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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH Wooklv INVu'n AiuilyxiK Pan-Ameri- Wage Earners May Carry Load In New U. S. Taxation Program By Joseph W. La Mine refusing to intervene even.if Germany threatens Frances ally, Rus- EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion tit column, they nr tbos , expressed in the ot tho now 7t, nd not eecetstnlf sia. hours after the nl o t tho nwppr. rman pact was signed, Berlin opened a noisy propaganda campaign against Rumanias King Carol, Taxation who has been actively purging Nazi Recent federal taxation policies partisans from his government. At have been based on the theory that the same time, in Memel (under business should bear the brunt. For Lithuanian sovereignty), German this or some other reason, business residents began an autonomy camhas operated at a loss, laid off work- paign that undoubtedly had inspiraers and precipitated economic de- tion in Berlin. Satisfied so long as pression. This year, as the ,U. Hitler keeps himself busy in eastern treasury charts its course for the Europe, France will not protest 1939-4- 0 fiscal year, there are signs these activities. that business will breathe easier, Italy. France must permit fulfillment of Italys vital aspirations" in the Mediterranean or incur the wrath of Adolf Hitler, Italys friend. Though Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop declined to answer immediately the French question of what Germany would do in a Mediterranean crisis provoked by Italian" demands, Germanys course hardly n needs clarification. The pocf specifically reserves particular relations with third powers" for both signatories. Most observers expect French capitulation to Italian demands next month when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain makes his appeasement" visit to Rome. W'ithin 48 Franco-Ge- , Franco-Germa- d Labor Bothtfie American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Indus- trial Organizations insist EDSEL FORD lit offered an incentive. that government will Ipok instead to the small wage earner for its new monetaiy requirements. Even as Auto Manufacturer Edsel Ford was telling a senate that a gbneral tax reduction would be "as good a business incentive as any," three outstanding forecasts could be sifted from the financial gymnastics of treasury experts: Economy. ARhough Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles has plumped publicly against premature reduction in federal expenditures, treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau is essentially economy-mindeIn this policy he has the support of his new tax adviser, Undersecretary John W. Hanes, a recent recruit from Wall street who believes budget balancing would stimulate the confidence of business. While not expecting a balance between income and outgo next year because of the proposed national defense program, Mr. Morgenthau can take heart from President Roosevelts latest pronouncement: g budget-makin- d. The o. the nation- al Jaljor relations act must not be changed, but A. F. of L. hurls constant criticism at the board President Roosevelt has appointed to in- billion-doll- ar rearmament plan, which is due for strenuous congressional opposition, will not be allowed to increase the federal deficit. Though the Presi- dent has not indicated what new taxation method he will use to finance the project, there is guarded admission that a 10 per cent tax will be placed on present income taxes. (If you now pay $25 a year, youd pay $2.50 extra). But this special revenue measure would only pay for armaments, and would not elimi nate increased deficits caused by relief expenses. To fill this need, many congressmen favor: Lower Bracket Income Taxes. Married men are now allowed $2,500 exemption, which might be decreased to $2,000 or even $1,800. Exemptions for single' persons, now $1000, would be dropped to $800 or $750. While this would boost revenue by only $60,400,000, it would place bigger wage earners in higher surtax brackets and bring the treasury an additional $250,000,000. Since large incomes are already subjected to huge taxes, the proposal can expect justified opposition. Outside of relief costs, the biggest need for new tax money will be to finance the proposed federal-stat- e health program for insurance, hospitalization, clinics and expansion of the U. S. health service. Europe Europe it drifting into tear, a war which no nation want $ but avam.'l which every nation it preparing. Vnlett there it complete change in the outlook within the next month or two, international teniign will reach the breaking point next tpring This summation is the detached viewpoint of Oswald Pirow, defense minister of the Union of South Africa, after a European terpret that act. One bit of criticism centered around the labor boards order to New Yorks Consolidated Edison company, forcing abrogation of a bargaining contract with A. F. of L. The boards reasoning: that the contract resulted from unfair labor practices and was intended to discourage membership in a rival C. I. O. organization. When A. F. of L. President William Green heard the U. S. Supreme court had voided this NLRB order, This his joy was unbounded: knocks the props out from under the boards arbitrary, prejudicial But and grossly unfair position. keen observers who read further .into the courts decision found cause for speculation about something consequently prepared to IoIin Wniiletl MAYOR Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, may retire from office to run for Democratic nomination as Chicagos mayor. PRESIDENT John Nance Garner, vice president of the U. S., is being boomed for the presi- dency by his boyhood friends at Detroit, Texas. One claim to fame: the log mud-chink- cabin where Garner was born. SECRETARY Anthony Eden, retired as British foreign secretary in opposition to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, may return to the cabinet next month as dominions secretary. LEADER Massachusetts Rep. Joseph Martin will be elected house Republican leader on the first ballot next month, since 109 of the 169 G. O. P. partisans have assured him their support. who Business . Piper-OBrie- n Politics It is plausible that November election gains by the liberalized Republican party should give strength e to Republicans who have taken a back seat in party affairs since the disastrous defeat of 1936. This very thing happened at the recent national committee conference in Washington, where confident liberals found themselves confronted with an unexpectedly strong faction of Hoover, duPont and Liberty league Republicans. A still more important shift is that liberal G. O. P. strength, which originated in the rural areas, has moved to metropolitan cities and has been supplanted in the small towms by a stronger conservative element. Having apDanpointed a conservative iel O. Hastings of Delaware) and a liberal (Harvey Jewett of South Dakota) to fill two executive committee vacancies, the party nojv finds itself deadlocked on a future course. Though much talk is heard of potential 1940 candidates, it is believed the party must first decide which way its course shall be set to liberalism as evidenced since 1936, or to conservatism. old-lin- L.S WILLIAM GREEN Hit victory brought s prediction. A. F. OF islation could be so successful as the railway act, neither labor nor capi- tal would have much cause for complaint. The record: since 1926 there has been only one minor four-da- y railroad strike. carrier The reason: either or labor can carry its grievto the national mediation and if this group fails to fact-findin- th delete French attacks from the next edition of Mein Kampf"; as Italy, Germanys closest ally, continued Pan-Americ- Last spring the New York legislature passed a bill which potentially effects every citizen in the U. S. more important-Reducing from 6 to 5 per cent the Although Consolidated Edison op- interest which life insurance comerates chiefly in New York, the panies may charge on policy loans, court ruled its labor relations were the bill has necessistill subject to NLRB regulation. tated nation-wid- e revision of interThus was the scope of federal regu- est rates because insurance comlation under the interstate com- panies cannot charge different rates merce clause given broad extension, in different states. paving the way for legislation which Upshot is that most companies could make the potent Wagner act are boosting their premium charges seem mere childs play. from 10 to 20 per cent on policies Predicted as a subject for con- written after January 1, although gressional debate is extension of the many firms made the change Dehighly satisfactory railway labor act cember 1. Policies in effect beto include all industry. If such leg- - fore the readjustment will not be affected, but in addition to lower interest rate and higher premiums, the following additional revisions will be made on most new policies: (1) reduction of guaranteed interest rates to beneficiaries; (2) lower interest rates on dividends left with increased pre(3) companies; miums on endowment annuity policies; (4) withdrawal or substantial change in certain types of contracts. By reducing policy loan interest charges from 6 to 5 per cent, insurance firms will lose annual revenue totaling $50,000,000. Other factors necessitating higher premiums include the difficulty of finding satisfactory capital markets, and the small amount of new financing now being done. ances board, bring peace the President appoints g commission. No strike a may take place until 30 days after this groupreporte. tour in which he sought means of That some such regulation will appeasing Adolf Hitlers colonial ap- eventually guide all capital-labo- r petite. It came the same day Ger- relations is quite likely. Though man Foreign Minister Joachim von this will not emerge from the next Ribbentrop visited Paris to sign a congress, 1939 will positively bring pathetically insjpcere pact with Wagner act amendments in the genFrance; as Reichsfuehrer Hitler eral direction. two-mon- Before they left to attend the conference at Lima, U. S. delegates spoke optimistically of efforts to unite the Western hemisphere into a solid bloc opposing European aggressors. But the picture looked vastly different from below the equator. At Lima they found representatives of 20 other American nations wljo exhibited justified coolness toward the colossus of the north whose President has taken the lead in w'hat might be another attempt at Yankee imperialism. They discovered that South American nations have their cultural centers in Rome, Paris and Madrid; that despite any U. S. ambitions to the contrary, Pan America will insist on maintaining its trade relations with Europe. With the conference still expected to run several weeks, it becomes clear that what support Secretary of State Cordell Hull gains for President Roosevelts hemispheric defense plan will be in principle only, merely a resolution of endorsement. Counting noses, Mr. Hull found his strongest friend in Brazil. His most powerful enemy was Argentina, disgruntled over U. S. attempts to invade her export wheat market. Not invited, but nevertheless present, were envoys from Nazi Germany who sought to smash Mr. Hulls hopes for concrete measures against political and cultural invasion from Europe. eighth Miscellany Motorists bound for Pasadenas Bowl football game next month Rose for French the territories clamoring will be guided by aerial traffic poof Tunisia, Corsica and Nice. With Great Britain shoved tempo- licemen whose broadcasts can be car radio. rarily into the European back- picked up by any Three acres added to Bedloes ground, France finds herself holding a gilded bombshell in the German island, home of the Statue of Libtreaty. Her government is now erty, have created a problem for forced to accept Fascist activity on congress. Under a treaty in 1834, two European fronts or risk com- the island was given to New York, but all land around it went to New plete overthrow: Germany. France must give Hit- Jersey. The extra three acres apler a free hand in eastern Europe, parently belong to New Jersey. (ex-Se- n. People The name of Masaryk, famous in Czechoslovakian history since Thomas G. Masaryk founded the nation 20 years ago, will leave that nations officialdom forever on January 1. Jan Masaryk, son of the Czech fa- and minister to Great Britain for 14 years, has announced his retirement in protest over his countrys capitulation to Germany. After visiting the U. S., he will live in England. ther Ruth Wyeth Spears 1 BLACK 2 RED 3 BRIGHT BLUE YORK. NEW In the- - r pre-wa- years, about the only newspaper man who covered Europe was Henri S. De Blow-itthe Bohemian. 5. Scribes an who became sure-enou- CROSS-STITC- H z, Set Pace for British Boys i ROUND THREAD ART LINEN WITH A HARD TWIST iijNIEEDLE POINT YARN a Frenchman and scooped the world with the full text of the treaty at the conference of Berlin, at the end of the war. Although he did this for the London Times, English journalists distinctly that, rather than newspaper men seemed to think it wasnt quite cricket and they went on wearing spats, carrying canes, and dodging I remember citing to an English friend the De Blowitz book, published posthumously in 1903, in which he told how he got that beat on the treaty an exciting newspaper yarn if there ever was one. Bit of a rotter, dont you think?" said the Englishman. After the war, the English correspondents started shaking a leg, but, with all tlrs Chauvinism loose in the world, we may boast that it was the American lads who set Hip race. One press association and a few of our newspapers sent over to the big war some news beagles who began retrieving stories right under the nose of the morning coat scribes. Theyve been getting better all the time, and one Franco-Prussia- "SQUARES ON n -- BACKING OP V BRIGHT BLUE VELVET leg-wor- k. of the bell-ringe- Frank is rs Smothers of the Chicago Daily News, the tenth correspondent to be bounced out of Italy for faithful reporting in the last year. Mr. Smothers was a and reporter in Chicago for nine years before he went to the Orient, as correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and the Boston Transcript. He was close in when tho Japanese made their first grab for China and pegged home some of the best stories from that beat. In Italy, he made a similar record. A keen analyst, as well as he is one of a num- ber of American foreign correspondents who have told the story of world catastrophe faster and better than any others at any place or time. He grew up in Roseville, 111., and finished at the University of Wisconsin, after two years at Northwestern. He is 37 years old. fast-steppi- fast-thinki- pinenshion a best seller. n square. The velvet used for back npHE Town Improvement was giving a sale to ing adds the richness that aO raise funds in a village where we small gifts should have. Sawdust were visiting. Our hostess had or hair from an old mattress art been to the sale early in the day most satisfactory for stuffing. and triumphantly displayed tiny If you would like to make soma d pincushions pur- of these cushions for gifts or for chased for Christmas gifts. They your next bazaar, clip these diretv were so colorful and quaint that tions and keep them as they art tve went in search of some. We not in either of the books offered found them, but on every one was below. NOTE: Mrs. Spears Book pinned a ticket SOLD"! The lady had scored a hit who made those Gifts, Novelties and Embroidery, little three-inc- h pincushions as her has helped thousands of women to contribution to the faneywork use odds and ends of materials booth. They were kept for dis- and their spare time to make things to sell and to use. Book 1 play even after they were sold. The top of the cushion should Sewing, for the Home Decorator, be made on tapestry canvas or is full of inspiration for every round thread art linen so that the homemaker. These books maka threads may be counted easily in delightful Christmas gifts. Mra. This Spears will autograph them on re making the foundation material should be quest. Crazypatch quilt leaflet is marked off in squares as included free with every order for shown in the diagram at the upper both books. Address : Mrs. Spears, right. The numbers indicate the 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, HL each Books are 25 cents each. color used for Cross-stitc- h asso-ciatio- cross-stitche- i cross-stitche- s. cross-stitchin- g news-gette- r, RUBLEE, QEORGE is a 70 ' dV ' 7 years old, beset with thousand plans for taking care of European political refugees, as he heads the Ameri- can efforts in George Rublee this humane un-Vet of Delicate dertaking. His fame rests upon Negotiations his achieve- ments as an international lawyer, of the firm of Covington, Burling & Rublee, of Washington. He was a strong supporter and ally of the late Robert La Follette. Whenever they have had oil trouble anywhere in the Western hemisphere, they have sent for Mr. Rublee. lie has straightened out snarls over oil rights in Colombia, Mexico and other countries. He was a friend and associate of the late Dwight W. Morrow and helped him settle a number of oil and banking arguments in Mexico. He is a native of Madison, Wis., and an alumnus of the Harvard law school. He began the practice ol law at Chicago. Aiuitij r aD other day about a thwarted a ist, who came through and had glorious revenge on his thwarte Flunked Artist EvensThings With Boppers T,ie Fine A Substitutes as ciation, in half of teachi flunked by New York board of examiners, gi an exhibition by which the put is to judge whether the boi bopped them unjustly. Among exhibitors is Max Weber, c tinguished artist, represented in Metropolitan museum, who v among those flunked by the boa With his picture goes a note to board in which Mr. Weber tells wl he thinks of it and cites his s cess as proof of their incom tenee. Mr. Weber, a native of Russia, here at the age of 10, was a modernist, so far out of bounds that the academicians would turn in a riot call whenever anybody mentioned his name. He has been marked up more by the critics probably than man in America. 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