Show by Western union HEAVIEST mST A TAXED AKE U. U S. S CITIZENS NS TilE THE TREASURY gives Ives us figures showing that we Americans arc now the Ule most 1 Ily taxed people in the world and t with more to come In the United States the average per capita tax Including local state and federal for the year ending next June Jun 30 Is I I I for Great Britain It Is ond for Canada With nil all such I taxes we tire lire paying only 30 per percent I I t cent of our civilian and war costs while Great Britain is Canada per cent We are arc leaving 64 per cent of ot our cost for tor I ourselves including the men in our armed forces and the children I grandchildren to pay in the future Senator of ot Louisiana I I gives the total debt of at the Allied na nu nations exclusive of ot the United States I I ns as billion dollars the total I the Axis nations nations' na lions lions' debt ns os 02 billion dollars Our debt no aa of October 31 I 1013 was billion and going up I nt at the rate of seven billion each each I month I That o a portion of ot our colossal ex expenditure Is waste is not seriously questioned To find the rot rat holes and stop them Is a job Senator Byrd has been attempting in the face of almost insurmountable bureaucratic opposition Each little bureaucrat has a pet theory for tor which he wishes to spend the taxpayers taxpayers' money malley or orthe the money mOlley our progeny will have to pay Senator Butler Dutler tells us we have disposed of at between six and ond seven billions In an effort to buy will good In South America a project proJect fathered by Vice President Wal Wal- lace There Is one expenditure the pub pub- public public lic would not object to und that Is providing for tor an to I tit id It by disinterested auditors We should like to know just where the money is going how much and why I AND ANU CENT 3 LETTUCE JI PEOPLE OF THE WEST COAST states arc bitter In their denunciation tion of 01 the Japanese in this country In o II poll taken by the Los Angeles Times the vote for drastic treat treat- treatment treatment ment of 01 all Japs whether born here or not no was ten to ono one In Califor California nia the Japs were the market gar gardeners und fishermen Their stand stand- standards standards ards in this country are arc the stand stand- standards ards of at Japan The price at ot which they sold truck garden products was sd low no others living on onI 1 I like American standards could auld compete with them So tar far tarOS DS OS small fruit vegetables and fish were concerned the presence of the Japs cheap cheop prices for the If residents of the cities With their cone r. nm ll h the I iS prices of such commodities ns those I. I In which they Uley had specialized dou dou- doubled doubted bled anti and trebled ond more Lettuce the tho Japs J ps hud bud sold nt ot 3 cents a head went to 12 rind 15 cents Under such conditions It is to understand why the farm population tion would resent the presence of Ule Japs but one une would rather ex ex- expect expect the city folk fulk to approve of at them Such hns not been breI the case It Is city people even more than those In the tho country who today vote for perpetual banishment who would send nil all Japs back to Japan I won won- wonder wonder der if It that Is n 0 wartime emotion My ly guess is that within five years following the close of the war the Japs will again be the market gar gar- gardeners gardeners of the west const coast city people will welcome prod prod- produce produce uce prices I think I hope my guess Is wrong I trust my patri patriotism exceeds my desire for 3 cent lettuce TWO MEN WHO WIIO HAVE IIA E Im THE WOULD wom IN EVERY COMMUNITY people are thinking of the problems of at arriving nt ot and maintaining world peace Groups arc talking of or the subject and had there not been some definite leadership offering plans and specifications there would have been thousands of conflicting Ideas Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson former ambassador to Belgium pro pro- provided provided vided that leadership and submitted the plans and specifications They provided a foundation In the mold mold- moldIng Ing of ot American public opinion and the demand of the people generally is that those Ideas be the basis of the postwar peace program The ac action tion of congress and ond Ule achieve achieve- achievements achievements ments of the Moscow Teheran and Cairo conferences would Indicate that in a broad brand way the proposals of Mr tr Hoover and Mr Gibson will be followed In that they have well served a war weary world THOSE WHO WANT MORE re re- regardless of what they Uley have will never be satisfied WHEN TAMMANY ruled New NewYork York city the leaders of the organization figured that each city job would provide an average of eight I votes When election day drew near and it was felt more votes might be needed the Tammany sachems de de- decreed decreed creed the creation of such additional numbers of jobs as would provide the needed votes A simple method of maintaining control I 1 THE OTHER FELLOW WANTS your opinion only If U it agrees with foit his Ws own I j I I. 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