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Show Bainey Continues Her Report For '58 Campaign Conference Dear Boss-Man I feel like a person having experienced ex-perienced a cloudburst of silver dollars and me without a pocket or a teaspoon. I have just spent several hours trying to condense the explosive facts and figures given in former President Harry Truman's speech into a reasonable reason-able column. Just can't be done! So I'm going to have to settle for a few scattered points which I hope will encourage our voters to get out and locate a copy of Mr. Truman's speech in full. Believe Be-lieve me, it is the best reading you will find in the way of educating edu-cating the general public to what is going on in our present administration. ad-ministration. I suppose that many people are still confused by Mr. Truman. After the switch from the profound pro-found personality of our great FDR, a great many of us found difficulty in fitting Harry Truman Tru-man into the shoes of the President Presi-dent of the United States. But those of us fortunate enough to have seen him, and to have heard him in person had a really enlightening experience. In the first place, it is my own opinion that electronics does nothing for Mr. Truman's speaking ability. Where I had found depth and power lacking in recorded or televised speeches, I found his personal voice and manner determined de-termined and wiry. He is truly a "Man from Missouri." He gives the inlpression of indomitable courage, a guy who wouldn't back off from a buzz saw. The mental mcture we gain of our under this present administration administra-tion "we have been in an economic eco-nomic recession for about half the time." He pointed out the meaning of the term, "Tight Money Policy." Pol-icy." He said, " 'Tight money' does not mean that the government govern-ment is being economical or frugal fru-gal in spending its own money. It means that the government is making it harder for its citizens to borrow money at the banks. It is simply away of using the mighty powers of public agencies agen-cies to redistribute the national income in the wrong direction." With our national debt constantly con-stantly being refinanced, he then brought out the result to the American people of this refinancing refi-nancing under the increased interest in-terest rates. With the national debt eventually all refinanced under the most recent interest rates "the increase in cost to the federal budget and to all American Ameri-can taxpayers would be close to $4 billion per year." And for perspective on what a $4 billion increase in annual interest costs would mean Mr. Truman submits sub-mits these figures: More than twice the amount contained in the President's fiscal 1959 budget bud-get for public assistance to those in need. More than 2xk times the total amount provided in this budget for the development of our national resources. More than 9 times the amount provided pro-vided for the improvement in housing. More than the total amount provdied for agriculture and agricultural resources. About four times the amount provided for healht and education combined. com-bined. Almost three times the total cost of general administration administra-tion of the whole government. This "interest bonanza," he charged, is being paid to a privileged privi-leged few. Think of this the next time you are concerned with the cost of American government. His comparison of our present administration to Shylock hit the headlines. "Shylock was agentle-man agentle-man compared to our Republican interest-happy government," he said. And his comparison seems mild indeed when you learn that during the four year period of "1953-57 interest income for individuals in-dividuals grew almost twice as fast as labor income, and more than twice as fast as the total personal income of the American people, and during these four years, while interest income for individuals grew at an average rate of 6 per cent, total farm income in-come from all sources declined at an average annual rate of 2.5 per cent. These figures, says Harry Truman, Tru-man, affect us all, "the farmer, the small business man, the veteran, vet-eran, the home owner and every family who buys on time an automobile or a TV set, a lawn-mower lawn-mower or a piece of furniture." I agree. About this time next month I fully expect to have to dig out the old washboard that Grandma left. Rainey national statesmen, polished, eloquent, elo-quent, smooth this picture just doesn't fit Harry Truman. But if we analyze this picture, it does not take much imagination to see that the individual personality person-ality of a man only beomes obscured ob-scured by such stage dressing, and the real man is still to be found beneath it. Harry Truman just hasn't bothered to doll up. He is just as you see him, Fairly small, sandy, wiry and completely complete-ly determined to follow his conscience. con-science. He is blunt and outspoken. His statements are often almost rude in their stark factual content. He leans a little toward the earthy expression. And hearing him in person, you become more and more aware of the boundless intelligence in-telligence of the man and the unlimited information garnered in his brain. Had Harry Truman been a "spell binder" or a man of heroic proportions physically, he would probably be President today. One other thing we also learned about Harry Truman. He is scrupulously fair and he is an inherently kind man. These things you learn when your information in-formation is not screened by the distance from Utah to Washington. Washing-ton. He could have spoken for an hour to make this point, but not he! Following his welcoming remarks re-marks to the Democratic Women attending the 1958 Campaign Conference, he came out with this blunt and unequivocal statement: state-ment: "The Republican administration administra-tion has been mismanaging the national debt. More than that, this Republican administration has been misusing its power over the money supply of the American Ameri-can people." Backing up his statements with facts and figures, all of which are available in copies of his speech, Mr. Truman told us that |