The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-01
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OO NOC 1oU ~ All
Rdical office seekers, in address
ing their followers, never overlook
an opportunity to refer to the big
salary drawn by Alfred p. Sloan,
President Of General Motors. With
much gusto they tell their hearers
that last year Mr.. Sloan was paid
$3.50, 900 in salary and bonus but
they do not tell their audience that
the Federal government took $780,
600 out of that salary for federal in
come taxes and that out of the bal
ance he had to- pay a state income
tax, real estate taxes and living ex-
penses, etc. After all of these items
have been paid I dare say there Is
not a great deal left. This is one
reason for our great unemployment.
High taxes leave little fer expansion
that would make new jobs.
Several days ago I clipped a news
story having to do with the taxes
paid by Carole Lombard, who is said
to be the highest paid film star in
the country. Last year she was paid
$465, 900 and it is reported that state
and federal income taxes took S11h
per cent CT her wages. In other
words she returned $397,575 of her
$465, 900 to the state and re d era /
treasures, leaving her $67,425. Out
OF this balance she Is quoted as hav-
ing said she must pay her agent and
business manager and by the time
she gets drought she says that she
has barely $4,000 left. Mind you,
am not shedding any tears over
the fact that this poor girl must
subsist on $4,000 for IL months but
I am merely giving the other side
of the picture which SO many Of the
demagogic orators fail to do. OF
course, realize that it Is much
easier to work folks into a lather
when they are told that so and Sc is
paid yearly salary of $3.50, 900 or
that Miss Lombard received $465, 900
last year but it seems to me that it
Is only fair to everyone concerned
that all the facts be given. So much
for that.
Expensive Fishing Trips
OF late Twin City papers have
been carrying communications from
irate readers who voice their pro-
test against the President using bat
tleships, cruisers and destroyers, not
to mention special trains, for fish
ing trips, but every once in a while
some loyal New Dealer bravely
steps to the front and proclaims
that the President is paying for all
this out Of his $4,000 travelling al
lowance. This is another enc Of
those half truths.
During Mr.. Roosevelt's first term
1t cost the American taxpayers 81
100000 fer his jaunts, which can
hardly be paid out Of his 500, 900
travelling allowance. It is interest
ing to break down this vast sum.
for which amount we could have
constructed Is community hospit-
ais at 100000 each. Here are some
figures that were compiled by a
Washington Correspondent and
have never been denied:
In the summer Of 1884 the
President took trip to, the Bay Of
Fundy accompanied by Coast
Guard cutters, destropers and mail
planes, the cost Of which Is listed
at 100000. In the winter Of 1884,
1886 destroyers were sent from
California to accompany him on
the Caribbean fishing trips each
year costing between 100000 and
$250,OOO. In the summer Of 1884 a
cruise taken by him from east to
west coast and Hawaii cost s4OO.-
600, and in the following year his
trip from the west coast to the east
coast, with accompanying boats,
cost another 100000. In 1885. ac-
companied by his son James and a
group Of friends, he made trip to
South America accompanied by
two destroyers, two cruisers, a
tanker and submarine, all at an APP
prcximate cost to the taxpayer of
100000. In 1887 a fishing trip in
the Gulf Of Mexico, when the ar
mada consisted of the yacht Potc-
mac and three destroyers, set the
federal treasury back 100000. At
this point 1t may net be out Of
place to call attention to the fact
that Mr.. Roosevelt had the yacht
Potomac rebuilt and refurnished
at a cost Of 100000. Figures On the
fishing trip to Central American
waters that Mr.. Roosevelt has just
completed are not yet available but
they may be safely set down at
100000.
When I was a boy we had an