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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1943.
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WHERE INCOME TAXES FALL
In the charts that it made public a few days ago the
Treasury Department was authority for the state
ment that seven eighths of United States-income gees
to people earning less than $5,000. This means that
only one-eighth of United States income gees to per
sons earning more than $5,000.
These figures are interesting in connection with the
figures for taxation. The latest period for which in
come tax statstics have been compiled is for the cal
endar year 1941. The Treasury's preliminary report
for 1941 show’s that the total income tax on individuals
was $3,807,893,000, of which $1,236,122,000 was paid
by those with net incomes of less than $5,000 and
over.
Putting these two figures together, we find mat
roughly speaking, in 1941 people with one-eighth of
the income of the country paid more than two-thirds
of the whole income tax, and th^t people with seven
eights of the income of the country paid less than one
third of the income tax.
Incomes have increased since 1941 and the income
tax has been substantially revised. But the foregoing
figures none the less serve to indicate the past lob
sidedness of our income tax and why we have done so
bttle through it to avert inflation. Granting that the
wealthier individuals should pay a hgher percentage
of their income in taxes than individuals less well off.
it is clear that we have been squeezing close to the
maximum possible revenues out of one-eighth of the
country’s income and that future increased revenues
will have to come in major part from the other seven
eighths of the country income.— (New* York Times).
BUREAUCRATS AND GOLD MINES
No other business in the nation has suffered such un
reasonable action on the part of the government, as
an alleged war necessity, as has the business of min
ing gold. Eastern politicians in Washington, tempor
arily in offices of government authority, had evidently
been reading propaganda from Germany about the
end of the gold standard and the worthlessness of the
billions of dollars of gold buried in Kentucky. When
Washington went into a panic over the metal shortage
for war, as a result of the stoppage of new mining
development by its federal securities law, the brain
trust of the New Deal planners decided to speed up
production of strategic metals by forcing gold miners
to leave the gold mines and accept employment in cop
per, lead, zinc, molybdenum and other strategic metal
producing properties. Washington, as usual, cared
nothing about the investors who had their money iii
gold mining stocks. Give the second-rate individual
a little authority and he becomes ruthless.
A gold miner out in Nevada who has suffered as a
result of the unfair goJd mine closing order of the
Washington bureaucrats, says that of this country’s
industrials, the small gold miner finds himself in the
hottest and deepest water. Discriminated against for
i the last ten years by various bureaucrats in Washing
ton, the small gold miner of the West today ranks as
the No. 1 down-and-outer. His mines are shut down by
! government decree; his tunnels, stopes, drifts, shafts
are caving; timber is rotting, and rails and pipes, now
out of use, are rapidly rusting. His buildings are go
ing to pieces, and his peace of mind is away below the
freezing point.
There was a time when the government was run for
! the benefit of the people, says the Nevada Gold Miner.
Today, it is being run for the benefit of the government
and the great army of New Deal officeholders who
have multiplied like locusts. The gold miner, his
properties deteriorating daily, ought to be entitled to
know something of the government’s plans concern
ing the gold situation at the end of the war, but Wash
ington is as mum on this subject as a submerged .clam.
It is reported that gold is being sold in India at a fig
ure nearly twice the present controlled world price.
Speculators for several years have been buying gold
openly in Canada, presumably with the idea in mind
j of selling it at a proft when peace comes. It is com
monly believed that England and the United States
olan to boost the price of gold at the end of the war in
order to reduce the national debt. Say the price is
i boosted to S70 an ounce—double the price today. That
! would give Uncle Sam a paper profit of some 20 to
25 billion dollars. No force or agency on earth can
i prevent this boost in price if England and the United
!States decide to-do it.—Denver Mining Record.
| LITERARY
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By JOHN SELBY_
A few fall books, oddly grouped—
Chesterton certainly has more
to offer a bigrapher than most
1 literary* men. He did more,
thought more, was more demon
strative than the usual writer.
His friends, too were from a
good many circles and his bounce
and verve were enormous. Just
the same. I found a little diffi
culty to stick close to Maisie
Ward's “Gilbert Keith Chester
ton,’’ and for a peculiar reason.
It contains almost too mucfc
about its suoect, and because of
' this, it runs down a good many
alleys that start rather impress
ively. and end up as culs de sac.
Yet there is a great deal of in
formation and of serious direct
ed effort. 'Sneed & Ward; $4 50)
Stewart H. Holbrook allways
turns up a dramatic subject, and
this time it also is tragic. His
‘‘Burning An Empire” is the story
of our great American forest
fires—disasters like the Hinckley
horor in Minnesota in which 418
| lives were loet, like the Tilla
mook fire which ten years ago
burned 12 1-2 billion feet of lum
| ber, which is what the entire
| country uses in a full year. This
i is often an exciting book, and
certainly a useful one. (Macmil
| lan; $2 50)
Five years ago David Fair
child’s "The World Was My Gar
den” gained him a great many
readers, and Dr. Fairchild him
self looked upon the book as a
summation of a completed career.
He was wrong—a friend insisted ;
on outfitting another expedition
which would explore the Spiee >
Islands. The junk “Cheng Ho”'
was specially built at Hong Kong |
for the expedition, avd just be
fore the outbreak of war in 1939
it was ready. Dr. and Mrs. Fair- j
child decided to take a chance >
and when Holland was invaded j
in 1940 they already had been'
sailing the eastern islands for j
four months.
So far as the Netherland In- [
dies were concerned, the expedi- {
tion was ended. The Fairchilds J
turned north to the Philippines, j
and abandoned their project in,
June. But they had been lucky
enough to complete a large part
of the design, and now Dr. Fair
child is describing it in a large,
quietly humorous, handsomely
illustrated volume he has titled
“Garden Islands of the Great
East.” (Scribners; $3.75)
DAUGHTER OFM. j.
WALSH IMPROVING
Mrs. Maurice King, formerly
Mary Walsh of Nome, has been
in the hospital for the past sev
eral days in Fairbanks, for an j
appendix operation. She is im- j
proving and is expected to leave |
the hospital in the next few days, j
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/ 2-3 cup chopped cooked ham,
or other meat
1-2 cup diced celery
1-2 cup diced cucumbers
2 tablespoons minced green
peppers
j 1-2 cup salad dressing
1 tablespoon gra-nulEWd geia
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2 tablespoons cold water
| 1 tablespoon .salad dressing
1 tablespoon lemon* juice
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; juice. Ohill until little thick and
add rest of ingredients. Pour into
mold rinsed out of cold water.
Chill until firm. Unmold cut in
slices and arrange on chille-d plat
ter. Surround with eggs.
Stuffed Eggs
8 hard-cooked eggs
3 tablespoons salad dressing
2 tablespoons chopped pickles
1-4 teaspoon salt
Cut eggs in halves. Remove ■
and mash yolks, add rest of in
gredients to yolks. Roughly re- ]
fill egg white cases. Sprinkle
with paprika. C3nll.
Cardinal Baked Apples
6 cored apples
2-3 cup mincemeat
1-2 cup broken nuts
2 tablespoons maple sirup or
honey
1- 4 teaspoon cinnamon
Speck salt
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons orange juice
2- 3 cup water
2 tablespoons margarine or
butter, melted
Stuff apples with mincemeat
mixed with nuta, sirup, cinna
mon, salt and juices. Add rest of
ingredients and bake an hc%j* in
moderate oven. Baste every 15
minutes.
Chilled, peeled tomatoes, stuff
ed with jellied ham salad makr
wholesome economical main
dish specials for hot weather
serving. Top each portion with
mayonnaise or salad dressing
When canning vegetables leave
an inch head space in the jar for
starchy vegetables such as corn,
lima beans and peas and 1-2 inch
head space for non-starchy vege
tables Igreen beans, cabbage,
cauliflower).
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