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DAILY MEDITATIONS
O the depth of the riches
: both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God, how un
searchable are his judgments,
. and his ways past finding out.
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The Budget Needs Trimming,
But Where Will Congress Snip?
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —How much “butter”
there is in the 85 billion dollar budget will be the
important point for Congress to determine, in an
alyzing President Truman’s annual money message,
Congressmen, businessmen and taxpayers in gen
eral can and probably will object strenuously to the
President’s proposals to increase taxes.
But when all the screaming is over, somebody is
going to have to sit down quietly with a sharp pen
cil to see what expenditures can be crossed off, to
make further tax increases unnecessary.
If that isn't glone, the only alternative is to un
balance the budget and go back to deficit financing.
Borrowing money in this fashion will mean increas
ing the national debt to 274.9 billion dollars, which
is just under the present 275 billion dollar national
debt limit.
Four figures are important in determining where
the budget might be cut. The President proposes
spending 51 bilion dollars for national defense.
That's where the major cuts, if any, will have to be
nrade,
A little over six billion dollars is earmarked for
interest on the public debt. That can’t be cut out
because it's a fixed charge. A little over four billion
' dollars is earmarked for payments to veterans. That
won't be cut because Congress won't stand for it.
WHERE WILL THEY USE THE AXE?
All other expenses of government are estimated
at just a little under 10 billion dollars. So when
anyone gets up and makes a speech to the effect
that *“10 billion dollars could be cut out of non
defense spending in Washington without the least
trouble,” he means only one thing.
. He means that the whole Federal government
should be abolished, including Congress, the Fed
eral courts, the FBI, the Post Office department and
everything else.
Any demagogue who advocates saving 10 billion
dollars that way is obviously talking through his
hat.
When President Truman sent up his budget for
the current fiscal year in January, 1951, he asked
for expenditures of 71.6 billion dollars,
~ There were all kinds of speeches made to the
\. gffect that this figure could and would be cut from
three to nine billion dollars.
What actually happened is now revealed in the
new budget message. It shows that government ex
penditures for this year, all approved by Congress,
will be 70.9 billion dollars. In short, Congress suc=
ceeded in cutting the President’s budget for this
year by less.than one billion dollars—7oo million,
approximately.
Congress did vote bigger cuts than this. But Con
gress also voted to add almost as much in new ap
propriations as it cut,
CHECKING THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS
So in looking to see how much “butter” can be
cut from next year’s budget, the first checklist is in
the items of expeense which the President proposes
to increase next year, and ttiose which he proposes
to decrease.
He proposes increases of 16.2 billion dollars and
decreases of 1.7 billion dollars, for a net increase of
14.5 billion, from 70.9 billion this year to 85.4 bil
lion next year.
He proposes to increase military expenditures by
11.4 ‘billion dollars from 39.8 billion to 51.2 billion.
It is doubtful if any cuts will be made here. It will
be lucky if increases are heid to 11 billion.
Foreign aid and international relations expenses
are to be increased by 3.6 billion dollars—fronr 7.2
billion this year to 10.8 next year. There will be a
fight on this and some cuts are likely, perhaps as
much as 2 billion dollars.
The President wants to increase Federal aid to
education by 386 million dollars, That will prob
ably be cut. But a budgeted 260 million dollar in
crease in interest on public debt can’t be cut.
All the other increases which the President pro
poses—for increasing defense production, building
new power dams, aid to agriculture and general
government — add up to only a little over half a
billion dollars.
If eliminated completely, they would save no
more money than that.
The items of government expense which the
President himself says can be cut back include
nearly a billion dollars in reduced veterans bene
fits, half a billion in reduction of Maritimre Admin-
istration, Civil Aeronautics Administration and
< Post Office Department, 200 million dollars less
aid to housing and a minor cut in social security
* payments, due to increased employment.
Government appropriation experts say that what
all this adds up to is that if there are any sizable
; cuts in the budget, it will be a great as well as a
pleasant surprise,
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" Glamor is becoming more difficult to find. Wo
men have lost their individuality., They all have
the same hair-do, the same make-up, the same
" movements. It's like a disguise.—Curtis Bernhardt,
Legislators Have One Choice:
Raise Taxes Or Cut Spending
President Truman is now on the record as want
ing $5 billion in new taxes, but surely neither he‘
nor anyone else is under the illusion Congress will
vote such levies in an election year.
Indeed, it will be a surprise if any new taxes are
voted at all. Democratic tax leaders in both houses
already have declared it unlikely. |
Mr. Truman, in his economic message to Con
gress, sought to strike fear in congressional hearts
by predicting that the federal deficit for the coming
fiscal year would be sl6 billion unless new levies
are imposed.
He said federal spending in the year ahead will
run from SBS billion to S9O billion,
There's no question these are irightening figures,
For the current fiscal year outlays are expected to
hit s7l billion, with the deficit at $8 billion, and
those totals are bad enough.
But it’s still a very difficult thing to scare a con
gressman sufficiently to convince him he should
raises taxes in a year when he faces the voters.
The lawmakers, of course, have their alternative:
to cut expeneses down. They speak of this necessity
in loud tones. The trouble is, they seldom do any
thing about it except where foreign aid funds are
concerned, They are aware that Europeans do not
vote in American polling booths.
Yet if serious additions to the national debt are!
not to follow, it will take more than foreign aid
savings to get us into sound financial shape. This is
where the congressmen come smack up against it.
The alternatives to new taxes are either reduc
tion .of spending or a debt increase that might have
a ruinous inflationary effect.
The opportunity to save has confronted congress
men for three years. The Hecover Commission’s no
table plans for reorganizing the federal government
are little more than half in operation,
The portions not yet adopted involve sonre of the
biggest spenders among the government ai;encies——-
the Interior and Agriculture Departments, the Vet
erans Administration, the Army Engineers.
These are the sacred cows of government, the
agencies with lots of money and jobs, both of which
temptations are distributed conveniently through
out the country. Few lawmakers can bring them
selves to vote economy when it may mean chopping
off funds or jobs in their own districts.
New taxes vs. job slashing econonry: No more
uncomfortable choice could be given a legislator in
campaign season. But if the lawmakers duck it this
time, they may soon find the national debt soaring
toward a third of a trillion dollars. And they may
wake up to the fact that they are not evading trou
ble, but just postponing it.
.
The Three-Fold Attack On Polio
Money given to the 1952 March of Dimes now
underway supports the fight against polio in the
hospital ward, in the professional training class
room and in the research laboratory.
In the diversity of this attack against the only
epidemic disease still on the increase in America,
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is
unique in the voluntary health movement.
The National Foundation, supported by the an
nual March of Dimes, has mounted the most mas
sive people’s attack on a single disease ever launch
ed by a voluntary health agency. It is the only vol
untary agency in the country which helps pay pa
tient care bills on a national basis.
But maintaining its three-fold job of patient care,
professional education and research has become
exceedingly difficult for the National Foundation
in the last four years. Each of these years it has
gone into debt trying to do the job.
This situation has been breught about by an up
ward surge of poilo that has seen more cases re
ported and more March of Dimes funds spent in the
last four years than in the entire previous decade
combined.
The 1952 March of Dimes will determine whether
the National Foundation is to maintain this total
attack to the end that polio and its crippling after
effects may be obliterated once and for all from the
environment of man.
No aspect of this attack may be neglected. Chil
dren and adults stricken with this crippling disease
must be provided with the best available care—
there is no question about that; we must live with
polio until it is conquered.
But we must get on with the business of con
quering it too. For in the final analysis the most
imrportant single thing we can do is to make patient
care unnecessary; in other words, we must protect
man from ever getting polio at all,
In the field of research, March of Dimes scien
tists have made giant, if inconclusive, strides. They
haven't found the answer yet, but they have im
proved treatment and they have pieced together so
many of the ingredients to the final solution that
researchers are optimistic the answer will be found
within the not-too-distant future.
There’s no question about supporting research; it
is obviously a must. So is professional education,
the part of the National Foundation’s program that
trains many of the pecple who staff the hospitals
and man the research laboratories. Money and
equipnrent are not enough; skilled hands and
trained minds are necessary. We cannot neglect
professional education without neglecting patient
care and research,
Great nations are not killed from without—they
die when they refuse the internal discipline that
willk keep their position inviclate.—Edward P. Mor
gan, of OPS. g . :
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president for operations. He will
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in Norfolk.
Thorne’s appointment reacti-
vates an office that was held by
John W. Smith for four years prior
to his election in December 1950
as the Seaboard’s vice president of
administration. |
A native of Florida, Thorne has
had an unusually active career
with the Seaboard, the only rail
road company with which he has
been connected. His first position
with the company was secretary to
the superintendent at Arcadia,
¥la,, which he accepted March 3,
1926.
After serving subsequently in
various secretarial capacities at
Jacksonville, Fla., and Savannah,
Ga., Thorne became yardmaster
for the Seaboard in Montgomery,
Ala, in 1937, and three years
later became terminal trainmaster
in Richmond. He served from
March of 1942 until January. of
1942 as trainmaster at Richmond,
and affer short assignments as as
sistant superintendent in Tampa,
Fla., and assistant chief of person
nel in Norfolk, he entered the
Army in November 1943, serving
with the 722nd Railway Operating
Battalion, which saw considerable
service in Europe.
Thorne was separated from
service in May of 1946 with the
rank of major, and returned to the
Seaboard as assistant superinten
dent at Jacksonville. He became
superintendent there in August of
that year.
Six months later he was pro~
moted to assistant general mana=-
ger of the Seaboard, with head
quarters in Norfolk, a position he
held until December 5, 1950, when
he was promoted to assistant vice
president for operations. He held
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THURSDAY, JANUARY M 4, 1934,
this position until August of last
year, when he became aeting as
sistant to president, an appoint.
ment which was made permanent
in the announcement by the come~
pany’'s president yesterday,
Dairy Sociefy
Plans Aflanfa
Meel, Feb. 4
A meeting of the Georgia Dairy
Technology Society has been sche
duled for Atlanta, February 4, im
conjunction with a meeting of the
Southern Section of the American
Dairy Science Association, Dpr,
John J. Sheuring, University of
Georgia dairy professor and secre
tary of the society, announced toe
day.
Dairymen from throughout the
South are to be in Atlanta on this
date attending the annual Southe
ern Agricultural Workers Confer
ence, and the Georgia group will
meet with them,
Speaker for the meeting, which
is scheduled at Brittian Hall on
the Georgia Tech campus at 6:45%
p. m., will be H. B. Henderson,
vice-president of the American
Dairy Science Association, and
chairman of the University of
Georgia dairy division.
The newly elected president of
the Georgia Dairy Technology So
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