Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1947 — Page 12

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ae rn oy ave grows a this state. They own grain elevators,

EE a anlcty Cute jes, farm implement factories, lumber mills, oil ‘wells ‘pipe lines, river barges and docks, building materials i roderin and distribution concerns,’ live stock marketing Baie bulk oil plants, wholesale and jobbing enter- | Yrises and retail stores, ; ‘Many of them are the Biggest businesses in the cities in which they operate. One in Indianapolis last year rea business volume of $25,900,000, and another a proms businets i exsess of 337,000,000, for the year. : g feature about all these businesses is

‘Wa haven't any way of knowing, of course, about the profit structure of the two big Indianapolis co-ops we just ‘mentioned, nor any exact means of estimating just how ‘much they save by paying no taxes. A private business ~~ doing a gross volume of $25 millions a year might be paying as much as $5 millions in tax, and some pay more on such a business volume. Assuming that each of these “ooops” dill save $5 millions in tax last year, just for the purpose of discussion, * that would be $10 millions saved by these two. But the federal government hasn't saved anything. It still needs-

Cw it just adds that $10 millions right. on to the tax bill of the rest of the people in Indianapoils—and they pay it. And so on for all the other 79 “co-ops” that - have made big expansions this last year. The taxes they

Hoosier “Building

If not, let us protest the absurd plan to build an undersilung department store on the site of the Hotel English! There is already an established

don’t pay still have to be paid—they are just shifted t0 (ues

other people. Im general those taxes aré shifted to their competitors, the privately-owned stores and filling stations and refin- _ eries and insurance, companies and coal yards and so on, which are also doing business in those communities. Thus

ua the Posi the Roper and Roper. toed mill, grain and coal business, and the P&C Family Foods, co-operative, bought French's supermarket in Veedersburg, and the Clay County Farm Bureau bought the Griffith grain elevator (for $100,000) in Clay City—and so on all over Indiana. - There is nothing to indicate that co-operatives can do business at any less cost than any well-run private company in the same line. They have to pay wages, and rent, and all the other running expenses that anyone else has to pay to do business. Because they have, in many cases, attained large volume, they are thereby able perhaps. to buy merchandise for resale at slightly lower cost, though of course no lower than a private competitor who buys on the same scale.

Their big saving is in taxes. It is a double-barrel saving. It takes the tax cost off their shoulders and adds it to the tax bill of their competitors.

. , That gives them an unfair competitive advantage over the business that is paying its share (and theirs) of the cost of running the government. That advantage shows up very clearly in Indiana, in the large growth of the “coops” and in the growing number of communities in which their operation has forced their competitors out of business.

Carried to its logical conclusion, this trend would ultimately result in all business being “co-operative”—and exempt from tax. : Wonder who would pay the cost of running the gov‘ernment then?

“EDITORIAL BY BARUCH

Ts editorial shall be made up from quotations. The author is Bernard Baruch. The occasion, the presentation of a bust of Mr. Baruch to the national war college in ~ Washington. In his brief talk were these lines in response fo remarks by such dignitaries as Secretary of State Marshall, Gen. Eisenhower, the secretaries of war and navy, Adm, Nimitz and. Mr. Baruch’s close friend Herbert Bayard Swope: : “I marvel at the regularity with which errors are repeated. That is not a military characteristic. . . . But it i is definitely true of the civilian and political mind. “In America it is not an army we must train for war; kis a nation. The spirit of man grows in freedom; it i Withers in chains, He has the right to live a free life. That i springs, inalienably, from within himself. It is not * existent by decree of the state. Let us better ourselves: then will come a bettered state.

ward with hope to a world ruled by the of law, and not by the Jaw of force. To that end we devoted our lives, ‘the of my life, I reaffirm my faith i in

of ours—this infinitely patient, this quick- |

‘slow-to-anger, bold, independent, just and of us all. her, we oppose dictatorship of the right or despotism, W& oppose totalitarianism.

tether inposed by ‘the state or indi-

proposal in the city of Indianapolis and contempt for the welfare of its citizens. I cannot believe that we will stand idly by. yy» = “ALL FOOD SUBSIDIES SHOULD BE STOPPED” By Thomas Lloyd, R. R. 6 Box 487 In your editorial of June 5 characterizing the wool subsidy grab as thievery, we commend you, why direct the full charge at wool subsidy? ‘People don’t eat and could live a normal life t it. Why not include the whole New Deal fascist agricultural program? It is all of the same cloth that the Republicans have so severely condemned, who are now eating Henry's fascist bread and him a unist—anying to hold the line. I repeat that a land reform proof land for all is the. only that will saye us from either t hand or left hand totalitarRe he » . .

“DITCH THIS NEW DEAL FARMER SUBSIDY PLAN" By R. O. 8., Park ave. I don’t get it. I mean this business of subsidizing the farmers. The war's over, boys. You've made plenty of money and there's no reason why you should go on and produce all you want and expect the government to underwrite you and take it off your hands. It is time we ditch this New Deal subsidy program and get back on a sound basis in this country.

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3-Story Structure On Circle Would Be Harmful"

, By Lawrence Epps Hill, Monument Circle

Do the people of Indianapolis want to lose 200 hotel rooms? Do the people of Indianapolis want to lose 20 independent stores?

BE MADE PLAYGROUND?" By Genevieve Sherrill Heckman, 4225 Ralston ave.

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men and helpful at any time. come in contact with all kinds of people every day and all I is: I've met a lot of The trouble is some of slingers probably drink but riot where people would so you wouldn't get talked All TI have to say is if don’t approve of it, well and good. But why worry yourselves about other people’s business? It certain-

ly isn’t any business of yours, M. H. or yours either, C., M. B.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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do not agree with a word that you

wil defend to the death

ight to say it." — Voltaire.

“LEGISLATORS SHOULD TAKE INTEREST IN AGED” By O. Houston, Ellettsville I see some seem much elated over the fact that our late discredited state legislature put over property lien law against the old citizens of our state. I am an old man, and from my

a legislature that shows no sympathy or concern in the security of welfare of the aged. What 5 spec-

without even a promise of adequate care for the aged, nor assurance that the present miserably inadequate program will be continued. The state assumes no obligations whatever toward the aged.’ They can pay you. as little as they please or they can stop your check altogether for any reason they see fit at any time, But that wouldn't release the debt , | 28ainst your Property. » “RIGHT TO "Aw FOR A PROTEST TO GARBAGE MAN” By Peter E. Tersick, 3624 Salem st. : Police were called to an Indianapolis residence Wednesday afternoon when a city garbage collectdr allegedly struck a citizen for throwing newspapers on his wagon. Oh sing a song of the garbage man, the connoisseur of the garbage can, If your trash ain't dainty in every way, it'll stay on the curb till judgment day. Oh the garbage man’s a discerning soul, with the highest place on the honor roll of esthetes and poets and others who quail at the smell of the dirty, the raw, or the stale. Tin cans he gathers, but only it seems if they once held caviar instead of beans, And paper he'll take, so let none despond, but it has to be fancy-—at least vellum bond. And woe to the bounder, unspeakable lout, possessing effrontery to deliberately flout the esthetic rules and the anticepticizéd plan of the dainty, meticulous, pure garbage man, For the boor and the bounder possessing such gall, a right to the kisser is

pothing at all, He's enough to make garbage men's bicuspids gnash—the

guy whee thinks garbage men ought to haul “trash.

~DAILY THOUGHT

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh Patience. James 1:3,

LEARN patience fi from the lesson Though the night be drear and long; » To the darkest sorrow there comes a Morrow, . 4 «A right to every wrong.

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REFLECTIONS

NEW YORK, June 17.~The Empire State building is gradually losing its reputation as a pinnacle of

of the people—a swelling consciousness of sudden death. Lately there has been a rash of indignant letters, evidently from sensible citizens, concerning the of the city in not policing the Empire State’s summit more closely. There has been no compassion for the mentally twisted who write off their account. with a plunge from Al Smith's monument. There is merely civic wrath directed at the plunger, whom they seem to regard in the same category us the drunken driver.

Man Prepared to Sue THIS HAS BEEN especially true since one of the recent dry-divers struck a woman and seriously injured her. One lad says he has instructed his lawyer to sue on the grounds of criminal negligence, if he gets squashed by a hurtling suicide,

“Every time I go out the door, I have a strange feeling I might be crowned. ‘So do hundreds of others who work here.” “Occasionally,” says another man, “I have to go near the Empire State: It's getting so I hold my bréath and keep my fingers crossed when I get within a block of that structure. “I propose that any building that has an open roof on which the public is allowed to roam should be required by law to have some sort of adequate guard-rail to make it practically impossible for

. A'MAN ONOE heard Bing Crosby sing ‘Pennies from Heaven.” The song stirred In him the vision of bright pennies drifting his way from a charm braceTet out of the costume. jewelry world. : Prom the same piece of cloth also comes this: a live wire salesman suggested to a costume jewelry manufacturer an ary sketch of a tie-holding

the tie. His royalties the first year were about 50 per cent more than the salary of the chief justice of the United States supreme court.

Shift Gears to Survive IN AMERICA the costume jewelry business par excellence is the one that shifts gears the most often from high to. low and back again as necessary to avoid disaster. As you might expect, politics in especially in Indiana, would follow this ue, An instance of this was when Indiana, with. the nation, shifted gears politically as they both faced disaster over the money question in the 1870's after the panic of 1873. The Greenbackers were loudly clamoring for greenback money. Gold, silver and bank notes clashed in business. As the 1880's President Hayes, passed a compromise bill on the money question Feb. 28, 1878, which went into effect Jan,’ 1, 1879. The law completely satisfied nobody. but it at least did not prevent an ers of good times

,| in the next decade. . : broad view of this stretch of American politics . ¢ joazs and lots Indians no al-

A as the

John Trowbridge. 4

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“I work in the Empire State building™ he says.

pin with a little chain stretched across the front of .

dawned, congress, over the veto of

By Marci Childs

Gromyko Filibusters on Atom in on

A fine declaration of noble intention which, in the present condition of the world, no nation would accept. The Gromyko statement clings to sovereignty over the atom. The Acheson-Lilienthal-Baruch proposal went a ‘fairly long way toward surrendering national sovereignty in this connection. Many have

: said hopefully that it represented the beginning of a

. By Robert C. Ruark

‘Suicide Leap’ Angers New Yorkers

screw-loose characters to make their last bid for

seems‘ to be one of the healthier developments of the post-fracas years. If enough people continue to be jittery, We ay I% Sep peace ow tine, ’

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow Politics and Business Technique Same

and I had the wit to win. We drew a circle and shu§ him in.” So the Greenbackers and the Grangers eased out of the political picture in Indiana and the nation. Good crops and good prices came to Indiana farmers, Industry revived. Industrial workers prospered as a new era came to the state and the nation. A touch of the spirit of all this was a California instance. The Glenn family had a 50,000 acre wheat ranch on the west side of the Sacramento river in Colusa county. In 1880, the ranch produced nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat that sold for about $1 a bushel.

Brand of Politics Changed POLITICS, GROWLING over the brand of money the nation should use, and the growing labo pains of industry hardly fit into a picture like that. So Indiana, with the nation, shifted its poiifioal gears and moved on with the pack. » In. the presidential election of 1890, the state's political machine, as between the Democrats and Re~ publicans, fought s political campaign that was rough and hot to the point of being nasty and tough. hy The Republican vote for Albert i, Porter for gove ernor was 231,405, and for Franklin Landers the Dem« ocratic vote was 224,452. A shift of a little more than 1% per cent from Porter to Landers would have given Landers a majority of 35 votes out of a total of 455, 857. Both platforms were colorless. The political en-' gines that were running the state were stalled on dead center.