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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
| ers to
the Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

REGISTRATIONS, surveys,
classes, training courses and
endless delays for people want
ing vital employment necessary
TO our defense seem to be the
order of the day.
Is it any wonder we are floun-
dering in our war effort, that
the enemy with diabolical in
sight picks out our weak spots
and continues TO gain steadily?
There are hundreds of thou
sands of men and women in this
country. willing and able TO fill
positions and emergency open
ingS requiring special skill, ex-
perience and God-given aptitudes.
There are clerks, office work
ers, factory workers, teachers.
community leaders and laborerS
wanting TO do their all but
slowly being Strangled into
apathy and what's the-use atti-
tude by bottlenecks of mass
production. mass education and
mass selection methods.
Wake up. Detroit and Mich
igan. before il is too late,
Cut all the red tape and
sweep clean the entire employer
employe relationship of all the
devices and schemes to encour-
age the mediocre and the cum
ming. while shutting all doors to
capable earnestness because of
artificial and arbitrary barriers.
There are middle-aged and old
men and women worth intrinsi-
cally 10 to 100 times those one
half their age. There are young
persons who have in them the
makings of great historic figures.
Selection should not be based
on external and irrelevant attri-
butes.
Is the particular individual
seeking a niche in the present
crisis capable and worthy of
filling that niche efficiently and
honestly?
That is all that should matter.
The great weakness of our
entire national setup is the
inhuman and unwise treatment
of high resolve and superior
intelligence while indecency and
corruption are encouraged and
abetted.
That is why in Detro, 50
many of our eX-councilmen and
city officials are in prison or on
their way. while in the interna-
tional arena blood and destruc-
ton are reaping a harvest.
MRS. MILDRED e. KING,
12368 Frankfort road.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
Your Job Comes First

II HE first in line to buy seat for the opening
i baseball game yesterday at Briggs Stadium
defense worker who admittedly knocked off an hour
early for the occasion.
In very real sense the future of baseball during
this rests in the hands of defense workers.
Should there be widespread absenteeism from
production plants in order to attend ball games it will
the death of organized baseball for the duration
Already Detroit plant executives predict that factory
employees going A. W. o. L. will shortly become major
problem in industry.
War workers deserve every bit of healthy recreation
they get but they should not walk off their jobs
for it.
Their job for their country must first.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15

probably because he thinks in
English or rather American and
not in japanese. He added that
Americans generally do not rea-
lie that American born Japs
are bound TO think American
and not japanese.
He did not seem greatly de-
pressed by his impending evacu-
alton to one of the government
camps. He has been to the
Owens Valley camp twice on
visits. once riding an army jeep
there, and said the government
seemed TO be doing everything
possible TO make the incoming
Japs comfortable. Tanak a
thought about 1000 had gone
from the Los Angeles area I'D
to last week, with $4,000 remain
ing. but leaving rapidly.
He said all the economic gains
of the Nesei, or second genera
ton of japanese, have been
wiped out by the evacuation.
and that in the liquidation of
various businesses the japanese
owners are lucky if they get as
much as Is cents on the dollar.
He said he saw nursery
business worth $4,000 sold for
$500. He d eclared that the
eVacuee property department of
the Federal Bank is most help
full to his people in settling their
affairs.
THE gravest question among
u the japanese at this time.
according to Tanaka. is the dis
treSS Of about 1000 poor fam
lilies who have no property and
whose incomes have been COM
pletely wiped out. He said their
relief is all the more of a prob
lem because most of the Japa-
neSe who once had something
are now in sadly reduced cir
cumStances themselves and are
unable to offer much assistance
to the unfortunateS.
He wondered if the disappear
ance of the japanese farmers
from this section would not ulti-
mately have its effect on the
food supply of Los Angeles.
How long do you think the
war will last ." asked Tanaka.
suddenly turning interviewer
himself
mo longer than ID takes for
the United States to get fully
loaded" / replied.
The young editor nod d. d
thoughtfully.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Like Tea in
BY FLANDERS
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Our standard OF living has gone overheard like
Boston Harbor And it's time for the old conened
hoer for a complaint blank.
Revenge is She expensive habit is II will cost
three thousand million dollars month laps
back into the monkey house aud lock the door
In knocking off standard Of committing, the total
taans have scored victory pretty much like boy throwing
a Pullman windows
The is true Of the monetary balance Of world
Get load of this. We going replace
in making solder
Ben Franklin all wrong thrift stuff What he
should have saved empty toothpaste tubes.
b New SERVES
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
People Have
Too Much
Loose Cash
Income Continues High
With Little TO Buy
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

BY HUGH >. JOHNSON
THERE appears to be no end
Il TO the lack of frankness and
coordination among high gov
eminent officials.
When the President presented
the budget for fiscal 1943, he
made il very clear that he want
ed a tax program which would
add So, 000, 600, 900 Isl, 900, 000. 900
from general taxes and $1,000
100000 from social security
taxes
There was no ambiguity about
the mounts involved. The
budget tables were prepared on
the assumption that collections
would be larger by $4,000, 000,-
600. and the deficit was calcu-
lated accordingly.
IL Is not unreasonable 10 as
sumo that Mr.. Morgenthau was
informed, If not consulted, about
the Presidents original program.
A ND what has Mr.. Morgen-
"A THAI proposed to the Con-
gress? He offered a tax bill
which in full year would yield
the $7,000.000.000 required.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15

In 1928, it viii surely yield
less than that. Without the
collection at source aspects 1t
may yield as little as 81 $780,
100000 and $1,000, 100000.
This might be an unimportant
matter, were it not for the fact
that it has been practice Of
Mr.. Morgenthau's in the past.
Is he afraid that we can't take
a larger tax program
We can, Mr.. Morgenthau. We
are giving up more important
things than our income. But we
want to know what il is we are
being asked to do.
I DON'T suppose that the sec
L rotary of the treasury is OF
the opinion that the situation
has improved since January. 1t
has not. If we needed nine bill
lions of additional taxes then,
we need at least that amount
now.
AS matter of record, the in
fiationary threat has increased
considerably since January. Mill
tary expenditures are now run
ming at an annual rate of $780,
0O0.0O0,000. We are doing our
best 10 increase them, and they
are bound 10 increase from
month TO month.
As a consequence. prices are
rising. Production Of consumers
goods is being reduced dras-
tically and must be cut to the
bone if we are TO meet our
military program.
RUT civilian buying is con-
~ tinuing at a high rate and
stocks are being depleted. How
ever full the cupboards are they
can't last indefinitely. The flow
of income continues, while the
flow TO the cupboards has be-
come a trickle.
Mr.. Henderson, who once was
of the opinion that he could con-
troll prices without much addi-
tlonal taxation, has seen the
handwriting on the wall.
He now thinks that the Presi-
dents original tax. goal is too
low. He wants more than nine
billions collected in taxes under
a new tax program.
LIE is beginning to have those
II doubts. which some of us
h ave expressed in the early
stages of the discussion, about
the effectiveness of selective
price control. He is reported
"a considering wage and profit
controls and the fixing of prices
at retail.
The President. too. has stated
I h t ne is studying overall
methods Of controlling imitation.
l could say. Il told you So"
over this development. because
il completely confirms my origi-
nal opinion about the Ineffective
ness of selective price control.
] cite il here only TO show that
there is at last general agree
ment that consumers have too
much money TO spend.
WHETHER taxation alone is
w adequate TO prevent infa-
ton Is not really relevant. If,
as l believe. overall price con-
troll is essential. il still remains
true that some method-whether
taxation or compulsory saving,
or some combination OF the two
must be found TO mop up the
excess purchasing power.
! don't know what the right
amount is. but il would be more
accurate 10 say that il is closer
to S25,600,000,000 than 10 So
900 100000.
Before the secretary of the
treasury gets around to asking
for more. he might at least pre-
sent program TO yield as much
as the President requested.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
April rs, I9<s

British and Greek armies
establish new defense line
from the southern Albanian
coast to the mountains Of Mt.
Olympus.
Italians begin a big offensive
against the town of Argyro-
kastron, recently captured By
the Greeks in Albania.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
u. S. Planning
Ways to Get
Excess Funds
7 Taxes, Price Pegs, Savings
Compulsion Debated
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON. April 15.-An
w intellectual smuggling match
developed in the thinking rooms
of the administration over the
extent 10 which Mr.. Roosevelt's
new initiation freezing program
should go.
Messrs. Henderson and Eccles
have been trying to revise and
raise Treasury Secretary Nor
genthau's tax program. They
want to plan taxes jointly with
price controls. and even COM
pulsory savings, TO recapture
from the hands of the people
what they call excess savings"
AS congressional committees
understand it. the Morgenthau
treasury department group ex-
poets there will be only about
$4,000, 100000 OF excess saw
ings" in the hands of the peo-
pie this year.
ef-the- various confer
ences held on the subject have
come estimates that the farm
ers will have three or four
billions, corporations five or six,
individuals five or six-roughly
around Is billion dollars in all.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15

Although long In poor health,
Hugh 5. johnson continued his
hard-hitting writing until a few
hours before his death today.
Another Of his pithy columns, .
discussion of the optimum work
week, will appear In tomorrow's
Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
- YEARS AGO TODAY
April rs, 1917

British forces in France enter
the city of Lens.
Turks intern an American
gunboat at Constantinople.
President Wilson calls upon
the nation 10 unite and treasures
the people that the country will
emerge from this conflict victo-
rious.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-15
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
Rurnl Tax Plan

Apparently Congress is giving some consideration to the revolutionary income tax plan suggested by Beardsley Ruml, treasurer of a large New York department store, chairman of the Fed eral Reserve Bank of New York and adviser to the National Resources Plan- ming Board. In that event, the 27 mil lions who will pay an income tax next year should get busy and let Congress know what they think of the idea.
 What do they think of it? We don't know. But we believe that the more the public considers the plan, the stronger will be the pressure on Congress to accept MT. Ruml's suggestion. What this exper- fenced financier proposes, in brief, is that the Treasury discard the fiction that taxes paid in any one year are on the earnings of the previous year.
 In a hypothetical case here is how it would work Mir John O. Public in 1942 will earn total of $3,500 Under the present system, next March Is he must try to pay an income tax on that salary. But next year he will be in the Army drawing $50 a month or total of $600 Unless he is one of small minority, he has not saved this year the money with which to pay the tax next March. He A1kCuOCQ IO pay 1L OAL VI 4O1O Cell A1AAAGo' Obviously he will not be able to do that.
 So MT. Ruml proposes that the tax paid by Mr. Public next March be con- sidered as on his 1943 income. He will have to pay tax measured by the $3,500 he earned this year. But, knowing that he will be in line for a refund at the end of the year, at worst he can borrow the necessary sum.
 On the other hand, consider MT. J. P. Rich, whose company is doing big war business and, unlike most such, is in- creasing it's profit MT. Rich this year will make only $35,000. Next March 15 he will pay a tax on that amount. The next year. 1943, he is going to make $5O,OOO. If MT. Ruml's plan is adopted, Rich won't escape with the tax on $35,0O0 in year in which he made $5O,OOO.
 When Rich pays on March l5, 1944, he will fork over the amount established by the $5O,OOO he made in 1943, plus tax on the extra $15,000 on which he did not pay in 1943. In other words, the tax each year would be measured tentatively by the past years earnings. If with this is combined withholding tax after next January l, then nobody in the working class brackets would have to worry about where to find the money to pay his ir1- come tax. Most of it already would have been paid out of earnings
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
Shucks, That's Nothing

The threat of meatless days shouldn't hold too much fear for your average American household. While we have gradually become the greatest nation of meat-eaters on the face of the globe even taking the cannibalistic tribes that eat each other into consideration diet is a fetish with America today And diets are and can be arranged without meat. There are thousands of them and it's just a question of changing your tastes if you happen to be confirmed meat ad- dict.
 And it's only once week that the gov ernment plans to ask us to abstain. That's not much; we did as much in 1917-18 without any real hardship Remember those days when all sorts of substitutes were being found for foods that were scarce. Samp was one of the food stuffs that came into popularity and the writer well recalls Wading through it in lieu of rice or potatoes. A meatless day will demand certain restrictions but definitely no privations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31

It's pretty obvious that the Republicans of Connecticut are desperate tor vc- tory this fall over the Democratic party headed by Gov. Robert A. Hurley They have indicated as much by the recent at tacks on the governor which were pub licized quite freely through the offices of the COP State Central Committee. Every effort was made to see that the press of the state was covered" with copies of the remarks made by the critics of the Hurley regime. The same obvious intent to win had much to do with Congressman Jo- seph E. Talbot spending some time in the state recently when all other members of the Connecticut delegation were in Wash ington. It could also be ascribed as the motive for the attack on High Sheriff J. Edward Slavin at the New Haven county legislators meeting last Friday night. The Sheriff recently offered to give up his quarters in the county jail so that crowded conditions in the jail proper might be cared for This was termed a political move by Rep. William Hadden of Orange the same provoking quite lecture from Waterburys own hard-hitting Senator Michael V. Blansfield
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
No Excitement

Connecticut has always been pretty level-headed state. People here don't get unduly excited. We take lot of inter est in what is going on and oftentimes we let our curiosity run away with us but we don't get panicky. The war maneuv- CTS, in which Connecticut was in- cluded, over the weekend were typical example. We knew that something un- usual was going on, but for the most part people came and went as they would on any other Saturday or Sunday.
 That's the way it should be at all times, even when danger is very imminent We have been getting ready for long time for any surprise attacks or invasions from enemy forces. We don't know where come, but so long as the people of Con- necticut, together with those all along they will come from or if they ever will the Atlantic coast, continue to exhibit the same degree of calmnesS there's no danger of our morale cracking. Just keep cool at all times and the battle along the home front will be waged all the more successfully.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31

Few people regard Connecticut as anything more than an industrial center, one of the busiest in the nation right now. That's perfectly true and it might seem as if there wasn't room for much of anything else on account of our geographical size, but agriculture and poultry raising play considerable part in this states life. And in the latter classification Connecticut is rapidly forg- ing to the front as raiser of turkeys Therell be greater gain, for example, in the turkey raised in Connecticut this fall than in any other state of New Eng land. That's something when you con- sider that Vermont has long been pre- eminent in this field.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
To Discourage Imitation

Congress is trying to draft new tax schedule which will achieve two principal purposes. One goal is to raise every possl- ble dollar of revenue to finance the war The other is to place an effective brake upon imitation. These two objectives would not necessarily involve the same approach to taxation. In this case it hap pens they they do.
 Both call for radical departure from the old "soak the rich, forget the wage earners" philosophy. The rich, and even the moderately well-to-do, have long since been rolled over the tax barrel until it IS evident that they cannot produce much of the new income that is needed. Even the most rabid of spread-theWealth advo- cateS now concede that the Treasury must get down to business and collect nickels and dimes from the lower income brackets, even for revenue purposes.
 More than four out of five Americans fall into the class whose income, last year, was not more than $3000. Ninety four out of hundred had incomes that did not exceed $50OO Only one out of fifty received as much as $1OOOO Obviously this war cannot be supported on the taxes from the one-sixteenth of our peo- pie who fall into the $5000-and-up bracket. Neither can imitation be curbed by drastic taxation of those who receive one-third of the national income, unless something positive is done also about the group which gets two-thirds of the na- tional income.
 A spokesman for the New York Teach ers' Union (which was captured and long dominated by Communist party members and notorious fellow travelers) claims that low-paid workers will get only $1,- 400,000,00O out of an 11-billion- dollar income rise this year. He says that per sons in the $1O, ,0OO-and-up class will get seven billions of the increase. That is not the way we heard it-from the Of- flee of Price Administrations research division.
 The $3O00-a-year-an bracket nst year received 49 per cent of the na- honal income. On that basis the $3000- end under workers will get almost nine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
Press Comment
THE CoNQUERING SOY BEAN
(Hartford Courant)


 Of all the revolutions that Am erican agriculture has undergone in recent times, or seems likely to un- dergo in a near future, few would seem to be comparable with that brought about through the increase of our soy bean production. In 1907 the acreage devoted to this Asiatic immigrant was merely fifty thou sand. By 1927 this had already grown to five hundred thousand. This year close to ten million acres of American soil have been given over to it And next year the Gov ernment hopes that this acreage will show at least 50 per cent increase.
 The reasons for this extraordin- arily rapid increase in soy bean culture are not far to seek. Here is bean that may be turned into a seemingly countless number of things, ranging all the way from flour and soy bean sauce to soap, paint. plastics and glycerine. not to mention linoleum, cooking oils, stock feed and glue, crude oil and ice cream, adhesiyes and ink, margarine and artificial rubber. And the end is not yet in sight, with chemists all over the nation working round the clock to find still more uses for this miracle of the plant world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31

But more often than not the thing that really makes life significant is the fact that the gently flowing stream is here and there churned into rapids and sent headlong over waterfalls. It is at these points of greatest disturbance that many of olr most profitable lessons are learned, and as we learn these les- sons our lives take on new powers. It is only natural for us to avoid trouble and misfortune, yet very often as we look back upon certain seasons of pain, we realize that we have emerged from such cxperi- ences strengthened and able to con- front life with new courage and resourcefulneSs
 When we allow Him to do so, God installs spiritual dynamos at those points in our lives where the tor rents abount. It is at the point of unrest and turbulence that power is generated.
 All Rights Reserved-Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31

Some people have circulated the rumor that the President cooked up the idea in order to get Willkie into the administration camp at the psychological time of the New York state political conventions. But that wasn't the case. Willkie himself put the idea up to the President, who immediately well comed it and suggested that Will kie go as his special ambassador.
 Willkie replied that an ambassa- dorial status would not make him a free agent, and he wanted no restrictions placed upon him, either during his trip or after ward. In other words, an am- bassador cannot talk about the things he sees on his trip, and Willkie wanted to be able to re- port publicly, if he wished.
 The President replied that that would be perfectly agreeable to him, but in return he would like to have Willkie do certain things for him in the countries he vis- tied. These things were of a confidential and semi-diplomatic nature and could rot be put in a press release. Willkie said he would be glad to do them, how ever.
 NO CLAY WILLKIE
 He also told the President that he was as anxious to bring the viewpoint of the Russian, Chin csc and Near Eastern people back to the United States as he was to take the American viewpoint to them.
 One phase of his trip was left undecided namely, whether he should visit China. Later Steve Early explained that China was left out of the official announce ment of Willkie's trip because of an error.
 However, this was not the
 case. China was left out be-
 cause the route to China is a
 difficult one requiring certain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
IN SLANG AND CIPHER (New York Sun)

Dean McConn of Washington Square College of Ar<s and Sciences has called attention to new course that deals with cryptoanalytics" and cryptography. The laboratory work and lectures are concerned
 communication in codes, ciphers, with the arts and the science of slang, secret inks and microscopic inscriptions. That this Is no mere dilettante exercise the war and es- pecially the recent espionage trials have brought home to us all. Nor Is 1t easy to imagine a more fas- cinating study for any lad of in- ventive and imaginative turn of