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THE GOLDEN VALLEY NEWS PAGE THRE~I
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TO SALES
TAX IS INFLATION
At this moment, Congress ar~
most students of the subject
come to the conclusion that or.
of the very few important remain:
ing sources of revenue is a
sales tax.
It is common knowledge that the
present corporation and income
taxes in the higher brackets are
already close to the point of maxi-
mum productivity. Even the Treas-
ury, which has objected to the tax,
has proposed a raising of the rates
of excise tax on commodities thatI
is tantamount to a sales tax. I
What then are the objections?I
Those who oppose it maintain that I
the sales tax would place pro- I
portlonately as great a burden on
the consumption of the lower as
of the higher income classes. But
this would be true if the tax were
the only one if existence, and
not one of many to pay the cost
of the war. It must be remem-
bered we already have the most
drastic progressive income tax on
record.
What they also lose sight of is
the fact that one of the alterna-
tives to a general sales tax is
inflation. Since the outbreak of
the war in September 1939, the
American cost of living has in-
creased about 25 percent. So that
while the objectors have disap-
proved of a 10 percent sales tax, or
even one of 5 percent, this rise
in the cost of living is equivalent
to a sales tax of more than 25
percent on everyone.
Not the least of the arguments
for the sales tax is the fact that
it makes it possible for ~y in-
dividual to reguia*e hls oI~,~ tax
by controlling the nature and Vol-
ume of his expenditures. Thus
the less a person spends on lux-
uries, the more he saves, the
smaller is his tax. It is a direct
incentive for economy, for not
bu3'ing scarce goods, for avoiding
inflationary spending, in short:
for investment in war bond~.
---V~
SOFT PEDAL FOR HALLOWEEN
Halloween formerly was what its
frames implies, an eve. It has
become a week! Sometimes even
a fortnight before the witches are
supposed to go on a bender, the
horse-play begins.
The most innocent pranks be-
Come tiresome after a time, even
to the perpetrators. When they
tend toward vandalism, they be-
come intolerable. That goes for
any year, but this year there are
special considerations which re-
quire parents to put a curb on the
mtSchieviousness of their offspring.
America is at war. To win vic-
tory on the battlefront she must
be victorious on the production
front. The output of war indus-
tries depends on the skill and phy-
aical fitness of individual workers.
The workers cannot be fit, cannot
maintain their skill, unless they
have. adequate rest, and the best
rest is sleep.
Even without prodding from their
l~rents, patriotic youngsters will
do nothing to disturb the sleep of
war workers--not even for Hallo-
ween. In these times people work
all hours and someone is disturbed
by every unusual noise. Even the
ringing of doorbells, once thought
the least harmful of Halloween
tricks, can deprive some worker of
his rest.
Even if there were no other ways
to celebrate Halloween, the present
emergency would recommend sus-
Derision of the customary holiday
rumpus. Costume parties, masked
Parades and outdoor play for early
evening hours---these are legitimate
When kept within bounds. But
t~le high Jinks should be postponed
until the year of Victory.
~V
CHINESE EXCLUSION
Favorable action by a House
COmmittee on u measure to per-
mit Chinese immigration on a
quota basis may persuade Congress,
under present circumstances, to
enact the law. The committee
reD°rted that "the original act of
exclusion was not born of ill will
toward the Chinese people. The
raotivation was economic, but pro-
fOUnd changes have taken place
in sixty years."
The exclusion act was passed in
1882 to stop the inflow of Chinese
laborers who were brought into the
YCest to work on construction jobs
at low pay. The principal motive
Was to Protect the wage and living
standard8 of the country. But
there was another reason. It had
to do With protecting the Chinese
from exploltaUon by contractors.
They lived in sqttglor and m/~ry,
who returned to China
stories that reflected dis-
on the American people.
the act does set up a differ-
which is emphasized today to
that the American people
extend their allegiance to
to the point of treating
aliens alike. The Japanese
is making effective use
this argument in its attempts
split the alliance of the United
States and China in the w~r and
to prevent their cooperation later
to keep Japan out of China.
lfuel oil, etc. For months experts
in the oil industry have shown
official Washington that our known
oil reserves are being used much
more rapidly than new reserves are
being discovered, because official
Washington, in the face of rising
costs of production, refuses to
grant crude oil price increases
sufficient to encourage wildcatting
for new oil supplies to replace
dwindling reserves.
Commenting on the seriousness I
of the situation, the National Pe-I
troleum News sa3's: "The need for
oil is so critical that there should
Under the 1924 quota act, China
would be entitled to send 105 emi- be a crusading campaign to dis-
grants a year to this country. The lCover and produce fresh supplies, i
number is small, but proponents iTM Administration is calling upon!
the people to crusade for rubber, i
to save their fats, to bring in scrap
iron, to provide blood for trans-
fusions. All these are futile if
of exclusion repeal hold that it i
i would put China on an equalityi
with other countries, and would
satisfy both Chinese desire for fair i
i play and American desire to afford
i appropriate recognition to a great l
and valiant people.
TURN LOOSE THE WILDCATS
The people of the United States
being constantly told by Wash-
officials that they must get
with less and less gasoline,
there isn't enough oil to carry on
the war. A supply barely suffic-
ient for military needs is of no
value if essential civilian needs i
are not taken care of, and there
is a serious question whether we
are not already cutting too far
into essential civilian needs. It
isn't a question of how much it
costs to produce oil, .it is a question
of how to get a maximum num-
ber of wildcatters to risk the
greatest amount of money in even
the most fool places in the country
to find oil."
And that is horse sense for the
regulators to consider. What good
are regulators and price-fixers If
long sleep, she will gather strength
for a new summer of work. As
human beings lie down to sleep
when the day is done and their
tired bodies need repose, so Nature
now gets relief from her constant
labor. She will rise refreshed and
as vigorous as ever, when the sun
their policies leave us with nothing lgets high in the sky again.
to regulate or nothing to buy? I It is a strong argument for the
--V~ immortality of human life, that
DEATH OF SUMMER Nature is able to revive after
so many of her products seem
Some folks say it is a sad sight dead. The naked trees give no
to see the leaves fall from the sign of life, but they are sure to
trees. They say it means the end bud again. So we can feel sure
of the growing season, when vege- that in some new life the human
tation and useful and beautiful body will bud and blossom again,
plants flourish. Now the world and bear noble fruit, enriched and
sees ahead the cold of winter, fertilized by the experiences of life
which in most of our climates on earth.
means ice and snow. The trees The nature lover says the winter
without leaves are said to look season has its own great beauty.
desolate in naked outline. :Fire skies wlth their wonderful
Some melancholy people say it color and cloud effects can be more
is a presage of death, when hu-tclearly seen. The trees from which
manity is forced by decay or old the leaves have fallen show a mar-
age to give up its garment of velous tracery and perfection of
life and depart into the unknown, form. Winter is a time when new
A better thought is that falling strength• and power come from in-
leaves mean that Nature has fin- vigorating air.
ished her grand work for one year, --~-V------
and is now to enjoy rest. In this Give the War Chest all you can.
CEREAL DIET
Early in the war Americans were
warned by economists that they
would be forced to follow the ex-
amples of peoples in other coun-
tries and substitute cereals for
meat in their diet. Government
officials now say this will come
to pass next year. Because of a
shortage of livestock feed, farmers
will have no alternative to a re-
duction in the number of their
meat animals.
There is a fair abundance of
meat in most areas of the United
States, but the supply is created
t by the condition which is in the
making. Livestock producers al-
ready are marketing their animals
lin large quantities to meet the
ifeed situation and some of this
meat is appearing in the retail
outlets. When the phase of heavy
marketing of livestock is ended,
there will be far less meat for
civilians.
Pessimists looking at the post-
war future say things look dark
for the country. Usually tifings
look dark when the kids come in
a~ter playing in the dirt.
Amcn'ca 's "Besc- run War"ffive
birth to a New Idea /
T HIS has frequently been called "America's
best-run war" And it is.
After a shaky start and the first few stunning
setbacks, the crescendo of production, the
achievements of the mifitary, and the steely de-
termination of the people have been pretty
close to miraculous.
In keeping with this Woest-run" handling of
all war problems, a new idea has been born, th~
new National War Fund. This new idea brings
unity to the inescapable giving of funds, to the
confusing multiplicity of necessary war agencies.
With the world in flames and in tears, the de-
mands on generous American hearts have been in-
finite. When the fires of London are so thick the
fire hoses run dry.,.when a Chinese mother has to
watch her baby die for want of a simple drug...
when Greeks by the hundreds drop dead in the
street from starvation...when a home-town"war-
uso
GIVE ONCE FOR
ALL THEEE
orphaned" kid hardly through playing with
dolls starts playing with fire...decent Ameri-
cans cannot close their eyes or turn their backs.
These mass tragedies, these war-made hor-
rors, stirred kind people to action. Committees
were formed to provide aid for the suffering,
and of course the~e committees needed money
to carry on their good and vital work.
Now, in order to eliminate confusion, seven-
teen of these groups have been combined into the
National WarFund. You give to this one Fund and
you have given to all these seventeen agencies.
The National War Fund is officially endorsed
by the President. It has the backing of the Gov-
ernment as an improvement over the old con-
fusing way of raising money. It permits you to
budget your wartime giving more easily. It
makes sense.
This unified Fund does not intrude upon the
autonomy of" any of these agencies. The U:~O,
China Relief, British War Relief and all the
others will be left under their present effici. "~t
and experienced direction. They will be freed
fi'om the task of raising money, and have thue
to devote full time to their good works; and you
will not have to dig down so often that yoar
pocket becomes frayed at the edges.
Tho money you give will do good round the
world. It will also do good right in your o,x~t
neighborhood for we have combined the apl;: :[
of the National War Fund with that of our
local agencies. Part o( your contribution ~,vill be
used for the families of men in the service, fi)r
the children of parents in war work, for the so-
cial services needed to keep a community at war
healthy, safe and efficient.
Give, generously, today. Add up your total
gifts...then double it/
United Scamen's Service
War Prisoners Aid/
.-Belgian War Relief Society
British War Relief Society
French Relief Fund
Friends of Luxembourg
Greek War Relief Association
Norwegian Relief
Polish War Relief
Queen Wilhelmlna Fund
Russian War Relief
United China Relief
United Czechoslovak Relief
United Yugoslav Relief Fund
Refugee Relief Trustees
United States Committee for the
Care of European Children
NA TIOtVAI WAR FUIVP
NORTH DAKOTA CAMPAIGN OCT. 18 TO NOV. 1 MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION THROUGH
Golden Valley County's War Chest Committees