I ' v:. MOUNT OLIVE TRIBUNE Issued Each Tuesday arid Friday v Published at 112 S. Cantor Street Mount Olivo, N. C HOMER BROCK . } • : ‘~ CLETUS BROCK ELMER BROCK . (1916-1949) Publisher _Editor _Bus. Manager Entered as second class mail matter April 21,1904, a! the Post Office at Mount Olive, N. C. j SUBSCRIPTION RATES By City Mail Carrier Three Months__; Six Months. One Year. $1.50 $2.50 $4.50 City Post Office Box, RFD in Wayne And Surrounding Counties , Three Months_—. $1.25 Six Months-- $2.25 % One Year_...---$4-00 * Outside Wayne and Surrounding Counties I Three Months---$1.50 Six Months- $3.00 ■ One Year__$5.00 Advertising rates and circulation data available ‘ to bona-fide advertisers * ‘ . . . and what doth the Lord require of thee, but v to do justly, and to lava mercy, and to walk humbly ; with thy God?"—Mica 8:6. •Warming Impulses ' One way for a government to increase its l revenues is to reduce taxes! * Does that sound like a foolish contradic ■ tion in terms? Well, it describes exactly what has been happening in Canada. In that coun try's 1953-54 budget, both individual income taxes and corporation taxes were cut, by 11 'per cent and nine per cent, respectively. After * six months of operation, this budget had * brought the government some $90,000,000 - more than was the case last year when the 7 higher tax rates were in effect. > What happened, in the words of Time, is I that “the tax reductions apparently sent warm ? ing impulses throughout the entire Canadian - economy.” In other words, Canadians saw * more incentive to work hard and take financial frisks — and citizens and government alike 3came out ahead. How Strong Are We? „ As a new year begins, it is the part of wis dom for a nation, like a business, to review its assets and its liabilities. On the credit side, the United States has * an unrivaled standard of living. Our men and - women enjoy wages and working conditions * superior to those existing anywhere else. The tide of goods and services that flows endlessly -•along the American production and distribu - tion line staggers the imagination. Materially 1 speaking, business, agriculture and labor are 2 doing well. We have a political system which comes as close to being responsive to the wishes of the people as any one can conceive of. In the last presidential election the people removed from power a party which had been in control for 20 years and put another in its place. In some future election the party now in power will, be replaced. But no heads roll; no purges are held; the losers are not liquidated: All ate free to air their views. The most disheartening domestic develop ment of recent times has been the growing dependence of millions of people on govern ment, mainly the federal government, to pro vide services and benefits that, if a free system is to be preserved, must remain the respon sibility of the individual and the family group. There has been a blind seeking for a kind of cradle-to-the-grave security whbse end, in the sweep of history, has always been the sapping of moral fiber and spiritual value and ultimate slavery. The most obvious manifestations of supergovernjnent are crushing taxes and mounting national debts, and the inevitable undermining of economic and political free doms. Another phase of the debit side is found in the long strides that have been in either socializing outright American enterprises and resources, or in subjecting them to so much government dictation and control that sociali zation comes ever nearer. And socialism, his torically, is but the forerunner of commu nism or some similar system of government by oppression and terror. It is true that our present government is pledged to reverse this deadly process. It is true that some heartening steps in that di rection have been made. It is equally true that the forces that would destroy our free system and replace it with a very different kind of system are still awaiting their chance, j As a matter of self preservation we must put the welfare of the nation first in consider ing important national issues, because our jobs, our businesses, our farms, and our liber ties depend upon the perpetuation of a strong nation of self-governing people. What the decisions will be depends entire ly upon our moral strength. Will we welcome policies and programs that ape in accord with the philosophy of maximum freedom for all —and will we accept, the temporary financial! dislocations that such policies and programs may create? It will not be easy to end the era of do-all, give-all government. But, if the traditions and ideals to which we all pay lip service, and which have made us great and strong are to be preserved, it is necessary as the air we breathe. Nineteen fifty-four will be a year to test whether the American people, will have- what it takes to maintain themselves as independent individuals. An Easy One Washington President Dwight Eisenhbwer has already launched his public relations effort for 1954. Starting before Christmas Ike began invit ing key congressional leaders to the White House. In these meetings the President made it clear that the Republican party was on the job. He told G. 0. P. legislators only teamwork could put the Republican program over in the final session of the 83rd Congress. As some of the lawmakers sat there, listening to Ike, they themselves didn’t know what was included in his 1954 legis lative proposals. The President will go before a joint session of Congress on the 7th and end the speculation. He will outline a Republican legisla tive program which is more inclu sive in benefits and scope than any ever before offered by a Republi can President. It will almost amount to a continuation of most of the Democratic social legislation of the last decade. Ike feels that only if the Re publican Congress now in its last year enacts much of this program will the party be sustained" in the fall’s congressional elections. And only if the party is sustained .in this year’s elections will the party be in a position tc make any fur ther record in the remaining two years until the next Presidential election in 1956. £ The President knows he Is defil ing -with two elements in l|te party and his hope is that har mony meetings such as he initifct ed last spring will unify the party behind his program. It may be more difficult than Ike thinks, how ever, for it will be hard for some of the conservative members of the party in Congress to support some of the Presidential programs Considering the stakes, Ike is doing the only thing he can do —attempting jto solidify support in the G. 0. P. for the Presidential recommendations. It may be the toughest political job he has ever undertaken. In spite of howls from the mili tary, especially the Army, the Ad ministration has.gone ahead with proposed cuts and the latest re port. indicates the 1955 budget (which covers the year beginning July 1st) will include only about $38,000,000,000 for defense. This will be the recommended figure, and Congress may or may not accept it. It represents a cut of over five billions from the fiscal 1954 figures, however, and chanc es are excellent that Capitol Hill lawmakers will accept it. One irony of the expected Presi dential recommendations for de fense is that the strength of the Army may be cut even more than ten per cent. A ten per cent man power cut proposal some time ago brought anguished and indignant replies from some Army brass, but defense Secretary Charles E. Wil son, supported by Ike, stuck to his proposal. Now it looks like the cuts may be larger than the original proposal which touched off the ruckus. The i Navy will also be cut somewhat, and the main emphasis will be ! placed on the air arm. ; The major automdbile producers, j now pushing their 1954 lines, in j most cases havfe just experienced i the toughest selling • period they 1 have weathered in years. But the 1 producer; kept their prices high and made their retail dealers take | a licking in many cases when kales weren’t going as good as pro- ' ducers had planned. As a result some retailers had tq scramble to sell cars at cost to “get their money untied. Others got disgusted with the process and gave up dealer ships,. This was rare, admittedly, but in some lines it was done. * ’The producers felt justified in ’makirfg their dealers buy the cars in October, November and Decem ber; After all, most dealers had enjoyed fine profits and ideal sell ing conditions for years. They had niade nice profits and didn’t have to go out and exhibit any salesmanship to net these gains. The producers know they can’t continue to feed dealers too many cars, though, and must do one of two things. 1. ^Tbey can cut the number of sales and thus lower the unit cost. 2. They can make less automobiles. So far producers have been reluctant to lower prices, even though they have advanced considerably in recent years, but they may be heavily tempted to take such’ action in 1954, if sales aren’t up in the coming months. News of me Negro Population (By Mrs. Maud* Kornegay) Miss Irene Johnson of Washing ton, D. C., spent the holidays with her mother, iMrs. Npna Johnson. , Dr. T.M. Rivera left a few days ago for a two-weeks vacation in New York, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wynn of Trenton, N. J., and Miss Lois Sax-, ton of Topeka, Kan., were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thad Wynn, Sr., during the holidays. ■ Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Clark and daughters of Lumberton spent Fri day in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Grady. Mrs. Grady celebrat ed her birthday on that day. They returned Friday night. Funeral services For Mrs. Fannie Artie McMillan, wi*eck victim, were held Wednesday evening at 2:00 o’clock at Wynn Chapel with the Rev. Moses Kornegay officiat ing. Burial followed in the Benevo lent cemetery. Surviving her are her husband, Raymond McMillan, three sons and five daughters. The board of directors of the community center held their month ly meeting Wednesday night at the center. Officers for the new year were elected. New members added to the board were George Mc Cain, Morris Newkirk, Solomon El liott, Mrs. Matthew Bryant, and Mrs. Lizzie Kornegay. Committee for the float in the Christmas pa rade made their report in this meeting also. Total amount' ____collected in the community chest drive was $570.55. It was apportioned in the following manner: community center, $190. lt; kindergarten, $152.14; child feeding prpgram, $114.11; and scouting girls, $11' gram ' for boys and > program t_14.11. The chairman wishes to thank everyone who contributed to this drive., Hiss Delores Dawson has return ed to her home in New York after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dawson, for the holidays. Miss Rayanette Rivera, a teach* er in the Winston-Salem city schools, and her brother, T. Monte** Rivera, a student at Shaw Uni versity, Raleigh, were home for the holidays. V > MILITANT MINORITY The minority are those who try to sink the ship just because the majority refused to steer-as they suggested. To Our Customers and Friends As it is now time to plan for your 1954 crops, we are ready to book your, orders for pepper seed, seed beans, seed potatoes, cuke seed and any other kinds of seeds of the highest quality obtainable. Wd sell the seeds that produce the kind of crops which we wish to buy. We can also supply you with plant bed materials, soda and a complete line of Baugh’s High Quality Fertilizers. 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This Government insurance - protection is provided under terms " of the Servicemen’s Indemity and Insurance Acts of 1951. , 1 For persons called to active duty » 91 days or more, this free indem * nity protection continues for 120 * days after separation or release * from active service. After their se * paration from service, these vet » erans may obtain two types of post ' service Government life insurance under certain conditions. The first type is a 5-year-level premium term policy that is re newable every five years at the premium rate for the then-attained age without medical examination. This type of term policy is not con vertible to any other form of Gov ernment life insurance. Veterans who may apply for this insurance are those who were or dered into active duty for 31 days or more and who were entitled to indemnity protection while they were in service. They must have been released from such active service. 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