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TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1942

A TAX LAW THAT WILL STAND SENATOR BYRD'S proposal that congress this time write a tax law which will stand for three or four years is sound and should be adopted. . That is what Senator La Follette advocated last year, to no avail. The Virginia and Wisconsin senators, disagreeing on what taxes should be enacted, see eye-to-eye on the need * for arriving at an adequate and definite revenue program, and leaving it unchanged awhile. American taxpayers can adjust their affairs to high taxation. They know that is inescapable in war time. ~ But they cannot adjust their living standards and business practices to the confusion, the constant churning ‘around, of year-after-year shifts in tax policies and rates. There have been more than enough unavoidable uncertainties, through the depression and now in the war, and these will continue. But they ought not be compounded by needless and whimsical changes in tax laws. 2 2 2 t 4 8 8 ACH year since 1930 there has been at least one new tax hill—and some years there have been two. The ideas have differed, but the process has been the same. Talk of a new tax bill usually starts in the treasury in January. By February or March it is presented to congress. The house ways and means committee holds extended hearings, listening first to the experts then to spokesmen for business and the special groups affeqgted. Some time in mid-summer, the house committee sends the bill to the house floor, where it is railroaded through in two or three days by gag rule. : » #8 2 ” 2 ® } HEN the play starts all over again in the senate, with the senate finance committee holding more hearings, listening to more experts and lobbyists and voting more amendments. At last the bill reaches the senate floor, where it is debated and amended some more. Next, house and senate conferees meet behind closed .doors and go over the whole bill section by section, ironing out their differences. The bill, in final form, is then approved by both bodies, and forwarded to the White House for the president’s signature.

By that time it is usually October or November, and |

another revenue law goes on the books taxing incomes for a year already 10 or 11 months gone. Too late, .individual citizens wish they hadn’t spent their earnings, and corporate managers learn they have been running their businesses according to rules and rates that no longer apply. Then comes another January, and the same atom mouse S5ms starts again.

. 2 8 2 T DOESN'T "make sense. It never has. The excuse always has been that the government hasn’t been able to estimate its revenue needs in advance. Well, the government knows now that in this fiscal year it will spend about 77 billions, and in the next fiscal year that much or more. It knows that the tax laws now on the books will yield about 17 billions in‘ revenue. It knows that it needs a tax program that will produce the maximum in revenue, not only this year but for several. years to follow. . Why not legislate such a tax program now? stand pat for the duration?

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THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE “AN epoch-making event marking. the turning point of the war,” is the way one London official describes the four-day Anglo-American-Russian conference in Moscow. Perhaps that is too. much to claim for any conference, since deeds rather than words change the course of wars.

But nobody doubts that this meeting of Stalin, Churchill : and President Roosevelt's personal representative, together | 8

with their diplomatic and military advisers, was as urgent

as the Russian retreat which necessitated the conference. 2

According to the official announcement, decisions were reached and the alliance to fight until “Hitlerism and any similar tyranny” are destroyed was reaffirmed. Obviously, mere pledges eannot prevent the collapse’ ‘of an invaded nation—as Britain learned in the case of France. pb But there is no present reason to believe that Russia will go the way of France. 2 os 8 2 2 8 : [DESPITE continuing Nazi invasion, Russian morale is high. ~~ Most of the Red armies are intact; at worst, they can retreat to new lines behind ‘the Volga ‘or the Urals if . necessary. - And there is no apparent danger of any fifth column movement overthrowing the Stalin government, or undermining its will to fight. i] Just how much the allies can do to help Russia quickiy . is not so clear. - Allied supplies’ have not been flowing to Russia i in ‘sufficient volume recently, because of Nazi success in sinking convoys on. the northern route to Murmansk. - This problem cannot be solved overnight.

So adequate immediate relief means opening an allied

diversion front, ‘long requested by Russia. : ‘But speculation regarding the place and time of an 1glo-American offensive is futile, as it should be: "The American, British and Russian peoples must be sonte nt for the moment to know their governments are pla iogether and fighting together against the com-

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MARK FERREE

s Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler -

Ew YORK, Ais. 18.—Well,

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enough to have the old man’s old

lady setting on the bench'all sum- |

mer telling him how to run the ball club and she also writing a - baseball column for the papers,

too, but. that wasn’t nothing to |

' the headaches they had in the

_ front office. The first thing any- |

baseball to the masses although he has been handling box office over 30° years. . Well, we had plenty troubles of our own on the field but poor Eddie ison a terrible spot because we start the season looking like a sure thing and then she brings in’ that bean-bag coach from Smiths college and the femsle, first baseman and’ the first thing you know we haven't got enough fans to make a quartet. The business office is running into the red every day and Eddie says the way things are going it will take 50 years to pull.out of the hole even if we win 50 pennants.

Enters the Bulgarian Professor

BUT MRS. DISSENAT has been hanging around with some professors and all they seem to do is set around and hold discussions and she says Deezanose is a slave to dead traditions. The past is outmoded, she says, and if you go back to old methods, well, even if they pay off in results and profits, why that is a step backward and you are defeated. > So she brings in a Bulgarian professor to look

over the books and the professor says no wonder we aren't drawing any business because Eddie Hasn't

got any social consciousness. He says baseball is not |

just a thing that works by itself but you have got to make it work, although he never saw a-ball game in his life.

“The first thing,” he says, “you got- to make bold

decisions and no more compromises so we will first of all abolish rightfield and centerfield. We will just, have one field and that will be leftfield, but there is no use hoping that the men who have been playing right and center will be able to co-operate because they are steeped in tradition so they are fired, but we will hire two more leftfielders who really believe in leftfield and hereafter we will have three leftfielders.”

A Wall Street Tool, Poor Eddie

“THEN,” HE SAYS, bleachers again because we have been catering to the economic royalists in the boxes, so hereafter we will take the dough we get from these parasites and every man who buys a bleacher ticket for 50 cents

why we will give them a premium of $1.25.” Eddie, he put it down in figures that you can’t do that, but the Bulgarian called him a Wall Street tool and the next day there was a riot when half the town tried to get into the bleachers. The bleacher business was so big they first had to take over the end sections of the grandstands and inside of a week practically the entire park was bleachers, all except the best boxes and reserved seats behind the plate and they were filled with her personal friends, mostly professors and dames wearing flat-heel shoes and horn-rim glasses, who come in on passes. The stockholders began to yip, but the old lady, she puts the Bulgarian on the air to give them hell for being copperheads and the Bulgarian gets up figures to show that whereas a few weeks ago the masses were starving for baseball why now the attendance was the greatest in baseball history and the receipts were breaking all records.

‘Profits vs. Humanity’

POOR EDDIE, hé tries to show that yes and the deficit was running way ahead of the receipts and the Bulgarian called him a well-fed club man over the air and put it up to the fans to vote whether-they wanted him to be business manager and ‘baseball for everybody or if they wanted Eddie ‘Deezanose and baseball for the -few. The stockholders beefed about their investment, but the old lady and some of her friends from Smith's college they got up a parade with signs saying, “profits vs. Humanity” and “Baseball Belongs to the People Not the Money Kings.” And the Bulgarian explained that the deficit wasn't a deficit but an investment, and Eddie went crazy and ate a bar of soap and died. ‘ I still have to say that she was always polite and nice in her way but, just the same, if it was my. old lady done like that and I was running the club I still say I would have tagged her right on the nose for luck.

lls This American?

By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, Aug. 18 —Perhaps what happened to Don Mario, the singing band leader, up in Providence, R. I, is nothing to get steamed up about. It may be right to say that this was just the arbitrary action of an ignorant labor union executive board, and is not symptomatic of anything general or important. But when a bandmaster can be fined $500 for joining Fourth of July gatherings in singing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” while his country is -fighting the most desperate war in all its history, perhaps it really is something worth fretting about. The issue is clearcut. The Providence Citizens Sunday Recreation Committee sponsored three park entertainments on July 5, and paid union rates for professional bands to provide the music. Mario, whose orchestra was playing at a night club, offered to give its services—as an added feature, not to displace the paid union musicians. The Providence local of the American Federation of Musicians refused permission, and suggested that Mario himself should sneak out of town for the day rather than go to any of the affairs. Instead, Mario accepted membership in the official

party which consisted of the mayor, the actress |

Sylvie Sidney and four ‘others. i

He Can Appeal to Mr. Petrillo!

WHEN THE PAID union band played “The Star-| Spangled Banner,” everybody began singing. Mario, |"

standing between the mayor and Miss Sidney, “joined in. On Aug. 10 he was notifled “fraternally” of the $500 fine by the executive board, which held that

‘by singing the natiofial anthem he had made al

personal appearance forbidden by his union. Mario was ordered to pay the fine by Sept. 5.

- Otherwise he can be, suspended from union member- |

ship and deprived of the means of livelihood. ~He can, of course, appeal. The international union

is headed by James Caesar Petrillo, who has forbidden |. the making of musical records or transcriptions; who is facing federal anti-trust action; whose New York |

local forbade the soldier band of “This Is the Army” to play at the opening of a service men’s social center. To

“We will popularize the

In my old-fashioned, horse-and-buggy, ruggedly | individualistic way I resent the situation in Which | 8 private organization can fine any man n $500 for:

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ON AND ON ROLLS THIS WHO-SHALL-STAND TIFF , , , By R. R. L., Indianapolis Everyone so far seems to have missed the point concerning who should stand on the streetcar. A boy or young man should give his

[seat to a ‘middle-aged or: elderly

lady. But a man who is tired from

pected to give his seat to a shopper or woman-worker. Young girls do not expect a man older than them to stand. Certainly the women who smoke, drink and swear are not the majority, There .are just as many ladies today as any other time. At any rate, I'm teaching my boy to be a gentleman. He is seven years old and always stands when the streetcar gets crowded.

By E. F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th st. Yes, American knighthood is' “no longer in flower” and there is a reason. Knighthood was the champion and protector of the virtuous and weak. As the “gallant male” has so eloquently stated, women have sunk to a low estate in the minds of most men. And it’s their own fault! ; Diogenes used to go around in broad daylight with a lighted lantern “looking for an honest: man.” Modern Diogeneses may be soon looking for an hénest true and faithful woman! If all signs don’t fail, they are pretty scarce right now. . Most men are 50 skeptical about women nowadays because of the brazen recklessness, .carelessness, flirting and flaunting their boldness, parading - their almost naked hodies in public, suggestive poses in pictures used as advertisements, leg shows, smoking, drinking, SaniliingS and Wholesale deg-

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fiational mence and road to ruin and disAmerican womanhood sorruption and worse m! dangerous sex madz virtue, honesty and of this nation! ,,.

, 186 8. Meridian st. :e to get into the disret up and give a lady 1 I?” by telling some of t females that there is . reason for the unactions by the male vay down deep. anguage it is just that ‘espect for women as a he has respect for the nows and those in his 1ow do you expect him yroper respect for womNe? : i you righteous females je countless drunken adorn the streets and ty night? Have you ne specimens walking t all times. with the ack suits? Have you a sweater girls who like jeir presence and who i in prominent outline drive by as.they walk! ralks? 3 seen the thousands of TTR ra ier.

$2 | |1ittle politeness does not hurt any- * | one. However, the younger genera-

| some time, but why should I? You

| the daughters of the ministers and

{them look into the future. Is this -} f¥the way they swould have their

| ‘they are treated as women should

. | men of Indianapolis. In case they {ay have forgotlen the definifion,

females who. look like they haven't had a night's rest for ages? The - worn-out ‘ haggard hard “babies” who drive with a cigaret in the side of their mouths and who are now getting bolder and

starting to walk down the street with cigarets? Yes, you are right; the smoking is o. k. and this is a free country, but to we males who still remember what respect means for a female, the cigaret on the street does not fit in. Don’t get me wrong—I am 39 years old. I could go on for quite

females don’t care, so why should we men? But I sometimes wonder where

social workers -are, and daughters of others who are still old-fash-igned, and why some of these females don’t start something, because if this thing keeps up, they also will experience the knowledge of what it means to lose the respect of man.

By Mrs. C. F. B,, Indianapolis This airing of opinion over gentlemen (?) not giving their seats to ladies prompts me to offer my two cents worth. When mothers with en or eight-year-old children stand, while their offspring take the seats on busses or streetcars, when young boys of high school age remain frozen to their seats, it seems to me small wonder that the older men do the same. I have used the cars and busses for 23 years and seldom stand, but I don’t expect working men to give me a seat. I know what it means to sit down after eight or 10 hours work. But if the mothers would teach their children a few manners, these younger men would at least offer their seats.... One thing I: have noticed is that men in uniforms always offer their seats to a lady either young or old. Maybe the army will make gentlemen out of our unchivairous males. By Sir Galahad, Indianapolis * I feel it is.my turn to add & bit to this “jump up and give a seat’ controversy, as stated by L. G. D. on page 14 of the Friday, Aug. 14 issue. In the first Place, who started it all—a few misled women. . Since then, all women were rated the same. If these men or so-called men cannot be gentlemen enough to give up their seats; then let

wives and daughters treated? A

tion will automaticaly get in the same rut as some women, unless

be treated. “Chivalry” a word that seems to be lost among quite a few

I quote from Webster—“respect. fo womanly Sigaity and chastity.” j

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By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—Return to the United States of Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew from Tokyo, together with nearly 250 diplomatic and consular officers ‘who were under the Japane thumb in the Far East, marks th “end of the effort to get some 400 U. 8. state department people. clear of axis-dominated territory, That is has taken eight months: since Pearl Harbor to accomplish these transfers is indicative of the kicking around and the imprisonment which the U. 8. foreign service agents have to take in time of war. Ambassador: Nelson Johnson, for instance, has been in this war for more than five years. “As ambassador to China, he and his staff have taken Jap bombings at Nanking, s. Hankow and Chungking. Johnson is now envoy toAustralia, and likely to be in the thick of it again.: Experiences of these U. S. foreign service people, in fact, practically tell the story of the war. John Ker Davis and the embassy and consular staffs took: the worst the Germans had to offer for 12 days in the siege of Warsaw.

Not Only Bombs—Starvation, Too

DAISY HARRIMAN, only woman head of an’ American diplomatic mission, was recently decorated by Norway for her part in moving her embassy five. times to keep in touch with the Norwegian governement during the German invasion. One member of her staff was killed by a German bomb. In Paris, a bomb dropped through the ceiling of: the dining room in the American embassy while Ambassador William C. Bullitt was at lunch. 5 Not only bombings, but near-starvation hit the American diplomatic and consular missions in Greec ‘Many of those who have returned to the United States have had to undergo long periods of convalese cence to recover from blood and diet deficiencies. So reserved and conservative is the state departe«ment about making herces of any of its foreign serve ° ice personnel that its reports delete mention of names when exploits of individuals are passed along. In the eyes of the state department, all its peopl are modest, retiring public servants, so why ballyhoo . any of them. When Congressman Foster Stearns of - Hancock, N. H,, who used to be a foreign service man himself, wanted to make a speech about the brave deeds of these men, the department made him take out all names, for. fear that some of those not mentioned might féel slighted. - 3 A

Sissies Need Not Apply

BUT INDIVIDUAL experiences will’ get around. There is the story. of Walter A. Foote, who has been - consul general ‘at Batavia, Java, since 1934. When - the Japs launched their invasion of The Netherlands East Indies, Foote was in the thick of it. . He stayed at his post as long as he could and then under pressure made a retreat across Java, finally . escaping to Australia by plane. It took him three months to get hack to the United States on an une escorted, slow freighter, but after reporting to Wash« ington he was ready .for another assignment and is - now on his way to a new post in the Pacific. Frank Anderson Henry, U. S. consul at Malta, British island fortress in the Mediterranean, had . perhaps the most miraculous escapes, for when he recently reached Cairo, it was to report that at that time the U. S. consulate was one of only three buildings out of 50 left standing on its street. So you see the life of a diplomat is not all high hat, white tie and tails, or even stick, spats, Home... burg hat and a morning coat.

A Woman's Viewpoint © By Mrs. Waller Ferguson

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SINCE WE ARE agreed that _mama’s morale is a vital factor .- in the war effort, how about - everybody pitching in te help her “Keep the Home Fires Burning?” _. “God help us,” say the proe fessors, “if mama ever really gets . 50 discouraged she’ll quit dead on , us.” Nothing would please Hitler more, and it could happen here. As a matter of fact, home women are fed up with appeals to their patriotism while the predatory females and papa himself can sidestep all responsibility for maintaining domestic morale. It’s like this: The Little Woman may have the best of intentions and be a bundle of energy: and ; good will besides. But her morale is apt to" droop - under the constant assaults of some feminine robber -. who breaks into ber home and Steals away her husband. :

The Art of a Hunters

“AND A GOOD DEAL of that sort of crime now goes . on. The land is filled with marauders who never bother with petty loot such as one’s purse or even one’s good name. They're after some ‘other ” woman's husband, and for that kind of grand larceny the courts have named no punishment. So the hard-working wife whose sole concern’

the welfare of her home, her husband and her chil: dren is often helpless before the dames who prowl in

prey with the art of a big-game hunter: . Our morale b ‘should turn their attention to these outlaws in petticoats, because the national

subversive efforts to destroy the American home.

this when, in the midst of war, you are ‘disloyal to your wife and children even while you: strut and 3 boast of loyalty to your country? :

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