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Tank Commander; $51 —Second Anwnd DtvMoa Photo Tonyh, greaae-stained and grim, thto cotton-clad tank commander of the Mtk Amend Regiment, Second Armored Division at Fart Benning, Georgia, typifka tho readiness with which the nation's now mechanized Armj awaita the future. INCREASES IN INCOME TAXES VERY DEFINITE Washington, D. C., May 20—The House Ways and Means Committee put the finishing: touches Wednesday on new individual income tax rates increasing the normal ) vy from four to six per cent and gi duating surtaxes steeply upward. Chairman Doughtan (D-N.C.) announced the committee had agreed both to increase, the normal tax rate and to strive for an additional two and three-quarter billion dollars in revenue but he declined to disclose what the surtax rates might be. Members indicated that the present six per cent surtax on the first $2,000 of net income probably would be jumped to 11 or 12 per cent, and that the maximum would be 80 or 85 per cent. On the 12 per cent basis, a married couple with two children and a $3,000 net income who now pay $58, would have to pay $162 next year. A single man with the same salary, who now has a tax bill of $221 would be faced with a tax of about $437 next year, depending on the second surtax bracket leveL Present law calls for a four per cent normal tax and surtaxes starting at six per cent'on the first $2,TWO of net income. The Treasury had recommended breaking that $2j000 into four equal parts and imposing rates of 12, 15, 18 and 20 per cent ^respectively. The Committee has followed recommendations of its own staff of experts more closely than those of the Treasury in corporation tax rates and in raising the normal individual rates. Membeca said they probably would do the same in surtax rates. Gov't Takes Orer N. C. Power Project Washington, May 20.—The federal works agency annoaneed today that under authority Aran President Roosevelt acting through the war powers act, it had taken over the job of completing construction of the $8,060,000 High Point, N. C., dam and hydro-electric development, "in order to relieve • power shortage for war work in WALSTONBURG NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Bobt Fielda and ton, David, of Klkfii, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Roland Fields and Johnnie Fields, of Moreheaft City, visited relatives hen last week end. Thej were entertained at a barbecue dinner at their brother's, Grey Fields, Soday. Rubye Marlowe attended the Junior Senior dances at Chspel Hill during tie week fdMrs. Jesse Gay, Mflk Ester Crafl and Lillian Corfatt were Wilson vis Mw Wfcy. , ^t^jWaakjf«d^h«^vi«tMg hu FIGHTING MAD By W. J. Weir Copy Director, Lord ft Thomas Dont get me wrong—I'm just an ordinary gay. I'm not trying to pose as an expert on the moulding of public opinion. I'm not talking big about what I'd do if it was my job to whip up the country an the war effort. I'm talking as an average citizen. I'm saying, not what "I'd like to be told. Soon. Because I'm concerned, and I've been concerned, about my reaction to all that's been happening. Sure, I'm buying bonds. I'm paying taxes. I'm doing with less sugar. But deep down inside, down where, it really matters, something hasn't taken place yet that I feel ought to take place. I'm all a welter of confusion there. It keeps me scratching my head and mopping my brow when I know I ought to be clenching my fists. You understand? It's like this: I want to be told—.not to buy Defense Stamps or Defense Bonds. I want to be told to buy Victory Stamps or War Bonds. I want to be told—not about the construction of houses in Defense Areas. I want to be told about the construction of bouses in War Production Areas. I want to be told—cot to remember Pearl Harbor. I want to be told to take Tokyo, to bomb Berlin, to rase fcjme. I want to be told—not to do my part to keep Naxiism or FVudsm from these shores. I want to be told to do my part to spread Americanism to all Acne. I want to be told—not to help kgep our world and oar way of life from beta? lost. I wtat to be told to help of life. I want * positive program instead a passive one. I want something to fight against I'm hungry for something to get pepped op about— I'm repelled from having only something to fear. I want something to do—not just to wait for. It hasn't bean ft> long since the last war that I forget what happened then. I remember the parades and the speeches and the ringing slogans. Then we fought to make the world safe for democracy. We bought Liberty Bonds. We aang that the Yanks were craning. We set out to avenge Belgium-— not Just to remember it. We made a vow that we'd reach Berlin or bust. We toyed with plans to hang the Kaiser. We warned the Hun to "keep your bead down, Fritede-boy!" We girded ourselves for a Crusade— we didnt close the doors for a siege. We hated the didn't laugh at him. We printed hie loathsome physiognomy on toilet paperto make the moat ignominious use of ft. We likened his upturned handle-ban to the- devil's horns—-not to anything so harmless and as the famous hirsute prop Charik Chaplin plasters on his upper lip We saw nothing to be amused about in hie vain and pcompoqs posturing! Wo planted war gardens. We vowed our monev into war chests. We had gasless Sunday* and yelled "Slacker!" at anyone who dared to venture out in his Winton or Hopmobile or steams-Knight. We churned one pound of butter into two pounds and did it with as much will as If we were turning out ammunition. '■ M !Sm . ; .
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