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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1951| 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDA* By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-class matter December 6 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, undei the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per yeai in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. Comments On Men And Things . . . Tax Bill For Americans Larger Than Food By Over $7 Billions How much has President Tru man spent in his six and a half years in the presidency? Or, we might ask how much has the Congress provided for the wild orgy of spending that has taken place since the man from Mis souri took over the Government? Of course you understand that my figures are the purely official figures and have nothing to do with Mink coats, deep freezers, R.F.C. commissions and other act ivities of friends on the inside lending a hand to deserving friends shivering in the cold on the outside. Mr. Knight, a well known citi zen and retired Postal Inspector, tells me that someone said to hfm that President Truman has spent more dollars than there have been hours since the Master brought new hope to mankind in his talks along the shores of the Sea of Galilee; or since Pontius Pilate made of himself the syno nym for cowardly surrender when he washed his hands and tried to clear his conscience. When Mr. Knight told me that I didn’t take it seriously, but afterwards I thought I would "figure it out.” Well, let’s see: Roughly, let us assume that the Redeemer faced Pilate 1951 years ago. That' is not mathematically exact, but I’ll leave a few millions for any loose ends, so that even my remarkably accurate friend, Mr. A. S. Salley, will not chide me for handling figures loosely; nqr will the Sage of The News & Courier point out that a cer tain distinguished son of Laurens had already arrived at mathemati cal conclusions more meticulously incontestable. Let’s try it out: 1951 years, multiplied by 365 days would be 712,115 days—seven hundred and twelve thousand, one hundred and fifteen. Not even a million days, well if time is so slow. Presi dent Truman will not wait for it. If we allow 24 hours to the day, that would be seventeen million, and* ninety thousand, seven hun dred and sixty hours. (17,090,760). Must be wrong, don’t you think? Since those glorious days of Gali lee only seventeen million hours? What a laggard time is, in this day of prodigal spending. Prodi gal spending! I»think we must choose a new illustration instead iof the Prodigal Son, for he “came to ‘himself” in repentance and made humble acknowledgement, followed by a new course of living. Here is the mathematical shock: Mr. Truman has spent, up to July 1st., $260,000,000,000 — and probably a small matter of five or ten billions since. If we divide all the hours since the re markably significant reply to the fault-finders,' “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s”—since then, we find that our Government—Mr. Truman aud the Congress to gether—we see that the $260,000,- 000,000 would be $15,207 every hour. Allowing for changes in time, leap years, and everything else, it seems that we are spend ing a lot of money. Since the Truman total of $260,- 000,000,000 is more than all oiher presidents, including Mr. Roose velt, spent of tax money, this mammoth total of what Congress has done to us would make all the Caesars and all the profligacy of the Roman Empire seem like child’s play, even with a hundred old boys like Croesus thrown in for good measure. A mild-man nered man of my type can’t do full justice to the subject. We need at least an advertising man of some big circus to tell the stupendous story of horrendous spending. No use; I can’t do it. We charge all this U) Mr. Truman, but the Congress can’t do the Pilate act and wash Us hands of it. Just how wild is our spending may suggest another illustration. Last year Americans spent fifty two billion dollars for food but fifty-seven billions for taxes, ac-, cording to Paul Willis, President of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc., as quoted in invest or’s Reader of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane. Congress appropriated ninety billions for this fiscal year. So following our calculation, we are spending now at the rate (this year) of more than five thousand dollars an hour for every hour since Simon Peter preached at Pentecost and all those present understood the message of life, each man in his own language— $5000 an hour since that momen tous occasion of the cloven tongu es as of fire. From then, all through the era of medieval chivalry, and the days of dis covery, and exploration, following ^olumbus; Since then Empires have risen and fallen, from Charlemagne to Hitler; Nations became great and then declined, even decayed, but the $5000, and more, for each hour still runs on, our spending for just one year. Think of it: during this fiscal year—one year—this Government will spend a sum equal to $5000 for every hour since Saul of Tar sus was smitten on the road to Damascus. Quoting The Southern States Industrial Council letter: “Actual appropriations by the 82nd Con gress approximated $90 billion. While all this is going on in Have You Btatn Houtt'lflimtmif aaeu/n ? /hy don’t you B y ) V home and forget all those “rent-worr.es . Let us help you with our low-cost financing plan! £/! •v % a a • ••! I & .. H •V 1 y\- a* p-. - NEWBERRY Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY John F. Clarkson J. K. Willingham President Sec.-Treas. Newberry, S. C. our national government, we must not overlook the fact that ex penditures—and therefore taxes— of state and local governments are also increasing. This increased strain on the economy of the individual will of course, cause all those who can to make an effort to obtain increased wages or income of some sort. But if wages are raised, then costs go up, to the various governments as w r ell as to everybody else. So then taxes must go up again—and so on with that old cycle to which there is no end—no end, that is, except through decreased expenditures. And decreased expenditures* — economy in government—seems to be, ^s Senator Douglas, of Illinois, describes it, ‘a time-consuming and wearying task,’ in which our Congress does not seem inclined to engage; it seems to be some thing which everybody talks about and nobody does anything about. And just think of what is hap pening to those with fixed in comes—to the widows and or phans add pensioners and an nuitants—who have no chance to increase their income to off set increase^ costs! What about their standard of living? These are the expendable people of our present economy—sacrificed" upon the altar of public indifference and Congressional apathy.” But I would like to bring you a cheering word: there are more than 44,000,000 telephones in the United States, one for every three and a half persons—and I suspect that “half person” of being the long talker who keeps you from getting “your party”, when you are in a hurry. And there is an automobile for every 3 and a half Americans. Just what the half American does with his car isn’t cledr unless it be that he is the man who meets you head on, with bright lights, and cuts in so that you escape a wreck only by standing on your brakes. What about cotton in 1952? Our farmers are asking that? Shall there be restrictions? Some where I have read that Oklahoma isn’t harvesting as much cotton as last year. I know that we have made a bumper crop, but I also know that the cost is very high. Then, again, we are feel ing the pinch of labor scarcity. I quote from a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal: “Despite high cotton produc tion this year, the carry-over in 1952 will be one of the smallest in 20 years, th§ Agriculture De partment predicted. In a survey of the outlook for cotton next year the department forecast “continued high domestic con sumption and substantial increase in exports.’ This will result in a carry-over of only about three million bales at the end of the cotton season next August 1, of ficials said. That would be only a little more than the exceptional ly small carry-over of 2,200,000 bales last August 1. The Govern ment’s cotton year runs from August 1 to July 31. The 1951-52 cotton supply in the U. S. is expected to total 19,200,000 running bales. This will be made up of 2,200,000 bales of carried over stocks, an estimat ed 16,800,000 bales produced this year and estimated imports of 200,000 bales. Although this would be about 14 percent larger than that of 1950-51, it is still 14 percent smaller than the 1936 to 1945 average. Consumption in 1951-52 will total between 16 million and 16,- Smokey Says: It is tragic to burn our forest lands —stop this waste 1 WANT ADS WANTED TO BUY—Iron, Metal Batteries, Radiators and Rags. W. H. Sterling. 1708 Vincent street. Phone 731-W 28-th CHATTEL MORTGAGES CARBON PAPERS RUBBER STAMPS INVITATIONS THE SUN OFFICE OUR PHONE NUMBER IS 1 CALL US FOR BETTER PRINTING 01jr S>un NEWBERRY, 8. C. 500,000 bales, the department esti mated. Officials said about six million bales probably will be ex ported, the largest quantity since World War II. Domestic mills are expected to consume 10 mil lion to 10,160,000 bales, which would be close to the quantity consumed in 1950-51 when mill consumption was the largest on record except for wartime years. The department’s forecast for large U. S. exports was based on the expectation that other coun tries will want to replenish their low stocks at the beginning of the crop year. Also, the .gold and dollar supply of foreign coun tries will be larger than last year, it was said, with the ad dition of short term credits from the export-import bank of the U. S. While large inventories and low sales of cotton textiles slow ed consumption of raw cotton in August and September, the de partment forecast a ‘high level’ of domestic mill consumption for 1952. This* is expected because of high industrial activity, in creases in military requirements. The department explained a recent strengthening in cotton prices by three main factors: Large export demand, reductions in estimates for this year’s crop and the tendency of farmers to hold cotton off the market to await higher prices. Officials noted that by October 17 the average 10 spot market price of middling 15-16-inch had risen to 36.64 cents a pound from 34.10 rents a pound on September 5.” Then I quote an Associated Press dispatch from Washington, “The State” of October 30th.: Di rector Stanley Andrews of the agriculture department’s office of foreign agricultural relations said today United States cotton ex ports in the 1951-52 season may run as high as 6,000,000 bales. This would be 50 percent above exports during the past season, when foreign shipments were re stricted by the government in a move to assure supplies for this country’s need.” Is there any relief? We may have to decide whether our Gov ernment is to feed and clothe all of us and all the rest of the world, too; or whether the scope of the Government's activity may be defined so that it shall not undertake to scatter our earnings all over the earth, nor carry oh a socialist program here at home. I quote: “Twenty-six state leg islatures have passed resolutions instructing the U. S. Congress to present to all state legislatures, for their consideration a resolu tion limiting Congressional ap propriations on incomes to 25%. When thirty-two state legislatures have adopted such resolutions, Congress’s hand is forced. When only SIX MORE state legislatures request Congress to act, then, in STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA THE PUBLIC SERVICE COM MISION, COLUMBIA November 7, 1951 MT 2958 NOTICE IN RE: DOCKET NO. 7989— The application of C. L. Perkins d/b/a Perkins Mattress and Moving, P. O. Box 218, Newber ry, South Carolina, for a- Class E Certificate of Public Conven ience and Necessity to render motor freight service over ir regular routes, as follows: HOUSEHOLD GOODS: Be- ’ tween points and places in Newberry County, and be tween points and places in Newberry County and points and places in South ^Carolina. A public hearing in the above compliance with Article Five of the U. S. Constitution, the federal law makers must submit to the 48 state legislatures the propos ed constitutional amendment limit ing taxes on income to 25%. entitled matter will be held in the Commission’s Offices in the Wade Hampton State* Office Building, Columbia, South Caro lina, at 4:00 P.M., Thursday, November 29, 1951, for the x pur- pose of determining the require ments of public convenience and necessity in the premises. W. W. 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