Milford chronicle., 1949-09-02
MILFoRD's NEW SCHOOL BUILDING


MILFORD'S NEW SCHOOL BUILDING
Most of Milford's school children will at
tend school in the school plant located on
Lake View Avenue when school opens next
Wednesday morning. The completion of the
large addition to the existing High School
Building has made this possible. The new
structure which was delayed for years after
the monies were approved by the state and
local district because of the war and post war
lack of materials, is excellently planned. The
cafeteria facilities are ample and most mod
ern The Lake View Avenue plant is sufti-
cient in size to take care of all of the enrolled
children except those in the two lower
grades It is too bad that the money avail
able would not allow of the construction of
an addition sufficiently large to have accom-
modated all of the children in the Milford
Special District, but costs were such that
this could not be. Our Delaware state ad
ministration is on spending spree at the
present time. It would seem to be a good
time for Milford residents to get busy and
go after the necessary funds to complete
the school project. Governor Caryel could
be prevailed upon to look with favor upon
such project here. There is nothing to
lose by trying. Why not now?
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AMERICAS FAILURE IN CHINA
Not many Americans will read the
"White Paper" on China which the State De-
partment published few weeks ago. 1t
runs to more than 1000 pages and much of
it would make impossibly dull reading for
the layman. But the story it tells, and the
differences and conclusions that it leads to,
vitally affect this country and all the rest of
the non-C Communist world. First of all, the
story is one of unmitigated failure We
spent billions In China, and every dollar was
supposed, directly or indirectly, to help check
the Red tide We sent distinguished emissary
after distinguished ernissary-General Still
well, George Marshall, Patrick Hurley, Gen
eral Wedemyer-to try to bring order out of
an impossible chaos. None succeeded, and if
the State Department is to be believed, none
could have. Secretary Acheson has written,
Nothing that this country did or could have
done within the reasonable limits of its ca
pabilitieS could have changed that result:
nothing that was left undone by this country
has contributed to it." Not everyone will
totally accept this point of view. The most
interesting part of the White Paper is the
report made to President Truman by General
Wedemeyer after his 1947 mission. This re-
port had never before been published, and it
was kept closely guarded secret. The Cen
eral was prophet of a high order. He said
that events in China were "as portentous as
those leading to World War H." and that if
we pursued wait-and-See policy "the Chi
nese Communists would emerge as the domi-
nant group" This is precisely what hap
pened. His proposal was that we embark on
a sweeping fve-year China aid program, in
Guiding both military and economic aid for
the nationalists. However, he said further
that this must be accompanied by drastic re-
forms on the part of the corrupt, inefficient
Chang Kai-Shek government. Apparently
the u. S. government believed this would of.
fend Chang. In any event, the Wedemeyel
recommendations were both ignored anC
suppressed. Of the China debacle, Time mag
azine writes: 'No one could deny the u. S
diplomats in China had faced fiercely stub
born problems, equally stubborn men.
Yet in world racked by the evil and destruc
tion of first fascist, then Communist aggres
sion. the American job was to work with tn,
world it found and know what world it want
ed. In China, it tried and it failed At n,
point in the long chronicle of its failure ha,
it displayed a modest fraction of the stamin
and decisivenesS which had checked Com
muniSm in Europe" That last sentence i
signiicant-we have done infinitely bette
in Europe than in the Far East. And fea
is held by many thoughtful men today tha
Communism may eventually flow over all O
Korea, the Dutch Pacific possessions, eve
Japan and the Philippines
1900
MAKE THE COMPARISON!
The whole concept of the Welfare Stat
lin which the government would theoret
cally do everything for everybody, and n
one would have to do anything for himse