Detroit evening times., 1942-01-09
AEF Coma
To Ireland,
Not England
Free Food Item in BUDGET
Surprise 10 Roosevelt
BY PAUL MALLON

speech that he is dispalchlng
land AIR and sea expeditions
20 Britain lie did not say that
Note Well has words that they
are 10 take stations in the Brit
l>h Isles
England needs troops loss
than Newcastle needs coal. She
lis -oAerrHH- with m ore h an
3ttUU0O men In uniform. but
there is a very large unpro-
tcC'cd section OF the British
Isles which could use American
land air and sea forces 10 a
good age. politically,
economically and belligerently.
\ one-paraGraph item out Of
Dublin the following day be-
'rayed tho prospects II said the
Irish would rather have Amerl-
can than British troops
AS American forces 60 into
those valuable bases. however,
they VIII have 10 furnish oNten-
Slve anii-alrCraft protection 10
Irish cities. Once established.
they can clear the Atlantic OF
German submarines
Roosevelt was aStoniShed by
one item IN his own budget --
The appropriation for free-food
disposition under the food stamp
plan. In his budget explanation
conference for newSmen, his
finger stopped when he reached
the item of $1,000 900 a month
for this purpose. He asked a
budget adviser why the amount
was 50 large, and then remarked
some one else would have 10
Justify such a large expenditure
before Congress.
Free distribution Of food
hardly fits in with Mr.. RooSe-
Velt'S program of food COnSerVa-
tion 10 meet war and postwar
requirements.
4 MOTHER thing Mr. Roose-
n Welt or some one else Will
have 10 Justify 10 Congress. is
the new Roosevelt position on
business and taxes. He said he
not only wants to abolish war
profits (Which already has been
done IN the excess profits taxi
but 10 abolish the peacctime
profits which some businesses
made before the war and which
Roosevelt now considers "eXCes-
SiNe
If any one thinks business
generally is making any money
out Of this war. let him look at
the stock market quotations.
now depressed far below the pre-
war level. Furthermore. most
defense contractors are limited
10 s per cent profit in govern
ment contracts. and few Will
make that much Much business
Is going out Of business.
That is why congressional tax
bill maker DoughtOn'S comment |
on the budget was limited TO !
the observation that his COM
mittee would have 10 see that
no one killed the goose that lays
eggs.
Congress will not follow the
vague Roosevelt TAX reCommen-
dationS II never has.
Mr.. RooSevelt'S budget left
treasury secretary Morgenthau
and his l5 per cent pay roll fax
out IN the rain barrel under the
ice The President nonchalantly
suggested only that Congress
might consider pay roll and
other taxes. That will not he
enough White House pressure TO
float the plan Morgenthau has
been promoting around the
House ways and means commit
tee. Mark it dead.
4 SERIOUS tie-up Of freight
"A west Of Chicago 10 the
Pacific Coast has resulted from
the concentration OF traffic in
that direction Freight has occa-
slonally been backed up all the
way 10 Salt Lake City. Rail
defense co-ordinator Joe East
man is taCkling this as his first
problem and Will have II
Strengthened out shortly.
Much goods are likely 10 be
routed hereafter on slower Sec
ondarY lines and a reorganiza-
ton Of tho existing military
traffic system Will come lmme-
dlately.
Now each branch ~ The var
department air. engineers. ord
nance quartermaSter. ETC. has
"a separate traffic director. Over
all control Is necessary.
What this army needs as much
as planes and tanks is large
number of officers with modern
battle experience. IL needs cap
talnS and llculcnantS who have
been there. who know actual
conditions 20 be met hv the
American ENpedltlonary Forces /
which are 10 complete the enCIr- /
clement " the AXIS.
Consequently a liberal number |
of junior officers viii be In The |
FIRST patches 10 be sent 10 Africa.
Russia, the Far East and Ire
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