Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1949 — Page 12

~~ Being a farmer, Mr. Kiisk will find this an even greater land of opportunity than he could have pictured in his most In this enchanted country the farmer is in somewhat the same position as the sacred cow in India. He alone among American entrepreneurs is guaranteed a fair return for his éfforts, and he receives many other blessings from a loving government. ; : Mr. Kiisk might get money to buy a farm through the Farmers’ Homie Administration. He might get working "capital through the Farm Credit Administration's Federal Land Banks, or through the Production Credit Admin.

~ get electricity, if he goes to an isolated locality, with the aid of the Rural Electrification Administration,

eipal money crops, he will get the right price when they are ready for market. £2 an : During the war, high “floors” were placed under the

keep the prices they must pay Mr, Kiisk. Cut yourself in

¥ LINCOLN of Ohio, president of the Co-Oper-League of America, spoke fo the recent CIO con-

This brings up a question. Would Mr, Lincoln run that pel mill as a tax-exempt enterprise like so many other co- |. ‘The Bureau of Internal Revenue reports that nearly ~~ tives—did an $8 billion busiviess in 1046. A . . a © » IT IS estimated that the Federal Treasury lost $1 bilap a a am hs ” i‘ a — ave oliacied "per Sent tax on If workers and farmers get into the steel business on tax-exempt co-op basis, what would be proved by comin with steel companies that pay the tax?

If U. 8. Steel, Bethlehem and the other steel companies relieved of the 38 per cent corporate income tax, they

o reductions. But the Treasury's revenue loss would be

of farmers and steel workers. Let farmers and workers get into the steel business they choose. But, before making comparisons, let's put

i regulation since 19047, will return to that admirable ‘state on Jan. 1. ; “Too many customers prefer the brush and mug,” exins an official. “And besides, 15 per cent of the shops Utah don’t have electricity to run lather machines.” Happy men of Utah! They can have their shaves the way they want them, with lather soothingly lush and warm, ie in a mug, applied with a brush and rubbed in by the ELL jbarber’s fingers. It is, perhaps, too much to hope, but pos(sibly other states will be encouraged to follow Utah's enONE OF THE things this country needs is a return of the shaving mug. Time was when a young fellow, visiting ‘8 barber shop for his first shave, found himself fired with lermination to rise in the world and have a private mug ‘all his own, t:stéfully decorated, inscribed with his name and displayed prominently in a rack along with those of other leading citizens, Sanitary regulations may be all right in their place, t no lather machine will ever equal the noble shaving an inspirer of ambition.’ :

I |. Blackmer Funds . .

0 PION THOH PC AAT ; pot os , WASHINGTON, Nov, 14—The federal gov- |

Displaced Persons Act of 1948 arrived on our

Best of all, Mr. Kiisk can be sure, if he grows the prin. .

. of them co-opera-

up from other sources—including taxes on individual |

. 'RARBER-SHOP shaving mugs, banned by a Utah sanitary

ernment has “thawed” a fortune of more than _ $10 million belonging to Henry :M. Blackmer,

$263.000 in cash, and a large sum In municipal bonds. 3 The foreign funds control office of the Treasury already had placed a freeze over the

ed counance, was con-

and their nations, tries. Blackmer, then living in sidered an enemy national. After his hidden millions were discovered, a special blocking order was issued for his funds alone. The Treasury press release on the action recalled that he was still a fugitive and had suc-

Questions Unanswered

function from Treasury, an order was issued bsg gp freeze on Blackmer's

money. General Freeze Order

name and to buy and sell securities. There were 55 licenses of this type recorded. At his trial a federal judge at Denver ruled that he was too old (82) to go to jail and let him off with a fine.

TRUE FRIENDSHIP

A was broken today, Where ‘twas thought that friendship existed, It was found that envy held sway.

Then a clear, sweet voice seemed to whisper, And break in on this reverie, : “True friendship has never existed Where envy and jealousy be.

False friendship is unworthy of name, ¥or friendship can only be true, Be grateful for the awakening— 2+ That true friends are true, through and through.” ~La Vaughu Evans Peters, New Castlé, Ind.

MOTHER

She shared her love with my young heart That grew in afteryears, bo She laughed that I would never feel The sadness of her. bitter tears.

The hands that stroked my baby head Were red and rough with care, But the undimmed eyes of a child of four Sawconly love and kindness there. \

But when I grew to womanhood

«Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway. ® *

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

("Los Angeles—Kept him from ball games, peeks divorce after 39 years”) This husband has but one big grief, There's one thing he A ak He can't see baseball; that's his beef B And 80 he bawls hi. that strikes. But though he. must go home each night; And baseball's on the shelf, That shouldn't be top bad a plight, He makes homewruns himself!

cessfully resisted efforts to return him to this” try.

Officials there sald that prior to transfer of

permitting him to put the money in his own’

. with no apology whatsoever.

— Ate UR.

FOREIGN RELATIONS . . .

By Marquis Childs

‘Playboy’ Congressmen in Europe

FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov, 14—Junketing members of Congress are swarming over Europe inspecting this and s that. Most of them are seriously interested in what is hap-

_ pening In Europe and how American aid is

being used. . But others are not, guite definitely not. Too often: they behave like college freshman after a football victory, and that is really being rather unfair to college freshmen. The other day I heard a detailed account of the behavior of one group of. junketing Congressmen, which was a perfect example of how not to behave when you are an official visitor in a foreign country. These men violated every rule of Emily Post and some that Mrs. Post didn't think it was necessary to include in her book.

En route to the ~apital of the country, the visiting Congressmen were bewitched by the scenic beauties of a town they through. A ) feature of the scenery were two pretty blond girls on the station platform.

No Apology AS a ‘result, they arrived hours late meant that a series of appointments made for them with cabinet ministers had to be canceled, and made over again. The fact that this took a great deal of the time and energy of American officials meant nothing or less than nothing to the visitors. 7 aid In fact, their attitude to members of the embassy and ECA staff was that these Americans were probably undeserving loafers who had somehow managed to get berths and were now enjoying a lazy and lascivious life in wicked Europe. The idea is to get service out of ‘em, see. What do we pay The ambassador had arranged a small cocktail party at which the visiting Congressmen were to meet the cabinet member most concerned with the problem that was their specialties and with his experts. They arrived nearly an hour late. They had already had a great many cocktails, They made it plain they weren't very interested in talking to the cabinet minister or anyone else who might burden them with serious

information. This chore they left to the harassed

and unhappy staff director whom they had brought with them. . What they wanted was for the ambassador to find somehow the telephone number of those two blonds back In that other town. And if he

themselves into soft

couldn't do that, then why weren't there some good-looking gals on tap here in the capital? What kind of a place was this, anyway?

Didn't Want to Go THE cabinet minister had arranged a small dinner for them. They at first said they wouldn't g0. “What do we want to sit around and talk to those old birds for?” After some earnest pleading, the ambassador persuaded them that it would be slightly insulting not to g0. They went, but they left early and noisily. When the ambassador put them on the train the next day, having personally administered various remedies,” he gave a sigh of relief and started in to repair the damage they had done. Discreet apologies could be made to the cabinet minister and his experts who had been prepared to supply masses of facts and figures on the problem officially under study by the junketeers. , A traveling member of Congress may feel that he is answerable only to voter back im his district or his state. And isn’t he entitled to a little fun when he gets out of the country where nobody knows him, any- ?

What he does not seem to realize is that in Europe he is not just the Con n from the umpty-ump district of the great state of what-

ever it may be. He is a representative of the

United States and his conduct reflects in one way or another on his country, members of Senate and House, who come without too many prejudices and preconvictions because they really want to get the facts, suffer from the bad behavior of a few. Probably the majority of traveling Congressmen try to look seriously at what they come to

- Europe to see. A Senate subcommittee has been

earnestly studying the system of co-operative housing in Scandinavia, °

BUT there should be some way for Congress to restrain or discipline the junketeers who go along merely for the ride and all the hey-nonny-nonny they can get in along the way. These careless merrymakers give Congress, and for that matter the government of the United States, a black eye wherever they go. They are a fearful burden on overworked American officials in Europe, most of whom seer to

“be trying to do as good a “Job as posse.

While it would cost the taxpayer a little more, it might be worth it to pay the .way of wives of junketing Congressmen. The little woman might exercise some useful restraint and see to it that more work was done.

NEWS NOTEBOOK... By Douglas Larsen

| SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

ip the release from jail of Angus Ward and four staff members. It seems understandablé that this protest would go unnoticed since Clubb is virtually a prisoner himself. But the fact that Clubb is a virtual prisoner, or that his protest was meek, is of no consequence. It ree mains that Clubb, Ward, and two others are American citizens; and that something should be done now to effect their release, and to stop further unwarranted arrests of Americans in China—or elsewhere in the world. The United States is a strong nation and has enjoyed a great deal of prestige in the past, But this respect from other nations will be sapped if we continue to be namby-pamby in our attitude toward overt acts. : For that reason; I feel that we should move our Navy into Chinese waters, blocking their ports as a protest measure. : During the 1930's we let the Japanese bomb and sink a gunboat on the Yangtze River at a cost of American blood spilled. Nothing more than a protest was filed with the Japs. Six years later we paid for our meekness with more American blood. Likewise, in 1987 and 1938 we did little to stop the actions of Hitler and his legions as they moved into Austria and Czechoslovakia. In 1939 the world was thrown

into bloody co 2

In the face of t events, it would appear that a strong protest, on the spot and backed by a show of strength, to any uncalled-for actions on the part of any nation might avert Justhes violations of personal and national

Barbs—

A MICHIGAN sheriff lets prisoners sleep one-half hour later—till 6:30 a. m. Why not? They aren't going any place. * ¢ 9 A FASHION expert declares women dress extemporaneously. Sort of making up as they go along. 3 mad * ¢ 9»

A PHILOSOPHER says it's fine to stay in. doors and read during a storm. When it rains he pores, * ¢ 9»

A 16-YEAR-OLD girl asked for annulment of

*® » TOO MANY politicians who ‘are going to name names wind up by just calling them. * oo ¢

REFLECTING living costs, the panhandler

has changed his plea—“Bugdy, can you spare

a quarter?”

life will be from government bonds—if you buy now, * > IN JUST a short time it won't be so good for the kids. From the spring school board.

RED TACTICS . .- By Bruce Biossat

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fo, Ja Se TEN YEARS from. now. your.best interest in

SEN. TAFT has turned up with what his staff claims

Behind the Scenes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-—A special investigation of erime conditions and rackets in the District of Columbia has been ordered by Congress. One of the things this probe is expected to go ‘Into is the widespread, organized gambling that goes on in government buildings, Every Friday afternoon in the fall work practically stops while government employees try to ‘pick their selections for the next day's football pool, Two or three syndicates operate these pools. Every week-end the blers' take on the football pool alone is estimated to be more than $20,000. All year long the numbers racket and horse betting flourish. Government officials ignore the situation and many top executives themselves play the ponies regularly the bookies in jthe buildings. Most of the syndicates’ agents ire government em. ‘ployees, messengers and janitors. They use the governmen | telephones to call in bets as they get them, ’

Cooking Up Votes

is a brand-new campaign gimmick on his current stumping of Ohio, in preparation for next year’s election. He makes it his business to wind up every luncheon and supper meeting in the kitchen, congratulating the cook. Then there usually follows a bull session with the Ohio Senator doing some good for him-

Early Bird Gets Worm? | SEN. TAFT's supporters claim that his strategy of going direct to the people, more than a year before the election to discuss issues, has paid off. His opponents sald he Was jumping the gun, that he would lose his steam before the crucial campaign. That still might happen. But as of now the Taft camp is saying pros Bl inl Rane ets Norio sd fl : | tes who were considering opposing oan They say the opposition is now. left without a top-fight opponent WER iS Ov 8 SUED, 0. Y. 3. pW. 8. 1. OO. the

cross the street against the lights!”

"| need that chocolate to frost a cake for my clu

Russian ‘Peace’ Talk

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—In Russia, where you stand ia official pictures is very important, It isn't because you'll show up better, but because it tells how you rate with Joseph Stalin. If your face disappears from the Politburo lineup, no one

tch, the report proved erroe neous, thus saving him from quick interment at the hands of American foreign affairs experts, A ; On the other hand, another Politburo member gave evidence that there was no mistake in the recent picture showing him at Stalin's left elbow. According to Russia's photographic this makes the gentleman-—Georgl M. Malenkov-—-the No. 3 man in the Soviet Union. :

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