Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1945 — Page 16

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PAGE 16 Thursday, February 22, 1945. By Jeannette Covert Nolan

AS AMERICANS, we pride ourselves on our’right | of free speech—which means, among other things, F Price In Marina cou | that we can talk back to those in authority. daily (except Sunday) Wy .s ES A on . We have been talking back since George Washas Pw i api ' “| ingtoft’s time. Our very first President learned what lishing Co. 214 W. Mary- ’ | it is to take a dressing-down from an ordinary citizen, land st. * Postal Zane 8. | But Washington was genuinely democratic; he could 2 $5 a year; all other states, | take it and like it. Member of United Press, U. S. possessions, Canada |. . This is demonstrated by Washington's experience Scripps-Howard Newspa- and Mexico, 87 cents a | with canny Davy Burns, an American of Scottish per Alliance, NEA Serv- month. | descent, who owned a farm of doubtful value on the ice, and Audit Bureau of RILEY 5551 ,Danks of the Potomac. Circulations. AX 99 rhe date was 1790; tor Washington had been delegated the task of locating the permanent seat of our fedéral government,

Jefferson and Hamilton Made a Deal IT HAD BEEN pretty definitely decided that the

OUR DEBT TO WASHIN GTON capital of the United States must be somewhere in

PERHAPS there are too many marble busts and equestrian | Virginia. Thomas Jefferson had attended to that. . J ing hee | Jefferson wanted the capital to be rather close to statues of George Washington. - He has become too th Monticello, his Virginia homestead—thinking, probamuch of a name and an image to be revered impersonally | “bly, that he would thus be able to keep a watchful and then forgotten. except. when he is occasionally quoted, |%eye on affairs of state. But Jefferson «knew that in the . yr liberal accuracy, on the subject | Alexander Hamilton might say the final word without too much regard for liberal a | matter, and that Hamilton didn't care at all about of entangling alliances. Hamilton's big worry was something

| the location else-—whether or not the federal government was

Lincoln seems likely to replace him as the great a dee national hero—Lincoln, more human in his greatness and |" gg Jefferson gave a dinner party for Mr. ‘Hamilton; te in warmth as well as in time. And of Wash- | and over the excellent food and wines, a compromise jess yemo Sil was effected. The capital would be in Virginia, and ington’s ‘contemporaries, the brilliant and versatile Jefler- a or Tat ftates son has lately arisen to capture the public fancy. | treasury.

- : . . a olin It was a Washington was neither brilliant nor of engaging] wily not

personality. He was reser ved and a trifle stow. But though | he may not inspire today’s poets and playwrights, he was, 5 Spot from the Revolution’s end to his death, the object of the | ™ \u ioton tramped up and ‘down the Potomac's

greatest adulation ever accorded an American leader. | shore. and staked off a mice square of land, which x 8 : -n included the farms of Daniel Carroll, Notley Young

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of courte—perhaps not the first, last of its kind in American

deal, the history, Then Washington went out to choose the fateful

Rock of Ages

‘ ; i ; . and the Scotsman Burns. Purchasing the property of IT IS WORTH remembering, in an era when dictator- | carroll and Young was not difficult; but when it | ship has been the world fashion, how wisely and modestly |

came to Davy Burns, he wouldn't sell. Washington | ai y offeri Burns $125 an acre, “a ter- | Washington bore that adulation. It is worth remembering, | bargained, even ng $ too, how well he deserved it.

ribly high price. Burns simply shook his head and said, Washington faced the gravest problems that id eset Washington Could Be Stubborn, Too i in w Cc l ation which he | : ; an American leader in war or peace. The nation De] ELL, WASHINGTON coud be’ stubborn. too led through its longest war was nominally united. but gg, aig, “Had not the federal capital been laid out really divided and impoverished and ungoverned. Its con- | here, Mr. Burns, you would have died a poor farmer.” | “Ave” said Burns, gazing straight at his Presi- , : e states. Its | } | gress was powerless to do more than advise the states. It cd i ie. Widow Custis, army was dispirited, badly equipped, and at times faced you would ‘a’ been only & surveyor today, and a dom | with actual starvation. poor one at iat” 1 dt Dive 5 It wasn't until much later tha avy Burns was | Washington had to divide his time between rallying | dea to sell his land to the government; they | his forces to stay with him, planning and leading their | had to threaten him with the right of eminent do1 ory i i r y / he insisted cam gns nstan lv be In an blud eonin the main before he would budge. Even then, pal ? and to ge! 2 . d udy ] 2 fou on keeping his small cottage and the big yard around states to provide food and money to avert the total defeat |," "uo" 4i4 keep them—because George Washington | which at times was only days or hours away. He had to | raised no further objections. 7i ble dislovalty among his officers, and | For many years Davy Burns’ cottage stood near | eoritend with tressonable disloyal . g . . | the fine house which was erected for the President | what are now known as fifth columnists among his country- | of the United States. Then at last, after Davy's

men. death, his heirs sold ‘the ground. One of the most | | beautiful of government buildings stands there now— | Victory emerged from these surroundings chiefly be- | {ne pan-american Union. | cause of Washington's capacity for courage, resourcefulness, | And the spirit of Davy Burns still flourishes among compassion, steadfastness and humility. His presidency Lad countrymen. was marked by the same qualities. There was nothing |

“mercurial about his statesmanship—he was a farmer by WORLD AFFAIRS—

first choice, a soldier by second, and a statesman by neces- | sity—but it was molded by common sense, hard work and Vi C : f an unimpeachable code of ethics. : Ita on erence ss =» = ns =u : THESE QUALITIES passed into the fabric of his By Ludwell Denny country and are still visible. . They might be more so if | we bothered to make Washington's reacquaintance. His WASHINGTON, Feb, 22—The

Farewell Address is worth reading again for its stately Mexico City conference, which

Mdtv. " : : opened yesterday, is a forerunner lucidity, sage wisdom and deep -feeling. NM ot tarp 1

San Franciséo next April.. Unless | the American foreign- ministers can agree on support of an inter- | national = security. = organization there is not apt to be one, or at | least not a representative one. |

Washington was too great to become a figure on a Other issues at Mexico City concern plans for reconversion from |

“No.”

This advice on foreign relations is only a part of it. | And that advice, placed in its context and read against the | background of 1796, becomes what it is—sound expediency for its time and not Holy Writ. : |

black sheep.” "Latin America wants world organization. Most of the states were members of the League of Nations.

QUITE RIGHT AUBREY | But they have no intention of accepting the rubberx y AU 4 ' 1 hic] ;

stamp role to which they fear the big powers at y ’ . i Dumbarton Oaks and at Yalta relegated them. Eleven | UBREY WILLIAMS deserves a hand for telling the senate agriculture committee that his reasons for not

of them withdrew from the League. Now Mexico, with others’ support, has proposed 28 changes in the becoming a Presbyterian minister are none of the com- | Dumbarton dralt—mostly aimed at curbing big power . . : y | domination, "increasing Latin American representamittee’s business. | tion on the security council, and centering control in the assembly. where medium and small nations will be a large majority.

Conflict More Apparent Than Real

THIS POLICY CONFLICT with the United States y prove more apparent than real. President Roosear supposedly has been out-voted by Stalin and Churchill in. Big Thrée meetings on the issue of big | power control. Traditional United States policy and present interest would be advanced by most of the Mexican. revision plan, In any event, the .President and Secretary Stettinius ‘understand only too well that the price of the good. “heighbor. policy is co-operation rather than dictation The Argentine

Mr. Williams, former head of the now happily extinet national youth administration, has been nominated by President Roosevelt to be chief of the rural electrification | administration. The sénate committee has been investigating his qualifications for that post. It dredged up the fact that in his youth he attended a theological seminary on a $750 church scholarship, but on completing the course became a social worker instead of a minister. —both of whom" later declined to appear wrote to the committee that Mr. Williams’ decision not to enter the ministry grew out of doubt on his part concerning the divinity of Christ. = And’ mittee insisted that he be questioned ahout this, » . ~ » » u MR. WILLIAMS appeared and made the appropriate answer. Whether he does or does not believe in the Sin of Christ has, of course, nothing whatever ability to administer, the REA. exclusively, his busiiess. His political and economic views are something else again, when -he is considered for a public job, and he's about the last man we would think of putting in the job of electrifying America's farms. In RR Ey Derionee or record shows him | at the Mexico City meeting want to know what Wash- ) . | ington’s trade and loan policies are going to be. Can _ We believe the senate has plenty of sound reasons for | Something Sounder #04 safer than Whe présent pres rejecting his nomination—including the fact that he knows | None of these political and ‘economic problems is - nothing about kilowatts—but we hate the thought that any | simple. The answers will not be easy. But, dekpite vote against him may be inspired by bigotry.

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some members of problem is an inescapable ghost

at Mexico City. Withholding diplomatic recognition | from* Fascist-type pro-Nazi regime of Buenos Aires has proved a half-way measure with doubtful but some Latin Americans would’ prefer a less | vigorous policy, measures such as economic sanctions, hope, however, that the death-pangs of Nazi Germany and’ the growing spirit of revolt among the democratic Argentine people may solve this problem before it becomes a worse hemisphere headache.

Answers Will Not Be- Easy

OF EVEN DEEPER CONCERN to Latin Americans is the spectre of post-war depression following the | dollar boom of war orders. All the foreign ministers |

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difficulties, rarely has the United States entered an international conference with such high purpose, : careful preparation, and broad representation. . To Secretary Stettinius, the congressional memHOUSES SHOULD F IT THE PURSE, TOO | bers of the delegation, and the advisers from the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, labor unions and farm organHAT post-war house can he built with such flexibility izations, we wish the best of luck in these important

that you.can rig up a new wall “on a moment's notice, "8otiations.

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while Britain blocks more effective | There is some |

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The Hoosier Forum

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

»- “THE LAW IS EXPLICIT ON THIS" By Mary Studebaker, Indianapolis

In the Forum for Wednesday, | Feb. 14, an article by F. H. B. re-

ported that some employers send ol

withholding receipts very late. _ 1, too, have met with that type of employer. He refuses to be annoyed by such things as government | forms of any kind. Forms, to him,

{are nuisances that others must com-

ply with, but never must he be com-

| pelled to attend to them personally.

Now the law is explicit on this point of the employer's obligations {to his government and to his workers. Point 13, Page 5 of the Instructions to Employers says this: “On or before January 31 of each year, employers must furnish to each employee (from whose wages tax has been withheld) Withholding Receipt, Form W-2, showing the total amount of wages paid and the amount ‘of tax with-

‘| held. during the previous calendar

year.’ Well, here it is, the middle of February and I, like F. H. B, am still without my withholding receipt. In additipn, I am still without my withholding receipt due to me as of last September. In other { words, here is the kind of situgtion that can take place: On Aug. 22 a change of position took place. Therefore by Sept. 20 (30 days later), I {should have received my withhold{ing receipt from the former. em-

{ployer for wages paid up té that]

time and tax deducted up to that | point, The law says on, this: “Where { employment ends before the close

{of the calender year, the withhold-

ing receipts, Form W-2, is required to be furnished to the employee by not later than 30 last payment of

days after the

wages. This is five months late. Knowing the practices of. such employers,, I know that in five months, or five years,

never receive these badly needed re-

ceipts as long as employers are per- |

mitted to get by with such gross

two copies of the!

it will still | Workers will | you respect us, who "ave served and day retirement pay. i

{Times readers are invited to express their theses columns, religio troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let- | ters should be limited to 250 ..words., Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth hera are those of the writers, and publication in no way

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implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times “assumes no responsi bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

points out that great numbers of man hours are country because employers get by {with this practice. But I believe P. H. B. is not quite correct when he says the treasury department will (not accept our statements as to the tax. we have had withheld. I believe the treasury department is going to have to accept our own rough estimates of this withholding amount, THe only ones to lose out however are the employees, the workers who do so. make estimates—for it is more than likely that a rough esti{mate may not be fair to us, not by a long way. : ! » » » “BE SURE THEY DO COMPARE FAVORABLY” By Ex-S. Sgt. Blake Tabor, Indianapolis Did it ever occur to you, R. E. M,, that I, as an ex soldier, did not take issue with the 4-F's? I merely said that I resented being called one, due to the fact that I did serve my (country overseas. And by the way, | whom do you refer to by saying | “sitting around pitying themselves”? | No one, certainly not myself, pities himself, All we ask for is recognition. Is it too much to ask that|

ibeen wounded? That was the sole idea in asking for publicity. Certain-

ly the 4-F's are working in war

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defense work would be done. I cite] {the numerous strikes here while we | [fought the Japs. Did you.say wear a Red Cross blood bank button? | For you and anyone who agrees pwith you, I have only, this to say |—not one of you will donate the average amount of blood the aver- | age man in my airborne outfit do- | | ated — and I mean donated — in| | battle. Remember us, R. E. M, your kind forgot our dads. | P. S. So-0, you don't think I'm | {thankful to be home? I'm not Mr. | |R. B. M—I had six and a half| |yvears in the army and I'd like to | {be with my boys. And oh yes, | ‘those telegrams I must sometime | deliver. I can only thank the God {that is kind to soldiers that there aren't too many people who only sneer at us upon our return. By all means honor the 4-F and ignore us, unless of course you feel | that our efforts compare favorably with theirs. Yessir—but be sure they do compare favorably. 2 2 w “OLD TEACHERS ARE NEGLECTED” By. Paul B. Sallee, Holton Is the present state legislature and Indiana teachers organjzation | going to continue to neglect and | ignore the plight of the old Indianapolis teachers who retired before the state ‘took over the annuity (funds and their organization ideas | in establishing the teachers pen- | sion annuity system? Those old teachers who taught when Indianapolis schools were rated the best in the nation and who conceived and worked to establish the teachers retirement system 40 years ago have been com- | pletely ignored in the liberalization | and. increase of the annuity pay- | ments established- since their retirement. Many of them who gave | Indianapolis and Indiana years of high professional loyal teaching are compelled to eke out a poverty existence . on as_ little as a dollar a

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they received any| since they retired. have been completely for-|

| Never have consideration They

derelictions, defying both the rights | plants but Mr. R. E. M., they're well ‘gotten and neglected by Indiana | of the workers as well as the fed- paid, warm and well fed and darned and its legislature and’ the young

|eral orders of our government.

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is right when he states at them? such employers will simply shriek | love to see how many of them or you teachers to retire after 10 years |

{good insurance risks. Who shoots | No one, they're safe. I'd

| Indiana teachers organization who | | have made it possible for present

if we dared to ask for a half day yourself would do defense work 1if|teaching and receive $50 per month, | off to go to the Federal building and | you had to work under the condi- jor $960 per year, for 35 years servpay our tax at the deadline. .in per-| itions and for the same wages we| |ice’ or a proportionate amount if |

SOM, F. H. B. is right when

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1 know just about how much | EE ————

Side ‘Glances=By Galbraith

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For example, the arrival of a baby or a mother-in-law you n, be

need cause no worry. over accommodation. New fangled | 1 will allow prompt installation of a partiti “gp | mean snug privacy for dad and mother, with gentle | aR too large if the oh Foes easily. yagi ion for the new arival. - - | Th. ously, the architects are doing their part, But| LOTS of spring hats wil be felt, says style pest that building industry, labor and Nanri] iB hay 4A 1% fei. the fret of the fodowia little seclusiog of - their own and make ag | Ee

to o produce these houses a IN prosperous times we should save for a rainy day, Be 3 t prices the rest of economists warn. Most people, it seems, still Bgtre

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| they retire before they have taught {35 vears, The proposed 1945 annui ¢ y {amendment now before she present legislature to increase the teachers retirement pay to $1200 a year, after 35 yéars service should be passed, | as it could not be cdlled generous or extravagant to those who ex-| pend hundreds of dollars to prepare themselves t4, inculcate the | | understanding of democraty and [ respect for our republic and its in-| stitutions. | | But it would be a. further com-| | pounded neglect and a lack of mod- | ern economic reality if the state senators and representatives did not | linclude in the 1945 retirement bill ‘a provision to Increase the annuity (of the teachers who retired before the consolidation, or were forced to | retire because they had reached the age of ‘65, and therefore were not [permitted to teach 35 years, so that they could receive the higher rate of retirement pay. The schools or the retirement bill are not political," therefore Governor Gates, the Democratic and Republican members of the state legislature have a fine opportunity to correct a wrong to those public servants, the old school teachers, who have no organization t6 fght for their rights and because of their infirmities and age can mo longer speak for themselves as they did 40 years ago, when they conceived and established the Indianaols

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DAILY THOUGHTS

A scorner loveth mot -one- that repréveth him; neither will he go unto the wise. ~—Proverbs 15:12.

| in. his party.

ILL, writers are usually the sharp censors.~Dryden,

POLITICAL SCENE—

True Performance |

By Thomas L. Stokes:

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} WASHINGTON, Feb, 22.<One/' of the greatest kicks you gét from! sitting in the press box is to see|' a fresh, new performer with stuff! whether on the baseball diamond, “the football field, the JSrack, the! tennis court, the. golf “course, or! in polities.’ ’ It is the joy of watching tru performance, It ix the one thin not dulled by the yeart’ that cree slowly over you. Lt. Cmdr. Harold Stassen is not exactly a new performer in politics, though he’ still young—38 next April 13. He was three time governor of Minnesota and”a candidate for the Republican. presidential nomination last year, with the support of his own state and scattered support else where, even though he was away in the Pacific wit the navy,

‘Still a Comparatively Fresh Fone

BUT HE IS still a comparatively fresh figure In national politics, and he comes uffon a scene some what lacking in promising young men with practical political experience, still cluttered up with the old| familiar figures, including the one who has heen® occupying. tne White House for such a long time. He stands, too, at the threshold of a post-wan

| world that's going to be different, that is, if young

men like himself have anything to do with it, and i looks as if they are. He passed muster here at a press conference at tended by a critical and hard-boiled gr rdup largel

{ made up of political correspondents who are not in

| clined to hold anything back. He handled himself so treditably that he won ad miration for his ability to speak his mind, for h forthrightness, for his courage in daring to take a not common in his Republica party, and for the determination he showed to fight His backgroun of political experience made his attitude all the mord impressive. For hedging seems to come natura | these days to the average politician who lifts hi sights to the White House, as this young man sas,

| 'Pioneer in the Movement’

WITHOUT QUIBBLING he accepted Presiden Roosevelt's invitation to be. a member of the Ameri can delegation at thie San Francisco conference o the united nations, even though he recognizes it ma be a political liability, or so it seems to be though His attitude was in. contrast to th dilly-dallying: of Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, What the united nations conference will set ou to do—draft an international security organizatio plan—is very close to Cmdr, Sjassen’s heart. He wi a piotieer ii: the movement > Heh seems destined tq come to its climax at San Francisco. He drew up detailed blue print for a es nations organizatio for which he campaigned all over the county in the early days of the war, when his views were none toa popular. But he would Ro even further than most politics leaders, including President Roosevelt. He signified this when he said that Dumbarto Oaks “appears to me to be a very small start in th right direction, but a very important step,” and made it perfectly clear -when he said: “I would hope that San Francisco might mea for the world of tomorrow what Constitution Hall af Philadelphia meant for the United States of Amer ica.” '

‘This Is a Bold Concept’

HE WAS TALKING, he said, about a world gov

| ernment, and this is a bold concept, for, as he en

visioned it when he campaigned up and down th land two ‘and ythree years ago, it means, in effect, United States of the world. Not everything will be settled at San Francisco, as not everything was settled at Philadelphia in 1787, but San Francisco is the place where the fundamentals can be sef down upong which to build for the peace and progress of the peo i ples of the world. That's his view. He is a realis along with his ideals. But he is willing to take long look forward as he starts. The Republican party has a challenging spirit fn its midst.

IN sWASHINGTON—

Sales Resistance By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—One reason governmen surplus property is slow in moving out to civilia is that government agencies refuse to list as surplu things they no longer need, Rep, John Taber (R. N. Y.) charged yesterday. Such things run into millions of dollars, he sal and they include trucks and fire-fighting equipmen

| valued at $50,000,000, the property of the office of

civilian defense. Mr. Taber wants the surplus property board compel the OCD to “get rid of those things.” He also wants surplus disposals to be speeded up to the point where sales more nearly balance th amount of property being declared surplus by th various agencies, “They have more stuff on hand now than they’ get rid of in six months at the rate they've been going,” he told congress.

| Urges Liquidation of, OCD Property

AS FOR the OCD's fire trucks, Mr. Taber said that the appropriations committee, during recent hearings, “put pressure on them to get rid of thos things. ‘We told them they should get rid of any thing that was. in short supply in this country, so that civilians would be as little handicapped in thei lives as possible.” Much of the apparatus, he declared, is in “tersitory where there is not the slightest danger of war dame age and a lot of it where the things are not needed. And yeét, he.continued, the OCD “has not turned them over to the surplus property custodian—not single truck, not a-single piece of apparatus.” Congress, He insisted, “should not make any mors appropriations for General Haskell and the rest of tha crowd who operate the OCD. 1 believe every single thing they have ought to be liquidated and we ought to get cleaned up on that activity.” Then, taking still another swing at the way the surplus problem has been handled, the New Yorker charged the surplus property administration with having “adjusted” inventories after materials were sold “so that you cannot get any idea whether they received stuff anywhere near what they appraised it at or not.”

'‘Queerest Way of Doing Business’

UNCERTAIN WHETHER he understood that state ment Rep. John Vorys (R. O.) asked if by means of the “adjustment” the surplus. property administration “would always be getting 100 per cent value for their stuff because they would appraise it for what« ever they sold it?” Replied Mr. Taber: “They would-adjust their ine ventory after they made the sale to the amount of the sale. For instance, if they had this penknife and they appraised it at $1 and then sold it.far 50 cents, they would change the inventory to 50 cents, so that the final ventory am the knife would be just “This, he remarked, was “the ACErE way of doing business I ever heard of.” . _ The practice, Mr, Taber said, is supposed to have ceased. “However,” e went-on; “they still have more property coming in” every day than goes out—and right at a time when everything cught to be sold rapidly because of the enormous” civitian demand and

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