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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
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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. Harris yesterday grant
ed a delay until Jan. 17 for Mrs.
Joyce Keller to enter a plea to
an indictment charging her with
participating in the Meier and
Frank bombing of last April.
Mrs. Keller was jointly in
dicted by a grand jury with her
blind brother-in-law, William
Clarence Peddicord, in connec
tion with the $50,000 extortion
bomb plot. The Jan. 17 date was
the same granted Peddicord. He
I has admitted to police that he
planted the bomb in the down
town department store. Mrs.
Keller has denied that she was
involved.
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