The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-01-21
AWeek Of The War

Umavorable weather in April and
during almost all the last as days
Of the navigation season produced
delays in vessel operations but could
not stop Great Lakes freight. The
bulk freight commerce on the Great
Lakes in 1912 reached the stagger-
ing total of 17S,577,828 net tons.
Obviously the outstanding feature o.
this shipping record was the move
n1ent of iron ore, which, originally
schedules reach 80 million gross tons
actually totaled 92 million In net
tonnage, this amounts to about 1913
million, and to this achievement
must be given much of the credit
Tor helping the steel industry main
tain uninterrupted operations at a
monthly rate of more than z million
ingot tons of steel for war.
WAR BUDGET
The Presidents budget message
to Congress forecast federal expert
ditures of sos billion in the fiscal
year 1914 and called for SIG billion
in new collections by taxation, saw
ings or both. Proposed war costs
for 1914 were set at 500 billion.
War expenditures for 1912, as re-
leased by the owl, totaled more
than $50 billion 3.8 times the
amount spent in 1941 - but at the
end of the year, they were running
at an annual rate of about STA bill
lion.
Emphasizing that methods of tax
alton should be determined by Con-
gress, the President asked Congress
to put taxpayers on pay-as-you-
go basis, simplify the tax system,
and effect certain reforms in the
tax structure. Specially, those re-
forms would include changes in the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES provisions, ex-
tension to all incomes of the present
limitation of $4,000 net on earned
income, removal of the tax exemp.
ton from future issues of securi-
ties, and curtailment of the advant-
ages of joint income returns still
allowed married couples in some
states.
payae yCU-Co TAX rLtN
A treasury department statement
said the simplest and most effective
method of placing individual income
! tax payments on current basis is
collection of the taxes at the source
of the income, Stanley S, Surrey,
Tax Legislative Counsel of the
Treasury Department, explained that
if income tax collections at the
source were made applicable at the
normal (plus first bracket surtax)
rate, he vast majority of our Tx
payer about 25 million of the
estimated IS million income tyapay-
ers would be r'aced on current
basis and would also have their in
come taxes automatically budgeted
for them.
lAmeric. S are already subject to
one withhe ding tax --1 the Victory
tax. Treasury officials have point
ed out that withholding, in this case,
is a collection device rather than
tax in itself, device designed to
help the tax payer pay his 1943 VIC
tory tax when it falls due in March
1914. The methods developed for
administering the withholding pro-
visions were determined upon as the
most equitable for all taxpayers af-
fected, under the terms of the stat
ute imposing the tax.
WOMEN IN WAR
This week, VINO Chairman Nc
Mutt, announcing that a million
women are now working in war
plants, predicted that in very short
time one out of every four workers
in America war industries will be
a woman. To meet 1943 war pro-
duction goals, the number of women
workers must increase, until, by the
end of the year, million women
will be engaged in war production
work
An intensive campaign is to be
launched this month by the Red
Cross Nursing Service, to recruit
$4,000 graduate registered nurses
for the Army and Navy Nurse
Corps, 100000 Red Gross Nurses
Aides to assist professional nurses in
civilion and government hospitals.
and one million students in Red
Cross Home Nursing classes, teach
ing methods Of protecting health and
preventing illness in the home. Mr..
McNutt, as director of Defense
Health and Welfare Services. an
nounced that If even minimum civil
ian and military needs Of the nation
are to be met, $4,000 young women
must enter schools of nursing be-