Milford chronicle., 1949-06-10
SociaIized Education?

PRESIDENT TRUMAN proposes
that the school, children of to-
day shall be the recipients of gov-
ernmental care and protection dur-
ing their future years. The govern
ment will plan for them; win keep
them from want; viii pay their
medical and hospital bills; win
educate them and their children:
will provide them with homes, and
other essentials. The government
will plan and do for them what
their progeny have in the past done
for themselves.
It is a glorious utopia that is
promised, but what will it cost, and
who is to provide the funds needed
to meet the elaborate welfare pro.
grams?
Government experts who claim
to be versed in such matters figure
the cost over the next so years will
be but the trifling sum of one and
a quarter trillion dollars. / have no
idea of the meaning of such sum-
I have no conception Of its magni-
tude. doubt if any one other than.
possibly, Professor Einstein, or the
astronomers on Palomar mountain
in California, could enyision such
figures. In numerals. it looks like
this: $1,250, ,OOO, 100000. 1t is five
times the amount Of our present ma
tional debt.
Where is such an amount OF
money to come from over the
next 50 years? Those response
BILE for these wild welfare pro-
grams propose TO take ii all
right out Of the pockets Of
those who are today the school
children Of America. Each to
pay in proportion to what each
may earn, or what each may
have.
|. 1t is made TO sound like utopia,
but it does not provide for that
something for nothing" which 1t
would seem to promise. The school
children of today and tomorrow
will pay for the benefits they are
so glibly promised. They viii pay
not alone for the hand outs" they
get, but they will pay the wages Of
the armies of bureaucrats who will
be employed to plan for those who
pay, and those who have will pay
for those who have not.
In addition to the 1850 billions
that constitute the one and a
quarter trillion dollars they are to
pay for government planning and
care, they are also to continue to
pay, as their parents have, the
local, county, state and federal tax
es, with no indications Of even a
slight relief.
That one and a quarter trii-
, lion dollars, equal to 1850 bill
lions, the school children are to
pay is expected to provide for
: OId-age pensions, low rental
6 homes, sOcialized medicine.
n OId-age and unemployment i'm
4 surance, and other things. For
r all of il, the hureaucrats will do
4 the planning, make the rules,
:. and the children Of today will
n nay to the tune of one and a
. quarter trilliOn dollars. From
+. that sum the children, when
Il grown to manhood and woman
hood may draw some meager
sums provided it has not all
been paid to the bureaucratS.
Each year the cost is to mour
to higher peaks, but, Of course, tn
child of today will be the wag
Garner of tomorrow, and more an
more is to be taken from the pa
envelope of those who may have
pay envelope, to meet the increa'
ing costs. It is Uncle Sam turne
Santa Claus, providing the goo
little boys and girls deposit wit
him, in advance. the toys he wi
return to them IF!
rs Senator Taft asks the presidel
cS and his followers to slide along
IS, bit, so as to afford him a place {
ng the welfare platform. He insis
n that unless the Republicans have
to hand in the welfare handouts, Il
's- party can have no chance of wi
Is. ming. The senator, too, believes {
mt of the people can be fooled all
OF the time. But former Preside
EST Hoover urges careful considerati,
he of these welfare projects, and t
we terrific expense they will foist up
wn those who are the children of toda
he To him they are the fallacy t
he children will find them to be in Z
years to come. Herbert Hoover
The the children's better friend.
las How long will the Americ
is people stand for these grandio.
Use and ridiculously expen nsiI
schemes. the only possible purpc
of which is to attract votes. Let
. hope we awaken before congrt
has voted the payroll taxes that "
take from our children during I
q next so years that trifling sum
= one and a quarter trillion dolla
= most of it to be spent for burei
crat salaries. Such a sum will neN
:, be paid, but the effort to collect
will break all of us.
. toI The FBI is department of
'ne federal government of which tn,
ney Are no complaints offered by
sun patriotic, law-abiding citizens.
80 does a thorough job of secur
O''' evidence against criminals v
have violated federal laws, or v
M are disloyal to the American G