The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-10-29
HOW TO COLLECT MORE TAXES
BY j. E. Jones

HOW no COLLECT MORE TAKES
BY J. q. Jones
Washington, d. c., Oct. 25-It
looks as though the Administration
$40, 500, 200, 900 tax plan is getting
knockout punches, right on the nose,
on Capitol Hill, In Washington.
The general public has been talk
ing about sales tax for many years
and Its wishes may come true. A
nickel or dime on small purchase
wouldn't be much, but five or ten
cent sales tax would make dent in
every pocket book over a week or a
month. In fact the total amount Of
money that would be raised through
a general sales tax and the final
point of sale without exemption
would reach into billions of dollars.
The argument in its favor is that
it would be quite painless, which is
the best thing that can be said about
any tax scheme that gets billions of
dollars from the public.
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| Postwar Rubber
When the war in the Pacific shut
off supplies of natlnal rubber from
overseas our own chemical manu-
facturers promptly agreed to make
synthetic rubber. These manufacture
ers were not given a free hand, but
they whitfield away at the job until
recent Director LETTERS told them the
whole thing was Gin the bag" Then
he went back to Omaha to run his
railroad, having been acclaimed by
big Chief Bernard Baruch as the
masterful boy who "bulled things
through"
| There is a shortage of synthetic
rubber and there is some question
about the quality of it.
And now President Roosevelt ex-
presses the hope that when he is
"out of the White House somebody
will veto any attempt by Congress
to protect synthetic rubber factories
by putting a tariff on natural rub
Der from overseas" That may be
craftsmanship or 1t may be nothing
of the kind Just why new industries
should be planned and huge factor
les built to provide synthetic mater
ials that will do just as well as rub
Der, and then be pushed aside after
millions have been spent in develop
ments in order to turn over the rub
Der market to foreign country, is
a little too much for the average
brain to understand.
This Sounds Funny
Charges have been made in the
British House of Commons that Prime
Minister Churchill has been yielding
to the more powerful influences OF
: President Roosevelt. The grapevine
telegraph has been telling Washing
ton for a long time that our Presi-
dent is dominated by Churchill.
While all this political gossip was
: cooking" our five globe-trottine
: Senators placed factual evidence be-
fore Congress which indicated that
Great Britain is Swimming off the
cream and that Americans get skim
med milk on the European battle
J fronts.
All this discussion may have ten
dency to straighten out the differen-
| ces and Misunderstanding between
the two nations and be good thing
for both countries. At least, the
J Washington Government hasn't lost
faith in London. lawmakers and pol
! icy-makers.
Restaurants And Laundries
i Restaurants and laundries, more
frequently than any other of the
community services necessary to the
public, are calling upon the Govern
ment for more help. We all know
about that sad shortage,
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/ Calling All Fathers
All men IS to SO years of age who
are subject to Selective Service but
who do not report for induction after
November will be classified as de-
linquent and put in Glass LA.
There is general opposition, even
in Congress, for the drafting Of faith
ers. The present situation 10 that loc-
al draft boards are going very slowly
about putting pre-Pearl Harbor ia
theirs into the Army and Navy.
i Because educators know that 'un-
Iderstanding between the peoples Of
the world begins in the school, lead