The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-11-15
the MEANING OF THINGS
BY zules n. Ecton
U. S. Senator

oy congress in the first session
on the 82nd Congress. This does
not include an estimated 81
olilion IN more or less perman-
ent allotmentS such as interest
on the national debt. 49,.
The total was $4,444, ST., III
less than President Truman and
ms budget bureau requested, a
reduction of 4.6 per cent. $57
billion was appropriated for de-
tense -. another, $50 billion
was authorized for acquisition
OF overseas bases and $7.5
billion for foreign aid.
A SIS 600 900 tax bill was
approved but failed by almost
$!.5 billion Of equaling the for
elgn aid bill. I voted against
poth, In part because I feel that
unless this country returns to a
balanced budget and sound
money we are headed for ma
tlonal bankruptcy with a venge-
ance. We are a great nation and
should be intelligent enough to
operate our government within
means of the people to support
Such a government. BASED on
a population of 1872, 900 900 peo-
pie, each of us is paying more
than $500 a year to operate this
vast government of ours.
It is always difficult to cut
appropriations, especially under
an administration not willing to
cooperate to that end. However,
the Senate Appropriations COM
mittee was able to effect a say
ing of 1888, 1923, 1913 in the foreign
aid bill. The motion to make
the cut was a close vote of 9
to 10. I was most gratified to
be able to cast the tenth vote
Tor this tremendous saving
subsequently the Senate SuS-
tanned the committee reduction
and the HouSe-Senate cOnfereeS
concurred also.
Veterans disability bill vetoed,
The veterans bill which became
law Notwithstanding the veto of
Mr.. Truman recognized the re-
alitieS of human suffering with
which war veterans have been
confronted. The benefits under
the law are limited exclusively
to those veterans who are total
ly incapacitated and unemploy-
able - to those veterans who
are blind, helpless or otherwise
so disabled as to require the
full-time attendance of another
person. The bill provides 500 per
month for incapacitated veter-
ans who are single and $120 if
married. Neither single MOI
married veterans are eligible il
they have incomes of as much
as $1,000 or $4,000 respectively
The presidential veto came as
a complete surprise to the Con-
gress and was overridden by q
large vote.
Korean war goes on :. on. The
Korean war is becoming in
creasingly more tragic as cas-
ualties approach the 10000
mark more than 14,00(
killed in action as compared tt
only $3.50 killed in the first Il
months of World War II. Gen
eral Macarthur warned the ma
ton that American casualties
would mount to an unprece-
dented number as long as this
so-called police action" was
allowed to be dominated by the
p~oliticos that the only pos
sibility under such Circumstance
eS was a Stalemate war. Cur
rent reports are that Genera
Ridgeway, the present Com
mander, is just as diSilluSioneC
and disguested as ever Genera
Macarthur was. The United Ma
tons flag flies with ours but
where is the UN's contribution
to world peace?
China experts" are incorrect
During the past five years thu
experts" have given the Amer
lean people much advice anc
information regarding CHINESE
and Russian problems in tht
Far East. Unfortunately for thi!
nation the advice and informa'
ton has proven utterly incor'
rect. First, we were told not tt
worry about the strides made
by the Chinese Communists he.
cause they were in fact no
Communists but agrarian re-
formers When the Chimes,
Communists activities were
shown to follow intimately TIT
Kremlin dictates, the American
people were treasured thai
Transformation of China into {
puppet state would eventually
prove a handicap rather thar
a help to the Moscow conSpir.
acy. Experts" on China init
mated that the ignorant Chin
ese masses, who have never
been able to understand whaf
national unity means, would
not follow the CommunlS
idealogies. Today $50 million
Chinese have been arrayed un.
der Soviet domination againsi
American boys in Korea under
the United Nations flag. China
is now completely isolated from
the West. Since the elimination
of the missionaries from tina
country, ties with the West are
far looser than those of tht
European peoples who have
been subjected to the Kremlin
Scandals are embarrassing. MY
pooi1 c~1narlu Indicates that, the