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Trailer Camp Problem

DURING the acute housing shortage of wartime, hundreds of families were forced to live in trailer camps that sprang up in vacant lots all over Indianapolis and its subur-

_ban areas.

And, like many other ‘wartime emergency practices,

the trailer camps stayed on as sort of a permanent fixture

nearly five years now after the end of hostilities.

Living in a trailer camp, on a permanent basis is; at best, a make-shift arrangement with little or no sanitary facilities. Many of them will, or already have become poten-

tial health hazards.

Eventually, these camps will deteriorate intq slum areas as some-of the families move-into-permanent-housing-units; The result will be general depreciation of residential areas

Monday, Feb. 20, 1050

Dear Hearts and Gentle People

Did McKinney Swing Deal?

ing Say He Won Steckler Nomination

WASHINGTON, Feb, 20~=Hoosier Demos cratic congressmen, who. with the exception of Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, were more for their colleague, Rep, Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, for that federal judgeship than for William E: 8teckler. -Indianapolis, have cooked up’ a new “who-done-it” to explain what happened. ~~ . rg “They say that the visit here of Frank Mc-

Kinney a week ago and his sending for Mr. Bteckler to scotch a canard that he (Bteckler)

was deal has more {0 do with President Truman .

sending the nomination to the Senate than all the pressure from Frank M. McHale and William M. Boyle Jr,

Mr. McHale, who pioneered the Steckler ap-

TAKE THAT-

YOU OLD

MOTHEATEN S(A WE ro J) y

pointment just —as—he now —is—pushing Alex ————

Campbell. Ft. Wayne, for the Democratic nomination for U. 8. Senator, is, of course, the long. standing national committeeman from Indiana, as well as a leading Indianapolis corporation ‘lawyer. Mr. Boyle is Democratic national chalrman, Mr. McKinney, Indianapolis banker and Pittsburgh Pirates president, got his start to fortune as Marion County treasurer and has kept ‘his hands in big-time Democratic Party politics ever since” He has been rated a cinch for ®ecretary of Treasury should John W. Snyder of ‘Missouri ever quit.

around them,

INDIANAPOLIS already has ‘too "many "slum areni and permitting camp living conditions to create new ones

is a problem that will require direct action for a remedy.

It is true that scores of families now living in trailer camps are not able at present to find adequate housing at

rentals they can afford to pay.”

But as the housing shortage is gradually relieved, and __it appears now ‘that it will be, official action by the City “and County Planning Commissions will be necessary to in

restore normal

_ Indianapolis.

and healthy . housing conditions

Taft and Margarine

REPEAL of the federal margarine taxes is being delayed

needlessly for an absurd reason. Bills for that purpose have been passed by both -

~ branches of Congress—by the House a year ago, by the

Senaté a month ago.

Both bills abolish all the taxes, including the tax of 10 cents a pound on yellow margarine, But in certain other respects the two measures differ. For one thing, the Senate measure would require yellow margarine to be sold only in

triangular shapes. The House bill, wisely, would not. So a conference committee-—five Senators, five Repregentatives—had to be named to reconcile the differences.

__ And, for a month, the committee has been deadlocked over that trisngulsr margarine provision.

SEN. TAFT of Ohio, three other BSsibuct ia and one

“Democrat are reported to be standing firmly for triangular

margarine,

Now, of course, there i is no need for that provision. It.

is just another butter lobby trick. Other federal laws

provide that all margarine sold must be clearly labeled, in

large letters on each carton and on each print within a carton, so that housewives who buy it can know exiorly

what they are getting.

The triangular provision in the Senate bill has only It would force manufacturers of yellow

one purpose.

margarine to waste a lot of money and a lot of time on new

‘or redesigned packaging machinery.

cost of marketing yellow margarine and to the price housewives pay for it. And it would long delay the day when anybody can buy yellow margarine without paying the

10-cent tax.

‘ J . 0» Mt WE aren't surprised that some Republicans are holding -

out for so ridiculous and unfair a scheme. But we are amazed that Sen. Taft is one of them. For only three months ‘ago the people of Ohio veted 1,282,606 to 799,473 to repeal their state law against sale of yellow margarine, Sen. Taft has impressed us as one who tries sincerely

to understand what the people of his state want.

If he

believes that the huge pro-margarine majority in Ohio wants to wait for months or years. before they can buy

yellow margarine, in order that the butter business can “prolong enjoyment of its old, unjust advantage, he is sadly - mistaken,

well behind the iron curtain either,

Unrest Behind the Curtain i

Some months ago the Kremlin found it necessary to

- put a 'Moscow stooge in command of the Polish army, More

recently, there has been a sweeping reorganization of the

Bulgarian government, withthe appointment thereof - . Moscow-trained Communists to key positions.

Approximately 180,000 Remanian Communists — 18 -per cent of the party membership-—have been expelled in

what ‘is described, in Bucharest as a ‘‘verification.”

Pre-

sumably this means a test of party loyalty. -

5 HUNDREDS of farmers are being arrested in Czechoslovakia in a drive to wipe out the ‘remnants of capitalism.”

"The government's

dissatisfaction with crop deliveries seems

to be behind this move against the more prosperous farmers. - But many arrests also have been made among the middle classes in urban centers. Now a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church has been

arrested in Poland on political charges. common in Hungary and Romania. But Poland is more

Such arrests are

than 95 per cent Catholic, and this is the first time the Communist regime has challenged that influence there -in

this fashion.

Such drastic measures woufd not seem expedient if Russian domination had won general acceptance in these. countries. It must be that it has not,

# POLAND, Bulgaria and Romania have been under Red

than ‘two years.

.control for nearly five years, and Czechoslovakia for more Normal political opposition should have .been overcome in that time, yet large sections of the popula-

tion appear to remain unreconciled or in new stages of

revolt.

Popular Shiner may not. be essential to governments :

which maintain themselves by police power. But if the

dissatisfaction is- due to economic deterioration, as some

of the evidence available would suggest; serious trouble may

‘be in “the making. Marshal Tito ‘broke away from the

* Russian empire because of economic difficulties under the

_ Boviet 3

stem, and the same Sngtae may be at the bottom other situations, Fo ws gd

It would add: to the

“Truman Needs Good Men

“80 HERE is the way the Congressmen size it up: etl : : President Truman is having a hard time getting and keeping. firgt - class help. Time

magazine this week carried a long list of highpowered, high-pald federal positions that the

President hasn't filled. ee

One recent addition to that list is the pais tion of Seeeetary of the Army. Gordon Gray resigned to accept the presidency of the Uni. versity of North Carolina, and the President is

reported to want Mr, McKinney to take this

TREASURY REFORMS .

important post. He made a name for himself in Army fiscal matters as’a World War II officer And now is serving on a commission studying service housing shortages, having been commissioned some weeks ago by Defense Bieratary Louis Johnson.

Oncé before Mr. McKinney turned down the -

treasureship of the Democratic National Com-

- out

mittee because he couldn't give: it full time, Now he is faced with making a decision on the Army secretaryship and possibly turning down the President himself: It will not be easy, the congressmen say, in view of the Steckler appointment which Mr. McKinney wanted and which they, at least, credit him with getting.

In any case “the appointment came, after considerable delay and plenty of under-cover work by Mr. Jacobs, in the face of the President telling at least three men that he wasn't going to do it. These men reportedly were: Associate Justice Sherman Minton of the U. 8. Bupreme Court; Chairman Wayne Coy of the Federal-Communication Commission, and Chair-. man Emanuel Cellar (D. NN. Y) of the House Judiciary Committee.”

“ + Each were assured that “it would not be a

McHale man” and the President allegedly indicated he had his mind set on Mr. Denton. The latter is a ‘member. of Mr. Cellar's committee,

Holder Hit Nail on Head

MAYBE such big-shot Democrats sare more gullible’ than Hoosier Republicans. For when GOP Btate Chairman Cale Holder, I¥diaftapolis, came here to attend the dollar Lincoln Day box supper, hé frankly predicted that President. Truman would name “'a McHale man judge.” He added that the two issues in the Indiana campaign this year would be “socialism” on the national level and “McHale ‘bossism” on the state level,

Maybe that “McHaleism” is the thing that’

the Democratic congressmen are shying away from by trying to make it appear that “Big Frank” had little to do with making Mr. Steckler one of the youngest federal judges/in U. 8, history. They préfer to attribute it to Mr. McKinney. That name would be more difficult for the Republican stump speakers.

POINT OF VIEW

Iam filled with poetry " "When high winds blow, And when I picture in my mind Some rivers overflow,

But I have never waited agonized For winds to rend my dwelling, Nor watched with bitter helplessness A flood’s relentless swelling. — Myra Ahler, Indianapolis

CHINESE PACT +++ By Bruce Biossat

Red Motive Hidden?

ASHINGTON, Feb, 20 On its face the new pact between. Jed Chi KS Uke. A. diplomatic. victory. for. Mao. ni But we'd better wait and see. This will probably turn out to be one of those fofmidable Russian Arctic icebergs—nine-terths beneath the surface. The part of the treaty the world is being told about will

st Teader.

make good reading back. in China, Mao is granted numer-

Hoosier Forum

v- rank

. By Peter Edson

Millions Lost in Tax Loopholes

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Good examples of how to beat. the tax laws were given to Congress when Treasury Secretary John Bnyder testified on President's Truman's tax reform program,

His cases showed how numerous slickers have

been evading tax payments of about $600 million a year through legal loopholes that Congress is now being asked to close. First, take Secretary Snyder's case of “Corporation D.” In 1944 it sold a department store building, reporting a loss of $7,400,000. This was allowed as a tax deduction. But in this case, the dale was made to a trustee for a taxexempt organization. The tax-exempt organization—which could have been a charitable or

.educational outfit-i-promptly leased the bullding

back .to the original owner. In, this way Corporation D continued using its building, while at the same time it got the

benefit of tax savings amounting to some

$5,600,000.

Dodge on Cattle CORPORATIONS aren't the only beneficiaries’ of this tax ‘dodge. Secretary Snyder called attention to the practices. of cattle raisers ‘and dairymen who regularly sell part of their herds each year, The courts have held that gain from the sale of these culls in a herd are taxabie only

at capital gains rates (25 per cent) because these animals had been used in the taxpayer's business, On the other hand, losses from these transactions have been held as ordinary business expenses which are fully deductible in computing net income.

The “short sale” device for reducing taxes

a cotton speculator who in eight months reported long-term profits of $485,000 and shortterm losses of $250,000. The short-term losses were deductible in full. Since only 50 per cent of the long-term gains were taken into account for .income tax purposes, they were more than offset by short-term losses. A major tax loophole was described by the secretary as “distribution of dividends in kind.” For instance, Corporation A distributes to its parent Corporation B a dividend of merchandise

“which cost $3 million but has a market value

of $11 million. If Corporation A had sold the goods, it would have had to pay a 38 per cent tax on the $8 million gain, or over $3 million. But by a dividends:réceived credit on the merchandise, Corporation A pays no tax and Cor-

SIDE GLANCES

poration B pays a tax of only 5.7 per cent on $11 million, or $627,000 In order to promote business in the terri-

tories, the U, 8. government has granted certain tax benefits to American citizens in those areas.

Secretary Snyder reports one case in which this

was used by a radio entertainer to make a tax

cleaning. He entered into an arrangement whereby he agreed to make all his radio and television recordings in Puerto Rico, in exchange for exemption from Puerto Rican income taxes.

Insurance Benefits COURT decision that insurance benefits are

exempt from income’ taxes if paid in install‘ments instead of a lump sum provides another

loophole the government wants to close.

The case of a widow who received $100,000 insurance on the death of her husband is cited: Since the widow had a life expectancy of 20

years, she would have had a normal expectancy

of spending the insurance at the rate of $5000 a year. But by electing to take the insurance in monthly installments, she was able to realize $7000 a year. The $2000 a year difference represented inter~ est on the policy proceeds retained by the company. And taking the payments this way, the court ruled that they were exempt from income tax. = Dodging income. taxes through creation of collapeible corporations was illustrated by Sec retary Snyder in the case of a movie producer.

Big Tax Loophole IF HE had made all his pictures as an individual, his tax on income could have run up to 82 per cent of net receipts. If he made all his pictures through a single corporation, the tax would have been 38 per cent, plus personal income taxes on dividends as distributed. But by organizing a separate corporation to produce each picture, then liquidating it after the picture _ is made, the producer gets by with a long-term capital gains tax of only 25 per cent. Depletion. allowance deductions, which run as high as 27%; per cent on-‘oil and gas properties, and as low as 5 per cent on coal mines, were intended. to permit taxpayers to recover their invested capital tax-free. But they now provide one of the largest of all tax loopholes, because depletion allowances are deductible even

after 100 per cent of the invested capital has béen recovered.

- penn" tle By BAT _

"do nof agree with a word that you say, buf |

will defend to the death your right te say i."

‘We Have No Democracy’ By Ruth E. Mitchell, Greenwood, Ind.

Iam a high school student. In thfee months I hope to graduate. I shall be, as thousands of Gther graduates all over the Unifed States, searching for work. My question is, shall I be ‘able to find work? Will we the people of tomor-

+ row be able to work and supporf ‘their families

as our parents before us have, or shall we be ruled by Russia and John L. Lewis. A few weeks ago I entered a speech contest on democracy. We were told to speak on what democracy meant to us. To sum it all up it seemed to mean just this: Freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion, the freedom to live as we. please, and the Hight to participate in our government. As I was thinking it over, I came to one con-

clusion and-that-is-that-we-have no Democracy

here in the United States, because I don’t know of any place in the Constitution where one man can get control of fhe mines and tie up all the industry in the United States, nor where the President is supposed to sit by and let him do it. What have we got a President for anyway? There's -no coal ‘shortage Mr. Truman said.

Ha! That's a laugh. If there isn't why are

schools and factories shutting down. Why are the American children losing their greatest privileges —the privilege of having an education, and the privilege of having enough to eat and decent clothes to wear.

——Y-eant help but wonder what George Wash.

ington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the greatest men America ever had, would think if they could look down and see all the things that they have worked . and slaved -to get, being riddled by Mr. Tryman. Well, people of the United States, are we going to let Harry Truman, John L. Lewis, and Joe Stalin take over the United States while we calmly sit back and wait? Have the boys that fought and died in the war died for this kind of

country. It's up to you, folks. » “pS =You're a chicken-if-you don’t print this;

‘Expand Fire, Police Units’ By Walter L. Hess, 2544-Nosth Delaware St.

In my -opinion one of the most important things which we should achieve under all the circumstances is to keep the efficiency of our Fire and Police Departments up to date. If one drives. around town and sees with

~his own eyes how fast and how wide our city

is expanding, he wonders how we still can go ahead with the size of our fine Fire Department

as it ‘used to be 10 years ago. We ‘can boast ~~

of having one of the finest Fire Departments in this country. Every part of the town can be covered inside of about three to five minutes with the arrival of crews of several stations, but the new outside districts need new, closer stations to give our firemen the chance to be closer to every house in town. Those people in the new districts are taxpayers and can expect the same good, speedy fire protection as the older districts. And the same goes for our Police Depart-

—ment-—iHow—ean-a—-¢ity-the-size of Indianapolis

be satisfied with one police station under these

overcrowded and outmoded conditions? Every ..

town of our gize has precinct stations in each district and every one has the right of police protection: Those things can be achieved easily and are more important than many other things for the protection of the citizens.

‘Don't Fence in Doctors’ By A. H. Seyfried, 1802 Union St.

It ie true that the days of the horse and buggy are gone, but the family doctor that drove old Dobbin is still in. our midst. The" horse-power has increased from 1 to 100 and the body is designed by Fisher, but Doc, is still the driver. He is still the hour” any hour. And as time is a great multiplier, it 18 true of family doctors. This I had the pleasure and experience of learning. Last summer our regular family doctor was vacatioring and our two older children were taken ill. S8ymptoms pointed to polio. . . Who to call? We called the nearest doctor in the neighborhood, we were strangers to him. But in laes than an ho ur he had examined the children and prescribed medicine. Four hours later the doctor called us, inquiring about the children. By then the fever was broken and the stiffness gone. The point is ‘‘can gocialized medicine duplicate this sterling service we received from our family doctor.” Our modern doctors are willing to do their duty. Don’t let them be fenced in with obstacles and red tape. We are satisfied with our doctor's service. Why change it? We don’t want ward healers to be doctors!

By Galbraith - ARCTIC MANEUVERS . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Aen FEEARY:

, Rugged Army Life

~—YUKON- TERRITORY, Feb. 20. The first large-scale mills tic-havetaught U8 4roops. one. LL

Chamberlin,

weaknesses

thing—they’ve got a lot to learn. ~ .This candid admission was made by Lieut. Gen. Stephen J. commander of the “learned a lot, but he conceded that there had been some glaring which. must be

maneuvers. He said we had

“man of the .

ous important concessions in

“Manchuria. He's fo get back

two key ports, the Changchun railway, and property acquired by Soviet echomic units from Japanese owners.

. . o THEN Moscow. is granting Red China $300 million in

credits. It's expected they'll be used largely to buy Russian railroad and mining equipment, Repayment is to be made over a 10-year period In Products like tea and goid. Furthermore, the two nations have signed a 30-year alliance of friendship and assistance. Both parties pledge to come to, each others aid in event of aggression by Japan or any other power associated with that country directly or. indirectly. :

» » » P, THE outstanding fact about these agreements is that nowhere is it really disclosed what the Chinese will pay in return for Moscow's concessions. Many diplomatic experts believe the treaty must contain secr& clauses covering this price, and probably additional” vital issues. A hard bargainer like the - Soviet ‘Union doesn't hand over so much. even in theory, withgetting something back. Russia has yielded on Port Atthyr and Darjen, the two

Manchurian ports, despite the.

fact that at Yalta in 1945 the .

- Big Three powers. recognized

itary

Moscow's “pre-eminent” interests in those areas. Re Were other examples of . - apparent generosity.

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“enough to Moscow to explain

it. Nor can Chinese acceptance ‘the Mongolian People's. Republic, which surely will prove in practice to mean Soviet domination of- the religion. 3 - To learn the real story of this treaty the world must carefully the actual of Chinese-Russian relations from here on. Booner or later expert observers will

pick up clues to the price Mao

has paid. » =» . WE may find, too, that Moscow ‘hasn't given as much as we think. The Manchurian concessions won't take affect before 1952 unless the Allies sign a peace tréaty with Japan hefore that date. And there's slim chance of that. Will Russia honor 1950 promises in The risk. that it won't is certainly considerable. Two years hence Mao may have suffered the sad disillusionments of others who have

experienced. Life with Father

Stalin,

Barbs A CLEVELAND man found A large, black cat under the

hood of his, auto. That's one"

way to get a purr in your motor. CRE. ; MANY a new cottage is covered with tvy —- --..Ang plastered with mortgages. aw ARN i. SPEAKING, says’ a doctor, In that case, some of the radio announcers we've heard

ard very abby.» rea ad y.

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SOP. 1960 BY WEA SEAVICE, We. T. W. R80

"These people are bige shots all igh om Mow is putting on that kd voice!"

What Others Say

IF WE can get an agreement for airtight ‘control and rue ve

international inspection of atorhic- works for $50,000,000,000, would grab at the chancé.-—~Sen. John Bricker (R. 0.) on Sd get Russian J agraement 4 on atomie control. 2 %. “I CAME over here to let _you know, in spite ¢f certain information which ha&.been pretty well distributed, that I do not . wear horns and I haven't a tail. e=President Truman, Mdsininy a group of bankers. oa * THE openly avowed ‘members of the Communist ‘small_in number but large in influence. Once they are they = and 3

ntified, Gil 2 ny die for Atpericaesd, JEdgar iy

nity are = sedentary life.

"corrected. 1.8. officers know. that. our ~ equipment stands up fairly well. They know that Canadi-

‘an and Ameérican troops.can

‘work together. They know that the two countries’ organizations can mesh - despite outstanding differences

power, military . terminology

and concepts,

: . . - » BUT Gen. Chamberlin says, “We can learn a great deal mote from the Canadians, and that's what we propose to do.” For one thing, he isn't convinced that large-scale military operations—this’ one involves 5800 men—are possible

~ in the arctic.

For example, sustaining them would be a great problem. Deploying them effectively would be another. If wars are ever fought in the arctic, Gen. Chamberlin «4s inclined to believe that both sides will rely on “light forces, lightly equipped.” .

THAT'S i of the problems

American ‘forces participating in Operation Sweetbriar are

facing. They are not lightly equipped. Each man wears

about 25 pounds of clothing. The physical "task of putting it.on and taking it off can add

up to a day's work .for one

“who has led a moderately

The rations problem, “seeing

outlawed in the hearts and the souls ofthose who love to be nearly solved. A fiver, FBI di- man ration weighs abo

in fire.’

and contains almost twice as

- many calories. }

GEN. CHAMBERLIN also.

says that the training of U. 8. troops has been inadequate. Our mountain troops at Camp Carson, Colo., had little winter weather in which to train. As a result they're still comparatively green, and inclined to

¥ take unnecessary chances.

Casualties are comparatively rare among the Canadian

troops. They are “much too:

high” among our men. But Gen. Chamberlin, who

served as operations officer °

for Gen. MacArthur and later as director of Army intelligence, says that, over-all, Operation Sweetbriar has been a g00d thing. The successes and failures; he says, eventually will go to the general staff as the basis of a new military doctrine, ~ . ”

Penhale, normally commander of Canada’s western armies, says experience lends confi. dence to troops. stationed In this ' country -— where the temperature is 40 below zero. Among his own troops, he says, arctic billets have be« come relatively popular. Frequently, he says, men -protest when they're ordered out. Perhaps that is’ in Gen. Chamberlin’s mind when he says the U. 8. should maintain A permanent garrison here —

_-bUt with volunteers.

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