Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1945 — Page 10

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0B FOR EXPERTS LEP WALT ER JUDD of Minnesota, a physician—and a good one, we're told—says.the fault with veterans adinistration hospitals is that they're under too muchmtrol by laymen. Shortcomings, he adds, will “inevitably avelop whenever and wherever government bureaus under sn-medical men tell doctors how to practice,” We think Dr. Judd's logic is sound and can be applied ' »intedly to the investigation of the hospitals now being ynducted by the house veterans committee. Chairman John Rankin's method has been to assign embers of his committee and various house volunteers to sit hospitals and report their findings in open hearings. nce the institutions had notice before the official parties rived, the inspections had all the atmosphere of Cook's Urs. The committee includes no physicians—15 of the 21 embers. are lawyers. None of the members has any vious qualifications to pass judgment on highly tech- : ical questions of medical expertnéss or hospital managevient. Picture the indignation among congressmen if a committee of doctors should undertake to Sigsect their rerformance as legislators. a 8 =n a 88 W ITHOUT PRESUMING to pass on the truth or falsity f all the charges about hospital conditions, we do think the ccusations so serious that the committee owes the veterans; reir families and the public a searching inquiry—one which “iacludes the best -available medical allvice and assistance. Dr. Judd’s observations were injected into house debate rn a story from our Washington bureau reporting that ~elerans committee members had reversed Chairman Ran14in’s program and taken the inquiry into their own hands. Mr. Rankin, ‘with his customary vigor, said it was “ridicusus” that anybody should suggest that his type of investis;ation would be a whitewash. “We hope Mr. Rankin fits action to his words. But, as ‘he hearings proceeds we think it will be pertinent to ~emember that at the outset he opposed any investigation; ‘hat he sponsored one only when it became evident that ‘nquiry might be conducted by a special committee;-that 1e has been congress’ staunchest defender of the veterans administrator, Brig. Gen. Hines, and that he gave the hosvital system a elean-hill even before the house gave him the investigating job.

THAT'S BETTER

EN. EISENHOWER has made it clear that he disapproves—as strongly as we think most other Americans’ do—of the disgusting courtesies some of our high army officers are reported to have ghown the Nazi gangster, Goering. ¥ We welcome the general s ‘assurance that “drastic measures” have been taken td end dy treatment of captured German officials as “friendly enemies,” and that American officers responsible for such treatment in the past will be personally rebuked by him. How surely, if unintentionally, they played. the Nazi game was shown Monday by Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian, Germany's No. 1 tank expert, who urged that American and German soldiers now shake hands “just like after a football match.” Incidentally, with Hitler and Goebbels presumably dead, and with Himniler and Goering now indicted as war criminals, we keep thinking of another member of the Hitfer gang. Rudolph Hess, who flew to England four * years ago this week, has been held safely there ever since and by last report is resting easy in a British booby hatch. We car almost hear Rudolph asking, “Who's loony

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NOW IS THE TIME EP. MIKE MONRONEY of Oklahoma says he will soon introduce a bill to authorize study by a special commission of the question of succession to the presidency. James A. Farley advocated the same idea the other day. When, as now, a vice president has succeeded a President, the man next in line is the secretary of state; with a number of ether cabinet members following ‘him. Maybe that’s the best possible arrangement ; maybe not. Whether there could be a better arrangement is worth considering. And, as Mr. Monroney says, theré are many blind spots and ambiguities in the present system. Various contingencies that might arise, and for which the constitution and the laws do not provide, could create grave doubt as to who should become President or whether there is anyone legally qualified to become President. None of these contingencies has arisen in 156 years, but that’s no guarantee that none ever will. ? We agree with Messrs. Farley and Monroney that now fs the time for a non-political commission to study the whole subject and recommend such improvement in the presidential succession system as may be found desirable.

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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

QUPPOSE the officials of a corporation, dissatisfied with thelr salaries, were caught giving themselves $2500 a year each of the stockholders’ money, calling it an expense allowance, and therefore paying no federal tax on it. You know what would happen? : The: stockholders wotild be sore at them. Congress: men would denounce them as wicked tax evadérs. the internal revenue department would proceed against . them, i Well, Eau of the Howse: of. representatives, dissatisfied with their salaries, have voted themselves $2500 a year each of the taxpayers’ money. Not all the representatives favored it. Some, like Rep. Louis Ludlow» of In- ~~ dianapolis, voted against the bill. It is patently intended as a salary increase. But the congressmen call it a ree expense allowance. We think the senate should this too-clever little dodge. We favor higher salaries and Zepresditatives; if honestly voted as such a real plan to make congress more ugh nt to boost their own : pattern for beating

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REFLECTIONS— Lr | On the Spot By John W. Hillman

* WHEN YOU toss even a small pebble into a stream of thought, Ef. you never know just hew far the ripples will go. Just a careless re- . mark thrown off in passing may come back to haunt you. Se the Old Reflector wasn't as startled as he might have been when he received a letter from the Saturday Evening Post about his A on the mystery of those” missing hours in the Commodore Hornblower serial. As a matter of fact, he'd been hoping that maybe Ben Hibbs, the editor of the Post, would write him

the lowdown on what went on in the boudoir of that -

Russian countess after she and Hornblower took a powder from the Czar's party. One of our readers who has an advance ‘copy of the book reported that he'd sneaked a look inside the covers (of the book, we mean) and: found that it is just as vague as the serial version. But Ben, it seems, is in Europe—and maybe while he's there he'll dig into the archives and bring back the memoirs of the countess.

‘Makes a Little Blue Bell Ring' HOWEVER in Mr. Hibbs' absence, Kehneth Stuart, art editor of the Post, took note of our column and writes: “Your protest about Stephen -Dohanos’ cover of Dalmatian pups makes a little blue bell ring way back in.the-recesses of my mind. When we published this cover, I received countless squawks from Dalmatian aficionados, In separate letters and by different authorities I was assured that Dalmatian pups get ‘their spots when they are two. weeks old, three weeks, two months, seven months, nine months, and a year old. “These fellows,” he continues, “should really have a conference and settle on one date. Dohanos painted our pups at the Bonney Kennels, Long Island, New York. They were about six weeks old, and when he painted them, they looked very much as they ap-. peared on the Post.cover. Of course, being an artist, he may have been entranced with the spotting and added a few from his own collection. At the time I thought of starting a club devoted to having Dalmatians born white and stay white. I also tried to interest Sears, Roebuck in a Dalmatian spot department so that the spots ‘could be purchased at will by the owners and added during critical parts in the pup’s development.” : Mr. Stuart speaks with some feeling. You can hardly blame him for being baffled, but if he'd written for a canine clientele as many years as this correspondent he'd know that you can get very long odds that no two dog experts ever will agree on anything.

‘Too Busy Going to Fires' WE DON'T pretend to be a Dalmatian expert. In fact, the only Dalmatian we ever knew well was a fugitive from a livery stable who used to hang around a fraternity house we also frequented. We named him Raisin Bread and never thought to /inquire about how or when he acquired his spots.” Back jn the days when we wrote about dogs, we spent some of the best years of our life trying to locate Dalmatian “puppies for sundry people who suddenly decided they wanted to buy one. jThe breed is getting scarce and -the surviving specimens age too

busy going to fires to raise families. So a Dalmatian |

puppy, we “can testify, is harder to find than the light in a strange bathroom. : Ofice or twice we located some and those, we | recall, were somewhat older than the litter op the Post and either were unspotted or just beginning to develop their calico complex. ~-But that was a long | time ago and perhaps our memory is faulty. Or | maybe those pups were retarded. On that evidence, we're not prepared to contest the verity of the Dohanos version. His speckled pups | are o. k. with us, but we suspect that if he and Mr. Stuart have anything to say about it, the Post cover hereafter will feature only collies and cockers. It’s no spot for a Dalmatian.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Solution By Hal O'Flaherty

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16— Members of the American delegation to the world security conference believe they have found a way to preserve the spirit of the Monroe -doctrine and still place the Latin-American security pact under. the organization. 4, To do this the law of self-defense is to be incorporated into an amendment of the Dumbarton Oaks charter. Any nation which is threatened with attack either from within its regional group or from abroad can have the help first of its neighbors. If they fail, the dispute will go to the security council of the United Nations. If it fails, the whole regional security group will have the right to defend the member under attack.

Would Join in Seeking Settlement IN A HYPOTHETICAL case, the government of the Netherlands East Indies might be in a dispute with China. Both Australia and New Zealand, if bound by.a regional pact, would join with the Netherlands in seeking a settlement. Failing, the whole matter would be referred to the security council. At this point the whole group would be acting | legally under the world charter if they jointly. | defended the Netherlands against a swift attack by | China, either while the security council was trying | or had failed to effect a peaceful settlement, ‘Another {illustration cold be based upon Italy's | historical invasion of Ethiopia. 0 Had that little | country been a member of a regional security | organization composed, say, of the Union of South Africa, Egypt, Arabia~ and others, the group would | have intervened first. If Italy remained obdurate and continued to prepare for the invasion of Ethiopia, the group effort would have been taken over by the international organization and {if it falled to restrain Italy, the regional group would “have automatically gone to war to defend Ethiopia,

General Agreement on Thesis SEVERAL TEXTS of the amendment incorporating right of ultimate self-defense into the Dumbarton Oaks charter have been written, There seems to be a general agreement en the thesis and it remains only to find the proper wording. Once found, the world charter will ‘be legally welded to the regional security pacts such as that of Chapultapec. ’ The American delégates Have worked with great determination to preserve the spirit of the Monroe doctrine and appear to be convinced now that it is possible to make Latin-American security an integral part of the world organization. At the same time, the United States could go te the defense of a South American nation: threatened by a European or an Asiatic nation only if the’ security council failed to act. Some modification of the Chapultepec pact to make it conform .to the thesis of ultimate selfdefehse may be necessary. Discussion of this point is proceeding, but ina spirit of good will on all

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So they. Say—

TO QUIT before ‘Japan is utterly crushed may get our sons back sooner, but as sure as fate our

grandsons will fight and bleed and die, just as our, sons are doing today, if we stop short of gomplet

victory Adm. William, TF. Halsey Jr. NEW ENGLANDERS are by nature conservative. Ww don't wear hearts

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“THE ANSWER TO SIXTY MILLION JOBS” By Henry W. Keger, 1009 N. Talbott ave. Former Vice President Wallace advocates 60 million jobs for Americans after the war. I am -afraid Mr. Wallace is guilty of indulging in some wishful"thinking. I question { very much if there will be. 40 mil-

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{lion jobs available after the war.| | American production has been tre- | mendous during the war. We have { clearly proven our capacity to pro- | duce. Yet, I say that our war {time production will teok small in comparison to the goods American {manufacturers will produce after | they reconvert their plants to peace |time production. Give General| thousands. of rotten war prisoners { Motors, Ford, Chrysler, R. C. A. here to do it. Kaiser and the rgst the g0 signs| gome soft heads don't seem to and they will flood the market think about what they would bring| within six months. We will haven in time right here by spreading |

fore the year's exit. Ten million them, petting them along. Maybe unemployed within two years after \they don’t even care apd want it the war's end—if we stay on a 40- like that. hour week. {them out of here and fast, everyore To eliminate any drastic unem-|.f them, If any of them have mar- | ployment period, I would suggest ried American girls make them take we go on a 25-hour week as SOON their wives home with them—we| as our market for goods becomes|gon't want them left here. Send! saturated. It seems to me a 25- them hack to the countries they de- | hour“ weck is the answer to the | stroyed of homes, back to build up 60 million jobs. I am more than for those they have taken from, | confident that American industry they want them and need them. can supply all our needs with a 25hour, work week. = ” » “LET'S KEEP OUR COUNTRY CLEAN”

By Ruth V. Taggart, Indianapolis While there is so much talk of keeping thousands of Nazi prison- | ers in our country to help turn outf our work, I don’t believe there will | be many true Americans that will grave and shoot them down in it. want them on their place., Though |mnas would be some more of what we know they would like staying | they put out. here in our states and like getting| Well, I am too mad to write, Sol their daily steaks with all the trim-|¢, he) with all the war prisoners. | mings, getting paid for their work] Let's keep our country clean of and having good times, taking part such filth. in what our people dé, contests, | un games and whatever it might be | "GREECE WILL |awarding them prizes. Some white- | {ALWAYS REMEMBER” {collar fatheads want them here,! {spreading them out all over our, ‘General {country for labor and farm work.| Greece will always remember your | |This, Old Glory has done well inspiring and devoted contribution enough without. their help, through, while she was struggling for liberty, |

prisoners that Russia will look] they dished out. I hope they work them under a whip on just enough food to keep going. I say starve)

iboys: Give them the torture of liv- | ing hell, just like they did to so| many others. Then when they can’t (work, make them dig their own

By Nicholas G. “Lely, Greek Consulate

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{enged—and it can do it now. | just for no good for anyone to even | |of the glorious. American people, I {think we need them. When our| | wish to extend to you my deep! {boys come home there will be work| appreciation and gratitude for your for all. Why not,

much to do they want to keep cause. Long live America!

Side Glances=By Galbraith

OPA

if there is so|invaluable help in the noble Greek |

“l wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

your right to say it.”

“SCARCITY PROGRAM * MUST BE ABOLISHED” By E. R. Egan, 701 Markwood ave. Feeding the whole war-torn world, including several million prisoners of war, has now become the business of this country, committed to a subsidized restricted production program. _ The German prisoners of war in {this -country now enjoy twice the food allowance of our civilian popuJation—which is still in<the process of reduction—and how it is going to be restored to normal under- this lunatic procedure is not quite clear unless we wait until Europe exports are available when even tariffs will not avail. Truly God works in| | mysterious ways His wonders to per- | form. This phase of the agricultural] program, in tHé beginning had at

unemployment in. the country be-| \them all over everywhere, coaxing| {least a plausible theory of eco-

| nomics, which in its scarcity of pro- | duction is closely aligned to the

Who knows? I say get | cartel system, but ‘it has worked

{such havoc in war production, indeed as a main cause of war, that it has now become an anachronism in {a world ‘engaged in destroying pro{duction and’ the accumulation of | centuries. Government control” of prices | must obviously be enforced to pre-| vent disastrous’ inflation, even if

I feel real happy about the war, | subsidized, but scarcity of produc-

[tion must be eliminated at once

after, They will sure get back what when the growing season is starting

{and thus insure a measure of plenty in a mad world. - And in the interest of food production, European

them, beat them like they did our | iprisoners of war, instead of clearing

{up rubble in the streets of unpro- | ductive areas, must be put to work, | and that at once, at production of {food, with adequate machinery, seed, etc. It is estimated that Europe's food {production - potential is enormous |and if we collectively do not want a {record of. starvation on. our hands fo equal the Germans, this must be |the immediate program in Europe, as in this country. This scarcity of production has not even the sanction of those it is supposed to benefit, and in the name of a common humanity, not to mention the interest .of the Democrat party, must ‘be abolished at once while it is time to repair some of

all the hard times it has experi- On this great day of victory | Ue mistakes of the policy. It is achieved thanks to the heroic fight | 0"

“ENCOURAGES USE {°F BLACK MARKET”

By Mrs, C. H., Indianapolis . I have noticed occasional criticism of the OPA in this column. I know they do some good. They would have to help some in distribution and price of necessary items or they would not be allowed to go on. But what I wonder about is their method of distribution of the civilians’ share of meat, I trade at a small neighborhood store near me. This store has had nothing brought to them but small quantities of lunch meat for a’ long time, no bacon or fresh meat at all.

<|I know meat is scarce but it seems

to me they could be allowed a small amount occasionally when two other small stores in the same neighborhood have a good variety of meats most of the time, The way I understand it, the OPA is supposed to know how much meat

it goes. The unfair distribution of foods is what encourages the use | of black markes. ” ” r “BEST THING I'VE SEEN IN PRINT” By Mrs. G. L. Lundin, Bloomington A The article in The Times of May 11 by Malcolm Bingay of the Detroit Free Press was the best thing I

~|have seen in print for a long time.

Where can I get some more copies of it? I should like to’'send them fo some people who think “it can't happen here.”

DAILY THOUGHT _ And the Lord commanded the angel; and “he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof

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POLITICAL SCENE—

Expenses By Ned Brooks

WASHINGTON, May 16--Legal {i opinion among house members was divided today over how much income tax—if any=they will have to pay on the $2500-per-person expense allowance they vo themselves last week. Some lawyer-members predicted the bureau ' of internal revenue will treat the expense bonus as additional compensation and permit tax deductions only. for expenditures recognized as deductible in the past. Others held that the entire $2500, which still must be approved by the senate, could be deducted without congressmen reporting in itemized form how they used the money.

Equivalent to a Salaty Raise TREASURY OFFICIALS sald their ruling will be made “when the question reaches us,” but Rep. Frederick C. Smith (R. 0) said he had been informed by a revenue official that the allowance "for all prac’ tical purposes would be exempt from taxation.” Rep. Smith has served notice that he will refuse to accept the allowance, 1f the entire amount is made tax-free, some mem-

bers point out, the allowance will be equivalent to a (salary raise from $10,000 to $15,000 a year. Rep. Clit-

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“ford RHope (R. Kas.) -said- the house-action absorbs most of the additional wartime tax on a $10,000 sal-

ment five years ago. The appropriation bill carrying the expense item omitted any reference to tax exemption, providing merely that each member was to be paid $2500 “to

from the discharge of his duties.” The committee report accompanying the bill, however, said the allowancé® would be tax exempt? The treasury, some members pointed out, permits

allowance without itemizing their actual travel expenses. This, they say, may be a precedent for: permitting deduction of the entire $2500 sipense item.

Deductible Items Are Limited.

IF THE TREASURY requires members to account for the allowance and pay taxes accordingly, the congressmen may find themselves severely limited on

deductible items. Under existing rulings, they are not permitted to take deductions for such items as living expenses while in Washington, campaign costs or travel in excess of the 20-cents-a-mile allowance, which is paid for only one roupd trip per session. Members are allowed ‘deductions for clerical expenses above the government allowance and for telephone bills incurred in official business. Doubt over exemption of the $2500 was reflected in debate over an amendment by Rep. William M. Whittington (D. Miss.) which would have raised congres-

permits deductions of $2500 to compensate for the cost of maintaining two residences. The amendment was ruled out of order. Rep. Edward H. Rees (R. Kas.) said the appropriations committee statement that the allowance is tax exempt has no force of law and “the internal revenue bureau, not the committee ‘report, will decide that question.” Rep. Walter C. Ploeser (R. Mo), a committee member, conceded that any portion of the allowance “not spent for proper expenses” would be subject to taxes.

IN WASHINGTON—

Blueprints

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| By Charles T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, May 16.~Despite a lot of talk about having a back- g log of public works ready in case an economic tailspin developed during industrial reconversion, relatively little has been done. Few cities could reach up ‘on the shelf for ready-to-go blueprints, In the expanded 150-billion-dollar annual income era talked of for post-war, the experts figure 15 billion should be construction. Ten billions would be private, five billion public. But, according to a recent survey of the American Society of Civil Engineers, only 735 million dollars worth of public works is far enough along to be ready to call, for bids. :

Sum Granted Is Inadequate AND MAJ. GEN. PHILIP B. FLEMING, federal works boss, says 17'% millions granted by congress to help local governments do the planning is altogether inadequate. Roughly 5 per cent usually goes into planning, and, with allowance made for .government administration costs on this end, that would provide for about 350 million of public works. War Mobilization Director Vinson estimates 2% million persons may be out of jobs at the end of a year. That would be moderate compared with the 15 million jobless of the depression years. But offi cials here are saying construction isn't ready to take up even its normal load in the economy, apart from any emergency growing out of abnormal unemployment. Congressional sources which have studiad the pub. lic works matter say the reason more plans aren't ready is that too many states and cities have been waiting for signs of a handout from Washington. There were many of them in prewar years, and it's suggested: -that the psychology of those days may still he a. handicap to some local governments getting down to cases on their own programs.

Congress Cool to Public Works GEN. FLEMING criginally asked 125 millions for public works planning. And the late President Roosevelt approved 75 millions. But the house whacked this recommendation to 5 millions, the senate boosted it to 35 millions, and they finally agreed on half of this—17% millions. There's no authorization of federal funds for actually carrying on works programs beyond the planning stage, and even the loans for planning must be repaid to Washington. Congress seems cool to big public ‘works spending, and the house post-war planning committee headed by Rep. William M. Colmer (D. Miss.) hasgthis to say: “The committee is opposed to the theory that large government spending in itself can provide a satisfactory stimulus to sustained production and employment.” The committee has pointed ou¢ that government spending in the 1930s went hand-in-hand with a low ebb of capital-plant expansion and new business creation, and also raises a question as to how much more deficit spending there can be on top of a prospective $300 billion national debt, A States in Better Position THE COMMITTEE said states and local govern ments are in much better position to finance shorte term works than Washington, with its huge debt. It urged that congress make this clear so that local public works for the transition period would’ not be delayed in hope of greater federal ald. Gen. Fleming recently told the senate small business committee that he doubted whether counties and cities would be of construction war year. And, he s that private Supital |

ary. The present tax is about $2170 over the assess- |

assist in defraying expenses related to or resulting

congressmen to deduct their 20-cents-a-mile travel

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