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Hugh Scott, Legislative-Executive Link,
To Discuss U.S. Senate's '100 Men'

By LYNN STERN
and DOROTHY YOUNG

Maintaining that he will
support the President in "nine
out of ten instances," Senator
Hugh D. Scott (R-Penn),
Senate Minority Leader, has
become an important bridge
between the long-sundered
legislative and executive
branches of the Federal
government.

He will speak Friday at 8:30
p.m. in the Newcomb Hall
Ballroom on the topic of the
"100 Men" of the U.S. Senate.

Labeled a
"moderate-liberal," the Senator
denies any liberality. In his bid
to succeed Everett M. Dirksen
as Senate Minority Leader, he
was supported by a coalition of
moderate and liberal
Republicans.

Mr. Scott supports strong
national defense and the ABM
system, but has voted against
bills which would increase
presidential military power.

Scott And Nixon Agree

Senator Scott and the
President agree on such high
priority measures as welfare
reform, transit subsidies, rural
development and
anti-pollution.

Mr. Scott opposes busing
with the single objective of
achieving racial balance
because he regards it as
arbitrary and unjust, and he
claims that it makes children
overly aware of percentage
quotas in racial distribution. It
is his contention that America
should focus rather or quality
education.

Equally vocal in his claims
that Democrats consistently
try to stir up farmers, the
Senator remarked, "I never saw
a happy farmer because he was
always grumbling that the big
corporations or the middleman
or someone else was getting
more money than he was."

Mr. Scott views the sharing
of Federal revenue with State
and local governments or a
value added tax as possible
means of reducing the burden
of property tax on the
homeowner.

Advocating an increase in
the amount of assured health
care the Senator nevertheless
does not want the Federal
government to take over the
entire system of health
provisions. In his opinion,
employers should be required
to provide minimum health
care packages to all employees.
In addition he declares that
Medicaid should be drastically
revised because of inequities
and overcharging by
physicians, hospitals and
nursing homes.

Mr. Scott has been very
interested in Chinese culture
since his first visit to that
country in 1947. He has
recently returned from another
trip to Mainland China.
According to Mr. Scott the
Chinese government is
apparently interested in
providing for the consumer;
China has more consumer
goods, cheaper food and much
less rationing than does Soviet
Russia. Seldom are there
lines waiting to make their
purchases.

Chinese Content

Chinese officials wear the
same clothes as everyone else,
but a little better quality and a
little better tailored, the
Senator noted, remarking that
"everybody's equal, but some
people are a little more equal."
Even so, Mr. Scott observed
that the Chinese are apparently
content with their ideological
goal of "struggle for
achievement" and are
convinced that their present
way of life is better than that
of earlier days.

Mr. Scott senses distinct
possibilities of achieving a new
rapport with Chinese because
of their clear dislike of the
Soviet regime in Russia and
their constant claim that no
quarrel exists between the
peoples of America and China,
but only between the
governments. Coincidentally, he
notes that Russia is now ahead
of the United States in all
weapon categories except
heavy bombers and submarines
and should be equal in those
by 1975.

CD/David Ritch

Senate Minority Leader Hugh D. Scott.