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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD tar Professional Challenge Gastronomes Collegiate Brackarts Washington Digest Siren Again as Escape w.r. Time Has Come to Pay the Fiddler New Tax Sources Must Be Found Picture Valentinos Life On the Screen Map By Virginia Vale first time in a which she has shown deep interest in motion pictures, the Dowager Queen Mary of Great Britain recently visited a motion picture studio. She was shown around his studios by Alexander Korda, and watched a FOR the during WASHINGTON. Court decisions as a rule are difficult things for laymen to understand. True, most everyone who hears or reads an opinion by a learned justice will know what the result is whether one side or the other wins. But, generally speaking, the public as a whole fails to understand the full importance of a decision. It is not their fault. are Comparatively few person trained in law, and a good many of those only believe themselves to be lawyers. For that reason, as well as the fact that many persons do not have the time or the opportunity to examine court decisions, I have been wondering whether it is clear exactly what happened when Mr. Justice Stone recently read the decision in the case involving taxation of federal and state employees. No doubt, most persons realized that Justice Stone had ruled there can be taxation of the salaries of federal employees by state governments and that the federal government may tax the salaries of state officials and employ, ees and employees of lesser governments like cities and counties. But there is more to the ruling than the simple statement Just made, very much more. As a matter of fact, I believe that those who were privileged to listen to Justice Stone that day heard an opinion that is going to go a long way in changing the course of government from the federal government down to the lowliest township. I think frankly that it will be several years before the full force and effect of that decision will be exerted, both nationally and locally, but I am definitely convinced that it will be felt and that it will have important effects upon governmental policies. And beyond that, the decision told another story. It told the story that our national, state and local governments are hard up for tax sources. It actually shouted to all who would listen: boys and girls, your spending dance is over; now, its time to pay the fiddler. Never Before Has the Nation Had Such a Gigantic Debt It can not be construed otherwise. Never before in our history has the nation had such a gigantic debt, a debt of move than 40 billion dollars. Never before have the states or the cities or the counties had such debts, where their state constitutions permit creation of debt, as they have today. I do not know of anyone who can give accurate figures on the debts of governments of states, cities, and counties. It is a tremendous sum. They have danced, and they, too. must pay their fiddler. In the lush days when most folks were working and there was good business, the taxes rolled in and there was little or no thought about spending money for new roads, new post offices, new county courthouses, new city halls, new bridges and so on. Money was spent rather liberally in those days. There were bonds sold, and the proponents campaigned for bond issues in a big Aw way. They said, in effect, come on and vote these bonds. We can pay them off over 20 years and the little teeny added tax wont hurt. It probably did not hurt, in those days. But there came the depression and there came 10 million men out of work, and there came the worst business in a half century. Then, that teeny little bit of tax did hurt. The taxpayers werent paying taxes, because they had no money to pay them. There was, however, a debt. The destitute had to be fed and clothed. First, the local authorities did it; then the states and then the days of the real dance began. Billions upon billions were poured out of the federal treasury to be used for feeding and clothing and housing those whom the states and cities had cared for, but could care for no longer. And up zoomed the national debt. It was about 16 billions to start with because only 9 billions of the World war debt had been paid off. Since the taxes were not bringing in enough money, the federal treasury borrowed and borrowed same more. Now, They're Seeking Money To Pay Their Fiddlers Now, the time has come to begin paving off the debts. The states and the cities and the counties have been looking for money to pay their fiddlers. The national government Inis been lot king for money to pay Its fiddlers. Each unit of government has had to look around for new spots, new things, to tax. Taxes are as high as can be regarded as productive in many of the usual ways of taxation. So, where shall we turn? was the question. Iresident Roosevelt has believed a long time that it was rather silly that officers and employees of the federal government should not be taxed by their home states, lie has believed, too, that the federal fr C. government should have the right to of those who were held to be exempt from income taxation because they worked for a state government, or city government or a county government, or some agency of those governments. Likewise, Mr. Roosevelt has contended that income from federal bonds and income from bonds issued by state and local governments and school districts and drainage districts and irrigation districts should be taxable. He has thus far been unable to accomplish anything in this direction, and the matter was not before the court. It, therefore, did not figure in Justice Stone's opinion. Sometime, such taxation may be brought about. I hope so, anyway, because it is a proper subject of taxation, it seems to me. But to get down to another direct result of the Stone ruling which, by the way, was supported by seven of the nine justices of the highest court. for the group recording war songs She also Feathers. Four picture, saw two reels of the picture. tax the income Some years ago Myrna Loy rebelled against playing siren roles. She showed what she could do in the part of a delightful wife in The and since then shes Thin Man, been playing delightful wives until shes sick unto death of them, too. So now shell turn siren again, as in The Rains "Lady Esketh, Came, the picture version of that UGH Time for itly Bed basebi boast organiz' s of ,. One QI'HT RESPFfT.gf'.".1! When in KhMl, H01'EL GULUEN- -k' most popular color Isi ball HOTELS the dian glem, the f is ol with mo 1 h.1.1 flen the service ,jous APARTMENTHm ge has cs ,us 17 World se ,f supreme jeclared thi ,u incorre Block from Temple. ReojT week or month. RICHMOND. 70 E. 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She Spanish government, made his first official call on Secretary of State should know her business, as her Cordell Hull recently, inaugurating diplomatic relations between the own nails are between three and Franco government and the United States. Left to right: Cardenas, Senor four inches long, and she seldom Don Felipe A. Espil, Argentine ambassador, and George T, Summerlin, chief of the division of protocol of the state department. even chips one. Biggest Gold Shipment Arrives in New York very good book that everybody was reading a year or so ago. After that shell play another young woman who is something less than perwith fect when she is Spencer Tracy in Sea of Grass," in a role that will have to be considerably rewritten if the censors are to approve of it. A picture based on the life of Rudolph Valentino is to reach the screen at last. It is one of the five productions to be released through United Artists in 1939-4by Edward Small Productions, Inc. And various old newspaper men are waiting for it with considerable interest, wondering how certain parts of that biography will be fixed up so that they are fit for the screen. 0 Two Texas cities, Fort Worth and San Antonio, took particular interest when two recent R. K. O. pictures were released. One was Douglas Corrigans The Flying Irishman, because it was in San Antonio that Corrigan worked as a newsboy to support his mother after his father deserted the family. Fort Worth wanted to see The Story of Vernon Castle," with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, because it was at Benbrook field, Fort Worth, that Castle crashed his plane to avoid colliding in mid-ai- r with another. Incidentally, Mrs, Castle, who acted as technical director for the picture, is very much pleased with Astaires portrayal of her famous husband. She wasnt so well satisfied with the agile Gingers performance as his wife, because, as she said, she couldn't imagine herself as a blonde. Taxes Have on Jobholders? This $60,000,000 cargo of gold which was brought to the United States from Europe recently is believed to be the biggest ever carried from Europe on a single ship. It was believed to have been made because of anxic y over Chancellor Hitlers new drive in eastern Europe. Although officials refused to divulge Information, it was learned from an authentic source that the gold cargo was worth $60,000,000 or more. Upper Berth for the Motorist-Campe- r terrible terrier ; $ flannel-mouth- n i L TRUSSES MYRNA LOY What Effect Will Additional sp,tp r Union. ROBERT t jsinesslike, In Hungary, the house not the hostess is the on, arthly power sou gests that it is time 7,H juerable viv add tics, the night. urn game, For a Balanced Productive dealer or write SOIL-AIP. O. Box 1676, Salt 69 years, the pay of any federal official or employee could not be taxed in any form by any state or local government. Of course, there was no income tax during most of that time, either national or state, and during most of that time, as well, there was not the press for government revenue that now obtains. But, to repeat, for 69 Western rawing ne to PIANO abdominal muscles. Los Angeles medical men proved that he could control his Po lost New and Used Piano Pn From 49 50 Up. Terms 7? Home Service Co.. 45 W. Jrd s, For the last Very important also, in my opinion, is the effect this additional tax will have upon the mind of the jobholder. You know, a jobholder very frequently is most willing, even anxious, to spend the taxpayers money. It is one way by which he can curry favor, make votes for himself. I have a feeling that many of those jobholders are going to stop and think a wee bit more. He may possibly stop to think how much it will take out of his pocketbook. That ought to be helpful, because it ought to reduce the number of s going about the county or district, shouting for another bond issue before the ink on the last one gets dry. One of the results, therefore, possibly may be to cause that type of public official and advocate of "mprovement to favor living within the income of tax receipts. To make it complete, now, we ought to have the same kind of reciprocal taxation of income from federal bonds and bonds issued by state and local governments and their agencies. Mr. Roosevelt has said he believes these can be taxed that is, those to be issued in the future under present laws. Some very fine legal minds in congress believe, on the other hand, that creation of such a taxing right will require amendment of the Constitution. In any event, it ought to be done for the good of the country. There can be no doubt in the mind of anybody that tax free bonds sell hke hot cakes. They bring bitter pricis than bonds (f industrial corpot atoms and the hke, because the interest from those bonds must bear its fair share of tax. bright green spot m others are olive, with an scales. laseball ,, Pay of Federal Employees Tax Exempt for 69 Years could not touch the pay of a fedworker, nor could the federal government touch the pay of a state or city or county worker, even after the federal government turned to income taxes as a revenue source. Some Judge, somewhere, sometime, had said the Constitution prevented it. It was just taken for granted. All of that now has been changed, however, and if the pay of a county judge is sufficient to fall within the federal tax brackets, he will pay. It will be the same with everyone from the governor on down and from the mayor on down. It wll be the same with federal officials and other federal employees stationed or living within a state that imposes income taxes on its residents. No one has yet calculated how much additional tax will be obtained by the federal government as a result of the decision. Nor has anyone made a real guess as to what the ruling will mean in additional dollars and cents to state governments which may now safely impose the income tax on all federal employees. In the case of the federal payroll, the civil service commission figures there are something like 800 thousand receiving checks twice each month. There are in addition, hundreds of employees of outfits like TV A, RFC and other corporations. The stock of these is owned by the federal government and they are, therefore, instrumentalities of the federal government, hitherto with payrolls exempt from state income taxes. There is one thing, however, of w'hich we may be sure: the jobs, the political plums, the and dollar jobs have suddenly become less juicy. They are less lucrative by about $360 on a dollar job. The joint snake is a lizard whichlaal. j pearance of a snake, h brittle tail, which when grasped. Tt, t V highJy polished surface ; There is, of course belief that the broken the. ofV S? k X Supreme Court Decision Opens Way to Tap Salaries of Federal, State and Local Government Employees; Never Has Nation Had Such Gigantic Debt. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNC Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. Gloss Snake iSj asst Casting Henry Fonda in a leading role in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell was whats known as a natural. Fonda himself was de lighted. For when he was in high school he decided that his career in life would have something to do with the telephone business, if he had anything to say about it During his last two years In high school he worked as a trouble shooter," and when he got his degree from the University of Minne sota his thesis was on communlca tion systems, especially the tele phone and telegraph. 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