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Friday, August 10, 1951
THE SOCIALISTIC SLANT
The Senate Finance Commute is reviewing the
House-approved tax bill in a manner which suggests,
that the measure will get the thorough overhauling
that it •’needs. The over-all size of the tax “bite
may "bO reduced by the Senate group, which has
shown' little disposition to give the administration
all that it has demanded in the way ol new. revetllle.
More important in the long run, however, the
meml«-i of the Senate Finance Committee are look
ing askance at the deceptively simple manner in j
which the House bill would enlarge the present irnsome j
taxes by a flat across-the-board increase of 13Tper
:ent. Only at first blush Is th's a fair way in which
to levy more taxes. The effect upon those now pay
ing little or nothing in Federal income taxes would be
negligible, but a 12per cent increase in the tax
bill of those already paying huge tax bills would be
“normous in its impact.
The ‘'cleverness” of the scheme is in keeping
with the constant socialization of our tax laws during
the last two decades. It was an avowed intent of |
the late Franklin D. Roosevelt at one time to make it
impossible for anyone to make more than $25,000 a
year, and the steeply graduated income tax rates all
but achieved his purpose. The "soak-the-rich" atti
tude has prevailed in Washington for so long that
our tax schedules are lamentably lopsided. And now
this carefree suggestion that everybody's tax bill be
increased 12per cent! It would be quite as fair for
a man carrying a but den of five pounds to say to a
man carrying a burden of 100 pounds.; ‘ Let's be fa;r
—we'll each carry five times much ns we’re carrying
now'” It would be fair or would it—lor him to wind
up with a burden of 25 pounds while his companion
collapsed under a new load of 500 pounds?
England, of course, has pursued the socialistic
scheme tei taxation to the bitter end. A terrific tax
penalty is levied on an exercise of talent or pro
ductivity of property. The results, though, are not
what you would call good. British enterprise has
been sapped dangerously and riatftjnrtiiiiatibh of in
dustries has followed the withering away of the
system of capitalitism which kept Britain in the
sun for countless generations.
There is another and equally ugly consequence
of a socialistic type of taxation. The more tho aver
age man and woman are encouraged to feel that only
the well-to-do are bearing the cost of government,
the less interest they will take in government and j
the less they will worry about its stage of fatal decay
when the masses were deluded with what they
thought were free circuses.
Two things that most young girls heed: the tele
phone bell and the automobile horn.
There Is no method of accurately forecasting the
future, but the past, if carefully studied, will give
you more than a haphazard view.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
tcjljBtinued from Page One)
Bill,•plough conditions were rel
ativeliKpeaceful in January, 1950,
and tfS, Korean war had not star
ted, this huge quantity of gasoline
was handled by the Chung Foo
Company, a broker in Formosa.
The Chinese air force procure
ment office in Washington was
merely informed by cable that the
2,956,170-gallon order had been
placed with this broker.
This was peculiar on the face
of it, because the Chinese air
force had its own office in Wash
)ngt,oiT“7or the specific purpose of
buying. these supplies. Another
peculiar aspect was that the price
was fixed as of September 1949 -
or 33 82 cents a gallon. This ac
tually was a higher price than the
Chinese needed to pay, for, by
January 1950, the price had drop
ped.
San Francisco Grocer
Regardless of this, however, the
Formosan government signed a
contract with the Chung Foo Com
pany on Feb. 9, 1950, and the next
day the Chinese air force in
Washington was ordered by cable
to make a million dollars avail
able at the Wells Fargo bank in
San Francisco to South China
Enterprise, Inc.
In other words the Chinese air
force in Washington, having had
nothing to do with the purchase
of the gasoline, was instructed
merely to pay for it.
South China Enterprise Inc., was
described as the American agent
for the Chung Foo Company in
Formosa. However, investigation
proved it was nothing more than
a hole-in-the-wall grocery store in
San Francisco's Chinatown.
Patriotic Chinese, who did* not
want to see their country gypped,
investigated further and found
that the total assets of the gro
cery store were only a few hund
red dollars. Yet it was supposed
to handle a deal involving one
million.
r urtnermore, me grocery-siuic
proprietor, knowing nothing about
gasoline, turned the deal over to
another middleman named Alex
ander Lindenbaum, who then con
tracted to buy the gas from Cities
Service.
In other words, the Chinese gov
ernment c6uld have bought the gas
direct from Cities Service in the
first place, instead of which it went
through three middlemen—the bro
ker in Formosa, the grocery store
in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and
Alexander Lindenbaum.
The man who placed the gasoline
order was Gen. C. J. Chou, Chiang
Kai-Shek's chief of stalf, whose
rank corresponds to that of General
Bradley in the United States.
In the end, the deal was stopped
when it reached the ears of con
scientious Sen. William Knowland
of California.
Russian Driving Licenses
There is one interesting sidelight
about Uie plan to make Russian
diplomat^ in Washington take the
same stifl auto-driver test that our
diplomats:.’ are given in Moscow.
American" diplomats are almost
forced to qualify as mechanics be
fore getting a driver's license—
which, af-course, is for the purpose
of makinf them use Russian chauf
leurs in Moscow.
What the American public does
not know, however, is that Soviet
diplomats figured two months ago
that we meight make them take the
same kind of stiff test. So, two
months ago, the Russian Embassy
hired several ‘‘learn-to-drlve" ex
pelts' to teach its stall all the tech
nical details, of auto repair.
For weeks*;: inee then, the “learn
to-driye" cars .arrived in front of
the Soviet Embassy, picked up a
Red diplomat and went careening
down 16th street-in. another minor
skirmish in: the global cold war.
Kededieatlni; the Declaration
The experience of two newspapers
in widely separated parts of the
/country—New Orleans and Madison,
Wis— in having people refuse to
sign the Declaration of Independ
ence and the Bill of Rights, has
started a campaign for a rededica
tion of the declaration.
I The Sertoma Club (Service to
Mankind) of Richmond. Va., has
contributed $500 to pay for copies of
the Declaration of Independence .to
be hung in school rooms. Other
Virginians, the state which gave the
j author of the Declaration to the
nation, are promoting ways and
means of rededicating the Declar
ation, among them August Dietz of
the Dietz Press, who has underta
ken to print copies of the Declara
tion at cost, suitable for framing.
And in New York, Spyros Skour
as, head- of 20th Century-Fox, has
undertaken to highlight the ideals
and message of the Declaration of
Independence by newsreel. Skouras,
I who was born in Greece, says:
."When I was a boy I wasn't lucky
enough to study the Declaration of
| Indeepndence or have the advan
tage of its great freedoms. Now I
do. And I want to do anything I
jean to help in its appreciation."
Washington Pipeline
The Senate Crime Committee's
chief counsel, Richard Moser, made
a secret visit last week to Mexico
j City to question New York's former
I mayor, William O'Dwyer, now Am
bassador to Mexico. O'Dwyer spent
the time bitterly denouncing two
members of the Crime committee—
Senators Kefauver of Tennessee and
Tobey of New Hampshire ... A
Communist statement at the cease
fire talks caused General Ridgway
to throw an American and two
south Korean Divisions in the pre
sent "limited offensive" on the cen
tral front. Gen. Nam 11, the chief
(Communist negotiator, had repeat
edly complained against Allied
bombings while the truce talks were
in progress, then suddenly he re
versed himself after the agenda was
agreed upon and announced it was
his understanding that the fighting
would continue during the talks.
This made General Ridgway suspi
cious, so he ordered a limited of
fensive to probe enemy positions
and find out what the Communists
| are up to.
RUSSIANS SHORT-STOP
FOOD PARCELS FROM US
FRANKFURT, Germany,
The Kremlin’s "Hate America"
campaign has broadened even to
include types of food sent to Ger
man prisoners of war in Russian
prisons and camps.
Food packages containing can
ned goods with American labels or
other items with U. S. markings
never reach prisoners. Although |
Russia has claimed that all Ger
man prisoners of war she took
have been repatriated, a recent
United Nations estimate placed at;
"thousands” those still held.
Recently German Red Cross of
ficials told relatives of war pris
oners not to try to send American
goods. Although the Russians have
made no formal statement, the
Red Cross officials made it plain
that such consignments never
reached the prisoners.
w. t\ Arnold is here
W. C. Arnold of Seattle, arrived
here yesterday on PAA from Fair
banks and is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
89 Passengers
Carried ay
PAA Thursday
Pan American World Airways
carried 89 passengers in, out, and
through Juneau Thursday with 40
arrivals, 41 departures, and eight
going through to Seattle.
From Seattle: Mrs. C. Campbell,
Sam and Cora Fenton, Mrs. A.
Gregory, J. S. Gwenn, R. A. Holl
ingsworth, Andrew Honea, Earl
Lindgren, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mast
ronni and son, Bess O'Neill, Al
bert Shagnon, Elsie M. Smith, Le
roy Swayne, Arthur Vandenburg,
Mrs. J. A. Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
Roland Wurster and Emily, Hen
ry Alcala, Thomas Ashbaugh.
From Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
M. Fisher, Hugh J. Wade, J. A.
Herdlick, E. N. Hales, Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Clark and Roger, Don
ald Clark, L. O. Elggren, Lloyd
Toland, Max Penrod, Clarence Bell
Judge W. C. Arnold, Ray F. Tay
lor, R. Sprague, Annie Larsen, A.
B. Moyer.
To Seattle: Mrs. Robert Stewart,
B. Anderson, Marvin Troutman, B.
Feero, Elizabeth Scarlett, Blanch
Patterson, Robert Bagley, C. Way
nor, Ted Hyder, D. Chagnon, J.
Anderson, R. Condra, Bob Gruel,
Neva Jenson, Graham Quick, C.
Halverson, Zella Jones, Mrs. L.
Galvin, John Doolin, Jack Malt
ese, R. Turner, Jack Cristin, W.
M. Baldwin. T. Mananki, A1 Smith
Lawrence Lisac, G. Hemming, T.
T. Coffee, William Coffee, R. Ru
fino, D. Celeasney, Mrs. A. Bur
nett, Charles Christenson, John
and Alice Mariano, Roman Hirol.
To Ketchikan: P. Levenaskoff,
D. Carlson, Neal Gudmonson, W.
A. Abrenman.
CONCERT ASSOCIATION
Meeting Tuesday, August 14, 8
p.m. Elks Hall. Public Invited.
833-3t
Hannibal made his famous
crossing of the Alps in 218 B. C.
AIGI.ST 10
Herbert J. Gilligan
LeRoy West
Michael Wade
Lecretla Eldamar
Rev. Samuel McPhetres
Capt. M. A. Johnson
Veronica Constantino
Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska point*
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120'h Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
Anchorage 49—Cloudy
Annette Island . 57—Cloudy
Barrow . .... 50—Rain
Bethel ... 48—Rain
Cordova . 43—Fog
Dawson . 44—Clear
Edmonton . 43—Clear
Fairbanks . 47—Cloudy
Haines .57—Clear
Havre . 45—Clear
Juneau Airport 48—Clear
Kodiak .... 48—Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue.50—IJaia
McGrath.52—Cloudy
Nome .•. 46—Drizzle
Northway . 46—Cloudy
Petersburg . 48—Partly CloiuSy
Portland
Prince George .
Seattle .
Sitka .
Whitehorse ...
Yakutat ... .
.. 56—Rain
56—Drizzle
54—Cloudy
4S—Clear
48—Fog
PM Through
Traffic Heavy
Pacific Northern Airlines brought
fix passengers from Anchorage
Thursday and took four to the west
ward. Seventy-three were picked up
at Cordova and went through, to
: other southeast Alaska towns and
Seattle.
From Anchorage: W. I. Martin, P.
Wanamaker, H. Smith, C. Camp
bell. R. F. Schuman. Grace Berg.
[ To Anchorage: Bob Logan, Mrs.
i E. A. Campbell. Fred Vandermark
I To Yakutat: Emil Meisner.
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NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER
FOR SALE
Sealed bids will be received by the
j Division Supervisor, Juneau, Alaska,
j up to and including 9:00 a.m. Sep
j tember 10, 1951, for all the mer
chantable dead timber, standing or
down, and all the live timber marked
or designated for cutting, on an
area totaling approximately 20 acres,
on an area in Port Houghton lo
cated on the mainland S.E. of Rob
erts Island, Tongass National Forest,
Alaska, estimated to be 202,000 ft.
B.M. more or less of Sitka spruce,
and western hemlock. No bid of
less than S3.50 per M feet B.M. for
spruce sawtimber, $1.00 per M feet
B.M. for hemlock sawtimber will be
considered. $500.00 must accompany
each bid, to be applied on the pur
chase price, refunded, or retained in
part as liquidated damages, accord
ing to the conditions of sale. Pri
mary manufacture outside of the
Territory of Alaska of any part qf
the timber is subject to the consent
of the Regional Forester. TJjo right J
is reserved to reject any or all bids
received. Before bids are submitted,
full information concerning the tim
ber. the conditions of sale, and the
submission of bids should be ob
tained from the Division Supervisor,
Juneau, Alaska.
First Publication: Aug. 10, 1951.
Last Publication: Aug. 24, 1951.
THE AMERICAN WAY
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Let's Put All The Cards On The Table
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EMPIRE
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AUGUST 10, 1931
The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J., professor of geology at Santa
Clara University, is in Juneau. Father Hubbard has spent several
months exploring the Alaska Peninsula and other sections of the north.
/
Miss Betty Jean Norris, sister of Mrs. Jerry Goss, departed on the
steamship Princess Charlotte today for her home in Seattle. She has
been visiting Mrs. Goss for the past month.
Mrs. John McCormick has bought from Mrs. Lydia A. Webber the
Webber Beauty Shop in the MacKinnon Apartments.
W. A. Hesse, Territorial Highway Engineer, returned yesterday to j
his headquarters here after an absence of two months. He has been as 1
tar as Nome inspecting roads and airplane landing fields.
Capt. J. M. Clark and Chief John Newmarker, U. S. steamboat in
spectors, returned here last night from the Westward. They have been
on a survey of craft in Bristol Bay, the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak,
Kenai Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound ports.
Lieut, and Mrs. John R. Noyes and baby are aboard the steamer
Alaska which sailed from Seattle for the north last night. Other pas
sengers booked for Juneau are: J. B. Warrack and son, Lieut, and Mrs.
K. W. Kurstedt, Robert Munley, Raymond Pearson, A. Harlin, and Mrs.
L. Heisel and baby. ,
James G. Truitt, of the Alaska Road Commission, greeted friends
in Juneau while the Admiral Watson was in port. He embarked at
Wrangell and is destined for Kodiak on official business.
Weather: High, 74; low, 55; showers.
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| Daily Lessons in English w.l. cordon lj
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “She speaks with a slow
drawl.” This is a redundancy, and “slow" should be omitted.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hosiery. Pronounce ho-zher-i, not ho
i zer-i.
I OFTEN MISSPELLED: Encumbrance; not ENCUMBERANCE.
SYNONYMS: Part, portion, proportion, parcel, lot, share.
WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word:
I iNCIPIfNCY; beginning; commencement. “The disease was in its
incipiancy.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE Roberta LEE
Q. Is it necessary for a hostess to rise when greeting a guest who
! has just arrived, and other guests are already present?
A. Yes, always. A hostess is very discourteous who does not rise
to greet each guest, and also when taking leave of each departing guest.
Q. When one is a guest at a dinner served in a hotel dining room,
or a restaurant, should one leave a tip for the waiter?
A. No; this is the obligation of the host.
Q. Is it proper to use the double-fold visiting card instead of the
regular single visiting card?
A. No; double-fold cards are for messages and invitations, and are
not used when paying visits.
LOOK and LEARN bA. c. GORDON 1
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1. What is the difference between a tincture and a solution?
2. For what is a “swizzle stick” used?
3. What one-time dictator had a name which meant "little fly”?
4. What is a binnacle?
5. In what noted poem does a dead albatross play an important
part?
ANSWERS:
1. A tincture is asubstance dissolved ir. puie or diluted alcohol. A
solution may have any liquid as the solvent'.
2. Stirring mixed drinks.
3. Mussolini.
4. The housing of a ship's compass.
5. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Coleridge.
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In Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
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Phone 206 Second and Seward
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PHONE Z16—DAY or NIGHT
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