Show washington a snapshots the moral of this story is an old one never sign on the dotted line ine until youve read what you are signing apparently though it isa is a moral lesson that about half the united states senators have forgotten or are just learning and a first hand experience with the moral is causing these senators some embarrassing moments right now center of the embarrassment is a far reaching tax bill with a sugar coated title saying it would take the profits out of war i which recently appeared in taj the senate bill hopper it bore the name of 50 senators as sponsors offhand the bill appeared one likely to be favored by the public after all nobody likes war but careful reading 0 of f this bill with the take the profits f its out of war title has re revealed the title to be a trus misnomer nomer ln in reality the bill goes far beyond the so called profits 0 f war and reaches right down to the bottom of pocket so broad is the bill that low inome income groups who now escape paying in inco income me taxes but of course still pay ay heavily through indirect maxw taxes would have to give up a good part of their earnings during war times as a profit of war the tax scale under this measure would be graduated up to 99 per cent for some income groups meaning that for every earned would have to go to tho the government as a war profit profi t but all this apparently was not known by these 50 sponsoring senators when they signed on the dotted line when the real purpose of the bill became known a survey by newspapers at the capitol revealed that 40 had not even read the bill before agreeing to sponsor it now they are having a difficult time trying to make gracious explanations and the explanation appears to be that they had not read beyond the title 0 CIO spanking when the supreme court recently sat down on the sit down strike declaring it an illegal practice the question naturally arose around the capital city as to the future prestige of the parent of the sit down strike the CIO can CIO influence survive this legal spanking was the question perhaps the question has not been fully answered but some washington observers believe it has been partially answered at least as far as some congressmen are concerned and the answer appears to be NO this answer came about recently when a senate committee was debating the question of holding public hearings on proposals to amend the national labor rela eions act the CIO vigorously opposed the idea of public hearings CIO representatives were on capitol hill daily pressuring senators 0 to o drop the idea CIO leader lewis is was even quoted in a news story as saying that if hearings were held his organization would bolt the labor peace conference final outcome was a unanimous vote by the committee to hold hearings which was interpreted by the observers as another spanking of the CIO and a blow to its influence nazi employment figures doctored another confidential report based on a secret investigation of living standard claims of the dictator countries is being circulated among high federal officials officials this one is based on a study of employment in germany where it has been claimed that the naz form of government has abolished unemployment it follows by a few weeks a secret study of living conditions and living costs in the ism lands which struck a hearty blow at the dictators claims that utopia had come to people under their leadership actual german employment conditions were found to be quite contrary to the official nazi claim the current report points out the investigator who wrote the C confidential offid e noial memo reported he found tile the official german employment figures doc doctored doctora d E even v persons imori imprisoned in concentration camps were listed as employed he said also the makiv millions working on relief work projects most of them military were considered employed by the nazis in the U S work relief employed emp loyes are counted as unemployed 0 turn to indian the agricultural department is on record as seriously considering study of indian medicine man remedies to see whether they reveal secrets not known to paleface science which led some unkind observers to suggest that this wont be the first time washington has turned on the witch do doctors e for inspiration |