Milford chronicle., 1954-04-02

such increases, II any, as are necessary to
meet the increased costs and to insure eff
cient service. The interests of shippers are
protected: If the Commission finds, after
full investigation, that the interim increases
were too high the carriers are required to
refund the amounts by which they exceeded
the increases finally authorized. Inadequate
and delayed increases inevitably result in,
depriVing the shipper of improved facilities
which would be provided if the funds were
available. An inadequate transportation
plant would be detriment to our national
defense requirements.
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THE RACE, AND THE GOAL
Census experts say that our population in
1875 should be around 200 million or more
persons. 1t is a prediction that warrants
sober thought and planning.
Huge populations are a liability rather
than an asset if they are nOn-prOductive and
without equipment or resources. That is
where capital comes into the glowing picture
which the experts paint-capital goods and
equipment on a large scale.
Our 1875 labor force is expected to be
around SO milliOn-a third larger than it is
today. Jobs necessarily must be created for
22 million new workers, most of them in
business and industry. There is $4,000
investment behind the average Job in Am
erica today, which means we'll need around
264 billion dollars of new investment by
1875 to provide productive jobs for our in
creased work force.
SO here's the 264-billiOn dollar question:
Will government costs and taxes be cut
enough to permit the saving and investment
needed for the future? That is fervent
hope, for the benefit of the glorious goal to
be won, and the generations to come
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INFLAMMATORY DANGER
The way to stop panicky rumOrs is with
facts
Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who has
the facts about the spOtty unemployment in
our land, says it is a rolling ,readjuStment"
in which the temporary effects of transition
from defense to peacetime economy are be-
ing felt In first one industry or community,
then in another,
$50 long as the public keeps on buying,
and / think they WILL" Secretary Humphrey
adds Eve will work out of this readjust-
ment in a comparatively short time"
President Eisenhower calls for ga steady,
unshakable attitude of public confidence"
American industry promptly expresses it's
confidence by preparing to spend billions of
dollaTs-General Motors alone more than
billiOn-in expansion programs.
Meanwhile, fearsOme rumOrs, based on
mlSinfOrmatiOn and untruth, are being fan
ned-by whom, and for what malevOlent
purpose? House Speaker Martin says cleft
wing egg heads are trying to promote us
into hard times-tO lead us into Socialism"
Certainly those who, individually or in
concert, blow rumOrs into fearful flame, do
not have our cOuntry's best interests at
heart.
WHO REALLY RUNS AMERICA
We are pretty set up, and "dOwn state
DelaWareans" should be too, over a recent
study made for Pathfinder, "The Town
Journal, by the National Research Bureau,
Inc, to find out "WhO Really Runs Amer
ica." AS you have known all along it is the
81 per cent of Americans who live in cities
and towns under 1000 and on farms, in what
Pathfinder terms Countryside America" 4"
But the survey shows up "cOuntry-Side'
strength that may have been suspected by
some but will be surprising to most For ex-
ample, it controls far more than half of the
seats in Congress. Three-fOurths of our SEN
atOrs come from the SO states where Coun-
try-side voters predOminate-"eVent though
less than half of the nations population ac-
tually lives in these states!" And Country
side people elect over go per cent of the Rep
resentatives, since they Outnumber big-city
people in 265 of the 435 Congressional dis
tricts.
In the State Legislatures, the story is
much the same, 60 per cent of the $500 leg
islatOrs coming from the smaller cities,
towns and rural areas. And in Washington,
Countryside Congressman head 18 of the
21 House committees, and Ia of the 18 SEN
ate committees. There are Countryside ma
jorities in 80 of the total 80 Congressional
committees
Pathfinder also confirms some of the
more general facts-Of-life that we, of course.
knew all along-that:
people in smaller places WELD more in
fluence, too, because they get out more of
the vote =. they are more vocal in telling
their Congressman what they want-and
don't want"
The study quotes Representative E. Y.
Berry, of Mclaughlin, S. D., as follows
Rural people are more interested in Gov
ernment because so many of them partici-
pate in it. They have to, or there wouldn't
be any,"
And again, Chairman Dan Reed of the
House Ways and Means committee Cand
from Dunkirk, ~ Y) is quoted as saying,
'Such people are the conservative hacly hone