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Bright In The Eyes
Senator Sam Ervin doesn't want
Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas to
become Chief Justice. He has made
this abundantly clear. Senator Sam
contends that no vacancy exists since
Chief Justice Earl Warren left the date
of his resignation open.
Not too many people find them
selves able to agree with the senior
North Carolina Senator on this point.
The Chief Justice could have offered
President Johnson a date other than at
such time as a successor has qualified.
With the Court in adjournment, it
would not have mattered had Mr.
Warren just simply quit as of the day
he sent in his resignation, but for
some reason, big-time politicians sel
dom do the reasonable thing.
Many of us agree heartily with
Senator Ervin that Abe Fortas has no
business heading the country's big
Court, if indeed, he has any business
on the Court at all. To this end, we
hope the Senator and his associates on
the Senate Judiciary Committee are
successful in their chosen position.
Senator Sam is standing on much
firmer ground now that he has aimed
his guns at Fortas' position as an
adviser to the President. This condi
tion smells like a city dump on a hot,
humid day. With the federal govern
ment taking more and more private
Citizens, school boards and others into
Court with a startling degree of venom
and frequency nowadays, it is some
thing less than desired that the ad
ministrative branch buddy up to and
with the judiciary.
The founders of this nation saw
clearly the advantages of keeping the
three branches of government se
parate. Senator Ervin, being an advo
cate of constitutional government,
also sees it. But, during the past
several years, leaders of this country
have moved farther and farther away
from this concept.
Stopping Fortas might be a small
sign that at least some of our leaders
are beginning to see the light. May it
shine ever brighter in the eyes of those
who have heretofore attempted to
snuff out the light altogether.
Oh, Happy Day
New York Governor Nelson Rocke
feller marked off the South this week,
when standing on the steps of Lin
coln's home in Springfield, III., he said
he wanted only those people who
believed as he does on civil rights to
follow him. He said he didn't need
any others.
This is typical of the liberals be
they of the Republican or Democratic
cloth. The custom is, as it has been for
the past several years, to make the
South the villian. Rockefeller, of the
silver-spoon Rockefellers, believes
Southerners to be red-necks, hayseeds
and racists. If this sounds familiar, it
should because the Kennedys and
Johnson and Humphrey believe the
same and have for years.
Progress in important things which
have occurred in the South over the
years is forgotten. Only the press
agent reports of racism impresses the
candidates and, in their minds, the
voters.
There are people in other parts of
the country who believe that Negroes
are forced to walk on a different side
of the street from whites in the South.
Many believe that Negroes are whip
ped with regularity and are brutally
treated here. The fact that such hog
wash is believed is to the credit of the
liberals, the activists and the national
news media. Even so, it is not so much
that so many people in this land are
misinformed as it is that those who
know better play on this ignorance.
The important thing is that this
might well be the year when the
Rockefellers, the Johnsons, the
Humphreys and others like them are
written off by the South. Oh, happy
day.
The Capacity Of Man
that the capacity of man is unlimited has been proven
over and over again, but it takes more than knowing this
if man is to break loose from any sense of limitation that
he may have accepted, as his human experience and out
look. Certainly the inventive genius of man has proven
that there are NO limits to what man can accomplish . . .
if and when he opens his thoughts to the challenge.
We need only look at the advance of radio and televsion,
jet propelled planes, rockets that reach the moon, and the
last Olympic Games where record after record was broken,
to find evidence of this truth in actual operation. Could
any of these accomplishments have taken place by those
who say and believe, "We have reached our limit?"
Limited or stagnant thinking finds little or no resting
place in today's drama of progress. That individual suc
ceeds who believes progress is unlimited and so-called
records are here today, only to be broken tomorrow.
The champions of tomorrow are those who believe in the
limitless capacity of man, knowing that human endurance
is continually strengtherfcd and enlarged by spiritual en
lightenment. . . . WKB
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
My God,
How Can It Be ?
That one boy dies rotting from malnutrition and torture in
a jungle prison camp in North Vietnam ... and another boy spits
and tramples on the flag of his country on the steps of a university
of learning?
That one boy lies sightless in a U.S. Naval hospital from
communist-inflicted face wounds ... and another boy uses a com
munist flag to drape himself in defiance of the laws of this
country?
That one man of medicine begins his 30th straight hour stand
ing aver an operating table in pursuit of life for men serving his
country ... and another man of medicine implores crowds of young
men to refuse to serve their country?
That one Negro holds the face of his dead white comrade in
his arms and cries pitifully in a dirty hole in Vietnam ... and
another Negro screams with hate against his white brother on the
streets of countless American cities?
That one boy lies in a coffin below the ground because he
believed in duty to country ... and another boy lies on a dingy cot
giving blood to the enemies of his country?
That one man of God shields a wounded boy from an enemy
bayonet with his body and dies ... and another man of God uses
his cloth as a shield to preach hate, dissension and lawlessness?
MY GOD, how can it be?
Reprinted through the courtesy of the Long
Beach Dispatch, Long Beach, California.
Congress Cuts Spending
By Rep. L. H. Fountain
Washington, D. C. . .
.Everybody seems to know
that Congress has passed legis
lation raising additional reve
nues. Not too many seem to
realize that Congress at the
same time cut federal spend
ing substantially.
The entire revenue raising
and expenditure reducing bill
was designed primarily to
strengthen the dollar. Infla
tion, high interest rates, the
deficit in our balance of pay
ments, the drain on our gold,
and a record high national
debt, were all factors in the
absolute necessity to put all
the national strength we
could behind the dollar.
Let me emphasize that in
the opinion of all the financi
al experts I know about, this
legislation was absolutely nec
essary to reduce the Federal
Budget to manageable pro
portions; and, in my opinion,
the reduction in federal
spending is the heart of the
legislation. Without the re
quirements for meaningful re
ductions in federal outlays
and obligations, the bill could
not achieve Its objectives. It
would not have received my
vote without theie reduc
tions.
As you know, I opposed
those programs which I fear
ed would create the financial
situation we faced.
But by the same token,
the fact that I may not have
set fire to a public building is
really no excuse for me not
to help put It out, if I can.
That was my feeling when
this bill came before the
House for a vote, and it still
is.
On the whole, this was a
well-balanced bill. It requires
the national government to
tighten its belt considerably.
This is the point which seems
to be so widely overlooked
and which I want to discuss
here.
The requirement for a $6
billion cut in Federal expen
ditures in fiscal year 1969 ~
which began July 1 - is in
addition to the $4.3 billion
reduction carried out in fiscal
196& as a result of Congres
sional action last fall. To
gether, these expenditure re
ductions are approximately
equal to the amount of addi
tional tax that will be collect
ed under the surcharge.
In addition to the $6 bil
lion cut this year, there is a
requirement that $10 billion
be cut in new obligational
authority - that is, the so
called federal spending "pipe
line." Moreover, the President
is required to recommend at
least $8 billion in recisions of
old obligational authority car
ried over from prior years.
All together this amounts
to some $24 billion - a very
substantial figure, in my
opinion. Included is another
requirement that the federal
payroll be trimmed by over
225,000 jobs. This will be
done by filling only three out
of every tour vacancies as
they occur.
Let me make it clear that
these expenditure and obliga
tional authority reduction
provisions have real teeth In
them. If they did not, the
liberal spenders in the Con
grats would not be so loudly
protesting against them.
These cuts are all required
by the law, and absolute ceil
ings are imposed. The bill
operates in such a manner
that the spending cuts are
mandatory.
Finally, there is a "clin
cher," a& Chairman Wilbur
Mills of Ways and Means call
ed it in debate on the House
Floor, to insure that the cuts
operate as intended.
That "clincher" is the pre
sent ceiling on the national
debt. If the law should be
violated, then the debt ceiling
would be reached later this
year, and further expendi
tures could not be made.
We have further assurances
from Chairman Wilbur Mills
who said unequivocally on
the floor that if the ceiling
should be reached because
the reductions had not been
carried out, he has no inten
tion of voting for an increase
in the debt ceiling.
To that, I say, "Amen,
neither do I."
In summary, in view of the
magnitude of the budget de
ficit in the absence of the
revenue and expenditure con
trol bill, which was estimated
at about $25 billion for the
present fiscal year, It was
incumbent on the Congress to
enact this legislation to pre
serve the fiscal integrity of
this country.
Of course, none of us like*
to see funds cut in areas of
particular concern to us. But
the people of this country
have justifiably demanded a
reduction hi government ex
penditures and we cant keep
our cake and eat it too.
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"George, I really appreciate you meeting me like this. I
know you understand why 1 asked that we do it in secret. I
want you to know, I appreciate it.
I been reading the polls lately, George and I must
say . . . you aren't doing badly. Matter of (act ... for what
you've had to go on ... I think you're done quite well".
"Yes, I suppose you coud say you've got a good cause.
We've all got a good cause, George. I've got Pat and the girls
and that Eisenhower boy
who keeps coming around
and then there's Checkers
. . . don't forget Check
ers .. . J
What's that? Oh, Check
ers is my dog . . . You don't
watch television much do
you George? Remember
back in 1960 ... it was
those makeup men, George 1
. . . that's what did me in
... If it hadn't been for
Chicago . . . George, I'd
have won . . . You know
they counted more votes
than they had voters out
there . . . Never did quite
understand that, George.
Now, what I've come to
see you about, George, is all
those electoral votes you're
about to get. I'm sure you
know you can't win and
you can t get enough to do you any good . . . and I was
wondering if maybe you'd be willing to let me have them . . .
I've come so close so many times, George . . . I've just got to
win this time . . .
Yeah, well George ... I meant to tell you about that ... I
really meant to take a public stand on that schoolhouse door
thing .... but you know how it is ... You get busy and then
I was afraid it wouldn't look right, George ... Of course, you
know I agree with you . . . Something needs to be done . . .
Now about those votes George . . .
Yes ... I can explain about that, George. I was just saying
that . . . you know I didn't mean it when I said I'd make no
deal with you ... I had to say that, George . . . cause Hubert
said it . . . and you can't afford to make anybody mad
nowadays, George ... I knew you'd understand . . .
Yes, I am planning to do something about law and order,
George . . . and I promise to make a study of the pseudo-Intel
lectuals and anarchists, too . . . but George, I can't run over
nobody just because they lay down in front of my car . . .
Now, tell the truth, George . . . would you really run over a
poor poverty stricken American just because he threw rocks at
you and blocked the street and happened to be rioting . . .
You gut to understand, Geo^e . . . There's some good in
everybody . . . and these people have been abused by society.
You know that, George ... we got to do something for
them . . . Now about those votes, George . . .
States rights? Well ... I'll tell you George, that's a touchy
subject. We national politicians can't get involved in that sort
of thing . . . we've got to get at the grass roots, George . . .
that's where the votes are . . . I'm for civil rights, George . . .
but I can't go along with the states having any rights . . . states
don't vote, George . . . it's people ... You understand that
don't you George . . .
Now . . . let's get down to business, George. You know you
can't do business with Hubert . . . and you know I'm 100
percent for liberty and justice and all that jazz . . . so . . . how
much, George . . . how much will you take for your votes . . .
Why are you opening the door, George . . . Now wait a
minute . . . take your hands off me . . . George . . . I'm a for
mer vice president . . . George . . . don't do it . . . George . , ,
you can't put me out . . . George . . . George . . . George ..."
If Hubert Humphrey were smart (and mind
you, we're not saying he is), he'd give Gene
McCarthy the nomination and let HIM be the
one to lose in November.
Attitudes & Platitudes Jerry Marcus
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