Milford chronicle., 1952-03-21
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100000 school age children. And, as the fig |
ures show, they are absolutely right. They |
say that we parents fail to follow up the re-
concentrations by school health authorities
to take our children to the family doctor or
dentist to correct the defects pointed up by
school medical examinations.
This is serious. We're fOOling around
with our kids lives Health defects in our
youngsters can have permanent harmful
effects later if they're not corrected or treat
ed promptly. The figures previously mention
ed illustrate this fact convincingly from the
standpoint of our children's well-being and
our national security.
We as parents, and citizens, must take
this problem by the fOrelOck promptly. When
the school notifies us that health examina-
tion indicates Jimmy's teeth should be
looked at by the family dentist, or that our
physician should be consulted about a health
condition noted in little Mary, the school
means what it says. And we must not fail
to follow up on these recommendations. We
must not put the thing off until ''sOme other
time" and as the figures indicate, frequently
do nothing at all about Jimmy or Mary.
We must do right by our kids now.
Even tomorrow isn't soon enough.
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THE HIGH COST OF BUREAUCRACY
Bureaucracy is mighty cOstly-both in
money, and in the influence it has on the eco
nOmy of the nation.
The Office of Price Sterilization is a good
illustration. 1t is costing the taxpayers about
$65,316,OO0 a year. On january /, there
were more than II 900 people on the payroll
and no doubt the number has increased since
All of this money and all of this labor is
being expended for but one purpOSe-tO in
teTfere with the normal workings of the free
market This simply means that, in part we
are substituting a controlled economy for the
established supply-and-demand economy.
Whether or not that is workable way
of holding prices down, or Of obtaining any
other desirable end, is highly controversial
matter. What is not controversial is that the
free market has produced more benefits for
more people than any other kind of market
ever devised. In a free market, every pro-
ducer of goods has to do everything he can
think of to offer a better or more reason
ably priced product than the other manufac-
turerS in the same field. In free market,
every retailer has to try to offer tickle and
demanding public more inducements, of price.
quality, service, Of something else, than the
store down the street and in the next town.
The retail store is the show window of
free enterprise. All the energies and abili-
ties of America have gone into creating the
wealth of necessities and luxuries that final
ly are offered to you by your retailer. This
was the achievement of a free ecOnOmy-nOt
dictated economy.
TAILS l WIN, HEADS YOU LOSE"
Everyone, right down to those in the
low income brackets, feels the tremendous
burden of present-day taxation. Everyone
kicks about it. But there is one phase of the
tax problem which is given much less con-
sideratiOn than it deserves-and that is what
it is doing to the whole financial structure
of the nation.
Steeply progressive taxation has virtual
ly dried up the sources of venture capital, sc
essential for launching new enterprises. Il
has become more and more difficult, there
fore, for the exceptional man, the ambitious
employee, the man with a new idea, to Sc
himself up in his own business. And sucl
activities have been the traditional wei
springs of our American way of life.
Taxes now take close to One-third of tn
entire national incOme-which means that
on the average, each of us works one day Ou
of three for the government. In the highe
income brackets, taxes take the majority o
the income. Thus, if man takes a chance
risks his time and money and energy, an
succeeds, as much as 80 per cent of all h
earns may go to government If he fails h
must bear the loss himself 1t is strictly
tails / win, heads you lOse," proposition
Nothing is more damaging to ambition, il
centive, progress.
A nation can destroy itself from With
and no weapon is more powerful than e2
! cessive taxation along with fragrant vast
and corruption in government. This is tn
dark road we have been travelling. Thou
sands of us were made aware of this whe
we paid our Federal income tax this year.
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| A THOUGHT FOR OLD FOLKS
. Older people who have any choice j
l the matter should hang on to their home
For most parents, liberty and the pursu
of happiness end when they move in wit
their children. While there are instances
happy homes with several generations Ii
ing in them, they are rare enough to
noticeable. In many cases, grandparen