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MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREQCN Your Honey's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Cepyrif k, Hall SwalkM. Inc. 'FLAGELLATION OF THE BOOKKEEPERS Congress has completed the spring rite of "flagellation of the booKKeepers," tne U.S. Treasury now has permission to borrow money to pay tne bills Congress itself has run ud. en "unthinkable" national financial crisis has been averted at literally the last minute, and the mess won't become front page news again until August To put it in financial terms: Congress has voted to hike the ceiling on the public debt from a strangling $305 billion to $307 billion until July and to $309 billion between July 1 and Aug. 31. Had Congress not done this a week ago, the public debt could have pierced the ceiling last Friday, and technically, part of our government's debt might have become illegal. Had this occurred, it is conceivalbe that the legality of some of this nation's I.O.Uj could have been successfully chal lenged in the courts and chaos might have resulted. Even "Mr. Debt Limit" himself Virginia's Democratic Senator Byrd admits this. As a lid on U.S. Government spending, the debt ceiling has been an monumental failure since it was initially placed at $28 billion in 1918. With minor interruptions, it has gone up and up and the all-time record of $309 billion won't stand long either. The ceiling must be raised by many billions more in late summer. As Treasury Secretary Dillon cried out when he was pleading with the lawmakers to raise the limit on time, "let no one labor under the delusion that the debt ceiling is either a sane or effective instrument for control of fed eral expenditures . . ." Yes, and let no one hide from these realities: It is in administration which propose, th U. S. go rnment budget, and it is in th White House that most spending programs originate. It is Congress which votes the spending which has swelled our budget to th bggeit ever. Congress and Con gress alone has the power to say "yes" or "no" to the spending programs. It is the state of the U.S. economy which basically de termines whether taxes collected on our paychecks and profits will be sufficient to cover the spending programs Congress votes. It is the Treasury which raises the money to finance the approved programs. If our paychecks and profits produce enough tax income to cover the outgo, all the "bookkeepers" need do is use the tax money to pay the bills. If our pay checks and profits do not produce enough tax income to cover the outgo, the bookkeepers must borrow the funds and thereby increase the national debt. There are no other alternatives. The debt ceiling is a traditional symbol of restraint on government spending. It does compel the country to face up to the extent to which government spending is exceeding income and thus is forcing borrowing which raises the debt, but it does not limit the spending. There isn't a Congressman who doesn't know that if he wants to curb the rise in the national debt, he can do so via his votes on spending pro grams and taxes. There isn't a Congressman who doesn't know that, if his votes create a deficit in the budget, the Treasury must borrow to finance it and boost the debt. There isn't a Congressman who doesn't know that when he votes against a boost in the debt limit made imperative by his own actions, he is just indulging in "flagellation of the bookkeepers." Here's the record of debt ceilings under the GOP ad ministration of Eisenhower and the Democratic administra tion of Kennedy to date. In billions. Year President Permanent Ceiling $275 $275 $283 $285 $285 $285 $285 $285 $285 $285 Two Wheel Safety In City Of Cycles Ceiling ' 1955 1356 1358 1353 1380 1961 1962 1962 1963 1963 Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisenhower Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy "Temporary' $281 $278 $288 $295 $293 $298 $300 $308 $307-$309 $315-$320? Private Financing Builds Housing Buenos Aires - (UPD - A mid-, die -income apartment house project, financed jointly by the Argentine Government and U.S. private investors, was dedicated here recently. ; It was reported to be the first housing development to . be built with outside private r capital in Argentina since the ; atart of the Alliance for Prog ;? ress Latin American aid pro i gram. jj Thirty -five buildings con s' taining 1,050 apartments, landscaped and grouped 't around a central plaza, are scheduled for completion in 18 months. Nearoy, on mc western outskirts of Buenos Aires, a housing development -..:u o inn hnmM t tn he built W1U1 U,UUU .iv.'.v by the same firm COVIFAM (Constructor de vivienoas Familiares.) Shares in COVIFAM are kAu v.r All stati Pronerties. Inc.. which has constructed living units in New York, Baltimore, Washington and Miami, the American Interna linns i Hnnsinff Corporation, private Argentine investors and the Argentine govern ment. More than 1,000 persons at tended the dedication cere monies marking completion of ho first sn-annrtment unit. niortne Aires Mnvor Alber to Prebisch said in a dedica tion speech that a nousing ehnrtaoa urRR On Ot the City'S greatest problems and that it was "good" to see a building actually completed to meet tha cVtirtatTA Jerome W o 1 k, executive Radio Heyday Duo Return in Series Kniv Ynrlc - (UPD - An as sociation dating back to the heyday of radio will be re stahlishpH in television when comedy writer Don Quinn be comes story consultant on Paul Kenning' new series which will star Bea Benaderet on CBS-TV in the fall. Quinn gave Henning his start in radio by hiring him for writing assignments on the Fibber McGee and Xfnllv" rariin shows back in 1937. Henning is creator, writ nfwliirr of the DODU' lar R.v-rlv Hillbillies" video series, in which Miss Benaderet is one of the prin cipals. I vice president of All State Properties, said that "even with current difficulties," COVIFAM planned to con tinue work on the housing project. Tourist Trade High lii Austria Vienna - (UPD - Austria takes great pride in its tourist op-portunities-and well it might. Foreign tourist trade ac counted for 19 per cent of the Austrian income last year and covered 97 - per cent of her chronic foreign trade deficit. The country's three greatest festivals are among the major attractions. From mid-May to June 18, the Vienna festival offers con certs, operas and special open- air events throughout the city. The Western province of Vorarlberg hosts the Bregenz festival from July 18 to Aug, 19 with operettas and ballets on the floating stage of Lake Constance. , One of the most famous music festivals in the world is held at Mozart's birth place, Salzburg, from July 28 to Aug. 31. The event includes opera, drama, chamber music, and orchestra and solo per formances by such well- known artists as Herbert von Karajan, Elizabeth Schwarz kopf and Nathan Milstein. Vienna itself is the out standing draw. The capital is still as full of me, -gemuei-lichkeit" (an untranslat able word meaning an enjoyable atmosphere) and song as it was under the Hapsburg em pire, though it lies only 40 miles from the Iron Curtain. Even In the summer months, when the theaters and operas close and the Viennese take their vacation there is still enough to see and do. There are excellent res taurants, ("weiner schnitzl "Knoedel'' dumplings . . . "), outdoor concerts and mu Mums . STARTED IN WEST Tulsa, Okla. UTS Singer Patti Page started her profes sional career on a country and western music show broadcast by a Tulsa radio station. One of her first big hiU was "Tennessee Waltz." Try and Stop Mo -By BENNETT CERF- HARPO MARX once went down to the Pasadena railroad Stat;. in tn ru . .l.n.rl1ins frion4 . . k. f . He was engaging in some characteristic clowning on the nlatfnrm wk.n km mIi'u two prissy old ladies eaz. ins at him with undis guised horror from the diner of the train his friend was hoarding im pulsively, Harpo jumped aboard, rushed un tn the women's table, sprinkled salt on their menu and gulped it down. The women did not re act as he expected. One of them calmly summon ed the steward and com manded. "Kinrtlv siv nc another menu. This person has eaten ours." The Irascible head man in a big industrial combine has a per sonal secretary who is invaluable but also is an inveterate stut terer. This failing often drives the head man to distraction. One morning he exploded, "Tompkins, I've just conceived a wonderful plan to cure your stuttering." "W-w-wh&t is it?" asked the secretary eagerly. The head man snapped, "Just keep that big mouth of yours shut!" How true," sighed George Jessel the other evening, "that be hind every successful man there stands a woman with her attorney." OVERHEARD: At Penn Station: "It's thirty years today since my wife setl she hasn't shut it since." 1 her trap for me and O lsst, by Bennett Ce liatributed bjr Xing Features Sradlcate Homestead, Fla. - IUPD - This Florida city is known as the city of bicycles" and that is not a misnomer, consider ing one in every three vehicles on its streets is a bike. But more than being an important place for bicycle usage, it is a pace-setter in bicycle safety. Drive down any number of streets in this Miami-area community and you see bright blue, rectangular signs along the roadway. "Bicycle Safety Route," they read. The unique signs went up early this year to designate special streets where bicycl ists - children and adults alike - can ride with relative ly greater safety than on more heavily traveled, higher-speed traffic arteries. The bicycle boulevards, for the most part, parallel main streets. They lead to impor tant commercial and recrea tion areas and connect resi dential areas with schools and playgrounds. Bicycle Safety Plan rne nrst-in-tne-nation bi cycle safety plan was plan ned, promoted and financed by the Taul Dudley White Bi cycle Club of Homestead. The organization hopes ultimately to have bicycle streets from which automobiles are bar red altogether but it behves the present program is an im portant first step. The idea behind the bicycle safety route signs was to mark safe routes, but city officials noted a curious side effect; motorists drive slower along streets posted with the signs, although they are un der no legal compulsion to do so (except normal speed limits). On the day the safety signs were put up, route maps and explanatory memos were dis tributed to every grade and junior high school student in Homestead, where mere than 800 children ride bikes to school each day. A member of the Homestead police de partment visited each class room to give a short talk about the signs and bicycle safety in general. Promote Sign Idea With Mr. and Mrs. George Fiohter providing much of the push, the Bicycle Club promoted the safety sign idea and won support of numer ous individuals and civic or ganizations. The city council approved the idea and 300 signs were ordered through the Dade County Traffic En gineering Division (not at public expense). The more than $1,000 cost for prepara tion and installation of the signs was raised in a variety of ways by the Bicycle Club and the Homestead Chamber of Commerce. The Bljycle Club is follow- ing up the sign project with a massive bicycle satety eau cation campaign and, with po lice department cooperation, Homestead soon will have a system of bicycle inspection ana registration. Prevent Accidents Homestead Mayor Richard J. Conley is convinced motor ists are taking the signs ser iously and ultimately they may prevent a number of ac cidents. "The short message on each sign tells a big story," he said. Writing to the sponsors of the program, Police chief Wll- Ham S. Gillespie said this: A program of this type has been sorely needed in Home stead, indeed, in every city. . . As a police officer, and as the father of two children, it is my pleasure, and my duty, to pledge my wholehearted sup port." . School Students Are Juvenile Diplomats Kansas City, Mo. - (UPD -Five hundred thousand ele mentary and high school stu dents have become personal diplomats for their nations during the past school year, reports People-to-People. That's the number of youngsters In 47 states and 60 foreign countries who are par ticipating in the organization's School and Classroom Pro gram which matches class rooms in the United States with counterparts abroad. The classes exchange letters, scrap- books, tape recordings and school projects. Hostels Might Spur Travel Front Abroad By ED. F. O'CONNOR Jr. Beverly Hills, Calif.-IUPD. - America's best ambassadors are foreigners who return home after a visit to the Unit ed States, according to a man who should know. The man is Antony J. Stute, vice president of Augustea In ternational, Inc., a foreigner himself - but not for long. Born in England of Ameri can parents and soon to be come an American citizen. Stute has made an intensive study of world travel for his firm, which operates 1,200 motor coaches (buses) In Eu rope. "The best ambassadors for America are people who have been here," Stute said. "If you could expose more Europeans to American efficiency it might wake them up, by the contrast to the fact, that their system is antiquated." He said the average Europ ean has an exaggerated fear of cost about coming to the United States. "Europeans definitely have the idea that everything in the United States is abnormally high priced," he said. "The average European traveler is a shopkeeper or a retailer in the middle-income bracket. He's shrewd. He wants the most he can get for his mon ey. "We sell Europe to Amer icans for $14 or $15 a day, in cluding transportation, meals, sightseeing and first class ho tels. The equivalent cost to see America would be about 50 per cent higher." Stute said things have been improving since 1962, when the U.S. government launched a Visit the U.S.A. campaign and made it easier for foreign tourists to come here by eas ing restrictions. But one phase of It drew near ridicule from the Europ ean press and seasoned Euro pean travelers, Stute said. "With true American en thusiasm, but with little fi nesse, the campaign was launched," he said. "It was good. But it was overdone by saying visitors could see Am erica on $5 a day." Stute noted that America's facilities are superb. 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