Milford chronicle., 1946-12-13
THE CONTRARY STREAK in human nature

spectacle of people spending than they can at
ford, for things they use; the WEAKNESS OF
salesgirs who have to be propped up on their feet
the torment of crowded transportation and the diff
Guilty of shopping for necessities in the OF tin
sel-all this is familiar grotesque and yet undeniably
exharating We like to hear the old ladies read the
Christmas cards aloud one another while the other
customers wait. Arguments at the counters
us, while the MONDAY rush in the restaurants
is something to In the exclusive shops the
is different. Here orderiness is the main
theme Customers shop in and comfort lime
seems to stand STILL But admirable the qualities
of orderliness, camness and detachment may be,
they do not foster the spirit of Christmas. touch
of hysteria positive this time OF the year
when routine should be discarded and ones mental
balance surrendered in favor of general chaos In
almost every family there is least one lunatc who
can be counted on to lose shopping lists, of
postage for Christmas cards, forget which parcels
have been tied up for whom and discover at mid
night on Christmas Eve that no one has bought any
thing for the favOrite uncle. So why worry why
be sensible at Christmas time?
5000
If MEN WOULD steadily observe realities only,
and not allow themselves to be deuded, life, COM
pare it with such things know, would be like
fairy tale and the Arabian Nights Entertainments.
If respected on y what is inevitable and has
right to be, music and poetry would resound along
the streets. When we are unhurred and wise, we
perceive that only great and worthy things have any
permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears
and petty pleasures but the shadow of the reali
ty. This is always exharating and sublime By
closing the eyes and slumbering and consenting
be deceived by shows, establish and confirm
their daily life of routine and habit everywhere,
which still is built purely illusory foundations.
Children who play life, discern IT'S true law and
relations clearly than men, who fail to live it
worthily but who think that they wiser by exper
ience, that is, by failure.
THE ELECTION SHOULD assure the defeat of
the Wagner Murray -Dngel public health bill when
it reappears in the Congress By and large, the
members of both major parties who elected
seem opposed to further governmental flirting with
socialist doctrines
If that proves to be the case, it will be all to the
good for the country. The Wagner Murray -Dingell
bill is monumental attempt to give the Federal bu-
reaucracy complete control the practice of med
icine, including doctors, hospitals and clinics Its
cost would be at least $4,000, 5000 year and
perhaps $4,000, 100000 more-at a time when the
public demand for relief from swollen governmental
overhead is reaching cmactc proportions 1t would
dip into the pay check of every working person.
thus further reducing their take-home wages.
Making Federal health insurance compulsory
would endanger, and probably eventually destroy
the many progressive and rapidly expanding voun-
tary, prepaid health plans.
Worst of all, in the long view, it would have
detrimental effect medical experiments and dis
Coveries. Regimented doctors, living what woule
amount to Federal patronage and dependent for al
least part of their livelihood bureaucratic favor
would hardly be progressive doctors. The long anG
dreary record of socialized and regimented medcin
in other nations is evidence of that.
5000
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S request that a Repub
lican Congress cooperate with Democratic Execu
tive branch of government received general approva
from Republican leaders. This is especially true il
the field of foreign affairs, where Senator Vanden
berg has been working on an equal footing witt
Secretary Byrnes
The President observed that the Republicans ha
won Congress by Constitutional means-whie h
and his associates controlled Executive functions b
Constitutional means. There can be no quarrel wit
that point of view. At the same time, it
clear all that great fact produced by the cleo
tions that the American people heartily sick
, what might be termed the Fourth branch of GOV
ernment.
This fourth branch came into being over tt
years through Executive order. 1t has been mair
tanned by the Executive 1t consists of the thousane
tons which were never specifically endorsed by tt
American peope-and which have taken upon then
selves many of the functions of Congress and ii
courts. These agencies constantly hamper ndusti
through unworkable and obscure regulations ,
their own devising They touch every phase of OF
life with the dead hand of bureaucracy. In ca
after case, they themselves up as prosecutor jul
4. and judge.
. If Congress and the Executive are responsive
the people, their first task rid the country of t!
costly, freedom destroying fourth branch of COVER
. ment rapidly possible.
<NSOS&
:, :. 1T IS OBVIOUS that the cost of product, If
= portant as that is, does not entirely determine
value. Quality is very vital factor. To take
hctional example, shirt which costs three doll.
and will last year in normal use is a much bett
buy than shirt which costs two dollars and CON
back in tatters after few launderings
During recent years. we have been forced to