Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-05
New Shifts
Expected in
Defense Jobs
Hopkins, Buffittt Slated
for Top Positions
BY PAUL MALLON

.tdefense regime were not the
last. Another CONFUSION, is COM
ing as soon as the lend-lease bill
is sealed, delivered and signed.
What form it will take is con-
cealed in the Presidents mind.
Around the largest desks at
OPM it is expected Harry Hop
kins and Bill Bullitt will be
worked into positions of near
cabinet rank.
The new OPM setup seems to
be doing very WELL" but well is
not good enough. Much stronger
moves to accelerate production
must be taken.
IF YOU are tearing out your
L hair now with your income
tax return, you may as well tear
it all out and badly save your
self the trouble next year. A
further increase of perhaps one
and one-half billion dollars is
being conversationally prepared
among congressional tax makers.
March Is returns will be much
higher than expected but this is
not likely to mitigate the in
crease. Defense cost is so high
and the country SO willing that
the tax LEVERS want to get all
they can. The boost will be pro-
posed as soon as the returns
are in.
Through necessity the legis-
lators are even siding around
toward a sales tax. Lowering
exemptions cannot raise much
more money.
Senator Brown of Michigan
estimates it will cost the treas
ury SS,000,000 to collect the
SID 100000 this year from lower
exemptions. A 3 per cent man.
ufacturers sales tax would raise
S750,000,000. half of what the
boys would ike 10 get.
THE British have been might
l. lily silent lately about their
North African drive. The COM
muniques have been uncommuni-
cative since the capture of Ben
gazi. Yet no one here has placed
v,,,,ch faith -, NI,,ccal;,;'c ri n IN, G
that the British are in trap"
or Berlin accounts of mechanical
successes in the interior Instead.
it is believed the British have
secretly withdrawn much of
their army to ports ready for
embarkation elsewhere.
OAF of all caves that this war
" has yet produced is Stain.
The cosy comrade of the Krem-
lin has negotiated himself skill
fully from a position in world
affairs to vasSal of Hitler.
Stain made the war possible in
the first place by promising
Hitler neutrality on the eastern
front. He then exposed the
totally unsupported unimpor-
tance of his army by his Finnish
campaign.
He abandoned diplomatic
hopes in Scandinavia, the Far
East, and now his shortsighted-
ness is the primary reason be-
hind the collapse of the Bal
kans.
Connie comrades explain his
strategy is to connive the defeat
of capitalism, but he is only
feeding a giant who is already
his master. Hitler will never
stop at the borders of Russia if
he wins. The Reds will wear
brown shirts one day as a result
of the stupidity of their own
SmartnesS.
MOT much is to be expected
i from the congressional mepe
to consider anti-strike legisla-
ton. In its inception it was
only pushed to smoke out Mr..
Roosevelt He has inhaled every
thing so far without a gasp.
The congressman have no
definite ideas as to precisely
what action could be taken. The
matter will lie dormant until a
break develops from the White
House or the public. 1t will
probably have to come from the
latter.
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