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Show THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, June 24, 1954 . AIHZUCAI? FORK CITIZEN- Published Every Thursday at American Fork. Utih, by the ALPINE PUBLISHING CO. rftred u Second Class Matter, at the Postofflce at American Fork, Utah, under the act of March 3. 1879 I DITOIIAl NATIONAL i Subscription Hate $150 Per Year No Aguiwent Now The overwhelming vote by which the Social Security extension bill passed the House of Representatives (355 to 8) could easily create an illusion that the old-age benefits pro-grcrn pro-grcrn inaugurated under the Social Security Act of 1035 had fcecome politically noncontroversial. This is perhaps true in the sense that neither political party can afford to be placed in the position of opposing the general purpose of providing as much financial security as is feasible for older people of reduced earning power. JJu there are breakers ahead in ' the fact that within another couple of decades, approximately,:)both political parties wil come into collision with cold figures as to what the Socia Security System,-under its present or projected scale uf taxes 'will support in the way of benefit payments to the mil lions of claimants who will then become eligible. The $18 billion or more now in the old-age insurance trust fund sounds like a very: large sum of money. But if it were really to serve as an insurance reserve in the act uarinl sense of the word it would iieed to be'majiy times larger than it isby some estimates probably at least 10 times as great In other words, when the promises now made begin to come due there will have to be resort to general taxation ox to a very much stiffer increase than has yet been contemplated in payroll taxes and other con tribu tions. -:Vr : : Far from facing this prospect, the House and administra tion bill continues present rates untU106O while broadening materially the areas of coverage and increasing (as seems necessary) the benefit rates. Surely some reserve is better ..than none;at.all,;:and In this respect the. House vote was a ' sharp rejection of the miscalled "pay-as-you-go" or nonebn- tributory.i tax-supported, flat-rate pension: or welfare plan ""proposed as. an alternatiyef ,., Now, in order to absorb society's accrued responsibilities ""to the millions iwho had already put in the greater part of .their working years before Social Security reached them. there may eventually have to be a government contribution .to the old-age trust fund outside-the worker and employer or self-employed contributions. ; But unless there is a disposition to raise Social Security taxes more rapidly and to restrain -the giving away of new benefits' from the trustf tmd,"all re- semblance to insurance will be soon lost. To prevent this is tf bipaxttsanTesponsibinty:""rt,, . - Courtesy Christian Science Monitor- - Steel Plant Here To Produce New Qz Products " p. CUfford P. Hood, President ot United States. Steel Corporation, announced today - thai vlLfi: Cteel was well-advanced In a study Involving the production of ammonia from coke oven gas. The objective of the study is to determine the most economical method ot recovering hydrogen as well as other chemical components com-ponents from this type of gas. "Possible locations for installations installa-tions of this nature would be Oeneva, Utah, and Oary. jbidl-ana, jbidl-ana, which are major points of production of coke oven gas Jto 17; S:Eteel plants; --t' Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Melvln Devey are their nieces, plane and Susan Heath, Salt Lake City. : VY. A OR v MOTOR POOL. . .When I first came to Congress X was dismayed dismay-ed by the number of Oorven-ment-owned, chauffeur - driven limousines around Washington and Z expressed the hope in my first speech pn the floor Of the House that something would be done about them. This week something was done. The House passed a bill setting . up ma chinery for a motor pool operation opera-tion for federally-owned automobiles. WORLD'S LARGEST. . J was amazed to learn that the Government Gov-ernment 'owns and operates 260,- 000 commercial-type motor vehicles, ve-hicles, exclusive of combat Vehicles Ve-hicles In the Armed Forces. Last Year these automobiles traveled nearly two billion miles at a cost to the taxpayer of $18 million. EACH HIS OWN. V .Under the present system, each department buys and operates its own automobiles.. auto-mobiles.. Congressional investigations investi-gations disclosed that there was an increasing tendency to assign chauffeur driven Government cars to more and more department depart-ment heads. ' Minor officials and ,,1 MS, til employees who for years drove their own cars to work were being be-ing driven, around Washington at the taxpayers' expense. NEW pRA. . .With the approval of the motor pool bill, Congress hopes to end this waste of manpower man-power and money." The General Services "Administration is directed di-rected to establish Inter-agency motor pools. When a Government Govern-ment official needs a car ' for Government business,, It "is obtained ob-tained from a"' central parking-lot. parking-lot. Records of travel are kept and the vehicle must be returned to the motor poof as soon as It is no jtonger being used. Chauffeursexcept Chauf-feursexcept tor top officials like the president and Cabinet Members -will be a thing of the past. 1 .--.jJiJ:i;; TRIAL RUN . ,Slx months ago, the motor pool system of handling hand-ling federally-owned cars was instituted in Denver. During this period, the Government was able to cut the number of automobiles auto-mobiles It needed by 123. The savings in Denver alone are estimated esti-mated t $150,000 per year. SURPLUS DISPOSAL. . .The House this week took action to dispose of some of our mounting food surpluses which are being stored at an estimated cost of $700,000 per day. legislation-was passed authorizing the President to negotiate the sale of our surplus sur-plus commodltUs- uv exchange for "forelen" currency of the country purchasing our products.' This currency will be used by the Government to purchase mater-laJfcJhat mater-laJfcJhat our Nation needs and does not produce domestically, ' FAMINE AID. . In addition, the President Is given authority to distribute up to $300 million )n surplus food stores for emergency emerg-ency famine assistance to friendly friend-ly nations. We In Congress hope that this program wlQ help" cut our food surpluses by putting them into stomachea of our friends. The only other method of getting rid of our surpluses under the present rigid support price, system would.be to popularize popu-larize obesity in the United States. . . A, DR. B. P. MOETENSEN CHIROPRACTOR "114 West Main St American Fork, Utah The spine Is the human switchboard controlling health and rigor ,. ' $-0-4t. Library News TOWEB OF IVOSY By Rodolf o L. Fonseca - - Fifteen; women boarded the boat at Shanghai. ; w. - One by one, they filed'aboard, silently, their faces lowered. Only the-rhythmlo rustle of their skirts betrayed " their passing. They were like great birds brought down by the soul-shattering experience which is the explosive central theme or tms novel. m " These women had -shared the Illumination, of a vocation (they, were missionary nuns) ; now they' shared the irrevocable memory of horror. . . the end of one life ... the . beginning of another In which each would-have to make her choice again ... as a woman. This intense drama moves outside the quiet peace of the nun' -retreat -at-VUla Cesi and telescopes the glittering life of Europe's cosmopolitan set, moving mov-ing restlessly from city to city. . . from love to love. The result is a novel of unusual force, written writ-ten with delicacy, tolerance, and warmth. l ' "jn'i n 'li Rom'yvherel itJos Mar$h No Salo! gous flguret I guen I jait lft people," she Mid. v From Where I sit Gxaany can be excused for her little rtu. She may "be la her eighties, bat her mind la yoanf nd open. She's the kind of person who's made this town so wonder fnL Granny not only likes people bat she respects re-spects them end their preferences snd opinions. Come to think of it, "liking" and "respecting mean much the same thing, don't they? Right In front of Cranny While's beaatifsl old house on Maple Avenns there's a brand-new sign: "Antiques. Inquire yitUn." Now dont get excited. Granny Gran-ny explained It all the other night after we settled down in her parlor, me with my temperate beer, Granny with her tea. I asked her if she was really -going in the' antique business. "Oh, no," says Granny, "I wouldn't ttll anything. 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