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doesn’t faze the secretary. "But Mr. Morgenthau also knows that an election is coming on. And apparently he is bothered by the realizaion that the number of direct taxpayers likewise has multiForty million takpayers in voting booths could do wrong. So one of Mr. Morgenthau's proposals is that nine

"million people be relieved of the obligation of contributing

directly to the government's support. That would be done by the process of merging the victory tax into the income tax in such a way that nine million of the victory taxpayers "would not become income taxpayers. The $80,000,000 Joss in revenue would be more than recovered by higher rates on those who remain in the taxpaying fold. Mr. Morgenthau's politics, however, run counter to ‘his own statistics of income. He admits that four-fifths of all the people's income is received by persons. getting Jess than $5000 a year. Yet, Mr. Morgenthau's new tax _ program, like all of his others—and he has proposed at Jeast one a year since he became treasury chief—is aimed at the other one-fifth of the total income. It is about time for Mr. Morgenthau, the politician, to confess to Mr. Morgenthau the revenue searcher, that after he has extracted all the blood out of that one-fifth he will still have to get the bulk of revenue from | the four-fifths, Of course, most of the revenue he’s now | getting comes from the four-fifths, by indirect taxation. , ss ® =» . u » thing this country learned and taught the world is the lesson of mass production. - A lot of wise guys tried to get rich manufacturing automobiles to sell for $5000 with. a profit of $3000 on each vehicle. They all went broke. But Henry Ford became a billionaire making cars to sell for "a few hundred dollars, with only a few dollars profit on ~ each model-T or model-A. a If Mr. Morgenthau were thinking in terms of taxes for revenue instead of taxes for politics, he would frame a tax program to fit the market—to get the revenue where the money is. If the treasury is ever to get itself in a sound position, it will have to do as Henry Ford did—fashion a product which the mass of people will buy and pay for and believe is giving them their money's worth, “Their money's worth”—ah, there's the rub! All the

taxes that Mr. Morgenthau has persuaded congress to enact add up to only a little more than one-third as much.

as the government is spending. And if he were to get _ this additional 10-billion-plus, that would still be less than * one-half the spending. Present indications are that if the war ends two years hence the public debt will be around 800 billions. At 3 per cent interest, that would mean an annual carrying charge of nine billions—as much as the whole wasteful pre-war New Deal cost per year. The people who get $1000, $2000, $3000, $4000 a year ~—which means more than 95 per cent of us—are not so

dumb but that they know this will mean food out of the |

mouths and clothes off the backs of all of them and their children and their children’s children. : 3 . - ” » w ¥ we ask: Why is it that the United States is spending "more money on this war than all of our sllies combined? Why is it we must continue to pay cost-plus-fixed-fee prices for things the government buys, and time and a half for overtime labor? Why not buy the materials of . war at what they are worth, rather than submit to this . highjacking? And why this swarm of bureaucrats feasting on our taxes and our credit while you preach sacrifice? g The people are willing to pay for every gun, every bullet, every plane, bomb, tank, cargo vessel and warship, and all the food needed to supply our troops, and to provide our share of the supplies to our allies. We're ready to spend any amount of money actually needed to save a single life or to shorten the war one minute. But couldn't we shed 8 few parasites from the payroll and get just a little com“mon. sense management? Couldn't we adjourn New Deal ‘politics for the duration? Wouldn't it be a good idea for the committee on ways and means, considering the 1014 billion in new taxes, to resolve itself into a'committee on ways and means of not ~ wasting 10 billions? :

: is an interesting mose-under-the-tent item. Our correspondent at the U. A. W.-C. I. 0. convention in Fred W. Perkins, reports that he and his fellow Apermen are not alone in covering this meeting of ntry’s biggest union. They have a new colleague, Travis K. Hedrick, who is reporting the event not for

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ch of the U. S. office of war information. the government is going to send a reporter ling, why not to others? Why not cover all over the country?

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MY CLIENTS lately have sent me many orders for worry on the subject of a manpower shortage at a time when the union racketeers are many jobs, and wasting mostly dummies to sure, on mock work; and me say that my formance on this one has been uncommonly therough and polished, but there have been so many fepeat orders that I have had to attend several huge batches, LL A friend of mine, an amateur, tells sets aside one hour every evening for worry he is very earnest, he is after all an ama something of a plodder at that and I have him to put in a whole week's worrying time on nothing but the soundness of his insurance policy. Such Individual worry is very wasteful, as you can

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soldier husband to a Southern city tioned sent me a letter in today's mail “I am not much at letter writing, bu would appreciate it if you would doctor up my and print it for me." She then went on to tell how hard husband have looked for an can't find anyone who will rent to them because she is soon to have a baby.

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Hitler in his place when he started to prepare second world war, we and the British held hands in holy horror.

Firm But Just Formula Needed REALISTS HERE, therefore, are saying that Secretary of State Hull, Foreign Minister Eden and Fore eign Commissar Molotov, When they meet at Moscow, should try to agree on a firm but just formula for “What we seek,” said President Wilson in his four principles, “is the feign of law, based upon the con-

ashington officials insist ons complete “re-education” of the German masses through control of the schools.- But, it is asked, who will exercise this

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