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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
SPSPECTATOR
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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."
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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?
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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.
CARNEGIE
but she enjoys the challenge she has accepted enabling her to cot>
quer her fears.
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