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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1941
SSSHHH! YOU'RE GOING TO BE TAXED HE House Ways and Means Committee, working in cahoots with the Treasury, seems to be trying to evolve
a secret and relatively painless tax bilk : . The public doesn’t know what is going on behind the closed doors, and ean only speculate about the rumors that
creep through the cracks and crevices. And the fumors are |
that the “best minds” of taxation have worked out various schemes designed to extract 315 billion dollase of additional revenue, mostly in indirect ways which will enable only a | relatively few citizens to be conscious of the fact that they have made “sacrifices.” A large part of the new revenue, it is rumored, will be picked from the pockets of all citizens, no matter how poor they be, by invisible taxes which will be added to the prices people pay for certain commodities
Aviation By Maj. Al Williams
So Far Bombers Flown to British Have Escaped German Patrols, but There Have Been Some Close Calls
IGHLIGHTS on some wingtip news: American bombers (except the Flying Fortress type, which have sufficient flight range and fuel) delivered by air from Canada to England, have a crew of three—pilot, co-pilot, and radio operator. It is estimated that installation of additional fuel tanks for the transAtlantic jump requires about as much time as dismantling, disassembly and crating for steamship carriage. So far we have no authentic information of German air blockade patrols intercepting these American-built ‘bombers. But much is heard about narrow escapes, with one instance where the Germans evidently had been laying for one of the British fiying boats on trans-Atlantic service. The German air patrol had been hanging around the Irish coast, waiting for the big flying boat, and crashed against a hillside, apparently mistaking its position for the Irish harbor destination. One rumor that should be discredited is about the British paying transient American pilots to England.
| or others, $600 per German airplane shot down. That
one is a little too thin. Someone asked me the other day where he could get a good picture of the latest Japanese bombers. I told him that all the Japanese Bombers which don't look exactly like American bombers are spitting images of German Junkers. They are powered by Amerfcan engines built under licenses; British engines and German engines.
and services. And some of the new money, it is reported, will be raised by extra direct levies against the comparatively small number of citizens already in the income tax | class. That is the historic pattern for political tax bills— the kind usually expected of Congressmen who have their weather eve on the next election day, and who don’t trust the people to understand the hard facts of Government. Maybe we are unfair to the Treasury and the Ways | and Means Congressmen. Maybe they are really working out an honest and courageous tax measure, one that will lay direct assessments against the maximum number of | citizens, calling openly for sacrifices, from each according to | his ability to pay. But, if so, why the closed doors? Why don’t they take the public into |
It's the public's | money they are after. their confidence now?
IS SPAIN NEXT? HERE are evil omens that Spain is next on Hitler's list. | The familiar pattern of Nazi expansion is being re- | peated in that country already destroved by Fascist counter- | revolution, civil war, and dictatorship. Such a hungry | puppet land would hardly be worth the taking for itself. | But bevond lies Gibraltar, North Africa and control of the |
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twin-engined fighting plane, 110, recently shipped to
HE German
Messerschinitt this
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| THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Mount Olympus!
| country has knocked into a cocked hat all the wish- |
ful thinking of those who said German planes were |
built neered, and short of flight instruments. will disclose that this sample Me-110 has more flight
| instruments than our service-type planes.
The cannon mounted in the nose of the Bell Airacobra, America’s fastest fighting plane, recently
{ smashed half a dozen buoys anchored as targets at
about 1000 vards. The ordinary 30-30 machine gun is bore-sighted at 250 yards. That means that all the guns are so mounted and trained that their fire intersects 250 yards ahead of the firing plane—250
vards being the effective range of this smaller 30-30 | { machine
gun. The Airacobra is the only American fighter mounting a cannon and the projectile is an explosive shell.
| Solid projectiles must hit a vital spot to be effective
against modern all-metal airplanes. Explosive shells
| rip great sections out of the hit plane
5 HE mosquito fleet boats, of which we now hear so
much and which were first described to Americans six and seven years ago, were designed originally
| to harass larger warships with surprise torpedo at- |
tacks and to put a quick quietus to submarines The British readily appreciated that their seafiving bomber crews must be taught to hit fast-mov-ing, highlv-maneuverable surface warcraft, and conagainst these sea, These mosquito fleet boats are part and parcel of
swift, turn-on-a-dime wasps of the
haphazardly of inferior metals, crudely engi- | The truth
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1941
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you soy, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
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PRIVATE BUSINESS VS. GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS
| By James R. Meitzler, Attica
| ducted all their practice bombing, with small bombs, |
| C. O. T in Tuesday's Times, “A {man makes $6 to $10 a day in a steel | mill doesn’t mean much. It's how]
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than fifth columnists. that we still live in a land where we may speak what we like, Mr. Laramore. Remember, Mr. Laramore, the last time we got mixed up in the Buropean war, remember what it did to
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‘Gen. Johnson
Says—
Convoy Issue Now Stirring Debate Should Have Been Decided When Lease-Lend Bill Was Up for Action
ASHINGTON, April 22 —<Everybody in Washe ington is now discussing the question of cone voys—one more step down the inevitable and dreadful
path to war for America. In logic, the time for that discussion is past. That discussion should have been had when the Lease-Lend Bill was up for debate. That bill and the appropriation to support it put the President in a position of responsibility and authority for the conduct of this war by all the enemies of Gere many." It was based on the theory that guns sent to England were guns provided by us to defend our shores. Two alternatives were then possible. One was to give England unlimited cash or credit to purchase munitions here, If that had been done, we should have had no responsibility other than this “aid to Britain to defend America by all means short of war.” The other alternative was the one adopted— that we lease-lend to any country whatever arms
we believe would most eftectively stop Hitler, Our #°
President must now say where our arms shall bh sent and used to “defend America” and in that ea pacity he becomes the generalissimo And admiralissimo
1 of the anti-Axis war.
uw n o ONGRESS has approved that, The time to debate that has passed. As this writer said in his testi mony before the House Foreign Affairs Committes on the Lease-Lend Bill when the question was raised as to whether convoys would create such “disunity” that they would never be employed: “If we ever get into this situation and this bill is passed and wa are embarked on this course, disunity would weaken us in front of the world. In that event all I could do would be to go out and hammer the hustings for this bill in order to create unity. The time for you to decide this question is right now, and not to pass this bill and then rest on the possibility of disunity to have it repealed afterward.” Such is still the case. We haven't a fraction of the modern airplanes, artillery and tanks we need even to train much less to create the land army we need for defense. Of the little trickle that is begine ning to move off our production lines we are sending at least half—and I think more than half—overseas, We are also stripping our pitifully inadequate land defense and our far better naval defense of old armas ment and sending that overseas also. I have always thought and still think that all this is an error--tragic now and perhaps disastrous later, But the time to protest that policy passed with the passage of the Lease-Lend Bill. Before that it was the poiicy of the President. After that the Presie dential policy was overwhelmingly indorsed by the people's representatives in Congress.
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IGHT or wrong it was a decision more in military and naval strategy than a decision in diplomacy —a decision to defend America by American weapons used overseas in British hands even to the extent of withholding from American hands the weapons to defend America everywhere. But, wrong as that decision seems to me. once it has been made I see no worth in any argument for
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tying the President's hands and wasting our own substance by permitting those billions of dollars worth of American weapons to be sunk in the Ate lantic and rendered useless for American defense either here-—~where I think they ought to be—or abroad where both Congress and the President have decided to send them. His constitutional right to convoy American ships | anywhere except in zones prohibited to them by the Neutrality Act is, I think, so cléar that an attempt, by Congress to restrict it directly would probably be of itself unconstitutional. It would be another, and I think the final step toward war, but as I tried to say after emphasizing this opinion in my House committee testimony, the time to have thought about that was before passing the Congressional abdication
of constitutional war-powers included in the Lease Lend Act,
Western Mediterranean. So, in preparation for Der Tag, Hitler early got control of France, and followed through with a skeleton army of | Nazi officers and technicians for “relief work.” That was |
the new type of seapower machinery which fits the modern hit-and-run sea warfare. The super-destroy-ers of about 1500 to 1800 tons occupy the next larger brackets. Faster and heavier gunned cruisers will be the next The essential principle of all war has been hit
{the U. 8S. also remember how our great friend, the British Empire treated us after we won her war?
have a chance. Letters must
be signed.)
imuch you can save that counts {You can put me in favor of Government taking over defense indus- | Remember, Mr. Laramore, what try. Government would be more hei ti t is dead op | Winston Churchill said: “America’s " | their respective nations is dead | entrance into the war disastrous | i ; a ; | e war was disastrous (fair than our employers now
several months ago. Now the dictated press is pouring out | and run. rather than stand and slug. But from time | The young man's experience fiving. 8 new economic order is, bak not only for our country, but for the Toh A v ‘ f Qiaint TM Avi | to time men forget and expand given war machinery | : . : . Ing form in all nations “| Allies as well, because had you stayed the customary propaganda for Spain to join the Axis as pand g ar machinery |. 14 show him why thete is a|tators® which Within the next BEN= | of rote AN oie Ce Hae
| until it can only hit S | 4s : : » a full fighting member, Can only hi sng Cannot sah. At this point difference between private and Gov- eration will replace “Dictators,” |
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE idea that teachers suffer from constant cone
tact with juvenile minds, recently expressed here, brought forth a spirited retort from one who
| they revert to breaking the big units down to smaller | : : i [ness we would have made peace b 2 it ; y : : _ ernment-operated industry. He finds | with Democratic governments and | with the Central Powers in the Appeals to the glory of war and the glamour of African | righ can run, while holding all the hitting pow- it hard to save on $10 a day. All| will force the establishments of SO- | csring of 1017, and then reel Lhe empire do not stir the thrice-burned victims of dictatorship, The sinking by aerial torpedoes of the Italian I as Ut Js Sv £15) #4 economy throughout the. eo heen no collapse in Russia, foline : : A weak | : usiness is bu rid. : a | but assent of the starving is not needed. They are too it | ship, the “Littorio,” in the lonian Sea battle. and out of Sous The private Smplove The common man upon this earth down in Italy, followed by fascism, to revolt. The Nazis can take care of the fighting—they | the damaging of other huge warships by air bombs, oad? Ne vl Sa an iy ¥ | nid ig flutpaie on He tin | 20d naziism would not at present | | indicate that seapower experts will have to break the vol Evy Gon ; Re on X ¥. | pas let ali of us LT WH be enthroned in Germany. If Amer- | : To be | 35,000 tons of a single battleship into many ships of (risk them? Government doesn’t care. | breast and mind beneath our shag-| ica had stayed out of the war and And vet Hitler has hesitated for many months. To be | joxer tonnage, greater speed and more maneuver- ‘has all the costs of Government mined, as never before, for peace). ... i ld today b ie i + gh . pani \ y : ity, dri : EC uy ; {these isms wou oday be sweep- | sure, he is in bette shape for a Spanish fling now—what i SoU} BR plus taxes. If the private | and good will toward men, for the | a the Continent of Europe ep with his Balkan successes in the Eastern Mediterranean, (Westbrook Pegler is on vacation) employer loses he loses his own law of evolution proves the march |, eaking down the parliamentary : os : : ~ : money. The Government loses the of the little man is always upward. ‘ and hig control of ltaly, Sicily and Libya in the Central | private employer. | ing, strewn with bones and slippery| The man who wrote that now coni . | When all vou have to do to With blood has been man's upward fesses that England is lost without But obviously Hitler is haunted by fear of the fate of | finance & business is to vote an ap. | March. In spite of blind leaders of jour help and that “help” to them | T earlier “world” conquerors, who bit off more than they By John Te Flynn propriation and levy a tax, as the | the blind, Killers of the innocents,| means an American Army, supplied | . could* chew. The more he concentrates on the Mediter- | ranean and Africa, the farther he gets from home base and Channel. What if Gibraltar did not fall easily, but forced a long and costly siege? What if the 200,000 colonial troops in Spanish Morocco pulled another Italian debacle on him? “bridgehead” stirs the United States to more and faster aid to Britain? Few decisions faced by Hitler in this war have been | so fateful. None has been watched so closely by Wash- |
35000-ton battleship, “Vittorio Veneto,” or her sister [lowed by communism; no breakand the black colonial troops. It can always tax. Private business gy head of hair, toil more deter- |, 464 her own business, none of - taxpayers’ And the taxpayer is the | Long. cruel, bitter and heart-break-| BOVErRment. Mediterranean. Business Government does. it's easy to throw | Predatory beasts of prey in human) with American boys to die upon | the longer he delavs that all-out blow across the English What if his drive for the African-South American ington.
REOPEN THE MINES
HE President's proposal for re-opening the soft coal mines seems to us a fair and forthright proposition. | Of course we're not experts on the coal business, so there may be many angles we don't understand about North- | South wage differentials, freight rates and competitive | conditions. But among the things all Americans can understand | about this strike which has kept 400,000 miners idle for three weeks are (1) That many defense industries are running out of coal; (2) That the President’s plan will start | the mining of that vital fuel at once. And that, as the President says, “The public interest demands . . . and the public interest is paramount.” The Northern coal operators have agreed to the union's demand of a £1 a day pay increase and have come to terms | with the union on all other points as well. The President asks, therefore, that the Northern mines start operating at once under this management-union agreement. Why not ? : The Southern operators refuse to yield on the 40- | cents-a-day pay differential. The President suggests that they too start mining coal again at once, continuing negotistions with the union on the pay rates, and make whatever figure is finally agreed upon retroactive, ag of the date work is recommenced. Again, why not? John L. Lewis may think that's unfair. The Southern operators may think it's unfair. We don’t know how they feel. Rut we do know that it's unfair to draft young men to serve their country at £21 and $30 a month if the materials of training and warfare cannot be provided them. “We do know that it doesn’t make sense to tolerate any longer a condition under which industries which provide munitions for American defense are being paralyzed by a dispute which is already settled in the area from which it draws ite fuel supplies.
MYSTERY EXPLAINED
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Loan to British Tobacco Co. Here One of RFC's Strangest Dealings
EW YORK, April 22 —Since the Reconstruction Rinance Corp. was fopnded, it has indulged in
| a good many strange transactions—transactions whieh
were far from the minds of its creators when thev brought it into existence. But no transaction in its ih history will quite mateh the latest to come to light. The British American Tobacco Co. Ltd, is a huge holding company. It.owns in this country a large subsidiary known as Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. Between this great holding company and its subsidiary there are those intercorporate transactions so well known in the field of American high finance. The British American Co. owns the common stock of the Brown & Williamson Corp. preferred stock or at least a great deal of it, holds nntes for $10500000 for sums due its subsidiary, Brewn & Williamson. The British American Tobacco Co. also owns two other subsidiaries in this countrv—the Export Leaf Tobacco Co. and the Smith Paper Co, Inc. Now the RFC is going to lend $40,000,000 to the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. The company will use this money to pay the $10.500.000 it owes ite British owner, the British American Tobacco Co. to pay
also by
It it
| that same company $4000,000 for the preferred stock
it holds, and to buy from it the Export Leaf Tobacéo Co. and the Smith Paper Co. for $5.500.000. Another $5000000 of this money supplied by the U. 8. Government will be used by Brown & William-
| son to distribute ite surplus to the British American
Co. And another 215000000 will enable Brown & Williamson to pay off a loan it owes to the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.
All this is supposed to be a plan to enable the | British American Co. to avoid selling its interests in |
this country to help pay for British supplies ordered here. One wonders how the payment by the Government of a loan of this company to a New York bank
| is going to pay any bills for Britain in this country.
Merely to describe the transaction is to expose it to the wonder and amazement of a public which is already pretty well sheil-shocked by weird financial performances. And what will come of such loans when the war is over? In the last war Allied securities were placed with the bankers for loans made by the Allies from private bankers, Later the Government took over those loans and, of course, also took the securities held as collateral. When the war was over—although the loans were not repaid—the securities were res turned. We may as well make up our minds that the same thing will happen now There ought to be some limit to this sort of thing There will surely come a time when it wil! become the cause of strong and bitter feelings.
So They Say—
ARE WE PREPARED to pay taxes to establish the four freedoms in Hongkong, in Berlin, in Rome, in Dong Dang, in Moscow and in Jugoslavia, Turkey, Arabia and Ethiopia?—Senator Burton K. Wheeler to an America First eetihg. : WE TOO are lost if your faith in eivil liberty is bloted out by hate and fear of the temporary invasion oy liberty we have —Justice Curtis Bok, Phila elphia.
{money around. But when your sav-
It also owns the |
ings come hard, as C. O. T. with his $10 a dav is finding it, it's quite another matter, TAR | PREDICTS BIRTH OF NEW ECONOMIC ORDER By James V. Kent Jr, Hillishure. In this world of struggle for supreme power, and the retaining of ‘the contract feudal system of econ- | omy in the world today, either Democratic or Fascist in theory and practice, let us remember that the end of feudalism came at the Bat-| tle of Waterloo and contract feu- | dalism, under the guise of free men and free enterprise, was ushered in | upon the earth, but not complete [in the United States until April, | 1865. when Lee surrendered The free men and free enterprise, {which is the special favored 90 families in the United States, are] striving to save the contract feudal-| ism for themselves and their feudal- | ist brothers of the British Empire. | | Democratic people in any nation {upon this earth are not dead or dying. but the economic system in
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garb: despite much backsliding and many dark years in the future, what seems to be the end of this thing called modern democratic civilization, may be another of the
cruel turning points of history, in|
which the poor, blundering common man works his way out of darkness and despair to a brighter day, into a world of brotherhood of man, and always by the blood of the common man,
The rapidity that we Americans move in the affairs of the world, when we arrive at this turning point of history, and the establishment of a brotherhood of man in this everchanging world, whether by political revolution or on the battlefield, to that end we Americans shall not
” ” » UPHOLDS STAND OF WHEELER AND NYE By William Walker, New Augusta I was amazed yesterday to read the article written by Mr, Laramore. According to Mr. Laramore, Senators Wheeler and Nve and the rest of the level-headed citizens who wish to keep the U. 8. out of bloody European conflict are nothing move
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defend the most imperialistic, the most blood-thirsty nation on the face of the earth--the British Empire.
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TAKING A SLAM AT CENSORSHIP OF NEWS
news is growing more menacing | every day. An excellent example of | this high-handed dealing is furnished by the Malaya incident, |
According to Life Magazine the British battleship Malaya put into | New York Harbor on April 6 for | repairs. No mention of this was | made in either the A. P. or the U. P.| Only one metropolitan paper had the nerve to handle the siory, The | reason for this was the form state- | ment sent out to all news agencies by the Secretary of the Navy expressing the desire that this front | page stuff be ignored. The paper | that did print the facts was brows | beaten by both the Navy and the | President. What I would like to knaw is why | the American people are not entitled to such facts as these. The repairing of a battleship cannot he construed as being a technical seeret. But it is one of vast international importance. If we are involved in a war it is right that the people khow why they are fighting. It will be their capital which will make it possible. It will he their sons who will be killed, But in the light (or darkness) of this action by our Government the | only onclusion to be drawn is that the people are considered bright enough to make the money and raise the young men but too stupid | to decide the manner of spending its capital and ridding itself of the coming generation. The obligation of the press is to print all the news of vital importance. When it ceases to do this it might as well be dumped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean because it has degenerated to a lowliving propaganda machine,
A LIE By DANIEL B. STRALEY
It journeyed far and traveled wide Since it was given birth And lodged in every sort of place With mask of truth upon its face And garbed in seeming worth, To mar, or ridicule, or shame Indelibly a once good name.
DAILY THOUGHT
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us.—Psalms 67:1,
MERCY to him that shows fit, Is the rule.~Cowper,
European battlefields to uphold and!
By Karl O. Learner, P. 0. Box 248, Kokomo | # The attitude of the Government |& toward a strict censorship of the |}
believes the average juvenile mind mav be more interesting than the ordinary adult mentality-—and she may have something at that) But let's hear directly from hei ‘T do not think adult minds are in any way superior to normal children’s. Neither is a day with children any more degrading than a day with adults” (probably far less so, lady, would be my guess), “Children are often better thinke ers and better doers than growne ups, and also better sports. They are fair, they are kind, and they are, by and large, far more honest than their elders. “Their thoughts are stimulate ing. They share readily the bits of fun and informa tion they discover. They either like you ar they don't, and at least you know where they stand and needn't fear a knife in vour back. They restore your faith in mankind when it is ab low ebb, for they are appreciative, inspirational and challenging by turns, In all my experience I havy never found {hem habitually malicious or bad. “80, you see, I am subjected all day long to their company. The people 1 live with are little but they are getting ready to do big things. They keep growe ing and I grow with them. They're looking upward, No grumbling, and bemoaning ‘this awful world we live in.’ No tears, for yesterday, for they go forward to greet a tomorrow that they believe will be bright and shining.” : Such a reaction is sure to come from a woman who loves children, and only people who do should be allowed to teach. For only they are able to see the possibilities that lurk beneath the infant extere . ior. They have the imagination to evoke and keep’ before their eyes a mental picture of the adult who will one day develop there, if given proper encourage = ment and help. More important still, they are happ teachers, and it seems to me, we are very stupid to expect effective education in any system where a majority of teachers are unhappy.
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Q-—What are the several classes provided by See lective Service Regulations? A-Class I-A, available: general military service, Class I1-B, available; limited military service. Class 1.C, member of land or naval forces of U. 8. Class 1-D, student fit for general military service; availa. ble not later than July 1, 1041, Class [-E; student fit only for limited military service; available not later than July 1, 1941, Class II, occupational deferments, Class III, dependency deferments, Class IV-A, man who has completed service, Class IV-B, official deferred by law. Class IV-C, nondeclarant alien, Class IV-D, minister of religion or divinity student. Class IV-E, conscientious objector available only for civilian work of national importance, Class IV-F, Physically, 4 mentally or morally unfit. | Q@-—How did the number of strikes.in the United States in 1916, the year preceding our entry into the World War, compare with the number in 1940? A-In 1916 there were 3789 strikes involving 1,5909,« 917 workers; in 1040 there were 2450 strikes involye ing 577,000 workers,
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