Evening star., 1949-03-17

| housing. This tax should be deducted from
| slum rentals, not added to them Exemp-
| ton should be granted to landlord when
| he has improved his residential properties
| to meet legal and sanitary requirements,
and not until then.
This will kill two prds with one arrow.
JACK FLODIN.
personal Liberty" and Margarine
To the Editor Of The Star:
I am thoroughly fed up with the silly
arguments of the dairy people against col
ored oleo. What they are trying to do is
| to force us to buy something more expen-
sive than we can afford, by making it very
difficult for us to get something cheaper.
The same type of action in any other
field would bring us all to our feet protest
ing. An expensive dress is for sale in
speciality shop for $l25, a cheaper copy at
$50, and in the chain dress store down the
street you can get something like it for $18.
My wife, knows, of course. that the expen-
sive dress is the best in fabric and workman
ship, but if $l8 is all she can afford then
that's the one she buys. Suppose the eXpen
Sive dreSSmakerS passed law taxing the
cheap dress to bring the price higher though
the quality remained inferior, and then
went farther and said if she wanted the
cheap copy it might not be sold. she would
have to buy the material and make 1t herself.
Or take another illustration-the butcher
sells ground round steak for SIS cents q
pound. ground chuck for A cents. Why not
tax the ground chuck to force people to buy
the round? Or why not say: "You can't sell
chuck ground; sell it in pieces and make
them grind it themselves. That's just
as logical as this nonsense about colored
oleo.
Nobody claims oleo is as good as butter.
but we have right to buy it for its true
cost, colored, to use in our homes or in our
restaurants. We have just the same right
as We have to buy cheaper meat cuts, or
cheaper dresses, without having the busi-
ness interests in the higher priced fields
tax us or force us to unnecessary labor
in order to use it.
Personally. I don't like oleo, wouldn't
buy 1t and would not patronize q res
taurant that sold 1t as butter. I can tell
the taste, and so can any one else. But it
Is an unwarranted interference with per-
sonal liberty to tell restaurants and house.
wives what they can buy and serve, and
to force the public to buy a more expensive
product than they can afford, and do unnec-
essary labor to make it usable, merely to
protect one industry which seeks more
profit. JAMES GARRISON.
New Mexico and Totalitarianism
To the Editor OF The Star:
The story captioned "143 Catholic Teach
ers Barred in New Mexico Schools reports
the effective groundwork being done in that
State in clearing the way for totalitarianisn.
God having been exiled from the classroom
by the old familiar totalitarian formula, the
following mopping-up operations are IN
order: Change the name of the capital from
Santa Fe CHoly FAITH to something more
| appropriate. say Stalinburg, and follow
through with like changes Of San Rafael,
San Antonio, San Jose. Santa Cruz, Sacra-
| mento Mountains, to Marxville, Leninton.
ETC.. etc. Then blue pencil the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution, so
New Mexico youth won't be scandalzed by
references therein to Supreme Being, and
delete the phrase In God We Trust from
the coin of the realm passing through New
Mexico. Then level the old Spanish missions
| or turn them into beer parlors, so New
Mexico youth will not be reminded how edu-
cation first came to New Mexico Then ship
| the % Protestant instigators off on q trip
| preferably one-way) to Moscow to see at
first hand on the home ground the kind Of
state they are promoting.
ANN ROTHSCHILD.