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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- AIR MONSTERS: Things to Come WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Hisforv's Biaaest Tax Bill -1 uin mcei jj i vvai f Red Communiques Admit Grave Peril As New Flank Attacks Harass Nazis; , - "1 uemanu:, CIO President Proposes Peace Plan; Cargo Planes Get Qualified Approval Required Savings, Smaller Tax Exemptions Seen as Partial Solution to Inflation Threat. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In theoo columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. fmmmmmiffm i".jisiiry;a,.MI mimmimammrmm. By BAUKIIAGE n air-rai- inflation. One of the many brakes on inflation is taxation. Taxation, of course, is an ancient process. Another method, not so ancient, is compulsory savings. Henderson favored compulsory savings. So did a lot of others. He aid so., He tried to convince Mr. Morgenthau but Mr. Morgenthau shuddered. That was totalitarian. Regulate prices (what you pay out) all right, but don't tell a free American citizen what he has to put in his sock. That's totalitarian. Henry Morgenthau never said those words to me, but one of his close associates did. Well, Henderson in one of his tactless moments a year and a half ago, commented on Mr. Morgen thau s opinions on compulsory savings (not for the record). He said, In effect: "Henry is perfectly willing to have me put a gestapo in every grocery store but he thinks it's Hitlerism to force people to save or buy bonds." Those weren't his exact words but those were his sentiments. I quote them, not because Mr. Henderson knows everything, but because he talks with a punch, I might also add that there appeared a year ago an article from the pen of Reserve Board Chairman Eccles entitled, "Price Ceilings Are Not Enough," In which he expounded the thesis that money must be taken out of the easy spenders' pockets or infla- $8,700,-000,00- 3 neighborhood of 77 billions. If after Pearl Harbor the government had asked for the maximum it needed the country would have One of Uncle Sam's newest weapons for the armored force, the M4 been only too glad to submit. As is shown on special demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Here the 28- my correspondents say, the coun- tank, ton tank plows through a barn to demonstrate its ability to negotiate try didn't need to be waked up, obstacles. cannon In a revolving turret and a completely It has a Washington does. Critics of Mr. Morgenthau and his welded hull. program say. "too little and too 75-m-m. late." They say "too little" because the difference between outgo and income for the fiscal year ending in 1943 will be at least 53 billion dollars. Non-Negotiab- le Bonds They say "too late" because insufficient measures have been taken to check inflation and one way inflation can be checked is to get right after the spending money and make it saving money by forcing the peo bonds ple to invest in that can't be cashed in until after the war. A lot of people are going to need spending money again when peace comes until industry is converted back from war production to civilian production. As one man connected with the Federal Reserve board said to me: "There is one thing that very few people realize. When the government or anyone else borrows from the bank, new money is created; that makes inflation. There is plenty of money in existence now to pay war expenditures and avoid the fatal error of borrowing from the banks. "The difficulty now is that the dol lars which are the most dangerous in bidding up prices and causing inflation are the dollars in the pay envelopes of the workers of industry. And these dollars are not, as far as we can estimate, the dollars that are buying bonds. "And another thing. The taxes don't reach these dollars, either. "What we may as well realize is coming, though not coming as soon as it should, is: One, compulsory savings although we won't use that unpleasant word compulsory. It will probably be a requirement to buy bonds not redeemable until after the war and so staggered that they won't all hit the treasury at once. "Two, a smaller tax exemption so that we will get the loose dollars from the lower income brackets. There are more of those dollars to get rs one-thir- d rural-non-far- g BRIEFS gross of 5 million books donMed In five months Is the record made by the Victor? Book campaign. bombardier can expect to spend 36 seconds over an enemy target. During that brief time he directs the plane and makes all the adjustments which actuate the famous American bombsight all at a peed of 200 miles an hour. Education is one of the five est "business firms" in Indiana,larg according to a recent issue of a entitled. "Priceless Product of Indiana's Public Sch.ml System." The schools directly afTect nearl onethird of the population daily. A RUSSIA: PEACE PLAN: Flank Tactics ForCIO-AF- L A proposal While Moscow's official radio was telling the Germans in their own language that the United States and Russia had come to their agreement on the creation of the second front in 1942, Soviet troops were busy with flank attacks on the Nazi forces all e Don river front along the German drives had pushed far beyond Rostov, toward the Caucasus, but the Russians were claiming that their new flank attacks were netting a terrific toll of Nazi tanks and men. At Voronezh, northern anchor of the Don front, the Russians had been holding out doggedly while their columns were being pushed back in the other sectors. If Germans in the homeland had been listening to the Russian radio tell of the coming of the second front, they heard too that their country would be confronted with 15,000,-00- 0 men, 85,000 tanks, 100,000 guns, and 50,000 airplanes. But this was brave talk for even the official Russian communiques admitted the gravity of their nation's peril. Most in feared was a Nazi break-throug- h the center of the Caucasus front. This would more than likely mean that the so-forderly Russian retreat would stand a chance of being turned into a rout a result that would be disastrous for the cause of the United Nations. Soviet officials had other troubles, too. There were reports out of the Don valley that large rings of fifth columnists had been uncovered. Many of the spies in these groups were quickly executed as they were with Nazi caught trying to parachute troops who were dropping behind the Soviet main lines. Meanwhile, through England and the United States the cry was getting louder for military officials to second establish the From widely diversified front. groups and sections came the urg ing. There was considerable agita tion for this move for many people feared the United Nations would suffer a most severe blow should Russia fail to last the year on the European side of the Ural mountains. 300-mil- much-discusse- d ALEUTIANS: 10,000 Japs official silence, a navy spokesman officially estimated that the Japanese have succeeded in putting "not more than 10,000" troops into the Aleutian island area and at the same time announced there was no evidence that the Pribilof island to the north had been occupied by the Nipponese. The statement came in answer to a report made by the Alaskan delegate to congress, Anthony J. Dimond, that between 20,000 and 25,000 Jap troops were on the Aleutians and that the Pribilofs had been occupied. Questioned about Dimond's reports, the spokesman said that "we believe that not more than 10,000 Japanese are In the Aleutians, probashore and ably one-hal- f afloat The Japs gained a foothold in the Aleutians on June 3. So far, the navy has confirmed the presence of Japs only on three of the islands: Attu, Agattu and Kiska. at the western end of the chain. The Pribilofs are in the Bering sea, and consist of four islands: St. Paul, St George, Otter and Waldrus. The latter two are small and uninhabited. Breaking an one-ha- lf PETHILLO SAYS NO': To I) rt vis Plea by liaukhage "Education for Free Men1" Is the general theme chosen for the 1942 American Education week. bout mrmmKmmmmmmmim the department to answer. Morgenthau then said he would stand behind Bell's prediction. It is true that the house cut the tax bill as submitted by the treas0 ury. The treasury asked for and got $6,200,000,000 from the house. The senate is being urged to restore the cuts. But the treasury program Itself was far too small, the experts say. At present calculations, the government's income for the fiscal year 1942-4will be around 24 billion dollars, whereas its outgo will be in the "Three, there will have to be some leniency for the fixed salary man who is already saving; the average middle class that puts money into savings regularly in the form of mortgages on homes or farms or plants, money into .life Insurance policies, money into pension plans. That is savings, it is not creating inflation. But that man with the high taxation those in his income brackets have to pay has to go to the bank and take the money from the savings which he has there to turn it over to the government tion would result. "Canada has faced this problem. The United States will have to. War One-Thir- d of the Way production is ahead of schedule, fisToday we have a tax bill which cal thinking is lagging behind." seven stands, months after Pearl We can see. a year after Mr. EcHarbor, as incapable of meeting the cles said so. that "price ceilings are exigencies of war as Manila or not enough." Increased costs are Singapore were. such that the packers, as the can-neIt is true that expenses have shot before have announced up more rapidly than was expected that they Justthem, won't stay in business although many say this should have h they have to operate at a loss. been foreseen). And now we are e price of the finished product lucky if we can pay of as a ceiling but the raw materials our way. Daniel Bell, undersecrend wages have no ceilings. Some tary of the treasury, said that 24 bil- body has to corral those dollars. lion dollars of the national expenditure would be handled with borrowUrban residents rank highest in ing (not all from the banks) this the proportion of graduates year. Secretary Morgenthau bad re- in the population college with 5.7 per cent fused to answer a question on that as conpared with 4 2 per cent for point in the senate committee hearand 1.3 per cent for when Senator Taft rural-farto ings put it groups, according to Inbut It over turned to him, Bell. Taft formation collected by the departprotested that he wanted Morgenment of commerce in the 1940 thau as the head of census. policy-makin- miss '',-'-- News Analyst and Commentator. Why don t you commentators quit trying to wake the people up to the war and try to wake Wash ington up?" That's a question which repeats it self In my listener mail day after day. So help me, I know the people don't need waking up. And who am I to decide whether Washington is snoring or just breathing deeply? Let me say, first of all, that I know that a large part of "Wash ington" is awake and burning the midnight oil. And remember that means 2,000 business men drafted into service as well as the government officials the MAJORITY of whom are mere who have worked through both Republican and Democratic regimes. But let me go on from there and talk about some of the slumberers whom you nor I nor Big Ben nor d an alarm could wake up if they had gone to bed after six cups of coffee and the radio on. I am talking (again) about what Washington is talking about today specifically the tax bill now in congress, and inflation, in general. The biggest tax bill in our history any calm, cool, instructed thinker thinks isn't nearly big enough. Why? Well, some say because the fiscal policy makers of the nation don't seem to be much more war conscious than the home guard before Pearl Harbor. Now let's get a few facts straight There are men in the treasury department and sitting on congressional committees dealing with fiscal matters who know their monetary onions as well as a farmer knows the rows he hoes. But let us proceed from there. About a year and a half ago, Leon Henderson who, no matter what you may think of his neckties, his manners or his tactfulness, is pretty good at foresight, echoed the thoughts of perhaps a hundred other men in Washington when he warned against A publi-'atio- n "I cannot grant your request to cancel the notice that the AFM members will not play for transcriptions or records." With those words. James C. Pctrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians, refused a request by Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, to rescind his ban against the making of new phonograph records or radio transcriptions for commercial purposes by union members. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. 1942 NEPHI. UTAH S. that the Congress for Industrial Organization and the American Federation of Labor "ini tiate discussions regarding possible establishment of organic unity" was made by Philip Murray, CIO president, in a letter to William Green, AFL chief. Peace proposals between the two organizations have been discussed for several months as a step toward In his speeding war production. letter, Murray proposed the estab lishment of a committee composed of representatives of both organizations, with an impartial arbitrator, to settle all jurisdictional disputes between the two groups. Murray named a committee of three to discuss the problem of "organic unity." He named himself, R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO United Automobile Workers, and Julius Emspak, secretary of the United Radio and Machine Workers union. BEEF: super-giganti- non-com- s. Soldiers purchase lots of fingernail polish but not for their nails It keeps their buttons shiny and is the perfect remedy for chigAt the Indio Desert ger bites training center the lads are often rationed only one gallon of water daily for all purposes, including drinking, washing, bathing. To con dition them for the real thing. ... jiu-jits- ... Personal checks cannot be cashed without the company commander's okay . . . When Paul, the son of the late financier. Andrew Mellon, went to the c. o. at Fort Riley to get approval for a $100 check, the c. o. said: "This is a pretty big check for a private to write. How do I know it is good?" . . . "It oughta be," said Paul, "I own the controlling interest in the bank." The Indians have supplied more volunteers to the Army than any other racial group . . . When they first learned of selective service they came to register with their own weapons . . . The average soldier drinks four cups of coffee a day . . . G. W., who fathers the "Our Fighting Men" dep't in Collier's, calls the U. S. Armored Division the Anzers . . . Because they are the answers A jeep is to Hitler's Panzers also a nickname for a rookie. There was a new answer to the shipping problems of the United Nations looming on the horizon. It was an unofficial agreement from the War Production board to give the "green light" to plans of Henry K. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder, to build giant cargo and troop transport planes in nine of the nation's shipyards. First hitch to be overcome in the suggested set-u- p was the granting of authority by military officials to release engines and other parts needed in the building lof aircraft for the army and navy. Donald Nelson, WPB head, appeared to be willing to proceed with the plan if these materials could be obtained without hampering the war effort This came as a surprise as WPB first voiced skepticism on the plan. Kaiser's idea calls for the conversion of three shipyards on each coast to produce 5,000 flying boats a year. n The ships would be of deDysign fashioned rtfter the ing boat Mars, now in active use. Support of Glenn Martin, Baltimore bomber builder, Tom Girdler, steel magnate and all others with knowledge of production problems of plane building would be sought according to Kaiser. After Kaiser had discussed the idea with Nelson he appeared before a senate military subcommittee to testify and Nelson later issued a statement stating that the WPB was willing to to the limit In any practical way for increasing the effectiveness of our . . . transportation systems." At the same time, James II. R. Cromwell, former U. S. minister to Canada, was proposing that Kaiser be made "czar of air transportation." He said: "If we can't get supplies to the fronts by air transport we are going to lose this war." 100-to- 70-to- n ... Rationing Student Field Marshal Herman Goering's kin is Werner George Goering of the U. S. Army . . . Can't wait he says, to drop a bomb on his relaIn our Army a private can tive prefer charges against a colonel, and if a corporal sees a captain conducting himself in a manner "unbecoming an officer and gentleman" he can have him put in the guardhouse . . . The name for woolen underwear is "superman drawers." . ... When a private at Randolph Field comes to a non-cowith a complaint be is handed a mourning-borderecard which says: "Your trials d and tribulations have broken my They are unique. I have never heard of anything like them before. As proof of my deepest sympathy, I give you this card hich entitles you to one hour of condolence." heart " Ft ' h If. t 'f V . -- ' John Leigh, gas station attendant Is pictured studying rationing rules. When Price Administrator Leon Henderson ran out of gas, Leigh refused to fill a can for him. Henderson later proved that such an act would not be a violation of the regulations, but his proof came loo late. He already bad been forced to take a taxi. In Washington, MISCELLANY: COUSINS: Conklin Mann, New York genealogist who discovered last month that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are eighth cousins once removed, an nounced that he had found the President to be a sixth cousin once re moved of Gert. Douglas MacArlhur. MARKETING: U. S. farmers in the first half of 1942 marketed prod ucts totaling $5,773,000,000, according to a department of agriculture estimate. This compares with $4,012,- 000,000 for the same period in 1941. The Office of Price Ad FATS: ministration has set a ceiling of four cents a pound on waste kitchen fats now being sold by housewives to retail meat markets In the national salvage campaign. GASLESS: Pleasure driving Is practically a thing of the past in Britain. As of August 1, gasoline is sold only to business and professional automobiles. DEATH: Maj. Gen. Julius von Bernauth, German tank expert, was killed in action on the Russian front, it was announced on a Nazi broad cast esque tea towel motifs. So get out your most brilliant floss and do these bits of embroidery. Finished, they will give a cheerful note to your towel rack and thus to your entire kitchen. Pancho's serapes and Ramona's skirts, the fruits, and the awning should all be done in vivid colors. To complete the set, there is a panholder motif of Mexican pottery. bright-colore- d Transfer Z9475. 15 cents, brings the seven motifs for tea towels and the one for matching panholder In transfers which may be stamped more than once. These extra stampings may be used for luncheon or breakfast cloths and napkins, curtains, etc. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address Box 166-- es in the Army administrative jobs to release men for active sea duty. GIANT PLANES: From Shipyards ... Contrary to popular legend, It is against Army regulations to give a soldier K. P. duty as punishment . . . At Camp Barkeley the chap u who instructs in the art of is Harry Morimoto, an American-Japanes- e In the Army nurses . . . Sol are known as Snow-whitdiers insist that uniforms come in only two sizes too large and too small. period. Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard reported that there in the temporary be some relief may beef shortage this fall when more cattle are brought in off the range. But other sources looked with disfavor on what effect this would have on the normal spring beef market. good neighbors south of the fUR border provide these pictur- r- "Waves" is not a new word to U. S. navy men but in the future sailors will have to think twice before using it. For this is the name being given to the Navy's woman's of the army's auxiliary, counter-par- t WAAC. Now officially organized, the Waves plan to enlist 10,000. First call was for 1,000 women, preferably bachelor girls, to volunteer as officer candidates. Miss Mildred McAfee, 42, president of Wellesley college, Wellesley, Mass., is being chosen head of the feminine navy unit and will hold the rank of lieutenant commander. While there appeared to be a preference for single girls, married women are not prohibited from volunteering. Unmarried women will have to agree not to marry while in home. Meanwhile .. lUMAMia ... plained: "Willing and able" . . . She returned it pronto . . . The 33rd Armored Regiment at Camp Polk call their tanks "Hitler Hearses" . . . The Yank of 1942 isn't called a doughboy . . . He's "Red Legs" . . . There's a Old Club at Camp Roberts. The men in it are over 50 all volun teers since Pearl Harbor going in as buck privates, although many were former officers and LADIES: Of the Navy one-mon- jpLna's,:! Mm wr. cast (A contribution by the of Irving Berlin's great hit show at the Broadway theater for the army emergency fund.) When one of the boys gave his regimental pin to a girl she demanded to know what the motto "Volens He exet Potens" meant semi-vacuu- a 1 L This Is the Army! be both & 1,120,000 pounds, cargo and battle plane. It would be a 60,000 horsepower, two hull plane with 400 foot wingspread and with wings 16 feet thick, with a speed of about 350 miles an hour. It would carry 3,000 men. . It would carry a rack of torpedoes weighing 20,000 pounds. Dr. Christmas pointed out that the torpedoes would have a striking force of 19,000,000 pounds when dropped. "A battleship deck would be like wet paper when one of these bombs hit it," he said. The second plane was a revolutionary type of amphibian flying cargo plane, which would be lifted and propelled by a combination of engines, helium gas and air tunnels. The engineers are Horace Chapman Young and Eric Langlands of the Aerodynamics Research corporation. A single wing combination the plane would have a flying deck of approximately 200 feet, from which 12 fighter planes could take off. It would carry enough helium gas to lift 36 tons and with its engines could lift 70 tons. Four tunnels would run through the wing. Engineers in these tunnels would create a whose suction would supply pulling power while the propellers gave it thrusting power. Its speed would be about 200 miles an hour. Waves will be assigned to desk or In butchershops from the Bronx to Boise there was considerable beefing about beef. Beef was high. Beef was hard to get. What was the trouble? President Roosevelt told his press conference there were three main reasons for the current meat shortfor age: (1) this is the beef; (2) people have more purchasing power now, with which to buy better cuts of meat; and (3) around 4,000,000 men under arms are now eating much more meat than they ever ate on their own dinner tables "co-opera- te Q would training Tivo Varieties ' at IBB Reading like a tale from the pen of Jules Verne, the story of two c cargo planes was unfolded in Washington by aviation engineers. Senate committees beard the stories. Details of a huge plywood plane were disclosed by Dr. W. W. Christmas, technical aviation engineer. The plywood carrier, weighing m . Fort Riley's newspaper. The Guidon, has an column. "Betty Lou" signs it. Betty Lou is the nom de plume for a pair of privates . . . For every fighting man in the Army there must be five other soldiers to feed, clothe and supply him . . . Unless a rookie is smart, he can be trapped into volunteering for unpopular chores. The big gag in the Army concerns the sgt who approached a bunch of men at play and asked them if any were good at shorthand A dozen newcomers, angling for soft snaps, eagerly stepped forward . . . "Fine," said the sarge. "report to the kitchen, we're short of K.P.s!" . . . The phone number of the Negro Enlisted Men's Service Club at Camp Bowie is, oddly enough 711. ... Army men always titter derisively when in the movies a sentry says: "Halt! Who Goes There?" . , The correct challenge is: "Haiti Who's There?" A letter from girl is called "a sugar report" . . . There's no favoritism in the Army . . . Even chaplains must undergo five weeks of training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. ... 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