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Give Light and the People Will Find

TWENTY BILLIONS A YEAR JFOR some time after the war annual federal budgets, including service of the massive war debt, certainly aren’t likely to be less than 20 billion dollars—about three ‘times as much as the government has ever raised in revenue in a peacetime year. It’s a sobering prospect. The government will court disaster if it goes on spending more than it takes in, as it has for 14 years, orif it tries to squeeze 20 billions a year or more out of a depressed, unemployment-riddéen national economy by tax rates so high that they would increase depression and unemployment. However, it’s not a hopeless prospect. The government can finance its necessary expenses— can start reducing the debt instead of enlarging it—if the country prospers and national income is kept at high and healthy levels. And wise tax policies are essential to postwar prosperity. The Baruch-Hancock report made that clear. It urged congress to draft a post-war tax law now

and put it on the shelf to go into effect at the end of the | Whose “general purport was silly rather than evil”

war. That would encourage business and industry to plan the launching of new-enterprises and the expansion of

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REPUBLICANS IN the house of representatives are | making an intelligent effort to do something about that recommendation. They have an active special committee, headed by Rep. Reed of New York, studying all phases of federal taxation, with special emphasis on post-war policies. They intend, says Mr. Reed, to draft a bill which will encourage investments in productive, job-creating enterprises, rather than in tax-exempt securities, so that the country may prosper and the government can raise 20 billions a vear without going deeper into debt or impoverishing the people. ’ : : These Republicans are proving themselves smarter than the Democrats who, under what passes for leadership from the venerable Chairman Doughton of the ways and means committee, have done nothing except think up excuses for doing nothing about a post-war tax law.

BIGGER THAN THE WARD ISSUE

HAT alarms so many when a case comes up like the Montgomery Ward seizure isn’t merely the one incident in itself. The larger aspect has to do with a trend toward big government, toward power concentration in Washington, toward remote control and away from home rule. That trend was developing in a vigorous and dangerous way long before world war II. It has run counter to the Jeffersonian concept, dear to most Americans; that a people is governed best which is governed least. The fear about the trend is reflected in a recent senate resolution calling for investigation into the constitutional or statutory authority for all executive orders since March 4, 1933. Note that date—over eight years before we got into war. Executive departments once possessed of emergency powers are notoriously reluctant to give them up. The senate resolution was adopted March 30, 1944, approximately a month before the Avery ousting. It is fortunately timed. We can think of nothing more timely or more important. We hope the investigation is pursued not merely as it is now being applied to the Ward case, under direction of Chairman McCarran of the senate judiciary committee, but to all questions, peacetime or war, wherein abuse of executive power is alleged. This, that our government may continue to be what it was constitutionally designed to be, a government by law, not by men. ©

POSSIBLE PRESIDENTS THERE IS much talk about possible nominees for vice president. Most of it is based on political considerations, and these are based mostly on geography. As for geography, this may not vet be “one world” but it is one country, and people care less where a man comes from than what he is and what he stands for. As for politics, the best politics always is to eschew politics and get down to business. And what is the business of the summer of 1944? It is to select four men, any one of whom may have the job of leading the nation through difficult times. Four men, we say. Because it looks like a close race between the Democratic and Republican nominees for President, and any man who may be vice president may succeed to the presidency. A candidate for the vice presidency should be chosen not only as a potential President but also as a possible right-hand man for the President. If it becomes understood that the vice president is to be an assistant President, if it is never forgotten that he may become President—as two vice presidents have done in the lifetime of many now living—the vice presidency will not be considered the graveyard of presidential hopes and it will attract the able men that the nation’s need demands. ” : ; The candidate for second place on either ticket must be a man whom the party can present to the nation as one fit in all respects to be President. A party which chooses

any other kind of candidate for vice president does not deserve the confidence of the voters.

NO SIDESHOW THERE have been few more impressive revelations of ~~ America’s productive power than the statement of Artemus L. Gates, Navy under-secretary for air, that “we've ben having 1000-plane raids in the Pacific.”

lane In & “beat Germany: first” war it has been evident no sideshow. But it is a

that the war in the Pacific is p surprise to know that while our European strike, has been built to unbelievable proportions, the n strengthened to an extent that seemed

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Charlie, however, is unconcerned, not mad at anyone, alth he does admit out loud that the great qualifications of Harry Hopkins to serve as counsellor and first aide to the President in time of war have eluded him all these years. And strangely, he. mentions some mysterious letters “of at least doubtful authenticity, supposed to be from Henry Wallace,”

Inasmuch as these letters have been a subject of gossip in the newspaper business for four years, but never have been mentioned in print before, Mr. Micheison’s mention of them now could seem to be an attempt to dispose of the vice president before the Democratic convention. He certainly knows enough about the tricks of publicity to realize that he has now provoked that very “unfavorable curiosity” which, in 1940, he so adroitly suppressed to avoid the storm that Hopkins feared. )

"Victim of Private Game, Played by Experts’

THE CALM, planned management of political moves and the development of the President's court

feeling that he was a victim then of a private game, played by experts and affecting his rights and his government, in which he wag allowed to hear the clamor but not to see the moves. ' Reporters in Washington could speculate guardedly,

Charlie, as an employee, just went on serving his boss, while politicians and less prominent citizens worked themselvés into emotional lathers over the fate of the republic. It would be well for the country if everyone could put anger, resentment and apprehension out of the campaign and make his decision calmly on the issues, and accept it without rancor. But the debate has grown to fury, and those who have been demanding unity in the name of the fighters overseas have no more right to speak for the fighters than those who refuse to get unified with them. It is far less angry in the daily press than in the left-wing publications, many of which today are attacking ‘not only Republicans, but. groups of their old political comrades, in terms reminiscent of the old campaigns of Huey Long in Louisiana,

‘Extreme Left Is Out of Control’

THE STANDARD press, with few exceptions, observes most of the normal restraints and, even in the Montgomery Ward case, an important issue in the presidential election if Mr. elt is the candidate, the words employed are dignified still, although . the criticism of the President's action is as vigorous as any he has received from 1932 down to date. Whoever handles the Democratic publicity this time will find himself unable to pitch the key. The political literature of the extreme left is out of control and no material such as Charlie produces, would ever pass for publication. One such essay recently called a southern senator a jug-eared little rat. Is that any language in a campaign for unity behind the President?”

We The People By Ruth Millett

THERE'S ONE angle to the row between Mrs. "Zorah White Gristede of New York and Park Commissioner Robert Moses that doesn’t make sense. First, though, here is the background: It. seems that Mrs. Gristede didn’t like the way the park to which she took her little girl was kept and wrote the commissioner, voicing her protest. She didn't pull her punches but said in the letter: “Concern-

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ave.—it's filthy. In truth, more ‘pen’ than park and fit only for the use of pigs.” Then she went on to compare Central Park unfavorably with the “scrupulously clean parks of other nations.”

One Angle Doesn't Make Sense

COMMISSIONER MOSES’ testy reply was: “If you like the foreign parks so much why don't you patronize them?” Both letters were given wide publicity, and a 10% of New Yorkers took sides. But here is ‘the angle that doesn’t make sense: “The Outdoor Cleanliness association,” which for years had stood behind the park commissioner, sided with Mrs. Gristede—and the reason given by one of its members was this: “We always had thought he was doing beautifully—but the idea of talking to a lady like that!” Now, is a woman who as a citizen voices a protest a “lady” who should be treated in any special way because of her sex?’ When women are acting as citizens, they had better forget all about being ladies. It's silly and unfair for them to shout, “You've insulted a lady,” when one of their sex takes it on the cHin.

So They Say—

TO BE brutally frank—as I must to bring home to you the task ahead—your son, your brother, your father or someone else whom you love may return to you with an arm, a leg; or an eye missing: with a metal plate covering a gaping hole in his skull, or with his mind disturbed. —Dr. Thomas Parran, U, 8. Public Health Service surgeon general.

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JUST TO hang a motto on the wall feading “Let Us Have Peace” is not all that is necessary... For our decency to be effective, we must be strong. —Rep. Janes W. Wadsworth of New York, :

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“MY HAT'S OFF TO YOU” By Rose Bud Silver, Indianapolis

After I read your Forum I was deeply interested in the articles sent in by E. L. Mobley. I feel grateful that someSne has brought the subject of Bill 1161 to public attention. am afraid some people don't understand what Bill 1161 is about. It is not American but it is nazified medicine. Here is an example of how it will work. John is home from this terrible war and becomes

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family doctor, quick!” Mother, says, “No, John, we cannot have our doctor any time we need a doctor. First, I'll call the board and report it; then the board will place the call to the district doctor and ' when he gets time he will come see you. John, I hope you don't die till he can get here.” You see, John has been gone a long time and does not know our every move is hampered by those who seek power. We are being slowly regimented in everything. It is time for people to think some for themselves for a change. Everyone who does not want such nazified medical help write to your senators, urge them to do everything in their power to defeat United States senate bill 1161. Washington, D. C. E. L. Mobley, my hat’s off to you! = - s

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“I DON'T GET IT” By F. A. L,, Indianapolis “Tl betcha two-bits I gotcha beat.” According to our law makers that is gambling of the most vile sort and the guilty ones should be prosecuted to the limit. The .law makers bet $10,000 and that is front page news. I don't get it—maybe because I can't betcha $10,000 I gotcha. beat.” » » - “IT’S A SWELL COUNTRY”

By Pfc. Vincent Milite, Army of the United States

In your edition of Saturday, March 18, 1 came across a letter

From a W. Warren, I:

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and 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.)

possibly speak any worse of Germany than he did of England. Whose side is he on? Does he think the United States is incapable of guiding itself after all these years? So England isn't self-sufficient, eh? Ask him to read a bit of history before he pulls that stuff. If he doesn’t care for England, Just whose side would he care to have us on? I'm stationed in England, and believe me, it's a swell country and swell people.

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[ON ‘WE’ BASIS" [By Mrs.oM. K. 8., Indianapolis

{ “They shipped him back to this country badly wounded. A Nazi shell had torn off one of his legs, {injured the other and disfigured his face.” That was the quotation Ruth Millett used to start one of her finlest articles on April 11. The article went on to say that the girl who {had grown up with the young sol|dier “went clear across the country [to be near him , , , she married him.” Some ‘of us may wonder, and rightly so,. if that was wise. For the life of me, I can find only {one answer. Yes, if they truly loved {each other and were the right kind

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been if they hadn't faced obstacles and won in spite of the odds. How? They learn to sort values that count from superficial geegaws. They learn not to worry over something they cannot change. And ‘they sharpen their wits by realistically facing a handicap and then by devising workable plans for the best possible solution. None of them turns “noble” in the worst possible way by developing a martyr complex; that's losing. For every single marriage broken as the result of a physical handicap, I believe there are 10,000 smashed because one partner, or both, lacks what it takes not to, quit. They've failed to grow away from that too-well-known adolescent philosophy, be they 18 or 80, of “look out for yourself.” (Stealing Miss Millett’s thunder.) ; Real love is founded on a belief, as deep as the -core of human beings, that to ever let one’s partner down is a most tragic form of failure. “It's our team, win or lose.” And that type of loyalty cannot be termed losing regardless of what happens to sadden the lives of folks, for sorrow passes and the brightest, most permanent happiness comes from meeting problems on a “we” basis.

® =» = “HAVE WE BEEN EUROPEANIZED?” By Carl McCann, 625 Occidental bldg.

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“Is the payment of poll-tax a just, equitable, and’ democratically sound qualification for voting? Or is

assumed standard unrelated to qualities of citizen ship? # “Is the economic stature of the voter, qualified, a valid test of the right of That is the issue, kL “If a man can be made to or two .each year (to be cumulative) pay a poll-tax, cannot he as justly, he has 50 times that much?

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| society, to make him | to vote because he | degrade him and tend to suppress his preciation? ‘ “Does the poll-tax requirement 1ft up or hold’ down? That is the issue. : “Are 10 ‘million men snd women to be disfran« chised further by the -tax requirement? Or by additional repudiation of this plan are they to have

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“Does the full-functioning of democracy suggest a freer use of the ballot? Or a more restricted one?

Shrinking Democracy or a Growing One?

“ARE MEN blown into atoms through the boundless peful bodies of the young being converted into ess matter—are men being + drownéd in the seven all under the banner of this country, for a shrinking growing democracy? That is the issue. “Do 130 million suffer the agonies of war for an ideal of government that is choked, suppressed, and frustrated? * Or for an order of democratic life which is alive, growing and free? ~ “Does a poll-tax requirement for voting belong to tomorrow or to yesterday? “Are we living in the evening of democracy or in the morning of democracy? » “Is it not still true that unless we help the wretched we ourselves become degenerate? That is the issue.” In closing Senator Jackson said:

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too poor to pay/a poll-tax—a barrier between the’

tend to his taxes; a barrier between the ballot-box and the soldier who is fighting the Japs or the Nazis 5000 miles away from his own county court house, not only robs him, but it harms me, because my country is entitled to that person's vote, whether he votes as I do or not. “That, too, is a part of the poll-tax issue.”

less publicity than it merits¥hat | was the refusal of the post offite! department to handle the mail of | this firm for several days preceding the use cf the U. S. arniy by President Roosevelt to seize and carry off his own premises the chief official of Ward's.

Has there been anything since the days of George III which more clearly exemplified the tyranny of government? A reading of the Dec] laration of Independence will sat isfy anyone that these acts of Mr.

[of pepple. Beautiful marriages, the kind that | last, Lave grown from similar be-| ginnings. Yes, and outside of | Inovels, too. How does it all add up? Simply this way: Real sol|diers do not quit. And, the very

written by Mr. Quill of 913 N. Au- |qualities the wounded ones will culdubon rd. It was entitled: Only |tivate in order to regain health and One Kind of Englishman. It seems poise are the identical ones out of to me only one kind of person| which solid marriages are built. would write such a biased, untruth- | Many soldiers will grow to be better ful piece of trash. He couldn'tipeople than they ever could have

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Roosevelt are just as lawless and

of George the III. And his acts were denounced by a declaration listing his encroachment on the rights of free men and were nullified by war and independence, While delving into a little history, the reasons our forefathers came to America are interesting. Some of these reasons were: To escape a multitude of tax gatherers, to be secure in their own homes (and offices), to get away from a country where the king could send soldiers into the home and carry off the citizens, and to escape the arbitrary actions of the king, (Directives to us.) One of the great writers of the time, Montaigne, said the multiplicity of laws and regulations in France was so great that no citizen could breathe freely. Have we been Europeanized by the New Deal? What are we fighting for? Surely not to give more terms to the New Deal here, but to destroy a “New Order” of master men in the world.

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By Pfe. Vietor McGinnis, Army of the United States

* Invasion in ‘seven days—invasion near—invasion by next wek! Why don't the news syndicates get off this stuff and keep off it until the invasion actually takes place? represents a Yank on land

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Empire Realists By William Philip Simms

LONDON, May 3~—The cone ference of the empire's which began here this week will probably be the most important meeting of the kind in British history. - Not only will it give new direction to the association between the members of thé come monwealth but it will determine in a large measure the post-war relationship between the British bloc and the United States. This is the first imperial con ference since the war. 'To a greater degree tham ever before the dominions are meeting as equals, free to take whatever course they like. Moreover victory now seems assured and the views expressed here by the British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and ° South African prime ministers should reflect their respective stands at the peace table.

"Tendency to Forget Darker Hours"

THERE ARE SIGNS that some of these views are already turning nationalistic. There is a noticeable tendency to forget deeds performed and words uttered in darker hours. After Singapore, for instance, when Australia stood defenseless, Prime Minister Curtin did not turn to Britain for help but to the United States. Said he “I make it'clear that Australia looks tb America free from any pangs about eur tradi tional links of friendship to Britain. We are deters mined that Australia shall not go. We shall exert our energy towards shaping a plan with the United States as its keystone.”

That Australia did not appeal in vain is a matter of history. Today the United States Pacific fleet alone is larger than the fleets of the rest of the world combined. The burden of defeat of Japan still rests on America. Mr. Curtin has not said whether he has changed his views but an Aus spoke man, purporting to give the premier’s views in the Supday Dispatch, nowhere mentions America's part in stopping the Japs southward drive, A . trary he attributes the “miraculous” phenomenon tg “the grace of God.”

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