Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1947 — Page 20
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Butler and Taxes HE effort of Marion county authorities to collect taxes on property owned by Butler university doesn’t seem very likely to succeed, in view of the university's charter and existing supreme court- decisions. The charter, granted nearly a century ago by the state, guarantees the university exemption from taxation on condition that it conduct an educational program. In cases said to be identical the United States supreme court has held that this charter constitutes a contract, and that the contract cannot be abrogated or altered without the consent of both parties to it. This would seem to mean that Butler is permanently exempt from local and state taxes—unless, of course, the university itself would sometime agree to pay them. The question—which isn’t a new one—has arisen again ‘now because the university has become owner of some considerable holdings in remtal real estate. County officials argue, with some justification, that this property—apartment houses and the like—is in competition with other property-owned by private investors and hence should be taxed. Butler, on the other hand, appears to be disposing of this kind of property as rapidly as possible, and converting its funds into other—and non-competitive—forms of investment, . Whatever the situation may be in regard to holdings that are strictly investments, it is going pretty far afield, we believe, to talk about taxing the field-house and the Butler Bowl. These are definitely a part of the educational plant itself, are not in competition with any private investment we know about, and appear to be as clearly outside tax limits as a class-room.
\ Call Off the Olympic Games RITISH newspapers ask if it is fair-for their athletes to compete with well-fed Americans in next year’s Olympic games in London in view of the rigid diet enforced in England. British golfers, oarsmen, tennis players and boxers consistently have been losing to Americans. They are certain that near-starvation rations have been a contributing factor. ; The weekly food allowance in England is one egg, three ounces of butter, three of margarine, two of bacon, two of cheese and the equivalent of two small hamburgers. Some American athletes we know consume that much meat and fats in one day, and top it off with a thick steak. Certainly, the low-caloried English diet won't produce the stamina needed by a miler. And in most European countries the fare isn't any better than that in England. It would be no credit to us to win honors in the Olympic Games against unnaturally weakened competition. Conceding this point, a sports writer has suggested that in addition to-the food we take to London for our own team members we undertake to supply all the 4000 athletes for the 16-day period of the gameés. That seems a shortsighted and unsound answer to the problem.
. » » = » . TAMINA is developed during the long training ordeal, not under actual competition. A new, unusually rich diet then would be harmful rather than otherwise, And would it be fair for us te feed 4000 husky athletes and fgnore the more genuine needs of thousands of nursing mothers and small children, not only in England; but all over the continent? ¢ Provide nourishing food for all the hungry, in Europe, | and elsewhere? If only we could! Byt we don’t have that much food. : The one solution to the "hold the games next year. - This international competition was founded on theory that it contributed to international amity. Much in the record of previous events argues to the contrary. In 1948 the issue would be over-stuffed America vs. a half-starved rest of the world. We can’t afford to be
placed in that position.
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Why Not Let 'er Ride? ENATOR FULBRIGHT of Arkansas wants a correction made in the congressional record. The printers made it “we cannot count on the evi] of prosperity” when Mr. Fulbright had said “level.” Philosophers could go to work on whether “evil” is so incorrect. Though we all like prosperity, many there are who can't stand it. That's why the shirt-sleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, of easy-come-easy-go, of dissolute playboys, of how so many of the mighty have fallen, of sackcloth and ashes occasionally preferred, of hermits and such. Seldom is one cautious—enough to resist the effects of good fortune, says one of the ancients; the prosperous man does not know whether he is loved, says another; prosperity is a weak reed, comments still a third; “pride goeth before a fall,” and vanity ‘of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity. “Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How, comet-like, it threatens while it shines.” oi . Senator, why not let that typographical error stand? It may start an argument. And senators like arguments.
Robert J. Watt
THE American labor movement needs many more leaders like Robert J. Watt of Washington, D. C., who died last Friday aboard an ocean liner on which he was returning from a conference in Switzerland. His life, since he came from his native Scotland in 1912, had been devoted to the - Workers’ cause, and since 1936 he had been the able inter : ational representative of the American Federation of bi . Watt was ‘as fair-minded as any man we ever
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[ ‘VW ASHINGTON, July 31.—You can put the name of builder Henry J. Kaiser “high on any list of men expert at jousting with congressional investigating commit tees, men who can dish out more than they take when they get into a witness chair. Builder Kaiger stole the show of the senate war investigating committee as it sought to find out how he and Howard Hughes managed to get $18 million out of the government for a huge “wartime” flying boat which still hasn't been flown. Mr. Kaiser's in the same class with John L. Lewis, “Big Bill” Jeffers of the Union Pacific and a few others who have outtalked senate inquisitors.
. » ” IT was as though a huge football tackle were hitting a line—he may have been brought down now and then but there were always a few senators dripping off his cleats. And when it was all over the big fellow figuratively put his arms around the committee and drew it to his breast. - “I love this country,” he said. “I love our democracy. I love this investigation.” Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.), subcommittee chairman who had chased Mr. Kaiser through a labyrinth of colorful verbiage for six hours, restrained his affection. “Goodby, Mr. Kaiser,” he said. “Thank you for coming.” In that six hours Mr. Kaiser had quoted Tennyson, talked down from one to three — senators ata time, thrown the hearing into such confusion at one time that senators got lost, expounded some personal philosophy, and at times sent everyone in the hearing room into. rollicking laughter. With all this he managed forcefully to defend his part in the episode of the flying boat, to attack sharply those he said had tried to block it, and to recall some chapters of his and his associates’ spectacular record in many fields of wartime construction. re fei
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Mr. Kaiser named names, said he believed Grover Loening, wartime government aviation consultant who testified pre-
double-crossed him, and that
war production board big shots such as William L. Batt and Merrill C. Meigs had tried to give him the brush-off. He said
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he believed Mr. Meigs was trying to “protect” certain interests—meaning aircraft makers. He said he once had retained Thomas J. Corcoran—“Tommy the Cork” —and that Mr. Corcoran asked too big a ' fee and didn’t get it. This had nothing to do with- the flying-boat deal, however.
~ By Charles T. Lucey characterized by earlier witnesses as a super-salesman-—not after the he had made as a builder. Once he was discussing what he had done to get the
Brewster Aeronautical Corp. going during ‘the war and Senator Owen Brewster (R.
Me.), committee chairman, interjected Booby that he wanted it clear he wasn't the JERUSALE Brewster being discussed. - : TB “That’s all right, senator,” Mr. Kaiser hanged today said. “It’s nothing tb be ashamed of now, When sold and it wasn’t just super-salesmanship, the bodies, a either.” 4 : seriouty wor Mr. Kaiser had tried to read a state- cer. ment when he first took the stand, but Mr. The Britis! Ferguson flagged him. Mr. Kaiser swung Tounced we from discussion of flying boats to aircraft N i carriers, which he built despite navy op- ‘hange! position and after he had dropped in at the | hands Hed be White House and left a brief memorandum Explosives for President Roosevelt. It wasn't long , one of the & before senators were all mixed up about Ny Do. sepchin “air carriers” and “air cargo flying boats.” } went oft After a mild uproar the hearing got back ; The Irgun on the track again. ground anno sons it had execu THERE has been much talk of wine- Mery puis women-song entertainment of govern- tion—the Bri men officials, but Mr. Kaiser wasn’t going There was to be hung on that hook. : De “This committee is welcome to question ily-mined, we me-about Hollywood glamour or blonds,” the bodies to
he said, “but the only girls I know about are the patriotic women who left their kitchens, entered war industries and did an unforgettable job.” : And, he said, referring to other rumors, that he did not recall ever having
Hoosier Forum
“I 40 not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire. |
It's the Girls Who Object as
Dresses Grow Longer
By Mrs. Audrey Marks, Indianapolis
We are now trying to recover from the effects of a tragic holocaust due to self-styled “dictators,” and we, the women who were mothers, wives, sweethearts, sisters and friends of the men who defeated them, do not propose to accept any other dictators, especially when the styles they are trying to launch” are definitely not an im-
provement of what we have been They may be an “improvement” for the coffers of the mills which pfoduce the yard goods, and the manufacturers of all female apparel, who feel that new wardrobes will have to be purchased to keep up with the trend, but we know the differs between thé appearance created by our present attire and what they are so desperately endeavoring to popularize —we do not have to experiment in the hope that we will like these “new” (circa 1020) long skirts, droopy shoulders, etc, for they are
not conducive to our physical wellbeing as “olives or spinach” may be when we get used to including these foods in our diet.
He Detiovsd passiciataly iu unionism, but he|
If the “so-called designers,” who have no original ideas but just reverse the basket and start from the bottom every decade or So, would adopt a sensible hemline and keep it there the women might accept it, but as soon as a new design is promoted they are not satisfied until the limit is reached, which would eventually mean sweeping the sidewalk. How would galoshes be worn during bad weather? How would health be retained while our skirts gather up all of the germs, etc, which would naturally be swept up, and pray tell- us how would our appearance or figures be enhanced? I suggest we make this a campaign like other campaigns of lesser importance which are given publicity and volce or dissent in a very emphatic manner to thwart the advancement of such an unpopular and far from beneficial idea.
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Voted for G. 0. P. Once—Not Again
By G. R. P.,, Terre Haute Some years ago the G. O. P. under Harding got under the skin of the’ voters through the Daugherty scandal, Then under Hoover they did nothing. - As a result, we had a depression. On the strength of these, they suffered ong defeat after another. The voters thought they had learned their lesson, but lo and behold, we voted them back into power and they proceed along the old lines. Their stupidity is pitiful. Now for everything they do, such as trying to pass a tax bill that would save the little fellow about $15 a year while the minority would save about $15,000, they shout: “It's a mandate from the people.” Certainly it wasn't the little fellow that urged the Republicans to put through this tax bill. The real estate people, the railroad - people, electric power, corporations, and the gas and oil people seem to ‘be doing O. K. under the Republican regime, but how about the little people? The Taft-Hartley bill is another blow at the common man. : Yes, the Republicans have not learned a lesson from those years. The Old Guard still goes on stupidly doing nothing for the small people. They got. rid of O. P. A, claiming it kept food prices up, yet today prices are sky-high and the G. O. P. sits tight and does nothing. It looks from here like another Democratic sweep in 1948 unless the Republicans wake up. I voted for them in the recent election, but not in 1948 and that goes for many other Republicans who remember Harding and Hoover,
Side Glances= By Galbraith
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Views on Gaming And Auto U-Turn
By John Alvah Dilworth, 8161: Broadway 1 am going to propound the following two questions; state my views and would like to hear other readers’ opinions and would enjoy reading an editorial on the subjects. Just why should the city council, in assuming {its non-political part in politics, pass the controversial anti-lottery ordinance recommended by the board of public safety president, William H. Remy and has the approval of Madr George L. Denny? Also what good is it going to do, other than to add to the already
REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert
ALGIERS; Algeria, July 31.=] beg to report the failure of a mission. There ain't no ex-GI's hid out in the Casbah, ala Pepe le Moko, and I don’t care what the Paris Herald-Tribune says. Theres are positively no AWOLoose Americans holed up in the most publicized sewer in the world. There was a wide report, both in the United States and along the north coast of Africa, that the Arab quarter in Algiers was pretty well speckled with reluctant heroes, who had lammed from our forces in North Africa, and today were busy playing bandit on the tortuous slopes of Algiers. I heard from a fellow in Tangier that there were al least 200 of our men living on the sneak in Algiers —that the FBI was. planning to ferret them out of
No Lost G.I's Loose in Algiers
met Elliott Roosevelt and “never had any : Win i business relations with him.” , we OE & The go-ahead on the big flying boat | pus today af project, Mr. Kaiser said, came after con- | aboard U. 8. ferences with WPB Boss Donald Nelson, Caribbean ar Admr. William D. Leahy and RFC Chair- { Dean Knaj man Jesse Jones, but after November, stsstary a 1942, he said, all responsibility for it rest. i Bs ed with- Howard Hughes. He praised Mr. Tweniy-low a Sn ri : = dents from . Hughes generously, doh midshipmen “universities the Oregon | C. Ruark Dr. Prank: ’ dent and ex A. A. Potter lof engineerir ; Ri they wear American semi-uniforms must have given Pd as = rise to the myth about our prevalence in le quartier. , . August. The If we have Americans in the Casbah, the French _ Bermuda ar police don’t know about it, the savvy dwellers in the York and Nc Casbah don’t know about it, and the survivors ot cial guest is our local military, plus our diplomatic staff here— a Purdue § they don’t know about it either. president of I have spent more time in the Casbah recently stitute.
than the average Arab, I have become a connoisseur of bellydancers, and a hepcat to wild Berber music, rendered on a tin pan and a tin flute. I can charm a snake as well as the next fakir, and T am thinking of taking a job with Mr. Cook's tours, in order to display my knowledge of the winding ratholes they call streets.
How Did the Girls Learn Enalish?
overladened city ordinance book, to (their pits, and that the French police had washed APART FRO Ww. have the U-turn banned between |their hands of the whole matter. I had seen a piece at large in the the Tost tin A Tul ~The A. street intersections anywhere in the/in the papers some montis back. along the same girls in the Sphynx are all well and ha and that = peared tod: city? / lines. I even met one guy who said his cook was just English is still spoken in this great TD which their threat The U-turn within the ®mile| like that with some of the gay Robin Hoods of the wes allegedly off limits to American troops. g labor relati square has been illegal for» ZRF quarter. i hi ae “Hiya, Joe. when ybu come back to Algler?” powers unde long time. Despite th® law, this| No Sheikhs i "the common -auestion-- : oi An NLRE o Sheikhs in Reverse in the Casbah, although everyviolation has abounded in many hig > body knows that our innocent petitions fc ,| ‘THE BEST stories always t nocent froops were forbidden instances in the view of officers ys turn out to be founded py law to enter i “ - adjust on fantasy, and such was the fate 3 enter its wicked precincts. “Okay, Joe. eyes without arrest. Months ago ' as the fate of this one. There said a mysterious, veiled lady of the East, as I passed Sejjcte iy the city administration began a %F® Many large brunette characters dressed in GI her in the streets. “You got Chesterfield? Looky level in 8 progressive talk-only movement to|Suntans, moiling around M. le Moko's suburb, but Streek? Americain plenty okay in Casbah.” She When the correct trafic evils in the city. | ‘hey unfortunately are not named Sam. They are wearing high heels, too. a 3 number of There is a half-hearted" and tem. | DAmed All and Moussa and a variety of unpronounce- They still roll the drunks here, sid there stil ~ ¥ peuied ¥o & porary approach taken in admin-|3ble handles because they happen fo be former persists a story that we lost half-s-dozen nurses to a Istering all traffo laws in Indian. | TOIbers of the Spahis, the Senegalese, the Goumiers fhe evil shelkhs of this Forbidden Oity. -But 1 sm of month weet apolls. = Using Inspector Audry| — _ SEV Ves of Africa, and all soldiers of the French. the opififon that the MP's wasted a lot of time and years Jacob's figures of 137 accidents, in ey're on the lam, all right, and the fact that effort trying to keep our guys out of the Casbah The dro) which wueral ig were hijured, IN Ww A SHIN GT ON By M at ! Hons sent : already ini the city this year because H : of motorists making U-turns, bears v «0 YY \ arquis Childs : \ ber unions out my statement that he should S en z. ft 1.1 gm : . ' : thus Beers use all squad cars, as well as motor t T =} wes E th LE k oi 4 cycfe officers, if he is acting in good a or d . IKe a er, | e on faith in insisting on protection of WASHINGTON, July 381.— ; all pedestrians and property under| That old saw has oft: , Like fatber, like son. gests a remarkable parallel in the two careers. Jaws his jurisdiction against exploitation W has otien been applied lo Senator Rob As Willam Toward Tals | betame a. velue- After by ators taaang hie Trionds ert A. Taft of Ohio and his illustrious father, the tant candidate for the presidency, largely at the politicians and power groups. If all | late Willlam Howard Taft, who achieved the unique Promplne 5 his friend Theodore Roosevelt, he was WINSTO traffic laws had been fully and im-| distinction of becoming both President and Chiet lentil that his labor record would thwart him. As 31 (U. P) partially enforced in the past, our| Justice of the United States. bun in Cincinnati, the elder Taft had angered fornia the traffic record would not read as it| Striking similarities are not hard to find. The 800 pug tn dhe Leite on 18 decisions. He took a strong pretty Mis does not. There could hardly be|has the same remarkable capacity for hard work n .. e bitter days of the Pullman strike in Chia better example of what an Ameri-| that was one of his father’s ‘chief qualities. In the Sas9, en conservative and propertied men were to. open hn can ditizen would term non-law en- | Sesslon of congress now ending, Senator Taft has gr Communism was just around the corner. But her focement. done the work of three men, moving tirelessly througn 1 Auttice Pringle brings out one aspect of the elder for a yawr A city councilman serves first and | the routine of committees, party leadership and pups Hoe gr ey ses him above most men in snapped st most important in assuming his re-| Strategy on the senate floor. ps is ie today. That was his patient, unfailing de- The lett sponsibility as a citizen and he| Plans Trip to Appraise Standing Hon v0 9 thankless task. came fgom serves in his church, civic work and| SENATOR TAFT is a little uncertain velt Aelia] wa, Delds Roose- ehuding | in the ethical practice of his to his Tsmselt at sent Mr. Taft to the Philippines to bring order tary Charl emplo standing in the country. He intends to try to 10 the islands. The job called for endless yment or profession and yet|find out now that congress has adjourned. perseverance, tact, di putience aq Dees several persons, according to reports,| In early September, the senator will go out to Father's Oualit! plomacy and just plain grit, * most of t} Including a representative of the|the Pacific coast. He will make at least one giinGe Qualities Needed 10. HApEAVe Er os rs rr EY es sme a had the gall to appear at the city) On this run were with the . ) council meeting on Monday, July| his Soman} If enaiie Tuy win battens what troubles, But Mr. Taft stuck to Ply Sat 10 years a 21, 1047, in support of the anti-| polls would seem to indicate, his standing pula He won the love and respect of the Filipinos. He ished afte lottery ordinance although we read|then he will take himself out of the race jut hi, nitiated the first steps in self-government pre- wasn't mu some recent news that 40 per cent| and finally, tely pared the way for an ‘ndependent state which: has guson, wk of the adults said they gambled Like his father before him, the senator is inh t been such a powerful the Orient. from weal within the church. ly a conservative. I have been reading Henry ater If there were more men today with that kind head to cl » ” fascinating biography of the elder Taft Y Sine of devotion to public duty, it would not be nearly er No Free WORLD sug: so diffieult to fulfill our obligations around the world. Rites fc Enterprise Left AFFAIRS . . . By Peter Edson School 21 None: we have In America Bi Vis 0 a thing as free ‘enterprise, gg t | :' W NEW hut Pires Jas 5 0 4D organ - es ssue: ar or eace? today for 8 sum ranging from| WASHINGTON, July 31 L 3 ' to operate ' ~The one bigges ber of the doubt very men I we Dave uch 3 ere he congress” Just closed and in the session eiving Ras to maintain the peace: Appeasement Who died thing as free enterprise in America. | another Rs Die United States must fight that any sacrifice 1s he ® ans on the theqy Sensze woul Telly is five_enteririse 1s tim, To In Ao the Dreseet ne ‘Lalgiificant beside will of the United States on Soviet Rusia -. Lo re business on a s economic y - street corner and sells for what|Amertess people PUFIments and before the “into TO phen of ary: by dividing the. world a Sepon price he chooses to and opens when! ,. Clan Communist; or by unist and non- EE -|he wants to and closes when he|Foreten Afton les A. Eaton of the House negotiations to arte eos ing and compromise i wants to. The so-called “DIack|yurs mas pain, Mitte remarked, the “shooting co-operation in one world, | 7 basis of ¢ the O market” comes nearer being & free | wor" a oo) De On. It is entirely possible that : pring enterprise than anything else that | nor, TI Des already begun—in the border Built New Trade Barriers a almte 1 kp 15 scab if BOOKIE MAN, Indonesian fighting, and in the armed truces under national Trade Onsite, hasm for the Inter oe ute 42 Russian and Allied forces face each other now being discussed at 20 Kill In Indi / . CALOU Pr) 1 | ' P vn