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Give Loh and the People Will Fina Thow vwn Way
Forty Billions . R a nice round figure, call it $40 billion. In these days, a few hundred millions more or less mean little to our government. Dollars are like dimes, and dimes like mills. Whatever else you see in the Presiderit’s new budget ~and lots of things are in it—one thing not in it is a tax cut, not even a cut of $40 per voter. The projected surplus -~=precisely defined as an excess of receipts over. expend{tures—is fixed at (for another round number) $5 billion. And all estimates are based on hope for the present high level of prosperity continujng 18 months into the future. As economy-minded Sen. Byrd of Virginia has pointed out, a 10 per cent recession would Shange that surplus. into a deficit, Before Congress can afford even to think of voting | a tax cut, it will have to do a considerable whittling job on the President's budget. We do not envy the honorable members that chore. They are dealing in so many intangibles, unknown factors, unforeseeable developments,
THE FISCAL year 1949 will, start July 1 next, nearly three years after the big shooting stopped. Still there is no peace. From Berlin to Athens, from Mukden to Jeru“salem, the bullets of hot war and the economics and politics of cold war press upon our national security. If Russia were satisfied with all she already has grabbed in Europe and Asia, there would be né need or excuse for $11 billion for national defense-and $9 billion to support our occupa“tion of Germany and Japan and help the remaining free nations of Europe and Asia stand up against further Soviet pressures. It will not be easy for Congress to decide how much these items can be cut with ‘safety.
It was comparatively simple in the days of Calvin Cool-
idge’s $3 billion budgets, when the toughest problems Congress had to decide were such questions as whether he prohibition’ ‘enforcement agents needed a few thousand extra bucks. It wasn’t too complex in the prewar Roosevelt budgets of $6 billion to $9 billion, when issues related to such things as WPA projects, about which every Congressman knew something. Nowadays they appropriate multi“billions for projects hard to comprehend and far from home. They deal in terms of atomic fission, supersonic speed, the price of gravel on the Danube and the need for a river Valley authority ad some machineguns on the _Hwang-Ho.
BUT ONE thing is sure of this budget—as of all pre-
“called them cut-throats;
vious budgets. It's padded and it can be pared down. The Executive Department officers who do the spending submit La * the figures, and they always give themselves some leeway: Congress can learn as much about the needs as the | men who did. the original estimating. The La Follette- | -Monroney Act gave Congress the power to employ its own experts to check the figures of the Budget Bureau. Also, the figures of the Marshall Planners, the Armed Forces’ _ strategists, and the common, garden variety bureaucrats
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The President submitted = Executive Budget. Next comes—or should come—the Legislative,Budget, which. we think can shave off a few billions here and there. Maybe then some taxes can be reduced. If not, we'll have to big our belts and pull down our hats for a rough ride.
The Champion Frustrate
S we recall the story, Sen. T. P. Gore's campaign manager once Warned hn hat his & opponent already had —made-165- -speeches. rere —— -— : “No,” said the Senator, “he b has just made one epeech 165 times.” We were reminded of that when we read the answers of William-Z. Foster, head of the Communist Party in the | United States, to questions asked by that agile journalist, | Bert Andrews, chief of the Washington Bureau of the | New York Herald Tribune. : |
; In Tune > With the Times
“MLONELY FIGHTERS"
The Arabs are in the news again, a good excuse (as if I needed one!) to talk about the most: fantastic of all martial adventures, the Arab revoit against Turkey during the “other war.” Lawrence did not start the revolt, but it was at its lowest ebb when he came on the scene, and without him it would surely have failed. With little or no actual authority, his personality and genius were such that command seemed to come to him of itself -. . . and he accomplished incredible. things.” “The Arab war,” he said, “was geographical, and the Turkish army an accident, Our aim was to seek the enemy's weakest rhaterial link and bear only on that till time made their whole length fail. . . . We could . . . reach victory without a battle, by pressing our advantages mathematical and psychological.” It was a strange theory of war, but Lawrence made it work. Surrounded by his Debouin guard of some 90 choice riiflans (“The British . . . but they cut throats only to my order”), with a price of 20,000 pounds on his head, Lawrence ranged the desert, blowing “up--bridges; wrecking “trains, ralding “outposts, so devastatingly, with such perfect timing, that he completely paralyzed the Turks and reduced their army to futility, He tells it all (and never was a tale better told) in “Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” We may doubt whether the plant of Arab nationalfém that he tended so carefully has flowered In precisely the fashiori’ that he would have chosen, but about the “Seven Pillars” there can be no question. It is a magnificent story of adventure, not only of the body-but of the spirit also. . —FRANCIS H. INSLEY. oo
THE NEW YEAR MOUSE
‘Twas a while after Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Excepting . . . the mouse! He peeped at the Dolly ) Asleep in her bed, And glanced at the name On the shiny new sled. He snooped in the Doll House ‘With furniture . . . new, Skipped over -the story books And . . . nibbled a few! * “Them ~~eliE-anifled-and-Be- PraRCeq. On lis tiny pink toes For a wonderful odor Came to his wee nose! Then he saw them! The peanuts! Piled high in a dish, Enough for his needs + >For as long as he'd wish. So he raced up the table “Then . .. perched in the plate! And he was . . mouse happy As... he nibbled . . and ate! —~ANNA E. YOUNG. ® 4. ¢ Nobody enjoys being bothered—but it’s lot nicer than being totally ignored. ® & ¢ -
ITEMS FROM A CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE
Roy Emmerson hed the veterinary out fer his sick cow, an’ while he wuz there he took a look at Roy's sore throat. Roy allus gits his money's wuth.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . Cocoanut Island, Pauley’s Trap
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—Gone are the days of deductible, So is the mess boy with the tall drinks baffement and backfire, Gone are the days of scorch- and so are (ae drinks. when the Hughes refused to stay cast in the role of villain and oy; of & million dollars you ould charge & great insisted on becoming the hero of the piece. This time the Senate Republicans, with super- be money that would otherwise go into the treasury sleuth Homer Perguson in the lead, have struck pay dirt. Cast is villain in this show is Edwin W. Pauley. certain reformers had the curious notion that income © Mr. Pauley is a “speculator.”
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will defend to the death your right Yo say itr A ————————————————— ‘Slight Protest on Soap Operas’ ByW.K 8 Just & slight’ protest whe always worked for what he got and thought it wey all right to do so. soap for example. Pop: merly 5 and 10 cents a cake now 10 and 15 cenly while another product, a well-known brand of soda, “15 still 5 and 10 cents: Tam not ag economist or 4 politician. I am wondering about the cost of the go-called soap-operas that salute my ears every time I turn on my radio 10 find out whether I ny better wear my hat and topcoat or leave them af, home. Frankly, it is silly to think that I, a consumer * of soap, want to pay for this infliction. T don, Neither does the hard-working man or
from » little man
own government and ‘ours when we are trying to-help and hold up law and try.
advertising so-called because the people have already. paid for it~ If they threaten and yell af you' and t you through their favorite mediums tej] them it was not a legitimate item of expense but a sheer waste of money. Every hard working American knows that honest dollars earned by toil and sacrifice should be conserved for the rainy day and not wasted. ex * & ©
Edgar Hoover Is Right’. By Mrs. Fred Darby, 1513 E. 7 "J. Edgar Hoover is so right in that he urges a return to God and to practice of daily prayer in the home. C4 This nation was founded through prayer by * strong men and ‘women who longed for. freedom to. truly worship God. Take a good look at us, today. What do you see? Churches? ‘Oh.yes, plenty of them preaching a social gospel, that lets you run with and act like the world all week and then-look pious-on Sunday
Ma except for you to repent and seek God. By rquis Childs "Why do we fear of offending. diplomats from country and refuse to open said conferences with prayer? then let us uphold what we believe and that is, we
and answers prayer. Let us cleanse the home of ts constant. card playing, its gambling of various forms, its liquor drinking. Children reared in such homes will not be taught to pray because the parents know nought about such things. We are asked to save a slice of ‘bread a day. Suppose our President call a day of repenting with prayer and fasting. — Now Mr. Hoover is not an old fogy, nor & re-
Mr. Stassen’ testified that Mr. Pauley made s mil-youthful-looking Howard , ..", ars out of his speculation in commodities. deal off to expenses for Cocoanut Island. ‘This would
of the United States in the form of income tax. An echo comes from an era of long ago, when
What's more, he's tax returns should be open to. public inspection.
"Gramp Miller sez, “Now-a-days sorge folks air | An “insider” And so the plot spins merrily out They re a Rept In Sirctest secrecy. ven hy | ligious fanatic, but many of us realize he knows buyin’ a home with a view overlookin’ the pay- | and the headlines spell. p-o-l-i-t-i-c-s in letters of committee of Congress get special dispensa St 2 i talking about and this nation had better " . % to examine tne tax return of an Individual under w 8 ments. fire. investigation. heed the warning and turn to God so God in His
The store got in two pair uv size 54 overalls Monday an’ they wuz gone ‘fore noon.
When Harold Stassen testified before the Senate committee, he did-mot fail (o point out an interesting Tax Retreats Tax-Deductible
mercy will save us from the dark Bight thay is fast ‘gettling down on us. \
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while the preacher preaches on most any subject
other nations when they attend conferences in our We are known. as a Christian nation,
believe in prayer to a Supreme. Being who hears
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NO PLAGE LIKE HOME
18 Hiberty and- freedom _ With nothing to do. i : -F. P. M, - ; * ¢ 9° Many “authors should have been cheered by
the news that a garbage man died and left a
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FOSTER'S FOLLIES
EWASHINGTON AL, Cothmission Opposes,
Several European leaders Have had balconies we find, . But these all were special pleaders With some private ax to grind.
. Though they ranted and exhorted, © Truman only seeks repose, Yet we fear his plan's aborted
~ that bears the happy name of Cocoanut Island International. His guests were Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton Anderson and the Shy! Tg
Lh oo |. Cieneral Robert Hannegan ang the “The new Mayor's What a wonderful name: Cocoan w Gi ig fae SAXE¥ Ee CR RI VRE RR mR TT gt i ARNE Stay home at ip or palm-fringed shore, the long .white line of the surf, _ Go to jail; | a-breege-swept veranda, a mess boy in immaculate Looks like what the world Jacket with a tray of long, cool drinks. Is coming to
This is in a familiar pattern.” It is the pattern “of the gilded parlor into which the spider thvites the fly. There are Long Island estates, western hunting lodges, sumptuous New York apartments that qualify as gilded parlors, as elegant booby traps. *
Deny Talk of Commodities BOTH MR. ANDERSON and Mr. Hannegan say that, during their brief stay on -Coceanut Island International, no- discussion of commodities and " prices took place. How could anything as harsh and
}... materialistic haye crept into. that gentle atmosphere?
For the purpose of politics, of course, their “disclaimer makes little difference. Such disclaimers, however earnest, carry little weight with the public. Cocoanut Island International is said to be a club. Members may belong on approval. . Presumably, the
are tax deductible as a business expense: This, too, Is in the pattern of the gilded parlor.
expenses of maintaining this -club on tropical “isle.
is entitled to the facts, particularly if tax payers in | the millon-or-more-a-year bracket are using the
method of tax deduction to finance luxurious re- . treats for the purpose of winning friends and in-
a Ee iis ton: 82 on..41, A this is a far more. Important neighbor! — the Pouch ee 0 Fe EE AES A GREE Cae RT
An, A “than ths ohe ~ taken to ae No one has presented any evidence
to show that Pauley received information to which |
he was not entitled. His conduct appears to have been perfectly legal.
It may pe, of course, that the committee's real.
intention is not yet clear. They may be aiming at fundamental reforms which would prevent scecula-
tion and plunging on a scale that in itself tends
to push the market up or down.
But in the present state of affairs, the suspicion | prevails that this is a familiar foim of election year
charge. The committee is acting out the word, virtue.
The technique is to find a victim at whom the finger -1
of shame can be pointed. Often in ‘the past such charades have been useful to those who staged them: A preface to the New Deal was an investigation -into the shenanigans of
bankers and brokers during the boom of the Twen- |
ties. That helped to creace the intellectual Climate of 1932 and after. ~ ‘Whether: any practical -good comes out of this
election year antic is open to. question. Usually the
charade is forgotten as memory of vn headline
At about the time last August when * * ' making { deals, he THERE ARE SOME valid reasons why this should | My File) vu on his 8 ee ” his Sry ge ‘group be so. But there are also reasons why the public | ‘No Rest, No Chance to Get Any"
By W. P. L. Dean wists Tow ines about he: nose In | our city. It seems like there are some folks in this | city that have no respect for anyone. I wish to
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kept playing until the stations go off the air. By time their visitors decide to go homie and théy stand at the door for awhile and then: they go. to get in the car and they yell back and forth everything from soup to nuts, with a few goodbys: | in between. After they get in their car which is an antique of long ago and we find their doors are | not in working order and after several loud
crashes apd you are sure there has been some |=
earthquake or some building has fell in: we find they were just closing the doors on their car or facsimile, then they start the motor which brings back a memory of a long ago Fourth of July. After the echos have all died away and you
+ think vou are going to ‘get some sleep yet before _ I daylight another neighbor comes home drunk.” The
|" children are crying and he is cussing and his wife nollering. After his family has quieted down we | find it is time to get up and ge. ready to go © | work. We cannot give our employer justice and we cannot afford to lose the time. What is a working
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And just added to his woes.
The palm-fringed shore is deductible, the surf is
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For the answers were an only slightly modernized ver- IN WASHINGTON + re By Peter Edson —
sion of the speech Foster has been making as far back as | we can“remember, He made 'em for the IWW, otherwise | known as the Wobblies, or I Won't Work, in the early years of this century,
He ‘made ‘em for: the Syndicalist League of North | America which he founded, and in a long controversy with Samuel Gompers, the grand old man of the AFL. He _ made 'em when he tried to organize a farmer-labor slate | in the presidential year of 1924. since he took on the Communist label and finally unseated Earl Browder,” He makes 'em again now in hig lengthy re- | plies to Mr. Andrews’ 23 questions, el " ®'e Ta “ vy - FOSTER IS the nation’s leading and ever-present frustrate. “To him the world has always been out of joint,
Around him have howled the winds of his never-ending |
winter of discontent, As he has put it, through the decades, he believes in the fundamental reorganization of society. . Should the reorganization ever be breught about we could then depend upon him to busy himself reorganizing that. Nothing could ever sweeten ‘his dyspepsia or in ‘the slightest relieve his sour glunch. To him, that which igs, is always wrong. Our system is a complete failure. Bring on Marx and Engel! Exhume Lenin! But if they, and Stalin, were ever actually in the | driver's seat of this known world there would be at least | one guy out leading a crusade to unseat them. His name | i would be William Zebulon Foster.
Born in this coyntry in 1881, Foster nas seen the development of “the telephone, the electric light, modern plumbing, the automobile, the hard-surfaced highway, the cord tire, the airplane, the radio, ‘and all the marvelous | ‘industrialism which made it possible for the United States "to end two world wars, He has seen labor grow from weak | to powerful. | And now he witnesses the rest of: the. globe
‘either Loming to us for help or. leering sat usin covetous |
envy. ; “But all that his native land means to him, is that it's { was and ever shall be. : So fiae he is at 0, Sob what comes 8 naturally,
And he has “made ‘em 6
Have You ‘Six-Tenths’
Baby in Your Home?
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—The National Association of Manufacturers” has just figured out a formula which makes a third round of wage increases unnecessary. It is to install a tide ‘six-tenths” évery home,
tenths of a person. Every average family must have an extra sixtenths of a person, says the NAM, to increase the family income and thereby make further wage increases unnecessary. ‘ A short time ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the request
--of Congress, made a detailed study on how much money it takes to
support a “typical” family of four at an “adequate” standard of living. Included’ in the typical family were a man, the sole wage-earner, his wife, a boy of 13 in high school and a girl of 8 in grade school. The BLS study showed that in June; 1947, the cost of living for
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The “six-tenths” that the NAM boys are talking about is.a six-
such a family in 34 leading” American .cities would range from $3004 |
in New Orleans to $3458 in Washington, D..8. This would pay the rent, fuel and light, give each of the four persons 3000 calories a day, and provide adequate medical care and recreation. In short, nothing fancy.
‘One Study, Two Points of View
SOME OF THE LABOR unions began to pick up this study and use it as an argument for wage increase demands. So the NAM ex- |
. perts” apparently decided to jump on it, hard,
“There . is evidence that the budget used by BLS is more than adequate,” says the current issue of the NAM News.
“But witout |
going into the technical construction of the budget, one aspect may be |
emphasized by every management negotiator who is faced with this
argument: The average family has more than one wage-earner.” The NAM then goes on ingeniously to prove its case. There are 60 million people gainfully employed. But there are only 37 million families. “Therefore,” it says, “there must be 1.6 wage-earners for | each family unit.”
Now the light should begin to dawn on what the boys are getting {
at. H you don't have that extra six-tenths of a wage-earner in your home, you are not average.
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Or if the wife has ‘been -the principal bread-winner and his been |
accustomed to calling him lovingly, “that half-wit,” she should mend her manners and start calling him “that six-tenths-wit”
What the NAM solution to the present economic .crists really
‘amounts to is perhaps better expressed in that old saw, “Two can live as cheap as one, if ‘they both work.”
‘might _arise if both the man and his six-tenths worked. NAM doesn't |. explain how to get around that, but if the man didn't want his wife to work, they could send out the children to bring home ther six tenths of the bacon,
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— WORLD AFFAIRS. By William Philip- Simms
2 | S. Faces Hard Task Against Soviet Tirades
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—A bill to authorize an American information program for overseas is up again. But if George V. Allen,
| tough and vital job. : 1 Russia's cold war against the United States is essentially a war 0 | words. In this war, lies are Russia's buzz-bombs, and she is exploding
could prove decisive. + The theory in Washington is that the best answer is the truth: We must tell the world the “American story.” But’ putting the American story across in foreign lands is not 50° | ‘easy as it sounds. Russia stretches all the way across Europe and Asia. And she has a lot of puppet states which do exactly as she says. She is on the scene and we are far away. She owns or controls scores of | newspapers, magazines. radio stations where they are most effective.
U.S. Vilified Every Day
EVERY DAY, Communist dailies in foreign capitals, in glaricy headlines or radio-blasts, vilify the. United States. telling the people | that our aim is to destroy their liberty and independence, The truth, of course, is that we aim only to help the People guard | their independence, but where it is told at all it is told only in whisper. The Communist “voice” can—and often does—devote it entire attention to tirades against us, whereas not even the govern- | ‘ments which we are befriending can do much to heip, us. Being democratic, they neither muszle hostile voices ror f a free press 10° print the full, true American story. "The other day, for example, the. Moscow “voice” o.: Europe the absurd charge that oup John Foster Dulles had plotted with Gen. De Gaulle to make Him “dictator” of France and “gen eralissimo” of an army which we would arm and’ equip if and when | he broke with Eastern Europe.
Lies Could Be Decisive
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You re sure lucky—my pop never pov: with me!" viously, that isn't enough to. meet the BLS $3004 ‘cost of living for & family of four. But the family six-tenths can fix it. If this six-tenths goes out and earns six-tenths of $2623, that would’ Hitler, Goebbels; Stalin, Molotov and others have proved that wl be $1573. Now the family is making $4196. The NAM News says | lions do believe them. And when the world is teetering in the it ‘would make $4249. This could be a typographical error, but the | ance; As Secretary Marshall says, such lies could even be decisive. boys had better g6 back and check their arithmetic, So’ the” eh } Anyway, ‘$4196 Is far more than the $3458 needed to sustain average overseas information bill. The Voice of America may soon rece! be life in Washington. Hence, no further wage increases are necessary, preliminary advaneg of some $5 million to enlarge its. scope. Th and that's that. is talk of a vastly larger sum for exchange scholarships, and so on If, on the other hand. this whole six-tenths of an idea seems | But experierice has proved that ‘mere mioney—no matter po goofy, consider the source... You miay recall that just & year ago the | much-=isn't enough. What counts is the way the money is used; NAM's high-powered economists” 3 ob anodes remedy for the |: Rature of the subject miter projected cost of living. It was to “let ‘em I Su hie pion of ment, | If Mr. Allen succeeds in Duar aud wus came ows, art ER have done a difficult task.
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