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PRESIDENT SAYS REDUCING
TAXES HIS CHIEF HOBBY
Will Recommend to Congress That More
Reducing Be Done Next Term.
Washington, .Tune 22. —A promise that
he will recommend further reduction of
taxes to Congress at the December ses
sion was made tonight by President Cool
ings in an address at the semi-annual
budget meeting.
•He predicted a surplus of $200,000,-
000 at the end of the fiscal year, June
SQth, and estimated that the surplus for
* the coming fiscal year would approxi
mate $200,000,000.
Admitting there was little prospect,
for severeal years at least, of cutting
government expenditures below three bil
lion dollars annually, Mr. Coolidge said
the outlay for the current fiscal year
would total $3,034,000,000 exclusive of
money applied to reduction of the public
debt and operation of the postal service.
j Wants'Further Cut.
It is his desire, he added, to hold ex
penditures for the coming year, includ
ing the amount applied on debt reduc
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r witpin $3,375,000,000. or $125,000,000. he
said, less than estimated comparable ex
• pefditures for this year.
Mr. Coolidge also declared he would
attempt to hold estimates for the fiscal
f year beginning July 1, 1026, to $3,080,-
■ 000.000. exclusive of the postal service.
• No estimates were given of the amount
b needed for reducing the debt and operat
ing the postal service.
The President hold his audience, made
‘ up of. cabinet officials and departmental
• executives, that they must continue their
' efforts to decrease the cost of govern
ment. He gave Congress credit for stty
' porting the budget, and declared*', 'that
' while the tax burden had been materially
' lightened, it “'is still with the people.”
“Back X she tireless, persistent and
J drastic campaign for constructive ecou
,! omy .in federal expenditure,” declared
' ! Mr. Coolidge,'“ha« been the relief of the
' j people of tfcis'nation from a great budren
lof tfxation>’ ; It has been successful.
■ j Taxes have been reduced. The burden
- 1 of the people has been materially light*
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THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
. “But the reduction has not yet reached
' the point where taxes have ceased to
■be a burden. It is to the reaching of
this point that our efforts must be di
l reefed. . . . The way has been prepared
i for further tax reduction. This I 'will
■ recommend to the Congress tin the next
budget message. * ,
“Economy in the cost of government
is inseparable from reduction in taxes.
We cannot have the latter without the
' former. . From some sources the state
ment has been mpde that this continuing
drive for economy in federal expenditures
is hurting business.
“I have been unable to determine how
reduction in taxes is .Injurious to busi
ness. Each tax reduction has been fol
lowed by a revival of business; If there
I is one thing abotje all others that will
• stimulate business it is tax reduction.
I If the government takes less, private bus
• iness can have more. If constructive
i economy in federal expenditures can br
■ assured it will be a .stimulation to en
t terprise and investment.”
REMEMBER PENNY ADS ARS CASH
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[ College Scholarship Announcement.
i The young men and young-women who
■ have recently graduated from high school
. and are planning to go to college will
1 be interested in the announcement that
1 has just been made by Dr. Elmer R.
Hoke, president of Catawba College,
Salisbury, North Carolina, thlt a num
, ber of scholarships have recently been
placed at his disposal. The awarding
\ of these scholarships will pffer some ma
terial help to a number of young people
’ in ,their efforts to secure „n college edu
| cation. Dr. Hoke is receiving applica
tions for the scholarships hnd expects to
, have them awarded promptly within the
next few weeks. ;
This announeement of scholarships is
, just another evidence of ‘the fact that
I the young people of this day are chal
lenged by such opportunities as their
\ parents did not enjoy. It should be
’ said to their credit, that they are rising
T J splendidly to take advantage of the op
portunities presented to them.
- The weather is too warm to have a
I date with an old flame.
I SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY. —*
Stirring I’p Conflict 8«n as a Wrangle
Over Non-Essentials.
The New York Herald Tribune:
Who ran imagine anything more pro
fitlefw to Christianity and science both
than this contest soon to be staged nmid
the traditional dignities of a courtroom
in Tennessee? And it is all because
fnnatidal Christians have lnid the Gos
pel of Jesus Christ aside and arc sub
stituting legislation to control belief ns
well as desire. Indeed, between religions
fanatics on the one hand and scientific
.fanatics on the other, Christianity is
'having the time of its life, though not
~for its life, as is difficult to see where,
even the fringe of the seamless robe is
in all this noise and strife.
liThose who are really accomplishing the ,
| ; mornl and spiritual uplift of humanity
' ,are the obscure Christian workers and
Bihle teachers who do not know a Greek
Getter from a fish hook. It works out
exactly according to the warning tjhat
■ Jesus gave, that these things are' l hidden
from the wise add prudent and jevenled
unto babes.
From many pnlpits and nearly all
•church conventions we hear little about
the Gospel and ‘much about law. The
free grace of God is available for every
man. Why not offer that instead of
wrangling over non-essentials? The
Church needs fewer Bryans and Fos
dicks and more Moodys and Finneys,
but she lacks the life to produce them.
In this coming contest we see the pros
pect of believers and unbelievers of
national notoriety in a free-for-all
wrangle over the question of the pro
cess of the creation of man. about
which the Bible is silent, science uncer
tain and yet in the theoretical stage, and
which only Plato, the Babylonians and
Egyptians have foolishy attempted to
describe. All careful Bible students
know that, either 'by divine inspira
tion or restraint, not one of the Biblical
writers attempted to describe the pro
cess of creation or to set the time or
duration of the work. Not one declared
or even treated Adam ns the first man
created, or anything more than the first
known person of historical. importance ,
in an ancestral line that marked the
beginning of a nation. The two accounts
of creation are not necessarily con
tradictory, but may be supplementary
and illumine that peculiar complaint of
later years when it was said that the
sons of God were corrupted by marrying
the daughters of man. All Bible students
a’so know that a “dendly parallel" of
the order of creation as given in Genesis
and ns thus far determined by science
shows a most remarknble agreement,
; so much so that we cannot help rever
ently asking if Moses (assuming that
he was the writer) did hot guess it. who
told him? Moses, as a prince of the
house of Pharaoh, was educated in all
the wisdom of the Egyptians, who be
lieved and taught that man was a
product of evolution from the lowest
known form of life in the slime of the
Nile River, yet he deliberately ignored
the evolutionary process and left the
question unanswered. Why? The Gene
sis account agrees too well with known
scientific facts and there are too many
glaring contradictions between it and
all other v ancient r writings to . make
tenable any supposition that the writer
of Genesis plagiarised "from any other
source now known. Who told him so
many scientific facts and who prevented
him from writing or copying any such
silly stories as he must have knoyvn
about in his day? We cannot answer
those questions in any other way than
to insist upon the inspiration of Scrip
ture.
If the Bible needs the defense that
will be attempted in the Tennessee
court, it must be in n bad way. Peter
swung his sword in defense of his Mas
ter to decapitate an enemy and only
severed an ear, which was restored
whole. It is not possible for Mr. Bryan
to accomplish more than that, except to
add to his own notoriety. The evolution
ary process cannot be proven in that
contest because it has never been any
thing but a, theory? A theory is the best
guess to account for a known fact and
is liab'e to Change without notice. When
evolution is proven, if ever, the Bible
will not be contradicted and the Chris
tian Church will go on without a jolt,
for. if God is the author of both faith
and fact, they cannot contradict. Chris
tianity is too' great an institution, too
intense a faith, to be anchored to the
superficial breadth of modernism or to
the narrow depths of fundamentalism.
These are barnacles and are no part of
the Christian faith, but tend to disin
tegrate the Church and confuse every
one.
C. B. STODDARD.
North Cohocton, N. Y., .Tune 18 1925.
In the season of 1892, Brown of the
T.oaisville club set up a high record o!
658 times at bdt.
The first cloth mill built in America
began operations at Rowley, now Ip
swich, Mass., about the year 1743.
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