The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 23, 1957, Image 3
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1957
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
Straight Talk By Tom Anderson
( By TOM ANDERSON in
Farm & Ranch)
“We cannot revert to the theor
ies and practices of 1890.” Who
said that, F. D. R.? Harry Tru
man? Hubert Humphry? Walter
Reuther? No. It was our new Pres
ident, the Modern Republican
Eisenhower.
Wfiat is “Modern Republican
ism?” It appears to be sort of an
honest New Deal which Sherman
Adams has convinced the Pres
ident most of the people will vote
for. Sherman’s second march to
the sea may end in even more dev-
astion—and for the whole nation
this time, not just for the South.
Recently Mr. Eisenhower said
some people become highly econ
omy consious without knowing
what they are talking about.
Guess who said this: “We can
have more defense for less money.
They say you cannot defend the
country for less dollars than we
now are spending. That, I will
guarantee you, is bunk.”
That was candidate Eisenhower
in 1952. (The 1951 military budget
even with theKorean war going
on, was $20 billion. The 1956
peacetime military budget was
$85 billion.)
General Eisenhower, the canidate
also proclaimed, “I believe that
inflation is as dangerous an enemy
as any we face today.” “I believe
that taxes are too high.” “My ad
ministration will knock down the
idol of cheap money, getting un
ified action from our economic
agencies, and slicing the fat out
of thebudget.”
Mr. Eisenhower’s budget con
tains 37 proposals for new and
expanding activities. Before they
.got in office the Republicans were
against big government but the
“Modern Republicans” now re
commend the addition of 105,000
federal employees.
There are already more millions
on federal payrolls than in the
peak days of the New Deal. There
are more millions getting govern
ment checks for not working than
at anytime during the great de-
ression or since.
fin 1952 the public debt was
255,222,000. Now it’s over $274,-
)00.
Middle-of-the-Roadmanship
Businessmen are disillusioned,
disappointed and disgusted by the
Modern Republicanism their erst
while idol General Eisenhower has
witamed. Why should they be? It’s
no inore than they deserve.*They
sacved the greatest statesman of
our. time, Senator Taft, for a can
didate who could win. They didn’t
know what party or what church
—
he belonged to, and neither did
he. Both are now finding out. He’s
a Latter Day New Dealer.
Mr. Eisenhower says he can’t cut
the budget. Most Congressmen
say they can. But they won’t. Not
really deep-down cut it. They’re
afraid to—until we the people tell
’em where to cut it and then de
mand that they do. Most congress
men, let it be remembered, are
more interested in staying in
Washington than anything else
in the world. Getting reelected is
more important than budgets. So
we the voters are calling the
tune. Let’s call it.
Senator Harry Byrd, Democrat
of Virginia, has pointed out how
$6.5 billions could be cut, resulting
in more defense and better govern
ment. But the President has said
he does not believe the budget
could be cut as much as $2 billion
without impairing national secur
ity and curtailing needed domestic
programs. Thus, his efforts to
cut the budget have been as re
strained as an undertaker’s
smile. Would it be endangering
national security or “going back
to 1890”#to bury some of the ridi
culous projects? For instance:
They are re-locating the Bot
anic Garden Greenhouses at a
cost of $587,000. They are charg
ing you $328,000,000 to air-condi
tion federal buildings—so you’ll
be comfortable when you come
to Washington to visit . . .
I guess those foreigners will
stop teasing us for having no cul
ture now! The commission of
Fine Arts of the Department of
Interior “advises the President,
Congress, and the department
heads on matters of architecture,
sculpture, paintings and other
fine arts.” That’s costing you
$37,000 this year. But won’t it be
nice to see how cultured your
congressman is when he comes
home. The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare is askihg
Congress for $228,000 to teach
you how to fish. The Forest Serv
ice in Agriculture wants $11,-
500,000 from you next year to
provide recreation in the forests.
Your government has become
quite a Party Girl. Wants to give
you a good time, at your expense.
Greenback Door
The $16,500 doorkeeper of the
House of Representatives has
been raised from $6,000 to $16,500
during the last eight years. If
you’d like the job at $6,000 just
write your Representative.
The assistant doorkeeper gets
only $12,500. Eight years ago
the job paid $3,500, which is .more
than the average schoolteacher
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makes today. Of course, compar-,
ed to the budget, that’s just pea
nuts—but there are thousands of
those peanuts.
Let’s cut the benefits for all
government people — from the
President on down. They’re living
higher on the hog year after year,
$9,000 chauffeured Cadillacs and
other fringe benefits for them
selves, at your expense. For in
stance, now for the first time in
history, Supreme Court Justices
retire for life on their full $35,000
yearly salary.
There’s No Place Like Home
We can cut the budget. Where
shall we start ? Let’s start at
home, with us and ours. The reason
we’re spending ourselves into un
controllable inflation and bank
ruptcy is that we let the federal
government take us over. We sold
out for Federal Aid. We gave up
States Rights, state responsibili
ties, and many of our individual
freedoms for money from Wash
ington. For 25 years we’ve
fought for a front row position at
the federal trough to get every
thing we could for ourselves—be
cause “if we don’t get it some
body else will.”
We got it. It wasn’t free like
we thought though. It was our
money which trickled back to us
from Washington. But about 35
cents out of every dollar was kept
by the bureaucrats for running
expenses. On the round trip to
Washington, dollars have to pay
their freight each way, plus
handling charges. Instead of
keeping up an army of bureau
crats, freeloaders, tax-gatherers,
we should spend our money our
selves. Then we’d get what we
really want at the price we can
afford to pay, rather than what
the bureaucrats think is good for
us. We pay exorbitant federal
taxes for things we didn’t need
enough to spend our own money
for.
Let’s Go to the Store
With Our Own Money
Let’s buy, pay for and RUN
our own schools, hospitals, etc.
There’s no such thing as “public
money.” It’s ours—and our chil
dren’s and our children’s child
ren’s. And there’s no such thing
as federal aid without federal
• control.
In the budget is a request from
the State Department for $4,900,-
000 to build a stadium in Cleve
land, Ohio, for the Pan American
games. Cleveland. already has
one of the finest municipal stad
iums in tile nation, seating 85,000.
But the State Department thinks
our Latin-American friends would
like us better if we built a new
stadium.
Senator Lausche, Democrat of
Ohio, fought the proposal even
though his own state would be
“given” the stadium. Lausche
said, “The federal budget must be
cut. I cannot support for Ohio
something that I would oppose in
another state.” That is states
manship.
Most Congressmen favor a bud-
get-cut graveyard in which there
is only one headstone, epitaphed:
“Spending outside my state.”
The Urban Renewal and Slum
Clearance Program is slated to
get $175,000,000 this year, but the
nation’s mayor’s met with Mr.
Eisenhower recently and he told
’em he’d consider raising it to
$250,000,000. Remember when
slum clearance was a New Deal
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make-work program, to be discon
tinued when we came out of the
depression? Any good reason why
you should pay for slum-clearing
in New York, Nashville or Nan
tucket ?
Federal grants-in-aid is the
greatest con game ever invented
by politicians.
.Life of the Party
Some claim the budget is not
too big. Life magazine, for in
stance, says the only item that
really needs cutting is the sub
sidy to farmers. Life fails to men
tion cutting its own postal subsidy
estimated by the Postmaster-Gen
eral at $7 to $9 million yearly.
The President has talked a good
game of economy while steadfast
ly maintaining that foreign aid is,
like Caesar’s wife, above suspi
cion. Much foreign “economic aid”
which you would oppose if you
knew what it was really for, is
hidden under the bed of “de
fense.” Who can be against, “de
fense?”
Where can w^ cut? Practically
everywhere. But let’s make the
biggest cut foreign aid! I’m not a
cnanty-ends-at-home advocate. Its
just that we’ve given too much,
too loosely, too long, to the world
without end. President Truman
assured us the foreign aid pro
gram—Marshall plan as it was
then called—was an emergency
program which would last but
four years and cost but $15 billion.
It’s now 10 years and $51 billion
later, and we’re finding new rat-
holes every day.
Let’s Make the World Safe for
America
“We are joined in the common
cause of freedom,” says the In
ternational Cooperation Admini
stration. Freedom- Playing foot
sie with Tito and Franco ? That’s
freedom ?
We’re maintaining Socialism in
England, dictatorship in Yugo
slavia and harems in Saudi Ara
bia. What connection does King
Saud have with “democracy?” We
gave him millions for harems and
gold Cadillacs. We gave only our
prayers to Hungarians waging one
of history’s most dramatic strug
gles for freedom. jsS *
The original excuse for big for
eign aid was to strengthen the
under-developed countries so they
could resist Communist aggres
sion. An empty belly and an emp
ty head breed Communism, it
was claimed. Some of our most
full-bellied, double-yolk eggheads
in this country and the world are
dyed - in - the - wool Communists.
France, one of the oldest cultures,
and now more prosperous than in
decades, is riddled with Commun
ists. We’ve subsidized the foreign
farmer so that he can take our
markets away from us. We’ve
Point-Foured ourselves out of
hundreds of millions of dollars of
farm exports by subsidizing our
competitors all over the world.
Lenin and Stalin both said it
was the purpose of Soviet Com
munism to get the “have” coun
tries to send financial aid to the
“have not” countries. It appears
that we will continue endless aid
to the undeveloped countries until
we raise them to our standard of
living or until we sink to theirs,
which is the Soviet grand design.
Why Not the *World Bank?
Britain has cut her armed for
ces in half to provide tax cuts and
expansion for her welfare-state
Socialism, while postponing pay
ments on her debts to us—'again.
Britain, having long since waived
the rules, now waives the ex
penses. And good old Uncle Sam
has the responsibility—and the
bills—for the world. Maybe Eng
land and the other countries
who’ve reduced their taxes ought
to give us foreign aid.
Instead of an enlarged program
of long-range “loans” to friendly
nations why not let the World
Bank do it? Fortyfour nations are
members and stockholders. The U.
S. owns one-third of the stock.
Forty cents out of every foreign
aid dollar, according to former
Ambassador Spruille Braden, goes
to “a pack of bureaucrats who
feed off the rest of us.”
I’ve Got 10,000 Secrets
Foreign aid has become the sec
ret project of the President and
State Department, who use the
excuse of secrecy, you-wouldn’t-
understand, and papa-knows-best
to get the money out of a fright
ened and frustrated Congress. Sec
retary Dulles has said we have
over 10,000 different agreements
(mostly secret) with foreign coun
tries. It’s our money. We the tax
payers are entitled to know, un
derstand, and approve what’s be
ing done with it. Our money
should be fliiblicly spent, not hand
ed out under the counter. It
should not be allocated as the
President wants on a 10-year or
any other long-range plan. Con
gress should determine it from
year to year.
Congressmen hate to vote for
foreign aid appropriations every
year. Gets a bad press. Loses
votes. By voting five years, you
get irritated only once, and forget
it over the five-year period. Also,
to fool you, they’re calling them
“loans.” They’re gifts.
How to Save the World
The best way to save the world
is to save America.
Foreign aid should be a contract
for repayment in money, political
or strategic advantage, trade and
investment opportunities for Am
erican farmers and businessmen,
air bases and harbors, stockpiles
of strategic materials, and other
definite and specific rewards. We
should give no military aid which
does not increase our own mili
tary security.
We are fast using up our raw
materials. Why can’t we step up
our buying of iron ores, oil, man
ganese, nickel, bauxite (for alum
inum) etc., and pay for'them with
our surpluses and manufactured
goods- Trade, not aid, builds
friendships. International friend
ships, like any other friendship,
can neither be forced nor bought.
It has to be earned.
Howard Pyle, a presidential as
sistant, is quoted as saying, “I
would rather see our money wag
ing peace on the world’s economic
battlefields than our sons waging
war on bloody battlefields.”
Actually, we’re “waging peace”
trying to buy friendships with our
billions and we’ve also obligated
our sons to wage war on 42 dif
ferent battlefields. We’ve promis
ed to defend that many nations—
friends, enemies, and neutrals.
More money goes for veteran
benefits* than for the entire De
partment of Agriculture. Yet the
Veterans Administration says it
needs an extra $67,760,000 of your
money quick “to cover uncontroll
able education and training costs.”
Always More Beds and Bureaus
The Hoover Commission reports
that there are already far more
VA hospitals and beds than are
needed. $31* million can be saved
by cancelling new VA hospitals
already authorized, such as that
one in my hometown.
Let’s drastically cut that “holy”
item, “national defense”—not by
weakening defense, but by ending
the racketeering and waste’ in
the armed services, who—as any
of us who’ve been in them can
swear—are uncarefully careless
about spending your mopey. Ex
amples: The army wants to spend
$300,000 next year in 3,300 pri
vate rifle clubs to provide Sunday-
morning recreation. While you’r#
in church, they’re shooting your
money at clay pigeons. But, of
course, your congressman would
n’t want to cutthat. Or would he ?
Military leaders are trained in
an atmosphere where money
doesn’t count (unless it’s their
own). They crash-spend to win.
the next battle, which may be in
15 minutes or 50 years. The mili-
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