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Overestimote Seen
On Tax Collections
Let me give you a few more

Let me give you a few more
facts:
First: The past administra-
ton over-estimated tax collec-
tions for the next fiscal year
by some $1.2 billion. Even the
most conscientious men must
be allowed some leeWay in
forecasting tax receipts more
than a year ahead. Neverthe-
less it is unfortunately true
that this over-estimate of in
come would bring the red-ink
entry for the coming year up
to more than II billion dollars.
Second: The military budget
proposed by the previous ad-
ministration for the fiscal year
1854 did not fully plan for one
item that could scarcely be
called obscure. That item was
the Korean War. No specific
budgetary provision was made
for continuance of this con-
f1ict. No provision was made
for the building up of Republic
of Korea divisions beyond
those currently in being. Our
task, then, is not only one Of
dealing with the planned def
cit, but also one Of providing
for the costs of the Korean
War so long as it may con-
tinue.
Third: Largely aside from
the budget and deficit, there
will be-as of June 80 of this
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Indispensable needs for ships
or tanks or rockets or guided
missiles or artillery-all to-
tailed in numbers that are
always called minimum" All
such views are argued with
vigor and tenacity. But OBJ
viously all cannot be right.
Now it is a fact-and this
I most deeply believe-that it
is foolish and dangerous for
any OF us to be hypnotized by
magic numbers in this type of
analysis. There is no given
number of ships-no given
number of divisions-no given
number of air wings in the Air
Force. Navy and Marine Corps
no given number of billions
OF dollars-that will automatic
cally guarantee security.
I have given to this phase of
our national planning careful,
personal study and analysis.
have, as you know, lived with
it for many years. I have also
sought, of course, advice from
the most competent people I
could find.
Let me tell you how we ap-
preached this analysis. We did
not set any fixed sum of money
to which our defense plans had
to be fitted. We first de-
termined what is truly vital to
our security. We next planned
ways to eliminate every USE
less expenditure and duplica-
ton. And we finally decided
upon the amount of money
needed to meet this program.
Such an analysis rejects the
extreme arguments of enthu-
siasts and of all groups of
special pleaders both in and
out of the military services.
But this I do assure you:
What has been so carefully,
so painStakingly evolved is a
sound program. 1t contem-
plates in each Of the armed
forces calculated risks which
have been prudently reasoned.
And it represents, in my judg-
ment, what is best for our
Nations permanent security.
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Military WotchfuIness
Must Not Lose Battle

To watch vigilantly on the
military front must never mean
to be blind on the domestic
front. In our present world
in this kind of prolonged ten
sion and Struggle-a crippled
industry or a demoralized
working force could be the
equivalent of a lost battle. Pro-
longed imitation could be as
destructive of a truly free
economy as could a chemical
attack against an army in the
field. And if, in today's con-
tinuing danger, we ever were
to strain our capacity until
rigid governmental controls,
indefinitely or permanently
continued, became mandatory
where then would be the
freedoms we defend?
Our defense-I repeat-must
be carefully planned and stead
fastly sustained.
Such planning brings us to
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The tert of President EiSen-
hoWer'S radio address on tdreS
and security tollotUS:
My Fellow Americans:

My Fellow Americans:
Tonight, as you sit in your
homes all across this broad
land, I want to talk with you
about an issue affecting all
our lives. It is the defense of
our country.
# we ponder this a moment,
we all know that this really
means the defense Of those
spiritual values and moral
ideals cherished by generations
of AmericanS-the true treas
ure of our people. This treas
ure Of the spirit must be de-
Tended, above all, with weap-
ons of the spirit: Our will, our
devotion, our readiness to sac
rifice.
If we think further, we also
know that this defense of
America demands still other
weapons. We must, of course,
want to be free. But this is not
enough.
To be free and to stay free,
we must be Strong-and we
must stay strong.
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Only Workable Formula
Involves Stronu Defense

There is. I believe, only one
honest. workable formula. It
is not magical, but it is the
best that competent men can
define. 1t is this: A defense
strong enough both to discour-
age aggression and beyond this
to protect the Nation-in the
event of any aggression-as it
moves swiftly to full mobiliza-
ton.
The more swiftly and smooth
ly we can mobilize, the less
our dependence upon standing
armies, navies and air forces.
The more vigorously we elm
mate the non-esSential, the
more effective we can concen-
trate on what is vital.
Withall this in mind, we are
putting major emphasis on air
power, which daily becomes a
more important factor in mod
ern war. Our revised budget
will provide the Air Force
more than 40 per cent of all
defense funds programmed for
1854. AS of this June 80, the
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Sound Dollar Is Vital
To Every u. S. Family

For every American family
today. this matter of the sound
dollar is crucial. Without a
sound dollar. every American
family would face a renewal
of imitation, an ever increas-
ing cost of living. the wither-
ing away of savings and life
insurance policies. An imme-
date tax reduction which in
turn inflated the dollar still
more would cheat every family
in America. 1t would strike
most cruelty at the poorest
among us.
The balancing of the budget
OF the United States is, there
fore, vital-not merely as some
abstract, statistical feat to be
performed by Government ac-
(See TEXT, Page A-l0D
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and child in our country. This
is the first step in cutting ex-
penditureS. Next year we shall
spend at least $4.5 billion less
than was planned by the for
mer administration.
Here let me add this word.
Government cannot do this
job-any more than any other
job-utterly alone. You and
your fellow citizens who want
your Government to spend less
must yourselves practice self
restraint in the demands you
make upon Government. You
as a citizen cannot help the
common cause by merely IA
voring economy for every group
except the one to which you
belong.
All that we have done to
date is an encouraging start.
But it is no more than a start.
During every day of the COM
ing year we must and shall
continue striving to find, in
every department Of the Gov
ernment. new ways to achieve
economies. I need scarcely re-
mind you that the saving Of
$4.5 billion is less than half
the deficit planned by the pre-
vious administration for the
next fiscal year.
It Is in the light Of these
. facts that all Of us must
honestly face the matter Of
taxes. It must be apparent
that to accept a great revenue
loss at this time would be to
insure longer life to bigger
Federal deficits and greater
eventual danger to our coun-
try.
The convictions of this ad-
mlnlstration on these grave
subjects are clear and simple.
We believe that-for the
long term-present taxes are
too high. We think they are
becoming a real threat to in
dividual initiative.
We believe. at the same
time, that no citizen-once
satisfied that his Government
is operating with honesty and
economy. and planning with
foreSight-wantS arty tax saw
Ing at the price of essential
national security.
We believe - finally that
our truly urgent need Is to
make our Nation secure, our
economy strong, and cur dol
lar sound.
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steadily-juSt exactly what Is
the danger before us.
1t is more than merely a
military threat.
1t has been coldly calculated
by the Soviet leaders-for by
their military threat, they have
hoped to force upon America
and the free world an unbear-
able security burden leading
to economic disaster. They
have believed-and, in fact.
plainly said-that free people
cannot. preserve their way of
life and at the same time pro-
vide enormous military estab-
lishments. Communist guns,
in this sense. have been aim
ing at an economic target no
less than a military target.
I believe firmly-and I
think the Soviets realize
that the United States. II
forced to total mobilization
today. could meet and win any
military challenge.
I believe no less firmly that
we must see and meet the full
nature of the danger immedi-
ately before us. For the nature
of this danger dictates the
nature of the defense we sum-
mon.
This defense must, first Of
all, be one which we can bear
for a long-an indefinite
period of time. It cannot con-
sist of sudden. blind responses
to a series of fire-alarm emer-
gencies, summoning us to
amaSS forces and materiel
with speed that is needless
of cost, order and efficiency.
1t cannot be based solely on
the theory that we can point
to a D-day of desperate
danger, somewhere in the near
future, to which all plans can
be geared.
The truth is that our danger
cannot be fixed or confined to
one specific instant.
We live in an age of peril.
We must think and plan and
provide so as to live through
this age in freedom-in ways
that do not undermine our
freedom even as we strive to
defend it,
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Budget Requests Cut
In Real Effort to Save

Because of the necessary
costs of national security, your
Government is not just preach
ing economy but practicing it.
Every department of this Gov
eminent has cut its requests
for funds for the next fiscal
year. AS a result, we have been
able to reduce the previous
administrations request for
appropriations of new money
by some $8.5 billion. This
prodigious sum means more
than $50 for every man, woman
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that beWildering realm of
budgets and expenditures and
appropriations and deficits and
taxes. This, as we all know, is
no easy area to explore or to
explain. But these rude facts
and-fgureS of our national
economy are-to our body
politic-as vital as pulse-rateS
or blood-countS.
AS you all know. Government
deficits of past years have been
a main cause of the cheaper
ing of our dollar by half its
value.
The budget inherited by this
administration, for the year
beginning this July l, called
for expenditures of $78.6 bill
lion. and signified another
red-ink entry in our national
books of 500 billion-on top
OF other big deficits for last
year and this year.
Beyond this, when this ad-
ministration took Office, we
faced two stubborn financial
facts. The first fact was this:
Under the former administra-
ton expenditures for the fu-
ture were so scheduled as to
reach their peak during 1854
and 1855. The second fact was
this: These are precisely the
years when - under existing
laws-Federal revenues from
taxes, under scheduled reduc-
tionS, will fall sharply down.
ward.
If we do nothing about this,
the results of these facts could
only be: Bigger deficits, great
er Government borrowing, ever
increasing cost of living, de-
preciated savings, higher and
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Government Competence
Involved in Security

Our national security is af-
fected by almost everything
that your Government does
things far removed from the
building Of planes or the
training of troops.
National security involves,
for example. the plain honesty
and competence of Govern
ment itself-for no nation is
secure whose government does
not command respect at home
and honor abroad.
Our strength demands, also,
healthy two-way trade with
our allies - for this Nation
could not for long enjoy either
freedom or prosperity alone in
a hostile world.
And, national security re-
quireS an industrious and pro-
ductive America, for here is
the vital source of all our mill
tary strength.
Those truths make clear, I
think, how every act of your
Government is-and must be
"a part of the whole, great
effort to make America secure
in a world in which freedom
itself is under mortal fire.
We all know something of
the long record of deliberately
planned Communist aggres-
sion. There has been, to this
moment, no reason to believe
that Soviet policy has changed
its frequently announced hope
and purpose-the destruction
Of freedom everywhere.
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year-$81 billion Of authori-
cations to spend money for
which cash must be found in
the tax revenues of the next
several years. Since a large
part Of this enormous sum is
already under contract, mostly
Tor defense purposes, there is
little room in which to turn
around to make any immedi-
ate economies in this area.
This whole matter is rather
like buying COD. When you
order goods COD, you do
not need any money until the
items come to your front doors
and then it is cash on de-
livery. This administration
faces payment on just such
an $81 billion COD. over the
next several years.
I come now to the critical
question: How can we make
more bearable, for every fam
lily in our land, the burden of
this inheritance-and at the
same time make our Nations
security more sound and sure?
To begin with the military
front: There must be-far
from any slackening of effort
"a speeding, a sharpening, a
concentration that will extract
the last cent of value from
every dollar spent. Our de-
tense establishment has yet
to reach the level Of perform
ance we want. Until it has,
we shall not rest.
I want here to state a few
critical facts plainly. They are
critical. They are facts. And
they should be beyond the
reach of any partisan debate.
Maximum Security Means
Total Mobilization
It is military fact that there
. is no such thing as maximum
security short of total mobili-
zation of all our national re-
sources. Such security would
compel us to initiate the meth
DDS of the dictator. It would
compel us to put every able
bodied young man in uniform
to regiment the worker, the
farmer, the businessman-to
allocate materials and to con-
troll prices and wages in
short. to devote our whole Ma
tion to the grim purposes of
the garrison state.
This II firmly believe is
not the way to defend America.
1t is also a fact that when
we seek anything less than
this vision of military perfec-
tion - total mobilization
are debating in a realm of
speculation - sometimes in.
formed. more often unin-
formed.
Words like essential" and
indispensable" and absolute
minimum" become the COM
mon coin of this realm-and
they are spent with wild aban-
don. One military man will
argue hotly for a given num-
Der of aircraft as the absolute
minimum" Another, even from
the same military service, will
answer just as paSsionately
that less aircraft of a different
kind is imperative" And 9TH
ers will earnestly advocate the
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Reds Hope to Force West
Into Economic Chaos

There is, therefore, no rea-
son for the free nations to alter
their course: To hope and work
for the best, to arm and be
ready for the worst.
We must See-clearly and
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higher cost Of the nations Sc
curity.
These figures are but a small
part of the story.
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aspirations to freedom of the
captive nations.
I'VE firmly believe that unity,
strength. faith and adherence
to principles are the keys to
better tomorrow and that they
would within the foreseeable fu-
ture so change the relative
power of the world of freedom
and the world of slavery that
the Soviet Union would eventu-
ally have to enter self enforcing
agreements on specific issues.
And we feel certain that STEP
by-Step solutions that would ad-
vance the borders of freedom
would be welcome to the captive
peoples as long as they do not,
by implication, close the door to
further advances"
The statement was signed by
the following refugee leaders:
N. Balabanoff, former Minister
Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria;
Raoul Bossy, former Minister
Plenipotentiary of Romania; Vim
tia V. Bratianu, member of
r omanian National Liberal
Party; N. Caranfil, former
Romanian Minister for Air and
Navy; DR.. Josef Cerny, former
CZechoSlovak Minister of the In
terror; Brutus Coste, former
Romanian Charge d'Affaires
here: Charles A.. Davila, former
Romanian Minister to the United
States; DR.. Josef DieSka, former
chairman Slovak Liberal Party;
Hasan Dosti. former Chief JUS
tice of Albania; Dr.. Slobodan
Draskovitch, former professor,
Belgrade University; Vasil Fedi-
nee, former Bank Governor in
Czechoslovakia; Gregory Gafen-
GU, former Romanian Foreign
Minister; DR.. Fedor Hodza, for
mer member of CzechoSlovak
Parliament and secretary gen.
eral of the Slovak Democratic
Party; Nuei Kotta, Albanian
representative and vice chair
man of Liberal-Democratic I'm
ion of Central and Eastern Eu-
rope; D. Matzankieff, former
member of the Bulgarian Par
lament; Milo Mileff, former
Minister Plenipotentiary of Bull
garia; Vaclav Mjer, former
Czechoslovak Minister of Food
Industry; Michal Moscicki, for
mer Minister Plenipotentiary of
Poland; DR.. Stefan Osusky, for
mer Minister of State and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary of Czecho-
Slovakia; DR.. George Petkoff, for
mer member Bulgarian Parlia-
ment; DR.. Adolf Prochazka, for
mer Czechoslovak Minister for
Health: Bogdan Raditsa, promi-
nent Yugoslav author and lee
turer; Mihai Rautu, former Min
lister Under of State
for Communications, member of
the Executive Committee Ro-
manian National-Peasant Party
and Bella Varga. former Pres
ldent, Hungarian Parliament.
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Mexican Film Idol
is Fighting for Life
BY the Associofed Press

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4.-Jorge
Negrete. Mexico's popular sing
ing cowboy of the films, re-
mains in extremely critical con-
dition today. He has been in a
coma since Monday.
The actor, who is AZ today.
is suffering from hepatitis and
cirrhosis of the liver.
He came here for a theatrical
appearance and was hospital
lied November %.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3 (P.-
Remember the emotional up
heaval in the United States when
Rudolph Valentino died? Mex
leo is going through a similar
situation as its singing cowboy,
Jorge Negrete, lies dying in a
Los Angeles hospital.
1t is the big topic of conver-
sation. Newspapers carry COL
umns of type and pictures in
each issue. Radio broadcasts
are jammed with news of Ne
CRETE.
Around the clock, 24-hour
death watches" are being MAIN
tanned by newspapers and radio
stations to rush news of his
death-when it comes-to the
public.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Soviet Production Boss
Hits Laqqinq Campaign
By the Assoeiated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 4.-Nikita S.
Khrushchev, first secretary of
the Communist Party and head
man in the drive to lift agricul-
tural. and consumers goods pro-
duction, complained yesterday
that the campaign is going too
slowly.
He told a conference of agri-
cultural editors in Moscow that
there was too much inertia and
complacency IN liquidating short
comings, and ordered the editors
to set about the vigorous ex-
posure of ineficiency in factory
and party organizations.
The party boss criticism fol-
lowed periodic blasts in the press
reporting that the big drive, in
augurated with much fanfare
last September to lift Soviet liv-
ing standards, is not going well
in some phases and in some
places.
Mr.. Khrushchev charged that
"some people take a snobbish at
titude" toward farm work and
that people who are shirking or
ders to go out to the farms to
help must be exposed.
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rs wonderful the way
chewing-GUm Laxative
0etS chiefly 70.
REMOVE WASTE
M GOOD FOOD
oHere,s the secret millions
haze discovered about

chewing gum laxative that's 30 won-
derfully differenti
Doctors say that many other laxa-
ttves start their flushing" action too
soon right in the stomach where
food is being digested Large doses OF
such laxatives upset digestion. flush
away nourishtng food you need for
health and energy. You feel weak. tired.
But gentle FEEN-A-AIINT. taken as
recommended. works chiefly In the lower
bowel where 1t removes mostly waste.
not good food. You avoid that typical
weak. tired feeling Get TEEN-A-A1INR
and feel your ''peppy" self-full of life!
Still 25. Soc or only TO-.
Evening star., 1953-04-26

piece with slanting backstop which rested
flush against the soles of the shoes. Such
comfort, thought Mr.. Hood, should belong
to every one. He began manufacturing the
stools.
Today, more than $500 of Mr.. Hoods
"gout-stools" have been sold to connoisseurs
Of comfort all over the world. Each footrest
turned out by the onetime Detroit executive
and his single assistant is exactly like the
original Jacobean period piece. except that
foam rubber is used under the leather
upholstery instead of the old horsehair
stuf1lng. Construction Is Of the time
honored mortise-and-t type, held to-
gether by wood pegs and glue.
Mr.. Hoods gout-stool business is thriving
and sn is he.
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Rest for The Weary (Feet. That Isl

A T THE age of so, Percy w. Hood was
n told it was time for him to retire-to
rest his feet. as his fellow company of1cials
put it. He did precisely that-and thereby
got back into business
It all began when the retired axle COM
pany executive was visiting neighbor in
Gloucester, Va. back in 1884 Settling down
for chat, he asked about the remarkably
comfortable leg -and-foot stool his host had
set in front Of the easy chair.
It turned out to be family heirloom
dating back more than $50 years to the
time when 18th century gentlemen ordered
such contraptions to ease the pain of their
gouty toes. High and straight-legged at
the front. short and gracefully curved at
the rear. it was beautifully upholstered
Evening star., 1953-04-26

PAGE aHE MAGAZINE 49, 1888
Evening star., 1953-03-15

parliament and former foreign
minister. he is on the presidium
and political secretariat of the
party.
Security Minister Karol Bacil-
elk, Sc, hater of the United
States whose formal education
never went beyond the second
grade. An apprentice locksmith
until he was IA, he has had a
meteoric rise in the party he
Joined as a youth. Became minis
ter of state control in 1851. Took
over direction of police and bor-
der units last year as security
minister.
Defense Minister Alexei Cepic-
ka, AZ, a lawyer who married
Gottwald's daughter Martha in
the Prague town hall in August,
1948. During World War II, he
was a prisoner Of the Nazis at
Buchenwald. When the Commu-
nists seized power he was ap-
pointed minister of church af-
fairs. Among his attacks on the
Roman Catholic church were
those involving the arrest of
Archbishop Josef Beran. Got the
defense ministry post in 1850.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
-Four Czechs May Vie for
Or Divide GottWuId Power

VIENNA, Austria, Mar. IA
Thumbnail sketches of the sur
viving big four of Czechoslovak-
las Communist hierarchy, who
may vie for or divide powers of
the dead Klement Gottwald:
Premier Antonin Zapotocky,
SO, regarded by diplomats her as
likely to emerge top man. Son of
a tailor who founded the Czech
Socialist Party, he jumped to
the Communist Party when the
socialists split in 1920. Became a
Communist deputy in 1925 and
secretary of the Communist
Trade Union Federation. Impris-
oned by the Nazis. he was freed
by the Soviet Army in 1945. Got
on the payroll as vice premier
after Gottwald seized power in
1948.
Vice Premier Vilem Siroky, SO,
who helped organize the Com
munist Party in Slovakia. Mem
ber OF the national central COM
mittee since 1929. He too was
arrested by the Germans in
World War II, but escaped in
February, 1945. A member of
abouts of another Communist
satellite leader, Hungary's jew