Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 181, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 22, 1943 Page: 2 of 6
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Editorials
Pag® 2 Tuesday, Jun® 22, 1943 !’ rg*' I
Spending Tax
If the sixteen billion dollars additional which the
President wants to raise through taxation and sav
mgs, is designed primarily to close up the inflation
gap/' then a tax on spendings would seem to be the
answer.
This is not to advocate Treasury's complicated
Spendings Tax proposal that received short shrift from
Congress nor to accept or urge Irving Fisher's argu-
ments in "Constructive Income Taxation" that the
Spendings Tax be substituted permanently for the
orthodox type 01 income tax.
But a tax on spendings, which might well follow
Professor Fisher's suggestions for simplicity un-
doubtedly would help to control the pressure of excess
income which OPA price ceilings have not proven
capable of handling,
Details of such a tax would require intelligent
study. But the principle appears worthy of sympa-
thetic consideration.
Inflation does not result primarily from high wages,
high income, the posession of too much money by too
many people. It results, rather, from competition in
the market places for an inadequate supply of com-
modities.
So long as all income is taxed equally, it may well
be cheaper for the individual to spend than to save,
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depression, from stepping out and buying things he
never before could afford
The spending tax, properly applied, would penalize
him heavily for spending and not at all for saving.
Thus competition for commodities would be restrain-
ed. He who insisted upon spending his money would
pay bitterly for the pleasure; he who saved would be
helping the government and, at the same time, ac-
cumulating a reserve to cushion the post-war recession
both for himself and for the country as a whole—per-
haps to save us from a major depression.
It wouldn't matter, much, how he saved. If he
bought war bonds that might be best for his own soul.
But if he chose to put his savings in a bank at inter-
est, or into insurance, or into retiring mortgages or
other indebtedness, it still would find its way into war
bonds—an dout of the overburdened market for con-
sumer goods.
Chinese Reds
The attention of those who object when we differ-
entiate between Fighting Russia and the militant
Communist Party is directed to the situation in China.
There the native Communist armies decline to fight
against Japan because Russia, their ideological moth-
erland, is not at war with Japan. This deprives Chiang
Kai-shek of powerful armies, and also forces him to
keep some of his available force immobilized watch-
ing the Chinese Reds.
This points and emphasizes the moral that world
Communism is not all out aaginst totalitarianism; it
is only all out for Russia; and it places the interests
of Stalin above those of China, Britain, France, Yugo-
slavia or the United States.
Shoe Rationing
The last-minute rush to use Coupon 17 before it
expired at midnight June 15, raises the question how
well shoe rationing is working, Thousands of persons
really did not need the shoes that coupon represented,
but were buying them as insurance against getting
caught in some future change of policy.
Perhaps that is inevitable in the attempt to distri-
bute goods equitably in time of shortage. Perhaps
not. At any rate, shoes presently unneeded were
bought for hoarding, and inflation-producing spend-
ing was indulged in, to make certain that the coupons
should not lapse.
STOCKHOLM. June 22—(;p)_
Travellers returning to Sweden
from Germany report that so much
of Berlin has been “plowed up”
by intensive RAF bombings that
“many quarters cannot be recog-
nized.”
The average American will live
to be G4 years old. according
to figures recently released by
Metropolitan Insurant' e Co
This is an increase in life ex-
pectancy of 30 years since 1B79
J —when the average age at
death, was 34 years.
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Deiroii Trying
To Determine
Riot's Origin
By PAUL CHANDLER
DETROIT. .June 22—«,Pi—Stun-
ned Detroit looked over its death
toll arid wreckage today and ask-
ed a question, “What caused the
race riots?”
Were they simply an outgrowth
of a Sunday evening first-fight
on a crowded bridge? Police
have pointed to that incident as
the start ot the struggle that
surged up and down city streets
for 24 hours bet?fie troops ar-
rived and restored a form of
peace. ,,,
.Almost un.iriimously the pop-
ulace agreed that the first light
—between a white man and a
Negro—was merely the spark ap-
plied to tinder that has been dry-
ing for many months.
Detroit is a city ut war plants.
War workers are laboring long
hours and long weeks at their
•machines. Nerves are on edge.
“I believe this has as much
to do with the riot us anything,”
said Police Comini sioner John
ii. Witherspoon. “Wo ve seen it
coming for months. It was in-
evitable.”
Labor is scarce here. Work-
ers move into the city by the
trainloads, many ut- uAmi'fv m
the south. Muyoi> Edward J.
Jet fries expressed <>in •fcijfilon that
many of the new workers have
brought with them a. set of
racial standards, ancr when the
opportunity arose they put them
into practice.
R. J. Thomas, president of the
United Automobile Workers, CTO,
sees the black hand of Axis tilth
columnists. While the riot was
at its height Monday Thomas
rose to his feet in a public meet-
ing and shouted to Mayor Pel-
tries:
“I tell von this is the work of
German fifth columYiists. I de-
mand that the FBI and the police
of Detroit find the filthy agents
who are behind this and sentence
them to traitors’ death.’
An estimated 90.000 Neeme.'
were streaming back over a
bridge from Belle Isle, popular
ITALIANS BATTLE
FRENCH YOUTHS
picnic area, Sunday when the
fist fight occurred. Then a rumor
spread up and down the bridge j -
that a Negro woman and her BERN. Switzerland, June 22—
child had been killed by white t.P»—Italian troops of occupation
Kicti. I moved against French youths hid-
“The rumor was a pure false- j ing in the forests of Haute Savoie
herd,” Witherspoon said later, j today as the Vichy government
Americans To
Get Straight
Information
WASHINGTON June 22 </Pi
Palmer Hoyt, new director of the i
nffire of war information's *oWl
dome-tic branch, outlined today a
policy nf giving the American pen
pie straight information about
the w ar” without propagandizing ”
“This means there will be no
pamphleteering from this office,”
Hoyt, publisher of of the Portland
Oregonian said in a statement
which augmented a brief mess
cwnfeernce lute yesterday.
“It also means that this office
will yield to no political pressure,
and will servo no political inter-
ests."
Hoyt, who described himself as
•t life-long Republican, smilingly
j remarked he Appeared before the
reporters as “one who has been
abolished.”
This was an allusion to the
house’s action last week in voting
to withhold all funds from OVVTs
brunch for the fiscal year begin- j
r ;ne July 1. The senate has not
yet acted.
Tne Portland publisher said ie|
lv:d accepted the appointment for
six months “because 1 am con
vinced that its operations are ab-
solutely vital to the conduct of the
war and to the interest of the en-
tire country.” He added that lie
had a clear understanding with
Director Elmer Davis that he
would have full authority, assum-
ing funds are restored, to operate
the domestic: branch "according to
the freest standards of the Amer-
ican press.”
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called the classes of from 20 to I night at Le Creusot, 170 miles
23 years i f age to present them- j southeast of Paris, belied German
selves for physical examination ' claims that most of the damage
prior to going to work in Ger. was done to the town itself, the
many, reports from France said. British air ministry said. Rolling
______ mills, armor plate shops, the lo-
400 HUNS DROWN comotive works and other build-
Stockholm, June 22—uP)—Four ings were damaged seriously, it
power had anything to do with hundred German sokiieis <hm\n- i --aid. .
ii” Buaas said' T nersonallv be- ' ed June 10 when the 3,000-ton The cluster of German mdustri-
,, Liubas said. I pciM'iiaiiv be Birka sank off the al centers within a 20-mile stretch
lieve it was a sDontaneous out- ”urad" “ * ... ... . , . . , .
mtuk; a culmination of racial ! Norwegian coast near Trondheim, — »-
feeling in the citv “ i reports from Norway said today.
In later stages of the rioting ^ur hundred others were re-
ported saved. There was no -in-
formation what had caused the
vessel to sink or where it was
carrying the troops.
"but it couldn’t be stopped. Many
Negroes still believe it is true.”
John S. Bugas, FBI head in
Detroit, emphatically denied that
there was evidence the riot was
planned or organized.
There is no indication that
Axis propaganda or any foreign
young boys between 14 and 18
years cl age were running wild
on the street.-. Mobs of 300 and
'iiuilis upset automobiles,
chased isolated Negores, and
stormed street cars.
Witherspoon saw here the prob-
lem of growing juvenile delin-
quency; youthful passion running
rampant.
Coke Stevenson
(Continued From PAGE ONE)
FOUR TEAMS
ENTER TOURNEY
HOUSTON. Tex.. June 22——(/P)
— Four service teams already
have filed entries in the Hous-
ton Post semi-pro baseball tour-
nament,.' scheduled here July 4
to 18 at Buff Stadium.
Camp Hulen, Camp Wallace,
Aloe Field of Victoria and Waco
Army Flying School are listed
as entries along with all mem-
bers of the South Coast Victory
danger of seeing an extension of
oureaucracy beyond the war days.
The people want a cmick re-
toration of constitutional gov-
ernment after the war—they are j League,
afr.iid there is a design on the
. . certain highly placed of- MUSSOLINI PICKS
lie;a.-* to extend bureaucracy and FASCISTS EDITORS
its controls beyond the enter- -
gency."
of the Rhineland, represented by
Krefeld. ^Duisburg and Duessel-
dorf, has now been visited by a
total of 135 catastrophic raids, the
air ministry >aiii.
The night’s RAF foray follow-
ed by 24 hours a raid, involving
a flight of about 1,000 miles over
the darkened continent without
loss of a plane, on the South Ger-
man city of Friedrichshafen.
The target was the Luftschif-
ibau factory, where Nazi tech-
nicians turn out the German
equivalent cf radar, radio-de-
tection device now used with
such success by the United
Slates and Britain to locate en-
emy air and naval craft. The air
ministry said all main buildings
were heavily damaged.
The Germans sent the heaviest
attacking force in several weeks
against London and British coast-
al objectives, damaging some
property in London and causing
a number of casualties.
More than a score of Nazi night
raiders headed up the east and
LONDON, June 22—(JP)— Pre-
That “congress is beginning to ’ mier MusNl|ini luiS P,a<-*ed tiusty J th coasts and then scattered
*hov\ evidences of backbones-it Fascists in charge ol several news- • ‘ but observers said that
papers in apparent ettorts fa» stif- | mnpp thjm two of three
is tlie only hope the people have.
BARTZEN TO PLAY
IN NET TOURNEY
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fen Italia nresistance threatened , (he greater London area.
invasion. , ___
the
SAN ANGELO, Tex., June 22
.....Bernard Bartz.cn, Texas
Schoolboy tennis singles cham-
pion, will leave June 21) for the
national intcrscholastic tourna-
ment in Pennsylvania. He also
will participate in several other
meets.
Tin Kiwanis Cllub Athletic As-
sociation here raised $200 to de-
lta j Bartzen’s expenses,
The Rome radio disclosed
newspaper move today in a
broadcast recorded by the Assoc-
iated Press.
GERMANY HOLD
AIR ARMY READY
FOR INVASION
AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER,
June 22—(/P)—Reliable non-Nazi
quart-! - reporter! today that Ger-1 today after Mike Ysnak district
RACE TROUBLE FLARES
CLEVELAND, June 22—(Ah—
James Foley, head of the police
labor bureau, said today assign-
ment of two negroes to a white
employes’ locker room at Republic
Steel Corp.’s strip mill here re-
sulted in a walkout that curtailed
production more than eight hours.
Operations returned to normal
KEEP ’EM FLYING!
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Guarding the Grand Coulee
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many has a carefully guarded re- , organized for the CIO United
serve air army for use as a de- steei Workers of America, urged
fense against invasion wherever the workers to go back, Foley ad-
| it may come. ded.
These sources said this air army
; has been organized as an inde-
! pendent unit and very probably
I includes at least two divisions,
which would mean at least 1,500
first line planes.
What l/ou&tiif With,
WAD BONDS
Para-Ski Troopers
ALKA-SELTZER
lightens
MY DAY
When will this war end? Noboujr
knows, so the Army is continuing
its training of Para-Ski Troopers.
They're parachute troops who know
their way about on skis or any other
place in snow covered mountainous
country. ®
From on elevated post a U. S. constguardsman Hands guard over
taring Grand Coulee D;.?n in Washington. Unfit ♦ cm ion tower
ii symbolic of electiic powei grnrnited here fur Pacific North-
west war industries
A great measure of the success ot
Russia’s victories last winter is at-
tributed to these troops who move
with the silence of a snowflake. Our
work on the home front is not. so
hazardous as that of the Para-Ski
Troopers but it is important that
we perform our daily tasks and
make every effort to increase our
regular purchase of War Bonds.
I i S. Trtiiuuy Lui'wltu ni
^OCCASIONALLY, I wake up in
V/ the morning with a Headache.
It sometimes wears oil along the
middle of the f. rcuoon, but I don’t
want to wait 11...f long, ;>o I drink a
glass of sparkling ALKA-SELTZER.
In just a little while I am feeling n
lot better.
Sometimes the week's ironing tires
me ar«d nake* r.. * so-e and stiff.
Then it’s ALKA - .SELT ZER to the
rescue — a tablet or two and a little
rest makes me fee! more like finish-
ing the job.
And when I eat “not wisely bu
too well." ALKA-SELTZER relievos
the Acid Indigestion that so often
follows.
Yes, Alka - Seltzer brightens tn;
day. It brings relief from so many
of my discomforts, that I alway
keep it handy.
Why don't you get a package of
ALKA-SELTZER at your dmr store
today?
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Back from a ye.u in the Aleutian.''. Navy Sr a bee Frank .1 Nasta
kisses the soil of the good old U .S. A., then smacks Seattle reporter
Jerri Jacobs, who came down to interview the sailors. Fellow Sea-
* 6c" s’t a kick nut nf both osculations
Amidst fiOOO hnndiAc nf cniieH -inthing, chlcsgo Isundrymsn
Richard Van Beck disconsolately tries to figure out the problem ot
increased business and shortage of labor. Ordinary 24-hour service
■>«w takes 10 days to three weeks, although all "frills” have been
discontinued.
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