TAX PAYERS AND RELIEF In the FRANKLIN TIMES of February 23, there appeared au article pertaining to honest citi zens burdened wit,li paying useless taxes to feed and clothe healthy . indolent people. Although this ar ticle did not mention any actual relief agencies or the name of the rustic WPA, but I presume it had a precarious and round-about-way of bombarding tihese two enter prises. After reading the article and pondering over it for a few minutes 1 realize that my Ideas coincides about ninety-nine per cent; therefore 1 wish to take the opportunity of fabricating an ar ticle and give some first hand, authentic Information as I have been in more employment offices than one; and I have also worked on a division of the WPA. 1 have stood in long waiting lines on a cold blustery November morning listening to my cohorts gritting their teeth and shifting around aimlessly. I have seen thein from different walks - of life ? some worthless, some old, some young, come erect and healthy, and some stooped and bent with yeai'B of bitter toll and hard manual labor who really needed assistance. But to give a graphic demon stration I will cite some actual .:ases and incidents I have en countered. The first dates back to a few years ago whell my buddy he's a radioman on one of Uncle Sam's tubs now; otherwise called battleships ? and I were bum ming our way to a certain town ? 1 won't divulge the name of the town and actual people Involved for obvious reasons ? when we pounced upon (the idea that we would get on the relief for the fun of It, as we had decided not to farm that year. We arrived in town and in due '.ime we went immediately to t>he relief office stating that' we would willingly accept any type of work or any available position at that time, and we proceeded with the WPA-Job-flnding-talk ? you know, boy broke, almost clothless and yes ? we are so hungry. But the little lady behind the high desk had other ideas and plans when we staled we would accept a Job shoveling dirt on u highway. She thought that we were physically unlit to do tile ?vork or something and she told us, as she tucked a blond** curl tie hind her ear. t'hal she would see to It that we got ? better po sition. Anyway I got a job in furniture store. Incident uuinber two occurred on the blustry November morning depicted above. I stood almost' four hours walling to see the head official of the WPA as 1 was des perately in need of a position, ana the crop control had utterly des troyed all hopes of farming that year. Beside me stood a hatless. ?lowdy, t'hln man. He often paced iround rubbing his slim hands across Iris gaunt cheeks muttering in some guttural jargon that I wouldn't comprehend. Finally he stopped pacing and swung around facing me. "Sonny," he said, "I gotter get ?ome work. I gotter get somethin for my wife and six kjds. They haven't eaten anything in two daWell, to make a long story -hort he received a job: but not until he had argued and coaxed the official for sometime. Rut It seemed incredible to see how the WPA official gave other people who looked fully clothed and heal thy Jobs on the spur of the tno I remember another incident when I stood in a WPA office some time ago. An old lady came in with her daughter and tried to eet work for her daughter or her self, but the WPA official bluntly refused and told t,he lady sardoni cally that there was nothing he could do. yet he gave other peo ple Jobs all the time I was In the ""we realize that some type of relief is inevitable Even in the Bibical days there were tbc un fortunate, the crippled the blind to care for. and it is aPP" , nt we must maintain some ^ means of assisting them now; but it should be the duty of each county 'to provide for its unfortunate and the helpless and tihey should not fall on the arms of the *over?' ment and become a national dls I know people personally who will laugh in your face if you i try to hire them at a decent price. They will assert that they are on the relief and they can live with out working. 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Simply because there were too many people on the relief receiving clothing, etc., who would not work at a decent salary; yet t'hose same tamers and burghers who tried to hire them must pay a heavy tax to support those dunderheads who ramble around scoffing at work. A few intimate glimpses at the status of our government will disclose some startling and amaz ing facts. First, we have reach ed an all time debt record. The so-called New Dealers compiled a program that consisted of spend ing money fruitlessly, which they have often stated would restore prosperity; but it is a doleful fact that our country is in a chaotic mess today and we see taxes upon taxes being heaped on our shoul ders. We see some of our astute leaders spending foolishly while the tax problem has come to be almost unbearable; and yet the unemployment situation remains unsolved. If you believe it has been solved look around you at the unemployed people. And ? yet) ? Mr. Tax Payer it is you who is laden down with the useless taxes. It is you who must shoul der the burden and feed loafers and build useless things. In the complete history of the U. S. of America this is the lirst time we have been confronted with t*he problem of building highways with shovel and wheel barrows that are hardly ever us ed. And then some of our con sorts have the nerve to stand up and yell that prosperity is here. Drink gang. Drink to prosperity and riches! Mr., Mrs. and Miss, we aren't envisaging prosperity and riches. We are facing sub version, bankruptcy, and regimen tation if some things aren't al tered soon. IA all my associating with peo ple I have Been very few who needed assistance from sources other than their own. And some honest citizens do not want tihe help of the so-called relief. Concluding this I wish to say that America is a beautiful, uni que country. It is a good land to live in. It is doubtless^ the richest and most prosperous coun try In the world and it has a fprm of government that is peerless and envied by our exotic friends. But* if we are to maintain our present form of government we must turn our ship around and steer in the right direction. How long we continue to' drift into muddy waters depends upon you Mr. Citizen. HENRY AYSCUK. C. M. T. C. CAMP Major Edward F. Griffin in formed the TIMES this week that the campaigif was opened on March 1st to procure the County quota of C. M. T. C. trainees. The Camp this year will be held at Fort Bragg for the period from June 12th through July 11th. This iiwa line opportunity for young men between the as;os of seventeen and twenty-four years to receive without cost fine mili tary training and lessons in Am ericanism. Those boys desiring to make application should see Major Griffin at> once. PHONE 283-1 j FOR FIRST CIjAHS PRINTING 4 i LtGGETT'S Offer Outstanding ! Values To Thrifty Shoppers SEW a SAVE 1 ? 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