The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-15


I have just returned to Wash
ington for the opening of the new
session of Congress, and feel that
1 should give you my ideas about
some of the issue that will be
brought up for action during the
coming months.
Probably more than at any other
time in history, all of us are pre-
occupied, and rightly so, with the
continuing effort being made to
preserve world peace.
There is a definite trend to put
our foreign relations on a person
to-person basis. More and more,
world leaders are sitting down face
to-face in their efforts to reach
reasonable solutions to critical
problems. l think this is good. We
are learning that we cannot buy
friends and allies by merely in
creasing foreign aid grant. 1t is
clear that we must establish more
direct contacts with the peoples Of
the world, not just governments.
1 have long agreed with the idea
that we could greatly improve our
foreign relations by establishing d
special school for the representa-
tives we send to foreign nations
Ia kind of West Point for diplo-
mats.
While world problems take a
great deal of our energy, time, and
money, we cannot hope to solve
them without keeping our own
economy strong. l am deeply con-
cerned about the waste and ex-
travagance still apparent In many
government agencies, and I shall
continue to work not only to bal
ance the budget but to begin MAX
ing payments on our national debt.
I feel that definite savings can
be made through more effective
disposal of our surplus farm COM
nodities, thereby reducing stag
geaing storage costs. Savings can
also be made by eliminating much
of the overlapping i'm our missile
program and by Congress exercis-
ing closer control over foreign aid
expenditures.
Prolonged strikes and threats of
strikes in our basic industries are
a most serious matter. The recent
steel strike was extremely costly
to our entire economy, and / am
fearful that the settlement reached
will touch of another round of in
flation.
Last year Congress passed a
reasonably good labor reform law
in spite of Jimmy Hoffa. Mr.. Hoffa
has said that he and his cohorts
will make every effort to defeat
the Senators and Congressman who
voted for the labor reform bill.
voted for the labor reform bill, and
| shall continue to vote to curb
the powers of Mr.. Hoffa or any
one else who undertakes to defy
the Government or the best inter.
ests of the people. The repeated
threats of Mr.. Hoffa have moi
scared me in the past and they
wall not scare me in the future.
We have some very serious prob
LENS in regard to our farm econo.
my. It will be most difficult tt
reach reasonable solutions as long
as Secretary Benson holds office
Mr.. Benson persists in his behalf
that unlimited production and low
er price supports-often below pro.
duction costs-are the answer. Thu
tobacco program has proven thai
he is wrong. l am hopeful that
some way can be found TO stabilize
tobacco prices, which would enable
farmers to recapture many foreign
markets and at the same time
bring hope for an increase in acre
age allotments next year. Work il
already under way TO make badly
needed adjustments in the laws at
fecting cotton in order to avoid the
chaos that existed in the admin.