Show NEWS REVIEW House Debates Tax Bill Gandhi Is Assassinated All signs pointed to an income tax cut of one kind or another this tills year as the house of representatives clanged the bell for the opening round of ot crucial year election debate debate de de- debate de- de bate on that much-belabored much issue Joseph Martin Rep Mass speaker of the house started things of off with the assertion that an Income income In in- Income come tax slash is in the bag He conceded however that it might not run IS as high as the 65 billion dollars provided In the Knutson bill now up for tor debate But In the end he said the Republican RepublIcan Republican Re Re- publican congress would override a presidential veto of the tax bill we wend send nd to the White House In order to beat the veto that Mr Truman might slap on the tax bill however the Republicans would have to line up a few Democrats to vote on their side to make the necessary necessary nieces nieces- sary two thirds majority And to bring enough Democrats around It was thought the senate Republicans would tone down the bill Rep Robert Doughton Dem Dern N. N C. C ranking Democrat on the tax-fixing tax ways and means committee commit commit- tee pointed out the obvious fact tact that Republicans would have to trim the size of ot the cut to get anywhere Otherwise he said congress will uphold uphold uphold up up- hold the veto and w we will have no tax reduction at all As far as Knutson's billIon dollar measure is concerned GOP congressmen were touting it on the grounds that it would spur business increase production and relieve the price-pressure price on taxpayers in addition addition ad to leaving the government enough revenue for tor an billion 11 dollar payment on the public debt in inthe inthe the next two years Democrats of course take the diametrically opposed view holding that a tax slash that big would force the government to borrow money threaten national security and hin hin- der den the European recovery plan upon which so much of the current phase of U. U S. S foreign policy Is founded DEATH Gandhi Mohandas K Gandhi Indias India's champion peacemaker patient saint was dead at nt the age of ot 78 78 a victim of an assassins assassin's bullets He died barely two weeks after Hindus Sikhs and Moslems alike overjoyed at the possibility of ot peace that Gandhi's latest fast had procured procured procured pro pro- cured for their dominions were shouting ki jai long live Gandhi in the streets of ot Delhi 1 It was a violent ending for the mahatma who all aU his life had preached and practised a philosophy based on an abhorrence of violence A Hindu from Poona approached him during a pray prayer r meeting and fired three shots into his body from close range To India and to Indias India's Hindus to whom Gandhi had devoted his life lite his death was a bitter experience and a shock that left the already turbulent sub continent In an even more complete state of ot turmoil After the partition of the he country into the dominions of India and Pakistan Gandhi had been the man manof manof manof of strong spirit to whom all three opposing factions Hindus Moslems and Sikhs had looked for guidance And in his last fast of ot five day duration he had given it to them He had provided the three clashing religious groups with a foundation for peace His action had tended to narrow the schism between Moslems Moslems Moslems Mos Mos- lems and Hindus had lessened the talk of ot war var Whether his death would undo the good that the last days of his life had accomplished remained for the time being an open question LITTLE MAN IAN And What hat Now J To the senate banking and currency currency currency cur cur- rency committee came a representative representative representative of Americas America's beloved little little little lit tle man to talk of ot Inflation ind md ask the question What now Economists may define an inflationary inflationary inflationary condition as an excess of demand over supply or a disproportionate disproportionate disproportionate amount of ot money and credit in relation to exchange but WAUD VAUD AND FAMILY FAl Were We're IT not living to Cyrus J. J Waud of Camden N. N J. J inflation simply means that his 50 week a-week salary cant can't take care of ot othis his wife and six children Waud a cannery worker told astory astory a astory story familiar to millions of his cohorts cohorts co co- horts across the nation The endless endless end end- less insufferable rise in prices the to mouth struggle to keep even with the implacable economic circumstances which gradually were vere beating him down With the dispassionate bitterness of a good U. U S. S citizen who knows that it is within his rights but not within his power to have economic freedom and comfort for tor his family and himself Waud summed it all allup allup allup up in the 1948 1918 little mans tragic cliche Were not living were we're only existing Germ Flypaper One of the latest developments inthis In Inthis inthis this century of ot scientific dings is a bacterial flypaper to keep rooms freer of ot disease germs It Is a chemical that can be put on floors blankets or curtains to catch and hold tiny organisms in including in in- eluding those which cause colds when they settle out of the air Unlike Unlike Un Un- like flypaper It doesn't kill but It does keep germs from circulating around the room |