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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
Old Virginia, long may she wave!—the land of Patrick
Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Mad
ison, John Marshall, Robert E. Lee. South Carolina had her
man of commanding ability and forceful leadership; and
South Carolina has taken the leadership heretofore. All
this talk of “Interposition” is but the idea of the Virginians
Sn the early days of the Republic; New England states had
some such idea, too, but South Carolina boldly adopted Null
ification resolution—all being part and parcel of the same
fundamental concern for the reserved powers of States when
the National government exercised powers not in harmony
with the powers conferred on it by the 13 Sovereign and
original States.
This is a matter of no great importance, perhaps, but the
flag of the United States shows 13 stripes and 48 stars.
Those stripes remind us of the 13 States which made the
nation; the 13 States which delegated certain powers to a
' general government, reserving most of their Sovereign pow
ers to themselves and making assurance doubly sure by
adopting—immediately—the 9th and 10th Amendments.
Every grant of power by the States to the Nation must be
construed strictly! all other powers are inherent in the
sovereignty of the States.
The national government has no right to expand at the
expense of the States. This applies not only to racial mat
ters, but to all other matters.
We are ourselves largely at fault: in a thousand cases
we rush to Washington; our Congressmen naturally try
to serve us, even though we knock the old Constitution
Into a cocken hat.
The very essence of our American plan was LOCAL
SELF GOVERNMENT; and the all-pervading principle was
EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW. In very truth we have
grafted on our National plan large bits of SOCIALISM,
COMMUNISM and debilitating PATERNALISM. And along
with all this we have become so world-minded that we see
so far afield that we are blurred in our vision of needs
at our doors.
I think I am on thoroughly safe ground in declaring that
the Congress has no valid right to give or lend taxpayers’
money to foreign nations. I affirm that challenge cate
gorically as sound in law and sound in diplomacy. The gov
ernment has no lawful right to engage in any kind of busi
ness ; and certainly has no right to authorize, foster or pro
mote any kind of commercial discrimmation against any
taxpayer, or set of taxpayers. The congress has no just
right to exempt any undertaking from all the taxes paid
by any other group of citizens.
Where is our basic doctrine of EQUALITY BEFORE
THE LAW? Another thing: by what just or equitable
idea can our nation very the income tax so that ultimately
it may confiscate 91 per cent of a man’s income.
The fact that such taxes are easy to collect is no sound
justification: the government should be fair and square,
always above-board. That sort of taxing is a Communistic
concept we have borrowed. If 20 per cent be a fair percent
age for cne it should be fair for ail: the man with $50,000
would pay l-5th or $10,000 (which is too much of course)
bnd the man with a million would pay $200,000—which is
b form of legal robbery though it might be known more
mildly as confiscation; but the truth is that the percentage
varies until it reaches 91 per cent!!
We may not have much patience with millionaires but
we should be honest and considerate of all. Unless the way
be kept open for men to earn and amass all they can, hon
orably, HONORABLY, we shall lose the benefit of that
great incentive which has made this the greatest country
in the world.
We don’t practice that sort of crookedness in business:
the power company does not charge one man 2 1-2 and a
rich "man .25, just because he bas the money. The couftty
and town authorities don’t tax a small house-owner forty
milts while charging a rich man 90 mills. ON THE FACE
OF IT, all are treated alike, however the Taxing Board
may decide on appraised values. But even so, I have known
men of moderate means to intervene in behalf of rich men
on the understandable and proper ground that “If they ap
praise him at so much, they will appraise mine too high,
also.” Perhaps we need to go to the old graveyards for a
fresh inspiration of sound and sane government. But surely
there must be sound thinkers not yet sleeping the ever
lasting rest.
Do you think this is a jeremaid? Yes, this is my lam
entation. But friends we are drifting into so many channels,
just drifting. There are times when I think most of the
people in Washington must be crazy; and then I remember
b sign in a filling station: “It may not be necessary for a
man to be crazy to run this sort of business, but it helps
a lot.” Maybe so. Perchance I might need to have my eyes
opened, as Jehovah said to Elijah. Elijah, you recall, had
challenged all the 460 prophets of Baal to enter a contest
SINISTER, TWO-FACED WORLD MENACE
to prove which was the living God. Not only Was Elijah
victorious but he slew all those false prophets. However,
that valiant man of God, even fresh from his renowned
victory, turned and fled when Queen Jezabel turned against
him. And men have trembled at the frown of an^angry
women ever since. i
During his flight Elijah became so despondent that he
cried to Jehovah: “I, even I, only, am left.” Then Jehovah
said to him “I have seven thousand in Israel, ^11 the knees
which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which
hath not kissed him.”
So it must be now; there are thousands, hundreds of
thousands, yea millions, who do not approve the steady,
persistent march from the course of our fathers, but why
are they so silent?
“Business spending for plant and equipment is the basic
driving force of our progress. If there had been no flow
of capital into business enterprises since the dawn of the
industrial revolution; about 200 years ago, our living stand
ards would be about the same now as then. Instead, these
standards have increased more than eightfold in the inter
vening period, largely because of the huge capital invest
ment that has . taken place, while working hours have been
cut in half. This comparison of the two eras emphasize the
vital role played by capital in the spectacular development
of the American system. Moreover, industry has to a large
extent generated its own capital. All but a small proportion
of the funds spent for plant and equipment has been ftioney
ploughed back into business out of profits.
, Power-driven machines have lifted the burdens from the
backs of workers so that much less human energy is now
required to produce a vast increase in output. A century
ago, men and animals supplied an estimated 94 per cent of
the energy for work in this country and machines only 6
per cent, while today machines supply 90 per cent of the
energy we use and turn out five times as much per man
hour of work. Accordingly, a workman today gets more
pay per hour running a machine than he would have for
a twelve-hour day a hundred years ago.
Recently emphasis has been placed on the vital importance
of encouraging capital investment by private enterprise as
a means of stimulating economic growth and providing for
» steady rise in employment and in living standards.
Business has responded to the favorable incentives pro
vided by an unprecedented outlay of capital funds. Since
the end of World War II more than $230 billion has been
spent for plant and equipment. Despite this heavy invest
ment, careful studies indicate that the physical volume of
plant and equipment in this country is below the line of
normal growth since the turn of this century.
For the first quarter of 1956, business spending for
plant and equipment is estimated at an annual rate of $31.6
billion, according to the combined report of the Securities
and Exchange Commission and the Commerce department.
Should this materialize, it would constitute a new peak
and be more than half as much as the average national in
come in the 1930s. For the next decade, according to es
timates by the Machinery and Allied Products Institute,
there will be a rise of 50 per cent in capital expenditures.
This increase is based on the assumption that there will
be no major depression and that the price level will be
relatively stable during this period.
Business is making bold plans for the future because of
confidence in the long-term growth of this country. In
addition to the favorable economic environment, this con
fidence is based upon the fundamental strength of our
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L OOKING back at the prosper
ous year that was 1955, it’s in
teresting to note that the year
was one of the busiest on record
for the Antitrust Division of the
Department of Justice, the organ
ization which directs its activities
“against significant restraints on
the freedom of our competitive
economy.”
Assistant Attorney General Stan
ley N. Barnes, in a year-end re
port to Attorney General Herbert
Brownell, Jr., stated that the Di
vision filed 53 cases during the
year—a considerable increase over
the previous three calendar years
in which 35, 29, and 36 cases re
spectively were filed.
Part of the increase in cases
filed may be attributed to the fact
that the Antitrust Division has
new tools to work with. Five ma
jor cases were filed during the
year "to obtain relief from merg
ers which may substantially les
sen competition or tend toward
creation of monopoly.” These
were the first cases to be brought
by the Division under a 1950
amendment to the Clayton Act
which forbids mergers or acquisi
tions- under certain conditions.
Prompt results were achieved in
one case by the simultaneous fil
ing of a consent judgement re
quiring the defendant to dispose
of certain facilities it had acquired
and also enjoining it from further
acquisitions for a five-year period.
New laws, proposed and sup
ported by the Antitrust Division,
were passed in 1955. They increase
the maximum fine for Sherman
Act violations to $50,000 from the
previous $5,000 figure, and give
the United States the right to re-,
cover actual damages for injuries
it suffers from antitrust violations.
The report cited a number of
important court decisions handed
down during the year. Among
them: «
Entry of nolo contendre pleas
by defendants in criminal actions
is not an easy way to escape pun
ishment for violation of antitrust
laws. In New York, Judge Edward
Weinfeld ruled that a “nolo” plea
“is an admission of guilt for the
purposes of the case and each de
fendant is subject to sentence in
the same manner as if he or it had
either pleaded guilty or had been
found guilty after a trial by a
jury.”
In two decisions the Supreme
Court ruled that the promotion of
professional boxing contests and
the production, booking and pres
entation of legitimate theatrical
performances are trade or com
merce within the Sherman Act.
Another decision emphasized
that a labor union is not exempt
from the antitrust laws when it
aids and abets non-labor groups
in violating the Sherman Act. The
Supreme Court refused to review
the ruling of a court of appeals
which unanimously affirmed the
conviction of a labor union and
its business agent for conspiring
to restrain trade and commerce
in electrical equipment.
During 1955 the Division termi
nated 51 cases, of which 34 were
civil and 17 were criminal actions.
Presently pending are 107 anti
trust cases.
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This an' That
The Cincinnati Redleg’s pitch
ing staff allowed the fewest num
ber of bases on balls (443) in the
major leagues during the 1955 sea
son . . . Ted Atkinson has four
times won the Hileah jockey title
. . . Professional football drew
the biggest crowds in its history
during 1955, with an Increase of
12.7 over 1954. Total attendance
was up to 2,722,685, compared to
2,415,948 the previous year. Aver
age crowd for the season was 37,-
815 .. . Final track and field trials
for the 1956 U. S. Olympic games
squad will be held In Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum next June.
Hie Olympic games will be held
hi Melbourne, Australia, Novem
ber 22 to December 8. . . . The
Boston Bed Sox 77-game baseball
schedule Includes 14 nighv games,
12 Sunday sessions and a July
4th doubleheader with the New
York Yankees. The Sox open their
season April 17 at Fenway Park,
against Baltimore . . . Wilbert
Robinson and John J. McGraw,
baseball immortals, introduced the
game known as "duck pins” while
they were co-owners of a bowling
alley.
DOMINION'S ACE . . . Canada's
only Chinese pro football player,
Normie Wwong, 28, was named
Canada's outstanding male ath
lete for 1955. Sports editors peB
gave the Edmonton
backfleld star 145 points,
Toronto’s swimmer Cliff
don getting 90 for second
I ■ G T G n
From the News-Review, River
head, New York: Daily we are
being shocked by the misdoings of
teen-agers. The papers bring us
reports of crimes committed by
them—everything ranging from
petty theft to murder.
It is natural for us to make al
lowances for young people who
transgress the law but there is a
limit to how far we can go to
make excuses for them. When we
find boys 16, 17 and 18 years old
overstepping the law, it is folly
to plead for them on the grounds
that they are too young to realize
what they are doing. The manner
in which they plan their crimes
and the cleverness they resort to
in order to avoid the police, in
dicate that they know only too
well what they are doing.
The News-Review is convinced
that it is time to sto 4 j pussyfoot
ing with these young offenders.
The silk-glove treatment is not
solving the problem of juvenile
crime. They should be dealt with
for what they are and for what
they have done. As for parents,
most of them are ignorant of the
criminal activities of their boys
and girls, but many of them share
their guilt for they permit them
to .remain out all hours of the
night, not knowing where they
are or whom they are associating
with.
There is another phase of the
situation which may well be con
sidered. We have read of the trag
edy which occurred in the Wood
ward family in Oyster Bay. Thia
night prowling might well cause
a similar tragedy here. People
get jittery when they hear un
usual noises at night. As one gets
up to investigate the cause, it is
instinctive for him to grab a gun
or any other available weapon.
There is only one thing to say
about the treatment of our mis
guided teenagers—put an end to
their activities before they go
any further.
From the Suburban List, Essex
Junction, Vermont: There has
been a long standing rule in the
Educational Department that
scholars should not be paddled
with a ruler or strap. The Bur
lington School Department has
brought forward a rule on corporal
punishment which provides that it
may be used in extreme cases or i
when other means have failed.
I am of the opinion if there were
a little more back woodshed prac
tice that some of the juvenile d
linquency would be reduced
Q—Has the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution been re
moved from Washington, D. C. t In the last 20 years?
A—Yes. For a period during World War II, both documents were stored
in the bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. When the docu
ments were moved into the National Archives Building in the
Spring of 1952, each was placed over a vault constructed of steel
and reinforced concrete into which the documents can be lowered
by electrically operated mechanism. Other machinery then closes
over the vault a massive lid of armor plate. The vault is then fire
proof, shockproof and bombproof.
Q—Which national or visiting dignataries, rate a “21 gun” salute?
A—21-gun salute is rendered to the President of the United States, to
an ex-president, chief magistrate or sovereign of a foreign country,
or to members of a reigning royal family. The national anthem is
played for the president, a march for an ex-president, and the na
tional anthem of his or her country for others. The music is consid
ered an inseparable part of the salute.
Q—How old is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
A—The FBI was created in 1908 upon an order of the then Attorney
General Charles J. Bonaparte. J. Edgar Hoover first took office it
1924.
BRAVERY HONORED . . . Teenagers John Jakuboski (left)
Robert Pellettieri of Springfield Gardens, L. I., display ASPCA
medals awarded them for saving 28 cattle from burning to death
on Chester, N. Y., farm. .
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
^ AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING”
~ TUST before starting to college Viola Rickett, Box 4, Ringgold, Georgia,
•J joined a little church near her home.
That first year in school she had two different Professors of Bible
who held completely opposite beliefs as to such teaching. One was
more or less strict and contended that the Bible should be accepted as
written; the other tried to help the students understand the condition
under which the Bible was written and held that
much of the writing could not be taken literally.
Up to this time it had never occurred to Viola to
question anything a Minister said or any part of the
Bible. But now she became confused and did not
know what she believed or whether she actually had
any belief concerning religion. She had been exposed
to just enough philosophy to make an athiest of her.
She worried a great deal about the state in which
she found herself and actually did not find satisfac
tion until after two years of college training. Now
she says she has ceased to worry about her religious CARNEGIE
beliefs because she knows that “if religion isn’t true then life is mean
ingless,” and she is happy to say along with William James, Profes
sor of Philosophy at Harvard University, “The sovereign cure fori
worry is religious faith.”
economy which has demonstrated great vitality and flex
ibility. Technological progress is proceeding at a rapid
pace. Expenditures by private enterprise for scientific and
engineeering research in the past ten years aggregated $12
billion, or four times as much as was spent in the proceed
ing ten years. We are in a condition where these huge re
search expenditures are showing outstanding results. Our
population growth is strongly upward. There will be a
marked increase in family formations in the 1960s and
1970s when the large crop of war babies will become of
marriageable age. On the other hand, the annual increase
in our labor force is at a diminishing rate, du$ largely to
the abnormally low birth rate in the depression period of
the 1930s.”
ACROSS
1 Book palm
8 Hogue
10 Indefinite
amount
14 First man
15 Stories
IB Flower
17 Revolves
1® Watchwords
SI Fortunate:
India
3S Estimates
24 Soak
25 Wife of
Athamas
26 So be It
27 Artist’s
stand (pi.)
30 Cognomen
32 Macaws
34 Drunkard
35 Mimicked
37 Sends money
38 Babylonian
deity
40 Undreped
deity
45 Deceits
48 South African
fox
49 Roman
bronze
81 Spoken
52 Destruction
54 Give back
56 Silkworm
56 Topaz hum
ming bird
SI Form of
“to b«* M
62 Proclamation
63 Japanese
64 Philippics
67 Annoys
69 Russian city
70 To go in
72 French river
73 Church
service
74 Relics for
support
Former Rus
sian ruler
DOWN
Ankles
To embellish
Doled out in
portions
Candlenut
tree
Boat
Division of
society
7 Mulberry
8 State of
disorder
9 Greek letter
10 MathemaUcal
term (pi.)
11 Speaks
12 wire measure
13 worm
18 British street
20 Lawn
23 Formed a
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ce upon
27 Consume
28 Loam dcposll
28 Condition
75
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3
5
6
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norist
borne by
S Cloee by
Thick soup
Lamb’s pen
name
42 Dance step
43 One who tests
m|tallic ores
45 with
horns
46 Vase
47 Golfer
50
who
curves ball to
‘ (pl.)
nsL 1
fixedly
53 Cereal grain
55 Ruaalan
mountains
8
00 KUMl'otgoo..
62 Anglo-Saxon
slave
64 Mountain In
Massachusett
65 Man's name
66 Long fish
68 Young child
71 Symbol for
tantalum