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Show 1 ' y ' ' ' ' , I faaybe: We'd Bette r First Catch the B unhy! PROVO." UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. TUESDAY,',; NOVEMBER ' ,.1946.: .j Editorial... The Washington Taxes and National Safety It was natural that prominent Republican members of congress, when interviewed - to say something newsworthy .and encouraging encourag-ing But 'their firstmessage contained, perhaps per-haps more newajthaniencouragement." v Mr; Taft and Hn, Knutsbn, future chair- 7 men 6V th6 senate, finance and the house ways and means committees, andMr. Mar-. tin, the next' speaker of the house, , all said that there will be a 20 per cent cut in persona per-sona income taxes. The consummation of that promise is devoutly to be wished, if they are sure we can auora n. Taxes will be, the first item of business when the new congress meets, Mr. Martin promises. But as yet he has no specific economies econo-mies to match , the specific tax-reduction. "We will save all that we can," he says. Perhaps the Congressional study groups which are to meet between now and January will be able to work out a safe and sensible schedule for reducing expenditures, and also to balance the budget and reduce the public debt, as Mr. Kpiitson has promised. Yet the present vague approach to a definite tax-cut arouses the suspicion that the national de fense bud tret is-in for another paring. . Defense is the biggest single item of our national expenditure. It seems unlikely that it is an item that' would be by-passed in re ducing the government income by an estimated esti-mated $3,673,000,000. But it has already been reduced to what some military leaders called "the irreducible minimum and be low by President Truman's second cut of the year last August. It is common knowledge that we have outstriped our major war allies in disarmament. disarma-ment. It is well known thV we have certain fixed commitments arising! rom the war, as well as the fixed commitments that go with maintaining an army, navy and air force. It is likewise a familiar fact that, in these uneasy timesr we cannot talk big at a diplomatic diplo-matic conference with an inadequate physical physi-cal force to back up our words. Yet Russia today is estimated to have an active army of 5,000,000 men, considerably more than twice our force. Our armament expenditure this year is 71 per cent below last year's figure, as against an announced 54 per cent armament-cut by Russia. And Russia has earmarked huge sums for scientific scien-tific and industrial research, part of which will be along military lines. TIia TTntf aA SfotAo Anoa nnf wont r ho loft with the atomic bomb as its only major defense. de-fense. It is the government's and the people's peo-ple's wish that the bomb be outlawed, not used again. But, given another major cut in the military budget, we may find ourselves our-selves in that situation. The country seems to have taken calmly the announcement of the promised tax-cut and the possibility of a reduced defense budget bud-get to achieve ifcThat leads to the fear that a complacent c6ngress;L backed by a complacent com-placent people, may forget the nearly disastrous disas-trous lesson of five years ago and again permit per-mit the countryt.a.lapseinto defenselessness. Every taxpayer'tirtfri country would like to see taxes reduced with safety. It may be hoped, however, that the new congress will not take advantage of that desire. Rather, let its members make haste slowly, and canvass can-vass carefully the possibility of more efficient effi-cient army and navy operation with the heads of those services before they start swinging their axes on taxes. Optimistic Econom ists Government economists predict that the lifting of price controls will delay, rather -UkJ HVlif M Wat??? i VVV0tVIU A C V A counter to the promise of Henry A. Wallace that decontrol, would "be the very cause of a l;ViJM4M WV4U Htll ftSMO W We expect, however, that Mr. Wallace will stick, to his guns in spite of the government soothsayers. And. honlif he wished, cite bilityv RememboIifeWallace took the word of hs cbihtrcjflepirtment econom-ists" econom-ists" that most ihustrie;cbuld raise wages 20 per cent withoUtiinrices and later : made a hearty; jfneal of;Hejj' words ? Men don't weaV beards&oda and that. gentlemen, is the" reason ypu have lost your authority over your' iwives. B. Sayers, Croydon, England, Jitjrarian. ;t'Tte : true s6uieof1aitary power lies ! not :so much in the.t Actual possession of tralpadtyMcltflkits the creation and inaintenance of armainents. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, Canadian delegate to UN - Atomic Energy Commission. Unless something is done to rout out and drive out those' who .do not believe in our form of government, our days as a free nation na-tion are numbered Rep; Clarence J. Brown (R) of Ohio. fSy Drew1 Pearson M erryr oun' X , ' V's.i' WASHINGTON Most amusing ' light on the merry-go-round-scene today is the frantic- scramble scram-ble of the socialites, the lobbyists, and the local power politicians: to get religion in' hurry: In this case, religion is better known' as the' GOP. After' fourteen years of Democratic rule, -the 'Republicans 'Re-publicans were so far dow the social list they almost developed an inferiority; complex. But -flow they are staging grand comeback. The invitations invita-tions to once-scorned Republican" senators ..and congressmen have doubled ' and tripled, as hostesses hos-tesses bid for the newly -won prestige , of GOP solons. Scores of Washinrtonians are-new racking rack-ing their brains to figure out whom they know who knows someone who knows some- one high in Republican ranks. , Always in step with the times is popular Presidential Court Jester Gfeorge Allen, who never hesitates to tell a jokeon himself. If you walk into Allen's private office, first thing you will see is an autographed picture of his good friend, Harry Truman. Second thing is a newly hung autographed photo of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. A glance at the .wall shows, however, that although al-though the picture was recently hung, it was not recently autographed. . It says, "For my dear friend, George E. Allen. With best wishes, A.-U. Vandenberg." The date is June 9, 1938. Asked whether he hung the photo on the day after elections, the ever-lovable court-jester, re plied: "Oh, no. I didn't wait that long. I hung it up at a quarter past eight on election night. Sure was dusty, but I had it all polished up." NEW WITCH-HUNT About two weeks before elections, Mississip pi's rootin' . tootin congressman John Rankin, Democrat, and New Jersey's, wltch-nunting J. Parell Thomas, Republican, put their heads to gether and agreed that, with a Republican election certain, now was tne time to sweep out oi tne eovernment all the liberals whom Rankin and Thomas do not like. To this end. it was agreed that New Jersey's Thomas was to be chairman of the un-American affairs committee, while Rankin was to continue as the driving force. Thomas was to carry tne oau just enough to retain some semblance of being chairman, but most of the work , was to be done by the so-called "Gentleman" from Mississippi. The agreement was no -sooner reached' than Robert Stripling, former chief investigator investi-gator under Martin Dies, and three times deferred de-ferred from the draft, was re-employed. Stripling was given the promise that he would become chief investigator under the Republican Re-publican congress beginning In January. Since his return. Stripling has been slipping into the old house office buudinc by tne soutn east entrance, wearing dark glasses to conceal his identity. In addition, a sun-tan picked up in, the army has helped disguise him. tor tnree weeks he has been busy going over the files of the old Dies committee, wing up a master .list of those in the federal service whom the Rankin committee will smear at the first opportunity. Prediction: Congress is in for .more witch huntlne than since the days when ex-congressman Ham Fish of New York touowea a not ieaa rwrran old trunk in a Baltimore warehouse, supposed to be full of Soviet documents. When he lifted the lid, hi found only cabbages. National and world stability is now, threatened threat-ened by a starvation for the materials with which to construct the devastated areas and to" develop the economically backward areas. -Eugene Meyer, president International Sank for Reconstruction. "Would you entrust the fate of the metropolis metro-polis (New York) to the rapid judgment of the last army officer you met? To such realities reali-ties we are led when we think of a defense against the -atomic bomb. W. A. Higin-botham, Higin-botham, Federation of American Scientists officer., REPUBLICAN CLOSED-DOOR CAUCUS There was only one major dispute when the house Republican steering committee held 1 its closed-door caucus on legislative policies the other day. This was over whether the Republicans should accept all of the reorganization act, adopt ed at the last congress and providing for con' solidation of congressional committees. Elder Statesman Jim wadsworth of Hew York finally settled the dispute in his level-headed way. with few feelings fractured. Rep. Sterling Cole TO New York, high-ranking member of the naval affairs committee, started the debate by warmly opposing; the merger of the naval affairs and military affairs committees into one 33-man committee on armed forces, as pro vided by the act. Cole argued that the consolidation would be untimely unless the army and navy themselves were merged. He pointed out that, most members of the military committee favored army-navy uni fication. while most naval committee -members opposed it; therefore throwing these two battling factions into a single committee would merely cause disharmony. "Until the merger question is settled, those two committees should remain independent," Cole contended. Rep. Leslie Abends of Illinois, a member of the military committee, plus several others, echoed the same view. But Wadsworth quick- ly harpooned their objections. ."National defense is an over-all matter and should be handled as such by a single committee," said the big New York catUe farmer and ex senator. Our experience with overlapping defense legislation during the last' war proved this conclusively. con-clusively. Wadsworth continued. It was absurU, he added, for the army and navy to continue to bring their closely . related problems before separate -committees. Upshot , was that the GOP leaders went:-on record to accept the reorganization act in toto, with the understanding' that changes might be made later if necessary. REPUBLICANS SCAN LABOR HORIZON One veteran senator and one newcomer are destined tp play, leading roles in GOP labor rela tions in the next congress. The veteran is ag gressive, square-shooting Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine. The newcomer is Sen. Irving M. Ives. scholarly, 50-year-old New York Republican, who. had an impressive labor record in the N.Y. State Assembly ana at Cornell university. It was Ives who fathered the bipartisan com mittee on labor legislation in the Nw York legis lature, ana steps are now being taken privately to set up a- similar committee in congress. - Chief behind-the-scenes plugger for this plan is Brewster. Already he has had some confidential chats with labor spokesmen, has warned that unless un-less they play ball, drastic legislation scuttling the Wagner Act is sure to be enacted. ' - Brewster's idea Is to negotiate a covenant for labor r peace between congress and labor, v which could, if successful, - obviate the nee ' of rough, legislative crackdowns. Such a peace pact might take the form of si strike, moratorium mora-torium or an agreement to arbitrate major disputes. , Come what may. some labor turn iniwin' revision of the Wagner Act, seem certain to be voted, but Brewster believes these curbs can jbe tempered in direct proportion to labor's ability to control its own mavericks. " "; c ' In private talks with labor leader Rru,ct has put it this way: "American business exceeded itself in the. 20's and suffered. the, consequences Labor -has been guilty of the same thing in the i last ten years and will 'also, find Itcoii KoWtt the eight ball unless you fellows do-something io end these strikes." T 1 ! Desk Chat, Editorial Column John L. Levis Racing Against 'Gel Tough With Labor' Policy in Congress By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (NEA) Settlement of the fuss which John L. Lewis has kicked up with the government over modifica tion of his present contract with Coal Mines Administrator J. A. Krug is complicated by what the new congress intends to do about labor legislation. If congress decides to "Get tough with Labor," then it is to John L. . Lewis' advantage to make his own new deal with the government and the coal mine owners before it happens. That's true even though Lewis . himself has been suspected of being a Republican. . On the other hand, if the Re publican congress convening in January Is of a mind to repeal a lot of the labor laws now on the books and pass some new ones more to , the 'liking of manage ment, then it ! to the advantage of the coal, mine owners to, stall alone and make no new contract till the Republican labor policy is determined. As if the Truman administra tion hadn't had enough bad -luck already, it is now caught right square in the middle of this battle for- time. A month ago. the United Mine Workers' Journal carried an edi torial - which spelled out- pretty completely just what the miners expected from the new. congress. It predicted an effort to pass "a new labor code that will destroy the Wagner act, degut the Norm LaGuardia anti-injunction act. and continue the low wage rates now -prevailing under the wages and hours act." Then the editorial went on to say that, "Proposals to outlaw the right of foremen to unionize, compulsory arbitration and all the other restrictive suggestion? that have been made over a period of time to harness and hafrass labor by government fiat are to be rolled into a legislative package pack-age for congressional approval." No one knows exactly what John 1 .Lewis thinks or what he's , after till he gets ready to tell. That has been borne out in past coal crisis when the peopls closest to Lewis have been wrong about what demands he would make for wage increases, shorter hours or "changed working conditions. con-ditions. I The big, issue t in this present; crisis, however, isn't what modifications modi-fications may be made in the con-j tract under which the miners are now digging coal. It's whom the contract is made with that's im portant. It's getting the mines out from under, government opera tion and control and back into the hands' of .the mine owners that's important. It's these real owners of ' the mines not the government who should now be sitting down to negotiate with Lewis. . If Interior Secretary Krug, as coal mines administrator, could say in effect to Lewis. "All right you claim, your present contract with the. government is no good go ahead and work out a better one with the real owners of the mines," it might be in the public interest. Nobody wants govern ment ownership government. miners, owners or the tax-payers That John L. Lewis is not now negotiating with Jthe mine own ers is aue to two things: Prelim inary negotiations to give the mines back to the owners were broken off last September' because be-cause "the northern and southern operators, couldn't' agree on conditions con-ditions under which they'd take back their properties. The second reason .was mat. noDoay could find out what John L. Lewis wanted put in the contract. He never told, and nobody could read his mind. So Lewis' negotiations with the government broke up, to be resumed only on Nov. 1, after Lewis had told the government govern-ment he wanted a new contract. In the meantime, northern and southern operators have moved a little closer together. There is still a fringe of .southern operators, however, which believes that now is the time to break the United Mine Workers union and John L. Lewis' power. Their hope lies in a belief that the new Republican congress will write a new labor ticket doing many of the things which the above-quoted-UMW Journal edi torial predicted and also repealing repeal-ing the Smith Connally law. That would end the government's power to seize and operate, the mines nn case of a coal strike. That would mean that the operators oper-ators could risk a strike with the knowledge "that the government could not seize the mines and give the miners another contract with a welfare and retirement fund and a new safety code. Those are the other things many operators would like to get out from under. It would be to . their advantage to take a strike now, to stir up the new congress adopting a new "Get tough with Labor" policy. Cigarette Receipts Up As GI's Dwindle CHICAGO (U.R) The ex-GI. who paid only a nickel a pack for tax-free cigarettes overseas, is paying the full price at the corner cor-ner drugstore again and the tax returns show it The Federation of Tax Admin istrators reports that increased tax rates and a more plentiful domestic supply also have contributed con-tributed to the boom in cigarette and tobacco collections. The federation said collections in 31 states for the first six months of 1946 totaled $112,600.- 000, as compared with $64,800,000 in the same 1945 period. Your Gl Rights EXTRA TUITION ENDANGERS GI SCHOOLING WASHINGTON, (NEA) Vet erans overflowing A m e ncan schools and colleges have many problems and questions. Here are the answers to some of them: Q I am attending college un der the GI Bill of Rights. The tuition charged is the maximum the government will pay. After classes started I discovered a spe cial course which takes more tui tion. Can I pay the extra tuition Out of my own pocket and take this special course without im pairing my other GI rights? A That is a matter you had better check very carefully with your VA contact representative The law is pretty specific about a veteran's paying additional tui- iion out oi nis own pocket, it you act without consulting VA you might lose all your educational rights. . , Q My wife and I are both students stu-dents in college, and we are both iveterans. We don't like the liv ing quarters we are in and would like to buy a house. Our present plans are to stay here after we finish school. If we Should change our minds later on, would the fact that we had bought a house with a combined loan-guarantee force us to stay in this town? A Not at all. You can sell the house and move away, as long as you pay up your loan commit ments. Q My husband is a veteran and attending college. Before he started in the engineering school. I warned him that it was difficult and that he might fail and advised ad-vised him to take something else. He is failing this semester, and the chances are he may not pass at all. Does that mean he will fbrfeit all his GI educational rights; A That is a matter for the school to decide. If they permit him to stay in the school and take a different set of courses after he fails engineering, it will probably be all right with Vet erans' Administration. Curious. Cynie .Cants . . - V l .the .-stockings we have' ot served so far this fall appear unusually thin, which might seem to f ortoken an unusually severe winter. - - - . .there are more than at 60. cynics "at 15 .loud talkers listeners. are impatient trial marriages usually 'result in a verdict of acquittal. oOo -AUTUMN But for a season The rose opens , In fragrant bloom Then, when summer goes, Conies the first frost And twilight gloom. , This, above all, we know Is apparent to men: We're born to live a while And then we go . . . Does it matter much How, or why, or when? Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of ' THE PROVO HERALD Of Nov. 19, 1926 Three election contests were to be filed, following the canvass of tne Republican county commis sioners who issued election cer tificates to Martin Christiansen, Republican for county commis sioner; John C. Taylor, Republican, Republic-an, for county treasurer and John D. Boyd, Republican, for sheriff. The contests were to be filed in behalf of J. W, Gillman, for county commissioner; Earl Green wood for treasurer and George H. Naylor for sheriff, all Democrats, The official majorities varied from 22 to 171 votes. The Third ward was declared the winner in the MIA road show finals with an act, "The Current Magazines." In the cast were Fred Markham, Verl Dixon, Roy Warner, Grant Penrod, Mild red Hall, Marjorie Reeves, Marion Russell, Mary Singleton, Bertha Vogel, Sarah Dixon nd Jennie Myrup. Dr. Lincoln Wirt, western sec retary of the national council for the prevention of war, was the speaker at the Provo Rotary club meeting. Queen Marie of Romania cut short her visit to the. United States and announced that her party would sail from New York Nov. 24. The illness of King Ferdinand prompted the move. . Announcement was made of the marriage of Edith Bills of Payson to Hugh Jolley of Provo. Questions will be answered only in this space not by mail.) LOCAL MAJOR OIL -CO; - MANAGER f r Vj 'Wishes lease or rent six xr five room home, ' Phone 2221 Pro vo."References furnished. Know -How Q's and A 4 Q What is the estimated 1946 national income? A $165,000,000,000 with $175,- 000,000,000 estimated for 1947. Q How is the "Bat," Navy's automatic glider bomb, guided? A By radar from the plane which releases it. Q How many merchant ships were sunk by U-boats during the isattie of tne Atlantic? A 2775, or 69 per cent of total tonnage lost. Q Do sponges grow in shallow water? A They .grow in water -from 10 to 130 feet deep, -and within 50 miles of shore, in the Gulf of Mexico sponge beds. The beds run from Key West to Apalachi-cola, Apalachi-cola, Fla. Q Where did Delaware its its name? A From Thomas West, Lord de la Warre, a governor of colonial Virginia. - He was attenuating to. read the i evening paper as well as listen to ' l his. wife's recounting,. the events ? of the -day . . "Why; Johnt you know I ha ve v asked you before J to fix the shelf and. you've kept , putUng, it offhand today vit was ? tuted so badly that the clock I fell off and if it had been a minute sooner; it would have hit , poor mower." - . -,; . . "Yes, dear. Um-umh. Tve al- ; ways said that clock was Slow." ? Any city's enemies are'thbse who throw waste paper in the f streets, , . ,ri who honk their horns in ttaf ; ficjams, who never miss a chance ; to , belittle the town,, ?y wno urive uniigntea -or, one-eyed one-eyed cars at night, who try to outline the plots of movies they've seen;' s who go out of town to do their shopping. c . z : ' - oOo v ( "No. Marvine. it would not h correct to say that alimony-is a ' man s casn surrender value.- " oOo .vx A loyal wife is a woman "who will stick by you 'in all' the trouble you wouldn't have gotten !n fhe first nlaoo 2 OOO The nervous youne man went into his boss's office and nftfr several false starts finally got w - i enougn i courage to say; riteauy, sir, my wife and - I are finding it terribly difficult to live -to-i gether on my salary." -wen," growled ..thtf ; boss, k what do you want me to do? Arrange a divorce for you?" True happiness depends on the amount of affection you are abla to inspire. ;: We don't get a chance to do much visiting with our neighbors out we uo pay an occasional evening call and usually - Say something that our better two-thirds two-thirds thinks we should not, and after ffettinir hnma u an ' quently hauled over the coals for committing this and that faux paux. : ..v After our most recent offense, right in the midst of the tirade, we were startled to hear . . "and . . . don't be sitting there'1 making fists in your pockets either." "1 Subtlety: the art of saying what you want to say and getting out of range before it is understood; BARBS By nAL COCHRAN A soft answer may turneth away wrath but not if it's "Guess who's calling?" Entomologists say the worm Is insensitive to red light Traffic Traf-fic cops will agree. mm Eleven carloads of Christmas toys have been shipped to the U. S. by Germany. Junior will have almost jas much fun withthera as his aad. This is the season when the one thing certain to make foot : ball uncertain Is the set-up that ' proves an upset. . " It's almost time for auto drivers to hope the radiator won't freeze until it finally does. - . BOSTONIAN DEFIES OLD AGE BOSTON (U.R) Boston's oldest old-est citizen is Mrs. Lucy Cleary, who has just observed her 103rd birthday. She reads newspapers and magazine without spectacles. A. L Simlcins WILL BE AT THE Lewis BarberShop- TO GREET HIS FRIENDS 274 West Center.' ! f 4 . 1 1 a n Y KA O K I w r " k Warning against accidents in the home and on the highways is old stuff to most of us, Many industries have made real progress in accident prevention, but our homes continua to produce minor and major injuries on an ever-increasing scale. I n spite of every precaution, accidents will occur. When the "ounce of prevention" fails, it is wise to have "the pound of cure" ready and at band. See. that your medicine cabinet is amply stocked with standard first-aid materials. Keep a first-aid kit in the pocket of ; .yourcar;e;$liai be pleased to help you select the essen-tial essen-tial items from our complete stock. O DRUG WIS fBtSCSIFIJlUlS B UK G)3SI meiBTd fjF Of U BUSS fTrff I- (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) At Ir.fiw'iliUF'iL |