Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1942 — Page 33

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(U..P.)—Two army ‘privates yes~ terday held the distinction that ordinarily sends feminine hearts fluttering. A first. lieutenant alighted from an army plane and headed for the. military police gate. An MP

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Commencement. “eek” is going. to be less than 24 hours Jong for. the {some “500 : ‘students’ who will. ,graduate ‘Dec; .20 from Indiana university's: war-accelerated program. It will -bé. the university’s 114th commencement; but’ the. first to be held «in December. .- Those ‘to be graduated ‘normally would ‘be. included in the June, 11943, class. The ‘graduation’ program’ will retain’ the . traditional ‘events, but in condensed . forfn.. « "The ; ‘Sénior fare-~ well dinner, the 'president’s reception for; Senior sand - the senior fill: be held on the evening: of ‘Dec. 19, Commencement ‘day will include baccalaureate. services in the morn-

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SALVATION KETTLES ‘APPEAR TOMORROW

The Salvation Army Christmas kettles will be placed throughout the downtown district tomorrow. With the sound of Christmas bells bringing good cheer, some 7000 of the neediest poor will be supplied

with baskets of food, clothing, and toys. » ing in ‘Bloomington churches and

Adjutant Rebecca Preston is inthe graduation cerempnies at 2:30

charge of the Christmas relief. |p. m.'in’ the university auditorium,

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. Moderated by © eral "Chairmap . Economic

discuss: ‘American problems. -

oe BENJAMIN MARSH Executive Secretary of the People’s Lobby MR. MARSH OPENS: A total war ~the only kind that produces anything but regrets—requires parity of sacrifice and socialization of income. “The proposed $25,000 salary is fair. It provides for adequate deductions. it doesn't limit income from property, “which is the principal source of '-lirge. incomes. (Income from property’ has increased 337 per cent since 1932; Wages ad salaries ‘only 97.4. per cent. : It is true ‘that such a limitation on. salaries ‘should be decided ‘at. least a few months in advance, since admittedly some people have made contracts which would be affected, but the treasury will unquestionably ‘imake allowances for such contracts, while on the other hand people’ ‘with large salaries usually have:stooks and government bonds which’ ‘they: ban sell the first year of application’, of such salary limit. An objection sometiaes cited to this salary limit is that it will freeze the status of people who get large salaries but don’t own large properties. : This can easily be rectified by a progressive capital levy to. equalize the situation. We have got to pay most of the costs of the war by current taxes or have a fiendish post-war inflation, which was one of the tragedies starting Hitler on his course, DR. HAAKE CHALLENGES: If Mr. Marsh. really wants parity of sacrifice, why advocate virtual extermination of large incomes while the unprecedented income of war workers remains relatively untouched. This is spite legislation. The whole year’s: income above $25,000 wonld finance the war for less than one day. So far most of the burden of sacrifice ‘has fallen on the well-to-To stop inflation and achieve genuine parity of sacrifice taxation

, | must siphen off enough of the enor-

mously increased war payrolls to

¢ |bring purchasing. power. into line {i [with stocks of purchasable goods. {This would not reduce living stand-

ards of the worker and. would effectively check inflation. MR. MARSH REPLIES: People are disgusted with huge profits and salaries of beneficiaries of the war. The $25,000 salary limit isn’t spite, but tactics. No government except a dictatorship would dare levy a 5 per cent victory tax, with small exemption, without stich limit on salaries. ‘This ‘is only the first step to socializing income, and - that is the real. gnimus it. “Fhere must.and will be a limit through taxes, if not directly,.on all income from whatever: source derived, including property, but paying high salaries 1s a favorite device to escape corporation and excess profits taxes. Patriotism involves willingness to sacrifice.

‘Girl Marooned On Troop Train

' PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11 (U. P.) —Virginia Greer, 21, of Sunnyside, L. I, was released by the FBI yesterday and sent back home after being removed from a troop train, The. FBI said ‘the girl told a straight story . of - being stranded on the train when it pulled out. of a4 station while she was in-' specting the kitchen equipment. She wasn't: discovered by army. offieers . until: the train neared . Philadelphia, She was turned over to ‘authorities ‘for guestioning but Jelpazed after authorities had checked’ h er story. The FBI said. the girl and another friend, both of. whom were : planning ‘to join the WAAGCS, had boarded the train to inspect the kitehen and get ‘some first hand "information of : army life. "The other girl jumped from the train as it started to move but Miss Greer failed to get off. She said she‘ was married and

| the mother of a young child. Her | husband, she said, 1s a soldier.

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Cis $25,000 Salary ; Limitation Fair?"

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.. DR. ALFRED P, HAAKE : Celebrated Economist and’ Lecturer DR. HAAKE OPENS: Even, the Soeialist recognizes ‘that.compensation should be int proportion to value) of performance, and in once Communistic Russia differentials in pay are even greater than. in the United States. -s ; There are men, nearly all selfmade, the value of whose services far exceeds $25,000 a year. Regardless of the envy of less able individuals, they cannot, in fairness, be limited arbitrarily to that amount. If we accepted such a limitation as fair, why not make it 15, 10 or even 5 thousand dollars a year? And to be consistent it would then become necessary to scale. down all salaries and wages likewise. : It is also unfair to society as a whole. Most of the progress and higher standards of living enjoyed in our country are directly traceable to men who have qualified for more than $25,000 a year. To remove from them the incentive, of higher rewards for greater service would destroy the initiative and. competition which bring all of us higher standards of living. | Since reward is the symbol of achievement, we dare not refuse the reward if we would retain the achievement itself. MR. MARSH CHALLENGES: Government underwriting of plant conversion, etc, removes the necessity for large compensation. Patriotism should inspire executives not to be as acquisitive as usual. The wage ceiling in the armed forces is $50, food and clothing for privates, with great service and risk of life, I favor a ceiling on wages and prices, and a floor under wages, but it isn’t ‘value of service today, it is the nation’s needs that count. Ine come is not the real incentive, but helping the. nation.

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By Helotioe CHIOAGS, Dee. 11-Cargo glid- : ers will mot only become tncreas- :

ra— under’ She susploes of the Society ‘of: ‘Automotive Engineers. > Use ‘of is"now limited to]: tactical “training purposes in this . country, but ‘Maj. Barringer maintains there is. no reason why these silent sky ships will not be practical - freight carriers for shortrange operations. . “We should build up our fleet of cargo planes for military transport, one group ‘of engineers. argues; us: gliders if they can be designed efficently. for- the job, another group) proposes, But while the. controversy continues, we must go fo work on ‘the job at hand,” Maj. Barringer urged.

PLANE'S GREWMEN TO LEARN GUNNERY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (vu. P)— All members of army bomber crews —including armorers, radiomen and mechanics—hereafter will be expert aerial gunners in addition to their other qualifications, the war department announced tonight. - The importance of accurate gunfire by the crews of B-17 flying fortress, Consolidated B-24s and in medium bombers is one of the main lessens learned in recent combat action, thé army said. In the past, two members of the crew— usually, the .navigator and . radioman—often were not trained in aerial gunnery. As a résult the

Experiments Continue

- “We must build. gliders, if possible,” ‘he declared, “that can be used with the planes we already have, to increase our cargo-carrying capacity.” Sky freight trains of several gliders and a tow plane, will prove nrac~ tical for ranges up to a thousand miles or so, Maj. Barringer reported, but’ probably ‘ will not be used for overseas transport. * One gliderful of Supplies can be dropped off such a train at a milltary camp of town, tien, By ‘thef newly developed pickup rethiod, thé train: ¢an:swoop low over another station to hook ‘on aloe, giider, the: the: major sald. :

when a gunner. was hit. - -- The new. order eliminates, the training of “caréer gunners”—men trained ‘only in gunnery--in favor of specialist gunners who can" pez | form other duties.

will reduce spending for consump- Gat

tion goods, a war necessity. DR. HAAKE REPLIES: Mr, Marsh

senting a quarter -truth to prove a point. When referring to England why not give the whole truth—that a married man ‘receiving $1200 is

nothing—that there.is a moratorium on estate taxes in England while

increase labor's gains and to ‘de-

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| HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

GIVE LITTLE TO JAPS

By Science Service NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The prevalent American idea before: the war, that Japan was too small and unimportant to be much of a menace, can be partly traced to our high school * education, Haldore Hanson of the department of state recently informed ‘the: National Counell for Social Studies. : . Although more than a auarer of ‘the world’s population lives in China and Japan, our: high school text books: ‘on world history devote an average of 20 pages, or 2.7 per cent

of their space, to those countries,

according to an education survey quoted by Mr. Hanson. ‘Texts on social studies devote even, less space; about. 1.6 per cent of the total, to the Far East. And of course .students not. specializing in ‘history and social science would be even less’ informed about the

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PLANS STARTED FOR MANUAL BIRTHDAY

Class representatives of ‘Manual high school alumni association will diseuss ‘plans .for the school's 48th anhiversary in February’ at’ a 6 o'clock dinner meeting in the school cafeteria Wednesday: Vernon Kniptash, president of the alumni association, will appoint committees ard "AM" the ‘executive board vacancies: created by- service

ing president, ‘and ‘George Glossbrenner, ‘vice president. Vries Dorothy Berndt; ‘Harold Brady and Harry Yates will Join’ Ruth Hale, Lucy Noble ' ‘Burkhardt, Raymond Cassidy dnd Charles Menges on the executive commnittes.

+ ———r———ti————— ABANDON ROUTE TO STATE

WASHINGTON, Dee; 11°(U. P.).— The interstate ‘commerce commiission today Sxanied the Illinois Cen-.

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Gifts From Front Made Duty Free

! SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11 (U. (P.) —Gifts . from service men abroad to relatives in. the United States hereafter . will be exempt : from duty if they do not exceed $50 in value, Collector. of Customs Paul Leake announced. yesterday. Leake said his office had re-. .ceived hundreds of: protests against- ‘heavy duties: levied : on Christmas gifts arriving at- this: port from: soldiers, sailors -and : marines in- the Pacific’ agea, - He said in:some cases the customs duties: had amounted:to :as much as 50° per cent: of the Yalu of the package. ': ~ ::

CHRISTMAS . PARTY SET The - North . Park . Chapter, -404,

10. E. 8, will give a Christmas|

program. at a meeting at. 7:45 p. m.

Tuesday. -at the Masonic temple, 30th .and Clifton sts. Mrs. Esther

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questionnaires. «© - + The house approved the confer. ence report on the bill yesterday and sent it ‘back to the senate for final action whenever the upper .

- The. * bill" ‘would + budget: ‘directar” $0 "co-briinate olf informatioh-géeking moves: of; g0V+ | ernment agencies and to veto any: 4 proposed questionnaires. He also. would ‘be’ authorized to direct any government dgericy to make avails: able information in" its possession to any other government agency seeking the ‘same data, Income tax returns and certain other confiden- . tial information would be exempted.

OPA Is Criticized The house action was ‘accom-

mation-seeking activities of the. office gf price administration. . Rep. “P. ‘Wollcott (R. Mieh) ene at OPA ‘Administrator enderson: had “grossly abused. ’s his powers ih seeking ‘information - 4 to justify price ceilings.” He said. :that when the new congress convenes ‘in January, he would offer a bill to repeal “that’ section of the

unusual power to dig into private information.”

defended Mr. Henderson and said congressional criticism of OPA was

“bewildering; the people.”

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