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Wednesday, December 5, 1984
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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William Rusher
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redistributive welfarism is sup-
NEW YORK - One might as largely unexplored interface regulated by human beings.’
well begin a discussion of the between religion and economics, Religious and moral conviction port for such “‘-conceived
Roman Catholic bishops’ but actually sets back the hope cannot, simply by itself, produce measures as Aid to Families
pastoral letter on the U.S. of intelligent exploration by solutions to economic dilem- with Dependent Children. As
economy by saying the only two decades. Worse yet, far from of- mas.” George Gilder and others have
good things there are to be said fering real hope to the poor, who But, having thus dutifully pointed out, however, AFDC has
about it. are its central concern, it ad- acknowledged the perils of all but destroyed the black famF
The first is that this is only a vocates forms of assistance so simplistic formulations of ly structure in this country by
draft. There is still time, and will manifestly harmful that even economic problems and Chris- subsidizing female-headed
tian “solutions” to them, the let- households in which there is no
ter proceeds to fall victim to the place for a husband and father.
In truth, the draft resembles very danger it has warned This disastrous program bears a
for major revisions of the text, nothing so much as an essay against. - large share of the responsibility
Let us be grateful for that. written by a diligent but not very What, for example, would be for the fact that illegitimate bir-
Second, the bishops had the bright pupil in the hope of pleas- the practical consequence of the ths among blacks have risen
letter’s statement that “Our tax from 20 percent to 55 percent,
structures need to be revised to
Let's keep speed
limit of 55 mph
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presumably be opportunity, for secular liberals have largely
a serious discussion of the letter stopped calling for them,
in the Catholic community, and
By far the greatest benefit derived from the 55 mph
highway speed limit is saving between 2,000 and 4,000
lives a year.
A blue-ribbon study group concluded that driving 55 is
still a good idea on most major highways, but invited
Congress to consider increasing the limit on non-
congested country roads.
The panel recommended keeping the limit at 55 for
about 94 percent of highways not classified as “rural.”
Some committee members favor permitting states to
regulate the speed limit on less heavily-traveled
highways. ■
Figures presented to the committee estimated that
reduced highway speeds have prevented 2,500 to 4,500
serious highway injuries since the 55 mph limit became
l&w 10 years ago.
In addition to saving lives and preventing injuries, the
speed limit continues to save an estimated 167,000 bar-
rels of oil a day, reducing the U.S. trade deficit by about
$2 billion annually. .1 *
Figures discussed during the committee study would
change dramatically if more people would drive 55. It is
impossible for state highway patrolmen to ticket more
than a small percentage of motorists who violate the
law. There is, however, commendable voluntary com-
pliance. The speed limit law was enacted by Congress in
1974 as a means of conserving petroleum products and
making the nation less vulnerable to OPEC oil em-
bargos that caused severe gasoline shortages
throughout the nation. „
States that failed to enforce the 55 mph limit faced
curtailment of federal highway funds. -
The committee’s decision to recommend retention of
the speed limit makes sense and deserves nationwide
support.
good taste to delay publication of ing a notoriously liberal teacher,
this draft until after the Christianity is reduced to one
presidential election. If it had primitive slogan: Give more to discourage excessively high wholesale redistribution as the
seen daylight before Nov. 6, it the poor. How this might affect levels of consumption”? If this solution to our national
would have been taken, quite the poor isn’t even considered; means anything at all, it means economic problems, the bishops
rightly, as a forthright, the whole point is to make the That consumption ought to be peatly sidestep the truly difficult
episcopal endorsement of the church acceptable in the eyes of penalized by a sales tax, or a problem, which is how this shall
domestic planks of the platform liberalism. value-added tax, or perhaps both be brought about. If they
adopted by the Democrats last The letter acknowledges that — two of the most regressive, il- seriously propose to soak the
July in San Francisco. economics is a legitimate and liberal tax measures im- middle class on behalf of the
Once these two points have . .complex discipline: aginable, There may be a case, poor (for assuredly there aren’t
been noted, however, it is “We.. .fully accept the fact for such taxes, but it is hard to enough rich to serve the pur-
necessary to say bluntly that the that social and economic affairs believe the bishops meant to pose), they should have the ,
letter, as it stands, is an absolute ‘enjoy their own laws and values make it. courage to say so.
disaster. It not only does not which must be gradually
represent progress along the deciphered, put to use and primitive philosophy of
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From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
DEC. 5,1944
W.F. White succeeds James
Harrop as district chairman of
Boy Scouts in the Tri-Cities area.
? . Elmer Gray heads a commit-
i tee of Pelly citizens backing the
^ proposal to merge Gbose Week
i and Felly. Serving on the com-
mittee are Mrs. J.P......Helfrich,
Mrs. Frank Jones, W.F. Hall,
Sam Davis, Charles Teschen-
dorf, J.E. Seale, Mrs. J.N. Grif-
fin and Sam Stassi.
Second Lt. Julian Headley, son
'of Mamie Headley of Goose
Creek, earns the Air Medal for
meritorious achievement while
participating in heavy bombard-
ment missions on the air offen-
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REL second to none
sensitive treatment of the vari-
ables involved, do a disservice to
the positive self-image of our
student body.
Our buildings are old, but our
programs are up-to-date. The
School Board and the adminis-
tration have made sure that both
Sterling and Lee offer a state of
the art curriculum with all the
necessary support to implement
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To The Sun:
Recent newspaper and televi-
sion coverage of deliberations
concerning the unequal racial
balance between Baytown’s two
high schools has seemed to por-
tray Robert E. Lee as a sub-
standard school in a current
depressed state.
We want our community to be
aware that Robert E. Lee is a
vibrant campus with a diverse,
energetic, and purposeful stu-
dent population. It has an out-
standing faculty and staff com-
mitted to continuing long-estab-
lished traditions of excellence in
all facets of its programs.
We are proud of the con-
siderable list of group and indivi-
dual achievements and feel that
negative epithets and excessive
gloom over statistics without a
HJack Anderson
Some experts predict slump
in economy by next summer
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a year by 1989 — unless the DEC. 5,1954
federal government’s spending Baytown Ministerial Alliance
habits are changed. will meet tomorrow morning at
Footnote- You can join Gonzalez Restaurant. The Rev.
Citizens Against Waste by Leon Matthis, president and pas-
telephoning 1-800-USA-DEBT or tor of St. John’s -Methodist
by writing P.O. Box 1000, Ben
Franklin Station, Washington,
D C.. 20044.:
Our district is fortunate to
have a board which has dili-
gently and consistently pro-
moted quality and equality in
our schools. Whatever the board
may do in response to antici-
pated demographic changes,
Robert E. Lee High School
stands tall and proud with a
heart second to none."*
WASHINGTON — Another loud and clear enough to
recession is coming, and discourage congressmen from
“Reaganomics” won’t stop it, voting for a tax increase next
according to some of the ad- year,
ministration’s own economists.
They predict privately that a regard taxation as the solution
downturn could come as early as for all fiscal ills, and the voters
next summer.
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Congress has a disposition to
Church, will preside.
A.A. Williams, president of the
Baytown Singing Convention,
reports the convention will meet
STRICTLY PERSONAL: I today at First Baptist Church in
have heard from thousands of Coady one mile north of Radio
taxpayers who are boiling at the Station KREL.
Pentagon’s^Spending practices. DEC. 5,1964
They wonder why the Pentagon Dean King becomes president
would pay $91 for a 3-cent screw, 0f the Wooster Chamber of Com-
$114 for a 9-cent battery, $511 for merce. Harold Bone is first vice
a 60-cent lamp and $436 for a $7 president; G.S. Tharp, second
hammer. vice president; CO. Walker,
I have a suggestion. Since the third vice president, and R.G.
government places such high Holzheuser, secretary-
value on these items, maybe tax- treasurer.
He has never changed the view payers should pay their taxes The recreation committee of
“Other events, which now he brought to the White House with 3-cent screws and 9-cent the Baytown Chamber of Com-
seem less likely to occur but re- four years ago: that the federal batteries. Of course, I doubt the merce prepares a map showing
main a concern, include shocks government is too large, too Internal Revenue Service would the best places to go fishing
to the oil market, a worsening of cumbersome and too wasteful. give taxpayers $91 credit for a 3- s 8
the international debt problem,
or a major change in the interna-
tional value of the dollar.”
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had every reason to register
What will be the cause? The their disapproval. Over the past
economists fear that the huge 35 years, median family income
annual deficits and the bloated has increased 7.6 times, but the
national debt will bring the taxes on that income have shot
economic recovery to a halt.
“The full impact of the $180 Clearly, the cause of the
billion to $200 billion deficits pro- calamitous public debt has not
bably will not be felt until the been too little taxation but too
beginning of 1985,” predicts one much spending,
internal government analysis
seen by my associate Michael while, cut taxes without any
Binstein. “At that time a short significant reduction in spen-
recession may begin, but it is not ding. He has blamed Congress
expected to change the generally for rejecting his spending cuts,
optimistic five-year outlook.
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here. The idea for the map was
proposed by J.T. Adams, service
How does the government station owner, who said custo-
justify paying $436 for a $7 ham- mers often asked him about fish-
mer? I’ll tell you how the Navy jng spots in the area,
justifies it: $41 to order the ham-
mer and figure out how to use it;
$93 for “mechanical
subassembly” to make sure the
“m^^facturing overhead” S By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
to ltoe w snare STfor’ the Today is Wednesday. Dec. 5,
hammer;P W for Ppa?ktog the lte* ^
hammer for shipment; $90 for 26t^! .
the contractor’s “general ad- oday s highlight in history:
ministrative cost”, $56 for the De.c 5,.1®33’ aut.^:32 P m-
finder’s fee; $7 for the “capital . ST’ naj10nf* came
cost of money”; and $7 for aaa ®n(* m ^United States as
“other expenses.” , Ut*J b®came01th« 36th state to
You can register your protest ^pealing the Sth. amendment’
On this date:
In 1776* the first scholastic
fraternity in America, Phi Beta
Kappa, was organized at the Col-
lege of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Va.
In 1782, the first president to
be a native citizen of the United
States, Martin Van Buren, was
born in Kinderhook, N.Y.
In 1791, composer Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart died at the age
of 35.
In the language of an internal cent screw.
White House memo, the presi-
dent is determined to take “con-
Some economists believe it’s crete steps... to bring runaway
already too late to avert a 1985 deficits under control.” He
recession. They describe the believes “both the functions and
economy as being between a the spending of the federal
rock and a hard place. Here’s government must be curbed.”
how they explain the problem:
If the government doesn’t take headed by the indefatigable
bold action to shrink the budget, Peter Grace, has uncovered
a recession will certainly occur, enough waste and malad-
But if government spending is ministration in the federal ap-
cut or taxes are raised enough to paratus to wipe out the deficit
bring the budget down to earth, and balance the budget. He has
this could cause such a shock to formed Citizens Against Waste,
the economy that it, too, would with myself as co-chairman, to
trigger a recession.
One thing is becoming clearer ding of the taxpayer’s money.
Our band of crusaders are un- with Citizens Against Waste,
P.O. Box 1000, Ben Franklin Sta-
tion, Washington, D.C. 20044.
The names will be presented
next January to the new leaders
in the White House and on
Capitol Hill.
— Can a government aijle take
his family along on an official
trip? This question was raised
about Earl Gjelde, a deputy
assistant to Energy Secretary
Donald Hodel. Gjelde toured
Europe in late August on official
business but brought along his
wife and two daughters.
.. Jhe taxpayers picked up the
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every day: President Reagan’s
campaign assurances that salaried and nonpartisan, with
economic growth alone will cure no one’s axes to grind. We do not
the deficit problem simply are take a stand for or against any
not supported by evidence.
“It was rationalized,” states opposed only to wasteful and in-
another administration report, efficient administration.
Mo . Editor “that the economic growth Behind almost,every ineffi-
____News Editor resulting from the tax and spen- ciency, of course, there is a
ding decisions would lead to covey of bureaucrats who gain
Advertising Director higher incomes, which in turn from its continuance. And they
would boost tax receipts suffi- are adept at homswoggllng Con-
ciently to wipe out ... most of gress.
the deficits. It became evident,
however, that the results were alone on the national debt has
not quite turning out that way.
for Vepasncgtian to ony n«wa dispatcher credited to it or What is the solution? Walter ment in the federal budget
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 1984, newspaper, December 5, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153557/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.