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Show THE BULLETIN WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Government Ownership of Land RUTH WYETII SPEARS "I have Creates Serious Taxing Prohlem AByMOTHER writes: joyed using the embroidery Release of Polish 'Documents' Creates Furore in Washington; Hull, Bullitt Deny Nazi Charge en- Revenue Formerly Collected From Private Property Now Unavailable to Local Units Because of Extensive Federal Holdings. (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion are expressed in thene columns, Ihey are those of the nrwtt analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newapuper Union. HITLER SAY: administration The Roosevelt denied spectacular indignantly charges by Germany. Ilerr Ribben trap's aggressive Foreign Office charged that it had possession of 16 crucial documents, found in the Polish government archives at cap tured Warsaw. These documents had been turned in by Polish diplo mats, so the accusation went, and concerned the activities of the American ambassadors to London and Paris. It seems that these am bassadors, Kennedy and Bullitt, had egged on England and France against Hitler, with the teeming promise that the United States would eventually come to the allies' help. It also was alleged that Bul litt held out false inspiration to the bellicose Poles. Unquestionably, these sensational charges were the news of the week. President Roosevelt, Secretary HuIL and Bill Bullitt hastened to as storm deny the accusations, clouds gathered over America. Roosevelt talked about taking it all with "three" grains of salt Hull made a flat denial, Bullitt and Potocki, Polish ambassador to the United States, both said in no-n- o let it be known, to take a more active part in pushing the war. and there was a lot of gossip about Chamberlain going the way of Dala dier into the dis card. Due to British naval losses. there was also talk of the axe for Winston Churchill, first lurd of the prime-ministeri- admiralty. It appeared that . the neutrals would suffer, as the result of an in creased war endeavor by the allies, Germany must be shut off from oil and iron, and if Norwegian, or Ru manian, or Russian neutrality suf fered in consequence, that could not be helped. The special threat was aimed at ships, from Narvik, Norway, to Stettin, Germany, which have the habit of plodding safely along in Norwegian ter ritorial waters, free from the frustrated allied blockade. The allied reasoning ran something like this: No Swedish iron; no German steel; no Nazi mailed fist; no Hitler. But the neutrals were not too afraid of the allies. The Dutch shot down a British bomber that had vio lated their neutrality, and Rumania appeared to be turning more and more to the German camp. The Russian ambassador to France expressed rude opinions in a telegram to Moscow, and the French kicked him out on a variety of charges. France appeared to want war with the Soviets; England, most emphatically, did not, as a number of significant organizational elections across the channel showed. Meanwhile, the Germans and Norwegians scored off one another, 1 to 1. A German wormed its sinister way into Kirkwall, British base in the faraway Orkney islands north of Scotland, and "singed Churchill's whiskers, if any" by sinking a Norwegian freighter, which was "safely" held there by the British navy. This was considered another maritime coup; but the Norwegians countered by interning a stranded in Norwegian wa ters, which aroused the customary amount of furor Teutonicus. There was sensational talk of a base on the Pacific, at Whale bay, southwest of Vladivostok, in the Siberian maritime province. iron-carryi- at at COUNT JERZY POTOCK1 Poland' ambassador to the V. S., whose alleged report to Warsaw on conversation with William Bullitt, U. S. ambassador to France, were published in Berlin. Said Potocki: "I deny the allegations I never had any (such) conversations . . " FORODDS &FORENDS: L Tokyo, capital of the Japanese empire of Nippon, claimed a popu lation of 7,000,000. This is said to the world's second make the Jap-cap city, with New York first, and Lon don third. London, formerly first in population, has been reduced by wholesale evacuations, blackouts, unison. But Congressman Hamilton and utter boredom, so the story Fish and the hardshell isolationists goes. Berlin is still fourth, and verwere infuriated, asserting that minous Warsaw has doubled its where there is smoke, there is a population since the war began. fire or two. Fish demanded a thor- C. With the Spanish civil war a year ough Investigation, and others de- over, the grandees (noble families of fied the President to laugh it off, rank No. 1) took stock. Dictator salt or no sslt. It was a bad thing Franco recently restored them their to have happen in a presidential, estates, confiscated by the late lamented republic, but still they had maybe a third-teryear. paid a heavy tolL Records of the ... ANGLO-FRANC- E: The allied war council met. somewhat bewildered by it all. in London. The French and English reaffirmed their unity, barred any separate peace by either, and announced that their financial, economic and imperialistic would continue after the present war was over. They intended, they Here's an Easy Way To Do Smocking Bruchart's Washington Digest Woman-of-the-Wee- k MM their state and county and city governments to get hold of the horrible facts that are now being faced the same facts that have brought scores of officials and others beMRS. IIJALMAR VROCOPE fore the house committee on miliUncertain of hit nation' tary affairs, seeking relief. fate, Finnish Minister to the The cold facts are that scores of U. S. Iljalmar J. Procope kept those counties in the six states mum about his marriage plans mentioned have had their taxable until Finland came to terms property so reduced In quantity by the continued expansion of TVA that with Russia. After that he lost they are almost underoing tax starno time. Bundled aboard a vation. The committee record is U. steamer was Miss replete with testimony showing tax Margaret Shaw of Yorkshire, rate increases in almost every area Minister Procope England. served by TVA, and evidence of met her at the dock in New expectation of further tax increases. It is a simple statement in most York. Next day they were instances. The witnesses govermarried at the Fairfax, Va nors, county Judges, mayors, spokeshome of R. Walton Moore, men for groups of citizens told alcounselor of the V. S. state most identical stories. TVA had department, by the Rev. F. Y. taken over so much taxable propn Joki of the Brooklyn erty that there was nothing left to church. Ahead, betax for use of those local governments. The governments had to the fore Procopes settled down have running expenses. Thus, the in Washington, was a southtax rates were Increased. ern honeymoon. Members of the committee on military affairs are quite well aware of the job that confronts them in tryThe house slapped through a mere ing to write legislation that will solve the tax problem for the variy billion dollar appro ous areas. The states want the priation, voted down about a quar ter of a million for the ailing Na money paid to them; the counties want a share paid direct to them, tional Labor Relations board, which and the cities are squealing, too. has been getting a panning on many But there is much more to the fronts, and approved $17,450,000 for the National Youth administration, problem than just the TVA area. The Civilian Conservation corps, You see, .the government ownership one New Deal institution generally gang has fought for and brought about construction of scores of other approved by Tories and pinks alike. stood in for $50,000,000 worth of gov that this gigantic government-ownepublicly owned dams and power ernment gold. octopus should contribute to those projects. On the West coast in the The President got back to his of state governments certain sums in area, In Nebraska, fice desk after a lengthy and fevered lieu of taxes, but this was directed where Senator Norris lives, in the cold. He talked to Sumner Welles, only in the case of Tennessee and eastern and southern sections exfresh in from Europe, and gave out Alabama. The others were not men- actly the same tax problem conindications of pessimism as to any tioned. Those states were to re- fronts those taxpayers or will come early peace abroad. Opponents of ceive 5 per cent of the gross pro- up to haunt them, soon. Whatever the President hinted that he did not ceeds of the sale of power by TVA. the committee docs, it is presentwant peace abroad, until the allies As stated, the money was to be paid ing to the house of representatives won by a knockout. Senator Van to the state governments, alone. a precedent-makinlegislative prodenberg got off an epic: "Let's swap Nothing was said about the counties posal. No one can envision its horses, and stay on this side of the or the cities or smaller towns that possibilities. stream." Senator Taft hinted that must have tax revenue upon which Legislation Will Provide the New Deal was heading toward to live. a totalitarian state; a statement for Tax Losses Operation of TVA Program Compensation with which many calm political sci There will be a bill of some kind, entists, who neither like nor dislike Would Set Basic Power Rates undoubtedly, that will provide that fascism, tend to agree. But the omission of the counties in TVA pay more money to the reBut, despite Vandenberg and Taft Alabama and Tennessee was only gions where it operates. They ought and others, Secretary Hull succeed' one phase of the trouble that was to to have it. But the thing that makes ed in beating the Pittman amend' come. You see, the TVA boys and my blood boil is that the people of ment to the Trade Agreements res the dreams of the government-ownershithose areas have been lied to and olution, which would restore to the crowd wanted to expand the propagandized so thoroughly that senate the power to ratify all future functions and the capacity and the they were not able to understand reciprocal trade pacts. Vanden- scope of TVA. It was to be, in the how a scheming group was selling berg, at this point, declared that the words of President Roosevelt, a them down the river. That is, they Roosevelt-Hutrading system would great yardstick by which the coun- did not see it until too late. cost Uncle Sam his shirt It was try was to be able to measure the Right now, they are in the posi a close senatorial vote: 44 to 41. cost of electric power. From the tion where they cannot run their The New Deal tide was promoted by TVA were to come basic rates by own affairs. must come to three Democratic which you and I were to know congress and They on bended knee beg senators, who evidently preferred whether private electric companies for help which they ought to be Hull, whom they consider One of were charging you and me and the able to give themselves from their the Boys. It was a lucky thing for rest of us too much for lighting our own resources which are their own the White House, that it had not homes, etc. no longer. They have surrendered succeeded in purging these three, So, it was only natural that the again to the federal government 1938. way back in TVA and its backers soon were pro- which, in the nature of things, is something bigger and better very difficult for them to reach for SUPREME THE COURT: moting in the way of its operations. Like expression of their needs and an exOur top tribunal found guilty the some dread disease, the pressure planation of their own wishes. Ethyl Gasoline corporation, in an of TVA on privately owned power There was included in the com case. Ethyl, despite her companies became too heavy to mittee a set of figures which I am attractive name, was accused of li bear, and they were swallowed up. to list here. The figures show censing jobbers in a way contrary In one gulp, for instance, the gover- going441 of the principal, privately that to the public weal. At the bottom nment-owned TVA took over the owned and power companies comk of the case was an vast properties of the Tennessee paid $317,742,200 inlight in 1939. taxes to . . . the Also, pound according Electric Power company for This the tax, record showed. court, the Federal Communications I understand that TVA got amounted to 15.5 cent of the to per commission may license new radio quite a bargain, but the sale of the tal revenue of those companies. stations freely, without bothering to TVA was no bargain for property Here are the amounts, by states. about the weal of other radio stathe taxpayers in the areas it served that these companies paid: Maine, tions . . . Also. Judge Gordon, of and, moreover, it was a terrible the Washington federal district blow to the state and county and $2,189,000; New Hampshire. $2,484,-30Vermont. $1,226,500; Massachucourt, declared that trade unions city governments in those regions. setts. $17,017,400; Rhode Island, were just as liable as anybody or sums been vast had They receiving Connecticut. $5,324,000; New anything else, under the Sherman each year as taxes on these proplaw, including the serious erties. In one scratch of a pen, the York, $01,996,900; New Jersey, $17.- charge of criminal conspiracy. This TVA almost put the local govern- 494,900; Pennsylvania, $25,002,100; decision was good news to capital ments on relief, for all of the mil- Ohio, $10,960,200; Indiana. Illinois, $26,422,000; Michigan, ists the country over. lions of taxable property became when the federal age- $10,624,000; Wisconsin, $8,817,000; MURDER DE LUXE: $1,904,700; Iowa, $1,892,-90ncythe TVA took title to the prop- Minnesota, Missouri. $5,859,900; North Da It is hoped that the English and erty. kota, $721,400; South Dakota. Nazi newspapers do not go to town crowd The on tidings from Brooklyn, N. Y. which government ownership Nebraska, $1,731,600; Kansas. is hard now for gov- $1,862,700; Delaware. Maryland and There the racket in ernment driving of other District of ownership of a lot Columbia, $7,120,500; Vir vestigation continued under Dis things were as happy as a kid ginia. $3,152,200; West Virginia. $4.- trict Attorney O'Dwyer. It turned with a new toy train. But like that 294.2U0; North and South Carolina. outfit out that the same youngster, they did not stop $8,971,000; Georgia, $2,392,800; Flor maintained branch offices in various to out their where train figure just ida. $2.4G1,000; Kentucky, $3,003,200; cities, on a truly national scale. Kid was going. Certainly, the honeyed-word- s Tennessee. $4,374,400; Alabama. Twist Abe Reles told astonishing of the TVA promoters in the Mississippi, $1,212,600; Ardetails; one poor music publisher southland did not disclose to the kansas. had been shot down en the errone$1,353,500; Louisiana, of those areas what the ous suspicion that he was a Dewey taxpayers Oklahoma, $3,311,000; Texcost ulti was to them, going as. $3,237,300; Muntana. $2,009,900; witness. Three important Brooklyn dcpl Idaho and Utah. $3,383,500; Wyomwitnesses were held at $100,000 bail mately. apiece, "for their own safety." One Taxable Property Reduced ing. $263,100; Colorado, $2,419,300; gangster was arrested; he hud given In Areas Served by TVA New Mexico, $154,800; Arizona, Scarface Al Capone that famous It took several years of operation. $678,300; Nevada, $285,200; Washingscar. His name was Frank dalluc-ciactual practical experience, for ton. $3,850,900; Oregon, $3,443,800; those taxpayers and the officials of California. $21,134,000. Study of these tax payments (and UP ABOVE: do not represent all of the prithey TAX LOST DOLLARS The American airplane- '.(..asport vately owned companies that are system is fast becoming une of the paying taxes) ought to show even Government ownership of land nation's good boys. Wc point with the most stupid person that gradual in six southern states is causing pride: Once we viewed with alarm. expansion of government ownership a serious tax situation for state, A full year has just passed without means the slow but sure destruca single death or serious injury to county and local taxing bodies, tion of another source of funds for Wito article this by or according any passenger, pilot, steward, the cost of government And corpaying lliam innocent bystander on the U. S. airBruckart, Washington this slow destruction is taking place This encouraging figure respondent Taxes formerly colways. at a time when every government lected from private property ikes in well over two million trav unit from the small village to the (now owned by the federal govelers, and nearly 00 million aerial state and federal governments are miles. The statement came from ernment) are now unavailable. in dcot up to their necks and the r is the at !ic Civil Aeronautics authority, Congress present taxpayers are being bled white br ins! remedial legislation. ui::r!i l::is no axe to rrir.d. current taxation methods. By WILLIAM BRCCKART WNU Service, National Press Bidf., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Through some six weeks, the house committee on military affairs has been holding hearings on a question that is vital to the entire nation, but yet it has attracted little attention outside of the areas directly concerned. The problem is one of taxes which six southern states are not collecting. That is, taxes which they used to collect from private property but are not available to those states now because the federal government has taken over the property. To be more specific, these taxes once were a fine source of revenue for running the state and county and city governments and the schools and the policing and the building of highways and such like in the states of Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky. North Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia. But along came the Idealism of Sen. George Norris of Nebraska, who wanted the government to drive out all private owner ship of electric power, and along came TV A, the Tennessee Valley authority that has grown like stomach ulcers within the economic body of the southland. When it came, it took over millions upon millions of dollars of property that had been taxed by the state and local governments. So, after some seven or eight years, the governments of those states and cities and counties want money with which to pay the cost of legitimate government The original TVA laws provided Finnish-Luthera- MON-MON-MONE- Y: Labor-Securit- d inter-mounta- in p f pre-w- w $100,-000,00- 0. anti-tru- st $7.9C8.-10- 6 0; non-taxab- le 0; DICTATOR FRANCISCO FRANCO A year after the Spanish war ended his people took stock. Thomas Farran, surgeon-generof the U. S. public health service, declared that cancer, which Council of Grandees indicated that caused more than 140,000 deaths 40 erminc-cla- d ducal ones hud been last year, is on the increase and killed in the civil and that no ranks as second leading cause of less than 116 more war, of them had been death. "assassinated." It was further re Q. 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