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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1947
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Star Program
State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with its resources, to in
elude public terminals, tobacco stor
age warehouses, ship repair facilities
nearby sites for heavy industry and
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to
meet "needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets and
food processing, pulp wood production
“ImpSf on .he region', mo
tion advantages and improvement ol
resort accommodations. „ .h
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina's farm-to-market and pri
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head is
^Continued effort to attract more in
dustries. . .
Proper utilization of Bluethentha.
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina’s health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and in
cluding a Negro Health center.
Encouragement of the growth ol
commercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and Coun.y
governments.
GOOD MORNING
No amount of ability is of the slight
est avail without honor. —Andrew
Carnegie.
You Ought To Go
The Star urges Wilmingtonians to buy
tickets for the Coast Line Chorus concert
tomorrow evening in the high school audi
torium for two very good reasons. In the
first place the proceeds are to be contrib
uted to the Catherine Kennedy Home build
ing fund which, as everybody knows, is a
worthy and highly commendable project.
In the second place an evening’s musical
entertainment of fine quality is assured.
The money spent for tickets represents
an investment that assures dividends.
In addition to the male chorus, which
established a place for itself last year
through its cpncert in the interest of the
Grace church rebuilding fund and other
appearances, and the soloists who will
have a place on the program, tomorrow
night will mark the premiere of the wom
en’s chorus which has made notable prog
ress since its organization and is well
worth hearing in its own exclusive right.
The program is well calculated to meet
ng tastes for musical expression
of a general audience, with the ensemble
joining in the Hallelujah Chorus from Han
del’s Messiah as the closing number.
You’ll miss something thoroughly worth
while if you are not there. The time is
8:15 o’clock tomorrow night. The place—
New Hanover High school auditorium.
Dr. Nicholas M. Butler
Two names stand out like beacons in
Ameican education during the last half
century and more — Charles Eliot Norton,
long president of Harvard, and Nicholas
Murray Butler, whose death occurred on
Sunday and who was associated with Col
umbia, as student, teacher and president
for sixty-seven years. Both carried the
schools over which they presided to new
and unprecedented heights, but for the
moment our interest centers upon their ex
tra-curricular activities.
Doctor Norton devoted his time, when
not actually engaged in administrative
matters at Harvard, to literary pursuits.
His contributions to what we may call the
• “solid” part of American literature, were
notable. Doctor Butler, on the other hand,
gave his private attention chiefly to public
- affairs - to reforms, to national and inter
| national problems. And wherever he spoke
his words were heeded by thousands be
! yond the actual sound of his voice.
He had a rare ability not only for finding
! the kernel in the nut, so to speak, but for
* putting his thoughts into words that were
understandable in all circles and which for
the most part had the respect of persons
■ in general disagreement with his political
views.
After forty-iour yeais as Columbia s pre
sident, Doctor Butler became president
• emeritus. This was on October 1, 1945. He
■ had assumed executive responsibility in
1901. At that time the enrollment was 4,
440. When World War II started to make
' inroads on the student body, the resident
students stood at 31,411. His final report
as- president showed the univerity and its
affiliated institutions posessed capital re
sources worth $233,063,835.
In politics Doctor Butler was a republi
can. He was the party’s candidate for the
vice presidency on the ticket with Wili.im
Howard Taft in 1912, when Mr. Taft fail
ed to be re-elected. During the stormy
convention which finally awarded the pre
sidential nomination to Warren G. Harding
Doctor Butler, as New Yorks favorite
son,” received sixty-nine and one-naif
votes. He served as president of the Car
negie Endowment for World Peace for
twenty years, a position he resigned in
1945 only because of failing health. He had
implicit faith in the League of Nations and
the World Court as the instruments for
world peace. In 1931 he shared the Nobel
Peace Prize with Jane Adams. Even in
his last years, after World War II, he used
his influence in an effort to establish inter
national cooperation in the restoration of
world peace.
Any fair estimate of his life must place
his achievements at Columbia side by side
with his accomplishments as a political and
civic leader.
The Tragic Traffic Situation
The Associated Press reports seven au
tombile accident deaths in North Carolina
over last week-end.
One of the mysteries of this day and age
is the disregard of odinarily careful and
alert persons for the common rules
of safety when they are behind the steering
wheel of a motor vehicle. They will give
due consideration to the security of others
and their own safety in their homes and
offices and factories, but as soon as they
put a foot on the starter of a car or truck
and bear down on the throttle they disobey
the very rules they are so careful to prac
t'ce in all other circumstances.
! If there is any doubt of this it is set
aside by a statement from Col. L. C. Ros
ser, state commissioner of motor vehicles,
in which he notes that since the first of
the present year a hundred fatal accidents
have been caused by driving on the wrong
side of the road. Furthermore, Colonel
j Rosser reports that 84 per cent of all acci
dents in the same period of time happened
| on straight roads, and 75 per cent of the
fatal accidents were also on straight roads,
proving that winding or curving roads are
not a big factor in the high accident rate.
Obviously the human element plays a
tragic part in motor traffic accidents.
Note what Colonel Rosser says in his re
port. Through the third quarter of 1947, he
shows, 595 persons lost their lives and 4,501
were injured in 8,162 traffic accidents. Dur
ing the nine months period, which includes
this third quarter, 184 persons were killed
when their vehicles overturned or ran off
the roadway; 173 died in collisions; 148 pe
destrians were killed; 28 *met death when
their bicycles collided with motor vehicles;
28 were killed in motor vehicle-train col
lisions. and 34 from non-collision accidents.
Some 13,886 drivers were involved, and
60 per cent of them were breaking a traffic
regulation.
It is not as it there was marked ditter
ence in traffic regulations in different
areas. On the contrary, traffic rules are
very nearly alike everywhere. Certainly
the cardinal rules are alike. How are we
going to bring drivers as a whole to full
realization of their obligation to observe
the rules?
Perhaps it would help to speed up the
examination of drivers and eliminate the
incapable among them at a much faster
rate than is contemplated under the pres
ent program. And when this work is com
pleted, it. might help some more if the
courts were not lenient with offenders—
with drivers involved in accidents upon
whom responsibility for an accident can
be justly fastened.
Selling America
The job of telling the world about Ameri
ca, the real America, and selling the world
on our good intentions has been sauly ne
glected. And what has been done about it,
hasn’t been done very well. Almost any
Americans will admit that, but few have
come up with any new ideas.
An exception is Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
Jr. Mr. Lodge saw service with the Army
in Europe during the war. He has been
back there twice in the last year, so he
has a good idea of the before-and-after
attitudes of public opinion in those
countries.
Not surprisingly, the senator found that
Europeans are being fed a pack of lies
about our policies, intentions, and life in
general. In the absence of effective rebut
tal, those lies are being believed. He tells
about them in some detail in Collier’s and
also offers his suggestions for doing a bet
ter job.
Briefly, Mr. Lodge thinks that our sal
vation is to send abroad more men with
experience in such fields as journalism
and politics—“really political-minded” men
familiar with conditions overseas and fluent
in languages. He doesn’t believe in press
agents. To leave our information program
in their hands, he says, is “completely to
misunderstand its nature and its import
ance.”
His suggestions include 13 specific steps.
First he would make certain that the Presi
dent and secretary of state coordinated
their activities. As an examDle of unco
ordination, he cites Mr. Truman's interview
on Russian “outrages” in Hungary the
same day that Mr. Marshall announced the
Marshall Plan, which stole the front page
from the secretary of state.
He would have Hollywood block-book gov
ernment films into Europe with its own
products. Every time the Russians lie about
us he would have some official American
spokesman counter it with a truth. He also
says that the French government agency,
which allocates newsprint to French papers,
is anti-American, and suggests that we pro
vide some newsprint to the French press in
the hope of getting a fairer deal.
Perhaps we are being unfair to the senator
in citing just these four examples. But we of
fer thgjp with the thought that maybe an in
telligent, ethical press agent is just what is
needed, after all.
We don t think Mr. Lodge’s first point is
worth getting excited about. After all, the
Marshall Plan has had its fair share of
space on page one since it was first propos
al u® ®eCOnd and fourth points,
we emt think that they represent the best
in government or business ethics. The sena
tor would have the government force Holly
wood to make a tie-in deal; no government
films, no Hollywood films. And he would
make a bald deal for better press treatment
in exchange for newsprint.
And how far would he go in countering
each Russian lie with a truth? Would some
American official or prominent citizen have
to rebut every Russian untruth printed in
publications or spoken by publicized spokes
men, major and minor? That would be a
complicated job that might degenerate into
petty name-calling and prove ineffectual in
the end.
Mr. Lodge may be a victim of misunder
standing himself, if he thinks that a press
agent would make policy. In this case, policy
is the client’s product. The basic task is to
create good will and a receptive public by
telling the truth about it more skillfully than
the opposition tells lies about it. A govern
ment-called conference of leading American
publicists to consider that task might not be
a bad idea — if it isn’t too late.
As Pegler Sees It
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright by Kin? Features Syndicate, Inc.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—These essays have
contended that professional gossips, gath
ering prattle about the vain illiterates, the
transitory spouses, the con-men and gun
men, communists and innocents of the
amusement industry, should be closely su
pervised by adult editors of proven pro
fessional judgment. Otherwise, these
strongly opinionated children may do mis
chief where they may not so intend.
Since the discovery of the constitution
by a little party of serious thinkers con
sisting of one night-club comedian, one
movie actress, a press-agent and a jewelry
salesman, in the cub room of The Stork,
in 1935, newspaper columns originally al
lotted to babble of no conceivable impor
tance have been more and more usurped
for loaded subjects. Journalists who gradu
ated from the rank of office boy by the
process of putting on long .pants have be
come editorialists of tl)e most emphatic
personality. They argue social platitudes
with a savage vehemence which impugns
the decency of citizens who detest them
personally for valid reasons of taste, man
ners and intelligence.
They are not necessarily unintelligent or
even insincere, although the standard of
book-learning is not high and some have
become so rigidly fixed in holy* attitudes
that they preach even in smirking innuen
does about current adulteries. All of them
earnestly believe that they are competent
to lay down foreign policy, and would abol
ish Jim Crow in Mississippi, but not in the
Stork or Twenty-One.
The ensuing paragraph is an example of
that political publicity, and propaganda,
which is published in the guise of innocent
babble about the amusement trade:
“At the Larry Ad^er opening, at Cafe So
ciety, famous Helen Keller was able to fol
low the harmonica rhythms this way: A
friend finger-coded the tempo to the palm
of Miss Keller’s hand. Sitting at the same
table, Jo Davidson alternately cried
‘bravo!’ and caricatured Larry on a nap
kin.”
This is from the column of Ed Sullivan,
of the New York News. Mr. Sullivan sel
dom attempts a coherent discussion of any
of the strong subjects which he flicks. That
would require continuous thought and or
ganization of lauguage. A child can string
together little 30-word blurts of unrelated
notes. Yung reporters and ageing journa
lists of proven professional class are em
bittered by the recognition and pay ac
corded some of the Broadway and Holly
wood tattlers.
Analyze this item.
Larry Adler is a vaudeville act. He plays
a mouth organ. The mouth organ is a de
vice, not an instrument. The playing of it,
however well, is more a trick than an art.
There is nothing new about Adler’s skill.
He has been at it for years. No news here.
Helen Keller is deaf, dumb and blind
and an inveterate attraction, now 67. She
was communicating by touch before Mr.
Sullivan was born. She has been giving
these demonstrations in public for more
than 50 years. She knowingly chose her
political company a long time ago. No
news here.
Davidson is a sculptor identified with an
offshoot of the late Sidney Hillman’s polit
ical action committee. The title of his po
litical cell suggests that it speaks for ar
tists, scientists and professional persons.
Actually few scientists joined it and the
vast majority who never did lacked the
means so to inform the public. Any dauber,
mud-pie modeler, mouth organist or
Broadway - Hollywood - Miami gambling
house paragrapher may call himself an
artist or professional man. Mr. Adler may
call himself an artist just as a phrenologist
may call himself a professor. Even Mr.
Sullivan is a professional man in the sense
that he is a journalist of a sort. He has
been implicated in some proceedings on
the platforms of movie houses as a master
of ceremonies and he once wrote with en
dearing naivete of the delight of painting
one’s face and exposing one’s self to the
rapturous awe of the passing public by
standing at the stage door. He is not bad,
but juvenile. Yet he has the power to make
propaganda and grant free advertising.
Larry Adler is mentioned three times in
the reports toCongress of the late Dies
committee on un-American activities,
down to 1943. His name occurs repeatedly
in further reports not yet indexed.
Helen Keller is cited 11 times down to
1943. Davidson’s name is reported twice
to 1943 and several times more since. A
head of one of the late Roosevelt’s cosmic
boondoggles, Nelson Rockefeller sent Da
vidson on a delightful South American tour
during the war and paid him $20,000 of the
citizens’ money to make mud casts of the
heads of eight Latin-American presidents.
Most of them are political dead ducks now.
The Cafe Society (uptown) thus adver
tised gratuitously in this typical paragraph
is the outpost of the downtown house of the
same chain. Both are frequented by com
munists.
It may seem incredible that Mr. Sullivan
is so ill-read that he had not learned that
the Josephsons. who own both places, were
citecl in the recent reports of the commit
tee on un-American activities.
The committee was told that Leon Jo
sephson was a communist who went abroad
on a fraudulent American passport and got
counterfeit American passports for Ger
hart Eisler and others, Eisler is described
as the commanding communist of the So
viet treachery in the United States.
Lester Maynard, the U. S. consul-general
in Copehagen, interviewed Leon Joseph
son in jail there and told the State Depart
ment that Josephson said he was a mem
ber of the inner circle of the communist
party of America; that he considered the
orders of his communist central committee
to be superior to all the laws of the United
States and that he would commit any act
short of murder to carry out the commit
tees orders. Leon Josephson was convict
ed of contempt of Congress and sentenced
to one year in jail and fined $1,000.
T JnnV t,e^tlfled thi*t Bernard Josephson,
Leons brother, was the incorporator of the
andPthaLhhich,0prTates botb night clubs
4 'th,e Wlfe of Leon owns one-half of
S,fli qrri1Cei?.Se ,for the resort which Mr.
advertised. There is further strong
testimony concerning Bernard Josephson.
&o there was no news value to justify
inis propaganda concerning this resort and
these persons.
SHARPENING UP!
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The Marshall Plan
By STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON The official
administration version of the
Marshall plan is now being
whipped into final shape. Ac
cording to present intentions it
will be submitted to the Con
gress as soon as the interim aid
program has been passed. For
some weeks in an atmosphere of
considerable confusion a num
ber of committees composed of
representatives of the interested
government departments have
been busily combing over the
sixteen-nation Paris report in an
attempt to revise it in terms of
American availabilities. Other
committees have bee- attempt
ing to draw up a blueprint of the
organization which is to be
chaiged with administering the
program. President Truman will
shortly unveil the results of all
this effort.
There may be last - minute
changes but the chances now
are that the President will call
for a large separate government
agency to be headed by a single
administrator directly responsi
ble only to the President. This
agency would be charged only
with the foreign aspects of the
program—the allocation and ad
ministration of the dollars and
goods for the European countries.
The new agency would be button
ed into the rest of the government
by a complicated committee
system. One commitee on which
the State Department would be
represented would be responsi
ble for co-ordinating the work of
the agency with American for
eign policy. Other committees
with representatives of the Com
merce Treasury and Agricul
ture Departments would deal
with the impact of the program
on the domestic economy. The
idea of a board of directors to
work with the Administration
has been tentatively discarded
as unworkable.
The cumbersome committee
system envisaged in this plan
has in the past tended to bring
in its train a rich crop cf rows
and jurisdictional disputes and
an elephantine slowness of act
ion. The plan may be greatly
revised before it is submitted to
Congress. And under any c i r
cumstances Congress is pretty
A Fast One
By PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON—How the Rus
sians in 1946 compiled a three
volume, 5000page “Catalogue of
American Engineering and in
dustry,” which today looks like
an index to strategic bombing
and sabotage targets in the Unit
er States, is a little known story.
But is particularly appropriate
now, because of all the pressure .
in Congress to stop exports and i
to have the Department of Com
merce report on U. S. firms
that have sold goods to Russia
in the past.
Compiling this Russian cata
logue on American industry is
unquestionably one of the smart
est jobs of intelligence gather
ing ever put over. If the U. S.
Air Force had had comparable
information on Germany, the
task of the strategic bombers
would have been much simpler.
The Russians now have com
plete information on the U. S.,
catalogued for ready reference
when needed.
On its face, the Russian cata
logue looks as innocent as a
Sears-Roebuck job, only for a
different line of merchandise.
Where to buy steam shovels, tur
ret lathes, mining machinery,
rolling mills, petroleum refin
eries, food processing machin
ery—any and every kind of in
dustrial equipment. How to build
a school, a house, a sewage sys
tem, an auto plant, railroad
shops, assembly lines for the
mass production of airplanes.
Strictly speaking, there are no
military secrets in these three
big, fat, slick paper volumes,
each weighing over five pounds.
All the information they contain
could be duplicated in a good set
of text - books for a technical
school and in countless trade
publications. But they give mili
tary intelligence men the creeps.
The job of compiling this vast
work on American industry was
done by Amtorg Trading Corpor
ation. This is the Soviet purchas
ing agent in the U. S. for all
goods going from “America to
Russian government,’’ which
gives the outfit its name.
Amtorg began to compile an
annual “Catalogue of American
Engineering and Industry” in
1939. The idea was to make a
report on American technology,
manufacturing methods, and
machine and architectural de
signing.
The first half - dozen volumes
seem to have been routine af
fairs. But, at the end of the war,
while the Russians still had a big
“purchasing mission” staff
in this country ordering up
Lend - Lease supplies, they ap
parently decided to do a super
colossal job for the next year.
Bear in mind what the politi
cal situation was at that time.
Russia was still an ally. Every
one was counting on a glorious
era of peace ahead. There was
talk of a one billion or even a
three billion dollar loan to Rus
sia for reconstruction.
Naturally, every American
manufacturer wanted a piece of.
the Russian business. Amtorg
approached all the American |
concerns with which it had done |
business. They were solicited to
take full-page ads in the back of
the catalogue. Six hundred and
eighty-five of them did. Some
took two and three pages. The
result is that 1367 of the 6000
pages are ads.
The advertisers represent the
blue book of American industry.
' All the big firms are there,
from Allis - Chalmers right
through the alphabet to Yale
locks. Proceeds of the ads un
questionably paid for printing
and binding in neat blue cloth
boards, with gold letters. So Am
torg got its catalogue free of
charge.
The 3600 pages of reading mat
ter, in Russian text save for the
names and addresses of Ameri
can firms, are profusely illus
trated.
There are air views of fac
tories, industrial areas, port
facilities, bridges, public build
ings. Not only that, there are
maps and engineers’ drawings
of many key industrial factory
layouts.
For instance, there is a fine
scale plan of the big new Gene
va Steel plant at Provo, Utah,
with railroad yards and build
ings labeled. At a glance, any
one could see just where the
bomb ought to be dropped to put
the plant out of business.
There is no using censuring
the American firms for having
contributed to this catalogue,
just as there is no point in criti
cizing any that may have been
exporting to Russia. There
are no laws against it. The in
formation furnished is common
knowledge in the free enterpris
ing U. S., where it’s good busi
ness to co-operate with prospec
tive customers. But it hurt* to
be made a sucker.
certain to treat it with scant re-1
spect since Congress is clearly j
determined to make up its own!
mind on how the program is to
be administered.
More interesting than the of
ficial Administration version of
how the foreign aid program is
to be organized is the fact that
the great majority of the tech
nicians who have been studying
the European needs have reach
ed much the same disturbing
conclusions. Fir-st they doubt
that the enormous job of trans
forming western Europe into a
going concern can be accom
plished in a short four years.
Some estimates of the time ac
tually required are as high as
ten years. Second they are pri
vately convinced that the official
figures for the over-all amount
required — between sixteen and
twenty billion dollars—just will
not do the job. The statistics
seem to many of these techni
cians to indicate that the cost
to this country of an economical-,
ly and politically healthy Europe
may come in the end to not
much less than thirty billion
dollars.
That is where the second great
issue which now confronts the
Congress the price issue bears
so heavily on the European re
covery program. For the politi
cal pressure inherent in the
price issue is wholly in the- di
rection of a sharp reduction in
whatever sum the Administra
tion asks for the European pro
gram. And that pressure is very
great indeed. As one of the Dem-1
ocratic party’s shrewder panjan
drums has - remarked “Politics 1
Lagging Behind
An Editorial from the Gastonia Gavetti
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The Wilmington News, in a re
cent editorial, quoted a member
of North Carolina State Ports
Authority, after he had viewed
deep water terminal facilities in
Savannah and Charleston, as
saying:
“I had no idea they were so
far ahead of us in port develop
ment and utilization.”
Undoubtedly, thousands of
other North Carolinians would
comment ^likewise if they -saw
what the other South Atlantic
ports have done.
There is an intense, highly
competitive race on for the wa
ter-borne commerce of this rich
section of the United States.
Those ports with modern facili
ties, sound promotion and regu
lar steamship service, are going
to get this traffic. Those who lag
behind will eventually drop ou*
of the competition. No matter
what they’ve done in the past,
today’s accomplishments are
what count.
As others forge ahead, they
give the citizens of their states
the advantage of better rates,
provide additional employment,
bring in fresh dollars and, most
important of all, extend a real
invitation to the establishment of
heavy industry. As an exam
ple of the latter, the port facili
ties of Savannah were the de
ciding factor in location of a
$11,000,000 paper factory there.
The port is Wilmington’s
greatest natural asset.
But if we delay much longer ,
in its development, then Charles'
ton, Norfolk and Savannah will
not only get the business right
fully belonging to us but will
keep it. Deep-water transporta
tion is a conservative business
and once ties are made, they are
hard to break.
There is no doubt that inspect
ion of the modern and expand
ing facilities at Savannah and
Charleston inspirt I
bers of the St:'
ty to greater effort <
termination is sti
ever to obtain a r
now idle North Carolina
yard for conversion n' ?
nals and allied industi
But this, as well
cannot be real zc1 "
state-wide body
maximum suppo
Carolina, especi;
mont, which sta
the most from es:
real stab port ■ <
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limited onl>
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forthcoming |
Carolina i I
the real : I
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aroused but t. it
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behind that i geb-yH
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dozen leading ,s I
counties in t 8
interested in th (4
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our principal Pli: . |
of this city, pref I
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tiles, Incorpori 8
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past year or jl
much time to y ■
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Dehydration
Is Dangerous
By WILLIAM A. O’BRIEN, MD.
m5la.r*al ,dis* ■ - ' are still
one of the chief causes of deaths
in the first year of life. Rates
vtry fr°m °! 1 §on and Maine,
^here the e to
Mexico arr here it is
common.
Why dii rrh< .... arc
disappearing in certain parts of
•he^°Unry * iers,
is difficult to , :,o:r,n. unless one
takes into account the influence
of sanitation
Diarrhe; , thf,
most difficult > ■ mii ■ ,
two years of li d during the
newborn p< mdern .urish
ed mtants Pa ■ be in
structed as to t. tance of
giving their cm! ' .Qod
if diarrheal d are to be
prevented.
Treatment of Cal di
seases in infants e
venting or overc;
tion, the loss
erals. Althou
have been tried
these diseases
which has stoo
is the administ
and mineral; ;
are being lost. Milk and other
foods always aggravate the con
dition.
When diar-. .. ' . it is
important t>. w;11... ; i, .; m
there is vomitinr nr. : ; giVt -n.
jections o t v.
under the skin. Ii t"-v is no
vomiting, water and minerals
may be given by n
Examination of tissue fluids of
infants show that p la.-sium and
sodium are the miner.d *'bicb
are lost in greatest amount. ,
Adding these miner; v. a
ter has been tried with g . ,i e
suits.
Diarrhea may develop in c il
dren from infections in van us
parts of the bodv. Although
treatment may be aimer at
these infections,
dration treat1;
administered.
today is the price ol pc rk e
—and nothing else
That explains why in
cratic political circles ' .e
days there is an atm
slightly nervous im .1.m
marked contrast I
the tomb which pmmiii i
a year ago. For the D<
strategists are pretty
that whether or not t
his intention the i
stand on the price a ha
neatly draped the Ret
over a barrel. The re
Republicans who dolefully ■
The danger —and it is
real danger—is that the Repub
licans will succumb to the u mp
European recovery pi
tation to retaliate by
shreds. Obvious!', tl e
mediately painless way t
vent $5 w'heat is to 1
wheat to Europe
was this danger which
sent in the minds of such I >s
dential advisers as Si r
Harriman and Forrest
they urged him not to g ! ,
whole way for rationing an i
price control.
The sentiment in ravoi
bargain basemeni Mars
has been clearly demor.stra
on Capitol Hill in th«
days. In view of the mo
pressure of the price
would be miraculous if
sentiment did not exist
responsible leaders on *
of the aisle and especially Sen
ator Arthur Vandenberp
Representative Chnii”
Eaton are fortunately fu.h
vinced that it is impo
buy peace at cut rates, rh ■ c
ting now seems to bo i
spite the fierce political o.i ■’
provided by high prices tuer
views will prevail
Copyright, 1947, Net*
Herald Tribune In