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iC (Sandra (Slprmtirb 1109 Morth Brood Btroot Camden, 8. C. FRIDAY Harold C. Booker DcCoeta Brown - - Editor PnblHber SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Sufcoeitpttonfl Payable In Advance Six Montna .— to Booood Close Hotter ot the Poat ot Comden. & C„ under oet of Coagroos Morch 1. Itn articles submitted for pubUcotton most ■Igued by the ou^or |< FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949 The Case Ot Mr. p en Preaid ent Truman is said to be iaSiatinjr that hia old personal friend and “crony”, Mon C. Wallgreen be co^rm^ae^^hair^ withstanding the fact that the Senate Armed Forces Committee has recommend ed that the appointment not be confirmed, which makes the effort to confirm him a uphill job. People con die from the strong- iOD^REIC^J D RRDBBD* chusetto recently died front ^o was too lazy to digest ■ •wnwmmiiMB * a ■niiridnaOutLoud South ter. The Freight Must Be Paid The following paragraph is taken from the Citizens Public Expenditure Survey, ot Albany, N. Y.: “Every penny spent by the govern ment must be paid for in tax revenues. The fact that each and every worker and consumer helps to pay th# tax bill is continually camouflaged by those who advocate (higher and higher pub lic spending. The public is led to be lieve that corporations and person^ in the higher income brackets will be made to pay the cost. No mention is made of the fact that corporation prices enter into the selling’price of the corporation's product, and that persons in higher income brackets are too few to pay the many costs of gov ernment. It is the wage earner and the consumer who pays the bulk of the tax y bill.” It is a pity that these facts cannot be driven home to every citizen. If they could there would soon be a stop put to this thing of running to “the goverament” for every thing. J The average man on the street seems to think that anything he gets from the gov ernment comes free to him. As a matter of fact he pays and pays dearly for it for anything that comee through the govern ment route comes in the most expensive manner. There used to be a saying that “it is the woman who^pays and pays and pays.” This applies to the general public now and es pecially to the men in the lower income backet They are the ones who pay and pay and pay. They not only have to pay the high taxes (their income tax is deducted at the sources) but they also have to pay the increased cost of products <whidh they bu^ made necessary by the taxes imposed on the big corporations ^ The youth of the country should be con- erned about this spending on the part of the government, because their future is al ready mortgaged almost to the limit. All will agree that no presidential ap pointee Should be turned aside lightly and the Senate committee did not act lightly in this case. It conducted a very thorough investigation into the fitness of Mr. Wal- gren for the job to which he was appointed. It seems that Mr. Wallgren, who was de feated foy re-election as Governor of Wash ington last November, is a victim bf Mr. Truman's overdeveloped and overworked sense of personal loyalty. Mr. Wallgren served as.a member of Congress, in both the House and the Senate, before becom ing Governor of Washington. He and the President have been the closest of buddies since they served in the Senate together. The first vacation Mr. Truman took after becoming President was to go fishing with his “crony” in Washington state. After the election last fall jvhen Mr. Truman won the presidency and his friend lost the gov ernorship, Mr. Truman invited Mr. Wall gren to relax in the sunshine at the Little White House at Key West But while Mr. Truman and Mr. Wallgren are good personal friends that does not in itself equip Mr. Wallgren for the job of ■chairman of the National Security Re sources Board. His economics and indus trial experience encompassed running a jewelry and optical business about 16 years ago before he became an office holder. The National Security Board needs more than Mr. Truman’s best friend at tfhe helm. It is one of the most important, exacting, complex assignments in the goemment We all should recognize that tomorrow’s defense must rest upon today's prepara tion. In times of peace the National Se curity Resources Board is eqtdalent to the War Production Board in time of war. The name kind of man is needed to run eadfre such a man aa Bernard M. Baruch or Paul Hoffman. . . * said Dr av,, MW North otner Q.mj< is about 1 suit hnnsori up ug that etui But the (juration, doctor, is "carry on for The. customer is setting son attention again! A Moffett, On- traio, ararcSant went to greet lengths the other day to reecue e man fram e burning building. “He is a good customer of mine, 1 ' said the merchant after the fire » says a writer. •p. story of the up a stiff observers. Children are great We heard the other ' who mid he bird dog because, he said, dog was teaching all of his chil dren to point. e other day of a man had to get rid of his ecause, he said, the ‘Tt sort of humbles a man to have some one overestimate his ability,” says a philosopher. Yes. not infrequently we have asked directions to a place to which we were (lying to get and have some one give us the directions and _ it whan he was £png One day a wnaD policeman grabbed him and marched him right off to the station without the least show of resistance on his pwt The noliceman himself was puzzled. “It isn't like you to go so quietly," the officer said to him, *wha?s taken the ginger out of you?” The prisoner sighed. Tve got my best clothes on,” he re plied. ^ Bishop a Wr 5vE- fact is that right, the do! 8 bins cnance (bat Communism ran "beat be words last Tuesday: “This hostility to religion, how ls not as groat a danger to Christian church as is the from indifference at home. The indifference of Christ ians to their own religion is the modem fifth column, insidiously working from within to the Christian church.” How true they ere How the the favort •ociil It thej required. Its no wonder that some money flies away so easily. It has a eagle on n. ‘ * Sometimes a “modest compent- ence” isn’t so modest During the campaign, President Truman’s heaviest guns ublican Who eon remember when near- sibly up fay raying, “you can’t poe- xnlss i?and yet we did. How ihany old timers ran re member when about the only ly every less cooker? can remem c y housewife wanted a fire- According to the state research, Yea-dor eoMunple, it’s impossible for a woman to run as fast as a man but she thinks fester end that la haw she catches him. The Minimum Wage Bill times the parlor was opened was when sister's beau was going to callor the preacher was going to pay the family a visit? Marriage has subdued many a dude. Wa were surprised to see the number of Indians left in this untry, as listed in e dispatch the other day. We thought that moat of them had been killed in the Western so mean we would The law of _ I gated by Sir Isaac Newton is now completely outmoded. A new de vice wwwiwg a plane to drop 14,000 feet in 22 seconds he^been perfected. trained on the Republican-con trolled 80th Congress. He aimed everything in the arsenal at it and, as the election result p: it paid off in the precious coin voice. Now the Democratic-controlled 81st Congress has been a study in alow motion. Representative Jack- son of California said, Tm glad Truman called the 80th the sec ond worst Congress in history. It looks like you fellows will make the grade for top honors.” Senator of Maine observed that the only action of the This A let of folks W to be partial to with their 81st Congress to date hgs U increase the Presidential saT- “Itfs the quick thinker who gets ahead in the werld,” says a writer. Fpr a man to have some one tell him Jjis 9wn joke is sort of tike Senator Baldwin of Cep necticut asked, “what are the the tale dogging (he wag. Who com- never Concerning business conditions fat this country now, no one seems what is the status of the status-quo. The Delaware _ mined suicide the T cause his sweetheart another youth probably heard of the little ditty: words ef wisdom u all your Ufa. abetter memory she would have been wife.” I passedby to data?” ■ comm Miyto* the of flash news to repert that members of one major party are doing all they ran to make hay at the expense of the other major asked one^Wa’l I dunno, it might says -that eommi be all right,” Clem . “but Tm mighty doubtful. They's ur boy to Warns that one may catch some- into of them. And speaking of story oi me two trwn my i With ”. Sara*that som< ed to spell 'totavs In their neck ef the woods, do you think of it, Clem?” a time little predisposi tion The matter of accordance with rowfully true they ere. Not among the roughnecks, not among the thieves and thugs, not among the ignoramuses and morons, are all the “indifferent” * A great proportion of them are to, in the view of among the well-to-do, the culti- the revelers in the “Ameri can Standard of Living” the so cial and political leaders, the elite.—News and Courier. the] more important more and more and re forms and ment bureaus, often heaviest on The biBSuA Itohed a ucaviesi on department* to adjust itself to J» much more small concern. T worried. It more of the i rj* tbfaCoaCM “ dl " l>< than expected.- tw. that just : a \ to the j mmm For this reason Marion should,! local like other ffc, . items and for local Nebraska Speaks Out The Nebraska Legislature has gone on record as asking the Congress of the United States not to impose any “form of com pulsory insurance, or any system of medi cal care designed for national bureaucratic control” upon the citizens of this country. The resolution points out tftiat “the American people now enjoy the highest level of health, the best standards of scien tific medical care and the finest medical institutions ever attained by any major country in the world” and says that “these accomplishments of American medicine are the results of a free people working under a system of free enterprise.” The resolution also declares that -“the experience of. all countries where govern ment has assumed control of medical care has been a progressive deterioration of medical standards and medical care, to the detriment of the health of the people.” This is good in that it shows a further awakening on the part of the people of this country towards the dangers of social ism. Producing Results Due to the magnificent flight put up by the States Rights Democrats in the presi dential election last fall, more and more people in this country are beginning to ■think in terara of the rights of the states— even Congress. The Rent Control bill which was passed last weak decentralises Federal Control into the picture. The right* to given any &tate, county, city or fowndhip to regulate its own rents under the measure. The name principle should apply to oth er important questions before the Congress, The new Federal wage and hour bill now pending before Congress is meeting with almost solid opposition from the South and substantial opposition from other sec tions of the country. First of all, the bill would raise the minimum wage to 75 cents an hour, almost double the present level. The wage—along with overtime after 40 hours of work in a week—would be required for every em ploye engaged in interstate commerce in any way. It might seem that the interstate com merce provision would confine the law to a limited number of enterprises, most of them large. But this isn't the case. Recent court decisions indicate that the judges are taking a very broad view of what inter state commerce involves. For instance, in the case of retail stores, it is quite possible that operators who make out-of-state pur chases would be considered engaged in in terstate commerce, and subject to the law. Theoretically the pending law is design ed to help and protect the unskilled and marginal workers. Yet there is grave doubt if it would work out that way. Many who have studied it believe that it might ac tually reduce employment. A concern, for instance, might find it impossible to keep on employing inefficient workers if it had to pay them 75 cents an hour—whereas it can profitably employ them at lower wage, and so give them an opportunity tp im prove their skills and qualify for better jobs. Lastly, it seems certain that a big per centage increase in the minimum wage would start the wage-price inflation spiral going again. The least productive worker would then get a rate of pay very close to tbst of many skilled workers — and the latter would naturally dmand a boost for themselves. What this coulcWo to the coat of living for all workers needs no elabora tion 4n the light of experience. ^4. The coming of the circus to Camden re minds us of ftha fetyew who said hia great- life came aa a youth whan ha crawled under what he thought p find wfoen he got It that it wars revival matting. What Did He Gain? John L. Lewis made all of hia coal miners stay idle for a week in protest against the appointment of Dr. James Boyd •• director of the Bureau of Miaaa. The miners kwt * weeks wages. \ Dr. Boyd was confirmed by the Senate now legally installed In the poMtton. What did Mr. Lewis gain? On ptihf m pdNs ' "It iss skotys taw ovr god tofuts bigger, better 'ptkmobiU witbmreeth vfseorefeeple.lb that end, * «* heve bought the huge feetory+t WUlout Rm, iXfcl So, now you can buy the'I?/ctr you’ve ahrayt wasM* at virtually ‘little car’ prices and af’Uttle rar’ economy <"* I Thtok of what tkamcaaftSejs* sad jm hmAj “ 1 we have eefuired the world?s largest blest furnace for the making of stadOur engineering-production and our vast dealer organization have worked overtime to reduce memfkcturimg end distribution costs. In line with the settled folicy of our Corporation, we are giving substantial settings to the fuMkim the form of greatly .noon sooner, then we expected: Now, riding comfertrdeMag taKaod fridge! KabeMWBtalr^^ yqa Fav-and-aquare trade-in aBvwavaaa... but a carta} trade* So, enjoy the comfort, luxury and safety of a sew, ...the lowe$*frieri big cm>'m the world! of Ubtrtr. Senator Taft says that* either the na- tional budget will have to be eat or taxes will have to be incumood. Well, which do you aay will happen? f