The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-08-20
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But Washington, D. c., is not North
Carolina = and Reynolds has been
holding forth in the nations capital
for almost a decade Washington
does some mighty strange things to
some people. You can't, for example,
order side meat and hominy when
travelling in Washington society. 1t
is necessary, instead to cultivate a
taste for thick, juicy steaks, rich sea
food-yes, and fish eggs.
Last week, 574year- Bob Rey-
nolds announced his engagement to
20-year-old blond, comedy Evalyn
Washington Mclean, heiress to a
neat little fortune of several million
dollars and recipient of an annual in
come of about $4,000 from trust
| fund in her name. The young lady,
whose mother, Evalyn Walsh Mclean,
is the possessor of the famed Hope
diamond, the largest cut diamond in
the world, will become Mrs. Robert
Reynolds No. Five.
The mills of the gods grind slowly
Evalyn admits that she likes night
clubs and parties. There will be
plenty of fish eggs eaten in the So
in-and he will have an opportunity
to develop a taste for them, if he has
not already cultivated such a taste.
And there will be another election
coming around in North Carolina, and
Bod likely again will ask the voters
to retain him in office. 1t might not
be such an easy task to defeat Rey-
nolds in that state on the grounds
that he is the worlds champion alien
batter and an alleged admirer of
Adolf Hitler, but his opponent, know
ing how Handsome Bob" rode into
office, might decide that he also can
do the trick on a mo Caviar" slogan
No reason why that game can't be
worked both ways.
Renew Sales Tax Drive
The fat boys will settle for almost
any kind of a general sales tax just
so they can get one on the federal
statute books.
Harcourt Amory, chairman of the
committee on federal taxation of the
America, last week headed the parade
of witnesses who appeared before the
senate finance committee to boost for
such a tax. What his organization
recommends is percent tax on the
wholesale prices of 'semi-luxuries,
and 10 percent tax on "luxuries."
But not even the families living on
direct relief and on WPA would en-
tirely escape this tax, while the aver
age family would be paying tax on
many items of daily necessity.
A special news letter supplement
on national defense issued by the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
last week, and sent to every member
of congress, repeats the substance of
the testimony given by L. w. Hous-
ton, it's government finance commit
tee chairman, before the house ways |
and means committee to the effect |
that "a form of general sales tax is
necessary, while as to steep excess
profits tax bill it cautions that 1T
should not be used as vehicle OF
business control or social reform,
which would not only be an unsound
use of taxing power, but it would COM
plicate an already difficult defense
lax program" This is just another
way of saying that we had better be
careful about enacting a real excess
profits tax law.
Opposition of public opinion to
general sales tax, which is a way OF
making the poor pay more than their
ust share of taxes and relieving the
'ich of their just tax load, probably
will prevent enactment of this kind of
| tax at the present session of con-
,ress. But the warning of Senator
Barley, Kentucky, that a general
sales tax will come sooner or later
should make the public vigilant.
current Capital Comment
Henry Ford's conscience must be ]
,othering him. He has donated $780, s