Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1947 — Page 12

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DGET PRINCIPLE ‘RALPH F. GATES sounded a wisely conve note in his budget message to the legislature ‘when he said that local governments have become too ‘reliant on higher governments, and that state spending must be curtailed. The governor recommended—and that means that the : ation-controlled majority will so act—that’ de‘of local governmental units be turned down. The ‘executive suggested that home rule be applied to the ting of taxes as well as to the spending of them, sended local units be authorized to levy income taxes. | In this stand, the governor is consistent with the national G. O. P. policy of reducing federal aid to states. The time has come for all units of government to realize that they cannot continue forever to milk the next highest unit. That applies to state aid from the federal treasury, and county, township and city aid from the state. - The state now is returning to local governments $29 million a year for school tuition purposes, $10 million for "state welfare contributions and $3 million plus for other * state aid. This is more than half the total cost of operating the state government for the coming year.

i » " ou /['HERE will be only one new tax added if the governor's recommendations are followed. And we predict that they will. : : "That will be a levy of three cents a package on cigarets, which is expected to yield about $9 million annually. The budget message suggested, without recommending, that | new gasoline taxes might be necessary if the highway department is to continue its heavy schedule of spending. But the legislators should see to it that spending is kept within present income. The governor wisely refrained from reference to any of the pet frill projects such as a state house plaza, said

that after reviewing the budget committee’s recommendations, some of his projects “may have to be curtailed or delayed.” Which is as it should be if we are to approach economy in state government. ;

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_ Specific approval was given to increase in the amount contributed by the state to teachers’ salaries, which should be accomplished even if at the expense of some less essential state expenditure. No reference was made to a veterans’ bonus, which means that such legislation has "little chance in this general assembly. The institutional building program appears well-bal-anced, and includes improved facilities for mental patients and at educational institutions. : : » » i CIT spending definitely will be resorted to, under | “the picture painted by the governor. It is difficult to estimate whaf a safe surplus is for the state, but it would appear that with the proceeds from a cigaret tax, the surplus will be in the neighborhood of $29 million. Governor Gates placed the present treasury balance at $55 million. ~The budget is up 30 per cent, and the anticipated cost of operating state offices and departments is up 40 per cent, compared with two years ago. We would feel better about the governmental spending picture if the state administration could balance its budget, just as we feel the federal budget can be balanced only by spending less. But Governor Gates has shown an ‘intention at least to keep increases down. Whether these costs are being kept down as much as possible we are inclined to doubt. We do feel, however, that he has done a fair job in handing on to the legislators a hopelessly tangled budget problem. Now the task is theirs —and every taxpayer will watch with interest the pruning of expenses which they accomplish.

WORKING FOR PEACE ARREN R. AUSTIN, American representative to the

United Nations, has expressed confidence that world disarmament and security will be achieved. But he hastened to add that it would be “intemperate” to say just how near the world is to those goals. The answers to that, he said, may not be forthcoming “for a long, long time.” In the meantime, while we desire peace, and continue to work for it, as Mr. Austin is doing, we must be prepared for war. That of itself will advance the cause of peace. We can’t buy peace by words alone. We must be willing, and be prepared to fight for it. This is why Secretary Marshall lists universal military training as a must, if we are to have a strong foreign policy. We cannot have a strong policy without military force to back it up. Only universal military training will give us the

"Breakdown in Coll

Property Taxes Is Predicted"

By Joe Rand Beckett, Former State Semator, City Property taxes in the industrial counties of Indiana are headed for a collapse. - It is no answer to say, “It can't happen here,” because it did happen in 1932. Anyone who was associated with the special 'session of the legislature in 1932 knows that that session was called because property tax collections collapsed, and the money was not available to support governmental functions, That special session of the legislature did nothing but drastically reduce expenses all along the line and education was no exception. Salaries were reduced, the issuance of bonds was prohibited, and funds transferred in order to keep the functions of government going on &

partial basis. This was the ground work that made necessary the gross, income tax of 1933. Comparing today’s tax rates in a few places with what they were in 1932, we find: Hammond, then $321; today, $4.74. Kckomo, then

were taken out of the present property tax levies, we would have about the same property tax rate that caused fhe collapse in 1932. But cities and towns are not the only locations that are in difficulty with property taxes today. The agricultural areas in the counties wherein cities are located are in just as bad a situation and are facing a much worse condition in the near future: Everyone associated with agriculture knows that a fair rental in central Indiana for land is $5 an acre. Out of that $5 rental in Marion county, the owner must pay today $268 in taxes. That leaves him a- net- profit of $2.32 an acre. Out -of this $2.32 profit per acre must come increases for teachers’ salaries, a new building fund, and if we should have a business recession poor relief in the townships. '$2.32 would not cover this additional expense which must be anticipated in governmental plans. Therefore the ownership of land would become unprofitable.

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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Unless rents are raised soon the landlords may become too poor to support their lobbyists. w E J ” It would be easier to get the bugs | out of the budget, if congressmen! had fewer bedfellows in the buresus. s - s Reading the Congressional Rec-' ord indicates some Republicans still |

these larger industrial are trying to repeal Pearl Harbor. try by all and sundry.

» ” = It’s hard to understand how free enterprise can be based on high tariffs.

2 ” s Although he helped Hitler ruin Germany, Franz von Papen only! cries when he feels sorry for him- | self. i

75 per cent of the suburban dwellers pay no direct tax today for the support of schools. Agriculture supports schools for them. Agriculture cannot support the future tax burden. These are the. facts which lead tax authorities to predict a bréakdown in the collection of property taxes in the near future in the industrial countries.

In some of these rural areas of the industrial counties, as many as

People now are more concerned about keeping the schools operat-

reservoir of trained manpower essential to a sound military establishment.

TWENTY-NINE DAYS TO GO

WITH the controversial issue of extension of the direct * " primary settled in the general assembly, legislators now should get down to work on the still untouched problems of the state government. ; These range from taxation to labor legislation. The legislators will have a busy time of it in the remaining 29 days if they do a competent job. *= The primary issue has held up other legislative action, i was settled Friday when the house defeated a proposal to nominate state candidates and U. S. senator on a statewide primary basis. Both houses passed a bill reforming the convention system of nominations, a forward step which will be watched closely by those who resent the undemoeratic manner of the bossed conventions of the past. The governor's budget message gives the green light for consideration of financial matters, including the veterans bonus which we believe should be defeated. The ~ American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars support a

many other former service men and women oppose jt. ‘Many more bills have been introduced at this stage of : than at the same point in the last session. ly few have been enacted into law. Friday was

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srtaining to budgetary matters. Up to the end ative day, 460 measures had been presented. the, last on which senate bills could be introy opening of the session, 276 measures had

* bonus measure, while the American Veterans committee .

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

ing than they are of any othem function of government. This is the attitude of every citizen. This being the case, it is the responsi- | bility of every citizen to support! their schools with a fair proportion | of his or her earnings. A withholding tax with no exemptions cn personal service income within these industrial counties would be a fair

tax to support the schools. House Bill No. 208 gives you the| needed legislation this session that! will prevent a breakdown of tax! collections. Its principles are equit-! able. No citizen should today be permitted to say that he or she is not willing to give a fair share of his or her earnings for the support of schools. The bill, therefore,

“NEED LAWS FOR THOSE CAUSING SPIRITUAL DEATH” By Evelyn Berry, Indianapolis Laraine Day's disgraceful flaunting of the terms of her divorce and her altogether too hasty re-bigamy marriage, should awaken the citizens of this country to a better enforcement of the laws of the coun-

It is a well known fact that the youth of the country, and some of its “adolescent adults” as well, emulate everything and anything that is done in Hollywood as being right and proper. Lust under any other is still “lust,” and after the squelching of the “lust” then the divorce mill, Now some ridiculous if an “oldster” or naive if a youngster wrote in that persons shouldn't be required to wait after a divorce is granted to remarry. What a nice business that would be! We'd have new husbands and wives every day of the week, and the children, well the h--- with them. And why have any laws at all for that matter? Why not scrap them all? My opinfon .is that there should be a longer waiting period before the divorce is granted. Far too many times a fool of a man or woman is caught up with some fresh face,

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only to learn to his or her dismay 'and chagrin that it was just the [face and nothing else that at'tracted him or her. By that time the damage is done. The soul of the one who loved and trusted has been murdered, as you can murder | spiritually as well as physically. | Again I say make the waiting period {before a divorce is granted longer, {not 10 weeks, but a year. And a 'year after before anyone could re{marry. Then you'd see the divorce Istatistics dwindle, and -how! | And another thing, get good strong laws to deal with these married “chiselers” and the “tramps” |who go out with them. This would

be another factor in reducing the

divorce evil. We have laws to take care of the man who with his car causes another person's death or injury, but how about laws to take care of the man or woman who causes the spiritual death of his or her mate, a far more serious matter, because the body goes on living with the soul murdered. Get at the base of this divorce evil before it's too late.

DAILY THOUGHT

And mine eye shall not spare, + neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and’ thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that IT am the Lord that, smiteth.—Ezekiel 7:9. 3 ” » »

| YT/TICKLES this department to be able to report that quite & number of Indianapolis postoffice em-

ployees, led by Kenneth Loucks, continue to perpetu-

(stamp collectors to you) counting the hours until tomorTheir restlessness muy be traced to the discovery that tomorrow marks the centenary of Thomas Alva Edison's birth and the collateral disclosure that, some time .ago, Postmaster General Hannegan promised to produce a : collectors item in. the shape of a special commemorative stamp. Mr. Loucks and his‘constituency can hardly wait to see what the new issue will look like.

Milan, O., Wins Distinction

AUTHO ATIVE SOURCES (the roots of which I am not eged to reveal) permit me to disclose that the new stamp will be purple in color and of the

popular 3-cent denomination. It will be of the same size as the reaent series of ‘Famous Americans,” ‘which is to say that it will measure exactly 85/100 by 98/100 inches. To appreciate its artistic merit, it has to be looked at vertically. The portrait of Edison will be placed to the right of the center of the stamp and will extend from the bottom edge to the top, except for the narrow space required for the inscription: “United States Postage” done in bold white block letters. (Any similarity ‘between my literary style thus far and that of Vogue is purely coincidental and must be construed as such before I consent to proceed). : 5 > ; In the lower left corner of the new stamp will be a large rectangular panel arranged vertically with a white background containing at the top thé abbreviated name “Thomas A. Edison.” This time done in dark bold letters. At the bottom of the panel, arranged in the form of a monogram, will be a reproduction of a cogwheel, uplifted wings and a flash of lightning, symbols of power, flight and electricity. Between the monogram and the name of the inventor will be the denominational “3¢” in dark Roman, thus completing the ensemble. And high time, too. ~ The new stamp will be issued in sheets of 70 ($3.10 cash) and the initial printing calls for an edition of 100 million copies. The first edition is

- | generally believed to be enough to go around, now

that Franklin D. Roosevelt no longer collects stamps. All of which should be sufficient for Mr. Loucks

McKellar Makes

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—In the long history of the United States senate, therg have been scoundrels and fools as well as great men. There have been vainglorious egotists and chattering pygmies as well as statesmen and heroes. But it is just Possible that, in the long history of the senate, there has never been any performance so dishonorable as that of Senator McKellar (D. Tenn.) in the case of David Lilienthal. That is the unenviable record he will carry to his grave,

Cannot Be Ignored ONE CAN SAY, charitably, that Senator McKellar's advanced years unfit him for his duties in the senate. But that is not enough. He is a monstrous reality that cannot so conveniently be ignored. More than the accident of an unprincipled individual is involved here. The organization of the senate permits this individual to obstruct the whole course of government in a field vital to the life of every American. It permits this individual to make a foul joke of the processes of democracy. That is what is really ominous about the McKellar performance. It is just as well to face up now to the unAmerican nature of McKellar's tactics. Falling ‘in every way to discredit the Indiana-reared Mr, Lilienthal, Senator McKellar finally resorted to the meanest form of character assassination. With inuendo and insinuation, he began to pry into Mr. Lilenthal’s parentage and origin.

8ST. LOUIS, Feb. 10—If Ike Eisenhower says he doesn’t want to be President that’s good enough for me. But I'd like to tell him that I think he can make it in "48, and on either ticket. I doubt very much if such a potent combination of personality and public trust has walked the land in all the years the country has existed. He is lustily cheered in the newsreels still.’ In Canada, the good neighbors brush aside Mr. Taft, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Dewey, Mr. Stassen, Mr. Bricker and Gen. MacArthur, “What about Gen. Eisenhower?” they ask. “Isn't he going to run?” . ”

More Diplomat Than General?

THE FACT THAT OUR DIPLOMATIC POSTS are packed full of generals apparently hasn't hurt Ike as a prospective President. . The fact that Gen. Grant

| was something less than a howling success in the

White House, if you discount his ability with the bourbon, doesn’t perpetuate the popular antipathy against victorious military men, in the case of Gen. Eisenhower. The people are even going on the defensive, and are using the old chestnut, about G. Washington. “The father of his country,” they say, “the first twotermer—he was‘ a general, wasn't he?” “They are lumping Ike now with Washington, and they do not feel he suffers by comparison. At least Gen. Eisenhower has his ‘own teeth. Mamie Eisenhower’s baldheaded husband does not seem to be regarded primarily as a military man by the folks I've talked to. He is less a general than a diplomat, more of an executive than a warrior. All arguménts against Gen. Eisenhower for President are answered thusly: “He got along with the British and

Anglo-Soviet WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—It is widely conceded here that the Anglo-Soviet 20-year alllance of 1942

{s now on the skids, Diplomats are asking why.

Premier Stalin has made it clear that he regards the treaty as virtually worthless as it stands.- So much so that unless London eliminates existing “weaknesses” and “reservations.” He will not bother even to ‘discuss an extension. -- SE ——————

Russia Violates Principles

WHAT, IT 18 asked, might these weakening reservations be? ' 1. The preamble of the treaty stipulates that Anglo-Soviet collaboration and mutual assistance shall declaration of Aug. 14, 1941. , . to which the Soviet Union has adhered.” That declaration is known as the Atlantic Charter. Signatories pledge themselves to “seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other,” and to “respect the rights of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.” Russia already has violated , these pPinciples 80 often and in so many parts of the globe that, if Britain were so inclined, she could void the treaty. A contract deliberately broken by one party generally is unénforceable on the other. 3 2. The preamble also’sets forth that.the treaty is “to provide for mutual assistance” in the event of an attack “by Germany or of the states associated with her in acts of aggréssion in Europe.” i This would seem to limit the treaty's scope to Europe and to attacks by Gernlany and her satellites. It would not be operative, for example, if Russia were

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when it makes , ever, it won't turn » ! antil after tomorrow. That's because the first will be limited to Milan, O, (pop, -. . the distinction because it happens Vo be ti place of Mr: Edison. Mian. had : 3 In which connection it may not be amiss to remind Mr. Hannegan, who is still our postmaster general (all reports to the contrary. notwithstanding)

son was identified with other ‘plates Take Indianapolis, Ind, for instance. urned up- here as a 17-year-old boy on = Qoct, 18, 1864, and stayed until Feb. ¥, 1866. In the of that visit, he had the job of night tele-

quently, he began to devise a mechanism to increase

It wasn't the only. thing Mr. ] during his three month's (plus) stay in Indianapolis, , About a month after he started work here, he began : to pester the W. U. people to let him have some of thelr discarded material, He. used: the to find a way of sending two messages over the same . wire, He didn't get it to work in Indianapolis. Several years later, however, he succeeded in not only sending two messages, but a whole batch of them over the same wire. The new-fangled contraption became known as Edison's “quadruplex.”

Invented Rat Paralyzer IT NOW APPERS (if Mr. Hannegan is still ine’ terested) that Mr, Edison was fooling with the idea of the ‘quadruplex all the time he lived in Indiane apolis, As a matter of fact, he got the nickname of “Looney” because of it. That's what the men he stayed with at Patterson's boarding house used to call him. (The boarding house was.pn Alabama st, opposite the city market). From here Edison went to Cincinnati where he invented the “rat paralyzer,” a handy household gadget that had all the elements of a modern electrio chair, Some of our oldtimers whose sense of civic pride ran deep used to insist that Mr. Edison got the idea of electrocuting rats right here in Indianapolis because of the close proximity of his residence to the market house. Could be. In that case, the Indianapolis-inspired rat trap certainly conveys the significance of the three symbols Mr. Loucks will discover on the forthcoming Edison stamp.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs

Joke of Democracy

Think what this means to an honorable and sensitive man. Think what it means to a man whose elderly and respected parents are still living. Such an attack overrides every tenet on which this country was founded. It is a denial of our greatness and our strength. : : One of the sad commentaries on all this is the fact that McKellar represents the state of Tennessee, Tennessee has contributed many great men in the past. Two of these great men, it So happens, were made to suffer under the same kind of unfAmerican attack that Senator McKellar has directed at Mr. Lilienthal. '

Stain Spreads

ONE WAS Andrew Jackson, who left his birthplace in South Carolina to make his home at the Hermitage, near Nashville. Jackson's wife was calumnied and persecuted in the most cruel way in order to punish Jackson politically. The other was Andrew Johnson,% who was hounded by vindictive men seeking for political ends to destroy and ruin him. : Tennessee's delegation in congress today is well above the average if one excluded Senator McKellar, It is largely composed of men of capacity and integrity. But the stain of Senator McKellar, and behind him “Boss” Crump of Memphis, spreads a long way, : For these two, for Senator McKellar and the boss who created and sustained him, there is a dark niche in the golden cathedral of American history. :

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Many Want Eisenhower as President

the Russians, didn't he? He was smooth enough to have lasted the whole war as allled commander, wasn’t he? He handled all those prima donnas withe out getting his lip in a wringer, didn't he? Okay, so what's wrong with having a guy “that good in the White House?” The nomination of Gen. George Marshall as Jimmy Byrnes’ successor does not seem to have inspired a Marshall-for-President vogue. Gen. Marshall's pase sionate disavowal of political ambition, plus his age, . has successfully sold him as a non-competitor for the big job. Gen. MacArthur, probably as a result of irreverent press relations during the war, cuts very little ice these days in the informal conversation league.

‘lke’ Is Popular SOME SORT OF AURA of unreality hovers over the formal candidates, the regular politicians, the party draft-horses, Senator Taft is a dry little man whose big fat pappy was a President, once. T haven't heard Mr. Dewey's name mentioned lately, and where is it that Mr. Bricker comes from? Mr, Stassen apparently cooled himself off early in the piece, when he announced he would be a good boy for the job. So help me, I haven't met a voting citizen who thinks that President Truman will ask for renomination. Harry is like a pinch 'hitter who fouls out to the catcher, and who isn't apt to be starting tomorrow in the cleanup spot.. - The ways of politics are devious indeed, and 'we may wind up with Alf Landon at the helm, but I will be willing to bet a couple of pucks right now that if he wants it that way our next President will be a grinning gent with a wife named Mamie,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Alliance on Skids

tween Japan and Russia, China and Russia, the United States and Russia, and 50 on. ‘ 3. Article three, part two, ties the treaty to the United Nations, pending creation of such an organization, Russia and Britain agreed to lend each other, all possible aid in the event of an attack by Gers | many or her associates. Apparently, however, this part of the agreement is to lapse when the two parties’

“recognize that (article three) 1s superseded” by the’

United Nation's. That is to say when the United’ Nations takes over the job of policing Germany.

It is conceded that Stalin might like to change

that part of the treaty so Britain still would be’ pledged to act with Russia against Gérmany and/or. her associates, irrespective of the United Nations. But: few believe that this consideration was what prompte ! ed Pravda’s obviously inspired outburst against Fore eign Minister Bevin or that it was even one of his major reasons. Fo ¢

Kremlin Maneuver Seen WHAT .I8 REGARDED as much more likely is that the Kremlin has begun a maneuver designed’ to force Britain either into a closer partnership with the Soviet bloc (and a corresponding weakening of her ties with America) or to drive Mr. Bevin from the foreign office where he would be succeeded ‘by someone more amenable, y An Anglo-French alliance is now in the making. If Moscow can manage it, this might lead to another

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triple entente among Russia; Britain and France in

such form as to preclude, for a long time, any-kind

of collaboration economic or otherwise among the small democracies of Europe—something ‘which for= mer Prime Minister Churchill and others are seeking

to promote.

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