Show SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS 0 Main Street and the World Congress Goes Home After Passing Billion Tax-Increase Measure CONGRESS Members of the first session of the congress-have deserted and between now and January 8 the second session try to convince the people of the hom towns of their great The fact that th record is not too good and the prospects for the second it will during a presidential election are even The congress spent week in the MacArthur the crime probes Into subversive activities and corruption In Most of the important legislation enacted dealt with foreign affairs while the domestic field was nearly There was nr civil rights no marked advance in the Hoover plan for govern excepting reform of the civil remained a needed amendments to the Defense Production Act were statehood for Alaska and Hawaii remain undecided The congress set another the longest unbroken session of any peacetime congress since with the senate In session and the house The senate oratory filled pages of the record and the house And during the session public laws and private laws were In the dying hours of the session the house and senate enacted bills authorizing the spending of all aimed at ing the security of the U.S. at home and It swelled to the appropriations passed during the of which was for defense TAXES President Truman signed the tax-increase one of the last measures passed In the first session of the and on November 1 the average home towners will begin to pay increases ranging from 11 to 12 per cent for excise taxes go up on a long list of items including and household Bigger income and excess-profits taxes are in store for some The was very definite In his opinion of the increase To begin he felt It was not enough had asked for and indicated he would ask congress in January tc improve the tax He criticized it as containing too many loopholes and in some respects providing additional means by which wealthy individuals can escape paying their proper He also criticized the Jenner rider permitting states to publicize relief rolls without losing their share of federal social security he is quite unrelated to the purpose of raising revenue and well result in unwarranted publicity and personal indignity and unhappiness for aged people and others receiving public THE POWDER KEG Middle East has become the powder which may blow the world into World War Since ordering the British out of the Suez canal zone and the armed clashes have occurred between forces of the two Egypt has ordered general mobilization of man power in wartime fashion and the British have reinforced their canai forces with planes and The Egyptian crisis is a manifestation of the growing fever of 1 nationalism in the Moslem states which started when Iran nationalized its oil industry and kicked the British But unlike the Iranian the Suez and its safety is of vital importance to the free On the surface Egypt would seem too weak to throw the British but the fears a series of incidents that could set the entire Middle East Should the crisis reach to point of open warfare between the two countries the Communists can be expected to step in and World War III could start at any VATICAN ENVOY President Truman nominated Mark W. chief of the Army Field to be the first United States ambassador to Vatican American diplomatic relations with the which had been terminated by act of congress in were resumed twelve years ago by President Franklin D. Since early there has been no diplomatic relationship with the Vatican and President Truman's nomination of Clark was Because of considerable criticism concerning the the President announced several days later he had decided not to carry out diplomatic representation at the Vatican until congress has acted on the Congress will probably take the matter under consideration shortly after it convenes January FEDERAL DEFICIT government has operated In the red this Next year it will go even deeper in the red and nothing that congress has done or economies will prevent Expenditure for the fiscal year 1952 will amount to it is Receipts will to leaving a deficit of In the fiscal year 1053 expenditures will amount to an estimated billion while receipts will total This leaves about billion Congress is not likely to increase taxes next year because it is a presidential election most observers The only way to cut down this deficit would be to reduce defense spending and foreign There may be some cut in foreign but if in defense The policy expounded by the administration seems extremely remote at this Oblivious to the passage of U.N. and Communist two Korean women employ ancient flails to thresh grain on their farm near so their families may And while the harvest scene was taking place across war-torn Allied and Communist negotiators were scheduled to resume peace talks at the small village of Whether the renewed talks would bring peace was another Many Allied officials believe that Moscow and have been shadow boxing and will continue to do so until they can make u their minds on Just what to do peace or all-out fight-in continues in Korea with a marked increase In air One air battle Involved nearly Allied and Communist history's greatest Jet |