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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
As to President Eisenhower and the trends of his Admin
istration I am in a quandary; is the President trying to out-
herod herod by rushing into schemes and plans of such
grandiosity as to be truly fabulous. Does the President
now regard the National Government as a vast paternalism
doling out bread and meat to everybody?
Recently we passed the birthday of General Robert E.
Lee; we didn’t celebrate it, or observe it; we just passed
it. True that some banks closed, but that was a merely
perfunctory act; better that we cancel the holiday than
to use it for checking it off on the calendar. Of recent
years George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Wade Hampton
have become names, but virtually without significance.
Likewise the rank and file of our people don’t know any
thing of the Constitution, and care less.
I said I was in a quandary about the President. I am no
captious critic; I greatly respect and admire Mr. Eisenhower,
but, to lapse into somewhat common speech, I don’t know
where is is going nor where I “am at”. You will admit the
clarity of that even at the expense of elegance. Friend, if
you know, please show me the way; otherwise please ill
umine and illuminate my pathway.
The President has the nation “on the spot,” in the matter
of pouring out hundreds of millions in the Middle East,
both in W. P. A. and R. F. C. style, along with a sort of
swashbuckling military swagger. I know that Mr. Eisen
hower is a-man of splendid purpose, but he is listening to
a lot of bad counsel.
The proposal as regards military and economic aid was
heralded far and wide before the Congress could consder
it. Now it leaves us in a turmoil, verily on the horns of a
dilemma: if we follow the President I’m sure we are pre
paring for large doses of the ill-advised Marshall Plan,
broadened, deepened and amplified otherwise to the Nth
power; if we repudiate the undesirable plan we shall seem
to repudiate the President, thereby, probably encourag
ing the Soviets to go as far as possible, even, perhaps,
farther than they might have planned originally.
All this, it seems to me, points to an urgent need for
s the Bricker Amendment and any other measure which may
restrain the Federal Executive from committing this Gov-
erment to other Nations. In fact we think it imperative
that the entire scope of the Federal Government, Presi
dent, Congress and judiciary, be re-defined, or clarified.
I must believe that there are men in both branches of
Congress who could command attention and bring about
reforms. And in this I think the States might properly
propose action, speaking as Sovereign units.
It has been suggested that the Southern States comm
unicate with all the other States in order to assure a nat
ional attitude.
‘While there appears to be no formidable opposition
to Mr. Eisenhower’s request for stand-by powers for
the Middle East, the Democrats, as they certainly should,
are looking carefully at the way the Ps are dotted and
the t’s are crossed in the President’s proposal.
Mr. Esienhower would be the last to say what he wants
to do must be done exactly the way the Administration
proposes, and the Democrats are already suggesting changes,
one is that a time limit be placed on the stand-by powers.
Another—which commands some attention because Speak
er Rayburn has called it ‘a sane approach’—is a simple
statement that the United States regards the independ
ence and integrity of the Middle Eastern states vital to
our interests and that, if necessary, the U. S. will use armed
force to maintan them. This short statement may, in fact
be too simple; Mr. Dulles objects to it for a number of
reasons. It says nothing of Communist aggression for one
thing. Arid it would seem to bind us to unilateral action in
any border quarrels that might occur in the area. Thus it
might actually increase instead of lessen the danger that
U. S. troops will fight in the Middle East.
But there is a signifcance about this Democratic resol-
lution that ought not be overlooked. It says nothing about
dollar aid to the Middle East as an indispensable part of
the warning against aggression. It would be well if the
^ two were seperated. While the need for military force
to prevent aggression may be entirely clear to a majority
in the Congress, the necessity to make dollar its twin is
hot at all so clear.
Testimony, of course, on both these matters is now being
taken and will contnue for some weeks. And when the com-
mittes come to question of how many dollars Middle East
ern states need to go along with the military protection
we may offer, they might do well to call in some of the oil
company officials to learn exactly how the Middle East fares.
We dare say the legislators will find them as interest
ing as we found the figures made public a year ago by the
chairmen of Standard Oil of California. Mr. Follis, after a
four month Middle Eastern tour, reported in Cairo late
last January that crude oil production had increased in the
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area by 85 percent in five years. Oil companies had poured
$1 billion in capital nvestment into the area in the period.
At the same time, direct revenues to Middle East count
ries from oil operations increased more than 400 percent.
In 1955 alone, Middle East oil producing countries re
ceived from oil companies $880 million.
The disruptions of Suez of course have some bank balances
in the past five months; but the pipelines will flow again
and the Suez Canal already has been partly cleared. All this
suggests that what the Middle East’s economy needs is
peace, more than American taxpayers’ dollars”.
“Mr. Eisenhower talks conservative, proposes ‘liberal’
programs.
That’s the standout fact of the State of the Union Mes
sage. Ike opposes inflation, warns of pressures for Feder
al controls. But he plans spending near $72 billion next
fiscal year. His message holds out no hope of tax cuts.
The accent is heavy on welfare programs, foreign and
domestic. Ike makes clear that Government will stay big.
• The President probably will get much of what he wants
from Congress: School help, civil rights action, tougher
antitrust laws, ‘Liberal’ Democrats strive to outdo Eisen
hower. But Dixie committee chairmen block extremist
plans, with the help of conservative Republicans. So left-
of-center men will back Ike’s proposals in a shadow.
A band of Northern Democrats in Congress put forward
a left-of-center legislative program.”
“When President Eisenhower took office four years
ago he adopted a posture different from that of his pre
decessor. /
In domestic affairs he promised the nation good husbandry
a Government that would operate wlith economy so that
its cost and the people’s taxes could be reduced, a Gover
nment that would reject all temptation to inflation, thus
preserving the value of the people’s money.
In foreign affairs he appeared as a President who saw
limits to the duty and the ability of the U. S. to manage
the whole world.
These two, things were inplicit in his Inaugural Add
ress and in all the early action of his Administration.
The cost of Government was reduced greatly; the burden
of taxes was lightened; the fiscal polices were aimed at a
sound currency. The Korean war was brought to an end,
an involvement in Indo-China was avoided, and just re
cently the U. S. acted to keep out of the Suez fighting.
As Mr. Eisenhower begins his second term these are
still ostensibly the aims of his Administration. In his State
of the Union Message last week the President spoke of
the dangers of inflation and of the need for keeping down
the burdens of Government, just as he did four years ago.
The leve. of spending will be right back where it was
when the j^ioenhower Administration started economizing.
These are not isolated developements. Elsewhere the
Administration is talkii g in more ‘liberal’ fashion about
public power, about wo. are programs, about the Federal
Government’s responsib^.ty to do things for local comm
unities, like providing o.ids and schools.
- In foreign affairs ^:e change is even more explicit.
The President does now even make a passing refer
ence to the need for rn ting our world-wide commitments;
his words are all r.J .ot our broadening responsibilities.
Today, a news story ^e.ls how broad the Administration’s
Middle East plans ... y be. . And ex-President Truman,
the author of the . n intervention, expressed, in general
support of the Adiinn scration’s Middle Eastern plans.
It is all very pui. . j. There has been no loud pronoun
cement to herald it, ut there is no escaping the feeling
that the Esienhowe: ^iministration is changing direction.
Wherever it may be :.3aded, it is not pointed on the same
course it charted in 1^53.”
Every day someL*.. y wants something from the State
Legislature or Confess. Perhaps we should revive the
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From The Granite State Netoes,
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: We
of the older generation are too
prone to criticize the m"dern
generation, especially the teen
agers, and their outlook and atti
tude on life and way of doing
things. We do not face reality and
the absolute changes in our way
of life that have swept rural New
England in the last twenty-five
years.
Take the youngsters in gram
mar school today, as a fair exam
ple. Many of them have never
handled a stick of kindling or fire
wood. Many of them have never
stood in a cold room on a bitter
winter morning waiting for the
fire in the stove to take hold.
They cannot remember life
without an electric washing ma
chine, an electric ice box, a gas
or an oil stove and a television
in tide house.
They could identify a record
player that played only one rec
ord at a time at the old 78 rpm
speed, but they never have heard
one play.
They have never ridden in a car
not equipped with a self starter,
four wheel brakes, electric lights
and a heater and radio.
They have never walked to
school, seen a cow milked, seen
their Mother bake bread or helped
their Father make ice cream.
They look upon jet planes, color
photography, insulated homes,
deep freezes, two color cars with
extra fancy grilles, power lawn
mowers, self starting outboard
motors, power graders and power
loaders as ordinary and common
place.
For them there is no thrill in
seeing a speedometer roll up to
an indicated sixty miles per hour,
or a mile-a-minute, and it is per
fectly normal to take a nap in
the back seat when the family
car is doing a solid sixty-five down
the toll'road.
They have never ridden in a
trolley car or a steam train and
they look upon a Diesel powered
Budd car, running on the track,
as interesting, but no cause for
comment.
They cannot imagine a mill or
an office that Is open all day Sat
urday except on special occasions.
They consider as natural a
world where bombers and pur
suit planes pass overhead daily
and where the draft is waiting
when High School is finished.
It is commonplace for a neigh
boring family to taks a month’s
vacation in Florida—it is not a
luxury, just commonplace.
They have never seen a news
stand not loaded with so-called
funny books, tabloids and slick
magazines dealing with every
thing from sex to astrology and
back.
TELL US VOUR
PROBLEIU
AN* UT » PAIS IT «N TO IMLF OMM» M IOLVM fNUH.
BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
J ARED DENNY, now retired and
living in the country some
miles from San Antonio, Texas,
says that he looks back to a bit
of philosophy that changed his
life and which he thinks might
help some young man who today
is facing a problem similar to the
one he had to solve.
* He was one of three assistants
to the Vice President of the com
pany he worked for, and was the
one chosen to take the place of
the Vice President in making a
speech before a large and impor
tant delegation. Aside from
speeches in high school, he had
never made a speech, nor did he
have any ambition to be a public
speaker.
He devoutly wished ' that the
Vice President had delegated one
of the other men to do this job.
He even went so* far in his fear
as to hope that he might have a
sore throat and that one of the
other two would have to be ap
pointed to the fearsome task. But
he finally dismissed the latter
hope as childish. Then he got to
work on his speech, wrote it and
studied it until he had it practi
cally letter perfect. He did even
more! Knowing that a speaker
can become panicky, he made a
list in large letters of the subjectsi
to be covered and which could
easily be read from the table be
hind which he would stand. With
all this preparation, he should
have felt secure. But he didn’t.
On the date the speech was to be
made he wds ill at ease. He con
tinued to be nervous up to the
time he was to ascend the plat
form. All of a sudden, within ten
minutes of that time, came a
thought: *T have prepared my
self as thoroughly as possible; I
will do the very best I can; no
one could do any more.” He said
that over and over even up to the
very moment he put his foot on
the platform.
And confidence came. When he
began his speech he was no long
er afraid. He didn’t even once
need to glance at the list of sub
jects before him. He says he went
through what he had to say with
the keenest enjoyment, and the
audience was with him all the
way. He was even a bit regret
ful when it was over. “Truly,” he
said, "I had a good time.”
Ever after that when confused
over something he had to do, fie
would say, I will do the best I
can; no one could do more.” And
the thought always saw him
through.
PUZZLE No. 432
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book (pi.)
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length
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a perforated
kitchen
utensil
15 Shot from
a bow
16 Before
17 King of
Greece
(1913—17)
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Brooklyn
pitcher
20 Let it stand
21 Try out
22 Game of
chance
24 Cereal grain
(pi.)
28 Looks at
fixedly
27 Facial
hair (pL)
30 A class
(pl.)
32 Sea eagles
33 Candle
34 Man’s
name
37 “Swedish
Nightingale'*
38 Indian boat
39 Frozen pre
cipitation
40 Hawaiian
wreath
41 Chinese
secret ,
societies
42 European
43 To annoy
45 Scolded
46 Pertaining
to a social
division
48 Line of
juncture
49 Provoked
50 Send forth
52 Island in
Malay arch*
ipelago
56 Mountain in
Asia Minor
57 Allurements
60 Favorite
61 Wash in
clear water
62 Wild buffalo
of India
63 Before
64 Quarreu
65 Philippine
timber tree
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circle (pl.)
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outbreak
3 Skin disease
4 Renewed
5 Alto-stratus
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window glass
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8 Courage
9 Vast age
10 To oppress
with heat
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Cyclades
group
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coin (pl.)
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implement
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after snick
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flaring
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Indian
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completely
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31 Epic poetry
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leather
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reverential
fear
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39 Natators
41 Merchants
42 Urial
44 Lincoln’s
nickname
45 Whale
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worthless
(slang)
47 Appendage t<
a document
48 Number six
on die (pM
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vessel
51 Fog
53 Coin ot indi*
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Sweden
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1957
B OTH Republicans and Demo
crats seem to be unhappy over
President Eisenhower’s “highest
peacetime budget in history” of
$78.1 billion dollars which he re
cently handed Congress.
Most vocal on the Republican
side of the fence has been Secre.
tary of the Treasury George Hum.
phrey in his dissent from the Presi
dent’s fiscal and economic policy.
On the Democratic side, it has been
that old watch dog of the Treasury,
Senator Harry Byrd, of Virginia,
who says the budget is “danger
ously inflationary.”
Despite all the inflationary talk
and talk of possible depression
which has come out of Congress
since the President filed his pre
cedent-making budget, which by
the way, does not include all the
proposed spending, one outstanding
factor is that the budget request
for Federal Debt interest amounts
to $7.4 billion, a little more than
10% of the total budget, and the
highest budget for debt interest in
all time. And this is clearly so the
fiscal experts say, the result of the
administration’s hard money poli
cy back in 1952 and 1953 which
started boosting interest rates on
Federal borrowing, as a result of
which interest rates started mov
ing up all along the line on state
and other divisions of government
borrowings as well as interest
rates on private borrowing.
As an example the highest pub
lic debt of record vras on Dec. 15,
1955 when it amounted to $280,769,
billions and the budgeted figure for
interest debt for fiscal 1956 was
$6.7 billion. In other words the fed
eral government is paying a heav
ier interest on a debt estimated at
something like $270 billion for fiscal
1958 than it did for $8 billions lest
money in 1956, amounting to a dif
ference of about a billion dollars in
interest.
One Senator pointed out that this
budget did not include the highway
expenditures under die new Na
tional highway program which will
amount to something like $1.6 bil
lions, which will be paid out of a
special Highway Trust Fund, set
up in the highway act fdr the re
ception of special excises under
the act.
* • aif
Is Vice President Nixon a mem
ber of the executive branch or the
legislative branch of the Govern
ment? He can’t be in both branch
es. As a matter of fact constitution
ally the vice president b a mem
ber of the legislative branch of the
government and driWs his salary
from the legislative Jjranch. His
only constitutional duty b to pre
side over the senate and to vote
when there b a tie vote. So there
is now a constitutional question as
to a conflict of interests in the divi
sion of the executive and legisla
tive branches of the government as
Whether Mr. Nixon, serving as he
does, two masters, special Repre
sentative of the President, inter
ested in legislation; serving in the
cabinet, e* a member of the vari
ous executive councib set up by
the president, and at
time acting in his
capacity as presiding office:
Senate. Thb same qu<
back as far as John
Thomas Jefferson, when
as vice president in
stration of John Adams,
perform executive duties,
theory it would be uncc
for him to do so.
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suit weather through use of notched sticks which fit into
trance opening and are slotted on two sides to provide
large opening. Use of small opening keepe out anew
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WASHINGTON CONFAB . . . British defense minister Duncan
Sandys (right) and U. S. defense secretary Chas. E. Wilson dis
cuss mutual defense, with emphasis on guided missiles.
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CAL GETS ELLIOTT . . .
Nebraska's football coach, Pete
Elliott, 30, succeeds resigned
Lynn Waldorf aa head coach at
U. of California on S year con
tract for $54,006.
This an # That
Col. Frank Fehr, Louisville, Ky.,
is the only surviving member of
Notre Dame’s first football team
following the recent death at
Omaha, Nebr., of Eugene P. Me-
lady, guard and captain of the
original squad of 1887. Fehr also
played on the team of 1889
earned the nicknai
Irish” for Notre Dame ^ . A1
Cervt, former coach of the Syra
cuse Nationals reportedly will be
coach of the Rochester Roysb
next season . . Sal MagUe’s 1957
contract for $30,000 represents an
increase of some $4,000 for the
veteran Dodger hurler. . . Father
and son teams are in style at
Dartmouth College
Michaels b a diver «
Michaels swimming team
Dick Hoehn b a member of
team coached by
. . . Chuck McMIl
tensive
Army
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