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JOBS FOR THE HANDICAPPED
A Presidential committee urges that five percent
of the labor force of business as a whole be made up of
handicapped workers. If this goal is reached, the
2,000,000 who are disabled at this present time would
be given jobs, and so would the 250,000 who become
disabled each year. Of last year’s rehabilitated dis
abled, jobs were found for only 65,000.
Hiring the handicapped is good business, too. A
Bureau of Labor statistics study found that handicapped
workers have lower accident rates, lower absentee
rates, five to nine times less turnover, and a better
production record than others.
Every business, large or small, should do what it
can to help the nation reach that five percent goal.
NOT ENOUGH RICH PEOPLE
It used to be said that well-to-do and rich people
could pay most of the taxes, so the rest of us needn’t
worry too much about the cost of government. But that
situation is as dead as the Pharaohs.
The federal individual income tax starts at 20%.
Then, as income levels rise, surtaxes of from 2 to 71%
are added on, making the maximum tax a staggering
91%. Despite this, some 84% of our total individual
income tax revenue comes from the base rate of 20%
—while only 16% comes from the surtaxes. We just
haven’t enough rich people to soak !
SETTING THE STANDARDS
Some time ago Milton Eisenhower, president of
Pennsylvania State University, said:
“It is the private institutions that set traditions,
the standards of academic freedom in America. And
because the private institutions do set and maintain
these standards, we of the public institutions also enjoy
the benefits of such freedom. If private institutions
were ever to disappear, the politicians would take over
the universities, and there would then be neither
educational freedom nor any other kind.” #
That fine statement explains the main reason why
more and more American business enterprises are mak
ing more and more grants of money to hard-pressed
private colleges and universities. Freedom is indivis
ible-—if one freedom dies the others sicken and will
eventually die too. And nothing could more surely
foreshadow the end of freedom than government dom-.
ination of education.
BERNARR McFADDEN
DEAD AT 87 YEARS
JERSEY CITY, N.J, W—Ber
narr McFadden, colorful exponent
of rugged living who regarded old
age as “just a bad habit,” is dead
at 87.
The onetime millionaire pub
lisher died last night at Jersey
City Medical Center after an at
tack or jaundice.
His physician said the attack,
which brought him to the hospital
last Friday, had been aggravated
by a three-day fast. The death
certificate listed the cause of
death as “cerebral thrombosis.”
From a sickly child, McFadden
built himself into a hardy physi
cal specimen and amassed a for
tune estimated at one time at 30
million dollars.
Appeals Court Upholds
Convictions of Four
Puerto Rican Fanatics
WASHINGTON, ItfL-The U.S.
Court of Appeals yesterday up
held the conviction and prison
sentences given four Puerto Rican
fanatics for shooting up the House
of Representatives in March 1954.
Five lawmakers were wounded,
but all recovered.
In a unanimous decision, the
court rejected all points raised by
the court-appointed counsel for
the Puerto Ricans and comment
ed: “Their guilt was clear and
their convictions must stand.”
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Eisenhower, in Letter to Bulganin,
Couples U.S. Offer to Accept Red’s
I Plan With His ‘Pre-Disarmament’
DENVER, (£>—President Eisen
hower, in a letter to Russia’s Pre
mier Bulganin, couples a formal
U.S. offer to accept a Soviet mili
tary inspection plan with a new
plea for the Eisenhower “pre-dis
armament” program.
The convalescing President’s
brief note underscored the admin
istration’s continuing hope the So
viet Union eventually will go
along with the Chief Executive’s
proposal that the U.S. and Russia
exchange military blueprints and
agree on reciprocal aerial inspec
tion.
At the same time, apparently in
a move to keep that hope alive,
Eisenhower reiterated this coun
try is willing to combine his plan
and the Soviet program with a
view toward disarmament in the
long run.
In a Sept. 19 message to Eisen
hower, five days before the Presi
dent was stricken with a heart at
tack, Bulganin found much fault
with the Eisenhower plan first set
forth at the Big Four summit con
ference in Geneva last July.
So much fault, in fact, that ad
ministration officials reportedly
concluded at the time that Bul
ganin had chosen either to miss or
ignore the es.sence of the Eisen
hower plan—that it would be a
step toward disarmament and not
disarmament itself.
But if the Kremlin leader did
choose to miss or ignore that basic
point, Eisenhower in his reply
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quite clearly ch^se to overlook it,
presumably in the hope the Soviet
Union eventually will come
around to endorse his program.
Making no mention of Bulgan
in’s blunt criticism of his propos
al, the President elected to take
note of the Premier’s assertion
that the Eisenhower plan was get
ting careful study by the Soviet
high command.
“ ... I am encouraged,” Eisen
hower wrote, “that you are giving
such full conside^tion to my Ge
neva proposal.” *
Then, in his concluding para
graph, the President formally re
newed a bid to Russia to allay
“fear and suspicion” by combin
ing both his own and the Soviet
plan for mutually checking on
military installations and move
ments.
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on paper is a deed of King Roger
of Sicily of the year 1102.
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