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THURSDAY, FEB
Science Gap
it's A Sad, Sad World
EDITORIAL PAGR
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Capitalism Can't Live
►Without War, Says K
BY PETER EDSO.V
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
(~ * WASHINGTON — >YEA)- The Kennedy administration ap-
parently hopes that rrost progress can be made in negotiations
•. ith Russia's Khrushchev on the subjects of disarmament and
; peaceful coexistence to avoid World War II.
Khrushchev has done a lot- ot talking on tiie=e subjects as
; .t if styled champion of the peace-loving states.
! I'-t when hi:: words are examined closely, what comes out
■ i.' mostly double talk. This was particularly true when he re-
\ l orte.| on the recent Moscow conference ot" Communist party
; t epresentatives from 81 countries.
So. before anyone get.-, too deeply involved in discussing dis-
' arn-ament and peaceful coexistence with the Russians, ii
. t:>. uid be determined which side of his mouth Khrushchev is
talking from. Here are significant excerpts from his long Jan.
•; pt ech to illustrate this point:
' (A mracles, if the problem of all problems of cur times is
that of a.erting a new war. the most radical way of solving it
is disarmament, . . . Our struggle for disarmament is not a
tactical move. We sincerely want disarmament. . . .
THE STRUGGLE FOR DISARMAMENT is the most impor-
tant fa tor for averting war It is an effective struggle
- win. ! imperialism. In uch a struggle the socialist camp has
the majority of mankind on its side.
The struggle for disarmament.is an active struggle against
imperialism, for restricting its military potentialities. . . .
The primary condition of progress in disarmament is the
nobilization of the broadest masses of people and their increas-
rig pressure < n imperialist governments. . . .
Umm pointed out the necessity for establishing contacts
■ ith those circles of the bourgeoise which gravitate towards
! icifism, even if they should be of the poorest quality. . . . The
correctness of these words is confirmed by the eveiits of our
times, too.
' AMONG THE RITING CLASSES of the imperialist camp, a
fear for the future of capitalism prevails. . . . Hence there are
two tendencies One is aiming ;.t war. the second accepting the
idea of peaceful coexistence in some form. .
Comrades, life itseli bears out the correctness of the Lenin-
ist policy of peaceful coexistence of states with diverse social
sterns, consistently pursued by the Soviet Union and ether
:'ixiaiist countries . . .
PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE WITH CAPITALIST countries
facilitates the activities of Communist parties and other
progressive organizations of the working class. It facilitates
the struggle the people wage against aggressive military blocs,
against foreign military bases.
"Thus, the policy of peatefu! coexistence, as regards its '
social content, is a form of intense economic, political and •
ideological struggle of the proletariat against the aggressive
fo.ccs of imperialism in the international arena.
There ;s only one way of bringing imperialism to heel . . .
an all-out unification and consolidation of'the world revolution- j
ary movement ... to prevent the danger of war.
"The Communist party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet !
government will continue with determination to do everything
to enhance the military might cf our cour.trv."
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...progress
Economy Is In "Sad Shape"
Needs Shoring Up
The Dallas Morning News
John T. O'Rourke, editor of the
: Washington News, writes to The
Dallas News a letter d{ truk mov-
ing tenor. In part he says:
"About one half of Washington's
total area is occupied by the gov-
ernment and is lax - free The fe-
ller al share is paid in lieu oi taxes
on this area, in recent years the
share has been cut steadily in a-
inount until it now represents only
lit! per cent of the budget for 1DH2.
"Washington's higher - income
families and business have been
migrating to the suburbs, more ra-
pidly than in other cities. The city's
taxes are comparable to those of
neighboring areas; raising them
will only accelerate the flight of
these lax sources. Unless Con-
uress approves an adequate pay-
ment , your national capital will
deteriorate still more rapidly . . .
Would you write an editorial urg-
ing sympathetic consideration of
ihp full i3t>.000.000 . " i He is asking
S36.ttOO.OOU a year
The Dallas News is overflowing
with symapthy for its dear brother
in the largest Negro city in the
ing as to NATO's merit President
Kennedy already lias begun that
process by stoutly i easserting
America's I'aith in the organization
and pledging it more, not less.
I'. S support.
Inevitably, our assurance o'i
support must lead to settlement ol
the pending issue whether or not
we should give NATO a nuclear
striking power. The Eisenhower ad-
ministration tentatively agreed to
that last December, but no final
decision has come since.
NATO has lived loo long in the
hall light of inadequate support
and weak conviction. Either ii
must he built up by all concerned
as a positive asset for security, or
If the intent is lo build, the first
it should be scrapped.
effort must be to put that old build-
ing block. Charles tie Gaulle, back
ino place as a 'lull supporting pil-
lar.
civilized world. But, after all. his
city government is operating right
under the drip of the most stupen-
dous deficit in the world. Why
not operate Washington on a de-
licit" Washingtonians will just owe
it to each other. Issue bonds, sell
them to each other and take the
proceeds lo pay each other.
In addition, by raising the mini-
mum wages of all City oY Washing-
Ion employes, times will get beti
er. Mr. Kennedy says so.
Raise everybody s wages and
everybody will feel more like pav-
ing taxes. A whole batch ol eco-
nomists have moved into Washing-
ton recently to tell us how this is
so.
Of course Washington could
adopt a payroll lax and the rate
of the payroll t;;x ought to increase
gradually, the closer it gets to Hie
Supreme I unit ol Hie United Star-
ts. It sounds reasonable. The Su-
preme Court and the NAACP i.avi
run Washington taxpayers out ot
town; it is only reasonable that,
wmebody should make up ihe dif -
ference.
As for the rest oY the country,
do not think lhat it lacks sym-
pathy. It will gladly extend .?36,000.-
!)00 worth of sympathy lo Washing-
ton — payable in sympathy only.
The rest of the country ought to
feet for Washington. You see, the
rest of the country has to run lo-
cal government out of what is left
after Uncle Sam gets done suck-
ing up the tax resources available.
It is a sad, sad world.
Special fish ponds in the Orient
yield as many as 4,000 pounds of
fish an acre each year. This com-
pares to about SO pounds per acre
liom the sea.
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WEATHER YEAR IS THIS
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The Abilene Reporter News
! tYbruarv continues ttup good
i k -« well begun by January.
Vf ar VMM is apt to wt new re-
si- for the richness and time-
of its crop-ma king rains
e frequent rains may tfet on
nerves now and then hut
'forget that tl^ey're just what
doctor ordered 'ior record
This vwek's rains mean next
harvest Ihe ram that should
ialien some wee* ahead of
hut didn't will cost some far-
a hale or two of cotton.
have a taint recollection ol
t
3° • -it .'TTierr ccr*
t re. ord
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hauling oft sometime last spring,
hc'iorc were laid up, of making
a weather map for this year, but
we've forgotten what it was; there-
fore it would he a threat to our
forecasting reputation lo juess
blindly now what we predicted
nearly a year mmo We don't Hatter
onrvIf that am bod} would be in-
terested anyhow
But if v.torerast a wet year
rtuht on through we hit it right on
the head so far But weather is a
moody thine and tn ihe middle o'i
March people ntav he bemoaning
"■his friehtiutlv dry weather."
But ns oi thi^ writing: every-
thing's hunkvdorjt and the goose
hones hi'-'h lr wp were still active
irt the forecasting business we'd
haul right oft and >-a\ this is going
to be a champion weather year.
You have our permission to quote
us to that effect — not that it mat-
er- one way or the other.
One thins wp won't do. we won't
complain over too much rain, even
ii the scuppers go awash
We believe in lots of rain the
more the better a condition you
seldom See m this semi-arid coun-
try ,
Rain i« beautiful stuff, anci we're
loj it, F.C
OUT OUR WAY
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The Dallas Morning News
Speaker Sam Rayburn says the
national economy is in sari shape.
Ills conference with the President
probably will result in elfotts to
speed government help — which
will mean more government spend-
ing. The government's intentions
are sincere — but the method
'more spending' is open to ques-
tion.
Mr RavDurn siioukl know. Me
has been in Congress throughout
the period of pump-priming techni-
ques and must surely realize that
the nation's iiscal system is shaky,
with inflation threatening our na-
tional economy and the dollar
worth only half what it was in
1930.
A continuation of the more-spend-
ing techniques can only result in
higher taxes or an unbalanced bud.
cet and higher national debt. Nei-
ther of these can be calculated to
strengthen Ihe national economy.
If Presiden Kennedy really w ants
to stimuate the economy of the na-
tion let him call fot- economy in
government, less spending and lo-
wer taxes Such a new turn of po-
licy by the national government
would inspire coniidenee in busi-
ness and bring an immediate in-
crease in expansion o'i corporate
enterprise and employment.
It will be argued that the United
States simply cannot decrease Its
expenditures. This is nonsense.
As late as 191a, total expenditur-
t s of the federal government were
onl\ >750.000,000. Today they are
about $$0,000,000,000 — approxima-
te^ a hundred times as great as
Ihey were in 1015.
In the same period the area of
the I ntted States has increased 16
per cent and the population 75 per
cent Government expenditures are
ridiculous in comparison.
Specifically, how reduce expen-
ditures ? Well. i\e are spending
four billion annually in foreign aid
and letting practically no benefit.
We might at least, cut down a
little.
And here is an example of do-
mestic spending that might be eli-
minated: Since 1315 there have
been organized about 700 federal
corporations that are in competi-
tion with private business. They
have a book value o\ S2S2.000.000.-
ooo aGri comprise 20 per cent of
the nation's industrial capacity.
Ill 195!>. these government cor-
porations lost 519,000,000,000, They
had more than one million empolv-
es who received a total of S3,300.-
000 000 in w ages
It is estimated that these cor-
porations could be sold to private
business for about S65.000,000,000.
This amount, applied on the natio-
nal debt, would save about S2.000.-
000.000 in interest charges alone.
Some S12.900.009.000 a year is ex-
pended in free goods and services
in connection with the operation
| of these corporations, and there
are still other large expenses borne
bv the federal treasury. About $40,-
000.000.090 annually could be saved
by ihe federal government by
disposing of these corporations.
That is about hafi the federal bud-
, ge>.
But the best argument for de-
, creasing expenditures is the ob-
| vious fact that the nation soon will
be bankrupt if tht. present tendency
[ continues. When we are a bank-
rupt nation Russia will move in.
i Karl Marx said it would happen.
Today In History
■IWNIIIMIinNNMNinilHIliiUiliiKOlniliillllllHUMINNi
Today is Thursday. February 23-
rd the 54th day of 1961. There are
31! days left in the year
Today's highlight in history:
On this day in 1953, free China
announced it was declaring null
and void the treaty of 1945. That
treaty was an outgrowth of the
Yalta Conference and gave Russia'
full rights to the ports of Dairen
and Port Arthur.
On this date —
In 1799, the U. S. Congress pass-
ed the first national quarantine le-
i gislation
In 188 i. Charles Martin Hall in-
vented a process of producing alu-
; ntinum in commercial -qualities.
In 1905 the original rotary club
was founded in Chicago by Paul
Percy Harris.
I In 1942, Dutch and U S. Air and
' Naval forces destroyed or scatter-
ed a Japanese invasion ileet lhat
• had attacked Bali.
In 1945, U. S. Marines raised the
American flag on Mount Suribaehi
on I wo .lima.
Ten years ago, Former Heavy-
weight Champion, .loe Louis contin-
( ued his comeback campaign with
! a 10th round technical knockout
i over Andy Walker at San Francis-
i CC„.
Five years ago. 90 Negro leaders
j o'i Montgomery,j Alabama were ar-
rested for leading a boycott against
| segregated seating on buses operaL
; ed by the city of Montgomery.
One year ago, at least '!9 miners
j were killed and 74 others injured
in an explosion in a coal mine in
East Germany.
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
j It is as old story lhat President
' Charles de Gaulle ot France has
j his own ideas about his country's
1 relationship to NATO. Unhappily.
it is a continuing story, with each
| succeeding chapter growing grim-
: mer.
Thoughtful statesmen and diplo-
! mats, appreciative of France's
j individual aspirations but deeply
i weeded to NATO as a barrier to
i Communist advance, feel that De
| Gaulle now is going to extremes.
Some even have suggested sev-
erely that he has reached the point
\there he is trying to make NATO
serve France's narrow national in-
terest alone, rather than to have
France contribute through NATO
to the general saiety of Western
Europe.
Of late years. NATO has been so
often in crisis that it has hardly
known normalcy. Secretary Gen-
eral Spaaks' resignation was at
least in big part a protest against
member nations, including France,
which would not honor their mili-
tary commitments.
De Gaulle of course has long
since withdrawn the French Medi-
terranean navy from NATO. More
recently he has been trying to
make the French military com-
mand wholly independent oi NATO
authorif.
Certainly De Gaulle has many
grave problems of his own. But he
has exhibited enough statesman-
ship n other fields far it to be
plain that he must understand NA-
TO's life and death need ior a full
co-operative effort.
That he refuses to make this ei-
fort can mean either that he al-
lows his best judgment to he blind-
ed occasionally by his devotion
to France, or that he really docs
not believe in NATO's value.
Only the most delicate diplomatic
approaches can possibly cure any
emotional blindness.
But if the general needs persuad-
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