THE NOME NUGGET
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TAINTED TAXES
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
In the complete socialist state, the citizen suppos
edly doesn't have to worry about doctor bills, hospital
bills, health insurance, life insurance or tuition for his
children. The state just lifts all those burdens from his
shoulders—rather, it says it does.
In actual practice, socialist rule ranges from sloppy
and inefficient bureaucratic paternalism to the tight
cruel dictatorship which, indeed, takes care of its people
—as a prison takes care of its inmates.
With this preface, we lead into the fact that Rep.
Daniel A. Reed (R-NY), in addition to pressing the
fight for a personal income tax reduction by July 1,
also is one of the leaders of congressional efforts toward
a long-range overhaul of our tax structure.
We respectfully urge upon Representative Reed
and his associates the fact that the present income tax
laws, which bear a great deal of socialist taint, give
little consideration to the citizen who recognises his
obligation to take care of himself and his own family.
The long-range tax overhaul should include com
'plete exemption of medical and dental costs from tax
ation.
If the human body were a machine used in busi
ness or industry, there would be no question about the
deductibility of costs for its repair. In this sense the
present tax laws are inhuman. They place a wage
earning man or woman in a category beneath that of
a machine.
We also strongly believe that private school and
college costs should be deductible.
Many of our people are taxed twice for the edu
cation of their children. They pay taxes for schools
they do not use—a deductible item, to be sure—but
they are not allowed to deduct the tuition and other
costs of the schools they do use.
Similarly, a working mother (parent, widow, wid
ower) is not permitted to deduct the cost of the care
of children.
Let’s write out of our tax laws the provisions that
place our destinies in the hands of an expensive and
inevitably inefficient paternalism.
The best way to keep up with the Joneses is to
take it easy for a while and in a few years you’ll meet
them coming back.
Gruening Argues
Case for Statehood
In Harper’s
Former Governor Ernest Gruen
ing of Alaska argues the case for
Alaskan statehood in the May
issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Calling attention to the Repub
lican administration’s move to
grant Hawaii statehood, Governor
Gruening says: “What the admin
istration has clearly in mind is
the election of two Republican
senators in 1954 to increase the
slender majority of one which it
now holds in the Senate of the
United States.”
Hawaii generally is Republican
in its politics.
Gruening also writes: “What
puzzles and distresses Alaskans
is that no word of encouragement
was given the Alaska statehood
cause by the President, who when
president of Columbia University
in September 1950, spontaneously
espoused statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii, saying in a Denver ad
dress: ‘Quick admission of Alaska
and Hawaii to statehood will show
the world that “America Practices
What It Preaches”.’ ”
“It may be noted,” Gruening
writes, “that few causes have so
much popular support as Alaskan
statehood. It has been endorsed
by such widely diversified organ
izations as the United States
Chamber of Commerce, The Am
erican Legion, the V.F.W., the
AMVETS, the AF of L, the CIO,
the Railway Brotherhoods, the
General Federation of Women’s
Clubs, the National Grange, the
Lions, Kiwanis, Moose, the Con
gress of Home Missions, repre
senting some 30 Protestant de
nominations; and the support of
the Catholic Church has been
manifested by the Catholic Bishop
of Alaska. The press, so divided
on many issues, is virtually un
animous in favoring statehood for
Alaska.
“In the face of such over
whelming endorsement, if Con
gress were as responsive to public
opinion as elective bodies are sup
posed to be, statehood for Alaska
would be promptly enacted.”
Democrats Outraged By
Proposed Changes To
Taft-Hartley Labor Law
WASHINGTON, Ufi—Democrats
on the state labor committee were
reported outraged by a committee
document containing a score of
proposed changes in the Taft
Hartley law.
Some of the Democrats were re
ported to have agreed the changes
would make the law “much worse
than the original Taft - Hartley
act,” which has been strenuously
opposed by union spokesmen.
But odier sources represented
the Democrats as feeling the pro
posals, if enacted, would serious
ly set back the course of union
management relations as develop
ed under 20 years of Democratic
administrations.
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Congressional Action
Unlikely On Investigations
Into Obscene Literature
WASHINGTON, tflt — Congress
Saturday appeared unlikely to
make any* further investigations
of obscene literature.
A House committee last year
looked into the problem of such
matter of newsstands accessible to
juveniles, but concluded Congress
could not undertake censorship. A
bill by Rep Kearns (R-Pa) to re
new the probe probably will re
main shelved in the House Rules
Committee, chairman Leo Allen
(R-Ill) said.
Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalistic fraternity, cautioned
against possible threats to free
dom of the press in such investi
gations, while insisting it did not
condone printing pf obscene mat
ter.
Kearns said he did not think
Congress should control reading
habits of adults, but that govern
ment at all levels should be con
cerned about “some of the trash
so easily available to children.”
Musician’s Union Leader
Complains Service Bands
Put His Men Out of Work
WASHINGTON, UP) — James C.
Petrillo says a movie premier is
not an appropriate occasion for
one of the U.S. service bands to
provide free music. <
The AFL executive council Fri
day bucked Petrillo, who is presi
dent of the American Federation
of Musicians and a member of the
council, in his complaints that the
Army, Air Force, Navy and Mar
ine bands are playing too- much
free music.
“These service bands are
knocking my members out of
work and play,” he complained.
The council said federal laws
and Army regulations defining
occasions when the bands might
play are being broken by use of
their services “at premieres of
movies entirely commercial in
character, and at banquets off . . .
purely private organizations.”
Legal Blanks al The Nome Nugget
Failure to Register
With Selective Service
Is Violation of Law
JUNEAU — Calling attention to
the fact that failure to register is
a violation of law and makes the
delinquent liable to penalty, John
L. McCormick, Alaska Director
of Selective Service outlined reg
istration requirements under the
Universal Military Training and
Service Act, which he said he be
lieved were not thoroughly under
stood by all of the general public.
“The obligation to register,” Mr.
McCormick said, “is a continuing
obligation and must be fulfilled.
The obligation to register is im
posed by the Act on every male
citizen and every other male per
son in the United States between
the ages of 18 and 26, with the
general exception of members of
the armed forces on active duty
and certain aliens.”
The young man who becomes 18
is required to register at a local
board within five days of the
date of his 18th birthday. After he
registers, it is mandatory that a
registrant keep his local board in
formed of any change in his ad
dress or change in status. Regis
trants who are deferred subse
quent to June 19, 1951, are liable
until they are 35. Aliens are re
quired to register within six
months following the date of their
entry into the United States.
The maximum penalty for vio
lation of the provisions of the sel
ective service law, Mr. McCor
mick pointed out, is five years in
prison or a fine of $10,000 or both.
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