' LOOKING I
AHEAD
tr GEORG! 1 tfNSON
PENNY WISE
Victory in war can not be
bought with money alone. There
is fighting to do which can not
be thought about in terms of
money. Wars always take a price
less toll of life, limb, health, san
^ ity and human happiness. And,
along with all this, war calls for
a vast amount of work. Actually
most of the cost of war is work.
Money is only a medium of ex
change, a relatively accurate
measure of the work performed.
The United States, now in the
middle of th< biggest struggle of
* all history, is spending money at
the rate of 100 billion dollars a
year. With the highest tax rates
ever applied in this country, our
government is raising money at
the rate of 40 billion dollars a
year, borrowing the difference.
American taxpayers will be in
debt for 60 per cent of the war
when it ends, if things go along
as they probably will.
LIFTING THE DEBT
Big obligations usually are made
faster than they are paid, and
nobody is expecting Uncle Sam to
liquidate the war debt on armis
tice day. It will be 200 billion
dollars. Fortunately for everybody
this debt can be retired at a rate
that is slower than fighting speed. j
Experts in various political camps
agree that costs of running our
government after the war will ap
I proximate 20 billion dollars a
year. It’s a safe figure.
—Now 20 billion dollars is a big
sum to work off in a year, but
America can do it. We are rais
ing 40 billion a year now with
everybody working; surely we can
raise 20 billion after the war—
interest, payments on debt and
care of disabled veterans will all
be in the 20 billion. We can do it
if employment is high, if jobs
1 ' are still plentiful and well paid.
We can do it with present tax^
rates cut in half, but not unless']
there is work.
Toilers Will Pay
People who work will pay the
biggest share of post-war taxes
Last yar two third9 of our nation
al income was wages and salar
ies. Politicians may try to bleed
Wall Street millionaires white,
but it will not be enough. If all
the people who pay tax on in- j
comes of $25,000 or more were
seated in one stadium, all our mil
lionaires would be there, and.
more. But the whole assembly
could not pay half of 20 billion
dollars a year — not even with a,
100 per cent Income tax. There'
are not enough millionaires.
These men can’t pay the entire
expense of government but there
is one thing they can do: They
can, if permitted, keep factories
running and jobs available for
the rest of us, who, in the long
run, will be obliged to work off
that debt and we would better
be trying to keep it down. Twenty
billion dollars a year is twice
what government was costing the
United States at the peak of the
New Deal’s pre-war spending: five
times what it cost in Herbert
Hoover’s day.
THE NECESSARY JOBS
Concerning unemployment: Em- i
ployers and employees both have
to be considered. Strike pay-day j
TREATMENT — Pharmacist’s Mate 1 C D. M. M-Iville
(left), I.i^onier, Pa., and Hospital Anprer*. -e Sf/C Charles If.
Leach, Brooklyn, N. Y., treat sii’Std 1 —v.'s ci t »e one-ivcek oid
kittens rescued from blaze at Parris island. S. C.
from the calendar and work will
surely cease. Just as surely in
vestments will cease when
chances, to earn dividends are
destroyed. Wages and dividends
both are paid from earnings on
investments, so employers (large
and smalD must be permitted to
earn profits. Nothing makes new I
jobs but starting new businesses
or enlarging old ones; both re
quire investments.
Big investors can, at best, pay
only a small part of the big post
war tax. If it is ever paid, peo
ple of moderate means will sure
ly pay most of it, - but they are
looking to investors for work with
which to create prosperity. One
fact is clear therefore — the “ex
pert” who advocates taxes on cor
porations so drastic that they drive
investments away and destroy
jobs, that politician is “penny wise
and pound foolish.” Such a pol
icy injures workers more than
others.
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Tuesday's Games
American League
Washington 5. Detroit 6.
Philadelphia 3, Cleveland 4.
St. Louis 8, New York 0.
Boston 4, Chicago 2
National League
St. Louis 5, Brooklyn 0.
Pittsburgh 2, New York 5.
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 3, Seattle 1.
Sacramento 1, Oakland 2.
Hollywood at Portland—rained
out.
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Passengers to Anchorage today
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Florence Fostei, Ed Marton Mr.
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Pilot Weaver flew to Unale.kieet
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Capt. John Olsen came in to
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Wes Monsen. Passenger from
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OFFICE MOVED
Yesterday the Munz Airways of
fice building was moved to its
new location two blocks away,
across from the Miners & Mer
chants Bank, and also across from
the federal building. The moving
was accomplished by Lester Bron
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VISITS TOME
George Anderson arrived in
town today via PAA, and is reg
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WHAT WAR BONDS MEAN—
Weapons Make
rhe Nazis Run
By WES GALLAGHER
AP Features
LONDON — For lack of guns,
nlanes and tanks Norway, Yugo
slavia, Greece and Crete fell.
I watched them all crumble
like pins in a bowling alley, not
because of any lack of courage by
their defenders but because they
did not have the materials with
which to fight.
Men and women who had sweat
ed and slaved for years to accum
ulate savings for old age would
have given it all for a gun or even
a rifle—bu tit was too late.
When you try to shrink your
way through the bottom of a shell
hole as high explosives rain
around until your flesh feels like
it is crawling away from your
bones you get a first hand picture
: of what the “materials of war”
mean.
The difference between a vic
torious army and a defeated one
is that of having an abundance
of war materials. The army that
can fre two shells where one
might do wins the battles. And
victorious armies have the low
est casualties.
I have seen scores of lives wast
ed because there were not enough
shells or planes available to knock j
out enemy defense positions. And
1 have seen hundreds of lives
saved in the plains and mountains
of Africa and Italy because the
Allies could afford to send out two
Dianes to the enemy’s one and fire
five shells to the enemy’s two. j
Money as expressed in guns,
tanks and planes can mean the
difference between victory and
defeat It can mean the difference
between losing a son or loved
one in battle and getting him back
again.
To the men at the fighting front
money spent in war bonds means
a flow of guns and munitions to
where they are most needed, |
America’s fighting men need only
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the only tangible way they know
that the “folks back home” are
behind them is by the steady un
interrupted stream of munitions
wrhich give them a fighting chance
to live.
Twice I have been overrun by
the German army. Once in Den
mark and once in Greece. 1 have
seen dispirited Allied prisoners
trudging back to prison camps in
Germany because they did not
have the essentials of war while
cocky Nazi youths sneeringiy
watch.
Twice I have seen Allied arm- j
ies overrun the Germans, once j
n Afr.ca and once in Italy. And
..he same cocky youths who two
/ears before overran Europe, start
led treks toward prisdjn camps,
their arrogance beaten from them
by the overwhelming Allied fire
power
In all four causes the difference
between victory and defeat was
furnished Dy the home front—in
savings and in work.
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