Milford chronicle., 1956-12-28
Time To Howl

Dan Throop Smith, top assistant
to Treasury Secretary Humphrey
on tax matters is or record before
a House Ways and Means sub
committee to the effect that the
Treasury is opposed to any reduc-
tion in individual income taxes, cor
porate taxes or excise taxes.
'An important House Democrat"
is quoted by The Wall Street Jour
nal as saying: Wen probably be
somewhat more liberal than the
Treasury would like in. giving tax
relief next session, but | don't see
any big tax cuts before 1858, if
them.
But we have yet to hear any
Washington spokesman say, "We
can't cut taxes now, for Heavens
sake England is in a jam again
and we've got to bail her out,
which will take something over a
billion dollars" That, however, is
what they really mean-as demon
strated by the launching of the
95-day Treasury Bills Tax Antici-
patton Series of one billion dollars
to help finance the Mother Coun-
try.
Meanwhile, the Government that
is thus frantically borrowing money
continues to subsidize our non-tax-
paying mutual and cooperative cor
porations by the same amount
one billion dollars!
If the congressman whose hearts
are bleeding for substantial tax re-
Lief would simply decide that the
cooperatives and mutual companies
and credit unions should pay their
taxes on the same basis as any
other business organizations, there
would be enough money in Uncle's
till to take care of England and re-
duce individual taxes for the people
of the u. S., too.
Rep. Mills House subcommittee,
tax reform, has heard this sugges-
ton of course in its investigation
of ''tax loopholes". But the matter
of taxing the favored co-ops and
mutuals will not, we hear, be men
toned among the 20 or more "un-
intended tax advantages" TO be
pushed off till 1853 or later.
Much along with tax re-
lief-unless those who do pay start
bowling.
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Every Day Should Be "y"-Day
Perhaps this item should go on
the women's page. But we try, in
his paper, to make all our pages
coeducational; an6 besides, we sus-
pect there are migh,y few men in
this community who never set the
dinner table for the little woman.
So this will be about how to set
the table in the modern mannerl
You still put the knives and spoons
at the right of each place and the
forks at the left, and the sugar bowl
and cream pitcher go right where
they always did. But now, instead
of just the salt and pepper, you
also put on the Gevral-so it will
be handy to pass around in that
handsome glass dispenser that has
been specially designed to harmon
ize with table settings.
This is really smart" AS the
ladies' magazines say. It's smart
because it will keep you from for
getting your multivitamin capsule
with each meal. And adding these
little sunshine bullets to your regu-
lar groceries is smart-in much the
same way as paying your life in
surance premiums.
Vitamins are still mysterious, al
though the doctors are learning
more about them every day. But
they are DO longer a fad. Physiolo-
gists studying what goes on when
YOU lift a finger discovered that
vitamins were the controls of the
chemical and electrical changes re-
quired to send a message from
brain TO muscle. Beriberi, night
blindness, scurvy, pellagra and ric-
kets. diseases rarely found among
| today's weIl-fed Americans. are the
result of vitamin deficiency. Yet
scurvv symptoms are so common
that doctors believe the disease is
still prevalent here in "subcIinicap
form. Such patients. resDond when
their vitaTnin G deficiency is re-
linved People who seem TO be we'll
fed still suffer in great numbers
from nutritional anemia due to
lack of the p vitamins.