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SENATOR
SAM ERVIN
* SAYS ☆
WASHINGTON - Congress returns to Capitol Hill this
week with many of the issues of the first session still pend
ing. These include: new farm legislation, postal reorgan
ization and" reform, environmental quality control mea
sures, electoral college reform, new revisions of the
draft, anti - crime bills, and several consumer protection
proposals.
«• Carried over, too, are appropriation bills for foreign
aid and the Departments of Labor and Health, Education
and Welfare. Congress could not agree on final versions cf
either one of these money bills at the first session.
House and Senate conferees on December 19th agreed
to a $2.5 billion foreign aid appropriation, but action was
held up when the Senate objected to earmarking $54.5
million in military assistance to finance a squadron of jet
planes for Nationalist China. The s2l billion Labor-HEW
money bill became embroiled in an Executive-Legislative
battle over the budget in late December. The President
threatened a veto because he said the appropriation ex
ceeded his money request. Congress did not press the mat
ter further at that time. Thus, these money bills are now
before the Congress again.
The major issue of the session is not likely to relate to
these matters, but rather to the allocation of Federal funds
for the hundreds of programs that make up the Budget. Co
ngress imposed a $192,9 billion ceiling on Federal spending
for the current fiscal year. The' President is now wrestling
with the problem of compiling a new Budget for the fiscal
year beginning July Ist which meets our national needs,and
hopefully, will not exceed anticipated revenues.
The importance of the Budget is that it not only funds
services and programs of the Federal Government, but it
controls the tdne of the economy. An inflated budget
could wreak havoc with the economy in the months ahecri,
because the nation is already experiencing a rising cost of
living at an annual rate of about 6 percent. On the other
hand, just to keep existing Federal services and programs
going will call for more money than the current Budget.
Rising interest rates and the steady increase of the cost of
existing programs will see to that. For these reasons, the
President and Congress are faced with a potentially larger
Budget from these items alone.
.It is unlikely, too, that Congress, which voted a tax
reduction in 1969, will vote any major tax increases in
1970. Thus any realistic Budget should be based upon an
ticipated revenues from existing sources.
As of this writing, the President has not finalized ■> the
new Budget which must be approved by the Congress. It
seems certain, however, that there will be more emphasis
on "holding the line" this year bn military, space, foreign
aid, and research and development spending than in for
mer'years. These are the areas that are most likely to gpt
critical Congressional review. Even so, there will be a
lot of give and take over Federal spending at this session,
and it is too early to predict just what the result will be
when all sides have been heard.
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-Human Events
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By Tom Anderson
—•. BEWARE THE 8008 TUBE
The Boob Tube is the most relentless brain
washer in human history and there have been
few checks on its awesome power. All the
major commentators were laying for Nixon
after his “report to the people’ on Vietnam.
They had already planned their attacks before
they knew what he was going to say—because
they are Leftists. They never did that to Presi
dent Kennedy or to any other “liberal.” Ken
nedy’s programs left them as happy as an
Orthodox Rabbi looking at current pork prices
in a meat market. But they even enlisted old
discredited (which —side —does —he—help —
the most?) foreign “expert,” Averell Harriman,
to join the attack on Nixon and Agnew. They
never so treated the “fireside chats” of that
old faker, Fraudlin D. Russiavelt. They never
demanded peace, sweetness and brotherhood
of Churchill, instead of blood, sweat and tears.
Perhaps part of the answer in that instance is
that most of these Leftists are pacifists only
when the Communists are under attack, and
Churchill, at Roosevelt’s demand, was saving
Russia.
In America, TV is the third parent in many
homes and the first parent in some. Television
is a prime cause of crime, declining morals,
mental and physical softness, and the spread of
Communism in America. TV constantly
teaches such things as how to make a Molotov
cocktail, how to break “bad laws” and get
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I don’t like the idea of having any more
secret agreements between the U.S. and the
U.S.S.R. That is the way we lost Eastern Eur
ope to the Communists —before, during or
after fighting to free it from the Nazis.
Communist Russia has broken every agree
ment ever made with the West when she
wanted to. Why our present crop of gullible
liberals think they can tie Russia down with
promises now (if they really do think it) is
beyond me. No “agreement” with the Com
munists is any good; they break them all when
ever breaking them may serve to Communist
advantage. But secret agreements are the worst
of all.
If the press is not barred —or spoon-fed—
at negotiating’sessions between nations, then
at least the Free World is partially informed
about what is going on. Agreements made
under the watchful eyes of a free republic are
not nearly so apt to sell the people of said
republic down the river—or across the Iron
Curtain.
No one man, not even the President—and
no closed group, especially npk any in our State
Department—should be permitted to sign se
cret agreements with Russia on any matter,
much less the matter of armaments (or dis
armaments —we may not find out which in
time). It is something too vital to the survival
of our country and indeed the entire world.
An armament agreement known and publi
cized throughout the world, with all people
knowing its terms and with built-in mechanisms
to detect violations, might do a world of good.
Russia then would have to weigh the advan-
Are We For, Or Against, Or Both?
Apart from-any question of
demerits in the habit, it - can
be noted—and repeatedly has
been—that the Federal Govern
ment's position on cigarette
smoking is mote than a shade
confusing. Maybe it depends
on which department you are
watching for a policy cue.
One the one hand, the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare is spending an es
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BILL KENNEDY:
By Bill Kennedy
BEWARE RUSSIANS BEARING PROMISES
timated $4.5 million a year
to combat smoking and its de
clared effects. That comes to
sl2, 328 a day.
At the same time, as com
piled and reported by the Rock
ford Morning Times, the De
partment of Agriculture is
spending some $67 million at
home and abroad to promote
and subsidize smoking. It" 1
breaks down this ways $5 mik
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by with it, and how to wear your brains in
yrmr hikini. TV far as 1 can discover, >
teaches children honesty, patriotism, religion,
honor and respect for parents, responsibility,
the dignity of work, morality or any of the
eternal verities upon which our nation and
civilization were built. During the Battle of
Chicago, NBC, was caught red-handed “bug
ging” the hotel room where the Democratic
Platform Committee conducted its closed deli
berations. The TV networks refused to give
Mayor Daley an hour to give the facts. They
prefer to give the time to some Hollywood
Communist. * '
The charismatic, leftist eyebrow lifters called
“news commentators” are often distorting the
already distorted “news” which is handed to
them by the leftist Wire services. Much of it
is as phony as a harlot’s tears.
Anybody who has a mimeograph machine
can publish a newspaper or magazine. But to
get a TV station you have to get and keep
a franchise from the government. In the
beginning of TV those who convinced the
government*that their-prime consideration was
to “serve the public interest” better than the
next person who sought the public license,
was the heir “to automatic riches. Why
shouldn’t networks have “freedom of the
press?” Because they are government-granted
monopolies!—American Way Features
tage of superior arms against the chance of
Wasted propaganda effort (damaging the Red
image) in those parts of the world she is try
ing to woo. Russia might then have to stay in
line for awhile (cheating only) and concen
trate on the already dangerous campaign to
“take America from within.”
On the other side of the coin, if the talks
and final arms-contcol. agreements are secret,
all Russia will have to do when “caught” is
say the U.S. is lying and deny the whole thing;
and the Communist controlled press plus propa
ganda in the Free World would likely sell that
view.
The Russians will not sign an open treaty
on arms control; they would not dare sign one
with teeth that did notinclude Red China, un
less they patch up their differences with Red
China or get a separate treaty with China —
both unlikely. What would our side have to
secretly promise Russia to get it? That we
would join their side to help whip Red China
if the two go to war?
In secret they could promise anything; they
wouldn’t be counting oh keeping their part of
the bargain in any case.
So when they start making agreements again
without Senate confirmation, at least, it is time
for the people and the Congress to do some
thing about it. Otherwise, when Nixon and
Kosygin start to get together—whether the
meeting place be Helsinki, Geneva, an island
or aboard ship—we best all head for the, hills.
For we can know we are about to get a) out
smarted; b) lied to; or c) cheated on.—Ameri
can Way Features
lion for research on better
cigarettes, s3l million to send
American tobacco abroad in
Food for Peace shipments and
a subsidy of S2B million to
stimulate tobacco exports.
That comes to $193,652 a
day.
The right hand not knowi%
what the left hand is doing can
be habit-forming,toojand in
jurious to the pocketbopk., ./