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- Congress’ False Savings Mean
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Pasi-tiection Appropriations
b BY PETER EDSON
¥ NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) -—Many phony cuts in
federal government spending for next year are res
vealed by an examination ol appropriation bills so
far passed by the House of Representatives,
Effect of these false economies is to make it ap
pear that Congress is doing a whale of a job in cut
ting President Truman’s SBS billion budget. In an
election year, this is supposed to have a good influ
ence with the voters. s
The after effect may be just the opposite. Money
not appropriated before the elections may have to
be appropriate«% after the elections. Paper savings
§ook good on the record, but they merely postpone
the day of reckoning, pile up trouble for later on
and ultimatelg require a deficiency appropriation
before the end of the year.
To the extent that these phony cuts are influen
ced by Republican votes, they may be making fu
tuce grief for the GOP if it wins control of Congress
fn the coming eiection. Instead of being able to re
duce appropriations as promised, the new Congress
will have to begin by increasing them.
Here are a few examples of the way these phony
cu 5 are being handled: »
*—General Services Administration requested
$225 million to carry on its stockpiling of strategic
materials next year. The House Appropriations
Committee, emphasizing that it was requiring no
savings in this program, disallowed a request for
s2l million for storage of thees materials, £
VA’S BENEFITS CUT BACK §139 MILLION
“he committee told GSA to look around and see
if it couldn’t find other storage facilities. But if as
surance is given Congress that suitable facilities
don't exist, the money will b 2 appropriated later.
2 _Veterans’ Administration estimated that its
readjustment benefits for next year would cost $698
million, These benefits include education, training
and unemployment and loans to veterans under the
GII bill.
"“he House arbitrarily cut this figure by $139 mil
lion to SSBO milllon. It was a pure guess on what
tha expense load will be. If it turns out heavier,
VA will be back next year asking for the’differ
ence, which Congress will have to grant.
. 3—Federal Security Administration grants for
hospital construction, previously authorized by Con
gress at $154 gnillion, were cut S2O million on the
assumption that building material’'s wouldn't be
available next year to carry on the work. The actual
spending in this case was merely deferred till 1954.
4—On the one billion, 140 million-dollar budget
request for grants to the states on public assistance
programs, Congress cut off the $l4O million to nrake
the appropriation an even billion.
Again the basis for this economy was a congres
sional assumption that there would be high em
ployment next vear, with more people over 65 be
coming eligible for social security benefits under the
old-age assistance program.
5-—ln the federal highway bill, the House cut a
requested S4OO million to $325 million. The reason
given was 8 belief that there wouldn’t be enough
steel and manpower to carry out the full program.
CIVIL SERVICE REQUIREMENT
FUND LOSES OUT
But here the House Appropriations Committee
admitted openiy that the federal government was
required to furnish all these funds and that the
economy rider would in no way cut payments if the
states demanded their full share,
6-—A $136 million paper saving in appropriations
for the Civil Service Retirement trust fund shows
how succeeding Congresses have passed on their
obligations to the children of today’s taxpayers.
This reserve fund is now over $4 billion less than
what it should be, due to government failure to pay
its full share. Bureau of the Budget has been pro
posing a 30-year payment plan to bring the fund
up to a required $9 billion level, and has recom
mended & $457 million appropriation this year as a
starter.
The House Appropriations Committee, however,
recommended that this be cu: to $321 million, The
reason given was that this cat “was but 2 drop in
the bucket” on what was needed to make the fund
solvent. So why not save it this year to make a good
record?
The prize procrastination of all, however, is the
House decision to limit Defense Department spend
ing to s 4€ billion next year, even though the ap
propriations should run higher. This probably
won't save a dime. It will merely stretch out the SSO
billion rearmament program, requiring that the
other $4 billion be spent next year, or later,
I am proud that I have under my commmand so
many fighting men of the UN—so many nationali
ties fighting together to stop aggressive commun
ism.—General Mark Clark.
No enemy soldier ever wanted to surrender just
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Qur Stable, Dynamic Economy
Refutes Propaganda of Reds
A top itemr in the Communist propaganda primer
is the standard assertion that American capitalism
cannot prosper without vast arms expenditures or
pump-priming foreign aid outlays.
The line is this: the U. S. system is hopelessly out
of balance. Production normally far outruns con
sumption, so to keép the economy going, we have
to drum up demand artificially by placing huge war
orders and ladling goods out to our foreign friends. ‘
It is trye that during the great depression of the |
1930’s production and consumption were out 011
kilter and the economy was affected by other seri
ous distortions. It is also correct that the depression l
really ended only with the start of defense and war
spending in 1939, and that we have had almost con
tinuously high arms and foreign aid outlays ever
since,
But the great flaw in the Red propaganda is that
the United States is no longer the same country it
was in the thirties.
Our population has increased substantially. To be
sure, so has our industrial capacity, and it nfight be
argued that the effective demands of the people are
still outmatched by our ability to produce. Yet this
ignores many other features ¢f American life which :
did not exist 20 years ago. i
It would be foolhardy to say we could not have 7
another depression. Who can be sure? But it is not
silly to say that our safeguards against one are far
greater than existed in 1930.
There is compensation for unemployment. Farm
ers have the assurance of price supports. Bank de- ‘
posits are protected. The law forbids many of the
practices that led to the wild stock-market gyra
tions of the pre-depression era. The whole level of
governmrent support of the economy is many times !
higher than ever in our history.
This, though, is just the negative side of the pic- |
ture. The positive aspect is more important.
Not only have we grown, but we are still grow
ing. Experts now look for a population increase of
25 millions in the next generation. These added
Americans will all have to be fed, housed, clothed
and served in myriad ways. . |
We need new schools, new hospitals, new roads
and countless other facilities to keep up with this
growth. The economy will have to go on expanding
to fulfill the needs, and the expansion itself will
create an outlet for goods.
A good deal of this effort will require the assist
ance of public funds at ;he local, state and tedeg
levels. There is really nothing new in this. The o
thing different is the scaie of operations in a coun- '
try of 156 millions.
On top of all this, the record shows that the
American standard of living does not remain sta
tionery. It has gone up more or less steadily for
many decades. The prospect is that it will continue
to climb, again with resulting greater demand for
the products of Amrerican industry.
1t is safe also to conclude that all kinds of to
tally new products will enter the scene and will
have a salutary effect upon the economy." And the
country’s history reveals further that the curve of
productivity—measuring industrial efficiency—has
gone up steadily and should continue to soar. This
means more product for less effort, and contributes ‘
to that climbing standard of living. 1
Finally, the United States has a genuine interest
in the improvement of living standards not only in
Europe but in the backward lands of Africa and.
Asia,
We cannot hand these peoples the money to buy
our goods with, But we can, as we are under Point
Four, extend to them technical and professional
help that will guide their economies to higher levels
and develop them as vigorous trading partners for
us in-a free world. As such they will have much
need of our materials and products.
The vision of America as a hopelessly unstable
nation sustained by artificial expenditures is a tired
re-run of an old, flickering filmr of the depression
U. S. The America of today is a vibrant land with
a host of features which make its economic life
dynamic and self-generating.
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Braille
A century after his demise the body of Louis
Braille now fittingly reposes in the Pantheon at
Paris, final resting place of France’s most honored
dead. Blind himself fromy the age of three, he in
vented the present system of printing, whereby the
fingers of the blind enable them without assistance
to read and have access to a world from which
hitherto their infirmity shut them out.
An American woman, Miss Helen Keller, herself
both blind and deaf since childhood, but for most
of her 70 years an indefatigable worker for the
blind, was a speaker at the memorial exercises at
the Sorbonne. In perfect, grammatical French she
said the celebration nrarked “all the years in which
the sightless have banished darkness with the
inner light of knowledge.”
Miss Keller pleaded in French, as she has always
pleaded here, that where the capabilities of the
blind have been proved, “th¢y may be permitted to
participate more fully in the activities of their see
ing fellow men.”
It would have rejoiced Braille’s heart to know
that in the procession through famous thorough
fares to the Pantheon, in which the white, tapping
sticks of the sightless were 30 numerous, those who
followed directly behind the Braille family were
the boys and girls of the Institution for the Young
Blind at Paris, For there he himself was a student
in his boyhood and came to know the terrifying
need his invention supplied.
It was a mistake to assume, or even hope, that
the enemy was capable of acting in good faith.—
Former chief truce negotiator Vice-Admiral C, Tur
ner Joy.
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Written for NEA Service |
The people elect the president
of the United States—yes. |
But the politicians nominate.
Eisenhower has shown that he
has immense popular appeal in
states as different as Pennsyl
vania and Minnesota, Oregon and
Massachusetts (where, in fact, in
addition to running away with the
Republican primary, he got more
write-in votes than any Demo
crat except Kefauver).
The United States is, however,
a very peculiar country political~
ly, and whether Eisenhower will
be nominated at Chicago in July
depends on a convention more un
predictable than most — and
Ameérican conventions ean get as’
tangled up as Scotch tape in an
electrie fan.
Taft probably approached the
convention with roughly 480 del
egates, Eisenhower with 420.
These totals do not include 75 dis
puted southern votes, the 70
Pennsylvania delegates and 26 of
Michigan’s 46. At this stage War=
ren will have 76, Stassen 26. Gov=~ |
ernor McKeldin of Maryland 24,
General MacArthur three and ‘
General Wedemeyer one.
* * * ‘
Since the total number of déle
gates is 1206, 604 are necessary
to nominate. The disputed and
uncommitted votes listed above
come to 171, and these constitute
the first battleground. The second
is the block of 130 delegates com
mitted to other candidates.
The nomination may finally
turn on how these 171 delegates
go, and this will in turn depend
on (a) how Ike handles himself,
and (b) bargaining among the
pros. It is indeed an odd irony
that delegates in certain over
whelmingly Democratic states
like, say, Louisiana, where a Re
publican is almost as rare as a
chocolate sundae in the Sahara,
could play a key part in determin
ing the GOP nominee.
Politics is not—let us put it
mildly — an exact science in
America, The Taftites base their
hopes on the solid lead with which
they will presumably enter the
convention, plus what they can
build on it. They are counting on
the bulk of the contested delegates
from Texas, Louisiana, Mississip=
pi and Georgia. And they expect
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to make heavy inroads in Michi=
gan and Pennsylvania.
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But it does not necessarily fol
low that the man in front will
automatically add to his lead.
Dewey was far ahead on the first
ballot in 1940 at Philadelphia, but
failed to build. His lead, in fact,
did the opposite—it melted away.
If the two top contenders should
get past the struggle for the 171
disputed and uncommitted dele
gates without a clear trend ap
parent toward one or the other,
then the decision will rest in what
happerrs to the 130 delegates com-~
mitted to other choices. None is
expected to stay with his original
candidate more than a ballot or
two. o ’
Eisenhower’s chief hope rests
in building enough in the first test
of strength so that he can be
ahead of—or at least roughly even
with—Taft by the time this sec
ond battle begins. For his men
contend that his secondary
strength among delegates com
mitted to Warren, Stassen and
MeKeldin is greater than Taft’s.
Ike is fairly sure to get about 60
of Warren’s 76, 22 from Stassen
and perhaps 18 of McKeldin’s 24,
But if Taft has earlier realized
his objectives in Michigan and
Pennsylvania and has swept the
boards in the disputed southern
bloc, the race will be his and the
secondary strength claimed for
Eisenhower among the 130 com
mitted to others will never have
a chance to be tested. It will sim
ply fall to Taft.
# * *
Governor Fine controls 30 to 35
of Pennsylvania’s 70, and is re
putedly for MacArthur first, Taft
second. But Fine, being a satrap
from Luzerne County (Wilkes-
Barre), may decide to bargain
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with his strength. Whether or not
Eisenhower will make him any
kind of offer remains to be seen.
He might like to have a vice pres
idential bid, or some other good,
fat job.
Michigan is opaque. Of its 46
delegates, 10 are said now to be
definitely for Eisenhower, 10 for
Taft. The rest are undecided.
Michigan is more or less con
trolled by Arthur Summerfield,
an old-line professional who is
pro-Taft.
But like the Republican vicey,
roys in other states, he has a sen
atorial election on his hands and
knows that Eisenhower, if nomi
nated, will carry much more
trenchant weight with indepen
dent voters, and hence is a better
asset than Taft to the local ticket.
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Moreover, Michigan has a huge
labor vote, which would be more,
apt to lean to Eisenhower than to
Taft. Many of the big Detroit in
dustrialists — another point — are
pro-Eisenhower, First, they want
a winner. Second, they will take
“a chance on weaning him to their
way of thinking. |
Deadlock in Chicago is unlikely,
' because both Taft and Eisenhower
are high enough to be close to
winning. There are not enough
floating delegates left to give ser
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NEW BOMB HITS REDS ‘
SEOUL, Korea.— (AP) —The
“flaming onion” is not something
you would want in your garden.
It was cultivated by the Austral
ians expressiy for the consumption
of Commumst soldiers in Korea.
The “flaming onion” is a rocket
with a load of napalm — jellied
gasoline—in its head. It was de
signed by Flight Lt. John Smith
of Newcastle, New South Wales,
head of the Royal Australian Air
Force Armoment office. The na
palm bomb scatters flaming jellied
gasoline over a broad area.
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U. S. EQUIPMENT AIDS
INDO-CHINESE
BAIGON, Indo-China (Ap) __
Nearly 160 ships now havye Un
loaded American war equipment
and supplies in Indo-Chinese partg
for the French Union forces |,
tling the Communist-led Viet, a
armies.
The value of aid supplied by (),
U. S. to the French since the 1) .
tary assistance program stari 4
in July 1950, now is believeq to
be close to one billion dollars .
though no official estimates h;,,
been released here.
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