The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-02-01
Fucts and Funcies
BY-Huzel Pe1se

In Ohio a few grade schools
are teaching nuclear physics.
That seems to me to be a SUBJ
ject only for hard thinking
sedate scientists, but those kids
really seem to understand it,
The course will be extended 10
other schools if teachers can be
found who understand it well
enough to teach it.
Everytime we turn the radio
on or pick up a paper we are
informed that we are going to
be taxed until it hurts. That
is all right so long as we are
paying for something tangible :
| something that will help us win
this great war against Com
munism. (I'm sure you coudn's
find an American citizen who
would object to that but what
about those taxes we have been
paying in the peaceful years
from the ending of World War
II up to the present time?
| If I remember correctly many
of those taxes were Emergency
taxes to aid in the fight against
Germany and Japan, but some
body must have forgotten to
lift them when the war ended
or else the taxes we were pay
ing to destroy socialism in
| other countries were used to
| practice a little socialism of our
own in Washington.
We didn't have to wait until
this time to be taxed until it
hurts 1t has been hurting a
lot of us to pay taxes so that
a million Or more useless bu-
reaucrats can hang onto their
soft, well-paid jobs of telling us
what we can or can't do.
If non-defenSe spending was
put back to the 1943 level, the
government would be more than
ten billion dollars ahead an
nually.
In one state alone the share
of cost of operating our federal
government in 1949 was $428.O 90
for every man, woman and
child. IF that money could be
raised for foolish spending by
an administration that doesn't
seem to know the meaning Of
economy why can't it be used
for defense now, while, at the
same time the spending spree
the Washington has been on, is
forgotten. They are looking over
too wide an area for that fifteen
billion or more they need 50
desperately for defense. If the
s~trictest economy is practiced,
they will find it right in WASH
ington, I think.
IF elt-tightening is so neces-
sary, let the administration set
the example and I'm sure we
will all &C along and feel more
! like doing OUR parts.
| 7 read somewhere the other
day that America isn't a think
ing nation. We had better wake
up and start thinking or We
might find ourselves a bankrupt
nation with Stain or someone
like him doing our thinking for
us. !
! When r hear people say
| Compulsory Health Insurance"
would lbe a great boon to the
countrT, T believe we aren't a
thinking nation.
No thinking American would
want hat or any other social
iSt-insnred scheme like it.
Some people say it would in
sure eGality (the oldest cry in
the w,rld and probably the
basic Hason for half our pre-
sent International turmoil. The
plea Of the poor for equality
with tie rich is one thing that
brings iictatorS into existence.)
Noboly's place in life can be
raised o a higher standard eX-
cept by his own efforts. A ben
evolent government can't do it.
It CAM give us anything that
it hasn't taken away from us
in the irst place.
As a8free American citizen
I mairbain that I have the
right D be unhealthy if I
want ii be land should be So
unfortunately without the gov
ernmen butting in.
One Worried fellow says, when
a decisDn is made to drop the
A-bomb somewhere, he sure
hopes Margaret isn't booked for
a connect.