The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 10, 1950, Image 16
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By Spectator
“Why has Washington gone cra
zy’’? That is the big headline in
troducing an article in The Satur
day Evening Post. Since the secret
!the world? Tf you look into this you
will find that we have retreated and
| of what is done and said in Congress,
(along with many pages of what no
body said, but had it printed, as
though he had said it. Some of my
friends used to laugh at me for read
ing The Congressional Record and
the Federal and State Constitutions.
Well, why not? The Constitutions
is “out” there is no reason why we show us how far we have wandered j
shouldn’t discuss the insanity whicn ^ rom fhe road and The Congres-
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Washington is not only crazy in
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its zeal to add to the power of its retreated - We are always hopelessly
bureaucrats, but it is crazy in its outnumb e red and outgunned. Per-
thinking. Everybody with a wild, ba P s t b<? y outguess us, too. So the
idea seems to drift to Washington del eat part is all too sorrowfully
naturally. Or we find wild ideas just true > but what about the vast abun-
floating about in that neighborhood, dance of the finest military equip-
Perhaps the fog and mists over the' men ^ i n world? Now that is
Potomac River produce a mental wba ^ everyone wants to know,
condition of miasma. You have seeh, A While back I asked what had be-
a miasma? As you know, we people j eome of all the trucks and tanks and
of the swampy low country think of; j ee P s Second World War. I
vapors as miasmas when they nang wonder, don t you? We had
over the roads. Vfe may not be cor- e< l u iP men ^ ^ or eight million men;
rect in calling that a miasma, but and we bad sb iP s war in great
you know what I mean.
numbers, even not counting the war-
— ... • .. T ship which Mr. Roosevelt gave to
How would it impress you if I . u * u n _> » '
^ ^ the Queen of Holland, as I recall.
called on some of our Congressmen
to prepare this for me?
Did you ever read The Congres
sional Record? It is a daily journal
Since Washington doesn’t know
yet that a war is being fought I
wonder why a squad of M.P.'s wasn’t
s en t over to quell the disturbance.
What is the big question of the * . . u . » • , .• »
Looking about for information I
was about to call on Senator May-
day? Why are our men suffering de
feats in little Korea when we have , , . , .
,■ , ^ , . . ,, banK and Johnston to inquire into
the finest military equipment in alk-, ... . , r ,,
the tanks, jeeps, etc., left over from
£4^K World War Second, j.i t :.ve years
S\§ z! fv V ago. However I've found some in-
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Now about the tanks. OUr Govern
ment made, or paid for, 86.000 tanks.
But in 1048. two years after demob
ilization. only 16.000 tanks could be
’accounted for”. I don't know whe
ther that means that we had 16.000
tanks t n nand, or could “account”
for only 19.000. Where, th^n ate the
70.000'’ Did we lose 70.000 tanks? If
we lost 10,000 tanks, or 20.000 tanks,
that isn’t the story we were told.
Well, if we lost 25.000 tanks, and had
16,000 left, did we give away 45,000
tanks’’ Who. by the way, authorizes
the giving away of Government pro
perty? A lot of Government proper
ty was sold for a song. 1 know, but
has anybody sung a song yet? $166 -
000 of stuff to Venezuela for f>.000,
6270.000 to soother country for 610
000
But, starting from scratch, what
have we today* Let us assume that
the hundreds of btitioos of dollars of
equipment is all on the scrap-heap
plane*, guns, tanks, trucks, jeeps.
»hells—what have we today?
You know that we haven't ceased
to spend, don’t you? From July I.
1646 to July 1. 1650 Congress gave
to the Defense budget nearly 660.-
000.000 000 So. if we started wtthoul
I a musket, without • trench knife,
without even a pup-tent, on July 1,
> 1640, having fallen overheard, or
given away, all the colossal provu-
oa of the Second World War, wa
have had available nearly fifty bil
lion dollars for all-out new. stream-
Uned engines of war
Even though contracts require
time, the record will probably show
i that most of this money has been
spent. If the Government spends 65
whenever it should spend 61. even
then that leaves 6i0.000.000.006—
, quite a sum of money—Just 610.C00.-
000.000 It used to be said that when
ever the army needs one man to do
a piece of work, it details ten men
Do we detail ten billion dollars to do
the work of one billion?
1 don’t know how you feel about
i this, but as an American, one who
(loves his country. 1 am appalled by
the reckless squandering of the Na-
. lion’s tax-money and the incompe-
terwy which seems to misdirect our
affairs. Anyone who says that all
.this record of waste and bungling
should not be exposed forgets that
young men pay in blood for most of
it.
The top officials in Washington
i have told The Washington Star a-
ibout the Military spending. I quote
(from The Star:
‘The figures supplied reveal how
amazingly little of the defense dol
lar goes for the purchase of actual
I fighting equipment. Few persons re-
| alize that of every dollar they have
contributed to the Army, Navy, and
Air Force, only 18 cents have gone
jfor guns and ammunition and tanks
j for the ground troops, aircraft for
jthe flyers, ships for the Navy. The
j biggest slice of the dollar—40 cents—
!went for pay, food, clothing, and
transportation. The tabulation be
low gives a rough breakdown of the
(defense dollar, based on expenditures
since the close of the late war:
ITEM Cents
Salaries, food, clothing,
transportation 40
Operations and maintance of
equipment 26
Weapons, planes, ships, etc. 18
Research and development 05
Administration and secret
work .04%.
Reserves and National Guard 04
Industrial mobilization 01
Retired pay (nearly) 01
Construction, public works 00%
/
TOTAL 1.00
Defense officials say the best mea-
kure of military spending, as it re
lates to what we have to show for our
money today, is the authorized out
lays for the 4-year period from July
1, 1946 to June 30, 1950. During this
time Congress authorized $49,300,-
000,000 for the military, of which
$48,400,000 has been spent to date
and nearly a billion more will have
been spent by the end of this fiscal
year. Almost $20,000,000,000 went for
payrolls, food, clothing, and travel;
$13 billion for operating and main
taining military installations and
tactical equipment around the globe;
and $8,500,000,000 for procurement
of p\anes, tanks, rifles, artillery,
ships, and other combat tools.
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