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CAN'T BALANCE FEDERAL BUDGET
Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey told
a closed-door session ot the senate foreign relations com
mittee Friday that administration hopes of achieving a
ha onixu-l htlfiCTPT. TlflVT. VPRF OHQ K1VCU UP U w
can't be done." He added that "the risks involving our
security would simply be too great, and it shouldn t be
"There is no prospect at all," Humphrey 'continued,
"for anything but an increase in the national debt at
-; the present moment." And this despite the fact that
President Eisenhower announced last week that the bud
i get had been cut ?8.5 billions off the appropriation re-
quests made by President Truman. All department appro
k priations so far reported have been greatly reduced from
the Truman estimate. ,
Increase in the national debt will require, probably
necessitate, an increase in the legal limit on the size of
the debt, fixed by the present law. xne existing aeDi
is J265 billions, an increase of ?7 billions over a year
Administration leaders promise a continuing review or
the budget picture but make it plain that the threatened
deficit should wipe out any chance for an income tax
cut this year, in spite of congressional pressure for one.
Much of the Eisenhower administration budget
troubles are due to indications of a substantial drop in
government income, below the estimates in the Truman
budget estimate. The latter estimated federal spending
for fiscal 1954 at $78.6 billions and the government in
come at $68.7 billions, leaving the government $9.9
in the red.
Senator Taft, republican senate leader, figured the
budget-cutting done by the administration thus far
would reduce federal spending to about $74 billion,
at the same time, he estimated federal revenue at
about $63 billion under present tax laws, which provide
for expiration of the excess profits tax June 80 and a
10 per cent income tax reduction for individuals next
January 1. "'
The Ohio senator has long advocated a complete, re
study of the nation's defense program, which accounts
for most of the federal budget. He favors the appoint
ment of a new Joint Chiefs of Staff to review the whole
program and see if all the projects are necessary.
From 65 to 70 percent of budget expenditures is for
security, including military and foreign aid costs.
About half of the remainder is for relatively fixed items,
such as interest on public debt, leaving only 15 to 17
percent of the total budget subject to reduction, unless
security is involved.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND , . ..;,..
Recalls Effort s Get F,R.-Willkie to Run
Washington An old roan
who came to thia country from
Germany at the age of right
died in New York the ther
day! He was almost 76, and
during those years he had
written more laws to help the
cTZon man than "y other
person in th. history of this
nation.
M.t ti)Dle will remember
Bob Wagner for those laws
old-age pensions, "nPj0
ment Insurance, the Wagner
labor relations act and
rightly But 1 shaU alw,By'
. rr,w him because of a
role he played in trying to get
Wendell Willkle to run with
Franklin Roosevelt on a coali
n femncratic - republican
IIUU w - .
ticket in the closing years of
the war.
Had those effort been suc-
fessful in 1944 the postwar his
tory of the United States might
have been entirely different
I have never written this
story in full, partly because I
played a personal and confi
dential role in it. However,
most.of the people involved are
dead now, and there is no rea
son why It cannot he told.
NEW LEFTIST TREND IN BRITAIN
Either those reports we've been receiving on growing
Conservative party strength in Britain were greatly ex
aggerated, or an opposite trend is now running.
For local elections held in the British Isles Thursday
showed the Labor party gaining 280, seats on borough
councils, while losing only 61, with the Conservatives
gaining 82 and losing 206.
Local issues predominate in these contests, but a
decisive trend like this is bound to reflect naitonal party
feeling to a degree at least. The results indicate pretty
clearly that the Conservatives have been slipping of late,
the Laborites gaining.
Conservative accomplishments have been unspectacu
lar, some economies, an improvement in Britain's finan
cial picture, nothing the average Briton can see any
direct personal benefit to himself in as yet. And there
is the inevitable disillusionment of failure to realize
promises and hopes voiced during the national campaign.
This trend will make the Conservatives less decisive
in the international field, for they have been ahead of
Dublic sentiment in Britain in seeinir the Russian menace
and trying to protect their country against it. Now they
will be more sensitive than ever to leftist criticism and
a less satisfactory ally than heretofore.
The outlook for Western Europe is not good, for what
has just been revealed of British feeling is common to
the whole region. It is a "let George do it" attitude with
"George" as the U. S. and the U. S. rendy to rebel if
If doesn't change.
Vote School Budget,
This Woman Pleads
To the Editor: May 15 is
the dayl If any section of
school district 24 has a right
to "kick" It is the Auburn
school area.
However, we are urging our
people to get out on Friday,
May 15, and vote the school
budget and through this let
ter we hope to get few from
all sections of town out to
vote and show our hard-work
ing school board and the school
administration members that
we the people of the Salem
area' are backing them in
their effort to bring better
school conditions to all our
children. We've been paying
high taxes for years to help
support children of other coun
tries now are we going to
let our own children down for
the sake of a few pennies and
a trip to the poll?
We hone you'll all Join our
district and make this a record
turnout May 15.
MRS. WALTER H. MOSHER
President Auburn School
Mother's Club
They'll Treat Mom as a
Person on Her One Big Day
DE GAULLE QUITS POLITICS
Somebody, a Republican as we now recall, once said
' the Democratic party was a good outfit, but that it
ought to get out of politics.
Charles De Gaulle is a good man, but he has been a
disruptive force in French politics because he has never
learned the art of compromise. Now he has read the
handwriting on the wall and withdrawn his "Rally of
the French People" from the struggle for power in the
French narliament. He will henceforth operate his "cru
sade for national regeneration" on a non-political basis.
Just how this will work out remains to be seen, but
De Gaulle's retirement as a politician will be generally
welcomed. He hasn't been helpful, to put it mildly. France
is more undecided, more uncertain, more unreliable as
a member of the free world than if he had withdrawn
from public affairs immediately after the liberation.
Nothinor can ever mar the fame Charles De Gaulle
won as the leader of the Free French movement after
France's surrender to Hitler in 1940. The Cross or Lor
raine, symbol of that campaign of resistance, will ever
be a proud symbol in France and ue baune will always
be remembered as its Joan of Arc. But as a politician?
Ugh I
THEY. FINALLY "SHAKE
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
American Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., corrected a
diplomatic at well as social
mistake when he shook hands
pleasantly with Andrei Vishin
sky, at the UN dinner in New
York. Former Senator wage s
refusal to exchange greetings
with the Soviet deputy foreign
minister some two months ago
was one of those acts which do
no good and are inflated propaganda-wise
into harm.
As long as the United States
and the Russians maintain
representatives at th UN
and it should be for a long,
long time these representa
tives should work together for
the UN's common purpose of
peace. That cause will dc aa
vanced more by firmness, ac
companled by courtesy, than
by belligerency and cold
shoulder stuff.
By HAL BOYLE
New York " On Mother's . someone is
Day the rest of the family
treat Mom like a person in
stead of an institution.
But that is only one day out
of the year.
And Mom goes along game-
lv for the ride, knowing that
tomorrow sne win De dbck
in the same old spot taken
for granted, like the weather
and the First National BanK
Some Mother's Day a Mom
is going to revolt.' Her little
batch of monsters and their
daddy will be having her out
lor dinner. One of the little
monsters is going to gaze across
the table at her, as if seeing
her for the first time In his
life, and say in surprise:
"Why, Mom, do you know
. in a way . . . you're even
kinda pretty."
But. instead of dimpling her
thanks, Mom is going to reacn
over and bite her baby scoun
drel fair and hard on his nose
And if enough mothers follow
her example maybe more faml
lies will start thinking ol the
lady of the house as a real
human being the other 364
days of the year.
Most women gallently sub
merse much of their own per
sonality and individuality in
the duties of motherhood. With
so many squalling small egos
in the land clamoring for ex
pression, they silently squelch
their "own unsatisfied amDi-
tlons, and don't make much
fuss about It. If they do any
crying, they do it in the dark,
when the kids can-t near.
Motherhood, like virtue,
often its own and only re
ward. Mom has more volun
tary critics than a portrait
nalnter in a public park. What
ever she does to raise her kids,
East German Youths
Fleeing to Berlin
Berlin U.B East German
Youths are fleeing to West
German at the rate of more
than BOO a day to escape a
ruthless Communist drive to
conscript them for military
service, authoritative German
sources said today.
Many girls are fleeing also,
fearful of being drafted Into
women's auxiliaries in the arm
ed services.
WIDE OPEN
Albany Democrat-Herald
The contrast between east
ern and western Oregon is il
lustrated anew in the news of
sale of the Roaring Springs
ranch in Harpey county. This
big cattle ranch, which sold
for millions, covers 420,000
acres. This area is approxi
mately 656 square miles, close
to the entire area of Benton
county. Half a dozen western
Oregon counties are of compa
rable size, and Multnomah
isn't much over half as big.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
What Is Prayer? Talking
Things Over With God
What is prayer 2-24 d pag I
Prayer in its essence Is talk
ing things over with God. It
Isn't always asking for some
thing. Prayer to the Father
God is, in a sense, like son
talking over his problems with,
and seeking the advice of, his
parent. The wis son does
this, not only when the chips
are down, but when he is do
ing well. He tikes time out
to write hla parents letters,
not only when the going gets
tough and he wants money,
but letter of Interest to them
about his academic progress,
his possible love affairs, his
future plans, and what they
would advise under the cir
cumstances. There are all too many peo
ple who run to this one and
that one about their troubles,
but by-pass their parent, their
pastor, and their God. Or in
some cases it may be that God
Is the only one in whom they
do not confide.
It by words of sound advice,
an earthly parent may per
chance change the entire fu
ture of his son, i It too much
to believe that the omniscient
God, the Eternal Father, can
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Btr, at. Ptui't ipucopil chutoh
of
those
with
sure to say, "I'd
do it different."
Right now one. school of
psychiatrists blames Mom for
everything that happens to her
children later in lite, irom
falling hair to mental acidosis.
If she Dicks her-lad up by xne
wrong foot as a baby, that is
why he turns out to be a lop
sided lady-hater at 90.
Under this theory no moth
er can possibly win. Nobody
ever raised a perfect child, and
yet mom gets blamed for every
flyspeck and flaw that junior
develops. And trouble Is that
nobody can tell Mom when she
is helping Junior build a
sturdy character, and when she
is bruising his fine sensitive
little nature.
She worries and worries
about this, wondering if she
is doing well by her brood or
is really an uncaught criminal.
If a stranger asks if she is a
mother, she doesn't know
whether she ought to deny all
or guiltily admit, "I confess."
A mother has to live many
terrible years of qualm and
doubt before she really knows
whether she did her job well
or noU Only the century plant
has to wait longer for results.
Meanwhile the hours, work
ing conditions and keep-at-
home pay for motherhood can
be defended only by those wno
would give three ringing
cheers for the return of slav
ery. Even the thanks are small.
LOBBYING COSTS
Corvallis Gazette-Times
The 5 percenters had a rough
time of it last year. In the
wake of revelations of influ
ence peddling, lobby spending
fell to a new low in Washing
ton. They spent $4,823,981 in
1952 as compared to $10,303,
202 in 1950.
Nevertheless, nine organiza
tions reported lobby expendi
tures of $100,000 or more and
the highest, the National Asso
ciation of Electric Companies,
spent $477,941 to overcome the
trend to nationalization of elec
tric power. The American
Medical Association spent
$309,514 to combat socialized
medicine. And the Association
of American Railroads was
third with $235,977 to check
mate truckers, air lines and
water ways.
Lobbying is a flourishing
business, however, with some
3,000 registered. There is no
telling when they will erupt
with a check book barrage for
big parties, the Washington
setting for Influencing people
and votes.
A mother lives a true burled
life, rooted deep in the flesh
and hopes of her family. The
odd thing about her career Is
that all the years she is trying
to fashion her off-shaped blobs
of protoplasm into respectable
human beings they rarely think
of her as a human being. They
take her for granted as a green
leaf blindly accepts strength
from the sun,
Usually it is not until a man
is grown and has troubles of
his own that he has the com
mon sense to look back and
realize how wise his mother
was, how kind, how selflesb
and often far-seeing. She is
no longer an institution to
him, or a tired voice telling
him to. wipe his nose and pick
up his clothes, but a warm and
wonderful person he has at
least begun to understand.
And a man is lucky indeed
if his mother is still there to
be told she is no longer taken
for granted, but loved, honor
ed and appreciated for her very
self's sake. Some sons wait
too long, and never get to say
this, and are sorry.
BY DREW PEARSON
In the early summer of 1944
when It was apparent Frank
lin Roosevelt planned to run
for a fourth term, the Jockey
Ing for No. 2 spot on the demo
cratic ticket became intense.
The frlenda of Henry Wallace
demanded that he be renoml
nated as vice - president.
Friends of Justice William O.
Douglas, led by Secretary of
the Interior Ickes, were less
vocal but more persuasive.
Many' southern democrats
till urged Jimmie Byrnes;
while the big city bosses
Ed Flynn of the Bronx, Ed
Kelly of Chicago, Frank Hague
of Jersey City and Bob Hanne
gan of St. Louis were bent
on nominating Harry Truman.
All knew tha't the life ex
pectancy of the president was
such that the man who became
vice-president was likely to
end up In the White House.
WILLKIE GETS FDR'S O.K.
During the period between
his defeat in 1940 and 1944 I
had come to know Wendell
Willkie well. One day in New
York some weeks before the
democratic convention I
sounded him out on the idea
of being the vice-presidential
candidate on a coalition ticket.
At first he pooh-poohed the
idea, said the democrats would
never go for it. ' But the more
we talked about It, the more
he warmed up. Finally he
agreed to stand still until
Roosevelt himself could be
sounded out.
The man who did the sound
ing was Leo Crowley, then
head of the Federal Economic
Administration. He came out
of the White House with the
confidential information that
the president would welcome
the idea of Wendell Willkle as
his running mate, provided
there was a spontaneous move
from the democratic conven
tion to nominate him. He
added that he didn't want any
thing that smacked of a po
litical deal.
Simultaneously he scribbled
a note to Willkie in longhand,
and it was later typed by his
secretary, Grace Tully. The
president left for .the west
coast and Alaska almost im
mediately, so he never actual
ly signed the note, but it was
mailed to Willkle.
WAGNER SPARKS MOVE
The Chicago convention be
gan at once. The problem
there was to arrange the spon
taneous move for Willkie that
FDR wanted, and to this end
I told Senator Wagner, the
grand old man of the demo
cratic party, about our conver
sations. He reacted with enthusiasm.
His plan- was, to make the
Willkie nominating speech
himself, and he delegated Leon
Keyserling, his former secre
tary, later head of the Council
of Economic Advisers, to start
writing the speech. Wagner
called In various members of
the New York delegation in my
presence to unfold the Willkie
idea, and they too were en
thusiastic. I was a little sur
prised that Edward Loughlin,
then head of Tammany, volun
teered to second Willkie's
nomination.
Wagner talked to other key
democrats at Chicago while I
talked to several newspaper
men, among them David
Stern, then publisher of the
Philadelphia Record. They
agreed that, faced with the
deadlock between Wallace and
Truman, the Willkle nomina
tion should be a natural. They
also felt that Willkle' name
on the ticket would be a great
thing for the unity of the na
tion. Most of this took place dur
ing the preliminary day 0f
the convention, actually be
fore the convention got down
to business.
Officially Willkie wasn't
supposed to know what was
happening. However, I had I
been on . the phqne - to New ,
York keeping him posted, and
at one' point Senator Wagner
seemed so confident that our
plan would succeed that this
message was conveyed to Will,
kie: "When the nominating
speech is made placing your
name before the convention,
the only thing we ask is that
you make no comment. Give
the movement a chance to
grow." j
Senafor Wagner felt that the
psychological moment to make
the nominating speech was af
ter the expected deadlock be.'
tween Truman and Wallace
had developed. But he made
one mistake, and there was
also one factor that he could
not . get around. This was the
fact that Roosevelt was on his .
train crossing the continent
and either could not or did not
want to take telephone calls.
BIG CITY BOSSES WIN . : 9
Therefore Wagner relied on -the
president's supposedly -closest
political advisers Ed
Flynn , Bob Henhegan and the
big city bosses'. This was his
great mistake.
For at about S a.m. on the
day before the balloting on the
vice-presidency got down to
grips, Wagner got word from
the bosses that Roosevelt want
ed Truman, not Willkie.
The senator was a man of
party discipline. During his .
long career in the senate he
had almost never bucked the
president. He had been
brought up that way from
the days he and AI Smith had
served together in the New
York legislature. So he did
not argue. He did not ques
tion the word of the party
bosses. Nor "would he make
the Willkie nominating speech
in view of their veto.
Personally I always doubted
that Hannegan et al had ever
really reached the president.
For there was no step they
would not have, taken at that
time to put across their man.
Thus a great chance to uni
fy the nation failed.
Wendell Willkie died short
ly after this, and I have al
ways been convinced that as
much as anything he died of a
broken heart not o much
over this, but because this
came on top of other disap
pointments. For him the ex
citement of living was no
more. " , ,..
And not long afterward, the,
other great man, Robert Hans
Wagner, who came to this
country as an immigrant boy
from Germany, who had pio
neered a new social program
for his fellow men unem--ployment
insurance, old-age
insurance, a standard work
week, the curtailment of child
labor, a nation-wide system of
employment bureaus, work-'
men's compensation, the right
of labor to bargain got sick.
The other day he died. But
the help he gave millions of
other people will continue
through the decades long after
his name, his courage and his
compassion for mankind have
been forgotten.
(CopyrUht, 19531
influence the lives
who talk things
Him?
There ar countless people
who would vehemently deny
that they are atheists and
stoutly maintain that they are
believer in God, but wno
nevertheless, do not avail
themselves of the greatest
power within their reach, a
spiritual power known only to
those who dally talk things
over with God.
It is true we do not always
get what we ask for. Wise
parents do not alwaya, and
should not, always give their
children everything they ask
for. It would -not be good for
them. And so It Is with those
who pray to God. In His in
finite wisdom, God may with
hold what we greatly desire
and that for which we pray.
When our prayer are not ans
wered according to our wishes,
we should not be unhappy
with God, but we should thank
Him because He kept us from
what would have been detri
mental to ti in the long view
of things. "Thy will, not mine,
be done" I a fitting ending to
any prayer.
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