The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOUR » g o4 Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets. Juneau, Alaska WELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - Editor and Manager 3 END - - - - Managing Bditor N - Business Manager Bntered In the Post Office in Junsau as Second Cl SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglax for S1.50 per month: six months, $8.00, one vear, SI5. T+ mafl, postage paid, at the following rates: One year. in advance. $15.00; six months, in sdvance, $7.50; me mont adyance, 3180 { Subscribers wil: ccnfer @ favor if they will promptly notify ihe Business Office of any fallure o irregularity o the delivery af their papers Telephones: News Office, 602, Business Office, 374 | ENBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS the use for | The Assoclated Press s ex antitled to republication of all news di<p credited to it or not ether- | sise credited in this paper also the local news published herein | — Alasks Newspapers. 1417 WHAT ABOUT FEDERAL TAXES? While it begins to look very much as if the people | of the United States will receive some benefits from | reducing taxes this year, already (ho‘ campaign has begun to impose even heavier taxes | next year, when the election will be out of the way | and there is less immediate need to think about votes. | The tax load that the nation can safely carry? long ago passed the danger mark. When taxes take more than 20 per cent of our national income there lezislation is real danger that not sufficient dollars are left in private hands to raise the capital needed to keep the | industrial scheme going. Today taxes take 25 per cent of the national income. This oppressive taxation has all but destroyed the | incentive to get ahead, to save and to invest in new enterprises. Even in Soviet Russia the successful‘ industrial managers, scientists and others fare better | relativel than we do under our present tax system. In the United States, the group whose incomes | yange up from $5,000 must turn over about one-half | of its total income to Federal, State and local tax | collectors. The incentive to get ahead has been almost | destroyec ho tanke less than $5000 pay in direct and hidden s about 20 per cent of their incomes, against about 18 per cent before the war. Some of | these people who earn less than $5,000 a year may ! wonder why they should worry abéut a tax program that seems directed as the comparatively small group ! of Americ who make $5,000 a year or more. The answer is that risk capital, the money that makes new jobs-when invested in growing companies or new i business must come largely from the group makinu‘ more than $5,000 annually It was the savings of group that made possible the huge growth in American industry 1 jobs and our progress in raising living standards in the years before 1930 Twenty year: go when taxes took only 12 cents out of every dollar of the national income, our tax system was hardly noticed. Today, when it taxes twice | as much, when it double-taxes the earnings of in- | vestors, entails discriminatory excises, overlaps with | State and local taxes, it is leading to disaster | Of course, if you want socialism, then take the | “hese this smaller and Amer] alty payments no The Washingfon | their their | sucee ! married state give | romantically | provide present The government seems to have plenty of money to invest in enterprises formerly left tax system to private initiative But if the system of free enterprise and initiative which made this country the greatest on earth is to ystem must be rev survive, the tax By demanding economy in government and ing o the tax system to stimulate initiative an isk-taking, Congress multiply many times tb can ! chances of maintaining full employment and raising living standards Good Husband—Or Wife (Washington Post) Cynics who believe that successful marriages rest | on material foundations instead of spiritual affinities| will, no doubt, find a certain amount of support views in the results of a Gallup poll, listing the | ities that the participants consider most important | se of married | Q in a good ht and or wife. For in c men top rating is given to wives who are good home- | I makers and housekeepers, while first on the list of gualities married women consider important in hus bands is ability to provide a good living for the family. as loyalty, pleasant dispesition, | Such sterling qualities and Kkindliness, friends and valued business associates and should be i the best guarantees of happy marriages, are rated far below the ability to maintain or to run a household | sfully. Even single men who, as a group, attach less importance to such material qualifications for the priortiy to the good housekeeper | seable, good companion, wh single | s a group, appear to be somewhat more | inclined than their married sisters, put ith ability to | | over the women, Wl faithfulness and steadiness on a par w We do not believe that the emphasis put on the material advantages derivable from marriages to good homemakers or good providel s the case may be,| should be interpreted as evidence of a trend toward | marriages of mutual convenience based on a cold weighing of the qualifications of a prospective life partner. On th contrary, we strongly suspect that some of the ma d men and women who expressed a preference for well-run homes and economic security have belatedly realized that the partners of their! choice lack certain practical qualifications essential to happy home life. In other cases, where the material basis for successful living has been firmly established, husbands and wives have tardily come to realize its importance. It by no means follows that they under- | rate those qualities of heart and mind that make shared hardships easier to bear. and Cars Farme (New York Times) High prices for durable goods, srum automobiles to sewing machines. have been the cause of much! public lamentation. However, an automobile finance | company in Minnesota made a suryey not long ago | which reveals that prices of foodstuffs from American | farms reached an altitude, before the recent crack | in the commodity markets, out of proportion to those | at least of motor Finding its business from | farmers considerably shrunken, as compared with pre war days, this comp: paying cash for their new vehicles. A study of com-| parative prices for products disclosed the reason. It was found that a new car which in 1940 sold for 3950 commanded a price of $1,600 for its 1948 model. Trans- lated into terms of what the farmer asked for his | products in 1947, this is what two cars would cost: The 1940 car cost sixty-four hogs weighing 275 pounds each—the 1948 car cost twenty-one such hogs; | in 1940 a car could be bought for twleve and a half | 1,000-pound steers, but eight.and a half steers would | pay for the more expensive car in 1943. One hundred | and thirty 80-pound lambs would supply the car| price of 1940, but only eighty-eight were required | for the 1943 model. Similarly, the 1940 car cost 176 | crates of eggs against ninety-six for the new model; | 1,393 bushels of wheat, against 602; 1,537 bushels of | corn, against 717; 3,135 bushels of oats, against 1,468; 126 tons of hay, against ninety-five, and nineteen bales | of cotton, against ten 1 Certainlv, in the light of this barter of comparison, the durable goods have not been the chief offenders in the inflationary spiral. secrecy is involv- ing this fact, devoted two para- which make men and womgn ideal < | made public of MARCH 31 Stella Thompson . . . . . Francis A. Reindeau . . A Ike P. Taylor . . Mrs. G Cleveland . . Beverly Lane . . Betty n Waller . ° R. M. Schultz .| . Mrs. Etta Miller L3 . Harry McGowan o ° . . . B . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA from 20 YEARS AGO ‘I MARCH 31, | 1928 Registration for the city election was 745 at noon this day. were to close at 7:30 p. m. THE EMPIRE Art McKinnon announced an eight-piece orchestra would play this |night in the Thane Mess Hall for the dance given in honor of the Moose baseball team. Special ferries were to operate and the grader had been in autos. Arne Shudshift, Elmer E. Smith, Hans Loken, ", Granberg, had filed for the City Council at Douglas. the Douglas School Board. Nels Anderson, Gus Lundell, J. R. Guerin, Joe Riedi and B. J. Johnson Robert Fraser was the only Registration was 174'at noon. | | put to work making the Thane road smooth for those going to the party A VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 5559 Meets first and third - —— You'll Always Get a Better Deal | in Fur Styles and Values at Martin Viclor Furs, Inc. Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations | H. C. Murphy, Ph.D. Physical Therapy—all types MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month A\ in Scottish Rite Temple P R Co. beginning at 7:30 p. m. ‘Wel . 8 GRUENING, Com- :VVIL’;;SA‘ R. BOOTH, Books | mender: WILLIAM 1i. orshipful Master; JAMES W. SHERLOCK, Adiutant. LEIVERS. Secretary, € B.P.0.ELKS Meets every Wednesday ¢ 8 pP. m. Visiting brothers wet- come. VICTOR POWER, Ex- alted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, See- retary. , r;,;;m;;o;@ 5 > * ® °|candidate for 5 ‘ } L STEAM BATHS | | CHARLES R. GRIFFIN Co riotism and intelligence of the Dr. H. W. Alberts, Chief Agronomist-in-Charge of the Agriculture 1005 SECOND AVE. + SFAT™IE 4. = Elici 5 nerican people. In the past, it 10th and E Phone Blue 650 S B b 323 “led to maty unWise RoRE Saah Experimental Stations in Alaska, addressed the members of the Juneau y as the concealing of facts’ known | Serden Club ey o F Serving Alaska Exclusively < to the enemy, and even the dis-| b rwin o 1 St virivtos AN { Buns made from Fairbanks-milled flour were a special feature at Then eed c.’ ——— 1 of distorted information. | For ¢ the Japanese knew ar perfectly well the destruction they had wreak upon our airplanes in the lippines, but for two| years the V Department re- | quested that it be Kkept secret from the public that 300 planes were destroyed on Philippine air- | lields a number of hours after the | attack cn Pearl Harbor was known. | “The loss was only recently and there is at least a suspicion that part of the rea- son for requesting the committee to consider the information ‘secret’ was the desire to avoid resent- ment by the public of the loss of 300 planes which would have been so valuable to the cefense of the Philippines MERRY-GO-ROUND Quoth ex-Congressman Maury Maverick after returning to San Antonio following several months in Los Angeles: “I love my worst Texas enemy more than my best California friend.” . . . Payne Rat- ner, ex-Governor of Kansas, re- | cently dropped in to see Capt. eificient aide to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Louis Denfeld, asked Yeager to use his influence with his father- in-law, Roy Bailey, publisher of the Salina, Kansas, Journal, in favor of Sen. Arthur Capper. Rat- ner admitted Kansas didn't have much of a choice between Capper and his G.OP. primary opponent, Andy Schoeppel, but claimed Cap- Howard Yeager, any discovered that farmers were | per was the lesser of tw0 evils. Re vommmmas plied Captain Yeager: “My job is the Navy, not running my father- in-law’s politics.” - - BOATS FOR REPAIRS | AU MARINE The Dixie, belonging to Fred Weche of Pelican, was brought on the ways yester for a new at the stern post and other repair Juneau Marine ways Preparations are being made to received the Juneau Spruce tug, Aquatania, for extensive repairs when she arrives and is available. She is expected about the first of ! next week. | The Dundas, based in Hoonah, is expected at the ways today. The New Anny, now on the ways for general repairs, is expected to go into the water next week. e ed graphs to it in a quarterly report:® ® ¢ © © i SR Me r Go Round —_— dated March 4, 1944, The copies |® L IY' LEWIS WILL FIGHT of the report were in type and|® TIDE TASLE . —— John L. Lewis has told close circulated confidentially to uom-i" . By DREW PEARSON friends that he is set to go to mittee members, when three Sena-$ APRIL 1 . —— the Supreme Court to test the con- tcrs—Hatch of New Mexico and| ¥ : - (Contirued from Page One) stitutionality of the Taft-Hartley Connally of Texas, Democrats;|® Low tide, 0:48 am. 63 ft. - — —— — | Labor Act. with Ball of Minnesota, Republi-;® High tide, 6:42 am, 127 {t. on Atomic Energy predicted that| pewis firmly believes that the can—objected. Truman yielded to|® Low tide, 14:03 p.m., 33 ft. e the metal may become almost 8S qafi-Hartley provision compelling their objection anc withdrew the;' High tide, 20:51 pm., 10:7 ft. e precious as diamonds. Since the | woriers to return to their jobs criticism of MacArthur. & e vichest deposits are all outside|ypy jnjunction—if a strike endangers | O e . R > ) 8 angers The two censored paragraphs — e —— the United States and could be cut | tne nations welfare—is unconsti- read: 4 off in case of war, this domestic | iytional. i ; % Genuine Levl's, now available at supply becomes all the more val-| rTherefore, if an injunction is Censorship is an insult to the| Casler's. uable 2 obtained against Lewis' striking ~ T I e e e T L e But the Navajos, sitting on one ynited Mine Workers members, the of nature’s jackpots, so far haven't|mine labor boss intends to fight it G|A been able to collect a cent. Reason | piont up to the Supreme Court. A sar, th in is largely obscured ! wThis js not so much a fight T by sccrecy, and only part of theiggainst mine operators Lewis B E St cus oo 4010 within the Iimits | tolg an intimate. “It's a fight % L antihe S| of national security |against the Taft-Hartley Act. I For one thing, uranium does not, want a showdown and I won't give 3 E (xist in its pure form on the res-|,, until I get one.” | tating part T rvation, but must be extracted | b ot A a5 a by-product from vanadium.| MACARTHUR'S CENSORSHIP | i & __ suddenly Ihe only leases to dig for vanad- B T e fniteiar bt R jum on Navajo territory—six in| When Harry Truman was chair-| 7. Lest of its Y i A all—are held by the Vanadium 'man of the Senate War Investigat- R L LU sell 3 | Kintl of grave int of time N Corporation. These leases specify!ing Committee he came near blast- el that the Indians will be paid 10!ing one piece of wartime censor- feratian o percent royalty on all mineral ship. If he had, it would have *NgeWAY Singing voize Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle compounds—except vanadium com- |cast a somewhat different light y hiarried pounds, In the latter case, the on one of his present political . Anspisem AR royalty is stipulated as 10 percent | opponents Douglas MacArthur. | rak PO ot e the vanadium oxide, a metal But he didn't 65 Conclude o " bl i oA used to toughen steel. Since uran-| ium is part of the raw vanadium cre until processed, the company conveivably might get away with pa royalty only on the com- paratively valueless vanadium ox- ide, nct on the other raw vana- dium out of which uranium comes. However the Indian Service takes the view that uranium is a separate metal apart from vana- dium, therefore ubject to the full 10 percent royalty fee But« the amount of uranium taken from the reservation is unknown to the Indian rvice which hasn't any record of a single o ty payment to the Navajos for uranium. Y the Vanadtum Corporatio i known to have been extract for several years. The Vanadium Corporation de- clined all comment on the grounds that its uranium project is top| secret But the Atomic Energy Ccmmission informed this column- | jst that on the amount of roy-; — Wartime censorship _'sometimes operated in ag peculiar manner. The manner in which U.S. planes 7 Ingredient of were caught napping and burned Pl L on the ground at Pearl Harbor was Nautical known to the world and the mili- EREn fa ) tary commanders were severely re- C primanded. But the manner in i which General ‘MacArthur’s bomb- ! “ ers were also caught napping at Attives Manila and burned on the ground | RiIEind. ol reat was censored { 0 Three hundred planes, sent to 8 Manila at great sacrifice to U. S. Air Forces in other areas, were | reen tree lost as a result. MacArthur had | s been demanding that planes be sent him instead of going to be- leaguered England, at that time sreifully ' pounded by Nazi air But though MacArthur had a pecial warning that the Japs were attacking, while Pearl Harbor did not, he left his 300 planes help- less on the ground. The Truman committee, discover- i the Chamber of Commerce dinner-meeting. Mrs. Harry G. Watson, former resident of Fairbanks, Weather: High, 41; low, 39; clear. i s e nounced delicious. B ; WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not sa Say, “This is different FROM that.” ; OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Zealous. Pronounce first syllable ZEL, | E as in BELL. The buns were made by 1 Daily Lessons in English %, 1. corpon | — “This is different than that.” OFTEN MISSPELLED: Colander; COL, though pronounced KUL. 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