The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-11-01

And More Oppressive-Civilian
employees of the Federal govern
ment totaled 2,416,864 last year,
and the total, instead of being
decreased, is being increased By
$4,000 to 100000 a year
[ The Federal government owns
1867, 100000 acres of land, about
out of every acres in the country.
In one State, Nevada, the Federal
government owns $50 of all land.
1t owns 42l 800 buildings with a
total floor space of some 2,500000,
600 square feet 1t leases an adj
ditional 96,OOO,OOO square feet OF
building space.
Secretary of Commerce Luther
II. Hodges, appearing before a
Congressional committee, testified
that "all sorts of money could be
saved if the Government would
get rid of the deadwood on its
payrolls. He said that 1870 of the
people in his Department ARE
doing jobs started 40 years ago
which just aren't needed But be-
lore anything could be done about
overhauling the Government $
featherbedded payroll, along came
the Administrations budget for
the new fiscal year and in it was
the request for funds for more
jobs in every Department and
agency, including the Department
of Commerce. Secretary Hodges
had asked, not for 1910 fewer en-
plOyees, but for 1870 more. Post
master General Day had asked for
$4,000 more employees. Secretary
of Agriculture Freeman wanted s.
400 more employees in his De-
partment Secretary of lnterio"
| Udall had asked for 5,400 more.
| And so it went. AS the Govern
ment grows, it imposes more reg
ulatiOns. enters into additional
! areas of our daily lives, restrict
| ing still more of our personal
freedom of choice and exercising
! additional dangerous influences on
! all SegmentS of our economy
One of the monstrosities of the
Government, and the most oppres-
sive, is the regulatory" agency
! We like to think of our Govern
ment as having three branches,
Executive, Legislative and judicial,
but actually we have a fourth
, branch, the regulatory agencies
which cannot be classified prop
erly as belonging exclusively to
any one of the three branches be-
cause they first promulgate reg
ulations which have the force and
/ effect of law. then enforce them,
and later adjudicate them. They
are indeed unique in that they act
as lawmaker, enforcer, prosecut-
ing attorney, judge, jury and exc
cutioner. They are the 60 independ-
ert agencies, with 100000 en-
ployees and a total annual budget
of around $10000,000,000 We as
individuals and as a business COM
munity have arrived at the point
! where the eye of some almighty
agency is upon us when we buy
! or sell, ship or receive, hire or
! fire, grow or manufacture, save Or
spend, drink or diet, profit or lose,
talk or listen.
We see the erosion of individual
/ liberties and the increasing sub
stitution of bureaucratic planning
for individual decisions. Individual
initiative must not be completely
sWamped by government edict.
! We must do what we can to pre-
vent the government from getting
bigger. We must ask ourselves
how much regulation of our private
| affairs can we undergo without
relinquishing our oldest concepts
about a free society and the princl-
pies on which our beloved u S. A..
was founded.
This Is My Native Land
/ When | hear a sophomore discus
sion of patriotism or the ques-
tioning of basic American prin-
ciples, my thoughts are inclined
to turn to the words of Sir Walter
Scott penned more than a century