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? DAILY MEDITATIONS
Heaven is my throne, and
| AROTING earth is my footstool, what
: house will ye build me?
/ =% Saith the Lord, or what is
! the place of my rest?
| Hath not my hand made ail these things?
3 The Acts. 7:49-50.
" Have you a favorite Bible verse? Mail o
i A. F. Pledger, Holly Heights Chapel.
- GOP Seizes Spy Ring Story
© As Handy Chalil)ge of Subjegt
! BY PETER EDSON
j NEA Washington Correspondent
g WASHINGTON—Communist spy ring disclosures
‘in Congress make swell hot-weather reading. And
they are lifesavers to the GOP.
| The Democrats have had the Republicans on the
'spot with their challenge of “Why don’t you do
something about housing and the high cost of liv
ing?” Now the Republicans can answer with, “Look
at all the Commies who were in government while
. you were running things.”
- While this resort may lack something as logic, it
- does serve to change the spbject. The idea is to
' make you forget and embarrassing question by
§concentratina your attention on an ertirely differ
fient set of troubles. It's an old political tric, but it
’gseems to work every time. So the GOP is whoop
%ing it up.
. From the standpoint of straight logic, the Repub
' lican case against doing anything about inflation
gleaves something to be desired. There is too much
| tendency to talk about causes, rather than cures.
! Principal arguments advanced by GOP congressmen
: are these three:
{ 1. Primary cause of inflation is the large volume
¢ of .exports and Marshall Plan aid—shipping out of
?'fhis country goods which, if left at home, would
i increase domestic supplies and so cut prices.
k- 2. A secondary factor is too high gov'g:mment
. spending, which increases the supply of money in
circulation and so drives prices up.
3. Democratic administration fiscal policies are
inflationary. 4
FOREIGN AID A SMALL SUM PERCENTAGE
WISE
The President’s mid-vear Economic Report to the
Congress sheds a little light on all three of these
Republican points.
1. The total volume of foreign aid for the year
ending June 30, 1949, is $7,000,000,000. This rep
resents less than three per cent of America’s gross
national product of goods and services.
~ About half of this first year's foreign aid consists
of goods to be procured outside the United States.
This “offshore procurement” constitutes the bulk
of commodities in tight supply in the U. S., such as
petroleum, non-ferrous metals, meats, fats and oils,
fertilizer, newsprint and lumber. Finally, the total
amount spent for foreign aid this year will be less
than $8,900,000,000 spent in 1947.
These facts should put the inflationary impact
of the foreign aid program in proper perspective.
| 2. Biggest item of government spending is for na
;fipnal defense. Last January, budget estimates for
&armed services were put at $10,900,000,000. The
ast Congress, with ‘Republican majorities mind
wou, jumped this figure by $3,500,000,000 to $14,-
400,000,000
g The President’s Economic. Report admits that,
%over the next three years, this stepping up of gov-
Went stockpiling and procurement programs for
the armed services—particularly the air force—
will put greater strains on short supplies of raw
‘materials.
fibout a fourth of present U. S. steel production,
for instance, is now under voluntary allocation con
for national defense, atomic energy develop
ament, freight cars, barges, oil and gas industry sup
‘plies. Other steel users are having to fight harder
for supplies not under allocation. This tends to drive
‘prices upward. And it raises the question of whether
%e price, allocation and inventory controls asked
3!!)1' by the President may not be all the more nec
g&ssaty to avoid a disruption of the general eco
. 3. On the matter of government fiscal policies,
E@epublican spokesmen in Congress have made quite
& point about how the GOP has been responsible
"'%&m' balancing the budget for the first time in years
‘and that this has nad an anti-inflationary effect.
When all the figures are in, the exact opposite may
ke proved.
During the first half of the calendar year 1948,
the Treasury piled up an $8,000,000,000 surplus. The
" Republican tax cut bill, according to present esti
mates, will cut government revenues by nearly $5,~
- 000,000,000 in the fiscal year ending next July 1.
Increased defense expenditures, authorized by the
Jast Congress, plus the tax cut, may therefore put
the Treasury back in the red. This would mean
nothing would be paid on the national debt. Instead,
. it would get bigger. 4 :
The effect of the tax cut, furthermore, is to put
more spending money in the hands of the people.
This. increases the inflationary forces, instead of
diminishing them.
In spite of all the logic that can thus be put be
' hind the President’s anti-inflationary program, it
, must be admitted that the program isn% going over.
%Congress would rather investigate spy scares
k‘-fl do anything about cutting the cost of living. .
» AProper Home For
Vice Presidents
There is little doubt about the work of
the American Vice-Presidents being as
signed more duties in the future than he
has had since the founding of the Urited
States government. It is at last beginning
to dawn upon the American public that it
is foolish to confine the work of the se
cond highest official in the government
to simply presiding over the sessions of
the United States Senate.
And along with the growing sentiment
in favor of making the office a more useful
one than it has been in the past, goes the
property of providing for the Vice-Presi
dent a home in the national capital that is
in keeping with the dignity of the office.
The Vice-Fresident receives a salary of
only $15,000 per annum. He cannot well
rent a residence for less than four to five
thousand dollars per annum. That leaves
him scarcely more than ten thousand dol
lars with which to meet his ordinary ex
penses to say nothing of any margin for
savings. Unless the Vice-President has a
private fortune it is impossible for him too
make financial ends meet. He probably
gets full conpensation for the work he has
been called upon to perform, but he
should be given more work and should
be properly compensated-for it.
A bill has been introduced in the House
for this purpose and its enacting into law
should merit universal approval,
There Are No Russians:
All Are Soviets
The dominant powers in Russia are up
in arms against the name of their country.
They no longer like to hear the people of
their country referred to as Russians.
They are so wrapped up in their political
ideology that they wish all Russians to be
known as Soviets.
Great rage and resentment are mani
fested when the critics of Russia refer to
the people of that country as “Russkis.”
They can’t do anything about it or stop
that practice, except by referring to Am
ericans as ‘“‘Americanskis.”
In spite of eveyything that Joe Stalin
and his leaders may do, however, the Rus
sian name will not disappear. Over there
they may call themselves Soviets, but the
balance of the world will keep on calling
them Russians. And as a term of derision
“Russkis” may become a common and
widely accepted name for them.
The Outlook For Fewer Strikes
It is never safe to jump to. conclusions
too rapidly, and yet it does appear from
recent developments that there is a ten
dency on the part of labor to reduce the
number of strikes and on the part of man
agement to make it easier to carry or col
lective bargaining as the best way in
which to avoid strikes.
There is a feeling in both labor and
management circles that the outlock is
favorable to a large reduction in the num
ber of strikes of national economic Im
portance. There is a tendency among the
larger labor union organizations to cut
out minor questions of dispute and the
major attention is now being given to the
question of the higher cost of living. In a
number of instances, through collective
bargaining there has been noticed more
disposition to give and take than usual.
Labor leaders, with the exception of John
L. Lewis, are showing a tendency to aban
don the rule or ruin policy.
Among other improvements noted is
the great reduction in the number of wild
cat strikes. The wildcat strike has always
been the source of much trouble in set
tling labor disputes. In one big industry
it is reported that the number of wildcat
strikes has declined from 1989 in 1945 to
38 during the first six months of 1948.
If due regard could be given by labor to
the enromous loss in wages for its mem
bers resulting from prolonged strikes and
if management could also come to realize
the enormous cost of strikes to the various
industries affected, the situation would be
much improved and both sides would
have a greater tendency to settle their dif
ferences across the bargaining table. And
it would be very beneficial if labor could
be brought to realize that every raise in
wages is practicaily wiped out by the in
flationary rise of the cost of living.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA,
| ECHOES FROM MEMORYLAND
' Story of “;L;f.er". pet dog. Lk
] BY T. W. REED
He was just a dog, but for all
that he became a pleasant mem
ory. Dogs, you know, have a way
of getting rather close to the
heartstrings of their owners.
It was some forty years ago
that “Buster” put in RIS appear
ance at my home on the Boule
vard. He was a large mastiff of
tan color, and at that time the
Buster Brown comics were just
beginning to appear in the press.
That is the way. in which he got
his igpems. .
I became a favorite with
“Buster” from the beginning. He
just took a fancy to me. At that
time I was editor of the Athens
Banner and my work kept me up
untili two or three o'clock in the
morning, as the paper was then
a morning journal. Every night
when I came in, “Buster,” who
slept on the front porch just in
front of the door, would come
dashing down the walk and,
jumping up on his hind legs,
would put his paws on my shoul
ders and look into my face as
if he wanted to kiss me.
He was not a vicious dog, but
he had plenty of playfulness
about him. He was especially
fond of chasing the little negro
children as they came by on the
Boulevard and Grady avenue on
their way to school. He never did
attempt to bite one of them, but
he fairly scared the life out of
them. I penned .him up in the
backyard, but that was ineffec
tive' as he would leap over the
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My good wife was fond of
raising flowers and ferns and
“Buster” developed a way of
rolling the ferns all over the
front yard in the moonlight, so
eventually we had to get rid of
him. We gave him to a family
over in Jackson county, who
wanted him, and I never saw the
old fellow but aobout two more
times. |
But, as I said above, the mem
ory of a good dog stays with a
man and I have nos™ Torgotten
“Buster.” Years ago United
States Senator George G. Vest, of
Missouri, took occasion to address
the Senate on the subject of his
pet dog. That address was a clas
sie. It has been printed and re
printed in the newspapers
throughout the 'country. I have
cut the clippings out, but just
now I cannot lay my hands on
one of them. If any of my read
ers ever run across Senator Vest’s
tribute to his dog -it would pay
them to read it.
The fact is that in the back of
my head there bobs up at times
a thought about a dog that very
few may entertain. I often think
that a good dog may be immor
tal. A dog has a number of
characteristics that would do
honor to a man. Love, fidelity,
appreciation, unselfish = service.
You will ask yourself whether
sych traits can die. If there is
such a - place as dog heaven, I
would love to see “Buster” and
my other -dog friends some day.
1 am._gquite certain that 1 have
known some dogs that were
closer to me than some men of
my acquaintance.
The heart of an insect is a
slender tube suspended along the
mid-line of the back, close to the
dorsal wall of the body.
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