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Jo t I t ol H oI HUMBUG JIl I lG TAXATION T FROM NOW on oil the public must think straight and without prejudice on the matter of ot taxation or 01 the h best laid post post- postwar war far a r plans p will become worthless scraps raps of f paper s When business busin ss men plead for tor adequate corporate reserves reserves for of ot industry to peacetime production they for not for tor forthe are pleading pl g not for themselves but millions who must be employed e by the rho ee If Industry when en the war is over If I taxes I prohibit the accumulation of ot adequate corporate reserves It Is not the business businessman businessman man who will suffer most It will be the people looking for Jobs jobs jobs-jobs Jobs that only industry can provide despite tempting ballyhoo which would have us believe that tuat come what may we need not nor worry not worry because the government g will take up the slack glack in employment Senator George chairman of ot the Sen Sen- Senate Senate Senate ate Finance Committee In warning that I Reserves for war post-war contingencies and for conversion to peacetime activities activities i ties and for tor deferred de erred maintenance and repairs must be established and built up out of ot earnings during the war speaks a truth with which there can be beno beof no compromise e And yet there are at plenty 1 this ol ot politicians who are trying t y at this very moment to undermine the stability cf industry the same as they sought to tola tois la is peacetime by peacetime by Inequitable taxation taxation- and they are doing it for lor the same rea n they the did it In peacetime namely because they think it appeals to the I voters oters These usual as politicians are the worst threat to the future of or this nation The people must realize private In Industry In- In Industry industry is their strongest ally in peace pea e and in war It Is the bulwark of or free free- freedom dom It can be destroyed by humbug taxation I O O O WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS I A FEW years ago opponents of chain stores were stumping the country for I Is special s lal chain store tax laws They feared that the progressive merchandising in In- innovations I of the chains would ruin In Independent in- in independent independent dependent merchants merchants' More than twenty stales exacted eructed laws limiting the efficiency ency onY of chain stores thus forcing higher prices pros s o ou Many of those laws are still operative at a time tI when pre pre- presumably presumably sl ably everything is being done to tern teem rising prices Actually Actu under the stimulation of ot both types of or retailing prospered pros pros- prospered prospered and finally developed Into an in integrated in- in integrated t. t system the like cf of which the world has seen never for competence and efficiency Both chain and Independent merchants have turned every ounce of ot organizational organizational organizational ability and efficiency toward beating b a a. common enemy enemy Inflation I They have united in a battle to halt the I rising cost of living They work tirelessly for sane government controls over o civil civil- civilian civilian ian necessities And where rationing and andI I Inca rice ceilings have been Imposed they have bave done a superhuman Job of ot practical cal administration on The war emergency has clearly clearly proven I that this country country- needs every type of or retail distributor No type of store should be handicapped by punitive laws I. I v Q s O FROM rHO A GENERAL LIEUTENANT GENERAL GENERAL Lesley James I commander of Ground Troops inthe In the United States wounded while visit visit- visiting visiting visiting ing the African front had the follow follow- following toll followIng ow- ow I ing to say nay of American doctors in that I scene of or action The medical service was Vias superb I know at firsthand the speed and efficiency with which they I worked vo I was wounded at In the afternoon Within ten minutes they had I me at a Battalion Aid Station There Thereto two to medical officers put a a. tourniquet on i imy my shoulder to stop atop the bleeding ban ban- bandaged banI bandaged I me fixed me up so I could be betaken betaken taken to the rear I went from there therein I in a Jeep to the Division Clearing Sta Sta- Station Station tion where they gave me blood plasma and checked my dressing They put me meon meen meon on en a litter Utter in an ambulance e and started me farther to the rear At only three hours later I was In a field hos hos- hospital hosP hospital pital P tal had been bee treated trea d twice had hod had rays X-rays taken and was waa ready to be op op- operated op- op rated Crated on That evening I came In to a a. warm bed with no after atter affects from the operation I get this sort of treatment because I was a general officer Buck privates were getting the tame same care T r The medical men who attended Gen Gen- General General eral cral McNair In Africa were merely civi civi- civilian I lian han doctors not many months ago ngo fol tol- following toli 1011 i 1 lowing routine medical practices at home borne orne The service which they they are now rendering to the troops troops general general and Private alike they alike they were then rendering to civilians On the military front as ason ason on n the home front these medical men mennow know now only one kind of or service the service the best possible That Us is the tradition In which they have been trained o o o CLEAN CLEAS CLEANA I j A DIRTY war business business war and it is going I Ito to be dirtier unless they find a way L i to clean up the laundry and dry clean clean- cleaning cleanS clean'S S 'S ing situation The soldier who left Africa hurriedly and waited a a. week to receive it by mall was lucky for he Would have a three weeks week's wait walt if 1 it had been teen done Bono in this country All over tho the I country laundry helpers have gone to towar i war ar accepted paying high-paying defense Jobs While an added headache is I the shortage of cleaning fluids and machinery wear- wear wearing log ing out with nothing to replace either Tho The estimate that at the rate we are ping going 1500 laundries will have to close Is Js probably not overstated and to many People ople this would be a decided problem in places laces tho the size of or Park City tho the ma ma- majority majority majority of or housewives have considered Monday their th lr it family washing day down downa Hio tho years a and no crisis other than the 1 lack ck ck of or soap wap would break up their sched- sched schedUle ached I jue Ule Time has haa replaced the galvanized tubs and wash h boards but we haven't started as yet to bag our soiled clothes and ana hie hlo them off of to the commercial laundry and iorg t it until time to pay tho rho jno to w bill But the dry cleaning is going affect all aU of or us us probably In largo large w citizens have in many cases ases be- be beCOm rome COm upon laundries laundries as up- up upon upon JJ on w or the tho Industry for tor their tires course In tr to solve the pro- pro Continued on Pago Page Tour lour Dads Dad's Column I Continued from blem there arises the solution ablution of do It I yourself or maybe they cOuld ration ratton tho quantity to each customer and thus I each one stands a chance for a boiled shirt for special events We understand II that In many man localities beauties dry cleaners donot do donot not do unessential cleaning such as evening frocks and stiff shirts But since sinco v. v are living In an age or collared soft shirts and slacks that are creaseless wash ties and cotton string socks we we will probably look as good as the next fellow whatever the tho situation CI PROBLEMS LEMS THERE HASN'T been au ah editorial l column In many papers that has not contained comment on the recent between the colored and white people on the tho homo front Detroit Michigan was the scene of disgraceful riot There Thero I has been more comment on race dis- dis j crImination since the war began with I Ithe the tho colored boys bos fighting as nobly as tho white ones for tor their country's cause Foreign countrieS do not look upon the tho thorace therace race problem as do we and the they have not understand d the American Amerl n segregation segregation tion of the colored the tact fact that the colored people mainly are aro confined to menial labor extra propaganda Rushed pushed by our enemies are making a ticklish matter worse In the eyes of our allies The strike supposedly Impelled by Klu Klux Klan interests the soot zoot suit disorders In California two recent lynch lynch- are all adding up to some embarrassing em- em embarrassing moments for tor us Perhaps we should refrain from criticism or of Eng Eng- England's England's lands land's policy toward India and figure out how to handle handlo our domestic dif dif- JULY JOYS I MAYBE TIlE THE shoulders shoulders' are bowed with p personal problems with worry over j national responsibilities physical Ills to tomake make Dako you lose sleep but In spite of aU all I of this one cant can't overlook the delight or of ofa a 0 summer day and the refreshing sight of July dew on grass plots There Is I that hopefulness that summer holds for tor forus I Ius us as we live each ea day for itself The rho I I beat of heat hent on a city sidewalk leads toa to a 0 patch of shadow under a neighbors neighbor's tree The glare that hurts the eyes asit as asit it assails itself against th tad drawn office shades or those at home breaks down into flickering fingers of light and darkas dark ns as It softly slits through vines on the veranda Park benches In the tho city wood wood- wooded wooded ed lanes In the country meet in rela- rela relationship for all creatures to marvel atthe at atthe the delight of July SLOW DOn DOWN THIRTY FIVE MILES an hour Is being generally observed though you will sUll find folks whizzing by you in the old order It is not the tho majority who are areso areso so careless with their tires gas and patriotism There Is still the tell fellow ow who is hard to convince con and says he couldn't drive slowly It if his life depended on It it and it usually does Many of us who have complied with the requested 35 mUo mno speed are seeing more of the tho scenery taking better carp of our lives and finding this rate a little less nerve nerve- wracking When you get used to It then going over tho limit seems like old old- time Ime speeding used to feel Somo cities cities' violators and I Ithe ire are cracking down on the the result is frequently the loss of ration books Try the 35 mlle gait YOurself in C case S you haven't tried it it and you wont won't mind it after tho first ten mlles miles |