Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1947 — Page 14

. their plans for this year to conform to the tax rates now

-Strength to deteriorate until it was a negligible force, and

Price in Marion County, § carrier, 20 cents a week.

month. Give Lit and the

cents a copy; deliv~

Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, 87 cents a

BALANCE THE BUDGET FIRST

AMERICA taxpayers have just gone through the agony of settling up last year’s income tax, estimating this year’s tax and paying the first quarterly installment of all in excess of the withholding. It has been painful, but those who are wise have made

in effect. They would like to believe that, come next March, the country will face a brighter prospect, and they a lighter ~~ But the political tactics of the house Republican leadership, in driving for a hurry-up vote on a 20 per cent “across-the-board cut in this year's income taxes, raise doubts that anything at all'i in the way of tax Tegislation will be ‘accomplished i in this congress. If the Knutson tax cut is passed by the house, it is not likely that it will be approved by the senate. Even if it is, it surely will be vetoed by the President—and the veto sustained. For the country is overwhelmingly behind the

President's sound insistence that a balanced budget and |

public debt reduction must come first, Rep. Knutson dnd those who vote with him, in their drive for political recovery of the G. O. P., underestimate both the intelligence and patriotism of taxpayers. For a majority of taxpayers well know that even the heavy exactions they have just paid are less onerous to them than the inflated living costs which stem from the government’s continued deficit financing. The Knutson Republicans could better serve the country by working this year to reduce public spending and the public debt. And by working now on a broad tax reform, eliminating double taxation and other inequities, and making the lower rates applicable to next year’s business and income—to the end that people may plan ahead with hope and confidence. Rep. Knutson et al apparently don’t think 80, but they probably could even get more votes that way.

THE NATIONAL GUARD

THE story of the national guard, backbone of American defense from the French and ian war through Guadalcanal and the Rhine crossing, is being dramatized on the .air, on Wolneslay nights. It's an inspiring

presentation. The national guard came into being as the militia even

before the birth of the republic. Distinguished figures in |Rryssian -our history served its ranks—George Washington, “Mad

Anthony” Wayne, Ethan Allen, Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln and countless others. It produced some of the great soldiers of the recent war, including Ohio’s Bob Beightler and- Oklahoma’s Ray McLain. In Indiana, it has produced outstanding leaders and soldiers, including Mayor Robert H. Tyndall, Indianapolis mayor and major-general commanding the 38th division in the early days of the war. But times have changed since the minute men left their shops and farms, rolled up their sleeves and fired the shot heard round the world at Lexington and Concord. We no longer are a nation of riflemen, reared on a rugged frontier, ready for action at a moment’s notice. Conditioning and training are required to make us the fighting men our ancestors were. Insurance agents, bank clerks, teachers and lawyers must be taught how to man and service planes, tanks, submarines and landing craft. That is why military authorities are agreed that a system of universal military training is essential to provide trained men to fill the ranks of the national guard and regular army in times of emergency. Twice in a generation we permitted our military

twice our weakness was a factor in provoking global war. Our best insurance against a third catastrophe i is to remain strong, by maintaining a well-supported army, navy and air force, buttressed by" a reservoir of trained civilian manpower.

THE FOREMEN DECISION

HE U. S. supreme court has ruled, 5 to 4, that foremen in industry are entitled to Wagher act protection if they wish to organize into unions for collective bargaining. In the case decided, the Packard Motor Co. had been ordered by the national Jabog relations board, and had. refused, to recognize an independent union ef which ‘only’ foremen are members.

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Still not plainly answered is the related

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agree with a word that you

say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

"Peace Impossible

with the long 1ange goal of peach

combination of alliances that will assure security of peace for the to-| morrow if we have Russia on the outside inflamed to a genius-like| efficiency by their feeling, real or) imaginary, of national insecurity. The Stalin dictatorship does not have to be worried about losing face

end of peace.

advocate that we shouwia co..qu..

ing Russia with U, S. armed camps and stooge U. S. anti-Russian dictatorships—in the hope of keeping

& peace for today and létting 'to-

morrow. take care of itself, That would be like the security gained from locking a hungry-mad bear in a thin closet. Our U. S. state department is

too anti-Russian in tradition’ and|

too closely contaminated with loudmouth Churchill tory imperialism to ever be able to plan peace for to-

{morrgw with the Russians. Their

ever approach to; the Russians°has Been like a. man ‘With a drawn ball bat approaching a strange dog. Before we go to war with Russia

question: Does the Wagner act, as it stands, protect foremen in a right to belong to the same union as rank-and-file workers they are supposed to supervise? | If foremen are “employees” within the meaning of the Wagner act, as the court's majority holds, they also are agents of management, responsible for carrying out its policies. Unfortunately, in many great mass-production industries, foremen have not been given such recognition and rewards as would make them feel that they actually

. were part of management. It is understandable that desire for the protection and benefits of” organization has grown

mong’ them. "But the division of loyalty that would result from fore-

hen belonging to unions dominated by rank-and-file workers could create impossible situations in industry. We think

id : rongress should say clearly that it does not intend the Wagner act to protect:that type of organization of foremen.

( VERNMENT'S RIGHT TO FIRE

HE supreme court has now declared that it is lawful to fire a government employee on the grounds of reasondoubts of his loyalty to our country. such an issue had to be tested in court tells about how mysh-headed have been some of the t’ past regulations and law intexpretations. A 1 couiitry may have a constitutional right ‘commu a n is the the best of all possible 8ysbelieve that the United’ and Russia always on the side of that lug Jias a constitu-

Believe We're Fencing Them In" -

By A Worried Veteran, Crawfordsville .- In this atomic age peace for today is unimportant in comparison

Nor in this modern atomic world afraid hearts the simple fears of can we conjure up any possibleiinsecurity that inhibit them from

if we knock the chip off his shoul-| ATTRACTIVE TO VISITOR” der with economic warfare or if

if Russians

in the years to come. The constant

{solving the plan for national security for all and totalitarian peace for all the tomorrows to come. I nominate Herbert Hoover, Henry {Ford and Senator Robert Taft to head-up the Amerieali delegation. = “MAKE cry GATEWAYS

By R. L. 8, Indianapolis It seems the people of this city are trying to make it a beautiful one s0 why not begin on the outskirts first. Almost in any direction you may enter this city it's not

proud of.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

a pretty sight to see. We do have a precious few nice

the east. This is a beautiful street. Some of the houses are not large and didn’t cost too much but they always look neat and clean. In the summertime it is a pleasure to ride on this street. Do you know why? You don't see signs reading worms for sale, no kitchen chairs leaning against unpainted houses, no fences made out of boxes and what have you, no cardboad window panes. This Is really what you see on some streets. Some cannot afford much but it costs very little to keep a home neat and clean, only work is what it takes. I would love to see this city limits look like. some others I have seen. . We have a very nice heart of town, and if the outskirt were Xépt- neat ar clean, twe,- the people of Indianapolis would really have something to ‘be

Aw

And this is being offered in the name of “free enterprise”! Wha} a farce! The commission brazenly admits that the objective of the new project is not to cater to the small income groups or prospective small home owners. Mr. Jensen, secretary of the commission, stated as reported in The Times, that cut rates would be given corporations and individuals able to buy 10 or more lots for construction purposes. And has stated Turther that the great majority of home owners now living in the area will not be able to afford to live in the proposed new quarters either on a rental . or purchase basis. Where are the evicted home owners to live? There are no projects planned to provide homes for these people.

I can hardly agree with those who Ones. One is 38th st. entering from | Will they loin the army of home-

less families? This brutal inhuman “plan* of forcibly dispossessing the small home owners in favor of the “higher brackets,” and for lucrative profits for a few represents a ringing challenge to all small home owners and tenants alike. Let's not forget it was the powerful real estate interests who fought the passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft federal housing bill, just as it now fights to abolish rent controls. 5° This “plan” should be repealed. Indianapolis needs a real gov ment slum clearance and housitg program based on the interests of the low income groups for tenants and small home owners alike. The Communists say defend the. homes and- private property of the low income groups, unite against this - confiscation and land grab scheme. d » » “STEWART-WARNER HELP HAS POOR BUS SERVICE” -

‘By David Leth, 810 8. Pershing ave,

A good many have had their say

on our Indianapolis transit service.

I notice their new sign, “What Price Better Service.” We know the price, but we know nothing of the service. The service is what I wish to write about. for Stewart-Warner second shift going home at 12:10 a. m. The service is one small bus at Stewart-Warner gate for 75-100 employees. We have asked repeatedly for two busses at this gate and the only information we get is, “We will check,” but. nothing has been done about it. The unfortnate who cannot crowd on this bus have to walk to Kentucky ave. and wait for a Stock Yards bus which .is on the wrong side of the tracks, while the trains are doing all their switching. All I can say is that it was most unpleasant in the recent cold wave and we have gotten thoroughly soaked in wet weather.” We ask again for two. Stock st. busses so we may get an_ earlier connection or even a bus at the Circle or Washington and Illinois sts. going

“| home.

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DAILY THOUGHT

But they mocked the : messengers

_and misused His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose

_ against His people, till there was

no remedy. —II Chronicles 36:16.

rand-in ‘most of the messes in the Germen

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“other people’s rights as well as your own.”

IT MAY well be asked why on an occasion such as this I should want te rush into print with an experience of mine, a question which if pushed still further must inevitably end in another query— namely, of what possible help or valug could an experience of mine be to,other people? Well, there are two reasons. First, the one handed down by Arthur Benson, that it helps our sense of balance and proportion to know what happens to other people, the obvious corollary of which is that it sustains us to know how other people are looking at life, what they expect of it, what they find in it, and what they do not find. The other reason is that it isn't possible to talk about Adolph Schellschmidt today and leave myself out of it. Adolph went to his reward a year ago yesterday and, somehow, :the sad anniversary reminded me of a story he once told—possibly one of his best stories and, certainly, the one that revealed to the

.|greatest degree what he expected to find in life; jor to put it more specifically—what he failed to find

in modern music.

Wanted to Elevate Classic Tastes

. THE STORY has never appeared in print, for the reason Adolph told it only to those prepared to cross-th and promise not to repeat it during his lifetime. When asked if the injunction included the future, too, he weakened a bit and said that if the story still made sense a year after his death, he wouldn't mind if the whole world shared it., Which gives me the liberty—indeed, the authority—to speak freely today. : “In 1905, $0 runs the tale, Mrs. William Elder, one of the city's prominent pianists (she studied with Kullak in Berlin), prepared a paper labeled “Modern Music” which, eventually, was to be read at a guest meeting of the Woman's club of the Propylaeum. The significance of the occasion was apparent because this was just about the time that Debussy and Charpentier were steering music into uncharted channels with outlandish inventions of their owna scale of half-tones in the one case and some mighty

O'Mahoney Flashes

WASHINGTON, March 19.—Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) is one of the most sincere, fair-minded, dispassionate men in congress. Yet he finds himself month after month crying out a warning that no one seems to listen to. A reasonable man himself, Senator O'Mahoney thinks that the lawmakers and the American people should pay attention to what is to him so very dear. Put in the simplest language, what Mr. O'Mahoney issaying over and over again is this.

He Doesn't Want State Control

THE BIG corporations are gobbling up the little corporations. That process is going on today faster than at.any time since the depression year of 1931. The rate at which mergers are occurring is five times that of 1939. The giant corporations now have economic power far greater than all but a few states. The end will be four or five colossal corporations and they will be taken over and run by the government. It is this threat of government control at the end of the monopoly road which is the theme of Mr, O'Mahoney’s warning. He doesn’t want state control. He knows that state control is likely to mean the end of all our freedoms. But he sees that statism is certain unless we stop the business of merger and monopoly. : The other day Mr. O'Mahoney introduced a bill he believes will be a remedy. It is an amendment to the Clayton anti-trust act, which now permits mergers that merge the assets of corporations while. for-

NEW YORK, March 19.—George Mardikian, one-, time starving Armenian whose stuffed grape leaves and shish kebab have made him both rich and patriotic, may some day rival Josephus Daniels in fame as an upsetter of military tradition. ‘ Mr. Daniels, when secretary of the navy, turned the navy dry afloat by making it a military crime to drink at sea, and his memory is profanely green. Mr. Mardikian, just returned from a 4% -month survey in Europe, now proposes to make army chow fit for human consumption. If he succeeds, millions of future doughfeet will carry a small locket next their hearts, and in the locket will be George's picture. George passed through New York on His way to see Gen. Eisenhower and some other higher-ups. He made a full report on what's wrong with army grub and how to make it palatable for animals above the rank of pig. This survey was done at the army's suggestion, when it was scouting around for ways and means of glamorizing the military life.

He Wants Food Specialists

GEORGE'S No. 1 recommendation to Gen. Iké was to establish a new military department—“a culinary corps, or a catering corps,” George says. “Everything elge is ‘specialized, and it's time ney got around to specializing food.” Mr. Mardikian, an epicure who refuses to smoke because it dulls his taste, has made the greatest possible sacrifice for his country. He, has personally eaten in every mess in. the Mediterranean eater, zones. Sir miei ¥ George “says “the chief trouble with army chow is that the people who prepare it generally are not interested in it, afe sore because they are involved with it, and have little talent for the task.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON, March 19.—Talk of another war— and there is such talk—stems from the almost incredible fact that it has arisen over “the definition of one of the oldest words in any language, namely: “democracy.” The United States, Britain and other free nations define it as meaning one thing, and the Kremlin defines it as meaning another. It might be useful to state the opposing points of view on democracy.

‘Cross on the Ballot" “MY IDEA of it,” Winston Churchill told the house of commons, “is where the plain, humble, common man-just the ordinary man who keeps a wife and family and who goes off to fight for his country when .it is in trouble—goes to the poll at the appropriate time and puts his cross on the ballot paper showing the candidate he wishes to be elected: That is the foundation of democracy. We stand upon’ the foundation of fair, free elections based on universal service and suffrage. “The last thing that resembles democracy is moblaw with bands of gangsters... forcing their way into cities, seizing police stations and key points of government, and endeavoring, to Introduce a totalitarian regime, “Democracy is not Based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair pla

Secretary of State George C. Marshall said much the same thing when he told the Moscow confererce what the United States meant by the word “democracy.” To . Americans, he .said, it meant’ certain “inalienable rights-—rights ‘which given or taken a EY

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suspicious overtones in the tase of the other—with the result that an already complicated world was even more bewildered. ; To bring order out of chaos, and with a crusader's hope of elevating the depraved classic taste of Ine dianapolis, Mrs. Elder went to the trouble (and expense) of organising a trio comprising Jack Ohislett (violin), Adolph Schellschmidt (cello) and Leon Same paix (piano), the purpose of which was to illustrate Mrs, Elder's essay by way of hard-picked excerpts from Debussy’s “Pelleas and Melisande” and Chare pentiers’ “Louise.” The first rehearsal] was staged in Mrs. Elder's home. After tuning up, the improvised trio pitched eagerly into its assigned task. The opening ‘attack sounded strafige. However, the three men had the traditional courage of pioneers. In their anxiety to learn what modern music sounded like, they pushed ahead battling measures devoid of rhythm or appare ent melody. The effect was a continuous cacophone

ous elash noises with no relief in sight. By this all three musicians were ready to give up, but no ons had the necessary nerve to be

the first to do it—probably because of their great respect for Mrs. Elder's judgment, Then with the swiftness of a stroke of lightning out a clear sky, all three men suddenly stopped play» ing and agreed [hat the uiuaie of the future couldn't

possibly sound 3 “Well,” said Mrs. Elder, “we'll Jum have to get Even will like its over form rAythms.”

accustomed. to it. Eventually, we tones, dissonances, ay - The three men looked at one another. There was no mistaking the fact that everyone was disturbed by the prediction just expressed. Mr. Sampaix PIAoy Was the Nr ' renin BI componnt,

Sears Diable'

"HE asked, “what have you Jellows been P ” : “Charpentier’s ‘Louise,’ of course,” was the answer, “Whereupon the pianist exclaimed: “Sacre diable” (the French equivalent for “the hell you say”). . A moment later, or in the time it takes an excited pianist. to collect his thoughts, Mr. Sampaix admitted that he had been playing the score of Debussy's“Pelleas and Melisande.” ,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs

Merger Warning

bidding mergers that a mely stock mergers. This is, of course, a loophole big enough to accommodate any kind of merger that a clever set of lawyers want to engineer. Mr. O'Mahoney’s amendment would forbid merger by asset as well as merger by stock. He has another remedy he has frequently advocated. That is federal licensing for corporations te make them responsible to the only unit of government that could contain the giants which sprawl out across state lines and over international boundaries, Now and then Joe O'Mahoney gets a little dise couraged. He wonders why it is so hard to get people to pay any attention to this drift toward collectivism, In a speech some time ago, he pointed out that the tendency in industry is inevitably paralleled by the same trend in government. Before the 80th congress was a month old, he pointed out, 30 bills had been introduced increasing the powers of the federal government, and they were sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats.

Most of Us Are Indifferent

THIS COLUMN, too, has tried from time to time to point out where monopoly concentration is heading, The federal trade commission just published a report showing that 1800 companies have been merged with larger companfes since 1940. They had a value of $4,100,000,000, which is 5 per cent of the total

value of all manufacturing corporations. Senator

O'Mahoney goes on uttering his warning and most of us go on our all too indifferent way.

REFLECTIONS . « « By Robert C. Rusrk: If George Gets Way, Chow Will Improve

“One mess officer I met” sayswnGeorge, “was in charge of feeding 4500 men. Yet he confessed to me that he hated food—all food—and the only reason he ever ate was to keep alive. I will always remember that mess,” said George, with a delicate shudder. “It was the worst I ever saw. “On the other hand, I got up at 5:30 on Christmas day to see if I couldn't fix up something a little special for the men at another mess. When I got

. there I found a general before me,

A Chain Reaction

“HE HAD crawled out of bed in the middle of

the night to see that his soldiers were going to get a good dinner that day. . His men always ate well, because the mess officer was always on the mess sergeant’s toil and the mess sergeant was always after the cooks. They knew the general would raise hell if there was anything wrong with the food.” Mr. Mardikian says there is plenty of good raw material, but the lack of imagination in preparing it results.in a generally horrible goulash. “Half the pleasure of eating is in the eyes,” Mardikian explains. white soup, whitish pork, mashed potatoes with white cream gravy and creamed asparagus, all I see is a disgusting-looking slop of white. Enliven the monotony with brown gravy, roast potatoes, and a green vegetable, and you've got an enticing plate. A touch of sauce, a little invention, and you can build a good dinner out of nearly anything.” © George says that until the army sets up a cooking corps, with falentéd -personnel who receive commen-

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orate rank. and. money. for. Melr_wark,. srmpachom: =

will goptinue YO repulse a DUZZATd. In soi messes,” and succeed only in maintaining life, in others. For the sake of our futiire. warriors, I hope Gen, « _ Eisenhower listens. All the ulcers collected in the * last-war didn’t.come exclusively from wort.

By William Philip Simms

World Split on Definition of Democracy

his mind sha soul in ways of his own choice, free from fear coercion—provided only he does not interfere with the like rights of others. “To us, a society is not democratic if men who respect the rights of their fellowmen are not free to express their own beliefs and convictions without fear that they may be snatched away from their home and family.” Speaking for the Soviets, V. M. Molotov made it clear that Russia did not accept any such definition— as, of course, it can’t. For Generalissimo Stalin sees Russia's goal in an entirely different “direction. Said Premier Stalin: “At cne pole we find capitalism. At the other we find the Soviet system consolidating the positions it has won. Who will defeat whom? That is the question. The world is now “split into two. camps: One headed by the British-Americans, the other by the Soviet Union. The international situation will be determined by the relation. of forces of these two camps. . . “Whoever has’ failed to understand this antithesis will never understand the present international situation. . . . The task (of Communist parties in democratic countries) is to- make the most of this weriod; to conyert themselves into genuine mass

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