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Homo Owned Controlled, Edited Smfettd fagg flf (PahlSttft Sfruttfflg 15; SOMEBODY GOT TO MAKE TH RESCUE Huge Budget Controls arid Makes Imperative Resort to Real Attack on Inflation OTHER FELLOW By AD SCHUSTER THE GREAT By Mork Sulliran I UOVl WWCrt LCM6R WILL T.TAxe NVff ff Twenty thousand words have carried a -budget message to Congress. It-Is a budget oi magnitude drawn In a period of emer- A gency, defense and mobilization demands and one which imposes vast responsibili- lies upon Congress and the public, 'i If this budget, which calls for $71.6 billion Is to be a balanced one, as the President expect to get from $43 to $50 billion from the tax' increases imposed by the last Congress. Such revenues would be about seven times the highest total of. any year in the World War I period and slightly higher than in any year in World War IL To achieve this balance, and to withstand the strains which will be imposed upon economy, it is imperative of course that the government save where it can and that it must, the expenditures of the fiscal year '1931-52 must be'fully met by higher pledges to that end be kept faithfully. It taxes of one kind and another, the detailed is also essential that the squabbles and con- proposals to be submitted later in the month.

fusioWover controls be resolved. And it is -Even in ordinary times a federal budget critically urgent that we wage a well con- too large and complicated for popular ceived and effective fight against inflation, understanding. The amount proposed to be On this subject Director Charles E. Wilson spent in this one is dramatized if we say it of defense mobilization, has said in the latest be larger than all the expenditures of many statements which have come from of, the government for the first 131 years Administration sources: Admittedly we may go through a period of scarcity, but it is not our intention to maintain an economy of scarcity. Increased production is one of.

our most potent weapon to fight inflation." The government aim, he added, is to meet expanding "military requirements with "the least impact and disruption of the civilian economy." rT The public will applaud the government's intention and when it has the rules before it, will give every support There is no deny-. ing the present complaint that the battle against inflation and the perfection of a system of controls has been mainly verbal. If the situation is to be cleared to the point where co-operation becomes understanding and automatic, there must be some early and decisive action. of, Its existence, from 1789 through, the period of VS. participation in World War It would be 20 times all the expenditures -pi the five, fiscal years covering the Civil War, and -more than twice the total ex- penditures of the three fiscal years covering World War I participation.

Such historical comparisons, while giving uf sorts, do not mate allowance for growth in population. Thus, while our proposed expenditures now may be 20 times those, of the Civil War period, they are four times that total -on a per capita basisTin termr of the value of the dollafythey become three times the total, again on the per capita basis. A balanced budget means we must have revenues of slightly over $70 We AT HOME AND ABROAD- On Achieving Unity in 1 By Raymond Lawrence) The Acheson and Tart, my dear, Were talking of the stand That we may take to make it clear -Just where we're apt to land. To Tart the Acheson declared, Tm willing to debate Provided that your views are squared With agencies of State." To Acheson the Taft replied, talking through your hat" And at this point, a Truman cried: "We've had' enough of that!" So' often when the moment nears To give an ear to words. We hear the sound of sand in gears Or twitterings of birds.

The fire at the Mills College gym was caused by a short And right in the middle. of the basketball season. There isn't much of course, but wouldn't it be fine if the Soviet encountered a shortage of epithets? NAME CLUB Over the telephone an excited voice tells us that Miss Foulard is in the dress department of a local store. At last the question of To-bey or not Tor-y" has been settled. He got that seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

You have heard of the fellow who got wind of the draft and 1 blew? The director of price stabilization is out with this "Sellers should not advance prices unless they can find a reason for doing so." And just think how difficult it is going to be to find a reason! LITTLE WOMAN DEPT. (From the News) A Memphis man has charged in a suit that her husband blamed her for all the mistakes of the national Administration. At Monticello, N.Y., a man was sentenced to jail for beating his wife with a pork roast A question of the "Are taxes going to soak us until they liquidate us?" The little old lady in our neighborhood says she is so nervous these days can't even sleep in church. The only way we can think of to let people pay taxes and also eat is to print the tax bills on edible material There is even a suggestion of gambling and taking chance in the United Nations' telephone number, fieldstone 7-1100. The eternal optimist in our neighborhood says.

"WIL you can still think of a steak when you eat carrots." Maybe it is because they are drafting doctors, or the remaining ones are too busy, but it has been a Week since one discovered a new miracle drug. NIGHT AND' DAY Night is like a deep, blue sea wW Lights that warn through dark ness drear And witness night the vanishing Aurora opens wide-her gates And sends Apollo far. Around the world' he sails by day But hides from the evening star. CLARE COAKLEY. MARCH OF DIMES The March of.

Dimes campaign, opening toddy, has a special appeal and importance In our community life. Polio is a hidden enemy which strikes cjuickly and cruelly and selects' its victims from all walks. Without; an 'agency to help," and without public support to that agency, unbearable burdens would be imposed upon families of victims. Without no advances in its treatment and many notable advances have been made could be possible. One has only to look at the report of the Alameda County Chapter a report which has won it highest commendations for doing the utmost with the money on hand to see the importance of the March of Dimes to this community.

During 1950 was spent in this county for polio relief with administrative expenditures held to less than $5000 and more than ,500 persons cared for. Three record-breaking polio epidemic years made the situation acute, exhausted the funds and caused Alameda County to do much more than its accustomed share. Operations went. on "credit" but the life-saving work was done! For this we may be proud and for this, we may determine now that dollars march with or in place of dimes. WAGE PUNNING Wage stabilization has progressed only so farts th current series of "rrellininary conferences to "lay the groundwork or, national wage control policy.

"One result of the conferences, arranged by Cyrus Ching, chairman of the EUbilizatfcn Beard could be a proposal' to ihajige section of, the Defense Production Act Under that section, most food prices, which account for about 40 per cent of living costs, can be stabilized only at levels Mgher of today. And any program of freezing wages has little chance of success while living costs rise. The Wage Stabilization Board will also have to decide what to do about the wages of almost a million workers covered by contracts "escalator" clauses. These provide i automatic wage Increases to compensate, for increases in the cost of living or to reward 'assumed advances in productivity, la World War the War Labor Board allowed automatic wage increases under escalator clauses only within the limits of the Little Steel formula. Those in-creases would almost certainly have been obtained; without the.

escalator-clauses, whicn thus in. effect were Inoperative. Recording to some predictions, labor productivity will inevitably fall off as expand teg industry absorbs, more "marginal labor. The new, workers will, be drawn from the ranks the the young, the handicapped. But the War Production Board of World War II, in a report issued In mld-'1043, 7 estimated that overall productivity with respect to labor had risen 23 per cent 193d and 1944 The Wage Stabilization Board's policy of separate conferences with labor and man-agement groups may tend to eliminate fric-' tion between the differing interests, but it America is' in-a great, debate, The term has passed Into head- lines, it Is habitually used as if it were the name cf a historio event or era.

In fact this debate is comparable to the -Lincoln- Douglas one on the issue "popular sovereignty" and states i rights thre- years ithe Civil While the subject of the two debates this- one like the Lincoln-Douglas one, covers preservation of the Nation; and the i interests and earnesteess of the people to this -debate is comparable- to What went on in the Lincoln-Douglas One. The debate-1 waai joined: last It i had been opened by exrPresident Hoover -on Decern ber 20, in an which, I whether or not contemplated as the oegmning: of, a debate, was made so by the public reception of it Newspapers grasped -Its importance instantly, within 24 -hours' it was under intent "4Sis cussion bz niJ excerpts from 51 important newspapers in cities 'fronvUIassachusetts tto Calif orni4 collected by tbeAsso- dated were printed as symposium 'tha, following Sun day in the NewA York Times. Letters and telegrams thou- sands deluged Mr. Hoover'a 4 THE REFUES Mr- Hoover's speech evoked sporadic speeches -in response from a lew public figures, none Of them as a rule either wholly opposing or wholly approving. 5ut the really- important re- sponse would in President Truman's.

annuaCStotalof Union message to "Congress, January 4. Mr Truman bad" to defend his policy and he did. The debate was Jowed! t- In the debate. President Tru-. man can have no such detached objectiveness as Mr.

Hoover. Indeed Mr. Truman's role is peculiarly lintimate and pecul-liarly complex; it is three roles combined, He must defend the foreign policy, as kV4 reign policy, and. at the, aame time must the' administratfoa of the policy in' the past by himself "and the State Department since Mr. Truman is to be; in office for.

two years to come, part of his role must ba 13184 Aot Pxf ader. TaciUy in all fvf" 8110 oiien expressly ne in the position of askins Ct n- gress and the country for support in, courses he must upon now; in the swift swirl ct ciianging conditions, 1 necessity for decision presses hin i and the country with utmost urgency -j -j MILITARY DECISIONS J-Some of Presfi dent Truman- must make are of themias. to lo with the sending of troops to About this type of decision, difference of opinion has school rot? thought strongly voiced by Senator Taft 1 holds that the 'resident before sending troops abroad should 1 get approval from Congress, that he ought to -have got, approval before sending troops to Korea last Argument "on -flua 'point has annexed Itself to the great de- bate. 'But the authority of the President to send troops abroad and the queston about the rela- tion of this to the constitutional authority of Congress about da daring war, has been an inter mittent issue for many-decades. PAST MISTAKES The depth of the people's con cern is in proportion to the supreme importance of what is-involved.

In this condition of the public mind the Adminis- tration cannot expect that there will not be thorough re-exam- ination of our foreign ''policy. during the past five years. Such re-examihation will be portent factor in great de bate. For while the great debate is about present. foreign policy and what policy mthe.

future should be, this problem cannot be grasped without understanding what foreign; policy In past has been. To advocate present foreign policy, the Adninis- tration must explain past tor eign policy, including frank; admission of mistakes. CwrliK IMC fn TrlTtalu WONT SUPPORT WXi i Editor: In 1 my. opinion we never saw a poorer government in Washington -than we have now. seems aa though Mr Truman just doesn't "care what the people want -t t'--; At the same time ,1 think fewer people are fooled ever before and don't think any of their-5 propaganda can make us believe another, war is-, 4..

U': I I consider myself a good American- and. I don't think it rproves ctherwise for me to say I doubt if could win the kind of a way-Truman seems to want Too many men -just won't go and won't support such It is no reflection on our boys in Korea if they don't see any sensa ui oeing mere ana so nxve xnows that was just one of Trtw atunid T7 1 i CADCET PATENTS. If 'you possess the ingenuity, and someone has not thought of the idea ahead of you, you may go right ahead and invent that gadget This Is to say the, big fuss, which started -v? when someone with access to the distribu- America their services wherever and whenever they were needed. Politics and personal advance ment would' be entirely ---v- effect of sucb a ipro-nouncemeftt would' be felt over the world and would be a decla-? ration that the U.S. really meant business; As it is now, there is a feeling that everyone is more or less influenced by politics the desire to advance their own interests; There is mistrust and misunderstanding evervwhre and a consequent lack of healthy morale that weakens our Vv-'i- T7P1W WB CAN DO "To have it reported that sayi the Governors of the states and' the leading men throughout our: country had publicly and specifically pronounced as wanting to assist in every way possible, and then doing it, would tend greatly toward decreasing the widespread discontent you discuss." Somehow out of our difier-ences and contention Americans have always achieved unity time' of trouble' aftd; we believe that will be the end result this' time.

There are many ways that as individuals, we can contribute to the strength, and security of the -Nation: We can volunteer our: services to the Armed Forces and i to civil defense we can give blood, and, above all. we can make a genuine effort to rise above partisan passion and to -understand, that the best defense of-America is the one made farthest from our shores. FORUM from papers about not many troops up front is not true. We had five 'divisions fighting for the. past two months and the commies have five times more." MARJORIE E.

KELLER. Oakland. RECEIVED HELP Editor: The March of Dimes drive will start soon. Many people tyriU wonder if their money will help, fight polip. I wish to tell them that it will.

Many people have asked me if we received help when our boy was stricken. Yes, we did and are still getting care at the therapy clinic We. are. grateful for the duhes that made it possible for the care of our boy. For at the time he was stricken we were hard pressed.

MR. AND MRS. JACK San Leandro. SECRETARY BY VOTE Editor. Leff ask jfor im-peachment: of Acheson, who1 seems i to be one of our main Stumblinf hks.i Just express your true sentiments in as few words as possible and ask too, that we the people get a chance to vote for a new Secretary of State.

(Maybe. one of our good Governors.X As you seal your say a little a littla rrvi fnr 9 hmi we may attain I peace fand 'security for aU tors of news misinterpreted a Supreme Court decision, is over. Patents now as always can be taken on gadgets provided they do something to promote the progress of science "or the useful arts." The gadget must be reasonably useful. would put- Formosa, Okinawa and the Philippines within our strategic sphere. This a far cry from Mr.

Kennedy or the real isolationists. What this great foreign policy debate boils: down to is a difference over frontiers, not over the fundamentals of opposing aggressive communism. All American leaders, excluding the isolationists perhaps, are agreed on basic principles. We are. then, debating the best means of upholding them.

One of the best means thai an Individual can adopt to dfeni these principles' is to make a maximum contribution to national unity. This does not mean we should silence differences or eschew debate, since theses are basic in a democracy; but We should make a sincere and devoted effort to understand the peril in which we stand. WE CAN VOLUNTEER Here is where my correspondent's suggestion comes in. He observes: "It is customary in the services for officers who have been or resigned, in case of a national emergency to voluntarily offer their services to the government wherever whenever, they may be needed. There is no stipulation as to what service will be.

"In the present very grave instead of 'politics as usual' why should this; same procedure not' be followed by the people at large? "Nothing, I think, would have a greater effect' for good upon our country than to know that a great number of influential people in civil life had Offered TRIBUNE are provided by individual firms advertising their wares. Now we have to pay more for the privilege of standing longer, and then upon arriving the transfer, point have the pleasure of standing all the way town amidst gas fumes. Some of us housewives are solving part Sf the problem. We have resolved henceforth to do all our shopping, in the nearby shopping center, eliminating the waiting for the bus, enjoying the fresh air. Even if we have pay a few cents here and there it will be better than the discomforts of 'riding the Key System at higher prices.

DISGUSTED HOUSEWIFE. Oakland. FROM KOREA Editor: I would like to write you ari excerpt from a recent letter fronf my. husband, who' is in Korea with the Seventh. 1 I feel that we ave been let down and its time the people back home wrote to the Presi-denl to send us men and equip- meht if they want to keep us alive: The Chinese have 20 to 1 and in some places more.

We left so many men up north that it hurts. God only can save them." a i I sent him an article by Fred sparics, cmcago news eorre- I- effect that not many troops were on i the fighting front To- this a a i a mm a The other day we remarked on the widespread discontent in this country and a distinguished reader writes in suggestion that is worth consideration. Discontent division and controversy over foreign policy are normal components of the democratic process when a nation is confronted by great peril. No two leaders have the same appreciation of the danger or, the samo solution. Dewey, Hoover, Dulles, Taft and Joseph Kennedy have all voiced their views on the emergency that confronts us, but it is noteworthy that only Mr.

Kennedy differs on the fundamentals. Mr. Kennedy is an uiiregen-erati ye Isolationist; he is making the same speech today that he made in 1940, when we were confronted by a similar situation, that is, war both in the Pacific and in Europe. He would have the US. withdraw wholly into the confines of the Western Hemisphere, repudiate our solemn commitments, and let, the rest of the world go hang, or rather go communist It is the same line as that taken by the notorious "America Tixsf organization before the last War.

OTHERS ABE DIFFERENT Isolationist is not a term that can be applied to any one of the other four American leaders. Mr. Hoover comes' the closest' although even he would draw our frontier in Europe to include England but exclude the continent In the Far East he Negro residents, project has had only white tenantf for the entire eight years since it built To date, the Housing Author, ities hold on tenaciously to this vicious, undemocraue restric- tion. What is it the Negro boys are out front fighting for? So when they come homt they can be told that they're not good enough to live side by side with other Grs? This entire neighborhood, both white and Negro 1 home owners and tenants, want the project to he what any housing project 1s meant to be--a home for GIs of low. income, regardless oCraee, creed or color.

The neighbors have signed petitions to this effect and have said so in many ways And yet, when a delegation representing the community asks to discuss this with the Housmg Commission, they are shoved about, put off, appointments broken in short everything is done to shut off the needs and wants of the people (who, taxpayers for these projects); NEIGHBORHOOD TENANTS MRS. MOLLIS THORNER, i Secretary. Oaklahd. SOLVING BUS PROBLEM Editor: On December our bus schedule was changed from twenty minute service to thirty minutes, prior 'to. that all the benches were removed.

The only, ones seen en. main streets We're aguvlthe proposal that the Government control the weather. The weather is Is being asked impatiently, when are we to LETTERS TQ THE conference bad enough as it is, without its falling into the hands of the bureaucrats. emerge from Federal Sales Senator BynTS proposal o( a Federal sales tax has not been explained in detail, but it is assumed, that he means, a. tax levied on retail There is great need for a thorough consideration of this means of raising new revenue, not because it it' the best means, but because it raises', fundamental questions that need airing before Congress tries to squeeze present Income tax payers still further.

i There are three strong arguments tor a Federal retail sales tax First, it would yield a great deaL Second, it would be noticed and therefore understood that this war effort is something that everyone should help to support Third, its objectionable features are so obvious that after the emergency, we might easily get rid of last time a general sales wj iKuiifa was In the hard days of the deprea- slon. Roosevelt was urged to use It but it failed to win bis fancy, His objections largely rooted in politic. The labor union leaders, objected because, they said, it be a tax upon the A decisive economic objection to It at that time was Its defla- tcntry character. That the Preliminary FEAR AND THE. UJf.

Editor: WW the United Na- ttops follow in the footsteps of the League 6i Nations? We sin- cerely hope it will not fail, hut why don't they examine the ti' n4hAds and nrofit bv them? Why do they tolerate the insults of Red China and Russia? What proof do they need of The League had enough back-bone to expell Russia for aggression against Finland in S9. The appeasement policy adopted by ttaace and Great Britain, toward Germany Jielped to precipitate World War IL Will they lead us into the Third? The UJC Is till fighting for it's life. Jt hasn't proven, to be staunch enough to carry out its very purpose. Are they afraid of Russia? Why don't they believe in the workability of the principles that the U.N. is.

founded on? Our GIs certainly know what tear is but they don't lack honor they're dying honorably for us. I MRS. O. ELLIS, Alameda. RACE AND HOUSING Editor Several months ago you very kindly printed a letter of ours which told of the ef- forts of the people of East Oakland to.

change a policy, of discrimination existing at the Lockwood Gardens Federal TTmnk. dmi t- 'aST gtlS Tax tion would not be valid now, because we need all 'the deflationary forces that we can find. The argument against it on the ground that it hits the "poor" or that it is what economists call "regressive" (as distinguished from "progressive') would apply to many other taxes that are now generally accepted. on gasoline, liquor and tobacco are regressive in. their relation? to incomes, and they are patiently 4 are sales tax A in the-various states and; cities where they are now A fairly serious objection to a retail sales tax is that its enforcement would require a tre-- mendous amount of red tape and a vastly enlarzed bureaucracy.

The. number of retail where a sales tax would be col lected, even if food were ex cluded, has roughly -been, esti- mated at i Collections would require onerous paper work and an army of collectors, An easier way to Spread the load on consumers would be a 'reneral manufacturer mxdsm tax. That would tax consumer at' their place of and. the burden would of course be passed on to; the buyers. Such a tax would yield whatever amount Conrress wished 'to'" itJsewtofiteaii4llar By Raymond Moley mated that, a per cent tax of this kind would yield between $4,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000.

A higher tax rate would yield more. Perhaps $10,000,000,000 to $13,000,000,000 could be the take. A manufacturers excise tax would be much easier to collect than' a retail sales tax, since the places where it would be collected would be fewer and easier to control. It has been estimated that the number of manufacturers and others who would pay it would number about 800,000, or. one-tenth of the retail outlets.

It would be collected at the final point of manufacture. This would avoid double or triple taxes on various processes'. In short the tax would be levied at point where the article manufacturer or, in some cases, the wholesaler, and goes to the retailer for sale. Canada has had such a tax for more than SO years. There are three major reasons why we must find a new and very broad base for further revenue raising; One is that we are very close to the point of no return in the personal income Another is that bonds are going to-be very, very hard to sell.

to the public And if we force the banks tot taka tha bonds, wa shall be he replied: "The article you sent Oakland' A.