The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-05-13

Assigning much of the blame
to spending money from min
eral bonuses and leases which
are not recurring but have been
treated as If they were" Don
Ewing, Of The Shreveport Times
diagrams the indicated reduc-
tons in state expenditures. Mr..
Ewing is an editors editor"
as well as a reading public S
one. He writes with so much in
formation and SO many provo
cative ideas that fellow editor
iahsts are inspired to take pen
in hand at once. He is especially
a boon in this analysis of what
his state must do if expendi-
lures are to be reduced as radi-
cally as seems necessary. Other
states are not so unfortunate
but all are familiar with h e
candidate who promises all sorts
Of things to be paid for by re-
ducing expenses and then, when
elected, are afraid or unable to
deliver the reductions.
NOTING THAT ABOUT 80 per
cent of LouiSiana'S government
spending is for education, high
ways and welfare, Mr.. Ewing
! has three quiries:-
Cd Are we ready to squeeze
the waste out of welfare, con-
fine it to help for the genuinely
needy, accept a welfare lien law
such as exists in nearly three
quarters Of the states (and) a
family responsibility law such as
exists in majority of tn e
states?"
~ Are we ready to accept
an end to construction of 'politi-
cal roads and systems of fl
nancing which make every dol
lar in highway construction
cost anywhere from $1.4O to
$1.65?'
90 I'm education, are we will
ing to cut out the spending on
frills as well as on programs
which may embrace much that
is good but which are still not
necessary to the finest in edu-
cation itself? Is the legi-
stature going to 60 on geographic
cally duplicating state colleges
and adding unneeded branches
Of LSU?"
Mr.. Ewing closes with the
proposition socialists won't &C
cept, politicians won't dare, and
God-p | ayers deem heather
Because project is good, or
needed, does not mean it must
be established" he avows.
But modern statesmen, con-
ditioned to new and newer ideals
and more and more tax-spend-
elect, will not let themselves be-
lieve office-holding has any
other terms. Just as labor lead
ers, competing against 0 h r
labor leaders to win more and
more wages and benefits for
their workers, can be persuaded
of no other road to success as
a leader.
Occasionally some Robert
Taft challenges the propositions
and wins out. But the derring-
do persuades few to follow.
1t is thirty years since III e
American l. on in national
convention at Boston resolved
nightly against proposals Of
legislation primarily designed to
attract our votes
What else is there for a poll
tician to do?
EDITORS ARE DIFFERENT.
They don't have to be elected
or even to be popular. They can
stand for stopping-this side Of
socialism, bankruptcy. national
inertia and dead heart.
EDITOR EMMERICH, of The
Jackson State Times. say South
erners don't know whether they
are liberals or conservatives
| He thinks this partly due to be-
ing naturally conservative We
belonging to Democratic Party
which is usually liberal, an d
partly to changes in the natural
targets Of liberalism. These. a
few years ago, were 1.-THE sweat
shops" the power trust the
railroads. But those are evils Of
yesterday, not today.
Originally liberalism meant
being let alone by the govern
ment, exactly the opposite Of its
present welfare state meaning
When President Eisenhower
says he is liberal on civil rights,
conservative on economic rights
he is using this original con-
cept. He is against government
in our economic lives, for it in
human rights.
SouthcrnerS, it seems to me,
are liberals in the old original
sense. Except when tempted
overmuch with pie in the sky
| thew are "apin the government