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Show i MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta. Utah. Thurs. May 30. 1957 GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over BENNETT ON THE BUDGET The views of our' elected representatives repre-sentatives are of public concern, so I am giving this little exchange with Sen. Wallace F. Bennett. For By Dick Morrison weeks I refrained from writing any member of our Congressional delegation about the Eisenhower budget, but Eisenhower's TV plea against "false economy" was too much, so I sent one letter, to Wallace Wal-lace Bennett. Following are my letter, let-ter, minus only one personal allusion, al-lusion, and his reply. Delta, Utah May 17, 1957 Dear Senator Bennett: "Though I was shocked by the size of Eisenhower's proposed budget, bud-get, I have refrained from writing any member of our Congressional delegation about it, so far. For one thing, I think it would toe hopeless hope-less to write Watkins about this, for he seems oblivious to all other things In his attitude of blind- hero-worship for Eisenhower. "But the President's TV plea against 'false economy' was too much. "For heaven's sake, do what you can to cut government spend lng. Why be satisfied with a cut of two or three billions? Why not cut it in half or better, by two- thirds? "The people don't want the so-called so-called government services. Many foreign nations don't want our medlesome foreign aid. "Where does the demand for these things come from, then? STILL AT THE SAME POPULAR PRICE! ,, v V;, s c 4f 'I Out of Kentucky, the great bourbon country, comes the greatest of them all, mellow, warmhearted, aged to perfection six full years . . . Ancient Age. We challenge you to find a better bourbon. Kentucky Ken-tucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old 86 Proof Ancient Age Distilling Company, Frankfort, Kentucky sA si , fMttttedfe UPER M HOLIDAY SEDAN iir -A 'in . ' - k - "and Just ivait til you see Inside... x tis the prettiest oar we've ever owned!" ANNE: It certainly i beautiful . . . from any angle! BETTY: But hat I lie best is the wonderful feeling I get when I'm driving. Heavenly comfort! And the things they're doing with colors and fabrics these days! Honestly, I feel just like a queen! ANNE: You should! I'm not trying to pry, but 111 bet it co6t a Ling's ransom. BETTY: Wouldn't you be surprised! It cost a lot less than we expected. And, Ed says it will cost less in the long run, too, because an Olds holds its value. ANNE: Leave it to you to have your cake and eat it, too! BETTY: And why not? Ed, bless his practical streak, wanted an Olds for its extra value and the Rocket Engine. So, who am I to say "no" to the prettiest thing on wheel? You ought to pass the word along to Johu! ANNE: You can say that again! I will tonight! I "I'll tell you. It comes from government bureaucrats held over from the Roosevelt administration, who want the job of administering these programs. The whole thing is a mockery. "False economy? Let us taxpay ers keep more of the money we earn, and we'll put it to 'better use than the goverment ever will. "False economy? Do you read the Reader's Digest? Am enclosing a reprint which is only one of eovemment wasting of our money." (The reprint was of an article, The Greatest Con-Game In Politics, a documented report of how Federal money is wastefully spent. DM) "Senator Bennett do, please, stand up for the right of the tax payers to a square deal at the hands of our federal government. "Please. "Sincerely, "Richard S. Morrison." Senator Bennett's reply, quoted In full, follows: Dear Mr. Morrison: "I have read your letter of May 17 with a great deal of interest. You might be Interested to know that the President's television appearance ap-pearance last week has brought me quite a few letters, and they are divided just about evenly In approval and disapproval of the budget "My own guess Is that we win end up with budget cuts of between be-tween S2 and $3 billion. They might go a little higher than that, but I will be surprised if they ao. To cut the budget In half, or by two-thirds would be possible only If we abolished the Department of Defense and disbanded our military mili-tary forces and shut off all re search and development of new weapons. The actual total cost of running the normal agencies of government, aside - from defense, Is somewhere around $10 billion. The rest Is represented by programs pro-grams which would have to be repealed before the cost of them could be cut off. "I think one of the fundamental weaknesses In our situation is that there is no relationship between the process that makes the law, and the process that pays for its operation. When we pass laws, no body is concerned about how mucn they will eventually cost Unfort unately, the American people like these things that cost money, and even though they may not like to pay the bill it would be completely Impossible today to get such things as federal aid to states for highways high-ways or other programs eliminated. Before we can do that, the people themselves and their state govern ments have got to agree either that the states will take the re sponsibility over or that the people don't want it. "I expect to vote for every cut recommended by the Appropriations Appropriat-ions Committee, and I certainly hope that it will be possible to reduce the cost of government But you can't reduce it just lay refusing to pay the bills. The place to start is to reduce or eliminate programs. "I would like to make just one other observation about the cost of defense. Actually, we are in a period of transition, changing from the old fashioned defense based on the single soldier with a rifle on his shoulder to the so-called push-button defense based on very expensive and highly intricate, automatic weapons. During our, he recalls, was i sending lar lifetime, you and I will see most amounts of Jnll d nou. -to starving airplanes replaced with guweo turope wune - missiles. This also will be true of standing Idle for need of raw most artillery. In the meantime, wheat. He remarked upon ; tms u .... .K.nn tha nid Unomalv to a staunch Republican system until we have the new one who, he says, looked at him pity, perfected. In effect, then, we are ingly and said. "Don't you know having to 'support both of them that the Marshall Plan is for the for a while. The real nope oi reuei w auiwih uw... lightening the burden Is to get the new program set up as quickly as we can: but for the nexi iew years, that's going to cost money. "Kindest personal regaras, "Sincerely, "Wallace F. Bennett" It was kind of Senator Bennett in writ bs he did. and his letter contains much food for serious ihnucrht. What he said has merit You readers and voters should analyse the letter and evaluate it for yourselves. Yes. what Senator Benneu saia has merit. Still, there were some things he didn't say. He didnt mention the cost of foreign am. And to me it seems little less than insane for our government to ua mnWirnT exnensive gifts to tne RnviPt satellites, such as Yugosla via and Poland, while at the same time building up costly defenses against the Soviet. It 's crazy, simply crazy. Nor did Senator Bennett reier io tho snrt nf waste in the expendi ture of federal funds as was told of lr. the Reader's Digest article. Again, he did not refer to tne icrhts o? such DeoDle as not only see the immorality of the various foomi crants in aid to favorea orniins. hut even decline to accept such grants when offered to them, as a matter of principle. iMnniiv he did not mention the fact that much of the demand for old nroerams, and also of starting new ones, such as fed eral aid for schools, comes rrom fpderal bureaucrats, who are the real beneficiaries of the programs; and not from the taxpayers wno have to pay the bills. Rn his letter s given nere De- cause it is newsworthy, and it Is else do you think it passed the 80th Congress?" Well, in that we have the answer ans-wer to the question, why are so many wasteful, basically absurd fpHpral Droerams not only being continued, but extended year by year. Our business men, bankers, laoor leaders, farmers, and other groups, as etouds. with only a few isolated dissenting individuals among them, favor these programs, at taxpay ers' expense, oecause mey some of the gravy running their way. They are callous to the uan-crprs uan-crprs involved In these programs.. They are, Indeed, as the great mass of people always are, un mindful, or even contemptuous, of mv sense of responsibility for the long range welfare of our country. Our Internationalists are a nara- boiled, cynical lot They are con- temntuous of the general run oi the American people, and also of the welfare of the people to whom "aid" is "being sent What tney want is to keep on getting paid lor sending the aid. Many of them have worked out very slick deals wherebv thev get In on the receiv ing end of this process In foreign lands, and in that way get large amounts of American taxpayers' money, income-tax free. They aren't the ones who pay these exorbitant income taxes. They get the money, or some of it And they use some of it to keep up the publicity pub-licity blah-blah which convinces the American voters that there Is some great, humanitarian purpose involved. And this country is beset with a certain type of egghead, frequent ly found In academic circles, wno is forever sounding off about the 'high humanitarian purposes or. significant both for things it says, foreign-aid programs' and f 6r things it doesn t say. une B t there remains sensible thing it does say, which no one eason whv Deople in foreign lands can deny, is mat cuts m ieua. t provide for themselves as x A. rM 1 . expenses ana taxes musi weu as we can provide for them. ..., n tnAna nMivlHpe And few I 111 A V. L. . lAV-V- - nWeetive observers, indeed, will deny that work done by local Pvt. Chris Hansen, from Fort deny that work done by local Rileyi KansaSi is home on furlough government units is less wasteful t0 yIsit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. man uiai uuue j.c i-cucc. i Henry Hansen. Where The Gravy Huns Speaking of federal "aid" programs, pro-grams, a little remark of significance signific-ance appears in NATIONAL REVIEW, RE-VIEW, for May 18, in an article by Holmes Alexander. Giveaway", he says, in part: "We tried to buy peace for ourselves in 1940-41 with foreign aid, and that's the same purpose we have in 1957, We don't really think it will work, but we don't know how to rebut the propaganda of the Establish' ment " "The skilled persuaders know what we like to hear, which is something like this: foreign aid is humanitarianism, insures us again st fnendlessness in this cruel and cold world, proves we aren't 'isolationists' 'isola-tionists' foreign aid is in our national and self interest." Then he goes on to relate an incident which occurred when he first went to Washington as a reporter re-porter in 1948. The Marshall plan, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jordison of Salt Lake Cltv were Delta visitors with their mother, Mrs. Madge Christensen, the first part oi tne week. Mrs. Us Price is at the L.D.S. hospital in Salt Lake City, making a good recovery after heart surgery surg-ery on Monday, May 20. Mr. Price is in Salt Lake with her, and her sister, Mrs. Ruby Gifford, stayed with her until Wednesday night, at which time she was doing welL Mrs. Price expects to be in the hospital during the week, and if she continues to improve, will be released at the end of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Will Bunker and daughter, Betty Bunker, attended funeral services in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday, for Miss Kathleen Spra-gue, Spra-gue, a missionary companion of Betty's in the Southwest Mission field. -wry ,V Th-XfiK . V - -' f t . v - ' f . ' '' "50,000 bales without i , one wire break!" Through the entire 1956 season totaling some 50,000 bales work didn't stop once due to a broken wire. That's going some . . . but the man who reports this record, Norman Weigand of Powell Butte, Oregon, says that's nothing so special with USS Baling Wire. "I've been getting that kind of service right along since using USS wire in my New Holland (80) Baler." One reason for this smooth-running quality is a specially compounded lubricant thaf s applied to USS Baling Wire. This also helps it feed through the hay and protects the wire in storage. Mr. Weigand doesn't take a chance on so-called "bargain wire". Tve got too much to lose ... downtime costs me about $27.50 an hour. I figure costs in terms of service and no wire gives me the trouble-free service of USS Baling Wire." This is another United State Steel product that makes profitable farming easier. V r I WRITE: FARM SE8VICI BEPAITMfJiT i BSlltO 5 1 ATI 3 SHE C08M RATIO I C0LDM81A-6UEYA STEH HVISIOI 128 MOKTSOMfJY STREET. UX fUKCISCfl einr I I would like your free booklet that give I I complete Information on all types of baling- j wire. Your name. I Mailing address. 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