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Show The Gcod Samaritan A CRIPPLED BEGGAR was push-ing push-ing his wheel chair along a rainy Washington street The pavement was wet Crossing the street, the rubber tires of the wheel chair slipped, slip-ped, finally stalled at the curb. The chair wouldn't budge. A stranger,' hurrying through the drizzle, stepped over to the wheel chair and gave it a push. The cripple wiped his face with a soiled service cap and thanked the stranger, who asked where he was going. , "To Union station," was the reply "to get out of the rain." The well-dressed stranger offered to push the wheel chair to the station. sta-tion. "We'll go there together," said the stranger, pushing the wheel chair ahead of him. "Work for the government?" asked the cripple as they proceeded. "Yes." "Veterans administration?" "No." "Where do you work?" persisted the wheel-chair passenger. "Over In the court." "Which court?" "The supreme court." The beggar twisted his head around for a good look at the man who was pushing him through the Tain. "Which one are you?" he asked, realizing at last that his escort was one of the nine most potent Judges in the land. The man who had; rescued him was Justice Harold Burton. Probably no one would have heard about this incident, had not the cripple, crip-ple, privately skeptical turned up next day at the supreme court and demanded to see Justice Burton. After a long session with the marshal, mar-shal, the man in the wheel chair was ushered into Burton's chambers and visited once more with the Judge. Memo To Senator Taft: WHILE YOU AND I are In frequent fre-quent disagreement, I have considerable consider-able admiration for your courage and tenacity. May I therefore present pre-sent for your consideration a problem prob-lem of vital Importance to all of us. As you know, the administration now is planning to embark on a gigantic gi-gantic arms program, including thousands of Jet planes, new rocket-launching rocket-launching guns, submarines that can carry rockets close to enemy shores, new airplane carriers which can I&unch bombers, fast merchant ships powerful enough to outrun submarines subma-rines and thousands of steel-consuming guided missiles. While this program may not all be adopted, yet if only half of It Including the aviation program which you yourself favor is adopted, adopt-ed, it will result in the greatest Inflation this nation ever bas seen. . Already we face a steel shortage. Already our railroads are hard up for freight cars. Automobiles are still short in supply. The manpower shortage still handicaps many industries. in-dustries. Electric power is so low in the West that California is on daylight day-light saving. In other words, with the nation's economy already running at top speed, the army and navy have asked ask-ed for 14 billion and are reported ready to ask for 10 or 11 billion more. I for one suggest that, as a start toward mapping out a sound domestic domes-tic economy, we call in Bernard Ba-ruch, Ba-ruch, Donald Nelson, Leon Henderson Hender-son and the others who kept prices down nnd allocated war materials, nnd ask them -to chart a new course to head off the oncoming hurricane of inflation. Cargo Planes and War WHILE THE PENTAGON BOYS emphasize importance of the draft, Ihe national defense research and Jcvelopment board has written a confidential con-fidential report urging the need of an armada of cargo planes. In this ige of blitz warfare, supply linos must be swift and flexible, which means America must build up a vast merchant marine of the air. The report emphasizes the growing grow-ing threat of Russian submarine! which could make sitting ducks of jur ocean transports. Russia's underwater un-derwater navy already is five times larger than the German U-boat fleet at its peak, the report states. What s more, Russia possesses the deadly German XXI which is "60 times more difficult to locate and kill" than standard World War II subs. . The present strategy of digging in and stockpiling material at forward bases also Is rejected by the research re-search board. "Targets should determine the location of bases, not vice versa," the board argues. "The need for maintaining the base should erase when the tarfrt Is destroyed. Advance Ad-vance bases should become at expendable ex-pendable at shell cartridges." This means construction and supply sup-ply should be cut to a minimum, and air transport must become the backbone back-bone of supply. "Although World War II strategy was determined largely by the availability avail-ability of shipping, in the next war the availability of air lift will be the controlling factor," the report declares. |