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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD Bruckart s Washington Digest Government Ownership of Land Creates Serious Taxing Problem Allies Iron Cavalry Ready for Possible Offensive fife k f Ji mm ,v Revenue Formerly Collected From Private Property Now Unavailable to Local Units Because of Extensive Federal Holdings. 3t) n2r' ""v V -- V "V- By EUTII WYETH SPEAf, A MOTHER writes: 1 joyed using the embroU stitches in SEWING Book find a great deal of pleasil handwork for the dresses of little and am cap ularly interested in smocking . Here is a trick that hTU3, for making honeycomb smort in points without a tern. The fullness of anyV may be basted into tucks of g,! By LEMUEL F. PARTON uated .length, as at A. (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) little fullness in the centerEve, Paul Reynaud, or at the neckline may be smori NEW YORK. was asked to form a new in one or two points. Alw French cabinet, and successor to baste the center front tuck I Premier Daladier, put through the and then work each French - Brit- The smocking startsway fro I at the ish - monetary and economic accord of last (" inter-mounta- pro-ceed- g prop-crties- non-taxab- provide to the regions where it operates.- They ought to have it. But the thing that makes my blood boil is that the people of those areas have been lied to and propagandized so thoroughly that they were not able to understand how a scheming group was selling them down the river. That is, they did not see it until too late. Right now, they are in the position where they cannot run their own affairs. They must come to congress and beg on bended knee for help which they ought to be able to give themselves from their own resources which are their own no longer. They have surrendered again to the federal government which, in the nature of things, is very difficult Tor them to reach for expression of their needs and an explanation of their own wishes. There was included in the committee a set of figures which I am going to list here. The figures show that 441 of the principal, privately owned power and light companies paid $317,742,200 in taxes in 1939. This tax, the record showed, amounted to 15.5 per cent of the total revenue of those companies. Here are the amounts, by states, that these companies paid: Maine, $2,189,000; New Hampshire, $2,484,-30Vermont, $1,226,500; Massachusetts, $17,017,400; Rhode Island, Connecticut, $5,324,000; New York, $61,906,900; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, $25,002,100; Ohio, $16,960,200; Indiana, $7,983,-10Illinois, $26,422,000; Michigan, TVA pay more money Unmistakable sign of spring is the circus preparation for the long trip Here a big show prepares to leave winter quarters ter, symbol of the big top, has readied his spiel for the season. Center: derous Fachyderm) goes through his act, supported by an attractive aid. act goes through practice session for the coming years work. warmer climate. Iroinwell Rebuked for Canadian Speech W High Pressure $3,817,000; Minnesota, $4,904,700; Iowa, Missouri, $5,859,900; North $721,400; South Dakota, $509,-50Nebraska, $1,731,600; Kansas, $1,862,700; Delaware, Maryland and District of Columbia, $7,120,500; Virginia, $3,152,200; West Virginia, North and South Carolina, $3,971,000; Georgia, $2,392,800; Florida, $2,461,000; Kentucky, $3,093,200; Tennessee, $4,374,400; Alabama, Mississippi, $1,212,600; Arkansas, $1,353,500; Louisiana, Oklahoma, $3,311,000; Texas, $8,237,300; Montana, $2,009,900; Idaho and Utah, $3,383,500; WyomTaxable Property Reduced ing, $263,100; Colorado, $2,419,300; In Areas Served by TVA New Mexico, $154,800; Arizona, It took several years of operation, $678,300; Nevada. $285,200; Washingactual 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 they do not represent all of the priLOST TAX DOLLARS vately owned companies that are paying taxes) ought to show even Government ownership of land the most stupid person that gradual in six southern states is causing a serious tax situation for state, expansion of government ownership means the slow but sure destruccounty and local taxing bodies, tion of another source of funds for according to this article by William Bruckart, Washington corpaying the cost of government And this slow destruction is taking place respondent. Taxes furmerly colat a time when every government lected from private property unit from the small village to the (now owned by the federal govstate and federal governments are ernment) are now unavailable. in debt up to their necks and the Congress is at the present consid-side- i taxpayers are being bled white br ing remedial legislation. current taxation methods. $1,892,-90- 0; Da-kot- a, 0; 1, 1 a? MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer court, an Austrian architect sues Mr. Mandl for payment for designs for a new wing on his Alpine castle, when he was married to Hedy Lamarr, the screen star, now the wife of Gene Markey, Holiy- wood producer. The castle and the plans were a war casualty, but Mr. Mandl is sitting pretty in Argentina, the hidalgo of a great estate, and getting a fast running start with new steel and munitions plants in the land of the pampas. He fooled Hitler. His great arms plants, including the plant, were supposed to be worth about $G0, 000,000. That was a nice, fat grouse for the Nazi nimrod, but when Der Fuehrer moved in, he found the great plants just a hollow shell, the securities long since liquidated and Mr. Mandl at a safe distance with his former fortune remaining more or less Intact. Now 40 years old, round-faceand merry, he was a playboy in his I youth, but stayed on the job in his later years. The munitions works were a family holding, founded by his grandfather, Sigmund, and exhis panded by father, Alexander. He was an associate of the fallen Prince Ernst Ruediger von Star- hemberg in the Vienna putsch of 1934 not at all interested In politi-- j cal ideologies, and smarter than the in both making a prince y from Hitler and from Germany as wel1 as being able to save his By .. .. wff consul-genera- Three million pounds pressure per square inch greatest ever created by man was produced in Washington recently in a machine invented by Dr. Roy Goranson. It was first demonstrated in the Carnegie institutes geophysical laboratory. The demonstration was made at the conference for theoretical physics. Miss England, Too, Has Census Problem Print t 4 w - "V nose-thumbi- d get-awa- TOT a refugee fortune, but the makings of a new one appears in the operations of Arnold Bernstein, who also found a hole in the Nazi line. A freighter of the Americanized Arnold Bernstein shipping lines burns at Baltimore, but It was t insured and his newly recruited are running cargos to Europe Miss Susan Shaw, most photo, ships and his fleet is expanding. He came graphed model, is crowned Miss here last October, from a Nazi Print jail, by illustrator McClelland where a Barclay at a New York banquet. blocked tangle over the mysterious marks had landed him. At Miss Shaws regal robe is a paste-u51, a tall, pale, thoughtful of advertising illustrations. man, he gets a new start. 1 JJJt A census, ordered by the ministry of home security, is under way In England. Wardens have been instructed to visit every home to find if residents still have their gas masks, and whether or not they are In good condition. A lost or damaged gas mask is replaced without charge. Here a checkup is being made in a typical London home. huuse-io-huu- rg o .v Si New Tort Enclose 10 cents for one book, or cents for four books and set of qu;li block patterns. Name Address 40 In True Greatness ; No man has come to true greai ness who has not felt in some de gree that his life belongs race. Phillips Brooks. to fli ADVISES YOUNG GIRLS ENTERING WOMANHOOD Thousands of youn girls entering wohave found a real friend" in Lydia E. Pinkhama Vegetable Compound to help them go smiling thru" restless, moody, nervous spells, and relieve cramps headache, backache and embarrassing fainting spells due to functional irregularities. Famous for 60 years. WOKTH TRYING! manhood Fritz Mandl Ilirt-enbe- 10 Bedford Hills SVork speech was made before the Empire and Canadian clubs. TOSETHfl ; New Arms Plants Are Being Built municipal An official rebuke to James II. R. Cromwell, right, United States to Canada, was administered by Secretary of State Cordell Hull recently when Cromwell, in a Canadian speech, lauded the war aims of the allies. Hull informed Cromwell that he had "contravened instructions in his talk. Pictured with Cromwell are his wife, the former Doris l. Duke, and II. G. Ilengsller, United States Cromwells AS Then Si his soul, Fritz Mandl, the Austrian munitioneer, runner-u- p for Zaharoff, was interrupted by Adolf minister A STITCH and is done with colored threa Begin at the top of the sec tuck. Catch it to the tuck at left with three stitches, tv from the top down along ex tuck as shown. The stitch at is made by sliding the need! along inside the tuck. NOTE: If you like to do work you will want a copy of Spears Book 2. It contains dres tions for making 42 embroider! stitches with their authenU names. Also illustrations of Sri processes of mending fabric? making doll clothes, and d items. Books are 10 cents eadl please order by number No. 3 and 4. Each book contains assortment of of cik tains; slip covers; rag rugs; Lysf gifts and novelties for bazaars With your order for four booklet; you will receive a FREE set three Quilt Block patterns of Mrt Spears Favorite Early America Quilts. Send orders to: nUILDING more stately mansions 0; B, tucks U for 0; Wisconsin, at Mexico. 0; $10,624,000; Take fair-weath- er nt A But the omission of the counties in Alabama and Tennessee was only one phase of the trouble that was to come. You see, the TVA boys and the dreams of the government-ownershi- p crowd wanted to expand the functions and the capacity and the scope of TVA. It was to be, in the words of President Roosevelt, a great yardstick by which the country Was tc be able to measure the cost of electric power. From the TVA were to come basic rates by which you and I were to know whether private electric companies were charging you and me and the rest of us too much for lighting our homes, etc. So, it was only natural that the TVA and its backers soon were promoting something bigger and better in the way of its operations. Like some dread disease, the pressure of TVA on privately owned power companies became too heavy to bear, and they were swallowed up. In one gulp, for instance, the government-owned TVA took over the vast properties of the Tennessee Electric Power company for $100, I understand that TVA got 000,000. quite a bargain, but the sale of the property to TVA was no bargain for the taxpayers in the areas it served and, moreover, it was a terrible blow to the state and county and city governments in those regions. They had been receiving vast sums each year as taxes on these In one scratch of a pen, the TVA almost put the local govern-menton relief, for all of the millions of taxable property became when the federal agency the TVA took title to the property. The government ownership crowd which is driving hard now for government ownership of a lot of other things were as happy as a kid with a new toy train. But like that same youngster, they did not stop to figure out just where their train was going. Certainly, the honeyed-word- s of the TVA promoters in the southland did not disclose to the taxpayers of those areas what the deal was going to cost them, ultimately. HONEYCOMB SMOCKING BY THETiir? METHOD -B- ASTE TUCKS JtfMEpi at aT December, and, even before the start of the war was an advocate of a close financial union between the two countries as the first bulwark of their joint defense. For several years, he has been studying English finance and history, insisting that both nations must abandon their old plan of remaining apart in the matter of monetary and economic relationships. He is a lawyer, financier and economist, minister of finance since October, 1938. In the chamber of deputies, he represents a big business section of Paris and has contended vigorously against governmental meddling in business. In 1935 and 1936 he made a conrageous fight for the devaluation of the franc, an issue which is always loaded in France and always sidestepped by more cautious politicians. His business sagacity, was demonstrated in the summer of 1929, when he warned all ' and sundry that a big smash was coming, and withdrew all of his securities from the market. He is as direct, decisive and fiery as Daladier is ponderous and meditative, and for many years has been making prophecies more gloomy than Cassandras foredoom of Troy, as he urged France to prepare for the worst He parts his hair in the middle, strings with the Alliance Democratique, a center group, and has never been classified as either right or left. He is said to be too intelligent to be liked, and does not seem to mind. He is small and alert, only slightly gray at 60, carefully groomed and the master of a verbal short which seldom innorth after a winter hibernation vites a return jab engagement for anyin Florida. Left: The ringmas- one inclined to mix with him. An elephant (known as a ponHe was a holdout on Lavals deal Right: The equestrian acrobatic to give Mussolini a green light in Ethiopia and in this connection warned France that it had better be looking to its empire. In politics since 1919, in the chamber since 1928, he was previously minister of finance in Tardieus cabinet. He comes of a family high in the tains of Barcelonnette, of a clan which has extensive holdings in several foreign countries, including Spring Scene: Big Top Prepares to Hit the Trail Operation of TVA Program Compensation for Tax Losses There will of some kind, Would Set Basic Power Rates undoubtedly, bethata bill will that d, WEEK their state and county and city govBy WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press ernments to get hold of the horrible , facts that are now being faced Bldg-.Washington, D. C. the same facts that have brought WASHINGTON. some Through six weeks, the house committee on scores of officials and others before the house committee on milimilitary affairs has been holding tary affairs, seeking relief. on vital is a question that hearings The cold facts are that scores of to the entire nation, but yet it has attracted little attention outside of those counties In the six states the areas directly concerned. The mentioned have had their taxable problem is one of taxes which six property so reduced in quantity by the continued expansion of TVA that southern states are not collecting, That is, taxes which they used to they are almost underoing tax starcollect from private property but vation. The committee record is are not available to those states replete with testimony showing tax now because the federal government rate increases in almost every area served by TVA, and evidence of has taken over the property. be more specific, these taxes expectation of further tax increases. , To once were a fine source of revenue It is a simple statement, in most goverfor running the state and County and instances. The witnesses offensive has caused threat of a Though all is quiet on the western front, the city governments and the schools nors, county judges, mayors, spokesto be prepared at all times for any eventuality. Here a squadron of tanks is British French and units almen for of told citizens army groups and the policing and the building TVA had pictured during combat maneuvers behind the Maginot line. Inset: French engineers at work on one of the of highways and such like in the most identical stories. gigantic ditches they have constructed as a barricade against German,fianks. Both the allies and Germany states of Alabama, Tennessee, Ken. taken over so much taxable prophave thousands of these juggernauts in their carburetor cavalry. tucky, North Carolina, Mississippi erty that there was nothing left to and Georgia. But along came the tax for use of those local governidealism of Sen. George Norris of ments. The governments had to Nebraska, who wanted the govern- have running expenses. Thus, the ment to drive out all private owner- tax rates were increased. Members of the committee on milship of electric power, and along came TVA, the Tennessee Valley itary affairs are quite well aware of authority that has grown like stom- the job that confronts them in tryach ulcers within the economic body ing to write legislation that will X . of the southland. When it came, it solve the tax problem for the varitook over millions upon millions of ous areas. The states want the dollars of property that had been money paid to them; the counties taxed by the state and local gov- want a share paid direct to them, ernments. So, after some seven or and the cities are squealing, too. . . . But there is much more to the eight years, the governments of states those and cities and counties problem than just the TVA area. want money with which to pay the You see, the government ownership cost of legitimate government gang has fought for and brought The original TVA laws provided about construction of scores of other that this gigantic government-owne- d publicly owned dams and power octopus should contribute to those projects. On the West coast, in the state governments certain sums in area, in Nebraska, lieu of taxes, but this was directed where Senator Norris lives, in the only in the case of Tennessee and eastern and southern sections exAlabama. The others were not men- actly the same tq problem contioned. Those states were to re- fronts those taxpayers or will come ceive 5 per cent of the gross up to haunt them, soon. Whatever of the sale of power by TVA. the committee does, it is presentAs stated, the money was to be paid ing to the house of representatives to the state governments, alone. a precedent-makinlegislative proNothing was said about the counties posal. No one can envision its or the cities or smaller towns that possibilities. must have tax revenue upon which Will Provide Legislation to live. ever-prese- ' w NEWS THIS V f WHOS Ji "v! Heres an Easy tyay To Do Smockli i Apply the Rule We have committed the Golia Rule to memory; now let us cc mit it to life. Edwin Markham. OLD FOLKS Hero Is Amazing Relief of Conditions Duo to Sluggish Bowel ' all vegetable do aulU, Uiutuuglt, refreshing, invigoratifif. Wicmiff able relief from tick headaches, pend tired feeling when associated with coMtipO Without Risk druggist. 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