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R ECOMMENDATIONS to avoid repeating the mistakes of Pearl Harbor featured the report of the congres-

sional investigating committee, ) Most urgent of these recommendations was:

That “immediate action be taken to insure that unity of command is imposed at all military and naval outposts,” and that the army and navy wholly “integrate” their in-

telligence agencies.

The committee found complete failure in Hawaii of effective army-navy liaison during the critical period Nov.

27 to Dec. 7 . . . little co-ordination and no integration of

army and navy facilities and efforts for defense,” and that

“neither of the responsible commanders really knew

what the other was doing with respect to essential military

activities.”

The war and navy departments “were not sufficiently alerted on Dec. 6 and 7, 1941, in view of the imminence of war”... The war plans division of the war department was “glipshod” in not directing broader measures of Hawaiian defense. But failure of the commanders there to prepare their defenses against surprise was “not understandable” to the committee. It held that “the disdster of Pearl Harbor lies in the failure of the army and navy in Hawaii to

make their fight with the equipment at hand.”

“It was not that they had no equipment, for they did, but that they did not utilize what they had,” the report

says. %

One safeguard for preventing such conditions would

be a unification of the services.

WHO PAYS A SUBSIDY? A

confused.”

good many letters to the Hoosier Forum lately have indicated confusion over subsidies and taxes, a confusion we can well understand, because it is a subject. easily |

One of the most common conclusions is well expressed in a letter that appears in that column today, with its reference to the help subsidies give to “the thousands of

our poor citizens who don’t pay taxes.”

JThere are no such citizens. The only people in America who do not pay taxes are the inmates of public welfare institutions, such as a county infirmary or a prison. The fallacy arises from the fact that many citizens do not pay

taxes directly to the government, because they may o

no real estate or personal property and have incomes too

small to interest the federal revenue collector.

Unfor-

tunately those people not only pay taxes, but pay more than

their share in proportion to what they have.

. . » n " » » AXES a part of the cost of production. When you buy a pound of butter at a store the price intludes the tax on the land where the milk was produced, the tax on the creamery where it was made into butter, the tax on the -gasoline that ran the trucks that hauled it to town, the tax on the store where it was sold, and all the various other levies that federal, state and local governments collect. The same is true of everything that is purchased—the taxes are all there, as part of the selling price. Under today’s tax structure, on the average, it runs to about one-fourth of the price of any cdmmodity, and if the pound of butter is selling for 80 cents, then 20 cents of that'is tax. The man who buys the butter pays that tax, even though he owns no property and never sees a tax collector. And, worst of all for him, he has no way of passing the tax on to anyone

else.

Our federal government has no other source of income except taxes. So anything it spends for any purpose comes, finally, out of taxes paid by its citizens. When it pays a “subsidy” of two cents a pound to the manufacturer of ‘butter that two cents comes out of the taxes paid by every citizen of the United States. If the manufacturer makes his price two cents lower because of getting the subsidy, the result is that he is getting exactly the same for his butter, and the citizens of the United States are paying the two cents—added on to their own taxes, or added on to the price of everything they buy as a part of the taxes paid

by other people.

The two cents is still two cents, it still goes to the man who makes the butter, and it still is paid by tie people who

are the consumers and the taxpayers.

For the past 15 or 16 years the federal government has |

done, of course, only by borrowing the money. Borrowers have to pay interest, so when the governmént borrows two . cents to pay a manufacturer, the bill becomes two cents plus the interest, and plus whatever it costs to operate the

bureau that does the paying. Subsidies, therefore, cost a

little more than direct payments as a part of the price, so

that $100 paid now in subsidies actually costs the taxpayers ~which we repeat includes :everybody—$105 or $110 or

even more by the time the bill is paid. -

The man who has a business such as manufacturing or gelling, can pass such taxes on to his customers, as a part of his selling price. In fact he has to pass them on if he is to stay in business at all, otherwise they would swiftly shut down his operation. But the man who works for wages, or | who lives on a pension, and who buys the products of such businesses cannot pass them on. He pays them himself, A proportion to his income, or to his possessions, he pays

‘2 e heaviest taxes of anybody.

average one-fourth of everything he earns. In

four days he works.

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Today his tax bill, whether direct or hidden, is on the , : s of his own job he is working three days for himself and his own family, and one day for his government, out of every

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Bo a “subsidy” doesn’t actually reduce the price of _ anything, nor shift part of that price to somebody else. When the whole deal is completed it has slightly increased the price, But it has put off until later the fime.when that because we borrow the thoney:and give

ft * '» ‘8 8 is immediately disastrous to the family on a me, such as salary or pension, and hits hardest : smallest salaries or ‘wages or

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"Subsidies Merely Take Buyers | Into-the Land of Make Believe"

By Del Mundo, Indianapolis If subsidies were always beneficial to all and never detrimental to

anyone, as G. L. C. in his letter of sidies would be the greatest econom

gain and. none could lose thereby the utilization of subsidies would be nothing less than economic perpetual motion in perpetuity, No longer would man be required to live by the sweat of his brow. All productive work, toil and labor would be rendered unnecessary and we could all live off of the fat of the lamb by being subsidized. it would be. We would no longer need to get religion to get to Heaven,

we would have it already). However, if one will use a little logic and recognize facts to be facts,

wn |and throw wishful thinking ovér- | Hoover's three and a half million

board where it belongs, the picture is quite different. of subsidies to keep down prices

Noccolo Machiavelli. temporary ; Jespite

poor.

either directly or indirectly. Wealth is produced only by those

toil, work and labor. Therefore, all taxes are paid with money that represents wealth that has been produced by those who toil, work and labor. When the bloated plutocratic disciples of Count Noccolo ‘Machiavelli pay their taxes on their unearned income they are merely paying qver to the government a part of the money which they have received as interest, dividends, profits and rent from those who produce. : In the final analysis government debt is the debt of all the people to those who own the bonds, and is

who have wealth in excess of their needs, and for which they can find no legitimate invéstment opportunities in creative enterprise. ? ” =

“WE WERE SAYING SAME THING 25 YEARS AGO”

By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, Indianapolis

Saturday Evening Post dated Jan. 15, 1921.

Lorimer, editor, which says in part

ternational heart.

The utilization |to make a sacrifice before a world

who perform needed and nécessary

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On my desk before me here is a

From its pages I read an article written by George Horace

“If a starving man were at your | 3 door, would you take him in and|taxpayers. Parks are built by. the | spent more money each year than it took in. This could be |feed him, or turn him away to die? taxpayers and for the taxpayers] {In this time of world woe and want every decent man must have an in Food drafts ini

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‘| INSULT TO INTELLIGENCE”

“TIMES OPA EDITORIALS

By R. T. M., Noblesville The editor's note at the end of G. ©. L's argument Wednesday in favor of subsidies for the thousands of our poor citizens who don't pay ‘taxes but, since the subsidies have been discontinued, now have to pay higher prices for everything they eat and wear, doesn’t answer his argument. Like a good many of your editorials on OPA your “note” here must be taken as a sort of insult to one’s intelligence. Bias on controversial matters always runs that

children of Europe. It is not hard

that is sacrificing everything, but

is making use of the most evil fea-|these are dull days, the hard days,| OpA and labor legislation which tures of both Karl Marx and Count|when the rush and thrill of it all| pe president had to veto or exhibit It takes the|are over; when the world half for-|yincelt to the public as a fool by purchaser off into the land of make- gets the big things for which if|gigning it. believe and gives him a small fought and statesmen sit in the from otherwise ashes of victory, squabbling ‘over This temporary Te- tremendous fies. spite comes to all, both rich and Then the payoff comes later, and it is the producer who pays,

5° Yt thas Liga purpose still clings to the memory of those who died, still lives in the

people of all lands. It is their task, and they will not shirk it, to fight this insensate hate, born of the devil and spread between friendly peoples by his servants, the propagandists; to meet greed with generosity; to sacrifice something that other men may live.” People today, 25 years later, I ask you this question: Does history repeat itself? Do you remember, or have you forgotten them that long, long ago? - » » “SHOULD BE NO CHARGE FOR SWIMMING IN PARK”

By Evan McGinnis, 604 E. Gimber st. {4 I read in your columns the articles about our park system and the operation thereof, in specific, the reason why one cannot get a drink of water in Garfleld park.

" lout of curiosity and in the exer-

cise of my right as a taxpayer to use the park, I went to Garfield park last evening and found one drinking feuntain on the south end of the park ad went to the concession for a Coke and was charged 15 cents for a 5 cent drink. In these days of holding the inflation line, I would think that the '|city officials would prohibit these park concessioners “gouging” the

and not a few privileged characters, Therefore there should be no charge for a right to swim.

hearts of a saving remnant of the

way. For the most part I enjoy | your editorials, but I think you have run hog-wild lately on both

In times like the present, reaction first precedes; then accom panies, : seems to be going back to ‘“normalcy” and you seem to be in favor of it. Why?

Editor's Note—Sincerely unwilling ‘to insult anyone’s intelligence, The Times is in favor of jobs for everyone, high wages, reasonable prices, better living standards, full production. If that is “normalcy” we do favor it. Why not? *w = - “IF NECESSARY, INDUSTRY SHOULD BE GOVERNMENT RUN” By Jasper Douglas, 127 KE. New York st. As a renter, let me say a word about rent increases. In common justice in view of increased costs of maintenance, an increase of 10 per cent might be permitted, but there it should’ be pegged—nailed fast. Take off all restrictions and with the enormous demand and no supply there is no limit to the price that could be charged. Rents would go up as high as 200 per cent. This would strf an inflation that would shoot up into the strat- | osphere in 30 days. OPA has not | been perfect, for big business, paying its big boys at the top salaries (running up into the hundreds of | thousands, and then claiming that they were operating:at a loss, have [been permitted.to raise prices, no 'tably the tobacco industry, which has reduced the contents of the tencent package from 2% ounces to 1% ounces, an increase of about 25 per cent on the pound, Without restrictions prices will

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mount sky high. Workers must demand increase of pay, which even then will not be enough to meet the higher cost of living and in a short time we would be in the position

cost, two dollars, etc, OPA must be continued another year and production speeded up. If it can be done no other way, the government must take possession of the big industries and operate

needs of the people without private ownership and profits to idle owners, who never know when they have enough, but insist upon adding more to their uselsss millions.

| n ~ . | “PAPERS SHOULDN'T USE AGES IN NEWS ACCOUNTS” [By Lula B, Hoss, 4040 N. Illinois st.

| story? Would it not be fitting cour|tesy to use it only with the consent of the person involved? Women who are employed, especially teachers, know that an advanced age places them at a disadvantage. School children think one is old at forty and senile past nt.

DAILY THOUGHT.

When thou hast eaten and are full, ghen thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land he hath given thee.—Deuteronomy 8:10. .

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OWNERS OF HOMES and other properties are being organized into units in each congressional district of the state to protect their ownership and to free property fram unjust taxation. The Indiana office of the National Home and Property Owners Foundation will be opened early next month, on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce building. From this office, the state campaign will be directed “to weld America's millions of home and small property owners into forceful unity” and to “extend and protect property-own-ership.” . wR derwritten in the organizing stage by holders of large properties, the foundation will attempt to bring into its fold a majority of the some 800,000 property owners of the state. :

Set Up on Practical Basis RECOGNIZING THAT representations to. congress by “big business” would immediately be opposed by many congressmen, the foundation seeks the numerical strength in each district that will cause a congressman to listen when it states its ition, Immediate goals are to obtain equitable readjustment of real estate taxation, free property from unjust taxation, and to stop pyramjding of taxes on homes. Long-range activities include research which will show economic factors influencing production and use of property, government controls and other ownership restrictions, price fluctuations, market trends and ownership costs, and land development policies which will protect home environment. In Indiana, no detailed program has been drafted. Activity will be largely pointed toward support of the national program. Local chapters will adopt their own local programs. Trustees from the 11th congressional district are George A. Kuhn, -who also is state chairman; Wil-

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Lee

ROME, July 23.—Italy is staging a faster recovery than other ex-enemy and axis satellite countries in Europe. : : The surface signs are everywhere, although they still don't go very deep. Like other nations bled white by war, Italy will be a long time pulling out. Yet Rome today presents a marked contrast with the Rome I saw in the late spring of 1945. The streets then were as dark at night as in a blackout. No elevators ran. Shop windows were bare except for junk souvenirs.. The clothing and food shortages were acute. Private cars were rire.

Average Man’Hard Pressed

THERE WAS NO NIGHT LIFE except In the army clubs. . Nearly half a million American soldiers were strung along the boot of Italy, The war was just over and what little prosperity the Italians enjoyed came from G. IL. spending. . Today the streets are jammed with people and cars. The shops are surprisingly well stocked. You can literally buy almost anything you want in Rome today—if you have the price. Silk mills, handicraft, textiles and other light industries are operating again in north Italy. The stores are full of their products, including silk stockings, and also such luxury items as German cameras, Swiss watches and other jewelry. One salesroom had a Fiat (Italian make) automobile on display. A number of remodeled hotels-and villas have dinner dancing and serve good food and wine The lighted streets no longer go dead at dark. But the catch.in all this for the average Italian is that he simply can’t earn the money to pay for it. For example, a good dinner for four at an Italian hotel costs 4400 lire (about $20). An Italian professor I met, who has been a high school principal Jor 20. years, gets only 13900 lire a month. ; A ‘vast liquidation of thé white-collar middle class is under. way. A man who has spent his life in government service is paid only 11,000 lire a month. Yet

ON JULY 8, 1889, in Richburg, Miss., John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain fought 75 rounds in the last bare-knuckle championship heavyweight prize fight in _the United States. ‘Sullivan won. lig Quibbling aside, and broadly speaking, there are four races of mankind—white, yellow; red and black. Of all the wars in the history of the world, no two of these races, outside the western hemisphere, ever clashed in a finish fight, after the manner of the bare knuckle bout between Sullivan and Kilrain,

Occurred Near Lafayette BUT IN THE western hemisphere, in Indiana, two | of them did. When the Miami Indians, who signed the treaty of Greenville in 1795, eased back to their homeland in northeastern Indiana, they and their fellow Indians, it developed,’had been beaten but not licked. The battle at Fallen Timbers the year before and the treaty they signed at/Greenville merely ended the first round of a finish fight, as they saw it. Back of this fight was land, some of the best in the world, as the foundation for a great civilization. Much of it included most of Indiana. The wave of immigration roling west defiantly from the northern Atlantic seaboard of Amefica was being crowded funnel-like through Indiana's eastern border. This was the comparatively narrow stretch of the great Indian triangle running from the northeast corner of the state to the Big Miami's mouth at the Ohio river. As this wave of migration narrowed and rolled west over this border into Indiana, it alarmed the Indians and gave the white man sober thought. The answer of the United States government and territorial Indiana to this wave of migration was nibbles. They would provide land for the settlers pouring into the territory by nibbling # tract at a time, by treaty, from the Indians.

WASHINGTON, July 23.—~When the battle of the pedce is resumed in Paris next Monday, the debates on conflicting issues may reveal the ground which has been won and lost in the political war between

the two antagonistic ideologies which divide the allies. . France has been neutralized in the contest by the inclusion in its coalition government of a sufficient number of Communists to insure a middle-of-the-road course on foreign policy.

Communists Make Gains

BELGIUM 18 COUNTED a member of the western bloc, but is subject to question. There are four Communists in ministerial positions in the new Belglan government, and 23 Communists in its parliament. : Denmark, a traditional ally of Great Britain, has 18 Communists in its parliament, where in 1930 it had only three. The Communist party had no representa-

Red members, Both of these nations are re as members of the western bloc. But Communist p re from within, and Russian pressure from without, could weaken historic ties. The United States and Britain may ground in the western hemisphere, t00. Mexico indicated a disposition to go along with

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UNRRA Aids Slow Italian Economy!

fruit and vegetables for themselves and two servants

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow Indians Lost Battle at Tippecanoe

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Russia at times during the London meeting of the

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liam H. Book, executive vice president of the Indi=

‘napolis Chamber of Commerce, and Paul, OC. Me=

Cord. Other trustees named to date include Henry F. Branning Jr., president of the Indiana Real Estate J Association, who represents the Pt. Wayne distriot. : Real estate boards of the country are co-operating in organization of the foundation, and will be a medium through which small property owners are enrolled, . Broudly speaking, those now supporting -the foundation are to be found in the ranks of those who oppose socialisation of American business, in= dustry and private property . .. a development which they regard as a genuine possibility unless present trends of taxation and control are reversed. Its claims to be non-political are supported by the diversified nature of interests represented by the underwriting group here. If the “backing in the other states which are organizing for the same purpose is as strong . . . and if the “smaller” property owners come into the group . . . it should have a powerful impact on congress in its attempt to prevent ¥ncroachment by the federal government on the functions and prerogatives of state and local governments.

Potential Political Power - ONCE THE OWNERS of small property are aware of the power of their numbers, they can accomplish infinitely more than lobbies or out-and-out “bi business” appeals and protests , . . because they hav the votes, an estimated 27,000.000 of them. : : A successful appeal to the pride of ownership was made by one state branch of the foundation when: it held a meeting to which admission was by proof of property-holding. If the property owners really!

become aroused, congress may do something about:

“economy in government” . . . a phrase usually only’ considered in political platforms and promises,

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an American family of three whom I know here hag. to spend nearly 1000 lire a day just«for fresh * aul Servants, incidentally, are paid 1500 to 2600 lire ($7 to $12) a month plus food and lodging. ’ People .on fixed salaries are going through this | wringer of low income and inflation prices. The very | wealthy get along by dipping intp. capital. Then there is a group of new rich the black market prof iteers from Italy's lower classes. The gigantic black market is one of the phenomena of post-war Italy. Hundreds of these “operators” roam the streets. They buy and sell every kind of foreign currency, or any article you want. They deal in every conceivable item of black market or stole goods—from food and watches to jeep parts—in bazaar-like stalls that line every foot of space in many Pf Rome's great squares. You can't walk a block without someone accosting you with, “anything you want to sell?” i You see few American soldiers. Only 34,000 are left in Italy, and most of these are around Trieste

Who Will Foot Next Bills? :

ANOTHER GREAT FACTOR relieving the pligh of this bankrupt nation is UNRRA. Through this year, UNRRA will spend $425,000,000 in Italy, exclusive of shipping charges. This is one of the most comprehensive relief and rehabilitation programs under~ taken anywhere in the world. The people are better fed than in Germany or Austria. The two-year, 10,000,000-ton program of free food and equipment from UNRRA comes to an end early next year. Who will foot the bill for the Italian government after that is undecided. Meanwhile UNRRA is trying to get Italian indust: and agriculture back on its own feet. Most of i spending this year is for food, coal, liquid fuel and essential raw materials. One hundred ships a month are arriving to pump this huge volume of supplies.into the Italian economy. Indications are it is having some effect. »

The crisis came when William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory, made his treaty with the Indians at Ft. Wayne on Sept. 30, 1809. By the terms of this treaty, Harrison bought three million acres of land that straddled tie west fork of White river north of Vincennes. The tract covered about 70 square miles. He paid $10,000 for it. This was one= third of one cent per acre. ' Immediately after the treaty was signed, the Indians squawked. Tecumseh was angry. Harrison was suave. He invited Tecumseh down to Vincennes in the summer of 1810 for a conference. Tecumseh came with armed warriors. . He told Harrison that the Indians demanded that he cede back to them the three million acres bought for one-third of a cent per acre at Ft. Wayne. Harrison declined. Tecumseh was gdamant. In the dawn of the morning of Nov. 7, 1811, as Harrison was putting on his boots to rouse his army sleeping on their arms at a strategic point on the Tippecanoe river above Lafayette, an army of about 700 Indians rushed them. The Prophet, the brother of Tecumseh, led them, Tecumseh being down south to rouse the Indians to a combined, last-ditch fight in their section of North America. It was a nasty fight, At times they fought hand-to-hand with no quarter, Harrison won.

Hoosiers Defeated Indians IN THE BATTLE of the Thames in Canada, on Oct. 5, 1813, Tecumseh was killed. Major organized Indian resistance to the whites in Indiana ceased: In the overall view of the Indian in the Americas, Indiana's Indians included: the Frenchman prayed for him; the Spaniard robbed and throttled him; the British fooled him; the Hoosiers licked him, and then were good to him.

REFLECTIONS . . , By Parker Ls Moore Friends of Western Bloc Vacillate

Communist party, which. may incline that country to at least a nentral course: between the two blocs. Apart from Communist infiltration, Russia has gained some support and neutralized some Opposie tion by acting so tough that nations in. exposed po= sitions hesitate to offend her. We haven't found an effective way to use our own weight against such opposition. The British, fighting a holding action where they are not in strategic re=treat, haven't found an answer to it either. Britain went to war against, Germany in defense of the territorial integrity of Poland. Yet the Poles fote with Russia because of a conviction that only by complete subservience to the Soviets can they retain any vestige of independence. i

Vote Will Show Trend A SIMILAR PARADOX is found in the case of Ale bania, a prospective member of the United Nations, British commandos freed Albania from the invader, but under Russian pressure the Albanians have kicked the British mission out of the eountry. The voting and discussions at the peace conference will be important as indicative of alignments to exs pect in future conferences, rather than of vital con cern in other respects. Most of the controversial is sues on the agenda were resolved in Russia's favol by the council of foreign ministers, and new Russi demafdh aren't anticipated at this juncture. 3 But the Itallan-Yugoslav dispute over Trieste m provoke a debate which will indicate the directic Pe ia him i

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