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TAXES HAVE TO BE COLLECTED

OME congressional leaders are saying—and we think they are right—that congress ought not to consider the president’s request for $16,000,000,000 additional taxation until it has first cleared the fiscal decks by placing present income taxes on a pay-as-you-go basis. Raising revenue involves something more than putting tax rates on the statute books. As Rep. Disney of Oklahoma says, it takes more than high rates to get the money. A system of tax payments must be worked out so that the government gets its share before the taxpayer uses his money for other purposes. | Under the present slaphappy procedure of a one-year lag in fax collections, the taxpayer doesn’t have to make his first payment on a year’s income until March 15 of the following year. And if the taxpayer has no money when the payment day arrives, there is nothing the government can do about it. ! On the books about 10 billion dollars is owed to the government in individual income taxes for last year’s incomés. Nobody knows how many taxpayers will be able to'pay, or how much, on the March 15 deadline. Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve bank and a stout New Dealer, has proposed a plan to rescue both the government and the taxpayers from this ‘dilemma. It is simply this: That we stop looking back over our shoulders at last year’s income that is already spent, and start collecting now on this year’s income, requiri people to pay as they earn, : When that is done, we can look around for ways and means ‘of raising that 16 billions more the president wants.

SHIPS SPELL VICTORY QHIPS to supply our overseas fronts ang allies spell victory. Submarine success in cutting our supply lines is Hitler's best hope—probably his only hope—of forcing a stalemate. Likewise the war in the Pacific is laregly dependent on shipping, for the Japs and us. Unfortunately, we and our allies have not found the answer to the Nazi undersea menace. Though the zone of sinkings has moved away from our Atlantic coastline, allied losses are as large as ever. Hitler is building subs faster . than we destroy them. Now he is reported ready to throw ~ B00 into the battle of the Atlantic. The president’s request for an additional four-billion ‘dollar ship appropriation, for the current year ending this June, indicates how serious the problem is. But there is a bright side. We have broken all construction reeords during the last year, and each month are breaking more. The total merchant tonnage produced in 1942 was more than eight million, and the present rate is/almost 15 million a year—compared with five and a half during the peak year of the last war, In explaining this construction miracle, Admiral Land of the maritime commission credits government-manage-ment-labor co-operation, extensive prefabrication, assemblyline methods, welding instead of riveting, and standardiza- - tion of design. : This is the American industrial genius, which we believe can produce the victory weapons and the ships necessary to deliver them. .

LOOK UNDER THE WHITEWASH

THE matter of those paving blocks, we hear it argued, gshouldn’t figure in the senate investigation of Boss Ed Flynn's qualifications for a vital wartime diplomatic post. We disagree. These are facts: In November, 1941, employees of New_York City, -using city trucks, hauled 8000 city-owned paving blocks 54 miles to Mr. Flynn's country estate, where city-paid workmen put in four days laying them in an antique Belgian courtyard. Six months later a Bronx special grand jury reported that Mr. Flynn was not responsible for what had been done. He had reimbursed the city in January, “after the issuance of subpenas indicated that an investigation was forward.” And the evidence, according to the grand jury, showed that he “had never expressed any desire that this work be done under city auspices or by city employees and without expense to him, but to the contraby he had asked and - expected that the work would be dore by a private cohtractor to be charged for and paid by him.” "The foreman of the grand jury has since become a - federal employee. one : It has never been explained—at least publicly—why the courtyard was paved as it was if Mr. Flynn didn’t want it done that way. But there was testimony by city employees that Mr. Flynn, present on a least two occasions while the work was in progress, said it was “a nice job.” And the grand jury, we think, did a nice job of whiteminister to Australia and the president's personal ambassador to the Southwest Pacific—the people of ‘the United tates have a right to expect that their senate look under

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No Chance of a Getaway :

THERE IS NO rush about it. Governor Dewey has more immediaté business on his mind and there is no possibility of a getaway unless God in his wisdom takes the gorilla before a higher court or the president, who naturally knows him of old and well, should’ spirit ‘him out of the: country, until the heat cools in the role of ambassador plenipotentiary or, official political observer or in other protective guise, Mr. Flynn, however, may be spared further embarrassment in the matter of the paving blocks filched from the public pile and laid at public expense on his up-country premises but paid for retroactively when the deed was found out. Mr. Flynn has received the president’s nomina-: tion as minister to the commonwealth of Australia and personal ambassador to the jungles, reefs, and waters of the South Pacific and this kindness, unless it is thwarted by the senate, will not only make him personally unavailable for a renewed inquiry, hut clothe him with a political and diplomatic immunity.

F. D. R. Can Say He Did His Best

AND, EVEN THOUGH the appointment be rejected, no man can say that President Roosevelt didn’t go through for Dear Eddie Flynn and do his best to put him beyond embarrassment. ~ The president knew what an odor this. appeintment would raise but Mr. Flynn had served the party of humanity and the party were ungrateful ‘did it shrink from favoring one of the boys, even at the cost of that which the mob, themselves, describe with vulgar accuracy as a stink. Should the senate turn down Mr. Flynn, however, Mr. Roosevelt can honestly say he did his best and regretfully throw him to Mr. Dewey. It is sad, though, that the loyal Albany racketeer should be left to face Governor Dewey without at least a gesture at deliverance. After all, he might be offered at least the job of minister to Costa Rica. :

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—~In addition to putting limitations on salary increases and decreases, regulations of the new salary stabilization unit in the treasury department put a ceiling on the amount which may be paid to anyone during a calendar year. These regulations have the effect of limiting salaries to a maximum of $25,000 a year after the pay- . ment of federal income taxes. The way this figures out, a man may not receive more than $54,428.57 gross salary, bonus, etc, in 1942, nor more than $67,200 in 1943. The difference is explained by the fact that income taxes will take a bigger nick out of a salary in ‘1942 than in 1943. Income from sources other than salaries——dividends, for instance—are not included in this restriction because when congress wrote the law, stabilization was limited to wages and salaries. The specific limitation of $25,000 net was not the idea of congress, however, but a figure set by the. president; “to provide greater equality in contributing to the war effort.”

No Two Cases wl Alike

WHILE THER. are very definite provisions in the salary stabilizatio unit's regulations on salary limitations, these resivictions will apply to only 20,000 or 25,000 people in the United States, so the general rule will be to handle each of these cases separately. Individual attention is necessary, anyway, for no two of these cases will come out alike. In fact, where an over-$25,000-a

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ARE ASHAMED”

By. Mrs. Louise Grant, 6 W. Michigan st., _, The following is a copy of a letter which I sent to Congressmén Ludlow dated Jan. 5: - : . Dear Congressman Ludlow: Your diatribes against gasoline rationing which you state as the voice of your constituents is a gross distortion of the facts. x Your constituents are ashamed of such an outcry when our very existence as a nation is ab stake. It is difficult to imaging the curbing of pleasure driving a “sac= rifice” in the face of the perils our boys are confronted with on the battlefield in Africa and the Pacifle. It is true that the whole problem of rationingicould be better handled

is not that the government is rationing too many articles but tnat it is not rationing everything at once. An over-all rationing system would guarantee that there will be adequate supplies, t they will be equitably distribu to all communities and individuals, and that there will be no grabbing, hoarding, and general chaos. Rationing prevents price rises and profiteering. It is for these reasons that we urge you to support the rationing program and to vote for the necessary funds for the carrying out of the OPA program. The rationing and control programs we see only as of a centralized war economy as proposed in the Tolan-Kilgore-Pepper bill. Your support of this bill is necessary to prove your sincerity in the fight for a complete victory over Hitlerism.

% ” » “RAILROADERS ASKING CHANCE TO GET WELL” By Zdrs. Lebo Goodwin, 2112 Morgan st. To Mrs. Jerome Miller, Bloomhing= ton, R. R. 1: You say “Let Mr. Railroader come to Bloomington.” Now youre tellYou wouldnt have wanted your husband to trade places with him any time between 1930 through 1939. No, during those years your husband was still making his $50 every two weeks. Do you know what the majority

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AS'SOME OF you no doubt know, :iandom Ho¢ ise's Bennett Cerf conducts one of America s most delight= Mi een in he Setuday Review 0 Literature In most rex one, recites the & which padi ory ape about the books that “got America ino the war.” - Here were the hooks mentioned in the story: ol R. ENICKERBOCKER'S “Is Tomorrow Hits 5?” i J. C. HARSCH'S “Pattern of Cong uest. WALLACE DEUEL’S “People Und:r Hitlee® - . DOUGLAS MILLER'S “You Cart Do Business With Hitler.” : FREDERICK SCHUMAN'S “Desig: for Power.” GUSTAV STOLPER'S “Age of Fa le” = ROBERT ST. JOHN'S “Land of th Silent People. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S “Blond, Sweat and Wars.” 3 : i 3 ! PIERRE VAN PASSEN’S “I'he Tine Is Now.” PERTINAX' “The Grave Diggers ™ : 2 - GENEVIEVE TABOUIS' “They (Jalled Me Case sandra.” x : . SIGRID UNDSET'S “Return fo tle Future.” fas

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