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An Early Spring
Weather in many areas of the country in
recent weeks has convinced some of the ex
perts that we are in for a very early Spring.
The unseasonably warm weather of Feb
ruary, in many sections caused premature
blooming of many flowers, and while de
lightful to many, could result in severe
damage to fruit trees, flowers and other
plants later, if a sudden hard freeze should
hit these blooms and new growth.
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The World Os Tomorrow
For many years it has been the vogue for
men to say that the frontiers have all been
tamed and that the days of great explora
tions are at an end.
In one sense, that is true. As far as ex
ploration on this earth is concerned, most
of the countries, rivers, oceans, and so forth,
have been discovered.
However, this earth is only a speck in a
great vastness of space and is insignificant
in comparrisom with what surrounds it. As
far as the future is concerned, the youngster
today faces a world of marvels, spectacular
adventure and discovery never before
equalled.
Today’s youngsters will someday travel
to the moon and even beyond, and will
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A Great Story
A great story has come to our attention,
centered in New York City. In that city a
baby was born about five years ago. For the
first three years of her life she was unable
to walk or talk, and was completely blind.
Her fortune changed, however, when Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy Thomas became involved
in financial difficulties and were unable to
adopt a child, which they had set their heart
upon. One of metropolitan New York’s old
est child care institutions happened to be
in touch with the Thomas’ and knew of the
child.
A case worker called on them and first
broached the subject of their raising the
blind baby. Mrs. Thomas asked her hus
band, who, after thinking it over, came to
the conclusion that they would adopt the
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Soviet Rocket Program
Defense Minister Duncan Sandys, of the
United Kingdom, recently told the House of
Commons there is good reason to believe
the Russians have a rocket which is capable
of bombarding Britain from Russian-oc
cupied territory. This is certainly not star
tling news, since the Germans were bom
barding with rockets which had ranges of
approximately 160 and 175 miles back in
1945.
However, the Russian missiles, Mr.
Sandys says, are armed with nuclear war
heads, which give them a terrific striking
power.
Judging from the remarks made by the
British Defense Minister, it would appear
that British intelligence is not of the opin
ion that the Russians have either an in
termediate or a long - distance ballistics
weapon. By that, we mean a rocket missile
capable of a range of either 1,000 to 1,500
miles, or approximately 5,000 miles, which
is the range of the long-distance weapon.
looking at Washington
BENSON'S ARGUMENTS
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson has outlined his
position at length in the news
magazine. U. 8 News and World
Report. We suggest that every
one rend the article, since Mr.
Benson's philosophy and his an
swers to some very personal
questions, are clearly outlined
Mr Benson is Obviously of the
opinion that another two or
three years will be required be
fore the farmer reaches the stage
where he can enjoy the pros
perity others in this country
nave been enjoying in recent
times. This is too much to ask
of the farmer.
it does not matter who is to
blame for the current situa
tion or whether Mr Benson is
theoretically correct. What mat
ters is the fact that the farmer
has a right to expect his Gov
ernment to do as much for him
as it does for labor, big business
or any other major segment of
We still have some time to go before one
can say that an early Spring is a certainty.
It seems certain that severe cold will hit us
again before Spring arrives, except in the
extreme southern parts of the nation.
Therefore, chances appear to be certain,
unfortunately, that much of the new
giowth and blooms, in many section, will be
killed and costly damage done.
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conquer space, just as the early Noresmen
first crossed the Atlantic, followed by others,
including Christopher Columbus, to dis
cover America, and just as other explorers
discovered the most remote places of this
earth.
In the last few decades, discoveries and
explorations have been limited, as the earth
grew smaller and smaller, but we are on
the verge of the exploration of outer space.
This will provide man a great field in which
to work, and since the earth is to last six
billion more years, we suspect that the ad
ventures of the past will be trifling when
compared to the adventures and discoveries
to be unfolded tomorrow’.
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child. Someone had to take care of her, he
said.
The other day, two years after the adop
■ tion, the little girl was legally made the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. And she
walked out of the Surrogate’s office on
strong legs, happily chatting baby talk and
i full of life and growning up in normal sash
; ion — except for the fact that she is blind.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas worked long and
hard with the child, massaged her unused
legs and arms faithfully after first obtain
ing her, until she could use them. They also
laboriously taught her to talk. In effect,
they have saved the child’s life.
Every once in a while a great story comes
into view and this is one of them. It should
serve as an inspiration to all.
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In revealing the British appraisal of
Soviet weapons recently. Defense Minister
Sandys announced that Britain would
henceforth concentrate on modern weapons
to a large degree, abandoning the conven
tional weapons approach as far as possible.
Britain’s forces in Germany will be reduced
and naval squadrons will replace the shore
strength Britain maintains in some of her
possessions.
As soon as possible, Britain will end con
scription and will de-emphasize as many of
the conventional features of her defense
program as possible. The British, in other
words, are going all out for modern weapons
especially unmanned missiles and rockets.
In Britain, it seems, the day of a big
standing defense establishment, in conven
tional terms, is at an end. And we suspect
that in this field economies might be made
in the U. S. defense program — economies
which would not jeopardize our security or
reduce our actual military punch.
the economy And. right now,
many farmers are hard-presaed.
and In emergencies, and there Is
little they cun do to improve
their economic plight.
Generally speaking, we are
naturally In favor of reducing
surpluses. Increasing agricultural
exports and In lower consumer
prices for farm products How
ever. consumer prices never
seem tn go down and the farm
ers' profits never seem to go up
Nevertheless. President Elsen
hower is apparently ready to let
Secretary Benson continue to try
to solve the prop program in his
own way. Benson has ifad the
legal authority he wanted for
only a brief time, some of
having been passed in 1954 and
some of it becoming operative in
1956 The Soil Bank Program of
the Administration is admitted
ly a temporary or stop-gap
measure.
It would seem positive that M~
Benson will become an increas-
ing political liability for who
ever succeeds President Elsen
hower as the lender of the Re
publican Party in the years
ahead, if his policies do not bring
about a higher net income for
the farmer
Any farm program, no matter
how good theoretically, or
Idealistically, which does not
stop the decrease and start
farmers’ net profits on an up
turn. is not protecting the farm
er.
CUTTING THE BUDGET
A wave of budget-cutting talk
has swept Capitol Hill, appar
ently as a result of a groundswell
of sentiment among the public
concerning economy
Not unconnected with this de
velopment are recent gpeeches by
former President Herbert Hoover,
former Vice-President John N
Garner and many others, all of
whom urged Congress to econo
mize in the present period of In-
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flation.
Senator Harry F. Byrd, Vir
ginia Democrat, has said the
budget must be cut and has pro
posed a budget of his own which
would save billions of“dollars.
Minority House leader Joseph W.
Martin, Jr., Massachusetts Re
publican, says the Eisenhower
budget is “unbearable” to the
American people and he agrees
that cuts must be made.
Other leaders in Congress
agree that reductions are in
prospect, and these leaders in
clude both the leaders of the
Senate. Therefore, it seems that
the question of cuts is now
settled and the only remaining
factor of doubt is the amount
the budget will be cut.
President Eisenhower’s budget
calls for an outlay of $71,800,000,-
000. In many circles a $65,000,-
000.000 limit is considered pref
erable, although we do not be
lieve Congress will have the
fortitude to whack more than
$6,000,000,000 off the Eisenhower
budget. We do think Congress
would be well to trim the budget
to less than $70,000,000,000 and
apnly what is saved to tax cuts.
There are those who believe
that the saving should be ap
plied to the reduction of the na
tional debt, but we believe it is
in the interest of the country to
apply these savings to tax cuts
and that these tax cuts will im
prove the picture for business
expansion and the creation of
new jobs.
We do not agree that a reason
able tax cut would bring on in
flation, which we realize is a
generally accepted theory, for we
are of the opinion that the
threat of inflation has been
checked to a greater degree than
is recognized at the present time.
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Six Months' Training
For Guardsmen
After all the furor and hulla
baloo. the National Guard has
had to swallow the six-months’
training period favored by the
Defense Department. The Army
and the National Guard recently
settled their hot dispute by
agreeing to six-months active
training for its reserve forces,'
though delaying this require
ment until January, 1958.
There seems to be little doubt
that the National Guard will be
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HERMAN TALMADGE
| Reports From 3
f! WASHINGTON |
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(Editor’^ \ofr: The following in
the neeond in n ierien of theei
rolonuiK dealing v ith the tied
t ightn proiionaln /n nding b< foee
the Xsth Congrenn.)
OF THE SEVENTEEN civil
rights measures pending before
the Senate, the one fraught with
greatest (lunger is Uic Adminis
tration proposal for the erention
of u Commission on Civil Hights.
This agency
would have un
limited author,
ity to delve
into the affairs
of uny person,
firm, group oi
agency under
I the guise of in-
I Vertignting de-
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MJ V’ r'IKGIIIIK ’H*
velopnients deemed by it.’ «ix mem
bers to constitute "u denial of
vquul protection of the lukn under
the Constitution." Aimed with full
and restricted power of subpoena
und cltution for contempt, the
Commisidon would Im un absolute
power unto Itself, answerable only
to the eonscieiue- of the individual
members.
• * *
THIS COM MISSION COULD on
24 hours notice summon anyone
from any pint of the United States
to any place it might designate to
defend himself agninsl charges of
which he was totally Ignorant prior
to receipt of the iubpoena. Il could
compel him to bring with him nil
personal and business records
which the Commission might desire
to inspect. Furthermore, hr Would
br required to < ohiply at hie own
expense nnd failure to do so could
make him subject to fine, imprison
ment or both for contempt.
(Not grrearnl sr esfstsd at fowsnsirnt tnunw)
better trained and constitute a
better-equipped and more effi
cient force after having six
months of training. The ques
tion yet to be answered is how
this requirement will affect the
Guard's membership, and we will
I have to wait and see to, get the
answer to that one.
Representative Overtan Brooks,
chairman of the House Armed
Services subcommittee on re
serve policies, apparently ar
ranged the compromise. He re
-1 cently presided over public hear
ings looking into the rift be
tween the Guard and the Pen
tagon.
While we realize many stu
dents, and those with jobs, can
not leave their work for six
months, and will not be able to
participate as members of the
National Guard in the future,
the move will undoubtedly make
the National Guard a more
potent reserve force.
Dulles Losing Support
It appears that Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles has less
support on Capitol Hill than he
has had at any time since he be
came Secretary of State in 1953.
This, of course, is the result of
the policies of the Department
of State in the Middle East.
It is no secret that military
leaders at the Pentagon are un
happy with the State Depart
ment and the only difference be
tween now and a few years back
(when President Truman was in
office) is the fact that a more
general silence is being observed
by prominent Government offi
cials. This is in keeping with
President Eisenhower’s philoso
phy that the Administrative
team should pull together and
not speak out critically of each
other, and other departments.
Nevertheless, on Capitol Hill
and in the Pentagon, there is
general dissatisfaction with the
policies of the Department of
State. It is believed that weak
and vacillating policies in the
Middle East in recent years are
responsible for the dilemma the
United States finds itself in at
the present time.
Moreover, there is a distinct
conviction on Capitol Hill,
among many Democratic leaders,
that Secdetary Dulles has mis
judged the Middle East situation
in vttpiu f
It is easy to see how such n
Commission could deprive u man
of such fundamental, constitu
tional civil rights as freedom of
speech, security of pnpera and per
sonal effects, freedom from un
reasonable searches und seizures,
protection from unfounded war
rants, freedom from double jeop
ardy, freedom from self inciinii-
I nation, freedom from deprivation
of properly without due process of
I law, the right to u speedy, public
trial by un impartial Jury, the
| right to be tried In the slute and
I district of the alleged offense, the
I right to know the charges made
I against him, the right to seek
dainuges in court, the rigid to con
front his accusers, the full protec
i tion of common luw and the other
i unspecified, but nevertheless in
alienable, rights such mk respect
for the dignity nnd integrity of a
free man living in u free country,
IF Foil NO other reason I
i would he oppriHcd to such n Com
-1 mission becuuse Its basis would be
i the reversal of the fundamental
| tenet of Aim-ilran luw that every
I num is presumed to In* innocent
' until proved guilty.
In operation the effect of a Imdy
of this drscilptlon would be the
exact opposite of protecting civil
lights. Rather, through attempts
। to police the thoughts and actions
of private eitiaens, It would serve
ito deny American* full and un
fettered enjoyment of the rights
which ore their constitutional
: birthright.
LOOKING
AHEAD
THE “WORKERS'
PARADISE
Peter F. Hurst, president of
Aeroquip Corporation, Jackson,
Michigan, recently returned
from a visit inside Russia. He
reports his observations in his
company’s employees' magazine,
The Flying A. Facts in his report
should be brought to the atten
tion of every employee in
America. Communism, as well as
Socialism, claims to be “The
Workers’ Party.” It directs most
of its propaganda in America
toward the wage earners, trying
to undermine their confidence in
the American system, describing
Russia as “The Workers’ Para
dise” and boasting that under
the Socialist-Communist system
the wage earners live better and
are their own “bosses.” Mr.
Hurst, a keen observer, didn't
find it so.
He visited a number of fac
tories in Russia, escorted by
guides from Intourist, the Rus
sian travel agency operated by
the government. “I presume
they showed us the best,” he
observes. And yet, in most cases,
what he saw was production
machinery, industrial techniques
and working conditions far in
ferior to America's. And the Rus
sian factory, he reports, “gives
the impression of what we used
to call ‘a sweat shop.’ ” He talked
to the factory “director” in many
plants, probing into the ques
tions of wages, employee ad
vancement, etc.
Wages Low
Although he could see on all
sides evidence of the shabby
living standards of employees
working *in this Socialist-Com
munist “paradise," Mr. Hurst's
careful studies on the scene in
Russia permitted him to docu
ment their true plight. “Let us
analyze the situation,” he sug
gests in his report. “An average
‘w'dl paid' factory worker gets
about 800 rubles a month for
working six days a week ... or
about 198 hours each month.
“Income taxes and union dues
take about 10 per cent. The
worker subscribes ‘voluntarily’ to
some government bonds equal to
about 8 per cent of his pay . . .
He has left about 650 rubles to
spend. At the ‘official’ rate of
exchange that is about 162 U.S.
dollars. Now, let us see what he
can buy with this amount.
Necessities High •
“A pair of poor quality men’s
shoes . . . 400 rubles or SIOO.
“One pair of poor quality
women's shoes . . . 250 rubles or
$62.
“Or he could buy one bicycle
for 60 rubles, his monthly ‘take
home’ pay.”
Here are some other items
jotted down by Mr Hurst:
“Men’s suits . . . 1000 to 1500
rubles or $250 to $375.
“One yard of rayon material
(for dresses) 35 rubles or $8.75.
“Twin bed bedroom suite . . .
9000 rubles or $2475.
"Obviously," Mr. Hurst notes,
“a worker hasn't anything left
after paying for shelter, food and
clothes for himself and his fam
ily, and only a bare subsistence
level Actually, the working peo
ple—and that includes agricul
tural workers, since then are no
true farmers in Soviet Russia—
are being exploited in a shame
ful manner, which is obvious to
anyone from outside the Com
munist world."
Rich Bureaucracy
The high prices of consumer
goods are due to the extremely
high taxes which the govern
men levies on products at every
stage of their production and
processing “What is the Soviet
government doing with all the
money they take from the peo
ple,” asks Mr. Hurst. “The
largest expenditure,” he reports,
"goes to building and maintain
ing the world's largest military
machine Next comes a tremen
dous expenditure to maintain
the world's largest bureaucracy,
with millions of State func
tionaries, bigwigs, and small
bosses receiving fantastic sal
aries and living in relatively
high style, with chauffeur
driven cars furnished by the gov
ernment. with town apartments
and country homes for the elite."
and, in doing so has misled
members of Congress. Whether
this is true or not. the reader can
decide for himself. We are of the
opinion that the Secretary has
misjudged the situation rather
seriously in the Middle East.
President Eisenhower has
heretofore had the highest re
gard for Secretary Dulles, and
perhaps he still does, and it has
been no secret that Dulles was
the favorite of the President, if
there was a favorite in the
Cabinet. However, the policies
enunciated by Secretary Dulles
have certainly involved the Pres
ident In hot water In recent
weeks, and it is now being asked
whether Dulles will remain In
his post for the more than three
years remaining of President
Eisenhower's second term.
Whether or not Mr Dulles does
so may hinge on his health or on
the reaction from the nation and
Congress on his policies. It is
certainly accurate to say that he
Is now facing an ordeal some
what similar to that faced by
former Secretary of State Dean
Acheson some years ago.
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