Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1947 — Page 22

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gns of en of good feeling and common 9 revealed in Treasury Secretary Snyder’s ‘the house ways and means committee. where all tax Jegislation is initiated.

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to a ‘complete renovation of our tax system. And n Knutson of the committee, in return, told newsa Snyder's statement was “the best we have om the treasury in years.” It happens that Mr. Snyder is a Democrat and Knutn a Republican. But it further happens that taxation be approached as fundamentally a business, not a problem. Such an ‘approach is Bow: indicated.

. @ politics with a tax law is bad medicine. Using @ power to tax to bring about “social gains” or a new climate, a la Morgenthau, was tried extensively in Roosevelt” administrations. And the further the ents went; the more they messed things up. Remember the undistributed-profits-tax adventure—just as one fikcally pathetic example? The treasury then crawled th theorists who had ideas of curing everything from to the housemaid’s knee by passing another

rr of tax law. As a matter of fact, tax legislation should be confined

t one objectiye—to raise money to run the govern-|

: boty It’s that simple. Social legislation is something else again and belongs in another compartment. ‘So now it seems that both Mr. Snyder and Mr. Knutson have that very single purpose in mind. What Mr. Snyder testified about had no bearing on what will be done with taxes in 1947. ‘He dealt strictly with the long pull, from 1948 on, by which he hopes that many twists, turns and inequities may be straightened out and _ our nation be put on an even keel, and thus can know where it is headed—not just for the moment, or a few days or months, but for a reasonably extended future. Nothing «ould contribute more to the country’s prosperity. ~~ For instance, Mr. Snyder dealt with such things as double taxation of corporate and individual incomes; with the unfairness of having “split” incomes in a few com- ] states while the rest of the nation pays on hole” basis; with the question of special credit for income on which, for example, a playwright, novtor or no Bas to pay anfanly “bracket in one clean-up year. .

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» T T enumerating all the items Mr. Snyder touched he on, we merely want to say that his presentation encompassed a broad field of reforms long recognized as needed but about which nothing up to now has been done. That Mr. Knutson joins in the spirit of what Mr. Snyder is _ striving for-is-as heartening news as we have had in many

THE REAL DANG ER / DARDON us while we shudder. We've just read a warn-

ing from the American Federation of Labor that the labor bills passed by congress would start America on “the | ea

road to dictatorship” -and help Communist agents to over-|

throw the’ government. ~The argument, in the A. F. of L “Monthly Survey,” mt: Laws to “curb labor” would also “shackle management” and leave ho way to make “voluntary joint decisions.” The government “would have to enforce “arbitrary decisions.” ~ This would require “more and more bureaucratic boards, _ specialists, enforcement agencies. . . . Managements who object to regimentation undoubtedly will find themselves _ earrying out government orders in government-operated ~ plants.” And the article concludes: “Today. the Communist agents who have infiltrated our political agencies and some unions are eager to see a government bureaucracy with rigid controls, for this will make it easier for them to seize power.” : , however, the Communist party’s “Daily Worker” keeps on outdoing even the A. F.of L.and C. 1. O. bosses in the shrillness and violence of its demands for defeat of the house and senate labor bills. of course this latest argument is nonsénse. The senate bill, which is substantially what seems likely to go to President Truman soon, would not destroy unions, or enslave labor, or prevent voluntary joint decisions. It is a moderate, carefully considered response to public demand for law to prevent misuse of power by union leaders operat_ing as the rulers of irresponsible private governments. i What the A. F. of L. really wants is to maintain the situation created by the Wagner act and other laws it favored—-laws. ‘which, as administered, put the federal . government wholly on the side of unions and subjected only employers. to arbitrary decisions and bureaucratic controls,

America will ot start on “the road to dictatorship” because of laws to ‘restore fairness and require public responsibility for what unions and union leaders do with their power. The real danger of starting this country on that ~ road comes from those who would deny the American people legislative protection against intolerable abuses.

IN A ‘WHEEL CHAIR ‘WESLEY ENGQUIST of Fremont, Neb., had been paralyzed from his waist down for almost 16 years—ever ‘he was 10. He had heard a lot about Warm Springs, Ga., and so August he set-out in his wheelchair to make the trip. i d his destination i in January, after five months of

of a Fremont painter and paperschool very little, but friends ht him to read and write. They rs and taught him to walk

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For Armed Forces Unification"

By M. T. A, Fletcher Trust Bldg., Indianapolis The Times has mentioned recently, in polite and restrained language, congress has no business to adjourn without achieving unification armed forces. I wish you would take off the kid gloves and start about this, persistently and violently. I wish you would important newspaper in the land to join in this crusade. nonsense that has dogged this vital issfle is a disgrace to It is as non-partisan a matter as the prosecution of the

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forces are essential but emphasis is entirely different. What citizen cares about politics or army-navy-air force wrangling? He wants the most efficient organization he can get and no monkeybusiness about preserving any par- : | ticular service, or anybody's preshe soe Sout tige or perquisites. A Pearl Harbor agreed that we held! atomic warfare probably would and estimated that any|"® the end for us. Unification is willing to spend the no. guarantee against it but it is the effort, could pro-| One Obvious step towards perfecting

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The Germans accomplished this|8€nce services for army, navy, O. efficient step long A world ‘war 8.8. and state department. None IT and anyone who thinks the Ger- of the stupidities of duplicated faman war machine didn’t click un- | Chities and personnel. None of the der it Has 8 woefully short memory. | COmPlications of two services of We knew it ought to be done here | SUPP: : and a special committee for reor- No citizen gives a hoot about perganization of national defense was petuating anything military which appointed in 1944 by the joint chiefs | 150" the best that can be devised

d which does not give the most | staff to investigate. The com- on tee Was je up of two gen- for the money. No taxpayer should

resent the burdens he bears so long re Sree Wi — aliases as they are to insure the country's They traveled the world to get im- survival but he should bitterly repressions whille fighting was on. in- sent the waste of his dollars and } the dangerous struggle to perpetuate the obsolete which this silyshalling ‘is prolonging. —— This is a vital cause: It is nonpolitical. The lone citizen can do

* little or nothing. The press can Adm. Nimitz and Adm. Halsey 4 then, while the pressure was on, got anion. Pot the love of heaven, proclaimed themselves enthusiastic R Tre bps, oh Sgress. for a single commander. Their «gROA] 3 changed views, after the war and | HELP HER NEIGHBORS" after exposure to Washington nonsense, make sorry reading. The “absolute, positive need is a superlative air force with capabili-/men: The future expansion of ties to match every imaginable sit-| Broad Ripple has received 'a great uation and an-exhaustive research deal of publicity lately. and development program for such! How about expanding south 4 revolutionary weapons as rockets, {little and help us to ‘get Ralston guided missiles and atomic explo-|paved from 42d st. to 63d st. (Broad sives. Of course, ground and sea!Ripple ave.)? A bus would increase

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the business up there by one-third, I'll wager! X The Bel-Air and Montrose sections south of Broad- Ripple and north. of the fairground conduct much of their business in “Ripple.” The women buy clothing, groceries and household items there. find - Christmas shopping easier to do there because of the convenience in parking and avoiding downtown holiday throngs. “Ripple” entertainment spots attract others of us and the majority of our high school students attend Broad Ripple high school. While the Broad Ripple business men are ‘expanding it would be to their interest if another paved street from 42d st. to 63d st. went through.

rose wish to drive on a paved street to reach Broad Ripple, they must use Winthrop on the west or Keystone on the . Public transportation of residents to Broad Ripple is accomplished by |" the Keystone 52d st. bus and transferring to Broad Ripple College car takes about an hour. A through bus would take about 15 or 20 minutes. Ralston is the first street east of the Monon railroad beginning at 42d st. It is just about half way between Winthrop and Keystone. Broad Ripple would see more of us and our money if we had a decent street to drive through on or even walk on in good weather. How about it?

” #” ” “SUGGEST VANDERBURG DEMOCRATS PAUSE A BIT” By Political Observer, City Well, the state Democratic organiization is going to remove the county chairman of Vanderburg county. The late President Roosevelt surely left his mark upon the Democrats. Doesn't the state Democratic organization know that the committeemen elect the county chairman? Doesn't the Democratic state organization know that we are still paying through the nose for the long seige of government by directive? Shame on them! They still believe the end justifies the means. They still have that old yen to push the public, or anyone, who does not operate to suit them, around. Whenever we lose the orderly process of representative government and cease to carry on under the

Attention Broad Ripple business | Principles lald down, which have

given us the best representative government in history, then we will be governed by a bunch of quarreisome cliques. That's the way France went! That's the way we will go if we"don’t look out,

8 RB “TENANTS DO NOT HAVE ANY SQUATTERS’ RIGHT”

By Elbert L. MeDaniel, 2225 E. River. side dr. .

“The only arguments I ever win are ¢ simple) ahesaliie which shall I inde fis opr the garbage or sweep the fidewalk7”

| protection. | east 30 miles an hour without

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lin terms of a tenant having squat|ter’s rights in another man’s prop(erty.

The super-duper socialistic New

| Dealism has so weakened the moral | fibre of many of our people that a tenant can virtually confiscate the

private property of another. The vote-grabbing and job-holding politicos prostitute our constitutional rights in furtherance of their selfish interests at the expense of those who have heretofore beén considered as foundation stones of the community.

» ” 1 J “WHY IS TRAFFIC SO BIG A PROBLEM HERE?” By M. W. H., Valley Mills I've just returned from a trip to Indianapolis, and as usual, I'm cussing the country-town way you folks there handle traffic. I had to go out on the north side, and noticed what to me were new restrictions on speed of driving, Cars were creeping along at 20 miles an hour on streets in what is roughly the dewntown area, with stop light They could drive at

| danger to life or property. Why is traffic too big a problem for you city people to solve?

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THIS 18 THE story of & trail blager. At once it. should be said that he who blazes a trail for mankind is a man n the world, one of the elect of men. How tall he is as a blazer is. measured by the tapeline of history. The number and kind of his followers ° are the final answer.

The trail blazer in Indiana in the newspaper field.

{is Elihu Stout. He established the Indiana Gazette,

the modern Sun-Commercial, at Vincennes, July 4, 1804.

The Gazette was the first newspaper.published in Indiana. This trail blazed by Stout is measured by the travel on his kind of a trail in Indiana and in America from this angle. This is the picture:

The first weekly newspaper in the United States was the Hartford Courrant in Connecticut, followed by Amerioa’s first daily paper, the Philadelphia Packet and Dally Advertiser, at Philadelphia and the first Sunday newspaper in the United States, the Sunday Monitor, at Baltimore,

Paper Gains in, Stature EVERY HOOSIER could well remember that Elihu Stout's Indiana Gazette at Vincennes was less than 40 years—one generation stretched a !little—behind the first weekly newspaper in America; about 20 years behind the first daily, and only some eight years behind the first Sunday paper. In a broader view, Stout's Indiana Gazette gains stature even as a minor peak in America's modern newspaper range. The reord is: There are 11950 newspaper: in the United States. Their circulation (not Sunday) Is

REFLECTIONS

NEW YORK, May 22—It is my most ardent hope that, in a fit of despondency, gaiety or momentary irresponsibility, I don’t do something bad eneugh to land me in the courthouse, because the way they are dealing out justice these days has me scared stiff. It is getting so a man can't beat up his wife, knock off a business rival or shoot down an ‘innocent bystander in a drunken rage with any certain knowledge of what he'll reap from the judge. The interpretive range has widened so much that the prisoner in the dock doesn't know whether to prepare himself for the noose or a clap on the back from the man in the black gown.

Subway Killer Escapes Penalty JOHN BRZUCKI of Jersey City was senon to Jom imprisonment by a court-martial in Japan. His sin was killing a Japanese employee of the Kobe municipal waterworks. Brzucki admitted he was drunk and “showing off” with a carbine when the shooting happened. Yet nof so long ago here we had a case in which a private copper, Joseph Kelly, shot and killed a

a license to carry a gun, was also drunk at the time. He was set free after several priests had testified to his good chagacter and he had promised to pay the widow of the deceased $1500. ; Not so long ago Col. Jack Durant made 15 years at hard labor for “liberating” the Hesse jewels in Germany. Assuredly the magnitude of Col Durant's theft made a penalty mandatory, but in purest theory he was guilty of a crime for which millions of men wraut unpunished. Our good and honest soldiers laughed and boasted of the foreign trophies they “liberated”—cameras and jewelry and watches. Anything that wasn't nailed down was a souvenir. Few veterans with service abroad are without a tale of the. deals they worked

IN WASHINGTON

ALBANY, N. Y., May 22.—In the politics of this richest and most populous state, the stakes are high. So are the risks, in view of the dynamite of inflation which complicates every problem. Some of the buildings which house New York's public wards go back nearly to the Civil war. They are quite frankly fire-traps, They are to be replaced out of the fund of nearly $500 million that state accumulated during the high prosperity of the war. Yet, for several] reasons, Governor Thomas E Dewey and his economic-political team are holding back. They point out that, with building costs close to 100 per cent above the pre-war level, the fund will go only half as far if it is spent now.

Contractors Withholding Bids ANOTHER FACTOR enters in. The contractors who would normally do the state’s work are engaging in something very like a strike. When the state asks for bids for urgently needed repairs on the highways, almost no bids come in. The contractors apparently have decided that they will skim the cream off high paying private jobs. And if they can't get those jobs, thers they will wait for labor and material costs to come down. 8ignificantly, unemployment in the building trades is still rising in New York City. Under the squeeze of inflation, the real contest is between city and state. Greater New York, with its 71% million peoples, debt-ridden, struggling with a congestion that is almost strangulation, constantly presses for help from the state that is, by Somparison, prosperous and unencumbered. Here in Albany, harsh things are said about Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City, about the shaky condition of the subway system and the “demogoguery” surrounding the dispute over the 5 cent subway fare. New York City would like to get a part of that half-billion-dollar fund to rehabilitate the subways. But that does not fit into the carefully calculated Dewey program. If he is successful in carrying out his program, he means to stand revealed in 1948 as

WORLD - AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON, May 22.—Information from Italy all seems to point to a single conclusion, that as soon as allied troops pull out the communists will take over—or at least try, with an excellent chance of doing it. This is widely regarded as one good reason for delaying ratification of the Ifalian peace treaty, at least temporarily. That document stipulates the earliest possible withdrawal of occupation forces and in any case not later than 90 days after the treaty comes into force.

The treaty will leave Italy practically unarmed. Her Communists, on the other hand, are known to be comparatively well equipped with arms, including tanks, machine guns and ample funds. Moreover, they can get more of everything, including planes, from Marshal Tito, Moscow's puppet in Yugoslavia, Compact, fanatically-minded, iron-disciplined, it is sail that the Italian Communists could put at least three fighters in the fleld to the government's one. By means of the general strike, they could paralyze the country.

Red Rule Would Peril Trieste

* RUSSIA WOULD be the big beneficiary from the Italian treaty: Shé and her satellites would collect most of the indemnities which, in the end, American ~ taxpayers would ‘have to put up in the form of aid to the prostrate people. The so-called free city of Trieste would be almost surrounded by Yugoslavia. If Italy turned Red, Trieste’s freedom would not last long; our aid to Greece and Turkey would be like water down. a rat hole; the Adriatic would be a Soviet lake and the Mediterranean would be cut in two. The wholé of the Middle East would be isolated. Here in Washington the treaty has been voted oi of stmitice suis now. beiore the senate for ratification. = Leaders. have expressed themselves against delay. Russia, Joveter Sea Sd veer Ruih

to delay general ratification of peace n Asia

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SAGA OF INDIANA . Tn By Wiliam. A Mado ss. 35 SARE u Stout Was Indiana Trail Hazen

80,751,408; Sunda irculation, 43,233, “total, 93,084,266. ol -;

It should be added to complete the record, and to _the credit of Stout, that his Indiana Gazétte as the modem daily Sun-Commercial of + ofreg- | lates 13,204. copies (not Sunday), ne 13,302 coples ~ on Sunday. This means that Stout's shadow as a newspaper man has atready lengthened in less than a centu and’ a half Into a modern newspaper that is still strong, thoroughly modern, and all set to roll as long as there is an Indiana and its America. Stout learned the printing trade in New. Jersey and headed west to Kentucky. He worked for John Bradford in Lexington; moved on to Nashville, Tenn, where he became a ‘lifelong friend of Andrew Jackson

and a Democrat that not even Willlam Henry Harri. |

son could ever wheedle into becoming a Whig. When Stout learned that Vincennes was on the boory, he headed for Indiana. In Vincennes, Gover. nor Harrison realized the needs of a newspaper in Indiana territory and financed him to Satablish the Indiana Gazette,

Had Notable Visitors IN MARCH, 1830, the Gazette and Stdut had a notable visitor—Abraham Lincoln, then 31 years old.

With the Lincoln folks, Lincoln was on the way from

Indiana to a new home in Illinois, - In 1845, Stout sold his paper when he was appointed postmaster at Vincennes by President Polk, serving five years. In 1850, he was elected recorder of Knox county, where he served two terms 1851 to 1859. :

By Robert C. Ruark

Justice Is Blind—and Cross-Eyed

with cigarets, the government issue they sold, the little triumphs they achieved by scrounging. Certainly Durant merited punishment, because the theft of a hatful of jewels can scarcely be registered as & boyish prank. But then we find the infamous Col. James A. Kilian guilty of employing Nazi horror-camp techniques on our soldiers at Lichfield, in England, and he is let off with a slapped wrist and a $500 fine. He later bobbed up on the promotion lists until a nationwide how] knocked him off,

Serge Rubinstein Does Well WHICH BRINGS US once again to my man of distinction, Serge Rubinstein, the shady financier with the Portuguese passport who used wartime America to run up some $5 millions in one operation and another. Having spat in the eye of nearly 20 million men who dropped what they were doing to go to war, Mr. Rubinstein is found guilty of draft-dodging. He is pulling a jail hitch which will probably last less than a year, while Col, Durant is sweating out 15 years for his own financial operations. And you might say that Durant's devotion to duty in the crucial days of the war was never questioned. Ona. of our local cops, Mariano Abello, has just been handed a 20-year sentence for the callous strangling, while well ginnei up, of a lady friend. But they electrocuted, and rightly, an ex-marine in Washington not so long ago. Crime: Strangling a girl friend with her snood. Seems to me our dispensers of justice could use a refresher course, to get this business of crime and punishment working on slightly less divergent lines. The way it stands right now, .a man's likely to get in more trouble for shoplifting or reckless driving than for drunken murder or garroting a dame who just happened to say “No.”

By Marquis Childs

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an. executive who has brought his state successfully and prosperolisiy through the storms of reconversion and niflation. Take the matter of teachers’ salaries. In New York state, as almost everywhere in the country there has been widespread agitation over the low salary scales. In Buffalo, the teachers went on strike and made national headlines. Dewey, working with the leaders of the large Republican majorities in the legislature, got approval for raising teachers’ salaries. The minimum in small} communities is now $2000 a year, which scales up to $4100. In-cities over 100,000, the scale is from $2200 to $4510, and in New York City it is from $2500 to $5125. Nearly everybody was in favor of these increases. The controversy has been over where where to find the money to meet the added cost. A considerable share of this burden Dewey and the legislature passed on to the counties and cities, authorizing them to levy additional nuisance taxes to ‘oe uséd for education alone, Af the same time, Dewey nsisted the state would be paying 83 per cent of the added cost through additional state aid to the schools.

Dewey Rejects Special Session DESPITE THIS claim, a loud outcry has come from the local communities and even. from Republican strongholds in upstate New York. A number of counties “have sent resolutions to Albany demanding an axtra session, of the legislature to reconsider the mat# ter. An extra session is, of course, the last thing that Dewey wants, and he has said a firm no. The clamor from New York City is particularly loud... There a host of nuisance taxes bear heavily on those least able to pay. As Dewey's critics on the left have pointed out, he approved a 50 per cent reduction in the state income tax and a sharp reduction in the pusiness franchise tax. With the members of his team, Dewey is playing this political game according to rules he laid down long ago. He believes they are the rules that will win for him in the national race. He is not likely to change those rules unless forced to do so by unforeseen circumstances. 3

. By William Philip Simms

ltalian Pact Wold Benefit Reds Most

despite her pledges to the contrary. Also, she ig blocking the economic merger of the Saar with France. All of the big four, save Russia, favor immediate merger to facilitate French recovery by the use of the Saar’s coal in her industries. There is little or no opposition to ratification in the senate. There is, however, a growing feeling that it would be short-sighted to rush ratification to the almost certain disadvantage of the United States. Well-founded reports are that the Italian people feel the United States has “let them down.” To this, some members of the senate reply impatiently: “So what? They fought us, didn’t they?” However, the Italians can make a good case for themselves. Again and again President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill promised that they would make things easier for the Italians if they would throw their dictators out. On June 4, 1944, the President broadcast a message on the fall of Rome. He re-

called that many nations had contributed to the *

victory and, he added: “The Italians, too, forswearing a partnership in the axis which they never desired, have sent their troops to join us in our battles against the German trespassers on their soil.”

Were Promised ( Charter Benefits AGAIN, IN THE FOLLOWING: October, in a ‘Columbus day address he said: “To the people of Italy we have pledged our help and we will keep the faith.” On the same program Attorney Gen. Biddle reinforced the President's promise. Said he: “It is

the settled determination of the President to bring .

the provisions of the Atlantic charter to bear upon Italy’s problems.” It may be that the Unitéd States is helpless in the matter. The treaty may be, as claimed, “the best we can get” under the circumstances. But, it is observed, we should not forget that we did make certain com=

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