Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1943 — Page 12

“a noteworthy career in American enterprise that d yesterday with the death of John Charles Shaffer, and editor of The Indianapolis Star. Into his 90 ears Mr. Shaffer had crowded more activity, more fie and more goals attained than most in a dozen lifetimes. humble beginning, with a cash capital of $20 ormal education, he rose to souteol of Yar ing business properties and the direction newspapers. He enjoyed the friendship and the respectful attention of the nation’s business leaders, and at least once refused a cabinet post. He contributed largely to the advancement of art, music, religion and education by numerous and generous gifts. es ~- To Indianapolis he was best known as a publisher, as a pioneer in municipal transportation and the donor of the city’s firlt public park, now the site of the Butler uni-

his active participation in affairs here in recent years, but to an older generation he remains a familiar figure—and eh the impression he left upon this city and this state will : ~ : —— not soon be erased. : ii . Eg 2 ON The Hoosier Forum ; i I wholly disagree with what you say, but will CONE thoight. kes i Coming to mind 2» Xo Reid 4 Im : . : defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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have been proposed on the day after Pearl Harbor of the old days a few evenings ago said that he had [By Disgusted, Indianapolis these columns, religious con-

"A Times reader, in answer to my 3 And with much better prospeots of enactment. atl ee Te Tor Net» fomarsir wiclsied, , Jousire Twenty-two months have passed while the treasury has for his next installment. He was in undisputed pos- fers should be limited to 250 . diddled—putting through one puny tax increase and wast- | ion of a robust deficit and if pushed into s corner a ing much precious time delaying congressional action in| ang compelled to buy a bond for love Just to main- signed Opinions os forth placing our - i i tain his front, he would have to go borrow the money. | ooo o some ou ax syste ay you 29 bia is, Which Wa Yet, TT in Pomp of $50,000 and more | here are those of the writers, Sing Saat hi ub A alan oH Ea "1 the oo We Guay an, Wiitls Many uch bids were : end publication in ne way gram co co ni gely e prearranged between the a auc : . s ~ ury’s opposition to a clean-cut pay-as-you-go, there is still a | indicating that the buyers had to have time to implies agreement with those ; A a ich ax t meet in addi- | ©ut from under a loose brick somewhere, the ; orld. opinions by The Times, The 25 percent lag which many payers mus still remains that they wid and ad come up Times assumes no responsi tion to the higher rates now suggested. "| the dough, Because, after all, $50,000 te: : - ighe » 5 . ® 2 even poy old, strong busines firm ! : him. bify for i forums of many4 I don't think I know an man scr and cannot enter cor J LITTLE and late the treasury proposes a tax increase of | 4 uiily) “cout tay his hands on that much : P a a : 1014 billions, to boost total revenues to around 50 bil- | sacrificing some important investment. \ rsspon a mich ae he Sve 400 |e Nt Afected have accepted this proposed increase with much less hard-| YET, THESE big bids seem not to have affected i a) the market at all, leaving us to suspect that some ship, Millions of taxpayers who have profited from the a a , : | of our fellow citizens have been holding out on us, war boom, and whose incomes have jumped 25 or 50 or 100 von : rit’ am: under. each. arm, A} Or 200 per cent, or more, can pay the higher levies without | "50 over heard of would bid $100,000 without much belt tightening. But other millions of taxpayers, | ying and a fellow had to sit on his hands for whose incomes have not increased one dime, face a grim |

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Now?” was a splendid tribute to a : : : Barpes F personal friend, with an undercur- : 4 treatmen prospect. Jd ; rent of gentle warning that a sud- ag a our hes » Their living costs have spiraled upward. Their wages | hat den floodtide of public acclaim, such and rglaries buy less in pork chops, beefsteak, ham and eggs 3 as greeted Ernie on his return to and rent—that is if they can find pork chops, beefsteak, . America, could recede just as ham and eggs to buy, and a home to rent. The irony of it ] is that this rise in living costs has been promoted largely by the absence of an adequate fiscal program to siphon off the accumulating excess of spending money which has forced prices upward. i re hig On the Pearl Harbor day the public debt was around 55 billions.: It is now above 162 billions. If an adequate rev_enue program had been put into effect then, the rise in the - public debt would have been much less, not only because

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#8 it has bough, yw By Ruth Millett “THERE is the tragedy: The absence of a realistic fiscal policy has made it all the harder for taxpayers of fixed incomes to bear the added burden now to be imposed, and has rieedlessly swollen the public debt burden which future taxpayers must support. “Yet there is one gleam of hope. The congress has tired of letting Secretary Morgenthau fix fiscal policy. Congress has waited for Mr. Morgenthau to provide leadership. It is now quite apparent that Mr. Morgenthau doesn’t know how to lead. So it is likely, yea imperative, that congress itself write the ticket.

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