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‘ SOMETHING MORE TO FRIGHTEN THE KIDDIES
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THE TAX BURDEN
In spite of the fact that Federal taxes were some
what reduced last year, U.S. taxpayers shelled out a
record-breaking $91,000,000,000 in fiscal 1954. This
figures, which is a new high, is the result of hikes in
state and local taxes.
These figures are reported in the eighth edition of
Facts and Figures on Government Finance — a non
profit publication of the Tax Foundation.
One factor which softens the news a bit is that
.there were more taxpayers contributing to the total
in fiscal 1954 than in any other year. Population in
creases actually brought per capita tax payments down
from $578—in fiscal 1953—to $572 in fiscal 1954.
From these figures it can readily be seen that
Americans are now paying record-breaking peacetime
taxes. Such figures should be ample stimulus to the
citizenry and administration leaders to maintain a
constant effort to effect savings in government, and to
improve efficiency and lower costs.
2,500 QUESTIONS
Editor and Publisher, magazine of the Fourth
Estate, recently published a tabulation of the questions
asked President Eisenhower at his weekly press con
ferences since the beginning of his term of office.
The magazine found that the President had been
asked some 2,500 questions, and that they ranged into
almost every field. The significant thing about it all
is the readiness of the President of the United States
to meet the press and answer any questions which are
put forward.
This American custom, which it has become in the
last two decades, enables every newspaper with Wash
ington representation, and even some of those without
it, to forward questions of their readers to Washington
for presentation to the President.
Thus, the lowliest citizen can go to the highest
citizen in the United States and get an answer to his
question, through his newspaper.
In no other country is such a process available to
the average citizen. Therefore, in no other country is
the relationship between the President and the average
citizen so close. This is a significant, and important,
foundaton of democracy as we know it in the United
States.
Alaska, Hawaii Delegates Question
Constitutionality of Commonwealth
Proposals for Present Territories
By HARRISON HUMPHRIES
WASHINGTON, (tfi—Congres
sional delegates from Hawaii and
Alaska Tuesday questioned the
constitutionality of proposals to
make the territory common
wealths instead of states.
The commonwealth proposal
was presented to a Senate terri
tories subcommittee Monday by
Sens. Monroney <D-Okla) and
Fulbright (D-Ark>. The subcom
mittee is considering legislation
to grant statehood to both terri
tories.
Delegate Bartlett 'D-Alaska*
and Delegate Farrington <R-Ha
waii* argued that the status of
Alaska and Hawaii as incorpor
ated territories is not subject to
withdrawal in favor of a lesser
political status.
Bartlett said attorneys studying
the matter also have concluded
the U.S. Constitution would pro
hibit exemption of residents of
the two “integral parts of the
country” from federal taxation—
as proposed by the commonwealth
advocates.
Opposing the admission of any
offshore states, Monroney said
that “much of the greatness of
America is in its land mass and
its rectangular shape.”
Fulbright said the admission of
California—then not contiguous
to any other state—“is no prece
dent for jumping over thousands
of miles of ocean to admit isiand
states having problems of all
kinds unlike the problems of the
mainland states.”
The Arkansas senator said Al
aska, especially, ought to prove it
can develop under self govern
ment of the commonwealth type
before it is granted two senators
and a representative in the feder
al Congress.
Monroney complained that the
people of Hawaii and Alaska have
never had a referendum giving
them a chance to express prefer
ence for commonwealth or state
hood.
He said the tax exemption in
centive would benefit Hawaii and
permit “private industry rather
than the awkward hand of gov
ernment to develop the resources
of Alaska.”
Commonwealth status would be
no bar to a later grant of state
hood, Monroney argued, while
statehood would be “irrevocable.”
Bartlett told the committee that
the people of both Hawaii and
Alaska have given the common
wealth proposal a test at the polls.
He referred to a special election
for delegate in Hawaii last sum
mer in which the Democratic and
Republican candidates endorsing
statehood polled 62,827 votes
while a third candidate advocat
ing commonwealth received only
2,613 votes.
In Alaska, he said, the chair
man of the first commonwealth
supporting organization ran for
the territorial Senate last October
Edith Bullock Bill Would
Amend Schools Law
JUNEAU, </P>—One new bill was
introduced into the Alaska House
of Representatives Monday after
noon. The proposal of Rep. Edith
Bullock iR-Kotzebue* would
amend the law under which the
Territorial Board of Education
can order a school set up on an
independent school district basis,
to provide most of its own sup
port.
It provides the board could take
such action when a school’s en
rollment reaches 100. But the ter
ritory would have to continue to
support it 100 percent the first
year of its independence, and then
90 percent the second year before
putting it on the regular territor
ial percentage support basis.
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and was overwhelmingly defeat
ed at the polls.
“If the people wanted to ex
press preference for a common
wealth they had ample opportun
ity to do so in those elections,”
said Bartlett.
The Alaska delegate asserted
that, because of the constitutional
question, commonwealth for Al
aska could only be assured after
the Supreme Court had passed on
it.
Furthermore, he said, the tax
exemption feature of the com
monwealth proposal could be
withdrawn by any future Con
gress.
Referring to Monroney’s con
tention that citizens of existing
states provided the “seed corn”
that populated new states of the
West, Mrs. Farrington said people
from New England states settled
Hawaii in 1820.
By 1840, she said, the people
established a constitution for the
Monarchy of Hawaii patterned on
the constitution of Massachusetts
and established a free school sys
tem patterned after the state of
New York.
Honolulu, she said, was a going
city before the first settler moved
west of the Mississippi River.
“We had the first printing press
west of the Rocky Mountains,”
she added.
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Power Commission . . .
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prospective industries would have
the information they need.
She pointed to the Taiya power
proposal, where the Aluminum
Co. of American had planned a
big project with water brought
by tunnel from the Yukon head
waters in Canada, until Canada
vetoed it, as a major project for
the commission to work on.
“Taiya power can be provided •
at a low cost which can't be
matched anywhere else in North
America,” she declared.
She said it is Canadian water
but the natural outlet is in Alaska
near Skagway.
“Canadians are aware of its
value,” she continued, “and they
are saving they won’t permit its
use on this side of the border.
They are playing international
poker. We would be doing the
same if we were wide awake.”
Palmer, a mining engineer, said
a bill was to be presented to Con
gress on the subject, that Dele
gate Bartlett had expressed en
thusiasm about it and it had
received a favorable report from
a federal consultant in Washing
ton.
Rep. Warren Taylor (D-Fair
banks) said large scale hydroelec
tric development might open a
great new industrial potential
for coal fields along the Alaska
Railroad which are so extensive
that “they couldn’t be dented in
a thousand years.” He expressed
the belief that, with ample cheap
electricity, J.he coal would be of
greater value for nylon and other
manufactured products than as a
fuel.
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