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SP RILEY 5551

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

KEEP AT IT, GENTLEMEN! HILE a nation of income-tax payers lines up in blocklong queues to fill out Form 1040 before the deadline, in Congress. the work of tax simplification procéeds slowly. That's all right: It is too late to simplify this year’s returns, so there is no point in a slapdash job. And public pressure for simplification will not languish when today has gone its accursed way; for just around the corner is April 15, when new returns estimating 1944 income will be due. : The danger is that the house ways and means committee, now at grips with the simplification problem, will eventually get so hypnotized by the complexity of simplicity that it will become an easy mark for the treasury’s experts —who have yet to prove a real devotion to the idea of simplification. In fact, the present Form 1040, although it has baffled even Einstein, seems to impress some of the treasury’s men as a model of clarity. The New York Herald-Tribune says one statistician | has estimated that 900,000,000 man-hours are being sacrificed by individuals, lawyers, corporate—accountants and internal revenue employees to the preparation of the current returns. And that, he submits, is the equivalent of the energy required to produce 40,908 four-motored bombers.

= ” . IN OUR own case we doubt that the time we spent on 1040 would have been-of much use in an airplane plant, but at least the figures give a rough idea of the dimensions of this national headache. It is devoutly to be hoped that the ways and means committee will deliver some real relief. Meantime, in another and very vital phase of the tax problem, the Republicans have taken a forward-looking step. Minority Leader Martin of the house has appointed a committee of 25 Republicans, under Rep. Daniel A. Reed of New York, to chart a constructive post-war tax policy. Congress, says Mr. Martin, must have such a policy ready to go into effect at once when peace is won. This is just what the recent Baruch-Hancock report urged. And it is a project that should command the best

efforts of tax statesmen in both parties. Bei iseresesnireme

STAY FREE TOGETHER PEAKING at Boston university, Eric A. Johnston, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, has proposed a platform upon which he believes management and labor can meet halfway in “a pact of non-aggres-sion and mutual assistance”: “We of management will try to repress nionopolistic practices, unfair treatment of competitors, and business racketeering. You or labor will try to repress-monopolistic practices, unfair treatment of fellow-workers, and labor racketeers. : “We will tell you the financial facts of life about us. You will tell us the financial facts of life about you. “We will try to reduce the number of our ‘strikes’ which withhold inventions and products. You will try to

reduce the number of your strikes which withhold labor.

and service. “We will try to give you job security and basic income security. You will try to give a full honest day's work every day. “We will recognize you and refrain from trying to cripple you with unfair regulatory laws. But you will recognize us and refrain from trying to destroy us by unfair

and ruinous laws.” - » 8 8 ” .

IT'S A SOUND platform, and Mr. Johnston's advocacy of it is made effective by his fairness. He acknowledges that every sin for which unions are criticized has had its counterpart in business. He recognizes that, in a free country, unionism must be as much a social and economic fact as management. He proclaims equal need for reforms on each side—‘'‘we all ought to hit the sawdust trail together.” And, beyond question, he is correct when he warns that, if management and labor turn this country into a continuous brawl, government will chain them both. But if they make the better choice—if they work together and stay free—"I have no doubt of the result: A strong America, an America unlimited.” .

THEY ALSO SERVE

HIS war may go down in history as the period in which men canie at last to trust a woman ‘with a secret. The "latest support of this thesis is found in a story in the tranps‘Atlantic edition of the London Daily Mail. Each night 100 charwomen, carefully selected and sworn to secrecy, come in to clean “invasion headquarters.” They scrub and dust surrounded by secrets of the second front. They're subject to extraordinary precautions, of course. Bat they're trusted. And the price of their secrecy? A top pay of 40 cents an hour.

LOVE BREAKS INTO PRINT

E see where a leading New York dress designer presented, at his show of the new spring styles, a daring new print dress with “I Love You stamped all‘over it by way of pattern. A newspaper account of the style show said that the Siibis “reflected a unity of taste that represented refinemen ”» We can remember when a modest lapel button bearing the legend, “O You Kid,” was considered a trifle rowdy.

HOW TO STOP INFLATION

HE people have it in their own power to prevent further price rises—by refusing to pay present high charges for _ inferior quality, hy saving their money until civilian production returns in volume and quality. If all the people do this, inflation surely will be halted.” —From the Baruch

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Bosses In. Favo By. Thomas 1 Stokes 4

En WASHINGTON, March 15. Election year rolls around to find administration, as

the Roosevelt usual, making its obeisance > posses of corrupt big-city machines, just as Republicans al their soft gestures to big men in business with tat pocketbooks, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City is a key figure again. In 1042 he was belabored by ex-Governor Charles Edison, not fatally, but enough that he lost a senatorial election. The Demobrats desperately need Jersey this year.

AntiHague Democrats Back Kingdon

THERE'S A senatorial election there this year along with the presidential election. Some Tonia crats who watched hopetully the attempts of Charlie

run for the senate a Demecrat who espoused some progressive principles and was without the taint of

They are talking of Dr. Frank Kingdon, former Methodist minister, former president of the University of Newark, now & lecturer and radio commentator, who is a supporter of President Roosevelt's domestic and foreign policies, They have made overtures to the White House. The politicai strategy is to get a candidate who would win the support of ex-Governor Edison, still a power among Jersey Democrats. Thus they would bridge the gap between the former governor and the Hague machine and pull the various elements of the party togther behind a progressive and aggressive figure. The Democratic party In Jersey is considerably dispirited, chafing vainly under the Hague whip.

FBI Is Making Investigation

HAGUISM HAS become especially obnoxious in recent months because of the machine's merciless | persecution of John Longo, whose crime seems to be that he has fought the machine. . The most recent episode was his conviction and jail sentence because of an alleged change-of-his-party designation on the registration books, a charge that was declared false by Governor Edison's investigators. The anti-Hague crusader now is out on bail, pending appeal. Numerous national organizations have rallied to his defense.

Edison to curb the power of boss Hague would like to WY

Meanwhile, the FBI is making an investigation which may produce a new blow at Haguism, though | previous justice department sallies in New Jersey have | stalled. The only flaw in the Democratic plan to run Dr.

Kingdon is that Boss ‘Hague already has laid his | blessing on another candidate, Rep. Elmer Wene, who operates one of the nation's biggest chicken farms at Vineland. ’ Can President Roosevelt change Hague's mind?

'Your Great, Able and Sincere Leader’

DEMOCRATS BEHIND the Kingdon movement were somewhat discouraged not long since when Eugene Casey, one of President Roosevelt's secretaries who is the contact man with the regular Democratic organization, went to a Jackson day dinner in New Jersey and babbled with raptures about “Your great, able and sincere leader, the honorable Frank Hague.” “To know your great leader,” he said, “is to honor

yes, to love him!” Just like that. The bubbling Mr. Casey left out of his speech a section of praise for Senator Arthur Walsh, recently appointed by Governor Edison to the vacaney left by the death of the late Senator Barbour, which appeared in the text released to the newspapers. Boss Hague, meanwhile, enjoys himself at his Florida estate, while his nephew and heir apparent, Frank Eggers, holds political consultations with the Communists, Boss Hague's latest allies, who are insisting upon Congressman Wene and are pus the selection of Dr. Kingdon.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation. His column will be resumed when he returns.)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

“ALL ALONE because your hair is gray?” the advertisement for a hair dye asks women. Where is the ad writer who cooked up that angle keeping himself these days? There are gray-haired grandmothers in the WACs, relieving strong young men for active service. There are gray-haired women wearing slacks as they go about important jobs in war plants. There are gray-haired women in Red Cross rooms and in other volunteer war jobs.

They're in the Thick of Things

THERE ARE gray-haired women helping to make and interpret the country's laws. There are gray-haired women clerking in stores, driving taxicabs, delivering ice, running businesses. There are gray-haired women teaching such unlikely subjects as welding. Whever you look these days, there are gray-haired women in the thick of things, not ashamed of their gray hair, and not being held back by it. If an able-bodied woman is alone today, sitting on the outside looking in, it isn't because her hair is gray. Too many gray.heads are doing too many impor-

So They Say—

nated us as the nation that must assume a position to guide others in the pathway of peaceful production. And our national needs dictate that we apply otirselves to this work at once.—Resolution by Senators Thomas of Utah, Kilgore of West Virginia, Truman of Missouri. * - ce v WE HAVE commonly used the word education as though all education were good, That will no longer do. There is no more educated nation on earth today than Germany, but something has gone wrong: with it—terribly wrong.—Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, New York pastor. . » . . WE ARE. getting the ships and men now and all we need i§ time to carry on our_operations. The principal ohstacle-now is not the Japanese, but geography—the size of the Pacific.—Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Chester. Ww. Nimitz.

THOSE WHO do not come immediately will be fetched by the Japanesé soldiers and will be punished. This punishment will consist of (1) light punishment, viz, to be beaten half to death, (2) heavy punishment, viz, to be beheaded.—Jap labor order in the Netherlands Indies,

. . . will ‘be profitable to produce and insure to manage-

Wolman of Columbia university,

men, like it bilities—John ‘Gunther, writer.

OUR OWN industrial accomplishments have nomi- |

UNLESS WE adjust manufacturing costs so that it

ment the rights which incontestably belong to it, we better stop looking for full employment.~—Prof. Leo

THE WORST thing about war is that so many It relieves them of personal responsi-

THERE WERB many Sines up there that we

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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.~Voltaire.

“THANK YOU, GOVERNOR SCHRICKER"® By Myra Carey Morgan, 6668 Cornell st.

Thank you, Governor Schricker of Indiana for saying the words 1 have wanted to say about our President; but being a mere woman and not in the public eye, I have had to think and not voice my opinions. I like the governor's reference to Roosevelt as the greatest leader in the world who is in the White House today.

praise for our Indiana governor's speech, but I'll just say I am deeply grateful in these times of war. No speech could have been more uplifting and helpful than that of the governor. Frame each word he spoke. We all should learn where we stand or will*stand and stand there. } y “COULD IT BE ONE MAN'S OPINION?" By W. W. Maple, Indianapolis Is a statement of opinion necessarily a statement of fact? In your March 9 issue Mrs. Dorothy Culbertson declares that “It is people like Mrs, Roosevelt, Bob Hope and many others that are keeping up the morale of our boys over there.” Mrs. Culbertson offers this in justifying Mrs. Roosevelt's use of “a lot of precious gasoline.” Does she offer this assertion regarding the value of Mrs. Roosevelt's extensive travels and its beneficial effect on the morale of our boys as a statement of fact, or is it merely her opinion? Could it be one man's opinion (F. D. R.s), plus the opinion of two women,

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{that of Mrs. Culbertson and guess

who ” » o “BACK LEGISLATION TO BENEFIT VETERANS”

. By John J. Morris, Richmond, Ex-Ser-geant, U. §. army

I notice our military orders are introducing many bills into congress to benefit veterans of the SpanishAmerican war and world war II, but very little is being mentioned relative to world war I. Some are trying to deceive the public by saying world war I didn't amount~to much, and there were but few casualties. After arrangements could be made they were sending back disabled at the rate of 30,000 per month, and many of them are yet here with very small monthly ine come and in no physical condition to earn any. Our government did throw to us

I could go on writing words of

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a few hundred dollars each, called the bonus, that we had to work and fight for overseas to =arn. Then we had to fight more than ten years to get it. They said we aro going! to pay you the bonus and that will last as long as you live. I am now going into my 61st year. They should have sald you must not live too long. I am a property owner and tai payer, and I made my last half last seven years. In world war I the U. S. army had 37,541 killed and 12,934 died from wounds. There have been returned to this country 90,000 discharged and disabled veterans from world war II. Write or wire your congressman to back up all legislation to benefit veterans of world wars I and IIL 2 =» “WORD HOME HAS A REAL MEANING” By Mrs. A. M. Baker, Indianapolis In the Forum of yesterday's paper “A Reader” thinks I am very nar-row-minded because I expressed mye opinion of Mrs. Roosevelt gallivanting all over the-world supposedly to cheér and chase way the loneliness of the boys in camps so very far from home, “A Reader” thinks Mrs. R. is very brave and kind to leave behind the protection and security of home to go on such dangerous missions. (Now, if we mothers asked her to go on missions she would deserve our praise.) It is no sacrifice for her to leave her home, as home to her is wherever she stops: In her eleven years as mistress of the White House I'll wager she “hasn't ‘spent two years in all there, It is because I read “My Day” that I say this, and her column is

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

“I don't know why he ols excitsd about home reading peacefully while the ir iy

wasn't spent in a Red Cross center

my wages went for war bonds. Are you investing that much, “A Reader? niu That little word home has a real meaning to those hoys living amongst shot and shell and uncivilized peoples. And don't kid yourselves into thinking that one woman in her fifties has the gift to chase away the loneliness of a man or boy { longing for home and his loved ones.

“SLAPS AT ROOSEVELT HARDLY COMMENDABLE" By Mrs. A. C. How, Indianapolis The slaps the Republicans give Roosevelt, the President of the United States, are hardly commendable, Mrs. V. M. D,, or patriotic, and a lot of times are far from the decency of Americans. As for Washington, do you realize how much the need of this nation has changed since his regime? I sometimes wonder! Roosevelt couldn't have done much about it if MacArthur had chosen to stay with the front line. And, under the circumstances, if he had stayed I think he would have been placed in a loj different light and you wouldn't hive to make so many excuses. We all make mistakes; no man is invincible; but my dear woman, you are not as close to this war as you could be or you wouldn't be so interested in politics to begin with. And in the second place no one is disputing the hard, intelligent effort of persons without someone personal in this war. But the ones with relatives in this war are the ones who worry about such things as casualty lists and the loss of an arm or a leg, or a carefully worded telegram, not of being a Willkie fan or of how good a President George washington was. I'm sure a lot of persons know what a good Pres dent he was, and a he was President seems to take him out cI this era of wars. . The United States has grown to be quite a big baby and you certainly can't say the same things that were good for that Sener

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would like to discuss? I didn’t mean to be commendable; I was just stating’ facts and the reactions I've experienced when thinking of MacArthur as President. He, in my opinion. is where he belongs since he left Bataan. 1 hope you read Mrs; H. W.'s letter on fair play. It is really very

war isn't over by a whole lot; and when it's won it will be by the

DAILY THOUGHTS Bow ‘down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for 1 am poor an

in| former rate, and 21 per cent still were able

cent are, anyway-—despite the fact mat a1 of those polled believe there will be fi : Minneapolis after the war and 50 per on expect lower wages than those paid presently, :

Believe Public Works Will Be Needed

LOOKING INTO the future from the standpoint’ of employment, 95 per cent of those polled believe it will take most employers “two years or less” to reconvert to peacetime production.’ This belief appar. ently influenced the opinion of 61 per cent Of those polled that extensive public works projects would be : necessary to take care of temporary post-war une: employment; only 22 per cent believed private en--terprise could shoulder most of the job. of providing: immediate post-war employment, : “If large-scale unemployment is threatened after the war, Minneapolis should invest in the following projects to take up the slack, in the opinion of those

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Dass, 28 per cent; expansion and improvement of airport facilities, 23 per cent large-scale housing projects, 23 per cent; bulldings, schools,

hospitals, -parks, etc., 20 per cent. In the opinion of 80 per cent

of those polled, a central committee should begin at once to make plans for the city for the post-war

What will be ‘the committee's most important

t 's most important job is to find em= a a workers (33 per cent). Do Minneapolitans expect higher taxes after ‘the war than now? Of those questioned, 52 per cent do; 15 per cent anticipate lower taxes, 20 per cent expect . post-war taxes will be no higher than at present.

84 Per Cent to Have Savings

FORTY-TWO PER CENT of those questioned the subject have been able td save more cluding war bonds and stamps, since the than before; 21 per cent continued to save

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but at a lower rate than before the war. Answers to this question indicate that 84 per cent of Minheapolis’ citizens expect to spend their savings right after the war. Few of those polled had definite ideas as to what they expect to buy first with their savings, Seven- - teen per cent plan to purchase new homes or farms, 8 per cent intend to repair their present dwellings and buy new furniture, 8 per cent intend to buy new cars. Many will be in the market, however, for fadios, refrigerators, washing machines, heating plants, vacuum cleaners and similar appliances, Have you been wondering what the citizens of Indianapolis are. thinking about post-war problems, Then take a ‘good look at the answers to the Minneapolis poll, The two cities have so much in commnon that it's reasonable to assume that a poll of Indianapolis residents would find a similar state of mind. And it's a state of mind that shows that Ameri. cans are thinking, and thinking hard and constructively, about what will come when the war ends.

Robot Bombers By Maj. Al Williams

NEW YORK, March 15.—Apro-' pos of Mr. Churchill's prediction of the coming reprisals by the "Nazi alr force against England and his mention of the likelihood of pilotless bombers playing a prominent role, permit me to reprint portions of a column written on this topic in 1840, The column is as timely today as it was pretimely four years ago. “Air power inevitably will introduce its weirdest, most spectacular development by sending its machinery to war, yet keeping its men far from gunfire. The radio-controlled bomber is with us and must be reckoned with. “From all accounts, this development has passed through the experimental stages and is ready for mass action. Some months ago a pilot friend of mine witnessed a mysteriously foolhardy bombing plane safling over London, refusing to dodge the searchlights and wavering not one degree from its course, despite sheets of anti-aircraft gunfire, There was conjecture about the possibility of the raider being a manless plane.

Test Run of Radio-Controlled Plane

“THE SAME performance was repeated during a daylight raid. Straight across London flew this day-

altitude. “The straight course of. this Somber led to one conclusion: hat it was a test run of a radio-con-trolled ’ eeroealy bombs were dropped by: this No Man's’ bomber. The most surprising feature of the performance was the issuance of sky-writing smoke

this plane was controlled by radio apparatus in another plane at a far greater altitude, and the smoke trail was to enable the observer Vine to record the flight course of the radio bomber ... “For many years experts have beer enting with the idea of controlling aircraft trom 4 wr ouna by radio. “And now we coms to the weld slag af plots bombers:and- torpedo-carrying a war where Re oersormel 1s far more valuable than a. few thousand dollars’ worth of radio equipment,

Beginning of Age in Air War

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