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[ARION COUNTY'S delegation to the legislature has shown its members are aware of the future needs of is community by its decision to expand the proposals of ayor Tyndall relating to'City ‘hospital and undertake to

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4 survey among the men has revealed a high percen x - as more, many are ed at posts which are far a from’a U. 8. O. center or town where they hg for entertainment. "To help answer their requékts for books s national committee has been set up. Harold F. Brigham, he of the Indiana State Library, is the leader for ana’s co-operation in the program this ‘| year Hoosiers gave over 200,000 volumes and Mr. Brig ham is counting on us doing even better this year. \ If you have a book you will give, take it to yous branch library. The book’ drive sponsors say one test of a book te give is to say to yourself: “Is it a book I like myself?” If it is, chances are that it will be equally appreciated by a soldier. :

ply them to the entire county. . ‘Slipped Over to New York' ‘iAlready the urban population of this county has grown | By ler af beyond the corporate limits of Indianapolis and there | to Sry Suh BY °8 Duiibet of ery: indication that this growth will be accelerated dly in’ the years immediately after the war. Whether reater Indianapolis” then becomes a well integrated etropolitan community or a hodge-podge of uncorrelated tellites grouped around the municipal borders depends in large measure on wise planning now.

Mayor Tyndall is fully cognizant of that prospect, but

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so for. pleasure,” Mrs. Roosevelt ‘wrote on Dec. 3 that. although she finds many ways in which to enjoy herself on her travels, “no trip is undertaken without a seri us purpose.” ; : One of Mrs. Roosevelt's recent columns “Yesterday morning I slipped over to New York City for a few brief hours. I did not do anything special but had a look at my apartment and saw one or two good friends. We had some .good talks and one came back on the train with me 80 I had a very pleasant

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mayor of the city itself he could not, in the name of the » very well ask for legislation affecting the whole county. county’s representatives have simply taken the worthfille proposals of the mayor and agreed to integrate 2m into a worthwhile public health program for the whole

The specific legislation by which they will undertake 8 considerable job is still being written, and cannot of irse, now be examined in detail. But the announced inations of the legislators and of the mayor, effectively jombined into a county-wide, non-political, public health ministration merit the support of all who have a real est in the growth and development of Indianapolis.

MULTIBILLION COUNTRY IFTY years ago, in Benjamin Harrison's administration, Democrats sought to. make capital of the first “billioncongress”’—that being the total appropriated in a Wo-year session. Bluni Republican Speaker Tom Reed reed, “This is a billion-dollar country.” He was right. _ According to President Roosevelt's figures, 96 cents [ every dollar in his new 109-billion-dollar budget for a ingle year will go for war, only 4 cents for non-war pur-

‘But the galloping growth of the public debt is proof ugh that our government will not get back'to pre-war aiding levels. The average budget in the Thirties was Ind eight billions. None 1s likely to be that low again,

ut a four-billion-doliar plateau. But we had a four-on-dollar country then. Such was our prosperity that

could support those budgets, reduce taxes and pare n the public debt. :

» » » # # ~» A lY dollar budgets. In the Thirties ours was not an eight-hil-m-dollar country, in the sense of Tom Reed’s epigram. At t, despite annual tax boosts, we never developed a ness volume making it possible to balance such budgets. . By next fiscal year's end—Ilet’s hope the war will be ' then—the public debt will be 220 billions. At the Sury’s present average interest rate (2.106 per cent) it would mean a $4,632,200,000 annual carrying charge. at’s one reason why we may never see another eight-

ion budget—will be lucky if we settle down to 16-billion

- That doesn’t inescapably mean a future of gloom. Debts budgets are relative matters—easy or hard to bear acing to the people’s ability to pay taxes. Ability to pay, turn, depends on how much wealth we produce, how a volume of business we do.

~ Let’s remember that. If we're te have 16-billion-dollar t-war budgets, let's make our goal a 16-billion-dollar mtry—a volume production and trade that will enable carry the load. No better formula has been advanced the one that built a billion-dollar country 50 years and a four-billion-dollar country 20 years ago: Enagement of private enterprise and initiative,

NOCKING THEMSELVES OUT

GAIN—this time in the midst of a war and a fuel oil

- famine—anthracite miners in the northern part of the ylvania fields are on strike. like the three-week ke in the southern Pennsylvania fields 16 months ago, 8 a wildcat affair, directed not against the mine owners against increased union dues. Demands for more pay were made later, but what ched this strike off was a higher assessment voted by

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L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers, in which

diggers assert they are a helpless minority,

t not only helps the axis but it cruelly punishes thou- [0 of families who were asked by the government to |.

using scarce fuel oil and return to use of coal. These were once customers of the anthracite mines. ly because greedy operators forced prices too high, cause repeated strikes made supply undependable, nthracite-using areas changed to fuel oil. - The hard ds became pauperized, mining villages became ghost

thracite strikes posed problems for Presidents

> Roosevelt, Wilson and Coolidge. There have been | government attempts to save that industry. There | .s a government sponsored meeting to find hard coal {mo

the depression, the new deal, and eight-billion-

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combined duty with pleasure, according to the OPA’s official version of pleasure, by attending a play with her friend and political protege, Joseph Lash, the inveterate youth of 32, who is being schooled to lead American youth to a better world after the war.

Baffling to Ordinary Citizen

STILL ANOTHER New York visit had for its purpose attendance at the opening of a canteen for sailors of the merchant marine at which function she was photographed in a group including Joseph Curran, the president of the National Maritime Union, which, in common with the Communist party, opposed the American armament effort and picketed the White ‘House until Hitler attacked Russia. = Inasmuch as Mrs. Roosevelt has constantly insisted that she is a private citizen with no official status on her travels, there appears in these activities of hers an inconsistency to.baffle and trouble the ordinary private citizen, : * Certainly no other private individual has traveled as much as Mrs. Roosevelt, as far as the people are able to know, either before or since the transportation office made an urgent, not to say excited plea to the people to stay off the railroads.

Working of Bureaucratic Mind

MRS. ROOSEVELT may sincerely believe that her missions are useful and, this be $0, may honestly excuse herself for enjoying her trips. But a little American going to the town to do some shopping must not even go to a movie for incidental enjoyment lest he convict himself of driving: for pleasure and losé altogether a means of transportation which is absolutely vital to him. Sy And, incidentally, although the case does not bear on Mrs. Roosevelt's conduct, there is an indication of the working of the governing bureaucratic mind in an item in the Wilmington, N, C., news which said that Michael Shapiro, an organizer for the C. I. O,, had been granted four new 1-A tires for his car.” The item said that Shapiro had qualified -for ‘a C-book' and that to qualify for new tires an applieant must prove that he uses the car more than 1000 miles

a month in essential war production work, *

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—In the government’s wage stabilization program, control over all salaries above $5000 a year and salaries of administrative, executive and professional employees making less than $5000 a year comes under the commissioner of internal revenue in departbent. If you are an employer and want t0 grant increases to any of your salaried employees you'll have to abide by the regulations of the new salary stabilization unit in the bureau of -internal revenue. Any applications you want to make to increase salaries will have to be submitted to one of 13 regional offices of the salary stabilization unit now established in the regional offices of the collector of internal revenue covering the district in which you live, i The first thing to understand about the salary stabilization unit regulations is what constitutes your “salary.” The definition includes all direct or indirect compensation computed on a weekly, monthly or annual basis, plus any bonuses, gifts, loans, commissions and fees. ; :

Retainers, Fees Exempted

RETAINER FEES and the earnings of professional men such as doctors, lawyers, architects and so on

paid by sn employer toward a group inOY all employees are not’ consid-

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On still another visit to New York, Mrs. Roosevelt

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“WHY WASN'T ALLISON ELECTION A FAIR TEST?” By G. E, Indianapolis Well, the NLRB has set aside the results of a collective bargaining election among employees of Allison’s, The board “held that the balloting did not constitute a fair test of the employees’ desires as to union representation.” (The election was by secret ballot, under supervision of NLRB.) That is too American to satisfy a Communist-inspired organization. What is raore fair than a secret ballot? In its petition the C. I O. union “charged that Co. supers interfered with union members.” ; I'l. say they did! The “goon” squad was well distributed throughoyt the shop. They continually, during working hours, pursued their solicitation of members for the C. I. O. They called non-members. uncomplimentary names, they influenced non-members with promises, with free initiation fee “if you join before we get in. After we get in, the initiation will be plenty.” They left their assigried duties to go talk to non-members, They neglected their jobs to carry on their campaign of empty promises and hidden warnings until the “Co. supers” had to “interfere.” “A Co. rule forbidding solicitation ly—" How many of us signed our application for. membership in the C. I. O. to get the “goons” to “lay off” of us during working hours. I did. 3 ; - As to the other two charges, “Co. sponsored independent union at a patriotic rally,” I wasn’t invited to. anything where the U. A. E. W. was urged upon anyone. “The Co. gave a mailing list to the W. A. E WW.” I never received any literature through the mail regarding the Co. union, As for it being the desire of the majority of employees to usk for. the independent union to be their bargaining agent, 59 per cen asked for the independent ‘union, 2 per cent; asked for none and only 3) per cent

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voliaire.

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

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fair test of our desire for union representation? He Sa 8 ® “REGIMENTATION DOES NOT MAKE FOR FREEDOM” By Mildred Pyles, P, O. Box 1654 It is indeed surprising how narrow: and. bigoted some citizens of this country can be and still have thé unmitigated gall to call themselves true Americans. oh The pilgrim fathers left the oppressive nations of Europe and landed in New England becatise of their sincere desire to worship God ac-

. |cording to the dictates of their own

conscience. It now appedrs that some folks, one of whom is Carroll Collins, would like to take that freedom away from Jehovah's Witnesses. In the first place, Jehovah's Wit nesses are Christians and not religionists. If they were religionists they would undoubtedly be accorded religious freedom as all religions are free to disseminate and phactice their doctrines without let or hindrance. Jesus and His Apostles were Jehovah's Witnesses— (John 7:7 “The world hateth me because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.”’—And were hated just as violently as their brethren today and were mobbed and killed by the religious hypocrites. who couldn't stand the truth. No doubt these hypocrites were very patriotic and ‘well respected gents. : Actording to Blackstone, the divine law, meaning Jehovah's. law, is supreme and takes precedence over any man-made law. Now anyone who is up on present law knows there isn’t, and never: has

were for the C, I. O, So why was not the clection a

been any law requiring compulsory salutes to any flag. Even the presi-

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dent of the United States is not required by I: 7 to do so. Any trai(or would be glad to salute the “:3 and earry on his treachery :-hind the flag. That is why they : ¢ jo hard to caich. The reason wry Jchovah’s Witnesses do not salute i = purely scriptural one and has oiling to do with their loyalty to (hv United States. , , , ' Regiment:iitn of the actionsand thoughts vo’ every citizen ce )

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anyone thir: it does he had better reconsider, 1 ” 2 “THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THI V DO” By Edward; rior, 208-8 Washington st. To add ic :!l our ‘other troubles and worries ne 78th new congress Has just. cor venied, with the broadcasted notice nat it is aching for a showdown {« > finish fight with our president, Judging 1; and grapevi.: be warrant:

the newspapers, radios vire routes one would in believing that a large minor of congress are .laboring unde: 1 obsession that Rooseyel is a cater menace to this try than = Hitler. “Lick Roos: v¢19” is & war cry more potent in the mind of many a tory enemy of F.oscvelt than the war cry to “bea Under the i fluences at Vi dize. our winn tainly enda; Just and Jasti: The tragic Wilson was |: same brand we now see the proposed : of President I oosevelt which reminds one o he old proverb that this brood of tories never learn and never fors:! (and never forgive) for keeping {ci away from the flesh pots o! oilice for lo, these many long yo: s, : : As I near the inevitable end of a long life, and :: | review the continuous blunder in of human groups, I poignantly :c-ull, the lament of the Nazarene, ‘/'= ther forgive them, they. know not v1iat they do.” : : & ti lt “COULD THI: =i SAME. - SENATOR WIiCEIER?? ©

‘cumstances I see inwhich will jeopar{he war, and cerour winning any peace, ! death of President vight about by the political bigots, as yiully assembled for

Could the 8¢r: cr Burton Wheel0rge Maxwell reciter of Jan. 8 be

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Here's What Boys Want

. v “A SURVEY AMONG the men themselves show their preferences something like this: (1) The current best sellers (Book of the Month, Literary ‘Guild, etc.) and other recently published popular fiction and non-fiction. bg o Adventure and westerns, detective and ‘mystery fiction. : f : : (3) Technical. published since 1935 .in- the fields of mathematics, machine mechanics and dee signs, eléctricity, radio, photography; aeronautics, navigation, meteorology, chemistry, physics, shop mechanics, military science, mechanical drawing, are chitecture, ete. (4) Funny books—jokes, humorous stories, aneece

dotes and cartoons. | xT | ‘other small sized editions of They MUST be in good condition, Just any old book about any old thing won't do. It's sorted out long before it ever reaches an army camp, That's what happened to some of those “cast-offg® which we didn’t think twice about offering last year,

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Just take a good book down to the library. That's all you need to do, 5 Give the boys a boost with a book,

Dive-Bombing By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Jan. 14—Tne dive-bomber is most likely to bee come : the first purely . special weapon of this war. It has always been a special weapon, though most commanders did not so esti mate it at frst. It is a weapon for flattening enemy fortifications

and dislocating enemy supply

lines, ' equipment and airdromes.

But it was employed entirely

i : outside its true role when any of those operations was attempted, unless it was protected from enemy fighters or when it was used against land forces equipped wtih strong 50-caliber and 37-millimeter anti-aircraft guns. : The amazing ability of a plane to run through a storm of anti-aircraft fire is due ‘to its speed and the consequent difficulty of “leading” the target plane with the sights of a ground anti-aircraft gun. Ate tempted at first with crude sights, the results were unfavorable. But that ticklish job is now done in 8 split second by & miraculous anti-aircraft gun-sight.

Hazards Make Practice Costly -

NAZI DIVE-BOMBERS had = frightful field day in Poland because the Polish: army did not -have proper anti-aircraft guns to stop them. These same

dive bombers had a much tougher time in Franceand

came ‘to a disastrous halt in England, where the Brite ish had a large number of anti-aircraft guns and the Nazi divers were stripped of their fighter protection, Dive-bombing cs were developed fo increase bombing hip < without: depending upon a bomb sight. The logical way to deliver anything is to carry it as close as possible to the desired spot end dump it there. : $4 - ‘But there are hazards to this form of attack in the face of improved anti-aircraft it questionably costly.

With anti-aircraft guns of ranges up to 30,000 feet, anything under a few thousand feet is actually ale most point-blank range. Further improvement of

anti-aircraft guns, sighting mechanisms and the teche =

que for handling them will render dive-bombing more and more oostly. i

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Improvement in high-altitude bombing will force :

the straight out air attack against 5 carrier to remain at altitude, but will incline air commanders to depend

upon. pattern bombing to cover the carrier and its

The dive-bomber will remain an essentially special weapon

of a retreating land force.

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