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Again, he limiteth a certain day, taring in David, To day, after to long a time;
at it it said, To day if ya will hear hit voice, harden not your hearts.—Hebrews
4:7.
The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which
reflects every object without being sullied by any.—Con-
fucius.
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 4.A
Abilene. Texas. Monday Morning, ms 17
Peasants Eat Their Eggs
Turkish Coffee Loses Out
As Inflation Gallops Ahead
Case of the Iron Horse
Matter of Real Concern
this could mean an economic swing
favorable ot the latter.
But whether their prospects do thus
improve or not, clearly the railroads
will be kept in being even if it takes
slice into passenger revenues. government ownership to do it. Their
Today a good share of the nation s basic ability to haul freight farther
Class I lines—those with three mil- and faster with less fuel and less hu-
For many decades the railroads
were the unchallenged masters of the
American transportation network.
Then along came the trucks to take
away freight traffic and planes to
lion dollars or more in annual volume man control than their competitors
__are in trouble. Their costs are up, require is an asset the country cannot
their proportion of U. S. freight traf- afford to let waste away.
fic has fallen farther, and their earn-
ings in some cases have been trim-
med this year a substantial 50 per
cent.
Good News for All
A cheerful note about the nation's
In a special report, the magazine
Business Week has taken a long hard home-building output was sounded re-
look at the railroads and come up with cently by Roy M. Marr, president of
some definite conclusions about their the United States Savings and Loan
economic position. League. He thinks the 18-month de-
Fundamentally their problem now cline is nearly over.
is that they have 100 much physical A good many public figures have
plant and too many workers for the Named the whole drop-off in housing
kind of business they are doing. starts on "tight monev” in the mort-
This establishment was created, of gage field and elsewhere. Marr be-
course, at a time when the rails had lieves that the sharp slide in the forma-
the lion's share of the transportation tion of new families is mainly res-
business. ponsible.
Now they have less than half the He notes that in 1947-50 the average
intercity freight traffic, Trucks and annual gain in new U. S. households
the ships and barges which ply our was more than 1,500,000. From 1950-
waterways carry the major propor- 53 this slipped to 900.000 annually,
tion. In the following three years it fell to
But despite the percentage decline an average of 840,000 a year
in their freight business, the rails Census Bureau studies indicate
actually are carrying more intercity however, that this decline in family
cargo than they did 10 years ago. formations has now been reversed and
Their volume in 1958 was 647 billion that an upturn is in progress.
ton miles, against 592 billion ton miles If Marr’s theory is accurate, and the
in 1946.figures truly reflect a fresh trend,
The southern and western lines are then one of the wobbly props of the
in considerably better status than the American economy may soon be shor-
eastern group. The latter depend ed up. And that will be good news for
most heavily on short haul business all of us.
requiring heavy investment in cars,
classification yards for making up
trains, and so on. The lines in other Loose Grin on I
sections have more of the profitable 295 OLP on Lire
long-train, long-haul business Not too long ago some reporter in
But the general outlook will not a big city began tabulating traffic vio-
brighten, according to Business Week, lations he observed in his regular
unless the railroads can modernize to driving rounds. He collected a fantas-
reduce their costs, develop faster and tic list in a short time
more flexible service and make fuller Anyone can do the same, if he likes,
use of their facilities, when he’s spinning along the open
There are some indications that in highwav. Try it some day
the future the truckers’ costs may If you do, the chances are that the
rise faster than the railroaders and most noticeable flaw in driving tech-
nique will not be an offense punishable
---------------------------------------under the law but a mere act of care-
lessness It most likely will be the
failure of most motorists to grip the
steering wheel properly.
About People
re-
_ _ In handling a modern automobile
By RUTB MILLETT with its tremendous power and poten-
“I love my husband, but.." Whenever a tial speed, constant control is clearly
reader begins a letter with those words a * vital key to safety. You must be able
lirt of her husband’s faults is sure to follow, to manage the car in any developing
After years at reading such letters I am road situation, no matter how critical,
beginning to wonder if the woman who — This being so, it is absolutely as-
even in her own thoughts — always adds tonishing to see how many drivers
“but" after the declaration. “I love my bus hold the wheel casually with one hand
band, really does love him —or even a few fingers—while the
Isn’t it more likely that what she feels other is draped out the window in
• "I would love my if he weren’t some foolish attitude of relaxation
And Enm, W course,»love. all. A not hleptoan living room couch but
woman who really loves her busbend loves * speeding car.
him aa he is. If she has been married to him
for any length of time she is sure to know
that he isn't perfect. She is bound to have
found faults that make him less than a per-
fect bushand.
But because she loves him she doesn't
dwell on the faults or wish constantly that
Other Viewpoints
he would change. Th.
instead, she is thankful for his good quali- I OX slavery
ties and makes sure that others know what The Arizona Republic:
, And if she can see herself as clearly as The rolling murmur of protest against the
ereansee herhusband, she knows that she confiscatory system of taxation under which
isn’t perfect, either, that for every fault she termstioni dives: is beginning to swell to a
puts up with in her husband be to putting mennethunder. More and more voices on
a every level are beginning to speak out in
UR With a fault of hers . protest against this threat to the system un-
Any woman who catches herself thinking, der which America has grown great
‘‘I love my husband, but.." ought to examine Dirts , 85 erent ,
During the past few weeks on the national
e. processes. . I— level. Douglas MaArthur cried out against a
may shock her to learn that her love tax burden which “could eventually socialize
tout as great or as generous or as reward- the United States,. Close to home James ”
ing to her busband as she has always thought Patrick, executive vice president of the Val
to ley National Bank, warned of the weight of
“I love my husband, but . . ." may only property taxation
mean “I would love my husband i E Merrill Root, a well-known writer on
that of course, isn’t, love at 1 U ~ All rights political subjects, has called the U.S. a nation
reserved, NEA Service, Inc.) of tax slaves!
T "The income tax reduces us all, by brute
a compulsion, to a status of universal slavery
THE ABILENE every man and woman in the United States
PIEEUE is a tax slave.”
REPORTER-NEWS - .?»*in the Communist Manifesto. Karl
Marx recommended the use of a high, pro-
Fablshe Trie Day Freers. Onca sedas * the gressive income tax as an instrument for the
Mero med a Croren" Fas on s am “ Ablens, fez, death of the free enterprise system.
RAH-RECR*...........-
second class mail privileges authorized at Abilene
Mr. Root points out that the present U.S.
income tax "falls heaviest not upon the rich
who can invest in taxfree bonds, set up trust
______________________funds, and hire tax lawyers to search out
earrig, in Abilene and Went loopholes. It falls most heavily upon the poor
venins and Sunday M.so" ser who win new opportunity upon artists, au-
was. Warsaw and Sunday or thors, workers with their brains, or poor civil
9**0 5 *: #2# servants or professors who win on a quiz
_ show. The Cassars taxing the once-free
_ citizens of Rome, or the hard-boiled Pharaohs
i driving the voiceless fellaheen to forced labor
on the pyramids would wistfully flock to Wash-
ington to learn the new techniques of slavery
supercharged and streamlined!"
The Tax Foundation, Inc., estimates that
the average American earning $85 a week
works one and a half days out of five merely
to pay his taxes., federal, state, and local.
wore s
Matter of Fact
Monkey on His Back
Ike Faces Rough Playmates
By STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON-it begins to
look as though an old prophecy
by President Eisenhower is be-
latedly coming true. In 1954, the
President warned that the elec-
tion of a Democratic Congress
would result in “uncertainty, con-
fusion, and divided responsi-
bility."
In fact, until rather recently,
the President has lived rather
more happily with the Democra-
tic 84th and 85th Congresses than
he did with the Republican 83rd
Congress. But that is no longer
so. As the President's desperate
threat to call a special session
to save his foreign aid program
suggests, the present relationship
between Congress and the White
House is indeed one of uncer-
tainty. confusion, and divided re-
sponsibility.
There are a lot of reasons for
this. But the most important rea-
son is the present mood of the
Democrats in Congress. By and
large, they are disgruntled, fed
.up, frustrated, and enraged.
Three examples will serve to sug-
gest why this is so.
Johnson ‘Gone’
Take, as example number one.
the case of Democratic Majonty
Leader Lyndon Johnson. Last
year, Johnson almost single-hand-
edly saved the President's foreign
aid program. His own vote on
the Appropriations Committee
provided a majority of one for
the President's program, and
thereafter Johnson worked his
special magic to swing nine votes
the President's way.
Johnson is exceedingly un-
likely to do the same thing again.
Hr is genuinely convinced that
the civil rights bill, passed by
the Senate largely as a result of
his own herculean efforts, is a
good and fair bill. He is equally
convinced that the Administra-
tion has adopted the strategy of
prolonging the civil rights battle
in order to make political hay
out of the issue in 1958. In the
circumstances, as one of John-
son's friends put it, “Why in the
devil should Lyndon stick his neck
out for Ike?"
As example number two, take
the sad case of Sen. Richard Neu-
berger of Oregon. Neuberger is
a leftwing Democrat from a nor-
mally Republican state, which
makes his political position
touchy to begin with. He is also
an internationalist, and he has
consistently supported the Presi-
dent on such matters as foreign
aid, reciprocal trade, the U. S.
Information Agency, and defense
appropriations
According to the Congressional
Quarterly, Neuberger has support-
ed the President on thirteen out
of seventeen key issues on which
the President has taken a stand.
This is one of the highest records
of Presidential support in the
Senate. And what is Neuberger's
record? Using the Congressional
Quarterly statistics. Oregon's Re-
publican State Chairman, James
Short, attacks Neuberger for his
"appalling" record of “disregard
for the demands of the people
for economy "
Neuberger has sent an
anguished protest to Republican
National Chairman Meade Al-
corn, but the protest seems un-
likely to do him much good. At
any rate, Neuberger's sad story
is by no means unusual, and the
Interpreting the News
Syria Necessary to Reds
In Their Mid-East Effort
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
The Russians, with spirited help
from their Czechoslovak allies,
have applied full steam to their
program to fashion a Communist
military and political base in the
Middle East
The recent Syrian-Soviet eco-
nomic negotiations in Moscow and
events since then point only in
one direction—an ever closer re-
lationship betweer. Syria's pres-
ent regime and the Soviet bloc
Syria is in perilous shape eco-
nomically. The Russians and
Czechoslovaks can offer the re-
gime some relief from the burdens
it brought upon itself by its pas-
sion to arm the country to the
teeth. But in accepting this relief,
the regime will be tying Syria
tightly to the Communist - bloc
economy—and to its politics.
The current Syrian army shake-
up is a portent of things to come
in Damascus. The pro-Soviet ele-
ment. with much the upper hand
over the poorly organised conser-
vatives, seems about to undertake
a thorough housecleaning. It will
nail down the power and influence
now exercised in the background
by youthful Col. Abdul Hamid Ser-
raj and his Deuxieme Bureau-
Syria's military intelligence. To
keep that power, it is going to
be beholden to the Russians and
Czechoslovaks.
In the Moscow negotiations, the
Syrian delegation got a promise
from the Russians which they will
be more than willing to honor. Ac-
cording to Pravda, the Russians
“are ready to contribute to Syria’s
economic developments in the
fields of railway and road con-
struction, irrigation, construction
of hydroelectric stations, industry
and other fields
A communique on the talks said:
“Furthermore, the Soviet Union
should dispatch experts for this
to Syria, as well as equipment
not found in Syria.” The experts
will “go to Syria as soon as pos-
sible" to promote the long-range
technical and economic coopera-
tion This means eventually Syria
will be swarming with Communist-
bloc technicians In the time-hon-
ored manner of the imperialism
long since cast aside by the West,
these technicians will do much to
turn Syria into a satellite of the
U.S.S.R., in reality if not in
name.
The Russians will go a long way
and pay a good price for a reliable
base of operations in the Middle
East. It is helping Syria's financial
pinch, by example, by buying up
her wheat surplus, paying half in
hard currencies and the other half
in machinery and tools. It is
easing the terms under which
Syria bought arms from the Soviet
bloc and thus put herself seriously
in hock.
There seems to be little hope at
the moment that anybody in Syria
can do anything about all this.
The Serraj clique appears already
to have consolidated its authority
and to be in a position to do just
as it pleases with regard to full
collaboration with Moscow.
CONSTANTINE BROWN
ISTANBUL, Turkey (By Air
Mail)—If you want a cup of that
famous sirupy brew known the
world over as Turkish coffee look
for it in New York, Paris or any
other place except Turkey.
Hundreds of the traditional little
cafes dating back to the days
when the Turks conquered Con-
stantinople are still here. But the
leisurely patrons who formerly
sipped dozens of small cups of
coffee while smoking and gazing
at the Bosphorus or the Golden
Horn must now be satisfied with
farmer, who enjoys a superficial
prosperity due to the government
farm price supports, is buying
clothing for the whole family.
This has brought a considerable
demand for ready made goods.
Men and women who formerly
were satisfied with a change of
garb every three or four years are
now buying several a year. The
local manufacturers can scarcely
meet the demand of the approxi-
mately 16 million new consumers
and are using at home a large
quantity of the material which
formerly was available for export.
Tax Exemptions
glasses of weak tea or Turkish
made Coca-Cola. Coffee can be__-_________...___-
found only on the black market industrial expansion requires im-
at $..50 a pound along with other porting machine tools from
imported goods, abroad. The government also is
Inflation in this country is no constructing a vast new network
longer creeping. It has been trot- of railways and highways. Only
ting and now threatens to gallop, recently it was decided to change
The Turkish lire is officially the face of Istanbul itself. Build-
pegged at 2.85 to the dollar. To jngs and houses are being torn
encourage tourism the govern- down to make room for new
ment permits exchange of the boulevards, public gardens and
dollar for 5.50 lire. But the black squares. All this requires public
market rate was 11 a week ago money of which little is available,
and is 13 at this writing, in this country the small land
The government has prohibited owner is exempt from taxes by
most luxury imports This means a law which was passed in the
that everything except certain days of Ataturk. Before the Turk-
rare industrial products essential ish revolution, the businessman,
to the country's economy—such banker and others with large in-
as spare parts for agricultural comes paid no taxes—only graft
machinery-have been banned, money to the sultans and their
Yet it is difficult to see any real minions. The bulk of the income
The government program
of
discontent among the people, of the once vast empire came
There was less grumbling when from the land tiller who had to
the Turks had to give up their yield from one-half to two-thirds
coffee than when Kemal Ataturk of his crops—cereals, fruits, to-
ordered the abolition of the fez, bacco and cotton—to the govern,
the traditional headgear, some ment. This accounts in a major
30 years ago degree for the backwardness of
Eat Your Eggs Turkey where more than two-
The average individual shrugs thirds of the population lived
his shoulders when he is asked primitively.
how he makes out without his When Ataturk overthrew the
coffee or how he copes with the sultans and created a modern
spectacular cost of all items democratic republic his first
needed in his daily life He an- thoughts were for the peasantry,
swers. “We have seen worse He caused the National Assembly
times, and better times are bound to pass a law exempting them
moral is not lost on the Demo- to come." from direct taxation. Thus 'the
crats: Support the President on The trotting depression is town population now has to bear
issues like foreign aid, and get caused not so much by the extrav- the burden of direct taxation
your teeth kicked by the Repub- agant and ambitious government which, however, does not exceed
licans back home programs to increase the indus- 45 per cent in the highest income
Or- take as examole number trial capacity as the raise in the brackets. This was apparently
three the se Tum standard of living of the peasan- sufficient to meet the treasury ’
Symington of Missouri When the try (small land owners) in the needs before Turkey became a
House PrcsXnCe last 10 years. For instance, Tur- memt*r of NATO and engaged
defense budget the resident’s key used to export considerable in a vast armament program -
d nse budget the President quantities of eggs to Western which is greatly assisted, of
ent on the air to say that to Europe. This export has fallen off course, by our military aid pro-
fail to restore a substantial part to almost nothing because the gram.
of the cut would mean taking a peasants, who form 76 per cent Bad crops over the last three
fearful gamble with the nation- of this country's population, are years and the cost of improve-
al security. Symington led the eating the eggs instead of selling ments which are not s d by
fight in the Senate, on the Demo- them to exporters. the United States caused the ad-
cratic side, to get the President Cotton and wool were also ex- ministration to print money with,
what he wanted, and largely sue- ported in large quantities, bring- out moderation. Hence the present
ceeded. ingin needed foreign exchange. devaluation of the lire, the
Rug Pulled Out No farmer dreamed of buying his trotting inflation and the drastic
Then, when the Senate-House clothes in stores. The wife loomed curtailment of all except the most
conference on the defense budget the material and cut and sewed essential imports. (The Bell Syn-
met, Secretary of Defense Wilson for the entire family. But now the dicate.)
and Budget Chief Brundage
blandly informed the conference
that the amount Symington had
fought to restore was not really
necessary after all. Symington
who has been much criticized
back home as a heavy spender,
thus had the rug neatly pulled
out from under him. As a result,
he is seriously considering voting
against foreign military aid, for
the first time in his Senate career
Vice Aloft?
Two Senators Seeking
To Halt Plane Drinks
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
WASHINGTON - The subject.
These three examples-and of our essay today is : Sin knows
more could be cited—should be no ceiling, or vice at 20,000 feet
enough to suggest why the Demo- This has to do with the demon,
cratic majorities in Congress rum. as served in flying
now take a special delight in de- machines,
fying the President on such issues Two of our Senators. Strom
as foreign aid The Presidents Thurmond (D.S.C.) and Richard
threat to call a special session L Neuberger (D-Ore.) introduced
has further disgruntled the Demo- almost identical bills prohibiting
crats. “If His Majesty wants to strong drink in the air. Then
play it rough," one Democrat they had to defend their ideas
grimly remarked, "He'll find that before the Interstate and Foreign
His Majesty's loyal opposition can Commerce subcommittee, which
play pretty rough too." seemed to have its tongue in its
Altogether, an ugly situation is collective check . . .
developing When the White HouseMy bill will protect the dignity
and the Congress are controlled of the fine young ladies who serve
and dirre Congress, there rolled as stewardesses," said Thurmond.
Dy different parties there to al- Hf went on to say that there was
ways he danger of something danger in riding in a flying
worse than “uncertainty and con- machine, and he added in passing
fusion —a kind of angry paraly- that even on the ground he did
sis of the processes of govern- not drink the hard stuff.
ment That danger is now real, chairman A. S. Mike Mon-
and it to to be hoped that the roney (D-Okla.) said yes, but
President recognizes it, and is some of the worst flights he'd
prepared to deal with it. 'Copy- ever had were on dry planes that
right 195* New York Herald' were late getting off the ground
Tribune Inc.) Their tipsy passengers had spent
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Discovery Party
TEHRAN, Aug. 18 UP — Direc-
tors of the National Iranian Oil
Co., have decided to hold a spe- .
cial feast day in December to "... And marriage will mean adjustments to make.,
celebrate the 50th anniversary of assuming of course, that you have a mind of your own.
the discovery of oil in Iran. young man!...”
too much time waiting in the bar.
“I'd prohibit that," said Thur-
mond.
“Would you have one of these
young ladies smell the breath of
each incoming passenger, or in-
spect the glaze in his eye?"
asked Senator George Smathers
(D-Fla.). "Or would you have
some male official do it?”
“Senator, you have raised a
crucial problem," said the gen
tieman from South Carolina
No Baggage Search
“Now, there are some people
who look intoxicated even before
they take their first drink," con-
tinued Smathers. “Eliminating
them from the passenger list
might get the airline into a law-
suit. Now I want to know this:
Do you think they should examine
people's briefcases to see if they
are carrying bottles?"
Thurmond, who saw nothing
amusing in these questions, said
his bill would prohibit tippling
from bottles hidden in briefcases,
but he wouldn't force the airlines
to search the baggage for contra-
band drinkables
"And then we might draw a
line on the pavement out to the
plane," mused Smathers "We
could make the passengers walk
it, and those who wobbled would
be ejected."
Came then Neuberger, who dis-
covered that his bill was almost
the same as Thurmond’s. He
agreed that booze at high alti-
tudes was dangerous and should
be banned.
"Senator Neuberger, you live
farther from Washington than
almost any other member," said
Smathers. "I presume you do a
great deal of flying, and perhaps
you could tell us of the results
of drinking aloft that you have
observed."
No Accidents
Senator N. said, as a matter
of fact, he'd done his flying under
orders during the war in Alaska,
where most of the clouds con-
tained rocks. He vowed if he ever
got home alive, he’d stay on the
ground. So be travels between
here and Oregon by train and all
he knows about drunks at high
altitudes is what he's heard.
The committoe then called in
Chan Gurney, vice-chairman of .
the Civil Aviation Board, which
also had heard a great deal about
the evils of boon in high places
“But we checked each com-
plaint and we could substantiate
not one," he said.
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