Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS truman signs fans bi till for extension ex of 01 european Evro lid aid hn another enother other 15 months U S launches bond sale drive ED Kni TORS TOnS NOTE when are expressed in these columns they are those thoe ol of western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily ot of this newspaper AID BILL lf has truman okay f A bill to give billion dollars to y the european recovery program prop am A over ever the next 18 15 months with ono one i billion available at once was i 1 signed by president truman MIL MH TRUMAN an aa is s sk a quaint r capital custom in such matters 1 signed theba tha bill with several pens eight in fact ewen even mr truman himself was wag moved to observe jests angly that this will probably look s like a forgery but it really the bill which mr truman signed signell allots more than one eighth of the entire budget of the united states to foreign aid mr truman trman ever a meticulous man 1 carefully wiped the points of the pens handed one each to seven witnesses to tho the signing and kept one for sen arthur who was unable to attend THERE WAS a check and balance in the bill however with the billion dollars to bo be made available at once aid could bo be kept flowing to the marshall plan countries coun tiles of western europe until votes th the erest rest odthe of the cash later laier CHURCHMEN UN asks facts the united nations heeding protests of hungary and bulgaria against its consideration of the trials of Ca cardinal rainal and protestant churchmen instead the tha UN invited the two soviet satellite countries to io tell their stories of the imprisonment of the cardinal and other clergymen THE ItUS RUSSIAN SIAN delegation indicated tha to nations would disregard fhe invitation since both hungary and bulgaria have contended the trials wore were internal matters and no business of the 00 UN the world however voted SO 30 to I 1 to put the church caroi cases on itse iian genda agenda and to go on with a full discussion of them U v S ailed delegate ate benjamin V cohen argued the committee should delay inviting any nations or churches to send spokesmen until it decides how it wants to deal with tho the question dussias Rus sias jacob A malik indicated the two russian satellites would reject such an invitation and accused bolivia of violating the UN charter by seeking to invite religious organizations to the casual observer the entire matter was even even less than u cm post in n tea pot whatever tho UN ay might find as a result of rehashing the convictions of the churchmen what could UN do about it the force fit of UN in world peace retention efforts has been so meager as to cause critics to begin comparing it already with the old league of nations which died of impotency BOND DRIVE plan for security fy kick oft off speaker at the opening of tho opportunity bond drive ln arf which tho the government hopes to sell one billion 40 million dollars worth ot 0 US savings bonds to its people president truman keyed his remarks to the need for national security HE PICTURED tho the bond drive as providing another opportunity for purchasers to assure security for themselves and their country among other things the president said wo we know that we cannot have a sound and secure nation unless security Is the common common possession of our people farmer factory worker banker merchant school teach 1 er housewife all are buying security for themselves and each other when they buy savings bonds he added that every bond they have bought has given them much more reason to feel secure about the future their own and their count rys 11 THE PRESIDENT said bald the kickoff dinner was to honor three million volunteers in the tha bond sales bales program and declared they would be joined by another news boys who would ring the notions nations doorbells door bells bringing the message of tho the opportunity bond drive into 12 million american homes top qu question cation plaguing bond officials was the recession in employment lower prices and less consumer cash interfering with the bond drives reaching its goal COST in billions american taxpayers in covered employment would hayo have to dig into their pockets to the tuno tune of 0 billion dollars by 1055 to finance old age and survivors insurance under the proposals advanced by president truman and ills his administration DY BY THE YEAR YEAH 2000 when the program Is expected to hit its peak the proposed cost would have mounted to approximately 13 bil lion dollars this thin estimate made by the research council for economic security chicago Is based on a report from the advisory council on social security to the congress of a labor force of over 60 00 million now covers about abort 35 million or roughly three out of five jobs coverage Is now limited to persons employed in industry and commerce it Is proposed that tho the system be extended to cover the entire labor force in presenting both sides of the question the councils report includes a full page of pros and cons each bach side might be summarized as follows ON TILE TIIE ONE HAND it if employees plo s of commerce and industry are entitled to this protection why not employees employ bes on the farm find and in the household it if the tha goal of the system is to provide oven even a minimum of subsistence benefits must be raised now to keep in step with living costs an adequate system will reduce substantially tho the heavy burden of old ago age assistance on tho the other hand opponents of the proposed extension point out that of those excluded the majority are either cither protected by other systems fraro or are able to provide for themselves while tho the lowest inome income classes are employed too irregularly to c earn arn insured status i under any program if the cost of living ts is a valid reason for raising benefits now then logically tho the whole system should bo be geared to the cost of living fluctuating down us as well as up the bigger the system the better the promises of bigger and better pensions A ao M m w T p III U BU clam F pmj cwm mo 2760 baiss 41 U 1 um iia 2043 1813 0 00 au lf lit 1710 1750 1110 it 21 1 sus 2111 42 1 1743 mo ald 1100 7 7 fo too 00 11 M M lobea 33 0 0 1 63 4 1 tim no 30 avo 0 1 DO 1 itan 1 MO 9 04 1 77 mo 00 tr 03 comparative BENEFITS under present provision c f the social security law it Is assumed the worker has 10 years of coverage under proposed provi provisions howe however vcr monthly benefits would not bo be affected by length of time spent in covered employment chart prepared by research Ite search council for economic Econom lo security offers comparison of present benefit scales with those proposed in tho the administration program ACCIDENTS fewer noted hope aos as indicated that iho appalling tou toll ot of death and anju injury ry on US streets and highways n might be lessened the national safety council reported that 92 cities of more than population went through all of 1948 without without a traffic death the council reported that medford mass with a population of was the largest no death cl city last year I 1 FARM SURPLUS may hasten subsidy the administrations farm ex ports being too subtle in a movement to hasten payment of direct Ab subsidies sidles to farmers they were pointing out in the capital that on an oversupply over supply of pork and milk expected within the next two months may require president preside truman to ask immediate authority for such action SECRETARY of agriculture brannan said he already had discussed tuch such a proposal with the president at the present ti time me the tha government is committed to s support prices of those commodities by buying any surplus and taking it off the market this is supposed to keep the retail price up farm legislation passed by the congress authorized direct payments to farmers tor for pork and milk but this law does not go into effect until january 1 1050 meanwhile the tha agriculture secretory i said consumer prices on pork and milk probably would fall fail if the administration was allowed to make direct subsidy payments to producers DESPITE much sentiment to the contrary brannan said his department has had a quite favorable reaction to the proposed farm program which briefly would let farm products find their own price level through supply and demand with the government paying the farmer the tha difference in this and the support price in cash congressional critics of the farm program declare its cost will run into billions of dollars and that it will benefit neither the farmer nor the taxpayer because in the end the farmer and the taxpayer will be paying additional taxes to finance the program CANCER progress seen the men in white who wage an unceasing battle against cancer caught a glimmer of hope they felt sure they had bad discovered as they put if it what Is for all practical purposes a simple cheap and reasonably sure blood westfor test for cancer THE announcement was waa made with the customary caution and restraint of the men who work with test tubes reasonably sure was how they described the test but bu t it they had made such a discovery cove covery v it was a great stride forward toward victory over the terrible disease according to the announcement comparative studies at the university of chicago ot of the blood scrum crum of cancer patients and normal and other non cancerous individuals had revealed significant differences that led fed to the statement odthe of the new cancer blood test report of the university findings was made by professor charles D B who 10 40 years ago originated a now new treatment for prostatic cancer which has kept more than 25 per cent of the victims olive alive and well for more than eight years discussing the now new test he said that tests on almost indi divided into cancer patients apparently healthy persons and patients with non cancer ous diseases proved positive for oil all cancer cases negative for all normal persons and negative for all others tested except those with lung un 9 tuberculosis and massive acute infections inasmuch as tuberculosis and inflammatory flam matory processes can be readily diagnosed it was explained the test was not expected to confound cancer with other conditions KIWI rare chick nature lovers in new zealand rejoiced A sturdy mate kiwi chick was hatched at the hawkes bay game farm bringing to six the only known existing family of this nocturnal flightless flight iest bird which was thought to be extinct until a few years ago the mate male bird spent 81 days daya on the latest egg before the burst through we thie thick shell |