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; “BY, interoating coincidence; the President of the United 7 States and his leading opponent of last November both delivered important messages this week. ‘Both. proposed programs that would increase governmental spending. And both asked for higher taxes. ; ‘President Truman, whose budget for the coming fiscal year is expected to be about $42 billiox, recommended that

additional $4 billion. : Gov. Dewey told the New York Legislature’ his program’ + would require a record budget of $900 million. Apparently “new state revenue needed will be close to $150 million. Many other governors have asked, or will ask, their legislatures to approve more spending and vote more taxes. Many mayors are making similar requests to their city councils. For municipal budgets a8 a wholé now require about 65 per cent more revenue than when the war began, and are still rising. 80, ‘school districts.

r n » n n nr FEDERAL taxes alone are already taking not much less than 20 per cent of the entire national income, although _it is now at an all-time peak of some $224 billion a year. Add what's taken by states, counties and local governments, ‘and the total tax burden can’t be far from 25 per cent of the national income. Students of government used to say that no country could long escape economic disaster if one-fourth or more of its national income had to go for taxes. Maybe they * were wrong in fixing that as thd danger point. But the ~ American people may find out too late that they were right unless every program that would mean more spending is subjected to this stern test: Is it actually and urgently _ essential?

A United Korea? Ful United States recognition of the Korean republic “has dispelled all shadows of doubt as to the ability of _ the Korean people to conduct their own affairs as an independent sovereign state,” according to President Syngman Rhee of that reborn nation, Brave words, those, but “shadows of doubt” still lingers - Unf tely, the next chapter in Korean history will be in neither Seoul nor Washington, but in Moscow, behind the iron doors of the Kremlin, All Soviet troops are reported to have been withdrawn . from North Korea. But even if that is true, it is known the Reds have there a trained puppet army much stronger ‘ than any force: under the control of President Rhee in : South Korea... . .

© 80, if Momo gives the word, there will £4 civil 1 war’ in Korea, between the Russian-trained Communists of the _North and the American-sponsored republic of Korea. True “the republic has been recognized by the United ‘Nations as the government of all Korea, but United Nations decisions mean little to the war lords in the Kremlin. Even if the immediate Moscow decision is against war, as it well may be, a Communist puppet government which exists in the Soviet zone must be dealt with before there "can be a United Korean state, as projected by the United Nations. That tortured little country deserves the sym~pathetic consideration of all mankind, but it would be false » optimism to assume that its troubles are ended.

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CONGRESS is going to boost President. Truman’ s pay— and we think it certainly should—it must act speedily.

years can't be changed after his new term begins. on Jan. 20. The cost of living has jumiped a lot since 1909, when the President's salary was fixed at $75,000 a year. And, since 1909, the federal income tax has come in. At current rates, it leaves Mr. Truman only about $45,000 a year. He also has a tax-free travel-expense allowance of $40,000, but that’s only $10,000 larger than it was back in the time .. of President Taft. At a dotbléd salary—$150,000 a year—Mr. Truman would have about $71,000 left after paying his federal income tax. We believe he needs and deserves at least that “much. Anyway, we're glad to fiote Speaker Rayburn's prediction. that Congress will act, before inauguration day, to pase the President's personal financial problem, either by raising his salary, giving Him a bigger expense account, or . doing some of each.

Old Stuff From Evelyn EYELIN WAUGH, novelist, has returned from Hollywood. to his native England with the same old complaints about American customs which many a British visitor has made. We keep our houses too warm, we chew "bubble gum, our radios are always blaring, ete. . Strangely, though, Evelyn omitted mention of one of - our most addlepated weaknesses. That is our eagerness to ‘buy books by Britons who come over to criticize our uncouth ways and pocket a as many ag possible of our filthy

Officer. Call Police ti g jf THEPVE installed burglar alarms at Buckingham Palace

shacks up. When, a thug breaks in, the new system automatically telephones Scotland Yard to get out the police. But does ‘the alarm yell something like, “Hey, get

tered Buckingham Palace.” Lave those’ British. OF, better, there exists in this

Congress balance it by new tax legislation to bring in an |

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over here quick! The joint’s lousy with second-story men?” It naturally, does not. It says, politely, “Intruders have

ain. Tune ‘With the Times

Barton. Rees Pogue TO THE BACHELOR GIRL

courage to make her own way without that highly recommended luxury known as “man.” Of course she may iiss out on a lot of those dear little things of life, such as the big family laundry, catering to the gent's little tummy, which somehow always yearns for the food that takes long and arduous hours of preparation, . She will not know the joy of always standing by, prepared to smile, sympathize, or whatever the occasion demands. Yet she does ~ have her recompense. "Her time is her own, She may choose her clothes according to her own whims. She has lovely, well-kept hands that are only a dréam to her married sister. She has her own purse, and is free to come and 80 as she pleases. But for some unknown reason I prefer my marital status. I love doing all those little things that keep “my man” . happy, purring, and well contented with his domesticated state, =DOROTHY M. FARES, Indianapolis

FISHIN

All the fun of going fishin’ . Isn't fish upon my line, Part of it consists of hopin’ And of havin’ time that's mine.

Time to do some vain regrettin’, That I haven't done my best, Time to thank God for His lovin’, Time to plan and dream and rest,

Time to watch a bird a-wingin’ To its mate up in a tree, Time to hear a river singin’, That's what fishin’ means to me. —MARY LOCKE JOHNSTON, Winchester. ¢ o_o

LONG DISTANCE CALLING

Long distance calling! And I scarce can still my throbbing heart, Your voice comes plainly, across the miles + We are apart. You say: “How are you, dear, and what ‘have you been doing?” And: “Is the baby well, and does he keep on growing?” 3 “Did you get the letter, and was it what you thought?”

you have bought?” I answer: “Yes” and “No” and “What?” and . "Oh, 1 do not know.” I'm breathless for I know that soon, too soon, you'll have to go. And now: “Goodbye, I'll call you soon; keep well, goodbye, my dear.”’The line is dead and I am wiping; furtively, ? a tear. Oh, did I make Jou know I miss you so? =MYRL G. NEW, Pendleton.

. ITS THE SENTIMENT ] . ‘The fev'rish search for gifts is o'er, Until another season, While some envision Being poor From prices out of reagon, But underneath it all I'm glad The Christmas spirit's working Despite that blatant tie of plaid Whose donor must be smirking. =J. M. MONTANI, Indianapolis.

FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY

Sometimes it is. more discreet to tolerate a slight injustice than to complain about it. . . . Christmas is over. Now all we have to do is keep up the payments. , . . Arms can win a war, but it takes good-will to establish peace. + «+ People learn through their mistakes but somebody pays ‘for the education. . . . The worker who co-operates with supervision gets the least of it. . .. Ole Asa Butten says: "‘Ther’s

age and livin’ with yer relatives. . . .” I don’t know who is right or wrong, Who should dissent or go along... Of course I like to claim I do, But don’t blame me, for so do you.

THURMAN GEISE, Connersville. * © @

THE GREAT EGO

I alone am important. gbout me. If I have a turn of good fortune,

Everyone I meet is smiling, the right party is in office, and God's in His heaven, keeping all the celestial bodies in their proper course, But when trouble descends. upon me, the world is overcast with gloom, the skies are heavy and gray; if the sun shines, it is a treacherous thing, unfit for its position in the universe: XT. I'am the reason the world ‘was created. Time is here only for my convenience. Time is now. When I was not, there was no time; when I am not, then ting shall cease to bé. ‘ ==DORTHY M. PARKE, Indiatmpoti.

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LIFE IN RUSSIA ‘es By William Newton

‘We Do Not Live’

Germany, Jan, 8—The two young Russian officers who renounced Soviet rule and fled to the American zone | , Of Austria nearly three months ago are growing restive as State | Department red tape continues to bar their admission to the

Continued ‘delays and uncettainty over their fate has put both men in “a very serious” frame of mind, according to Ameri-

“Death is bad, but it is worse to.spend your life on your knees,” one of the Russians told me jn an exclusive interview He is Lt. Peter Pirocov, navigator of the plane which

“We live, and yet we do not live—do you understand?” he

Lt. Pirocov was ac companied by Lt. Anatoly Barsov, who 1s n pilot. and a Russian sergeant, in his flight. They crash-landed their “borrowed” Russian plane on an American airfield in Austria on Oct. § and put themselves under American protection,

THE U, 8. ARMY kept their flight a secret for some weeks _while high policy decisions were made on what to do with the men. Finally it decided to let Soviet officials talk to them freely and let the men decide for themselves whether they wished to | the Soviet officials promised the filers they would be forgiven if they would go home. The two officers declined, saying they did not approve of the Soviet regime and wanted to seek liberty in America. The ser- . geant decidéd to go back and was turned over to the Russians.

“I'he American colonel told us we could go to America and that we would have liberty once we got there,” Lt. Pirocov said. “He sald he was speaking as a Hpresutstive of the United

“I feel that I am useless and fst hibernating here.” The young flier sald he did not want to remain in Germany. He said he had “already given my answer to Russia.” If he ia not permitted to go to the United States, “you. know what I will.

THE LIEUTENANT who. is 28 is weil educated. In’ America | he wants to write & book. Both officers live in a small house in a German village near here. The name of the village and the location of the house are kept secret, They get The men are: free to move about but neither speaks English well and so far have chosen to-have Russian. speaking American

+ 8, Consulate at pr and reapplied far visas. They were told that the Jmiuigration law bars anyone who has ever sought membership in the musist Party: As Rustisn SOUS AY 341d; SY. nd Jo, mite

PRESIDENT’'S PROGRAM

Truman’s Hour in

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—This is Harry Tru-

man’s. hour. The headlines say “Truman pro-

gram” and “Truman forces.” On Jan. 20 he will take the oath of office as President in his own

The carpentérs and painters are finishing the big rostrum in front of the capitol. The Republicans in Congress voted the money and planned that elaborate structure with its impressive columns. They thought they would occupy it with their own President. But instead it is the man from Missouri who Is charting the course for the next four years. He will repeat after his friend, Fred Vinson, whom he named Chief Justice of the United States, the impressive odth of the presidency. To one who has known him and watched him Since he first came to Washington 14 years ago, the remarkable thing is not how much he has changed, but how little. The modest freshman Senator who sat in the back row of the Senate and in his good-humored way made friends with other freshmen is the same Harry Truman.

Loyal to Old Friends

HIS chief personal ‘qualities then, as now, are loyalty, kindliness and a persistence that can be plain, old-fashioned stubbornness, He is doggedly and unfailingly loyal to old friends and he hates to hurt anyone. Loyalty and charity sometimes overwhelm the stern necessities of the presidency. Mr. Truman's enemies and critics—and they are numerous and powerful—prefer to dismiss him as an accident of bossed politics. That was their. line, at any rate, before Nov. 2.' His championship of the sweeping reforms he is asking of Congress they put down to mere votegetting. That is both an over-simplification and an justice, Certainly, Mr. Truman understands the common equation of practical politics. He knows that to win elections you must give the people what they want or a reasonable approximation of it. But his championship of the Truman program—the extension of the Roosevelt New Deal —goes_ deepér than that. While he may not bave a complete understanding or even a complete conviction on cofplicated matters, such as public housing and medical care, he does have & strong sense of the urgency of change long overdue in terms of the popular win and the broad currents of history. .

Side Glances

. By Marquis Childs

World History

In other words, he understands, as so many cleverer men do not, that you cannot bar the

"door to social change. To attempt to do so in

a democracy is to court the destruction of the democratic process itself,

Never Went to University

" THERE enters into this argument the fact of his extraordinary modesty. During the campaign he spoke extemporaneously at New Haven, Conn., about Yale University ‘and the scholars who were studying and learning so much at that great university, Then he sald, almost wistfully, that he had never had a chance to learn at a university. Whether he has grown up to his job is another subject of controversy, His. critics see him still as the confused, unhappy man who in the months following President Rooseyelt’s death protested over and over that he had not sought the office and did not want it. at But while he is not the “new Truman” that

‘some proclaim, neither is he the same President

who was the uneasy heir of FDR. Change can mean growth, or the individual can grow in stature, in character, without superficial out ward change. Certainly, Mr. Truman today has need of all the strength and understanding he can muster. The Congress shows every sign of co-operat-Ing with the President. In the present mood and with some of the old traffic blocks out of the way, Mr. Truman {is likely to get most of his Program adopted and within a deadline of six months

At Front of World Stage : WHILE this will spell success of a sort, there are many factors beyond the power of

. Congress and the President. The nation’s econ‘omy seems to be poised on the edge of some sort

of deflationary movement. ' If Mr. Truman is

lucky, and he has had astonishingly good luck |.

in the past, it will be merely a healthy corrective to inflation. Organized labor can upset the apple cart by unrestricted strikes after the Taft-Hartley act is repealed. And, of course, in ‘the foreign scene the chances of a disaster are still frightening. But regardless of what the. future holds, nothing can rob the President of this moment. He is front and center on the world stage.

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ground of the meeting. The €hairman of the Council committte considering the ordinance, Guy Ross, is an old-time railroader., I heard him say in the Council chamber (while .the Council and his committee were not in session) that there is nothing unhealthy about smoke, that he ate it for 47 years and wasn't hurt, that when his engineer couldn't see black smoke ° ‘the order was to “fill up the hole in the fire.” There is your story: Control smoke with an attitude like that. The. meeting was to give raliroads an opportunity to be heard. The railroads presented + their case and emphasized the problems of road operations; the most common and severest '

criticism of the railroads has been directed a their roundhouse operations where locomatives are not “moving power plants” but more® correctly “stationary power plants.” The Times has misrepresented the problems-and has placed the Council, the railroads, and public sentiment in an unfavorable position.

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‘Property Owners Union’

By Mrs. Alice Mullen, 1107 N, New Jersey

property owners that we have a union. It is i the American Home Owners Union with offices * at 227 8. Ritter Ave. We are pioneers and making progress. What profit is there in a small increase in frozen rents, when taxes, fuel and utilities are permitted to soar and soar and make us all sore? If the people who own homes and rentals wil. Investigate us and help a little, we will grow all over the nation and build a strong union to protect our property rights and liberty, If we do not unionize, those who can retain their property will be bowed down with weight of woe taking care of the homeless and helping the rich get richer.

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‘Talk and Say Nothing’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty.

What would we do without the ‘little conjunction, “if”? The word itself denotes a supposition contrary to fact. Just listen: “It Gov. Dewey had won the election in November, we would have had a Republican for Presi dent.” “‘If" his Royal Highness Prince George, David, Michael, etc, hadn’t been a boy it would have been a girl. Not that it makes any dif, ference. anyway, but it's Something to use Up space and words. Slo dg) We once owned a good hunting Bound. His name was “Fancy” and IF old Fance hadn't died, he'd be living yet. We have ned, we have heard and we know what it sounds like to talk and say nothing at all.

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By DAN KIDNEY

"WHEN President: Truman says “the Staté of the Union is good” he means it needs fixing!

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ANY new help ‘taken on by the Administration will probably be tested to see if they are Fair Dealers. 8.x * 9 @ wr

_ A HEADLINE: says “Wallace Calls Program Futile,” After his “Progressive” campaign:® Henry should be quite an authority on futility,

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POLITICAL foes of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey probably will charge he is following a. “me too” policy presenting his message to the New York Legislature” at the same time that President “Truman did in Congress. ‘

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Yet Europe seems unable to produce a comprehensive Fo filed recovery plan calling for sacrifices pr to those American taxpayers must make to keep recovery out sueh an over-all, four-year blueprint, Congress. will a £0 on shooting more or less in the dark.

Nations Divided on Plan

IN THE. past it has been the United States that appedred Yo be holding back "the international procession. Today ft 1s Europe. Not only are the Marshall Plan countries divided among themselves regarding the effort each shall make, but there are divisions within each country over the program. What is equally discouraging, the average European seems to have only a hazy conception of what it's all about-—either the recovery program or the Atlantic Defense Pact. While the subsidized Communist press hammers away that both the ERP and the pact are Mimperialiots American p hatched in Wall Street to dohinate’ the world, the rest of the ngwspapers print little to offset this propaganda, Some Europeans, therefore, can hardly be blamed for saying that ERP helps America more than it helps Europe; that the - Whole thing 18 & clever American device to keep its boom going wr a urvius. \ are those who honestly seem to think that Pe East-West quarrel is only a quarrel between Rus-.. sia and the United States over world rule.

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