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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FEBRUARY 20, 1942 Washington, D. C. NEW TAX BATTLE Biggest fight on Capitol Hill when it comes to writing new taxes is go ing to be over the sales tax. Wall Street forces already have laid pipe lines to certain congressmen for a sales tax instead of heavier cor poration taxes, and it is going to be a knock-down-drag-out battle. The man in the thick of this fight is now relatively obscure, but the public will hear a lot about him shortly. He is Randolph Paul, bet ter known to Ford, Standard Oil, and big firms who hire the nation’s best tax experts, than to the rest of the country. Paul has written a number of books on federal income taxes and gave up a $250,000 law practice to work for virtually noth ing for the government. Despite his background, however, big business will get no comfort from Randolph Paul when it comes to the sales tax. He is opposed to this levy primarily because it in duces inflation. “If you add four cents on the sales price of any commodity,” Paul ar gues, “and a few more pennies on the price of a whole row of other commodities, labor has an excuse to ask for an increase in wages. Prices have gone up, and labor claims it is entitled to the increase. Then once the increase is granted, industry has an excuse for increas ing prices, and the whole thing is started all over again. It can be the most vicious circle in our economic life.” • • • Anti-Sales Tax. Instead of a sales tax, Paul fa vors a series of very stiff taxes all along the line. Most drastic of his proposals is to tax lowest bracket incomes. Paul points out that if you take 72 per cent from the big business ex ecutive making $50,000 a year he merely increases salaries to his as sociates, spends more money on in stitutional advertising, and de creases his net inconie. This in the end also leads to inflation. Paul is in favor of taxing the higher brackets very heavily, but warns that the $1,200,000,000 additional at tainable from this source is peanuts compared with what the country has to raise to meet the war bill. The real spending power of the nation is in the lower bracket in comes and Paul contends these will have to bear the big part of the war budget. Other Paul proposals are: (1) Heavy corporation taxes; (2) stiff excess profits taxes; (3) plugging all loopholes in the tax laws; (4) an excise tax on cer tain specific luxuries which would not increase the cost of living. His recommendations are sure to be adopted in toto by Secretary Morgenthau and the White House. Whether congres; will adopt them will be decided only after one of the toughest tax battles in history— especially over the sales tax. • • • HOW TO SEE HENDERSON Leon Henderson is guarded by so many secretaries and functionaries that even members of congress have a hard time getting to him. Officials of Alaska, bothered by a serious price problem in the Terri tory, tried for days to get an audi ence with the price czar. Finally, a little gray-haired lady found the answer. Mrs. John McCormack, wife of Alaska's selective service head, at tended a woman’s club function in Washington, at which Henderson submitted to questioning. Mrs. McCormack put the Alaskan price problem to Henderson on the floor of the club meeting, and he promptly invited her to call at his office next day for a detailed ex planation. “The people around the office,” said Henderson, “will try to keep you out, but pay no attention to them. You just march straight into my office.” Mrs. McCormack followed in structions. She saw Henderson, and came away with a promise of action. * • • CAPITAL CHAFF C. Attorney General Francis Biddle is personally reviewing the recom mendations of all Alien Enemy Hearing boards, which pass on charges against alien residents in the U. S. C. The Bluefield, W. Va., Chamber of Commerce has taken an unusu al step for a chamber of commerce. Advocating the curtailment of non- essential federal spending, the chamber listed a number of pet lo cal projects it was willing to forego for the duration of the war. C. L. Earle Davidson, hustling young publisher of the Greenville (Mich.) Daily News, has won praise from treasury officials for his highly suc cessful work in boosting defense bond sales. Chairman of the De fense Savings committee of his area, Davidson addresses rallies every day and is chalking up a remark able record. At one meeting de fense bond subscriptions totaled $26,000. fi. Returning from Rio by Pan Amer ican clipper, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles relaxed in his first bridge game in seven years. IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS (The First Doughboy Abroad, and Adolf Hitler.) Yank—Adolf, I am here. Adolf—I'll be seeing you. Yank—and sooner than you think! I hear you’ve been having a dis agreeable winter. Adolf—I can’t be intimidated by weather. Yank—That ain’t the way I heard it. • • • Adolf—Bah! You’re green and un trained. You represent a capital istic nation. You are soft and flab by. Yank—The voice is the voice of Adolf but the words are the words of Wilhelm. • • • < Adolf—Where are you? Yank—Wouldn’t you like to know? Adolf—1T1 find out. Yank—You bet. From now on I'll be in constant touch. Adolf—I suppose you realize you are up against an unbeatable army. Yank—Nix en that. I read that news from Russia. Adolf—Russia, phooey! I’m not finished with her yet. Yank—Boy, how you wish you were! Lissen, Adolf, how’s your nervous breakdown coming along? Adolf—That was all newspaper talk. I have no nervous breakdown. Yank—I’ll see that you get one now! Are you still wearing that uni form you were never going to take off until you had licked the world? Adolf—Ja! Ja! Yank—I didn’t know cooties could stay so long in one place. Say, why don’t you get wise and sue for peace? Adolf—Me sue for peace! I’ve got the world under my heel. Yank—All I got from that sen tence was your name. Adolf—What name? Yank—Heel. * • • Adolf—Nincompoop! I consider you toe small for me to notice. Yank—If you think you look over sized you’re crazy. How are your generals. Adolf—Don’t worry about my gen erals. Yank—If you ain’t worried why should I be? Adolf—I’m itching to get a crack at you. Yank—You’re a poor judge of what causes those itches, Adolf. And, lissen, I’ve got a proposition for a partner of yours. It’s an of fer for Mussolini. Hollywood wants him in Keystone comedy revivals. Adolf—He’d be no funnier there than he is here! • • • Yank—Why do you get all your partners out of vaudeville? Benito could have come from no place else. And now you’re ty ing up with Japanese acrobats. Adolf—You’d better not dis parage my acrobats. They’re putting on quite an act. Yank—They crossed us by coming on during intermission. A year from now they won’t even be able to get bookings in Perth Amboy. • • • Adolf—You amuse me. Yank—You’ll laugh all over when you see what I’ve brought over for you. Adolf—What is it? Yank—A bucksaw. Adolf—What would I do with a bucksaw? Yank—You’ll find out! • • • Hitler has one great advantage over the rest of the Nazis; he doesn’t have to listen to Hitler. • • • One of the most encouraging signs at Washington is the gradual disap pearance of all those boys who were suddenly thrown off the stalling standard. • • • Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted architect, says the day of the skyscraper is over. That strikes us as a belated comment. It’s years since anybody’s had cour age to build anything higher than three stories. * • * These girl workers at the quartermaster’s department in Philadelphia are only three of hundreds em ployed in making flags, guidons, standards and battle streamers for the U. S. army. At left, the girl marks out the spots on the blue field where the stars go. Right: Sewing the red and white stripes together, and (center) the final step in the manufacture of the star spangled banner—the sewing on of the white stars in the blue field. Closeups of National League ‘Bigshots’ In picture at left, chief umpire Bill Klein (center) referees a discussion between Jimmy Wilson (left), manager, Chicago Cubs, and Eddie Brannick, secretary New York Giants, at National league meeting in New York. Right: Connie Mack (lifting cup) owner-manager of Philadelphia Athletics, and Ed Barrow, president of the champion New York Yankees, talk shop. Inset: Larry MacPhail, president of Brooklyn Dodgers, gets an important letter. Women at War on Home Front Not a Tornado Women in defense will nbt let war interfere with their chic, judging by a preview of styles for workers at Chicago’s famous Merchandise Mart. Displaying some of the costumes are (left to right): Marge Clark, welding; Phyllis Cramer, drafting; Madelon Shannon, civilian de fense; June Benoit, mechanic; Helen Webster, phone operator; Gay Hoff man, gardener; Dorothy Williams, carpenter; Lorrain Curtin, timekeeper. The plume in the sky over the mu nicipal airport at Kansas City is not a “twister,” but the frozen trail left by a high-flying army pursuit ship. The photo was taken 30 min utes after the plane passed over the airport. Ground reading was 1 above. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) EW YORK.—In the years be- tween the two world wars. Dr. Winifred V. Richmond of St. Eliza beth’s hospital, Washington, D. C., c, L-f d * devoted in- Stabihze Parent, tensive re- Rather Than Child, search to the Psychologist Says ravages of war psycho sis on the mind and personality of the young. She became a leading authority in this field and, in her work today offers unique and highly informed conclusions as to how to safeguard children, particularly ado lescents in the intensifying psycho logical war. The problem, she finds, is largely the stabilization of par ents rather than the young. She cites primitive cultures. Primi tive man takes his horrors in his stride. He has a physical and emotional equipment to meet them. He doesn’t crack up, and neither do his children. Young children get emotional security from their elders. Such is Dr. Richmond’s drift in her many books and articles, the lat est of which is her newly pub lished book, “Making the Most of Your Personality.” Within the last few decades she has examined countless children in the twilight zone of near-emotional and psychological collapse. She has saved or helped to save many of them. Her findings are compiled in her latest book, addressed to both parents and adolescents. Safe guarding the children in the “war of nerves” is her campaign. She is a devoted, graying abbess of science, born in Elizabeth, W. Va., in 1876, holding degrees from Ohio and Clark university. She taught 15 years, starting her career in a one-room country school, and moving on to the teaching of mental hygiene, and in wide fields of re-j| search, in many universities. 'T'HE Yippy, Dippy, Lippy Fakir of Ipi—here he is again and somebody will write a song about him some day, like the one about the ... _. Abdul Abdul- TheYippy,Dippy, b ul Ameer. Lippy Fakir of Ipi The G e r - Is Quite Slippery mans are giving him another workout among the wild tribes of Afghanistan and northwest ern India, having used his incen diary talents for years before the start of this war. Kipling’s "Man Who Would Be King,” operating in the same territory, was just an old stick- in-the-mud, compared to the emaciated wild-eyed little man, with his hair dyed bright red and a yell that gives everybody a nervous breakdown for miles around. His dish is “scourging the Infidel British.” He is the "Avenger of the Church of Is lam,” an ace troublenjaker for the Germans and Japanese just now, with his skill in provoking murderous religious wars. The British take him seriously, as his inflammatory range is such that it might necessitate the with drawal of troops from Burma and Bengal to guard the Khyber pass. As a matter of fact, the British have taken him seriously for many years. They have chased him on foot and on horseback, with planes and armored cars, with an army of 40,000 soldiers, and with everything but bloodhounds. But he has always slipped just out of reach. He has been known as “The Holy Man of the Suleiman Mountains,” and among the tribesmen the legend grows that he can do a clever dis appearing act when the police are closing in. An engineer says red lights should be used during a blackout. Not, we hope, in the theory that anybody pay attention to them. • • * “WANTED — PARTNER for my small farm. Easy job. I will make the debts and he will pay them. Pine Grove Farm, Narrowsburg, N. Y.” — Dela ware Valley News. » • • Aw, you’ve been reading the Washington dispatches too closely for the last eight years. • • • NO HOARDER A wonderman Is Luther Gray To shortages He says “Okay!” Each scarcity He takes in stride, And never thinks “What can I hide?” • * • I. Andrew complains that despite the rubber shortage a lot of checks keep bouncing the same as ever. —Buy Defense Bonds— This picture shows civilians in Honolulu receiving instructions on the use of the gas mask by a U. S. army corporal, at a first aid station at the palatial Royal Hawaiian hotel on Waikiki beach. All civilians in Hawaii will have to carry masks at all times from now on, whether they like it or not. just in case Nippon pulls another fast one. Joseph N. Clemens, instructor at a boys’ club in Chicago, registers new members for tbe junior victory army. He’s telling the youngsters how to do their part. Although he is now only 41 years old, he has been a prac ticing hell-raiser for 20 years, one of the best in the business. He grew up in the bazaars of Peshawar in northwest India, a coolie, and the son of a camel driver. He has led border tribes in several violent uprisings, nota bly in 1931 and 1932. Pis Pathian raiders have been notoriously bloodthirsty. News reports ar*; that Axis agents are gearing him fci widely organized radio campaigns. * A FIGHTING priest, becoming an admiral, is assigned command of the French possessions in the Pacific, by the Free French National committee in London. As a priest, he is the studious and ascetic Father Louis de la Trinite of the Carmelite friars. In his naval command he is Admiral George Thierry d’Argen- lieu. He was intprisoned by the Ger mans at Cherbourg in June, 1940, and, while being taken to prison Damp, leaped from a train, escaped to London and became a member of the Free French National council. The Source Buffer—How can you smoke <uch a rank cigar as that? Puffer—I can’t. That’s the one that you gave me yesterday. What He Thought Sergeant—Okay, note, toughening up exercise. Everyone on his back. Legs in air. Pretend you are pedalling a bi cycle. One, two, one two—Hey, you! Why aren’t you pedalling? Rookie—Sarge, I'm pretending Pm going downhill and coasting. Pawnbroker’s sign in New York —“See me at your first incon venience.” He Does Know Dzudi — Women endure pain much better than men do. Dinocan—Who told you that, the doctor? Dzudi—No, the shoe dealer. Vocabulary of Stutterers Persons who stutter, 80 per cent of whom are males, usually have a vocabulary half again as large as those who are free of this nerv ous affliction, owing to their use of synonyms for words, which, at times, they cannot readily pro nounce. CHILDREN'S COLDS FOR DIKECT RELIEF from miseries of colds—(coughing, phlegm, iirita- »ln« > flngyH upper air passages— rub throat, chest, and back with Vicks VapoRub. Its poultice-and- vapor action brings relief without dosing. ALSO, FOR NEAR COLO “sniffles”, melt a spoonful of VapoRub in hot water. Then have the child breathe in the steaming vapors. FREE—SEEDS WORTH $U0lFar7 packages of Petunias, Zinnias Marigolds, Sweet Peas, Candytuft, Morning Glories and Balsam just send name and address to Vicks, R C Dept.G,Greens- m#lwoV\9 boro, N. C W VapoRub Neon Visibility Because its wave length is radi cally different from that of other kinds of reddish light, a neon sign has a 20 per cent greater visibility during a rainstorm than during clear weather. I Relief at last from that gurgling, sme thery feeling in the stomach. When caused by excess add from food fermentation or nervous excitement try ADLA Tablets. Contain Bismuth and Carbonates for 9 HICK relief. Your druggist has ADLA ablets. Value Health Look to your health! And if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.—Izaak Walton. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender. In flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, BronchiHa Shallow in Self Deep versed in books and shal low in himself.—Milton. /MIDDLE-AGE^ WOMEN HEED THIS ADVICE!! If you’re cross, restless, nervous —suffer hot flashes, dizziness— caused by this period in a woman’s life — try Lydia Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. Made especially for women. Helps to relieve distress due to this functional disturbance. Thou sands upon thousands of women report remarkable benefits. Fol low label directions. V. J IbarcuhnsI —that will save you many a dollar will escape you if <; you fail to read carefully and <; regularly the advertising of ;; <; local merchants » » » <; jiw THIS paper!