Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-02-10
FAC Draws Up Plans for
Family Of Nations Buying
Food and Agriculture Organization Aims at
Expanded Production, Increased Trade
Within Countries involved.
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne,Us analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, d. G.

WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. G..
When the President introduced his
second bill of rights into his State
Of the Union message to; congress
and skillfully linked the past and
future with it, he set up old argu-
ments among the elite Of Washing
tons cracker-barrel set.
When A'Old DR.. New DeaT' was
set aside as the guardian of Amer
lean welfare, some folks hereabouts
insisted that he had plans for con-
siderably extending his practice lat
er-that his friend, Franklin D., was
planning on world New Deal. = A.
Like all smoke, it signalizes fire
somewhere.
There is no doubt that even though
the realistic Mr.. Churchill and the
realistic Mr.. Stain didn't see eye to
eye on everything as they looked at
each other across the green table at
Teheran, we have reason to believe
that both are pretty well sold on
what they each think can be done
in the way of little international
welfare work. which would raise
the decibels which measure the hum
of business in their respective com-
tries. f.r..ls.
The President presented to con-
gress the various human rights"
he visualized, as you recall, and
there will be more specific data con-
corning them which he will submit
to the legislators later, either just
to keep his hand in in case he
contemplates, as the cracker-barrel-
ers suggest, further personal activ-
ity later, or merely, wants to keep
Americans thinking about all these
things, come the ides Of November.
About Relief @
No matter how you look at it Gun Up
less you are q 100 per cent "steW-ln-
their-own-juicer'l you have q sort
Of vague feeling that we ought to do
what we can to help out people WING
are starving or freezing no matter
where they are. say that aa-
visably and for proof turn to the
record.
One of the earliest memories OF
my childhood is tagging up Main
Street on my mothers hand and see
ing a dishpan in front Of the "Silver
Dollar" (not the originaD filed with
dollar bills. My mother dropped in
a quarter and hurried past the sin
lister abode. Passersby tossed In
their currency for the sufferers OF
some Chinese famine or Italian
earthquake (perhaps Pompeii and
Herculaneum, don't recalD. /.
America is always willing to GO
down deep in it's pockets for relief. "
But it doesn't seem to like it If gov
eminent runs the show. Nobody on
Main Street knew how much OF the
dishpan's contents reached the quak.
ing Italians or what-have-you and
how much never got past the Silver
Dollars back room. but nobody
cared.
On the other hand, even when the
money is triple-checked by the gov
eminent and investigated by the
opposition, if it is taken out of the
general kitty, Americans don't like
It. That playing Santa Claus. When
they can shell out individually. it's
ali which may be perfectly
logical from a psychological view
point.
However this may be, your goy'
eminent is going right ahead aanldd
preparing a program for taking ou1
the wrinkles and concealing the ribs
Of a starving world just the same
it is also doing something more
helping the starvers raise more o.