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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Trlbun. 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years afjo.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 20, 1951 (Salurday)
Immediate and enthusias
tic response to a plea for sofe-
ty and courtesy in me upum
tion ol logging trucks was
given here by log truck oper
ators Saturduy.
William Albert Luman,
prominent Medford business
man, died this morning at his
home here. He was 60.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 20, 1941 (Monday)
Medford is serving as the
base of operations for an ex
tensive search by the U.S.
Army Air Force for a missing
bomber from McChord field,
Tacoma, believed down in the
louthern Oregon area.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge" Pot column: "The
world will never know what
Mr. Hitler said to Mr. Musso
lini, when they held a confer
ence Sunday, and it does not
matter much.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 20, 1931 (Tuesday)
The city council passed an
ordinance yesterday declaring
that the city park shall always
be a city park.
, The humane society has
taken over the collection of
dogs taxes in the county.
40 YEARS AGO.
Jan. 20, 1921 (Thursday)
Final steps have been tak
en bv the county court to pur
chase land along South Paci
fic highway for a county fair
grounds.
A bill providing for regu
lation of fishing In the Rogue
river will probably not be
presented to the stale legisla
ture this season.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 20, 1911 (Friday)
The department of Interior
is reported to be considering
a proposal to turn over 126
square miles of land in Cra
ter Lake park to the Army for
a training ground.
The city council is giving
consideration to an ordinance
that would more strictly regu
late saloons in the city.
Whal's Your 1,0.?
Nina or ten correct is suoarfori
selen or oight Is oxcellent; flvo or
six is good.
1. Name the husband of
Pocahontas.
2. How many pieces of sil
ver did Judas get for betray
ing Christ?
3. What is the motto on all
U, S. coins?
4. Who was commander-in-
chief of the U. S. Armed Forc
es during World War I?
5. How many baseball teams
arc there in each major
league?
0. The Vice-President of the
U. S. may vote in the U. S.
Senate only in case of a lie'
true or false?
7. is a child born In a for
eign land of American par
enls a citizen of the U, S.?
8. Name the second largest
plane).
9. "The Spy." "The Path
finder," and "The Last of the
Mohicans" were written by
Whom?
10. Are there more women
In the Unlled States than
men?
Answers! 1. John Rolft. 2.
Thirty. 3. "In God Kt Trust."
4. Woodrow Wilson. 5. Ton. 6.
True. 7. Yes 8. Sa u r n. 9.
Jamas Fonimor Coop.r, 10.
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ifAflV' NEWSPAPER
ik&XnGK PUBLISHERS
New FAA Boss
, With a few minor "nays," most of them
voiced from obvious prejudice, it has been amaz
ing to see the degree of acceptance which has
greeted the selections of John F. Kennedy for
high office in his new administration.
Criticisms, of course, will come later, and
will be based on specific acts of commission or
omission. But as of today, Inauguration Day,
there have been remarkably few.
Mr. Kennedy has shown a remarkable talent
for seeking out talent and attracting it to federal
service. Time after time he has announced an
appointment, and whether the name is well
known, the individual, on examination, appears
to have outstanding qualifications for the job
he is assigned.
HTHE man he has picked to succeed Elwood P.
Quesada as administrator of the Federal Avi
ation Agency is a case in point.
He nas the unusual name of Najeeb E.
Halabv.
We'd never heard
knowledgeable friends
But we'll hear more, for he is in an exceed
ingly sensitive spot; a position which President
Kennedy himself calls "one of the most chal-
lenginp- iobs in the administration."
He has much to do, not much time to do it
in, and the built-in opposition of some pretty
powerful forces.
DUT, even though he isn't listed in "Who's Who
"in the West, his record sounds impressive.
. He is 45 years of age, and is secretary-treasurer
of Aerospace Corp., a private research firm
which is the main technical adviser for the Air
Force ballistic missiles and space programs.
He has been active in aviation since winning
his pilot's wings as a teen ager in 1933. He was
a Lockheed test pilot from 1941 to 1943, and a
Navy test pilot from 1943 to 1946. As a Navy
pilot, he flew the first transcontinental jet flight,
From 1948 to 1954,
secretary of defense for
and in 1953 received the
as the outstanding young
PRESIDENT KENNEDY called him the "most
competent" man available for the job, and
he sounds as though he may well be.
With a background of business, private fly
ing, military flying, and of government admin
istration in a responsible position, he seems
uniquely equipped to take over from General
Quesada, who must have been hindered more
than he, was helped by his military background.
One hopes he is more successful than Quesada
in bringing to the FAA new energy, new direc
tion, and a new sense of urgency and mission in
making the nation's skies safer and air traffic
controis more enecuve.
many, sometimes conflicting, needs and demands
of commercial, military
E. A.
Who Pulls
Another attempt is
legislature to abolish
Oregon.
Measures to do this
fore by a vote of the people. But there are those
who believe that taking a life is just as wrong
when done by the state as it is when done by a
murderer. And they'll keep trying.
The present proposal, of course, must first
get tnrough the legislature (somewhat dubious)
and then go to a vote of the people again,
t ,
THE average citizen, we suspect, tends to think
about capital punishment emotionally, rather
than dispassionately. Either he feels it satisfies
a need for retribution (in
was a particularly nasty
to furtner capital crimes, or, on the other side
of the fence, does no good for society, and repre
sents nothing but legalized, state-endorsed, cold
blooded killing.
(Our own most serious objection to capital
punishment is the possibility of an innocent man
being executed. Better that a hundred "mad
dogs ' (see communication this page) be allowed
to live out their lives in prison than one innocent
person die unjustly. Ana it has happened.)
Even at that, the average citizen, when read
ing about an execution, tends to feel a certain
detachment. It can't happen to him, and he isn't
directly responsible, and he isn't called upon to
perform the execution, personally, which is done
in the name of society.
Perhaps if the last were changed, feelings
would change too.
COR instance, suppose the legislature were to
pass a measure and refer it to a vote of the
people, which went something like this:
"If this measure shall be approved by a majority
of the voters, the maximum penalty for any crime
within the Stale of Oregon shall be life Imprison
ment. "If this measure shall fail to be approved by a ma
jority of the voters, the maximum penalty for a crime
within the Slate of Oregon shall be death, to be In
flicted In the following manner:
"Condemned felons shall be executed by a firing
squad composed of 38 persons, one from each county
of the slate, to be drawn by lot from among '.!. reg
istered voters of each county."
It's a moderately fantastic notion, we'll Grant.
But we still wonder how
each voter knew he stood a chance of having
to pull the trigger himself, factually, rather than
symbolically. E.A.
of him, and neither had
in aviation circles.
'
he was deputy assistant
international security,
Arthur Flemming award
man in federal service
ana in Daiancincr me
and general aviation
the Trigger?
being; made in. the state
capital punishment in
have been defeated be
cases where the crime
one), or is a deterrent
the vote would tro if
Dennis the Menace
He got tough. So i knocked 7m COID!'
. . Communications . . .
I.BiiBi-. to ih Editor must
certain circumstances the use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often me case.
Ignore It
To the Editor: This world
does not have an unlimited
amount of space for an un
limited amount of people. We
do not even have an unlim
ited amount of fresh water.
There are those who seem to
think the answer lies in ig
noring it.
William R. Sullivan
1116 South Flower st.
Los Angeles 15, Calif.
FPA Now Suspect
To the Editor: On Jan. 17,
1961, the Mail Tribune car
ried an article announcing
the beginning of this year's
"Great Decisions" program.
This program, part of the For
eign Policy Association, is
under attack across this coun
try. People claiming to be
patriotic rank among groups
opposed to FPA, as well as
those supporting it.
One group of the opposi
tion, an American Legion
post In Georgia, claims, in ef
fect, the Foreign Policy As
sociation is a fraud perpetrat
ed on un-suspecting good
American citizens. A serious
charge to be sure, arid cer
tainly not one to be ignored
.without prudent investigation.
pa, through "Great oecis-
tons" oners American um-
zens the opportunity of be
coming both foreign policy
experts, and of influencing
history. Surely one must not
pass over this lightly, for if
FPA is a fraud, this influ
encing the course of history
could be destructive. If there
fore, FPA and Great Decis
ions, is a fraud, wa who inno
cently take part In It will, or
could Influence history to our
own downfall. What could be
more pitiable?
A booklet, "The Truth
About the Foreign Policy As
sociation," is composed of 111
pages of documentation sup
porting the claim that FPA is
a hoax. If each member of a
dicussion group feels it worth
while to spend a dollar for the
FPA booklet, then perhaps
each group might further jus
tify spreading the cost of the
booklet published by the
Americanism Committee,
among the group members.
This latter investment might
prove to further cement the
individual's dedication to
FPA, or it would be a small
price to pay to keep us from
committing an intellectual
blunder in the name of patrio
tism. Send for the booklet to:
American Committee
Waldo M. Salton Post No.
140
The American Legion
3005 Powers Ferry Road,
N. W.
Atlanta 5, Ga.
Price postpaid $1.
Robert J. Howard
R28B West 14th
Medford
Wasn't That Somep'n?
To the Editor: It is a coarse,
brutal world - unendurably
coarse and brutal. for anyone
who hasn't the least dash of
coarseness or brutality In his
own nature to enjoy it with.
I was thinking in all this
wonderful land of ours, would
it not be great if all elected of
fices were filled with honest
officials. The honest district
attorney docs not worry about
the underworld. It s the over-
world that puts him in labor,
the untouchables, the favor
pushers, the gift wrappers,
the back shipper, the sin in
fested trader of you-do-for-nie.
There is the fear that we
shan't prove worthy in the
eyes of someone who knows
us at least as well as we
know ourselves: that is the
fear of God. The fear that
men won't understand us and
we shall be cut off from
them; that is the fear of
man.
So hniH'Sly Is back slapped,
wrapped and gifted to the
overworld. Why not have the
elected man- before he takes
bear tho nam and address of
.
office, show a record of his
worth, have this recorded and
filed. When he leaves office
do the same. The honest man
would welcome this.
For is it not harder to look
after number two-than num
ber one, for how do you know
what number two wants?
I'd hesitate to abolish pov
erty myself. Too much good
has come of it. So let the
overworld do it. When I get
to the next world they'll ask
me: "Did you live honest?"
I'll answer-"Somewhat," and
hasten to add, "I sure loved
George Washington." And
then someone will ask me,
"Did you smoke the right cig
arette?" And 111 say, "Sure:
because I did not trade with
anyone."
If honesty gets us there,
we'd say to each other,
"Wasn't that somep'n?"
Grady Conner,
723 W. Jackson St.
Medford
Fishing Complaints
To the Editor: In the Fish
and Game article Jan. 16, law
makers saw no more bait fish
ing from an anchored boat.
What goes?
Jesus was the best fisher
man of all fishermen, next
came Mark Twain, a great
heritage in our history book
of all time. Now, take me,
and many like me. I . have
three boys, anchored in a
boat in a safe manner with
life jackets, lunch box, etc.
Putting out the boys' lines is
a chore with an inexpensive
bait hook and leader, worms
or eggs, and I surely cannot
afford the upkeep on a troll
ing motor, let alone buy one:
plus $1.10 up to $1.95 for
trolling fenders and all of the
flatfish, etc., tagged on be
hind.
Diamond lake has been a
bait lake since the first trail
was blazed into the lake. Are
we, the people of Oregon, still
the cleanest in the 50 as of
now, going to let an appointed
commission go against our
wishes? Probably uncles,
nephews, and cousins in ap
pointive offices. We the peo
ple are letting commission
after commission push a lot
down the throats of the pub
lic. Buying boats for the sher
iff's and wardens of Oregon
so they can arrest or cite you
for any little infraction. They
claim it is for safety. Safety
is a wonderful word. It should
begin at home.
Did you read about the
young boy last summer that
fell out of a trolling boat and
the father could not save him,
because he had trolled too far
past the boy. I cannot con
demn the trailers because
they are sporting people in
all fields of sports that have
the know how. I never did
have any luck in trolling, but
these experts in their type of
fishing are really good.
Oh, yes, the Savage Rapids
fish ladders are a disgrace to
the fish commission's educa
tion. One ladder turns back
and empties against the dam.
The other ladder on the high
way side, where the salmon
jump Into the white water
and bang themselves up even
to death. The tributary head
ing up to this ladder is about
200 feet back of the dam. The
flow of this water is some
times 2 Inches deep, other
times 6 inches deep, 6 inches
deep on week ends so as to
show the tourist the salmon.
It takes the world's greatest
ingenuity to find this small
inlet to the ladder. Salmon are
amazing!
A 13-year-old boy in Can
ada devised a fish ladder in
a dead river. Description of a
dead river-one in which the
salmon run has vanished. The
first year the boy put 21 sal
mon over the dam, four years
later 700 and some, five
years later 21,000 and was
still Increasing In the last re
port. While I am blowing my
O
Election -
Dreaded
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
As a new administration
takes over in Washington,
there also ends a period which
United States'
allies dread
and abhor.
It is that
period be
tween the No
vember elec-
J tions and in
augur ation
day, in which
the allies feel
that United
States policy drifts and that
major decisions are put off
while an old administration
waits to turn over leadership
to a new one.
To be sure, firm steps have
been taken in the last two
months.
The Eisenhower administra
tion moved to slow the flight
nf eold from the United
States.
It broke off relations with
the writer, although under
.
lid, I might as well talk about
two elective offices now,
which Hatfield wants to make
aDnointive. Let's make the
fish and game elective.
"A guy who wants his boys
to get in a little of Mark
Twain s fishing.
James C. Martin,
Route 1, Box 92F
Gold Hill, Ore.
Mice or Men
To the Editor: Proponents
of the county-built stadium
plan called for comments
both pro and con so here are
a few of mine.
One of their arguments for
this stadium was to provide a
centrally located stadium to
be used by all schools and
towns of the county including
Medford, Central Point, Eagle
Point, Phoenix, Talent, Jack
sonville and at least five or
six others, all having an equal
right to use the facility.
Now with the football
season confined to a relative
ly few week ends of the year,
a very interesting situation
arises. All doctors agree and
deplore the fact that spectator
sports provide the much need
ed exercise for a handful of
citizens on the playing field
but none for the spectators.
Now consider even six or
eight teams with their thou
sands of fans all converging
on the stadium some beautiful
Friday evening in the fall, all
intent on beating their arch
rivals. The ensuing battle for
possession of the stadium
should provide plenty of ex
ercise and make healthier
citizens among the survivors.
Baseball was also consider
ed for the summer months and
also chunks of money brought
in by professional football
teams practicing at the sta
dium - more conflict.
Four hundred thousand dol
lars of taxpayers' money was
thought to be enough at first
- but on TV Tuesday evening,
the planners surmised the
cost "might" go to $600,000
or so. From past experience
on these "plans" we would
have to cough up at least
twice this much or about
$1,200,000 before the "plan"
is completed.
We already have a beauti
ful white elephant on the fair
grounds - the armory - paid
for by taxpayers and used
relatively few times. Cost
figures on this structure
against income to date could
prove mighty interesting right
now. Many of our older and
retired citizens living on small
fixed incomes or even social
security cannot afford to have
their taxes drastically raised
to provide another white ele
phant for the county.
The county court is elected
and paid by the voters to
represent all the people of the
county, not a small pressure
group. Now we shall see if
they are mice or men.
M. J. Olsen.
v Route 4, Box 325
Medford.
One Less Mad Dog
To the Editor: After read
ing the grisly account of a
little girl brutally, needless
ly murdered in California this
week how can anyone still
stand for the abolishment of
capital punishments?
There is never any question
about an animal gone berserk.
He is done to death as quickly
as possible. But when man
runs amuck, the "do-gooders"
of this world rise to his de
fense. "Don't kill him. It
won't deter the next one,"
they say.
Very possibly true. How
ever, by Invoking the supreme
penalty at least one mad dog
can never strike at the inno
cent and helpless again.
Phyllis C. Blackstone
1620 East Main st.,
Medford.
Honest Pay
To the Editor:
There Is a
mm
Inauguration Hiatus
by U. S. Allies
Cuba and served stern warn
ing against any attempts by
the Castroites to export their
revolution to other Latin
American nations.
The United States has given
strong support to Communist
threatened Laos, even at the
risk of a shooting war.
But America's allies feel
that these were steps forced
by circumstances and do not
n e c e s sarily represent the
thinking of the new adminis
tration.
At the French Foreign Of
fice in Paris there is fear of
the consequences of the Uni
ted States, go-it-alone policy
in Laos. The French believe
that the absence of a united
policy there is just one more
opportunity for Nikiia
Khrushchev to drive a wedge
between the Western allies.
Nuclear Decision
NATO faces momentous de
cisions, among them one on
an American proposal that
NATO be armed with nuclear-
tipped Polaris missiles and
that NATO itself be made a
nuclear power.
But. while there is a dif
ference of opinion on the
merits of the proposal, no
firm decision can be taken
until the Kennedy administra
tion declares itself and Con
gress acts.
Inaueuration day in Wash-
Inwtnn sienals the start of
new diplomatic activity in
Western Europe, and meetings
carefully scheduled to take
present trend toward the idea
that veterans are getting more
than they deserve in pensions
and other benefits, which to
me is the opposite of the truth
of the matter. When one joins
any of the armed forces or
the U.S.A. he enters into a
most binding contract to go
any place in the world to kill
human beings, destroy their
property in their own home
land, or even in their own
homes while thousands of
miles from his own home, un
der conditions of heat, dust,
rain, mud, cold, snow and
frost bite, fear, hunger and
thirst, to name a few, See his
buddies killed, maimed and
blown to bits while wonder
ing if the next one will be
his.
Can anyone think of a serv
ice worthy of higher pay than
this?
Thousands of Veterans are
silently suffering deep, pain
ful emotional, and mental
wounds for which they have
received little or no compen
sation; while our Congress
men and other government of
ficials serve their country un
ripr most favorable conditions
in air conditioned offices, halls
and homes under best police
protection and handsome
salaries.
If we are beggars, then
what are politicians who
travel all over the country
spending much time and
money literally begging peo
ple to vote for them, and
promising more than they can
deliver.
Had we not done these
horrifying services, our Con
gressmen might not have a
big, powerful Uncle Sam to
serve for big pay.
All we want is honest pay
for our services.
Ellet Hitl,
3458 Bursell rd.,
Medford.
Lincoln Quoted
To the Editor: U. S. Rep.
George M. Rhodes of Penn
sylvania is a champion of the
Townsend Pension Plan. His
article appeared in a late copy
of the Townsend National
Courier of Washington, D. C.
According to Representative
Rhodes, on the "Americans tor
Constitutional Action" list of
members, only 122 of the 537
House and Senate are worthy
of support.
"This group speaks for only
a small handful who would
turn the clock back to the
19th century." "They have
plenty of financial backing,
but fortunately they under
estimate the intelligence of
the American voters."
Not a very high percentage
of first class diplomats, ac
cording to the ACA list. Abra
ham Lincoln, the 16th presi
dent, lived in much the same
atmosphere of reactionary
times.
Here are a few quotations
from Abe Lincoln's speeches,
lest we forget what the man
said, a century ago:
The Capitalists generally
act harmoniously, and in con
cert, to fleece the people" -Speech
in Illinois Legislature,
January, 1837.
'The love of property, ana
conscientiousness of right or
wrong, have conflicting places
in organization, which often
make a man's course seem
crooked, his conduct a riddle."
Speech Hartford, Conn.,
March 5, 18b0.
'Inasmuch as most tnings
are produced by labor, it fol
lows that all such things of
right belong to those whose
labor has producer! incm. -Notes
on Protection Dec. 1,
1847.
"The right of peaceable as
sembly and of petition, and
by Article Fifth of the Con
stitution, the right of amend-
place after the world learns
of President Kennedy s pol
icies. In Brussels there will be a
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
CHANGING THE GUARD
Washington - Put together
some things that mix very
oddly - or rather do not mix
at all - and you have that in
credible melange, which is
Washington in
iT7! the inaugural
Here ''there
is a dollar
grabbing so
deter mined
and graceless
as to carry
our good free
enterprise tra-
Whlte omon io a
point extreme enough to
shake the toughest free-enterpriser
who ever lived.
Here is a kind of feverish
climbing - social climbing
and political climbing - in
the face of which men and
women of taste have only two
possible sources: to grind the
tenth, which does no real
good; or to laugh aloud, which
is far from bad.
The hotel and car-hire peo
ple and so on are working
the visiting gold lode no less
industriously than did the
forty-niners a century and
more ago in California. And
no nonresident could readily
credit the volume of name
dropping that goes on, from
famous hostesses' tables down
to the ill-lit booths in frowsy
little beer taverns, about good
old Jack and good old Lyn
don. TlfESSRS. JOHN KENNEDY
and Lyndon Johnson, the
president-elect and vice president-elect,
have far more
friends now than they could
in reason have hoped to have.
They have also got an infiry
itely larger number of the
very closest of old pals than
they could possibly have sup
posed. Still, all this is only one
side of the medal, that side
which presents the worst of
our national characteristics.
(Though even to call them
"the worst" is not to say they
ought to be regarded as in
dictable crimes.)
There is the other side,
which shows the best that is
in us. For right along is the at
mosphere of the touring car-nival-where
the fast buck and
the fast "operation" are all
too valued-there is an aura of
the highest and most unsordid
of national purposes and
dreams.
rpHERE is a somber, steady
- sense of dedication for a
nation which must now re-
sume-and strengthen, if pos-
sible-its high mission as the
leader of that part of the
world which is free. For every
sucker who is "taken" on the
midway, in the way that is
our immemorial custom wher
ever large and careless
crowds may gather, there are
at least two sober and serious
Americans who see this as the
grandest passage in the Amer
ican public ritual.
This, to them, is our equiva
lent of a British coronation;
our time of cavalcade, when
our past marches by in re
view along with our present
and future; our hour of na
tional revival and national
reconciliation; our moment of
might and majesty, of hope
and glory.
So, this town is now in
one part a crazy, mixed-up
kid, gawking like a farm lad
who on his visit to the county
scat pops his eyes at the am
ple charms of the belly dancer
in front of the tent of some
dubious "repertory theater."
But the other and more real
and more important part of
this town is something else
altogether. It Is no kid, mixed
up or otherwise. It may be
seen as a man of adult mind
and muscle, standing with his
eyes gravely upon the future
of a whole people, a whole
nation, and half a world.
TT IS only on these rare oc
casions of a presidential in
auguration that we can see
plainly the rich mixture of
our country - its possibly
ment is the constitutional sub
stitute for (armed) revolu
tion." -Letter to A. H. Ste
vens, Jan. 19. 1859.
"This country, with its in
stitutions, belongs to the peo
ple who Inhabit it. Whenever
they shall grow weary of the
existing government they can
exercise their constitutional
right to amending it, or their
revolutionary right to dismem
ber or overthrow it." -First
Inaugural address, March 4.
1861.
"You can fool some of the
people all the time; you can
fool all the people some of
the lime, but you cannot fool
all the people all the time." -September
8, 1858.
Bert Kissinger .
520 Boardman St.
Medford. o 0
meeting for foreign ministers
from France, Italy, West Ger.
many, Belgium, the Nether
lands and Luxembourg.
President Charles de Gaulln
of France and British Prims
Minister Harold Macmillan
have a meeting scheduled, and
so do De Gaulle and Konrarl
Adenauer of West Germany.
S. WHITE
"bad" and certainly crude
side; its undoubtedly good and
profoundly responsible side,
that side which, as the old
saying truthfully goes, is ad.
er all the hope of this earth.
We ought, then, to sense
the depth of our good fortune,
as well as the weight of our
obligations and the sharpness
of our problems. For the
great changing of the guard
-farewell to Eisenhower, hail
to Kennedy - goes forward
with a lofty essential decency
which nothing can obscufe.
The old president ' exists
with honor and the people's
affection; the new president
enters with generosity and
the people's hopes and good
will.
(Copyright,' 1961, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk some more today
about Ike's budget for the
1962 fiscal year.
It's a political clay pigeon
to be shot at, ofcourse. It
won't stand, as is, or anywhere
near as is. Present prospects
are that when the returns are
all In what will be spent in
the 1962 fiscal year (which
will begin on July 1, 1961,
and end on June 30, 1962)
will be MORE than the 80.9
billions Ike suggests, rather
than less.
A SUM of that size is1 prac
tically beyond imagina
tion. It's hard enough to imag
ine a billion dollars, not to
mention nearly 81 billion. So
let's see if we can break it
down a little.
The statisticians tell us that
Mr. Average Citizen's share
of the 80.9 billion dollar
spending budget will bn
$436.83. That will be your
share as an INDIVIDUAL. If
you are the head of an aver-,
age family of four, your share
will be $1,747.32.
Forget the odd 32 cents and
call it $1,747. ... or round
it out and call it $1,750, That's
quite a chunk to take out ot
your income to pay your FED
ERAL taxes. You'll have to
pay your stale and local taxes
in addition.
DUT
- You will say
"I won't have to pay that
much." Not in cash, in one
lump, maybe. But don't fool
yourself. Taxes are added to
the cost of doing business and
so have to be added to prices.
You'll pay your share.
SO MUCH for the total. Let's
get down to some individ
ual items.
Of Mr. Average Family
Man's share of $1,747.32, na
tional security spending will
take the biggest bite - 57
cents out of every dollar, or
a total of $997.57.
That, of course, is reason
able enough. National securi
ty is more important than
anything else. It is more im
portant than EVERYTHING
else. If we don't have nation
al security, we won't have
anything.
(TtHIS one will surprise you!
The next biggest bile to
be taken out of Mr. Average
Family Man's $1,747.32 wilt
be INTEREST on the national
debt. It will take 11 cents
out of every dollar you pay
in federal taxes - or a toial
of $192.20. That's money paid
for a dead horse. It's what
YOU OWE every year for
what has"been put on the cuff
It will keep getting bigger as
MORE is put on the cuff.
INTEREST on the national
debt - meaning what has
been put on the cuff - costs a
total of about 8.9 billion dol
lars every year.
That's more than it cost to
run the whole federal govern
ment a generation ago.
TjMNAL question:
Why do we go on spend
ing so much?
The answer is quite simple
The politicians think that's
what YOU want. As long a.
(he politicians think reckless
spending is what the voter.'
want, they will go on spend
ing recklessly - because they
will continue to think spend
ing is what it takes to get
votes.
If the time ever comes when
the politicians get around to
thinking the people DON T
want reckless spending, the
spending will be reduced.
But not until then.
OFFICIALS GO TO JAIL
Chicago -ll'Pli- Voters witl
a yen to see city officials be
hind bars can visit suburban
Homewood Saturday. AI
available local officials thcri
will remain behind bars unti
enough "bail" is raised for l!v
1961 March of Dimes.
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