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Show THE SALINA SUN. SALINA. UTAH internal Revenue is Eternal Problem WESTBROOK , Income Tax Spectre Haunts Next Session of Congress t p'. " v 4 4$ v ' JA' f THE f & By RAUKIIAGE New I Analyit and Commentator. i - .. . It is a cloudy fall day, and the last tatare fluttering nervously on otherwise-bar- e branches, wondering whether it is better to make the plunge now or wait for more favorable breezes. WASHINGTON. tered brown leaves About the same thing is going on in an old colonial mansion on Connecticut avenue where, beneath those high ceilings and surroundings, Republican national committee typewriters are clicking, mimeographing machines are whirring and sweet telephone bells Jangle out of tune. Party leaders, like the uncertain that It gives uncommonly little to leaves are wondering whether the the common man and is balm of twice-vetoetax bill, carefully regilead for the high brackets. upholstered and furnished with what they hope in Republicans counter with the equipment, will bring in the votes assertion that tax relief is a crythis time. ing need. They feel Americans will not be too angry If their Down the block and across the financial load Is lightened at the Street in an office building where the plaster on the expense of Europe, provided that emergency relief la voted walls Is hardly and perhaps a Marshall plan dry, sit their opIn principle but considposites, members of the Democraterably shaved down as to the ic national comtotal actually authorized. mittee, in their brand-neYou may have read the report quarTaxes and the Budget: a Program ters. They are for Prosperity In a Free Economy," hopefully prea document issued by the dicting that any effort to make nonprofit Committee for. Economic Development. This group emthis tax reduction bill a law ploys a large staff of experts who when the world study governmental problems and is trembling on report on them at frequent intervals. the edge of disaster, will boomThere is much In this latest report erang. to give aid and comfort to the tax re- Democrats say that if school, but it also contains duction bill should pass. Is vetoed the warning that "it is not necesand the veto overridden, what it sary or desirable to make final dedoes for the folks with over $5,000 cisions about 1948 tax policies at income a year will be balanced off this time. It will be necessary early by what it doesn't do for the folks next year. At that time, it will be below that Income bracket. possible to get a clearer picture of ' the expenditure outlook ahead and You remember the original of the degree of inflationary presbill, (II. R. 1.) the first bill into sure which then exists." the house hopper January 3, 1917. At that time Democrats But the question of Inflation0 30 bill, labelled it the ary pressure and how to ease claimed It would save the man it is already a highly political with two dependents and $1,500 one. Both parties realize that a year Income only 59 cents a thev have to grab the reins if the while save it would week, inthey are going to get credit for man with a $100,000 yeaily come $250 a week. guiding the country out of a boom-bus- t cycle. But that tax reductiun bill and a later one substantially tbe same were squashed by presidential veto and congress upheld the veto But Apple Cart Tipped now the possibility of something When President Tiuman revealed new (and very atti active) has been the fact that he intended to use the added A community property tax emergency session of congress conprovision for every taxpayer. vening November 17, not merely to Briefly this means that a husband consider aid to Europe, but also to for and wife may divide their income ponder a program lowered into two equal parts, computing the prices, it upset the apple cart, as tax on each of those parts, and mul- one Republican said to me. An tiplying by two. This naturally cuts agreement had been reached to give the total amount of tax to be paid. priority to aid to Under present tax schedules, for exEurope. Senator Taft, boss of the ample, the tax on two Joint incomes of $50,000 each comes to less than Republican policy income bethe tax on a $100, t committee, immesurcause of the the diately made tax rates. reassuring state-men- t that he felt .VV.. 1 f d w 10-2- 000-ne- steeply-graduate- GOP Confident Of Bill a Paetage Thirteen states Oregon. Wash ington, California, New Mexico. Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Texas. Oklahoma, Louisiana, Nebraska, Michalready igan and Pennsylvania have community property tax provisions. S has Hawaii. The provision, if inserted in a federal tax bill, would put citizens of the other 35 states on the same basis. The money savings under the tax clause community property would not benefit those married couples whose combined net income is less than $3,000 because the rates don't change up to that point That Is why opponents say this community property tax proposal, too, is aimed at saving money for the bigger taxpayers and doesn't help out the Little fellows (although the tax advisor to the ways and means committee tells me that neither would any benefits accrue under this provision to the married couple whose combined income is $5,127,000 a year) But the Republicans feel sure that this proposal would carry a bill through. They claim many Democrats living in states contiguous to the community - property tax states would support it, Heie's the way Democrats view the situation: They know that the last tax bill might have been passed over the veto; some say it certainly could have been passed, had it included the community property tax provision They are not flippant about the Republicans ability to muster the s vote this time necessary to override a veto. But Democrats nourish this hope: That if tax debate Is insisted upon before the question of lower prices and European aid (including the lung range Marshal) plan as well as emergency aid) is settled, the public will say Republicans are fiddling with politics while Europe burns and will repudiate those Republicans at the polls Even if a tax bill should surmount the veto hurdle. Democrats still hope it will boomerang on the familiar argument, mentioned earlier. two-third- the question of emergency aid and possible prelimi- nary legislation on the Marshal plan could and would be satisfactorily taken care of by December 19. He didn't say what else, if anything, he had in mind for the boys on the hill to handle. But he did assure them they would be home well before the Christmas holidays. Then came the Truman announcement that efforts to check inflation would be considered on a par with the plan. He said the two were closely interwoven because if the dollar continued to shrink, the purchases of supplies couldnt be stretched to meet the need. r After that Taft lost little time in tossing any implied program for the congressional session to the winds If Truman was to include consideration of a domestic economy program, all bets were All of the policies of the presoff. ent administration, said Senator Taft, were so bad he couldn't "go along with them. And so the apple cart was upset. What Is going to happen is decidedly hazy at this writing. New York court of appeals has ruled the victim admits his guilt, in which case he couldn't sue anyway. The Supreme court rejected proof uncorroborated by the defendant. A plain citizen with a point of view might remark that persons desiring not to be mistaken for Communists or sympathizers had better take care not to court suspicion. After all, courts do recognize contributory negligence. So, granting that it Is even a little more unpleasant to bo mistaken for a traitor these days than in other times, isnt It always incumbent on any plaintiff to shun bad company, meaning the commiesT . Another thing, the asking price in this kind of lawsuit varies in an enormous range and would seem to be fixed by whim rather than by any calculation of the victim's woe. Often they are professionals in controversy who draw lightning and then run screaming for their attorneys. In many cases they clothe themselves in the appearances of defiant edition to invite the reliable scorn of patriotic men. In any case, a jury would be justified in denying damages if plaintiff had earned his unsavory reputation by offensive conduct all his life. The action for big judgments in these Communist and communism cases has become a racket as distinct as some of the old personal-injurspecialties. HELP INCREASE MILK FRODrCTIp" oi skimpy milkers by stunttiUng aiuggtaba Dr. LeGear a Cow Prescrip-tloappetites withfeed. A cow tootc guaranteed tn Uieir to give tettaiacuon. HELP TOUR horses and males keep In top coudition. Stimulate lagging appetites vlth Dr. LeGear s Stock Powder Ia their teed. The best stock tuiuc money can buy. guaranteed. MISCELLANEOUS non-leg- ACCIDENTAL PICTURE OF PORPOISE . . . Porpoises, frisky schoolboys of the sea, are forever playing their version of leap frog. Here are eight of them (count em) caught In a playful mood by the camera off the coast of Southport, N. C. VEILS LIVESTOCK that a person has falsely been called a Communist or accused of sympathizing with communism may be hurt in his reputation and feelings. According to the present rule of the United States Supreme court, all such charges must be false unless ' , DEPARTMENT PEGLER New Racket Exposed 1 ' CLASSIFIED C' i r commissi REVIEW Big 4 Harmony Remote; Grain Men Ask Hearing RIG FOUR: y . WANTED TO BUT WE BUT AND BELL Office Furniture. Files, Typewriters, AddSafes, Cash Registers. ing Machines. SALT LAKE DESK EX( RANGE ftetifc Susa Ik, Lake CUy, HUB ttl I. PHILLIPS Confession of a Communist minor economic law Is operating in Yes, I am a Communist and I grading, I tried to get out by this particular controversy: am all out for the overthrow of doing poorer work, but they Normal government reaction, the American not? With the imminence of the most whenever I raised Why my pay, I went nine system. grain prices shoot above am sick of months and did only one vital international occurrence of re- what is considered being downtrodden. a safe level, is to cent months the Big Four foreign interlude which was deWere you ever downtrodden in an lay the blame on the grain exAnd think leted. outdoor ministers meeting in London on No- changes, Then pool? they made me a diswimming macharging them with rector and part ownerl It means to be downtrodden vember 25 the mood surrounding nipulating what prices through specula. the coming conference was predom- tion. That has occurred often In three! All in one yard! inantly one of pessimism. S m U. to bear out enough history It was hell Where could I turn? "Once I was a happy American, I was That there was much Justification the theory. Grain dealers, of course, helpless. Then a friend told a small and fooling me for such pessimism, no one doubted invariably blame the situation on getting salary about Kremyl beg pardon nobody. I knew I was mediocre. about the Kremlin. When the chief representatives of a Then to came into the chance go the U. S., Great Britain, France and From that standpoint, at least, an I was in presto Russia come together they will investigation at this time should movies and So I went for the Kremlin treattackle the tough, deadlocked prob- shed some new light on the long- Hollywood at $3,000 a week. It was ment I am a new man, bolstered lems of writing peace treaties for standing controversy. It might even all a capitalistic plot. by the firm belief that the time will Germany and Austria. provide some real information on come when horrid things like dough, encounwent I I Everywhere so are high. Deputy foreign ministers, In Lon- why prices fame and a life of opulence will other tered wretches, happy, don to dispense with preliminaries bother me no more. Fellow citicarefree and overpaid like me. before Marshall, Molotov, Bevm and zens, revolt! Revolt now! And if I was one of the great herd of Bidault put their heads together, de- was It soft possible in technicolor! money people. said the powers were as badly split as ever on major issues. If the conference fails, as it is DR ElV very likely to do, the U. S. will have to face the question of whether or not it wants to conclude a separate peace with that portion of Germany or two exceptions, the congressmen who went to Europe to zone. outside the Russian-occupie- d WITH one conditions last summer returned feeling just about the same Such a treaty, not involving the Sotoward helping Europe as when they left. Whether originally for It or viets, probably would precipitate a final split between this nation and against it, they were able to convince themselves that they were right. netRussia. n Rep. August Andresen of Minnesota spoke over a Norway-wid- e iK.y.Vn.n I,' ilt r, American-bor- n that he when visisted in work the country. Norwegian language Nevertheless, sentiment has been IN WASHINGTON . . . Sen, Owen himself, Andresen visited the village where his parents had lived rising in the U. S. favoring such an Brewster (Rep., Me.), above, of the in Norway before coming to America. action if the Soviets refuse to co- senate war investigating committee, In the early fall months, when cattle eat best. Rep. Bob Foage operate in straightening out the smiled gently, called first successful of Texas saw Norwegians feeding cows from huge rolls of wood of F. James problems Germany. tests of Howard Hughes' 25 million cellulose. If they're eating that paper now can you imagine what Byines, former secretary of state, dollar flying boat gratifying. theyll be eating in the winter? Poage remarked. He was told that advocated that course, as have IN SARASOTA, FLA. The the cows that survive the winter in Norway will do it largely other responsible officials. on dried fish. What their milk will taste like is another question. polling beardless males The corollary to that proposition to discover how Back from a tour of Europe, tawny Montana Congressman Mikt many strokes are Is that the U. S. then must follow needed for the morning shave, comMansfield called at the White House to report on conditions there. Unlike through by keeping itself strong piled this statistic: From 38 strokes Mr. Taber, reported Mansfield, referring to the GOP congressman from militarily and economically, prov- for a fuzz bearder to 175 for a wire New York, who claimed he saw no underfed people In Europe, I law ing to the rest of the world that it hair. plenty of underfed children. They are there by the millions for anyone has embarked on a definite policy IN TACO.MA . . . H. Eisenwith two good eyes to see, to wonder and worry about. Edgar course and that that course is the the hower, brother, general's one. right laughed heartily, said he was only joking when he remarked that he INVITATION: would form an "Against Eisenhower for President Club with himself as Grain Battle president. Three of the nation's major grain The Metopera forgets your sons and tipped him off to the arrests . . , exchanges, smarting tinder Presi- RED CZECHS: war wounds easily. It has imported Pittluch lost $9,000 in jools most undent Trumans accusation that their Go Communist Hitlers darling tenor, Herr Max insured , , . But hit loss is being cut speculation is responsible for preAn afternoon to Add Czechoslovakia ot the list Lorenz. Herr Maxie was the sweet- down tomewhat vailing high prices of cereals, have is sending him a $5 check for gazette - dominated zo In of vahss Communist nations the but Nazi heart elite, carried the attack into the enemy the scoop-tiFascist Schipa, Gigli and Flagstad. Europe. camp by requesting a special con- Eastern A man named Element Gottwald, one no . . . It should surprise gressional Investigation by the joint Ginger Rogers and ma are rethat the Dook and Dookess of Win-ze- r ported committee on the economic report. Communist premier of Czechoslotiffing. Ginger wants ma to a werent invited to the royal vakia. has emerged as new strong outta political oggermints. The request was made by the Chistay man, possessing complete authority wedding. After all, they had trouble Mama no wanna. . . . Frieda Fish-bei- n cago board of trade, Kansas City from the national cabinet to rebuild getting invited to their own. . . . (the play agent) Is streamlinboard of trade and the Minneapolis the of government Willys, the big nylon man, is supher trade. She now submits ing grain exchange in a letter to Sen. Slovakia. posed to have told intimates thgt manuscripts to showmen on recordRobert Taft (Ref)., O.) and Rep. Rebuilding the government of the all his machines' now are changed ings, which a cast of semi-pro- s act Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep., Mich.), nation will mean to making parachutes. out. A ham was arguing with of the committee. Taft resimply that Gottwald and his Comhis agent. "What do you do, he sponded immediately with a prom- munists will change Czechoslovakia ise of further hearings. quarreled, to earn your 10 per cent : a from nation whose people had at Vignette Brooklyn jeweler Murray of my Nothing, salary? snapped bold-uMr. s p the victim Trumans of a Pittluch (one of repeatCountering least a part measure of Paul Small, except kid people into ed charges that gambling and specuto a nation under totalitarian gang rounded up recently ) was summoned by police to identify them believing you're worth the other 90 lation by grain exchanges have rule. per cent! . . . He phoned a newspaper editor pal boosted food prices higher, the exAlthough the Slovak Democrats, change officials contended that the predominantly conservative, are the real cause of the rise in grain prices majority party in the country, the is the administration's extraordi- Communists were able to place Gott-vislnary and ever increasing purchases a former blacksmith, m comof grain and flour for export. Adplete power. ministration "bungling and lack of Thus Czechoslovakia has shifted planning" also were cited by the from a position as a Soviet satellite T 'ST for the record, the blundering. Impotent, intolerant and Activities committee or ol with some will of its own to a lower grain officials. cratic hearings of the house Wherever the truth may lie and position as a Russian dominated the recent senate war investigating committee in the Howard Hughes It probably is somewhere midway state with terally no case under kleiglights and with movie cameras grinding out the record between the government and gram It has become another unit are certainly not typical of congressional committee hearings. and blow-of- f As a result of these show-of- f inquisitions, lets hope the exchange viewpoints it should be in the string of Soviet buffer states a do not distorted a to to west. a American that force akin and the south opinion of the usual committet get people recognized hearing. Generally congressional committee hearings are in a small quiet room, conducted with utter decorum and dignity where a witness has the right to have his say, read a statement or give whatever other testimony or opinion he may have on the aubject of the hearing. Copies of the statements generally are handed to the newspapernn in attendance. Members of the committee ask questions quietly and a official reporter takes down all testimony which later is printed for a plan. Now , however, the rule book prices will rise too, or the day of to read. has been thrown away, and retail- falling prices will be postponed. ors doubtlessly will reduce the Installment credit, economists amount of the initial payment. say, is a volatile factor in our econAttracted by the lure of easy omy and can be a considerable force terms," hard pressed householders operating to help bring about a denow may see their way clear to pression. When are available on buying needed items that they felt credit goods consumers are easy terms, temptnot could afford before. With ed to they of $750 in addition to its share e government buy to the limit. They THE last ofonthecred.t the down payment and installment their incomes. This accentubuying has the national, state and local govern terms relaxed, demand for goods ates the boom and been withdrawn. Credit buying took ment indebtedness. It Is a stagger eventually a satis sure to rise; but it is certainly uration point is reached. The ex- I an immediate jump, and credit buy-in- g ing total; more than we can afforc far from sure that the supply of cessive credit has to be helps along that inflation we under present conditions. For th such goods will increase accord- out of current income on liquidated fear and have fought against. Even good of all of us it can be hope the downingly. under the credit limitations of war the sellers will not make easy cr swing, and so the depression, if one Thus, if the old law of supply and is already in the making, is given a times each American family, as an it terms. Getting into debt is ea demand follows its natural bent. further impetus. average, was in debt to an extent than getting out. iU Planning for the Future? Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! Pessimism WhenYourInnards" are Crying the Blues two-minu- te WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel ax the dickens, brings on stomach punk HEADLINERS upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take Dr, Caldwells famous medicine to quickly pull the trigger on lazy innards', and help you feel bright and chipper again. PEARSON DR. CALDWELLS Is the wonderful senna laiabva contained in good old Syrup Pepsin to make it so easy to take. MANV DOCTORS use pepsin preparations in prescriptions to make the medicine more palatable and agreeable to take. 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