oD, N. C FUIDAY, JUNE 8, 1949.
PAGE THREE
Scholarships for CommonisU?
The United States Government is
giving certain scholarships to permit
selected students to continue their
studies in specific fields at govern
ment expense.
. A 'scholarship, worth 11600, was re
cently given to a Communist graduate
student for advance study in. nuclear
physics. When publicity was directed
to the fact that the U. S. Government
had given a scholarship to a Commu
nist, the Atomic Energy Commission
said ? that such awards were made
without a security checkup when no
atomic secrets were involved.
The recipient of the scholarship is a
native of Austria, having joined the
Communist Party a few. years ago,
after becoming naaturalized. How
long he has been in this country, we do
not know. At the same time, it ap
pears to us that the Atomic Energy
Commission, in dispensing its fellow
ehips to deserving students, aright
well have found a native American
s study in nuclear physics.
Certainly, if the Commission con
tinues to dispense its funds to schol
ars for advanced studvC without mak-
4 ing inquiry as to their orgin and
philosophies, there is distinct danger
that some of the fruits of the Govern
ment -financed program will not dn
ure to the benefit of the people of
the United States.
Experts Discount Artie Invasion
full-scale invasion of North Ameri
ca,' across the Polar Region, is ruled
out on the basis of the experience of
the military forces of Canada and the
United States, which have completed
a three-year test on the icy, barren
lands along Hudson Bay, within the
Artie Circle and centering on Fort
- Churchill.
Top secret reports, sent to Ottawa,
Washington and London, according
' to Reuters news service, reveal the
satisfaction of the men involved that,
if a military campaign has to be
fought in the Artie, the Western al
lies will have the men and the equip
ment for the job. Nevertheless, the
test seems to establish the impossibi
lity of large-scale warfare in the Ca
nadian Artie. Any military action
- would be on a small scale, less than a
division strength and probably con
fined to forces not larger than bri
gades.
"-. The military planners of the West-
em countries know that a potential
enemy nugnt estaDiisn a lootnoia on
some island in the Canadian Artie
which would keep large bodies of Ca
nadian and American troops tied? up,
ijtisequently, they are working to in
volve techniques that will take care of
such enemy forces, quickly and de
cisively, with the minimum number of
troops.-
It should be understood that one of
the great tasks facing the troops en
gaged in the experiment was to "ad
just" themselves to the rigors of the
'weather. After some weeks' training,
the men reached the point where only
ninety per cent of their time was de
voted to the business of moving and
keeping alive and thus leaving ten per
cent of their time available for fight
ing. An effort will be made to im
prove these percentages but it should
be ; remembered that the Eskimo
spends i almost one hundred per cent
of his time providing food and shelter
for himself.
While the experiment seems to in
dicate that large-scale fighting in the
wastes of the Artie is not to be ex
pected, one should not overlook the
possibility that an enemy might seize
an area, establish an air base and use
4t against Canada nd the United
States. This is the reason why it is
necessary for the two countries to pre
pare themselves for military operat
ions in the Artie. . This, it seems, will
be on a limited - number of battle-
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Congress Caught In A Squeeze '
The Congress of the United States
nows finds that it is faced with mak
in? a very Important decision in con
nection with appropriations and the
income necessary to pay for "what it
votes. -, - .- -; . .
' It should be said, in this connection,
that the President has suggested a
program to Congress that involves a
large budget, with the accompanying
insistence that the budget be balanced.
This means, according to the Chief
Executive, that there roust be an in
crease in taxation to raise an estimat
ed $4,000,000 in order to prevent a
deficit."
It is probably to early to assume
that the President has submitted his
full nroirram to Congress. The cost
of national defense, international com
mitments, interest on the public debt
and money spent in behalf of the vet
erans of former wars are the big
items in connection with Federal ex
penditures. In addition the President
seeks sums for Federal housing, a
medical insurance program, increased
social security measures and, no doubt,
other items that will cost the taxpay
ers money.
The general impression in Washing
ton 13 that the Congress is faced with
the choice of reducing Federal ex
penditures, providing for increased
taxation or returning to what has been
called deficit-financing. It is pointed
out, in this connection, that the pro
spective deficit is due, in part, to the
tax cut made by previous Congress,
which, immediately after the war and
thereafter, reduced the taxes on cor
porations and individuals.
The people of the country should ex
pect both the President and Congress
to operate within the income and, in
addition, to have something left for
annual reduction of the national debt.
Such a policy seems necessary in order
to protect the financial stability of the
country. If it is applied, the obvious
result is that, despite what the coun
try needs, it must limit its expendi
tures to its receipts.
Against this, however, is the con
tention that the first concern of those
in responsible positions should be to
avoid anything which might widen
the present economic recession iitfo a
pronounced depression. Past experi
ence indicates that a repetition of the
economic collapse of the Thirties
would be the most expensive experi
ence that the nation can undergo.
Undoubtedly, one of the features of
the political life of the nation today
is the -insistent: demand of 4he people
of the country for an expansion of
governmental t services. This is ; ac
companied by a facile championship
of such policies by many of those hold
ing, or expecting to seek, public of
fice. Ifi view of the voting power of
the masses, -there is little reason to
expect that this pressure will subside
and every reason to believe that the
nation must expect a widening flow
of benefits to the men, women, and
children who make up the nation's
population.
Another factor in the situation is
the determined effort of the so-called
business segment of the population
to resist the suggestion of increased
taxation. The propagandists of the
upper-financial bracket, including fi
nanciers, industrialists, capitalists
and corporations, whether operated
for profit or eleemosynary purposes,
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