Evening star., 1948-12-02

MarraS will tour American mil
pate in talks which, informed
States assistance in moderniZin
viewed from time to time and re
pealed as quickly as possible.
: Hoffman and Hartman Praised.
The resolution said that expert
ence has clearly shown that compul
sorry economic controls seriously hin
der production and distribution.
In a resolution on internationa
relations it was urged that Congress
in providing any extension of tht
Economic Cooperation Administra.
ton should also provide that any
nation receiving economic aid shoule
not initiate projects destructive o.
private competitive enterprise.
ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman
and Ambassador w. Averill Harri.
man were commended for their work
In Mr.. Browns discussion of the
work of the Hoover Commission he
said: Without divulging too much
information as to what the commits
sion will recommend, let me suggest
that you keep your eyes open fo1
some interesting developments in
our greatest Federal service agency
the Post Office Department.
He said the commission has found
that there are more than $4,000 post
masters throughout the country who
report directly to the Postmaster
General rather than to any regional
or State supervisor.
| While larger cities are served by a
single post office with integrated
branches, in California, he said
there had been found a single
county which contains 129 separate
post Offices"
Pay System Criticized.
He said that it is so difficult tc
dismiss Government employe thai
few are ever discharged.
Instead" he went on, they are
just transferred over into the
j cemetery section where they have
no real work to perform but are
kept inactive SO they cannot 'louse
up the work to which they were
originally assigned"
He criticized the practice of pay.
ing Government supervisors &C
cording to the number of employees
under them on the ground it is
costing the taxpayers billions OF
dollars. The supervisor who has a
new baby in the family and there
fore needs $50 more a month learns
that by adding to his staff he can
get an advance to higher pay
Mr.. Brown said.
Russian Success Cited.
Mr.. Dodge, speaking on the need
of new capital, said proposals to re-
establish wartime controls indicate
IAN intent to proceed with initiation
and conceal its symptoms" He re-
ferred to our prosperity as "statis-
tical prosperity" and said that ma
tional production at the rate OF
$3.50, 900, 10000 a year actually is a
total half that large in 50-cent
dollars.
He laid the shortage of new cap
ital to the Government using too
large a part of the total resources
for its own purposes, to a decline
in the rate of saving and an arti-
f1cially low interest rate. The re-
suit is in doubt as to how we, can
expand enterprise and production
he said.
Representative Judd. Republican
of Minnesota, a member of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
told the convention that the Rus
slams have all but won the war in
the Pacific.
He was one of several speakers on
foreign problems yesterday after
noon. After his address, in which
he made plea for revision of the
setup of the United Nations so that
Russia, by its veto, cannot block
U. N. actions, the audience stood
and applauded him.
He said that this reorganization
of the U. N. must come IF we hope
to win the fierce political and
theological war now raging through
out the world before it degenerates
into an atomic war with unfore-
seeable destruction"
After sacrificing lives and dollars
to keep Asia out of Japan's die
tatorship, we have through a COM
bination of plumbers and default
delivered it into the hands of the
Kremlin, said DR.. Judd, who is a
physician.
He drew a contrast between
American and Russian diplomats
I'VE go to the diplomatic confer
ences with men who are masters of
the strategies and tactics of military
and economic struggle as our rep
resentatives-and come home with
bloody noses, "he said. Russia, he
added, sends its Molotovs and Vish-
inskys skilled in diplomatic warfare,
and they 60 home with the bacon
Mr.. Hoffman in his speech on the
progress of the Marshall Plan re-
ferred to the program as extraor.
dinary in that it takes money from
our taxpayers and spends it on peo-
pie who are not voters in our demo-
cracy.
"How long we can keep doing that
heaven only knows, for it violates
the rules of politics." he added.
THE number one rule of politics is
to take money from the few and give
1t to the many. It took courage for
any administration to propose this
(the ECA) and for any Congress to
vote it. The benefits we get out of
|, it are, of course, tremendous, but
!, they are deferred, long-range bene-
! fits
Other speakers on foreign prob
lens were Philip D. Reed, board
chairman of the General Electric
J Co., and member of the Anglo
American Council on productivity
created in connection with the
Marshall Plan, and Robert L. Gar
ner, vice president of the Interna-
tional Bank for Reconstruction and
J, Development.
Mr.. Reed said there is desperate
need to tell Americas story abroad
i to correct the distortions and un-