Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 22

FAMOUS FAMILY'S 4TH MAN IN CAPITAL 1Q-TI Thuraday, Jan. 24, '63 DETROIT FREE PRESS Funds OK'd Robert Toft's Credo: First Get' It, Then Spend It For Three ects Senator derived his trick middle name. Alphonso Taft was secretary of war and attorney general in the administration of President Grant. He was also United States minister to Austria and Russia. Taft is the fourth of the family line to hold office in Washington.

Before his father and his grandfather (William Howard Taft) there was a great-grandfather, Alphonso Taft, from whom the late "Perhaps what we need most is a return to personal fiscal morality." The customers will be hearing about this subject from Taft when his feet are firmer in the well of the Housa billion," Taft brooded. "If workers and householders want to mortgage their future income with such installment credit, they are not likely to be shocked when the Government -goes into deficit financing. Federal Government has announced that three Wayne County communities will re BY EDWIN A. LAHEYt Chief of Our Washington Burw WASHINGTON The new con gre ssman-at-large from Ohio has a one-sheet biographical record, terse and incisive. At the bottom it says: "Note: Mr.

Taft does not have a middle name. Robert Taft, Is correct." This was not intended by Mr. Taft's staff as a characterization of the new congressman -at-large. But it eeive more than $1.5 million in Federal grants. Gross He and Rlverview will receive a total of $1,302,695 In Federal aid for pending Wayne County sewer projects.

Nankin Township received a Federal public works grant of government fiscal policies. Taft knows he la running into a season of "Keynesian" economic philosophy from the Kennedy Administration. In brief, this philosophy holds that it's OK to spend it before you get your hands on it. The Keynesian thinkers dress up the idea with Involved essays about Investing in the "public sector" of the economy. "The pnblio sector Is an important part of the economy," young Taft says.

"Bat too many people concerned with the public sector tend to forget that ours is basically a private-enterprise economy. "And when that fact is forgotten there is danger of a loss of confidence in the private investment sector of the economy. We had an example of that loss of confidence in the steel crisis last year." TAFT KNOWS he's blowing against a high wind with his "old-fashioned" views on fiscal integrity, which to him means that you don't spend it until you have it. "The outstanding consumer credit, or installment credit, continues to rise year after year, and now stands at about $267,500 for construction of a new i water board and administration building. couldn't have been a more accurate one.

Correct is the word for this representative of the fourth generation of a distinguished Ohio political family, who came here to a town -where his father had reigned as "Mr. where his grandfather had been President and Chief Justice. WITH THE same sense of correctness that gave dignity to his father, the late Senator Taft, the new Congressman-at-large shrinks from political corn. After a handshake with the sober but friendly; looking man from Cincinnati, I said: "If I didn't know how melodrama revolts you I would have suggested a rendezvous over on the other side of the Capitol, where they have the big bell tower dedicated to your father." Bob Taft smiled with a -blush of shame. "I started the day over there," be said.

"Life Magazine said they had to have a picture of me standing alongside my father's statue at the bell tower." Modesty, a supplemental characteristic to correctness, flows smoothly through the Taft veins. Taft naturally has an ambition to broaden his public service, which to date has consisted of eight years as a member and majority leader in the Ohio House of Representatives. THE NEW congressman-at-large has interests in political science pretty much like those of his father and these are centered in the field of FLY TO THE MAJOR portion of the Federal money $847,195 was allocated to Grosse He to be 1 applied on a matchlng-fund basis against the sewer pro- gram which will give Grosse He Its first lslandwide eewer system. Rlverview received the remainder of the sewer grant to combat health hazards in its community. Rlverview is under Circuit Court order to correct health hazards along its Huntington Drain.

The' court order stems from a hepatitis epidemic the community suffered in 1961. Both sewer projects must be started within 90 days. The Nankin Township grant, also a matching-fund grant, Is for construction of a two-story administration building to be located on Ford Road near Locust In Nankin's 20-acre civic center. Construction is expect-" ed to begin in April. 8 -4.

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