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Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Oun Way

A BIG JOB IN GOOD HANDS IT 1S A BIG JOB that Fermor Cannon has taken on as general chairman of this year's Community Fund campaign, but one that never has been in more capable hands.

The amount of money that must be raised to carry on the work of red feather agencies in Indianapolis next year has not yet been determined, but no one has any doubt that it is going to be a large amount. The city has grown, and with it the need for these vital services, and to a small degree the cost of performing them. It seems, indeed, like a very formidable amount of money, which becomes possible: to accumulate only when it is broken down into the

thousands upon thousands of small individual gifts that

go into it, : ; . And there, of course, is where the big job begins—in the organization of the campaign that reminds all these . donors of their own obligation, that gives everybody in town an opportunity to take part in it, For this task Mr. Cannon is more than ordinarily well equipped by personality, by training and by experience, and his appointment as chairman is assurance that this campaign will be ably directed. But, on his behalf, we might add a word of warning: No one man could possibly do this job alone, - Mr. Cannon, or anyone else, can do it only if we all pitch in and help when he needs us. We believe he can count on the people of Indianapolis to do that, too, as they have so many times in the past when the public good was at stake.

THE SOVIET BOYCOTT T WAS to be expected that Russia would oppose a general European. recovery program. on the terms-outlined by Secretary Marshall. : : The Soviets do not want recovery-—outside their own spheres of influence. Nor do they want the states of free Europe to pool their resources and find new strength in unity. That would interfere with the present inroads of communism, espécjally in France and Italy. When Secretary Marshall expressed hope that most, “if not all,” the nations of Europe would join in a reconstruction effort, he obviously anticipated the possibility of a boycott by the Communist bloc. He must have knowm, too, that it would be difficult if not impossible to devise a recovery plan acceptable both to the Kremlin and to a Republican congress. : So in this instance, at least, the United States is not embarrassed by continuing Soviet obstinacy. If anything,

the contrary. :

THE MOST that can be expected from the Marshall proposal to Europe now is some form of economic federation embracing Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark. Sweden and Norway, which could make substantial

luctant to enter into arrangements’ in western Europe which might be offensive to the Soviets. There seems to be no disposition to invite the co-operation of Spain and Portugal. If the forthcoming meeting of the council of foreign

economic pool. ~~~. A¢ this point the initiative is squarely up to Mr. Bevin and”Mr. Bidault and their respective governments, They went more than half-way in extending the hand of fellowship to the Soviets, and have been rebuffed. That should satisfy the exigencies of politics, but practicalities "are now in order. Since the Russian attitude is known, it should not be difficult to come up with a plan of operation“that will appeal to the nations of free Europe. Until there is such a meeting of minds, of course there is nothing on the table for the United States to consider,

J Wi of Germany would be a logical addition to the

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HEMISPHERE DEFENSE

T is-naturdtthat thereshotld be more enthusiasm in this country for a United States-Canadian defense program than for one embracing all nations of the Western hemisphere. . We know the Canadians better than we do some of our neighbors to the south. And we have some misgivings about certain of the Latin-American republics, notably Argentina.

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unfriendly areas or unprotected beachheads in Central or South America which might be used as bases for operations _ against us,

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“VOTERS ARE WISING UP, REPUBLICANS” | By Lifelong Democrat, Oity | Every Republican should read the

piece by Dan Kidney on the edi-

As a simple citizen with no knowledge of law enforcement or of politics, ¥ can’t understand the apparent unwillingness of the city council, the board of safety, the police department, the sheriff and the prosecutor to come to grips with violations of the law against gambling. I have been following the news pieces about this subject with great

racket in-which gamblers were unmolested by the police. gamblers have been put behind the bars.

Here's what I'd like to see happen. The city council ordinance recommended by Mr. Remy as head of the

pass the

care ever since The Times exposed what it claimed as a $9,000,000 |

So far as I can see, little has come from that revelation, and few|

{torial page of The Times for Saturday, June 28. Mr. Kidney is sound{ing & warning the G. O, P.,, with [its aspirations for “national leadership,” would do well to heed. The late rent control is a case rin point. The G. O. P. sponsored |law permits a rent increase; latest |of a long string of guesses most of |whichi to date have proved to be

(the board which is responsible for operation of the police department) prohibiting printers from making lottery and baseball pool tickets, or the sale of such tickets or having them in your possession. The coun. cil's attorney has told them this could be done. Buch an ordinance woiild give the police the weapon they need to get

evidence that would stand up In court, if they wanted to get it, And the board of safety could demand that they do it or fire the chief of police. Then the police could come into court and get convictions if the prosecuting attorney was on the ball’ and presented the evidence properlys : I for «one am getting tired of reading in your paper and- other newspapers about all these probes that never get any place. What we need is not more investigations, but more action, from council to the prosecutor. 1S . . ¥ “ABOLISH ALL TAXES BUT THOSE BASED ON PROFITS” By Del Mundo, Indianapolis The present system of taxation of profit corporations seems to be an organized hodpodge of chaotic con. fusion, lined with dishonesty, bolstered up by leading the people to believe that the corporations really pay taxes and permitted to exist only because of the apathy of the people to take of the sleight-of-hand methods used: The fact is that practically all taxes, Including property taxes, paid by a profit corporation are p on to the consuming public who are, in reality, the taxpayers. To the extent that a tax can be passed on to another by either an individual or =» tion the sovereign right of taxation is applied unscientifically. Not only is this true but, it is also true that the present unscientific and cumbersome method of applying and collecting taxes

board of safely |;gq guesses. We heard much of

tirely too expensive both for the NOW prices would come down as corporation and for the collecting 5000 as the good old laws of supply

agency of government. (and demand were allowed to func-

The entire 57 varieties of taxation levied on profit corporations, including property tax, all of which are pi on to the consuming , should be abolished. No state should be permitted to grant corporation papers; this should be entirely a matter for the government of the United States. And no corporation should be permitted to do business in any state until it has first obtained a permit from that state to do so. A very nominal charge should be made by the government and by the states for these licenses to do business. A tax should be levied on profit! corporations on the profit that is made by the corporation, first permitting a small -margin of profit before the tax applies. The greater the percentage of profit the greater should ‘be the government's participation in the profits, and there should be a “cut off” point beyond which the government takes all The decree of stability of each business should be considered in determining the amount of profit permissible before the tax applies and the point at “which the “cut ‘off” takes place, In the case of the co-ops and non-profit. corporations the amount of their profits should be determined ‘by the amount of money refunded to the members either in cash or credits. In the case of those non-profit corporations which pay no cash dividends and make no refund to their members a tax should be applied to their gross receipts, taking into: consideration the amount of their gross receipts in proportion to

the number of active members, a

being mitted before the tax applies, the exemption being determined by the

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Side Glances=By Galbraith

tion once more.

But they haven't done it; they've gone up and they're | still going. Getting & bump in the [rent isn't going. to bring the cost {of living down and the prospect of {once more being evictable on a | month's notice or less isn't going to improve the -frame of mind, Republicans, of the millions who rent. We realize, of course, that: you Republicans blame many things on labor. You passed a bill to correct that, as “mandate’” from the people, including, presumably, the heads of the carpenters union who supported you in the last election. But the miners immediately walked out of a lot of mines. The people who “mandated” you to end strikes and get production aren't going to be too happy if strikes continue and production still ‘lags’ despite your best efforts, are they? | You're screaming that nobody will get tax relief now because President Truman vetoed your bill. Did it ever. occur to you that the most equitable tax bill in the world would | be one doing nothing else but increasing exemptions a. little? That way, everybody would get the same treatment. If the exemption were upped $500, for example, the man with a annual income would be helped, the rich man with a six figure income would be helped exactly’ as much, no more, no less. Knowing this could have been done, do you think you can-convince the people with that phony “well at least it was something, nobody will get anything now?” Investigations of everything from the late departed F. D. R. to the price. 0f permanent waves are entertaining, but the polls should tell you that voters are wising up as the years go by, It takes more real performance. to convince them these days. 50, as Mr. Kidney says, maybe you'd better learn to roll with the punches, Republicans, or one of these days, maybe in '48, the voters

The war department's plan for standardizing the arms | of all American republics agreeable to that project will re- | quire the sale to each of them of various U. S. military | items; including aircraft and combat vessels. But, in the | . absence of a standardization agreement, there is nothing to prevent any of the Latin-American states from shopping elsewhere and buying what they please. So the objection to selling U. 8. arms to Argentina, for example, because of fear that the Peron regime might misuse them, is unrealistic. A rich as well as a proud, ambitious country, Argentina can buy what it wants, if not from us, from someone else. . It is just as unrealistic to contemplate a hemispheric defense agreement without Argentina in on it. That would

~ bring on a contest between this country and Argenting |} Hor the favor of the other states of South America which

would destrdy any possibility of hemispheric solidarity.

©“ We may not like some aspects of Argentina's govern

ment, and Argentina may not like some aspects of ours.

But the differences are not substantial enough to’ out- " the mutual interests, : / The present cordial relations between the United States relatively new. Not so long ago they were We have outgrown that state of

“LET SCOUTS DO HEALTH

will have forgotten their wartime

OUR TOWN... by Avion Schur How Green Was the

TO SAVE MY LIFE, I can't remember whether a Bavarian priest or the bicycle craze of the 90's in." | spired Charles J. Truemper to start the ent known as Bellevue. Maybe it's another example of the chicken and egg controversy, in which tifere’s no. telling which came first. mE Anyway, Bellevue was a pic- ’ turesque little place at the foot of the hill where the canal and ~ the towpath cross the Michigan road. It had a little shack, I - remember, and a pretty little garden overlooking the water, and it was there that tired bicycle riders ‘used to” ipferrupt their “runs”. to limber their legs and _ refresh their spirits, : oe There was also a little zoo connected with the

place, consistiiig of a ‘possum, an eagle and a cage of

raccoons; if I remember correctly, To discerning eyes, however, the loveliest thing about Bellevue was the fact that it had the greenest grass of any grown around here. : Mr. Truemper was a grand host, even if he didn't look the part of the traditional boniface. He was a slender, smallish man with hollow cheeks and a red imperial beard. His mustache ends had a way of sticking out almost horizontally when he appeared to be in in anything, in which case, his eyes always lit up, too.

He Was Always Doing Good MR. TR 'S emotional beard bristled most of the time. That was because he was always doing something good for the community. There was hardly a parade, for instance, that he didn't have something to do with. Ihdeed, it was a foregone conclusion a parade without Charlie Truemper seated on a spirited white horse was headed for a flasco. And he was one of the few dependable men around here who could always be counted on to fire

AT BEA, July 2.—The articles between master and men say that the captain guarantees the crew a certain portion of salt horse and a daily dose of lime Juice, against scurvy, but the union says the men will have a choice of three kinds of breakfast hay and two different desserts at dinner and supper. I have been to sea as an ordinary seaman at $10 a week with no evertime; as naval armed guard.officer aboard merchant ships in wartime; and finally as a pald passenger. Out of that background I think that the latest national maritime union strike was unjust, politically motivated, and cynical in the Commy concept. : - You should live as well as the men of the American merchant marine live today. You should clear the money that they clear at the month's end. A mess boy at sea is richer than a young lawyer ashore; an ordinary seaman is doing better than a consul in the state department.

$225 Month for Mess Boys MEN AT SEA get superlative food, crisp linen,

hotel, and even their soap and matches free. In addition, the lowest possible wage, with small overtime is $225 a month for mess boys—free and clear. : That comprises $159 basic wage, $32 guaranteed overtime for the four Sundays of a month, and another 32 hours logical overtime. Overtime means that if a man works a minute of an hour he gets paid for the hour, I want to list here a typical day’s menu. BREAKFAST: Sliced bananas, stewed prunes, oatmeal, assorted dry cereals, eggs to order, omelet, plain or with parsley, grilled Virginia ham, home fried potatoes, hot cakes with maple syrup, jam, jelly, marmalade, coffee, cocoa, tea and fresh milk.

LUNCH: Dill pickles, split pea soup, fried filet of

UNRRA Dead, Wor

: on 3 N , - WASHINGTON, July 2.—The first practical, funetioning agency of the United Nations has come to the end of its existence. Buffeted, battle-scarred, beset by the flerce pulls of national rivalry, the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration is now a fihished chapter’ in the dubious book of world co-operation, : In weary; hungry Europe, the UNRRA offices are closing. They are closing not because the job it done, but because fear and distrust prevented a working partnership in this elementary task, The big question mark is what is to fill the gap from here on out. It is a hopeful portent that the foreign ministers of Britain, Russia and France are meeting in Paris to try to agree on a plan for European reconstruction that would eventually have the backing of American aid. ’

Day-to-Day Job Remains migra) if this succeeds—the need for immediate day-to-day relief remains. Eight hundred thousand refugees are still in UNRRA camps. They are the victims of Europe's anarchy—men and women who refuse to go home to servitude or persecution with torture and death as alternatives. An effort is being made to form a new international refugee organization to take care of this part of the UNRRA job.. But the effort is meeting serious obstacles. IRO is still a hopeful chart that may or may not come into being. The United States loaned Arthur Altmeyer, chairman of the social security board, to help set up the new organization. Mr. Altmeyer went to Switzerland expecting to stay a few weeks. He has been in Geneva four months, wrestling with the problem until he is on the verge of a breakdown, according. to reports here. © : Congress has just now authorized U. 8. participation in IRC. It will be well toward August before money is appropriated to cover our share of the costs. IRO is committed to pay British and American occupa-

grievances against the Democrats and the New Deal in favor of much more recent ones against you. " » M

JOB CITY FAILS TO DO" By R. O. J, Winthrop avd, i The fellow who wrote in about

the Scouts catching rats had a good idea. How abdut it, Mr. Wallace O. Lee? Get your Scout chiefs togeth-er-~do the job that our city health | department has failed so miserably fon. Letter writers, keep on asking the city and the Scouts to do some-

f | thing before the rats drive us out

| COMMUNITY CULTURE" By Mrs. D. B. “th . I'd lke to opers.

of one. “SUMMER OPERA RAISES ME put in

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tion authorities for maintaining the refugee camps

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Sweden Is Model .in Labor Relations

STOCKHOLM, July 2.—While the United States is torn by conflict between labor and management, in Sweden the labor frant is untroubled by a single

of responsibility to themselves and to the public. There is oy attioride split in labor. ranks, hence no jockeying for ‘advantage, and there are no jurisdictiondl strikes. Wildcat walkouts, lockouts and

REFLECTIONS .". . By Robert C. Ruark

|An Old Salt Gets a Dose of Paprika

activities, Mr. Truemper and. time to ¥ his trade, which was that of tentmaker; = Nor was that all. Besides concerning himself with the physical welfare of bicycle riders, Mr. Truemper's . solicitude included the well-being of all mankind. In support of which I cite the fact that Bellevue was not only a rendezvous for bicycle riders, but also a health resort designed for those who were either too old or too decrepit to pedal wheels. Indeed, for all I know,

quarters better than those offered by the average

IN WASHINGTON . .. By Marquis Childs

other day. Congress has authorized $350 million but

Ids Need Lives On in the two zones. 1 this is enforced, there will not - be. enough out of IRO’s $112 million ‘budget to last through the current year. That leaves the refugees in a pretty uncertain state. v . The United States will not offer relief. The administrator of the American program, Richard F. Allen, former Red Cross official, left for Europe the

here again no money has been made available. The state department got an advance. from the RFC of $75 million in order to make a start. Similarly, no money has actually been appropriated for the GreekTurkish program and the RFC came through with .$100 million on the cuff.

Many Charges Were Refuted IN THE FOUR YEARS of its existence, UNRRA took much undeserved abuse, In: instance after instance, charges that relief supplies were being used for political purposes were refuted, Yet the refutation rarely caught up with the nojsy accusation. With understandable pride, Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks pointed out in a final statement as director.of = | UNRRA that it had. distributed nearly $3 billion of i supplies, about three times the value of relief provided after world war I. This went to- 17 different countries. Inevitably in the wake of the most destructive war in history, there were difficulties, delay -and waste. ; : UNRRA held off major epidemics of the kind of diseases ordinarily rampant after wars. It never had sufficient resources to prevent- the spread of such plagues as tuberculosis, which is now widespread. A year ago the United States signalled the end of I UNRRA. This was done because of the belief that congress would not again appropriate money for an { international relief organization. That was correct. ei But ‘congress has been almighty slow. about appro- { | priating money for any kind of relief. We shall have If reason to regret the untimely end of thé only functioning United Nations organization which has now becorne history.

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the institution may have started as such, as I hinted The new a month ago. Be that as it may, this is the proper from hotels” place for the Bavarian priest-—one Father Sebastian kitchen apar Knelpp—to make his entrance onto the stage. The increa Mr. Truemper discovered Father Kneipp in the fective, how course of ane of his trips to Germany. I can’t recall. . first -has file whether Mr. Truemper made the trip especially to with the res see Father Kneipp, whose fabulous fame had reached this procedu America, or whether the meeting was ‘a matter of not become luck. ‘It doesn’t matter. Suffice to say that when Aug Ek - Mr. Truemper returned to Indianapolis, he told a most us ntics B. remarkable story of how the priest restored the sick she Rodina without the help of Hiediping. ’ an: individual The Cure Was Simple Enough: each hotel ar ~~ WHAT'S MORE, Mr. emper returned with the Num * secret of the “Kneipp cure.” It was simple enough, He estimat if one grasped the principle. The technique was based permanent | on the use of water, fresh air and sunlight, but, most creased as I of all, on ordering the patient to remove his ‘shoes cases where | and socks and walk barefoot in dew-moistenéd grass. during the ¥ The results were phenomenal, said Mr. Truemper, and Jevels,” includes everything from curing a common cold to a “Others m:¢ hopeless case-of colie. ¢ ; v he said. “It Well, because of Mr. Truemper’s meeting the priest, dividual case Indianapolis had one of the first “Kneipp cures” out- The propos side of Germany. It outlasted most of those started only a comp in America simply because of Mr. Truemper’s fore- here since 1 sight to bed his resort in a patch of grass which was Wu the hotel ros not only the greenest, but also the dewiest of anv by guests on grown in this country. : Daily. rates increased ab February v transient re; Pa; E Hotels here : permanent re cod, broiled corn shoulder, braised red cabbage, boiled 3 moved into potatoes, mixed vegetables, lettice salad, cottage pud- { * pates were fr ding, cheese, crackers, jam marmalade, coffee, tea and i paying daily fresh milk. % In some i DINNER: Mixed pickles; chow-chow, spring onions, notified pern radishes, veal cutjets, curried beef and steamed rice, rates in the buttered squash, eggplant, O'Brien potatoes, combina~ daily basis, tion salad, liver sausage, bologna, corn beef, lemon average 50 jello, cake, cheese, crackers, jelly, jam, marmalade, Reports of coffee. tea and fresh milk. : al parts of That is one of the least palatable menus. There hotels in Sou is roast-beef, chicken, turkey, ice cream, steak and — manent gue the fixings on other days. The officers and men eat have 0 pay the same food. ‘ Bome of the Living Better Than Bankers J ona A SPERRY GYRO steers the ship. A recording ho: Meanwhile device marks its wake. A tell-tale electric gimmick ps hollers if a fire develops in the holds. A radar ‘ar- SEO id ' rangement protects the vessel in a fog. On the the n passenger ships:-loran has replaced celestial naviga- ti A 1c tion, and you can plot a course with loran as easily y g i Se " ~ on an 16-m as you read the comics. : = cent high The winches are electric. There is a radio range par finder -to-tell you where ‘you are when you are run- Te nila ning coastwise. The engines are Diesel—no coal- Owners ssc heaving; everything is switches and buttons and that approxi gadgets. tenants Will The heavy work as I knew is 12 years ago—as my yather than grandfather, not the character, the captain—knew basis: and 3 it, has gone out of sea life. The old man on this ship still higher once worked for $12 a month, and had to knock the scheduled to weevils out of his hardtack, n— Never before has the seagoing man, master, mate . 92 DIE and man, done so well, worked so easily, ate so rich, : ORBETEL and fared so fine. If, in their constant war against P.). ~The de the owners, they louse up the whole operation, it will plosion ef - be their own fault. ’ Ra : \ transport Santo Stefe

justified by the fact that important public interests might be jeopardized seriously by battles between labor and management, 2 80 there took place what are called “Saltsjobaden negotiations” between the Confederation of es Unions and the Federation of Swedish: Employers. (The name comes from the scene of the conference.) The whole range of labor-management problems was discussed ir :

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