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Three Big Issues By Republicans Face Demos

By Lyle WUsob By United Presi International Evidence accumulates that two of the three big issues on which the Republicans will challenge the Democrats in this year’s congressional elections will be: —High cost of living. —High cost of government.

| costs tat the House and Senate, i in committees and on any street ! comer where an audience can be

assembled.

On the issue of war in Southeast Asia, the Republican are likely to sit by while angry congressional Democrats debate among themselves on war and peace in Viet Nam. This battle among Democrats is helping to establish in the public mind the fears and lack of confidence on

The third big issue, of course, will be Presient Johnson’s conduct of the war in Viet Nam.

But the Republican approach to i which the Republicans will seek the cost of living and govern- j to capitalize next November, ment and the issue of war inj For their own part, the ReSoutheast Asia is likely to be'publicans apparently intend to subtly different. Congressional * support LBJ’s war while deRepublican can heat up the is- i manding more aggressive prose-

sues of living and government; cution and victory. If the pub-

lic Is ttring^pf war costs, war casualties and war news, the Republicans will have good voter bait such as campaign offers to end or shorten the war with honor. The Korean war helped turn the Democrats out in 1952. The war in Viet Nam might repeat against the Democrats this year and for some time after. Meantime, food prices are up at market check-out counters. That will be the basis of the Republican campaign against the High Cost of Living HCL. HCL is the ideal campaign issue because nobody can be in favor of it. It can be argued, of course, that the issue does not exist

and that the cost of living tat fact is not Ugh. Such arguments are a sure loser if the womenfolk believe food pricee are up. It is difficult to argue against the fact that the wholesale price index rose by one half of 1 per cent in January after a long period of comparative inactivity. That represents an increase of 6 per cent on an annual basis if the January rate continues. A 6 per cent increase in the wholesale price index would be so inflationary as to be unacceptable. If prices continue to rise, LBJ surely will propose more taxes as a brake on currency infla-

tion, which would hold the price line. There is no indication, however, that the Great Society will impose pay-as-you go economy on government. Pay-as-you-go would compel the government to live on tax revenue instead of on borrowed money. The deficit spenders of borrowed funds have been nudging living costs higher for more than 80 years. LBJ is indulging in more of the same. In the five Kennedy-Johnson years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower left the White House the public debt has risen about |30.5 billion. The average annual Kennedy-Johnson deficit to date has been $6 billion.

LBJ has budgeted for a 81.8 billion deficit in the next fiscal year but his figures are challenged on grounds that the budget is gimmicked with income derived from sale of federal assets. Estimates of the real deficit likely to flow from LBJ’s latest budget program range up to 19 billion if the gimmicks were eliminated. It is likely to be. several billions more than $1.8 billions in any circumstanc-

■ n i — —— —— . i Onions and garlic were esteemed as potent fighters of disease in many countries, including Colonial America.

The area of Redwood City, Calif., produces more chrysanthemums than any other region in the United States.

Electrical failure tops the list of car breakdowns in the United States, says the American Automobile Association.

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