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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield. Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS SPSPECTATOR / The program of our National government, so far as throwing money all over the world, has disgusted most of us, I think. I recall very clearly that other nations regard us as peo ple with money, but without culture. We are bombastic, go- getters, as they see us. As I see it, our plan to lend money is about as bad as the program of giving. Let us consider the most recent case: Our Vice President Nixon went to Brazil with 17 other Americans to attend the inauguration of the new president of Brazil. Seventeen!! Why not just Mr. Nixon? We al ready had an ambassador, a Commercial Attache, a Consul General and many Consuls, Army, Navy and Air .men. So why all this gush and flamboyant fol-de-rol? Vice president Nixon used the occasion to tell the president of Brazil that we, the United States, will LEND to Brazil an ADDITIONAL 35 million dollars for the build ing of a steel plant. Let's get to rock bottom: why are we lending money to other nations? Is that any proper function of the Govern ment of the United States? Don't you think we should col lect taxes from our people for the lawful purposes of gov ernment, as provided in the Constitution? Can our govern ment lawfully, constitutionally, give money to other nations, or lend it? I think we should base our objection on the principle of Strict Constitutional government, for NOWHERE does the Constitution empower the Congress or the Executive • to give or lend money. In other words, the only legitimate purpose of any tax is to raise money for the support of the government of the United States and that must be with in the United States and within the powers conferred by the Constitution. It is beside the mark, I know, but I also might say that Brazil is a nation larger than the United States and a country enormously wealthy. I know; I lived next to Brazil for tea years. I have no doubt that all the other nations laughed at us for telling the President of Brazil that we shall lend Brazil an additional 35 million dollars! Of course they will laugh up their sleeves, secretly, of course, for all the others are ready to receive all that the Yankees will give way. I say “Yankees" meaning all of us, for we Amer icans are all known as Yankees throughout the world. Let me quote a letter from a lady in New Jersey: “For some time I have been disturbed about the billions of dollars being poured out for foreign aid, and would like to make a suggestion. With an election coming up in Nov ember, why not put the question of foreign aid on the ballot, so that the people may vote for or against its con tinuance? I think the results would astound the politicians who are so free with our money. • Surely voting on such an issue is our right since it is our money which is being tossed around the world. I believe the individual taxpayer is fed up with the manner in which our generosity has been received. We have poured billions into nearly every country in the world, only to have the people of those countries tell us to go home, laugh at us, accuse us of imperialism and wtar-mongering, fall for the Soviets. God knows our largess has not made friends for us. Does anyone believe for one moment that these countries would be so generous to us if our positions were reversed ? There is a limit to the number of times one is expected to ‘turn the other cheek/ The straw that broke the earners back was the recent election in France, in which a party running on a pledge of no taxes achieved an amazing pop ularity. Imagine the gall of these people even to suggest a no tax platform while we (who are struggling under the heaviest tax burden in years, with no possibility of any sub stantial reduction in those taxes or in our national debt for untold future years) must continue to carry them fin ancially. Do you realize how rapidly we could reduce our national debt if the money now devoted to foreign aid were applied to the debt?. Let's turn the problem over to the people who are compelled (taxes are certainly not voluntary) to pro vide the wherewithal for the grandiose schemes still being hatched by the politicians. How about the various tax foun dations, committees, etc., getting behind a movement to have this extremely important question put directly to the people in November? If special legislation is necessary, let's get busy." Doesn't it strike you as utterly ridiculous that we strive and strain to balance the budget, while throwing away more billions than Were needed to bring the budget in balance? But balancing the budget is not everything: this country needs a vigorous, rigorous overhauling of the whole scheme of taxation; we have preserved or continued a policy of vindictive, coercive, communistic levies as though the na tion dispised men of vision and wisdom and thrift and success and put a premium on failure or ineptitude or sloth. STORMS OYER WASHINGTON America was built by men of vision, men of purpose, men of dedication, thrift and venture; some of them made for tunes and lifted the level of the whole nation; today we seem to think that do-nothing people are the foundation of our nation.' Why have we high wages? Why so much more than the people of other countries? Because some men have put their dreams and visions to work and have made opportunities for hundreds of thousands of families to raise from low to much higher levels of living. A letter from Illinois impresses me. Observe, friends, that I am quoting from citizens of New Jersey and Illinois. You must not think that Northern men and women are for eign to us; they are our own people and think as we think when they are given the facts. The Illinois letter deals with the Supreme Court. Here it is: “There seem to be many conflicting ideas about the nature of our Supreme Court, as evidenced by a letter from Mr. Pool which was published in your paper January 18. It seems to me that the proper way to resolve this ques tion is as follows: The purpose of the Supreme Court is to interpret the Constitution and the Federal laws. This means that its objective is not to write the law, but only to determine what Congress intended the law to mean. Of course, any such court can err in such a decision. For example, it could decide that a law prescribing that automobiles be driven on the right side of the street really meant the correct side of the street and the local authori ties could decide in their owtn areas which was the correct side. In such a case, if it were really Congresss intention to require that automobiles be drivfen on the right-hand side of the street in all instances, then Congress should and could promptly amend its law to correct the misinter pretation of the court. All of the machinery is available for passing any laws required regarding segregation. For some reason or other, the people of this country have not seen fit to require that their representatives do anything on that particular issue. In such a situation, there is no justification for the Sup reme court to usurp authority and do that which the peo ple have chosen not to do." The Illinois writer is in error about the remedy. Since the Supreme Court says that it is interpreting the 14th Amendment the Court would declare the declatory Act of Congress null and void, for being opposed to the Constitution. The court is clearly wrong in many of its decisions, the basic error of the Court being a disposition to MAKE laws. A nation at the mercy of a court is a people under the worst despotism and tyranny possible; it wtould be much worse than a “rambunctious Congress, for we can upset the House of Representatives every twyo years; and we can change the complexion of the Senate about every four years. Pres- idents also can de defeated in four years, but the Court holds office for life and sits in lofty, remote grandeur, for removed from what it might think “the maddening crowd’s ignoble strife." TOP BASEETEKB Ohto mmm lead* the Mf Tea and aa- tloaal basketball aoeren with a 7-fame average of MLS. He's a sealer from Chiotsnati. This m' That ttenal Wyatt If ted JOS and was a heaae ran bat ter. The Yankees. Tigers and Pi rates were reportedly aloe after the Tlrftala seaesttea . . . Ne one real ly knows where the game of oer- Uag originated. Both Scotland and Flanders dalm responsibility fsr the origin sf ths ios gmme. Most hletTT 1 — hetteve It began In Scot land, where It was a major sport before Us pepelarity really began In the Netherlands . . . Tbs great horse Man o’ War campaigned only as a ft- and ft-year-old, es tablished dee American track rec ords and only ones (In a race with John F. Grier aft Ageedaot In Ittft) was he really pressed to win. Ho was defeated only sms, and this beoaesa ho was left at *o poet and get started tea lata. T HE powerful National Council jf Farmer Cooperatives has added its voice to those who are opposing limitation of production of farm commodities such as pro vided in the proposed soil bank. At its recent Los Angeles na tional convention the Farm Coop eratives adopted policies which it has placed in the record of the Congressional Agricultural Com mittees expressing: (1) “Unqualified opposition to public policies which have the ef fect of reducing American agricul tural production in order to deliv er both domestic end foreign markets to the agricultural pro duction of other countries,” and (ft) “The present income posi tion of farmer* la such as not is permit further compulsory reduc tion in many commodities. Pro duction adjustments alone will never provide a satisfactory solu tion to the current farm situation, nor sen we have prosperity and economic stability in agriculture until we can maintain a basis tor maximum productivity in agricul ture and rewards tor efficiency in production and distribution com parable to those of other segments of our economy.” It eppeere almost certain that jomm form of 90% rigid parity supports might be adopted by the Senate, taking the form, either of Senator Allen J. Ellender’s com promise plant for 90% of parity supports on high quality commod ities, or a straight 90% support on basic crops. The Senate Agricul tural Committee has agreed that the soil bank plan to take 20 mil lion acres out of production can not be made mandatory this year. In the meantime, the House Ap propriations committee released a report which sharply criticized the Commodity Credit Corporation tor “showering” funds on warehouse men and processors without help ing farmers. The report, prepared by a sub-committee headed by Congressman Jamie Whitten, Mis sissippi, charged the Department of Agriculture recently shipped 17 million bushels of corn from the Midwest to the West Coast for storage ' in private warehouses, while USDA-owned bins in the Mid west remained unused; that ship ping costa amounted to 43 to 63 cents a bushel, or about double what it would have cost to erect new government bins in Midwest areas. “It is now fairly apparent that wasteful practices and ooneessioos to special group*” account tor part aft the 1933.3 million loes on the farm price-support program in the fleeal year ending last June. The report backs up the conclusions. Rap. Whitten said, that “almost ovary conceivable action has boon taken to increase the costs to the Government through additional concessions to certain favored in terests with no benefits to the farmers.” By means of prica sup port “juggling,” ha said, “proces sors have made millions on com modities never leaving the place of storage.” He also charged that intarast rates paid by the CCC to private lenders have been in creased a number of times while prices to farmers hava bean re duced. Congressman Fred Marshall, of Minnasota, cited figures obtained from the Department of Agricul ture showing the average cost of storing a bushel of grain increased from 5.7 cents In 1952 to 11.3 cents in 1954. From the Italy New»-Herald, Italy, Texas: Advocates of federal aid to public schools are either doing a lot of wishful thinking in their denial that federal control will follow or else they are delib erately trying to mislead the pub lic. We read an editorial in a po- 'litical newspaper . . . on the subject of federal aootrol of schools and beaded. “What Con trol?” It then went on to cite a number of things the federal gov ernment has entered into and asked where the control was, claiming that they are all voluntary. Thera may be some basis tor agreement that the programs are voluntary, but that still does not sey control does not exist. The farm programs are voluntary to the ex tent that farmers vote on them, but who can deny there is not government control? If there is ne government control, then who said that Ellis County farmers mutt reduce cotton acreage . .? It there is no control of welfare contributions tor old age assist ance, than why was it necessary for the states to adopt constitutional amendments conforming to feder al dictates? If there is no federal control over unemployment com pensation. than why does there exist federal regulations ever wages and hours? If there la no federal control attached to funds turned over to the states for high way construction, then why are federally subsidized highways re quired to have wider rights-of-way than state roads? • » * From the Southern Standard, Arkadelphia, Arkansas: It's a far cry from the general store of yes terday to its offspring. One newspaper has a belief that within easy driving distance of large population centers, a man could do all right for himself by running a duplicate of the old general store of the 1890-1900 era. One appreciates this loyalty to the past, but it hardly seems con ceivable that the consuming pub lic would pass up the modern re tail outlets and patronize a gen eral store with a mixed aroma of * Cheddar chaesa, rubber wear. soap, coal oil. dill picklaa. bananas and the hundred other smells that were a part of its stock in trade. The present day retailer in the race to keep abreast ef the times under competitive conditions has to hold pricas down while provid ing quality goods, air^coodttiocting. cold storage, elaborate displays, better illumination, faster service, etc. Chain stores and super mar kets hava sat the pace In recent years and others have follewed The general store had As nos talgic smells but the store of to day has Its conveniences. Did you know: “In 1942 we were faced with such a critical shortage of copper that we were substituting borrowed silver from the Treasury vaults. Yet we gave Russia 254,923 tons, costing the taxpayers $90 million. We gave Russia 192 million dollars worth of ladies dress goods because Sidney Hillman and Harry Hopkins decided the Russians needed it. We put the city of Leningrad on re lief to the tune of 88 million dollars by what w|as called “Ships of Relief." We shipped by boat $25 million dollars worth of ore pulverizing and screening machinery, heavy rock crushers, earth boring and quarrying equipment which was used by the Soviets to dig ore from the captured Czech oslovakian uranium mines. Top officials presented our most guarded top secret to them, the Nordon bombsight. We sent them 16,00 special antiaircraft planes at $87,500 each." This is somewhat nauseating but our nation still has many of those men on the payroll. Q—I* tears m tow prevMtog text Imported goods most be marked wite teetr forelga erlgta? A—Yes. The Federal Trad* Commission and the Bureau of the Cus toms, are charged by tow with responsibility of assuring proper disclosure of the foreign origin of imported goods. Q—I weald like to get a GI baateeas lean which does not involve real estate. It la my anderstandftng that VA would insure such a loan rather than guarantee it. What to the maximum interest rate oa such a GI lean? A—The interest rate on insured non-realty loans may not exceed a three per cent discount rate, or an equivalent simple interest rate of 5.7% a year. 0—I hm taking on-the-job. training under the Korean GI bill. Is there any Hmtt on tee number aft absences per year I am allowed? A—-Yes. You will not receive GI allowances tor any absences to excess of the rate eft 30 days tor a 13-month period oft tratolng. Week ends and legal holidays do not count as absences. Q Can you give igures eu tee expert decline ef lending Caras cam A—The three leading farm exports are wheat and flour, raw ootton and tobases. Wheat and flour declined from 4(79 mill inn buttmto in 1963 toSTS mfflton bushels to 1906. Raw cotton from 9.7 nslHIsn bales to 3.6 milltoa holes, and unmanufactured tobacco from §19 milileni pounds to 461 mflUon pmmds In ths same periods. IRRYING AND START LIVING J EAN SASS, 7863 Flight Avenue, Los Angeles, California, had a first hand experience which brought her face to face with real fear. An osteopath administered to her three vkrie&t medicines which threw her into shock and then into an emotional state that lasted so long she became convinced she was losing her mind. Her doctor told her, “I can help you a lot, but you must help yourself ^a lot too.” She read a book and found advice saying she must relax, relax, relax. But how could she make herself relax when her mind was filled with wor ry. She read on: When you start getting worry thoughts, replace them with other thoughts and keep so busy you have no time to worry. She did just that. It has taken time, but she knows she has great ly improved, and life not only runs more smoothly. 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