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THURSDAY, SEPT. 30, 1943 PAGE FOUR The News-Journal yXNonh Carolina v XPMSSASiOCIAIlON Jj Telephone 3521 Published Every Thursday at RAEFORD, N. C. Subscription Rates: $2.00 per year (In Advance) DOl'GALD COXE, Editor-Manager Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Raeford, N. C, under Act of March 3, 1870. 5704 Rosh Hashana 1943 To our fellow-citizens Israel Mann and hi family, the Epsteins and to all Jewish people we extend greetings on this their New Year's Day of 5704. As a race, the hardships of this war have been pecu liarly bitter lor you, because you have been especially selected for cruel victimizing by the vultures of Berlin since the beast of Berchtesgarten began his rise to pow- As this year grows older and the Allied powers wreak permanent destruction upon Nazism and drive its leaders from the earth, we trust and hope and pray with you that the end of this conflict will see also the end of vicious racial prejudice and bring to all of us a better understanding of each other. O A New Battle On An Old Battleground Now, it's the doctors and their profession, the hos pitals and the druggists and allied interests who are about to feel the ax of the American Axists the so called progressives of the New Deal. The social planners of the Rooseveltian regime now want this country to have socialized medicine and government-operated hospitals. This is another step in the conquest of the Democracy of the United States and their effort to Communize the one great independent Republic. First it was the holding companies. This group of financial structures were a popular figure for any poli tician to attack. In particular, they sought destruction of the power companies. One of the greatest elements m the contribution in the building up of this country, all were condemned as anti-social because they made, money. Then industry itself in all its branches was attacked. Too great to whip into the O K of government control at one fell swoop, it was denied the right to control its workers through a labor control law that denies indus try the right of hearing in its quasi-judicial courts, and puts it under so many different bureaucratic control units that it is at loss where to turn. Then the Federal Communications, Commission was created to control radio, the telephone and telegraph companies and to curb the power of free speech. Under the exigencies of the war, job-holding and control of workers and employment have been taken over by a government employment bureau. Thousands of other edicts have been handed down, under exisiting carte-blanche powers given the various agencies under the acts that have established these bureaus. Social security was born and has operated now some eight years. But the bureaucrats have been busy plan ning how to extend its control to every citizen, instead of just a few millions of workers. Since the medical profession and its practicies were so closely allied with social welfare, the master minds have hit upon a gigantic plan that would include ev erybody in the United States at one time and deliver a death blow to one of the greatest and most constructive organizations of independent professional men an organization that would be completely under politi cal control and no longer a bar to advanced steps in the way to further "social" progress. This time they plan to put the benefits of social se curity in the hands of every person of the country, and to eliminate the physician, the surgeon and the local hospital as a free agent. Thus, one by one, the free agencies are being bereft of their independence. Even as Hitler planned to take one country after another and conquer Europe, so the New Deal Planners have attacked one thing at a time, robbing it of its independent status and placed its life at the mercy of the Bureaucrats. Last Thursday evening Dr. Roscoe D. McMillan, phy sician of Red Springs and secretary oi the North Car olina Medical Society, presented some astonishing facts and astronomical figures to the Raeford Kiwanis Club as a part of his forceful address in which he vigorously opposed the passage of the new social security laws now before Congress as another Wagner act. . This Wagner is a rather powerful Senator from New York, and a semi-official White House spokesman. He was accredited with much of the NRA laws: his labor act now in effect was a revolutionary step that has been both cursed and praised by both labor and industry and now he wants to abolish the democratic ways of our medical practice and hospital operation and add this as a special service of his already-operating system of Social Security. He stands very close to the New Deal administrative group and also has a strong power in Congress. He has been able to cram and force many controversial issues into the legislative mill which have come out as the law of the land. Without a determined stand against his new law on the part of the people, this inclusive and extensive bill may soon become law. We have one of the finest systems of medicinal care in the entire world. We have an aggressive and pro gressive group of medical men. Great have been the advances in this science through their independent ef forts. Stimulated by an incentive of freedom they have far surpassed the accomplishment of this same pro fession in all other countries. And the spot is indeed 'remote in this country that immediate and adequate tnedical service is not available to the rich and poor alike. . But Wagner and the left-wing planners of Washing ton are willing to undermine and actually destroy the incentive of further advance if they can bring this in-' 'dependent group under the control of -a btich of incom petent lame-ducks and untrained job-holders who think t case of pneumonia can be cured if they send the pa tient enough questionaires and government forms to fill out, or an appendectomy performed simply by a guy with a flock of red-tape. Under the Wagner bill now in process of committee hearings, the operation of this medical service (includ ing the hiring of doctors, nurses, operation of all hos pital, dispensaries and drug selling places, county health departments and state-owned institutions for chronic and mental diseases yes, all this and your old age pension, too ) will be entirely controlled by Fed eral workers under the Surgeon General of the United States. They want a total of seven SEVEN Billion Dollars. And that is to come out of the pay envelopes of each and every worker, and the salaries or incomes of all professional men. Seven per cent of all income up to $3,000 per year except from government work ers, who will be asked for only 3 1-2 per cent. Every laboring man, every man or woman on a sal ary, now knows of the weekly subtraction of the 1 each week. That's to be multiplied seven times, under the new act and the employer will put up a like amount for his share. You ask why? Why should this law come up now? Read the article on this page entitled: Don't Blame the Bureaucrats! In this article Congressman Hatton W. Summers, the philosopher of the Capital, explains how the greedy and power-mad bureaucrats seek to control every pos sible function of life and death of all the inhabitants of this one-time Democracy. He points out that we, as a governed people, have failed to live up to our obligations as citizens. We have been unwilling to work out the solutions to our local problems in our own states. He says that we have just pushed these problems up to Washington, and the so called "Progressives" of the adminnstration have wil lingly relieved us of them. This is what happened in Germany, in Italy and Russia. This sort of thing leads to total itarianism. Yes, we are headed toward state socialism and we have gone quickly down the way, without realizing that was the place we were headed. So, it's not just the Socialized Medicine and the ex tended social security bill that we must work to defeat. Its defeat will be a step in the right direction for re gaining our independence lost to the bureaucrats but only a step. Our sovereign states must seek to regain those rights which we have surrendered to our Federal government. A new battle must be fought on the old battleground, an historic site that has been the scene of practically all the really important Democratic struggles in this country since Washington and Jefferson and Adams, and through the days of Jackson and Lincoln and Johnson. If the people really want statism, or socialism or Fa cism or Nazism, (it stinks just as badly under the op probrious term New Deal). They will not be willing to give of themselves to the fight. But, if we are a peo ple who truly want to live in a land where all the true freedoms are guaranteed by the laws as well as the Constitution, we will see that we return to a simpler form of government rather than become more and more involved in the intricacies of greater and greater bu reaus that will more closely regulate the daily lives of each of us. Though there may be some elements in each of these advances that are of value, if the New Deal is to attack each of our time-honored institutions Qne by one, then the New Deal must be fought back at in each of these attempts, or soon more of our Constitutional rights will be but the empty dreams of a Jefferson who must have foreseen that evil days would come to us and that re formers would try to upr ot the foundation stones of the Republic. O Uncovering Undercover Work (Richmond County Journal) An appalling revelation of bureaucratic abuse has been reported in the Congressional Record at the in--stance of United States Senator Bridges. It is an ac count of the activities of the Federal Power Commis sion, under the chairmanship of Leland Olds, former writer for the official daily newspaper of the commu nist Party, the Daily Worker. The authority of the Federal Power Commission, one of the most powerful government agencies, vested with far-reaching control over the electric utility industry, has been used in deliberate attempts to promote na tional socialism in the United States. Most flagrant example cited by Senator Bridges centered on the elec tric power requirements of a new government alumi num plant in Arkansas. A group of the principal pri vate electric companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, formed the Southwest Power Pool to furnish electricity -to the plant. Rates were es tablished under state regulation, and adequate electric power was made available through interconnection. But at the demand of the FPC, and against the ad vice of the Army and Navy Munitions Board, millions of pounds of copper critically needed in the war effort were used to build a duplicating power line from a gov ernment dam 200 miles away. In addition, the Com mission proceeded to hold a hearing as to the "proprie ty" of the state regulated rates of the private companies which had been finally permitted to supply a part of the energy needed by the aluminum plant. Reporters termed the hearing a French Inquisition. State utility commissions considered it an inexcusable invasion of states' rights. Obviouly the Federal Power Commission was determined to extend public ownership, regardless of cost or infringement on local authority. It seems inconceivable that a powerful agency of government, established to serv e all the people, could be warped into an instrument of prejudice seeking to destroy our institutions and utilimately our form of government. And yet Senator Bridges reveals with frightening clarity that it has been done. O Can it be possible that the German people still have faith in Goering. Less than a year ago he told them: "The German soldier cannot be driven out from where he stands." What about Russia, and Egypt, and Tuni sia, and Sicily, and Sardinia? Charlotte Observer. O One political prognosticator says Roosevelt has his eye on 1944 because November that year has five Thursdays, a good year for two Thanksgivings. Christian-Science Monetor. -O Americans whs helped the Axis revealed how little they thought of themselves. They all sold out for chickenfeed. -Robert Qui lien. Don't Blame the Bureaucrat! by HATTON W. SUMNERS Distinguished Member of House of Representative from Ttxn$. TE Ml believe In democracy ' ' democracy operated through representative government. Why Is it, then, that In a land where everybody proclaims his devotion to it, representative government Is withering before our eyes? The bureaucrat Is blamed for this. But he Is not the cause. He is the effect. The seat of the trouble lies far deeper. Our whole political system Is based on the principle of local self- government. But two forces have been destroying this principle. One Is the demand of the people for the federal government to In tervene In problems of every com munity and every clan. The "her is the ever-growing practice of passing all these problems on to the government in Washington. The last war gave this a big push. The postwar dislocation, hurried It. The fireat Depression raised It to av; lanche proportions. The pres ent war Is completing the job. Evi ry town and state, every trade association and trade union, every cla.- s Hml group and desperate mi nor!'? brines Its problems te Ws-hinirton. And Washington Is glaiily acreptlng that responsibil ity. E-.it Consross Is made up solely of n -re human beings. And Nature has not endowed any group of nun an beings with the sweep and ?:asp of Intelligence necessary to h-uidle the multitude of federal and local problems dumped upon U ishington. Not being able to handle the im P iKsible burden Itself, Congress of necessity creates bureaus and passes on the overload to the bureaucrats. By bureaucrats I do not mean those government em plo;s once called "civil servants" because they were employed to "serve" the government and ex ecute the laws of Congress. I re fer to the bureau chief and his squadrons of counselors and econ omics and specialists. I am not criticizing them but' the system. They Issue what are called "di rectives," which actually have the force of law. One bureaucrat in the Securities and Kxehantte Com mission said recently: "We do moke the law. This order super sedes any laws opposed to It." Actually the bulk of what In effect are our general laws are now being made not by Congress but by bu reaucracies. This Is not a new thing. It was under way 30 years ago when I entered Congress. I made a speech In the House warning of It In 1923 and again In 1932. I am not dis cussing the concentration of fed laws shall be enacted by repre sentatives of the people, and that all sides have a hearing. But laws enscted by bureancrats are fash ioned behind closed doors. The real author Is not known to the people. He la appointed, not elected. Gen erally the Irst the public knows of his directives Is when they are proclaimed. The law, once thus announced, Is subject to frequent and sometimes capricious amend ment. The bureau enacts it. en forces It and sits as Judge in In terpreting It Most of these Im perial bureaus ara provided with tribunals equipped as courts and recognise a multitudinous bar which practices before them. It Is not easy to get a law passed by Congress. But the bureaucrat can toss off a directive while yon wait. The very facility with which he legislates encourages the multi plicity of laws. The fact that he does not have to face a constit uency mikes him Irresponsible to the people In the performance of this, the highest function of sov ereignty. The promoters of centralisation are more and more resorting to the exercise of another unlimited power against which no constitu tional barrier will ever stand: the control of the purse strings. By making the units of state govern- ent financially dependent on the federal government, that govern ment Is srquirlng the power to control the units of state govern ment When this Is fully consum mated, the sovereignty of the state governments will be liquidated. This lob will nave oeen oone with money sent by Wsehlngton In the form of loans and gifts to states, towns, school districts, In dividual cltisens. This money has served to attach all these Inter ests directly to the central gov ernment and make them subject to Its power. Rut we are approaching tne aay of reckoning. Up to now Wash lneton has been borrowing money and scattering it among the states. I do not refer to war activities but to ordinary current government activities. The federal government, long before the preparation for this war, was mortgaging the tax paying ability of future genera tions to pay current expenses. The taxes to service these vast fed eral operations and pay the In terest on the debt must come out of the same pockets frbm which the states and cities must collect their funds. The federal govern ment has first call on these funds. We are therefore moving rapidly toward a condition where there will not be enoueh left to run the eral power which has been made In order to fight the war. The states. present picture Is merely the nat-1 In weakening the states we Ural development of our policies weaken the whole fabric of free over several decades. It is a pro- j government. The inescapable price cedure as old as tyranny. But It i of free government Is that we ex cannot exist In a democracy, be- erclse it. The most destructive cause where it exists government force in the world hi nonuse. If Inescapably ceases to be a de- v.e do not use our powers of self mocracy. government in the states we will The essence of democracy is that awake one day to And that self- Reprinted from The Reoder"! Digest government has passed Irrevocably out of our hands. Government Is exercised beat la the local community. There the problems are perceived with greater clarity because they are close to the people and on a scale within their grasp. The self-re-llance of the Individual, town and state Is being destroyed as they are being relieved of the necessity of governing themselves. When people stop thinking for them selves there Is always someone willing to step forward and do their thinking for them. What shall we do about ItT Change bureaucrats? Consolidate bureaus T Abolish bureaus and turn the whole Intolerable load back te Congress? None of these make shifts touches the real problem. It Is tolly to talk about abolishing bureaus as long as we continue to file on the central government the problem of every state and town and social group In the na tion. The men who are trying to drive us toward government by bureaucracy understand this. The chief adviser of the National Re sources Planning Board, recently abolished by Congress, prophesies crisply: Congress will surrender to the Administration the power to tax. . . . Congress will appropriate huge sums of money; will sur render Its power of directing when and bow the money will be spent. Other extraordinary powers, such as to effect great social re forms, will be delegated to the ; Administration, which will retain ; most. It not all, of Its wartime powers. This Is precisely the bureau- - cratlc control we will have if we persist in making Washington the guide, philosopher, big brother, supervisor and master of every ac tivity within our borders. The rem edy and the only remedy la to send all these nonfederal func tions back wbere they belong: to the states and the local communi ties, where they can be bandied upon a scale within the compre hension of the limited mind of man. Strangely, those In Washington , who light for this new bureau- j cratlc central control call them- ' selves progressives and those who oppose them are branded as reac tionaries. Such is tbe power of labels. We are grasping at ancient evils, and call them progress. This disease has been most de vastating in Germany. In Imperial Germany men already talked of the "tyranny of bureaucracy." The republican government which suc ceeded ' the Kaiser greatly ex panded It. It reached Its full flower under Hitler. Indeed, Na tional Socialism may be described as government by bureaucracy. If we think Hitler's system Is better than ours we should have the hon esty to say so instead of copying while we denounce it. Tbe states must resume the status of responsible sovereign agencies of general government or democracy cannot live In America. School News continued from page one A. M. At this time bus routes as mapped by the State Board of Edu cation Bus Route Engineer will be passed upen. Teachers Meet The first county-wide teachers' meeting was held last Friday even ing. Rev. H. K. Holland held the de votional exercises. President Horace Sisk of the North Carolina Education Association who was to have ad dressed the meeting was prevented from attending by illness. Routine business was attended to. The Hoke Co. Unit of the N. C. E. A. held a short meeting, presided over by V. R. White, president of the local unit. Miss Blanche Fisher of the Hoke High faculty was elected secretary treasurer to take the place of Miss Archie McPhaul of the Antioch fac ulty who is teaching, this year in Red Springs. Miss Margaret McKenzie was un animously endorsed and nominated by the locay unit for the position of secretary-treasurer of the south eastern district of the N. C. E. A. Ashemont P. T. A. The Ashemont P. T. A. will meet at the Ashemont school Friday evening Oct. 1, at 8:00. Mrs. Tom Sinclair presiding. At the meeting a decision will be made as to the operation of the school lunch room. Rockfish P. T. A. The Rockfish P. T. A. met last night at the Rockfish s. hool. A decision wag made regardirj the operation of the school lunch room. Mildouson P. T. A. ' The Mildouson P. T. A. will hold its first meeting of the year on next Tuesday evening, Oct. 5, at 8:00. Mrs. Jesse Gibson, president presiding. This will be an important meeting as a decision will be made regarding the running of the lunch room. Leaders Discuss Grazing Crops In a meeting Monday night of Neighborhood leaders of the Dundar rach Community, A. S. Knowles, county agent, and E. Y. Floyd of the Plant Food Institute stressed the im portance of planting small grain for winter and spring grazing. It was brought out during the discussion that many farmers in that section as well as other sections of the county would be short on hay and possibly grain. It was decided that every farmer with poultry or other livestock should plant extra small grain for grazing in order to make the hay and grain stretch as far as possible. It was pointed out by Mr. Knowles and Mr. Floyd that a good grazing crop would save from 10 to 20 per cent of the nor mal grain feed. The planting of oats and barley or mixtures for early hay was decided on for these farmers short of roughage. The feed situation has become cri tical during the past few months be cause of the rapid increase in live stock and poultry along with some what less feed production. Small grain and winter legumes offer the best and quickest solution to these shortages. Seeding Recommendations Plant oats and barley during Octo ber at the rate of 2 1-2 bushels of oats and 1 1-4 bushels of barley per acre. A mixture of 2 bushels of oats and 1 bushel of barley will also make a good grazing crop. To these seed ings could be added 10 pounds of crimson clover or vetch or 20 pounds of Austrian Winter peas for grazing or hay. Under a new phase of the AAA pro gram most farmers will be eligible for additional free conservation material. By applying lime and phosphate to the land at seeding time, the livestock can get more and better nutritious feed. All small grain seed should be treated with ceresan and all winter legume seed should be inoculated with correct bacteria. INGATHERINGS Churches holding annual in gatherings are invited to list the date for their event No charge is made by the News-Journal for this service. The notice will be pub lished each week until the Ingath ering is held. i O Sandy Grove Church f The annual Ingathering at Sandy Grove Methodist Church will be held October 14. A barbecue dinner will be served. Antioch Ingathering To Be October 14 Ingathering Day at Antioch Pres byterian church has been set for Oc tober 14th. Services will be held in the church at 1 1 A. M. o'cloch. Dinner will be served, and a good dinner it'll be, OPA or no. The com mittee announces that there will be no regular charge for the dinner and a free-will offering will be taken instead.- The colorful bazaar, which annual ly attracts hundreds of people, will feature quilts, fancy work, home-made cakes, eggs, etc. Also, there will be the usual auction of cotton and the other farm products all of which is expected to attract all of the old friends and a lot of new ones to this popular event. Bonds of Victory . . . buy 'em! Ephesus Lord's-Acre Sale Oct. 6th The ingathering of Ephesus Baptist Church w ill be held Wednesday, Oc tober 6th, on the church grounds. Th church is located about 6 miles east of Raeford. Rev. A. W. Booker is pas tor and Mrs. W. S. Crawley is chair man ef the Ingathering Committee. Bethel Day, Oct. 21 The ingathering for the Bethel con gregation will be held at the Bethel Community house this year, on Octo ber 2; it was announced yesterday by F.yan McBryde.
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