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A the mote that is in thy broth
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eye?
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Korean War Sparks Demand
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For Vast Arms Expenditure
BY PETER EDSON
: NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. — (NEA) — Demands that the
United States start spending 25 percent of its nat
jonal income on military defense are being heard in
Washington, The idea is that this country must
match Soviet Russia’s armed strength and mobilize
for any emergency. This is not all Pentagon propa
ganda, either, but civilian advice to the White
House.
Best information available is that one-fourth of
the Soviet econonyy is devoted to its military estab
lishment. In terms of U. S. dollars at official ex
change rates, the Russian national income is put at
$65,000,000,000. Of this, the equivalent of $15,000,-,
000,000 is budgeted for the Russian Army, Navy and
Air Force.
On a dollar-for-dollar basis, this is about what
the U. S. Department of Defense will have to spend
this year. Present appropriations, subject to later re
visions, are in round numbers $13,000,000,000 for
the Department of Defense, plus $1,000,000,000 for=-
eign military assistance and another billion for
atomic energy.
The American national income, however, is $220,-
000,000,000 a year, The U. S. $15,000,000,000 defense
appropriations are only a little less than seven per
cent of this total.
What is now being advocated by some of the
highest government advisers is that national defense
spending be increased to a fourth of the national in
come, or $55,000,000,000 a year. In other words,
step up defense spending fronr three to four times.
SEEN AS WAR INSURANCE
Main argument for this drastic step is simply that
there mustn’t be any more Koreas, The U. S. must
take the initiative away from Russia,
The North Korean aggression has changed eval
uation of Russia’s strategy. Heretofore, it was as
sumed that the Russians would not be ready for a
world war before 1952, It has been implied that
Russia would not have a stockpile of atoimic bombs,
nor enough long-range bombers to insure that even
with Josses, enough Red bombers could get through
U. S. defenses to hit key targets like New York,
Washington, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Sault St. Marie
locks.
The new evaluation is that the Russians may now
consider themselves so strong that they can risk
outbreak of a mrajor war at any time.
To meet this situation, it is held that the only
thing the United States can do is restore balance of
power by building up American air and armored
strength to match Russia’s.
What an arms race of this kind would mean,
tripling or guadrupling U. S. expenditure, is fairly
obvious, It would mean sacrifice, higher taxes, an
increased draft, at least partial conversion of indus
try to defense production, allocation of materials,
other civilian curbs.
INCREASE WOULD COME GRADUALLY
The big jump from $15,000,000,000 to say $55,000,-
000,000 for a national defense budget could of
course not be made over night. Money just couldn’t
be spent that fast. A $5,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,~
000 increase in expenditures for the rest of 1950
might be all that would be required. But contract
guthorizations for 1951 deliveries would have to go
%ur beyond that,
During World War 11, arms expenditures jumped
tronr $6,000,000,000 in fiscal 1941 to $27,000,000,000
in 1942, $70,000,000,000 in 1943, and $84,000,000,000
in 1944 and 1945.
A $55,000,000,000 military budget would therefore
mean putting the country on a half-war basis. In
such a program would be included present outlays
for Marshall Plan, an expanded Voice of America
program, whatever is left of Point IV and other
cold war expenditures.
Opposition to any such program weould prabably
be slight. The country is probably ahead of Wash
ington in feeling that now is the time to shoot the
works.
One irenic touch to the new advocacy of a $55,-
000,000,000 defense budget is that in 1949, when the
armed services were asked for estimates on what it
would take to put the country on a full prepared
ness basis, the totals came to over $50,000,000,000.
Armed service planners were then told such esti
mates were crazy, On revision, the services came up
with a second estimate of $30,000,000,000. But it was
sald the country couldn’t afford even this.
So the military budget was cut in half. That left
us where we were when the North Koreans crossed
the 38th parallel on June 25.
The continuation of rent control for another year
will provide an orderly transition to a free rental
market and an orderly process of decontrol as each
eommunity meets its housing needs.—Housing Ex
pediter Tighe E, Woods.
The only real way to fight for peace is to control
all armaments, not only atomie bombs. — Former
Premier Georges Bidault of France.
Blame For Korean Reverses Can
Be Laid In Public’s Lap
As the war in Korea continues to go badly for eur
side, criticisms are bound to nmrount. People will be
looking for scapegoats.
Some wili blame the Administration, or particu
lar parts of it like the State or Defense Depart
ments, Others will jump on General MacArthur, or
perhaps his field commanders.
Painfui questions will be asked. Why haven’t our
troops made a better showing? Why haven't they
got more and better equipment to fight with? Where
are the planes and ships we need to dispatch rein
forcements to buck up the outnumbered Yank sol
diers?
Superficially, the answers nray not seem difficult
to find, and they may indeed point to weakness and
failure in-our government. Not alone in the Admin
istration but in Congress as well,
If the investigators and critics go back far enough,
as they ought to do, they will find that when World
War II ended we disbanded our huge * army and
navy with tremendous speed. The war over, we
allowed our soldiers to cast aside their weapons and
g 0 home.
Into the world vacuum created by the swift dis
mantling of our military might moved the newly
powerful Soviet Union. In the space of a few short
years Russia was reaching out to draw within her
orbit nations we had thought were safely free. When
Czechoslovakia slid behind the Iron Curtain we be
came alarmed.
Suddenly the call went out to strengthen our
defenses again. America’s own military budgets
were boosted, and soon we began voting money to
help arm friendly nations we thought could share
the job of standing off militant communism,
Yet never in the two years since the alarm was
sounded have we grappled realistically with our de
fense needs. Big as the U. S. defense outlay has been,
it hasn’t been large enough to qualify as more than
a token of our intent to resist.
All these decisions, from the whirlwind disband
ing of our World War II forces to the economies of
1949-50, can be ascribed either to the present Ad
ministration or to the Congresses that have served
since 1945. A&
But are they basiecally to blame?? .
The inescapable truth is that they did not keep a
bigger defense establishment in being, or restore it
once it had been broken up, because they did not
believe public opinion would support such a pro
granr. President Truman and his advisers and the
nation’s top congressional leaders make a business
of judging what the people will stand for, It was
their considered view that a really adequate de
fense was not among those things. '
Perhaps these men should have shown the wisdom
and courage to lead public opinion rather than be
guided by it; but the politicians, generally, do not
take that course.
It is the American people themselves who have
dictated the present state of our defenses. In the
face of a clearly great menace from Russia, they
have chosen to go on living comfortably, even lux
uriously; They have wanted business as usual and
life as usual,
The price of complacency and softness is often
high. We're paying it now on the bloody battle
fields in Korea. And we'll go on paying until we
wake up to the kind of a fight we're in. Russia is
playing for keeps, and we’d better learn to do the
same.
Wallace and Facts
Have you noticed the great silence on Korea from
Henry Wallace's quarter?
The United Nations Security Council was suffi
ciently convinced of North Korea’s aggression to
vote military sanctions against her with striking dis
patch.
The UN’s Korean Commission surveying the bor
der between North and South Korea just before the
war broke out, found the North Koreans had push
ed several salients into South Kerean territory. It
also learned that the northerners had removed civil
ians from the potential battle zone in the last days
prior to the attack.
All the evidence available to the UN, which has
some very cautious members, is also at Wallace’s
disposal. But he has heard, too, the Russians’ claim
that the weak, poorly equipped South Koreans were
the real aggressors.
So Wallace, who seldom waits this long to con
clude that his own government is guilty of shorta
comings, says he is patiently “studying who really
began this war.
Actually, he is probably studying how to reconcile
the brutal facts with his own fantastic notions of
world affairs.
We cannot afford the luxury of cheap political
partisanship which destroys our confidence in our
selves and in the people we have charged with'the
responsibility of administering our policies.—Sen
ator Francis J. Myers (D.) of Pennsylvania, on Red
witch-hunt,
If anyone thinks there are any spies running
around the United States, let him give us their
names and we'll soon bring them to justice.—Attor
ney General J, Howard McGrath.
We cannot live isolated in relative wealth and
abundance, We cannot ignore the urgent problems
of other peoples or threats to their independence.—
President Truman.
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Importation From Finland Gives
Pleasant 180 Degrees In Bath
By NEA Service
MIDDLEFIELD, Conn. —(NEA'|
—Baby, it's hot inside—it's 180
dp_qx;ees. as a matter o fact. But
it’s a very pleansant 180 degrees
and there are them as claim to
love every last degree of it.
The “it” is an importation from
Finland, called a ‘“saune,” pro
nounced like lawn-a. The sauna is
a steam bath, halfway between
baths.
The boject of the sauna is to
make you feel good. If you want,
you can use it as a means of los
ing a few pounds. In Finland,
where there is a sauna for every
seven persons, the inhabitants
make a point of sauna-ing once.
a week.
They slosh water on the hot
stones, and lie on a bench in the
vapor. They switch themselves
with the “vihta,” or birch switch
‘es, which is supposed to aid the
circulation of the blood. And then
they go ouside and dive into a
snowbank or the ocean, a practice
the Finns say is very invigorat
ing.
- An American of English birth,
Cecil Ellis, fell in love with the
‘sauna on a trip to Finland. He
also fell in love with a Finnish
girl. He brought them both back
to America with him.
The girl is now his wife, and
the sauna is his business. He fig
ured that the Americans might
like to feel as good as the Finns.
And there might be some who’d
want to useé the contraption for
reducing purposes.
Apparently he was right. He
formed a company which builds
saunas. They’ll put one on your
property for what Ellis says is a
moderate fee—‘“about what a new
car costs.” And the one he buitl
for himself is doing a good busi
ness with people who want to
sample life in a hothouse.
As Ellis builds them—and he
says he uses the ancient methods
the Finns have perfected —the
sauna is a three-room bungalow,
plus vestibule. There is a dress
ing room, “hot room,” and show
er room. In the hot room is the
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Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY. -
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Athens, Georgia
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
New York and East—
-11:22 a. m.—Air Conditioned.
8:45 p. m.—Air Conditioned,
Leave for Elberton, -Hamlet and
East—
-12:15 a. m.—(Local).
Leave for Atlanta, South and
West—
-5:50 a. m.—Air Conditioned.
4:25 a. m.—(Local).
4:57 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Arrives Athens (Daily) 12:35 p.m.
Leaves Athens (Daily) 4:15 pm.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
From Lula and Commerce
Arrive 9:00 a. m.
East and West
Leave Athens 9:00 a. m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Week Day Only
Train No. 50 Departs 7:.00 p m
frain No. 51 Arrives 9:00 a. oy
Mixed Trains
Just As Sure As NTght Follows Day
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moisture content, which must be
kept down to 30 per cent. The se
cret of keeping the heat dry is in
the art of building the sauna. In
Finland, the sauna-buildmg busi
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Elevated Room
Another secret is for the person
sauna-ing to be as near the ceiling
as possible. So the hot room is
elevated above the other rooms.
Ellis’ saunas have a raised hot
room, reached by about four stairs.
If you want to lose poundage,
the idea is not to eat for a few
houre after your exposure to the
heat. Each trip to the sauna stim
ulates the appetite and also takes
off about three pounds. If you
hold back temptation for a few
hours, the weight loss is perma
nent.
But if you want to sauna for
health’s sake, Ellis adviss &
hearty meal right after your wisit.
His wife, Kaarina, says the Finns
believe the sauna helps in the
treatment of arthritis, rheuma
tism, Neuritis and sinus infections,
but Ellis himself makes no such
ciaims. He does think, however,
that the intense perspiration rids
the skin of impurities.
A word of caution to prospective
sauna-ists: it’s supposed to be
‘healthier and more invigarting if
you sauna in the nude. Abose all,
don’t take anything metal—not
even a wrist-watch—in with you.
Your skin can take the heat, but
you're liable to burn yourself if
‘you touch a metal object that's
‘been exposed to that temperature.
AT THE
MOVIES
PALACE—
Sun.-Mon.-Tues. — “Annie Get
Your Gun,” starring Betty Hutton,
Howard Keel, All Bir-r-d. News.
Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.-Sat.—"“No Sad
Songs For Me,” starring Margaret
Sullivan, Wendell Corey, Viveca
Lindfors. Riviera Days. Cuckoo
Clock. News.
GEORGIA— - i i
- Sun.-Mon. — *Please Believe
Me,” starrin%Deborah Kerr, Rob
ert Walker, Village Barn.
Tues.-Wed, — “Words and Mu
sic,” starring Judy Garland, Mick
ey Rooney. Pluto and the Gopher.
Thurs. -Fri. — “Adam’s Rib,;
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TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1950,
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starring Spencer Tmey, Kather i,y
Hepbura, News,
Sat, — "M @ Pagajo~
starring Robert Huton, Ruth ...
‘wick. House Aabout R. Unimyi:.q
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'STRAND—
~ Mon. - Tues. — “Swing Your
Partner,” starring Lulu Belle &
Scotty. King Cole Trio and Ben
Carter Orch. To the Winner, y
Wed.-Thurs. — “Mother Didn't
Tell Me,” starring Dorothy 1.
Guire, Wm. Lundigan. “Degyp
Wife,” starring Wm. Holden, John
' Caulfield.
Fri.-Sat. — “Riders of the Race »
starring Tim Holt, Richard Ma, -
tin. Brooklyn Buckaroos. Underse,
Kingdom — Chapter 3.
RITZ—
Sun.-Mon.-Tues. — “Key to tha
City,” starring Clark Gable, 1,,-
retta Young. Blue Angel,
Wed.-Thurs. — “Lit{le Women »
starring Elizabeth Taylor, June
Allyson. Red Headed Monkey,
Fri-Sat. — “The Arizona Cow
boy,” starring Rex Allen, Gordon
Jones. Bashful Romeo. King of the
Jungleland — Chapter 1.
DRIVE-IN—
- Sun, — “Chicken Every Sun
day,” starring Dan Dailey, Celesta
Holm. Professor Tom.
Mon. - Tues. — “The Younger
Brothers,” starring Wayne Morris,
Bruce Bennett, Janis Paige. Hap
py Holidays. Jitterbug Jive. News
Wed-Thurs. — “June Bride”
starring Bette Davis, Robert Mont
gomery. Cured Duck. News.
Fri. — “Sergeant York,” starr
ing Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie. Lit
tle Moth's Blzetnnnc.
Sat. — W Messa City”
starring Lash ue, Fuzzy St
John, Jennifer Holt, h%h & Diz
zy. Caribbean Capers. Timid up.
July and August are Georgia's
peak traffic months. Our Safety
Edueation Division of the Georgia
State Patrol warns motorists that
the greater the traffic, the greater
the accident exposure. We can
only make ur for additional traffic
hazards by increased caution and
slower speeds. Lon’t be a vaca
tion victim.
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