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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . I Coal Operators Hint at Price Hike; Britain Faces Flew Economic Crisis; Federal Tax Reduction Poses Puzzle (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I Accused J 1 j 1 'xT Jrf a r '.;ti ..J TRUMAN: Costly Figure Republicans, sniping at Presi-dent Truman, declared that he, as a private citizen, "is one oi the best, it not the best paid man in the world today." Figures lending themselves to many artifices, the gentleman is-suing that statement, Rep. Roy O. Woodruff of Michigan figured it out this way: A PRIVATE CITIZEN to match the standard of living now enjoyed by the President would need an in-come of three to three and a half million dollars a year. Mr. Truman has take-hom- e pay of $110,000 a year out of his salary, $50,000 of which is tax-fre- He has 42 facilities for travel, including 35 automobiles, airplanes, his own yacht, the Williamsburg, a private Pullman car and "vaca-tion retreats" in Key West, Fla., and Maryland. He has an estimated staff of 665 persons at an annual cost of He has a travel allowance of $33,000 to $40,000. Then Representative Woodruff listed the costs of the yacht, the President's personal plane, his private railroad car, a destroyer escort for the yacht, secret service and White House guards, White House salary costs for' a staff of 225. THEN said Representative Wood-ruff: "By comparison, President Roosevelt in 1945 had a staff of 53 costing only $256,431 and Presi-dent Hoover's staff totaled 37 at a salary bill of $127,200. Present White House salary costs, he said, amount to $998,254 annually. That was an impressive list of conveniences and privileges and special help, certainly; rivaling in many instances the best that an Indian Potentate could boast. Yet, democracy comes high, and there was little likelihood that a resume of what the presidency costs the people would raise the blood pressure of many American tax. payers. ELECTIONS: Certainty & Doubt A graphic contrast between choices by electorates in Commu-nist and other countries was pro-vided in the Russian and Belgian elections. In Russia, there was no choice. Premier Stalin was the Number 1 candidate of the Soviets, and he had no opposition. As head of the Communist ticket, he was shooting for as nearly 100 per cent of the vote as possible with no "No" votes to come. Stalin and associates campaigned on a pledge of following a policy of peace. The Russians elected a new parlianjent of 1,302 members. IN BELGIUM the situation was quite different. The issue was: Should King Leopold III be returned to the throne? Fifty-seve- n per cent of the voters said he should, a fact which must have been comforting to Leopold, inasmuch as he had vowed to abdicate unless he re-ceived 55 per cent of the vote. However, the victory at the polls didn't mean Leopold was back on the throne. Parliament would have the last word, as the election was only advisory being designed to show parliament how the people felt about Leopold. The election was tumultuous, with rioting and fight-ing marking the balloting. LEOPOLD had drawn the ill will of millions of Belgians because of his capitulation to the Germans in World War II, although his support-ers pointed out there was little else he could have done. The crux of the election was some 151,000 invalidated ballots. If these were counted, the result would give Leopold only 54 per cent of the votes and he would have to act on his pledge of abdication if he failed to receive the 55 per cent he had mentioned. Fights Tax COAL: The 'Payoff The "payoff' in the recent coal strike settlement was coming more quickly than was usually the case in the settling of these disputes. The cost to the consumer of John power over the operators and his union was to be felt very soon. ANNOUNCEMENT came in' the form of a statement by spokesman for the soft coal industry that there is now in preparation a 10 to 40 cents a ton increase on the price of coal. When the United Mine Workers long strike against the industry was settled recently, operators forecast a rise in prices. However, discussion of the price hike indicated there would be no blanket increase. Rather, the boost would vary according to the finan-cial situation and contract com-mitments of individual firms. One official was quoted as say-ing: "If it (the increase) only amounts to 10 cents a ton, the retailer should be able to absorb it. But if it goes any higher, it will affect the price of coal to the consumer." It seems logical that the retailer could assume an added cost of 10 cents a ton but the question was: Would he? Except for competition, which would hardly be forthcoming in the way of a price fight, the re-tailer could pass on any coal price hike to the consumer. BRITAIN: Another Crisis Great Britain truly had fallen on evil times. Barely escaping one financial crisis after another, the word was that the nation was facing another financial-economi- c crisis in 1950 just as she did in 1949 and 1948. THE DAY had passed when Amer-icans could say to such news: "So what what has that got to do with us?" For the fact was that because of U.S.-Briti- economic-financi-ties stemming from the early Frank-lin D. Roosevelt era, whatever hap-pened toV Britain economically or financially could be expected to hap-pen to the U.S. The reason was that in any such crisis there was no' one but the U.S. to whom the British could turn for help. The problem, as British leaders viewed it, was that although Brit-ain's production is about as high as it can go in the near future, it does not yield enough exportable goods to meet pressing British problems. ONE OF THESE is the need to increase sales to the United States to earn more dollars and solve Brit-ain's current inability to pay for the goods she must get from the United States. Another is conflicting pressure on Britain to ship goods to other credi-tors as a means of paying on' huge debts acquired in wartime and since. Possible solutions included nego-tiations with creditors to ease pressure on old debts and as was inevitable and expected provisions of further loans from the United States. 7VX CUTS: A Problem Cynical observers of congression-al tax-cu- t maneuvering might be forgiven a "so what?" reaction to announcement that while Demo-crats had thrown out President Truman's limitations on excise-ta- x slashes, they promised to dig up other revenue to balance the losses. TO THE AVERAGE taxpayer that must seem to be a senseless business. What was the point in abolishing one type of taxes and levying another? Excise taxes af-fected almost every one in the na-tion, and the substitute for a slash there tightening up of tax loop-holes and "such other taxes as may be deemed feasible" would most likely affect a majority of taxpay-ers. That "other such taxes as may be deemed feasible," was the clincher that cut off any relief tax-payers might obtain through a slash in the excise levies. President Truman has threatened to veto the excise tax cut if the loss of this revenue is not balanced by other sources. With develop-ments as they were, it appeared certain that there would be no ex-cise tax reductions before July 1. Dorothy Kenyon, named by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R., Wis.) as first on his list of alleged "fellow-travelers- ," or Communists, in the state de-partment, was listed as a member of the eco-nomic and social council of the U.S. commission to the United Nations. ACHESON: Rapped Again Tall, debonair Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state, was under fire again. He was charged, among other accusations, with trying to "shift the blame" in defending the ' alleged loyalty-suspec- t cases Sen-ator McCarthy (R., Wis.) has been airing on capitol hill. SINCE ACHESON made his now-famo-remark that "I will not turn my back on Alger Hiss," fol-lowing the latter's conviction of perjury in question with treason charges, Acheson has been more or less on the pan as accusers of the state department deliver their verb-al blasts. This time, McCarthy charged three key state department aides as having shown Communist symp-athies and demanded investigation of a navy civilian scientist whom he described as working on "top-most defense secrets." The charge that the state depart-ment harbors men and .women of Communist leanings or sympathies is not a new one. It has been crop-ping up for the past several years, and on each occasion the depart-ment indignantly rushes forth with a denial. THAT'S NOT SURPRISING for certainly neither Senator McCarthy nor anyone else expected the state department would admit such a condition existed, even if it did exist. To Ho so would admit either a lack of proper security efforts on the part of the department, or a willingness to wink at any employ-ee's loyalty if that employee hap-pened to "stand in right" with the proper officials. ATT LEE: Doing Okay To the surprise of most observ-ers, England's "shaky" Labor government had survived two major tests of strength in par-liament. FOLLOWING the election, in which Prime Minister Attlee's Labor party won a bare majority of parilament seats, it was predict-ed that the victory margin was so slight that the government might crumple that a new election was practically inevitable. In the recent test action on a Conservative motion to beat down the cabinet's housing program Attlee made a considerably strong-er showing than on a previous issue. THE LABOR VICTORY was made possible by support from the Liberal faction, a development at odds with popular speculation as to where the Liberals would go in parliamentary tests. Many top po-litical observers had predicted that the Liberals would stand with the Conservatives against Attlee's broad program of nationalization-of-industry-and-resource-but clos-er observers of the British political scene had d the idea that the Liberals would ever be found standing with the Conserva-tives. And, apparently, these were correct. While it had appeared that the Labor forces were to trim down their nationalization program be-cause of the close election result, these new victories might reshape the pattern of intent. For example, following triumph on the housing issue. Health Minister Bevan, whose ministry administers the housing program, declared . . . "the government's program will be persisted in." Fred N. Acker, Cleveland, Ohio, attorney, is testing the validity of present federal In-come tax schedules which he declares are "confiscatory." Acker admitted he has not filed any return or paid any direct taxes for several years, and "invited the government charge." CURVES: In or Out? The matter of whether milady's curves were to be played down or accentuated in this spring's fash-ions was a subject of no little con-troversy among designers. One school of thought wanted curves concealed The other would have them displayed to the best ad-vantage. 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Truly the woman's friend HYDIA E. PINKHAM'S mKhSEd' i k Q Here are some win-ne- rs in the seventh an- - fiuol "News Pictures of The Year" competition ,' sponsored jointly by the University of Missouri i school of journalism end the Encyclopedia Brirannica. More than 3,000 pictures were judged in the interna- - tional competition, the work of 594 photographers from 32 states. At right, "Bull's Eye," by John Rammell, Decatur, III., Herald-Revie- won first prize in the sports di-- 5 vision. Below, "Carter of s Purdue," by Leonard Mc- -' Combe, Life magazine, shows the champion ,' swimmer making a turn , while training. ''? ; yA " J I ' ' .1 ' JllsMV .lltV V ? Sshe Yesoir i ' , J l s , i , r 1 "Wind-Blow- n Foul," (right) by Daniel M. . Maher, Bangor, Maine, Daily News, won third prize in the sports divi- -: sion. This was one of the pictures from small-e- r dailies that scored im- -; pressively in the compe- - tition, encouraging spon-sors in the belief that emphasis on photo-jour- -: nalism is being felt to an increasing degree. O Warren Lee of Acme, who captioned this photo (above) "Death in Shanghai," won first place over 591 rivals in the news event picture competition. The pic- -i ture shows the street execution of Communists by a Shanghai policeman. At right, "A Slight Breeze in Chi-- j cago," by Thomas L Shafer, also of Acme, shows the j Midwest metropolis living up to its reputation as the "windy city." h vw 'I : ' I F - ! i' i ' 7 h ! I i V. f M; ."' N . I 1 if f t , i i. ' . ( . .J i - f ? 'V'J.11 . i 4 V v - i r . i h s t - ..'.i-.-'?-- . v. ' k Here, at left, is a picture which the judges agreed "had everything." Entitled "Flight," it was made by Varner M. Gould, Kalamazoo, Mich., Gazette. It won second prize in the news di-vision of the Britannica-Missou- ri U's contest. , QUICK COFFEE Glass Stove Perks Water in 50 Seconds Among many other important things connected with coffee-makin- g is speed of operation, with most users always " casting about for methods to hasten the process. Now, a new glass is a trans-parent stove that heats air or boils water for coffee and it will start water perking inside 50 seconds. The glass has a transparent skin that conducts electricity, but re sists enough to make the glass hot, up to 660 degrees Fahrenheit. The skin is a metallic oxide only about sixteen millionths of an inch thick. This bit of glass magic is the latest development of Corning glass works. It is called E-- glass, mean-ing electrically conducting. Heat-ers made of flat panels of this glass are being used to keep baby chicks warm, among other things. |