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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941
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HE 15th of March with its stiffer income-tax rates being within hailing distance, it is probably:an unfriendly act to remind the taxpayer that he ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
. the rates aren’t raised still further by Congress this year, they surely will be in 42. : Having thus poured salt on the exposed pocketbooknerve, we hasten to add a note of consolation: J ust take a look at England, and Canada. An analysis by Editorial Research Reports shows that a taxpayer with a wife and two dependent children, and with the maximum earned-income deduction, pays as follows this year in the three countries:
Net Income $ 2,500 5,000 10,000 100,000
U.S. A. 75 440 42,948
Canada $ 46 391 1,780 50,860
Britain $ 311 1,196 3,451 76,27Q,
Of course the Britisher (though not the Canadian) escapes paying state, income taxes, but on the other hand both Britain and Canada have a general sales tax.
The British normal tax rate is 25 per cent on the first
$660 of net income (after personal exemptions of only $680 |
if married, $400 if single and $200 for each Sepeniont: and 4215 per cent on the remainder. The British. tax liquor at about five times our pte. and
beer at almost twice our rate.
A pack of cigarets in this
country is taxed 61% cents, in Canada 12 cents, in Eng-
land 2314 cents.
Tea is taxed in Canada at 9 to 14 cents a
pound, in England at 10 cents. ‘The Canadian pays 10 cents a pound tax on coffee, the Englishman 2.8 cents. Canada has an 8 per cent general tax on retail sales, except food. The British general sales tax, applied to whole-
sales transactions, is 16 2-3 per cent on goods
monly
bought (certain necessities being exempt); and 33{1-3 per cent on luxuries. Our excess-profits tax ranges Lion 25 per cent to 50 per cent. . Canada’s rate is 75 per cent. Great Britain takes it all—it taxes excess profits 100 per cent. * Feeling better, mister? -
LEND-LEASE: HOLDING THE BALANCE
WO amendments already accepted by the Senate greatly diminish reasons for concern about Congressional abdication—expressed when the original Lend-Lease Bill was
proposed.
One is the so-called pursestring smendnient, giving
Congress a stop-order on appropriations.
The other, re-
taining in Congress authority to terminate the President’s “authority upon a majority vote by concurrent resolution. About the second there is a legalistic question involving yeto power. But when the termination amendment is coupled with the pursestring amendment the result seems
- to spell sufficient safeguard against an unbalance of power.
In the words of Senator George: “Since the Congress has the full power to control all appropriations, and since
. the President
could not carry forward any effort under
this bill if Congress should withdraw that support, the
(termination)
provision could be effective beyond all doubt.”
That sums it up. The two dovetail to prevent Congress from passing the buck.
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Our system of government is based on three equal and ~ co-ordinate powers—the legislative, executive, and judicial. With all its faults, the system has worked and we are still
a free people.
even in times of greatest crisis, o
When that system is thrown out of balance, our democracy is imperiled.
It’s not a question of personalities, of Presidents, and
© Congressmen,
and judges, but of responsibilities, and the
- acceptance thereof by those equal and co-ordinate agencies
to whom the _. Constitution.
responsibilities have been given under our
To Congress is given the final say in declaring war. That responsibility, so long as our Constitution lives, should
never be delegated. As the matter relates to the Lend-Lease Bill we have
said: “On ordinary international questions we prefer his | (the President’s) judgment to that of any other individual in the Government.
us in war we
On any action which might involve prefer the collective judgment of Congress.”
We believe the: amendments referred to combine to
hold both the authority’ and the responsibility where they
belong.
PRODUCTIVE LOANS
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great deal of
URING the Terrific Twenties, the United States [ent a great deal of money to South American countries.
A
it was wasted, and never repaid.
Now circumstances indicate that the United States
ence. Latest
~ ghall again be a lender to South America. But with a differ-
report from Nicaragua shows the difference.
Part of the Pan-American Highway through that country
js already completed with U. S. help. President Somoza,
_. inspecting it,
expressed his pleasure, and said: “Villages
~ have sprung up over night, farmers are settling along the highway, new and formerly inaccessible regions have been _ tapped, and with, the highways will come a better era for
~ Nicaragua.”
That’s more like it.
Today’s Pan-American faith is
that by helping to help Central and South American coun-
tries to rise,
we help ourselves, creating better customers
and stronger, friendlier neighbors.
NOT NEWS—BUT, IIPORTANT THREE scientists at Columbia University, reports Science = Service, have proved that emotional strain affects hu-
n vision. see them
Rage or fear makes you see things as you do when you are calm and unafraid. This is not
inewly discovered fact dot | Be a sod one for
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
Group Which Honored Iekes for His “Tolerance Must Have Acted in Jest, But Most People Will Not "Savvy."
tell you, probably, on the basis of painful experience, that irony and dead-pan sarcasm are dangerous weapons, because persons of liberal mind cahnot detect subtlety. In our business we learn
tionship in this country and the marriage compact a frivolous agreement by comparison with the mortgage or the lease, because it was revokable almost at
in one case out of every six. Several religious publications construed this as an indorsement. of a condition which it was intended to deplore.
curred ' recently in. New York ‘where the Protestant Digest Associates hailed Harold Li Ickes before a large company and, in a spirit which surely must have been one of mockery, presented him with a citation for. tolerance. Of course, Mr. Ickes himself strove to dispel any publi¢ impres-
meant when, in response to this clever jest, he denounced Maj. Al Williams and Col. Charles Lindbérgh as Quislings, who would “cravenly spike our gins and ground our planes in order that “Hitlerism might more easily overcome us.” : 8. 8 » ¥Y THAT time it must have been apparent to all present that the citation could have. had no other purpose than to reveal the violent intolerance with which Mr. Ickes commonly reacts to any opinion conflicting with his own. But cold print, lacking tone of voice. and the play of facial expression, could not convey to the greater number who were not there any other impression than that the hosts of
commonly tolerant man. I need not point out that if, in future, ‘the same organization should wish to honor: some genuinely tolerant citizen in all seriousness those who missed the point of the joke in the Ickes case might easily
./' I might cite cases in which persons, having established a certain character in writing, were sadly misunderstood when they pitched their change of pace. One was an effort of mine in which, on a sudden fancy, I eulogized Knute Rockne—an experience so startling to him that he notified our sports editor, Arch Ward, a Notre Dame alumnus, that the rewards of public life were not worth the pain of such cunning slurs, and that he was forthwith resigning his Job as coach of the Irish. Mr. Ward then analyzed the tribute and persuaded him to® reconsider, but could not convince him that a vinegar cruet ever gave syrup, nor could I.
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IMILARLY, the late Bill McGeehan of the Herald Tribune, after years of impish lampooning of the grotesque dignity of Willlam Muldoon as the Duke of Muldoon, on one of Muldoon’s last birthdays praised him lavishly as a wise and noble citizen, only to ‘evoke from the Duke a protest to the editor aZainst such vicious sarcasm. Mr. Muldoon said he didn’t mind open criticism but would not submit to dirty innuendo from any man. In another instance Gene Fowler was assigned to greet Charles Levine on the return from Europe af a man who had flown the Atlantic as a passenger énd then, without so much as a student pilot's license and @ll alone, had taken off in his multi-motored plane from Paris and put it down safe in London. lievine had been ridiculed rather than praised for this amazing exploit, so Fowler, on a generous whim of hig own, hailed him as a man of inspiring bravery 10 the extent of more than a column, only to be told by his city editor that his “veiled and nasty anti-Semitism” could not pass the desk while he was there. ; 80, although the Protestant Digest Associates fave a right to their joke, I would point out that guch humor often defeats itself and suggest that henceforth they make their fun more obvious,
Business
By John T. Flynn
RFC Raises Question Whether U.S. Is to Assum e State Debts.
EW YORK, March 7.—Let us take the case of Arkansas. Of course, if you take Arkansas, you must take her, mortgage and all. There is quite a little ruckus in ‘Wall Street and Washington about the Reconstruction Finance Corp. —Jesse Jones’ big loan agency— ' taking over $136,000,000 of Arkansas highway bonds. You see, Arkansas is a very good example of what is going on in the world at large and in this somewhat smaller but still pretty big world of ours in America. In July, 1939, Arkansas owed $153,000,000 of bonds. I looked the matter up and found that in 1919, when the last war ended, Arkansas had owed just $2,266,000. So in those 20 years Arkansas managed to get heself in hock for an additional $151,000,000, which is quite a tidy sum for so small a state. Back in 1919 the state had to pay in interest $62,~ 588 a year. Now it has to pay nearly $5,000,000. That is @ sum equal to the whole cost of the state government. \ This is what so many American states were doing in the glamorous years between 1919 and 1929. This is what the Federal Government is nqw doing. These bonds are held mostly outside of Arkansas. The $5,000,000 spent for state government is spent chiefly within the state. The $5,000,000 which must be raised for interest is shipped mostly outside the state.
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h 000,000 of these bonds—its highway bonds. There hss been a quarrel between the bankers and the RFC has taken them over at a lower interest rate than the bankers—3.2 per cent. The important point about this is that it represents a trend which is to be found everywhere in America. The states and the cities have plunged themselves into debt. So have homeowners. So have railroads. So have all sorts of people and businesses. But in the capitalist system debts like this can, one way or another, be wiped out by forcible liquidation— that is all debts save the debts of the United States Government. So now the United States Government is becoming thie catch-all for these debts. Cities, states are un= loading their debts on the United States. The United States has no money to take care of them. It has to borrow from its own people. Thus it goes into debt. Are we in the midst of a movement to load the debts of all the favored and limping states on Uncle Sam—along with the debts of the United ‘States, of the railroads and.of Europe? It will be an interesting experiment to watch. But it is really not an experiment. It has never failed to rain a nation,
So They Say—
self-sacrifice, and co-operation we use in the waste-
his troops. » we a I DON'T THINK the United States ought to tell Burope either to make peace or to Soniinve war.— Senator Robert A. Taft, Ohio. ; *
ise’ SLY SR EMoR Bait: developed or. SESE n e Regular Army~Capt.
Wa vray, 4th Div
ASHINGTON, March 7.—Any wise editor will
this the hard way, as, in my case, the time I wrote | § that marriage was a casual rela- |
the will of either party and was® repudiated in and by the courts
An important case. in point oc- |
sion that the citation could have’ been sincerely -
the evening actually did honor Mr. Ickes as an un- |
conclude that the recipient must be another furious. bigot whom it was intended to pillory for intem-. | perance of thought and speech.
OW the state of Arkansas wants to refund $136,-
HAVE YOU ever thought what a world we could make if we put into peace endeavors the energy, |
fulness of war?—Gen. Sir Archibald ay Wavell to:
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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
URGING A CHANGE IN RELIEF ADMINISTRATION By Natalie Linville, 1421 N. Warman Ave. I would like to see poor relief in Marion County administered by the County Department of Public Welfare. We taxpayers know that the present system of poor relief in this country breeds poor, costly and de=structive adminisiration. Unskillful and unintelligent administration of relief is robbing the recipients of any opportunity to preserve their decency and self-re-spect. = Maladministration, as has been shown in several official investigations, is robbing them even of the food and shelter for which the community is paying. Thus the taxpayers are being robbed of the benefits they have a right to expect from taxes they. pay. Efficient administration of relief can be obtained by consolidating the relief function with the other functions: of the County Department of Public Welfare.
. a 2 8 = LASHES JENNER FOR ATTACK ON SCHRICKER By Chas. E. Hess, 5934 Crittenden The other day I saw where Sena-
tor William E. Jenner (R. Shoals)
was quoted in a local paper as follows: “I don% know whether the people elected Governor Schricker or whether he was elected by the 1400 employees of State institutions and tneir families who paid their money into the TWO PER CENT CLUB. Or, he may have peen elected by the beer barons. I know that all the tavern owners in Indiana went out to support Governor Schricker because they knew if they didn’t they would lose their liquor permits.” + If Semator Jenner was quoted correctly, he showed a terrific lack of knowledge, and I am sorry for the good people of Indiana that elected him. To state “I know that all tavern owners etc.” is saying a mouthful and does not make much sense. For your information, Senator Jenner, Governor Schricker was elected by the well-informed people of Indiana who know that Mr. Schricker is upright, clean, well educated and well fitted for the high office offered him. We the people, who are not politicians, job holders or tavern owners have faith in Governor Schricker and feel that he will steer the good ship of State clear of the mess that Mr. Jenner & Co: is'creating at the
Side Glances=By Galbraith
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present time. I resent Senator Jenner’s statement very much, and will do all I can to send him back to the bushes. I am not a member of any political party. : ss 8 = UPHOLDING THE EDITORS ON SECRET TESTIMONY By Claude Braddick, Kdkomo, ind.
The Times poses the question: Should details from secret sessions of Senatorial committees be withheld from the public by press and radio even though such details are given out by Senators who themselves are members of the committees? No. Responsibility for such disclosures must rest squarely upon the shoulders of the Senators who make them. Unless there is definite evidence to the contrary, publishers must presume that U. S. Senators are honorable enough not to release for publication information given to them in confidence, and capable of judging which information is detrimental to the public welfare. If we are to have a self-imposed censorship let us start at the root, not at the branches. If we cannot impose secrecy upon a half dozen Senators, then we. cannot hope to impose it upon 2000 news-hungry editors. From my experience as an amateur writer I should say there is nothing more hopeless than attempting to induce an editor to publish something he doesn't want to publish, or not to publish scmething he wants to publish—not even the Herculean task of throttling a U. S. Senator! . ® = 8 A FINAL WORD ON THE COMMUNIST ARGUMENT By the Rev. Nelson Alley, 1138 Broadway
Just a few lines in reply to Pastor Carrick and his sermon of hate against the Roosevelts and Wendell willkie. It seems that Pastor Carrick is more interested in condemning Americanism and American: rulers than he is preaching a gospel of love as taught by Jesus Christ. . ..
Pastor Carrick, do you really think that if we were living under a Communist form of government as you say we are, that you would be permitted to condemn our rulers as you do? Just go over to Communist Russia and try it once and see how long you would last. If it is communism to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, then our Government is communistic. And Jesus Christ was a Communist. ... If we love our fellowman we cannot call them such names as
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, the best loved man and woman in America today. It seems to me that it is the duty of the minister to preach love. Leve of God and ‘ove to our fellowman and love to our country, the best country in the world. ... This article closes the argument so far as IT am concerned. Let others preach hate and continue to condemn Americanism. I shall continue to preach love to my felowman and shall continue to love my country and respect its rulers.
“. 8.» SLAMS PROLONGED DEBATE ON LEASE-LEND BILL
By John E. Stoner, Bloomington, Ind. Nearly 80 citizens of this community sent the following telegram to the Indiana Senators: “We feel that the merits of the Lease-Lend Bill have been debated fully and
a vote immediately.” It is the right of free men to
a democracy to come to a decision. Failure to do so, to prolong debate when. it does not aid in securing
whole democratic way of life, an at-
to be kind of insidious threat to them personally.
BLAMES ILLS ON LACK OF ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP
By Rose Gordon LeVan, East Chicago, Ind.
I've been scanning your -newspaper for a report released by the Temporary National Economic Committee on Jan. 15, 1041. This contains a short summary of two years or more of study of the disease attacking our internal economy. The thesis of Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney is particularly interésting. He believes that the failure of economic leadership is the cause of the world crisis. This has been my contention—to find my nofion thus authoritatively supported has banished completely that feeling I used to get sometimes on finding no one agreeing with my stand, that I was
hatch. Hitler's solution te the problem
compatible with democracy. The British ‘Labor Party program should certainly be considered then. Unfortunately, as Senator O’'Mahoney says, little attention will be paid to the sane recommendations: of the Committee in solving anything right now—we're too busy
to vent our spleen. All of which makes me wonder how much intelligence in the mass we do have. _ That report, if a boiled-down statement could be given, might help us think things out. ’
MORN’S OFFERTORY By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING
; I spread my casement windows wide "thE
Aurora's first faint blush. I see the silvery crescent moon
DAILY THOUGHT: oun said ato lm. 31 1a waited | Thou shalt not’ tempt the
Pastor Carrick has applied to Presi- |
we believe it should be brought to
differ, but it is also their duty in|§
agreement, is an attack on the|j
tack which is felt by most people|&
would destroy our precious. demog-| racy—so we've got to find a solution|.
hating and itching. for the chance]:
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1041
Gen. Johnson Says— he 5
Convinced of Churchill's Genius After Reading #His Books Which Forecast the Second World War.
ASHINGTON, March 7.—In the two weeks just ‘past, my bedtime reading, which frequently extends to 3 a. m. on some pie-eyed detective novel, has been switched to two aspects of the history of England. One is the whole panorama, to which my short . cuts are Dickens’ “Child History” . and Kipling’s “Puck of Pook’s Hill” and “Rewards and Fairies” series. This confession probably . dates my mentality, but I have been_ told by -more than one great historian that, however romantic, ' these quick and. simple squrces . will lead nobody far astray from the truth, The other aspect is Winston ° Churchill’s running controversial comment on the period from 1914 Rt to this date. In this I have just’ resoaked myself-—every word pub lished in book form—reread and compared it with my own experience and information and a quick reslant at the whole history-of England. ; It is perhaps beside the point to remark that Mr.
Churchill’s is abreast of the best in English literature °
of any age, in vigor, style and content. That may add unduly to its fascination but it doesn’t substract at all from its substance. It is an advocacy very cogent in logic, thoroughly documented in every case. In all his dozens of controversies about British policy and defense, convincingly buttressed by compelling facts - and figures. EJ ” ” HIS isn’t to say that he was always right. Some- “ times, at critical moments, he was so right that his logic and action decided favorably to his country the ultimate issue of the earlier war—as for example, his mobilization of the fleet in 1914. Sometimes he was very wrong, ‘as in the Antwerp excursion in 1914 and in the Narvik disaster in this war. The adventure at Gallipoli also proved dfsastrous, but he argues well that it need not have been so. To what extent he was responsible for the 1918 thrust through Salonika, which broke the central powers, is not clear but he certainly favored it. Many students will always be- * lieve that the. 1939 declaration of war over Poland was" one of the most hideous mistakes in timing in all his tory but, however he favored it, his was not the prine nipal responsibility. So much for whataver the unfavorable side of the
record may be. Turn to his position and pleading
from the opening of the Versailles peace conference to:
this day, and especially the record in his books, “The
Aftermath,” “Arms and the Covenant” (published here in 1938 under the title “While England Slept”),: “The World Crisis” and “The Unknown War.” two books first mentioned are for foresight, statesman- ; ship and even clairvoyance among the most remarkable in literature. . o » »
F his voice had been only partially heeded from 1933-
to as late as 1937, the present world catastrophe -
The -
could certainly have been avoided. He stated and
proved his case in advance in economic, military and diplomatic policy. His predictions on the military effect of the occupation and later fortification of the Rhineland and almost every other principal Nazi development, now seem almost uncanny in their correctness. His facts and arguments were faithfully transmitted to our Government, where they produced no. more effect than they did on his own. His principles _
and information were a current text of this column
for six years past.
All that is water over the dam. .Brilliant as was .
that performance of his, it is as nothing compared with his war leadership of his country in her greatest crisis. It is so masterly as to seem incredible, It needs no comment at all and this long wind-up is just to base an important query. Win, lose or draw, I wonder if, when this long agony is aver, he will not be written in history as one of the two or three greatest products of the AngloSaxon race in its entire record either in England or America. That “either or” is entirely justified because we can be pardoned in our pride that his mother was an American,
hy . o. A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson NOTHER Lenten season is here.
world Christian men and women are reminded of the 40 dark days preceding the Crucifixion,
It all happenéd such a long, long time ago, and in :
such a faraway country. To the people then alive, large and important events were in progress. There was money to be made, trading to be done, taxes to be gathered and wars to be fought. As today, fame, glory, love were sweet. A strange man called the Nazarene was reported to be saying foolish things. verse of competition and hate, He spoke of love. In a land bris-
In a uni- |,
tling with soldiers. He talked of .
peace. Where the rich and powerful were masters, He empha« sized the dignity of the humble and the poor. © Cruelty, greed, ambition, arrogance, lust and all manner of evil spread a blackness over the then known earth. while, a light glowed—Jesus walking among men. Then, when men had scourged, mocked and crucifled Him, nothing happened. He was gone, and things appeared to be as usual. The friends who loved him most began to forget the miracle of the Resurrection. The old evil life of the Romans went on. To His followers it must have seemed that their Lord had left no mark behind. Yet nearly two thousand years later other men of ofher races speak of those days with a catch in their throats. Their hearts move with mysterious Ionging. Now and then, some memory of that time
returns to haunt them and their souls yearn for that
love of which the NaZarene spoke. A resurgence of the ancient hope lightens their spirits. For down the
‘years and through the miists of time, they hear the
a prospective customer of a booby| S°P0.0f a voice that said-—
“To this end was I born. ‘and for, this cause came 1 into the world, that I should bear ‘witless unto the hat. is of the truth heareth my
Yes, the. Lh geason. is Bere again. - And He whom we call our Savior endures once more the Speers agony. While the few Weep, the ‘many cruif!
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