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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, February 8, 1950
SOUNDS LIKE MOSCOW’S PROPAGANDA
The recognition of Communist China by Great Bri
tain immediately produced demands in the United
States that this country reduce its assistance to the Bri
tish because of their failure to do as we de in regard to
recognizing the Communist government in China.
The implication behind such demands is that our eco
nomic assistance program is intended to require other
countries to accept the leadership of the United States
in their foreign relations and that, if they do not, we
will punish them by withdrawing the aid.
This is exactly what the Russians have been telling
everybody in Europe. Stalin and his propagandists have
been asserting that the Marshall Plan was designed to
control European nations and to make them subservient
to the United States. To “punish” the British for their
independent diplomatic ourse would be to prove the
correctness of the Moscow assertion that the real pur
pose of the recovery plan is the domination of Europe.
The United States has insisted that its economic re
covery plan was, and is, without hidden strings and ul
terior motives. The European countries have accepted
this declaration at its face value. It has remained for
Americans, some in Congress, to intimate that our dec
larations were sham and that, indeed, those who get our
help must become our puppets.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND POLITICS
There may be much merit to the program President
Truman is expected to recommend to Congress, provid
ing Government-financed scholarships and Federally
guaranteed loans to deserving college students on the
basis of need and ability.
We understand a bill is being prepared but no one
knows, as this is written, who the ultimate cost of the
program will be. Dr. Earl J. McGrath, Commissioner of
Education, has suggested an annual appropriation of
$300,000,000 and has estimated that it would provide
about 400,000 undergraduate scholarships and about
37,500 graduate and professional school students with
funds. Tentatively, state quotas would be determined
on the basis of the number of high school graduates and
the number of persons of college age in each state.
There may be considerable merit to the suggestion
that deserving college students have an opportunity to
go to college, regardless of their economic condition.
Nevertheless, there is danger that a program, financed
by the Federal Government, would become something
of a political grab-bag, with scholarships going in the
direction of possible ballots.
The advantages of higher education for as many
Americans as possible are obvious. Commissioner Mc
Grath, estimates that there are at least 2,000,000 per
sons of college age who are not enrolled and calls this
a “standing reminder of the short-sightedness of the
richest nation on earth.” If some process can be devolv
ed which will prevent political considerations from in
fluencing the granting of scholarships and loans, the
program might pay dividends to the nation in the years
to come.
ABUSE TAX-EXEMPTION
Educational institutions in the United States, enjoy
ing a tax-exempt status under the Federal income tax
laws, are rapidly developing a trend toward college
controlled businesses that are unrelated to education. A
recent report to the Association of American Colleges,
reveals that 445 colleges and universities operate pro
jects beyond their campuses for the purpose of getting
income from other than tuition fees or traditional
sources.
Dr. Carter Davidson, president of Union College, says
that some institutions are embarrassing their fellow
colleges by going into business enterprises that have no
Form Committee
To Press For
Alaska Statehood
• Continued from Paee One'
York, who wa selected Senator in
a special election following his
acceptance of membership. Liter
ally centuries of Congressional
experience are, however, repre
sented on the committee. Senators
Capper and White between them
served more than 50 years before
retiring in 1948.
The military is represented on
the committee by heroes ranging
from General of the Army Doug
las MacArthur to Sgt. Alvin C.
York. Other members are Robert
P. Patterson, former secretary of
war, and •'Maj. George Fielding
Eliot, military analyst for the
New York Herald Tribune.
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nim
itz, who directed the naval was in
the Pacific and knows the defense
| situation as it relates to Alaska, is
a member. So is Vice-Admiral
I Harry Hamlet, president of the
: Retired Officers’ Association, who
as a coast guard officer cruised
Alaska’s waters for many years.
The late H. H. (Hap) Arnold,
General of the Air Forces and a
long time booster for Alaska
statehood, had accepted member
ship on the committee before his
recent death. Another who died
after accepting membership was
Rex Beach, whose stories about
Alaska are known to millions of
Amci icans.
Outstanding women on the com
mittee include Oveta Culp Hobby,
who was WAC. Commander
I
I throughout the war; Mrs. J. Bor
den Harriman, formerly United
States Minister to Norway; Mrs.
J. L. Blair Buck, president of the
General Federation of Womens
Club..; Mrs. Ellsworth Hunting
ton, widow of the eminent geog
rapher, and Jeannette Paddock
Nichols, whose history of the
early political struggles of Alaska
reportstne events which sci the
stage for statehood for the Terri
tory.
Businessmen of the committee
include Jesse Holman Jones of
Texas; Ward Canaday, who de
cormection with educational
survey made by a committe<
inti a total investment of hi
$300,000,000 to $400,000,00
and owned by colleges inclu
oratories, cattle ranches anc
veloped the jeep for Willy-Over
land; Harold Boesehenstein, pres
ident of the Owens-Corning Fi
berglas Corporation; E. B. Mac
Naughton of Oregon; Cyrus Eaton,
Jr., of Ohio, and Croil Hunter,
president of Northwest Airlines.
Labor is represented also, by
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor;
Philip Murray, president of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza
iions, and Dave Beck, head of
the Teamsters Union at Seattle.
Prominent churchmen on the
committee include Dr. Daniel A.
Poling, Baptist, editor of the
Christian Herald and president of
the Internaitonal Society of Chris
tian Endeavor; Methodist Bishop
Gerald K. Kennedy of Oregon,
and Reinhold Niebuhr of Union
Theological Seminary. Kenneth
C. M. Sills, deputy to the general
convention of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, and Wilbur LaRoe,
Jr., former Moderator of the Gen
eral Assembly of the Presbyteri
an Church, U.S.A., are members,
as are several prominent Catho
lic laymen including Farley and
Michael Francis Doyle.
Doyle, Patterson and LaRoe, as
lawyers, have joined with the
committee’s other distinguished
members of the bar including
James M. Landis, Joseph R. Wil
son, Homer Curmmgs, Bartley
Crum and Francis Biddle in mov
ing for early statehood for Alaska.
Others on the committee in
clude: statesmen—Adolf A. Berle,
Jr., and Joseph C. Grew; econ
omists—Herbert Bayard Swope,
Stuart Chase and Morris Llewel
lyn Cooke; conservationists—Ira
N. Gabrielson, Jay N. (Ding) Darl
ing and Cornelia Bryce Pinchot;
artists—Henry Vamum Poor rnd
Belmore Browne.
The entertainment world is rep
resented by A1 Jolson, James
! Cagney, Joe E. Brown and Dar
ryl F. Zanuck.
Explorers who have added to
the world’s knowledge of the
North have also joined the state
hood movement. They include
Vilhjalmur Stefanson, Bradford
Washburn and William S. Carl
son.
Educators on the committee in
clude, besides those already men
activities. He cites a recent
? on which he served, show
gher learning amounting to
D. The enterprises involved
de farms, stores, testing lab
orange groves.
TO THE RESCUE -
SOOAUSM
CHURCHILL
, tioned, Sarah Gibson Blanding,
president of Vassar; Clarence R.
Decker, president of the Univers
ity of Kansas City; Henry M.
Wriston, president of Brown Uni
versity, and John W. Studebaker,
who for many years was for
many years U. S. Commissioner
of Education. The committee also
boasts a genuine philosopher,
John Dewey.
j Newspaper editors and pub
j lishers, in addition to those al
I ready mentioned, are Palmer
1 Hoyt of the Denver Post, Malcolm
I Muir of Newsweek, Jonathan
I Daniels of the Raleigh, N. C.,
I News and Observer and Marshall
| Field III of the Chicago Sun
1 Times.
Writers on the committee in- t
elude Robert E. Sherwood, Ken
neth Roberts, Grantland Riicfe,
Pearl S. Buck, Dorothy Cariiteld
Fisher, Rupert Hughes, Archibald
Mac Leish and Arthur Schlesin
ger, Jr.
The Alaska Statehood Bill,
which was reported to the House
by the Committee on Public Lands
last March by a vote of 24 to 1,
; recently was cleared for action
: on the House floor and is expected
to come to a vote within the next
few days. After statehood enabl
ing legislation passes the Senate,
it will be up to Alaskans to or
ganize a constitutional convention
and complete the work of gain
ing admission. Alaskans voted in
favor of statehood at an official
referendum in 1946. The last
States admitted to the Union were
Arizona and New Mexico in 1912.
Lewis Calls Coal
Operator “Liar”
At Coal Hearing
WASHINGTON, (/P> — John L.
Lewis called coal man George H.
Love a “liar by the clock” at a
Presidential board’s hearings to
day on the coal contract dispute.
Lewis flared up explosively at
the first question board chairman
David L. Cole put to Love, the
spokesman for the soft coal op
erators.
Cole asked whether Lewis ever
had presented any specific con
tract demands to the mine opera
tors.
Love said he was informed oy
Cyrus S. Ching (federal media
tion chief) that “It was the union
bargaining teumique to say (hat
‘you men own the mines, ( have
the nen in the palm of m»' hands
—what do you bid’?”
Lewis jumped up and leveled
off at Love across the table:
x
‘That’s an infamous an1 delib
erate lie. I said we redreseated
the men. I say to you, ‘George
Love, you’re a liar by the clock’.’’
Cole tried to interrupt. Love
protested: “I don’t want to go
into personalities, Mr. Cole.”
“Why not?” Lewis shouted.
“Why not?"
Cole restored calm and the
hearings went on.
The chairman announced just
before the Lewis outburst that
the hoard would not take formal
testimony, but would instead
question the principals in public
hearings to determine the facts.
In this way, Cole said, the
board could speed up its report
to the President “if one is neces
sary.” *
He did not elaborate on that
statement. President Truman has
asked for a report by Monday.
The board had some informal
sessions with Lewis and the coal
operators yesterday.
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