Evening star., 1947-11-27

office under present law, can make over the
high schools to meet the demands Or tastes of
the peculiar type of educational philosophy
he espouses then there is no reason for any
one offering the office more power than it now
has.
Actually we are skeptical Of his power and
extremely critical of his plans. Nowhere listed
among his aims is there a word about national
defense or the national economy. And the
figures quoted on technical training and
college entrance do not jibe with another
survey quoted in Harvards recent report on
the high schools.
His proposed courses in family life budget
ing, job-hunting, worthy use Of leisure and so
forth would never awaken single cell of gray
matter or bring the mind OF a single student
into action for his country or his fellow man,
for industry or for trade. 1t is hard to see why
children should be maintained In expensive
modern educational institutions, to kill time in
courses like those suggested when the Nation
is faced with the task of leading, feeding,
guiding, defending the world and fighting
Russia.
Let us provide for the national defense Let
us straighten out the high schools. Let us
accomplish both in one operation. But Mr..
Studebaker's plan would only wreck us.
RICHARD L. FELDMAN.
Disasrees With Editorial on China
70 the Editor of The Star:
In the editorial entitled China and Europe"
in The Star of November %, criticizlng Gov.
Dewey and Senator Taft for advocating aid to
China as an integral part of global aid
program you squirm and wriggle to rob these
two Republicans of their due credit for having
pointed out a major defect in our present
foreign policy.
You call it the raising of a hollow issue to
emphasize the seriousness OF the Communist
threat in China and to charge that the ad-
ministration is deliberately ignoring China's
urgent need of aid. And you find that Secretary
MarshalIs promise Of rather scanty aid to
China sometime in the spring OF 1948 proves
that Mr.. Dewey is wrong. You cite as another
bit of evidence that Mr.. Dewey's contentious
are faulty about the American policy now being
pursued in Japan.
Your editorial, however, does not give an
inkling of an idea of what this policy is and
how 1t might be affected by the China situa-
ton. I sincerely doubt that you know the
exact policy OF the State Department in Japan,
and what is still more, you apparently are not
aware of Gen. MacArthurs opinion on the
subject of Japan's relationship to the aid-to-
China question.
II you had read Bert Andrews article entitled
"China Reported Biggest Worry OF Macarthur"
In the November II issue of the New York
Herald Tribune, you would have discovered
evidence of q reliable source, dare say to
substantiate both Senator Taft's and Gov.
Deweys contentious.
In the Andrews article, Representative
Walter Judd OF Minnesota, recently returned
from tour Of the Far East says: Gen.
Macarthur told me frankly that his greatest
worry now is not the success of his program
in Japan, but the situation in China. He
sees that his program in Japan cannot succeed
and Japan cannot become a self-sustaining,
secure, democratic nation unless there is an
Independent China with which she can carry
on trade. In other words, japan cannot get
along without American dollars and soldiers
If China is disrupted or under control Of the
Communists"
Your comparison Of such men as Messrs.
Taft and Dewey to the wartime minority that
favored giving priority to the battle against
Japan" is poor and far-fetched. BY your own
admission, the situation today is not iden-
tical." Your claim that there is every reason
to believe the, administrations choice to con-
centrate on aid to Europe and temporarily
abandon China is sound one does not appear
convincing. Your cht-that about "after all
- China - = is predominantly agricultural
and hence not of the same immediate
significance" dwindles in Importance when we
consider the main issues. namely: Is Russia
sovietizing China and does China need i'm
mediate aid to prevent such outside influence
as the nations of Europe do?
EMMANUEL S. LARSEN.
Officer Too Free With Tickets