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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH SERVICE IN PEACE AND WAR American Red Cross Plays Important Role In Vital Job of Maintaining Soldiers7 Morale By Giving Aid in All Kinds of Emergencies By General George C. Marshall THE ARMED FORCES agree one factor that ranks high in the list of essentials for military personnel. And that is morale that combination of zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence which spurs the soldier, airmen, sailor, marine or coast guardsman to give his best for his country, his service, and himself. The man who has it, whether in peace or war, is a match for a dozen without it. The maintenance of good morale Is a primary military responsibil- - ity. All com-manding o f f recognize the importance of such factors as pay, food, shelter, clothing, religious facil-ities, training, sanitation, medi-cal care, proper discipline, to a military hospital in the United States. Although he could see, his face and eyelids were in need of much plastic surgery. His hand muscles were contracted. He was in great pain. The doctors and nurses were there with their skill-ful and considerate attention. But also at his side were those team mates of the medical staff, the Red Cross social worker and recre-ation worker, and their trained volunteer aides. The boy's mother, who spoke no English,, was anxious to visit him. He wanted to see her, but wished to wait until more plastic surgery could lessen the shock of his ap-pearance. The Red Cross helped him in planning for- his mother's visit and in writing letters to her. Then it assisted him and his mother through the trying experience of her visit, and helped him keep his courage up when he realized that his disfigurement and crippling of his hands were permanent. Later, the Red Cross planned with him and his family for his vo-cational and social adjustment on his return to civilian life, and assisted him in filing his claim for pension. All this involved many cooperative activities with doctors, nurses, and rehabilitation person-nel of the hospital, and constant correspondence with the Red Cross chapter of the boy's home town. I cite these stories to show that the serviceman has in the Red Cross an understanding counselor and ever present friend, working with the military, but not an organic part of it. A great civilian agency, one helpful arm extended into the serviceman's setting, the other reaching into the home. One arm is made up of Red Cross field directors and their staffs at military stations and hospitals in the United States and overseas. The other con-sists of the wide network of Red Cross chapters throughout this country and its possessions. leaves of ence, recrea-tion, and welfare activities. They recognize also an-other factor which, in my judg-ment, affects the serviceman's morale profoundly. That is the man's deep personal concern as to the well-bein- g of his home folks. And that is where the American Red Cross comes into the picture. Its importance to the well-bein- g of the servicemen of our democracy was one of the compelling reasons for my leaving private life to Shortly after Gen. George C. Marshall was appointed head of the American Red Cross he made a personal nation-wid- e tour of key local chapters to "look in-side" the organization. The infor-mation he gathered during that inspection tour he has set down in this series of challenging arti-cles. Watch for another report on the Red Cross by General Marsh-all next week. assume leadership of this great organization. A young married man, ordered to overseas duty, was aboard a transport about to sail when the Red Cross field director at the port received a wire from a Red Cross chapter in a distant city. It stated the man's wife had been rushed to a hospital, gave the doctor's diag-nosis, and urged the man's imme-diate presence. The field director phoned the commanding officer of the replacement center. The CO cleared with his post surgeon as to the seriousness of the diagnosis, had leave pa-pers prepared, and approved b Red Cross loan for the trip home. But when the field direc-tor arrived at the dock, the ship's gangplank had already been drawn in and it seemed " impossible to get the service-man off. An alert crane opera-tor on the dock offered to help, swung the long arm of his crane up over the rail, and low-ered the man to the dock. In another instance, a 20 year old soldier, seriously burned by an explosion, was flown from Japan" Field directors and chapters work together as a team, en-list the assistance of thousands of competent volunteers, and cooperate freely with all related public and private agencies. The military community has in the Red Cross field director a chan-nel to all the facilities of the na-tional organization and its chap-ters, such as Home Service, Volun-teer Services, Safety and Health Services, Disaster Services, Junior Red Cross and College Units. The civilian community through the Red Cross chapter has avail-able for the families of service per-sonnel all of those services in which the chapter is engaged, and in addi-tion the services of the field direc-tors at the military installations where the men and women from the community are on duty with the armed forces. Services rendered include com-munications in illness or other emergencies; information as to the location and welfare of the families at home or the men away from home; financial assistance in emer-gencies to service personnel and their dependents; reports for com-manding officers or medical offi-cers regarding home conditions, so-cial, economic, or health facts re-quired for the sympathetic consid-eration of questions of welfare, leave, discharge, diagnosis or treatment; supplemental recrea-tion for the able-bodie- d and assist-ance with medically-approve- d rec-reation for patients; and informa-tion concerning government bene-fits, and assistance in applying for them. I j I ism jn 1 nns. ' f '11 ; w I- - I J' 111 - T f I ' , fctel ' 1.1 h . i '' 1 ter I pyapwiiyiiBu''J"''1fyJpjj 6 JIJ?ll " ' H 1?i3i 1 2M , '" iff f i (J Jl ff( , vH . Jrji j ! A 4 The good right arm that is making it possible for this pa-tient in the veterans' hospital at Columbia, S. C, to answer the letters of the folks back home belongs to Mrs. Theo. Ravenel, Gray Lady chairman at the hospital for the Richland county Red Cross chapter. :'H WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS iritish Laborites on Rocky Road; Scientists Warn of ll-Bo-mb Threat; Innate Spy Hunt to Be Tiichless' E- C-lv DITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of 'Is !''trrn Newspaper Ijnion'a news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ' 1 1 I" ' 'l I "J .; 1 . - :, ' , . M t . ' ,s V' it - REPORT ON WEAPONS ... Sen. ' . Brlen McMahon (left) chairman of the joint congressional atomic 6'icijenergy committee, confers with Gen. Omar N, Bradley shortly be-ll More Bradley, who is chairman of the V. S. joint chiefs of staff, reported to the senate-hous- e group on possible types of mass-i-a destruction weapons an enemy might use against the U.S. SPUD TALK: Ethics vs. Dollars It was ethics versus American taxpayers' dollars as the senate argued whether it would be honest for congress to remove the price supports already promised on the 1950 potato crop. AS ALMOST every schoolboy knew, the government's potato pro-gram was one of the most jumbled, fantastic, reason-assaultin- g pro-cedures ever evolved in the U. S. Farmers were being paid a sub-sidy on potatoes to compensate them for market price differen-tials, each year the potato surplus was growing, and farmers were permitted to buy back the subsi-dized potatoes as low as one cent per hundred pounds for use as fer-tilizer. And all this in the face of world food shortages and a real need for the surplus potatoes by local relief agencies and school lunch programs over the nation. ODDLY ENOUGH, many Repub-licans were stringing along with the think-ing, with Sen. Scott Lucas, Illinois, Democratic floor leader, sponsor-ing a move to cancel price sup-ports for all 1950 potatoes not al-ready planted. Republicans favored ing retention of the 1950 subsidy plan included Senators Brewster, Maine, Aiken, Vermont, and MilH-ki- Colorado. Lucas was on firm ground as far as economy and mathematics went. Already the record showed, the U.S. is in the red 100 million dollars for price support operations on the 1949 crop alone. Lucas jibed at Republicans for talking about the need for economy and then opposing his potato-cur- b legislation. PROGRESSIVES: Support for Henry Too much attention to name-callin- g and too little attention to issues. That's the way O. John Rogge, former assistant attorney general of the United States, summed up the trouble with the new Progressive party of which Henry Wallace one-tim- e of the United States is the chief figure. ROGGE'S STATEMENT was made in support of Wallace, who had made a virtual demand that the party stop trying to "save face" for the Communists in dec-larations of policy. The party held a convention in Chicago to develop aims and ob-jectives during which Rogge de-clared of the party's being called "Red baiters": "We should be as unafraid of that label as we are of the labels 'Communist' or "Communist front.' " There were delegates who found signs of new attitudes among Soviet-friendshi- p groups as an out-growth of the The resolutions committee was re-ported to have shelved quietly an anti-Tit- o statement. Rogge touched on this schism briefly when he said: "WE SHALL NOT BEND reason backward in order to attempt to justify the conduct of the Comin-for-countries toward Yugoslavia. But when the Soviet Union offers a plan in the field of atomic en-ergy which, with all its faults, at least offers a better basis for open-ing and continuing negotiations than the Baruch plan, we are go-ing to say just that." No one doubted Rogge's stand. The Progressives, whether they were happy about it or not, were so completely tagged with Soviet-sympath- y labels that there would be no confusion in the minds of the voters when its candidates of-fered for office. Whadda You Think? millTAIN: Wj twhujse Call British Prime Minister Clement awT-le- e and his Labor party were 'V chc-- holding the reins of British Mkit.yernmentbut it had been a amc?hty close caU- - Tnere was 8 jnious question of how long the oor government could stand as l"Mll'esult of lts meaSer majority in . Ridded to that was the peril of J intra-part- y strife in which it I s reported In the i Lfty were planning a test of flyjingth with more moderate lead-- k of Attlee's government. H HE PROBLEM was an easily Bj(tl;ious one: Should the Labor easily in the face of its . Funsrbreadth escape from defeat in idfeaife elections, or should it strike out j (iofo dly for continuation and expan-:hickt-of socialism? ckage fhe primary interest in the elec- - idiejl-- or Ame"cans vras course, sther or not the British people committed to more socialism l resultant nationalism of indus- - . and their way of life, or had II y grown apprehensive enough 1 cerning the direction of govern-- J Wht to change it? 1 1 he answer was clear to the ex-- I I It that a bare majority of the I I Hple are satisfied with condi-''"i- s enough at least to return the or government to power. But, Lillimificantly enough, the balance igij j(that power had waned so much , . the past five years that it was "'iost nonexistent. iuiiwTHAT DID IT MEAN? It was lich too early to gauge the effect on the American econ-olUt- y or on Europe's overall program, but disappoint-;bjittH- n' 01 the U.S. was widespread or onus there was some concern lest uncertainty of the Labor position interfere serious- - with American recovery plans Mne American newspaper worn-Mw-able to put into print con-j'l- y and graphically tie diver- -' t British viewpoints when she orted a Conservative as saying fjflt England would never recover il the Laborites were complete-OTsjfr"'throw- n out, and a poorer-clas- s kwoman declaring that she J. Vt care how much she had to without, just as long as the i didn't have any more. around the The bomb it-self would turn these chemicals into the fantastic killing dust Dust of that sort could be made so that it would remain active a few days, a few months or as long as 5,000 years. That is a frightening, appalling possibility. But there is a ray of hope. These same scientists say it will be an-other three years before anyone will know if the bomb can be pro-duced. That gives mankind a little time in which to make up his mind. The decision had better be right. SPY HUNT: No 'Witches' There was to be "no witches no whitewash" in the senate for-eign relations subcommittee's probe of alleged infiltration of Communists into the U.S. state de-partment. That's what Sen. Millard Tydings (D., Md.) said of the investigation when he was named, chairman of the committee which was to con-duct it. THE NAMING of the committee stemmed from charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) that an group of Communists hold or have held high state de-partment posts. But, McCarthy rather put the committee on the spot at the start when he said that if President Tru-man persists in his refusal to make state department employee loyalty files available, "an investigation would be useless." Mr. Truman has so persisted and declared he would ignore the senate's action in granting subpoena rights to the committee. Indications were that a court test of the President's position was in the making if the committee chose to use its subpoena rights and called upon the President to deliver the wanted records. TYDINGS DECLINED to pass on this issue at the outset, and said, instead, that he expected a "full, fair and complete investigation" of McCarthy's charges. "We will let the chips fall where they may," he said, "and this will be neither a witch-hu- nor a whitewash." The senator's intentions no doubt were good but there might be little to worry about where the chips would faU, so long as Mr. Truman declined to pass the com-mittee the axe they needed. is. v- - i ,: f - - BOMB: re Warnings ?.,"ore and more came the warn-- f i from experts of the dread po- - jialities of the hydrogen bomb, e, there was some disagree- - it, but a poll would show at it stage that a majority of scien-- f i who should know what they (talking about believe the bomb 'd kill everyone in the world. " ,Dur top scientists have issued warning. They have declared t the bomb, if it works, could aJjfc-- 'a suicide bomb. Why? How? ere's what they say: innt' THE BOMB is ever made and hoeWH'l, it would kiU slowly by ng everything and everyone IKSbj! radioactive dusts. CaloxI'ne dusts would be carried your nd the world by the winds, Pe dust would be in the air peo-5i"- 6 breathed. would settle on and poison ts and trees, everything hu-- ftjbs eat or use. VeAjflE they add, could """intentionally rigged to do just pC"" and it would be relatively lacBri'P'e to do it. Makers of the JJb would have only to put chemical elements Answer Still 'No' President Truman persisted in his refusal to give congress loyalty files on federal employees. However, he said he had prom-ised the senate foreign relations committee he otherwise would co-operate in disproving what he called false charges made by Sen-ator McCarthy (R., Wis.) that a Communist ring exists in the state department. He told newsmen that subpoena powers voted by the senate for committee investigators would "make no difference" to him, pointing out that it would be dif-ficult to serve a subpoena on the President of the United States, since the government affords him protection from such services. And, indeed it would. 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EDUCATION r. ary Effort at School Rule Charged "jyjj bcording to scores of educators 1 KlAl fler prominent people in the LKed States, there is a "system-SftlMi- "nd effort" by military establishment and influence the fational life of America." was contained in a 80 pages of fine print, through the national council p nst conscription. signers were famed scientist A-lbert Einstein, author Louis Brom-fiel- d and a number of prominent church leaders. The report centered on the ac-tivities of the reserve officers train-ing units, military science teach-ing, research contracts with uni-versities, and what it sees as a trend toward putting military men in high educational plnces Marshall on Red Cross Volunteers "Volunteers and we are very short of them are the very j life-blo- od of the Red Cross. They are the bases of all of its ef- - forts. They work long hours. Usually their efforts are recog- - nized only at the chapter level and not by the general public. Without ready volunteers, the Red Cross would be unable to perform the essential services it now provides for the people of America and to the world at large in some instances. |
