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THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943
MARION COUNTY TAXES AARION COUNTY taxpayers may be shocked, but they | should not be surprised to find higher tax rates staring | them in the face. The cost of county government undoubtedly has been somewhat increased by war conditions, by higher prices | for virtually everything the county buys, and by the | difficulty of hiring county employees at the prices that once were adequate. But more than any of those factors | is the unrealistic attitude of some former county governments which ran up debt instead of taxes, and which by letting bills go unpaid, or by making no advance provision for such recurrent expenses as the cost of an election, | were abie to get the tax rate down to an attractive figure. Inevitably there vomes a day when all public debt—county | as well as federal—must be paid, and a low tax rate which | merely postpones that moment for some succeeding set of ! officials to meet has made no real saving of taxpayers’ money. The present county council has effected many economies, has successfully curbed a great deal of waste. Except for the alertness and diligence of its members, the | tax rate for next year would be much higher than it actually is going to be. But two and two still make four, | and when all the county's expenses are divided among all the taxpayers, only a higher rate will provide the money to pay them. | County council members undoubtedly know that this higher rate is not likely to be popular—higher taxes rarely | are popular. But they have taken the proper course in| facing the facts today rather than putting off payment | to some future year.
| greatness.
| before his eyes, bore himself with an air of great
Scorn Future Master
| fighting began, his invincible legions have yet to win
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, July 15. — This would seem to be a good time for our propaganda department or, more appropriately, some feature editor, to comb the old files and refresh the memory of Americans with some of the more bombastic threats of that bum of bums, Benito Mussolini, the superman of the inflexible will which was to have been imposed on mankind by
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his invincible black shirt legions. They are still there in the record but the swollen | little braggart with the inviting protuberant chin has | been so demure of late and so full of self-pity that a world brought to war and barbarism from peace and the beginnings of civilization by his reckless, personal vanity may find it hard to believe that he was as vicious as he was. There seems to be a disposition to regard him as nothing worse than a ludicrous fourflusher, whereas he was in fact the one who preached war and brutality for their own sake and glorified war as an ennobling experience by which, alone, a nation could grow to
Adolf Hitler took his early lessons from the bum of pums and Mussolini, then strutting busily about Italy and blowing out his face in puffy orations, with a golden dagger at his belt and an absurd tassel dangling
superiority when the mad Austrian in the greasy raincoat, who was to become Mussolini's master, paid him a humble visit in Rome in the role of pupil,
THE DUCE'S stylish sycophants, mobsters who had fed castor oil to their personal enemies and rivals and killed many and sent others away to island prisons, also looked down on Hitler as an amateurish imitator and have lived to see him conquer their country and reduce them to the status of contemptible lackeys along with Mussolini, himself. By contrast with the bum’s threats and his predictions of conquest which, incidentally, by no means all Italians doubted or disowned .until the actual
a skirmish on any front in this war, from Greece to Sicily and the name of Guadalajara in Spain is only one damned spot that will not out in a vast and disgraceful stipple of defeats and panics. It is charitable but untrue to say that his record somehow will not be imprinted in infamy and endless
humiliation on the history of the Italian nation. It
is there forever, indisputable and vile and the Italian people well know in their hearts that most of them | were enthusiastic followers of the bum of bums until finally he got them into this war and they learned that war hurt.
People Have Share of Guilt
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1043
Over a Barrel!
I wholly disagree with what you say,
THEY HAVE their share of guilt too, although, for | politico-military reasons the victors, except, perhaps, |
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defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
but will
\ Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney
WASHINGTON, July 15.—J@seph Leib, a South Bend youngster who organized the first young Democrats for Roosevelt move ment way back in 1930, came back from Camp Lee, Va. just in time to witness two years of his civilian efforts bear fruit. That fruit was the report of the Truman committee showing up the defects in the aircraft procurement of the armed serve ices. Last May 10, before Mr. Leib finally got himself inducted into the army, his contribution on oR score was outlined in the Congressional Record follows: “On Feb. 3, 1942, Mr. Leib appeared before the senate military affairs committee requesting an investigation of army plane crashes. Five weeks later the army air corps (April 23, 1942) announced that it was creating a flying safety bureau.
Still Not Satisfied
“STILL NOT satisfied, Mr. Leib again appeared before the senate military affairs committee demande ing a thorough investigation. As a result Gen. Arnold, chief of the air corps, and other war departme: officials were called upon to testify. \ “Then Mr. Leib took the matter up with members of the Truman committee. They started to investie gate and Mr. Leib furnished startling information relative to the alarming number of accidents. “Today in the hands of the Truman conan rests the most sensational scandal of this war, greate and more ominous than the Carnegie steel fraud, more treacherous than the Anaconda wire indictment,
May Save Thousands
“THOUSANDS OF lives may be saved Wy Mr. Leib’s investigation, and untold millions of dollars may be saved in equipment. “The senate military affairs committee recently set up a subcommittee to look into army crashes.” The article outlined other contributions Mr. Leib had made before he entered the army. Included were work on war profiteering; suspension of the statute of limitations on antitrust laws, and increased pay for servicemen. Now Mr, Leib is back on the job here. For the army found that he had a bad leg and gave him an honorable discharge for physical disability. Although he was in uniform less than two months, Pvt. Leib reported that he liked the army fine and was sorry he couldn't stay in. Another Truman report like the one on aircraf and perhaps the army will wish they had kept him on K. P,
In Washington
[ should wear safety caps and wear in | "Re properly.
(Times readers are invited their
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the Greeks, will salve their pride and their wounds " and for what they may be worth, turn them against | GET HEADS TOGETHER the Germans in mischief and sabotage. By Wayne W. Whiffing, President, Indian.
300 CONGRESSMEN BLACKLISTED
ILL GREEN is still around making speeches about how
to express views Remember this, although you will
| “WHY SAFETY MEN | | | (feel more comfortable without a
apolis Chamber of Commerce, Industrial
the No. 1 political objective of the A. F. of L. is to defeat all of the congressmen who voted for the ConnallySmith anti-strike bill. That would be quite a political purge, Bill, and if you could get away 'with it you would be a strong man sure | enough. But it will take some doing to defeat the 300 members of congress who voted to override the president's | veto and make the Connally-Smith law—244 representatives and 36 senators; 114 Democrats, 130 Republicans in | the house, and 29 Democrats, 27 Republicans in the senate. With whom are you going to beat these lawmakers, | Bill? Where. in many, yea even in most instances, will vou find strong candidates to run against tlrem, and who, if elected, will be more inclined than they were to do your bidding? . Among the 300 on your blacklist, Bill, are several score congressmen whose records of voting for what organized labor wanted were almost 100 per cent, up until | the Connally-Smith vote. Rep. Ramspeck of Georgia is one. Do you think you can find a better friend of labor in his district, Biil? And remember, Bill, you first made your threat to drive them from public office before they cast that fateful vote. But somehow you didn’t scare them. It may be that they reasoned that you had over-reached yourself. And confidentially, Bill, just between us, we think you have, too. = = =n = = = T has been your practice nearly every day in Washington to tell the congressmen how to vote on every variety of legisiation, ranging from taxes to subsidies. And when you take the position that, although a congressman votes | with you 99 times, he is doomed to political defeat if he votes against you on the 100th rolleall, you are taking an untenable position. You can't deliver. The five or six million A. F. of L. members, upon whom you depend primarily to carry out your purge, won't go along with you on that. They were citizens before they became dues-paying union members, and like other citizens they send congressmen to Washington to represent their views, which are not always your views. There are many things wrong with the Connally-Smith act. Many, probably most, of the 300. congressmen who voted for it disapproved some of its features. But in the final showdown, they had to make a choice between that | legislation or no legislation at all. 2 ” » ” n = | MORE considered measure might have been adopted if you and other labor bosses had shown a more reason- | able attitude. But you insisted that there should be no | legislation at all, to curb strikes in wartime and check | abuses of labor bosses. | More than two-thirds of the members of the two | houses of congress turned their backs to you, Bill, knowing | that public opinion demanded and the sacrifices of war | required that there be some check on strikes and labor | abuses. | It's quite probable, Bill, that the ballots of 1044 will prove that the 300 congressmen were right, and that you | were wrong.
SUBCONTRACTING T IS of the big prime contractors that we hear when planes, ships, tanks, guns are under discussion. We praise the wonderful records they have made and are making, and are proud of the way the American economy has responded to war demands. But behind these giant corporations, making possible their almost incredible feats, stand scores of thousands of | relatively small, little publicized subcontractors, from whose plants pour endless supplies of gadgets, doohickies | and whatnots. This is emphasized by a recent survey in which General Motors Corp., perhaps the greatest of the prime contractors, found that it was depending for material and part
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| little country took on the bum'’s invincibles and gave
| disgrace just as the attack on fallen France was sheer
| used to cover his war in Spain, Winston Churchill had | the fighting nerve to address to the Italian people a
| last time, bloody and shaken but determined to die |
| lives—in ways that show.
| and yet they are all over the place.
| and help him find himself. Help him find a place in | the war effort that he knows is important, Help him |
The big fighting nations can afford to do that but the Greeks will not forget to remind Italy that a
him the advantage of a sneak punch and then mauled them in the mountains until the Duce had to yell to Hitler to drag them off. That was sheer military
cowardice and the names of these horrors are indelible, however Italy and the Italian people may try to disavow the bum in generations to come. At one dark hour of Britain's war when she stood alone against Germany, Italy and Japan, and yes, even Russia, except as such help as the United States could give under an adaptation of the sly and dishonest subterfuge of nonbelligerency which the Duce
threat which must have seemed to them to be the ravings of a fighting fool coming off the floor for the
game.
Just a Quisling Now
CHURCHILL SAID he would rip their African empire to shreds and tatters, an absurd threat from | a man whose capital was battered and afire, whose |
! | coasts were threatened, who was sparingly shipping |
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his pathetic strength the long way around Africa and whose navy was overstretched, overstrained, patched and rusty. The bum of bums had spent years showing off his tanks and his long, precise rows of war planes as- | sembled for the war of empire in Africa and sending |
| the glorified Grand Hotel doormen of his general staff
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diving through hoops of fire to demonstrate their ferocity. | The British and the French, and of course the | Germans, even then insisted on hurting the bum’s | feelings by reiterating that whatever uniform they | wore, the Italian soldiers would still run away when
| the fighting started and they have never stopped. The | | bum himself is no more than a miserable Quisling | now, contemptible alike in the eyes of his ally and
his foes and the laughing stcek of the world. And on the tomb of the bum, himself, no more fitting phrase could be inscribed than the remark of | Stanley Ketchell when he was asked why Jim Jeffries | lost to Jack Johnson in Reno: “The big tramp wasn't even game.”
We the People
By Ruth Millett
Safety Club, Indianapolis
| in your column signed by "One of|
[two weeks’ time two young men in|
THERE IS a new "dangerous age” for men. It's the age where |
a man is too old for the draft and | vet not too young to resent being |
a civilian. John Jones is typical. He is a successful businessman and life was going along fine for him—until the war broke out. It is still fine, judged by some standards. Business is better than usual. In fact, you would say John Jones and his wife are people who hardly know there is a war, so little has it touched their
They haven't been separated. They live in the some house, have the same friends, go the same places, eat almost as well as they ever did. But while it is still the same Mrs. Jones and the children, Papa is restless. He feels shut out of things.
Respect Men in Uniform
NOT BEING in uniform, he can't help but see that the men in service are the men who are most highly respected today. He even suspects at times that they are having a much better time than he is. He is uncomfortable when he is around them—
He is a pretty unhappy fellow, you'll discover, if
you study him closely. If you are Mrs, Jones—you had better get busy
put his restless desire to be in the fight at work right
Your man is at a dangerous
here at home, age in wartime. He has been told he is 00 old to fight—but his conscienc
troversies excluded. Because
Friday, July 9, there was an article of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250
Letters ke
Uncle Sam's Nieces.” { This lady asks two questions, and| I believe she deserves an answer. One question was, “Why isn't it safe to work in a dress?” There are several answers to that
words. must
signed.)
| cap, it is offered for your protection. | Your
brother or your husband would be more comfortable without
[the helmet he has to wear at times.
However, he knows it is for his
[ protection and he wears it un- |
complainingly. . Nieces and nephews of Uncle Sam, be glad that modern industry
| has your physical welfare at heart,
question. However, since I do not no organized safety program had and be glad that they are taking
know what plant employs this lady, seven lost-time injuries in two I hesitate to answer that one. I months. ... Some of these injuries
am sure if she will ask her safety resulted in a man losing an eye, a| director, he can give her several .... young lady losing three fingers
logical reasons. and another man losing two fingers. |
The other question was, “Why do| a bunch of so-called safety men get plant with 5000 employees and a | their heads together and start mak- | good safety program whose record] ing new rules which don't help any- shows for a six months’ period only, one if they are carried out?” | five lost-time accidents, the worst I believe that the lady really of which was a scratched eyeball, wants an answer to this or she resulting in five days’ lost time and wouldn't have taken the time to no permanent harm. write and ask the question. I will, I know of a plant which has a attempt to list a few reasons why small carpenter shop with less than this is done. a dozen employees. In one year's Last year approximately 100,000 time they had five accidents re-| lives were lost in accidents in the sulting in a loss of one or more | United States. Twenty-six thou- fingers. They had no safety di-| sand lives of men between 20 and rector. Another plant w
cidents—26,000 men who could have years without a lost-time injury. | served in our armed forces and They have a safety director, helped your husband and brother! 1 can cite cases like this at length, in their gallant effort for victory. and I believe the above illustrates Enough time was lost in accidents my point. last year to have built 285,000 light| Tt has been our experience that! tanks or 110000 fighter planes— women in industry at the present
equipment which we definitely need time are contributing in a remark-|
now. This is why safety men are|aple manner to the production of | attempting to stop accidents.
| vitally needed products. I know You have said these rules don't that in most plants they are doing| help anyone if they are carried out. an outstanding job, much better | Please give this a thought. As a than we ever expected them to do. matter of comparison, let's look at| However, there is one little point
no organized safety program. In that when you go to work in a war) production plant, it is necessary to this organization each lost an eve. | Another plant in Indianapolis with approximately 2000 employees has a good safety director and a well-organized safety program, and in seven years has not had a serious eye injury. Another plant in Indianapolis with less than 500 employees and
such as wearing safety glasses, | safety caps and slacks. In spite of the fact that more than 10 girls were injured by getting | their hair caught in machinery in; Indianapolis the first five months]
Side Glances—By Galbraith
| | |
two |
Compare this with another local]
|agreeable practice of smoking in
finally crystallized into a law. So be
every measure to safeguard you on
the job so that your efforts to assist our boys in this great struggle will not be lessened by victoryhindering accidents. We all are working toward the same objective —a quick victory. If through the safety man's efforts that cay of victory can be brought just a day nearer, let's appreciate him, Lady, you and other ladies like
you who are working in war piants| | deserve praise from all of us, and may I suggest
to you personally, that I hope your husband and brother both return safely and soon. Isn't it strange, lady, that this is one of the things they are fighting
for—your right to send a letter of | ith a much | complaint to a newspaper and my|
|45 years of age were lost in ac-|larger carpenter shop has gone 14 right to try to answer it for you? |
» 8 “MORE POWER TO
OFFICER DUNWOODY” By C. M., Indianapolis
Referring to a letter in the Forum
July 12 by one designated “Dis- | gusted,” with reference to Patrol-| man Dunwoody and his arrests of streetcar smokers, may one at least average law-abiding citizen add a comment? | Instead of such unwarranted, criticism ot Mr. Dunwoody, we feel he is doing some excellent work and |
| one plant in Indianapolis which has which I think would even aid them ahove all, doing his sworn duty, as | approximately 400 employees and in doing a better job. Remember|ga Joyal officer.
We feel if any criticism at all is justified it should be directed
of whom obviously are not thus! obeying what has become a city] ordinance. Surely Mr. Dunwoody isn't the only officer (or person) | who sees car-smoking! WAre others) afraid of criticism? Why in this re-
of this year, we still have difficulty gard any more than any other ordi- | in convincing ladies that they nance? They all took an oath to CCC Loans
uphold all laws! We also were disgusted reading of the judge (or judges) who “smil-| ingly” handled Mr. Dunwoody's
cases—why such levity in any court
of law whether a small or large offense, one wonders! It assuredly is “no joke” to many of us who are forced to use streetcars and busses that with the decrease and mitigation of this dis-
such close quarters in crowded vehicles (to say nothing of less danger to clothes, etc.) that it is at least more bearable and much more, shall we say, pleasant. Since the general public grew in-| creasingly more selfish in this smoking situation, as always happens, the pendulum swung the other way — indignant protests
it, and since it is a law... . let us give credit and praise to any officer who does his duty rather than senseless, unfair condemnation! (Excesses in any line bring their own logical penalties as truly as two and two are four!) We only wish there were more “Dunwoody” officers in this city, and in many more ways than just smoking! More power to you, Officer Dunwoody—our hats are off to youl!
DAILY THOUGHTS
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.—Psalrs 12:2.
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LET FLATTERY, the handmaid
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‘By Peter Edson x
WASHINGTON, July 15—-Few people realize it, but this come modity - credit corporation over whose life and death congress and the president battled so furiousiy mm connection with the subsidy program, is one of the country's biggest banking institutions, with sO many commercial operation sidelines all through the food ang agricultural industry that it; practically impossible for any ho, person to keep track of them. No wonder congress got confused, alternately killing and reviving the ou(fly, finally deciding to let it live till Jan, 1, 1944. Like a lot of other big businesses and a lot of other government corporations, CCC is a Delaware corpora= tion. Its capital is $100 million, with a present limit of $3 billion on the outstanding obligations it may have at any one time in loans, bonds, notes, etc. In spite of its financial size, CCC is an unpre= tentious sort of a bank. It occupies no fancy palace of its ewn—just another row of dreary, almost dismal offices in the sprawling, utilitarian department ok agriculture south building in Washington. CCC's 1500 employees are scattered here and in branch offices in Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Porte and, Ore. dealing largely in grains; New Orleans dealing in cotton and New York dealing in imports. CCC's president, J. B. Hutson, seldom gets his name in the papers,
Began with NRA
CCC IS 10 years cld. It was originally part of the old national recovery administration setup, then it was put in department of agriculture in 1939, now it's in war food administration. Over the years, it has operated at what you might call a really handsome loss—not through any mis= management of its own, but because congress in ty
| infinite wisdom set the thing up to work that way2-
CCC has made money on its operations in cotton, about $20 million all told, but its “excess of realized and appraised losses over profits and income,” its accumulated deficit in other words, is in round nums bers $197 million. Most of that was built up in the early years. In the last two years on a $4 billion operation, it has lost only $25 million. Anyone might
do things which you don’t like, more at other police officers, some| lose $25 million or so, just in having to count $4
billion. By any other name, in any other place, the lossea of CCC would be considered subsidies. But “subsidy” is a nasty word around these parts, stranger, ane don't let anyone catch you saying that CCC has subsidized anything or anyone,
IN 1933 and for five years thereafter, there were big surpluses of cotton and corn, and CCC was set uy then to make loans against those surpluses so as t stabilize prices. Then in 1938 when CCC was transe ferred to the department of agriculture, it got all tied in with the ever-normal granary program and was integrated all over the place with triple-A, crop insurance and such. On the six basic crops—cotton rice, corn, wheat, tobacco and peanuts—CCC make loans to tide the farmers over until such time as they can or want to sell, advancing 85 per cent of parity on cotton and wheat, 90 per cent on the others. On non-basic crops, meaning all others, CCC makes loans on price support programs for the farmer, usually at 90 per cent of parity. All these loans are on what's called a “non-recourse” basis, meaning that the borrower can refuse to pay off his loan at any time and turn over his security, meaning the crop, to the government. This is one of the most perfect devices thought up yet for sticking the government and subsidizing—pardon--stabilizing agriculture. t accounts for the fact that your government now ow millions of bushels and bales and tons of almost of farm product you can name. CCC charges 3 per cent interest on its loans, but it will pay farmers to store their own security. .
To the Point—
WPB BAYS there are plenty of diapers—it’s Just a
question of distribution. They're “just around thay ‘corner”’—but that's not where mothers want them.
” ” ” / BOOTLEGGERS KNOW that what's sauce r the goose is easy pickings for the smart duck. ” ” ”
CHILDREN ARE a great handicap to ahybody who wants to be unhappy.