Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 January 1949 — Asks Cradle To Grave System Of Government [ARTICLE]

Asks Cradle To Grave System Of Government

Proposals Of President Go Even Beyond Conception Of Late President Roosevelt Washington, Jan. 5. Proclaiming the results of the November election a popular mandate to continue and expand the NewDeal, President Truman submitted to the 81st congress today a vast program of social and economic legislation and multiplied government controls of private enterprise. This program to be acheived at a cost of untold billions of dollars, was embodied in the annual State of the Union message which the Democratic President, victor in the most dramatic national election in history,- read to a joint assembly of the overwhelmingly Democratic congress chosen in the same election. Urges Price Control Recommending price control a 4 billion d.ollar tax increase, repeal oli the Taft-Hartley labor reform act with its replacement bj a modified form of the Wagnei act, the President autlined a Truman New Deal going farthei in the direction of state socialism than the Roosevelt New Deal. With Mrs. Truman and Margaret in the Presidential box, the members of his cabinet seated next to the rostrum, and the galleries grouped with the families and friends of senators and representatives, it v.-as a beaming Mr. Truman who received the plaudits accorded his triumphal return to four more years in office. He was given a standing ovation in which Republicans joined Democrats as he appeared in the well of the house with his message in hand and began as he felt the chamber. The President was applauded 37 times during the delivery of his 3,500 word address. The Republicans led in applauding his declaration for a balanced budget and reduction of the national debt. Democrats tumultuously applauded repeal of the Taft-Hart-ley act farm aid, and the social and economic innovations of the Truman New Deal. But there was dead silence on both sides of the chamber when the President called for a 4 billion dollar increase of taxes. Cradle To Grave Plan The implications of state socialism overshadowed all other contents of the message. Mr. Truman envisages not only a cradle to the grave system of government provided medical care education, housing, and pensions but a further invasion by the government of the field of private enterprise. He would have the government construct, own and operate mills and other factories producing materials in critically short supply whenever private industry, in the opinion of the government has failed to meqt :he demands. The president proposed "ex

tended government ownership and operation of water power and also government of electricity transmission lines to keep rates down. Also he espoused government ownership of subsea oil resources.