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Show Eleanor Roosevelt NEW STYLE TAX One night I read an interesting suggestion, which was sent to me by Mr. Joseph E. Goodbar. The plan will go to the treasury department, but the idea is simple enough for all of us to understand. He feels that by using a new type of taxation, taxa-tion, we can not only meet the extra ex-tra demands made by the war, but private industry can be better prepared pre-pared to reabsorb people back into civilian life. Mr. Goodbar calls this tax "a pay with added production tax." He looks realistically at all of us who are taxpayers and says: "We will be required to create an incentive that affects every gainfully em- ployed person and every person who receives an income, otherwise some would respond and others would not." So he suggests that "all of us be taxed 25 per cent on all income from whatever source derived," but that, "every tax payer able to do so, be allowed to increase his productive effort 25 per cent; and this tax would be paid out of extra emergency emergen-cy war production and not by an increase in his normal income." Just how we are to succeed in getting the opportunity to become more productive has been worked out by him. I shall be very much interested to see what the experts think of his idea. INDIA'S PROBLEM I think the failure to evolve some plan by which India could be given a greater sense of independence and security in the future, has been a great disappointment to many people. peo-ple. One can not help hoping that some new way will be worked out whereby the people of India may feel that the future belongs more surely to them in their own land. CHINA RELIEF United China Relief is trying to raise $7,000,000 for the work of their participating agencies. China is one of our allies, more than that; China has been a center of interest for many people in this country for many years. I think that some of our citizens watch with sympathy the fight which China is putting up today against an aggressive enemy. They are even more impressed, however, by the fight which China is making at home to build a government gov-ernment and a way of life which is truly democratic and which will increase in-crease the well-being of all her people. peo-ple. Hardship and suffering is the lot of her people at present, but they show extraordinary fortitude. All we c&n do is to send them , whatever supplies they need, and I am sure that we shall do so even if It means sacrifice on our part. MOVING DAY One can not leave two houses with which one has had long years of association, as-sociation, without some reminiscent moments. I have spent many years away from these houses since my mother-in-law built them, but we lived here a number of years consecutively con-secutively when our children were smalL We lived here during the first years of my husband's illness and have been here on and off since my husband returned to public life in 1928. Many human emotions have been recorded by many people within the walls oi these rooms, and if walls could talk, an interesting book might be written. Perhaps the most stirring stir-ring chapter would deal with the months and years after my husband came back here from the hospital and slowly took up new activities, adjusting meanwhile to a physical handicap which a very active and still young man certainly never could have envisioned. As I took my maid into the new apartment she remarked on how light and bright it was, and said she hoped the happiness within would always al-ways keep pace with the light. AIR TRAVELING For those of us who travel by air the government's need for planes was sad news in the paper. It has been hard for the airlines to meet the demands of passengers up to now, but with one-fourth of the air liners taken over by the army, it will mean, I imagine, increased difficulty dif-ficulty for civilians who wish to travel trav-el by air. Gradually, we shall have to take more time to get about when we are not doing something which has to do with the war. If we civilians must travel, it will be in a more leisurely fashion. This will be a hard lesson for me to learn, but I feel quite sure that, like many others, oth-ers, I can. VISIT LANGLEY FIELD The Rosenwald fund meeting at Hampton, Va., was extremely interesting in-teresting and constructive. We worked from ten until one o'clock and then some of us lunched with President and Mrs. MacLean. After lunch we met again for an hour and then went to Langley Field. The commanding officer was kind enough to drive around with us and show the various types of airplanes being used for practice and patrol work. I had an opportunity to see some of the day rooms. |