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| consumer i8 concerned, is well known. That there is an

"spokesmen said that if congress didn't adopt it the|

- of appropriated money will not have to be spent—that this |

: _from. Mr. Byrnes’ office of war mobilization-should prod |

~— New York Herald-Tribune's annual forum.

XXVHEN the treasury proposed its 101g-bilion tax bill,

_ result would be little short of chaos. ~~

“the treasury would be just as well off if, instead of higher taxes, the government would ‘purposefully refrain from wasting 1014 billions. It seemed to us that there was too " much high, wide and handsome government spending that had nothing to do with winning the war—but a lot to do “with promoting inflation. Administration spokesmen ridiculed the idea that such great economy would be pos- | sible in wartime. Come now the war department and a house appropria-

tions subcommittee announcing that the army’s requirements have been resurveyed and that more than 18 billions

large amount can be saved without damage to the conduct | “of the war. ‘With two billions plus in- new taxes—the amount congress apparently has decided upon—and 13 billions plus in savings, the treasury’s net position will be improved. by 15 billions plus. That is much better than merely adding _ 101% billions in higher taxes. = ‘~ And only one government department has been heard

‘some of the others, requiring at their budgets. B “Economy is a source of

them to take a new. look

great revenue.”

‘A POST-WAR CERTAINTY | (GOVERNOR DEWEY packed a lot of sound sense into his speech on “Post-war Opportunities” before the |

_, Certainly, as he said, we are not likely to-emerge into the sort of world imagined by" wishful thinkers—"a kind |

with miraculous pew gadgets and each of us had a private helicopter in the backyard garage . . . an era of full employ-ment-in-which--nobody has to-work.”. soompi ~~ Nor do we need to accept the fearful thinkers’ “lugu~brious pictures of chaos and collapse, with 15,000,000 unem-

. dependent upon a dole from the federal government.” ~~ With a war debt of 250 to 300 billion dollars, we shall - be considerably poorer. . Inevitably, there will be some lag in conversion from war to peace and some temporary unemployment. No magic formula will solve our problems. “A living standard is not created by laws, by honeyed | words, or by anything except’ the goods and services produced by the people of a nation working in harmony.” We shall all have to work and plan, community by community, industry by industry: Businessmen for new methods, new products, new markets; individuals to take advantage of new job opportunities; communities to en-| ~~ courage new enterprises and undertake useful public works; the federal government to shape its policies so as to create cofiditions under which private enterprise will produce for peace with the same energy and effectiveness displayed in war. But— . “We shall still be" a country of boundless resources; unlimited opportunities and, above all, a country made up of the most ambitious, daring and highly skilled human beings on earth. One thing is certain: One hundred and thirty million Americans can produce enormously and can

We recall remarking at the time in these columns that |

~~ of Buck Rogers Utopia where we shall all live in ultra- | labor or being drafted for the- war. : Fe ortedarnintie- tases aide ineduturistie tard be Suveounded: A ae ee ade, Tae MIL bol en Aleit dl or VL TAX BIE

ployed, bread lines" and soup kitchens, and ‘everybody | o%

his own substitute candidate. didate was no knew it. — = >

Ignored All Facts... Thin

HE IGNORED all the facts which condemned his candidate, however, because he didn’t dare mention them much less attempt to refute them. Nobody who

supported his candidate, Matthew Jevy, dared discuss

the fact that Levy had mssc union gangster who was much more notorious at the time than Aurelio’s gangster was. However, the people learned about Levy's associa

In an earlier case, President Roosevelt made a flat guarantee that a certain group of miners would not be compelied “to join John 1. Léwis' union. Lewis then threatened a strike and the president referred the question to a personal appointee for another look. And on the Monday morning after Pearl Harbor, the president's man gave a decision in his name, breaking his solemn promise. a :

Not Isolated Examples

agencies of the government have pressed y

going "hungry and wastirig millions of days of war But never-has

which arquses distrust of government, They are typical of the liberal in politics, and all in violation of the early teaching of the normal human being, People

individuals who break their word or try to deny plain truths of simple situations. “In any body of students; such cunning brings

Russia it is unnecessary because the Russian government does not have to explain or justify its conduct. It just gives orders. a :

We The People : By Ruth Millett

“Now, the time. is drawing close, We can wear civvies, and it won't be wrong, We'll kick the women out of the factories, And keep them home where they belong.” . THOSE ARE the last lines of a so-called poem, written by an American who signed himself Sgt. “xX.” § : Here is essentially the same idea—written by a better writer, Claire Boothe Luce— and entered in the Congressional Record by her colleague,’ B. J Monkiewicz of Connecticut. Her

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was originally printed in ‘the Woman's Home

consume enormously, provided the channels of production [Companion for November this year.

and consumption are kept free.”

THE LIQUOR INQUIRY - : HE alacrity of the senate judiciary committee in acting favorably on the Scrugham resolution for an investigation of the liquor “shortage” is praiseworthy. Those quotation marks around the word “shortage” are used advisedly. That a shortage exists, as far as the

actual shortage of supply is questionable in spite of the _ suspension of whisky making. Chairman VanNuys of Indiana says, “There is enough liquor in this country to five years, even though not another pint is made.” But where is it? Don’t ask us. Our pantry is bare, cept for a half bottle of an unheard of blend which consists , by the testimony on the label, of 25 per cent whisky d 75 per cent imported neutral cane spirits—meaning Te ‘alcohol distilled out of molasses, which may int for the fact that this particular beverage tastes btle like rum, nothing at all like whisky, and very much . There is something wrong in the distributio 8 of the liquor industry. Wrong, and there oom: litte bt, something illegal. Liquor being the instrument of that it is, the topic lends itself to facetiousness.

But

ohibition that other time, when millions of American in uniform and politically voiceless, appear to ic] without exertion on their part, in purpose.”

is a serious situation. The drys, who slipped |

“And when victory comes, what then shall become of the women who. helped so overwhelmingly to win it? What shall the women in war work do then, when the men are coming home from the battlefields and looking for their old jobs or for new jobs in civilian economy?

Should Return Home

“THE ANSWER is simple: All patriotic women who are now holding down soldiers’ jobs in factory or" field or office, who do not need their wages for self-support or the support of dependents, will return to their most essential peace time job: The re-solidify-ing, expansion and ed families. r “They will go

as the war is over.

That attitude is a real threat to democracy in It is the attitude Hitler fostered in|’ Germany, which eventually made German women 50 helpless that they even forfeited their right to

America.

the. spiritual guidance of their children.

associated with and praised a

“| paign year?.

. AND PROCEEDING. from _that_decision, other RR: 0

against the-péople, forcing hundreds of thousands of | Maryland, Indiana or Fred Vanthem to join other unions with the alternative of

in their daily relations with one another do not. act: so:

tracism. At West Point it is unthinkable. And, in’

article from which these few lines below are quoted

strengthening of their war-disrupt. back to thelr homes and their

families—their real jobs—with a new vision dnd a new purpose: to raise and educate more and better

women back into the home where they belong as soon

_ “TO MY MIND there is virtue inthis bil”

feels pride in his vocation because it is the

| profession safeguarded by the ‘constitution of

United" States of America, in its freedom of

provision.

“He examines his conscience daily or weekly, semi-weekly, as his business may require him, see if the utterances contained in his newspaper in accord with the highest principle of ; ment, and for the welfare of our country.” Senator Willis then made, in one paragraph, freedom of the press warning, and proceeded to p for the bill. He excused himself from voting for because of his profession. 5 “My pride in my profession was hurt to hear said upon this floor that the voice of the n men is the only venal voice raised in our co~ war effort at this time of ‘our nation’s emergency, ‘he continued.

: ‘Patriotic as Rest" =

_ “I SAY TO my fellow. senators that this is not venal effort. The newspapermen are trying to. d the job for their country as patriotically as in other group of its citizens.

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

“ISN'T IT ODD THAT i VANNUYS GETS EXERCISED?” By I'm A Patriot, Indianapolis Isn't it odd that Hon. Fred. VanNuys gets exercised over the liquor racket, the black market, and the war, in Indiana only during a cam-

The balance of his tenure of office is riding the I. ‘M.’.Satisfied

Does.he want to help America,|

Nuys? “You guess—I can't. va

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By James R. Meitsler, Attica = America’s irresponsible and impecuniotis individuals; again bring up the anti-poll tax-bill. Wasting time and effort while. our country fights for her life, to give the ball to those too good=for<nothing to pay a trifling tax to’ the country which protects them. To permit persons to vote because they have stayed alive a certain number of years, whether 18 or 60, is unnatural, Before men are allowed a voice in any organization they must contribute to that organization's support. This is true of- co-operatives, corporations, churches, banks, lodges, insurance ‘companies, labor unions, true of everything except our country. Even savages require their young to prove themselves. We are more foolish than wild men. | : No one has fought the poll tax more than the labor unions. Yet, these irresponsible super-govern-ments, which the new deal has set up over us, will not’ allow any working man to vote in their union unless. he pays an initiation fee and dues. Nor are these voluntary. Under the check-off system the laborers’ wages are garnisheed for the union's benefit before the worker gets it. The worker who does not pay is not allowed to vote. Worse still he is not allowed to work. These super-governments intend to starve any laboring man, and his wife and children, who does not pay his tax. In the poll tax states men. can work without being in fear of their lives and if they wish to vote in the electioris of the state all they have to do is suppoit In Indiana ws any fool, pauper,

Those politicians who cater. to}

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scripts. and. cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

penny of tax money, who has been a parasite all his life, can vote and his ballot counts as much 8s a Washington's or a Lincoln's, . : s = 8 “ERNIE'S WORK WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY” Cw By Myra-Carey Morgan, 6668 Cornell st. It is a bad feeling to be lonely. I am often lonely but I don't stay that way long. I take up The Times and turn to the Hoosier Vagabond column. Ernie Pyle, how I admire him and his writings. How refreshing his articles are to a tired, worried mind. After I have.réead one of his articles I feel uplifted just

deed, Ernie Pyle and his writings are a Godsend to his readers. He is doing a great work for us here .on the home front. Ernie knows very little the good he is doing; so words of praise for him should be written every once in a while. Ernie doesn't know he is great. You can tell when you read his articles, the big feeling of himself is left out. All of his writing is about the other fellow and can he tell the story!

Ernie goes across he may some day

drunkard who has never paid al.

.jof “our boys are lost, then Felis with wove [in and

~~ bility for, the retum’ ot mafiu- “| “= these 5 re —_—

{men may not deserve a raise in

like I had a new lease on life. In-|win this

I think] Our politicians talk about infla-

a loved one far from home, read one. of Ernie's articles. One snaps right back to normal thinking and with an extra amount of faith in God.

. n o “TWO MORE STRIKES AND WE'LL BE OUT” By H. E. Marshall, 37 W. 21st st. Are we going through the same did with the coal miners? Allowing them to strike two or three times and tie up our war production and then after we get behind and a lot

Why wait until we are behind the eight ball before we allow the raise in pay? That is what was done in the coal strike; can’t we take our cue from that great display of bungling? It is true these

pay, but . . . why not give in now and save the-lives of a lot of our boys! . And if these" strikers need to he, punished wait until after we win the war. You know, about two more good strikes and we will be out. Hitler will not wait for us to

can avoid -any more strikes and

full 100 per cent, we can save thousands of our boys’ lives and

boys die for the sake of a few paltry dollars.

tion, so what? The boys facing death in Europe don’t care whether they get what they need through inflation or deflation just so they get the materials of war; so they can win this war quick and get back home where they can just rest and sleep in peace away from

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

Sopamissns, 3

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Mr. a a Sake” iA toe SH

catch up in production, but if wel .

increase our production . . . to the| i

“It is said that all other citizens participate

{| the war effort and give their services for the war

There is ho group of people who do that more

ally, more freely, or more effectively than do newspaper publishers.”

Jl There were many more bougtiets for himself

his fellow publishers, and then Senator Willls ox cluded: =

Patriotic Cash Basis

“WE ARE spending millions of dollars’to educa people of other nations about the virtues of our try and our ideals in America. . . . Would it n be better if we should bring to the hearthplace

‘| every home something of the voice of America,

of the things we are fighting for, and of our tion to support our government?” forcing the treasury to buy newspaper adv in towns under 10,000 or in weekly, semi-weekly tri-weekly papers in larger cities. Another beneficiary will be William Murray, Sen: Republican .Editocial” “association, who pu daily paper at Bicknell and owns two weeklies

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In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20! . publican Congressman James Wadsworth of Genereo, N. Y.,

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Cowman Wadsworth is a { er. He buys range cattle, them to his farm in Li county, Néw York, feeds them - fattens them for market and ally sells them, choice and prime to New York state slaugh

houses. . Cowman Kleberg also raises choice cattle to

the best prices, but on a different plan. At many-thousand-acre King ranch, said to be world’s largest, a special breed of cattle has been" veloped which will fatten on native grass, so the calves born on his range can be conditioned market right at home, It all this sounds as though the big beef men congress have a good thing on the side and tha business in these wartimes of meat scarcity has dandy, that is a fair assumption, But into each some rain must fall and today, over the range hom and the Washington office suites of the r cowmen the skies are almost continuously cloudy, |

OPA and OES Blamed HE THE REASON for all this despond that m up the picture is. as you may or may not guess, guvment—OPA and OES, the administrative of the guv'ment—not the legislative end, of cou Specifically, the ‘office of price administration .

_ | accused of having. framed, and Office of

which in effect does four things: : L 1. It changes the rates of subsidy payments a flat $1.10 formerly made to slaughterers, to sums from 50 cents to $145. 2. It gives an subsidy of 80 cents to small slaughterers who ni handle about 15 per cent of the country’s

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