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\ . I I Thursday, October 27, 1949 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Five BABSON Cities Must Spend Bil- lioons on Tronsportotion Problems. Babson Park; Mass., Oct. 26 —With so much talk about the automobile, steel, coal textile, shoes, clothing and other industries having “reached a peak for this busi ness cycle’*, read ers ask: “What in dustries have | yet gi eater growth a- head?” In reply I will mention four such. Millions of dollars must soon be spent on new nnlets and exits to our large cities. Thousands of new underpasses and overpasses must be built. Our entire transportation problem, from automobiles down to conveyors, needs overhauling. Every city and plant could reduce costs and increase effi ciency by better roads and conveyors. My favorite company in this field is the Link Belt commpany. Its stock sells on the New York Stock Ex change at about 61. Not only is the need for better transportation vital, but it will be easy to raise funds for such projects. We do not object to gasoline taxes if we are sure that the money is being spent for better roads, more bridges, etc. Automobile owners (and there are forty million of these) al so like the new toil bridges and toll roads such as have been built in Pennsylvania, Connecticuult and Maine. Not only are these undertak ings good money earners, but then- bonds, being non-taxable, have a ready market at low rates of inter est. Labor-Saving Machinery The only way that manufacturers can successfully meet labor’s demand for more wages is thru the use of more labor-saving machinery. One of the leading companies manufac turing such is the American Machin ery & Foundry Company. This stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and sells around 13 and one-half. I personally know its president; its management is very progressive. There are also other good companies and the entire in dustry looks bright to me. A email company developing la bor-saving food machinery, in which my family is in'erested, is the At lantic Coast Fisheries Company. This owns all the stock of the Fi§h Ma chinery Company which is develop ing very wonderful machines to take the bones out of fish and make fill ets mechanically. For the most part even today, from the time a fish is caught until it reaches your dinner table, hand labor only is used. Fish ing is both the oldest industry and the most antiquatedly operated. It is greatly in need of more mechan ization. The entire stock of this company sells on the New York Curb at about $3.50 a share. Telephone Industry One of the greatest labor saving inventions is the telephone. The in dustry is very progressive. Before long a new telephone writing ma chine will be^ available. This will send anywherer on regular telephone circuits, absolutely confidential and instantaneous messages, in the send er’s own handw-riting and with his signature. This machine is being perfected by the TelAutograph Cor poration. Its stock sells on the N. Y Stock Exchange at about 5Vi- I office will gladly give you partic- it to anyone. I am optimistic on the entire tel- phone industry. It is being used more every day; it has excellent management and fairly good labor relations. All you readers should have a little stock in the telephone company which serves your commun ity. The manager of your telephone office wil Igladly give you partic ulars. Food Merchandising Food is the one thing we all must have. There are many good inde pendent grocers and small grocery chains which are entitled to your pa tronage. I think it is generally agreed, however, that the A & P sets the pace for the entire food mer chandising industry as to quality, service and low prices. Truly it is a wonderful organization. The stock of the Great Atlantic & Pacific (now foolishly threatened by Government suit) sells on the New York Curb at about $126 per share. There are very ■ few better invest ments. Instead of worrying about inflation, or Ipbor troubles, or World War III, invest your money in one of these four industries. THE CHRONICLE Completely Covers Clinton’s Trade Area for Advertisers There Is No Substitute for News paper Advertising YOUR 5. C. SENATORS ARE EXPENSIVE; 1950 MODELS TO COST TAXPAYERS $50,905 PIUS i Washington — The IQSO-modeJ United States Stator is going to cost the American taxpayer $50,905 a year*-and up. That’§ the package cost in salaries end expenses for a pingle Senator and his office staff. The bill for all 96 of them will run around $5,000,000 a year. The cost per Senator went up about $3,000 a year this week when Congress voted the money to permit Senators to increase the pay of their office help or add another worker to their staff. One midwestern Senator put the blame on the taxpayer for the high Senatorial costs. He didn’t want his name used. “I’m snowed under with mail,’’ Senator X said. “We get about 1,000 letters a day in my office. That means that five or six stenographers and clerks do nothing but handle the mail. I never see most of it. I can't. Be cause if I tried to answer each letter personally—I’d be doing nothing but dictation all day.” A Senator’s pay is $12,500 a year. It’s generally agreed the salary is modest enough. A top-rank ambas sador receives $25,000 a year plus expenses. But the Senatorial salary is only the down payment. The real cost is in the fine print. Take the case of Senator X: In addition to his salary, he gets another $2,500 a year for expenses. This expense money is tax free. He need make no accounting of how he spends it. The Senator comes from a state with a population of less than 3,000,- 000. That means he can draw $35,- 400 a year for his office help. Each Senator is entitled to at least six office workers, an $8,400-a-year ad ministrative assistant, and an addi tional $6,700-a-year aide. In addition to salary, expense mon ey, free office rent, and office help, Senator X gets $105 worth of free stamps each year. This is outside ’his free mail privilege. He also gets $400 a year for sta tionary. He can have 250 minutes of long distance calls for free—or 50 calls. And he receives a payment of 20 cents a mile for travel pay at each session of Congress—the amount based on the distance from Washing ton to his home town. May Get More If Senator X’s state ever grows above the 3,000,000 population mark, he’ll get more office help. The size of his staff payroll depends on the size of his state. A Senator from a 3,000,000-5,000,- 000 size state gets $36,900 a year for his office expenses; the 5,000,000-10,- 000,000 size gets $42,420; and the 10,- 000,000 New York size state draws $43,920. The new law increased Senator X’s office pay pool by 11,520. This raised it from $23,800 up to $35,400. But the increase isn’t as big as it looks. Now the Senator must pay his ad- Vninistrative assistant out of the of fice salary pool. Heretofore, this assistant was paid separately by Con gress and the cost was not included in the office expenses. Assuming Senator X pays his ad ministrative assistant the basic $8.- 400 a year, then he will have $3,120 left over. He can use the money either to hire a new office worker, to increase office wages—or both. It so happens Senator X pays his top aide $10,000 a year. So he’ll have only $1,520 out of the $11,520 in crease to give pay raises to his of- Ifice help. “None of us are starving,” the Sen ator said. “But this job isn’t a gravy- j train even with the extras.” Extend those shreds of leftover j roast chicken with some oysters, | bury them in a cream sauce and top ! with grated cheese. Heat until bub bly. SIX-INCH SERMON By R«*v Robert II. Harper ISAIAH teaches trust in god Lesson for October 30: Isaiah 7: 3-7; 12:2; 26:l-7; v 30:1-2, 15-17. Memory Selection: Isaiah 12:2. The present lesson begins with God’s assurances to Ahaz, the king of Judah, that the designs of Syria and Israel,against Judah would come to naught. They would not overrun the kingdom, and they would not set a puppet king on the throne. The House of David would ^e saved. The Thanksgiving expressed in Is aiah 12:2 was evidently for the de struction of Sennacherib’s host— a miraculous, occurrance strikingly de scribed by Lord Byron in his Hebrew Melodies. This deliverance came during the reign of Hezekiah. son of Ahaz. After a plague that fell in the night upon the Assyrian host, Sennacherib fled back to Nineveh, where he was slain by assassins. The next passage is a song which the prophet declared would be sung in Judah. He evidently had in miod a distant time when Judah should be delivered from all enemies. The might of the Lord would do this. The trust which is taught in God should be learned now A great revival of trust in God is sorely needed, not only by individuals, but also by the rulers of nations. The last passage^-against an al liance with Egypt, could well be con sidered by the nations that face the working out of peace for the world. Whatever may be the value of the international policies of the pres ent, and of this pact or that, and the hope of security through them, the great lesson that should be learned by the nations is that of trust in God to bring all the threatened evils of the time to naught. You’ve heard of deviled eggs,- but how about cabbage. Cook the cab bage until tender, then to 4 table spoons of butter add a dash of dry mustard, a sprinkling of Worcester shire sauce and salt to taste. It’s ele gant over the vegetable. AS SUN IN HOUSE AND . 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