Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1949 — Page 19

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Mr. Bernstein was directly behind me. cheek was warm where he had tapped me smartly. - Completely disregarding the people about me, whacked out a long paragraph, free of mistakes, which had all the flavor and brilliance necessary to be included in “You, Too.” “You are obeying my post-hypnotic suggestion,” answered Mr. Bernstein. “Your troubles are over. You will proceed with the writing of your book with confidence, determination and enthusiasm. No more will you have any desire to waste your time in the evenings in air-conditioned theaters and pubs.” : At first I was horror stricken. What had I done that warranted such drastic action and banishment from gay society? ; “You want to write that book, don’t you?” My eyes closed once more, my head swayed from side to side, my arms hung enervated at my side as my body shook an affirmative answer, © “Good boy.”

= He also said he was trying something new in

hypnotized, either. Mrs. R., W. Staub, 633 E. Min-

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Taxes Reshuffle British Society In Addition to Providing Revenue

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Write . . . Hypnotist Eugene duces a trance that is guaranteed to produce rd Newspapers “You, Too," a volume under discussion so far. the Press, to the British Isles to study this situation.

the fourth of a series based on a month's study there.

By E. T. LEECH, Scripps-Howard Writer LONDON, Aug. 18—S8ocialists, like Communists, have a jargon all their own. Their speeches and writings are sprinkled with such words as integration, co-ordination, balanced and stabilized-—all of

Slowly the events that took place while Mr.

pneumat ness of my sleep, J workers on The Times: building consider me a

buddy.’ which refer to various types of economic planning. : En - They dug up a rare and obsolete word, “egality” to cover a Human Fly Tops It Off different type of planning. It means “equality,” and the “egali-

TO TOP IT all off, the hypnotist had me doing| arian Policy’ of Britains Soa bit of climbing in a trie human fly fashion. That my sore knees and throbbing fingernails. “After a physical workout,” my master said, “I brought you to your desk and put you under this spell which will not leave you until the proofs are returned from the publisher.”

tax brackets which cut their overtime pay below straight-time scales, : = = =

THUS. FAR the “egalitarian policy” has been more successful in pulling everybody down to {what Sir Stafford . “austerity,” that is, slim living— than in raising them to a common level of comfort. - ‘The latest report on British income taxes, just issued, is for the year ending Mar. 31, 1948. It showed 21 million income taxpayers—of whom only 70 had as much as $24,000 a year (or $460 a week) after taxes. The average taxpayer—17,210,000 of them-—had from $12 to $40 a week after taxes. More than 8,740,000 got to keep from $1000 to $2000 a year; 8,470, 000 could keep $600 to $1000 a year, and 2,030,000 had incomes

the hypnotic field. This is what Mr. Bernstein had me write; “I must send Ed Sovola a request for his proposed book which is as good as written. I must send in my vote for ‘You, Too." I must send it in or I won't be able to retire tonight.” revenue for het - Tricky, eh? He assures me that votes of con-|®POrmous fidence will flow in at a rapid rate. In a month : —phrtft—30,000. Happy day. and to pay the

losses of her Mr. Leech state industries, but also to level off her society, It aims at a narrow gap of income, so that nobody will be real poor or very well-to-do. And there will be no rich.

England is used not only to raise

Thirty-five employees in the executive offices of L. 8. Ayres want “You, Too.” They're not

nesota St, I hope I can have the book ready by a Thirtynine today makes the total 1138,

Pearl Probe

Francis Williams, former Labor) |Party editor and for two years | public relations adviser to Prime

after taxes of only $480 to $600 a year. Those figures are far below American standards. These people, incidentally, had

By Robert C. Ruar

aims in his excellent book, “So-

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 — I am just a touch amused fo note that Sen. James Murray (D. Mont.) ordered the ejection of John Maragon, the

"big perfume and deeép-freéze fellow, from the

sacred precincts of the Senate. Just dearly love to see that late-blooming. righteous indignation. There is an odd parallel to the five-percent. hearings, happened just after the war. About the: first story I covered in post-war Washington featured Sen. Murray, some pedrls, some odd government priorities, and a cast of characters that stretched from China to Washington. Seems a couple of types named Joseph Goldstone and Howard McGowan romped off to the distant: East to case the cultured pearl market, away back in January, 1947. They bore the official traveling credentials of the Senate Small Business Committee, of which Jim Murray was chairman, The necessary priorities for travel were signed by Sen. Murray. 3 2 ; ;

' They All Didn't Know Nothin’

THE LATE Bill Newton, a fine reporter, pricked his ears and his nostrils began to twitch when Messrs, Goldstone and McGowan were jerked off an Army plane in Shanghai, and about $25,000 worth of cultured pearls were removed from their more hard work than I'd seen in four years. The story of the pearls and the priorities danced from Washington to Billings, Mont. to Seattle, to Philadelphia, to Japan, to China, and back-{o Washington, Mr. Goldstone, traveling officially as a member of the Senate committee, turned out to be the president of the Imperial Pearl Syndicate of Chicago, New York and San Francisco. . Mr. McGowan emerged as a member of Maury Maverick’s Small War Plants Corp., but traveling as an economic consultant of the Murray Small Business outfit, against Mr. Maverick’'s knowledge and without his consent. : ; Oh, it was a fine story. Sen, Murray, he didn’t know nothin’. His son and secretary, Charlie, he didn't know nothin’, Nobody knew nothin’ about

\aemny Tn Attlee, outlines these

to pay in addition weekly taxes for social insurance and some of them paid local taxation. And on many of the things they would like to buy they would have to pay the world's heaviest sales taxes. In many cases these purchase taxes, plus scarcities, keep them from buying at all. But nearly everybody seems to man-

: : : cialist Britain.” They seek a how these guys were traveling forbidden zones, minimum income of $1000 to right at war's end, in what the Army Criminal $1200 a year, with a maximum of Investigation Division called “an effort to corner|/about $10,000 to $12,000-—which a $10 million monopoly In cultured pearls.” [is to include all income, from both Everybody got into this act. Bless your heart, salaries and investments. child, it developed that the counsel for Mr. Glad-| The Socialists have done well stone, the oyster ulcer tycoon, was nobody else/at cutting down the ypper inthan Mr. Lem Schofield, the Philadelphia lawyer comes, through heavy personal who has since represented Princess Stephanie/and business taxes, inheritance Hohenlohe, the old Nazi-lover, and that well taxation and even a levy on scrubbed darling, Serge Rubinstein, the Russian-|capital. Portugese type draft dodger and slick financier, The’Army got‘going and canceled the priorities of Messrs, Goldsfone and McGowan. Sen. Kenneth Wherry called for an .investigation—of which, as I recall, nothing every came. 8 7 Then, as follows the rainbow. to the storm, everybody's memory got better. Sen. Murray came down with reverse amnesia and recalled that the pearl-pursuers had. been accredited to his com. mittee. Son Charlié remembered writing the State Department in behalf of the two guys. The State Department remembered to tell both Murrays to start remembering. You never saw such fine re-

There are plenty of signs that|cluded as a this is caused at least partly. by come. what economists call the “law of| In return, the English diminishing returns.” The

vestnient have been so sharply those in America. cut by taxation that it isn’t worth/ through subsidies costing while to try to expand »r develop! business. Even the higher-paid! skilled workers resist overtime]

more than $2 billion yearly.

calls

age to pay the most profitable sales tax of all—the one which forces a price of 70 cents for 20 : They still have a long way to British cigarets. Even some social| March favoring a policy “of no manage or start big businesses—| pay increases, The Transport and or who hesitate to take the risks General Workers Union, whose of modernizing or expanding a 1,250,000 members make it the plant when returns from success world’s largest, fought bitterly at/can be so slight. I before standing by that policy. It did/the tax laws—such as an easier | treatment of capital gains than

go on raising the lower incomes.|security payments have to be inpart of taxable in-

t a re-igood many food articles ( nna wards of management and in-|quantities) at prices well below This is done the state

- ” ” THE BRITISH also get med-! work, because it throws them into/ical care and a wide variety of

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Socialist ‘Egalitarian Policy’ Alm At Same Financial Level For

Edward T. Leech, editor of the Pitisburgh Press, watches the traffic while in London during his six-week visit to England to study the British

on the River Thames | economic situation. In!

the background is the famed Tower bridge.

social security benefits which are

termed “free.” They are actually

paid for by taxation which now

takes 40 per cent of the entire national income.

What happens to the individual

is that the government spends a large part of his wages on what it thinks is best for him-—and which the politicians refer to as “free” —and lets

“benefits” and him spend. the balance.

The one biggest problem in almost every British household, as shown in every poll and labor dispute, is that of trying to make limited

ends meet with the amount left after taxes.

This is why the Trades Union Congress — which controls the Labor Party—is having a hardipaid amusement field hard. Untime getting its members to stick|doubtedly it does much the same

to. the resolution adopted last

its recent conference

tary, Arthur Deakin,

built the union and gained polit-

80 only after its general secrepleaded that in England’s present finan-/and the use of a cial plight “even moderate wage can furnish some subs claims can hardly succeed.” For- income. 1 eign Minister Ernest Bevin, who!

are not so “egalitarian as to ical power as its head, kept away avoid these rewards. A London from the meeting. . {paper has just exposed the spendLondon sports pages have been ing of $108 million since the war discussing the plight of one of for official autos—including 39 England's few boxing champions luxury limousines for top officials —Freddie Mills, light heavy-|in the last 18 months, Lesser weight. He announced he would ministerial figures in London, it spend the remainder of his career said, had 758 such official. cars, somewhere else, because if he while 6600 others were kept in fights in England again he will government pools for staff miemonly get to keep a dime of each|bers to use. This auto expense, it $4. That is top income tax wo charged, had Saivaded oi bracket—97} r -cent. of spent since Go pe colonial development throughout

» . A~ HOTEL officig! told me it As a footnote, this matter of

was hard to get a “name band” to perform, because “they won't play for sixpence.” This tax in the upper brackets hits the well-

{autos for officials has another big {point of interest—because gaso+ {line for the average Briton is rationed so he can drive only 90 miles a month, Millions of British undoubtedly have better pay and higher standards than ever before. The soe called lower class has been ele« vated—but not very high. The upper class is being wiped out, and the great middle class is badly pinched. including espes cially such people as teachers, civil servants, professional and white-collar workers.

thing as regards men who might

There are certain loopholes in

in America. Expense accounts car

for

pany tute TOMORROW: Socialists Are Busy Bees. -

Socialist officials, incidentally,

membering in all your born days. Case Was Never Cleared Up NOBODY EVER, cleared up the reason Janes McKenna, of consulate in Shanghai, gave Mr: Goldstone permission to carry 200 extra pounds of baggage on military aircraft, but he did, and somebody in the State Department told him to do it. Nebody ever explained. why a-couple of busi-| ness guys got high priority out of Mr. Murray for a private trip. The story died. { After a week, all I had was telephone-ear, a | BLL Pik Tullo: lemal Ravie 4 oubletalc, ally 4 ot) Socialism by Scripps-Howard Senior Editor E. T. Leech: point I started to make is that I'm real glad to] see the Senator, Mr. Murray; that is, so righteously|of a Britain which bankrupted indignant about the perversion of government for private gain. Maybe he's bored with Mr. Marason's iceboxes. Pearls are so much more glam- independepée more | ambitiously| " " |than any other nation under the i. 5 terity,

Labor MP Disputes Leech;

: SELL

Denies Br

Explains Socialists’ Austerity - Program

| LONDON, Aug. 18 (UP)—Michael Foot, Laborite journalist and | member of Parliament, denied today that Britain is going broke.

“Aldy Loves. Aldy

sun.” | Mr. Foot sald the “common | ‘people in Britain and America| can bring social “security “with

~ By Frederick C. Othma

WASHINGTON, Aug. 183—The Army's indispenisible general turns out to be a skinny little guy with two stars on his shoulder, a chest full of fruit salad, and—if you'll pardon what he fears may sound like conceit—a high opinion of himself. I'm talking about Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt, who blushes to admit that nobody is so wellqualified as himself to head the Army's Chemical . Warfare Corps. This sounds like I'm trying to be sarcastic. The weird thing is that I'm not. I'm merely quoting Gen. Waitt on the subject of Gen. Waitt, The general believes that the general is a’ reat man. ; : : He was a worried-looking citizen when he refused to smile for the photographers at the Senate's inquiry into five per centers. He sald he was a pal of James V. Hunt, whose business was finagling government coritracts for a percentage of the profits, But what fascinated The Senators was Gen. Waitt's admiration for guess-who. As you doubtless have read, he was up*for reappointment as boss of th¥& Army's poison-gas department. So he wrote one document saying what a smart fellow he was. $

-_Stumblebums in Soldier Suits

AND HE sent over to Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, the refrigeration expert of the White House, a memorandum indicating that éight other candidates for the job were lazy, or stupid, or worse. A bunch of stumblebums in soldier suits. The idea was for Gen, Vaughan to hand this paper to President Truman, or at least tell him about it, so .that he'd reappoint Gen. Waitt, a

veteran of 30 years of voncocting noxious gases.

It didn’t work out that way. The general instead

freedom to all humanity . ..

meres in London and the How-

Senate both investigated his operations. of his ards in New York.” |

Gen. Waitt sat on the extreme ‘edge chair, gripping the arms so ‘he wouldn't slide off,| while Sen. Joseph R.. McCarthy (R. Wis.) read|than half the A in a dazed tone of voice frori*his autobiography. page, said Mr. Leech had de-. “We shall “He (meaning Gen. Watt) is one of the lead-|termined that “Britain is going Mr. Leech, ing authorities in the worid on chemical war-|broke. Ufopia is_on the rocks.| Meanwhile, fare,” quoted the Senator. The general bristled. * “It happens to be true,” he interrupted. “You services a menace. put me in a terribly embarrassing position, but| “Much Less Broke” : -w

that is the truth. . oo ’ | In fact, Mr. Foot said, “Socialist que here Saturday. Even Pravda Compliments Him | Britain in 1949 is much less broke, HE WENT on to say that most chemists, war- {than was war-battered Britain In riors, and tactical experts across the globe agreed 1945” when Conservative Prime! with him about his ability. Even Pravda, thes rinister Winston Churchill said newspaper in Russia, he said, calls him a canni-| bal. If there's any better chemical warfare ex- Britain was bankrupt. pert than Gen. Waitt, Gen. Waitt has yet to find| “The most important question him. {about Britain surely is what we |g= He said that the Chemical Warfare Corps had have been doing about this been his whole life, the greatest thing of all, So,/chronic state of ‘bankruptcy, of course, he wanted a good man in charge. Nat-| Foot said. urally, he had favored himself, > “We have been building up our. «The general said the Senator's had embarrassed production at a rapid rate. In him, He said they had made him seem conceited. the first quarter of 1949, British | And when they brought up the fact that he got [production was 131 per cent of] a bad mark on his own record because of his|the 1938 figure. Of the countries)

Herald's editorial achievements.

Hundreds Loot

As Quickest Method ‘fo Pay Our Way" |.

In a copyrighted dispatch in’ the Labor Party newspaper, Daily Herald, Mr. Foot said in rebuttal to the series of articles oh British

“One essential way to try to] herself in a common cause and gop peing broke is to increase] A barber shop at 1109 E. 19th which has fought her way toward, ,;r exports and restrict our im-|

ports. The result for the nation]

evidence in the Murray Garsson munitions case a few years back, he said they were being cruel, Len. Waitt stepped down then, firm in his conviction. that nobody could head. the Chemical Corps so well as himself. And if he'd tried to influence Mr. Truman along this line what was wrong with that? The President simply would be appointing the best man, namely: Gen. Waitt. I'd like to comment hetre;~but the general left me like he did the Senators: Speechless.

in- Western Europe only Sweden| and Denmark have a better record. All other countries are] behind Britain and some of them, | like- free-enterprise Belgium, ‘well behind. “Mr, Leech is half-amused and half-horrified by the ‘austerity’ he finds practiced in Britain. He||. thinks it bizarre. The purpose of it, Mr. Leech, is to help us pay

The Quiz Master

27? Test Your Skill ???

wn Have ‘scientists established the fact that the temperature can bé estimated from ‘the chirps of a cricket? . There is a definite relationship between a cricket's chirp and the prevailing temperature, The rate of chirp depends upon the temperature, The + rapidity of its chirps Is so affected by heat and cold that a formula has been devised for get- . ting the ‘emperatuse, :- >

What is the nationhlity of Michael Arlen? Michael Arlen is & pseudonym. The British Dikran Kuyumdjian. He Is of

-/ upon various

Who composed the music Home"? v

The words of this song were written by John

Payne for a play, “Clari, the Maid of Milan.” The play was converted Into an operas hy Sir Henry

Rowley "Bishop and. first produced at Covent Garden Theater, London, in 1923. ' x ¢ % 9 Is it true that a before drowning?

This popular notion Is a fallacy. A person may depending

come up many times, or mot at all, conditions, '

for “Home Sweet

person comes up three times

our way in the world as quickly| as possible; in short, to stop being broke. - |

Catholic Parish Sets Festival Tonight

8%. Christopher's Catholic Parish in Speedway City will hold “The Festival With Tops in Food" tonight through Saturday from 5 to 11 p. m. os : A chicken dinner also is scheduled for Saturday night only. | Special attractions will be provided for the children a three

dred dollars,

“The true story isnot of a Britain going broke. It is the story Peanu machines, was ° reported; gq protected spots where food

|bers

Mallory Club Buys

n. Woodland Plot *8 Areas Report Sy In 3 Burglaries™

Change From Vending acres of wooded land in Morgan |ndiong Shows Rise |

Machines Included | ounced today.

Loot estimated at several hun-| including nickels .;and pennies from cigaret and .ortain areas will be designated | Eight of nine geographical areas

fd 2ay Ly ae

ed oo og Promoting conservation in In- : i pd diana, the P. R. Maltery Co. Con-| servation Club has purchased 113; :

Of 30 Cases in Week

v By Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-«

The site will be used as a recreation ground for the 475 mem-| and their families, but

wit in the U. 8. showed an increase in

aken in three burglaries -last pe placed for game inhabiting the|Polio cases last week, latest res

night,

ported.

a soft drink machine,

"Follow my husband and the woman he's running ‘around with, and give me a report on what she sees in him!"

{land. The club, organized less St.. was looted of five pairs of year, has achieved much in aselectric clippers, 12 razors, five sisting farmers in controlling cartons of cigarets and an unde- ‘ termined amount of change from “Apparently all this, in your vending machines by burglars view, counts for nothing, because we " give maternity grants ‘to | mothers; because “we give orange ” g La 3 roll juice and milk to the children be- ¢ |spite) the jeers from the ROlN- cause we say thé poor have as| Massachusetts Ave. ‘was ran-| found himself suspended while the Army and the {much right to good health as theisacked, Ralph Burries, 55, of 43) rich, you are happy to leave out|N. Sherman Drive, manager, re-| His article, which covered more of the records the real productive ported. Several cartons of cigar-| | ets were stolen. { go on with the fight,|. Another burglary was reported ‘ {at the Indianapolis Stove Co.,| the independent 1255 Roosevelt Ave., by Lambert |Socialism is a failure and social Conservative Daily Telegraph's Mundey, 44, of 1256 Roosevelt | ! ’ - columnist Peterborough not ed| Ave, shipping clerk. that. Roy W, Howard, -of the| Scripps-Howard Newspapers, is rear door and took about $6 from

who forced a rear door, Glenn are Kenny Hall, president; HarAustin of ‘1644 Yandes Ave. re- old Jenkins,

. A Gulf Service Station at 567 n-|

"|. Police Continuing The burglars entered through a |

‘By. Dick Turner

g ports to the U. 8. Public Health than a Service here showed. But health {officials feel that part of the total the!/increase may now be due to the by new virus disease resembling mild . .|polio‘in symptoms which has just been revealed. Excluding Texas, which has not yet reported, there were 3049 polio cases - reported for the week ended Aug. 13, as compared with 2449 the preceding week. The 600 new polio cases are a- 24.4 per cent increase over the preceding week's figure, compared with a 25 per cent jump the preceding week. For the corresponding week in 1948 there were less than half as many cases, 1409. | The East South Central states {are the only ones showing a de~ crease, health officials pointed tout. Ten states reported 100 or

destructive fox population means of fox drives. Officials of the organization

vice president;

Clarence Kingston, secretary and Roderick Mann, treasurer.

4 More Arrested In Gambling Raids

Harassing Drive ..

| Three more gambling establish=|more cases last week, They were: {ments [more men faced trial today asthe préceding week; Michigan, | Indianapolis police continued a 225 from 147; Massachusetts, 139,

were ‘raided and four New York, 539, from 390 cases

harassing drive.against lotteries from 82; Minnesota, 142, from 943 ‘and baseball ticket sales. |Tllinois, 299, from 250; Ohio, 134, A rald oii the Pee Wee Smoker, from 99; Indiana,’ 126, from 96; 224 Indiana Ave. resulted in the New Jersey, 101, ‘from 81, and arrest of two men, Howard Missouri, 123, from 110. Califor Walkup, 51, of 2017 Riverside nia dropped to 106 from 112, 'Dr., and Paul Ferdinand, 52, of| There have been 13.792 polio 211 N, Delaware St., were to be cases reported since the begine tried for operating a room for ning of the year, exclusive of the pool . selling. Police sgized 35 Texas total for the past week. books of baseball tickets. [Since the low-point in mid-March; ° Clarenee--MeClain, 35, of 2617 which is thought to be a fairer Shriver Ave., was arrested fol-|/figure because it eliminates polio lowing a raid on a cigar store|cases carried over from the 1948

at 2461 Northwestern Ave,

{room for pool selling. | ~Ralph Shumate, 47, of 1402 | Kketer St, was charged with keeping a room for pool selling, operating a lottery and gift enterprise and advertising a lottery and gift enterprise after police visited a smoke shop at 979

|| N. Pershing St.

Police said they purchased five baseball tickets which were displayed on a counter.. The raiders confiscated 19 books of tickets.

Childhood Education ‘Meeting Saturday

|. Mrs, Merle Gray, of Hammond, vice president of the Association (for Childhood Education, will be

presidents scheduled to be heid at the Abe Martin lodge, Brown County State Park, Saturday.

| Brookside Parkway, state

dent, will take part In the pro-

He! was charged with keeping a

|chairman of a workshop for local ;

Mrs, Margaret Marshall, 2518

epldemi¢, there have been 12,860 cases.

Local DUV to Plan For Encampment Catherine Merrill Tent No. 0, Daughters of Union Veterans of

the Civil War, will meet at 1:30 p. m. Monday in the Grand Army

made for the unit's participation in the national encampment of the tion. Irs. Edith Woods, president pro tem, will ba in charge. Ri

Band to Give Final Concert Tomorrow