Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1942 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1942

£ V YOUR TAX DEBTS AFF it is true, as Dr. Gallup's poll-takers report, that only - a one American out of four is saving money to pay his federal income tax? then it is obvious that trouble is piling ~ ‘up—not only for several million taxpayers but also for the : {treasury. Next March 15 is going to be a mighty bleak day, unpor Hess meantime something is done to put the income tax on a pay-as-you-go basis. Proving that Americans don’t want to be tax-dodgers, Dr. Gallup's opinion-takers report that * two out of three Americans think something should be done along this line. . j © Here's how much. tax will be owed on 1942 incomes, March 15 next, in various brackets: : Net Single Married Income $1,000 1,200 1,500 1,800 2,000 2,500 3,000 4,000 5,000 920 746 502 10,000 2,390 2,152 1914 The law requires that you pay one-fourth of the total ‘tax due on March 15, then another one-fourth June 15, the same Sept. 15, and a final installment Dec. 15.

Married 2 Dependents $ 00

00 00 00 13 99 191 378

$ 00 00 48 103 140 232 324 532

$ 89 126 181 236 273 ' 365 472 686

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“VEN if you meet these quarterly payments, you will still always be a year behind in your taxes—£for under the present law the taxes you pay in 1943 will be for incomes earned, ani probably ' spent, in 1942. And in 1944 you will have to teep on humping it to pay taxes on your income earned in 1943. And se on, as long as you live and "make enough money to keep paying. Of course it’; obvious what is going to happen, with ‘most taxpayers not saving in advance to pay taxes. There will be widespread defaults. An estimated 27,500,000 citigens will owe a tix on this year’s net income. About half that number never paid an income tax before. The only out, for taxpayers and for the treasury, it seems to us, is to put the net income tax. on a pay-as-you-go basis, as advocated by Beardsley Ruml of the New York federal reserve bank. Write off one year’s back assessment, and declare that 1943 taxes shall’ apply to 1943 incomes. Let the people pay as they earn, by payroll deductions—as 46,000,000 Americans will pay the 5-per cent gross-income victory tax starting Jan. 1—and by other collections at the source. That way, taxpayers would be taken out of hock to their government. ‘The treasury would get no less revenue; it would probably get much more. And with the "end of the war and big earnings, there wouldn't be a hangover of big tax defaults.

'35-HOUR WEEK : THE country needs more soft coal from eastern mines. : Fuel Administrator Ickes has been saying so for two

“months, and the United Mine Workers and the operators in |

he Appalachian area say they are eager to produce more coal. lw Gy Yet negotiations between-the John L. Lewis union and | the operators hav collapsed after two weeks of futile effort to agree on a wartime contract under which miners could work six days a week, seven hours a day, instead of five days. The United Mine Workers Journal puts the blame on government price bureaucrats.” The operators, says the union’s public ation, are right in insisting that— “Since the government requested the six-day week, somewhere within the government official family someone jn authority mus: grant the costs involved in the six-day ~ :operation.” : :

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FP HE additional costs, of course, would be due to the necessity of paying time-and-a-half rates for the sixth day of work. The operators contend that, under present “price ceilings, they can’t afford to pay premium overtime. ~ 5 The union agrees. : : The only possible solution, according to Mr. Lewis, is for the government to let the operators pass the extra ‘costs on to the consumers by raising prices. It isn’t even suggested that the miners might work 42 hours, instead .of 35, without demanding 50 per cent above regular pay for the extra seven hours. : ’ The men who have the hard and dangerous job of mining coal certainly need protection against over-long ‘toil. But the union doesn’t claim that 42 hours a week

would betoolong. ©. Once more, we say that unions and the government are making a grave mistake by insisting—in this time manpower shortage—on the letter of contracts and laws. which restrict work weeks in many industries to 35 or 40 hours, and permit more hours in war industries only

because they can pass the costs on to the taxpayers.

ITH women building bombers, ships and guns, a reminder that members of the so-called sterner sex can ice the home-keeping arts may be timely. Anyway, J. Lynn of San Jose, Cal, has filed suit for divorce and

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Suppose we examine the president's request for blanket authority to suspend the immigration laws for the duration, the refusal of the house ways and means committee to grant this authority, and the comments of Attorney General Biddle. The request included tariff and espionage laws, but the immigration law seems to have been the one that the committee choked on, so let us stick to that. The gimmick in the request as to the immigration laws was the fact that at any time during the actual war, and for the indefinite but probably long period of the peace negotiations, the president would have blanket authority from congress to permit the entry from Europe of a type of immigrant who might be desirable in the eyes of the administration, but displeased with our own form of government, society and economy, and unwelcome in the hearts of the American people. In other words, the Communist or the sedentary European radical who is not a Communist only because he can’t prove he is.

They Hate Everything We Do

THERE IS NO DOUBT that this government has a warm spot:in its heart and in its bureaus for individuals who, though they may deny that they are Communists, admire everything that avowed Communists like and detest everything that Americans cherish, except liquors, but including our form of

government. . There are thousands of this kind in Europe waiting for a chance to come over and reform us. * The proposed authority would have given the president permission to let them in by the boatload and though’ it is possible to do this anyway, by evasion of existing laws, a refusal of explicit permission to do so is good for the record of congressional intent. This was done flagrantly before the war and for some time after the war began. . Mr. Biddle said it was ridiculous to require registration of prisoners of war brought here and the payment of an $8 tax on them, but it is equally ridiculous of Mr. Biddle to mention this.

What Mr. Biddle Had to Say

EVERY PRISONER of war would be carefully recorded anyway and the payment of the head tax, if the letter of the law be insisted upon, amounts to no more than the transfer of so much money from one column to another on the government's own books. Mr. Biddle then told the committee: “I can assure you that, in asking for the legislation, the president had no intention of exercising the power in that way, or in any other way, so as to remove immigration barriers for any purpose not directly connected with the war effort. “I am certain that neither now nor later will he consider using the powers granted him by this bill for any purpose other than for which they were granted to him.”

Arguing Against the Record

THE ANSWER to that was given, however, in the establishment of the $25,000 salary limitation by James F. Byrnes, the director of economic stabilization. This proposal, it has recently been discovered, was first advanced in the platform of the Communist party in 1928. It was revived last winter by a C. I. OF union, some of whose controlling bosses had spent a long time in Russia, and was encouraged by Mrs. Roosevelt. ’ It was twice proposed to congress by the president, and twice rejected, and it. is clearly stated in the record that, in granting the president special powers under the stabilization act, there was no intention to approve the limitations. : : Thus when Mr. Biddle said “neither now nor later will he consider using the powers granted him by the bill for any other purpose than that for which they were granted to him,” he was arguing against past performances and the weight of evidence,

After the War!

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—The smaller countries of the united nations .are all for the proposal of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles to clarify “the free world goals for which we are fighting,” now, “before the armistice is signed.” Some of the larger ones seem less eager. Roughly, Mr. Welles’ idea is to blueprint the post-war setup right away so that it. can begin to operate “as soon as the present military partnership has achieved its purpose of complete victory.” To wait until we gather at the peace table will be too late. Another essential, according to Mr. Welles, is for the united nations to agree among themselves, and as soon as possible, just what they mean by the Atlantic charter and the pledges made under lend-lease. The Atlantic charter, the four freedoms and other pronouncements, spokesmen for the junior partners in the grand alliance observe, are of the utmost importance. But unless something is done to clarify and

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which is certain to follow the war, their effect will probably be short-lived. ;

What Did Churchill Mean?

cent. They know they are usually the ones to suffer when the big ones fall out. Remembering what happened to President Wilson's beautiful ideals in 1919, they foresee a similar eclipse for those embodied in the Atlantic charter and the four freedoms unless something concrete is done now to. prevent it. What do we intend to do with the Philippines after the war? And Puerto Rico? We have already

to be even more specific. .

Singapore, Malaya, Hongkong and her other dependencies? The dominions are already free, to all intents, but what about the others? “In case there should be any mistake about it in other day, “we mean to hold our own.” ® This seems clear enough. But already the statement is being given widely different interpretations. Some say Churchill thus closes the door to Indian independence, regardless. Otheérs insist he meant India to be an exception. Did he or did he not?

So They Say—

+1 dont, think the United States should stop making raids on Japan. When these boys volunteered, they were volunteering their lives.—Mrs. Jessie Faryow, mother of Lieut. William G. Farrow, missing

Tokyo raider.

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" All business must look forward to losing many more employees to the armed services. They must expect that most of their employees of draft age for whom they have secured. deferments will soon be called up for military duty, and they should

pec to can them, and he wants to be sure they're kept

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already be taining replacements—Brig.-Gen. Leonard P. Ayres, econom iia

THE LITTLE countries are with Welles 100 per '

made this pretty clear, but perhaps. there is room

What does Britain have in mind for India, Burma, |

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In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Real reason for postponement of na-tion-wide mileage rationing—gasoline rationing to you—is that the government got all balled up in its own red tape. The job of getting over 300 million pieces of printed matter prepared in time was of course no small item. This printing job was left to 125 big printing companies scattered all over the country, but as it involved not only ration books on safety paper but also application forms, instructions, posters, cards, pamphlets and everything else, it took considerable organizing. OPA did all this organizing in its usual commendable manner, but then it neglected to ask the ODT for preferential handling on its freight shipments. A couple of carloads of paper got lost on a siding. The government didn’t have anyone following its shipments, so the printing program was delayed and that made it necessary to delay effective date for gas— pardon—mileage rationing to Dec. 1.

Congress Is Now 'Conservative'

SOME OF THE so-called “liberal bloc” men in congress have been looking over the makeup of the new congress which will convene in January and they come up with the information that this new congress, in the house of representatives, at least, will be two-to-one conservative. To these liberal congressmen the division of the house into the customary Republican and Democratic sides doesn’t mean a thing, for it is their contention that congress seldom if ever votes on straight party lines. If it did, then this little group of two dozen or so liberals might hold the balance of power and be able to control legislation by swinging over and voting with the Republicans. But it doesn't work out that way at all The real test is whether the individual congressman is fundamentally liberal or conservative. And the big swing to the Republicans in the November election made congress more conservative than it has peen since the days from Harding to Hoover.

Arthur S. Newhall's Job /

WHAT WOULD happen to WPB’'s former rubber co-ordinator, Arthur S. Newhall, when the new rubber director, William Jeffers, took over was one of Washington's riddles for some weeks.

The Hoosier Forum

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

Now it has been solved. Newhall and his former chief of branch and technical adviser, Dr. Henry 8. Rogers, both of whom had to take considerable criticism from congressional committees, have turned up as U. S. members of the America-British-Canadian | joint committee to investigate and make recommenda- | tions on distributing the production of military and | civilian trucks for the United States.

“MUST BE WONDERFUL TO FEEL ‘HOLIER-THAN-THOU’” By In answer to Mrs. Rose L. Jackson's letter in The Indianapolis Times of October 31, 1942, So the ex-convicts “don’t mean | nobody no good,” huh? . . . You|

are certainly too self-righteous to | :

Louise Forest, 2825 E. Vermont st.

of anything but contempt. You speak of your son being] really good. You have a lot to be thankful for. But if your son were not so perfect and perhaps had made some mistakes you would of course feel that he would make good cannon-fodder. Or would the fact that he came from your family place him in a different category? 1 thought the reason we were fighting this war was to abolish such trains of thought as you express. We don't go for the ideas that we are above all such things as mistakes and paying for them. You seem to be expressing some of Hitler's pet beliefs. If you don’t happen to cherish someone, do away with them. I know neither you nor Mr. Jarvis but I'd prefer Mr. Jarvis and family to you any day. I have two sons myself and . .. I'd rather see them in the home of a good ex-convict than in the home of someone with such biased ideas. . . . It must be wonderful to feel really “holier than thou” and be able to |sit in judgment of our fellow men. » ” » «1 DON'T GET YOU STRAIGHT, MR. NATIONAL COMMANDER” By a Loyal Fellow Legionnaire, Indianapolis An open letter to Mr. Roane Waring, my national commander of the American Legion: Back around the® first of August I wrote an open letter to our national adjutant, Frank Samuel, and then I wrote another to you in September—about the 21st or 22d as I ‘remember it. Those letters were about Homer Chaillaux. This! one isn't. It’s about you. I don’t get you straight on this Harvard business about Harry Bridges. I've read a lot of stuff about this cluck Bridges, but I'm

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our business. I never knew Wwe had any dough invested in Harvard. :

in Germany, commander. Schicklegruber would throw us in the clink so fast we wouldn't know what hit us. That's one reason we don't cotton to those goose-step-pers. They burn books they don’t like over there. That's that nut, Goebbels. Hell, they don’t even let a union exist, much less a labor leader say his piece. As I get our Legion, we don’t stand for that kind of truck. Maybe that’s why I get you all wrong Maybe Harvard believes in letting those youngsters hear all sides of an argument because they trust the common sense of those kids. Who are we to be saying those kids can't be trusted? Free speech, as I get it, is listening to a guy, both guys, and then making up your own mind without anybody butting in—not even the Legion. : Our “friend,” Homer, has been trying to get the boys in the Legion to read this Elizabeth Dilling’s stuff for a long time. He's got a right to do that, but we don't have to read it—and we don’t. Please, commander, don't get the Legion any worse in dutch than it is. We are really a pretty decent outfit and we've got no right going around telling people who they can listen to. After all, we're not God—yet.

8 8 = “FACTORIES HAVE NERVE TALKING ABOUT MANPOWER” By C. C., N. Warman, Indianapolis

I'd like to add a word to what Mr. A. B. writes in Tuesday's paper about this much talked of man-

no expert on him. What I want to know is since when has running the colleges and universities become

power shortage. My husband has been out of work about three months in the last six.

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He hasn't reached 35 yet, average "| brains and average experience. could do any job that doesn’t require special training besides having | |about five years electrical experiBut he’s in 3A along with three other men in our neighborhood (that I know of) who are jobless and have been for some time. |} He was placed in 3A over a year Just figure that up and see how much work could | | 4 ‘have been done in defense and add Neither you nor.me could speak ;, i 44 all the other 3A's that are [ out of work because of their rat-| |}

My husband has been to every plant in the city and they “haven't any jobs open today, but come back At first all he asked was to be able to save enough so that I could keep up the house payments after he had gone.

ABSJCIMRDOPMACTUN for short.

Gas Rationing By Ned Brooks

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—A rebellious house bloc, responding ' to pressure from back home against gasoline - rationing, is threatening to put through a law nullifying powers which congress itself assigned fo the OPA, Led by members from oil-producing states, the group is demanding a three-month postponement of na-tion-wide gas | rationing, now scheduled tor start Dec. 1, and has served notice that efforts wili be made to compel the delay by legislation if it is not agreed to voluntarily. The bloc mustered an attendance of 75 congressmen—a sizable portion of the house members now in

Now he’s more than ready to go to the army so that we might be; | able to make both ends meet. It's | pretty hard not being able to get a job because you're going to have to fight for these same big shots that have refused you. If they gave these 3A’s jobs and if they were called to service in three or four months they certainly wouldn't be losing such a fortune that it would over-balance all they could achieve toward winning the war. I would think that risk would be better than. wasting all those hours of work or taking 16-year-old girls in a factory with all classes of people and to hear all sorts of talk. I ‘work in one and I know it's ‘no place for kids. Just think of the ones that will quit school | gas. and 10 to one they'll start out on| the night shift to come home at | all hours. Oh well, maybe manpower shortage is something else to put up a yell about. But you factories have plenty of nerve to do it in the face of your waiting list. : s ” ”

«17'S STARLING TIME AGAIN—

rubber situations.

Washington—for an indignation meeting day before yesterday at which Leon Henderson and his aids were freely denounced. The congressmen agreed that they shouldn't be content with a simple indorsement of a resolution introduced this week by Rep. Jed Johnson (D. Okla.) asserting “the sense of congress’ that rationing be postponed for 90 days pending a re:study by a presidential committee. :

Vote to Create a Committee

“DOES ANYBODY here think OPA gives a damn what congress thinks about anything?” demanded Rep. John M. Houston (R. Kas.). “We've got to pass a resolution repealing some of

the powers we gave OPA,” observed Rep. Frank E. Hook (D. Mich), “We've got a right to repeal OPA's right to ration

a casualty of the recent election.

The congressmen adopted a motion advocating the rationing postponement and then voted to create a committee which will: 1. Intercede with Henderson, Rubber Administrator william Jeffers and others to have rationing delayed. 2. Appear before the house interstate and foreign affairs committee next week to present the group’s views and hear testimony relating to the gasoline and

3. Prepare legislation curbing OPA powers if other measures fail to postpone rationing,

HUNTING WINTER QUARTERS" By Harry Anderson, Brevort hotel If a person Or persons destroy or mar government property they are subject to arrest, fined and probably confined. Now the season for the starlings has arrived. These birds as well .as the pigeons are going to hunt their winter quar-{ ters, and destroy or certainly mar|. the appearance of any building they will cluster. I'm wondering just how long the public who so sentimentally defends these birds would tolerate them if they should all flock to their premises.” ) » ” » FDR PUTS PATRIOTISM AHEAD OF POLITICS’

By F. R. C., Indianapolis. Roosevelt and the new deal have been repeatedly charged by their opponents with playing politics during wartime. He has of course tried to carry out the principles on which he was elected three tigpes by overwhelming majorities. We now have the clearest indication that Mr. Roosevelt puts patriotism ahead of politics far more than his opponents. The fact that the successful offensive in North Africa did not take place until after the election proves this clearly. | i For much of the vote against the new deal candidates was due to dissatisfaction with what, seemed: to be the slow conduct of the war, on. about

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We the Women

By Ruth Millett

TIRESOME TYPES: x The man who, simply because he has a wife, is still sitting around leading a comfortable, safe life, and spending his evenings telling anyone who will listen how the war ougit to be run. " The woman whose son is safe in this country, but who can’t mention his name without tears— simply because HER boy is in the army.

The woman who tells you in dead seriousness that she doesn’t think she can get along on one cup of coffee a day—and Who obviously is more worried about the prospect of coffee rationing than what is happening in North Africa. : '

Then There's the Housewife

The, healthy woman with no children and no other job than that of housewife, who is getting gray hairs worrying for fear that before the war is over she will be without a maid. ' |The capable, well-educated young woman who tells you how quickly she would join the WAACs or the WAVES if she weren't married—but who isn't doing a single thing to help with the war effort, The woman who belongs to several organizations doing war work and can tell you how poorly each ‘one is being managed by the persons in charge. “The people who can read about what our: young { the fighting fronts are enduring and still the things civilians. are asked to give up ” ¢

person who apparently has decided

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