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Show B Page Six ear'rivek valley leader . iy GEORGE S. BENSON VttsiieKt-JiafdiH- g falfye f - un-- '. Before this vear is ha if gone, States United the fail, all less signs Government will be collecting taxes on 1943 incomes as they are earned. The President, the Treasury and leaders in both the House and the 'Senate favor some kind of collecplan for income tax tion. Specific provisions have not been worked out. The law is still m the making. But features of sugand gested plans are much alike are being discussed ueeiy. The main idea in taking taxes out of current income is to collect revenue while the people have the mon-iewhich is sound. In the case of an employee, tax payments likely :will be deducted directly from sal- -' and ary checks and pay envelopes, me will never nanaie worker 'the ' might money at all. Such a method before (but not likely) get started on 1942 i March 15, when payments innmf taxes will be due. What About 1912 Taxes? Fully three times as many people will be paying income tax this year as ever before. New taxpayers, as iwell as the old ones, already are They wondering about 1942 taxes. Will I ask three main questions. (1) be expected to pay last year's taxes :at the same time I am paying this 1942 year's taxes? (2) Will we skip land, if so, will the government lose a year's revenue? (3) Will the 1942 taxes be suspended now and dropped on our necks right alter tne war when, most likely, we will be having a spell of hard times? Matter-of-fastatements of some two of those answer will facts plain questions: The average American who earned anything last year is not able this year to pay taxes at current rates on two years of income. Especially is this true of a typical farmer. His last year's earnings are gone, because he had operated at a inns fnr several Drevious years,, and obligations that were hanging V m QO& 13t Over yiunw. 'tears' tavps in one Vear will now leave him a living. Postponement Is Worse Suspending the 1942 taxes tempothem rarily, and perhaps spreading is a out over several future years, sorry suggestion. If the taxpayer, especially the farmer, Is not able to pay two years taxes in iu wnen ne is earning something, certainly he can't lift such a burden in a postwar rlpnression. Farmers were hit harder than any other group of after the last war and they have every reason to expect the isarne thing to happen after World War II. Question No. 2, above, is The answer to the first half of it is "Yes." If the vast mainjority of people can't pay in1942's several come taxes this year, nor .post-wa- r years, we should skip 1942 for them. It is the only sensible thing in An because it can be proved abso- lutely that skipping 1942 will not cost the government one penny in revenue. Let me start the proof with a homespun illustration: 1C42 Is Oi.lv a Date My first experience with income taxes came in 1931. The ruies exempted me that year but I had a friond who raid a small amount. called it a tax on his Old form 1040-1930 income but that was really a. misnomer. My frier. 1, like nearly everybody else, had spent all he earned in 1930 and whatever tax he paid in 1931 came right out of his 1931 earnings. He knew it was his 1931 income that was "taxed" and that 1930 was nothing but a place to " ....V'.. ''O ..3 -- X 1 f. I. Pay as You Go ' j.. Zv Storey. A?xiw i3r YES ON SICILY AND ITALY Knocking Down the Enemy :r 8, NEW FOOD BOSS News in Pictures LOOKING July . ' ' ';. . , jirArA"" -. rI t' Y TA " " . ; y DR. CAU N. CHAUACOMES 'Hi ' . 'X ..or . if ' ' 'A' ' Or S S t I if.- ' J. ' ' ' ' X 3"' I - m- -- t y, WAITER KOHIHASZM 8- :J7r?s-;-- 4 . I ! : ct f , rJ; : V-r,- I , l WASHINGTON, D.C. Marvin Jones, former chairman of House Agricultural Committee and President of recent International Food Conference, has been named to succeed Chester Davis, who resigned after three months as War Food Administrator. I - ur ; j v. 1 . to burst at the precise split secor when they reach the area of the1 ! frying target. For their contribution to the of war equipment, thi three Elgin engineers nave received honorary citations from the War Production Board, the nation's highest wartime production award for individual merit. In use today on fighting ships in many parts of the world, the new time fuzes have contributed to such valiant actions as those of the deDallas stroyers Bernadou, Cole, awardand McFarland recently ed unit citations by the President firo Shells pa.in.'ed with "for outstanding performance of such fu:es can be tie, cr.Jd u;'on duty in combat with the enemy." anti-aircra- ft - months that Sicily Was tf nl Mussolini has"been"telling his people for and well fortified ready to repel any was island the that danger: recent reports suggest that now he is not so confident 'threat But . ... ji u-- c vnv. iioiro Kfpn nressed into sprviro t. Civilians, regaruiess " 1 NEW SYSTEM SPEEDS BOMB PRODUCTION Kohl-hage- n LIFE-BOAT- 3 I anti-oirpr-.- ft AUTOMOBILES TO 3 s - t a TP1 1? V - tV ll ' ! ! ii f ? S s? 1 iff $ j . V Passed by Can..KOVA SCOTIA wuh tui Threatened Censor ian acute shortage of coa!, the Canaa;an Government recently issued a decree rerequiring all former coal miners, wartime their of present gardless Photo jobs, to return to the mines. snows: Tieariy nvc McDon-- i sea in Nova Scotia Pvt. J. C. coax montns a on three aid, is back at his old mining 30b. The main shaft of this large bitumin: : tUt mainlsnn. hut the- f OUS niiiitr a vii ui ..it lodes extend from three to five roilej out under the water. -- I I I A2? iiu-loug- trailer used to carry new utom5bileadS; to Southern it transports Sown above each 24 ft. long and fully loaded, caWs four This big Fruehauf life-boa- ts life-boa- ' 11 i Mr: ns double-barrelle- d. 4-W- TUNISIA ' 4, CANADIAN SOLDIERS GET "COAL FURLOUGHS" re Is American more accurate and daadly, thanks to an Improved fuze timing system developed by three Elgin. Illinois, by the engineers and approved nt committee of the local watch plant. Passed on to war production drive headquarters in Washington, the new system is row available to all time fuze manufacturers. George G. Ensign, Dr. Carl H. Challacombe and Walter are the engineers rosponsi-bl- e for the improved timing system, which reduces one of the greatest elements of error in ; citi-'ze- ''i, vSICILY: ts ready to go. GERMAN SPY BROADCAST JEFFERS REPORTS THROUGH CANDY ' the Indiana p!c From the production of mechanical rubber goods a large 4 converted has Rubber and Company Tire General of The The above pici. bombs. of manufacture the to of its plant capacity pound bomb. So intent shows the final nosing operation of a 500 the to operator of the nosv protect the heat that it is necessary cables j. machine in the booth pictured at the left. The control of M seen silhouetted against the windows. An entirely new system tbi by General Tire engineers through ana making has been developed f the nose of swedeing machines which are able to shape both In the pro.f tail of the bomb shell in two successive operations.the nose had the bombs after system it was necessary to coolcould 4je performed. tail the before operation ghaped can XOOK OUTAXIS! 4 ' ST A aft ... ' . J? ' ' , J" ' "'''7 I J start figuring. Tha.t plan is no longer suitable. Tax rolls are larger now, people earn more, rates are nigner ana exemptions are lower. Incomes "are higher even than they were a year ago, and for that reason a plan will yield the Treasury more revenue in 1943 than could be .raised by the old system. Under a V 1 1 1, e (w.s.'.ita.-JS.'.''t''fcf- ) . U The FBI has; WASHINGTON, D.C. announced the arrest of an alleged; German spy, Ernest Frederick Leh-- j mitz, (shown above), m New York City. Lehmitz is charged with and admits having written numerous let-tpin German intellieence agencies in Europe, providing detailed inf or- -; mation on shipping conditions in the! New York harbor, and troop and con- -, voy movements. pay-as-you-- plan, taxes will be 'paid this year just as in previous years. We will not skip a year of paying. We will only discard 1942 as a basis of figuring. Every year since 1914 when Amer icans started paying income taxes we have pretended to pay on earn- ings of the year before. Thus every taxpayer has stayed technically in debt to the government for a year or more of taxes. Millions of people never did pay the debt, of rnnrsp. Fverv vear a certain num ber have died or suffred from illness or drouth or fires. These have quit earning incomes and failed to pay tax on the previous year. Now, to Catch Up A good plan will save the government these paper losses and lift a technical debt from the taxpayers. This is important because after the war all taxpayers and especially farmers have a depression to face. Depressions are calamities, like fires and sickness and drouth. They mean years when (under the present plan) we would he nsked to nav taxes on a year of good income and have little or nothing to pay with. Some types of workers might escape back taxes if they had no money but a farmer can't escape. He has land that can be levied upon. It was wisdom that led the National Grange and the American Farm Bureau Federation both to go on record recently in favor of income taxes. pay-as-you-- the rubber problem, as far By the fall of 1944 we can safely forgetDirector William M. Jeffers Rubber concerned. is rs essential supply Reports on (left) said in a recent guest appearance on "Washington service radio program presented by the Council on public Rationing," . t.-- j : l. W. Vtfrt an nrcroniTntinn RrtOTlRnrffl DV the roou in me oi l alio V as Confectioners' Association. Jeffers was interviewed cpneern-n- s National his tour of synthetic rubber plants by Ernest Lindley (right), on the program, which Js broadcast every Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock (EWT) over the NBC Network. Lindley nlso WtturiKn cuitor ot isewsweex inaaiie. f rs i""'i x MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF WAR i . . . CLEVEIJAND, OHIO - Should r is . aescena1. a" w, " 41. rtinf. of US ".ij the President warned them that it will brine poison retaliation": of swift by the United States. Production quantity has beea started Dy a ueveiana iirm, are Met the-Ax- . " t (JJ Ordnance District to undertake such a contract, and tney loam1 carloads of these bombs to .the east and west coasts for j bombs are caref ullv made, tested at every step of manuia-racks of 30 on skids the bombs are taken by industrial true" - g. testing floor to railway siding an(as;photo1.6how8)i.!)8ueuI boxcarin.a continuous. operation. a 4 ARGENTINE LEADERS f i SICHT pay-as-you-- a"' 7-- i ?- - a, V'V c"' - j If yvtt. (., ' J i , ; '. - j . t bv-ffo- r 11 I v ' J . n , . - ' , J W ' j There is much speculation as to whether the Allied occupa-Itio- n 'Soundphoto of the islands between the North African coast and Sicily is the prelude to invasion of Italy or just a military undertaking to divert the Axis from the real point of danger. Lampedusa, Linosa and Pantelleria (all former Italian Naval Bases) are now under, Allied command and many prisoners have been taken. From a balcony of the Soundphoto government house in Buenos Aires, Gen. Arturo Rawson, saluting, and Gen. Pedro Ramirez, foreground, greet enthusiastic population. They are the new leaders who took over after the successful one-darevolt in Argentina. y "N qiifi C3i This Sikorsky type of helicoptr which .'orauon-for the Army Air Forces by jn manuf.v-'vrr- r awtomobiloa and refriKerators, ' " rfi.niiy snow, lC iinn ice, rouiwi and- ascend t'pt"t, eqoaI descent! in f Nash-Kelvinat- or craftt; 1 jj.Icbs mid-ai- r; . |
