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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-19
The AGED

Nine Of the 100 residents of
Random Village are IS years of
age or older. In fact. one is over
30. Ninety per cent of them will
be hospitalized at least once
after the age Of IS. Compared
to the other residents of the
village, they are much more
likely to go to the hospital this
year and they will need to stay
there twice as long. Yet their
income is only half as great;
and only five out Of the nine
have been able to buy private
health insurance of any kind.
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Education

Twenty-four Of the 100 resi-
dents in Random Village are
Sabotage children. A major
ity of the adults did not finish
high school, but they all want
their children to finish. In
fact, most of them hope their
children will go on to a college
degree. For today only the well
educated man or woman is
equipped to work in the age OF
technology or to be a good citi-
zen in an age of complexity.
Among the adults In the Ran
dom Village those with higher
educational achievement are
likely to have the higher aver
age salaries as well as q lower
rate Of unemployment.
Yet Of these "a children
only 16 will graduate from high
school. Without more modern
and ample facilities, without
better paid and higher quality
teachers, without better voca-
tional training and special at
tention to special students, 8
out of "a children will fail to
take advantage Of one Of their
most valuable American birth
rights. They will turn instead
to a labor market which has
less to offer the unskilled and
the unframed.
OF the Is who graduate from
high school, only 9 will enter
college. The other 7, most Of
whom are college material,
will either find college too ex-
pensive-$1.50 a year in the
local State university, or $4,000
in a private institution-or else
they will find that the college
Of their choice is simply unable
to take them In. For our in
stitutions Of higher learning
are caught in a financial
squeeze. The postwar crop of
babies is approaching college
age. Even before that crop has
fully arrived, classrooms and
laboratories are overcrowded
and undermined. Without
outside financial help, our
colleges must either raise their
rate Of tuition or turn new
students away.
So only 9 will enter; and only
4 will graduate. OF the "a
schoolage children in random
village, only 4 will be available
to be our doctors and engineers
and lawyers and statesmen and
teachers. That is why Federal
aid to education, at every level,
is not simply an item in the
budget but an investment in
our Nations future.
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gram, he said, the result will
be Ito remove with one hand
the stimulus which we give
with the other"
He said increased Federal
spending last year prevented a
recession, and said a hold
down on spending in 1858 con-
tributed to a recession and to
a record peacetime budget
deficit Of $12.5 billion.
Despite the benefits Of Fed
eral spending, the President
said, it is mot an end in it
self (an) 1t must be held to
reasonable limits"
He said he reduced agency
requests by $40 billion before
sending his budget to Con-
gress.
A SIS billion budget cut, Mr..
Kennedy repeated, would Grip
pie the Nations defenses, make
1t permanently second-best in
space, and virtually turn the
clock back in every American
community"
Every million dollars in the
budget, he said, makes DOS
sible efforts in hundreds Of
communities for such programs
as curing cancer, curbing mar
cotics, building libraries, ex-
tending mail service, or feed
ing hungry children.
Gordon Tells Aims
Budget Director Kermit Cor
don, in another speech pre-
pared for the AsNE, pledged
that the administration will
pursue q. policy OF Sustained
expenditure restraint"
Although the administration
will not freeze" new programs
needed by the growing Nation,
he said. vigorous efforts will
be made to find economies in
existing Government programs.
In order that the net impact Of
new activities on the Federal
budget will be held 10 a mini
num-"
Mr.. Gordon said the best
way 10 hold spending down Is
TO increase efficiency and care
fully weigh priorities. This
approach, he said. is harder
than "indiscriminate across
the-board cuts" but makes a
more lasting contribution 10
the cause OF Government
economy.
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There will be debate as to
detail, There will be differences
of dimension and degree. But
let us get on with the main
task Of strengthening the Amer
lean Nation-of opening a road
on which our children can
travel-of making the most of
the riches we have.
Let us get on with the bus
mess of Government, and the
business Of reporting on the
Government, and the business
OF appraising the Government,
with a devotion to truth and
perspective, I ask you to criticize
us when we are wrong. Perhaps
applaud us when we are right.
Warn us when we are in danger.
But, above all. let us get on.
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KENNEDY
Continued From Page Al

Continued From Page Al
priority legislative proposals.
numbering fewer than 30
would cost less than 50 billion
next fiscal year.
Congressional eco nomizers,
however. emphasize that some
programs would start slowly
and build up expenditures In
future years.
Aside from the services made
possible by Federal spending
the President said. the outlays
stimulate the economy In q
similar way TO tax reduction.
II Congress insists on reduc-
Ing expenditures 10 offset reve.
nue. losses from his tax pro.
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country, and the risks Of in
flation as well as recession.
But / am saying that care
fully screened and selected Fed
eral expenditure programs can
play a useful role. both singly
and in combination; that to
cut $5-10 billion from the pro-
posed budget would harm
both the Nation and the typical
neighborhood in it; and that
the right way to a balanced
budget is to seek first a balanced
economy. The tax cuts have
proposed. and the level of ex-
penditures I have proposed
and the level Of expenditures
have proposed. have been care
fully fitted together with that
chief objective in mind.
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Random Village are more than
twice as likely to have poor
housing; they are likely to earn
half as much money; they
have only two-thirds as much
chance of finishing high school;
and they are twice as likely
to be unemployed-and neither
injustice nor crime nor disease
nor slums can be confined to
one group in the village.
Proposals Not Radical
We must also continue our
fight against water pollution
because 81 million Americans,
including very possibly the
people Of Random Village, live
in communities where un-
treated or inadequately treated
sewage is being discharged into
their rivers and streams.
In short, the Federal Govern
ment is not so remote and our
new legislative proposals are
not so radical. Nor is the do
nestle budget, as sometimes
pictured, a catalogue of bureau
cratic waste. It is an effort to
meet those needs of the indi-
vidual, the family and the
community which can best be
met by the Nationwide Coop
Grafton of all, and which cam
not be met by State and local
governments.
These needs must be met
and to take them out of the
Federal budget will only cast
them on State and local govern
ments, whose expenditures, debt
and payrolls have all increased
many times faster than those
Of the Federal Government. In
fact, were it not for Federal
aid to hard-pressed State and
local governments, the Federal
cash budget today would be in
balance.
Yet somehow Federal spend
ing" has become a frightening
term. People do not stop to
realize that it stands for
weather bureaus and meat in
spection and school lunches
and national parks and airport
control towers and all the other
aspects Of our daily life that
we could not do without.
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the laws, including the laws
of probability.
OF its 100 citizens, six live
alone and the rest with their
families. Ten per cent of the
households are members of a
racial minority. The typical
family income is $500 a year
Nearly half Of the families have
two wage earners at work; but
taking into account the young,
the aged, the disabled and the
full-time housewives, a major
ity Of the residents are depend
ent for their livelihood on the
minority with jobs and earnings.
Most Of the families in
Random Village are home
owners. Despite gradually ris-
ing incomes little, If any, money
can be saved by these families
for a disastrous illness or for
a college education. They
spend their incomes somewhat
differently than formerly
partly because their incomes
are higher and partly because
the prices of the things they
buy have changed, some up
and some down. Today, for
instance, they are spending
more on housing, automobiles,
insurance. medical care and
the local newspaper. (Since the
village Is governed by the law
Of averages, this must be a
Republican paper)
Community Will Benefit
The average family man in
Random Village is most aware
of the Federal Government
around tax time. The proposed
tax cut would reduce his Fed
eral taxes by about 20 per cent,
and the whole community will
benefit even more from the
stimulation in jobs and per-
sonal income that the tax cut
will give to the Nation.
But other proposals in this
years program will affect his
life as well. In the morning
he has a dismal choice between
driving in congested rush-hour
traffic or waiting for an un-
dependable, over-crowded bus
or train-all can be improved
If the Federal Government
meets its commitments.
II his son wants to look for
a job after graduation from
school, he finds that his
chances are increasingly slim
that unemployment in his age
group is twice as high as UNI
among adults. As
yet there is no youth employ
ment corps to help some Of
these young men get off on the
right foot with some solid
training and experience.
If his wife wants to take
their vacation by visiting a ma
tional park. she knows it will
be nearly 6 times as crowded
as 1t was when they were
young. Nearly half the people
in Random Village will 90
swimming this summer-but
every year they find more and
more Of their favorite seashore
areas reserved for commercial
use only. They want to hike In
the wilderness--but the Will
derness is fast disappearing.
Moreover, for some, there
may be no vacation trip this
year-for nearly one out Of
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five Of those employed In Ran
dom Village will be unemployed
at some time during the year.
but not counting the 10 per
cent who will be changing jobs.
The inadequacies Of our unem-
ployment insurance system will
be apparent to those out of
work for very long.
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TEXT OF PRESIDENTS SPEECH 49, as !. s,x~ ~
Editors Hear Kennedy Defend Budget

FOLLOWING is the teri OF
President Kennedy'S address
today to the American So
ciety OF Newspaper Editors:
Two years ago tomorrow we
met in this city at a painful
moment in the history of this
country and in the history OF
this administration. 1 told
YOU then that we intended
to profit from that lesson
and we have. I told you then
that we intended to intensity
our efforts on behalf of free
dom-and we have. And told
you then that this Government
would not hesitate to take the
initiative in this hemisphere in
meeting its primary obligations
to. our own security, whenever
that should prove necessary
and last october we acted to
meet those obligations.
In part as the result Of last
October's events, there is today
more widespread assurance that
both peace and freedom can
prevail; and while our vigilance
cannot be relaxed. there is a
tendency among many of your
readers as well as your writer's
to devote more attention to our
domestic scene and to the quail
ity Of life on these shores.
Unfortunately, too many of
your readers find domestic af-
fairs as battling as foreign.
Government seems too remote.
too big, too complex. A tax
cut they can understandable
the rest Of this years legis-
lative program seems only a
distant blur. They think it is
for someone else, not for them;
that it is an expense, not an
investment; that 1t could all
be cut out, without harm to
the economy or the Nation, and
in the interests Of helping the
tax cut.
1t would not be appropriate
for me to review at this time
the full scope Of this years
legislative agenda. 1t is short,
consisting Of less than 30 top
priority measures. And it is
not expensive-inasmuch as
their total elimination would
reduce next years $12 billion
deficit by less than 50 billion.
But a recital of each proposal
and its merits would merely
repeat the material already
contained in your file of my
messages to the Congress. In
stead I would like to try to
bring home the meaning Of a
few Of these programs by
translating them into the needs
Of that familiar mythical crea-
tion-the average family. /
will go even further and place
that family in the typical
neighborhood in a normal
American city.
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'Rondom Village
II. S. Cross-Section

With the help Of the Census
Bureau and others. I want to
describe to you a precise cross
section Of America hypo-
thetical subdivision we shall
call Random Village" where
the population abides by all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-19
Big Budget Cut
Would Cost Jobs

Let us understand, then,
that every dollar cut in Fed
eral expenditures cuts even
more from our gross national
product. A cut of IS billion
now from the proposed Fed
eral budget, as many have
suggested, would cause / mil
lion fewer jobs by the end of
the fiscal year. 1t would off
set all the benefits which the
tax cut would have brought by
then. And If that lower level
OF expenditures were main
tanned thereafter, it would
eventually cause, not only a
recession, but an even greater
Judiciary loss in revenue than
the amount supposedly saved.
I am not saying, let me make
clear, that Federal spending
for the sake of spending is de-
sirable in itself; or that our
efforts at economy should
cease. On the contrary, the
budget I submitted to the Con-
gress already reflected cuts Of
almost $50 billion from the
amounts first proposed by
agency and service chiefs.
Expenditures in this new
budget outside of defense, space
and interest are actually re-
duced; Federal employment
under this budget will not rise
in the same proportion as the
number of citizens to be served,
and every agency in the Gov
eminent will be required to
tighten up on spending, and
hiring, and to increase its pro-
ductivity, in order to live with
in its ceiling.
Federal spending is not an
end in itself-it must be held
to reasonable limits that are
consistent with the needs Of
the economy as well as ollr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-19

during the year-but in ad-
dition to all the viruses and
FLU bugs" and other ailments
there will be 26 injuries, 7 OF
8 cases of arthritis and rheu-
matism, 3 or 4 cases of heart
disease, and / case of cancer
The village will welcome two
new babies this year.
AS a result, the average RAN
dom Village resident will cal
on q doctor 5 times this year
and on the dentist once OF
twice. Eleven out of the 100 will
have to go to the hospital. And
many will wonder once again
why we do not have enough
physicians, or enough dentists
or enough hospitals. There are
no physicians and dentists In
Random Village. In the metro
politan area of which it is a
part, there are only 8 physicians
to serve 10000 people-l5 years
ago there were 10 physicians to
serve the 10000 people in that
community. In another 10 years,
assuming the present trend con-
tinues, there will be only 8
physicians to serve the 10000
people. The physician will try
to squeeze in an emergency
case: the dentist will overcrowd
his office; the hospital will
make up a waiting list, with
preferences and priorities.
But what kind of treatment
is that in the richest country
on earth? This administration
has proposed an expansion OF
our hospital and nursing home
facilities. and an expansion OF
our medical and dental schools
which will merely make possible
the graduation Of enough new
physicians and dentists to keep
the present shortage from grow
ing rose.
Mental Health Problem
1t is an unfortunate fact that,
of the 100 people in Random
Village, 10 will at some time
need treatment for mental ill
ness or behavior disorders.
Three can be classed as meni
tally retarded. That kind of
tragic affliction can strike any
home in the village. rich or
poor, black or white. But much
of it could be prevented; much
could be cured that will not be
cured.
At least one Of these 10 pa
tients may be locked up with
hundreds, sometimes thou
sands, of others, in a huge,
State custodial institution in
some other city, an unhealthy,
unhelpful distance away from
their own home and their own
friends and their own doctor.
This administrations proposals
for mental health and mental
retardation stress rehabilita-
ton instead Of isolation, pre-
vention instead Of detention,
and comprehensive community
centers instead Of old fashioned
State asylums. The States and
localities cannot afford to do
this job without Federal fl
nancial assistance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-19
By ]. A. OTEARY
Star Staff Writer


Treasury Secretary Dillon
insisted before a Senate Ap-
preparations Subcommittee yes
terday that President Kennedy
has not abandoned his request
for So billion Of revenue-rais-
ing tax reforms to offset in
part his $l3 billion of tax cuts.
But the Secretary conceded
the administration does not
expect TO get all of the re-
forms.
He gave this testimony
when asked by Senator Rob-
ertson. Democrat Of Virginia,
II the President had said the
tax reforms could wait. Mr..
Dillon said the administration
position has been that the
amount Of tax reduction would
have to be scaled down TO the
extent TO which the reforms
are eliminated.
or the net tax reduction Of
about $40 billion recommended
by the President, only about
$2.9 billion would be felt in
the first year.
This prompted Senator Rob-
ertson to observe that a cut Of
that limited amount before the
1864 election would not cheer
up" the taxpayers very much.
Fund Restoration Asked
Mr.. Dillon went before the
Senate group TO ask for restor-
alton Of $43.7 million Of the
$57.3 million the House cut
from the budget for operating
the Treasury Department in
the coming year.
The Secretary said the de-
partment would try to absorb
the remaing Si3.6 million OF
House cuts. But he emphasized
that several bureaus. including
Internal Revenue, Coast Guard
and the Mint would suffer If
some reservations are not made
For Internal Revenue he re-
quested restoration Of $50 mil
lion Of a 1929 million cut.
The Secretary pointed out
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Health

The people In Random VII
lage may be mythical-but they
are also mortal. Only one resi-
dent Of the hundred will die
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