Show GRASSROOTS Re Armament Costs Average family Budget 1000 By Wright A. A Patterson PattersonS BILLION DOLLARS does S SIXTY not seem a great sum if you ou say it quickly as Truman says says it when he asks congress to provide that amount for rearmament But those who vho must dig it up op upstart upstart start to figure what nhat It means to them and their families They find it amounts to 2000 each family must pay just to meet the Presidents President's rearmament rearmament ment meat figure That is a lot of money for each family budget to supply The President Is never sure of the figures he sends to congress He is inclined to take the word of those in the armed services They guess at the cost take all they can get and make it do the job We the families who actually must do the paying live in hope that those we have sent to Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington will look after our interests and cut the costs to the lowest pos possible possible possible sible amount Our senators and representatives tives ilves should not be allowed to forget that we depend upon them for some careful figur figur- ing They should not accept as accurate te the guesses of some cabinet officer or department head with exaggerated ideas of costs We want a reduction not a n continued continued continued con con- increase in the bureaucratic bureaucrat bureaucrat- ic army We will pay for what is necessary but we wont won't provide for lor many special home front projects projects we can do without while Joe Stalin is staring us in the face We will pay the 2000 per family directly and indirectly from from the family wallet in taxes or in the form of Increased Increased in increased In- In creased taxes on commodities Our senators and representatives tives will tell us they are chargIng charging charging ing most of the bill to corporations But the corporations will pass that added cost to the consumers We pay We know we pay We shouldn't let Washington get away with the idea it is fooling us We will pay what is needed to defeat the Communists but we do not want to pay an excess on guesses made by the tte heads of our govern govern- ment The President t has given us economy economy economy econ econ- omy talk but no action We now turn to congress congre s to turn off oft the faucets of excessive spending Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress can do the Job by stopping appropriations it if it will Not appropriations appropriations appropriations ap ap- ap- ap for armament but for home projects we can do without and for those thousands of bureaucrats bureaucrats bureaucrats bureau bureau- whose only value lies in their votes If congress wont won't give us the relief we seek seck there will be bean bean bean an or else and we will send to Washington those who say they will do what we ask In his Ws before the senate senate senate sen sen- ate investigating committee Gen MacArthur indicated that one man and one man only was responsible responsible responsible sible for his dismissal He did not say who but indicated It was the President If U that t be the case Harry S. S Truman has but a few more months in which to exercise his not enough authority or to exercise his known impetuosity In In the meantime he might use both onI on some less valuable members of I those he has appointed to public office It is about time he took seriously the appointment of men to positions of public trust and not appoint them for political or personal reasons only He should not let impetuosity and expediency rule his sense of service i iDean r rDean Dean Acheson will be known to history as the worlds world's greatest appeaser appeaser appeaser ap- ap second only to England's Chamberlain r. r The President says we must pay payas payas payas as we go To do so he draws on the bank accounts of the people when taxes do not come in fast fasi I enough If Stalin does not want to fight this year we ve will again disarm and await his pleasure H- H To let them forget It will be well to keep the MacArthur evidence asfar asfar as asfar far from the people as possible It will take much longer for Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las MacArthur an old soldier to fade away into oblivion than willbe will willbe willbe be true of the President resident who broke him 1 Wonder whom the Republicans can name with which to lose in 1952 |