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X f ’ r Bv SPECTATOR . . .*' ’ COMMENTS ON MEN and things Well, \u* are up a tree, aren’t we?' you must report to the Federal (iov- Thu'e who supported Mr^&isenhow- erpment the wages you pay your i i nght years ago and fotu - years ei>ok ami remit the tax on that, ago think he failed to do what ho if vuu are no t reporting that you promised or. we might say. as our mav f lIM i a Federal Agent at your Fpiscopal brethren -^y He has ,f i)(>r some bright tor cloudy) day done things which he ought not t*. i a iii n g on you to report and pay for have d »n-' ami he has left undone several years in arrears If those those things he ought to have done " wicked Republicans gain complete I repeat ’ He luis done things which control they might hale us before a he ought not to have done .audjie Federal Court for fraudulent with- lias left undone things he ought to holding taxes on the cook's wages. ha\< done However, except for according to the law enacted by the that travesty and tragedy at LittleJ wicked Democratic Congress.! So Rock Mr Eisenhower has followed you see where we are!! he course advocated by Democrats, wj] Rogers use to say “All 1 know Mid the Democrats ot the North—, j s f roa( j m papers." well, more arbitrary, dogmatic and des- t*otic than the smiling Ike was. w mi far as reported by the Northern j u( jaj n g by the reports of the day. politicians wrould^ have been even R e nnedy advocates s(H'nding A " A * " more billions than the Democratic Congress has authorized as of to* When the Democrats refer to the day and the Democratic Congress Eisenhower administration it must voted many millions more thari Mr be remembered that in both the Sen- Eisenhower recommended, although ate and in the House the Democrats ike shows remarkable aptitude as a spender But. as 1 understand, Mr have been in control with heavy may ntie* So. then, the truth is that the Democrats would out-Herod Herod him.-elf. for when Mr. Eisen hower would spend eighty billions the Democrats rear and. rave and rant because he doesn't spend eighty-two billions'. When Mr Eisenhower would have a token mixture of the races the lVni«K rats would go all-out So take your choice As between Democrats and Re publicans I see no balm in Gilead, nor any dew on Herman «The sober truth is that our statesmanship is Rockefeller seems to advocate more spending than Mr Kennedy ha- sug gested. although the campaign is -till in its early stages Just where Mr Nixon stands, at the moment. I don t know But in this atmosphere of prodigal -ponding there is a con tagion and any resourceful candi date or political orator can easly -uggCNt a few billions more at any time In the time of Washington. Jeffer son. Madison Rutledge, and others there was leisure, men read and thought So our nation was founded bankrupt and we have descended to by men who had studied the nations 'the level of the ancient govern ments which have no virtue or prin ciple but had a program of coddling the masses, that is to feed all of us until we rise and live and have our tiemg and die and are buned as pampered proteges of politicians, mste.id of as strong, self-reliant in dividualist.- of all time and interpreted then- ex penence The principal study of today is vote- It is refreshing to read the letters and essays of such men as Benjamin Franklin In some respects Franklin was the highest expression of a model America He was not a sol dier or man on horesback nor did Today the government taxes and he flourish as great lord if the land controls business opekations that but Franklin was in some degree, are wholly within the- state a forerunner of TVma* A Edison. 1 have cited, as conclusive, that Henry Ford and others who have made life easier .And, more than that Franklin was a thinker and man of letters And he was an old- time “printer." Did you ever know an old-time printer? Before the days of type setting machines, operated from a keyboard, the printer set type by hand, sitting on a high stool before the type cases, contai^nig the type' The old-time printer usually chew ed tobacco and frequently mulled and mused over the copy, that is the manuscript or other matter he was n-ducing to type The printer some times repeated sonorous phrases, as he set them in type. 1 recall one such printer who. at times, would pause, lean over and let fly a stream of tobacco juice and repeat with unction. Why did Cae sar pause on the banks of the Rubi con"" Well, friends, why did he" Franklin began his work as a "printer's devil " I never knew the origin of that title for a lad in the printing place, but. with large arid varied experience with boys I can imagine the why and wherefore. So Benjamin Franklin mulled over thoughtful manuscript and so nou rished his mind. By the way, there were no typewriters in that day. as you know, so the “Copy.” the effu sion, to be set up," was verily a manuscript as you recall your Lat in, that means something written by- hand . Setting some of those manuscripts must have required the patience of Job as well as the insight of an ana lytical chemist, for most of them were written by lawyers, or men who thought they were lawyers It is a secret, I suppose, that law yers can t write legibly, in fact, one wonders w hether the* ability to write so the stuff can be read would count against a lawyer. Franklin read and thought all his life Wf probably read more today than Franklin read hut we don't think Then, again, those incomparable founder- of Virginia rode horseback miles and mile-, hours and hours That induct'd thinking; and. along with it. thev acquired horse -ense I .«>-ume In driving a car we are wondering a!i the tune Well.—what is that noise, or that squeak: or the car buret or trouble or the flat tire"! Well, here i- something by Benja min Franklin In the >pnr»g of 1748 the war for American independence had been won and peace established Perhaps there were some who felt it safe to relax, to let down But that wise statesman of the time, Benjamin Franklin, who was serv ing as the new nation's first minis- I ter to France, knew better. He sent the following urgent message to his homeland Let us.-beware ol being lulled into | a dangerous security, and of being both enervated and impoverished by- luxury . of. being weakened by inter- 1 nal contentions and divisions; of , being shamefully extravagant in contracting private debts while we are backward in discharging hon orably those of tfke public; of neg- ’ lect in military exercises and disci pline. and in providing stores, of arms and munitions of war, to be ready on occasion.’ Benjamin Franklin, who was sev enty-eight years old w hen he penned those words, was, able to foresee with almost unbelievable clarity some of the difficulties which, one hundred and seventy-six years later would be plaguing his beloved coun try. . . The Americans of that earlier day heed his warning We need to heed it now " • • * When our nation was over in this quiet part of the world and far from the "madding crowd’s ignoble strife." we thought soberly of our constitution, but now that we are in the thick and fury of things, in the hurly-burly of strife, we are doing strange and wonderful things to our constitution The treaty-mak ing power was carefully provided for. but we have strained the con stitution so we may be like the other nations, although the history of the world suggests to a studious. and reflective mind that we would be wiser to be unlike the other na tions Today a President makes "Ex ecutive agreements" which are not treaties, yet are as binding as treaties, according to our Supreme Court which sometimes runs off at a tangent and does more to break down our great heritage of consti tutional law than all the Commun ist- and easy .spenders combined Treaties between nations make in ternational law and they make do mestic law. even though their pro vision- affecting the United States mav not be in accord with our Con stitution When the Supreme Court i held that anything put into executive agreements with any foreign govern ment was juig - as binding as a treaty, changes in our basic law were made dangerously easy. Tins is a No Man's Land As a for mer member of the Treaty Section has said. No one. even in the State Department, knows how many treaties we have signed.’ Executive agreements are even more numer ous Under the Supreme - Court’s interpretation, these agreements al so become the law of the land. More than ten thousand executive agree ments have been signed under the NATO treaty alone " Fresh Country EGGS HENDERSON STORE (Formerly Gardner's Store) Hopewell Section Phone—JOANN A 2381 HOURS: Week Days 7 A. M.-9 P. M. Sundays 7 10 \. M.. 1:30-9 P. M. OVER A MILUON USERS Tune Zenith TV from Their Easy Chairs! SPACE COMMAND REMOTE TV TUNING WE PAY 5% $9,000^0004# 1 loch OC count .nsu-tj up S • i.CvC b» 0 dw 1 * uccn\i'il C 0 s u 3 : I n s u f on Co tech . wpl .re bjnJi j • . , «f ff Irelon up tc 5l A. CO *. 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