Show NE NEWS WS RE REVIEW YIE W defense pact Han ratified d 0 fied inflation bill offered this Is as sen arthur rep mich idich told lold his fellow senators a significant moment to demonstrate the solidarity 0 of this hemisphere and with the knowledge of that certain fact uppermost in their th r m minds ands members of the U S a senate ena e voted 72 to 1 to ratify the inter t american defense treaty agreed to 0 by 21 american republics at the e rio 11 0 r conference on ference last summer surginer sur niner the hemispheric agreement for mu mutual defense of nations in the Amerl americas cas embodies three main points in case of armed attack from aln 1 outside the hemisphere all nations have the automatic right rig to meet the attack with military force if 1 f attack occurs inside the 2 h hemisphere emi sphere american nations may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim with consultations to follow if attacks occur both inside the I 1 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 I 1 wo I 1 a I 1 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 how bow inter american defense could be advanced from theory to the realm of actuality he proposed to con grebs that the panama canal be converted into a sea level wate waterway r see eee map and that a unified il ed command be established in the at alantic lantic area with adm H P blandy in authority over army navy and air forces from iceland and greenland to the caribbean CHALLENGE accepted republican leaders had issued a direct challenge to the administration to offer a bill incorporating president Tr ration 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 Harrl man secretary ol of commerce the tha specific specia 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 tha allocation powers provided for would authorize the government to impose consumer rationing and even to buy up entire grbin crops if 11 it saw the necessity for such action and t through the welter of the ad ministration republican melee over what to do and how to do it there came at least two charges of socialization from top U S business men leveled at the governments avowed program FODDER spuds for cattle A new jersey cattleman tOeman ca E eugene ugene K X denton has a theory that might go 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 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 when the he experiment began showed an average gain per steer 0 ot f 14 pounds a d day ay or 25 po pounds ands per steer tor for the test period prof william ljungdahl Lj of rutgers university department of 0 animal husbandry called the experiments a success denton made public this simple formula to every pounds of 0 freshly sliced potatoes add one handful of regular salt and one gallon galion of molasses water the molasses I 1 wa water ter Is prepared by adding one pint of molasses to one full pall of water LANDON big Ife medicine dicine alt alf M landon the kansas budget balancer who might have been president of the united states if franklin D roosevelt defeated him by a land landslide ilide in 1938 has come out publicly in favor of gen dwight eisenhower Elsen hower tor for dent in 1948 landon was wag known to have joined forces with roy roi roberts of the kansas city star atai to push the the elsen eisen hower bandwagon Ari iri chicago to address a kiwanis mee meeting tink landon said the kansas delegation to the republican national convention will be tor for eisenhower Elsen hower piat 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 th think ink I 1 know what the generals social economic and political views are he said anything to roe me about the presidency directly or indirectly but its my guess he be will make his bis views known when he be leaves the army and they will be all right meanwhile it was wag announced that eisenhower Elsen hower was waa scheduled to take over his scheduled position as president of columbia university next june 7 just about two weeks before the republican national fial convention consention Is supposed to convene |