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WRITE POST-WAR TAXES NOW

i" E recommend that a post-war tax law be drafted now, during the war, and put on the shelf to go ir%o effect at the end of the war.” That, from the Baruch report, is of utmost importance. It points to a duty which, performed by Congress, would go far toward insuring the production and the jobs to create prosperity for tomorrow. - ’ hi Wartime taxes, Mr. Baruch says correctly, are if anything too ‘low. Present limitations on wartime profits should not be relaxed. But the situation will change instantly with the return of peace. Then it will be essential to reduce tax rates wisely: ‘Then it will be imperative to

* stimulate a high volume of business and a high national

income, yielding the government greater revenue at lower rates than it could get through high rates which depress volume, employment and income. For “nothing will de more to make for monopoly or to deter the creation of new enterprise than excessively high taxes.” Usually, the drafting of a tax bill takes many months. But the country cannot afford months or even weeks of waiting for a post-war tax law. “Until it is definitely known that taxes are to be reduced, the launching of new enterprises and the expansion of existing ones will be deferred.”

" Companies and individuals uncertain as to what tax princi-

ples and policies are to be cannot plan with confidence to risk capital or borrowed money. If Congress waits until the war ends, and then wrangles long over a new tax bill, the consequences may be disastrous. If Congress follows the Baruch recommendation, one big reason for uncertainty and doubt as to the future can be cleared away before it does irreparable harm.

KEEP THE RURAL PRESS FREE

HE fourth war loan has proved once again that there is no need for the government to spend millions for advertising to promote bond sales. As in the third war loan many millions of dollars were spent by private advertisers to push the bond drive, without cost to the treasury, and the quota was oversubscribed. Yet congressional advocates of a subsidy for weekly

_. papers and small town dailies are promoting a measure

to appropriate 121% to 15 million dollars a year for advertising by the treasury. In this new measure—which suceceds a previous subsidy bill that was defeated—any pretense of spending the money on a businesslike basis is dropped, and all expenditures are confined to small town dailies and weekly, semi-weekly. and tri-weekly - papers. It is frankly a relief measure. It would provide an average

——expenditure-of $1000-a-year foreach paper-in-that-eclass:

The government would become the biggest single customer of many of those papers. : Treasury figures show that during the third war loan

~over $30,000,000 was spent by privaté concerns for war

bond advertising. The total advertising space placed in weeklies and small town dailies exceeded the space in the larger daily and Sunday papers. Yet a majority opinion of the house ways and means committee, supporting this handout to small papers, recently reported: “This heavy barrage of eye'appeals is

—-seldom, if ever, seen-by 52 per cent of our population

residing in the smaller cities, towns and rural regions.” Treasury statistics prove this statement to be untrue. If, as the ways and means committee says, 92 per cent of our people are dependent on small newspapers for their™ news, then it becomes all the more vital to protect the press of the small towns from being put on the politicians’ pay roll.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

shall Field of the Chicago Sun is

cause McCormick long ago staked out a circulation field for himself which he calls Chicagoland, tending way down to St. Louis and up to Detroit; so when he gets into a fight and starts you'reanothering with cartoons, editorials and needled news stories he leaves the ring, so to speak, and goes brawling through the aisles and up the stairs and through the balconies, This contest is all along of McCormick's pre-war noninterventionism and his continuing isolationism, and his kiver-to-kiver detestation of the New Deal. He is a tough opponent but he often leaves himself out of position like a rough-and-tumble man in a battle up an alley.

Would Think He Invented Gunpowder

FOR EXAMPLE, he poses as a military expert and goes by the title of colonel and. to hear him tell it you would think he invented gunpowder when the fact is that he had only a little battle experience as an artilleryman in the other war. Also, to lacerate Field, who for a long time was one of those absentee Americans and still speaks with a Mayfair accent, he likes to take belts at our noble British allies and, at times, sounds like Bill Thompson, the mayor who was always going to bust King George on the snoot. °* « But Field has not done very well in exploiting his openings and I would say his trouble is that, as Al Smith once said of young Ted Roosevelt in a contest for the governorship of New York, the young feller ain’t there. McCormick is a newspaper man and Field is just a rich man who. knows so little about the publishing business that he has been a sucker for a number of smart promoters dedicated to the proposition that God made chumps to be taken. In New York he started out with a regular cell of Communists and even now that thing of his has more taboos and restrictions than the Beobachter and this doesn’t make him look too good when he starts measuring his patriotism against McCormick's; because even Mr. Biddle, the attorney general, has had to say that the Commies are enemies within, whereas nobody has ever been able to show that McCormick had any bundists around his place.

Business About Advisers Is the Tip-Off

THAT BUSINESS about advisers is the tip-off on Field. I used to do sports for MtCormick and I am telling you nobody gives him any advice around there. But Field might be compared to some civilian suddenly appointed general who has to have a committee to tell him the name of that long thing with wheels under it that goes “boom” when you pull the rope. Right now in Chicago Field is in good hands at last with Clem Randau, an old U. P. executive in charge of the business side, and Frank Taylor, a really wise and solid practical newspaper man running the news department, . - Who makes policy I don’t know, but some other old-timers with whom I have discussed this phenomenon agree with me that Field is strongly reminiscent of Hearst when he was young and wild and tearing up money. And a& funny thing about the Randau connection is that Clem used to go storming up and down the country telling editors what a swell news service the U. P. had for sale and Field has been howling his head off that the Associated Press is & news monopoly and demanding to be elected to the club, and the New Deal has been backing him up to spite McCormick,

Field's Advisers Overmatched Their Boy McCORMICK is pretty silly at times in his aversion to the British, and the idea that they were fixing - to invade us up around Detroit after the first world war is just juvenile. Moreover, like it or not, they did stand off Hitler alone while we hurried down to the gym and worked up some muscle for Pearl Harbor day and after, However, he has been making a wild and rowdy fight for constitutional

It is not confined to the city limits of Chicago be ex

when Field's advisers advised him to move into Chicago and start a scrap with Mr. R. and whispered to him to fight dirty as he has done from the beginning in New York, brutally they overmatched thelr boy. McCormick has been beating his ears off and" at his own rules and style of fighting.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

THE COMMUNITY plans be-

a historic affray and anyway I like to go on about it. |

government and the integrity of the U. 'S. A. and By I Am Disgusted, Too,

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

“SERVICE WIVES FORGOTTEN PEOPLE”

By Mrs. Agnes Wheatley, 911% E. Mary“land st.

I read with great interest the letter written by Ann Williams, pub-

- | lished Feb. 26 in the Hoosier Forum.

I agree with her that something should be done to alleviate the situation concerning the treatment wives and families of service men are receiving from landlords, real estate managers and agents. It seems to me service men’s wives are forgotten people when it comes to getting a place to live. They aren't responsible because they are living alone while their husbands are fighting and dying, or do you know there is a war going on? These wives should be honored .instead of being told no, no room if you are living alone or because you have children. Oh, sometimes I wonder, are we human?

These people couldn't have & heart; because, if they did, they couldn't turn wives and. little children away just because their husbands aren't with them. They are fighting to save the necks of the ones who refuse their loved ones a little room to live in. So, I say, give them a chance. Give them a room and then, if they prove they aren't good roomers, at least you have done your part. So, let's give the wives and families of service men a little more consideration. How’s about it? 2 = #” “LANDLORD HAS’ INSIDE TRACK”

Indianapolis I've been reading the Forum for years. Many times I've been tempted to put words on paper when some particular letter brought up a kindred peeve. Not having too much time, I've just thought about writing and let it go at that. But this time I so wholeheartedly agree with “Worried,” who wrote a few days ago, and with “More Than Disgusted,” whose letter appeared tonight, that rent control has been defeated by chéating landlords. We rented our house a year ago and were told the rent. It seemed

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ing made all over the country for | high, but glad to have a roof, we meeting the problem of juvenile | didn’t even think that it might be

delinquency are all aimed at the [over the ceiling. Later we learned:

~ may and

HAT we have sent Russia: More than 8,400,000 tons of supplies, valued at $4,243,804,000, and including 7800 planes, 4700 tanks and tank destroyers, 170,000 trucks, 33,000 jeeps, and 6,000,000 pairs of boots. _ ‘ What Russia has done to Germany, ‘according to Stalin, In one year the Nazis have lost 4,000,000 men, 14,000 planes, 25,000 tanks and 40,000 guns.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR A PRESIDENT

IN the President we elect this year, we need a man who— 1. Can organize the government at Washington so that it will work efficiently, harmoniously, smoothly, with economy of money and motion. If there is chaos at the heart of the government, the best intentions and the greatest ability which a President may have along other lines

cannot be effective,

2. Can bring about national unity by reconciling

farmers, labor and business; by enlarging the reasonable middle ground of regulated freedom’ so as to push out of the picture the conservative reactionaries who would lead us to fascism (state socialism) and the radical reactionaries who would: lead us to communism. (state socialism). 3. Will respect the prerogatives of the legislative and judicial branches of the government, ‘will be guided by congress as well as lead it. 4. Can meet the heads of foreign states in friendly stanchness, so as to establish the rights of the United States and gain‘ respect for our firmness and fairness. 5. Will be a spiritual leader who can kindle in the American people the enthusiasm for our way of life which it deserves. a oe

It may be too much to hope to get all these things in

order named. : And, since our history shows that the vice president often does become’ President, exactly the samé should be sought in the candidates for vice

juvenile, Cn : ; And yet the judges and police officers who handle the cases of juvenile delinquents almost always say that in the majority of cases the blame for the young girl or boy who gets into trouble rests squarely on the shoulders of the parents. . So it doesn't look as though we are going to do much about juvenile delinquency until we do soniething to educate parents. Shouldn't every junior high school and high school in the country start a course for parents, in which they would be taught to understand the needs and emotions of adolescents so that they can understand their cwn children?

Two Invitations Urged

IF SUCH a course, with weekly sessions, were announced and every parent urged:te attend first by a letter and then by a personal ‘call from a school teacher, the majority of parents certainly wouid be willing. to. go. After learning what adolescents have a right to expect of their parents and. of their homeg, the parents themselves could discuss their particular problems. ‘ i Of course, they'll be due for some shocks, and it might. be: more comfortable for:them to stay, safely at home, going on thinking that.only other peoples children ever get into trouble. But they would be of far more help to their children if they learned what young folks are really like today. The community recreational plans that are being made for kids are important, of course, but if—as the authorities seem to agree—-parents and not adolescents are the real offenders in this wave of delinquency, the parents need guidance, too.

To The Point—

“SOP UP the gravy, squeeze the grapefruit dry,

» ty + ‘ ; ‘THE YANKS bombed a German ball bearing plant. And that's not the only way the Nazis are going to

as hy Beh pe ony : : J Jones, war r. A man one man, but they are fhe things to look for, in about the | after our own heart! nil

we were paying ten dollars over the rent ceiling. When we asked the landlord if it were true he laughed and said, yes, he had had some trouble with a former tenant and had had to go down to the OPA and get the ceiling raised officially to what it now is. The rent ' control board denied this, saying the case was still pending. The landlord then told us’ that

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one of the attorneys for the board was a college Irlend and fraternity brother and that he had fixed it for him. He said he'd told him that he put in a new stoker. (He had, but not as an improvement, but as a replacement. But we weren't supposed to know that.) Later an investigator from the OPA came. to get some information about what’ we were paying and said they. were investigating —because this same landlord had forced a couple of other icnants to move saying that he was going to move in himself and then not doing it.

Apparently, this was all only for show on the part of the rent control board because a month later they approved the raise in the rent. We were never notified as to the disposition of the case as we were supposed to be, and after waiting six months, we called and asked about it. We were told that

the decision was given in favor of

the landlord because a former tenant had moved owing rent. That doesn’t make sense. Why should we pay $120 a year ($10 a month) because a tenant that lived here before us for less than six months left owing rent. Our landlord was insistent on knowing ‘that we'd be permanent, too, when we moved in and yet in less than two weeks’ time was trying to sell the house from under us. The only thing so far in his favor, and we do give him credit for that, is that he had no objection to children. However, the house was in such condition that even Commandos couldn’t hurt it much, For people such as “Worried,” “Disgusted” and ourselves, we can take ' consolation in this one

thought. This war and all will be over one of these days and land~

Side Glances—By Galbraith

COPR. 1944 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 1. M. R Y PAT. OFF. “When | picked out this snooty epartment it was big eno oS snooty apartment it was b ~~ how'd | know we were i: wy 9

-|man who can’t understand how we

lords will find the shoe ¢n the other foot and then they will be crying instead of us. I hope that day will come for us all. In the meantime rent control and frozen rent are but empty words and we as renters can do nothing about it because the landlord has an inside track. » » »” “GET OUT YOUR OWN PURSE” BY M. Wray, Indianapolis Exaggeration of the woman's purse aroused my curiosity. I wondered what an average person did carry. You comment on size. Remember the female of the species carries all needs in one container; the male scatters his in two pants pockets 10x5, two 6x5; one shirt 4x5; two coats 8x5; one 4x5 and an 8x5 inside; four vest 4x5 and a watchpocket 3x3. This totals 400 square inches and the watch pocket; 20 inches square is a little larger

Examination of his purse revealed d defense plant identification, five

er's license, insurance service card, identification, social security card, A and C ration books, kerosene ration stamps, selective service classification, book for addresses, stamps, sticker receipt, three other receipts —and I carry seven items less. In . addition: Pants contained matches and change, handkerchief, keys and comb; watch in watch pocket; vest held laundry checks, nail clippers; theater stubs, rent receipts; coat inside had pen, pencil, army discharge; outside rosary and prayer book, gum, and the shirt contained cigarets and .a book of matches. : My husband is no freak. Many other articles are carried by acquaintances—glasses, etc. My survey is not exaggerated—yours was, Pfc. McGinnis, Get out your purse, See what I mean or are you so different? : . ss “ONLY WORDS SOME PEOPLE KNOW” By E. L. Mobley, 4411 Evanston ave. First, let me say I'm an American and believe in America. To the left of the Feb. 23d issue of the Hoosier Forum was Westbrook Pegler and Ruth Millet's columns which are standing upright for the beliefs and traditions that Washington and our forefathers stood up for when they founded this country with God’s help and fought for independence for us of today . ' To the right were columns by John Hillman and Peter Edson who try to awake the America that Lincoln loved, fought for and died for after his attempt to keep the America that was founded under God’s guidance under that same guidance and unity.’ Then there was the Forum in which are ideas by Roger A.

have either been able to exist all these years or can live happily in the future except the socialized ideas of falling Germany be infused into the very life of a vic-

than the average woman's purse.|

pictures of his wife, calendar, night-| ly pass used during army life, driv-|

| THE GREATEST discouragement : the | ment will_not be lessened when

._ Then, as now, the world ) fleet to come out and fight. But Adm. Togo chose to wait until the Russians reached the entrance to the Sea of Japan. There, near Tsushima, the fresh, faster and better co-ordinated Jap fleet struck. And Rozhevenski’s numerically superior, but weary armada was destroyed almost to a ship. There is reason to believe the present Jap plan is

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with of course, such variations as are imposed the radio and aircraft. :

Decisive Phase of War May Be Near

‘SOME YEARS AGO, in Tokyo, I knew a Capt. (later admiral) Sekine. He talked freely of Jap strategy in the event of war with

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to the Jap war effort, then force the United to fight in Japan's front yard. “We'll have the short lines

In Washington

By Peter Edson

his office right away—I'm on his

Snow Fun in Washington

GEORGE W. HEALY JR. managing editor of New Orleans Times-Picayune two young sons along when on leave of absence to take over of OWTI's domestic news division. pretty excited about it, n

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man predicted a three or four-inch snowfall Saturday night, the young \Healys went to without coaxing so as to be ready for the out. Not being able to buy sleds, they their own from old boards and barrel staves. They. were up before dawn, but nothing had happened. Everything still looked the ‘same. The sun rose bigger and brighter than a breakfast orange and climbed into a clear blue cloudless sky to make one of Washington's finest mid-winter Sundays. But the young Healys were disgusted. Their verdict was short and simple, “This town’s a fake!” They had to wait another week before the weather« man made good and they got to see their first snow,

Thimble-Thumping Statesman

CONGRESSMAN SOL BLOOM of New York likes to preside over the house committee on foreign affairs of which he is chairman, with everything strictly formal and according to protocol and rules of order, recognized and

So. J hey Say—

IT HAS been there, for centuries, but that was three weeks too long, because we've lost lots of Amerjoan lives in the last 21 days—Pvt. Vincept Zavada, a Catholic, after Benedictine bombing.

short cuts.—Gen. MacArthur.

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THE BEST of all recipes for avoiding undue opti-

mism or pessimism is to give the public the news reported by impartial, tious men. the task.—~The London Daily Herald. .

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‘a8 leader of majority in. the protest to the President's veto message on the tor Harold 0, made office to the floor he volunwith an asked Senator Burton. “Senator Barkley's going to resign” The elevator boy stopped his car dead still, right between two floors. “What did you say?” the boy asked in horror. 2 : “Senator Barkley's going to offer his resignation

with every member punctiliously his name announced before he begins to speak. Sol doesn't, however, wield a gavel. Instead, he wears a green plastic thimble on his right forefinger, and he taps with it prettily on a polished block of wood, whenever he wishes to bring his committee to order.

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