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Estabfished 1875- Kansas City 6, Mo. DrvtsroNAt oFFlcEs selves, to protect our own country. We spend and negotiate and exhort solely to safeguard our lives and property in the military sense." So another mighty oak has grown from another tiny acorn.*

Proponents and backers of the United Nations volubly insist that that organization does not in any way invade the sanctity of the American constitution, and does not seek to interfere with the loyalty of Americans to their country. Yet on October llth the news burst forth that a handbook just issued by the UN gives the lie to those protests. That handbook, issued on Octaber 9th by the UN to the employes of that organization, advised them that if possible conflicts arise between national and international loyalty, "the conduct of the international civil servant must clearly refect his obligation to the international organization."

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That seemed plain enough to silence even the most biased pro-UN pleader. But our top UN delegate, Henry Cabot Lodge, rushed into print to declare it wasn't so, that Americans employed by UN owed no super-allegiance to the international organization. And, sensing the dynamite in the thing, a high UN official hit the publicity lanes with his explanation of what the controversial statement in the handbook meant. He said it didn't really mean what it plainly stated- And then Mr. Lodge backed in with the statement that the matter had been cleared up, and that he was well pleased with the explanation.

Of course, Henry has been spending a lot of his time and effort trying to convince skeptical Americans that there is more good than bad in UN, so he grasped at a very thin straw to get away from that handbook and its shocking statement. But it won't do, ffenry; it won't do. It just adds more fuel to the great flame that has been rising steadily in this country against UN; this time in plain print. and no hearsay. Here was another little acorn in which we originally placed great hope and invested much money. It has grown into a very strange oak, indeed. x<**

You have been told a lot recently about our new Social Security law, passed by the last Congress. You have been told of the increased benefits to beneficiaries, and likewise you have been told of the increased payroll deductions against both employe and employer for financing the payments. You have not been reminded that millions of additional citizens will now have to keep a set of accounts and make regular reports to the Government on Social Security; or that another great army of Federal employes will now be needed to handle the added operations, collections, accounting, etc. There are already more than 500 Social Security offices in the country, and the new millions must add to that number.

You have been told ,n"J"rl"r lr, .u*rr,r"trative expenses of the Social Security program, including reimbursement of the Treasury Department for its services, have been paid, that the money remaining has been transferred to the trust fund established on the books of the Treasury De- partment for the old-age and survivors insurance program, and invested in U.S. Government interest-bearing bonds; and that the accumulated interest is added to the fund. All of which is very true.

The new law makes ": ";.;. in the handling of the vast sums subtracted and deducted from payrolls. That fact should be more generally understood by the citizenship. The worker and employe pays out the billions through payroll deductions. Uncle Sam grabs the money, and after paying expenses of the Social Security system, he puts interest-bearing Government bonds in place of the cash, and spends the cash for general expenses of this Government, everywhere in the world. Uncle Sam has only one source of income-taxes. When the beneficiaries of this system have to be paid, there is no Social Security cash from which to pay them; they have to be paid from the general fund, the sink where it was swallowed up in the first place. So the next time all the taxpayers must chip in to pay the money that only the payroll contributors were taxed for in the first place.

Countless authorities have reported on this system, with no disagreement that I have noticed. Ray Tucker, in one of his columns, stated it clearly and tersely, when he said: "ft is true that the Government spends all these premiums to pay for current operations. ft does not keep the money in the treasury. When payments fall due it meets them by using money from taxes." The Social Security "trust fund" has been called "fiction" by various authorities. It consists solely of Uncle Sam's ability to pay back the payroll money when it comcs due. And so, here is another little acorn that keeps growing into a "great oak."

And when it comes to reviewing just a few of the little acorns in Government that have grown into great oaks, the following figures offer some excellent thinking material: In the year 1940 our Commerce Department spent about 37 million dollars; in 1950 it spent 863 million. In 1940 our Department of the Interior spent about 210 millions of dollars in its operations; in 1950 it spent 568 millions; in 1940 our Labor Department spend 29 million dollars; in 1950 it spent 257 millions; in 1940 the Justice Department spent 49 million dollars; in 1950 it spent 131 million; in 1940 the State Department spent 24 million dollars; in 1950 it spent 361 millions. These are just a few of the same that might be quoted.

Honestly, isn't it true that "great oaks from little acorns grow," especially in Government matters?

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Members of the Home Builders Institute meet November 1 to elect their 1955 board of directors, Arthur C. Wright, president of the Los Angeles group affiliated r,vith the NAHB, announced recently.

"Next year will be a key year for the home building industry both locally and nationally," said Wright. "A goal of 1,400,000 new homes annually has already been set by the NAHB."

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