Milford chronicle., 1962-05-11
ON RETIREMENT

serious mistake In StreSSlng age IN con-
nection with employment. These "unwant-
ed' workers denounce the prejudice against
age" and assert that most older employees,
through the benefit of past experience, can
be both productive and profitable to their
employers. They intimate that age, exper-
fence and dependability are assets which
often more than offset the pep, enthusiasm,
exuberance and inexperience of younger
workers.
Now, with old-age security and a stead
lily extending program of industrial pen
slonS, the sociologlsts are not quite sure that
the desires of all people can be taken care of
by an old-age pension.
There are many reports of workers, in
all sections of the nation, who, upon reach
ing the sixty-fve-year-od retirement age
complain bitterly about the assumption that
they are unfit to continue working. 1t seems
that there are people who do not want to
be forced to retire.
WHO WANTS BETTER GOVERNMENT? 2?
For 80 years each administration has
managed somehow to outspend its prede-
cessor without giving a thought to day of
reckoning Now the debt limit has been
raised to $500 billion, giving Congress the
privilege of going into debt another two bill
lion. The debt ceilings we are promised,
will be lifted -. to S308 billion by July l..
At this point we might ponder the sig
nifcance of historic statement by Solon
-. when he said 81 did not give the Athen-
ians the best government | could devise,
but the best they would receive" By de-
clining to receive the best in government
the Athenian people eventually lost their
identity and their nation.
Senator Byrd of Virginia, the watchdog
of the treasury, is concerned about little
matter of So million proposed to recondi-
tion a seaplane tender for the Imperial
Ethiopian Navy under the military assist
ance program of our government. Senator
Byrd is asking why it is always necessary
for the United States to bail out the United
Nations and now purchase one half OF
$400 million bond issue. He wants to know
why we need to be so inconsistent as to have
tied up in farm surpluses the sum of S14,-
112,690,000 while at the same time offering
such high price supports that encourage
more SURPRISES each year. But the Senator's
concern gets exactly nowhere. Why? The
ans >er could be that the people do not de-
mand better government or accept 1T when,
and if, it is offered.
NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD
The danger flags go up, and not a few
hackes rise with them, at thought OF new
proposal for establishment of a national
at House subcommittee hearing by DR..
James E. Allen, Jr, New York states COM
missioner of education.
Dr. Allen is not unaware of the possible
dangers in such a national board. He met
the question by raising it himself but then
declaring that the proposed group could
''set broad national goals for education and
influence the states in very sound way to-
ward them without directing them. Inc
disclaimer is not wholly convincing.
1t may be true as Commissioner Allen
told Congress, that there is need for "a re-
organization of the administrative and pol
icy-making structure of education at the
federal level" 1t may be true, as he con-
tends, that the United States Office of Edu-
cation presently lacks "the independence,
status, continuity and influence which 1t
must have to provide leadership and over
all direction to American education con-
sistent with and vital to our national pur-
poses
But before the Office of Education's in
f1uence is extended, and particularly before
such thing as national board OF educa-
ton is established, American citizens had
better do some hard thinking about the kind
and amount of national leadership they want
in education. Even advocates of greatly IN
creased federal aid to education may balR
at the idea of Overall direction" emanat
ing from Washington.
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DON'T BE GULLIBLE!
Are you one of the Is million or sc
people who now own stocks in American
corporations? Or are you one of the many
additional millions who, it is expected, viii
be investing part of their savings in stocks
in coming years?
If YOUR answer to either of these ques
tions is Yes, some words written by Sylvia
Porter. the syndicated business and finan
cial analyst. should be craven on your mem
cry. She says: "There are fiy-by-night sales
men of stocks operating in the United
States today who are unframed, incompe
tent or, worse, crooks-and if you're gul
lible enough to let them handle your invest
ments your nes.egg will disappear.
"If, though, you use basic common sense
and simply pick out one of the reputable
brokerage firms in your area, the odds arr
the man or woman handling your account
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