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Eisenhowes Says
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Treasury Secretary
the
balance,
said:
1. By raising more taxes.
2. By cutting expenses.
“Well, of course we don’t want
to raise taxes,” he said. “We want
to reduce taxes. To the way left
is to cut expenses.”
The President himself had
launched the program with word
that he and the Cabinet members
wanted to bring up points of inter
est to every family. He got up and
went over to a big basket crammed
with letters—said they run 3,000 a
day in an average week at the
White House.
And he picked out one he said
was “challenging,” from a P a w -
tuckett, R.I., housewife who has
four children. From it he read ex
cerpts.
She said the sums involved in
government operations and balanc
ing the budget are so huge “I
really find it almost impossible to
grasp them.” The President said
he has the same trouble.
“I wonder how you ever know
where to begin,” the letter said.
“Won’t you please explain to me
in words I can understand just how
you are going to have our money
keep its value and at the same
time make our country strong and
secure.”
Eeisenhower said he picked that
letter because it brings up the
great problem of security and its
cost. He went on to say that the
government has gone into debt in
seventeen of the last twenty years.
“Borrowing cheapens m o n e y,”
he said. “That is like water in
your coffee.”
At about that point, the Presi
dent asked Humphrey to tackle the
question in more detail. Humphrey
did, with charts to help out.
The deficit, Humphrey said, has
got to be stopped. And Eisenhower
chimed in that “of course, George,
we know we are going to stop it.”
He said he has promised the
people they are going to be secure
and that the expensive establish
ments'are going to be operated as
economically as possible.
“You are going to get one dol
lar’s worth,” the President as
sured his audience, “for every dol
lar we spend. 1 am going to keep
that promise.”
Eisenhower reverted to the ques
tion of security and peace at the
very end of the unprecedented pro
gram.
“Our effort,” he said, “is to se-
cui'e peace, and prosperity in
peace.”
Right at the beginning he had
referred to his projected meeting
next month with Prffne Minister
Winston Churchill of England and
the Premier of France. He said
he is going to Bermuda to talk
over with “some of our friends”
problems of preventing a modern
war and a new Munich.
“But remember,” he cautioned,
“in these vast problems that af
fect every one of our lives, there
is no thought that you can cut the
NCAA Opens
Investigations
KANSAS CITY, MO., June 4—
The NCAA will open three-day
investigation Thursday into infrac
tions of regulations of the Nation
al Collegiate Athletic Association.
NCAA Executive Director Wal
ter Byers said the subcommittee on
infractions is meeting here to pre
pare its mid-year report for pres
entation to the membership com
mittee in J uly.
The subcommittee is charged
with investigating any “reason
ably-substantiated” charge from a
responsible source relative to vio
lation of NCAA i-egulations.
Byers said the subcommittee
would treat all cases before it con
fidentially. Announcements of ac
tion will come later from the 17-
fpember policy-directing body of
the NCAA.
The subcommittee is composed
of Frank N. Gardner, Drake; King
Hendricks, Utah State; Ralph W.
Aigler, Michigan, and Byers.
knots you must untie them slowly
and laboriously.”
Four Cabinet members joined the
chief executive in this precedent
breaking TV production. Carried
by all networks to an industry es
timated fifty million viewers, the
show marked a change from the
era of the “fireside chat” to the
age of the “video round table.”
Wednesday night’s premiere pro
duction flashed on the screen
smack on schedule at 8:30 p.m.
(Dallas time) after the partici
pants threaded their way through
a mass of cables on the floor of a
conference room-studio adjoining
the President’s office.
Eisenhower spoke first — “Good
evening, everybody.”
He said he and his colleagues
would discuss “points of interest”
—especially of interest to the se
curity of the family.
The President was seated at a
desk and from time to time he
leaned across it presenting a full-
face picture on the TV screen.
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Texas Congressmen Have
Trouble Pleasing Voters
Like colleagues from other parts
of the country, Texas congressmen
are having trouble pleasing consti
tuents who want taxes cut, but
don’t want services curtailed.
Recent newsletters the Texans
have written to their home dis
tricts reflect thought over the
budget situation that is second on
ly to peace-or-war as a subject of
discussion on Capitol Hill.
“I am setting up a file on the
requests 1 receive not to cut funds
for this, that and the other,” said
Rep. Omar Burleson of the Abi-
lene-Anson district.
“It seems most of us are for
cutting funds which affect the oth
er fellow, but not for expenditures
for those things in which we are
particularly interested. Usually
letters and telegi'ams start off with
T am for economy, but—’ ”.
Rep. Frank Ikard of Wichita
Falls, pointing to an economy move
to reduce soil conservation funds
by 55 million dollars, during con
sideration of the Agriculture De
partment appropriation bill, wrote:
“There was an effort in the
House to seriously cripple the soil
conservation program. This was
defeated, however, in an extfemely
close vote of 201 to 196.”
Rep. W. R. Poage of Waco, writ
ing about the debate on the same
bill,«whicla totaled 712 million dol
lars for the Agriculture Depart
ment, made this comment:
We Must Accept
“I think we must all accept some
reduction of the items in which we
ai-e interested, but I don’t think
agriculture should take more than
its share of the reductions.”
The Secretary of Defense has ad
vocated a five billion dollar cut in
funds for the Air Force.
“We all recognize the importance
of balancing the budget,” said Rep.
O. C. Fisher in a statement car
ried in the Congressional Record.
“We all are aware of the need
for relief from burdensome taxes.
But we : also recognize that if the
worst comes to the worst it is im
perative that we have the most
powerful air force in the world.
“There are many places to cut
in this very desirable economy pro
gram without clipping the wings of
the most important branch of our
military services. There is a lot
of waste that can be eliminated.
It would be a tedious task to
document it, but there is little
doubt but that the votes of most
of the 435 congressmen on budget
cutting issues have been influenc
ed by the presence or absence of
big federal programs, projects or
installations in their individual dis
trict.
Committee
Voting for
Hears
Minors
WASHINGTON, June 4—(A’i—It
was an unusual Senate hearing.
Often these congressional hear
ings drag on for weeks, taking
thousands of words of testimony.
This one, on a resolution calling
for a constitutional amendment to
permit 18-year-olds to vote, lasted
less than ten minutes.
Witnesses, many of them with an
ax to grind, usually beg to be
heard. Here there were so few—
one, to be exact—that the chair
man, Sen. William Danger (Rep.)
of North Dakota, asked for volun
teers. And, by golly, he got one!
But let’s start at the beginning:
Danger and Sen. Hubert Humph
rey (Dem.) of Minnesota intro
duced resolutions calling for the
amendment to give the vote to
18-yeai’-olds. Geting the Constitu
tion amended is a long process,
and in the past similar resolutions
have got nowhere. I
But the first step is a hearing.
So a Senate judiciary subcommit
tee took the first step.
Sen. Harley M. Kilgore (Dem.)
of West. Virginia, who is sixty
years old, said he’s for the bill,
and always has been, but he asked
to be excused.
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Senator Humphrey, who is forty-
two, sent word he would write out
why he favors the amendment.
Only one veterans’ organization,
Amvets, responded to an invita
tion.
Its legislative director, Rufus H.
Wilson, was there. He is twenty-
six.
Wilson said the natural argu
ment is, “if a man is old enough
to fight he’s old enough to vote.”
But Wilson said the argument is
far broader than that. The kids
are smart he said, and—
“In the thinking of these youths
could well lie the preservation of
our national ideals.” #
“Anyone else have anything to
say on this?” Danger asked.
Whereupon a yonng man with a
pipe bounced out of a chair and
said he had just dropped in to lis
ten, but he wouldn’t mind saying
a few words.
So he said a few words.
He said he was Philip Wilder, an
associate professor at Wabash Col
lege in Indiana, and that there has
been considerable agitation for a
lower voting age out his way. The
Indiana Legislature, he said, has
favored giving the vote to 19-year-
olds, but the deciison isn’t final.
Wilder, who is twenty-eight, is
all for lowering the age- bar. “It
will help the general conduct of the
nation’s political life,” he said.
It seemed it might be a good
idea to ask a couple of the
6,700,000 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds
if they wanted to vote. But there
weren’t any in the committee room,
so the meeting broke up.
Callicott Named
Texas Instructor
AUSTIN, Texas—Colonel James
M. Callicutt, artillery expert re
cently returned from Ankara
where he served as a member of
the American Military Advisory
Commission to Turkey, is the new
Senior National Guard Instructor
for Texas, according to an an
nouncement this week by Colonel
M. E. Jones, Chief of the Texas
Military District.
He succeeds Colonel H. McE.
Pendelton who recently retired
from active military service.
Most of the flood control proj
ects in Texas, as elsewhere, were
trimmed from the amounts which
officials planned before President
Eisenhower took over. ,
Unhappy with the reductions,
delegations from several parts of
Texas came heer urging congres
sional committees to make an ex
ception in regard to their particu
lar projects. There were similar
groups from many other parts of
the country.
Came To See
A county judge from the Texas
gulf coast, accompanied by his
county engineer, came up to see if
he couldn’t get some funds to help
drain flood waters from lowlands
in his area.
“Everybody else seems to be do
ing it,” he said, “so I thought we
might as well. We have a good
case.”
He learned, howevei", that Con
gress first has to authorize a proj
ect before it can provide funds to
actually do the work.
In light of tightening purse
strings he will have to be lucky to
get his project authorized in less
than a year or two, and obtaining
federal dollars be still farther away
in the future.
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