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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1948
The Editorial Page
Truman Jumps Gun On GOP
In his message to congress Wednesday President Truman may have pulled a lot of vote-getting irons out of the Republican fire. In effect, he simply jumped the gun on the inevitable Republican demand for lower taxes.
Casual observation of the proposal at first would lead one to believe that Mr. Truman and Mr. Taft now see eye-to-eye on taxation. The Republicans have long been beating the drum for lower income taxes.
However, the G. O. P. tax cutting measure, already proposed by Chairman Knutson of the House Ways and Means committee, would give income tax payers percentage cuts all along the line and leave corporation taxes unchanged. The president would raise corporation taxes to make up for the loss of revenue from individual incomes.
The president knew that he had to offset the Republican tax cut proposal with some sort of counter measure that would also appeal to the voting public. To let the G. O. P. get credit for any individual income tax cuts would be political suicide for the president.
So now the question is: Shall we raise corporation taxes or leave them unchanged? At this point comes the basic difference in economic thinking between the Taft and Truman policies.
Taft is of the old hands-off philosophy that maintains the "big boys" will increase production along with profits. It means, according to the Republican viewpoint, that low corporate taxes means more money for individual expansion with a consequent fulfillment of the demand and lower prices.
The Truman advisers have been vocal in insisting that things don't work that way at all. They say there is no guarantee that a government "hands off" policy will mean more production, because perfect competition does not exist in the American economy. They maintain that profit does not necessarily go along with increased production.
One thing is certain. Manufacturers will produce at the rate that will bring them the most profit. The problem that narrows down to the question of whether producers will find it profitable to plough profits back into expansion of their plant. Past economic depressions have shown that there comes a point when producers find it more profitable to start salting the money away and shutting down their plants.
In any case, the president has put himself back in the public eye with a flourish imitating the political showmanship of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, the master politician of them all.
Walter Winchell's apparent attempt to turn a "cold" war into a "hot" war isn't a crusade—it's a suicide.
Kansas Comedy
The comedy which is being enacted in many Kansas counties by the liquor agents and the county officials is not very funny to most of the public.
The officials know that liquor is being sold but they shut their eyes, look the other way, and hold out their hands for contributions. Occasionally, when a warrant for disturbing the peace is issued, the officers make a small raid. According to the law, they warn the agent three times and then the place is closed, temporarily, that is. As soon as the agent can deed the property to some member of his immediate family, the place is opened again under a new name and "new management."
Once in a great while, the state steps in and puts a stop to the liquor sales. The county officials are reprimanded severely, and the case is dropped.
If such places selling liquor illegally cannot be closed permanently, if the state and county officials cannot find a method of co-operating, there must be something vitally wrong with our system of handling liquor operators. What percentage is there in closing a tavern only to have it open again under a new name?
The state and county officials should either solve the problem of how to handle such cases or prohibition should be voted out of the state. Stop this give-and-take between the state and the county that is making Kansas a big joke to its neighbors.—Marjorie Burscher.
But What If His Pen
Wrote Under Water, Too?
Charles Derthick, assistant instructor in psychology, was complaining that his lifetime pen had run out of ink. From the back of the room, the perpetual wise-guy piped up, "Well, drop dead!"
"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
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West Helps On Catalog
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Ray West, associate professor of English, has written the introduction to a catalog and each of 11 sections explaining the exhibits for the Kansas Arts and Crafts festival which will open in the Lawrence community building Feb. 18.
Mrs. Mary Margaret Warner, curator of the University Museum of Art, and Mrs. D. Gagliardo, have worked eight hours a day on the copy for the 112 page, 6 by 9 inch book. Governor Carlson has written the foreword.
The festival will display the work of persons who are considered Kansasans, whether by birth or by having lived in the state long enough to have been identified with it, or having expressed some phase of Kansas life in their creative work. The articles in the exhibitions have been gathered from all over the United States.
Miss Josephine Burnham, professor emeritus of English and Miss Rose Morgan, associate professor emeritus of English, are faculty members who served on the committee which prepared the catalog.
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