davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
The Public and the Defense Program

Since the start of the American defense program
great unrest has swept the people of this country
Sensing grave emergency, the public has been anxious
to get things started to help the nation, to take
part in the fight against both real and imagined
enemies of the republic There has been widespread
urge to do something" to exert some real physical
effort ~
This desire need not and should not be frustrated
For while there is little the average ayman do in
the actual making of guns and planes and ships, every
citizen take very real part in other aspects of the
defense program just vital to national security.
First and most important is the need for every
man and living in this nation and enjoying the
privileges of citizenship to support the principles of
democracy both in talk and action. Propaganda
assaults upon the democracies have been just ercey
carried out have the onslaughts with weapons We
too have been subjected to continual fire of words
aimed at the nefcency of government and preach
ing the superiority of totataransm 1t should be easy
to keep these arguments from gaining foothold here
because all the facts prove that government is
the best for But people must convince them
selves of that truth and then spread it amongst their
neighbors.
At the same time efforts must be made to remedy
admitted weaknesses of our SYSTEM not merely
defense against propaganda but also that
will have healthy and vigorous government that
meet armed attack on equal grounds. 1t no
longer is enough that take mild interest every
four years in the Presidential elections and then crawl
back into shell. Every citizen must know the where
fores of his local. state and nations affairs and to
it that his elected representatives follow intelligent
course without wasting time and money. That means
careful study the part of the voters, maybe
the sacrifice of night usually spent at the movies but
unless get efficiency from government will
be forced into much greater discomforts.
Last, but by no means least we must make up our
minds to pay a much greater price for freedom than
we have in the easygoing past Keeping our liberties
likely to cost acceptance of military CONSUMPTION
in the future. We know it will cost more, much
more in taxes. Even if we not forced into de-
fensive war, it is highly probable that will face an
armed peace that will call for just many sacrifices
for years to We should prepare ourselves
tally and morally for such effort now. There may
be too much temptation to appease the conquerors later
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
England's Refugee Children

Lively is the debate now raging as to whether or
not should help bring children of England to this
country and if so, how much should help With the
daily air raids Britain increasing in severity, the
youngsters and the aged is swiftly gaining strength
Already it is suggested that American merchant ships
be sent for the children with a convoy of own
warshps.
That suggestion is met with the charge that such
an effort would be act of against Germany
and would be viewed by the Nazis. Continuing this
reasoning, it is pointed out that modern has
respect for innocence and that country involved
in conflict has no right to depend upon the humane
sympathies of neutrals.
But there is much to be said on the other side
Living on their comparatively tiny island, British
youngsters have little chance of escaping bombs from
the air. If Hitler must conquer their elders, and he
says he must there is why they too should die
in the struggle That people in this country sincerely
600 of them have applied to various relief organizations
with offers to take in young refugees.
On humane grounds, there is no reason why they
should not do So but the rules of humanity dis
regarded in the present conflict The British govern
ment last week admitted that it did not have enough
warships to convoy refugees and continue the fleets
necessary duties at the same time. Thus more
1t would be risky business to send American war
shius for the children Even if Germany did not con-
slider it reason to declare on us, we probably
would fight if one of ships loaded with such
human cargo torpepdoed. We should endeavor to
find some method for bringing these youngsters to
safety. If you must look at the situation in cold,
realistic light consider the British navy, which can
not permit to fall into the hands of the totatarians
for possible invasion of this country Is it likely that
the seamen of the Royal Navy will surrender their
ships if they know they may be used against their
sons and daughters who have been taken to America?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18

ment and for building a real national
defense.
Let me show how this 10 per cent
added tax works out as a means of
showing why object to, and criti-
CHE, it. The 10 per cent was added
to the so-called nuisance taxes-tax
on admissions, cigarettes. gasoline
and thousand other articles. Take
cigarettes as an example. Popular
brands sold in many places at two
for a quarter. The new price, gen.
orally, is two for ~ cents. But the
actual increase in price caused by
the tax will be about one and a
quarter cents. The dealers will get
an increase in the price.
While say with candor that the
dealers get an increase. am not
one who is going to criticize them
for it. do not see how any indi-
vidual or Arm could absorb that ad-
ditional tax-even though it is just
one-eighth Of cent-on every sale
that is made. He would 60 broke
in few months. So, there is more
than the amount of the tax collected
as q protection.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
Bruckmts Washington Digest
Taxes Raise Needed Revenue,
But Are Not Basically Sound
Only Part of Money Paid by Consumers Reaches
Federal Treasury Dealers Are Forced to Col
lect More Than Taxes Levied

that direction. On its good SIDE,
however, it can be said that it lev
led direct taxes on incomes, a meth
cd by which the tax, all of it, goes
into the treasury. That tax bill also
extended the income tax to some
thing like 2,500,000 additional tax
payers, by reducing the personal ex-
emption allowed. That is to say,
after July l, of this year, a mar
ried person with an income of So, 900
a year will pay income tax above
that sum and a single person re-
ceiving $500 80 will pay income
tax for the first time. Previously,
the exemption was $500 for a mar
ried person and $1,000 for a single
DerSOn
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
Social Reform and the Elections

It now is apparent that the Democrats will make
the keeping of social advances gained under the New
Deal major issue of the coming Presidential cam
paign. The Democratic platform and the speakers at
the convention this week put great stress these
reforms. Even before the party met in Chicago
spokesman of the New Deal limiting darkly that
Wendell WILKES candidacy constituted threat to the
legislation.
If Mr.. Wikie ranked among the ack-to-the- Hoover
well grounded Too many G. o. P. politicians have
spent the last eight years bowling for return 70
methods of business and government that must not
and win not return to this country. But the Repub-
ican candidate never has been of these In fact
he has openly approved in principle most New Deal
FORMS basing his only attacks the administration of
the new laws.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
Additional Taxation
Has Been Needed


Now, I believe anyone who has
ever read my columns will agree
that I have urged additional taxa
ton, constantly. On that point I
never have wavered. It might be
supposed then that I would 60 of
Of the deep end for the new taxes.
That, however, is not the case. I
find myself willing to support only
half of the program, for reasons
that will be apparent as the situation
IL analysed.
The first tax increase was proper.
It was needed. The second proposal,
that which congress is yet to con-
slider, Is not proper, but the revenue
is badly needed. The difference is
that the first program will yield
revenue that generally speaking.
will be received by the treasury in
its entirety. The second program
viii yield vast sums and only part
of the tax paid by the consumers
will reach the treasury.
It Ii a strong statement to make
when one says that the treasury will
get only part Of the amount paid by
the taxpayers. II Is true. however,
because in a levy like the excess
profits tax. every dealer, great or
small, collects more than the
amount Of the tax. We saw it when
an excess profits tax was in opera
ton during the World war of 1917
1918. A tax that amounted to half
q cent was paid as one cent for the
very simple reason that one has
some difficulty in cutting a penny
into two pieces. The seller is never
going to absorb any tax, and I
think he probably cannot be blamed.
He raises the price TO protect him
self. and you and I and every moth
er's son carries the load Of tax when
Il Il laid that way.
The first tax program offereS ~
Mr.. Roosevelt was bad emo
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
Business Not as Sound
As 1t Was in 1878

And that is the damnable feature
Of the excess profits tax. During
its first application-1917, 1918 and
l9l9-every business that had to pay
an excess profits tax had to protect
its own pocketbook. 1t could not
tell in April what its business would
be in November, or any other
month. Its prices had to be scaled
upward to bring in enough profit
that it would be able to pay the
tax, the amount of which it could
not forecast.
These new taxes come at a time
when few businesses have any real
reserve for a rainy day. Ten years
Of depression has left them with no
fat. Yet, il do not have the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
DEFENSE TAX

william Bruckart, Washington
correspondent, makes an inter-
esting critical analysis Of the new
defense tax. He finds that it is
basically unsound because the
federal treasury receives only
part of the money collected. Ac-
cording to Bruckart, the entire
tax system of this country should
be reorganized to eliminate the
Contradictory levies" which are
now in effect.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
Ten Per Cent Supertax
Added to REGULAR Lew

There was included in the taxing
act also an increase in taxes from
the previous rates. 1t was provided
in the new law that person receiv-'
ing $4,000 year, for example, will
pay the old rate of tax and then
will add a fiat 10 per cent to that
total as the amount he must cen
tribute for support of his govern
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
death of Saul

So Saul died for his transgression
which he transmitted against tne
Lord, even against the word OF tne
Lord, which he kept not, and also
for asking counsel Of one that mao
a familiar spirit, to enquire OF it,
Chronicles 1918.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
Tax Structure of Nation
Needs Reorganization

The laying of these new taxes
brings the people of the country
face to face with another fact. I
have been preaching against waste
and have been called anti-New Deal
because 1 have criticized the adj
ministration for piling up such a
huge debt-in excess of $45, ZOO, 0OO,-
O0O But l believe a good many
folks now are going to realize that
Sen. Harry Byrd, the Virginia DEM
ocrat, was exactly right when he
urged that the whole tax structure
be gone over and reorganized. He
wanted to see a sound tax struc-
ture. He surely was right when he
said there are contradictory and RI
diculous tax levies in effect and they
ought to be corrected.
The condition links directly with
my recollection of old Noah. Noah
went out and spent his money with
no thought Of the future. The pres
ent administration went out and bor-
rowed under one excuse or another
until the national debt is the great
est in the nations history-without
any thought Of the future. They
built privies and raked leaves and
constructed unneeded buildings and
spent billions in every direction.
It strikes me that since the adj
ministration has emulated old Noah,
it ought to wake up and take the
advice of some sound thinkers such
as Senator Byrd. The taxes must
be paid-yes, in undreamed of
amounts-but the taxpayers in the
country have right to demand
some system in that taxation.
Some of these days an understand
ing Of the sour nature of these taxes
will permeate down to the last per-
son who eats. The politicians have
been getting away with the grand
est deceit by using hidden taxes
taxes you have paid as a part Of the
price Of your purchase-for years. I
think the end is not far off. I firmly
believe that the tremendous taxes
we are going to have to pay because
we played like Noah, the farm hand,
will teach lot Of folks a lesson.
Today. new taxes are upon us in
manner that is harmful. We must
have those taxes. We should have
had them FIVE years ago. If we had,
our debt would not have been so
big, so unmanagable. It was, and
is, Noah all over again. We have
spent what we had; we have bor-
rowed from the earnings and the
savings Of our children and grand
children for playhouse purposes.
Now, when our nation Is viewed by
many to be in very real danger, the
mess Il made complete by a system
Of taxation which Is completely
cockeyed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
High School Teaches chss

BOHEMIAN, CALIF.-High school
Is being made attractive in this city.
New courses include glass blowing
skiing, chess playing and the opera.
ton Of movie projection machines.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
wNU servicel
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press
Rldg Washin Ofon n e.

Bldg., washington, ID. e.
WASHINGTON Among the hands
on my fathers farm when I was
boy was a big Negro named Noah.
He was good worker, and strong
as the team of mules that he
claimed and always used. Noah was
a good farm hand. But my father
could always count upon Noah be-
ing off Of the job two or three days
after he was paid his wages each
month. Noah, generally called
Chalk" because he was so black,
would disappear as soon as he got
his money and he did not return to
work until that money was gone.
1t never seemed to concern Noah
one bit that he was broke and
couldn't even buy tobacco for his
corncob pipe unless somebody gave
him money. He was that way
throughout his life because he said
he never brought muffin here" and
he would take muffin away" when
he died. He really carried out that
philosophy of life, for my father
paid his burial expenses.
I have been thinking of Noah and
his ideas of living, lately. because
Of certain developments of national
import. His philosophy was recalled
especially when President Roosevelt
asked congress for an increase in
taxes to defray the cost of the vast
new program of national armament.
1t was recalled again when, out Of
clear sky and in the shortest mes
sage ever sent to congress in Mr..
Roosevelt's seven years as head of
the government, the President pro-
posed that congress take a second
step In raising taxes. He asked for
"steeply graduated excess profits
fax
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18

new take. re Will our govern
ment find itself?
In respect of the lack of reserve,
the business Of the country is in
quite different situation than 1t
was in 1918 when the earlier excess
profits tax went on. Then, business
was ftInctioning, making money
hand over fist, reaping war profits
from before the United States joined
the allies against Germany. Now,
the tax goes on and business is fiat
on its back. There is no use kid
ding ourselves about the condition.
In my opinion, any real economic
recovery is now definitely off until
such a type of tax is altered and
the levy applied so that taxpayers
will know what tax they must pay
each year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
We're Funny That Way

Europe has Dragged about her
old ruins and derided the newness
Of America. Well take ours
standing, thanlzsl
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
Who Said liberty

AS long as there is marriage
then so long will men not taste the
fruits of complete freedom and
liberty.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18

Improved 0 STTNDAN
Uniform o0-A
-:-LESSON- =
BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, d n
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper IInior,
Lesson for July Fl

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts CO
lected and copyrighted by InternationsI
council OF Religious Education; used bv
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18
They Come Out In The Wash

To many promises made by poll
ticians are not pre-shrunk.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18

LESSON TEXT-Job 42:1-13.
GOLDEN TEXT-And the Lord turned
the captivity of Job, when he PRAYED for
his friends.-Job 42:1O.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-18

To resist temptation once IS not
q sufficient proof Of honesty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
LILLE SALEEBY
HURT IN CRASH
Child, 9, May Lose Leg; Three
Others In Family Are
Injured

Lille Saleeby, 8, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Mitchell Saleeby, of 1912
Woolcott avenue. was seriously in
jured and three other members of
her family We're cut and bruised
When their car struck a tree near
18th and Dock streets yesterday aft
ernoon.
Her right leg was severely hurt
and it was not known yesterday il
amputation would become necessary.
Other occupants of the car, Emile
Saleeby, her brother and driver OF
the car, Mrs. Mitchell Saleeby, her
mother, and Mitchell Saleeby, Jr.,
her brother, were less seriously hurt.
Only Mrs. Saleeby was admitted tc
Il hospital for treatment.
The driver of the car told police
he turned out into the middle of the
street to avoid a school bus parked
at the curb, and in doing so the car
skidded on the car tracks and slid
into a tree.
The a was considerably damaged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Candidates
Expound PHILOSOPHERS

GRAHAM. March 30-CP- Four
ypirants for the North Carolina
;emocratic gubernatorial nomination
in the forthcoming primary expound.
ID their political PHILOSOPHERS to
several hundred citizens at the Ala,
nance county courthouse here last
right. The gathering was sponsored
v the Alamance county democratic
dub.
Speakers On the program we're: J.
h. Broughton and A. ]. Maxwell Of
Raleigh, Mayor Thomas E. Cooper
If Wilmington and Paul Grady of
Kenly. The four reiterated in a large
measure campaign platforms which
hey had previously announced.
Broughton pledged himself against
any backward step which would slow
up progress in the state; Mayor
Cooper in a bitter denunciation of
lawyers whom he blamed for the
high cost of government promised
to alleviate the tax burden in North
Carolina; Grady sounded a ringing
appeal for democracy and urged that
lie state govement be put on a bust
ness basis; and Maxwell advocated
the Inauguration of a "real and COM
phensive program of highway i'm
provement and extension.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Chanute Field Recruit
Requirements Explained

In response to many queries from
this section of North Carolina, the
public relations office of Chanute
air field, R%antoul, ILL.,, Yesterday is
sued information regarding require
ments for application and accept
ance.
The applicant must be an Ameri-
can citizen between the ages Of Is
and IS years, single, high school
graduate, and must be physically
and mentally fit.
The air corps expansion program
has created many vacancies at the
field, it was said, and now is the
proper time for a young man inter
ested in gaining an expense-free
aeronautical education to apply for
admission.
Further information relative ia
the air corps technical school and
enlistment in the army air corps
may be obtained from the person
mel officer, Chanute field.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
STATES RECEIPTS
REACH new MARK
Nearly Every Item In N. C.
Tax List Shows Bust
ness Is Better

RALEIGH, March 3O-P-Swell-
ed by record-setting returns from in
come taxes, North Carolina general
fund receipts climbed to an all-time
high of 81, I'll, 362.O3 this month, the
revenue department announced to.
day.
Virtually every item in the month
ly tax report, department officials
said, reflected better business condi-
lions in North Carolina.
The previous record for general
fund receipts in a single month was
established in March, 1888, when
S10,6E9 1889 was collected. Last
March receipts were only $9,404,-
81. 04.
Collections this month from motor
vehicle and gasoline taxes were ST.
2~44,544.90, compared with 81, 9S9,.
0l9.O6 in March of last ear.
All state taxes collected during
nine months of the current fiscal
year totaled $50, 1873, 313.O3, as against
$54, 699, 447.1S in the same period in
193S-39.
Head and shoulders above everv
other source of revenue for the
month was the income tax, which
netted a record of 50, 121, 024.2 in
March and has netted I'LL, 1854. OF
to date this fiscal year.
Income taxes for entire fiscal year
are expected to push past the $12,-
100000 mark, eclipsing the previous
mark of $11, 1896, 3S1 set in 1928.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Gene Buck Scholarship
Won By Cecil Will!

Cecil Willis, Jr., of Goldsboro.
the nephew of Mr.. and Mrs. W. A
Penny, of 705 Chestnut street, has
received the Gene Buck scholarship
highest award offered by the Acad-
envy of the Theatre in Washington,
D. G..
Qualifications for the Buck award
are: scholarship average must be
the highest in school; department
must be above %reproach; the win
ner must have appeared in ten
roles, five of which must have been
adjudged excellent by the commit
tee.
The VIM ng student must have
played two professional engage
ments, and must have appeared on
a. least two radio programs, max,
ing a high rating in voice, diction,
and expression.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Boney And Reynolds
Honored At N. E.. State

Two Wilmington students at N,
C. Stale college became Knights of
st. Pat. honorary engineering or.
g~anization, at the conclusion of the
Engineers fair at the school last
night.
They were Leslie N. Boney and B.
B. Reynolds.
Others included William T. Blan-
chard, of Rosehill, and Isaiah Mop.
McVann, of Clinton.
Plaques were awarded to Hal z.
Randolph, of Raleigh, and Henry D.
Buddy Means, of Concord.
Sixty-five seniors were initiated in
to the Order Of st. Pat and two
freshmen from each department of
the school of engineering were dub
bed companions of st. Pat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31

and $4,000 is allotted to the exc
cutors in full compensation for their
services.
All personal property, which en-
braces virtually all of the estate, is
to be divided equally among Mrs.
Hills husband, John Sprunt Hill
n her three children, George
Watts Hill, .Valinda Hill DuBose
and Frances Faison Hill. All of
Mrs. Hills jewelry, linen, silver
and wearing apparel is to be divid-
ed equally in the same manner.
All real estate and any residue of
property, is given to her husband.
The real property contained in the
estate, is estimated to aggregate
S227 900, and is all located in North
Carolina. The personal property,
therefore, is estimated at $9,173, 900.
John Sprunt Hill, George Watts
Hill and Villa Whitfield Sledge,
Mrs. Hills attorney, were named
by Mrs. Hill as executors. They
qualified this morning.