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ARE THE TAX LAWS ADEQUATE?
The system of compulsory renegotiation o* war con- j
tracts and subcontracts, initiated with the statute of!
April 28. 1942, has been in effective operation for well!
over a year. The law and its administration have been
tested. Congress, administrative officials, and the busi-;
ness community have spent months in appraising the j
situation. There is imminent prospects of Congression
al action.
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States,
through its Committee on Federal Finance and numer- j
ous member organizations and firms, has kept in touch j
with the developments.
Ellsworth C. Alvord, chairman of the Chamber Com
mittee, appeared before the Committee on Ways and
Means on September 16, 1943. His presentation of the
Chamber position and of its Committee’s recommenda
tions occupied more than three hours of testimony,
which appears in the formal record of the hearings.
Included in this pertinent testimony, Mr. Alvord gave
the following resolution which thoroughly presents the
Chamber’s stand on compulsory renegotiation of war
contracts and subcontracts:
“Industry has insisted that there must be no ex
cessive profits on war contracts. It is the highest
public interest that war requirements be met at the
lowest possible costs that include a reasonable re
turn. The principles and procedure by which these
objectives are to be attained present the only is- j
sue of importance. The prevention of excessive
profits on war contracts presents two entirely sep
arate and distinct problems: (1) the negotiation of
prices which is a procurement problem; and (2)
the recapture of excessive profits already realized
—which is a problem of taxation. The sound fun
damental position is that profits already earned
should be recaptured only through taxation, under
policies and procedure prescribed by the Congress.
The provisions of the present renegotiation statute,
authorizing recapture under policies and procedure
prescribed by administrative action, should be re
pealed. Should there be a limited number of un
usual cases in which the high rates of the present
Revenue Act prove inadequate, then admendments
should be adopted to correct its deficiencies.”
In brief, the Chamber report was summed up as Al
lows:
“We can find no justification for the recapture of
excessive profits through so-called renegotiation.
“Citizen’s funds should be taken by the govern
ment only through taxation.
“Our present tax laws are adequate, or they can
be made adequate, to recapture for the government
all excessive profits realized by corporate war con
tractors. Even if this were not the case, there
would be no justification for recapture through so
called renegotiation.
“The recapture provisions of the present law are
indeed dangerous and un-American.”
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ANOTHER DEI)
SAYS STIMSON
WASHINGTON; Nov. 12.—
(API—Details of another “So
sorry, excuse please’’ incident
which strained Japanese-Ambri
can relations five months before
Pearl Harbor was disclosed By
the State Department today.
In the summer of 1941 the
Nipponese promised to stop
bombing Chungking if the Unit
ed States would cool off and not
take action over one of the Uni
ted States gunboats being at
tacked by 26 Japanese bombers
: who had swerved off their course
. from over the Japanese capital
I to drop bombs near an American
j embassy.
The gunboat was moored in
the Yangtze river. The Ameri
can embassy was agreed that the
attack by the Japanese was de
liberate.
The Japanese apologized
claiming the incident to be an ac
cident and promised to stop
bombing Chungking if United
States would drop it, saying they
did not want war.
However, the Japanese navy
shortly thereafter subjected the
city to heavy prolonged raids.
Secretary Hull asked the Jap
anese ambassador how come and
told of the promise the Japan
ese government had made.
He was informed the Nippon- !
ese had merely said they would
cease bombing the city “tempor
arily” not indefinitely.
WEEKLY
SERMONETTE
YOU DON’T BELIEVE
IN GOD?
So you don’t believe in God? ,
That is not so strange in a world
as skeptical as this present one.
There are honest and logical
reasons why one should not be
lieve in God. But for me. well
it is more honest and logical 'to 1
believe in God. Why? First be
cause it is more logical for me
to believe that an intelligent
purposeful mind created the uni
verse than to think it happened
by chance, or by emergent evo
lution or the creative power na
tive to the creation itself. Sec
ondly, where I see ideas, ideals
purposes such as, let us say in
the Bible, I know there must be
a mind behind them. Someone
has put it this way: “Do we see
the inkpot determined to write
a Gible Thirdly, I cannot think
the universe is inferior to me
and I have plans, purposes and
ideas. Supposing 1 were to dis
cover at the end of my life that
I was mistaken about there be- j
ing a God in the Universe. I!
think I would have to say, “Wtell
Universe, I believed in a pur
pose and I see there is none; 1
believed in an intelligent mind
running things and I see there
is none; I believed in a man who
died on a cross and I see he was
mistaken; I believed in all the
good men who have believed be
cause of Jesus Christ and now I
see they have all been deceived.
Well Universe I feel you have
really let me down. Or, per
haps, better you have let your
self down. For you have creat
ed beings superior to you, high
er than you. better than you. 1
cannot regret I have believed in
God, in fact if I were to live
life all over again I still feel I
would get more out of it with
these higher ideals and purposes
to live by. Ye I know I would,
for I do not have to guess about
the value of a belief in God, I
have seen it in Christlike charac
ter over and over again down
through history.”
V. L. BOOKER.
NEW ARRIVAL
IN NOME !\
Mr. Jefford father of the well
known GAA pilot, is a new ar
rival in the city. He is busy re
modeling the interior of the CAA
residence of Carl Wuorinen,
which was destroyed by fire re
cently.
Tell them you saw it advegtls
(d in The Nugget!
NEW RULES IN
SELECTIVE
SERVICE HERE
I
i John L. McCormick, Territor
! ial Director of Selective Service,
issued the following instructions
which are a part of the Selective
Service Regulations, effective No
vember 1 1943:
Duties of Certain Registrants
(a) It shall be the duty of
every person between the ages of
18 and 45, registered with a local
board outside the Territory of
Alaska, who is in or hereafter
i enters the Territory of Alaska
j and has remained or does remain
1 in Alaska for a period of 30
I days, to present himself at the
j Selective Service board in Alas
! ka having jurisdiction over his
present employment, and com
plete the Report to Board of
Transfer. (Form 65).
(b) It shall be the duty of
every person who has completed
or who is obligated to complete
the Report to Board of Trans- j
fer (Form 65) to:
1. Receive and hereafter retain j
in his personal possession as long
as he remains in the Territory of
Alaska, .except as provided in 1
sub-paragraph (3), the portion of
such Report to Board of Trans- j
fer (Form 65) entitled “Certifi
: cate of Board of Transfer.’’
2. Keep his Board of Transfer
I advised at all times of the ad- |
dress in the territory of Alaska
where mail will reach him.
3. Exhibit such certificate of ,
Board of Transfer, (Form 65) to '
the same persons and under the j
same circumstances that he is re
quired by regulations to exhibit
. his (Registration Certificate
| (Form 2) and Classification Card
j (Form 57).
4. Surrender such Certificate
i of Board of Transfer (Form 65)
j to the Board of Transfer which ,
I issued it within, but not prior
to, five days before leaving the
Territory of Alaska with the ;
intentions of remaining absent |
for a period in excess of 30 days.
All registrants who are affect
ed by those regulations are ad
vised to report to the nearest j
Selective Service Board at once.
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POINTS TO
INVASION
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PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Nov.
112.—(AP)—Conservative Admi
ral Chester W. Nimitz today in
his strongest war speech, said:
"the time has come to strike
henceforth and proposed to give
the Jap no rest anywhere.”
His declaration was interpreted
as forecasting an early invasion
and attack on Japan’s well-de
fended Pacific bases hitherto
unmolested, except by hit and
run strikes such as Marcus, Nau
ru, Tarawa and the Wake raids.
In his Armistice Day address,
Nimitz declared the “Northern
flank of the Aleutians was se
cured and in the south * and
southwest Pacific intensified at
tacks by all forces had placed
Japan in a precarious position.
"In other areas,” he related,
“although unmolested as yet,
henceforth it was proposed to
give no rest anywhere or at any
time.
“All hands in the Pacific—
Army, Navy Marines and Coast i
Guard shared in the resolve,” he
added.
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The play “The Coming of
1 Light”, by Marcus Bach, will be
; presented on the radio program,
j “The Voice of Religion” Sunday
i at 5:30 p. m.
This play dramatizes the daffi
| culty the translator. Miles Cov-'
i erdale, had in getting the B:ible,
i newly translated, in the English I
language, to the people in the six- !
teenth century.
The five actors taking parts are
Loren Leach as Miles Coverdale
a translator; Duke Mitrovich, as
the printer, James Nicholson; !
Miss Martha- Jenner. as James’
blind stepmother; Miss Betty
Foote, as Vesian, a spy; and
Corporal Norman Johnston, as
Corydon, a soldier under King i
Henry VIII. The announcer -will
be Thomas Morris. •
“We ought to know more about j
this book which has been given ,
to us at such great cost ” Rev. j
Booker of the Federated Church, j
suggests. “The Bible is a body of
literature—not so much one book :
a a a a 'a a .4 a a a a'
as a library. Though we now have
the writahgs bound together, they
originally came from many dif
ferent people during a period of
over a thousand years. Shepherds
and kings, warriors and philoso
phers priests and historians,
lawyers and fishermen, a few
known by name but many un
known, have shared in the crea
tion of this amazingly varied col
lection. Among the resources
which God has given to the
world there :s none so indispen
sable as the Bible.”
NOTICE TO THE CITIZENS OF
NOME:
Dae to the number of loose
dogs running at large in the
city of Nome, creating a pub
lic nuisance we ask the people
who own same to cooperate in
either tying them np or to des
troy or have them destroyed.
All dogs still at large after
the 15th of November will be
impounded and if not claimed
and fine paid within 24 hours
will be destroyed.
BY ORDER OF THE CITY
POLICE.
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