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OKAY, IF WE CAN KEEP DUCKING
Censorship Through Taxation
ASK ANYONE what the Internal Revenue Service
is and you’ll get some such answer as this: “It’s a
Federal administrative agency, whose duty is to collect
taxes as provided in revenue laws passed by Congress.”
But the Internal Revenue Service is going far
afield from its proper nd established function. It is,
in effect, setting itself up as a censor of what enter
prises and organizations may say in their advertising,
on pain of ^ heavy tax penalties. It is also making
decisions that are purely within the province of busi
ness management. ' •
Here is the remarkable and menacing story.
Internal Revenue Servic has ruled that electric
utility companies cannot regard the cost of institu
tional advertising, which presents their side of the
public-vs.-private power controversy, as a legitimate
business expense, deductible in income tax returns.
Internal Revenue Service has also ruled that the
cost of literature opposing Socialism issued by one of
the country’s most respected professionl organizations,
the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,
is not exempt from tax.
Internal Revenue Service has also disallowed
public relations advertising placed over a four-year
period by the Timken Roller Bearing Company. This
advertising discussed the Bill of Rights, Capitalism
vs. Socialism, principles of taxation, and other such
matters.
In other words, Internal Revenue Service holds
tht advertising designed to sell products or services is
a legitimate business deduction — but that advertising
designed to maintain an economic and political climate
in which private enterprise may successfully produce
those products and services is not. It is attempting
to muzzle the right of people to speak their minds
freely and without penalty — and in doing that, to
prevent other people from knowing and weighing both
sides of controversies.
If Internal Revenue Service’s incredible stand is
maintained, no one will be immune. Anyone may
be faced with the choice of accepting bureaucratic
censorship — or of paying a heavy penalty for exerting
absolutely basic rights which are supposed to be guar
anteed by the Bill of Rights. This is one ©f the ways
in which dictatorship begins.
! U. S. To Start
Reducing Fleet
Formosa Strength
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, — The
United States is expected to begin
reducing its Naval forces in the
Formosa Strait sometime soon,
now that Red China has extended
its Quemoy cease-fire for two
more Weeks.
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of States Dulles welcomed
th Communist action Sunday as
“good news.”
Through a White House state
ment, they promised further ef
forts to seek a negotiated settle
ment of the Formosa problem.
The impression in official
Washington is that the seven
week-old crisis which took the
world to the brink of war, had
ended. Officials believe that with
this wiew truce extension the
[Communists have shown they do
not intend to resume the heavy
bombardment of Quemoy which
they began Aug. 23.
If future events confirm this,
the United States will almost cer
tainly begin cutting down the
power of the reinforced 7th Fleet
in the Formosa area. Washington
authorities commented that with
the Communists not attacking,
the military need for so powerful
a force would decline.
Secretary of Defense Neil H.
McElroy said on Formosa that
U. S. forces would not remain in
that area indefinitely, but added
there were no plans to withdraw
them at this time.
The United States would not
begin withdrawal “until the po
sition of the Communist Chinese
is made clear,” he said.
In Washington, Dulles con
ferred for an hour with Sen. The
odore F. Green of Rhode Island,
Democratic charman of the For
eign Relations Cqmmittee. Green
has publicly criticized • the Ad
ministration’s stand in defending
the Nationalist-held offshore
islands.
Though Dulles and Green did
not settle their policy differences,
they joined in a warning to the
Communists not to be misled by
political argument in this country.
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Scientists Had Hoped To Come Within
50,000 Miles Of Moon With Pioneer
By VERN HAUGLAND
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP) —
An American rocket aimed at the
moon zoomed through space Sat
urday, but there were indications
it might miss its lunar rendez
vous.
The rocket was the first man
made object to go into free flight,
and reached the highest altitude
ever attained by any man-made
vehicle.
It roared off in cascade of
smoke and flame from a launch
ing pad here on a mission to probe
the secrets of space — possibly
even determine what may be
found on the dark side of the
moon.
The world’s first lunar probe
took off slightly slower than had
been planned.
But the slower speed appar
ently had little effect. The rocket
and its 85-pound load of instru
ments moved as scheduled along
its 221,000-mile path to a rendez
vous with the moon in bout 2 Vi
days. There’s no expectation that
the rocket will actully hit the
moon, but the scientists hope to
come within 50,000 miles of it,
and possibly orbit around the
moon.
Six hours after the launching,
government scientists estimated
the rocket — dubbed “pioneer,”
was about 45,000 miles out in
space., That they noted, was “the
highest altitude ever attained by
any man-mlade vehicle.”
The Pentagon announcement
said, however, that it appeared
from data received that the rocket
“may be departing from the in
tended trajectory.!” This could
mean that Pioneer might miss the
intended point in space at which
it would intercept the moon.
The Pentagon said the experi
ments with instruments aboard
Pioneer are proceeding extremely
satisfactorily.
The momentuous moon probe
came a little more than a year
after the Russians startled the
world by hurling the first earth
satellite — the Sputnik — into
orbit. Four satellites since have
been launched by the United
States.
There has been no indication
that the Russians have attempted
to throw a moon rocket into space.1
The United States first tried Aug. I
17, but the rocket exploded 77
seconds after leaving the launch
ing pad.
Saturday’s attempt was com
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pleted on schedule with clocklike
precision.
An hour after the flame of the
3:42 a.m. launching had burned
away a light ground fog. an
nouncement was made that the
lunar probe had escaped the
earth’s gravitational field.
The rocket was spinning
through space at . some 25,000
m.p.h. after its dramatic launch
ing at 3:42 a.m.
In Washington, the Defense De
partment announced that if the
lunar probe should attain a de
sired orbit around the moon —
and it will not be known for some
time whether this will be
achieved — the satellite would
stay within 40,000 miles of the
moon for at least seven days.
The Department also said that
it is theoretically possible that
the satellite might actually strike
the surface of the moon or even
pass beyond the influence of the
moon’s gravity .and go out into
outer space beyond the range of
earth tracking stations.
It was disclosed for the first
time that instruments carried by
the satellite include one for meas
uring the intensity of radiation
during flight from the earth to
the moon.
Inclusion of these instruments
experiment was prompted partly
by the recent discovery of a po
tentially dangerous band of ra
diation beginning about 600 miles
above the earth and continuing
on out to an as yet undetermined
altitude.
At a news conference Dr. Louis
Dunn, president of Space Tech
nology • Laboratories, Los An
geles, which developed the lunar
probe, said there were some indi
cations that the launching speeds
had been slightly lower than were
scheduled.
He said the first stage appeared
to have “programmed” — started
curving on its trajectory to the
northeast — higher than it
should have.
However, the launching was
considered a great success because
the stages all fired in proper
sequence at full thrust, and the
payload of instruments in the
nose soared into space.
If all goes well, the missile
should approach within 50,000
| miles of the moon some time
'Monday afternoon.
Indo China Capitol
Bells Toll For Pontiff
TOKYO, (41 — Moscow Radio
sai^ Saturday all church bells in
Hanoi, capital of Communist
North Viet Nam, tolled in mourn
ing Friday for Pope Pius XII.
The dispatch; quoting the Viet
Nam news agency, said a requiem
mass for the Pope was held Fri
day in Hanoi Central Cathedral.
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