Show Skills US U.S. Needs Have Many u. u nn v Useful Citizens Remain Idle de deIn In Displaced Person Camps By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON Its It's Its It's a strange thing g about us Americans who which states that grew up under a Declaration of Independence were we're all born free and equal l and a Constitution which is so scornful scornful scornful scorn scorn- ful of blue blood that it specifically declares that no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall without the consent of congress accept any present emolument office or title of any kind whatever from any king prince or foreign state In other words were we're supposed to believe a mans man's m ms m's a man for a a that It Nev Nevertheless come election eve somebody always gets very excited excited excited ex ex- ex- ex cited about the ancestors of any prospective candidate for far the office of president or the office of dogcatcher for that matter dispatch dispatch dispatch dis- dis So I wasn't surprised to see a patch come over the wires saying II that somebody who says his I tf a J r grandfather wasi was m I the brother of the Va i grandfather of General Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- f. f hower is in a at t displaced persons persons' peri per per- l f in i sons' sons camp l Denmark Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Elsen- hower when questioned says 3 g. g his ancestors rs J came to America s before before the revolution revolution revolution revo revo- lution and he has Baukhage little or no information information information mation about the family in Europe A A. good American answer Id I'd say And it serves to bring up the question question question ques ques- tion of displaced persons in Europe a matter with which the congress of the United States is mildly concerned concerned concerned con con- at present Not as much concerned however as Rep William William William Wil Wil- liam G. G Stratton Rep Ill would like since he has introduced a bill biU to Uto authorize the United States to take its fair share in the resettlement resettlement reset reset- of displaced persons in Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many Austria and Italy including relatives of citizens or members of the armed forces by permitting their admission to the United States In a number equivalent to a part of the total quota numbers unused during during dur dur- ing the war years There are some 11 million persons who were enslaved captured in war warr or r thrown into concentration camps by the Nazis who have hav been sent senti i home borne and others who like the alleged relative of General GeneralI I Eisenhower and many who have escaped from under the iron curtain curtain curtain cur cur- tain since the war can never go home for fear of political persecution persecution persecution tion in Soviet-controlled Soviet countries where they would face slavery or death leath Fifty per cent of these still In the camps are women and chil chil- dren One-fifth One are Jews Many have skills andare andare and andare are only too anxious to use them And there is room for them or somebody to take the place of the manpower which has been drained from the farms in the Middle West into factories There are who are trained farm workers Now instead of producing food for others and easing easing easing ing the terrific strain on the American American Ameri Ameri- can farms due to the shift in population population population lation these are eating at Americas America's expense I doubt if any American is hardhearted enough to say I III am not my brothers brother's keep keep- er Send em cm all back where they came from to strengthen the sinews of the Communist dictatorship dictatorship dictatorship dictator dictator- ship and live out their lives in slavery if they are allowed to live at all Breaking down the DP census under the agriculture classification tion made by American officials we have Farmers all an types Agronomists Lumbermen 70 1 Hunters fishermen Millers l 1491 1191 Other agric workers Many other skills are represent represent- ed Need any carpenters More than are in the camps nearly 2000 painters altogether more than trained in construction and maintenance And so on No comment is necessary on the items Hospital attendants 1135 nurses physicians and surgeons surgeons surgeons sur sur- geons 1763 or from the housewives housewives' housewives housewives' housewives housewives' house house- wives' wives point of view Domestics It isn't as if we had thousands thousands thou thou- sands of unemployed in this country or that we weren't trying trying trying try try- ing to increase production to feed and house our people It costs our army that that- means you per day to keep these people semi-prisoners semi growing up to be useless citizens by denying them freedom and hope What does it cost our consciences |