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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1953
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Are you afraid of a contagion? Probably so and rightly
so, but suppose there were a good contagion.
The Aiken County legislative delegation made a twenty
percent reduction in taxes, as I gladly proclaimed recently;
then my eye fell on an announcement of a happy event in
Charleston. Here is the story as told by The News & Courier:
“The two mill reduction in city school taxes voted Monday
by the Charleston County Legislative Delegation is the
first such tax reduction in five years. The delegation has
set a levy of 38 mills—36 mills for operations and two mills
for bond retirement—for the 1953-54 fiscal year. The op
erations levy is the same as last year’s, but the bond levy
was reduced from four to two mills.
This was made possible because of allocation of state funds
to District 20 of $8.75 per pupil. Also, the delegation cut
$53,895 from the school board’s requested budget for the
year, to bring it into line with estimated income.
Various groups had expressed fears earlier that the
schools might have to sacrifice medical, athletic, and cafe
teria programs under budget adjustments. All these pro
grams have been retained however, while still reducing the
tax.
This was done through small cuts in allotments to various
school activities, and a revision in anticipated income fig
ures. The delegation estimated income from tax levy at
$810,000 where the school board had expected $800,000,
and income from tuition at $14,000, instead of the $7,500
listed in the board’s budget. Federal aid expected amounts
to $44,000.
The Board of Trustees of District 20 had requested a
total budget of $1,806,540. The delegation estimated in
come at $1,752,645.
A requested $12,260 for cafeteria equipment was refused
by the delegation, with the explanation that the lunch room
program should be operated with federal aid provided for
that purpose.
Another budget slice brought the athletic program fig
ure from $9,400 to $6,000. This amount will be divided
equally between the High School of Charleston and Burke
High School.
The delegation approved a pay increase of 8 1/3 per cent
for administrative officers, principals, and their assistants,
secretaries, janitors, and maids. But a similar raise for
nurses, doctors, and dentists was refused. The medical al
lotment now stands at $20,852. Teachers salaries will re
ceive state aid amounting to $862,313. The teachers received
a 10 per cent pay increase from the state, and the delegation
approved $24,160 designated ‘frozen supplement for 1952-
53/ ”
And now I see in The State the following from Newberry:
“County taxes can be cut one mill here, the Newberry
delegation, county auditor, treasurer and superintendent of
education decided at their annual meeting.
Under the new levy 9.5 mills will go for county operating
expenses, five mills for bonds and interest, and one mill for
the county hospital. The special school levy is 24.5 mills,
and one mill each is levied for school bonds and the county
board of education. The new cut represents a continuing
downward trend in taxes for Newberry County. A few years
the total levy was 60 mills.”
I was about to over look a reduction of two mills in Co
lumbia’s city taxes, from 44 mills in 1951 to 42 mills.
If I could tell such a story about every county and city I
should quickly become the most popular man on the air. I’m
willing to tell the good news; we need a lot more of it.
That should be a sustaining influence as we strive to en
dure the heat. Of course I’m bound to admit that the boll-
weevil is having a hard time. Someone remarked that the
farmer is staggering out of the torrid weather, just one
step behind the retreat of the weevil.
Recently I read in a leading magazine two widely separated
paragraphs, which are worth quoting:
“It is absurd to permit government to use tax money to fi
nance projects that drive out of operation businesses which,
unmolested, would produce tax revenue.
The economic system which has built up our national
strength is based on the right of the individual to earn a
living and make as much money as his talents or his capacity
for invention or his creativeness will bring and then to con
serve those savings as capital and hire them out so as to earn
interest or dividends.
Ownership in our free and private enterprise is the most
effective way of saying, T do not believe in socialism or
paternalism of any kind/ 500,000 men and women, most
of whom work for a living, own General Motors; 250,000
“own General Electric; and more than 1,000,000 own the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company. These citizens
and others like them, have put their own capital, their sav
ings, into American industries. This kind of capitalism
assures expansion of free enterprise. It means work for all
THE ENVIOUS ANGLER
who wish to w'ork. It brings good wages, and good food,
good houses and good clothes.
The trend toward the subordination of the individual and
his enterprises to the State is w r orld-wide. Only a few short
months ago, at a meeting of the UN General Assembly’s
Economic and Financial Committee, a vote was taken on the
adoption of a proposal reaffirming rights of Member States
to nationlize wealth and resources without mentioning the
protection of the rights of investors and owners. The pro
posal w^as characteristic of the kind of socialistic think
ing that emphasizes rights wdhout responsibilities and
seems to declare that property rights are not desirable hu
man rights. In the balloting the United States suffered a
total defeat. It cost the one lone vote on behalf of free
enterprise.”
Then Mrs. Annie King, in her good paper, The Aiken
Standard and Review' says, editorially:
“The popular radio-TV program called ‘Columbus Town
Meeting’ recently featured a debate on government in the
electric pow r er business.. A Senator defended this form of
socialism, arguing that w'e need greatly expanded power pro
duction ; that much of the investment goes for such pur
poses as soil conservation, and that the government power
projects are self-liquidating.
He was answered by Edwin Vennard of the Middle West
Service Company, Here, in part, is what Mr. Vennard had
to say: ‘The pow'er companies have about doubled their
capacities since the beginning of World War II. I don’t think
the government needs to get in the power business in order
to assure a power supply . . .
‘Secondly, I think that the people who want to put the
government in the power business are using the soil con
servation program as a means detrimental to the American
public. For example, the water can be conserved on the
soil through reforestation and contour plowing, and the
like, a great deal less expensively than by building these
big combination dams . . . . ’
He then stated that the socialized power projects, like
TVA, are not self-liquidating and are a drain upon all the
taxpayers, and added: ‘When the federal government goes
in the power business, it exempts itself from paying federal
taxes. If the government in the power business would put
itself on equal terms . . . that is, take off the subsidy on
money—then the pow'er projects would have to double their
rates to break even. . .”
Private, taxpaying enterprise can and will provide all
the power we require. So-called ‘cheap’ government power
is made only by tax exemption and tax subsidies.”
Senator Maybank’s speech in the Senate extolling the de
velopment of South Carolina is the finest kind of advertising.
I quote three paragraphs:
“Without any .question, the most important factor in the
new South’s economic expansion is its favorable industral
climate. By this is meant not the natural atmosphere, of
course, much as we do enjoy our bountiful sunshine, the
rich variety of our terrain ranging from seashore to moun
tain heights, the mildness of winter, the abundance of lands,
lakes, and streams.
The kind of climate conductive to successful manufacture
has been created by men who took the concept of free enter
prise at face value, and accepted the many and serious ob
ligations whch that concept involves, men who have succeed
ed through hard work, the lash of intense competition and
a courage which would not be defeated.
Neither management nor the great body of workers has
submitted to regimentation in any form, or to forces of
petty tyranny attemping to make inroads from the outside.
Friendly civic attitudes make their vital contribution to the
climate of which I speak. Every community which in
dustry has entered is motivated by a passion to build and
grow, even as industry has. Hence, industry and community
are joined in a common purpose; each gives fully to its
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realization. That kind of union is unconquerable.”
I’m indebted to the Richland County Public Library for
many courtesies, and I’m debtor to that fine organiza
tion, as well as to the bond and the free, as the great Apostle
said, in effect. Recently I enjoyed a book on commercial
conditions in the time of Queen Elizabeth—the old queen
of the days of Sir Walter Raleigh, not the lovely young
Queen Elizabeth of today.
Why is it folks who want to leave parties early and the
folks that don’t are always married to each other?
T HE Western powers are waiting.
as they have since 1946, for the
next Soviet move in the struggle
of Communism vs freedom. This
time, however, the Russians ap
pear to be on the defensive since
all is not well behind the Iron
Curtain.
This watchfulness and waiting is
due to the fact that virtually all
top military and civilian aides of
the former Soviet control commis
sion of East Germany and the am
bassadors to the Western powers
were summoned to the Kremlin
for a conference on the heels of
the East European revolts.
The West would like to know
what they talked about and what
was planned behind the walls of
the Kremlin.
Presumably, they were recalled
to explain what happened when
2,000,000 un-armed East Germans
suddenly arose and nearly over
threw their Communist rulers.
Also to explain why there is so
much unrest in other areas^ of the
worker’s paradise that is supposed
to exist behind the iron curtain.
No doubt new policies will
emerge from Moscow shortly. Per
haps they will ease East-West ten
sion. But it would be folly to ex
pect good from evil or kindness
from brutality
• It appears, after the Treasury
Department’s announcement of the
largest deficit in the nation’s peace
time history that those within the
Republican administration who
have been screaming for tax re
ductions have been howling in the
wilderness. The deficit amounted
to $9,389,000,000. a billion dollars
more than was anticipated.
At the same time. > the Treasury
reported it would borrow $5,500,-
000,000 to $6,000,000,000 for eight
months. Later another $3 to $6
billion will be borrowed.
With such a deficit and the need
to borrow to meet government ex
penses. it is a sure bet that the
administration will fight to the
limit any effort to reduce taxes be
fore January 1. And, in the opin
ion of many government observers,
it is doubtful if any appreciable
reduction will come even then.
• The following statement from
the American Book Publishers
Council and the American Library
Association is drawing the applause
of serious, thinking Americans:
“The freedom to read is essen
tial to our democracy. It is under
attack. Private groups and public
authorities in various parts of the
country are working to remove
books from sale, to censor text
books, to label controversial books,
to distribute lists of objectionable
books or authors and to purge
libraries.
“The actions apparently rise
from a view that our national tra
dition of free expression is no long
er valid; that censorship and sup
pression are needed to avoid the
subversion of politics and the cor
ruption of morals
“We trust Americans to recog
nize propaganda and to reject
obscenity. We do not believe they
need the help of censors to assist
them in this task
“K is contrary to the public in
terest for publishers or Librarians
to determine the acceptability of
a book solely on the basis of the
personal history or political affilia
tions of the author. A book should
be judged as a book. No art or
literature can flourish if it is to be
measured by the political views
or private lives of its creators. No
society of free men can flourish
which draws up lists of writers to
whom it will not listen, whatever
they may have to say.”
There is a dangerous trend de
veloping in the United States to
ward telling the general public
what books they can read and
which are not acceptable. The
question arises: would this irend
develop, if not stopped now. into
telling the average American what
weekly newspaper he can read
and which are not acceptable
Q—Are most Congressmen service veterans?
A—Yes. Sixty-four of 96 Senators—exactly two-thirds—are veterans. In
the House. 245 of 431 (57 per cent) have served in the armed forces.
Over-alL 59 per cent of the Congressmen are veterans. /
Q—Do ex-Congressmen retain the privilege of sending mail postage-
free?
A—The franking privilege continues until Dec. 1 after an ex-Con-
gressman’s term expires, giving him not quite 11 months’ leeway
to clear up his mail. Free postage is supposed to be confined to
official correspondence, which usually is interpreted broadly—so
broadly that ex-Congressmen have been known to mail campaign
material under the frank.
Q—The papers are full of stories about the excess profits tax. Excess of
what? .. •••••••••• ...... ...
A—Under the EPT law. a corporation’s normal profits are set at 83
per cent of its average earnings during the three most profitable
years from 1946 through 1949. Besides paying regular corporation
taxes on all its profits, the corporation pays an additional 30 per cent
on earnings above the “normal” leveL There are certain exemp
tions.
Q—How does the Supreme Court’s June 8 verdict, upholding a District
of Columbia anti-segregation law, affect home rule for D.C.?
A—The 1873 law upheld by the Court was passed by a District legis
lature, not by Congress. The local assembly later was abolished,
and Congress has since been serving as the District’s city counciL
In its opinion, the Court ruled, in part, that Congress had the
right to give the local lawmakers power to enact D.C. legislation.
Therefore, doubts about Congress’ legal authority once again to
delegate some of its powers over local affairs to a District legis
lature have been eliminated. A home-rule bill, which would estab
lish a nine-member city council, is under Senate consideration.
(Copyrixht 1953. Congressional Quarterly)
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^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AMD START IIVING’’
M RS. DOROTHY SMITH, 1639 Femote Street. Rahway. New Jer
sey, one night recently had a caller, a neighbor who had suffered
deep personal tragedy just a year ago. Mrs Smith thinks all of us can
benefit by the attitude of her friend—hence this story
Her husband had been instantly killed in an auto accident, leaving
her with five small children. But she looked so well, that Mrs. Smith
couldn’t help remarking on her calm and contented
appearance. So the neighbor told this story:
"After I lost John so suddenly and was faced
with the almost impossible task of raising five
children alone, I was thrown into despair, darker
than I thought existed. My days and nights were
tormented with worry and fear of the future; life
held nothing for me. I completely forgot my children
and the loss that they too had suffered. I think I
would in time have lost my mind.
“Then one night my oldest son asked me to CARNEGIE
“hear” him while he recited some-prayers that were
to be said at a pageant. One of the prayers was the twenty-third Psalm.
“As John began reciting The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want', 1 felt a remarkable lightness, almost as though someone had
lifted a weight from me I know now that God surely intervened that
night knowing how desperately unhappy I was. I bought a copy of the
Psalm and had it framed for my room. There it hung, and morning
and night, comforting words to be able to read and to give me a sense
of strength and courage. I’m not a deeply religious person and I doubt
if I would have believed, a year ago. that such a small thing could
perform the miracle it did, but I know "now that the help I received
from the words of that Psalm brought me back to sanity and is helping
me to be both mother and father to my children.”
Yes, we can all benefit by a story of overcoming fear and worry
through confidence and faith in God.
From the Rising Star Record,
Rising Star, Texas: “Sure Fire
Way to Kill Your Home Town”—
Get all the city will give you, but
don’t give anything in return. Talk
cooperation, but don’t cooperate.
Never accept an office. It is easier
to criticize than to do things. Don't
do any more than you have to,
and when other people willingly
and unselfishly give their time and
ability to make a better town,
howl because the town is run by
a clique.
Don’t pay your taxes. Let the
other fellow pay his and then you
ride like a parasite on his money,
then fuss because the streets are
not kept up. Never attend any of
the meetings that are for the town.
If you do, arrive late, don’t have
anything to say. Wait until you get
outside and then cuss the ones
who tried. Or. when there, vote
for everything and then do noth
ing.
Look at every proposition in a
selfish way. If you are not the one
that gets the most out of it, vote
against it. Never consider what it
will do for the town as a whole.
Don’t do anything for the youth
of the town. Just forget that they
are the leaders of tomorrow. Keep
your feet on them. If you have
good leaders, don’t follow them.
Don’t work on any committee.
Don’t say anything good about
your town
From the Kankakee Journal,
Kankakee, Illinois: The custom of
having civilian and military execu
tives doing duplicate jobs in the
Pentagon is now being blamed for
much of the Defense Department’*
manpower troubles.
Newsmen covering the Pentagon
say it is common to find a $750-a-
month Colonel and a $600-a-month
civilian sitting at a tandem desk
doing work which probably could
be done by either. The Colonel
generally is in charge but the
civilian furnishes the know-how.
• • •
From the Lake County News,
Hammond, Indiana: Americans
ought to recognize that the senti
ment for some kind of high-level
explorative Effort to find common
ground with the masters of Soviet
Russia is deep and widespread
in Britain and western Europe.
It is simply a fact of which any
realistic planning must take ac
count.
Yet when diplomacy gets down
to terms and cases, the essence of
the matter is that Britain, Amer
ica and their North Atlantic allies
seek the same objectives and are
not far apart on their methods.
It is better the differences of view
be voiced and discussed—in good
temper—than be bottled up. But
remembering that Stalin pinned his
expectations of Communist success
on divisions among the free na
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INTEmGRAMI
Check correct word.
1. Katyn Forest is in (Brazil) (Poland).
2. Capital of Delaware is (Dover) (Newark).
3. Kittyhawk flight was made in (1906) (1903).
4. Italy has a (president) (king).
5. Tito's real name is (Broz) (Ribar).
6. Second U. S. President was (Adams) (Jeffer
son).
7. An ambassador's building is called a (legation)
(embassy).
8/ Argentina's main export is (coal) (meat).
, 9. World War 11 began on Sept. (2) (1).
10. ML. Everest is (19,493) (29,610) feet high.
Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points for each
correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average;
70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior.
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