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Show UTAH While City Folk End Up Behind 8-Ball By RUTH WYETH sf MOTHER writes: "{} A joyed using the em} stitches in SEWING Boop find a great deal of pleas, Reviewed by CARTER FIELD handwork By WNU WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., 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 these taxes > Rae aie alae pMEAAM aie NAN Ee spam Bema NN rmrem nt nt eregnpernans ager Siri en siege tlt Seneca a 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 ownership of electric power, and along came TVA, 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 that this gigantic government-owned octopus should contribute to those state governments-certain sums in lieu of taxes, but this was directed only in the case of Tennessee and Alabama. The others were not mentioned. Those states were to receive 5 per cent of the gross proceeds of the sale of power by TVA. As stated, the money was to be paid to the state governments, alone. Nothing was said about the counties or the cities or smaller towns that must have tax revenue upon which to live. 2 ee eet rama - specific, || | hi a Operation of TVA Program Would Set Basic Power Rates 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-ownership 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 to 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 $100,000,000. I understand that TVA got 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 properties. In one scratch of a pen, the TVA almost put the local governments on relief, for all of the millions of taxable property became non-taxable 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 honeyedwords 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. Taxable Property Reduced In Areas Served by TVA It took several years of operation, actual practical experience, for those taxpayers and the officials of LOST TAX DOLLARS Government ownership of land in six southern states is causing a serious tax situation for state, county and local taxing bodies, according to this article by William Bruckart, Washington correspondent. Taxes formerly collected from private property {now owned by the federal government) are now unavailable. Congress is at the present considsidering remedial legislation. their state and county (Released and city gov- ernments to get hold of the horrible for usé of those local While watching his pennies, the farmer manages to eat more good things than other groups. His brood of five consumes 60 per cent more milk, 16 per cent more butter and 25 per cent more fresh vegetables than city families. Village families, incidentally, are shown by the survey to be the poorest fed in the land, some almost to the point of malnutrition, though an abundance of fresh and nourishing food is usually available nearby. In fairness, however, the survey discloses that farmers do not have as many incidental expenses as their urban brethren. Less than half those questioned had electricity, while 98 per cent of city and village dwellers get monthly power bills. Only 52 per cent of the rural families had installed telephones as compared with 60 per cent for village and urban families. More than 94 per cent of city homes were billed for running water, while in the north-central region of the United States ony 24 per cent of the farms paid for that convenience. Furthermore though 94 per cent of the farmers own automobiles as compared with only 70 per cent of the others, the agrarians buy three-fourths of their cars from the used-car market while more than half the city families buy new cars. Legislation Will Provide Compensation for Tax Losses There will be a bill of some kind, undoubtedly, that will provide that TVA pay more money 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. However, from one point of view, farm savings are menaced by the rapid spread of rural electrification. Within the past decade the benefits of electricity, according to the Rural Electrification administration, have been extended to 700,000 farms. In addition, the hard¢surfacing of approximately 85 per cent of the nation's primary and _ secondary highways has brought the costly attractions of the city-beauty par- 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 for them to reach for expression of their needs and an explanation of their own wishes. the small village to the so. ance of the strangestwar any nation has everseen. Having straight - forwardly declared war against Nazi Germany,Canadians find themselves forced to fight not on the western front but at home. Their like ons are industry not guns. U. S. Volunteer. and agriculture, To be sure, one division of troops has already been sent abroad but this was more to pacify the Canadians than because Great Britain wanted them. There are already too many men on the western front and the allies are in greater need of economic resources. a To make it even more unusual, large number of the Canadian Ohioan Makes Cimbalons For U. S. 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Designed specifically for work on the typical American farm of 100 acres or less, these rubber-shod machines have been found to.cost a maximum of 34 cents an hour to operate on regular farm work, including depreciation, upkeep, interest, taxes and all other charges. Replaces the Horse. With government figures placing the cost of working one horse or mule at 15.4 cents an hour, the small rubber-equipped machines replace four draft animals which would cost a total of 61.6 an hour to work. Each hour, then, the tractor is saving at least 27.6 cents or $2.76 every 10-hour day, a sizeable addition to farm savings. Furthermore, P. W. Stansfield, farm service manager of the B. F. Goodrich company which pioneered the development of troops sent abroad or held for training are American volunteers, of whom between 10,000 and 15,000 are said to have crossed the border since war began. Unlike 1914, when hostilities brought feverish recruiting of men for cannon fodder and women for nursing and bandage-making. the war of 1940 finds Canada going along Only a few select much as usual. As a source of war supplies and a training ground for allied aviation Canada is rapidly becoming so important that many believe it may be the British empire's most important industrial center when the war is over. Some 15,000 pilots from England, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the empire are being given their final training in Canada. The dominion is also manufacturing planes, shells and automobiles. Battleships may also be built there eventually, for Canada is now making smaller naval vessels. As never before, Canada at war is emphasizing her financial inde- pendence from England, acting al- most as a separate nation, Canadian securities held in England are being repatriated and $1,500,000,000 worth of Canadian-held American securities are being sold back to the United States. The dominion is financing all munitions manufacturing herself, granting credits to Britain and earmarking her gold for Britain. When peace finally comes she will not only be independent of London but may actually be a creditor nation. pneumatic farm tires, points out that the saving of approximately 24 working days on a 150-acre farm by the faster machines enables farmers to cultivate approximately 33 additional acres with resultant increases in income up to $600 annually. Thus, it is presumed that farm thriftiness, despite rising prices, will increase during the next few years. Statistics on the cash income of farm families are peculiarly relevant to modern American probierms. In New England, average net cash income for the group of farm operators' families studied was $789. In the central region, the average net cash income for the families studied extended from a low of $518 in Iowa to $1,202 in Illinois. Dust and drouth disasters are reflected still in figures for the mountain and plains regions where the lowest net cash income was $207 for families studied in North Dakota. The high was $874 in Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota. New Englanders Need More. In the Southeast, white farm families in Georgia fared worst with an average net cash income of $449 for the year. Mississippi white farm operators fared best with an average net cash income of $1,566. Many oddities were brought out in the survey. Despite their traditional thrift, New England villagers required an income of from $1,750 to $2,000 before substantial savings were made. The expenditures of low-income Southern farm wives and daughters for cosmetics and beauty parlors almost equalled those of the Pacific coast group where net cash incomes were highest. In Ohio and Pennsylvania, the farmer spent more on clothing per year than his wife, while in the Midwest men spent more in barber shops than their wives did in beauty parlors. U.S. As | see and then work each way fy The has a way of repeating 1924, the Democratic par- Possible Y Threat A invading the bombers same could trip. not Thus the dreamy Portuguese islands in mid-Atlantic have assumed tremendous significance within a few short months, after 500 years of iso- lation and loneliness, moved within tic seaboard. 15 hours They have of the Atlan- The islands have belon ged to the Portuguese since their discovery in 1444. The United States holds no fear of invasion from the Azores so long as Portugal Owns them for the friendly relation of these two nations has continued unbroken since Colonial times. But it is not implausible to assum e that an ageressor power may some day seize them. Several military men have ex. pressed this fear openly. In 1938 Rear Adm. 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The most partisan of President Roosevelt's opponents must admit that little evidence can be brought against the President's contention that, if this country is to build up a formidable aircraft production, it must be permitted to produce airplanes good enough so that the allies will buy them! way: Thousands of young girls entering wom anhood have found a "real friend" Lydia E i Apply the Rule We have committed the Gol Rule to memory; now let us ¢t mit it to life--Edwin Markham OLD FOLK Here is Amazing Relief of Conditions Due to Sluggish E Hn On If you think all lam Wipe 4 under our amended neutrality law, all the benefit goes to the allies. We will sell planes or munitions or ships SHAPED Ree Chief of staff, expected to vapture Portugal, Francc So mild, ae thorough, act alike, just t all vegetable paying | Without Risk refreshing, lax invigorating. &%225¢ b=ot N& isa cash. The fact that only the allies | ¥ not but Risk crussise. bor 0 can come and get them is a forturefund the purchase nate NEW YORK.-Direct flight of commercial airplanes between New York and the Azores islands, a distance of 2,000 miles, has again focused attention on the Azores as a potential aerial threat to American security. Beginning this spring, two American transatlantic air services are making the 2,000-mile trip in a single hop, carrying mail and passengers. Military men see no reason make Garden MIGHT pleased smocking HONEYCOMB SMOCKING BY THE METHOD- BASTE TUCKS ‘4'Depp 4" APART TAKEA STITCH Farley In the summer of 1926 the writer was talking to an old friend who happened to be one of William G. McAdoo's lieutenants. ‘‘We'll not only nominate the chief, we will elect him two years hence,"' he said. *"‘What's the use of talking like that, with all the hate you stirred up at Madison Square Garden?" I retorted. "You saw hates there that had been engendered at Baltimore, 12 years earlier, and this present one has religion in it. You won't get rid of it for a long time, so you can't win for a long time.'' The McAdoo man stared off in the distance for a period of minutes. "I think you are right,"' he finally said. ‘‘I guess the best thing to do would be to nominate Al Smith next time. MHe'll take a terrible licking. Then we can nominate one of our fellows in 1932 and he will walk in."' The point of all this is that Farley is still very young. If they do throw him downstairs at Chicago, which seems probable, they may have to turn to him in 1944. Stranger things have happened. IT'S in the cente, or at the neckline may be gy in one or two points, 4 baste the center front tym : Watches Azores) to any belligerent if thot belligerent | fired fecling :whee encci orth ted con 3 will come and get them, To Atlantic Securit why IT fullness of any the ty tore itself to pieces Square issue. The may be basted into tucks gg, uated length, as at A, fF would History itself. In Nor is Great Britain demanding huge quantities of foodstuffs as in 1914. Canadian farmers, who expected such a rush, are left with bulging granaries. pyytip STEGERER that as his successor anyhow. He does Inot believe that Farley is a really enthusiastic New Dealer. Farley is in danger of becoming a symbol because the James A. strong probability Farley is that he will not be nominated, either for President or vice president, and that a great many enthusiastic Farley men will be saying for the next few years that Farley was not nominated because of religious prejudice. troops are accepted and they must Women, pass rigid examinations. no longer needed for bandage-wrapping and sock-knitting, are concentrating instead on saving food and working in offices and factories. weap- Not President is a trick that jg, tern. Or, failing that, to be nominated for vice president. FrankJim thinks he could win. lin D. Roosevelt, a little older than his postmaster general, doesn't think Canada Fights ‘Strangest War' With Industry Instead of Guns TTAWA. - When Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King won a vote of confidence in his special "‘war mandate'' election in late March, it unleashed forces which permit continu- Here for making honeycomb gm, in points without a specis the Democratic party he has served so faithfully and so successfully. A house-to-house survey of more than 1,000,000 farm, village and city families by the department of agriculture reveals that 42 per cent of the nation's farm families consist of five or more persons. Only 26 per cent of the village and city groups are that large, the average being slightly under three. Yet where income is from $1,000 to $1,250 a year, a farm family ends the year with a saving of $26 up, while city families of the same level wind up in a deep financial hole. Let a farmer get his hands on as much as $4,000 to $5,000 a year and he'll save almost half of it, the survey disclosed. His Diet Is Better. But there is much more to the problem than just the TVA area. You see, the government ownership gang has fought for and brought about construction of scores of other publicly owned dams and power projects. On the West coast, in the inter-mountain area, in Nebraska, where Senator Norris lives, in the eastern and southern sections-exactly the same tax problem confronts those taxpayers or will come up to haunt them, soon. Whatever the committee does, it is presenting to the house of representatives a precedent-making legislative proposal. No one can envision its farreaching possibilities. state and federal governments are in debt up to their necks and the taxpayers are being bled white by Current taxation methods. FarA. WASHINGTON.-James ley is threatening to become a syma be to wants Not that Jim bol. Jim wants Far from it. symbol by to be nominated for President What's for the dresses _ little five-year-old, and am, ularly interested in smock little fullness Service.) (Bell Syndicate-WNU more, technological trends will probably enable him to better his record for economy in the next few years-and get fat doing it. Members of the committee on military affairs are quite well aware of the job that confronts them in trying to' write legislation that will solve the tax problem for the various areas. The states want the money paid to them; the counties want a share paid direct to them, and the cities are squealing, too. unit from quiries into sales of planes to allies really unimportant. than any other average man govern- Here are the amounts, by states, that these companies paid: Maine, $2,189,000; New Hampshire, $2,484,300; Vermont, $1,226,500; Massachusetts, $17,017,400; Rhode Island, $1,824,200; Connecticut, $5,324,000; New York, $61,996,900; New Jersey, $17,494,900; Pennsylvania, $25,002,100; Ohio, $16,960,200; Indiana, $7,988,100; Illinois, $26,422,000; Michigan, $10,624,000; Wisconsin, $8,817,000; Minnesota, $4,904,700; Iowa, $1,892,900; Missouri, $5,859,900; North Dakota, $721,400; South Dakota, $509, 500; Nebraska, $1,731,600; Kansas, $1,862,700; Delaware, Maryland and District of Columbia, $7,120,500; Virginia, $3,152,200; West Virginia, $4,294,200; North and South Carolina, $8,971,000; Georgia, $2,392,800; Florida, $2,461,000; Kentucky, $3,093,200; Tennessee, $4,374,400; Alabama, $3,734,800; Mississippi, $1,212,600; Arkansas, $1,353,500; Louisiana, $3,557,300; Oklahoma, $3,311,000; Texas, $8,237,300; Montana, $2,009,900; Idaho and Utah, $3,383,500; Wyoming, $263,100; Colorado, $2,419,300; New Mexico, $154,800; Arizona, $678,300; Nevada, $285,200; Washington, $3,850,900; Oregon, $3,443,800; California, $21,134,000. Study of these tax payments (and they do not represent all of the privately owned companies that are paying taxes) ought to show even the most stupid person that gradual expansion of government ownership means the slow but sure destruction of another source of funds for paying the cost of government, And this slow destruction is taking place at a time when every government Newspaper Union.) in the United States. ments. The governments had to have running expenses. Thus, the tax rates were increased. 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. by Western ASHINGTON.-Though his source of income is constantly threatened by natural and artificial disasters and he must support the nation's largest family, Mr. Average American Farmermanages to save more money facts that are now being faced- the same facts that have brought scores of officials and others before the house committee on military affairs, seeking relief. The cold facts are that scores of those counties in the six states mentioned have ‘had their taxable property so reduced in quantity by the continued expansion of TVA that they are almost underoing tax starvation. The committee record is replete with testimony showing tax rate increases in almost every area served by TVA, and evidence of expectation of further tax increases. It is a simple statement, in most instances. The witnesses - governors, county judges, mayors, spokesmen for groups of citizens-told almost identical stories. TVA had taken over so much taxable property that there was nothing left to tax Farley's candidacy as viewed from his personal angle . . . Congressional in- REGAN ‘= By OSCAR ty Revenue Formerly Collected From Private Proper of e Becaus Now Unavailable to Local Units Extensive Federal Holdings. e Government Ownership of Land Creates Serious Taxing Problem Se oe © Bank U. S. Farmer Puts Money in the ‘Bruckart's Washington Digest Here's an Easy To Do Smoc NATIONAL AFFAIRS -EE Bef MOAB, ep=a THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, circumstance administration about is pleased. ‘which the But technically the President's argument would be just as defensible, and just as true, if it were Germany that controlled the seas, and were therefore the only belliger ent able to come and get them. BELLIGERENTS WOULD PAY price. That's fair, Get NR Tablets today. 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