Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-11
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annuities but, as taxpayers, contribute
to the portion paid by the Government.
It is vicious and frequent political
misstatement of fact to refer to Gov
eminent employees as pensioners on the
taxpayers bounty. They earn their sal
aries and render a great and loyal
service to their Government and also
pay their just share of taxes to support
the Government.
Having been an auditor and account
ant for over 80 years in the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, I am quite familiar
with the methods used by many tax
payers to ,evade payment of their just
taxes. Uncle Sam withholds the cor
rect amount due from his employees
occasionally too much. which is always
refunded-so there is small chance of
any tax evasion on the average en-
ploye's part. So definitely assert that
they are not pensioners on the charity
OF other taxpayers-but are annuitants
enjoying an annuity for which they
have paid over the years, and are also
taxpayers contributing their just share
Of Government expenses.
Inez Justus Guinan.
Polio Vaccine for Isroel
My heart sickened when I read in
The Star, April 5, that the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had
given 634 quarts of Salk vaccine to
Israel. Is that why turned my porch
light on? Is that why contributed at
the local motion picture house? Is that
the reason my three preschool children
are facing this summer, the critical
time OF year. without the Salk vaccine?
Who made this momentous decision to
single out Israel as the nation to re-
ceive the vaccine, that my own children
should have. that Americas children
should have? It appears that the peo-
pie in the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, who are responsible,
consider the children of Israel more i'm
portant than mine or the children of
the hundreds of thousands of parents
like me who dug down at the sight or
thought of the helpless children of
America. and contributed that extra
bit in hopes of protecting their loved
ones.
If our representatives in government
want to investigate. let them look into
this gross injustice to the children of
America. Let them inquire into why,
when the foundation put on their drive
for money, they didn't make known the
fact that I was financing vaccine for
ISrael's children but none for my own.
A. J. Smith.
Why do those in authority seem to
feel it more necessary to prevent polio
among foreign children than to protect
our own from its Gripping effects? AS
the mother of four children, find it
hard to take the news that Israel is
to receive, free of charge. 634 quarts
of Salk vaccine with which to immunize
some 100000 to 100000 children. while
at the same time doctors in the United
States have been advised to conserve
their very limited supplies of the vac
cine by administering it only to young
sters in the 5-to-l0-year bracket?
Only one of our four falls into that
category. and am sure speak for
many parents when say that the next
polio fund plea will fall on deaf ears
while this kind of thing goes on. It is
a fine thing to help people everywhere.
but when it comes to depriving our
own to give to others. find don't feel
very charitable.
Elizabeth M. Lowe.