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The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable QH)? (Elution 1 If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume im Clinton, S. C., Thursday, April 10,1952 Number 15 INCOME TAX TOOK VACATIONS OF MANY; MUCH OF THIS TO BE SQUANDERED, BABSON STATES People Urged To Rise Up and Demand Some Economy At Once^ • ■' " Babson Park, Mass., April 4.-* March 15 has come and gone. Gone, too, are the hopes of many for that new car or summer vacation, the redecoration of a few rooms, or a new spring outfit. While you are still smarting, perhaps it is a good time to ask, “Why do we let our Govern ment Talte so much of our money to spend so reckless ly?” I 1am inclined to believe most of us W. Babioa do not rea lize the economic ^facts of life; for L if we over three hundred recommenda did, I feel pretty certain that more people would get out to vote—in the primaries, as well as in local and national elections. How rich is this country when compared with 1929? The National Bureau of Economic Research has reported that in termo of 1929 dol* lars our total wealth has increased only 12% from 1928 to 1948. Yet in this same period our population has increased 23%! This Bolls down to the fact that in 1951, a year in which all kinds of economic records were set, the per capita wealth was actually 8% below that of 1928! Government Opiates The policy of our own Federal Government has been to keep us in the dark on such facts. The size and power of our governmental machine/ our formidable commit ments both et home and abroad, full employment and standard of - ymtrvg ppnpin have jpppntiy donp in living propaganda—all have dulled our senses to what has really *been going on. Many people even now subscribe to the idea that high taxes are good for the country as a whole! Who gets most of the ta?c money? Uncle Sam now takes 81% of all taxes collected in this country. This leaves only 19% of the tax money for state and local governments, which is less than one-third of the percentage these organizations had at their disposal in 1929. What does Uncle Sam do with all Ql this.money? Get a digest of the Hoover Repo*t and find out if you don’t know. Here are a few facts:— Im 24 years, the Government has increased the number of employees from 570,000 to almost 2,500,000. The total national budget has in- and Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products N*S SUN-PROOF HOUSE Today's SUN PROOF - Houm Paint k better " than erer became h'l FUME-RESISTANT! Will not darken or discolor from coot or industrial 15.00 PITTSBURGH PAINTS D. E. TRIBBLE COMPANY Baildtn SappUw M MWHIimWHtl creased from less than $4 billion in 1928 to approximately $70 billion. From another view the Federal Budget expense has gone up from $240 per average family, per year in 1928 to $1,400 today. Here is a sample of where the money goes: 29 different agencies make loans; 28 handle welfare projects; lO are engaged in wildlife preservation; and 50 agencies compile statistics, which often disagree with each other! The Veterans’ Administra tion takes five times as long to pay a death claim, "and uses four times as much manpower to do the job as do private companies. These are but a" few sampler of what has been going on to cause the demand for more and more dollars in taxes from you and me. The Hoover Commission, an im partial, non-partisan committee ap pointed by President Truman, made more important politically than the few delegates General Eisenhow/ex jGarden of Gethsemane, Christ was picked up in his New Hampshire victory. * • • Senator Taft needed an extra strong showing in the Wisconsin primary. Of course thage are many more delegates, which The Taft sup; porters declare they will garner from conventions and party ap pointments, than are named in primaries which will show up jn his camp at Chicago, but even the professional politicians can read a enhower camp, probably angling trend. Stassen will wind up in the Eis- hower camp, probably felt the need for consolation. T n the weighed down by the fate that awaited Him and the knowledge that many would reject IJis sacri fice. The Son of Man longed for just one sympathetic word. But His disciples slept, wrapped in their own dreams of uneasiness and fear. Only the olive trees, like spectres in the cold moonlight, looked on as the Savior entered into His agony. Christ was abandoned by men in His hour of need; but not by His Heavenly Father. In Gethsemane, Christ, the Lonely taught men a great lesson: that when the need for consolation is greatest they must turn for it, not to men, but to _ — i-, _ i i .. I * * t LA o U LvAlll A W A Ivy 11UI IU llldly K_/ LA L LU for GoCl Wlh the SW eat of blood OOZing ' fr ° m His P° reS > Christ tiirned HiS "ca^for^. 0 Hhou ^ unto death, S o m e who give hin, a chance in p^ntd^o^tn Th" o/! tions to bring about a more effi cient Government. Hard-hitting, interested citizens who have made their wishes known to their repre sentatives have been able to bring about legislation adopting less than half of the Commission’s recom mendations. Our Own Fault Our Government, at local, state, and national levels* is as good .as we make it. If we remain'compla cent or silent or fail to vote, our Government will continue to squan der our tax dollars. But if we make good Government our business, just as we would the handling of our own personal finances, we can stop thi^ waste and reduce our taxes. Let us speak up by writing our senators and representatives, by working with organized groups in our own community, as some Boston, Massachusetts, Above all, vote for those who stand for efficient government and who will let us help bring about the remaining half of the reforms recommended by the Hoover Gom- mission t Our Government will be as good and as efficient as we de mand. It is our money that is be ing spent! It is partly our fault that our taxes are so high. As Washington Sees It... FHE NATIONAL SCENE case of an untimely deadlock. * * * Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, who has thrown his hat in the ring, has opened up national headquarters here and actively started his campaign. In the meantime, Senator Estes Kefauver is making hay where he can with a back-breaking schedule. Six-Inch Sermon By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER No one need feel ashamed be cause worry, frustration or trouble of one kind or another causes him to go to a fellow human being for comfort. The yearning for consola- OFFICE SUPPLIES Complete line, all the little items needed for the office. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. tion is part of that larger desire for 1 -j * —Phone, 74 love which is an instinct of every human heart. Even Christ, the Perfect Man, Father. And at length He rose and [ went calmly to the ordeal before Him. It is in God always that men find their perfect consolation. N6 one may expect to be spared pain or suffering; for some, life will al ways be hard and bitter. God, for His own inscrutable purpose, per mits even the noblest of His crea tures to suffer. But He never leaves them to suffer alone. Unlike the sleeping friends of Christ, He stands by their side to sustain and strengthen them in the hour of testing. . WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. 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And further, it is likely that if “Ike” makes any speeches prior to the GOP convention in Chi cago, they will be “non-political” speeches. ' The General feels that it would be in bad taste for him to campaign in uniform of a general of the army, and for that reason, if he is nom inated by the Republican conven tion, he will resign from the army, give up his pay and retirement em oluments, and campaign strictly as a civilian. This is in direct contrast to the action of General Douglas MacAr- thur, who has declared he is willing to accept a nomination amL is mak- ing political speeches against his commander-in-chief, with uniform, army plane and all. * • • • At the other end of the Repub lican field. Senator Robert A. 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