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_ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1841

AND STILL MORE TAXES -

WE might as well all get used to the idea of stiff taxation. :

The taxes which Congress is now laying will be only a taste of what is to come. Consider the figures— . - The Government is now budgeted to _ spend $22, 000,000,000 this fiscal year—and is eager to spend much more than that if the tempo of armament production can be spéeded up. With the new tax pill, it will be budgeted to collect $11,900,000,000. So at best, from the fiscal standpoint, we'll be borrowing nearly half of what we spend. And we may be borrowing much more than half. That's a far cry from Treasury Secretary Morgenthau’s goal of financing the Government on a two-thirds pay-as-we-go basis through this war period. Hence more, and heavier, taxes are inevitable. Most of the expenditures are for weapons of war. The policy of our nation, fixed by the people’s elected representatives, is to go the limit in arming ourselves, and in arming Britain, China, Russia and all others who are fighting those we believe to be our potential enemies. While digging in our pockets to pay as much as we can on that program, the American people have a right to insist thatthe Administration and Congress wipe. out every unnecessary expenditure and enforce rigid economy in even the essential peacetime services.

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MR. O’DANIEL GOES TO WASHINGTON

«“ HE train was pulled by a new Diesel-type engine, two 2000 h. p. engines. Of course I had to see how it worked so I went clear up in front and rode with the engineer. He was a grand old fellow. He started working for that railroad in 1893. He said the fastest speed he could get out of the old engines in 1893 was 25 miles per hour, but this big powerful engine was driving along at 80 miles per hour, : “One. good thing I observed as I sat high up in that engine cab racing along at 80 miles per hour was indeed a good lesson to learn. It was watching the cows and sheep and goats and chickens and horses and mules that grazed on whe right-of-way, and got on the tracks. “1 asked the engineer what he did when these animals got on the track. He said they paid no attention to them. I then watched closely, and there were a lot of these animals. 1 watched an old mule standing on that track right in front of us, but just as we got close -enough to where it looked as if we would hit him, he lazily stepped off the track.

“Then an old cow decided she wanted to be on the other |,

side as we got close to her, and she got safely across. Then a herd of goats started across, and I just knew the whole herd couldn’t make it, so just as we were about to strike the whole herd, they separated, and half of them went across, and the other half turned back, and we didn’t get a goat. “That is the way it happened with all those animals, | and the old engineer said they seldom hit one.. He said those dumb animals had sense enough to take care of themselves. “So the Jesson I drew from that; was why in the world is it necessary for the National Congress to put in so much time passing laws to direct nearly every move we humans make when we are supposed to be so much smarter than those poor dumb animals. “But when 1 got to Washington I found the old’ lawmill still grinding, telling the restaurant men how to run their restaurants, the manufacturers how to run their factories, the railroad men how to run their railroads, the farmers how to run their farms, the miners how to run their mines, and they now even have laws before Congress here telling the stenographers how to run their typewriters, and other laws trying to regulate every line of business and - of human activity. : “I, for one, believe that we the people have enough sense to run our own affairs, and 1 think it is time for the Government to commence to back off and leave the people alone.” ° —From the first ““back-home” broadcast by W. Lee . (Pass the Biscuits Pappy) O’Daniel, following his arrival in Washington to take his seat in the U. S. Senate.

Who's looney now?

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PIONEER. English farmer, no doubt one whose ancestors stood before King John demanding Magna «Carta, is growing an acre of American-style sweet corn for . sale. This is-so daring an innovation that the London papers have seen fit to explain it, thus: no ae IIE great delicacy by Anglo-Indians “throughout the East. ‘The’ cob is boiled for 15 minutes and served like a potéto in its jacket. The leaves are removed, butter or margarine is spread over the corn and it is sprinkled with pepper and salt. “Then, holding it at the ends, .you nibble the corn like a Abit. » ile the manner of recommended service may fall short of true American standards, the description of the * technique of eating is perfect.

Maybe Britain is going to get something out of the war, | after all; the privilege of eating sweet corn may gt: be |

worth a war, but it’s worth a lot.

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EXAGGERATION in the war bulletins tion Berlin and

Moscow suggests that the pen is still mightier than 7h

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler A Note About Mike Carrozzo, the ~ Labor Boss: Whom Even Citizenship Court Twice Warned in Disgust.

EW YORK, Sept. 3.—Today I give you another chapter in the unfinished story of a selfless servant of the humble toiler who obtained an international charter. as well as a whole sheaf, or deck,

A of local charters in the A. F. of L., acquired a racing

stable and ‘died about a year ago under bond for $275,000 to the U. 8. Government to secure an income tax deficiency and the pertinent penalties and in t amounting in all to $250, 000. ' Mrs. ‘Julie Carrozzo, the wido of Mike Carrozzo and administratrix of the estate of that consecrated leader of the humble white-wings, garbage-handlers and pavement Workers in Chicago, has carried the income tax case to the Board of Tax Appeals where itis now pending. This legal action breaks Phe seal of confidence which normally protects the intimacies of the tax burden except in the case of obstreperous citizens who oppose the politics of President Roosevelt and find themselves singled out, individually, for punishment. By carrying her case to the Board of Tax Appeals, Mrs. Carrozzo has made available to the press as public documents all the data which the Treasury Department has collected. 8 8 8 is the Government's claim that Mike Carrozzo, whose earliest recorded addfess in Chicago was down ‘on the old 22d Street line or levee where he was bodyguard and talent scout for Jim Colosimo, the first man to apply chaln-store methods to the prothel business, had net income of $199,473 in 1997 and $103,371 in 1938. : This would have been a total of $392, 845 fof the two years or a net of about $3777 a week, but of course we are not to assume that the old wrangler derived all his loot out of the actual wages of the subjects who were delivered into his power by the A. F. of L. and thus placed at his disposal in looting the atk On the contrary, Mike, like his old colleague, Willie Bioff of the movie trades, used his union for ' bargaining purposes on his own behalf. He kept ready-mix concrete out of Chicago, refusing to let his men handle the stuff and thus robbed the people of the economies which they might have enjoyed, and he had an interest in a paving compound which was used instead of ready-mix concrete. In that respect, his method was like that of Umbrella Mike Boyle, the ‘crooked boss of the Chicago electricians who embargoed the wares of certain manufacturers of electrical goods and thus was able to throw a good deal of business to a rival company in which he was a stockholder.

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IKE CARROZZO was a crook of such notorious character that even in the careless and undiscriminating naturalization court he received two warnings that his application for citizenship would be denied on the ground of moral turpitude and “allaround verminous character. The story of how he finally got by and received the o£ lous right of American citizenship is one that I have never had time to run down but it interests me and perhaps one day I will ‘have it in shape for telling. His “parent union was the International HodCarriers and Common Laborers which has 250,000 members in many locals scattered around the country and which collects, mostly by extortion, from these ill-paid, horny-handed unfortunates ‘4 total of about $18,000,000 a year.It is of interest that neither William Green, nor any other man‘ in the entire leadership of the socalled labor movement, ever smelled the smell of Mik Carrozzo’'s batch of crooked unions or raised a finger to kick him out or otherwise protect the toiler from extortion and exploitation by this veteran rogue.

‘On Order’ By Maj. Al Williams

YEAR and a half ago, I estimated that we might be ready for a modern war in two years. At the unhappy tate we are going today, I am honestly afraid that we never will be ready.” The first reason is that our people do not know the truth, and are not being told the truth. The exaggerated boasting about what is supposed to be getting produced and being done is about 90 per cent in the future tense. The proper word for it is It’s the same sort of stuff that was dealt out to the poor French people and the world about the French mark of military efficiency. Skipping other departments, for my job is to write about aviation, let’s look at that record. Under Cash and Carry, we saw one Army Air Corps program after another wrecked. The original program was to build and man 5000 warplanes.’ It was thwarted by the inroads of the French and British purchasing commissions, and by those

abroad the sooner would our first-line plane produc.tion be tops. These armchair strategists never realized that unlimited production without carefully and competently trained personnel would be useless. The next one—“faster and better”—never got out of _the future tense. That continues right up to toay. . 1

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. but our boys imperatively need a full year’s fly.ing time in them to become proficient in their operation. Only the familiarity that comes with long and porsistent practice makes a good bomber crew.

Bell ree the only American fighter armed with .a cannon. But it hasn't power enough, and we haven't anywhere near enough Airacobras. Neither ‘have we anywhere ‘near enough pilots competent “enough to fly them as they should be flown. The rest of our fighters are underarmed, underpowered, and far below the speed and performance required at the altitudes being used in this war. In the first year of this ‘war, we had about 800 combat planes ready for combat. And now, after two years of the war, our monthly production of combat planes runs between 600 and 700—just about what I found Germany producing each month in 1938 when I was there. And the German plants were working only one eight-hour shift a day. When we were told that 1460 plares were produced here in July, it was not expiained that about half of them were training planes, which can be built quickly.

|] One hundred days after the “50,000. planes per year”

project was announced, our Army and Navy had ordered 343 warplanes. The real crisis and the real emergency is not the danger of attack by foreign powers. It is the panicky effort to gather together enough men, weapons and equipment to back up the international attitude taken by our Government. An “on order” plane is no backing for a threat to bomb.

So They Say—

IF THE DEMOCRACIES finally lose this war it will be because of the “two little and too late” policy. —Arthur Upham Pope, chairman, Conimittee for National Morale.

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SAYS FACISTS SEEK TO DIVIDE COUNTRY By H. C. Hamilton

. Keep America out of war is a slogan coined in Germany; yes, keep America out of war even though tomorrow our frontiers will be crushed by a despotic steamroller. The organization: “Mothers of America” wish their sons to be free men, if their sons have to fight for their freedom than these parents would prefer them as slaves to a

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“Jack of all trades” Charles Lindbergh is still campaigning for leadership in his dream world “Deutschland America.” Hitler’s slogan is “divide and conThe Fascists in this country have done a fine job; they will be commended. The next phase in the battle of America is yet to come.

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Several centuries ago the common’ people of England rebelled against the oppressive tyranny of King John wand forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which guaranteed the downtrodden English commonfolk a far greater measure of freedom from the willful misdeeds of their craven monarch than they had ever enjoyed. This historical act is looked upon as an important milestone in mankind’s centuries-old progress toward freedom from dictatorship by a single

man and it is undoubtedly one of

the most famous epochs in the evolution of that form of government which today we call democracy. It is generally accepted that the keystone of the whole democratic system is contained in the axiom that, given ‘all the facts, all great isions in the life of a nation can best be made by the collective opinion of the majority .of the citizenry of the nation, as” opposed to the theory of “Divine Rights,” which was used to support the pitiless and crushing power of ancient monarchs. Today, here in the ited States, we are witnessing one of the boldest attempts to reverse the processes of democracy that was ever forced upon an unwilling people. The Roosevelt Administration, through all ‘its raucous mouthpieces, is attemp to push the United States in the war in defiance of the clearly de-

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lineated objections of the overwhelming majority of the people.... No means of trickery, no deception, half-truth nor instrument of emotionalism has been spared in the|cann Administration’s high-pressured attempts to sell the war to the Amer-

“Behind all of this drive is seen the highly polished hand of Britain’s nobility which seeks to have the common people of the United States underwrite the security of the British Empire with our own life-blood. Any facts which serve to restrain any such action bring down caluniny on the heads of those who would give the facts as they see them—and not as the British and the’ Anglo=phile Roosevelt regime would like them to see them ” » 8 DESCRIBES LINDY-WHEELER THEORY AS CHAUVINISM By Pat Hogan, Columbus It is alarming to the thinking people of this nation that a few misguided zealots like Maddox are utterly unable to face facts, and equally astonishing that ‘supposedly intelligent people become victims of Chauvinism. Still that describes accurately -the Lindbergh-Wheeler theory. The dictionary states, “chauvinism: mock patriotism, blind devotion.” Lindbergh is still -clinging to the absurd beliefs of his father. And there still are those who dare siy that no one yet knows the wisdom or folly of our: entering the first World War. Now any thinking person knows that there would be no Europe, no United States today if we had not saved-it by entering the thinking

conflict; and the same people now knéw we face the same

Nhat we need: is more alert citi-

zens like Oklahomans. I cub my teeth on a six-shooter down there,

Side Glances=By Galbraith 1

I “punched” cattle, drove stage; I was there when these boys and their dads took Oklahoma away from the coyotes and rattlers. These fellows have a sense of values wrenched from bitter first-hand. experience, hence they want no part of the theories of spoiled kids. and loafers who take freedom for granted. Lindbergh and Wheeler continue parrot-like the charge that the President is- leading us’ into war.

As a matter of fact the President cannot “take us to war—Congress alone can; but Hitler will decide With Wheeler it is not a question of war—but one of hatred. If Roosevelt advocated birth control, Wheeler would -come out for free love. Anyhow Wheeler has attained his objective—prominence. Some statesmen distinguish themselves by great speeches or great books, where Wheeler has stated all he knows on a postcard. ‘ Lincoln taught the world how to be a statesman and orator in 200 words in his Gettysburg speech; Wheeler taught the world how to be an ass in two dozen words on a postcard.

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POINTS OUT THAT CHANGE IS THE WAY OF ALL LIFE

By “N. ‘G., Frankfort Have you ever heard n critic say, ‘This young generation is going to e -dogs, ' they do the darndest ings,” or again, “To hang with all these new fangled ideas of today, we used to get along without them and we can do so again; let us get back to fundamentals?” Or have you ever noticed the old timer merchant of a county seat. town, who having been jolted from his satisfied set ways by new mercantile me , complains bitterly about the new changes and how they were ruining the country? What do these critics mean by “the good old days?” Were these good old days any better than the present era? The Times Forum so often reflects .this story, especially in the letters of Maddox and the “Voice in the Crowd.” Both living in a changing world look back to the old and reject the new, Maddox, swayed by N. M, A propaganda, sees only red, but the “Voice” with better judgment seriously philosophies on the soundness of the old order and thinks the American masses are chasing rainbows. These two men are due for disappointment in their day. They may see minor reactions, but America is building a new order to meet a changed condition; a new order based upon iii for better housing, better health and more security. Holding back these changes: is impossible, But do we. want to oppose them? Are we to develop a distrustful, obstructive attitude toward new ‘ideas and plans? Yet in the distant future when we who are now promoting present changes become silver haired and conservative, we, too, shall complain of the changing times, and looking backwards we, too, shall talk about Hike 200 good old days. 'Tis the way ip ies

“THE OLD ROADS By MARY WARD

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centuries, Slow. togte] camels drew the caraof jp and sandal-wood, while the {ropic breeze

Floated fragrantly over desert i sands.

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[Gen. Jo hnson Says—

A New Tocliniae of Fatling Offic ici Seems to Be Accusing Those Wi Crificize Them of Being Pro-Na:

YY umoon Sept. 3—A new technique seer: to be devéloping among officials under fire { falling short of performances in defense tasks. | to say of those who ent on shortcomings that they are either Nazi fgénts or enemies of American defense and are playing Hitler's game by undermining American ; “a dence in our leadership. us Gen. Ben (Yoo-Hoo) Lear make ech to his Army come _ mand, broadcast over two - “works and says that people criticize the quality of morale are doing that, The acte _ ing ~ petroleum director asks whether (rather than asserts that) criticism of the woeful) bungled gasoline “shortage” the Eastern seaboard isn’t Nazi work. Criticisms of the overhead organization for industrial mobilization have similarly condemned by even higher authority. I can’t speak for anybody else, but I have criticized all these things in this column—never, I think, with out a constructive suggestion. According to the. bare terms. of these generalized accusations, some of these Jnpageny “answers” (that answer nothing) could P

to know it. I won't accept any such John Doe indict= ment and no man has any decent right to make such blanket accusations in response to specific questions ings of his own co pelencs without saliing his shots and naming his tar : ¢ #8 8° AKE the one of Lear’s about the evil of ‘suggests ing that Army morale isn’t as high as it should . be. By most realistic officers, the charge is freely admitted. The responsibility is squarely upon ‘Army come mand. although it has been attempted to be shifted to almost every bystander. Every one of my comments upon it have been to say that time and patience and recognition of the evil will surely cure it, because the soldier material is the best we have ever had.

This column never criticized Ben Lear for dise ciplining some soldiers who “yoo-hooed” some. cuties on a golf course and especially for giving him a Bronx cheer when, camouflaged in civilian clothes, ne began bellowing at them like a bull. But now that he brings the shibject up, disciplining a whole battalion for the fault of a few fools, from the morale standpoint, is of ifself sheer loud-mouthed incompetence

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N the “gas shortage,” my comment was thal ~\_J there was none, but only a transportation sho, -age, whicH could and should have been remedied lo ago by several devices. that one of the remedies was towing in barges. was pooh-poohed as amateur and incompetent. . TO=4 day, several weeks later, the Maritime Commission is advertising for bids for barges.

For two years I have criticized the industria? mobilization overhead with specific suggestions for improvement. Today, nearly all of those suggestions are being applied. The best organization plan won't work without competent personnel. On the latter question, I have my fingers crossed. willing to be con vinced, but the constructive criticism of organization has borne fruit. Would it 1ave happened withou$ criticism—that of others as well as mine? Horse« feathers!

That brings up the whole question ‘of criticism method being inimical to defense. This colum been shouting for motorization, mechanizatior || dustrial mobilization, selective service and ade defense during its entire life and this writer {| longer time. During most of" these years, all '} Johnny-Come-Lateliés either didn’t know what it'} all about or, if they did, dign’s have the guts to } what they knew, - 3

That is past history, put if any of them '_ “alludin’ at me,” I want.them to say, so in plain Ok homa language. If I use this column to take them apart, they are welcome to use its 620 words to pus themselves together again, if Toey can, which I doubt if they can do.

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A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson : |

NOTHER peace aim that shovld: be.. is “The Post-War World From the Woman's Angle.” I've never seen such publicity as we're; geting right now. Pages and pages and photographs’ and compli mentary comments pour from. ‘the presses. There's been, nothing like it sincé the. Age of Chivalry faded. A new kind of ms aborning. It looks as if the Is are really in the grandstand, at last. : It's the same in England, bod John Bull can’t say enotigh in praise of his women. The way they've buckled down to. their courage, their ingenuity, thein cheerfulness, their eff , COm= tales of this war, and I daresay, if we had the truth, the women of every other country, inc Germany and Japan, would be equally praiseworthy. Qut of this crucible of fire a new being probably will emerge—ihe Post-War Woman—a being as strange and different as the one who came into existence here after the last war. And she won't be the flapper type, for this fresh creature will have demonstrated to the full her ability to stand four square beside man;. will have proved her equality the hard. way, grimly and gallantly, It will take Soins tall explaining by political leaders. if she doesn’f ge But she won't. Of that I am sure, unless out of this crucible of fire there is also being who will be ashamed to deny his sister the rights he possesses, and who will gladly share with her, no# only his maternal possessions, but his political and economic privileges. Nations can no longer wage wars without the help of women. Maybe, after this one, we will also realize they cannot make or maintain a di peace, conduct a\good political system or build a new ‘world order withput the same sort .of assistance.

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