Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, September 6. 1945
Production of Civilian Radios Gets Under Way
D R tW P tA P SO N
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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
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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