liHtIitSDAY; JULY; 1962
Behhid the Plows
Common
Challenges U. S.
- The- ' House •of Representa- 1961. about 4 per cent of her
tives has recently approved a. total products.. The rate was 6,
per cent in 1958 and the measure which entrusts tie, one
third decrease is partly attribii-
President with unprecedented- table to the burgeoning, Corn
ly broad powers to cut tariffs. mon Market Improvement of
across-the-board hin response to: this situation, does not seem
the challenge which the Euro:. likely since the industrial
pean Common Market has pre-: growth of the CM is 5 per cent;
rented' to our. expOrt business.. this i§ roughly twice that of
the U.S.
On January 1, 19,58, as a re
sult of: an ,agreement in!Rome
among France. Italy, the Fed
eral Republic of GermanY,. - Undoubtedly the U.S. can-
Belgiutn, the Netherlands and,. not stand on the sidelines and
Luxembourg. the European) simply note the progress of the
Economic Community or Com
mon Market (CM) became op-! Common Market while parts of
erative. - . 1 her economy are decaying.
Yet we 'really cannot come to
grips with the idea of an
American-European amalgam,
i.e.; our joining the Common
•To abate: the enmities Market.
which have severed European
relations in the past
Aims of the CM
There are numerous Con- E 1
siderations.which have lead us =1 1
elevate living stand-. to , discard this idea. One of =ll
ards. and hasten technical prog- : these is the commitments the si
ress. ! , _
I : U.S. has with Japan and under- l
developed countries . Under the
To abolish tariffs which: CM, the U.S. would have -to Ek
split 1 Western EuroPe into set-up high tariff walls which g'
small; protected Markets.—l
would prevent much trade ai
•TO ' help - underdeveloped with these countries. We feel
countries and areas within the which does
=
that a better plan, ~._.,
CM and overseas. ; not mean capitulating to the
'CM or trimming our policies,
would take the form of repair- F..
ing and rebuilding 'our tariff
programs. And this
,is what is
'being done through President a
'Kennedy's Trade
,Expansion ri
Bill of 1962. -z-
•To construct the basis for
a , future United States of Eu
rope.
What It Has Accomplished
1 '
•Raised steel . production
from .40 million metric tons in
1953 to 70 millionlin 1980. (The
European Coal and Steel Com-
Mundy, which was formed in
E 1952,.is now part of the CM.)
•. •Built up monetaryreserves
Bo f sl6 million. ,
= i• j . . '
E i •Increased trade within the
.IMarket by 45 per -centin .the
... list 1 three•years. •
1
,Eg i
- 1 07educed internal tariffs by
. 1962
g 40 p r cent (as of Januaryl,
= . . • -
i
4 1 - ; •Taken the first steps to-
E ward a common external tariff.
?a - f f ±
=., *Allocated more ' than $2OO
ig: million to overseas nations,
‘E mainly In Africa. .-
: •Set aside $215 million' for
nuclear research.
a • I
,% *Established basic health
listandards which are binding
, on all members.
. What 'lt Means to the U.S.,
•
. With the admission of Brit-
Ain, Switzerland; Austria, Por
tugal and Sweden a single .
E'niarket of 260 Il ion people
E 'with a gross cashiincome three
g fifths as big as ours will be
•bargaining internally ,wit h
E- technical skills approaching
thole of the U:S. And they
E will have sufficiently high
tariff barriers to preclude all
E- , but essential trade.
E ; An increasing - desire. to reap
•&.-
the benefits (internal) of the
E, CM haS lead to an investment
E of $6.6 billion of American.
• torporations. This , is a four
= fold increase since 1950.
.g.
g The upsurge of efficiency in
the CM's industries might re
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duce their prices to a point
E Such that they could export to
c.-_•• us and, despite our high tariffs,
E mike a- reasonable profit..tu-
E roiman wages average about
• 80, cents' an hour, America's
about $2.80.
Foreign trade proides a
livelihood for, 4.5 million
Arnerican workers (7 per cent
• of ,the labor force). With tariffs
• between
,the Common Market
I countries at.."zcro". and high
E external tariffs,! a considerable
5 amount of our :export 'wilt be
E
wiped. 'out. - America. exported
g-sorne $2O billion in goods in
=
Market
By LEN 'KRAUSS
What It to be Mai
Last week the bill had a
smashing victory in the House Er:
by, a vote of 298 to 125; this a_
was Kennedy's higgest legis
lative success and reaffirmed
the feelings of the American_
people on .this matter which is,
the President said, "vital to g
the future of this country." .5:
•
The Senate is scheduled to be- _=
gin hearings on the bill in two
weeks. Administration officials
said they did not expect appre
ciable' amendments and ex- g
pressed confidence that the g*
final bill would be acceptable a
as drafted' by the Senate-House
ccinferees.
In the Trade Bill, Kennedy
has asked for the. power to
slash tariff barriers on broad El
catagories of items. His object al
is. to foster mutual prosperity
by reciprocal tariff agreements
between us and the Common
Market. The legislation would
give him the power to abolish K.*
completely tariffs on some P.
products and reduce some by
as much as 50 per cent over a
the next five years. These items
Would be those which we can E
produce more cheaply than the
CM and it would reciprocate by:4
cutting tariffs on those items a
which it can produce more
cheaply.
Adjustment Assistance
Since tariff cutting will hurt
some American businesses, the
bill has made provisions to Er',
help them and their employees. F-. 1
Under' the -bill's "adjustment -3:-
assistance" section, technical_E
and financial succor is pro- =
vided for those firms which are
bildly hurt as a result of tariff P.
'reductions. ,Subsidies for job
less workers could go , as high E
as $6l, a week and run for 52
weeks and in some cases for
78 'weeks. In the last analysis, P.
this is just taking over where
the protective protective tariffs left off r:
and, at least, offers hope for
future
-
future stabilization.
No one should think that-E
the Trade Expansion Bill is a E.
panacea or- that it has nearly se:
all the answers; we would
presage that half the problems E . ;
are • not known. But for the E,
status quo, the bill, in the opin
ion
E:
of many, is the best method Si
to cope with the escalating
.challenge of the Common Mar- ffi
ket.
SUMMER C
I !riM=l
How _much freedom should
'the individual have to speak
and write? In the past several
weeks this question has been
brought into the spotlight by
a U.S. Supreme Court justice
and the Kennedy Administra
tion.
Justice Hugo .L. Black says
in the current issue of the New
York University Law Review
that he feels the First Ainend
meat- of
U.S. Cons
tion, guaran
in g aim&
freedom
speech and
press, m
that th
should be
libel or d
oration 1 a
He feels
even publis
of obkene 1
cates of violent overthrow of
the. government and blabbers
of security secrets should not
be brought into court for their
actions.
The Kennedy Administra
tion does not have quite so
lenient a .view of the matter,
though. Last week Commis
sioner of Labor Statistics Ewan
Clague said in a speech at At
lantic City that- the -statistics
gathered ,by •his department
indicated that maybe the econ-
Late Enrollments
Add 650 to Total
Approximately 650 'additional
people have registered for courses
this summer since the formal
registration period closed June 19,
Melvin Rockey, assistant to the
registrar, said Tuesday.
Registration will continue all
term, he added, because during
the summer term special short
courses are offered. People en
rolling in these classes usually
register a day befure beginning
the course, he said., ,
As a result, a total registration
figure for this term will not be
available until the end of the
term, he said.
The present enrollment total
as of Tuesday was 6,454. This is
about an 8 per cent increase over
hist year's total at this time.
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How Much Freedom?
BROWNE
advo-
ornq wasn't headed into a big
ger boom next year. and pos
sibly. it might even slide off
into a recession.
• &causer h. said a naughty
word. 14WWWWn. Clague imme
diately Both his knuckles rap
ped. Labor Secretary Goldberg
quickly issued the statement.
"The economic facts do not
bear out such an assumption."
then bawled out Claque for
saying they did in the first
hlace and had him say that ho
adn't really meant to say
what- he had said.
Neither Justice Black nor the
Kennedy Administration are
right in their interpretation of
freedom of speech. Absolute
freedom of speech as advocated
by Justice Black would deprive
citizens of any recourse against
reckless defamation. A person
shouldn't be allowed to destroy
another individual's reputation
through the Issuance of un
truths, Such an interpretation
of the first Amendment would
also give the press the unre
stricted right to destroy.
The action taken by Labor
Secretary Goldberg to refute
the truth as seen'by a nonpar
tisan public official, on the
other hand, is an unnecessary
restriction of an individual's
Doctor
Lawyer
WHO OWNS YOUR
ELECTRIC COMPANY?
Would - you be surprised to learn that your
electric light and power company is owned by I
Dr. Johnson, Lawyer Browne, Mr. Jones the
grocer and Chief Petty Officer Moore?
Maybe you yourself are an investor-owner
in the company that provides your area with
dependable, low-cost electric . service.
The point is: people own your power com
pany. Not the government, or the city, or the
state. But people in every walk of life, with
savings they. want to invest.
Your electric company (like the more than
300 electric companies throughout our- coun
try) is investor-owned by people like you and
your neighbor.
That is free. enterprise at work to help keep
America Powerful!
WEST PENN, POWER
kwostor-owned, tax- paying -earving WCSTTrn Pisropyhtanla
by tam brown.
freedoin o f speech. Clague's
statements were not slander
ous. They merely .tended to
tarnish the glowing picture of
the economy presented by the
Kennedy Administration.
The government should have
no right to edit information in
such a• manner that the news
reads the way the government
wants it to. except in the case
of 'classified information or
possibly in time of war' when
editing must be done to pro
tect the country. The "mus.
ding" of the Commissioner of
'Labor Statistics Ewan Cla3us
was not ,done to protect the
country but to protect the
political standing of the Ken
nedy Administration.
The answer to the question
lies somewhere between the
interpretations of Justice Black
and the Kennedy .Administra
tion. The basic criteria for
judging whether or not some
one should be allowed to say
or, print something is whether
or not' he is stating the truth.
Persons should not be allowed
to present untruths, especially
if they damage another per
son's or the country's reputa
tion. At the same time the
truth Should not be supressed,
even if it is unpleasant.
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