Evening star., 1960-06-09

| B. A $500 million program
| for civil defense.
C. A more flexible and bal
anced military establishment
and doctrine to meet all con-
tingencies including local ag-
gression.
D. A more tightly organized
department of defense.
Broad Needs
4. I believe the needs of our
defense structure reflect the
still wider need for our whole
government structure for an
organization adapted to meet
modern problems and threats
in all their complexity and
swiftness. This is essential for
effective conduct of both our
international relations and our
national affairs. This need
found instant and SOLDERING
proof in the conduct OF Govern
ment departments during the
U-2 incident.
! 5. I believe in the urgent
need for adequate and formal
international inspection and
control of arms. Never before
in history have nations been
armed and able to devastate
one another-in mere minutes.
Yet we, as a nation, have
seemed. on occasion, no better
prepared to meet this critical
and continuing challenge than
to confront sudden accident or
crisis. Thus one month before
the start of the ten nations
disarmament conference in
Geneva there simply did not
exist a prepared American posi-
ton.
/ The machinery of free gov
ernment can and must be
geared to do better than this.
6, believe that, as our eco
nomic strength must match and
sustain our military power, we
must quicken the growth of
the American economy to meet
all challenges and needs, do
meStic and foreign. This de-
mands raising of sights-and
of effort by both labor and
management - throughout the
private economy that is the
handspring of our growth. 1t
further requires that we gear
our economic policies and prac-
tices to work toward an annual
rate of growth of five to six
per cent. And these policies
will have to include:
A. Revision of tax policies to
encourage investment;
B. Elimination of all feather
bedding or restrictive practices
by labor or management; and
C. Redefinition of our farm
program to make low-income
farmers more productive mem
bers of the economy.
Discipline Required
II believe this economic
strength further requires firm
discipline upon forces threat
ening to unleash imitation
weaken defense production, and
disrupt our economy. The ad-
miniStration of President Eisen-
hover has written a notable
record in the field of fiscal in
tegrity.
Yet our economy must not
be tormented by periodic crises
or clashes that invite solution
by political pressure or political
expediency.
l believe firmly in the dem
ocratic process of collective
bargaining, and l am firmly
opposed to automatic or gen.
eral use of compulsory arbitra-
ton. Yet I believe the President
should be given discretionary
authority to use compulsory
arbitration if an economic con-
f1ict reaches the point Of
clearly endangering the ma
tional welfare and if all honest
attempts at collective bar
gaining, mediation and arbi-
tration have been exhausted.
Such a procedure would help
to avoid the kind of surrender
to forces of imitation that
marked the long delayed set
tlement of the steel strike last
year. This settlement care
fully postponed until after next
election day the cost of it's
consequences rise in steel
costs of more than 81 billion
annually. For this, the public
must pay the price.
8. believe we must practice
at home such a respect for law
and equality as we wish to
preach - and serve = in the
world at large. The record of
the Republican Party on civil
rights is very creditable one
certainly on any comparative
basis. But no record can claim
to be good enough so long
as discrimination, segregation.
and disenfranchiSement persist
on almost massive scale.
The Supreme Court has
called for respect of the basic
laws and principles of our
Nation with all deliberate
speed" The deliberateness