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Who's Stabilizing What? THs price stabilization program appears as something Alice might have dreamed out of Wonderland, an idea concocted by the Mad Hatter and administered by the Agriculture, upon which the well-being of the country depends, is accorded the same treatment as that given an illegitimate offspring at the family reunion. If prices of textiles, specifically cotton, should happen to advance, it is the fault of the cotton farmer. If bread prices climb, the wheat farmer is to blame. If fruits and vegetables increase in price to the consumer, it is the grower who is held responsible,

costs reduce the profit margins of the processors, the Office of Price Stabilization, as it did recently with fruits and

If the farmer's costs of labor, poisons, fertilizers, seed, machinery and the like advance he is expected to absorb them with no hope of higher ceiling" prices—in fact in constant fear that his ceiling may be rolled back, as they were briefly in the matter of fats and oils.

ss » > ® 8 8 ACTUALLY THERE is nothing the farmer grows— except possibly new potatoes at the moment—that is even threatening the ceiling level. Cotton is many cents a pound under ceiling and textiles are under pre-Korean price levels. Production has provided an ample supply of all the things America needs in feed and food and fiber, and left stores for export to our friends abroad and at prices that are below ceiling. god The OPS looks at an industry which pays less for what it processes and needs more for what it sells and writes the order confirming higher nrices to the consumer, It justifies it by admitting that labor costs are higher, tight. rates are higher, utilities cost more, manufactured supplies are more expensive because of higher labor costs, ete, MN

more. a ‘aio is stabilizing what?

The French Demands ~~ CR THE treaty providing for the six-nation European * Army was signed in Paris, Secretary of State Acheson was invited to meet with the French cabinet, when he was told some of the things France expected from the United States. : Three major demands were made as the price of France's full co-operation in the Atlantic. Pact, and they ded a pretty large order. They were: .

w sulls out of the six-nation’army. $2 ie +. TWO: Assurances that $485 million ih Am orders would be placed with French industry this year—in addition to the arms aid which has been promised, THREE: The “moral aid” of the U. 8. is discouraging the independence movements among the native populations of Tunisia and Morocco, At the conclusion of this meeting, some of the French ministers attending the session expressed themselves as well satisfied with Mr. Acheson's response to their arguments, While he was hearing what France expected from the U. 8, it is not recorded that Mr. Acheson told the French what the U. 8. expected from them. But that is something which never seems to occur to our spokesmen when they go abroad. Well, our French friends should enjoy all of this freeloading while they can. But we hope they understood that Mr. Acheson's assurances aren’t binding on the American Congress. Moreover, they should be reminded that if there is a change of faces in the White House next year it is likely to be accompanied by a change of faces in the State Department. Then Allies which do not pull their weight may not have such easy sledding, for American taxpayers aren't at all happy about our “soft-touch” foreign policy.

Hidden Taxation THE statement has been made many times that not-one taxpayer in a hundred has any idea what so-called hidden taxes add to the cost of what he has to buy. The current issue of the Reader's Digest, anyhow, takes a whirl at trying to inform the American people. As we noted here recently, hidden taxes account for more than $600 of the retail price of a $2000 car. The article in question puts it at $624, which is an average figure. It notes that a driver who pays 26 cents for a gallon of gasoline is putting out 12 cents for the gas and 14 cents for taxes. It declares that the tax comes to at least half the cost of bread, beef and many other such articles,

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- . =» 3 ® =» » HE ARTICLE estimates that the average American is turning over 32 cents of every dollar he earns to one tax collector or another. Put another way, this means that Haden tazes take $729 from the average family in addin to for income tax, figuring a $3500 annual income, It may be added that it is ordinarily agreed that a ~ tax load of 25 cents on the ordinary citizen's dollar is just ‘about as high as we can go in safety. that taxes sh prices. up and diminish incentive to or to take risks in the hope of making a profit. We are already 7 cents beyond the danger line and would be still further past Deal had had its way. : hint is

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If higher labor costs, transportation costs and supply

vegetables, increases the price. .

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Britain Avoids Break in China

WASMINGTON, May 31-—There is no hope here that Britain's decision to close out its in. vestments in Red China is a step toward diplomatic withdrawal, Officials who have been pressuring London to break completely with Peiping discount the -political significance of this commercial decision. Actually, British businessmen decided three

months ago their situation was hopeless, but

the foreign office has just come around to acting. They know there is little chance of getting compensation fér their $840 million investment, They will be lucky to get out of China the

120 British caretakers left behind, some of

whom are held by the Reds for fantasti¢ claims allegedly on behalf of former Chinese ems ployees. : There is no question of immediate with. drawal of present pseudo-liplomatic relations.

The British charge d'affaires in Pelping is °

needed temporarily to attempt a financial settlement and to get permission for the remain. ing businessmen to leave the country. But some

diplomats in London think that, when this {is .

done, the charge will be recalled. :

Threefold Argument

THEIR argument for such a break is three fold: Since the businessmen were partly response sible for London's diplomatic recocgnition of Red China in the first place, now that they have written off the future there is less incentive for the foreign office to continue the gamble that failed. . No genuine diplomatic relations exist now, or have existed since Britain recognized the Red regime in January, 1850. The Reds have sent no representative to London, and they do not accord normal diplomatic status to the British agent in Peiping. Bo the pointless and humiliating one-sided relationship should be ended as soon av the charge d'affaires has tried to get compensation for the abandoned businesses and exit permits for businessmen and other Britons. © It is important to harmonize British-Ameri-can policy. London's continued flirtation with Peiping is a dangerous strain on essential Amer-fcan-British partnership. :

Seeks Peiping Link

THIS LOGIC, however, does not impress the Churchill government—at least not so far, It

believes it can agree to disagree with Washing--

ton on China policy without weakening the valued partnership elsewhere. It wants to maintain a Peiping representative because: The. Reds in fact control most of the China mainland, and are apt to continue. Britain must keep Hong Kong for come mercial and strategic reasons. A complete break with Peiping would invite retaliation against Hong Kong. : ; There is still a chance that basic conflict of re and Moscow may posal on Mao “pulling a Tito against

Chinese Loyalty

+ BRITISH retention of Malaya depends on loyalty of the large Chinese population, which —though predominantly anti-Red—opposes a British break with China. And such a break would further embarrass London's relations with Nehru's India, a member of the British commonwealth. ; : Finally, the Churchill government has been losing to the Labor Party in the recent borough and county elections and is trying to avoid added controversial issues. Of course a Korean blow-up would force Churchill to reconsider his Chima policy. Meanwhile Washington will continue to plead with

him to change, but without get tough about it, Betting very

What Others Say-—

' TH we have created so many committees and commissions to deal with these problems (European defense) that people are stumbling over each other rather than to get together in a room and decide something, «Sen. Richard B. Russell (D. Ga.) .

I FEEL we talk too much about raising the spirit of people ugh material means. We have the sophi ted, cynical observation that, “The most sensitive nerve in the human is the pocketbook.”—Gen. Dwight Eisenhower,

NO MATTER what you do, you're wrong,

If you get up and whack somebody, you're called a brawler. If you don’t, somebody comes up and says you're yellow.—Errol Flynn. . -

STOP WORRYING. Remember today will be yesterday tomorrow.—Eddie Csator.

MORE THAN ANYTHING .

MORE beautiful than roses . . . that are bursting forth in bloom . . . more radiant than starlight . . . that is shining In my room . . . moré wonderful than land and sea . . . and rainbows in the sky . . . more tender than a fragrant breeze . . . that wafts a lullaby . , . more blissful than a baby's kiss . . . and

‘ more enthralling too . , . and more divine

than rippling streams , , . that run ’neath heaven's blue . . . to. me more than most anything . . . you'll fill my life with cheer ... and more than anything I know ... I always want you near. 2 ~By Ben Burroughs.

NEAT TRICK . . . By James Daniel ‘Buying Losses’ Dodges Taxes

WASHINGTON, May 31-— Congressional tax committees have asked the Internal Rev.

‘with A's owners. Everybody is ahead, except the U. 8. Treasury, which is behind

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YOUNG MAN'S FIGHT . . . By Peter Edson Reuss Giving McCarthy a Battle For Wisconsin Senate Post

‘WASHINGTON, May 31—Henry Reuss of - 207,000 to 202,000 and went on to victory in

Milwaukee—candidate for Wisconsin Sen. Joe

McCarthy's seat in the November election—was

in Washington recently, attending the Americans for Democratic Action nfeeting. Mr. Reuss is 40, Sen, McCarthy is 42, so this political scramble in which there is more national interest than any senatorial contest in the country is strictly a young man's affair. Mr. Reuss is a tall, broad-shouldered, squarejawed, fair-complexioned type of guy. He wears the horn-rimmed glasses typical of the college man which he obviously is—a graduate of Cornell and Harvard law. In World War II he enlisted as a private and rose to the rank of major, winning the Bronse Star for gallantry at the Rhine crossing. Later he was in military government.in Ger many on Gen. Eisenhower's staff. : After the war Mr, Ruess served as Milwaukee County's assistant corporation counsel and ran a grand jury investigation of corruption ‘and graft. He lost an election for state attorney general and then became assistant general counsel for the Marshall Plan in Paris. He is married to a good-looking girl and

they have four fine children, His family is of

German origin and well to do. Obviously intelligent and clean-cut with a lot of savvy, Mr, Reuss’s greatest handicap may be that he is too nice a fellow to get mixed up in a political brawl, :

In Every County IN SPITE of this, Henry Reuss has been campaigning actively for six months, working

_ full time at it. He has already been in every

Wisconsin county at least once, most of them shore than once. Where he finds that people never heard of him before, he goes back and concentrates. Speaking fluent German, Mr. Reuss is able to talk to some of the older settlers in the rural areas in their native tongue. This is more or less the type of grass roots

~ campaign that Sen, McCarthy waged to beat

young Bob LaFollette for Senator in 1046. He went all over the state, meeting people and jotting down their names in a book. Next day he'd send them post cards, telling how nice it had been to meet them and signing it “Joe.” Just before the election, all these people get another post card from Joe, asking them to vote for him. He beat LaFollette in the primary

SIDE GLANCES

November, 620,000 to 378,000. That's & tough margin to overcome, but Henry Reuss cites figures to show that since the end of the old LaFollette Progressive Party, the trend in Wisconsin has been generally Democratic. Only 7 per cent of the voters there cast

straight party tickets. Mr. Reuss is counting.

on not only Democratic votes, but also Progressive support, Eisenhower support and even some Taft-following support. His evidence of this is a series of newspaper ads which have been appearing in Wisconsin dailies, indorsing the Reuss candidacy.

Press More Friendly’

“A TYPICAL ad in Eau Claire Telegram was signed by 150 leading citizens. It included names of the president of State College and 20 of his faculty, three Protestant ministers, a Jew and a Catholic priest. Ever since Sen. McCarthy advocated an advertising boycott of publications critical of his activities, Mr. Reuss says he has been getting a more friendly press. Mr. Reuss has pulled the old political trick of challenging his opponent to come out and

_ debate him, So far Sen. McCarthy hasn't ac-

cepted. But John Chapple of Ashland—an original MacArthur backer who has now swung around to supporting Sen. Taft, with Gen. MacArthur for Vice President—debated Mr. Reuss at an overflowing meeting in the American Legion hall at Sen. McCarthy's home town of Appleton. Mr. Reuss says he is devoting less and less time in the campaign to the issue of McCarthyism and he isn’t trying to outdo the Senator in invective. Instead, Mr. Reuss says he is talking a lot about inflation, farm policy, defense, Germany and other foreign issues which Sen. McCarthy doesn’t bother with. =

Cites McCarthy Record

ALSO, MR. REUSS says he is pointing out Sen. McCarthy's voting record on such issues as the Kerr natural gas bill, the tidelands oil i crop storage expansion and soil conservaon. Mr. Reuss says that Sen. McCarthy hasn't “been coming home as much as he used to early in his term. And he hasn't been paying atten: tion to his mail. Those were mistakes that Sen. LaFollette made. Mr. Reuss also asks pointedly what Sen. McCarthy has done for Wisconsin since he came to Washington.

By Galbraith

: : Hoosier Forum "do not agree with a word that you say, but ‘| will defend to the death your right to say it."

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". ‘God's World’

. MR. EDITOR:

An editorial in The Times of May 16 says good news from the South; 10 Klansmen convicted of kidnaping and conspiracy of flogging a man and women whose behavior the Klan didn’t approve of. Vary well so far, but thai was hundreds of miles away. Those physical wounds will heal. But first let us look ii our own back or front yard and take a look at that shameful, inhuman, malevolent, scandalous and false glaring front page charges made by The Times and other papers, individuals and public officials, against two old people falsely accused as welfare chiselers. These accusers as mentioned have dared to out-do the KKK by causing mental wounds that will never heal. That shame has put a burden of increasing Aeverity on the stooping shoulders of those aged people to the end of their Mves. ani wa ¢ ¢ o ONE OF THEM, now almost a helpless invalid, suffers the pangs day and night of that inhuman treatment, A few dollars in gome rich person’s pocket is more important than the life and happiness of the last years of people who have tolled to make this country a playground of luxury for those irresponsibles now in charge who have cast decency and morals to the wind. This is God's world, Each of us have an inherent share alike, We are desecrating for the purpose of seeing who can pile up the most wealth. If we would pursue a decent moral life our economy would be all right. Society and the church are parties to the inhuman treate ment these old people are subjected to. --0One whose ancestors helped free this country.

‘Not Much Choice’

MR. EDITOR: Being a reader of The Times Forum, in my judgment it is a very good melting pot for public and individual ‘opinions. Most of the articles stick closely to party lines. That is what is wrong with our much touted democratic form of government. Democracy {s now almost nonexistent as we used to know it. First a candidate has to pay an admission fee. That is prohibitive to most persons. Then

+ a few professional politicians get together and ‘pick them out according to their views.

The voter only has his choice of picking between two evils (which is no choice, so they just don’t vote), Therefore, the minority elects the government representatives. In my opinion the two-party system is bad. Either have one party or three. The third might be able to hola the balance of power.

REFERRING to the Forum, take C. D.C. of Terre Haute. He can see no good in any-

thing done by the Democratic Party #nd no

wrong done by the Republican Pérty (a small circle). He has the bankers moving from one country .to another. But'this happened 1000 years ago, in countries where capitalists or democracy never existed. Bankers, if any, were the dictators or the royal family or the big landlords. They didn't leave by airplane or modern trains, Several years elapsed between the incidents of which he writes and when they occurred, and there was no compari to be made with then and now. Just as a final word on C. D.C. Some of the big unknown. words that he uses are just synonyms of common words and his words have only a remote bearing on what he intends

to express. The Times has most of the special

interests lobbies, both national and local, {n its.

editorials without fear or favor. Take heed. —E. Bowman, 2531 Station St., City.

Good Strategy

MR. EDITOR:

A Times’ headline says “Won't Indorse Ike"

or Oppose Taft, Says CIO.” It seems that this is to be the political strategy of the top political expert, Jack Kroll. Personally, I don’t think it even takes an expert to decide this is pretty good political strategy. First of all, the average union man, with the exception of a few radicals, is just like any other good American citizen. He votes for the man he believes best qualified to fll the office. This was demonstrated when Taft carried most of the large industrial centers and carried about three-fourths of the district when he was elected Senator the last time, © © FORMERLY, the so-called Labor Experts had usually been able to pick a winner, so they learned a lesson the hard way. Possibly this gave them the impression that they were carrying the- laboring man’s vote in their vest pocket and could elect anyone they wanted to. If they believe that, and I think some of them did, Taft's election as Senator from Ohio must have been a real political blow. ° The CIO leaders probably hate Taft, but if Taft looks like a sure winner in the next presidential election, I predict that Jack and the CIO leaders will support him. ? :

~C. D. O., Terre Haute,

BLACK RICHES . . . By Ernie Hill

Mid-East Tops U. S. In Underground Oil

. UNITED NATIONS, N, Y, May 31—The ofl-rich Middle East now has 50 to 100 per

used to produce 600,000 barrels of ofl daily but now is getting only 30,000 barrels.

enue Bureau what it's doing

$82,000.

cent more established petrole-

supposed to be sufficient for the wise,

about a revival of the practice of buying and selling business losses as a means of avoiding federal taxes. “Se losses” sounds ime e. because of quirks the tax laws this is fairly

common in business, espécially eR TL ; on

since taxes were raised so high

m 1907, Except for a 1043 attempt to He . a" get tough—after the late Sen. FINANCIAL newspapers Arthur Vanden 8 ads off “good into a tax commi session

The trick worke like this: ments of business losses for Company A has a loss of sale—Congress has shown no $100,000 this year. Company B disposition to change that part has a profit of $1 million. of the law.

Many less flagrant business

CR : THE 1043 reform movement I Ooo Front fizzled out with the insertion of

\ some vague provision dhe Sub Iayel of peofis. the

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um underground than has the United States. New discoveries in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf have made this unsettled and backward part of the world the greatest source of oll of the future. 80 states a United Nations “summary of recent economic Seve] dpm ts in the Middle

Petroleum is being discovered so rapidly and in such large quantities that the Middle East countries have more than made up the losses experienced when Iran production was stopped in the summer of 1951. . 8 8 »

THE UNITED NATIONS

Na “B" wants to cut law, ground fn the Middle East at its taxes, .revenue bureau. 48 billion barrels: The United “0 Current concern has two The United Nations setuma THE PRESIDENT of “B® Causes—the high E=, : der 5. fatds an 0d that company A ve nl ep ro: SAMME®. 0 | iy consmrvative. David Shepare s it wy rT | ; director of the Stand over with the hn of “A. Jog Lak nw Congrets 1a Don't worry about the baby not liking my husband—children Hmph ye stone af Add COmpaiy 3 12 1a Hie top ta should be deductible from prof . 8lways have been crazy about him!" ofl of the Middle East at 60 bracket. Company A's $100,000 billion barrels which is almost loss is worth $82,000' to “B.” its before taxes in other years. twice as much as the United So the loss is sold to “B” for The present law is that this forward for five years to offset and bad years. But Congress States, i $41,000. _ year's business loss can be de- future profits and thus cut has refused to lay down any | _ Tran, which was the world's ‘ducted from last year's profits, ' taxes. : hg ground rules to confine the third largest oil pro until dy a refund on last year's aus hs Ft : seta uf either 30 She same set © it kicked out the Brit Tact : OF the loss ‘can be carried © Sous op vers thelr good sets, or | Jou 33 prou Snos 210, "Tt

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up for the Iranian loss. Middle East output of oil was about 1 million barrels daily in 1946 and has increased each year until it is now over 2 million barrels per day. The United Nations report does not go into the political ramifications of the Middle East's newly found wealth, but only hints at the changes that will take place in the next few years. © . # .

almost entirely wiped out. Other countries have stepped

in and stolen the Iranfan market. ;

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