Show BULL THE WAR The House Ways and Means Committee has voted to make certain downward revisions In-the wartime excise As an It halved the 20 per cent admission tax on tickets to and did the same thing with the tax on Other commodities and services came in for some This Is a step in the right but It Is not the end of the whether or not the current Congress takes The maintenance of these regardless of the percentage Is a breach of faith now that the war Is long They are not Applying as they do to commercial a long list of commodities Including baby oil and the most Inexpensive they fall on many absolute necessities for the most they are paid by people of small or moderate It must not be forgotten that these taxes were strictly part of the wartime emergency They were not only for revenue but to discourage the manufacture and use of anything that did not tribute to the war They j came into In other at a time when It was necessary to sharply reduce civilian living standards and with the shooting war the continuance of these business-hurting taxes with their adverse effects on employment and trade is |