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55 MILLION JOBS—BALANCED BUDGET HE committee for economic dev elopment is a group. of tough-minded businessmen who want to keep private

enterprise going after the war, s They are hard-headed enough to realize that private . enterprise cannot long live and flourish under a government that continually spends more money than it takes in. They are practical enough to know that we can balance’ our fiscal budget only when, if and as we balance our employment budget. And they have demonstrated the vision to tackle the human problem first. Their post-war tax plan makes sense. (See story on page one.) n Here is a program that is the opposite of “back to normalcy.” ‘It starts with the assumption—obvious to all Extn, the defeatists of the “mature economy” school—that the best we had before the war was not good enough. That the men coming back from the battlefields, and those at home who have acquired new skills, are entitled to something more than life on a dole or another WPA. That ours is a country still eapable of “becoming bigger ami better. That America can still guarantee her citizens the right ‘to pursue happiness, and a chance to get ahead. .

. AFTER TEN YEARS of the Hoover-Roosevelt depresgion®we still had eight or mine million unemployed—although the government had poured out two score borrowed billions to “prime the pump.” High level employment was achieved only when we entered the war. No point now in assessing blame. Whether integtionally or otherwise the government pursued policies which kept business weak—which kept business from doing what it was designed to. do, namely to provide jobs and create wealth, One element in the unfavorable government-business climate was the tax policy. Taxes were laid on a punitive basis. Taxes were laid in a manner to cause a withering away of the risk investments that make for more jobs. Capital fled into.idle hoards and the riskless Jetuge of lax-exempts. ” »

THE CED PLAN does not rake over these cold ashes; it looks to the future, to the period after the war when 55 “million Americans must be productively employed, 10 million more than had jobs in the best prewar year; when the carrying charges on the nation’s debt alone will be more than the whole federal budget in the pre-Roosevelt era; when the cost of government will be 16 to 18 billions, nearly three times as much as was wrung from the people in any year before the war. Such enormous revenues can be provided only out of enormous productivity, only by a people whose business undertakings are dynamic and expanding. The CED plan is to remove those taxes which act as a brake to restoring dynamism to our economy, and to lay the taxes fairly and equitably to skim the cream from a healthy and growing volume of job-making business enterprise. Let's hepe this plan is earnestly considered by a congress which is niow all too eager for an election-campaign “recess. For if something isn’t done to straighten out our

—nor anything like that many.

“NO POLITICAL INTENT

E are relieved to learn from the White House spokes- | _ man that there was no political intent in the letter | Mr. Roosevelt has sent.to four millions of our troops overseas, over his own signature as “your President.” Like | some of the Indiandpolis soldiers who got the letters, we were afraid for a moment that here was something “obviously designed to influence votes” among soldiers, which the law and the war department frown upon. But it turns out it wasn’t at all. It doesn’t say a — about votes, and naturally it can’t be, any more political * than the President's expedition to Hawaii or his speech from the Bremerton navy yard. The White House spokesman, studying hard, seemed to recollect that President | Wilson had sent a message to the troops overseas, too, but then on second thouglit he remembered that Mr. Wilson had only run for president twice and had permanently stopped | . being a candidate quite a while before we had any troops | ~ Overseas. "And just to keep politics out of it, the White House spokesman makes clear, there won't be any inspirational | : 4 tle missives signed “your candidate, Thomas E. Dewey” | “the peoples’ friend, Norman Thomas,” ‘or even “your or rabble rouser, Gerald'L. K. Smith” going out to these four

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| the “New Deal” name be dropped in favor of “Win

tax structure, we're not going to have those 55 million jobs

By Thomas L Stokes

WaganoIPH. Sept. 6.—The interpretation gemerally read into Senator Truman's speech accepting the vice presidential nomina- . tion—that Democrats will make

dominant issue in the campaign—

in congress who battled in vain to provide more ‘cushions for unemployment on the home front in the so-called “reconversion” bill,

no > help whatever in this fight. It was just the sort he would mix into in the days before he asked that

the War.” That was regarded then as a political gesture to hold as many conservatives ofl his side as possible for the election, Mr, Roosevelt still seems to be playing the same game,

President Had Ample Opportunity

DESPITE HIS PREOCCUPATION with the war, the President had ample opportunity to step into this situation. When queried at his press conferences, he would reply. that he had not followed the bill, or had not examined the amendments, and thus casually pass off the matter, He let the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition have its head without challenge. What this has all'\come to is now seen in the bill passed by the house which whittled away at the senate measure, ftself certainly a conservatives bill. Conservatives have now joined critics of this house bill. Bernard M. Baruch, White House consultant on reconversion plans, said he does not feel this measure is adequate. Senator George (D. Ga.), who sponsored the senate bill as chairman of the finance committee,

house and appealed for moderation in the cutting process. He went unheeded. He is concerned particuuarly over the house's refusal to include federal employees in unemployment compensation and the striking out of another Senate bill %provise for travel pay for stranded war workers. s

Pleaded for Minimum of $20 a Week

WAR MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR James F. Byrnes pleaded with the ways and means committee to provide a nation-wide minimum of $20 a week for 26-weeks for. unemployment. compensation, , “with the federal government to advance funds for such payments to states where rates are lower. But the committee refused, and the house batted down such an amendment by an overwhelming vote. This would mean meager unemployment aid in some localities,

rings painfully accurate to groups. |.

For President Roosevelt offered |

got very much aroused while the bill was before the }-

the war and foreign policy the | —

particularly. in the South.

onstrates how far the house went.

next stage. ate conferees. Organized labor tried to get a much more liberal | measure. It put up a united front behind the MurrayKilgore bill in the senate and a similar measure in the house. These were hopelessly defeated.

Fight Directed by Second-Stringers

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT did not come to their rescue, nor did house Democratic. leaders. The fight in the house was directed by second-stringers, The President has taken labor's support for granted in this campaign, which indicates some of the weakness in labor's political strategy. w The C.I.O., which is out beating the bushes for campaign contributions for him, and getting out the vote, learned for the second time how too sure allegiance, so far ahead of election, may prove a handicap. The first time was the defeat of Vice President Wallace at Chicago. This leaving labor to fend for itself for the time being, as a gesture to conservatives, may be good politics. Again it may not. Some are pointing out that if the war in Europe ends quickly and more industry drops out of war production, as some has already, there may be lots of unemployment before election, and that won't be good politics for the Democrats, every though Republicans as a party have no record in congress on this score to point to with pride.

We The People By Ruth Millett

THE LETTER, written to tell a friend that her husband had been killed in ‘action, didn't go much beyond the bare facts of his death. But there were these two sentenges about the future. “I guess the children and I will go on living “here, as I somehow can't imagine living anywhere else, But | the years. ahead seem long. :”. .” ig Americans ‘Are-determined that their war-injured shall not be | -forgotten-—-after this... war —that. every effort will ve made to help the blind and the crippled and the physically and mentally broken find as good lives for themselves as possible.

Don't We Owe Them as Much? ~~

BUT what of the war widows to whom “the years ahead seem long?” Don’t we owe them as much? We can't make their lives right again—because we ean’t bring back their husbands. But each community should be responsible for seeing “that they are helped back to place in the community. If they need jobs—they should get them. If they need job training first—that should be made easy for them And they should be looked after socially. The social life of a widow is often a pretty dreary affair. But it wouldn't have to be as bad as it usually is. It is dreary because married women are—as a rule—self-centered and selfish when it comes to including lone women in their entertaining. / If the wives of every.community would ‘be kind and considerate enough to see that war widows aren't left sitting on the sidelines but are included in their party lists—life for them would be a little less dreary, a little less hopeless. This -is a problem that will have to be handled by women—for it is women who rule the social

. million potential voters. That, he inferred, political tent. & .

STRIKES AREN'T PROPAGANDA RANK P. FENTON, A. F. of L. director of organization and one of six labor leaders touring the French front, is

- quoted as saying that the soldiers over there are starting to understand that “this strike talk is purely propaganda.”

must know that Americans, including the millions in the armed forces and in organized labor, realize that labor's “> wartime accomplishments immeasurably outweigh its ‘faults, But he must also know that these same Americans are aware that there have been many strikes—strikes that

for trivial reasons.

them propaganda or try to shift the blame onto managethe American press does not fool anybody. leaders feel ‘labor so strong and mighty. | - tolerate a word of criticism, they are court-

might have | {

Pe Cy Soe To The Point— “Mr. Fenton displayed a ‘short-sighted attitude. He

cost needed tools of ‘war and perhaps lives,- -many ‘of them

_ These strikes are fads, not propaganda. And to call

ippance which once caught up ‘with | & attitude.

world: It is something they can do, if they only will.

POLITICAL campaigns are educational—we learn that all liars are not golfers and fishermen. Ld - BARBERS KNOW lots: of people. good at scraping acquaintances.

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These three men are all coteoTvatives which dem-

Their influence may be effective in revising the | measure in conference between the two branches, the | Senator George will be chairman of sen- |

They're pretty “THERE ARE no cuss words in the Japanese CLOTHES OFTEN make the ‘woman, but the SOME MEN tell their wives “everything that, hapSOME MARRIED ‘men soon learn that RE per“THE TOKYO radio sircinged that the whole Jap

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“BECAUSE A CHILD MAKES A NOISE” By Rev. C. N. -MecCormik, 841 Wright st. Your statement. about children, Mr. Worker, I think is all uncalled for. What in the name of God are our boys and girls—only children yesterday—fighting for? I am sure not for you only, but those little boys and girls who run through the halls and over the lawns and shout. Christ, the Master, took one and said, “Suffer little children and forbid them not” Again He said, “Unless you become as little children . . .” May God forgive you, Mr. Worker, I had a night job and tried to sleep. I live on the South side and we have marines, rangers, commandos, sailors. We never hear them playing robbers but always they are killing Huns and Japs as their dads, brothers and sisters are doing. What ‘do you think now? Aren't you ashamed just a little? A big man—crying because a child makes a noise. LB “THE SEED HE PLANTED GREW” | By Jarfes A. Eldridge, 2268 Pierson st. The news of the retirement of Dr. Elijah Jordan from the staff of Butler university will be received with deep regret by students and alumni alike. Those of us who were fortunate enough to study under this |distinguished scholar know that he {deserves a rest and’yet we regret (that his guidance is to be denied to. [future Butler students, His _great-, [ness will always be a part of the (tradition of the university. Students .of Dr. Jordan have gone forth to two wars and they have been better fighting men because of him. "Through the years he has instilled in his students a devotion to moral and intellectual integrity, and, like all teachers df the classical tradition, he imparts to his students a vision of a better world created by mien devoted to the attainment of the Christian ideal. ~ No tribute to Dr. Jordan would be complete without mention of gracious, charming Mrs.

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* |these words of Thomas Wolfe that -|he once wrote about one of.

Jordan,

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students into their home. Can we ever forget her hospitality at the Philosophy club meetings on Manday night? Perhaps my personal regard for Dr. Jordan can best be expressed in

his teachers:

“He was a great teacher, and what [8

he did for us was not to give us his ‘philosophy’ but to communicate to us his own alertness, his originality, his power to think. Hé was a viial force because he supplied to maay of us, for the first time in our lives, the inspiration of a questioning intelligency. He taught us not to he afraid to think, to question; he taught us to examine critically thé most sacrosanct of our native prejudices and superstitions. So, of course, throughout the state the bigots hated Him; “but “his own students worshiped him. .. . And the seed he planted grew. ...” : 8 8 8 “WHERE HAVE OUR EDUCATORS BEEN?” By D. E. K., Indianapolis It took our voting form for our state of Indiana to find that 100,000 of our service men couldn't spell well enough to make legible “this

voting . form.” Where have our educators been

who has welcomed hundreds of

this past decade? This is an old

Side Glances—By Galbraith oy

"| Again,” I say bully for you. Any-

‘Idefense workers wouldn't be half so noble if it wasn't for their fat

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Add to it the passing of the “no-mam, no-sirs.” I am & grocer. I meet all sorts of people. I recall a splendid Tennessee boy (mind, I am a Hoosier) in his teens who came to Indianapolis to live. He, like any well-bred. boy, answered his lady teacher with a “no-mam” to whatever the question was, to be told by this teacher not to “nomam” hér., Did he go down? Well, he didn't. He politely told this well-bred. (?) woman that where he came from they honored their women—"'in fact, we honor our elders, all.” This same teacher was describing peanut growing to her class, She told of the harvest, how the peanuts were stripped from the vine, green bean fashion, That was too much for this boy. He had grown too many peanuts. He had to stop her. He told her the peanuts were grown underground” like a potato. He was told to shut up, to get out —she knew what she was talking about. This boy's father ‘came to me. a “was almost too absurd to believe, but it was true--and here Indiana, too. While we are on the subject, let me ask how many thanks do you

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granted? A plain O. K. How many hats are raised in the presence of Ljadies? TI wonder—do they know it should be done? How many young men lift their hats when entering a home? Well, some—if there happens to be a genyeman in their midst. We see a lot of changes in 50 years Manners do change, but we will always have a need of good. tspelling, Long ~agoT learned the value of a “please” and a “thank you.” Wonder how many cheat themselves of many, many favors that would be granted, did they say “thank you.” Golfing, ballplaying, tennis prove

.|the citizens of today are just af]

smart. There seems to be a humility in doing the things decently. The more sophisticated, the more worldly, the greater the egotism. 2 “I'M JUST AS BURNT UP.AS YOU” By a War Mother of an Overseas Veteran, Frankfor In answer to “He'd Better Think

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thing a man from overseas says is tops with me. As the mother of an only son who has served 31 months overseas, it pleases me very much to hear you boys say What you will do and what you won't do. Just keep it’ up. My son is somewhere between Paris and the Reich today and I cannot imagine any veteran laying down a dollar to help pay taxes for a defense worker. These noble

pay checks. You and your 10,000,000 other buddies stick together on that and

ere hasn't been ‘anyone yet “able to do it, including Mr. Roosevelt. Not only -are Senators Jackson and Willis on your side but every mother in these United States. I'm just as. burnt up as you are! 3 Gorey DAILY THOUGHTS

And God saw the light, that it was good and God divided the ~ light from the darkness.—Genesis 1 4

NOW that’ the su sun Is gleaming

2 By Ludvell Dermy

get today for the little favors}

form your own legion and run the!

: WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—Now Finland joins the parade, follow=‘ing Romania and Bulgaria, of *- Hitler partners asking for peace. The, reason is stated bluntly by the”: “In view

and the people's desire for peace, the government considered it its duty to approach the Soviet gove + ernment again.”

last April broke up the peace negotiations with Russia and formed a tighter military alliance with Germany, the people of Finland had the same “desire for peace” as now. But their rulers were so stupid as to believe that Germany was . winning the war and that Germany and Finland together could lick Russia. Probably nobody else outside the Helsinki government supposed that Finland could lean on Hitler, either with-honor or with safety. Because of that blunder more Finnish lives were sacrificed and Hitler's defeat delayed. -

‘Government Was Not Representative

....THAT 18 ALL the more unfortunate because the guilty Finnish government in this was not repre-

sentative of the Finnish people. The majority all along has been democratic and anti-Nazl. Howe ever thick some of their officials may have been ‘with the Nazis, ‘the Finns did not consider themselves part of an axis war. thought and said they were fighting for their homeland against Russian aggression, as they had rallied to its defense against the Reds before. There has never been a time when the Finnish ‘people were not Jeady and eager for a just peace. In fairness and accuracy, therefore, Americans from

| the beginning have differentiated between Finland

and other Hitler partners. Finland's moral and legal status were different. She was at war with Russia, but only nominally at war with Britain and Tot, at war with the United States. . Whether Russia and Britain in their peace terms wil give to the Finnish people the benefit of the doubt, which they deserve, is not yet clear. The terms by Moscow last spring were hard, especially the size of the indemnity: though they were for bargaining purposes, and probably could have been modified in negotiations by -a-genuine pence governs ment in Helsinki,

Finnish Freedom Will Bo Test

THE TEST of the settlement now imposed by. Moscow and London will ‘be Finnish freedom. If the settlement is to last the frontier line must be fair to the Finns. If the Finns are to be economic slaves of Moscow the settlement will not work for long. Even more important is political independence, actual as well as nominal. If Moscow on making Finland a puppet state, the Finns revolt soon or late—probably soon. For very practical reasons, in addition to the dic

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in Eastern Europe depends on an independent and healthy Finnish democracy. Stalin and Churchill” here have an opportunity to show their statesman ship, ;

New Horizons By David Dietz

), O., Sept. 8

the post-war airplane designers are likely to thigk in terms of the jet-propelled plane, Where cargo-

carrying turn to the gas turbine. The present type of engine and . propeller is twice as efficient as jet propulsion at 150 miles an hour, The two are equal at 300 miles an hour, But at 550 miles an hour jet

It is not beyond.the realm of possibility that the world may see jet-propelled planes crossing the Ate lantic at stratosphere levels between breakfast and lunch, Jet propulsion comes into its own because the propeller begins to lose effectiveness after speeds of 400

bine the competition is between the turbine and the conventional engine. The usual propeller is used “with the gas turbine.

Point of Diminishing Refs:

THE LARGEST ENGINE now in use in aircraft is a 3400-horsepower engine and work is now being ‘done to develop larger onies. But this brings the engine to a size where its efficiency begins to fall off. On the other hand, the gas turbine first begins to reach its best performance in those ranges where the terms of power plants of 8000-horsepower. This can be obtained in the gas turbine. __At the present time the practical range for the gas turbine seems to be from 1000 horsepower to 10,000 horsepower, Post-war designers are not thinking only of the aircraft industry but of ships, railroad locomotives and electric power plants, In these fields the gas turbine goes into competition with steam Surbines, steam engines and Diesel engines, Thus a post-war battle is brewing in which many factors ‘will éount and one not to be overlooked is the possibility of new advances in these older forms of motive power. Whatever edge the gas turbine now has could be offset by a revolutionary advance, for example, in the reign of the steam engine.

Electrification Is the deal Solution

justify the expensive installation..of overhead wires, etc, as on the Pennsylvania line between New York and Washington, railroad men believe that electrie fication is the ideal Solution. While the Diesel engine has superior operating characteristics, it costs more to build than the steam

ponents of the gas turbine say that it will give the performance of the Diesel at the cost of the steam locomotive, -

which the wide-spread adaptation of this new motive

war, airplanes have demanded better and better highoctane fuel. But the jet-propelled plane runs on kerosene. The same thing is true of the gas turbine. The new development, therefore, may have ime portant repercussions on the petroleum industry.

So They Say—

CHINESE POLITICS cannot be divorced from the main current of international thinking which is toward democracy and liberalization, against - which stand fascism and autocracy. . The democratic world is veering to the lft and we shall ‘have to keep with the world. . Sun Fo, president of China's lative. Yuan,

one brave enough. 16 speak Heap Mildred H pl WAVES director. * » ‘THEY CLIMBED all over our jeeps, they dmon ot from their bikes and kissed us. . 1 Seas think it- yous Wo-he Bix

of the changed “military “situation

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propulsion’ is twice as effective.

‘engine falls off. Airplane designers are thinking in”

WHERE THE DENSITY of traffic is sufficient to

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tates of justice and of allied pledges, a lasting peace,

Where speed is the main objective,

miles an hour are past. In the case of the gas tur-

Finally, it is interesting to Speridate on the effect

power will have on the fuel situation. In the present

THE “GLORY of this country is that ws permit ‘people to speak the truth and there is. always SOmee

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Matthew Si ‘tary of the N Bociety of Am strike. commit union member as the army r plants. He sa gency session executive boar ordered the tr held today buf {to be taken s be returned tc The strike when Elmer operator, was | ing a 75-cent foom because Union leaders in protest. 1 regional war army air fore strike, The WLB 1 the White Hot President imm retary of War seize the plant

JUVENILE “MOVIN

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FUEL OIL] pons valid thr . change-making coupons are no tions for 1944 now being issu immediately. — TIRES—Comi

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