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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Oon Way

DEDICATED TO PEACE \HINKERS and workers who have given themselves to the cause of peace are in Indianapolis for the conference of the American Council of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. : Distinguished guests of all fields of endeavor and their outstanding talents give to Indianapolis an unusual opportunity to inform itself on all matters concerning peace. Many of the ministerial visitors occupied the pulpits of local churches Sunday. Climax of the conference will be a public meeting tonight at the World War Memorial building, where Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, Methodist minister, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, both of New York, will speak. The only disappointing aspect of the conference is that more folk could not hear the messages of world peace which the many eminent visitors delivered to smaller audiences. Tonight's mass meeting will enable a greater number to capture the spirit of winning lasting peace.

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FOR AN INDUSTRIAL ARMISTICE F you are fearful that continued industrial warfare may ruin this country—as you and all other Americans have reason to be—we urge you to read and ponder Basil Manly’s article on Page One today. It proposes a sensible plan for saving the American people from chaotic depression and disaster. It advocates a way of escape from shortage, inflation

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of prices, deflation of real wages and exhaustion of purchasing power. ‘And it suggests a road toward general prosperity, soundly based on high living standards for labor and as-

Hoosier Forum

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

sured markets for industry and agriculture. What Mr. Manly advocates is a voluntary industrial armistice, covering the year 1947, under agreements to make that year one of full employment and uninterrupted production.

4 8 8 v 8 4 8 BASIL MANLY knows whereof he writes. He has studied problems of American industry and labor for nearly 40 years. In 1914-15 he was director of the commission on industrial relations which made the first nation-wide investigation of labor conditions. He was joint chairman, with William Howard Taft, of the world war I national war labor board. Until recently, he was chairman of the federal power commission, and he has been a leader in many progressive causes.

"Veterans Ask Help in Getting Started, Not Payment for Service"

By J. G., Indianapolis Are the veterans of Indiana as good as veterans of Illinois? If

“WHY SPEND $800,000 ON REDEVELOPMENT?”

By a Veteran, Indianapolis If this is ever printed in your

paper I would like plenty of opinions or answers to it. In the Times

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pect their help to live on $30 a week, when the cost of living is REGISTERING VOTERS” sky-high?

so, then why is it taking Indiana so long to pass a law saying that the veterans will receive a few dollars for our service in the war? We fought hard and we worked hard. Remember, we were not here to make $70, $80 and even $90 a week. You know what we got, $50 a month, Don't get me wrong, we're not asking for payment for our

Wedd just asking for a little help to get started back in civil life. We can't get a decent job. :

Indiana employers ex- # uo = How San ploy “DO AWAY WITH LAW ON

For example: Look at| py m..E. W., Indianapolis the price of butter, lard and eggs,| Was this a properly, conducted

When he warns that industrial warfare is rapidly wrecking our national economy, it is time for the country to take heed. Yet; we know, some people will say that his armistice proposal is visionary, impractical, too idealistic—that it is hopeless to expect from industry and labor such voluntary agreements as he suggests. Why hopeless? Mr. Manly does not propose permanent surrender of any right, or permanent assumption of any new obligation, by either industry or labor, He advocates only a temporary agreement to give the country one year of peace and production. And what are the alternatives to his plan? Wise legislation, as he says, cannot come fast enough to prevent . irreparable damage. A few more months of industrial “strife could complete the wreckage of our economy. The experience of other countries provides terrifying reason to fear that, in the resulting chaos, totalitarian measures would be used to restore production by confiscating industry and coercing labor, Both labor and industry have all t3 lose by fighting, and all to gain by working together through the coming crucial year. ; Many of their leaders realize that now. Those industrialists, those union officials and members who do not, can be made to realize it by the force of public opinion— your opinion. If you believe that some such plan as Mr, Manly suggests may offer a practical, realistic and hopeful way to get our country out of a dreadful mess, let us hear from you.

COMMUNITY FUND PROGRESS

HATS OFF to the volunteer workers for the Community Fund, who today were pushing toward the half-way mark in the drive for $1,328,000 for Indianapolis agencies. As Governor Ralph F. Gates told workers at their noon meeting Monday, this is a crucial campaign that will affect the pattern of the community’s future. The standard of giving this year is one hour's pay per week for eight weeks, or the equivalent of one day’s pay : for the year. Many contributors are giving more, and some are giving less. If each wage-earner will contribute that amount, Indianapolis can meet its challenge, reach the goal of a successful campaign for its welfare and character-building agencies. ‘

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. MORE HORSES IN THE STABLE

’ 3 ms the Fades will seem a bit late—like locking the stable ef Dobbin’s departure, But War Assets Ad- ~ ministrator Robert M. Littlejohn’s word of caution to his - newly formed real property disposal board is still sound. When considering decisions, he said, board members should ask themselves, “Is this to the best interests of- Uncle Sam ?” y The surplus property act was passed just two years ago. Several billion dollars worth of surplus land, buildings and goods have since been sold. Some of the real property, its total value mounting high into the millions, was “sold” by i a generous disposal agency at discounts up to 100 per cent ~which failed to ease the taxpayer's burden much. However, considerable surplus land and buildings rein unsold. In disposing of them, it is to be hoped the new rd will take Mr. Littlejohn’s advice to heart.

Communist advances upon you and you react ~ Therefore you are a reactionary.” house of commons on

plus rent, insurance and everything | election? On the part of the inside else. Not to mention the tax that boards and outside workers, I would comes out of that $30. {say yes. But what about the regisOn the front page of your Nov.|tration board? Nobody knows. In

Wednesday, Nov. 6, I read and reread the article on redevelopment along Fall Creek. It seems as though our great city is about to clean up the slums in this area which have been the same for years. I also gather only 18 per cent of the residents are from Indiana

while 75 per cent are from the South. It also states the average wage is $26.70, but in 1938 it was $17.85 and my bet is most of it was our famous WPA. Now it just so happens I am one of the thousands of veterans (of

T issue is a very good example of lone precinct alone in Marion eounwhat I mean—the Johnson family. You civilians have made yours, we've got ours to make. Give us a hand. We helped you, now you help us. How about a little bonus, say $10 a month for domestic service and $15 a month for overseas? Just like Illinois. If Governor Green can do it, why can't Governor Gates? Come on, “time's a wastin'” = TF » “HERE'S SCHEDULE OF MODERN NEWSBOY”

By Mrs. Geo.'l. Perkins, 1366 Nordyke ave. To Ex-Newsboy: Boy did your

lettter make me fail? I'm the mother of a newsboy. As of date, I

know of no screen doors that he has bursted or any other property that he has damaged. He is a boy, 13 years old. He gets up each morning at 5:40. Goes to work in a small department store from 6:00 to 7:00 o'clock. Then goes 1 mile to school, returns and picks up his papers at 3:15, delivers them and.goes in ta work from 4:00 til 6:00 at the same store, On Friday nights he has to deliver and collect his route and then go to work from 5:00 ‘til 8:00. He has run this schedule since last February. Not because we, his parents can't support him, but because hbk is ambitious. He has banked $200 in his own name in this period of time. If you, ex-newsboy, think he is a sissy and a weakling, I for one think you are crazy. Thank

turned away from the polls and who could not vote. Persons that had voted every election at the same precinct for years, I ask you why. Most of them had registration cards in their hands but their names | were not listed in the master book and they had to be told they could not vote. Mad? Sure they were mad, some boiling. Could you blame them? I don't. It looks like they could and would pass a law to do away with registration.” Every man and woman 21 years of age is entitled to. vote regardless”6f his or her politics.

o » » “KEEP UP GOOD WORK, BOYS, YOU'VE MANY FRIENDS” By Mrs. U. 8. M., Indianapolis I wish to say a few words in answer to the person who signed his name Ex-Newsboy Nov. 5. have been a reader of your fine paper since 1911, which at that time was the Sun, and I will say I have never had any trouble with my newsboy. I have my money ready Friday evening when he- comes, and how a man could be so narrowminded as to pick on our boys is beyond me. I hope he sees the. time when he will want our little boys to stop .and speak to him. I would like to know just what has happened to make him so bitter with our newsboys. But keep your good work up, boys, for you have lots of friends and good wishes for your God, my’ son has a wonderful group |future and for the man or mouse of customers to do business with and | who signed his name Ex-Newshoy—

may he never have a crank or|it is good to know you are on your crack-pot like you. way out,

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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the good old infantry) before the war most of us (I did) had homes fand we were told on our feturn

{Oh yes, there is Tacoma Village! (glorified shacks) for us. There are also some shacks at Stout Field for us. I won't say anything about the price (for sale or rent) because I am not sure, but I will lay odds they are far above the price our

good city has in mind for this 75]

per cent from the South. And I will lay the same odds that when this new building is built or units they will be of brick or something else just as good, not plywood, with good heat and plenty of room. What I would like to know, is will our lovely city .expect the people without any home( mostly veterans) to pay tax to clean up this mess which has been here for years. Also isn't the timing just a little bad with the {shortage of material and all this (talk about taking care of those without any kind of home. These people have been contented so far haven't they. I might add that people capable of earning an average of $26.70 per week for approximately 1648 persons could or should use their own initiative and clean up part of the mess at least their own back yards and prove themselves worthy of the project. Wonder if they think an $800,000 cleanup job will appear any different in a few years from now. From where I stand it will look just the same. P. 8. I am a native of Indianapolis and spent my entire life here but I sometimes wonder if I am bragging or apologizing.

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POLITICS TO DIVERT NATION”

By Clara Cheadle, 620 Division st. The article of Nov. 7, by Fred-

erick C. Othman, expresses so well my thoughts. If we let this thing] happen again our system of gov- | ernment is a failure. American leaders should be too big to waste their energies in political controversy after the election is over, no matter what pressure they get from the politicians who got them into! the office. If we demand character and action instead of agitating party lines we can have a well-balanced government. If not, we may as well revert to feudalism and save the expense and pretense of our free election system.

DAILY THOUGHT

But if ye turn unto Me, and keep My commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will.I-gather them from thence, and will bring unto the place that I have chosen to set My name there.~Nehemiah 1:9,

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover

End ‘Co-Op’ Federal Tax Adva ntage

ONE OF THE HOT SUBJECTS at the annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau which begins here tomorrow may well. be the drive against co-operatives and the attack on such institutions because of their freedom from federal income tax. Spearhead of the attack is the Indiana Tax Equality Committee; Inc: . . . And other organizations which promote private enterprise as opposed to what they term socialistic practices have joined in the fight.

Free Tax Riders

CO-OPERATIVES WILL CAPTURE $25 billion of the: nation’s business volume by 1950, assert pro-. ponents of federal income taxes for this type of

business. The volume for such “income-tax-escaping” institutions last year is set at $25 billion, “Indiana's merchants, wholesalers and manufacturers pay all the taxes that there are—local, county, state and, biggest of all, federal income tax,” says Robert E. Brown, secretary of the committee. “Their competitors—co-operatives, government-owned businesses and mutuals—pay little for none of the big federal income tax on their earnihgs.” The Farm Bureau Federation takes the position that co-operatives now pay all the taxes that they should . . , that the members of co-ops are in fact doing business with themselves and pay federal income tax on their earnings. Farm bureau figures show that last year the volume of business done by co-ops was $17,209,662, with profits of $927,548 available for distribution to members, Distribution of this sum is seen by the tax équality group as “evidence of the penalty which

Small business and other income tax payers are obliged «

to shoulder,” and as a discrimination which is largely responsible for the growth of co-operatives in Indiana. Businesses which are operating on a co-operative

basis include the Logansport stock yards, a Kentucky coal mining operation in which Indiana co-ops par= ticipate, a Hammond feed ‘mill, a retail store at Lebanon, a farm and home supply store a eenfield, an oil refinery at Mt. Vernon, an insurance company, numerous grain elevators and other businesses which are thus removed from the federal tax rolls, The CPA also has approved construction by the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative of a $294,000 fertilizer processing plant in the vicinity of Indianapolis. “This expanding economy of the co-ops is a grim reminder to businessmen in Indiana that the co-op advantage is not a fable,” asserts Mr. Brown. “While business generally is required to pay a 38 per cent federal income tax on profits, the co-ops excused from this obligation have, in their most significant advance captured grain elevators throughout the state. The tax advantage of these and other businesses pur= chased from private owners is extinguishing many small businesses throughout the state, and these are removed from the federal income tax rolls. Private enterprise can't survive under these conditions. The untaxed group will sooner or later take ower the group which must pay taxes.”

End Tax Exemption

THIS ADVANTAGE FOR co-operatives should be ended . . . and undoubtedly will be discussed by the 80th congress. Sentiment in favar of such a step is growing in “Indiana, REL 3 The Illinois Agriculture association, which is similar to the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, has gone on record as supporting elimination of such tax ad-

vantages, with taxation of earnings of co-operative businesses and private businesses on an equal basis. As matters now stand, the co-ops haue an unfair exemption which enables them to escape paying their fair share of taxes.

REFLECTIONS « + « By Robert C. Ruark | \ it “Mr. MacPhail, Let Bucky Alone’

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—If anybody ever wills me ciously fluent and he never indulge himself in the

a ball club, heaven forbid, my first move would be to throw a rope around Stanley Harris and haul him in to run the thing. In this respect I seem to go along with Larry MacPhail, who has just inserted

Mr. Harris as boss of the Yankees. What I am hoping is that Mr. MacPhail will share my trust in Bucky's ability and retire to his office, leaving Mr. Harris to run the club all by himself. It will be a new experience for the ripened boy wonder, who has been consistently second-guessed by his employers ever since Clark Griffith ruined his tender youth by making him manager in 1924. Mr. Griffith is one of my favorite tycoons, but he “was a ballplayer first and as long as he lives he will manage managers, a nerve-wracking ordeal for the help.

Too Many Cooks

IN HIS BRIEF departures from Washington, Mr. Harris suffered from the presence of too many cooks in Detroit, Boston and finally Philadelphia, where he toiled for a gent who later was heaved out of baseball for betting. The oldest guessing-game in major league baseball has concerned itself with how good Mr. Harris would be if people quit shoving his elbow. Bucky raised me in the baseball business and taught me very early the dangers of association with strange~hearts-players. The game of hearts is a gay, carefree method of squandering an evening, but it also leads to early bankruptcy. Chiefly, however, Mr. Harris always commanded my respect because, despite the fact that he labored around second base for several years, nobody ever would mistake him for a ball player off field. He was suave and polite and reasonable. He was gra-

common occupational disease of managers, the sulks.’ Even after some four-footed outfielder had kicked away a ball game, you could walk into Mr. Harris’ lair without fear of curses, hurled beer bottles, or brandished bats. One of the things that caused his brother managers to regard Mr. Harris as a trifle peculiar was that he actually liked the press. This is dangerously abnormal in a business are universally distrusted as a source of hazard to the financial security of manager, players and owner. They are only tolerated because the millions of words they write lure paid admissions into the park. Bucky actually disapproved when a temporarily amok first baseman, Joe Kuhel, went after Messrs. Richard McCann and Sirley Povich—both of whom, in winter clothing, wouldn't have aggregated the weight of an average outfielder. Mr. Harris felt that his performers were not paid to raise lumps on the heads of people who might someday write him out of a job.

They Don't Come Better DESPITE THE fact that Bucky did not believe in fighting umpires and putting the slug on fans; despite his camaraderie with us pariahs of the press, the tag of being one among his employees was thoroughly tested in Washington, which always had the full complement of Cubans, bushers, castoff prima donnas and lefthanded pitchers.

I hope Mr. MacPhail leaves him alone, and I hope he collars a lot of pennants. If you think I am unduly prejudiced in Mr. Harris’ favor, you're right. For my dough they don't come better,

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow

Took 100 Years To Get Out of Mud

IT TOOK INDIANA 100 years to go from mud roads to modern highways. It was a dirty, difficult stretch. Necessity finally moved the state to tackle the job—right now. It came much like an uninvited overnight guest to a pioneer Indiana cabin. The houséwife had to find some place for him even if she had to bed him down on the bare floor in front of a log fire. . This urge for a good Indiana road and some immediate action to get it came from the northern part of the state, as settlers barged over the New Purchase line to the north in rapidly increasing numbers.

Launches Migration '

THIS was the on-coming wave of migration that was_to settle the northwestern quarter of the state. With no roads, they were without adequate means of getting there. : As President Grover Cleveland “once said of an abnormally mounting surplus in the United States treasury from high tariff duties, it was “a condition, not a theory” that confronted Indiana on its roads. Something had to be done about it. The farseeing men in the state agreed to that. The consensus of Indiana opinion on the matter was that from the northern to the southern border of the state was the best solution of the matter. Accordingly, through the efforts of Governor James B. Ray, a good roads enthusiast, congress authorized Indiana to make a treaty with the Potawatomi Indians to obtain land absolutély necessary to put their road through from Lake Michigan to the Ohio river. On Oct. 16, 1826, such a treaty was made. Governor Ray Lewis Cass, governor of Michigan territory, and later gandidate for President of the United States, and John Tipton, Indian agent in the Ft. Wayne

district of Indiana, and commissioners of the United States government, negotiated the treaty with the chiefs and warriors of the Potawatomis, Under this treaty, the Michigan road was built. It ran from the mouth of Trail creek on Lake Michigan, in Michigan city, east to the south bend of the St. Joseph river at South Bend; south through Logansport to Indianapolis; on through Greensburg to Madison on the Ohio river. The survey for it began in the autumn of 1828. The construction was completed in 1837. The unique thing about this road is that it didn’t coast a cent to build it. It was always about hub deep in mud or very deep in dust. It was rugged to travel, especially over its corduroy stretches, and always in dire need of repair, but the cost—this is the story: Indiana spent $242,239.89 on its construction, and received $241,339.89 from the sale of public lands given to it by the federal government under the act authorizing the construction of the road.

Road Was Tops in State

THE NOMINAL deficit of $676.14 as above indicated, was more than wiped out by the proceeds of .the 740 acres of land on hand at the otherwise final accounting. The significance of the Michigan road lies in the fact that it enshrines the grind of Indiana life. It was tops in the state when Indiana was new, raw and rough, but rich with promise, and steeped in hope. helped 14 counties in Indiana to reach their county seats, and 35 counties to come to the state capital, all usually on vital or important business. In the larger view, it did not rank with the National road. In the road world, it was the reliable work horse, rather than the speedy, colorful race horse. But the Michigan road was a good road.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Prospect of Peace Is Still Remote

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—After spending a week in United Nations circles in New York, I am convinced that a just peace is as remote as ever. Many delegates fear the Soviet Union simply isn't trying to make peace. Instead, it is using the United Nations as the best possible sounding-board for its propaganda.

Germany Is Key DOUBTLESS SOME SUCH REPORT as this has been sent back to London where, on Saturday, Prime Minister Attlee warned that “if the United Nations is to be used as & forum for debating ideological dif-

ferences, it will fail.” Certainly the vast majority of diplomats now attending United Nations meetings would seem to be fn complete agreement with Mr. Attlee. They reflect a feeling of frustration. Few expect anything really constructive to come

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of the Big Four foreign ministers’ meeting going on at the Waldorf. Russia regards the recommendations

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war to advance her territorial and political expansion, Russia, therefore, is believed not to be In any hurry to conclude the peace. By the exercise of her veto, she can prevent’ either the peace makers or the United, Nations doing anything which she regards as detrimental to her interests. At the same time she can use both the peace conferences and the United Nations forum to disseminate Soviet propaganda. It is a setup made to order. Like Prime Minister Attlee, most United Nations members see Germany as the key problem in Europe. Unless and until that problem is settled, Burope as a whole will continue in a chaotic state—a situation helpful only to those who fish best in troubled waters.

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lieves for a moment the basic German question will come up at this time. The best insiders expect is a makeshift. Italian-Bulgarian-Hungarian-Rumanian«=

Finnish peace settlement, then the fixing of a time:

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No Disarmament Without Peace AFTER GERMANY, Japan may come. Yet world peace and prosperity depend as much on a settlement of the difficult and dangerous Asiatic questions as on

those of Europe. well as in the West, there can be no disarmament,

no revival of world trade, nor feeling of security any-

where anil no United Nations worthy of the name.

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