Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1944 — Page 10

The , Indianapolis Times "PAGE 10 Wednesday, March 1, 1944

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A SIMPLE TAX PLAN EE >

THE federal income tax laws are a crazy quilt beneatli which the taxpayer tosses in a nightmare of frenzied He is fed up. He is not complaining much . about the size of the tax; he knows you can't buy victory with hay. But he is sore at the Einsteinesque intricacy of :the tax returns. Some at the treasury seem fo think the returns aren’t . as ornery as has been alleged. But the treasury’s internal revenue bureau stands convicted, humiliatingly, by several newspaper experiments in which assorted bureau experts have totaled up identical income figures.and come to widely differing conclusions as to the amount owed or'refundable.

‘have noticed, have come out with the same figure. So, who cen blame the inexpert taxpayer for squawking? Certainly not the White House, which has needled congress for imposing such complexities. not the house and senate, where committees are now (too late for ‘the impending March 15, of course) humping themselves to simplify the tax structure.

WE WISH those committees well. We go even further; we take pleasure in providing, for their convenience, a proposed formula for tax simplification, prepared by S. Burton Heath and described by him in.a series of articles starting today. ° Mr. Heath suggests, in brief, that the victory tax, the normal tax and the surtax be abolished and replaced “by a single action levy, with simplified exemptions and no nuisance deductions—and that all taxpayers whose income is derived only from salaries and wages be then put on a complete pay-as-you-go basis, through payroll deduc- . tions, and be excused from making out any tax return

a simple form that would require only.a few minutes and

Congress may come up- with something it likes better ‘than Mr. Heath's plan; the treasury is certain to cry out in its wisdom that nothing so simple is tolerable. until they show us a better mousetrap, we're sold on this

THE AXIS IN ARGENTINA

I» spite of new presidents and cabinets, the military dieators of Argentina remain pro-axis and anti-American. Our state department quite properly considers the latest palace coup in Buenos Aires as the occasion for a reconsideration of its patient policy. Wisely, the department in this investigation is not acting alone but in concert with Latin American govern- " ments. This method is important not only to strengthen our relations with sister republics, but also to convince the _ Argentine people that the anti-Yankee propaganda of the axis and its Buenos Aires agents is false. playing into the hands of the enemy if we appeared to be forcing an anti-Argentine policy on Argentina's neighbors. Such neighbors as Brazil, Uruguay and Chile are even more alarmed by Buenos Aires developments than we are, because they are closer. Since the pro-axis dictatorship of Argentina last December aided a dictatorship to seize power | in Bolivia, South American governments have been sensitive to the danger of the axis using discontented young militarists in their own countries for a similar purpose. Significantly, ‘the Chilean government last week arrested about 100 axis agents.

MEANWHILE, the real power in Buenos Aires isthe socalled ‘“‘colonel’s group,” headed by Col. Peron, the new war minister. This group made the revolution of last summer, and since then has forced out of office sundry génerals who. became less pro-axis under pressure of events. Ramirez nominally broke relations with the axis, but when he and his foreign mipister tried to declare war on the axis, Peron prevented it. Peron could not openly oust Ramirez without risking a break in diplomatic relations by the American nations, : which might provoke a democratic revolt in Argentina. So «Peron last week apparently forced President Ramirez to retire on account of “illness” in favor of Vice President Farrell, hoping this would maintain the alleged legality of z the regime in the eyes of the Argentinian Supreme court and of the united nations, But it is doybtful that this trick will fool the consultative committee for the ‘political defense of the continent, the agency in Montevideo through which the United States and other American governments formulate joint hemiSphere policy;

HOPEFUL SCHOOL

EXT year New York state will establish a unique edu- . cational institution—a publicly supported school of industrial ind labor relations. A bill to authorize it is said $0 be assured of early approval by the legislature of Gov- . ernor Dewey, The school will be part of Cornell university. The trustees will include representatives of the legislature and of the state department of education, the president of Cornell, the state presidents of the A. F. of L. and the C. I, O., and the heads of the New York Associated Industries and the state chamber of commerce. Enrollment will be open to union officials and members, industrialists, businessmen

same instructors. Here is 4 promising step in .a. fine direction. It would be hard to think of a field where there is greater need or ‘opportunity for the educational process. This country pays ‘a terrible penalty because, on both sides of the labortie table, there are so many men who have not yet gained true understanding of their duties and responsiSodan, employers and workers ‘must learn to dng partners, not as enemies. If New

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

was though we had run about 30 hearses a -meat wagons parked on the lawn around that sun-blistered leaky-

‘| roof hotel, and coffins yawning on the grass and on.|

the porches, and it turned out to be a regional vention of morticians and that damn electrical organ kept playing “Nearer My God to Thee” over and over day and night, and how hot it was, and the night they ran out of ice for our gin and ginger-ale and the colored bellnop said he knew where he could rustle some and we said well, go ahead and rustle and he‘ said maybe we wouldn't want it. be-

tleman in the music room that they were

-to use in the morning for a derhonstration.

Why didn’t he tell them about that?

“Why Didn't He Tell Them About lazy?" WHY DIDN'T he tell them about the time Izzy

for the Maloney: thing in the Garden and stripped off and flopped on his bed and started in snoring and

sent some. lop-ear down to the stationery store for a quart bottle of musilage and poured jt all over him and let him sleep away. Why didn’t he tell them about that or the other time when Riley told Izzy confidentially to catch himself a sucker and get a bet on Delaney to lick anybody in camp playing golf because Delaney had’ been taking secret lessons and he could drive a ball off the crystal of a watch; so thé¥ took him ‘way oft to one of the back tees to prove it and it turned out Riley and Delaney - forgot their watches changing clothes after the workout and Izzy didn't want to use his but Riley said well if he was going to bet on the guy he shouldn't be afraid to show a little confidence; so Izzy slowly handed over his antique, ancestral Kovno crank-winder and they teed the ball and Delaney took one hell of a swing with his driver and scattered springs, gears and axles all over the fairway.

‘Just Gave Captain a Silly Grin'

WHY -DIDN'T he tell them about that day in Garmisch-Partenkirchen when Der FPuehrer came. down for the ski-jumps over on the mountain and we came out of the sanitarium where we were rooming and there was a file of those giant blackguards of

elbow to elbow, facing in, and some Heinie said we would have to walk a mile back to get around them because nobody could go through; and Gallico said

“for that cockeyed paperhanger I am not walking any

two miles-in this snow so follow me and he barged right through between a couple of the guards and me after him and they all started to elbow and I thought to tell them I died game; but Gallico, who speaks beautiful German although not a word of wap, and him a Ginzo, he just gave the captain a silly grin and said “Excoose, please, Ich been Amerikanischer tourist, not spraechen the Deutcher and my friend is Amerikanischer tourist, alzo;” and the captain threw up his hands and told his men to skip it and let the gott-verdamt "American sheeps-head swine-dogs through but hurry up about it; and everybody else had to walk "way around,

'That's the End of That Crazy Greaseball

OR WHY DIDN'T he tell them how he took skiing lessons on an indoof Alp covered with Epsom salls

"in a New York store and when he got to Garmisch he

went messing around on an honest-to-God Alp and slipped and took off and went sailing down one of the toughest slopes around there and everybody thinks well, that's the.end of that crazy greaseball and you can strike me bloody well pink with purple dots if he didn't come through standing up. ‘After . fascism, what? Can democracy survive? Must men make war? Why doesn’t he tell them some things he knows something about? I don’t know. Could be maybe he did,

We The People

By Ruth Millett

- “IT TOOK a 17-year-old girl to Ba: show women in love with men overseas how to act when tempted to be jealous of their men. It seems the 17-year-old’s fiance recently parachuted safely from a blazing Flying Fortress and woke up in the arms of an English girl who gave him a kiss. The story got in the news-

American fiancee was asked how she felt about it she said: knew before that a kiss could revive him. Mine always knocked him out. . . . Just tell him I'm waiting for him, and always will be.”

That's the Attitude to Take

THAT'S THE self-assured attitude a girl should | take when she suspects the girls of another country are finding her man attractive, It's an attitude a man's sure to respect—for it is the attitude a man would take under like circumstances.

compete with the other woman.

go.

And more important still, she said, - waiting for him, and always will be.” pionship style. - Ladies, please note,

So They Say—

tempted to remove the magazine. . six soldiers.~Army textbook:

WE ALL must die.

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die.

Corlett at burial ceremony ‘at Kwajalein,

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occupied Asia.

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cause he was fixing to filich a little off the dead gen- ;

got drunk up at Derby when Delaney was training |-

Riley peeked in and saw him hairy as a bear and

Hitler's own elite corps lining ‘both sides of the road.

“papers and when the -sergeant's

“I never

But oddly enough, it isn’t the way women usually behave, All too often, they take a hang-dog attitude the minute they think: they are meeting with competition, and. get scared to death that they hever can

Or, they get up on a high horse and decide that the man who dares to look around isn’t worth bother~ ing about, anyhow. So they tell him off and let him

But the 17-year-old did neither. She put the English girl in her place with a well-aimed wisecrack. |. “Tell him I'm That's cham-

A LUGER pistol was found lying on the ground. | |! An American infantry lieutenant carefully tied a long cord to it and then pulled it to him and put it in his pocket, . Later while examining the. pistol he atThe explosion killed the lieutenant and two other n men and wounded |-

God is the great commander in chief of this operation and he selected those to We regret their loss, but rejoice in the glorious cause. All of us ventured the price of victory, and are ready to venture it again.—Maj. Gen. Charles H,

| JAPANESE MILITARY forces are at all times carrying out a wap of moral principles which uphold |: righteousness and humanity and never mistreat pris~ ‘oners.—Kimachi Yamamioto, he vice ‘minister for

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3 Gera C By Ludwell Denny

won't German nerves AI hoe AbOUS Bales os eS DY whe German Fascist bandits are now running .in circles attempting to find a way out.” Isn't Germany al- | ready bled’ white by. her losses in Russia?

SHl Has a Lot of Strength Lef fiom

THE ANSWER seeins seems to be that Germany is taking terrible losses from the air and on the ground | fronts, but that she still has Blob ot of strength left. The . bs avec the nly

American, says the recent Nagi Sehting a Yaly hug : -| been the severest he has ever seen. “ The best-informed allied spokesmen are presifent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, Last week Mr. Churchill, in Ris first report on the war in many months, said: “I have never taken the view that the end of the war in Europe is at hand or that Hitler

Nazi party and the generals have decided to hang together.” Mr, Roosevelt agreed with that appraisal.

Exchanged Correspondents Add Testimony

NOW COMES the added testimony of exchanged American correspondents and diplomats who have been living ih Germany as internees. In general they saw few signs that German morale is about to crack: indeed some thought morale might have been strengthened by desperation as a result of the bomb-

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

ings and the losses at the fronts. This does not disprove Stalin's statement that the Nazis are looking for a way out. Of course they know their best chance of winning is through a separate or negotiated peace, or anything short of unconditional surrender. But certainly there is no evidence, and no claim by any responsible allied official, that Germany is close to unconditional surrender—which is the only

“DID NOT ASK IF WE HAD MONEY” * By Mrs. Charles France, Maywood, Ind.

I have read the Forum for years, but this’is the first time I have ever : boiled over enough to write. When my grandson was born the doctor that has been so condemned attended my daughter. When we called him he did not ask. if we had the money for him as some doctors do. He was not paid until his next call and when we paid him he said if she needed any of the money she could pay him a. little at a time. Her husband is in the service, At another time a neighbor of ours was sick and when they didn’t have the money to pay him he made arrangements for the county to pay for his calls, If these people hadn't had the money to pay for their baby I believe he would nx. > made the same plans for them. Of course where someone is making money and has been for the nine months before the baby came, the county- will not pay for such care. What I am mad about is that a doctor that is willing to do so much good should be condemned for one mistake, as there isn’t any one that doesn't make mistakes once -in a lifetime. (Or' is there?) At least, it hasn't hurt his practice as his office is just as crowded as it ever was.

s 8 8 “SUCH IDEAS COST DOUBLE IN LONG RUN” By Forum Reader, Indianapolis

What happens to an average family wher medical stack up? Three years ago we started finding out from A to Z. At our house we had everything from broken toes that wouldn't stop rattling to a bouncing buster who broke down the bassinet we borrowed from the butcher's wife. I can write about it now in a joking manner, but at the time it was terribly discouraging. Our once-solid, though small, budget looked like a piece of Swiss cheese, If the doctors and nurses hadn't made us feel that money was of minor importance, our very ordinary brand of courage would have been swamped. One surgeon, who performed a successful operation that saved one of our boys the use { of his limb, replied pleasantly when we asked for a bill, “There is no charge. “You people have had more than your share of trouble.” Two of the five doctors went into service and after that no “statements came.. (How many physi-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Becauss of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. ‘Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, end publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor. respondence regarding them.)

clans are too busy saving lives to check up on patients who owe bills which they are capable of paying?) For two years we paid, in turn, tach week on our indebtedness. The surgeon who wouldn't sénd his bill. was included because it was the right thing to do. While getting in the clear we didn't drive a car or have a telephone. (I spent more time working for the Red Cross instead of gabbing.) First things came first. (And our war bond pledge was kept.)

May we say a word about soclal{ized medicine?

We. believe the medical men and women who have the integrity to make the profession everything fine that it. really is can be: trusted to do the square thing without being regimented ‘as

{government clerks. Medical care expenses |

costs money. But, as middle class people; we still believe that the best solution lies in doing your level best and not trying to get something for nothing, for such ideas cost, double in the long run. o = # “WHAT MORE CAN A PERSON DO?” By a 4-F, Indianapolis I'am a subscriber to The Times, and I have enjoyed your paper very much, but today there is beginning a little episode in one of your comic strips that rubs my feathers the wrong way. The comic strip I refer to is Abbie an’ Slats, and the episode I refer to is the one. concerning the attitude of a 4-F toward Becky. Mr, Editor; I am a 4-F and not because I want to be. I certainly don't consider myself as being the type of person Van Buren is depicting in this comic strip. How

many people do you suppose will

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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‘| same as this fellow that Van Buren

discharge.

twrites among other things the fol-

‘|them bills,

kind of crack-up that counts. Mr. Churchill has put the situation in 22 words: “This is no time for sorrow or rejoicing. It is time

is characterizing?- I imagine, Mr. Editor, that you would be amazed fr re aration: effort and resolve. The war is still Z

at the public opinion created through the comic pages. We fellows who are in 4-F have a. tough enough time trying to overlook the cutting remarks that are thrown at us without having some comic writer make it all the worse. Mr, Editor, most of the boys whom I know that are in 4-F are pretty nice Tellows and are sorry that they can't take their places in| the fighting fleld. - I, personally, |" gave two months of my life in the| U.S. navy and received a medical | (And I wasn't drafted, eithef.) My roommate here at school is a 4-F, and he is an upright honorable gentleman. He tried five times to get in the military service and was rejected because of physical disability. I ask you, Mr. Editor, what more can a Person do than this? . » - “YOU CAN HAVE YOUR WAR PROSPERITY” By W. E. H., Indianapolis, In the Hoosier Forum of Feb. 23 there was a letter written by the angry Mrs. D. C. of S. State ave. 1 cannot let this go by without something to say about it. Mrs. D. C.

get the idea that all 4-Fs are the

In Washington

By Peter Edson -

WASHINGTON, March 1.—Behind a recent brief, cabled account of the bombing of three out of four trainloads of Dutch colonists, returning to Holland after being driven out of the Ukraine by the Russians, there is a little-known story of another noble Nazi experiment, revealed now through American connections with the Dutch underground. The story goes back to June, 1942, when the German master minds in Holland conceived the idea of providing an outlet for.the energies of the Hollgnders who formerly had gone to the Netherlands East Indies to colonize those lush tropical islands of Queen Wilhelming's domain. Since the Nazis had -already consigned the East Indies to the Japs, there was no colonizing that the Germans could do in this area, and furthermore, the Nazis had other colonizing difficulties of their own. They had overrun the rich wi Ukraine, but strangely enough, the Ukrainians of ( Russian origin seemed unwilling to co-operate with pr the master race, and the Germans themselves had no excess manpower for planting, cultivating and bar vesting the crops of the Ukrainian soil. What better, therefore, than that the Dutch should be transplanted from their native lands to contribute toward the Drag nach Oesten. The colonizing venture was conceived on a grand scale, like all Nazi plans. A Netherlands Eést Company was organized under Meinoud Rost von Toningen, Dutch Nazi counterpart of Dr. Schacht.

lowing: “I don't mind paying for the debt President Roosevelt is caus-. ing us. We are all making good money, & heck of a lot more than iseveral years back. My folks and I have got a lot more now than in Hoover's time or any other Republican administration as ‘far as hat goes. ” . Well, Mrs. D. C., I work in a war plant making more money than I ever made before; but while I am making this big money, thousands of our boys are being shot to pieces and mutilated for life. As far asl am concerned, Mrs, D. C., you can have your war prosperity and blood money under the New Deal; but I prefer the good old peaceful days at peacetime wages and our boys safe at home. Yes, Mrs. "D.C, 1 am buying war bonds and have a soft in the U, 8. army over Wiree years,

Nazi Design for Living

RECRUITING, HOWEVER, was slow. Dutch Nazis numbered only a few thousands, and even they seemed ~ more interested in staying at home than in pioneering. A few Dutchmen who did apply found to their dismay that they were drafted for forced labor In, Germany. : : . Radio_appeals promised a life of luxury. Each i Dutch: farmer was told he would control 25,000 acres, and that he would be exptected to behave “proudly 4 and stalwartly and also to be a gentleman in every respect. Each leader must see that hé is master and that whenever he arrives at a farm, there is somebody who jumps to attention to hold his horse. On .the i 25,000 acres some 10,000 people usually live, of whom By Harriet M. Shepard, 1504 W. 28th of:| ghouyt 3000 work for the master. These people. are » Roger - Freeman in the Hoosier| absolutely subordinate.” Forum ‘of Feb. 25 presents an ar-|- Even these promises of slave owning failed to lure gument for socialized medicine and] the colonists. Some did go. Underground papers say - cites the case of Pvt. and Mrs. Sid-| the number was not more than 15,000, -and those ney Botzun and their doctor. I reat| who did go found only grief. German soldiers seemed inv the pdpers that before his in-| to get the best land. Over every 10 Dutch farmers duction into the army Pvt. Botzun| there was ope German “district farmer.” Harvests, was a defense worker. They knew,| instead of going to Holland, as promised, went to Gerhe and his wife, for nine -months| many. There was no pay. ; ad that the baby was coming, also the : ! expense. Will you tell me why they| Forced Exodus From Ukraine

didn't save the money during those| gor COLONISTS found that the land assigned months? Failing there, after his - | them had already been won back by the Soviet army. induction into the army, wouldn't Others found themselves stranded between battle the Red Cross have loaned them t money? Perh th 4| lines. Still others were forced to do road work or his money? Perhaps they would| no .o nressed into the German army.

not have liked to do this, but it i would seem more. honorable than| A few tried to make their way back to Holland, not paying the doctor. and were machine-gunned by the Germans. Then, in - We have a little one in our home, January, as the Soviet armies advanced into the : and he was paid for several months ‘Ukraine, it was announced that some 800 officials 3 before his mother went to the hos- “temporarily - unemployed” were being shifted from pital—$35 saved at $5 a month and Netherlands Eastland to new posts in Holland and the other paid the | Denmark. She Sher $35 was 1a pie th They started home in four trainloads. Russian sir forces attacked them, wrecking three out of the. four. | ¥

Too many people have the idea that a doctor bill is the one 10 let Quy eae Wallon 9%. bask So Holiang So -lel) the

go if any and still expect day and story. : ; +i night service. My father-in-law] - : Wasa Gooiat 10 8 guill tows and ea served the whole countryside in T T P Foon that capacity. I have been at his oO e oin OUR BIG guns away. Some of

: s = = “PEOPLE SHOULD BE MORE CONSCIENTIOUS”

home "many » times when people would whiz by in new cars; and the doctar, the kindest man I ever knew, was: them _ on his books with bills unpaid. And they would get offended when he sent

war front continue to bang Washingion Just pop off, .

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‘Perhaps this doctor didn't do just | - right but neither did the. couple in- \ TOU SANE a dry women tx vn prove 3 volved. People should be more con-| Of their gray haw, 1s petleitly atirel scientious about doctor bills, |

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