| Show f Released by Western Newspaper Union SMALL PEOPLE AND ND 1110 10 CORPORATIONS CORPORATIONS' WE ARE INCLINED to applaud when congress places extra taxation taxa lion on the corporations rather than in increase crease the tax on individuals We think it t perfectly all oil right for tor the government to take all the profits profit I of ot Industry and transportation leav leaving ing nothing for tc te peacetime production or for tor re re- replacements placements of ot rolls rape or rolling slack tork worn out under the terrific pressure of war We do not stop to consider just Jus who owns these Industrial and trans transportation corporations We do net nal think of ot such taxes directly affecting ourselves The fact tact is the Industrial concerns end und transportation systems of ot Amer America ica en directly and Indirectly are arc owned by the muss mass of ot the American people not by n a limited number of wealthy Individuals There are ore more than 30 million people who own stocks or bonds of ot Industrial or transportation tran corporations The tax the tho government collects comes dl di directly out of the pockets of that 30 million people and gravely Izes their Investments That 30 million people represent ent the workers the farmers the doc doe doctors tors and school teachers people In every walk of ot life JUe Through thrift I and frugality they have saved that I they might accumulate They have hove I Invested their savings In the plants and In nd tools of Industry and I tation Their investments have cre created crested sted jobs have havo made possible the maintenance of the American standard of living One transportation tattoo tation line the Chesapeake tk Ohio railroad numbers among its stock stockholders holders hollers people no one of whom owns more than 60 50 shares shIITes It Itis ItIs Itis is such tuch people who are arc paying pay In the tax on the corporation profits profit It is their holdings that will be valueless when there is nothing left to re re- or rebuild after alter the war Indirectly all of ot us who have In Insurance policies or savings accounts In the banks are paying Through the insurance companies and the banks baMs our money Is Invested in fn these Industrial and transportation corn com panics The Tho dividends earned on our policies or the interest paid on our savings is determined by the earnings of ot the corporations our money is financing Should the government break the corporations as seems to be the in intent intent tent it Is fa 30 SO million of at peo p t 1 troIt eross ll i B. B aoa anay an I I erue of o one one family y ww wife Wet We have a very definite and decided Interest in tho the concerns for tor which we have provided the plants and tools S 'S AN UNSEEN MORTGAGE I ON YOUK TIlE THE NATIONAL WEALTH of America is the collateral back of the bonds representing the national rational debt A considerable portion of that national wealth is the homes in which we live There is an unseen mortgage on each and every home In the land and regardless of at who owns them the tho people living in those homes must pay those mortgages es Because there are but two of us sere Vre tre is charged up against our ouri i me something over 1200 as lIS the share of ot the national mortgage we must pay Across the street is a modest cottage occupied by a tam fam family fly ily of five The share of those five people father mother and three children is over Regardless of who owns owns' that cottage that family must pay The payment comes in inthe inthe inthe the form torm of ot taxes either direct or in indirect direct or both In Interest alone that hat family of ot five must pay as much muchas as each year That is what the trio national debt means to us as ns fIlS Individuals It demonstrates our in interest terest crest in economy in government We tie must pay for the waste whatever it may be RUSSIA HAS liAS h ER OWN TERMS lS FOR FOH NAZIS WHEN GERMANY HAS liAS BEEN LICKED as she will be before long Joseph Stalin will ill demand that Ger German man labor rebuild the Russia Russin Ger Gen German man armies have hive destroyed Wil Vib William liam Ham Green president of at says American labor will not permit the exploitation of German labor Mr Green has another guess coming He will Md arid American labor leaders lenders will not be consulted as to what hat Rus Russian sian policies shall be or what hat Rus Russia ala sia shall sh ll do Stalin will boss the Russian show and German laboi labos will do what he decides it is to dc do including hours and other conditions Stalin is not accepting dictation from American labor leaders re re- rega ga of ot what they may be able to do in America They The will have nothing to say S Y about Russia's terms to Germany TIlE THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER ap ap- applauds applauds the army for that 27 21 billion it cut from estimated costs and re reo returned turned to fo the treasury Now if the civilian departments would cut but buta a billion or it would seem like Democracy could be practical THE SUN SHINES FOR SOME 01 a aus us every day If this is not your day tomorrow may be I I I IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER REMEl I that no one of us possesses all aU ol of the virtues I I r Lets LeKs Let s Face Facts Nitrogen From Canada Sold In U. U S. S S Below Delow TVA TV A and Army Price By BARROW BAn now LYONS I Slag 10 This Is one of ot a series aerie of 01 sine live articles on the current fertilizer situation There has been bren much criticism of ot the price at which the army ord ordnance nance nonce plants and Tennessee Valley authority are disposing of ot ammonium um nitrate for fertilizer 50 50 per ton tob fob plant Nitrogen produced by the Canadian an Department of Munitions and Supply Is being transported some of or It more than miles mUes from Calgary C Iary Alberta Alberto and is delivered de 11 vered In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United States at ot from to 50 a ton The Ca Co Canadians say soy they are not selling be below qI low co jt log Ing the American former farmer but the Harrow Lyons T freight from Cal Calgary gary gory to the tho southern louthern seaboard on fer fertilizer ammonium nitrate Is between 10 and 20 a ton The Tho army ordnance plants began delivery In quantity In November 1043 For the first three months they sold directly to TVA who con con- contracted contracted with Associated Cooperatives lives tives Inc set up by n 0 group of farmers farmers' cooperatives to sell lell the nitrogen to fertilizer manufacturers era ers at 49 a ton As of February 1 I this year the army ceased to sell directly to TVA tV A but now sells to the Commodity Credit corporation which In turn sells to the live tive The price has hu been raised to 30 50 O a ton to allow a dollar for freight equalization Clue to Cost Colt The Tennessee Valley authority has given one clue as to the cost of the fertilizer On November I 7 1943 1043 at hearings before a subcommittee of ot the house committee on appropriations allons a table was submitted which showed that the cost of limed am ammonium nitrate manufactured In TVA plants was exclusive of ot administrative and depreciation depredation charges In another table TVA showed that It expected to show net cash ca ah Income before depreciation of in fis Os fiscal cal 1044 on the production bf bt fer fertilizer fer- fer fertilizer and war chemicals despite In Inclusion elusion of an expense of for Cor research work Apparently the en en- entire tire cost of ot research r la Is being charged d for budet bUd et purr I as B a expense a pence pense che chI che bp- bp p. p Tu l M os ns shown aho bind d a 0 oat ra of ot 33 for fort o INS IMS t 5 Jj is estimated There has been bern much difficulty in dealing with tho army which is not set up to do ordinary commercial business bustness U It prefers to sell to a gov gov- government government corporation rather than Jhan han di dl directly to commercial concerns Its ordnance plants were built bull t in the emergency to assure ample nitrogen production for explosives but the operating capacity was found to be befar befar betar far tar greater than needed needed hence hence ni nl nitrogen nl trogen has become available for fer ter fertilizer The construction of at army ord ordnance nance mince plants has haa ha created a a. a problem In disposal of the plants after the Ute war Some In the fertilizer industry believe that the nitrogen producing capacity of the country after the war will be tar far in excess of requirements for peacetime industrial purposes and agriculture and advocate ad scrap scrapping ping some of the army nitrogen I plants after the tho war warIn In fact tact the newest plant the plant the cac cae cactus ordnance plant near Etten Etlen Tex Texas as already as-already already has been converted to production of ot other products and the tile nitrogen equipment dismantled Ef Et Efforts forts are now being made to sell seU this nitrogen producing equipment to Egyptian interests It U 13 pointed out that in 1039 Indus Indus- Industry try consumed tons of ot nitro nitrogen gen while agriculture used tons tons tons-a a total of or tons Ton Capacity The present capacity of govern govern- government ment Is tons of oC nitrogen a Q year and the capacity of private plants amounts to tons tons tons-a a to total total I tal of ot tons a Q year year almost almost twice as much as was used before I the war But Dut this year some tons of nitrogen will be used in agriculture alone and fertilizer use us Is ing lag Purdue university agronomists recently calculated that it if the state of Indiana alone were to use as much nitrogen in fertilizer as it should tons would be con consumed Burned against the tons con j I I turned In 1941 1041 This may seem fan tan fantastic but it indicates that there isa is I a considerable future for tar the fertilizer er industry and that the tons of plant capacity in the Ule United States may not be too great If It farm farm- farmers I ers era wake up p to the possibilities of ot the most efficient use of at fertilizer I Agronomists also point out that thaI when the proper use of fertilizer be be- becomes becomes becomes comes more general farmers who ho holive live near the large markets will pro pro- produce produce produce duce more abundantly and that this may tend to take part of ot the market from those who are further from the centers of at greatest consumption Also as Also as the good land is cultivated ed more intensively oc Iy the cost of at farming marginal land will become increasingly less profitable This may mean a more rapid conversion of marginal lands into pastures and andwood andwood andwood wood lots with possible shifting of at population lon in some areas I |
