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Show i , -. , The Senator Reports To The People Senator Arthur V. Watkins - " -'isi t Everybody wants Congress to balance the budget and put government expenditures on a pay-as-you-go basis. It is surprising, surpris-ing, however, how many people forget this when the trimming process affects them. There is every evidence in the Senate today that a substantial substan-tial reduction will be made in the budget. At least, at the present pres-ent time, it looks as though the proposal by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) to reduce personnel expenditures by 10 will be accepted, by the Senate on all appropriations measures. The oddity of the situation arises from the fact that practically prac-tically every pressure group has appealed to me as well as other members of the Congress not tc support and so on. Those are the reasons. No doubt my replies to many of these special pressure groups are going to be disappointing. But in the national interest, and n the interest of that great mass of Americans who are un- reduce its own particular program. pro-gram. Cut the other fellow, but leave our important program pro-gram alone. We need Uncle Sam's help. It merits public organized and , who have no lobbying organization to represent repre-sent their interests, I am going to have to support reductions in federal expenditures for 1952. WESTERN CAPNIAL George Dixon, Washington columnist, wrote the other day that the horrors Westerners would suffer if Senator Maine's Ma-ine's (R-Nev.) suggestion that the capital move westward for the summer were carried out. Said Mr. Dixon: "Think of the terrible impact im-pact of our cuckoos on the frank, open Westerners! They would go berserk if surrounded surround-ed by our administrators, coordinators, co-ordinators, analyzers, chan-nelizers chan-nelizers and finalizers. The Wild West would really be wild." Dixon then, concluded with a parody on the song "Home on the Range": "Moreover, those of us who ire inured to Washington could never stand a whole summer out where people are sensible. We'd be chanting dirgefully: "Oh, I wanna go home To the Capitol dome Where the Veep and the hammy dopes play, Where seldom is heard An intelligent word And the thinking is cloudy all day." PICKLE IAC (Pickle-ee-ack) Pickle IAC is one of the latest lat-est bureaucratic institutions. This latest creation presents the question of whether or not it is one more example of compounding com-pounding bureaucracy or confounded con-founded bureaucracy. In any event, here is what Pickle IAC gives as an example of controls on pickles ... "Should the 1948 harvest year be chosen as the pre-Korea year to be used in establishing base periods, the base period for fresh pickles would be the 90 days immediately following the first sale after processing, while the base period for dill pickles would be the 90-day period starting three weeks after the first sale and the base period for sweet pickles, the 90-day period starting six months after first sale." I forgot to mention that all this is in contemplation of establishing es-tablishing ceiling prices on pickles when the harvest is completed next fall. OPS is really in a pickle now. MORMON SPIES ? ? How ridiculous can ' Russian propaganda get? The latest is the following report carried in the June 14 issue of the New York Times: "London, June 13 (AP) Tass, the official Soviet news agency, charged today in a dispatch from Czechoslovakia that Mormon missionaries in Finland were spying on the Soviet border and 'conducting war propaganda against the Soviet Union.' " |