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FRIDAY. SEPT. 12, 1941 (ilii' (LiuiliiU\e L.xatnincr PI’IILISHKD KVERY FRIDAY MORNING Kn(r..! t . .jri'i 'la - - mitter March 7, 1930 at the post office t ( . Ari/ona under the Ac* of March 3, 1879. A. C and H. H. WRENN. Publishers Sub ru Mon Rate. Per Year |2.00 TKi* newspaper »* a member of r* J^ Arizona Newspapers AssedAnoN For Greeter Public Service v i^^***w TAXING THE POOR MAN I'K ntv can happen to the new tax bill, recently worked out by the finance committee of the senate, be tore it g<* - through the senate and the house. But as it stands now, it looks as though an effort has been made to put one thing over on tile rich man who has always sugg sled that more people in America should share in the payment of income taxes. When the rich man has made this suggestion, he has done so with the feeling that it would add an enormous] income to the government treasury, would help to balance! the budget, and, incidentally, might relieve him of some f the amount he personally is called upon to pay in taxes. Year af.ei year, the house of representatives has violently opposed such proposals, for representatives • aii/.*- there are more poor people than rich people—and that the poor man might show he didn’t like being taxed when he went to the polls. The • nale committee however, decided to try it. But he way they worked it out just proved to be another oak*’.he-rich plan. The committee did lower the exemp tion Ik m $2,000 to $1,500 for married couples and from •>s<>» to $750 for single persons, but it didn’t revise *he tax r.;li in any way, thus meaning that more people would pay but the regular taxpayer would pay a tax on SSOO additional income. And when it was figured out it was found that of the 6.000,000 taxpayers who would be added to the tax-paying fraternity, The new eligibles ■ ould j>;ty a total tax at only $19,000,000 while the cgula. taxpayer would be called upon to pay an addi .ional $.‘{05,000,000 above the high tax originally plan ned for them. The reduction in exemption would just about double .he number of taxpayers, but the total tax the new group would pay figures up to be just a drop in the bucket. It looks a though it doesn’t matter much whether the poor man pays a tax or not. And in this case, lower ing of the base simply turns out to be away to get more • from the man of moderate or large income by the guise o| bringing 6.000,000 additional families into the income tax group. But bringing it up docs help in one way—it shows all of us <hat the poor man’s mite is of little use in solv ing ilie va t finance problems of our government. RETAILERS FOR DEFENSE WEEK Retail stoics all over the nation—drug stores, grocery, hardware, furniture and all other types of retail outlets —art* now adding a new lire—Defense Saving Stamps. Many of them have begun selling stamps already, having made arrangements with the treasury department to do it last month. Next week they will all bring the matter to public attention by participating in “Retailers tor Defense Week.’’ With a toal of 1,770,413 retail stores in America, plus every bank and 26,000 post offices, handling defense tamps, these stamps will undoubtedly be the best dis tributed. best merchandised and probably the best ad vertised product ever put on the American market. Commenting on the offer of the retail stores of America to participate in the sale of stamps, Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau said: “The defense savings program is gaining momentum every day. The splendid spirit shown by the retailers of ihe nation is putting their associations behind the sale of defense savings stamps is sure to have a stimulating ef fect in advancing the whole program. It is another indi cation of the American determination to proceed whole heartedly toward success in our national defense effort. "The thanks of the treasury and of the government are due the leaders of retail industry and to their mem ber stores all over the nation for the enthusiasm with which they are entering into the plans for “Retailers for Defense Week’ and for the continuous activity pledged in ;he sale of defense savings stamps." Many people are expected to take advantage of the opp.ntunity to buy defense stamps in all stores by putting a volun ary “savings tax” on their purchases—a tax of say 10 percent of what they spend in the stores to be paid for defense stamps and put away for savings. If all of us did put aside 10 percent of our retail purchases for gov ernment savings i would amount to almost five billion a year—a tidy nest-egg for Americans to have for the rainy day which may follow the war. M IIY NOT A JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE? With count less civic problems facing Coolidge and the handful of active workers in the chamber of com merce younger men of the city would find numerous op portune. e for civic seivice through the formation of a junior chamber of commerce. Coolidge chamber of commerce must of necessity be IScro Still f iddles Da&Gttotqtej-i Author of ‘Hour to Win Friends I y j and Influence People*” GET A DEEP DRIVING IMPULSE AND STICK TO IT One day a hawker selling maps left one in the home of a boy in Poland. The boy’s name was Josef Korzeniow ski. After the man had gone, he examined the map, and the more he looked at it, the more fascinated he be came. A spot that especially lured him was a pink one in Africa the Belgian ( ongo. He put his finger on the blob of pink and said, “I’m going there. I’m going to see that some day." He bent all his energies toward carrying out that idea. But he found that he would have to learn English, if he was to travel on an English sailing ship t and so he began the study of the English language, which he not only mastered but which he learned to love so Intensely that the desire to be a writer grew on him. He changed jhis name to Joseph Conrad, and to Joseph Conrad the English language became an art; he cut words out of the language as carefully and painstakingly as a lapidary chiseling a diamond. Finally he went to the exact spot indicated on the map where he had put his finger. He not only went there, he wrote a book with the scene laid in that section. He formed a purpose and he never wavered. A young Irish-Italian boy was reading one day in the journal ot Benjamin Franklin. In his journal Frank lin described how he had drawn “electrical fire” out of a cloud. The boy was fascinated. He hunted up Frank lin’s letter written in 1750, to the Royal Electrical society of London, and read and re- read it. “I’m going to find out what that electrical fire was” the boy said. He start ed in; he soon found out—“electricity”—but that led to more investigation. He had found a purpose; he never deviated from .it during his whole life. That Irish-Italian boy? Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy and father of radio. This doesn’t mean you should go to the Belgian Con go, or to the North Pole, or work toward new discoveries in radio, but it does mean that you can set yourself a purpose in life, and never deviate from it. If you do this, and work conscientiously, your purpose will carry you far. Do not flit from one purpose to another. Get a deep, driving impluse and stick to it. It is one of the secrets of success. Thomas Carlyle, the famous historian wrote some thing else than “The History of the Franch Revolution.” Something far, far ♦shorter. Something very important. This it is: “Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw into your work all the strength of mind and muscle that God has given you.” If you will follow that earnestly and sincerely you will gain some modicum of success. You may not be President of the United States, but you will distinguish yourself. The world is full of purposeless people—ships without rudders. They blow first one direction, then an other. more than an organization simply representing the busi ness men of the city. Because there is no duly elect i ed body to represent the citizenry as a whole, the cham j her of commerce has stepped into the role ordinarily fill ed by a city council and as a consequence finds itself more and more worrying over problems from which chambers of commerce are ordinarily free. There are a number of young men in Coolidge ably fitted to aid in local civic problems who believe their youthfulness and not being in business for themselves bar them from participation in civic work. THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER Washington, D. C. (NWNS) —A bitter fight between those who want to spend new billions for so cial reforms and those who want to pure domestic expenses to pAy for defense, is being waged iu congress. Its outcome probably will determine our policies in this regard for the duration of the wur. The move to cut down expenses on non defense items in the budget was started by the senate finance j committee immediately following that committee’s approval of the largest tax bill in the history of our country. Impressed with the proj>ortion of tax money which must go into non-defense items, ■ the committee approved an amendment to the tax bill asking for an immediate estimate from the bureau of the budget on how to effect savings up to $2,000,000.- 000. It also approved a resolution asking for a committee of both houses of congress, the director of the budget and the secretary of the treasury to inquire into methods of Baving. On the same day that these moves to reduce governmental ex penditures were made, the special committee investigating old-age in surance made a report urging that the government pay S3O a month to all unemployed people over 60 years old and estimated that this would cost from three to four bil lion dollars annually. Senators im mediately pointed out that if this recommendation was carred out it would require more funds than the total tax bill which is expected to come to about $3,500,000,000- Nevertheless, Senator Downey of California (home-state of the Townsend plan) is offering this proposal as an amendment to the tax bill. The members of the committee supporting the bill, in addition to Mr. Downey, were Senator Pepper of Florida and Senator Thomas of Idaho. Although this bill is apt to be waved aside, it is indicative of the thinking of part of the congress which favors continuing to pour billions into new social reforms even though the government debt is up to 50 billion mark. And many congressmen find it embar rassing to oppose such measures when they realize there are 12,- 000.000 voters who would benefit | by it. Byrd States View. Taking a more realistic attitude, however, the finance committee is insisting on government economy. Explaining the stand of the com mittee, Senator Byrd said: “The pending IS4I tax bill of necessity imposes an additional and egregious burden on perhaps more taxpayers than ever before reached by direct federal taxes. “This step now is absolutely necessary in the teeth of the cur rent defense emergency, but it 13 shameful that there has been no earnest, sincere effort to reduce non-essential, non-defense expendi tures of the federal government. Reductions made in these items this year have been inconsequenti al, and probably will be wiped out entirely when all the upplemental deficiency appropriation bills are passed. "It is little short of outrageous to impose the burden of this tax bill upon the citizens of this coun try without at least a sincere at tempt to reduce federal expendi tures ouside of essentially emerg ency items. Although the debate on the tax bill is being conducted pretty much along party lines, the Re publicans urging economy and the Democrats defending New Deal expenditures, it is expected that some economies in a non-defense spending will be forthcoming. The debate on the tax bill is creating more heated arguments even than surrounded the famous lend-lease bill. On the outcome of the tax measure and its amendments, our financial policy for the future will be set. Labor, Materials, Priorities. As a result of the appeals for unity in the address of President Roosevelt and many national fi gures in the unions on Labor day, it is expected that labor problems may be somewhat reduced, al though the shipbuilding, aviation and automobile industries feel no assurance that there will not be new outbreaks to interfere with their production schedules. Many industrialists with big government contracts are coming to Washington with bags full of statistics to show the government they now* are actually losing money on defense production due to increased cost of materials, shortages of materials, increased labor costs and expensive adjust ments in government specification* for the defense items the/ are making. The newly appointed super pri orities board, headed by Vice President Wallace, is expected to look into all problems which are delaying production and to figure out how best care of the interests of both defense industries and the civilian population. President Roosevelt expects the new board to speed producton of arms for all anti-Nazi nations and at the same time to give due consideration of keeping the home fires burning In America. On the new board, be sides the vice president, are: Wil liam S. Knudsen, director general of the Office of Production Management; Sidney Hillman, OPM associate director general; Harry Hopkins, special assistant to the President; Leon Hender son. federal price administrator; Secretary of Navy Knox, and Se cretary of W!ar Stimson. rtODAVj nroMOR/iOiA H dow toioftou 1 BLINDNESS . . . color* A friend of mine never drives an automobile alone because he can’t tell the difference between a red and a green light. He has what is known as red-green color blindness, which means that he can identify other colors but can’t tell red from green—they both look gray to him. It is estimated that about one p€-rsons in every 20 has some form of color blindness. The most com mon form is not being able to identify the color green. Os 2,- 500 male college students studied foi color blindness, 113 were green blind, 15 were red-greeh blind, one was red blind and seven were totally color blind. Perfect eyes, studies have shown, can see up to 2,000,000 shades of colors. In a big dictionary, there are 3,400 words for various color shades. But to a person who is totally color blind all of these shades look practically alike, only varying between white, gray and black. CHILDREN . . . school There are very few of us who do not have some form of eye trouble. According to M. J. Julian, president of the Better Vision in stitute, only about half of the school children who should be wearing glasses are wearing them. Among young children it is very difficult to tell whether they have eye trouble, for a child doesn’t usually realize that he can’t see what his paymates can see. Often young children have great difficul ty with their school work and when it is finally discovered that the difficulty is eye trouble rather than brain trouble, glasses bring about a complete change in ability and personality. Teddy Roosevelt, who all through his adult life wore thick glasses, is a good example of thaL The first few years of school were a great struggle to him and not un til his ’teens did he or his family discover the reason. Then one day he was given a gun as a present and was surprised to find that his friends were shooting at things which he couldn’t see. A little later one of his friends read the words on billboard aloud when Teddy couldn’t see the words at all. It was then he told his mother he thought he had eye trouble. Soon after he was fitted with cor rective glasses and his whole personality changed. Insteud of being a shy, awkward boy, he be came filled with self-confidence and a leader of his friends. Prob ably we would never have heard of him, when he became a man, if that eye trouble hadn’t been taken care of. ANGER , , , , , eyes That expression, “I’m so mad I can’t see” is based on good sound fact, eye specialists tell me. Columbia., university., recently made a study of the effect of emotions on eyes and found that both anger and fear temporarily derange the delicate eye mechan ism. It was found that emotions diminish the sight of one out of five persons and another one of five become actually wobby-eyed under the stress of emotional ex citement. Although excitement changes the vision of most all of us, it seems to have different ef fects on different personalities. To a fairly large group, excitement sharpens and stimulates the eye sight so that they can see better under emotion. The emotional effect on the eyes of telling lies has alw’ays been pronounced, even to the casual observer. We all have seen peo ple become shifty-eyed and have immediately suspected that they weren’t telling us the truth. This demonstrates the close relation ship between the eyes and the emotions. Dishonesty, Jf practiced on a large scale, has a perman ent effect on the action of the eyes, so that a person leading a dishonest life gets so he can’t avoid being shifty-eyed even when he is telling the truth. The eyes are not only affected by our emotions but they also re fleet our emotions. It is easy to tell, by looking into people’s eyes, if they are angry or afraid. And the change in their eyes that we see when they are emotionally wrought up also affects their vis ion. GLASSES army Parents aften make the mistake of not getting glasses for a child because they are afraid that once he starts wearing glasses he will always have to wear them. The theory has been proven un true by many children who havo used glasses to correct defects and after a year or two have been able to discard the glasses entirely. Eye exercises have also been found to remedy many vision ailments. But tests of school children Bhowr that at least 15 per cent have eye defects which are not being at tended to. The army, as far as vision is concerned, only requires a man to see without glasses at 20 feet what normal eyes can see at 100 feet. Yet 100,000 out of every mil lion young men can’t even do that. Incidentally, recent tests show that dark eyes are stronger than blue or gray eyes. The light eyes tire more quickly and are more susceptible to glare. But there must be something in favor of blue eyes too—for it is understood that nearly three-fourths of Holly wood actresses have them! IN THE ARMY NOW ALICE FAYE DRAFTED! The blonde screen star was made an honorary member of the Fifty seventh pursuit group stationed at Windsor, Conn., after her recent personal appearance there. 'COOLIDGE CHURCHES COMMUNITY PKEBBYTERIAN Joseph D. Easter, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 a. m Hymn Festival H &• m * Topic: “The Gospel in Song” Church of Youth 7:30-8:45 Pot-luck dinner, Tues. 6:30 P.M. Women’s Auxiliary, Thurs 2:30 ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH Mass 8:30 Sunday Rosary Wednesday and Friday 7:30 THE METHODIST CHURCH D. L. Nance, Pastor Church School 10 A.M Worship Service - 11 A.M Song and Worship Service 8:00 P. M. CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE W. L. Dlcuß, pastor Sunday School 9:45 A.M. Morning Worship 11 A.M. Evangelist Services 7:45 P.M. Midweek Prayer Meeting Wednesday.— - 7:45 P.M TRINITY TABERNACLE Mrs. Lina O’Donnell, pastor Sunday School 10 A.M. Preaching Service 11 A.M. Ladies Prayer Band Tues 2 P.M. Childrens Church, Wed 2 P.M, Weekly Prayer Meeting, Thursday - 7:30 P.M. CHURCH OF CHRIST Morning service 10:30 A.M Evening service 7:00 P-M Church of God Rev. Conn, Pastor Sunday school 10:00 A.M Morning Service 11:00 A.M Evening Service . 7:30 P-M Page Five