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ar the fate, TRIS Proen 4s in excess of $100 million e weoke ne nes pointed etb thet | *neny of the inggetrents America so badly needs, such as schools, hospitals, high- WOYS, tnd mre edaguate assistenoo for the unfortimate, oruld be financed out of money that is currently deing wasted through poor business management." Just how much money does “defense cost in terms of what else might be purchased with, the saxo amunt of money? . The overall cost of introduving the Atlas inter-eontinental ballistios missilo into our armed forces will average about $36,000,000 por missile on the firing Linge AS en example, the amount spent for one missile would provide each of the 36 ooun- ties in Oregon with a new $1,000,000 school. The latest atomic submarines will cost $50,000,000 each. (Three are budgeted for Piscel Year 1960.) This total sum = $150,060, 000 - could provide a now $3,000,000 hospital for all citios in the U.S. with a population of 200,000 or more, A single Be58 bombor costs $26,700,000. Converted into social and ccononmis neods, this amounts to about 1,300 new $20,000 hones to house more than 6,000 psoplo. ‘Menporor, According to Premier Khrushehov, "if wa consider in addition to the rilitery the nuzbor of people directly or indirectly connected with the production of arms and involved in various brenches of military rescarch, we will find thst more thm 100,000,000 have been taken away fron their fruitful labors." In the U.S., it has been estimated that about 15 perownt ~ or over 9,000,000 - of the lebor foros is engaged in work on military orders, In addition, 2-8 million are in tho erned forces. Probably, all totalled, some 13 or 14,000,000 persons in tho U.S. are engaged directly or indirestly in defense activities. Some specific indistries, of course, have much larger percentages than the labor force es a whole - electronics, airoreft, certain classes of machinery production, chemicals, shiptutlding. (Tho eircreft, shipbuilding, and electronics industries alone would accotmt for consid erebly over 1,000,000 full-time defense workerse AS another example, ebout 90 per- emt of the aircraft industry production is for the militarye) It is theso indus- tries, of course, that would bear the brunt of contract cutbacks due to a disarm ment egreensnt. Defense Needs Govorn Alle Defense needs have not only soaked up much of the lator end taxes of the american people, they have also hed a direct impact on all aspects of lifo in the United Stetes. For exauple, they have limitcd the extent to Thich all lovols of govornmont havo bom able to provide some of the vitally nocdod publi services such os area redevolopment, aid for the aging, school construoticn, ote. Teohrological advance has boen extensivoly based upen md conditicnad by ths Federal Government's dofense programe For oxenplo, it might be pointed out that federal support for research and davel opment in a varicty of areas ws estimated not long ago to represent approximately 50 percent of total expenditures in this comtry for research today. In Piseul Year 1957, Federal expenditures for this cakogery were cetimated at $2.6 billion. But 84 peromt of this total was for me yor national ne Fone soour: Giese Ono-fifth of this amount went to the Atomic Phorpey Cor ol with only a small frection alloonated for the derelepmcnt of Pencoful enpliontsons of muolans enorgy. In tho sano your, government