Show NEWS it REVIEW E VIE W defense pact ratified inflation B bill ill offered this is as sen arthur rep mich told his fellow senators a significant moment to demonstrate the solidarity of this hemisphere and with the knowledge of that certain fact uppermost in their minds members of the U S senate voted 72 to I 1 to ratify the inter american defense treaty agreed to by 21 american republics at the rio conference last summer the hemispheric agreement for mutual defense of nations in the americas embodies three main points in case of 0 armed attack from I 1 aln outside the hemisphere all nations have the automatic right to meet the attack with military force I 1 it f attack occurs inside the I 1 2 h hemisphere emi sphere american nations may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim with consultations to follow it if attacks occur both inside the 3 hemisphere and outside the security region immediate consultations will be called virtually unanimous approval of the treaty by the senate was a good indication that congress was fully Z 1911 1 6 1 V IF ia 0 1 J aware of the cardinal principle of successful foreign relations that commitments abroad are worse than useless unless the nation forms strong and lasting alliances to support those commitments the hemispheric treaty had in it the makings of a good foreign policy meanwhile president truman had some thoughts on ho how inter american defense could be advanced from theory to the realm of actuality he proposed to congress that the panama canal be converted into a sea level waterway see map and that a unified command be established in the atlantic area with adm H P blandy in authority over army navy and air forces from iceland and greenland to the caribbean CHALLENGE accepted I 1 republican leaders had issued a direct challenge to the administration to offer a bill incorporating president Tr and con arol recommendations tor for combating inflation and the measure which the administration finally proposed was neither more nor less than anyone had expected handed to the senate judiciary committee by averell harriman secretary of commerce the specific bill called for expansive powers to ration food gasoline steel and other scarce commodities theoretically it was a bill to allocate materials to essential users control business inventories and continue export controls but administration spokesmen admitted that the allocation powers provided lor for would authorize the government to impose consumer rationing and even to buy up entire grain crops it if it saw the necessity for or such action and through the welter of the ad mini ministration 11 republican can melee over what to do and how to do it there came at least two charges ot of socialization from top U S businessmen leveled at the governments avowed program FODDER spuds for cattle A new jersey cattleman eugene K denton has a theory that might g go 0 a long way toward easing the grain shortage his idea Is to feed cattle raw potatoes instead of grain experimenting with 20 yearlings yearnings year lings purchased especially tor for the purpose denton fed them on a special diet based on ground potatoes salt and molasses for 25 days the steers which averaged pounds pound when the experiment began showed an average gain per steer of 14 pounds a day or 2514 pounds per steer for the test period prof william ljungdahl Lj of rutgers university department of animal husbandry called the experiments a success denton made public this simple f formula to every pounds of fr freshly sliced potatoes add one handful of regular salt and one ga gallon galion of molasses water the molasses water Is prepared by adding one pint of molasses to one full pall pail of water LANDON bi dig talt talf IlIe medicine dicine M landon the kansas budget balancer who might have been president of the united states if franklin D roosevelt defeated him by a landslide in 1936 has come out publicly in favor of gen dwight eisenhower Elsen hower tor for president in 1948 1943 landon was known to have joined forces with roy roberts of the kansas city star to push the eisenhower bandwagon in chicago to address a kiwanis meeting landon said the kansas delegation to the republican national convention will be for eisenhower Elsen hower that coming from the shrewd former governor of kansas was strong political medicine 1 I dont think any of the politicians in my state will get out of line on that I 1 think I 1 know what the generals social economic and political views are he said anything to me about the pres presidency directly or indirectly but its my guess he will make his views known when he leaves the army and they will be all right meanwhile it was announced tha that t eisenhower was scheduled to take over his scheduled position as president of columbia university next june 7 just about two weeks before the republican national convention is supposed to convene |