ESTABLISHED JULY. 1996 TRENA P. FOX, EDITOR & PUBLISHER MISS. ZOE YOUNG. ASSOCIATE EDITOR THURMAN L. BROWN. SHOP MANAGER ARCHIE H. BALLEW. PHOTOGRAPHER & PERSSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. SEPT. M, IM7 NUMBER THREE SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00 PER YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $4.00 PER YEAR « Scene From Top O’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly With the new Federal tax bills passed and contemplated, it will SJx.n eventuate that if you lose a nay's pay, the Government will lore as much as you do. That is doubtless an exaggerat ed statement. However, taxes are getting to be a bit of a pro blem. Not only to us who pay them but to the Gentlemen of the House of Representatives who pass the Bills that bring them into existance. They have to return to their respective Dis tricts and prove to their con stituents that paying more taxes was a splendid idea. If they fail to do so, they get beaten at the next election and are out of a job The only pleasant thing they would have going for them then would be the fact that they could gripe about taxes rising. Obviously, if there happened to be . simple solution to the tax question, it would have been solved long ere this. None of us can object with any reasonable argument to the money it costs and which we are spending to promulgate or forward the War effort. Regardless of anyone’s opinion as to whether we should or should net participate in it, wo are in it. Ergo, it costs us iTHio.y The Govembent gets money from taxes raised from tin people, so it looks like us po' pl<- are in for a long, hard pull * There was a time when many pc- pie could, and did, advance loci* al. workable arguments which showed where cuts could he made in Domestic spending as opposed to Foreign snoring. N'-wadavs. present conditions being what they are. no one can suggest this because the big si’ceestors are clamoring for billions and billions to he ex pended f'T education, housing, job education, and anything else that anyone can call to mind One wonders hannened to the old idea which worked very *eU f'T many, many of us, whereby we worked our way lb’"'ugh school and attended nioht classes As for housing, this new system whereby the Government will pav your rent, so to speak, is a pip. It works something like this. vr>u build a niep place and a poor person wants to live in it hut can’t af ford to pay a rental that would give you a reasonable return on your investment so the Gov ernment will let the "poor” per son move in and pay a portion o( the rent and it will pick up the tab for the rent No one has said it hut. some where along the way. some one has figured it out that a “poor” person should live just like a ■ rich” pers* n It makes no mat ler to Hi*- new planners that > *j worked and saved and did what ever else was necessary to ach ieve your present state. These fellows want to give it to the ma* who never made it on his own They care not whether he even tried. Probably he gets more points if he didn't. My understanding of "job education” is that a person got a job where there was need for an employee. After which, that person displayed aptitude and ability and was on the way to ward better things or else if the lack of these two qualities appeared, the person got fired. No longer will that be the sys tem. The new system will re quire you to place a certain amount of bodies on your pay roll in specified jobs for speci fied amounts. Don’t let it get you down that the bodies hired have no ability in the position placed or have even less ambi tion to advance. It is your busi ness and they could care less what happens to you or it. Some body, some place, some time, is going to have to call a halt to some of these new operations, else we become a Social State. All of this brings to mind a Tennessee newspaper who quot ed a Washington gentleman as having said: "I am an in-be tween Citizen. I am at the wrong age and position in life. Too young for Social Security and Medicare, too prosperous for Welfare, too urban for crop sub sidies. and too Amo Scan for Foreign Aid.” It is fortunate that our ances tors have departed. Thev might have done more than just gripe about things. Once they straight ened out the Country and it ran along pretty good for a century* and a half or more. As a matter of fact, just one hundred years ago cur Country was moving so smoothly that the post-Civil War business-world we’comed the advent of the first robe manufacturing com pany, for use in horse and bug gies, in Sanford, Maine. This business did not fare as well or last as long as the chewing gum business which started about the same time. Incidentally, if you had had a desire to try this new fangled confection, you would have had to travel to Jersey City. If something isn’t done about conditions our Country will stag nate. Stagnation, in Nations, precedes decline. Decline Os this C untry is a dreadful thing to contemplate. Particularly is this s~ when the decline would be attributable to our own efforts. Someone must have a remedy or a stop-acticn s<~me place that will not only halt our aim but cha'nge cur direction. Perhaps the up-erming election might furnish the answer. From here, it looks like it might be a real horre-race if and that is a big "if" the Republicans come up with a sensible ticket. 7 Youngsters Can Take Part In War Effort Youngsters of today are learn ing about the privileges and re sponsibilities of their American heritage and their lessons are not confined to classroom stud- AmON6 "TOE Rx*e£