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‘WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1042

MERIT VS. POLITICS : R many months the job-hungry politicians of Indiana ~ have been busy undermining the merit system law of this state. But, like all such campaigns—it has been a ecret one. Politicians never like to work in the open when 2 matter so vital as this is concerned. Rowland Allen, a member of the four-man state personnel board, has done the citizens of Indiana a great servce in his open letter to Governor Schricker today. He has brought into the open the full issue of merit vs. politics. He has given the governor the opportunity of rising to "the full stature of a chief executive—and of stating himself "once and for all wholeheartedly behind the merit system law in spite of the many known mechanical difficulties inherent in the establishment of such a system. ; ; Indeed, the public expects the governor to do just that.

APPLY IT TO ALL : NTEARLY six months ago, in response to an appeal from N prasident Roosevelt, national officers of the C. L O. and the A. F. of L. recommended that their affiliated "unions give up double pay for work in war industries on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. : One union that responded, despite protests from many of .its own members, was the United Auto Workers (C. 1 0.). vit Now comes a disturbing aftermath. This union has been defeated by a narrow margin in a bitterly contested employee election for the right to represent 20,145 workers at two New York plants of the Curtiss-Wright Corp. It charges that the A. F. of L. International Association. of Machinists won the election by promising to see that the employees: got the double-pay benefits which the C. IL. O. union had renounced. But two of the national labor relations board's three members, though condemning the propaganda used in the campaign, have ratified the A. F. of L. union’s victory. : :

2 8 io 8 > 8 2 8 WE THINK the NERB's third member, Gerard D. Reilly, is right in his dissenting opinion that the issue thus. raised is too grave to be disposed of without fuller considThat issue, as Mr. Reilly says, is “whether a Jocal union affiliated with one of the great branches of or- | ganized labor is entitled to retain the benefits of an election won over a rival union by repudiating a solemn compact with the president of the United States, made in the interests of prosecuting the war by the national leaders of its parent organization.” ; One thing is certain. The C. I O. auto workers’ union has been urging Mr. Roosevelt either to release it from its pledge against double pay on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, or to require all other unions to make and keep he same pledge. The latter should be done promptly. There is no fairness in holding any union at a disadvantage because it keeps faith with the president while competing unions ignore his appeal and the recommendations of their ‘national leaders.

TOO MUCH FLY-SPECKING HE treasury’s tax spokesman, Randolph Paul, agrees with the principle and objective of pay-as-you-go taxa-

n, but objects to the original Ruml plan because it would |

ult in a “windfall” to some large taxpayers whe made more money in 1941 than in 1942, £2 © Mr. Ruml himself proposes a simple amendment to overcome that objection—by just eliminating the highest surtax brackets from the plan. There have been other juggestions. One is to telescope the 1941 and 1942 incomes and levy the tax on whichever year’s income is the higher. By that procedure, there would be no year-end refund to the taxpayer whose income in 1941 was higher than 1942, while the taxpayer whose 1942 income was higher would pay an extra assessment—the government getting a “windfall.” Another proposal is to put the 1942 tax on a 20-ear-payment plan, 5 per cent a year, with a group insurance tie-up to protect the government against loss. Under ll these suggestions, the taxpayer could start paying his 1943 tax while he was earning his 1943 income, and con‘tinue thereafter to pay-as-you-go.

That's the big idea, that’s the one important goal of

the Ruml plan—to get the taxpayer out of hock to his gov‘ernment, to let him pay according to his ability to pay at a e when he is able to pay, to stop this present senseless d agonizing method of-trying to collect a tax on a year’s income after the income has been spent.

We wish the treasury would stop fly-specking the Ruml plan, stop thinking in terms of taxes for politics only, and get to work with the senate finance committee on a sensible rogram Vo raise the war revenue the treasury has to have d at the same time get the taxpayers on a cash basis ith their government. : : .

HOSE GRAVEYARD NOW? N the graveyard of so many British reputations and hopes, Marshal Rommel marches again. ;

“Whether. this is the long-advertised Nazi drive for|

lexandria, Suez and the Middle East, as the defenders

ieve; or an effort to prevent the plammed British offensive,

not be clear for several days. And whose gravey: desert will be this time no man knows. : The Germans have several advantages. Greatest

these is Rommel himself, touted as the master of mech-

ied movement in warfare. - - : "The new British commander is reats—Dunkirk and Burma. Both times it was Gen. the failure of others, which he did brilliantly. Again a salvage job, but this time he has a better chance. stakes of victory are tremendous.

ty, 8 cents a copy; deliv- |

$4 a year; adjoining

{ terstate invasion

It Comes From the Bond Buyers

famous for two heroic

s thankless task to save as much as possible!

By seizure of | _

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Sept 3—Let me

see if I can explain how New|

Dealism is working now in the

The incident at Cape Girardea, Mo., where a storm, of union brown shirts came. over from Illinois to help the little local unions collect a tribute of $15 each from men working on the fuel pipeline

to the east, is a little dramatic, |

but not out of line. I mean the process is just routine. This is how it goes: . : The unions are the political wards of the New Deal. Just as they were, with all their faults and

Fascist controls of men and jobs, they were adopted |

by the national government and given outrageous powers under government protection through the socalled Wagnej act and the labor policy of the gdministration. They were made political agencies of the New Deal and their vices were either defended or minimized. :

A Red Herring: Across the Trail

CONGRESSMEN AND OTHERS who exposed and opposed their Fascist practices were themselves called Fascists, and even traitors and Hitler stooges, and last winter President Roosevelt, who is a very neat hand at dragging réd herrings across hot trails, caused a lot of confusion by pretending to believe that all this opposition to criminality and other abusive union activity was a concerted attack on the 40-hour week, which was not in question at all. Being political wards of the New Deal, the unions naturally will contribute money to the New Deal's campaign funds. They have an income of one thousand million dollars a year, which they are not legally required to account for. Great gobs of this money

lie under the hands of individuals such as John L.

Lewis and the Mine Workers or little groups of high union politicians calling themselves executive councils and the like. Lewis has a habit of throwing around hundreds of thousands of dollars of the Mine Workers’ dues for political purposes, and not long ago the national governing body of the Teamsters went into a huddle and announced that they had decided to spend as much

money as might be necessary to elect New Dealers |

this year. . : How Much? Nobody Knows!

ON MOST OF the war jobs the New Deal has given the unions the right to stick up or shake down practically all workers, including even farmers engaged for pick-and-shovel or hammer-and-saw jobs,

‘for initiation fees, transfer fees, and dues. Some of

the ads in the papers run by the government's own employment service have frankly said that men applying for jobs would have to present union cards. Even though labor was urgently needed & man couldn’t help his country on a war construction job unless he paid a very substantial graft to some political sub-treasury of the New Deal. : Nobody has any way of knowing how must loot has been taken from these workers in this way, because union treasuries are not subject to public inspection and are immune from the income tax. Church groups have the same exemption, but only if they keep out of politics. Unions enjoy the exemption even though they use the workers’ money to buy elections. At Cape Girardeau the local farmers and handymen who will have to pay the $15 per head, plus dues and transfer fees and other occasional shakedowns, didn’t want to join the union. So a storm of goons, similar to Hitler's old brown shirts, came a-running

over from around Carbondale, Ill, which is very

country. This descent on Missouri was an into collect tribute for a group which is included among the political household of the New Deal, and an uncommonly smelly group at that, and infested with a great many notorious criminals of the lowest type. T

tough

THE MONEY ORIGINALLY comes from the faxpayers and the bond buyers. You pay your taxes or save your pennies for a war stamp or check off a tenth of your pay for bonds. : The government spends it for a cantonment or factory and the shakedown union then grabs a slice? from the workers and puts it at the disposal of the New Deal for election purposes. Naturally, such unioneers want to perpetuate the New Deal and naturally the New Deal goes down the line to protect such a rich and untouchable source of campaign money. “That is the sort of New Dealism that has been repudiated in New York in the nomination of two candidates for governor, Bennett and Dewey, one of whom must win and both of whom are anti-New Deal.

A Real Air Army By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—There aren't guns or planes enough. in Germany to shoot down or handle hordes of light airplanes, each carrying three or four infantrymen, swarming all over Germany according - to a well-laid plan. Once over Germany many of these planes could be landed at selected points, leaving their crews to con= solidate ground positions while the - pilots flew the little ships back for supplies. How much sharper eyesight is needed to take off and land a light-powered plane, which leaves the ground at 35 to 40 miles an hour and lands at the same speed, than to drive a modern light car at 70 to 80 miles an hour? I'd say about the same. And I'd say the same about all the other physical and temperamental requisites for operating both types of vehicles. . I have a .peculiarly

strong belief that a real air

army is coming—somewhere in the world—and per-| |!

haps sooner than we suspect.

Offensive Begins at iHome

THE NATION THAT rules the sir, militarily and

Tl bet that if the Nazis started using a true

army, with all the combat troops in little planes, to-|

matter of the rakeoff from the} war :

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

“DON'T SUGAR-COAT THE STORIES FROM THE FRONT!” By Robin Adair, Indianapolis :

I would come to the defense of those correspondents who have pictured the war as they have seen it—in words harsh and unsoftened.

The criticism of such realistic articles is symptomatic of the

of the present war to bury its head in the sand and refuse to face reality. We can have our war stories sugar-coated, of course, but what a rude awakening when that son .or sweetheart comes home with the mark of real war upon him. Who are we that we can ask our soldiers to face what they must face — mutilation, disfiguration — and then scream for our own peace of mind when we are reminded of their sacrifices? Our peace of mind! What a frivial sacrifice when weighed against that made by the

. |doomed inmates of a hundred vet-

erans’ hospitals. Print the stories on the front pages— print them every night. We must not forget for a moment what war is. We must not forget for a moment the supreme sacrifice of our soldiers. This is no hay-ride, this is war. 8 8 = “YOUNGER ARMY NEEDED—

HERE'S ONE PLAN-—-" By Arthur J. Krause, 255 Buckingham dr. It seems to me that the present draft system is not providing for as competent and well trained an army as the United States should have for this war. Does it not seem more logical that all single men should be -exhausted in the entire nation before drafting any married men? Such a system would on the whole draft younger men who nautrally

Jmake better soldiers.

It seems utterly ridiculous to draft married men, some even with children while there are still thousands of single men who have not been called. The average single man is not only younger and therefore better qualified for a soldier, but the average single man has less responsibilities and could more efficiently serve his country. Another plan which in my opinjon would be more efficient than the present system would be to exhaust all 21-year-old single men at

American tendency since the start|

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first. Then draft all 22-year-old single men and continue until all single men up to 31 or even 35 years of age have been drafted. Then start with 21-year-old married men and follow the same plan. If 21-yearrold men become exhausted in certain boards, draw from all boards that have 21-year-old available men before drafting any 22-year-old men in any board. This plan would create a younger army which we need to win this war. I believe either of these systems would be more efficient than the present system, J 8 8 “SALES TAX WOULD MAKE US ALL WAR CONSCIOUS” By John F. White, 2502 Park ave. Mr. William L. Hutcheson, president, and the executive board of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, are to be cordially congratulated on the policy they have adopted for the duration of the war, particularly that favoring the stabilizing of wages and farm prices for the duration, with that of buying war bonds being an added duty. The brotherhood’s executive committee is to be further commended, in my opinion, for its proposal relating to the adoption of a sales tax, though it is one of the proposed taxes in our conglomerated tax system that I have always bitterly opposed in normal situations. But in these times, I not only agree with the brotherhood that this question should be given “serious consideration,” but strongly urge that such tax should be levied at once, as the one definite way of getting sorely needed substantial returns, helping to-pay-for-the-war-as-we-go, as near as can be done. ‘This would help serve as a means of

staving off a threatened devastating inflation, and also avoiding adding

Side Glances—By Galbraith

ination, written by

to the staggering debt the nation is amassing to blast our economic re covery after the war. A sales tax, at this critical time, would have the added virtue of making all of us really war conscious, something, as yet, pgrticularly in the Midwest, I fear we are not fully alive to. It should be understood, in the last analysis, that all this war expense can be met from one main source only, that of past and present production—savings, earnings, incomes. There is no other source. Drafting fixed wealth—buildings, machinery, capital investments— to pay for the war, however alluring such proposal may be, is a will o’ the wisp hallucination. It is from the savings accounts, the payrolls— salaries and wages—{rom the results

other source can this cost be paid, whether done now or hereafter.

8 2 #8 “RUML PLAN SAD COMMENTARY ON WORKER'S HABITS” By James R. Meitsler, Attics The advocacy of the Ruml pay-as-you-earn income tax plan is a sdd commentary on the financial habits of the American wage worker. - It is based on the belief, probably true, that the wage earner is incapable of saving money, that money burns his fingers, that as soon as he gets his pay or sooner he spends it, that when taxpaying time comes the income on which the tax is levied is gone and he has nothing wherewith to pay except current income. : Inasmuch as since the tax last year on a married couple with an income of $3000 and no dependent was only $138, one dependent $98, two dependents $58, the fact that the wage earner could not save that small sum out of so much proves he has the self-control of a 5-year-old child. - If everyone had ro more restraint on their desires we would be back in barbarism. Even the savage knows enough to lay up supplies for winter.

many letters denouncing banks, insurance companies, landlords, business, railroads, farmers, individual and corporate, all the productivity that feeds, clothes, and houses the the . moronic spendthrifts. Without the thrift and enterprise of the people - they blame, these wasters would be running naked in woods, living on nuts, grubs. and berries and sleep-

ling in hollow logs and caves.

8 2 8 “WHERE, OH, WHERE, IS YOUR FREMONT POWER?” I demand to know the where-

_| abouts of one Fremont Power, lately

known as “The Tomato Editor.” ' Fremont has been a means of

* | “escape” and to thumb through the} pages and not find even the “teeniest| .

weeniest” mention ‘of him

_ |looks of it (the plant) it needs shots |.

of vitamins, perhaps basketfuls.

| problem is figuring

of the universal labor: of all: use={ fully employed people, and from no

Yet The Forum has contained]

43 per cent. of the

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—V

. We . . . Secretary of ture Claude Wickard is fatt

how to save rubber w four million rural children to and from consolids schools in 93,000 school busses. . . , Army has named its first Negro Catholic chaplain. . . . Department labor figures wage earners saved 57 per cent of their wage increases in 1941. . . . Manufacturers will attend

| army maneuvers to see how their products wosk 1

the field.

Shoe Soles Pegged With Fiber— SHOE SOLES PEGGED with fiber are being tried

out to give longer wear. . . . Army's motor t corps, transferred from quartermaster to ordnanc has 12,000 soldiers and 18,000 civilian personnel. ,". Two of the Virgin islands, which have plenty of

‘have a shortage of flour, which is therefore be

rationed. . . . U. S. employment service filled ¢ million city and 600,000 farm jobs in the.first half of 1942, . . . Machine tool production is now 75 per pet above the 1941 rate. . . . Cheese, dried beans, peas. lentils are the recommended substitutes when can’t get meat. . . . Nearly a million German, and Italian aliens in the U. 8. now carry identifica certificates, . . . “Cherish your hatred for the ene says a Soviet handout. SE Drive-Ins' Revenue Off '

THE 100-ODD drive-in theaters in America’ re

drops of revenue averaging 38 per cent and

as high as 75 per cent in the East. . . ..Peanut:c is the latest—a wool made from protein made peanut oil. , . . U. S. soap consumption is put at pounds a persoh a year and 280 million pounds more than two pounds a person, has been hoarded for fear of shortage. European soap consumption is four pounds per capita a year. .. . No shortage fancy wrapping paper for Christmas packages. - U. 8. tourists to Mexico reached an all time high 16 million last year, oe

Car Pooling for Church-Goers RED CROSS blood donor centers get an army-

‘production award. . . . Federal trade ssion

proposes all textiles be labeled A,B, C or D to desig-» nate degree of color-fastness, . . . Prices on. uncon: trolled foods rose 25 per cent in July, while pric on controlled foods rose 0.3 per cent. . . . Car “share the ride” idea is being proposed fo

.. . Army air force has a blue and gold sttiped tie for wear with civilian clothes. . . . Jap zero planes gets their name from the fact they were produced in 1940,

pooling = lea is church goers as part of the rubber conservation :program.d

the year 2600 or double zero under the Japanese:cal= 2

endar. . . , Newer. models are the 01 and 02.

A Woman's Viewpoint:

SHE HAS A swell job. She cL

knows her way around. She i poised, efficient, important. In short, she is a career woman. | ~—behind her is also a record three divorces, two nervous break: downs and an unsavory ia with a married man which . the home-town newspapers. Here is a common i common, in fact, that. I

er shedding tears while she talked about her daugh= « ter’s successes. Le > am Isn't it strange how many cipable people mess up: their personal lives? The smart business womans seems to be no smarter about that particular: job than her predecessor and companion, the smart busis ness man, who generally uses no high order of intelli gence when facing domestic crisis. 2 GE mid I've known several first-rate lawyers whose proud est boast was their application of logic to court: cases; but who approached their family problems wi the stubborn unreason of a balking'mule. -

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Super-Colossal Intelects Scarce

SINCE: WOMAN'S ADVENT .into: industry, has shown the same aptitudé for botching personal business. Maybe there’s something in idea that one must pay for fame with happiness. Anyway, as we watch the noted mismanage personal affairs, we can feel less di gement the obscure, whose records of love trouble se have reached a new high in recent years.

Many of these obscure people are untrained, competent and bungling. Yet, compared to the Big Shots, male and female, they're a our grade schools. =. Co At any rate, creating both a great career. good life seems to call for a super-colossal. inf and such intellects are scarce. a

Editor's Note: The views expressed by oslumnists newspaper are their own. They are“not mece of The Indianapolis Times. 3

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