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Thursday, September 7,1950
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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OVERHEAD, NOT GUNS
CHIEF DEFENSE COST
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i Washington (Special)— Figures
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Showing what the $48 1-2 billion
spent tor the Military Establishment
during the last four years means in
terms of Federal taxes to various
income groups were released today
by the Council of State Chambers
of Commerce. These show over the
four years that:
A family of three with an income
of $3,000 paid $645.50.
A family of four with an income
Of $5,000 paid $1,130.08.
A family of four with an income
Of $7,500 paid $1,798.92.
In addition, these family groups
paid out Federal taxes for other pur
poses connected with defense. These
totaled a little less than $4 billion
and included such activities as arms
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aid to friendly nations, stockpiling
of raw materials and atomic energy
projects. But they meant $49.85 in
Federal taxes to the $3,000 family
group, $87.26 to the $5,000 group
and $138.90 to the $7,500 group.
The Council’s study revealed that
S6.75 out of every $10 spent for the
Military Establishment went for pay
of all personnel, and for food, cloth
ing and supplies for the soldiers,
sailors and marines. Less than $2^
of each $10 spent for defense was
used to buy guns, ships and planes.
The study declared that ‘‘Un
doubtedly much housekeeping waste
in the Military Establishment dim
inished the value of the $48 1-2 bil
lion as an investment in prepared
ness, but efforts begun by Defense
Secretary Forrestal and continued by
Secretary Johnston to modernize the
Establishment and cut out was*e
have now tended to strengthen that
investment."
It added, "In view of the expanded
program brought on by the Korean
situation, it is all the more necessary
that we obtain the maximum return
for every dollar that we are invest
ing in our national defense.”
When illness strikes and
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As Washington Sees It...
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Special to The Chronicle.
Washington, Sept. 4—The new
social security bill which has finally
been passed by the congress will
cover approximately 1,700,000 agri-
cuitureal workers not heretofore cov
ered by the social security act. These
are broken down into 850,000 agri
cultural workers, 200,000 which have
borderline agricultural employment
and 650,000 regularly employed on
farms.
In all about 10,000,000 additional
persons are covered by the act and
benefits to the insured are boosted
from 70 to 100 per cent under the
expanded bill. The house finally ap
proved the compromise bill by a vote
of 374 to 1, fhc lone dissenter being
Congressman John W. Byrnes, Re
publican of Wisconsin.
The senate is still debating the de
fense production bill following a let
ter by President Truman to Vice-
President Aiben Barkley saying that
the house version is emasculated to
make administration difficult. Ap
proximately two months after the
invasion of Korea by the North Kor
ean Communists, the congress has
failed to agree on any single emer
gency measure including controls,
any military appropriation, taxes,
or even the regular appropriations
bill carrying the budgeted military
appropriation for the defense estab
lishment for the fiscal year.
The congress was planning its pro
gram to adjourn by Labor day, al
though observers here insisted that
it would be September 15 before the
program could get through, and then
likely it will only recess to be called
back either by the vice-president or
the speaker.
As a result of Republican criticism
of military appropriations and the
administration foreign policy in Ko
rea and the Far East, Sen. Milliard
Tydings, chairman of the senate arm
ed services committee, gave the sen
ate a breakdown on the 48-biilion-
dollars appropriated for defense be
ginning July 1, 1946, through fiscal
1950 as follows: $19,860,000,000 for
pay, food and clothing and similar
items for the armed services; $12,-
760,000,000 for maintenance and op
eration of equipment, such as aircraft
battleships, submarines, etc; $8,530,-
000,000 for major procurement of
new weapons such as planes, ships,
arms, etc; $2,250,000,000 for research
and development; $1,860,000,000 for
the national guard and reserves; $1,-.
1390,000,000 for administration and
classified projects; $780,000,000 for
retired pay of officers and men;
$490,000,000 for military public works
i and $390,000,000 for mobilization. *
• Senator Tydings said this country
J had sent almost half a billion dollars
jto Korea in military and economic
aid since the end of World War II
up to the outbreak of the Korean
war. He broke down this aid as $141-
000,000 in surplus military equip
'ment; $301,000,000 in army govern-
iment relief; $53,700,000 in BCA ship-
'ments. Senator Tydings' breakdown
was in answer to the charge by Sen.
Joseph McCarthy (R. f Wis.) that only
$200 in signal wire had gone to South
Korea in that time.
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D.-New
York) told a senate sub-committee
that 65 per cent of oleo manufactur
ed in the U.S. was produced by sev
en firms and there was danger that
Lever Bros, “will eventually exer
cise a monopoly.” Charles W. Holl-
man, secretary of the national milk
producers federation, told the group
there is a “dog eat dog” fight among
oleo manufacturers and after the
fight is concluded the companies left
in control would increase prices.
Indications are that if the senate
passes the house bill to force Font-
master General Donaldson to return
to a twice-a-day mail service in res
idential areas, the President will veto
the bill. There was an excellent
chance the bill might die in a senate
pigeonhole.
A 10,000-word report has been fil
ed by the senate’s special crime in
vestigating committee by its chair
man Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes
see. It says organized criminals not
only have a strong grip on gambling
and related illegal activities but al
so are moving fast into legitimate
business fields.
JOHN MARK, WHO MADE GOOD
Lesson for September 10: Acts 12:
12, 25; 13: 4-5, 13; 15: 36-40.
Memory Selection: Philiipians 4:
13. .
John Mark was the son of Mary,
owner of the house in Jerusalem
where, it is believed, the Sacrament
waS instituted, where the disciples
often gathered after Pentecost and
where they met to pray for Peter’s
deliverance from prison. Thus, out
of an atmosphere of Christian be
lief and the home of a godly mother,
Mark was prepared for his first ser
vice as the coinpanions of two great
missionaries.
But he failed. He left Paul and
Barnabas at Perga and returned to
Jerusalem. When Barnabas proposed
taking Mark on a second missionary
journey, Paul refused. The disagree
ment was sharp between them. Bar
nabas took Mark and departed for
Cyprus; Paul chose Silas and set
forth on his own course.
The young Mark needed the dis
approval of Paul; he needed to see
the gravity of turning back. But he
also needed the second chance that
Barnabas gave him. And he mad*.*
good. In after years Paul evidently
revised his estimate of Mark, for he
is favorably mentioned in II Tim
othy and named in Philemon among
the fellow workers of Paul.
The Second Gospel, the first to be
written, bears the name of Mark.
It is enduring evidence that Mark
indeed made good and gave great
service to mankind. His life should
be an inspiration to men to over
come failure and attain unto suc
cess in serving Jesus. And all can
do this through Him of whom Mark
writes in his Gospel.
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