The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03
Many Changes Await
Unfolding OF Year
In Govt Affairs
Industrial Service
Makes Predictions
Concerning Business
]. e. JONES
Now, We're Off

Government. Major changes are
proposed in our National affairs
by President Truman. The 81st
Congress will support him to the
limit.
Everybody will agree with the
President that "many of our
shortcomings stand out in bold re-
lief; we are suffering from ex-
cessively high prices: our pro-
duction is still not large enough
to satisfy our demands" He wants
to raise minimum wages and to
boost small business to the same
Importance as growing mono
poly" He reasserts the sad fact
that our national resources are
being wasted. He hit the bulls eve
when he asked for the relief Of
5000, 900 families who are living
in slums and firetraps and $780,
900 families who share their
homes with others.
More Predictions
The message Of the President
contains a good deal Of horse
sense. The President is doing his
level best to straighten out a mess
Of problems. The American peo-
pie are going along with the new
Administration in every possible
way - wishing the Democrats
well In their attempts to improve
conditions. The outstanding mys-
terry is to find out where Uncle
Sam is at! The Old Boy is spend
ing billions trying to rebuild peace
throughout the world. We are
being frustrated by communism
So, there is nothing to guarantee
that the country will get back to
normal for long time.
One thing certain is that taxes
viii be high in the coming fiscal
year. That doesn't imply the sp-,
prevail Of the Presidents plan for
a "a billion tax increase. The i'm
plications are that there will be
no excess profits tax on corpora
tons. But, suppose business is
good? In that event the tax
rate need not be raised. On the
other hand, suppose business is
bad? The two offs" are already
putting taxation legislation off
awhile. Wait until March and the
tax matters will be more under
standable than now. Congress
will: Watch and Wait
Our Big Government
The Federal government has
become the most gigantic busin-
ess on earth.
In the last twenty years civil
employees have risen from 570,-
900 to 100000; the number of
bureaus, services and units have
increased ''four-fold to over
eighteen hundred; annual ex-
penditures have jumped from So
900, 100000 to over $4,000, 000,-
600, and the National debt for an
average family has climbed from
$500 to about $500"
The Hoover Commission reports
that organizational methods, eff
fective twenty years ago are no
longer applicable because the
growth of skills and methods in
private organization has long
since outmoded many of the me-
thods Of the government.
Hallelujahs For Yellow
Butter was described in a pro-
verb as gold in the morning, sill
yer at noon, and lead at night
Well, you remember the good old
DAYS when mother made white,
sweet butter. In this blooming
year of 1949 the most expensive
butter on the market is sweet
butter" and being uncolored, it
is therefore white.
The butter interests are report
ed in Washington as ready to re-
peal all the cleo taxes, but when
margarine is sold il is not to be
colored yellow like butter. OF
course that doesn't prevent the
dairy interests from doing as they
please about making butter that
is yellow. or white.
The Washington Evening Star
suggests in an editorial: "Let
butter be labeled butter: margar-
inc, and let the people decide
which they want to buy without
offending their color prejudices."
The editorial concludes with the
sentence. "That is the only SEN
sib1e solution for the buying pub
lie"
The Folly OF Federal Control
DR.. George Benson of Harding
College, Arkansas, recently made
an analysis of the issue now be-
fore Congress to finance and fur
nish Federal Aid Control of Edu-
cation He spoke over the radio
and Congressman Ralph w.
yGwinn of New York State in
serted this address in the Con-
gressional Record of January 18
Representative Gwinn said: