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"No statesman at home or abroad is considered successful any longer unless he is able to evolve a great new plan to let everybody except the American worker get his fingers in the American taxpayers' pockets up to his sllevy5."-Qeneral Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War, and former Ambassador to China.

There is one a"p"t*-Jrra r, "* government spending whose unpopularity is becoming continually more evident in Washington, and that is foreign aid in terms of billions, and in ways and manners that the taxpayers who put up the cash can learn little about. So loud are the protestations against this continual broadcasting of our tax money, that even those who have been so blind that they would not see, are showing signs of awakening to realities.

I have just been listening to a Washington commentator talking on that subject, and he made the statement that orders have gone out from spending headquarters for more careful screening of projects abroad that American money is to finance. Up to this moment there can be no doubt that General Hurley's statement printed above has been based on facts. The royal road to success for many men has been find'ing new ways for spending our cash abroad.

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I read that since 1946 the United States has given more than thirty-six billions of dollars worth of help to other nations, and we are told that in the next three years we will be asked to shell out about twenty-five billions more. Most of it has gone to Europe, but billions have gone to other places. About one-fifth of the money is supposed to be loans, but it would be an optimist indeed who would expect to get back as much as two bits of it.

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Senator Byrd, (D) Virginia, the most economy minded man in official Washington, proposed that we give our taxpayers a rest and cut out all economic aid for Europe this year, but his proposal lost by ten votes. He announced that trying to cut economic aid was difficult because the Marshall Plan headquarters could not supply a specific program of projects being financed, or whose financing was in prospect. One trouble with trying to save the taxpayer money through reduction of foreign aid spending is the manner in which these funds are voted. The President asks for a lump sum, and there are no opportunities for Congress to review the spending plans, as it could if the money were to be spent at home for specific projects.

We have, according to experts, built new roads in Africa, financed soil conservation in Algeria, helped with insect control in Burma, and with water supply in Morocco, to mention a few of hundreds. We have financed huge oil refineries in Europe, U. S. Senator Wherry told the Senate in one report that we have helped finance six new steel plants in Austria, six new steel plants and three new power plants in France, and eleven new power plants in Italy. These, he said, cost the U. S. taxpayers about one hundred and eighty millions of dollars. He said that the Marshall Plan has set aside $17,000,000 for the Belgian Congo, to be used for nobody knows what.

President Truman ""tla Io, h,roo,o00,0o0 for foreign aid this year, and both House and Senate cut it sharply, and, in addition, moved to deprive the State Department of control and spending of the money. The announced aim and ambition of the planners and spenders is to assist the rest of the world toward economic and financial stability. But there are probably one hundred and fifty million Americans who, if they could vote on the matter right now, would say it is time to get those people off our sore backs.

My friend Kenneth Smith, of San Francisco, a lumberman who thinks it his duty to warn his fellow men of the dangers he sees around us, has been making some mighty fine speeches on the subject: "ff I were a free man." And he tells of the things he would and would not do had he the same control over his own affairs and his own income that Americans enjoyed for more than one hundred years. Following that same line of thought and applying it to the subject of foreign non-military spending, I rise to remark that if f were a free man not one cent of my earnings or the tax money I pay should be longer wasted trying to fill up the rat holes of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Not one red cent !

The time will come get a chance to audit the books on the billions that this nation has sent abroad, and when it does I have an idea there will be a lot of spenders and $rasters hunting holes to hide in. We have had that over-generous helping hand out for a lot of years now. If the rest of the world that we have helped so abundantly can't stand without our aid today, it never will. We owe something to ourselves.

But the spending and wasting will never stop unless we stop it. Recently the foreign ministers of the Atlantic Pact countries held a meeting in Ottawa, Canada. And the (Continued on Page 9) tiot sllp r0 TnuGil r0 ,08. .your pack_ a-ged-lumber is loaded directly^from the ship to truck and deliveret "iehi to your job or warehouse.

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