The Republican., 1962-06-28

cepting the theory that the one ul-
innate u. S. objective is peace.
Legislation Report; Holding Close
Rein-Of the "a proposals to Con
gress listed by the Administration
as of top importance, one has
! passed. two have been rejected out
right and 2l have not been finally
acted upon This is not necessarily
a bad record. Rather, it could be a
good record, for it could mean that
Congress is holding a close rein on
a poWer-hungry. spendthrift Ad-
ministration, that Congress is max
ing a sincere effort to keep within
bounds the proposals for spending
and for increased Executive power.
Some of the q will be passed, but
perhaps the fewer the better
Water Tunnel Under the Rockies
AS a means of putting more land
into production. the House of Rep
resentatives has passed an Admin
istration-sponsOred bill providing
for the drilling of a water tunnel
under the Rocky Mountains. The
measure is now before the Senate.
The S170000,000 scheme would send
water from the west side of the
Rockies in Colorado to potential
farmland on the east side.
AT the same time, the Agricul-
ture Department continues to pay
out other hundreds of millions of
your tax dollars to take land out of
production, And the Administra-
ton is trying to expand this sub
sidy system!
Urban Mass Transportation
Housing Subcommittee of the Sen
ate Committee on Banking and
Cui NllSy' VI NlllOll an q lllGill-
Der, last week approved for full
committee consideration the Urban
Mass Transportation Bill. We had
held hearings on this and other
bills relating to the growing prob
lem of urban transportation.
Foreign Aid News ItemS-Seven
tidbits of news last week form a
significant commentary on our For
eign Aid program:
% From Athens comes the re-
port that the Government of Greece
appealed to farmers to limit wheat
growing because it deprived Greece
of substantial United States aid in
agricultural surpluses.
~ From Colombo. Ceylon,
comes the announcement that adj
ditional properties of the ESQ,
Shell and Caltex oil companies
there had been seized by the gov
ernment.
80 In Seoul, Korea, the U. S.
Army ordered American military
personnel restricted to base be-
cause of anti-American demOnstra-
tions spreading in South Korea.
"a In Brussels, Belgium, retalia-
tory tariff rises against the United
States were approved because of
American increases in carpet and
glass tariffs.
90 Congolese cabinet members
have decided to pay themselves 49,
600 per month salary-out of
American aid money
t6) Senator Kenneth Keating of
New York charged that during the
past seven years, and without the
American peoples knowledge, we
have made at least 33 shipments of
strategic goods to Communist ma
tionS.
% The Majority Leader, Sena-
tor Mike Mansfield (Democrat of
Montana, said in a speech that,
after eight years of economic and
military assistance to Laos, that
country is in far more danger of
collapse into Communism than it
was when our aid program started,
and furthermore, the nations in
Asia which have received rela-
lively little u. S. aid are among the
most stable nations.
Planned Economy? Who
Planned It?-Norman Thomas, lead
er of the Socialist Party in the
United States for many years, once
said:
THE American people will never
knowingly vote for socialism, but
under the guise of liberalism, they
will adopt IVA, social security.
Federal aid to education, public
housing, and compulsory health in
surance They will adopt every
fragment of the socialist platform
until one day America will be So