| Show SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Committee's Proposed Tax Increase Hits Lower Income Groups Hardest TAXES ON THE LOCAL LEVEL By July l. or shortly the man on Main Street is going to find himself subject to increased individual taxes if the house ways and means committee's proposals are carried The committee voted to increase income taxes a The increase would raise taxes In every bracket by 3 percentage In The News Defense Secretary Mar-shall top continued to be of lop interest in the nation's press as h told senators the home-towners don't want to expand the war in Korea Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston was in the news again with demands for extension of economic controls Donald Dawson made front pages by swearing he never used pressure on In The News Mary T. Martin Sloop of became big news when she was named American Mother of wife of a country became nationally known for her work among the underprivileged in the mountains of her slate Always sensational princess Rita arrived in Reno to divorce Prince Aly For a single man with a net Income of a year would pay in taxes instead of This would be an increase from 20 per cent to 23 per In the second bracket to the tax would go up from 22 to 25 per and in the third bracket to from 26 to 29 per In the increase in each person's tax would be about the same as the jump which took place under the first war-tax bill passed last This proposed taxation is and subject to possible changes by the the senate finance and the full But it Is an indication of approximately what the small-towner can expect before the summer is WHAT DOES AMERICA From the time this nation was founded politicians have tried to keep in close contact with the home towns in an effort to know and understand what the average man is Very few of have With this in Secretary of Defense Marshall made a bold statement during his testimony on the MacArthur-Truman controversy when he asserted the American people will stand with the administration on military policy in Marshall believes the average home-towner has no desire to expand the war in He believes the American people on the side that the defense the Joint chiefs of and the civilian authority of the government This Marshall Involved a settled conviction that the present policy of limited commitment of force in Korea must go TEAM WORK The first thing the American youngster whether he is a city boy or a small town is that he has to be a member of the To play with the other kids he must Americans carry this lesson with them through It was with some that home-towners heard the news that those free nations who have been trading with Communist China had finally agreed it was time to start playing with the home team and to cut off that trade trade and dollar was possibly the worst It could be that the senate vote to cut off economic aid to any nation which permits its citizens to trade with Communist areas had much to do with the sudden splurge of FOR HUNGRY BEEF EATERS In an action entirely independent of the recent projected general rollback on beef prices scheduled by October the government unexpectedly slashed approximately 12 cents a pound off ceiling prices of some chuck steaks and pot For the hungry beef eaters of the nation it was a welcome It is not likely to make relations between the administration and the nation's beef packers and distributors any A SECOND ATTEMPT While General Marshall and the joint chiefs of staff testified before congressional committees in rebuttal to earlier testimony of Douglas MacArthur on the conduct of the Korean North Korean and Chinese Communists were ready for a second attempt in their spring The first attempt launched April bogged down in little over a week with an estimated For the second the Communists rushed thousands of troops into three buildup areas armed with an unusually large number of machine guns and Russian-type submachine United Nations forces were ready and waiting for the new firmly entrenched for the first time in the ready with an air raid warning UN commanders remained firm in the belief they could beat back anything the Communists could throw against THE PRICE IS STEEP The weeks of futile talks in Paris by deputies of the big four foreign ministers has reaffirmed in the minds of the average home-towner the fact you can't reason with the For weeks the deputies have tried to work out an agenda for a meeting of the big four foreign ministers without It is apparent that the end of the rope has been The price demanded by the Reds is too high for a God fearing and freedom loving The Russians insist upon an arms-reduction item in the agenda that would mean the suspension of our defense The Russians want their own kind of arms-reduction It doesn't Include international inspection and Here again the free world has been blocked in its attempt to ease world tensions and try to make some progress toward real THE TALKING CONGRESS At the moment it appears that the congress will go down in history as the talking with a record of fewer laws enacted than the congress which was termed the by President After four full the congress has enacted only 28 public a recent check None of the major planks on which Truman won election for a second term have been Of 37 specific legislative recommendations bv the only three have become effective as a result of congressional since And two of them affect only soldiers or veterans of the war in |
