Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1945 — Page 18

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MR. TRUMAN: ON TAXES FEDERAL taxes must not be reduced until Jain is beaten, says President Truman. He is right. Wélcome as relief from the present tax rates will be, when it can be given safely, the time for it is not yet. So long as huge spending on war has to continue, sound government fiscal | & policy and good faith with the millions of people who own war bonds must be the first consideration. . That calls for high taxes. And for drastic cuts in nonessential spending, on which Mr. Truman and congress are making an encouraging start. The President, as we understand it, has not ruled out the tax-law amendments, already agreed to by the treasury, which are intended to permit corporations to use certain reserve funds for reconversion. These amendments will not reduce the ultimate wartime tax liabilities of the

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corporations affected, but should enable them to get ready sooner to provide peacetime jobs and pay taxes on peacetime earnings. * Mr. Truman's statement implies that tax reidiictions «der when Japan is defeated—as, of course, they i awilebor axoxiding.1ar hwetions drafted now; and-held-ready--to-go- into.immediate. ¢ effect | at the end of the war, so that business and industry, knowing ‘what to expect, can plan with assurance to expand, produce and Spy. :

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A WELCOME VOTE THE 14-to-11 vote by which the house ways ahd means committee has approved the bill to continue and to broaden the reciprocal trade agreements law deserves hearty applause. It puts the bill before the house, for debate next week, _ in substantially the form urged by President Roosevelt, by President Truman, by Cordell Hull, and by many organizations, including: the C. I. 0. and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. A few minor amendments, adopted in committee, do not affect the bill's main purposes—to extend the law for three years and to authorize negotiation of agreements cutting tariff duties a maximum of 50 per cent below present levels.

We hope the bill, as reported, will be passed by resound- |

ing votes in both branches of congress. For if the American people want peace in the world, and prosperity, high employment and a rising living standard here at home,

they must co-operate with the people of other nations in |

promoting the exchange of goods and services. The committee's 10 Republican members were joined by one Democrat—Mr. West of Texas—in voting for amendments that would have weakened and limited the bill. We're glad the 14 wiser Democrats stood firmly. ‘the Republicans who tried to turn the clock back toward economic isolation did a disservice to their party.

LET THE AVALANCHE ROLL

N “avalanche” of civilian goods and services will be, as

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REFLECTIONS —

Ironies of fe By Howard Vincent O' Brien

MONTEREY, Cal., May 18.—These lines are written in the locale of Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row,” and outside my window a couple of fishermen are lunching on a loaf of bread, an onion and a bottle of wine. San Francisco is only a trifle over a hundred miles away, but it seems on another planet. Instead of a “crisis” every hour. on the hour, there is only the soft murmur of the sea .in.its end« less embrace with the rocks. Here, for a few hours, safe even from the tele-

for example, the. statement I read im yesterday's newspaper. ~1t was issued by a highly placed officer of the army; and it rang with exhortation to all workers to remember that the war is not yet over. It urged them not to relax even for an instant in their pro--ductive effort. But at 5 o'clock last night I saw this officer in a bar—and he was so drunk he could barely stand; ;

'Knee-Deep in Glamour THIS CAUSES me to reflect on what is known as a “name.” San Francisco was literally crawling with “names.” One found them in the .strangest places. At one of Molotoy's press conferences—so exclusive that the doors were kept locked—I saw Rita Hayworth.” And Orson Welles was everywhere. The town was knee-deep in glamour. It was paradise for the autograph collector; but for the ordinary reporter, it' was disenchantment. The sad fact is that the possessors of big names turn out, on closer acquaintance, to be singularly like the possessors of little names—or no names at all. When you meet & famous person, you ‘expect him or her to say things in keeping with his reputation.

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You are prepared for brilliance and profundity—and p?

you hear nothing more than you get from Joe Zilch, Eminence is a kind of will-d’-the-wisp. Always you believe that just over the hill are people who really know the answers. But when you catch up

as sticky as your own; and as burdened with frailties | and follies as pitiful as those of any mortal One thing that proximity to fame does for you is

pore STEEEN, a

‘Three-Kinds-of.Spag ef

CLEARING OUT my Se of accumulated not s, It =

I find items I may not previously have mentioned— the. good looks of San Francisco women—and the stout legs its hills seem to have developed. . .. The

gas heat and frequent rains, The absence of smoke permits a shirt to go two or more days. Notable among conference visitors—the almost total absence of the stiff coilar. Another curious item: American newspaperhen-— prodigious note-takers—almost never know how to use shorthand. In England, most pressmen (as distinguished from “journalists”) are expert. stenographers. And ‘here are a couple of notes that “throw some light on life as it was in San Francisco . .". the waitress who greeted me at breakfast with: “We have no ham, bacon, sausage or butter—and I wouldn't be surprised if the eggs had run out.” And the | headwaiter in a big restaurant who advised against waiting for a table “Because,” he said, “you won't | find anything to eat. All we have is three kinds of spaghetti—rare, medium and well-done.” The word “photog,” scribbled on the back of an envelope, recalls the Chicago cameraman who saw a typist working in a fur coat, and thought it would | make a wonderful picture of San Francisco's climate. | but didn't take it because, he said, “I made a shot | like that in Florida, once. And what did they do?.| They threw me in the hoosegow and took my camera away!”

WORLD AFFAIRS—

By J. 8.

ga 3 Br ei ALBURY

Hoosier

|“HAS HE FORGOTTEN

THE CAMPAIGN SPEECHES?” Indianapolis : I ‘have been following with a great deal of interest the strike of |

the garbage collectors in Indian-| apolis, When the Democrats left | office there was a large surplus

| of money in the treasury. Is Mayor

| Tyndall trying to create the im-|

| pression that the city is broke? Or| | has he just forgotten all the flowery |

campaign speeches and promises)

he made to the very men whom he is now giving the cold shoulder to? He and his friends used some

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

Forum death your right to say it.”

(Times readers are invited |“THE ONLY QUESTION to express their views in |INVOLVED IN STRIKE" these columns, religious con- gy sonn Alvan Dilworth, 8161 Broadway troversies excluded. Because Some people think the recent of the volume received, let"ters 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 correspondence regarding them.)

streets and sewage treatment) was not against the mayor of the city, or ‘the city administration, as such, but against all the peoples of Indianapolis.. I do not wholly agree with this thought. Had this® been the, first controversy in which the mayor had] been engaged, I might concur in the above opinion, but as we

strike of municipal employees (ash | and garbage collection, repair of|

POLITICAL SCENE—

Vital Need

{By Thomas L. Stokes

“WASHINGTON, May 18.—There

-| has been a significant development

touching Soviet: Russia which is Er worthy of serious consideration, § not only for ourselves, but for Rus- - sla~if she cares, It is that Russia is losing good-will here in government and in congress among people

| who hitherto havé been sympathetic. They have been

guided by the conviction that the two great nations and war allies must be partners in the - ~post- ~WAr world. This reaction expresses itself voluntarily, which makes if impressive. “It is impressive, 100, because 1t comes a middle ground, - liberal and progressive

.| stratum which, since the last war, has been separate

from the anti-Russian group that mever has changed, and from the Communist element that accepts every= thing Russian. blindly, 1s constantly worshipful, and has not changed either,

‘Middle Group Is Frankly Disturbed"

THIS TOLERANT ‘middle group is frankly dise turbed by. successive incidents—Poland #nd the re fusal of the Soviet government to follow out her Yalta commitment by broadening the government there; the arrest’ of the 16 Poles which broke like a thunderclap over the Sap Francisco conference; her usurpation in Austria; her closing of the Balkans to outsiders; Tito’s. encroachment on Trieste. Russsia‘s rough-and-tumble diplomacy at San Francisco also has been difficult to comprehend. ‘ ‘Some members of congress who have been friendly toward Russia are getting mail from constituents de= | manding an explanation, They are hard put to it te explain, They want to give Rugsia a break, They are grateftil for her tremendous contribution to victory in Europe. They wold like to see her make her cone tribution to the future peace hand- in-hand with us and Great Britain. At the present time she appears as a grabber, brusquely collecting smaller nations into her orbit.

‘Time to Call a Halt?!

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT made a number of concessions, by no means minor, to get Russia into

~The question is asked whether it isn not. timé’ to call a halt before the policy develops into appeasement, This is the solution suggested here, now tha other means have Tailed. Policy seems to be mov¥ig in that direction, and. will be interesting to watch. There is, of course, a basic difference in the gone cept of dermhocracy as Great Britain and ourselves see it and as Russia sees it. An incident at San Francisco illustrates this. Foreign Commisar Molotov explained at_a press conference that he had urged that the right to work and the right to education be included in the preamble to the world security organization charter. He

tion raised. That was not the full Hoty. When he suggested this inclusion at a meeting, an American representative spoke up approvingly, but sugegsted also that there be included other rights—freedom of speech, freedom of press; freedom of assembly, freedom of religion. Mr, Molotov dropped his request,

‘You Don't Know Which One’

‘ONE OF the most penetrating observations on Russian diplomacy came from a British newspaper correspondent, . “Russia asks for five things. She wants only one, But you don’t know which one that is.” . Somehow somebody must build a bridge of under standing .by which Russia and ourselves can reach | each other. : That is becoming most important.

said he had not pressed it when there was some ques~ |

And we think

Muddling

By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON. May 18.—British and SHAEF official statements

Price Administrator Bowles has just said, the surest means of smothering the fires of infiation. desire to see these goods and services return to the market

| as war criimnals. We share his |

at 1942 prices—if that is possible without blocking the |

avalanche. But, as Mr, Bowles acknowledges, prices fixed too low would restrict production and foster unemployment. So weuld long delay in establishing prices.

At best, recon- |

version pricing will be a tremendously complicated job. |

And an attempt to hold prices at 1942 levels, in spite of | higher labor and other costs, by limiting business and industry to profit ratios lower than managements consider safe and fair could mean long delays, low output and fewer jobs than there ought to be. So we hope that OPA will not let any too-rigid formula stand in the way of the most important consideration, | which is to get production going and put people to work. | At the same time, we think it’s very definitely up to industsy and business to be reasonable—to base reconversion price policies, not solely on an output volume which may he small at the start, but on the favorable prospect. for immensely larger volume a little later. Meanwhile, we all can help to hold ‘those inflationary fires in check (1) by not demanding relief from present federal tax rates as long as government war spending has to keep far ahead of government revenue, and (2) by buying bonds to the limit of our ability in the seventh war loan drive.

TOO SIMPLE, MAYBE

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{imprisoned and tried as war criminals.

have quieted some fears that the | ® Junkers will end up running Ger- | " many, instead of being punished But the picture still is neither

clear nor bright. The Western Allies have been caught unprepared | for the surrender. They, in turn, are victims of a long policy deadlock with Russia regarding Ger- | many. Meanwhile, every day of delay in the appli- | cation of a definite and co-ordinate occupation policy

| by the major powers plays into the hands of the

Junkers and the Nazi underground.

| be paid according {| earn, What a farce! | A mayor should know how to]

Difference in Emphasis PRIME MINISTER . CHURCHILL and Lt. Gen. | Clay, who is Gen: Eisenhower's deputy military governor for occupied Germany, covered only a fraction of the problem in their statements Wednesday. Moreover. there was a difference in emphasis if not an outright conflict between the two. Clay said Hitler's successor, Adm. Doenitz, and certain other selected German officers were being | used only temporarily under absolute allied control to expedite feeding, disarmament and medical care | { of the enemy armed forces. And, he added, Doenitz and other captured military leaders would soon be It was indi- | cated that Germany, at least in the near future, | would have no recognized “government’—only allied military government. But Churchill, under sharp -questioning in commons, replied: “We have no intention of undertak- | ing the burden of administering Germany ourselves. } I am not sure whether any machinery of government, | whether central: or regional, can be sald to exist at present in Germany, and in any case I should prefer to speak of administration rather than government.” He declined to answer a specific question as to the | “authority” of the Doenitz “government” still broadcasting from Flensburg in the British zone.

AN articje in the War and the Working Class reprinted by

the Russian embassy in Washington, admits and dis-

cusses the obvious difference between the Russian and |

Anglo-American definitions of “democracy.” This difference, the article holds, “should not serve as an obstacle to firm, endurable co-operation among the allies.” But in view of this difference, “it would be hopeless to deinand that democracy should be built up in all countries of Europe on a British or American model.”

- oa: 8 MN oa THE OBVIOUS solution, of course, should be to let the citizens of Europe's various countries decide for themselves what type of democracy they want. implisit in the Atlantic Charter (to which the Soviet Union subscribed) and explicit in the Yalta Agreement in regard to Poland, - : But Poland’s problem can't seem to get started toward settlement. And now an official Russian publication quali-

fies its original agreement oi the matter by way of four |

explanations. Well, maybe that is the trouble with simple solutions

will get y used to the idea of simplicity as time goes on,

se report that thie Janse, facing a 2 desperate J. are, stepping up the production, of | new. types is down as th e

{using his generals of the | his earlier promise to Washington.

| subject, Such a sclution was |

Still a Big Question Mark

ASSUMING THAT the prime minister was need- | lessly cagey and that Britain has no infention of

preserving the Junker class, there is still a big ques- |

tion mark regarding Russian policy. Stalin. goes. on | so-called reformed Junker marshals and | “Free Germany committee,” despite | That increases uneasiness over his original policy, publicly stated, that post-war Germany should have an army Though | there has since been a joint” Big Three pledge for | total German disarmament, the application of this |

to the Junker source of ‘Prussian militarism remains |’

obscure, t The most absurd situation of all is that, after | more than a year, of Big Three negotiations on the | they. have not yet been able to agree on the lines. of their separate occupation zones, Even if the areas had been fixed six months ago, and all of the intricates of co-ordination had been worked out in advance, the problems of ‘control in a divided | country would have been difficult enough. Now the | chaos will be compounded. | In-justice to Washington, it stiould ‘be said that | our government apparently is not to blame for this serious allied failure. - Gen. Clay says the question | of occupation zones will be settled within a few | days. We hope so.

This is one emergency which cannot wait or the. | they are too simple. However, we hope that all concerned | | personal meeting of the Big Three—to. which Stalin

| has not yet consented. \

{By Mrs.

mighty persuasive talk to get this

certain vote and it didn’t matter at that particular time whether they belonged to a labor union or not. It is a ‘well known fact that Mayor Tyndall has little use for | the laboring class of people and |is bitterly opposed to labor unions. If these men who pick up our | smelly garbage and trash in the heat of summer, and frozen garbage and ashes in the winter, are not entitled to the small increase of 12 cents on the hour on their wages, how does Mr. Tyndall figure he is entitled to twelve thousand dollars? No other mayor has! received such a salary. Some of] our leading business men have been heard to say that men should to what they

cope ‘with all classes of people and! be able to meet with any emergency pertaining to business or|

“labor, It seems Mr. Tyndall {8 in-

efficient when- it comes to labor, although he does have the help of Mr. Remy and Mr. Rucker. = ~ y “I'M SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE"

M. §., Indianapolis

Now that most of you ladies | reading this have completed your

nice it would be to have the out- | side of your house look as spiffy] |as the inside.

In case you prefer not to spend/ have been protesting) removed. | the sum necessary to hire someone | to paint the house just now, and |experience!

your husband is overseas or working long hours here, you COULD paint it yourself! I painted mine] last spring. The neighbors are delighted with the result. In faet, I think they had been about to | circulate a petition askimg that it

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{ be painted.

thumb backward through the pages of the Indianapolis press, we find many controversies, some of |

which seem to me unnecessary, in| News Flow

which the mayor has been engaged. | By Daniel M. Kidney

IN WASHINGTON—

In 1938, when a similar threaten-

In view .of my experience I feel ing situation arose, fhe city’s atqualified to tell you just how it torney issued opinions which flatly is done. (Aside to painting con- told the mayor that he had no tractor: You had best skip to the right by law to. enter into any next letter unless you are in a a8Teement with any union of city decidedly good humor today.) First, employees. . - Sh you ladies must buy some paint, In 1944, James A. Emmert, Indi- | about five gallons for a starter, And jana attorney general, established | besides, with this. many cans of | (the city’s legal right to recognize {paint cluttering up the place you | unions of city employees. The opin~ |will be discouraged from backing | ion recognized the right of public} out when and if you get cold feet €MmPployees to join. organizations. 1t later on. |did not specifically. legalize union Then you go over‘the whole house [Teen by goyernmental units, with a putty knife, chipping off all], onde bi an lem appeasing told paint that is loose. You LP peal W. Kew, site J8hoF com~ |remove unnecessary nails, tacks, | isi 4" president {wads of chewing gum, and birds’ | sioner and president .of the nests. You leave: ‘the ~necessary| indiana State Bullding . Trades { Council for the last 21 years, said jones. t was his understanding that while Next you start painting, being the city could not enter inta agreesure to have a dust rag with you to |ment or contriict with a union, the dust off ‘each area before painting mayor is not prohibited by law from

it. (After dusting off your entire conferring with union members as

house, dusting the furniture is go- |, means of settling the dispute. ling to seem like duck soup.) .

| 10-toos extension ladder) you can|ministration as such. go quietly to the hospital and have

Side Glances —By Galbraith

ferences may exist.

So They. Say —

" BEFORE THE comple (in contrvl) are alm to save something 1

ruin of Japan, these men tain to make an attempt |

the wreckage. bhi pia, w their

in city personnel procedures.

-| employee. to ' receive a vacation,

same work receives nane, is criminating and an ‘injustice.

When such prominent man as Mr, Kern offers

tion division to the city and they

gaining.

clubs and other,

settlement of the dispute.

" DAILY THOUGHT Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is and might; and fn thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto ally Chronicles 20:12,

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This statement, 1 believe, brings us When you have completed the job |, a point where the strike is no land have put away the last of your|jonger a matter of against all the | spring housecleaning, you've prob-|ladders (usually two folding ladders,

people of Indianapolis but “solely | ably been thinking some about how |set of extension planks, and a 20 t0|ggainst the ma¥or, or the city ad-

Mayor Robert H. Tyndall, con- | your appendix (or whatever innards tends he has no legal right to deal with employees as union members As said before, I'm speaking from | pyt that he will talk with them as individuals to adjust whatever dif-

It is said that the only guestion involved in the strike is recognition of the union as an’agency to plead the case of the workers for changes The employees feel that they shotild not be ‘dismissed summarily without a hearing. They: also feel that for one

while another empioyée doing the dis-

Mr. Kern sald he believed the best course for the maypr would be a conference with the city employees, and’ ‘their’ dnion répresentatives. an. experienced and

the services of the state conciliaare not accepted, it, seems to me that the mayor is strictly opposed to union labor and collective bar-

It is not surprising as stated in the press on May 11, last, that civic

oming interested in the problem and will adopt _ resolutions’ urging an early

“and wikting ktowiedge of Gefman,

WASHINGTON, May 18. «A double-barreled effort to make effective President Truman's and Gen, Eisenhowej's views on a “free flow” of news into and out of U.S. occupied Germany was launched yesterday, Senator Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn); a former newspaperman, is leaving for Europe with the exe pressed intention of finding out in detail just what S.H.A.E.F. policies regarding news coverage and distribution is to be under the occupation govern ment. Meanwhile members of the house appropriations committee agreed that a review of the $42,000,000 appropriation which OWI Director Elmer Davis is

curtailing, the bureau. “As a form@r newspaperman, I am interested in the difficulties and quarrels which have grown ous of getting news in and out of our part of Germany,” Senator Ball said,

Ludlow Expects Close Scrutiny

“I LIKE very much the forthright statements of both. the President ‘and Gen, Eisenhower, But as I am going to Europe as a member of the Mead subcommittee studying the supply problem, I intend to take some time to make a first-hand investigation of ‘the details of the news setup and to learn how i§ operates from 8S. H.A.E. F, on down the line, Freedom of the press is one ‘of the things Americans fought for and upon which our people are’ thore oughly agreed.” Another newspaper veteran, Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind), member of the house appropriations eoms= mittee, said he expects to see some sharp erosse examination of the Davis budget since “supposedly OWI no longer plans on operating its exclusive newse papers and magazines in Germany.” Rep. John Taber (R, N. Y.), ranking minority member of the house appropriations committee, said he will offer a motion to abolish OWL Both Ludlow and Taber were aroused by Mr, Davis’. testimony Monday before the committee that much of the $42,000,000 will be needed to “re-educate Germany and Japah.” "OWI hasn't made much sense at any time,” Mr, Taber charged. “And right now I think it would be as easy to save all those millions by abolishing it as it was to seve the millions we did when we abolished the national youth administration, “If the move fails in committee, I'll take the fight for abolition to the house floor, Bureaus never die, Congress has to kill them.”

OWI Refuses to Discuss Its Plans

MEANWHILE OWI refuses to discuss its plans regarding the German news setup originally ane nounced by its European chief, Philip C. Hamblet, That plan was to have OWI publish seven news papers and magazines; other publications would nog be allowed to circulate. It was tossed out the window by President True man and Gen, Eisenhower, Last week Mr. Davis okayed the plan at a press conference, Subsequently President Truman told a White House press, cone ference that Mr. Davis had done so in good faith. What has aroused new ire with the appropriations committeemen was the- publication of pleas for help such as the following, which appeared in a Pittsburgh newspaper last Friday; “Trained newspapermen ahd women who would like to have jobs in Eurdpe on a foreign language paper will be interviewed by a representative of the ‘office of war information tomorrow and :Saturday, “Especially in demand are_those with a speaking ting Applicstions will be persons working at RR

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