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TAXING AWAY JOBS
An advertisement of Time magazine points out that a
majority of authorities both New Deal and otherwise,
strongly urge modification of tax levies against indus
try, even to the extent of eliminating corporate taxation.
It furher points out that he biggest obstacle to such
sound renovation of the tax structure is the failure of
.--the people to see how jobs and taxes are interwoven.
Until they do, Congress will be slow to act. It says:
* 1 today, business earnings are taxed twice. First the
Federal government takes up to 85 per cent of the pro
fits through corporation taxes; then it takes up to 94 per
cent of what is left in individual income taxes on the
dividends. In many cases the most a successful man
can hope to keep for himself out of the earnings of a
successful venture is about $2.00 out of each $100 of pro
fit ? with the government taking the other $98.00.
"Is. that enough? Would you bet $100 at even money
to win $2,001 You certainly wouldn't.
"If you figure that way on your own money you can
be sure that any man who has to invest a lot of his own
and other people's money will feel and act the same way.
And so our corporation taxes create a real danger that
after the war business will just play safe with its money,
instead of starting the new enterprises that will give
people good jobs and make the country hum with peace
time activity."
And then, what about the individual? He shouldn't
have to pay it all. A full adjustment is needed.
?ilOO
A REMINDER FROM MOSCOW
Daring a conversation in Moscow between Eric John
eon, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit
ed States, and Marshal Joseph Stalin, Johnson remark
ed to the Marshal: "I have seen American machines,
American techniques, American assembly lines. You
have drawn heavily upon the experience of American
production engineers# -
"But you are still wasting manpower. In your ter
rifically congested cities people stand in long queue1?
waiting in line to buy food. It is a waste of human en
ergy that you can ill afford. You need better distribu
tion to make for better efficiency. You have called in
American production engineers. What you now need is
American technical advice on distribution. A iew ex
perts from our stores. ..."
Yes, there is more to the efficiency of the American
war effort than a lot of magnificent factories. Behind
. the success of those factories are 130 million people
whose wartime routine of daily living moves with speed,
precision and a minimum of wasted effort. Like the
man who couldn't see the forest because of the trees, we
are so busy completing each day's task we cannot grasp
the enormity of the whole project. Certainly few of us
ever stop to consider the part the retail distribution in
dustry is playing by keeping a steady flood of necessi
ties pouring over the counters of hundreds of thousands
of stores throughout the nation.
Retailing doesn't expect any special recognition for
the work it is doing any more than does any other indus
try, or any more than do millions of individual workers.
But it is cheering to realize that when the work of all of
us is put together, the result becomes an everlasting
monument to the ability of free men.
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The People
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^ ?ta'ft>ltowing appeared In Sun
day, October 29th Charlotte Ob
server as an editorial:
Fiye proposed amendments to
the Coqstitution proposed by the
Legislature of 1943 will be voted
ufoon by the people of North Car
olina in the coming election.
Pour of them are unobjection
able and may safely be endorsed.
The other of the group, name
ly, Amendment No. 3, relating to
changes in the control of the pub
lic school system of the State,
would also be acceptable, although
still somewhat debatable, except
for one provision.
That provision is that if this
amendment is passed, the present
office of the comptroller of the
State Board of Education, set up
by the Consti4uttonal amendment
passed two years ago, would be
abolished.
It it should be abolished, the
present proposed amendment
would establish the State Super
intendent of Public Instruction
as the single administrative agent
of the entire school system of
North Carolina, including respon
sibility for exercising all of the
fiscal powers of the State Board
of Education, including the spen
ding of more than $80,000,000,
which the public schools are ex
pected to receive from the next
Legislature.
The State Superintendent Is
already in complete authority ov
er the professional functions of
the State's schools.
Under the terms of the new
amendment, he would, in addition
to all of his present official duties,
be vested with constitutional au
thority to administer also all the
financial responsibilities of the
State's school system.
Manifestly, in such event, the
State Superintendent would be
come the EDUCATIONAL CZAR
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The State Board of Education, :
set up by constitutional amend-;
ment two years ago to combine
the five exlstiig separate official
bodies which had been serving In >
varying capacities of separate au- !
thority in the field of public edu- i
cation, would become hardly mora
than a rubber-stamp body to meet i
once a month and hear such mo- t
tions and petitions as might be I
presented by the State superin- i
tendent. i
This Innocent and well-mean- I
ing amendment to the 1943 '<
school amendment was submitted !
by the last Legislature, at the lil- i
stance of Governor Brougfitoni
and other lay factors in the edu-[
cational leadership of the State,
In order as they thought, to im
prove upon some of the provis
ions of the original amendment.
It was believed wise that mem
ber representation on the State
Board should be changed from
congressional to socalled educa
tional districts; that fnembership
on the Board should be thrown
more widely open rather than
constricted only to ''persons of
training and experience Tn^busi
ness and finance who shall not be
connected with the teaching pro
fession or any educational insti
tution of the State"; and sucli
changes made in the mechanics
of appointment of members of
the State board as would disallow
any one Governor to appoint an
entire Board.
No important objection is to
be found with these provisions of
change to which Governor Brou
gltton aud others agreed prior to
the convening of the last Legisla
ture, even though some of them
may be controversial.
But it was NEVER IN THEIK
AGREEMENTS OR UNDERSTAN
DINGS THAT A CLAUSE WOULD
ALSO BE HANDED TO THE
LEGISLATURE BY THE TERMS
OP WHICH THE COMPTROL
LER'S OFFICE WOULD BE
ABOLISHED and all of the func
tions and responsibilities of that
office turned over into the al
ready overfilled hands of the
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
All of such maneuverlngs
which go beyond the original
agreements for changes to be sug
gested represent a clever strategy
to accomplish what for many
years the opponents of the form
er State School Commission have
wished to accomplish, ? namely,
the complete cancellation of the
present and past policy and prin
ciple by which the financial and
professional responsibilities of
State Control and management
of the public schools have here
tofore been SEPARATELY ad
ministered.
It was on this basis, and' with
this understanding, that the
State first assumed responsibility
for financing the State's schools.
The former State School Com
mission was created by the Leg
islature to handle *all the finan
cial matters involved In the
State's administration of the
schools.
The present State Board of Ed
ucation was created by Constitu
tional process in thp last election
.0 carry out that principal of
leparate administrations between
;he financial and professional
sranches of the system and the
jfflce of comptroller was created
oy this same Constitutional am
endment to that end.
The Observer feefe that the
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people of the State who must
make a decision on this amend- 1
ment should know what Is Invol
ved'1 beneath the mere text or
pretext of the new ' amendment
proposed'.
If they believe that the State
superintendent of public instruc
tion Is capable of handling BOTH
THE FINANCIAL AND PROFES
SIONAL duties Involved In ad
ministering the State's _ public
schools, it Is for them sff to de
clare themselves.
If they are convinced that the;
State superintendent's office can
efficiently handle all of the com
plicated administrative functions
now resting in its hands, all of
the duties connected with th'3
professional responsibilities which
Includes the exercise of plenary
authority over. 24,000 superinten
dents, principals and school tea
chers. ?
And If they are convinced that,
in addition to all of these exact
ing and multitudinous duties, th'
office of State superintendent
should also be given COMPLETE
AUTHORITY over th?e flacal af
fairs of the school system, Invol
ving the handling and expendi
ture of more than $80,000,000 for
the next two years, then they, the
people and voters of the , State,
have the responsibility for the
creation of such totalltarltn au
thority as this in the control of
their public school system.
It may, incidentally, be of
some Interest to them, howevel",
to know In this connection that it
was the present State Superinten
dent himself who had a leading
hand In getting the Legislature
of 1943 to submit to the peoplo
an amendment which would give
his office such unprecedented
power.
And, also, that it is the State
superintendent whose name is to
day among those at the top of the1
list who are now campaigning
actively in seeing that this amend
ment la passed.
Another fact which Is general
ly known among those who are
informed on the matter, and per
tinent as a reminder in this con
nection, is that feuds and fric
tions have long existed over the
question of authority between the
office of the State superintendent
and that of the former State
School commission, and even
since its abolition by merger of
that body into the present State
Board of Education.
It has been consistently indi
cated by the present State super
intendent that the State Depart
( Continued on Page Eight)
The More Democratic
Votes We Cast Tuesday
The More Representa
tion We Have in All
State political meetings.
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