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Show , tnfaiM &. ' t inif tfrt'f IWYKON ( mkurn nA.fi TMH I1KO.NK I.K. 1 VWV 1 V1L 1 MON" MK I Historys Biggest Tax QRK Red Communiques Admit Grave Peril As New Flank Attacks Harass Nazis; CIO President Proposes Peace Plan; Cargo Planes Get Qualified Approval Bill Cant Meet War Demands Required Savings, Smaller Tax Exemptions Seen as Partial Solution to 101 rent S Soil- Western Newspaper Inflation Threat. W I Cnri" to !vn ' This Is the Army! t i h ,,.ntr " i of hen opinion are expressed In these columns they are those f nion a news analyst and not neearit of thia newspap Released by Western Newspaper Union h tl ' I Vi ,1, r c ol -i. i tr Sjve h'S demand-,.gill the nmtto "Voleiis UK' it and able" h.u khagi; ti midnight oil. And remember that means 2,000 business men drafted into service as well as the government officials the MAJORITY of whom are men who have worked through both Republican and Democratic regimes But let me go on from there and talk about some of the sturnberers whom you nor I nor Big Ben nor an alarm could wake up if they had gone to bed after six cups of coffee and the radio on I am talking l 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 isnt nearly big enough W'hy? Well, some say because the fiscal policy makers of the nation dont seem to be much more war conscious than the home guard before Pearl Harbor Now lets 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 air-rai- d Inflation One of the many brakes on infia-tio- n Is taxation. Taxation, of course, Is an ancient process. Another method, not so ancient, is compulsory savings. Henderson favored compulsory avings. So did a lot of others. He said so He tried to convince Mr. Morgenthau but Mr. Morgenthau shuddered That was totalitarian. Regulate prices (what you pay out) all right, but dont tell a free American citizen what he has to put tn his sdek Thats totalitarian. Henry Morgenthau never said those words to me. but one of his close associates did Well, Henderson m one of his tactless moments a year and a half ago, commented on Mr Morgen-Uiau- 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 Its 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 Fccles entitled, "Price Ceilings Are Not Enough." In which he expounded the thesis that money must be taken out of the easy spenders' pockets or intla tion would result One-Thir- d of the Way Today we have a tax bill which stands, seven months after Pearl Harbor, as incapable of meeting Lie exigencies of war as Manila or Singapore were It is true that expenses have shot up more rapidly than was expected (although many say this should have been foreseen) And now we are of lucky if we can pay our way Daniel Bell, undersecretary of the treasury, said that 24 billion dollars of the national expenditure would be handled with borrowing (not all from the banks) this year. Secretary Morgenthau had refused to answer a question on that point In the senate committee hearings when Senator Taft put it to him, but turned it over to Bell Taft protested that he wanted Morgenthau as the policy making head of one-thir- d I! H I bombardier can expect to spend about 3t seconds over an enemy During that brief time he target directs the plane and makes all the adjustments which actuate the fa mous American bombsight all at a ipced of 200 miles an hour A p.n tment to ans.vt r Mitgen-thathen said he woull stand be bin Hi 11 s f ff'J 'WF vf. ijfck n 75-m- 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 Bonds Non-Negotiab- le 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 nnke it saving money by forcing the people to invest in bonds that can't he 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 Flank Tactics For While Moscows 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 that the Congress for Industrial Organization and the American Federation of Labor "initiate discussions regarding possible establishment of organic unity" was made by Philip Murray, CIO president, in a letter to William Green, 300-mil- civilian production other sectors. As one man connected with the If Germans in the homeland had Federal Reserve board said to me been listening to the Russian radio "There is one thing that very few tell of the coming of the second people realize When the governfront, they heard too that their counment or anyone else borrows from try would be confronted with 15,000,-00- 0 the bank, new money ts created, men, 85,000 tanks, 100,000 guns, that makes inflation There is plen- and 50,000 airplanes But this was ty of money in existence now to pay brave talk for even the official Ruswar expenditures and avoid the fatal sian communiques admitted the error of boi rowing from the banks gravity of their nations peril Most "The difficulty now is that the feared was a Nazi in which are the most dangerous the center of the Caucasus front. in bidding up prices and causing in- This would more than likely mean flation are the dollars in the pay enr that the orderly Russian retreat would stand a chance of being velopes of the workers of industry And these dollars are not, as far as turned into a rout a result that we can estimate, the dollars that are would be disastrous for the cause of buying bonds the United Nations "And another thing Soviet officials had other troubles, The taxes don't reach these dollars, either too There weie reports out of the "What we may as well realize is Don vallev that latge rings of fifth coming though not coming as soon columnists had been uncovered as it should, is One, compulsory Many of the spies m these groups savings although we won't use that were quickly executed as they were unpleasant word compulsory It will caught try mg to co operate w ith Nazi probably be a requirement to buy parachute troops who were dropping bonds nut redeemable until after the behind the Soviet mam lines war and so staggered that they Meanwhile, through England and won't all hit the treasury at once the United States the cry was get"Two, a smaller tax exemption so ting louder for military officials to that we will get the loose dollars establish the much discussed second from the lower income brackets From widely diversified front. There are more of those dollars to groups and sections came the urgget There was considerable agitaing "Three, there will have to be tion for this move for many people some leniency for the fixed salary feared the United Nations would sufman who is already saving, the avfer a most severe blow should Ruserage middle class that puts money sia fail to last the year on the Eurointo savings regularly in the form pean side of the Utnl mountains. of mortgages on homes or farms or AS: plants, money into life insurance pol- AEELTI icies, money into pension plans That 10.000 Japs is savings, it is not creating inflaan official silence, a Breaking But that man with the high tion navy spokesman officially estimattaxation those in his income brackets have to pay has to go to the ed that the Japanese have succeeded bank and take the money from the in putting "not more than 10.000" into the Aleutian island aiea savings which he has there to turn troops and at the same time announced it over to the government there was no evidence th it the "Canada has faetd this problem Pribilof island to the north had been The United States will have to War bv the Nipponese. occupied pi oduction is ahead of schedule, fisThe statement came in answer to cal thinking is lagging behind " a report made by the Alaskan deleWe can see. a year after Mr Leto congress, J. Anthony vies said so, that "price ceilings are gate Dimond, that between 20,000 and not enough " Increased costs are 25 000 Jap troops were on the .Alesuch that the packers, as the can-neutians and that the Tribilofs had been before them, have announced that they just won t stay in business occupied Questioned about Dimond's reif they have to operate at a loss ports. the spokesman said that "we The price of the finished product believe that not more than 10,000 has a ceiling but the raw materials Japanese are in the Aleutians, proband wages have no ceilings Somef ably one half ashore and to has corral those dollars. body afloat " The Japs gamed a foothold in the Urban residents rank highest tn Aleutians on June 3 So far. the the proportion of college graduates navy has confirmed the presence of in the population with 5 7 per cent only on three of the islands as compared with 4 2 per cent for Japs Attu. Agattu and K ska, at the westrural and 3 per cent for ern end of the chain The Pribilofs rural-fargroups, according to inare in the Bet mg sea, and consist of formation collected by the departSt raid. SL George, four islands ment of commerce in the 1940 and Waldrus The latter two Otter census are small and uninhabited. break-throug- dol-lar- s h so-fa- one-hal- non-far- by A 1 I a tik ha fie gross of 5 million bivoks donated months is the record made V ict 'iv Bo k cairpngn in five bv the I location ban i is one of the five larg ins m Indiana ae cording to a r o- t (.f a pul'li-- ' I ation t" V i icIo-- N Product of Ini a l s D h c Siliool ' evt The MLol-- . et.e 'h i f n SWem riioitlv afleit ncarb ), topuii'.on daily The "Hitler Hes iiu.iy kr f late ex- - of 1942 predict. nn i - t.u ks It is true Unit the house cut the tax toll as sutm.ittid by the tieas ;-- .; I. & urv The tieasuiy asK.ed for $rf 700,-- I 7 0 000 and got $0 200 000,000 from the house The senate is being urged to e the cuts But the treasury proglam Itsi If was fir too At present small, tl le experts say ( ,1 calculations, the government's income for the fiscal year 1942 43 will be around 24 billion dollars, whereas its outgo will be in the Height cirhood of 77 billions If after Pearl Harbor the government had asked for the maximum it needed the country would have One of I n le Sams newest weapons tor the armored force, the M4 been only too glad to submit As tank, is shown on special demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Here the my correspondents say. the countank plows through a barn to demonstrate its ability to negotiate try didn't need to be waked up, obstacles. It has a cannon in a revolving turret and a completely Washington does welded hull. Critics of Mr Morgenthau and his program say, "too little and too RUSSIA: PEACE PL N: E F S Education for Free Men" is the general theme chosen for the 1942 American Education week to tl e d i 1 He is y And Iruthsi inul ( nmmenlntor Wl v d hi t you con incnl.itors qu t trv r it to w ike tin ptm ie up to the w ir unit try t i vs ike n up 'lh.it b a quextmn whi.h ripcdtb itself in my list her mail day after dav So hi Ip me I know the people di n't nted wal inf; ip And who am I to decide whether VV iihmgton is inuring or just breathing deeply Let rne say. first of all that I know that a large pait of Washington" is awake and burning the hit Jwiv the army enter- - to a , ... 1 , a .n at im (it ' h w h II Ahn t,ft M.n.w.M.wMical at the ; ' Rood border pr0?S esque tea toweitt your most brill f'1 these bits of ished, they wiAv PETRIUI.O SVYS 'MY: To Dads Flea "I cannot grant your request to cancel the notice that the AEM members will not j lay for tr inscriptions or recoi ds " With those oi ds, James C Fvtrdlo. pics det of the American . rifu-e- d Federation if M a request by timer Davis, d rector of the Office of War Inforn at'O, to rescind his ban aga nst the m imi of new phonogia) h records or rid o transcriptions for cotnmcrc al p..i poses by union numners vv CIO-AF- L A proposal 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 establishment 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 "orHe named himself, ganic unity R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO United Automobile Workers,' and Julius Emspak, secretary of the United Radio and Machine Workers union REEF: Tuo Varieties trouble President Roosevelt told his press confetence there were three mam leasons for the current meat shortbeef, note to your towel rsc to your entire kttcher cai g t'l'1, ) i Panchos s i Tiie c 2 Young a AeroJvii.i tion TlHUlv gle wr fightei cair cr A s i a fly u g d i is. ha it " v irg ' me .vould have g i tl e if - ii i 12 itelx x i (1) tins is tile i2 people have for more purchas- 21)0 lams It would carry is to 1ft 30 tors turner Contrary to popular legend, it is to give a against Army regulations soldier K P duty as punishment At Camp Barkeley the chap who instructs in the art of e Amencan-Japanisis Harry Munmoto, an In the Army nurses Solare known as diers insist that uniforms come in onlv two sizes too large and too senn-vacuu- jiu-jits- u LADIES: Of the A acy Waves" is not a new word to S navy men but m the future sailors will have to think twice before using it For this is the name being given to the Navy's woman's auxiliary, counter part of the army's ,e ' ur U S run ster to that Kaiser irojiscg r f a.r tr.mspoi ta- - ' If we can t get sup- mts by air transput o K se '..is war. Box wo nev e sent to asl AIN'T M4RTjj 166-- Kansu Enclose 15 cents desired. Pattern Name for u No Address small Personal cheiks cannot be cashed in the Army without the company When Paul, commander's okay the son of the late financier, Andrew Mellon, went to the c. o at Fort Riley to get approval for a $100 This is a check, the c o saidpretty 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 WA AC. the Now officially organized, 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 AGAINST DIS Killing Rats.Micean - The Indians have supplied more volunteers to the Army than any When they other racial group first learned of selective service they came to register with their own The average soldier weapons . drinks four cups of coffee a day . . . G. W, who fathers the "Our Fighting Men" dep t in Colliers, calls the U. S Armored Division the Anzers . . Because they are the answers to Hitler s Panzers A . . jeep is also a rickname for a rookie lieutenant commander While there appeared to be a preference for single girls, married women are nut prohibited from volunteering Unmarried women will have to agree not to marry while in training a period Waves will be assigned to desk or administrative jobs to release men for active sea duty of Grief Rationing Student grief. Latin If you suffer monthly re 4 ache, nervousness, "Irregularities" due tot monthly disturbances Plnkham's Ve u table once! Plnkham s Held Marshal Herman Goerings kin is Werner George Goering of the U S Army Can't wait, he sas, to drup a bomb on his relaIn our Army a tive private can prefer ehaigcs against a colonel, and if a corporal secs 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. Dont 2k., t MbCEI.EAY COUMNSgi i i Conklin alogist wt M New ,nn, severed last month that President Roosevelt and Prune Minister Churchill are eighth couuns once removed announced that he had found the Resident to be a Sixth cous.n (n(-0 rt. moved of Gen Douglas Mac.Arthur MARKETING: U. S farmers in the first half , f 1942 niarkcej products totaling $3 773,000 000, accotd-mto a depmmont o' agr.culture estimate This compares vvth $4 012 000,000 for the sinm period m 194L FATS: The Office of Price Ad e ministration has set a ceding of four cents a pound on waste kitchen fats now being coll ty housewives to retail meat me-lem the na t.ona! salvage can pa,gn GASLFSS: PU rtr!ur practically a th.rg n' .. e pRt ts Brtatn As of Aug sold only to bus revs mej pPtlvSl al untom 'b.les DFAIH Maj Cop J , u, von Bvrna th. Germ, n t.u cv frt was Uied m at t stl or the r, f:om it was at r iced on a N,--,.1n , broad Cd ''I , Neglect H fcto designed the tttfi marvelous job Their freec-stream blood flowing toxic impunt.es. The act P:c x ttelf ui constantly matter the kidne mu besh if good the blood When the kidneys fan Nature Nature intended, there u' waste that may cause narf-tress. One rrav suffer persistent headache, attics getting up nights, under the eyts feel tires. . worn out. " kav, tec buy C and tribulations have broken my heart They are unique I have never heard of anything like them before As proof of my deepest sympathy, I give you this card which entitles you to one hour of John Leigh, gas station attendant m Washington, is pictured studving rationing rules. W hen Pri. e Administrator Leon Henderson ran out nf gas, leigh refused to fill a can for him. Henderson later proved that su.li an act would not be a violation of the regulations, but his tame too late. He already proof had been forced to take a taxi. Cor th-- . Frequent, Tort Rileys newspaper, The Guidon, has an column "Betty Lou" signs it. Betty Lou is the nom de plume for a pair of For every privates fighting n.an in the Army there must be five othor soldiers to feed, clothe ard sui)! him Unless a Iu0'e 15 wait, he can be trapped a to v olunteei mg for unpopular chores Tne big gag m the Army concerns tie sgt who approached a bm.h of men at play and asked tiem if any weie good at shorthand A dozen newcomers, angling ft'i soft snaps, eagerly stepped for- me, said the sarge rtpiirt to the kitchen, we're short The Phone number PR o the Negro Ei listed Men's Service at Camp Bowie is, jt-fi- h oddly enough 7U . tr especially for u omen .' Taken regularly Pinkham's month helps build up such symptoms Follow in tions. Worth tn,:ng LYDIA E. PINKHAMSj When a private at Randolph Field comes to a non-cowith a complaint he is handed a mourning-bordere- d card which says: "Your trials York Proven you can illttlSC ' RemenA He who is pleased, cause of pleasure; grieved remembers . From Shipyards Cio' .veil f Cu .da was U hke Girger rm di Transfer 73475, 15 CM, seven motifs for tea tone for matching panholder may be stamped more tha" extra stampmrs may be use or breakfast cloths and Send your older to. U (RAM ILAAES: 100-to- n Mexican pottery. Snow-whit- ing 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 at home Meanwhile Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard reported that there may be some relief in the temporary 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. 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 g.mt cargo and troop transport planes in nine of the nation's sti j v ards I irst h.tih t be overcome in the suggested set ip was the granting of author tv by military officials to release engines and other parts needed m the bu Id mg of aircraft for the at my and navy. Donald NeNon, WPB head, appeared to be willing to proceed with the pi in if thtse materials could be obtained without hampeiing the war effort This cime as a surprise as WPB first voiced skepticism on the plan Ka'scr a idea calls for the conversion of Ihiee shipyards on each coast to produce 5.0A0 flying boats a year. The sh.ps would be if design foshioneci after the 70 ton flying boat Mars, now in active use Su( port of Glenn Martin, Baltimore bomber b.ulder. Torn Girdler. steel magnate and all others with knowledge of production problems of plane building would be sought, according to Kais-e-r After Kaiser had discussed the idea w,th Ne.son he beappeared fore a ser.no military subcommittee to testify a, id Nelson later issued a s'.atemc't stat.ng that the WPB was willing to to t1 e l.mit m practical wav for g the effectiveness of our tr.u.sp', i tat, on sv stems " At toe same t.me, James H R scrapes an skirts, the fluffs, and' should all he done m To complete the set panholder motif 0f tr 1 feet, from T could take enough li'l.u."'. g and with its c g ncs could lift 7U F mr tum els would run tons Eng tiers tn through the vv u g these tunnels would create a whose suction would supply pulling power while the propi Its gave it thrusting power speed would be about 200 miles an hour vv I nails nail polish but not for their buttons shiny their It kelps fett lemedy for chig-pe- r aid is the At the Indio Desert bus the lads are often center traiinrg one onlv gallon of water burned r duk for all purposes, including condrn k.pg. wash t g. bathing To real the fur thing dition them h In butcherxhops from the Bronx to Boise there was considerable beefing about beef Beef was high Beef was hard to get What was the age The tn ' arv scanty or 'fi aometunis further ney or bladder a mui The recognized and fa a diuretic medicine tow? get rid of excess Ponous Use Docns Fufa They than forty years of publico endorsed the country pr Doans. WNU I Soli at all W N SAN FRA iti the C: i uArmy mpn S.n al"ay s titter derisively a sentry says. Who nr',es I girl is letter T, "a sugar report" Goes There" he correct challenge ,s. "Halt! A r There s no favoritism m the Army Even chaplains f inmin6? must undergo trd,ning at Fort Indiana. Prred treatment over civilians. They can- not buy shaving cream or toothpaste mraPSt?thangeS 'Ulhout turn-m- g tube At Davis the r R RR', mimeographed d.rective the 9t)th Coast rnen n handling f the Wlre caile army trucks) warns that d! emPerarnental ad G.rb0, lredt,nS care- as asking Lana si.ub the kitchen floor" Turner to T)m as c'r JrtU! 151 U "tredt lUuthereat affection and Superb tions, fin distinctive today's If"1' this citys located 1000 flOM L, low Jo, BOOMS $4 IINGU Hotel 100! ' |