The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-09-06
Along the Potomac
to Washington
BY j. Glenn Beall
Congressman Sixth District

- ENt'Ao oiiiilEls llilutI llt M
tlonalist Government, fought Japan
csc aggression. For . of these years
the Chinese alone resisted Japan's
drive for the conquest of Asia. Now
the conference is taking place to
bring about an Allies-Japanese peace
treaty. The United States, through
its State Department, has been the
leading factor in drawing up the
treaty. Fifty nations have been in
vited to attend the conference. among
which is Soviet Russia who partici-
pated in the japanese war for only
six days. There is no record of any
Russian casualties in the brief ap-
pearance in the war. Nationalist
China's casualties in its war with
Japan totaled 3,17S,0G3 in military
alone. The civilian casualties cannot
be numbered. The State Department
did not invite China to the treaty
conference despite the fact that the
United States officially recognizes
and supposedly supports the Nation
alist Government Of China.
Both Houses Of Congress nave cut
the foreign aid bill below the $8.5
billion requested by the President.
This is supposed to be a mutual help
plan and yet the total military budget
of . of these European countries in
Guiding Belgium and Luxembourg,
Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal and Great Britain
is only $7.919 billion dollars, almost
billion dollars less than the foreign
aid requested by the Administration.
Out of our total $50 billion dollar
military budget, $1l billion may be
allocated to foreign military aid,
There is $4 billion dollars still unex-
pended for foreign military aid out
of last years budget, making total
Of approximately 1928 billion dol
lars Of American taxpayers money
for military and economic aid for this
year alone.
The SIND Congress to date has vot-
ed approximately $7O.5 billion dollars,
not including funds for foreign aid
programs. The total will probably be
around $77.5 billion dollars. Based on
a population of l54 million people in
the United States, the tax to every
individual man, woman and child will
be about $503. Last year that same
cost was $3.50 per person. The new
tax bill is about to be enacted. The
President called for SO billion in
extra taxes. According to Roswell
Magill, former Treasury Undersecre-
taly, a levy Of 100 percent on all tax
able incomes over $4,000 would be
needed to raise the additional reve-
nue.
In spite Of the huge jump in the
prices of food and other farm prod
ucts since the Korean war started,
the cost of the Governments farm
price support program for the year
ending June 80 was the greatest on
record. The Agriculture Departments
Commodity Credit. Corporation an
nounced last week that the cost of
maintaining high prices for farm
prices last year was more than third
of billion dollars. Most of the losses
were due to supporting prices of
eggs, potatoes, butter and milk.
The joint Congressional Committee
on the economic report, headed by
Senator O'Mahoney CD of Wyom-
ing. and Representative Hart CD of
New Jersey in its latest report on the
purchasing power of the dollar, based
on studies and data supplied by the
Presidents council of economic add
visOrs, announces that there will be a
drop of % percent in the dollar from
1850 to 1851.
Under The Dome
1t has been brought to my attention
that the United States Weather
Bureau proposes to cease operation of
the Weather Bureau station at Fred
erick. | have contacted the Chief of
the Weather Bureau protesting this
action as | feel this station serves a
necessary public and military need
because Of military aircraft using
Frederick Municipal Airport in con-
nection with high priority military
project at Camp DERRICK, off -airways
scheduled air traffic, transient non
scheduled air traffic and general
agricultural requirements.
| have contacted the Post Office
Department in an effort to obtain
rural mail delivery for residents of