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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940

TWO MILLION MORE TAXPAYERS

HE House Ways and Means Committee has bowed to the inevitable. It has decided to recommend a broadening of the income-tax base, reducing the exemptions to $800 for single ‘persons and $2000 for married couples. When Congress ratifies this proposal—and it will because it must—2,000,000 citizens will thereby be added to the Federal income-tax rolls. | In our opinion these 2,000,000 citizens, instead of re-

: senting the imposition of the tax, will welcome the oppor- | tunity to aid their country. In times like these good citizens

do not consider taxpaying so much a burden as a patriotic privilege. ’ : ” » 8 o » » i Rates have not yet been determined, but the taxes of the new taxpayers will not be large. Most of the revenue to be obtained by the base broadening will come from persons

: already on the tax rolls, since reducing the exemptions auto-

matically lowers the point where surtaxes start biting in on the middle and upper-bracket incomes. This year there are about 3,000,000 income-taxpayers. Next year, when the new schedules become effective, there will be around 5,000,000. That is not many. This country’s population of 130,000,000 includes some 38,000,000 breadwinners, or would-be breadwinners—by which we mean to say there are that many heads of families or adult single persons. even with this broadened base the income tax will touch only the upper 13 per cent. - : ‘e think—the Government's imperative need for revenue being what it is—that the exemptions. should be still lower, adding a few more million citizens to the rolls. 1t is understood the committee balked at going lower ge $800 for single persons because it would thereby begin touching the incomes of some of the WPA workers. If that is true, and if statistics don’t lie, it can only mean that a few people on WPA are better off than a lot of people not on WPA. The

© | committee reasoned that if it taxed a WPA worker's income

the Government would be taking money out of one pocket and putting it into another. So it would. But isn’t that what the Government does when it levies sales taxes, which are paid by WPA workers and even those on direct relief ?

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. The Government gets—and, even with this proposed new tax bill, will still be getting—around 60 per cent of its total revenues from hidden levies. At least this much can be said for the ihcome tax: It is visible, direct, honest—and it is the fairest tax of all because it is proportioned to ability to pay. And it has one more great virtue—it makes for better (citizenship. People who pay the direct and painful way are more apt to be alert to how the money is spent. They are more likely to demand a dollar’s worth of good government for every dollar taken from their pockets. For that reason most of all we don’t want to minimize the importance of the step the Ways and Means Committee

: lis taking. It is a statesman-like approach. But whether the

tax bill will be adequate remains to be seen—when the

rates are fixed. The Government, in undertaking gigantic expenditures for defense, ought not borrow a single dime which can be raised by sound and courageous taxation now.

“ARRESTS DOWN, ACCIDENTS UP”

NCE again the Police Department’s official reports prove that when enforcement falls off, the accident rate goes up. That was the story of April as compared with the Mareh figures in this city. The story is always the same—whether it be Indianapolis or some other city. The relationship between enforcement and accidents has been demonstrated so many times that comparisons of the figures are almost useless. It has become a definite fact: Enforce the law and punish the violator and your streets become safe; blink at violations and suspend sentences right and left and your streets are nothing more than suicide paths. | \ The Indianapolis Times once more calls upon the Police Department and the Municipal Courts for complete and rigid enforcemefit and: impartially stringent punishment. Lives depend upon a determined, co-ordinated program. Let us save those lives! .

KNUDSEN AND STETTINIUS

ILLIAM S. KNUDSEN has taken indefinite leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors, and Edward R. Stettinius Jr. has resigned as chairman #f the board of United States Steel, so that they may devote their full energies to the Defense Advisory Commission. That is not only a fine and patriotic thing for two of our most important industrialists to do. It is a hopeful indication that they are satisfied the new commission is fo be a real force for preparedness, and not just a soundinghoard for, the ideas of Cabinet members and the White House. . : ) We hope they will not be disappointed.

EARNING NEIGHBOR LANGUAGES QECRETARY ::-WALLACE, addressing a Pan-American gathering the other night, not only pleased his audience but surprised many of his friends by speaking in Spanish. The Secretary has been learning the neighbor language in his spare time. = ; Why should this be so unusual? - Travelers to the South find thousands of educated people speaking fluent English ag a second language. They are immediately ashamed of t eir-opm inability. to ‘use any language but their own. Europeans going to Latin countries on business (legitiate and monkey) take good care to learn Spanish, Portuguese, or French first. Americans too seldom do. Secretary Mallace has set a fine example that could be followed by

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

' Communists Threaten Using Libel ‘Laws to Hide Identity .But It's ‘Doubtful if They Get Away With It

TEW YORK, June 6—The ‘Communists and their - common-law comrades in the Moscow. conspiracy against the form and substance of the American Government, have hit upon a device to prevent the American press from naming in print, for the information of the public, members of ESC Party and fellow-travelers, _ 2 The party rolls are Secrel and members who prefer to conceal their allegiance to Joseph Stalin may | use fictitious names. The fellow-travelers serve the

party in| the guise of liberals and radicals. The Communists admit’ these deceptions, explain-

they sailed under "Stalin's colors—which is another way of saying that they disguise themselves like Hitler's parachutists in order to penetrate American offices and plants. These offices and plants, of course, include Government offices and plants which will now be engaged in the manufacture of the tools and weapons of national defense. . | ”. ” ”

HE threat of libel action is the new weapon by a ide the conspirators are trying to forestall public identification. Libel is a great nuisance to publishers and if scrupulously avoided, but problems arise in which a paper or magazine safely avoids the threat of la libel action only by defaulting the obligation which accompanies the privilege of a free press. The Communists, particularly in journalism, where they control the Newspaper Guild, are familiar with the problems, and their method of intimidating the American press is to threaten to claim libel.

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through with such an action the defendant will fight the case to the end, so that it may be established whether it is libelous to point out the significance of certain conduct and associations by individuals or to

stituted political party. Men who defend communism and the libelous to identify them with communism or the party. The party, as of the present writing, has legal status, and under the American Constitution, whose protection the Communists and fellow-travelers invoke the better to work for its destruction, any man has a legal right to. believe in and preach communism. These facts being so, where is the libel? ! 8 8 =»

ND if it be true that a man with a long record of membership in the Republican Party, and of public abhorence for‘communism can be injured by a plainly false accusation of this kind, does it follow" that equal injury is suffered by a man who constantly associates himself with Communist projects and diligently pursues the party line? : Nobody is likely to accuse Robert Taft, for instance, of being a Communist or fellow-traveler. But a man who has played ball with the Communists, attended their meetings, promoted their projects and fought everything which they. oppose would not be in the same position. - It is a public service to identify avowed Communists and to unmask those who hold secret membership or go along as fellow-travelers. It is plainly apparent that the Communists run with the hare and hunt: with the hounds and that the public, more so now than at any other time, needs information which will permit it to draw conclusions.

Inside ‘Indianapolis About Soldiers, . Ernie Pyle, Silver

Dollarsy Racing and New Methods.

LOT of folks have heen wondering why all the “soldiers around town the last few .days. . . . It’s just the Indianapolis version of the fleet’s in.”... The Fifth Division boys.look sort of spiffy in their ‘trepical pith helmets and ‘summer khaki, far different from what they wore when they went South several months ago. . . . And that reminds us that there is at least one Indianapolis man who has seen the Army’s much-talked-about bomb sight. . +. ... Military men stationed where he saw it told him the sight was “practically perfect” at distances up to 20,000 feet, “ordinary” at altitudes higher than that. %g ? ® 8 =

ERNIE PYLE, your favorite vagabond, breezed into town the other day all well again after resting up from his illness at Biloxi, Miss. . . . Ernie caught a plane to New York and he said he planned to start writing his column again within a few days. , . . And along with that piece of good news, Ernie told us he was coming back home to Indiana to write some pieces about our state. . . . By the way, if you've been figuring on viewing the opening Grand Circuit races from a box (starting June 22) you'd better get busy because the boxes ‘are already twothirds gone. . . . Greyhound himself (the real MecCoy) is to run on the 22d. . : ! 2 2 =

A NUMBER OF OLD-FASHIONED silver dollars (you know, the old cartwheels which used to be given out on birthdays and anniversaries) have been turning up at the City Hall’s revenue window lately. The affair intrigued City Controlley James E. Deery and he promptly went into the matter. He discovered that they were coming from only two sources—City Market and the municipal golf courses. Mr. Deery doesn’t know why the cartwheels fail to come to the other City agencies. ‘We don’t either. We can understand a golfer trying to get even for a bad round, but we can’t figure out the Market angle— unless it’s wilted lettuce. \ . 7 8 »n SHINY NEW AUTOMOBILES: Ward Farrar of Loew's, W. H. Sinclair, and Roberta West Nicholson. ._._., Building a new house: Alan Kahn in ‘the4800 block of N. Meridian. . . . A new job: Horace Coats, ex-publicity man for Senator Jenner, now handling publicity for David M. Lewis. . . . New party trick: The Joseph J. Cole's children gave a party Tuesday afternoon and Mr. ‘Cole got four ponies to help entertain the young guests. . ... And while on the subject of new things, we ought to mention that Mrs. Charles Barrett, wife of the Indians’ pitcher, has to learn a lot of new traffic rules. . + . Arrested a couple of- months ago’ in Cincinnati, she told the judge the traffic rules were new to her, but that she'd learn them because she and Red expected to stay in Cincinnati,

/ » ° A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson id

| De be'it from me to pick a quarrel with Pepper Pot Pegler. But isn’t he moving out of his natural he-man role when he calls Col. Lindbergh to BYTE Jase ne latter failed, in his defense speech, to ring in the usual oratorical American ideals? i ; ; : ore show “His omission Gr these most sacred heirléoms,” writes our caustic critic, “was as conspicuous as any of the things he did say. Even when he said that the world beyond question was facing a new era, and that our mission was to make it a. better era, he still refrained from putting in a word for the preservation of the liberties which distinguish the United States from Gorhany and the conquered countries under the azi.” : 3 : Out of such sleazy material Mr. Pegler works up quite a mad at the Colonel and just nrisses calling him an enemy alien, : In the face of what Col. Lindbergh - did say, it seems a slight thing to quibble over, for obviously the Colonel was advocating rational. pregaration for the defense of something on these shores—and surely it ‘couldn’t be the Bunds, i f Col. Lindbergh is neither, a columnist nor a politician. We cannot, toteiRe expect him to be so verbose in his expositions and it- is quite probable that he takes his Americanism as he does his breakfast— without any chest thumpings. : * Contrary to certain journalistic views, the Colonels

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Defense of Industrial Areas Is Urged as Part of Arms Program

ASHINGTON, June 6.—An anti-aircraft regi ment is an outfit equipped with anti-aircraft cannon, machine guns, searchlights and a mechanical

All this is mounted on trucks and js designed to roll along at the motorized pace of a rapidly moving army, just as moder field artillery does. - 3 ‘That is all; very ingenious and necessary as part of any mobile army, but it doesn’t promise much. pro= tection to vital industrial locations, some of them far in| the interior, Even with all the speed of‘modern military movement, no formal field organization can ° surely do that, There is too much territory to cover. We can’t permit our hard striking ‘swiftly moving tactical units, or those we hope to have, to be broken up at every alarm and scattered all over the face of the map. 5 | But there is also a new strategy, economic strategy. We must work out a dependable defense of our great industrial centers. Nothing in our tactical defensive preparations thus far provides for that. Y ® x » .

N our Civil and earlier wars, the home guards fell into disrepute. They did not know how to meet the drill yard precision of regular troops and drill ground precision in maneuver was far more important than it is today. They had no discipline whatever, Our more collectivized and mechanizéd industrial sys= tem has provided its own organizational and ‘disciplinary forms which are not too different from military forms. Finally, men didn’t seem so well to know how to die in mass as they do today. We have become mere nearly inoculated®o horror and death. - ; We can far better depend on civilian soldiery than ° in our earlier days. Nothing could prove that better than the fighting in Flanders. None was ever more desperate or more deadly. Yet the bulk of the armies on both sides must have been kids of very short train’ ing and little or no experience with mass murder. ] At our first great battle of the Civil War, Bull Run, both sides ran away. Yet some of our kids went into the Argonne in 1918 and died there in masses with less than six weeks training and no rifle practice at all. In this anti-aircraft business, I have seen & National Guard regiment of civilians perform as well as could be expected of some regular regiments. ” ” »

NHE point of all this is that it is important for T us not to fall into inflexible military pre-war standards and, methods in getting ready to protect some of our cities and vital ‘industrial centers from air raids. We could put up some barracks where unemployed single men or single men on part-time jobs could learn to operate local anti-aircraft defenses, if only in exchange for board and lodging. They don’t : need to be physically perfect. They don't even need to be young men. > All they need to be is patriotic, dependable, de« termined Americans who are charged with the con«

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CRITICISES ACTION OF RECREATION TEACHER By One Who Knows Among the tangible and intangible

leader, “Understanding” and “In-

telligence” was supposed to he foremost. But at the WPA recreational school ‘at. Brookside Park, this does not seem to hold true. The instructor in charge of “Story Telling” chose a “Little Black Boy” story to exemplify the proper method of telling a story to the children. Being a mixed group of white and colored key leaders, a murmur traveled the course of the room. If was apparent to everyone present that the choice of her story was bad inasmuch as we were told that the stories of our children should teach a moral. Has not the day passed when our “morals” may include something more thgn to instill in the minds of our children an inferior or superior complex? Or does it become more obvious that the WPA directors are chosen of ‘meritorious service” rather than “merit?” This is merely one of a series of incidents that. has caused one of our leaders to question the fairness of their directors. For which he received a “418” or. warning of suspension. This will not be forgotten this fall. 7 RA CLAIMS WAR SAME OLD FIGHT FOR WEALTH By Albert S. Kunz, ‘Bloomington Everyone knew-that should the time ever come when Germany had pushed the British to the verge of defeat, a cry would go up from the Tories in this country to go to her rescue. 2 We knew this because in the last war, when she had her back up against the channel ports, the cries to save her were loud and lamentable. It was a cry couched in the same beautiful language of idealism. England, forsooth, represents culture and civilization, art and music and

and she is fighting “our fight” to preserve these good things and save them from perishing, at the hands of a nation of barbarians, a horde. of cut-throats led by a mad man who seeks to enslave the world. Only last time it was the Kaiser instead of Hitler! : Now, are we so silly:as to believe such special pleading? Are we going to gulp down such a complete distortion of facts? Why even a high school student can see that it is a fight for wealth and the rich

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owners of world-wide investments.

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aristocracy and Lloyds Marine Insurance and the British merchant marine would convince anyone that here is where the fight is going on. . This far-flung world-wide commerce and trade is in the hands of an international money group, who know no allegiance really, to: any country, It has its home mostly in London, with a spill-over in Paris and New ‘York; this group knows no patriotism, but trots the globe as a cosmopolite bunch of loafers, and swears no fealty to any sovereign

save wealth with the British navy]

as its protector ‘and champion. Hitler has called them Jewish moneylords. but there are more in the group than Jews. - : I demand (and it i® no more than every honest American citizen should demand) that every individual who has a place in a large corporation and who is urging us to help the Allies, state in black and

white his investments in the British}! empire, or in any international cor-||

porations doing business with Britain -as home office. It should be plain enough to show at a glance what this individual has at stake in the existence of this empire in commerce, finance and investments. Let us begin with some prominent American. like Hoover, Dupont, Austin, Hillman or Morgan. Just how much do leaders like Willkie have at stake in Britain or in British investments that they think we should go in and save for them? Surely they ‘are not so cold-blooded as to want us to go in. merely to save their finances! Mothers of American youth could 0 no wiser thing than to spot these oney Tories right now, and not wait to weep ‘over new-made graves in Flanders, Te. u’ = EVERYONE ASSURED OF

RINGSIDE SEAT FOR THIS By W. H. Brennen Seems Pegler and Ickes are due to give your readers one of the choicest of newspaper wars. Ickes is hard to stop, too.

Ickes will find Pegler bars no hold,

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asks no quarter and seems tQ enjoy it. | ‘IT doubt if Pegler will find a war with Mrs. . Roosevelt quite to his liking. She is the wife of the Presiident and is ready to defend herself as she did when she sought to be called by the Dies Committee; or the committee about conditions in the District of Columbia institutions. She seemed to be a winner. This Pegler seems to have won in his union fights and if he goes after Ickes and his aids the general public will get a real treat and it will be a relief to read something else besides war. : ® | Tell your readers about it so they won’t miss any part of it. This is going to be good. » ” » DOUBTS ANY GOVERNMENT WORTH DYING FOR Bv Curious 1 | James R. Meitzler: I was born and reared in the center of the county, where you now reside. There are many excellent qualities in our present Government, One is our school system which is by and for society and people and is therefore liberal and Socialistic and even communistic in its teachings. There are some good qualities in these latter two philosophies even though they do have other points that stink to high heaven. A capitalistic government is.no angelic paradise. The thing I particularly dislike here is the economic demigod called Big Business. It is said that the first World War produced 18 thousand new millionaires.. This one will produce 50 thousand new ones. Wars are fought for profit and by greed, camouflaged in liberty and that bug dust called patriotism to the power class. No Government is worth dying for, because if that is necessary it ceases to be- useful to the individuals governed by it. # # =n OPPOSES KNUDSEN AS ; JUDGE OF FORD BID / By 0. P. Gothlins » ; This is from yesterday's Times: “In Washington, Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early said Mr. Ford's claim would be referred to William S. Knudsen, new chief of production in the National Defense Commission. ; “Mr. Knudsen is president of General Motors Corp., one of the Ford Co.’s chief competitors.” ; This action on the part of the Administration is difficult to understand. To refer a bid to _the bidder’s competitor appears to be questionable policy. Mr, Ford's offer was made in good faith and, if ac-

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ably there is no other person in the world that could do it. That Mr. Knudsen will recommend the acceptance of the offer is a question,

JUNE CHORAL , By MARY P. DENNY

Hear the choral of the day Sounding through the country way. Choral of the bird at dawn, Song of blue bird sweet and low Sounding over grassy lawn On a wind-swept harp of gold. Chirp of chickadee and lark °* Singing ‘where the thrushes hark. Soft sweet twitter of the wren

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All far choral tones in tune 3 Singing, singing through the day Far deep harmonies of June.

DAILY THOUGHT Blessed are they that keep His

testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart.—Psalm

LOVE GOD, and He will dwell

with you. Obey God, and He, will reveal to yourthe truth of his

stant care of these delicate pieces.of machinery, who have been thoroughly instructed in their use, who have become proudly convinced that an important part of their country has been intrusted to thejr courage, fidelity and devotion, .~ = = We don’t have to have an expensive formalized military organization for perfection in every military

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Business By John T. Flynn

Defense Hysteria Logical Outgrowth ; Of New Deal's Spending Policies

EW YORK, June 6.—Senator George Norris is ' disturbed over the hysteria about the fifth column in America. He thinks it may lead to a breakdown in civil liberties. Others are beginning to fear the effects of the reigning hysteria. Their fears are not logicak Hysteria is essential to any defense program in this country.. Some 18 months ago this writer, net once but a number of times, wiote the following warning: That this Administration was floating along entirely on Government spending, that we had already reached the inevitable point at which resistance to spending was becoming imperious, that he Administration could be kept running only on continued spending of borrowed funds, that some means must soon be found to make this possible and that there was only one means left—a campaign for national defense. Se | This writer repeatedly predicted that at the first sign of real war in Europe there would be a’ tre= mendous drive for huge national-defense plans, which would be a perfect way to spend money and to borrow it! because the conservatives, loudest in their attacks on spending and borrowing, would lead the pack for more spending and borrowing. : i I also peinted out that there would be no way ta draw the American people along into such a vast outlay of funds for national defense save by convincing them that they were in [deadly peril of invasion, and" to do this it would be necessary to carry on all sorts of; propaganda based on the fear technique. I aiso called attention to the fact that since the day of the guarantine speech the President has persistently carried on this fear propaganda, and on several occasions I listed the dates and contelts of these shots at the public fears. - Now, of course, the frantic, panicky hysteria is in full flower. And some of those who started it’are a little frightened by it.

Being Realistic About It

+ However, we might just as well be realistic about this. Once decide that you want to launch the country in a swift, hurry-up, mad drive to protect itself by spending borrowed billions and, if you are in earnest and wish to proceed intelligently, you will start the hysteria going. There is no other way to do it, Of course, if real national defense—and not political defense—is the objective, you proceed somewhat differently. But whatever national defense we provide now has got to be hurried—it has got to be steamed ‘up to be under way before the election. There is no American—save the outright pacifist— who is opposed to real national defense. There are a lot of Americans who are not in favor of rushing this country into something that is not, national defense— that is one-half a plan to rush aid to Europe and one= half a plan to continue spending of borrowed funds. ’ It is one-half politics and one-half a plan for national offense—and | very little a plan for national defense.

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By Jane Stafford

Mer important thing for the first aider to remember in helping a person with a broken bone is| the need for great care that no additional dam.age is done. In simple fractures, in which the bone is broken, but there is: no wound, the bones will usually knit without trouble. 1 ; Compound fractures, on the other hand, are very. serious. injuries and may even at times prove fatal. In these fractures not only is the bone broken, but there is a wound in the flesh. Compound fractures,

broken in more than one place. The type with than one broken place is called a comminuted fracture. The danger in compound fractures is that germs may get into the wound and the infection may involve the bone. Such cases take a long time for recovery. | A broken bone may be suspected following injury if the patient complains of great pain, if he cannot move the arm or leg or other broken member, and if there is numbness of the fingers and toes. If a broken bone | is suspected, the injury should be treated. as sich wn a doctor is available. Neither the patient nor the broken arm or leg or whatever it ig should be moved until the broken bone is splin Splints prevent motion of the ends of the broken bone. If simple fractures are not splinted before the patient is moved, the broken ends may push through the flesh, causing the more serious compound fracture. oo Splints in an emergency can be made from many, Jhings. Light boards from broken boxes are excele'

or compound fractures, the Tmportant thing is to keep germs from getting into the wound.

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