Current Comments
From Washington
If anyone harbored the notion
that lend-lease activities, defense
and kindred affairs, were a sort
of electric timepiece which, once
started, would tick along as a
matter of course, and without at
tention, h:s conclusions have had
tobe revsed in the light of events
of the past few days. The clock
is of the sort which calls for reg
ular winding, frequent setting,
and a liberal application of lub
ricant.
Lend-Lease Appropriations
When, a half-year ago, seven
million dollars were appropriat
ed for lend-lease work, those
who did not aprpeeiale the mag
nitude of the task thought that
the account would need no at
f tention fur a lung time to come.!
It now appears that practically
the entire amount appropriated
has been spent, or so allocated
tihat it is well on its way toward
the spending point. There follow
ed as a result, the President’s re :
quest for approximately six bil
lion more.
An itemized statements has
been furnshed, and is extended.
Among the more important mat
erials to be delievered are ord
nance stores, such as ammunition
and replacement parts, engines,
aircraft, vehicles of the automo-j
bile type ships and the products'
of the farm. If all headings get j
attention no one of them will re |
ceive a startlingly large sum, as |
money is counted in these days,!
when the million or billion is the
unit. Aid may toe extended to
any country whose welfare is con
sidered essential to the safety of
the United States. The power
placed in the hands of the Presi
dent does not appear to be great
ly enlarged beyond that confer
red by legislation of the last two
or three years.
The Legion and The War
The American Legion used to
be a conservative body so far as
the mixing of the United States
in foreign affairs is concerned.
That was natural enough. In the
first place, 'having a thorough,
first-hand knowledge of what
war really means, the men of the
Legion wished to spare their
fellowcountrymen, of a later gen
eration, from its horrors, if pos
sible. Moreover, the legionnaire,
as does anyone else, liked to
think that his efforts had accom
plished a permanent result. The
Legion, unfortunately had to be
come disabused of its idealism,
step by step.
Standing at first for strict neu
trality, the Legion relaxed to the
•
exteno of flavoring aid or Brit
an. Next came the conviction
that t.he Neutrality A"t belonged
to a day that h°d passed. At its
latest convention, the organiza
tion has come out with the state
ment that if fighting is necessary
to defend the United States, we
should be prepared to the ex
tent of being able to do the fight
ing on the soil of the nation that |
is making the trouble.
Legion No Longer Isolationist
Thus the Legion moves earn- ■
p’etely out of the isolationist
bloc, and effects the transfer of a
million men to the ranks of those
who convinced that isolation is!
not what the present demands.
The accretion is more than that
of numerical strength.. The Le
gon is composed of men bound
together solely by an aforetime
comradeship at arms. It has no
cause together solely by an fit
cause of its own to promote.
Speaking neither as a company
of Democrats or Republicans, la
borers or capitalists, sohioolmem
or persons of limited learning,
it voices what has come to be the
general and average opinion. ^
Present War Strategy Old
As the Civil War progressed,
General Lee flavored a shifting!
of the Confederate capital to the,
south and an effort to draw his
opponents farther and farther j
from their base of supplies. His
counsel was not followed, and
Richmond fell. Probably it would
have fallen anyhow, in the end.!
but his plan was none the less j
soundl. The German attack on
England failed. There is no
doubt about that. The Russian
resistance has been more stub
born than the Nazs expected. Yet:
England is to be congratulated,
only for the time being; and the
damage that the Soviets have in-!
flicted is not a complete loss to
Hitler. The fighting front has
been shifted away from England,
who potentialities are most to be
feared, and has been made more
remote from Ameica the main I
source of aid and supply. It is
one thing to slip a vessel across
the Atlantic, to the British Isles
or to France, and another thing
to give assistance in the Near
East or to a badly hampered Rus
sia. A long war seems in sight,
and one in which, the intangible
but very effective barrier of
mere dstance will increase the
difficulties of those who desire
that Democracy shall not vanish
from the earth.
WEATHER FORCAST
Increasing southeasterly wind
tonight reaching 20 to 25 miles
per hour fomorow morning.
Cloudy with intermittent rain
late tonight and Saturday. Low
est temperature tonight about 34.
Viiilkie To
Give Help
To FDR Now
WASHINGTON — Wend-11 L.
Willkie made known he will sup
port President Roosevelt in any
effort to repeal or modify the
Neutrality Act and at the same
time, reports reached Washing
ton that Secretary of State Cor-!
j dell Hull will urge Roosevelt to ]
recommend the virtual scrapping
of the present law.
President Roosevelt is expect-1
ed to confer with Secretary Hull j
at Hyde Park and talk with leg- j
i islative leaders before starting
work on the special Neutrality'
Act message to Congress which:
is expected to be delivered later j
this week.
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EVERYTHING BUT THE AIR
APPEARS TO BE TAXED AS
NEW PROVISIONS IN EFFECT
Beginning October 1, every per
Son who pays more than nine
cents for an admission ticket
must pay a Federal tax under
provisions of the new Revenue
Act effective October 1.
More than 4.00-0 letters to those
responsible for the collection of
such taxes in the District of
Washington and Alaska are be
ing mailed from Tacoma Internal
Revenue headquarters, Collector
Clark Squire has announced
Under the new law, there is no
exemption from this tax for any
person or organization except
children under 12 years of age j
who pay less than 10 cents. The!
rate is one cent for each ten
cents or fraction therof paid for
admission.
Notice is also given that time!
has been extended for filling cap
ital stock returns to October 29,
1941 and rate has been made
$1.25 for each full thousand of
declared- value.
Information is being mailed
prospective taxpyaers by the mis
celaneous tax division at Tacoma
as received from Washintgon, D.
C. Letters pertaining to floor
stocks tax. on liquor already are
in the mail. To more than 5,000'
outlets are being sent mimeo- >
graphs giving details about the!
floor stocks tax on wines .and dis
tilled spirits.
The cabaret tax has been
changed to 5 per cent of all
amounst paid for admission, re
freshment, service and merchan
dise if any payment or part there
of entitler the patron to be pres
ent at any performance.
The only retail tax is that im
posed on jewelry, furs and toi
let preparations. It amounts to
10 percent.
Rates on existing exicse taxes,
paid by manufacturers, produc
ers or importers have been in
creased as follows:
Tires, from 2Vz to 5 cents a
opnds; tubes, from 4 to 9 cents a
pounds; auto trucks and bodies,
from 2xk to 5 per cent; other
autos and bodies, from 3Vz to 7
Pioneer Water Co.
SPRING WATER
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CHAS. CAVEY
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT STREET, NOME
per cent: parts from 2' j to 5 pm
cent; playing cards from 10 to 1
cents per deck: afe deposit box
es. from 10 lo 20 per cent: dm
tilled spirits and wne up to SI
per gallon according to alcoholi:
content.
The floor stocks tax is imposec
on liquors, wines, tires and tub
held for sale or use on October 1
Motor vehicles are taxed at $'
each per year beginning nex
February.
Ater October 10, there will b
a tax of 5 percent of the amount
paid for passenger transportation
in excess of 35 cents.
Manuactur, rs of radi m. music
al instruments, phonograph rec
ords. refriger torair condition
ers are taxed 10 per cent.
Telephone subscribers arc tax
ed 6 per cent of the service
charges. Telephone tolls in ex
cess of 24 cents are taxable at
5 cents for each 50 cents or frac
tion of the charge. Telegraph
charges are taxed HI per e -nt.
Manuacturers of s p o r ti n g
goods, luggage gas and oil ap
pliances and photographic appar
atus, electric signs, neon-tube
signs, electric advertising devic
es, business and store machines,
commercial washing machines,
optical equipment and articles of
which rubber is the component
material cf chief weght are tax
ed at 10 per cent.
Manufacturers’ tax on electric
light bulbs and tubes is 5 per
cent.
PATTENS APPLIED FO R—Clarence Floyd Patten (on shoulders), 52, a Ridgefield, Wash.,
farmer whose interest in land paled after his seven sons joined the navy, has joined up, too, and is
welcomed to the U.S.S. Nevada. Left to right: Ray, Clarence, Allen, Dad Patten, Bruce, Gilbert, Mar
, ^ vin and Myrne. A special order lifted the age limit for Dad’s benefit. „
FATHER PATTEN’S IN THE NAVY
Clarence Floyd Patton, 52ear-eld Rifl-cf ?1<, Wf-h., a: met ac
cepted jinto the Navy after a special rider lift'. ;e 1 -,ii
for him, peon found out he was really in the Navy, lie Ls shown
aboard the U. S. S. Ncv-d • with < is seven ms. •’ lie 1 i boi ling
buckets. Ilis sms (top to bottom) My me, Marvin. Clarence, Ray
Allen, Gilbert and Bruce,