Show dr s have hrany iray skills U 5 ne needs e d s useful citizens stay idle in displaced person camps comm F by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington its a strange thing about us americans who grew up under a declaration of independence which states that were all born free and equal and a constitution which is so scornful 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 t any present emolument office or title of any kind whatever from any king prince or foreign state in other words were supposed to believe a mans a man for a that nevertheless come election eve somebody always gets very e ex x cited about the ancestors of any prospective cand date for the office of president or the office of dogcatcher for that matter so I 1 wasn gasn t surprised to see a flis dis patch come over the wires saying that somebody who says his grandfather was the brother of the grandfather of general eisen hower is in a displaced per sons camp in denmark eisen bower when questioned says his ancestors came to america before the revo lution and he has baukhage little or no anfor nation about the family in europe A good american answer I 1 d say and it serves to bring up the ques tion of displaced persons in europe a matter with which the congress of the united states is mildly con berned at present not as much concerned however as rep wil liam G stratton rep ill would like since he has introduced a bill to authorize the united sta states tes to take its fair share in the reset bement of displaced persons in ger many austria and italy including relatives of citizens or members of the armed forces by permitting pe their admission to the un ted states in a number equivalent to a part of the total quota numbers unused dur ing the war years there are some 11 million persons who were enslaved captured in war or thrown into concentration camps by the naz s who have been sent home and others who rho ike 1 ke the alleged relative of general eisenhower Elsen hower and many who have escaped from under the iron cur tain since the war can never go home for or fear ear of 0 poetical pol tion in soviet controlled countries where they would face slavery or death fifty per cent of these still in the camps are women and chil dren one fifth are jews many have skills and 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 he the farms in the middle west into factories there are 95 who are trained farm workers now instead of producing food for others and ea aas s ing the terrific strain on the amen ameri can farms due to the shift in lation these are eating at america americas s expense I 1 doubt tt if any american Is hardhearted enough to say I 1 am not my brother brothers s keeper send em all back where they came from to strengthen the sinews of the communist 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 classi fica tion made by american officials we have farmers all types agronomists 5 lumbermen hunters fishermen millers 1191 other agric workers I 1 10 many other skills are represent ed need any carpenters 9 7 more than 5 are in the camps nearly 2 pa aters altogether more than trained in construction and ma nten ance and so on no comment is necessary on the items hospital attendants 1 nurses 4 phys cans ans and sur geons 1763 1 or from the house wives point of view domestics it isn t as if it we had thou sands of unemployed in this country or that we t try lag ing to increase production to teed feed and house our people it costs our army that means you per day to keep these people semi prisoners grow ng up to be useless citizens by denying 9 them freedom and hope what does it cost our consciences 7 |