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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1975
Taxes, spending, and politics
In announcing his proposal to link tax cuts with restraints on the
federal budget. President Ford has clearly drawn the political line
between himself and the Democratic Congress, setting the stage for
next year's presidential election. It remains to be seen whether Mr.
Ford's plan - as yet unspecific ir many ways - is desirable or even
politically realistic.
In his televised speech the President reiterated his desire to curb
"the momentous growth of government." pointing to a federal
budget that has twice doubled in less than 15 years. But as was
pointed out by the Brookings Institution earlier this year, it would
be misleading to characterize this as "an era when the federal
government .took over the economy." In fact, federal expenditures
rose at the same rate as the gross national product during the 1960s,
then fell behind in the 1970s.
Mr. Ford already has left his mark on the federal budget in his
attempts to shift spending from income support programs (such
things as social security) to defense and energy programs. This
week's announcement did not include ways in which the President
wants the 1977 budget held to S395 billion, but he did say he
would "not permit reductions in our military budget that would
jeopardize our national security."
In fact, Mr. Ford one-upped the Congress by not including
specific budget cuts. It is hard to argue against economy in
government, but the onus now is on the Democrats in Congress to
find a way. And that would force them (in an election year) to
assume the risk of offending individuals and groups affected by
budget stringencies.
Mr. Ford now can claim credit for holding down taxes while
blaming his opponents in Congress for failure to curb spending It is
hard to imagine Congress agreeing to the President's budget ceiling
quid pro quo (as Mr. Ford insists) without first seeing what he has
in mind in the way of cuts. That would force them to give up much
of what they have gained under new budgetary procedures
implemented with admirable effectiveness this year.
The President's wish to revise, consolidate, and hold down
"many of our current spending programs" is soon to be given full
airing in a series of "town meetings" around the country. But there
can be no argument with at least one of the points he made this
week: that "just beneath the surface there are deep-seated problems
in our economy."
There seems little doubt that taxes in 1976 will at least be held
down to the degree they have been this year. Mr. Ford's threat to
veto a simple tax cut extension would most likely be overridden,
particularly since the President's own economic advisers now appear
to concede that a slighly enlarged federal deficit is worth an
antirecessionary tax reduction for the time being.
Taxpayers thus should not worry unduly about their taxes going
up next year. What should concern them is that the political and
philosophical debate in Washington - for that is what the
President's plan and the response is already has elicited amounts to
- not get in the way of clear budget - trimming proposals now
clearly needed from both Congress and the Ford administration.
Without such specifics, reasoned governmental and political
decisions cannot be made.
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday. October 12,1950
The members of the Raeford
Methodist Church will have their first
worship service in their newly
completed building on Sunday.
October 15, at I 1:00 A.M.
The hunting season on Deer,
Squirrel, Opossum and Raccoon
opens on October 16.
John A. Chasen, 77, died of a
heart attack Sunday at his home hear
Raeford.
From Poole's Medley:
I have been told that modern
educators forbid memorizing, that it
is not the wise thing to do. What
folks remember "by heart" is about
all they know.
Citizens of Hoke County will be
given a chance to sign pledges
affirming their belief in the cause of
world freedom during the next two
weeks, it was announced today by
J.L. McNeill.
Six nurses and one physical
therapist were sent into North
Carolina by the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis during one
week recently to help care for polio
patients, it was reported today by
the State office of the Foundation.
Government estimates of 1950
flue-cured tobacco production tipped
upwards today - some 28 million
pounds more titan was indicated a
month ago.
1 5 years ago
Thursday, October 13,1960
The Raeford-Hoke PTA is selling
calendars this year with the
birthdates of persons throughout the
county listed.
*****
Rockfish and Wayside community
development associations have
purchased a fire truck from the rural
fire department.
The Retail Trade committee of the
Raeford-Hoke Chamber of
Commerce has outlined some
suggestions for merchants plagued by
shoplifters during the coming holiday
season.
*****
The Hoke High Bucks, like the
weather, stormed over Laurinburg
Friday night 26-0.
'Now what do we do?'
The Christian Science Mon.to'
Mother Admits Failure
(Reprinted)
There's a lot of disagreement these
days on the subject of working
mothers. Do the children suffer, or
are they no better or worse than
those whose mothers stay with them
all day? Having four little ones at
home. I'm ashamed to say that they
are turning into juvenile delinquents.
Let me give you some background.
You see, they're all adopted, so I've
leaned over backwards to be a good
mother. (Of course, when they're old
enough to understand. I shall tell
them the real circumstances, as tire
experts recommend) But perhaps I
have been too indulgent.
When I wasn't working, they were
all obedient, well mannered, all a
mother could hope for. Now . when I
return home at the end of the day,
there is wreckage all over die
apartment, holes in die draperies,
scratches in the furniture, my
belongings scattered everywhere.
And this from the two youngest.
Now they have been told diis
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
Some people are saying the
country is being run mostly by worn
? out politicians. I don't know about
that, but I do know that the
politicians' language is worn out.
For instance, a Senator said just
the other day that letting some outfit
police itself would be like "getting a
fox to guard the hen house."
Never in the history of man has
any farmer ever used a fox to guard
his hen house. Maybe a Senator
would try it. but no farmer has ever
been that dumb. Besides, most
people these days don't even know
what a hen house is. Eggs come in
boxes at the supermarket, stupid.
Another example: A Congressman
said higher and higher gasoline prices
will "keep the average man's nose to
tire grindstone." I don't suppose that
any man's nose has ever been held to
a grindstone, and if it was. I shudder
to think what happened to it.
In order to whip inflation, another
Washington official said, "we've all
got to put our shoulder to the
wheel." What kind of wheel is he
talking about? You ever try putting
your shoulder to an automobile
wheel? You'd have to almost lie on
the ground and besides the fender's
tn the way. Skin your head every
lime. Won't work on bicycles or
motorcycles either. And stay away
from airplane wheels. The jet blast
will get you. Of course he was
tit inking of wagon wheels, but there
aren't enough of those left to go
around.
Objecting to President Ford's plan
to cut taxes if Congress will cut
spending even before it gets a look at
the new budget, a Senator said "he
wants us to buy a pig in a poke." I
don't know how many pigs have ever
been bought sight-un-seen in a sack,
but I have a notion not over half a
doren, and then by a half-wit being
put upon by a practical joker. You
get a notion that any politician
who'd still use that figure of speech
must have been one of the guys who
bought such a pig.
Another politician wants us to
"take a stitch in time," but the way
nearly everybody is ripping off
nearly everybody else these days a
lot of shirts may be beyond sewing.
"But." another politician warns,
'don't cross your bridge till you get
to it." Never, in the history of the
world, try as hard as he could, has
anybody ever succeeded in crossing a
bridge before he got to it. It's in the
same class with kissing your elbow.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
lighting must stop and they have to
learn to get along, yet they have no
respect for my authority and do as
they please.
The eldest of the four (his date of
birth is unknown) now insists on
having his meals outside and refuses
to enter die house, which is just as
well really, because his long hair
sheds everywhere, and. frankly, his
personal hygiene habits could stand
some improvement. But my real
worry is that he is headed for
difficulties with the law.
Since being given die privilege of
setting his own curfew, he has taken
to staying out all night and running
around with a crowd I don't approve
of. He trespasses all over die
neighbor's property and is always
getting into fights. When my
neighbors see me, it's always die
same complaints. "Can't you keep
hint from howling all night?" Or
"Don't you teach diem to respect
die rights of others? They're always
tearing up my flower bed." Oh, the
disgrace.
I really don't know what to do
with die youngest, lust last week I
was serving coffee to a friend when
she reached under die pillow on die
couch and pulled out a toy that was
packed with a green leafy substance,
as die police would say. I glibly told
her it was only catnip, an
explanation she seemed to accept.
Their behavior in public is
uncontrollable. On trips to the
doctor for their routine shots, die
two youngest insist on seating
themselves on die ledge of die back
window. Then their constant
bickering erupts into a fight and they
punch, kick, bite, and scratch each
other in full view of everyone on die
road.
Of course, there is still hope that
this is only a phase they are going
through. As is usually the case when
diere is a discipline problem in the
home, the father hasn't taken a firm
hand in the children's upbringing.
When I appeal to my husband for
help. I always get the same answer.
"You treat those cats like they were
people. You're crazy."
Letters To
The Editor
To Whom It May Concern.
On lire afternoon of October 2,
IdTS. I went to see what was
supposedly a football game between
the (hike High School Junior Varsity
and the Junior Varsity Rockingham
Rockets (Richmond Co.).
I have never seen anything so
unsportsmanlike, uncouth, and
degrading to a school before. If you
like to walch a football game with a
track team running around outside
the sidelines-line. Personally. I find it
very distracting. The cheerleaders of
the visrting team were not able to
cheer for their team after traveling a
distance, but were also demanded to
"get out of the wav" so the track
team could run their marathon miles!
If you're going to have a football
game ? have it. and vice versa. If
you're going to be a host team, act
like it.
Show your respect ? you expect it!
Margaret Davis
CUFF BLUE ...
People & Issues
MRS. MAYOR -? Women are
coming to the front in North
Carolina political affairs. Last week
Mrs. Beth Finch was overwhelmingly
elected mayor of Fayetteville -- one
of the larger municipalities in North
Carolina by a vote of 4269 to 490
over the nearest of her two
opponents. Mrs. Finch has been
serving as City Councilwoman since
1969 and as mayor pro-tempore for
die past two years. Her big victory
will no doubt inspire other qualified
women to seek office in our state
and municipalities.
STRICKLAND -- Senator Tom
Strickland of Wayne County has
made it official ?? that he will be a
candidate for governor in the 1976
Democratic primary. Strickland has a
good record in the State House and
Senate and except for his diligent
work Tar Heel voters would not have
the opportunity to vote in a
presidential primary in North
Carolina in 1976. It was Strickland
who introduced the presidential
primary bill and brought about its
enactment in 1965. It was Strickland
who brought George Wallace to
North Carolina this past spring, and
had Wallace not come the primary
bill would have been down the river.
WALLACE - Speaking of political
influence, 1 can't remember ever
witnessing such a dramatic turn ?
around as followed Governor
Wallace's appeal for the retention of
the primary to House and Senate
members in Raleigh this spring.
After the House had voted to
repeal the presidential primary law,
several days later I asked a veteran
legislator of ten years service how the
Senate would vote. He replied that
the Senate would vote stronger for
repeal titan the House. But that was
before Wallace's appearance!
O'HERRON - Through a news
conference in Raleigh last week Ed
O'Herron of Charlotte brought his
prospective candidacy for governor
on the Democratic ticket clearer into
focus. With Charles Dunn by his side.
O'Herron let it be known that he is
studying the issues for positions to
take before making an official
announcement of his candidacy.
JIMMY GREEN - Inside word is
that House Speaker Jimmy Green
who spent several weeks deciding
whethter to run for governor or lieut.
governor has now firmly set his sails
The Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration (LEAA) originally
was created to provide federal aid to
state and local governments so that
they would be better equipped to
deal witlt crime.
In North Carolina, the program
has done much good. Its funds were
used to help set up the Police
Information Network, which
connects law enforcement agencies
all over the state and provides instant
communication which will help train
officers within our slate and make
them more capable and professional.
It has given direct aid to hundreds of
local police and sheriffs'
departments.
But LEAA is in trouble at the
national level, where its priorities
should be examined, and in almost
every state, where local officers see
the rule of bureaucracy expanding.
This past week a top criminal
justice official from North Carolina
who has seen past benefits from
LEAA in his deparment, came by my
office to ask: "What can you do to
keep them from throwing SI4
million away1 You know I'm a
taxpayer, too." And a sheriff
recently wrote me from our state
that he "no longer shared in those
funds in a fiar and equitable
manner."
What is happening in Washington
and elsewhere is happening in Norht
Carolina. And if the program is to
survive, we must put it back on the
right track.
In North Carolina, at present, the
State Planning Agency wants to use
the bulk of LEAA funds to set up a
giant computer system in the
Department of Administration,
toward tire lieutenant governor's
office. It has been reported that a
million dollars made tire difference --
that Jimmy's advisors said it would
take $ 1,500,000 for a first class try
for tire governor's office and that
S500.000 would suffice for a
lieutenant governor's race.
Well, we tliink $1,500,000 is
entirely too much to spend wisely in
running for governor and that
$500,000 is too much for a
lieutenant governor's race. Of course
you can spend this much, and more
but we believe an alert and hustling
candidate can present himself and
tire issues, if he will face them forth ?
rightly for much less than is generally
rumored as necessary today.
WAVERLY ATKINS -? The
announcement by Waverly Atkins of
Fuquay ? Varina for lieutenant
governor this week along with that of
Strickland for governor will hasten
the political tempo. Atkins is an *le
man with a lot of get - up and go
about him. He is a Wake County
Commissioner and former chairman
of his board; a former president of
tire N.C. County Commissioners
Association. He is also a farmer,
tobacco warehouseman, a lawyer and
a former FBI agent.
It appears that most of the
candidates for licut. governor have
their eyes set beyond tire lieut.
governor's office in tire legislative
building, to the mansion on Blount
street if success crowns their 1076
efforts.
LEE COUNTY ?? In Lee County it
is reported that State Senator Bill
Staton and State Rep. Jimmy Love
will not be candidates to succeed
themselves in 1076. Senator Staton
will be devoting his time to his law
practice and to Terry Sanford's
presidential campaign. Rep. Love is
giving serious consideration to
running for congress in the Third
District, now represented by David
Henderson of Duplin County.
Henderson, now chairman of the
House Postal Committee is expected
to be a candidate for re-election.
With the two Assembly seats
opening up in Lee County we hear
reports that Roy Sowers may seek
nomination for die House seat which
covers Lee and Harnett counties and
that Ralph Monger may seek
Staton's old seat in the Sate Senate
which covers Lee and Wake counties.
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
which is a non - criminal ? justice
agency, that will go far beyond the
Police Information Network. This is
unwise, in the opinion of the vast
majority of law enforcement experts.
But it is not surprising when one
considers the fact that the LEAA
program in North Carolina is
administered by the Department of
Natural and Economic Resources
which has nothing to do with the day
- to - day administration of the
Criminal Justice System and
administers such diverse programs as
economic development and the State
Zoo.
This hardly scents an appropriate
place for die dispensation of funds or
the administration of programs in
law enforcement.
To bring some order back into the
program and to free it from
bureaucratic control, I have
introduced an amendment to the
Safe Streets Act, which I believe
would help the states put LEAA
funds to better use. This amendment
would allow each state legislature to
make its own decision as to who in
the state could best run the program
and allow the legislature to place the
state's criminal justice planning
agency under any constitutional
officer of the State.
This slight, but significant change,
is in keeping with the whole thrust of
the Safe Street Act, which is to help
states solve their own problems in
their own way. Those of us who
want to reduce the roles of
bureaucrats thinks this will remove
some federal controls and allow the
states to work out their own
solutions. We want to cut red tape,
not add more.
Stories Behind Words
by William S. Penfield
Lethal
In Greek mythology. Hades was the
lower world where people dwelt after
they died. There were five rivers in
Hades, one of them named "Lethe," a
name which meant oblivion or
forgetfulness. It was so called because
those who entered Hades supposedly
drank water from the river and forgot
about the world of the living.
The Romans, who absorbed much
of the Greek culture, coined the wo{d
"lethilis" - of, or pertaining to, death ?
from ""Lethe." From "lethalis" came
the English word "lethal," meaning
deadly or fatal.