Administration Continues In Field of
Welfare But Ventures Into Nothing New
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ries on the record of the Elsenhower
administration, based largely on a de
tailed analysis made by the New York
Times, an Independent newspaper.
BY A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Fair Deal days of the Truman
administration was what they
called the drift toward a "wel
fare state"
so it is ironic
that one of the
first major ac
t i o n s of the
GOP Congress
in 1953 after
President E i
senhower took
office w a s to
grant his re
quest for crea
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tion of a new government depart
ment to handle federal welfare
programs.
Congress had twice rejected
limilar pleas from President
Truman, but under Eisenhower
a new cabinet office was created
to head the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
This first cabinet officer was
Victor Miller Quits
Oregon Senate Race
alem U.R) Victor P. Mil
ler, retired Portland army offi
. ccr, conceded today that Wayne
Morse and Douglas McKay will
have to "go it alone" in the race
for United States senator from
Oregon.
Miller resting near Redding,
Calif., from his one-man cam
paign for nomination as an in
dependent, managed to garner
only 11,000 of the 17,002 signa
tures necessary to get his name
on the November ballot.
Dave O'Hara, state elections
chief, said only two independ
ent candidates filed prior to the
deadline. They were Bill Bear,
Bend, for state senator from
Deschutes, Crook, Jefferson and
Lake counties, and Heny Semon
Klamath 'Falls, for state repre
sentative from Klamath county.
Semon had run as a Democrat
tor 12 terms.
Seven Still Missing
In Alaska Bail-Out
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R)
Officials at the Elmendorf Air
Force base here said today
search planes still had not found
any, signs of the remaining seven
men who parachuted from a
sputtering KC - 97 Stratotanker
early Monday.
One man, Lt. Robert Moore,
the co-pilot, was found on the
northwest shore of Fire island,
five miles from here, 25 min
utes after Capt. Alva L. Wilker
son, 31, had given the bail-out
command.
Mechanical trouble had devel
oped in two of the plane's four
engines when the jump order
was given at 1 a.m. Wilkerson
later brought the plane in for a
successful landing at Elmendorf.
None of the seven was from
the Pacific Northwest.
Amended Motions
Filed by Langley
Portland U.R) William M.
Langley, Multnomah county dis
trict attorney, filed amended
motions here yesterday to set
aside the indictment returned
against him by the recent vice
probing grand jury.
The lengthy document charg
ed several irregularities in the
conduct of the probe and labeled
some of the proceedings "lynch
law."
An "incomprehensive hodge
podge" was the result of the
probe, according to Langley.
TEMPTATION
CranJ Rapids, Mich. (U.R)
A S20 bill in an advertising
display at an appliance store was
too much of a temptation for a
local thief. He broke into the
building, smashed the glass pro
tecting the display and took the
bill, police reported. Nothing
else was disturbed.
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, who
was later to bow out under fire
for dragging her feet on federal
aid to education proposals and
the administration of govern
ment supervision over Salk vac
cine production and distribution
for national polio innoculations.
Mrs. Hobby wanted to call it
the "Departme'ht of The General
Welfare," referring to that
phrase in the Constitution's pre
amble which states that one pur
pose of the nation's basic docu
ment is to "promote the general
welfare." The late Sen. Robert
A. Taft quashed that idea, say
ing, "That's just what I am try
ing to get away from."
President Eisenhower had no
such anti-welfare state convic
tions. On election eve in 1952,
he told the American people: "I
pledge that the social gains
achieved by the people, whether
enacted by a Republican or Dem
ocrat administration, are not
only here to stay but are here to
be improved and extended."
Budget Shows Pledge Kept
If budget figures are taken as
a criteria, that pledge has been
kept. The Eisenhower admin- i
istration today is spending more j
money than the Truman admin-1
istration for the government's I
various welfare programs.
Also, social security benefits
have been extended to 10,000,-1
000 more Americans, raising the i
number covered today to more !
than 55,000,000. But one other
program public housing has !
been cut back from 75,000 new i
units annually to 35,000. ,
Shortly after Congress ad- j
journed this summer, Eisen-1
hower signed a new social secu
rity iill which he had not want- i
ed but was handed him by the !
Democratic 84th Congress. Its i
main feature was to drOp the age j
of eligibility for women from '
65 to 62. Other instances show
that Congress insisted on ap- j
propriating more welfare funds j
than the administration asked
for.
Mrs. Hobby, for example, tried
at first to cut back funds for
welfare programs but was stung
by angry outcries from profes- j
sional welfare groups. Sub- j
sequently her budget requests j
were pared to the previous year's ,
amounts but no further. Almost
invariably. Congress raised the i
amounts substantially. So, in ef- j B
feet. Congress implemented the ;
president's campaign pledge de- j
spite Mrs. Hobby.
Earned Credit for Work
On the other hand, Mrs. Hobby
earned credit for advances in j
work on vocational rehabilita- j
MORE !
tion and for broadening the Hill- j
Burton hospital construction act.
Her proposal for federal re
insurance of private insurance
policies covering hospital and
medical care was rejected by
Congress in 1954.
The only lady in the cabinet
ran into trouble on federal aid
for school construction, an issue
raised by overcrowded public
schools in many rapidly expand- j K
nisi i.uiiiiiiu,iii.ic:a mi tuc na
tion. Despite the president's urg
ing for her to devise a program,
she delayed for two years while
studying the matter. Finally, '
she came fourth with a com-!
plicated plan for federal pur-'
chase of local school bonds plus
limited grants to impoverished i
school districts. It went over like
a lead balloon. j
Mrs. Hobby's worst trouble i
came in the wake of medical !
pronouncements in 1955 that the I
Salk polio vaccine was safe and
effective, for she was blamed for
having no advance plans to as
sure effective federal testing and
distribution procedures. She re
signed July 14, 1955.
Eisenhower named as her suc
cessor Marion B. Folsom, who
had been undersecretary of the i
Treasury. He immediately went
to work on a school aid program,
which went to Congress last
January. It was a five-year pro
gram of $2 billion in loans and
aid.
The Democrats in Congress,
however, came up with a more
extensive aid program but the
whole issue became ensnarled
over the question of whether aid
should be withheld from school
districts which continue racially :
segregated classes until they in
tegrate the races in conformity
with the Supreme Court's deci
sion. So no bill passed.
In the area of research, both
the president and Congress have
increased funds for a stepped up
program. The budget of the Of
fice of Education has been
doubled, allowing for research
into such questions as educa
tional needs of low-income
families, the causes and remedies
for students dropping out of high
school, and instruction of men
tally retarded children.
Party Brought Long Way
By almost any standard, the
Eisenhower administration has
brought the Republican party a
long way in a short time toward
acceptance of the New Deal-Fair
Deal welfare philosophy. The
administration has led an often
reluctant Republican party in
carrying forward and expanding
practically every major under
taking in this field other than
public housing. It has introduced
innovations in providing federal
aid for private housing develop
ment, and augmenting slum
clearance.
At the same time,, the admin
istration has not pushed ahead
much into unexplored territory.
More often than not, it has re
sisted any major new concept
of social welfare aid by the gov
ernment. The main example was
their opposition this year to re
ducing the social security age for
women and against benefits for
disabled workers, which had to
be forced on the administration
by the Democratic Congress.
This is pretty much in line
with the Eisenhower campaign
pledge to keep social 'gains of
the past, possibily improving and
extending them, but not ventur
ing into new fields of social wel
fare without great reluctance. .
(Next What About Falling
Farm Prices?)
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apparent victory in the closest gubernatorial primary in
Texas history. With only 1600 votes not counted, unof
ficial returns gave Daniel a 2523 vote lead over Ralph
Yarborough for the Democratic nomination.
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