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The Blow Falls on Korea . ONGSHOREMEN have tied up the docks in the New York area with a wildcat strike. The strike is a protest against a new contract negoti‘ated by the union and ratified by a majortiy of the members, Like all strikes, this one means loss of revenue for : shipping companies, loss of wages for strikers and their = . families and inconvenience and hardship on the public. But the main evil is" the effect on supply ships bound ‘for the Armed Forces in Europe and Korea—especially Korea. It is probable the Armed Forces, by emergency methods, can avoid any shortages to these troops. But that doesn't meet the point. Is there any reason these " Squabbles can’t be settled inside the union meeting halls, rather than taking it out on the men who are losing their : Mood and their lives in-Korea?

Hope for a Change INSTON CHURCHILL warned the House of Commons some months ago that Britain's continued recognition - "of Communist China was “illogical” and was making it " difficult for the Western Allies to unite on a clear’and strong ‘, policy in the Orient.

British elections, that if Mr. Churchill becomes the new Prime Minister he may break off Britain's ties with the Peiping regime. Actually, this has been a one-way recognition—the Chinese Reds have never reciprocated. The Socialist government, eager to do business with "Red China, got Britain into this indefensible position soon .after the Peiping regime was set up. Some British apologists ‘ ‘have contended that our own State Department encouraged London to take this action, though Secretary Acheson lately insists that we urged Britain to withhold recognition. Whatever the reason for the blunder, it can hardly excuse Britain's failure to withdraw recognition after the “Chinese Communists intervened in Korea. Certainly Mr. ‘Churchill must be sensitively aware of that now. + Most Americans, we believe, wotiild be heartened by the as harmony with Britain on the “quegtion of Red China.

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‘Hucksters’ Haven JL UGENE C. BALLAND, a Baltimore veteran of World War I, is being swamped with mail from the Pentagon urging him to join the Army. ) Beautiful brochures, illustrated pamphlets, booklets, form letters, a steady. stream of complimentary blotters— “everything but cigars’’—keep coming to his home. Mr. Balland is weary of being™a captive audience. He “appealed to Sen. Byrd of Virginja. He told the Senator he considered the flow of slick literature describing the glories of Army life an extravagance wasted on a veteran much - 400 old to join up now. : ** Sen. Byrd first took the matter up with ex-Secretary of Defense Marshall, then with his successor, Secretary Robert A. Lovett.

"4 < 8.8 BUT, NO results. Probably both secretaries thought it Was mucH too trivial for their notice. It isn't toe trivial to the taxpayers who are paying for these misdirected recruiting blandishments. We wonder how many other 55-year- -old men throughout the country are on the Pentagon's mailing list (probably swiped from the VA). How much is it costing to flood them with a direct-mail barrage as this, appargntly designed for college men? Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney of Wyorhing just the other day blocked a spending spree of the Army-Air Force recruiters who had planned to blow a million on radio and TV shows alone. You've got to watch them every minute—those thou‘sands of pressure-boys and hucksters who hold on to their “jobs by devising new ways to spend the dollars we ante up “for vital defense needs.

Making 'Em Behave J, THIC AL standards of behavior in the government have had a heavy going-over in recent months. The lack of them has been well ventilated by a dozen investigations. The need for them has been pointed up by fact and preachment. What to do about them is the subject of a report just made public by an investigating committee "of five Senators. iz The committee, headed by Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Blinois, recommends a two-year re-study by an independent gommission. It recommends a series of laws, tightening up all around to discourage influence peddlers, gift-givers, favor- seekers, sinister crime, indiscreet discretion, overHalous lobbying and chiseling internal revenue collectors. =" In a notable minority report, Sen. George D. Aiken’ of The investigating committee says all thig is fine, but it won't #op corruption, debasement and indifference to the public trust. You can't just legislate-good morals and good sense. At one point the Douglas report quotes Confucius who said the example a head man sets is more important than his official acts. -

Encourage the Czechs ORE freedom-loving Czechs have slipped through Communist border guards in the last few days and found their way to liberty in West Germany. Reports from Europe speak of the border becoming a “sieve.” Even some of the involuntary passengers on the “freedom train” who returned to Czechoslovakia now have escaped on their own. They join a growing list of refug s munist ridden country. If there is a genuine escape movement under way in Czechoslovakia, it deserves the utmost Shepuragemant from the free nations. One vay. would be’to show v we can get William N. Oatis

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. By Jim G. Lucas

Did We Overestimate ii Army’ s Supply Strength In Korea?

TOKYO, Oct. 22—-Top Far East Air Force men believe we over-estimate the Red Army's strength in Korea. "Not in terms of manpower, but in supplies. = ~~ ° :

Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway in August warned *®

Security Council of “the activity which heretofore has presaged a4 major offensive.” He reported on ‘vehicular sightings (which) have reached proportions similar to those which preceded other major offensives.”

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GEN. JAMES VAN FLEET, head of the Eighth Army, has warned the Reds “are capable of a sizable assault nearly anywhere along the line.” He" cautioned that ‘they are here in greater strength now than they have been for some time." Others in the Eighth Army believe the Communists have enough men and supplies to hit af hard as when.they crossed the Yalu River last winter. On the other hand. Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who recently visited the Korean front, expressed his

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Backs Stand On Tax Bill

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 Hoosier Republicans, who switched their votes away from the party leadership and supported the $5.691,000,000 tax bill's passage because of the Jenner amendment, are finding a statesmanlike presentation. of their side in a speech by a Wisconsin Republican. : He is Rep. John W. Byrnes, minority member of the Ways and Means Committee, now serving his fourth term from the Green Bay district. Had Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Republican, Rensselaer, who delivered the Indiana yotes as dean of the delegation spoken, he would have stressed the Jenner amendment and states rights: The amendment “restores $20 million in welfare grants-in-aid to Indiana. Mr. Byrnes, however, spelled out why a Congress that voted for the largest military budgets in the peacetime history of America. should face the fact that the bill must be paid. His justification was for the new taxes, without reference to the Jenner amendment.

Speech Backs Tax Bill -

HERE IN PART, is Mr. Byrnes’ speech: You do not economize on a tax bill. You economize and save money and cut nut waste at the time the authorization bills are before the Congress. But once you have. authorized it and once you have appropriated the money, you have created an obligation. To all intents

and purposes you have spent the money, so that whether we turn down this conference report today or not, it is not going to mean any economy. any savings, or any elimination of waste. Why? The government still has the opportunity to obligate itself and obligate future generations by selling bonds and by going further into debt. You are not near your statutory debt limitation as yet. So the administration has the oppor-

nity to acquire money in other ways than by

taxing. You are not going to save money or eliminate waste, in my judgment, by refusing to adopt this conference report.

Question of Responsibility

THERE 1S but one real question before the House: That is, is the House of Representatives going to face up to its responsinilities? In my judgment, it is just that simple. Under any standards of morals or integrity, if a family incurs a financial obligation it -has a responsibility to meet it. Batira moral responsibility and a legal responsibility, You have got a responsibility to pay vour bills. If we have any integrity at-all, if we have any conscience, I think we will face up to our responsibility, the responsibility that is ours today, and do our best. I will concede that I do not believe we can de the complete job of paying all of the bills that are being incurred; we are spending beyond our ability to tax. Even with this tax bill you are going to have a deficit in fiscal 1952. But I think we should at least do our best to meet those obligations out of today's taxes. I think that this generation should pay the bills incurred by it. :

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

CHICAGO--Surveys show son in the U. 8. uses 26 pounds of soap a year. compared to 5.7 pounds per person in Russia and 2 ounces per person in China.

‘Melican man use velly fine soap, He sclub and scour like clazy, But Mao Tse-tung. he no such dope Beside, he much more lazy.

‘Melican man waste soap like mad, He should be much more keener, ‘Cause Red Chinee be velly glad To take him to the cleaner!

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confidence the United Nations can bring the war to a “successful military conclusion. ‘A source close to the top of the Far East Air Force says it # “mare inclined to go along” with Gen. Bradley. “That is the unexpressed but official Far East Air Force position,” this source said. Briefly, the Air Fogce is canvinced the Comhurt

munists’ supply system has been more than we realizes It doesn’t always show up immediately, airmen say. Supplies destroyed at

Sinanju, in the north, are two weeks to 30 days away from the front. The enemy continues fighting the day after such raids with as much as he had the day before.

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TOP AIRMEN concede the Communists have quantities of war materiel at and near the front lines. It is impossible, they say, to stop everything. But, they insist, it has become progressively more difficult for the Reds to get through. When they do, their inventories are lopsided. They have more than enough of one item and little of something else, equally essential. Moreover. airmen contend, while the Reds

may have enough for an offensive, they haven't enough to

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Boiling more grow dimmer every. day. Air Force reasoning at the top goes something like this: “To launch an all-out offensive, similar to the drive across the Yalu, the Reds would be faced with two alternatives. They could use

‘everything. in theif behind-the-line stockpile—in

hopes of smashing the Eighth Army and finally driving us into the sea. Or they could use only part of it and hold something back to fight a defensive action if they failed. Prudence would dictate the latter. But either would be disasIf they didn't use everything, they'd be stopped and their positions weakened. If they used everything and failed which certainly must occur to them-—they'd be through. Once their hollow shell was cracked, we could drive as far north as we chose.” An Air Force spokesman said these factors “quite possibly” influenced Gen. Bradley's optimistic estimate of the situation.

THE AIR FORCE insists it has prevented a significant buildup of war supplies behind the enemy's lines. In the last three weeks, it claims, the number of nightly truck sightings has decreased sharply. Red attempts at con-

voying have become sporadic. They frequently

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. By Frederick C. Othman

Taxes, Skates and Garbage—

. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Taxes are going up now for sure; Congress has traded roller skates for garbage chopper-uppers. This makes a weird situation, but then I guess the gents who did the voting were in a hurry to go home; for that they'll have more use for skates than garbage grinders. You remember a few days .back’ when-—t-he. House gave the President a fiscal sock in the jaw by rejecting his multibillion-dol-lar tax bill. This mighty document, among other things, taxed skates 20 per cent as luxuries, but it kept the collector's paws off the garbage machines. The “statesmen sent this bill back to conference to have it rewritten. The authors made some changes in the script, all right. They reduced the taxes of poor folks 40 cents a vear; tricky-track stuff like that. Their major effort involved skates, both roller and ice. These they made tax exempt, at a cost to the government of $2 million a vear. This loss, of course, would not do. So they slapped a luxury tax on the motors that fit under sinks to pulverize garbage and “thereby recovered that $2 million.. Then the Congressmen who rejected the bill so emphatically at first turned around and adopted the new version. Even as you read this, they're clamping skates on the soles of their shoes and heading for far places. The debate on this roller-skate bill was a little lulu; at 1:15 p.m, the bells clanged for the first quorum call and the gentlemen and the

HIGHEST YET

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22— Beginning Nov. 1, the American people and corporations will start pouring taxes into the Federal af the unprecedented rate of about £65 biilion a year. This will be a 1200 per cent increase over Uncle Sam's total tax take only 12 years ago, in 1939. That year, the tax reve-

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government's total nues amounted to $5 billion. IT WILL be a 44 per cent more than the federal government collected during the final year of World War II, when

lected in 1945. The upswing in tax revenue to the estimated $65 billion annual figure will result from the new $5.7¢ billion tax bill passed Friday by the House

.tax laws are running about $60 billion a year. (Federal

ion, leaving a deficit.)

by the House by

: high emotional level.

$44.7 billion in taxes was col-

and sent to the White House. Federal revenues from present

cash ' expenditures this year will amount to about $68 bil-

“The new tax bill, approved 2 frofite taxes are still lower,

gentlewomen abandoned their pork sausage patties (the congressional luncheon special) for a dash up the white marble stairs. Bob (Muley) Doughton (D. N. C.), the 86-vear-old chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. who had-labored so long over the tax boost biggest in peacetime history wag in charge of the argument. First he'd let a Democrat talk, then a Republican. When it came time for Rep. Thomas A. Jénkins (R. OQ.) to sound off on the inequities of the measure, he cried. “Why, ail we did to this bill was take cut roller skates and put in garbage cans. If you ask me I think you have put yourselves in the can.” - The argument, as you can see, was on a A number of Democrats said they didn't much like the new bill. but they intended to vote for it, anyhow. This caused Rep. Joe Martin, the Republican sachem, to chortle.

Ya Gotta Pay THEN A surprising and, I think. dramatic thing happened. With some difficulty Rep. John W. Byrnes (R. Wis.) got to his feet to speak for five minutes. Young Byrnes, who is perhaps the only handsome Congressman, had some difficulty getting up because he had one leg badly shot up during the war. Nobody much expected him to say anything special; afterall, All hands presumed he'd denounce the tax bill. In a ¢éalm and quiet voice, he said the issue was simple, When a man buys something, he's got to pay for it. If he's been extravagant, he still has to pay. Governments are no different. So, said he, if his fellow Congressmen felt any responsibility, they had to adopt the tax bill and he didn't care whether they were Democrats, Republicans or igorots. That did it. The bill passed with a comfortable margin.

By Earl Richert

185 to 160, will bring total tax increases since the outbreak of the Korean War to about $16 billion-—more than three times as much as the government was collecting before War II. The increases it provides for individual income and excise taxes become ef- ete. fective Nov, 1 The federal ‘‘take” of $65 hillion will amount to about 23 per cent of national income. The federal “take” of $5 billion in 1939 amounted to only 7 per cent of a much smaller national income. Treasury officials say that the new tax rates on married people will be below those of nove. : World War II because of the rv.” split income tax provisions en- " acted by the 80th Congress. Single persons in the middle fhcome brackets, however, will be paying at much higher tax rates than in World War II.

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tax rate went up to 85% per under the new bill they reach 82 per cent. ceiling rate on all corporation taxes is now 70 per cent, while in War II it ranged between 80 and 85 per cent. Excise taxes—the taxes you pay on cigarets, whisky, elec{ric refrigerators, automobiles, -are raised peaks by the new bill. The maximum rate on longterm capital gains was raised by the last minute rejiggering of the tax bill from 25 to 26 Although this was a small increase raising only an additional $28 billion in taxes, conservatives in Congress regarded it as “camel's nose under the tent"

THEY had been able to hold this rate unchanged since 1942, Treasury's pleas for an increase to 37's per Now that it has been ~ shoved upward, though slightly, they think it will be more difficult to hold it. gains tax started out in 1922 at 121; per cent.

go several nights without making an attempt, and then come across the border with 3000

to 5000 , tricks. Apparently ‘it takes some time to collect enough trucks to make It worthwhile.

One Air Force general said the situation may be. comparable to that we faced in September, 1950.

“THE REDS threw a heavy assault against the Marines at’ Masan on Sept. 2, with such power many were convinced they would reach Pusan.” he recalled. “What we didn't realize was that was all they had; there was nothing behind it. When we broke out of the Pusan . perimeter, we swept right up to Inchon and Seoul as fast as our wheels could carry us, ° I'm not saying that's the situation now. But 1 don't think the Reds are ready for a major offensive as the term has been, used recently. If they try and fail, they'd risk the same Kind of breakthrough.” (TOMORROW: How we strike at the Reds’ supply lines and why we can't deliver the clinching blows.)

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Hoosier Forum

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend io the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.

‘Poor Law Enforcement’

MR. EDITOR: Allow me, for one, to say that 'T am not sur-

prised that the, man who reported Halloween vandals had broken the windows of his new car, waited two hours for the police. There is a growing laxity in law enforcement which should be apparent to anyone. Last winter, a car ran into us, and after calling the police, we waited over 45 minutes In the biting cold. They never came at -all. A 6:30 a. m. horn honker who rouses the whole neighborhood every morning has been reported several times to no avail Several churches are still running bingo games and always have. Look around, you will. see cars parked on curbs, sidewalks and blocking them, and on Sundays, cars parked everywhere in all kinds of no-parking zones, especially in the downtown area. I have repeatedly seen prowl cars pass such offenders without even a second glance. : Most" people who call the police for aid usu--ally have a’ good reason, and since their taxes pay the wages of the police, they are entitled to as prompt action as possible when called. Our police force is larger than it ever has been, but our laws are no better than the enforcement of them. —Times Reader, City.

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‘Experienced Engineer’

MR. EDITOR: Voters in the city of Indianapolis have an important decision to make on Nov. 6th. They will have a choice between selecting an experienced engineer, whose record in the office of Mayor is without blemish, or his apponent, who has no experience in guiding the good ship, “Indianapolis.” As Mayor, Mr. Bayt has delivered the goods, If any official In the history of the rity of Indianapolis eve} deserved to he rewarded for his afficial efforts that official is Maver Bayt. I believe hé will be elected by an overwhelming majority. —Maurice Philpott, 1920 N. New Jersey St.

‘America or Russia?’

MR. EDITOR: One of our basic rights as American citizens is the right to protect our lives and property The other day a jury in Ft. Wayne found a disabled veteran guilty of assault because he shot a bov stealing from his melon patch. The veteran told the court that he had had so much trouble with melon thieves that there “weren't any melons left to harvest.” Things have reached a pretty sad pass when a man can no longer protect his property. What is this? America or Russia” —Disgruntied Reader,

What Others Say

REACTIONARIES "(as Iran), 1 fear, are their own worst enemies, For there comes a point at which the foreign goose will not lay any more golden eggs, while their own goose will not lay any eggs at all. To put it bluntly, the goose will be cooked.—Sir Gladwyn Jebb, chief Rusk delegate to United Nations. oo oo oo I FEEL certain that the tensions that frustrate efforts for a peaceful world would be, to a large degree, dissipated if there were the same press freedom all over the world that we enjoy here in America.—Gen. George C. Marshall. de WE certainly are not going to return to the dollar ‘any of the value taken out of it. No one now living will ever see the day when the dollar will again buy what it did in 1940.—Arthur A. Smith, vice president, First National Bank of Dallas. : oe oe & WE are always hearing a clamor for a strong foreign policy. People who use that phrase live in the past. Those days have gone forever. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, of Great Britain. bo BP I DON'T think Eisenhower can be drafted and I don’t think he can get the nomination by being coy. I think Eisenhower should relinquish his command and come home and declare himself and tell where he stands.—Gov. Val Peterson, of Nebraska.

New Tax Toke 1200% Hike Over ’'39 Level

+ ocratic leadership rolled out all the artillery at its command. The majority of House Republicans, headed by Republican leader Joseph W., Martin (Mass.), voted against the bill on the grounds that taxes are too high and that a shut-off in taxes would force the Truman administration to economize,

HONEST LABOR

THE MAN who toils with all his might . . . to earn his daily pay . . . achieves much more than dollars for . .. he goes a happy way . . . for with his tired feeling . .. comes a peace- . ful frame of mind . .. that prevails when all his work is through . . . whatever be its kind . .. now I know some who frown on jobs . . . that may require brawn . . . and hard work makes them shudder . . . much like a frightened fawn ... and they are real contented with . . . most any job at all ++. just so it is easy and . . . the order isn't tall . . but I am most inclified to think . . .

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