Show NEWS NESS REVIEW Food Plan Opens Shakily Brings Jitters SIX MONTHS How Long Lon on No o Meat eat Amid a certain amount of weeping and wailing and less gnashing of teeth than usual President Truman's program involving meatless Tuesdays and Thursdays lumbered lumbered lumbered lum lum- tentatively through its first week Even the most ardent optimist could not call this phase of the food conservation drive to help Europe European an instantaneous success however it might improve with time And it was in hi the handwriting on the wall that there would be considerable considerable considerable con con- time tune for administration experts predicted that the days of voluntary self-denial self would last for forat forat forat at least six months President Truman himself has set the dates for the interim emergency aid to Europe campaign from campaign from December December December De De- cember 1 to March 31 although 31 although that time limit was imposed specifically specifically specifically for the raising of million million million mil mil- lion dollars in cash Regarding the food conservation aspect Charles Luckman head of the citizens food committee said Our only idea is isto isto isto to do the job until it is done No Notime Notime time tune schedule has been set S Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson was a little more definite He pointed out that conservation to save grain might be necessary until the winter whiter wheat crop crop- now now- being planted begins to come in next June and July Then he offered a faint hope with a hollow ring Meatless days are not in the picture picture picture pic pic- ture indefinitely he said I The Eating Public Public opinion it developed was far from united ted on a solid front behind the food conservation plan Restaurant operators said their customers custom custom- customers ers were grousing about meatless and days Millions o of 0 Americans f resented the suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- of a voluntary meatless Tuesday since they already are going without t meat f jour four our or five days a week because they cant can't afford to buy It oftener than that The poultry industry pointed out that if i every one of 0 the million residents of 0 the U. U S. S were to eat one less egg a week the government would have bave to buy million dozen eggs under the lait law re requiring requiring re- re quiring government gOt support of 0 p parity rity prices and the government already holds in storage several eral million cases of 0 surplus eggs purchased to support farm prices SECURITY RISKS No Peace o of 0 Mind Communism particularly since the revival of the in nine European countries is taking its toll in the U. U S. S by undermining the American peace of mind That obvious fact has been given added significance by the state departments department's departments department's departments department's de de- disclosure that summary summary summary sum sum- mary dismissal faces state department department department depart depart- ment who are habitual or close associates of persons even believed to be Communists In plain language that is a reversal reversal reversal re re- re- re versal of a fundamental principle of Anglo-American Anglo law that law that a man mans J is is judged innocent until he is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt In fact the state department in a security principles document recently recently recently re re- re- re made public says specifically specifically specifically cally that if there is a reasonable doubt about a workers worker's loyalty the department will be given the benefit benefit benefit bene bene- fit of the doubt and the person willbe will well willbe be deemed a security risk While idealists could quibble at length about abridgment of constitutional constitutional constitutional con rights few would deny that the state department simply was playing it safe in the face of a aman man manifest est danger SOLD GOLD Second Time Badly Bailly bent economically although although although al al- though not yet quite broke Great Britain in the latest phase of her desperate quest for dollars has hassold hassold hassold sold million dollars worth of gold to the U. U S. S in exchange for an equal amount of It was the second such sale from Britain's now dwindling gold re re- re serve Early in September 80 million million mil mU- lion dollars worth of gold was sold to the U. U S. S The September gold sale came after the million dollar balance of Britain's dollar loan from America America America Amer Amer- ica was frozen by British-American British agreement when Britain declared she no longer could honor the loans loan's convertibility clause requiring her herto herto herto to provide dollars in exchange for pounds sterling on demand to any nation she traded with |