Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1948 — Page 18

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Dairies and the Margarine Tax

THE American Dairy Association of Indiana takes us to task for what Oscar A. Swank, its district manager, considers unfairness to the dairy industry in recent discussions of the tax on margarine. We certainly don’t want to be unfair to the dairy industry. Nor to the margarine industry. But above all we don’t want to be unfair to the hard-pressed housewife trying to make her family budget stretch over the high-priced groceries she has to buy. :

if coloring is added, Both are federal taxes. And, write Mr. Swank: “The only tax we are interested in maintaining is the 10 cents per pound color law . . . for the purpose of. preventing the sale of oleo under fraud. We in the dairy in- - dustry do not care how much oleo is sold so long as it is

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will Wallace Fool Democrats? By Fred Eisinbut, 1111 W. 34th 84 Can it happen again? A number of Jennings Bryan ran for President 1t finally looked like Mr. Bryan would elected on his 16-to-1 silver platform. For were fed up on the Sold standavd and Wal 8 Buckner (Ky. Dem.) Came out with a gold standard. The Democrats was elected.

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sold to the or W it is.” In another world that's better ) he public for hat it is rah here theyd walk the sirets of gold TN ssh ' > anptline dress . WE JUST don’t believe the whole oleomargarine indus- And he her knight so bold. ‘Governor Al Feeney’ ' try ... rather a large industry, by the way .., . is so crooked And Tmieure that she Was : TP : By O. Hagen, 142 E. Ohio St. it would try to market its whole production “under fraud” Jul due thistshe Vas Matting pi aa To the Indisnapblis voters, taxpayers and and the pretense that it was something else. Nor that mak- | That they're dwelling there together NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . .By Marquis Childs : renters, how doss this sound? Hi ing them charge an extra 10 cents a pound for it would stop | Just exactly as they'd planned. = fa : Mtl! EE EE Potuny 18 quint. Sere such fraud, if the industry had such inclinations. Nor that | And I know the tears were falling P oO t WwW e Demands will be an emply chair waiting for him at the -.- -the use of artificial coloring, per se; is either fraudulent or Ashe drank the mellow wine— | § ‘rices . i') running v ag a State House. He has done more in two Weeks RAT AY ATT IOR i eis mmet U cmer iver SASHINGION. Jan. 2h-When »_polilician. talks -stalesmanship, uch us the action of General Bleciric_| than Gates has tn two years "28 ZW, LC 0.4) soon IRE snsiouis signin TAB 1..28--When a. hip, sich as the action of Cer) ena” |om ol i tax on i Artificial coloring is commonly added to butter, a prac- | - ~ROBERT O. REYNOLDS, to a trade-union convention he is expected to say the IU Tedueing ng prices 1a be called 8 OF reduction, at | for us working people. tice the dairy industry apparently does not consider, fraudu- 1225 8. Belmont Ave. things ‘that labor wants to hear. He is not expected _ " 'oog o move in the right direction. They ‘had Gov. Al Smith in New York. Why . # : When a wrestler loses, everything falls on his | that higher wages must inevitably mean better living the labor bull. Thus the woodworkers had been told | always room for & good an Jesuden "pny No, the truth is this 10 cent tax, put on by Congress | shoulders. for the worker snd his family. that profits in the lumber industry were 40 per cent | or religion. An vile ve Se OW dues thi some 60 years ago, was put on for just one purpose . . . to 9 9 But that is just what Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon after taxes. The accuracy of this figure is irrelevant Mayor Ed Rouls, another man 8 i of since it had become an article of faith with the men done more in two weeks than any Chief of Police make the price of oleo high enough so people wouldn't ENTANGLEMENTS did the other day when he talked to a convention we've had. It is now beginning to be'safe for De Po. attmetinaly enlored. Or unattractive| The cats eoungied in a allot yum, | GIO, Mamsional Wondvmie of Uh Pile eigenen of gra sepocad profi of | You Jou wi i any JV 205, EST enough so people wouldn't buy it if it went on the market Tue Jip 1s divining » nightmare is, leal of Sen. Morse. Yet, the ebullient Senator from food-distributing chain were at the h Elem PTH hanks vo vu palin: Even the BH as pale as some natural, uncolored butter we have seen. About driving a car and going to Jail Oregon led off with a challenge of the whole union since the boom of t , Wh - ml Co Ye A vawoat,” and has thaws toe eA cr pt CE ec a Xo b : 3 % spiraling inflation. gin is customarily’ small, the figures are surprising. . ~~ Fraud, we believe, could easily be prevented without Terie Sags_spproach_in_this_petiod of sira is er sor- cinins increased thelr. profil-Tatio-| You. Yobers. what canbe done, is Tony. Malo, the 4 : around is off beam He told them he believed in saying the same thing to any such artificial price-raising law. But Tor toe Hie tne every kind of audience and therefore he Was going After federal taxes from 8 per cent in 1045 to 183 HAD WHO 18 SVery ae ee. Er tw The dairy industry, like a good many other industries, | 0, LOS MR The tind lta rr A oo with his best sul on, Susk fo see what i the Sah ; , A g secon of - 2 : has its own special problems in these days of spiraling costs —.—_ EE a es a. he integ out, CONSUMOT Pdys the Increases ge ret bie A oes and rising prices. . It is an important, in fact an essential in- : ¢ + 9° Yet he defied anyone in the audience to prove that ppepONDING sutomatically, every trade-union | leave ‘em alone and the judges play along with dustry, in this country. We would not like so see a special Gur dollar wis designed by a foreigner. And 3hi8 BAS Meu) Ie Ta OS leader demands wove wipes, Ho demavias thi the | them, they won't have that feeling of “Oh, hell ir aoe ottmp eal Are rset sem es imag ery 2 ig Sy 4t since, hour . urchasing RIEL. balance ey — ’ iricreases x these i L the » a 5 a tax slapped on any of its many products to force them off Soreignery-tave Jeigmron ver absorbed by prices that had jumped up in immediate A tere 2 70 i . oii, sith ugh Ns et eT ® ] the market. And we view with somewhat the same con- FIRST STAR Reupouas 10 higher wages. ens ot owe ap. IO do ihat, Just as there is no way to prevent | 5 (ope 0 ato Bigg Spendors z — garine.” Sly that. same process | a pil nar One ll is hour in net gain, sald Sen. Morse, so sensitive are gmer, ists i She oom By Josephine R. R. I» Westfield, Ind. garipe, i tN Crete twllighe, prices today. This was not welcome news. But as put those who look beyond. the automatic cry for | ~People today trying. o. fly when: don't Any sych artificial raising of a consumer food price Flashing 4 wordless Message’ Sen. Morse discovered later in talking With unio higher wages are beginning to ask some unhappy a Et hk toey ant ven " «++ Whether by tax, or by government price support, or by 33 Sus ou orth Jeaders, 1 touched a doubt that they themselves had questions. They are beginning to wonder whether per- | crawl 1 refer to their money madness. restrictions. on t and distributi tri with wonder long L haps the post-war policy of the unions has been mis- My head roars with the %alk of big wages - on outpu on . , «» CON ributes \ Gaze through space. ’ This doubt is widespread among responsible trade- taken in its simple and undeviating goal of more pay what © and what so-called successes 3 pportunities directly to the high cost of living. ~MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL. union. leaders. They are not sure but that a third in the wage envelope. | they are making. What fools to rush so headlong This oleo tax ought to be repealed. * oo round of wage increases will do their own members There are those who have suggested from the side- | into debts and fast living. Tue success is con- . : The average wife is not as interested in what | More harm than good. They feel they have COm® fines that it might be better to work for long-term | tented living, well-used talents, balanced budgets

Light "Em Up & MAYOR AL FEENEY'S police are putting stiff enforce- ¥ ment splints on the wobbly legs of our traffic system. I Stickers are being paid in volume for the first time in several years. And when a traffic officer hails down a driver 1 these days; it is pretty hard for the driver to talk the officer _! out of a sticker, And this is as it should be. But there is more. : : At the main intersections there are “No Left Turn"

| signs, lighted at night to show the warning dimly through

* 4... These signs are so poorly illuminated that an out-of- ~~ T'town motorist is likely to miss them entirely, especially “3 since they are obscured under ‘the much brighter red- { yellow-green stop-and-go signals. "The solution seems simple. Put brighter lights in the

2 them. And if they are dirty, as many are, wash them.

Ss the Alp ~~. i THEY are seeing things again in the great Northwest. | First it was the “flying saficers” which put the couni try in a dizzy spin and sent the sale of neck liniment soar-

“ing. ~ Now there is something even more amazing reported

! man." : - {A Chehalis, Wash, farm woman said she saw the birdman flying over her barn at a height of 200 feet making a ! “sizzing and whizzing” sound. : : 1 We grant that the good state of Washington is sober { In its habits, but the‘mountain air. is intoxicating. And, in- * haled; it may produce a variation of the “pink elephant on the ceiling” by bringing into full view the image of that { birdman who sells breakfast food on the radio.

{ Wait—But Not Too Long i A WEDNESDAY headline advises citizens to put off their 1 first quarter income tax estimate until the last minute. F } The reason: Congress may change the 1948 tax laws before i the March -15 deadline. 1 It is always easy to put off tax matters, but don’t wait “%too long. Uncle Sam has a discouraging habit of assessing _ 1 stiff penalties for those who fail to get their tax mail posti marked before midnight on the final reckoning day.

Let's Make This Clear

{ “J VERYBODY accepted what was handed to them, and { = they slid downhill with evident enjoyment.” -£From { Mrs. Roosevelt's column. : { There should be no misunderstanding. - What Mrs. i Roosevelt was describing was a boys’ skiing party, not A the New Deal. ; . d

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down a blind alley.

Higher Wages Mean Higher Prices ONE THING that gives them pause is the fact that industry, beneath a surface show of resistance, is apparently quite willing to grant the next round: While there may be real resistance in some industries, it will be largely sham. : : The reason, as trade-union leaders suspect, is that business does not want to interfere with the present ratio of phenomenal profits. The additional cost in wages will be added to the bill of the:consumer; who will pay still higher prices. hs Of course; “this does not apply to ail industry. There have been examples of remarkable industrial

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That the government conserve Oil and gas, before we're stranded ~ Without any fuel reserve. But these Spartan ways he preaches i : Could quite well go on from there: © Let's reduce the speeches Which waste all that pure hot airt «

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

goals, such as a guaranteed annual wage, rather than for increases that vanish in the ever-mounting flame of inflation. Some unions, conspicuously the United Automobile Workers, have included gains such as paid vacations in their demands. rn The General Motors Division of UAW has just voted to forego 10 cents of their forthcoming 30-cents-an-hour demand if the company will present an “acceptable pension plan.” That is a small example of common sense. A pension plan would not be so immediately and directly inflationary and its jong-term effect would be on the side of stability. The third round can do much greater damage than the second wage boost. That-should bes —sobering consideration in all union councils these days. -

simple plugging along can beat the unsteady rushing. The best minds are seeing ruins all arourid. , People are cracking up by handling big money that in reality isn't such. High prices and big wages add up. Low prices and low wages used to do the same. Many. are ‘frivolous fools squandering recklessly on the brink of disaster, Tomorrow is coming. A tumble is due and where will you bé? Money saved now can do much later on. Maybe the wolf will have to be heid away from the door; >

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

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: £5 3 S | * . Germany's Solution? WASHINGTON, Jan. 233<Any kind of Tederalized Germany would become a time-bomb bound that sooner or later might blow Europe {0 pieces, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Secretary General of the European Parliamentary Union, told this writer today. “Phe-count; -aii- Austrian by birth, isin Washington -on-behait of a United States of Europe. He has been working to materialize this: | dream for the past 25 years, along with the late Aristide Briand, 1 Winston Churchill and others. . Now, he warns, it has become impera= tive if the Marshall Plan is to succeed. He hopes, therefore, the | United States will insist on some such unity, and Row. ) Count Coudenhove-Kalergi cites the record, “The First Reich of the Hohenzollerhs; he points out, brought on World War I. The Second. or Weimar Reich led to Hitler's Third Reich and World

The Reichs Were Nightmares

AS LONG as the Germans lived under a confederation, he recalled, they contributed vastly to European civilization, Only after being consolidated into a reich did Germany become “The Nightmare of Europe.”. His view, therefore, is that the new Germany should form a commonwealth composed of six states: Bavaria, Swabia, Rheinland, Hanover, Saxony and Brandenburg. Each would be free to choose whatever democratic government desired, united to the others “not by a common crown, but a common parket.” Once organized along commonwealth lines, these states would participate in the proposed™United-States of Europe like the’ others. The peace treaty should be concluded, not with the commonwealth as such, but with its components. Count Coudenhove-Kalergi spent the last six months in Europe 4 laying the groundwork for a parliamentary congress to be held in Switzerland in September looking to a United States of Europe. A constituent assembly for Europe, elected by free parliaments, would then draft a federal constitution.

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©! | Goodby to Truman’s 12d Economic Report

} ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—President Truman's second annual Eco- | nomic Report.seems headed for the same congressional oblivion under which’ his first report was buried a year ago. The redson 1s Stmple. The President again asks for the seven anti-inflationary powers which the special session of Congress refused to grant him last month. ’ In Congress, the President's Economic Report is referred to & Joint Senate-House Committee, whose chairman is Senator and GOP presidential candidate Robert A. Taft of Ohio, The so-called “full” “Employment Act of 1946, which created this committee, says that it shall consider the President's’ Economic Report, then by Feb. 1 give Congress 4 report. Co - “Last yeas, Chairman Taft used the alibi that in all the-necessary confusion of getting the new Republican-controlled House and Senate | organized under the Congressional Reorganization Act, there wasn® time to set up a staff to study the President's Economic Report by Feb. 1. * . Now the Joint Committee has a staff and is organized to do things if it wants to. But Mr.-Taft has already stated -that in granting the President three out of the 10 antf-infiationary powers he requested, the Congress has already given the administration all the controls'it needs to put out the inflationary fires.

Much of Report. Technical Jabberwocky

MUCH OF the report's language is the technical Jabberwocky that | economists throw at each other, but they also contain abundant 1-23 material on family income and the cost of living. : It is revealed that average per capita income at the end of 1947 | was $1364 8 year. This is $190, or 18 per cent & year, more than t¥0 years ago, at the end of the war. The first round of post-war pay increases brought a general pat”

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Now on a Parliamentarian Level

THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE idea is not new. What is new, however, is this: In the past its promoters have sought action through governments, but now the movement is on & parliamentary The difference is important. The various popularly elected par« relations for the pass 10 yeas. laments of Europe, under the present plan, will send their own rep- | (gm Minn), resentatives to the proposed assembly, there to pass on a federative ; ew

direction of Union, But American statesmen, like Bernard Baruch, .

! : ike 1 | of the Interior. i John Foster Dulles and others urge an immediate economic-political: z

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to the Taft-Hartley Law during this session.—Sen. Joseph H. Ball

Republic has the right to defend itsell.—Jules Moch, French Minister Win ; ¢

! ain. wood | A is all help within reasop but we cannot | expected to follow in to justify their Wage, afford 10 finance & wosld WPA Sen, Harry F.Byrd (DV), | a, man of. 10 lank a 18 ol $8

tern raise of 18% cents an hour. The second-round "15-cent package

- brought increases of 10 to 15 cents, and put hourly rates in mant- : facturing at. the all-time high of over $1.35. All increases over the last 0 ; ey ay . two years have brought weekly earnings to over $50 a week. In terms of purchasing power, however, the President's report ‘We are enjoying, one of the best periods of labor-management | says wage éarners may not be as well off as they appear. “The rapid

rise in prices caused the purchasing power of the consumer's to decline hy nearly 8 per cent,” says the report.

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constitution. Back home, the parliaments would rouse their respec- We must not manage this great crisis of democracy as if it were bh 1 tive governments to final action. Majorities in several European | .., gyction-ras if the on BA world were oh ok | AS A RESULT, the President's report finds that consumers. » ts already have expressed themselves in favor of the idea | coing to the highest bidder.—Asseciate Justice William O. Douglas, U. 8, the lower income brackets, have been doing three things. They spending and the poll is still under way. . : || Supreme Court, discussing the foreign ald program. J been reducing the amount of money saved. They have been They The Marshall program and the U, 8. of Europe plan, in Count 1.08 Sw» A Ea what savings they accumulated or received as veterans’ benefits. t Coudenhove-Kalergi's opinion, complement one another. Without | No election machinery can’ be upheld if its purpose or effect is A Dave been going into debt by buying more goods.on the installmen American assistance, Europe cannot get back on her feet and with- | to deny the Negro. on account of his race or color, an effective voice.— Plan. nalf he out some sort of European {nity American” aid cannot be fully | Judge John J. Parker, Charlotte, N. C. . " he fepon, says hat surveys at the end of Jou tived effective. ! 2 : 4 : "u's ; ' . 8. amilies, ncomes of under $2000 a year, saving Top American and Western European leaders favor both concep- I suppressed the gasoline of the Communist Party because the | Total installment credit has gone up 50 per cent in’ the last goat tions. .It remains to be seen, however, how far Europe will go in the | ‘charge accounts sre up 11 per cent; other consumer borrowing

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