The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-10-29
Behind the Scenes
In American Business
BY John Cruddock

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BY John Crdddock
NEW YORK, - 43
MILLION - With adoption OF
the S per cent Victory Tax" -
doubly affirmed by the Senate
Finance Committee - no less
than 43 million Americans
would become wartime payers
of taxes on their incomes. The
proposed bill would tap every
Income of $12 a week and up -
all completely separate from
regular income tax demands,
due to be approximately double
in 1913, and social security taxes,
scheduled to advance from ! to
2 per cent next year. Al
though the victory tax threatens
to clear the decks of a flock Of
alternate tax proposals, the
Ruml plan bids fair to retain a
place in the figuring of tax ex-
perts. That's the plan for skip
ping one years income taxes in
order to make it possible to get
on a "pay-aS-you-go" basis. AS
the income tax bite goes deeper
and deeper there's sure to be in
creasing sentiment for some
means of fixing it so that the
tax on any given years income
can be paid while you've got
it" instead of waiting until the
middle of the third month of
the following year.
INCOMES UP - Income pay
ments to individuals in July
were 81 per cent higher than in
July of 1941, the Department OF
Commerce reports. And at
a rate which would mean an an
nual national income of IA bill
lion! Compare that with the
all-time national income high of
94.5 billion, set Last year, and
the 1929 previous peek, 1873 bill
lion! In August of 1889, just
before Hitler invaded Poland,
the average American factory
worker was making $24.52 a
week. BY June of this year ris-
ing hourly wages and extra pay
for overtime had upped that
average to $3.50. A depart
ment of agriculture index shows
that the farmer in June of THU
year received $152 for an array
of products - chickens, eggs,
dairy products, fruits, grains,
cotton, meat animals and truck
crops - that brought him only
$88 before the war.
YOUNG MAN WITH A HOE -
No small credit for the magnifi-
cent job American farms have
done in boosting production des-
pite material and labor Short
ages goes to the nations youth.
Millions of boys and girls, many
of whom had never seer a pillow
before, worked in fields and or
chards, produced uncounted
tons of vegetables in victory
gardens, and Joined harvesting
migrations. Some youngsters
have directed huge projects of
their own. Harry HoroWitZ, for
example. He's 10, graduated last
year from a New Jersey high
school. AS his Future Farmers"
project this year he rented parts
of eight farms and raised 1876
acres of potatoes, about enough
to feed a city the size of Cincin-
natl for a week! He had go
acres of other produce. He start
ed his FLA work four years
ago, made a profit of $4,000 in
high scohol, and now owns all
his own equipment, including
two trucks, two tractors, a dig
ger, electric graders and a grain
combine! Harry, like many an
other modern farm youth, be-
lieves efficient marketing is as
big a problem as production. He's
one of nearly 700 farm boys and
girls in 80 states enrolled in a
marketing course sponsored by
the National Junior Vegetable
Growers association, and is IN
outstanding candidate for one
of the scholarship awards from
a $4,000 fund provided by the
A g. P.
MOTTO - Because war de-
mands alone are several times
the nations highest peacetime
consumption of aluminium, there
is none for civilian use. Alumi-
mum Company of America found
itself with a large, widespread
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