The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 23, 1954, Page 5

I—Russia Has Tempting Market The Growing Problem Of East-West Trade | \ East-West trade continues: Editor's Nete — The next phase of the cold war between the free and Communist worlds will likely be fought in the field of commerce. Information on the shape that battle might take is slowly coming to light. This is the first of three articles defining the issues in- volved in the growing problem of East-West trade. By FRANK O’BRIEN WASHINGTON (#—An official re- port being quietly circulated within the Department of Commerce says Soviet Russia can be expected to pressure the West in coming months for “a return to normal trade relations.” Since mid-1953 Russia has been carrying on what apparently is a! preliminary effort to soften up Western businessmen with visions of inexhaustible trade with the Communist world’s 800 million subjects. In the eyes of many Western merchants those 800 mil- lion subjects—underfed, underclad, underhoused, underequipped and underserviced—represent a tempt- ing market. The Commerce Department re- port is an analysis of this Kremlin campaign, coupled with the con- clusion that the Soviets are about ready to try for the payoff. Russia’s apparent desire to edge back into the trade streams of the} world poses a variety of delicate problems for free world govern- ‘ments. : Ever since the Communist grab of Czechoslovakia in 1948, but in- creasingly after the start of the Korean War in 1950, a, big and jlites from getting strategic goods. Strategic goods may include al- most anything, if in undue quan- tity. But emphasis is upon scarce or specifically military materials and products, like atomic mater- ials, explosives, weapons, harden- ing alloys, planes, etc. Most Western nations have agreed upon a list of things to be denied Russia. Thousands of items long, this list is kept by the U.S. Department of Commerce. U.S. aid to other Western nations is largely conditioned set by this list, ally tolerated so that nations whose economy demands some trade with the East can continue, at a mini- mum, and so that the West can Bet the benefit of those strategic goods Russia is willing to send out, like manganese or chrome ore. Among the chief questions facing Western experts now are these: Can the West gain a propaganda advantage by loosening its trade strictures that would outweigh the importance of the strategic goods made available to Communists. With the Soviet empire taking in industrial centers like Czecho- slovakia, oil-producing Romania and the vast land, mineral and jhuman resources of Manchuria and China, is any but a narrow list of specific war goods any longer of real strategic impor- tance? And, to what extent, if at all, is East-West trade becoming nec- essary to the maintenance of gen- fartastically complicated system has been worked out under U.S. guidance (and prodding) to keep Ryssia and her Communist satel- Tuésday, March 23, 1954 THE One Of Stalin’s eral prosperity (itself strategic) in the West? Here is an outline, in the Com- merce Department report, of what KEY WEST CITIZEN _— Page 5 {to soak up some of this nation’s |try might be a target in this upon strict; 3, Increased offers to buy food Observance of the trade bounds | processing machinery, farm ma- jchinery and production machines But loopholes have been offici-' may be expected from Russia if its drive to pry open the doors of . Offers to buy heavily from | industries loaded with surpluses. This already started in offers— rejected at least on a cash basis— government-owned surplus butter and cottonseed oil. 2. Offers to buy heavily where | purchases might relieve unem- ployment. The shipbuilding indus- country. for consumer goods. This would bolster Russia’s backward food and consumer goods. industries in line with the new Soviet regime’s promise to raise the level of Soviet living. 4. Some offers, at least, to sell “hard goods’—mining machinery, construction steel, automobiles and the like—to back a recent Moscow claim of “‘willingness to help all countries promote internal eco- nomic development.” This would be a kind of cash or barter Soviet technical aid program, in the face of this country’s free Point Four aid. 5. Readiness to pay for Soviet purchases in gold where the bal- ance of trade does not pay the bill. As usual with Soviet plans, there seem to be several objectives here. Some apparently even conflict, such as offers to buy production equipment while offering to sell production equipment. But they all fit into an over-all design of expansion abroad while CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The industrial scientist may be whistl- ing in the dark—but he thinks that management will go right on pick- ing up the check. The head of a leading research organization here says that re- search thinking has become im- bedded in management’s mind since World War II. Perhaps that’s because research has paid some of industry’s lushest dividends. in new products and new industries. And when will American business need more of the same than in the months and years just ahead? So the scientist says he sees little chance of any sizable slash in research funds by business as a whole, although some little com- panies might seize on that as a way to economize. Industry spent 29 million dollars on research in 1920. Today the annual bill is around three billion dollars. Research officials are inclined to scoff at the idea that the death of the excess profits tax will seem to make research dollars too cost- ly, or that a drop in gross sales will do anything but make the marriage of competition and re- search the more binding. They admit, however, that if sales drop enough to drain the till of cash, that would be a dif- ferent story. Here they do perhaps a sixth of all the nation’s scientific re- consolidating at home. (Tomorrow: Kremlin objectives) Pet Theories Malaria Fight May Aid In May Be Plowed Under By Reds |Cancer Battle By EDDY GILMORE LONDON (#—Official criticism of Prof, Triofim D. Lysenko in a report circulating throughout the Soviet Union today raises the ques- tion whether the Malenkov govern- ment is about to plow under one of Stalin’s pet theories. This theory, propounded by Ly- senko, emphasizes the importance of environment in-plant life .and just about everything else. Lyseniko declared acquired characteristics: could be passed on to the next generation. 5 Stalin liked this because it sup- ported his idea that an environ- ment of proper indoctrination could mold all people into loyal Commu- nists. For several years before the Red dictator’s death, no one in Russia dared criticize Lysenko, a blond, bespectacled botanist whose theories have been frowned on by most Western scientists. Now, the first word against him has been uttered in Russia, and by no less an authority than Nikita S. Khrushchev, secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist party and the coun- try’s agricultural boss. Khrushchev struck at Lysenko obliquely, an old party maneuver, by lambasting one of the profes- sors’s protoges, fellow scientest Dmitriev, former head of the De- partment of Agricultural Planning of the State Planning Board. “In some institutes,” Khrush- chev told the Central Committee of the party Feb. 23, in a report broadcast only Sunday by the Mos- cow radio, “‘there are men who have stuck like limpets to science, but who have failed in practical work. Let us take for instance Dmitriev, who has done no little harm to the cause of dévéloping agriculture.” Khrushchev said that after Dmitriev was fired from the State Planning Board he was given a chance to work in the South, on a state farm or at a machine trac- tor station. “However,” said Khrushchev, “he wriggled out of it, started studying for a doctor's degree in the Academy of Sciences, enjoying the protection of Academician T.D. Lysenko, and he tried to obtain the degree of doctor of biological science.” While enjoying Lysenko'’s pro- tection, Dmitriev has been lectur- ing as an guthority on agriculture. _ “We,” said Khrushehev, “‘are as yet only discussing the question of a ing virgin and waste land, Today’s Women By DOROTHY ROE AP Women’s Editor By DOROTHY ROE AP Women’s Editor Lonely? Well, don’t just sit there — do something! That’s the advice of Muriel Davis, a Chicago insurance execu- tive who has become a sort of Pied Piper for American working girls, She discovered a few years ago that some of the girls in her own office suffered from loneliness, made some practical suggestions to them, and wourd up as found- er and president of Sigma Alpha Sigma, the working girls’ sorority which now has a membership of 2,000 in 100 cities across the United States, Miss Davis, an attractive career girl herself, works on the theory that the more interests and ac- tivities a girl has, the more chances she gets to meet new and interesting people. Her first chapter started in Chicago with five members, whom she advised to go into various kinds of charity work, hold busi- ness and social meetings, plan va- cation trips and so on. Pretty soon the girls. found they hardly had enough time to keep up with aH their new activities, that their circle of friends had grown by leaps and bounds, and that other groups in nearby cities wanted to form their own chapters of the nonprofit organization. Since its inception, members have made group trips to Hawaii, Tegular excursions to New York and Washington, and yearly trips to the Kentucky Derby. These are organized by Miss Davis, who con- tacts railroads, airlines and hotels and gets rock-bottom group rates, This year she will take 300 girls aboard the “Filly Special” to the derby on an all-expense trip which includes fares, hotel bills and tick- | ets to the big race, at little more |than the round-trip fares from the various cities. In August a group of SAS girls | will go to Europe, visiting London, Paris, Copenhagen, Switzerland but comrade Dmitriev hurries to deliver public lectures on the ques- tion. It is easy to understand that our science will derive no help from such a man of learning.” ‘Then Khrushchev said something that could be hitting right at Ly- senko, “But ig this an isdlated in- stance?” he asked. “Unfortunate- ly, there are men ealling them- selves scientific workers who have no relation with science.” Khrushchev singled out other Soviet agriculturi some of them are friends of Lysenko's— for mistakes in several branches of agriculture. and the French Riviera. | Prayers Are Followed By Needed Rainfall ALBUQUERQUE # — A gentle, soaking, blessed rain fell on| parched New Mexico yesterday, | | starting a short time after prayers for rain were recited in chuchés ; throughout the state. | Last Friday, Archbishop Edwin | V. Byrne ordered prayers for rain Sunday in all Catholic churches Catholic state. The rain began Sun- day night in the westem portion of the state and reached the east By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter BOSTON # — The quest for drugs to fight malaria may have turned up some new foes for can- cer, a Boston scientist said today. Dr. Sidney Farber of the Chil- dren’s Cancer Research Founda- tion said that five experi- mental compounds originally pro- duced with the idea of combatting malaria have yielded temporary benefits when given to some peo- ple suffering from “acute leukemia and scattered other tumors.” Leukemia is a cancer of the blood, Farber said that while the bene- fits derived from the drugs were of short duration, they were suf- ficiently strong to warrant further investigation of compounds of this geneal type. The doctor told about it during a news conference with science writers looking into a number of research projects being sponsored by the American Caneer Society. He said these particular drugs are, in a sense, bad news to cer- tain vitamins and other materials necessary for the growth of living cells, Therefore, since cancer is considered to be a wild growth of cells, anything that might inter- fere with such wild growth would be of great importance. The doctor also told of promis- ing — although still temporary — treatment of leukemia and certain other forms of cancer with other chemical materials. He told of one boy, a victim of leukemia which once was invari- ably fatal in a matter of months, who now has been kept alive for almost five years, thanks to a leukemia -fighting drug. He still has the disease, and his improvement is considered only “temporary,” but, as Dr. Farber said: “Life is being prolonged; and there is always that possibility that someone may come up with an answer’ in time to save such People.” Haymes To Learn Standing Today On Deportation LOS ANGELES ® — Dick Haymes learns today if he is t6 be deported to Argentina for illegal Te-entry into the United States. The crooner was notified Herman R. Landon, district direc- tor of the U. S. immigration ser- vice, that he will be advised of the government’s decision. j There are three possible deci- sions: cancellation of the deporta-| tion proceedings, finding Haymes deportable or finding him not de-! portable. If deportation is ordered | Haymes would have 15 days in which to file an appeal with the Immigration Board of Appeals. That procedure would take 60 to 90 days and thereafter, if the de- cision was still against him he could appeal % the fédetal courts. side, hardest hit by the drought, last night. Search on which industry draws. And they export Yankee ingenuity literally around the world. Raymond Stevens, vice president of the research organization Ar- thur D. Little, Inc., points out that it took two years before the big depression of the ’30s affected re- search spending. And almost no one is predicting any such business drop this time. Smaller business cycles since the big one have had Practically no effect on research spending, he says. His organization, however, has had some calls in recent months from corporations asking it to ap- Praise their own research depart- ees The Veterans Corner Here are authoritative answers from the Veterans Administration to four questions of interest to for- mer servicement and their fami- lies: Q. I’m going to night school un- der the World War Two GI Bill, Tl have to stop training for a while because my employer wants me to make an emergency two- month trip to another city. This is the first time I've had to travel on the job. Will I be allowed to continue with my GI Bill schooling after I return? A. Yes, provided you resume your course within 30 days after you return, or at the first time en- rollment is permitted, whichever is later, Q. I’m a disabled Korean veter- an in training under Public Law 16. VA recently gave me a physi- cal examination and reduced my service-connected disability rating to zero — which means I no longer will draw compensation pay. What about my Public Law 16 training? Will I have to quit that, too? A. No. So long as you already were in training when your dis- ability was rated as noncompens- able, you will be permitted to go ahead with your Public Law 16 training until you attain your ob- jective. Q. I'm in college under the World War Two GI Bill, and I’m Tunning out of GI entitlement. I’ve been figuring out the number of days I lost because of regular school holidays, iliness and other absences from class. Could I re- fund my subsistence pay to VA for those days, and thereby add on to my entitlement? A. No. Subsistence paid during regular absences may not be “bought back” for the purpose of adding to your entitlement. End- of-term extensions of training, on the other hand, may be repurchas- ed. Q. I'm taking a correspondence course under the World War Two GI Bill, and my eotitlement will expire when I’m only two-thinds of by | the way through. Will I be permit- ted to continue the course anybow? A. So long as you’ve¢ a major number of lessons at the time your entitlethent expires, you will be allowed to finish the cor- Trespondence course. However, this extension is limited to the number of lessons that $125 will buy. 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