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Show 0 GOOD Bookkeeping Loss & The staggering magnitude of this nation's war financing problem probably prob-ably is responsible for the fact that opposition to the pay-as-you-earn income in-come tax plan has almost disappeared. disap-peared. The only substantial disagreement disagree-ment now is over whether a year's income tax liabilities should be written writ-ten off the books. President Roosevelt Roose-velt has expressed strong doubts. Let's examine the'evidence. Theoretically the Treasury would lose $8,000,000,000. This would be spread over a period of from 35 to 50 years, as one taxpayer after another an-other died or stopped earning or suffered suf-fered serious lessening of his taxable income. Each year on the average the Treasury would "lose" $160,000,000 to $220,000,000. But that would be purely pure-ly theoretical. The actual loss would be this maximum of $220,000,000 minus the amount of income taxes which would have been defaulted without the pay-as-you-earn plan, but could be collected with that plan. Nobody can measure intelligently those offsetting defaults. They can not be guessed on the basis of past performance for the simple reason that Americans never faced such onerous tax burdens. The higher the tax rate, the greater great-er the defaults, so long as we retain a system under which the man in the street is supposed to save for 12 months in order to pay a tax whose very size he cannot guess until the saving period is almost over. It is a good bet that the defaults which would be prevented by the pay-as-you-earn plan would fully offset off-set the loss from forgiving a year's tax liability. Why can't we install pay-as-you-narn without excusing a year's taxes? Figure it out in your own case. This year 5 cents comes out of very income dollar for Victory tax. Old age tax is expected to go up to 5 cents on the dollar. On top of that would come the withholding, weekly, of ond-fifty-second of a regular income in-come tax which next year will be half again as big as the whopper that is due in March. You are putting 10 per cent of your pay, at least, into war bonds. You are paying high prices for most foodstuffs, food-stuffs, and far from low prices for many other living litems and good economists say that inevitably you will pay more. Out of 80 cents of each pay dollar left after deductions, can you live, and pay the full tax due next March 15 and, simultaneously, have the 1943 income tax half again as big as . 142'sdeducted weekly from your pay? Rubber Delay Administrator Jeffers says that the synthetic rubber program is about thirty days behind the schedule proposed pro-posed by the Baruch committee. The tardiness is due to shortages in instruments and equipment which had to be diverted to the aviation gasoline and escort -vessel programs. There still is time, says Mr. Jeffers, to get back on schedule. Nothing should be permitted to hold up the program any further. We non-essentials do not count. I was frightened. Afterward I was tired. But I did it. Soviet nurse who carried 100 wounded from battlefield on her back in a day. - The American forces in Europe and North Africa congratulate their comrades com-rades in arms of immortal courageous courage-ous -Yugoslavia under -your brilliant command. General Eisenhower to General Mikhailovitch. . The people (of Germany) ' have fallen back upon resolutions of de fense. They now realize- they , are an island in a sea of 200 million invaded and starving people who hate them with irreparable bitterness. Herbert Hoover. ...... PROVO (UTAH) ?THE WASHINGTON TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943 low U. S. UJorks Its Propaganda There Goes Another One By PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent American educational publicity "propaganda" f o r overseas consumption runs all the .way from religious tracts to medical science newsletters and copy books for children. Plans are now being made by the Office of War Information to exhibit displays-of displays-of this printed propaganda in 100 or more public libraries throughout the country and when these showings are made they will provide an eye-opener on the American war effort, waged as a campaign to educate the people peo-ple of other countries on the ideas of Americanism. One of the most successful pieces of American counter-proga-ganda has been the publication of a tract, "The Nazi War Against the Catholic Church." It is a prayer-book size pamphlet of 150 pages, printed on Bible paper, ana with a black, cloth-backed cover. It is of a size convenient to pocket. "The Nazi War Against tne Catholic Church" bears the imprint im-print of the National Catholic Welfare Conference of Washington Washing-ton and it has been printed in many of the European languages for distribution in the predominantly predom-inantly Catholic European countries coun-tries which have been overrun by the Nazis. The text is divided in two parts, the first dealing with the general anti-Catholic abuses practiced by the Nazis, the second sec-ond part dealing with the specific persecutions. From this sublime level, American Amer-ican propaganda goes to the almost al-most ridiculous extreme of a children's chil-dren's copy book called "John's Book" in English, "El Libro de Juan" in Spanish, 'Le Livre de Jean" in French, and' so on for the Dutch and P o r g uguese editions. It's about four by five inches in size, has a bright red cover, and every copy is supplied sup-plied with a double-end and two-color two-color pencil, red and blue. The pages themselves are printed in black outlines on white paper, but there are color guides which give the young fry the idea of what to do with the red and blue pencil. They'll Know Our Planes Along this same line there is one exceedingly papular open end picture pamphlet on the American warplahes, It'B a beautifully beau-tifully printed pob in full' color, and it has been published in six languages. The idea, obviously, is that it doesn't do it any harm to have the populations of the Nazi-occupied countries k now what the American planes and; pilots look like, and to build up the thought that they're friends, not enemies. Most welcome item in the Am erican propaganda-of-truth budget has been a medical science news letter. Censorship having banned the international circulation ot many scientific publications, a digest di-gest of new developments in the neld of medicine has been made in the form of a newsletter which .i is circulated abroad in several languages. The Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information under Robert Sherwood has, in fact, developed a news feature service to supply foreign publications with material on America which the commercial news services do not supply. Biographies and speeches of American officials, illustrated il-lustrated feature stories on the American war effort, on women's activities. Distribution by; Handshake vestpocket editions of speeches by Vice President Wallace, Secretary Sec-retary Hull and Undersecretary of State Sumner 'yVelles have been printed in a number of languages. From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD January 26, 1920 Soldier Summit, "the city above the clouds," was rapidly becoming becom-ing an important railroad center, with the Denver &" Rio Grande spending two million dollars for the upbuilding of the place. "Big hotel, roundhouse, homes and stofS buildings are being erected at rapid pace," said the write-up. "It will be one of the most important im-portant divisions on the scenic line." f-r . . ' -r i t3" -yy ; : fe) 1 ; - I I AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "Amy's ancestors must o ben nice folks, but I notice their old colonial mansion that burned down was set-tin set-tin on a five-room foundation." Once News .. . Now History Twenty-Three Years Ago Today ported 14 cases of influenza in Provo. The report curbed wild rumors that there were 75 to 100 cases. However, Eureka was in the throes of a real epidemic, and schools land all public meetings were temporarily suspended. The problem of fire control out side the corporate limits of the j various towns, which today is still a headache to those concerned, drew the attention of the county commissioners Joseph Reece of Payson, R. D. Wadley of Pleasant Grove and H. F. Thomas of Provo in a meeting with city officials. City Recorder Fred Evans re- Prof. Robert Sauer went to Salt Lake to play with the Philharmonic Philhar-monic orchestra. A front-page communication from E. D. Sutton, a stockholder of the Utah Wholesale Meat company com-pany whose property burned to the ground "without an effort on the part of the fire department," score the fire- chief. The communication lauded the crew of the Orem electric railway for saving sav-ing the office equipment and books of the company, but said: "Not so with our fire chief, who when notified, of the- fire refused to go, using the lowest, weakest and meanest of all excuses, that the property was over the line of the city limits..." Old Books Given For University Use A collection of old text, fashion and literature books dating from 1882 to 1887 will be on display in the lobby of the Heber J. Grant library of Brigham Young university uni-versity from January 24 to JanuT ary 30. The books were donated to the university by Alex Rhone of Tooele. The collection includes forty text books, the majority of which were used in the early Utah schools, comprising at that time the backbone of the Utah school system. , After the display the books will be added to the Y's rare book collection in room 310 in the Library building. Petrified trees belong to the mineral family. Q Japanese history books will not record Pearl Harbor as an attack at-tack that occurred on Dec. 7, 1941, Why? A Because the Japanese calendar cal-endar lists 1941 as the year 2601. QWhat is the still played today? ADominoes. oldest game Q Aside from fighting Russia alongside the Nazis, why have the Finns earned the disfavor of our State Department ? A Finnish government leaders not only attended a reception at the Jap embassy, but applauded the showing of official Jap films of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Q Hans Thomsen, named by Hitler as minister to 'Sweden, was in the United States just before outbreak of our war with German. Ger-man. What was he doing here? A He was charge d'affaires at the German embassy in Washington. Q What was the foundation of professional tennis playing? A Acceptance by Suzanne Lengle,n of France of a $50,000 guaranteed from Charles C. PylO in 1929 was the foundation of professional tennis playing. The size permits concealment in in the palm of the hand and passage from person to person by handshake. Photo exhbits have been prepared pre-pared for Russia, England, Egypt. The Soviet asked for a picture story on the TVA development. England wanted a display to show the home life of the American soldier. Grouos of Turkish and Swedish journalists have been brought to the United States to see for themselves. them-selves. One of the new ideas being considered con-sidered is having some of the American - prepared documents actually printed in the countries where they will be distributed, to give them the authenic made-at-home touch. Any idea that will help spread the word is considered good. Side Glances I 0 J COPft. 194S Vt NEA 6fV(CC MC T. M. Itra If. L MT. Off. T. I've been waiting for days to talk to him about the war but .every time wed get alone hed say, 4Come on. Babe, .I. ..... . . let's dance V - . - o SERIAL STORY , 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY COPYRIGHT. 1042. NEA SERVICE. INC THE CAR IS FOUND CHAPTER XIX QVNTHIA laid the cablegram on the table standing at the arm of her chair. "I see," she said. But it was plain that she did not see at all. "Of course you do," said Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Thatcher. "You see that .we are dealing with an impostor, a pretender of the boldest sort. And we haven't a single clew as to who he really was, or where he really came from. Except' one. . . He paused, and became more Intent. "That is the extraordinary note this man left on the desk. It may be the ravings of a crazy man, of course. But you see, we can't depend on that. He may really have known your father years ago. And so it is important for us to hear everything you can tell" us about Colonel Merriwether's past life." She hesitated. She hesitated long enough for the others in the roomyred West, first, and then the rest immediately after him to get to their feet and move toward the door. But Cynthia called them Back. "There is not much " she began. be-gan. And then, in a - very tired small voice, she told all of them the same story which she, had told Vaughan Dunbar on that night te side the pooL . ; ,When she was done, there was complete silence for a little time. Even Lieutenant Thatcher seemed unable to pick up the thread pf his talk, and; Captain Meehaii was . lost in a study. It was such a pathetic and! such a little story. And told so few things about Colonel Merriwether. " Henry Prentiss had sat with his chin oh his fists, looking at the floor, While she told it, and he did not lift his head now. Mitchell Grace ; was flushed with embarrassment, embar-rassment, as if he had been forced against - his will to witness the Unveiling . of privacies. Anne .starred to cry, and Fred West took her arm la a hard, grip, and she stopped. ' ' lieutenant Thatcher coughed, fend ; stood tip, and went ' to the window. Then be sat down again. "Thank you, Miss Merriwether," he said. "You have helped us a great deal." Which was certainly not quite the truth. Captain Mee-han Mee-han nodded. JJE spoke for the first time, in his cold, methodical voice. "Is there anything at all any small or, apparently unimportant thing, which you have not told Us? Did this man Dunbar ever let slip anything1 any-thing1 which might have indicated wftat was in his mind all the time? It was there from the first, you must remember." Mitchell. Grace shifted his body, and started to speak, and looked at Cynthia. "What is it, Mitchell?" she asked. "I was only remembering oh, it was nothing. X,et it drop." Lieutenant Thatcher was quick to say, "Please. We must have it." "I vjas only thinking of the day I oi me game, wnen ne came to lunch and almost jmmediately got a wire calling him back to town." He explained what had happened, and then he said, "I thought, and I believe Cynthia did, too, that he left, in a frightful hurry. Just well, all of. a sudden he was gone." Lieutenant Thatcher pondered this, and looked at Captain Mee-han, Mee-han, and Captain Meehan said, "Thank you. It may give a little light later on.' Cynthia said, in her steadiest voice, "It would be possible, wouldn't it, that if he were let's say a spy- the people he knows would deny knowing him, and the records in Washington would be kept secret. Maybe you know what I mean they Just wouldn't tell you even what they do Tcflowj about "him. ,. . ." "We hall' consider the point," Lieutenant Thatcher Said. "I am glad you brought it up, Miss Mer-rfwether." Mer-rfwether." And the telephone rang. They could hear it sharp and loud from the hall. The butler came to say it was for Lieutenant Thatcher. And Lieutenant- Thatcher heard through the receiver that Vaughan Dunbar's Packard roadster had been found. .- ' f , , TITllEN, they got to the place " where- it had been found-after found-after a rushing drive they muttered mut-tered to themselves," Thatcher and Meehan and Henry Prentiss and Mitchell Grace, . and the burden of their . muttering was that Vaughan' Dunbar was ,a -yery clever devil indeed., The car was in a municipal parking lot in Garden City about 10 miles from Stone House and directly southward across the island a lot that was very large, situated behind a huge apartment building, and without regular at- tendants. Sandwiched in its niche of space among more than a hundred hun-dred other automobiles was the automobile of Vaughan Dunbar. But it was not easy to recognize. For, lashed to either side from hood to rear bumper, there were canvas signs held in rigid wooden frames. The signs were white. And upon them the lettering was crimson: ASSOCIATED WILLKIE CLUBS OF LONG ISLAND We The People Want WENDELL L. WILLKIE FOR PRESIDENT The profile, the color, even the make of the car were almost completely com-pletely concealed. The license plate itself was half hidden by a flap of carefully torn canvas which fluttered down from the end of one of the signs. But it was vaughan uunoar's license plate, VR-2121-Y. . An alert member mem-ber of the Garden City Police Department De-partment had noticed it as he cruised through the grounds. They got a squad of these same local policemen, and began a systematic sys-tematic examination of the building. build-ing. It had more than a hundred apartments, and each of them had its bell rung, and the occupants Of each were asked questions. With no results. And the manager man-ager gave assurance, that nobody no-body even remotely resembling Vaughan Dunbar had ever set foot in the building. Lieutenant Thatcher hurried to the station of the Long Island Railroad, which was close at hand. But urgent questioning of the newsman and the . ticket seller brought only blank faces and shaking heads. They took the automobile to the sheriff's office at Mineola, and went through the tedious business of discovering that its wheel, doors and driving apparatus bore, amply, the fingerprints of Vaughan Dunbar Dun-bar and of nobody else. For the first time, Lieutenant Thatcher seemed discouraged. And the metropolitan, area alanri was extended to become a national alarm. The police, and his own newspaper, news-paper, continued the search for Bill Stewart, prowling somewhere over' the embattled continent of Europe. And back at Stone House, Lieutenant Thatcher lifted . his cocktail glass to his lips, sighed, swallowed sparingly, and regard ed Captain Meehan with care. XT Be Continued) MERRY -G0- R0U1D A Daily Picture of What's By Drew Pwunoa (Major Robert Going on in National Affairs hit, dat? WASHINGTON Congressional prober would do well to ask the War Shippine Admin istration for wartime figures on the profits of steamship companies. They are enormous. For instance the West Kyska, an aged tub owned by the Waterman Steamship Com- pany of Mobile, is valued at oniy $a,i3rit between May, 1941, and June, 1942, she maoe various trips to the Red Sea for which - she was paid the not insignificant sum of $325,165 per trip. In other word3 the average gross income of the West Kyska was almost 4,000 percent. Incidentally the Watexnan, Steaniship Company appears especially favored by the Government. For forthright Controller General Lindsay Warren has found that this company after buying five vessels from the Maritime Commission for only $596,000, later sold ' five older ' ships back to the Maritime Commission for $3,374,700. This, however, was only part of it. The Waterman Company had a total of 12 ships, including the West Kyska, with an aggregate book value of $786,422, on which the Waterman Company received an average gross income of $3,342,669 or about 450 per cent for individual indiv-idual trips to Red Sea ports, carrying supplies to the British. Of course, wartime insurance rates zoomed and" seamean's wages were sky high, but even so Red Sea profits look lush. Other Waterman ships which have cashed in heavily on voyages to this area are the following, fol-lowing, with income per voyage: The Bienville, valued at $16,581. Income $313,765. The Antinous, valued at $52,272. Income $512,384-. The Ipswich, valued at $30,847. Income $222,442. The Iberville, valued at $58,000. Income $268,908. The Lafayette, valued at $76,346. Income $261,521. The Gateway Citj-, valued at $24,952 In-come In-come $162,987. The Jean LaFitte, valued at $43,039". Income In-come $348,667. The Andrew Jackson, valued at $158,493. Income In-come $274,815. NOTE: All these ships, including the West Kyska, range from 22 to 24 years old. FItANK GOVERNOR DEWEY When Tom Dewey was inaugurated as Governor Gov-ernor of New York, among those present was distinguished Judge Philip McCook, whd presided pre-sided at a great many of the trials by which' Dewey broke up New York's gang world. Governor Dewey was stiff and unbending during the inauguration ceremony. AftensHSd frank Judge McCook remarked: T "You know, Governor, I have presided at a lot of trials of yours and I've come to the conclusion that you're about the most conceited man I know." "Maybe you're right, Judge," replied the equally frank Dewey. "I suppose it's an inferiority infer-iority complex. P started out to be an opera singer and failed; I guess I've never quite gotten over it." INDIA LEAGUE Many people sympathize with Indian aspir-. ations for independence or Dominion status under the British Empire. But inside fact is that a lot of Isolationists and some pro-Nazis are using the India-freedom movement as a shrewd vehicle for hitting either at the British or Roosevelt's foreign policies. Take, for instance, the India Leaeue din ner teing held tonight at the Biltmore in .New, York. On the executive committee of the Jndl League and promoting the dinner is Mrs. Set Milliken, famous member of the America First Executive Committee in New York. Another India League executive is Mrs. Budd Armstrnn?. a strong America Firster. Also behind the India League dinner in New York is Sidney Hertzberg, who was public .relations counsel for America First, and is now public relations counsel for the India League. Then there is Mrs. John Gunther, divorced wife of the author of "Inside Europe," no isolationist, isola-tionist, who was fascinated by Pandit Nehru, the Indian Leaguer, and is still singing his praises. Another interesting Indian Leaguer is the Princess Ekatrina Obolensky, an Ohio girl,"who married one of the Obolenskys and who now displays the Russian imperial eagle on her stationery. sta-tionery. Another interesting character is Baron Frary von Blomberg, Boston contact for the League, who aroused a furor before a Long Island Rotary Club when he made some remarks re-marks interpreted as pro-Nazi. Apparently the India League is being used as5 an umbrella to cover a lot of things, some of them having little to do with Indian independence. MARCANTONIO 3UEUEE The Democratic caucus at which American Labor Party member Marcantonio was ruled off the House Judiciary Committee was the strangest strang-est and wildest that House Democrats have held in years. It found Marcantonio receiving support from such unusual sources as anti-New-Deal Gene Cox of Georgia and Alfred Bulwinkle of North Carolina. They raised their voices over an uproarious clamnr fnr hie Hnfnn f u4. i , - - uutat. wai uui - dered on pandemonium, wJf1 the usually temperate Representative Cliff Woodrum of. Virginia joined in, with a rtpsnorting speecn about Marcantonio's leftist ties and votes against defense measures. "The same radicals with whom this man is connected burned me in effigy twice in my district," woodrum exclaimed" angrily. Cox explained his desertion of the Southern South-ern conservative bloc, to plump for Marcantonio, by contending that his colleagues should follow precedent and unhold thA UOmmittee Which nnminafjm rtAmnun.n. places oro standing? committees. Bujwinkle echoed the same sentiments. But their pleas, j aa i well as those of the few Administrationlte who supported Marcantonio, fell on deaf earsT MERRY-GO-ROUND Seventy-pne-year-old Ed. H. Moore, new benator from Oklahoma, believes in dding things in a big way, even when it comes to his office rorce . . . He hired a millionaire secretary. Harry L. Wirick, Tulsa oil man ... Wirick's income tax, however, is still considerably less than Moore's ... Back to the horse-and-buxrev days. A Washington want-ad asked for a coachman coach-man competent to groom and drive a pair of horses . . . Army is having a tough time recruiting re-cruiting nurses, in competition with the more glamorous WAACS and WAVES "V . . There's mounting opposition in Congress to the ' $25,000 salary limitation. Bob Doughton, chairman" of the powerful House. Ways and Means Commit-' tee, says he thinks the limitation will cause loss of revenue to the government . and a loss" of incentive to the individual.. (Copyright 1943 by United Feature 1 Syndicate, Inc.) . : j |