Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1949 — Page 28

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Jenner Letter Full of Gloom

"Finds Congress # Walking Backwards

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-—Dear Boss:

of the southern Indiana judicial district doubt about their own preference for United

lawyers of the whole judicial

Nearly half the whole bar of the district, an unusually | high return on a poll of any kind, gave approximately threeindorsement to one man .. . B, Howard Caughran,

MR. CAUGHRAN is, of course, admirably qualified for this important post by any standards that could be wet. A man of unquestioned ability and integrity, he has also long familiarity with district court procedure and with federal A laws, after 12 years service as United States District Attorney in this very court. : From a purely partisan political viewpoint, which also has to be considers his record as a Democrat has been unwavering and his service to his party has been great. i There have been efforts, in behalf of certain aspirants, p Ja imuemellcpediots by suing + "poliey St "Lid bar, on of age alone, everyone past, perhaps 35 or Washington correspondent, revealed

Judicial vacancies dutsg his whale administration ith, So as old, or older, than Mr. Caughran and most of the others who have been mentioned for this post. His reasons are ob- _ vious, and sound. Jew mn under 0 have the maturity. or the experience a federal bench requl wd . well qualified onage,to. Wha cgline the Neo. WE HAVE not had, and we do not have now, any “canThere are others among those considered by the district bar who would be acceptable district judges, and. whose Spgelatshent could add both dgeity to the court aad Yuter

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to Dem prestige in Indiana. a But in the opinion of those who know most about the

he fiscal year beginning next July. ~~ from the military pro‘foreign aid and at least $1.6 billion ,_ And, he adds, newspapers and demanding a balanced budget could do more than anything else to promote economy “if they would come up to the altar and say, ‘We ‘don't want any subsidies from the post office.’ ” _ All right. We have said that many times before and

ee nn» 1 fa » 0» LAST FISCAL year ‘the Post Office Department operated at a loss of more than half a billion dollars. It says the biggest share of its annual deficit is due to carrying ; newspapers and magazines through the mails at rates below ‘cost of the service. So, when newspapers and magazines oppose government subsidies for other interests, they often are accused of accepting a subsidy for themselves. We do not believe the press should be subsidized and’ are willing to pay the Tull cost of carrying that part of this __mewspapér's circulation which is delivered by mail. That gost, however, should be determined accurately, not merely We think we have a right to know how much, if any, | daily papers, as

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rationalization of steel, 55 billions for fe works and all the other multi-million dollar proposals it has up its legislative sleeve.” Aséalling the bipartisan foreign policy, which neither he nor Sen. Capehart support, Sen. Jenner sald: “This Congress has extended to 23 the number of administration foreign ald hand-out proof the last four years, the total cost to 35 billions. While these billion-dollar hand-outs continue to pour into foreign lands, millions of American children are without adequate school facilities, millions of American families are poorly housed and millions of Amerjea's aged are trying to eke out a bare subsistence on a disgraceful allowance of $20 a month.” : Citing the destruction of “mountains” of potatoes and government storage of “millions of dosens of eggs” to keep prices “up out of the reach of the millions more who are living on inadequate incomes,” Sen. Jenner added: “And these Fair Deal, weifare-staters con tinue to boast, they planned it that way. “The greatest tragedy is that most of these could not have happened without the bisn molicy that Is ParalyEing Out tWO-PAr system.”

‘Bring Uncle Sam Back

CONCLUDING the Senator calis the future dark but expresses this hope: “Somebody has sent Uncle Sam into exile.

Uncle Sam is a man without a country. It is my ‘solemn conviction that it is now your duty, my

duty and the duty of every American to constitute himself a committee of one and organize a searching party to go out and find bring him back,” Measures having bi-partisan backing were not always opposed by Sen. Jenner. Although much as his senior instances as the $300

House, cut over-all fed-. nt and each

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Sen. Cape wasn't recorded on the second either, One-of the backers of both attempts at cutting the aver-pll cost of government was that Fair Deal freshman, Sen. Paul H. Douglas, Democrat, of Illinois. He worked on the bills with . a Republican neighbor from Ohlo—8en. Robert A. Taft. Both of them were on hand each time the roll was called. They voted “yea,” but the bills failed anyway. Too many absentees.

BERLIN AID . . . By James Daniel

Cost of Airlift

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — Pentagon a6

countants have come up with a “consolidated estimate” of the cost of the Berlin airlift. It doesn’t count the grief caused by the SSATHE Of 31 Americans In the great maneuver that called the Russians’ bluff in blockading Berlin. Nor does it include any sum for coms pensating their dependents or pensioning the survivors, ’ But strictly on a money basis, it's a sizable ftem--$265.048,000, This is what the U. 8, spent to supply Berlin by air between June 26, 1048 and Sept. 30, 1049. Not counted Is the cost of the supplies themselves, which we would have bought anyway. . The cost bréaks down Into $252,540,000, the cost of the air phases; $11 million, the cost of Army transport; and $2,408,000, the Navy's cost of freighting aviation gasoline to Europe.

1,300,000 Taxpayers

THE AIRLIFT added more to the U. 8B. na tional debt than the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 combined. The income tax received from 13 million taxpayers earning

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

Too Many Men Don’t Talk Shop

EVERY once in a while, somebody—like as not one whose bile is acting up-springs the discovery that the art of conversation is headed for extinction. I heard it again the other night— this time straight from the lips of an otherwise alert little lady who explained at some length that conversation is a lost art in Indianapolis mainly because the men around here insist on “Salking shop” when in the company of women. To one of my age, the lamentation had a familiar sound. Close to 70 years ago, Mrs. May Wright Sewall observed the same thing, On that

oc¢casion she proposed that men should wear

trade signs hung from their necks to serve as warnings or invitations as the case might be. Samples suggested by Mrs. Sewall included: “If you want to know more about pork packing, I'm your man”; “Pick me to enlighten you about plumbing”; and “There isn't anything about life insurance I don’t know.” For some reason the men were too dense to catch on, whereupon Mrs. Sewall ridicule and resorted to a more forthright system of education, This time she issued invitations to 30 or more people (mostly males) to attend what she called a “Conversazione” hoping that, maybe, by precept and example she could show the boobs around here what she had in mind.

Gets ‘a ‘Conversazionaliste’ MRS. SEWALL staged her party In the chaste parlors of her N. Pennsylvania St. home on the evening of Jan. 25, 1880. And to make sure it would be a genuine conversasione, free of all shop talk, she paid Amos Bronson Alcott his price to come all the way from Concord, Mass, to start the talk and, what was even more important, to lead it back into an intelJectual groove when it showed signs of straying—thus precluding any possibility of commercial contamination. Mr. Alcott was S80 years old at the time with only eight more years to live, but despite his advanced age he traveled the long distance to get Mrs. Sewall started right and give her venture the stamp of authenticity. Back in those

“auys Mr; Aleott otcupied & place In the cultural”

Hite of New Zrgund pot unlike that of Mrs. polis, thus providing again, if further evidence is necessary, that birds of a feather flock together no matter whether they are mated or not, ;

May Wright Sewall

Well, after going to all the trouble Mrs. §ewall did——and knowing what you do about the inexorability of -the dramatic unities as expounded by Aristotle—you'd suspect, of course, that her party couldn't have been anything but a brilliant success. It missed the mark by ! geveral miles. Soon as Mr. Alcott got warmed up to his subject, it developed that he didn’t like interruptions—arguments, even less—with the result that instend of being a conversa..sione, as billed. Mra. Sewall's turned out

"to be a monolog with Mr. Alcott doing all the

* talking. It was a mightly good monolog, however. And the reason it was so good was because it consisted entirely of shop talk. Which is to say that Mr. Alcott confined his remarks to what he had accomplished in the way of bringing up the four Little Women later immortalized by his daughter, Louisa. :

“Most Delightful

- WITH THE vanity and professional pride of a successful father, Mr. Alcott recalled every experience of his precocious progeny. Indeed, he put his darling daughters through all their

_. paces that night-from diapers to and through

their first party. frocks, and from diphtheria to . and including that dreadful disease known as calf-love which, more often than not, appeared to be incurable, he admitted. To be sure, he occasionally mentioned Mrs. Alcott, too, but in every instance he made it pretty plain that Meg, Amy, Beth and Jo wouldn't have amounted to much had they not

been blessed with a competent father who knew

his business, ‘When Mr, Alcott finished his two-hour-long monolog, (because he was out of breath) everybody present that it was the most delightful talk heard in Indianapolis up to that time. Even Mrs, Sewall showed signs of breakdown, : Which brings me to the point of today's ~ piece—namely, the discovery that talking shop is the least thing we have to worry about. The trouble with conversation in Indianapolis is not that so many men talk shop, as is generally believed, but that so many men don’t talk shop. Instead, they prattie about art, music, literat international politics and their latest surgi operation (like as not, a ghastly case of hernia) about none of which is it possible to add anything new or worthwhile.

Insecurity Through "Security’ in Steel

By E. T. LEECH

FULL BOBTE of the steel

strike may not be felt for years, At least half a billion dol-

lars in production, Some companies will dis- . freight and taxes was lost. Appear by failure or in merger. which they put on small firms. But that’s just the Immediate Tremendous irapetus has been The strike showed that there It may be a minor item given toward fewer and bigger is 8 Mionepoly 1 act » when the total bill is added up companies. la a a union side. A basic Industry WAS ; companies better charges about a time 1s apt to ay Sep so- old antiunion front was reveal that the change was called “Bethlehem of borne out by events. Bethlebad. In fact, the whale busi. perisions and In hem broke away, and U. 8. tems were altered by this prices to help cost. Ding boy of the industry—was strike. That, in turn, the 57th to sign wp. . Though they won pension, costs of the future of many comsystems, workers are lk which made to be more insecure. For bigs. of 1 tmereased the hazards of pay the ben y which make up the : those which of

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‘Love to Be an Assessor’ By James D. Roth, 3168 N. Capitol Ave. We notice with much satisfaction that seve eral tape line holders have been “liquidated.” AS we see it—one man can measure property lines and assess the property a “leetle” more than it should be. Now we think that it is entirely too strenuous on the No. 2 man to hold

‘one end of that tape line once or twice each

hour, and all the while commending the fine appearance of your house. But this is politics and gets votes from the ugticks.” I'd love to be an assessor and hold a tape line long as I can. 0 * © o ;

Challenge to Christian Leaders

By Adolph Blickman, 5 N. Illinois St.

To The Times, I tip my hat, for publishing on the front page, for the edification of all Hoosiers, the story captioned “Son of GI who died in war beaten because he's a Jew.” It was a most touching story .-. . and I suppose the first impulse of all who read the story was that the boys who were responsible for this dastardly act should be punished . . , but really they shouldn't be punished because they are not en= tirely to blame. This - incident is a challenge to Christian leaders the world over. Lynn, Mass. just happened to be the date line of the story; this sort of thing has happened before in other cities and

will happen again and again unless there is &

concerted movement to educate not only these boys but also their parents as well in the true significance of the Christian religion and in the teachings of Jesus Christ. ; It is the paramount duty of all Americans to educate misinformed parents and children in the true Christian manner, that freedom of worship is an alienable American privilege, that all men are created equal and that tolerance and the appreciation of a fellowman is a Chris-

tian. victue,. and. by..80. educating these chile , -. dren in sound Christian doctrines, we will make,”

of them the real leaders of tomorrow in their” respective communities. Yes, good and solid citizens with their heads up and their eyes front instead of culprits to be punished for crimes they do not understand. This work has already been undertaken by some of our Christian leaders, but the co-operation of all leaders, both lay and

religious, is needed not only badly but In a - hurry.

MIRACLE . . . By Eorl Richer!

New Day Dawns

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—~A new era dawns on Jan. 1: ; A government agency will let og form do the work of two, The Internal Revenue Bureau is combining into one new form the two old forms used by employers to report quarterly the amount of in come taxes withheld fraph employees and the amount of social security taxes withheld. Also .on Jan, 1 the social security tax goes up trom 1 to 1% per cent on the first $3000 of income. At that time employers can report both social security and withholding taxes on one form-e to be known as Form 941. Previously, employers had to use one form for social security and another for withholding taxes even though they were filled out the same day, involved the same employees and were going to the same governs ment agency.

Aid in Accounting

INTERNAL REVENUE officials say they are proud of this action. “It's nothing revolutionary,” sald one. “But {t's certainly a step in the right direction, And 1 hope we can make more of them.” Bureau officials say it will not only save emgloyers the thauhie of AWiG out bio REF dereh will facilitate government accounting. Since the new forms do not have to be filed until Apr, 30—a month after the end of the first will not be mailed to employers ‘until sometime in March, \ :

Yoke Over Deposits IN ANOTHER new step designed to save the money, Federal Reserve banks after

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