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CONTROLLING THE BUDGET
(New York Times)
The cost of running the Federal Gov
ernment after the war is estimated in a
study published by the Brookings Insti
tute at $22,300,000,000 a year. This would
be about three times as great as the annu
al expenditures in the 1938 fiscal year,
about six times as great as such expen
ditures in 1928 and about twenty times
as great as the cost of running the Fed
eral Government in 1917.
The Brookings study, like others that
have been made along the sam elines,
cannot pretend to be anything better
than intelligent gueswork. It tries to es
timate what will be spent on national
defense, on veterans’ benefits, on high
way grants, on agricultural aids, on pub
lic assistance—and all these expendi
tures depend upon the policies that Con
gress and the Administration will adopt.
(The Brookings estimate is exclusive of
social security expenditures.)
Yet when we try to guess the probabil
ities item by item, most of the Brook
ings figures look like estimates of mini
mum rather than of maximum probable
expenditures. If the spending philosophy
embodied in the Murray bill were adopt
ed, for example, postwar Federal expen
ditures could be indefinitely greater
than the Brookings total. One significant
conclusion reached by the study is that
though the Federal Government would
need $5,000,000,000 a year in 1949 to
meet interest charges alone on its debt,
even this will not represent the primary
post-war fiscal problme. That problem
will be, rather, the “large and growing
expenditures” for all functions of the
Government.
The service of such a study is that it
helps to bring us back to realities. The
great post-war problem will be to bring
the Federal budget into some sort of con
trol. It will be to bring expenditures
down to a reasonable point where the
budget can be balanced. Unless we do
this, we shall either have to continue
taxes so heavy that they discourage busi
ness activity, and so undermine the
whole structure of production upon
which the real income and welfare of all
of us depend, or we shall have to con
tinue a budget of deficit that could lead
to an uncontrolled 'inflation.
Yet while this is the real problem that
we have to deal with, we find many of
our public officials, Federal, State and lo
cal, busy devising governmental spend
ing schemes to increase monetary pur
chasing power (already far in excess of
the volume of civilian goods) and to pre
vent “deflation.”
There is always a silver lining to the
other fellow’s cloud.
The principal objection to old age is
that there’s not much of a future in it.
THE SCORE IS PAID !
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WASHINGTON
NEWS-LETTER
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By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Sacraiary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlait.
Dalagata to Congrats from Alatka
STATEHOOD BILL
INTRODUCED BY BARTLETT
A bill calling for Alaska’s ad
mission *o the Un;on as the forty
ninth state has been introduced
by Delegae Bartlett and referred
to the Committee on the Terri
tories, whose members will study
this question while in Alaska this
summer.
The Delegate’s statehood bill
calls for the election by Alaskans
of twenty-six delegates to form a
constitutional convention. It pro
vides for the retention by the
State of Alaska of all public prop
erty and vacant and unappropri
ated lands, including lands, with
some exceptions, reserved or
withdrawn from entry. The ex
ceptions include lands reserved or
devoted to the support of the com
mon schools of Alaska and the
University of Alaska; land reserv
ed for use or benefit of the Indi
ans, Eskimos and Aleuts; Mount
McKinley National Park; Glacier
Bay National Park; the naval pe
troleum reserve in northern Alas
ka; the Pribilof Islands; and all
the Aleutian Islands west of a
point near Umnak which may be
needed by the United States for
military purposes. The State of
Alaska will have, under this bill,
control of all fisheries and fur and
game, except technical and re
search plants. Sections numbered
16 and 36 in each township will
continue to be reserved for the
support of common schools, and
section 33 in each township would
be reserved from sale or settle
ment for the support of the Uni
versity of Alaska.
After the constitution and State
governmen have been formed, the
constitution will be submitted to
the people of Alaska for ratifica
tion or rejection and if ratified,
the Governor of Alaska will cer
tify the result to the President of
the United States. Upon certifica
tion by the President an election
for one representative and two
senators to Congress and state of
ficials, including members of the
State Legislature who shall pro
claim the result of this election.
Upon this proclamation, the State
of Alaska shall be deemed ad
mitted by Congress into the
Union.
Delegate Bartlett’s bill provides
for appointment of resident Alas
kans to form the United States
District Court for the District of
Alaska comprised of two judges,
one United States attorney, four
assistant United States attorneys,
one United States marshal and as
many deputies as the Attorney
General of the United States des
ignates.
A sum of $100,000 would be au
thorized to be appropriated by
this bill from the Treasury of the
United States for payment of ex
penses in connection with the
elections provided in the bill and
of the constitutional convention.
CHANGE IN TERMS
OF JUDGES SOUGHT
If a bill introduced by Delegate
Bartlet* becomes law, the judges
of the district court for Alaska
shall be appointed to hold their
offices during good behavior,
Teaches With
A Bang
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(JP) Features
CAMP VAN DORN, Miss.—
Brig. Gen. Edward J. McGraw, a
cocky little lightweight with
plenty of jive in the fistic feather
pillows himself, is managing a
stable of sluggers in this corner
of Uncle Sam’s Globe-Wise train
ing camp.
But it’s not leather pushing the
! former lightweight boxing champ
of the Hawaiian islands is teach
ing. The toughies in his 63rd
(blood and fire> heavy artillery
division are chunking sizeable
slugs of lead and steel.
And McGraw, a member of the
NCAA and American boxing
rules committees, also is an old
hand at the teamwork angle his
boys are developing for exercise
against a very rough team in the
Nippon loop. Besides stopping all
challengers to his boxing title, he
was coach of the 13th field artil
lery football squad which won
the Hawaiian islands crown back
in 1924, and he aided the coach
ing staff at West Point during the
days of Chris (Red) Cagle.
Transferred here as division
commander after service in the
trmy ground forces headquarters.
Gen. McGraw has seen duty in
Fort Knox, Ky., Fort Lewis,
Wash,. Fort Bliss, Texas, Fort
Leavenworth, Kas., and Fort Ben
ning, Ga., besides Honolulu and
West Point. At Fort Benning he
aided in organizing the 1st bat
talion, 20th field artillery, a unit
of the Fourth Army.
He was graduated from West
Point in 1920 and has returned to
the “Point” for two assignments
since.
Born in Philadelphia in 1901,
he calls Silver City, N. M., his
h me town. He is the father of a
married daughter.
rather than for terms of four
years, placing the tenure of office
for Alaska Federal judges in line
with that of Federal judges in the
several States.
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