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Editor

PAGE 12 Monday, Mar. 17, 1952

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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

Taxes Hurt, But . . .

HEN THE founding fathers set up the federal government, they knew jt would cost money to run it, but they figured that the customs duties on imported goods would raise enough. ? It wasn't long, though, until they found that wasn't enough. So Alexander Hamilton imposed a tax on whisky three cents a gallon it was—and the frontiersmen in western Pennsylvania rebelled. : But the rebellion was quelled, with little bloodshed, and _ the tax stuck. It grew, too. It's $10.50 a gallon now. And the little federal government of those days has grown into the giant that this year is collecting $63 billion in taxes from the American people—more than $400 per person. And even that isn't enough to pay its bills. When federal, state and local taxes are added together, they amount to $530 per person, a little over $10 a week for each of us, children included.

” » . » " ” r THE CIVIL WAR cost $8.67 per person per year, in federal taxes in the north. Then federal taxes went down; they were only $3.88 per capita in 1900. The income tax, which began in 1913, put the figure up to $50.81 by 1920, though it fell again in 1925 to $22.65 per - capita. : At the peak of World War II, the figure was $312.86 per person per year. Now it's even more. Resentment over taxes, the politicians say, is higher among the people then ever before. Yet we must have high taxes, painful as it is to pay them, because it is costing such enormous sums for the government to do the things that it is doing. If Congress had failed to raise taxes last year—as some of its irresponsible members wished—that failure would have. resulted in a greater federal deficit, which means more inflation, which in turn means that your dollar would buy less today than it does. So if we were not paying the taxes, we would be paying that amount and more because of the “cheaper” dollar.

Delicate Economics

ITS no simple task the government's Wage Stabilization Board has taken for itself in trying to head off a steel strike. ¢ A fact-finding report now before the board says that under present government wage policies, the steelworkers could be granted anywhere from 8 to 18'4 cents an hour pay raise, or even more, depending on how the board's regulations are interpreted. The board now is trying to draw up a formula to settle the wage dispute—a formula on which the companies and the union will be asked to negotiate. Whether either or both sides would agree to this formula is purely a matter of guesswork. The board has no power of enforcement. The companies have stoutly resisted any pay raise, and the union just as stoutly has been insisting on its full demands. . But the issue goes far beyond the practical question of whether the positions of the company and the union can be compromised. -

» » { AT THE moment, inflation seéms to ‘be "stemmed — whether for natural or artificial reasons, or both. But any substantial change in steel wages might start a new round of inflation. A mere upshoot in prices and wages would be harmful, both to the economy and the defense effort. If a full-scale spiral were to be set off, it could be disastrous. At the same time, a strike in the steel industry would be a genuine blow to the defense effort. So the situation seems to be building up to a question of which evil is the most damaging from the standpoint of public welfare: more inflation, or a shutdown in the basic defense industry. : There can be no gain for the nation in either - alternative. The steelworkers’ union three times has agreed to put off the threatened strike. The government has been on notice since last October that this situation was inevitable.

...'t cannot properly ask the union to hold off interminably. But the Wage Board has asked the union to accept

another 15-day delay. In the circumstances, the union hardly can lose by this short extension, even though it may feel the wage board has been unduly slow. When the stakes are so high, and the problem so delicate, every forthright effort toward a settlement deserves the most serious reception. .’ :

No Time to Fool Around ALTER REUTHER and other international officers of of the CIO United Auto Workers didn't waste much time getting on the job after the House Un-American Activities. Committee exposed Communist influences in the union's local at the famed River Rouge plant of the Ford * ‘Motor Co. . » The local’s officers were ordered to a hearing, the first step toward removal under union procedure. They were cited and discharged by the executive board for failing-to eliminate Communist influence, as required by the union's constitution. The River Rouge plant is a vital cog in defense production. Communists and their sympathizers are a dangerous threat to that production. No union can afford to tolerate them in such circumstances." Moreover, as the UAW board said, the presence of Communists has the effect of undermining the union. For Communists are as much enemies of labor unions as they are of anything else American. .

COMMUNISTS in North Korea and China don’t want their germ warfare charges investigated. Probably afraid it would turn out to be red ants in their pants.

” a . . MARKET TIP—Wise merchants ‘always pick tax paying time to advertise gadgets for-cutting your own hair,

heomdll 2 - ‘. : ) MAYBE THE reason Gen. Eisenhower doesn't tell that Senate committee, “I shall return” is because he's afraid

they'd think he was trying to imitate Gen. MacArthur.

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Denton Likes

Political Label

WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—“Mr. Welfare was the title Collier's Magazine “once conferred upon Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. “Jack” Ewing. Both before and since that time it has heen

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used to labél persons in politics who might be

called “unreconstructed New Dealers” or Falr Dealers. Usually it is applied by Republicans to Democrats who are not Dixlecrats, It customarily Has about the same scornful meaning as “spendthrift” Today, however, a Hoosier Pemocrat, who has been given the title at times, defended it with pride. He is Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, In his weekly letter to Eighth District constituents, Mr. Denton cited historical precedents for the ‘welfare state.” He also said that it was defended by the titular head of tHe Republican Party, Gov, Thomas E. Dewey, twice a presidential nominee. He cited this quotation from Gov. Dewey's speech at Princeton University, Feb. 9, 1950— “Some very clumsy Republican pinned the “welfare state” label on the Truman administration, to the detriment of the Republican Party. Anyone who thinks that an attack on the fundamental idea of security and welfare is appealing to the people, generally, is living in the Middle Ages. Everybody wants welfare and security In one form or another. I have never met anybody who did: not want welfare “and security. The man who first used the phrase against our present government did his cause no good, to put it mildly.” Mr. Denton pointed out that when the U. 8. Constitution was adopted 162 years ago the preamble contained the words to “promote the general welfare.” That, he said, has been part of Uncle Sam's business ever since. Citing the growth of government welfare projects, beginning with the establishment of the U. 8. Public Health Service in 1798, Mr. Denton cited the subsequent establishment of the Federal Insane Hospital here, the printing house for the blind at Louisville, and the landgrant colleges, established during President Lincoln’s administration, including Purdue.

List Continued

HE also cited Howard University and Freedmen’s Hospital, originally built for Negroes by the U. 8. government. Mr. Denton’'s welfare project list ¥hen continued “In 1887, when Grover Cleveland was President, the Columbia Institute for the Deaf was established in Washington, D. C. This institution provides college and normal school training for deaf students.

“In 1920, when the people were so radical that they elected Warren Harding as President, the Vocational Rehabilitation Program was established. This program enables the government to assist the states in rehabilitating disabled persons, so that they can return to productive employment.”

Mr. Denton . .., welfare stater

Conclusion -

FROM this historical setting, Mr. Denton then concludes— “I wonder whether all the complaints ahout the ‘welfare staters’ might not be directed toward the old-age and survivors pension system, which has been supplemented by the welfare, or public assistance program, and also toward the unemployment insurance program. These have long been prime needs in this country, and were enacted in 1935, making it practical for millions of people to lay aside something for a rainy day.” “I am-.wondering if these people who speak so sneeringly of the ‘welfare staters’ are really opposed to these old-age and unemployment insurance programs? Do they lack the courage to attack these programs directly? Do they wish to undermine, discredit, and eventually destroy them? “If a welfare stater is one who wants to see his government do a real service for the people, and help make this country a better place in which to live, then I glory in the name, and I think a lot of other people in this country would plead guilty to the charge along with me. “If the Republicans do not wish to follow the advice of Gov. Dewey, who learned the hard way, they should at least remember that our government was founded to promote the general welfare. We are not yet ready to discard the Constitution.” :

Views on the News

AFTER it gets through house-cleaning, maybe the Internal Revenue Bureau can devise seme new forms for Mar. 15 income tax jokes. 9 rd. STATE OF THE UNION— Washington administration scandals are contributing to the newsprint shortage. a SMILE—Brave as a Senator voting to keep internal &F revenue patronage although up for re-election this year.

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should have waited until November to run in New Hampshire, ~ DJ oe o JAPS must feel very jolly now that they know they can go back: into the war business Just like any other civilized nation.

—D. K.

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RADIO, TVrand myriads of men in Irish accents have probably scooped us in bringing you the word that today is St. Patrick's Day.

If they didn’t, every third generation American with an Irish name and a green tle or.a clay pipe became a shouting shamrock today, proclaiming this a Great Day for the Irish.

But to let St. Pat's Day go by without appropriate remarks on this page would be like asking you into a parlor without the pig or inviting you to share Mrs. Murphy's chowder with no overalls in it. 3 For a moment let us all turn green while we gulp a toast to those of the Emerald Isle. To those who came from the banks of the River Shannon, or from Counties Killarney, Cork and Dublin.” To those who wish they had the luck of the Irish in being born in those fair climes. To all good people everywhere who are happy and bright and gay. To you: Erin Go Bragh.

Then there's Pat O’Brien and Margaret, too. Tam O’ Shanter and Irish stew. Hugh and

. Stengel with the Casey name, and of course the

By Galbraith

~ "I got engaged last night, Professor! Could you teach me some- . 2 thing that would help me make money?"

one of Mudville fame. Cornelius McGillicuddy (or Connie Mack) and another Casey who jumped the track—one of the Jones boys. Eugene O'Neil and the renegade Shaw—and here's a drink to old grandpaw. And Charlie

SASNEBNNNNNRERARORANS

MR. EDITOR: If a few more bubble heads are popped in Washington, maybe we can get this overspuffed federal government down to a size where an ordinary man can start living his own life. We are taxed half to death, are out to buy security for everybody's brother-in-law, are regulated to a point where a man can’t breath without governmental permission, are practically out of our heads with an insane desire to save a penny or two ... There's just one thing that's got me stumped. When is this “motherly” government going to let us grow up, get out on our own, and start letting us alone. Take a look at what's going on. A guy goes out, busts his neck getting a good job, busts his back keeping it and advancing to a better job ..% and all for what? To pay through taxes for the upkeep of Fred Smith's brother-in-law who hasn't done a tap of work since he cut his first teeth. oe oo oe AND this business about fighting a war of containment. We can pour money and Amerjcan lives into Korea like crazy and still not contain anything except our own frustrated desires to solve all the world's problems. So we contain Korea? Then what's going on in IndoChina. There's a stiff war on there right now, has been for a long time. What do we do with that? Contain that one, too? . And what happens if the Reds bust out all over the place in India, which they could do any day now? Contain that one, too? And there are a few more dozen countries around the world where the same thing could happen that happened in Korea. What do we do with them? Contain ‘em?

Let's be realistic about this thing. Let's

save money and lives by bombing the coasts of China and a few key industrial cities, We can do it all by air and sea and need not land a man on Chinese soil. a Cut the supply lines, knock out the limited communication systems that exist in China, bomb the sources of supply, cut all shipping into China by any country and watch Korea dry up

WASHINGTON, Mar. 17— Give an advertising man a dictionary and a new model automobile and he invents something nobody ever heard of before. Guess he just can't help it. When I first noticed this last year, after a careful reading of the ads, I gave these geniuses a fine, big send-off in print. I figured after that they'd rest on their oars. Instead they ascended this spring to new ‘heights. The wonders of the motorcar and the English language they have combined into something close to sublime. Hold - tight to your steering wheels, friends, and let me tell you about the 1952 sedans:

The Golden Airflyte has a super jetfire engine and directdraft horizontal carburetion, plus airflex handling and the widest front seat on the road ~ today. A competitor has the Flying Shadow Ride, curvemaster steering, a panoramic windshield, supersonic power, anatomic engineering and the world’s safest front seat. There are cars with hurrie

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By O'Feingold

McCarthy—to heck with Bergen; no true McCarthy really needs any urgin’. Cassidy’s flourish too many to mention, especially Ajax of tavern intention. And Flannigan, Father and Hannegan, Steve, and the Plow and the Stars with a heart on your sleeve. John L. Sullivan, was a man who could fight.

And TV’s Ed on Sunday night. But give me Maggie with her voice of the turtle. Tracy's are famous; we think of three— there’s Spencer and Dick and perennial Lee. Molly McGuire and Molly Malone and the Molly that Fibber calls his own. Rosie O'Grady and Rose O'Day the Irish colleen steals your heart away. (Unless Mother Machree is looking after her.) Politics beckoned McKinney, McHale after Farley and Connally blazed the trail. Whether the Irish are wrong or right, they really enjoy a Capitol fight, 3 Fitzgerald, Fitzpatrick, Fitzsimmons Fitzhugh; McNulty and Kelly and Dougherty, too. They blazon the names of dear old Eire; they come of the breed of the Champion Liar. They conceal the fact they're awful bores and have never been close to Ireland's shores. But today, let's forgive them—those clad in green. ; Three cheers for the Irish of such unhumble mien. —By Ed Kennedy.

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and blow away. It can be done and it must be done if we are to continue as a free and prosperous nation. dh. &. » THE one basic trouble with this nation now as I and a great many other folks see it is... we've wiped the mud off our boots. We don't “raise hell” with other nations that tromp on our toes. Instead we adopt a cultivated, diplomatic front and continually say, “pretty please,” and expect other nations to abide by our wishes. And along with this we've gone all out on this security buginess. “Give me a job for $5000 a year now and I'll never ask for another thing as long as I live.” Bah. Too much education and all the wrong kind. : —Irish, City

‘Unions and Reds’ MR. EDITOR: Of course there are goons of the Communist variety in some unions, and.they are bad and should be got rid of, but unions as a whole are. OK as they give the little man good working conditions and pay. These little men would be exploited today if they did hot have their unions, ‘and that's why I believe in them. Take our union for instance, we have lots of good men at the top, but also a few crummy ones who would sell out their mothers. Still this union gets us good pay and good working conditions, so we are all for it. Men run unions and men run companies and there are bad men in unions and bad men in companies just the same as there are good ones in both. People forget this and it’s no more right than to call a church bad because a small number in it are bad. Another thing, why let strikes go on like the railroad strike. Two or three years. Why don’t they make them come to terms. No wonder the men went out on strike. Seems to me they've been more than easy going. —Red Simmons, 4319 W. Washington St.

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RIVALRY .. By James Danfel” ‘Fair Traders’ Vie for Honors WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—Warm rivalfy has

developed here between two “fair trade” lobbies, Each wants Congress to revive the natione

wide “fair trade” systema, kayoed last year by

court decisions. “A: And each lobby®wants ‘credit if Congress does bring back fair trade, If the lobbies get their way, some economists estimate it will add $2 billion a year to the cost of living. Even so, only the CIO, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Grange have joined with the Justice Depart ment and Federal Trade Commission in oppos=

ing the lobbies. :

Name Brand Agreement

IN ANY state which permitted fair trading, a manufacturer or wholesaler formerly could agree with a single retailer that a particular “name brand” product should not be sold for less than a certain price—and #t then became illegal for any other retailer to sell the product 188. for Le the Sherman Act, this is forbidden price fixing. But in 1937, Congress exempted state fair trade laws from the Sherman fs All but three states—Texas. Missouri and fre mont—and the District of Columbia allow fair

trading.

Last year, however, the Supreme Court ruled

that a retailer who had not agreed to abide oy a fair trade price didn’t have to ChieIve Another court case held that mail order is es operating out of nonfair trade states eon pt be prevented from cutting prices for custome

ir trade states. ; n he two fair trade lobbies have slightly dife ferent aims The Bureau for E backed by the National A Druggists, trust troubles go back to 1 tion is headed by an execu draws $50.000 a year salary, year annuity when he retires.

Heavy Handed

THE first nine months of 1951, drug, pers or and liquor houses gave the bureau $46,000 to help restore fair trade. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores chipped in swith $10,000, despite the usual argument that fair trade protects independent merchants against chdin store competitors. The year before, the bureau collécted $36,000. a i e druggists want Congress to stop reia Are price EE They're not enough worried about mail order competition to weigh their bill down with a ban.on that, too. As lobbyists, they're inclined to be heavy handed. For example, they boast that 20 lawyers helped draft the McGuire Rill, introduced by Rep. John A. McGuire (D. Conn.) and recently approved by the House Commerce Com=ee—after complete revision. Ty also claim they have a “pushbutton technique” to get laws passed, and point to barrages of letters, telegrams and telephone calls which they say “forced” the Commerce mmittee to act favorably. Co Competing with the druggists’ lobby is the American Fair Trade Council, which makes its pitch for lobbying funds chiefly to makers of appliances expensive enough to be worth buying at a saving through the mails and small enough

to go by parcel post.

Vote Speculation THE Council said it collected $102,000%for lobbying in 1951-52. It advocates a bill ape proved this week by the House Judiciary Come mittee. Introduced by Rep. Eugene J. Keogh (D. N. Y.), this bill bans retail store and mail order price reductions. The Keogh bill has been so amended that it may be unacceptable to some price-fixing advocates. For example, it forbids wholesalers to set minimum prices—only manufacturers could do that. And a retailer sued for price cutting would win in court if he proved that the manufacturer hadn't made reasonable efforts to keep his retail competitors from reducing the rice. . P Meantime, it’s speculated here that the House may vote for restoring fair trade, but that the Senate may be less obliging.

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Lenten Meditation

Jesus Answers Our

Questions About the Word

CAN'T WE READ?

You know how to interpret the face of the heaven, but you cannot interpref the signs of the times. Matthew 16:3. Read verses 1-4, Sometimes a man con see a storm gathering on the horizon but fails to see a storm gathering in his own heart, or family or world. - How are we doing today? Are there signs of core ruption or honor? Are there signs of peace stronger than the signs of war? What are the symptoms in our own character? And if we see the signs, who can interpret them? Now from the world the light of God is gone, And men in darkness move and are afraid, Some blaming heaven for the evil done; And some each other for the part they played; And all their woes on Him are strictly laid, For being absent from these earthly ills, Who set the trees to be the noonday shade, And placed the stars in beauty on the hills, Turn not away, ond cry that all is lost; It is not so, the world is in His hands. , . . For still the heart, by love and pity wrung, Finds the same God as when the world was young.* Let Us Pray: O God, who hast revealed thyself to us in the sky and in the deep places of our hearts, help ug to see the signs of our personal or public glory or decay,

and to.understand what we see, as Jesus did. Amen. *Reprinted from “A Winter Tale” by Robert Nathan by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright, 1939, 1940, by Robert Nathan. .

HIGHWAY DELIGHTS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Ad Man and New Car Equals a Headache

a trade association whose antis

tive secretary who’

of these have quadri-jet carburetion; Some have miracle H-power. And some have airpower carburetors. Many of these highway de‘lights are equipped with aerodesign beauty, unisteel construction; far-sighted design, air-vent hoods, plane-wing hoods, aero-frame construction and air-borne rides. Others equally as ' splendid have million-dolar rides and hull - tight construction. They've also got filters. The oilite filter is not for oil, ‘but gasoline, while - the aluvac filter is for oil. As for volutane control, - that "isn't

built into the car. It is part of the gasoline in the tank. There are. styline styles in sedans, tone-tailored interiors and cars with safeguard brakes which utilize genuine cyclebond brake linings. These

absorbers. Nobody yet among the advertising gentry has figured out a new way to say, power steering. This means the cars steer themselves, with a minimum of help from you, and maybe I can help out the inventors: Little pinky steering. That might do it, or may-

+ TO THE IRISH I extend to every Irishman . .. and to each sweet Colleen . . . a wonderful St. Patty's Day + + « long may you wear the green .. . with a

tenderness divine . . . and may

voices sing the

love songs.. . . that all the world enshrine . . . may you spread joy with your laughter. . . for the world-needs laughing hearts . . . and who better than the Irish . .. can spread cheer to many parts . . . paint today with rosy pictures «+ + « Spin your heartaches in a reel ... dance a Jig to show you're merry . . . with a thrill hard

to conceal . . . may the good Lord bless and

keep you . . , and a happy Patty's Day... for when Irish eyes are smiling . . . all the world _ is bright and gay. ~ mBy Ben Burroughs, °

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latter machines also~ - have advanced oriflow shock

It sounds elegant. .

be we could call this one the vacuum ghost.

The boys otherwise have not been at a loss for .wordg, They're glazing their sedans with solex glass, which is green, and thrdugh it they're giving motorists helicoptere

pilot visibility as well as fulle

circle visibility.

For transmssions this year they've got touchomatic, mere comatie, electromatic, hydrde matic super-drive, dual-range hydramatic and—my favorite —tip-toe matic. These cost extra. They should, with names like that.

The gentlemen also have come up with safety-level seat balances, safety-cushioned ine strument panels, and safety. mounted. windshields. Have a wreck in one of theseand the glass flies outward,

The new cars are pretty, too,

and if they didn’t cost so much I'd buy one. I would, that is, if I didn’t have to pay extra for the atomic accessories. You see what I mean, advertising writers. T think you're downright magnificent and I

hope you never lose your die- -

tionaries. I may not know what you're talking about, but

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