Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, November 20, 1947
Internal Revenue Is Eternal P roblem
Incom e T ax S p ectre H a u n ts
N ext Session o f C ongress
By BAl’KHAGE
N e w t A n o ly tt e n d C om m en tator.
WASHINGTON.—It is a cloudy fall day, and the last tat
tered brown leaves are fluttering nervously on otherwise-bare
branches, wondering whether it is better to make the plunge
now or wait for more favorable breezes.
About the same thing is going on in an old colonial mansion on Con
necticut avenue where, beneath those high ceilings and once-aristocratic
surroundings, Republican national committee typewriters are clicking,
mimeographing machines are whirring and sweet telephone bells jangle
out of tune.
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Party leaders, like the uncertain that it gives uncommonly little to
leaves are wondering whether the the common man and is balm of
twice-vetoed tax bill, carefully re- gilead for the high brackets.
upholstered and furnished with
what they hope in non-bounceable
Republicans counter with the
equipment, will bring in the votes
assertion that tax relief is a cry
ing need. They feel Americans
this time.
will not be too angry if their
Down the block and across the
financial load is lightened at the
street in an office-building where
expense of Europe, provided
the plaster on the
that emergency relief is voted
walls is hardly
and perhaps a Marshall plan ac
dry, sit their op
cepted in principle but consid
posites. members
erably shaved down as to the
of the Democrat
total actually authorized.
ic nationi’ com
mittee, in their
You may have read the report
brand - new quar
"Taxes and the Budget: a Program
ters.
They are
for Prosperity In a Free Economy.’’
hopefully
p re -
a document issued by the non-parti
dieting that any
san, non-profit Committee for Eco
"effort to make
nomic Development. This group em
this tax reduc
ploys a large staff of experts who
tion bill a law
study governmental problems and
when the world
report on them at frequent inter
is trembling on
vals.
the edge of dis
Baukhage
There is much in this latest report
aster, will boom
to give aid and comfort to the tax-
erang.
Democrats say that if a tax re reduction school, but it also contains
duction bill should pass, is vetoed the warning that "it is not neces
and the veto overridden, what it sary or desirable to make final de
does for the folks with over $5.000 cisions about 1948 tax policies at
income a year will be balanced off this time. It will be necessary early
by what it doesn’t do for the folks next year. At that time, it will be
possible to get a clearer picture of
below that income bracket.
the expenditure outlook ahead and
You remember the original
of the degree of inflationary pres
bill. (H R . 1,1 the first bill into
sure which then exists.”
the house hopper January 3.
1947. At that time Democrats
But the question of "inflation
labelled it the 10-20-30 bill,
ary pressure’’ and how to ease
claimed it would save the man
it is already a highly political
with two dependents and $2,500
one. Both parties realize that
a year income only 59 cents a
they have to grab the reins if
week, while it would save the
they are going to get credit for
man with a $100.000 yearly in
guiding the country out of a
come $250 a week.
boom-bust cycle.
But that tax reduction bill and a
later one substantially the same B i-P artisanship
were squashed by presidential veto
A p p le C art T ip p ed
and congress upheld the veto. But
When President Truman revealed
now the possibility of something
new (and very attractive) has been the fact that he intended to use the
added—A community property tax emergency session of congress con
vening November 17, not merely to
provision for every taxpayer.
Briefly this means that a husband consider aid to Europe, but also to
for lowered
and wife may divide their income ponder a program
into two equal parts, computing the prices, it "upset the apple cart," as
tax on each of those parts, and mul one Republican said to me. An
tiplying by two. This naturally cuts agreement had been reached to give
priority to aid to
the total amount of tax to be paid.
E u r o p e . Senator
Under present tax schedules, for ex
Taft, boss of the
ample, the tax on two joint incomes
Republican
policy
of $50,000 each comes to less than
committee,
imme
the tax on a $100,000-net income be
diately made the
cause of the steeply-graduated sur
reassuring s t a t e -
tax rates.
ment that he felt
the q u e s t i o n of
C O P Confident
emergency aid and
O f B ill’s Passage
p o s s ib le p r e l i m i
Thirteen states - Oregon, Wash
nary legislation on
ington, California, New Mexico.
the Marshall plan
Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Texas, Ok
Taft
could and would be
lahoma, Louisiana, Nebraska, Mich
satisfactorily taken
igan and Pennsylvania — already care ol by December 19. He didn't
have community property tax pro say what else, if anything, he had in
visions. So has Hawaii. The pro mind for the boys on the hill to
vision, il inserted in a federal tax handle. But he did assure them they
bill, would put citizens of the other would be home well before the
35 states on the same basis.
Christmas holidays.
The money savings under the
Then came the Truman announce
community property tax clause ment that efforts to check inflation
would not benefit those married cou would be considered on a par with
ples whose combined net income is the aid-to-Europe plan. He said the
less than $3,000 because the rates two were closely interwoven be
don’t change up to that point That cause if the dollar continued to
is why opponents say this commu shrink, the purchases of supplies
nity property tax proposal, too, is couldn’t be stretched to meet the
aimed at saving money for the big
need.
ger taxpayers and doesn’t help out
After that Taft lost little time in
the little fellows (although the tax
tossing
any implied bi-partisan pro
advisor to the ways and means com
mittee tells me that neither would gram for the congressional session
any benefits accrue under this pro to the winds. If Truman was to in
vision to the married couple whose clude consideration of a domestic
combined income is $5,127,000 a economy program, all bets were
off. “All of the policies of the pres
year).
ent administration,” said Senator
Rot the Republicans feel sure
Taft, were so bad he couldn’t "go
that this proposal would carry a
along with them.”
tax-reducing bill through. They
And so the bi-partisan apple
claim many Democrats living in
cart
was upset.
states contiguous to the com
What is going to happen is de
munity - property tax states
cidedly hazy at this writing.
would support it.
Here’s the way Democrats view
the situation:
They know that the last tax bill
might have been passed over ,the
veto; some say it certainly could
have been passed, had it included
the community property tax provi
sion. They are not flippant about the
Republicans’ ability to muster the
necessary two-thirds vote this time
to override a veto.
But Democrats nourish this hope:
That if tax debate is insisted upon
before the question of lower prices
and European aid (including the
long-range Marshall plan as well as
emergency aid) is settled, the public
will say Republicans are fiddling
with politics while Europe bums
and will repudiate those Republic
ans at the polls.
Even if a tax bill should surmount
the veto-hurdle. Democrats still
hope it will boomerang on the fa
m iliar argument, mentioned earlier.
I AST y< ,,i, on our way west, we
1 7 traveled us far us Chicago with
George Hulas, owner of the Chicago
Beurs. The discussion came up us to
whether or not there were spots
enough for two football leugues,
with eight teams in each circuit,
just as baseball has today.
Hulas didn't think so. "We have
he said, “ with
only league.
New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Wash
ington, Pittsburgh.
Boston, Detroit and
Los Angeles. These
ACCIDENTAL PICTURE OF PORPOISE . . . Porpoises, frisky school
are the p r o v e n
boys of the sea, are forever playing their version of leup frog. Here are
places. There
Is
eight of them (count ’em) caught in a playful mood by the camera off
room enough for
the coast of Southport, N. C.
two big leagues in
baseball,”
Hains
continued, "but not
football.”
We
suggested
these spots — New
G . Ila la s
York, two clubs;
Chicago, two clubs, and one each
for Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh,
Washington, Cleveland, Boston, Buf
falo and Baltimore.
"That only adds up to 14 clubs,”
-------------------------------------------------------Ilalas said. “ We still need two more
BIG FOLK:
minor economic law is operating in and I don't like three you've thrown
this particular controversy:
In — Buffalo, Brooklyn and Haiti-
Pessimism
Normal
government
reaction, more. Football Is different than
With the imminence of the most whenever grain prices shoot above baseball. Brooklyn always has been
vital international occurrence of re what is considered a safe level, is to a great baseball town. Brooklyn s
cent months—the Big Four foreign lay the blame on the grain ex football team coat Dan Topping
ministers meeting in London on No changes, charging them with ma around $300,000 aud Its new owner»
vember 25 — the mood surrounding nipulating prices through specula more than $250.000 ”
the coming conference was predom tion.
That has occurred often
These figures arc startling, one
inantly one of pessimism.
enough in U. S. history to bear out has to admit. Sti'l Collins in Boston
That there was much justification the theory. Grain dealers, of course. is out more than $500,000 and Detroit
for such pessimism, no one doubted. Invariably blame the situation on is at least that much in the red. And
When the chief representatives of over-exporting.
these are two National league cities.
From that standpoint, at least, an
the U. S.. Great Britain, France and
There must be something wrong
Russia come together they will investigation at this time should in the running and handling of pro
tackle the tough, deadlocked prob shed some new light on the long football. Looking back 20 odd years,
lems of writing peace treaties for standing controversy. It might even there have been more than 20 teams
provide some real Information on in the National league. Only four
Germany and Austria.
have ever made money. They ore
Deputy foreign ministers, in Lon why prices are so high.
New York. Chicago. Washington
don to dispense with preliminaries
and Green Bay. Philadelphia has
before Marshall, Molotov, Bevin and
been breaking even, and so ha»
Bidault put their heads together,
Pittsburgh. The rest have gone
said the powers were as badly split
bankrupt or, like Detroit and Bos
as ever on m ajor issues.
ton, are more than half-a-million
If the conference fails, as it is
out.
very likely to do, the U. S. will have
So far. Brooklyn. Boston and De
to face the question of whether or
troit have been the major dabblers
not it wants to conclude a separate
In red—well more than a million
peace with that portion of Germany
and a half. Miami blew up with a
outside the Russian-occupied zone.
$300.000 detonation. Outside of a few
Such a treaty, not involving the So
teams, both leagues have suffered
viets, probably would precipitate a
heavily on the financial side.
final split between this nation and
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Nevertheless, sentiment has been in W ashington . . . Sen. Owen Overpaid I layers
rising in the U. S. favoring such an Brewster (Rep.. M e.), above, of the
Many of them have been paying
action if the Soviits refuse to co senate war investigating committee, football players two and three times
operate in straightening out the smiled gently, called first successful what they were worth. Players more
problems of Germany. James F. tests of Howard Hughes’ 25 million than 28 years of age have been puff-
Byrnes, former secretary of state, dollar flying boat "gratifying.”
I ing around. Others have reported 20 with Swedish Steel Blades
advocated that course, as have IN SARASOTA. FLA. . . . The Her- to 40 pounds overweight We agree
Ideal lor Home and Farml The
ald-Tribune, polling beardless males (with Red Blaik—when you ve passed
other responsible officials.
all
purpoae saw lor lire wood
to
discover
how
many
strokes
are
28,
go
out
and
get
another
job.
The corollary to that proposition
cutting, tree trimming, and gen
We’ll also add—when you weigh
is that the U. S. then must follow needed for the morning shave, com-
eral rough work. High Speed
through by keeping itself strong piled this statistic: From 38 strokes more than 230 pounds — take up
and Smooth Cutting. Stays sharp
m ilitarily and economically, prov for a fuzz bearder to 175 for a wire some fat man's game. At least 40
per cent pf the pro football players
longer. Available in 24, 30, 36,
ing to the rest of the world that it hair.
42, 48 inch length (rames and
has embarked on a definite policy IN TACOMA . . . Edgar H Eisen today arc in no physical condition
to play out a game that demands so
replaceable Swedish blades.
course and that that course is the hower,
the
general's brother,
laughed heartily, said he was only much on the physical side.
right one.
At leading Hardware Store«
joking when he remarked that he
Juat what will happen later ta a
would form an "Against Eisenhower guess beyond our reach. Pro foot
INVITATION:
G ENSCO TOOL D IV IS IO N
for President Club" with himself as ball, ao far, ha» cost various pro
C e a a rs l S ta s i W a c a h a a te C e ., In c .
moters close to 10 million dollars. A
Grain Battle
president.
H IO M. Koitune Avn. Chico)» 39,. 111.
few have made money, but nothing
Three of the nation’s major grain
like this amount.
exchanges, smarting under Presi RED CZECHS:
I don’t believe the losing promot
dent Trum an’s accusation that their Go Communist
ers will take this beating much
Get Well
“speculation” is responsible for pre
Add Czechoslovakia to the list of longer. And this Includes both
vailing high prices of cereals, have Communist - dominated nations in leagues. As far as I cats dig up the |
carried the attack into the enemy Eastern Europe.
figures, pro football, as great a
F ro m Y o u r C ou gh
camp by requesting a special con
A man named Klement Gottwald. game as it is, is still deep In the red.
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gressional investigation by the joint Comnqunist premier of Czechoslo
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Los Angeles has proved to be the
committee on the economic report. vakia, has emerged as a new strong
■ U L L I O Cough
man?po;sVssing“complete
authority
¡best
town
for
pro
football
with
The request was made by the Chi
cago board of trade, Kansas City from the national cabinet to rebuild Cleveland in second places The N . Y
football that
board of trade and the Minneapolis the government of semi-autonomous Giants. th™u8h the
®ki
the Mara brothers and Steve Owen
grain exchange in a letter to Sen. ‘
Rebuilding the government of the have provided for so many years,
Robert Taft (Rep., O.) and Rep.
g
Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep., M ich.), co- semi-autonomous nation will mean are well on the safe side. W..
chairmen of the committee. Taft re simply that Gottwald and his Com- ton has been a sellout on a 34 000
en
sponded immediately with a prom munists will change Czechoslovakia basis, due to Sammy Baugh.
from a nation whose people had at Baugh leaves, George Marshall will
ise of further hearings.
Sold a l lo cal Store»
’w
least a part measure of self-govern- have more headaches than a ton of
Countering M r. Truman's repeat
wOttO I MOOUCfl CO . lp»*«»' >nd
ment to a nation under totalitarian aspirin can cure. The sound spots in
ed charges that gambling and specu
,
Prp football today are Cleveland,
lation by grain exchanges have 'A lth o u g h the Slovak Democrats. Los Angeles New York part of Chi-
boosted food prices higher, the ex
predominantly conservative, are the cago, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia and
change officials contended that the
majority party in the country, the San Francisco.
real cause of the rise in grain prices Communists
were able to place Gott-
Chicago can’t possibly take care
Absolutely SURE WAY
is the administration’s “extraordi wa7d a former blacksmith, in com- of three teams. The Rockets already
nary and ever increasing purchases
DEPENDABLE FOR 69 YEARSI
it
power
have discovered this sad news.
of grain and flour for export.” Ad
F ilth y ra ts sp read
ThCus Czechoslovakia has shifted Brooklyn, a fine baseball city, pos-
diaeoae and de-
ministration “bungling and lack of
STEARNS' deadly
sibly
the
best,
has
known
only
third
str o y fe e d , c r o p e ,
planning” also were cited by the from a position as a Soviet satellite
ELECTRIC
chickens, livestock .
with some will of its own to a lower and fourth rate football teams for
grain officials.
is sure death
R AT b ROACH Stearns*
years. Brooklyn never has had a
to rats. U r a l by U . S.
position
as
a
Russian
dominated
Wherever the truth may lie— and
chance.
P A S T ___
E Government.
it probably is somewhere midway state with literally no self-determi
354 & $1.00 ot DRUGGISTS
nation.
It
has
become
another
unit
<
•
between the government and grain
exchange viewpoints — it should be in the string of Soviet buffer states FeiV Opportunities
4 7 -4 7
I still believe Buffalo and Balti WNU—13
recognized that a force akin to a to the south and west.
more can be strong centers, given
high-grade teams. Neither will sup
port a loser, long. There has been
talk of Atlanta, Dallas, Akron and a
few other cities, including New Or
leans, that might work out. They
For You To Feel Well
might—if you care to gamble with
«4 hours every day. 7 days »vary
week. navar »topping, tha kldnaya Alter
a $300,000 loss. Most of these are
wait»
. . . . matter from tna blood.
strictly college towns.
_ __i______ i.
«uin
ri« p too.
o r the
th e d
ay c
prices
will
rise
too,
or
day
of
It mora people «era awara ot ho« the
plan. Now, however, the rule book
Government controls on the fa
kldn
* leva must constantly ramova eur-
falling prices will be postponed.
There
was,
some
years
ago,
a
gen
has
been
thrown
away,
and
retail
r
__i
fluid, eicase acid» and other waata
plus
vored American practice of install
Installment
credit,
economists
matter that cannot stay In the blood
eral belief that pro football would
ment buying went off November 1, ers doubtlessly will reduce the say, is a volatile factor In our econ
without Injury to health, there would
wreck college football, just as pro
amount of the Initial payment.
ba batter understanding of why the
and from now on the purchase of
omy and can be a considerable force baseball smothered college base
whole system ia upset whan kldnaya fall
Attracted
by
the
lure
of
"easy
to function properly.
that radio or refrigerator is strictly
operating to help bring about a de ball. I never believed this would
Burning, acanty or too fraquant urina
terms,”
hard-pressed
householders
a m atter between you and the deal
tion aometlmaa warns that something
pression.
happen.
The
college game
is
Is
wrong. You may Buffer nagging back
now
may
see
their
way
clear
to
When goods are available on easy stronger today than It ever has been
er unless congress decides to step
ache, headaches, dluinees, rhaumatia
buying needed items that they felt credit terms, consumers are tempt before. Fro football isn’t. Look over
in again at the special session.
pains, getting up at nights, swelling.
Why not try Doan't P illtl You will
One result of the removal of in they could not afford before. With ed to buy to the lim it. They over college attendance figures—86,000 at
ba using a medicine raeommandad tha
pledge
their
incomes.
This
accentu
the
down
payment
and
Installment
country
over. Doan’s stimulate tha fune-
Michigan—around 80,000 in the Cali
stallment buying curbs is very like
tlon of tha kldnaya and help them te
ly to be an increase in the already terms relaxed, demand for goods ates the boom and eventually a sat fornia, Pennsylvania and Ohio State
flash out poisonous waata from tha
blood. They contain nothing harmful.
badly swollen prices of consumer is sure to rise; but It Is certainly uration point is reached. The ex stands—60,000 in Los Angeles—from
Oat Doan't today. Uaa with confldenoe.
far from sure that the supply of cessive credit has to be liquidated 40,000 to 60,000 all over the college
goods.
At all drug atoraa.
out of current Income on the down map. College football is still out-
such
goods
will
increase
accord
Under the law, now out of effect, a
swing, and so the depression, If one drawing pro football, game for
down payment of one-third of the ingly.
is already in the making, is given a game, by at least two to one.
Thus,
if
the
old
law
of
supply
and
purchase price was required of
anyone buying on the installment demand follows its natural bent, further impetu»
INSTALLMENT BUYING
QUICKER
K I U RATS
Kidneys Must
Work Well-
Curbs Off, Prices May Go Up
I
D oan sp ills