Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1947 — Page 12
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Ra the by their el and gs Su strategy, are*largely for this impasse. They made their first big mistake by failing to do their duty under the reorganization law, which required congress within three weeks after it convened to fix an over-all ceiling on government spending for the next fiscal year. The Republicans haven't yet fixed that ceiling, and they control both houses of congress. They are still flouting the law, still shirking their responsibility. ; Their second mistake was in tiying to make the tax
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~on the July 1 date. All the time there were plenty of Democrats who would have gone along, had the G. O. P. . been willing to make the tax cut effective at the start of * the next calendar year, The Republicans chose instead to try to embarrass the President. To those who know the score, it would appear the Republicans themselves cannot be: unembarrassed by what has happened.
| JTI8 stl no too late to end tax uncertainty, and assure taxpayers that their burdens next year will be lower.
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members on political activity and propaganda of which |government has spent money these those members, in many cases, do not approve. past years. Just how much “chaos Mr. De Caux bases his contention on a section of the | cashing of the bonds? I'm sure ‘bill stating that it shall be unlawful ““for any whatever, or any labor organiza or expenditure” EE Ta iT en convention or caucus held to select candidates for federal office. , He asserts that this section could be used—and that Senator Taft has expressed intent that it shall be used—to | haven't prohibit labor publications from expressing views on politi- | fire. Say that such a prohibition would apply to publications supe | E722. 2 say a pro. w apply to publications sup- re fair-minded ported by union funds contributed by union members as OE — union dues. also said tedly tha ould Jar have Prod x about one of the ut he repeatedly that it w not apply to labor publications supported by voluntary subscriptions A We send tiem Snare from union members. And that it would not prohibit se. political giving, spending or propagandizing by separate or- inka in INDUSTRY. Xoo. ganizations—the C. I. 0.’s Political Action Committee, foy nS instance—if these organizations were financed by voluntary individual contributions and not from union funds. Under union-shop contracts which the Taft-Hartley bill how to determin . would permit, just as under closed-shop contracts which it | tion 3 gets a 1 a would forbid, millions of citizens would have to pay dues to | oven drying it contained 15 per cent unions in order to hold thejr jobs. The system Mr. De |” parserann 143 of Standard Speer. * Caux defends, and hopes to perpetuate, makes it a condi- | fications of Southern Pine Lumber tion of employment that such citizens must submit to the | states common grades of 3” and 1” spending of their money in behalf of candidates or parties She JSried Shai eifo bishes Shan to. which they may be personally opposed, or against can-| Paragraph 27 of Standard Specididates or parties which they may personally favor. .
That, we think, is a real invasion of American rights—
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in the June 11th edition, your writer gave to the public his idea as to
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"Start Agitation for Cashing
Terminal Leave Bonds at Once" : By Gale W. Gethers, RK. R. 13, Indianapolis Here's hoping this letter and the letters written by Mr. Blickenout the same tax bill, staff and others concerning G. 1. terminal leave bonds will awaken all of the “government script money.” It is my understanding that the treasury has already set aside sul-
opinicn, never get our bonds cashed before their normal expiration date. I think all ex-G. 1's should write to their congressmen urging them to take immediate steps to rectify this deplorable situation. We, the veterans of world war II, won the war by working and sticking together so. why not stick toing to now? Remember, write to your congressmen or even to the President. We need the money now. » . 5 “G. 1’S NEED FURLOUGH PAY RIGHT NOW, NO GIFT” By Edward Counts, 648 N. LaSalle st. Here's another beef about the terminal leave bonds. Now don%t get me wrong, I know they're good, in five years. But how about the little fellow that needs that little lift right now? Not in five years hence. What burns me up is the fact the government lends money to everyone except to the ones (meaning the veterans) who made it possible for this government of ours to do s0. Yet when we say please make our terminal leave bonds cashable immediately, the excuse given is this would cause inflation. What a laugh this is. We had inflation before we came back. So please don’t use this old, worn-out excuse anymore. After all, this isn't a gift. So I say make these bonds cashable immediately,
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an actual denial of individual freedom. But freedom of the press, as we understand that term, certainly does not Jean power for union officials to force workers to contribute funds for political propaganda.
THE FINNS PAY AGAIN ©
has paid another installment on its debt to the U. 8. It has been doing that since all other international b dior from world war I walked out. An interesting and tragic angle is that Risto Ryti who promoted the idea of paying in 1988, when he was head of the bank of Finland, is now doing 10 years hard labor in Helsinki. : Te ri became prime minister during the Russian attack ; in late 1939, president during world war II, and Was convictéd, under an ex post facto law, of getting try into world war II on Germany's side. 2 The wheel of fortune turns; and it doesn’t pay like Finland-—even though Finland is the only
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"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.
“OPERATE CITY WITHOUT REGARD FOR POLITICS”
Pyteiud Hate SW. Be. If I were mayor of Indianapolis I would start off free to conduct 4he office as my conscience dictated and as I know the citizenry in-
firm hand used to keep it that way.
of these reforms would release needed policemen for attention to major crime. In our sanitation department, I would charge the selected head with the duty to have garbage and trash collected, not strewn around. Employees of the department would be warned that by their acts would they signify how long they intended to remain on the payroll—without regard for their union or mythical political influence.
There would be no one on the payroll merely because of the fact that he was a faithful worker in the campaign which elected me. And I would bend every effort to have an effective merit system legislated so that capable and loyal employees in their jobs because of qualifications and ability might feel secure after my term ended. I would consult with the council, as a business executive with his board of directors, but would have them understand from the start that they need not attempt to operate the city for political expediency, or for building a machine for self-perpetuation in office. Good and efficient government would be the only kind of politics we would recognize. The board of safety would be informed ‘that its duties are pre-
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scribed by law. Actual running of 'the police department is a chore belonging to the chief of police. And above all, I would insist upon harmony and co-operation, without overlapping duties or in-ter-department friction. With these major headaches removed from the danger of. fever, such matters as streets, traffic, parking, parks, schools, fire department and the 1001 other chores of the mayor would fit into their proper spaces as a gnaw puzzle,
“TINKERING write TIME IS JUST DICTATORSHIP” By 8. A. Myers, Indianapolis If I were mayor of Indianapolis I would stop folks from tinkering with my neighbors’ clocks and dragging them out of bed at 4 a. m. I would. have all things pertaining or involving the general public done democratically and not be a dic tator push-around.
DAILY THOUGHT
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown’ it.—8ong of Solomon 8:7.
LOVE is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; ~ Prom heaven it came, to heaven. returneth.
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. the te of “old bummer Smith,” and as luck would have it, he had for his audience a tenderfoot (and a New Yorker, at that) who had just beey made editor of The Overland Monthly,
e next few years, another of R. H. Cox, came along and into a play with the title of of old bummer Smith's little girl. By this time, I guess, it was somewhere around 1875. By this time, too, Katie Mayhew, as pretty and blond as ever, had turned up in California. She was an ‘actress now, and in less than no: time had San Francisco eating out of her hand. Her “Lady Teazle," especially, captured that critical town. And so it didn't surprise anybody-—least of all Katie Mayhew
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of Tadianapolis~that she was given the the chmace of
creating the role of “Miss.” It was a "8 Groat. on the Pacific coast; so much so, indeed, ror ol got the idea of trying it on New York, hy She hardly got settled in her New York when, looking out of her window, she spled a big poster announcing the news that a brand<new play titled “M’liss” would stage its premiere the following . week with Annie Pixley and Joe McDonough in the. leading parts, Well, Katie Mayhew wasn't born in Indianapolis for nothing. Nor did she have hasel eyes for nothing, Immediately, she served an injunction on the
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Annie Claiméd by Cupid ; ANNIE MAYHEW'S stage career was much er than that of her younger sister. great fa r went to work earlier, the church aisle on the right arm Alfred Singer, DA or The Ben te oy tory of Music. Eventually, Katie Mayhew got. married, too. Genuine blonds always do, She bécame the wife of Henry J. Widmer, conductor of -the orchestra stationed in
. By Robert C. Ruark
Hotels Note—Our Language Is English
NEW YORK, June 18.—It has been considerable time since we swiped this great nation from its legal owners—long enough, I should think, for us to decide that the English language stands a fair chance of re-
maining our common tongue. English is the accepted language of our school-
.} rooms. Most of our newspapers are printed in English.
are the books. The radio hurls an approximation English at us all the live-long day. Is it, then, too to ask that our restaurants and hotels present us In & manner that does not glass, a dictionary, and a code~
it is written in ancient Gasconese. You expect & French menu in France, but at home it ought to be possible to eat without showing a Berlitz certificate. As a matter of fact, being multi-lingual isn't too much help. In addition to using French as the medium, the tavern keepers usually write the menu in a sort of combination old English-German-Chi-nese script, slanted backward and planted so deep in the nap of the paper that you have to pick the letters out with a fork, , Far as that goes, an expert in the French language can't decipher ‘half the items on the card, even if he can see the print. Cooking talk is-as. outlandish as fashion talk. It is a jargon beyond the” comprehension of the, common man. So you rassle with:“'entrecote a la broche a la
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g they form a stern and silent gantlet when you to leave. This snobbery is not confined ew Yor its gilded restaurants. It seems to be ~ all o
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the country. I have been in some grease joints where
the proprietor was a Greek and the help was two generations out of the Congo, but when the waitress handed you the flyspecked list you bumped into some “bonne femme" and something else “aux champignons a la cousin Bessie”
Even ltalians Use French THE DEAL seems to be that as soon as a short order chef gets out of the dog wagon, he has a hot flush of French and it all rubs off on the cardboard. It is a conceit that has been current ever since somebody discovered that the French could douse a tough old hen in garlic sauce and make it go down easy. Even the Italian restaurants print their menus in French. Cr ahh 3 I think the French can do more with less than anybody alive, and I love to chew on some of samplés. But the restaurants are losing mopey on me, because eat a whole lot more if I just knew what I wi . I keep worrying about whether “la:partie lu Baron D'Agneau au gratin et aux truffes is- tricked up billygoat, and when the man around I look wise and say “Steak, garcon and heavy on the fried potatoes.”
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. By Marquis Childs
Does GOP. Favor Federal Sales Tax?
WASHINGTON, June 18—The political clamor following on President Truman's veto of the Republican tax bill is likely to obscure one of the most telling points he made. In the last paragraph of his veto message, he called for a program of tax adjustments and tax reduction “geared to the financial and economic needs of this country.” That kind of program is long overdue.
Brings in Spokesmen for Wealth EN! IS GROWING that some Republicans have a tax program they intend to try to put over next year. It is also evident that they want to try to shift as much of the tax burden as possible from income tax to the excise or sales tax. In other words, they would shift to the kind of tax that penalizes the low-income groups. A tax program must originate with the house ways and means committee. The other day, Chairman Harold Knutson of that committee named a group of outsiders to help draft a tax plan for 1948, without consulting the full committee. There were prompt cries of dictatorship. The chairman and prime mover of the special “tax study committee” is Roswell Magill, member of one of New York’s largest corporation law firms and a professor of law at Columbia university. One of the most influential members is John W. Hanes, who represents large corporate interests in New York, including the Hearst properties. Hanes was one of two private citizens ‘permitted by the Republican majority to testify before the ways and means committee on the tax bill just vetoed. Another member is Cheever Cowdin, motion picture executive who has frequently been a spokesman for the National Association of Manufacturers on taxes and finance. Still another member is Carson 8. Duncan, economist of the Association of American Railroads.
WORLD AFFAIRS
Knutson’s effort to make this appear a “bi-parti-san” committee is plain foolish. The key men will speak from the special point of view of great wealth. An editorial In the New York Journal of Commerce made clear what the Wall st. community thought of the Magill group. The headline was: “Magill Appointment Underscores Trend Toward Sales Tax.” Rep. Aime J. Forand of Rhode Island, one of the Democrats who challenged Knutson's right to name these outsiders and give them special powers, pointed out a deadly parallel. In 1930, Herbert Hoover was in the White House. Republicans controlled sengte and house. While the crash of 1929 had jarred confidence, the philosophy of unending prosperity was still in the ascendant. In that fateful year, Republicans in the house invited businessmen to come in and write a tariff law. They brought in such men as Joseph Grundy of Pennsylvania—and they told them to write their own ticket. Result was the Smoot-Hawley high-tariff law. Mr, Hoover himself protested. A thousand experts in economics and political science signed an earnest plea to prevent adoption of the law. They knew it would hasten the tide of depression all over the world.
Switch of Burden No Solution A TAX PROGRAM THAT TRANSFERS even part of the burden to the low-income groups will take dollars out of the pocket of the average consumer that he otherwise would spend for the products of
our factories and farms. It means we shall be less able to buy those products. It means depression. There should be changes in our antiquated tax structure. plan to. switch the load to the small wage earner,’ then we shall be asking for boom and bust in the good old pattern of 19290 and after.
By George Weller
Powers Meet io Spend U.S. Dollars
PARIS, ‘June 18.—The quickest and easiest conference to call in Europe today is one where large amounts of American money are due for distribution. Such a conference, summoned with record speed, began here yesterday with arrival of Britain's bustling foreign minister, Ernest Bevin, to lay down the lines for Europe's acceptance of Secretary Marshall's loan plan, With astonishing celerity, both Britain and France fave put aside older and more pressing headaches to indicate their readiness—indeed alacrity—to take the leadership over Marshall's plan for purchasing European stability with new transfusions of "American public funds.
Don't Discuss Repayment HARDLY HAD HALL INDICATED that the U. 8. was contemplating unzipping its purse once more when France was ready with a new plan for distributing the new windfall. One British observer Aalls what he calls Marshall's “You Plan, We Pay” system. : Marshall's plan is democratic America’s. offensive of hope against Communist Russia’s offensive of unrest. Marshall's theory — welcomed .officially and openly in Europe but sharply criticized privately—is that capitalism needs American capital to ward off spread of communism. Both Britain and France are carefully protecting their broker's position between the U. 8. and the Soviet Union. Now they have invited the U. 8. 8. R.’s participation in the coming Christmas party which was originally called by Massball to check Russias westward push. Many observers are septic whether any infu sion of American mon
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If Russia should suddenly get softhearted, Mar shall's plan might work, officials argue. Whether Russia withdraws or not, American money helps each national economy. France's foreign minister, Centrist Georges Bidault, will offer Bevin a four-way international plan covering coal, transportation, steel and agriculture. France's idea seems to be that committeés rather than nations should handle distribution of American help. The breakdown would be by problems, not by nations. It is calculated here that this system will please Marshall by carrying out America’s oft-ex-pressed thought that European boundaries should be transcended. But, if this new American help is ever supposed to be repaid—a subject delicately skirted in all today’s hymns of praise—it will be difficult to show which governments are to accept responsibility for repaymenf. By ‘getting the Marshall plan directly into the hands of experts, Britain and France evidently hope to avert a race between small, middle and large na~ tions to be first at the star spangled trough.
Do ‘All Share?
ONE FEATURE of Marshiall's plan 1s that it puts
the initiative up to Europe. But one still unsolved puzzle is whether Marshall meant all Furopean powers, even those who have not yet spent their huge first allowances of American money, participate? Britain has passed the 52 per loan which was supposed to last
cent mark in {ts until 1950. . Does
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