The Republican., 1963-03-28

nestle Peace Corps is scheduled
to pay salaries in ne $4,000 to Sl4,-
coo range Senator Stephen Young,
Democrat, Of Ohio, added: We al
ready have enough Federal pro-
grams that are nothing more than
havens for high-salaricd bureau
Gratis" without doubt. cut can be
m>dc in the budget up and down
the line.
"Afloat in ! sea Of Red Ink
The Fort l.auderdalc Florida
News few days ago carried an
cditoria containing these rousing
words
1T has become fightcningly
clear that the Administration no
longer believes IN the philosophy
that prtg gress and prosperity for our
Nation can be achieved through
the sound principles Of a balanced
budget Instead the White House
has surrendered to the Ecynesian
philosophy that prosperity can
only be achieved by spending what
we don't have for things We don't
truly need in the hope this reck-
less spending binge win produce
an artificial kind of prosperity
that VIII keep us afloat i'm a sea
cf red ink. II is time more Ameri-
cans woke up to what is going to
happen 10 their country if we don't
get some sanity back in Washing
ton"
Foreign Aid: Administration
Leader Favors Senator Mike
Mansfield. Democrat. Of Montana.
Senate Majority Leader and rec
ognized Spokesman for he Ken
nedy Administration in the Upper
Chamber has announced that he
favors on orderly" curtailment Of
fcrcian aid A bipartisan group Of
Investigating Senators. headed by
Senator Mansfield. have locked
particularly al the aid PROGRAM in
Southeast Asia, and call it much
too Wastoful for our taxpayers to
stomach anv lonrcr In Laos. our
outlay of millions Of dollars to aid
the government in preventing a
Communist take-oyer was total
waste because the people of Laos
refused TO fight for their own coun-
try Investigators are right now
irving TO persuade our forcign-aid
! eDenders in Wet Namc to abandon
a worthless and utterly impractical
river-water-supply project and re-
nair tha countrv's deep-WelI-pipc-
l'nc system, and thereby save the
American taXpavers some 500 OOO
900. The Mansfield report deals in
particulars. but It also points ND
the root of the trouble. We have
been give-away minded. and this
is what has cost us so much. Too
manv ne0plc have been willing to
close their ewes to The ma1admin-
iatration CT forcign-aid dollars.
An honorable government can
not suuander our dollars. Our tax
, ravers arc carrying too heavy
load and much of the load is for
ciPn aid. Nearly ] in every 12 Fed
, ccal tax dollars goes for foreiCn
aid spcnding. The 15-year foreign
aid bill exceeds S1O0.000.0OO0O0. an
amount which is about one third of
i our national debt
With the MansWie1d report and
/ the expected similar recommends
tions of the Clay Committee. now
reviewing foreign aid, and the ex-
pected concurrence of the new Ad-
, ministrator of foreign aid. one of
: the great tides of postwar history
Is slowly beginning to reverse it.
self - the almost indiscriminate
/ sending of massive financial aid to
foreign countries. The postwar
| emergency period is now past, and
a more economical and efficiently
used aid can now accomplish better
results. Furthermore, aid projects
| whose benefits spread both wav
! are in order One-sidcd aid is not
. solid basis for mutual respect.
, There are reasons enough for
starting to use less aid more intelli-
gently
The basic concept of aid should
be to help themselves. Some of our
aid to other countries has been
extended with no thought given to
thc principle that individuals and
nations should be self-rcliant No
person and no nation should have
its vital tasks Of growth and de-
fcnse indefinitely end preponder-
anHy done for it. There is some
thing debilitatinq about too much
aid or blind giving which does not
exact responsibility in return
Then too. it is time that well-to-
do Western allies of the United
States carried their share of the
common load
This is not to say that we should
use the meat-ax approach, which
possibly would cause panic and in
ST. bility in many places, but a
"cautious curtailment". to use
Senator Mansfield's words. plus