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DAILY MEDITATIONS
Y Blessed is he whose trans
(i gression is forgiven, whose
\ sin is covered.
! &% Be glad in the Lord, and
rejoice, ye righteous, and
shout for joy, ail ye that are upright in heart.—
Fsaim 32:1-2,
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Siringent Regulations Control
DPA Amortization Certificates
BY PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON. — (NEA) — A country doctor
running & little two-by-four clinic deep in the heart
of Texas is one of the 18,370 applicants for an ac=-
celerated tax amortization certificate, under the
national defense program.
This doctor proposed building an auxiliary water
supply system. If this community were hit by an
atonr bomb, he declared, he would be able to share
his reserve water supply with the rest of the people
in the neighborhood. Therefore, he wanted a fast
tax write-off,
In a footnote to his application for a certificate,
the doctor explained that up to the time his area
was bombed, the reserve water supply would be
used “for recreational purposes.”
Investigation disclosed that this “defense facil-
Ity” he proposed to build, and on which he wanted
rapid depreciation allowance for income tax pur
poses, was nothing more than a swimming pool,
Needless to say, he didn’t get the certificate.
This is one of the smaller cases among the 4,000
applications for $3 billion worth of tax exemption
that have been denied by Defense Production Ad
ministration. Some of the bigger cases aren’t so
funny.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PRESSURED
I'"OR CERTIFICATES
They're described as hair-raisers — deliberate
attempts by promoters whose only desire has been
to beat the government out of big tax revenues,
Congresgional pressure and, in some cases, cabinet
level influence has been used on-defense officials to
get accelerated amortization crtificates approved.
There are now some 7,000 of these applications
pending before NPA’s Defense Expansion division,
They cover projects valued at $lO billion, This is a
tremendous backlog which James F. King, head of
the division, is trying to work off.
In many of these pending cases, applicants have
been told that certificates would be denied them,
Rather than take this denial, the applicants have
asked that their cases be postponed, so they could
muster Congressional, White House or other sup
port.
Despite all this pressure, Defense Production
Administrator Manly Fleischmann has stuck to his
guns, He has insisted that he would grant defense
loans and accelerated amortization certificates only
where the natiopal defense effort stood to gain.
His angle has been that if they want to fire him
for that, all right they can fire him and he’ll go back
to practicing law in Buffalo, which is what he wants
to do. So far he has not been fire, And what started
out to be another nrajor national scandal may have
been averted.
Fleischmann’s DPA shop is the third or fourth
nlace where responsibility for this controversial
program has been lodged. At she start of World
War 11, the Army and Navy had the job. They
granted 100 percent depreciation to nearly all muni
tions producers, right down the line. That led to
transferring the job to the old War Production
Board, which used a lit{le more restraint.
NEW REGULATIONS RESTRAIN
LARGE COMPANIES
. At the start of the present emergency, respon
sibility for tax amortization allowances were given
to National Security Resources Board, under Stuart
Symington. There were some charges there that too
liberal allowances were given big oil, steel, rails
road, aluminum, chemical and other defense indus
tries, So the whole business was bundled up and
handed ot Mr. Fleischmann’s agency. S B
Up to now, the big companies have been able to
" go ahead and build their new plants, then come in
later to claim their accelerated tax amortization,
This permitted them to take their depreciation al
lowance in five years, instead of the normal 20 to
30.
As of Marvch 1, the rules are changed. No com
pany will thereafter be granted a tax certificate
unless it gets NPA “approval of its plant expansion
project before it begins construction, or before it
acquires new facilities by purchase.
To the end of February, slightly over 7,300 of
these tax amortization certificates have been issued,
Value of the facilities for which amortization was
claimed was sl4 billion. The amount allowed for
accelérated tax amortization is $9 billion.
In other words, 66 percent was considered neces
sary for defense. This percentage is being grad
ually pulled down from a high of 80 percent on
some of the new aluminum projects, to around 50
to 55 percent today. It is now planned to pull down
allowances even more.
There is some criticism that small business hasn’t
had its fair share of these allowances. The average
certificate granted has been for over $1 million
worth of tax exemption, There aren’t many small
businesses paying that much in taxes. But Telford
Taylor, the Small Business Plants Administrator, is
now trying to see that little business gets its fair
share of the allowances. v
Disarmament . . . is a small guarantee of lasting
peace if §t's not accompanied by abolition of hatred,
greed and lust for prestige.—Pope Pius XII.
Economic Stability Is Needed
_Economic Mability
If France Is To Save Herself
Recent events point up all too clearly that
France is in a bad way, both financially and politi
cally.
This is a matter of deep concern both to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, of which
France is an important part, and to the TUnited
States, which is shelling out millions for France’s
rearmament.
The problems of France are many and complex.
For one thing, dislocations of international trade
have cut heavily into her exports. This can be eco
nomically disastrous.
Another thing is the costly war she is waging in
Indo-China. If she could pull out of Indo-China her
budget problems would be just about licked.
Involved in all France’s money troubles is the
very real problem of the tettering franc. Forty
years ago it was worth 20 cents. At the beginning
of World War II it had fallen to three cents. Fall
ing steadily after World War 11, it finally was
pegged at one-third of a cent. And it looks as if
even that won't hold.
Naturally, such devalued money puts a terrific
hardship on the French people. The cost of living
has zoomed 50 percent in the last year and a half.
Against this spotty financial scene, Premiér Faure
went home to Paris from the NATO conference in
Lisbon recently to tell the French what they were
going to have to pay out for rearmament.
He informed the National Assembly that taxes
would have to be raised 15 percent to raise $4 bil
lion for rearmament. The Assembly turned him
dowr} and the Faure government fell, only 40 days
after it had come into power.
This illustrates a phase of France’s political
weakness which must be remedied if she is to have
the stability to pull herself out of an extremely dif
ficult situation.
How is France to correct this weakness? Many
believe a change- in the constitution will be re
quired to bring about permanent benefit,
Short of that, the only answer appears to be the
emergence of a single party with strength enough
to endure for a sufficient length of time to carry
out remedial financial policies.
Add “'lnfrastructure” To
Vocabulary
Mutual Security Administrator Averell Harri
man’s bright young men have been doing some
spare-time research on the origin of the newst word
in official bafflegab gobbledygook bureaucratese.
The word is “infrastructure.”
It is now used to mean international military
works financed and used by more than one country
for mutual defense. The $450 million chain of air
bases now being built in Western Europe for North
Atlantic Treaty Organization forces age therefore
called infrastructure.
The word has been traced back to French diction=
aries of 1933 and later. The word as used by French
militarists is the opposite, or the supplement, of
“superstructure.” This perfectly good word is used
by naval m®n to mean everything above the main
deck on a ship.
From this it is broadened to include the top com=
mand of any military organization. Anything high
up. Everything “infra” or below on the ground,
therefore, is taken to be the infrastructure.
When this explanation was given to high Penta
gon brass, they said they’d never heard of the
word.
Its first use in NATO circies seems to go back to
the September, 1950, meeting of the North Atlantic
Treaty Council in New York. Somre Frenchman,
thus far unidentified, seems to have popped it.
As for killing the word, or getting something
simpler, the chances now seem to be dim.
1t has been its (the Truman administration)
policy to utilizé our undevastated resources, our
unleveled cities, our unequaled financial and pro
ductive ability, to prevent another world conflict
which might dsstroy civilization. — Vice President
Alben Barkley.
There can be no justification for a military sys
tem whereby individuals are placed in jeopardy
twice and even thrice, while others evade military
service—Major General E. A. Walsh, president of
the National Guard.
Regional security . . . can be arranged now. We
cannot take global security measures because of the
veto power of the Soviet Union. We cannot put
teeth into the United Nations.—Philippines Presi
dent Elpidio Quirino.
The Red Cross is made up of the people them
selves. When it acts, it is the people acting in be
half of those in need.—E. Roland Harriman, presi
dent, American Red Cross.
1 don’t know who my running mrate might be, and
I have no choice between Senator Taft and General
Eisenhower as opponents. They'd both be tough.—
Senator Estes Kefauver.
..We see a leading Republican contender for the
presidency patronizing political five and ten cent
stores, trying to buy freedom at the bargain coun
ter.—Senator Brien McMahon.
So long as the Internal Revenue Bureau is a part
of the Treasury Department, the final decisions and
tax collecting policies will be made in a political
atmosphere.—Rep. Carl Curtis (R.-Neb.).
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
University Art
Department Will
Attend Meeting
' The Department of Art at the
University of Georgia, cited as
}“having rendered the most out
standing service to the field of
Art Education in a particular
area of any art department in the
country,” has accepted an invita
tion to_ present one of the major
sessions of the 10th Annual Con
ference of the Committee on Art
Education. The Conference, spon
sored by the Museum of Modern
Art, will be held in New York
City from March 20-23.
Under the direction of Lamar
Dodd, Head of the University’s
Department of Art, the program,
titled “Creative Arts in the New
South,” will be devoted entirely to
the department—its history and
development, its objectives and
accomplishments, and its influ
ences. Participating with Mr. Dodd
will be his colleague Howard
Thomas, Professor of Art, Uni
versity of Georgia, and Miss
Emory Rose Wood, Director of
Art Education for Fulton County
Schools.
Large Organization
The Committee on Art' Educa
tion is a large national organiza
tion whose membership includes
outstanding educators in schools
and colleges, professiomal art
schools, and museums. The group’s
purpose is the establisnment and
support of art as a constructive
force in general education.
The devotion of a major ses
sion of the Conference to our
State University’s Department of
Art is a singular tribute to Lamar
Dodd and the faculty of the de
partment, who have developed a
strong program of art education
throughout this region.
Dodd to Talk
Mr. Dodd has been requested to
discuss, on a very personal basis,
the origin of the University’s art
program; how it expanded into a
full college program with its vari
ous facets in general education;
specialized art training leading
toward professional and teacher
training; the work done by the
department in extending art con
sciousness through the state of
Georgia both in the schools and
in the community; the visiting ar~
tists brought to the University;
the art-teachers; the annual exhi
bition; the annual art auction;
how the “public of Georgia and
the Southeastern states were made
aware of the value of art; and how
people from the department were
sent into schools of Athens, At
lanta, and the surrounding re
gions.
Mr. Thomas will develop the de
partment’s outside activities into
fuller details. He will tell how the
teachers go about working with
the A. A. T.E S.; the G. S. A. E.
and conferences; the off-campus
programs; the response from the
standpoint of students, faculty,
and visiting personnel in general.
Miss Wood, selected for this
panel is a graduate of this de
partment who is doing an out
standing job in the field of Art
Education, and who is responsible
for directing art activities in for
ty-four schools in the Atlanta
area, will give her personal reac
tions to the department’s program,
She will relate her first-hand ex
periences as both a student in the
Department of Art and as Super
visor of Art in the Fulton County
Schools. 3 £
« The entire staff of the Depart
ment of Art have worked together
in organizing the session to be
presented to the Conference. Miss
Fulala Amos, Assistant Professor
of Art at the University of Geor=
gia, who helped with the coordi
nation of the program, will also
attend the Conference. 4
' Other prominent artists and
educators participating in the
Conference will be: Will Barnett,
Instructor, Art Students League;
Victor D’Amico, Museum of Mod=
ern Art: Bartlett Hayes, Director
of Addison Gallery of American
Art: Viktor Lowenfeld, Division
of Art Education, Pennsylvania
State College; and Ruth Reeves,
instructor, Cooper Union.
CITY FOUNDING DATE
UNCERTAIN
CARBONDALE, 111. — (AP)—
They're going ahead with plans
for Carbondale’s centennial cele~
bration this year—although there’s
some guestion whether this South
ern Illinois city was founded 100
years ago.
Records show the site was picked
in 1852, the first house was built,
first sermon preached and first
business set up. It was 1856 before
the city was organized, ‘69 before
it got its special charter, and ‘73
before it was brought under the
Illinois City and Villages Act of
1870.
I Michigan’s shore line on the
Great Lakes is the longest among
ltho states of the United States,
exceeding that of Florida with
the longest salt water shore line.
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This | Believe...
Personal Responsibility Comes First On
Famous Ceneral’s List Of Human Values
| A Georgia-born soldier who
directed Berlin airlift, General
Lucius Clay reveals here his
personal creed. This is one of a
series of statements prepared
for broadecast and publication
by thinking, useful people in all
walks of life. The program is
presented by Edward R. Mur~
row over WGAU, Monday
through Friday.
' By GENERAL LUCIUS CLAY
' Ex-U. 8. Military Governor in
| Germany
In the middle of the war against
Hitler, if somebody had told me
that 1 would one day be standing
in the heart of Berlin before sev~
eral hundred thousand of its citi
zens demonstrating their desire
to be free, I. would have said the
person was crazy. Yet that very
thing happened to me recently
when I returned to the former
German capital with the Freedom
Bell, the symbol of the American
campaign to prerce,ine iron Cur
tain with the propaganda of truth.
In open and dangerous defiance
~of the Russians and their East
- German puppets, thousands of
West and East Berilners gathered
in the middle of the city in a mov=
ing demonstration against tyrane
ny. If they had believed in tyran
ny a few years before, they be=-
llieved in it no longer. They had
' seen what democracy could mean
- and they wanted it.
I cite this incident to support
my conviction that given the pro
per circumstances, and some hope,
man as an individual, wherever
..he may live, will demonstrate
.that he is inherently honest and
' decent. He wants little more than
-to live in friendship with his
neighbor, in reasonable security,
and to ruaise his children so they
may find opportunity before them.
I think the troubled world in
which we live should not dismay
us. I believe the world today is
historically a better world than
the world of the past. Though
ruthless men still maintain pow=-
er through force and would ex
tend power through conquest,
people everywhere are becoming
more tolerant and understanding
than ever before. More peoples
and more governments are willing
to cooperate, to work together for
peace and freedom than at any
time in history. At home, we are
more tolerant and understanding
with each other; more willing to
' help our less fortunate neighbor
' here and abroad.
This, to me, is hopeful progress.
It stems, I think, from the spread
| of freedom in which I believe and
iwhich I hold God gave us as a
privilege. Like all precious pos
sessions, freedom must be guard
ed carefully. I ask myself how I
can best help guard it and the
. answer I find is citizenship. In my
view, to be a good citizen does not
require the holding of public of
fice, the achievement of either
political or financial success. But
it does require that I vote from
lconviction, that I participate in
community activities to the extent
that I am able, that I be honest
i with myself and with others.
' God has been good to us as a
|people. As I see it, we can re=-
turn thanks for the position of
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larger program for 1952, Good and growing telephone k, %@’ %“ ;?“ ;
service is essential to the growth and progress of Geor- " Bt o |F“ %
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the job with the same determination that has more than >§~ :& L T
doubled the number of Georgia telephones in 8 years.— fi Fov PR f :
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leadership which we now hold in
world affairs, only as we exercise
this leadership to obtain freedom
and peace. We can lead abroad
only as we continue to improve
our life at home, to truly become
a land in which there is equal op~
portunity for all. This brings me
back to the personal responsibility
of the individual. I believe I can
improve my life here and, per
hapss, help others, only as I show
pride in my country by finding
the time to try to be a good citi
zen, and by being grateful to
God for his goodness.
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| EXPEDITION TO BE FILMED
PASADENA, Calif, — (AP) ==
An Old Testament scholar and a
film producer left recently on a
flying trip to the Near East to re
cord on film their archeaology ex
pedition,
The travelers, Dr. William San
ford LaSor and William Brusseau
expect to be in Nippur, Iraq, soon
to take part in pre-Abraham dis
coveries being made there, Other
countries to be visited by the pair
include Egypt. Jordan, Syria. Le
banon, Cyprus, Athens and Rome.
Brusseau expects to use 20,000
feet of color film on the journey.
Dr. LaSor, who says he gspeaks
20 languages, will act as interpre
ter and assistant cameraman.
Flying fishes are a staple of the
diet of people who live on Bar
bados Island.
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MONDAY, MARCH 10, 195
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GORMAN, « Calif, - (AP) _
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