we can’t see eye-to-eye with. Last , week we,

we can’t see eye-to-eye with. Last , week we, read of his proposal to send our surplus wheat to Russia, free of charge. Many persons voice approval of this plan, offer* ing one of the following arguments—“It’s the Christian thing to do; “Let’s be a good Samaritan;” “Why not—after all, it’s wheat we’re giving them, hot bullets.” And a third Will argue “Our generosity will impress the real people of Russia' and may do much toward winning them for democracy.” ,

We ask, in response; is it a Christian teaching to j feed one people, building them up to prey - on another? Is this wheat not “war material” if it strengthens them for the preying. Remember, too, the people that it would reach, .and precious few of these would be the ordinary folk, would not be enlightened as to the identity of the givtr. The wheat will not be accompanied by a portrait of a kindly Uncle Sain. Rather, through trickery and low publicity, they will be led to "believe that it. is a gracious gift from their ever-loving dictator. Thus it will serve to bind them ever closer to a warped ideal. The few that would glean an ounce qf the truth and thus an ounce of democracy, would not be worth the _ many that would follow, even strengthen, the party line. The other proposal we bring to your attention is one reported on Monday in the Times-Dispatch: a proposal to trim Federal appropriations to the school lunch program by $15,000,000 which would. mean a loss of. about $600,000, worth of supplementary foods in; Virginia schools participating in the prograny.