Dale News, Volume 6, Number 17, Dale, Spencer County, 18 June 1943 — Page 3

Church News

Garrison Chapel: Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Preaching on the 1st and 3rd Sunday mornings at 11:00. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8:30 p. m. Pleasant Hill: Preaching on the 2nd and 4th Sunday mornings at 10:00. Everyone is cordially invited to attend any or all of these services.

er part of the war’s cost. There is no other way. If the government should take every penny of this year’s income from every person now earning $20,000 a year or more, the resulting revenue would carry on the war only six weeks at the present rate.

CAN'T YOU

METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Barthol Rogers, Minister Church School, 9:15 a. m. A. J. Wedeking, superintendent. Sunday is our last Sunday before conference, so we will observe the holy communion at the morning worship service. Evening service at 8:00 o’clock.

SLEEP?

Carrying the speculation further: If the government should confiscate the entire income of every person earning $10,000 a year or more, the grand total of revenue raised in this way would be barely enough to pay our war bills for two months. Digging even deeper into the “comfortably situated” class, suppose the government should grab every penny earned by everybody receiving $5,000 a year or more. Even this extreme measure would raise only enough money to keep our war going, four months. Obviously the poor must pay.

The afternoon prayer group will meet with Mrs. Grant Johnson, Tuesday, June 22 at 2 o’clock. The Thursday night prayer meeting will be conducted by Wesley Schroer at 8 o’clock. On Sunday, June 27, Rev. W. S. Martin will fill the pulpit in the morning in the absence of the pastor, who will be away to annual conference, being held from June 23-27 at Greensburg, Ind. Tomorrow, Saturday, June 19, Mrs. Barrow’s group of young people will meet at the church at 2 o’clock.

LOOKING AHEAD by GEORGE S. BENSON President, Harding College Searcy, Arkansas

They Are Willing People of small income want to help. They are anxious to do their part and it is my opinion that they are entitled to pay their share the cheapest and most direct way (which is by sales tax) now that Senator Danaher has devised a method of making it practically painless. People of low income already are paying hidden taxes up to 20% of their earnings, and I call it only fair that they be allowed to contribute in a way that will bring their money back to them. The American Federation of Labor made some recommendations to Congress not long ago which contained these two significant sentences: “Provision should be made for the return, in cash, after the war, of a part of the present high taxes. We can well be guided by the English policy which proposes to return a high percentage of the taxes now; assessed against low-income workers.” A sales tax should be 100% returnable because it is the man of small earning who is hit hardest by any sales tax. The reason is obvious: He spends a major share of his earnings just for necessities. Necessary food, shelter and apparel cost as much for a man earning $2,000 a year as for one who earns three times as much.

Sales Taxes

Casting about for ways to raise money with which to pay America’s huge war bill, the United States Treasury has steadfastly held “thumbs down” on retail sales taxes. “They are irritating to everybody concerned,” it is said;

UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH Rev. O. A. Beanblossom, Minister Unified worship service at 9:15 a. m. A. J. Brown, superintendent.

“constitute a nuisance to retail merchants and an added expense of doing business.” Truly, experience with them in many states has proved that they give rise to endless complaint. It is only natural for the administration to go slow in its consideration of a sales tax therefore, because the United States still is a government by popular consent. Office holders instinctively shrink from starting movements that are labeled “unpopular”. But it is my belief that a sensible sales tax can be made popular; can be sold to the public. Except for the bother of it, nothing fits the nation’s immediate needs so well.

Preaching service at Lincoln City Sunday night at 8:00 p. m. We are going to celebrate Father’s Day Sunday, with a basket dinner in the church basement. Bring Father and Mother to the service and stay for dinner. If you haven’t a Father and Mother, adopt someone else for the day. Maybe their son is in the service of their country, so you bring their Father and Mother. Let us make this day a great day to be long remembered. Christian Endeavor will meet Monday evening at 8:00 o’clock. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8:00 p. m. Ladies Aid will meet Thursday afternoon.

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Systematic Savings A big advance toward making a general tax acceptable to the public has been made already by Senator John A. Danaher of Connecticut. He is proposing one that is not strictly a tax; more in the order of an enforced loan to Uncle Sam, returnable in full after the war. You might think that such a plan would require a lot of costly machinery to operate, since payments would come in such small amounts, but not so. The senator has overcome that. Here’s how it would work: For purposes of this illustration, call the rate 10%. Every time a customer bought a dollar’s worth of merchandise at a retail store, the merchant would have to demand also the purchase of a 10c savings stamp. Mr. Customer would paste these stamps in a book and when he got $100 worth he could exchange them at the post office for a $100 bond which would bring full face value in cash after the war.

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Combats Inflation My third reason for favoring the Danaher plan is the main one. The chief purpose of tax legislation this year is to combat inflation. Inflation means run-away prices. When there is not much of anything to buy and everybody has more money to spend, people naturally bid prices up, trying to get what they want. The less they have to spend the less temptation they have to bid prices sky-high.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. W. S. Martin, Minister

Sunday School at 9:00 a. m. with Harold Martin as superintendent.

SANTA CLAUS METHODIST Rev. Millard Brittingham, Minister Church School at 10:00 a. m. Morning Worship at 11:00 a. m.

Besides, there is an honest and patriotic way to escape any sales tax. It is by saving money; the tax is on spending. The Danaher plan is a savings plan. It permits the working man to help finance the war. It helps defeat inflation. It compels some saving for everybody and inspires more saving for others; save, now while money is relalively easy to get, so as to have something after the war when it may meet a very serious need.

SELVIN METHODIST PARISH Rev. Paul Howard, Minister Selvin: Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Worship service, 8:30 p. m. Young People’s meeting, 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 8:30 p. m.

The Poor Must Pay

Frankly I am in favor of the Danaher Plan or something very much like it, for several reasons. First, it is plain now that farmers, laborers and low-income salaried folk are going to be called upon to pay a great-

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