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social security board, would like

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going expenses. Senator Barkley, in a terrible tempe:

COL. RICHARD LIEBER

up bright fingers of color.

THE first faint green of springtime is beginning to show on the trees of McCormick's Creek state park. In the leafy mold on the wooded hills the wildflowers have thrust Fed by April rains, the stream in the canyon plunges over its rocky ledges to the deep pools beyond. . Bird songs blend into the immemorial bass tones of rushing water. This is a season of loveliness, dear to the hearts of those who know the Indiana spring. It was a fitting climax to a great and noble career that Col. Richard Lieber, the man who first saw this beauty more clearly than any other and who dedicated a lifetime to preserving it as a living heritage for unborn generations, should have spent his last hours walking through the scenes he loved. It was fitting, too, that he should die on ground that, as long as trees grow and waters flow, will remain as a shining testament to his vision and energy. Richard Lieber was a man with a dream. He dreamed | sof making the beauty of Indiana an eternal thing, he dreamed of keeping the places blessed by the bounty of | the Creator inviolate from the profanation of plow and ax so that his children and his children’s children might walk with quiet and know beauty. He dreamed of giving the tired multitudes of the great cities a place to play and to learn from the sweep of great, green hillsides, from clear peaceful streams, from the architecture of cliffs and the

"Primitive About Such Problems’

his say. .

right” which is double-jointed reasoning but sim- | blicity, itself, compared to most discussions of a siib- | ject as mystical and controversial as religion.

| Mr. Altmeyer says, and we all know, that the trust

fund holds government obligations or bonds which | otherwise wouid be held by private investors. Thus, the public debt in the hands of private investors is just that much less. Instead of paying private in- { vestors, the government will pay the trust fund to cover the cost of future behefits to individual beneficiaries. ‘

'l Don't Understand What That Means’

“THE NET result,” Mr. Altmeyer continues, “is that future congresses will nat have to levy as high

NEW YORK, N. Y., April 17.— | Arthur Altmeyer, chairman of the

few words with you about the fund ° concerning which } President. Roosevelt and Senator Barkley went to the floor in their tangle over the President's insult-

You may remember that Mr. Roosevelt bawled out congress for refusing to raise the social security tax so that he could have one billion, one hundred million dollars more for general

over the President’s flippant crack about the greedy and the needy, replied that the money raised by this tax was a sacred trust and that he would never vote to increase it just to provide the treasury with money to carry on the ordinary expenses of the government.

I AM primitive about such problems and, in the excitement of the moment, swung out into space with my opinion which was and remains that, having borrowed and spent the trust fund, leaving 1. O. U's in its place, the national government one day will have to tax the workers all over again to redeem the I O. U’s and meet the pensions, But I think it is up to me to pass along Mr, Altmeyer’s thoughts to you" and I might say that this preamble is not intended to cramp his style but just to introduce the subject so that you will know what he is talking about. I doubt that you will understand him but still he deserves

He takes neither side in the spat between the President and Mr. Barkley, holding that “both were

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and satellite peoples into *last ditch resistance. They are being told that an allied victory will mean slavery under Bolshevism or something equally as bad. The aim. of course, is to make everybody inside the European fortress feel he: would rather die fighting than accept “unconditional surrender.” The

kind of propaganda the bloodier the vasion of western Europe will be.

German people will overthrow Hi Soviet desires neither their territory nor to dictate

Britain intend to permit the establishment of popue lar government in enemy countries after the war. Unfortunately in this as in other respects the Big Three appear to be going each in its own way. True, the European advisory American, British and Russian members is reported to be working on armistice terms, but its recommen= dations if any. remain secret. Goebbels is still able to get away with his story that death is preferable to the hard lot the allies will impose if they win.

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THERE 1S a growing conviction here that if armistice terms are ready—and they should be-—the Big Three should be able to give the German, Ro= manian, Bulgarian and Hungarian peoples some=

serenity of flowered dells th that are greater than weal

at*there are some things in life th or power. It was a dream

| taxes as they would otherwise have to do if it were | | necessary for the federal government to pay private | | investors for the government obligations held by the fund and also have to pay the fund an equal amount

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state parks in Indiana.

be remembered.

earth—as did Richard Lieber.

which all could share—the poorest and the richest.

Fortunate is he who leaves his memorial in the living As long as men shall walk on springy sod beneath great trees, as long as there is the beauty .of growing things, the people of Indiana member their great debt to Richard Lieber.

“WHEN DO WE START SELLING ?”

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BUT UNLIKE many other dreamers, Richard Lieber also was a man of action and he made his dream come Few today can realize how hard .he worked, how ceaselessly he battled, how many difficulties of entrenched greed and short-sighted opportunism he had to overcome. He had great abilities, however, fired by inspiration, and their fruit may be seen in the present great system of

Richard Lieber was a many-sided man, a truly broad man of the world, and there were numerous aspects to his career other than his interest in conservation. as the father and creator of the state parks that he will

to cover the cost of. future benefits to individual beneficiaries.” I don’t want to indulge in fly-catching or heckling while Mr, Altmeyer is doing his act but I honestly ‘don’t understand what that means. Perhaps you do. “Your charge that these government obligations are merely I. O. U's and that the fund has been ‘invested in debt, not security’ is just as invalid as applied to this insurance system as it would be if it were applied to private insurance companies which, as you may know, are investing the bulk of their current receipts in government obligations,” he continues. “When you say, ‘So, eventually the insured toilers will be swindled of their original social security payment of taxes,’ you apparently believe that the social security contributors are being taxed twice for the same purpose. The truth is that the social security contributors are taxed only once to pay for their benefits. As taxpayers, they may later, also be obliged to pay taxes to redeem government obligations issued to the trust fund. But when they do so, they are paying for the cost of the war and not for social security benefits, They would have had to pay these taxes to cover the cost of the war whether the bonds were sold to the trust fund or to private investors.”

‘Why Not Collect It as a War Tax?"

THAT IS exactly my argument. If this is to be a tax to pay for the war why not collect it as a war

I' wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire. ;

thing more than an inkling of what they may expect, Reports indicate Molotov's announcement cone cerning Romania was one of the most telling political . blows yet sustained by the Nazis. Some similar move by the Big Three acting together would, it is pointed out, be 10 times as potent politically, Cow Failure of the Big Three to act together politically is much criticized. Says the News Chronicle, “All.

“HE'S THE KIND IT TAKES” By Si Moore, 2606 W. 16th St. A little man who wasn't there to tell the people how to run the world from A to Z is in the picture now. He did not have to put his name beforg the party gang because he stayed upon the job while politicians sang. His record

yells out loud; he never wasted time with pinks or floating on a cloud. He can’t be bluffed by crooks and thugs who deal in crime and vice and those who come around with graft don't make the journey twice. He doesn't spend much time in bed to rest an aching jaw because he got his foot misplaced and rammed it in his maw, Of course, the politicians hate to see him keep so mum; they like a]

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made a lot of noise, in fact, it}

|guy who shoots his trap, no matter | {if he’s dumb. They like to have, him spill: the beans and tell them many are looking at the fatal tele-|

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people are already making all the way from $50 to $150 a week. How about the janitors of our schools who every day defend the most precious thing in the world to all of us parents—our children? Those men never did make a living wage, and now in wartime with everything you buy three times higher and living costs doubled, they. ask for a little raise th wages (not salary) and our school board informs them nothing doing. The idea of the school board appealing to the P.-T. A. and wanting the fathers of pupils to fire the furnaces! This is a place where the P.-T.

and see that they.do get what they want or, at least, a decent wage.

after the death of his son, “What a price to pay for the power and the glitter of the presidency.” And]

ENRY J. KAISER made

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post-war economy cannot be vacuum cleaners and bobby

when do you start selling?

be sure they'll be able to ca have orders. Bankers can't |

going to have to be sold. And what I'd .like to know is, |

sense, as he usually does, when

he urged in an interview with E. A. Evans of the

that industry solicit orders in

wartime for goods to be delivered when the fight is over. Certain war-scarce products will sell themselves as soon as peace permits renewed production. But a dynamic

built around alarm clocks and pins, or even nylon stockings.

If a sure market for a vast range of goods and services, from new houses to television sets to ocean cruises to what-

tax, whether on pay rolls, sales or whatever else? | Why try to disguise it as a social security tax and pretend that it is being laid up for social security purposes? Why all this monkey business about social security, anyway?

up to now. Most of the pay rolls of today are met by the government, itself, so the government is paying both ends of the social security tax on that proportion of

but the contractor figures social security as part of the cost of his job and, ordinarily, charges 10 cent for acting as,the government's tax collectot,

have-you, is not visible, industry cannot get going on a scale that will give maximum employment. “If there are going to be plenty of jobs,” Mr. Kaiser | said, “the goods that industry is planning to produce are |

“As | see it, orders on the books are an indispensable . ingredient in anybody's post-war plan. Manufacturers can’t | By Ruth Millett

rry out their plans until they ve sure it's safe to lend money

the treasury not only pays the social security but on every billion dollars spent for war work takes a [oss

But if a man

jof the deepest red, and stay at {home and run.his job without a the entire pay roll of the nation. And not only that | swelling head, that kind of guy may [be passe like horse and buggy days, per but he's the kind it takes to_ get | So {us back to better ways. A leader lor a ruler grand is not what we| 9a. Now if Mr. Locke thinks that

|desire, but just a man to run the is fun, just let him put himself in|time. They need all the

where they stand, and they can gram and saying, “What a price to nd rn gt os twist him by the nose to make him and the dumbness of politicians.” And here is another little matter, a splinter off [cOme across; in fact, the kind of | the same subject, that I have not seen mention of joie Rig like is one that they «1 AM HOPING |

FOR THE BEST”

can pull a state out E. B.. Indianapelis

{city schools for a land I know we

of two million dollars in commissions paid to the | job is all we want to hire. Some- our place on the same basis. He

contractor for his trouble in handling the money.

We The People

IN AN attempt to set at ease

one to work for people here and wouldn't work one day. not all foreign punks, who treats work with children. I love to see us like we owned the place and not children get all they can in school, are rightfuily fighting for. like low-down skunks. We want but I do think we have some con-!aren’t many of us whose salaries someone that royal crowns and in- sideration coming. bred kings don't scare; and when | fathers and mothers think about they want our wealth and boys, he'it? {simply won't be there. Senator Cotton Ed Smith said in is nothing more than right. We ithe senate that the presidency had have tried for over two years to get

What do you

We, -as school workers, only |want to be fair and just and that

10 to 14 hours a day, day after

he can get going, the better.

IT WON'T GO DOWN

forget it..

just won't go down with them.

after the military necessity

to-look for jobs.

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to finance industrial expansion until industry has orders. And workers can’t be sure that they're going to have jobs until their employers have orders.” There is a challenge to industry, and to government, and to that recently vanishing profession for which America has always been so gifted—salesmanship. The “drummer,” whether he peddles his wares in person or through the bigtime media of press and radio, is a key man in" America’s post-war prospects. And the sooner |

A PVOCATING a “planned” demobilization of the army and navy, Draft Director Hershey tells a war veterans’ conference of the C. I. O. United Auto Workers— “The men should be released as near their homes as 1s practical. The numbers discharged in any one area at any one time should be based on the capacity of the community to absorb the numbers demobilized. The saturation point should be carefully observed and not passed.” Which, being translated, means that men should be held in military service after the war until the government | decides that jobs are available for them near their homes. Gen. Hershey has advanced that notion be

fore. He'd better

A great many sérvice men cannot he discharged immediately after the war. It will take time to bring millions back from the global battlefronts. opinion that the United States will need to maintain larger peacetime military forces than ever before gets no argu. ment out of us. For military reasons, demobilization will have to be a gradual and a planned process—but if we understand the spirit of the men who ard winning this war, compulsory military service for social or economic reasons

And Gen. Hershey's

the minds of American girl friends and wives of men stationed in Great Britain, an English woman recently wrote an article for an American newspaper discussing the relationship between American men and British girls. In it she tells how “romantic” the British girl is likely to find the American soldier, with his lavish gifts, his “honey” talk, and his extravagant compliments. And she explains that temptations have increased even more for the teen age girls in England than in America. She ends her article with: “There is increased promiscuity among young people. It is a problem we are trying to tackle. \ “But the increase has occurred in every war when there has been an expeditionary force in an allied country and home life has been disrupted and discipline of young people relaxed.”

They and their families would deeply and properly | Jesent an attempt to enforce the Hershey proposal... Most of them will want to get out of uniform, as soon as possible : for keeping them in uniform has ended, and to begin working out their own civilian futures. They will not want'a guardian government assuming power to tell them when and where it is safe for them

| J. Collins. back from Europe.

She Doesn't Know American Women

IF THE writer thinks that kind of article is going to ease the minds of American women who are in love with men sttaioned in England, she just doesn't know American women. All that a discussion like that will serve to do Is make American women more worried than ever about their men—beset by girls who find them “terribly romantic” and by a more abandoned corps of Victory girls than we have here in America. No, that article isn't going to do much to help the morale of American women. What they like to hear is the kind of reassuring comment that Osa Johnson gave the women whose men are in the Solomon islands. She said: “The women there are ugly, dirty and smelly. -There are no Dorothy Lamours.” If an‘authority on the women of a country can't be that reassuring, he might as well keep still, so far as American. women are concerned. Anything less than that just starts them worrying and wondering.

IF YOU stick togéther in squadron formation and

obey. all the air rules you’ will come home. If you don't, you get the hell shot out of you.—Maj. Frank

THIS WAR is not yet ended, but already the rulers in the Kremlin are preparing a new_generation for

{gotten to the point ‘where almost’ {anyone could fill it. {the view held by Dewey when he {asked that his name be withheld {from certain primaries. He may| not have wanted to crowd out men | who could do nothing else and] needed a job. However, some commentators must fear that he will take the job as they object to his attending to business and to not trying to swallow his foot as some do. But Dewey may look at the matter as Coolidge did when he said, “I do not choose to run,” or

the Board to do something, but

This may be they refused so we had to do some- | thing. I am hoping for the best.

s = “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?”

By Mrs. W. T. Dixon, 1146 N. Belle Vien pl. Come on, citizens of Indianapolis, what are you going to do about this school situation? Let's all think fairly on this subject and act accordingly. Ordinarily, I am not in favor of strikes. Especially in these defense factories when

Side Glances—By Galbraith

the next war.—Soviet purchasing ‘commission official, on resignation. . : ae : a

“Fing tims 1

picked out to retire, when there aren't an

laundresses—I did less work than this at the

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. tening of the Lord; neither be

The janitors certainly go out of their way to do everything they can to help the P.-T. A. Our School 75 has the finest men that can possibly be obtained for this position.

this community and are certainly

many extra hours at the school that they never got a penny extra for. There never was a school kept in any better condition at all times than our school. These men, all of them, should have, and the people should see to it that they get, a

hem a substantial raise.

{should not be out of school at this schooling

[they can get. So come on, parents, | 1 like to]

and let's see if we can’t help these

!/do not double (and then some) their salaries. We should not allow the school board to replace

'a one of the strikers unless they | are inefficient, and .they are not | or they wouldn't have held their |

respective jobs, for a period of years. | ” » “ISOLATIONISM ° PLAYED SOME PART” By Percy Vere. Indianapolis Anent your editorial, “The Isolation Myth,” it is undoubtedly true, as you state, that neither Stassen nor Dewey actually were less isolationist than Willkie. The Chicago Tribune as a matter of fact, which is taking a sort of smug satisfaction out of the Wisconsin results, read Mr. Dewey out of the part shortly after it performed that rite upon Mr. Willkie. However, it is also true that neither of these men made a fetish of internationalism nor dwelt upon it so consistently or became so thoroughly identified with it as did Mr. Willkie. More importantly, they did not accuse the Republican party repeatedly of being the party of isolationism, which it never was, except for political purposes, when it saw no other means of grabbing |the ball from the Democrats. The G. O. P, you know, subordinates everything to getting and keeping the ball, a tactic successfully em-] ployed.” “until 1932 when the Democrats siezed both ball and tactic and thus confounded them. Thus it is seen that isolationism may have played at least a small part in Mr, Willkie's defeat. The prime factor, no doubt, was the one I gave when I predicted that defeat in this column some time ago, namely—that too many of his supporters are independents or Democrats who cannot or at least do not vote in Republican primaries.

‘DAILY THOUGHTS My son, despise not the chas-.

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weary of His correction.—Proverbs 3:11, o> . » » HE, who has committed a fault,

A. should stand by their janttors!

They have bought their homes in;

good citizens. They have put in|

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faithful servants to get what they There |

to even get tired of resting. --

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that unity in arms between the three powers achieve on the battlefronts may be lost by a failure of unity in diplomacy.” Other papers have expressed theme selves similarly. A little more political collaboration now, it is felt, might prevent a lot of bloodshed later,

The Other Allies

By Ludwell Denny

§

Secretary of State Hull continues to stress the rights of small nae tions. The issue is not academies, Our smaller allies, though the worst sufferers from axis aggression, have the Jeast say in running

That is inevitable, since power wins wars and preserves peace. But the Big Three are doing too much dictating, according to several of the other united nations. For | that reason Mr. Hull's recent emphasis is significant, Friday night in a Pan American day speech.he | pointed out that the principles of equal rights for | small nations, which are the basis of hemisphere | agreements, have beeh written into the allied pledges: | “They were stated in the Atlantic Charter, the | United Nations Declaration, and the declarations | made at Moscow. Specifically, it was agreed at Mos= | cow that membership in the world security organiza«

I have been an employee of OUT raise in wages. Certainly we all (in.| ton must be on the basis of the soverielgn equality good many years cluding them) pay enough taxes into o al nen oak a well 3s Sirnnk. ad He Tent have worked from the treasury of Indiana to afford °° Very nation to a gov -

Now, about the children, they | Hull Stresses Unity of United Nations |

RECOGNITION of those democratic privileges will | not continue to be postponed until the world organie | zation has been created. if the secretary of state has {his way. In an important but neglected part of | Mr. Hull's statement of foreign policy last Sunday, he said: “Essential understanding and unity of action among the four nations is not in substitution oe derogation of unity among the united nations. . . Nor do I suggest that any conclusions of these four

{ nations can or should be without the participation

of the other united nations.” And again: “A proposal is worse than useless if it is not acceptable to those nations who must share with us the responsibility for its execution.” : Presumably in the current Big Three negotiations Mr. Hull is trying to persuade Russia and Britain to set up the pledged but long postponed political council in which the smaller allies concerned can share decisions with the big powers. This sore point with the excluded governments is of increasing interest to Americans generally, and to American foreign-language groups particularly, -

Republican Group Moving in Again |

THE REPUBLICAN international-collaboration group. which last year forced the President's hand on the Fulbright and Connally resolutions, is moving in again. Friday Senator Ball of - Minnesota jout loose with this: “I don't think the Big Three have a monopoly of wisdom by any means. A council on politica] questions should be set up now, not some time in the future. If we don't have it soon, all the tough decisions will be. made by the Big Three and any post-war international organization would be . just window-dressing as far as it concerned smaller nae=

and Balkan questions. ‘ Small-nation participation in allied political deci sions can easily become a presidential campaign issue here, unless the administration gets action.

To The Point—

IN ONE month more than 3100 German planes were destroyed. And before we're through everybody in Germany will come down to earth.

NOW THE invasion coast of England is closed to ALL outsiders. Originally it was just the Gere man soldiers. . * * A CLEVELAND boy was injured hopping a ride on the back of an auto. That isn't the brand of bumper crops we want this year, aR . . * i $ x ‘DON'T LET the work of making a victory garden get you down . . . except'on your knees with a trowel and seeds, . . or

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