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Editorials The Evening Independent 4 MASSILLON, OHIO, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1953 An Economy Proposal The proposal to give the president of -the United States the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills is likely to come up when congress meets again. Many presidents have favored it. Any member -of who wants to put a brake on wild government spending would have a strong motive to support it. But will the measure sponsored by Representatives Keating and Bennett fare better than its predecessors? With President Eisenhower's public support, it might.

The lack of this presidential power has often made it possible for congress to force expenditures a Presidents Roosevelt and have preferred to avoid. In order to make sure of the essential appropriations contained in a bill and to avoid the often appalling consequences of killing them, presidents have accepted unwise expenditures and treasury raids that could hardly be justified. But a congress genuinely bent on economy might well deprive its less scrupulous members of their power of blackmail over the chief executive. But this is not 'the sort of issue over which voters and taxpayers come emotional. Even those who are aroused over economy in the abstract find it hard to get excited over the mere mechanics of government.

More Rapid Changes Via grapevine comes the prediction from Detroit that automobile designs will really be given a going over in the next couple of years, now that the bloom is off the automobile boom. Competition will inspire more frequent and more radical revisions of design and mechanical innovations. Well, it was ever thus. When there is competition in any industry or business, there can be no stagnation. People who think the vehicles they are currently driving are the ultimate in design may be amazed in a year or two by improvements that will be offered in new models.

At least tories will announce them as improvements, although some owners of older models, as usual, will reserve doubts. The great danger, as many motorists see it, is that some manufacturers in desperation will permit European ideas to penetrate into their designs. If there is anything this country does not need, it is European design automobiles, with their lack of room, general inconveniences and ugly contours The Beef Inquiry Answers to the inquiry into the price spread between quotations for cattle and retail meat prices, ordered by Secretary of Agriculture Benson, may confirm tentative impressions. Price to the consumer reflects taxes, wages, servicing charges and many factors other than the raw material. In simpler days, when a product was affected by one or two taxes, and when wages were low and stable, there was a quick response of retail prices to lower costs of raw materials.

The fact that wheat reflects a small part of the price of a loaf of bread has become an old story. The multiplicity of taxes seems to -be a permanent fixture. Wages are still increasing. Transportation and servicing costs are still rising. If taxes, wages and other factors decreased when beef prices at livestock markets decline, then failure of retail prices to respond would be less easily understandable.

In this era of high fixed costs consumer expectations of retail price declines to match declines in raw materials are not realized as they once were. The Evening Independent Established 1863 Published daily, except Sunday by Earl J- Jones Enterprises, Inc. FRED J. BECKER, editor JOHN E. ROWE.

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1870. Telcohom Are Their Ears Red? German prisoners of war being repatriated from Siberia report rubbing shoulders with an array of minor historical figures from out of Germany's recent past. There were three of Hitler's former servants, one of whom had helped burn the fuehrer's body, captured generals by the dozen, arid the adjutant of the late German president Von Hindenburg. A U. S.

Army sergeant from Chicago turned up. His parent; had emigrated from the Rhineland, which probably satisfied the Germans they were justified in detaining him. Germans being retrieved from living death beyond the Urals won their freedom in the first blush of Kremlin magnanimity following Stalin's death. They had been convicted of minor war crimes. Though their offenses were small, their memories are long.

From their recollections, Western intelligence agencies should have little difficulty reconstructing internal events in Russia since the end of the war. A Soviet 'slave labor camp is a superlative listening post. There the observant prisoner has a grandstand view of Soviet developments. By giving ear to the incoming clientele he soon learns more about important events than the regular reader of Pravda could ever hope to know. HAL BOYLE Success Story NEW YORK, (AP) Wilbur Clark, who wears a $5,000 wrist watch, is a fine example of how a mart can win the success he wants in life if he just sticks to a simple principle.

The principle Wilbur chose was the old copybook maxim that if you build a better mousetrap, even in the wilderness, the world will beat a path to your doorway. But of course you have to interpret those old copybook rules the right way to make them work. Wilbur decided the better mousetrap was one no mouse would want to get caught people with loaded pockets would fight to enter. And has it paid off? Listen to Wilbur: "I GUESS WE'RE the biggest single operation in the state now. Our expenses alone run $125.000 a day.

We netted better than one million dollars last year. We have 650 employes, 250 more people than live in -my old home town." Wilbur, a friendly, greying, 42-year-old uh, well industrialist, not only has a $5,000 wrist watch and runs one of the world's plushiest mousetraps. Life has given him other rewards. He is a mayor, the vice president of his local chamber of commerce, and has been named one of the nation's 10 best-dressed men. He helps design his own $250 suits, won't allow a buttonhole in his lapels.

"Why punch a hole in a good piece of cloth if you don't like wearing flowers?" he asked reasonably, waving a hand on which a five-karat diamond ring shone with the subdued charm of a locomotive headlight. Clark's career follows the classic Horace Greeley pattern, "Go west, young man." He left his native Keyesport, 111., pawned his high school ring for $4 in Los Angeles, and worked as a bus boy and bell hop in San Diego before obtaining a job in a gambling establishment. 'FROM THEN ON his rise was more rapid. Wilbur saved his pennies, worked for a number of gambling houses about the country, bought some of his own, went broke and started over again. Wilbur, who has no taste for a pool room atmosphere, all the time was dreaming of his better mousetrap, a luxurious resort casino such as those in Europe, where a man could get a buck without getting his foot caught in a cuspidor or having to look both ways for the cops.

Today Wilbur's dream of a better mousetrap has come true the fabulous Desert Inn at Las Vegas, which makes Monte Carlo look as modish as a 1900 bustle. At Wilbur's gilded 4 1 ,2 million dollar inn the weary, wayworn traveler may rent a room for from So to $50 a day, play golf on a million dollar 18-hole grass course in the desert, and for $5.50 eat a steak dinner and see a floor show that would cost him to $50 or more in New York. The same traveler can slake his thirst 24 hours a day invest anything from a nickel to $1,000 (that's the limit) around the clock in the casino. THE CASINO HAS 90 slot machines, three roulette wheels, six blackjack tables, five crap tables. Their winnings, of course, subsidize the floor shows, which feature such name stars as Betty Button or Herb Shriner and cost up to $35,000 a week, half the price of putting on a Broadway show.

"You can't stop people from gambling," said Wilbur, which may explain why he wisely refrained from putting locks on the casino doors. "But a guest could stay here for a week and never make a laydown, and we wouldn't know it. Whether he goes info the casino is up to him. "I believe if you give people what they want, and most people want the best, they'll come to you. We turn away 200 people a day." Clark has a list of 40,000 guests from all parts of the world, feels he knows 30,000 of them himself, and they range "from a Chinese general and a federal judge on His customers aren't the kind who go broke, and his only trouble is a bum check now and then.

But his bad check losses probably aren't more than $150,000 or so a year. Chickenfeed. Andrew Jackson was nominated by the first national party convention held in the United States, in 1832. CHARLES F. BARRETT The World Today WASHINGTON, (AP) Bit by bit the Eisenhower administration plan for wrestling with its gigantic tax problem is taking shape in al! major aspects except one.

The White House has made it crystal clear that: 1. Barring unexpected emergencies, an average 10 per cent cut in individual income taxes will take effect as scheduled next -Ian. 1. 2. The excess profits tax on corporations will expire completely on Jan.

1, also as scheduled. ANOTHER POINT SEEMS almost as certain. The administration probably will stand pat on its request to keep regular corporation income taxes at the present rate of 52 per cent. This levy now is scheduled to drop to 47 per cent next April 1. So, unless there is a request to increase normal corporation taxes, any maneuvering to meet whatever spending budget the administration comes up with is in the field of excise or sales taxes.

This is the area where the tax spotlight is likely to focus in the months ahead. President Eisenhower has sought to eliminate a national retail sales tax from the picture. That leaves two broad courses of action: 1. A juggling of the present system of varying excise taxes, possibly to cover items not now taxed. 2.

A uniform national sales tax at the manufacturers' level. IT'S TOO EARLY to tell which way the administration will swing. The answer, may hinge on the greater revenue yield from a general manufacturers' sales tax, stacked against a hostile reaction in congress to such a proposal. Or, on the other hand, the goal of a balanced budget could be sacrificed for the present. At any rate, congressional tax authorities estimate that one to three billions in revenue could be raised by rejuggling selective sales taxes.

The trend would be toward a more universal and uniform tax, but the trend under this proposal would stop short of a blanket sales tax. Present rates include 20 per cent on the retail price of jewelry, furs, luggage, women's handbags, and cosmetics; 10 per cent at the manufacturers' level on autos, electric and gas stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers, television sets, radios and some smaller appliances; 15 per. cent on manufacturers' sales of sporting goods; 20 per cent on manufacturers' sales of cameras and film. SOME OF THESE RATES are scheduled to drop on April 1, but that issue is likely to be lost in the broad excise tax revision program already forecast by Eisenhower. Some of 10 per rates, for example, could be raised to 15 per cent to help boost revenue and bring more uniformity.

And a fevy of the more painful 20 per cent rates might be lowered. But more important, tax writers could cast their eyes toward many items not now covered. Some of the more plausible possibilities, for example, might be furniture, rugs, linens, hotel and tourist court bills, laundry services, barber shops and beauty parlors, candy, soft drinks and clothes washers. Authorities estimate a 10 per cent tax on these new items, plus increases in some present excises, could produce to 2 billion dollars annually. A 15 per cent rate, considered less likely, might bring in 2 to 3 billion.

ON THE OTHER HAND, possibilities are less limited under a flat, general manufacturers' sales tax. The existing retail and manufacturers' taxes mentioned above, which would be replaced under a general manufacturers' sales tax, now bring in about 33,300,000,000 annually. To produce the same amount of revenue, the uniform manufacturers' tax would have to be about 4 per cent. At seven per cent, the uniform tax would raise an additional two billion dollars. And at 10 per cent, it would boost revenue by about 54,200,000,000.

Russia Calls For 'Highest Level' Meeting H. M. D. Diet And Health Fatigue resulting from more or less honest effort is a healthy sign warning us that our bodies need rest. But'the problem of excessive fatigue, prolonged and unexplained over a period of months and years, may have its source in a disease affecting the muscles at the point where the nerve impulses are received by the muscles.

This disease is known as myasthenia gravii. MANY PEOPLE complain of fatigue for months and years, and may even be confined to bed. without the disease being diagnosed. Nearly every age is susceptible to its onset. Below the age of forty, women are more susceptible to the disease, while after the age of forty, men seem to be most likely to contract it.

Different groups of muscles may be affected. That is why the weakness may vary in the arms and legs, and face and neck in different persons. The weakness may fluctuate during the day, week or month and is often most severe in the afternoon and evening rather than in the morning. ONE OF THE most common symptoms is a weakening of the eyelids due to a disturbance of the eyelid muscles, or a patient may have a smirk or bored expression on his face due to weakness of the facial muscles. To test for the presence of myasthenia gravis, it is only necessary to have the person use a group of the affected muscles continually, such as in chewing or blinking the eyes.

With such use, extreme fatigue develops very quickly when myasthenia gravis is present. A DRUG KNOWN as neostigmine brings almost miraculous recovery from the muscle weakness. Respiratory infections, such as colds and bronchitis, bring an increase of the symptoms. With the use of neostigmine, most of the symptoms can be very adequately controlled. Bible Thought For Today If we follow His example we will be in harmony with the Infinite one who rules the utmost stars.

I seek not mine own will bill the will of Him that sent 5:30. DAVID LAW HENCE Warren And The Supreme Court WASHINGTON Earl Warren, former governor of California, is now chief justice of the United States, which means or ought to mean that he is out of politics and out of the political arena where a count of the influences of pressure groups or a count of noses in a legislative body brings decisions on national policy. Yet already predictions are coming from groups of wishful thinkers that the new member of the supreme court will vote to reverse the court's, position on civil liberties and give a wider rein to the promoters of Communist imperialism inside America. Too many people in in the last 20 years, who talk about "flexibility" through judicial decision, have been indoctrinated with the notion that the supreme court of the United States is just another legislative body. Too many people have been influenced by the late President Franklin D.

Roosevelt to believe that it's too much trouble to amend the Constitution in the manner provided in the document itself and that the nine justices are endowed with a mandate to change the Constitution in accordance with the views of changing administrations or pressure groups. IF THE AMERICAN people really want to amend the Constitution and a substantial majority favors it, the process has proved in the past to be relatively rapid. More harm has been done by, the alleged witticism that "the supreme court follows the election returns" than by any other single fallacy about a lack of independence in the judiciary unless perhaps it is the frequent misuse of a quotation uttered once by Charles Evans Hughes and repeatedly taken out of context. That quotation, distorted and misrepresented again and again, even by Franklin Roosevelt, was as follows: "The Constitution is what the judges say it is." It was never uttered by Mr. Hughes while he was on the bench but during an extemporaneous speech while he was governor of New York state.

Placed in its proper context, the quotation' merely meant that he felt it was the primary duty of the supreme court justices to 'interpret' the Constitution and that, they were too busy doing this to be required to decide public-utility cases of an administrative nature. MR. HUGHES, when he was chief jus- lice, bitterly resented the misuse of that quotation by Mr. Roosevelt and told this correspondent it was used out of context. Later on, in his diary Merlo J.

Pusey, in his splendid biography of the chief justice, published in 1951 Mr. Hughes wrote about that quotation as follows: "The inference that I was picturing constitutional interpretation by the courts as a matter of judicial caprice was farthest 'from my thought. I was not talking flippantly or in disrespect of the courts, but on the contrary with the most profound respect I was speaking of the essential function of the courts under our system in interpreting and applying constitutional safeguards, and I was emphasizing the im- poi'tance of maintaining the courts in the highest public esteem as our final judicial arbiters and the inadvisability of needlessly exposing them to criticism and disrespect From Our Files 88 YEARS AGO Mrs. Church has left for the east for' the purpose of purchasing a great variety and large amount of articles for her brand of business suitable for gifts at various holidays. 56 YEARS AGO Mrs.

J. F. Clokey has left for a visit with friends in East Liverpool and West Concord. 25 YEARS AGO The" Massillon city hospital has been placed on the "fully approved" list of the American College of Surgeons, according to a letter received today from Dr. Franklin H.

Martin, of Chicago, director-general of the organization. 10 YEARS AGO It will do you no good to go to Steubcn- ville if you do not have a ticket for the Tiger-Big Red football game. Every ticket available both here and in Steubenville has been sold for tonight's scholastic classic and local school authorities urged Massillon fans not to attempt the trip to the Ohio city unless they have tickets. by throwing upon them the burden of dealing with purely administrative questions." A REREADING of the text of his famous Elmira N. speech, reprinted in the Pusey biography, confirms the above exposition of Mr.

Hughes' thought. But the words will doubtless be quoted again and again to support the thesis of a certain school of thought which mistakenly holds that after all there are nine votes on the supreme court and that decisions are made by reason of political predilections or ideological prejudices. There may be some men who have heen on the bench and decided questions that way, but the American people sincerely hope that Earl Warren will not be one of them and that he will be guided by his conscience and not by legislative or politi- cal impulses. The supreme court again and again has said that it is not the duty of the court to revise existing laws or make new the remedy for bad laws is to be found at the ballot box and that the best way to amend the Constitution is by the means pgpvided in the Constitution itself. The NEW YORK (AP) Some business gets into its stride after Labor Day.

Some say after the world series. Having survived a-wide split over the merits of the Yankees and the Dodgers, Americans can turn today to the next big question: How much of a stride forward, if any, will industrial production take? And how good will Christmas trade be this year? -You can get odds either way, depending on which expert you ask. Some say factory output will start zooming again after the prolonged summer lull and by year's end be about as good as ever. If so. job totals will stay near their peak and, therefore, Americans with money in their jeans will be big-hearted spenders.

Many merchants look for their biggest Christmas trade ever. OTHERS NOTE that so far the fall pickup in factory output isn't as big as expected, and that retail trade was at least two weeks late in getting off the ground. "Don't go predicting yourselves into a slump," many business and government spokesmen are warning. "Don't get pushed off base by a little drop here and there in some one factory in the economy." They contend too much singing of the blues might scare the customers away from the stores, and might cause businessmen to start living off their inventory fat and to stop ordering from the factories. "Noting'soft spots in the economy and getting ready for them has quite the opposite effect," others counter.

"Business caution sometimes prevents slumps, always makes them smaller. The real danger would be in playing ostrich." AND THOSE WHO favor wide-eyed caution point out that traditionally store sales don't slump until several months after industrial production has started letting down. People go on for some time buying as usual, even if their pay checks shrink some as the work week contracts. They hate to cut their standard of living until their savings run low. With personal incomes at or near record highs, merchants would seem to have little to fear for the next three months.

Another factor that has perked up business thinking recently is the new attitude which business reads into Washington's policies. EARLIER IN THE YEAR businessmen felt Washington favored a mild and controlled deflation, tight- credit and a hard dollar (which means lower prices). The idea was to brake the boom before it got out of hand, to hike interest rates, to balance the budget. But after the industrial pace slacked a little, steps to ease credit and provide more money for banks to lend have resulted in a drop in interest rates. With loans easier to get, industry is encouraged to borrow both for expansion and for carrying on production and trade.

Washington is promising to try to keep farm product prices from falling loo far. VICTOR R1ESEL Inside Labor DESPITE THE burst of politically explosive publicity around labor extortioner Joe Fay, it has not been said bluntly anywhere that he has been a mysterious "Mr. Big" of the national crime syndicate ranking with the Frankie Costellos, the Adonises and the Greasy Thumb Guziks. When the big boys wanted something done inside labor, they went to Joe Fay- through the tough Jersey the past 20 years, including the last six which he spent in Sing Sing. In turn, they lej; Fay be the Mr.

Big of the multi-million dollar construction industry, ruling a tough mob which has been feared by most union chiefs regardless of rank. To understand this power, let's go back several years to a meeting of the nation's top mobsters in a farm house outside Dallas, a record of which is in safe hands in Washington. The warlords of the underworld met to divide the United States into territories just as any business organization calls it; sales executives together to hand out special districts. AMONG THOSE handsomely tailored men who had flown down incognito were Frankie Costello, the Fisehetti brothers of Chicago and spokesmen for such crime tycoons as Myer Lansky. They cut up the country as swiftly and smoothly as any one of their goons does a slash job on an errant gangster.

Part of their business dug deep inside labor. For this they had "account in every men assigned industry by industry, region by region. Their provinces ranged all the way from night club singers to laundries, from taverns with one juke box to 1,000 room hotels, from the lend-lease of torpedoes for picket line duty to ownership of transit systems. But one area they left for their boy, Joe Fay, former boss of the Operating Engineer union. He was the Mr.

Big of the northeastern construction sector in which $300,000,000 waterways and several hundred thousand homes were being built. Joe Fay's power came from his early friendship with the Jersey crowd which lived near or along the Hudson, just as the mobsters now concentrate around Hollywood, north of Miami Beach. EITHER FAY or his boys were in constant contact with such men of the proletarian soil as Albert (the Executioner) Anastasia, Joe Adonis, Willie Moretti, and in the earlier days, Jimmy Hines, power behind many a racetrack mob. As far back June 1928, Fay became one of the boys by organizing the Joseph Fay Travel which financed trips to Canada during prohibition. But so powerful was Fay's bi-partisan power that neither he nor any of his lieutenants were investigated by the Kefauver committee and it would be interesting to learn why none of Sen.

Kefauver's investigators told the Tennessee senator what a wealth of pay dirt there was in Fay and his associates. It should be pointed out here that the senator is not responsible. His investigators are. They overlooked a multi-million dollar operation despite the many tips which came their way from terrorized rank and file members of the construction trades, and businessmen as well. The longer Fay and his combine dealt in favors inside labor, the wealthier he became and the larger were the indirect contributions to eastern political campaigns.

THESE PROTEAN labor-capitalists did very well. One of Fay's lieutenants, Bill DeKoning, who controlled virtually everything on fashionable Long Island from home building to restaurants and floor waxing, started as a poor AFL international organizer. Right now, in addition to all his holdings, he is worth a quarter of a million dollars in race track stock alone at three raceways. Another Fay lieutenant, Marty Parkinson, of the Yonkers Operating Engineers union, testified at his own trial for extortion that his price of $100,000 for labor peace on big projects was set by Fay. Parkinsoa argued that he was under the domination of Joe Fay and thus not himself responsible for his criminal acts.

The jury obviously was drawn from among local cynics. It sent Parkinson up for three to six years. Even now, with Fay in a rocky crag of a prison known as Dannemora, his power is recognized by the Operating Engineers national office in Chicago. There has not been a sound out of it since recent exposures which grew out of the murder of a Janitors union boss, Tommy Lewis, who obviously stepped out of line once too often. All of which proves that truth is stranger than Hollywood.

Mickey Spillane, you're a sissy. HARRISON CARROLL Hollywood HOLLYWOOD. Leave it to Clark Gable to wind up with the red carpet treatment from the Dutch. Cameras are rolling on "The True and the Brave" in Maastricht, Holland. While there, "King" Gable will live in one of Europe's most famous old castles, the Kasteel Neubourg, owned by the Countess Marchant d'Ansenbourg.

When the Nazis swept through Europe, they turned the castle into a headquarters. Later, the American army did the same thing. Lana Turner also has reported for the picture. ANN RUTHERFORD'S mother doesn't i believe the reports but I have a hot tip that Ann and Bill Dozier will be married very soon in the east Ann is living at a hotel in New York, but I hear she has leased a swank apartment from the widow of a Manhattan furrier who died recently. And that the marriage probably will take place as soon as Ann and her daughter, Gloria, can get settled in their new home.

JANET LEIGH and Tony Curtis are moving. Their penthouse apartment was beautiful, but there was no elevator and they had to climb three flights of stairs. Janet fears this may have had something to do with the loss of the expected baby. The Curtises had a hectic time at the Detroit premiere of Tony's picture, "All American," but the doctors tell Janet the trip did her no harm and that, in a couple of weeks, she will be in perfect physical shape again. It's no secret the two stare are eager to have a family.

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