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SAM IRVIN
Budget Battle On
WASHINGTON - There is deep concern abroad in the land
about the way problems are being handled by the Federal Go
vernment. This concern shows up repeatedly when individ -
uals express themselves. Generally, such worries relate to
money problems and the belief by most that too many power
over our lives gravitate toward this Federal City.
These frustrations show up in many ways. With the con
stant rise of the price of goods and services, many refer to
their chief concern as the "pocket-book pinch". It is no se
cret that millions of Americans are more careful about how
they spend.a dollar to be sure that they can cover taxes,bills,
and find; enough extra to educate their children.
As usual, there is more interest in the cost t>f govemmmt
at this season of the year because most Americans have just
filed their income taxes. Tney are acutely aware of the feet
that a large share of their income goes toward the costs of
government. Indeed, one might be hard-pressed today to
find an individual who does not harbor the feeling that'there
is too much government." Expressed in "pocketbook"
most believe that somewhere in the S2OO billion-plus bud -
get submitted by the Administration for fiscal 1971, there
ought to be room to cut the cost of government.
I find myself in sympathy with this feeling since I believe
that government should not try to do for people things that
they can best do for themsives. Unfortunately, a majority
of the Members of Congress do not always adhere to this
opinion when certain groups press for the passage of a new
program.
Moreover, once a Federal program is established, it be
comes almost impossible to eliminate it. Oftentimes, it is
equally difficult to hold the program's budget at anyth i n g
like its original level. The new program's bureaucracy al -
ways finds many reasons to persuade a majority of the Con
gress to increase its patrimony in succeeding years.
Thus, the battle of the budget is a constant one. All of 1
this relates to the problem that Congress has in dealing with
inflation, governmental spending and taxes at this session.. 1
What was predicted as a "balanced budget" with a sl. 3 bil
lion surplus four months ago when the President deli\erei his
"money requests" to Congress was always based more on
semantics than hard facts. That tenuous balance now appeers
even more questionable in the light of subsequent Administ
ration requests for new expenditures. The prospects are
clear that unless some holding of the "budgetary" line begins
soon, the next fiscal year will end up with a deficit of se
veral billion dollars. Should this occur, three alteratives ae
likely. They ares more Treasury borrowing with the ris k
of more inflation; a Presidential "freeze" on certain funds
which may pose mo any hardships; or a demand for new tamv
The other major concern seems to lie in the incre a s i n g
controls by the Federal government over our personal lives.
This is best expressed in the current frustrations arising out
of the "busing of school children" to achieve "racial bahnad'
Congress has considered legislation dealing with this probfan
several times at this session. The latent action was taken on
April 14 when the House adopted a new anti-busing provishn
in the HEW appropriations bill. *That bill now comes to the
Senate with prospects of a new battle over this issue.
Hopefully, the Congress this time will forbid forced busing
and I expect to continue to press for such a legislative solu -
tion to remedy this vital matter.
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By Tom Anderson
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TENNIS, MONEY AND GRAPES
South Africa has been barred from Davis
Cup tennis. That’s quite an honor! Davis Cup
tennis, and “amateur” tennis in general, is one
of the most sickenly dishonest activities in a
sickenly dishonest world. Led by Grate Britain,
most of the hypocrites of the world voted to
bar South Africa because the American Negro,
Arthur Ashe, was not allowed to compete in
South Africa.
South Africa believes in separation. Britain
be!ieves in mixing—for everybody but Britain.
Britain has barred further immigration by
blacks. The British are bloody hypocrites.
• • •
The University of Pennsylvania has hauled
down the American flag and put it into storage.
The officials “feared a confrontation with stu
dent war protestors.” The flag is red, white and
blue and the officials are yellow.
• • •
The Federal Government is now spending
$6,116 a second. Getting your money’s worth?
• • •
U. S. News and World Report says that one
Senator, who feels that members of Congress
should make full disclosure of their personal
wealth, is having his own survey made in sup
port of his contention that “there are-51 mil
lionaires in the Senate.”
It is irrelevant how many millionaires are in
the Senate. What is relevant is how many mil
lionaire Senators were millionaires before they
became Senators?
Every political office holder should have to
make full disclosure of his personal wealth.
be <yVlanion jjorum
By Marilyn Manion
WHOSE NEWS?
Spiro Agnew whipped up quite a political
storm some months ago when he charged that
much of the news reporting in our Nation is
biased reporting.
Mr. Agnew wasn’t the first person to harbor,
or even announce, this suspicion. Some of us
have been muttering about it for years. One
of the most heartening outcomes of the Vice-
President’s comments has been the reaction
of the American people. Not just Conserva
tives, either! The public let out a giant cheer
for Mr. Agnew, the echoes of which still
reverberate across the land.
What were those cheers all about? A recent
guest on the Manion Forum radio program,
Mr. James J. Finnegan, put it this way:
“The average citizen may not be able to
analyze the techniques of news slanting; he
may be unaware of all the subtle nuances of
bias in news reporting. But the average Ameri
can is admirably equipped with common sense;
he has been able to sense the liberal news
media do not always ‘tell it like it is.’ ”
Mr. Finnegan is the chief editorial writer for
the Manchester, New Hampshire, Union
Leader. He made it clear that his criticism of
one-sided journalism does not apply to every
body involved in the world of news reporting
and analysis. It does apply to “the hierarchy
of the nation’s most influential news media—
The New York Times, undoubtedly the most
influential newspaper-in the world; the Wash-,
ington Post, which owns Newsweek magazine;
the major television networks; and the news
media in thousands of other cities and towns
across the land which do follow their lead.
This network-liberal establishment represents
a concentration of power over American pub
lic opinion that is unrivaled in American his
tory.”
What are some of the crimes against objec
tivity? Well, here’s an example Mr. Finnegan
tells about first-hand:
“I was one of three representatives of the
Manchester Union Leader who covered the
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Some Wag, or Wagess, sent this “news” item
to Forbes magazine:
CHAPPAQUIDDICK—IRISH VERSION
One of the business community’s more dy
namic tycoons has a great sense of humor. The
other day he gave me a slip of paper on which
were these alleged headlines from the Dublin—
Dispatch:
GOD SAVES SENATOR KENNEDY
AS CATHOLIC GIRL DROWNS. Devout ~
pair believed to be on way to Midnight
Mass. Ted prays for almost nine hours be
fore leaving scene. Irish Govt. Blasts Italian
Builder of Faulty Bridge.
• • •
Would you believe that the U. S. A. gives
away billions of dollars (in food, equipment,
machinery, etc.) to “needy” nations each year
and then turns around and borrows millions of
dollars from them at 6% interest? For in
stance, we recently borrowed SIOO million
from Thailand payable in 4Vi years, and at
6% interest; sls million from South Korea,
same terms. We are borrowing from 41 na
tions, as we continue our mad descent to
bankruptcy, revolution and dictatorship.
*• • •
Walter (“Ruthless”) Reuther said recently:
“We will see that nobody eats grapes in Amer
ica; we will drive the grapes off every table.”
The grape boycott is only a prelude to an ef
fort to unionize, nationally, all farm products.
The movement is marxist oriented. Eat more
grapes.—American Way Features
National Convention of the Democratic Party
in-Chicago in 1968. Let me cite just one ex
ample of the distortion of news events. I was
in Grant Park watching the taunting of police
by the mob. I saw the objects— the ashtrays,
the beer containers, you name it—being thrown
out of the Conrad Hilton Hotel from the upper
floors. The TV cameramen saw it too. In fact,
they trained their cameras on the scene. I saw
it. However, the American people never saw
that film footage. It wasn’t used.”
More grievances held by a fed-up public:
“The unconcealed participation of liberal
newsmen in the Moratorium Day activities in
which some wore black arm bands, others
signed petitions, and some even picketed a
pro-Nixon newspaper;
“The featuring of liberals and spokesmen for
the New Left as opposed to the infrequent
guest appearances of non-liberals, on the “To
day” and the “Tonight” shows, for example;
“ABC-TV’s so-called News Special in 1962,
when Nixon lost in the California Guberna
torial contest. It was entitled ‘A Political
Obituary of Richard Nixon’ and it featured a
smear against Nixon by the convicted per
jurer Alger Hiss;
“The New York Times news column at
tempts to rehabilitate Alger Hiss, while at the
same time it attempted to downgrade Otto
Otepka.
“The American people resent being spoon
fed only that information that escapes the
heavy hand of the liberal news media’s cen
sors. They resent loaded panel discussions on
loaded topics. They resent so-called ‘inter
pretive reporting’ which is nothing * less than
outright editorialization disguised as news.
“More than any other development in re
cent years, it seems to me, this massive disen
chantment with propaganda vehicles of the left
can return this nation to the course of sanity
in our domestic and also in our foreign af
fairs."—American Way Features
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