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THURSDAY; : MARCH 18, 1943

YOU STILL OWE TAXES

F you were one of the fortunate few who, by March 15, paid the whole of your 1942 income tax, perhaps you

heaved a sigh of relief and said to yourself: “Well, thank ;

~ God that’s over; now I'm even with my government.” But you ‘weren't. Though you paid the whole year’s tax for 1942, you had meantime become indebted to your . government for the tax on your income for. the first two months and 15 days of 1943. And today you aré two months and 18 days behind. Tomorrow you will be two months and 19 days behind.

7 ; ” # ” o = # IF you were one of the millions of citizens who, by March 15, paid the first-quarter installment on the'1942 income tax, you also perhaps were relieved by the thought that you had met your obligation by the date on whith it was due. You may have said to yourself, “Thank God, IT don’t have to make another tax payment until June 15. ? Which you don’t under the law. But your personal fiscal position, as regards taxes, was much more serious than it seemed. You had paid the government what it had coming for three months of your 1942 earnings. You still owed a tax debt on nine months of your 1942 income, and on two months and 15 days of your 1943 income. On the day you paid the tax collector, you were 11 months and 15 days behind. Today you are 11 months and 18 days behind.

HAT'S what the Runil plan is all about. It would assess your tax on the basis of this year’s income, not last year’s. If your income were the same this year as last year, you would pay the same tax—the government would get the same revenue from ‘you. If your income were less than last year, you would pay less. If your income were more _ this year, you would pay more. From taxpayers as a whole the government would get . about $3,000,000,000 more revenue under the Ruml plan, because national income will be about $15,000,000,000 larger than last year. ; But the important point to you'as a taxpayer is this: When you paid your tax you would be even with your government; you wouldn't have an Yi-maisths-and-15-days hangover of Be febt.

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AFTER KHARKOV

. WHEN the Germans lost Kharkov last month, they alibi®d that it was not important. Now that the Russians have lost it again, they are more honest in admitting the consequences. It is more than a great city and military center; it is the hub of Russia’s richest agricultural and industrial area. But, if Kharkov had to be lost, we may at least get some comfort out of a few by-products of that defeat. It has forced upon the united nations a more sober realism. Only a fortnight ago many Americans, and some in high places, were discussing the imminent collapse of Nazi miiltary power and the possibility that Stalin would march into Berlin before the western allies could even begin in-

vasion of the continent. Some feared the results of such a;

quick Russian victory, others welcomed the idea of the Russians doing most of the fighting. Of course in the midst of their great Russian winter offensive, Stalin warned that the Germans were not crushed and spoke of final victory only in terms of combined allied effort. And American and British military experts—in contrast to some politicos—were similarly realistic. They knew that a German counter-offensive was certain. 2 o o 2 » [ NEVERTHELESS, the net military effect of the Kharkov

loss on allied strategy is to hasten new fronts against Germany. Hitler's withdrawal éf some troops from the

west for the Kharkov front should compensate in part for |

the stronger fortifications the Nazis have had time to build in the west. Whether the allied invasion is to come in Norway, or the low countries and France, or- Italy and Greece, Hitler will not know until he is hit. ; There are also political effects of the fall of Kharkov. It gives a grim background to the high policy conferences in

~ Washington with British Foreign Minister Eden. It gives

“new urgency to the negotiations with Russia, which are to follow. It offers the best chance in many months—perhaps the last—of a separate Finnish-Russian peace of justice. But many allied gains elsewhere will be required to compensate for Germany’s recovery in South Russia.

CROPS DON'T GROW IN D. C.’ : “Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”—Thos. Jefferson. ; THE heartening thing about the Des Moines conference of governors of farm states is that it showed some intention of doing a job without waiting for the federal government to say how and when.

Crops will not be planted or harvested in the labythine corridors of the agriculture department buildings in the District of Columbia. Statistics on manpower will not milk the cows or slop the hogs. We cannot feed our soldiers, our allies or ourselves on incentive payment subsidy checks. But we'll probably not want food if the spirit the farm belt is symbolized in what one governor said: “There are no trick federal formulas by which the wartime problems can be solved. Let us solve them st we can right ir in our own 0 states. ye intend +o find

Farr Enoch

By Westbrook Pegler

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KANSAS CITY, March 18— Well, what shall we take up next

"in the story of Harold Franklin, [#4

the engineer of the gravy train? He is the son of the president of the boilermakers union and

agent in the group-insurance deal:

which yields him commissions up to 15 per cent in various types of coverages on the members and

their families, most of it com-.

pulsory. . Shall we ty to reckon how much the son of the union president is getting out of the compulsory insurance that is shoved onto the faceless suckers in the hiring halls of the shipyards as a condition of their employment?

Or shall we prove that they lie at the union.

headquarters in Kansas City, Kas., when they say

the kid is not getting and never did get a rakeoff |=

on the premiums? ‘I guess we will do a little speculating on the rakeoff to Harold Franklin, the old man’s son.

How Commissions Figure

ASSUMING THAT the boilermakers union now has 200,000 ‘members, which is not an extravagant figure although the actual number is not publicly known, the premiums at $15 a year would amount to $3,000,000. For this the workers on the war jobs in the shipyards and other plants get death guarantees of from $333.33 to $1000. Most of them just now are covered for less than $1000 because they have been members less than two years. They also are covered from $666 to $2000 in case of death by occupational accident and for $500 to $800 for partial disability. On new .policies young Franklin and his partner, Jerome Koehler, also of Kansas City, Kas. get a commission of 8 per cent of the $15 annual premium. On the premiums of all members of more than one

‘year’s standing their commission is 4 per cent.

Pranklin gets two-thirds and Koehler one-third of the gravy from the 6 per cent premiums and the 4 per cent commissions they ‘split 50-50. But we don’t know how much of the business is new and how much is renewal, If we assumed that it is all renewal business, paying them 4 per cent, they get $20,000 or $60,000 each. But we know a lot of it is new business, so we freeze Koehler at $60,000 and speculate on young Franklin's average.

Voluntary Insurance Provided

BUT THAT IS not all. We have dealt only with the compulsory insurance. The union also. provides voluntary life insurance to both members and members of their families and health coverage. : On the voluntary life policies, according to young Franklin’s own contract with the Chicago National Life Insurance Co., which formerly handled the business, the son of the union president was promised 15 per cent of the premiums, even if some other agent wrote the policies, and, inasmuch as his agreement with the new company, the Occidental of California, follows the old contract in all other important respects, we may suppose he is still getting the same commission. On the accident and health policies Franklin and Koehler get 8 per cent of the premiums which they divide equally. The voluntary insurance is advertised in the

‘| union’s constitution and accident and health has been

ballyhooed through the locals by union bosses pushing young Franklin’s line of goods.

Young Franklin Denies It

WELL, SO HOW much does it all come to, compulsory, new business, renewal business, voluntary and accident and health? I am sure I don’t know and young Mr. Franklin won't tell. In fact, he even denies that he is mixed up in the business at all or ever got a dollar out of this or any other policy of his father’s union and so does William E. Walter, the secretary-treasurer. And old man Franklin won't talk. But I think I can find out and if I do I will be sure to tell you how well the boy is doing, what with the war and the big shipbuilding program, and compulsory unionism all paid for out of your taxes. Tomorrow I am going to take the denials of young Mr. Franklin and Mr. Walter and shove them down their throats.

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By Peter Edson

_ WASHINGTON, March 18.— ‘British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden’s presence in the United States for “a general exchange of views on all aspects of the war situation” is nicely timed, for there are evidences that U. S. love for the British, which reached a passionate peak atfer Dunkirk and went on up from there during the blitzes, ain’t what it used to be. This found unofficial expression in Washington recently when a British attache remarked facetiously and off the record that the best

thing that could be done to improve American rela-

tions with Great Britain would be to have Hitler bomb London more frequently. There is more truth than whimsy in that sly bit of typical British humor, for the fact does seem to be that the-more the English suffer, the more we love them. When the going gets good, the American tendency is to assess the British war effort more critically and be just a little suspicious of every move the British make.

' This international mistrust of the cousins across || the seas has been Bothering people in high Dlaces for

some little time, Goebbels Loves That Sort of Thing

~ WHILE THE U. S. office of war information makes }| much of the fact that there is now a greater British || demand for news about the United States, not so much { | has been reported on the unkind things which are |} being said. A British subject is killed by an American ||

soldier, and the word gets back to the United States

that it is unsafe for British citizens to be out at night |:

if there are American soldiers thereabout.

From British sources come complaints that the +

American soldiers scattered about the British Empire have too much money to spend. There being nothing

in the stores to buy, the Yanks gamble away their |: pay, spend it on too much high living which causes |. prices to rise and reduces quantities of foods left to |} the British. Besides which, as our movies show, all |. American8 are rich gangsters, so it’s only natural |

that the U. S. soldiers are in general drunk and disorderly all over the place. That kind of stuff.

All such stories are of course base rumors which : 1 propaganda machine love | to have spread as widely as possible, but they do no |!

Dr. Goebbels and the Nazi

good toward cementing any bonds of friendship between the two English-speaking members of the united nations. On this side of the picture, practically every one

in the United States knows all the stock criticisms |i}. which Americans have of the British—the British |}

are great at having other pople fight their wars for

‘them, the British didn’t pay their wars debts, the Brit- || ’ u. 8. war supplies, the British won't |

x E ® 2 ’ The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voliaire.

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WASHINGTON, March 18.—Po~ land, first among the allies to be invaded by Hitler in the present war, probably will also be the first “to test the efficacy of the united nations in making the peace, Poland will be the guinea pig for the peace formula known as the Atlantic Charter and the four freedoms. If it works on her—if \ she comes out whole and sovereign —then, say the diplomatic: ‘doctors here, there is Teal hope for the other small nations of Europe. If, on the other hand, she emerges dismembered, faith in the formula will dwindle and Europe will almost inevitably return to the pre-war ‘balance-of-power system or to chaos. The boundary dispute between Russia and Poland is now in the open, with increasing signs ‘of bitter ness. Poland insists on her rights, as an ally, at ‘least to her pre-war frontiers and political status, while the Soviets lay claim to approximately the entire eastern half of the country. :

Once Ruled by Czars

‘ THE RUSSIANS’ claim appears to be based on the facts that part of the people in this area are their “blood kin,” and that for a century or more before the first world war the larger part of Poland Y was ruled by the czars, up to and even beyond Warsaw, Lublin and Lodz. To this the Poles reply with some heat that cere tainly the czars ruled over this. territory—but only after the three partitions of 1772, 1793 and 1795. Don’t forget, however, they add, that these parti tions were by force, the result of the combined ag= gressions of Russia, Austria and Prussia, just as the last, and fourth, partition, in 1939, was the joint work of Germany and the Soviet Union, But, before the partitioning began, Poland was territorially much larger than she was in 1939, and over that territory she had been sovereign for centuries,

“WHY DON'T MAIL TRUCKS DELIVER WAR STAMPS?” By Mrs.\J. R. Johnson Sr., 1096 N. Illinois st. apt. 2

Why don’t mail tfucks leave war stamps at drug stores? We tried five different stores in our neighborhood and none of them had any stamps. According to them, they have to go to the postoffice after them, so we think, after ‘all, the government should do that much to help us get the stamps which they want us to buy. » i ” “WILLING TO SACRIFICE TO ENJOY LIBERTY”

Bs A. E. G., a Defense Worker's ife, Trdimsapotis

I think it is very disgusting the wr some people talk about the defense workers. I wonder how they hatch up their ideas? Do you suppose these grumblers would sacrifice as much as some of the defense workers? Maybe some of you white collared store workers would exchange your position for a job like my husband’s. Yes, he is a defense worker. He works in the plating room of a defense plant 58 hours a week, He doesn’t receive the $1.50 or $2 an hour that some folks seem to think every defense worker gets. He only receives 89 cents an hour. Maybe you think it's funny to work in acid and have cyanide sores on your feet and hands. Try it some time if you think all defense Jobs are a snap. Understand, my husband doesn’t have to do defense work, He has a good education. In fact, he is a minister of the gospel and could have a white collared job like you complainers and be better off financially than what he is. But he is patriotic enough to do hard physical labor as well as to invest over 10 per cent of his income in war bonds that our children may enjoy the liberty that we have enjoyed and that they might always have a right to worship God according to the dictate of their

flown heart.

Yes, we are patriotic. We left our comfortable home, came here to live in furnished rooms for the duration, not because we enjoy living like this but because we are willing to sacrifice in order to do our part to whip Hitler, We have children so we had to take what we could get which happens to be a two-room block building on the rear of the lot. It isn’t finished inside, the floors are concrete. The walls are rough blocks like -the outside and the ceiling is made of cardboard boxes. We don’t even have water in the house (if you call it a house). We have to buy a bed for the large girls and a bed for the baby. There were only two kitchen chairs

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furnished so we had to buy chairs, too. We furnish our own bedding and linens and most of our dishes. We even have to carry our dish water and wash water through the front room and around the building and pour it in the alley. Convenient place, isn’t it? Yes, we pay plenty of rent, $8 a week, if you please. Why don’t we get another place? The reason is that everyone seems to have forgoften they were ever a child, It's always the same answer, “Sorry, no children,” or, “Sorry, we object to over one child.” Are you fault-finders patriotic enough to sacrifice as much as we have in order to enjoy peace and liberty? If you aren't, you're liable to have to sacrifice the freedom you now enjoy. » » “NEITHER PARTY TO ALLOW WORTHWHILE SECURITY” By W. H. Edwards, Spencer. 1 « « » As one who has watched that beloved (?) two-party system of “government in action during these many years of my life (a struggle for the “flesh pots” and “featherbed jobs” is a better definifion) I am to the conclusion that neither of the political Siamese twins are going to allow the opposition party to enact any truly worthwhile social security legislation; to do ‘so would be to give whichever party that happened to be in power a definite advantage at the political “pie counter.” Tre speakers in a receni air forum were all agreed that an allover social security plan wes desirable; but the conservatives hi that any such plan must conform to the industrial-commercial condition of the nation, forgetting, it seems, that the condition of in-

dustry, agriculture and business de-

pends entirely on the ability of the people as a whole to buy freely of goods produced by agriculture and industry in times of peace. We, as a nation of people, must come to realize that over-emphasis on conservatism is just as dangerous to the nation’s economic life as it would be to lean too far toward radicalism. The first named cuts down on the people’s buying power by reducing the circulation of the nation’s lifeblood, whereas leaning

too far toward radicalism tends to

Side Glances—By Galbraith

incresse the cost of life’s necessi-

- Ities, thus, in another way, reduc-

ing consumption. We know at first hand what the extrerne conservatives caused the

{Roosevelt congress to do in 1933

when war veterans’ pensions were cut to the bone; that action alone

|was conservatively estimated to

have added 40 thousand more workers to the millions then out of jobs;

at creating tools of destruction.

dergoing now. s =» = “THESE ARE REAL DAYS TO AVERAGE CITIZEN” By B. M., Colyar, 1736 Berwick ave.

to all be closer to our government's

know all about them.

earth” work.

out the bad lobbying from the good.

steps that would directly be felt by the average person, let there be votes from the people, as we do in elections Right ‘now, instead of losing so

the quastion of how new taxations are ‘to be collected, the vote of all people would settle that in a day. For muself, I would rather all the taxes he taken ‘out of our income before ‘we ever get it, thus we would know what we had to live on. After the war, Hitler and his horribl: horde® should be turned

and wrecked. Let them settle their final d:ys in this world. I'm afraid the United States would be too easy on then. Also, I don’t want the United States 0 ever lose its’ strength ‘and power again. As long as we're strong we won't be faced with another war. There should be a strong world police force with the power to quict any “incident,” ‘however small.

- Changing the subject, The Times is the hest newspaper in our city. {t's the only one that will publish all the news’ regardless of the

| politics involved. It’s the cleanest, ‘100. I haven't ever read any “mud-

slinging’ stories in its pages. I like its editorials,” its copyrighted features .and the funnies. I read it through and enjoy it all (especially the cro:sword puzzle).

. 8 = = “HOW IS HE GOING "70 GET HIS GAS?

| By Lioyd Hines, 1751 Dawson st.

I would like for this to be printed. Just so that people can read it who

Heian rea #t m the paper last week.

The puper stated that a big poli-

J ltician of New York by the narne of A | |Edward Flynn is going {from New York to Mexico for a | vacation,

to motor

That's a fine thing to do when

ithe government wants us to save

our rubber for the war. Some of us war workers can’t even get

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DAILY THOUGHT

He ‘that loveth his ‘brother: bideth ‘n the light, and there is x easion ‘of stumbling in

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that action augmented the extreme difficvlties under which agriculture, indusiry and business labored until war's emergence put workers back

- And, in reality, that over-empha-sis oan the conservative side was largely ‘a contributor toward the blood bath the whole world is un-

The present year and very likely, the next, are going to be very real to the average citizen. We're going

procec ure on old ‘and new laws. Of necessity, we're going to feel those happenings. People who previously haven't ‘thought much about govérnmental actions are now going to

Fron now on, I hope there. will be less politics in all governmental agencies and more real “down to

I would like for congress to make laws for the good of all people and not just for a few selfish individuals. Lobbyists are good for congress, if congress is strong enough to sort

I would like to have more government of the people. On important

Difficult Task Ahead K

Modern Poland was restored by the Treaty of Vere sailles. Her boundaries were laid down by the peace« makers of Paris—chiefly the British and the Ameri= cans. For wanting to cling to these frontiers, Moscow now charges her with “imperialism.” In turn, she charges Russia with staking out territorial claims .in violation of the Atlantic Charter. The situation underlying this dispute has all the makings of an explosion which might tear the united nations to pieces. For that reason, observers here feel, no time should be lost in bringing the Russians and Poles together. This will not be easy. The Poles point out that their population of 35,000,000 cannot possibly endanger more than 190,000,000 Russians. Poland occupies only 150,000 square miles—less than California—while the Soviet Union is nearly three times the size of the ° United States. Polish spokesmen insist hey have no intention of { giving up any of their territory to friend or foe.

‘Perilous Journey’ By Stephen Ellis

“PERILOUS JOURNEY,” by C. M. Sublette and Harry Harrison Kroll, is the story of a flatboat trip down the Mississippi just eight or nine years before

Abraham Lincoln made a similar trip to New Orleans, The book’s hero had some of the same Impressions. and experiences: as Lincoln. : Jim Dalrymple lived in Bartholomew county, In= diana, and left his home in the spring of 1821 to flatboat his produce down the Driftwood, White, Wa= bash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers. His trip was also planned as a search for his father, who had failed to return from a similar trip two years earlier. Jim battles outlaws and storms, loses his .boat, loses his partner, nearly loses his life, recovers his boat, ships as stowaway a waif of a girl with whom he falls in love. He works in New Orleans until he is certain he cannot find his father thare, then starts back up the Natchez trace to reunion with his father

and the girl and homecoming in Indiana.

much valuable time and money over

over to the people he has tortured

\'} | enough’ i: to go to town once a} fj ueak: Hew. 3s Yo, going to gst. his}

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Two Authors Who Never Met

C.M. SUBLETTE was & well-known writer of books for older boys, but shortly after he started his story he discovered he could make it no juvenile tale. He began the book in 1934, worked on it while he was regional director ,of the national archives survey, but was not able to finish it before his death in 1939, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., his publishers, knew that Harry Harrison Kroll also had been gathering data for such a novel, and Mr. Kroll was asked to finish Mr. Sublette’s book. Thus is published a most unusual collaboration by two men who never met, never exchanged a letter, : The result is & story of which both novelists could be proud—both for thrilling adventure and: for historical picture of the, American West in. ‘the 1 The geography is occasionally fuzzy, for example there seems to be a confusion of Indiana's White and Whitewater rivers in the early chapters.

PERILOUS JOURNEY, by C. M. Sublette and Horry Bante son Kroll. The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 418 pp. $3.75. =

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By Ruth Millett

ONE THING Mme. Chiang Kat shek’s visit seems to have done for us was to settle the “Shall stu= : dents wear slacks?” question. = When Mme. Chiang recently . visited her alma mater, Wellesley college, she strolled about the campus in slacks. The Wellesley

2 anti-slacks campaign. Pana It looks ss though offer - schools and colleges would ha drop their anti-slicks campaign also. How ‘cf teacher stand up and tell a bunch of students slacks are inappropriate for wear on high grounds or a college campus, ‘when the woman is often described as the greatest woman in the thinks they are the thing to wear? . .. The answer is—the teacher can't. The 8 have an unbeatable defense, -: « oF a

Enough Time Wasted THAT 18 ALL to the good. With the

stand. : After all, it's. what. ‘not a And it isn’t clothes that and it doesn't detract one b

- faculty immediately dropped their :