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Show LAYTON, JOURNAL, LAYTON, UTAH, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1949 ivwMimxn Tax Bill Is Rabbit Stew To Congressman Doughton Nwi By BAIJKHAGE Analyil and Commentator, for it. Representative Doughton, I might suggest if you dont know it, is not only the oldest member of the house of representatives measures. (85) but likewise the oldest hand at handlingof tax the waya and means He had to step down from the chairmanship committee for the brief Republican interlude. Now he's back at tha old stand, sharpening the butcher knife again. tax-cuttin- g bill and and fired it back at congress, a reporter asked Doughton how he felt about it. He leaned back and told a story, for hes fond of answering in parables. A Tarheel houseIt seems, wife, served her husband rabbit stew every night for a week. When the second Saturday night came BAUKI1AGE around and the same old dish vnth It, the husband bowed his hand as usual, but Instead of saying grace he was heard to mutter: "Rabbits rough. Rabbits tough. Oh, Lord, Ive bad rab-b- it enough" That, opined Mr. Doughton, was the way be felt about the tax bills. But he has to help meet the biggest peacetime budget ever submitted to a congress and he's ready for it. In the 38 years that he has represented the state of North Carolina In the congress, the habits of the dean of the octogenarian's club in the lower house have changed very little since the last time. I explored them In some detail more than a score of years ago. He has earned a tremendous respect from the men who work on fiscal matters in the house of representatives where the money bills have to onglnate. And because he. has a theory of his own about collecting and spending the people's money, no bill comes out of his for an act've Interest In his community wl lch is deep in the Carolina hills. Laurel Spring, N. C., Is still his h me. He was born on his parents 'arm near there. His father, wounded In the war between the statei, died when he was a grown bry. His mother was keenly active her last hours, Interested V Truman Begins Busiest Four Years; GOP Wins First Senate Vote Test; Bevin Offers Critics Olive Branch The question whether President Truman's 21 billion dollar budget was excessive was being raised again. This time John Foster Dulles, chairman of the U. S. delegation to the United Nations general assembly in Paris, raised the issue. The budget, which Dulles questioned, provides 13 billions for (KUITOR'S NOTE: Whra opinion ar etpressrO In the column, they ar lbo ol Writers Newspaper Union analyil and not occeaaarUy ol Uu ornipaper.) military expenditures, six billions for foreign aid during fiscal 1950. INAUGURATION: DULLES THOUGHT it too high. He pointed to dwindling war fears llrief Interlude and potential menace to U. S. President Truman could lay valid economical health aa reasons for claim to the title 'busiest man In curtailment of Truman proposals. the world. The Inaugural behind Conceding that there is a "risk" him, the nations chief executive of war, Dulles declared the "risk was up to his neck In problems, is not so great that we should both foreign and domestic. ON THE HOME FRONT, there seriously jeopardize our own economic health was a little matter of having conby saddling ourselves with such vast armament. gress impllment Democratic camDulles suggested cause, implied paign pledges and provide funds a remedy. He blamed lack of suf- for the continuing armament exficient unification of U. S. armed pansion. Abroad, with thla nation forcea for administration belief m committed to the gargantuan task the need of huge military outlay, of saving the world from comand declared that present huge munism, the problem was equally monumental. military expenditures cannot go on. But for awhile, on January 20, "1 think our armament is exaggerated by the fact that there is not Harry Truman, Missouri farm boy who rose to the presidency of the sufficient unification between United States, once by succession, the different branches of our (armed) services," he said. "It currently on his own seems as though the rivalry were prowess, relaxed, basked In public such that each branch wants to be adulation, may even have forgotten the tremendous strong enough so that if there is a pressure under which he labored. war it can win it alone, without ORIGINALLY PLANNED as help from anybody. more or less sedate affair, with Dulles said there is "less fear this atmosphere desired by Truman, of war," than there was last year, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and the inauguration, was Linda Brown, 4, March of Dimes but commented: instead, turned into one of the most lavish "OF COURSE, there is always a poster girl, open the annual and spectacular since Andrew You have a tense situation risk. In Linda drive Washington. Jackson rode Into the top spot. like a dry autumn in the woods was cured of polio through the NaPacked and Jammed, Washingwhen any fool can start a fire. tional Foundation for Infantile ton gave a hero's welcome to the "It is entirely possible, however, Paralysis. World War I artillery captain. Truto have better relations with man buttons, Truman pictures, He did not completely endorse the Russia and I think it is probable." Truman banners were greatly In Democratic platform, would not be The problem was up to congress. evidence and the President, seeing led Into enthusiastic "me too" dec- Could it gamble on the "fool in these and the vast multitudes, must larations. the woods, or should it prepare with have wondered if there were anyLucas was vehement. "On whose all possible equipment to stand by one at all who voted against him coattails did Chapman come to the for a possible conflagration? In the November election. he demanded, "t h e senate, BUT THE INTERMISSION from Truman-Barklecoattails or those Other duty was brief. The parade, the of Dewey and Warren?" swearing in ceremonies, the round angry Democrats rushed to point of gala capital affairs that night, out that Chapman ran 100,000 votes nd the next day, Harry Truman behind Truman and Barkley in was again on the job. Kentucky. Peace has been his rallying cry. JOINING CHAPMAN In the no Its importance marked all his votes were Democratic Senators utterances. Now he was buckled Byrd, Johnson, Maybank, Mcdown to the Job of trying to pre- Clellan, Robertson and Russell. serve it. Men of good will everyChapman didn't take criticism where in the world were wishing lying down. He declared, in effect, him success. that if such taxes are to be removed, it ought to be done in regular legisMONKEYS: lative process, not by hurried action on the floor. Up in the Air Republicans were more metaFor whatever benefit It may be to scientists or anthropologists, two phorical They argued that since dogs will not calm 300 there is a tax on powder Used an babies, a woman dressing up for an Rhesus monkeys. THIS WAS graphically. If someinauguration ball should regard her what disturbingly powder as more of a luxury than demonstrated rhis when 30 crates of the monkeys ar- powder applied to a baby. rived in New York by plane from statement followed an effort to exempt baby powder from federal the Azores. The trip started sedately enough taxation which failed of approval with all the monkeys locked In their OLIVE BRANCH: crates. Two large, dogs were along because someone had Bevin Recants said their presence would tend to British Foreign Secretary Ernest keep tranquil the monkeys spirits. Bevin apparently was Telenting in Somehow most of the monkeys his stand on the Palestine situation. got out of the crates and suddenly Gingerly he held out an olive there were monkeys in the cockpit, branch: Britain's willingness to reThis German fraulein. Miss Elfl monkeys through the plane, mon- lease Jewish immigrants of fighting Glovanelli, was chosen "tourist keys peeping out of windows and age now held in Cyprus, his perqueen" and will tour the U.S. this year In an effort to stimulate monkeys even trying to liberate sonal and strong support of peace other monkeys. negotiations between Israelis and attendance at an import exhibition in western Germany. Capt. Miguel Braganca and his Egyptians at Rhodes. was crew, heavily outnumbered, Observers declared this position forced to stay in the forward part a "deliberate and genuine effort PERFECT: of the ship while the monkeys on his part to seek peace with Testers Amazed cavorted. The monkeys saw to that. Israel and his critics in Britain and U. S. air force intelligence testers in the U. S. Says the captain: They kept hangrubbed their eyes, looked again. ing on the cockpit door and watchWHATEVER MOTIVATED the Yes, there it was a perfect I. Q. ing us all the time. foreign there was no score by a gangling, bespectacled secretary, When the La overlooking the fact that criticism plane reached connecGuardia field, about a dozen chat- had been mounting both in England Kentucky youth seeking a tion with the military. tering monkeys were starting to and America. With the pressure WILLIAM M. BELEW, 18, of climb out the windows, but eight continuing, the situation might have had done what no one Simpsonville airline cargomen Joined the crew resolved itself into one holding the him been able to achieve, before had and with brooms and blankets fi- very political future of Bevin. the army believed imsomething snared truants. the The foreign minister also innally possible. Told he was not expected The monkeys were consigned for dicated that de facto recognition to answer all the questions correctInfantile paralysis research. of the government of Israel was ly, he nevertheless went ahead and, being seriously considered. If that in rapid-firorder, dashed through SIX NO step were taken by Great Britain, the test without a single error. Was It Revolt t it would mean the death knell of It was the preliminary test given Arab hopes for continuation of Six Democrats Joining with senat the air force recruitvolunteers, ate Republicans gave the GOP strife or any eventual triumph in ing office in Louisville. The testers victory in the first test of strength the Holy Land controversy. were amazed. They checked, since the 81st congress convened. the score, found it perfect. The issue may have been trivial, DIXIECRATS: They then checked the records. but the result burned Democratic Rough Rood Sure enough. Belew was the first leaders. Scott Lucas. Illinois, sucThe road ahead looked rough for to make a perfect score. cessor to Barkley as states righters. THESE NEW TESTS, much more majority floor leader, "sputtered Democratic administration forces exacting than the old, have been Barkley was also put out. For, it were showing little patience with in use since last May. Questions appeared, the result was an unex- southern old liners who had bolted are divided into three sections, pected as it was "humiliating " the party in the presidential elecvocabulary, arithmetic, and perTHE ISSUE was exemption of tion. ception of spatial relationship. Inauguration tickets from federal THE PURGE SWORD swung first There are 45 questions and they amusement taxes. The exemption at the must be answered in 40 minutes. activities comslid through the house 199 to 49. mittee and two heads Belew will give the air force a tumbled. so one can imagine the surprise They were those of trial. If he likes it, he will make Representative when it failed in the senate. John A Rankin, fiery Mississippian, it a career: if he doesn't he will Chief target of administration and F. Edward Herbert. Louisiana, take up accounting. censure was Kentucky's Virgil both of whom A school high Simpsonville supported the state's Chapman. and diamond perbasketballer rights ticket against President TruBut those who remembered the man in November. former, Belew stands six feet tall Kentucky campaign would recall Rankin, along with everyone else, weighs 160 pounds, was expected that Chapman showed no little knew the blow w as to pass the army physical examinacoming, acIndependence in his drive for votes cepted it calmly tion with ease. in the day's mall and the dally newspiper to the last. In) eriting some land from his fatker, the boy started off for him-se)- T, gradually acquiring more until he became a livestock raiser and farmer. Then he entered business, finally becoming president of a bank. He has described himself as a vote-gettin- er sad-eye- Win-thro- , j (one-tim- e . Henry Luce, the Time-Lif- e proprietor, is said to have started hia own loyalty check among all staffer! . . . William S. Schlamm, a member of the board of editors of Lncea Fortune staff (be contributes editorials occasionally to Luce's Life), was a Communist leader in Austria In the 20s. Schlamm was one of Austrias top Communist writers when he was 28 years old. Since then, it Is said, be has been strongly He came to the U. S. In 1938, was naturalized in 1944. Ilis official position with Lnce is "assistant to the of Time, Life and Fortune" . . . lie has written articles for the Nation, the Saturday Review of Literature and other mags. Tourist Queen editor-in-chi- S: e Vice-Preside- nt BONUS BILL: Best Voices .lmt'ff.t Ri dihf t Amvcts. World War 11 veterans organization, has announced its intention to a'K Congress for an immediate veterans bonus which they think might cost as much as 67 billion dollars The organization The best "telephone voices" in the nauon for 1948 were chosen by telephone operators of New York Mrs. The voices? Most sincere: Eleanor Roosevelt and Ted Collins, owner Boston Yanks pro football to most courteous. Joe Di and Mrs. Alfred Gynne Maggto Vanderbilt; most sensuous. Rita Hayworth, Actor Richard Ney, most expressive: Actor Jose Ferrer and Sister Elizabeth Kenev said it wall carry cot gross soon its proposal A similar b prepared by the Vcte.uns of Foie gn Wars is In the house hot per ho n been offered 11 by Rep Rip - tim team; For $5.95 GUARANTEED V V NOT TO CRACK WARP VCHIP VPEEL ef Remittanre with order pleate . "1 it isn't right, your money back without a fight" ll$$ PAY Mrs. Byron Foy is teddibly miffed iver not being included in the Zest Dressed List for the first time. (Things to worry about) . . . Max Bchmeling is up Jo here in trouble with the Red gendarmes in Germany. Spent several nights in the Jug and was beaten worse than he got from J. Louis . . . Virginia Hills Mexico City bodyguard is an over-ft. amazon . . . Big excitement Christmas Eve (on Park Avenoo) when a gallant millionaire serenaded his estranged wife with a banjo under her 1st floor window. Her boy friend ended the show by breaking the banjo on the husband's conk . . . The keddidge trade will be overjoyed to know that on Jan. 7th S. Billingsley presents Benny Goodman in "Bop Comes to the Stork Club . . . Ice skater Gretch-e- n Merrill is making Bud Weeks even weeker. FOB T H $ BISTI KETCHUM BUILDERS SUP. CO. PUaaa klp , - Toil! - 8ot - AUim. JoL ifjDWLjldWiiL fillip 6 d ... Sl, p Rnt io y CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT g anti-pol- Yutang is furlona at hit daughter's planned merger. H ordered ner to return to the U. S. from Pans . . . Londoners bear Pamela Churchill want to be converted to Catholicism . . . That was SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. Marlene Dietrich who legged off in TUBEROUS BEGONIA Order seedling a huff on 5th Avenoo (the other plant, tubers, now lor spring delivery. circular today. FREE Rend for Or. syem), leaving I. S. Patcevitch with D- - VIST A GARDEN S, S2Z D ht, taxi on his hands . . . The Gardiners bold hands at the PKRSONAL Roney bar while waiting for her BAKBERING Florldivision . . . Locals report Apprevsd lw VUrn. that Rocky Graziano is completely l r I. diwL GrdoU In defeated in spirit and heart and BARBERS Month. 811 Lak Brbr Collff. 8U Unk may never fight again, even if City. Utah. ITS 8trC reinstated . . . The buzz is that Anna May Wong Chinese film star) is seriously ailing and KETCHUM BUILDERS broke , . , The Duke of Leeds and Mrs. A. Young have been riveted. SUPPLY CO. . . . The Prince Regent of Belgium, Charles, is not on speaking terms Everything For The Builder with his mother, the Dowager 4th South at 7th West Salt Lake Lily 9, Utah Queen, which makes court life in Brussels s little difficult these days THE HERCULEAN SEAT . . . W. Churchill has cut his cigars TO LAST FOREVER " "MADE down to only 15 a day. Lin d sad-eye- pro-nation- al or oil cans. Man About Town ... horse trader. There are many tales that have grown up about his astuteness that, if embellished by repetition, are not doubted by those who have watched his steady advancement in congress. He entered under a Republican regime President Tafts accepted minor committee appointments, but rose rapidly to the position he holds today chairman of the powerful ways and means committee. horse-tradOne of the stories he tells Is this: after disposing of some animals he had meant to sell, he was made a very attractive offer for the horse he was riding his own saddle horse. Done, he took the money, turned over the bridle, put the saddle under his arm and walked back home, 70 miles, says tradition, under his own power. There doesnt seem to have been any deep-laiplan for a political career in the farmer boys mind when he began life among the oxcarts and hand looms of those early days in the South following the war. Nor yet when he had acquired his own acres and entered into the business life of the community. He was chosen a member of the state board of agriculture and served on the prison board. Then one day it was decided to .run him for the state senate. He was elected and served for a term. Congress was next, but there was a sort of unwritten law in his district that one term was all a man could expect, for Republicans and Democrats had always swapped terms. But Doughton changed all that. Or at least his constituents did. When he had served his term In the 62nd congress, Instead of retiring him, as had been the custom, the voters sent him right back again, and they have been doing "Ob, Lord, Vvt bad rabbit enough.' It ever since. committee looking very different There isn't any question that than he wants it to look, though it Robert L, Doughton likes his Job may not always suit all the other in Washington. But its equally members. Doughton doesn't go so true that when the session Is over, far as to say that fiscal legislation he likes to hie himself back to his should be but he does Carolina hills and enjoy life say it ought to be as there. as possible. and as Around the capital he has the His experience In collecting monreputation as being as good a ey that ought to be collected goes judge of men as he is of horses. back a long way. This year President Trumans One story involves a man he went request for six billion dollars more to see about a horse two horses, to in taxes, including some social be exact This man had bought a security withholding levies, will team from Doughton (the congress- get very careful scrutiny before it man is still a farmer In his own becomes law. Meanwhile, Dougjt-ton- s committee has to take care right though he has to spend more time away from home than he used of the bill to extend reciprocal to) Later on the man wrote that trade treaties. Also, studies will he didnt think the span was worth begin on the subject of extending the $800 he had agreed to pay and social security benefits. There is wouldnt pay it. The deal had been in addition the matter of certain negotiated at a distance and the revisions in the basic tax code. But Representative Doughton is principals had never met So one to rabbit stew. used at in the day Doughton dropped farm and said he wanted to look over a good team. The man showed several, but none seemed to suit Mr. Doughton. "All right, said the man, "Ill show yon the best pair you ever saw In yon life. He brought out the horses recently acquired from Mr. Doughton, but still unpaid for. And what might they be worth? Well considerably over $800. Mr. Doughton Introduced himself and didnt have much trouble in collecting. There Is another reason why Doughton is a good man to have on the collecting end of a bargain Cupid Curbed If you aren't the debtor. Hes a The biggest peacetime budget farmer, true, but he is also a bankThe army is making it tougher er. and he works at both when he ever submitted to a congress for American G.l.s to marry GerIn Its has ($48,858,000,000) opponIsnt Washington. He doesnt man frauleins. In the first place, too. Halleck Charles He banker's however. ents, Rep. hours, keep many army authorities and chap(R., Ind.), former GOP majorgoes to his office at 6:30 am., lains suspect too many German works throughout the day, and hes ity leader, and Rep. John Taber girls are using marriage as an often back in the office after din- ' (R., N. T.l, former chairman excuse to escape from the hard life of the house appropriations comner. He lives right across the plaza of occupied Germany to the United look voluthe at the from mittee, grimly Capital. States. There is also an apparent a For the first 43 years or so of his minous budget, promise to protect desire young draftees to fierce fight slash all spending life. Mr. Doughton held no elective to start arriving aoon in expected to be find but time proposals. managed office, Germany. d Ignitible liquids are fire hazards when stored m the home. Large amounts of such liquids should be stored in underground tanks away from buildings. Small amounts may be stored safely in steel gas Open Campaign WASHINGTON, D. C. Another rabbit stew has been served to up Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, and hes all ready But to get back to rabbit stew. Last season when President Truman vetoed the second Knutson Ignitible Liquids Are Dangerous Fire Hazards U. S. BUDGET: Under Attack WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Headline In the N. Y. Times: "Unusually High Level of Business is Forecast by Economists for 49" . . . When this newscaster kept saying it (all through November and December) some Wall Street "ex-- 1 perts denounced "the shoddy reAs a result of the drop porting in the price of sheet steel (from $270 to $170 per ton) one big Just lost $1,500,000 on one order . . . One of the biggest law firms in the stock sector is in trouble. A senior partner allegedly inserted his own name in a railroad persons will declaring himself ole executor. ... , grey-markete- er The Clarence Muses (hes the Negro star) will celebrate their 25th anny in the Renotable manner . . . His estranged wife. Georgette Windsor, has Just found out that H. Cushing, 4th, Inherits another mint from his late nncle, Wm. Gebhard . . Nice Goin Dept.: The John Harveys (actress Judy Parrish) tot, Jody, sang the Chanukah song (Jewish) at the Midtown Children's School Christmas event. The Harveys are Catholics . . . Now have this contrast (via United Press) : A pet cemetery in Washington, D. C., now bars dogs if they belong to Colored people" . . . Its a laddl tlon for the Ell Casses (Phyllis Krans), born Christmas Day on their anny. At Park East hosp. Some top men at New Republic mag have been advised to aeek other jobs . . . 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