Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1946 — Page 16

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THE GAS UTILITY’S GOLDEN EGG nN spite of the brave words of city officials that the city is solvent and there isn’t any deficit, it is apparent that there is going to be a deficit before the end of this year. About $600,000 worth of deficit.

That deficit will be the direct result of (a) increased 4 municipal costs, which were largely unavoidable, and (b) | failure to look the facts in the face last year and make ah the tax rate high enough to bring in what we obviously expected to spend. * Scrambling for revenue to make up that shortage, it is pretty easy to look at the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, a going concern in its own right, and ponder ways and means of getting some of its profits—since it is, actually, : “a part of the city government itself —into the empty city : treasury. There is this to be said forit: The gas utility has a profit, and the city does need the money. ‘Beyond that, we can't see much justification for the project. " » ”

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THE gas utility's profits now in hand are all earmarked for construction of needed additional equipment, needed, that is, to produce more gas to meet the requirements of the growing community. If it were possible now to divert that money to pay the city’s running expense, it would still be necessary to build the additional gas equipment. But it could be done only by issuing bonds, or in _other words, borrowing the money, to do so. We can't see much difference, there, from borrowing money to meet the city’s running expense. Which is, in effect, exactly the same as living beyond one’s income and borrowing enough to pay the landlord and the grocery bill.

* It was no part of the intention of the people of Indianapolis when they bought this gas company to try to run the city hall out of the profit from it. Quite the contrary, in fact. With that in mind the legislation providing for the purchase was written as carefully as it could be to prevent just the sort of levy on gas plant funds as now is proposed. The statute plainly says that no part of any profits from its operation shall be used for anything except its operation as long as it owes any money. It does still owe around $8 million on bonds issued for the original purchase. , That original purchase price was about $14 million. The difference has been paid off out of profits from its ‘operation. And those profits also have paid for the considerable expansion and improvements that have been made in its plant. ; : Aside from the legal difficulties involved, it seems to us that if and when the gas utility has any surplus cash made from gelling fuel, that ought to be used to cut the price of gas. The money came from the consumers of gas, and any surplus that remains from the operation by right belongs to them. This isn't a private utility that has to return a profit, at all. Over the long haul it ought not return any profit. After its bonds are all retired—as they obviously will be in due course—its rates should be made just as low as they can possibly be to pay its actual operating expense and keep its plants maintained. This utility was bought for just that purpose. We might just as logically levy a tax on the fire engine houses to run the city as to reach for the “profits” from the city’s own sale of gas to its own citizens.

E realize that the city’s finances are by no means in ideal condition—but there is nothing really desperate "about our situation. The way to meet the problem is to meet it, squarely and realistically. If Indianapolis is going to spend more money on municipal operation—and it appears inevitable that we are—then taxation is the only way to get it. Anything else is an unsound makeshift.

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DEMOCRATIC WESTERN EUROPE

THE French and Italian election results and the British government's foreign policy statement all indicate western Europe's determination to withstand Communist pressure.

The same trend has been apparent in other western European countries. In that entire area, except for Spain and Portugal, the majority of the people have asserted their democratic rights and faith. This is the most hopeful development of the postwar period, and one of tremendous consequence to the security and future of American democracy. or

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In France and Italy, as.in Britain, the leading political parties are now Socialist-Democratic. They favor mild forms of nationalization and basic social reform through _ parliamentary processes, but they are unalterably opposed to totalitarianism either of the Fascist or Communist brand. Their bitterest opponents are the Communists,

Ni The margin of safety for the democratic parties is closest in France. After VE-day and until late spring ‘the Communists gained rapidly. They were strong enough #0 write the new proposed constitution, but it was rejected by the referendum of last month. Sunday’s elections: for the new constituent assembly confirmed defeat of the Mos8, with the Popular Republican movement emerging as the largest party. But as the second largest party in the country, and by far the best disciplined and active, the C ts will still cause enough trouble.

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By Thomas Fisher,

so much down.” Such is the story

anything left for furniture and the other things it takes to start a home. : E Another big migtake is not giv. ing full information about property| offered for sale. Today houses

sound as good as most of us want| been ill-advised. The legislation to break the strike is worse than the

to buy when advertised, but when calling regard to more information we often find out that the places are run down and sometimes have outside water and bathroom facilities, which should have been given in the papers. What is to! be done if we are to remedy this situation. It should be the duty of every city official to undertake to help veterans. Talk is all we have gotten so far. Can't something be done! One of the first things that should be done is enforce strictly regulations set up by the civilian production administration to curb building material to be used in building other than homes for veterans, Building still seems to be going

"Use Materials for Apartments For Veterans Until Homes Are Built"

1447 English Ave.

There is a great deal of talk in regard to homes for veterans. So far this has been mostly talk. From looks of things, the only veterans that could afford homes offered for gale to the G.I. are ones that must have been in for about five hitches and saved every penny of their money each year, They can give us all the dope we need on G.I. loans, but what good is a loan if the down payment is more than the average service man could have saved? . Yes, that's what they all say, “only

every time. No matter what the

down payment is, very few veterans can afford the amount and have

“NEED NOW IS FOR COOL HEADS IN LABOR CRISIS”

{By W. C. Reese, Shelbyville

1 for one think the President has

strike. It provides for military dictatorship and that is what a certain element has wanted. The legislation puts us nearer to communism than we have been, would have provoked concentration camps and violated every constitutional right of the worker. It called for involuntary servitude. It took property without due process of law. It removed the citizen from protection of the civil courts, Yet congress was ready to go to

the extreme of enacting such a law. Every man who voted for such a

on. The only way out is to build] apartment buildings which will give| us a place to live while the proposed | homes are being built. Why can't] enough materials be had to build] a few apartment buildings which| could be bought by commercial or| industrial enterprises, thus giving| us a place to live and get estab-| lished financially. This would re- | duce the current backlog of homes! to be built and at the same time! enable us to live until our homes {are built,

5 n ” | “RUARK’'S ‘REFLECTIONS’ MAKE GOOD READING” | By Sarah Aubrey, 36 McLean pl. As another G. I.'s mother I be{lieve Seripps-Howard can consider | themselves lucky. Bob Ruark's| work smacks a lot of a fellow we all loved (Ernie Pyle). I want to see a snapshot of not only his kitchen |

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bill should be defeated. They are not safe to be entrusted with liberty of the people. Candidate LaFollette is quoted in the papers as saying that he would have voted for it if he had been there. It is a shame he was away. He wants us to have government ownership of railroads and coal mines. Why doesn’t he run on the Communist ticket? What we need is better means of arbitration, More men like John Steelman, able to work with labor and to arbitrate; cool heads that do not stir up conditions when they should be calm,

We do not need military dictator~

by the Constitution. The people need calm leadership in times like these, men who will stand up for the Constitution and not yield to pressure of those who want to sacrifice our form of government for the sake of stop-gap legislation.

‘Carnival —By Dick Turner

“CONDITIONS HERE MAKE MEN STAY IN SERVICES” By Hoosier Passenger, Bourbon Out in Baltimore, on the way back home, we didn’t believe there could possibly be a general strike,

ment had stepped in. But by the

morning of “S-day” we began to feel’ uneasy; radio, newspapers, friends who thought they knew, all were pessimistic—so, I started westward and homeward two hours before the blow was to fall, just in case, I didn’t mind the one-hour delay in Harrisburg, Pa. The five-day truce had been announced and the train crew probably had to mull it over, I thought. Then at Altoona several hours later we were delayed

fused to go on until he had orders from union headquarters. The tired passengers took the delay like good sports—poor, imposed-upon John Q. Public usually does—but they did feel a deep resentment of the cause of it gll. One sailor was heard to remark: “When the government orders us to do anything, we do it — or else. There's a six letter word for disobedience in the navy—Mutiny!” Another said it was John L. Lewis and general conditions in the country that had made him decide to stay in the navy, and added he knew soldiers of the same opinion. “I know the score out there,” he said. “Here I don’t.” Other servicemen added their bit; they seemed a bit dazed by the whole situation, especially the ones wearing overseas ribbons. And who could blame them? Where is all this leading to? Strike upon strike; disregard for the public welfare. ” n ” “INCREASED SALARY FOR OLDER TEACHERS EMPTY” By Veteran Schoolma'am The school board's plan for re-

tirement of older teachers of the

|ship in a nation which has stood | teachers who, before that plan was

" | teachers concerned would by that

city school system is an action arbitrary and disillusioning to the

adopted April 30, could teach be-

yond the now arbitrary 66-year age limit set up by the pension law. Not many are affected, but it's a serious problem to those who are. We began when salaries were as low as $300 a year, Our income remained at a low level until relatively recently. Yet civic, social and educational standards have been raised consistently. Few of us have savings big enough to suddenly pay the equalizing sum, plus compound interest, involved in changing over to the 1945 plan. . What this amounts to is dismissal of loyal public servants. Wouldn't it be fairer and more considerate to give three years leeway, dfrin which these few older men and women would have time to put their houses in order. Most of the

time have normally retired and the blot caused by the ugly Word “dismissed” would not be on the records of the Indianapolis public schools. With the last salary increase the morale, faith, and oneness of the teaching stafl with the school administration reached its highest level in many years, Does economy enter into this picture to such an extent that the increased salary for older teachers will be a hollow gesture?

. DAILY THOUGHT

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man Genesis 9.6. .

THEY came “with banner, spear,

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS to realize that thousands of trained men and women of the army, navy, marine corps and sea bee reserves are immediately available. in event of war.

This personnel, all veterans of the last war, will continue to receive training ... many of the soldiers in units and many of the sailors in groups capable of taking ships to sea. i Seven hundred thousand ‘soldiers have chosen to remajn in the reserve . . . 330,000 officers and 370,000 men, The navy, which includes marines, anticipates an organized reserve of 200,000 regularly receiving training and 65,000 volunteer reserves with periodic training. :

Supplements Regular Services

IN THE RECENT WAR, reserves were the backbone of an army and navy in which the professionals provided the leaven of continued education in the arts of war. As Secretary of War Patterson says, more than half the battalion commanders , . . “the men who put the punch into our leaders’ tactical and strategic plans” ; , , were reservists. ' A new .feature of this phase of the defense program is emphasis on bringing ex-G. I's into it. The country’s first chapters of former army enlisted men are being organized at Notre Dame university and at Evansville, It is estimated that 40,000 will be the approximate final figure for Hoosier G. L's who stay in the reserve. Indiana leads also in activity of the Reserve Officers’ association, with some 3500 members in 53 chapters. Final figures on officers who agcept reserve commissions is expected to be 16,000 for the state. ‘Floyd E. Lindley, Marion, was elected senior vice president of the national association at Chicago Monday. H. N. Willoughby, Richmond, then succeeded him as president of the state body. . The Naval Reserve Officers association also has been re-activated and will hold its national sessions next October. It is anticipated that similar national organizations for enlisted reservists will become active. These associations are a principal point of contact

NEW YORK, June 6.—~In my spare time I have been studying up to be a Broadway columnist, which is not as easy as it looks. First off, I haven't got a secretary, so there is nobody to write me a weekly letter which I can print.

The second barrier is that I know practically no celebrities, aside from a few beat-up athletes and a couple of burlesque dancers. If I go rolling up to somebody in a nightclub with my pencil in hand they are more than likely to call the waiter and have me heaved.

Pipeline Pretty Handy I HAVEN'T GOT a pipeline to*Washington, London, Cairo, Moscow or Los Angeles. Hedda Hopper wouldn't know me if I crept up and bit her on the ankle. I never get invited to the White House parties. But I have mastered the use of the three dots dots, that is ; and have conquered the formula which leads to success. To be a successful Broadway columnist, never, never, write about Broadway, if you can write about Washington, Hollywood, or international diplomacy. Herewith a sample: Get Cap Krug to tell you what he said to John L. Lewis the international set buzzing over what a headwaiter told the Duke of Windsor Stalin isn't ‘sick insiders say he has been dead 44 years Gromyko dickering for an executive job with Walt Disney. Money is the root of all evil . get John L. Lewis to tell you what he said to Cap Krug . Hollywood making eyes at Haile Selassie . . inside is that they want him to double for Monte Woolley Harry Truman likes bow ties . . . get Truman to play the piano for you. OPA will definitely merge with the selective service act new head to be Harold Ickes . King Farouk of Egypt wears a fez . , . Betty Grable quitting the flicks to go into politics Bilbo quitting politics to go into the movies he'll play the title role in a revival of “The

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WASHINGTON, June 6.—One of the most interesting political developments recently is the obvious rebirth of ambition in Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio to be president. It never quite died, of course, after that excitingly close call in 1940 when Wendell Willkie beat him out of the Republican nomination at the last minute, contrary to all established rules, Signs of the rebirth are all around.

Banking on Conservative Trend FOR ONE THING, the senator recently hired himself a publicity man. For another, his wife— Martha Taft as she is so well known—is out doing her own brand of campaigning, talking among the women folks. Mrs. Taft proved quite a help to her husband at the start of his national political career back in 1938 when he surprised the experts by his nomination and election as senator, The senator is a precise, formal sort of person, somewhat chilling at first meeting. His wife is warm. friendly and gracious. 8 Mrs. Taft thrashed out at the Democratic party and the Truman administration in a speech this week before the Republican women of Pennsylvania, describing the party as “a freak of nature.” She sald it had “a Communist front, reactionary rear and ‘know-nothing’ middle.” The senator, never one to be idle for a moment, has been busy about legislative matters here in a way that has increased the belief that he is serious about trying to get the Republican presidential nomination. He has seemingly endless energy. He seized leadership of that hybrid coalition of

PARIS, June 6.—Reports from Washington suggest that Bernard M. Baruch, American representative on the atomic energy commission of the United Nations, intends to recommend that the right of veto of the Big Five powers be abolished in all cases of violation of atomic-control agreements, If this is so, it is.good news indeed. Baruch's reputation stands so high in America that, if ke were to make such a proposal, it would very likely be endorsed by President Truman.

Red Reaction Is Question Mark

HOW RUSSIA WOULD REACT is a different matter, It was solely to procure her entry into the United Nations organization that Britain and the United States agreed to accept the principle of the veto, But it's not inconceivable that Russia might agree to abolishing the veto In this particular instance. Genius of British, American, Canadian and French scientists, plus the immense resources of American industry, have left Russia so far behind in atomic research that she cannot hope to recover the lost ground in the foreseeable future. . Despite the fact that Britain is privy to the secret of the atomic bomb's manufacture and has hundreds of scientists and design engineers who have concentrated. on this work for many years, it’ would probably take her 10 years to make an atomic bomb as effective as that which explpded over Hiroshima, It is” fairly safe to assume that, even hy making

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TODAY’ IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchill Reds Cannot Take the A-Bomb Lead

Armed Services Depend on Reserves

between the reservist and the war and navy depart ments, and received wide support from both in the period between the last two wars; Their primary interest is the national defense program, plus individual availability in an emergency when training is needed. In plans for the army and navy of tomorrow, ree serves play one -of the major roles. Technical special ists in the fields of electronics, chemistry and engi= neering will be kept up-to-date in their respective fields, and administrative officers will be trained in the intricacies of service paper work, It is these types of jobs that are so difficult to fill in war, along with those requiring backgrounds of industry, business, finance, law and other highly-specialized knowledge . . « naturally most of them, ahd the vast majority of positions in military and naval intelligence, were filled by civilian soldiers and sailors in the war Just ended. Greater proportion of reservists in Indiana are in. the army, which has prepared in the Indiana military area. a well-rounded plan for keeping them abreast of military developments. Standards of this peace-time program are high, with required physical examinations and efficiency reports. Broadly speaking, the navy and sea bee programs are similar fo that for the army . . . and the three combine to form a reservoir of trained personnel which is one of the strongest bul warks of national defense.

Organization by Units ACTIVE RESERVE UNITS will be allocated ‘with in the state on basis of density of male population of military age, availability of manpower for units requirihg technicians, utility of the organization after mobilization and training facilities. It is not anticie pated that a unit larger than a. division will be formed in any area. A maximum number of certain type units will be affiliated with sponsoring civilian industries. ‘Some will be at full strength and in state of readiness for mobilization . . . insofar as equipment and training are concerned . . ., while others will have a complete officer complement and a cadre of enlisted personnel, All reservists are subject to call in event of war, Otherwise, the reserve would not be ordered out.

REFLECTIONS .. . By Robert C. Ruark _ Here's Formula for Broadway Column

Klansman” . atoll this year. Winston Churchill likes cigars Australia on the way out , . , get W. Churchill to show you his paintings . . . hot stuff! Mary Pickford once wedded to D. Fairbanks senior, that is , ,

. the atom bomb to drop on Bikini

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. last warning to That Columnist.

Butch Jenkins and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek an | get Gandhi to tell you what he said.

item to Nehru . June is the month of brides . . what Hollywood biggie dropped $40,000 in a floating crap game last night? . . remember the scarfaced waiter in Algiers’ Hotel Aletti? + + he was picked up dead drunk in the Casbah two p. m.s ago . Shepheard’s hotel has an “A” in it.

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initial stands for a riot! .

George Allen to be the next secretary of state

set . situation crime is bad. The Iman of Muskat is a Mohammedan Scotch shortage due any edition now

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war, y'know ., . the column has added another subscriber the Sudan Times glad to have you aboard, Sultan! Prices have risen since | the war , inflation the cause, insiders say.

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PRINCESS ELIZABETH will be the next queen |

of England a Russian . O’Brien eating ice cream cones together get Sam Goldwyn to tell you what he said to Louis Mayer ‘ Joe Louis is a prizefighter. Ibn Saud lives in Saudi Arabia . . . hes a polygamist Joan Crawford was once mare ried to D. Fairbanks . junior, that is insiders say Hitler is hiding in Bessarabia Goering has lost weight. the coming elections shall we scuttle our navy? Well, that's New York.

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Taft Making a Bid for the Presidency |

conservative Republicans and New Deal Democrats | which set qut to tear to tatters President Truman's strike out the |

emergency labor bill. They did

“work-or-draft” provision and force compromises

elsewhere, Simultaneously, while posing as a cham- |

pion of labor in this instance, he was most helpful

in getting into the Case labor bill—some of the restrictive features that led labor to ask President |

Truman to veto it.

With another hand, he was helping to write into | the OPA extension bill provisions which OPA officials |

claim will make it unworkable. Senator Taft is banking that the country is going

conservative through weariness over regulations and

restrictions. First hurdle for the nomination is in his own state. Ex-Gov. John W. Bricker, who is running for

the senate, also is ambitious, and apparently has §

support among the staunch conservatives, Senator

Taft was Ohio's candidate at the 1940 convention,

He stepped aside for Governor Bricker in 1944. Now it looks like each man for himself.

Has Excellent Political Friends SENATOR TAFT 18 in the best shape of any prospective candidate with the national organization. He has dominated the Republican national committee in recent years. The new chairman, Rep. BE. Carroll Reece of Tennessee, long has been one of his lieutenants and a liaison with the southern political bosses who are, for the most part, recognized as in the Taft camp. It never does to sell Bob Taft short. sleeps,

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. of scientific research, Russia could not make an atomic bomb in less than 12 to 15 years. Is it worth her while to make such an effort? If nobody else had the power to make atomio bombs, the answer would certainly be “Yes.” Sole possession of so powerful a weapon would give an authoritarin, expansionist and imperialistic power like Russia mastery of the world in a few weeks. That would be a prize for which the Kremlin might well think that no exertions were too extravagant. But this prize is not available, All that the Russians could hope for after years of effort and sacrifice would be production of a bomb which wouid cere

tainly be far inferior to those which the United States @

and Britain would possess.

International Control Is Answer DOES RUSSIA GENUINELY THINK that the western powers wish to wage a preventive war against her? If they did, they would have done it when they still had huge armies and air forces in Europe and when they had sole and undisputed possession of the atomic bomb, If those loudly” advertised Russian suspicions are genuine, all the Kremlin needs to do is to agree to internationalizing all atomic research and produc tion, as proposed by the U. 8. state department come mittee headed by Undersecretary Dean -Acheson, World agreement on this proposal would make Russia as safe from attacks by atomic bombs as every other country. There would" be far more safety for Russia in that than™in vainly trying to overtake the lead established by the United States,

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