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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942
A Thought for Today
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let
It go: my heart shall not reproach me so long
as I live.—Job 27:6.
• • •
But ’twas a maxim he had often tried, that
right was right, and there he would abide.—
Crabbe.
Bowles Bears Down
In an effort to prevent the Office of
Price Administration, Gasoline Rationing
Division, from becoming a political
gathering place from now until the No
vember 3 elections State Administrator
Chester Bowles has served notice on polit
ical organizations that they will be
expected to continue their governmental
functions of getting out the vote, but
won’t be allowed to make a Roman holi
day of the occasion with countless cars
swooping in all directions. Cars offi
cially designated by the proper authori
ties as those to transport voters to and
from the polls will be allotted four gal
lons of gasoline.
This, declares, Mr. Bowles, will allow
for sixty miles of driving and, in his
estimation, is quite enough for one car,
even for election purposes. It probably
will be, too, but not for those who are
golitically minded. The news that Mr.
owles sent out from Hartford will come
like a dash of cold water to many an
ambitious politico, to whom four gallons
of gas, additional, on election day will be
just as a drop of water in a wide, wide
desert. And that isn’t the whole story,
either.
Party chairmen are required to list with
local gasoline rationing offices by Mon
day, October 26, the full list of cars, their
owners’ names, and registration numbers
which are to be used in transporting
voters. This list will be publicly displayed
and may also be published in news
papers. So it looks as if Mr. Bowles is
not going to stand for any fooling. Yes,
hell aid in getting the voters to the polls
via motor-car without forcing anyone to
uw his or her own personal coupons to
|my gasoline, but this governmental pro
cess mil be zealously guarded and there’ll
he no shenanigans.
Come Now, Ray!
In one of his campaign talks recently
ex-governor Raymond E. Baldwin took
Governor Robert A. Hurley to task for not
calling a special session of the Legislature
ten months ago. Thus is revealed the
Republican Party’s dependency on the
Legislature for its control of state politics.
Without its domination in the low'er house
* and all that this entails the good old GOP
would be in quite a bad way. If the office
of the governor of the State of Connecti
cut is to be so emasculated so that its
occupant, whether it be Democrat, Social
ist or Republican, can’t run the state
without calling in the law-makers every
there’s a serious crisis then we have
no real reason for a governor at all.
Mr. Baldwin says there have been seri
ous problems confronting this state ever
since the Pearl Harbor incident of last
December. Sure there have, and they
have been rather nicely handled, too, by
I Governor Hurley and by the various
Aides to whom he has entrusted the task
of putting Connecticut on a war basis.
Many of these aides have been Republi
cans; probably some are Democrats; may
be there are others without direct party
affiliations. But that doesn’t make any
|f!h difference so long as they were doing
toe work set up for them and doing it
well. The best proof of this lies in re
ft suits; we have them at hand.
We never thought that Mr. Baldwin
, would put himself in the class with those
demanders for special legislative sessions.
That he has now proves conclusively
how desperately he wants to win this
election. Naturally he would and can’t
be criticized for all-out effort. But in
■view of the seriousness of the present day
situation and the importance of Connec
ticut to the nation in winning the war
we can’t quite go along with him or his
/ Attack on Governor Hurley for not call
ing the General Assembly into session
long before he did. Such resistance on
toe governor’s part, if there was any
I iaeeded, makes him all the more worthy
of reelection in our estimation.
Don't Expect Too Much
It would be easy to draw too much
uragement from Leon Henderson's
to provide tires for passenger auto
lles. That would result in another
iwn, followed probably by accusations
Washington once more had prom
more than it could perform. The
^ortant thing to be kept in mind is the
ltinual repetition, in the more mtelli
ohrased news reports, of such
ms as “for essential purposes,”
‘for necessary driving.”
Henderson does not suffer from
' delusion that he can keep 27,000,ooo
iger automobiles in rubber for the
casual riding about town to which
> are accustomed. He has taken
to heart the impressive logic of the
Baruch committee’s warning that our
war industrial economy will collapse un
less passenger automobiles are provided
with tires sufficient to care for war
necessary driving.
Motoring in private cars, in many
instances, contributes lust as much to
our ultimate victory as the operation of a
tank, a jeep, or a military staff car. We
can’t win, because we won’t have the
weapons to win, unless we provide tires
for such essential motoring. That is
what Mr. Henderson is endeavoring to do.
He is not deliberately trying to provide
tires for pleasure riding in any of its
forms.
Unintentionally, of course, Mr. Hender
son is obliged to try to supply tires for
pleasure riding — for driving to bridge
parties, to the golf course, to shop for a
couple of spools of thread, to view the
autumn leaves in the country. That is
the tragedy of the tire situation — that
in the effort to find some workable
method of keeping passenger cars oper
ating for essential purposes, we are per
mitting so much pleasant but quite un
necessary motoring, by granting A cards,
each good for around 240 miles a month,
to persons who do not need to drive at
all.
Unless the synthetic program gets un
der way faster than it now promises, Mr.
Henderson is not going to succeed in the
task he has set himself. His boards can
grant certificates to all. But certificates
make poor tires on any kind of road. They
will be only as good as the supply of rub
ber with which to honor them.
It is possible to make the certificates
all good. We can hold back rubber from
the armed services to provide tires and
recaps for civilians for non-war use. And
how will we non-essentials feel, riding
around on tires stolen from the tanks
that, for our comfort, must go into battle
on metal treads? Pretty cheap..
Commendable Severity
The State of Texas has won wide pub
licity by its all-out co-operation in every
phase of the war effort. Just about the
only black spot was its governor’s threat
about what the people would do about
gasoline rationing, and there is no reason
to believe that very many Texans agreed
with him. _
Now the State Highway Department
has utilized an expedient by which the
35-mile an hour rubber-saving speed law
can be enforced without waiting for the
legislature to pass a law. The State
rationing officer has announced that
convicted speeders will be blacklisted foi
replacement tires and tubes. Texas has
come through again, an ekample for less
energetic commonwealths.
Amendment of the state constitution
to permit the nomination of all judges in
Connecticut, except probate, by the gover
nor has been voted by the Connecticut
Bar Association. The subject was quite
thoroughly discussed during its recent
meeting in New Haven, for Supreme
Court Chief Justice William M. Maltbie
talked at considerable length on the
matter. If the matter comes up in the
Legislature this spring, and it undoubted
ly will for it has been popping up there
regularly for the past three or four bien
nial sessions, it will be quite some time
before the new system would go into ef
fect, provided, of course, it was approved.
In amending the state constitution the
process is carried over a period of years.
If the 1943 General Assembly voted a
change in the method of naming minor
court judges, it would devolve on the 1945
Assembly to vote the same thing by a two
thirds vote in each house. Then the ques
tion would be referred to the towns for
their approval; then back to the Legisla
ture again, so at least two and possibly
four years might elapse before the
change could actually be made.
Brother Bowles of the OPA has the
politicians nicely boxed in the matter of
allowing special gasoline rations for
election day workers transporting voters
to and from the polls. Not only will this
allowance be limited to 4 gallons a car,
but it will be given only to those who are
actually going to do the work and who
are certified for such jobs by the chair
men of local political parties. But the
crowning touch, to our way of thinking,
is making such lists available for publi
cation in newspapers. However, few
people realize that political parties for
years have been making public the lists
of election workers and cars used in party
treasurer’s reports, which itemize all ex
! penses, sums as well as to whom paid.
Never has there been a football season
of recent years which lacked the interest
of the current one. Of course it s like
everything else, but amusements haven t
been faring so bad during these trying
war days. Another football year and we re
afraid, with the war continuing, colleges
won’t compete in the sport.
Selected Poem
A SOLDIER SPEAKS
(Grantland Rice In the New York Sum
What am I fighting tor? Here's all I know:
A land X know above all other things:
A town where I was born-wherc lost winds blow—
Remembered dreams above all crowns and kings;
I’m for my country—hill or stream or plain—
Or crowded city, where the weary meet;
I’m for my country—snow or sun or rain—
That never yet has known Uie word •'defeat.1
I've heard vague rumors of the mystic gates
That we must storm and hold—a world to save.
I only know my country—and my mates.
For whom I'll dream In peace m any grave.
Daily Almanac
Sun rises 7:10 a. m.; sets 0:03 p. m. (war
I time),
* i All vehicles must be .ighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
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• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
..." ■.
Keeping Books
Can Help Cut
Income Tax
BY PETER EDSON
(Waterbary Democrat Washington
Correspondent)
The best advice your Uncle Sam*
uel can give you right now is, “Make
a personal budget and start keep*
ing books on every dollar you earn
and every cent
you spend.”
In giving you
this free advice
—the only thing,
by the way, that
you'll get free
from the gov
ernment as long
as the war lasts
—It Isn’t the In
tention to warn
you to make a
New Year’s reso
lution to make a
budget and keep
books In 1943.
The warning Is
for Immediate
adoption and for your own good you
might even try to make this book
keeping habit retroactive. Dig out
all your old receipts and sales slips
clear back to Jan. 1, 1942. There
might be gold in them thar bills.
The reason for encouraging your
interest In all these figures without
sex appeal is simple. It's the new
tax bill.
The light has undoubtedly
dawned on you that this new tax
bill is something extra, but you
probably haven’t realized what a
penetrating and soul-pocketbook
and-piggy-bank-searcher this new
light Is. It won’t Just brighten the
corner where you are—it will burn
you up and it will leave scar tissue
on a lot of citizens who have never
been scorched by Income tax before.
28 MILLION WILL PAY
On 1941 Income, 28 million good
citizens had to file returns, though
only about 18 million paid federal
income tax. On this year’s Income,
however, the new tax bill will re
quire some 32 million people to file
returns and taxes will be collected
from perhaps 28 million of them.
Four million people who have
never had to worry about filling In
an income tax form will have that
pleasure by March 15, 1943. And 10
million people who have never paid
Income taxes before will begin fork
ing over. In recruiting all this new
tax-paying talent. Uncle Sam will
be putting the finger on a lot of
citizens who have never kept books.
Small farmers, for Instance, ped
dlers, and a lot of Joe and Jane
wage-earners. Any single person
taking In more than $9.62 per week,
any married person getting more
than $23.08 per week. That's dip
ping pretty well down toward the
bottom of the barrel to find pay
dirt, but the Victory tax of 1943
will go even deeper.
The Importance of having all
people earning more than these
minimum wages keep books comes
from two principal reasons.
The first Is that your Uncle Sam
uel. Instead of being content with
only a minimum of 4 cents or 6
cents out of every taxable dollar
you earn, is now about to take a
minimum of 19 cents of every dollar
you earn above the personal ex
emption figures of $500 a year for
the unmarried, $1200 a year for the
married. Six cents of this 19 cents
cents will be normal income tax.
The other 13 cents will be surtax.
For incomes over $5 million, the
tax is 83 cents per $1.
SOME WAYS TO SAVE
So it Is Important to you to take
advantage of every deduction you
can possibly list. With a minimum
19 per cent federal income tax on
every taxable dollar, for every $5
you can deduct from your taxable
income you are saving yourself a
minimum of 95 cents, which Is not
an unimportant.saving.
The items to keep track of are
rather numerous. Among the more
important are:
Keep track of all your doctor bills
and your health and accident in
surance.
Keep track of all tne money de
ducted from your pay envelope aft
er Jan. 1, 1943. for the Victory tax,
which will probably be 5 per cent
of all your earning over $625 a year.
Keep track of all the money you
pay out on insurance policies In
force before Sept. 1. 1942.
Keep track of all the money you
pay out on debts which you owed
on Sept. 1. 1942.
Keep track of all the interest you
pay on debts.
Keep track of all the money you
pay out or have deducted for the
purchase of war savings stamps and
bonds.
Keep track of every penny you
pay out for taxes. You can't de
duct your Income taxes, but nearly
every other bit of direct tax money
you pay is deductible. Watch the
sales taxes and federal excise taxes
on transportation, furs, Jewelry, etc.,
particularly.
Keep track of all your contribu
tions. to the church and to estab
lished charity and welfare organi
zations. Oet receipts for your
charities. Dimes given to pan
handlers don't count.
But the panhandlers, if they gross
more than $500 a year, will have to
file tax returns and they should
therefore keep books, too.
Current Comment
We cannot win the war with part
of the nation sacrificing and another
part benefiting. We cannot win the
war with part of our resources in
action, another idle.
—Oov. Payne Ratner of Kansas.
We perhaps coddled ourselves be
fore the war in the extent to which
we tried to adjust the work (cur
riculum) to the individual.
—Katherine E. McBride, president
elect, Bryn Mawr College.
Our surveys of accident experi
ence throughout the country dur
ing the last few months show that,
while there has been a decided de
crease in the amount of driving,
there has been no change In the
quality of driving.
—National safety Council.
Tiie strength of a nation is no
longer measured by the number of
men In the Army. Modern war
rare is a contest of Industries,
—Mayor PloreUo La Ouardia of
New York.
Which Will Really Represent You Best?
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Washington Merry-Go-Round drew Pearson
Quick Action on 18-20 Draft Shows Democracy Streamlining;
Officials Debate Publication of Axis Atrocity Photographs;
Senator Norris, at 81, continues a Full Schedule of Work;
Aiken Indignant Over Repurchase of Ships at High Figures.
WASHINGTON, October 22. — If the President and the country want to get a
full realization of how democracy is streamlining for action they should think back to
the summer of 1941, just one year ago, when, for what seemed like unending weeks, the
Congress stewed over extension of the Selective Service Act.
senate ana House isolationists
were haranguing the galleries on
the iniquities of keeping the boys
more than one year in camp; tell
ing the public how the Navy was
already convoying ships; revealing
in advance that Roosevelt had
sent troops to Iceland.
Finally by the thin margin of
one vote, 203 to 202, and thanks
to the sage generalship of Speak
er Sam Rayburn, the Selective
Service Act was extended. Had it
not been for that narrow victory,
we should have had no army to
rush to Australia, and the whole
war effort would have received a
tragic set-back.
But last week, a war-geared
House of Representatives passed
the 18-19 year draft extension
act in three days; and It should
be passed by the Senate and
signed by the President inside
the week.
Politically and personally, no
body wanted the 18-19 year draft
extension. It was the worst time
to pass it, Just before elections.
But Congress is doing a much bet
ter Job than most people realize
for streamlined democracy.
ATROCITY PICTURES
A strong debate is raging among
propaganda chiefs over the ques
tion of atrocity stories and pic
tures. The government has re
ceived a lot of such material from
Allied sources, especially the Chin
ese and Poles, including such hor
rible scenes as Japanese attacking
women, and pouring oil on live
bodies before setting the torch to
_ them.
Opponents of publication argue
that the atrocity stories of the last
war were largely invented, and
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D.
DOES MONEY GET YOU?
i
A friend of mine once received a
check made out for “Fifty Dollars
and No Sense".
There used to be an odd char
■hmmbm acter in the days
jjSpiSMPlyl cf the oil boom
I in northwestern
Sfff'l P ennsylvama
I who became im
mensely wealthy
in a few years.
He would give
dinners to his
friends costing
thousands of
dollars, tip
waiters with
hundred dollar
bills, buy the horse and carriage
from a passing hackman and then
give the beast and the vehicle back
to the man from whom he had
bought them at the end of the '.».*st
ride. This was the case of a mil
lion dollars and no sense.
A woman died in one of our large
cities a few years ago leaving a for
tune of more than fifteen million
dollars. She had no idea how much
she Ivad— in fact was to oblivious of
the whole thing that she lived on .a
few thousand dollars a year and
died without making a will. Her es-.
late has been in litigation ever
since. This was a case of fifteen
million dollars and no sense.
It takes plenty of work and abil
ity to get money, but it Ukes even
more of both to prevent money get
ting you. Jesus said that they who
hao riches would hardly enter the
kingdom of heaven—if they did it
would be by the skin of their teeth.
I wonder if it was ignorance or
a sly insight into the true nature of
things which led someone to send
my friend a check for Fifty Dollars
and No Sense?
All Rights Reserved — Batson
Newsoaucr Bvudicate.
when so exposed left the public
disillusioned; thus the people
might now react unfavorably and
charge the government with pull
ing the same tricks.
Other officials argue, however,
that the material is authentic, that
It Is not posters and rumors, but
actual phtographs, and the public
should know what sort of enemies
we are fighting.
It is apparently a part of the
German phychological warfare to
treat British and Americans with
reasonable humaneness in order
to keep us lulled in a state of
moderate warfare. They save
theri worst tricks for the con
quered nations and the Rus
sians.
The Poles and Chinese are urg
ing use of the material as a neces
sary means of fully arousing the
American public to the menace.
Elmer Davis’ Office of War In
formation is set to go, once the
debate is settled.
NORRIS OF NEBRASKA
Despite his 81 winters, It Is
Interesting to note how little
change has come over the grand
old man of the Senate, George
Norris of Nebraska.
The war has narrowed his range.
Public power Is no longer a burn
ing national issue. Thanks to his
foresight in crusading for the
Tennessee Valley and Boulder
Dam, the nation's power is well
harnessed for victory. And the
rights of labor seldom figure In
the Senate debate anymore.
But Norris still remains one
of the most active members of
the Senate, and still finds plenty
to crusade for. A better foe
of machine politics, he led the
fight against the appointment of
Judge Thomas F. Meaney, of
Boss Hague’s New Jersey ma
chine. Norris has also been a
towering force in battles to re
habilitate little business, curb
war profiteering, and promote
the use of farm products In syn
thetic rubber production.
A dynamo of restless energy,
Norris puts in 10 hours a day at
the office, and colleagues on the
Judiciary Committee, of which ho
is ranking minority member, call
him “Old Faithful’’ because he is
always the first to show up for
committee meetings on Monday
morning.
Norris’ office staff, on the other
hand, call him “Mr. Elephant,”
because of his phenomenal mem
ory.
The Nebraskan always speaks ;
ex-tempore on the floor, never for
gets anything he has once read.
Recently he showed his secretary,
Jack Robertson, a newspaper fea
ture story in which Oliver Crom
well was quoted as telling a por
trait painter of his day; “Paint me
as I am, warts and alL"
“That’s wrong,” said Norris.
“I remember the story from my
school days. What Cromwell
said was: ’Paint me as I am. If
you leave out the scars and
wrinkles. I will not pay you a
shilling'.’’
A checkup wtlh the Library of
Congress revealed that Norris had
not erred by a tingle word.
NOTE: Norris is the "dean’ of
Congress, has served 40 straight
years in the House and Senate.
Next comes 84-year old Senator
Carter Glass of Virginia who en
tered the House at about the
same time, but waa out of Con
gress two years as a members of
the Wilson cabinet. Along with
them Is 78-year old Senator "Cot
ton Ed'” smith of South Carolina,
who has served S3 years In the
Senate alone. Senator Glass has
been 111 most of the fall, but la
now recovering and will not resign.
Virginia will keep him In the sen
ate as long aa he wants to stay.
INTERESTING SHIP DEALS
Thru tv senator George Aiken of
Vermont is indignant over the way
the Maritime Commission has
sold ships to private Interests, then
turned round and bought them
back again — with a profit, not
to the Government, but to private
interests.
Because of this, Senator Aiken
appeared at a secret session of the
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
and opposed the promotion of
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
chairman of the Maritime Com
mission, to be a vice admiral.
What disturbs the economy
minded Vermont Senator is that
the Maritime Commission on
June 8, 1940, sold five merchant
ships to the Waterman Steam
ship Co., of Mobile for $598,000
or $13-75 per deadweight ton.
Then In late 1941, although the
Martime Commission had an op
tion to repurchase the ships, it did
not exercise it, but purchased in
stead five other older vessels from
the Waterman Co., for $3,374,700
—or an average of $75 per dead
weight ton. This according to
General Accounting Office prob
ers, was $1,995,502 more than
should have been paid under the
option.
Senator Aiken has also dis
covered that the Boston Iron
and Metal Co., of Baltimore
bought the Coast Guard cutter
Seneca from the Treasury in
1936 for $6,605.
Then in January, 1941, the
Maritime Commission bought the
Seneca back from the Boston
Iron and Meta! Co., for $45,
000.
Senator Aiken is anxious to see
what has gone on behind the
scenes to put across these ship
ping deals.
(Copyright. 1942, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Press Comment
FOB ALL OCTOBER SANTAS
(New York Sun)
Only seventeen Christmas shop
ping days remain for those who In
tend to mall gifts to members of the
armed forces In overseas service.
Every post office has the list of
rules for sending parcels to soldiers,
sailors and marines outside conti
nental United States. There Is a
weight limit of eleven pounds, but
postmasters appeal to the public to
keep gifts within six pounds and in
packages no larger than a shoe
box. Service men are weU provided
with food and clothing. This simpli
fies the shopper's task. The list of
gifts a son, a brother or a father
will welcome with Joy on Christmas
Day In Ireland, England, Africa or
Australia remains long enough to
exercise any giver's generosity and
sense of variety. Wrappings should
be strong yet not so intricate that
parcels cannot be examined official
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Q. Do any of the women’* service
organiaations like the WAAOs draft
women for servlcfc?
A. No. The WAVES, the WAAOa
and the WATS (Women’s Auxiliary
Ferrying Bquadron) are all volun
teer groups.
Q. What is the minimum age for
male and female employes in plants
working on government contracts?^
A. Under the public contracts act
the minimum for males is IS years
and for females 18 years.
Q. Can private citizens subscribe
to the Congressional Record?
A. Yes; subscription is 11.80 »
month, payable in advance to the
superintendent of Documents. Gov
ernment Printing Office, Washing
ton. D. C., and will be accepted for
one or more months.
TODAY’S COMMON ERROB
It is autologtcal and vulgar to
use the expression going on
as follows! "He Is sixteen;
going on seventeen.” gt is suf
ficient to say: "He is six
teen.”
q. can a member of the V. S.
armed forces apply for government
Insurance any time after he te In
ducted without a medical examina
tion?
A. A serviceman may take out
national life Insurance within 120
days of his Induction without a
medical examination, but after that
period another medical examination
Is necessary. •
q. Are members of the Army
Specialist corps required to buy.
their own uniforms?
A. Yes: they are not given a uni
form allowance.
q. How can a new surface of
concrete best be applied over old?
A. Roughen the old surface with
a pick or cold chrlsel, and then,
clean and wet with water beforw
applying the new coating. Trowet
on a smooth coat of cement mortar,
at least three-quarters of an IncK
thick. The mortar should consist
of 1 part Portland cement to 2 parti
sand, mixed with water. Keep the;
new surface damp for several daya
for proper curing.
Q. Has Helen Keller, the famous
deaf and blind woman, ever ap
peared in vaudeville?
A. Yes.
Q. What Is the name of the
brightest star In the constellation.
Auriga?
A. Capella, the third brightest
star from any point north of latl-.
tude 40 degrees. Is about 150 times as
bright as our Sun, and has a sur-i.
face temperature of 5,600 degrees C;
Capella Is 43 light-years distant
from the earth, and Is moving In
space at a velocity of over 1,500
miles a minute.
Q. Was the philosopher Dlogenef
who '•lived In a tub," a slave? ~
A. On a voyage to Aeglna he waa
catpred by pirates, and was solq*
as a slave at Corinth. His master
set him free.
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Can you answer seven of these ~
test questions? Turn to back
pace for the answers.
1. An aircraft carrier launched in
September bears the same name aa
one recently sunk. What is th®
name?
2. Who is commandant of the V*
S. Marine Corps? “
4. Did Canada lose more or lest
than half of her attacking force
in the summer raid on Dieppe?
4. Who recently acted as Presi
dent Roosevelt’s personal envoy td
the Vatican, and was granted sev
eral private audiences with Pop*
Plus XII? 2
5. Where did Simeon StyliteC
spend 30 years?
6. Which is the “Keystone State’?
7. Name the major wars in which
the United states has been involved
since the War of the Revolution.
8. “Little Eva" is a character in
which famous book ?
8. What was the real name o£
"Light Horae Harry”?
10. Who was president when the
U. 8. purchased Alaska from Rus
sia?
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