Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1943 — Page 16

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THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1043

TAXES FIXED, FOR A WHILE

A milestone in federal tax policy was passed when congressional leaders agreed with treasury officials to pass new tax legislation this year, but firmly stipulated that - the new taxes would not be retroactive,

Heretofore, year after year, it has been the treasizy’ 8 practice to take its own sweet time in deciding how much new revenue was wanted and how it should be levied. On numerous occasions, as happened last year, the treasury experts have changed and expanded their recomniendations even after congress had started ‘work on the legislation, As a result it has usually been late ifi the year when . tax bills became law. But the new and higher rates, and different trick schemes for computing the new taxes, have been made applicable for the full year,

Last year a bill carrying the stiffest tax increase in history did not become law until Oct. 27, but the new rates applied against incomes earned since Jan. 1—most of which income already had been spent. That was one reason congress worked the first, five months of this year on legisla tion shifting to pay-as-you-go collections on the income taxes of individuals. 2 ” ® ITH pay-as-you-go adopted, of course, it would be extremely hazardous to lay retroactive taxes against personal incomes. The treasury experts probably had nothing like that in mind. But they had been hinting lately of stiff increases in corporate tax rates—the rates now range up to 40 per cent on normal eorporate income and 90 per cent on excess profits. And they were insisting that the higher rates to be voted in the new tax bill should apply to all of this year's income, although the legislation could not possibly be completed until November or December, Secretary Morgenthau and his experts, never having had the responsibility of running a business enterprise, may not understand how large a part taxes play in the making of business plans. If they do know, they don’t care. Otherwise, they wouldn't think it so smart to change the rules " so often and so late in the game: | American business has shown a remarkable capacity to adjust itself to high tax rates but there are enough " other natural, economic and competitive hazards of business, and managers have very little time to attend to their. enterprises when they have to keep guessing months - ahead as to what tax surprises are being cooked up for them. The announcement of congressional leaders that the new tax bill will not be retroactive is very encouraging. Management can go ahead with its plan knowing that the rules of the game will not be changed at the last minute, and can be ready to make new plans under the new rules and tax rates that are determined for the new year.

A FREEDOM IS REINSTATED

THE constitution being “what the Judges say it is,” some of the rights and restrictions set forth in that document have a human way of changing from time to time. Last year, for instance, the constitution (as interpreted by the supreme court) permitted municipal ordinances to restrict the sale of religious tracts by the small but busy sect called Jehovah's Witnesses. Then a few weeks ago the gonstitution (as newly interpreted by a court of slightly changed membership) said that the municipalities could do nothing of the sort. Similarly, three years ago the constitution (speaking through its lofty expounders) said that communities could require school children to salute the American flag. But appropriately on Flag Day, the constitution restated itself through the same august medium, declaring that communities must ‘do no such thing. In this case Jehovah's Witnesses were again involved ; their peculiar religion Sony believe in flags. It i§ a healthy thing, especially at a time when we are fighting for the four freedoms; that the judiciary should revoke its unwise and ill-seasoned acquiescence in local infringements of the freedom of i religion.

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A SAILOR WRIT HOME

NAVY LT. JAMES KRAKER told the Virginia, Minn,, Kiwanis recently about a letter he censored, written by a sailor somewhere in the far Pacific to his father, a coal miner. If the father went on strike, the son wrote that he no longer would regard “you.as my father, and going out on strike could only mean that I mean nothing to you as a son. ” « “That boy and many Tike him,” commented Lt. Kraker, _ Yare bitter--bitter against those people within the United States who have struck and done those things which have slowed production of vital war needs.” . A mortally wounded anti-aircraft crew member slips overboard; so that no time shall be taken from the battle to minister to his comforts. “Yet,” says the navy officer, : jon people at home: won't sacrifice a dollar.”

Exaggerated? Sure. But that is how a lot of fighting

Americans feel about it.

MAYBE gi CAN BE DONE

i cE was much reluctance. in official circles about believing that there was even an experimental possibility that Henry Kaiser could build the huge plywood cargo planes he proposed, which were and are needed badly. Thanks largely to public pressure, supporting Donald elson’s willingness to find out, Kaiser was given opportu-

y to make good. Now he ‘has produced 16-foot ‘scale |

that ; prove ia point, and has won the right to build

ered by carrier, 18 cents

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

"| GHICAGO, 1Ul., Juhe 17.—Presi-

» dent Roosevelt and ‘Harold oye

. have recently ‘perpetrated in state of W an sect of an“nexstion which. follows the gen-

- eral lines of Adolf Hiller's seizure :

of Austria. ‘ ‘They .anschlussed- a tract of 221,610 acres for Ickes’ domein by a subterfuge after’ congress had twice rejected proposals fer the

same annexation. ; This was done by means of a trick, which, in the

Dessifent's Swi words In susie Siiainiien some yeas ago, constitutes a clever little scheme having the color of legality. "The land is in the ares known as Jackson Hole, a region of great beauty, abounding in elk and other wild life, and the anschluss practically wipes out a county of Wyoming econirary to the expressed desires of the people living there, of the legislature and of the Wyoming delegation in both houses of congress.

Great Indignation in Cheyenne

THERE 18 greal indignation in the capitol in Cheyenne and the attorney general has filed a suit in the federal distriet court, and Congressman Prank A. Barrett, counter-attacking from’ another direction, has introduced a bill to revoke a presidential proclamation by which the tract was seized for the department of the interior as 8 national menument after recurrent propesals to make it into a national park had been thwarted in the open. A national park ean be created only by an act of congress, but a national monument can be established by presidential proclamation without congressional consent. In either a park or a monument private use of land for grazing or any of the other purposes for which the people of Jackson Hole have been using the land is forbidden. The purpose of the department of the* interior was to extend the area of the existing Grand Teton national park, and after this plan had heen repeatedly rebuffed in congress, John D. Rockefeller formed a land company in Utah and proeeeded quietly to buy

1 up private holdings to the extent of 32,117 acres for

presentation ta the government as a part of the proposed park, !'

'As Hitler Eyed Austria’

TESTIFYING BEFORE the house committee on public lands in favor of his bill to revoke the presi- | dential anschluss, Congressman Barrett stated on

May 14 that an officer of the land company admitted that one reason for incorporating the company in another state was to compel any aggrieved citizen of Wyoming to go into the federal courts for his redress, Mr. Rockefeller spent $1,400,000 for his land, which was the principal source of tax rexenues of Teton county, whose existence is now threatened if, indeed, it is not actually liquidated by the seizure. As Hitler had eyed Austria for years, so the interior department had coveted Jackson Hele, and ‘the justification in both cases was similar. Hitler contended that raeially and historically Austria and Gemany were one, and the department of the interior argued that Jackson Hole was a national extension of an approach to Grand Teton park. The law permitting the establishment of national monuments by proclamation, by-passing congress, was plainly intended only to preserve objects of historic and scientific value and provided that land taken for this purpose should be sufficient only to embrace the object and provide for its care. Except in the sense that all American land is historic, this is not a historical] monument and no attempt has been made to identify any scientific object. It is now, in fact, the very extension of Grand Teton park which was defeated by. congress and opposed by the legislature and succeeding governors and was seized by 8 process so devious as to mock the government’s assuranee to the people of other lands involved in the war,

Fear 'Another Scheme’

ON THIS point, the chairman of the county commissioners wrote: “We can now more deeply sympathize with people of foreign nations whose homes have heen taken away like ours.”

‘Mr. Ickes, whose position corresponds to that of the Nazi governor of Poland, has indicated that he will generously permit the present residents to grage their stock as long as they like, but these people, considering the method of the anschluss, are afraid of another clever little scheme. The state, on its own part, makes a point of its sovereignty and its right to its own property, including 20,000 elk on the range and other game and the fish in the lakes, its right of taxation and other revenues, its investment in roads and other properties

and its right to govern this area within its own boundaries,

Teton

We the People

By Ruth Millett

GIVING SPECIAL honor to the fathers who are in service on Father's day is a nice gesture. But if all it amounts to is having them spoken of in glowing terms—it won't mean very mueh, either to the men in service or to their wives and children. There is one way that a movement to honor fathers in service could amount to more than a lot of spoken and written words. That would be for every father still at home with his family to “adept” a child whose father is in service. Children, growing up in a home that is temporary fatherless, miss out on a lot of things. They miss the thrill of having a man play with them, of having a man teach them. A boy needs a man to take him to the circus, to help him with his model airplanes, to teach him to fly .a kite, to take him to the ball park and give him pointers on the game.. .

Respect a Man's Opinion MOTHER'S AREN'T much good at those ins,

‘try as hard as they do.

Even when mothers are competent, children respect a man’s opinion far more on such things. So, why couldn't the fathers at home "sdopt” the children of fathers in service? It wouldn't be much harder for Mr, Brown, who is taking his own son to a ball game, to lake along an extra. . And it wouldn't be much harder for Mr. Smith, who is teaching his own boy to make model airplanes, to get another one interested in making intricate things with his hands. ‘Mothers whose husbands are away are doing their

het 0 be both mothers and faihers to their children. ||

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“JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DUE TO ADULTS” By Charles William Schaeffer, New Jersey si. Having just read of the eity-coun-ty youth program meeting called by Mayor Tyndall and having devoted much of my own life in this work through the church, ¥. M. C. A, scouting, big brother, ete, I venture to define juvenile delinqueney and shout “hurrah” for the judge of the juvenile court.

This phrase “juvenile delinquency” is the most misused, abused and least understood of any phrase in the English language. Juvenile delinquency is minor misbehavior due to “adult” delinquency. The child is the produet of the parents. If they allow that product to become rotten it is not the juvenile’s fault, but the adults’. If we would legislate laws and start throwing the adults in jail instead of the juveniles most of the problem would be cleared up shortly. If my boy or girl becomes a bum I'm the one te throw in jail for allowing it to happen—nof{ my children. The problem is not a child problem but an adult problem. What we need is adult education and severe penalties imposed upon the parents and relatives of these children. Some parents should be thrown in jail and their children taken away from them. They are not fit to be mothers and fathers. , . Keep the kids busy with useful and profitable occupation and they will take care of themselves. , . . What the state, county and city should dp is make the parents take care of their children. Don’t blame it on the war, The war has nothing to do with it. Their mothers are now running around spending their large war profits and neglecting their children, Judge Mark W. Rhoads is right. He is an excellent judge and the city and eounty should be proud of him. But what he needs is “laws” with teeth so he can cope - with “adult delinquency.” Come on, legislators, get busy and give him good tools to work with, The child labor laws of most states are more comedy than the funny papers. I hope some day Indiana will find somebody . . . to give the state an honest-to- -gaodness child Jabor- law,

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which epecifivally defines what oecupations minors may be employed

in, after a careful survey of adult

delinquency. I went to work when I was 12 years old for $2 per week, the son

of a well-to-do family. Why? 1 had |’

good, very good parents. God bless them, 2 »

“ARE TH¥RE ANY’ MORE QUESTIONS?” By Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th st. Well, since my Socialist critics demand it I will do some quoting from a book I have—“Fool's Gold” —by Fred R. Marvin, and I invite Forum readers to read this book, also “The New Dealers,” “Prohibiting Poverty,” which is a plan to compulsorily communize American boys and girls and claims to have

created much interest at the White House. and to have the sponsorship

*|of Mrs. Roosevelt: and also I recom-

mend that you read “Smoke Screen” By Samuel Pettengill and you will get an eyeful of New Deal socialism! Read it and weep! I quote from “Fool's Gold”: “Socialism and Communism Same Theory,” Page 198—proof—The following confirmatory citations are from Socialist. sources: “ . . . there are two Socialist parties in the United States, aside from the workers (Communist) party. . . . The workers party though socialistic in its philosophy . and geal, is Com-~ munist in its tactics . . .” Jesse Wallace Hughan, The Vanguard Press, 1928, page 161. “Communism is the

same as socialism, but better Eng-)

lish” (Bernard Shaw, quoted in London Spectator, Oct. 24, 1825). . Between complete socialism and communism there is no. difference whatever in my mind. “Communism is in fact the Somplement, of so-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

‘| the sheriff's

cialism.”. (William Morris in Fabien Tract No, 113, page 11.) “The ideal of us all, our ultimate aim is eommunism.” (Collectivism and Industrial Evolution, E. Vandervelde, Eng. trans, page 174.) I quote now from “Fool's Gold,” page 215. “ ... The socialist convention of 1912 officially declared that ‘The ethics of socialism and religion are directly opposed to each other.” (proceedings, page 248. Liebknecht, a former leader of the German socialists, wrote: “It is our duty as Socialists to root out the faith in God with all our might. Nor is anyone worthy of the name who does not consecrate himself to the spread of atheism,” Cited ibid., page a. And this for Mr. Ginsberg's benefit: “The mission of the Socialist Labor party, the Socialist party and the workers (Communist) party was and is still fundamentally the same as when they were first founded . .'- Now who has lied? Briages, roads, yehoolss etc., are collective socialism . . . Do my Socialist friends have any more questions?

# x = “ON AND ON WITH

SAME OLD TIRADE” By H, W. Daacke, 1404 8, State ave.

Charles Ginsberg, state secretary |g

of the Socialist Labor Party, evi-

dently has been asleep at the switch |. for the past year when he states|

that Mr. Maddox has not had his hand called by his psuedo-Socialist adversaries. But this Mr. Maddox is like a broken-down record on a machine that repeats ever and anon the same old phrases, based neither on historical records nor facts. He has been answered years ago and also very recently, but like the old record he keeps on and on with the same old tirade against -a thing of which he knows very little. Pseudo-Socialists seem to disgust Mr. Ginsberg. In my estimation, he should save his ability and energy to attack the system of opposition, instead of spending them eriti¢izing a group that is in the field for the same purpose as his own— the ultimate emancipation of all

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» ” “SHERIFF PETIT SHOULD BE COMMENDED” By Mrs, R, N., indianapolis. I was very much interested in the following item in Lowell Nuyssbaum’s “Inside Indianapolis” on June 11th: “Sheriff Otto Petit’s jail deputies are proud as peacocks because one of the tomato plants in a jail-yard flower bed has a tiny tomato on it. The rest of the jail garden is thriving, tee. It should, with all the free (prisoner) help they have down there.” We have all been encouraged to

plant victory gardens and as I have walked past I have observed that victory - garden has been doing very well. In addition it is a known fact that all those in

authority advocate that prisoners :

confined in penal institutions be kept busy at some work if at all possible. Personally 1 think that Sheriff Petit should be commended instead of ridiculed for not only his finé victory garden but also for the fact that he is carrying out the policy of Keeping his prisoners busy whenever possible. What about this, Mr. Nussbaum?

DAILY THOUGHTS "Take heed, brethren, lest there

be in any of you an evil heart of |. unbelief

in departing from the brews 3:12.

‘No Carry-Over for Soldier

French Friction

By William Pie Simms.

e | WASHINGTON, - Bune 110. less Washington and London act | decisively and soon to end the | mounting friction among French leaders in North Africa, allied vie- . tory in Europe may. be seriously jeopardized. There appears to be genuine i reason to fear that civil war, or !

back. Should that happen before the axis is de- | cisively beaten and disarmed, the allies would find themselves in a dangerous predicament, With a still powerful and alert enemy in front, and a revolution- : ary situation at their rear, it would take a miracle to | save them from disaster. It isn’t so much the mere existence of a usrrel | between Gen. de Gualle and Gen. Giraud that is | causing anxiety. It is the nature of the quarrel. 3 There are always differences of opinion between men or groups. Usually, however, these can be ironed : ’ out in debate, and mutually acceptable compromises . reached. That is the normal procedure in democ- | racies. Gen. de Gaulle, however, only seems willing to “compromise” his own way. 3 ¥

U. S. Course Appears Justified

SHORTLY AFTER Gen. de Gaulle arrived from London and the French committee for national lib- . eration was set up in North Africa, the most ardent de Gaullists boasted that he had been conceded Ruy | 80 per cent of all he had asked. But all is not serene. Gen. de Gaulle seems to Me insisting on the other 10 per cent. 5 The American state department’s “French policy” . in North Africa stands justified from the beginning. Gen. de Gaulle was impatient to fly to North Africa , and take over French interests everywhere the day | after the Americans landed in Casablanea. He was persuaded, however, to await a more propitious time. Again, ‘at the height of the battle of Tunisia, he! packed his bag and announced that he was ready to: have it out with Giraud. He was openly vexed when Gen. Eisenhower suggested a further postponement, That suggestion of Gen. Eisenhower's at first ereated something of a stir. It was widely assumed | that he was acting en his ewn. But Prime Minister ' Churchill at once let it be known that he himself had taken a hand. In fact, he said Washington and London were in complete agreement with regard to the delay and that Gen. Eisenhower had been acting merely as their agent as allied commander in ehilef in. that area.

May Be ‘Front’ for Others

WASHINGTON KNEW and London knew, from | advance information, that there might be trouble, when Gen. de Gaulle reached North Africa. And" they could not afford to have it break out in the rear of the allied armies—ineluding the French who were

fighting so valiantly with them—while everything de-

pended on victory in Tunisia, What they feared would happen then, is happening now, Gen, de Gaulle, the symbol and ‘‘censcience” of the France that would not surrender, has become something more. He has become the spear-' head of a political movement which is determined to be dominant in Frange at the instant of the axis , defeat. There are prominent Frenchmen in this country : who say that de Gaulle, the patriot, has sud acquired political ambitions on his own acct Others believe he has no such personal ambitions | but is being used as a front for some who have. At any event both agree that much harm has al- ; ready been done and that the quarrel] will be dis- | astrous unless stopped. :

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 17.—One | group of taxpayers who come out pretty well under this new cur ; rent tax payment bill of 1943 are the men and women in service and, along with them, their de- . pendents. So well do service peor | ple come out under the tax forgiveness provisions that, in some ; few cases, it may be possible for | anyone not now in service to save ; money by joining up this year. : If a civilian earns more this year than he did’ last year, 75 per cent of his taxes on 1042 income | are forgiven, the other 25 per cent of the taxes being added on to the taxes on 1943 income. This 25 per cent of taxes on 1942 income is not necessarily payable in 1043. Half of it may be paid March 15, 1944, the | other half March 15, 1945. Under the “first anti-windfall” clause of the new law, if the civilian earned more last year than this, vear, the taxpayer must first determine the amount ' by which the tax on 1042 income is greater than: the tax on 1943 income, this excess then being carried over and added onto the taxes on 1943 income. At the same time, the tax on 1943 income is increased. by 26 per cent. That's the bill's way of saying that it forgives 75 per cent of the lesser year's taxes.

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ASSUMING THAT you now understand in a vague way how the people who eoncocted this involved law figure on treating the civilian, consider how this., ex-civilian is to be treated if he has been in the armed services at any time in 1942 or 1943. : In the first place, for service men, there is to be no carry-over insofar as the earned income pertion' of 1042 tax liability is concerned, when 1943 tans exceed 1943 taxes. The earned income, you'll recall, is wages or salary | up to $14,000, paid you for personal services rendered. Income from dividends, rents and the like is not . earned income. The effect of this provision for service people is: to cancel the carry-over which civilians have to pay.| There is, however, an extra $1500 exclusion for’ everyone in the armed services, in addition to the] usual exemptions: granted to civilians—$500 for those: who are single, $1200 for those who are married or: head of a family, plus $350 for each dependent. Since people in the armed forces don’t have to: report as income any allowances they get for food, : 8 shelter and subsistence, the effect of all these exemp-. tions is that single men up through the rank of. first lieutenant in the army or lieutenant junior grade. in the navy, and married men up through the ranks of major or lieutenant commander won't have to pay’ any income taxes at all in 1843. :

No Withholding Tax

FURTHERMORE, THERE is no withholding 1 for anyone in the armed services—-no victory payroll deduction which the civilians are subjected to.! And sinee taxes on 1943 income for servicemen below: the ranks mentioned above will in general be can-, celed, there won't be any extra 25 per cent increase: 4 on 1943 taxes for them to pay, it being impossible to: compute a 25 per cent increase on an, income tax! A which has already been canceled _— 3 That isn’t the best of it, either. There x ng provision in the new tax bill for the payment of funds,’ some time after March 15, 1944, the government w actually pay back to many people in fo ibe, services, income taxes they have already : government on March 15.454 June 18, 1043, “8 on their 1942 incomes. :

derive from the 100 gor cant eaneallation of 4 04