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Nome, Alaska, Monday, June 18, 1951
A WELCOME PHASE _
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YOU RE PAYING THE BILL
By DeWITT EMERY
tPresident of the National Small Business Men’s Association)
The following comparison of the peacetime spend
ing of some of the non-defense departments of our fed
eral government is quite interesting and 9hows clearly
whv we’ve had such a tremendous increase in both
taxes and the national debt.
The first figure in each case shows actual expendi
tures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1940, and the
second figure shows actual expenditures for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1950.
Department of Commerce: $ 75,116,535
$863,082,852
Department of Interior: $ 71,385,280
$568,435,344
Department of Labor: $ 18,576,698
$257,043,997
Department of Justice: $ 50,813,162
$131,290,804 '
The increase in spending for these six departments
during this ten-year period is $7,708,603,469.
This increase represents such a vast amount of
money that it’s impossible for any of us to have even
a remote idea of what it will buy.
Perhaps we’ll come closer to understanding it if
we consider that this increase in spending of almost
eight billion dollars is more than enough to buy all of
the food for one year, at January 1951 prices, for all
of the people—in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Con
necticut, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Vir
ginia and Wyoming.
Now ask yourself this question: “What service did
any or all of these departments or any of the other
departments of our federal government, render me in
1950 which it did not render in 1940 that gives me my
money’s worth for the greatly increased taxes that I
am forced to pay?”
Henry L. McCarthy, welfare worker: “Take care
of the children today and the world will take care of
itself tomorrow.”
Yale Professor Urges
Statehood For Alaska
And Hawaii
n’ew HAVEN, Conn., (JP) — A
political science authority at Yale
urged yesterday that Alaska and
Hawaii be admitted to statehood
to show the world “We'really be
lieve in the concept of equality
that is part of the American
creed.”
Henry Wells, assistant profes
sor of political science, expressed
the belief that both of the terri
tories are politically “mature” and
are “as American in their insti
tutions and political practices as
Iowa or Vermont.”
The failure to admit Alaska and
Hawaii to the union, said Wells,
is the only “regretable unfinished
business” in an otherwise “excel
lent record” since World War II
in the U. S. governing of de
pendent areas.
Wells discussed the U. S. and
her territories on the weekly
radio program “Yale Interprets
the News.”
The foremost sail of a ship is
called the jib.
No Military Need
British Coliirbia
Alaska Railroad
■
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Interior
Secretary Chapman has informed
President Truman that surveys
for a proposed British Columbra
Alaska railroad will be held in
abeyance “until circumstances
make it more likely that full Can
adian participation can be se
cured.”
Congress authorized joint studies
in October, 1949 looking to the
construction in cooperation with
Canada of a line from Prince
George, B. C., to a connection with
the Alaska Railroad near Fair
banks.
The White House made public
a letter from Chapman in which
the Secretary called attention to
a Canadian note saying a joint
economic study “could hardly
serve any useful purpose at this
time.”
Chapman also noted that the
permanent joint board on defense,
U. S. and Canada, had decided
last March that the proposed road
Shortage of Newsprint
Forces Curtailment Of
Anchorage Daily Times
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — The An
chorage Times said today a news
print shortage has forced it to
suspend publication of the week
ly Forty-Ninth Star, and curtail
its own circulation and advertis
ing lineage.
Publisher Robert Atwood of the
Daily Times said the last issue of
the Forty-Ninth Star would be
published June 24.
Atwood said the Times would
cut its circulation from an aver
age of 12,000 daily to 11,000,
freeze its advertising lineage and
limit its size to a maximum of 4
eight pages.
The Times has only a 16-day
supply of newsprint on hand. At
wood said additional shipments
are due to arrive shortly but
would be too small to permit re
laxing the circulation and adver
tising restrictions.
is not justified by military needs
and location surveys are unwar
ranted on the basis of military
considerations alone.
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