PAGE TWO
The Week In
WashingSon
A Resume of Governmental Happenings
in the National Capital
Washington, April 30.?The hottest
of -he hot potatoes which congress
has nad to h&iidlo in the past
few months?that of deft:rise 'axes
?has now been t >ss- d into its lap.
Problems of voting billions for defense.
unlimited powers to the President
and all-out aid to England, although
of more world-shaking importance,
have been comparatively
easy to handle because the people
were clearly behind those measures.
But reaching into the public's
pocketbook without being charged
with placing lov t? > has always
been practically impossible. And
how congress must reach deeper into
our pockets than it has ever reached
before.
Probably the final decision on
what those taxes will be will take
two months or so to work out?and
no matter what is proposed some
groups will be penalized more than
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I others. The house ways and means
! committee, which must make tax
[ recommendations, has come to no
i conclusions yet except that it will
' aim at raisins an additional $3,500,000,000
bv taxes.
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Tin treasury department has cs:
limated that present taxes will
bring in approximately $9,000,000,ICOO
during the fiscal year beginning
iJuly 1. The committee hopes to
j comply with the treasury" depart!
meat's wishes by increasing tax income
so that it will pax two-thirds
| of our SI9.000.000.000 estimated ex:
oend'titre- during the coming fiscal
jycor. The other one-third will be
j met by borrowing.
Many suggestions for increased
' :a>- already have been made,
'which include: a 33 per cent increase
[on a" present taxes; an increase on
the present lowest tax rate from 4
to per cent and working out a
! higher scale for other tax brackets;
mi. fig ; ' rc \ cnue by a genc;ai
sales tax: low..ring present ex|
emptions: increasing present taxes
; or. liquor, to' >acco and gasoline:
wiping out the >10 p. r cent credit
row allowed >r "earned income':
curls on present deductions; and
combinations oi ail of these plans.
It is the opinion of some congressmen
that taxes should be incrioiSLci
enough to bring in more
thai: . o-thirds of the treasury's expected
obligations in order to put
defense or, a pay-as-you-go basis,
but it is not expected that congress
, will finally vote any more taxes
' than are specifically requested by
the treasury department. It is the
general opinion here, however, that
: people in the $2,000 to $10,000 class
should plan to pay at least twice as
, much tax next year as they paid
this year and that millions who paid
: no tax this year will he called upon
j to pay something.
Draft Amendments
Amendments to the selective service
act are predicted for the near
future which will include all or any
of these three changes: (1) reducing
the minimum age from 21 to 18,
which would make about 3.000,000
more men eligible: 12) decreasing
rhi maximum age limit, .since so
many men over 30 have physical
defects: (3) continuing the training
i f present draftees for longer than
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| the vrcsent one year limit. j President
Roosevelt has hinted his '
j approval of reducing the minimum
I age limit to 13 and the maximum!
i limit to 25. hut no changes will be!
! made until f arther study has been
conducted of the 400.000.000 which
already have been classified. So tar
almost 40 per cent of registrants
have been rejected for physical de- I
fects.
A plan for drafting leading business
executives for jobs in the de- ?
fense program has be-on proposed by s,
Representative Johnson of Texas in s
order to assure the government of
the nation's best managerial brains. r
j His oil! would require key men in ^
industry to accept government jobs r
if so ordered.
Steel Prices
Many business men arc indignant ?
over what they consider a high- 1
handed and unwise action of the '
government in freezing steei prices
l M lowing the granting cf increased r
I wages by the steei industry. This
I was den- by the new office of price j
administration and civilian supply
i whose head. Leon Henderson, said j
j that l-w did net tnink the increased
j wages justified increased prices. n
j Since steel is such a basic product ^
I in industry, ho decided to fix prices
111 order to prevent price rises in ,
other lines of business.
There is some question over the
legality of Mr. Henderson's right to
fix prices and his action is expected '
to lead to a court test of the extent '
of his authority. j
Other business leaders argue that j
if price fixing is apt to follow wage
rises, this possibility will stand in ^
the way ot quick settlement of other
threatened strikes. .
On the whole, the labor situation f
has improved and there is a more
noticeable desire on the part of both <~
labor and employers to settle their J;
differences without interference with
defense production. But outbreaks
of new major strikes continue to
threaten and many congressmen are ,^
still in a mood to vote for legisla
tion curbing strikes. Tliey feel that
the majority of voters would be behind
them in backing such legisla- w
tion. ,,
SEVENTH GRADE GRADUATION ,
The seventh gracl of the Boone!
demonstration eleiticnlary school!
held its graduatiun exercises in the
school auditorium Monday morning. ,.
April 21. before a largo gathering of
parents and friends. The theme of j,
the gradaati.nl program was "A y
Study of North Carolina." Brief
mlks ere made by individual pupils
about interesting phases of the
stale's cultural and industrial progress.
The program grew out of a
study " f North Carolina the pupils
had ii aue nrlier in the year. At _
the conclusion of the regular pro- I
gram the elementary school choir i
sang "Evening Prayer. '
Certificate-- of promotion were awarded
the following pupils bj .
Principal John T. Howell: Kenneth '
Haynes. Dale Hodges, Kermit Jones, "
Byrd Lowrance. Finley Norris, Glen "
Norris, Claude Ragan, Edsel Tate. .
Herbert West. Harvey Wheeler, Burl
Winkler, George Winkler. Rzene
Cook, Lucille Culler. Dorothy Dot- 1
son, Oneybolle Greene, Evelyn Hart- H
ley Toney Hollars, Helen Lyon. ^
Ruth Marsh. Grace Michael, Iva j
Jean Miller, Louise Miller, Flave) J
Moretz, Hazel Presnell, Mary Rich- i
ardson. Virginia Shell. Lucille Shore,
June Stevens, Aleen CoHcy, J. R. J
Brendall. Viola Bingham, B. J. Bur- t.
kett. Claude Danncr, Walter Cook, "
Patsy Ellis, Rhea Farthing, Roy Fox, "
Georgia Greene, Herbert Greene, j Kathleen
Greer. Ithel Hampton, j.
Martha Harrison, Lee Hayes. Gray |
I Howell, Joan Lovill, Leatrice Lyons,
Edith Maine. Jimmie McConnell,
Reba Nprris, Joe Miller. Mary Alice ?
Moretz. Ralph Moretz. Bettie Mull, j
Lillian Payne, Gordon Phillips, Billy I j
Shore, Stanley South, Edwin Trout- j 1
man, Rachel Vance, Beatrice Wil-! ^
liams, Billy Winkler, Roger Wilson. I J
James Wilson and Van Farthing. ^
According to a Russian scientist,
the human eye moves involntanly
about 100 times a minute.
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Y THURSDAY ?BOONE. N. C
Six-Inch Sermon
By Rev. Robert H. Harper
THE CHURCH ENLARGES ITS
FELLOWSHIP
icsson for May 4: Acls 8:1-6. 14-17,
25: Golden Text: Acts 8-4
The lesson shows that persecution
. ill often scatter disciples afar and
end the gospel abroad?that oppoition
will extend the good, as all
he efforts of men to stamp out a
ire ma}* sometimes scatter the
irands and spread a disaster farrier.
With the stoning of Stephen a
reat persecution against the church
n Jerusalem began and the Chrisms
were "scattered abroad throughut
the regions of Juclca and Samain."
Philip, one of the seven dcaor..~.
turned evangelist and' preachd
in Samaria. When the church in
erjisalem heard of the gracious reults
of Philip's prearhing, Peter and
ohn were sent to the people in Saoaria,
"who. when they were come
lown, prayed for them, that they
night receive the Holy Spirit." This
.*as in the nature of giving further
lStrUCtion to thosi who liar? hppti
wakened and of leading them into a
ieher experience of divine grace?
work that should have a large
lace in the program of established
hutches of the present. Afterward,
'eti r and John journeyed back to
erusalem, they preached in many
illagcs of the Samaritans along the
/ay.
The lesson marks a turning point
i the attitude of the apostles and
titer Christians of Jerusalem to/ard
men of other races. While
iaul was still persecuting Chrisians.
ere he became (he apostle to
he gentiles. Peter. John and the
thers were being Ipd into a wider
tew of the general. Little by lite
they were learning not to regard
ten of other races as "unclean."
.ml the church today may greatly
nlargc its fellowship if its people
ill actually, sincerely, set an initute
value upon every man and
onsecrate its agencies more fully to
to winning ot all men.
EGGS
A nationwide drive to produce evrv
possible egg from present la}
tg flocks this spring and summer
as been announced by Claude
tiekard. secretary of agriculture.
There are about 2o.000 parts in
ne modern bombing plane, it is
slimated by a large manufacturer
f aviation parts.
I Taxes i
{ Cost of Lh
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w dise at old prices . .
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BUSINESS COMES WHERE
AVERAGE ACREAGE ! rc
OF FARMS HIGHER ct
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Raleigh, May 1.?North Carolina's
average farm in 1910 'vns 67.7 acres. ir
lor 3.2 acres above the 1930 average.
' based on the United States census, j in
reports T. I,. Stuart, junior siatis ?
j '.ician of the state department of
I agriculture.
"Land in farms last yeat totaled I
18.845.388 acres in North Carolina,
or about four per cent more than
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MAY 1. 1941
ported in the 1930 census," he add1.
"The average value per farm
as $2,647 lust year compared with
1,013 in 1930.
The average value per acre for
140 decreased during the 10-year
ricxi front Sa6.75 in 1930 to $39.09
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