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FRIDAY, MARCH 81, 1944
WE SHALL REAP WHAT WE
SOW: For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corrup
Hon: but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life ever
lasting. Gal. 6:8.
Aircraft Statistics
Charles E. Wilson, Executive Vice
Chairman of the WPB, says that in
three years our aircraft industry
has produced 153,061 planes, of
which 106,126 were combat planes.
This is the first statement that we
have seen which shows the number
of training planes produced in this
country. The total is 47,936.
Considering the fact that we have
sent 28,000 planes to our allies, this
leaves approximately 77,000 combat
planes for use by American forces.
To these, the aircraft industry is
adding planes at the rate of 360 a
day.
A .Tnli FVr Tlia Tnf antr-u
' Th rota of nimnwor in th In
vasion of Western Europe is receiv
ing careful consideration in military
circles but the emphasis is now be
ing placed on the need of highly
p umneu uuaniry divisions 10 maicn
r battle-tested German units.
No one discounts the devastating
effect of aerial bombings of German
industries but it is realized that air
power alone cannot annihilate en
trenched infantry and that, after the
Lrheaviest bombing, it is necessary
I lor infantry soldiers to dnve the
enemy from entrenched positions.
Our recent experience at Cassino,
i where, the bombardment included an
estimstaft tJSM tons of bombs and
one of ttuvisi. heaviest artillery
t barrages, demonstrates that an alert
r enemy can bold the rubble and debris
i of a ruined city. This was previous
ly discovered at Stalingrad,
There is some reason td believe
' f that the heavy bombardment .of
i Cassino was effective in clearing the
;, area of enemy troops but the Ger
mans were able to reoccupy advan
tageous positions before Allied ln
.fantrymen could reach them. If
this is a fact, it would seem to mean
'.that airpower can clear an area but
1 ground troops must quickly advance
,to seize the position.
Military leaders intimate that, dis
A counting the possibility of a German
collapse, the question of infantry
rljnanpower is a serious one. More
'than a year ago, the Army had a
4 goal of one hundred divisions, includ-
ing a ground striking force of 3,118,
000 men.
' Wo one knows what striking force
;, lArmy strategists desire at this time
but tiie emphasis that is being placed
upon infantrymen indicates a reali
sation that the great task of the
war is to meet and defeat the three
hundred German divisions still in
being.
jfifThis does not mean that the Ger-
Vnans have three hundred divisions
available for service on the .Western
front The bulk of the German
Army is on the Eastern front, with
considerable strength engaged in
; Jaly and elsewhere.
German strategy , in the East is
plainly based on a plan to provide
maximum opposition to the invasion
in the West and nobody knows how
many divisions the Germans will be
tble to disengage from the Russian
front, .
Cassino
Ca&ino is more than a military
' ictory for the Allies. Its pulver
4 rubble: will stand for some time
; a symbol of destruction, as Lidice
as : for barbarism. Gen. Mark
ark points to it a an example of
at is In store for every defense
enemy sets up on the route to
Although : some Germans somehow
'rvived t and continued to resist,
isino's illustration ot .what earth
altering fire power the Allies can
inland may i be a warning which
help? persuade the ? Germans of
futility f prolonging the war.
Cassino Is also k a warning to
!zatlon, a! iiew. and graphic view
' e man-made catastrophe which
-me in lest concentrated form
j homes and towns of score
LOOIO AT WASHINGTON
By Hag 8. Sim. Waabington Correspondem
Bowles Tells Senators
Price Control Works;
Subsidies Are Needed
Chester Bowles, head of the Office
of Price Administration, recently told
the Senate Banking and Currency
Committee that if the powers given
his agency are continued "inflation
during the war will be prevented
and the nation will come out of the
war with a sound and balanced price
structure."
Mr. Bowles asked the Senators to
continue the Price Control and Stabil
ization Acts, which expire on June
30th unless renewed by Congress. He
said ihat despite "criticism, some of
it justified, "the OPA has done one
of the best jobs done in this war."
Mr. Bowles presented hi s argu
ments in 106 charts, which so im
pressed some Senators that they
made a formal request to have the
charts and illustrated matter repro
duced for their use in appearance
before groups of consumers.
Cost of Living Stands Still
"For the past eleven months," de
clared Mr. Bowles, "the cost of liv
ing, for the first time since it began
to rise, late in 1940, has been held
to a net increase of exactly nothing."
While not attributing this result
entirely to the use of subsidies, Mr.
Bowles reminded the Committee that
"in spite of firm price control after
the Spring of 1942, and even firmer
price and wage control following the
passage of the Stabilization Act, the
cost of livinjr continued to climb
month by month."
Mr. Bowles freely admitted mis
takes and errors in the early days of
the OPA but maintained that every
segment of the population, including
farmers, large and small industrial,
distribution and service establish
ments, labor and land-lords, had
fared well economically in the last
two years and that much of their
gains would have been impossible
without OPA.
Facts and Figures Given
Because of the great importance
of correct legislative action in con
nection with price control and sub
sidy payments it is necessary that
the peoples of this country under
stand the argument made in support
of these measures. Consequently
we give below, in some detail, the
facts presented by Mr. Bowles before
the Senate Committee.
UrA, Mr. Bowles stated, "now
controlled upward of 8,000,000 prices
with regulations reaching into 3,
000,000 business establishments, con
trolled rents in 14,000,000 dwelling
units occupied by 46,000,000 persons
and rationed food to 30,000,000 house
wives representing 182,000,000 men,
women and children.
Billions Saved In War Costs
By holding prices in line, the actual
cost of the war to date has been
$136,000,000,000, a figure which
would be $66,000,000,000 higher
without the curbs Q0PA has placed
on prices.
the cost of living companson
tells the same story," he continued,
"After fifty-three months of World
War I, the cost of living was up to
per cent. In January of thi year,
of nations.
No one but Nazi propagandists
will accuse the Allies of wantonly
wiping out Cassino. For weeks the
Fifth Army has tried other means
to break the bottleneck around this
town that the Germans had turned
into a fortress. Sometimes com
manders plug stolidly ahead, seeking
to make force do the work of imag
ination but the Anzio beachead dis
played a willingness to go around
We cannot believe that even the
British and Americans' soldiers who
have practiced to make their wea
pons as destructive as possible can
relish the disintegration of a town.
They regard Cassino and whatever
succesors it may have as bitter
necessities.
We can all pray that this kind of
destruction will not have to be visit
ed on towns and cities all across Eu
rope. But we may well recognize
that the destruction of civilization's
material structures is less evil than
the destruction of moral and mental
values which this war is being fought
to stop. And we may well resolve
to so order and maintain the peace
that such things as Cassino will not
again be necessary. Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
Farm Land
Boom Dangerous
Agricultural economists - are wor
ried over the incipient boom in farm
land values, estimating that there
has been a twenty-five per cent, in
crease in, the last two years.
While the rise has not been fan
tastic, those who remember the dis
aster that followed the boom in land
prices, after the last war, have no
inclination to go through the same
experience again.
Senator Gillette, of Iowa, has pro
posed a tax on the re-sale of farm
land amounting to ninety per cent
within two yean, . dhninishing on
I subsequent sales in later years. ;;)
w juiio anwns l io o WtereawQ,
however, but it might be a good idea
for farmers to Mt behind the
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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY. HERTFORD, N. C FRIDAY,
fifty-three months after August,
1969, the cost of living had risen
only 26 per cent, less than half the
rise in the last war. Food has in
creased 66 per cent, as against 83,
clothing by 34 as against 112. and
house furnishings by 27 per cent., as
compared with a rise of 99 per cent.
last time."
Production and Profits Increase
OPA controls, he held, had not dis
couraged production. The volume of
industrial production had more than
doubled since 1939 and prices have
risen by less than 25 per cent., where
as in World War I, industrial produc
tion rose by only 25 per cent and
prices doubled. Farm production in
1943 was 21 per cent, greater
than in 1939. In the comparable
period of World War I, farm pro
duction rose only 5 per cent.
Earnings of corporations, after
taxes were deducted, were the high
est last year ever attained by
American business. Net income of
farmers was at new high levels.
$4,000,000,000 above the previous
high year of 1919. Small business,
guaged by bank deposits, decline in
failures and other methods was en
joying record returns. Rent controls
had not worked hardships on land
lords as a whole, with a net operat
ing income before interest and de
preciation, 27 per cent above 1939
levels for apartment houses and 45
per cent for small structures.
Labor now had a weekly "take
home" wage averaging $43.16, as
compared, with' $23.86 in 1939 and
$26.95 in 1929.
Lady Outlines Strategy
And Questions Invasion
Miss Jessie Sumner, representative
from llinois, makes her bid for
supreme strategist by expressing
great concern over the course of the
war in both the Atlantic and Pacific
theatres.
Like a good Congress-woman,
Miss Sumner has no evil, without of
fering the correction. She would
have the President issue an ultima
tum requiring the restoration of sov
ereign rights and self-government to
those forcibly deprived of them.
Further, the President should post
pone the invasion of Western Europe
until adequate assurances and guar
antees are given of its success and
until "qualified American military
authorities" agree that our forces
are adequately prepared and that the
invasion is really necessary to the
security of the United States.
This directive, enunciated by Re
presentative Sumner, plainly demon
strates her incompetence to sit in
Congress and her inability to under
stand matters that relate to war and,
in our opinion, creates grave suspi
cion as to her competence upon mat
ters in times of peace.
However, the good lady has some
other ideas. She would combine all
land, sea and air forces, now being
employed in the war against Japan
under a single, uniform command,
with General Douglas MacArthur'as
Commander-in-Chief. Moreover, the
Government should turn over ' to
General MacArthur "such forces and
equipment as he shall request, in
cluding amphibious equipment."
Miss Sumner, who was elected to
Congress in 1938, deplores the com
ing Western front invasion, asserting
that "privately, many of our keenest
American military experts call this
invasion costly and stupid."
Materiel Losses Heavy
Interesting revelations as to ma
teriel losses in the campaign in Sicily
have been revealed by CoL Warren
Clear, of the War Department Gen
eral Staff, who warns us that losses
in Italy have been much heavier.
In the "comparatively light"- Sici
lian operation, which lasted thirty
nine days, we lost between 13 and 54
per cent, of the guns and gun car
riages that were landed. This illus
trates the high cost of war in ma
teriel and gives a warning to those
who believe that reconversion is
just around the corner.
Col. Clear points out that in a year,
or less, eighty-four out of every one
hundred ,60-caliber machine jruns
have to be replaced and sixty out of
every hundred Garand rifles.
Is Business To Blame
For Poor Tax Laws?
Edward E. Chase, President of the
New England Council, thinks that
our present tax system has "put a
premium on trickery" whereby busi
ness concerns, without changing bus
iness or ability to pay taxes, have
greatly reduced tax liabilities by
legitimate devices or recapitalization
or transfer of ownership.
Mr. Chase, as we gather his mean
ing from a brief newspaper report,
is not complaining about the amount
of taxes nor advocating a ' specific
program of reform. He tells of one
company which made a lot of money
on munitions and in order to keep it,
rather than pay taxes, went into the
development of oil leases by drilling
on shares. The losses would be off
set by reduced taxes, while profits
could be avoided by capping wells
and leaving the oil in the ground.
His general statement was sup
ported by Clinton Davidson, econo
mist, who asserted that business it
self was "responsible for the compli
cations and absurdities in the excess-
profit tax," V
MARCH 31 1944
Mr. Davidson said that a united
business could have secured adoption
of a Treasury recommendation of a
plan to tax corporate income distri
buted in dividends at a lower rate
Uncle Sam is
fighting to TOJ!
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Over 14 of all pulpwood
is used in packaging
farm products
T
HE FARMERS of this country responded patrioti
cally to the appeal for more pulpwood. They cut
wood because their country needed it. Few of them
stopped to think that their own business of food pro
duction was threatened by the pulpwood shortage.
Already there have been cases where packing
plants were unable to accept perishables because
they could not get packing materials; and the distri
bution of food may be seriously upset this year un
less the pulpwood shortage can be overcome.
So the farmer who cuts pulpwood Is not only
helping his country meet a serious wartime short
age; he is also adding to his income, improving his
draft deferment status, and helping to provide for
the packaging and distribution of his own farm
products. Cut your pulpwood now
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than the income accumulated, thus
eliminating the excess profits tax
completely.
Business, as a rule, is against all
taxes. It should recognize the ne-
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