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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