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CANADA CAUGHT’ IN A BOOM
The embarrassment of too much money has never
won much pity for its victim. But that it can be a real
embarrassment the Canadian Government finds as it
debates what to do with a prospective budget surplus
of $300,000,000.
The government is thinking of general elections
which may come within the next year or 18 months.
It is thinking of votes it may lose if it does not satisfy
voters to whom inflation is something that the experts
say is bad but which feels good in a pay packet-^even
if the packet buys less than it used to.
Here are some of the things that some Canadian
voters would say the government might do with its
.surplus: raise old-age pensions, because pensions and
other fixed incomes barely keep up with price rises;
cut income taxes because a surplus indicates they are
higher than need be; raise family allowances because
poorer people need money more than others.
But the first two outlets for surplus funds would
only put more spending money in the hands of consum
ers and this would only add to inflationary pressures
which the government and the central bank authorities
in Canada have been trying to check. The third outlet
would not only do this same thing but would raise
political questions, since family allowances tend to
benefit the French-speaking community with its high
birth rate more than the rest of the community.
Canada is struggling against mainly the kind of
inflationary pressures that come with a rapidly expand
ing economy based on great natural wealth and ready
markets for its raw materials both at home and abroad.
The government may be worrying about some aspects
of this boom but it will be hard to make many Canadian
consumers do so just now.
To Europeans economic freedom means a total ab
sence of regulations;! and regulation means restriction
on the individu al’s right to make a choice in his
economic efforts. In the United States, ever since
Washington’s times, the economy has operated within
the framework of laws passed by Congress. Americans
have applied to the economy the constitutional prin
ciple of “liberty under law.” —Leaksville N.C., News.
94th Squadron
Wins Worldwide
Rocketry Meet
VINCENT AFB, Ariz., Wt—The
fumed “Hat in the Ring” Fighter
squadron swept off with first
place yesterday in the Air Force’s
fifth annual worldwide rocketry
shootoff.
The first-place 94th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron scored 13,
800 points, far ahead of their
nearest rivals, the 427th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron of Oxnard
AFB, Calif.
The “Hat in the Ring” squad
ron, which fought in World War I
in rickety biplanes, now flies its
Sabrejets from Selfridge AFB in
Michigan.
The pilots have been firing
rockets at target sleeves for the
past six days.
Two pilots tied for individual
scoring honors, making 4,800
points out of a possible 6,000.
They were 1st Lt. Robert Long
of Savannah, Ga., a member of
the 94th, and Col. Donald Gra
ham of Oakland, Calif., who was
assisted by his radar observer, 1st
Lt. B. J. Thompson‘of Menden
hall, Miss. They flew an F-89
Scorpion night fighter for the
427th.
The final scoring: Eastern Air
Defense Force (represented by the
94th>, 13,800; Western ADF (rep
resented by the 427th), 11,400;.;
Northeast Air Command, 9,600;
Far East Air Forces, 9,400; U.S.
Defense Force, 7,600; Alaskan Air
Command, 6,808; Military Air
Transport Service, 6,000.
BROOKLYN DODGERS
FEATURED IN MOVIE
SHOWING AT THEATER
Featuring the Brooklyn Dodg
ers, "Roogie’s Bump” introduces
to screen audiences young Robert
Marriot, who portrays the Brook
lyn boy whose pitching arm
served up a miracle at Ebbets
Field. Republic’s presentation of
the movie comes to The Theater
tonight and Saturday, with “the
Bums" featured.
Playing themselves with inim
itable skill are Roy Campanella,
Billy Loes, Russ Meyer and Carl
Erskine.
Campanella, Hall of Fame slug
ger, made baseball history with
his big bat in 1953. Still in his
early thirties, the great Dodger
shattered three all-time marks
.for catchers during the 1953 sea
son and walked off with the Na
tional League’s Most Valuable
Player award for the second time
in three seasons.
“Roogie’s Bump” is a comedy
and a heart thrill which concerns
the plight of a small boy who has
a murderous pitching arm. What
happens to both boy and team as
they get together on the diamond
shouldn’t happen to an umpire.
Planks of early Norse ships
were tied to the ribs with rope.
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Stevenson Shifts Campaign Tactics to
Toward Party, Not Personal, Appeal
By JACK BELL
With Stevenson in Ohio, lift—
Adlai Stevenson attacked the Eis
enhower Administration yester
day as a “single interest govern
ment" which he said must be
ousted toy “election of the Demo
cratic Party.
The Democratic presidential
nominee thus wrapped up a new
attack on President Eisenhower
in the same package with his own
obvious shift in campaign tactics
toward a party—rather than a
personal— appeal for votes.
Stevenson said in a speech pre
pared for a late afternoon rally
in Akron. Ohio, Eisenhower has a
“Cadillac Cabinet” that “fears
nothing as much as change.” He
added the people “will carry for
ward again when the present
Cabinet is back in General Motors
next January.”
Why Did He Join ?
“If Mr. Eisenhower'didn’t want
his administration called a big
business, single interest govern
ment, why did he ever join the
Republican Party?” Stevenson de
manded.
This fresh attack on what he
called the “creeping complacency”
of the Republicans fitted in deep
ly with Stevenson’s new tactics—
which developed in a whistle-stop
swing thru Michigan Wednesday
—to submerge his own presiden
tial aspirations under a strong ap
peal for Democratic Party votes
that might carry him on the coat
tails of well-liked local candidates
to victory in doubtful states.
Significantly Stevenson told an
audience which failed to fill a
6,200 seat auditorium in Flint,
Mich., last night: .
Immunity to Criticism
"I spbmit to you that the times
call for the election of the Demo
cratic Party."
Earlier he had told a small
train-side audience in Saginaw,
Mich., that perhaps no President
in history had enjoyed the popu
larity he said Eisenhower had
held for four years.
With a trace of exasperation in
his voice, Stevenson added that
“certainly no administration in
history has enjoyed such immuni
ty from criticism" as Eisenhow
er’s.
'Give 'Em Hell' Speech
Then, in the manner of former
President Truman’s now tradi
tional Democratic “give ’em hell”
tactics of 1948, Stevenson cut
loose in Flint with a slashing at
tack on Vice President Nixon and
former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York.
Dewey drew about 1,500 more
persons in the sapie hall the pre
vious night with an attack on Ste
venson’s proposal to move toward
the ending of hydogen bomb tests.
Stevenson dismissed Dewey with
the observation that “discourtsey,
epithet and abuse from him are
no surprise.” The estimate on the
Dewey and Stevenson crowds was
made by the superintendent of the
hall, Paul Rewey.
'Man of Many Masks'
Stevenson prefaced his on
slaught against Nixon with the
observation that any President
might be “prevented by higher
will from serving his full term.”
fhen he tofe into Nixon.
Stevenson said Nixon’s political
trademark is slander.” He depict
ed the vice president as a “man
of many masks,” added:
“Who can say they have seen
his real face?”
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