The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, November 12, 1964, Image 4
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Looking A bead
\ ...by Dr. G«org« S. Btnion
^ PRESIDENT—NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
$Mrcy, ArkanMS
$100 BILLION CAMPAIGN
FUND
A n incumbent president
who has $100 billions to
spend, the U. S. News and
World Report dryly observed
prior to the election, has a lot going for him. A vote against
such a president, it says, would be like taking a shot at San
ta Claus. Santa actually never had that amount of inflated
cash to dispense, but the jolly old soul should run for U. S.
president if he really believes in giving something to every
one. Not even the taxpayer who foots the bill is overlooked,
for after all he got his tax cut.
The easy rationale of all this is that money talks, and it
is hard to beat that kind of sell in the vote-getting business.
Have we taken our wealth so much for granted that we have
become callous about the wide public misuse of it? We en
joy a roaring prosperity, but has it made us unthinking ma
terialists so engrossed in living it up that we care nothing
of protecting the future for our children?
No Observable Limits
Are we so indiscriminate with our wealth that we rush
about trying to eradicate poverty both abroad and at home,
overlooking the ruinous, effects of dependency on govern
ment that people develop? Senator Strom Thurmond has re
marked that what the Administration ought to do is see
what can be done for its own “government poverty.’ Instead,
it cuts taxes by $11.5 billion, increases spending by $5 bil
lion over last year, and continues to pay $11.1 billion in int
erest on the $313 billion national debt, all of which we owe
to ourselves.
It would help, therefore, to have a national leadership in
the White House whose ideas are not limited to turning off
the lights in the executive mansion. Although the Admini
stration’s chief economist, Walter Heller, describes present
economic policy as one of moderation, the facts indicate that
it is “extremist” in the extreme. In an orgy of spending, the
government urges new programs as if to see what dizzy
heights the economy can reach. Even when the national
pump needs no priming, the federal government continues
to plan annual deficits one after another.
Spending, A Way of Life
It requires many hundreds of pages just to list the agen
cies and programs that are embarked on elaborate plane to
put borrowed dollars into circulation. Once the voter ue-
comes either a recipient of federal money or dependent for
a pay check on others who are getting government funds, a
very strong case is established for maintaining the status
quo. Lopping off federal agencies is almost impossible once
they are established. What the anti-poverty program will be
called when everyone becomes wealthy has not been reveal
ed. But you can count on one school of politics to favor its
continuance.
That is the school which believes in encouraging the
theory that government can keep on passing out the bene
fits in order to perpetuate the ruling clique. The formula
for power, the New Deal found out in the 1930’s, is to spend
and elect in ever increasing cycles. The immorality of this is
obvious to anyone not blinded by the myth of inexhaustible
federal resources. Whether we can keep our republic of the
people and their willingness to put an end to perpetual de
ficit spending.
Super Pork-barrel
Perhaps th emost rampant project at present is the Area
Redevelopment Administration, which is by no means limited
to depressed areas and easily classifies as super pork-barrel.
The agency has been pouring out money indiscriminately,
mostly providing unfair competition for existing business
rather than new jobs and new businesses. If ARA serves to
prove the weakness of socialism, it will have accomplished
something.
As long as we allow the government to borrow billions
from the people, and then give it away in some form of
boondoggle, as long as we expect fiscal emergencies to be
out-talked by a White House magician, just that long shall
we face eventual loss of confidence and the possibility of
bankruptcy. The gravity of this continuous crisis was sug
gested by Senator Harry Byrd, the leading exponent of fis
cal sanity in Congress, when he estimated that it would
take 600,000 years to pay off our national debt even if we
should start paying $1 per minute!
New deep tone colors add ex
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furniture with paint. They are ap
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paint, glaze, wipe method. Each
of the deep tones, as well as soft
tints, comes in a complete kit of
antiquing materials.
Provincial Color Glaze antiquing
works on old furniture as well as
unfinished pieces. No removal of
varnish, stain or paint is neces-
sary. Furniture is painted with a
special paint undercoat, then a
coat of Provincial Color Glaze is
brushed on. In the third step,
the glaze is wiped to create the
shaded, grainy look of a painted
antique.
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
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During the recent political campaign we heard the term
“Fabian Socialists” used occasionally. Who are the Fabians
referred to in these political speeches and writings ?
The Fabians in England were Socialists who were organiz
ed to spread the Socialistic doctrines throughout the world.
As early as 1905, the American equivalent of the British Fa
bian Socialist Society was organized In New York City, and
was called the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. The objective
of this group was to educate a generation to a commitment
to Socialism. They recognized the fact that every generation
is a new people and that college students represent the best
of the new generation.
The first chapter of the new organization was established
at Harvard University by Walter Lippmann when he was a
student there. While the first objective of the group was to
mold the thinking of college students, they soon moved into
the fields of journalism, radio and television.
In 1921, the organization changed its name to the League
for Industrial Democracy. Although the average American
has probably never heard of this organization, it is interest
ing to note that some years back, in a study of the most in
fluential organizations in the country in terms of influence
upon government or governmental policies, 106 organizations
were listed among them was the League for Industrial De
mocracy.
The Fabians here and in Europe have been more effec
tive than have the Communists in converting people to their
philosophy. They have been more interested in instilling
their philosophy in the coming generation than they have
been in converting people to Socialism. They are more adapt
able than Communists and they have consistently worked
through the parliamentary process rather than employing
the rhetoric of revolution. They have worked from within
to permeate or infiltrate other organizations and then to
give shape and direction to these organizations by subtle
and modest means.
We do not inherit the instinct for collectivism or statism,
and we do not inherit the instinct for freedom. We must
educate the coming generations in freedom just as the Fa
bians have educated a generation in Socialism.
Just as the advocates of Socialism have infiltrated both
major political parties, the advocates of freedom should be
come more vocal and more militant In their programs of edu
cation so that the young people of today will have at least
the same amount of information on constitutional govern
ment and the principles upon which this country was found
ed as they have about Socialism and Communism.
The danger apparent in the American version of the Brit
ish Fabians is that the views advocated by these men are in
herently contradictory to the views of most Americans, and
their views are being taught to the generation that will gov
ern this country in a very few years, by professors in some
of our leading colleges and universities. Men whose financial j
success is due to our free enterprise system in this nation,
are paying high costs of education to have their children
taught that the American system is all wrong and that So
cialism is the system under which our government should
be operated.
BDIDEN BPPHTII1TY
In the “gold rush days"
a prospector might go from
rags to riches overnight.
This just doesn’t happen
in these modern times. Very
few of us are likely to strike
it rich in our own back yard.
Our best bet • for future
prosperity lies in our abil
ities as wage earners and
our talents for effectively
managing income to provide
the things we need and
want.
We happen to think the
best prospects for satisfac
tion, whether one sells, swaps
or trades, are in store for
those who do business in
their own “back yard”—here
in the local community.
If you haven't done so In
the past, shop local stores
first, whenever you have
need. You'll be glad you
did.
Trade at Heme
THE HANDY FAMILY
BY LLOYD BIRMINGHAM
PAP MADE A CROQUET-RAIL
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BEWARE THE ADVICE YOU GET
FROM OTHER RETIRED PEOPLE
uryETIRED PEOPLE should
-LL not go to other retired peo
ple for their advice,” says Mr.
Hugh W. Bromley, a newly re
tired retail man who tried it.
“They shouldn’t even place too
much faith in what other retired
people voluntarily tell them. It’s
frequently the most unreliable in
formation you can get . . .”
“About a year before I got my
pension I started talking to re
tired friends, trying to get a line
on what to expect,” he says. “I
don’t think one of them told me
the truth. If the friend was living
in a certain area of Florida, I was
assured it was the perfect place
to retire to and that I should
move in. The same from two
friends in California. The same
from one friend here in
Missouri . . . .”
Mr. Bromley believes people
who move to new towns when
they retire have to protest that
the towns are perfect. “They’re
stuck with them, for one thing,”
he explains, “because they usu
ally can’t afford to move back.
But more importantly they’ve got
to save face they can’t let
people think they made a
mistake;”
He would ask these friends how
they were getting by on their
pensions. He knew roughly what
some of them were getting and
thought he could use their an
swers to size up his own prospects.
Always the friends said they were
getting by fine. How did they
find relationships with the chil
dren after they retired? Always
fine. How did they fill up the long
hours of the day? Oh, that was
no problem . . . there was al
ways more to do than they had
time for.
“These friends weren’t misrep
resenting things because of any
evil intent,” Mr. Bromley insists.
“They were just saving face.
Somehow people think they have
to when they are retired. Some
of my friends actually were do
ing fine on their money, and
with the towns where they moved.
But the point is that whether they
were or not they would always
say they were. You just can’t be
lieve them ... I know.”
With that off his chest, Mr.
Bromley wanted to talk about his
“Bromley Wardrobe” for retired
men. It consists of three parts:
work clothes; 100-hours-a-year
clothes; and living clothes.
The work clothes are two pairs
of denim slacks, two heavy no
iron shirts, and two pairs of
darned socks. He keeps them on
a nail by the washer in the base
ment, and every Monday throws
one set in the washer.
“My 100-hours-a-year clothes
are my two business suits, white
shirts and ties. And 100 hours a
year is all they’re needed in the
average retired man’s life . . .
for church, parties, and every
thing. This means 50 hours per
year per suit, and they’ll last me
10 years if my wife can make
some minor style changes from
time to time.”
Mr. Bromley’s living clothes
are his most important. They in
clude three pairs of slacks — one
light, one dark, one medium;
three pairs of shorts in the same
colors; six sports shirts — three
with buttons and three slipovers,
all in solid colors ranging from
white to black. “This gives you
enough variety not to become
monotonous,” he says.
Jimm GOLDEN TEARS 3«-pa*e booklet
now ready. Send 504 in coin (no ataaipa).
to Dept. CSPS, Box 1C72, Grand Central
Station. New Terk N. Y.
v WIFE PENS. A LOVE LETTER
TO HER RETIRED HUSBAND
The Hon. Retired Man
Living Room Chair
At Home, U.S.A.
Dearly Beloved:
You may regard this as a re
tirement love letter from your
wife.
And I’d like to wad it up and
throw it at you!
It might knock you out of that
soft chair you’ve been sitting in
these eight months ... or at least
get you off the rear, left-hand
corner of the cushion. Why don’t
you sit on the rear right-hand
comer for a while? Maybe it’d
get the cushion back in shape.
Of course you could sit in the
middle of the chair, like people
do. But I guess I’d have to put
the TV set smack in front of you
to get that.
But the chair is not the reason
for this letter. A good man is
worth a lop-sided chair, and you’re
a good man. I am writing instead
to ask you if you will please let
me make one little decision again
sometime . . . like when I can go
to the bathroom, or get a drink
of water.
In the eight months you’ve been
home I haven’t been allowed to
make any decisions on household
matters that I made all the deci
sions on for nearly 40 years. How
come? I made a lot of them better
than you are doing.
You had to go out and berate
the garbage men because they left
a mess on the ground. They’ve
been doing that for the 12 years
they’ve been on the job,, and I’ve
cleaned up the mess. But those
two men have fixed my vacuum
cleaner, investigated strange
noises in the basement for me,
gotten the cat out of a tree,
moved my flower pots for me—
they’ve almost been family re
tainers.
And did you know that you took
me last week to the home of a
woman I haven’t spoken to in four
years, because I despise her? But
the phone rings, you answer it,
her husband asks us over, and you
say “Sure!” Big Shot again.
And I didn’t let Mary go be
cause we couldn’t afford her on
your pension. Mary has been my
maid and confidante for nine
years. But you find a cobweb, and
one day she doesn’t show up, and
you decide somebody had better
take command of this shiftless
employee. You did, all right. And
ruined the whole relationship.
A lot of pretty good people
think the Devil has come home to
live with me. Including the girl at
the check-out counter at the su-
permart. She doesn’t overcharge.
She hasn’t cheated me in four
years. Why did you have to accuse
her?
I know, Beloved, that you don’t
mean to be this way. But the
trouble is YOU ARE!
You keep insisting that I sit
down with you after breakfast to
watch TV and read the papers. I
can, but this is the time I always
pick up your clothes and replenish
bathroom supplies. I’ll be glad to
sit down with you. But next time
I hope you won’t yell like a mani
ac when you’re in the bathroom
and find the paper gone.
I understand a man needs some
thing to boss when he no longer
has an office to boss . . . and if
he’s been an important man then
everybody else is an idiot.
But I’m getting tired. Until you
can get this juvenile complex out
of your system will you please
start going down to the zoo every
morning and telling the animals
what to do?
Devotedly,
Your wife
JVew GOLDEN YEARS 36-pasre booklet
now ready. Send 50f in coin (no stamps),
to Dept. CSPS. Box 1672, Grand Central
Station, New York 17, N. Y.
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