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= Truman’s Views Are Revealed
Truman's Views Are Revea
In New Book About Presidency
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. — (NEA) — President Truman
keeps & diary. He keeps it at home, not in his of=
fice, It s written in his own handwriting. There is
& volume for every year that he has been in the
White House. And before that there are many loose
notes and memos that he has written to himself, for
his own records and later use,
One of the first of these notes is a memo he wrote
in 1934. He was then considering whether he should
be a candidate for the U. S. Senate. In this paper he
put down his own thoughts on what he had learned
from history and his politicai and moral philosophy
as of that time. Only he didn’t call it that then. They
were simply his ideas,
Mr. Truman hasn’t made daily entries in his dia
ries. There are many big gaps of a week or more,
But often he has filled in these gaps by memos on
his principal problemrs of the time.
The President never kept this diary “for history”
or with any idea that it might ultimately be pub=-
lished. It is too incomplete to make a full and con
nected story of his administration.
Excerpts from these White House personal dia
ries, however, make up the bulk of William Hill
man’s new book, “Mr, President,” just published by
Farrar, Straus and Young. The volume is sure to
become one of the most controversial documents of
the 1952 political canrpaign. )
“Big Bill” Hillman, the author-editor of this
book, has been a Washington radio commentator on
several networks and Washington editor of Collier’s
magazine for the past ten years.
PRESIDENT GAVE HIM NEW IDEA
" Hillman’s book, “Mr. President,” started out to be
something entirely different, he says. Hillman has
always been interested in foreign affairs. He claims
he was one of the first to use the name “Truman
doctrine,” for the President’s policy on contain
ment of communisnr in Greece and Turkey.
Hidman knew that the busy President had to
delegate much responsibility to others. But the final
decisions had tc be made by Harry Truman himself,
What influenced his decisions? What papers and
facts did he have before him when he made up his
mind?
Pursuing this line, the President showed Hilman
a memo written to Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes in 1946. It demanded a firmer stand against
Russia. It criticized Byrnes for not keeping the
fiisident informed on what went on at the Mos
. conference.
Impressed by this memo, Hillman asked if he
could use it. The President gave his approval. Out
of that incident grew the entirely different kind of
book that now emerges. ;
Its aim is to reveal in the President’s own words
what is typical of the man--his life, his thoughts,
his actions, “There are no sensational revelations,”
says Hillman. “No official papers. No m}; secrets.
Any important history of the Trumran a a=
tion will kave to come later, :
FREE REIN GIVEN ON CONTENTS
“At no time did the President dictate to me what
could be used and what couldn’t. He turned over his
diaries to me and I was left free to edit them. Only
three restrictions were placed upon me:
“First, U. S. security was not to be violated. Sec~
ond, only material in the public interest was to be
used. Third, nothing not in good taste, was to be
used.”
Hillman did cheek with the President on every=-
thing he selected for use. There was a vast amount
‘gt material from which to choose. Hillman has spent
mrost of the past year on this effort.
The author says the President gave his approval
of the project because he thought it would help
clarify his position while he was still in office.
He has long felt that all Presidents suffer from
misrepresentation. World events move more swiftly
now. Wrong impressions persist for years after
they have been proved wrong by facts.
The best way to understand the presidency, Mr.
Truman told Hillman, is to study the individuals
who have been President, Mr. Truman cited as an
example the cate of Andrew Johnson,
Johnson gave a number of interviews towards
the close of his tumultuous administrationgafter
Lincoln’s death. They present a most authentic ac=
count of what President Johnson was trying to do.
The President told Hillman he wanted his book
to help people understand the manner of man Harry
Truman really was. The President confided to Hill
man that after he left the White House, he would
like to lecture on the work of the presidency. But
he gave the author no hint on when he would be
leaving.
There are fwo ways to get a bigger slice of the
pie. One is te take it away from your neighbor and
the other is for all of us {o pitch in and help make
a bigger pie.—Admiral Ben Moreel, president, Jones
& Laughlin Corporation,
If 1 were running for President, I would launch
. out and call the people back to God and back to
~ church. And I believe I would be elected.—Billy
~ Graham, evangelist,
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No Future Seen For Tax Plan
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As Opposition Is Widespread
Back in 1939 a unique experiment began. it was
an effort to initiate among the 48 states themselves
a constitutional amendment to limit the federal in
come tax.
The U. 8. Constitution provides for two methods
of amendment, In one, Congress approves an
amendment and then submits it to ratification by 36
~three-fourths-—of the states. This is the standard
approach. '
In the other, 32 states, or two-thirds, may in
effect petition Congress to act on a proposal which
they have already endorsed, Congress then must
call a constitutional convention to act on the amend=-
ment.
At this point the Constitution is vague. It does
not say that the convention must draft and approve
the amendment advanced by the petitioning states.
It is silent on that. Bu, perhaps guided by legal de
cisions, some people interpret the convention ag be=
ing “charged” with the duty of following the 32
states’ wishes.
In any event, if the convention does approve such
an amendment, it then has to be re-submitted to the
states and must be ratified by 36, in the same man=-
ner as amendments drafted originally by Congress,
Patient and plodding attempts to use this rare
method have over a 13-year period produced a total
of only 16 states with effective resolutions for a
limit of 25 percent on federal income taxes. Altoe
gether, 25 states adopted such resolutions, but seven
later changed their minds and in two cases the
measures were vetoed by governors.
Although the proposal may be considered by six
or seven additional states this year, supporters of
the tax limrit are no longer optimistic the plan will
work. .
Consequently, resort is being had to the more
standard method of amendment. A House subcom
mittee is soon scheduled to begin hearings on the
plan, But it is given no chance of approval at this
session.
In fact, its long-range chances are very poor.
Organized labor is solidly against the proposal as a
“millionaires’ bill.” The present administration is
dead set in opposition. There is no assurance that
even a Republican administration which might be
voted in next fall would favor the measure. ]
Senator Taft, a top GOP presidential prospect
and the most influential Republican in the Senate,
disapproves the plan, and many would follow his
lead. Taft nrakes it clear he deplores present heavy
rates of taxation on incomes, but he believes the
methods and sources of federal tax revenues are
matters which should be left to the discretion of
Congress.
The proposed 25 percent limit would take the
issue out of congressional hands if approved, If
Congress in some future emergency then required
new sources of revenue—to finance a war, for ex
ample—income levies could not be raised without
adoption of another constitutional amendment nul
lifying the earlier one. Modern war being what it is,
the delay involved in the constitutional process
could be disastrous, even if the machinery were
vastly speeded up to fit the occasion.
It seems evident that the weight of opposition to
the tax-limit plan is decisive at this moment and is
unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future, It
looks evry much as if the 13-year labors of the
plan’s backers are going to prove in vain. Meah
time, the only hope seems to lie in the election of
congréssmen who favor tax relief.
Timber Problem In Oregon
Two million dollars to salvage ten and a half mil
lion dollars worth of fallen timber in western Ore
gon public lands will be asked for by Department of
Interior.
The timber was blown down by hurricanes which
struck the area last Decembetr. Many of the trees
were Douglas firs, 250 feet high. On the ground, the
timber will be a fire hazard next summrer. But a
worse menace comes from fir beetle damage. The
insects burrow under bark of dead trees. Multiply
ing rapidly they can destroy whole forests.
Much of the wind-thrown timber is in remote
areas to which roads would have to be built. There
is also a manpower shortage for salvage operations.
But if an estimated 700 million board feet of lum
ber could be saved, it would provide enough wood
for 70,000 new houses, say those who sponsor the
appropriation,
.
Uphill Work
The Swiss and the Russians, of all people, appear
to be engaged in a race to see who can get up to the
top of the world’s tallest mountain first. It's Mt.
Everest, in the Hinralayas, height 29,002 feet.
As you mirht expect from such a David and Go
liath sort of contest, things got off to an uneven
start. Russia, straining mightily and ponderously,
was reported to be “assembling” a task force of 150
men.
The Swiss, quickly and lightly, meantime, put
five Alpinists in an airplane and told them to go to
Mt. Everest and climb it. They're to get help later,
but the big job, as the Swiss see it, is to get the
show on the road. .
It would be interesting to see the final stages of
the contest — Swiss versus Russians, above the
clouds, and the top of the world as the goal. We'll
take the Swiss.
It is quite sad the way minks have dropped from
popularity in Washington.—Helen Green, Manhat
tan fur stylist.
I certainly do not think the Chinese and North
Korean ground and air forces have a capability of
driving us from Korea—far from it. — Lt. General
Frank Everest, comnrander, Fifth U. S. Air Force.
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Don’t Grab For Your Tonic Or
Bus The Bug Is Back And If's
We were warned in due time,
That cannot be denied.
But did it have to creep up on us
and catch us at our most “un
awares”? Here we were, in our
winter-time rut, which like an old
coat had become pleasant-and
comfortable by virtue of long
wear, when Spring slipped up on
us.
We should have known that
something was happening which
was decidely not in keeping with
winter’s lethargy but chose in
stead to ignore it until the calen
dar brought us abruptly to face
with the whole situation.
Spring has been here since last
Thursday and there’s nothing you
or I can do about it.
With the passage of the Ides of
March, University students were
gritting their teeth for entry into
final examinations and by the
time spring actually arrived most
students were heading for home
and holidays. Monday, however,
will witness a mass migration back
to the Classic City and the magical
(and oftimes acedemically disas
trous) spring quarter will have
begun,
The influence that spring-time
exerts on Athenians is marked
if not spectacular. Few Athenians
will go to the extremes of sun
bathing and sw7imming until sum-~
mer but the mark of the season
will be no less felt. ,
Already homes throughout the
community have experienced the
first birth-pangs of a spring clean
ing spree on the part of the house
frau. As yet the tendency toward
“clean-up time” has not reached
its most advanced stages but wo
men have been noted as they
scrutinize the living room furniture
making mental notes as to how
“that chair would look over here”
and “how the breakfast room
Erskine Jobhnson
=% Ed Wynn Wins Batile Against
e~ o Irick Shots And Chalk Marks
HOLLYWOOD — (NEA) — On
TV: Biggest TV fight of the year
hasn’t involved wrestlers or box
ers, but Ed Wynn and the network
bosses who have held him down.
The Winnah! Mild, non-belliger-
Ed!
He’s won the right to go back to
the formula that made him one of
the most beloved clowns on the
stage, on his “All Star Revue”
show.
“It's my fault if TV hasn‘t cap
tured me,” the veteran comedian
told me. “I've been too lenient. I
don’t like to fight.
“Jerry Lewis rehearses with the
cameras, then does exactly what
he feels like doing during a show.
But I've been standing on the spot
they've marked for me. No more,
though.
“The camera is going to follow
me from now on. No more stand
ing on chalk marks. There are too
many cameras shooting this way
and that way in TV.
“And there are too many people
who keep wanting to photograph
Jack Benny through harpstrings.
“I claim that you can put the
camera on a. great comedian and
the cameraman can then go out to
lunch.”
& ® *®
TV’s mowing down more and
more big radio stars and the hand
writing is on the wall that they’ll
be off the air and on television
exclusively next fall.
Slated to fade off the air: Bing
Crosby, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen,
Jack Benny and Red Skelton.
Bergen has hush-hush plans for
this summer. He'll go overseas to
shoot a 13-week series of films
starring himself.
Martha Raye will sign for 8 to
11 appearances on NBC-TV next
would look painted egg-yellow”.
Reports from Athens husbands
indicat the cleaning fever should
reach its peak sometime in mid-
April and flurries of business trips
are being planned by scores of
dutiful husbands who desire to
minimize the pain.
Although spring has not yet
completed its initial building and
March winds must still be allowed
a period of bluster, Athens lawns
are tinged this week with that
peculiar glow that promises on
coming summer time.
We have been told that “it hap
pens every spring” and from in
dications derived from a study of
Athenians’ reading habits we are
in total agreement that “it” is hap
pening this spring. From extensive
survey we learn that poetry books,
romantic novels, and gardening
manuels are sharing popularity
with seed catalogues on the read
ing shleves of most homes. A good=
ly portion of the early spring gar
dening enthusiasts are quick to
admit that the craze won’t last
through the hot summer days, but
others are anxiously contemplat
ing the purchase of additional gar
dening tools and even tractors to
“till the garden spot.”
Other less ambitious souls are
content with sharpening the lawn
mower and hoping they will be
able to hire “motivators” for the
machine before the grass gets too
thick.
From the general trend here in
Athens, the movement is toward
beautification and renovation as
spring peers around the corner,
clutching its hat in anticipation of
forthcoming heavy winds and un
seasonal coid spells. Aevity of re
cent days has included the re
planting of dog-wood trees along
the streets, creation of new gar
dens uptown, the painting of the
year. High . brass is all smiles
about her cleaned-up humor and
willingness to listen to TV direc
tore...
o TV’s Top Ten
Top 10 TV program types, ac=
cording to the latest pulse sur
vey, are:
Boxing, comedy-variety, west=
erns, comedy situations, drama
and mysteries, talent, musical va=
riety, basketball, kid shows and
wrestling.
* *® *
Bruce Cabot is replacing Michael
O'Shea in the “Bruce Bradley,
FDA Inspector” series of telepic=-
tures - . . Walter O’Keefe has ve
toed all story line ideas offered
him for TV and will pop up with
an audience participation show
along the lines of “Double Or
Nothing,” in the fall.
* * %
A TV-minded father to his wife
after having his view of the parlor
screen blocked by the kiddies:
. “Honey, if we have any more
children, let’s have glass ones.”
!. % ®
Jack Carson’s Broadway stint in
the revival “Of Thee I Sing” re
moves him from the list of stars
alternating on NBC’s “All Star
Revue.” . . . Gail Patrick, the
same gorgeous Gail of movie
fame, is turning video producer.
She’s in on the rights to Earle
Stanley Gardner’s hest -selling
“Perry Mason” mysteries and will
turn out the pilot film for Bing
Crosby Enterprises.
*® * *
The experts are huddling on a
question - and - answer show for
Fred Allen in hopes a Groucho
Marx-type quizzer will bring back
the old Allen spark en video.
Fishing Pole,
Not A Virus
City Hall Clock, and other spruc
ing-up efforts.
The Ladies Garden Clubs are
also planning their annual tour of
scenic and historic homes with
emphasis on yards and gardens
as well as the beauty of the homes
themselves,
G. D. Simpson and Frank Cleve
land of the Seaboard Railway Sta
tion have a garden in “full bloom”
down at the station which adds a
fine spot of color to their sur
roundings.
With winter surrendering to the
influence of rapidly approaching
warm weather, we are enjoying
“good loafing weather”. The an
nual flow of students from Athens
schools visiting local industries
will soon begin with weather per
mitting walking excusions.
Not waiting for the perennial
blossoming out on Easter Sunday,
Athens women are furning to
spring fashions, with flowers and
prints equaling the number of
furs and feathers seen on the
streets.
Although weather of the spring
variety bodes no good for would
be fishermen who must remain
at office desks until their two
weeks in August, we have decided
that spring and its accompanying
influences are desirable. Aside
from a vague feeling of restless
ness and wanderlust which
we have suffered this entire week
and which was culminated by our
glance at the calendar we have
shown no ill effects.
All good things must end, as
will spring, in a few short months.
Summer will come, then fall, and
winter.
Spring will be nipping at our
heels again in less than 12 months
and the cycle will be completed.
We have no complaints with
the system.
Ihe Doctor Savs
By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D,
Written for NEA Service
Some superstitions are remark
abiy persistent, and it seems like=
ly that they will exisit as strongly
a thousand years in the future as
they did a thousand years in the
past.
Q—l have a friend who is two
months pregnant and has a pet
dog which she is fond of, and she
gives it a lot of attention, I have
been told her baby could be
marked by this dog. Could this be
true? —T. H.
A—The presence of a pet dog
around the house during pregnan
cy should have no effect whatso
ever on the unborn child unless
the mother stumbles over the dog
or is allergic to it.
* & @
Q—What is the difference be=
tween barbiturates and phenobar
bital? —Reader.
A-—Phenobarbital is one of the
barbiturates, but is one of the
“weaker” varieties,
& $ ¥4
Q—ls one has infected ovaries
and needs an operation,~do the
tubes and uterus have to be re
moved also? Does the removal of
female organs .sometimes affect
the mind? —Mrs. J. K.
A—The answer to the first
question is “net necessarily.” The
tubes, or part of them, and the
uterus, can be left in place when
the ovaries are removed unless
there is some special reason to
remove them also.
In the second question, there is
no reason to believe that removal
of the female organs has any di
rect effect on the working of the
mind.
74
‘;5 ,Z, Hal Boyle =
] @; Poor Man's Philosopher Tells
BB = 0f Tall Woman Among Tall Men
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Hal Boyle
NEW YORK,—(AP)—She stood,
a small lady among many taller
men, and in her heart she laughed
because she knew she was taller
than they were,
She was taller than they were
because she had more land. And
in her heart she felt that land was
Rower, because she trusted acres
more than people.
Sophistication and recognition
were pretty much new to 64-year
old Susan Haughian when she
came here on a visit to Manhattan
Island from Montana.
But they weren’t as new as she
made out. Well, like any other
stranger in town she kind of hung
back about telling her story. You
know how folks from out of town
are—they can’t help from believ=
ing that the resident :iascals are
plain waiting to ambush them and
their dreams.,
Well, I am a local Yokel and T
sure did waylay this country girl
ofi her first sustained visit to the
big city. She was fun to squire
around, and this was her story:
She was one of 16 children born
in Ireland, and naturally she set=
tled overhere in a small cozy place
like Montana. It reminded her of
home—it was so much bigger. You
have to know the people from the
old country to understand her land
kunger.
She and her man — Dan, his
name was—started with 40 acres
where that was an apology and a
possibility,
The family did a lot of pioneer
fng way out west where the wind
blows free and the animals graze
when they can. Susan is pretty
nroud of Dan for providing her
with the first house in her life
time that had hot and cold run
ning water and the local defini
tion of central heating.
There also were five sons and
five daughters he gave her. Of
course it is hard to pick among
children—in Montana or your
town. But I don’t think Susan will
ever forget her sixth child, nowe
known also as Susan and no more
her favorite than some of the oth=
ers today. i
Dan knew of oo\#rse he couldn’t
get to a doctor—they are a long
RUTH MILLETT *
Rl Evervting Goes” Cooks
W " lgnore Plain Sandwich Fans
Jews item: “In Butte, Mont.,
Dennis Lambert sued tavern own
er W. B. Booth for $16,500, charg
ing that Booth flew into a violent
rage and beat him up after Lam-~
bert ordered a hamburger and re
moved the onions,”
That incident may surprise
some folks. But it doesn’t surprise
me. For' years now I've been or
dering “plain” sandwiches with
disheartening results,
The first blow comes with the
disdainful attitude of the waiter
or waitress taking the order. “You
mean you don’t want ‘anything’
on it?” they ask. When I.admit
that is what I mean, the look I
get is one of complete and utter
incredulity, or I get a shrug that
suggests that you-run-across-all
kinds-of-people while waiting on
tables.
The second blow is what the
sandwich arrives—with “every
thing.” I used to send the sand
wich with “everything” back for
the plain one I'd ordered carefully
in the first place—only to dis
cover that all the cook did was
scrape off about half of the “ev
erything,” returning the sandwich
in a slightly used-looking condi
tion.
Now I just keep what I get. But
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
Dear Sir
Don’t you think taxing our un
born grandchildren is unfair? Pass
the buck, blame the other fellow
after it is too late but the fly by
night and gimmie boys are fixing
to ream us again.
The records show that Athens
is now in the most extravagant,
wasteful spending of the taxpay
ers money in the history of Ath
ens. Will any of these so called
friends and officials be living in
Athens five or ten years from
now paying their part of this sur
vey and elaborate spending debt
being made,
Thousands upon thousands of
dollars can be saved the taxpay
ers by remodeling and rebuilding
the old High School building at its
present site for negroes, but in
stead the Experts want a new
building 2 blocks away, but the
side Kkicks .won’t run so high,
neither will the cost of foundation
or brick walls.
If the experts right now want to
get more education they would go
to England to colleges thati are
hundreds upon hundreds of years
old and in the same old buildings,
My home town was not built
under one administration and tax
payers and citizens must not sit
and let it be overhauled complete
ly to suit foreign outside whims.
Here in Athens as we finish Hay
good home number seventy-seven
we know the per unit cost is not
as high as the government bar
racks which are now causing so
much disturbance and trouble.
Our houses have a back and front
yard as well as a little place for
dogs and a few flowers, chickens
and a garden. Our nation is
founded and can survive on pri
vate enterprise only. We must quit
fooling oursezves from outside ex
perts and begin to pay as we g 0
SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1958,
way off in Montana, and the courn
try isn’t shrinking. Susan spread
a rug on the cold floor when the
pains came upon her and had ;
normal birth and a fine daughte,
all alone. Her other children wait
ed in another room. She eut th:
cord of birth and blew warm
breath upon the cold frame of her
newborn babe.
The neighbor woman that Dayn
brought said with the exultation
of all women: .
“T knew you would do it. I
knew you would.”
Dan Wept
Dan went.into another room--
he was a strong man—and wept
In 1931 Dan gave up his lono
struggle against the weather an(
the land and died. He left Susan
a widow with ten children and
stout $20,000 in debts.
“Nobody sent me a single bill."
she recalls. “And, of course, they
didn’t really have to.”
How about today? Well, the
banker is ready to talk to Susa
anytime, back there in any tow:
near Miles City. She's got the bail
money ready for her herders whe:
they come into town after six
months or so in the hills,
Oh, maybe there’s 1,600 cattle
or so now, and say 2,300 ewes an
1,400 lambs. But how about that
spreading patch of Montana she
controls, r
“Well, of course now they are
looking for oil that way out
there,” said Susan cautiousl
“You know, T just have no respect
for people who fib, I don't respect
them at all. I suppose maybe we
own or lease about 80,000 to 100.-
She said that, city ways aside,
she had been well-treated on Man
hattan Island which is consider
able smaller than 100,000 acres
which is more than 150 square
yond that.”
miles,
“Of course, the land here is more
valuable,” she said politely, look
ing around with no air of real con
viction at the nearest skyscraper
and added absent-mindedly:
“You know, I once saw a cow
wrap her legs around her calf to
keep it f%‘ freezing. 1 believe in
nature. T our sheep. I feel if we
take care of our sheep they will
take care of us.”
I haven’t given up ordering what
I want.
Don’t Give Up Asking for
What You Want
When a friend once suggested
that I might as well give up. and
just order a sandwich without any
instructions about leaving anv
“thing off I said, “Nothing doing.”
After all I wasn’t asking for
anything extra—just for some
thing less than I was paying for.
And for the life of me I can't see
why everybody in the world has
to have “everything” on a sand
wich—just because a short-order
cook is used to piling everything
on.
“Haven’t I a right to state an in
dividual preference?,” I asked
myself. And my answer was
“Yes.”
But the pressure against getting
a “plain” sandwich from Maine
to California has been so great
I’'m not surprised that a customer
was beaten up for removing the
onions from a hamburger.
My guess is he asked for one
“plain.” And that for some strange
reason sets up a chain reaction in
the average restaurant. It makes
everybody mad from the waitress
or car~hop to the sandwich maker
and on to the owner of the joint,
if he happens to be around.
then the gimmie boys are left
completely out with their over
lapping jobs,
. I hope 1 do*not offend any of
* my home loving friends here at
hpme. lam fed up.on the fly by
nights and gimmie boys and have
a perfect right too when so much
extravagance is displayed with
the taxpayers money.
People shopping don’t some ‘o
town sightseeing. Too much ve'-
low paint is being wasted when
we need more parking meters to
bring in more revenue to help pay
for so much unnecessary waste.
Only a taxpayer and voter,
0. W. HAYGOOD
Editor,
Dear Sir:
For many years I have been
reading articles and editorials
about 4-H Club work in many dif
ferent papers of the state but I
don’t know when I have read an
editorial that rang the bell like
the one in your paper tonight. It
was a beautiful tribute to a great
farm youth organization in this
stale and the nation.
It has been my pleasure to work
with this fine organization at dif
ferent times over the state and I
assure you that it is refreshing to
find a youth group that still be
lieves in working for a living, as
evidenced by the value of pro
jects completed last year in this
state, which totaled approximately
$15,000,000.
There are time when we arc
called on in the cities to sub
scribe funds for youth programs
primarily recreation. They have
recreation in the rural aeas but
they also create wealth, I some
times think the greatest sceds of
Democracy left in America is out
side the city limits. This group
has earned and deserve your com
mendation. I congratulate you.
H. M. MORRIS