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The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12
RETAILERS FOR DEFENSE WEEK

Retail stores all the naton-dug stores grocery,
hardware furniture and all other types of retail outlets
adding a new line-Defense Saving Stamps
Many of them have begun selling stamps already,
having made arrangements with the treasury department
to do it last month Next week they will all bring the
matter to public attention by participating in Retailers
Tor Defense Week"
With a toal of 1,77O413 retail stores in America,
stamps these stamps will undoubtedly be the best dis
trbuted, best merchandsed and probably the best ad
vertsed product put the American market.
Commenting the offer of the retail stores of
America participate the sale of stamps Secretary of
Treasury Morgenthau said
THE defense savings program is gaining momentum
every day The splendid spirit shown by the retailers of
the nation putting their associations behind the sale of
defense savings stamps is to have stimulating eff
feet in advancing the whole program. 1t is another nd
cation of the American determination to proceed whole
hearedy toward in national defense effort
THE thanks of the treasury and of the government
due the leaders of retail industry and to their
ber stores all the nation for the enthusiasm with
which they entering into the plans for Retailers for
Defense Week and for the continuous activity pledged
in the sale of defense savings stamps"
Many people expected to take advantage of the
opportunity to buy defense stamps all by putting
voluntary savings tax their purchases-a tax OF
10 of what they spend the be paid
for defense stamps and put away for savings If all
did put aside 10 percent of retail purchases for gov
enment savings would amount to almost five billion
tidy nestegg for Americans have for the rainy
day which may follow the war
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12
TAXING THE POOR MAN

Plenty happen to the tax bill, recently
worked out by the finance committee of the senate be-
gets through the senate and the house. But
stands now it looks though effort has been made
TO put something on the rich who has always
suggested that people in America should share
The payment of income taxes.
When the rich man has made this suggestion he has
done with the feeling that it would add enormous
income to the government treasury, would help balance
the budget and incidentally, might relieve him of
If the amount he personally is called upon to pay in
taxes
Year af.er year, the house of representatives has
violently opposed such proposals, for representatives
realize there poor people than rich peope-and
that the poor might show he didn't like being taxed
when he went to the polls.
The senate committee however, decided to try it. But
The way they worked it out just proved to be another
soakhe-rich plan. The committee did lower the exemp
ton base from $4,000 S1500 for married couples and
from $500 to $3.50 for single persons but it didn't revise
The rate any way thus meaning that people
would pay but the regular taxpayer would pay tax on
$500 additional income. And when it figured it
found that of the 5000 600 taxpayers who would be
added to the tax-paying fraternity, The elgibes
eguar taxpayer would be called upon to pay addi-
ona 305,000000 above the high tax originally plan
ned for them.
The reduction in exemption would just about double
he number of taxpayers but the total tax the group
would pay figures up to be just drop in the bucket
1t looks though it doesn't matter much whether
the poor pays not. And in this case, lower
ing of the base simply to be way get more
from the of moderate or large income by the guse
of bringing 600 additional families into the income
tax group.
But bringing it up does help in way-it shows
all of that the poor mans mite of little in sov
ing the vast finance problems of our government.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12

entirely when all the supplemental
deficiency appropriation bills are
| passed.
'It is little short OF outrageous
to impose the burden of this tax
bill upon the citizens of this coun'
try without at least a sincere at
tempt to reduce federal expendi-
lures ouside OF essentially emerg-
ency items.
Although the debate on the tax
bill is being conducted pretty
much along party lines, the Re-
publicans urging economy and the
Democrats defending New Deal
expenditures, it is expected that
some economies in a non-defense
spending will be forthcoming. The
debate on the tax bill Is creating
more heated arguments even than
surrounded the famous lend-lease
bill. On the outcome Of the tax
measure and its amendments, our
financial policy for the future will
be set.
Labor, Materials, Priorities.
AS a result of the appeals for
unity in the address of President
Roosevelt and many national III
CURES in the unions on Labor day
it is expected that labor problems
may be somewhat reduced, al
though the shipbuilding, aviation
and automobile industries feel no
assurance that there will not be
new outbreaks to interfere with
their production schedules.
Many industrialists with big
government contracts are coming
to Washington with bags full OF
statistics to show the government
they now are actually losing
money on defense production due
TO increased cost of materials,
shortages OF materials, increased
labor costs and expensive adjust
ments in government specifications
for the defense items they are
making.
The newly appointed super pri-
critics board, headed by Vice
President Wallace. is expected to
look into all problems which are
delaying production and to figure
out how best care of the interests
of both defense industries and the
civilian population. President
Roosevelt expects the new board
to speed production of arms for all
anti-Nazi nations and at the same
time to give due consideration of
keeping the home fires burning In
America. On the new board, be-
sides the vice president. are: Will
liam s. Knudsen, director general
OF the Office OF Production
Management; Sidney Hillman,
OPM associate director general;
Harry Hopkins, special assistant
to the President; Leon Hender-
son. federal price administrator;
Secretary of Navy Knox, and Sc
cretary of War Stimson.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12

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BLINDNESS colors
A friend of mine never drives
an automobile alone because he
can't tell the difference between
red and a green light. He has
what is known as red-green color
blindness, which means that he
can identify other colors but can't
tell red from green-they both
look gray to him.
1t is estimated that about one
persons in every 20 has some form
of color blindness. The most COM
mon form is not being able to
identify the color green. OF O.
500 male college students studied
fol color blindness. 113 were green
blind, Is were red-greeh blind, one
was red blind and seven were
totally color blind.
Perfect eyes, studies have shown,
can see up to 100000 shades Of
colors. In a big dictionary, there
are 3,400 words for various color
shades. But to a person who Is
totally color blind all of these
shades look practically alike, only
varying between white, gray and
black.
CHILDREN school
There are very few of us who do
not have some form of eye
trouble. According to M. ]. Julian,
president of the Better Vision in
stitute, only about half of the
school children who should be
wearing glasses are wearing them.
Among young children it is very
difficult to tell whether they have
eye trouble, for a child doesn't
usually realize that he can't see
what his paymates can see. Often
young children have great difficult
ty with their school work and
when it is finally discovered that
the difficulty is eye trouble rather
than brain trouble, glasses bring
about a complete change in ability
and personality.
Teddy Roosevelt, who all through
his adult life wore thick glasses,
is a good example of that. The
first few years of school were a
great struggle to him and not un
til his teens did he or his family
discover the reason. Then one day
he was given a gun as a present
and was surprised to find that hi
friends were shooting at things
which he couldn't see. A little
later one of his friends read the
words on billboard aloud wher
Teddy couldn't see the words a
all.
1t was then he told his mothel
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12

ANshor Of '1osV to Win Friends
and Influence People"
GET A DEEP DRIVING IMPULSE
AND STICK TOIT

One day hawker selling maps left one in the home
OF boy in Poland The boys name was Josef Korzeniow-
SKI After the man had gone, he examined the map.
and the more he looked it. the fascinated he be-
came spot that especially ured him was pink one in
Afrlca-he Belgian Congo He put his finger on the blob
OF pink and said I'm going there I'm going see that
some day"
he bent all his energies toward carrying out that
idea But he found that he would have to learn English
ne was to travel English sailing ship and SO he
began the study of the English language which he not
only mastered but which he learned love so Intensely
that the desire to be writer grew on him. He changed
,hs name to Joseph Conrad and Joseph Conrad the
English language became art he cut words out of the
language as carefully and painstakingy a apidary
chiseng diamond
Finally he went to the exact spot indicated on the
map where ne had put his finger He only there
he wrote book with the scene laid in that section He
formed purpose and he never wavered.
young Irish-Italian boy was reading one day in
the journal of Benjamin Franklin. In his journal Frank
lin described how he had drawn electrical fire" out of
a cloud. The boy fascinated He hunted up Frank
Inns letter written in 1880 to The Royal Electrical society
of London, and read and re-read it. I'm going to find
out what that electrical fire was the boy said He start
ed in; he found out-electricty"- that led TO
more investigation He had found purpose; he never
devated from it during his whole life That ish-Italian
boy? Marcon inventor of wireless eegraphy and father
of radio.
This doesn't mean you should go to the Belgian Con-
60 oi 10 role, work toward discoveries
IN radio, but it does that you set yourself
purpose in ife and deviate from If you do this
and work conscientousy, your purpose will carry you
1ar DO not tilt from purpose to another Get deep,
driving Impulse and stick it. 1t of the secrets of
success
Thomas Carlyle, the famous historian wrote some
thing else than The History of the Franch Revolution
Something far, far shorter Something very important
This it is:
Have purpose in life and having it. throw into
work all the strength of mind and muscle that God
has given you
If you will follow that earnestly and sincerely you
will gain some modcum of You may not be
President of the United States, but you will distinguish
yourself The world full of purposeless people-shps
without rudders. They blow first one direction then
other
more than organization simply representing the bust
ness of the city. Because there is duly elect
ed body to represent the ctizenry whole the cham
ber of commerce has stepped into the role ordinarily fill
ed by city council and consequence finds itself
more and more worrying problems from which
chambers of commerce ordinarily free.
There number of young in Coolidge ably
fitted to aid in local civic problems who believe then
youthfuness and not being business for themselves bar
them from participation in civic work.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12

he thought he had eye trouble.
Soon after he was fitted with cor
rective glasses and his whole
personality changed. Instead of
being a shy, awkward boy, he be-
came filled with self-confidence
and leader of his friends. Prob
ably we would never have heard OF
him, when he became a man, If
that eye trouble hadn't been taken
care of.
ANGER ewes
That expression, I'm so mad
can't see" is based on good sound
fact, eye specialists tell me.
| Columbia. university. recently
made study OF the effect OF
emotions on eyes and found that
both anger and fear temporarily
derange the delicate eye mechan-
ism. 1t was found that emotions
diminish the sight of one out of
five persons and another one OF
five become actually wobby-eyed
under the stress of emotional ex-
citement. Although excitement
| changes the vision of most all of
| US, it seems to have different ef-
fects on different personalities. To
| a fairly large group, excitement
sharpens and stimulates the eye
sight so that they can see better
under emotion.
The emotional effect on the eyes
of telling lies has always been
pronounced, even to the casual
observer. We all have seen peo-
/ pie become shifty-eyed and have
Immediately suspected that they
weren't telling us the truth. This
demonstrates the close relation
ship between the eyes and the
emotions. Dishonesty, IL practiced
On a large scale, has a perman-
ent effect on the action of the
eyes, so that a person leading
dishonest life gets so he can't
avoid being shifty-eyed even when
he is telling the truth.
The eyes are not only affected
by our emotions but they also re
fleet our emotions. 1t is easy to
tell, by looking into peoples eyes,
IL they are angry or afraid. And
the change in their eyes that we
see when they are emotionally
wrought up also affects their Wis
ion.
GLASSES army
Parents aften make the mistake
of not getting glasses for child
because they are afraid that once
he starts wearing glasses he will
always have to wear them.
The theory has been proven un'
true by many children who have
used glasses to correct defects and
after a year or two have been able
to discard the glasses entirely.
Eye exercises have also been found
to remedy many vision ailments.
But tests OF school children show
that at least Is per cent have eye
defects which are not being at
tended to.
The army, as far as vision Is
concerned, only requires a man TO
see without glasses at 20 feet
what normal eyes can see at 100
feet. Yet 100000 out of every mil
lion young men can't even do that.
Incidentally, recent tests show
that dark eyes are stronger than
blue or gray eyes. The light eyes
tire more quickly and are more
| susceptible to glare. But there
must be something in favor OF
blue eyes too-for it is understood
that nearly three-fourths of Holly
wood actresses have them!
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12

w dSuiuS NOui ~. y. IN w NO N
bitter fight between those who
want to spend new billions for so
cial reforms and those who want
to pare domestic expenses to pay
for defense, is being waged IN
congress. It's outcome probably
will determine our policies in this
regard for the duration Of the
war.
The move to cut down expenses
on non-defense items in the budget
was started by the senate finance
committee Immediately following
that committees approval of the
largest tax bill in the history OF
our country. Impressed with the
proportion of tax money which
must go into non-defense items,
the committee approved an
amendment to the tax bill asking
for an immediate estimate from
the bureau of the budget on how
to effect savings up to S2,OOO,OOO.'
900. II also approved a resolution
asking for a committee of both
houses of congress, the director OF
the budget and the secretary OF
the treasury to inquire into
methods of saving.
On the same day that these
moves to reduce governmental ex-
penditures were made, the special
committee investigating old-age in
surance made a report urging that
the government pay $50 a month
to all unemployed people over 90
years old and estimated that this
would cost from three to four bill
lion dollars annually. Senators i'm
mediately pointed out that II this
recommendation was CARED out II
would require more funds than the
total tax bill which Is expected TO
come to about $4,000, ,OOO.O
Nevertheless, Senator Downey OF
California (home-state OF the
Townsend plan) is offering this
proposal as an amendment to the
tax bill.
The members of the committee
supporting the bill, in addition 10
Mr.. Downey, were Senator Pepper
of Florida and Senator Thomas OF
| Idaho.
Although this bill Is apt to be
waved aside, it is indicative OF the
thinking of part of the congress
which favors continuing to pour
billions into new social reforms
even though the government debt
is up to so billion mark. And
many congressman find it embar-
RAISING to oppose such measures
when they realize there are 12,-
600 900 voters who would benefit
by it.
Byrd States View.
Taking a more realistic attitude
however, the finance committee Is
insisting on government economy
Explaining the stand of the com
mittee, Senator Byrd said:
"The pending 1S41 tax bill oi
necessity imposes an additional
and egregious burden on perhaps
more taxpayers than ever before
reached by direct federal taxes.
"This step now is absolutely
necessary in the teeth of the cur
rent defense emergency, but 1t l:
shameful that there has been nc
earnest, sincere effort to reduce
non-essential, non-defense expendi
lures of the federal government
Reductions made in these items
this year have been inconsequenti
al, and probably will be wiped ou
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12
WHY NOT A JUNIOR CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE?

With countless civic problems facing Coolidge and
the handful of active workers in the chamber of
merce younger of the city would find op-
portunes for civic service through the formation of
junior chamber Of commerce.
Coolidge chamber of commerce must of necessity be
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12
IN The ARMY NOW

ALICE FAYE DRAFTED! The
blonde screen star was made an
honorary member of the Fifty
seventh pursuit group stationed at
Windsor, Conn, after her recent
personal appearance there.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-09-12

ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH
Mass ..........8:3 80 Sunday
Rosary Wednesday and Friday
7:30
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Patrol Destroyer RefueIs Under Way
Delicate Operation, Greatly Extending Ships Sphere
Of Action, Was Brought to Perfection Over Years

delicate operations for a destroyer
-refueling from supply ship while
both are proceeding at half speed
so as not to fall behind the con-
voy. 1t is job that requires most
of 1.-THE crew-dressed in life jackets,
for the sea is rough and there is
some danger of going overheard
from the tossing deck.
1t is a job possible only with the
utmost coordination between the
two craft and everybody looks re-
lieved when it is over and they go
their separate ways. This opera
ton has been perfected in the past
few years by patient trial and error
and, simple as it seems, has vastly
extended the tight-packed destroy
er's cruising radius. SO far as fuel
alone is concerned, it now could
keep going for months out of sight
of land.
Naturally this refueling stirs lot
of speculation among the crew 1t
might mean that this will be long
voyage. When they were called
back Unexpectedly to the ship from
leave they did not know but that
they were bound only on short
gunnery practice cruise.
The destroyers make their tur-
quoise snake cravings always a few
miles to one side or the other of
the ships being guarded. Those on
the other side are ghostly figures,
disappearing and reappearing. on
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Detroit
CONTINUED From First Page.)

embraced most of the points con-
tanned in the Mayors formula.
Mayor Jeffries' proposal would
have granted exclusive bargaining,
checkoff and bulletin board rights
to the majority union in each di-
vision of the municipality owned De-
partment of Street Railways, as de-
termined by elections in the di-
visions, with a proviso that the
power of the city to grant such
rights would be tested in the courts.
This provision for legal test was
reported to have been stricken from
the settlement agreement.
The strike. the third in the trans
portation system in five years, cli-
NAKED a jurisdictional battle be-
tween the Amalgamated union and
the State, County and Municipal
Workers Union &C. I. o..
When the strike started, workers
who owned automobiles drove them
and carried neighbors to their jobs,
and there was little interference
with production in Detroit's indus
tries, many of them busy on defense
orders.
Traffic was slow and hopelessly
snarled during rush hours, however,
and accidents increased by so per
cent.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

levels set in the price schedules,
action will be taken to bring about
an adjustment. And he stressed
that the maximum prices apply to
all sales or resales of rayon goods.
He specified, too, that contracts for
delivery of grey goods at prices
above the maximums set in the
schedule may not be completed"
Meanwhile, the joint o. P. M
Opacs commodity section on silk
yesterday announced plans for
formation Of Defense Industry
Advisory Committee representing
the rayon producing and hosiery
industries. Fourteen manufacturers
of rayon yarn were invited to meet
with the section here tomorrow af-
ternoon to discuss problems arising
from silk shortages. In addition,
more than so hosiery concerns have
been invited to send representatives
to confer with the section Wednes-
day and nominate members for the
Hosiery Advisory Committee.
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Henderson Imposes
Rayon Cloth Ceiling
10 Pei. Under Market
Worms Thot Prices
For Finished Goods
Must Be Aligned

BY fixing maximum prices on i'm
portant types Of rayon goods at
about 10 per cent under recent
levels. Federal Price Administrator
Leon Henderson last night ex-
tended price ceilings over most pri-
mary textiles used in women's
dresses, mems shirts, underwear,
suit Innings and sheetings.
The rayon price schedule, follow
ing within "a hours the schedule
announced by Mr. Henderson on
cotton grey goods, covers rayon grey
goods, term applied to cloth woven
of rayon yarn and sold in an un-
finished state to converters.
Prices Of rayon goods have risen
sharply in recent months, accord
ing to Mr.. Henderson, and demand
for rayon yarns has been increased
greatly by silk shortages.
The administrator warned that
If finished goods prices are not
brought into line with the lower
Evening star., 1941-08-24
0. P. N. S Tank Unit
Loaned 10 Army 10
Unity Production
Principal Job Will Be
To Arrange Additional
Plant. Facilities q,

Moving to assure unified control
Of the billion -dollar-a-year pro-
duction program requested recently
by President Roosevelt, the Office OF
Production Management announced
last night that it is 'loaning" its
tank unit to the War Departments
ordnance division.
The step, according to John D.
Biggers, o. P. M. production chief,
was agreed on by the o. p NJ, the
War Department and British au-
thorities. And it will, he said, result
in unified regulation of tank output
in this country or the United
States Army and for the British.
Arrange for Manufacture.
There has been controversy from
time to time between the War De-
partment, which wanted tanks badly
for training purposes, and o. P. M.
and lease-lend officials who insisted
that all available tanks should be
shipped to the British and others
engaged in fighting Axis powers.
o. P. M. moves toward unified con-
troll of tank production.
The o. P. M. tank unit, headed by
w. w. Knight, jr., formerly was in
the ordnance branch of o. P. M. 1t
is being made a part Of the Ord
nance Departments recently created
Tank and Combat Vehicle Division,
headed by 1t. Col. John K. Christ
mas. d.
o. P. MS principal job under THE
new setup will be to arrange for
additional manufacturing facilities
to take care of the enlarged pro-
gram.
Six Firms Producing.
Light tanks, which have 37-mm.
and 3O-mm. guns and are designed
mainly for scouting and mopping up
operations, are being made by the
American Car & Foundry Co.,
Berwick, Pa, and st. Charles, Mo.
The company recently turned out its
1OOOth tank.
Medium tanks, armed with 75-mm.
and 37-mm. guns and designed for
breaking through enemy lines and
destruction of other tanks and
enemy artillery, are now being pro-
duced by five companies: The
Chrysler Corp, Detroit; American
Locomotive Co., Schenectady, N. Y;
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Chester,
Pa; Pullman Standard Corp, Ham
mond, Ind, and the Pressed Steel
Car Co., Chicago. Production is
scheduled to begin this fall at the
Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, Ohio.