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SATURDAY. JANUARY 14, 1933
BIBLE THOUGHT
DO YOU FORGIVE?
'"For thou Lord art jrood and ready to forgive."
(Ps. 86:5).
Men are sometimes slow to forgive. Not so with
God. Instantly and in the same verse with David's
confession (2 Sam. 12.13) comes the marvelous
answer and assurance,
"The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou
vhalt not die."
So John is authorized by the Ho'y Spirit to make
us the '.vondrous promise: "If we confess our sins
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
(1 John 1:9)
NOT SO FAST. PROFESSOR!
(By BRUCE CATTON)
Prof. Auguste Piccard, the mild Swiss
professor who sailed way up into the strat
osphere in a balloon last year, has invented
a rocket plane in which he believes that
he will be able to cross the Atlantic in less
than half an hour.
The scientist divulged this not long ago
when he sailed for a lecture tour in the
United States. His plane, he said, ought to
travel some three miles a second; and
while it is hard to see how human bodies
could ever endure being whirled through
snace at such a clip, Professor Piccard is
quite confident that the plane will be thor
oughly practical.
And so, once more, we come up to h
question that has arisen only in the last
few years: just what are our inventors
worth to us, nowadays, and how are we
going to keep on living with the devic ?s
which they keep tossing into our midst?
Suppose, for instance, that some such
plane as this could be made available for
use. What good would it do us?
The Atlantic, of course, would shrink to
a millpond. New York and London would
be closer together than New York and Al
bany are today. Singapore would be only
a day's journey from Chicago. There would
not be, on all the earth, a spot too remote
for a bombing raid in time of war.
All of that, of course, would be very
marvelous; but would ic get us anywhere?
One of our greatest difficulties today is
the fact that the world has shrunk too rap
idly for our prejudices and our social hab
its to adjust themselves. We have hardly
begun to learn that we are next-door
neighbors to all the nations of the earth:
we are still trying to operate a compact
and highly integrated world by a system
devised when each nation was isolated.
So far we have had pretty bad result?.
It will take, perhaps, another century or
two for us to get into harmony with the
speed of modern communications.
And this rocket plane would only inten
sify our troubles. We simply couldn't live
up to ft. We don't need it. Can't our in
ventors go fishing, or something, for a few
decides, until we get settled?
Whatever the flaws in technocracy,
there's, no question that the steam shovel
has been the cause of a vast amount of un
employment—around the excavations.
The successful man we like best is the
one who attributes his fortune to hard
work, perseverance, clean living and the
$100,000 left him by his late uncle in Okla
homa.
President-elect Roosevelt is determined
to save $1 out of every four now spent by
the government. He'll be more than earn
ing hi* pay if he saves $1 out of every four
now* being wasted.
A1 Smith boasts he still wears some
shoes that are 10 years old. Well, there's
nothing that will detract attention from a
fellow's feet like a snappy brown derby.
They used to kid the lightning rod sales
man pretty hard, but after all they gave
the farmer more relief in a buckboard
load of iron and two shiny balls than all
our congressmen have managed lor hint
since. ^
Hardened to Chicago's rigorous climatc,
Samuel Insull professes a sudden delight T'ii
the mild winters of Greece, and Robert El
liott Burns, the "chain gang fugitive," dis
avows Georgia's temperate clime in favor
of a habitat in wintry New Jersey. So it
goes.
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
RECOGNITION
Many propagandists and their unconscious fol
j lowers are talking glibly of the great advantages
! which would accrue to American business and
i financial interests if the Russian 'government' were
i recognized.
j The trade advantages won't hold water as we
1 have pointed out in another editorial. No indi
j vidual business man is interested in trading with
I anyone who may not pay him. And our exports to
j Russia have fallen off more because we don't care
I to deal with them rather than as a result of failure
to recognize their so-called government.
But how many people who talk of recognition
have any idea just what immunities and privileges
that gives the nation we recognize? These are:
Under international law the privilege is accorded
the recognized nation to establish embassies, con
sulates and the like throughout our country,
manned by its own representatives the number f
i whom is unlimited. Under international law these
j embassies and consulates are inviolable.
They are exempt from civil and criminal prose
cution. They enjoy extra territoriality. This coun
try's courts have no jurisdiction over them what
ever.
For any offense committed or for intermeddling
with the affairs of another country these agents
may be expelled of course or recalled, but such
action is usually international dynamite.
j These privileges, of course, are extended to those
I in the diplomatic suite as well as to their goods and
j papers either in their possession or in transit.
So one can see that recognition is not as simple
; a performance as it seems. Recognition so far has
j never been accorded to a government which was
i not disposed to carry out the spirit and the obliga
tion thus entered into.
The U. S. S. R. has given the American people
no cause to trust her. Therefore why should we
propose to place her in a position of trust?—Sher
idan (Wyo.) Press.
PLEA FOR SCHOOLS
Unless one studies the question from ali angles,
it is easy to become confused by those who light
now are askinp the seemingly pertinent question,
'"Which are more important, the schools or the
roads?"
There can be but one answer to such a query.
Hut just because the schools are of such out
standing and vital importance is no reason why we
should admit that it is therefore right that some
of the highway funds should be diverted to help
pay school costs.
The highway funds are collected for a specific
purpose from a special tax on the operators of
motor cars, and there is no reason why these same
overtaxed motorists should pay more than their
proportionate share of the cost of maintaining
educational standards. The motorists through this
special tax create a fund which keeps all highways
in repair and thus enables school busses to operate,
along with all other vehicles.
The motorists in addition, pay their just share
I of all other taxes that are collected for general
purposes. And so after they have been forced to
pay special gasoline sales tax levies, if it is wise
to say that at this time there should be some slack
ening of highway construction work, there certain
ly can be nc valid grounds for diverting a portion
of the special funds to purposes other than that
for which collections were made.
If a surplus can be built up in the highway de
part..lent, i: should be applied towards the reduc
tion of the staggering road bond indebtedness for
which the motor car owners have assumed full re
sponsibility.
Already the gasoline tax is showing a rapid fall
ing off, much of it due, we believe, to the fact that
a seven cent tax is excessive and beyond the point
where it yields the greatest possible amount of
return's. One cent of this is federal, of course, and
six cents are state.
Then, too, the high license plate cost in the stare
drives thousands of automobiles from the highways
for periods of varying duration. Every day an
autobile is forced out of commission the state loses
considerable tax revenue.
There are many puzzling phases of the gasoline
and automobile license tax situation, but on the
whole this method of creating a fund to construct
and maintain our system of highways has proved
practical and satisfactory. Once we let the legis
i lators begin diverting these funds, first in the sa
i cred cause of our schools—then the way will be
open for the exploitation of a fertile field which
has long looked like "easy money" to the eagle-eye
of the politician seeking more money to spend.—
; Hickory Record.
WHY NOT?
We arc inclined to agree with several prominent
American business men who say that they believe
machine age will solve its own problems. The dec
laration that man's robot, the labor-saving machine
of all types, is about to throttle its maker is one
of the pet bugaboos of the depression and pessi
mists. Every labor-saving device increases general
welfare and under normal conditions the machine
age would never have been the subject of so many
dire predictions. A growing number of machines
which replace man-labor may have been one of the
minor items contributing to the depression, but,
certainly, it is erroneous to credit the entire con
dition to the machine. The real truth is that gam
bling, trying to get something for nothing, was the
major cause of the business slump. It was carried
on to such an extent that credit and confidence
were smashed and when those two closely linked
items are in temporary doldrums then everything
goes on the hog—just about as it has. Confidence
and credit are improving, and with still more im
provement, mark it down that it will not be loner
before little will be heard of the machine-age sui- i
£ cide.—Cleveland Star.
FROZEN
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INTEREST IN
CLEMENT TAX
BILL IS WIDE
Budget Report Awaited
Before Value of Proposal
Is Judged
By J. C. BASKERVILL
The Times-News litircau
Sir Walter Hotel
RALEIGH, Jan. 14.—Much in
terest continues to be shown in
the bill introduced by Senator
Hayden Clement of Salisbury,
that would levy a production tax
on all manufacturers of one-half
of one per cent, although few
members of either house have
had an opportunity to study this
bill. It is also true that almost
all the members of both houses
are waiting for the report of the
advisory budg-et commission and
the tentative revenue act which
it will submit with its proposed
budget, before coming to any
conclusions about what meas
ures may be necessary to bal
ance the state's budgte.
The opinion is undoubtedly
growing in many minds, however,
that it will not be possible to
remove the 15 cents state prop
erty tax now in effect, provide
'enough revenue for the operation
of the various departments and
institutions and balance the bud
get without levying some kind
of new tax. Even the most ar
dent economy advocates are be
ginning to realize that they can
cut salaries until there are no
salaries left to cut and oven
abolish many state departments
and divisions and stiil not be
[able to save enough to balance
the budget. .
As a result, attention is becom
ing focused more and more up
on taxation plans that broaden
the base of taxation to include
more taxpayers, which means
some sort of* a sales tax. Until
the Clement bill was introduced,
most of the talk here was about
a general sales tax that would
impose a tax on gross retail
sales only. This form of sales
[tax would not touch the manu
facturers, power companies, to
bacco companies, railroads, pub
lic service corporations and
other non-consuming and non
retailing corporate interests. It
was being advocated and still is
being advocated by representa
tives of these interests. It has
been agreed by those who have
looked into the matter that a
tax of at least 2 per cent on
gross retail sales would be re
quired to yield anything like the
$8,000,000* in new revenue re
quired to balance the budget.
The fact that conservative
estimates indicate that the Clem
ent bill would yield about $7,
500,000 with its tax rate of one
half of one per cent, without
touching retail sales, has made
the advocates of the tax on re
tail sales sit up and wonder if
they have not been overlooking
a very important source of rev
enue in neglecting to consider
the manufacturers. Some are al
ready beginning to figure on a
measure that would include both)
the retail merchants and manu- i
facturers, in the belief by so do
ing the tax rate could be reduc
ed well below the one-half of one
per cent proposed in the Cle
ment bill.
The manufacturers are already
strenuously objecting to the
Clement bill, however, and almost
every member of both houses
irom manufacturing cities and
counties are already definitely
opposed to it. They maintain
that industry is already bearing
as much of the ta:; load as it can
possiMy bear and that the im
position of any additional tax,
even of only one-half of one
per cent, would force thousands
of manufacturers into bank
ruptcy at the present time. They
point out that industry now pays
the greater portion of the state
taxes for the operation of the
stato government through the in
More Liberalism
' Seen in Court's i
Dry Law Rulings
OS i
:
Growing Sentiment for
Modification Believed
One Factor
P.y JOHN A. REICHMANN I
United Fre.jr Staff Correspondent J
WASHINGTON. Jan. 11. (UP) |
Observers of the supreme court
toe in recent decisions a growing
liberalism in interpretations of
the national prohibition laws.
Whether this liberalism actu
ally exists, starts a debate that
probably will remain undecided
forever. Certainly as yet the
j court has not reversed itself in
any prohibition ruling, not even
the much criticised decision in
the famous wiretapping cases.
! Those who claim to note a
come and franchise taxes and
that the imposition of any more
taxes, such as this proposed pro
duction tax, would be virtually
confiscatory. .
"The effect of the Clement
bill, if enacted, would be to force
the closing of 70 per cent of the
state's textile mills most of which
have been and still are operating
at a loss or without showing: any
profit," a prominen; business
man of the state said today in
discussing the bill. '"1 have also
been assured by men who know
that if this bill passed, two of
the three large tobacco compan
ies now operating in the state
| would move its factories to other
states. I am convinced that this
bill would wreck what remains of
I those industries in North Caro
| lina that arc still able to remain
Jin operation and that the state
j would thus lose more than it
| would gain."
I Representatives from the ag
ricultural and rural counties,
J however, are regarding the bill
with much favor and interest.
| 13V RODNEY DUTCHEK
XE.V Service 'Writer
I CFf ASHINGTON.—The theory
that pr-vate business is vast
| ly more efficient than the govern
j nient is not faring as well as it
j did in the days when large cor
I porations were making money
! hand .over fist.
Argument as to that point is
beginning all over again. The
visit of President-elect Roosevelt
and Senator Norris to Muscle
Shoals, centor of a long fight be
tween advocates of government
ownership and those of private
operation, draws renewed atten
tion to it.
So do such developments as tfc<ft
report of the Committee on Social
Trends with its suggestion of so
cial-economic planning and the
popularization of technocracy with
its inevitable vision of a con
trolled economic structure.
Several competent students
have recently hurled spears at the
notion that government is not to
be trusted in any form of business,
even to the point of insisting that
the cost of operating the federal
government itself is relatively
low.
* * *
T^VEN' the berated Farm P.oard,
■*-i whose stabilization operations
appear to have cost two or three
hundred millions, is defended by
comparison with private business
in an analysis by William F.
Schilling, one of its members.
Schilling compares the young
Farm Board with older, seasoned
industrial groups, points out that
the board ran head-on into^the
depression almost as soon as es
tablished and says *hat although
it 5s contended the board's capi
lal structure has been reuueed
6".4. a list of 421 industrial
stnolcs shows an average decline
of 78.5 from the 1926 index it
reports of the Standard Statistics
Company.
Also, lie says, the board was
forced by law to take a secondary
position on all loans. So Schilling
suggests it might be a good id^a
for the Farm Board to take over
industries for operation.
Then there's Judge George W.
Anderson of the federal bench,
[former Interstate Commerce com
missioner and U. S. district attor
ney, wiio suggests a 15 billion
dollar government corporation to
take over the railroads on the
theory that they can be run more
efficiently that way.
* * *
/^OMES also Dr. Isador Lubln,
a widely-known economist of
the Brookings Institution, who
contends that federal government
would appear far • less expensive
and Treasury deficits almost non«
existent if the Treasury did not
charge to current budgets invest
ments of a permanent or long
time character.
Public construction charges
should be spread over the life of
the projects, he says, and the
loans charged on a separate in
vestment account.
Further, there is the analysis
of David Lawrence, editor and
writer, who proclaims that the
real cost of the civil go -eminent
of the United States is o.niy $545,
000.000 despite the 1933-34 fed
eral budget of $3,500.000,i)00.
The rest goes for the public debt,
veterans, army and navy and the
postal deficit which could be elim
inated.
The real point in that break
down of expenses is that it cliows
that the actual coat of operating
this government represents only
about one per ce.nt of the national
income.
growing liberalism attribute it
to one of two things. Fir.'t, that
the court is responding to grow
ing public sentiment in favor.ofi
modification of bone-dry pro
hibition. Second, that the libeeal
school of thought, sponsored by
fosmer Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, has extended ti the
point where it includes a liberal
ism toward prohibition.
HOLMES' CONTENTION
The latter assumption is ac
cepted more generally. It was
one of Holmes' promary conten
tions on the benih that the con
stitution and the law in a demo-'
eracy must refleit publii senti
ment. He was staunlh in a rigid
literal interpretation of the 18tr
amentment and the enforcement i
acts.
The chief opinion cited by j
those claiming to perceive a
growing prohibition liberalism'
was in the recent entrapment!
case. There the majority of the j
court sharply excoriated a pro
hibition agent who spent four
hoors persuading an old war
"buddy" to buy him some whos
ky. and later arrested him.
(TWO OTHER CASES
Two other cases have been de
|cided this term which resulted in
the condemnation of irregular
enforcement methods.
One of these involved William
Grau, whose home near Cincin
nati, 0., was searched by agents
without a warrant because tjiey
smelled the fumes of mash pro
ceeding from it. The search "re
vealed a well established alcohol
distilling plant.
There appeared to be a com
meicial violation of the iaw, but
the court upheld the search and
seizure laws and set his convic
tion aside because it was a dwell
ing and could not be searched
without evidence of an actual
sale of liquor.
In the ca.^e of William. Sgro
of Bouckville, N. Y„ the court
held that a search warrant, which
had heen issued more than 10
days before it was executed, was
invalid. A United States com
missioner had sought to bring a
; warrant to search Sgro's hotei
i up to date by changing the date
! of issuance.
Solons Called on
j To Reduce Own
Compensation
M
Joint Committee Finding
It Hard to Arrive at
Repori on This
The Timoi-Nows Bureau
Sir Wall «r Hotel
JtLEIGfr, Jan. 14.—The house
and senate Committees on sal
aries and fees will present a sub
stitute bill ^cutting the pay of
; legislative errfpldyes, but there Is
no indication yet what the com
Imittees might recommend when
it comes to the matter of cut
ting the salary of legislators
themselves.
That members of the joint
committees are unanimously op
posed to a horizontal cut of 20
per cent as provided by Newman
resolution was clearly evident at
their first meeting. Members of
the committee fell that some em
ployes deserve less reduction ii:
their pay than others, and turn
ed the job of suggesting a scale
c.f reductions over to a sub-com
mittee which will report.
The most difficult task before
the joint committee, however, is
the matter of reporting on the
Newman resolution calling on the
legislators to take a 20 per ceirt
cut themselve-. The fact th<&
the senate has already passed
the McLean resolution calling
on constitutional officers to ac
cept any cut. the legislature may
provide, makes it almost impera
tive thai* tbe'i.momb«is
tiose of their own
the opinion of many.
The joint salaries atl(j ,
committee at its liret
deferred acting on the
until the McLean resolutj,/'
pcted upon by the house "T
first meeting of the ct.;'r...!
brought out the fact that*".'
problem is a ticklish < n\ *
; members thin!: they should
|a cut, but are naturally r,.;f
1 ant to do this if tin'.- ^
have to remain here for a ^
J length of time, since the ^
jmum pay they can Kv. ^
'for a session. Cm
before the committee i.
accept a salary of $s a (ja.
I 75 days and then, should',;
'stay here only r.O da;,, it V(.
■ be equivalaent to a l'o j,. "
. cut.
NATION'S DRY FORCJ
! WILL MOBILIZE l
SAINT PETERSEN
ST. PETERSBURG. Fir...;
14. (UP)—Dry fortes «.f
tion will be mobilized liert- F
l'J to 21 for the greatest 0l*t.
in 15 years against wets in a,
jor battle to protect the ;■
Amendment and stave off Wo.
cat'on efforts.
F. Scott McBride, supt<rii>
ent of the American Anti-si?
league will lead a group cf 4
leaders in a three-Hay |K,ar(j
strategy meeting here, <, 1*/.
lowed by 2'J rallies through
Florida and other muss mettij
throughout the South (latinjj
early spring.
USE THE WANT ADS.
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P/Cturc s Ij
OECRGK SC \Q!V)
REG. U. S PAT. err. -1 •>
) 1w3 BY KCA SCHVICE. I' C '
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(READ THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTl'RE)
'T'HE snowslioe trick was hard to
do and Duncy said, "I guess I'm
through. I've tried to walk arid
tried to run, but each time I go flop.
"I fear that I will he a wreck.
Gee, lots of snow's gone down my
neck. You'll have to give me credit,
lads, 'cause I kaow when to stop."
"Sure! When you stop, I will
begin," said little Coppy, with a
grin. I think that I can keep my
balance, if I try a bit.
"Just hook those snowshoes on
my feet, and what I'll do will be a
treat." Then Duncy said, "You'd
better pick a nice, soft place to sit."
♦ • *
UT Coppy was a careful lad and,
when some practice he had
had, lie moved across the i'row just
i fine. "That's dandy," Scoiay cried.
I "Instead of trying \o lift your
feet, you've sense enough to be dis
I trreet. You keep them safely on the
j ground. No wonder you con glide."
! The other Tinics tried their luck
and Windy said, "Gee, this takes
piuck, but I am getting 0:1 to it."
I And then he walked real fast.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
THE DRIFT OF AIRCRAFT
IN A CROSS-WIND IS
/GO P£R CENT
OF THE WIND VELOCITY
A PLANE
^R/VcLrMG PPOM
NORTH TO SOUTH,
INA30-/VULE
WEST WIND,
WILL BE
SOMES' d
OUT OF LINE &J.
TO THE EAST />•
AT THE ENID
OF AN HOUR'S V
FLYING.
ONLY
FIVE STATES
HAVE NO
OFFICIAL BIRD/
THEY ARE
NEW JERSEY
CONNECTICUT
INDIANA,
k TENNESSEE,
% AND
IOWA.
1be ARA6S
GRIND. UP GRASSHOPPERS
AMD UoE TME//, FOR.
FLOUR,
t-1M|
y
5 1933 BY NEA *
THE WIND DRIFT on n ship at* sea is"very insignificant.
compared with the drift on an aircraft in the air. The
biaed forces of wind and current will drift a ship at only a
tion of the speed at which the wind is blowing. The !iV1''1 j
however, must figure a 100 per cent drift in his craft, i» ;1 v , 1
that frequently changes its velocity and direction ul UifffieUt
tud<k»
At first it made mm feel m
crowd, "I can't do this r.:
longer, 'cause my tired •
not last."
• * c
JUST then a bunny jumped ::
cried, "Hey, Tinvmlie.-, *:ve j
a ride. And. say, let's use a
shoe. 'Twill he better than a w.
"You s>oe, we'il he close to
ground and if, while we are ?CA
around, we topple, we won't
so far. That's one thins vt £
dread."
"All right." yelled Scout y,
aboard!" "Hurray, hurr;i.v!" &
bunnies roared. And tlu-n tU?
shouted, "Weil, let's y<>. ViV'c
ready for seme fun."
A rope was fasten .d !•; ''jo ste
The next tiling that tl:° jeaais
knew, kind Scouty gr;ibt«d
rope and ran as fast cs i.r co-'
run.
f Copyright, 1933. NT A F.nlr.. W
(I'rcezy entertains the Tliiics i* j
the next btorv.l
proud, but soon he shouted to