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Pa*e Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, November 15, 1951 COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator How much has President Tru man spent in his six"and a half years in the presidency? Or, we might ask how much has the con gress provided for the wild orgy of spending that has taken place since the man from Missouri took over the Government? Of course you understand that my figures are the purely oficial figures and haye ■“nothing to do with mink coats, dej?p freezers, RC commissions and o er activities of friends on the ih- \ side lending a hand to deserving °f it- Congress together—we see that the $260,000,000,000 would be $15,207 every hour. Allowing for changes in time, leap years, and everything I else, it seems that we are spending a lot of money. , Since the Truman total of $260,- 000,000,000 is more than all other presidents, including Mr. Rosevelt, | spent of tax money, this mammoth total of what Congress has done to | us would make all the Caesars and all the profligacy of the Roman Empire seem like child’s play, ev en with a hundred old boys like Croesus thrown in for good meas ure. A mild-mannered man of my type can’t do full justice to the sub ject. We need at least an adver tising man of some big circus t£' tell the stupendous story of hor rendous spending. No use; I can’t do it. We charge all this to Mr. Truman, but the Congress can’t do .! the Pilate act and w^sh its hands friends shivering in the cold On the outside: Mr. Knight, a well known citi zen and retired Postal Inspector, tells me that someone said to him that President Truman has spent more dollars than there have been Just how wild is our spending may suggest another -illustration. Last year Americans spent fifty two billion dollars for food but fifty-seven billions for taxes, ac cording to Paul Willis, President of the Grocery Manufacturers of hours since the Master brought, America, Inc., as quoted in In- new hope to mankind in his talks ! vestor’s Reader of Merrill, Lynch, along the shores of the Sea of Gal- i Pierce, Fenner & Beane. ilee; or since Pontius Pilate made of himself the synonym for cow ardly surrender when he washed his hands and tried to clear his conscience. ■When Mr. Knight told me that I Congress appropriated ninety billions for this fiscal year. So, following our calculation, we are spending now at the rate of more than five thousand dollars an hour for every hour since Simon Peter didn’t take it seriously, but after-1 preached at Pentecost and all those wards I thought I would “figure present understood the message of, it out.” W’ell, let’s see: Roughly., Iife - eac h ma n in his own language let us assume that the Redeemer i —$5000 an hour since that momen- faced Pilate 1951 years ago. That! tous occasion of the cloven tongues is not mathematically exact, but a s of fire. From then, all through I’ll leave a few millions for any the e ra mediaeval chivalry, and loose ends, so that even my re- 1 the da - vs °t discovery, and explora- markably accurate friend. Mr. A. t«on. following Columbus; Since S. Salley, will not chide me for then Empires have risen and fal- handling figures loosely; nor will len - from Charlemagne to Hitler; the Sage of The New# & Couriei nations became great and then de point out that a certain distinguish- rimed, even decayed, but the ed son of Laurens had already ar- 1 $5000, and more, for each hour rived at mathematical conclusions s tdl runs on. our spending for just more meticulously incontestable. > one year. Let’s try it out: 1951 years, mul- Think of it: during this fiscal tipiied by 365 days would be 712.- year—one year—this Government 115 days—seven hundred and will spend a sum equal to $5000 twelve thousand, one hundred and for every hour since Saul of Tarsus fifteen. Not even a million days, was smitten on the road to Damas-J Well, if time is so slow. President cus. Truman uil not wait for it. If we Quoting The Southern States! a.low *4 hours to the day, that Industrial Council letter: “Actual i would be seventeen million, and i appropriations by the 82nd Con-1 ninety thousand, seven hundred gress approximated $90 billion.; und sixty hours. (17,090,i60). Must while all this is going on in our I bt wrong, don t you think? Since national government, we must not' those glorious days of Galilee only overlook the fact that expendi- ! se\enteen million hours’ What a tures—and therefore taxes — of aggaru time is, in this day of prod- state and local governments are igal spending. Prodigal spending! a iso increasing I think we must choose a new il- This increased strain on the ec-' lu.'tration instead of the Prodigal onomy of the individual will, of S n. for he came to himself in course, cause all those w’ho can' repentance and made humble ac- to make an effort to obtain in now lodgement, followed by a new creased wages or income of some course of living. j sort. But if wages are raised, then .. e I, e 15 the mathematical shock i costs go up, to the various govern- i . ouwmw! ^ 5 J}r nt ' J Up to . i ments as well as to everybody else. 1st., 260,000,000,000—and probably . So then taxes must go up again— a small matter of five or ten bil- and so on with that old cycle to lions since. If we divide all the which there is no end-no end. that hours since the remarkable, signi- is, except through decreased ex-! Leant reply to th<* fault-finders, penditures. Render therefore unto Caisar the And decreased expenditures — things which are Caisar s; and un- economy in government — seems to God the things that are God s, to be. as Senator Douglas, of Illin-' ' 1 "?nt th M; We T fmd that ° U I G ^‘ ois - describes it, ’a time-consuming 1 eminent Mr. Truman and the and wearying task’, in which our ! Congress does not seem inclined to engage; it seems to be something I which everybody talks about and nobody does anything about. And just think of what is hap pening to those with fixed in- ■ comes—to the widow’s and orphans and pensioners and annuitants— I who have no chance to increase their income to offset increased costs! What about their standard Dr. Fred E. Holcombe Office Hoars 9:00 to 5:3* 200 South Broad SL OPTOMETRIST Offices at Phone 658 Gray Funeral Home Clinton. S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS Phones 41 and 399-J AMBULANCE SERVICE L RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgrs. of living? These are the expenda ble people of our present economy —sacrificed upon the altar of pub lic indifference and Congressional apathy.” But I would like to bring you a cherring word: there are more than 44,000,000 telephones in the United States, one for every three and a half persons—and I suspect that "half party”, when you are in a hurry. And there is an automobile for every 3 one-half Americans. 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