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THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN
Tom Anderson seems to think
and speak clearly. I quote one
sentence from a recent editorial
by Tom in Farm and Ranch.
“Unless we get rid of our Ken
nedy’s, Stevensons, Rostows, and
Schlesingers, who believe the
masses are asses, an end to our
nationhood and our freedom is
inevitable”. Yea, verily, Tom, you
are eminently right, I think.
When Walter Regnery writes or
talks he gives us the benefit of
sound advice based on actual
knowledge of conditions and pros
pects.
In a luminous exposition in The
Joanna Way, discussing “Who
profits when a Union takes over?:
“Joanna Cotton Mills company
has, of its own accord, instituted
policies to insure fairness in deal
ings with its employees, without
need for union bargaining. The
Seniority policy, the * Leave-of-
Absence procedures, the Sugges
tion-Awards system, the Griev
ance procedures—these are a few
of the things that unions usually
emphasize and which Joanna has
voluntarily put into effect. Our
open-door policy permits any em
ployee to discuss his problems at
first-hand without going through
complicated union channels. We
believe that that is the best way.
Joanna Cotton Mills company
has enjoyed splendid relationships
with its employees through the
years. You may remember that
we pioneered in introducing many
benefits for our employees. By
managing our. own affairs we
have been able to pay good wages,
to furnish job security to our em
ployees, to offer many fringe ben
efits. In the highly unionized
north, however, many mills have
been forced out of business,'their
buildings now idle, their employ
ees seeking work elsewhesre-^-and
the government . kicking around
the problem of depressed areas.
We tell you frankly how we
feel. We like the mutual coopera
tion and understanding /between
management and. employees in di
rect dealings. Wp*.value our em
ployees; we wantyjfco’offer them
every possible benefit and job se
curity without h union ■’ interfer
ence. We feel that we can do more
for the benefit of' all of us with
out union meddling, without our
employees’ sacrificing to pay un
ion dues, fees, ets., and being ham
pered by union restrictions. In our
opinion, when a union meddles,
we all lose.
We urge each employee to give
serious thought to the union's
plans to ‘go get ’em down South’
—their money, their political of
ficer, their right to individual,
free decisions and action.
We don’t believe our Southern
employees will be so easily ‘got‘ ”.
A man speaks who uses few
words; makes few off-hand re
marks, but ■who deeply feels his
obligation and who never fails to
do all that he can for the splen
did community of Joanna which
is a fellowship of fine * people,
from Mr. Regnery down .to the
An Assessment on Cuba
THIS WEEK MARKS the pas
sage of six months since the
October “crisis” over Soviet es
tablishment of a military base
in Cuba. It is now possible to
assess, at least partially, the
results of Soviet and U. S. ac
tions, and the relative gains and
losses in the continuing strug
gle between communism and
THROUGH PUBLIC PRO
JECTION of a firm and resolute
stance against the communists
implicit in U. S. demands for
removal of Soviet strategic mis
siles and IL-28 bombers from
Cuba, the U. S. gained renewed
respect and prestige in all the
non-communist world. Since Oc
tober, 1962, this new respect for
the U. S. has considerably di
minished, largely because the
U. S. has continued to tolerate a
strong Soviet military base in
Cuba, and because some suspect
that a “trade” may have ac
counted for U. S. withdrawal
of THOR and JUPITER mis
siles from Turkey and Italy. On
balance, U. S. prestige may be
somewhat higher now than be
fore the October “crisis”, but the
net increase is small, at best,
and the trend in U. S. prestige
is downward.
THE SOVIETS, whether they
actually withdrew any of their
ballistic missiles or not, gave
the appearance of so doing and
appeared to “back down.” There
by, the Soviets tarnished their
hard-sought image of “invinci
bility.” The continuing mainte
nance of the Soviet military
base in Cuba, however, now
causes many to wonder whether
the apparent Soviet backdown
was just the prescribed “one
step backward following two
steps forward”; for the Soviets
now appear to have come out
of the Cuban “crisis” with a
secure base in the Western
Hemisphere.
PRIOR TO OCTOBER, 1962,
U. S. policy sought the estab
lishment in Cuba of what Cu
bans call “fidelisimo without
Fidel.” This policy supported
those who wanted to establish
in Cuba a Tito-type government.
With Cuba at the mercy of
Soviet military forces, however,
chances of a legitimate revolu
tion against the Castro regime
are non-existent. The free world
will never believe that anyone
who succeeded Castro in a Cuba
occupied by the Soviet military
was not approved by the Soviets.
FROM A PRACTICAL stand
point, we now have no policy
on Cuba. Our announced policy
is to work toward withdrawal of
Soviet forces aad a democratic
govenuBCBt ia Cuba. However,
our policy predaleis all steps
which have any likelihood of
bringing either of these situa
tions to pass, because of our
paralyzing fear of the risk of
nuclear war. ' 1
IN LATIN AMERICA, U. S.
acceptance of the eoftummist
subjugation of Cuba, and Soviet
use of it as a military and sub
versive base of operations, has
a tragic psychological effect.
Cuba is being cited in Red
propaganda as proof that the
U. S. wiF tolerate communist
regimes hi Latin America and
can successfully be defied under
protection of Soviet military
the’ SOVIET GOAL is to
isolate the U. S. and progress
is being made toward this end
at an alarming pace. U. S. pol
icy to support governments in
Latin America of the “non-com
munist revolutionary left” with
Alliance for Progress funds are
based on the belief that eco
nomic factors will determine the
outcome. Such long range pro
grams founded on the falla
cious theory of economic de-
termipism of history have little
or no retarding effect on the
drives of the communist polit
ical activists, especially since
the U. S. gives favored treat
ment to Latin American govern
ments of the far ty&i such as
that of Brazil, wMler doing little
to help such hard pressed anti
communist regrimed as tL se in
Nicaragua and Gdatema'.i. ;
NOTHING LES$ THAN a firm
and resolute policy to rid Cuba
of Soviet military forces and
communism can rectify the sit- -
nation. This policy .would re
quire the following steps by
the U. S.: / . ^
1. Demand removal of all
Soviet forces in Cuba—to be
confirmed by on-site inspections
—and if it is not done forth
with, break diplomatic relations
with the Soviet Union.
2. If severing diplomatic re
lations with the Soviet Union
does not get Soviet forces out,
then re-impose an air and naval
blockade of Cuba.
3. In the unlikely event that
these steps do not accomplish
removal of Soviet forces, direct
military action, in concert with
other American States, should
be taken as a last resort.
ONCE SOVIET FORCES are
withdrawn, support should be
given to Cubans Who Will at
tempt to restore-* freedom ih
Cuba, for when Sonet military
forces are withdrifcrn, Castro
and his Cuban compile ter
rorists will not be ^bfe tp hang
on for long, J . * ”
:W.*
humblest man or boy in the town.
Joanna is more than a mill or
industrial enterprise; it is a liv
ing monument to the Regnerys
and to those splendid men and
women who have made it such a
happy place to live and work.
When I observe the ease and
facility with which our State leg
islature appropriates the taxpay
ers’ money for a whole multitude
of tax-consumers, formerly known
as tax-eaters, I wonder how many
legislators ever organized and
operated a business enterprise.
Unless one has delved and div
ed, sweated and bled, to make a
payroll, pay all the licenses, taxes
etc and a score of other items
making up the overhead of a busi
ness, he can have no idea of the
strain, struggle, and stress of op
erating a business.
I still lament the failure of
some of us to revive and reinvig
orate a tax-payers League. I
don’t mean a service organization
such as a Chamber of Commerce,
a Merchants’ Association, or any
other such organization which
renders many helpful services, but
is not by its nature an organiza
tion of fighters, of men and wo
men resolved to speak for the
taxpayers and equally resolved to
carry on a vigorous campaign,
having in mind that next year we
shall have men soliciting our vote.
If anyone takes this lightly I re
fer him to 1932-19G3.
Our Legislature is mild when
compared with the Congress of
the United States. At times I
wonder at the lack of sober think
ing in Washington. I have no ref
erence to insobriety from “drink,”
but to a sort of general and per
vasive hallucination which thinks
that money drops from the skies
or pushes up through the ground.
The truth is that men who never
had ten thousand dollars in all
their days just blithely appro
priate billions, utterly unable to
grasp or imagine a billion dollars
—it is JUST WORDS!
So one-sided have we become
that we don’t think of those who
make possible our great enter
prises.
Some weeks ago I cited a small
steel company to show what it
costs them to operate. Just a small
concern, mark you, not a mam-
oth concern such as U. S. Steel
Here we are:
Cost of raw materials
and services $48,826,740
Pay roll 31,283,116
Employee benefits 8,313,726
Depreciation and rental
of facilities 4,366,327
Interest paid 779,360
Retained for \re-invest-
ment, replacements 2,033,048
Now we come to the milk in the
cocoanut: % V
Taxes paid 4,608,102
Paid to owners 1,240,106
Even if the company had not re
tained $2,033,048 for replacements
of worn out machinery etc., the
total, over/ and above actual ob
ligatory requirements, would have
been for the owners $3,273,154,
compared with taxes $4,508,102.
You hear a lot about the wick
edness of profits, well what say
you of this caser the owners re
ceived $1,240,106 and were enti
tled to a total of $3,273,154, if
they had been like anautomobile
owner who never buys a new
tire.
And the taxes were $4,508,102.
That is what I can’t understand
about business which operates
competitively and pays no taxes!
I read recently a statement
that brings vividly to our minds
just what the tax burden amounts
to. A man who knows exactly
what he is talking about said:
The Electric co-ops pay a total of
$96,000 a year in taxes, but the
private power companies would
pay more than three million in
taxes on the same volume of busi
ness reported by the coops.
I was surprised to learn about
the $96,000 because County Treas
urers reported that the co-ops
paid no school taxes except in
several counties and the taxes
paid didn’t amount to a row of
pins!
Now our legislature tells the
people of the State that the tax
bill will be $212,000,000 (two hun
dred twelve million dlolars) and
increases will be included for the
teachers!
How much of that bill will be
paid by the Co-ops ?
I ask you.
It is an anomaly, or worse, that
we face the taxpayers of the
State with a stupendous burden,
increasing year by year, and fos
ter and pamper one set of citizens
while increasing the burden on
others.
This is the land of the free
and the home of the brave,—
but today that seems to mean
that we are free to ask for fav
ors, using political pull and polit
ical pressure and political threats
and fears, if we are bold enough
to persevere.
So now you see how the great
spirits of our early days have
been traduced; we are still the
land of the free and the home of
the brave for all favors at the
expense of our neighbors who pay
the taxes, which of course, means
that they pay our debt, too.
I quote a news report from the
News and Courier of Charleston:
^ “Fuel to drive the Southeast’s
first nuclear power plant has
been loaded, the Carolina-Virginia
Nuclear Power Associates said
recently.
The fuel supply consists of 200,
000 pellets of enriched uranium
which were eased into position
deep within a steel and concrete
shielded cavity on a hill site at
Parr. The last of 72 fuel ele
ments was due to go into place
by midnight.
Soon, these pellets will be bom
barded with neutrons to start the
chain reaction of fission process,
which will create heat to convert
water to steam to turn a nearby
turbine generator.
Louis V. Sutton, president of
the Carolinas-Virginia Nuclear
Power Associates, which built
the plant in cooperation with the
Atomic Energy Commission, said
fueling and start-up will repre
sent the moment of fulfillment in
a six-year program by the four
member companies of CVNPA.
A “DREAM” PLAN AT AGE 65-
JUST GET IN THE CAR AND GO
t* A FTER some 40 years with
^ one employer I retired last
December the a^e of 63. My
wife is five year* younger. We
have no heirs. * '
“My monthly income is a com
fortable 6n&; and 1 have made
arrangements’for my wife to have
an adequate income should I die
first. I have life insurance, a house
and car, and owe nobody.
“My wife and I have no close
friends here. We no longer care
to live here.
“We are thinking of selling our
bouse and all the furnishings. This
will bring our total savings close
to $35,000. We think' that then we
would like to start out in the car
with no particular destination and
with only one traveling bag each.
When we arrive in a place that
appeals to us we can stay in an
apartment until such time as the
appeal wears off or we decide to
stay.
“Since our income is adequate
we are thinking of spending a poi
tion of our savings each year i
our travels until finally they wi
have been spent . . .”
This plan comes from a succes
ful businessman in the centr
part of the country. It represen
the sort of dream most of us ha\
for a time, and one which retire
people without much money mu.*
regard with wonder.
For this man, and others think
ing along the same lines, it should
be pointed out that the plan this
man has win very probably lead
him dawn the road to frustration
and oblivion. Because—
1. You must search for, and
study, the town you pick for re
tirement. This for sure. But not
as this couple is doing it. They’ll
wind up as pensioned vagabonds
because they will be asking in
effect that every town they enter
prove its virtue.
2. Almost without exception you
will find that in California and
Florida the people who have found
their retirement towns good have
given something to the towns be
yond their handsome faces. They
have gotten into the churches and
civic organizations, and exerted
themselves to be friends of peo
ple.
3. Any couple who has made no
close friends in a town of pro
longed residence will not make
them in Los Angeles either. And
if Wichita or Newark did not de
velop some emotions of loyalty
and admiration, then Miami won’t.
If you are seeking a retirement
paradise where the people and the
town will be different in funda
mentals from what you have had,
hen you had better understand
hat people are people and towns
ire towns — everywhere.
4. Choosing a good retirement
•wn is roughly a 75-25 project,
ith 75 per cent of the choosing
)ne in the living room at home,
imate, racial characteristics,
lucational levels, social habits,
sts, and conveniences can pretty
11 be pinned down for any sec-
i of the country by getting
:s from the public library and
/riting the section's Chamber
oi Commerce.
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Seventy-two uranium fuel as
semblies were lowered by special
equipment into the U-tubes in the
reactor chamber. The loading pro
cess will be followed by careful
tests that will be repeated and ex
panded before the plant is oper
ational.
Engineers, scientists, and tech
nicians from the four CVNPA
member companies: Carolina Pow
er & Light company, Duke Pow
er company, South Carolina Elec- (
trie and Gas company and Virgin
ia Electric and Power company,
shared in the delicate loading
operation. Their men will operate
the plant under approval of the
AEG.
When the fuel is loaded, crews
will conduct more tests leading to
a start-up date.
The Parr project represent s
$47.3 million commitment by the
associates and the AEC. Of this
amount, the four companies are
contributing $34.3 million and the
AEC $13 million.
Parr will be the first site in the
world where all three major meth
ods of power generation can be
used; water power in an existing
hydro-electric plant; fossil fuel in
an existing coal-fired steam elec
tric plant; and atomic fuel in the
nuclear plant.”
That signalizes the beginning
of a new era in the South, perhaps
its effect will extend throughout
the nation.
The four companies, cooperat
ing with the Atomic Energy Com
mission, are leading the nation in
an achievement of colossal signif
icance. At our door is one of the
marvels of today.
How can congress acquire juris
diction merely by declaring that
an Act of Congress pre-empts a
field of activity and excludes the
States from such legislation ?
The proposed act is to limit the
scope of certain Supreme Court
decisions but anyone informed on
the Constitution must make the
point that not only must Congress
confine itself to the field pre
scribed by the Constitution but
the Acts of Congress outside that
field are unconstitutional and
void.
I readily admit that the scope
of Supreme Court jurisdiction
should be prescribed by Act of
Congress, as the Constitution pre
scribes, but the scope of the Con
gress itself is equally prescribed
by the Constitution.
Congress cannot lawfully en
act laws without respect for the
reserved powers of the States, as
it is doing and has been doing.
It is time to curb the Federal
judiciary but let’s curb the Con
gress and the Executive, too. All
are violating the Constitution.
Looking A head
...by Or. Gtorg* S. Btnson
PRESIDENT—NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
S«arcy, Arkansas
As various Congressional com
mittees go into action in an effort
to get the facts about the nation’s
economic condition in order to
decide about the tax cut, a great
many noises are going to be
made. Along with the sound,
there will be the fury. Some of it
will make sense. The President
having presented his economic
messages and tax cut proposals,
the public now sees that a tax
cut is really not a tax cut at all.
If the government makes up loss
es through reforms but cuts back
none of its spending, where is the
gain? Or if the government keeps
borrowing, then the tax cut is a
“gift” of the government charged
to the deficit.
The little man on the street,
who has more insight into the
Kennedy family planning sessions
than the pollsters give him credit
for, already suspects that the
whole idea was thought up more
for '64 than to get the country
moving. Any administration that
can accomplish a tax cut can talk
about it all the way to Novem
ber. Besides, the naughty corpo
rations (which do not vote) will
get no advantages under the ad
ministration’s proposals for some
years to come. Our little man rea
sons that if all the money avail
able today isn't enough to pro
duce good times, a few tax refund
dollars to him won’t set off any
boom.
Barely A Start
Our man in the street suspects
rightly that money in the proper
places is needed for a healthy
economy. Besides money in the
hands of consumers and savings
banks, there must be plenty av
ailable for new machinery and
expanded factories to make new
products and create new jobs. He
senses that the proposed tax cut
wil’ not achieve this.
Our man (now off the street
and reading his evening paper—
unless it’s strike-bound) learns
that the White House is talking
compromise as Congress digs in,
Its the politicians who want a
tax cut most, not taxpayers who
are wondering about taxes on
gifts and estates and. pension
plans but who would like to have
a little extra for a flyer in busi
ness. It has been figur3d that a
cut at the top of the personal in^
come tax rate from 91 to 65 per
cent would make a dollar (45c
dollars already) of income in this
bracket worth 35c instead of nine
cents. This is barely a start.
Financing the Cut
If we could only get across the
idea that taxes don’t have to be
high and break the high tax habit
of ;he federal government, that
would be something! But the right
place to start on that wonld be
to cut the demands tW!af Tire ihade
on the tax revenue. Tax r a t e s'
could then come down so low thatj
not many reforms would be need-;
ed. Our wondering citizen sees]
this cart-before-horse situation^
He realizes that soak-the-rich
taxes and wartime rates that res
trained business have long out
lived their usefulness. But if we
bring down revenue a few billion
will the government get along
without it?
4*-
t
Not at all, learns our little man
living under big government. No
real budget sacrifices are to ac
company the cutting of taxes. We
are to go right on spending, and
the national debt ceiling will have
to be raised to accommodate the
borrowing required to support
government programs in the high
style to which they have grown
accustomed. Deficit spending,
therefore, will underwrite the tax
slash. So—the government wants
to borrow (and inflate the cur
rency in the deal) just to be able
to afford a tax cut so as to put
mom mofiey in circulation! That’s
a didofe-barrelled charge.
Release The Economy
How can anyone justify a tax
reduction that is a “gift” from
the government? How absurd it
is. Let’s not get our whole nat
ional ,idea warped and confused, a
thing we are in danger of doing
if we do not return to the funda
mental view that the income a
man makes is his own. If we are
to retain the freedom of our peo
ple to save and to invest in en
terprise, we had better re-think
the whole idea of the steeply
graduated income tax. Even Karl
Marx foresaw it as the means of
despotic encroachment “on the
rights of property, and on the
conditions of bourgeois produc
tion.”
Our economy needs to be re
leased—our observing and increas
ingly angry citizens agrees—from
the chains of bondage created by
ever growing demands of goveirn -
ment spending. We do not need
bigger deficits and more money
released, all in the name of
growth. What we do need is a
restoration of incentive, with
stable prices and sound dollars so
as to achieve balanced increases
in production and consumption.
Let us unleash the forces of this
free economy by restraining our
profligate government.
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