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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE \
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HAVING BEEN l!V THE SENATE for some 15 years, I
am accustomed to being irritated by excesses in federal spend
ing. In fact, during this time I have seen the national debt
increase by almost S2OO billion to its present $450 billion.
Consequently, I am familiar with runaway federal spend
ing. I have denounced it at every opportunity, and so long as
I am privileged to serve the people of Georgia in the Senate,
I will continue to oppose spending money we do not have
for programs we do not need.
I am also aware of the waste and inefficiency in operations
of the federal government, with a civilian employment of 2.8
million in a vast bureaucracy that is less and less responsive to
the needs and the will of the people.
But I must confess that I was amazed to learn that the
Office of Economic Opportunity in New Jersey proposed to
spend $60,000 of the taxpayers’ money to take 67 passengers
on a junket to Europe and Africa. Whoever concocted this
scheme ought to get a citation for having the dubious dis
tinction of coming up with a novel way to waste public funds.
I protested to OEO and was informed that this exercise of
bad judgment was caught in time and funds for the European
trip rescinded. However, there arc many that are not caught
and many that go undetected at all.
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WHENEVER I HEAR about such fiscal irresponsibility as
this, my thoughts go to the so-called middle man in the Amer
ican society, the working man who puts in a day's work and
takes home a pay envelope made considerably lighter by in
creasing taxes.
He makes too much to qualify for anti-poverty programs
and too little to benefit from tax shelters. He is too old for the
Youth Corps and too young for Old Age Assistance. He is
caught in the middle, hurt the most by inflation and benefitting
the least from government spending and federal assistance
programs.
That's why he is fed up with the welfare mess, with multi
billion dollar foreign aid while problems at home beg for
attention, with the United States getting involved in wars
where we have no business, and with sending men to the
Moon on rock-collecting expeditions when we can’t even devise
away to get people to work on time.
The time is long overdue for more vigilance over govern
ment spending. We owe it to the taxpayers to ensure a dollar’s
value for every dollar spent. The government has imposed
wage and price controls on the people. Now is the time for
Restraint and spending controls to be imposed on the govern
ment.
(not prepared or printed at government expense)
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Sept. 2,
the 246th day of 1972 with 120 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
American poet and humorist
Eugene Field was born Sept. 2,
1850.
On this day in history:
In 1935, one of the worst
hurricanes to hit the U.S.
mainland ripped through the
Florida Keys, killing more than
365 persons.
In 1945, Japan signed an
unconditional surrender aboard
the U.S. battleship Missouri in
Tokyo Bay, ending World War
n.
In 1964, World War I hero
Sgt. Alvin York died at the age
of 76.
In 1968, the death toll in
earthquakes rolling across Iran
was fixed at 12,000.
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THOUGHTS
Thus says the Lord, the
King of Israel, and His Re
deemer, the Lord of hosts: “I
am the first and I am the
last; besides me there is no
god.”—lsaiah 44:6.
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God. veiled in majesty,
alone gives light and life to
all; bids the great systems
move, and changing seasons
in their turns advance, un
moved. unchanged Himself.
—William Somerville, Eng
lish poet.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Anti-War Demonstrators
Or Just Plain Hoodlums ?
The Moultrie Observer
People who come together to show
mass support for some cause are apt to
get a hearing in this great country of
ours. If their requests and demands have
merit, under “due process” their
proposals will, like seed, germinate,
grow and produce fruit in time.
Unfortunately, we have with us in the
current era of American history a group
of untidy—even filthy—professional
agitators who demonstrate at the drop of
a hat under the guise of legitimate
complaint.
These same people turn up wherever
there is a crowd—wherever action of a
public nature is taking place. They have
ceased to win the sympathy or support of
the American public, because it has
become quite obvious they are more
hoodlum in nature than red-blooded
Americans crusading for a righteous
cause.
The press has seen fit to classify them
as “anti-war demonstrators”. But when
the same groups turn up in California,
Washington, New York, Miami Beach
and other spots and turn parks and
playgrounds into shambles, they do not
qualify as American patriots whose
cause is just.
When these same people smash win
dows, tear down American flags, slash
people, break into liquor stores, and
A Strong Testimonial
One of the strongest testimonials to
the merit of the private enterprise
system has come from the Food and
Drug Administration. The agency
reports that there is far less con
tamination in food than is permitted by
the legally established maximum
levels. Says the FDA, “The major
safeguard for the consumer is the food
industry itself, because it is in the
No-Fault Insurance
People who own and operate
automobiles are concerned about the
soaring cost of insurance. The charges for
basic coverage have had tremendous
increases. Families in which there are
young people reaching the age at which
they can secure a license to drive receive
an additional jolt when they discover how
high the rates are when there are teenage
drivers in the family.
In some states certain lacets of car
insurance have been reduced through
enactment of legislation providing for
‘‘No-Fault" coverage. Massachusetts was
the first of several states to adopt some
form of no-fault insurance. There the cost
of car insurance went down 42.5 per cent.
Such a major savings warrents attention.
If it can and does work in Massachusetts,
why not have it in Georgia?
Involved is a change in the basic concept
of payment for damages. In the past it has
been accepted that whenever an accident
took place some person was to blame, and
We all like
to be accepted
Jesus said, “Ye shall be hated of all men
for my name’s sake.” (Matthew 24:9.)
Christians are accepted in our society, in
fact, I believe for the most part they are
admired. Why did Jesus say we would be
hated. If a thing is right and true, should it
be hated by the majority of people? G.O.
Someone has said that the Gospel is most
relevant when most of the people are of
fended by it. We all like to be accepted by
our peers, but Jesus taught that the Gospel
with its strong demands for personal
discipline, would be rejected by the
segment of the world which seeks
popularity and acceptance.
Christ’s disciples were not accepted by
their peers, and they were looked upon as
odd, abnormal, and perhaps fanatical.
engage in physical confrontation with
police and security guards, they are not
living up to the slogan, “Give Peace a
Chance.”
Rather than being conscientious ob
jectors to war and U.S. participation in
the Vietnam conflict, these “hippies,”
“zippies” or what have you are not
portraying themselves as responsible
American citizens. Instead of resorting
to “due process” to be heard, they seek
to damage destroy and change by threat
and violence—a philosophy which is the
very opposite of that they claim to
espouse.
When they are ejected from orderly
meetings they deserve no sympathy.
When they are hustled aside by
uniformed police to clear the way for
people on official business they deserve
no support.
And when they are arrested by the
dozens for trying to force their way into
convention halls, conferences and
conversations between officials, they
deserve no bail bonds from considerate
people.
It’s time those who frequent the
demonstrations to decide for themselves
whether they intend to be crusading
demonstrators within the law or un
wanted hoodlums who must be treated as
such.
GEORGIAN, Carrollton, Ga.
processors’ best interests to maintain a
low level (of contamination)... for their
customers. The industry has mucn
more to fear from a critical public than
from the FDA.” Laws and police
surveillance are, at best, inadequate
substitutes for the automatic self
policing mechanism of a competitive
free market.
News Daily, Clayton County
the first step in settling the matter was to
fix the fault upon some individual. Once
this was done he or his insurer had to pay
the cost of whatever damages were in
volved. In recent years the amounts of
these payments have soared. To provide
for the tremendous increases the
insurance companies have raised their
rates. When these increases were in
proportion to the cost this apparently was
the only solution available.
Assessing fault and going through the
legal processes necessary to have the
claims settled involves the services of
attorneys. They have a built-in interest in
the present system, which makes their
opposition to no-fault insurance
understandable. Virginia Knauer, the
President’s Assistant for Consumer
Affairs, is quoted as having said, “The
trial lawyers squeeze $1 billion each year
out of the current auto liability insurance
system -about 25 cents out of every dollar
you pay for auto liability insurance. They
stand to lose this pot of gold if no-fault
insurance is enacted.”
Eleven of the twelve were martyred, and it
looked as though Christianity as taught by
Christ would fade out in a generation.
But like leaven in a loaf, it began to grow
and flourish, and with the missionary work
of St. Paul, much of the world was caught
up in the magnetism of the Gospel, and in a
sense the “world was turned upside
down.” But, even so, Christians were
hated and despised people. Mainly,
perhaps, because Christ’s demands went
against the popular philosophy of the day.
Paul said it best: “But we preach Christ,
unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto
the Greeks foolishness.”
It was a new, revolutionary, earth
shaking concept, and still is. But in it was
and is, the manifestation of the power of
God.
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A Plus for Nixon
Trade Trends
Toward Black
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By DON GRAFF
At this still very early stage of the campaign, Richard
Nixon would appear to need another lucky break about as
desperately as San Diego needed a national political con
vention.
At home, Democrats have been falling all over each
other scoring points for the man they are supposedly
dedicated to removing from office. Abroad, capitals from
Cairo to Moscow, Peking and just possibly Hanoi at
times have been behaving as if they were in on the script.
And now, as a result of the delayed effect of his own
economic policies, sheer lucky coincidence or a com
bination of the two, forces are at work which could make
the President the beneficiary of the first encouraging
word from the world trade front since the traditionally
comfortable American surplus evaporated in the Sixties.
The good news is not in trade figures at hand. For
the second quarter of 1972, the Commerce Department
reported a $2 billion gap between what the United States
sold to the rest of the world and what it bought. This,
following a $1.7-billion red-ink first quarter, points to an
all-time record trade deficit for 1972.
But the trend may not continue. There are other factors
not yet fully felt which should significantly and favorably
affect it. These are renewed economic growth at home—
a Gross National Product up 9.4 per cent in the second
quarter of 1972, the greatest quarterly increase since
1965—and a lower rate of inflation, 2.9 per cent, com
pared with major trading partners. In Western Europe,
Canada and Japan, inflation is churning along at from
4 to more than 6 per cent.
Eventually, the effects should make U.S. exports,
prices already cut 12 per cent in last year’s dollar de
valuation, increasingly attractive in world markets, par
ticularly in technological hard goods, the U.S. strong
suit. For the first time in almost a decade, the United
States could be earning abroad something close to what
it is spending.
There is a slight cloud on this rosy horizon. If the
healthier economy at home fuels demand for increased
imports of foreign consumer goods, the export gain could
be diminished or entirely offset.
But if imports can be controlled and a significant nar
rowing of the huge trade deficit does develop, it certainly
will be chalked up as a major plus for the President’s
new economic policy, whether a direct result of that
policy or of longer-term natural factors.
In politics as elsewhere, it appears, them that has
frequently go on gitting.
Our solons on the Go
Speaking of spending abroad, Congress made 1971 a
record year for foreign travel. Members of both houses
and staff spent $1,114,386 in public funds on trips abroad,
according to a Congressional Quarterly study of congres
sional travel, up from $825,118 the previous year.
More than half the membership of Congress—22l repre
sentatives and 53 senators—at some time during the year
was abroad on official business.
Neither budget deficits, business at home nor an ap
proaching election year, it appears, can stay a dedicated
legislator from his self-appointed foreign rounds.
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Meir, Israeli stateswoman.
born?
A—Kiev, Russia, as Golda
Mavovitz.
Q —How many stars can
you see without a telescope?
A —About 4,000, on a clear
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Q —What was the won-lost
record of the New York
Mets in 1962, their first year
in the National League?
A —They lost three out of
every four.
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City’s famous Boardwalk?
A —lt was finished in 1870,
only a mile long and a foot
above the sand then. It has
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