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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1942
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IfRLDAyTjULY 3, 1942
INDEPENDENCE DAY
July 4, 1776, will ever be a
day of great significance.
Then was declared that these
United States of America are and
of a right ought to be free and
independent. We are now co-
operating with the United Na-
tions in a life and death struggle
to determine whether or not
those principles of freedom for
which our forefathers fought,
bled, and died will be perpetuat-
ed among the peoples, of the
earth.
From the day the Pilgrims
landed on the bleak New Eng-
land shore and found freedom
to worship God, until our own
year of 1942, America has con-
tinued to be “the land of the
free and the home of the brave.”
Here Jew and Gentile, Protest-
ant and Catholic have lived side
by side, and felt constrained to
tolerate one another and contend
mutually for that larger liberty
which is the God-given right of
every man.
In this atmosphere of liberty
the Christian breathes freely. It
is his native air. We rejoice that
millions dwelling in our -blessed
land enjoy that higher life of
Christian liberty which may be
rightly and scrdpturally termed
“the glorious liberty of the sons
of God.”
All such appreciate that sub-
lime Declaration of Independ-
ence.
They know that “whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of
sin,” and so they have sought
and found that forgiveness and
freedom in which their spirits
rejoice. Such citizens constitute
the guarantee . under God tjfiat
freedom must reign since free
men live.
ernment. This has always been
true, but never more so than
now. Our mines, our factories,
our natural resources industries
such as coal and oil and timber;
our service industries, including
electricity and transportation, as
well as our credit institutions
and our banks, are all part of the
American system. Keeping them
operating under the management
of private citizens is the surest
guarantee to the men on the
battlefront that we intend to
save here in our own country the
liberties that they are giving
their lives to restore to the rest
of the world.
EQUAL TAX BURDEN
The American people are at
last learning one inescapable
fact—everyone must help pay
for this war. The old slogan,
“Soak the rich,” no longer has
any meaning.
The new tax bill goes down
into income brackets never be-
fore reached. And, in the view
of economists who deal with
facts, no hopes, it will not be long
before the people of small and
and moderate means v/ill have
to be hit harder still. The people
The Office of Price Adminis-1 in the middle and high income
tration recently asked Congress! brackets are already paying just
for a very large appropriation [ about all the traffic will bear
SECRET POLICE
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
When thiswar is over, Ameri-
ca will have the most gigantic
mass production machine in the
world. We will have the woirid’s
largest army of skilled workmen.
Technical development will be at
a new peak. Machines and men
that are now producing weapons
of destruction in incredible quan-
tity, can supply the goods of
peace in an equally incredible
quantity. In: all probability we
will be the only large nation left
on earth whose industries will
not have been smashed by war.'
It will be up to these indus-
tries, to free American enter-
prise, to rebuild a shattered and
starved world. And they can do.
it if private capital and the or-
ganization genius of the common
American are released from the
bear hug of the inevitable war-
time bureaucracy. As Paul Cad-
man, economist of the American
Bankers Associaiton, has pointed
out, we have no other choice. We
will either release the productive
'capacity and the capital of this
country for the task of rebuild-
ing the world, or we face bank-
ruptcy and collapse at home.
Free enterprise has got to pro-
duce as it never produced before
if a national debt of two or three
billion dollars is to be served. In
short, the world will tragically
need the products of our indus-
tries and our country will need
the sources of financial strength
which those industries can give.
That truth should be brought
home to every man and woman
at home and in the factory. Free
enterprise is the key to the main-
tenance of representative gov-
to add some 100,000 new em-
ployes, mostly enforcement per-
sonnel, to the OPA payroll. These
employes, in other words, would
constitute a sort of private police
force and would spend their time
and the taxpayers’ money look-
ing for violations of the price-
freezing order.
The National Association of
Retail Grocers, an organization
which represents thousands of
independent food merchants thru-
out. the country, promptly pro-
tested. In a resolution submitted
to Congress it said. “It is im-
plied in this pi’oposal to turn
loose an army of ‘snoopers’ on
the retail merchants of the Un-
ited States. These men and wo-
men proposed for OPA enforce-
ment personnel can render more
useful service in the prosecution
of the war against the Axis
powers, rather than as an army
of harassment operating at public
expense on the home front.”
That protest is well taken. As
OPA - officials themselves have
pointed out, the retail industry
in all its branches has been over-
whelmingly opposed to specula-
tion and profiteering. No indus-
try has given more complete
cooperation to the government
in the campaign against infla-
tion. To inflict this industry with
100,000 . “secret police,” would
amount to deliberately harassing
an industry yrhich has a superb
record of operation in the public
interest.
without total confiscation of in-
come. We can’t substantially in-
crease taxes on industry with-
out depriving it of the money
that is vital to its progress, ex-
pansion and solvency. Nothing is
left save to turn to the lower
income groups—and those groups
are the groups which, for the
most part, are receiving the bulk
of the vastly increased purchas-
ing power resulting from war
expenditures.
The annual income tax will not
be adequate. Some system for
collecting taxes, in part, on a
monthly basis will be put into
effect. Dire necessity is also like-
ly to force the passage of a gen-
eral sales tax.
This should jiave one good
effect on the American people.
It will give many of them, fer-
tile first time, a knowledge of
their own stake in the govern-
ment. It will prove to them that
governmental spending comes
out of their own pockets arid is
their own business. Every Ameri-
can, whether he earns ten or a
thousand dollars a week, must
join in demanding that all gov-
ernment non-war spending be
cut*to the bone—and that every
frill, every luxury, every non-
essential, be immediately elimin-
ated. It is essential to curb gov-
ernment spending, as well as
personal spending, to check in-
flation.
Greatest Pilot
Training Program
Is Now Underway
A picture of America’s oncom-
ing air force—foretelling its ex-
pansion to proportions exceeding 1
even the hopes of visionaries—
was given to the Aviation Writ-
ers Association in a series of
week-end conferences ending in
Washington yesterday.
The writers heard Brig. Gen.
Harold L. George, chief of the
Ferrying Command, declare that
the Army’s air supply route
would soon be able to sustain
the Air Force independently of
any other method of land trans-
port. He said that the foreign
division now flies more miles
abroad than were flown by the
commercial services in 1938.
The domestic division of the
Ferrying Command, he said, was
now larger in planes and person-
nel than the Air Force itself
four years ago.
Maj. Gen. Barton K. Yount,
commanding general of the Fly-
ing Training Command, told the
aviation group that the United
States is now embarked on the
largest pilot training program
ever undertaken by any coun-
try. He emphasized that size had
no effect upon quality, for these
boys -‘are the cream of the land.
If we can’t train them, nobody
could.”
The writers heard Col. Luke
Smith, director of individual
training, declare that the pilot is
not worth any more than the
other members of an air crew.
He pointed out that the tail gun-
ner of a bombing plane was just
as important bagging Japanese
“zero” planes and helped to
make a mission as successful as
the pilots who maneuvered the
plane into position.
The glider program was de-
scribed as developing into very
satisfactory proportions.
Bombing of strategic centers
rather than indiscriminate air
raiding was described as the
most effective use of our bomb-
sight which itself was declared
to be “the world’s best.”
Every type of plane manufac-
tured in the United States and
used by the Air Force has justi-
fied itself in action, Maj. Gen.
O. P. Echols, commanding gen-
eral of Materiel Command, told
the writers.
The Air Force’s combat planes,
for instance, have stood up not-
ably well under fire, and there
are several new types under
consideration which may well
No Millionaires
From War Profits
Goal of Treasury
Cracking down on war pro-
fiteering, the administration has
pledged the nation that it would
plug every tax loophole to make
certain that no millionaires
would be created by this war.
Already, the treasury has re-
captured millions of dollars of
• ‘excessive” corporation charges,
paid out in the form of salary
increases and bonuses for exe-
cutives, which Secretary Mor-
genthau contends is “trick or
chicanery” by a taxpayer to
“escape his just share and thus
throw unjust burdens on oth-
ers.”
Morgenthau appeared person-
ally before a joint meeting of
the Senate finance committee
and the House ways and means
committee to expose the bonus,
salary-increase and extraordin-
ary expense method employed
by some war contracts for the
“evident purpose of evading nor-
mal and excess profits taxes.”
The wholesale tax avoidance
scheme, he declared, was uncov-
ered by a premature treasury
examination of 1941 tax returns,
and is being met with closest
scrutiny by the internal revenue
bureau staff.
FOURTH OF JULY
“The Glorious Fourth.” Just
say the words and minds every-
where move in galeidoscope fash-
ion, visioning the waving of the
red, white and blue . . . marching
men . . . bugles held high . . .
patriotic-looking dinner tables . .
swimming parties . . . picnic bas-
kets . . . the playing of the Stars
and Stripes Forever . . . back-
yard meals . . . and, always,
fireworks galore.
Of course there’s more to July
4th than all this. Independence
Day is really the nation’s birth-
day, steaming from that event-
ful morning back in 1776 when
the Continental Congress approv-
ed the Declaration of Independ-
ence. And when crowds gather
this year, whether to watch the
parade, picnic on the beach, or
take pot-luck in the family din-
ing room, it will be the observ-
ance of 166 years of freedom for
the U. S.
Texas is so huge that if you
used the northern line of the
Panhandle for a hinge, you’d
place Brownsville so close to the
Arctic Circle that the hot tamale
vendors would be able to swap
their wares with the Eskimos for
polar bear steaks.
revolutionize this branch, he
said.
With the exception of the Lock-
heed P-38 interceptor-fighter and
the Republic P-47, both high alti-
tude fighters, the Air Force
planes have all been tested in
battle. Curtiss P-40’s and Bell
Airacobra P-39’s have seen ene-
my action in the Southwest Paci-
fic, Burma, Russian and North-
ern Africa. Douglas A-20’s, med-
ium attack bombers, have been
in Libya. North American
“Mitchell” B-25’s bomber Tokyo
without a loss; Maryin’s B-26’s
hurled devastating blows at the
Japanese fleet off Midway; the
B-19 “Flying Fortress” four-en-
gined bomber was described as
the “best daylight bomber in
the world” and the consolidated
“Liberator,” th^ other four-
engine type long range. craft,
which though slower but with a
greater bomb load, was expected
to turn in as good a performance.
Gay Colored
U. S. Postage
Stamps Soon
Stamps of more than one color
may find their place in collec-
tor’s albums again if a move
now underway in congress is
successful.
To obtain action on such a mea-
sure, Representative John M. Co-
ffee (D.-Wash.), has indicated he
plans to consult a number of his
associates in both the upper and
lower houses of congress in ai^^
effort to gain the return of b^B
colored stamps.
Stamps were limited to a single
hue several years ago Vhen conP
gress in one of its periodic eco-
nomy waves, reduced the post-
office department appropriation
bill.
The last stamp to come under
the bi-and multi-color law was p'
the air mail stamps. A few o
these are still on sale, but none '*
has been printed since the ban
was placed on the two-tone pro-
vision.
Coffee, however, feels restrict-
ions should be lifted to provide
“attractive stamps”—as the Bri-
tish are among philatelists. He
contends widespread acceptance
of beautifully prepared stamps
will more than offset the $100,000
cost for each edition, and adds it
will stimulate collection among
youngsters who are naturally at-
tracted to brilliant tones.
Before selling the new plan to
the country it must first be pre-
sented to congressmen, Coffee'*
said. An ardent philatelist himself
he hopes to interest among others
in congress, Senators Meade, of
New York, and O’Mahoney of*
Wyoming, both of whom are col-
lectors.
Coffee declared no action could
be taken before the next post-
office appropriation bill is coni*
sidered in 1943. By then he hopes®1
collectors will be ready to “buy
them by the thousands.
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We cannot learn the way that we
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