The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1948, Page 4

a Empire day by the President Vice-President Bditor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager red in the Post Office In Jrnsau as Second Class Matter. SURSCRIPTI )N RATE: d by carrier in Junesn a1 d Dongla one ye: at the following rates: in mdvance, $7.50; per month; Delivere favor 1f thes will promptly notify ure ¢ irregularity in the delivery ss Office, 374. ASSOCIATED PRESS 1y sntitled to the use for to 1t or not ot ocal news published FACTOR 1ses based the cost of living. How- 1, we fail to are » cost of living Electric light bills 2 e . e e . main feature of the bill, if one is looking for any new principle in the nation’s income tax policy. Reduction of taxes certainly is a factor in de- creasing the of living. The worker will have more take-home pay. The merchant should be able to reduce his charges in proportion to his tax reduc- cost tion On the other hand, if one class of Juneau wage earners demands and recelves wage increase, all| other \\nrkxw will demand and get similar increases, | forcing up the cost of doing business and forcing up No new wealth is created. Higher prices eat increases. Those unfortunates with fixed pensioners, retired persons, etc —suffer most APRIL 12 a Mrs. Dora Crondahl J. W. Gucker Emmett Polach Alice Perry Patricia Berg prices. up wage . . . . . . . ° mes 5 . Emily Kelly ST e © F. W. Raymond Big Profits . Geraldine Wagner . - — . . (Cincinnati Enquicer © e 06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 son of annual rope.ts from our busi- - v As they come in, the labor press|sized by the bawling out Truman mps on them with such expressions as “unpre- [ggve Stalin on the first day of .dented money grab,” the idea being, of course, to |their meeting—a bawling out which give workers the idea that companies make excessive |caused that great foreign-affairs profits and that wage increases are in order. expert, White House Military Aide Some companies do make large profits, it is true. | garry Vaughan, later to remark: Scme even make excessive profits, But a lot of com- “Chief, you certainly gave it to inies are not making large profits, even in these |nim That was wonderful.” pa many a as Soviet- bom times. And nsiderable number of companies 1ally are losing money—strange as it may seem— deserved as far alin { bawling ¥ cut s in these boom dayvs. This was true in other booms | American relations are concerned. and it is true in this one. But you can’t reprimand a <chiet On one day recently, the last day for which| ¢ ctate as if he were a schocl- figures are 2 able, 41 companies made their reports. boy on the first day you meet Of the 41 companies, 27 made larger profits than pin andq then expect future rela- the year before, 17 companies made less and four | jons to be cordial. { Sc when historians chalk up the | final record of Harry S. Truman lev may well compare him to-a ! freight-locomotive engineer who | suddenly finds himself pulling a | streamliner. And as we near the end of Harry's runs the United States of America is still on the but the sleepless, shaken- aally lost money The losses for the four companies ranged irom $709,000 to $19,100,000. The company that lost $19,000,- 000 actually lost $40,000,000, but a Federal tax carry- back of $20,700,000 halved its loss. But it st lost heavily This examination of days showed almc set-up is not an isolated one. An reports on the two preceding -out of ‘ cne-daj n t exactly the same ratios tacks, od items have taken | €very 12 companies reporting, eight showed profits|yp passengers just don’t want to ths and the larger than the year before, three made less and one | ;e witn nim at the throttle any i it 6. a8 Tow actually lost money. Many companies mnqe mnrc;mm.{_ At tae next division voint E » sesfhels money last year than in 1946 only because their opera- | are pretty sure to seek a ucw as 5 per cent. However iffs Will | o0 were hampered severely by strikes in the first half | . oinee, enable reduction ) | of 1946, Pt L oL ] On top of 2ll of this come ase in the | But our point is this: If labor thinks it sm:uld Federel income tax, retroactive to January 1, and after | ask wage increases on the basis of “unprecedented” luIHERAN lADIES June 30 the 1 cen itorial tax goes out of | profits, what about the companies in the same in- e \ducln that made less money or ac.\nllv lost monay? | Relief for every » seen in the low duction b! In one ;.:ulu we saw, stress was laid on the big pxc(n\ of qmum )bile companies, particularly General »ut Kaiser-Frazer? It made $4.11 the business meeting of the Ladies Aid Society last At Large L are in the | 2 . but in the year vefore it lost $4.84 L']fl:“""’]“ s g oyt o e br below $3,000 a yer: acket are MOT€ | o chave o net profit for the two boom years of [ W€ ot “e“] made '1? e';'he k Jayers, some 38 | exactly less than nothing. Do the wage increases at DUal Spring Sale and Tea. 1 S ot | following committees were appoint- Gt 'of tren. . will be relieved of | General Motors extend tu Kaiser-Frazer, too? ! 1“’(0 ‘“me Lol all tsx payments of thew will find | Or take the Packard Motor Car Co. It pays its!“ g oy 0" immittee: Mrs. Olaf their tax duced by 50 to 80 per cent. Reductions '\'tcckhuldr-x-: the munificent dividend of 15 cents a Bodding, Mrs. Howard Sawyer and in this bracket will account for more thrn 40 per cent | year. La$t year it earned 26 cents a share, in 1946 Mrs, Hans Berg. of the government's 1085 Of revenue, | it earned 32 cents a share. In 1946 Packard rgally o e g b i 3 ' 0 tions — 8 3 ent 4 4 In the bracket of highly skille¢ Wwi:gers ahu many | $6000000 on its operations — only & tax adluSMORt gon, Mrs. Jack Burford, Mrs. W, enabled it to show any profit at all, Is Packard making | - % rs, with family incomes of $5000 a year, the an excessive profit? Elsner and Mrs. Robert Pollack. i . Geodie-Sale Ccmmittee: Mrs But because of the splitting incomes on the community les tax reduction for year. provision for the the larger, percentagewis familizs somewhat lower incomes. This, course, »s only in the 36 States not now pro- viding by law for community property in the family. P ue to this community property provision, and partly because of the increase of exemptions, the | main benefits of the mensure passed by Congress fall to married mer families to support. In all i 11 reduction is from a tax of $600 to one of about | married iter in the middle brackets than in the savings of families from $10,000 to $25.- | General Motors earned $375,000,000. e, -than those of of | 000,000—near Are all automobile companies making big profits | yohn Sunderland, Mrs. Darwin Hoel culiar working of | just because General Motors made a big profit last | ,ng Mrs. Ed Dick. { vear? Is the General Motors profit excessive? Gen- | ppg Chris Wyller will serve as eral Motors made $288,000,000 last year. In 1946 it made ' pocress for the affair which will $87,000000 (incidentally this was $21,000,000 less than | p. peld May 5. | its dividends called for that year and the $21,000000 | "1y was also decided to sponsor | had to come from surplus). In the two big boom yeflrs a congregational dinner for the But in the 2% 'giopermen on April 22. It is re- -\ s since V- Day General Motors has spent $600,- twice its earnings for the two boom | years—on plant expansion and modernization to give more jobs to more people. Who pays for that? { Because of rising costs, including wages, General | Motors finds that it takes nearly twice as much capital |to conduct its business today as the average for the four prewar vears. Where does this money come from? ! It would be a good idea to take all of the facts quested that those desiring to at- tend make reservations by calling 571 cr Blue 285 as soon as possible. Preceding the business session the group was entertained by two vocal numbers by Nancy McDowell and Ruth Ann Bloomquist, ac- companicd by Elizabeth Wyller. Mrs. Ray Nevin gave an interest- wome L reduction of taxes is very much | into consideration when considering the profits of an # 5 greater od pers This, in fact, is the ' indust ‘lSr;g l“;kth‘mc‘m ?r!mlc, At The - paRR % N e e gn o e Cross.” | = Sk . 2 Hostesses for the evening were “Ie waihmgmfl to reve a cecision made by the Russia. and if we see that prc pred Orme and Mrs. Jack fruman Administration and the Russia !s winning, we ought t0 Goud, United Nations on Palestine after help Germany, and that way let ST P N Merry-Go-Round weeks of careful debate them kill as many as possible” |q o o @ ¢ © @ ¢ 0 ¢ o ® SR Even after three years of hold- = n W " v 4 e o4 A lot of people have shared that e . By I)RI-M }’h;\RSON | ng press “‘U““"‘"““"v Harry TrU- yjow then and since. But they ¢ TIDE TABLE e man still does not realize that his ..o not members of the United e ® (Conti xdul from Page One) words reverberate round the world. giotec Senate, serving under a APRIL 13 et —— - lflsl'lnlinllfi. he'r(;'““lv ;i]‘n f";l‘""!;" President who laid down a national e High tide, 3:43 am, 172 ft. reverberate world. As|lst & ‘“‘-B W nad "‘ ecte onlY policy of aid to Russia. Naturally, e Low tide, 10:26 am., -11 ft. ® Jimmie By . he still | 9n€ “"'“.‘-f u ’l“ ‘_1 ‘l‘"?' S4ME he gentlemen in the Kremlin read e High tide, 16:42 pm. 139 ft. ® shoots from the hip, he still makes | Press con ”j“f,fi A I“‘_ his oW (he pewspapers. Naturally, also, @ Low tide, 22:25 pm. 4.0 ft. ® ns that influence the ‘”-Vl o4 h’l“"( 8. Illdl’mll Chi- when Stalin sat down with the . te rllions. He still seems ”‘" i s affected 400~ pow president of the United States © ¢ @ @ © © o o o o o ® that our jerky, u 00 “;l”p‘]‘ . at Potsdam, this remark was not iy e and-d mersault policies \ o ‘S‘“ 2 5 "f"‘u‘ l“‘l‘:l forgotten. now available at would for our tes considered tak- propaply it was even re-empha- X enaiisst - alles. fo. cur | g Chinese Comm s into the S e pha- Caslare T 840 ¢ that we have too Chinese Government Newsmen at- # o to lend They never tending the conference, realizing Rt bl (rossword Puzzle P | him. They asked questions calcu- ated to remind the President that ACROSS 26. Allude i he himself had sent a special Am- ; 7. Table SIZING UP TRUMAN : » 8 special Am- | ot HEEE 380 Along bassador to C ess 39. Refuse ans chironicle the | purpo: of g 4 g:t&?fle‘fl 40. Klndh;;fl . 9. ne rubber Truman, they will; Commu P mor:Jpnlaln 41. Performed i as honest, | Kuomintang v . Rubber tree 42 Burn without j 3 ) i 3. Gum resin flame stubbornly But either t ent couldn’t . Flap 44. Separation of ch domestic policies | rememb: ¢ t to «l}‘;firgfl? o :v‘;‘r&‘v’m‘?;’zuhd taxes, civil rights,’'m once widely public Seaweed another 1 ed aact Color b Furs He himself, when General Mar- l\‘&"‘i’l‘;\edraw Am- formally nounced . lEot ; undertaking the Bush §7. Put on Solution of Saturday's Puzzle 3 Falsif . Giraffe-like bring the Com- A L animal 62. Forgive DOWN Kai You and I 60. Pinch 63. Automotive . Restrain t . Doleful 61. Finish fuel: colloq. 2. Winglike of pleasant conversation, was abl winning, ' he said, Turned over & 1 2 3 : . that he had 5. Southern state failed ¢ ance on % D s r both sides. These rrefutable, 7. Arabiag Truman, u he | public statement 8. made a t he was man stubbornly encugh to out and edmit statement, a- fl// o it ‘i eve diplomatical- 4 \i‘gprmx?n;mm The trouble %5 that no fent ince to crawl off ////“. | Meshed fabrie can afford to make many mistake . Banred. imasy s . American SHOOTING FROM LIP AWLED OUT fl 3% Eoat nay Jimmie Byrnes, when Stcre ALIN 4 " e of State, was always careful to rcba Truman's most disas- fl- Jisices warn Truman, when he had to de- (rcu e hip occurred cide on an international matter, when enator. The shot | . not to make up bis mind unt 5 ¢ ing down the cor- | Byrnes, had explained both s ors Kremlin tering | 3 s ) ). <remlin, ering 1% he could get any decision he with the mcst difficult of first of Truman 1941 when Harry Tru- ¢t we s is shocting Senator from Missouri H. the hip any invaded Russia, he f///fl That's why Secretary of Defense was asked by the press for com- /4.. H B Forrestal, in a few brief m ment. “If see that Germany ‘ ¥ Rl . Fonoun “we ought to| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU, ALASKA ! APRIL 12, 1928 | J. W. Gucker underwent a tonsilectemy at St. Ann’s Hospital. oo S COMMERCIAL VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 5559 Meets first and third Fridays. Post Hall, Sew~ ard St. Visiting Com- rades Welcome. 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