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The “President's Message

Then should do to make conditions better. tis q

number of proposals « we count 32 with “civil rights” ‘lumped as one. It is extraordinary also for its variety

3 the 81st, Congress enacts half the program it will And a prodigious digestion our country will need to adjust itself to so many new takes and changes in such a short time, and keep the state of the union still as good. Fortunately, this is a healthy country, 4s it has proved through wars, depressions, shortages and ch past legislation. THE President's tone was temperate and friendly, yet

deliberate and firm. It was the talk of a man who feit he spoke for the people who had elected him. A man who

knew what he wanted and was determined to. get it.

He was specific as to aims, but quite general as to means. That there was some doubt whether he knew exactly how to accomplish his purposes, "about ‘future conditions with which he will have to deal,

was evident in the contradictions in his program.

He asked for extraordinary power to keep some prices down, and for power to keep some prices up. To counter the threat of inflation, he asked for $4 billion in taxes on corporations and middle and upper-bracket personal incomes. Yet he outlined sweeping new spending plans for power. development, education, forestation, flood control,

ete., which presumably would be inflationary. ve

Mr. Truman knows, no more than you of we whether : © the months and years immediately ahead are. threatened more by inflation or by deflation. It is a precarious balance he i

age American family’s pocketbook.

Taxes Are Out of Joint

J COSIERS are thrifty. They watch their budgets When prices get ‘too high, they buy less, They try to live on their incomes. But. there is one expense which defies

ne one expense over which they have no control. ~~ This purse-drainer is taxes.

‘The Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, keeps an eye "on taxes. Business men, along with the wage éarner, have found the item of taxes weighing heavily on the expendi“ture side of their ledgers. ‘Hoosiers who velieve the Federal Government took over the lion's share of the tax dollar under the Roosevelt ad: ministration shortly after 1932 probably will be surprised

to learn how much of the tax jump took place after 1939. » » » uty

THE State Chamber points out that Indiana's Federal ‘taxes have been multiplied by four in the last 10 years. "In dollars the fast-spending Federal Government takes

$1004 millions out of the State every year.

In percentage local political subdivisions have suffered ‘most. In 1939 they received 31.6 per cent of the Hoosier

tax dollar. Now they receive only 11.1 per cent.

This accounts for municipalities being out at the elbows

and indulging in deficit spending.

The answer is obvious. The Federal tax drain will get worse and worse until we send men to Congress who will

have the courage to put Federal spending back where

belo tills of our cities, towns and villages.

One Clear Issue

(OO AT least ope measure aiready placed before the u new there is no room for confusion, wrangling or

"doubt as to what the Democratic majority should do.

This is the bill to repeal the discriminatory federal

taxes on

The 1048 Democratic platform promised to do away ‘with these taxes. ‘A repeal bill passed the House by an over- '/ whelming majority in the last session. A Senate committee approved it unanimously, and it failed of Senate passage only because of the rush of Congress to adjourn for’ the ‘national conventions. The issue has been thorounly ex-

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“THE state of the union,” said the President, “is good.” he listed ‘all the things he thought Congress

uith a list, remarkable not only for the large

and some uncertainty

to keep the farmers prosperous. He asked that farm-price supports be continued. He didn't say whether the government should regulate farm produection. If the farmers can get high prices for anything they

‘the broker between patient and doctor. That's something else that will take a lot of study and debate. Frankly we do not like the idea, but we admit much needs fo be done to bring better medical care within reach of the aver-

and route the rest of the money back to the empty

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~ Barton. Rees Pogue

GRANDMOTHERS = *

~BARNEY ANTROBUS, Crawfordsville.

AN ETCHING

The bonds of friendship are the armament Which Heaven sends from skies of flaming gold To build a pathway and a firmament To last until the stars are dim and old As time itself, and more, for friends shall live Until the last leaf fades, until the sea Has given all the joy it ‘has to give, Until the world has found eternity,

As long as life shall last, and even more Their loyalty can unmask sorrow’s way And lessen many miles to Heaven's door. Before we reached the climax of life's play We pause to scan the pages we have turned We watch the ashen embers—Ilife has burned.

~GRACE PORTERFIELD POLK, - Greenwood. * &

® | WONDER

When the work is all finished An’ the last race is run, Sometimes we have lost

“lt In the hearts of our friends To speak good of our past? GORDON OLYEY, Noblesville, ¢

MOOD

f mind we all have known

or dark and lowering day, their sprightly tone

There is a mood o drowsy eve or tired spirits lose And away. Dull on our soul falls fancy’s dazzling ray, ~ And wisdom holds his steadier torch in vain; Obscured the painting seems, mistuned the lay, -Nor dare we of our listless load complain, For. who for sympathy may seek that cannot "tell of pain?

~HAROLD DAUNT, Indianapolis. * &. @

It crash Falls back The crag but mocks It's efforts . . . that since time began

Have ended in frustration! -RUTH ROBLES, Crawfordsville. .

DOGGEREL

There's a brand new baby at our house, We call him “Tippy Tin"; He has the saddest, doleful eyes And softest, quivery chin; He trots and falls around the house On a bowed-out knees— His can of baby powder reads, - “Kills dog ticks, mites and fleas!”

—~ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Columbus.

nought can chase the lingering hours’

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DEMOCRATIC RECORD .

Br Marquis Childs

1950 Politics Hinges on Congress

WASHINGTON, Jan, -6—No Congress in many years will be watched as closely as the. one that now has convened. Having put the Republicans on the spot for their record in the President Truman and his party

80th Congress, must demonstrate that they can do & whole lot

better. The score in September of 1950, when the congressional campaign begins, will determine a lot more than the outcome of the campaign. 1t can determine the shape of things to come, politically speaking, for a long time. The leaders of the new Congress are conscious of the concentrated attention focusirig on them. It happens, however, they are the same leaders and the President in the White House is the same man who failed so conspicuously* to collaborate in the year and a half preceding the Republican victory of 1946.

and his own party in Congress Had steadily deteriorated. There was scarcely a speaking acquaintance between the two.

No White House Advice

EVEN such an even-tempered, Kindly man as Alben Barkley of Kentucky, then minority leader of the Senate, was grumbling more or state of drift. Mx. Barkley

bothi ends of Pennsylvania Ave. there is a Al dL has this must not be allowed to happen again. The feeling has grown that the

on Capitol Hill- who fear these meetings will become formalized and empty. They plan to suggest to the White House an evening meeting not less than every two weeks and preferably once a- week, This would be the occasion or frank and free discussion of the program and of the problems facing the party in and out of Congress. Every President tends by the very nature of the office to be walled off in protective isolation. During the early Roosevelt’ years there was. intense jealousy and resentment on Capitol Hill of the New Deal brain trusters afid ad-

visers surrounding the President. They were accused of S Selberately blocking access to the White H When Mr, Mr. Truman inherited the office, it was said that one of his advantages would lie in the

close friendship established through his 10 years

in the Senate. He would be able to work as a friend and colleague with his old associates.

Only Pals on the Surface

THERE were outward manifestations. of a

contimuing friendship, such as when the Presi- |

dent drove up to the Capitol to lunch with his pals of the past. But this was on the surface. In actuality, the gulf between the two branches of government widened until it was an almost unbridgeable abyss. In his lofty stratospheric campaign last fall Gov. Thomas E. Dewey talked about the unity he meant to achieve in Washington as President. He could point to his achievement in Albany in persuading the majorities of his own party in the legislature to go along with the Dewey program. While the unity theme was ridiculed after the Nov. 2 defeat, many will have the Dewey promises in mind as they follow the record of the new Congress. Against that background, feudblocs, between North and South, between White House and Congress will be even mare con-

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: It will not be easy for the Democrais to achieve & minimum of harmony. The President in his campaign made a great many pledges for change and reform and certain of those pledges go directly counter to the prejudices and “convictions of prominent Democrats. Behind the scenes the Republicans will be looking for every opportunity to stir dissension.

‘There'll Be No Alibi

IF THE 81st Congress writes a feeble record, full of evasion and failure, the Democrats will have no alibi. In '45 and '46 the President could say that he had inherited his office with its manifold worries and woes. During the next two years he had the Republican majorities in the 80th Congress as a perfect alibi. In the New year the Truman Democrats are on their own.

Barbs—

WINTER or summer dad never need WOrry

about where to take the family while out |

driving. They all tell him. ®* ¢

> COMPLETING a crossword puzzle is perhaps the only way some married men can get in the last word.

I wonder if we are on

by pet dogs and cats. It scientific study and the answer has not yet been discovered. { A 3 *

‘Red Herring or Treason?’

By C. D.C And now another mystery thriller is to the famous red herring case. Ee commentator whe was given an admiral’s commission during the war by F. D. R. takes time in his broadcast to deny the allegation that knew the names of Chambers and Hiss, although he admits he did take the matter up with F. D. R. 10 years ago. He doesn't explain, however, why either ¥.

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D. R. or himself didn't expose the whole matter

then, as most of us.would consider the stealing

_.of state documents a ‘pretty serious thing.

According to Jim Farley, F. D. R. had decided along about that time to rum for President the third time. Maybe that wasn't the reason why F. D. R. didn’t stop the thing. ; The ‘$64 question is how red does a red herring have to get before it ceases to be a red herring and becomes Pesach? : ¢ @

Bonus Tax Suggested

By John R. Noble This is timely, available. “ A tax on electricity of one-fourth cent a kilo-

appropriate, equitable and

watt-hour will raise $20,000,000 a year to pay

the soldiers’ bonus.

‘What Others Say—

WITHOUT a basic nation-wide plan, medical relief, including the benefits of blood and blood derivatives,- cannot be provided satisfactorily. ~Dr. Géorge M. Lyon, civil defense adviser on radiological safety. . * & * THE driver whose vision is inadequate for safe driving is a potential 'killér—especially if he does not realize his visual condition.—Dr. John B. O'Shea, president of the American Optometric Association. ® @ I THINK a change in the rules of the Senate so as §o prevent a filibuster is essential if we are going to put-into practice in our democratic form of government the prineiple of majority rule.—~Sen. Wayne L. Morse (R, Ore.). * % & WE CANNOT afford to go to sleep behind the Marshall Plan the way we did behind the Maginot Line. ~Paul Raynaud, veteran French statesman. y

new Congress will be over air power,

NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas

‘Air Power Debated =

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—One of the bitterest fights in the

Side’ Glances

By Galbraith

BUTTER SUBSTITUTE . ... By Earl Richert

Push Margarine Bill

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—It may not be long now until house-

President Truman wants to hold military

to 48 groups. It now has 58. By June 30, it hopes to have 66. Its schedule calls for 70 groups by mid-1950—with supporting and reserve units that amount to about 20,000 planes and 100.000 nien. The last Congress—with only three in the House and one Senate vot# opposing-—favored the 70-group. plan. Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the House Armed Services Committee has introduced legislation to continue the program. Chairman Millard Tydings (D. Md.) of the Senate*Commiiltee plans to do the same. Both say Congress will Sverride White House and Pentagon objections this year as they did last

Two “-hools of Thought

INVOLVED are two opposing concepts of national defense. The first—supported by the Air Force, Naval Aviation and, so far, by Congress—holds that air power is the nation’s first line defense. The second--upheld by Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the Army, the sea-going Navy and President Truman is that we must rely on a “balanced” military force. . This year, to buy. the first part of its 70-group plan the Air Force spent $1.9 billion. Of that, §1.5 billion was for direct purchase: the balance ta “tool” With $1.5 billion, the Air Force ordered 2727 new planes, of which 1400 will be delivered by July 1. Almost 60 per cent of that money, however, was an unexpected grant from , The President first asked Yor $700 million. He later added $415 million. Congress, on its, own, con: tributed a final $822 million.

$6.3 billion for new planes; the third will take $8.2 billion; the fourth, $8.44 billion; the fifth and final phase, $0 billion. After that, it levels off at $8.5 billion a year. No are available yet on the next budget. But since the Air spent $1.9 billion this year on 55 to 66 groups, the reduction to 48 probably would reduce that by ' one-third, military sources say. /

Emphasis on Reserve

: UNDER the 48-group plan, the Air ‘Force would give 10 to 18 groups, depending on the pumber operating June 30. At thé same time, there will be an increase in pilot training and Alr Force reserve units, putting emphasis on the “standby” reserve. Today, there are 15 Air Force reserve units working. Under the 48-group plan there will be 371; under the 70-group plan, 441. Mr. Forrestal told the last Congress that the 70:group plan -=-avén ‘after it is realized in 1953—-would take $§ billion a year for maintenance, over and above the normal military . A ‘balariced force big enough to include a 70-group Air Force, He said, could not come “within the national economy.”

Opposing this is Alr ivi Bo . Stuart Symington's state aot Shab hin Gait year) the last time we can make & or / E J AH

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decision,” and the President's Air Policy Commission's warning, also last year, that the 70-group program “must be started. at once and completed by 19562." ‘Last year, Mr, Symington and Gen. Carl Spaatz, with Mr. " Torrestal's permission, disagreed with their chiefs in urging the T0-group plan. Mr, Forrestal now wants legislation to prevent appeal over his head. Mr. Symington probably will now want a repeat, performance and, on ‘the record, may go along with point to another

sional rebellion—led by Rep. “was the “unofficial jecratany of the Navy" —with regardless of

be upheld,

hold mixing of colored margarine becomes 3 forgotten art—

that is, in the 29 states which do not prohibit the sale of colored

margarine. Rep. Harold Cooley (D. N. C.), who is in a position at the moment to do most about Uncle Sam's role in causing margarine: using housewives to color their own, says he intends to move fast. He is the new chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and as such, he said, he will bring up quickly a bill to remove all federal barriers and taxes on margarine, both colored and uncolored. (It was the House Agriculture Committee which last year pigeon-holed 12 margarine-tax repeal bills. One repeal bill

later was forced out of the committee. It passed the Hous but died in the Senate.

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