Milford chronicle., 1947-08-08

that bill, the fact was revealed that
President Roosevelt stepped in to
prevent the cancellation of How
ard Hughes wartime contract to
build the Worlds largest flying |
boat.
The late President Roosevelt had
a way of bossing his Cabinets and
it is a good thing that Jesse H. |
Jones, former Secretary of Com
merce told all about this particu-
lar raw deal.
RAILROADS AND BANKS
President Truman killed a bill
during the last week of Congress
intended to govern financing of
Pullman Sleeping Cars. The reas-
ons he mentioned were that the
measure would facilitate bankers
control of railroads" What won
derful discovery? Everybody knows
that the bankers have financed the
railroads ever since the Golden
Spike was driven.
WHY NOT RAISE U. s. SUGAR?
The United States produced near
ly million tons of sugar cane in
the favorable season of 1943, in
Louisiana and Florida. In addition,
the sugar beet crop was estimated
at 619 million tons of beets. Just
why the United States sugar grow
ers were made to go way-back-and-
sit-down, and not grow our own
crops of sugar during the War has
never been explained intelligently.
Neither has there been very
much light upon the mystery of
sugar-coating Cuba through all the
years, while it was monopolizing
the American market. If the OPA
was as bull-headed as they appear
ed to be in rationing sugar, there
must have been motives back of it.
Whether the American sugar re-
finers rugged the market or not, is
hard to say. One of the best pro-
tests ever staged in Washington
was made by soft drink COM
pany when they did sky-writing
over the Capital in protest against
paying so much money for Cuban
sugar-plus Cuba's political gravy.
Their difficulty was to produce and
sell their product at five cents per
bottle. They stuck by their guns
and now that rationing has been
wiped out they will be able to carry
on-and the good old price will be
5 cents per, as before. They made
a great effort and they won the
race. Brass hats and tariff-rate-
fixers seem TO have received a
) spanking.
YOU TELL ME
The amount of gasoline con-
sumed by private and commercial
vehicles runs around 20 billion
gallons a year. Sales taxes and
class taxation is costing motor We
hicle owners more than $780,
100000 annually, as well as all the
general taxes paid by all the citi-
zens. In earlier years, this sales
tax was put into operation for
: the purpose of raising revenue to
build roads. The sales taxes were
not so high in the first twenty-five
= years, but they have kept on grow
ing and growing until today ev-
l cry state has a. tax per gallon
2 ranging from 3 cents in seven
states up to as high as 6 and
cents a gallon in Al states
Now is that fair? A young lady
to whom l pronounced this ques-
ton promptly replied mo it isn't.
And she was right.
1 The roads are made for all the
2 public, and ample provision has
been made for constructing roads
The roads are built for public
l use. Ample provision has beer
> made by the U. S. government anC
the states to share in the expense
> of constructing highways. The ow
4 ners of automobiles and motor We
J, hicles are being subjected to spe
i cial class taxation. A recent pc
s tition presented to Congress ant
backed by more than four hundred
e organizations of highway worker
+ of the United States asked for var
: ious laws imposing special FEEDER
: al excise taxes upon motor vehicles
: and trailers, gasoline and lubricat
Il ing oil-and other special breeds
5 of taxation on different parts of au
II tomobiles, including tires.
The American Petroleum Insti
tute made a long and forcefu
g fight against this unjust tax upol
J. automobile owners. The Institut
d has 5000 members, and represent
: hundreds of different organiza
If tons that have petitioned Congress
e to repeal the unjust laws whicl
n exist at the present time. Taxation
i imposed in the good old days whe
Y. horses and buggies travelled owe
If dirt roads were mere. small change