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ESTABLISHED 1936 EDWARD A. YUZIUK - EDITOR & PUBLISHER CAROLYN R. YUZIUK - ASSOCIATE EDITOR MBS PATSY BRIGGS - OFFICE MANAGER FUBLEHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLEHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE ,N,C. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1970 NUMBER THIRTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00/YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $5.00/YEAR SENATOR 4 SAM ERVIN Jjptgl WASHINGTON - - There appears to be little doubt now that the President's February 2nd budget message was unduly optimistic about the precarious fiscal condition confront in g the nation. The Administration's February 2nd budget for fiscal 1971 forecast a surplus of $1.3 billion based upon anticipated re ceipts of $202.1 billion and expenditures of $200.8 billion. On May 19th, the President revised his 1971 budget and sta ted that due to a $2.5 billion change in revenues and expen - ditures since February 2nd, he anticipated a $1.3 billion de ficit. A week later, the Congressional Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation came up with a more dismal bud get prediction. The Committee's staff concluded that the "unified" budget, which includes surpluses of trust fundsjwould incur an estimated $4.5 deficit. The Joint Committee staff based this prediction on the assumption that Congress would approve all 6f the Administration's tax requests. If Congress did not approve such tax requests, the Joint Committee staff predicted that the "unified" budget deficit would soar to $9. 2 billion for the fiscal which began July Ist. Actually, the "unified" budget concept paints a rosy pic - tare by taking into account trust revenues, such as the social security fund, which are invested in government securities & held for the present and future use of beneficiaries. Under the old "administrative" budget, the Joint Committee staff predicts that the deficit will rise to $13.6 billion for fiscal 1971, assuming that Congress enacts the Administration's tax requests, and to $17.5 billion if Congress does not approve these requests. The Administration's assumption that Congress will ap prove all of its tax requests is shaky at best. There is little enthusiasm on Capitol Hill for the Administration's proposed new taxes on leaded gasoline and diesel fuel which would add about $1.85 billion in new revenues for fiscal 1971. More ova the requested speedup in the collection of estate and gift ■taxes, which the Administration counts in the budget for ano ther $1.5 billion in fiscal 1971 revenues, has yet to win the House Ways and Means Committee approval. An increase in Social Security taxes and the continuance of telephone and auto excises is still subject to Congressional action. Moreover, while the President's May 19th Message recog nizes that corporate and personal income tax revenues will be lower, the Joint Committee staff concludes that even those revised estimates may now be too optimistic. The Penn- Central Railroad bankruptcy and the stock market dec line have warned that our gross national product and personal and corporate incomes may be several billions of dollars lower than the Administration's May 19th estimate. Federal budgets of any Administration are stbest a con - glomerate of economic and legislative assumptions that business will accelerate or decrease its earnings; that Con gress will accept or reject the President's recommendations for spending and revenues. Amid all the uncertainties about the budget, it is a fact that the national debt continues to rise, and this reveals that the government is spending more tdijua it is receiving from general revenues. All of which means that we continue to face the herculean task of setting our national financial house in order. > Thafs A lifetime Excuse Gentle sarcasm: Next time you hear of a fiendish murder, don't judge the criminals too harshly. Remember, the poor dears may have had an underprivileged grandmother. And by today's loose and lax permissiveness, that's a lifetime excuse for all kinds of bmtish behavior. C Jlie « By Marilyn Manion THE U.S.S.R.-A HOUSE DIVIDED * - Have you ever wondered what the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”—or “U.S.S.R.” —is supposed to stand for? Leave it to a lady to answer your question in full. Mrs. Bemadine Bailey has traveled to almost every country of the world (“All except Greenland, I believe,” she says modestly). Along the way, she has managed to write 94 published books, the latest of which is entitled “The Captive Nations: Our First Line of Defense.” Mrs. Bailey spoke over the Manion Forum microphone not long ago, and told the radio audience a bit about the U.S.S.R.—what it means, and what it means to us. Here are ex cerpts from her remarks; “Inside the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub lics, there are 15 so-called Republics. Os those fifteen, only one is Russian. Most people don’t realize that the other 14 were at one time free and independent nations, with their own government, their own literature, language, re ligion, history, customs, all the rest. They have been taken over by Russia, who has forced these people to learn Russian and to follow the Russian ways. Among these captured na tions are Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Georgia, Turkistan, and Armenia. The people of these nations desperately want to be free. They haven’t reached the state of apathy that we have here in this country, where we’re interested mpstly in entertainment and high living. No. They will go to aiiy length to obtain freedom. For instance, they’ll even sabotage their own production of agriculture to prove to the world that the collective system does not work. “It is just wishful thinking to suggest that Russia is mellowing at all. Here is a statement made by Karl Marx. He said, ‘Russian policy is unchangeable. Her methods can change, her When The Shoe's On The Other Foot Newsdayfe syndicated Wash ington columnist, Nick Thim - mesch, revealed some interes ting information about some politicians who scream the most about punishing Southern States for not integrating their schools fast enough: Some of the biggest table-pounders and finger-shakers send their own children to private schools or to virtually all-white suburban public schools in Maryland and Virginia rather than to the pre dominantly colored schools in Washington, D.C. liberal senators who live in the Natiodk Capital are among the worst followers of the doub le standard. Sen. George Mc- Govern (D.-S.D.), who yields . to no one in his verbal liberal ism, has two children he sends across the District line into Maryland public schools, pay- News Notes The news discloses that three reputed Mafia figures were in dicted on bribery and kick-back charges involving a Teamsters' Union Pension Fund. This is one more flagrant example of crim inal action in 4 he handling of workers' money. I submit for con sideration that the giant unions with multi-millions of dollars are outmoded. Isn't the possible an swer unions in which members actually have control, instead of vesting unchecked power in the hands of out-of-touch tyrants? That might bring the unions back to their original purpose: to bene fit the working members. * * # Plea to Israel: Please stand still and be killed. You've done it for centuries. Why be anti-Arab? tactics, her maneuvers; but the pole star of her policy—the domination of the Free World — is a fixed star.’ “Today, the concentration camps have even more people in them than they used to have. They have to work hard all the time and do not get enough food to eat. But you never see these camps as a visitor. Oh, no. “The Soviets allow one or two churches in a large city to operate, just to point those out to visitors. You see, they’re show places. That’s to g ve the impression that there is religious freedom, when there isn’t at all. Religious persecution is going on stronger than ever. But the people keep on and they hold underground services. The government maintains schools of atheism, where children are deliberately taught atheistic principles. That’s part of the whole plan. “Most people think there are just two al ternatives to the present situation. On the one hand. is nuclear war. The second alternative is so-called coexistence. We think of coexistence as going peaceably in our own way, letting Russia go peaceably in her way. But that isn’t possible, because Russia will never submit to that. Coexistence means giving in to Russia. “There is a third alternative. That is the ex plosion of the whole system—the break-up of Communism completely through the revolu tions of these captive people. In other words, they are so anxious to have their own national life again, they will explode the whole system if wfe could just help them a little Bit.” How can we help? Mrs. Bailey’s 94th book will tell you. Send one dollar to Chas. Hallberg and Company, 3433 Merchandise Mart, Chic ago, 111. 60654. That title again: “The Captive Nations: Our First Line of Defense.” —Ameri- can Way Features ing $1,014 annual tuition each. Senators Charles Percy (R.- I1L), Birch Bayh (D.-hid),Ed ward Kennedy (D.-Mass), Abra ham Rxbjcoff (D. -Conn. ),Sen. Clifford Case (R.-N.J.), Sen. Charles GoodeH gene McCarthy (DrMinn) and William Proximiie (D.-Wis. ) have, says Thimmesch," either sent or are sending their child ren to high-priced (up to s£loo a year tuition) private schools afflicted with the racial doub le standard and status-consdois bickering that privileged folks indulge themselves with." Even privileged Negroes ap parently don't want to send their children to the Districts heavily integrated schcols.The only Negro member of the Su preme Court, Thurgood Mar shall, who led the fight against \ T' 1 ' he Os Ivf uicater Southern segregation, placed his children in a private school as did Julius Hobson, a black militant on the D. C. scho o 1 board. James Farmer, - the Negro assistant secretary at the Health, Education and Wel fare Department, also has "two children in private Thimmesch. "These folks", says Thim mesch, "apparently think in - tegradon is for lowbrow South ern whites, the poor aid those beer-drinking ethnics in the North whose cars bear bumper stickers reading "Support Your Local Police. " "Integration is a moral as well as a legal matter, and the hypocrites want to lmlo ad the moral burden on Lower - income groups." -Hum anEvents
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