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MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1943

"FORGIVENESS ” OUCH!

)MORROW, “being June 15, is a day of reckoning for ‘many people who have persisted in regarding the recent tax legislation as a piece of tax “forgiveness” served up hy an open-handed government. Tomorrow, as on past June 15ths, the income-tax payer (if he has not already done so) must hand over the second quarterly installment of his federal tax—the same amount

that he paid March 15. On July 1, and thereafter, his pay |

‘check or pay envelope becomes subject. to a: deduction of 20 per cent (after certain exemptions), to be made by the employer on behalf of the tax: collector.. On Sept. 15 he must turn in an estimate of what his 1943 income tax will total, and in a great many cases make a. cash pay‘ment in addition to the 20 per cent deductions. On Dec. 15, another cash payment. We are achieving the very real boon of pay-as-you-go. But in no case, except for men and women in the services, will the income tax payable this year be less than it would have been without the new legislation. In millions of cases —wherever the tax on 1942 income was computed at more than $50—the taxpayer must presently pay 25 per cent of that charge—over and above his quarterly payments and 20 per cent deductions. In fact, the government expects to pick up an-extra 3 billion dollars in taxes this way. If anybody wants to call that forgiveness, let him raise his hand—and move to the foot of the class.

- STEP BY STEP THE most impressive. thing about the capture of Pantelleria and ‘Lampedusa was the way it was done—the steady, methodical, ‘mounting destruction by massed power that meant inevitable doom to the enemy. No surprises, no tricks. Just sheer force, open and irresistible. Because that must be the pattern of final victory in this war. The fall of Pantelleria and Lampedusa is heard - far beyond the Sicilian narrows now cleared for allied use. By desperate ruse, improvisation and luck, the allies for many months on many fronts managed to survive against a stronger enemy. But nothing short of overwhelmingly superior power, used relentlessly and unceasingly, can destroy the axis. Gen. Eisenhower could have tried a fast one against Pantelleria a month ago or even earlier—as he took the long shot at Tunis in November, as the British once took Libya before they were ready to hold it, and as the allies elsewhere went off half-cocked. This time the allies made haste flowly-—wite the result more gertain ” ” ”

= rp HOUGH the general pattern of maasip strerior force will be used in Europe and Asia, as in Pantelleria, Lampedusa and in the final Tunisian campaign, and as it is now being attempted in Russia, nobody should assume that the details will be the same. They could not be the same for a 1500-mile battle line, or for a continent, as for a tiny island. . Many persons now are apt to expect bombers to win. the war alone. The fact that this is the first such surrender to bombing coming on top of the devastating allied air . offensive. over Western Europe, convinces some that land invasion of the continent will not be necessary. That is wishful thinking, and dangerous. It is not held by the ‘allied high command. .. - This newspaper for many years has believed in the superiority of airpower. There cannot be too much use of it to suit us, But the belated converts to the air offensive who think it can do the job alone are expecting the impossite-. shesp victory. 8 #" 2 : EV at * Patelieria and Lampedusa airpower was only the spearhead. There had to be Tunisian territory : Cand bases, gained and held by ground forces and serviced by supply forces, and long ship lines guarded by sea forces, Because the Nazi continental fortress cannot be cut i oft or completely gutted, Hitler's army of 8,000,000 cannot be forced to surrender to bombing like the helpless island remnants. . It was the perfect teamwork of all war forces, perfectly massed and perfectly timed, that took Pantelleria and Lampedusa. More of the same on a mightier scale will be required to knock out Nazi Europe and Japan. Our Jesters know that, and our fighting men. So should we.

EX POST FACTO -

ON E reason why so many government war, controls break ™ down in practice. may be judged from testimony given by Fred C. Heinz, of the 57 varieties, concerning his expeHienes as member of a business advisory group. Wartime regulations concerning soup were framed. Wore experienced soup canners asked for advice, or even Aor technical information, in advance? Not at all. “They were just called in and told about it,” testified Mr. Heinz ~—*“it” being regulations already promulgated. : i ®Ag I understand it, these agencies when dealing with hy particular product want men to handle the matter ‘who are entirely unfamiliar with it. This is based on the dea that if they know anything about the business they

might be prejudi > + There is plenty of evidence that this applies to more

fr Industries than soup canning.

RTHOUGHT : HE new Japanese minister of state without portfolio has warned his people that they now face “an unprecedenty grave situation.” In our humble opinion Mr. Goto’s warning i is a model of ent. What the Nips face, militarily, is utter

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: By Westbrook Pegler

- winter, and an outbreak which might have been equally bad or worse was averted as soldiers and university students made more or less informal plans to go to town on Saturday night and beat up anyone found wearing a zoot suit. Being forewarned, the police, a local judge and the editors of the papers started a counter-propaganda

a number of street fights which previously had aroused public alarm and moved one judge to declare that anyone brought before him wearing a zoot suit would be found guilty. Thus a riot was averted.

Zoot-Suiters Mostly Natives -

IN LOS ANGELES, as in Tucson, the trouble is a mystery, and in both places there has been idle, troubled speculation as to whether the fights could be provoked by some enemy power, although there seems to be no evidence of that.

Because the strife has beer more dangerous in Los Angeles it has. been given more serious thought there. One liberal newspaper ‘reporter, who knows the Mexican: people. from many years of contact not only in southern California, but in old Mexico as well, believes the young Mexican-Ameri¢éan marauders are Contrary to intimations in recent dispatches from Los Angeles, the majority of them are not Mexican nationals, but native Americans of Mexican blood. - This journalist says they feel that they are socially excluded for racial reasons, but admits that the gangs are made up of thoroughly vicious young hoodlums, including some girls. It is undeniable that they have been guilty of a number of killings and rapes.

Soldiers Tired of 'Taking It’

THERE IS nothing to be gained by pretending that the American soldiers and sailors started this trouble. American soldiers and sailors are almost always wellbehaved, and the present personnel is distinctly superior in this and some other respects to any other

wartime force in the history of the nation. Therefore, when they are moved to mob action against any element of the community, as they were in Los Angeles, ! it is plain that they are acting under great provocation. That was the fact in Los Angeles. So many men in uniform had been beaten up or “pushed around” | that their individual resentment broke out in mob action. Nobody seems to understand why the zoot-suiters, not all of whom, incidentally, wear the outlandish uniform of the group, are so bitter against men in the nation’s uniform. It may be bravado, but that is only speculation. But there is nothing mysterious about the délayed, violent reaction of the service men. They just got tired of taking it and, as fighting men, will fight back. It is all very well to say they should have let the law take its course, but the law was not doing its job, and when an individual is attacked on the street he does not wait for a cop to ‘happen along. He takes law enforcement into his own hands to the best of his ability.

Police Have the Answer

IT IS a mistake to sympathize with these gangsters on the theory that they are misunderstood or the victims of social yearnings. The soldiers and sailors deserve the public sympathy and the protection of the law, and the problem will not be solved by placing out of bounds permanently the attractive city areas, which, in much of Los Angeles are pretty sordid at best, lest they undertake fo defend themselves and their wives and girls against unprovoked attacks by repulsive gangs of cowards who always outnumber their victims. It is the gangsters who must be restrained, and American cities must be policed so that others may go about in safety on the streets. Indirectly but unmistakably this cult got its inspiration from the degenerate exhibition of youthful mass hysteria which began on Broadway with hundreds of them writhing, twitching and howling gibperish to the horrible squeals and squawks of the jive bands. That all this was sheer, intentional affectation there is no doubt, for they behave so only in numbers, when they have an audience to show off to. The newspapers had a part in the promotion of the cult by treating it as a new expression of the spirit of American youth.

=~ We the People By Ruth Millett

A B-YEAR-OLD BOY looked on while the auctioneer sold his tricycle and rubber-tired tank along with the rest of the family’s household belongings. They were selling out because papa was going into the army, and mama had decided to go back to her people to live. A 14-year-old girl told with tears in her eyes that her mother .was selling house and furniture, and taking her away from her friends and her school to live in a town where her husband had a war job. Neither mother was to blame for her child's misery. Both felt they had to give up their homes, and the “sensible” thing to do was to get rid of the furniture and start out anew. Selling out was expedient. But it was hard on the kids. Those aren’t just two isolated cases. All over the country children and adolescents are: having their background, their familiar environment sold right out from under them, as mama decides to follow papa to an army camp, to a war plant area, or decides to: pull up stakes and go back to her own people.

Hold On to the Toys

MANY OF those moves are necessary. They are the best solution to the problem of & family broken by war. But they should be handled gently. No little boy's

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The Hoosier Forum

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

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“QUESTION FROM THE FRONT LINE” By L. M., Irvington Here are a few questions, posed by a man on foreign service with the regular army ever since war was officially declared. Maybe some of the bright professors, you know “the gang of

bright boys” who are really responsible for all of these strikes, ration and draft messes, can answer his questions. But if they do, it will be another wrong number—. “You know, some of the people back there have us guys burned up, and I don't mean just part of us. Every time the army, navy or air force suffers a little setback, they howl their heads off. They ask more questions than a two-year-old. They want everybody put in jail from the C. O. on down. “But when things are about to go our way, some of ’em suddenly decide that $70 or $80 a week isn’t enough pay, so they go on strike. “What I want to know is, just who's side are they on? “I guess you all know what would happen to us if we suddenly decided we should have five cents more on the hour and just sat down and let things go to pot. “The lucky ones would get from 10 to 15 years in Leavenworth, the unlucky ones would get shot. “I realize that some of them may not be : getting all that’s coming to them, but I wish some one would ask them if their five cents more an hour will buy back all the lives of our fellows that get killed just because they prolonged the war, with their strikes.” 2 os = “COMMUNISM FAILS AND ALWAYS WILL FAIL” By W. G. Dotterer, 251 N. Delaware st. Mr. Hurd, Mr. Maddox: With their concept, of the ideal life, the apostles set about with joyous confidence to build a united and harmonious world. If you read the opening chapters of the Acts, as well as the writings of the early Christian fathers, you will see that

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their purpose was not to build a church in a bad world for worship, but to build the world itself into a righteous and orderly society. All things were held in common. There were no riches among them

that was not enjoyed by all, and

that was not shared by all. The early Christian societies were little commonwealths, and the purpose of Jesus as understood by them, was the building up of one great commonwealth. The apostles were Communist organizers, and the purpose of Jesus as understood by them was the building up of a Communist state which would grow up within the kingdoms of the world and absorb them all. Their dream was a world of man, in which the united efforts of all should be centered in the development of the child. It was this glorious vision that gave verility and power to the apostles and their preaching. It was the loss of this vision which has cost thé church its spiritual power. Does the church today have a vision—does it see a world kingdom |: —does it have a purpose other than to peretuate itself—to keep itself alive—are men called by it to come nelp organize or reorganize society —or to come help keep up the church? : Is the church a life-giving or a life-absorbing institution? The record shows that the apostles failed in their Communistic experiment. Their organization lasted but about six months. The reasons for failure are easy to see. Communism fails and always will fail because it interferes with the great purpose which is the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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complete development of the individual soul. It submerges the individual. It extinguishes him in the mass. It destroys individuality. It takes all initiative from him, seeking to keep him from gaining power over others, ‘it robs him of power over himself. Man develops only by the use of the things he needs for his complete development. Organized capitalistic interests have robbed the majority of men of the use of these things. Communism does the same thing. In this both are the opposites of true socialism. Socialism is as far from com munism as the heavens from the Socialism where rightly understood tremendously extends private ownership. Its cardinal doctrine is that the individual should own absolutely and without question all the things he needs

for his complete development, mind, | Under socialism,

soul and body. one may acquire and hold all that he is individually capable of using, but he may not own that which makes him master of another man. Communism fails because it is a failure in the nature of things. While the world had not evolved far enough to make socialism possible, the apostles tried to establish a life for all which was only possible for a few. I am not a Socialist, -belonging to a political party or movement— but it is only common, honest and good sense to bear in mind that wherever you find pure democracy, in a community, state or nation vou will find a dominate socialistic

spirit.

“MONEY COMES FROM FULL EMPLOYMENT”

By J. M. W, Indianapolis’ May I again say that all I know is what I read in the papers, and I know now that B. J. G. was. present at thé meeting of the Indiana Bankers association. From the front page of The Times on the day of Dr, Palyi’s address to the association I also learned that a reporter of The This reporter was a good reporter as he reported what Dr. Palyl said without in any way trying to put something into the good doctor’s mouth which he did not say. What Dr. Palyi said. was, “We must forego the ideal of full employment as a foolish mirage which cannot be attained except by wrecking the financial system. . ..” Dr. Palyl either said this or he did not. To me it is not of the least importance whether he said it or not, but I do believe that a man of the standing of Dr. Palyi does not need a pupil to make clear his meaning. will B. J. G. explain where the power to purchase means higher production cost? The cost of producing a commodity is contained in rent, interest, wages, salaries, not in the buying of the commodity. I am really surprised that B. J. G. should mention gold as backing anything. He knows that the gold standard has been abandoned, and is buried in the hills of Kentucky. At least the papers say so. ‘Where shall we get the money to attain and maintain full employment? It will come from the same

place that the airplanes, tanks, bat- |

tleships and munitions are coming from now, from the full employment of the people.

DAILY THOUGHTS How Jorellia: are right words!

: WASHINGTON, June I Campaign contributions for 1944 presidential election are be« ing restricted further by law— whether it works out that way. in practice or not. : The Harness - Smith labor ' bill, directed chiefly at strikes in war industries, contains a prohibition against contributions by labor organizations to political campaigns, which was inserted on the initiative of house Republicans to check labor donations to the Democrats. No similar ban was included sgainst business organizations. So Senator Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M), champion of campaign-fund regulations already in the law books, is moving to correct this discrimination. He announced that as soon as President Roosevelt signs the labor bill he will introduce in the senate an amendment to prohibit contributions by business and industrial groups.

Restrictions Not Effective

IN ADVISING the senate of his intention, he . mentioned the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the:: National Association of Manufacturers as typical the sort of organization he meant, but his amendment would cover all other business and industrial groups of the sort, of which there are many. Whether such groups previously have contributed to political campaigns, or in what amounts, Senator Hatch was unable to say. Contributions by corporas tions already are barred under the corrupt practices, act. * A law now on the books, sponsored by Senator Hatch, prohibits individual contributions over $5000, and limits to $3,000,000 the amount that may be spent by a political party in a presidential campaign. : This latter restriction was not effective in the 1940 presidential election, it developed afterward. Estimates of total expenditures by the Democrats and Republicans reached as high as $20,000,000. This was because of amounts spent by all sorts of political groups outside the constituted national committees, of which there were more than the usual number in the last campaign, It was hard to keep track of such committees, some of which made no reports.

Loopholes Always Found

THIS LOOPHOLE in the law, through creation of special committees was pointed out by Henry P. Fletcher, counsel of the Republican National com=mittee, in a legal opinion he framed early in the 1940 campaign and which was submitted to Wendell L. Willkie, Mr. Willkie issued instructions that his party should not take advantage of such loopholes, and that total expenditures for the Republican presi dential campaign should not exceed $3,000,000. But his injunction was not effective, it developed subsequently, nor did the Democrats hold their expenditures within the specified limit. It is expected that some legislative effort will be made to reach this problem before the 1944 election. Senator Guy M. Gillette (D. Iowa), chairman of the 1940 senatorial campaign investigating committee, suggested legislation requiring that persons elected to office could not qualify unless all funds spent for their election were reported to a central committee, the regular party committee in the state, or to a fiscal agent designated by the candidate himself,

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 14.—No that your victory garden is coming along so nicely, thank you, you might want to take a look at the pressure cooker situation, if you haven't already done so, to make sure youre going to have ways and means to can your surpluses for next winter. A lot of victory gardeners are running into these problems for the first time and finding to their surprise that all ~ is not as simple ‘as it seemed last seed-catalog time. What has puzzled a lot of neophytes is the department of agriculture’'s flat and unconditional ultimatum that-only the definitely acid vegetables—like tomatoes—should be canned at home without a pressure cooker. To can the non-acid vegetables like peas and beans without a pressure cooker is, warn the official bulletins, dangerous. The danger comes from the botulism bacillus, which can be killed off dead in a pressure cooker for certain, but which if not destroyed will develop a toxin which will kill you off dead for certain, if you eat it. : “Yes,” say the old timers in this home-coming business, “but we've been canning non-ac¢id vegetables at our house for years, and without a pressure cooker and we've all lived hale and hearty and never been

bit by one of your botulism bugs.”

Danger Less in North

TRUE, ADMIT the home canning experts. Millions of people have eaten non-acid foods canned without a pressure cooker, and without a fatality. In some areas of the country the botulism bacillus has never been found. Principally those are ih the North, whexe there are year-round cool storage facilities. Also, the) botulism bacilli can be killed by boiling—really boiling —the food for 15 minutes, after it has been taken out of the can and before serving. But in the South particularly this danger of botulism poisoning is great, and if the department of agriculture or ahy of the state home extension services put out any official word that non-acid vegetables could be canned safely without a cooker, with the result ‘that somebody should die, they’d get the blame and it would develop into a national scandal, All right, you're converted, and you go down to the hardware store to buy one of these pressure cookers (prices are frozen at $13.95 and $15.95, slightly higher west of the kies) and your troubles begin. Mostly the stores haven't got any pressure cookers, or if they do have any, you gotta have a permit to buy. Okay, where do you get the permit? From your county war board. You go there and’ make application. The board will probably ask to see If you can’t borrow one from a neighbor. If you can, do it to save time. »

More Cookers to Come

BUT IF there isn’t one cooker in your comm and you can prove that you and your neighbors ha enough vegetables to put up to warrant the sale ‘of a pressure cookér to you or your club, you'll get a letter saying you're authorized to buy one. : Before the war, there were over a million sd aluminum steel cookers made and most of them A probably be working overtime. Manufacture of x cookers was stopped more than six months ago 0 save critical materials, but with the demand from the victory gardeners, production has been

.again.

In many cases, the deliveries will be $00 late use in canning this year’s early vegetables, the now ripening on the vine and bush. But co will be available for late vegetables and case youre going to home-butcher and