Show colIt ont roBs rols necessary m in food crisis ex export port import regulations vital for curing Curi iia world ills by BAUKHAGE newt news analyst und and commentator service 1616 eye street N W washington D C washington the sudden descent decent upon columbian Colum bias shoulders of the mantle of world leadership has forced the president to add all sorts of odd jobs to his other extra functions traveling salesman Is one 0 of them almost before he learned his way around the white house he had the united nations as baukhage Bank hace sign ment at san francisco hardly was he back from the golden gate when he was ordered to potsdam he already has become our flying cst chief executive the mexican trip was scarcely over when he was called to the wearying vigil at his mothers bedside meanwhile he has conducted white house business without encountering too much criticism for being absent without leave in tact fact his popularity with the public has grown but at this writing some of his followers are growing a little restive about what they call his apparent neglect ol of certain issues which ought to be brought emphatically before the public what was considered a crisis in n world affairs was met successfully by overwhelming congressional support tor for the post relief and greek turkish aid bills although at tunes times it has balanced upon a rather thin edge the solidarity of partisan bipartisan bi bl foreign policy has been maintained but there is another matter which those most concerned declare has not been brought home to the public the world food situation there are two important facts 1 two years have passed since the end of the war and the he world food situation is no better 2 although congress the people has been willing to vote huge funds ands for or relief it appears unwilling to continue certain controls on business without which the machinery for or help ing the stricken countries to their feet will break down the first job is to bring home the seriousness of point one the second job which has been dumped into the presidents Cs lap is to convince congress of the importance of point two press and radio have been asked to help with the first job they are trying heres one small contribution in terms of dollars the destruction st ruction caused by world war IT II was seven times that of world war 1 I recovery Is therefore at least seven times as hard bard economic difficulties are multiplied more than sevenfold because of political biffl humanity Is at the crossroads two reports in the news recently caused some interesting comments in washington on thi the e international situation charles reese extension apiarist ol of university ot of ohio recently reported that because of the late season and resultant scarcity ol of pollen on which bees feed many of the drones who do not work and are preserved for social purposes only have been pushed out of the hives by the workers picket lines have been formed and the drones are not allowed to reenter re enter they die in the damp and cold theirs the bees Is not a very pleasant society says apiarist reese hive activity is communistic and utterly ruthless A statement by andre french writer who syndicates a column in newspapers was the second inspiration for unofficial comment said the world has indeed entered into a contest between americanism and communism this pearl of wisdom laid beside the dispatch from columbus moved a certain engineer engine ere er e economist L philos opher to the observations which follow for the first ent time this pundit pointed out the human race Is really at the crossroads life has followed two paths one taken by the animals another by those who have in them something that distinguishes them from the beast one path has been clearly visible to materialistic teria listic philosophers nietzsche hegel marx and the monster who was created out of their theories hitler the other ether Is the one illumined b by the thought and action of those who from cot or castle from workbench work bench or cloistered hall lived in the belief that the activities of the state or the individual should be measured against something other than material forces curties cul ties it is impossible to estimate the destruction in terms of what wha has happened to social and political values As to point two that becomes a concrete issue which ought to be in debate before these lines are printed namely the question ot of extending certain wartime controls over exports and imports briefly it if export controls go off foreign nations can bid against each other lor for food wheat tor for example that will send the price of wheat sky rocketing what does that mean in the first place it means the country with the most money gets the most wheat regardless of its need others go hungry it means the american taxpayer will have to pay a fancy price tor for the wheat the government buys it means extra american dollars which could be used to buy other american products which would encourage production will be sucked out of foreign pockets and world trade will be stultified by just that much that is on argument tor for extending controls on exports fortunately there are also a lot of selfish interest reasons tor for controlling some exports its this way the man who extracts oil from soy beans although he is quite willing to have his oil exported probably can sell it here anyway but he want beans irom from which h ho gets the oil sent out of the country the man who refines the oil mind having his refined product exported but he want the unrefined oil his bis raw material which he has to buy exported the man who uses that refined oil to make margarine want to compete with foreigners tor for it although hes quite willing to have foreigners buy his margarine these mixed motives dont add up to a very good argument for congress because the only controls desired are for the other fellow it generate too much pressure because there are enough agins to balance the furs but when it comes to imports its a different story take fertilizer britain and the united states straining to increase production now are using twice as much fertilizer ter as in prewar years that is au all right but the destitute european countries with their very tired 1 soil need every ounce they can get and if there were no import controls they would get less the te rich buyers would get more the pressure on congress is all against limiting importation of fertilizer some imports into america are of course highly di to get I 1 those american dollars abroad in order that foreign nations may buy raw materials and other things but if we are to keep the rest of the markets alive until they can teed feed themselves what we give out and what we take in will have to be made to fit the needs of the situation not the desires of the american businessman who realize that it if he is given too tree free a hand hell be cutting off his own nose with it it has been shown that animals when they master technology tend to form a perfectly regimented totalitarian tali state take the ants and the bees they long ago were able to do what hitler planned and had begun to practice change the nature of species not only by creating a special environment for the young but also by feeding it certain foods the bees carefully segregate the he babies the eggs and by feeding thern them three different menus produce three different classes the he workers the drones and the he queen hitler had bad well worked out theories tor for prodie producing a slave class by feeding the children certain vitamins withholding others weeding out all those undesired by the nazi state feeding and training a ruling class and now the followers of marxist leninism are set up to carry out the principle |