Show 44 t I t The Column Boys J j j 4 I VIE TIlE WILLOW trembled with wet diamonds diamonds diamonds dia dia- monds Bending in the wind somewhere a bird attempted singing Binging But the song was thinned There mere was no summer Bummer any longer over earth or sky ky I wondered if It the feeble singer somehow could not fly A And d felt a stirring in my being Something always there small Snail fettered wings that wanted freeIng freeIng freeing free- free Ing find warmer air TO ii Willis Willie Eberman O O O TRICK OH OR TREAT T IT IS one thing to have a group of ot diminutive ghosts elves witches and end pirates drates appear on your doorstep with a piping Dicing ultimatum Trick ultimatum Trick or treat 1 1 which to them is no more than the magical Incantation that produces apples apples apples ap ap- ples and candles and all manner of ot Halloween delights It Is another thing when older boys who have been soundly Indoctrinated In comic-book comic and TV-program TV violence violence violence vio vio- lence and have acquired the rudiments of at neighborhood gang gang toughness use the Trick or treat I formula as a threat against the peaceful householder There Is a logical kinship between irresponsible youthful and the criminal use of ot force by the gangster gangster or or r the gangster gangster gangster gang gang- ster nation A great many elements go Into the making of ot the vast wave of ot juvenile delinquency that Is be sweeping the United States today Insofar as Halloween provides provides provides pro pro- vides an occasion and a kind of ot sanction for acts act of malicious mischief it behooves behooves behooves be be- hooves wise citizens to see that their children know the difference between holding up a fun filled tradition and holding up a helpless and hapless neighbor Christian Christian Science Monitor O O O D 3 TAXATION THE CHAMBER of Commerce of the United States recently pointed out In a statement prepared for the House Ways and Means Committee that while 3 D 3 D Dis Is the newest thing In Hollywood Its It's an old story to millions of American taxpayers These taxpayers are Investors the Investors the people who put part of their savings In to Inthe Inthe the stocks of corporations and ad thus make possible employment for tor tens of ot millions of other people as well as themselves and keep klep the vast economic machine running Heres Here's how D 3 taxation works First the Investor must pay a tax on whatever he e earns which earns which Includes the money he later later uses to buy his stock Second the corporation in which he Invests must pay a tax on its earnings before it can pay him any dividends Third whatever he gets in the way of ot dividends is 18 taxed again In short the investor pays In Income Income Income In- In come tax on taxed dividends of taxed savings 1 I That this is a gross injustice to In Investors Investors Investors In- In goes without saying But the Investors Investor's Interest is the smallest factor Involved In the long run the main sufferers from such punitive tax policies policies poli poll cies des are the American people as a whole For when we discourage investment in enterprise we discourage industrial expansion ex expansion expansion ex- ex and progress progress and and everything which makes for more and better jobs and higher living standards for us ua all That's why D 3 taxation is a problem that affects everyone 00 O GUARANTEED OU BY Hy WHAT SOME OF the major labor unions are arenow arenow arenow now pressing for tor a guaranteed annual wage for workers Without going into the pros and cons cone of this long-debated long Idea a pronouncement recently made by bythe bythe bythe the Geo Oeo A A. A Hormel Company which was wasa a pioneer in adopting wage stabilization policies should be kept firmly in mind by all concerned It said In part CertaInly Certainly Certainly our company is wholly unable to redeem the money consideration in such sucha a guarantee unless we can keep our people actually and profitably employed The entire asset value of our company cashing everything we own own would only be sufficient to redeem a ten months' months guarantee So when using the phrase guaranteed annual wage we must ask the question question guaranteed guaranteed by what The only guarantee we know of ot is the ability of ot management to manage coupled with willingness of workers to work If It either eithe r Continued on Page Five J I tI 1 t The Boys Boy's Column Continued from tram Pa Pane Parre e One Onel I falls tails then the guarantee falls tails That Is simply common sense sense but but common sense seems to be something of ot ofa a 1 rarity these days It Is obvious that management labor-management groups could frame and sign contracts guaranteeing wages of at any amount for tor any period of ot time But the contract will not be worth the paper It Is written on unless the company company company com- com I pany can sell sufficient goods at a profitable profitable pro pro- II price to make possible Its ful- ful j 1 |