Europeans Still Fail To Carry Their
Share Of Load Under Marshall Plan
By PETER EDSON
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WASHINGTON (NEA) Economic eooperatioa Administrator Paul
Hoffman haa asked for next year'e Marshall Plan fundi. Last year It
took Mr. Hoffman from January to August to let his dough. Ht asked
for $3,800,000,000. What be got was $4,800,000,000.
This year's ECA budget calls for $3,100,000,000. There's no telling
what he'll get, but the hatchet mea were ready and waiting to cut
him down.
No one but demon auto sales
man would stick at making his
sale the way Mr. Hoffman has.
Probably no one but a demon au
to salesman could get as much for
ECA as b gets, even after the
cuts.
The one big thing that Mr. Hoff
man and the ECA have been
working for is little understood.
It is really the preservation of
western civiliistion. That means
it is a struggle against world Com
munism. If Communism wins,
western civilization will disappear.
In its place will be substituted a
semi-barbaric Oriental civilization.
That is why this battle has to be
fought in western Europe first
not in the Orient.
In the law which Congress pssi
ed to get up ECA, two objectives
were stated. One was to aid Euro
pean recovery. The other was to
promote European unity.
The first of these objectivse has
been coming along pretty well. The
total output of goods and services
in the 18 Marshall Plan countries
was valued at $155,000,000,000 in
1938. In 1947 it was down to $138,
000,000,000. Last year it was $164,
000.000.000. This Is an HVi percent
increase in two years, a 64 per
cent increase over prewar, with
all figures calculated at 1948
prices.
One of the most frequent chargea
thrown against ECA is that the
Europeans are loafing, living lush
off of American aid. This may be
the impression of congressional
junketeers who have the plush car
peta rolled out for them, or for
American night club tourists who
hit the hot spots. What the fig
ures show is that consumption of
food, clothing, etc., by private con
sumers was only $1,000,000,000
higher in 1949 than the $114,000,
000.000 of 1938, although western
Europe's population has increased
by more than 10 per cent
OEEC's new report is not over-
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optimistic, but western Europe's
dollar gap ia closing. There was
a deficit ot 7,soo,oou,ouu in i7
It fell to $5,000,000,000 in 1948 and
to an estimated $4,000,000,000 for
1949. Barring catastrophe, the dol
lar gap can be cut to between zero
and $2,000,000,000 by the end of
the Marshall Plan in 1952.
Where Nations Are Remiss
It is the unification of western
Europe that recovery has been
most disappointing. OEEC the
18-nation Organization for Euro
pean Economic Recovery which
corresponds to the ECA in Wash
ington is given credit for having
developed a good technical staff of
technicians. It will probably be
continued as a subsidiary of the
Council of Ministers after the Mar
shall Plan is all washed up.
But it is this Council of Minis
ters which is regarded in Wash
ington as making haste too slowly
Paul Hoffman went to Europe last
October in an effort to speed them
up. He made them a Dutch Uncle
speech on what they had to do to
promote European economic unity
It was widely hsiled, and accepted
in Europe on general principlea.
But it did not bring satisfactory
action.
Agreement waa made to cut in-tra-European
quantitative restric
tions on trade by SO per sent. But
the report on Europe'a system of
dual pricing was not acted upon.
And nothing was done to set up a
better exchange system for buro
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The appointment of Dr. Dirk
Stikker of Holland as political boss
or co-ordinator of OEEC with the
Council of Ministers was consid
ered a good step. He is known to
be devoted to the objectives of
greater European economic unity.
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Of Flying Loggers
Stanley Hatfield, Glide logger
who won Lawson's contest for
"axe-wielding." has been known as
one of Oregon's flying loggers since
last October when he and his broth
er, Leslie, laid claim to that title
by flying far up tne Norm umpqua
river each day to work. They flew
in Leslie's Piper Cub. The broth
ers are no working for Associated
Plywood and report , that they
would fly to work there, too, if
there were some place to aet the
plane down.
Latest feat of the Hatfields is
topping trees with a chain ssw.
which they find quite successful
on a limited basis.
On Of Stat School
Escapees Is Locattd
CENTRALIA, Wash., March 21.
UP Officials at the state school
for girls at Grand Mound aaid
Monday afternon only one of seven
inmatea who left the institution
late Sunday afternoon has been
located.
Centralia police said they were
told the escapees included two 17
year olds, two 16-year olds, and
others IS, 18 and 17. All were wear
ing cotton print dresses and green
jackets.
The one escapee captured was
aaid to be in Tacoma.
The state school for boys at
Chehalis also had three runaways
but only momentarily.
One youth on Sunday afternoon
got as far as Toledo before the
state patrol nabbed him. Early
Monday two more went only sev
eral miles south of Chehalis be
fore meeting a Lewis county depu
ty sheriff just leaving his farm
home. He returned them to the
school.
Rehearsal Set
At Jr. High For
Camp Fire Story
Participants In the Camp Fire
Story, to be presented Saturday,
March 24, at 8 p.m. will hold a
dress rehearsal Thursday at 7:30
p.m. in the junior high school au
ditorium. The pageant, to be presented in
pantomine with a chorus of some
600 Camp Fire Girls, in the bal
cony, ia acheduled to take about
an hour and a half. Charles Rirk
etts is director of music, with Mrs.
Lynn Berkley as accompanist. Cur
tain time ia 8 p.m.
Miss Lois Fitzgibbont Is direct
ing the stage production, assisted
behind the scenes by Mrs. Dale
Sail, Mra. Charlea Leach, Mrs. Os
car Amundson and Mrs. Lloyd
Gamble.
Kiwanis club members are hav
ing the programa printed for the
evening's performance and Boy
Scouts will act aa ushers.
Tom Pargeter, Kiwanis club
member, ia heading a stage crew
to be composed of Kiwanis club
members or other civic club mem
bers. R. R. Brand will furnish an
operator for the lights and loud
speaker. ,
Two apecial music numbers are
being arranged, one by the Camp
Fire Girla from Riversdale school
under the direction of Mr. Brown
field, and the second by the Win
ston Camp Fire Girls.
Properties and scenery are in
charge of Mrs. Morris Bowker.
Mrs. Albert Flegel, Mrs. George
Niday, Mra. Tom Lindhloom, Mrs.
Ray Lehman, Mra. Harry B ru
bs ker, Mrs. Robert Gladwell and
Mrs. C. O. Russell.
Make-up will be In charge of
Mrs. Jack Chapman, Mra. Harold
Hoyt and Mrs. Roy Stein. Mrs.
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shong are the committee on cut
tumes. Mist Fitzgibbont and Mrt.
Leonard Gibson are general chair
men for the production.
Attorney Crawls To Car
After Skiing Accident
SPOKANE, March 21. - (.7)
United Statea Attorney Harvey
Erirkson crawled more than a mile
to hia car and then drove for help
after breaking a leg while skiing
Saturday.
Erickson, who was introduced to
the sport only a month ago, waa
skiing alone in the foothills south
east of here, his asssitant, Frank
R. Freeman laid,
"He told me that he hopped end
crawled with the aid of two ski
poles for more than a mile to hit
car," Freeman related.
Starting the car waa the hardest
part ot the self-rescue mission.
Erickson had to maneuver himse'f
into such a position that he could
press the starter with hia hand.
Ericksoa't leg it badly swollen
and it may be aeveral daya before
a cast eaa be used, his physician
reported.
The sea tpider It a remote rela
tive of the crab and lobster.
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