Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Taylor

uatiOn and the foreign policy of
And we think they like it. The fact
that it moved the French off dead
center. was merely an incidental
piece of luck, and perhaps a val
Iudble discovery of .what-it-takes.
American, we think, is more
than ready to applaud a Secretary
of State who can say: ". want
to make it abundantly clear
that l consider that it is my job
to work for the people of the Uni
ted States. I am part of your gov
eminent; it's you that have hired
me and pay me and you're entitled
to have me do the best that / can
for you. And that is going to be
the spirit of the State Department
and of our ambassadors. You
needn't be afraid that we are work
ing against you and for Others"
And we can stick out our chests
again, and throw our hats in the
air for a leader who says: q.
1 believe that our foreign policies
should be open so that you can
know what they are, and they
should be sufficiently simple so that
you can understand them and judge
them, and they should be sufficient
ly decent and moral so that they
will fit into your idea of what you
think is right"
BEHIND BOOKS AND PETTIcoATs
Selective Service Director Lewis
B. Hershey says he's going to ask
President Eisenhower for an ex-
ecutive order cutting draft defer
ments of college students and ia
thers."
He wants to end deferments of
} men who become fathers in col
) lege, and then, after graduation
seek further deferment because of
) their dependents. He would also
limit deferment of freshmen to
r those in the upper quarter of their
. class, rather than the upper half,
D and who score rs Cnstead of the
= present 70) on the Selective Ser
vice Qualification Test.
= Since we must have a draft, the
= General should go even further
t FatherhOOd, per Sc, is a shameful
4 dodge, and scholarship deferment
4 entirely undemOcratic. Neither
S should provide immunity.
. asa&
OUT OF ORDER
\ Representative Daniel A. Reed
e (Rep) of New York, who is the new
- chairman of the House Ways and
e Means Committee, is all set to ride
= to glory on a tax-reductiOn bill
r THIS TEAR-regardless of what
= our budget may turn out to be, OF
- how big deficit his statesmanshiI
It may add to the national debt nov
approaching the inconceivable fig
d ure of 268 billion dollars.
= Congressman Reed is deaf to the
It protests of his own party leaders
including Speaker Joseph w. Mar
h tin. Anyone who stands in thu
e way of his bill will simply be NOW
: ed down, he thinks. But we thinl
e he has misread the "signs and Dor
st tents" of the storm that swept TX
9. into the White House, and himsel
Ie (quite incidentally into his new
o Craftsmanship.
% OF course taxpayers like tax cuts
et But they are in a mood to put frs
le things first. They want the KOreal
1t mess cleaned up, even more thai
N they wanted the Washington mes
n disinfected. They want the waste
/ bungling and reckless extravaganc
J. cut out of their government. The
re want adequate defenses for thei
n own. country, which must includ
D. aid to the rest of the free world
They want a government that take
i in as much as it puts out.
The Eisenhower Administrator
has promised these things. And
has promised tax reduction too, a
k Rep. Reed loudly reminds his col
s. leagues. But, we'd better fatte
n the pig before we slice the bacon.