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'.,v Friday, April 16, 1943
FOR THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER?
A letter from members of the 750th
Tank Battalion, Company A, at Fort Knox,
Kentucky, to workers who recently struck
in a war industry, said in part:
"We feel deeply hurt to think you
would let the boys overseas down. Just
what do you think would happen to this
country if the boys overseas would sit
down, and quit fighting, because they just
make $50 a month? We need more fighting
equipment. What do you Americans
want? .Moro money now and slavery
later, or less money and freedom/ Just
think how some of your sons and brothers
over there would feel if they know
you were selling them out, and that's what
you are doing when you stop production.
There is a bible story of a sell-out for
$0 pieces of silver. ReAd it.
NONE TOO SOON
There are growing indications that
good news is in the offing for civilians.
The retail distribution industry may be
relieved of some of the voluminous regulatory
red tape which is now hampering
operation. This means, if it actually ^ oc'
' curs, that merchants can spend more time
meeting the needs of customers and less
time filling out government blanks. It
would also mean that the regulatory authorities
are beginning to realize that a
smooth functioning retail distrbution system
is essential in these critical days.
Government spokesmen have been
crying for greater efficiency and better
utilization of manpower. We have heard
grim warnings of a labor draft, yet government
has been a great offender in causing
a waste of manpower. The distribution
industry has pleaded for simplification ot
rationing and price controls. Retailers are
desperately short of able employes. But
attainment of greater operating efficiency
has been difficult because of cumbersome
government regulations.
In recent months, the problems ot
distribution have grown to proportions
that actually threatened a breakdown m
the movement of necessities to consumers.
Retailers have warned officials that the
steady drain of key employes by the military
services and war industries, and unworkable
price and rationing controls,
must be corrected.
If streamlined operating rules for the
merchant are actually in the making, they
will not have come a moment too soon.
The next step should be prompt clarification
of the draft status of key employes.
The merchants, the farmers and the
business men will give everything they
* possess if need be to win the war. But
if their efforts are to succeed, government
must give. too. It must give cooperation
and intelligent control.
BUREAUCRAT'S DREAM
Humanitarian idealism often outstrips
common sense. Such is the case with plans
for compulsory health insurance.
Perhaps the most startling revelation
contained in the Northwestern University
report on compulsory health insurance, is
the extent to which bureaucracy would
expand under a government health insur- ^
ance program. As the report observes,
there are between 50 and o5 million gainfully
employed persons in the United
States at the present time. This with
members of families and dependents,
would swell the number of potential beneficiaries
to over 100 million, depending, of
course, upon the type of coverage embraced
in the system. Approximately 50,000,000
cases would receive medical attention
each year in the United States. All
of these cases would have to go through
the process of certification, filing, inspection,
payment, complaints. and adjustments.
If an adequate staff and organization
were provided, it would mean an army
of government employes.
In the words of the report: 'To
practical politicians . . . such an expansion
in the number of Federal employes means
primarily one thing, namely, patronage,
patronage for whatever political organization
may happen to be in power ami a
patronage tliatvwould surpass anything
that politicians hnyo- dreamed of in the
past." . .
Congress ls struggling to curb bureaucracy,
well knowing that unless it is
curbed the American form of government
will be destroyed. A broad compulsory
health insurance program would make the
bureaucratic menace virtually uncontrollable.
If a woman does house work for $4
per week that's domestic service?-if she
does it for nothing, that's matrimony.
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THE RIGHT APPROACH
FVice Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown deserves the wholehearted cooperation
of all citizens. He speaks a language
which our people understand and appreciate,
instead of the "$ 10,000 fine and 10
years in jail" lingo.
When enlarging the rationing program,
Mr. Brown said: "The necessities
of war have once again compelled the government
to ask the American people to
bear the burden of another rationing ,prograin.
I should like to ask the foreb&arance
of the public . . . while the trade is
adjusting itself to new demand and supply
conditions."
That's the American way. Freedomloving
Americans should cooperate 100
per cent.
REMOVE THE MILLSTONE NOW
The Florida National Bank of Jacksonville
has been running some striking
newspaper advertisements on the necessity
for changing the Federal income tax laws
to meet present day needs of the taxpayers. , ,
One of its recent advertisements said: *
"Remember how a few years ago the
government solemnly talked about 'Freedom
from debt . . . freedom from want . . .
freedom from fear, etc?
"The 'Freedoms' theory is.a great one
?but why doesn't Uncle Sam practice it
with income taxes? Instead of treeing his
taxpayers from debt and fear, the present
income tax system perpetuates a peculiar
type of peonage because the taxpayer is
never out of debt. ?? *
"Last year's income taxes hang
around his neck like a millstone. Let's
adopt the pay-as-you-go plan now and
make the 'Freedoms' an actuality rather
than a pretty theory."
THE LION'S SHARE
The investor of $100 or $500 in the
stocks or bonds of an industry in our country,
has a tremendous interest in the nation's
tax policies, both national and
1OCH1
The Southern California Edison Company
is typical of electric properties
owned by thousands of small stockholders.
Vice-President Mullendore of the company
said that with war absorbing more
than half of the currently produced wealth
of the country, enormous tax bills can be
expected.
To show how the government depends
on the earnings of private enterprise, Mr.
Mullendore said: "Whereas last year our
common stockholders received only $1.50
a share as dividends, taxes equaled about
$5.25 a share." He then pointed out that
by comparison with publicly owned electric
utilities, which are financed with
public credit, and whe'h are wholly or partally
tax exempt, private electric companies
bear an unfair tax burden.
Also, he stressed the unfairness of
applying the so-called "excess profits" tax
to the earnings of a regulated utility, for,
under public regulation, utilities are not
permitted to earn more than the rental
value of capital?true "excess profits" are
prohibited.
If government wishes to continue to
collect the lion's share of the earnings of
industry, it should correct inequalities in
tux laws which can ;destroy private enterprise.
CONTROL BUREAUCRACY NOW
Advocates of a socialized bureaucracy
invariably introduce their schemes as part
of broad, benevolent programs that are
hard to criticize because superficially they
sound so good. Always they are represented
as coming direct from the heart of
the masses and are therefore an inexorable
demand which it is undemocratic to
oppose. .
Most of these schemes, as their first
objective, seek to destroy private ownership
and management of basic industries.
Basic industries such as mining, electric
power and oil are the bulwark of free
enterprise. They are easy to attack for
the simple reason that they seem remote
from the welfare of the butcher, the baker,
and the candlestick maker. Actually if
they should fall under domination of
boards and bureaus and patronage-loving
politicians, the end of individual liberty
for all of us will be n sight. A bureaucracy
that controls a people's source of jobs, soon
lays a heavy hand on personal freedom.
That the people of the United States
want no part of alien bureaucracy is
abundantly clear. Robert Watt, a labor
leader of great prominence in government,
has said : "After this war, I want no gigantic
governmental Reconstruction Finance
Corporations to finance business and dominate
it; and I want no gigantic governmental
Works Progress Administration to
employ labor and dominate it."
And again, William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor, has
warned: "If this country ever gets a system
of governmental regimentation, labor
will suffer most. Labor, therefore, is deep-ly
interested in t'he preservation of private
business; and labor should everlastingly
maintain that the owners and managers of
business are entitled to a fair and just return
upon their investments."
Americans want to remain free under
a regulated capitalistic system, protected
by constitutional government. They must
not be fooled by the false promises of the
get-something-for-nothing philosophers.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow
of a powerful feeling.
"They Give Their Lives-You Lend Your Money"
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OUR TOWN
By Jim Gould |
With the U. S. Armed Forces iu
Florida.?Odda anxl Ends: The boys
down at Key West say it isn't any
hotter there than you'd expect only
you should expect quite a lot because
you'll get It. We were down that
way for a day and at one of the local,
ordinary restaurants we paid 95 cents
for scrambled eggs, toast and something
the waiter called coffee. Ix>cal
Inn keepers have gone money mad
as is the regrettable case In so many
places where military men are staPloned,
and a room at his alleged
hostelry that normally rented for one
or two dollars?and probably still
does to the natives?now comes at
six, seven or even eight. Imagine,
eight bucks for shut eye. That's a
buck an hour. The old park bench
has come into its own once more and
the cops close tholr eyes to the practice.
Such conditions are, of course, disgusting.
Like the Flack market. Human
beings?that is some human beings?will
do anything for money.
Witness the quislings. A young navy
ensign who is down hero for instruc-j
tion in celestial navigation tells us
that the little county seat town where
tie' has been stationed in Ohio is 110
exception, so all the jipping isn't confined
to any one section of the country.
He says the merchants' in this
Ohio town are really doing a job on
the boys in uniform and he doesn't
mean just a once over lightly. Rut
good!
And it isn't just the little merchant
that is dipping his greedy fingers
into the bountiful profits created
by a war. The big fellow is right .in
there batting, too. One of America's
most famous and exclusive department
stores recently carried a page
ad in which was the usual display of
women's finely. This part of the country
swarms with Air corps men and
their families and this merchant
wants to be right in step so he advertises
something absolutely new in women's
more intimate garments known
as a "Dra" in such lovely colors as
Air Corps Gray, Nurse White and
Navy Iilue. Paaalileese ! ! !
During World war one a lot of us
very young and very smart boys over
in France thought we wore really
slickers \%hen we bought Schraft's
chocolates at the Army Canteen and
took them into the town of Vichy
\v<here the civiliar population hadn't
so much as seen candy for two years
and, of course, where they would pay
n^ost any price for sarafe We would
go to a cafo and spend the precious
pieces of candy?and no one In this
world loves chocolates like the French
?as If they wore gold coins. One
piece of chocolate for a glass of wine.
Another for one of those pink drinks
that made you got chummy with the
Captain, etc., e?tc.f ad Infinitum, ad
nauseum. Yep, just a bunch of wise
guys.
Well, we find this hero new war
ain't no different. Some sailors here
have been wondering at the tremendous
popularity of one of their boys.
A little, short, pug nosed guy we will
call Joe. All the gals were( going for
Joe and Joe was the kind of a boy
that moves right In and grins like
Andy Hardy. His pals figured no one
could be that good so they sleuthed
around and got the dope. Little Joey
has been bringing the gals a pound
of butter now and then, interspersed
with some coffee at frequent intervals.
Joey had access to the precious stuff
in his round of duty and there you
are. That, being illegal, besides making
the Old Man on Joey's ship very,
very unhappy, is why Joe is now in a
place where he is lucky to get even
bread and water for himself. Hiya
Joe whattayaknow!
But seriously, the boys are really
working hard. That Ensign we mentioned
was up there in the second
stanza says he has from Saturday at
1 p. m. until Sunday at 7 p. m. off
each week. He has to be back in
quarters at that time on Sunday so
as to get in throe hours of study before
lights out and be on the ball next
morning. And this Sunday he has to
be back at 4 p. m. on account of because
ho has to take over as O. U.
That means Officer of the Day and
that also means he's in charge of the
guard that acts as sort of a welcoming'
committee to see the boys really
do como home of nights. So, besides
being on guard duty, they also have
to act as sort of military mothers and
be sure all the boys are tycked in
safely.
Incidentally, our Ensign friend says
ho majored in math at his school back
home and was considered somethtnj
of a maestro with the subject. tyfl
hastily added that he has now de- B
cidod he never really got past his 1
eights in the multiplication tables <uxt I
that by the time he has complete^!
his Celestial Navigation course hell
understand everything Mr. Elnstefe/fl
has been trying to tell the world tor
bo long.
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SOUL GALES
My soul Is full of stormy gales I
TempesKoesed above life's sea, I
O'er paths In bills and lovely valei;7*
Storming the jeweled sky for ^ fl
What need 1 for ship Dial sail*
To take me o'er land and sea, H
My soul Is full of stormy gales I
And weird thought that sails for n*. I
My soul Is full of magic thing#, I
Things of mine that cannot be, ? *
My thoughts have magic in their I
wings, ^
When they sail the blue sky tor net I
?W. M. Nesmith, Kingstree, 8. C.|
If every man, woman andl
fe child In the United States lays
\Jetfm aside $100 the aggregate ail
V be about 913,000,000,000 or th?
'im amount the Treasury mist
raise In Its Second War Leu,
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