THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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OBSTACLES IN THE HAY
OF BOYCOTT PLAN
One of the most entertaining
bits of business this winter ought
to be the attempt to persuade the
American woman to stop wearing
silk stockings in order that the
villainous Japanese may be foiled
of their designs on China.
From the shapely legs of Am
erican womanhood to the muddy
battlefields of Shanghai may seem
like a long jump. But there is a
connection, spelled simply in the
one word: boycott.
The argument runs something
like this.
Japan is making war on China
in plain violation of all existing
treaties. If one nation can treat
anotner nation so, no nation is
safe from the threat of force;
America, accordingly, must do
hex part to restrain the Japanese.
But the Japanese don t restrain
easily. They have, in fact, shrug
ged off all protests. And no Am
erican cares to see his country
go to war to make the protests
effective. There remains, then,
only the boycott. If all lovers of
peace and good-will will stop buy
ing Japanese goods, the Japanese
will see the error of their ways
and the dove of peace will flutter
once more over war-racked Chi
na.
Which brings us back to silk
stockings.
Japan’s principal export to this
country is silk. If we are going
to boycott Japan, we have got to
stop buying silk. And if we are
going to stop buying silk,we have
somehow go to persuade the Am
erican woman to encase her neth
er limbs in something besides silk
stockings—in lisle, in rayon, or
perhaps in the plain old-time
cotton article.
And that, when you stop to
think about it, is going to be
something of a job. Never has
there been a country as leg-con
scious as modern America. The
American woman, you might say,
struggled for generations to win
recognition of her right to wear
silk hose day in and day out, re
gardless of her station in life.
Anyone who imagines that she is
readily going to surrender that
right, even for a noble and altru
istic ause. may well have another
guess coming.
All of which compels one to
wonder just how effective these
international boycotts—talked of
so freely these days—are ever go
ing to be.
There seems to be a school of
thought which would substitute
the boycott for war, which would
make of it a padded club by whi
ch an erring nation may be club
bed bloodlessly back into good
behavior. On paper it is all very
simple. In actual practice it may
be quite different.
For we buy goods in interna
tional trade, not because we ad
mire the people who make them,
but because we like to have the
goods. It is going to take deep
and strong emotion to make such
boycotts successful. Is our desire
to see Japan restrained, for in-!
stance, quite as sincere and uni
versal as our wish to have the;
American woman continue to
wear silk hose?
Maybe it is. If so—watch out,
Japan. But then again, maybe
it isn’t.—Exchange.
Broadening Of
Tax Base Is Not
So Simple Now
(Continued From Page One)
This $3,000 man likely enough
never has paid any appreciable
amount of income tax. particu
larly if he is married and his
wife is not working. Being marr
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ied, he gets an exemption of
$2500 a year outright. Then the
government allows him a furth
er deduction of 10 pei cent of his
net earned income which would
be $1.0.1. .A^de.l to the $2500 ex
emption this leaves him subject
to a tax on only $200, at the rate
of four per cent. The tax is $8.
If the man has a child he pays
no tax at all,, since a child
brings $400 additional exemption.
Yet along comes social security
grants no exemptions, and takes
$30. This is no argument against
the social security tax, because
its use for old ag? and unemploy
ment protection has stood up un
der a heap of attack. But the tak
ing of this $30 does figure in
when the treasury or other tax
minded parties begin calculating
just how much additional taxes
can be extracted wnsely from tbs
“low income brackets.”
For a long time it has been es
timated by skilled tax authori
ties that a fat lot of revenue
could be extracted from the in
come brackets ranging from $2.
000 to $50,000 now only pcR*tially
extracted.
Since certain administration of
ficials are known to be thinking
seriously of reducing some of the
taxes in the higher brackets,
both on individual and corporate
incomes, the next place to look
for tax revenue to replace that
temporarily lost in the higher
brackets is in this $2.(XX) to $50,
000 group.
Vein Now Tapped
In pre-social security days, this
“lower bracket” was looked up
on as only partally developed as
a tax-mine. It had vast possibil
ities. But now the social secur
ity taxes have taken at least
part of the good ore out of that
vein.
As a partial measure of the ex
tent to which social security tax
es have broadened the tax base,
consider that year after year the
number of individuals submitting
income tax returns stays at about
4,000,000. In 1928 it was 4,070,851.
Of these, only 2,523,063 actually
paid taxes.
On the other hand it is esti
mated that as many as 26,000,000
individuals are paying social se
curity taxes. And for all practi
cal purposes the money is going
into the same treasury pot as the
regular income taxes.
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In the Probate Court for the
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Division of the Territory of
Alaska.
IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF
SEIGFRIED PAUL de RONNE,
Deceased1
Notice is herb.v given that, by
order of the Probate Court in and
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Ter
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ber 10. 1937.
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