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The Omaha guide., 1939-12-02

in the way of tax reform), is one of
1t is very definitely a step in the
right Erection after many years
during which tax changes have invari-
ably been of a punitive, business-des-
trying character. The House has
tarned the respect and commentator
O. the entire country.
However, worthy as this action is,
it will be Of little practical Importance
unless it is swiftly followed by further
saT.9 tax rei.rm. Our staggering total
tax burden is difficult enougf Tor the
nation to bear-and eur manner of
collecting revenue in many instances
makes the problem core serious still.
This nuisance" taxes, of which the
undistributed p fits tax is one, are
q case in point. For the most part they
produce little revenue-hardly enough
u 10 visible in our enormous Federal
budgets of today. Yet they brighten
the invest r, discourage industrial ex-
pansion, and thus contribute to unem-
pi yment, to be declining national in
come, and to continued depression.
The capital gains tax is probably
the Nerst of the remaining nuisance
levies. A minor revenue producer, it
has practically drivsn risk capital
the money that normally goes into the
new, untried enterprises, which fur
nish the background for the great en-
ploying industries of tomorrow out
of the picture. Under its terms, the
man who takes a chance on a new
thing must absorb all the loss if it
fails. Ii it succeeds the government
takes most of the pr.fit. What sane
investor will venture his savings I'M
der such a circumstance?
Sail praise to the House for
its ringing d%isproval of the undis-
tributed profits tax! And may this
step mark the start of a real and
sweeping program of tax revision to
the end that prosperity may be res
tored.
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Even those who are not directly
c.nnected with the railroad business
know that without reasonably pros
porous railroads we a have no en-
during anG satisfactory national pros
perity," said J. J. Pelley of the Asso-
cation 5f American Railroads, re
Gently. '"This is SO because of the wide
spread holdings Of railroad securities
by individuals and institutions. And
it is SO i-r an even more important
roason-the absolutely fundamental
necessity to this country of low cost,
reliable and efficient rail service"
The railroads aren't complaining
because they aren't earning the return
which they and econ .mists think they
should earn-the fact of the matter is
that the railroads are earning almost
nothing on their gigantic property
investment. For the II four months
ending April 80, their return, figured
On an annual basis, was 1.56 per cent.
And even these microscopic profits are
made possible only because a few lines
due to special local conditions, have
been able to show profits approaching
the fair return" level. Scores of lines
are running in the red-even as scores
OF lines are today in the hands of
receivers.
AS M. J. Gormley has observed,
Government subsidy is the curse Of
the transportation industry" The
taxpayers have poured untold humid
reds Of millions into waterways which
consistently show heavy annual oper-
ating l.sses. They spend hundreds of
millions more to provide doubly ex-
pensive rights-of-way to support
commercial motor transportation.
The meaning of that is that the public
directly and indirectly, spends enor-
nous sums Of money to subsidize
shippers using these favored forms of
tra1port- while the heavily-taxed,
thoroughly-~egulated, self-supporting
railroads 60 begging for business.
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THE PROFIT SYSTEM FOR


The tremendous cost of taxation
to tha average consumer IS becoming
more and more apparent. The cost of
modern government is taking the big
gsr slice OF the consumers dollar
when c.mpared with the earnings of
the investor and business.
Figures recently released by the
capital stock fire insurance companies
show that the proportion of the pre-
MUM dollar absorbed by taxes in
creased Sd per cent-from BAL cents
in 1927 to 5.28 cents in 1887. Translate
this into terms Of operating factors
in the industry and its true impor-
lance is more readily recognized. For
example, in 1887:
1. For evsry dollar paid to plicy-
holders in losses, taxes paid amounted
to $12.89; 2. For every dollar paid
in dividends to stockholders, S54.T
were paid in taxes; 8. For every dollar
paid in home office salaries, $73.13
were paid in taxes. A, For every dollar
Of miscellaneous expenses, including
the cost Of printing, advertising and
maintaining the cost Of organization
structure, such as rating and inspec-
tn boards and bureaus and company
organizations, 81 cents were spent in
taxes.
Such examples art now so COM
mon the public begins to realize that
the greatest beneficiary of our much
misrepresented capitalistic system is
government, and that the cost # gov
eminent, which demands taxes, is
rapidly becoming paramount in the
cost of living today. 1t is cutting down
earnings on invested live savings to
the vanishing point. The profit sys-
tenn" now means primarily profit for
government on any earnings of con-
sequence, instead of the individual
who risks his money in an attempt to
create profit and unemployment.
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BELLY FULL OF DESTRUCTION

Chain stores are highly commend
ed in G report to the Pennsylvania
Newspaper Publishers Association by
its special chain store committee. The
report says in part: One OF the sinp-
lest and yet n s. important steps any
group of newspaper publishers can
take in establishing friendly re-atlon-
ships with the chains, is to adopt a
resolution in opp sition to the Patman
a~nti-chain bill and other discrimin&-
tory and punitive tax measures. That
this is not too much is shown by the
fact that ten other publisher and press
associations have already tahsn that
step. Chain stores ask our support III
repeating and preventing anti-chaia
stcrd legislation and they ask this not
merely for their own salvation, but
because it is une-on.mical, lmpracti-
cal and because intelligent business
generally 1ears anti-chain store legis-
ton as a dangerous precedent
The press at large has full reali-
cation of the fact that any punitive
law or any class tax which unfairly
penalties any legitimate business is a
menace to all business-once a bust
ness-killing p5licy is established oth,r
fields of enoeavor will inevitably n
in for similar treatment. In the case
of the chains, ruinous legislation is
even more than ordinarily inexcusable
the modern chain, no less than the
Modern cost of living.
The American people have had a
tally-full of laws that hamstring bust
ness. The nation needs policies that
will encourage business and create
jobs, and increase national income.
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POWER SOCIALISM CASTS IT'S
SHADOW

Washington and Oregon have new
legislation to permit and encourage
the organization Of Public Utility
Districts (Pud's) for the purpose of
utilizing power from the government
owned and tax exempt Bonneville and
Grand Coulea hydro electric develop
ments. A recent showing where
transmission lines are under construc-
ton from Bonneville, shows that they
r going through territory which is
now being served, and which has been
served by private companies since
electricity was first used in the North
west.
This means that hiQhly-taxed pri-
waite companies will either be super
seded by government projects or that
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such companies will be prevented from
expanding and taking up new loads
Publicly-subsidized lower will take
o]e. shis field f private enterprise
The argument is advanced that
government plants can deliver electric
current to consumers at a lower price
than can private companies. Any in
d1stry enjoying Reconsideration
from the standr int Of capital re-
quiremnts and various tax exemptions
not accorded private enterprise,
why should the principle not be ex-
tended to such items as food, clothing
and rent, which absorb the bulk of
every family Income, instead of to
ons of the M st minor living expenses
power?
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COMPANY CO-OFS"

Voluntary, w%holehearted support
by producers has been responsible Tor
,4ls so.aay expanion 0f the marketing
coygera.lve.o The .ntinued success
O.. the marketing cooperative relies
utterly on this kind for support-for
with it the movement IS an nile
asset to the nation.
According to Henry A. Wallace,
Secretary of Agriculture, the pfoo-em
now raced by the marketing co-ops IS
a rise in psuedo company coopefa-
tives' pyrmed arbitrarily by private
distributors purely as a front Pro
ducers have no voice in management
CT organization of this type OF mar
ksting cooperative which may or may
not operate in the best interest OF tie
so-caled members"
Producers and distributors alike
will do WaIl in the lorg run to avoid
diverting the marketing o1-3p move
ment away from its original purpose
-stalie markets fer producers ana
reasonable prices to consumers.
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Even in these days when we're
used to astronomic figures, $532,000,-
600 is a lot of m ney. That is the
amount of new, ordinary life insur-
anee sold in the single month of May.
1t means that several thousand
Americans have purchased half a bill
lion d liars additional protection to be
paid them in the future when they
need it most. 1t means that children
vii be educated dependents left
oeoro.nically secure old age made
happy and independent for workers..
1t means earned social security
bought by a foresighted and indi-
vidualistic people work are determin-
ed not to become wares of govern
ment.
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THE FIRST INVESTMENT

Property with a high value today
may be less valuable in a few years
Securities which look gilt-edge now
may face a depressed market tomor-
row. Nevertheless, savings in the
bank or in stocks, bonds or real pro-
perty r splendid to have, and a GER
tain share of everyone's savings
should be so invested.
But wisdom dictates that the
first investment for nine men out OF
ten, should be life insurance to care
for their Gapendents. if they die-and
for themselves, if they live beyond the
productive years.
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HOUSE WAKES UP

The action of the House in remov-
ing the undistributed profits tax from
the new revenue bill by the astounding
majority of 1853 to l (and the single
dissenting vote was cast by a repre-
sentative who favored the taX's elimi-
nation, but voted mo" because he felt
that the bill should have gone farther
the most heartening acts of this con
gress.
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Zoo
SUMMIT OF ECONOMIC FOLLY

Who gains when the government
spends millions to improve impracti-
cal inland waterways for commercial
transported n? And who Ioses2
Those important questions are aptIy
answered in q recent editorial in the
Kansas City Journal.
At the present time the govern
rent is establishing a navigable chan
nsl in the Missouri River from the
Kansas City to Sioux City. The cast
is estimated at $92, $1,000 of the tax
payers money, and maintenance at
$2,500,000 a year.
The government is spending this
vest sum- says the Journal, so a few
rrivata industr'e IS viii social trans
portat on needs can used the river.
'"The consrna-r will not benefit
unless the saving in transf rtation
costs is passed on to him in the form
of lower commodity prices. If the
Shipper cid that, there would be no.
point in his using the river at all.
The farmer will not benefit for
the reason that his wheat never sees
the ri1er until long after it has passsd
out of his hands.
"Who, then, are the beneficiaries?
Grain commission men who do
on export business and a few indus
tries producing bulk Commodities
adaptable to river shipping.
"AnC who are the losers?
First of all, the consumers, who
pay the millions in tax money to fl
river improvement and who
receive no tangible benfts from it,
"And second, the railroads, which
are deprived of needed rev-nue at a,
time when most of them stand on the
financial brink"
In other words, unec .nomic river
development penalties the many tg
favor the few-and every citizen of
tho country must chip in to pay the
gigantic costs. Certainly Congress
should have learned by this time that
the hundreds of milli3ns spent.for "po-
litical' river improvement have been
largely wasted-that the result has
been to help cripple our greatest sin
gle industry, the railroads-that the
cost of most inland waterway pr. jects
far exceeds any conceivable benefit.
eve to the favored few-and that it
is time to call a halt. The Journal sums:
up the situation APPLY when it says:
River development reaches the sum-
nit of economic folly"
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If such a policy breaks the rail

If such a policy breaks the rail
roads We'll all pay the bill. Well pay
it in ISIS of jobs, opportunities, taxes.
ana orders for business large and
small. Let's hope, Tor the sake of all
CT Us, that we discover how vital rail
roal prosperity is to natl nal pros
perity before it's too late.
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services and never accepted the
proffer of political Office. His
chief effort was to secure thru
pliticS the rights of his race and
patronage for members of his
church, thereby increasing the
prestiage and influence of his
denomination. John K. Hawkins
was a die-hard Republican and
believed in the motto of Frede-
rick Douglass, THE Republican
Party Is the Ship, All Else the
Sea-"
1t is to the diScredit of the
Christian world in general that
during the past so years more
stress has been laid upon the
secular affairs than upon sacred
thing. The AME chrch unfortu-
nately has followed in the wake
Of this worldly tendency. Great
er applause has accompanied the
report of dollar money than the
retention of souls. AS a result
the spiritual life of the AME
|, church duirrg the past % years
has bee stationary if not retro
grade. 1t is certainly unfortun-
ate to a man of the capacity
equipment of John r. Hakins,
should have his enegies confined
to serving tables rather than the
directing of affairs which lock
to Godward.
mus passes into history the
work and worth of John R. Haw-
klns who devoted his energetic
career with an eye single to the
broad welfare of his people in
general and the peculiar interest
of the ME church. 1 present Ire
worth and work of this educated,
, upright, courageous and conse-
Grated son of the race as an en-
ample worthy of imitation by
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Report Nazi's Plan to Seize
West Indian Island with Subs.


Four German submarines are
reported this week to be on the
way to the Caribbean to prey
on shipping in even that war
breaks out in Europe. 1t was
rumored that Hitler is planning
to seize the French island of
Martinique in the West Indies as
a base for German submarin
operation. German residents of
Venezuela are expected to aid in
the seizure. ,.s..
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81 ,; 81 ;$||

- BY
E2S. cHAuNcEY o. ZIMMERMAN
Associate Chairman
Republican State Committee :;
The New Deal may not know
much about bringing prosperity
to the American people but by
the eternal 1t knows how to Dor
row and spend money.
The total expenditures of the
New Deal for this year is
$9,250, 900, 10000.
The total debt today is ST.
OOo,000,000.OO.
By 1910 It will be $44,457,.
645,210.00. This Is twenty-five
times the value of all property
OF every kind within the entire
state of West Virginia.
The marvel Of this age is the
small amount Of good the Amer
lean people have received and
will receive for such a tremen-
dous amount of money spent.
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DR.. John R. Hawkins, fnanci-
al secretary of the AME church,
died in Washington, D. c., Aug.
%, 1889. He was the most dis
tinguished layman of h i s
church, and during the last IS
years, played a dominant part
in shaping its policy and proceed
ure. His influence was all the
greater, as a layman, because
he was removed from episcopal
jealousies and ecclesiastical ri
valries. .......
DR.. Hawkins life, like that
of t he writer of this release,
covered the entire span of the
Negroes progress since the eman
cipation Proclamation. + love
to think of him as youth who
grew up with the race and one
whose activities were integral
ed in every phase of its advance
since the abolition of slavery.
His entire active life was spent
in the service of African Metho-
dism which commanded the
full measure of his loyalty and
devotion. He was both a pro-
dut of, and a power in this self
governing denomination John
K. Hawkins might well be called
a high Churchman's veritable
prince of the church. He stands
out as a model worthy of imi-
tation bv present-day educated
youth who are in quest Of field
in which to exploit their powers
and talent Here lies before him
a constituency, to which he is
bound by blood, of twelve mil
lion souls, endowed with unusu-
al spiritual capacity and stand
ing most deeply in need of reli-
gious ministration and leader
ship. The harvest is indeed
white; but alas, the qualified
and willing laborers are too few
1t should challenge the highest
energy and ambition of the race
to administer this vast spiritual
estate.
The AME church was founded
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-09-08
Nervous, Weak,
Ankles SWQlIent

Aucn nervousness n caused by an ex-
cess Of acids and poisons due to funo-
tiona! Kidney and Bladder disorders
which may also cause Getting UP
Nights, Burning Passages, Swollen
EIcess Aoidity, Leg Pains and Dizzi,
ness Help your kidneys purify your
blood with Cystex. Usually the very
clean out excess acids and this soon NAV
make you feel like new. Cystex must
satisfy you completely or money back is
guaranteed. Get Oyster (siss-tex) to-
day. 1t costs only SC a dose at druggists
and the guarantee protects you.
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PACE -FOUR
CONTINUED from Page One)

Of what am I tired: You
might ask. This:
If Colonel Harry S. How
land us. army was alive he
would know. >.
However, to have come thru
wars. and battles and engage
ments thereof, ship wrecks
and diseases, and stand along
Elm Street and see Lawyer
King, Mr.. E. C. Lion, who are
,in their eighty years of age,
whom I have known since my
boyhood. and to see Mr.. S.
S. Brown nearly 80 years old,
who, when l was a boy, owned
the biggest dry goods store on
Elm Street. What should I say of
myself, a pensioned Captain,
United State troops. and yet
not old. w.
But it is a pleasure to stand
along Elm Street and see big
men of mind and soul, as saw
today. re.
Mr.. c. C. Winnbish, insurance !;
Lawyer Caveness, excellent
gentleman whose heart is like
a summers rose a leaf for the
destitute, the poor of home and
friends. Lawyer Caveness is a
great lawyer at the criminal
bar. =. 90.
Lawyers Huger King and
Robert Frazier along Elm Street
remind me of history's two
greatest criminal lawyers of
New York City-Howe and Hum
bolt. COCOON
Saw Mr.. G. r. Wharton, great
lawyer in white along Elm
Street. .......
Yes, there is q wait between
Elm Street and Gorrell Stree
buses of Is minutes, at Liggett:
drug store, whose clerks anc
managers are fine folks. There
/ get pleasure out of seein,
good men go by. Lawyer A
Stacy Clifford, great crimina
lawyer, who fought a case be-
fore the court of Moore county
with such daring, knowledge Of
law and oratory, that a certiar
lawyer against whom he was
was working, referred to him a:
a City Slicker." However, Mr.
Clifford won the case. He is nov
known as a great lawyer il
parts of Moore county.
Saw DR.. F. D. Bluford alone
Elm Street, The President O.
A. and T. college, one of tn,
straightest shooters a m o ns
men.
The Jeffersn Standard build
lngs have a fine lot of Christian
elevator operators.
-O---- ,Ant
49, -
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REV. j. A. DAVIS PASSES

Rev j. A. Davis, pastor of
Presbyterian church, died in
Lynchburg, Va, Thursday at
44O O clock. Funeral Saturday
in Lynchburg.
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more than a century ago to eX-
empty the self sovereignty of
the race in spiritual affairs. But
it soon broadene its scope to in
eide secular as well as sacred
interests. In the field Of eonom-
les, industry, polite and educa-
ton, the Negroes sphere is cir
cumscribed, regulated and con-
trolled by white olerlordship
wherever their interests over
lap and interfer. lnthe church
alone does Negro leadership find
a free field, and wide open oppor-
TURTLES, limited only by heart
within and God overhead.
The venture of the church in
to broader fields outside of reli
gious life was accumulated by
the era of reconstruction, whose
dispensation added the political
diamension to his sphere of acti
witty, the function of prophet,
priest and king became confus-
ed. The preacher and the politi-
clan were often ombined in the
same person. The separation of
church and state has never been
accepted as tenent of the AME
church. The transfer of spirit
ual authority to the political
field as been sanctioned as an
essential part of polity. 1t has
thus run the risk of mourning
the evil repute which has accom-
panied the union of church and
the state throughout the hist
DRY of Cristiandom.
The AME church by virtue
of the lowly lot of its constitu-
ency has become the prey of
designing politicians ever since
the Negroes acknowledgements
by the 18th and 18th Amend
ments. The alliance between poll
tics and religion is an unholy one
especially has this been proven
of the Negro minister who will
ingly becomes the victim of de-
signing white politicians whose
lower ethical standards look on
him as being venal and easily
influenced by the proffer of
filthy lucre. The AME church
has been the chief sinner in this
field. Its bishops and high
priests are allowed to trade on
their spiritual influence for part
san patronage.
| have watched the effects of
this unhallowed co-partnership
between the AME church and
corrupt politics for SO years, and
am thoroughly convinced it has
never contributed to the edifica-
ton of the church; but in no
torious instances, h a brought
e domination to the verge of
public scandal !
l must be said for John Il.
Hawkins, however, that altno
he inherited this unfortunate
situation, yet he maintained
throughout his many sided acti-
vities his character of high per-
Sonal probity and untarnished
integrity. Although he was a
chairman of the Negro contigent
OF the Republican party with the
sanction of his church, he never