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~NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411
Fourth Avenue Bldg . Seattle. Wash. _
Saturday, July 14, 1951
Old Taxes Never Die
(Tax Outlook)
The most important obstacle to government re
trenchment today lies in the false philosophy that
large government .expenditures are themselves an
essential element in developing our economic progress
and promoting the welfare of the people.
And while the President has warned against "sharp
and arbitrary” changes in government programs that
"may cause serious damage to parts of the economy,
one thing is certain—persistence in loose fiscal prac
tices will bring retribution in the end.
All the fine things that are promised are not
conjured out of the air. Somebody has to pay for
them—and the process of robbing Peter to pay Paul
can oniy go so far.
The fact is that if society wants to distribute
more it must produce more. There can be no hen
or-the-egg argument as to which comes first.
And unless the government demonstrates its
ability to sacrifice nonessential spending programs, it
cannot expect the people to tighten their belts with
any great enthusiasm.
In brief, this means that during periods of high
prosperity, the Treasury should accumulate substan
tial surpluses. This would have two effects. (1) It
would dam off inflationary tendencies — which have
been the bane of our periods of prosperity in the past
and get us into an over-extended boom. <2) The
reason for a surplus in times of high prosperity is that,
people and on business is so great as to discourage
with a debt of the present size (and growing bigger
all th£ time), we need to have a program for the
reduction of that debt.
Already the burden of taxation on the American
incentive, yet proposals are made for still more gov
ernment spending and taxing.
We have all seen the effect of initiating pro
grams which call for deceptively low “down payments"
to begin with, but which mushroom automatically
as time goes on.
Deficit spending is the heart of inflation. Con
sidering the fact that we face a period of partial
mobilization that may last for years to come, there
is no excuse for running a deficit at all. We should
pay the defense bill as we go along.
If we are going to stop inflation we must postpone
or forego programs and projects that we can ilo
without—or load on more taxes. This is no time for
extravagance, waste, or luxury, anywhere, not even
in the armed services. With new obligations for
the military services and international security now
estimated to total about $72 billion for 1952, it is
time to subject all demands to close scrutiny.
'Perhaps it is not too much to hope that Congress
will at. last put the emphasis in the right place—
namely, cutting expenditures to balance the budget
and curb inflation—instead of letting the stream of
spending go on and then taxing everyone up to the
hilt.
It Is even more important when we consider adding
the cost of rearmament upon the tax burden created
■ by existing programs. For, to rephrase a recent
sentiment: "Old taxes never die — nor do they fade
away,”
To the extent that the Inflationary menace can
be reduced by curtailing nonessential expenditures,
economic controls need be less severe and can betteF
serve their primary goal of directing scarce resources
into deffns6 channels.
-■ Large areas of Federal spending can readily be
found where cuts are feasible. Such action would
aid the defense effort in three ways: (11 abandonment:
of unnecessary "welfare state frills" would serve to j
foster attitudes that make for greater productive
effort, at the same time it would make for more
compliance with those economic controls really re
quired in .the present emergency: (2) utilizing stan
dards of government spending that are more efficient
iin accordance with the recommendations of the
Hoover Commission) would remove that unfortunate
exampld 'of waste and extravagance now set for the
natioh by government; (3) tax increases needed to
put the defense program on a pay-as-you-go basis
would Hue-, less onerous, thereby interfering to a lesser
extent with productive enterprises.
The choice is the people’s. Either they condone
and demand greater and greater expansion of gov
ernment programs with their increasing cost and
likelihood of deficits—or they demand retrenchment
and sane fiscal policies that will act to avoid infla
tion and all its attendant evils. Today, in a period
of unprecedented international and financial stress
there can be but one choice.
The Washington
‘Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
in bombing Russia, in case of war,
rather than submit to Air Force
Command.
Thi. is another flare-up in the
bitter, Navy-Air Force feud over
whose planes should drop the at
omic tomb and spearhead the air
offensive. The Navy has sought the |
strate1.- air role for its carriers, I
but the joint chiefs of staff have j
repeatedly overruled the Navy and
assigned strategic bombing to the
Air Fc’ce.
However, chief of Naval opera
tions Admiral Sherman came up
with a new offer at a recent meet- I
ing of the joint chiefs. He accepted
a secondary role for his carriers,
but offered Naval air support in
case of strategic air operations
against Russia. The joint chiefs in
turn agreed to use carriers for
strategic bombing, provided they
took their orders from the Air
Force.
This was too much for Admiral
Sherman. He flatly refused to take
part in strategic bombing unless
the Navy commanded its own flight
missions.
/iiiuiuii i rail • •
During backstage talks in the
State Department the question has
arisen more than once: “What if
the cease-fire moves in Korea
could be the prelude to another
Pearl Harbor?”
It was just before Pearl Harbor
of course, that Japan sent special
negotiators to Washington, osten
sily to patch up our rupturing re
lation Suppose history repeats,
now ask some of our diplomats.
Unfortunately certain world devel
opments appear to justify this
question mark. One is the steady
concentration of Chinese troops on
the French Indo-China border. An
other is the heavy shipment of ker
osene from Manchuria south to
ward French Indo-China. Kerosene
is used to fuel jet planes.
Another is troop concentrations
north of Iran. Another is continued
reports of troop maneuvers on the
Yugoslav border, plus red army
movements in east Germany and
Poland. The latter have gone on
for some years, and may or may
not mean anything.
However, it is important that the
United States is winning the friend
ship battle in both Japan and Ger
many, while the So.iet is losing
out. And when a nation finds itself
slipping, the usual move in a dic
tatorship is military action.
Another suspicious factor is the
sudden flag-waving for peace now
inspired by Communist groups.
Word is reported to have gone out
from Moscow that the new Com
mui 1st line is to plug for peace
at any price.
Ti ' is wiiRt makes sincere ana
genu*. peace negotiations more
difficult. Ninety per cent of the
American people devoutly want
peace. An equal proportion of west I
Europeans also want peace, are
even more devoutly anxious for it I
than we—because they are tired,!
extremely war weary and would not j
follow us in a war that came too j
soon. Furthermore, they would not •
follow us even now if we did not
bend over backward *o accept any
and all Communist peace moves in
Korea.
This was one reason why Gen
eral Ridgway accepted the Com
munist proposal to meet In unneu
tral Kaesong rather than on a
neutral Danish hospKal ship. This
was also why he has put up with
the rebuff of having Our negotiators
surrounded by armed' Communists.
For, when the public, and your, al
lies are peace-hungry, they expect
their military commanders to meet
almost anywhere.
However, what the American pub- I
lie has to remember is that peace i
obtained at any price is never a j
lasting peace, and far as
preparedness is concerned, this is
no time for us to relax.
Washington Pipepline
Correction: in reporting rne voie j
of the House judiciary committee
for and against giving Tidetands
oil back to three states and the nil
companies, I erroneously listed
Congressman Claude Bakewell ' of
St. Louis as voting against, federal |
retention of Tidelands oil. This was
in error. I now learn that the Con
gressman voted for federal reten- i
tion. ... I was also in error in re- :
porting the vote of Congressman
Hamilton Jones of North Carolina.
It was Congressman Woodrow Jones,
also of North Carolina, who voted
against federal retention of Tide
lands oil. . . . sincere apologies. . .1
Hamilton Jones, incidentally, has
been a strong supporter of educa
tion. . . . Democratic chairman. Bill
Boyle was warned by White House
advisers not to sentl telegrams to
Democratic national committeemen
urging them to pressure Congress
on price controls. “We ve got 30 to
40 Republican votes lined up,” !
Boyle was warned, “and we may lose |
them if this looks like a Demo
cratic Issue.” . . . Erudite Sen. Joe
O’Mahoney of Wyoming is so over
worked that his secretaries and ex
ecutive assistants have to come to ,
the radio recording room of the
Senate in order to squeeze in a
word with him. . . . Nervous Sena
tor Cain of Washington got in
wrong with other GOP-eers for
jumping the gun on part of the
MacArthur committee report on
the eve of cease-fire talks in Ko
rea. Senator Brewster of Maine
begged him to wait, but Cain
wouldn't. . . . The globe-trotting
i Senate Foreign Relations committee
gave out quite an imposing list of
people it would interview abroad.
But it omitted one name—Frahco.
Apparently the solons weren’t en
thusiastic about publicizing their
visit with the dictator.
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China Purges
Schoolteachers;
Twenty Slain
: HONK KONG, July 14 — l/Pl—School
' teachers have come within the range
of Communist purge guns in Red
China.
Independent reports from the
mainland say about 20 educators
have been put to death in the past
month.
Most have been given Communist
Indoctrination and sent back to
their classrooms. Reds later charged j
them with only pretending to adopt
Communist principles, then revert- j
ing to reactionary teaching.
ARMSTRONG IS
TRANSFERRED TO
JUNEAU OFFICE
After a year's absence in Peters- i
burg where he was division super- |
visor for the U. S. Forest Service, i
C. M. Armstrong has returned to j
the Juneau office to be supervisor j
of the Admiralty Division.
Armstrong has been with the j
service 18 years. Mrs. Armstrong, j
still in Petersburg, expects to come 1
up shortly. !
July 14
Gene Lockridge
Fred Anderson
Chancy R. Willard
Peggy Houk
Harry Alexander Abel
Joseph Kane Abel
Dr. C. C. Carter
Martha Osborne
Linda Florence Worgum
July 15
Samuel G. Stevens
John Weil
Mrs. Lew M. Williams
Harry Hendrickson
Mrs. Robert Hurley
Alvin Weathers, Jr.
Richard Reily Rowe
Sam Paul, Sr.
Maude Graham
Patricia Ellen Roberts
Percy Johnston
COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
Second section Girl Scouts return
from Eagle River.
July 15
10 a m. — No-host Scout breakfast
at Baranof hotel for Mildred
Kerschner and staff.
At noon — Start of annual Elks
picnic at • Auk Bay Recreation
beach. Busses for those without
transportation leave Elks club at
12 noon and 1 p.m.
At noon — Methodist church picnic
in Evergreen Bowl if weather per
mits; otherwise in church dining
room.
July 16
At noon — BPW meets in Terrace
room, Baranof.
At 6:30 p.m. — Annual picnic of
Lions club on Douglas beach. No
meeting at noon.
At 7:30 p.m. — Creative Writers
meet in office of KINY.
At 8 p.m. —American Legion post
meets in Dugout.
July 17
At noon — Rotary club, Baranof.
July 18
At noon — Kiwanls Club. Baranof.
At S p.m. — Rebekah Drill Team
practice, IOOF hall.
July 19
At noon — Chamber of commerce
meets in Baranof.
Nt 6:30 p.m. — Juneau Rifle and
Pistol club shooting on Menden
hall range.
At 8 p.m. — City Council meets in
regular session. v j*
July 20
At 8 p.m. — Rebekah’s special meet
ing for Ethel Smith, president
ARA in IOOF hall.
i
Allocation Plan
For Newsprint
Announced
WASHINGTON, July 14 — (01 —
An international allocation plan for
newsprint may be announced Aug.
15. That was the target date set
yesterday by a 14-nation committee
studying the newsprint supply and
demand situation for a 27-nation
raw materials conference.
FHA MAN HERE
Harry H. Rockwell of the Fed
eral Housing Administration office
in Portland is in Juneau for a few
days on business. He is stopping at
the Baranof hotel.
ATTENTION LIONS CLUB
Annual Lions Club picnic 6:30
p.m. Monday, July 16 at Douglas
Beach. Everything #urnished. No
meeting Monday noon. 860-lt
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1. Make a slight
bow
4. Headdress
9. Legal action
12. Silkworm
13. Beginning
to be
15. Something
imagined or
invented
17. Talk idly
18. Toothed
wheels
19. Metal-lined
eyelet: var.
20. Hazards
2L East Indian
timber trees
22. Poker term
23. Sauce for
meat
24. Size of shot
26. Oriental com
mander
27. Hackneyed
28. Before: prefix
29. Kind of red
dye
30. Hat rims
31. Legal claim
32. Gross violation
of law
33. Man's arch
enemy
84. Guardians of
the peace
36. Cripples
37. Proverb
38. Kind of fish
4ft. Plots
42. Canton In
Switzerland
43. Unit of work
44. Serpent
45. Japanese coin
DOWN
1. Clock In the
form of a
ship
2. Not copied
3. Summaries
4. Rows
I
Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle
5. Public lodging
houses
6. Division of a
play
7. State whose
capital is
Providence:
abbr.
8. Sanction or
commend
9. Measures of
paper
10. Grafted:
heraldry
11. Proofreader*#
term
14. Subtle
Barcasm
16. Construct
19. Ruminant
quadruped!
20. South Amerl
lean bird
21. First
2?.. Dirt
24. Cherish
25. State border
ing on the
Mississippi
river: abr.
27. Muscle of the
arm
2*1. Lamentable
30. Two-masted
equare
rigged sail
ing vessel!
31. Illuminating
device
32. Loud ringing
sound
33. Mud volcano
34. Walk with
measured
tread
35. Scent
36. Onionlike
vegetable
38. Period of Uni!
Si. Metal
At imm« ,
I 20 YEARS AGO thes empire ]
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JL'LY 14, 1931
The Alaska Juneau's production of gold for the month of June
was $325,000 and silver $500, according to L. H. Metzgar, general superin
tendent. Recoveiy value per ton was 95.06 cemts and operating expenses
averaged 50.66 cents. Net operating surplus was $154,800. *
Mrs. A. L. Nordale, Joan Nordale and Arthur Nordale, well known
residents of Fairbanks, visited in Juneau while Ihe Aleutian was in port.
They are homeward bound from Seattle.
S. Wallstedt, grand president for Alaska of the Loyal Order of
Moose, booked passage on the Aleutian this morning for Seward.
' N. C. Banfield, balloon observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau arrived
in Juneau this morning on the Aleutian to establish a station here. He
was conferring with R. C. Mize, meteorologist in charge.
Taking the latest in footwear, C. H. Davlin, Juneau merchant, left
on the Aleutian for Fairbanks today.
To honor their 25th wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Fraser were given a party in Eagles Hall, Douglas, by their friends.
Bridge and whist were enjoyed with the following winning high and
low scores: Mrs. Joe Reidi and W. E. Feero, high and Mrs. Robert
Bonner and Jack Langseth, low for whist. For bridge, Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Williams held high score; Mrs. James Sey and Adolph Hirst, low.
The motorship Estebeth docked in Juneau yestesday afternoon with
nine passengers for this port. From Chichagof: Mrs. Clara Haymond.
From Tenakee: Mrs. J. Reinikki, Hilja Reinikki, Fred Jensen, W. Lasco.
From Funter: D. Erwin, John Worcester.
Weather: High 67; Low 48; Cloudy.
| Daily Lessons in English w. l. Gordon \
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Please refer back again to
chapter three.” Say, "Please refer to chapter three.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Foreign. Pronounce the o as in on,
not as in four.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Proof: two o's. Prove; one o.
SYNONYMS: Banquet, feast, festival, festivity, repast.
WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in
crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
HABITUATE; to accustom. "One must habituate oneself to the rules
and regulations of this community.”
[ MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE 1
1-----i]
Q. When a message is written on a visiting card, is it better to
write on the face of the card or on the reverse side?
A. It is probably better to write on the face of the card, as a
message on the back might be overlooked, should the one who receives
the card read the name and not turn the card over.
Q. How should friends and relatives respond to an announcement
of a birth?
A. By writing notes of congratulation, by calling on the mother,
or by sending flowers to the mother or a gift to the baby.
Q. Should the women be served first at the dining table where
men and women are seated alternately?
A. No; the guests should be served in regular sequence, whether
men or women.
| LOOK and LEARN a! c. Gordon |
l--1
1. What was the first radio broadcasting station?
2. Which is larger. North or South America?
3. Who was the youngest man ever nominated for the U.S. Presi
dency by a major political party?
4. What is the only musical instrument represented on a national
flag?
5. What dog is the result of crossing the mastiff and the greyhound?
ANSWERS:
1. Station KDKA, in Pittsburgh.
2. North America, by 1,400,000 square miles.
3. William Pennings Bryan was only 36 when nominated in 1896.
4. Ireland’s harp.
5. The Great Dane.
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows
Anchorage . 55—Cloudy
Annette Island . 54—Drizzle
Barrow . 31—Fog
Bethel .. 55 -Cloudy
Cordova . C3—Poj
Dawson . 46—Partly Cloudy
Edmonton . 49—Cloudy
Fairbanks . 53—Partly Cloudy
Haines . 56—Partly Cloudy
Havre . 56—Clear
Juneau Airport.. 52—Partly Cloudy
Kodiak . 54—Drizzle
Kotzebue . 46—-Fog
McGrath . 55—Partly Cloudy
Nome . 51—Partly Cloudy
Northway . 59—Rain Showers
Petersburg . 55—Partly Cloudy
Portland . 60—Partly Cloudy
Prince George . 58—Rain
Sitka . 54—Cloudy
Whitehorse . 59—Rain Showers
Yakutat. . 52—Cloudy
Finding Woman’s
Body Spurs Hunt
For Stepfather
NEWHALL, Calif., July 14 — UFi—
The body of a young woman “almost
certainly” Betty Jean Hansen, 20,
sheriff’s officers said, was found in
a ravine near here last night. The
girl was reported kidnaped by her
jealous stepfather nine days ago.
An all-points search was intensi
fied for the stepfather, Frank W.
Kristy, 48-year-old Downey, Calif.,
house painter. Deputies reported
finding a cigarette lighter bearing
the initials “V.W.K.” near the wo
man’s body.
Kristy was charged with kidnap
ing the girl July 5 while holding his
wife, Margaret. 38, at bay with a
gun in their kitchen.
Iran Oil Crisis
Poses Greater
Problem, Says Eden
LONDON, July 14 —IM—Anthony
Eden said today the Iranian oil
crisis poses a greater threat to the
Free World than Korea.
Eden, deputy conservative leader,
told a meeting at Melrose that Brit
ain’s dispute with Iran over nation
alization of the $1,400,000,000 Anglo
Iranian Oil Company is “still one of
the utmost gravity.”
Nattl Reservists Sail
For Prince Rupert
The training vessels, the USS
Grady and USS Johnson, were
scheduled to depart for Prince Ru
pert at noon today.
The 105 naval reserve officers and
enlisted men from San Francisco
aboard the vessels were entertained
by the American Women's Volun
teer Services organization with a
dance and sightseeing tours. The
reservists arrived Thursday night.
ATTENTION LIONS CLUB
Annual Lions Club picnic 6:30
p.m. Monday, July 16 at Douglas
Beach. Everything furnished. No
meeting Monday noon. 860-It
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