Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1961 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1961

Spending Figures HardToComprehend

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Treasury is reporting now on the first few days of the new fiscal year. This offers a last - chance opportunity for the average citizen

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to see and to understand the spending figures which comprise the housekeeping accounts of,the U.S. government. These figures will be available to be seen during the remaining 51 weeks of the current fiscal

year. The average citizen will see them if he is interested. He is not likely, however, to understand the spending figures or the revenue figures, either. Both sets of figures quickly become too big for the understanding of the common man. The daily Treasury statement herewith under review is for the fiscal year from July 1-5, inclusive. Five days. , You wouldn't expect the first five days of July to rack up anything startling in the Way of gov-

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ernment business. Os the five, one day was Saturday, another Sunday and another the Fourth of July. Moreover, President Kennedy was out of the city most of the time, resting and working on Cape Cod. The Supreme Court was in recess until autumn. Congress was on a long holiday. Who Ran the Store? Who was running the store? The store must have been in charge of the spenders and the tax collectors while the tops of the executive, legislative and judicial

branches were on the loose. Business as usual means just what Jt says to the government spenders of the peoples* money and to the government collectors of the peoples’ taxes. During those first five days of the new fiscal year, the U.S. government spent roughly $1 billion. The precise figure listed in the Treasury statement as withdrawals was $1,044,188,607.20. Deposits in the Treasury, which correspond roughly to tax revenue, totaled $371,529,481.16. Internal revenue

collections, mostly income tax, collected during the business hours of Wednesday, July 5 amounted to nearly $lB5 million. So the world's richest government, the servant of the world’s best fed, best clothed and best housed citizens, is off to a good start toward another Treasury deficit. It will be the 28th such deficit since 1930. The politicians and political parties which operate the U.S. government as the servants of the citizens, do not believe the citizens are willing to

pay for the kind of government they demand. Won’t Increase Taxes The politicians will not Increase taxes to pay the bill. They fear that the citizens would throw them out of office if taxes were raised. The Citizens might even do that because the citizens are a dull-witted lot when it comes to taxes, government spending and federal pie in the sky. This pie in the sky is a kind of political free lunch which is not free at all but a direct charge against

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the citizen taxpayers, present and future, especially future. What the dull-witted citizens fail to understand is that supporting the U.S. government with borrowed dollars instead of with tax dollars is more costly for the taxpayers than would be a big, honest increase in taxes. These many /years of deficits have imposed a capital levy on the American people. Deficits have rotted the value of the U.S. doHai**down to 46 cents. A capital levy of 54 per cent. Housewares Reflect Tastes Os Kennedys CHICAGO (UPTU) — Even housewares are beginning to reflect the tastes of President Kennedy and his wife, judging by the 35th National Housewares Show. The President’s influence showed up in the many rocking chairs featured in the new line of a prominent maker of unpainted furniture, —. — Evidence that the first lady’s bouffant hairdo is catching on lay in the many new home hair dryers with extra-large hoods to accommodate the jumbo rollers needed to set the Jackie hairdo. For those not about to buy a whole new dryer, one manufacturer showed an inexpensive oversize replacement hood to bring old home hair dryers up to date for the bouffant hairdos. An estimated 30.000 buyers, merchandise managers and other industry representatives previewed the items influenced by the White House among some 150.000 housewares at the five-day show which opened Monday at McCormick Place. It was the biggest midyear trade show ever held by any industry. There were 98.893 registered civil and commercial aircraft in the U. S. at the end of 1958, nearly 452 per cent more than at the end of 1940. - The numbar of scheduled commercial airlines in U. S. at the beginning of 1959 totaled 1,717, up from 437 at the beginning of 1941.

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QUITE A CATCH — While fishing in the surf of Rio' Grande beach on Texas* gulf coast, Lucy Moon landed this big one. Lucy is from Raymondville. Texas.

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT— Orchestra conductor John Pritchard keeps close watch on typist Barbara Bell to assure that she isn’t playing “off-key.’ The Battersea, England, lass actually will “play 5 ’ the typewriter at London’s Festival Hall in an impressionistic work calling for an “ancient tyoewriter and bell.”