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[Scions ~NOWARBI (;ive 1:(ght and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Marshall Plan or Else

WHEN Secretary of State Marshall testified that Congress shbuld either go the whole way with the Europeany Recovery Plan or drop it, Sen. Taft and a Republican minority objected to what they called a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum. Now two expert witnesses who are not poli-

ittee against the folly of half-way measures. : 5 Sen. Taft and those agreeing with him are to be | praised for wanting economy—Europe will suifer as much pi af the United States if we go broke. But there is such a i thing as false economy. And all the testimony at the hear- = ings to date, official and nonoffic , has shown the danger : of phony savings on the Marshall Plan. ~ - As Mr. Dulles said yesterday, the alternative is a rearming of the United States that would make the proposed $17 billion for the four-year recovery program “look like a bag of peanuts.” Defense Secretary Forrestal made the same point last week. We can understand the resentment of legislators who object to rubber-stamping any executive proposal. Unless i Congress is going to investigate for itself, think for itself "| and act on its own, it might as well go out of business. That i applies to this legislation as much as to any—even more © than to most bills because of the size of the foreign com- ~ mitments involved. ia 3 “But. as Congressmen carry out” their proper function “Gf examining this measure carefully, we: believe discover that the objectionable “ultimatum” springs from an international crisis rather than State Department dicta‘tion. It was made, not by Mr. Marshall, but by Moscow. ~ As in the case of wartime appropriations, Congress ~~ now does not have much choice. It's too bad—but it's a fact.

A New Look af Taxation ~*~

GEVERAL members of Congress have been heard to say that direction of the Marshall Plan ought to be turned over to a group of sound; successful businessmen. But no one has ever caught them saying that the job of drafting & new fax program should be entrusted to a similar group. Probably no one ever will. But many who have learned of the Committee for Economic Development tax plan will | probably wish that it might happen, mywsy. A lot of people will learn about it in Collier's magazine from an article which is quite remarkable in itself. . For one thing, no popular magazine of general appeal would have dreamed a few years ago of printing a rather technical piece on a nongovernment tax plan. But today, when the record-high per capita tax cost is even higher than the record-high per capita food cost, taxes are everyone's concen. * o : v : ss =» > on. THE BUSIN N who drafted this program are forward-looking as well as hard-headed. “Their thinking on ~ taxes; un men’s, is fortunately unclouded by the question of whether this or that provision is likely" to win or lose Votes for its supporters. The businessmen and economists who make up the CED | “have started their tax plan at the proper beginning—with a national income and a government budget. They base their income figures on rising population and productivity, and on 96 per cent of capacity employment. They set the gov=ernment’s operating cost at $30 ‘billions, and gear the tax rate to bring in-$33 billions. ; "This would léave an annual surplus of $3 billion.

When

pression. When times were good, it could bé used to reduce the national -debt.:

With the Times

EEE EE — —- THE CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE |

‘jammies he got fer Christmas but finaly give up an’ put his long unnerware back on. Lutie sed, “They jes don't git clost enuff to a feller's hide

when he put a bathtub in his barber shop. The first week he took in $4.75.

went up to the city an’ bought three dresses at one hitch. Prob’ly more!n one feller'll hey to dig in an’ buy his missus an exter dress now.

they belong seldom have them stolen,

ticans, Mr. Baruch and Mr. Dulles, have warned the Senate |

bands will keep on trying to murder them.

they. will |

of a man's finger. The rest of the man got away.

* Ros - -defiationi-threatened, the-surplus-could be used to fight de-.|

In Tune

Lutie Hodges tried sleepin’ in & pair uv pie-

keep him warm.” : Tobe Deegaw show'd he's a smart bizness man

Vernie Cannoy hes ail the wimmin talkin’, She

~CATFISH PETE * ¢ ©

Married folks who keep their affections where

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BLESSED PAGAN

People with no clotheses, : —And--bones fir their-noses; " 3 gn . Are really quite paganistic, With so few reservations Concerning other nations, It's no wonder they're monolinguistic. WE

Their antics sre childish, Sometimes even wildish, They have little or no comprehension Of the George Marshall Plan, Petrillo’s new record ban, Or Aid to Europe extension, i$

"Tis a pity the poor devil 1 Must live at a level Of uncivilized trace and barter, When with organization, i And some education, He too coyld be an atomic martyr, ‘ -J. 0, eo : A critic says jazz songs will never die. But some

® & ¢

JUST A MILLION _“I'd_give a million. dollars,” . JA remark that’s ‘often made In the lap of Fate is laid. “I'd give a million dollars, For a car that looks like ‘that,’ Or a trip around the world, Or to wear a ‘new look" hat”

‘Pears like folks are kinda’ wasteful And durned hard to make content, __For ‘ons o' them there “new looks,” 1 just wouldn't give a cent, 1 guess T'mr mot ambitious al ;- Like some of them bright scholars, , I don't wish for anything Beyond that million dollars. ~MARION N. WISE. > * o> % In a holdup tussle a California cop bit off part

up my sleeve,

® & to show on what a high plane Oo LIFE the round table conversations v “at Stegemeier's are conducted.

-- Your cheeks are flowers of radiant hue, Your breath is pure as fresh mountain snow, Your eyes ascend to the far distant blue— One kiss from you, my face is all aglow. That you are beautiful beyond compare Is a magnificent understatement; Woven sunbeams is the sheen of your hair, Your voice celestial without abatement. 1 drag through alleys for bottles and rags, 1 sleep on a bed of sharp-cornered stones, I'm pestered by dogs and whining old hags— Like those foul smelling pups, I gnaw on bones. A milk white unicorn shall draw, some day, A jade sleigh with you in my arms—away! -«=GEORGE 8S. BILLMAN. * © ¢ ; The correct use of “lie” and “lay” also a farmer—every time a hen cackles. e ®* -%

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

~-(“BUDAPEST=Boll Old Master Paintings to .-. Make Shoes.”) : Stealing works of fine old masters, . Gypsies cut them up for shoes; .~ These were Titian's and Velasquez’, And we're given cause to muse: Our new ‘footgear looks like tent cloth, TEE Or some other canves remnant; _ Could it be our shoe man went forth And swiped himself a Rembrandt?

hotel. Up to that

himself as well.

worries

WHEN FRANK

was talking about.

‘ JUNK 15) TOO AARD Ti

OUR TOWN . .

support of the historic fact that the citizens of _crasy notion—least of all, by a tradition-bound Indianapolis were among the first—anywhere in the architect—with the result that Mr. Andrews started” country—to contract (he habit of bathing in tubs designing a designed for that purpose. Perhaps it wasn't enough to confound John Gunther. that case, I have another story

Today's tale came to me by way of W. Earl Russ and goes

According to Mr. Russ, it was an Indianapolis hotel-keeper who, all by himself, projected the practice of cleanliness had time to reach Chicago when Col. Kaufman, who trom a mere habit into a siate approximating godliness. Laugh that off, Mr. Gunther. In 1903, Henry Lawrence conceived the idea of supplanting the old Bates House with

Spencer House opposite the Union Station--with gratifying results not only for' his customers, put Lawrence a bit.

Historical perspective now permits us to see tha

every bedroom, mind you, but every other one. ° Something New in America

picked for the job, first heard the news from Mr, Lawrence's lips, he couldn't believe his ears. How_ever, he was a good enough architect ngt to show his surprise. “To calm his patron; he told-Mr.-Lawrence- ’ that a hotel with so many bathrooms had never been tried in America, let alone Indianapolis. Mr. Andrews was in a position to know what he-

tons took him ‘all over the country. the husband of Pauline Frederick, the movie actress. Remember? - It-entailed-a lot. of. traveling. 10 bring ..

“| do vot agree with a word will defend to the death your

THAT

By Tom McGuire, 1126 Eugene St.

“TAKE~

agrees to pay to the bond owner & amount by a certain date. purchase Uncle

Ten years from date of

does Uncle put $25 of each this be true does Uncle Sam take $25 out of circulation Maybe money was used to pay rials bought to win a war. but it appears to us that our Jovernment's credit;

for work done Perhaps we

everywhere. When the war began no one had backing, by bond buying, the magic hat worn System. Why money? Looks as though Congress

el the end of 10 years the debt

the public holds the empty bag. Now, my educated ‘friend, please

per cent increase in price. That, I

free enterprise. Again

“18 iow worth 33% cents.

y wages

. By Anton Scherrer ah

being deflated and I am an

bath-burdened hotel for Indianapolis. In the interest of historical accuracy, it might be more truthful to say that Mr. Russ went to work, for at that time he was Mr. Andrews’ head draftsman.

Mr. Lawrence Wasn't Scared MR. LAWRENCE'S idea was to be kept a secret until the day of cpening the hotel. However, the jdea was too big to be confined in an architect's

drafting room. Somehow, the rumor. of a hotel topheavy with bathrooms leaked out. The news hardly.

In youss.

> > @

By J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham St.

There are no visions of liberty to think so.

ran the Congress Hotel up there, showed up in. In- trol is clearly in violation

dianapolis. On bended knee, he implored Mr. Lawrence to drop the idea of a hotel with so many a brand-new bathtubs. It could only end in disaster, he said, to time, he had been running the Say nothing of making Mr. Lawrence the laughing stock of the world. Col. Kaufman didn't scare Mr.

just compensation. for the taking if this

Jaw. To use ©

Col. Kaufman had hardly left town when George precious heritage. Compensation is

t Boldt, owner of New York's Waldorf-Astoria, turned

any liberty or to deny or

body knows how it ended, for when the Claypool exist. There certainly is

: Hotel opened for business, its scheme of bathrooms ANDREWS, the Dayton architect became a pattern for other hotels to follow. : Exactiy 10 years after Mr. Lawrence had his inspired hunch, Mr. Bliss was called in. By this time he was-a practicing architect established in Indianapolis. On that occasion, Mr. Lawrence com-

| and not public. Rent is part of [ Any legal process that : ! : jp both, ~~ . missioned Mr. Russ to build a 200-room addition to | Compensation or rent the Claypool with every bedroom to be provided | with @ bath: And not only that. The same buildFor one thing, his building opera- ing included a hundred additional bathrooms in the “Besides, he was 10-year-old part. This time. nobody questioned Mr. “Lawrence's judgment. They knew better. | court And if that isn’t enough to shut up Mr. Gunther, - ‘This is t¥

intended for individuals interested ouf ‘system of law- this must be avoid confiscation or abuse

| Hoosier Forum that you say, but | tT

Public Holds the Empty

. We are fold the national debt is $375 billion. : | This debt is, we believe, mostly in the form of bonds obligations wherein the U. 8. government W

us $25 for the use of $18.75 for 10 years, money in circulation for and every $18.75 invested by citizens?’ If

maintains rental property. - Without perish and the question of compensation 1s not fn rent. Under

ascertained in a -

For instance we buy a“$25-bond for $18.75,

Sam pays Now

in mottey

when he redeems the bonds? we are wrong but it seems -like this

and nteare wrong

we lent money to back

money to _With our

money came out of by the U. 8. Federal Reserve do these private banks issue our

is not re-

to the Federal Reserve Bank. The bank destroys the money. The balloon is deflated and

tell us just

what is inflation and deflation November, 1941, the Saturday Evening Post went up a nickel, 100 °

am told, is

November, 1947, the Post . adds another 100 per cent to its original price. This. is good business and blessed enterprise. Used to-purchase- the old favorite. magazine, my dollar - cain en

in" 1038 were ‘65° cents per hour: “By "coaxing, pleading and threat of striking my wages became $1.32 cents per hour; my income is up: about 101 per cent. My Post costs $3 ipstead of as before. My wages are $2 instead of the $1

? : : . ; | I formerly received, and I haye a further depreau re} : r unt &r ciation of 18 per cent by way of income tax I . oo check-ofl. LAST MONDAY I submitted a little piece in Well, Mr. Lawrence wouldn't be talked out of his My little balloon that supports’ my family is should I

- | Property and the Constitution

My contention is that under our constitutional system no special privileges can be granted by _ Congress. forms or power in the Constitution for improving or controlling its pro=-— This would be a dangerous interference with freedom. Rent con- . of our most cherished % liberty and. property. - Prope and protected by the . declaration that no property be taken without a This is the essential limitation is disregarded the taking or controling has not been by the due process of ther methods would nullify our

the spirit of

Mr. Lawrence nursed a numberof revolutionary UP to learn the truth. He, too, was considerably ex- | freedom. It leaves freedom at the mercy of the ideas around the turn of the century, and among cited and predicted the complete demoralization of | greedy. Our guarantee of all liberty would be the most fantastic was a notion to provide every the hotel business if Mr, Lawrence didn't stop. his meaningless or left to the arbitrary will of Conother bedroom of a hotel with a bathroom. Not nonsense. Mr. Lawrence got rid of Mr. Boldt, too. gress. Well, that how the whole thing started. Every- The power to authorize Congress to enlarge on

abridge them does not no argument on this. | It may be true that property has a public character. In the Constitution it is essentially private

the property.

condemns one condemns

is the substance which

this it will

and hardship.

way our Constitution intended it. Any

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Personal income tax rates under the CED plan- would stay high enough to bring in halt the government's revenue, instead of the present 45 per cent, . >

. - - sn = THE CED businessmen, who can forget politics, realize high employment and production cannot be maintained without a tax rate that encourages venture, expansion and new business more than ‘ adjust the rates to provide this encouragement. "They would further safeguard business and eniploy‘ment by leiting corporations average théir income over several years for tax purposes. This would permit sizable payments in good years and refunds in bad ones. That isn’t all the CED plan, but it gives an idea. It doesn’t soak anybody unfairly or discriminate in anyone's favor, so far as we can see. It recognizes that, in our economic system, private business must prosper fairly and honestly if the country is to prosper. The CED tax plan isn't for. this year or next. Its authors know that aid to Europe and world affairs in gen- - eral are too unpredictable. But when, happily, the world #s more stable and Congress gets around to a much-needed

hope they won't be too proud to take a Committee tor Economic Development.

How Many Times? Erbe Johnson, who once served as marshal in Oakland City.

hung each time.

cence of the former marshal.

at the taxpayers’ bocketbook in a futile

reach for justice.

ail it quits. And even

. 4

“ 3

the present one does. So thdy"

revision of our whole tax philosophy and structure, we: few hints from the

N- Vincennes in less than a month, two juries have failed |

This causes us to ponder how many times a man may be brought to trial on the same charge, even if the jury is The principle of the law specifies that he should be tried until he either is convicted or freed. But it [tions expense. famine is becoming pretty evident that it is difficult, if not impossi- | ™* won't get it, by Mr. Truman's plan or any plan. ble, to get a decision in Knox County on the guilt or inno-

The State may try again—and again—in Knox County with the same result, piling up expenses and eating away

_ If neither side asks for a change of venue, judging nthe experience of the last month, the State may as this, while it might be desirable mndant, would not be quite fair if he e im {een under a cloud of vest of his life in that vague.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By E. T. Leech

Everybody Pays Taxes;

Nobody Rides Free

ONE. OF THE biggest of all errors 1s the idea” that anybody can completely escape taxes. A companion error isthe theory that any | of the people can get government benefits which cost them nothing. | i Even those who contribute least to -society carry part of its load, “and suffer along with the rest True, some people avoid their proper share of taxes—particularly of income taxes, Others: seem legally relieved of any part. The burdens are not equal or always fair. “year the politicians are always eager to give a lot of people the idea | that they're riding “for free.” » The Republicans, for instance, citizens off the income Trolls. So | his scheme to take off -10 million,

Something for Nothing? AT THE same time, he listed a long string of social benefits to be provided, largely dnd in many cases exclusively to the same citizens, apparently at the expense of somebody else: More and bigger i. unemployment compensation, old-age benefits and survivors’ pensions; | free medical care; more free education; increased public housing; an immense veterans'- program; bounties for farmers; school lunches; rural electricity, and many odds and ends. All of-them attractive and many of them—if properly safeguarded and within the country's means—desirgble. And. it all sounds like something for nothing. ' But it isn't. And the tragedy of such proposals is that: they are so misleading—so crammed with false hopes. For everybody pays taxes—directly, in hidden form, or in both

were talking of taking six million

| the hidden burden on everybody Increases. Likewise, when the

to agree in the first-degree murder trial of Lawrence | cost of government rises the amount of money Which can be spent |

“for other things shrinks—and this, too, hits everybody. As an example, Mr. Truman proposes that corporations the taxes now paid by 10 million individuals, This would raise cor poration taxes from 38 per to many citizens, who would

chic xh ASA

gladly take a free ride at the corpora-

The Buyers Pay. the Taxes :

FOR TAXES are a big item consumer buys. They are a business expense—just like raw-material the relief client, living off government bounty, is directly affected by taxes on the articles which make up that bounty. 3 The income a firm has available for wages, salaries and dividends shrinks when taxes go up. ‘There is less money for wages. There is less for dividends—which. eventually are spent for things “which create more wages—for goods and services that give employment to millions. ] ‘ Also, those dividends influence the living standards of millions of people who have saved or invested money. They affect the value ad eturd on every life insurance policy. gy ? ; Funds, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and

agencies, hospitals, schools and institutions are

when anything goes wrong with $6

And in a campaign |

Mr. Truman raised the ante with

ways, And when the number who 'pay- direct taxation is reduced, !

: \ [|=

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22—-One-set of facts almost.

“| ooked in the United States concerns the degree to which | has recovered since

I UNRRA_ aid went down the drain &nd that war-torn | better off now than it was on V-E Day. Opponents of | Plan constantly sound “this note in-harping on-their | the Marshall Plan ‘won't do.any more good than UNRRA | - loan, so why go through with it? |

of ‘the World Bank, paid

| speech at Philadelphia. He also gave a few pertinent

American taxpayer. That was the part of his speech

Senate Foreign Relations Committee later. What he had to say about European recovery

| Europe a Growing Continent

EUROPE'S population was 246 million before Mr. McCloy estimates it at 270 million. By 10562, proposed four-year aid program,

the

Mr. McCloy admits that neither Britain, France, in the last century. Nevertheless, their assets still ad

the other being the U. 8.”

2. Before the ‘war, says Mr. McCloy, the 16 Marshall

cent to around 50. That sounds good |

in the expenses of everything every |

costs, rents and wages==and are passed along to the buyers. Even |

, INC. T. U. J PAY. OFF

COPR. 1948 BY WEA 1.22

| "Why, | can remember back when | was a kid these banana splits only cost fifteen cents!” particularly dependent on dividends. ‘The gFeat bulk of their support | comes from corporations and from people who collect . dividends. "Rome tried to. follow a°policy of benefits for the many at the | expense of the few. It gave food and entertainment to the populace and imposed higher and higher taxes on agriculture and trade to pay | the cost. Rome weakened and finally fel, : That was long ago. We have learned many things since then. But nobody has worked out a sure-fire system of getting something | for nothing.’ : »

"The vision of a persecuted but triumphant Christ stands as our | beacon and reassurance.—Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in a Christ- |

| machinery, their transportation of goods | though not exactly parallel to America's—were

was Americe greater, In spite of great war damage to harbors, ships, bridges and rolling stock, Europe's transport sys

50 per, cent more business |-18 40 per cent greater.

Several Above Prewar Level

= mas message to the people of China. “ y oe 4.” 8» aid from | Mentafnstabi ‘ 1

os ae ow to J lity leads to nicohotism.—Dr. A. J. Carisfin; Professor | the aid which is frequently

~ Emeritus;

| Tope the end of the war, In America talk | Marshall Plan, it is all too commonly assumed that UNRRA a

{favorite tune tha

Western Europe one of the two most productive areas in

together a husband with an office in Ohio and a wife it leaves me no aiternative but to classify him with | other thethad’ 18 Dull and void or tontrary-to Our-~ with & home in California. . ©. the. writers of fiction. iid | Constitution. dh : . N o : i - « : Cad) ’ 4 ISide Glances—By Galbra ith " IN WASHINGTON eon By Pe r Edson

Europe's Comeback | Credited to UNRRA

Europe the Ma

or the Brtiish

John J. McCloy, former Assistant Secretary of War and now head his respects to these arguments in a recent

ideas on how

| the Marshall Plan should be administered for the protection of the which got the

headlines and the attention of Cengress when he testified before the

to date was equally important. - It was a banker's report on Europe as a risk. ~

war. Today,

at the end of the population will be’ 286 million.

Europe is thus presented as a growing—not a moribund—area. Ttaly, Spain nor

| the Low Countries have the strength to be the world leaders they were

d up to make the world,

Plan countries

mined more coal, produced more electricity, built and sailed more ships

‘and wove more textiles than the U, 8, Their production of and their farm of the same magnitude.

| Only in the production of oil, non-ferrous metals, lumber and cotton

steel and produce—

canals, railways, tem carried more | passengers and freight in 1047 in. 1938. Her shipyards are doing than prewar. Electric power

tion

SUMMING it up, Mr. McCloy finds that st the end of the year if | Great Britain, the Scandinavian countries and Belgium, indus!

However, should I be a big businessman, f enterprise allows me to fill my balloon by robbing

"Hartley insis balloting to 't

Permaner

By Jesse Jesse H. Jo of . the = Re Corp., urged & permanent rect control b the governme apparent ref! Wallace, said given to “dre pure theorists “unfortunate

MARSHALL ° - ATLANTA, Secretary of shall was sch today to spes convention of Council,

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15-Year-Found -i SAN: FRAN ~Jacqueling Hollywood ‘pre Tan away fro was held a

Juvenile eourt ties checked of her eight. ‘The pert, former star -¢ _ Guetion “Swa tears when sh

They were the state wel offenses invol Wells was hotel room sg * white slip, “hen police Sallor ang relations ha had been at days, regist. Sister,