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Show YfTfieiY NEWS ANALYSIS Icritics Attack New Farm Program As Urging Unprecedented Controls; Extension Seen for Marshall Plan r.nrsed In these columns, they are those of (EDITOR'S NOTE: ".fand not nece.sarUy of this newspaper.) Western Newspaper union s m FARM PROGRAM: P7JfeT Truman's -weepM newValmlrogram met with m response on Capitol HiU. claimed it would carry the nation closer to socialism and wouW em power the government with un precedented farm controls and : PROPONENTS of the measure contended that consumer, . would lb. benefited because retail food prices would be allowed to seek their own 'To matter which school of thought was correct, it was inescapable that The program would use taxpayers-dollars taxpayers-dollars to guarantee farmers an to-come to-come equal to that of a recent 10-year 10-year period. Some opposition to the plan termed it as one that might be so expensive that it would push the U S treasury toward bankruptcy and would thoroughly regiment the farmer. CHARLES F. BRANNAN, secretary secre-tary of agriculture, conceded that "imponderables" such as weather and Improved farm techniques made it impossible now to estimate esti-mate the cost of the program. He said of the program that it probably would mean a heavy drain on consumers' dollars. Ha added that the government plans soon to undertake a costly new program to keep up the price of pork. If this program is approved, ap-proved, Brannan said, farmers would sell their pork for whatever it would bring. The government-meaning government-meaning the public then would pay the farmer the difference between be-tween the support price and the price the farmer actually received. REPRESENTATIVE Anderson (R., Minn.) was not impressed. He estimated the total government outlay out-lay under the program might run as high as 10 billion dollars a year. When it is remembered the government gov-ernment has no money except that which it gets from the people in taxes, objective observers were wondering who, if anyone could benefit by the program, since farmer and consumer alike would be paying out added funds to finance fi-nance it. MARSHALL PLAN: To Be Continued Europe appeared certain of continued con-tinued receipt of Marshall plan aid for another 15 months. An enthusiastic house of representatives, repre-sentatives, shouting down or beating beat-ing off every attempt to reduce the proposed appropriation figure, approved ap-proved the gift bill by a vote of 354 to 18. EVERY AMENDMENT which would have reduced the fund, or delayed action in order to study Europe's real needs, was brushed off by the majority. The bill, as approved by the house, was for 200 million dollars less than the bill which was voted by the senate. The upper chamber passed a measure appropriating 5.58 billion dollars. The house bill called for 5.38 billion. The house measure would authorize author-ize continued U. S. aid until July 1, 1950, subject to possible later cuts by the senate and house appropriations ap-propriations committees. It provided pro-vided 272 million dollars to encourage encour-age American private business to invest in recovery projects abroad. Such investments would be guaranteed guar-anteed against loss by confiscation of property overseas. FINAL VOTE on the house bill came after Majority Leader John W. McCormack (D Mass.) pleaded against a GOP-led economy drive with a warning that the "world is looking either to Washington or the Kremlin." On the passage vote, 125 Repub licans joined 229 Democrats in favor of the bill. Rep. John M, Vorys (R.. Oliim backed an amendment to cut of OLD AGE: No Elixir Impending old age affects many people in many ways. But to all who stand on its threshold, it is a topic of prime consideration. Of late, science, medicine and the psychiatrists all have been concerned con-cerned with the subject and apparently appar-ently little loath to be heard upon it. LATEST to ponder the problem of how one should approach old age and what may be expected in this period of life was a conference of 800 physicians from all over the nation. These physicians were all agreed that one of the biggest problems facing the medical profession in the problems of old age is making those added years healthy, happy and useful. Throughout the conference the warning was sounded again and again that something must be done to give men and women not only long life, but a healthy, happy and useful old age. THE SIMPLE and sad fact is that man's life has been extended beyond his present capacity to enjoy en-joy it as a useful citizen, the medical medi-cal authorities agreed. For in prolonging pro-longing life, science also prolonged suffering and misery all the chronic illnesses and disabilities which plague mankind in the declining declin-ing years. Dr. Chauncey Leake, of the University Uni-versity of Texas, said that young people as early as in high school should be taught how to grow old that is, how to cultivate hobbies and Intellectual curiosity and how to develop a systematic regimen for physical and mental hygiene. He declared the country should have an "old-age program" similar to the child-care program. HE ALSO URGED increased research re-search on drugs which may help the aged by preventing the disorders dis-orders to which old people are subject. sub-ject. But, coming out by the same door wherein he went, he warned that all hope for an "elixir of life" must be dismissed that there is no "miracle drug" to restore youth to ihe aged. Wherein he delivered himself of a truism well known even as Ponce de Leon was searching for the fountain of eternal vouth. 5u million dollars from the ap propriations. which was defeats Vorys, saying he favored the Mir shall plan and the North Atlanl.. pact, nevertheless warned that "v, have to keep strong here at hnn, - if we are to help out abro.-.n Vorys offered an amendment oi own to term what he called tt,. 'give-away" of American billiu,, it, too, was defeated. SACRIFICE: Love of Mate If the name of vanity truly "woman" then the sacrifice m.m. by a Chicago woman for her ribband rib-band must rank among the greater love" examples whici contained in the record MRS JOAN BIKRDZ. 20. h.,.; t ' husband who was striken with r,,-r. r,,-r. The disease had ravaged face to a point where an adult t.. him that he "looked like the v,v of Frankenstein." Mr. Bierd? a ., a patient in the Bronx N V v...... ans' hospital. He had written , wife that his face "caused , ment" when he attended a , ,, . and that he would never , , again. After receiving the letter hor 26-year-old husb.md ,h Bicrdz slashed both her arm. was arraigned in a Chicago . , on a charge of disorderly condu ,-, &HL TOLD the judge: "1 du, because I wanted people to look ., me, mstead of him . my i, has been told by VA doci.' - V " "n live onlv |