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ll basic treasury estimates, the Na2 of Manufacturers has advised

M. says that corporate earnings for dividends, and reflecting losses, will be 2.1 billion dollars, as comh a treasury estimate of 3.8 billions. treasury had said that after paying dividends, ons would have added to their capital out of an estimated 11 billion dollars during the three ~43. But N. A. M. says the total comes to only

compared with official estimates that expenditures rear will run up to 106 billion dollars, N. A. M. says

evidence” that expenditures are likely to be con-|.

a 8 » * 8» thly 40.1 billions next year, while N. A. M. claims r tax laws will produce 44.5 billions. ; ! treasury’s proposed new rates to raise an addi10.5 billion dollars in taxes are called by the N. A. M. and and unrealistic to the point of bordering on the

A. M. has often been wrong before, and so has the ry. Congressmen know that. : tead of guessing which, if either, is right, congress augment its own joint committee on internal revenue, pn with enough experts to gather its own estimates ngs, of income, of tax burdens. ;

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it is not the lofig-feared defiance of a little band onists, determined to block any and all commitIng enough to do much damage, if the 7-to-1 subcomfee vote for the Connally resolution is an accurate test. chief challenge is from the opposite direction. es of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution want o much farther and faster on the road of international ‘That the Connally resolution represents large majority fon seems clear, and not only because it was drafted fll except one member of the senate foreign relations 0! It takes the same general position as that e house Fulbright resolution, which passed 860-to-29, unanimous Repyblican Mackinac declaration, the Amert Legion resolution, and the administration policy as ed by Secretary Hull p the B2H2 resolution advocates are a minority. ‘they resort to minority obstruction on foreign where national unity is so essential, they will be tt to the public disapproval commonly accorded such

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That is all Willkie Wasn't Frank About Questions

WHO WILL be the “representatives” of “labor” and just what group of Americans constitute “labor”?

cism and destitution, to do a fair day's work In excess of the slow-down rule and thus earn mofe money than the loafer and sulker. He meant that the worst shall be the standard and that the best must conform to that standard, in both production and earnings

Throws in With Racketeer

BY HIS opposition to any change in “this law or that law” he throws in with the racketeer who. straddles the roads and, in the name of “labor® commits extortion and highway robbery with the sanction of the United States Supreme court. He holds with the rule of the dictator who can throw an honest American worker out of work in all union | shops ‘throughout the country for the crime of lese

Would Not Disturb Conditions

We the People By, Ruth Millet

WILLKIE KNOWS that in the absence of amend- his

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

: good hint at what the American attitude will be

“GAMBLING STOPPED; CRIME PICKED UP” By B.'F. 5. Indianapolis I wonder how long the people of Indianapolis are going to stand the dictator methods of the chief of police. His wonderful drive on gambling and crime; gambling has

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happen to thé officer who placed a sticker on one of these cars, probably 30 days off, or flatfooting it out in the sticks somewhere. ---

you are at it, go over to the house and see the deputy sheriffs’ cars parked all day long or next to yellow lines, . Especially look for the nice new sleek Cadillac sedan at the yellow line on the Delaware st. entrance. Maybe some of these guys lazy to walk four or five blocks to get their cars, like we have to. . No, they park the car at some motor inn and then the car is brought to the club door and parked so they can drag their stuffed belts two steps out and drive home to earn

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been fighting for. Yes! they will really “gripe.” Lincoln, Garrison and the abolitionists “griped” against slavery and it took a very destructive war to settle the dispute. Everyone should know the 13th amendment was adopted after the close of the civil war. Obviously, the intention was not nierely to prevent absolute slavery, but to prevent the propertied classes from reintroducing any subsidiary form of slavery or “industrial servitude.” Abraham _Lincoln once said, “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse

{to see it tried on him personally.”

Conscription of labor is industrial servitude and every worker should raise his voice in protest agains such vicious legislation. - ® =» ; “TEACHERS SHOULD KEEP SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE"

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Want to Avoid 1920 Experience SOME GF Capitol Hill's ost sincere advocates of international collaboration hold that the Fulbright resolution voted: by the house and its senatorial sub-

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tory for us, he said, “must be that in the ‘world ef the future the United will be secure.” To achieve Such 3, foul, hel we must participate with the other best way to begin would be for America, Britain, sia and China to reach an early und nding form a nucleus around which the rest could

Urges That U. S. Take Lead

MR. WELLES urged that we believe in national modesty,” he said. lieve in a national inferiority complex. . that we possess not only the right but’ to declare to the united nations and to at large what we believe should be the fo da upen which the world of ‘the future should be constructed, and what we are prepared to contribute that end.” x ro ‘Welles emphasized that he wis speaking only as a private citizen. Until recently, however, he was second in command in the state department and is known to be close to the president. And while " ‘is said to have developed between him and Secretary Hull, they worked together for years on matters of state policy and on these they were generally in

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line consideration which it has not yet received in six ths of administration run-around. If the only way to pass the Connally compromise is Ag the members and to goose-step the senate past the measure without a look, obviously the vote will be a ‘almost certainly produce a kickback. The need "debate is multiplied because the house ents of the Fulbright measure. advocates are given their say, however, be faced with the alternative of abiding by decision’ or—if that decision is against them . We hope and believe they will not obstruct.

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