Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1947 — Page 8

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HAVE always been, and still are, strongly in favor |.

'Y of economy in state government. ~ _For that reason we believe the bill introduced in the legislature yesterday by Rep. Lothair Teetor raising the pay of the governor and other top state officials, ought to be passed. ‘ It isn’t economy to offer pay so low that state jobs can attract and hold only individuals who are not good ‘enough to land better paid jobs elsewhere. That can, indeed, be foolish extravagance. : © It is true that we have attracted some pretty good governors at the current rates of pay, and in general, of course, it isn't the salary that induces a man to seek eléction as governor. But so long as his salary is pegged at $8000, it pegs the salaries of other state employees at less "than that figure. You can hardly pay a subordinate state employee more than you pay the governor of the state. So there has developed a sort of unofficial, but none the less real, ceiling of about $6000 a year for any other state employee. For that figure, or less, we are trying to hire ‘able psychiatrists, and penologists, and engineers and so on ~in competition with other states and with private opportunities that offer a great deal more. - We have been able, hete and there, actually to get good men for the salaries the state now pays, but with increasing difficulty. And with our best men constantly being offered more lucrative positions outside our state ~ government, Unless we do revise our state salary scale upward the state is certainly going to suffer losses out of all proporticn * to the relatively small amount of money required to get, “and keep, the kind of men we need. Mr. Teetor’s bill paves + the way for doing so.

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"In Bonus, Veteran Asks Only For Backlog to Get Started"

By L. E. L, Anderson In a recent Forum letter published, A. R. R. of Lafayette addressed

members of the legislature in regard to the payment of a state bonus

E hope it’s true that “an era of good feeling is setting [to veterans. His questions were couched in terms to imply that a legls-

' Wa on the industrial front.” The executive council of the American Federation of Labor says it is. And Secretary Schwellenbach sang the same tune to the senate labor committee, for the same

lator who favored a bonus was ignorant of the condition and sentiment of our veterans and citizens of Indiana.

He spoke of individuals and organizations who used high pressure

and loud voices, he referred to thousands of veterans who when in service were no nearer the war than a comfortable arm chair. He actually doubted that the payment of a few hundred dollars would be

purpose—namely to soothe the aliegedly savage breast of [of assistance to a veteran. Now I propound the following thoughts for

congress.

: i 3 i that brings daily contact with many The “chief disturbing factor” at present, according to rT any stream of callers who need ‘aid all the way from government claims of all sorts to loczl problems such as jobs, housing, finance, relief, : medical attention and etc. Therelabor i i with (fore, I believe I can consider myself some sort of legislation has a good deal to do i [A0e, 1 Believe } san consider mivsel! There are a great number of people who are laboring under the impression that all veterans came out of service with their pockets and their bank accounts full of money. They are sadly mistaken, for every veti itive” i eran who managed fo save a thoudanger of “ill-considered and punitive” action by congress. EE a, several hundred who came out with their mustering out pay.

the A. F. of L. leaders, is the threat of “ill-considered and * punitive” labor legislation. They warn congress to avoid that “tragic mistake.” But we think the prospect that congress will enact the current period of comparative industrial peace. And the present chief disturbing factor, it seems to us, is John L. Lewis, that brother so recently returned to the A. F. of L. wing of labor’s house. If he breaks loose with another coal strike—as he may on April 1—then there will be real

Meanwhile, congress would indeed make a tragic mistake, and one it has made often before, if it accepted this lull in industrial warfare as an excuse for doing nothing. On this issue congress, for many years, has been like the man who couldn't mend his rainy roof in bad weather and * saw no need for mending it when the sun came out. i & » = »" » THIS country won't have permanently better labormanagement relations until it gets some corrective legislation. It won't get wise legislation by congressional action in the heat and anger of some great labor erisis.

erisis could stir both branches of congress to act at all.

The current spell of better weather on the industrial ~ front is by no means a guarantee that it aint gonna rain no more.

of calm, deliberate, well-considered labor legislation. If congress does what it should with that opportunity the essential rights of workers will be protected, labor's cause will not suffer, and the whole country will be better off.

ILL-ADVISED CENSORSHIP

THE United Nations security council hasn't got off to a good start in its first fact-finding venture in the field of international conflict. One of the first acts of its commission of inquiry, appointed to investigate Greek border incidents,

barred from taking advantage of a G. I. home loan because they do not| ON THIS LETTER” have the four or five hundred dollars nearly always required for down payment. t who cannot take advantage of the, educational benefits of the G. | orm Of gambling. Most people in bill because of age and the fact that their families must eat first. There are many veterans in this community and there must be. in

But heretofore it has seemed {fiat nothing less than a great |0D¢™ ¥ho are several hundred

ceife further credit and they cannot clean up their debts because their wages just barely meet the costs of living. I say if you want

: : : four hundred dollars, ask It is an opportunity for congress to work out a program | ue Ie not Be

A. R. R. (and Governor Gates) to think about.

The writer is employed in a job men to the railway stations with bands and speeches, they have stated that their obligations to the men who went into the armed forces were eternal and that they would see that a square deal was given them when they returned. Now that the firing his ceased and that the ways of our living have been assured for the time being, the buck passing has started. The soldier asks for something that will give him or his family an opportunity to make the down payment on a home or a chance to clean up his bills. He asks for only a small portion of that which was received by his fellow citizens while he was gone. There are thousands of veterans s

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By B. E. Broviak, 2745 Carrollton sve. I would like to put my two cents There are those

this country: are gamblers in one way or another. If théy don't play poker, slot machines Kd pin ball machines, they shoot dice or play some kind of pool ticket. Some form of our daily life is a a legalized gamble. To name a few how about driving a car, operating a business and even marriage. So why not make it legal to gamble, It to find out if the veteran can use;would eliminate the kind of scandal that has been in the papers recently. Someone will jump on this letter with both feet with the statement that if gambling is legalized a lot of men will spénd their pay checks in a gambling joint. To the ones who would say that, think this over: Anyone who is inclined to is going to gamble either legally or illegally. Also take this into consideration. Uncle Sam would that confront the rank and flle|and the state of Indiana collect veterans, an additional tidy sum in taxes that Our public officials have sent our, they do not now collect.

dollars in debt, they cannot re-

the professional veteran who will trade the rights and needs of the rank and file veterans for some dubious glory or political advantage of his own; don’t go to the individual who “made his” while the veterans were in the service, if you want a straight answer go to any public or private service office and listen to the multitude of problems

was to impose strict censorship on newsmen accompanying the mission. The Greek government has protested rightly, holding, |

we think, that press freedom is an essential part of the in- | . vestigation,

, The inquiry involves charges against Greece by Russia | and her satellite states, Bulgaria, Albania and Yugoslavia, | _ hat civil war in Greece is a threat to world peace, and - Zounter-charges by the Greeks that the war is being promoted by guerrillas crossing over from Bulgaria and Al‘Sania. Armed clashes have been frequent, and the com “ion has been sent to the scene to ascertain the facts. “+ Bince its mission is to obtain information, not to suppress it, the restriction on reporters tends to defeat its own broad purposes. Wi The Greek government has announced it will permit |. 2eporters to go anywhere in the country, whether accompanying the commission or not, with freedom to discuss any ‘hase of the Greek political or military situation. This evidunes that Greece has nothing to hide invites similar candor

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‘the part of the other nations, which the commission I

4 encourage, rather than the contrary, Nations in the Soviet orbit object to charges that they living behind an iron curtain, and here is an opportunity to ren is sane by fuviting in outside observers, any eyent, agen 0 security council should h id iron curtains of their own making; ? je cotamission intends to do a thorough, impartial »should find nothing its own investigators do its purpose, the commission’

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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"Yes, Sify we always Fave drawn a crowd here—ever since the time the bottom fell out of the box!" :

worth in on the uproar about all fight together, not only in battles of

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“HERE IS ANSWER TO OPEN LETTER” By B. E. H, Indianapelis Miss, Mrs. or Mr. A.“R. R, "afayette, here is your “open answer” to your “open letter” to the state legislature, I am not a legislator, but I am a Veteran, also a member of two veterans’ organizations, the largest two in the world. While I cannot speak for them I do know all world war II veterans want and can use any bonus they can get. I will grant you not many 4-F's want a state bonus for veterans. They made their money while we fought for their, lives. What veteran would be so dumb to turn down three or four hundred dollars now, if he was allowed the rest of his life to pay it back in taxes? What veteran past the age of 21 has not helped to pay the last soldiers’ bonus in taxes; although he received none of it himself? ‘ You speak of the legislators not having the opinion of their con-

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Legislative Ai rn ii . a a DE Ca ls next 3 - > n by i to : ) and p Teduation 9 anal 2a es Mupiing, women Business and Professional Women's club want th : CE TEN Lp suspension to be continued. Therefore, we charg of Indisna. Beginning with a membership of 13, the py these organisations are in favor of broken how “now reprelients of 230,000 honor . juvenile delinquency and immorality, because these decent wotkers—people of character—the have been traced directly to the law's suspension which of Indiana. Tk permits women to work around-the-clock, oe ; We want a state minimum wage and hour law. Our blll, now being considered, calls for 65 cents per hour and a 40-hour week. How any one can live ¢ less than that in these days of soaring- prices is beyond us. Yet much lower wages are common par.

in virtual slavery. ticularly among hotel, restaurant and other servi employees.

Employers Sponsor Anti-Labor Bills We want the legislature to legalize contracts be!

\ tween labor unions and governmental units, d protect the weak against the strong has been 1s no reason why low-paid employees of state in federation's legislative program for 61 years and giv tions and various city governmental units shoul will continue to be forever. not have the right of collective , Of course we've made gains—good pnes—and they yo Cone’ increased salaries for our teachers reflect advantageously in the profits of employers of po... pay and-working conditions for firenied, r's Note: Believing that the viewpoints of

> We also want the workmen's compensation leaders of the A. F. of L. and C. 1. O, are of

t amended to give better protection to injured minerd and : af int 1. Hoover has termed | other workers and the widows and children of column tqday te Carl H. Mullen, president.

those who lose their lives, Indiana State Federation of Labor, A C. 1 qo U8 Session, despite the majority party's p tative will present his organisation's

form pledging no restrictive labor legislation, we ¢ week, and will be followed by a repre-

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faced with an unusual number of anti-labor b n : sponsored by employer groups. These bills, includin of management. dhe measures to outlaw the closed shop, the anti picketing bill, the secondary boycott ‘bill, the bil which would permit individual state police intervened in labor disputes without authority from the gover nor, and a number of others, would do nothing exc pt} ‘paralyse unions and result in labor strife without! precedent in the state's history.

Unionism Promotes Progress FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE of Indiana and for the welfare of most of its citisens, In contrast to. the grasping, greedy employer groups, we hope that: the legislators stand on their campaign pledge and reject these bills, They are against the state's best interests. b The few states that now have such anti-labor statutes are the backward states of the nation. Th countries without trade unions are the b A countries of the world. « : The enemies of organized labor in the ene! assembly may search the map of the world and study ; the | all the history of mankind for evidence to the cone Is over and let the law governing the employment of trary. They will ind none. ;

DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney onal Capehart Is Doing ‘a Lot of Talking

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Our Senator Capelart has been as busy this week as the proverbial onearmed paperhanger. For one thing he has been about the most quoted man in congress. His views on things cover the widest range and put even the Republican presidential aspirant, Senator Taft of Ohio, to shame. Some of the headlines he has been getting haven't been too good from a political standpoint however. For instance, on Thursday the red-streak edition of

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We also want the legislature to realize the war

Being an Indianapolis manufacturer and large- U scale farmer at Washington, Ind., as well as owner of a big house here, Senator Capehart talked that nightks ‘as a man of property. He was addressing the Nationaln ‘Home and Property Owners Foundation. He said: “Your seventh goal to bring about equitable read. Justment of real estate taxes and stop the pyramiding of taxes on homes and other real property is not par-f ticularly a topic for me as United States senator.% Nevertheless, Homer E. Capehart, préperty owner © Indiana, is ready to tell you that property certainly’ Is carrying the tax burden today for many untaxed holdings.” 5 The Thursday night speech was only one of series for the senator this week. He defended his anti-portal-to-portal pay bill in a radio debate on theg forum of the air, made recordings pleading for a con gressional definition of “work” under FEP.

He began the week by speaking for Jews in Pales-M tine at a meeting in New York City.

‘People Like ‘Em Busy’ WITH ALL THESE GOINGS ON the sena oF | makes himself always available to visitors from the state. So he is working much more than an eight-if| hour day and 40-hour week. He summed it all up. this way: : ‘ “I don’t think the people back home care too much about details of what their senator does here. But

Speaks on Taxes and Rents “CAPEHART OF INDIANA: Let Tenants Sink or Swim—Urges State Jurisdiction Over Rents.” The headline grew out of a colloquy between the senior senator from Indiana and Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H) chairman of the senate banking committee. As a committee member and co-author of a bill to raise rents 15 per cent, Senator Capehartfinally concluded that the best thing would be to let the states handle the whole rent control deal. When Tobey summed up that philosophy as being “let them (tenants) sink or swim, starve or die” Capehart was quoted as replying: “That's right. That's as it should be.” When his attention was called to the resulting headlines, Senator Capehart said he was thinking of states that didn’t want control and merely meant that

stituents, Miss, Mrs. or Mr. It was the veteran constituents that put these legislators in office because we knew their stand on a soldiers’ | bonus before we voted for them. We veterans learned while in service to know the service man as a buddy, now we know what the veteran needs and wants. Therefore through the years of past service on the battle fronts have taught us that it pays to stay united and

war but also civilian life. By this means our legislators of today were put into office. Remember that out of 135 million people in the United States there are 18 million veterans who fought this country’s war. We remember that we fought our wars as brothers at

to keep this country for the benefit of all those who havé fought for it. s 2 . “IT ADDS UP TO NATIONAL SCANDAL” By T. L., Indianapelis If we would believe this propaganda we are continually bombarded with, all that is necessary to get and hold persons of super ability and worth on the. public payroll is a guaranteed program of frequent pay raises and a fat retirement pension after a few years of service, from the U. S. senate down to janitor, As viewed by some who don’t ride the gravy train, the acts of these groups who are able and do force thelr ‘demands for grants and special privileges, and the subsidizing of wealthy absentee land owners (many of whom are on the public payroll) with resultant prices that |takes food from the tables of the ‘poor in a land of abundance. | Put together, these things sum up to no less than a national scandal, Rudeness and greed seems to have destroyed all sense of appreciation, and the knowledge that many have more now than they can use wisely. In the preceding and present sessions of our legislature more attention has been given to pay boosts and pensions for public employees than other matters except harassing and maligning the old age pensioners and their relatives. They boast of squeezing half a million dollars out of the assistance. Also a law 1s proposed that sons and daughters when able to work (note able to work) would be forced to support their parents. The bonds of fascism will soon meet, :

DAILY THOUGHT

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.—James 2:24, :

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IN WASHINGTON... By Marquis Childs

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We are our own fates. Our own} deeds

it would be up to them to decide. He really wasn't intending to take any nasty crack at tenants, he indicated.

they like to read about him being busy. They want] to see that he is taking an active part in whatever § going on: DAN KIDNEY.

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Tax Cut Benefits Should Be Spreads

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—A delegation of topdrawer bankers paid a solemn call on Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder recently. After some polite preiiminaries, they got down to the real purpose of their mission.

That was to urge on Mr. Snyder need for tax reduction in upper income brackets,

Small Taxpayer Would Spend Saving

WHILE SNYDER LISTENED courteously, he made it perfectly clear that the Truman administration favors tax reduction for the man with a small income rather than the big taxpayer. In the house, too, an almost solid Democratic minority has begun to open up on the Republican proposal for a 20 per cent across-the-board tax cut, which would save a lot of money for.the big taxpayer and only alittle money for the little taxpayer. History repeats itself. All through the ‘20s, a Republican secretary of the treasury, Andrew W. Mellon, went on the theory that tax reductions in the upper brackets make for prosperity. ‘The Democats insisted on tax reductions for the man with a small income. The Mellons policy made for prosperity—for a while. It made for the greatest boom in America’s history. Then came the greatest bust. The crash of 1929 and after shook the foundations of the American system. The men in the Truman administration responsible for economic policy want to avoid another

such boom-and-bust. They look on tax reduction one of the most vital factors. An across-the-board 20 per cent tax reductio 1 would mean a tax saving of about $12,000 to a man 6 with an income of $100,000 a year. But to the mangsf paying taxes of $200 a year, it would mean a saving 1 of only $40. pl There has been considerable support in the ad-328 ministration for a tax reduction of a flat $200 for ali® | taxpayers. This would eliminate millions of citizens | who pay so little tax that cost of collection is greater than return to the government. It would make i possible to scale down the vast bureaucracy engagedts in tax collection. Real reason is that it would increase purchasin power among the mass of consumers at a time wherl it is ‘vitally important to maintain a national in come of $150,000,000,000. The small-income man who saves $200 on his taxes will spend all or most of] it on things for his family, as contrasted with the man saving $12,000, who will put most of it into the bank or into investments..

Don't Risk Repeating 1929 WHAT IS MOST AMAZING is to find the bankers arguing once again—just as though 1929 had never happened—for the old theory of help the rich and thereby create jobs for the not-so-rich. These same bankers, with representatives of big insurance companies, also have been urging an in crease in interest rates. The treasury and the fed eral reserve are saying “no” in this instance, too

SAGA OF INDIANA « « « By William A. Marlow

1843 Indiana Whigs’ Last Chancel

WE SHIFT gears on an automobile. We shift keys on a typewriter. On a boat we shift the tiller from - starboard to port. A war veteran too often has to shift for himself. But the major shift in the U. 8. A: is a political shift. This is not the election shift that comes when one political party steps out and another one steps in. The major shift comes only when a great political party dies, and another one is born. Vv.

Warned of Changes

THE SIGNAL for such a shift in American politics first began in the presidential campaign of 1840. Beneath the noisy clatter and raucous confusion of this campaign lay ‘something deep and fundamental in American politics. Andrew Jackson, old, crusty, and retired to his. hermitage in Tennessee, had eased out of the . political picture after his presidency. Martin Van Buren, beaten overwhelmingly by 1840, and defeated again on a Free Soll ticket by Democ¢rat James K. Polk in 1844, was completely washed up as a presidential figure, or as an important factor in American affairs. But before the presidential campaign of 1848 rolled around, slavery and territorial expansion had elbowed their way into American affdirs. They forced a new line-up in American politics. : The Wilmot proviso brought’ the whole matter of slavery and territorial expansion to a boil. The proviso was an amendment to an appropriation bill

million, which President Polk was authorized to use at his discretion to pay for territory acquired from] Mexico at the close of the war. : Politically, this was like dropping a lighted mate in a can of gasoline. Ina flash, the country was on} fire. It was surprised, shocked and angry. The South was alarmed. The North was stirred with deep. concern. [ In congress, the matter was undecided in 1846.) On Feb. 8, 1846, Wilmot introduced the proviso, again with the same . The house passed it. The senate failed to act on it. The country was disturbed. Thoughtful men were anxious but hopeful. The nation asa whole drifted. In Indiana, all this was snarled in with state affairs, The period covered the aftermath of the state's collapsed internal improvement plan, which Indiana Democrdts charged to the . : The first major clash came in the election of a. United States senator to succeed Oliver H. Smith, whose term expired in 1843. Edward A. Hannegan, and independent Democratic candidate, was elected. This was the last chance of the Whigs to elect a United States senator in Indiana, : i

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v 2 IN THE LONG view, Indiana and the nation, as mid-19th century drew near, were like an anxious family awaiting the outcome of a loved oné's critical | illness, 4 In politics, in both the state and the nation, the old political parties had lost their ‘and their 4 meaning. The Whigs were hopelessly on their way in the house of representatives. Had out. The Democrats had no dyhamic, promising lead- } It ‘was introduced by David Wilmot, a Democrat er as Andrew Jackson had been, nor any fundamen. _ from Penpyivanidl The bill would appropriate $2 tally oul fen, state or national abi :

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