Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-03-27
STRAIGHT FROM WASHINGTON
(By Stephen M. Young, Congress-
man-at-Large, from Ohio)
William KnudSOn

| (By Stephen M. Young, Congress
man-at-Large, from Ohio)
William KnudsOn
William Knudson, director gen
eral and production manager of tn,
national defense program, is a hus
ky six footer. He is the hope O.
Americans everywhere who seek t.
make the western hemisphere Sc
| strong that no set of dictators will
dare attack us. He is the embodi
nent of force and Is generally con.
| sidered the big industralist Of the
country. Nevertheless, when II
comes to public speaking, he is more
timid than high school orator
The other day when he addressed a
meeting at the Shoreham hotel ball
room, he moved the microphone
over to the piano. His knees were
shaking so he wanted something
substantial like piano to lean on.
Knudson, naturalized citizen, is
today next to President Roosevelt,
the most powerful and influential
American. This great big fellow has
a ready smile, an unassuming man
ner, a vigorous handshake and a
genius for getting things done. For
relaxation he fiddles and plays the
piano.
Patronage
Louis XIV of France said: "For
every appointment 1 make forty
nine malcontents Boise Penrose,
Republican boss of Pennsylvania, in
his autobiography wrote, During
my career l made many appoint
ments, of every ten, eight were un-
grateful and one proved himself a
dirty SO anG so.'
Senator Carter Glass expressed
the same thought in these words,
During fifty years in public life
have helped many constituents to
attain appointive positions, for ev
cry appointment there have been
twenty disappointments, and usual
ly the appointee is an ungrateful
The other day the senator received
a pretty vicious letter from one Of
his constituents, he turned to his
secretary and said, "Look over our
files and see when I did this fellow
a favor
An AtrOciOus Tax
Fortune Magazine has completed
a poll of Big Business Executives.
Most of them favor imposition of
federal sales tax Reactionaries pro-
pose that congress impose a sales
tax on the people of this nation. 4
sales tax such as we have in Ohio
is unjust. The last place where tax
gatherers should go into the homes
of the poor, the sick and the needy.
In Ohio when you buy coffee and
doughnuts, you pay ten cents, and
in addition, tax of one cent. This
is a ten percent tax. The other day
in an Ohio drug store l observed
sales girl eating lunch. 1t was a
frugal lunch. Unfortunately in ad-
Gition to the cost-fifteen cents-an
unfair state law compelled her to
pay tax Of one cent. She needed
that money. When the head of the
family has to pay twenty-five cents
for necessary medicine, the tax
amounts to more than five percent.
The Ohio sales tax as it applies to
food bought in restaurants, neces
sary clothing and medicine, should
be repealed. With proper economy
in government, there would be no
need to impose any additional tax.
There are nearly fifty billion dollars
in bonds held by wealthy people Of
our country that are absolutely tax
exempt. This is wrong, and such
system takes money from the chan
nels of commerce and trade. Here
in Washington, the seat of our ma
tional government, where people
should certainly pay taxes for ma
tional defense the same as in Ohio,
there is no sales tax whatever, not
only on food in restaurants, cloth
ing, medicines, but there is no sales
tax on any luxury. 1t was the direct
cause of the French revolution. A
sales tax as we have in Ohio, de-
stroys the consuming power of peo
pie.
Washington.-The capitol is To-
Gated on Capital Hill. This is not
much OF a hill. The White House is