Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1941 — Page 15

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THURSDAY, MAY 15 1041

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3 MILLION IN U. §. 40

PAID BY TREASURY

Outlay Represents Salaries and Some Form of Public Aid, Recipients Constitute Political Bloc; Only | 7 Million Pay in ‘Visible’ Taxation.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 15.—Nearly 13,000,000 persons.

get “non-defense” money direct from the U. S. Treasury—in the form of salaries, subsidies, relief payments or other benefits. And only about 7,000,000 persons pay money direct to

the Treasury, through income tax, which is virtually the

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her » 3) y 1 : and therefore of voting Administration, public works and that Mr. Morgenthau be more spemarking that the Budget Bureau responsible for the buck-pass-under the office of the President.) genthau over Treasury are voters. They constimove toward cin might affect their own pockago Mr. Morgen- wing cataegories: vy Xes | : heavy taxe 5 istration farm benefits, 6.000.000 of defense, Con- 4. inistration, 800,000; Civilian billion dol- i 4ioant aged, mothers of dependtures. He SUR-|.fejaries, 2.949.000. Advertisement | $500,000,000 this year for soil congo to farmers whose production is “I'm 62. Felt my age every bit. But Ostrex gave me SOI! -building practices. Parity paytablets contain vonlos, SIRulaRe Sten needed after " World War level. ght DOC TOR writes: “It did so much for patien OSTREX —for that "efter 40" letdowr money, and the average to each By contrast, this is about four cent of all taxpavers who paid on 6.000.000 beneficiaries is four times Treasury, luxuriously fine, f ant Cuticura i > A TE oan \ income, 4.937.724 paid on incomes

only form of “visible” Federal taxation. This disparity of numbers Conservation Corps, National-Youth strength and political pres- farm benefits. | \ en insistin sure — between those who! Congressmen have be : “put” and those who “take” cific. But the Treasuty chief has : : refused to be put on the spot, reis believed here to be largely 41 P : is no longer under his jurisdiction. : (The Budget Bureau is now directly ing game between Congress and Treasury Secretary Mor-| Nearly all of those getting nondefense money direct from the Ww ho should is powerful political blocs, and economy. etbooks. Three weeks' phe preak down into the fol5 > eT et Farmers Get 712 Million 5 en Agricultural Adjustment Admin- } hor Yel es persons; Works Progress AdminisSIAZEErING COSIS tration, 1.500000; National Youth hr th ol1d Conservation Corps, 260,000; CivilS$ Sun NE jan Federal Employees, 1,173,663; Jars off ogee ent children and other direct (and ense exXpendi- |, on-insurance) social security bengested that Congress study the pos-| “py0 500.000 farmers benefiting | sibility of economies in the Civilian from the AAA program are getting AAA progry f g servation and $212,000.000 in parity Was Ol at payments. Conservation payments {kept within acreage allotments set » Vv ¥ ‘n GETS VIM, PEP, FEELS YOUNGER by the Government and who follow Fann Or ments are aimed at lifting farm 0-03 Dodie 1SchIEg Yon. purchasing power toward a prefodine, Vitamin B;. For men and X It Tavsert. Results fine. Get 35¢ ONTRE Most farmers getting parity paytoday for 20c. Start your mew pep this very day, ments also get soil conservation For sale at Hook's, Haag’s and all of these would be substantially Other goed drug stares over $100. times as much as the average income tax payment of the 70 per ncomes of less than $5000. Thus the “take” among a group of some the “put” that most income taxpayers are handing to the Federal Of the 7.032655 persons who had paid taxes up to March 31 on 1940 under $5000 and 2094931 on incomes of more than $5000.

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Times Special WASHINGTON, May 15.—Production estimates of the War Department and the Office of Production Management showed today, as a new upsurge of defense strikes threatened, that man-days lost in 1941 labor stoppages on Army contracts alone were sufficient to have produced the following materiel. 40.000 Garand rifies. 1000 13-ton light pletely armed. 200 Curtiss-Wright

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000 Rifles, 300 Planes, 1000 Tanks Lost by 1941 Defense Work Stoppages

plants producing for the Army, and strike periods, or man-days lost coal shutdown threatened by John, Transmitters, condensers, gene 37.000 man-days were added to this in the Ford and soft-coal strikes, L. Lewis, a check of 149 defense erators and other basic equipment yesterday. In March alone, 664.519 though the latter seriously hindered strikes in 1941 showed the follow- for military communications. man-days were lost, Mr. McGrady War Department procurement. |ing categories of equipment af-| Construction of aircraft testing 30,000 anti-aircraft shells. testified. Neither did they include man- | fected: |equipment, troop housing and air This, of course, is not the precise; According to typical Government days lost in plants where produc-| Aircraft, aircraft parts, whee] bases. ‘equipment of which production has estimates, the following numbers of tion was slowed through failure to drums, die castings. Blankets, shirts, sheets and sime been blocked by strikes since Jan.|man.days go into items of military receive parts from plants actually] Ammunition, including shells, |!lar equipment. 1, but the equivalent of what could equipment: ‘on strike, " | bombs, powder and TNT. Machine tools. have been turned out in the ap-| Garand rifles, 56 man-days; 50-| As Government officials sought, Ordnance items, including small | te peace in the newest outbreak of arms, tanks, armor plate, gun car-| MANCHUKUO RECOGNIZED

‘proximately 1,700,000 man-days lost. caliber machine-guns, 18-plus; CurEdward F. McGrady, War Depart- |tiss P-40s, 1250; 75 millimeter gun labor stoppages, involving hun-|riages and machine guns. TOKYO, May 15 (U. P.).—The Medical supplies and equipment. Japanese Domei News Agency ree

ment labor consultant, told a Sen- carriages, 257, and 13-ton tanks 875. |dreds of millions of dollars worth | |ate committee Tuesday that 165. | Mr. McGrady's figures did not of contracts in shipyards: and arms Trucks, tractors and other Allo: | poried today that Bulgaria had ‘000 man-days had been lost in include Saturdays and Sundays iniplants, and worried about another! motive equipment. recognized Manchukuo.

3000 50-caliber machine-guns. 500 75-miliimeter gun carriages.

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1 How much irom in the body? A. About 3 or 4 grams—or about the amount of iron in a small nail.

2 Sources of iron for the body? A. Beef juice, parsley, fresh lima beans, canned apple butter, bran, beef liver, molasses, egg-yolk, etc. 3 How many red-blood-cells has a (a) man—(b) woman—(c) child? A. Man about 5 millions to cubic millimeter. Woman about 41; millions to cubic millimeter. Child about 41 millions to cubic millimeter, i Healthy average of hemoglobin in the red-blood-cells? A. Man— 100%. Woman—980%. Child—82%.

5 How does a lowered blood count affect our health? A. Reduces energy, weakens the body, lowers resistance to disease. b Do our diets supply emough iron? A. Many times they do not. We then have nutritional deficiencies. This deficiency will not strike people dead. It will reduce the level of vitality, lower the living, thinking working and enjoying capacities of a e.

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4 How much intake iron should a body have a day? A. Adults—I15 milligrams. Children over 6 years— 10 to 16 m Expectant or nursing mothers—about 20 milligrams. How can I tell if I need more a iron? A. Paleness is often an inca

10 Is appetite also a factor to my health and how does it work? A. Food keeps the body in constant repair as well as furnishing body heat and energy. Appetite and stomach digestion go hand in hand. To make use of the food eaten it must be digested and to be digested,

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