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'Budget' Merry 'Go- Good Morning JOHN S. KNIQHT, AH INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER J. H. BARRY, GENERAL MANAGER irsss to spent) T- Published vry morning by Knight NwpDrt, lno? 321 W. Lafayttt Detroit 31, Mlohlgin.

CnUrtd at Moond elt mtUr th pottoffic of Detroit, Mlohlgin, undr th act of Kirch 3, 1379. 1952 Wrong Slant TUTRS. ANDRE ST. PHALLE, wife of an airline executive, has taken a stand against cosmetics on the ground that they symbolize feminine "deceit and despair." She has quit using them and says her husband tells her she is more beautiful than ever. That might well be.

Some women possess such natural comeliness that make-up can do no more, and often detracts. Mrs. St. Phalle could be one of these singularly fcrtunates. But we're not ready to accept that as a generality.

Our observation is that just the right amount of facial touching up does a good deal for 1 ritude much more often than not. As to improving on nature being a for Brakes Budget five-pound, two-ounce bundle of fig-- President Truman threw at Congress contained no surprises. that the Federti budget for the July 1 would call for the of at least $85 billion and that the alternative of still stiffer inflationary borrowing was known. of the Union message had revealed Truman so completely satisfied way his policies have worked of the same could be expected. economic report he sent to Congress week was calculated to put the mood of acquiescence for further its earnings.

contained no surprises, the budget accompanying it contained Congress and the public to be concerned must be made somewhere in the seizure by the Government more of the people's income. revenue amounts to some $71 The Government's tax "take" increased $15 billion since Korea. obstacle to Congressional economizing foreign aid. As Senators and have repeatedly said, when much on foreigners it is difficult demands of their constituents the cream. Thus extravagance to extravagance at home.

attempt to curtail foreign aid is Administration, as Walter Lipp-mann out last Sunday, with this rejoinder; you don't do it, the1 Russians will if you do it, you will live after." Administration has no basis in fact club-and-carrots technique. The best is that it is taking "calculated had better do some calculating that any set of figures sent up from the Executive Offices is untouchable is nonsense, of seems to have a fatal prevalence certain quarters. assurance by Mr. Truman that with every single item of TUESDAY JANUARY 22, for decency lies acquire the name Klansmen pranc A Signal The nHE ures yesterday The fact year beginning expenditure it would present taxes or further already generally The State President with the out that more The annual last Nation in a demands on Yet, if it and the message much for about. A HALT progressive of more and Already its tax billion a year.

has been The basic is Representatives we spend so to resist the for some of abroad leads Yet any met by the pointed "If get you, and, happily ever The for this it can offer risks." CONGRESS of its own. The idea to Congress sacred and course, but it in The solemn he was familiar the last budget, was vital to be repeated Yet in domestic As Others See ItVoice of the People deceit, we doubt that anywhere cosmetics are known there are still males so gullible they can be misled by even the most judicious application of creams and tints. And as for the despair part, it is widely recognized that nothing surpasses a trip to the beauty shop as a morale booster. The only despairing female would be' the one (probably nonexistent) who feels she is hopelessly beyond the ministrations of a beautician. If any ladies choose to lie awake nights pondering the validity of Mrs.

St. Phalles' edict, it won't be on our recommendation. A National Responsibility POSTHUMOUSLY, the Jefferson Award of the National Association for the Advancement; of Colored People has been given Harry T. Moore. A leader among Negroes, Moore was killed when an assassin-bombed his Miami home.

The honor conferred upon him, after death, is for "furthering the principles of democracy." It is fitting that he was singled out to receive it, but another recognition of what Moore stood for, and what those who murdered him stand for, is due. The Department of Justice and State and local officials have a responsibility to put all the energy they can muster into discovering the perpetrators of the attack on Moore's home, and into ferreting out those responsible for the wave of depredations against other Negroes, Jewish synagogues and Catholic churches in Florida. Contend that UMT Has No Place Among Democracy's Institutions with Capt Carlsen's unfaltering courage, bravery, and determination. Just what was Capt. Carlsen's motive in displaying these wonderful human qualities? Were-human lives at stake? Was the cargo indispensable to human welfare? Or was Capt Carlsen merely thinking of his own commission? Carlsen will still have to go some way before I can put him down as a courageous individual in my book.

Examples of bravery and courage are displayed daily in accidents, fires, battlefields, and acts of God, where persons risk and give their lives that others may live. The ballyhoo given to the and that every one of them national security, will doubtless with respect to this budget. Tax Lid Kept On BY DREW PEARSOJ WASHINGTON Down ln urieans two Dig snots or in h.i tro of derworld have been In tax tro but, under the present rules Internal Revenue Bureau, not word can be said about it. The two men are Carlos Mai 1 vX first having served time in Atlanta for selling marijuana; the c-ond, a leader of the Mafia, having been ordered deported. Nevertheless, both are protected by official secrecy as far as their tax delinquency is concerned.

What the Internal Revenue Bureau states is that if any details of tax delinquency or tax frauds are revealed to the press or public, that official would be subject to fine and a term in jail. This strict secrecy is one reason why tax influence has been so rife in Washington. It is also one thing the King Commititee on tax frauds should study this week. Here is how the secrecy order works in the case of the New Orleans gangsters: Carlos Marcello of Jefferson Parish, just outside New Orleans, was rated by the Kefauver Committee as the No. 1 bad man of the area.

He is the associate of Dandy Phil Kastel, the partn-r of Frankie Costello, got a year and a day for peddling marijuana, and had a tax lien slapped on him and his brother Vincent for $76,800. ONLY WASHINGTON KNOWS This tax lien was filed by the Internal Revenue Collector on May 19, 1939, in order to protect the Government in its collection of taxes; but there is no record as to how that lien was settled. The public has no way of knowing whether Marcello's taxes were paid in full, compromised or dropped. Local Deputy Collector John J. Sehrt, when queried by the New Orleans Item, said he did not know.

The records, he said, had been destroyed; besides, these caees are settled in Washington. Against the other New Orleans gangster, Silvestro Carollo, four tax liens were filed in 1945, totalling $62,024. All were marked discharged on March 28, 1946. Carollo has a lot of political influence. Though he served three stretches for bootlegging, narcotics, and attempted murder, he always got out, and, in the case of the murder rap, received a full pardon from the Governor of Louisiana.

Later, 1936, when he went back to jail on a narcotics' charge, the Federal Government decided he was an undesirable citizen and ordered him to Italy, only to have Louisiana's back-slapping Congressman Jimmy Morrison come to hia rescue with several private bills to keep him in the U.S.A. Congressman Morrison, Car olio's record was too black, and he was deported, April 30, 1947, only to be picked up on July 4, 1950, right back in New Orleans. He had been ordered back by "Lucky" Luciano, the world's top narcotics smuggler. In CaroDVs case, local tax officials also did not know whether tax liens had been paid in full or "adjusted." All such mn(tri It. tro --nlalnu1.

n'r handled in Washington. Accordingly, this columnist called on Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue Alvin Cross, in charge of accounts and collections. Mr. Cross has been in Internal Revenue for some 20 years and has a good record as a conscientious public servant I explained the situation of the two New Or-lean gangsters and asked whether their taxes had been paid in full or compromised. "I do not know, and if I did know, I could not tell you," Mr.

Cross replied. "Under Section 55 (E) it is a penitentiary offense for anyone to give out information regarding taxes." SECRETARY OF TREASURY RULES "Who makes the final decision as to whether an unpaid tax is to be paid in full or compromised?" I asked. "The Secretary of the Treasury," replied Mr. Cross. "It cannot be made by the local collector, nor is it made in this bureau.

It goes up to the Secretary himself." I then approached Mr. Cross. from another angle. Pointing out that the secrecy statute on tax returns was passed to protect honest and prompt taxpayers, I suggested that the secrecy rule should be different when a man became delinquent and it was necessary to file a tax lien against him. these two gangsters In New Orleans had liens slapped on them, it all became a matter of public record," I pointed out "Automatically the cloak of secrecy was removed.

"This publication of a tax lien," I argued, "is the penalty suffered by those who get behind in their taxes. Now, once a taxpayer gets behmd and is subjected to this publicitiy, why should not the final compromise he makes with the Secretary of the Treasury also be a matter of public record? Why should the Treasury lean over backward to protect the final ad justment of a delinquent tax payer? How is the public to know that some politician hasn't reached into the Treasury and scaled down the final payments of Messrs. Carollo and Marcello?" Mr. Cross reached into his desk and pulled out a copy of a Treasury Department order marked "Disclosure of Information." "Under the law passed by Con gress, we can't do it," he said, and handed me a copy. That why Congress should de one of two things: (1) Change the law so as to permit public inspection of tax returns and tax adjustments; or (2) Keep a vigilant committee similar to the KInr Committee constantly in session aa a watchdog over tax-finagllng inside the Treasury.

Florida's own reputation in its hands. If it wishes to which goes with Ku Klux i By Malcolm W.Bingayi, A FRIENDSHIP At the turn of the Century I began with fright trembling fin gers to write baseball. There was no radio. When the Tigers were on the road the only report came over the ticker, giving nothing but the score of each inning. Newspapers, saloons and other avenues of information had score boards to keep the villagers informed.

There was not much in terest except among the passionate lovers of the game. Bennett Park had a seating capacity of 6,000, and was seldom filled. When the team was away a group of these ardent, fans gath ered at the Metropole bar to watch the ticker. It was there that I first met Walter O. Briggs, a handsome giant of a man, who saved his dimes to pay for a bleacher seat OFTEN with us, too, was Byron Everitt a genial, lovable, care free fellow in the nascent days of the automobile.

Barney ran a little shop which began painting and trimming bodies for horseless carriages. He had started as a wagon painter. Briggs had left his lob as foreman of the C. H. Little Co.

yards to work for him. Everitt organized the E.M.F. Motor Co. with William E. Metz- ger as sales manager and Walter Flanders, Ford production chief.

Hence the initials E.M.F. As he swung to dazzling finan cial heights, Everitt sold his body painting shop to Briggs, taking his notes for the few thousand necessary. Barney, lacking business judg ment of any kind, gave away freely of all he had. Constant misunderstanding arose. Finally they sold out to Stude-baker.

All of them made fortunes put of It Barney's share was SO millions. FLANDERS went to the Max well, Metzger continued his fame as a great salesman and Barney went on his happy way without thought of the morrow. He seemed to lose In everything In which he invested but never lost his opti mism. Always his heart ran away with his head. Briggs expanded the little body painting business under his own name.

He worked night and day with a driving force unique even among that world of automotive giants. He began making bodies And as millions piled on millions he was able to realize his dream of building the finest baseball park in the Country where "everybody could have a seat" Some time during this period of the rise of Briggs as a great in' BRiCGS dustrial tycoon there came to him his old associate and lifelong friend Barney Everitt, still cheer ful and hopeful but broke. He had another great vision. He wanted Briggs to lend him a million dollars to finance an airplane factory. "Now, Barney," said Briggs after he had listened to the proposition, "before you say a word, let me tell you something.

"First the airplane will never be a success as a mass-production proposition such as the automobile because there can never be a mass demand, for it "SECOND, even if your idea was sound, I would not lend you a million dollars to put into it because you are not and never were a good business man. I would be just throwing away a million dollars and you would be right where you are now. "But, I don't want you to think I do not remember the days when you gave me my start I do. So here is my counter proposition: 'T will put up the amount you ask one million dollars into a trust fund for you as long as you live. You will draw the interest on this million with just one proviso: that you sign an agreement that you will never again go into business because you would simply lose whatever you might make." Everitt rejected the offer, not without indignation.

He got others to finance his airplane company and lost again, as Briggs had predicted. It was then that Briggs called him in. "Barney," he said, "I need an old timer like yourself as sort of personal general Inspector." Barney took the vague and nebulous job as "general Inspector" and got as his salary what would have been the on that million dollars until he died. And after that his widow was paid a large pension. INTERCEPTED LETTERS PRESIDENT TRUMAN Washington Dear Harry: TT becomes constanly clear-.

why that haberdashery store went on the rocks. PIPELINE PETE many fine things about the late Henry Ford. Wouldn't it have been better to let us remember such things about him and to pass them on to the youngsters, rather than to arouse doubt in the minds of many people who may take the words of Harry Bennett to be the truth? Wouldn't it have been better to have written an article on the innumerable good things he did for our community? Above all, your article mu'st have deeply hurt the remaining members of the Ford family. To teach love and truth is not in my estimation, to cause unnecessary pain among other human beings. DOROTHY FORMAN.

Fears Incentive May Be Killed I SEE in your paper that a fellow was fined for ringing his automobile bell (that's what it said) at a girl because it was supposed to be a kind of "ogling." If fellows are going to get punished for letting on that a girl is a neat looker, the girls are going to stop looking neat and just be dowdy. The beauty shop operators would starve to death if the girls didn't have the incentive of being ap preciated by the boys, and how are they going to know they're appreciated if nobody is allowed to show it? Pretty soon they'll figure they're missing the boat somehow and quit trying. They'll let themselves go frowsy in discouragement and Detroit will get a reputation for gals who look like scarecrows. I'm agin it. VIC SPEESE Saga of CapU Carlsen Fails to Impress THE RECENT publicity given to the stricken Flying Enterprise and her skipper, Capt Carlsen, seemed to me a little overdone.

To be sure, it was a good human interest story. But I believe the newspapers overplayed their hand by trying to impress the public mm ing about in their bedsheets that is its affair. But it is the whole Nation's business to see that American citizens are not endangered, their rights abridged and their property periled because of race or religion. Strident Confession ADDING to the enigma of the Red mental operation is the occasional naivete with which damaging admissions are not only publicly made, but loudly bellowed. Now they are yammering that there can be no truce in Korea so long as the UN insists that war prisoners be returned to their own countries only if they so desire.

The Reds call this "nonsensical" and "blackmail." What they are emphasizing is that whereas our prisoners held in North Korea would all elect to be exchanged, great numbers of North Koreans and Chinese in our hands would refuse to return to life under a Communist regime. Ghost Trouble in Britain THE British, with a mass of legend about ghosts prowling ancient castles and manor houses, are not people to dismiss arbitrarily any report of haunted premises, even though humble. So when Mrs. Doris Hawkins complained of spectral goings on in her hut in a temporary housing development near Bristol, an official connection with both foreign and spending, Congress, if it has a will to economy, will have no difficulty in finding ways of saving the taxpayers billions of dollars in the next fiscal year. rpHE point has been reached where, if taxes are not increased to meet the Government's padded expense account, the money will have to be found by means that will eat away more and more of the dollar's buying power through inflationary erosion.

The only way to stop that double threat to national solvency is for the Government to stop spending more than the Country can afford, abroad or at home. The Administration will not put on the brakes. Congress can. Yet if won't unless the people who elect its members make them understand that Government spending has already gone too far. Where Responsibility Lies THE tragic killing of an American-born nun on the steps of a convent in strife-torn Egypt is being investigated by the United States Embassy in Cairo.

An early report that Sister Anthony was "shot down in cold blood" by Egyptian extremists was not borne out by later dispatches from Ismailia, where the tragedy occurred. With both British and Egyptian bullets flying around the convent at the time it may be impossible to fix the immediate responsibility for death of a woman dedicated to the service of mankind regardless of nationality. THE basic responsibility rests, of course, with those who have allowed the Anglo-Egyptian dispute to deteriorate into open warfare between British troops and Egyptian patriots. An innocent bystander has been the victim of imperialism. The British have pushed Egypt around for 70 years and the Egyptians are tired of it They have told the British to get out They are following the example of the Indians and Pakistanis.

They are of one mind with the Iranians and other Near Eastern peoples: MANY CITIZENS wonder why more has not been published re garding opposition to UMT. Main ly because some of our newspa pers will not publish material of that sort (Thank God, this does not apply to our Detroit Free Press.) If the millions who are violently opposed to UMT had access to unlimited Government funds to carry on their propaganda as the Defense Department has for activities supporting UMT, they, too, might be able to present a convincing case. You may send to Washington for the report of the House subcommittee that investigated' and found these facts that the Defense Department is using Government funds (your tax and mine) for their propaganda. How many Americans know these facts? We object to the growing militarism in this Country and its implications for our democratic way of life. In the Jan.

15 paper are two good reasons why we object These items were not in a con spicuous place even though most timely: "Pfc. Linwood E. Smith, Purple Heart veteran of Korea, was shorn of his several perquisites, his corporal's stripes, Good Conduct ribbon, honor guard post and $13 a month extra pay that went with corporal's rating, because he dipped into a box of candy In Gen. Ridgway's outer office." And this: "The Washington Post said today a 10 million dollar de luxe housing project at Fort Ritchie, has been cancelled. It was stopped largely because it would have been a week-end vacation resort for Army brass.

The Pentagon had no comment." It's time decent, thinking Amer icans began to carry the torch for freedom and liberty for all, not just the Pentagon, the Amer ican oil companies and the munitions manufacturers. Conscription is a basic evil, but it rears its ugly head periodically. It can't sneak in the front or side door so now It's trying to sneak in the back door when we're not looking. It robs human beings of their freedom to make their own decisions and It does this with regard to the ultimate question of whether or not he shall be trained for organized killing. There is not one sound argument in favor of UMT.

No Country that ever endorsed and enforced it has survived. There Is nothing in the annals of history to recommend it to a Christian democracy. An issue that will vitally hit every home In America should be put to a vote of the American people and not determined by the Pentagon or greedy politicians. MR. MRS.

M. R. KEATON Wayne. Criticizes Taste of Bennett's Story I DISAGREE with the lady who wrote that your paper re flects the teachings of the Bible. I have found this hard to believe ever since you printed Harry Bennett's story about Henry Ford.

Up to that time, too, had the greatest respect for your integrity. Had this story been true, I don't ftel it would have been right to print such a derogatory article about a dead man's character. There are many of us who know Flying Enterprise is merely an indication of our times. We love hero worship regardless how trivial it is. It would be well to remember also, that the greatest heroes never lived to tell their tales.

UNIMPRESSED Maintains Passes Cost DSR Little AS A DSR mechanic for 10 years, working at all of the terminals at one time or another, I want to say 90 per cent of the mechanics, linemen, sweepers, wash rack men and office personnel of the DSR drive their own car back and forth to work. Let anyone look at the parking lots near any of the terminals and there's ample proof of this state ment In 10 years I've used my pass about 20 tunes. Surely this is no burden on the taxpayers. Of the operators, from my observation, I would say most of them drive their car, also. Off hand I can't think of or have ever heard of bus operators and maintenance personnel ever paying on any kind of transportation system, be it train, plane, bus line or any kind.

In addition I want to add, if the DSR management would do as General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and thousands of other concerns, give maybe a war bond for sug gestions as the factories, I'm sure it would result in saving of thousands of dollars to the company. No one, absolutely no one, Is any closer to the job than the worker and surely it isn't too much for the DSR to give a $50 Bond for a $10,000 idea. LESTER BROWN GUEST glass us will do. mm at night. I wn A LTll mi 111 board investigated.

They found that the weird noises de-scribed by Mrs. Hawkins were caused by the thumps and gurglings of plumbing. Mrs. Hawkins has declined accept this explanation, and is living with her mother. We'll go along with the evidence fjmhings Enduring 11 BY EDGAR A.

i These I'm sure will never pass Children's loving prauer That no longer will they tolerate British and French interference in their political and economic affairs. Maidens at a looking Setting every strand aright. Men who rise to seed the soit, The British at the expense seeking to be the future on a United States may "restore order" but only of further embittering peoples free. They are building for foundation of quicksand. The should have no part in any Bous upon the streets at play, such foredoomed adventure.

Fathers wearied by their toil Homeward bound at close of dau. Time may crush the mightiest powers. Down the future none can see. VJeddinas and engagement showers, presented by the inquiry, but neither do we blame Mrs. Hawkins for thinking the board just took an easy way out.

The majority of the British never have been exposed to any but the most rudimentary plumbing, and can hardly be expected to credit the new pipes and fixtures just making their debut in Britain with the mysterious, uneasy sounds which Americans countenance as a matter of course. But if plumbing is giving rise to ghost stories among Britons, consider what spooky tales would ensue should central heating ever spread beyond the British hotels designed for accommodation of the more plush American tourist trade. The throb and clang of a warming steam pipe could relegate to minor league status the best authenticated specter ever to parade a mossy battlement at the DopesteTi) I Come what must, will alwaus be. This will stay from sun to sun Changeless and forever true. 'All for love which we have done.

President Truman asks for 85 billion dollars and that ain't no march of dimes. Has anybody gotta check book handy? New Tork taxi driver makes a hit singing fraud opera. That Is to say, his meter clicked, 77ose who follow.