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Page JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE rftnmt The Post Established 19U8 The Tribune Established 1865 TELEPHONE Published every week day evening except Saturday NEWS-TRIBUNE COMPANY ROBERT GOSHORN, Publisher LAWRENCE LUXKEW1TTE. Editor Leased Wire Associated Press and United Press Entered In the Postoffice at Jefferson City. as "Second Class Matter under the Act of March 3. 1878. Subscription ratea in Jefferson City By Carrier Delivery Service 25e per week and Sunday.

50c per week combination 't Morning and Evening and S' day. MAIL RATES (Does not include towns with carrier delivery service) 1 Year (Cole and Adjoining Counties) 510.00 (Oilier Counties in Missourii S12.00 (Outside of Missourii S15.00. 6 Months iCole and Adjoining Countiesi $5.25 (Other Counties in Missourii S6.00 (Outside of Missouri! SV.50 3 Months (Cole and Adjoining Countiesi S2.75 (Other Counties in Missourii S3.00 (Ou.side of Missourii S3 75 1 Month (Cole and Adjoining Countiesi .90 (Other Counties in Missourii $1.00 (Outside of Missouri) $1.25. (In towns where carrier delivery service is maintained, mall subscriptions will not be accepted i LOYALTY IN GOVERNMENT Mr. Truman's order of loyalty investigations in the government's executive department should bring the usual crop of protests.

Unless all signs fail, there will be cries of "Red-baiting," "Gestapo methods," and "loss of democratic freedoms." Most of these will come from persons whose ideal government operates through persecution, secret police and the suppression of individual freedoms. There also may be some sincere expressions of doubt or disappointment. The tests do present some potential dangers, to be sure. A good many persons will be involved in passing judgment on the fitness of more than 2.000,'00(J government employes. In such a large operation, human fallibility is bound to-result in some examples of unfairness.

But the dangers which this screening promises National Whirligig BY KAY TUCKER effectiveness of OPA's contribution to a comparatively stable economic structure during the war years will probably be a matter I Big Four foreign, ministers con- Mackenzie's Column Afternoon. March 28, 1947 By DeWitt Mackenzie The conference of the Europe, outside Russia, lay in the tinues its way after the disconcerting fashion of a coughing ja- loppy whose arrival at its destination is very much a matter of palm of Adolf Hitler's hand. Now Russia has taken over Ihe dominant continental position, and her doubt. Having been in establishing it plain that she aspires to control nnw tnlrf inaction more the entire continent, clear through 1 tolcl nlm tha al 111 uu Where you going? of bitter and political debate for many years, because rarely has Washington handled a problem that was more clouded by emotion, pockelbook passion and prejudice. As he forecast, the original price-fixer, Leon Henderson, became and still is one of the nation's most unpopular and most unloved men.

pcace treaties "for Germany "and lure" "still In preparing to wind up their affairs on June Aus lna has got exactly nowhere located in Germany with its in- 30, however, lingering OPA-ers are writing a re- "owe'ver? a port lo the effect that prices of key items which concern than of surprise, for enter into the everyday food, cloth- i th ere as vcry litlle said. "I ain't supposed to eat ice cream, but who's going to tell the doctor on me? Here's what I eat mostly." He Held open a box with six different colored types of pills. "Vitamins and iron pills, and something for my kinds of junk," he said. He chattered away steadily while we ate the ice cream. He insisted on since I had to go back when the conference ing have risen three limes as high if it had not been for the imposition of federal ceilings.

And they maintain that it will be difficult for opponents of controls to offer proof to the contrary. MEASURE figures compiled by several less prejudiced government departments do provide a fairly exact measure of the extent of the inflationary trend from 1940 lo 1946. These studies, as well as the experience of the years after World War also suggest that there may be no appreciable decline in the current level until the summer or fall of 1949. Even then, it is almost certain that prices will not fall by more than twenty per cent. Never, even after conflicts far less devastating than the recent struggle, has the cost of living dropped to prewar standards.

i. optimism began its pointed i were too dustrial resources. That's why you've been hearing ask: May Be Stalling for Time "Is Russia stalling in the Mos- of a treaty and thus give many differences between Russia her more time in which to estab- and the western democracies. lish her control over Germany? But while the conference hasn't I Are Moscow's proposals for a "Tampa-for a couple of days." The old man hesitated, then said: "When you get settled could you drop me a line? It's only a little while on the bus to Tampa. I'll come over and we can go to a ball game.

You know I'm kinda lonesome here without the old lady, even if she does talk my arm off." thus far achieved what it set to do, it's far from having been a failure. It has furnished a clear- cut demonstration of American- British determination not to be treaty framed with the idea of establishing such a control? Suspicions of this sort -have The Nation Today Don't Count Tax Cut Too Soon, It's Still Tangled Up in Politics i cut on such incomes over Q's and A's I ill ec tf heir own P. la ln lik Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia fields, lhe cool, calm forcefulness i and Romania have been brought ol Secretary Marshall has made under Communist governments him the dominant figure of the meeting. He has more than held his ground in the face of forceful maneuvers and attacks by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Time All to Maneuvers Unhappily the conference jC UJ.

LH JWi I 11OVC TTI i been, strengthened by the two--' ro what ls saccharine, fisted manner in which countries sugal substitute 200 to 700 times sweeter, derived? tar. Communist governments. Tht picture, not only in Europe but around the globe, is that of a Russia which is actively engaged in carrying out the Bolshevist program of world revolution for the establishment of Communism to has in all nations Such comparative skirmishes as the 1861-1865 arguments have revolved mainly been given up largely to these i So we see the Moscow confer- maneuvers position, and the ence clashing over such vital questions as what form of govern- affair and the Spanish War, in which the nation about German affairs, as was 19 ment shall be given Germany, fought to victory with millions instead of billions exp cte or the German The Western Allies insist that the to-remove are greater than those which it may ere- i at a time when our economic system was relative- whole ISTof 1 ate. The government can no longer afford the democratic luxury of considering inviolate the private activities and associations of those who conduct its business. It cannot blindly embrace those who despise its freedoms and put them in a position to help deslroy Ihose freedoms.

The common bond of war, which united Communists, Bundists, Klansmen, and othe'- subvert- ers in more-or-less common purpose, has been removed. With it has gone much of the wartime security which in itself was never leakproof. Today the United States is facing up to a decisive ideological showdown. Surely one of the minimum requirements of its successful outcome is the unquestioned loyalty of those who help to run the machinery of democratic government and who have access to confidential government information. For the past six years there have been repeated complaints from within the government that some of its employes were disloyal.

In consequence some measures were taken to weed out the treacherous elements. Judging from the report of the President's Temporary Commission on Employe Loyalty, they were not very successful. Mr. Truman's order, based on the Commission's report, promises to be both fair and effective. Any employe adjudged disloyal has ample means of appeal and of representation by counsel of his own choosing.

Heads of departments and agencies are held personally responsible for the removal of disloyal personnel. Applicants for jobs will be given a more thorough investigation by the Civil Service Commission than ever before. The President's Commission stresses the small proportion of government workers intent upon subversion. But it also stresses the fact that these few present a problem which "must, be dealt with vigorously and effectively." As it is now a disloyal person has a good chance of concealing his true feelings in getting a government job. Once in he can work in what amounts to secrecy, as compared with the spotlight of elected public office.

When one reflects that a duly elected congress- 1-1 jj primitive, sent living costs' to a higher plane. COST of future permanently program. Austria, loo, presents its problems, but they are mild compared with those relating to prospects, the the Reich. Indeed, there stilL may evidence shows that the 1940-46 inflationary move- be hope that an Austrian treaty ment added approximately 5105,000,000,000 (b) to wil1 be especially since Dr. Karl Gruber, Austrian foreign the nation's retail bill, if 1935-39 prices are taken as a basing point.

states, thus preventing the reconstruction of a consolidated Reich which would have the military striking power of- old. The Russians, however, want a centralized government, and those who hold suspicions of Moscow's was encouraged as the result of lurther analysis presents a new and less rosy a conversation with Molotov. The German treaty is another story altogether. Under the best of circumstances it would be a ti- minister, stated yesterday thai he intentions point out that a centralized regime would make it much easier for Russia to secure control than would be the case if there were several more or less independent states to deal with, may be the answer ubts, any delay in war as the greatest power of the writing a treaty would seem to picture of our so-called wartime prosperity. From 1940 to 1946, the dollar value of all retail salpt; ini-iWi iho ul wuuiu uu a u- independen sales totaled the amazing figure of $466.000,000,000 tame task to settle the affairs of Whatever (b), or $125,000,000,000 (b) more than the Ameri- I llle country which entered the to these doubts, can cost of the war.

GAlN-But in terms of 1935-3!) man like Vilo Marcanlonio the Communist Party line House, and that duly elected consistently upholds on the floor of the congressmen like Theodore Bilbo and John Rankin have consistently perverted the meaning of Americanism and the intent of the Constitution in gaining re-election, it is easy to see how a comparatively obscure official who is appointed rather than elected could get away with some real damage. INCIDENT AVERTED A dispatch from Eshowc. Zululand, brings word that the Zulu name for King George VI of England is "The Royal Black Elephant." The choice of color in that title is probably a happier one than the Zulus realize, and it may have prevented another bit of trouble in this troubled old world. For think what might have happened, in this day when empires are tottering and monarchs are ever more expendable, if the Zulus had dubbed their recent kingly visitor "The Royal White Elephant." DOUBLE TROUBLE It seems as though nobody ever had so much trouble, doing what everybody wants, as Representative Knutson has had trying to cut income taxes. It sounded like a swell idea to lop 20 per cent off everybody's income tax for the whole of 1947.

But Knutson ran into snags. Some thought we ought to begin paying our national bills before we reduced our national income. Others thought we ought to cut the little fellow's tax more, the prosperous man's less. Now, even though revised tax reduction bill appears near passage, Congressman Knutson may still be ready to advertise for a good crystal-gazer. If you can't worry 'em with a juicy lax cut, how can you please Ihem pernickety voters? sumers got only $360,500,000,000 (b) worth of goods for this 466 billion dollars.

To present this phenomenon more graphically: Dollar sales in 1940 amounted to 546.400.000,000 I (b). In 1946, they were a gain of! 108 per cent. But this 96.7 billion dollars had only the purchasing power of 62.fi billion dollars in terms of 1935-39 prices. In other words, buyers spent 90 per cent more money and got only 36 per cent more goods. European continent.

Economical- politically and militarily it work to Russia's advantage, since it gives her more time to consoli- was supreme. Virtually all of date her position in Eastern Ger- central, eastern and southeastern i many which she occupies. The Upward trend was most spectacular in 1946, when prices increased eighteen per cent over 1945's level. Moreover, this movement has persisted through the first quarter of 1947, so that the currenl cost of living index stands at 50 per cent above the 1935-1939 scale. The economists have no ready answer to the -question of when these forces pressing against the rn vh price structure will spend themselves.

They merely hazard the guess that prudent management of public and private money may produce a downturn of twenty per cent, possibly twenty-five, by mid-1949. Boyle Column BY HAL BOYLE ST. PETERSBURG, March 28 The old man sat down on the bench. letting his weight Call sharply in the way of elderly people with tired legs. He was short and heavy and a cheap tie hung limply against his rumpled shirt.

The flesh had begun to sag in his chubby face, but laughter had lines around his ironed eyes INCONSlSTENT-President Truman's various spokesmen have given so many different and inconsistent interpretations of the immediate and long-range meaning of his program for financial and military aid to Greece and Turkey that Congressional leaders may ask for another White House conference before adoption of the proposal. Despite deep concern over the implications they were originally willing to approve and implement Mr. Truman's declaration that, "it must be the policy of the United Slates lo support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." In view of the fact that he mentioned "Communists" as responsible for those "outside sures" they understood that our intervention the Middle East was designed to check Russian grcssion. Mr. Truman himself gave that impression when he first broached the program to a few members of Senate and House.

two State Department officials seemed to back away from this doctrine only three days after the President's address to a joint nice Rnd said, can prcs- in ag- "Good morning," he "Can you tell me where I pick up a It. was a walk of several blocks. to save his steps 1 gave him one oC the two I had iDought. He read the funnies through conscientiously, but he didn't really want to read. He just, wanted lo "It's nice in lhe sun here." he said.

"I came down here last year, too. It's a great place for old people. I'll be fi5 next if the lord lets me." Two pretty girls walked a double ripple in the shimmering sun. "Hah," he Sfiid. nudging.

"I don't even see 'cm anymore." Ho watched without interest as they turned a corner. "You know what's wrong with young people?" "No, 1 think they're lucky." Don't Want To Think "They're stupid. They all want to got rich without working. They don't want to think. It hurls their heads.

I can think rings around thorn. I can do as much in two hours as Ihcy do in eight, because I ain't afraid to use my brain. "Bui I can't put in eight hours she when she just-sits at home and don't learn anything? "This sun is doing me good. It would help her, too. Think I could gel her to come down? No! her.

She just wants to sit at home and complain every day that one more day has gone out of her life. "What good is time if you don't use it? I like to move many times does a Mohammedan pray each day? The Arab delegation the UN, for instance, prays at 5 a. sometime between noon and 2 p. between 4 and 6 p. between, 6 and 8 p.

and again betweerfHhat hour and dawn. is the sweetest thing known? to chemists, it's a newly discovered benzene- derivative, l-n-propoxy-2-amino 4 nitrobenzene, called rn-propoxy for short. It's 4000 times sweeter tl.an sugar. Saccharine is only 200 to 700 times sweeter than sugar. Canada have a Thanksgiving Day? The date is not uniform, but is fixed each.year in the Governor General's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation.

It is usually observed in October, and Canadians celebrate it much as we celebrate ours. many employees are on the TV A pay roll? 13,500. At peak, during 1943 when 12 dams were under construction, 42,000 were employed. around. I get pants.

When 1 antlers in told her I my was coming south, know what she did? Got right on the phone to call our daughter-in-law. It's a fifteen-cent, toll. She kept on talking, figuring that when the bill got up to seventy-five cents I would get mad. I just lauched. That made her mad and she hung up." The old man laughed at how he had fooled her.

I told him I Springfield Papers Print at Muskogee SPRINGFIELD. March Newspapers. will supply this city of 80,000 with an emergency daily newspaper printed at Muskogee, pending reconstruction of its plant which was gutted by fire yesterday. Arrangements were made with Tarns Bixby, owner and publisher the Muskogee Phoenix, who also is a vice-president of the Springfield newspaper firm, to print an eight-page paper without advertising and deliver it daily by train from Muskogee, about 200 miles away. Instead of a morning and aft- BY JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, March 28 What about that income tax cut of yours? Don't count it till it's hatched.

It's all tangled up in politics. You can't predict the outcome. The Republicans want the cut. Ther-'re pushing it. The Democrats don't want it.

Most of them are bucking it. But didn't the House vole an income tax cut for everybody yesterday? Sure. But now it goes to the Senate. lhe Senate will make There'll be a Jot of talk in the Senate. Then the finished the Republicans have enough votes to put it over goes to President Truman for his signature He may veto it.

Passage Over Veto Tough If he does, you'll get no tax cut at all unless Congress can get up a two-thirds vote to pass it over his veto. That's tough to do. The Republicans started promising a cut back in the 1946 election campaign. Now they're carrying through. They say taxes are too high.

They say the people need more spending money. Bunk, the Democrats a y. They say the people can't get enough goods to buy now with the money they have. And they say the Republicans are nust playing politics with taxes to win votes in the 1948 elections. If the government has any money left over after meeting expenses, the Democrats want it used to cay off some of the national debt.

One thing is sure: The way the House bill stands now the bigger your income, the more money you'll save as a result of the cut. 000. (Taxable income is the income you have left after taking from it your personal exemptions and deductions.) Democrats Want Study The Democrats say a real. study of the whole tax set-up should be made if taxes are going to be cut at all. The Republicans shout that taxes are just too high and something must be done now.

Both sides get involved in a lot of fancy figuring. You ought to see the amazing document put out by the House committee which figured the cut. Republicans and Democrats are on the committee. Outnumbering the Democrats, the Republicans pushed through their idea. In the front of the report the Republicans gleefully tell youf how good the cuts are.

In the. back of the book the Democrats say that's all phony, that it only looks good. And.to add to the confusion, both sides in the report produce tax tables to show the other side is all wet. DR. EVELYN J.

ALLEN Specific Foot Work A Osteopathic Treatment Office Hours 10 A. M. 630 Jefferson St. Phone 4043 was going across the street to ernoon paper as before, the corn- get a dish of ice cream. "I'll go along with you," uui i dO LJ.IC ipany will publish 1 one combined he 1 edition a day.

Cut Is Computed That's because of the percentage basijs on which the tax is figured. For example: If a man's tax is S100. a 30 per cent cut would mean a saving to him of $30. If a man's tax is $1.000,000 only a 10 per cent cut will mean a saving to him of 5100,000 This is, generally, the way the cut is figured: A 30 per cent cut in taxable income up to $1,000: then a 20 per cent cut on such incomes un to $302,000: then a 10.5 per cent Phone 4042 Eveninr Bj Appointment DR. H.

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Had Ihcy were Willard L. Thorp, I couple thromboses. Got lo a go easier. But I don't have to worry. I picked up a little here, a litlle 1 The old man looked at me closely.

just a comedian." he said. "At home, I my wife. c- Wc been incompatible for 42 government. Subsequently, Under Secretary Ache- years, and enjoyed every minute son refused to give a forthright statement of our Assistant Secretary of State in charge of economic relations, and Henry S. Villard, deputy chief of lhe Office of Middle Western Affairs.

In direct contradiction to Mr. Truman, Ihcy declared thai proposed assistance to Athens was "really not a political job except as we hope to improve the technical operations of the Greek may XXXX still marks lhe spot, where we should serve. aims and plans, or to discuss a possible clash with Russia. So far the Congress has no clear picture of lhe extent or meaning of our next or future moves in the turbulent Middle East and Mediterranean. The administration should follow the advice which the late F.

D. R. gave to General Charles de Gaulle al Casablanca after the Frenchman had proclaimed himself lo the "historic descendant of Charlemagne and Joan of 1 "Well," said President your mind, General!" of it. But I can'i stand hearing i the old lady jabber. She's nerv-v ous and has to talk.

In 42 years i I don't, remember she ever said anything interesting. could i WA CHICK STARTER Try ysar for your highett liability rtcord. this neh You will be pleased with your beautiful fast-growing, profitable OSAGE HATCHERY, and 1FEED STORE 518 Jefferson Phone 2850 COLE COUNTY FARM BUREAU SERVICE CO. 1000 W. Miller Phone 1529 LOANS $100000 On Tour AUTOMOBILE or FURNITURE Lcl Us Finance Your New or Used Car CAPITAL LOAN COMPANY UBLI WARD MEETINGS The Public Cordially Invited MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT THE FOLLOWING SCHOOLS 8 P.

M. FRIDAY, MARCH 28th CENTRAL SCHOOL-5th Ward Roosevelt, "make up So They Say Police caught an Ohio man who had stolen $100 worth of frozen foods. He wound up in lhe cooler himself. I have observed and participated in a number "I investigations in the last 30 years. I have n-ver con- seen one that either elected or defeated a political I party or a candidate for Albcn Barkley (D) of Kentucky.

Since it is the parent who makes it possible for i ch 'ldren to grow up good or bad, training for enthood i.s the road to prevention of juvenile de- Beautv uha. gets a girl tne dates th.l rob Jacob Panken, New York Doher of her beauty sleep. mcsfic Re ations Cmiri I Tnree-fourths of the area of America is flat. I The nation has no soap, but soap opera without wonder most of us feel right at home. end or sense floods each household Anv timp De inventor of audion tube which made find a mateh radi broadcastin and SOLI futures possible.

Most men owe a lot to their wives, says a pastor. The hard part is in getting them to pay. As spring rolls in, so will stockings. A Communistic nation was one of our associ- ales in World War II. Let no one think that she i is our associate in seeking to build the Kingdom of Dr.

Bees Edgar TulJoss, president National Lutheran Council. EDWARD CLARK IS YOUR CANDIDATE FOR COUNCILMAN -of the- 4TH WARD! A resident for my entire life and thoroughly familiar with the problems which confront this ward. Brick layer for more than 20 years, and at present am the owner and operator of the Capital Coal Co. If elected, will conduct my office to the best interest of the voters of my Ward. I Will Appreciate Your Support on April 1st EDWARD CLARK MONDAY, MARCH 31st WASHINGTON SCHOOL-Sth Ward NOTICE! TAXPAYERS 1946 PERSONAL AND REAL ESTATE TAXES BECOME DELINQUENT ON APRIL 1,.

1947 JOHN B. STURM CITY COLLECTOR.