Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1940 — Page 6
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940
TOMORROW’S RACE OMEWHERE around 135,000 people will forget about wars, blitzkriegs, Fifth columns and bombing attacks for four or five hours tomorrow while the 28th annual | 500-mile auto race is run off at the: ‘Indianapolis Speedway. If there is any sporting event on the ‘American conti{not that can pack a like amount of thrills and .drama ‘and heartbreaks into the same space of time, it has not been brought to our attention., Great test that it is of automotive engineering, it is an even more brutal test of the stamina and skill of the 33 men who will drive.
Good luck 4o all of them.
A START HAS BEEN MADE
O energize American industry for mass production of the weapons our armed forces need, the President has taken an important first step. He has summoned to Wash-
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.been barred from use in public paving jobs in Chi-
workers which he ordered several weeks ago and pres-
strong-arm type, like George Browne, the president of the stagehands and movie employees’ racket, and
they are content to be represented by the Mike Car-
cement and paving workers and common laborers in
By Westbrook Pegler ‘Rerhark That-This Country Needs A Hitler or’ a Mussolini Laid to] Leader of Chicago Laborers’ Union
EW YORK, May 29.—Mike Carrozzo, a-more or less Americanized labor racketeer, has -been
‘having difficulties with the city administration of |
asmuch as the city administration {5 a partner of the | criminal underworld, Carrazzo’s problem on that front is not serious, involving at worst a little loss and some inopportune publicity. The Federal Government, however, has been in-
vestigating his income, which is vast and, in line with Thurman Arnold's anti-trust prosecutions against union racketeers, has been delving into an arrangement, or coincidence, whereby premixed concrete has
Chicago and with the United States «prin ~In-
cago to the taxpayers’ great loss. . Exasperated ‘by the failure. of a strike of paving
ently” called off, Carrozzo recently emerged from a conference with the Commissioner of Public Works |.
with the exclamation that what this country needed | .
was a Hitler or a Mussolini. It would flatter Carrozzo to describe him as a | parachutist or transniission belt of the Fascists who are using pressure on Americans of Italian birth or descent, for he is a common Chicago unipneer of the
hag traits in common with Willie Bioff and George Scalise. 1
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these circumstances the American Federation of Labor and the C. I. OG. will have to decide whether
rozzos and to take the responsibility for their actions. Carrozzo has grown rich as boss of almost all the
Chicago and is the owner of a 900-acre farm and much
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resident's Address Failed Emphasize Stern Task Facing , . In ‘Overcoming Arms Deficiency
EW YO! , May 29.—The President’ is right when
he suggests that some people didn’t raise & come motion earlier about our (defenselessness because they didn’t realize what was going on. It is true that he “did not share those illusions.” But he is very subtle in seéming to find any support in the terrible’ events of the last few days for his policy of our sticking our necks into that mess. i The exist] g battle situation completely. liquidates his interventionist leanings by proving plainly that we had no (business there and couldn’t have dene: any good by doing one thing more than we have done. * This brings up the vital question: of our defenselessness. ose who didn't realize the danger abroad may be excused for going to sleep on it. But how can the President be excused? With full information he went to sleep on preparedness. ® 8 8 IS comparison of the money spent on defense during his seven years with the preceeding seven years is purely political and unfair. In the seven years before Roosevelt, there was no menace from Germany and no need for vast preparation. There | were treaty limitations on naval increases. The Allieg held Germany helpless. or Hitler came with ‘Roosevelt and began the seven years of rearmament and’ preparation. of the vast force w Rr he is destroying Europe. The Allies could have stopped him any time®up to 1936. They’ neglected. to act. Mr, Roosevelt also went to sleep. It is no alibi to refer to the amount of money spent on defense. It plainly was not enough and it wasn't | spent to the best advantage. It was not “wasted” -or “poured do a rat hole.” But it provides no excuse
to minimize our woeful lack of landward preparation | to kick at critics who insist on the truth. The naval job has been well done in part, but the job in aviation, "Army and pe of strategic bases, is woefully inadequate.
thoroughbred stock and an expensive country estate. He frequents the luxury coast of the Miamis in winter and is influential, if not exactly respected, in the higher councils of the American Federation of Labor. Mike's career goes back to the old 22d St. vice district of Chicago, where he was an associate of the late Jim Colisimo, the Italian blackhander who introduced efficiency and chain-store methods into the brothel business and imported Al Capone from New York. Carrozzo was indicted for murder in his early days as a labor racketeer, the victim being Mossy Enright, a primitive gorilla of the union racket, but the state somehow, after long delay, was unable to present certain witnesses, and Carrozzo was not tried or even arraigned.
ington men who know how-—rappointing them to a defense advisory commission. ~ ; William S. Knudsen, the Danish immigrant who Dbecame a master of mass production and is now president of ' General Mators; Edward R.. Stettinius Jr., the 89-year-old | chairman of U. S. Steel; Ralph Budd, chairman of the C. ' B. & Q. Railroad. These men have the experience and ability to identify and attack the bottleneck in production | and transportation that might otherwise cause dangerous ' delays in the delivery of the airplanes, tanks and guns that we have got to have. There are other members—Sidney Hillman, Leon Hen- ' derson and Chester Davis, familiar faces i in the New Daal, and Harriet Elliot, an authority, on consumer prices. 3ut
“s % = OLLYANNA statements made by the President and ~p over the air on the same night by other officials 1 do not agree with expert ‘testimony before Congres sional co ttees. Lumping our equipment as “on hand”.or “on ordér” is meaningless and misleading. All these things are bygones. Our job is to correct these SH But we can’t correct them without
recognizing them. These attempts to gloss them over are of themselves's danger and a continuing blunder, Nothing in the fireside chat suggests the stern, tough administration that this situation requires. To any veteran of our greatest American defensive effort, it cannot fal) to bring goose-pimples of apprehension, It did not face or truly tell the facts. It promised
® ” 8 HE unions of which Carrozo is boss are locals of the common laborers’ union of the A. F. of L,, orie of the worst uhions in the country, composed largely of ignorant Italian immigrants who are easy victims of the Mafia and Padrone type of terrorism
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it is to the three men of industry that most peoplg "will look for the spark-plugging that is needed to accelerate
. rearmament.
The President has not yet made clear the duties of these industrialists. If they are limited to giving advice
_to Cabinet officers, their capacity to. accomplish the job at hand will not be great.
And in the end Mr. Roosevelt may have to do as Woodrow Wilson did with the original Advisory Commission—Council of Defense organization— abolish _the setup, -and place full power and responsibility in one man. In his emergency, Mr. Wilson turned to herd-
. headed Bernard M. Baruch, and he got action.
. { But anyhow a start has been made in summoning such | ~
men to Washington,
, Now COMES THE TAX COLLECTOR # START has been made toward paying the bill, too. The President, the Treasury and the tax leaders of Con“gress have agreed on a double-barreled program—a three-billion-dollar increase in the public debt limit, to permit Horrowing for defense, and new taxes of 600 millions annually to amortize that cost over five years. The tax plan, as outlined informally, has one important. virtue. It can probably be passed in less time and wijth less debate than any other conceivable scheme to raise ‘hat much revenue. : The visible part of it—the 10 per cent increase in individual income taxes—will touch only one-twentieth of the breadwinners of the country: Those who are already accustomed to meeting the tax collector face ce. The in-sivible-—and, as usual, the larger—part will RB passed on in ways calculated to arouse the least possible consciousness of pain, 3 The 10 per cent increase in corporate income taxes will be paid by consumers in higher prices, or by stockholders in lower dividends. The 10 per cent boost in excises on automobiles, tires, refrigerators, cosmetics, etc., will of course be added to prices. And so will the steeper increases in taxes on liquor, beer and gasoline, those perennial favorites of the tax-gatherer. The plan doubtless was conceived on the old rule that taxation is the science of plucking the largest number of feathers with the least squawking of the goose. Certainly it meets the specifications of that celebrated line in the play, “Once in a Lifetime,” where the movie director shouted: “We'll show ‘em we can get Wings. done around here with-
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Nevertheless the scheme would do ‘well enough if we “could rely on its premise—that three billion dollars will cover all the extraordinary expenditure necessary for expanding and maintaining our defenses.
It would be far better to look our tough problems in this tough world squarely in the eye, and meet them bravely. On the fiscal end, that would mean paying the hard way, levying direct taxes on the incomes of the/largest possible number of ‘citizens, each actording to his ability to pay. And it should be done, not hopefully, as a temporary |.
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DON'T BLAME. THE CONGRESSMAN i RUCE BARTON, advertising man, disillusioned by a term in Congress, says that a, successful Congressman
is one who “just voted for all appropriations and. against
all taxes.” That isn’t literdlly true, and Mr. Baton 4s no doubt indulging in.a little poeticlicense, but there is all too much truth in it. And for that core of truth, who is responsible ? Not the Congressman alone, by any means. His desire to be re-elected is a perfectly natural and laudable one. Who’ s to blame, then? | ‘Who, indeed, but the voters, who want so avidly to | gin benefits of those appropriations, and hate SO bitterly the thoes of paying the taxes?
HARD TO BELIEVE . ISCOVERED in South Dakota
postoffice. Can it be our fars Peeing politicians are | reiting short-sighted?
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and extortion. Carrozzo entered the United States in 1909, made
and withdrew, for reasons best known to himself, two applications for naturalization and finally, only three years ago, obtained citizenship in the country many of whose native and naturalized workmen he had bossed as union dictator for many years. Carrozzo’s preference for the type of government represented by Hitler and Mussolini, notwithstanding his belateds naturalization, is verified by witnesses.
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagrees with what you say, but will defend ¢o the death your igh to say if.—Voltaire,
& HOLDS ALL MUST PAY DEBT OWED SOCIETY By James R. Meitzler, Attica
Curious asserts he has worked his
Inside Indianapolis David: Lewis Boonlet, Police and
the 500 and the Strange Mr. Becker
HILE almost ‘everyone else in Indianapolis is thinking about the 500-mile race tomorrow, the politicians have work to do. The Court House Democratic group, led by Judge Henry Goett, is attempting to get'the County’s convention delegates released from -all pre-convention pledges so the organization can control the delegation to its best advantage. the same time, organization leaders are sounding out the delegates on the chances of Prosecutor David Lewis as a candidate for Governor. canvass is “just to see what happens.”
gets enough support, and it looks like Henry Schricker and R. Earl Peters might deadlock in the convention
way through Indiana University, owns ‘gothing, blames old timers like the writer and proclaims they can do the fighting but he will not. Now, Curious, the writer and all humanity came naked into this
parents, relations or taxpayers as the case might be until they began to be self-supporting. The Government that protected Curious, the schools, high schools, university that gave him his education, “all this mess” (his words), were supported by the taxpayers, mostly old ‘timers. All he did was to take advantage of the opportunities offered and paid for by the taxpayers’ hard work. : Men pay their debt to society, incufred in their youth, mainly in tax nionéy, but sometimes when necessary by fighting. Old men pay
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race for Governor, you may 5¢e Mr. Lewis in "there running. : . » ” ®| > A NUMBER OP Indianapolis housewives are rather worried about a man they know as “Mr. Becker.” They're pretty certain that isn’t his real He had been, for the last 15 years at least, a mendicant. He would drop in on them, always welldressed, and ask for a little food. Maybe some lodg-
He would never bother his patrons more than once a month and never ask for more than one thing. He carried a bag, into which he would put food for meals he didn’t eat at their homes. One housewife refers to herself as his “soup-woman”—he always had soup at her home. Others gave hinr bananas, of which he was” very fond, and at other homes he would get meat, potatoes and sandwiches. His distinguished appearance, with a white goatee, ‘earned him the title of “Music Master.” No one has seen him for several months—and his old friends are a little worried. 2 ® » A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER appeared in the same court at the game time yesterday, each seeking divorces. Superior Judge Russell J. Ryan said the arrangement was “too modern for me.” He denied the mother’s plea and took the other case under advisement. . The Police Department is ready for anything tomorrow. All fixed up- in their new white gloves, they’ll give our visitors any and all the help they need. But just in case of any trouble, here’s what the department has on hand: A load of tear gas bombs, tear gas double-barreled shotguns and two tear gas machine guns. The machine guns are the latest things. They fire a round of 50 gas shells each in half as many seconds. . . . And then there’s the elderly woman on the North Side bus who remarked to her companion: “Well, if we have to flee, we have a new car.”
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE man who gives ‘his wife. money to -buy “groceries expects to find a decent meal ready when dinner time comes. If said wife loses the sum “at bridge or squanders it on a new hat, we all feel that husbandly wrath is justified. . In other words, we believe grocery money ought to be used for groceries. But how amazingly different the American hus--band behaves when someone else wastes his hardearned money. His domestic Reoldines sound inconsistent when we consider how gly he hands over his cash to the tax-gatherer without demanding any adequate “accounting of where or how it is spen Since 1932 Mr. Average American has forked over nearly eight billions for National Defense. This sum, appropriated by the various Congresses, presumably to be used for building up the Navy, the Army a their air forces. Yet, now that we feel the need for them, we are told that we are defenseless. Dire tales pour forth from thigh places, Warning of lack of ships, planes and machines. Maybe, that’s true. But, if 0, it seems -high time for the American husband to put on the same kind of a row he stages when, his wife and children can’t show full value received for the money they spend. He won't, though. You can be almost certain of that. For the Army and Navy exercise some kind of a voodooish power over him. Their names and doings are. gncrosanct. e considers it patriotic to increase their budget ever year and to trust them to do as they will with the money. As one editor so generously puts it, while whooping it up for another billion for defense, “This is no time to €ry over spilt milk.” Wouldn't it be wonderful Girls, it Papa were as lenient with us
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in cash and pay every year, young men pay in youth and strength. Curious cannot pay in coin; He says he has none. He refuses to pay. in service, backs.
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RESENTS RED LABEL PINNED ON LIBERALS By Geo. W. Benson, Sullivan
A few days ago Edward F. Mad‘We may need more det we need the kind
racticed—not Joe Stalin’s
20th Century Red brand, or as it is masked:
Social democracy.” I have been reading Mr, Maddox’s contributions, and he the anti-New
lieve in justice for the working man are as good Americans as Mr. Maddox. munism, fascism, naziism or French-, British imperialism, but we do believe in better wages, better working conditions and brighter hopes for our children. Ig that un-American?
We da not believe in com-
Frankly, I doy think Mr. Mad-
(Tigges readers are » invited to express their views in| these columns, religious con-| troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) .
dox would recognize the democracy of Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln if he met it on the’street. Jefferson fought for the rights of the worker and farmer and he was called a radical a Jacobin and a Democrat. In those days that was like calling Roosevelt a Red today. ' Today " Roosevelt stands in the historic barricades of Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln, defending the masses against the oppression of capital and he and all his adherents are denounced as Reds.
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2 » 2 URGES PREPAREDNESS AGAINST PARACHUTISTS | By Liberty
While armament goes on as rapidly as may be, the ordinary ob-
debt we owe us.
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server can see no obstacle to machine: gun nests on the roofs of buildings to take care of parachute jumpers in short order. ‘These camouflaged machine gun nests could .be scattered pretty
‘thoroughly through the country as ‘|anti-aircraft. j
If armament was rushed both for, national use and export much if not all of the unemployment slack would be taken up, thus releasing much of the government expenditure for the other activities which must be kept up. The CCC work must be kept up pending events. There can be no question about credits and arms to the Allies and that at once and any other oid practicable. ts 5 = = SEES NO CHANCE OF DODGING OUR DEBT By Frank Lee It looks as if we can go on trusting ourselves for that 45 billion With things the way they are abroad, there's no danger of us skipping the country.
New Books at the Library
ATHERINE MANSFIELD, dy-|lish ation has, through masterly
ing at 35, failed to realize her wish to produce “a full body of work.” Three Hooks published while she lived, were followed after her death in 1923, by four more, and by the famous “Journal” and “Letters.” She was another of those innumerable writers who, ironically, receive posthumously the fame withheld
{from them in life,
The great and exquisite talent, manifest in such short stories as “The Garden Party,” “Prelude,” “The Dove’s Nest” should have carried far the young authoress who wanted to write problem stories, nothing that is not simple, open.” J. Middieton Murry, Miss Mans-
field's husband, and a noted .Eng-
Side. Glances—By Galbraith
“no novels, no
selection and edition of her diary and correspondences created a deathless liferary {legend of longdead Katherine Mansfield. In “The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield” (Knopf) he presents “the final collection of her literary remains’— several shert stories; numerous plots and glowing “fragments”; cherished quotations from Tchekov, Keatts and other immortals; including Mark Twain; and characteristic comment on books and authors of her time.
Since she was a “lyrical? writer, |
frequéntly rejecting beginning, end,
plot, and climax, the stories in “They
although™ technically unfinished, are .splendid illustrations of her brilliant style. “The Scholarship” and “There Is No Answer” are . memorable of their nostalgic pictures of her native New Zealand; “The ‘Lies-Bleeding” and “Cassandra” all harbor the essence of potential short story masterpieces; “The Apple-Tree” and “Dark Hallow” are satisfyingly complete. . Much that makes up “The Scrapbook” was written in the author's lonely wanderings about Europe, hopelessly seeking a cure for tuber-
Scrapbook,”
{oY The shining courage in-
her pen to outpourings of such beauty and sensitiveness during those pain-racked years is an imperishable element of t& e “legend” of Katherine Mansfield.
’ , FRIENDS By ANNA E. YOUNG Though distance ‘hetween may cover
y a mile Yet ‘tis Triends. that help, make it . all worth while A ‘beautiful thing is a friendship
To find and old, “real folk, who care,
And the pathway of thought, that cl
magic lane How we. love to tread again, and saga It es. so deftly, ‘there Bringing real close," real Teles, who care!
DAILY THOUGHT
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old ‘time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment. —~Matihew 5:2 5:21.
here, now
MURDER ITSELF is past all ex- | Milk, eg which
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speed and efficiency and offered no convincing plan forgetting them. It reeks with a kind of timid fume
| bling that has carried England and France to the
brink of destruction, It was a third term political document rather than a formula for immediate: and effective defense.
Business By John T. Flynn
Higher Income Tax on Broadened Base Urged to Pay for Rearming
N*™ YORK, May 29.—All of a sudden nothing
has become so unpoplilar in Washington as the word “economy.” It's billions here and millions there, and to hades with the silly old horse-and-buggy 45- -billion-dollar debt limit. " It is probably a very small-minded* thing to do. Yet I venture %o ask again where the money is come ing from. Not that we hayen’t got it. But the ques= tion is—shall we pay it now or.hand the bill to the kiddies? We handed the bill for the last war to the kiddies ? and now the kiddies are 30 and 40 years old. We have handed the entire bill for Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal to the kiddies.- And now we are preparing another defense bill and planning to pass that along. It is the easy way for the man in office. But it is Yhe hardest, way for the country that has to pay the bill-—assuming that the country continues in business. I therefore suggest that we ought to pay this bill for “our” defense ourselves‘mow. Two methods have been. suggested by those who have studied war-time financing. One is the excess profits tax or war profits tax. The other is a general increase in ine come taxes and broadening the tax base, | One of the greatest illusions is that you can reach war profits i taxing the so-called war industries, Wat profiits—or war-preparation profits—are not confined to so-called war industries. The -big munition plant may make a lot of money, but its employees spend their; money in other industries that also make a lot of money. In fact any increase of business ene joyed by war industries is promptly spread around to * all business. Any tax to pay for war preparations, therefore, should be paid by every one. |
‘Everybody’s War’ = | |
One way of reaching war profits on all biviness is to impose & tax—very high—upon all profits made in excess of say the average for the three.years pre ‘ceding the war or war effort. The theory is that the increase in| | profits over the profits of these preceding ‘years will reflect accurately the war plums in the balance sheet. This may or may not be true. Any such plan would hit i industries whose preceding three years, among us, would be depression years, when profits were very low. It would amount almost to confisca= tion of profits in those industries; while other. ine dustries that had large profits during these depres ‘sion years—for special reasons, often because of gove ernment—might tend to escape. The waz, if it should come, will be everybody's war, It should be paid for by everybody. It should be paid oy increases of income taxes all along the line—from the fellow with a million down to.the fellow with only a thousand a year. And this subje t should be settled before we go any further, -
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