Milford chronicle., 1953-03-20
"STOCKPILING BUREAUCPATs"

E4b4OA4S NAIsSH 2O. 1853
"STOCKPILNG BUREAUCRATs"
1t has been announced that the President
VIII not ask Congress for standby anthoyity
10 felmpOse price controls in the event .
halOnaI emergency should occur after the
present law expires He believes that if sncb
an emergency arises, Congress can Quickly
pass new laws to deal with it. However .
nuIlOeT OF congressman still are urging that
a standby bill be passed.
Senator Bush of Connecticut offaro5 on
interesting judgement on this when he char
'acterlzed the standby law as a plan for
stockplln2 bureaucrats." 1t is obvious that
Il the Standby law were to have any mean
ing at all, some sort of an organization foy.
PuCClng II INTO effect and enforcing it wOuld
nave TO be northumberland our huge public
payroll would be that much larger.
Golng beyond this phase of the matter.
~ Is 0IInculC TO see how the standby plan can
De Justlhed. In these days of fast transpor
tdIon ana instant communication, Congress-
could assemble and vote new laws with little
delay even II an emergency should apDear
when it was not in session. And it is one of
the trulsms OF political life that when law
gIVlng government great powers is in exis
tence, even though dormant, many peopIe
itch to use it. p'0P''
Price control has been a costly experiment
Tor the producers, retailers, and consumers
It was supposed to help. 1t is repugnant to
every concept of economic, social and individ-
ua freedom. Its burial should be complete.
&10NE
SUBSIDY MEANS DEPENDENCY.
is Qult.to see how exception-mav.
De taken 20 Agriculture Secretary Benson's
STATEMENTS that price support programs
shOuld Oe avoided, except as insurance
against disaster and to help stabilize food
supplies. If the country had not been CON
dlCloned to dependency by years of living
under benevolent, tax-squanGering govern
menC the fundamental rightness of the Sec
reCaryS position would be recOoniZed nv all
The Idea OF looking upon perpetual pros
peIlty as natural right to be subsidized bv
government, regardless of cost, should be re-
pulslVe to every American citizen. In the
IlrsC place, 1t is inconsistent with the ideal
OF self-reiant people, and secondly. as
everyone should know by this time it leads
nowhere but to more bureaucracy and ulti-
mate national bankruptcy.
Our national administration shOuld eoalr
TO preserve the political and economic Tber-
ties OF the Individual, and protect the nation
from the communist menace. 1t should en-
deaVor TO halt trend in domestic policies
Which destroy our freedom. It shOuld strive
10 stop Wasteful spending and depreciation of
money caused by government promising too
much to too many.
Men OF Secretary BensOn's caliber are trv-
ing TO prevent our fifty-cent dollars from he
coming twO-bit dollars or ten-cent dollars
Ihey are opposed to the false security of the
WeLIare state or, IN palmer words, the police
SGaCe' Ihey are proceeding on the assumption
Cnat the people agree with them and are
worthy OF the responsibilities as well as nri-
Vlleges bestowed upon them by our constitu-
tiOnal republic.
5000
HIJACKING THE STATES
The efforts of New Deal-Fair Deal poll
1clans in Washington to destroy states
rights have become increasing brazen in the
past decade.
The recent political play to rob the states
u their tidelands capped the climax AL
most the last act OF Mr.. Truman was an at
empt TO reverse the action of Congress. nv
ssuing an executive order setting aside the
loelands-oll areas as naval reserve.
II. one President is allowed to hiiack
states OF their oil lands for the federal gov
.fnmenC, Why can't another President hiiack
helr timber lands, wheat lands, coal lands
r anything else which "he" deems essential
or federal reserves?
The excuse for such undemocratic action
lWays Is that some big, bad corporations
want to rob the helpless states, so the fed J
raj government should rob them first. To
WalloW such baloney one has to accept the
neory that "the king can do no wrong"
AS matter of fact and record, the states
an deal with corporations to which thew
ease lands, but they can't even make leases ]
men their lands are placed in federal re-
efVes. Their tax revenues are DESTROYED
nd development too often stops.
The enormous quantities of oil products
mich this nation needs have always been
nd are being supplied by highly procress- I
le and competitive industry, and it WouId {
I'LL nave to supply our gasoline and oil who t
YER owned the tidelands. For defense pur- S
oses the government would always have t