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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SALINA, UTAH THE SALINA SUN liv 'Al t;?V lip T'prfr Jjr First State Bank of Salina Published Every Friday at Salma, Utah Entered at the posloffice at Salina i - aecond-claa- s under the Art of Congress of March 3, 1879. Member natter ... The Livestock Bank of Utah" Subscription Rates: fee Jtah State Press Association Year Months National Editorial Association . $2.0C , $1.9. Advertising Rates Given on WESLEY CHERRY Editor Member; RAILROADERS Apparently our lawmakers have not yet discovered the vast diffetence between taxing the profit out of war and taxing industry into stagnation and eventual collapse. The new tax bill, in the form which the house approved and sent to the senate, is one of the most potentially destructive and dangerous measures in history. Certain leading members of congress, as well as economists and business leaders, have recently said just that, and have backed their statements with convincing factual data. The bill would levy so heavy a burden on certain essential industries that their continued operation as private enterprises would be definitely imperiled. The service industries, such as the power and communications companies, are cases in point. For the most part, these industries have not benefited financially from the war. They are stringently regulated, and are never permitted to earn more than a modest return on their Investment. The excess profits tax provisions of the new bill would make it impossible for scores of the best managed service companies to pay a single penny in dividends to holders of their common stock and in some instances there would not even be enough profit to take care of preferred stockholder obligations. Also, the companies could not build up the reserves that are necessary as a gurd against economic dislocations in the future. Many industries which are engaged solely in war production would be in a similar position. In short, passage of this bill would be direct and death ly blow at industries which are absolutely vital to the prosecution of the war. The only solution is for the government to raise part of the taxes needinl in other ways. Whether it is politically wise or not, it Beems that we must Increase taxation on lower bracket incomes and then pass, in addition, some kind of a sales tax. We could lose this war on the home front by taxing into lethargy and ruin the industries which supply and serve our gigantic fighting machine. REGULAR HLOOIJ HOUNDS Iiailrouders are a special breed of men. And railroads are today per forming a transportation Job that is unparalleled in history. That is the theme of a recent article by Lew Heck in the Cincinnati Times, Star, Railroaders, from the road presi dent down to hostlers, section hands and engine wipers, are proud of their calling and their efficiency, and where you find pride and skill you are look- ing at Loyalty itself," writes Mr Heck. Dont be filled with wonder if you ever see a railroad president stop off in a ralroad yard to greet, for instance, a yardmaster and his crew. The fact is that railroad men, even presidents, respect nobody so much as they do another railroad man who is outstandingly a railroad man. The trains are rolling as they never rolled before and achieving results never attained before in any land. Does it astonish you? It shouldnt. For railroad men are fellows who have gone into railroading like a born sailor turns to the sea. Railroaders love their occupation Love of a vocation begets a loyalty that never wavers, a vocational pride that never is permtted to droop or trail in the dust of inefficiency or forgetfulness. An organization like this wasnt created by lucjc. It began in that far-o- Bourbon its Best I National Distiller Product WAR IOLITICS AND TIME. We obtained permission from the author to republish below a letter to a Congressman. We think it eloquently speaks volumes in this per ilous period, when time is so tragically precious and when so many vital things to be done are being left undone because they are being put off The letter: until after election. This letter is democracy at work. This letter represents what we are fighting for. This letter is the first I have evr written to you or to any governmenta official. For years I have rat back and watched selfish little individuals- and pressure groups write, telegraph or travel to Washington to ask for favors. For years I have wanted to write or to ask you for just one favor t for me and good, for all the people. But I wondered what my one lone letter just like my one lone vote could do. So I didnt write. 1 didnt honest-governmen- ask. Now at long last I am stirred up time when locomotives burned the cause is bo vital that I am writwood, and crews on Western runs ing my first letter asking my first might have to take their turn fight favor. It is this: You dont realize how much more ing off Indian tribes. Little by lit de willing I am to make saciifices to tie, year after year, the industry win this war than you think I am, A and tra veloped progressed. great dition of service was built up, and and that goes for millions of Ameriit is shared by the oldest and the cans like me who have yet to write youngest railroader alike. Railroad their first lettr. You underestimate men never say that any job is too big us. So get us straight. to handle. They just go out and do it. Vote that $6,000,000,000 tax bill Youd have a hard time exaggerat ing what this means to the country that doubles my income tax. Withhold 5 per cent 10 per cent now. If the railroads failed, the whole war effort would bog down of my savings next year. Make War Savings Bonds compulRut the railroaders never think of failure. They just go ahead getting sory. (I am already investing II per more service out of each locomotive cent of my salary.) Put a ceiling on wages and all each car, each mile of track, and each worker. prices. Ration my gas take my spare tire The railroads face many a problem take my ear if you need it. Theyll need a lot of additionl equip' Ration my food my clothes my nient. Rut, given that equipment, fuel. solve those and My got along theyll problems theyll go right on moving the freight on what I waste. No industry is making a greater con Help Leon Henderson he's got hold of a tiger by the tail. Help him tribution to the war effort. hold it or it will eat us all. For once in your life, forget the folks back home. Vote a clear, firm GF INCOME Yes if it will win the war. Let that be your only test. ES OUR QUOTA Do this and you wont have to wor- Waul ff great-grandfath- er IM WAR BONDS TME POCECETTBOOK of ECRIOTOLEBGE for the duration. ry about This letter is democracy at work a private citizen with no ax to grind telling you not how to vote, but telling you how he feels so that you may know better how to represent APPPOYMATFi' 860,000,000 WUl BFUFtOm AMTFKJM A NSW CELLULOSE wrapping WHICH PROTECTS WAR SHIPMENTS FROM RUST, DUST AND CORROSION HAS BEEN MATERIAL developed eyA chemical CDMPANy IRISH POTA1&ES ARB NOT IRISH. BUT .AMERICAN-- ., WHEN FIRST INTRODUCED INTO ENGLAND THEy WERE CAL UP 'LWUMU AOTATVCS f US. HEAvy BOMBERS CAN CARRY 8 OOO POUNDS OF BOMBS 3 OOO MILES CRUISE AROUND AND PROP THEM, AND THEN RETURN TO THEIR BASES BOAKP 942 Corp.,N.Y. The term is descriptive of what is happening in the world today. Blackout means much more than doing without artificial light. It is a symbol of the gradual destruction of human advancement. It means the breaking up of families, the death of millions of innocent people, the destruction of a free education and re ligious system. It is the forerunner f a type of government that makes slaves of all the people it touches. Blackout symbolizes the end of civ ilization as we have known it. It is an ominous word. In a country like ours, imagination cannot conceive of the terror that follows in its wake Blackout is the forerunner of a new type of enemy invasion that wherever successful, actually does black out, or wipe out individual identity, opportunity, savings, family relations for the children become mere pawns of the state freedom of speech, freedom of worship, private enterprise eve rything that symbolizes America. The fact that large sections of this nation are now living under dim-oand blackout regulations Is a warn ing in ominous shadow of what we face if we do not crush the forces that have caused almost a total blackout of the rest of the world. There would be little labor trouble or production trouble, or politics-a- s usual if the people could visualize what blackout means. Its mere sha dow should be enough to cement this nation into one irresistible unit of ut RUBBER PROGRESS Some experts now believe that, in the relatively near future, enough rubber and rubber substitutes will be made available to keep a considerable proportion of our civilian cars In operation. If that happens, the much maligned oil industry will deserve goodly share of the credit. The oil industry, its critics notwithstanding, has done outstanding work in developing various kinds of synthetic rubber. In many Instances, it is operatng government-owne- d synthetic rubber plants without any profit to itself. And the oil industry was the dominant factor in the recent and right to express the way hed Iikr to be governed. There are 10,000,000 like me in the United States. We will decide the election this fall. Dont underestimate us. You vote as courageously as we are willing to sacrifice and him. nothing in this world can Btop us. This letter is from a plain citizen With utter sincerity, with two children, a mother, a job WILLARD V. MERRIHUE, and a home, and a Scotia, N. Y. d A OF IUMKK Ft FT TO PFCKAG.C Federal Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ' BLACKOUT iC'j After Customers 210,000.00 Surplus Application ORSA B. CHERRY Publisher CONFISCATION It Y TAXATION $ 25.000-0- Capital Payable In Advance BLOW FOR FREEDOM successful campaign to collect scrap rubber. DR. H. CRANDALL This industry, in short, Is devoting DENTIST its energies and resources in attempts rubto produce in adequate quantity SALINA UTAH ber that can be used for making new tires and recapping old casings. It has already made great progress in Office Hours: that direction, and its chemists believe 9 to 12 a. m. 1:30 to 5 p. in. that in time an inexpensive rubber substitute which will be superior to natural rubber in all ways will be deALL MUST PAY FOR WAR veloped. In the meantime, the oil industry is wisely counseling the public The Economic Policy committee of to drive slowly at all times, to abandon all unnecessary dilvlng, and to the American Bankers association remake tires and cars last to the limit. cently published a booklet on treasury war borrowing which deserves wide UP TO THE reading. The booklet points out that the GOVERNMENT should borrow from the curtreasury As time goes by, the commodity rent income of individuals. price problem becomes more acute. It Second, from idle money in the is clear that our present methods of hands of k holders. price control are inadequate, and that Third, from the commercial banks. the inflationary trend grows steadily Fourth, and worst from the Fedstronger. eral Reserve System. According to reports, a good many It is in the interest of the banks, consumers are making the mistake of the enterpriser, the worker, the farmblaming this on retail merchandising. er and everyone else who suffers from They are accusing merchants of pro- the blight of inflation that every posfiteering at their expense. And that sible dollar be borrowed from the first indicates a complete misunderstandsource, the booklet adds. ing of the facts at issue. In short, the people must pay for High officials in the Office of Price this war. No one else can pay for it Administration have publicly praised for them. And the people who are retail merchandising for the cooperar most from war are the benefiting tion it has given the price control The great bulk of working groups. of cases handful Only a policy. excess purchasing power is in their merchants deliberately sought whqe to violate the rulings, have been un- hands. So far, they have not borne, earthed. Both the chain systems and by any means, their proper share of the independent stores have, as a gen- the tax load. And that in itself is a eral rule, reduced their margins of powerful inflationary influence. The banks are doing their job but profit to the lowest possible level. And it should not be forgotten that, they cant do it all by a long shot. It long before the price order was im- is time everyone realized that. posed, a large percentage of Americas retail merchants voluntarily cut their profits in order to protect the living standards of the consumer. The reasons why price control is ?I?lnjD failing are many and various. Certain important labor groups have demanded and received abnormal war wage increases and that is a big item in production costs. Farm labor now receives the highest wages in hisWelcome tory. The tax burden has already reached record levels, and will go GIFT to the higher. And, in the long run, the consumer must pay for all of this. The Former Resident problem is now in the hands of the government not the retailers. non-ban- LETTER HOME" THROW YOUR SCRAP INTO THE FIGHT! IN THIS NEWSPAPER |