Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-01

want to urge in the strong
est terms that every reader
should vote in the primary cleo
tons next Tuesday. This is where
every citizen should help deter
mine who the candidates will be
in the November balloting. If
everybody takes the primaries as
seriously as they should, we know
those candidates will be good
ones. Be sure to vote!
Today Mrs. Hyde and I are
flying up to Albany, New York,
where we've been invited to rep
resent our State at the celebra-
ton of the 200th anniversary of
the first Congress held in Amer
lea.
1t was in lisa generation
before the United States came
into being-but in Albany the
first plan was produced for uni
ting the colonies.
Maryland sent two delegates to
the Congress-Albert Barnes and
Benjamin Tasker, the latter an
outstanding lawyer. The meeting
was called to deal with the pro-
blem of defending the colonies
against the French, who were try
Ing to wrest them from England.
A colorful event of June 29th,
1854, was the attendance at the
Congress of about $50 Indian
chiefs. They had been summoned
by messengers to consider MAX
ing alliances with the colonies.
The discussions were successful,
and after the treaties were signed
great Mohawk leader named
Hendricks made this reference to
the strength of the Indian people:
IF any of our enemies arose
against U.S." he said, I'VE had no
occasion to lift up our whole
hand against them; for our little
finger was sufficient
Benjamin Franklin, the most
famous delegate present, drafted
a plan to unity the colonies. It
was not ratified by them because
they were suspicious of central
authority to raise armies and
levy taxes. Nevertheless, Franklin
was able to see, in the later years
OF his life, the realization of his
dream.
Our Congress today is working
Tor the same things on a larger
scale: Peace, security and free.
dom. l hope that all of us who
are a part of this picture will
be able to see these dreams be-
come very real, too.
1t is the duty. of a Member of
Congress to weigh with care the
words of those who express un.
certainty about our future as
well as those who still believe
that America continues to offer
the greatest opportunities of any
nation of the world. 1t is to
those who are troubled about the
future that l want to talk today
We hear that hard times are
ahead, that we are headed for a
depression and that the door OF
peace, prosperity and happiness
has slammed shut.
We are being urged by some
people to enact what they have
called a full employment" pro
gram. Basically this program
calls for three things: increase
in exemption for individual in
come taxes, increase in certain
government benefits and a step
ped-up program of public works.
At first glance these remedie.
have a great deal of appeal tt
many people, and ultimatel,
some of these suggestions may
be adopted. However, this Ad
ministration is going slow il
adopting such program for de
finite reasons. The Administra
ton is, of course, not opposed Il
"full employment; no one in hi
right mind is opposed to full EN-
ployment. The problem is wha
is the best method for obtaininl
full employment.
Now, why is the Administra
ton not selling immediatel,
upon the so-called full employ
ment" program? There are sew
eral reasons.
First, this kind of a program
was adopted between the year
of 1882 and 1899 The same or,
was heard during those years
that we had too much production
that we needed more publ
works and bigger government
benefits - and such program
was given to us. What was tn
result: at the end of that perio,
we still had between eight an,
ten million unemployed. i