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Monday, June. 25, 1945
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SUICIDE PILOTS
From Kunming, China, comes reports
of a new type of suicide plane, now being
constructed by the Japanese on a large
scale, to replace regular planes with Jap
anese suicide pilots have been loading
with explosives and crashing into Amer
ican warships.
In the new plane, according to reports,
the pilot sits in the center, locked into
his cockpit from the outside, without a
parachute. The wheels automatically
drop when the plane leaves the ground,
and the pilot, unable to bail out or land
without an explosion, is doomed.
While there has been little official in
formation as to the nature of Japanese
attempts against our ships in the Far Pa
cific, it is quite probable that the enemy
will attempt to inflict damage by the use
of suicide pilots.
The only protection for a ship is to
prevent suicide planes from getting into
position for the final dive. This means
that the enemy plane must be shot down
before it reaches the target area, which
is an almost impossible defensive task,
especially when we consider that at
tacks can be made at night.—(Bedford,
Va., Democrat.) j
ACCORD? CERTAINLY!
The Big Five Accord, in fact the
United Nations accord, speaks well for
the future of humanity. The world of the
future will have some of the golden op
portunities for education along any
chosen lines toward the betterment of
the individual, the community, the coun
try, and the world.
It has been known for many genera
tions that education is the only means
through which the world can better it
self. But mere book learning wrl! not
do the job. Education today moans the
knowledge of how and what other peo
ples and nations are doing.
Now, along with that education, or
knowledge, must come the parallel har
mony, or accord, on items of mutual in
terest, and a tolerance on the things we
do not understand, with the ultimate
fairminded discussion and debate on the
merits of issue, and final acceptance of
the decision of the majority.
We are now getting civilized. When
we can sit down with our neighbors, dis
cuss our differences, and evolve fair
minded decisions. The smaller nations,
who have heretofore taken more or less
the decisions of greater bordering na
tions, now have a voice in world security,
and will in all probability, be a tremen
dous influence in shaping our world fu
ture.
The Big Five accord started the ball
rolling, but it will take all of the United
Nation’s accord to keep it going in the
right direction.
The man who gives in when he’s wrong is wise;
but the man who given in when he’s ri^.t is mar
ried.
CAN DO
UNITED
NATIONS
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N>hknf of Maiding CoUaga
S«arcy. Arkansas
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BAITED HOOKS
Two years ago when national
legislation affecting schools was
proposed (S-637> nobody who fa
vored the bill ever called it the
“federal school control bill.” That
alone would have defeated it. No
sincere friend of America’s public
schools wants them bossed by the
national government. The thing
1 was referred to always as “federal
aid to education.” That sounded
much better.
But a great many people were
not fooled at all. They had seen
bait used to hide hooks before by
political as well as practical fish
ermen. Although the bill stated,
right in Section One, that it would
be a nice little law if passed and
not help any government man, or
group of men, grab the schools and
run away with them, the platitude
was ignored by our sage and sea
soned Senate.
Amended by Senate
On the floor of the Senate the
j “federal aid” bill underwent some
; changes. As changed, no part of
I the federal funds therein provided
nor any part of the local funds
thereby supplemented could be
used to make or maintain any dis
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tinction between races. That’s fed
eral control, beyond dispute. I am
not discussing the merits of the
amendment. I am saying this: Fed- j
eral control will follow federal aid
as night follows day.
The subject is alive again now.
A committee in the House and an
other committee in the Senate are
once more considering legislation
that flys the flag of “federal aid to
education.” Once more I am em
phasizing that financial aid to lo
cal schools from far-away Wash
ington will bring federal control
of local schools in spite of all the
protective clauses ever built out
of words.
It Is Federal Law
The Supreme Court of the
United States, the most powerful
tribunal on this war-cursed earth,
has established a precedent in fa
vor of federal control. The Su
l
preme Court has ruled that the
federal government can control
that which it subsidizes. Little,
protesting sentences in the pream
ble of new legislation figuratively
fade away in the light of this Su
preme Court ruling.
Some people may want to argue
that lederal aid to schools is not
federal subsidy of schools. I main
tain that any distinction between
'.he two things is a distinction
without a difference. 1 have learn
ed quite a little about these twin
Internal Revenue Ruling
On War Bond Gifts To Em
ployees In Armed Services
One of the State Committees re
cently advised the War Finance
Division that a local company de
sired to give a War I?ond to each
of its former employees serving
in the armed forces overseas. The
company inquired whether the
purchase price of these War Bonds
would be deductible in its Federal
income tax return. Following is
the reply of May 31, 1945, from
the Deputy Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue:
“The Bureau holds that salaries
paid by employers during the
present emergency to employees
who are absent in the military or
naval service, or who are serving
the Government in other ways at
a nominal compensation, but who
intend to return at the conclusion
of the emergency, are allowable
deductions from gross income for
Federal income tax purposes. (See
I.T. 3417, C.B. 1940-2, 64).
“Accordingly, the cost of a War
Bond which is presented bv«an
employer to a former employee
who is serving in the armed forces
overseas would constitute addi
tional compensatoin to the former
employee and, as such, would be
deductible by the employer as a
business expense under section
23'a > of the Internal Revenue
Code.”
NOTICE
The Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce will hold
a special meeting in the courtroom
of the Federal Building Tuesday
evening at 8:00 p.m. All members
and other interested persons are
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invited to attend.
bills recently, and about people
who advocate their passage. The
bills are practically alike and they
point to government control like
a compass points to the north.
The Entering Wedge
Both bills call for a 300 million
dollar annual outlay of federal
funds, and it’s only a start. Testi
mony of people who journey to
Washington boosting the idea is
very clear. It translates the hand
writing on the wall. They expect
federal aid to grow rapidly after
the first bill is passed. I also think
it would grow in less than ten
years from federal subsidy to fed
eral control. •
I am opposed to federal aid
therefore for several reasons: <1)
I will lead directly to federal con
trol of education. (2) When the na
tional government controls the lo
cal schools the children’s parents
have nothing to say about what
takes place at school. (3) If it hap
pens, popular education, so dearly
bought, will be nothing but a
handy stepping stone toward po
litical dictatorship.