J8-(Sec. Ill) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun.,-March 3, "37.
Sec. Humphrey
By ROGER GREENE I live lobbies whose agents haunt
-WASHINGTON, March i - congressional corridors - for in
ter four years, as boss" of the seating bills granting special and
nation's money bags. Secretary of , 'xfns'Y J8"- .
the Treasury George Magoffin Where Will H Stop.
. Humphrey is an anguished author-!. Among other things, the, storm
ity on what he calls the myth of
'"the great American money well."
Thfr myth, as"be sees it. is that
the U.S. Treasury has a mysteri
ous, inexhaustible supply of dol-!
lars to pay for thousands upon.
thousands of cosily .projects
Bridges, dams, highways and the
like in every corner of the land
"People get the idea." he said,
"that we have some sort of a rc,ary o( lBe Air Forcei .died
great cell down here in Washing- suddenly early todav, only a lew
ton that you can get money out of nours after he arrived in Florida
and it doesn't cost anything. 0r a vacation
"We do not have any well of free His death in" bed at 3:30 a m.
money. The enly money we have was attributed by his nephew. Dr.
is the money e take away from ( George E. Talbott of Dayton,
the people and after addinj some , Ohio, to stroke,
overhead to it-pass it back Jo Talbott was arouse guest in
them." - - the Palm Beach home of Mrs.
Humphrey . spoke slowly and , Harry Payne Bingham. Her late
wearily. It is hard to destroy a husband, a pioneer Florida real
myth. ... ... -, estate man, was a long-time friend
Appalled at Big fpeadlnf of the Talbott. . ' --
Testifying on Capitol Hill, -the After cremation in Miami, me
b'g, ruddy-faced Cabinet official morial services will be held -for
was explaining why he is appalled Talbott in the St. James Episcopal
at the enormity of federal spend- church in New York at 4 p.m.
ing-tfand why -he believes it must "Monday. Other services are
be curbed or eventually the coun-1 planned for ' Tuesday in Dayton,
try will suffer "a depression that 'Ohio. -. ' ' .
will curl your hair." Resigned PMitioa
"I don't think you can spend) A probe into Talbott's congee
yourself rich." he had told news-, tion with a New York business
men a few days earlier. engineering firm led to his resig-
Now he was being called on to nation from his Air Force post in
explain why the Eise.ihower ad-1 August 1955. A Senate subcommit
ministration is askin? Congrets for tee reported this connection"
a whopping 71.8 billion dollars brought him 1132 032 in his 2H
ine biggest peacetime budget in
history for fiscal 1958
' Humphrey was caught in a
squeeze play, and he knew it.
' t'nder the unwritten code
against finger-pointing within the
administration, he could not tell
Congress any specific points where
the budget could be cut. If he did :
it, it would reflect -against other t
m t m Jj e r s - of the Eisenhower
"team.
On the- other hand, Humphrey
told newsmen:
"I think there are a lot of places
in this budget that can be cut'
Sat Hot Seat
For nearly five hours, the Treas
ury chief tat on the not seat .while
Democratic members of the House
Appropriations Committee, which
fciitiaties all federal money bills,
"peppered him with questions
about how to reduce spending.
All Humphrey would say was
.that the administrat:on had done
its best and . now it v,es up It
Congress to cut as he thought it
could.
At last Rep. Yates ID-Ill) told ,
him bluntly:
"Mr. Secretary, I Cannot escape
lMxoDclujqoAJbat.jurara. prob.l4uijair-FoTeee4ry,--haiotifht
ably the most frustrated person in
Washington." . :
Humphrey's scalp pinkened.
wKh a bleak smile, he replied:
"I hope not. I really don't feel
terribly frustrated . "
Hoi Cau-Tersy
Whatever, Humphrey's' feelings,
his prediction that unabated fed
eral spending could - unleash , a
" hair-curling slump has brewed one
of the hottest controversies in
years. Some Congress members
' report their mail is flooded with
angry protests against the upsurge
in government expenditures.
President Eisenhower, Secre
tary Humphrey and the nations
lawmakers generally agree that
the trend stems from ever-increasing
demands for federal assistance
from a fast-growing population.
Where they differ is on the de
ree of determination to hold the
line. .
Congress members, uneasy over
what their constituents will, think,
often pin the blame on "pressure
groups" the powerful legisla-
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' lection.
The initial reaction to this new
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wore in the 1910s and 1920s."
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The change is comfort.
Pointed toe fashions of t gen
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they allowed little
sr no freedom of movement for
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Death Claims
A Emm'0
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PALMBEACH, Fla.. March 2 iff
Harold E. Talbott. 69-year-old
.vjation nioneer and former w
years as secretary.
His offer to resign rather than
"embarrass" the administration
was accepted promptly by Presi
dent Eisenhower, who told Talbott
"your decision was the right one."
During the 1958 election cam
paign, the Democrats referred to
the Talbott case as one of several
"conflict of interest" cases in the
Eisenhower administration1:
Already la Florida
Mrs. Talbott was with her hus
band when he died. She had come
to Florida a week ahead of him.
A daughter, Mrs. Blanche Noyes
of Darien, Com., and her husband
were visiting in nearby Lantana.
Fla., with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jansen Noyes.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
commented that Talbott was "a
great secretary of the Air Force
and I have always had the highest
regard for him." When Talbott left
the Defense Department . Wilson
.gave, bim the Medal, ot Freedomr
a (op reward for civilians who
help the defense effort.
Wat Partner
The Senate subcommittee re
ported that Talbott while serving'
business for Paul B. Mulligan and
Co., in which be was . a partner.
Government contracts . were held
by some of the firm's clients. ..
Talbott offered to server his con
nection with Mulligan. Seme of
his activities, be told the senators
had teen mistakes such as writ
ing to potential clients on Air
Force stationary ....
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Tal
bott served during World War I
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'Quotation by D. W. Thompson
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Seeks to Dispel
has posed these questions:
1. How' great a share of total
U.S. income can tluf government
exact in taxes without plunging
the country into bankruptcy? -
(The new budget would take
Ex-Secretary
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II C I dIDOlT
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PALM BEACH, Fla., March 2
Harold E. Talbott, former
Air force secretary, died
unexpectedly this morn
ing in Palm Beach, Fla.
. (AP Wirephoto)
as a major in the Signal Corps Air
Service. He spent five years as
I president of the Dayton-Wright
Co., a reorganization . of the Or-
ville Wright Co., 'and in 1925 be
came a director of the Chrysler
Corp. He was board chairman of
North American Aviation Co. in
193132.
During World War II. he was
director of.aircraft production and
; ,h' War Production Board
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more than one-sixth of the na-
tion s entire. 412-billion-dollar an
nual output of goods and services.
' It would require a tax bite o( $422
for every man, woman and child
in the t mted States, compared
with $52 in fiscal 1938 on the eve
of World War II.) . .
2. How long can we go on Jack
ing up the world's economy via
multibiUion-dollar foreign aid pro
grams:
(Some' critics say Vncle Sam
has become Uncle Adas, taking
on the burdens of the world. Since
the end of World War II, foreign
military and economic aid "has
reached a startling total of Nearly
60 billion dollars, or more than
one-fifth of the national debt,)
Caa We Cut Arms? ,
- 3. Can we afford to cut down oh
military expenditures, at the risk
of weakening our defense!?
(Defense Secretary Wilson says
military spending will probably go
up, not down, over the next few
years. The old Pentagon slogan of
"more bang for a buck" has just
about disappeared as revolution
ary new weapons send defense
costs soaring:)
Economy - minded congres
sional leaders have contended for
years that Soviet Russia' could
bring us to our knees, .without
war, simply by committing us to
a colossal military' buildup in the.
East-West arms race. .
' Have our defense-plus-aid put
lays pegged at 45.3 billion dol
lars in the latest budget al
ready brought us to the economic
dnnger point? ,
Ask a dozen persons 'and you
get a dozen different answers to
these questions.
"I don't think we're remotely'
close to a bust," testifies Secre
tary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks.
Sea. Douglas, Hoover Differ
"At the rate the federal govern
ment is spending money, we're
goin to hell in a Cadillas," coun
ters Chairman Byrd (D-Varbf the
Senate Finance Committee.
The Virginia senator, sometimes
lmown as the .."watchdog" of the
Treasury, said in an interview he
believes the budget can be trim
med by five to eight billion dol
lars. ' Sen. Douglas (D-IuT, vice chair
man of the Senate-House Econo
mic CommiUee and a former pro
fessor of economics, said in f se
parate interview:
"We're not going broke. That
cry has been going up for 10 years
JVsVY red riinw
Myth of 'Great
while income and production have
I been rising all the time.'1
I But former President Herbert
! Hoover, recalling the 1929 boom
! and-bust while he was in the White
House, said:
"My hair has already been
curled once, and I think I detect
the signs again."
T Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, chair
man of the President s Economic
Advisory Council, commented:
"I would not say- that the pres
ent level, of federal expenditure
is, in itself. - factor likely to pro-
Farm Pair
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To Death
.SHAFER, Minn., March 2 Iff-A
farm couple and their daughter
were savagely bludgeoned to
death Friday following an argu
ment between the father and his
son. .
Sheriff Henry Stream said Doug
las Person, 33, a former mental
patient at the veterans hospital in
St. Cloud, Minn., orally admitted
killing his parents and sister.
The victims were Emory Per
son, about 61. his wife. 60, ind
their daughter, Lois, 24, all of
whom had attended a party with
the son at a local dance hall .last
night.
The elder Person's body, badly
beaten with a claw hammer and
rrTaul, was found in the basement.
In tha-Mood-covercd kitchen was
the body of his wife. Their daugh
ter's body was on a stairway lead
ing to the second floor.
Stream said the elder Person
and his son apparently had argued
in - the basement -over the ; son's
intention to write a letter to a girl
! friend.
I The two women were struck
'down attempting to flee.
Stream said the -son drove to
the farm of Floyd George near
Taylor's Falls after the slayings
and told George what happened.
Sheriff's officers, summoned to
the home, arrested him.
The Persons farmed five mites
north of here near' the Wisconsin
line, about 30 miles northeast of
Minneapolis and SI. Paul,
mm. iim
duce depression conditions in the
immediate run."
'Strong Maa' tf Cabinet
Long known as the "strong
man" ofhe Eisenhower Cabinet
"all of us listen when George
Humphrey speaks," says an inner
sanctum colleague the Treasury
chief has also' become symbolic of
Eisenhowers experiment in !et
ting successful business execu
tives run the government instead
of politicians. .
Before coming to Washington,
Humphrey, now 67, headed the
250-million-dnllar Mark A. Hanna
industrial empire - -rt iron, coal.
Great takes shipping, blast fur
nacesfounded by the man who'
put William McKinley in the White
House in 18S7. ' - ,
Born in Cheboygan, Mich., the
son of a lawyer, Humphrey had
a meteoric rise in the business
world following ' his graduation
from the University of Michigan
in 1912. At 30, he became a part
ner in the then ailing Hanna com
pany and soon earned a wide rep
utation as a "healer" of sick cor
porations. , .
Said to be Millionaire
Reputedly a- multimillionaire,
Humphrey has a warm, dynamic
personality coupled with a mind
like a steel trap.
The secretary is said to realize
he has fought a losing battle in
his crusade for government econ
omy. Nevertheless associates in
sist he has no present thought of
resigning.
Oh Capitol Hill, critics contend
than Eisenhower's approval of the
high-spehding new budget indi
cates a marked shift away from
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If Eisenhower himself has any
qualms on that score, he has given
no evidence of it at his recent
news conferences.
The President told newsmen
some time ago:
' "As long as the American peo-,
pie demand and, in my opinion,
deserve the 'kind of services this
budget provides, we have got to
spend this kind of money.
Humphrey Disagrees With Ike
Humphrey obviously doesn't
agree 100 per cent
"A country can't- go on . out-
spending - itself inndc finitely any
more than a man can, he says
Humphrey even went so far as
to threaten to quit if the admin
istration resorts to red-ink "pump
priming" expenditures in t he
event of a slump. Elsenhower
says he would oppose such spend
ing "except in emergency," but
Humphrey declares:
"1 think we went all through
that for a good maney years. We
kept spending -end spending and
spending, and we still didn't help
our employment or our total po
sition.
Opposes New Deal Philosophy
Contrary to the old New Deal
philosophy that big federal spend
ing bulwarks the economy. Hum
phrey believes the government
can spend the country into an in
flation-triggered depression,
Defense spending, he notes,
doesn't produce -things people can
buy, it merely pours vast sums
into the nation's financial stream
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"i the great thief."
And he adds this warning:
"A sick American economy
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