not all. business me are
it. So have a few lihn:
notably Mr. Lewis and
nev.
Of all the groups one ca.
of the scientists are
politically. To borrow :
quip of a witty Engiishr.**
are as well equipped ;
politics as a ‘Tabu:
with a boa cur
whole training and
unfits them, and - r ,
things they are dot g atto (
of the international P '■r;
they sponsor make
little ridiculous. ( ,
The scientist is a b- 1
ample of that ove
“expert.” Experts < '«
bad political adn
case. And of all
scientists would be '>
knows that if you p
cal together they
same result as they ’• • • '. , •
day and the same ' a
give tomorrow. The
must know that what i
safely mix today may re* 1
terrific explosion tomorf • j
Some scientists are a’u.;- \
their disabilities. lUa
few realize them so 1
are intrigued by 'he 1 ■
the trouble of the f •
settled bv the rule of >
ed elite. They can do j’;^ V w'
damage as a layma:
an atomic laboratory