Show emma justie justice Is sole principle 77 guiding steps of relief and rehabilitation program claims support of congressmen noted for internationalist viewpoint by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D C while the bombs are bursting over europe it Is pretty hard to think ot of p postwar sawar activities america lust just dolsot like to do it furthermore it Is perfectly natural th that a t alter after our elpe experience r fence in the last w war or when we talk about relief tor for europe we feel we dont want to play the role ot of uncle sap again th the a one organization which has gone ahead with very definite specifically delimited plans tot for civilian international activity Is the united nations relief and rehabilitation administration forty four no na eions have combined to set up this organization organisation and finance its work the united states part in this organization has the specific authorization 0 of f congress but it never could have had this backi backlog cig if it been tor for the wholehearted cooperation ot of certain men in congress whom nobody by the greatest stretch of imagination could label as internationalists one of them largely responsible tor for the unopposed authorization by congress for the which Is americas cas contribution to the fund was sen arthur H N a member of the foreign relations committee who cannot be described as an internationalist ila he supported in this way after a long lone and careful consultation with the state department concerning the administrations obligations which the united states had to accept if it joined this body of 44 nations was supported by representatives of the delegation from ohio among others ethers a middle western state not noted for international tendencies I 1 asked a member tt ef the taff staff why be thought these people convinced that the united states ought to take part in this humanitarian movement which although it proclaimed ultra practical alms aims might naturally be doubted by the cynical nobody who has read the II limitations ita which this organization has placed upon itself could have the crust to oppose it was his bis answer selling point paint at that moment I 1 took this rather categorical statement with a grain of salt later after talking with morse Salis SaUs bm bu who is well known over the air to many of the readers of this column and all of the listeners e r s to the farm and home hour I 1 must admit I 1 was sold morse salisbury gave up an important position in the department of agriculture which he had held through various administrations to handle the public relations tor for under former governor of new york herbert lehmann its administrator I 1 broke in on him when he was puzzling over the question of an emblem or flag or a designation for somebody thought it ought to have a distinguishing insignia signia but he was unconvinced and then he said something to me which is important to remember here is one governmental institution tut ton governmental in the sense that 44 nations are backing it which instead of wishing to perpetuate itself as most bureaucratic units are said to do has for its chief aim self liquidation like lik e the boys in the front lines it wants to get the job done and then quit the object of is to do what it can to resolve to normalcy the chaos produced by the war and then quit for that reason former governor lehmann Lehn aann has set as one of his objectives the keeping of the number of administrative employees down to the absolute minimum ill have more to say about that later first just a very brief summary of what has set as its objective how it hopes to obtain the objective jec tive as set forth to in its so called bible containing the off official iclal statement of the resolutions of the organization this is the document which I 1 was told it if anyone read he would not have the crust to oppose the program on november 8 9 1943 the representatives senta tives of cf these 44 nations met in the white house and signed an agreement to cooperate in binding vp up the wounds ot of war later they met in atlantic city and drew up resolutions spelling put out what would be done under the agreement agree mient since they knew the bitterness and nd controversy which grew out of the unpaid war loans of the last war one prime purpose Is to achieve their aim without running up a lot ot of debts in other war words d a they got down to brass tacks and decided that their effort to restore normalcy in the world should sh 0 uld be accomplished on a very simple principle of justice they divided up the world into two categories first those who have enough ol at the things needed to feed and clothe and house bouse their people and those who dont then there Is another division between those who while they dont have the basic resources nevertheless have the money to pay lor for them all ot of the nations which have enough to take care of their own people are to contribute 1 per cent ot of their national income as of 0 the year ending june SO 1843 1943 those nations like france and holland and belgium and norway and others which have been able t to 0 get gold or other wealth away from the axis robbers and into allied or neutral countries expect to pay for tor the supplies tup plies they get those countries which have no foreign trade or credit balance abroad will receive supplies and services to bring their people up to a rather stern stem standard of living and get normal daily life started again the supplies contributed w will ll 11 be put into regular business channels and most of the people who get them will pay in their own money of course this money would woul d have leave 6 no value outside of the country involved it would however have value within the country and would take we will say ay in 1 the case of greece drachmas a for or the supplies delivered no bi big g payroll those drachmas would be spent within the country and will help carry out the principle which governor lehmann has laid down that itself will not develop a big payroll it will help the people to help themselves let me give you an example the greeks enough food their various public utilities are smashed sm had to pieces they have no shoes to walk on their hospitals and other health institutions have been destroyed or disintegrated all right will set down a certain number of pairs of shoes in greece it will set down a certain amount of food a certain amount of clothing a certain amount of machinery and other supplies that will be paid for in drachmas which are nothing more than pieces of paper as far as the rest of the country is concerned but which have a cash value in greece they will take those drachmas and hire personnel people who will arrange to load the supplies into trucks at the ports where sets them down and handle the distribution trib ution of food and clothing through the agencies within the country they will do the dirty work ot of rebuilding the waterworks water works and electric light plants the public schools and other buildings necessary for on an ordered life thus employment will be furnished out of the nations own wealth this is a very brief attempt ampt to show how works but Is as I 1 sat in the du pont font building on connecticut avenue and heard mr salisbury who is one ol of the most practical minded government officials with whom I 1 have dealt in my 30 years experience in washington detail activities I 1 began to feel quite an emotional upsurge salisbury may have felt it too but of course he show it any more than I 1 would since both of us are laconic middle westerners I 1 said this whole idea an historical innovation lie he replied well yes but dont think the 44 member nations are a re laying any pattern for postwar planning in they have created here an organization of a purely transitional nature its merely an attempt on the part of the nations which have something to offer to provide it it the others can pay for the food and clothing and other things they get they are willing to pay tor for it if they cant the contributing nations are going to get it to them BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage at present 19 10 per cent of the trucks acks on the road are at least 10 years old and a minimum of 8 per cent are more than 15 years old nylons high service serle temperature ot of approximately degrees fahrenheit greatly exceeding that ot of other thermoplastics thermo plastics has contribute to the plastics quick adoption for orwar war use vital messages are carried tor for marines by trained dogs when phone wires are cut r an increase of 31 per cent in the number U of juvenile delinquency cases disposed of by representative juvenile courts last year over thi the e 1942 figure Is reported by katherine F r lenroot chief of the childrens bureau U S department of labor laboi |