Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1949 — Page 18
“WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor ; . Business Manager
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More ‘Deductions’? | A BILL introduced in the Legislature this week would make Indiana employers collect state income taxes for state government out of the pay of their employees, the same way they now are compelled to collect federal income ; taxs for the federal government. That would make it easier for the state government to get in the money, no doubt. It made it easier for the federal
: government. In more ways than one. In effect that system has convinted many
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millions of
at ‘American workers that they, personally, don’t pay any
taxes. The worker whose wages are $60 a week, let us say, actually gets from the payroll window maybe $40 in cash on payday. To him that is his wage. If he feels that it is small, as he very frequently does in these days of high juhees, he ies the employer for not paying him enough. He does not, in general, recall that the federal government him all the pay he drew for one or more t week—and used some of it to keep the prices he has to pay for food from going down. . . ~ > » » » THAT this feeling is very widespread is evident from almost total indifference of the voters to high federal
of voters are convinced that they themselves don't pay these. taxes—so they make no protest about their size. "It would of course, be convenient for the government . of Indiana to get state income taxes collected by compelling évery employer to double as an unpaid tax collector. And, after a year or so, it would make it easy for any state administration with ambitions to squander some money to hike the state income tax rates without any real 4 ns from the people of Indiana, Just blame the boss if the pay check keeps shrinking.
Developing World's Backward Areas
ENT TRUMAN'S “bold new program” for making.
the benefits of American scientific and industrial progress available to improve the world’s under-developed areas
need not be regarded either as fanciful or unduly ambitious
~4if it is undertaken on a sound business basis. "We cannot use American tax dollars to relieve the illclad, ill-fed and ill-housed of every land, because we do not have that kind of money. We certainly would go broke if “we tried to make the whole world’s backward areas a vast WPA project. ® : - ' We owe our present position to the initiative and ~ genius of American enterprise, under a government of laws and on the principle that investments in labor and capital are entitled to legitimate returns. The President’s new program can succeed only in the same favorable atmosphere, and only with a proper distribution of responsibilities between government and business. : Tha . 8» 0» “alt nn TO REMAIN strong we must deal with our friends * overseas on a reciprocal basis. We should not try to impose
This nation from its birth has rejected the old-world concepts of colonial imperialism. It is better than exploiting
the many for the benefit of the few, we have found, to share
our capital and know-how with those who wish to share their undeveloped resources with us. In so doing, we help ‘them, ourselves and the rest of mankind. a A good example is presented by the far-sighted operations of the Arabian-American Oil Co. in Saudi Arabia. -
“Aramco” paid $28 million to the Saudi Arabian gov“ernment in oil royalties in 1048. The figure is expected to mount year by year as the vast concession is further developed. The company plans to spend $500 million in drilling and construction projects, including pipelines, in the next five years. But Aramco is doing much more than just exploit the rich oil deposits it has found under the sands of
the Arabian desert.
; ARABIAN workers are being taught to do all of the things which now must be done by imported technicians. Malaria control and otherisanitary measures have been in. - troduced. A modern hospital, the best equipped in the Mid-
dle East, has been provided for the Arab workmen.
Agriculture is being developed through irrigation. ProYected cement and asphalt plans will bring good roads. The Saudi Arabians are using some of the money they've + received to build a 350-mile railroad, and a deep-water port " * and railhead on the Persian Gulf. The life of a people which has seen little change in thousands of years is being revolutionized by this co-operative American-Arabian effort of
mutual benefit.
The program is succeeding because it has been sound in conception and execution. Both Americans and Arabians went into this enterprise primarily to make a profit—and for both it is paying off. Any undertaking not linked to
mutual hope-of-profit will fail.
By encouraging this type of private initiative, the “Inited States government can contribute greatly to development of backward areas of the earth without imposing
extra charges on American taxpayers.
; Buttering Mr. Truman
T millions of housewives want is the right to buy yellow margarine without paying a discriminatory fed-
eral tax of 10 cents a pound or of any other amount. They don’t want the trick scheme proposed, on behalf
of the butter business, in a bill which Congressman Andre-
BE Foal one Member of
‘With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue
remain about the sare cen~ on the solid foundation of respéct for the + But etiquette just won't stay put,
~GEORGE D. GREER, New Castle. ¢ + 0
DAYS THAT USED TO BE
I cannot tell you how I feel 3 Nor how my thinking strays To thoughts of “might have been,” And of the good old days,’
I cannot tell you all I see As 1 sit gazing here, But in my heart the music peals, And the world is bright with cheer.
I cannot say what's in my heart Nor what I long to be, But in my thoughts I'll always be Reliving each childhood memory.
I cannot put my dreams.in to words, And write for all to see The wonders of my memories . And the days that used to be. ; ~JEAN SUTTON, Indianapolis. * © o
Beeches and elms and the tulip trees s Give us the aspen, leaves trembling with grief,
Thoughts af the cross of Christ, hewed for our k :
~CAROL B. WEINBERG, North Vernon.
| DOT A BAD TOLD
Sneeze and blow,
I look a fright, I hope no one happens To drop in tonight. Vina HASEMAN, Coal City. ¢
THE MAN-SIZED OAK
a man-sized oak I stood, ’ broad shade and hard gnarled wood; its roots dig deep, : f strength lie fast asleep.
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Like willows through, I'm soft of frame.
I turn my face to ev'ry gust, That fills my eyes with blinding dust; 1 shift about from job to job, Intent on staying with the mob.
~~GEORGE 8, BILLMAN, Anderson. : ie :
LOVED ONES
If I could give the best To those I dearly love, Their path would be of roses With a sky of blue above. No sorrow would molest them, No tears would fill their eyes, A sweet and lovely time they'd have Till Nite has ended its disguise.
~~MARY JANE LUKENS, Knightstown.
has to give way to gladtanoya, | to plain howdedo. W
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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer
First Paper Started Here in 1822
TODAY MARKS the 127th anniversary of the foundation of the first fewspaper in Indianapolis, a literary performance which for precosity and sheer audacity can't be matched by any similar social experiment of the time. For one thing, the settlement was less than two years old. As for the town itself, it had been laid out but six months. Indeed, there was no citizen who had owned his real estate longer than four. There was no road leading to it; no way out and little, if any, Business. - Certainly, nobody was in a mood to advertise, Everybody had been down with the ague and chills the summer before, with the result that nobody had raised any crops to speak of. Quinine was unknown. Starvation was held off only by supplies coming in occasionally on horseback from White Water or down the river in Indian canoes. The nearest post office jvas at Connersville, a distance of 55 miles as the crow files, possibly, three times that length by way of the treacherous trail through the dense forest. There was no telegraph; no telephone; no radio, no channels of communication to tap world. - Goodness only
son, Nathaniel Bolton, to start The Indianapolis Gazette on Jan. 28, 1822, A printing press brought from Kentucky was pet up in a corner of George Smith's cabin on W. Maryland St. in the neighborhood of where the Kingan people now do business. The ink used ‘was partly compounded of tar.
Usually Published Bi-Monthly
EITHER by accident or design, Mr. Smith set up his press opposite David Mallory's onechair barbershop. Mr, Mallory, a Negro who had arrived in Indianapolis the year before Mr. Smith did, was the first barber to practice his trade around hers. Everybody agreed that Mr. Smith's choice of location was just about the cheapest and most reliable way of collecting city news at ‘its source that anybody had ever thought of. : In the beginning, the paper was published when the occasion called for it, usually at intervals of two weeks. When it came time to get out the sixth number (Apr. 3) the paper was suspended for a month. The heavy rains that spring made it impossible for anybody to reach Mr. Mallory's barbershop. ’ At that, the paper lasted eight years. In 1830, it was sold to Alexander F. Morrison, who merged it with The Democrat, a paper he had started that same year. After that, the Gazette lost its identity. During its lifetime, however, the Gazette let in a world of light. In its issue of Aug. 15, 1825, for instance, it reported “excessive heat,” but lamented the fact that it was incapable of measurement because of the lack of a ther
mometer around here, On the day before .
Christmas, 1824 (a day, no doubt, picked with
a well-designed purpose in mind), it advised its
recession by the deflation route.
might be the consequences in that direction.
Can Be Dangerous
NATIONAL ECONOMY . . . By John W. Love Hazard in Pensions Asin
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Our economic planners in Washington had better get together with President Truman, labor unions and employers and decide how much in pensions and other social security it will be safe for us to buy. Enough projects are now on the drafting boards to overdo the business if we don't look out. Pensions are good, but too > much pensioning could be disastrous. It could whirl us into
The dangers lie in a direction which has scarcely been discussed. Most of Mr. Truman's remarks on social security recently were concerned with needs and benefits. He sald nothing about the accumulation of the ‘money in reserve funds and what
AND WHAT about the existing social security’ systems, in- ' cluding the railroad retirement, and all the thousands of private ' plans, and the combined effect of thelr financial operations in buying up and putting away government bonds? In addition to all this, President Truman asks for new taxes of the national debt.
SIDE GLANCES
reading public that subscriptions could be paid “in beeswax, rags, deerskins or produce.” On
June 5, 1828, it hit an all-time high with the
THAT MR. SMITH also possessed
White Water Valley. It would appear, however, that George Smith started The Indianapolis Gazette not with any idea of wielding power, but with the sole purpose of getting his stepson established. Hé wis the apple of his eye; so much so, indeed, that in no time at all Nathaniel Bolton was allowed to run
to note the laments of early itinerant peddlers who always complained that Indianapolis was the worst place in the world to sell timepieces.
Appointed U. S. Consul
MR. SMITH didn’t live long enough to leagp in what high esteem President Franklin Pierce held his stepson. In 1853, the President appointed Nathaniel Bolton to the office of U. 8. Consul to Geneva, Switzerland. He served four years and resigned only because of illness. He died a few months after his return to Indianapolis. 3 Mr: Bolton's achievement, however (exceeding even that of being a founder of our first newspaper), was his courtship of and eventual marriage to Sarah T. Barrett of Madison, our first legitimate poetess and, indeed, the lady who wrote “Paddle Your Own Canoe.”
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in the United Nations, to give the world a permanent and worthy peace.~~United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie. * ¢ o
WE firmly believe that truth and justice wilt prevail, since otherwise the prospects for the world are indeed gloomy. . .. The greatness of a nation is measured by the stand it takes in the days of its hardest trials.—Marshal Tite, Yugoslav dictator. . ® ¢ o
THE United Nations is but the mirror of international life. What is needed is not a bete ter set of rules, but perhaps a greater willing. ness on the part of the players to abide by the
rules. Ray Atherton, U. 8. alternate delegate to the
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CONGRESS LOCKOUT. . . By Fred W. Perkins
Republicans Evicted
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28-Bitterness in Congress over the labor-law revision has resulted in a curious form of lockout on
The quarters assigned to the Congressional Joint Committee on Labor-Management Relations have “een locked up—with new locks on the door—after eviction of the 10 Republican-appointed staff members of the committee. This is the “watchdog committee” set up by the Taft-Hartley law to study operations of
The chairman was the recently defeated Sen. Joseph H, Ball (R. Minn.) and the prospective chairman committee is continued beyond Mar. 31-is Sen. James E. Murray (D. Mont.) Ten days ago & man from Sen. Murray's office appeared in the joint committee's
if the
near. quitting time. He was Don A.
accompanied y Sen. Carl Hayden (D. Ariz), chairman of the Senate Rules and Administrative Committee, which has charge of Senate office space. ’
bers present, and those who returned the next day found their keys wouldn't work ia the new locks, .
Rooms Taken Over :
“WE'LL take over these rooms, probably for the Business Sammistes | sald Sen. Mi
to evict the joint committee's staff meme
Small 8 man ut the time of Montana Senator is ranking t on
that committee, also.) . “Is the joint committee through?” asked one of the staff
it to Mar. 31 and payroll until
“What difference dpes it make to you?" reply. Public Trust won't be here even if tis provers ty Bede: oad a AT THE same time government securities would be going / papers? 1 guess you think Dewey was out of the banks in two directions: Into these public trust funds OP TP BY WEA SEAOK, M0. T. WME. U8 MT. ORE. gr A the Iniigatior OF The cout! oa o fhom San, Jy ThE and by direct sale to the Treasury as it used wurplos to Tetirs ® | ‘Easter's so, late this year, I'm certainly not going fo be able | Sen. Hayden. a part ‘of the debt. Mutaie Jin In be Supnisd, tie Pubie 4 o uth!” “If the joint committee is 1 after 2, Wald be-buving savings. andthe money therefrom would fo wait Hill then to buy a few spring am can be sure of two things: Sen. will be | nanan Most of the money for pensions would go to aged beneficl- | vate plans calls for reserves under the present distribution A re Th ey Sant, aries tmmediately. This is because of the plan of accumulating | age groups, if not for other reasons. J : | They stand idle, dark and empty except for w desks and ‘reserves which the go has adopted, even though they Friis Boheosrinie Rincon Radons Js cases, They continue that way, to Mr, wr 1s. Most of the money in the union plans would | he ASRS and Jongitsterss DUbilc Sebi, and the Treas. until he knows the Small Business wants