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i THE NEWBEREY SUN ERIDAV, AUGUST 11, 1956 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Arm field Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year ^ I in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. | COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR “Why has Washington gone crazy?” That is the big head line introducing an article in The Saturday Evening Post. Since the secret is “out” there is no reason why we shouldn’t discuss the insanity which pre vails in Washington. Washington is not only crazy in its zeal to add to the power of its bureaucrats, but it is crazy in its thinking. Everybody with a wild idea seems to drift to Washington naturally. Or we find wild ideas just floating about in that neighborhood. Perhaps the fog and mists over the Potomac River produce a mental con dition of miasma. You have seen a miasma? As you know, we people of the swampy low coun try think of vapors as miasmas when they hang over the roads. We may not be correct in call ing that a miasma, but you know what I mean. How would it impress you if I called on some of our Congress men to prepare this for me? Did you ever read the Congress ional Record? It is a daily journal of what is done and said in Congress, along with many page^ of what nobody said, but had it printed, as though he had said it. Some of my friends used to laugh at me for reading The Congressional Record and the Federal and State Consittu- tions. Well, why not? The Con stitutions show us how far we have wandered from the road and The Congressional Record tells us .what somebody did not say. What is the big question of the day? Why are our men suffering defeats in little Korea when we Jiave est mili tary equipment in ail the world? If you look into this you will find that we have retreated and retreated. We are always hope lessly outnumbered and outgun ned. Perhaps they outguess us, too. So the defeat part is all too sorrowfully true; but what about the vast abundance of the finest military eqipment in the world? Now that is what every one wants to know. A while back I asked what had become of all the trucks and tanks and jeeps of the Second World War. I still wonder, don’t you? We had equipment for eight million men; and we had S ships of war in great numbers, even not counting the warship which Mr. Roosevelt gave to the Queen of Holland, as I recall. Since Washington doesn’t know yet that a war is being fought I wonder why a squad of M. P.’s wasn’t sent over to quell the disturbance. I was about to call on Senator Maybank and Johnston to in quire into the tanks, trucks, jeeps, etc, left over from World War Second, just five years ago. Looking about for information However I've found some infor mation. Now about the tanks: Our Gov ernment made, or paid for, 86,- 000 tanks. But in 1948, two years after demobilization, only 16,000 tanks could be “account ed for.” I don’t know whether that means that we had 16,000 tanks on hand, or could “ac count” for only 16,000. Where, then are the 70,000? Did we lose 70,000 tank*? 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 giv ing away of Government proper ty? A lot of Government prop erty was sold for a song, I know, but has anybody sung a song yet? $166,000 of stuff to Venezuela for $8,000; $270,000 to another country for $10,000. But, starting from scratch, what have we today? Let us as sume that the hundreds of bil lions of dollars of equipment is all on the scrap-heap—planes, guns, tanks, trucks, jeeps, shells —what have we today? You know that we haven’t ceased to spend, don’t you? From July 1, 1946 to July 1, 1950 Con gress gave to the Defense bud get nearly $50,000,000,000. So, if we started without a musket, without a trench knife without even a pup-tent, on July 1, 1946, having thrown over-board , or given away, all the colossal pro vision of the Second'World War, we have had available nearly fifty billion dollars for all-out new, streamlined engines of war. Even though contracts require time, the record will probably show that most of this money has been spent. If the Govern ment spends $5 v henever it should spend $1, even then that leaves $10,000,000— quite a sum of money—just $10,000,000,000. 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? I don't know how you feel about this, but as an American, one who loves his country, I am appalled by the reckless squand ering of the Nation’s tax-money and the incompetency 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 Washing ton have told The Washington Star about the Military spending. I quote from The Star: ton have told mtmtmtmtmtmm “The figures supplied reveal bow amazingly little of the de fense dollar goes for the pur chase of actual fighting equip ment. Few persons realize that of every dollar they have con tributed to the Army, Navy, and Air Force, only 18 cents have gone for guns and ammunition and tanks for the ground troops, aircraft for the flyers, ships for the Navy. The biggest slice of the dollar—40 cents—went for pay, food, clothing, and transpor tation. The tabulation below gives a rough breakdown of the defense dollar, based on ex-i penditures 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 Reasearch 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 measure of military spending, as it relates to what we have to show for our money today, is the authorized oxitlays for the 4-year period from July 1, 1946 to June 30, 1950. During this time Con gress authorized $49,300,000,000 for the military, of which $48,- 400,000,000 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,- 000,000,000 for operating and maintaining military installations and tactical equipment around the globe; and $8,500,000,000 for procurement of planes, tanks, rifles, artillery, ships, and other combat tools. United States News tells about some bad guessing. It is difficult to understand how we are un aware of what is going on; un prepared for what happens; and unable to understand why and how. Says The News: “War is putting U. S. military ideas, new weapons, and strategy plans to the test of experience. On the basis of the record to date, the report card on first performances can be marked: ‘Flunked’. Tax payers in five postwar years have provided the military ser vices with 50 billion dollars to spend on defense. The military sold the country on giving first priority to atom bombs, big bombers, guided missiles, new mystery weapons, fast jet planes. Defense was to center around quick retaliation and air power. Bombs and new weapons were to replace big armies and big navies. When the showdown came. North Korea—a supposed ly primitive area, using old Rus sian weapons—failed to fold up under bombing, soon showed she could outgun and overwhelm in adequately armed Ameiican forces. A post-mortem of the first weeks of war already is being held. It is one in which top military officials try to fiqd out how they could have guessed so wrong, made so many mis takes. Its outcome will deter mine, in large measure, how much present defense plans will be shifted, what direction will be taken bv the remobilization ef fort just ahead.’’ • Who does the fancy thinking I don’t know. I have no pleasure in being a harsh critic. No man can truly love his country so much as one fho has lived in foreign lands and held his own land in special remembrance and solicitous affection. My hope is that we may some day have some degree of capability in the Administsation in Washington. What is the score today? Pearl Harbor, the Bulge, Korea—and other instances. The Depart-* ment of State has never seemed able to grapple with realities. Then Mr. Truman and the Con gress have played with fantastic ideas of rebuilding the world at our expense; and they first sent billions and billions all over the world to prepare Britain, France, Italy—and many others to resist Communism. It was a sweet dream of childish hope, as should have been understood. Just why one Congress adopts every roseate dream, or pipe dream, of the fluttering brains in Washington is hard to imagine. I heard a Commentator pro claim recently: “We are all one people now; war brings us to gether and Mr. Truman, whether you like It or not, is your Com- mander-in-Chief.” Mr. Truman is not my Commander-in-chief. The Constitution of the United States says: “The President shall be commander-imchief of the Army ahd Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the sev eral States, when called into the actual • Service of the United States.” So let us stop this fool ishness about being our Com- mander-in-Chief. As a matter of fact the President has less than complete authority even oven the land and Naval forces, for the Constitution says “The Con gress shall have power (a) to declare war; and (b) to make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces.” HOARDING GIVES COMFORT TO OUR ENEMIES. From all over the country there have been reports of scare buying and hording. A minority of our citizens have been pur chasing ridiculously large quant ities of sugar, tires, nylon goods and other commodities on the theory that they would become scarce as the government’s arma ment program moves on toward high gear. The hoarder does not know it—but he is serving those who would destory us. Hoarding undermines the economy. It dis locates the smooth machinery of supply and demand. It brings in flation. It creates fat black markets for racketeers. And finally, it leads to rationing and price controls and evergrowing government interference in the affairs of the people. Manufacturers, retailers and others say that there are plenty of goods to go around, with feW exceptions. If we buy normally, in the light of current needs, we will not suffer for want of anything. But even if this were not true, there would still be no excuse, no mitigation, for the hoarder. Goods that go out of circulation, to be held in base ments and attics, are goods which are lost to the country. They amount to a leak in the stream of production. Retailers have been especially active in opposing hoarding and scare buying, and pointing out its folly and fallacy. They know that kind of business is? bad busi ness for every one—and they know the grave results that will occur if it goes on long enough. But no one can stop hoarding except the consumer himself. The hoarder aids our enemies. MIMS IN FAR EAST Carl W. Mims, metal smith, first class, USN, husband of Mrs. Mary Ellen Mims of 2809 Fair ave., Newberry, S. C., is serving in the Far East Theatre aboard the Far East Theatre aboard the flagship of Vice Admiral rthur D. Struble, USN, Com mander of the Navy’s Seventh Fleet, which is spearheading Naval attacks against Korean Communist forces. The Seventh Fleet is addition ally charged with the special mission of preventing an invas ion of Formosa as announced by President Truman. FISH MEAL for poultry and stock—Block Salt — Oyster shells—Pigeon Feed — Pigeon Health Grit — Rabbit Feed- Crocks—waterers and Feeders— Tobacco Dust— R. Derrlll Smith and Son Inc. Wholesale Grocers Newberry S. 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