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MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1042

TO WIN THE WAR—AND THE PEACE

BY the Memorial day address of Undersecretary of State Welles, and the May 8 speech of Vice President Wallace, the United States government is on record that we must win the war and then go on to win the peace. To wipe out the aggressors is necessary but not enough. The military, political and economic conditions which breed dictatorships and wars must be curbed. Men equally wise and good will disagree as to methods, and out of such public discussion of an age-old problem may come more favorable plans than those which have

collapsed. But most Americans, we believe, will accept in purpose the general declaration of peace aims made by Mr. Welles on the of the Atlantic charter. Specifically:

“That

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no element in anv nation shall be

years of want and of starvation.” r = HAT, following defeat and disarmament of the aggressors, the united nations must provide security and facilitate reconstruction “until there is established that permanent system of general security promised by charter.” That the western hemisphere regional system based | “sovereign equality, en liberty, on peace and on joint | resistance to aggression . . . should constitute a cornerstone in the world structure of the future.” That the economic problem is “one of distribution and purchasing power: of providing the mechanism whereby the people of the world may obtain the world’s goods and | services.” That “our victory must bring in its train the liberation | of all peoples. Discrimination between peoples because of |

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their race, creed or color must be abolished. The age of | imperialism is ended.” It 1s a big order. But permanent world peace can be | had for no less. TWO OBJECTIONS THEN you hear or read of the “interest” expressed by high officials in new schemes to supply more gasoline | for eastern civilian use, you will keep your perspective bet- | ter if you remember two things: | First, that the steel required for the Texas-to-New Jer- | sey pipeline, which would be the most efficient relief agency, is enough to build 120 ships with which to transport and | service troops. Second, that the more gasoline we have, | the less rubber there will be soon thereafter—and we can’t | pipe rubber to the East from Texas, or vice versa.

DEBTS AND TAXES wo ECRETARY MORGENTHAU and members of the con-

gressional taxing committees deserve praise for taking | |

interest in a serious tax problem-—the problem of debts. Not all corporations have war contracts, or expanding | business volume and income. Thousands of companies, | upon which millions of workers depend for employment, are making much less money than when they were free to produce or distribute peacetime goods or perform peacee time services. A great many of them face bankruptcy. It is in the public's interest, and the treasury’s, to keep these companies in business. They are the geese that laid | golden eggs in the past, and they will lay more eggs in | the future if they survive. They are companies that must | be depended upon to provide jobs, when the men come home | from the wars, and to lead in building peacetime prosperity. = = = = = HEN the government first started taxing corporate | income, the initial tax rates of 2 or 3 per cent made little difference. After the first World War, when the rate | was fixed for many years at 121,%. most firms with a’ normal debt structure paid that in their stride.

With ti opressio orpor: : Jimi R : th the depression the corporate rate climbed to 1 | President Roosevelt ever Sponsored.

| congress during the first year of his first term and | repealed the next.

per cent, and the pinch began to be feit. When it was hiked again, to the present 249%, it really began to hurt. Now. with proposals before congress to tax normal corporate income at rates of 40 to 557:, many corporations can no longer keep their heads above water. Bear in mind that the rates mentioned here are not

have no excess profits. They are the normal corporate in- | come {ax rates, remaining fixed even when income declines. s EBTS come before dividends, so most of these corporations have already stopped paving dividends.

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will have to stop paying their debts. When that happens

their eredit will be gone and there will be no course left

So They Say—

We're glad Secretary Morgenthau and the tax leaders in congress are giving attention to this serious problem.

but to close down and discharge their workers.

One proposal—which makes sense—is that business firms

inccme, say 14 or 15 per cent, for the retirements of debts.

mobiles, costing to operate for the full year £16,640, and they traveled 851,271 miles. “The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has 67 automobiles, costing to operate $25,000, and they traveled 500.000 miles in the last year. “The federal loan agency has four automobiles. costing to operate 8602. [It has five full-time chauffeurs for these four

forced to ! atone vicariously for crimes for which it is not responsible, |

and that no people shall be forced to look forward to endless | dente”

{| with the war. . . . . | sion. excess profits taxes—for most of the companies concerned |

Taxes | come before both debts and dividends, as many of them |

automobiles.

The federal power commission has 15 automobiles, |

osting to operate $3527 for the last year, and they traveled 37,000 miles. The commission has two full-time chaufurs. — (Senator Byrd of Virginia, from The Congresnal Record.) sou

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South America

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, June 1.—There is reason to believe that Brazil would follow Mexico's example and

declare war against the axis, provided the United States chased German and Italian U-boats out of American waters. Argentina and Chile, the only two hold-outs in the western hemisphere, probably also would sever relations with the axis powers once the United States and its allies began to get the upper hand on the sea and in the air. In Brazil popular opinion is increasingly for war. The people are beginning to feel the pinch due to lack of shipping. They see their coffee, cotton and other exports piling up in the warehouses while the things they must import—now almost entirely from the United States—are simply not arriving. Like the Mexicans, their anger is rising against the Germans and Italians whose submarines continue to play havoc off their shores. Even in Argentina, which likes to think of herself as least American of all the Americas, anti-axis sentiment is mounting for much the same reason. When the chamber of deputies met in Buenos Aires Thursday for the first time since Pearl Harbor, Acting President Ramon S. Castillo seemed definitely on the defensive.

Following Policy of 'Prudence’

ARGENTINA'S SOLIDARITY with the United States, he took pains to explain, if founded on a firm geographic and historical base. But, he added. her

| action in granting non-belligerency status to the U. 8.

is really “the best way’ for the moment. (Under this arrangement American warships may enter and leave Argentine ports as in time of peace.) He said he was merely following a ‘policy of pruIf attacked, Argentina would fight. Meantime she could be “more useful” to her friends of the western hemisphere by refraining from “extreme measures.” Chile's policy is much the same. There is no doubt, however, that the mounting submarine toll in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico is seri-

"| ously undermining U. S. prestige in Latin America. the Atlantic |

And axis propaganda is working the theme overtime,

Axis Working on This Theme

TOGETHER, THE ABC powers—Argentina, Brazil, Chile—and Peru can muster some five more or less ancient battleships, eight cruisers, 34 destroyers,

| 17 submarines and about 50 gunboats, coast patrols,

monitors and other craft. Brazil has nine destroyers

! under construction,

Were these four powers to enter the war, and were the United States better able to chip in some additional warships, South America's position would be much less critical. A fairly effective convoy system might be provided for inter-American shipping. But unfortunately the U, S. navy is scattered in

| the Pacific and Far East as well as in the Atlantie,

and can't spare enough ships to protect its own front vard, right now, let alone South America. Brazil is keenly aware that she is thousands of miles nearer to the African port of Dakar, a possible axis base, than to the U. S. So is Argentina. Chile is 1000 miles nearer to Papete in the south Pacific, than to San Francisco. If the axis seized French Dakar, and the Japs advanced to the French islands of the Pacific. South America would be in real danger. So some of her politicians are frankly hedging. Like Acting President Castillo. they are following a “policy of prudence.” At least until the United States can take the measure of the U-baats.

The Labor Vote

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, June 1.—A lesson for those who lean too heavily on single group support for success in politics may be gained from his experience, Rep. William T. Schulte (D. Ind) confessed today. Decisively defeated for renomination in the first district by Raymond Madden of Gary, former Lake county treasurer, Bill Schulte blamed his setback oh two factors: 1. Madden had more money to spend. (2) Labor didn't turn out and vote. During his 10 years in the house, Rep. Schulte has constantly reiterated his slogan: “I am for anything organized labor wants.” That was the way he voted, too. But on primary day in Indiana, Lake county labor was too busy in the mills to get to the polls, the congressman from Ham-

| mond contends.

Unlikely He'll Run in Fall

SINCE HIS RETURN here he has received letters of condolence from both A. F, of L.. and C. 1. O. union leaders. Some suggest that he run independently in November, Schulte says he has not made

| up his mind on that point, but it is unlikely that he

will do so. He denies that the three votes he cast against the administration figured in his defeat. For the first

one he cast was against the only economy measure It was passed by

“I voted against it because the labor unions op-

| posed the governmental pay cuts involved,” Schulte | reminisced.

His other two anti-administration votes had to do He opposed the draft and its extenSo did all the Hoosier congressmen who were renominated this year, except Rep. William H. Larrabee, who is the Democrat opponent of Rep. Raymond S. Springer, Tenth District Republican. Rep. Larrabee was the only Hoosier in either the senate or house who voted both for the draft and its extension.

Editor's Note: The-views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily ‘those of The Indianapolis Times.

It would be cruelly ironic to honor the memory

| of those who have fallen in battle by needlessly be permitted to set aside, untaxed, a small segment of their | | tory that will preserve the freedom for which they | died —Col. John Stilwell, president of the National | Safety Council.

SPEAKING OF GAS, RUBBER & TAXES—NO. 3 |

“YT HE federal communications commission has 184 auto- |

wasting manpower and material needed for the vic

Complete victory will not be won until there is full and increasing use of the world’s resources to lift living standards from one end of this planet to the other—Milo Perkins, executive secretary of Board of Economic Warfare. .

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We must not permit the sabotage of democracy by

| petty political tyrants at home.—Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey.

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I say thal the century upon which we are entering —the century which will come out of this war—ecan be and must be the century of the common man.— Vice President Henry A. Wallace.

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“NATURE HAS OPENED OWN OFFENSIVE” By T. W., Indianapolis

It never rains but it pours. While we were up to our ears in war pro|duction and rationing to stop Hitler [in Burope and Hirohito in the Far | Bast, nature opened her own spring offensive on the home front. Tornadoes, cloudbursts, ice jams, floods and forest fires, plus a disastrous mine explosion, brought death and suffering in 18 states from coast to coast. Seldom have

along at the same time. But iortunately nature, like man, | goes from one extreme to another. After Bataan came the Coral sea.’ After our home disasters we may | hope for a period of calm in which | to give the wheels of democratic | progress another quickening spin, o ” ” “GOD MAKE US WORTHY OF OUR SONS” By Dwight W. Jennings, Our sons died at Pearl Harbor as we listened to false prophets— | the foolish, the bigots, the traitors] who told us there was no cause for! concern. A savage lesson. We said we would “Remember Pearl Harbor.” Our sons guarded barren Wake island, outmanned, outgunned, producing miracles of endurance, heart and defensive fury to keep the flag they love more than life itself. Are we whining about sugar? Our sons fought and died at Bataan, without medicine, without food, without sleep, knowing they could not win but fighting on to give us extra months, extra weeks, even extra hours to prepare ourselves. Are we grumbling about gasoline? Our sons held Corregidor for 27 endless days and nights of horror. Are we quarreling about overtime? Our sons fought in the Coral sea, without ceasing, for five blazing days and nights to win a victory for you and me. Is it true that farmers and dairymen are fighting with the aid of

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we may enjoy the blessings of free-

SO many domestic disasters come |

senators, congressmen and labor leaders to win higher prices? i

Our sons fight and die that we. may live in peace and security, that

dom. May our fighting sons forgive us for any selfishness and apathy that still linger in our hearts.

| God make us worthy of our sons. |

yr a» “OIL COMPANIES SEEKING NO MONOPOLY ON RUBBER"

By Edward G. Seubert, ard Oil Co. of Indiana

There is no truth to the report that petroleum companies have been fighting the making of tires from grain alcohol so that they may have the synthetic rubber field to themselves. Standard of Indiana has taken no such position and does not believe that other companies have done so.

At government request we are preparing to produce material from petroleum for the manufacture of butadiene, one of the raw materials from which synthetic rubber can be made. We have also undertaken to help manufacture the butadiene itself. We certainly are seeking no monopoly for ourselves or for the oil companies on manufacture of synthetic rubber also from alcohol, we hope that will be done. We do a great deal of our business with farmers. We should like to see them having a hand in supplying the raw materials for rubber. More rubber will make it more possible that civilian automobiles can be kept running. And the more they can be kept running the better business will be for the oil companies. It just does not make sense that the oil companies should oppose any kind of manufacture of rubber. Whatever the difficulties about manufacture of rubber from alcohol may be, monopolistic designs by oil companies are not among them.

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Side Glances=By Galbraith

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“YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM RAVE ABOUT OUR TOWN”

By Mrs. Frances Fisher, 1301 N. Alabama st., No, 4

To counteract some of the unpleasantness regarding the statements of Cecil Brown, I'd like to tell you about a letter I received from my son, Lieut. Charles O, Fisher, stationed at Camp Lee, Va. I quote:

“Lieut. Pfeiffer of our company came back from a 10-day leave to-

day. He lives near East St. Louis, Ill. He came through Indianapolis | on his way back. He didn't know | {while he was talking that Indian-) apolis is my home but you should have heard him rave about our] town. He said he never saw a town where they treated men in uniform 80 splendidly. People in the station were treat- | ing soldiers to doughnuts, sand{wiches and coffee and giving them cigarets and Lieut. Pfeiffer said they even made arrangements for some lof the fellows to come to their [homes and take their meals with the | families. He talked all morning about how fine Indianapolis people are and finally I told him that it [is my home town. Then he really did bubble over, “I'd like to write to whoever is in charge of these activities in Indianapolis and tell them what a fine reputation we've got even clear over here in Virginia. Good reaped from good deeds far exceeds the effort and the credit for them spreads far and wide. “If you can find out who I might write to, expressing our feeling in the matter, why I wish you would {mention it in your next letter.” . . .

| ” o » . “MORE MEMBERS, MORE BUCKS, MORE POLITICAL POWER” By That Defense Worker, Indianapolis Now that the C. I. O. has finally got up the nerve to hold an election at Allison's, I'd like to ask them a question or two, If the C. I. O. is so wonderful and |it is so desirable to have them as bargaining agent, why do the organizers have to work so continuously and practically get applications by promising prospects that they will get the moon by joining or if they don’t, well . . . I was taught to believe, when I was a few years younger, that it was a privilege to belong to the union because the members were artisans in their trade or profession. Nowadays anyone is a prospective member if he has that almighty |buck-a-month for tribute. Any {tramp or bum, it makes no difference to the organizers. All they want is more members, more dollars, more power, more political influence. he pan 2 # =n (“DON'T YOU REALIZE WE ARE IN A WAR?” By H. P., Paragon In answer to Mrs. Harold R. Kyle, Columbus (and a few others): You say that defense workers work eight to 14 hours a day, seven | days a week and still do a lot of running around. Personally I would rather go to a show once a week and rest the other six nights. You (like many others) don’t seem to realize that we are in a war. All of us want to win this war so quit griping and take things as they come. Smarter people than you have planned them.

DAILY THOUGHT

Wherefore thou are great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.—II Samuel 7:22.

THAT MAN great, and he

alone, who serves a greatness not

In Washington By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 1.—If the board of economic warfare were of a mind to do so, it might issue communiques, just as the army and navy do, telling of battles fought on the fields of internaw= tional big business. For instance, here is one of the engagements for which the economic warrior strategists might have to map battle lines soon: Argentina, unable to get her usual rubber supplies from the United States, has been sending rubber buyers into Bolivia to scout for native crude rubber, in competition with U. 8. buyers. To beat the Argentinos, several attacks might be made. First, Argentina might be guaranteed a certain percentage of her normal manufactured rubber imports from the U. 8. Or, U. 8. buyers might make a deal to buy all the rubber Bolivia can produce, thus freezing Argentina out of the market, Or, long-term contracts must be offered Bolivian producers by U. 8. buyers, at prices nigner uan Argentina can pay and with bonuses lor amounts delivered over contract quotas, to encourage produce tion and make the Argentine buyers’ work more difficult. See History of Economic War for Survival, yet to be written, as to how it all comes out, and a thousand other battles just like it, only worse.

40,000 Skilled Men . . . in Prison

NOTE TO THE manpower commission: The 160,000 criminals in state prisons include 40,000 skilled work ers. ... Wholesale price levels under the first week of general price control were 1 per cent higher than the

highest level during the hase period of March, 1942,

. . . Wholesale prices on 900 commodities are now 98.5 per cent of the 1926 average. . . .T'wo and a half mil= lion new workers will have been trained in 2400 voca= tional schools by June 30, and the goal is to train another 2.5 million in the next 12 months. . . Clothing

costs have risen more than any other cost of living

item in the past 15 months.

How Much? Who Knows?

INFLATION MADE the cost of the last war $15 billion higher than it would have been without infla« tion, but thus far in this war it is impossible to tell what the extra inflationary cost has been or will be, says Budget Director Harold D. Smith. One reason is that costs of war production have to be constantly recalculated As manufacturers perfect their processes for doing things they never did before, their contracts are being renegotiated downward, thus reducing the cost of the war.

Priorities on Cosmetics

THEATRICAL AND movie industries will be granted exceptions to the cosmetics conservation order, . . . Farmers have been authorized to build unlimited wooden grain bins to store fall crops, but they get no preference on nails. , . . The watch industry may be converted to manufacture of aviation and navigation instruments. . , . Warehouse and storage facilities in 40 largest cities will be pooled. . , . National inventory of fluorescent lighting fixture stocks comes on June 2. . Two years ago Washington had 4000 surplus maids but there's a shortage of 5000 now.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AMIDISILLUSIONED! Here's a chance of a lifeiime tor women to get pockets intc their clothes—and there’ll never be equality between the sexes until we get them—and what happens? Listen to this: “Realizing that no woman goes anywhere, much less to war, without a handbag, the army is issuing a two-unit number completa with compartments for compact, lip stick, change purse and all the other doodads.” And we thought the feminine millenium had come! The greatest handicap to woman's efficiency is the purse, into which she must dig for car fare, small change, powder puff, car keys, etc. ete. It’s the cussedest contraption ever invented to pester females plagued with useless personal gadgets. Year in and year out, women are weighted down by handbags. Shopping has become a real fribula= tion, now that we have to carry our own bundles and hold on to our purses as well.

A Bunch of Namby-Pambys?

LIFE WOULD BE greatly simplified if we had as many cute little pockets all over our clothes as men have. They can walk proudly and carelessly, A flip of two fingers bring small change out of the

vest; the inside coat pocket holds letters and notebooks; the wallet is safely buttoned on the hip; gloves and handkerchiefs can be stowed in the outer coat, and every pair of trousers holds two commodious cashes for odds and ends. Women have never enjoyed like immunity from inconvenience. The handbag is their badge of servi tude to feminity. More exacting than a baby, it is liable to misplacement and robbery. Always a nuise ance to carry, the items it holds are as elusive as a lost belt in a dark closet. If. while getting equal pay and equal pensions, the Wacks don’t demand equal pocket space with men, they're a bunch of mamby-pambys and deserve to go to Gehenna in a handbag.

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Q—Why does the federal government request that salvage materials like iron, tin and paper be sold to dealers instead of turning them over directly to the government? A—Because the dealers are equipped to sort, grade and package the materials ready ior shisment to the mills. The government has no facilities for doing that sort of work. Persons who desire to nelp the government by donating their scrap iron. cid newspapers and other waste products should give them to charitable organizations which make col= lections, or sell them to junk dealers and buy defense stamps or bonds with the proceeds. The office of price administration limits dealers’ prices so that they do not make more than = fair profit.

Q—How can I estimate the amount of paint needed for the exterior of a building? A—Measure the distanc~ around the building in feet and multiply by the height to the eave or cornices. If there are gables, multiply their widest part in feet by one-half their height. Add these figures and divide the result by 700, which is about the number of square feet that one gallon of white-lead paint will properly cover. This gives the number of gallons needed for the body of the building for one coat. Multiply the number of gallons by the number of coats to be put on and the result is the amount of paint necessary for the job. For the trim, figure on sing one: gallon r each 300 feet

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