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Show Page 4 THE UTAH STATESMAN lily 20. 1956 o of government is trying to give the Defense Department more orts By Rep. William A. Dawson money than its top man says it can spend. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson has the advantage of the most expert advice in the world. His dollar defense budget request is an outgrowth of that advice. It is all, he says, that the Defense Department pan spend wisely without waste. The most d segment of the Senate disagrees. Perhaps the unaccustomed sight of a national treasury surplus rather than deficit has made . ' them giddy. multi-billio- n IKES FUND . . . There has been a lot of talk in the past about slush funds, campaign contributions, five percenters, etc., but very few people know about President Eisenhowers unrevok-abl- e trust fund. It was set up right after he was elected to the presidency and has been in operation ever since. It was made up of most of the modest savings the President managed to. accumulate during. his lifetime in the armed services and of the royalties from his writings. knowledge of the affect it may have on his personal interests. NO COMMENT I have found through experience that an honest man seldom if ever has the occasion to tell anyone he ... it without being conversely, as the is. People know told. And proverb has it, The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. The White House other than confirming the existence of the trust fund had no other comment when I contacted them.. The President NO KNOWLEDGE . . . Before took the action he did because taking office. President Eisen- it was right and thats all there hower turned his assets to a board is to it, of trustees. He is never told how DEFENSE OUTLAYS . . . his personal funds are being in- Again in Washington we are vested or in what areas. Thus no witnessing a spending spectacuaction he must take as President lar. The Senate half of, the legcan be taken by him .with any islative and purse-strinbranch i g . open-hande- : INDIAN EDUCATION . . .The House this week passed legisla- tion directing the Secretary, of In terior to make a nationwide study of the education needs of our Indians. This is long overdue. Our attempts to solve this problem piece-mehave been only parsuccessful. The results of tially. this study should, enable Congress to enact a comprehensive program that will bring a solution to this national problem. al long-standin- g , Your Congressman . by ' HENRY ALDOUS DIXON The new Russian sweet t and light offensive in the Cold War' caught us somewhat off balance and set our State Department .to working on counter- measures. The State Department, like most of our football coqphes, believes hat a good offense if the best - defense. never to underestimate the power, of a woman, and to know that word of mouth from woman to woman offers a sure-fir- e method of communication. At our last meeting this week, we had two noted professional fashion show producers submit a prospectus. They told and showed us thing hat even' will will talk about or weeks. If this Fair is produced, the. Russian 'women will see clothing they never knew existed, available at-- prices that will take their breath. They will earn that the democratic world of today is not a dream, but a reality. ; Our discussion covered features of the fashion show as fol. ; . During ; the past two weeks, he House Committee on Agricul-ure- , the Department of Agricul-ure- , and Secretary Dulles have lows: een working Jointly on two in(1) Americas Birthday the Irst day of the Fair, July 4, teresting and effective counter the patriotic theme, weav-n- g offensive measures in the Cold in the story of Americas freeWar with Russia. The first- offensive, suggested dom andthe evolution of Ameriby Secretary Dulles, is bearing can fashions since 1776, with a fruit far more quickly than I grand finale of tableaux and fireexpected. It is a measure author- works. (2) Cotton Colorama izing the U.S.D.A. to offer Soviet showing the wonders of research satellite countries up to $3 billion in cotton. (3 )An American worth of surplus foods. (And the Wedding Theme1' a religious delicious forms in which these and sacred affair by contrast with foods are being offered are those of Russia, showing inexenough to send those impoverish- pensive .yet elegant trousseaus ed people wild with delight!) that can be packed in incredible! Of course, . it is quite unlikely quantities in suitcases and come that the Soviet Regime will per- out without wrinckle. (4) The mit its satellites to acecpt such Catalogue for Country Living offers, but these offers neverthe- a theme exclusively from cataless will confront Russia with a logues of U. S. mail order houses dilemna; either horn with ..their astonishingly, low. is certan to invite trouble be- prices attached; tableaux of inhind the iron curtain. If, on the expensive summer picnic clothone hand, the Soviets accept the ing for the entire family. (5) offer ' of food ,they admit the Wardrobe Wealth for Working a wardrobe for less superiority of our free enterprise Women economy over their regimented than $100, the like of which I economy with respect to provid-n- g am told, the ordinary Russian adequate food for their sub- woman has never seen or imagjects. On the other hand, if they ined. (6) Machine Sewing Woolen Wonder-weareject the offer as they just did Magic. (7) In the case of Poland, they invite Around the World (8) - the resentment and even in .Fashions culminating insurrection at a time when Sec- activity showing the fashions of rotary Dulles says the iron dis- all countries. The Subcommittee invited four cipline of Stalin is gravely imperiled and the Soviet Regime of us to go to Moscow this August is losing its grip on its satellites. 4 to study the problem on the The second offensive is a pro- ground. I declined by expressing posed American Fair in Mos- the belief that a. deligation, of cow July 4 to August 11, 1957. three is a sufficient number this This Fair is still in the formative early in .the deliberations. stages, has not yet received the sanction of the Department of State, the U.S.DA., or the House Committee on Agriculture. The proposition is now before a House Subcommittee on Agriculture, to which I have been appointed; Our Committee is acting upon IN the theory that Russia cannot wage war without instilling Purchases of series E and H hatred toward us in the hearts Savings Bonds in Utah during the of her people, and that a e first six months of 1956 are six demonstration of our cent ahead of last year. The actual family life and our desire per sales June to live in peace would help to the lowest total of $1,128,144 was for any month this remove fear of aggression and according , to Clem S. thwart any campaign of hatred. year, Schramm, state bond diThe Soviet Chamber of Com- rector, who said savings this was due to merce in Moscow has now ex- an incomplete report which had tended to the United States an a definite effect on purchases reofficial Invitation to hold this in the central and northern ported Fair next year, and they offer counties. space during the Moscow Fair. B. C. J. Wheatlake, Salt Lake They will guarantee to buy at county savings bond chairman, releast ' $15 million worth of our that purchases In our county ports goods, (presumably those demon- amounted to $564,478, which strated at the Fair) and give us the total for brings the six months 33 per cent of the gate receipts to $4,310,213, or 47.7 per period to defray costs. Many U. S. Mancent of the 1956 quota. ufacturers seem so eager to send Emery county has gained the exhibits at their own expense distinction being the first counthat prospects are bright for a ty in Utah of to reach its quota this Fair of remarkably fine quality year, having attained 120 without any expense to the Other counties whose per cent. sales are United States Government. above average are: Sanrunning As an example of one phase pete, 81.5 per cent; Washington, of our planning of the Fair, you 63.2 per cent; Beaver, 59.3 per will be interested in the proposed cent; Sevier, 56.1 per cent; Weber; fashion show. 54.1 per cent; Juab, 53.3 per cent, For many years I have learned and Garfield, 52.1 per cent. , fol-owin- . g - - . two-horne- d : . r. wide-sprea- d -- , I . SAVINGS BOND SALES MOUNT UTAH FOR 56 people-to-peopl- Out of Kentucky, the great bourbon country, comes the greatest of them all, mellow, warmhearted, aged to perfection six full years . . . Ancient Age. 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