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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.
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JOHN EDDIE NEEL DIES
John Eddie Neal, 51, died of a
heart attack enroute to New
berry Memorial Hospital Sun
day morning.
Mr. Neal was born and reared
in Silverstreet, a son of the late
Levi W. and Lucretia Longshore
Neal. He was manager of E. F.
Cox Lumber Co., and held farm
ing interests in the Silverstreet
section. He was a veteran of
World War I and a member of
American Legion Post 24 of
Newberry. He was a member
of Trinity Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mary E. Griffith Neal; three
daughters, Miss Lucretia Neal
of Silverstreet; Mrs. Bill Suber
of Westminister and Mrs. Henry
Wilson Cleland of Clenton; one
son, Ellerbe Neal of Wofford Col
lege and Silverstreet; two sis
ters, Mrs. L. B. Beatenbaugh of
Silverstreet and Mrs. James
Whitten of Miami, Fla.; two
grandchildren and one aunt, Mrs.
John Bremer of Silverstreet.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Trinity
Methodist Church conducted by
Rev. R. L. Hall and Rev. C. W.
Brockwell; Interment followed in
the church cemetery.
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BIDS WANTED FOR SCHOOL
BUS DRIVER IN JOHNSTONE
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 12
The Board of Trustees of
Johnstone school District No. 12
hereby announces that bids for
driving said bus will be received
from this date until 3:00 o’clock
In the afternoon on Saturday,
bids will be opened in the office
August 5 th, at which time all
of the County Supt. of Edu
cation. Each bid shall be plac
ed in a separate envelope ad
dressed thus: “Bid to drive bus
in district No. 12.”
The Board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
JOHNSTONE SCHOOL DIS
TRICT NO. 12
NOTICE
Under the provisions of
The Alcoholic Beverage Con
trol Act of 1946, notice is
hereby given that I Intend
to apply to the South Caro
lina Tax Commission for a
license to operate a retail
liquor store at 901 Harrington
Street, in Newberry, S. C.
D. L. Laird
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