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FOUR THE SALEM. OHIO, NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951 THE SALEM NEWS Established ima. 1, daily except Sunday by Brush-iluore Neviptpen, ino. Newt Building, 161 North Lincoln Salem, Ohio. Entered at postoffice at Salem.

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earnest appeal to the switchmen for cooperation in defense mobilization was made to the nation with President approval. But it is difficult to get rid of a feeling that this was not really a job for the director defense mobilization. It cast him in a role should not be played under the circumstances by a businessman who has volunteered to boss the momentous job of mobilizing national resources. Mr. Wilson should stay out of controversy.

That is department. Mr. Wilson to seem to be pleading for cooperation on the part of members of a union to remove a hindrance to mobilization, whereas the problem is not confined to mobilization. It was in existence before mobilization began, and it will be in existence after mobilization ends, if that day ever comes. The problem is how to develop in organized labor minorities a sense of responsibility commensurate with the power they possess.

Railway labor was the first to be given a clear charter of bargaining rights, in the Railway Labor Act. Yet, a deadlock developed under the terms of this law which the government itself was unable to break. Despite government seizure of railroads, there was nothing left to do in a crisis except to have Mr. Wilson make an appeal to the patriotism of the striking railroaders. Perhaps there is no solution to the problem.

Perhaps the country must learn to believe that any unionized minority can cripple the national economy at will, even during a national emergency. If that be so, unions will have lost the public confidence which has made is possible for them to possess the heavy responsibility they too frequently abuse. Las Vegas explosions on the atomic testing ranges near Las Vegas are continuing to give that community the shakes. It can be imagined that they are jarring the nerves of other communities far beyond the concussion range. In all of those communities, it is a matter of the gravest importance that atomic explosions are being set off in the United States at the rate of one every two days.

In one particular community, and specifically in a walled city in its center where a dozen men have been mapping the strategy for eventual domination of the world, the frequency of the explosions means that some new factor has been added to the potential armament of the United States. No purpose would be served in setting off five atomic explosions in 11 days unless something were being tested. Next to inviting military observers from all other governments to witness what is going on near Las Vegas, no surer way of getting the news in circulation could be devised than to let the explosions be reported in a routine manner. The flash of the explosions has been seen as far as 460 miles away. Windows have rattled as far as 300 miles away.

Teeth have chattered as far away as the Kremlin itself. Railroad Disasters I LOOKS as if railroads had entered another of the bloody cycles which have plagued them from the start of the industry. The Woodbridge, N. wreck, first major railroad disaster this year, has killed at least 81 and injured approximately 500. That is more than two-fifths of the 1950 railroad toll.

While it does not necessarily follow- that there will be other bad wrecks this year railroad disasters have a tendency to bunch up. There was an all-time high in 12 months ending June, 1907, when 610 passengers and 4,534 railroad employes were killed. Two years before that, an all-time high in the total of injuries to passengers had been 15,130. World War I produced another bloody cycle. So did World War II.

After World War II, through 1949, there was marked improvement. The three bad accidents in 1950, two on the Long Island railroad and one on the Pennsylvania, all were caused by failure of engineers to obey signal indications. It is too soon to know what caused the Woodbridge disaster. If it should prove to be human failure again here woud be no room left for doubt that railroad transportation is over-taxing the ability of railroad personnel to deal with its hazards. physician says modern eating habits are partly responsible for crime.

Maybe the way things are cooked plays a part, too. Tax Loopholes By PETER EDSON Closing Them Would Bring In Half-Billion Hanging a New Label on Him Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee and Chairman Robert Doughton of the House Ways anc Means Committee just happenec to come out of Coolidge Auditorium in the Library of Congress together. They had been listening to Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower make his first report on European defenses. A reporter who just happened to be behind them overheard conversation joshing each other. It ran something like this: said. Senator George, not going to do anything about that new tax bill on the Senate side. going to leave it all to you want to do that would you? Why you work out half of it, and let us work out the other half in the asked Representative Doughton.

said Senator George. want to deprive you of the pleasure. Besides, want to close all them Closing of them loopholes is only one of the very tough tax problems which President Truman has now tossed to the Congress. that these loopholes be closed a year ago. Congress partially closed a half-dozen of them, but left the biggest wide- open.

Closing them would add an estimated $500 million to government revenues from higher income corporations and individuals. DEPLETION allowances granted to the oil and mining industries preferential treatment on capital gains, estate and gift tax exemptions are things that figure in the life of the ordinary citizen. But when the $60-a-week guy with a family is being asked to pay more taxes, it is only fair for him to know that nobody in the higher brackets is being exempted for special privilege. If these loopholes are ever closed, this would appear to be the time to do it Otherwise, President request for a two-bite tax hike is in the nature of a slick trick. It is also a confession that the administration itself know how much more taxes will be asked for eventually.

In other words, the $71 billion budget which President Truman requested in January is just a preliminary request. This is evident in the $40 billion estimate for national defense expenditures in the next year, plus another $20 billion authorization to make contracts for military spending in 1953. These are nice round numbers, as yet unsupported by any breakdowns on what it is intended to buy with this money. The tax message hints that requests for still more defense appropriations will be made later on. As these suppli- mental requests pile up, there will be corresponding requests for supplemental taxes.

where the second bite will come in. And if necessary there will be a third bite. While all this is called a tax plan, it would perhaps be more proper to call it a tax-as-we-go payment plan. more, there is a hint in the tax message that he would like to have these high taxes continued for the duration of the emergency. World War II taxes were not high the President told Congress.

a result we paid in inflation for our failure to tax WHAT THAT SEEMS to imply is that this is not just taxation for revenue only. It is taxation to control inflation and he wants it continued as long as there are inflationary pressures. While the President did not ask for it directly, one of the main points in the administrations tax program has been to have the first-bite increases on individual incomes applied retroactively to say Jan. 1, 1951. This is something that could hit the average taxpayer right between the eyes.

Congress has never applied a retroactive tax increase to individuals, though the excess profits tax bill passed on Jan. 2 was retroactive to July 1, 1950. This can be done to corporations since they now pay income taxes on their profits only at the end of the year. For individuals, a retroactive income tax would work with a delayed punch. It took eight months to pass the 1950 tax bill.

If it takes half that long to pass he first-bite 1951 bill, it will be mid-year before the taxpayer cnows what his liability is going to be. In the first half-year, taxes will be deducted at the present rate from his payroll. Then when the tax increase is made effective le would have to pay this hike the second half year and the first half year as well. The increase would therefore hit him twice as hard on a pay-as-you-go Dasis. Or else have to pay the whole increase at the end of the tax year.

Miracles To Come By TRUMAN TWILL If it for the plain truth so often sounding like a poor excuse, fewer lies would be tndd. WAY of knowing what new miracle drug will be sprung on an ailing public this week, but they are coming so fast if you get treated with one whose name you think you have heard before as old-fashioned as a mustard plaster. A patient was talking about one the other day so new it on the market yet and has to be rushed to him directly from the laboratory. Give medical science enough encouragement and white mice to work with and it will come up some day with an exhaust o- mycin to combat that tired feeling which has done irreparable damage down through the years Also something called chuckle- zene to cure wrong with sourballs who suffer from pernicious Gloomy Gussism, which has been at the bottom of more human misery than the common cold. Also a wonder preparation to be known as audio-zol which can be administered in daily doses to children over a period of two weeks and will cure them of whatever disease it is that makes them keep saying, when they are spoken to about the desirability of cleaning up the mess they have just made.

Also a miraculous compound to be called logic-illin which will keep fuzzy thinkers on the track when they are trying to state a point of view on a controversial subject, because illogicitis is more to be dreaded in the modern world than leprosy used to be dreaded in the ancient world. Also a wonderful substance with the name of proportion-m which will have proved in exhaustive laboratory tests to have a shrinking effect on human beings who take themselves too seriously and swell up when exposed to authority. Also a tablet which can be taken by mouth without toxic effect to combat the bugs which get in ears and cause them to be more dreaded and shunned than Typhoid Mary, who had bugs all through her and made things tough for a whole community. Also a climatolical-ide, scientifically prepared from carefully selected snowflakes and bluebird feathers mixed in giant vats and juiced up with to immunize chronic sufferers from weatheritis against the hot flashes of rage which victimize them when the weather does not do what they want it to do. Plus a compassion-ide to keep hypercritical backseat drivers from shooting off their mouths in bitter criticism of everything that everybody else is trying to do, good, bad, or indifferent, the same to be shot into the hard skulls with instruments especially designed for that purpose, though closely resembling ordinary bazookas such as those in use by the ground forces of the United States military establishment So They Say Resources not presently exploited (for industrial energy) are tides, wind, solar energy and uranium.

Uranium as an energy source does not, at present, challenge fossil fuels Lyle B. Borst, atomic scientist The man with no anxiety on his mind these days is dead from the neck up. Sandburg, poet. Acheson Disagrees Again WASHINGTON ENATOR BENTON of Connecticut, Democrat, is absolutely right in his attempt to bring about the separation of the Voice of from the Department of State, thus making it an independent agency responsible directly to the President. That was the way the information branch of the government functioned during World War I and World War II, respectively, and the crisis today on the psychological warfare side is no less important than it was during both those war periods.

The significance of the separation which Senator Benton and many others in Congress are advocating is that the of tends to become a subordinate bureau which cannot in a large sense on policy questions. It has efficient personnel in its management but their freedom to do a good job is impaired. The conception which Secre- By DAVID LAWRENCE tary of State Acheson has of the of is rather narrow. He thinks of it as merely the mouthpiece of the Department of State and as in instrument of to current foreign policy Any information agency which has that mission is doomed from the start because of the inhibitions upon its freedom of expression. LN A RECENT exchange of letters between Secretary Acheson and Senator Benton, the former insisted that expanded information program has in fact become the vital part of our national strategy you and others have always believed it should Senator Benton, when he was assistant secretary of state, had charge of the of program and spent many a weary hour before congressional committees trying to get appropriations for it, so he has definite ideas about what Health To You By EDWIN P.

JORDAN, M. D. Coronary Victims Must Be Careful ORONARY thrombosis or. oc- 1 fused as to what coronary throm- elusion often starts suddenly really is. Without going into the technical details it can be de- without any warning signs.

In contrast to angina pectoris, which is a closely related condition, coronary thrombosis often comes without any unusual pre- i exertion or pain in the heart region. It can develop after severe strain or exertion, but it can also come while sitting at Dr. Jordan jn a chair or even when a person is sounc asleep. Many people seem to be con b'lDE GLANCES By Galbraith It really is a lovely sfet of dishes, but you know how awkward my husband is with a scribed as a clot which closes up one of the branches of the arteries which supply blood to the muscles of the heart. Like every other muscle, the heart muscle must receive blood in order to function.

Consequently, when this supply of blood is cut off by a clot or closure of the artery, a certain part of the muscle is deprived of life-giving blood and, therefore, the heart muscle cannot keep contracting as it must to maintain life. A coronary thrombosis is always a serious thing. How serious it is depends on the size of the artery which is shut off; in other words, if a large coronary artery is involved a large amount of heart tissue is deprived of blood and the results are proportionately serious. Sometimes death follows a coronary thrombosis almost at once, because the heart is so badly injured that its function of pumping blood ceases and consequently life cannot go on. In spite of the serious nature of this condition, many recover from an attack of coronary thrombosis with practically no ill effects and can and do lead relatively normal lives for a great many years.

Most of the those people who make good recoveries of this sort have also been good patients. They have taken the lengthy rest periods and have adjusted themselves to a less tense and speedy form of life and activity than they were probably used to before. The cause or causes of coronary thrombosis are not all understood. Now that so many more people are living to ages at which a heart attack is likely to occur, it is particularly important to carry out studies which will lead to its eventual ought to be done with the whole operation. In his reply to Secretary Acheson, the Connecticut Senator says in part: letter of January 24th still leaves a chasm between us I earnestly hope that you do not mean that we are now meeting fully the challenge and the opportunity in this field.

The tragic fact is that our information program even begun to be vital part of our national it should be. Evidence for this abounds The evidence, to be sure, comes from many persons who are experts in the field and who shake their heads in discouragement as they think what a whale of a job could be done by a really inspired organization that has as its main task a daily appeal to the peoples behind the The hope of preventing war lies not merely in a cautious diplomacy backed by armament, but in bringing persuasively to the attention of peoples everywhere that peace is really attainable if truth is utilized to the maximum in applying moral force. BIBLE QUOTATION And he saith until them, Why are ye tearful, ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the w-inds and the sea, and there was a great Matthew 8:26. SECRETARY letter appears to be that of a technician who has examined a blueprint and finds that the functions are properly classified in a government department. If there were no crisis, it matter in what department the of was placed.

But there is a crisis, and it takes the imaginative counsel of rtien who cannot allow themselves to think as bureaucrats if they are really to do an effective piece of psychological warfare. Senator Benton has this rather significant point in his latest letter to Secretary Acheson, given to the press on February 3rd: hope you will not disapprove of a speech that I am now plan ning, and may deliver in the next week or two in which I am going to follow a of and ask for a special investigation by the senate into this This can only mean more trouble for Secretary Acheson. One wonders why he stubbornly refuses to take advice on the proper scope of a public relations program and opens the door wide tc irrelevant inquiries by the senate into the functioning of the entire Department of State. The problems of the of are not ones to be determined by a single cabinet officer. They affect the.

whoie government. Only by a legalistic twist of thought can it be assumed that the program is merely the voice of the State Department designed to defend or argue the merits of its policies. The real mission of the of is to reflect the spirit and the will ofthe American such a task should be entrusted to an office that can function independently and report only to the President and, through him, to the Congress of the United States. Seven different kinds of silk can be spun by spiders, but no spider has been found which could spin all seven kinds. Orb- I weavers can spfh five of the seven.

Busy Gl's By JIM BECKER (For Hal Boyle) All In A Day's Work IN KOREA TUATCHING the Korean war was like ing a living; I had to start sometime. Sometime for me was a few weeks ago. Here are some impressions the war has made on this that it might have made on you if you were seeing it for first time: The legendary sense of humor is alive in this nondescript country, probably the only spot in the world where it can be muddy and dusty at the same time. A frontline infantryman was stalled behind a mudbank. A lieutenant was stalled in the next mud- puddle.

next time we have visitors I want you to shave, grinned the lieutenant. The sergeant fingered the black stubble that nearly hid his face. are supposed to set me an example, he drawled at the officer whose beard was even blacker. JUST SLEEPING, eating, keeping functions which you take for ordeals to the combat soldier. He sleeps in a hole in the easier to dig now that the ground is thawing out but sure is eats his canned rations any way he jerk left the can opener out of every ration that our company got today and we had to open the cans with and almost never hardly worth, the trouble heating the water if you can find If there is a house left in Korea you find it around here.

The incredible destruction of war is everywhere as opposing armies struggle over the same ground for the third time. Almost all civilians have left the battle area. The few remaining mill aimlessly through rubbled streets. They are not interested in cleaning up the mess. Owners of small businesses have disappeared, leaving their investment in machinery and equipment behind.

Fires and bombs and shells have struck again and again and you can see the blackened ruins of equipment through gaping holes in the walls of tiny shops. In one shop there is a mangled printing press that has been burned and rebumed into uselessness. Type is scattered over the floor amid piles of filthy plaster. You can imagine the mood of utter despair and hopelessness of the owner if he returns and sees the ruins of his livelihood. Clean-cut young American men are dying here daily.

Other young Americans have learned to accept the fact and go on about their is killing Chinese. you even get a chance to learn the names of the new guys before they get said a GI. IF IT WERE not for the almost ceaseless thunder of Allied artillery, a casual visitor to a frontline headquarters might never guess that there was a war on. Trucks and men sit in the open, secure in the knowledge that no enemy planes will come. Many trucks and sport gaily colored panels to identify them to friendly planes.

Fighting GIs gather around a fire only a few thousand yards from the front. must be tough on the said one soldier squatting beside a roaring blaze. cannot light fires to get warm. They just have to sit and take it. If those planes or those artillery spotters saw a whisp of smoke they would have a nice The oft-told tale of army waste and inefficiency may be true to some extent in rear echelons but that is not true here.

The vehicles knocked out for these rice fields have been stripped of every workable part. Nothing is Wasted. Every scrap of the uninspiring food is scraped out of the can or mess kit. Gas and oil are guarded by miserly motor pool attendants. Socks and woolen underwear are issued as if each contained a hundred dollar bill.

Vehicles are nursed like an only child. Although death and wounds are the star boarders, these men seldom talk about them. A good way to end a thriving conversation Is to discuss the fighting. The front line soldier busily and efficiently accomplishes his daily tasks but he does not want to talk about it when his work is finished. When you get home from a hard day at the office you probably like to change the subject, too.

(AP Lookinq Backward From The News Files FORTY YEARS S. W. Ramsey and Mrs. J. G.

Augustine of Garfield ave are guests of Mrs. Frederick Douglass of Youngstown. Thomas S. Davis is in Roanoke, demonstrating pumps and sprays manufactured by the Deming at a state apple exhibit. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS William E.

Mitchell, whose conviction by an army court martial was approved by President Coolidge, has resigned his commission in the United States army. Mrs. allace Calladine of Damascus was hostess to club associates of the Needlecraft club of Salem. TEN YEARS has been reported that Britain has warned Bulgaria that passage of German troops through that nation would bring British bombing of Bulgarian military objectives. Mrs.

Myron Hiscox entertained members of the Merry Matrons club at her home in New Garden. Wilma Aegerter, Bernice Stoudt, Carrie Sanor and Lilly Kibler won prizes in contents etmducted by Mrs. Paul Reeder and Mrs. Morrfc Boyd..