Milford chronicle., 1949-09-09

litical giants will compromise.
Chances are that Congress will go
the limit, and dish out all the big
money-in one, or more, ship
loads.
Lewis Welfare Fund,
The John L. Lewis's welfare fund
is now paying benefits of more
than s100,000,000 year. The in
come, derived from tax of 20
cents a ton on all coal mined, was
$50, ,891 ,905 for the year.
| Benefits paid to coal miners and
their families amounted to $1O4,-
SSO,7S5.
A. deficit of S13,9SS,SSO resulted
from the years operation.
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/ When is Lobbyist Not Lobbyist!
About 1000 lobbyists hang
around the National Capital-try-
ing to switch votes of Senators and
Representatives "to their side
Well, there are a lot of people
who go up on the Hill and express
their honest convictions to Sena-
tors and Representatives. They
/ have a perfect right to do that!
Evidently, lobbyists are paid
representative of different inter-
ests. They make the rounds of
Railways, and argue specifically
for their piece of legislation. That
may be all right part of the time,
b.,t not oil tho tir11n
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How Big Is IT,
What we would like to know is
how President Truman can be
right in asking for $1,450, 100000
, for military aid. A whole bunch OF
Senators and Representatives don't
know either. But you are taking
no chances when you ask any one
if he has any inside information
as to whether all that dough would
! stop a Russian war.
!, About the only sensible thing
] that we have read in the papers is
! THAT a small group of Senators, in
cluding Taft, express the belief
that the danger of such an amaZ-
ing use of American money may
, eventually lead to a race with Rus
! sia that will end in war.
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Boom or Bust
There seems to be more conf
= dence in the belief that our coun
: try will not suffer a very heav!
4 decline in industry for the rest o
: this year. Some of the leading
9 authorities on our national con
:, ditions seem to share the belle
: that employment may yet climb t
= about 59,000,000 because there i
: now a continuing need for mucl
merchandise that is hard to gel
But do not expect boom" afte
: the bottom has been reached il
= the current decline. The proph
I. cts have all been interviewed an
= the results are that they see goo
. business for this fall and winter.
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g The Atomic Mystery
y Four years have passed since tn
a. dropping of the atomic bomb o
10 Hiroshima-and not very man
70 people know what a great myster
ye atomic energy is. Anyway we b'
10 lieve that this great American 81
IN cret is in safe hands-despite a
r the gossip and contradiction
6 that belief.
10 Besides that, it is common sens
H. to keep a few bombs in storage fl
our old enemy Stain and his Con
Iv munists. There doesn't seem to
he much hope of ever making frien'
n with the Russians along the lin,
that are now being pursued.
cd Coming Up
er Believe it or not the avera
,ss American is paying out 81 in Fe
Ter eral, State and local taxes for e
cir cry $4.10 earned.
w, Senator Byrd of Virginia has
lot of support for his suggesti'
that all Federal expenses be C
by 10 per cent by the Government.
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!, Tender Meat
he Official Government fact-findi
sh- reports say that hog prices m
-on drop so low in the fall and wint
,p- that the Government will buy po
ION TO hold hog prices at the suppC
Sc level required by law. Well, a
in of us don't like pork very we'll a
wo that may mean that other mt
prices will SIX things up.
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ian The Long and the Short of i
lci- Washington is in hands of pc
eat ticians. Strangely enough stat
our manship is at an absolutely