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. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1941

THE Treasury is in with a proposal of haatls five billion

dollars in new taxes—that on top of the 81% billions voted only a few months ago.- > It is not 'surprising. : Indeed, with the Government budgeted to run 12 or more. billions in ‘the red this fiscal year it is only prudent ‘of Secretary Morgenthau to suggest that a larger share of : ‘the cost be placed on a pay-as-we-go basis. If the money isn’t taken from the people by higher taxes, it will be exacted from them in Tising living costs— for such is the inevitable result with purchasing power soaring at a time when civilian goods ral. for purchase ‘are diminishing, Details of the proposed new tare are not available— so comments, pro and con, will have to be withheld. : But there are certain guiding: principles which should be applied to all taxation. ; We should try to raise the maximum of revenue, to keep borrowing: at a minimum—and any increase in taxes ‘should be accompanied by a drastic c ment in unessential spending. - We should raise the money by direct and visible taxes, laid on fhe broadest possible base, and proportioned to ability to pay. And We should consider no social colts tax increase which has ahy purpose other than to maintain the adequacy and intagriiy of the social security system.

TT] | LABOR PROVES THE C SE & LMOST every issue of The C I. 0. News, official] weekly : publication of that organization, contains at least one scathing attack on A. F. of L. unions or officials. ; .Here, for instance, is a gleeful account of the extortion trial in New York, referring to Willie Bioff as “convicted panderer and boss of the A. F. of L: stage hands’ union in Hollywood, » and George Browne, international president of the union, as “a former vice president of the A. F. of L. who proved too ‘notorious for even the federation’ s executive council. Almost every issue of the A. F. of L.'s official Weekly News Service hurls brickbats at C. I. O. bio or unions. Only the other day it accused John L. Lewis of “deliberate sabotage of the national-defense program” and of “a das- - tardly and indefensible betrayal of the best interests of all labor in America.” “The bosses of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. agree in denouncing “the capitalistic press” for exaggerating’ the abuses that curse the American labor movement, That is one of the few things about which they ever do agree. Their motive for agreement there, of course, is to make it appear that there is no need for legislation to [Fequire labor responsibility. z Yet what they are constantly saying about each other —the A. F. of L. about the C. I. O., and the C. 1. O. abofit the A F. of L.—confirms completely all | italistic press” says in criticism of both. |

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LAST CALL FOR CONGRESS

BEFORE the Senate neutrality vote, the Administration 1

should take the false whiskers SE its “partial Tepea ” ution. Every member of Congress knows this is a vote on eclared naval and air war. But the public does not Lots of ‘people believe the committee report that

So far not one major # decision on this issue has Beet.

rank. The Neutrality Act was first amended in 1939, on the Administration’s plea that this would prevent involvement, Lend-Lease was passed with the same pledge, plus commitment against delivery and convoys. Even as recently as the H ous vote on arming merchantmen, the Administration f #o include repeal of the ban on Ameran deliveries to belligerent ports through combat zones— step toward farnkness that has now been forced in the Senate by Republican interventionists. | The honest way to vote on the President's blank check fo undeclared war is by:a straight repeal resolution. ‘And e honest way to vote on all-out intervention i is by a decla-Btion-of-war resolution. - Bei ” . 8 8s

HIS is the last call so far as Congress i 3 concerned. The United States already is part way in a shooting war r Presidential order, without Congressional consent—far ugh in that many members. opposing i ention think President, by an accomplished fact, destroyed Con8S ’ constitutional power ‘of choice, Ce y this would true if the ares of undeclared naval combat were widened. st that, no Congressional vote could undo the fact of war. ongress must ‘decide whether FE are going in, er: we ghall- try to limit it to 2 naval and

Tnited States goes to war or stays

the essential thing is that a clear constitutional deci1 be made in such a way as to Srengihe) our democracy to cement our national unity. | | a

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about then, which could be sniffed in New Yor

other end would say, “Naw, he ain’t around.

: be announced.—

it vindicates my conviction there was a big story in Hollywood in the winter of 1938, even though Teta ay an ogg on ve

daubt that any newspaper reporter

and I remember that my revered employer

same way about it, Jor he wired me, after { to 8 § While, fo come on back.

There were sharp fumes of larceny ‘in ork when the wind was right, but I suppose I was bid gh : First, I looked up Willie Bioff's union in ‘the Ho wood phone book and found several listings ye at ‘the same address and, selecting one at random asked

for Mr. Biof!, At that time they were spelling his name Byoft

and I knew nothing about him "except. that he was | - Chicago (which, |

supposed to have a police record in

for a professional unioneer, would bé more a ¢ tation ;

Several times Es time the voice. at th Naw, 1

dunno when he is going to.be around. Naw, he don’t

of merit than an embarrassment, called Mr, Byoff, and each time

want to talk to no reporters.” 4

Best You Can Say Is Dumb

THEN I WENT TO PAT CASEY, the labo: rela: tions: man for the industry, and Mr. Casey puzzled me up by giving both Mr, Browne and Mr. Byoff a good reputation. He said they weren't gentlemen, but were preity good unioneers, nevertheless, who had

‘gouged a few raises out of the magnates 1¢ or, the

studio workers, hard hit by the long panic. He said they were tough, but that union agents had to be tough in dealing’ with these movie capitalists.| How Mr. Casey could have been so innocent, he being so smart and so long acquainted with union relatipns in Hollywood, I just don’t know. The best: I can say for him is that he was dumb. : Another day I went out to one of e big studios to see Mr. Joe Schenck. Mr. Sch seem to think I had come to get his autograph or ask him the secret of his success, for he would not st BY. on the subject of union relations or say anything either Brownz or Bye and in about five min} tes T was outside again. I recall that now because here Mr. Schenck had a chance to expose Browne and Byoff and get them off his neck, but he acted as though he hardly knew them. A few days later an interview was arranged with one of the Warner brothers. I forget which one, but remember that he was vague on union relations showed me about his premises, which held no interest for me, and, finally, sat down and dictated a formal statement which said, in substance, that he wasn’t saying anything.

No More Than Half Told

A FAMOUS ACTRESS was a vice president of the Screen Actors and she agreed to give me an |audience, but then said she would have to confer with her husband first, I forget her name, honestly, but the husband of the moment was Franchot Tone; I sent word back that if the lady vice president-of the couldn't speak on union relations without |being coached, why just skip it and save my time. | So I never ed the famous actress. Crawford, thal was her name. The story ‘was there all the time. The payoff was operating and a lot of those oi e management side were falsifying the books to céver up the and paying themselves enormous salaries and bonuses

for this betrayal of their stockholders, as they have :

since admitted in court under oath. One David Bernstein, for instance, the tre and vice-president of Loew's who studied bookkeeping by mail and gets $243,000 a year for his services, faked entries on the books. Nick Schenck, Joe’s brother, was in on the play and Harry W one of the brothers testified that it was “good business” to pay the graft which was then concealed in padded expense vouchers or charged up as the cost’ of bribes to movie critics. - Well, the story is still no more than half told, but when this trial is over there will be further dispatches, you may: be ‘sure, about the business morals of the men in the movie industry.

Indiana “Politics

that “the cap-. By Vern Boxell

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! | ANTI-ISOLATIONIST Dem ocrats around here have Stepped. up the talk about retiring Louis Ludlow from Congress next year, and their latest choice to oppose him is Walter Myers, now Fourth Assistant Postmaster General of the United States. ‘The retire-Ludlow movement has been blowing hot and cold for many months and several opponents have been suggested at various times—Sheriff Feeney, Al-

bert Deluse and E. Curtis White. Labor leaders re-

portedly are leading the present movement to get Mr. Ludlow out. They've been especially active since both .the C. I. O. and A. F. of L, indorsed the President’s fs foreign, policy, which Ludlow has consistently

opp Posed "how ‘Mr, Meyers feels: about the proposition isn’t known. Friends who are g him say he would be an ideal candidate. A few years back he was a candidate for U. S. Senator. He is a long-time, popular party leader who has been back from Washington several times for speaking engagements pad 10 to .aid in Governor Schricker’s suit nm the Gy. 0. P..

“decentralization” bill.

If the Democrats should attempt to defeat Ludlow, who has served in the House since 1929, they face a difficult job. He has many personal friends in both parties, from all walks of life, who swear by him. He has been their friend in Washington, doing whatever personal favors asked of him. He survived the G. O. P. victory in 1940, He's a tough problem for either party to crack.

This Isolatianist Business

NEXT MONDAY’'S State Republican Congnittes meeting was called by Ralph Gates to take

up his program for winning over labor votes in the industrial counties, But some party leaders hope to

get at least two other subjects before it.

. For one thing, the Seventh District group \ which Ewing Eme will

is fighting District Chairman

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‘SOMETHING WRONG WHEN SUBS SINK OUR SHIPS’

By Raymond H. Stone, 531 E. 56th St.

The viewpoint of a former junior staff officer of % Vice Admiral in 1918 may interest you. Between concentration and blunderbust strategy there is a world of difference. There is something radically wrong when submarines and not airplanes are. sinking our naval ships. .The ‘Navy . is responsible and not a foreign power for situation. Nearly eight months have elapsed since the Navy began patrol of the Atlantic. Somewhere in the communication division of the Navy there is

1 glaring weakness.

There is no alibi for destroyers to be hit outside of airplane attacks (this side of the 15th meridian in|%V2 the Atlantic can be patrolled and freed of all submarines by a real secret communication system in the Nav, ss = = ‘MAYBE CONGRESS WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING’

By W. H. Brennan, 470 S. Meridian St.

It does look like both old parties are giving a little thought to this school refusal to teach boundary lines to our national capital. ... Why schools refuse to teach boundaries of our Capital may be giving Mrs. Reynolds a big headache down in French Lick, and many the rest of the G. O. P. and maybe a few on the other side. It is not war stuff and they want a little domestic gossip. This seems to give them all they want, and more too. No wonder they “talk of the several districts to regain. They now see why they lost them. Maybe both sides will have to come out in the open and tell parents of students and school children: they favor examining into this Inugster land racket. 2 Can a teacher refuse to teach

(Times readers are invited to express their views .in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

Sp poutidaries of our national capital? If:s0, can a teacher refuse to have flag: salute? It is very much alike; or a little alike, and can those who almost - in conspiracy refuse to be questioned? Maybe the Congress will have to do something about this soon. It is getting in their way. You can see that with everybody talking. Looks like Gates anc Bays would make them quit talicing about it, or can they? If it ‘does get into the Congress, ‘watch for a big bunch to jump out of this country for a while. They had it easy keeping schools from teaching anything much about Washington, D. C. But now if it is opened up by the Congress many will go to some other country and not wish to testify before a committee, J ~ You will find them slipping out all along the line, I think. It is casy to be on the wrong side until Uncle Sar oalla N10 YOU. That makes look different. : ca ‘WHY NOT SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE BIG PROFITS By John A Thomas, Madison | Pegler and The Times always cussing labor unions, John Lewis and Bill Green. Why not say some= thing about the big profits that the big corporations ‘are making ou’ of this war business, I see where. the steel corporation made a net profit of oyer 34 million dollars last year. The stockholders never made a cent of it, labor made it all, yet labor gets blamed if it asks for a living wage. Abe Lincoln said a mouthful when he said labor was prior to and independent of capital. If it was

{sumer is 50 per cent. When

{his own life.

.{Ross. For years, despite the ridicule

. Side ‘Glances—By Galbraith

be here, it is reported, to call the Committee's atten- |!

tion to its petition for a county chairman ‘election in Daviess County. The petition was presented at a meeting several weeks ago but action was deferred. And that old bugaboo, isolationism, also may be

the target of another attack. It’s reported that some

party merabers will try once more to get State Committee to make a definite stand. ¥ ’S statement by 22 prominent local Republicains | ud‘ing District Chairman William R. Higgins, defi Willkie’s position and urging the G. O. P. to concentrate on domestic problems, is an indication of the resent trend. It wouldn'iy be ments like this in

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an, | S0 They Say—

Officials solemnly announce a hundred years al

Hance with Great Britain, which simply means . :

‘ re-entrance into the British empire on

It out county coud one day become the sure of peace which the bot President Inonu of Puskey

Hitler's Completely understandable sae me ng pri ic pm eg : : Bedford, British

oe horrible—Duke of

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surprising to see some more ‘states’ A in the near future—with some State. f : officials Joining in. od ! eel

Senator Bennett C. Clark of Missourt, 1

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: § {World War and gave them handsome sums of money besides, fobbed | .| |off Ronald Ross with the shabby] | |gift of a trumpery knighthood. AN] | While the generals, now Lord This|. jand Lord That, spent the rest of}. se J |their days in moneyed ease and sat|

‘lis sad irony in the fact that the

| | Ronald Ross, crippled by a paralytic .{ |stroke, had to sell his valued papers

=~ leone PROVING GREAT, y | |n1G, BROAD: tavomANCE

not for labor capital would not exist, Too many people living off the sweat of somebody else’s face. The]. take between the farmer and con-

country tries to force labor to work it ceases to be a so-called democracy which it never was.

8 2 8 A’'FEW WORDS ON THE ‘SOLDIERS OF HUMANITY’ By A. Medic.

morial Medal for distinguished service. It is'the highest honor the association’ can bestow. The recipient is the senior ‘surgeon of the United States Public Health Service and investigator at the National Institute of Health ‘|near Washington. The ' deed that primarily won him the honor was his basic work in research into the transmission of sleeping . sickness, parrot fever and infantile paralysis. In this work, he twice endangered

It is to the credit of the associa~tion that it bestows honors upon the living. Too often in this world credit is withheld until men dead. Or if they are honored while still alive, it is grudgingly, given. There is the story. of one of the heroes of medical research, Ronald

and skepticism of his superior officers ‘in the medical service of the British army in India, Ross sweated the hot nights away, bending over his simple microscope, examining the stomachs of hundreds of mosquitoes. : Almokt ready to give up in despair, he discovered what for years he had suspected. He found the germs of dread malaria inside a certain kind of mosquito and was ‘enabled to prove that the disease was not “catching, ” ‘but was spread by the insects biting human beings. If men were protected from the mosquitoes, they were protects | from malaria,

Ross showed the the way to saving the lives of generations of men and women. But men who lead thousands of others to their death are often more highly honored. There

same England that made peers of} some of its generals in the last

as lawmakers in Parliament, Sir

in order to raise enough cash to secure the ordinary comforts of civ-

flized living,

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_ He was no shining figure in bril- oi

The fact is that we a few of even demonst: 3 ‘has been given a chance to do. hi: “system ‘of checks and balances, os one man set against another until ; heartedly into his job.| If anyone bunctious he’ gets his. |

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i definition of purpose. This is hardly i subordinates but in such a situation, any development ‘of the kind of subordinate leadership we. are dise | cussing here is next to impossible. ; Much the same thing is true in the Congress that is so apparent in the executive departthents. Really great men, in both houses, are so intent on listening : for “his master’s voice” that the great domestic legis - lative policies, without which even an effective execution of foreign policy is impossible, are neglected. There used to be a stereotyped subject for a ‘high ‘ school oration, “the eternal stars shine out when it is dark enough.” It certainly is getting Dretty dark but the eternal stars seem to have missed the train-—or maybe it is just that they can't make tate presence | seen in: the light of the ‘President's vast lunar effulgence. . 's

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A Woman’ s Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

The Americah Public Health As-| i sociation has presented Dr. Charles|- § Armstrong the gold Sedgwick Me-}

‘people are ur to Perish. for | - their principled. And, according : It in,

may be, but they do not submit. | | | Now, you may wish to argue that this Barbie | situation could have been avoided if France had been | prepared and Jad. fought with the same invincibility on the battlefields. Perhaps. But I doubt whether any military victories could have given such conclue sive evidence of a people united in spirit as: these Tt fille eam. | : on a grea ar i but somewhere ‘along the years between. sho X Jost h ‘soul. ‘She has found it on qi), 3s as usual, th e price ! of that discovrry is martyrdom for fay, :

Perish Rather Then Submit

GREAT MORAL AND poi disc have been successfully promoted by alone. hey never will be wi supremacy of airpower or A 0 hind the fighting and the Sam oF | be a living purpose, and to move men A y Heroic deeds and torture it must appear to them e noble purpose. : Dm The way Frenc is more inspiring score of battlefie sense, without g drums to give them courage, lay doy their 1 their country. Quietly, winoticed, and some igen are replanting the seeds of Sberty in a Dloony

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