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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Tax Pla.i Snyder’s Administration spokesmen o n Capitol Hill are beginning to won der whether President Truman’s lax program may be another vic tim at "govemment-by-crony.” In this ease the crony is good old John SnyiTbr, secretary of the treasury. The re-enactment of a modified excess-profits tax on corporations was recommended by Truman in both his 1948 message on the state af the union and in his address to •le special session of congress last July. It was recommended, how ever, despite the violent objection at John Snyder, who was so op posed that the President had to turn to his council of economic ad visers for tax advice. This year, with corporate profits at an all-time high, such adminis- feration stalwarts as Rep. John D. Dingell (Mich.), Rep. Herman Eberharter (Pa.) and Sen. Jos. O’Mahoney (Wyo.) came to the conclusion that another excess- profits tax recommendation was certain to come from the White House. So they prepared bills for an excess-profits tax to be intro duced early in the 81st congress. Much to their amazement, how ever, they were left out on the limb when the Truman state of the waion message significantly omit ted any reference to an excess- profits tax. Inside story is that economie councillor John Clark, head of an interdepartmental group of fiscal policy, finally gave up file fight for an excess-profits tax because of the obdurate sabotage and opposition of Secretary Snyder — long con sidered the President’s closest personal friend. Snyder has even gone to the ex tent of placing his treasury tax technicians “under wraps.” They are not available for conferences with the President’s staff or with administration leaders at the capi- toL Snyder even went so far as to refuse a request from budget director Webb for the major out lines of a treasury tax program to be included in the President’s budget message. Secretary Snyder now is con ferring in secret session with con gressional leaders, but for the first time in recent history a secretary of the treasury will have no affirm ative recommendations to present. Instead he will submit several “al ternatives,” thereby abdicating presidential leadership in tax policy. The chaos within the treasury is emphasized by Snyder’s refusal to choose between Assistant Secre tary John Graham of North Caro lina and general Counsel Tom Lynch of Ohio to represent him in policy discussions with congres sional staffs. White House aides privately ad mit that the lack of cooperation from the treasury is frustrating and that the Truman-Snyder friend ship presents a serious hurdle to the attainment of a “fair deal” tax program. • • • Bricker vs. Dewey Governor Dewey was tongue- stabbed in the back by his former running mate. Sen. John Bricker •f Ohio, one day before President Truman’s inauguration. At a testi monial dinner In honor of Sen. Margaret Chase of Maine, Bricker was introduced as Dewey’s run ning mate in 1944. “It is true,” snapped Bricker, “I campaigned with Dewey in '44, for Dewey in ’48—and if Dewey had campaigned for himself, we would be inaugurating a different man to. morrow.” • * • Rousing Revolt Another revolt has broken out against the President’s public hous ing program. This time, however, file shooting doesn’t come from the real-estate lobby, but some of Tru man’s strongest housing allies in file congress. Sen. Burnet Maybank of South Carolina and John Sparkman of Alabama, Rep. Frank Buchanan of Pennsylvania and other liberals are op in arms about the administra tion’s bill, introduced by Senator Ellender of Louisiana, which does nothing about the plight of war vets and others in the $2,000 to $3,600-a- year income group. Inside fact is that the Ellender bill was written chiefly by Ray Foley, director of the housing and home finance agency, reportedly chummy with some of the big real estate lobby groups. Foley and his aides made no provisions for helping to fi nance the $2,000-53,600 income group, though President Tru man has vepeatediy told hous ing leaders that this group— which Truman called the “back bone” of the nation—should be helped to buy homes by direct government loans if necessary. Senator Maybank is firing the first shot in the revolt agairet tne Elender-Foley bill by introducing an entirely new housing bill—with government loan provisions for ■aiddle-inco'ne home buyers. n J&l itPhillipr •M arrrMf AUTOS WITHOUT DELAY It is predicted by several De troit automobile makers that with in six months it will be possible to walk into most agencies and get a car with positively no waiting. This will mean that the auto sales man will bother to get up out of his chair. The proprietor may drop Chat deep-freeze manner and start cultivating good-will again. * We understand some salesrooms are already starting to rehearse the staff in shaking the head up and down instead of negatively. It has been years since some auto salesmen have had any practice in vigorous salesmanship. They have been specialists in discourag ing customers. It is not going to be easy reconverting them into warm human beings dealing in « popular product. * There will be plenty of cardiac trouble when people walk into agencies once more in this country and anybody shows a mild interest in them. And swooning will be na tionwide when dealers call on the phone and “would you let us give you a demonstration this after noon?” * We anticipate the following dia logue in auto agencies: Salesman (rising affably) — Ah, good morning. Glad to see you. Customer (amazed)—Pardon me; I must be in the wrong alley. Salesman — What makes you think so? Customer — You’re cordial! You’re not resenting my en trance! This can’t be an auto agency. Salesman—Indeed It is. Have a chair! Relax! Customer — Stop kidding. 1 know no ice flow can melt that fast. Salesman—I’m not kidding. I’m happy to see you and trust I may imerest you in a new car. Customer—Quick, an aspirin tablet! Salesman—Certainly. Take a couple on the house. Customer — Two won’t be enough. Let’s get this straight. Are yon really an auto sales man? Salesman—Certainly. Customer—And are you au thorized by the boss to wel come a prospective buyer this way? Salesman—Yes, he is out of the icepack, too. What model would you like? Customer—You mean without putting my name on a list? Salesman—Exactly. No more lists. * Customer—That’s going to be a little hard to get used to. It gives a man prestige to be on those waiting lists. I was on so many that, if by some miracle production had suddenly caught up with the demand, I would have had 15 new cars at my door. Salesman—From now on you get a car when you want it. Customer—Right away? Salesman—At once. Customer—With no political influence? Salesman—None. Customer—No angles? Salesman—Not one. Customer—No Bonus? Salesman—Not at all. Customer—What about my old car? Salesman—we give you a fair price for it and don’t even insist you trade it in if you can do better at private sale. (The customer faints.) • • • Two new types of phonograph discs are on the market, both oper ating at different speeds. Neither can be played on the same machine or on the orthodox phonograph. The proper inquiry in the home now would seem to be, “Would you like to hear a new record or don’_t you care to get mixed up in an en gineering problem?” • • • Florida has never had such fun as it has been having playing up those newspaper photographs of snow on the orange groves of Cali fornia. • • * A Detroit engineer says that a jet motor is near develop ment for automobiles. Folks along super highways had been under the impression they were in use already. • • • In a jet-propelled auto a lot of the charm rests in the fact you never know a traffic light has turned red on you except by rumor. • • » “White House repairs may now cost four instead of one million dollars.”—News item. More Hollywood and New York restaurant men sat on that piano than we had realized. • • • We were all for that pay increase for the President. PALS WITH LEMUR . . . Har ley F. Cope, photographer’s mate 2C, makes friends with s lemur brought from Madagas car by members of a U. S. navy science group. The group studied tropical diseases on a 32,000- mile trip. NEW UNIFORM . . . M/Sgt. Edward Ancas is shown here modeling the air force’s new slate-blue uniform at its first official showing at the Pentagon building in Washington. Uni forms for both officers and en listed men are identical, but will not be in use before 1950. OPPOSES GAG RULE . . . Sen. John C. Stennis (D., Miss.) leads the southern delegation’s fight against an overall gag on sen ate debate. He has, however, agreed to support rule banning filibuster on national security. “AXIS SALLY” ON TRIAL . . . Mildred E. Gillars, accused of being the “Axis Sally” of the wartime Nazi propoganda radio, is shown leaving the courtroom in Washington. FULL-SIZE WEDDING FOR SHORT-SIZE FOLKS . . . Full-size wed ding belts rang out for a romantic couple from the pint-size world. Sandrina Gazzano, 40, wbo is 37 inches tall, wed Eddy Kozllcki, wbo is 39 inches tall. The maid-of-honor Is Betty Kozlicki, sister of the groom, and the best man is Frank Woods. Msgr. William Barry performed the ceremony. Sandrina is from Pisa, Italy, and Eddy is from Wilkes Barre. VICTIM OF GEM THEFT . . . Kneeling in his littered office, jeweler Jerry Pecorelli shows New York policemen how three holdup men taped him and bound his wife to a desk leg at Dynamic Setting company before fleeing with approximately $15,000 worth of jewelry. Pecorelli and his wife reside in Weehawken, N. J. FELLER FOOLING HERE—REALLY DOESN'T LIKE PAY CUT ... Ail the amiability showing on the face of “Rapid Robert” Feller, Cleveland Indian hurler, is jnst for the cameraman and the occasion. This confer ence over pay came to naught after two hours. Here, Feller and Cleve land prexy Bill Veeck are holding the ends of a bogus dollar bill. Feller was reported to have been asked to take a cut in bis estimated take of $82,000 last year. BEST-FILLED SWEATER . . . In Florida, that is. According to a select corps of judges, the garment is worn by Martha Mitchell, Florida’s “sweater girl” for 1949. GOP CHAIRMAN RETAINS POST Hugh D. Scott, Jr., shown above at left, retained his position as chairman of the national Republican com mittee by a narrow margin after the committee voted on the issue in a meeting in Omaha. Scott discusses strategy with A. V. Shotwell, GOP national committeeman from Nebraska. Many thought Scott would lose Mii Vecause of the spirited battle waged against him by Dewey foes. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. Grantland Rice ! Pigskin Previews •pHE MONTHS of September, Oc- tober and November still lie some distance to windward. But things are happening now that will affect the coming autumn such as arranging football schedules. Es pecially the schedule that Notre Dame will face. It might be mentioned here that Notre Dame, after all the hullaba loo, did slightly better than all right Southern Methodist, Tulane and North Carolina offer three of the better games of the year. Southern Meth odist was South western champion last fall, and prob ably will be again this year with Doak Walker and Kyle Rote back in action. Tulane has one of the best teams in the South, Tulane and Vanderbilt look to be two southern leaders next fall. North Carolina will have the bril liant Justice and the able Art Wei ner back, but there will be many gaps to fill. Carl Snavely will fill them well. He usually does. These three additions to the Irish slate are hooked up with a far stronger Navy team. Southern Cali' fomia, Purdue, Indiana, Iowa, Mich igan State and Washington—no easy march. This is better than the average schedule. It has no de liberate soft spots that so many others have. It will certainly be a total of eight hard games. Notre Dame, like Michigan, North Carolina and others, will lose good men and return good men. But you can gamble—if you like to gamble—that Frank Leahy will have a first-class squad with fast, hard-hitting runners and at least two good passers. Yon can also be fairly sure he will have a good line. What about Army’s schedule? It has a number of soft spots, but it also has some rough-and-rocky bridges to cross. One of. them is Michigan. That’s a sure thing. Others can be, Stanford, Pennsyl vania and Navy. But outside of Michigan, there is nc trouble ahead. This forces too much pressure on the Michigan game. A defeat here can play havoc with either team’s final ranking—more with Army than with Michigan. Army will have a fine back- field and uncertain line strength with such stars as Yeoman, Henry, etc., missing. Her ends will be her strongest point. Navy, again, has no chance to beat her schedule, the toughest in football. The 1949 menu includes Southern California, Notre Dame, Army, Pennsylvania, Duke, Prince ton and others of heavy calibre. But the 1949 Navy squad should move well up in the year’s ranking. Oklahoma will be strong again. Bud Wilkinson has a winning grip on the situation with a team that can exchange class with anyone abound. • • • Ivy League Returns There has been a tendency in re cent years for other sectors to look with a certain amount of scorn on Ivy league teams. Part of this was justified, although scholarship re quirements in the league are well above the average, no matter what you hear. As far as 1949 is concerned, the ivy-covered colleges and univer sities will have no apoligies to of fer any section in the matter of football ranking. Last fall, Cornell and Darthmouth would have been an even match for most of the leading teams of the Midwest, South, Southwest or Far West. This will be true again this year. Few of the better teams in any section will have backs to match the Big Red or the Big Green. I mean such backs as Johnny Clayton of Dart mouth, a passer of the Ber- telli type—or Frank Miller and Jerry Fleischmann of Cornell. Lefty James and Tuss McLaughry had two fine teams last fall. They would have been even bets against any team in the Big Nine except Michigan—which is favored over many. This new season they can be joined by Princeton and Har vard. > Princeton’s outlook is good. So is Harva-d's. Both can be first class. Brown can also move up. Pennslyvania is never weak. George Munger loses Chuck Bednarik and a few other goofTmen, but if you keep track, year after year, you'll find the Red and Blue a rather rugged barrier. Columbia is definitely below 1948 form, even with the re doubtable Lou Little in charge. Columbia is never flooded with material, and no team can lose 12 of its best men from a small squad—such men as Kusserow, Rossides, etc.—and hope to have much left. It will take the full genius of Lou Little to win a game here and there. “Hidden" Taxes I N THE 1936 presidential cam paign the Republican high com mand employed a group of special ists whose job was to provide facts and figures to be used by Republi can orators and in the preparation of campaign publicity. One of these experts specialized on the subject of taxation, a sub- ject he knew thoroughly. For the campaign directors he provided defi nite, and factual in formation as to the amount and the per centage of the price the consumer paid for more than 100 generally-used com- PATTERSON modities - T h o s e were the hidden” taxes which the American consumer paid then, as he does now. PARTY LEADERS and members of congress considered it politically inadvisable for either party to im part to American consumers the fact that they were paying the tax congress authorized be collected from the producting corporations, producting business concerns, big or little, and from the distributors of such commodities as were offer ed for consumer purchase. As long ms the cosumers were not aware of the fact that they were paying these tax bills, both parties could make political capital out of soaking all corporations and all busi nesses involved in the produc tion and distribution of com modities the consumer pur chased. Congress expected and received consumer-applause for the principal of making business, both large and small, the scapegoat of the ever growing tax load. There were com paratively few votes to be had from producers for either party, but there were millions of consumer- votes. SHOULD THE consumer-voters ever fully realize the fact that they are actually paying the taxes col lected from the corporations’ prod uct and the distributor^, the mem bers of congress would have to ac count to their constitutients for every vote they cast in favor of Increasing the tax burdens. They would no longer be able to fool the consUmer-voters. Practically no nse was made of the factual information that capable tax experts provided for use in that 1936 campaign. Members of congress and party leaders deemed it inadvisable. They preferred to let “sleep ing dogs lie.” Under such conditions, and after >o many years, during which both parties have attempted successfully to fool the consumer-voter into be lieving the 'corporations, the pro ducers and distributors were being forced to pay the cost of govern ment, it was surprising, but also encouraging, to read the statement made by Senator Bridges of New Hampshire before the Senate. He was speaking of the proposed in crease of four billion or more dol lars in federal taxes. In effect, he said: It is proposed that such in crease be collected from the wealthy, from corporations, from commodity producers, from distributors, from busi ness. The President knows, and members of congress know that while such increased taxes may be collected from such sources they do not pay it. They pass it on to the consumer as an increase in the price of their commodities. All busi nesses do ‘that, from the pro ducer to the distributor. It is a legitimate part of the cost of doing business. If they did not pass it on, it would close the doors of production and distri bution and cause the loss of jobs to millions of workers. It is the consumer who pays the tax dollar the federal gov ernment collects, regardless of whom the government directly assesses. To meet the President’s budget that covers the ever-increasing cost of the ever-increasing size and amount of government, there will be more taxes. All of the increase will be paid by the consumer in the form of an increase in what the consumer buys. Such are the "hid den” taxes the members of con gress would prefer the consumer- voters did not know about. • • • I know of nothing in the Consti tution of the United States that would empower the federal con gress to tell anyone what he must pay his office boy, or any other employee as wages. I do know that Article 10 of the Bill of Rights, a definite part of the Constitution, provides: “The powers not delegat ed to the United States by the Con stitution, nor prohibited to it by the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Under that provision, how can con gress fix a minimum wage scale? SELI. BT MAIL Start a Mail Order business in your spar* time. 25c brings exciUng booklet: “How to SeU by Mail!’’ BUNCO, Dept. 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