Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS I Brunt of New Tax Program Likely To Fall on Lower Income Korean Evacuation Debate Rages When air In trine nrc those or Western Newspaper newe not of X J NAf Bitter battles raged in Korea as North Korean and Chinese Communist troops continued pressure all along the United Nations forces retreated slowly toward the beachhead and seemed possible evacuation of that war-torn Era of Austerity President Truman drew gasps from Wall street in his message to congress in which he asked an increase In taxes of than billion a year and outlined a defense program totaling He also called for broader wage-price one million more men and women in the armed forces within a few and four million more in defense production by the end of But what made the little man want to crawl into a hole was the President's tax The brunt of that increase would fall on the middle-to-lower Income Some of Truman's critics said his program would mean an era of austerity for the American Some said they thought the President was and others said he had thrown the American standard of living out the Although the nation was shocked by the President's Americans in every walk of life were beginning to understand the scope of the program we have Most people realized to carry out that program a great increase in taxes would be necessary possibly the highest in United States It became increasingly that such items as electric vacuum television and radio sets will not be available in such abundance to the American public as in recent Production of these items may be cut by one-third to well over one-half before the year is By the end of 1951 the United States will be devoting about 18 per cent of its national output to At the peak of World War II about 45 per cent of the nation's output was for i 1 I I j CIVIL Truman Signs Bill President Truman signed the civilian defense bill enacted in the closing days of the last congress which provides a defense program estimated to cost about The measure directs the federal governments to provide leadership to the sta es and communities in developing arrangements to protect civilian life and property in the country's 0 critical target areas against possible enemy by atomic biological or bacteriological warfare or any other The bill requires states to match federal funds provided for raid It was on this point that the bill received some Governor Dewey of New for said his state simply could not find the indicated as Its Civilian is the one phase of all-out war In which this country Britain has added to bomb shelters built during World War II and has an extensive training program for rescue in the event of atomic Poster Boy v y Twelve-year-old Robert Lawrence 1951 March of Dimes poster proudly displays President Truman's The boy visited the chief executive on the opening day of the nationwide drive for funds to finance the National Infantile Paralysis Evacuation Inevitable Bitter battles raged in Korea as United Nations forces continued their retreat toward and what seemed inevitable evacuation of that war-torn And while the battles raged in bitter debate continued in Washington as to whether or not U.N. forces should evacuate the There were rumors in military that the U.S. had decided on a stand in To the average man In the United to the people In the home towns of who are anything but the Washington debates seemed The average American was counting the estimated now at five to and which the Chinese can increase at In recent weeks there has been considerable confusion and a number of contradictions as to the actual number of Chinese troops thrown against U.N. To many the question now seemed to be whether or not U.N. troops could successfully withdraw to the beachhead and carry out an The situation was described like Now It's a question of saving face oi saving our hides and we'd better save our We'll need them In the future against the The United States army In Korea is the only one this nation has at present and it must form the core of the new army we have dedicated ourselves to building In an effort to preserve our democratic way of Attempting to hold in Korea would risk this army too great a risk in the opinion of many Whatever the one thing the average American will tell the the North Korean and Chinese soldier is no match for a well trained American And any victory in Korea will cost the North Koreans and Chinese Motter of Tradition Critics of President Truman's foreign led by Robert Taft of charged the President the laws and the constitution of the United by sending troops to Korea and Europe without congressional In the last few weeks the thunder of debate on the subject has rolled through the halls of It is a new The issue of the President's right to send troops to carry out obligations of the country arose In the administrations of John Wilson and the late Franklin And in every case the Issue was settled in favor of the that it is his sworn duty to carry out the obligations of the United In this particular when the senate ratified the North Atlantic treaty it made the obligations of that treaty binding on th President of the United States no matter who he might Certain articles of the treaty bind the North Atlantic nations to united effort to maintain the security of the North Atlantic Including the use of armed force if It Is these articles of the treaty that the President is upholding In sending troops to If the congress should deny the President the right to use troops or arms then certain articles of the treaty become In the few cases where similar questions have reached the Supreme the President has been upheld In his It would seem that Senator Taft's can not succeed in the face of Prospects Not Bright The agriculture department reported 1951 crop prospects not so bright as they might be for attaining the government's goal of a record Shortages of soil moisture in Important southwestern wheat of less Irrigation water from freeze damage to fall-sown grain crops In the loss of farm labor to the armed services and and the prospects of shortages of repair parts for farm machinery were listed as having an effect on The farmers of the nation face a production quota greater than any ever demanded In this Increased grain production Is needed to rebuild surpluses which have dwindled in the last two In addition to rebuilding the United States must again assume the responsibility of feeding much of the world if open conflict breaks out between the east and ARMED Goal Increased Anna M. assistant to Secretary of Defense told the armed services subcommittee that the goal of the nation's fighting forces had been Increased by June The armed forces had been working on a program of by June air and marine officials urged the drafting of 18 year Unless the draft age is Rosenberg said married men and and possibly some would have to be drafted to meet the expanded the FBI reported It had investigated nearly cases of alleged violations of the draft law during the last six The bureau was reportedly receiving more than such cases for Inquiry every More Men T 11 1 1 Anna M. assistant defense secretary In charge of told a senate armed services subcommittee that President Truman had increased the goal for the armed services from to men by June She said the Increase would require the drafting of 18 year Thirty Day Freeze The government clamped down on the construction of new commercial prohibiting the starting of virtually all such new projects until February After the freeze each private new commercial building project must be submitted to the national production authority for The said the ban was necessary to save materials for |