Milford chronicle., 1958-04-25

Don't be among those unfortunate people
who waited until it was too late.
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NOT BY SLOGANS ALONE
There is good reason to believe that
America could think its way out of the re-
cession, if only a concerted, unpolitical at
tack could be made on the problem. By this
is meant simply that the right kind of ra-
Eonal action could arrest the economic down.
turn. To deny this is to succumb to the
idea that our economy is the pawn of blind,
unyielding forces beyond human control
But thinking our way out of the reces-
sion is not to be confused with talking our
way out of it. There is serious doubt whe-
ther the latter method, now being widely
advanced as an economic cure-all, will work.
To say this is not to discount entirely
the value of positive thinking 1t is true
that going about with long faces is not going
to do much good. 1t may also be true that
the song writer's advice to "accentuate the
positive" will have some beneficial effect by
stimulating some people to buy
Yet to place our faith in slogans and ex-
not only foolish but dangerous If business
is aiiing, what possible good can be done by
having men wear breast pocket handker-
chiefs embroidered with Business Is Great?
If the main economic news is bad, who gains
by ignoring it and playing up the scraps of
wrong with telling the good news, but there
is something decidedly wrong about ignor-
ing the bad.
The dangers in this approach are not
hard to find. For one thing if the shouters
of glad slogans grow too strident, lot of
people may conclude that the recession is
lot worse than they had supposed For an
other thing, if we concentrate on selling
confidence" to the extent of not trying tc
work out real solutions for real problems,
we may miss the boat entirely. Slogans are
no substitute for thought.
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DECISIONS BUILD CHARACTER
While everyone likes to meet child that
is well-diSciplined very often disciplining
a child to the extent that he is not given a
chance to make any decisions can be very
harmful to the proper development of the
child. 1t is very important that parents and
others, who are charged with training chill
dren, allow young people an opportunity to
make decisions each day.
Allowing a child an opportunity to Sc
lect the clothes he will wear on certain oc-
casions often benefits the child, although the
mother may be little embarrassed at times
1t also pays dividends to give child some
say to which chore he would prefer to do
The psychology of deciding whether he would
prefer to help with household chores or
clean up the front lawn, makes the young
member of the family feel that he is a CO.
worker in joint enterprise, rather than a
private in the rear ranks just taking orders
We have even heard about the mother
who kept two bars of soap in the bathroom,
so that her two-year-old could make choice
each day as to whether to use the white or
the green soap. The young man or woman
who is allowed to make decisions at all stages
in life Tin line with their maturity and judg-
ment) will develop into a responsible citi-
zen less likely to have mental breakdown
than the individual whose parents have shell
tered him from decisions.
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FAST AND FURIOUSi
Our present unfair, confiscatory income
tax rates that take up to 81 per cent of per-
sonal taxable income and 81 per cent of cor
poration earnings, can be likened to a tread
mill on which all of us are running furiously
to nowhere.
The bipartisan Sadlak-Herlong tax re
form bill, now pending in Congress, would
get us off the treadmill before it exhausts
our strength. 1t would give tax relief to
both individuals and corporations. Reduc-
tions would be made in all individual brack-
cts and establish a maximum of AZ per cent
for both individual and corporate taxpay-
ers. Reductions would be made gradually,
over five-year period, allowing normal eco
nomic growth to keep revenue up and prob
ably increasing it.
The Sadlak-Herlong bill would get US off
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