Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1943 — Page 14

I rather than words, a few striking lines are always ‘remembered., We believe history will enshrine Gen. Clark's

sentence at Naples: : “The allies ask only enough of your Italian soil to bury our gallant dead.” ; Ne .* This has the sloquence which only truth can give.

WHAT WILL THE TRAFFIC BEAR?

J prohibition times s story was told of a rich customer who handed a bootlegger $50 for a bottle of whisky and said: “You're the first man who has had the nerve to charge me ‘what this stuff is worth.” so If the present trend in liquor prices and taxes continues it will not be long until the legal liquor establishments are patronized only by rich customers. With the distilleries converted to war work, the demand for spirits has been riging and the supply diminishing, until today many liquor shelves are as bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. And bottles which sold for $2 a couple of years ago now bring $4 or §5 or $6 when they can be found at all. With each new revenue bill the tax has been boosted, and now the ways and means committee has accepted the treasury’s recommendation for another hike, to $10 a gallon, That's $2.50 a quart, for 100-proof whisky—federal excise alone—to which are added,’ and passed on to the consumer,

Gitlow's Confession Is Telling GITLOW'S RECANTATION and confession are especially telling in any consideration of the influence that the Communists would exert among the Ameris can children if the national government, by the se-

the schoolhouse door, :

ductive method of a federal subsidy for state and local | | educational systems, should contrive to stick a foot in

“The young Communists,” Gitlow wrote, “drawn| into a life of their own, fell easy prey to all the vices

excises, state and federal license fees and |

corporate taxes, plus the cost of the itself and the dealers’ profits. The actual cost of ucing whisky is only about 50 cents a gallon. So a 0 a gallon alone would be a tax of

MEE oe er » TILLED spirits being scarce, and the treasury needing : money as desperately as it does, the tax should be all the traffic will bear. But how much will the traffic bear? . All persons who like to drink are not rich. But those ~ who think they cannot afford to pay legal prices will not necessarily refrain from trying to quench their thirst by

We learned from prohibition that where there is a market to be supplied at a profit it will be supplied. And moonshining, so widely fostered in the days of Wayne B. ~ Wheeler, is not yet 4 lost art in this country,

With the war, copper coils and sugar are hard to come By, But there ms Subeilrtes-—and Jt won't take too much

of & lure to start the fires again in the ravines and canyons. 3 : it ——————————————

IS SOMEBODY WORRIED?

THE destruction of 311 Jap airplanes in four recent MacArthur air raids on Rabaul, at a cost of 12 Amerfcan planes, provided an appropriate background-—along with events in the Aleutians, at Wake, on New Guinea and ~elsewhere—for the somber messages of the emperor and Premier Tojo to the new Jap diet. The emperor described the situation As “truly grave.” Tojo said “the enemy is overcoming many difficulties and dangers,” and called for increased war production “so that our defensive structure may be made unwavering.” Let no one assume from such remarks that the fall of Tokyo will be in next week's headlines. But we can afford a moment to express thanks to the fighting Americans

and Australians and Chinese—who ‘have put that new

defensive note into the utterances of Japan's leaders.

THE QUEEN IS DEAD

WE must be getting old and tame. The stories about Postmaster General Frank Walker's blushing crusade against the magazine Esquire remind us that we haven't read Esquire in months. (Miss Jones, would you run down to the newsstand? If they're sold out, borrow one from 8 dentist. The editor is in mood for refreshing his youth.) We have never regarded re as'the appropriate Bitent fof Iain suits, Mth igh the aunts may have eA that. But we ourselves have thumbed many

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

tionists who had just emerged from their knee

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children, but past performances ars not re

contribution to the states or to any of the people, the national government the surrender of a degree of independence and process has been ever thus since 1933. Plainly, chance to impress the Communist ideology and +& whole generation of children is too

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the OWI and other A ot is aside from the fact that the public local, and not national, institutions in individual parents still retain some influ. they would lose under national adminisfederal schools in a sense run by the in the stricken South after the Civil War and they were one of the worst causes of the KuKlux Klan rebellion and the prolonged destitution of the southern tier,

We the People By Ruth Millett |

course it will be contended that this is red. | that

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By Just Another Daily Reader, Indianapolis 1 read what Mr. Gasper wrote sbous Officer Dunwoody and I should like to present the Whird He

picture. ok Firat, though, I should say that I agrees with you about en.

trary, each of his bold round-ups of these “dangerous criminals” has been at the end or near the end of the line with only a few persons

aboard. . *aifice this 1s way, sin a can it be enforced by

“WHO KNOWS, YOU MAY BE THE NEXT VICTIM" By Mrs. Walter Haggerly, B. R. 6, Box 40)

THE ARMY officer's wife had house or an apartment.

time she ‘and her two small children would have fo pack up and

be broken up because of the war, This family could stay together, at least for a while, if they could find & place to Jive. But they _ ‘Were not having much luck. Night after night, there were just no houses or apartments

in the overcrowded town. were dozens of couples like the one mentioned above, Who feed separation because thay couldn’. And a ROME ; . The landlord couldn't be bothered with them, He wanted a “civilian, permanent” couple

If she couldn't find one in that

leave—and another family would a

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age of cigarets. Or is buying cigaretes still legal? I wish to take this opportunity to express - by appreciation for the splendid exposition of this case by The Times and I hope more cases of this type are exposed as they are undoubtedly numerous, Men of this type are definitely not wanted on the police force of this city. Or are they? i . Incidentally, I wonder what these girls would have been slated for had they been smoking? Probably manslaughter, * »

“THERE 18 NO SUPER RACE”

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: surance corporation, federal intermediate credit &

federal land banks, land bank commission loans, na. tional farm loan association, production eredit assoc ations, production eredit corporations, Puerto Rico re construction - administration, regional agricult credit corporation and rural electrification adminis; tion

“Many depression-created agencies have long since served their purpose” Mr. Springer contended.

Should Be Liquidated “IN THE interest of economy, manifoldly enhanced

by the terrific cost of a global war, they ‘should be

liquidated. : ; “Some of the Ed lending agencies I have Ji could well come within that category. “Congress, through its power of purse, already has curtailed activities of some of these agencies. Th power must be exercised still more.” : A skeleton organization might be retained in ¢ of future need, Mr. Springer suggested ed and concluded: “Created for the commendable purpose of aiding through critical perinds the financing of agricultural activities, these agencies have served a good purpe We cannot say that future conditions will not develop a need for them. fe “But, what is ts prevent their being render dormant in the intérest of economy until their func. tions may again be required? A “The answer is—only the selfish desire of bureau crats to keep the agencies active regardless. of condi tions, and the political advantage to be derived therefrom,” \

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