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Show I I BEAVER PRESS Period In U. S. to Be an 'Age of Wonders' Post-Wa- U. S. Bond Purchases Are BetferThan Forced Savings Federal Taxes Unable to Cover Total of Present War Expenses; Transport Planes' Importance Growing. 4 The President's pro- n gram has not been carried out and nobody dares take the first cruel step to put it into force. The love of money may be the root of all evil, but the presence of too much money In too' many pockets has become an evil, too. The two methods of rooting out this evil are to stop the money coming into all these pockets and to take it away after it gets there. I have had an Interesting glimpse into plans for the taking away process through the eyes of some of the men who have some very decided views on that subject. My story begins in a very ornate corner of the Capitol building just off the senate floor. Senator Z was opposite me. I always call on him when I want an idea in a couple of pungent paragraphs. He was once a newspaper man himself, and as a timid representative of a news syndicate many years ago I used to beard him in bis nqws den. "Senator," I said, "what are you going to do about taxes?" Senator Z's eyes lighted up. He shifted his cigar. "Baukhage," he said and slapped my adjacent knee, "I am not going to do anything now. When the time comes I am going to do a lot. Let me tell you something. Last January Secretary Morgenthau came and talked to some of us. He said: 'I know it's hard for you folks to vote for a big tax bill in election year. But it's got to be done. And I'll tell you what I want. I want the country s of the to pay for the war way as we go. I want you men here to make a team and agree to that. of exTaxes to equal penditures.' "So we agreed. But in the five months since then the expenditures have increased so that the balance has "been thrown completely out. Instead of paying with taxes of current expenses we will be lucky if we can pay "And let me tell you this: It Is a lot better to make the taxes lower, to leave some money in the taxpayers pocket and force him to buy bonds. I'm not coming out for compulsory savings now for that would defeat itself. I am going to wait until Joe Doaks begins to realize what is happening. "And let me tell you this!" "When this war Is over, unless the money to fund the war debt is still in Joe Doak's pocket, Joe is going to lose it and the whole economio framework of the country will go to pot. Joe doesn't know that. He thinks the money in the bank is still his. It isn't. It's the bank's. Now Joe won't keep the actual money in his pocket. He'll spend it. Eventually the bank will get it if he does. But If he buys a government bond and puts that in his pocket, he will be safe. So will the country." "Well," I asked the senator, "when are you going to do something about this, are you going to come out for compulsory savings?" "No," he said, "but I have a plan, and when Joe Doaks realizes that Henry Morgenthau's voluntary purchase of bonds has fallen down two-third- two-thir- two-thir- one-thir- I'll be d. ready." Americans Show They Can Do It era American of the post-wthemselves find will probably living in a world full of com forts, conveniences and gad gets that at a present dayview have a decidedly Jules Verne flavor. They may own a home that was erected from the ground up in eight hours and is just as stable as one which before the war required six months to build. The home were utterly, dependent when they quit work. Working men and farmers are two of the most independent thinking Classes In America today. But strangely enough, the same day that I talked with Senator X in the overstuffed chair in the senate anteroom I ran into P. P is a great friend of the oppressed. He is also a great friend of the laboring man, oppressed or otherwise. After an exchange of greetings I said to him: "How do you fellows expect the farmer 'to be willing to let farm prices be curtailed in any way when wages aren't frozen?" "I don't," he said, "but I have a great idea. I have been working on Phil Murray about it. It is simple. Let all wage raises from now on be paid in That will stop inflation, for it will keep the money out of circulation." Well, as I say, I'm no economist but after those two experiences I have begun to get ready to sign up right now for so many bonds a month. war-bond- s. Military Transport Planes For Troop Movements "Which would you rather try to lick? One wild cat or a swarm of hornets?" Naturally, I chose, not too willingly even for a purely mental combat, the wildcat. "So would the Germans!" My lunch partner leaned across the frail restaurant table and pounded it until the tomato-juic- e cocktails leapt into the air and frightened looked at us apprehensively. "You could take a million men across the English channel in ten days in small planes that could be built in six months. They would be as thick as hornets Those planes could be built without the slightest strain on our war effort." "That's just an example," my friend went on, "of what we could do with planes if we could get these fossils to build them. Check my figures with the Civil Bureau of Aeronautics if you want to. "What I am really getting at is this" my friend went on and then stopped to absorb the agitated tomato juice. Soon he was off again on a most interesting exposition I tried to concerning keep up with him. It is hard for a layman to assay these enthusiasts. What they say is always studded with figures quoted from official records. And they usually can quote volumes to prove that people who disagree with them said the same things about Billy Mitchell's ideas all of which have been proved correct. What my friend was getting at was this: That military transport has been woefully neglected. That only now are we beginning to build transport planes on a scale to meet the demands. Germany has 10.000 transport planes in service. We only have five plying between China and India. But even a plane carrying Vi tons could do the work of a hundred and fifty trucks over the Burma road. I had just heard the surprising word from the lips of a Chinese general that even before the Burma road was destroyed, China was getting very little more in the way of supplies than she is today. Why didn't we begin plane transport then? I thought of the couplet by Pope: rs r. I though we had gone a long way transport already. Our transports or ferries are over every continent Nobody dislikes anything compulAmerisory more than except Antarctica. The Pan Amercans, but when an emergency arises, ican Airlines, which established a if they feel it is a real, national regular service across Africa, transemergency, they will do what they porting its own supplies and men are told and do it willingly. Three to equip the fields, is about to be million men did it willingly in the taken over by the army. last war when they were tolckthey But, according to my friend, we had to go and fight. Millions are would have been much further along if it hadn't been for "Brass hats who preparing to do it in this war. Now saving is something that think only in terms of text books Americans talk about but never that don't even contain the words have done so much about. In the or 'glider' or more piping times of peace the insurance than passing mention of any air agents used to tell me that 90 per craft except balloons." cent of the American people had no I don't know perhaps it is time estate at all when they died and to lay the old aside." 9- .J will have conveniences undreamed Ameri of even for comfort-lovincans. They probably will drive a modestlv Driced automobile that runs 35 miles on a gallon of gasoline and will negotiate terrain and hills formerly suitable only for the VffOOU- - Drew H1S ' in a day's time. haul regiments from coast to coast be capable of carrying a which has been developed for miliin tary planes some of which flywill hour an 500 miles of excess continents and their place cities within a comparatively few or few hours flying distance of time-honore- will-hav- e al d. the-wor- ld Willys-Overlan- 125-to- 160-to- "belly-flop-per- 1 . fc - 'dive-bomber- More military airplanes will be built during 1942 than were manufactured between the time the first military plane was delivered to the army in 1909 and the first of the present year. Tliis is a modern version of beaUng swords Into ploughshares- rn ertlng the army's miracle car, the "Jeep." Into an agricultural vehicle of many uses. Who knows, but that forne future day Old Bnssv down n the south pasture, will be herded by means of su h a jeep' by liaukhage It looks now as if farmers will send to market this fall and winter 5'i to C million more hogs than ever before marketed in the period from 1 through next April. There's a new mascot at the medical department of the Orlando air base in Florida a cat, by the name of Leukocyte Lymph Hacrr.ophylia III, or "litre, Pussy" for short. miles an hour should be developed is, of course, logical and the American farmer will thus in herit one of the nation's most valu able Dieces of military equipment These automotive principles of engines which con sume a minimum of fuel also will be applied to pleasure vehicles, au tomobile designers predict, forecast ing a light yet powerful car which will require only about one gallon of gasoline every 35 or 40 miles On the Sea, Too. On the sea also the war effort is providing amazing new inventions applicable to the country's peacetime nattern of living. The United States has experimented with an allaluminum destroyer which they believe will cut through the water at 52 knots an hour, Seacraft designers declare that the use of aluminum in boat construetion may well be the forerunner of high speed passenger transport ships faster than anything previously dreamed of. Row and sail boats so boy can car light that a ry one across country, and fleet pleasure craft that will rival in wa ter the speed of their automotive cousins on land, undoubtedly will make their appearance in the post war era at prices within reach of the American in the smaller income bracket. house Describing the post-wwhich Americans may be occupying ten years from now, Norman Bel Geddes, who designed the Futurama at the New York World's Fair, pictures a prefabricated house which a crew of six men could erect in one eight-hoday. With such a house a family might well eat dinner in a home that had been bo more than a pile of materials the same morning. "We have all the techniques and facilities to build houses such as I have described," says Mr. Bel Geddes. "Today, we have an opportunity to change over from ioned and costly methods to the modern mass production way of building better homes at lower cost." He estimates that at least 2,500,000 new housing units will be required after the war. Still another noted American ar chitect Walter Dorwin Teague, declares that we have only to apply to g the same tech niques of design, manufacture and selling that have provided one motor car for every four people in the United States to produce a type of home which will be within reach of the man in the very low income bracket. Mr. Teague has designed a house to sell for $1,000 to $2,000 which can be rearranged, even when occupied, as to size and floor plan almost as easily as one changes the furniture in a room. The Teague house not only can be enlarged or reduced in size at the owner's will but also can be moved from one building site to another. rain at 40 d half-grow- n Ncw Heights of Health for U. S. From out of the many efforts to improve conditions in the nation's great manufacturing plants as a war measure has emerged a cure for one of the most dreaded of all diseases silicosis. Science has discovered that aluminum dust has an affinity for silica and that blown into the air It coats the microscopic particles of silica so that when the latter is inhaled Into the lungs its poisonous effects are elirai- - nated and It iwenm ur old-fas- Such a house, he says, will compare with present day houses as a modern automobile compares with an bug-gIf the owner of such a house discovers that his job necessitates a move across the continent he will simply take the house down call a truck and have the house transported to his new place of residence If after six or eight years he wants a new house he will trade in his old one just as he does his automobile. Still another architect who has been studying post-wa- r housing problems William Hamby, urges that For bettor living the post-wa- r must be improved for the one home who has the most to do-- the woman " In a house planned "to take the rtrudrery out of housekeeping." Mr Hamby abolishes the usual kitchen a streamlined ? brauuncdunlt so planned that whne the homemaker '"'tule, a'so participate tivilio. gets dinner in the f;imnJl can ' "- - knowledge 0f how and what of this well-bein- d y. However, far-flun- g stitch pj and me simple for the motifs required Pattern years sli t. No. Z9463, sin w- - eludes all of th mM. T with directions. Send vn, JJlM -- Box 166-Enclose ' In the light of thpse npw hlch await , ,"x1,,ric bcnofiti only the rtaht.es it is logical to look also into the economic horizons of the Period to discover what i there i, that the average Ame ! .can farnlIy wju be able o enjoy this new pattern of rcady Ioomlng on -- iS Ga sdttB nr.: .1 15 cenh transfer ' i womai Miss ' v,ufft! "in tor Usn't n lest"; the ea'i aunt Martha fever me( KansMCit,, 15 cents for each w dental desired. 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Pinkham's VegeMj lamous wr Compound such years to help relieve o! wome:.p. and nervous feelings -t- ry - - - To Iron rponlarl V PinltU- Compound helps build up ance against sutii umiuju toms. Follow label directions. worth trying! home-buildin- Citizn.rAfTWaT above and bevnnd type there is Uneven broader aspect of a new high level of health which post-wa- r generations undoubtedly will enjoy because of the program of education in nutrition now under way ns a part of the war effort Probably for the first time in the history of any nation, Americans will reach new heights of health and because of this nowly ac- - daisy, blanket Husse; ar factory-fabricate- i pound That a peacetime version of this vehicle which can climb grades that balk a tank and negotiate rough ter far-flun- g days the United States. Flying freight trains probably will become the order of the skies. The increasing publio interest In aviation, the training of thousands of young men as expert d mountain goat. and the strides made by pilots If they live on a farm they proba In aviation also presage safety vehicle an amazing bly of private flying. Ten era new a that can be used to plough, harrow, five years from now, even years, milk and round up the cows. and plane-rentWhen vacation time comes around will be too services probably they may fly over to Cairo or down When news. to be commonplace to Buenos Aires for the week-enno longer necesare priorities Or they may even make an aroundsary, stall - proof, spin - proof trip during the head of the planes such as the "Ercoupe" family's traditional "two weeks off and "Skyfarere" (notable for with pay." folding wing features) probably These are not fancies conjured will travel side by side with aufrom a Lewis Carroll (who authored tomobiles along the highways as "Alice In Wonderland") imagina they shuttle from air, field to tion. They are practical potentialigarage. ties which industrial experts already As C. R. Smith, former president are forecasting as the logical peacedetime application of armament de- of American Airlines, recently nonpost-wa- r the "In period, clared, velopments. War is a forceful spur to the prog ress of industrial science and in Toward a New Era vention. Under its duress there is Even as the nation devotes no time for the cautiously slow exthe full energies of its industrial periments which mark the receppower and scientific genius to viction accorded new inventions and tory, its citizens can still lift New in of discoveries years peace. their eyes above and beyond the methods, new materials are acceptholocaust of world war to an era ed overnight and are tested in the that will bring with it a new patacid furnaces of combat The tragtern of living at once finer and edy of modern warfare is an anachmore dramatic in its benefits than ronism of progress. anything civilization has known Distance Annihilated. before. There is no better illustration of this than the advancement made by aviation as a result of World War I. stop operation over the ocean will crossThe airplane represented new po- be prosaic with most of the to Europe done at high altitude ing tentialities of speed and destruction and as such was seized upon as a speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour." weapon of offense by the Allies and their enemies alike. In the short pe- Miracle Car Forecast for Farm Use. riod of four years aviation made an As in aviation so in the world of advance that would have required automotive progress the developa quarter of a century in normal ments of war will become integrated times. into America's peacetime pattern of Today, the same situation magni- life a few years hence. fied ten times over obtains. Only In recent tests conducted by the recently, Glenn Martin, the noted United States department of agrid aircraft designer, announced plans culture and Motors, n for a behemoth of the air Inc., makers and manufacturers of of 50,000 the standard design Jeep, at Auburn, capable transporting pounds of equipment at speeds of Ala., and Toledo, Ohio, the vehicle 200 to 230 miles an hour to be built gave promise of performing with after the war. This plane, said Mr. the same versatility on the farm as it presently is doing on the battleMartin, will be "as big as a house." Meanwhile, another compa- fields of Europe and the Far East. ny is reported to have already comDuring these tests the car did ev pleted the wooden dummy of a ship erything from cultipacklng and harwill that dwarf the Martin monster a field in one operation, us n a model which could move rowing ing 2.12 gallons of gas per acre, to whole battalions across the contihauling almost a ton and a half of nent overnight. farm produce a distance of 13 miles Already in use are new methods on a gallon of gasoline. of construction which lighten airAlready known as the "army's craft by hundreds of pounds and so miracle car," the Jeep is the detremendously increase their passen- scendant of a motor driven platform ger and freight carrying ability. Nat- on wheels known as the urally, these planes are at present which was first demonstratonly in military form. ed at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1940. At When Peace Comes. the request of army officials Joseuh However, when peace comes these W. Frazer, president of the Willys: Goliaths of the clouds will be in- uveriana company, and other autoterpreted in terms of pleasure and motive experts undertook the desien convenience for a travel-lovin- g naof a car which would not tion. The almost unbelievable speed 1,400 pounds in weight and iyrn.t should g 625 ers are for pillow scarf and vanitv sPt load. gin c beauty fot is orierwl i. '"cua in October w"1 - d American aircraft manufacturing has increased its annual production rate of warplanes almost 1,000 per cent in 25 months. war SilIllillS Re not the first by whom the new Is tried Nor yet the List to liiy the old aside. BRIEFS ' : ar By BAUKIIAGE tates more at offending the electorate than In election year, today Is faced with doing that most offensive thing of all taking away the people's money. r Mr. and Mrs. Average News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 II Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 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