Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1949 — Page 12

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ov 'W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor

Business Manager PAGE 12

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Give Light and the Peosie Will Pind Their Own Wow

Insurance Against Tragedy RESULTS of the Community Fund campaign, beginning next Monday, will have a direct effect on the personal lives of every citizen of Indianapolis. Success of the campaign, which will depend upon the co-operation of everybody, will mean comfortable insurance against human tragedy in our midst . . . an insurance that - we have found to be necessary for healthy community life. The amount necessary to keep 46 vitally important agencies operating here next year has been estimated at $1,280,000, .he campaign goal. It seems like a lot of money.

ww - BUT actually it is a comparatively small amount in terms of the many services performed to prevent disaster among hundreds of families needing help. Broken homes, orphaned children, increasing juvenile delinquency and crime are the direct results of the failure of a community to provide guidance and assistance for the unfortunate victims of adverse circumstances. These results of neglect affect the lives of every citizen in one way or another. Without the constant services of these 46 Red Feather Community Fund agencies, the life of every citizen would be more hazardous by increased crime and serious conflicts in the community life of every neighborhood. Operation of thése agencies is not a luxury we can get along without.

. . #” » . » THE services are as necessary to the well-being of

each citizen as food on his own table every day. Thus, when 7000 volunteer workers start out next week to solicit funds it will be the duty of every person to contribute his investment to insure better living conditions for the community and himself. For no one can be sure when and where tragedy will strike. A few dollars contributed to the Community Fund will be buying protection for yourself.

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Strikes and Taxes :

AL federal, state and local income taxes collected in : e United States increased 1100 per cent in 10 years. from $2.5 billion in 1939 to almost $31 billion in the 1949 That is one of a number of impressive tax statistics assembled by the Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. "of Minneapolis. Others: Sixty per cent of the income taxes in fiscal 1949 were paid by individuals, who coughed up $18.8 billion. Corporations paid the rest. The number of individuals paying income taxes jumped from 3.9 million in 1939 to 41.8 million in 1948, It probably is about 38 million this year, changes by Congress in the tax laws having taken several million small taxpayers off the rolls. LE. ot : : Income taxes provided less than one-fifth of the $13.3 billion edllected from all sources by federal, state and local governments in 1039, They will produce nearly three-fifths of the estimated $54.5 billion total tax collections from all sources this year.

5 . . . » = TAXES other than income levies have increased about 120 per cent in the 10-year period, while income-tax collections grew nine times as fast. figures show how rapidly we have shifted to income taxes as the main reliance for raising money to pay the costs of government. They high-light something else, too—namely, one of the many reasons why our government, like our people, can’t afford nation-wide strikes in great industries like steel and coal. For such strikes throttle production, enforce idleness upon workers in many industries other than those directly affected, and mow down the incomes of employers, investors and workers. And income taxes roll in only when there are incomes.

There Isn't That Much Paper! CTATOR JUAN PERON of Argentina has given human nature the opportunity it's been waiting for ever since Adam showed Eve what a dashing, reckless fellow he was. Senor Peron has just had a law passed requiring Argentine newspapers to publish situations-wanted advertisements free of charge. What effect this will have on the social and economie life of Argentina is something for its own experts to ponder. Certainly, though, it will impose a burden—to put it mildly—on the Argentine newspapers, which have been cut fo.ib and 12-page size by government newsprint restricns.

A » . » BUT that's the Argentines’ worry. Our worry is, what if it happened here? Ours is not a modest country, and our citizens are not given to understatement, especially when | talking about themselves. Given free opportunity to tell the | world how wonderful we are, even our bulky Sunday papers | |

wouldn't be big enough to hold our self praise. We can see them now—those advertisements! ‘Great Lover desires opportunity to make life exciting for deserv- | ing female. Send picture and retainer of $1,000,000 together +. with token case of Scotch.” And,. “Potential millionaire will accept position as head of nation's largest bank. Now employed in responsible post at Bennie's Bookie Shop.” No, it just wouldn't work here. We'd run out of paper.

Academic "THIRTEEN university economists whose opinions were gathered by the National Planning Association shave _ told a congressional committee that the old idea of balancing the federal budget every year is unsound. ; “That objective has now proved impracticable and, besides, has serious disadvantages in principle,” they said. “To insist upon a balance in every single year is certainly undesirable and to attain it is probably impossible.” The 13 professors may be right. Their opinion is widely

But it has become somewhat academic. The real | now arises from that apparently growing school of . ht which seems to hold that, if not actually unde-

| million for the National Service Life Insurance

- squabble or even to know and understand all its angles.

has become impracticable to balance the federal ‘-

SPENDING . . . By Earl Richert Why Big Jump In U. S. Costs?

Heavy Deficit Cited Despite More Revenue WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—Why is the federal government in the red this year when it is taking in slightly more money than last? And last year at this time, the government was in the black. The answer, naturally, is that the government is spending a lot more money—spending more than it was last year and more than it is now taking in. Since July 1, start of the new fiscal year, the government has spent $10 billion—$§2.3 billion more than It spent in the same period last year. Where is this extra $2.3 billion going? Treasury officials say that in the first place this $2.3 billion figure should be only $1.8 billion because $500 million of Marshall Plan expenditures last year were charged against the 1948 fiscal year by order of Congress. In other words, last year's expenditures actually were $500 million higher than was recorded for bookkeeping purposes.

Increase in Spending

WHAT of the remaining $1.8 billion? Quickly catching the eye in a perusal of U. 8B. Treasury figures is a 2400 per cent In- | crease in the spending of the Commodity Credit Corp., the agency that supports farm prices by making loans and buying surpluses. = This shows that CCC expenditures have jumped from a $25 million total during July, August and September last year to $609 million for the corresponding three months of this year. That accounts for almost one-third of the $1.8 billion increased spending.

Then there is an increase of almost

$400

fund for veterans. This has nothing to do with the payment of the GI insurance dividends which will be made out of a trust fund. It represents a contribu-

| How Firm a Foundation?

COMMUNITY CHEST

tion from the government to the trust fund to keep it solvent,

War-Hazard Costs

GI's NEVER were charged a high enough premium to cover hazards of war. They paid a rate based on normal. life expectancy, with the federal government chipping in the difference to cover war-hazard costs. This money should have shown up on the books last year but

didn't because of slowness of Congress to appropriate, Treasury officials say. The military also has spent $325 million more so far this fiscal year than last. The Air Force accounts for most of it, with increased spending of $245 million. Expenditures for the office of Secretary of Defense Johnson have gone up more than four times—from $475,000 to $1,961,000 for the three months. Total military spending so far this fiscal year is $3,412,000,000 as against $3,088,000,000 last year. Marshall Plan spending, too, is running $400 million ahead of actual expenditures last year. Treasury officials say this is because Marshall Plan spending now has momentum while last year it was just getting started.

Big Current Deficit

GOVERNMENT revenues so far this fiscal year total $8,685,000000—which, against expenditures of $10,060,000,000, leaves a current deficit of $1,304,984,836, : Last year this time, the government had a | bookkeeping surplus of $798 million. Counting the actual expenditures of $502 million for the | Marshall Plan, the actual federal surplus this | time last year was $206 million—a long way away from our current $1.4 billion deficit. Treasury officials point out that government | revenues are running slightly ahead of last year because corporations still are paying taxes

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PEDDLER’S PASSAGE . . . Traveler's Room

SOME DAY when there's time, I'm going to get better acquainted with U. 8. Highway 41 as it runs the length of our state from the Calumet region to Evansville. It carries a one of the longest thoroughfares in the state, yet I'll bet that more people from Eastern Illi-

with is south of Earl Park and Boswell. Besides the scenery, there are people to be met, and places to stay. If you're a golfer Attica has one of the toughest courses in the state. Not too far from that golf course on No. 41 is the place where I sought lodgings the other

Sporting Chance

MAYBE it's the gypsy in me, but when I'm working the territory I don’t like to be tied down by reservations. There's an element of a sporting chance in finding a room at the last minute. Seldom have I been disappointed, and I certainly wasn't sorry that I had stopped at the big white house which identified itseif in neon lights as an “Approved Motel Guest House.” After being shown a room, and noting that it faced away from the highway, that it had a bath, that there was adequate lighting gpd desk space, I registered and went out to eat. On returning I found time to sit in the living room and learn something about the guest house business from Mrs. Earl Jaynes, who with her husband, operates the place. Opgrating as a member of the Motel Association they ate required to maintain certain stand-

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ards of equipment and. cleanliness. As Mrs. Jaynes put it: “You never know when they're going to do it, but every four or five months some inspector from the association appears and tears up the beds, looks over the house to see if it's as clean as it should be, and then okays us till the

great amount of traffic. It is

nois travel it than do weé from the central part next time.” of our own state except when we go to Chicago. “How long have you been operating this as The part I want to become better acquainted a motel?”

" “We started early in 1941, but during the war it seemed the thing to do to turn it into apartments, but it wasn't long before we changed back to the transient trade.” She told me that the weekends were usually reserved in advance by people from Chicago driving to Turkey Run or other places of scenic beauty in our state.

‘Like to Come Back’ -

“WE'LL be busy now all fall, because people seem to like to come back.” * “Isn’t it a lot of work, Mrs. Jaynes?” “Yes, but we love it. We work hard to keep the place clean, but people are so nice. We've heen here all these years and we see different people every day. A lot of traveling men drive for miles to stay here, and they keep coming back. There's always someone staying here.” Then she told how a few days before, her husband, who has an electrical repair business, was gone on a job, and it was after 8:30 p. m. with no guests. At the time the police from several states were tracking down some escaped convicts who were last seen within a few miles of Attica. & “I was beginning to get nervous with no one

on their record 1948 profits. They expect the business dip of the last few months to show up in decreased corporation tax payments next spring.

A MOTHER TO HER SON

“I see 80 much in you Though you are not quite two; Just a lad who's made me glad, There may be moments I'll be sad, Yet you are my hope new born, Your golden dreams must unfold To create fresh strength in this forlorn, Heartsick arena of human strife, . . , In those baby hands you hold Ideals that you must guard with brawn To promote the long awaited dawn Of far flung freedoms, bountiful life. No, 1 do‘not see the child, I see the man, The vision awes. boy link in the Infinite Plan!” ~-VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON, Greenfield, Ind.

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“this fall. |- and quiet.

MORE than 5,000,000 postcards and stamped envelopes are sold each year in the U. 8. Of | gr about half serve as pocket linings for foretful husbands.

AN optometrist says blue or violet lights stop headaches.

A SAN FRANCISCO sailor has a lifetime | collection of old ropes. Not many people save | all their Christmas cigars. ; |

U. 8, EDUCATION Commissioner esti 32,671,500 students entered the nation’s scHeols That's a lot of mothers with peace

there, because I didn't know when one of those convicts would walk right in that door. But just about that time people began to stop for the night, and before I knew it we were all filled up.” “When is your slack season?”

‘No Slack Season’

“WE .don’t have much of a slack season. There are always salesmen who stay overnight, and then all fall there will be people from Chicago wanting to go to Turkey Run and there - isn't a place like this for nearly 30 miles south. “In the winter this makes a good first stop on the way to Florida, or a last stop on the way to Chicago. And the people are all so nice.” People who travel for business or pleasure and realize that.they can get good accommodations in places like Attica, usually appreciate a good bed in a clean, comfortable environment. They aren't apt to be fussy when they run across such an establishment as that maintained by

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‘Editorial on Labor Unfair’ By Walter Frisbie, Field Organizer, United Eleotrical Radio & Machine Workers of America. The Times’ editorial, “Red Bomb and Union,” is viciously unfair and untrue. . The patriotism and loyalty of the United Electrical Workers, both Members 504 leaders, is sound as or any one else’s, et pig UE have worked and de work on and about atopic projects. Their work is as good and their Americanism is unquestionable as that of any citizen. Your incredibly mendacious statement that Russia retained control of the UE smacks of nightmare-hangover illusions. It's the sort of smear we'd expect from a Riesel or a hophead. The UE Convention in Cleveland dealt clearly, publicly with the following issues: To bargain for wage increases for its members this year: to carry on the. fight to repeal the Taft Hartley Law; to demand other CIO unions stop raiding and meddling in UE affairs; to comply

| with the Taft-Hartley affidavit requirements

so that the election machinery of the board will be available to the UE; to support the strike of

| the Singer Workers against speedup, rate cut-

ting, and for wage increases; to oppose discrimi.

| nation in employment; to work for a construce

tive program to combat growing unemployment;

| to advocate a broad social and labor legislative | perspective covering taxation, wages and hours,

social security, farm income, housing and

| education.

The convention overwhelmingly re-elected its officers and condemned the call for secession issued to -the press by the defeated minority, faction, led by a sophomoric opportunist, encouraged by anti-union employers, and abetted by power-hungry “labor leaders” and outside groups who injected political and religious prej. udices into the union. The convention amended its constitution to provide for speedier trial procedure only in the case of members of the UE who attempt to use their membership and the union's facilities to wreck it by raiding or secession activities, You certainly dug deep into the sewer for the ordure in your editorial. While I am aware of the fact that you are not friendly to labor and its needs, as witness your editorial in the same issue criticizing the Steel Workers for insisting on the inadequate proposals of the Truman Board, nevertheless I frankly was shocked and surprised at the crude libels of your attack on the UE.

Editor's Note: Well, view-points differ. Maybe to Field Organizer Frishie, who once de scribed himself as a “fellow traveller,” the men who employ him look like conservatives.) > % @

Buttermilk a Disgrace’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City. This so-called buttermilk that dairies sell to the public is a disgrace to a cow. Even the

sweet milk has lost its flavor, butter also. The

delicious buttermilk we used to get, with its little flakes of butter and vitamins, has turned out to something indescribable that has come through a siege. It is drained of all life force and contains nothing but corpses floating around. They cool and freeze the milk, parboil it, homogenize and grade it, then give it another grade into whipped cream, double cream, coffee cream and “Hi O Silver.” You don't know what you're getting. One thing is sure— if there are any vitamins left at all, they may as well be dead; after all this beating they are scared stiff. : So we must carry a box of vitamin pills around. Little wonder we are overfed and undernourished. Do you want to make a million? Get into the food racket and make some vitamin pills. It's a tip. After all, we do. have a pure food and drug law on the books. Isn't there such a thing as carrying this too far? There are good bacteria as well as bad, and in trying to destroy tho bad, haven't we also destroyed the good? Milk must sour to be digested but I'll be a cat's uncle if the sweet milk we get from dairies will sour if it’s placed in the sun for two days. Dairjes are continually coming up with new gime micks but so long as their food doesn't Kill, the gullible public will keep on buying the chemical emulsified stuff because it tastes all right. Is there a glass of good buttermilk in the house?

What Others Say—

A TAX reduction would mean a further increase in the size of the deficit and revenue loss would be felt not only in the year of the reduction but also in future years.-—Robert Iq Daughton (D. N. C.), chairman House Ways and Means Committee. ’ ® + o ASK Washington—we have no power to decide; we support a united Germany, but a free one.—Kurt Adenauer, first chancellor of the West German Republic, on Inclusion of

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LEADERSHIP . . By Clyde Farnsworth

Feuding in China

CANTON, Oct. 3—-The on-again, off-again feud between President Li Tsung-jen and Chiang Kai-shek must be settled or China soon may be finished as an effective anti-Communist force. It is difficult for foreigners to take sides in this marathon But it's easy to realize what it ia doing to the Nationalists’ ability to resist Communism. At a time when the principals and

ing common cause, they show inability to close their own ranks. They seem to look upon it as a private fight in the Chinese Nationalist political party and no doubt they would be embarrassed to learn the neighbors are listening.’

Tragic Implication

IT'S no secret. Every foreign diplomatic’ representative In this tentative capital is following it closely, recognizing its tragic implications and trying to guess the outcome, The disagreement between there two is simply a struggle for power, Each distrust the other—not his intentions, but his capability ~leadership. = Each of these men feels the hand of history on his shoulder and regards himself as the heaven-sent guardian of China's

| destiny, Li is president under the constitution, but Chiang, who

yielded that post in January, is the _generalissimo, with more than 20 years leadership of the Kuomintang political party behind him? e In July, Chiang told me he could never relinquish his “‘revolutionary leadership.” Besides being the {op man in the Kuomintang, he is chairman of the party's emergency council.” He is 63 and pretty set in his ways.

_| Both Oppose-Compromise

PRESIDENT LI is four years younger and also is a determined man. ° . Both ardently oppose any compromise with Communism. although President Li had to satisfy himself last winter that peace was impossible, =i rte Both - want foreign help for Nationalist China and both were more or less written off by the United States white paper on China. President Li, however, might still qualify under whatever definition Secretary of State Dean Acheson has for “deserving Democratic - individualism.’

. Chiang was the principal target of the white paper and for

years was the focal point of the State Department's disapproval. He seems out of the°’running as a possible custodian of American aid. Both Chiang and President Li were soldier revolutionaries of the Kuomintang. No one but the Reds and their running mates would “thallenge their patriotism. But Chiang and President Li come close to dividing what is left of Nationalist China.

supporters of this | quarrel cry out for unified international support to their falter-

The struggle has reached throughout the upper ranks of |

the government's civil and military services, “Officials and officers who had not taken sides are taking - them naw. Personal loyalties of many years are being put to

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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

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o3 COP. 1909 BY NEA SERVICE. VG. T. ML. AED. UL &.PAT. OFF. "Seventeen and he's talking about getting married — isn't that boy ever going to grow up?"

the test. Neither Chiang nor President Li can win without absorbing some of the personal following of the other.

Until his retirement from the presidency, Chiang's power B : a 3 rastge hag always overshadowed that of the lean-jawed When Chiang retired he retained the prerogatives of his pre-constitutional leadership and safeguarded the National Treasury by having it transferred to Formosa. He then started to | convert that large island into a fortress arsenal that would con- | Hnue resistance even if President Li made his peace with the |

Today President Ii vows to fight the Communists to the

| end and wants full powers constitutionally conferred upon him-—

especially those of commander in chief of the armed forces—but he has them only an paper. : :

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"EMPLOYMENT . . . By Fred W. Perkins

Hire Older Workers

WASHINGTON, Oct 3—Organized business, like organized labor, is starting to do something about employment of the over= age workers. 5 The U., 8. Chamber of Commerce and the National Associa« tion of Manufacturers have joined in a project intended to ene courage employers not only to keep older workers on the job past the customary retirement age, but to find new jobs for elderly applicants. : Labor unions’ want contract pledges from employers that they will keep or hire older persons. The Chamber-NAM program developed after both organiza. tions tock part in a national campaign for employment of the physically handicapped. Herman W. Steinkraus, chamber president, said: “Our goal

"is equality of opportunity for the handicapped and older worker,

3 recognition that ability rather than age should be the sole ob test.

Solution Rests With Employers

“BASICALLY, business and industry must carry the primary responsibility because the final solution of this problem rests with employers, who provide the jobs.” The business and union efforts are part of a national recognition of the deepening gravity of the old-age problem. It is grows ing more serious because the population trend in this country is toward a sharp increase in the number of .older persons in the next 10 to 50 years, It has been pointed out that industry must prepare either to give these workers useful jobs or help support them through heavier taxation. : The Chamber and the NAM Have completed a survey among large and small business enterprises of many types. Of the 279 companies, 159 said they hired both handicapped and older worke ers; 35 hire older workers; 30 hire the handicapped; 55 d6 not have a set policy but some occasionally employ both types.

Superior Workers :

MOST of the companies said such workers on the average were as competent and often superior to younger and more able~ bodied smpicyves, employers cited less absenteeism, greater reliabliiit Detter work habits, lower personnel re and good ny nd ormance as reasons why the han and the shi spiyees dicapped the aged are valu. ly a ‘few said the employment of such workers caused 1 Increase in costs of workman's compensation insurance. The _— Jority said there was no conflict with company pension plans, However, some said it was necessary to maintain age limits on new employees so that all would be able to participate sion plan long enough to permit retirement with a full pension. One of the difficulties was indicated by a public service utility, It said: “We do not let old age interfere with our pension plan, So long as anyone is able to continue to work, we permit him to do so. In some instances, however, this brings criticism from younger people seeking employment.” Other difficulties are in the hazardous and strenuous indus. tries, and in some companies that follow policies of hiring young and promoting on a career basis, : ES er

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