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COURIER-rOST, CAMDEN, N. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1912. Elarht HE PICKS IT, CUT WE'LL EAT IT AND LIKE IT A PRODUCTIVE PROBE-NOW EXTEND IT COURIER-POST MORNING Established JS7S EVENING The new September Camden County Grand Jury should continue the probe of gambling 'Backstage' of the War By WAVERLY ROOT Copyright, 11142, Praaa alllnnca PavU Rtern, Priidnt. navld Burn, ad, Publlnhar and Walt.r L. Tmhlwtham.

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Kmnella. AmlwiiVit Buainwa ManaKW and Advertising Ilrc(or; Harold M. Snyar. Circulation Manaiar. conducted by the outgoing grand jury.

Loose ends of that investigation should be picked up and punishment given to everyone Pnhllihwl dally aicapt Sunday at Third, and Arch trwta, Camdan. N. J. By carrl.r. 18c a wll.

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J. who had anything to do with the big gambling establishment raided on South Broadway or KKVHTONK JAMI)KN I7 Food Situation Dark in Europe I1M.I CAM UKN the removal of the raid evidence. The Courier-Post congratulates the outgoing As the harvest reports begin to jurors' for the manner in which they conducted pour in from different European SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1942 countries, Berlin is discovering with the deepest gloom that the their probe. Theirs was a unique investigation in that they did not start out with "the single purpose of blasting the police department but rood restrictions wmcn nave al ready increased mortality in every country the Nazis hold, even their went after EVERYONE connected with the own, will have to De mane sua more severe. Everywhere crops have been bad.

Last year's severe Winter establishment. In the past, some grand juries have cen destroyed 4,000,000 acres of Win ter wheat, which had to De re- tered their investigations on the police, alone and allowed the gamblers to get away. sown in the Spring. The total wheat yield was 30 percent below normal, continued guerrilla ngnt- The grand jury indicated it believes the ine in the section of the Ukraine held by Germany nas prevenica police department, Director Rhone and Chief i hr AUTOMAT i Vi A s. TsW 1 1 1 l.r math o' WlS 4 I FORCED' 0 p- ifyj; the use ol that wheat-growing region for the production of food Frost are trying to do a good job." Both Dr.

Rhone and Chief Frost should bene The situation would be bad even if there were food surpluses remain ine from previous but with two other bad war year harvests fit by the conduct of the grand jury in this probe. behind this one, it is possible to wonder if the winter can pass CALL IT A 'WRECKING TAX', NOT A 'SPENDING TAX' One of the boys in office took a look over the Treasury' proposed new "spending tax," which starts at 10 percent, zooms to 75 percent. Then he asked us: "Will this tax be in addition to the nearly doubled income taxes in the new tax bill?" We checked up, said: "Yes." Then he came back: "Will this spending tax be in addition to the five percent pay envelope tax?" We checked up again, said: "Yes." Then he said: "Am I still expected to put 10 percent otmy pay in war bonds?" The answer again was "Yes." "Wouldn't it be simpler," he sighed, "for the Treasury just to take everything 1 make and send me a check for bare living expenses?" We checked up again, said: "YES Mr. Morgenthau's "spending-tax" seems ridiculous in its demands. The complexities in collection add up to a Rube Goldberg cartoon.

Yet because the Treasury, put this mon The grand jury and the taxpayers look to without revolt. The bad harvest reports dash police officials to keep the city clean of vice the hopes of German economists that in this respect, at least, there might be an improvement in the and gambling. Chief Frost has the respect of the community. has Dr. Rhone.

Both can very bad conditions outlined be fore the Germans undertook thisi year's offensive in -Russia. Thei mam aspects ot tnat situation retain it by "cracking down" on members of their department found lax in their duties as well as putting the racketeers in jail. explained by Counselor of State Dr. Mayer to a circle of German, economic and financial experts meeting in secret at Karlsruhe. Dr.

Mayer said that in 1942 the population would be much CAN WE BEAT GERMANY BY BOMBINGS ALONE? Arm-chair strategy is tops in war pastimes'. less well nourished than in the Summer of 1941, and that it would have to be expected that the im portation of feed would be com Boldest arm-chair offensive of the war is launched in Time Magazine this week, with a pletely eliminated. But he did sav that the one possible source of relief was the Ukraine: that if vast, detailed proposal for crippling Germany, the Germans could consolidate the situation there, pacify the region maybe knocking her out of the war ana raise- crops, there might be improvement. That hope has now gone glimmering for this year, and the Germans, as well as their hapless victims of the occupied coun tries, are in for another Winter even worse than-the last and that', will be true whether they take Stalingrad or not. Dr.

Mayer also pointed out that 4 aWlf production in boots and shoes, soap and building materials was also extremely limited. The coal situation he described as catastrophic. In the Spring of l4. there was already a short THE EDITORS MAIL BAG age of 180,000 miners, although only 60,000 had been taken into the Army. Why Coal Is Lacking FAMOUS FABLES E.

Z. EDGAR Good Try: As Prince of Wale, the present Duke of Windsor wat guest of honor at countless official and private receptions. On sucli A Port Elizabeth Reader Wants to Know the Political Stockholders in the Race The difference of 120,000 need Track (So do a Lot of Others, but Try and Get Them) Walter Is Will ed miners, was explained by; (a) cessation or all imports of coal (b) reduced production per man ing Tax Statesmen. because of undernourishment and 'Em! will get their education just the Try and Get occasions, it wasn't- unusual lot him trv chfitra hnne with malingering by unwilling workers: To the Editor: jof guests, and their daughters Is there any-way. we could have same.

I do not think this is fair to our American kids. We grown ups here do not mind giving up a lot of things' for the war, but if our kids list -of the political stockholders and (c) greatly increased demand, which is the principal reason. The augmented for coal is due to heavy -transport demands for the moving of the tremendous armies now in action, and the oi me race tracK, puDiisnea in tne Courier before election? It might whu wwe musk anxious hmv t- A friendly smile and a kind word from the Prince was enough to send these thrilled maidens. scurry-inff-off to their tn-ret at a strosity forward seriously, we must take it seriously. And the blunt truth is: This tax program would not help win the it would, instead, cripple the whole civilian' economy.

It would bankrupt businesses wholesale. It would punish any citizen who wanted a standard of living higher than that of a slum dweller or a hillbilly. If necessary, we could all buy up an acre or two of land, grow potatoes, chickens and corn, live in a tent and survive. But would that' help win the war? Of course not. And winning the war is America's most important goal.

Yet, the Morgenthau proposal penalizes, heavily, any person who attempts to keep his property in repair, his family in health and his business in existence. It would put the greatest premium upon human inertia in the history of America. Just figure what the plan would mean to the, lowest bracket taxpayer: The bill now provides a six percent normal tax rate, plus a 13 percent surtax in the lowest bracket. That's 19 percent of taxable income. The five percent withholding tax would boost it to 24 percent, the 10 percent spending tax to 34 percent.

Social security taxes are due to go from one percent to two, Which adds up to a total of 36 percent. Add 10 percent for war bonds and you have 4(5 percent of your pay gone. This doesn't include state and local taxes. It doesn't include federal excise taxes, amusement levies and all the rest. Maybe the boy in the office was right.

Maybe it would be simpler if this plan goes through to let Morgenthau take your pay and send on a check for living expenses. What such taxation would do to it would do, in turn, to business. As business declined under such a weight, individual incomes would decline and, before long, tax payments would dwindle also. The Treasury's attitude reminds us of the farmer who had been raising 50 bushels of By concentrated, continuous bombings of all her key cities. Listed are 31 key cities eight in Western Germany, 15 in Central Germany, eight in the east.

The. proposal is to wipe these cities out even more completely than Cologne. Destruction of all 31 targets, says Time, would cripple war production to a degree that would render inevitable the defeat of the German armies. To do this, it is estimated, some 3000 bombers would be required. Raids would be carried on day in and day out.

Large-scale raids, of at least 1000 planes per 2000 per night when possible. During a 90-day campaign, these planes would drop from 90,000 to- 150,000 tons of bombs on German cities. In a six months' campaign, the total might reach 300,000 tons. This, says Time, would mean that -every one of the 31 German cities would be blasted with 6000 to 10,000 tons of bombs," of "up to 20 times the total of bombs dropped on Birmingham" (which was the heaviest German of the war). Out -of such raids would come not only destruction of production facilities, disruption of transport, but also possible cracking of German morale, a breakdown in food and living supplies, and a war of nerves on German war workers which might, in itself, undermine Nazi war production.

That's the picture. It isn't really new, either. Such bombings have been talked of for months. Britain's Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris is ones of the leading advocates of mass bombing of Germany. 1 Last Spring he said "If I could send 80,000 bombers over Germany tonight, Germany would not be in the war to-morrow.

If I could ffiid 1000 bombers over Germany every night, it would end the war by -Autumn." So! Why hasn't Britain adopted such a program? Why haven't there been regular 1000-plane raids, like that over Cologne? These are questions Time's arm-chair gen are good enough to go out and work on farms during the summer months, and are patriotic enough to buy stamps with their little help. MRS. IDA REEVES. Port Elizabeth. maintenance or their supply lines: their experience.

dimes, then what right does anyone have to deprive these kids of a decent education? and then, a courageous girl, eager to gain the limelight, would not he pnntDnt After all. these kids' people pay the enormous consumption of the heavy industries, all working at capacity for war needs; and the production of synthetic oil and rubber, which calls for 23,000,000, tons of black and 41,000,000 tons! of brown coal above the amounts! consumed for the same purposes uitic a. lana of the hand. One evening, the school taxes and perhaps many of their daddies and are fighting this very second so we may be free from harm. oil than any other nation; more waffle irons, toasters, and, to be sure, of course, more pig iron and cellophane.

Meanwhile, our -enemies trained more" -airmen, more submarine crews, more parachutists, and more mobile columns. The initial results of actual combat are that we have been very nearly licked by our creation of statistics, and our lack of action. Fortunately, a gun, a torpedo or a bomb usually requires vigorous physical counter measures, When we learned that the Japanese while impressed by our astronomical figuring still persisted in attacking us and taking over most of our points East we drafted the statjstical experts into the Army. Today there is a total stoppage in the manufacture of statistics, with full speed ahead in production. By a narrow clearance we are emerging at the other end of the statistical tunnel Into the great open spaces of action! WALTER GAIS.

30 North Twenty-sixth street. "There is a priority on time these Editor's Note: The Courier-Post hast tried to get these names from the NewJersey Racing Commission at least a dozen times, but have been refused each time. The commission said they would not make the names public -because they would be subject to "pressure groups." We would like you to write to the commission yourself. Maybe you'll have better luck. We'll be glad to print the answer.

Walter's Willing It ine kids are going to De on the streets, instead of in a class room where they rightly belong, last year. -Electrical energy has not provided a substitute for coal, because dryness over the last vear uaugmer oi a wealthy merchant, upon being introduced to him, flung her arms about him and attempted to kiss him. Years of experience, however, had taught the Prince to be on his guard. Jumping out of reach, he shook his finger at the girl repri-mandingly. "Sorry, miss," he murmured, "but you have lost your bet." Spreading it thin: Oliver Hereford, the ilhiirrn mey are going 10 get mio some kind of trouble.

We are not asking. that our children he sent back to school, we demand it. i Get horses and wagons.to transport the kids to school. There is To the Editor: Answering R. W.

Britten, bib, has reduced instead of increasingi the production of electricity byl waterpower, and coal has actually had to be used to operate dy-l namos to replace power ordinarily generated by waterpower. Consumption of electrical power in Germany has increased to kilowatts yearly, but as only 31,500,000,000 kilowatts can always a way, if certain persons really wanted to do something about It North Twenty-fourth street, who ETHEL MULLIN. wrote in the Mail Bag that if my picture appeared on the front page, it would scare hell out of the Japs. That's a eood idea, if I knew tor 308 Cole street. artists, only worked when he was short of -cash.

When he did sell an lllllfttratirtn thar-Afnxa tj.J The Other End of the Tunnel day, just as on everything else." To the to make the money last as long as be provided by present electrical companies, the rest has to be pro Dr. Krwm Adman. uiumma pro- They gloated over the fact thati sure that my picture would scare the Japs, I would pay to have it appear on the front page and send thousands of them to lokio and it would end the war. this country produced more crude fessor. duced more wastefully in private generators, burning more of Ger- Enclosed find $1.00 donation for many precious coal.

the USO Club. The Battle of Midway WALTER GAIS. 30 North Twenty-sixth street Labor Shortage Is Acute Th whnla si til at inn -ie Mfynrrairaf. Wants Statesmen Taxed To the Editor: By PETER EDSON A full scale modern war the ed by the transport difficulties of Don vou think that at this inf. i.prmnns uninn rhi, itmn Battle of Midway-Jias at last been eral staff dodges.

Men like Harris haven't held off on mass bombing because they wanted to. So, it is natural (to presume it's because they had to. uussiuie. Aiier trying many systems of saving money, he finally hit on one that worked out best. As soon as he received a check for a picture, he changed it into dimes, which he scattered on the floor of his studio.

This done, he would not do a drop of work until all the dimes were gone. Occasionally, this took quite a while, because some of the dimes would get in a corner or in a crack in the floor. At any rate, his back always ached him by the time tha money was gone from bending over to retrieve his coins. Profits Charles M. Schwab, millionaire steel magnate, found it difficult to teach his wife tha fundamentals of finance.

Mr. Srhwnh nt nnA tlma hnnnkf 4 time when war necessitates a levy corn per acre. He started cultivating andl has mentioned more than once. According to Dr. Mayer's figures, ing ol heavier taxes on everytning and everyone, with talk of even filmed in Technicolor.

It took a Hollywood ace to do it John Ford, taxes on life insurance, its about the-man who directed "Grapes or uermany neeas lo.uuu more locomotives than aha hao nnH Unnfld time for all Americans of comfortable Income to share the One 1000-plane raid consumes at least 2y2 million gallons of gas. A 2000-plane raid would more The all-over fense? refer to our patriotic states labor shortage is about 2,000,000 men, of whom, however only 500.000 are lacking in InHmrrlao Wrath," "The Informer" and other prize pictures. He is Lieut. Com. John Ford now, having given up his several-thousand-dollars-a-week salary for the Navy pay of several thousand dollars a year and the right "to wear a uniform with gold braid on it.

But he has shown that actual battle can be recorded as a mean five million gallons of gas. Most tankers can't carry 5,000,000 gallons. So figure for yourself the magniture of just fueling such working direct) fnr the war f. men, before election they are luu percent plus Americans, on income taxes exempt. Just before election is an opportune time to bring this 1UI t- Since this is the Iflhnr cititntUn a ini III in Pennsylvania, which was his up; either pay up or be replaced could also stand watch or man a gun or maybe even swab a deck.

Finally ail these objections Were overcome and the Ford crew was mustered into service. Playing a pure hunch. Commander Ford and his men got permission to go to Midway. When the Japs came over in their big effort early in June, there were the cameramen on the job to grind away. In the three-day battle the fancy sailors from Hollywood stood around and took it.

They were put on land when the Jap bombers came over, they rode in American planes on bombing missions, they worked on the landing decks of the airplane carriers and they "shot" scenes from cruisers and battle-wagons. A couple of the cameras actually were shot out of the hands of the men operating them. Commander Ford was wounded hit in the shoulder by a flying fragment of concrete from an emplacement struck by a Jap shell. The picture is stark realism of war, but it Is not without its Hol oy men wno win. MRS.

M. S. J. SULLIVAN. wiie 5 pnae ano joy.

one summer, a checkup of receipts revealed that the nmnprt Wni, it is easy to understand why Hitler was so insistent on delivery of French labor for German industry, and whv Laval over-tori him. boosted his yield to 100 bushels. Then he tried stepping it up to 110 bushels, to 120 bushels and with each additional squeeze on his soil he found the cost of the increased production was greater than the value of the additional crop. He'd run up against the law of diminishing So it would be with this "spending tax." Dead geese lay no eggs, let alone golden eggs. Fortunately, the Senate Finance Committee has given the "spending tax" a very cold shoulder.

Let it remain cold. Its net result would be to "rescue" our economy from inflation, by wrecking the economy. This war's, being waged to SAVE America. Rtchwood, Glassboro road, R. D.

moving picture, and this Battle of Midway film will probably be rated as one of his greatest. Dive bomb a loss. Mr. Schwab called his wife be well, is. J.

Funny Things self so strongly to provide it. He into consultation. "I can't understand It," said Mrs. Schwab, vnn muct k. mi.

To the Editor: Often we read about some tunny ers race toward the earth and drop their loads or are hit by the antiaircraft guns and crash in flames. Naval vessels get hit, shells explode, men are wounded, killed. It is real war, for civilian consumption. naa promised mai.wu men by July 15, 170.000 of them trained metallurgical workers. His achievement was so far short of the promise as to be ridiculous by comparison.

He sent 20,000 men, of whom only 3000 were skilled workers. Since that date he has been able to add about 10,000 more, but this seems to be the extreme limit, short of draftin? Workmen flnrl ehinnme, Commander Ford is working out taken. Why only yesterday I sold one hundred dollars worth of vegetables that cost only $90 to raise. That's a good profit, isn't it?" "Let me see the cost sheet," said Mr. Schwab.

He glanced at the figures; then looked up at his wife. "No wonder you think you're making a profit" he exclaimed. fnil haven't pAimtl KA things; at. least to a layman they seem funny even ridiculous. For instance, I've read that there is enough energy in a glass of water, a pound of steel, a pound of lead, or a pound of several other things to run a ship across the Atlantic, providing something or other was done to the atom.

Sure sounds fishy, doesn't it? And figuring the speed of light, some planets are so far away that events that happened hundreds, at the Depuartment of Agriculture film laboratory, editing his film, waiting for the Navy brass hats to make up their minds as to how it shall be released. The Navy both does and does not want to sponsor it If the Navy doesn't sponsor it. them to Germany by force. And an operation, with the fuel hauled at least 3000 miles, through seas infested by enemy submarines. And this is only one factor on which military men alone have the information which has determined their decisions, factors which laymen cannot and should not know anything about.

So, while the Time program makes fascinating reading, let no American be impatient if the United Nations do not hustle to carry it out Yes, arm-chair strategists are useful. Some things are right on their ottoman. Like advocacy of-broad policy, say adequate strengthening of the-frpnt in Libya, not ignoring the Aleutians, production inefficiency, pressure for a second front spurs which help to keep general staffs on their toes. But the drafting of detailed military operations is something we'll have to leave to the generals. If they were against bombing the Reich that would be one thing.

But when they are for it it's something else to presume to tell 'em lywood touches of pathos, whimsy and sob stuff. When Ford and his men got back to the United States, they dubbed in a sound track with a staff of announcers to heighten mis were none, tne Germans would need to nut a anlrlier nn MIC II i. labor. guard over everv workman chnrir. maybe Office of War Information "Well, why should I count It?" I replied Mrs.

Schwab with soma ed with handling an expensive ma- While thetne aramatlc effects. or somebody else will. bureaucrats wrangle, the public is annoyance. "You always pay the men, don't you?" cmne wnicn woman help solve the manpower problem. Wit or Wit'ouf Did You Know? A Question Box yes, even thousands ol years ago on this earth, would be just coming in sight on some of those planets, if they had telescopes powerful enough to see, them.

On a certain planet they would now be seeing battles of the Civil War. And on another planet billions of miles farther away the folks would be right now, just seeing Columbus crossing the Atlantic. And by the same token, if still another planet was several trillions of miles farther away, those folks would now be getting a peek at Adam and Eve cavorting in the Garden of Eden. And -that guy at the telescope would probably want to monopolize it, eh what? JAS. C.

GIBSON. in, Hum nut uooa When a number of men are wounded aboard one the ships, the announcer comes in with comment that the men will be rushed to the hospital bay. But there is no hospital bay! Follows a closeup, showing the roof shot off of the hospital bay, and the doctors and orderlies working away, practically unprotected. A closeup Is shown of a young pilot, just back from a mission. The announcer dubs in comment to the effect that this looks like so and so's boy, back in Ohio.

Sure. It is so and so's boy, and his pappy being kept from what probably-good propaganda medicine for domestic and foreign consumption. Quite a Concession The way Ford got this picture makes an interesting story. The idea of putting Ford into the Navy with a Hollywood camera crew was Ford's, but when he couldn't sell it to the Navy, he sold it to Col. William J.

Donovan's old outfit, the Office of the Co-ordinator of Information. With Donovan backing, Ford was permitted to let his crew be enlisted in the Naval Re- BETTER UNDERSTANDING The Red Cross reports that thousands of British families are opening their homes and hearts to our expeditionary forces. From Northern. Ireland comes word that the men there have been welcomed royally and made to feel quite at home. This does not mean that all misunderstandings have vanished.

We and the British have been picking flaws in each other too long for complete harmony to arrive overnight. It does mean, probably, that intelligent efforts on both sides have begun bearing fruit. Unfortunately our common language and common hpritage double the difficulty with which British and Americans understand each other. Coming from common stock and speaking the same words, we tend to think of ourselves as brothers. It comes, then, as a shock when we meet and discover that we are completely alien peoples.

Only education and mutual tolerance can bridge the gap. One-Minute Test 1. What is an alienist? 2. Who was the first Prince of Wales to visit the United States? 3. For what does one administer an antidote? serve.

That was supposed to be is a railroad engineer. the Just, a few more months until you won't know what to give folks for Christmas. If the future husbands would tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, wives wouldn't believe them anyway because of the past War time rush leaves the scissors grinder about the only one finding things dull. Most people who promise to keep a secret can't keep a promise. A Californlan wrote his will on a butcher's order book or was it the price of a steak? Never fool with a fool.

He may fool jou! Words of Wiadom If we fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, a very little weath is sufficient. F. Johnson. qune a cuncession, lor many oiuuie inmiiy wen: j-oiu sent a the detail didn't know an anchor! cameraman for a closeup of pappy from a marlinspike. and to eive pulling his train into the station Keen Children in School To the hditor: DEPT.

OF REASSURANCE Dispatch from Washington "It is a deficit, caused by an 80 percent Ims An second claw mail, which is reapomible for the Postoffire Department barring, from second flans mail, magazine! showing pictures of pretty girls' legs." Just how much a chief and another of his mother and sis around are we people on the East 'L VI Coast going to get due to the eas as aialnst ters. Yeh, they're touches of Hollv- shortage? Now it seem that TU s- hildren are going to suffer, by t0 Navy morale. Also, thejwood corn, all right, but they put One-Minute Test Anawers 1. A specialist in diseases of the mind. 2.

Albert Edward, later Edward II, in 1860. 3. To counteract the effect of poison. We're glad to learn that the Postoffice Department is against deficits not against pretty legs. being able to attend schools in cer-PT was against having people over tne idea that this is every-tain areas.

jwho were just supposed to take 'body's war. Well, Ford has shown I'll bet anything that those Japa-i pictures and do nothing else. What it can be done. Maybe they'll let nese kids out on the West Coast the Navy wanted was people who, him do it again. I I..