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TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1939

A FURYLESS FUEHRER ITLER'’S long-awaited Reichstag speech, celebrating his _gix years of power, has come and gone and left the world no wiser. iis " Last year the Fuehrer spoke at Nuremberg, just before he cracked down on Czechoslovakia. At that time he shouted so viciously at his enemies that every listener not only felt that serious trouble was ahead but had a pretty good idea of when and where it would break out. : Hitler's speech last night, compared with the other, was anticlimax., True, he said he would stand by Mussolini if the Duce ...ever found himself battling in defense of fascism. But that is hardly the same as promising to help Italy in a war of aggression against France and Great Britain. Maybe i1 Hitler meant that. But he did not say it. ' He talked of helping Mussolini rid Europe of the “Red pest.” He warned the democracies that he plans to go - ahead in 1939 as in the past, and that they must not stand .in his way. He ridiculed any hostile intent in North or South America, in Holland, Australia or China, and said .. there is religious freedom—but not freedom for religionists _-to mix in politics—under Nazi rule. He denounced “war i mongers” and charged that all the ills of the world are due i to the Jews who want to “fish in troubled waters.” > But all this he has said before, and louder. Maybe the Fuehrer has something up his sleeve. But we prefer to hope that perhaps he heard, and is thinking “_ of heeding, the words of Prime Minister Chamberlain across the channel in England Saturday last.

~ TAX CALENDAR | YAJE'VE just been reading a new type of calendar—a tax- : reminder. calendar for chain stores, published by the * Institute of Distribution, Inc. +" Here are its listings for the month of January, 1939:

Jan. 1—License Taxes Due Today: Ark. (conducting {

¢ pharmacy; vending machines) ; Célo. (conducting restau“rant; retailing eggs) ; Ga. and Texas (occupational) ; N. H. and Va. . (conducting pharmacy); Iowa (maintenance of scales and cold storage warehouse, restaurant) ; Ohio (restaurant tax); Kas. (restaurant and household drug products) ; La., Mont. and Nev. (on sale of cigarets) ; La. (sales of soft drinks, kerosene) ; Me. (sales of milk, insecticides, conducting pharmacy) ; Mass. (pharmacy); Ore. (sales of eggs, economic poisons) ; Idaho, Mont. and Tenn. (oleomar-. garine) ; Va. (chain store warehouses; restaurants, slot. machines, retail fnerchandising, tobacco: and eigars); Cal. ; i (sale of fertilizer); N. M. (retail merchandising); Ohio +4 «(retailing agricultural seed); Pa. (bakeries, sale of oleo- { “'margirie and insecticides). . . . Last day to Renew Annual 15: Sales Tax Licenses: Ala.; Colo. (all except chain store |: licensees) and Utah. Jan. 10—Monthly cosmetic tax and returns due today: Md." me | Jan, 15—License Taxes Due Today: Wash. (chain os warehouse for Nov. and Dec.) ; La. (oleomargarine— quarterly). . « . Monthly Sales Tax and Returns Due Today: Ariz., Ark., Colo,; Ill, Mich., Miss., Mo., N. M., N. C., Okla.,

S. D., W. Va., and Wyo. . . . Quarterly Sales Tax and Returns Due Today: : Cal. . . . Bi-Monthly Sales Tax and Returns Due Today: Utah and Wash. . . . Monthly Gross Receipts Tax and Returns Due Today: Fla. . . . Unem-«-ployment Compensation Tax Returns Due Today: D. C., N. H, N.Y. and S. C. Toa Jan. 20—Quarterly Sales Tax and Returns Due Today: Iowa and N. D.... Monthly Sales Tax and Returns Due Today: Kas. and La. . .. Annual Chain Store License Tax “and Returns Due Today: Minn. . . , Unemployment Compensation Tax Returns Due Today: Ind., Iowa, Ky., Md.,

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inn., N. D., Ore. and R. L . | Jan. 25—Unemployment Compensation Tax Returns Due Today: Del, Idaho; Kas., Mich., N. C. and Texas. : - | Jan. 28—Unemployment Compensation Tax Returns Due Today:.Conn. and Okla, _ #7 Jan. 30—Annual Sales Tax Returns Due Today: Ala., Ariz., Mich. and Miss. . . . Annual Gross Income, Sales Tax . —and Returns Due Today: W. Va. . . . Annual Chain Store . ‘License Tax and Returns Due Today: Miss. and Mont. .... ' Unemployment Compensation Tax Returns Due Today: . 'Ariz., Mass., Mo., S.. D. and Wyo. . + Jan, 81—License Taxes Due Today: S. C. (sale of dis...infectants) ; N. Y. (conducting pharmacy). ... . Annual Gross | Income Tax Returns Due Today: Ind. . . . Annual Chain ‘Store License Tax and Returns Due Today: Ala, . Colo, Idaho, Ind., 8. D. and W. Va... . Annual Chain Store Report Due Today: Ala., Ark., Cal, Colo., Ga. Ill, La., Me., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N. J.,, N. M,, Ohio, Pa., Tenn, - Utah, Vt, Va.,, Wash. and W. Va. ., . Quarterly Old-Age Ben and Unemployment Compensation Taxes Due Today: Federal. ... Semi-Annual Sales Tax Reports and Payments Due Today: Ohio. : | 8 #8 8 : £ "0 ~~ We'll not continue into February, March, April, May, . June, July, August, September, October, November and December. i : oi We've already read enough to get the general idea that Congressmen Patman of Texas, author of a bill to tax chain stores out of existence; is something less than a legislative ~ pioneer.

VOLUNTARY ‘OR COMPULSORY SCY health officials are justifiably concerned about the =" spread of smallpox cases in Indianapolis, even to the point of considering compulsory vaccination of all teachers and children in the public schools not now protected. he spread ‘of the disease, while not alarming, is meverthless serious enough so that it would seem parents

should need no additional warning to protect their children |

and themselves voluntarily, ~~" They should not delay taking the necessary preautions

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Congress Given Wide Power to Tax

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It Hasn't Exercised It Fully.

TEW YORK, Jan. 31.—The income tax amendment ' is short end wide. It just says that Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes,

among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration. : . It says nothing about rates of tax or exemptions,

| nothing about deductions or expenses incurred in the

acquirement of the income, nothing ebout gross or net or any fine diStinction between capital and income or the subtraction from the gross of amounts paid as taxes in other ways.

subdivisions or for labor-unions or religious or charitable organizations. The amendment left all such matters to the conscience and mood of Congress, and it must be

done their bit. ; < 2 2 8 ; 2 ATT man gets an exception for himself and wife, if any, children, if any, and other dependent relatives. if any, and a farmer may also charge off the

| cost of supporting his cow provided she is a profes-

sional cow, producing milk, butter and, occasionally, veal, which, being sold, produces income. He may even deduct the cost of a veterinary to attend his cow in her hour, although the cost of medical care for his wife, in hers, is not deductible. If the horse that pulls his plow comes down of a misery he may charge off medical advice and care and liniment, although if he himself comes down of a crick from pushing the plow and needs a doctor that expense is not deductible. The exceptions, exemptions and immunities provided by Congress in an effort to be nice although armed with a devastating authority to tax, are, on the

many amusing and cheering oddities. All that the Constitution says about freedom of religion is this: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free

8 2 8 : OWEVER, under the income 'tax amendment

against religious and labor organizations, and for all that any other constitutional provision says to the

the revenue act providing exemption for religious ore ganizations, Congress bared a fang in 1936 and a phrase was inserted to provide that such organizations could not enjoy the exemption if a. “substantial part” of their activities consisted of carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation. Labor unions, however, are not placed under any such limitation, and a union under communistic domination may attempt to influence legislation without risk, whereas, nominally, at least, a church invites the wrath of the Internal Revenue Bureau for attempting to exert a counterinfluence. There is almost no limit to the tricks that a playful Congress could do with the income tax authority, and if the subjects were really smart they wouldn’t say a word for fear of riling the statesmen and reminding them of their strength. ron

Business - By John T. Flynn ‘

Machines Better, Output Less, Autos Employed More in '37 Thar in '29.

EW YORK, Jan, 31,—An interesting light on the effect of technological development on employment is furnished by a study made by the Automobile Manufacturers Association. ° sie aon

"It discloses the fact that during the year 1037

more people were employed in automobile plants than in 1929 in spite of the fact that 10 per cent fewer cars

were produced in 1937 than in 1929. This derives its significance from the following facts:

1. There is no industry which has more persistent-

:ly gone in for machine production than the automo- | bile industry.

2. In the 10 years since 1929 innumerable new technological changes have been introduced into automobile parts production. .

The report confirms s fact which is well known to students of labor and the effect of machinery on employment. No hard and fast rule can be laid down on the effect of machinery on employment. Some forms of machine development displace labor. Some forms create new jobs.

In the automobile industry, according to this report, in some departments new machinery has resulted in displacement of labor. In other departments new machines did not affect employment at all, since the machines were designed not to increase productivity but te increase quality of production.

At the same time another factor was at work. Despite the fact that labor was displaced in some departments and despite the fact that, probably, had the automobile manufacturers gone on meking precisely the same kind of cars employment might have been somewhat smaller, employment rose because of this other factor—the factor of competition. :

Competition Big Factor

Competition has been keen, even fierce at times. That force compelled the manufacturers to produce far better cars. So that while savings were made on hew machines, the savings had to be plowed back into the industry to produce a better car which more than offset the labor savings from new machines. There are new machines which create many new jobs without displacing old ones. Take the movingpicture machine. It raised up a brand new industry and necessitated the erection of thousands of new theaters all over the ‘country—26,000 I think was the number. And in-time many, if not most, of these theaters were employing musicians—ranging from a pianist or three-piece orchestra to great symphonies. e old silent picture created immense employment for musicians. Then came a new machine—the sound-picture machine. ' That almost overnight threw out of the theaters all the musicians. The new machine destroyed most of the jobs that the old machine had created.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson 7

IKE most of my sex, I enjoy talking. Indeed, there have been times when the family hinted broadly

| that verbal intemperance was my besetting sin, and

no doubt they had plenty of reason to hold the opinion. A woman’s tongue wags easily—or so I thought, until I went on the air at the offices of the Texas Network in Ft. Worth. For the first time in my life, I found myself overcome by a strange desire to keep my mouth shut. Yes, it was an odd sensation. : I have learned a new respect for the language and for radio announcers and entertainers. How they keep it up day after day is a mystery; perhaps they get used to it, just as one gets used to bad weather or a physical handicap or hard times.

them with profound admiration, since I now understand what fearful ordeals they have endured in order

they display. . The little red light came on all too soon. Moving inevitably toward the appointed second, the clock hands marked the instant when I must open my mouth and speak into the silly-looking device before me. : po be However, the strange compulsion which holds us to a task riveted Son Benton and me to our seats, and somehow the job was done just as all the difficult Jobs we have to do in life are finally finished. The professionals watched us with ‘compassionate glances—or could it. have heen scorn?

to protect their families. There is little excuse,

To them we must have appeared foolish and ridicu«

And Maybe We Should Be Grateful |

from whatever source derived, without apportionment

It says nothing about | immunity for public employees of the states and their |

admitted that, in some ways, Congress has done quite | the handsome thing up to now. The courts also have

whole, a beautiful exhibition of restraint, adorned by |

Congress still has the power to fay the tax |

contrary Congress may. In faci, in the paragraph of |,

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to acquire the ease of manner and clearness of diction | |

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Chamberlain's Talk Sounded as if U. S. Were in Ring Socking at Foes Instead of Being Merely on Sideline.

EW YORK, Jan. 31.—What is going on here any way? It'is too early to try to weigh the aston ishing hourly news developments but that question is first in the mind of every able person who has talked to me, : Neville Chamberlain’s speech before a British jewelers’ trade association started off like a Babbit pep-talk to a Sauk Center Rotary Club and wound up suggesting English military support to what he at least hinted is President Roosevelt's policy to oppose the dictators with force. Depending on point of view,

this is a great cleverness or sheer cheek. England and France are clearly on the spot so far as the “hit or

worst, on the sidelines. Mr, Chamberlain makes it appear that i is we who are in the ring socking, with England and France

Where did he get that idea? : 2 # 2 8

WHAT about this secret monkey business of mille

tary assistance to France over the protest of our General Staff? It is clear also that Ambassador Bullitt didn’t come”home from Paris just for a rest. He will bear watching. There are rumors that, in the State Department, so far as the White House is cone cerned, he has more influence than the conservative Secretary Hull. He is supposed to have influenced the President’s remarkable Chicago outburst about “quare

| antining” the dictator nations—a trial balloon which +| exploded. 2

Why is he dictating military’ policy? How about Mr. Morgenthau’s Treasury Department overruling the General Staff on military aid to France? To what extent is the secret and mysterious two ‘billion-dollar stabilization fund being used to support busted French credit in this matter? By some slick trick, are

{ | we again beginning to finance a European alliance—

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» ; | ~ The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

THINKS DRIVERS, NOT ‘JALOPPIES’ AT FAULT By H. H. B., Arlington

Recently a letter was published in The Hoosier Forum which was signed by “A Motorist.” In that letter he indicted jaloppy cars as being responsible for the greater number of traffic accidents and recommended that all “out-dated” cars be junked by law in order that persons fortunate enough to own later models would not have to inhale Jjaloppy exhaust gasses. %

southeast of Indianapolis. From a point two miles east of Arlington to a point slightly more than two miles west of Arlington is a four-mile stretch which has been dubbed “Death Valley” because of 30 wrecks having occurred since 1934, resulting in 10 deaths and twice as many injuries. In only two of these accidents were “jaloppies” involved. One of these was a Model-T Ford coach which was struck by a late model car traveling through Arlington at a speed obviously much in excess of the 30-mile limit set by State law for motor vehicles traveling through villages and congested districts. :

‘It seems to me that a wholesale junking of drivers would be a more effective means of reducing highway casualties. An auto is never more sane or sober than its driver. The mechanical condition of a car should determine its fitness rather than its age, and even though its mechanical condition is A-1 it is still no safer than its tires. As for the odor of the exhaust, does it ever smell sweet even though it comes from a 1939 model?

2 8 =» CLAIMS RICH HELPED BY FIRST U. S. DEBT By Joseph A. Dickey, Anderson

Your editorial of Jan. 27, “The Frugal Fathers,” interested me mightily. : ; No, Washington did not have some of the economic advisers that Roosevelt has, but he did have Hamilton. Washington depended upon Hamilton, and Hamilton, after considerable argument, and by other means, induced Washington to consent to the Assumption Act whereby the Federal Government assumed all the debts of the various colonies.

Hamilton’s well-to-do friends, “the good, the wise, the rich,” sent their agents on horseback to the most distant Colonies, and bought up the script, before the holders knew what had been done, for one or two cents on the dollar, and then demanded payment in full by the Federal Treasury. The Government of Washington

I live on U. S. Route 52, 33 miles’

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance, Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

had to go into debt to assist this steal. Madison insisted that the purchasers should be paid what they paid and the original holders the balance, but that was not the object

of Washington’s economist and adviser. He insisted that the Govern-

ment “spend itself into debt” in, Vi Xs HURTING COAL BUSINESS :

order to help the rich grafters. There were thousands of people in that day who were “ill fed, ill housed and ill" clothed” but there were no economists or advisers who were thinking of them. |Our first great debt was incurred to help the rich—our last debt to help the poor, and that makes the cifference.

LE OPPOSES OPENING GATES TO REFUGEES By M: G. 8S.

I am a daily reader of the Hoosier Forum and M. J. Bs item recently was just what I have been intending to. write about. Why don’t the American people wake up and do something about these foreigners coming into our country, taking the jobs which rightfully belong to us?

The German refugee which Mr.

PRAYER

By ANNA E. YOUNG

Help us dear Lord to see most clear - The kindly deeds of friends most dear The Snes thoughts bring upper-

mos And lei us neither brag nor boast Of one small thing we may have done A battle fought, or victory won. Grant may our eyes be ever. blind To ines impure or deeds un-

Just help us search in hidden places The finer things of virtues © graces,

DAILY THOUGHT

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.-—Mark 10:25.

ICHES are not an end of life, but an instrument of life—H. W. Beecher.

Scherrer wrote about is sure living off the fat of our land and we taxpayers are probably paying for his English lessons—and it might even be that an American man was let .out of his job to make room for this German, I am all for putting a ban on immigration for several years to come. Then maybe our own people —those poor, pitiful sharecroppers for instance who have no home and are camping on the roadside—may have jobs and homes. Let the refugees camp on the roadsides. Then maybe they wouldn't be so anxious to make this their haven or refuge. Charity begins at home—or does £2?

# nn CLAIMS MINE TRUCKERS

By Klinker : Last week two deputies of the Indianapolis Weight & Measure Department picked up a trucker making delivery without a delivery ticket, a violation of the Indiana law which is supposed to regulate the sale and distribution of coal. His truck was loaded, so I understand, at a mine at or near a highway in the Terre Haute coal field. City Judge McNelis released the man, stating the arrest should have been accompanied by a warrant. For more than 20 years I operated a retail caal business and was modestly successful until the depression, with its accompanying gross income, high taxes and direct-from-mine trucking put me out of business. Poor truckers, many of whom sell thousands of tons of coal from house t¢ house, never pay gross income or store license taxes. Neither do they furnish weight tickets. In the poorer communities they work the sympathy angle on the gullible housewife by stating

family to keep. When complaint is made to local and State enforcement officials, the poor trucker is said to be a victim of the depression and he would be on relief were he not hauling coal. Be that 'as it may, permit me to prophesy that should established coal dealers continue to lose busi=ness to this type of competition and with an ever-increased tax burden, the ccal buying public will wake up some winter with continuous subzero weather and find coal dealers short of coal and truckers unable to make up the difference.

2; = tJ MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND HIS UMBRELLA By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logarsport

Why does Neville Chamberlain carry an umbrella? Because he’s

under a reigning sovereign.

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my observation is that most women smoke because it has become the fashion and many of them have a hard time to stick it out. 2 x = 3 NEVER. If any party or group should admit it was wrong it would destroy itself. First the loyalties within. the party that had

thin air, and the party would become the object of public ridicule; and while a party can stand criticism and persecution, it can’t stand ridicule. Individual members

{within a party can criticize it pub-

licly and say it is wrong, but for a party to officially declare that it had made a blunder would be suicide.

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this time in violation of the spirit if not the letter of both the Johnson Act and the Neutrality Act?. What could be so “profoundly confidential” in Gen. Craig's testimony about all this that the public cannot be trusted with even a paraphrase of it. :

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HAVE known Gen. Craig since boyhood. Of one thing I am sure. He couldn’t be forced to shade the truth. He is absolutely fearless. No amount of political or official pressure could make him say what he does not think. Some of these decisions are ree ported to have been made at a White House confere ence where Mr, Bullitt and Mr. Louis Johnson of the War Department were present and Gen. Craig wasn’t. To every question asked here, there may be a perfectly good answer. They are not based on official statements but only upo® gossip, rumor or cone jecture leaking out from “executive” sessions of the Congressional committees. But why does the air have to be so murky, that such conjectures seem so well justified on the basis of the few known facts? This is war that we are talking about—and our possible part in it.. It might be a war that would leave the world in anarchy. : ; Once in a war, there are military secrets about troop movements and strategic plans that it is treason to’ reveal. about equipment. But there is no justification for secret diplomacy that may suddenly confront a nation with a war against its will,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Southwest Strong for Roosevelt, But Draws the Line on Third Term,

ALLAS, Tex., Jan. 31.—Texas has gone on record for John Nance Garner as the next Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. But the newspaper-

that Mr. Garner wishes to pick the candidate rather than’ to pack the troubles of the campaign into his own kit bag. And there appears to be general agree ment that the Vice President will hold at least the veto power when the delegates get together next year. To a surprising extent party leaders in the South have come to the psychology which afflicted the Republicans in 1936. A man who speaks with considerable authority in Democratic councils assured me, “Why, we simply can’t lose. It isn’t a question of the man or the issues. We have a smoothly running machine, and the Republicans haven’t time to put one together before the next election.” These supremely confident Southern politicians are not going to the length of saying that they can win with a Chinaman, but as far as they are concerned any “good” Democrat will do. However, the word “goud” does exclude a certain number of persons who “have beer: mentioned prominently. Thus Franklin D. Roosevelt is a “good” Democrat now, but in the eyes of the men who run the Southern machines he wouid not be “good” in 1940. There is no disposition to fight the President during the remainder of his term,

Tydings’ Criticism Resented In the Southwest both Senators Tydings of Marye land ‘and George of Georgia are being sharply criticized for the bitterness of their attacks upon Mr, Roosevelt during the Harry Hopkins debate. It is held that this gave aid and comfort to the enemy. On the surface there is nothing but love and admiration for Franklin Roosevelt among the machine men of both Texas and Louisiana. They are prepared to humor him until he steps out, but if he doesn’t step that will be quite another story. This seems to me a sort of wishful thinking. I'm still of the opinion that Franklin D. Roosevelt will be the eventual choice of the convention. But I am cone vinced that this can happen only after a long deadlock. At the moment the gathering shapes up as one of. the most interesting and curious in the country’s history. It looks like a dark horse race as far as all the candidates, except Mr. Roosevelt, are concerned. I'm assuming, of course, that Mr. Garner is running as part of an entry and that at the proper moment he will be scratched in favor of the other member of his

stable.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein A OME people develop a condition in which they are S attacked by an irresistible desire to sleep or to pass into a state of unconsciousness which closely resembles sleep.. This is called narcolepsy in contrast to prolonged stages of immobility which are called catalepsy and the convulsive stages which are called epilepsy. ; ‘Narcolepsy may become so severe that these patients under influence of emotions become unable to move and instead sink to the ground. Occasionally narcolepsy may be traced to some severe inflammation of the nervous system, or brain, or to head injury. In many instances there have been cases of nervous disorders in the family but the act suse has been

miss” dictatorships are concerned and we are, at the.

graciously holding the water bucket in our corner.

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