Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1943 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Thete Own Woy

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1043 .

THE NEW MOVE FOR ECONOMY is increasing talk in congress of an effort to fore-

.. stall part of the need for new taxes by cutting govern-

To which we say, though with tongue tentatively in cheek, more power to you! : y a There is, and no doubt always will be, still surplus suet in the non-war activities of the government which could be removed without hurting anybody except the bureaucratic custodians thereof. Previous congressional successes against CCC and NYA suggest what can be done in this regard when the gentlemen cn the hill really make up their minds,

There is also, we are afraid, an enormous amount of waste in the war and navy departments.

Now all war is waste, of course. And we don’t'mean to |

suggest that Gen. Mark Clark should be told to use fewer pounds of ammunition per mile of advance. The more ma-

terials better.

he can squander—at a saving in American lives—the

But in the vast establishments of the army and navy here at home, there are glaring symptoms of a tendency in the services to feel that in wartime cost is of no consequence. It would be interesting, for instance, if congress could obtain a really complete ‘picture of the public relations machinery of the services. Perhaps, being in the newspaper business, we are too close to the thing for a proper perspec_tive, but we get the impression that there must be at least one press agent officer for every three combat officers. And anybody who has attended a formal function involving one

of the services—a ship launching, for instance—is im-|

pressed with the large numbers of officers who can be spared for such ceremonial purposes. ‘ : Economies in the army and navy are just as useful to the taxpayers as economies in the civil functions of the government. And economies anywhere in the government are quite as effective as new taxes in the same amount.

APOLOGY AND SUGGESTION R the last couple of weeks we have been on the receiving end of letters taking exception to an editorial in which we said that the treasury’s tax experts and aecount-

{ants of the country profited by the made-work of tax com- |-

plexities and could hardly be expected to favor simplifying the federal income tax law, a : The retort in behalf of the treasury’s experts owas made by Randolph E. Paul, general counsel of the treasury,

and duly published. Mr. Paul's letter was not wholly cons

vincing, since he' omitted mention of known instances where the treasury’s attitude contributed to needless complica- ~ tion of the law—for instance, ifs opposition to the simple Ruml plan forcing the complex compromise which now has taxpayers so confused. ’ : But we're willing to admit that there is much justice on the side of the members of the tax bar, the lawyers and accountants who advise their clients on tax matters and who protest that we were unfair to make such a Sweeping statement. It's never smart to indict a whole group—and we regret we did it. 4h

HAVING apologized, we'd like

” to urge that those lawyers

and accountants who have been writing us now turn their fire on congress where it will do more good. For those letters contain some of the finest arguments we have read in favor of simplifying tax laws—and if the congressmen b receive enough such letters they might be persuaded to "do something about it. E For instance, this from the American Institute of Accountants:

~ “In contradiction to any idea that a ‘make work’ exists for the

benefit of those in practice, the accountancy

profession long has been on record as opposed to complicated tax laws, on the ground that they create confusion and uncertainty in the mind of the taxpayer; hamper the

orderly planning and conduct of

business; make the pay-

ment of taxes a burden and, incidentally, make the indejRendent public accountant’s work more difficult.” e lawyers and accountants argue—and we readily - believe them after that wrestle with our own comparatively simple Sept. 15 declaration—that they don't need any

work” since

they already have more business than

they can handle. Busy as they are, we hope they will have time to ngress.

ite letters to

WAVE WARNING ; : : American Red Cross warns relatives and friends of

service men not to trust enemy broadcasts

purport to give information about prisoners of war.

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information is short waved, as part of axis

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John P. Nick and the rest of the filthy vermin in control of the shake and squeese, and if he says he didn’t learn that they were rats, he indicts and disqualifies himself on che of two grounds, either of them ahsolutely compelling. : If you believe that he remained ignorant of their character and of the character of the union, then you

have to reject Levy as too dumb for any job requiring the intelligence of & fool. I don't believe him, how-

ever, because I have great respect for his intelligence |

and I hold that he condemned himself on moral and ethical grounds when he went to the hoodlums’ old home week, or national convention, of this gang of criminals in Louisville, Ky., in June, 1940, and in a set speech, paid elaborate compliments to Ceorge Browne, the president of the mob.

He said he was proud to have been called upon to greet the convention and tore into the Communists like a person assailing sin, but, standing there amid this brutal gang of cut-throats, he had not s single word to say against them but, on the contrary, spoke of Browne as a “modest, earnest, effective and devoted” leader. ;

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I HAVE THE OFFICIAL report of the convention quoting Levy, but his remarks in part are paraphrased or omitted 50 IT am unable to coroborate the United Press report of the time, which said that Levy had told the mob that ‘one of the principal problems of unionists was “the poison of certain columnists and the poison of all Communists.” However, I think this would have been in character and I believe he was referring to me as a poisonous columnist, and I want to nail his hide to the door at this point. : Because every word of the “poison” that I discovered, verified and published, in the ‘Interests of clean unionism and. justice to the working stiff, has been proved in court and Levy's “modest, earnest, effective and devoted” friend, who personified his ideal, has been sentenced to prison for the very leadership that Levy found so admirable. Incidentally, on the program at Louisville was Joe Padway, general counsel of the A. F. of L, who includes this racket among his juicy clients, and through whom President Roosevelt last year insulted both the American and British Tabor movements by sending Padway to Britain in the guise of spokesman for American labor, Levy Knew All This AND LET NOBODY, including Levy, tell you that Browne, at that time, bore the reputation or appear ance of an honest man, for he was even then notorie ous as a crook and a traitor to the cause of unionism. Levy knew as well as I did, in fact much better

position was on the inside, and therefore I say now that the American Labor party and, now, the organization Democrats, in their confusion, have indorsed as a friend of labor a man who ran with some labor's worst enemies and knowingly indorsed him that Louisville meeting. And I hope that nobody will think that I am using evasive language about Levy. I am trying to strate that he must have known that Browne was crook and the leader of an underwor crooks and that he and Aurelio are six of one and half a dozen of the other.

We the People By Ruth Millett i

Says It Was Fun SHE SAYS it was one of the most enjoyable vaca- | tions she ever spent—in spite of the fact that she

she got a kick out of the fact that

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“A PROGRAM THAT WOULD PROVIDE FACTS” By George E. Agnew, 523 N. Bancroft Well, another squeeze is on. This time it's the so-called labor shortage and in fact there might be one in the Indianapolis area and, then again, there might not be. Who

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government” -h was badly wounded last May on a Manila golf course, His aseailants got away. 2M While officials here do not believe the of Fil will be caught by Japan's mu “ind " they fear the situation muddled by

To break up the Japanese play and to the Filipinos that we intend to repay with loyalty, Senator Millard Tydings, of introduced a joint resolution calling for pence of the islands not later than 30 its enactment. A similar bill was introduced in house by Rep. Charles J. Bell, of Missouri.

territories and insular affairs, It has the backing of President Roosevell, Secretary of State Hull, President Quezon and the Philippine government here,

Quezon "Deeply Concerned"

PRESIDENT QUEZON, who was too ill to in person, sent word to the committee that

majority” will “continue to keep faith with America. added, “we must make sure that not handful . , . will be deceived, cajoled ened into siding with Japan.” The Tydings bill would retain as m present independence act as prac for the appointment of nine Americans Filipinos to formulate recommendations as ‘relations between the United States pines. Opposition to the measure would seem academic. Some say the Philippines are just of bigger Far Eastern picture and that we er the whole problem at one time, The 1 to that is, we have already granted independence to the Philippines, the only question now being whether

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