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18 A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Ee : Owned and published dally (except Sunday) by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co., 214 W. Maryland St. Postal Zone 9. Member of United Press, Scripps - Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit * Bureau of Circulations, Price in Marion County, 5 cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 25c.a week. " Mafl rates In Indiana, $5 A year: all othet states, U, 8. possessions, Canada ‘Mexico, $1.10 a month. ~~ Telephone RI ley 5551. r SNOWARDE (7ive 1Anht and the. People Will Find Their Own Woy

Taxes and the Cost of Living - SINCE few of us really have any comprehension of what M wefmean by a billion dollars, discussion of the $39.6 billions the federal government proposes to spend this coming year is necessarily rather vague. ; It is only when you break it down, as the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce has just done, and find that the average Indiana family is expected to pay $1061.12 of it, that it begins to have much real meaning, 1 It is going to be more than the $20 a week grocery bill that the average Indiana family probably will pay this year, It is what it would cost to rent a house at $85 a month for the whole year. It is considerably more than most Indiana families will pay for clothing in 1048. "This comes out first, of course, before any food or clothing or rent. Since it is an “average” naturally it means that while some families will pay less than $1061.12 great deal more. Nor is this their There's about $300 more—maybe $400— the cost of state and

whole tax bill. for this same family to pay toward local government besides, : . ALTOGETHER, again on the “average,” government will cost about 28 cents of every dollar any of us earn this coming year—about 21 cents for federal government, about seven cents for state and local government. it So the man who works a standard five-day 40-hour x and-a-half working for his government; and the remaining three-and-a-half days working to support his own family. With prices up where they are today that three-and-a-half days’ pay often has to be stretched pretty thin to cover a family's needs—but taxes

take another bite out of it there, too.

"Every dollar that is spent for bread or milk or hamburger includes—and has to include—its share of the taxes on the farm where it was grown and the mill where it was processed and the store where it was sold. And that helps to keep prices up. :

» . NONE of ‘this $1061.12 by the way, is intended to pay on the national debt, which now amounts to around $6450 for the average family in Indiana, although it does include interest payments on that debt. Any debt reduction that is made, however, would have to be added to the $1061.12. Many of these expenditures, obviously, are necessary and just simply can’t be avoided. But, as the Chamber's cians point out, a good many of them can be cut out spending program, and a good many of them should |

After all, a man with a family to support can't be working a fourth of his time for somebody else, and ex. pect to make ends meet indefinitely. Gs

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He Knows Politics "THROUGH the many years he served as Senator from Montana, Burton K. Wheeler prized most his independence of conscience and action. He spoke and voted according to his own beliefs, and didn't care much who. liked it or who didn't. ; 80 it is not surprising that Mr. Wheeler, in considering the offer to become director of AFL's Political Education ‘League, should promptly announce that he does not favor the defeat of all Congressmen who voted for the Taft. ‘Hartley Act. That-is what some, union bosses have been advocating and threatening, but Mr. Wheeler makes it clear

he will not go along with a policy that is both unfair and

politically stupid. He disapproves some provisions of the: knows that many Senators and | NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Earl Richert

Taft-Hartley Act, but he Representatives friendly to labor voted for the law and thinks that neither this, nor any other one measure, should be the sole test of whether a candidate receives the political

support of union members.

labor's political effort in this campaign will be more effec tive than it was in 1946. -

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“The People Gain One

IROHITO continues to ensnare our interest because he {8 an individual in.a peculiar transitional stage. He _

is an ex-god trying to get a job as a man—experience Recently we made note of his reputed ability to hold a fan between his toes and fan himself while swimming in the rain with an open urmbrella in one hand. To do this he may have had to draw a bit on some of his old-time powers, so the feat is none too conclusive evidence that he had descended all the way from divinity. But now comes new testimony of his progress. In a speéch opening the Japanese Parliament a few days ago he used the significant phrase, “We, the People.” ; Japanese quickly noted that it was the first time the

former emperor in a formal statement had put himself in

the same category as an ordinary citizen.

“In Africa, Too iy

THE native of Portuguese West Africa does not corimute or ride the subway. The din of traffic, the juke box, the singing commercial are. as foreign to him as the supercharged tempo of western life in general. Yet he has * stomach ulcers—even as the most civilized worrier. .. The reason, says a medical missionary, is the witch doctor. He scares his patients right into peptic and * duodenal tizzies. All we can say is that if he can achieve the net result of civilization's myriad annoyances by his

‘|< primitive witchcraft, there must be powerful magic in

~ masks, rattles and mumbo-jumbo.

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SHOVEL AND PUFF

YESTERDAY, almost before the purple of night was thinning into the gray of dawn, thousands of citizens, all good neighbors, were out with thelr snow shovels, their coal shovels; their brooms, or whatever they could find, to remove the snow from their sidewalks, It wasn't easy. It was a heavy, wet snow, It made their back muscles ache, their fingers numb, But they were good citizens, all doing their part to dig the town out of the heaviest. snowfall of the year. y : :

they thought of their town and their neighbors. And sbmehow we cannot but think that any town in which the citizens voluntarily do so much for one another cannot be such a bad place after all. It makes us glad we live here where hospitality speaks with mittened fingers and a snow shovel so others may walk where it's safe and dry.—H. H. . : «Ay We can live to be 200 if we breathe ptoperly, says a French doctor. And we can live forever If we breathe at all, ® o

MELODY AND YOU

Do 1 appreciate and recognize, The value of a song— T'm glad 1 may have music And listen all day long. 1 know my héart would thritl— At any serenade. While list'ning to a symphony, The present seems to fade.

When TI am surrounded by tasks To be done And hear a touch of melody, : Work seems like fun. Yet if I were discouraged And nothing seemed right. A song wbuld help cheer me, And life would seem bright.

Oh! Yes, I do love music, And I will truly say A song inside is sweet And welcome any day. X Familiar songs keep Hving on; ‘Ih most of us 'tis true, But music does so much for me, Because I once knew you!

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Los Angeles is expected to register a bumper crop of 40,000 babies in 1948. And they keep telling us they don't have squalls in California. * *

WALKING IN THE SNOW

THE MAN who arises, looks out his bedroom window at the snow and grumbles, is missing something. While he wants to hop right back into bed until the middle of May, there are others who know what fun a snow can be. When it is freshly fallen, dry and fluffy as the white wool on a teddy bear's ear, it's fun to make a fresh path, through the fields if there are any close by, and if not just to plod along down the street a few feet to the right or left of the sidewalk. a Fy The air is cold and exhilarating. It bites A little as it goes up your nostrils and snaps .your lungs into action like a quick-acting tonic. If you are cold when you start-out, you - aren't long. Soon your blood is running warm {nto the far reaches of your last capillary. “Your are wirm fromthe tips of your toes. to. of your nose. And it's strange, you aren't tired. Your cheeks take on a rouge pot pink and your eyes have a glycerin glisten. You are alive, every ounce of you, as you plant your feet rhythmically, ankle-deep or more, in the night's fall of snow, soft as pine rieedles and as white as. the mothering clouds which linger overhead, : It's fun to lie in bed, but it's more fun to walk in the snow. Try E a see, —K.B. “>

When the freezing days are over it'll be just as foolish to put alcohol in the radiator as in the driver. ¢ & 9

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Currently making the rounds Ty Australia in connection with the U. 8. loan to Britain is a poem which goes: : 3 —n : “Uncle Sam Hubbard ; Emerged from the cupboard

To lend a poor Bulldog a hone.

But a tight-fitting collar Designed Iike & dollar; Was also attached to the loan.”

Control Law -May Aid »| “It Mr. Wheeler's saner attitude. prevails, organised. Renter S Who Lease 1

WASHINGTON, Feb, 5— Restoration of federat rent controls on the 1,600,000 houses and apartments which now are control- ! free because. the tenants signed the “voluntary” 15 per cent rent | increases was forecast today by Sen. C. Douglass Buck (R. Del.) i *{ think Congress will end up by freezing the rents on these | places at the increased 15 per cent level” said Sen. Buck. He guided the rent-control bill through the Senate last year and now | drafting a new rent |

| is a member of the Senate Subcommittes extension act.

Republican leaders have promised to renew the rent-controt law for one year after expiration of the present law, Feb, 20. And their most perplexing problem has been what to do about the con-

trol-free houses.

Many Senators and Congressmen regard the renewal of rent as breaking a contract between the govsigned leases running to Dec. 31, 1948, under a law which sald they were to be control-free after

controls on these units ernment and the landlords who

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Unfair to Tenants Who Signed Leases BUT THEY say it would be unfair to permit rents to go up on | |

trol until March, 1949,

| per cent increase lease. Congressmen say most tenants who signed

trol and that they do not go back under rent control upon termi-

nation of the lease—unless the law is changed.

The shoveled sidewalks spoke well for what

these places after the leases ended while those tenants who did | not sign leases still would have the protection of federal rent con-

As it is now, a landlord. can charge any rent he can get for an apartment or house vacated by a tenant who had signed a 15

these lease agreel, ments do not realize that they are now out from undér rent con-

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WORLD AFFAIRS

By Marquis Childs

Soviet Hand Feared in Palestine

WASHINGTON,. Feb. 5—Behind the headlines is so much that is unspoken, so much that is whispered. Above all, that is true of the festering wound of Palestine, where mankind's hope of peace seéms to die a little each day. The fear motivating British policy is a fear that Palestine is well on the way to becoming a Communist state, It is.a fear that rides Fofeign Secretary Ernest Bevin. He believes that within 10 years Palestine will be completely communized. Some reflection of this was seen in a recent dispatch to the New York Times containing details supplied by the British Foreign Office on Communist infiltration from Soviet satellite states into Palestine. Of the 15,000 unauthorized immigrants on two seized refugee ships, the Pan York and the Pan. Crescent, 1000 were said to be members of militant Commuriist organizations, No one was willing to stand for this statement officially. In ‘the same way, Mr. Bevin has nevér expressed publicly the extent of his fears over what he believes is happening in Palestine. But those fears are deep-seated. Mr. Bevin puts the blame on Washington for what he thinks is happening.

. Here is the significance of the Bevin viewpoint.

It has been communicated to top policy-makers

here, and today it overshadows what is dong, or rather not done, with respect to Palestine.

There is a terrible, explosive potentiality in

this approach to the Palestine problem. Keeping the problem under cover or ignoring it will only

make the explosion more disastrous when it does

occur. That is why it seems to me to be long past

| time to try to get at the facts ahd bring them into

the open.

U. S. Knows What's Going On

THE Department of State and National Defense have both received reports of Communist infiltration like those which have come out of London. They are perhaps not so detailed as those in the possession of the British Foreign Office, but they appear to have convinced leading policymakers of the gerious danger of a Communist Palestine. * ' ; The t runs more or less in this fashion. Since the refugees were assembled in Soviet satellite states, fhey would not have been permitted to depart without the approval of Moscow. Approval would not have come unless the exodus served Moscow's objectives both directly and indirectly. British inte! e has furnished what purports to be proof of the infiltration. :

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Russia's agreement to the plan for the partition of Palestine is examined in the same light. It is assumed that agreement would never have been forthcoming if the Politburo had not believed that partition would further Soviet domination in the Near East.

Behind all of this, of course, is the conviction that the oil of the Near East is essential fo U. 8, security and that a Communist Palestine would be a threat to that sécurity. On lower levels this is being expressed with increasing crudeness and bluntness, in which ancient prejudice comes to the surface. Thus the fire smoulders and the danger grows. ‘ oo

Insists. Immigrants Screened

MOBHE SHERTOK, an official of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, has issued an indignant denial of the British charges. He says the immigrants were carefully screened by Jewish Agency

: oficiale in Rumania and that their departure was by Jewish’ Communists in

bitterly criticized Rumania. Bit it seems to me important to raise this above the level of charge and denial. What is

said in private should be said in public so that

it can be examined honestly. That 4s the only way to cure the whispering and the suspicion. In the present atmosphere, the truth is lost sight of. In Palestine the modern world faces the feudal world of the Arabs. To allow the modern state of Palestine to be destroyed would be a crime that would have incalculable consequences. It would be a direct repudiation of the United Nations, a blow from which that beginning institution could ‘hardly’ survive,

There is a deadly parallel in the recent past.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the western democracies followed a policy that was evasive and shifting. It was+neither realism nor

idealism ‘but a pathetic effort to avoid seeing and |

hearing what was actually happening. As one consequence the legal government of Spain, which had been a comparatively moderate government, came under the control of the Communists. Soviet Russia was the only country sending help to counter the planes, tanks and troops that were coming from Germany. and Italy. The end was inevitable—a dictatorship of the right finally overcoming a dictatorship of the left.

Something like this can happen in Palestine. |

It can happen if decisions are evaded in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. —

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They're Not Railways Employees

. By Evan Walker, Indiana

polis Railwa . . In response to the letter of L. T. Comstock, published in The Indianapolis Times on Jan, 28, we would like to advise that Indianapolis Raj).

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ways has -no-authority over the ticket — ne

in the Terminal Station. They are employed the various overland bus lines that operats iy and out of the Terminal, and hence their go. tions are not the responsibility of this com. pany. Also, we would like to advise in res to the suggestion that we “maintain someon, to spot aged people: in distress,” that tn, Travelers Ald Society (a Community Fung

agency) has an attendant on duty at the Termi.

nal Station during the heavy hours of the to aid all persons in transit who become con.

| fused or are in difficulty. Also, a “train caller”

is on duty at all hours to give out bus informa. tion. We certainly do not condone discourtesies on the part of any Terminal Station employees,

but wanted this opportunity to- point out that -

Indianapolis Rallways can scarcely be held responsible for the actions of persons it does not employ. : 5 i She Lae C Rid of Hidden Taxes A. J. Schneider; 504 W. Dr, Woodruff Place, Since Mr, Truman's recent $40 per vote bribe offer, Mr. Taft made a radio address in which he stated that if such a tax reduction were

made and the tax loss saddled ‘on ‘industry, there would actually be no saving to the tax.

payer voter. ; . is that industry would merely

The reason pro rate the add it into the

‘cost of the commodity as “hidden taxes.”

. This is a fact, But it also points to the only - real solution to the problem of high cost ot living—squeeze the “hidden taxes” out of the cost of everything we buy. g

The Constitution reserves the right to levy, assess and collect taxes, to the various govern.

mental subdivisions. Industry is illegally: usurp-

ing the rights of government when it levies and

collects the “hidden taxes.” These “hidden taxes” Have proportions, e eight in a pair of shoes, and more than 700 in an automobile, that about 20 per cent of all the money we spend, goes to hidden taxes. A sample resolution of Congress, to termi. nate this illegal practice, deny the privileges of interstate commerce to commodities whose sale price includes any part of the manufacturers tax bill, and assessing stiff penalties, would be the best possible reduction of the high cost of fving. : This would not affect the “nuisance” go “luxury” taxes, whiclks have been’ levied ind assessed by Congress, delegating to business only the chore to collect—and these taxes are always shown as extras in addition to the regu-.

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Face the Road to Ruin

By Arthur 8. Mellinger, City. : Secretary of State Marshall made a state-

ment in a newsreel the other day that is alarm.

ing if it is carried out. He said we must maké

the United States so strong that no one dare attack us. It might sound to make such a boast but it will do little to establish a world peace. The pages after nation that rose to power and declined. One and all fell for such a philosophy. If force is the only restraining power in the world then we are already on the way to ruin. The trouble ‘with force is that it has to be kept up at all costs, Military trappings and personnel are dead weight. upon the state. They produce nothing, They eat away the vitals of the body politic. The young are taught that war is a way of life; that there is only one way to get along and that is have more power than anyone else. The way a nation arrives at the top is by taking away the rights of the individual This is accomplished by taxation. By and by the taxes become so burdensome the people re bel, then the purpose defeats itself. Governments must maintain ordér. They must let the individual have a reasonable security for his person and goods. I' can’t believe

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| WASHINGTON . ... By Peter Edson - |Word Trade Keeps Up With Government

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-_Twelvé hindred reporters, fadio announcers, photographers and news magazine correspondents are ‘now accredited to the congressional press galleries in Washington. Before the war the number was about 500. The number of accredited correspondents by no means tells the whole story. In addition to the regular hews men and women for mass circulation media, there is an unrecorded number of | unaccredited eorrespondents for special and technical reports, news-letters, inside dope sheets, forecasting and interpretive {| services of restricted circulation. members of one industry or trade association. There is no information on how many of these special news services are in existence. A lot of new ones are born—and die— every year. “A Handbook of Commercial, Financial and Informa= tion Services,” compiled by Columbia University Library in 1044, listed 577 current, 311 discontinued. :

Their subscribers may be

Government Agencies Turn Out Many Words

THE GOVERNMENT itself is no slouch as a publisher. A Government Printing Office catalogue lists nearly 100 “periodicals” | published by government agencies. All this specialized news reporting business, that has grown ‘up in Washington, has been made necessary by the increasing. complexity of government operations. : According to a tabulation by Sen. George on Executive Expenditures, the federal government now consists of 632 divisions, 447 offices, 139 branches, 118 sections, 79 bureaus, "’55 boards, 54 departments, 22 commissions, 29 corporations, 23 administrations—and 503 other miscellaneous units. 3 What each of them does is important to somebody, Decisions

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Wants Freeze at Increased Level

HOUSING EXPEDITER Tighe BE. Woods told the House Banking Committee he knew of several instances of ‘‘evasive practices” by landlords in order to raise. rents. He asked that the 15-per-cent-increase units be put back under rent control and frozen at the increased. level. He said the

either to roll back the 15 per cent increase or to raise other units 15 per cent. ; :

The present dilemma occurred because Congress in passing

could get an immediate increase in rent and the tenant could be

expiration of the rent cantrol. : Mr. Woods told the House Committée rents on uncontrolled apartments parable “Wha ‘what,

comtrolled units. “market,” he

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alternative in order to bring about equitable rents for all, were

the current law last summer thought it would be the last rent | control measure. It put in the lease provision so that the landlord |

assured of a place to live at a fixed sum for 10 months after |

‘Valentine's Day or Easter!"

SO THEY SAY . . . In the News

Every time a member of the Cabinet refusés to give information to Congress, we have to pass a special law to get it.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.). : 2 ” £ . » . . yo» , In recent ‘years, too much power has been concentrated in the leadership of our labor unions and that power has been

abused. —Harold E. Sassen, Republican presidential candidate. 8.8. 8 ’ "8 » |

. American automobiles, American furniture, American liter-

‘ature and American clothes are corrupting the French people.—

Raymond Boussus, Paris Communist leader. nw <i Ee Capital should not be taxed too heavily; otherwise, investors will lose incentive and the strength of our economic system will

be weakened. —Harold E. Stassen, Republican presidential candi-

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of the Supreme Court, opinions of the attorney general, regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, Revenue, Interstate Commerce Commission, National Labor Relations Board and all the other independent agemcies are, uf course, reported first as spot news by the regular newspaper wire services and special correspondents: Not all this gets in the papers. There isn't room.

That's what makes business good for all these unaccredited

of history are filled with nation

Bureau of Internal

pews services, Their journalistic whitewings come along and

mop up in more detail,

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