Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1940 Page: 7 of 8
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TAXES .... increased
Probably you’ve noticed, if
you smoke cigarettes, that you
have been paying half a cent
more on a pack since July 1.
That’s just one item of the
new National Defense taxes,
to help pay for our war prepa-
rations. The blue stamp with
a picture of DeWitt Clinton on
it, which seals every package
of cigarettes, now costs the
manufacturer 6Vi cents in-
stead of 6 cents, and of course
the makers pass it on through
the dealer to the smoker.
That’s only one of a dozen
or more little tax increases
which Congress voted last
Spring. None of them bears
very heavily upon anybody—
yet. When we get down to
real spending for warships,
fighting planes, army equip-
ment, coast defenses, the en-
largement of the Panama
Canal, new naval bases and
airports, and the wages of an
army and a navy several times
as large as we now have, then
is when the taxes will begin to
"pinch.
, There’s a lot of talk about
fixing it so that the taxes won’t
hit the little man but will all
be paid by the rich. That's
pure bunk- There aren’t
enough rich folk to foot the
bills if Government took all
their incomes. Everybody will
have to pay.
• * »
POLITICS ... delaying
I don’t know just what form
:the new taxes whieh this Con-
gress will impose will take,
but I have a shrewd suspicion
that the really big tax bill
won’t be enacted before elec-
tion. There’s money enough
in sight in the Treasury to cov-
er all necessary expenditures
-Jo about next February.
There’s a Presidential election
coming in November. My
hunch is that both parties will
come to some sort of an under-
standing that theyTI get the
new tax laws ready to bring
out for debate, bat will hold
them in committee until after
election.
After election day Senators
and Representatives will know
whether they have been re-
elected or not. It’s much
easier for a Congressman to
vote for a tax increase when
he knows it won’t hurt his
chance of returning to Con-
gress, than to go on record for
taxes whieh might anger his
constituents.
The prospects are for high-
er income taxes for everybody
and taxes on incomes that do
not now pay them. By taxing
all incomes above $800 a year
the experts figure that 2V4 mil-
million persons who are not
now directly taxed will be
called on for their share of
Government costs.
• • •
WAR .... profitless
We are not at war, I hope
we never ahall be at war, and
I see no reason to expect
that we are going to be at war
in the near future. The surest
way to keep out of war is to
get fixed so that nobody will
dare to attack you, and that is
what we are doing now. But
some folks are grumbling over
the trifling rise in taxes al-
ready in effect They don’t
want to pay the price of peace.
They’re going to pay more,
all of us are, before we get on
- a safe defense footing. And if
we should actually get into
war the cost which will have
to be shared by everybody is
beyond the imaginings of most
of us. If there is one thing
on whieh the American peo-
ple are determined more than
anything else, it la that nobody
shall make any money out of
war or preparations for war.
You’re already paying more
for your movie tickets and a
lot of little luxuries. It won’t
be long now before you’ll be
paying more for almost every-
thing.
• • •
BRITAIN .... land
I’ve just been studying the
new tax schedules for the peo-
ple of Great Britain. Although
the Labor Party is strongly
represented in the Govern-
ment, there hasn’t been any at-
tempt to make it easier for the
“little fellow.” First, there’s
a big sales tax on everything
except food and children’s
clothes. An ordinary pair of
socks pays a 12 percent sales
tax. That’s about the lowest
tax on ordinary things. Silk
stockings and other luxury
goods pay 24 percent
The new taxes put the price
of cigarettes up to 29 cents a
pack, and the soldier in the
army has to pay as,well as the
civilian back home. A private
soldier gets $2.80 a week pay.
If he’s married, half is paid to
his wife That leaves him
$1.40, which won’t buy him a
pack of cigarettes a day.
The income taxes have been
raised again. A single man
earning $20 a week has to pay
more than $2 a week income
tax. Moreover, the income tax
is paid by his employer and
deducted from his wages. The
higher the income, the higher
the tax rate, until the larger
incomes pay more than 90 per
cent in taxes. Yet all the re-
ports I get from England say
that everybody is facing the
music and nobody is grum-
bling.
• • •
ECONOMY . . necessary
■ We’re going to face taxes
comparable with Britain’s if
we ever get into war, and even
if we don’t, a lot of money is
going to be taken away from
all of us just to prepare to
avert war. That’a definite.
And that means economies for
everybody, a reduction in our
respective scales of living.
It seems to me that the first
place for economy to begin id
in the Government. Tm not
thinking now of taking any-
body off relief. I’m thinking of
the general extravagance
which is apparent to anybody
who has ever had opportunity
to observe the operations of
any Government department
or bureau at close range, as I
have.
There’s nothing new about
that tendency to waste money.
Neither political party has a
monopoly on it. It all arises
from the human feelings that
everybody’s money is nobody*!
money, and it’s no sin to waste
it.
Fort Worth Putting
Stamp Plan Into Use
Fort Worth. (UP)—City au-
thorities were notified today
that the stamp plan for distri-
buting surplus commodities in
tiie United States would be
put into effect here about Sept
15.
Officials declared that $1,-
300.090,000 worth of food-
stuffs would be distributed an-
nually to Fortt Worth relief
clients.
He that handteth a matter
wisely shall find good: and
whoso trusteth in the Lord,
happy is he.—Prov. 16:20.
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DUE CIMIEGIE
Author of “How to Win
Friends and Influence
People”
LEARN FROM OTHERS
A young salesman of scour-
ing soap was given a new ter-
ritory. He was delighted; he
was on his toes; he was deter-
mined to make the home office
sit up and pay attention. He
was so confident of himself
that he assured them that he
was going to make a sale to
the first customer he tried!
You’ve heard of that sales-
man. His name has gone
around the world. Today his
company is the biggest adver-
tiser of a single product in
the United States. His nameT
William Wrigley, Jr. Yes, the
founder of the chewing gum
interests.
There was a whole houseful
of Wrigleys, and he was the
oldest of nine children. He
didn’t receive much in the way
of education—only as far as
senior class in high school—
for he had to earn money for
the younger Wrigleys to wrig-
gle along. First, he got a job.
in a factory at $1.50 a week.
Bat he believed he had selling
ability, and he set about to
find out.
He selected for his first cus-
tomer a man he knew nothing
about. He didn’t know it then,
but that man was famous as
being the toughest nut in the
town to crack. He had dyspep-
sia and a perpetual grouch;
he was so short-tempered that
some of the soap salesmen
would not even call .on him.
As Wrigley arrived, another
salesman was leaving hurried-
ly, the shortrtempered man
“bawling” him out as he scur-
ried away.
He laid his eold and glassy
eye on young Wrigley. “What
do you want, young man?” He
eyed the sample case.
’’I want to see you.”
"What about?”
“Scouring soap. I have a
brand of soap I think will in-
crease your business.” j
The sourpuss turned loose.
He said he had no use for a
salesman who started a sales
talk in such an asinine way. He
berated young Wrigley up and
down. “I wouldn’t put a cake
of your soap on my shelf if H
was the only soap in the
world!” he finished.
Wrigley did some quick
thinking. He said: "This is
the first sale I ever tried to
make. I wonder if you would
be good enough to give me
some pointers pn selling. Yod
have heard lota of salesmen
and you know the kind of talk
that has the most appeal.”
“Huh?”
Young Wrigley repeated his
his request.
The man softened. “Well, I
might give you a point or two,”
he said gruffly. A point or two!
He gave him a dozen. He talk-
ed for fifteen minutes. He neg-
lected customers to talk to the
young man who was drinking
in his every word with rapt
and respectful attention.
Wrigley guided him into ex-
tolling the virtues of his own
scouring soap. When he left
he had a six mouths’ order.
He had made a sale to his
first customer. He had accom-
plished it by admitting his in-
experience and by appealing
to the other man’s desire for a,
feeling of importance. The
next time you are rebuffed by
a cross-patch prospect, think
of how William Wrigley, Jr.
handled the same situation.
Rural power lines that for-
merly cost around $1,509 per
mile are now being built at
about h&f that figure as a na-
tions average, according to
Harry Slattery, administrator
of the R. E. A.
MODERN,
Mrs. Parker O. Griffith
prizes among her posessions a
bronze plaque given to her re-
cently for being the citizen
who rendered most distin-
guished service to her commu-
nity during 1939. She lives in
Newark, N. J., and is presi-
dent and founder of a music
school which during this last
winter sponsored thirty-five
events.
The honor was conferred up-
on her by Advertising Club
and she is ths first woman to
receive such recognition. She
organized the Essex County
Symphony Society to give sum-
mer concerts at moderate
price, at which some of the
country’s most noted singers
and musicians appeared.
• * •
Mrs. Ray Wilner Sundelson
of New York is one of the best
known and most energetic per-
sons in the Insurance business.
Recently she celebrated the
forty-fifth year of her career
in this field with more than
$170,000,000 worth of busi-
ness already to her credit
She started as a typist in an
insurance office and wanted to
be a salesman but her employ-
er wouldn't give her the
chance, so she resigned and
opened her own office in a
basement. Though she didn't
get any clients at first, her old
friends flocked to her for ad-
vice and information on insur-
ance. That was the beginning
of her rise to business success.
• • •
Miss Ruth Marks, supervisor
of the quotation room of the
New York Stock Exchange is
the only woman bearing the
title of department head in the
vast personnel of the Ex-
change. Her responsibility is
to furnish accurate up-to-the-
minute “bid and asked” quota-
tions by direct wire aeryice to
members. There are one hun-
dred young woman on her
staff. Before joining the Stock
Exchange she was an instruc-
tor in the traffic department of
a telephone company.
* * •
Clara B. Wells of Chicago
is one of a small group of
Craftswomen turning our mar-
velous things in silver. Some of
her work has been shown in
the Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
* • •
Lila Bell Acheson of Pleas-
antville, New York, is co-foun-
der with her husband of “The
Reader’s Digest,” the first
magazine of its kind in Ameri-
ca.
* .* •
The “Farm Homemakers’
Market” started by a group of
farmers' wives in Fort Worth,
Texas, has turned out to be a
great success. It is open twice
a week.
WHDCIT TEST DUD
mm C1EITE5
UCHUEDEST
Considerable interest is be-
ing shown in a deep wildest
test three miles southeast of
Henderson, in Rusk county.
The test, J. S. Howard et al.
No. 1 M. J. Armstrong, is re-
ported as giving promise of
finding pay in the Travis Peak.
A core at 7,426-32 feet show-
ed some broken, hard, tight
nonporous sand with slight
odor of gas and distillate, it is
reported.
Better shun the bait than
struggle in the snare.—Dry-
den.
UNDER THE DOME
AT AUSTIN
(By Gordon K. Shearer, Unit-
ed Press Staff Correspondent)
Austin, Tex. (UP)—Au-
gust's oil proration hearing of
the Texas Railroad Commis-
sion uncorked a number of
laughs interspersed with its
serious business.
The result of the recent Tex-
as election gave Patrick J.
Hurley of Tulsa, former secre-
tary of war in a Republican
administration an opportunity
for a snappy “come-hack" at
Col. Ernest O. Thompson,
member of the commission.
Hurley had made a long
flag-waving address as a part
of his argument that Deroocra
ey can operate successfully.
“What are you running for,
Pat?” inquired Colonel
Thompson.
"Thank you. Colonel,” re-
plied Hurley. “I am sorry I
didn’t have an opportunity to
slip that to yon before you
ran for Governor.”
Raymond Buck of Fort
Worth had Commissioners
Thompson and Jerry Sadler
laughing with the crowd when
he told the two defeated can-
didates for Governor: “1 agree
the commissioners ought to
remain on the commission, like
a great majority of the voters
thought.”
Buck was among many oth-
ers commending the Texas
commission for its handling of
oil matters and announcing
preference for state control as
opposed to Federal regulation.
—UP—
The commissioners joined in
another laugh, but not quite so
heartily, when Hines Baker of
Houston was induced to read
correspondence between C. A.
Lester of Dallas and W. S.
Pariah of New York over oil
imports. Baker demurred at
reading Lester’s letter to Far-
iah protesting against oil im-
ports but was urged to go
ahead. He did. and part of the
letter commented on "rotten,
antagonistic” oil administra-
tion.
—UP—
Baker was quizzed at length
by Hurley, counsel for Harry
F. Sinclair, on oli imports of
the Standard OS Company of
New Jersey. Standard owns a
majority of stock of Humble
Oil A Refining Company of
which Baker is director.
Commissioner Jerry Sadler
interposed ;o aak if John D.
Rockefeller was not a stock-
holder in Standard Oil. Baker
“presumed” he was. Then
Sadler turned to Sinclair and
asked him if the name of
Rockefeller did not appear
among stockholders of the Sin-
clair companies. Sinclair
agreed the names of several
Rockefellers would be in the
list.
"This seems to me like an
argument among kinfolks,'
Sadler commented.
“Kinfolks frequently dis-
agree,” replied Sinclair.
—UP—
The former war secretary
took a hearty swat at Texas’
by baby Congressman Uadley
Beckworth in his discussion of
oil imports. He quoted a
Washington newspaper report
in which resentment of Texas
oil interests against import of
Mexican oil obtained in the
Sinclair expropriation settle-
ment was asserted. Beck-
worth, “himself an oil produc-
er,” was cited as giving em-
phasis to this feeling.
Hurley remarked: “We pay
particular attention to what
Congressman Beckworth has
said because, as he states him-
self, he it not only a member
of Congress; he is an oil pro-
ducer. This is an accomplish-
ment that but few have
achieved. It gives Mr. Beck-
worth membership in the two
greatest debating societies on
earth.” i
—UP—
Harold Neely of Fort Worth
came in for some raillery when
he addressed the commission
wearing e Willkie button.
Neely spoke for the West Cen-
tral Texas Oii A Gas Associa-
tion.
Sadler inquired why J. C.
Hunter of Abilene was not
preseat Hunter recently was
appointed by Gov. W. Lee O’-
Daniel to succeed Colonel
Thompson as Governor’s rep-
resentative on the Interstate
Oii Compact Commission.
Neely explained that Hunter
spends a large part of hla time
in Washington. He added
“We seed a good man there."
“What’s that button you are
wearing?” Sadler inquired.
Neely laughed and said:
"It’s the first time Fee had a
chance to vote for a Democrat
for President in eight years.”
—UP—
Both tha run-off candidates
for State Representative from
Gonxales county have some-
thing to keep them bom wor-
rying about the result of the
August primary election.
Durwood Hanford, leader
in the July primary, is a bride-
groom. He married just a
month before the first primary.
Rep. John M. Mohmnan,
seeking re-election, b an of-
ficer in the National Guard
and has gone to Louisiana with
his organization to take part
in a three weeks’ intensive
military training course.
—UP—
Railroad commissioner Jer-
ry Sadler encountered Rail-
road Commissioner Ernest O.
Thompson in a State Capitol
corridor for their first meeting
since the July primary elec-
tion, in which each was a can-
didate for Governor.
“Well, we certainly put Cy-
clone Davis in his place,” Sad-
ler remarked.
—UP—
Sadler usually wears blue
serge suits. He .appeared af-
ter the election in a tan color-
ed suit of light weight.
"Where’s your blue serge?”
Sadler was asked.
"I have four of them. All are
at the cleaners,” Sadler said.
"The cleaner tells me it wilt
take three weeks to get the
flour out of them.”
PEACH SEED WANTED
Will pay 2%c pee Rl for Seed-
lings only; well dried. DlKwr.
ed by Sept. 20.
J. B. KING, Tanaka, Texas
Radio Ready For
National Defense
San Francisco. (UP)—The
National Association of
Broadcasters today were ready
to incorporate radio into the
cause of national defense, and
pledged them*#Ires to keep “a
free radio for a free people.”
The 650 radio executives
left two decisions oa the con-
vention record lest night after
adjourning thair three day
policy-making convention:
1. NAB wOi rebel against
the $8,750,000 royalty charges-,
to be a messed for music rights
in 1941 by the American So-
ciety of Composers, Authors
sod Publishers.
2. If President Roosevelt
uses his "fireside chats" for
campaign purposes, opposing
parties may be givea equal
free radio time.
Nacogdo
Nacogdoches.—The Naeog-
doches County Fox Hunters
Association will present the
tops in East Texas canine flesh
Aug. 16 and 17 when the or-
ganization sponsors a (combi-
nation bench show, picnic and
two nocturnal hunts on the
Rollie Driver farm at Woden,
12 miles southeast of here.
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