The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 15, 1951, Image 8
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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
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