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WALTER SHEAD
The Controversy on Tax Reduction
I F A special session is called in December will the GOP lead
ership be content with passing enabling legislation to pro
vide for stop-gap relief for Europe or will they insist on taking
up other legislation? Taxes, for instance. Everyone believes
in tax reduction, Democrats as well as Republicans, buthere’s
the argument at this time:
Republicans say there is no justification for wartime taxes in peace
time and that present taxes are an unreasonable burden; that present
revenue is high enough that taxes can be cut and leave enough over to
pay some on the national debt; that present level of taxes is inflation
ary encouraging farmers and business to hold goods off the market in
anticipation of tax cuts to allow them to retain a bigger margin of profits.
Democrats argue It is more Important now to create a surplus to
apply on the national debt; that unpredictable foreign obligations
may require a substantial increase in governmental expenditures
and that a tax reduction would be inflationary in that it would
increase spending power and add to tbe demand for scarce goods
by leaving more money in people’s pockets.
Whether or not the issue comes before a special session, tax reduc
tion definitely will be one of the major controversial issues before the
second session of the 80th congress when it reconvenes in January.
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H. I. PHILLIPS
All Out fti Food Campaign
Charley Luckman, whirlwind head
of a soap manufacturing firm, has
been named chief of the President’s
committee charged with directing
the drive to get Americans to be a
little more careful about food. This
it not, of course, to imply that there
Is any danger of a cry “Let them
eat CAKES!’’.
♦
If Luckman wants a few slo
gans, how about “when you re
fuse a second helping you give
a hungry child a FIRST help
ing.”
*
“Eight per cent more meat is be
ing consumed per person today than
In 1941 and 20 per cent more than
in 1939." — Washington announce
ment. _ —•—
Trying to convince a house
wife of that as she. totters
around town trying to dig up
something for dinner is going
to be difficult.
* • •
That robot or pushbutton plane
that crossed the Atlantic is a won
derful thing, but what we need is
some development of the idea so
it can be affixed to a man trying to
cross a street in traffic.
PLIGHT OF AN AMERICAN
IN A WORLD CRISIS
He wanted to help.
His heart lacked no pity;
He asked what to do
And got a COMMITTEE!
. * •
We know a wife bound for Reno
who rushed to the station and de
manded “What time does the Free
dom Train leave?”
PAUL MALLON * * *
Unions Control Labor Board
T HE UNIONS are railing the new National Labor Relations board as
a tyrannical oppressor, designing to enslave them—but actually they
have control of the board.
A fair summation of the setup there would list three of the five
members likely to be very pro-labor on a showdown. Union margin would
be three to two. Leaning on the labor side in basic background are Paul
Herzog, the old chairman; John Houston of the old board, and Abe
Murdock. Another holdover, James J. Reynold, and a new man, J. Cope
land Gray, are classified as likely to be the minority of two.
The Republicans are suspicious of the kind of enforcement into
which their new reform law might trend. They are saying little
or nothing about this, being quite satisfied with initial steps taken,
but their fear is well grounded and real. It is merely in abeyance
to ascertain if it is justified.
Yet if anything is done to enslave any unions, it will be done by a
facially apparent pro-union board.
A tighter question, however, is how well the legally well-endowed new
general counsel, Robert Denham, performs. He has enough law behind
him apparently, has supervision directly over district offices of the board,
and will initiate and follow through on all the prosecuting of cases.
WALTER WINCHELL
Notes of a Bystander
The Airistocrats: Gabe Heatter’s
arithmetic made sense when he
pointed out that “One and One now
{makes One.” (Since the U. S. dol
lar now is worth only 60 cents).
But Gabe went out on a pink cloud
and predicted peace for the next 50
years. . . . Some of us who shudder
at the grim facts (instead of rain-
bow-hued crystal balls) would hesi
tate to predict peace for the next 50
hours.
Quotation Marksmanship: A. Mass-
rois: A successful marriage is an edifice
that must be rebuilt every day. . . .
Elaine Rost: The longer the hems the
fewer the ahems. ... /. Elinson: A can
didate is a guy who throws his hat in
the ring and puts on a halo.... L. Mar
tin: Let others form your opinion of
yourself. . . . Mary Wilfred: Rain typ
ing on the floor. ^ ^
DREW PEARSON
Man About Town: WACapt.
Kathleen Nash Durant (released
on bail in that huge gem theft
abroad) is dwelling here so she
can be near her colonel-bride
groom, now jailed on Governor’s
island. ; . . It must be ironic
for Russians to see Vishinsky
losing his head. He was respon
sible for so many Russians los
ing theirs to the executioner.
The Stage Door: The Sardi’s set
hears that at least one of the many
plans of the Freres Shubert (a
new “Ziegfeld Follies”) will have
to materialize this year. Because if
they don’t, their right to that title
lapses after this season. . . . The
52nd street spots did capacity biz
the other night for the first time
since New Year’s.
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Making Democracy Live
S TANLEY BOJENS, an ex-G.I. of San Diego, Calif., has developed a
peace program called “Peace by Postage,” a sort of “personalized
foieign policy.” Plan consists of sending personal parcels to families in
foreign countries who befriended G.I.s during the war. “If veterans them
selves can win individual friends,” says Bojens, “it will be difficult for
governments to go to war.”
Harold Hermanson has inspired the alumni of the Bethesda-
Chevy Chase senior high school in the suburbs of the nation’s
capital to give the children of war dead as good an education as
the children of fathers who lived. When Hermanson saw „ome of
his buddies killed, he determined to do something for their chil
dren. With the help of many patriotic alumni of his old school,
Hermanson, a bachelor, has made good that promise.
AMVETS (Ray Sawyer, national commander) was the only veterans
organization to appear before the senate to champion the O’Mahoney-
Langer anti-monopoly bill; also was first to support the Marshall plan. . . .
Senator Bridges of New Hampshire has made it a flat rule that all sena
tors who went to Europe this summer on his appropriations committee
must pay their wives’ expenses.
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WRIGHT PATTERSON
Consumer Is Forgotten Man
B ECAUSE of the votes those
groups represent, congress has
demonstrated its willingness to build
a floor under the income of minor
ity groups on their demand. But con
gress has not Keen willing to provide
a ceiling for that far greater num
ber, the American consumer, as
protection for all of us from the
devastation of inflation. Wages are
regulated so they will not drop be
low the floor, but there is no ceiling
to stop their upward climb. What
is true of wages is also true of food
prices. The consumer is the forgot
ten man, but he, too, votes. Con
gress might well bear that warn
ing in mind.
ANOTHER OPERATION . . .
Three years ago Forrest (Nub
bins) Hoffman of Cheyenne, Wy*.
had his life saved by an opera
tion after the whole nation helped
him celebrate his “last” Christ
mas in November. Recently he
had another operation and once
more pulled through against odds.
NEW RULER . . .With the “tem
porary” resignation of Queen Wil-
helmina as ruler of the Nether
lands, Crown Princess Juliana
(left) will act as regent. Prin
cess Juliana is shown here with
her mother.
EVACUATION HEAD . . . Maj.
Gen. L. C. Jaynes, commander of
U. S. military forces in Italy, is
supervising the evacuation of
American troops and equipment
from the entire Italian peninsula.
It will take 90 days.
LUCKY CHIMP . . . Beautiful
screen actress Carole Landis finds
“Mona,” a four-year-old chimpan
zee, a willing subject as she puck
ers up in a mock kiss to which
Mona responds with distinct en
thusiasm. Well, wouldn’t you,
pardner?
TAKE IT EASY . . . Mrs. John
R. Steelman, wife of the assistant
to the president, models “Take It
Easy” safety dress, displays
AAA campaign poster with slogan
“Go slow and live.”
MEATLESS BUT NOT FISHLESS . . . Joseph Prouke of Chicago is
pictured here as he weighs in an extra supply of red snappers for one
of the now famous meatless Tuesdays—days when fish sales go swim
mingly. Meatless Tuesday, as part of President Truman’s food con
servation program, is coupled with poultryless and eggless Thursday
to make up America’s effort to help alleviate hunger in Europe.
UNION CHIEF AT CO-OP STORE . . . Walter Seuther, president of
United'Automobile Workers union (CIO), is shown with his wife. May,
and their daughter, Linda, as they carried weekly supply of groceries
from the cooperative grocery store operated by local 400 of the U.A.W.
in Highland Park, Mich. Store was set up by union to sell goods in
case lots at wholesale prices as a method of resisting soaring living
costs.
WORLD’S MATCH-MAKER . . . The fabulous Otto Krueger is dead, but
the Swedish match industry is still the heart of one of the world’s larg
est combines. In fact, two out of every three persons on the globe use
its matches. This modern and efficient machine in a match factory at
Lidkoping, Sweden, is one of the reasons why the combine can make
millions of dollars out of splinters of wood.
HOW’S THAT AGAIN? . . . Complete and ntter amazement is written
all over the face of Charles Asmus, 66, of Chicago, as he points word
lessly to the 15-pound (that’s fifteen pounds) daughter born to his 21-
year-old wife, Lucille. Melody Ann, the hefty new arrival, sleeps peace-
fully in the arms of Dr. Bernard Abrams of Chicago maternity center
who officiated at her birth. He was a little surprised, too.
Four Retrace First
Voyage of Columbus
Argentine Amateurs Cruise
17,000 Miles From Spain.
NEW YORK.—Ending a cruise of
about 17,000 nautical miles, four
amateur sailors arrived here after
covering the route of Columbus’ first
voyage from Plos Palos, Spain, to
the island of San Salvador.
After a rest here they planned to
add another 10,000 miles to the log
on a voyage from New York to
Buenos Aires by way of the Antilles
and down the coast of South Amer
ica.
The skipper, a carefree former
diplomat “now turning writer” is
Ernesto Uriburu, former press at
tache of the Argentine embassy in
Washington. He says he is writing a
book, "in English with a accent.”
Uriburu is “captain, owner and
cook.” His brother Mario, a naval
technician, helped build and design
the “Gaucho,” a double-ended 28-
ton ketch with pn auxiliary diesel
engine.
The other crew members are
Julio A. Vazquez, navigator, and
Miguel A. Britos, a newspaper man
and photographer.
The ketch, a trim 50-foot craft,
left Buenos Aires July 28, 1946,
sailed up to Rio de Janeiro and
crossed the Atlantic to Dakar, West
Africa, in 28 days.
Following the ancient routes of the
Spanish and Portuguese navigators,
the Gaucho toured the Canary is
lands, entered the Mediterranean
and detoured to the Suez canal.
Uriburu says his voyage from
Palos is the first of its kind. Prof.
Samuel Morison of Harvard re
traced the third voyage of Colum
bus, from San Lucas de Barrameda
to Trinidad and the delta of the
Orinoco.
Riding the trade winds, “fishing
for salmon and sardine out of a can,
and eating bully-beef and mulligan
with plenty of onions and garlic.”
the four Argentines reached San
Salvador (named Watling island by
the British) in 31 days.
Judge Knows His Trade,
And Peddler Knows His
HOUSTON, TEX. — A little
question and answer session be
tween a banana peddler and a
federal judge ended in a nothing
to nothing tie.
“How many stars in the flag?”
the judge asked the peddler, who
wants to become a U. S. citizen.
The man thought hard for a
moment.
"Don’t know,” he said.
"All right,” said thfe judge,
“how many stripes in the flag?”
“Don’t know,” was the reply.
The judge started to dismiss
the peddler when he interrupted.
“Wait a minute, judge,” he
said, “How many bananas on a
stalk?”
"I’m afraid I don’t know,” said
the puzzled judge.
"See,” said the peddler trium
phantly, “bananas is my busi
ness. The flag is your business."
The judge, his dignity a bit
ruffled, advised the peddler to
study American history more
thoroughly.
Pay Violations Disclosed;
U. S. Recovers Millions
WASHINGTON. — The labor de
partment said that it had uncovered
18 million dollars in wages, “ille
gally withheld” from 311,236 work
ers in the year ended June 30.
So far, it said, 15,000 employers
have paid up $8,864,000 and 5,000
have done nothing.
The department reported that it
had found minimum wage, overtime
or child labor violations in 20,570, or
51 per cent, of 40,350 plants inspect
ed during the year under the wage-
hour and public contracts acts. The
laws impose restrictions on employ
ing minors and require a minimum
wage of 40 cents an hour and time
and a half pay for work after 40
hours a week. They apply to firms
in interstate business.
William R. McComb, administra
tor of the wage-hour and public con
trols division, said the inspectors
covered about 7 per cent of the esti
mated 550,000 establishments and
about 8 per cent of the 21,500,000
workers employed covered by the
acts.
Noting that most violations re
sulted from failure to pay for over
time, McComb said this often was
due to improperly classifying em
ployes as exempt.
Chutis/ Gets Comedown, Boy
Leaps From 200'Foot Tower
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. —
Once, at least, to most every boy
comes the day when he decides he’ll
take a shot at defying gravity.
Mrs. Marge Hammer says her
son, Richard Reicher, 12, did it up
right. The conventional umbrella-
from-a-housetop method wasn’t for
him. She said he strapped a war
surplus parachute to his shoulders,
climbed to the top of a 200-foot radar’
tower near the Newport Beach high
school and was carried into space
by the billowing ’chute when he
pulled the ripcord.
Richard reported that the start
was fun but the jolting landing,
which bruised most of hit body,
made him decide that once was
enough. To make sure of this Mrs.
Hammer cut the parachute up and
is making it into a nylon dress.
Scientists Seek
Superbees Race
Parenthood Via Gas Permits
Inbreeding to Produce
Valuable Strains.
WASHINGTON.—Scientists of the
agriculture department announced
that they are on the trail of a race
of superbees. They said that with
the aid of anesthetic gas they can
step up the entire process of bee in-
breeding.
The unique knack of being able
to lay eggs that will produce drone
or male bees without ever being
mated is an unusual feature of tbe
virgin queen bee.
But the scientists weren’t satis
fied. They wanted to be able to
breed the virgin queen back to her
own sons to produce strains with de
sirable characteristics.
The hitch was that the virgin
queen may not lay eggs for weeks
or even months after reaching ma
turity. Chalk up 24 days more for
the drone to develop and the queen
was too old to be mated.
AU Is Changed.
Science has changed all that.
Given a whiff of anesthetic and arti
ficially fertilized, the virgin queen
will lay eggs almost immediately,
leaving plenty of time for fier to be
bred to her sons before her produc
tive span is past.
The agriculture department could
scarcely suppress its excitement as
it disclosed this innovation in the sex
life of bees. The gas used was de
scribed as a “carbon dioxide an
esthetic."
Self-breeding long has been known
in the plant world. It is the principle
that made possible hybrid com, the
com of phenomenal yields and
hardihood that has put millions of
dollars of added cash in the pockets
of farmers.
Department entomologists foresee
that gas induced motherhood will
lead to production of such “tailor
made” strains as:
Good natured bees that will not
sting humans. Fierce bees that will
venture into fields they’ve stayed
away from because of fear of insect
enemies. Bees that are super honey
producers. Bees with long tongues
that can collect nectar and pollen
from blossoms they could not reach
before. Bees that will cultivate a
taste for one orchard or onf crop.
Bees that will be immune to dis
ease.
Not Joo Choosy.
The possibility of bee parenthood
via gas was discovered about a year
ago by a staff of entomologists at
the department’s Louisiana experi
ment station. Dr. Otto Mackensen of
the Louisiana station and Dr. W. C.
Roberts of the Wisconsin station
now have developed equipment for
close inbreeding that is ready for
use by the layman beekeeper.
According to the department, the
queen bee normally is not too
choosy when she picks a mate. Until
artificial insemination of bees was
made practical several years ago,
it was almost impossible to main
tain pure blood lines of bees.
It is through planned parenthood
within insect families that scientists
develop pure blood lines. They can
"pick their genes” and weed out un
desirable traits and' emphasize de
sirable characteristics. The gas
treatment speeds up this inbreeding.
Its discovery came at a time when
agriculturists were altft-med over
the fast declining bee population of
the United States. Entomologists be
lieve the new technique may re
verse this trend, which was alarm
ing because bees are essential to
pollination of farm crops.
The department refused to specu
late about the potentialities of chem
ical fertilization for animals—cattle,
hogs, horses or perhaps human
beings.
“But,” a spokesman said, "Then
we never thought we could do it
with bees.”
'Yellow Jack,’ Hero of
Spanish-American War, Dead
WASHINGTON.—The secret serv
ice decided reluctantly that Pvt.
Wallace W. Forbes, “Yellow Jack”
hero of the Spanish-American war,
is dead. It gave up its 18-year
search for him.
And it concluded that Pvt. Forbes
never will see the gold medal voted
him by congress or receive the $30,-
000 in pension money he has coming.
Forbes, a native of Galesburg,
HI., was stationed at Camp Lazer,
Havana. Cuba, in 1901 When Maj.
Walter Reed asketl for volunteers to
test his theory that yellow fever was
carried by mosquitoes. Forbes and
19 other soldiers responded. The
guinea pigs were infected and three
of them died within a few days. The
others became violently ill, but sur
vived.
Last Body of Doolittle’s
Tokyo Raiders Discovered
SHANGHAI. — The body of Cpl.
Leland D. Faktor, of Plymouth,
Iowa, last of the missing Doolittle
Tokyo raiders, has been found by a
U. S. graves registration field team
nearly 450 miles southwest of Shang
hai, Col. Charles F. Kearney an
nounced.
He said Faktor's body, discovered
outside a village, had been brought
to Shanghai by sampan and train
under a guard of honor. The remains
were identified by a gold ring, a
silver name bracelet and a crum
pled leather glove.
Gems of Thought
T HAT friendship will not con
tinue to the end which is be
gun for an end. — Francis
Quarles.
One of the best rules in conver
sation is, never to say a thing which
any of the company can reasonably
wish had been left unsaid.—Swift.
The world belongs to the en
thusiast who keeps cool.—Wil
liam McFee.
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