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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD General Helpless Victims of Nazi Cruelty T Recovering HUGH S. 'JOHNSON Word Jugglers Washington, D. C. dream of a Ely Culbertson: Prince Charming often stands between a man and a woman; an ideal yardstick a woman picks up in her childhood and with which she clubs her husband . . . Jan Struther in her book, Mrs. Miniver: "You cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past . . , R. Roelofs Jr.s: "A straight line is the shortest distance between two points but it hasn't any interesting angles" . . . Suggestions for a Hitlers office wall from Time and Your Life: "Neighbors can make friends but only enemies can A man may build make allies himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. ... Story Tellers A letter from a Britisher to his to the States small son refugee-e- d will break the hearts of those who read it In Good Housekeeping . . . The price of trying to be a good American is listed by Dale Kramer in "The American Fascists (Harpers). He cites the shameful figures that in New York only 106 Fascists were prosecuted in 1939 against 127 who were fighting them! . , . Many mags are now covering the muddy ground of dictator stooges in the U. S. and others on the Most of the data isnt new, but it must never stop being news. The best way to put them on the spot is to put them in the spotlight. bund-wago- Headliners Bob Hopes tion pictures . eyebrow-lifter- : Mo- havent developed a comedian . . . What about a feller named Cholly Chaplin? . . . Dorothy remark: Lamours remarkable "Men are not all alike . . . Except, she means, when theyre alone with a gel In a keb , , . Cary Grants "I get mad when people grunt: stare at me when I eat . . . Lissen, Cary. When people lose their interest in actors actors invariably stop eating. Memos of a Girl Friday Rudy Vallee and Francises Sims, the Conover beauty, are more than a telephone conversation. Tells chums they may marry. The Treasury Dept, and tax men have a wonderful stunt to trap tax evaders who gamble heavily at the tracks and who report not being able to pay . . . Those suspected have their photos taken by hidden candid cameras (usually in back of a coat lapel). Montes and Fernandes, the Rainbow Room dancers, are delightful. But they may bust up because she wants to continue at the Met Opera House . . . Andy Andersons moidur yarn, "Kill One, Kill Two which is going big, got his atmosphere writing It during his spare time at a rear desk in the Associated Press morgue . . . Willson Woodsides story: About the two Italians meeting on a stieet in Rome. "How are you? asked the fiist . . , "Better, thank you, said the other . , , "Better? said the first . . , "Yes, was tlie retort, "better than next year! I suppose you know that Hitler is said to have warned Mussolini not to sink any British ships in tire Mediterranean Uiat Hitler has sunk in the North sea. The Ashland drug store on Madistreet, achs this sign displayed above the soda counter: Roosevelt or WUlkie. McNary or Wallace. Winchell or Bernle. May the best man win, God Bless America! , , , Understand Mr. Jolson'a investment in his new hit "Hold On To Your Hats totals $82,000. son near Thii cording to a customer, Much excitement over at WMCA. Seems that James Roosevelt's film, "Pastor Hall, opens at the Globe next week, and Mrs. Roosevelt, his mama, had agreed to speak about it over that station between 8 and 8.30 , . . Couldn't be cleared, however, because the commercial at that time Is bought by Elliott Roosevelt! . . . Recently we reported a group in the U. S. would start a "Hate England!" campaign. Yesterdays Trib frontpaged: "Steuben Club to Expose British In U. S. Is this suggestion for Britains on Berlin too terrible: "Brit'sh-kriegs, . , Veri-we. . . The O'Keefe quote: "Will kie thinks It is high time FDR became a postage stamp! brought tins phone call from Harriet G. Walsh of Syracuse: "That, mftied La Walsh, "might be the only way he can be licked! counter-attack- s ? ll Man About Town: The Bnrbizon hotel (for women) was In a ditheroo toe other eveg. Phone ops couldnt op and omlgoodness it was awfful: The reason Franchot Tone was in the lobby calling for one of the guests . . , Alda Alvarez, who did Spanish dances at La Conga, and M. will soon wed Rubin, the . . . Ethel no Holt (she Started a hat fad years ago after wearing a mannish fedora 111 a Camel ad) makes her op ratlc debut with Nino Martini in La Boheine on the thirtieth In Pun to Rico. DEFENSE JAM BUSIES Donald Nelson, for many executive of toe Sears, RoeiJ EXCESS PROFITS TAX A The federal excess profits tax as it is likely to pass, is a monstrosity. It might well be entitled "A Bill to Prevent New Enterprise and stroy Small Businesses. I know a company that was organized in 1928 with a capital of about $3,000,000 just in time to get the full effect of toe 1929 avalanche and what came after. It was to make a completely new product. The long, lean, hard years ate much of its capital away. Its stockholders have never had a cent out of it. But they stuck and it struggled miraculously and lived. Two years ago It began to click as a result of a long hopeless struggle for sales and improvement of product. Under this tax bill it will be taxed up to 40 per cent on Its excess earnings for its fiscal year 1940 over the average of the preceding four years, during which its earnings were slight or minus, plus a normal tax of approximately 20 per cent. That will take easily 33 per cent of its earnings. This companys business will gain nothing by toe armament program. On the contrary, it will be hurt. Such a large yearly cash outlay from its meager quick assets will seriously embarrass its operations and prevent any normal expansion of its business. Its only chance to recoup Its years losses, perfect the original factory equipment on which it was planned, and provide reasonable margins of safety was out of earnings. Now that chance will be impaired, if not destroyed. It gains nothing by Its permissible alternative of choosing a basis of graduated tax on the ratio of earnings to invested capital, because that capital has been so whittled away by Its years of losses that this ratio is necessarily high. Stockholders whose Investment has been sterile and declining for most of 12 years and who had just begun to hope for some recovery, will have to abandon their hope and may begin to fear for toe companys survival. This Is Just another case among thousands of similar ones that could be cited. Another class Is that of recently organized service companies with small capital and no record of earnings. This tax law will be a practical barrier to any progress or prospect of success for them. A large and heavily capitalized company that has had reasonably good returns for toe last four years will be affected to no such murderous degree. Indeed, in view of this terrific load In new or small competing industry, such a company could well afford to lower both price and profit to keep its earnings below any "excess at all and thus destroy and monopolize the business of all its small competitors. The tendency in this legislation is so blatant and so marked that one is tempted to question whether it is not a deliberate attempt to Nazify all business by driving It into great units and there by regulation and other encroachment convert it to Hiller's national socialism or Mussolinis corporative state. No wonder small business and toe great middle class are almost 100 per cent against this administration. Whnt this New Deal doesnt seem to understand is that strength for war depends upon a far stronger and more efficient industry than we have ever had. That cant be accomplished if the first step Is a drastic taxation policy that practically destroys toe profit motive. That motive is the gas that makes our The only Industrial engine go. known economic substitute for the hope or reward toe American system Is toe fear of punishment the system of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler. There is no middle way. We cant go that way without industrial paralysis. Very few. If any, business managers want to profiteer In this emergency. But very few are willing to default on their trusteeships and ruin the investment of their stockholders by accepting inordinate risks and unbearable burdens. mail-ord- By BEATRICE WHITNEY STRAIGHT De- DRAFT SUPPORT have some sour letters saying that the reason I am so repetitious and emphatic Is that I want to be "director of selective service, as I was deputy director before. I dont, and even if I did, Mr. Roosevelt would rather lose an eye tooth than call me to that duty. On this bill, as on all other measures to speed national defense. I have supported him as constantly as any of his friends. Men in the war department charged with planning this effort have also had everything I could give them from my experience In toe way of both support and advice, and both they and toe President know that no matter who Is finally charged with the execution of this law. they can rely on me for any unofficial help and support I can give, from running errands to the best tills column can offer. This should be obvious because in a manner of speaking, it is my baby and I am b'tenstly jealous of Us success Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, and "strong man of the Jane, Jacqueline and John, three pitiful little inmates of the East Dominican Republic, who is recoverGrinstead (England) sunshine home for blind babies, hurry to the homes ing from a long illness, plans to vad g shelter as Nazi bombs roar overhead during one of their cation here for his health. raids on objectives in England. air-rai- morale-softenin- non-milita- hut Harmless! Weighs Nearly a Ton U. S. Drops Charges Charges against Dr. Herbert This shell, being unloaded for display at the British Hoehne, asserted German agent, pavilion. New York Worlds fair, is an unfilled and harmless duplicate have been dismissed by the U. S. of those which the British royal railway artillery are hurling across When Hoehne was seized in Los the English channel in answer to the shells of the Big Berthas being Angeles he had German diplomatic used by the Nazis. papers in his possession. (Guest conductor for L. L. Stevenson.) I love New York for its beauty: Unlike I hate it for its brutality. think I New dont Yorkers, many of it as a grand and exciting place to live. To me, it is a place to come to on a boat through the dawn, when skyscrapers loom through the early mist. Then it is a city of promise. But it is not a place tp linger long It is a city to taste and be off to leave across a bridge; stopping, to look back at the resplendent magnitude of its skyline: listening, to catch its rhythmic, subdued roar. New York at a distance is wonderful especially at dawn or dusk, the shadowy outlines of Its buildings dotted by lights that blink off and on; its rivers, with their ferryboats, and pleasure ships, and wharfs, and sound, and smoke; its bridges, toe most beautiful in toe world, swinging so eagerly and so gracefully onto toe island, approached by a lacework of parkways. Although born here, I do not, like most native New Yorkers, have a composite picture of the city that merges the Impressions of various ages. I left here when I was 11 and I have a picture of the city in which my childhood was spent. Later, I came back for a year; and I have a picture of the city in which I was a busy and serious young student. Away again, and now back to live outside of toe city; and I have pictures of a New York to which I dash on hurried visits and for rushed appointments. Usually, they are in connection with the Chekhov Theater studio at Ridgefield, Conn., where I live and work as assistant director, as a teacher of talented young drama students, as an actress; the most thrilling and, to me, toe most important experience of my life. high-explosi- Dairy Congress Will Attract Thousands Four Score This New York offers no leisure hours to wander as one pleases. New York can become, threatens to become, a horror until one stumbles upon some wonderful person, some funny little shop of a specialist In wigs, or costumes, or shoes, or some of toe many things needed for stage productions maybe a secondhand shop full of marvelous things, hard to tear ones self away from; an auction sale; a quaint shop in Chinatown or on toe Bowery. Except on Sundays. Then its a different New York. New York on a Sunday or a holiday is a city of great dignity, of peace, calm and beauty. One can walk instead of run. One can choose what one will do, and do it slowly. One can enjoy the moments instead of longing for toe end. In the winter, though, New York at its best. The lights are brilliant in the cold. The keen air is fresh and clean. Plays, music, movement yes, the winter is its time. is the annual contest. Inset: L, D. Miller of Waterloo, Iowa, president of the exposition. Gen. John J. Pershing, the celebration of whose eightieth birthday on September 30 will bring expressions of felicitation from people in every station in life in America. Commander of the American Expeditionary force during the World war, General Pershing Is still a close student of world affairs. He has been a forccfuh supporter of the policy of providing every aid short of war to Great Britain while speeding defense preparations of ih? United States. 9,000 Miles for a 5Minute Show Honor Remington More than 200,000 of the nations leading dairy farmers and Annual Exposition of the breeders are expected to attend the thirty-firDairy Cattle Congress and Allied Exhibits at Waterloo, Iowa, September 30 to October 6. Above are shown an airview of the permanent plant which houses the exposition, and a group of milkmaids competing in live-stoc- k st And the early spring. In Central park, the tulip trees; the many nurses and the children; the dogs and their funny masters, so incongruous; foreign old men with their tiny toy boats on the round pond in toe park, their pride in toe beautifully fashioned little ships that collide or pass so gracefully in the light. The drive along the Hudson river, on toe edge of the island, looking over to toe busy Jersey shore and the towering Palisades, is as fantastically lovely as the views from the bridges. New York today differs from the picture that lingers from my childhood a city that held toe magic of and disappearing flying spears ladies at the opera; red and yellow whirligigs that whistled in the wind, the man who sold the colored the circus, and fighting with my brother. s, I roller-skatin- g Nor Is It toe New York of my student days. I loved the evening stillness of the park. I loved toe trolleys, their slowness; peoples faces; the crooked little streets of Greenwich village; restaurants, a different country each night, and talking and relaxing after meals; the elevated looking into peoples homes, imagining toe of lives being lived behind sit-tin- g hun-dre- those walls. I I Its makes me Last In the series of new postage almost forget thebeauty brutality that stamps commemorating "Famous tinges my love with hate. American Artists, a brown (BeU Syndicate WNU Service.) stamp bearing the likeness of Fred-eriRemington will be placed on Puts Wife on Oven Two groups of astronomers from the United States Will travel 9.000 sale on September 30 by the post NEW YORK. Harrison Matfix sun to of occur the on office department. Above is shown miles to Brazil to observe a eclipse thews, 53, was held for grand jury October I. Dr. Charles If. Smiley of Brown university, shown with a reproduction of the stamp which sctiim on a felonious assault charge the camera he will use, will accompany one expedition to Qaexeraniobim. is expected to be a popular item as the temperature that, detailing among philatelists. Ibe map indicates the place chosen by his expedition. hit 98. he picked up his wife and sa her on top of a hot oven. New YorkI ut o house, er now has I 5 becor one of the chief log-jabusters national defense. Officially his is director of procurement fot United States treasury jj, c.; words, in charge of government pi chases. ( Recently toe navy depart sent a very important order to Bet lehem Steel corporation with a m erence number to expedite it jor earliest possible delivery. The nesj day word came back from Beth! hem: "Sorry, but you will have i i wait. For some unexplained reason ft navy said nothing to the defense commission about Bethlehems (ft lay, even though toe commission hj toe power to compel compliance ft stead the navy tried to handle ft, situation itself. But after two aeefc of unsuccessful effort, the navy fina, ly went to Nelson, who In additor to his procurement duties aids the defense commission. Nelson reached for a telephone called Walter Tower, secretary g toe American Iron and Steel uist tute, and said, I hope we dont have to get tough, but when an order goes out marked expedite, j means just that. I want immediate action on that order. Twenty minutes later, Eugene Grace, potent boss of Bethlehem personally telephoned Nelson and assured him it was all a mistake, J F. D. R. AND ARGENTINA There has been a lot of publicity regarding Roosevelts conference with Argentme diplomat Leopoldo Melo over buying Argentme beef Actually the conversation covered a lot of things besides meat. Roosevelt promised that this country would substantially increase its imports of Argentine products; first because Argentina has suffered heavy loss of her European export market and faces an acute depression; second, because Argentina continues to buy from toe United States, but this buying must fall of! if she cannot sell here to obtain dollar exchange for purchases. Discussing these problems, the President told Melo that the defense program would require heavy purchases of wool for uniforms, hides for shoes, and canned beef for the commissary. Though the government would not buy direct from Argentina, the buying from domestic sources would create a new demand for imports, substantially benefiting Argentma. . There was also discussion of using a part of the new Export Import bank fund of $500,000,000, about to be voted by congress, for trade with Argentina. Note Latest export figures show that Argentina has now become the leading foreign purchaser of American passenger cars. BRITAINS FOGS The most important development during the last few days of bombing London is the realization by British and American observers that bad weather is not going to help the defense of London, but instead will hinder it. Second important development is the realization that Britain's only real defense is retaliatory raids against Berlin. This means, of bombers course, more almost all of which are now obtained from the United States. It has been generally expected that with the arrival of foggy weather, London would be safer because Nazi raids would have to abate. However, there was considerable cloudy weather over England last week, and during it, Nazi bombers had a field day. What they did was to use the clouds as a shield and drop their bombs, without aiming, all over London. On clear days they had tried to aim at military targets. But at the night, and during cloudy weather, takNazis gave up any pretense of ing aim. What happened was that when British planes went aloft they could not find the raiders. The Nazis were hidden in cloud banks, dropping their bombs indiscriminately. Under these circumstances, there was loonly one way for toe British to means cate the enemy bombers by of sound detection and radio directions from toe ground. However, these radio directions must be three dimensional to be ewide ffective, and there i3 such a tot margin for error that looking bomber in the clouds Is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That is no why British planes simply did wa go Into toe air when toe weather long-distan- too cloudy. the Important to note that same handicap applies to Berlin. In other words, toe British raiders will be equally aided by foggy weather over the German capital So the war of nerves and indiscriminate bombing is likely to get worse. the Note One thing which caused downfall of France and toe lowland countries was the collapse of morale, Howplus fifth column activities. are ever, U. S. observers in London a unanimous that British morale is the highest peak, and that the Erh ish will fight as no army has foug for generations in Europe. It Is |