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/ Page Fow THE CLINTON CHRONICLE By SPECTATOR... COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS “After having gone a long way down the road of socialism, this country is showing signs of turn ing its back on what has been termed the , R»amshackle Para dise.. The Hoover Commission’s vigorous campaign to get the Federal Government out of com petition with private enterprise is bringing results. At long last, the public is awakening to the fact that the American system with its incentives and oppor tunities for personal initiative is the best in the promotion of eco nomic and social welfare. Big government has had a mushroom growth in this coun try. In the last quarter of a cen tury the number of Federal workers has increased fourfold and Federal expenditures eigh teenfold. From 1929 to 1948, public wealth increased 278 per cent as against a gain of only 79 per cent for private wealth, ac cording to the House Commit tee on Government Operations. The estimated value of the as sets of Government corporations and credit agencies as of June 30, 1954, is placed at around $40 bil lion. 'riiere are between 2.000 and 3,000 Federal agencies which compete with private enterprise. The far-flung activities of the Government threaten the exist ence of our free economy, breed unfair competition with business enterprise, increase the cost and decrease the efficiency of the proper functions of Government, and deprive the Treasury of sev eral billions in tax money. More over, this invasion dampens the spirit of private initiative that has been largely responsible for our greatness as a nation. Not only is Government com petition with business detrimen tal to our best interests but al so there is confusion, duplication and unnecessary multiplication of effort. The findings of the Hoover Commission reveal shocking waste, overlapping, and gross inefficiency in the multi tudinous Government agencies and commissions, and antiquated and slothful methods of account ing. If any private business had carried on its affairs in as slip shod a manner, it would have gone broke and been subject to prosecution for juggling figures. In the case of Federal agencies, for instance, capital funds are borrowed from the Treasury, thereby by-passing appropria tions committees and hence be yond their control. The Federal Government is the biggest lending and insuring outfit in the world, but a drastic overhauling is now underway. According to the Hoover Com mission. there are 37 or so agen cies engaged in these financing operations. Credit and lending operations of the Federal Gov- renment have far outstripped emergency needs and are expect ed to reach a combined total of $57.7 billion by the end of this fiscal year, June 30, 1955. This latter figure nearly equals the total loans of all Federal Reserve member banks. The Government is in the in surance business on a broad scale. Government insurance covers risks not ordinarily insur able through regular private channels, and in addition it com petes directly with private in surance companies. It is esti mated that at the end of 1953 the amount of life insurance in force sponsored by the Federal Gov ernment was over $309 billion, as compared with $316 billion by 1 private firms. The most serious inroads made by the Federal Government in the rightful area of private en terprise are in the production, distribution, and marketing of electrical energy. When the Government first entered this ! field, it was for the ostensible purpose of irrigation, flood con trol and aid to navigation. But the;e objectives have become of secondary consideration. Much electric plants is sold in unfair of the power from the hydro competition with private utili ties. The Government’s great est venture in this field is in the Tennessee Valley Authority. This was set up to be a ‘power yard stick.’ The argument of the pro ponents was that TVA could sell power more cheaply than pri vate enterprise. But according to a study by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, TVA rates would have to be nearly doubled if they were to compete on an equal basis with those of private utilities in the same region. Private utilities are being squeezed out by tax-free governments suffer a substantial Government projects, while local loss in revenue. Two decades ago the Federal Government wos producing only about half of one per cent of all the electricity gen erated in the United States, while today it is around 15 per cent of the total. If states and local government production is included, the proportion increas es to nearly 24 per cent. The Federal electric power facilities should be sold to private invest ors. While encouraging progress is being made by the Hoover Com mission in its gigantic task of re organizing our Government, much remains to be done in the face of powerful resistance by pressure groups. The staggering inefficiences that constitute Governmental burden and gross menace to our national security, and impose such a strain and an undermihing influence upon our economy, must be reduced. An aroused public should insist up on positive action by Congress.’ • • • Where Are The Democrats? Let us proceed with a careful ly elaborated plan so that when the time is most propitious we shall be ready to operate above and beyond all legal quibbles or challenges. • • “The St. Lawrence Seaway will bring ocean steamers to the Midwest and cheaper power to factories and homes in a 500-mile radius of Cornwall, Chitario. But to thousands of tradesmen and farmers in this area it spells only heartache. Like the Acadians—Canadians of another day immortalized in Longfellow’s poem ‘Evangeline’ —they are being uprooted from their homes and shops by order of the state. When a dam and a 2.2 million horsepower hydro electric generating plant are completed here, the waters of the St. Lawrence will back up be hind the dam in a giant lake, overflow the present river banks and sweep over the homes, stores and land—some of which have belonged to the same families for five ro six generations. “The Seaway may be a won derful thing for the next genera tion. but it isn’t for us,” says a ruddy, round-faced proprietor of the 100-year-old Bradfield Hard ware Store in nearby Morris- burg. Ont. At 67, he is forced to j move, along with ’other business men in his community. I wish they would just let me alone." says 75-year-old F. H Broder. retired reeve (mayor) of j Morrisburg. Mr. Broder sadly shakes his head as he sits on the j front porch of his neat, two story , brick home overlooking the i river. Across the St. Lawrence in the U. S.. earth moving machines are beginning exq^vation work for the Long Sault Canal which will praallel the river. Some 3.500 men already are employed here and nearby as construction moves ahead on both Cornwall’s generating plant and the canal. There will be 19,000 men on the twin job before the $1 billion Seaway and power project opens in 1958. Unlike the Acadians, whose deportation by the British took place two centuries ago this year, today’s uprooted Canadians will neither be sent to another land nor have their prpoerty confis cated, Government agencies will lay out new villages for them, and provide new schools, utili ties, post offices and other com munity buildings. The homes of some of the residents will be picked up and moved to these new towns: other residents will be paid compensation, which they can use toward building new home in the new towns. The crux of the resettlement problem is found in the eight doomed towns strung for 35 miles along the bank up-river on the Canadian side. This area ac counts for about $75 million of the $100 million resettlement and land acquisition problem faced by the Hydroelectric Power Commission of Ontario and the New York State Power Author ity. The two agencies are point- ly sharing the bill for shifting folks from the reservoir sites.” Let LONG DISTANCE add pleasure to • Phone ahead for Reservations • Phone Friends along the way • Keep in touch with home Before you go, call the Telephone Business Office and ask for a Ix>og Distance Credit Card. Then you can charge calls from any telephone, anywhere, to your regular telephone bill. Southern Bell TaJophone and Telegraph Company FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 9th day of August, 1955, I will ren der a final account of my acts and doings as Executrix of the estate of Thomas Chappell Banks in the office of the Judge of Pro bate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. m„ and on the same day will apply for a final dis charge from my trust as Execu trix. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. SUSIE BANKS, Executrix. July 7, 1955. 4t-Aug. 4 IF YOU DON'T HEAD THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Dr. J.W. Jones, Jr. Chiropractor By Appointment TeL 1023 702 Prather Circle CUaUm, S. C. Bring a Friend To Church With You \ THE CAUAIN5 HR5T KEEL <A Little does this young master know that in naval lingo a ship is often a M keel. H And he hardly could be expected to understand why. In a moment he'll launch his vessel on the crest of a dying wave, and barring mishap, watch it ride to sea until the next breaker drives it again to shore. And if, perchance, she stays up right and turns again to sea he'll never realise that her seaworthiness is primarily a matter of having the right keel. The Captain’s life will be like his ship! He'll have to face the breakers’ roll just as the rest of us do. Whether he remains upright, ready for the next onslaught, or washes up on the beach, is go* ing to depend on the moral and spiritual under* girding of his life. We can’t expect this Captain to know how im* portant a keel can be. But everyone expects his parents, with the help of the Church, to provide him with the best keel a young master can have —a positive, courageous faith in God. Pp <•'<' rV £ k ..*%> ' 4' J pi • - - .; fgr • | • - :•. < hf %■* - •>' 'A ' v? 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