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o o G Messages of Ike, Harriman Show Differences In Political Philosophies "By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) You must read the two annual messages with some care to discover the basic differ ences in the political phi 1 o s o phies of President Eis enhower and New York's Gov. Averell Harriman. But the dif ferences are both real end Lyle C. Wilson important. Mr. Eisenhower is a hard money man. He's for a stable dollar which will buy about as much groceries next summer as it will buy today. Gov. Harriman, whose per sonal dollars outnumber Mr. 0 Eisenhower's personal dollars by some millions, thinks more in the pattern of the Roosevelt and Truman tradition. Mr. Truman out-spent and out-taxed Mr. Roo sevelt. But it was FDR who made deficit financing popular at the polls. He once parried a troubled news conference question' about Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:43 OJn daily and 10:30 a.m Sunday If regular delivery arrives short ly after vou call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger servic. Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1956 Pages 1-6 the swelling national debt, like this: "So what? We owe the money to -ourselves." Harriman is not running any deficit administration in New York where the taxpayers bear a rather severe state income tax burden. He's in a hassle, instead, with the Republicans about the distribution of budget - surplus, tax-cut pie. Here again, Harri man breaks with Mr- Eisen hower. The President has no surplus to distribute. But, if he did, the President first would use some to make "modest" payments on the 5230,000,000,000 national debt. Then he would propose cuts with some kind of per centage provision whereby the larger taxpayers would get re lief in some degree related to their actual tax burden. Harriman would whack up a S50,000,000 state budget surplus at so much a head S5 off for each taxpayer and S5 for each dependent. It's ' a plan with ob vious attractions for many vot ers. The idea seems to have originated when Harry S. Tru man was president. Mr. Truman once proposed a S30-per-head cut right down the line, which would have removed millions of taxpayers and voters from the tax rolls altogether. They couldn't fail to like that. Con gress balked. Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas, and most other Democratic lead ers tried to ram a similar re duction through Congress last year. They were stopped by the opposition of Sens. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) and Walter F. George (D-Ga.). Farm income and what to do about it probably is the hottest domestic issue in this presiden tial election year. Harriman and Mr. Eisenhower break cleanly on that one. Harriman's agricul tural problems are limited. But, New York is a great dairy state. To aid the milkmen, the gov ernor wants rigid 90 per cent price supports. He also proposed several methods for getting rid of the surpluses which inevit ably accumulate at considerable cost under a high arid rigid sup port system. None of the sur plus disposal plans tried so far has functioned satisfactorily. Aside from these basic differ ences, the annual messages of these two men are not in much direct conflict. Parts of Mr. Eis enhower's message could be lift ed and fitted nicely into some of FDR's communications to Congress during the early and and .mid-term New Deal years. Even Mr. Eisenhower's promise of a balanced budget can be matched in the first half dozen or so of Mr. Roosevelt's annual messages. But FDR's budget bal ancing promises became embar rassing in time. And as the great war crept up on civilization a balanced budget was forgotten in the urgency of rearmament and the ultimate fighting. The Harriman and Eisenhow er messages are parallel, al though not identical, in many broad fields such as public wel fare, civil rights, education, roads and the like. That's a sharp reminder of how far the Republican Party has shifted its moorings in the past ?!0 years seeking to regain majority party position. - Klamath River Groups Postpone Hearings Klamath Falls (U.R) Oregon and California Klamath River Basin Commissions have an nounced potsponement of all meetings and hearings previous ly scheduled for January be cause many California engineers were preoccupied with flood problems. The two commissions had planned a joint meeting in Klamath Falls the third week in January. Meier-Frank Bombing Plea Delay Granted Portland (U.R) Circuit Judge Paul R. 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