Friday, April 13, 1973
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
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CONGRESSMAN WALTER B. JONES
This office has received many
ietters from my friends in the
First District urging support of
the President’s efforts to
balance the budget.
I am convinced that the
majority of the Members of
Congress are equally concerned
about inflation and excessive
federal spending; but it
becomes a question of
priorities—where should the
savings be initiated?
A point in question was the
Presidential veto a few days
ago of the Vocational
Rehabilitation Act providing
funds for research and treat
ment for approximately 10
million handicapped people in
this country.
In any event, the Senate
upheld Ute Presidential veto,
and I would not suggest that the
leadership of the Congress
confer with the President to
reach a compromise which will
continue some of these im
portant programs for our
disabled.
Also last week, the President
vetoed the Rural Water and
Sewerage program which
authorized $300 million for a
period of three years, or $100
miUion per year.
In view of the many small
communities which are
dependent upon federal grants
as well as loans to provide pure
water and adequate sewerage
for our rural citizens, I did not
think this amount excessive—
especially in view of this Ad
ministration’s promises to
make rural life tetter in order
to stop the out migration from
the farms to Jhe cities. And
there is nothing as important
for rural development ^n an
adequate supply of water and
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In House action last week, by
a vote of 317 to 92, approval was
given to a new Rural Elec
trification bill, which contains
several important factors: one,
being the discontinuation of
federal loans at an interest rate
of 2 percent—the new bill raises
the rate to 5 percent in some
cases, even the going rate
of interest to those local co-ops
able to pay.
In addition, it sets up a
revolving fund by diverting
present payments ^ loans and
interest from local co-ops into a
fund which over a period of time
will avoid the necessity of
Congressional appropriations
for this purpose.
On Thursday, April 4, I in
troduced a bill to require the
Secretary of Agriculture to
support the peanut program for
1973 in the identical manner in
which it was supported for 1972.
This was the result of a
Department of Agriculture
proposal to terminate the
buyer-sheller program and the
full support for peanuts con
taining Alfatoxin.
I introduced the legislation
inasmuch as the present
program is in its third year and
many farmers in the southeast
have made proper loank,leased
land, and plans have been made
under the assumption that the
same support price would be
prevailing this year as last.
I agree that the present
peanut program needs
revivison and changing, but I
could not see the fairness of
changing it by Departmental
directives when it is entirely
proper that it be done by
Congressional action.
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MIRROR MORSELS
Contemporaries appreciate
the man rather than his merit;
posterity will regard the merit
rather than the man.—Colton.
The secret of a good memory
is attention, and attention to a
subject depends upon our in
terest in it. We rarely forget
that which has made a deep
impression on our minds.—
Tryon Edwards.
’Us greatly wise to talk with
our past hours and ask them
what report they bore to
heaven, and how they might
have borne more welcome
news.—Young.
The virtue ^ the soul does not
consist in flying high, but
walking orderly; its grandeur
does not exercise itself in
grandeur, but in mediocrity.—
Montaigne.
Who loves the rain and loves
his home, and looks on life with
quiet eyes, him will I follow
Oirough the storm and at his
hearth-fire keep me warm.—
Frances Shaw.
Good breeding shows itself
most, where to an ordinary eye
it appears least.—Addison.
One couldn’t carry on life
comfortably without a little
blindness to the fact that
everything has been said tetter
Uian we can put it ourselves.—
George Eliot.
We should always keep a
comer of our heads open and
free, that we may make room
for the opinions of our friends.
Let us have heart and head
hospital ity .—Joutert.
The lines of poetry, the
periods of prose, and even the
texts of Scripture most
frequently recollected and
quoted, are those which are felt
to be preeminently musical.—
Shenstone.
Whatever touches the nerves
of motive, whatever alters
man’s moral position, is
mistier than steam, or caloric,
or lightning.-E. H. Chwin.
We should learn by reuecUng
on the misfortunes of others,
that there is nothing singular in
those which befall ourselves.—
Melmoth.
Harmless mirth is the best
cordial against the consumption
of the spirit; wherefore jesting
is not unlawful, if it trespasseth
not in quantity, quality, or
season.—Fuller.
Because all men are apt to
flatter themselves, to entertain
the addition of other men’s
praises is most perilous.—Sir
Walto* Raleigh.
I do love my country’s good
with a respect more tender,
more holy and profound than
mine own life .-Shakespeare.
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