Image provided by: Ashland School District #5; Ashland, OR
About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1945)
Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, September 6. 1945 Production of Civilian Radios Gets Under Way D R tW P tA P SO N ■»■»»» * - T R E A S U R Y ’S C O M P L E X TA X PRO BLEM S (Ed. Note— In D rew Pearson’s absence, Fred M . Vinson, sec retary at the treasury, contrib utes a guest column on one of the most Im portant problems of the treasury—tax evasion.) Drew Pearson has offered me his Washington Merry-Go-Round col umn to present any subject of in terest to the treasury department and to the American people. I know of no subject of more immediate concern than the treasury's cam paign against tax evasion. the _ B y P aul M allon R eleased by W estern N ew spaper Union. Contour Cultivation Grows on U. S. Farm» Bigger Yields Result From Soil Protection T A X RECONVERSION ’A M U ST DO’ N EC ESSITY W ASHINGTON — The confusion about where the United States is go- Expansion of contour cultivation j ing in this world seems developing under the Agricultural Adjustment into a debate. M r. Churchill, still agency program has been rapid dur J the best reporter of international ing the war years. Assistance for i events in his new secondary role contour practices was given on a , (his speeches give more news) told record total of 29.217.806 acres last | parliament the U. S. “ at the minute year, including contouring inter- I stands at the summit of the world." i tilled crops, contouring drilled i He added that in power and respon- ’crops, contour listing, furrowing, Here, in a nutshell, is the situation , sibility it would take two or three chiseling, and subsoiling, and con- the treasury faces: ! years before our great progress is i tour strip cropping. In 1940 there were 4.939.999 in i overtaken. Yet since peace, all you This method of farm ing "around hear on our radio every hour on the the slope" instead of up and down dividual taxpayers. Today there are more than 50,000,- ' hour are doleful tomes about how the hill cuts down erosion by pre 000. In an effort to many unemployed there will be and venting water from carrying off the handle the vastly j M r. Trum an has summoned back soil. It increases acre-yield of crops, increased task of congress p rim arily to raise the un- maintains their quality by holding compensation level the fertile topsoil in place, and In processing returns i employment and collecting taxes i from $20 to $25 a week and extend creases the moisture content of the the personnel of the , the allowances from 20 to 26 weeks. land. Combined with other better There are some who see a con- fanning practices, it has been found bureau of internal lection between the cries that the to add to their effectiveness. revenue was in States in the north central area creased from about ! wolves are at our door, and the pro- 22,000 to about 50,- | gram to push up the unemployment more than tripled their acreage of allowance which congress had stead contour drilled crops and almost Production of radios for civilian sale has started In full force. One of the first radio production lines In 000. fastly resisted for many months. In doubled their acreage of contour in- the «’ountry Is pictured at a Plymouth. Ind., plant. The capacity of the plant w ill shortly be 2.000 sets With the manpow j ay’i l liS * * aiJ m a*e ria **y ,n making radio sets available for almost every need. Production has speed Fred Vinson er shortage the bu fact the connection is so closely I tertilled crops, reports show. Three ed up beyond earlier reports with every indication that the m arket w ill shortly be well supplied. reau could not ex joined, in their eyes, that the com southern states — Arkansas, Okla pect to increase its forces propor mon prophesies of defeat for the homa and Texas—raised their acre tionately with the number of tax Truman idea — and the CIO de age of small grain and other drilled payers. And in many respects bu mands which would go further—are crops on the contour by about 50 being softly amended. Word being ! per cent. reau employees found their work passed around now. the Trum an Studies have brought out that increased out of proportion to the number of returns. Under the with measure will surely be adopted and when contouring cuts the speed of the CIO m ay pry additional conces holding program, a large part of the work form erly done by the taxpay sions. I am not a master of the propa er is now done in the bureau. The processing of w artim e tax relief pro ganda arts, which become more mystifying to me as new techniques visions also threw much additional work upon the bureau. Under these develop, but I do recall many past occasions, in recent years, when the conditions the normal investigative work of the bureau inevitably suf cry of “ wolf, w o l f was raised sole ly for the purpose of shearing the fered. sheep while the public was looking The bureau has always proceed for the wolf. ed upon the theory that the average In this particular case, I note that American is honest, and that a small tax reduction is a subject further but efficient force could deal with down the list. Indeed, no program th” dishonest. for that phase of post-war adjust But millions of us are now tax ment was worked up in advance by payers and the honest must be pro the administration, although some tected against those among us who. anonymous members of congress tempted by war-swollen incomes and were being quoted on the back pages shortages in civilian goods and serv of the papers that the normal tax ices. would cheat the rest of us. No Ideal contour arrangement. will be cut from 6 to 3 per cent. Also city, however small, can afford to I have heard some rather good au be without a police force. And no thorities suggest the taxes our peo the water run-off in half, for ex ample, its capacity for carrying soil city, which has experienced a popu ple are paying are greater than lation increase of more than ten the w ar expenditures of all the ether drops about 75 per cent. Some startling increases in acre fold in a five-year period, would nations of the world—in short, our yield have been reported in specific think of trying to get along without people are paying more than areas as a direct result of the con enlarging its law enforcement all other nations were putting out servation of moisture, soil and plant groups. in the war. This cannot be precisely President Truman calls his cabinet to consider all angles of reconversion brought to a head by the Jana That is why the treasury is build proved or disproved because what nutrients through contouring. An in l X , “ j«r£ ? Rr ' m I ’hH,‘ O Clinton P. Anderson, agriculture; Lewis B. Schwcllenb.ck, ing up its investigative forces. Our Russia spends is not even known to crease of 23 bushels more com an labor, John B Blandford J r., housing agency; J. A. Krug. W PB; J. E . Snyder, war mobilization; W illiam acre in one Iowa area, 6.2 bushels of object is to recruit and train 5,000 her own people, but I believe it to soybeans per acre in Illinois, 44 l)a « n , economic stabilization; Leo T. Crowley, foreign economics: Henry A. Wallace, commerce Abe Hortas men. be substantially true. more bushels of potatoes per acre undersecretary of Interior; Robert Hannegan. postmaster general; Henry L. Stlmson, secretary of w ar- James This will be no Gestapo. It w ill be Not only that but you never even in New York, an increase of four F . Byrnes, secretary of state; President H arry 8. T ru m an ; Fred M . Vinson, treasury; Tom C lark at- a taxpayers’ law enforcement group get a straight-forward picture of the bushels of wheat per acre in the torney general; and James F . Forrestal, secretary of navy. protecting the government’s interest unemployment situation. No one has G reat Plains, and 29 pounds more • -------- in taxes, and at the same time pro gone on the radio at any hour I have cotton per contoured acre in Texas. tecting the honest taxpayer against been on, to say that 80 per cent of the black m arket operator, the rack the unemployed are already author ized to get the m axim um of $20 a eteer and every other kind of tax evader. And it will be good busi week, but an expert figures out the ness, too. We expect to collect $20 fact, and the congressional experts , MATSUDO say it is about right. The states, for every one spent. of course, are flushed (possibly $6,- When taxes are evaded the JUNABASHI 000,000,000) with big unemployment honest taxpayer loses, since ev reserves from w ar taxes, as in New ery dollar evaded increases by York, for instance, where the un that much the burden borne by employment sales tax was kept on other taxpayers. In many cases, before and throughout the w ar al the honest taxpayer has espe though there was no unemployment. cial reason to welcome the tax- When need for the tax passed, the evasion campaign. A reputable TOKYO BAYS-3 tax was not repealed. Perhaps I AUG J * Z A IA IIO O F fu rrier or jeweler, for instance, 1 I O I C H W il l IA N 0 am expecting too much, to think that » ’ A TSU G I IO C A IIO could not continue in business if lO u iM w n r o i any politician would wolf up a tax a next-door competitor should reduction program. But why is this? be permitted to sell furs or Jew ATSUGI There are more taxpayers than any elry without collecting excise other class. taxes. Any business firm which Non-Military Spending cheats the government by fa il Reaches High Peak ing to pay for the services which The haym aker cuts the hay and ä u g : i u s w a z s h if s Nor do I hear anything about the passes it directly from the mower government provides is engaged ANO IZ A N S r O d S W IIH existing, greatest non - m ilitary IA » G f LA N D IN G l o t c i s in dishonest competition, just as cutter bar by means of a pickup TO M O V I IN O N VOKOSUMA spending program ever conceived in much as if it cheated the land attachment to a pair of rollers to ANO H G I N O C C U ’ A me» IIC N the mind of man. Congress has ap crack the stems. lord out of his rent or workers X propriated $1,500,000,000 for flood out of their pay. Taxes are high, The haymaker, designed by John SAGAMI BAY control works and $500,000,000 a Bean Manufacturing company, has but they must be collected fa ir L 10 MILES year for highways, a fact you w ill Weighted with medals and shoot ly. And so long as any substan a seven-foot cut, with mower built never find in a CIO leaflet promoting ing for the national swimming tial portion of the taxes due into the machine, operated from the Official map released by the Japanese Im perial headquarters, show increased free compensation. The power takeoff by any full two-plow championship Is 17-year-old Frances remains uncollected, it operates G .I. bill of rights is supposed’ to dis tractor. Has hydraulic lift and re ing where landing points were made available for the airborne troops Kenney of Raleigh, N. C „ three-tim e to defer the reduction of tax accompanying General MacAsthur and his staff. The main point of con pense between $3,000,000,000 and $4,- duces the tim e of drying at least 50 rates. Carolina swimming champion. She tact was the Atsugi airfield, 20 miles southwest of Tokyo. Following 000,000,000 in compensations within per cent. also holds three Junior AAU nation the landing by a ir, strong U. 8. troops were to be provided with landing Much more than expedience di two years, with allowances to pay al medals as well as relay team ports in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo bay. rects this tax-evasion campaign. the way of many boys through two first place. Fundamental m orality is involved. years schooling, but there is no ad The man who evades taxes picks vertising on that. » his neighbor’s pocket. And in these In any case, everyone now is pay times, when we are asking so much ing taxes, or should be, most peo from the men in uniform, any pock ple through the nose by the with et picking at their expense becomes holding arrangement, yet no com unthinkable. As President Truman parable interest in their behalf is has said: noticeable. You never hear anyone “ We are not fighting this war to crying: “ Wolf—the tax collector.” make millionaires, and certainly we The present-day politician never Belt Punch Made of Cartridge Shell. are not going to allow the black- mentions the subject most affecting m arket operators or any other rack practically all the people in their By using the size rifle cartridge eteers to be in a favored class, when pocketbooks and breadbaskets? And shell desired, leather punches may the men in the armed forces, and why their publicity men do not add be made. Holes cut in the side of our citizens generally, are sacrific up and announce what they are the shell enable the emptying of ing so heavily.” leather without trouble. spending. M y readers may say, “ All right. I thought I had a rather good T ax evasion is Indefensible. How column lately showing the nn- bad is it? What are you doing about added total of our foreign spend- it? ” Pullet flocks often are affected by lend program was $15,700,000,000 The answers to the two questions a strange m alady known as Pullet Including lend - lease, export - go together. The treasury is gath Disease, or Blue Comb. Individual Im port bank, Bretton Woods, ering, from many sources, informa birds may show darkened combs, tion that will give the entire picture arm y relief and U N R R A , but labored breathing. Inactivity and of tax evasion. That same inform a that fact Is still otherwise un- sleepiness and the legs have a dry tion w ill serve as evidence to bring advertlsed. No one else added It withered appearance. Rutgers uni tax evaders to justice. The treasury and no one has ever referred to versity recommends for an em er Photograph shows Oen. Charles is enlarging its investigating forces, It as a foreign lend-spend pro gency treatm ent that 2 tablespoon- de Gaulle with President Trum an, as I have noted, to handle a tremen As their mother looks on, Charles Allen, James M ilton and Robert gram . In connection with this fuls of m uriate of potash be placed during De Gaulle’s recent visit to dous backlog of fraud cases, accu current story, It must be con la each gallon of drinking water To W inchester H ard in , left to right, triplets, are sworn Into the navy by Washington. They are shown dur mulated during recent years and the th e ir father, Capt. David Winchester H ardin, USN, senior officer in the sidered an unemployment relief prevent the disease 1% pounds can ing the playing of the national eases now piling in. HaJUmore dlstrlcL The triplets plan to follow the navy aa a career measure. be added to 100 pounds of mash. anthem, as the W hite House troops and la te r take Annapolis examinations. paid honor to the French leader. Cabinet Meets on Reconversion Planning “ Program n Landing Map of Surrender Group After New Honors Postwar Machinery Haymaker Ideal Leather Punch Navy Father Enlists Triplets Treat Pullet Ills DeGaulle at Capital