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CORPORATION tax
ABOLITION ASKED
v£\v YORK, July 23—($)—Abo*
federal income taxes on
''““rations and reliance on indi
, c°f,al income levies for the chief
'free of government revenue
S“U proposed today by Beardsley
rLl sponsor of the pay-as-you
" tax plan, and a merchant
f k'er, H. Christian Sonne.
„,.mi who is treasurer of the
“ardent store, R. H. Macy &
rl"md Sonne, president of the
f'L 0i Amsinck, Sonne & Co.,
their suggestion in a study
f arcd for the National Plan
association, a private organi
-at'kin of business, labor and gov
ernment representatives with Wil
'.j, l, Batt of the War Produc
Board as chairman,
i 'principal reasons given for
abolishing the corporate income
".'and levying instead on such
businesses only a 5 per cent fran
-hise tax were:
{ ' j_it tends to raise the cost of
,00ds and services, to keep wages
lover than they otherwise might
,e and to limit the yield on risk
ing investment.
o-Bus:ness jungmem currenuy
/distorted by tax considerations
35 they affect expenditures, pric
; ng and capital.
' 3-The corporate income tax
imposes double taxation on divi
dend income without regard to
progressive rates.
The Ruml-Sonne recommenda
tions on fiscal and monetary pol
icy are aimed, the authors said,
a, employment of 55,000,000 peo
ple lor 40 hours a week, and a
national income of $140,000,000,
000.
In the flexibility of tax and
budget policies proposed, views of
another NPA member, economist
Alvin Hansen of the Federal Re
serve Board, were evident. Han
sen previously had suggested us
ing government spending and oth
er fiscal operations to supplement
private business employment.
Specifically out'ined in the tax
discussion was a personal income
tax at 16 per cent on all incomes
plus surtaxes ranging from one
per cent on $2.000-$3.000 a year
to 50 per cent on $500,000 or more
a year.
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lumberton New Site
Of Farm Loan Office
WHITEVILLE. July 23. — The
office of the Whiteville Farm Loan
association has been moved to
Lumberton, according to an an
nouncement made by G. T. Sut
t in. president of the association.
Officials of Whiteville and Lum
berton associations, on coopera
tion with the Federal Land Bank
of Columbia. S. C., made the ar
rangements for a joint office at
Lumberton.
J C. Culbreath, who has been
serving as secretary - treasurer of
the Lumberton association, will
also serve in the same capacity
‘ : for the Whiteville association.
; "Similar joint offices are being
used by other associations and
have proved very satisfactory,”
Hr- Sutton said.
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The Anatuac, Mexico’s only
battleship, was bought from Bra
zil in 1924.

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Merchant Marine Concentrates
On Freighters Instead Of Liners
Passenger liners like the de luxe America, which n ow serves as the troop transport West Point, must
be completely refitted after the war. Maritime exp erts predict that a year will pass before the first
American passenger ship i s ready to cross ‘he sea.
By S. BURTON HEATH
NEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Ju'y 23—When
American shipping men look into
the post - war future with pride
and hopefulness, it is of the cargo
trade that they are thinking—not
the passenger. So far as the latter
is concerned, the British will be
in position to dominate the seas
as they always have, unless we pull
some smart rabbits out of our
maritime hat.
We shall be top dog in both quan
tity and quality of cargo craft. In
passenger liners we shall emerge
from this war as far behind the
eight ball as ”'e went in.
A couple of obscure observers
at the American Merchant Marine
Institute recalled, offhand, loss of
the Presidents Coolidge, Harding,
Harrison and Grant, the Santa
Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Ele
na. Santa Lucia, and at least two
EvDort liners.
What does that leave? Presum
ably the President Line’s nine new
ships built in 1640-1942 but never
used in civilian trade: the three
Africans — Comet, Meteor and
Planet—never used before the gov
ernment grabbed them; Moore -
McCormack’s Argentina, Brazil
and Uruguay; Matson’sr Lurline,
Maricosa and Monterey.
The America, the Manhattan and
tne Washington, best-known Amer
ican transatlantic and cruise ships,
still are afloat, but they have been
written off for civilian passenger
use.
The old George Washington and
America, 1906 - model German
built liners taken over after World
War I. have been completely mod
j ernized and streamlined by the Ar
my as transports but nobcdy thinks
they could pay their way in com
petition with W'at the British, the
French, the Swedes or the Dutch
will have to offer.
The British have lost a lot of
good liners. Among them were the
Plmpress of Britain and Canada,
the Athenia, Brittanic, Caledonia,
Curinthia, Andora Star and Dark
Star. Georgia, Niagara and Tran
crlvoni Q
Imposing List of Liners
But they still have a mighty
imposing list of liners with better
known names than the best we can
cffer: the 83,000 - ton luxury liner
Queen Elizabeth, the 81,000-ton de
luxe Queen Mary, the 46,000-ton
Aquitania. the 35,000 - ton new
Mauretania, the new 28,000 - ton
Capetown Castle, the Empress of
Scotland Cnee Empress of Japan)
and the Empress of Australia, the
Dominion Mark, Franconia, Aoran
gi, Queen of Bermuda, Asturias,
and the Dutchesses of Athol, Bed
ford, Richmond and York.
Right here, if there were no fur
ther complications, is enough for
our shipping men to worry about.
Bu< there is another gimmick. Our
Army completely reconverted our
liners for transport use, tearing
them up almost to the hull and re
futing their interiors. It will take
at least a year to put the first
American liner back into the pas
senger business.
The British, on the contrary, did
a minimum of interior changing.
It is estimated that at least one
of the two Queens can be plying
regularly between New York and
Southampton wihhin three months
after the Cunard line gets them
back.
Intensive Competition
There will also be intensive com
petition from such other name lin
! ers as the French lie de France,
j Pasteur and de Grasse; the Dutch
New Amsterdam; the Norwegiar
Bergensfjord; the Swedish Grips
hrlm and Drottingholm and per
haps the Stockholm, never yet de
lievered by its Italian builders. A1
so the German Berlin, Milwaukee
•St. Louis and Potsdam — unde
some other flag, perhaps—may b'
in the race.
And finally there is dread of ai
transport. Huge, fast, comfortable
sate air liners could be flying fror
New York to the capitals of th
world very quicklyafter peace re
turns. Undoubtedly they will.
It is not to be assumed ths
barnstorming teachers, clerks an
small business men will be pr<
pared to pay air fares at onci
but there will oe plenty of other
who can and will pay that toll
and they will be the cream-of-th
crop passengers, who, on a shi]
would occupy de luxe cabins an
expensive suites—whose patronag
might mean the difference b<
tween profit and loss in passengt
liner operation.
Jeter Advocates
Winter Farm ing
By F. H. JETER
The dry weather of June and
early July has played havoc with
crop production in many pa«rts of
North Carolina this year. No gen
eral statement could be made sum
nvng up the situation because, in
some few favored spots, there was
ample rain and farmers report the
finest crops they have ever had.
However, in my visits over the
state I saw tobacco only a few
inches high on which rain had not
fallen since the plants were in the
fields. In one place would be found
an excellent field of corn and near
by would be another field showing
the disastrous effects of the dry
rt'eath er.
General showers about over the
Slate in early July came in time
to save most of these fields but
we shall have very spotted pro
duction on the whole. The rains of
the winter and spring continued
so late into the planting mason
that it was almost impossible to
prepare the seed beds properly and
all summer crops were delayed.
The cotton crop, on an average,
seems to have survived fairly well
since cotton likes hot weather and
does not suffer so much from
drouth.
It is fortunate that the state har
-1
vested one of its best crops
small grain and hay this seaso
Otherwise the feed supply for tl
year would be seriously curtaile
Recently, when I was in the mi
west, farmers out there told n
they were harvesting one of the
best crops of wheat and early ha
Indications are now that the n
tion ha* produced one of the lar
est crops of wheat in its immec
ate history.
This is very different from wh
happened in World War No. 1 wh<
we had to observe wheatless We
nesdays six months after we h;
entered the war. This time all
us have had enough wheat wi
some to spare for our Allies ai
lots of it available as a feed f
livestock.
underfed and starving friends
ours in the countries overrun 1
Hitler’s gangstei s think of a peop
who have good wheat to feed
chickens, hogs and cows, but it
a tribute to the farming methoi
now being followed that this exti
supply has been available.
Government officials tell us nc
+hat our total wheat productii
for this year will amount to 1,121
000,000 bushels if one has crops
oats and barley, and conditions
the mid-west are such at this wri
ing that a production of 2,980,00(
0C0 bushels of corn is indicated.
More Corn Needed
Ordinarily, however, those of '
who farm in this section of tl
nation almost invariably have
contend with dry weather in sur
mer which upsets our plans ai
certainly curtails with dry weath
production. Corn is an essenti
feed in this state and we nev
produce too much. We ever hai
been able to feed corn to our ho;
and beef cattle or to crush it f<
our chickens and dairy cows as v
should.
Corn club boys, following ne
practices and giving their speci
acres constant attention, regular]
produce 60 or 70 and even 100 bus
e.s an acre while the average ft
all the s'tate remains at a low 1
bushels an acre.
W. W. Shay, one of the grei
practical livestock men of his da
used to say that no farmer cou!
think of going into the hog bus
r.ess or any other kind of livestoc
farming until he was able to mal
ar least 35 bushels of corn an acr
If it is impossible for us to c
that, due largely to unfavorab'
summer weather, then we shoul
holster our corn crop by growir
supplementary feed grains in wii
ter.
We need never fear of producin
too much feed with the labor no
available. Feed is needed all ovi
the United States and staple fooi
such as that produced by the cere:
grains, is needed for human cot
sumption not only on farms b'
in the great centers of industri
production. Grain also is needt
for manufacturing purposes. It i
my opinion, therefore, that we fol
in North Carolina should begin 1
do more and more winter farmini
It is the exception rather than tt
tule for a North Carolina farm:
to use much fertilizer on his fal
sown grains and winter cov«
crops. He has held to the opinio
generally that he used enough fe
tilizer under his summer crops ar
that the small grain or winter ha
should only hav“ that which migh
have been left in the . soil. It is
fact, however, that the price <
fertilizers in relation to the price
of crops‘is such that it will pay to
use more fertilizer on these fall
sown crops. This mean that little
extra land will be needed for their
use and that increased acre yields
could be secured at a profit to the
grower.
Best Time for Fertilizer
Fall also is the best time now
to lay in a supply of fertilizer be
cause it is a slack time for the
manufacturer. Added to this, seme
recent tests or field demonstra
tions conducted by leading farmers
of the state seem to indicate that
a good way to fertilize the suc
ceding summer crop is to ferti
lize the preceding winter cover
crop and plow it under. Very def
inite acre increases of corn have
teen secured in this manner and
there is no reason to believe that
the plan will not work with other
crops.
The state also is growing more
alfalfa. Tests indicate that a top
dressing of from 125 to 150 pounds
of triple-superphosphate has in
creased the yields of quality hay
an acre and that the benefits of
this application could be seen for
two or three years.
There is abundant research data
r~ ..
from the North Carolina Experi
ment Station showing that fertili
zer on winter legume cover crops
not only increased the acre yield
of these crops but also favorably
affected the yields of the following
crops. Winter pasture can be in
creased by the use of fall-applied
fertilizer and there is never any
sound argument against the use ol
ground limestone and phosphate tc
any fall-planted crop whether i
be grain, winter-legumes, or pas
ture sods.
If then, the supplies of feed anc
of supplemental grains can be in
creased at little cost by this kinc
cf farming, we who are so dis
turbed over the corn growing sit
uation each summer should begir
r.ow to make plans for more wintei
farming beginning in early fall.
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AWARDED DFC
WASHINGTON, July 23.—UP)
The War department today an
nounced the award of the Distin
guished Flying Cross to the fol
lowing North Carolinians, merr
bers of the United States Arm;
Eighth Air Force: 1st Lieu
Thomas E. Sexton, RFD 2, Er
field; and S-Sgt. Alexander £
Garrison, RFD, 7, Charlotte.
‘TRUTH’ IS TOPIC
OF LESSON-SERMON
TRUTH" was the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Christian Sci
ence Churches and Societies yes
terday.
The Golden Text was frorr
: Paslms 86: 15. "Thou, O Lord, ar
a God full of compassion, and gra
cious, long-suffering, and plenteou;
in mercy and truth.”
Among the citations which com
prised the Lesson-Sermon were th<
following from the Bible: “0 Lord
thou art my God; I will exal
Thee. I will praise Thy name; fo
Thou hast done wonderful things
Thy counsels of old are faithfulnes
and truth. For Thou hast been
strength to the poor, a strength t
• fhe needy in his distress, a refug
■ from the storm, a shadow fror
• the heat, when the blast of th
- terrible ones is as a storm agains
- the wall” (Isaiah 25: 1,4).
r The Lesson-Sermon also include
;. the following passages from th
- Christian Science textbook, “Sc
. ence and Health with Key to th
Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy
Prayer cannot change the unalter
able Truth, nor can prayer alone
give us an understanding of Truth:
but prayer, couoled with a fervent
habitual desire tc know and do the
will of God, will bring us into all
Truth. Such a desire has little need
i of audible expresson. It is best
expressed in thought and in life"
(Page 11).
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
’ in New York has 325,811 square
feet of exhibition floor space.
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The new aqueduct at Caracas,
Venezuela, cost approximately
1 $24,000,000.
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For baby’s comfort and your conveni
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pad used but once. Made of hospital
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50 pads 66c
CLOSETS
Large, roomy
pasteboard clos
ets. Looks like
expensive wood
Holds many
clothes.
NANITEX RUGS
Good grade felt base rugs in love
ly colors for bedroom or kitchen.
Many patterns to choose from.
ROLL AWAY CHESTS
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one of these light- ^
weight roll-away /K I Q
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bedroom furniture. Large roomy draw
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$1475
49c and 69c
Fancy or plain colors.
BOYS’ SWIM TRUNKS
A real
bargain .
BOYS’ SLACK SUITS
Tan and blue shirts with con
trasting QQ
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MEN’S SPORT SHIRTS
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MEN’S SUMMER PANTS
One lot tf* M aa
reduced to. «P“i"v
Men’s Rayon Slack Suits
Better suits A A
reduced to.
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$2.00
Paint it yourself
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at once.
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Price Cut!
Value the Same!
Men's Summer Suits
A few suits in odd sizes

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