The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1947, Page 4

t g f‘ \(,l FOUR ) special session at his colleagues, should they fail to D ml\ Ua.slauhnplro i e 1 ik annind oo 2dlls of W Pyl % Moyt the }n. would have you believe you have demanded RINTING COMPANY | and need this tax program | DoROTHY " Vice %! several newspapers, actually implies that all over B s 5 Baar sng er | AlasKa the people are “praying” that the Legislature EN e to smack them en the eyes wi he f Second Class Matte load ever proposec b e 1 a tax program which brought in from all o | ss than five million dollar The budget c the two years, 1943-45 wa $4,404 46 s Ll il ago the budget wa n e, 602; B nd the Territory had a sur MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS B e A EYRAY it 00 el s we are told that we need $11.254.220 1 »u taxes for the next two years. What will it be two years from now? It will be $20,000000 1411 " people see fit to check this advar now = can always find ways i 1 e taxpayer’'s mor , many of them er taxpayer, most more inviting to th anc politician. But the taxpayer has beer de into his pocket for some time now. How left? k¢ yourself, Mr, and Mrs. Wage Earner? Hoy wich more can you afford to pay? And unless th r is “all they want ter sta in, nething about it before it is t Let the Legislature know 1l - ing” that this tax program k 1 Did the Representative cr £ v ted from your community campaign c ik that would load you down with more taxes? Was t the W e g aitor Rivers found out that you wanted and THE PEOPLE these new taxes? Did any candid l v me and I will give you an incc tax, ar ¢d in the Territorial Senate by Senators | that, a complete pr m that will t 4,300,000 out Victor Rivers and Norman Walk three tax of your pockets in only two year bills designed to raise during th o years a Put this question to a referendum vote and see total of $4.300,000—a income tax ¢ wnd how far you'll get! corporations gross income tax on c ations, Our columns are oven to any dayer in Alaska a general property who wishes to express hims Such a program, if adopted n Ala cne of tt t uninvitiig the American NO MONEY SAVED flag: not only to the much sou: \pitalist who — : : might bring a new industry to A t also the Two years ago when the Territorial ture wage earner who would be employed saw fit to take from the office of the | We are spending 75 cents per person per year— Treasurer the duties of collecting Territorial taxes, it $120.000 per biennium—to finance an Alaska Develop- established a separate Department of 1T n. At ment Board for the avowed purpcse of enticing new | the time, the proponents of the bill arguc t one industrial development to the Territory. And now we of \dvantages would be that the Ter would suggest a tax program which would discourage such de- save money velopment more than any other one thing. Already i Included in the bill establishin wtment Kknown that, last year one large concern turned thumbs of Taxation was an appropriation of $100,000, lar down ¢ rovosed pulb project because of the “threat | than would have been the case in order that the of high taxes,” That threat has now developed Commissioner would have sufficient fu to m With one hand we beckon to the capitalist, describ- | the added expense of establishing a new office. buying ing the advantages of investing in Alaska. ‘With the office cquipmnt, tyepwriters, machines, etc other hand we slam the door in his face However Commissioner (unconfirmed) Mul- While it is very true that most of these proposed 'laney now asks the Legislature to give him $200,000 taxes would ostensibly be collected from the business ' even after the expense of establishing the office has man, it is also true that he, in turn, would collect the been taken care of, and if two provosed tax bills pass tax from the wage earner and breadwinner in the this sessi he would have almost $400,000 for his form of highet prices for his preduct. These proposed | office, making it-one of the largest of Territorial taxes could be casily passed along, and when that is departments. the case, they are always passed along until in the Tt should be noted that Trea Oscar ( end, the common man pays the bill never asked for more than $68,300 to run his office Much effort is being put forth by the proponents | well as collect the taxes when such duties remainc of these new tax measures to 11" the program to office. Actually the Legislatures previous the public by attempting to make the people actually opriated more than $20,000 for tax collection believe that they have demanded these new taxes. ' zlone We suggest that you k e of that smiling individual Evidently these who argued that the Tax Com- Wwho may hand you a telegram, all written out fer | mission would soon expand into just another burden- you :4:~d’> ggest vou send to your Senator or Rep- me bureau knew wh they re talking about,' resentative. Much of this will be going on ocause the Treasurer’s tax collection was much les Senator Rivers already has hurled the threat of a ive . ceipts for huge amounts of gold “While a certain amount of loss The Washington 0|t face oul el fom e open wing, Royalist leaders. Significant- &dmission that our policy in Greec _— Oct. 22 and Nov. 22, the latter ment of the King and toward Continued frum Page O%tj date being four days before the ELAS, had been wrong," cencl < AT - Greek Civil War broke. The receipts Col. Budge, “this would be’ more part of the bill for the British and ' clearly showed that the gold sov- than sufficiently counter-balanced President Truman's new move looks €reigns had be distributed to by the gain in British prestize like justvanother way of continu- Royalist leaders to start the armed Wwhich would follow in the long ing the same action for the Kir of Greece run (Merry-Go-Round 12-10-44.) The it trouble in Greece Which brought much bloodshed to — Churchill, however, would not fol- really back to the fact that Athens. This was the excuse for low his expert’s advice. When King the United States, for four disas- Send in British troops. They George of Greece wired asking trous years, has given the British have been there ever since whether he should submit to a a free hand and a blank check in’' Thus, using Roosevelt’s blanket plebiscite, as demanded by the Greece. While we supplied the Permission to Churchill to h Greek anti-Royalists, Churchill re- lend-lease, the tanks . food and things political in the Mediterran- plied with a flowery telegram, in- the UNRRA supplies, the British ©an, and using the protection of structing the King: “Ride for- preceeded to use all these to their UNRRA and the American flag, a ward into battle at the h of Swn. end. 'We had ' absolutely British Army officer had planted i d control. And that is how Greece the iirst seeds of turmoil drifted into its present tragic m Merry-Go-Round REMEDYING SPILT MILK ATHENS—'A CONQUERED CITY" ! i 5 ACROSS ore 3 of wurmoil sprouted i1l mercy on spilt milk, U. S loaned to the ing more h, were riding through th the whole t hens, mowing down warnings ol what 15 to econ wa time U. S. Am- spelled cut during the w; t lexander Kirk cabled th cclumn. And if we are g ent an unusual sum evoid future mistakes, we ston Churchill's orders review carefully those we made Scobie, perhaps' the the past « ever sent re- The Greeks tragedy began at Cas- n \\"h’ fought with Roosevelt made t S @ 1 but vital mistake of Do no! Churchill wir- to Wir n Churchill’s ed Scokie to 2 as if you w the Mediterranean was in a conquered c With the a British spk of influence and under your command you should that Britain should handle all poli- be able to hand ELAS (the anti- tical matters Roosevelt’s Royalists lessen You should rs now ex did not real- not hesitate to open fire on any ze how far 1 planned to armed n:ale in the Greek Capital g0. Be that as it ma however, who R the authority of the from that time on, U. S. messages Briti the Greeks who are to U. S. personnel in Greece had to collaborating with the British be sent th h codes, U. S. Keep and dominate Athens.” (Mer- personnel could t mly ir y-Go-Round 12-12-44. tish airplanes, 1 S. order Secretary of State Stettinius w Greece could without a so stunned by this brutal message British OK. and even American cit- that he ued a public statement izens workit UNRRA in Greece divorcing the United States m had “to ear Bri meddling in Greece— just (Merry-Go-Re verse of what President Tru And takir vantage of t I is doing today tige y BRITISH REVERSAL URGED moves } Long before the actual shooting One both Briti a B ervers in Greece had Shepherd yuble was un- disc road gover Miste r in Greece instead an Americ > Budge of the tection i ct pending some a I k m with pek guerrilla urged in a nal, written rep Colonel 1ep- | that the British policy of back were found re-the King be reversed. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA s ; ! — N = ‘=11 20 YEARS AGO s | = = T'HE LMPIR]&; PP IGCAIISR, SERA TS o LN R SR et e S MRS it Appy Bm’“m MARCH 1, 1927 ¥ .1 Ei Territorial Legislature opened trith both Senate and House M o | comple inization. Bartley Howard, scnior member from the Third | . 0 Jr ® | Division Wi ted ident of the Senate, and Sumner Smith, also of . Mrs. Lloyd Simpkins 'I'h« Third Division, was elected Speaker of the House. Ruth Reat was | . Lottie D. Stevenson ® | elected Secretary of the Senate and Cash Cole was elected Chief Clerk . Rachel Baker SH1EY the House . I. Coiton . mond Williams o ® Rt Robert Fraser of Douglas had purchased the Maul> residence and . Leon Kear . 4 e Matthaws o | Was tc it for his own heme ° A4 T 3 R G regular meeting of the' Juneau Parent-Teacher Association | wa heid the next evening. School bonds were to be discussed out op M s0-Round 7 i Seven days’ mail was due the next day from the south aboard either u wehill did not ! the Princess Mary or Alaska t on one occasion when . ewed Greek troops Weather report: High, 35; low, 33; cloudy 1ad Br Greece itain me nt liie ridden, occupied Almost m iffered and disarmed would 0 be th 1 part of the f how the United write their own oW the Bri- one of our to a strife- which the ned in ion since has war upa- German oc ATE > facts 1€ 1 hould t before we more blank checks ior h to pend in Greec (CCPYRICHT, 194, BELL SYNDICATE. INC) > > e WILL AGAI N TRY D e e P ! 5 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not Daily Lessons in English /. 1. corpox | | ¢ ay Every American is not thrifty.” That is nct true, for “every / 0" means icans, it exception,” and there are mainy ft S “Not erican is thrifty OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Re Pronounce rep-er- A as in AH, accent syllable PELLED: Fisher (one who fishes Fissure (a narrow 1S: Competent, capable, able, qualified, efficient, & | quat | 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: | | LONGEVITY; length of life. (Pronounce 1o O as in ON, E as lin BET, both I's as in IT, accent second s “The instances of ! |l it chiefly amot abstemious.”—Arbuthnot f e T0 DOMESTICATE ,} MODERN ETIQUETTE ffperra ree WILD MUSK OXEN ' WASHINGTON, March 7.-—®— The ¢ wal station of Al- ask ity is going to try again domesticate musk oxen Warner Gardner, assistant - told Delegate that if the anim x]\ can be domesticat- laska may have in musk oxen a source of both meat and wool Gardner said a com census of the musk oxen on Nunivak Island will L taken this spring and the Dk ment plans to fur- nish the University's experimental E ion with two bull and four cow calve “The earli xperimental work with the oxen in ska Gardner “did not long enou to produce sive data cerning their adapt- own fz being our rapidly converting estication.” of roduction of their unruly na- wctors which pre- optimistic about the musk ox into a commercial animal.” The of Nunivak the Fish census and Molher of Island will Wwildlife - the on by animals b2 taken Five Is Shot fo Death CHICAGO, March 7.— A mo- ther of five children, Mrs. Esther Libert, 40, was shot to death near her west side home today, while turning from a bakery Detective Phillip Derrig said po- lice believe the ! might have been a purse snatching attempt Her wallet was missing. - >-oeo — Empire Want-ads for results! A G e D) © E L park West India sorcery Ripened R e Y | Is it proper to place the elbows on the table while eating? A. This practice is not frowned upon as it once was. It is better, however, to keep the elbows off the table until c and cigarettes | are order Q an entire outfit of new clothes necesary for the bridegroom? ; though I ould have plenty of shirts, t socks, pajamas, nd sev a al good suits, but uld boys or fifteen years of age. not necessarily new. At about fourte e o e et ot et N T S UUSS USSR PO | ! \ N N N \ y [ 1. What highly inflammabie gas 2. Which country’s government has the largest cabinet? 3. How many birds are there in the 2 How many different trades and ecra are represented in a ed motion picture? What percentage of English words ¢ ANSWERS re derived from Lafin? 1 H zen 2. England, whose cabinet usually consists of 20 to 22 members 3. The cstimate is 5,750,000,000 4. About 300. 5. 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