YOUR WASHINGTON Ittitrii Mto %tm\t AND YOU! "FOR A FAIR CHANCE FOR A FREE PEOPLE" VOLUME XV (1953) NUMBER 3 - FOR RELEASE FE3RUARY 5 OR AFTER A WEEKLY * * ft REPORT J?M READERS WELCOME. Due to mechanical difficulties, our office was unable to add 2$0 new names to the mailing list until this third issue of the current "Your Washington and You" series. The new group comes from all corners of the KARL MUNDT state - from Frank Corbett in Sisseton to Ivan Barkley in Ardmore, and from J.A. Sacrison in Buffalo to F.P. Gibbs in SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls. To all four of you - and the 250 South Dakota folks in between - may I offer a hearty welcome from Washington! ### FOR S.D. BENEFIT. Thanks to the loyal Republican voting record of South Dakotans during the past many years, our state has been honored by valuable Committee Assign ments given our Congressional delegation. As Senior Senator for the state, I was privileged to join the membership of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. This group screens ail requests for funds from every department of our national Government. This week the Sub-committee memberships were announced, which should prove gratifying to all South Dakotans. As a result, I am now a member of the Sub-commit tees on AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY (South Dakota's major industry); ARMY CIVIL FUNC TIONS (including the Army Engineers who are building the Missouri River darns); INTERIOR (which controls many Federal projects, particularly in the West River area and also the operation of the Indian Bureau). In addition, I am a member of the Sub-Committee on STATE, JUSTICE AND COMMERCE (to supervise funds of such projects as the Voice of America, the FBI and the Bureau of Public Roads). I have also been chosen chairman of yet another Sub-committee - on the LEGISLATIVE branch of Government - which includes funds to operate both Houses of Congress and other Capitol Hill activities.
#7; # ANOTHER "FAMILY" MEMBER. Newest addition to the Mundt "family" in Washington is James Smith of Pierre^ son of Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. St. Clair Smith- Jim is employed in a Mundt office patronage vacancy as part-time elevator operator in the U.S. Capitol building. He soon will begin night classes in the Law School at George Washington University here* Jim is a graduate of the School of Mines in Rapid City and formerly lived in Aberdeen before moving to Pierre. By coincidence, back in 1912 his father, Judge Smith, also came to Washington to work in the capitol and study law at GWU where he was graduated. # #£ ON S.D. AIRWAVES. "lour Washington And You On T\ie Air" makes its first 1953 appear ance of the new season over South Dakota airwaves this weekend, thanks to the kind cooperation of our state's radio stations who are making these public service broad casts possible. On SATURDAY, JAN. 31, the program will be heard as follows: KELO, Sioux Falls, U:30 p.m.; KISD, Sioux Falls, 6:15 p«nu On SUNDAY, FEB. 1, the schedule is: KWAT, Uatertown, 6:00 p.m.; KSOO, Sioux Falls, 9:15 p.m.; KSDN, Aberdeen, 9:h5 P*m.; KIHO, Sioux Falls (Tentative) 10:15 P*m* KORN, Mitchell, 10:15 pdiuj and WDAY, Fargo, N.D., 10:15 p#m. On MONDAY, FEB. 2, the program includes: KGFX, Pierre, 6:00 p.m.; KOTA, Rapid City, 9:15 p.m.; WNAX, Yankton, 10:1*5 P*m. The format of the weekly 15-minute program transcribed from Washington will re main the same as in past years, including the theme song "South Dakota Melody" written by Marie Christopherson of Sioux Falls and fecorded by the U.S. Navy Band with Ben Mitchell Morris as soloist. Each week each station will broadcast at the foregoing'times. The first broadcast will feature interviews with the office staff (all are South Dakotans) and later programs will include recorded talks with South Dakotans visiting Washington. As usual, a-major portion of the time will be devoted to my personal report on Washington affairs to the folks back home.
ENCOURAGING SIGNS. When the national Women's Forum on National Security met here in Washington last week, I spoke before the group and mentioned three "encouraging signs pointing to the hopeful future of the world, despite the ugly war going on now in Korea". "The first was the election of a new Commander-in-Chief, whose background, ex perience and personal characteristics indicate he will make the Korean War a matter of his primary concern. Second, was the enunciation by Secretary of State Dulles of a new American foreign policy. This policy is both forward-moving and positive in character to replace the policy of Containment of Communism which has been our offi cial plan since World War II. The third encouraging sign is the growing indication that Russia's attitude has changed since President Eisenhower's trip to Korea. The Kremlin has already lost the initiative and has started worrying about our American plans and programs". ####