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'Altogether, now---inhale:’ OTHER EDITORS SAY WRAL VIEWPOINT Lyndon 'Flim-Flam' Johnson The way things are piling up, it was Wednesday evening, well, after dinner, before we settled down to peruse the stack of Congressional Records which, in their dull brown wrappers, were beginning to rise like a barren mountain on the far corner of the desk. And, as we flipped the pages in last Friday’s edition, it began to appear that the delay had been of no serious conse quence. But then, on Page 4781, there was a bit of which which — it hardly needs saying — the press has diligently ignored. Not surprisingly, Senator John J. Williams of Delaware was on his feet in the Senate, playing hob with another one of Lyndon Johnson’s shell game. The Sena tor has become the nation’s Number One killjoy in the eyes of the Washington wheelers and dealers. It was he, to, cite one of the more dramatic examples, who uncovered the Bobby Bak er stench and, despite all that London Johnson’s cornies could; dp. Sen. Williams persisted in his demands that Baker and bis activities be dragged out into the light for all to see. Friday was thp jjjjroposed budget wbich tbe White House has sent to the Congress. The pretense in thegjmdget is all Johnson and a yard tilde. Not only does the President propped to spend the most fantastic stun of money in the nation’s history; he sent word to the Congress — with a perfectly straight face—that his proposals would increase the fed eral debt by — as Mr. Johnson put it —\“only” $1.8 billion. Needless to say, the press has cot impressed upon the public that Mr. Johnson is demanding that Congress reinstate tastes have them. But that is not all, by a long shot — as Senator Williams made clear last Friday. First of all, Mr. Johnson is asking Congress to require the payment by corporations of $4.5 billion in advance taxes during the coming year, these taxes to be borrowed from the following year to be spent this year. Secondly, the President pro posed to step up collections from individual taxpayers by means of what he calls a “change” in withholding techniques. This will [ milk the taxpayers of an addi tional $400 million. Third: By reducing the silver content of coins, and selling the silver, the President proposes to pick up another $1.5 billion. All of these, it should easily be seen, are one-shot operations, something like selling the cook stove to pay the grocery bill,. . But Mr. Johnson, has called for still one mpre Juggling act in high government finance. He proposes to sell an extra $1.5 billion worth of mortgages held by the Federal Natiohit Mort gage Association and use the vmm pi utttuo. tupay expenses rather than recording tfte trans actions as income. This*, as Sen ator Wiliams pointed out, is designed “to give the American people the idea that (the govern ment) has cut expenditures.” Ip any case, the simple arith msHpof Senator John Williams discloses that the federal gov ernment will go further in debt this coming year, not by the $1.8 billion that Lyndon Johnson pre tends, but between nine and ten billions of dollars! If you want to .know why in flation is rolling in upon us so rapidly, Senator Williams has just explained it. As he put it: “Some day (the Lyndon John son) administration is going to have to take direct responsibil ity for the inflation which it is fed % THE VETERANS CORNER Q — My neighbor, a disa bled veteran receiving monthly disability payments, received an income questionnaire from VA; his payments would be stopped if he did not report his annaul income. I am receiving disa bility compensation payments, but have never received the questionnaire. Should I file a billion more than it has taken in. This is an average increase [ in the federal debt of $500 mil lion per month. Yet, said Sen ator Williams last Friday, “the President has been before this Congress (every year) and in his messages has boasted that we are achieving a balanced bud get.” “The words sound well,” said Senator Williams, “but actions belie the words.” Indeed they do. Indeod they do. V All Kinds of HINTING US FOR BUSINESS, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL PRINTING. ■ OTHER EDITORS SAY THB MONTGOMERY INDEPENDENT Not A Scratch Tobacco Advice A booklet "Tobacco Informa tion for 1966" prepared by State Extension Tobacco Specialists is available for distribution to in terested growers. It outlines rec ommended production practices including nematode control, ter tilization, placement of fertilizer, spacing, transplating, insect con trol as well as other topics. To bacco growers will likely find this booklet of interest as. they start the 1966 crop. Interested persons may get a copy by call ing or visiting their county ag ricultural extension agents of fice. icpuii. oi income, anywayr A — Your neighbor evidently receives monthly “pension” payments for a non - service connected disability. You are receiving “compensation” pay ments for a service - connect ed disability which is not af fected by your other income. You do not need to file a report. Q — I receive a nonservice - connected disability pension from the VA amounting to $80 per month. If I no longer live with my wife will I lose any of my pension and if so, how much? A — If you and your wife live apart and you are contributing to her support, your pension payment will not change. If you and your wife live apart and you do not contribute to her sup port, you will be considered a single person — without de Some reporters who followed Bobby Kennedy on his trip to Oxford, Miss., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., seemed surprised because Thatch was not roughed in some way. Their preliminary stories described his thrust into the South as “a daring adventure.” It’s pathetic that grown men haul around these phantom ap prehensions and really, unnerv ing that they propagate-, them through the national press., And then the poor wretches, evident ly unaccustomed to civility, chat ter incoherently about the great changes in the South which now permit a man like Kennedy to move safely among the Southern devils. The students at the Uni versity and the University of Alabama can only feel embar rassed that they are praised for having received Kennedy polite ly and refrained from roughing him up. Bobby is not universally loved I in the South, but then he isn’t | universally loved in Washington. The reporters who feared for Bobby’s sensibilities evidently confused his visit to the South with a visit to the White House. 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