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Private Enterprise U.S. Is Now A

Vast Welfare State

HE

New York, bearded

ཨདྷིསཏྠིསཱིསཔིཊྛིཡཏྠིཡནྟིཏསཐཱཙ

By RODNEY CAMPBELL

!

No one, not even the penuler General Elsenbower, can put this clock back very fat..

'As U.S.

lean, figure of Uncle Sam. has become the world's biggest business- man, and the nation he reaching the point where They want both, and nothing the standards of living in under- symbolisca has become the such huge sums are at stake less will do. greatest welfare state in the New World.

These are the somewhat surprising facts of life in

influence fang out with Point round the world, Four type plans destined to ralza developed countries, Uncle Sam can only grow and grow. Where will the money come from, to feed this fantastic Topay?

SURE BASE

that the government has This week, I wrote out a to intervent to ensure rea- cheque for $23.80 and mailed it sonable negotiation.

to Unela Sam.. It was my "social so security" and "disabliity in- have got "Things

of General Burance" for the first quarter of

LREADY each US, family a land so often misrepre- tricky," one

Owes more than $5,600 as its sented as the last strong- Eisenhower's campaign 1952. For the best part of four hold of irresponsible, unre- staff told me the other day. years, I have been sending in this share of the national debt. On $1.40 a week (on top of S. a very broad average, the came a trained pentant capitalism in which "that it takes

Government income-tax, New family is worth about twice as the beggars scrabble for economist to understand the York State's Independent state much; to the base is sure. The food, in the dustbins of the simplest elements of the tax, and New York City's private nation's inventory, land, plant, Foods and so on is something national budget. All over city tax.) When I an 05, or

astronomical; pot-bellied millionaires:

but in totally America, more

than lost my job, I can collect the terms of 1029, uninflated dollars, 1. U.S. Government pay 30,000,000 men and women incredible dole of about $25.20 America's inventory is twice as high as it was before the great rolls are now greater than are signing away a quarter a week.

depression. the combined employee or a third of their income On a national scale, this pay- compensation of America's without knowing really how iron and steel, food. car, it is being spent. They say off cost Uncle Sam $24,400,000 textile and clothing in they are paying off Uncle 000 a year. dustries combined.

Sam, and leave it at that."

2. At least one of every six dollars earned in the U.S. last year came from

the government in pay, interest and welfare pay- ments,

LIKE IT

Given

+

Under government control. excluding service equipment, it

more than $112,000,000,000; and the projected atomic energy plant atorie, to take one example, is worth $2,000,000,000.

a steady rise In the birtarate, a steady increase in life expectation, U.S. economists

Besides all this, America is expect this bill will climb by discovering new resources in the EISENHOWER'S campaign more than 2,000 percent in the ground almost every week--30

In that time, the chances are that Uncle Sam will undoubtedly concen- next 30 years. trate against this "creeping America's over-65 age group is will be worth more and more as the years go by, will be able to socialism." But, even if he expected to rise from its present pay for his and for some of the 3. More than 6,000,000 is elected, the conservative- 12,000,000 to at least 25,000,000-outalde world's welfare state.

faclor of great and often

Like his bills, Uncle Sam Is Americans are now civil minded General is not likely a

He couldn't forgottes political influence here already super-colossal. In your servants of one form or to reverse it.

--and as such, this welture state lifetime he will certainly be another, or about one in if he tried.

vast. trend can only continue. nine of the total U.S: labour force.

The average American. like his British cousin, has Ü of form of security from cradle

4. More than one every three dollars spent in to grave. The U. S. welfare the US, is spent by the atate does not include a

health government.

plan, but

poor families in most sections of their the country have choice between one or other

BIG BILL

AMERICA'S basic philo free clinics. And American sophy is that there is pensions are higher, are room for everyone big agreed upen faster and with government, big private less trouble than the British. enterprise, big labour unions,

The American voters this with protection and pre-

certainly are ference for lttic November

supplied at the government ready for economies in their

level.

SONIA'S SLIP

IS SHOWING

by ERNEST

-DUDLEY

The Armchair Detective

I

ever tell you

"Lady Birdie lived at Tho

"Dabout my tringly Rookery, Croaking on-the-

The national bills, welfare state, for better planned robbery at Lady Elms," Sonia went on, flick- however, are becoming so management. But they will Birdie's place?" Sonia aek- ing the cigar off her ash huge, so complicated, that not vote against it as an ed me the other evening (she always smoked her the wrong way the government has to institution to any great when I had tracked down cigars

a negligent handle them; and the col- degree. They like their London's notorious Crime round) with lective bargaining between private enterprise, and they Queen to her new senside gesture. industry and labour is like their welfare state. lair at Accrington.

Men On The Moon

Manchester. will need to be clad in extends WITH the rapid advances spacesults-extensions of the tances.

high-altitude stratosphere suits

ΟΙ pure oxygen

to much greater This can stop most

I leaned forward eagerly

to hear another of Sonia's underworld sagas.

"Lady

*

Birdie WOR Д

то

chronic caso," Sonia continu- ed. "She was attended by 2 woman, Dr Jill Diji. Waters. Then I learned dis-her ladyship's butler was an ex-docker named Stevie

relation smail Dors - no in rocket development of today. These could be made meteors. After all, most meteors Diana Dore." that have

the earth's taken place to keep a fresh atmosphere for are stopped by during the last decade, it twelve hours or so, adequate for atmosphere at heights where the air is so rarefied us to be almost appears that the first space any exploration. ship may land on the moon Low-pressure atmosphere of negligible when compared with by the end of this century. hellum will be used to conservo

oxygen and the density at sea level.

The lesser gravity of the moon This possibility im-

not pull in so weight and prevent the occur will, morcover, mediately raises the all- rence of "bends," should decom- many meteors as the earth does. earth probably important question: Hav- pression take place due to an Infact, the ing got there, can man live accident, Such methods as these steals quite a large proportion on the surface of the moon? have already been tested on of those in the vicinity of the

earth for diving and high-earth-moon system. We know the physical con- altitude Sight. 'ditions' which prevail there --that it is extremely cold daring the long lunar night but scorching hot during.

equally

the

ERIC BURGESS, F.R.A.S.. describes in this article the difficulties that will meet the spaceship men when they land on the and oarth's intellite, tolls how those diffi- culties may be overcome.

suit.

as 4

•

Sonia took a great gulp at her champagne-and-cyanide cocktail and said: "I soon had Stovie under my mugnetic spell. IIe told me how Lady Birdle had old unclo, Major been: left a packet by her ill- Cross. She kept the cash' un- tempered

der her mattress.

Was

Sonia

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two

and

"My life

into

·was

That night when Dr Ji We can, indeed, calculate much The spacesult

called, Stevie will also serve in the same way as the insurance. Dill-Waters

dumped kind of companies compute the premiums knocked her out and thermos flask to for life insurance just what is her in the greenhouse. She was ahe the the probability of a man being a square-bulit woman, so insulate wearer from the hit by a meteor while he is on wouldn't come round for hours. extreme tzm- the moon.

black cioe's "Carrying the of his We find that he has a greater bag and wearing her stetho- PoundingY, A chance of being killed on our scope round my neck, I took slivered sult, for ronds before he reaches the age her place. I completely fooled example, will Conderably re- at which he could be a member the old geerer, told her I

'deputy," Dlli-Waters duce the amount of a spaceship's crew! long day.

Basically, therefore, there is went on. "Had no trouble at all no reason why man should not, switching the We can see that the aur- of heat passed to or free the

potent face

To avoid conduction through with suitable protective clothing, should have had for a of our satellito is

to the, potlon I'd pinched from expedition

no doubt that crook chemists, Al Kaline rugged and mountainous, the fent, heavily-insulated boots survive an probably covered with a will be worn and spiked soles on. There

later expeditions will establish a Parry Gorrick. layer of volcanic ash or will ensure the minimum area o cache of stores and instruments

This

the dope "I poured out the on the lunar surface and that in meteoric dust; we calculato contact with the ground.

suit will also keep

will be the Lady Birdie's medlene-glass-

sip

knew and I that there is little, if any, dangerous ultra-violet radiation due course there

normally founding of the lunar base.

wouldn't wake up il next atmosphere- certainly no from which we

morning. could take my me air which humana could protected on earth by our thick

This may be first accomplished digging out the money and all atmosphere.

by the scaling of a suitable

making my getaway. breathe. But despite these inhospitable

It has been, argued that the cavern and then filling it with an Later completely a spaceship would be atmosphere.

wil bo ditions it is still possible for, crew of the crew of a spaceship to subjected to a lethal bombard- artificial structures.

plastle domes ment of meteors (shooting stars) created

"Lady B. was just about to live on the moon at least which, it is sald, continually hit which will keep erect by the in-knock the potion back when for several days, maybe for the usprotected surface of the fernal

Fairly large populations could suddenly she asked me to take On carth, of course, our

her temperature and feel her weeks, without acute physi-mosphere again saves us from be housed in this way.

pulse. this hazard by burning up these People with high blood pres

"I popped

my thermometer fast-moving particles of rock and sure and certain types of heart into her face like a real disease might considerably, ex-sensional doc. And then. Lack of air can be easily over- iron.

tend hole span of useful life by Once again Sonia's eyes were come in two waya... During

But modern theory has good living in pressurised lunar cities blurred with tears as ane start- Iclaure and sleeping the crew will

to cab, out: the allly remain in the spaceship, which grounds for discounting such under the reduced gravitation, ed has its own atmosphere because dismal propheties Construction of the lunar base Lake, sho'd made

thought that will make possible true inter But YOU, of course, it is needed for the journey "It is

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tween the earth and the moon.tremely tenuous atmosphere ns. Mars and Venus, and give and spotted Bonia's lip Best For exploratory sorties, on the which, because the moon's direct results in the arious time. No? Take another. glance, Ather hand, members of the crew gravity is so much less than ours, pects of physical researched them. (Golution on Puge 16)**

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