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Slot Machines and Taxes YSRIEND of ours tells of an interesting experiment at his g country elub. It {s a small, not very plush club, mostly "middle-class membership. .One important source of club take from slot machines. “ Tan a as $2000 a month. But greed overtook the club management, and the machines were set to. hold "back for the house 35 per cent of the money played. Mempers slowed down their patronage of the one-armed bandits. The club's revenue dropped to $1000 a month. Our friend, a philosopher who understands the human ‘animal, finally prevailed upon the manageinent to buy some new machines, rigged to give the kitty only 9.5 per cent. The. members, the spirit of venture and hope of profit gleaming anew in their eyes, started playing the machines with energy and abandon. The club's profit climbed to-
$2500 a month. . nn» . . nn»
WHETHER to increase the tax rates is a big issue in this Congress. President Truman wants. to boost taxes on corporations. The corporate rate is already 38 per cent. He wants higher taxes on middle and upper bracket incomes. When taxable income passes $5000, the govern. ment begins to slice off the excess in 25 per cent chunks; * above $10,000, the rate steps up to 36 per cent. Above $18,000, the government begins to take half. Above $200,000 the government starts taking «& fraction over 82 “cents out of every dollar. And where corporate dividends are involved, all that is double taxation by the federal government. We're not counting here "Some wise and long-experienced members of Congress _think higher taxes now might diminish rather than jncrease revenues, . They think many taxes have already passed the point of diminishing returns. And, considering the experience of the slot machines at our philosopher friend's country club, we're inclined to believe they're right. : ‘a. ¥ en 8 . . THE man who works for wages, who runs a farm, or ocery, or a filling station, or who invests his savings hares of a corporation, is made of the same human ~indeed he is often the same man-—as the one who 3 the slot machine. When the odds are hopelessly him he stops trying. He pas no incentive to atto earn more if the government is going to take a
give him a fair break and he will work harder, duce more and rigk more. He will pull the lever of our competitive-enterprise system with greater vigor, with hope of more profit for himself, and probably more revenue for ~ the government tax kitty. : :
What About Japan, Mr. President? RESIDENT TRUMAN sidestepped an excellent opportunity to ease international tensions at his press conference this week when he refused to t on Sécretary of the Army Royall's indiscretions was most unfortunate.’ iY + "The President's silence compounds the confusion surrounding our policy in the Far East. The United States has ‘been losing ground in that part of the world, and Mr. Royall's stupidity has made bad matters worse. N, We backed out of China because we did not know our
world that we may quit Japan and even admit doubt that we could hold Alaska against enemy attack. That false impression should not be permitted to Mr. Royall denied he told American reporters in Tokyo — that U. 8, troops might be withdrawn from Japan in the -.event of war with Russia. The United Press correspondent who attended the interview says he did. 2 "on «a 5 ® . THE issue of veracity is of legs consequence than the damage done by the world-wide furore resulting from publication of the sensational statements attributed to the “high American official” —since identified as Secretary
7 Royall. “This newspaper does not ‘accept Mr: Royal's ex- | -
planation. We think he is trying to brazen his way out of a bad spot. Leino Bat something more is at stake. than the meré act of a political blowhard .who was talking out of turn in an -effort-to appear important when he was on the loose in the Far East, - : : ‘Gen. MacArthur's position is being: undermined by the uncertainties as to American policy resulting from Mr. ~ Royall's “off-the-record” press conference. The ill-natured remarks reflecting upon the Australians and Filipinos said to have been made at the same conference have offended friendly nations and left our government in an untenable position... Mr. Truman cannot afford to ignore this situa~ tion. He is responsible for Mr. Royall, and for Mr. Royall's mistakes, The Secretary of the Army will be accepted as an authentic spokesman on American policy unless his reckless statements are repudiated. President Truman owes it to himself and to the country
8 darity the American position in the Far East without elay.
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" tional organizations, has threatened to overturn the Democratic majority in the Senate in 1950 unless that present majority takes speedy action “to end the national disgrace of filibusters.” p ; ‘However sympathetic the Senate majority leadership may be to the appeal, we doubt that it is very frightened by the threat. Mr. Roosevelt, at the height of his popularity,
[failed ko Deavade the voters to purge his Democratic op- ' ponents In Congress. “Last fall the leaders of organized labor were going to defeat every congressional candidate ~~ Who had voted for the Taft-Hartley Act. They also failed. Neither special pleaders nor even a President can purge and punish through elections without wide and general pubsupport. That circumstance will always be exasperating group or another. But jt is still one of the most enSigns of a healthy, workable democracy. = Ee A ! 4 oy ol las ez
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"Barton Rees Pogue .. HOW TO GET YOUR BIRD
Do you wish to have holg-nesting birds, such as wrens, bluebirds, and others of similar nature, about your grounds? Do you wonder why they avoid coming to you? Well, if you make conditions to their likings, and seek to cooperate with them, as nature intended, you will have a far better chance to succeed. : The last three places we lived there were seemingly no such birds about. No one had ‘made an effort to get them. But each time 1 placed houses for them, and did the proper
. thing to 'attract-them in spring, I had them
~Jhouse-hunting in three days. Once 1 put out wrén houses in suitable laces, thén began to listen for them. At first “heard nothing, but I whistled and called and in no time I heard them answer. They began to sing and came closer as I talked to them in their own lan; . And in three days they and working at nest-building From that time on others One day I found an old’ rusty bucket, which I hung over a fence post on the side of a hill near an old apple tree, I said, “I am going to see if 1 can a bluebird.” Shortly I saw & pair down on the fence, going in and
We now live in a new place again. I heard when we came, but put out to call them heard one I kept calling and whistling, in and out the
away and began building at once. In each came it seems three days is about ‘the time it takes to get a bird tenant. Bo it
1s no use not to have a singer where you want |
him and when, Anyone can learn to get the bird he wants, pw «MARY LARKIN COOK, Anderson.
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IT'S LOVE FOR YOU
I thought that I had buried love I hoped that I had crushed the palin, But teardrops tremble in my eyes Because your face I've seen again, And old hurts rise that I thought dead, To mock my injured pride instead; They live anew and this I know
ee JU'8 JONG fOr you that makes it so.
I sit and live the days again, I feel the thrill of tenderness; J hear the praises that you sang And teardrops fall, I must confess, Tears are so futile, life so plain, And heartaches are akin to pain; Hopes flame anew, and this I know "Tis love for you that makes it so. «OPAL McGUIRE, Dupont. * oo
THE DREAMER
never wondered why ~ A golden sunset always Shiled him so; ~ e With half-closed éyes and watch its crimson glow. -
He never even wondered why the flowers, And birds, and rippling streams, and swaying trees,
Enticed him to the shady woodland bowers,
And lulled his soul with joyous melodies.
bors sald he was a harmless fools An ‘idle dreamer—one who loved to stray Beside a brook or by the lilly-pool, , Gaze at the sky, and sing a roundelay.
They did not know, they never understood, How much his songs had cheered them day
by day: hey. only knew that something kind of good as missing since he—since he went away. } 7 «EAN BOYD HEINEY. BE JEN JEN
MONUMENTS
The mind believes in pomp and power, silken thin
And power and peacock wings. The heart Is such a gentle thing—
It sees a roge and weeps again ’ For old familiar ways.
Each treads the path dnd finds the grave In darkness—all alone; The heart lives on in loving words— The mind in senseless stone, «MILDRED IRVIN, New Castle. * & ¢
SECURITY
“They can't take that away from me,” easily exemplifies the worth of a life lived good and the sure-to-follow serenity of old age. They can't take away the self-respecting armor that wards off the feeling of ugly guilt, the hopelessness of a stricken conscience, the despair of living with enmity of others. ey can't take away the radiance revolving around thoughtful hands, the brilliafice of contributing laughter, the sympathies attendant to dutiful religioh that gives God His rightful, holy place in a life lived good.
It longs for wails and Taare] w jreaths ~~ |
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ESPIONAGE PROBE ... . By Marquis Childs
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Army's Report on Red Spy Ring
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-—-Among jungle tribes a common way of arousing tribal passions for war or for religious sacrifice is the beating of a jungle drum. Thump, thump, thump goes the drum and the human pulse responds with a quickened excitable tempo. If we are “honest with ourselves, we must admit that something like that seems to be happening here in our highly vaunted civilization. Certain events today seem to be on a level with the thumping of that drum. Last week the Department of the Army, released a lengthy document detailing the activities of a Soviet Russian spy ring in Tokyo that was extraordinarily successful in the late Thirties and until it was broken up with the arrest of the principals in the fall of 1941. I have now read every word of that document apd I hope to w why I believe its publication sets a new and dangerous precedent. .
‘Taken From Jap Records
THE REPORT was put together by intelli-
gence agents of Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willough- - by who has been head of Gen. MacArthur's
G-2 (Intelligence) Division through the war and in the vecypation of Japan, They compiled it from Japan police and counter-intelligence and these reports in turn seem to have
been based chiefly on the statements of convicted
spies in the months preceding their execution by the Japs. Instead of being a carefully written, closely factual document, the report put out by the Army is full of editorial comment. At times it seems to put a romantic gloss over the espionage activities and then it reads like .the script for one of Hollywood's lesser “B” pic-
The document apparently has been in existence for a year or more. I have asked a number of officials in the Pentagon building why it was released at this time and the answers are noncommittal or evasive. It happened, says the Pentagon, that the document was declassified and therefore, no longer secret or restricted and
some newspapermen wanted to print it and it
was given out. } The sensational story-toid in the document naturally made headlines. It fed thé fear and uncertainty that are too much a part of the prevailing atmosphere. “One begins to wonder,” says this extraordinary document, “whom one can trust, what innocent comrade or loyal friend may suddenly
be discovered as the enemy. He may have any
(Thump, thump, thump goes the jungle drim.) . - z One effect of this sensation is to divert attention from what is actually happening In Japan. In spite of Gen. MacArthur's sincere and intensive efforts, in spite of his optimistic statements, the trend in Japan seems to be toward the extreme left and the extreme right.
Red Strength Increased
IN THE latest election the Communist vote went from approximately 1,000,000 at the preceding election to 3,000,000. The Communists increased their seats in the parliament—total number of seats 466-—from four to 35. n At the same time the center and moderate parties—the Socialists, the Democrats and the people's co-operatives—all lost seats. The Dem-ocratic-Liberal Party, which is on the extreme right and neither very democratic nor very liberal, got a total of 264, a narrow majority of 31 seats. . ; One thing the Tokyo spy report does which to my knowledge is unprecedented in a document officially given out by a military branch of the government — it announces that an American citizen, Miss Agnes Smediey, is “a spy and agent of the Soviet government.” “The paragraphs devoted to Miss Smedley, a
journalist who has spent many years in China, charge. The
no proof for this
give-no- supporting a } ; - reader gathers that the charge is based on the
statements of the two convicted spies, Richard Sorge and Osako Hozumi. The document also accuses Miss Smedley of inventing the “hoax” that the Chinese Communists are merely agrarian reformers. But quite apart from Miss Smediey's views or her political affiliations, it is a radical departure from the ‘Anglo-Saxon tradition of justice that she should be denounced as guilty of the dreadful crime of treason without evidence or without a chance to present her own defense.
Effects on Public
ASIDE from the moral and ethical implications, there is reason to doubt whether the unprecedented approach of the Tokyo report is the way to defeat espionage. By publishing the report the author-sponsors seem to be saying that
".the public must be stirred up to catch spies.
With the exception of Communists, fellowtravelers and--unthinking pacifists, Americans have come to understand that we must calmly and resolutely build the strength of this country to meet the challenge of Communist aggression. That process is not helped by whipping up
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‘Democrats Doing Fine Job' ? By Mrs. Walter Haggerty.
1 have visited the Legislature ‘du this session and one doesn't stay there Sung his the Republicans can be hed from the Democrats. The Republicans are older men, They believe in the Taft-Hartley law, a sales tax for paying the soldiers’ bonus, or no bonus at all, They feve in capital punishment, or premeditated murder (the same thing)--the only difference is that one is done by law, one by an outlaw. They believe in the uncommon man
and they think they are one of them. Uh
The Democrats on the other side are men. They believe they should fultill the promises made before election, That they should vote for a soldiers’ bonus, that it should Ye paid for by a tax that will not affect who can't afford to pay; they believe in la and the common man, with special pri to none, The Democrats are not proud of
member. There sre some who shouldn't have’ been elected. But as & whole the Democrats
are struggling, trying to make the best of what
they have and are doing a fine job. Some of
them can be wrong and they assert it, We cash oint with pride” to those Democrits in eo
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‘A Political Sideshow’ .
| By R, D. 8, City .
When is the political “sideshow” about” a bonus payment to the veterans going to stop?
{ I'm sick of hearing about it.
Veterans, can't you see. that you are not actually getting a bonus but only a loan to
| be paid back with interest (as long as you
live)?
children and their children will be paying for it. : If you will check, I think you will find tHe tax on tobacco was inaugurated during the Civil War to help pay for thal war (see what I mean?). ’ : It's high time we ceased to listen to all these political aspirants who are advocatin this and that, and all to our expense. : You're paying taxes mow that you wouldn't .be paying if it weren't for previous bonus payments, or don’t you think taxes are high enough? Lo a Just remember this——nobody ever borrowed himself out of ant, . ’ +
Story Recovers Pet By Mrs. Lillie Swift, 310 8. Ritter Ave. We want to thank Donna Mikels and The Indianapolis Times for helping us to find our pet dog “Mack.” The story in The Times did a fine job. On the following day we received a call from Mr. Charles Voyles at 47 N, Berwick St. who had our dog. This story did what three ads failed to do. We are grateful and take this opportunity to thank e Times and Miss Mikels. . “Mack” was picked up by the pound-truck but escaped from the truck en route to the
| pound. He is home now and we are very happy. : * o
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‘More Tax on Drinks’ By Mrs. Lester F. Cox, Crawfordsville, Ind. In the “Hoosier Forum” I read an editorial
| by Henry F. Jamison on “Need more state police
to reduce loss of life on the highway,” instead of paying the soldiers’ bonus, That ‘bonus is needed for home uses regardless how small. Nobody toid those reckless drivers to drive like madmen on the highways. But our boys were made to go to war to. fight and give their lives for a good cause, ». our nation, “yours and mine.” w What we should tax is five cents on every bottle of beer and whisky, the real cause of
“death and 108s on the highways. Our soldiers
didn't cause it. At this rate of five cents a bottle tax, there should be enough for “more state po-
lice” and soldiers’ bonus too. . ® ¢ o ‘A Spiritual War’
By Maurice L. Donnelian,- Mooresville, Ind. I thank The Times for the fine editorial on Joust Surdine! Mindszenty. “third world war” is almost entirel spiritual war. ly 3 It is time all Christian people banded together to put a stop to the maladroit practice of the faith in the Father of us all, ’ ® ¢ o
‘Letters Disappointing’ By Rev. Walter Chenault, Lafayette, Ind. In spite of the great admiration that I've always had for The Times, I was sadly dis. appointed in two letters that have appeared in the Hoosier Forum recently concerning the act of -W..B, Osman in sending a flood of scurri16us hate letters to the members of the present State Legislature for the express pugpose of
reconsider the China problem this is it.
No one knows how long it will be before the shooting starts again th a big way, but there is not likely to be another time like the present in which the-adversaries still are effectively matched in geographical position .and physical resources—and the United ‘States still retains a latitude of choice. It anything, thes Nationalists still hold the advantage in concrete assets for war—gold, arms and ammunition—but are a poor second in morale, discipline and organization. China offers the spectacle of a tompact organized minority dictating the
future of a disorganized and confused majority,
The present breathing spell is already several weeks old. 80 far as can be detected in Shanghai or Nanking, the United States officially has used the time only to continue its
wait-and-see attitude toward the Communists.
American Prospects Slim ANTI-AMERICAN Communist propaganda and to a certain
U. S. Policy in China?
SHANGHAI Feb. 19-If the United States needs time to
big three.
: face.” : a froth of {fear and suspicion, injuring the Negro citi Couive ope mmown. eee —— POLITICS IN ASIA . . . By Clyde Farnsworth. SIDE GLANCES “By Galbraith | MILITARY ALLIANCE . . . By William Philip Simms
UN Force Stressed
i WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—Just how true is story repeats itself finds further proof, if an | Wythe Willams’ new. book about the 1s EON Clerc “The Tiger of France.” " ate Georges Clemenceau, The League of Nations was born at the ference, in 1919. Clemenceau presided and with row Wilson and David Lloyd George as the other two of the
the bromide that
Paris peace cone him were Wood»
Yet as Mr. Williams, veteran foreignthe Tiger opposed the League from Er It houdent, Tecalls "ceed as keeper of the peace, sald bulwarked by specific ‘military the treaty of Versailles, therefore, the promise of a. French-British-Am Germany stay put.
Pact Turned Down MR. WILSON -¢f-course; couldn't
| the pact down and voted against the Lea covenant, the Senate sald, would Bree a tons. Its
the start. It could never s Clemenceau, ‘unless. it were alliances. Before he would sign he insisted on, and obtained, erican pact designed to make
deliver,. The Senate furned
fend the United States to war
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I'm a veteran and ‘im the father of. thres sons, but I don’t want a-bonus because my.
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.Called ‘Bogu; Government’
extent Communist acts, particularly the seizure of ECA relief supplies in Tientsin and Pelping, have narrowed American prospects of getting along with the Reds, but the State Department evidently still clings to hope that the Chinese Communists somehow will be “different.” . With the hope goes the prevailing and persistent official conviction that the Chinese Nationalist Government is finished. “Ref rtaken by In the fleld of liberties, have scarcely convinced Amerfean that he deserves their strong backing except as a means of settlement with the Reds. : The acting president has been dickering for “peace” with the Communists ever since he succeeded President Chiang Kat« shek last month, but negotiations have been ineffectual except for their possible effect in slowing preparations for another Red offensive. ’
Each side has put it up to the other to be “sincere”. in its |
desire for peace as a prerequisite for negotiations. By the Communist definition, Nationalist “sincerity” means suspension of military preparations in South China and Formosa and the arrest of “war criminals,” Mr, Chiang above all, ,
. THE NATIONALISTS have not defined Communist “sin~ cerity” except to request the Reds to hold, their fire and put national interest above party interests—in other words, demon’ strate a willingness toward compromise and coalition, The Communists call Li's regime a ‘bogus government.” ?
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“I think | ought fo tell President Truman the. Berlin. airlift isn't doing a thing for mel”
settlement” instead of fighting to cross the Yangtze against the Natlonalisté' one-sided air and naval advantage.
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,The impasse raises three important questions: 3 First, how ong will the Communists remain contént on the north bank.of the lower Yangtze while the Nationalist potentiatity
|. for future résistance fs being developed in .South China and
* Formosa? : Secondly, if peace negotiations fail, will Acting President Ii
make 3 fight of it along the Yangtze? !
The t’ alluring prospect left to the Communists is the Thirdly, would it be within h . ibility they may negotiate themselves into the Jower Yangtze | settlement if the Communists Analy mould Ti lo io Valley (Hankow, Nanking, Shanghal region) bf. a “localized terms? In other words, what about Chiang Kai-shek? :
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more or less automatically, and only Congress co Today there is something in all this for ho eae Atlantic to ponder. The world faces a somewhat similar but far more dangerous situation. Instead of Germany there is Russia and Instead of a league, there is a United Nations. And people are saying precisely what Clemenceau said 30 years ago: : if the United Nations is not backed by military alitances, ft will
. be unable to keep the peace. .
But there is a fundamental difference. Americans as well in ; ng an alliance t safeguard. north Atlantic area from aggression. And while u i proceeds on the exact wording of the pact, the intent of allan. cerned seems clear. And it is the intent which is vital, . It Is easy to argue that if the United States had joined in a defensive alliance with Britain and France as Clemenceau urged, Hitler would have remained a mere beer-cellar crackpot and never would hdve troubled the peace, Policy of Appeasement ‘ THAT thesis presupposes that France an would have remained strong and determined; and 4 on ot have turned pacifist and refused to vote the necessary mil
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