Milford chronicle., 1953-09-25

for Milford, Kent and Sussex Counties and |
the State of Delaware, a newspaper of which !
the future inhabitants may be proud.
SUMMER WANES-AUTUNIN NEARS
This week has been dOubly endowed, for |
It has brought both the autumn equinox and
the full moon, the harvest moon which ling
ers in it's fullness. 1t has been a week of both
cloudy skies and brilliant nights, nights !
which began to lengthen beyond the days.
With a return to standard time next Sunday
morning. and sunset coming early by the
clock the autumn nights will close in. Sum-
nner is almost over, and frosty days are not
too far away.
The equinox, of course, is but marker
in the heaving over of the earth'S axis, the
slow seasonal movement that rounds out a
cycle and moves on to the next. 1t is
shadow moving slowly south to north, as the
sun. as we say, makes it's own sOuthing. 1t
is point in time which will not, cannot,
stand still since time is ever flowing. But as
time and sunlight move over this earth, so
change the seasons. And the days, of course,
and the nights. And with such changes
comes ripening, and the whitening and fall
of the leaves, the end of growth of which
spring was the beginning.
Two equinOxes, one the beginning OF
spring; the other, now just passed, the end
of summer. One the quickenlng OF life In
root and bud; the other the fruitiOn on the
time in between and the retreat Of green
life into root and bulb. They match, two
halves Of the whole making a completion.
And that is what the autumn equinox essen
TALLY markS-a time of completion, a sea-
sons growth, whatever the adVersities,
rounded out and come to harvest.
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IT'S HARD TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
1t is sad but true that the Administration
has found the budget problem an even tough
er nut than was expected. Hopes for an early
balance of the budget and general tax reduc-
tiOn have faded like cut flowers in the sun.
The Administrations supporters naturally
attribute this, in large part at least, to the
fiscal dirty work done by Mr.. EisenhOwer'S s
immediate predecessors. Gleefully the Ad-
ministratiOn'S opponents say that it iSsprOOf
that the campaign pledges made by the VIC
tors were decetful and impossible to realize
Be that as it may, even the most earnest
seekers of tax reductions, Senator Taft
among them, now say glOOmily that they
don't know when cuts can be made. 1t is
commonly said that the big trouble is that
major sashes must be primarily applied to
military spending And, in the present state
of world affairs, the lawmakers are very
wary Of taking any chances with the defense
set-up.
There is another phase to the matter,
however, which is getting increasing atten-
tiOn now, though little has been done about
it on q high government level. That is the
extent to which government is participating
IN commercial business activity-Often at a
heavy loss. It's a good bet that relatively few
people realize just how big an operator of
business government has become.
Time magazine featured a revealing ar
ticle on the subject in its July 13 issue 1t
begins "HOW far has creeping socialism
crept? Farther than most businessmen think
The astounding fact is that the u. S. Govern
ment is now operating some 100 separate
types of business enterprises in which it has
sunk at least $40,0O0,000, 900. Among other
things, the government has become the ma
tons largest insurer, electric-pOWer prOduc-
er, lender, landlord, grain owner, warehouse
operator and shipOwner. 1t mOnOpolizes the
worlds biggest potential new industry: atom.
ic energy"
In some cases, Time continues, govern
ment went into business because of cOmpell
ing national security reaSOnS-atOmic energy
and synthetic rubber are examples of this
But government makes many a product
often at cost higher than that which pri
Vate enterprise could and would supply tn,
pfOduct-Whlch is in a very different cate
CORY. Paint, rope, and boxes are examples il
this field.
lime goes on to list some of the unnec
esSary losses that government business oper
atlons entail 1t owns $4,000 housing unit
and operates them at loss. 1t spends an av
erage OF S625 lot to store the property O
overseas Servicemen in it's own Warehouses
whereas private warehouses, which hav
plenty OF available space, could do the jo
for S97 per lot In order to reclaim scra
iron, a naval air station spent $4,000 t
install a press, even though there was a big
ger private press nearby which could haV
taken care of all the scrap the base had in l
days time. More than $4,000 was spent t
maui scrap iron valued at about $4,000 frOr
: Alaska to California.
So it goes. down an apparently almos
endless list. Times conclusion seems to b
very much in point: "When there is a will t
| get the government out of business, it ca
= unquestiOnably be done. To do so, the ne
Administration will have to overcome all tn
S resistance, obstruction, delay and evasion {
: the bureaucrat-at-bay .. But the further
gets into the problem, the sooner it will lear