U. S. Taxes
Are Going
Still Higher
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By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — In the next
few months, you are going to
hear more about taxes than you
have heard for years and I’m
afraid a lot of it is going to be
just plain unadulterated eyewash.
The reasons are complicated,
but the simplest one is that next
year is election year and our na
tional legislators are not keen tc
anger any group of constitutents
with a brutal tax program. More
difficult to understand is the
treasury’s 10.5 billion dollar tax
program, and Economic Stabiliz
er Fred M. Vinson’s insistence
that it go through as proposed.
Both treasury Secretary Mor
genthau and Vinson have made it
pretty clear that they are not
nearly sc interested in revenue
as in holding the line against in
flation.
li that is true, their tax pro- i
gram should be just about three ;
times what it is Using round
figures, the American people will
put about 150 billion in their poc
kets this fiscal year. If they buy
everything in sight they can’t
spend more than about 90 billion j
of it. That leaves a surplus of
60 billion. Existing taxes (of all
types) and war bonds will draw
off something more than 35 bil
lion of that. That leaves 25 bil
lion that might be diverted into |
inflationary channels.
The Treasury, Vinson and the (
administration say that 10.5 bil- i
lions of it will have to be skim- :
med off if the nation is to be sav- |
ed from inflation. Tax leaders in j
Congress say no more than four
or five billions will have tc be :
dragged out of that kitty.
At the moment, the weight of '
argument seems to be on the
congressional side. If the public
were shoveling cut that 25 billion
with a coal scoop, the Treasury
program wouldn't be half enough
to head off the inflationary spir
al which has spelled want and
starvation in many countries in
this war. ,
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But the fact is that the public
isn’t spending that way. Only j
recently, no less a person than :
Vinson himself announced that j
the inflation line was being held. I
How much of this is d^e,tc
government measures is impossi
ble to say, but there’s no doubt
that a Jot of it is due to native
American intelligence.
That’s why some federal ofli- j
cials and members of Congress
are saying now that what we
need isn't more taxes but a con
tinued drive against spending
and insistence on saving for the
day when we return to peace,
and industry will need billions in
sales to cross the gap from war
production to civilian goods.
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There's even a definite under- ;
ground move in Treasury circles
to abandon the bla-bla about the
patriotism of buying war bonds
and sell them for just what they
are, one of the best investments
that any government has offe-red
That there will be a tax in
crease goes without saying, That
it won’t be anything like what
the Treasury has asked for and
Vinson backed is also almost a
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certainty. Best guesses here now
are that CongTfSs will try for
their four or five billions along
the same old lines.
JEEP WEARS GOLD STAR
FOR “PARENT” SlIB
CHARLESTON, S. C.—(AP)
—The Navy has a jeep named
Tadpole III, the sentimental“ off
spring” of a submarine, that Capt.
H. F. Gearing. USN, believes to
be the only jeep with a gold star.
"She was a neat jeep,” Gearing
recalled. ‘The sub that gave it to
us carried it around with them
under the sea when I was execu
tive officer aboard a cruiser that
earned a U. S. O. show.
“The sub crew liked our show's
and in appreciation for the en
tertainment plus 20 gallons of ice
cream, we steamed with the jeep.
“A condition was that the jeep
had to bear the name Tadpole III.
as a memento to its mama fish.
“Shortly after that the sub was
lost in gunfire action. That's how
Tadpole III. got to be the jeep
whlh the gold star.”
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JUDGE HEARS CASE,
FINES BOTH SIDES
YUMA Ariz. —(AP)— Police
Judge T. Hedges was conducting
a hearing or, a disturbance cf the
peace case.
Two defendants, accused of the
disturbance climaxed by the
smashing of an automobile wind
shield, were fined $10 and $15
each. The two complainants’ sat
isfaction was short lived. Judge
Hodges turned to them ar.d as
sessed $10 and $15 fines each j
against their., too.
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EMANCIPATION OF COEDS
ROCK HILL, S. C — (AP)— j
The 3,000 students of Winthrop
college for women can play cards |
and smoke in their rooms if they j
have parental consent* College
officials granted permission re-!
cently after a poll of sentiment !
among students.
LIRE COW, LIKE CALF
PRINCE GEORGE, Ge.—(AP)
—G. W. Williams owns a cow and
her calf each of which has a per
fect figure "7” on its forehead.
The Nugget, $1.50 per month.
I Today... when yon ask for it maybe you’ll 1
J get this sign .. tomorrow i
I or the next day you’re bound to get this... |
It. a Meipn of the tunes'—that More*
t keeper gesture which means “we're all
I out of it” But don’t despair! Just keep
* asking for Old Sunny Brook. There'll he g
another delivery before long. I
-CMEMMFVL AS MTS NAMJB
Sunny Brook
_ BRAND
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Hadsnal Distillers Producte Corpn N. Y. • 94.4 Preof
Distributed By
NATIONAL, GROCERY COMPANY
Seattle, Washington
HOW JAPS SLEW AIRMAN
This is Artist Howell Dodd's conception of the scene at Safamaua, described by a Japanese
diarist, when an air officer, presumably an American, from a downed Allied bomber, was be
headed Lv a Jap officer with a Samurai sword.
DOCTORS GO TO WAR
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42,000 WERE IN II,000 ARC BUNG HAVING 127,000
ARMED FORCES ADDED IN '43 . . . FOR CIVILIAN CARE.
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I 72,000 ARE FULL-TIME 3.000 IN 15.000 AM IN
PRIVATE DOCTORS HOSPITALS PUBLIC HEALTH WORK
9,000 UNDER 65 28,000 ARE
COMPLETELY OR OVER 65
PARTIALLY INCFFICTIVS (1/3 effective)
LCAVING 1,500 FOR
CIVILIANS, TO REPLACE
3,000 WHO DIE.
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Based on estimates by the Office of War Information, this
chart explains why the family doctor is harder to reach now than
in peacetime!. Adjusting the value of partially effective physi
cians, which are shown in the second section above, .the OWI
estmates that the 127,000 physicians available on the home front
are the working equivalent of 108,000 fully effective medical man.
If they were perfectly distributed throughout the country, there
would be a ratio of one physician to every 1,557 civilians, close
to the ratio of 1 to 1,500 considered by authorities to be desir
able. Perfect distribution, however, is not possible for many rea
sons. .
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THEY MADE GAME
OF “MAN OVERBOARD”
NEW ORLEANS ARMY AFR
BASE—(AP—Lieutenant Harold
M. Frederiksen recalls that when
the Army first began training its
own Navy for transport and res
cue work here, “there seemed tc
be two or three men overboard
every day.”
“It developed,” he said, “that
they were throwing each other
over the ships’ rails. About the
only nautical term they knew
was ‘man overboard’ and it
seemed they enjoyed using it to
give their outings an authentic
air.” ;
NEWS VENDOR FATHER
BIG WAR BOND BUYER
PITTSBURGH — (AP)— Two
$50 war bonds a week is the fast
pace in helping Uncle Sam set
by a 37-year-old newspaper ven
dor—all because he works an ex
tra shift in a war plant.
Regis T. Zern, father of four
children, decided he could dou
bly help the war effort if he:
(1) Took a war job.
(2) Bought more War Bonds.
It’s working out all right thus
far. From 9 a. m. until 3 p. m. he
operates his newsstand at a
down-town intersection and from
4:30 p. m. until midnight he’s a
painter at a shipyard.
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Remember to inform your mer
chant that you saw his ad in The
Nugget;
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DRAINED COPPER MINE
YIELDS QUICK RESULTS
YUCCA Ariz. —.(API—Some
amazing examples of copper pre- 4
cipitation came to light during
the unwatering of the 50-year-old
Antler mine shaft.
Pieces of iron pipe, hammers,
a single-jack, rails and other me
tal articles brought up with the
muck were found to be heavily
encrusted with solid copper from
the strong solution in the shaft
water.
A petrified lizard was one of
the trophies.
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