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AGAIN—MORE TAXES “When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.” : QUR troops are not in the field. And may they never be! But even if we avoid actual battles and the tragic human aftermath of widows and wooden legs, we still cannot escape taxes and debt. The borrowed billions we are investing in the machines of modern war may, if we are fortunate, safeguard our peace. Yet our public debt will be swollen as never before, and future taxpayers will have to carry a tremendous burden. With the election behind them, Congressional leaders are beginning to admit this stark truth. : After calling at the White House, Rep. Doughton, Ways and Means Committee Chairman, announces that Congress will write a new tax law at the next session. The goal he sets is a limited one—merely to raise enough additional revenue to balance the Government's non-defense expenditures. Our self-indulgence would be lush indeed if, in a period of inflated war prosperity, we should shrink from taxing ourselves enough to defray the Government's ordinary running expenses. : “I don’t think we should pass on to future generations a dollar's worth of indebtedness that we can take care of ourselves,” says Mr. Doughton. How much stronger our nation would be today had that policy been followed over the last 10 years! . Now that the policy has been stated, we hope it will be adhered to resolutely. : x : » » ” » One sign which is at least encouraging is that this time the talk of and preparations for new tax legislation have started before the opening of a Congress session rather than at the fag end. There ought to be no “bum’s rush” in this revision. By getting an early start the next Congress will have an opportunity to work out a sound fiscal program. Here are some of the essentials to such a program: Remember that spending and taxing are inseparate; abolish all “regular” Government services which can be spared; curtail all others to the bounds of necessity; Stop the issuance of tax-exempt securities, not only to permit the Treasury to tap this source of income, but also to encourage capital to take risks in private enterprises which create more jobs, more wealth, more revenue —automatically enabling the Goyernment to cut down its outlay for unemployment relief. Build a tax structure which is “for revenue only,’

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thicker the cream which the Treasury can skim off and the higher the living standards of the people who will pay the bills; : For the bulk of revenue, shun those inequitable hidden taxes and levy the assessment direct on the incomes of the largest practicable number of citizens, on each according to his ability to pay. Strive not only to balance “ordinary” expenditures, . but as far as possible to pay as we go for the costs of defense—to the end that we shall not lay too heavy a mortgage on the future, which:will have problems of its own.

ATTN: J. EDGAR HOOVER QR correspondent, John W. Love, writing from Toronto about Canada’s war problems and efforts and the help Canada expects from the United States, closes his dispatch with this interesting statement: “Canadians mention at least one item they can offer Americans: A method of preventing sabotage in armament plants.

“The recent series of explosions and mysterious fires south of the border has no parallel on this side. With one |

exception, no Canadian plant has suffered any such loss. Canadians remember that after the last war the Germans

admitted they could not operate in Canada or from Canada. | tation, it is called. The ore is ground to a fine powder.

“The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have in their charge the inside protection of the factory buildings. Before the war they had their eyes on the obviously dangerous people, and since then they have worked out an effective technique to prevent sabotage in the plants. It is conceded, though, that Canada at war can do things the American Government cannot do now.” 8 8 8 Some time ago our Government sent J. Warren Madden to Canada to study the labor problems in the Canadian war industries. The principal purpose of the junket seemed to be to give Mr. Madden something to do in the interim between his retirement from the Labor Board and his appointment to the U. S. Court of Claims, It might be a good idea to take a hint from Mr. Love's article and appoint J. Edgar Hoover as head of the next mission to Canada. Mr. Hoover's G-Men have the same job of policing armament factories in this country that the Mounted Police haye in Canada, but have not been so successful—since it does not seem likely that all the explosions in:munitions pa in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere have been accidental. . Mr. Hoover's men have a lot to learn about preventing sabotage. Why not take advantage of whatever techniques the Canadians can teach?

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A HEALTHY SIGN

EARLY every day now we read a new attack on “the vicious press” of the country, charging sundry high crimes and misdemeanors, of which the principal accusation is that “the press”, does not publish news or points of yiew which run counter to the prejudices of the publisher, - And where do we read these daily attacks? Why, in

the columns of “the press.”

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New Books By Stephen Ellis

Story of Dean Coulter, Told by His Nephew, Reveals Why Educator Is Beloved by All Who Know Him.

HE BOOK OF THE WEEK-—for Indiana at least —is one concerning itself with one of this state’s really “grand old men.” The grand old man in particular is Dean Stanley Coulter of Purdue, now living in active retirement in Indianapolis. The book is nu - The Dean” (Purdue Alumni Association; $2.15). The author is the Dean’s nephew, John G. Coulter, former educator and newspaperman and now a writer of many books. Mr. Coulter has told the story of his distinguished uncle with sympathy and understanding. It becomes easy to see why so many Purdue men for so long have cherished memories of one of the kindliest and wisest of men. : A Dean Coulter's has been not Dean Coulter Only an outstanding but an eminently useful career. He has left his mark on thousands of men and the Purdue Alumni Association has done well to bring out a biography of its famed dean. It is much more than that. It is an exposition of the philosophy of one of the greatest educators in Indiana’s history.

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FY UNFORTUNATE human beings excite more horror than a leper. Hence, you might not like “Who Walk Alone” (Henry Holt & Co., $2.50), but the chances are that once you start to read this book you won’t be able to put it down. = It is the story of an American soldier who served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War and who, nine years after he returned home, a prosperous businessman and about to become a bridegroom, discovered he had become a leper.

The shock of finally learning the truth; the heartbreak of disappearing from family and sweetheart through a fake suicide; months of living in seclusion in New York, and then the decision to try to salvage part of his life in the Philippine leper colony—all these provide more dramatic interest than most novels we have read. What the years had in store for Ned Langford are a tribute to ‘the courage and resourcefulness of the doctors, nurses and victims of leprosy who built the colony of Culion into a triumph for medical science. No, Ned Langford’s life was not wasted. Two words can best describe “Who Walk Alone”— stark power.

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HOSE OF YOU who are thinking about Christmas gift books can give a thought to the “O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1940” selected and edited by Harry Hansen (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50). Benet, Rawlings, Boyle, Saroyan, Wright and a dozen other top-flight authors, all in a single volume,

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ENTION OF TOP-FLIGHT authors and celebrities runs right into “Famous Recipes by Famous People” (Lane; $1), a riotous combination of food and wit. Compiled and edited by Herhert Cerwin, the book has an introduction by the late Bruno Lessing and even if you're not interested in Walt Disney’s “Silly Symphony Souffle” or Mrs. Roosevelt's “My Supper” you'll get a lot of fun out of this one,

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TRUST YOU'RE {following Dr. Hermann Rauschning’s “The Voice of Destruction” now being published by The Times. You'll be interested to learn that the Alliance Book Corp. reports that Bucharest booksellers are doing a roaring business with Dr. Rauschning’s books. The German legation buys up whole consignments as they arrive from abroad. All the wily booksellers have to do is to fill their windows with the book and await the arrival of the Nazi attache with a check.

Business By John T. Flynn

War Brings Boom to Lead Mines, But Delays Solving Basic Problems

OPLIN, Mo., Nov. 22.—Here in this Southwestern city, 5000 miles away from war—is a perfect example of what the war does for our business, One is not in Joplin 10 minutes when he begins to hear about “ore.” That means lead and zinc ore, This city is the capital of that tristate lead and zinc region that once dominated the market. The last war made Joplin a hoom city roaring with prosperity. Zinc, which sold for 43% cents, went to 13 cents—higher at times. Lead went from 4 to 9 cents, New mines were opened. New machinery was installed. Owners grew rich. Miners danced in the streets. After the war, though the price went down, the prosperity continued. . America supplied two- ; thirds of the world’s zinc and lead. Then something hit Joplin and the lead mines. Three things hit them, For one thing the depression

also foreign countries developed new sources. That's an interesting story of the romantic vicissitudes of business. Zinc and lead are found in the same ore. The particles of metal are fairly large in American mines. The ore can be ground up rather coarsely and the metals separated by plunging the whole mess into liquids of properly specified gravity. The heavier particles sink, the lighter ones remain suspended, the

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UT many foreign ores are different, The metals

are all mixed up in the ores so closely and in|

such minute particles that they could not be separated. Then someone invented a new method—flo-

Thus zinc and lead and maybe copper in the same ore are reduced to a powder in which each particle is one of ‘these metals. They are plunged into a bath, Air bubbles are forced in from the bottom. For some reason lustrous metal will cling to these air bubbles. The zinc clings to the little air bubbles and rises to the surface with them, . That brought a world of foreign mines into production. Very soon we were producing only a third of the world’s supply. Prices declined. Then a second blow came. Our State Department under the reciprocal trade agreements reduced the tariff on zinc and lead by 20 per cent in a treaty with Canada, Au-

tomatically that cut the tariff on lead and zinc from.

most big foreign producers. The price of zinc sank to 4% cents. The price of lead sank to 5 cents. The industry was in grave straits. It had a group of Problems on its hands—tariff, technological, price, abor. Today it is prosperous again—but none of these problems has been touched. The war slowly shut off many foreign sources of competition. Now it is buying again. Prices rise—zinc prices have almost doubled. But it is prosperity only for the duration. The day the war ends the industry will face all over again its unsolved problems and its difficulties.

So They Say—

THAT WAS just a campaign gesture.—G. U. Harvey. Queens G. O. P. leader, announcing change of his decision to move Jo Canada if Willkie lost. * -

THERE ARE issues before us that transcend personality; issues that need not merely a President, but the intelligent interest of the people—Norman Thomas, defeated Socialist candidate for President. . » LJ] »

COLLEGE teachers need not be ashamed of a vocational taint disturbing their preoccupation with the liberal arts if they are also. helping the vocations to become themselves liberal arts.—Dr. Ordway Tead, chairman, Board of Higher Education.

COLLEGE GIRLS of today are very well balanced emotionally and socially, but English grammar is something they don’t seem to have been concerned with.—M. P. Nelson, the Career Institute, “ » we -

PROFITS will necessarily have to become secondary and nation security.first.—Navy Secretary Knox.

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THANKS US FOR PRINTING “VOICE OF DESTRUCTION” By Ray Weber May I congratulate your newspaper for printing

every American needs to read to get a true perspective of the aims and ruthless ambitions of Hitler. Let those who still believe in appeasing such a mentality ponder the type of mind they propose to deal with. You can’t appease a snake.

4 = A POLITE BOO FOR ANTI-NOISE CAMPAIGN

By J. C. No one was more earnest in his applause than I when. a few weeks ago, a civic committee was named for dealing with the noise nuisance

in Indianapolis. The applause, of course, was properly muted in keeping with the event. No one was more hopeful than I when it was announced that there would be a week of comparative silence observed in the City, and no one was more disappointed, either, with the result. And no one is more startled and annoyed, in the order named, when impatient drivers still blow their horns at pedestrians who are doing all they can do at the time to scramble out. of the way. Also, why do trackless trolley horns have to be built apparently on the general supposition that in some emergency some time they will have to be heard three miles away?

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TO JULIUS CAESAR By Harry E. Royse It would be enlightening to many people if they would read or re-read the life of Julius Caesar and note the striking similarity of his life and that of Franklin Roosevelt. Caesar's father was rich and he was a pampered child, raised in the lap of luxury, His mother’s family was one that was very prominent in the affairs of Rome. When his father died Caesar's mother started early to train him

for a political life. To gain political

“The Voice of Destruction.” It is something that

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power he courted the friendship and support of all the radical elements of his time. His unstinted spending of public funds made him a popular idol with the rabble to such an extent that the Roman Senate granted him the sole right of disposal of public funds —a blank check upon the treasury. He changed most everything—even the calendar, they didn’t have a Thanksgiving day then: The Senate finally granted him the power to declare war. Little wonder this adulation promoted and paid for by the lavish spending of public funds still further augmented his exaggerated ego to such an extent that he caused a special vault to be erected to house all his writings—even as Hyde Park.

” nn DEAN KERSHNER URGES HELP FOR BRITISH

By Frederick D. Kershner, versity.

I have read with much interest the letter of Dr. Jean S. Milner, concerning American help to Eng-

land in the present World War. I wish to indorse Dr. Milner’s position most thoroughly, and to add another word which it seems to me is of the utmost concern to religion and to all religious leaders at the present time. The matter to which I refer is the absolute necessity for developing some kind of law and order in the world which will make the present anarchic situation impossible and obsolete. All true lovers of peace will support the cause of democracy in the present conflict. If democracy is defeated, it is difficult to see how that

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eliminate war, can he established.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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Those who hate war and love peace must therefore do all they can to secure the success of the democracies to the end that a world order which shall forever banish war shall be made possible. If Hitler wins the war even though America should be able to defend herself against the rest of the world, it would mean such a mounting burden of armament cost that living conditions in time would become intolerable. We have everything at stake in the present conflict with Europe. If we really want to get rid of war and to establish permanemt peace, we must throw all the support we can to England and the democracies who are now in a very real way fighting our battles for us.

” » ” WE TAKE A BOW FOR OUR ELECTION STAND By E. C. T. First, I want to congratula’': you on your stand in the recent election, not only for your choice of

President, but for Mr. Ludlow, our representative.

during these critical times.

for President.

in your Nov. 16 edition. She says Mr. Willkie has “egoism” —whatever that is. But if that’s what he has, I wish she would let the present Administration in on her secret so that they might acquire some. She says the majority of the people preferred our President, and, in this, she is quite correct. But, does she know that this majority came from the half-million additional Government employees of this Administration and the remainder from the ones who are unnecessarily on relief and not from the free thinking people remaining in this great country of OURS? Neither did it come from the ones that are on relief due to the shortcomings of this administration. And what gave her the idea that Great Britain is “overjoyed” at. the Presidential re-election? Does she think Churchill is going to call us dummies and refuse our aid, which

England, because we didn’t have enough foresight to select the man of his choice? . If this doesn’t prove that she has lost part of her marbles, you have only to turn to the Nov. 13 issue of vour paper and try to find the letter to which she refers. Like Helen Hollett, it isn’t there at all. i

THE LONE WOLF

By H. D. SWIGGETT As the northern lights do flicker, In that land so far away, One thought is bound to dicker, In the silence of the day. The old lone wolf he howls, And by nighttime he does prowl, But he gets his own salvation, In the courage of his howl.

He is hunted and is tracked, O’er the frozen wastes so bare, But not once does he worry, » Once he reaches his own lair. Man is his mighty mortal foe, Who hunts him day and night: But wise old wolf, he does say no, And streaks away into the night.

DAILY THOUGHT

Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.—Matthew 5:7,

WILT THOU draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them then in being merciful; sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge—~Shake-

speare.

Time has already ‘proved your, § wise selection of the latter by his opinions on the recess. of Congress |} Time| § also will prove that you were cor-|} rect in your selection of Mr. Willkie

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Mr. Willkie Must Earn His Living, But at What, Proves Big Puzle; Political Avenues Seem to Be Closed.

ASHINGTON, Nov, 22 —Raymond Clapper, suge gests that if Wendell Willkie harbors 1044 aspirations, he ought to get himself a job as a college president. Mr. Willkie denies that any college has sufficiently urged him. The suggestion is obviously wise, but it doesn’t click very well, Colleges ought not to be in polie tics. Once every four years every man, including college president, must take sides. But, for a cole lege to choose as its chief a pare tisan leader who, by his very ace ceptance, suggests not only his candidacy but the use of the cole lege job to promote his candidacy —I think not. Unless Mr. Willkie is completeI cured of the Presidential bee bite he is on a tough spot, and no man who comes that close is ever completely cured. He doubtless has the refusal of dozens of lush jobs from great corporations and corporation law firms. As he learned in the came paign that's out—too great a handicap. In his adopted state of New York, the political avenues are closed. - Tom Dewey is in front for Governor and Bob Moses for Mayor. It certainly would be no cinch for him to hop from Indiana into the national legislature or the Governorship. If he tries and flops, he’s out. » ” "

has been suggested that he write a column. May his guardian angel forbid. You have to take a position every day on momentary issues as they arise. If you guess right 50 per cent of the time, you're good. As a political aspirant, if you guess wrong 10 per cent of the time, you're through. “Oh that mine adversary had written a book!" On top of all of which, Mr. Willkie doesn’t write too

well and you can’t keep up a column just on your shape. There is nothing for him down that alley. An occasional dissertation would be both necessary and desirable—but a continuous output would be fatal. As I understand it, in spite of all the campaign dirt, Mr. Willkie doesn’t have enough money to do nothing, He's got to earn his lviing. It would be bitter irony if a man who so amazingly captured the loyalties of so many people can’t earn his living in the work to which he is best suited, and still retain his justifiable ambitions—but so it seems to be, Mr, Willkie’s performance was amazing. Starting practically unknown, in a few months he captured not only the nomination but the votes of nearly half our people and it cut deeply into Mr. Roosevelt's 1936 majority. He did it in spite of terrific handicaps. But does that make him the Republican white hope for 1944? ” ” ” T was done in spite of, rather than with the aid of the professional Republican political organiza tion. In some places they sold him out. It was done largely by young and enthusiastic amateurs and Democratic third term opponents in Willkie clubs, Mr. Willkie bids them to continue—but not as Willkie

clubs. But if they are not going to Willkie clubs, what are they going to be? If they are going to peter out for want of Willkie, the field is wide open to professional Republican politicians in Congress and the States. There is another difficulty. Many observers believe that Mr. Willkie lost because he did not make issues, He left few for present debate. His biggest one, the third term, is settled forever. This column, for exe ample, supported Mr. Willkie in 1940, but now in the complete absence of foreknowledge of leaders and issues in 1944, and the obscurity of issues now—even of a great clear-cut lost cause—I can’t know where it would stand in 1942, much less in 1944, My guess is that a good many of Mr, Willkie's 45 per cent must feel the same uncertainty.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HERE'S something about Lincoln .that draws the heart out of you. No other American has ever been so loved. The ugly, gangling, Abe, boy, man, President and martyr, has had enough books written about him to fill a library. I was glad to find a late one which has a special appeal for boys. “For Us the Living (Stokes), written by Bruce Lancaster, is the sort of thing that will settle your restive lad down to an evening or two of concentrated reading. A swashbuckling, rowdy book! It has a toughness about it in keeping with the tough times it recalls, those days in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, with the sod breakers, the keelboaters, the movers, and for good measure a glimpse of the founding of New Harmony, the early socialistic ven=

English followers. Hugh Brace is the central figure, but Hugh's best friend is a lad named Abe Lincoln, Although dressed up as fiction, the stories about Lincoln are authentic; they ring true. Moody and merry by turns, the boy Abe is always trying to ‘figure things out.” He moves through the novel, towering above other men, as he moved through the life of those times, without guile or egotism, a simple man with simple ways, motivated mainly by love for his fellows. It’s all there, his hunger for books, his keen desire to know what went on outside his own narrow circle, his wonder about the meaning of life, and his longing to make it richer for others. : The hardships are there, too, and clear as an etching we get the picture of the making of middle America out of which came a man with whom even now the debunkers can find no fault. Let your son become. better acquainted with that man when he was a growing boy. It will help him to understand what makes this country great.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OST mothers know that the food their children eat has an important influence on their health, and that if the youngsters are to grow strong and healthy, they must eat meals planned to include all diet essentials. It is hard, however, to remember all -the things one learns about diet ‘planning. Many

| mothers have learned that the job is simpler if they

keep a check list of necessary foods and consult it each day when planning the family’s meals. The U. 8, Children’s Bureau suggests the following daily check list of nourishing foods for growing children: . Milk: One and one-half pints to one quart a day for each child. Butter (or oleomargarine that contains added vitae min A): At every meal. Fruits and Vegetables: At least four servings a day for each child. In choosing them, consult this list: A fruit or vegetable rich in vitamin C:: Oranges, grapefruit, tomatoes, green leafy vegetables, cabbage, turnips. . ] A vegetable or fruit rich in vitamin A and in iron: Green leafy vegetables, other green vegetables, yellow vegetables, yellow fruits, ripe tomatoes. ? Potatoes: At least one serving a day. Another. serving of some kind of fruit or vegetable every day. : . Eggs: One a'day for each child if possible; at least four or five eggs a week for each young child. Meat or Fish: Once a day, or at least four times a week. . Cereals and Bread: One serving of cereal a day for each child; bread according to appetite and eneigy, needs, perhaps at every meal. ; re Sweets: For dessert, if appetite allows, after the other foods listed have been eaten. :

Cod-Liver Oil: Every day.