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Saturday, July 28, 1951
DOUBLE PLAY — TAXPAYER OUT
A bit of digging by the Department of Agriculture j
and the Department of Justice in Washington has j
unearthed the interesting information that the Badger j
Ordnance Works in Wisconsin was leased by the Air
Force to a private firm for $16,600. Then it was
sublet by the private operator (and we use the term
advisedly i to the Commodity Credit Corporation, nn- |
other government agency for $215,000.
So, while it seems that Uncle's right hand doesn't
know what the left hand is doing, we can be comforted
by the thought that some folks know the right people
and manage to get to where the money is.
The astounding thing in this whole fantastic
transaction is the statement of a Department of Agri
culture spokesman who says his department "doesn't
give a hoot" .about the private profits made in the
deal.
We don’t believe it would take a great amount
of ingenuity to compile a list of available government
property and maybe ask around some of the other
agencies to see who needs it. But that sort of operation
doesn't seem to fit in with the scheme of things in
Washington.
No wonder taxes ore high — and getting higher.
Slow Motion
By George Peck
(Editor's Note: George Peck is Chairman of the
Board of the National Labor-Management Founda
tion and Executive Editor of its official publication,
Partners.!
From all sections of the nation complaints are
pouring in regarding that socialistic arm of .Ilnsle
Sam's Goypriyseat—*!Fhe fiM’ Office. What was at
first a disorganized, feeble remonstrance has so in
creased that today it is a mighty roar. The American
people are "fed up” with the "beating” they are taking
at _the hands of the Post Office.
The fellow who invented slow motion pictures
must have gotten the idea from the Post Office. He
added some humor to it, however, because the snail's
pace at which the Post Office carries on is anything
but funny.
Over the years in this column, I have stated time
and time again that the Post Office should be taken
out of the hands of the Federal Government and
turned over to private ownership. Under private
ownership, the service would be improved, wages of
employees could be raised, Uncle Sam would collect
taxes on profits made instead of having to make up
annual deficits out of the general tax fund and stock -
/holders would receive dividends. All of these things
could be accomplished without raising postage rates,
in fact, there would be good prospects of lower rates
as efficient private management got in its "licks.”
At this particular time when the Administration is
bending every energy to socialize other public utilities,
even some manufacturing industries, it is perhaps,
overly-optimistic to hope that the Post Office can be j
rescued from government ownership. But it is some
thing to think about, against the day when reason
will have been restored at Washington and the trend
toward socialisim in this nation will have been stem
med.
Just as long as the Post Office remains m govern
ment hands, there is no hope that is will ever attain
a maximum degree of efficiency. But theie are some
things that can be done to make it “less worse." Let’s
consider a few of these.
The Post Office is the one department of govern
ment that can be made self-supporting. It has a
service to sell that is metered out to the public, by
which individuals and companies pay in ratio to the
degree they use that service. Therefore, the Post
Office, if it has a desire to do so, can ascertain its
costs of handling the various types of mailings. This,
as far as I can learn, it lias never done. Of course,
this is so simple that it is doubtful that the Post
Office will ever undertake such a cost accounting.
Also, despite clamorings of Post Office officials to
the contrary, it Ls badly overstaffed. A realistic survey
of Post Office manpower would reveal that it is
encumbered with thousands of employees who could be
released to civilian pursuits. This would cut operating
expenses and bring the Post Office closer to being a j
self-supporting unit.
At present the various departments, bureaus and
agencies of Federal Government use the services of
the Post Office “for free.” In drawing up their bud
gets these units should make provision for postage
expease. They should pay at regular postage rates for
every piece of mailing they send out. There is no
reason why the unprofitably-operated Post Office
should play Santa Claus to other units of^overnment.
Also, our U.S. Senators and Representatives frank
all of their mail sent out on government business. It
is necessary for these legislators to use the Post Office
facilities, but there is no reason why the Post Office
should tote their mail without charge. Congress should
appropriate an extra expense allowance for our legis
lators to enable them to purchase their postage
stamps, even as you and I.
i to sum up: the Post Office should not carry one
single piece of mail anywhere, for anyone, without
charge, w'ith the single exception of mailings inci
dental to carrying on the legitimate business of the
Post Oftice. Further, no piece of mail should be
carried at a loss.
If these elementary things were done the Post j
Oftice could be taken out of the “red.” and the mailing
public would get the kintL-pf j
-pfEy^ancTto which it is entitled. But they won't be
! done unless you and I keep everlastingly at our Con
gressmen to force a thorough house-cleaning and
renovation ot our defunct, inefficient Post Office.
Meanwhile, if left to its own devices, the Post
Office will continue to agitate for higher postage rate
more employees, more equipment and more every
! thing, and we will continue to get slower and slower
deliveries of our mail.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
a day—at cheaper prices than the
Americans are paying for their
own food.
This is on top of $2,000,000,000 in
aid that has already been poured
into Gieece since the end of the
war.
Note—Real profiteers are the
Greek shipowners, who have grown
fabulously wealthy overnight ship
ping ECA cargo. They bought
their ships at bargain-basement
prices from the United States, and
are now charging scandalously
high rates for use of these ships.
In return, they are paying no ,
taxes to the United States and al- i
most none in Greece.
Price Stalemate
While Congress has been hagg
ling over price controls, the Office
of Price Stabilization has come to
a virtual standstill. This is re
vealed in a confidential memo
from price headquarters to all
branch chiefs and section heads.
Marked ‘for internal use only,”
the memo shows how the price
agency has bogged down and be
come demoralized while waiting
for Congress to make up its mind
about controls.
"Naturally we regret the pres
ent situation since it has brought
to a halt the development of five
months of carefully considered
and hard work,” the memo de
clares. "However, neither recrim
ination nor looking for an easy
way out will resolve our problems,
and we ask that the agency con
tinue to stand together as a team
until such time as its immediate
course can be more clearly char
tered.”
The memo instructs price chiefs
throughout the country that price
boss Mike Di Salle "desires to
maintain the status quo. . . in
connection with our manufacturer
regulations as well as with most
other price actions."
"As just one example," the con
fidential memo points out, "Mr
Di Salle felt that if we issued only
price-increase actions during this
period. Congress could take the
position that we were showing
pique and petulance and trying to
place it in the worst light. Ac
cordingly, our job is to make the
best of a bad situation until such
time it is resolved by Congress.”
Headaches and Humor
The most unpopular agency in
the government, as everybody
knows, is the Bureau of Internal
Revenue, which collects our taxes.
Actually however, the BIR is made
up of human beings who, despite
their unpleasant job. manage to
get a few chuckles out of their re
lations with John Q. Public.
For instance, a disgruntled tax
payer reecntly wrote the bureau:
“ ‘ — and from him that hath
not . . . shall be taken away even
that which he hath.’
•'That's from the Bible, you lugs,
and I think it's the only part
you believe in.”
Another taxpayer attached this
note to his income return: "Only
two things in life are certain
death and taxes. What I resent is
that they don't come in that or
der."
The BIR has heard about every
alibi in the book for the filing of
delinquent returns, but the most
unusual came from a man who
confessed: "I would have paid
! this sooner only I was laid up
i with a fractured uncle." Another
taxpayer, explaining why he listed
his mother-in-law as a dependent,
added: "She eats like a horse.”
Bureau officials get a lot of
poetry in the mail, some of it an
onymous and unprintable. A frus
trated citizen attached the follow
ing to his return:
A man stood at the pearly gate,
His face was worn and old;
He merely asked of the man of
fate
Admission to the fold.
I
"What have you done?" St. Pet
er asked,
"To seek admission here?”
"Why, I tried," said the man,
| “To figure
"My tax till the end of the year."
The gates swung open sharply,
As St. Peter touched the bell:
"Come in," he said, "and take
a harp,
j "You-ve had enough of Hell."
The Bureau received an anony
! mous letter from a taxpayer who
! fell that his obligation to the
government was greater than his
tax. Enclosed was a substantial
j check, with an attached note:
I ‘ Inasmuch as I wish to remain
anonymous, you will please par
don me for not signing this
check.”
Another taxpayer being inter
viewed by a deputy collector was
trying to get away with a whop
ping list of dependency claims.
The deputy, knowing that the
man was lying, turned to another
collector and jokingly inquired:
"John, what time does that bus
load of people who have gypped
the government leave today for
the Federal penitentiary?”
"Man, I just remembered,” in
terrupted the startled taxpayer.
"Scratch all those names off. I
don’t support nobody but myself."
Meat Price Protector
Price boss Mike Di Salle prob
ably doesn’t know it, but one of
his top consultants on price ceil
• •
• July 28 •
• Harry Doyle •
• Ford R. Butler •
• Helen Webster •
• Virgil Bohlke ®
• Harold McKinley •
• Peter Gruening •
• Pat Tanner •
• •
» July 29 ' e
• Horace Adams «
• Eileen Doogan *
• Mrs. Edwin Dull *
• Mrs. Norman Bucy •
• Ian Ogg •
Pink Run in
Prince William
Sound is Failure
In sharp contrast with indica
tions of a good pink run in South
east Alaska, the run in Prince
William Sound appears to be a
failure, according to Howard Balt
zo, assistant regional director of
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Baltzo left this afternoon for
the area.
Up through last Saturday oidj
ll.COO cases of pinks had been
;anned. He said because there has
.ccn practically no escapement,
md no fish are showing, it may
oe necessary to close the season
in the Sound earlier than Aug. 7,
as determined before.
PAA Men are Here
To Aadii — and
Fish in Derby
Glenn Lloyd and Harlan Moore,
Pan American Airways auditors
from San Francisco, are here for
a week checking the books of the
local office. They have already
been to Whitehorse, Fairbanks
and Nome. From here they will go
:o Ketchikan and Seattle.
“As long as it just happened,
we are here during tile Salmon
Derby . . . well, we might as well
join in," Lloyd remarked v.ith a
twinkle in his eye.
I
VISITORS FROM OKLAHOMA !
Several Oklahoma visitors are
r Juneau. All are from Oklaho
g fjLv_SS2d-i — ’ -,V • fit ’vire
Baranof Hotel. They are C. R.
Anthony, Virgil Browne, Frank j
Muttram and Harvey P. Everett.
ATTENTION TOURISTS
For a n intimate acquaintance ]
J with S. E. Alaska with the mailboat j
Yakobi for a 600 mile 4 day scenic
voyage. Sailings once a week. De-!
parts Wednesday am. 816-tf
ings was once fined $1,500 for vio-1
lating price ceilings.
He is Arthur B. Maurer, a Kan
sas City meatpacker, consultant to
the Office of Price Stabilization.
His job is to advise how high price
ceilings should be on food,
j Yet Maurer's own packing plant
was fined $1,500 during World War
II for violating price ceilings. He
pleaded nolo contend.-re to 20
counts of overchargin'. In other
words, he placed him- : at the
mercy of the court and, on Oc
tober 18, 1943, was found uilty of
| selling at wholesale “beef at a
| price in excess of the miximum
I price fixed by government regul
ation.”
Now he is supposed to help pro
tect the public from the high
price of meat.
ACROSS
1. Cited
7. Shake
13. Dissimilar
14. Courteous in
manners
15. Without a
mate
16. Satan of
Arabian
mythology
IS. Shoe latchet
l'J. Artificial
language
20. Worshiper of
a certain
Hindu god
21. Mother
22. Single thing
i 25. Mark aimed
at in curling
2G. Pedal
extremities
2S. Domestic
management
30. Select social
gathering:
32. Second note
of Ciuldo'a
scale
33. Mournful
34. Singing bird
37. Take offense
at
40. Units
41. Japanese
statesman
43. Set of three
44. Kxists
43. Muscular
strength
47. And: Latin
48. Harbor boat
CO. Wife of a
rajah
51. High in the
musical
scale
52. Obliterated
64. Kind of
lottery
f»G. Dwell
hi. Sationary
mechanical
part
Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle I
DOWN
1. Number neces
sary to trans
act business
2. Unf tencd
3. Antique
4. Palm lily
B* ! ■ ut
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| 20 YcARS AGO the empire j
JULY :.’K, 1931
Charlotte Alspaugh of Puyallup, Washington, arrived in Juneau
vesterday on the steamship Prince Henry. She is here to visit her
Inend Miss Ann Coleman, librarian for the Juneau Public Library.
W. D. Gross, owner of the Coliseum chain of motion picture houses
in Southeast Alaska, has returned, from a business tour to Haines, Skag
wav, Sitka, Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg. He found all his
houses in excellent condition, he said.
With a large quantity of fish destined for Seattle and several
passengers from Juneau, the steamer Yukon on her way from the
Westward to the South, made a brief call here last night. Hooked from
Juneau to Seattle were: L. H. Herbert, Mrs. T- e'.rccn. Dorothy Bakkc, |
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Olson, Col. and Mis. Roger Pitch, N. C. Talmadge.
it. L. Ashton.
The steamer Princess Charlotte, due in Juneau at 8:30 tonight, ha;
the following three passengers for this port: Adrian Roff, J. J. Farther.
Medie Richard.
Mi.s Donie Taylor, Juneau school teacher, sailed south on th
Prince Henry this morning i n a vacation Outside.
Capt. J. V. Davis, who is associated with his brother, L. C. Davis in
fishing activities near Punter, is a patient at St. Ann's h •• pital le:.
treatment of an infected hand. It is thought to be a case ol li
poisoning.
Weather: High 63: Low 46; Fair.
! Daily Lessons in English L. Gordon !
' »
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not soy, “Williams is going to stop
in St. Louis lor a few days." Say. "is going to stay in St. Loui for
a few days,”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fatigue. Pronounce fa-teg, a as in ask
unstressed, e as in me. accent second syllable, and not fa-tig.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Annex; two n's. Anecdote; one n. ,
SYNONYMS: Meaning (noun), sense, signification, significance, im
port, purport.
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:
DOGMATIZE: to speak or write positive assertions without adducing
proof. “It is useless to dogmatize about things which have never been
proved.”
| MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE \\
j j
Q. It’s becoming more common to see women smoking on the
streets. Is it this now considered proper?
A. It is still considered improper cn city streets. Nor docs -a man,
walking along with a woman on city streets, ever smoke. On the other
hand, these things which are "not done” in the city are permissible
in the country, and a woman walking along with a cigarette is all
right in a rural community. _ ___
Q. Should a gfcrl,gl ve_t'£cH&nce.capsSfettmul pii'SCTUT"'
■’ A~ This 7s~nof obligatory, or even customary—but there is no Im
propriety in her doing this if she wishes. Her gift might be cuff links,'
a key chain, or cigarette case. But this is not very often done at all.
Q. How should one eat hot biscuits at the table?
A. These should be broken apart with the fingers, never cut with
the knife.
| LOOK and LEARN t C. GORDON !
[_„_ |!
1. How long docs it take light to travel from the sun to the earth? i
2. Who was the first President of all 4G states of the Union?
3. What, according to statistics, is the most popular beverage In
the world?
4. of what South American country is Caracas the capital city?
5. What beast of burden is considered the most sure-footed of all?
ANSWERS:
1. Approximately 8.3 minutes.
2. William Howard Taft.
3. Tea.
4. Venezuela.
5. The mule.
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Weather at
k\mk® Points
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., I20*:h Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
Anchorage . 53—Ruin
Annette Island . 54—Cloudy
Barrow . 44—Cloudy
Bethel . 46-Rain
Cordova .. 51—Cloudy
Dawson . 49—Cloudy
fCdmonton . 60—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks . 51—Cloudy
Haines . 56—Cler’.r
Havre ... 65—Cloudy
Juneau Airport . 51— Cloudy
Kodiak . 52 Rain
Kotzebue . 4-1--Cloudy
McGrath .. . 43—Cloudy
Nome ; . 37—Clear
Northway .. 51—Cloudy
Petersburg . 53 Cloudy
Portland . .-. 3C c: a.r
Prince George 42—Partly Cloudy
Seattle . 53 -Cloudy
3ilka . 55—Clear
Whitehorse . 4C -Cl< ar
Yakutat . 51--Cloudy
Car SSwrSsp ■
Demurrage K-sfgs
Masks Rafted
ANCHORAGE, July 28.,1V-Th"
Alaska Railroad will revise its car
demurrage rules and charges Aug. j
1 to conform with an Interstate ]
Commerce Commission order which j
has been in effect oa all Stateside
railroads since May 1.
The revision will be upward.
“A critical car shortage and the
interests of national defense make j
the move imperative,” General
Manager J. P. Johnson said.
Unloading delays are “bottle
necking” the lnes? critical ship
pi? r movement in Territorial his
tory, rail officials said.
The new order boosts the mini
mum daily dcnnfrr.tge char es from
$3.75 to $5 and the maximum assess
ment from $7.50 to $20 per day.
The action followed an urgent
request to make more railroad cars
ready for handling v,tal construc
tion materials earmarked for mili- j
tary projects.
The ' it.It. raid ships hare been •
delayed a! Whitt: r end Seward ,
ru I brads for lack of railroad J
cars to take cargo. Mcanv,hit”,
tar y;l. - f i '-‘lit m ovine,,,
-i ■ i. (V- hcavii
n history.
Official. saki that on several oc- .
casicns more than 1,000 cars were j
tied up awaiting unloading.
Under the new schedule, shippers |
still will be given 48 hours of free •
time to unload the cars. After |
that time there will be an assess- |
meat of So for each cf the next two j
days; $10 for the third and fourth :
days; and $20 for each succeeding
day.
The new order also eliminates |
Saturday, but retains Sundays and j
holidays as free days.
TARRANT IS HERE
S. G. Tarrant of the Pacific
American Fisheries from Belling
ham is at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM FAIRBANKS
Jack P. Ferguson of Fairbanks j
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel, j
LAST DERBY DAY
Fishing boat “Defiance" far
charter Sunday. Can accommo
date eight. Phone Black 120 be
tween 5 and 7 tonight, Frank
Olsen. , 872-lt
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