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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1943

ML PLAN INEVITABLE “WHY NOT NOW?

HE ways and’ ‘means: committee has laid another egg. | | arsenal of democracy and putting, to shame the

{cheap and venal politics of Washington wheré thou- | {| sands of lawyers and party press agents on the public }. payroll still carry on the class war "and are trying .

And it’s an egg that won't hateh the revenue our érument needs to finance this war,

: “an egg that would cpoll any oinelet thé administration might try to cook up in the way of greater social- security’ after the war,

”

{ ‘Should, thie ‘tax bill which the ite now \presestay

to congress become permanent law; the only: thing sure to}

go with Aniericany “from the cradle to: the: i would be income tax debt. os ik s Oh de ; i . hr a : BUT it is inconceivable hat ‘such a tax bill will become : ‘Under it, the government would take 20 per cent of Soa ixable income out of {your Paychark o or yage envelope be inning July’ Haband The government, generously, would ermity you: to count those deductions, against the tax due on your last year's income—or you could dig’ into your pocket for income-already-spent, square: yourself on your: 1942 tax, and let the “deducts” apply against your tax on your 1948 income,: half of which, incidentally, will have been earned and spent by Julyl. : : It can 't be ‘done The Zoviient can't" collect two year’ s tax in one-year. Ask any taxpayer.

Faced by these altérnatives,: 99 and 99-100ths per cent of the taxpayers ‘would ‘Just suffer: the government: to take e’ “deducts,” and remain: forever, one “year in. debt for AXES. “And when a taxpayer died; the government would. ry”, £0 collect its. share of his last'year’s iricome.- {

to us onl fair and Io ical that when death : Joe It xegms y g ne riot identified with any political opinions which they} ® ~ ‘ -

“express,

lays its hand on a man’s income, the tax. collector should take his offi .And so, we believe, will it seem to a majority in congress—tite ways and means committée to the contrary notwithstanding.

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» only’ Way to. put taxes on a pay-as-you-go basis is to put taxes. on a pay-as-you-go basis. When the government. starts collecting as a man earns, it must start peckoning { the obligation on an as-he-earns base. ~The government wouldn't lose revenue by so doing. It woild gain, , For once ‘on the sound basis of taxing current

ate ver ates: ‘are necessary to obtain whatever

i And ‘only heh ‘can’ congress even start to consider any after-the-war, . broadened-social security legislation.. For that, $00, will have to be. financed out of the same pay: checks and wage ‘envelopes. - RT Our’ guess is that after free debate on the floor ‘the. house will adopt the Ruml pay-as-you-go plan, in order to make the committee’s withholding tax workable. If the “house fails, then surely the senate will do the job. It has’ to “be done. .

7 “THE PRIMARY NEED”

“HE senate’ s invaluable Truman committee, in its second annual report, observes that nearly all the failures and shortcomings. it has found in the :war program have been | due to “three basic weaknesses”: 1. “Inadequate over-all planning within government agencies at the beginning of various programs, and delay n determining basic policies necessary to carry out such programs effectively.” En * 2. ' “Conflicting aathorioy. over, and responsibility for, various phases of the war program,’ Tesulung in delays and buck-passing.” 3. “Hesitancy of government to adopt: unpopular or unpleasant policies long after the facts clearly indicated | such policies were necessary.” . No group, as the committee says, ‘is solely responsible ‘or these weaknesses. But one group deserves much credit for the progress noted toward correcting them in recent

That group is the Trarian cornmittes itseif, i in-: telligent investigations, its fearless exposures of muddliag,

its clear analysis of governmental failures, ifs. prodding of |

istrative officials to use their authority—these have been a great service to the country.

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ND so, we think, tremendous weight should be given: the > ‘committee’s assertion that, “during the coming’ year i

ention must continue to be focused on the primary need r clearly defined authority in the administration of our omestic war program.” The report continues: . ~ “This authority. should be centralized in'a few officials’ ach solely responsible for the administration of certain vities: Each should be of high ability: : In addition. doing their administrative work they should meet fre7 to eliminate all conflicts of jurisdiction, and be ready th the president on important questions of loving him ompletaly of pursly adminis-

moa te ghert

excuse for r government hesitancy to adopt

and guns and, these flying: warships,

1 hel ‘rather than ‘last year’s earnings, congress.can | rs.

In Waslingion :

‘insulted and humiliated by im-

pudent . little _shysters sent out}

from Washington to administer the labor relations

act for the benefit of John L. Lewis: and the Com.

munists of the C. I. O. and the Tacketeers of thel -

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Thelr very bigness in business was held to be:

proof of corruption and fascism and they were |. disloyalty if they said. they. believed |

charged with their ‘country could and should keep out of the war. « But-now, they are the men who are running the

to: renew. their jobs for four years after 1944.

py Vast Might and Ingenuity

‘THEY KNOW, as anyone can see, that but for big business, a a distinctive American institution, the ‘Unjted States would lose this war and that because it'is so big, 'the United States cannot lose. They are satisfied that this time, big business cannot, be. accused of ‘creating the war and shoving the cotmtry into the fight for profits.

Forced into war by the enemy, big business 15}

months later is’ producing with all that vast might and ingenuity which | the New Deal tried to handcuff and suppress. These are: not New. Deal achievements, these crates containing airplane engines which come out ‘of the: ‘plants Jy. the. boxcar -load, these tanks, Jeeps but the contribution of those traitorous. Tories and Copperheads | to the destruction of a foe who challenged & country which they love as much as Harry Hopkins does or Felix Frankfurter or Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself. ; And if the. president's, sons are risking their lives, 80 are the sons and brothers of the men of big business and many big: businessmen, themselves. For, to them, this is not the New Deal's private war, but a

"| fight for the survival of their country. It is sul] thelr

country, too.

Afraid of Meddling

WHO ARE THEY, by name? Some of them you :

would know by name, but many more you never heard of. They do not try to conceal their hatred of those who tried to raise a class war against tHem | during the last 10 years merely because they were good men at enormous jobs. ‘Bub all of them are careful to ask that they be:

even on the subject of the fourth term or: of the unions which are loudly gstruions against | them still, They are afraid that. someone A washington will meddle with their contracts or their materials |:

or start the propaganda mill going against’ them |

‘even though the New Deal makes politics and damns for disruption those who oppose the campaign for a fourth term. They are more concerned with winning the war than with the internal future of the country.’ They work to win, even though the victorious United |- States should be ruled again by the same men who, when the war broke at Pearl Harbor, eried to Shem

> The contrast. between the men of big boing and the political man of Washington is shocking to] observe. In the old Federal building in Chicago the other night, long lines of tired men and women,

‘four abreast, were inching wearily along after ‘tHeir

work to file their income tax returns, many of, them for the first time.

Doing It for America

IT WAS A spectacle of ‘bureaucratic waste of ; time, fumbling and inefficiency as most dealings of.| the people with the

government are. A factory which did business so badly on pay night ‘would have riots at the gates.

At the same time, in a hundred enormous plants

‘in Chicago and countless big business factories,

everywhere, big business was producing weapons, vehicles, engines, steel box cars, boats and submarines, smoothly and in great and steadily increasing quantity, hampered more by the New Deal's payroll parasites than by any other factor. Big business and the fighters, who include a due proportion: of the sons -of big business, are winning the war, but big business is not doing this for the New: Deal and the lame ducks and lawyers and press agents of Washington, These men are doing this for the United States, which created and thrived on big business long before the, New Deal and today would perish without it.

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By. Peter Edson

(Fairs ina series on freedom of the air)

WASHINGTON, March 12—In any consideration of this “freedom of the air” idea, you come| eventually to the theory ‘of reciprocal rights, for which the record of negotiations between the Unit- | : ¢d ‘States and Greaf Britain offers ~ the swell example. In May, 1935, the first trans- : oceanie airline schedule was estab- - lished by Pan: American Airways : —across the Pacific. Maybe - you have wondered why the Pacific was flown before Toe

Atlantic. One real, underlying reason was because the |

WS. Tnd-ons wf ties seciprocsl sights agreements

T This agreement wes not in the form of a codified treaty, but it was made after a series of diplomatic

negotiations, following which the U. S. department | of commerce issued a landing permit to British Impe- | |

rial Airways, and the British government issued a

similar ‘permit‘to Pan American Alrways to fly into, | ‘through and away from the U. S. and Great Britain |

‘via Canada, Irish Free State and Bermuda. These permits were effective June 1,1836, and were to remain in sffect. 15 years; with. the provision e sillier side could cancel on’ two. years’ notice. :

Point Against Reciprocity 2

EE CATCE In tris 1s that ws ihe tie the:agras= 1H

ment was made, the British had no planes capable of

‘flying the Atlantic with a pay load, though Pan |}

‘good - union people Wi {you Roscoe Turner, have brought

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The Hoosier Forum

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

or SUBSTITUTES, PEGLER” By Jom Berling, 2823 N. Olney st. In regard to-the letter of Otto L.

my 100Q-to-1 wager: In reply, wish to say that I compliment - him upon his knowledge and use of the written word. I am

sf sure to hear: from Pegler accepting

this bet: any day now. In the meantime, ‘a. vast silence from me. No substitutes, Pegler. Come on out and beh =C ifm ; .

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|“NOT KEEPING FAITH | WITH REST OF US”

| By, Robert 8. Lukie, U. A. W:-C. I 0. Local 226, 2147 Avondale

As committeeman reprasenting 200 who feel that

reproach on.the unions. You say you ‘carry: three cards. If you' are’ ‘a8 ‘sincere as you pre=

tend why wasn’t labor represented

when . . . Rickenbacker spoke Thursday? You said “Let's fight the enemy and not among ourselves because every discording note helps the enemy.” We, too, can say without reservations that the welfare of our country and fellow man ceme first in our hearts. . You, Roscoe Turner, are creating disunity by not keeping {faith wiih the rest of us. No one questions Rickenbacker’s

war, but what about the good union men who spent weeks adrift in open| lifeboats and rafts after the enemy attacks and now when hundreds of thousands of union people are in

| service all over the world and their

backs are turned you advocate that we destroy the progressive legislation and gains these same union people are fighting to preserve. > I think that: you are no better than tbe, labor-baiter Rickenbacker.

Scales; 1405 Merchants Bank Bldg, | ‘| offering ‘to pinch hit for Pegler on

secret mission in this war or the}: Jgreat part he played in the last

(Times readers are. invited to express their views in these columns, religious- controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed.) Ga

“PROTEST AGAINST MUNICIPAL PET SHOP” Py jig 3 To roy Indianapolis As a body, our club, the Indianapolis Obedience ' Training - club, wishes to protest against the: proposed ordinance to establish a mu-~ nicipal pet shop to sell dogs collect ed at the city dog pound. f We feel the purpose of the pound | is intended to be a check upon the

stray and surplus cog population

and not to aggravate it by placing dogs, probably : diseased, in the hands of irresponsible owners. The purpose of cur. club is to further the fraining of pure-bred dogs and make good citizens out of them. We: feel this ordinance would overpopulate the city’ with dogs and dog-owner: who have no intention of keepirig their dogs under control: and off the. streets, The result would be a problem of added expense to the taxpayers to dispose of the increased population |of ‘dogs. This proposed ordinance would nullify the progress made by. all pure-bred dog lovers and dog breedrss ‘and: should not be adopted. : : 2 o “why NOT SALES ROOM FOR DOGS?” [By 0. D. Chesrpwn, 4353 Broadway Why hot have a jnunicipal sales room for the city's homeless dogs? Many have been pets af our’ boys who ‘are now in the service. . . , On. visiting the city dog. ‘pound on Sunday I found .a number of peoplé there for the purpose of purchasing a pet.

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Irs sales room was more centrally | *

|Side Glances—By Galbraith

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lociited, many more ‘dogs could be |ing besides extra money ‘for city

way with the breeders of pedigreed

1 sensible ome.

“| member Moses: went up on the

| He could see things in perspective. | He could see in his mind what was| jin store for his followers. » . J : i point. I want ‘to make’ is 5 that it is very important to with-| draw from the ballyhoo on the radio}. | into the chamber of your own PRE “yand let the still, small volos talk to} 1 ok"

sold, making: the shop self-support=

‘furids, as a license tag must be purchased with every dog. But rationing of gasoline, etc. makes it impossible for many to get to the pound, which is located not on a prominent highway, but. practically a clead end street. ! No dog would be sold that is not a healthy one as it would have the inspection of a veterinary. And this sales shop would not conflict in any

dogs or pet shops, us no accessories or dog food would be sold.

» » ® “AMERICAN YROCEDURE SEEMS SENSIBLE” i By H. F. Horton, Nashville

Africa should occasion no surprise. They follow inevitably from the internal difficulties in France before the war, The country was alniost on the: verge of civil war. The parliamentary system had lost the respect of a great proportion of ihe people. As a matter of fact the French have never shown great adaptability to the parliamentary system. Liberty for them has never. meant what it means to an Amiericar or an Englishman. , , . The : inclination toward : totalitarianism was particularly strong among the official class in the colonies. It would probably be difficult to And even & few trained administrators who are also’ scceptalle ‘idenlogically. Under these ‘ circumstances the Anierican procedure seems the only We will work with what is available and France must settle her own affairs later, -

» ” » : “YOU DON'T HAVE ro pO 2 Af, MUCH GADDING ABOUT”, By Arthur 8. Mellinger, RB. B 17, Bex m T wonder if I am eligible to write again in The Times. ‘It has been almost a year since I have written a letter to you. . "There has been 80: much confusion in the world I had to fake a short vacation to get my bearings: I have always wanted to see the mountains snd climb upon the top.

a short trip to Denver, ‘Colo., and aid some real hiking.’ I got the exercise, and most: important, I}. céme back with a clear mind. ~~

altention to: Bible stories. You res mountain top to. get first hand in-

formation, Here he could think. He could . commune with. his Maker.

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he political difficulties in North|.

ard see the world below. 1 made|

Folks nowadays: don’t pay miich|

WASHINGTON, March 11 “The Roosevelt fourth term. move~

by ‘the activity of big Jim F ‘former Democratic national | § man, who set out early to sell old

political building up 8 block of votes in the 1944 convention

-{o prevent Mr. Roosevelt's renomination.

Contributing - factors, it is learned, were the usually early missionary work by Republicans Republican ‘candidates, bent upon capitalizing their gains last November, and the bad news Democratio . political leaders are getting from all fronts—even the south—about the present. sad state of the party.

Same Strategy asin '40

THE INSIDE New Deal clique decided it was

| about time to hang out the magic hame of Roosevelt

as a symbol to dispel the. gloom, provide something to rally about, and drive other Democratic hopefuls back into the shadows. That strategy worked in 1940, ‘when other aspire ants had to hold back, uncertain whether the presie dent intended to run again, until they found theme selves holding bags bereft of delegates, . Mr. Roose= velt had them all in his bag. 4 Part of the fourth-termers’ strategy this time # is becoming. obvious, is to promote the idea that Mr. Roosevelt is unwilling, This is one: P gions methods of inspiring a “call from? as it was put at Chicago in 1940, “a : The technique calls: for public. statemen r and there from party stalwarts, first su Ng demanding, that the public figure seek fourth-term movement is now in the

ARGYLE Director

THIS STAGE is always helped along, eager volunteers who want to curry ‘favor, and who have nothing to lose—at least in this. situstio aa by taking the platform and speaking “the will ox the people.” The movement is being directed from within ‘the

. White House circle by one of the “anonymous” secre=

taries, David K. Niles, who has had a good deal of experience in political manipulation with what is

sometimes called “the palace guard”—though the ex-

perience hasn't always been ‘successful. Mr. Niles trained with Harry L. Hopkins and was -

‘his right bower in WPA during the 1938 congres-

sional campaigns, . sometimes referred fo as “the purge,” when the WPA was exploited politically and WPA workers were lined up for the polls, Mr. Hopkins was lifted out of the WPA job, when the public reacted against the political activity of his regime, and moved into the cabinet as secree tary of commerce. Mr. Niles went along with his boss to the commerce deparunent.

Lost. Latest Venture

LATER, WITH the approach of war, Mr. Hopkins moved into the White House to handle lend-lease, and Mr. Niles joined the presidential secretariat. . Complaints were made against Mr, Niles in 1940, when he was in the commerce department, that he was actively campaigning for ‘President Roosevelt's re-election in violation of the Hatch act; but the Gillette campaign: Inyestigauing committee ’ dismissed the charges. - *- A He did not fate sO well in his last political ven ture—the attempt to defeat Jim Farley's candidate for the New York Democratic gubernatorial nomination last fall, and. to put over Senate James ‘M, Mead. That was a flop, - . But Jim Farley lost Ry too. “His candidate, John J. Bennett Jr. won the nomination but was defeated n the election by Thomas E. Dewey,

Some People’ - By Stephen Ellis

HAROLD ROSS, editor of The New Yorker, is credited with “discovering” John Cheever whose book,

“The Way Some People Live,” was published this

week. It looks as if Mr. Ross has struck “pay dirt.” The eollection of 30 stories, written between 1938 and this year and appearing originally-in New ¥ork«

‘er, Story Magazine, Yale Review, Harper's Bazaar

and Read Magazine, is Mr. Cheever’s. first book, = - He writes with the incisiveness of a surgeon using a ‘scalpel—and with 'as little waste motion. Each of his stories is a vignette whose subjects are held for a moment in blinding light. Each of them is written as if Mr. Cheever worked under a self-imposed rationing of words,

Something to Look Forward To

HIS CHARACTERS are the. Americans of today and he does the same impersonal job of revealing their weaknesses, their futility and their pathetis quality that H. H. Munro. did upon the English in his Saki stories. : In an era cluttered with first-person narrative and writers who doggedly obtrude themselves upon their readers, his reticence. about Mp. Oheevers; pers sonality is gratifying. With his gift for oaracter delineation, he should make a top-flight novelist. At present, though, Mr, Cheever: is serving in the army and his first novel probably will be a post-war production. Ts:sontetiing to look forward to. 5

THE WAY SOME PEOPLE LIVE, by John Chivers Pu by Random House, New York. 256 pp. $32.

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

CORRESPOND the armed forces sending back stories to ‘our ne . papers which should come ui the heading of required for all civilians. : 2