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Show y Friday, November 20, IMP THE AMERICAN STATESMAN Page 2 The American Statesman THE UTAH STATESMAN J. BRACKEN LEE, Editor and Publisher 08 70 Cl Anthony G. Hatsis Business Manager Board of Directors: Samuel S. Arentz, Charles H. Foote, Hubbard S. Russell, Anthony G. Hatsis. Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Rate $5.00 per year THE AMERICAN WAY Today we are sympathizing with Sid Jackson of the Editor LU-VER- (Ala.) JOURNAL, and those of our readers who never have sleepless nights will just have to excuse us if Sids suffering strikes no tender chord: Published weekly by The American Statesman It is amazing how many things State Exchange Bldg., 345 So. State come into a persons mind once Salt Lake City 11, Utah , he gets waked up in the middle of VoL 13; No. 45 Friday, November 20, 1959 the night," writes Editor Jackson. "I got started thinking about the Alabama Legislature.. EDITORIAL Some people complain about the members staying at home so much of the time while the Legislature is in session. It occurred to me that it would be cheaper on the taxpayers if their checks could just be mailed to them because every Charleston Evening Post Charleston, S. C. , time they assemble it costs us This has been a very proThe voters of Salt Lake City rendered a timely money. gressive administration, especially in the field on new taxes. It. hasnt to the as Lee Bracken I. service country in electing leaked out whether or not the governor is for it, but some member mayor. has introduced a bill to put on a pension. Unless 1 His victory in a hotly contested race, was of more am mistaken, we have four of those than local signifance. It restored to the political scene still living and two of them are rich. At least they should ai man who has for years been a fighter against social- - stinking be. . Sid Jackson ensham liberalism, ism, Encouraging Vote in Utah against today's against croachment by the federal government upon the rights and powers of the states and local communities. ' Citizens Foreign Aid Committee Report by Hon. Spruille Braden Mr. Lee victory. Union labor politicos were among those who opposed Lee. He is anathema to all who are rated as liberals. Mr. Lee has long been identified with conservatism, which can be defined as the creed which calls for constitutional government. Even Utahans who differ with him politically concede he is a man who lives up to his campaign promises and never sidesteps an issue. The United States needs more leaders of his rugged, stalwart type. Mr. Lee has long held the conviction that power tends to corrupt, and that government should be as concerned with economy and efficiency as any private business. . "There are just two types of government," he once said. "One is where the people are master and the elected officials are the servants. All others Communist, Socialist, Collectivist and so on are Governments where the officials are masters and the people are servants." Their Own Money! Luveme (Ala.) Journal . served two terms as governor of . Utah. When the Republican party refused to endorse him for another term, he ran as independent and was defeated. He suffered that fate, too, when he offered for the U.S. Senate as an independent. But still, as an independent, he opposed a liberal Democrat for mayor of his state's largest city, and won a smashing Bribing Pfcople With Excerpts From Report to House Appropriations Subcommittee On Foreign Operations Statement of Honorable Spruille before The Pilgrims, London, Eng- foreign aid, the American public Braden, member of the Citizens land, on Tuesday, May 5, 1959, and the Congress, from the beginForeign Aid Committee, before the while maintaining the successful ning repeatedly have been misled House Appropriations Subcommit- development of the underdeveloped and misinformed. They were told tee on Foreign Operations, Wed- world as a vitally important ob- at first, that these programs were nesday, June 24, 1959. jective, makes the following state- to be temporary, and of short duraThere may be a few places in the world, such as Korea or Taiwan, where for the security of the United States, some foreign aid temporarily may be necessary. But to have dissipated somewhere between $75 billion and $80 billion in other words, between of our national debt and one-thir- d at a time when the United States Federal Government is facing financial disaster, Is not only senseless but unmoral. It is well nigh criminal to continue such folly in the face of a 12 or 13 billion dollar deficit, when the U.S. dollar is depredating all over the globe, excepting in those countries whose currencies frequently due to our aid are depredating even more rapidly, and when gold has been flowing out of this country at an unprecedented rate. Especially is this true when none of the objectives daimed for foreign aid have been accomplished. Even Mr. Hollister, formerly Director of ICA, practically has admitted this already amply evident fact in a recent Readers Digest one-four- th so-call- ed artide. ment: tion. We may learn a striking lesson, I think, from some of those underdeveloped countries now undergoing the most severe shortages of foreign exchange and the worst distortion of their domestic economies. Among these countries are a number which, far from having had the least finance from abroad, have had the most t This finance was made available for both commercial and diplomatic motives. It was made available in quantities and at times that enabled these countries to persist in the folly of unwise economic policies, and made it possible for them to postpone the painful decisions and real sacrifices necessary to their economic progress. In these cases, neither the diplomat nor the exporter was able to take what sometimes may be the wisest decision of all that is, not to finance in circumstances proffer that offer no prospect that it will be effectively employed for the good of the receiving country. For years, we have been told that the prindpal reason for forSimilarly, Mr. Edward Hunter, an was the to do aid away with expert on the Far East, testified For his courage, forthrightness and his cham- eign d menace of communism. Now, before the Senate Internal Security billion the Presidents of Subcommittee on March 24, 1959, later, intended as Conthe U,S. government pionship by Committee To Study the United that when we attempt, with' Amerstitution, Lee is a man who deserves well of Ameri- States Military Assistance Program ican aid, to counter Aslan countries Draper Committee), in its with their slave labor, we decans who oppose the 'modern trend to regimentation (The March 17, 1959 report, admits that: press our own labor standards, and try to fill a bottomless pit with and totalitarianism. If it were in our power to do so 1. The Communist military our aid. He urges that we stick is threat greater than ever. to we'd send him to the White House. The2. .Communist economic private enterprise, observing and political threat and that the capabilities are expanding, procedures often cannot be disand concludes that we must throw tinguished from socialism. Finally, out more hundreds of million on a he says the leaders in various $70-od- . - government-to-goverame- The Constitution of the United States was founded upon a belief in God. The Income Tax was created by the . : Devil and sponsored by Karl Marx. f continuing basis. As for the extravagance, The Honorable Eugene R. Black, President of the International Bank For Reconstruction and Development, . . nt countries (receiving our aid) have said to him, What are you people trying to do? Do you want us to be Communists? As for the fraud involved in The giveaway programs allegedly were developed tor defeat communism, whereas, in fact, we have handed over more than one billion dollars to Yugoslavia, hundreds of millions to Poland, and supported Marxist regimes in Bolivia and, I am told, Indonesia. ICA officials declared that great progress was being made, thanks to ' our gifts in Bolivia. A few months later, events compelled these same officials to admit that their declarations had not been true. defense support is, I believe, much the biggest category of economic aid in the foreign aid bill. Defense support was established in order to enable certain nations to carry on a large defense effort. Yet, according to the NEW YORK TIMES on May 31, Mr. Leonard J. Saccio, Acting Director of ICA, admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that this, too, was an untruth. So-call- ed It is proposed that an inspector with a staff, i.e., more bureaucracy, be created in the State Department for policing the administration of the foreign aid program. Of course, this in itself is an admission of the inefficiency and dishonesty with which it has been operated heretofore. The Department of State and ICA without the supervision of an inspector should handle this program competently and with integrity. This suggestion of appointing an inspector is like the system, with which we are all familiar, of appointing a coordinator when things did not go well; another coordinator' when they continued badly; and eventually, a coordinator to coordinate the coordinators. |