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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Let us withdraw from the “U. N.” as the association of |
Nations is called. My reason is not particularly because of
the plan to admit Red China. If we can associate with Red
Russia why balk at any other Red?
If we are opposed to Communism; or if we don’t care to
affiliate with Soviets or Sovietism, why don’t we cut the
tree at the roots instead of lopping off a twig now and then ?
So I advocate abrogating our treaty of recognition of Soviet
Russia.
My reason for opposing the U. N. is the plan and purpose
of many unsound theorists to impose laws on us by act of
the U. N.
The world needs a forum for the discussion of public
questions, but it does not need a super-world organization
with committees, commissions, agents, directors, pamphle
teers, publicists, propagandists, political magicians and dan
gerously subversive elements seeking power and charged
with their own conceit. .
Let us use the Red China issue as an, opportunity to undo a
piece of half-baked do-goodism which is a threat to sound
principle and sound government.
We Americans can live our lives without impositions by
the cracked-brains of visionary people. Let us be strong
and rich, well-disposed toward our fellowmen, but without
strings or fetters of any kind. Our strength, our wealth, our
resourcefulness, our good fellowship, our broad humanity,
will maintain us and sustain us. Let us break the cards and
liberate ourselves.
Sending Out a Feeler
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that we should now resume building? No charge at all, no
new development. If it was wise to suspend, it would be un
wise to make a fresh start now.
Where are we in this matter? Are we reconciled to the
Court’s decree and either compliant or acquiescent? Or are
we continuing to present the case for a re-hearing? Until
we decide definitely on our course of action the resumption
of building may result in a wasteful expenditure of the tax
payers' money.
What are we building for? Wiser, it seems to me, would
be to deposit all the construction revenue in a trust fund,
while we chart our course, or until we decide on a course.
No mariner starts on a voyage without a clearly defined
course and a known port. Where are we headed, and how
do we expect to get there?
IT WAS almost nine years after
* the first atomic bomb was
dropped on Japan that the U. S.
began its first nation-wide civil
defense drill, against a background
of criticism some Congressmen
that the whole civil defense pro
gram is “inadequate,” “obsolete,”
and threatens to develop into a
“national scandal.”
The Federal Civil Defense Ad
ministration has warned for some
time that while the possibility of a
surprise attack is diminishing, it
“will never disappear entirely.” In
drafting assumptions about a hy
pothetical onslaught for the June
14 drill. FCDA said every target
area was “substantially destroyed”
and millions—1175,000 in one New
York area alone—were “killed.”
FCDA operates on the principle
that an ounce of preparation is
worth a pound of security. Estab
lished in 1950, FCDA bases its
plans on assumptions that the U. S.
| does not have a monopoly of nuc
lear weapons, that Russia is “now
capable of striking any target with
in the United States,” probably
with “nuclear weapons delivered
by air,” and that a city so attacked
would suffer damages and casual
ties far beyond resources, thereby
needing outside aid.
The FCDA cited 193 potential
atomic target areas of which 70
are listed as “critical target
areas.” These 70 areas take in 92
key cities and the largest concen
trations of population and industry.
The major civil defense problems
in these localities, says FCDA,
would be advance warning of an
enemy attack, dispersal of popula
tion from congested areas and ade
quate shelter for those who stay
behind.
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A big page advertisement in a National periodical tells
the world that a certain aluminum enterprise has doubled
its capacity since 1951 and is today producing 30% of all
the aluminum produced in the United States double the
entire national production in 1941. One vastly significant
line in the advertisement is this: 100% privately financed.
What they are telling us is that they did not expand
with Government money.
I wish more companies of all kinds could say that; it is
worth saying. ^ >
A whole generation has come to manhood believing that
the Government owes every man a living!!
Our fathers would have been astonished and somewhat
disgusted; Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin would turn
over in their graves in protest over our clinging, dependant
attitude and the politicians’ efforts to beguile us and align
us by hand-outs.
We have sunk so low that we listen to the accounts of
what our Government does for us; the important thing is
this; what are we doing to re-build and re-inforce the Gov
ernment bequeathed to us by the splendid men and women
of the early days of the republic?
“Nothing demonstrates better the dynamic character of
the U. S. consumer market than the changes that have oc
curred just in one year . Here are some of them:
Thanks to four million births (a neWhigh), U. S. popu
lation has risen from 159,900,000 to 162,700,000.
Despite a ‘recession’ that cut industrial production by
10 percent, consumer spending as a whole has declined by
less than 1 percent, and people are actually spending more
on housing and car operation than last year.
About 1,200,000 people have moved to the suburbs. About
1,100,000 nonfarm dwellings have been erected. There are
about 2,500,000 more passenger cars on the road than there
were a year ago.
1954-1959. The U. S. consumer market as a whole will ex
pand by one-fourth—even while population is expanding less
than a tenth. >r| »•
Consumers’ cash income will be some $57 billion more
than in 1953—an increase roughly equal to the 1952 national
income of France and West Germany taken together.
Real cash income per capita, which grew 10 per cent in
the six war-torn years 1941 to 1947 and 12.6 per cent in the
six years 1947 to 1953, will grew 15i6 per cent in the six
years 1953 to 1959.”
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Congressman John Riley has told us of unpledged mil-
lions still available in the discretion of bureaucrats. Here
is what has happened; A Department in Washington request
ed a billion dollars, but spent three quarters of a billion.
What became of the $250,000,000? It remains at the dis
posal of that Department. After several years the Depart-
] ment may have five hundred million dollars in unspent bal-
aneeq. That would be splendid, if that indicated economy.
But if these balances swell year after year the Department
will, in a measure, be independent of Congress.
Why does not tiie Congress specifically control all # money,
including unspent balances? The Constitution had that in
mind, certainly, when section 8 (subsection 12) of Article
one was adopted: “The Congress shall have power
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money
to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.”
Obviously this should apply to the Navy and to the Air
Force, for the clear purpose was to control the military
might of the Nation so that it would never swell completely
out of size by more time, or the accumulation of balances.
Beyond a doubt this ‘still applies to the armies, though
courts may distinguish between armies and navies. There
is quite a difference in appearance, though the purpose is
the same—our National defense.
In order that our Courts may not strain the warped and
creaking Constitution, it would be appropriate for our Con
gress to propose an amendment to bring the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps and Air Force under this section. Such a
clarification might well apply to all Departments and ser
vices of the Government.
Si*?;
Should our State renew the school-building, school-enlarg-
liging, program? It seems to me that we need an answer to
this; why did we suspend the building and enlarging pro
gram? Clearly it was suspended because of the Supreme
Court’s decision in the Segregation matter. So what change
has come about; what new development, which suggests
“Cotton growers have 21 % less land in cultivation this
year than last. ' -
The department of Agriculture estimated 19,961,000 acres
of cotton were in cultivation on July 1, compared with 25,-
244,000 acres a year ago and with the 10-year average (1943-
52) of 22,428,000 acres.
Under Government restrictions this year, cotton farm
ers were told to hold acreage to 21,379,000 or lose Federal
price supports and face stiff cash penalties as well. Grow
ers responded by cultivating 7% less than they were al
lotted.
Cotton farmers usually underplant whenever they’re
socked with acreage allotments. In previous years in which
Federal planting curbs were in effect, the fibre farmers
planted up to 15% less land than they were entitled to.
This year, besides the traditional caution, some farmers re
portedly didn’t bother to replant cotton that was killed or
stunted by early May frosts.
If yields should average 300 pounds an acre, the land un
der cultivation July 1 would produce a shade under 12 mil
lion 500-pound bales of cotton. This would stack up against
last years 16,465,000 bale crop. •
A 300-pound figure is less than last year’s average yield
of 312.6 pounds an acre, but is more than the 10-year aver
age of 265.5 pounds. v
May frosts in much of the cotton belt caused farmers
everywhere but in the South to replant their crop one or
more times. But the cotton crop now is in'excellent’ over
all condition, according to the department. It madeigood
progress in June with favorable temperatures. Stands on
some fields that were not replhnted are in poor shape.
A 12 million-bale crop would be just a bit below expected
needs in the 1953-54 marketing year. Higher exports 1 , ex
pected to amount to 3.6 million bales, will take up some of
the slack caused by lagging domestic cotton use. Total con
sumption is likely to be 12.2 million bales.
The Agriculture Department announced penalty rates for
farmers who exceed acreage allotments on 1954-cotton of
17.5 cents a pound for upland cotton and 36.2 cents a pound
on extra long staple cotton. These penalties are 50% of the
parity price for cotton as of June 15, as required by law.
Farmers who violate these allotments also lose eligibility for
price support on all their cotton.
By 1955, FCDA estimates, it will
be possible to give cities about an
hour's advance warning of attack,
giving citizens time to get at least
two miles away from the danger
zone. The present warning period-
20 minutes — allows only time to
“duck and cover.”
Preparations are actually being
made to meet the emergency of
such an attack. Key U. S. high
ways have been posted with signs
warning that they would be used
as defense roads. About three-
fourths of the states have mutual-
aid civil defense agreements. There
are about 4.5 million civil defense
workers, and more than half the
attack warning systems that FCDA
says are actually needed. The
“Conelrad” system for public emer
gency radio broadcasting became
operative in 1953. Many test drills,
evacuations, and “take shelter” ex
ercises have been held in states,
cities, and schools, topped by the
first national civil defense test.
"Operation Alert,” held June 14-15
with Canada participating involved
a mock atomic attack on more
than 50 North American cities.
When the lawmakers set up the
civil defense program four years
ago, responsibility was “vested pri
marily” in states and cities and
only recently did some legislators
express opinion that the program
is^a 'loose confederation of indivi
dual programs,” and is “obsolete.”
More than a dozen resolutions
and bills were offered in Congress
this year to make the FCDA a full-
fledged executive department with
a Secretary who would be a mem
ber of the National Security Coun
cil, or td put FCDA in the Defense
Department. *
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RESSIONAL
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Q—What fas a “peril point?”
A “Peril point” is an unofficial term describing the lowest level to
which tariffs and other import restrictions may decline without
permitting an influx of imports which would cause or threaten
serious injury to competitive American industry. When the Presi
dent plans to negotiate tariff changes under the reciprocal trade
system, he must inform the Tariff Commission what articles will be
subject to negotiation. The Commission determines what it con-
' siders would be the point of peril. If the President overrides the
Commission’s recommendations, he must explain his reasons to
Congress.
Q—What Congressman has the shortest official biography in the Coi
gressional Directory?
A—The shortest in the new 1954 Directory contains only 24 letters:
“Brady Gentry, Democrat, Texas.” In brevity it is followed close
ly by biographies of Dewey Short (R Mo.), 28 letters; Pat Sutton
(D Term.), 33 letters; and Edward J. Hart (DN. J.), 34 letters.
Short and Sutton just note their home towns, while Hart includes
the fact he is a lawyer. Among Senators, briefest biography is
that of the upper chamber's only woman, Margaret Chase Smith
CR Maine). It takes slightly less than two lines. The biography
of Sen. Albert Gore (D Tenn.) takes a little more than three lines,
that of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.) is only slightly longer.
Q—What are. “carryover funds?”
A—Unspent money^arried over from past-year Congressional appropri
ations. Such funds may or may not be committed for specific pur
poses.
(Ccpyrlght 1954, Congressional Quarterly)
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i, Pennsylvania: Tele
vision is growing up fast when it
faces the facts of life as lived on
the farm without stopping to ex
toll the virtues of cigarettes, soap
and baby formulaes. Moving its
cameras into a cow-barn and un-
blushingly discussing the merits of
hand-milking over machines is a
procedure worthy of comment,
especially when the cows go about
their cud-chewing, and digestiye
processes without the guidance
production crews and the
of film. If the . . . network which
conducts the newly contrived Sun
day Farm feature has the courage
of its convictions to proceed in the
same direction it started, thin gen
eration of urban dwellers will have
a closer insight on country living
than ever before in history.
The show—or documentary, if you
prefer—is in its third week \
For a whiff of corn, pigs, straw,
chicken • in - the - pot, and fresh
breezes over the wheat stubble;
for a restful moment
plating what the
to milk prices and
wife can
just si
an almost
opinion is
can do better just
back-porch, looking at
Sunday on the Farm,
other thing*
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accumulated by the
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costs for an estimated
cal persons doing the
and accymulating come to
000,000. To house the records
3,000,000 filing cabinets
required. And it is estimated
as many as 250,000 clerks
in classifying, filing
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53 Snakes
VERTICAL
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2 Pertaaniiig to
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South
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UOperktic solo
13 Anger
14 Afternoon
social events
15 Prescribed
limit
17 Landed
property
19 Winter
vehicles
20 Measuring
device
21 Rupees (ab.)
22 French island
23 Footlike part
25 Operate
28 Article
29 Negative reply
30 Pronoun
31 Exists
32 Fiber knots
34 Goddess of
infatuation
35 Part of “be*
37 Highway (ab.)
38 Forefathers
41 Mexican
. laborers
44 Mountain
nymphs
46 Dark red
47 Rave
48 Bustle
50 Drop of eye
fluid
6 Measure of
area
7 Observe
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9 Tidier
10 Tardy
11 River in
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of her time that was spent in
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to July 8th and writes down in that space „
she will be
j-ying about today.
Perhaps she is
in a thunderstorm
have been in a draught when very
that she will develop a cold, so that she can't
swimming at the beach this
of other things, some m<
Day after day, she writes down
month ahead.
At the end of a month she is amazed to dis
that 60 to 80 per cent of the things she
never
themselves with hardly any effort on her part.
15 per cent were real problems. And she
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27 Proboscis
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father
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39 Persia
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