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UP TO CONGRESS | HE beetled brows of John L. Lewis, and the grimaces of “all the other labor leaders who are afraid that John L.

= might steal their thunder, have failed to intimidate Presi:

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‘dent Roosevelt and the national war labor board. The president has declared that the coal wage contro-

versy must be settled peaceably, in accord with the policies

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" fixed under the nation’s economic stabilization program. The war labor board has declared that so far as wages are concerned this program shall be interpreted in line with the Little Steel formula—until and unless congress provokes a further rise in living costs by yielding to the higherprice demands of the farm bloc.

Which means that the government's: poeition is that will be kept in check—as long as congress holds firm against pressures for higher food prices. It’s a real test, as to which has the greatest staying _ power—the president and the NWLB, or the elected repre- ~ sentatives of the people. The public interest, including the interest of all workers and farmers, demands that both stand firm against inflation of living costs.

AMERICA WANTS THE RUML PLAN - .

: AMERICAN taxpayers are not as dumb as the tax experts

of the treasury ‘and some of the congressmen of the

. ways and means committee seem to think.

Despite all the lies that have been told about the Ruml pay-as-you-go tax plan, despite all the hypocrisy and

class-angled demagoguery, the people who pay taxes are

still in favor of _this simple formula for. getting on a cash basis with the tax collector. The Gallup poll shows that the sentiment is overwhelming. To the question, ‘Do you favor or oppose the Ruml plan?” the answers were divided as follows: Democratic taxpayers—83 per cent in favor, 17 per cent opposed; Republican taxpayers—87 per cent'in favor,

13 per cent opposed; upper-income level taxpayers—83

per cent in favor, 17 per cent opposed; lower-income level

: taxpayers—86 per cent in favor, 14 per cent opposed.

Seldom has a nation-wide poll showed such a pre: . ponderant sentiment on any issue, and the percentages ‘in general followed those lines in all sections ‘of 'the’ country. The people who pay the taxes—and there are about

~ taxes. The Gallup pollérs. found that 3 a sizable majority of

income taxpayers think the present stiff rates of taxation _ are fair. But they don’t like the present collection’ system, § which keeps taxpayers forever loaded with one year of income tax debt. They want the Ruml plan to make tax.

Taxpayers will think they have been fairly treated if

. congress adopts the Carlson bill, which embodies the Ruml plan. But they will not think they have been fairly treated

if congress adopts the substitute proposed by: the ways and means committee majority, which would establish a pay-as-you-go basis—and with a 6 per cent discount—only for those taxpayers who have enough. ready cash to pay two years’ taxes in one year.

has been proposed that some other song be substituted for The Star-Spangled Banner as our national anthem. Itis objected that The Star-Spangled Banner is difficult to sing. | Soitis. - The country of which it is the national anthem was difficult to find. It was difficult for Columbus to persuade ‘doubting kings that the world was round, and that its other side could be found by sailing west. It was difficult for him

to plunge into unknown seas. It was difficult for him to}

sail on when a faint-hearted and Superstitions: crew de‘manded that he turn back. ~The nation of which it is the anthem was difficult to tablish. It was difficult for the Pilgrim Fathers to land on a stern and rockbound coast. It was difficult for Daniel

: Boone to make a path in the wilderness. It was difficult for

ye Washington and his bare-foot soldiers to hold on at alley Forge. It was difficult for the pioneers to trek across the Great Plains, bearing: their children and burying their d by the wayside. It was difficult for Lincoln to save the jon. It was difficult for:men and women to.build a new ath out of the ashes of the Reconstruction. ~ w » # s = #8 T was difficult to send 8,000,000 men across the seas in 1017 and 1918. It was difficult to establish women’s ats, and children’ 8 rights, and labor's rights, and farmers’

in political democracy against selfishness, divisions and: | ‘The way of dictatorship is the easy way, the|

: ican Way is the hard way, and ever will be. xt was 8 Aiffieuls to bring this nation out of the great

+ So her national anthem should be,

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indi dent fellow, masta iepndat alow Inovng be He ad and non-political courts. The proposition is that if the Englishman is. willing io Subunits Semperasily We 420 MAY HU SE 0: without danger.

"We.Have No Way of Knowing’:

has the Briton, that when it is all over he will get back his rights and it is really no concern of. ours. If he feels that he must waive points of law and accept conscription for labor, for ‘example, that is his. business. We may wish him luck in the future but with misgivings as to that because he lives close to the European continent and the flow of political ideas hag been toward England from the continent for 25 years, rather than out of England to Europe. These ideas, the Nazi, the Fascist, the Socialist and Communist, all similar, and in many particulars identical, are impatient of the rights of individuals and minorities. While the continent has gone totalitarian during this quarter century, Britain has not

have we. We have had no effect on the continent but continental ideas have had an effect on us and we are especially hospitable to them when they come to us by way of England, the traditional citadel of government by-law.

‘Compulsion Without Law'

SINCE MRS. ROOSEVELT first proposed labor conscription, the whole program has been based on ‘compulsion without law. Our government seems not to want an orderly, legal system of civilian compulsion and there has been no honest, forthright appeal to congress or the people to provide such a law. On the contray, the method has been the squeeze to produce the result by indirect coercien applied by means of the military draft. No person in the government has had the candor to say that workers drafted into war industries by this indirect and evasive method shall or shall not be compelled to join unions. The plan, up, to now, has been to force people out of non-essential work into essential occupations and there to take their chances win the unioneers as usual. If the war plant is a closed shop the worker must join or go to the war, a situation which gives the union power to provide military exemption, plainly contrary to the letter and intent of the draft law and contrary to the deepest principles of Americanism.

‘No Profit in Aping Others’ "FOR WHAT IT means is that a private ‘organiza-

| tion with absolutely no responsibility or. standing in |.

the nation may assure one man that he may save ‘his skin by joining the union while a more inde-.

It is my understanding that in Britain this phase

‘Spent any time in England during the first world war ‘will recall that Lloyd George, backed by Northeliffe’s

all-purpose law and-that the British people submitted with a docility that must have surprised ‘the prime minister himself. It is not so much that we have accepted particular measures from the British. Long before the war we had learned from our New Deal rulers, many of them persuaded to European shortcuts, that recovery from the economic panic required submission to decisions by prejudiced administrative boards without review by the courts. . This is a free and independent nation, the envy of the whole world, which can profit by aping no other nation on earth and the British and others would have cause to thank us in the end for maintaining human rights and property rights under law in the face of emergency and strong temptation.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, March 23.— The treasury has decided official- « ly. to call the next war bond drive “The Second War Loan,” but while they" were trying to pick a name, suggestions were asked for and they got some dandies.

“Drive to Survive,” “Four Free‘doms Pund,” “The Knockout Loan,” “The Exit Axis Loan” and “Bust the Bums Bonds.” Three suggestions which weren't even given a second thought were the “Globaloan,” “Fourth Term Fund” and “New Deal Retirement Fund.” 8 2 8

NEW STORIES crop up every week on Washington’s famous Pentagon building, which is now army headquarters. The building is a mile in circumference and when completed will provide office space for 40,000 workers. Added to Washington's other post-war wor= ries are considerations of what to do with the Pentagon when the fighting’s all over.

Tin-Pan Alley is worthy of this Comin

a Banner is “too high.” Of course it

BUT WE HAVE no way of knowing and neither |

stood solid and unchanged and for that matter neither.

pendent and better man with the courage of his

A Ae abOUL | convictions must go to d perhaps. pe. killed, 40,000,000 federal income taxpayers this year—know what | - go to war and perhaps e | €] “not trying: to avoid ‘or: evade «of the problem is more frankly met but anyone who

propaganda, used the defense of the realm act as an’

“Victory in Forty-Three,”

; . @ 5 The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltdaire.

“DOGS ABANDONED. AT TAX TIME” By Mrs. G. R. M., Indianapolis

I have just finished reading Booth Tarkington's tribute or appeal to the $4 dog. I agree with some of the article. I have also read and reread Senator Vest's of Missouri “Tribute to a Dog.” A dog is man’s best friend. But I wonder if any who are upholding the issue ever lost the only thing they had to love and care for —their dog, as we: lost our little dog . « With distemper, just because some others I know of let their dog that was ill with distemper run loose and spread .it to him and other dogs. . No one ever had a smarter, more cute dog than he was. No, he wasn't pedigreed. . And we didn’t pay an enormous sum of money for him. But this is my point—he was kept at home in his own yard and cared for. And taxes paid for him. If you could see as we have every. year. around this time, the dogs that are deliberately dumped out here and also in other sections just to keep from paying taxes on them. Already this year there are dogs I have never seen before just because it's getting near time to pay their taxes. . . . If there must be an outlet for those dogs then they should have the services of a good veterinary. Weed out, isolate and do away with ones that are unfit. . . . lie. “WHAT A

DISAPPOINTMENT!” By George Poynton, 5325 E. 10th st. "What a disappointment! Mayor Tyndall in his campaign made a special appeal to the independent voters. He said he was not a politician and that it was his purpose and everyone's duty to forget politics and devote. their time to the war effort. The first disa tment, even before thie election, was when he announced publicly that he had agreed

to make all appointments -upon| -

recommendation of the regular political committee, evidently fearing he might not be elected. The independent *voters are certainly the balance of power here and having been fed up.on politics voted for him, so they might either claim credit for his election or ex-

press regrets. -

Since claclion, Sach time le gt

as he claims, to conduct the affairs

- {select their own assistants.

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

tempts. to explain the appointments being made through his office instead of through the organization he repeats that he is not a politician and not trying ‘to build a political machine. ‘Finally in an effort to better explain his position to the public he said that he had made the agreement to. accept recommendations for appointments from the political organization but from then on it would be necessary for all appointments to be made through his office (repeating the statement that he was not a politician) because the political organization had recommended for appointment a person who had not been for him and that such recommendation justified a repudiation of the whole agreement.

If Mayor Tyndall has such talents,

of the city in wartime, why doesn’t he exercise them in that direction, forget the minor appointments and, assuming that he has named competent persons to the head of depart ments, let these department heads

: It seems that if the mayor can-i: not make one public statement without indicting himself as an am-] bitious politician he had better keep still. Aside from the ‘political question involved, we independent voters are wondering. whether we elected. a mayor with sufficient talent to be mayor of Indianapolis even in ordinary times. 2 8 8 “THERE ARE MEN IN INDUSTRY WHO KNOW FARMING” By Frank E. Wills, Danville

There is much being said today

an ordinary farm. There are a lot of these men who hesitate to leave their present employment. to go back to the farm or to go into a defense industry, for fear some would call them slackers for doing it, and they may feel the same way about it themselves. But are they slackers if they are getting out of unessential industry and getting into one of the two most essential jobs that we have to do? I cannot know much about defense work; as I never worked in a factory, but I do know there are plenty of men in industry today who were raised on farms and if put back on farms again they would be worth half a- dozen of such workers . as ‘the secretary: of ger \ culture, Mr. Wickard, says he is going to Yecruit for work on. the farms. The draft boards have the questionnaires these men filled out when they were reclassified, in which they stated the work they could do other than what they were doing. Why don’t the boards or thé manpower commission notify these men to get into ' the job they can do to the best advantage? : 2 ” 2

“PERHAPS THIS WILL END THE ARGUMENTS” By Vincent Leigh IIL, 136 E. Sumner rd.

I have just read an article submitted by Clara Cheadle concerning the wearing of slacks in schools 4 I presume, colleges; : Students, I think, have the. Tight to ‘express their opinion on: this subject. . As is. known,, students usually have a rather nasty’ habit of opposing the decrees. of their instructors. Clara. Cheadle: speaks of “fogies,” but I believe that most students will not agree with: her, as a rule. The wearing of slacks 4n .school and on the campus is all right as far as. the attitude of liberalism. goes, but most of the well-bred girls 1 know shun the idea, of wearing a sweater and saddle oxfords to a formal cotillion. Can one call this the narrow-mindedness of the instructor? Intelligent girls realize that it is bad form to wear inappropriate apparel on any occasion. In the first place. it is unnecessary -to wear slacks to such a sedentary activity as school. For such occasions as hikes, tennis and riding, slacks are acceplied in good, grace by all girls who know what to wear and where to wear it. I have noticed at my school (XI am

‘ja freshman at Butler) that girls

look quite efficient in skirts and depend a great deal on cleanliness and good grooming to make themselves

attractive. When they enter strenuous activity they wear slacks and

look just as neat and

: becoming. {Tailored, casual clothes have the|

limelight at all times. Perhaps this will end the vioent

|arguments that have raged in this

‘| aver Minnesota last fall, sitting on the

Some sneered at “Joe Ball's. police force,” and

bristled over lowering tariffs.

But » majority liked bis dosirine, 4nd seat him back to the senate. Something was happening’ in Minnesota. Senator Ball discovered” that. Lots Lots of people thought. he was sticking bis neck out a long way for a beginner in politics.

A Revolution in Thinking? oo ¥

THE YOUNG SENATOR—he will be 38 in Noe vember—is confident something is happening quietly among people all over the United States; a revolution in thinking, a shedding of isolationist predilections, a trend toward world orgagizalon with Unity States participation. “That is the background of the resolution sponsored - by Senator Ball and three other senators—Hatch (D. N. Mex.), Hill (D. Ala), Burton (R. O.)—setting out

i | the broad outlines of world organization, which Presie

dent Roosevelt now has indorsed in principle. ang objective.

The people are veginning to speak. Letters from. mothers, fathers, wives of service men axpress hope that something of the sort will come out from this war so that the sacrifices will not be in vain. 5 Then there was a three-word cablegram from s soldier who has just landed—somewhere or Other over there: - “God bless you.” : These messages are moving. They inspire’ Joe Ball to try to do something. And he is 3, trying. So is his wife, Betty, who went with him all - tlorm as her husband talked to the plain people, and herself filling speaking engagements to women’s groups.

No Sudden Inspiration

JOE BALL has come to his convictions by careful

study and thinking. 1t is no sudden inspiration with him.

Back in ‘November, 1941, before we got into the war, he expressed the aspirations now embodied in the LS senate resolution in a speech before the ‘American Legion convention. Long before that he took a sland 4 against the aggressor nations.

He spoke out for repeal of the neutrality act so that the United States could help arm England and France. He supported lend-lease when other representatives in congress from his state and section were fighting it and were telling him it was bad politics for him to go along with the administration. This resolution sponsored by the four senators, two Republicans and two Democrats, is a strictly cone gressional movement, non-partisan in character. I$ . crystalizes the movement for post-war collaboration ' and puts it directly before congress. A

Ring Finger’ By Stephen Ellis

“TO READ “RING. FINGER" ' you would never suspect, unless . you elready knew it, that the auethor was the wife of Donald Cul= ross Peattie. The story opens in : a night club and the chief char= . acters are a tired tap dancer and | a bored man-about-town. ‘Perhaps it was the influénce of ; Louise Redfield Peattie’s husband, . : who loved the outdoors; anyway, Louise Peattle 4. story quickly shifts to a winds swept farm by the Pacific ocean. : There Folly. Malony, the tired tap dancer, gains a new perspective and interest in life in the person of Spencer Terrill, the | “half millionaire,” who, until he met Folly, asp had little interest in life. ‘ p

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‘Light, Pleasant, Nimble

BUT ALSO ALONG these panoramic shores Folly met Breck, a young man embittered and wounded in : the Spanish civil war, and his brother, Dermott, the carefree aviator. There follows the inevitable complications. and a

happy ending, with the war, show folks, rich aus and a bit of tragedy mixed in.

“Ring Finger” is pastime reading. Tt 15 Tah ana pleasant and nimble—like Folly’s clever tap dancing.

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