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Show WASHINGTON NElWS PvJ FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Congress has passed the Soldiers Sold-iers Allowance bill that substantially substan-tially increases the benefit to soldiers' dependents. It provides $50 for a dependent wife, $30 additional ad-ditional for one child, and $20 for each additional child. For instance, in-stance, a wife with two children will receive $100" as against the former allowance of $72 per month. The Tax bill for 1944 is now in the limelight. The Treasury department has asked for an increase in-crease of ten and one half billion dollars. It appears more than likely that the House ways and means committee, where all tax bills must originate, will eventually even-tually recommend an increase of approximately three billion dollars, the greater portion of this to be raised from the so-called luxury taxes and the balance from excess profit taxess. It now develops that the government is spending for war and other purposes about ninety billion dollars a year, considerably con-siderably less than was anticipated by the treasury. On the other hand the present tax bill is raising rais-ing considerably more revenue than the department had anticipated, antici-pated, and through the renegotiation renego-tiation of war contracts the treasury has recovered something in excess of two billion dollars, making the total revenue from income in-come taxes, both individual and corporate, plus renegotiated contracts, con-tracts, something in excess of forty four billion dollars. There- 900,000. After a thorough investi-'gation investi-'gation by the military affairs committee com-mittee it develops that the government gov-ernment and government agencies have only asked for deferment for about 100,000, the other 800,000 having been deferred on their own application to their various local boards. This bill, if passed would have the effect of immediately taking into the armed services thousands of registrants enjoying this preferred status. lure, ii, is unuugnt Dy tne committee, com-mittee, and I think the congress will concur with them, that the people are carrying about all the tax burden they should at this time when they are paying for nearly half the cost of the war by the present tax schedule of 1943. Another bill was passed by the House and sent to the Senate where its passage by that body is somewhat questionable. This legislation will require the Draft Boards to call Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers after all eligible single men have been called, both on a state and national basis. This would mean that if a county or state had exhausted its roster of eligible single men, those counties coun-ties and state? not having yet called all eligible single men would be given a greater quota until such time as all counties and states were on an equal basis so far as single eligible men were concerned. Another provision of the bill sets up a review in the various states to review deferment cases that have been deferred by local boards from oher states. This is obviously for the purpose of reviewing re-viewing the deferment status of persons deferred to ascertain whether or not their deferment status is justifiable and that they are actually engaged in a job essential to the prosecution of the war. This review board would be called upon to review all defer, ments of persons residing within its jurisdiction within thirty days andjeport to the local boards its findings as to whether or not there are men deferred whose jobs were not essential to the prosecution of the war. It has been charged and quite generally believed that there are great numbers of eligible single men enjoying a deferred status in j the government, in fact, some |