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“And 10.5 per cent for the handful whose income is above 3592.00 and who are Presumed, to vote Republican
"mh bill, if passed, will diminish the government's revenues by $8,840,000,000—at a time when the govern- . ment’s debt is $260 billion, when the budget. isstill unbalanced, when demands for national security expenditures at |
home and around the world are rising.
Taxpayers in all brackets would be much better off if congress held to the present tax rates this year, and used all surplus revenues collected to start paying off the public debt. With prices and living costs still rising, due largely to the government's continued spending of borrowed money, Now may be a good time to start working on a sensible tax cut to become effective next after the budget has been balanced and prices
this is no time to cut taxes.
stabilized. .
RUSSIAN REPARATIONS DEMANDS
SECRETARY MARSHALL is right in opposing Russia's demand for $10 billion war reparations from Germany. Approval of a claim of anything approximating that amount
would mean one of two things: ONE:
they were working for the Russians, or—
TWO: Germany would become a permanent slave state
of the Soviet Union.
Part of the German industrial plant was destroyed by allied bombs and shells, and much more of it was damaged. A great deal ‘of equipment has been transferred to other
countries as war booty, most of it to Russia.
It will be some years before essential buildings and equipment can be restored, even under the most favorable
conditions.
Meanwhile, Germany is producing only a fraction of * the goods needed to feed and clothe her people. of her requirements is supplied by American and British
taxpayers.
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“ON WHAT TERMS will you go th my country
have seen Pestalozsi. I know his system, My country wants it, and will receive it with enthusiasm. I engage to pay your passage and secure your livelihood. Go, and be your master's apostle in the new world.” This is Willlam Maclure speaking to Francis Joe seph Nicholas Neef in Paris, France, in 1805, His talk was the first step taken to bring the Pestalozaian system of education to America. Neef accepted Maclure's offer. He came to the United States at once; mastered the English language and in 1808, established at Philadelphia the first Pestalozzian ‘school in the western hemisphere.
Fought With Napoleon
Schuylkill river from Philadelphia, One of his pupils at this school was David Glasgow Farragut, admiral of the United States navy during the Oivil war. Neef was born at Soults, Alsace, then part of France, Dec. 6, 1770. He fought with Napoleon's army in the Italian campaign. He later became a teacher in Pestalozsi’s school at Yverdun, Switzerland. He had left this school to open a Pestalozsian school of his own in Paris. There Maclure found him and engaged him to open his school in America : ; The “Boatload of Knowledge” that barged down the Ohio river in 1826 found him on a little farm of his own near Louisville, Ky. Here. it developed, he
DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M.
Hoosier
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will defend to the death
Sweep Up Streets,
Well, I for one, and many of my
"Are Taxpayers Supposed to
or City?"
By Mry. H. H. Mitchell, 4216 Kingsley dr. Trash day is over once more on Kingsley dr. and what happens?
neighbors, are industriously sweep-
ing up the street with a broom and dustpan. Some because they can- divorce harder, or prohibiting it al{not even leave to work in their cars until the broken glass is cleaned together.
(up. Others for various reasons—a child could fall and be seriously
'hurt, a dog's paw injured, or a friend's tire-end-up in a flat. Are we as taxpayers supposed to do this? I don't get any dis- (ake in two persons marrying with-
{count on taxes for this extra work. The city doesn’t buy my garbage
It seems to me that the ones who are in charge of this should look into the matter. It would be a thrill to see the expressions on some of the city commissioners faces to stand on 43d st. and look up Kingsley dr. as far as they can see. Yes, the “cow path"— that's what it looks like. Quite a bit different from trash day on Meridian, Central or College. Let's get together and do something about it.
ling on Kingsley dr.
production over a period of 20 years. But until pro- . sy
duction reaches self-sufficiency level, anything taken out of it to pay Russia's claims would be at our expense and We would be paying the Russian claim, not
Britain's. Germany.
We made one deal which may operate exactly like that when we agreed to the reparation claims against Italy, where we have spent and are spending a great deal of
We should not repeat the mistake in the German s |costs of food, shelter and fuel. Just]
money. settlement.
The 20-year-oid time limit attached to the $10 billion claim is meaningless in the sense that it is used because Germany could not pay such a claim in 20 years, or 50 years, without foreign loans far beyond reasonable expectancy. And Germany wouldn't be a good credit risk if the Soviets had a $10 billion first mortgage on her production. So what Russia actually is demanding is permanent control of Ger-
man industry. # ¥ » » »
OF course the Russian claim is an opening bid which may be scaled down. If conditions within the Soviet Union are as bad as many people believe, the Russian situation may be so desperate that eventually Moscow will settle for what is can get. Russia is entitled to damages, within Germany’s ability to pay. But the Soviets are not entitled to Nor should .they receive anything from «current German production until the expenses of the Amer-
any of our money.
ican occupation are paid.
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THINK of the experiences that rich woman in New York City missed—that woman who, until the other day, had not left her hotel room, heard a radio or read a newspaper
In 25 long years.’
She never tried to choose among the current perfumes whose labels shatter males, never fought a zipper on a panty girdle, never entered; a ‘ladies’ smoking room.” For | her there has been no walking on. snowy pavements in - open-toed shoes, no association with cafe society, no attendance at prize fights. She has not beheld bobbysoxers ‘mobbing a bow-tied tenor, shopped for a pen that writes | “under water, thrilled to the esthetic strains of “Open the | ‘Door, Richard,” or enriched her vocabulary with such choice 4 phrases as “Are you kiddin’?” and “You can say that | again.” She stood in no wartime cigaret lines, practiced no | blandishments on the butcher in order to buy a steak, knew | |
no need for nylons.
Our heart bleeds for a lady who has missed so much.
oR IS THAT DIFFERENT
T= Communist party in the United. States is soliciting a $250,000 fund to finance what it describes as a battle - the civil liberties and constitutional rights of the Amer-
people.
heh the cumtaer
~ This drive results from Secretary Schwellenbach’s sugthat congress outlaw the Communist party. find time, we hope theyll explain . ts have been made to protect the rights es of people. who want to set up opposition parties |
“WHIPPING POST BEST PENALTY FOR HOODLUMS” By Father of Twe, Seuthport It's about time something is done about hoodlums and hoodlum gangs roaming our city. Something more than the “penalty” of a few days vacation in a warm jail where food and entertainment are; free of charge. Punishment? Not so hard to take in this day of high]
time enough to figure out a better | one. Although certain types of pun-| ishment have been outmoded, the crimes are still barbarie, in fact more so. Why not some punishment to fit the crime—rock pile or whipping post? Perhaps some of the cute, swaggering, smart alecs seeking sadistic thrills would think twice before hatching up what's next. With “low moral movies, murder and over-emphasis of sex; with lowgrade radio thrillers same as above; parents with half-baked ideas of discipline, right and wrong; schools unable to back up standards of conduct; and churches unable w reach a large percentage of chiidren (and adults)—where are we going? What have we ‘sown and what are we reaping? Teen-age murderers, mental and moral per. verts, disintegration of home life and maladjustment.
want to tackle: a big aren't afraid to work, let them put
'and trash cans. I'm a mother of three girls and a housewife and _certainly don't have the time to go out and clean up the streets.
Beautify the city) of Indianapolis? How about start-
«+|.- If clubs, churches, schools, civic|is out. on AOSQARIZA HONK, OTC FS ANE jagions job; andland To score ah everlasting victory.
standards of our people. Battle dizzy crime producing movies and radio programs, and give us Jecent, honorable, wholesome, well-bal-anced human beings.
” ” » “FIGHT COMMUNISM HERE INSTEAD OF IN GREECE” By Robert Heller, 234 E. 9th of. It is all right to fight communism. The American way of life and communism can never go together, There will be a struggle
for life or death. But why fight communism in Greece or Turkey? They will gratefully take our millions and then do anyway they like, If we want to fight communism let us do it here, in our country. But do not let us do it by Red baiting in searching our neighbor's backyard whether it may show | some Red. We must not create! martyrs. There is one way only to fight communism: put labor into a place where it will be satisfied. {Content people do not turn Communists. Destitutes only, paupers, | stepchildren of fate look for help land turn to those who promise the most. A worker who feels safe about his future, who has his house and his car, will never become a Communist. . Protect - the country from the poison of communism. It will cost capital a lot of money; profits will shrink, it will be true. But it is still better than losing the whole money in a wave of communism. The price may be high, but not too high. Stop fighting labor. One cannot fight labor and communism at the same time. Hitler tried to wage a two-front war and lost out. We won't repeat that blunder. If we fight labor now, if we restrict its rights, labor will and: must look for help. Communism will ® ‘promise help. . So make peace with labor, If labor will be satisfied, communism And will stay out. ‘That is the emi way-4e fight toMimunism
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
“DIVORCE ISN'T AN EVIL —IT'S ONLY A CORRECTION" By W. NK. Richards, 137 E. New York st. There seems to be a lot of differ-| ent opinions regarding the terrible increase of divorces and plans are proposed to make the getting of a
The fact is that divorce is not an levil; it is the correction of a mis-
out love and without looking ahead and considering what is best fer their happiness in future years.
The sad fact is that thousands of young women have rushed into with some serviceman after an acquaintance of a few days, with no other purpose than to step in between him and his mother to get the allotment which the government would have sent to her had the boy not married. When she finds her husband returns all| in one piece she has had all she wants of him and sues for divorce.
Instead of making it harder to get a divorce, it should be granted on the simple assertion that the couple do not find their union agreeable and they prefer to have the bond dissolved. But, .f there is strcng evidence that the woman had married only to have his mother’s allotment transferred to her, she should not be permitted to marry again for 10 years and should be required to refund every cent of the money she bas obtained by fraud. Failing in this she should be made to serve a prison sentence. But, in any case, the evil was a mistaken marriage and divorce is only a correction of that mistake. The only office of the court should be to provide for the welfare of children if any have been born of the marriage. » . . “DRINKING MORE HARMFUL THAN GOOD” By L. A. Jacksen, Vernon. Much that is being said for or against prohibition, on either the national or the local level, misses the point. For instance, a recent writer says that some good doctors drink alcohol and sometimes prescribe it for their patients. We all know that alcohol is used as a beverave by some persons in all classes—by our best people, the wealthiest, best educated, most intelligent and influential, etc. However, this does not help anyone to decide whether drinking is right or wrong.” The only thing that- should | this’ “question | lis inforrhation which gives one
how much harm result frog the use of alcohol as a beverage. There is no way of measuring ex-
es
actly the good and evil results of any act. Two people may say they get pleasure from drinking a bottle of beer, but it is unlikely that they 'get the same amount of pleasure. Two families may each have a member killed by a drunken driver, but it is unlikely they experience the same amount of sorrow. I am considering here only some of the immediate results. The only reason theft, rape, musder, etc, are considered wrong Is | that most people believe these acts | result in far more pain (harm) than aro (good). I believe it Is | wrong to drihk a glass of beer be{cause I belleve drinking beer results lia more harm than good. { “X believe a great majority of our voters really think that the use of alcohol’ as a beverage results in |more harm than good. They say | tifey would gladly give up the pleasure they get from drinking if we could have real prohibition. But they say, “Why should I deny myself this pleasure when it will do no real harm?" I should probably feel the same way if I got any pleasure from the nasty stuff.
DAILY THOUGHT
“Pralse the Lord: for the Lord is good: sing . praises unto His name; for it is pigasant, ~Psalms - 13%:3. Ji
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WASHINGTON, ‘March 22. Dr. Royd Ray Sayers might be called one of the Hoosier old-settlers here.
| Back in 1913 he became medical director of the U. 8. | public health service.
At the end of this month he is returning to the work which he likes best in the office of the surgeon general of the United States. A native of Crothersville and an Indiana university
numerous missions for Uncle Sam. But so far as his affection for Indiana is concerned he is like Bob Hope's “I Never Left Home.” Dr. and Mrs. Sayers have been outstanding in the activities of the Indiana state society of Washington for well past a quarter of a century. Their homes in nearby Alexandria, Va., and old Georgetown have been the centérs of some of the most colorful events Hoosiers haye had here.
Wins Presidential Acclaim HIS RETURN to the public health service is at his own request. Since 1940 he has been director of the bureau of mines, only M. D. ever assigned to that position. That he did an outstanding job is proven by the high praise given him by President Truman and Interior Secretary Krug. The bureau of mines 1s in the interior department. In a letter to Dr. Sayers, President Truman said: “1 wish to commend ygqu for the outstanding record made by the bureau of mines under your leadership during the war in assisting the mineral industries. of the nation to meet the unprecedented demands and for the scientific research work which developed new aid_for both war and peace. “You have given unstintedly of your time and energy to this program which is so important to the welfare of our country. My regret in accepting your resignation is tempered with the knowledge that your interest in the mining field will continue.” What was accomplished during Dr. Sayers’ admin-
UNITED NATIONS NEWS European Economic
. IN THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS of the last few weeks, we may have lost sight of the fact that the fourth session of the economic and social council of United Nations was meeting in New York.’ sessions of this council, not as spectaculag as those of the security council, may have more far-reaching consequences. The economic and social council 1s dealing with problems of social and economic inequalities that furnish fertile soll for seeds of future wars. ? : It is significant that at the same time President Truman formulated his program for aid to Greece, the economic and social council should receive its first report on the plan to create an economic commission for Europe. -Isador, Lubin, American representative on the economic and employment commission of U. N. set forth in a radio broadcast this week the plan of operation that the economic commission for Europe will follow.
Joint Approach Urged THIS COMMISSION will be made up of all the European countries that are members of the United Nations, will] have the job of initiating and participating in measures to facilitate concerted action
| for economic reconstruction of Europe. This means
Editor's Note: A weekly summary of U. N. activities is written for The Times by James A. Eldridge, Midwest field director of the American Association for the United Nations.
getting the railroad systems of Europe moving, resbuilding factories, seeing that coal is available and raw materials are distributed in a manner to bring about fastest possible rehabilitation of the economy. .. The commission will work gn the theory that European economy can best recover as the various countries work together in consultation. All im: | SSEaGCsoER Sb of - Europe have. plans. 05. CANOE... development, gobulew know the- plans-of neighboring countries. It-is important that the Poles know what the French are planning to do with their textile industry. They should know what the Czechs and
NEW YORK, March 22.—The greeting card business which has devised handy little missives for uncle, aunt, iceman, nephew, niece, rich relative, appendicitis victim and vague acquaintances who have fractured their femurs while being thrown out of barrooms on St. Patrick's day—the greeting card business, I say, has outstripped itself, Spies carefully disguised as nice old ladies were planted at a recent dinner given by the greeting card industry to the National Association of Women Broadcaste They have fetched me-a mass of information which has succeeded only in making me wish I had never received it. In brief: The card industry from here in will supply ordinary greeting cards designed to tell your favorite radio star or program-—in the most™ sugary verse—how much you love him, her or it. Try to bear up while I reel off a quote or so. : “Over 25 cards .were showrre-at the premiere. All were modeled on the ‘listener appreciation’ idea, Many of them were iMustrated with radia, motifs or microphones, musical notes, -radio sets and other art representations of radio effects.
‘Best Thing Is Y-O-U'
. “THEME OF THE cards is ‘thank you’ and typical titles are: ‘We think your show is swell, I love your radio program; just a note to say thanks.’ "“A ‘verse that many radio personalities will be | pleased to read to a sponsor goes:
to you all day'” In front of me is one especialy ducky card, with a roguish female tot, surrounded by flowers, decorat-
‘The verse runs thusly: “1 go for your. show, I
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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Trail Blazers in Indiana Education
and introduce there your method of education? il.
IN 1813, he moved his school five miles up the
“ing” their vogue in America,
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REFLECTIONS eso By Robert C. Ruark Upsy, Daisy=Read This and Go Crazy
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nad been living since he had discontinued his Pestalozzian school near Philadelphia 12 years before, Urged by Robert Owen, William Maclure, and the distinguished crowd on the boat to join them for the New Harmony venture, he yielded. He sold his farm, and a few months later mo his family to New Harmony. Here he headed t school of education till the colony folded up oo years later. Except for a brief stay in Cincinnati after the New Harmony colony failed in 1828, and an ill-starred ttempt to establish a Pestalozzian school in Styubene, O., Neef lived in New Harmony till he died April 6, 1854. He was 84, ° Mainly from his anchorage In Indiana, Joseph Neef blazed a new trail in education in America, His “Plan and Method of Education” and his “Methods of Teaching” were published long before comparable American treatises on education.
New Harmony Experiment
NEEF'S BOOKS gave Hall's “Lectures on Schoolkeeping” and Page's “Theory and Practice of TeachNeef was the pathfinder in education on thé American frontier. Of all the men and women who made the New Harmony of Indiana the greatest social experiment in the western hemisphere, Joseph Neef stands first
in this; he cast the mold for the training of the little
ones of a great nation,
Joseph Neef is buried on Maple Hill in New Harmony, Ind.
Kidney
Dr. Sayers Praised for His Services
istration was spelled out by Interior Secretary Krug “Dr. Sayers has done a splendid job of difecting the work of the bureau of mines since 1940,” Secrotary Krug said. “Under his leadership, the bureau efficiently carried out specialized studies and investigations in support of the war program as wall as the many tasks it has been assigned by congress. “An outstanding decline in the fatality rate in coal mines operations has been achieved under the federal coal mines inspection program which has been administered by Dr. Sayers since its inception in 1942. - Fatalities have dropped from 2.3 per 1,000,000 tons mined in 1942 to 1.64 per 1,000,000 tons mined in 1946, the first such significant change in trend: In 30 years. “The bureau of mines is likewise indebted to Dr. Sayers for his excellent job as chief surgeon and as chief of the health and safety branch, an: earlier detail from 1917 to 1933. His contributions in improving the health and safety program in mines and in the medical applications of helium are noteworthy. I feel sure that in returning to the public health serv. ice his interest in this work will not lag.”
Is a Jovial Host ALL THIS HIGH PRAISE from high places, leaves Dr. Sayers the same likeable character that has endeared him to Hoosiers here of either Republican or Democratic persuasion. Any man from Indiana was welcomed by him and his charming wife and daughter, Joan. - Always immaculately groomed and very “distinguished. looking,” Dr. Sayers nevertheless never failed
to have Tun at the Indiana parties. LAs another vet. -
eran of such affairs, Mrs. Madge Ballard, once told him: “Dr. Sayers, it is amazing how you make people feel comfortable and at the same time have so much sense.” . DAN KIDNEY.
By James A. Eldridge Reconstruction
British are planning in the same field. By getting together as a part of a permanent body, they will have the facts which will aid them in making plans. Ultimate goal of the economic commission is to get all the countries working together so that they will supplement each other, rather than find themselves in_a position 10 years from now of fighting each other for markets. The economic commission also would make possible concerted action for other types of economic activity. There is great need in Europe for soil conservation and use of water resources for electrical power. Since many of the waterways run through more than one country, the development of anything like a TVA on the Danube would require agreement of several countries. In this commission lies machinery for unified action and co-operation.. There also might be development of an integral electrical power system for Europe. Some countries have surplus power. Through the commission plan, it would be possible for this power to cross national boundaries to other countries that need additional electric power. Even though ownership of the generating capacity would remain in the hands of individual countries, the commission would be the instrument whereby power systems would be co-ordi-nated so that electricity would flow freely from one country to another.
Goal Is Integrated Economy
THE STATE SITUATION prevails in the transportation field. If a traveler wants to go from Paris to Istanbul, he must pass through many different countries. ‘These have agreements with one another so that trains do cross many boundaries. With an organization like the economic commission for Europe, a permanent machinery would be in existence where-
by all of problems involved in getting through trains. from one end of Europe to. another on schedule would:
be quickly resolved. "_ Final goal of the economic commission for Europe
isto integrate.the.ecdnomy. Sh that eveniuaiy. there... will Jbe-a federated economy in which the. parts Of n-
Europe would supplement one another. : The economic commission will be located in Europe, probably will have its seat at Geneva.
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says, chastely: “You're a favorite of mine." Credit for the origination of the radio fan greeting card idea goes to Mrs. Dorothy Lewis, vice president of the Association of Women Broadcasters and co-ordinator of listener activity for the National Association of Broadcasters who officiated at the unveiling of the new radio fan cards. “ All ‘right, Dottie, stand or. fall on your platform. But don't think for a moment that we of the underground are going to sit still and take it. Already, with hidden presses, filched' mewsprint, and coldly quiet. courage, we of the resistance movement have set up shop. Maybe in the cellar of your own house, Dot—have you peeked in the coalbin lately?
You Won't Rest, Dottie
WE WILL fight you on the beaches, in the 10-cent stores, in the giftie shoppes, in the drugstores and in the book stalls. You will not.rest, Dottie, because in the end. we will triumph. For instance, scaVered all over the -public square today was a neat thing which one of our number wrote: “I love my wife, but I always beat her, “When I catch her listening to“Gabriel Heatter.” Or. “Pepsi-Cola hits the spot, but s the spot where I am not.” = i : Or
that’
I am. better off that I used to” was, @r finally:
* “Your program stinks, and you do too, and so 1
sent this note to you" -. You'll see, Dorothy, old girl.
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