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Reassessment Paying for Itself . THE reason Indianapolis taxpayers will pay a much lower tax rate for municipal services next year is that long overdue adjustments have been made in property valu-

ations.

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purposes in 18 years is being completed by the agsessors. This has added many hundreds of thousand lars to the tax duplicates of Marion-County—property and improvements that, through oversight and neglect, had nat

appeared on tax lifts for many years.

THIS, in effect, is equalizing the tax burden for Jocal

government . + . spreading the cost over more taxpayers on full value of all property as it should be. ; i Thus the tax rate to raise enough money to run the

City government next year will be nearly six cents lower" per $100 property valuation despite the fact that the City |

budget for 1951 is $888,000 higher than this year,

It means that the costly program of reassessment is

paying for itself in reduced rates,

They Should Be Called Up ONLY 68 physicians have volunteered for service with the Army since the Korean War. This is meager response from the thousands of doctors who were trained at government expense during World War II, or who were deferred from the draft to train at their own

expense.

The Defense Department has issued Fepeated calls for their voluntary service with some pointed reminders of their

obligation.

In view of the growing urgency for medical manpower as our Army expands into the millions, apparently there can be no other solution but to invoke the draft. Legislation to that effect comes before Congress this week.

* a = a 8 IT REQUIRES a special registration for government- . trained doctors and dentists who served less than 21

months in the past war. The American Medical Association and the American Dental Association, as well as the Department of Defense, support the measure. Congress should give its quick approval. Doctors and dentists who are members of the Reserve are being alerted for an early call-up, regardless of their time spent in service

during World War IL

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DEAR BOSS ... By Dan Kidney

Letters Urge

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People Telling Rep. Walsh A-Bomb Should Be Used

the Koreans, is a conclysion that can be drawn from a bushel of mail received by Rep. John R. Walsh, Anderson Democrat. Coniing from coast-to-coast these letters the speech

Cleveland in: which he warned Russia that the U. 8, A. will not waste its strength fighting Soviet satellites but hit for the main target. “ Bob Ruark

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The letters pouring in to Mr. Walsh's office thoroughly agree with him. They are from men and women who read accounts of the Walsh speech and sat down to write at once.

‘Drop the A-Bomb’

FROM Gause, Tex. James P. Harris, proprietor of a general store, wrote: “If there was ever a time to drop the mighty A-bomb on Russia it is now. I see an article in the dally papers where you think there will be a deluge of A-bombs put on Russia if they do not change their ways, - “I truly believe if we could get all the available large planes we have and load them with A-bombs and send them on every vital spot in —Russia, the Korean War would end in about one week. It also would break down Russia's power to make war and therefore we could live in peace and quiet for some time to come. “I trust you will use all the influence at your command to get the A-bomb put on Russia before they have time to bujd up their stockpile of bombs. If they ever get the H-bomb it looks as If they might try to destroy our entire population.”

‘Same Conclusions’ MOST of the writers were not as succinct as

-Those who have chosen to stay out of the Reserve can Mr. Harris, but their conclusions add up about hardly escape their responsibility in the present emergency, even if some of them appear forgetful of their government's

part in making their medical careers possible.

Stones From a Glass House

THE Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a revised report on the high price of coffee, but it's not likely to win back any lost friendship from Latin-American coun-

tries.

The original report, drafted by the Gillette subcommit-

tee, largely blamed Brazil, Colombia and other coffee-pro- - ducing nations for the price rise, It called for anti-trust suits against Latin-American interests unless they stopped holding coffee stocks off the market by keeping them in ware-

houses in this country.

The new report, though toned down in its charges of

; market manipulation, still recommends that the U, 8S. At-

torney General investigate sales and storage practices of the

National Federation of Coffee Growers. of. Colombia and . What ate we waiting. for?’

other foreign coffee interests in this country and take “any Hppropriate action under the (U. 8.) anti-trust laws.”

_ THE NATIONAL Federation of Coffee Growers is a government-supported co-operative in Colombia. It makes loans to coffee growers and stores coffee taken in under

these loans. Is that bad?

Well, in this country we have the Commodity Credit _Corp. It does the same thing, keeping prices artificially “high on potatoes, butter, eggs, wheat, corn, cotton; peanuts and many other domestic crops: It realized a net loss-of $249 million incidentally, carrying out that program last fiscal

year.

All this is the result of legislation ‘written, in large part,

_by the same Senate Committee. So for this Committee to

"recommend the prosecution of an agency ofeforeign gov-

—ernment for doing on a limited scale what our govern-

ment has done for

years with nearly every major crop

‘grown in the United States—that strikes us as the height

of impertinence.

THE PRICE of coffee is still too high, but the evidence is hardly conclusive that the producers and speculators are to blame. The Latin-Americans insist it's short crops and

increases in consumption. In any case, the rise in coffee is small in comparison with the soaring prices of’ U. 8. Goyernment supported commodities in this country. In all propriety and fairness to our Good Neighbors to the South, it seems to us the Senate should withhold ap-

proval of its Agriculture Committee's report.

Arithmetic and Human Nature

AT” THE same time the House Appropriations Committee votes $16.7 billion additional arms and foreign mil--

itary aid, the Senate starts work on a tax bill to raise an

additional $4.5 billion revenue.

And this happens when the’government is already keep-

ing books in red ink.

Yet some people in Washington insist that the rise in prices and living costs is caused by profiteering. Those who " talk such nonsense ignore the simple economies that an excess of money over goods increases the value of goods and decreases the value of money. ; They ignore, also, the simple human equation that it is difficult to persuade a seller to part with sometlsing for less than a buyer is eager-topay.” “t= ~The governing of men is a science only in the sense that

a few simple rules of arithmetic must be observed. It is

pines of an art, in that those who govern successfully must the limitations of h

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nature, and not pose upon

the same. One from West Los Angeles obviously was unfamiliar with Mr. Walsh's record as a New Dealer and Fair Dealer. He wrote: “I wish to compliment you on your stand

taken in your address of Aug. 22, in Cleveland,

“It is the first bit of common sense I have heard in a long time, You are evidently a Democrat and not a New Dealer. We are now paying in blood for Roosevelt's egotistical attitude. “With seven million Asiatics and with life so cheap with them, we certainly are not going to overwhelm them with manpower. We are wasting the cream of our manhood on such rabble and it is sheer folly. It is only by use of our superior weapons—brain power and produc- ~ Hon--that we can hope to compete. “I trust you will gain wide support on your stand.”

‘Remember Amerasic Case’

FROM Flushing, N. Y, came a postcard reading: “Your speech in Cleveland refers to present international mess precipitated by Red Russia's brutal aggression. Who will find it convenient first to drop atom bombs—Russia or America.

Following the signature ‘was this “postscript: “Remember our Far Eastern experts—also the Amerasia case.” Among the few who disagreed with Mr.

Walsh was a doctor, H. Chanin, who printed .

his views on a postcard mailed from New York City: « “The Soviet man is pot afraid,’ he wrote, “but I believe you are.’ Signing an M. D. after his name, he then proceeded to diagnose Mr. Walsh as a dangerous “manic-depressive” and advised: “Mr. Walsh, you are not a well man. You need a rest. The people want peace and will get it when you resign.”

‘Not Blood-Thirsty'

“RETURNING a “thank you" note to" those

- congratulating him. on the Cleveland speech,

Mr. Walsh, added this: “I am not really as blood- -thirsty as the news

items reported. as. I do not want to see.the atom

bomb used, but I think the responsibility rests, in the hands of the Kremlin. If they see fit to murder and maim our men and start other wars throughout the world, they can expect the prompt and devastating use of the A-bomb.”

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in floating!”

- WMA "Heriop Cooper, third prize in diving—Ethet-dones, first prize

HIGH-PRESSURE INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 — Pennsylvania Congressman Frank Buchanan's Select Committee to Investigate Lobbying Activities is pre-' paring to drop a dozen hot reports soon. They should do much to throw the spotlight on Washingiotis Je-millign-s-year high-pressure inry. But according to Chairman Buchanan himself, “This just scratches the surface. There is still much unfinished business.” - The Buchanan committee's {8° now about all gone, or will be by the time it concludes hearings and gets its reports and legislative recommendations printed by the end of September. , The committee was given $40,000 to start on. -Then-it got another $45,000. Whether the investigation which the Buchanan committee has begun will be continued and completed is of course up to the next Congress. . What the investigation has proved so far, says Chairman Buchanan, is that lobbying has gone underground. It has gone into the fields of propaganda. It has become subtle. It seeks to influence public opinion by indirection. And it needs watching and exposure.

law Evaded

WAYS have been found to evade the Lobby Registration Act which was made part of the Congressional Reorganization plan of 1946. One of the Buchanan committee's most important

lative recommendations to strengthen the Lobby Registration Act now on the books. The committee has already issued two reports. One covered a detailed study of the housing and real estate lobbies. The other was a preliminary report on’lobbying by the Federal Security Agency inbehalf of its own proposals for health insurance.

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To be released within the next week or so,

are three reports, each dealing with a pair of op‘posing lobbies—one supported by liberal interests, the other by conservatives. This manner of presentation was decided on to meet divided political opinion in the committee, also to. avoid any appearance that the reports were slanted either to the right or the left, OnePublic Affairs Institute, and the Foundation for Economic Education. Public Affairs Institute, run by Dewey Anderson, was financed by a

grant from Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. .. ..

Foundation for Economic Freedom, whose executive secretary is Leonard Reed, was financed by big business contributions. Another report will cover activities of Dr.

They caused- the tall, lonesome man in the White House “many sleepless hours. Time after time they called on him for help, advice and orders, without prior reference to what was then called the War Department.

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FINALLY, Lincoln selected a winner—U. S. Grant, and despite: grumblings by some about Grant's drinking habits, Lincoln stood behind him.

There apparently were no “differences between President _ Wilson and Gen. John Pershing in World War I

If .there were any basic

. dent. Franklin Roosevelt an _ his leading generals in Worl War II.they have not yet been publicized In post-war mem~oirsi- - Gen. The Eisenhower was . criticized by some here for his

North Africa, but he evidently presidential backing in he did.

report-whi-cover-lobbying-activities-of

controversies between Presi-

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By Sa CONFLICTS IN GOVERNMENT | Lincoln’s Trouble With Generals Recalled

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—American Presidents have had controversies in the past with their field generals, but few if "any breaks have been as open and clear as the one "between. President Truman and Gen. Douglas -MacArthur. It recalled here the controversy between President Lincoln and his generals in charge of federal forces in the Civil War.

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Lobbying Is Going Underground

tional Government and William L. Patterson's Civil Rights Congress. Both Dr. Rumley and Patterson have refused to disclose completely the sources of their financial backing, and they

face a possible committee recommendation that

they be cited for contempt of Congress. Also facing possible citation for contempt is Joseph P. vice president of the Constitutional Education League. Kamp has already been sentenced to four months in jail for

-refusing to disclose the source of his backing to the House Campaign Committee,

Third Report Due

MERWIN K. HART'S National Economic Council and Americans for whose chairman is ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle—will be the subjects of the select committee’s third in this series of special agency reports. Other reports to come from the committee will cover lobbying activities by Department of State, Department of Agriculture and other government agencies. American Bar Association witnesses are to testify in September and their appearance will be followed by a report on contingency fee lobbying, the particular pet of the legal profession in Washington. A series of four special reports will be issued on lobbying activities investigated by the committee's staff, but on which there has been .no-.time. to. conduct. co /FReY Well cover activities of the small business groups, the electric power lobby, the medical profession's lobby, the saving and loan companies’ lobby. Another special report will analyze returns from a questionnaire sent out by the Buchanan committee to business, labor, farm and other

pressure group organizations active in Wash- .

ington.

Stormy Sessions

FINALLY there will be an over-all report by the committee, summarizing the results of its investigations thus far.

The committee has had a somewhat stormy mem-

The two - ranking - Republican bers, Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio and Charles A Halleck of Indiana, have warred constantly with Chairman Buchanan and -the—committee Benedict F. FitzGerald, Jr., over objectives and methods of the investigation. But it has. uncovered. a lot.of useful .in-. formation on how the pressure groups operate

and how they attempt to influence legislation.

It has shown that these are subjects which-re-quire a'most constant ‘policing in” the public

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fs Time fo Change Horses’

By a Taxpayer. We are wondering if a few pounds of of sugar per householder is killing our boys in Korea or is it someone’s bungling? Always the little people are made to feel in the wrong. I am

glad we still have freedom of the press (I some-

Soon-we will lose that right)

= 10 gripe and that 1s what this will be called.

~AS-long as I-can-remember-it has been war; war, and more war. Truman needed this war scare to get what he wants out of the 3: peobia, He blows hot, then cold. Anything he gan’t cover up he screams “red herring.” Now the little people (who, by the way, pay

money! ‘Last week, on the last page in Col lier's was a small plece about $100,000 spent foolishly by our government for a survey to see how many men slept in pajamas, and it seems the more you are educated you will sleep in your pajamas. Who wastes money by the billions? Who kills our boys? We ship motors to England who turn around and sells them to Russia. Who takes us down the road to war? The Democrats. First Wilson, then Roosevelt, now Truman—-all Democrats. It's time we change horses in the middle of the stream. We don’t want an answer from Mrs. Walter Haggerty, either, with all these facts twisted around.

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i ‘War Is will of Satan’

By Earl F. Stone, 1742 Morgan St.

What has become of our- faithful pilgrims, the God fearing people of the U. 8. A.? We are fast becoming a war nation, the same as those nations our pilgrim “fathers left behind when they came to this country to live -and worship God in peace. The wages of sin is death, the same with nations as with men. If every church member in the world today were true Christians and lived up to every word of the New Testament, or even the Sermon on the Mount, the nations and peoples of the world would not be at war on account of hate, greed, malice and jealousy, . > 4% WAR is the will of Satan and is not recognized by Jesus in the New Testament which we are living under today. .If we would be like Jesus and win peace and joy in the new world after the judgment, we must live and believe ‘as He did. We must love all people of every _. race, creed, color and nationality, Peace cannot be bought with money and blood of innocent people today. God tells us that man in his wickedness will destroy himself. How tru>. How long can this old world exist with conditions getting worse and more corrupt day by day? It is time that we should

.all read and study more of the Bible.

‘Put Surplus on Market’

By A. W. Heinle _ Our President threatens to place restrictions

on com[podity prices i they Tise as much as 8

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. Why didn’ t the President threaten to ow ; our surplus commodities info the market to

squelch the rise in prices? Those commodities surely belong to the American people. I would suggest that each person write his Congressman at once about this urgent matter,

What Others Say—

PREVAILING union policy in the United States, by and large, accepts the basic. principles of the American capitalistic, privaté enterprise system, seeing within it sufficient opportunities for workers to advance, —Dr. Kurt Brau, 1 noted European labor ho Es gins

. understand ideas. The more Es ‘we expose

to American products, the better they will be

able to understand the kind of people we are, -

“'—James A. Farley, former postmaster general, eo @ ALL the world today is a tinderbox. Global war could begin at any time.~~Carl Vinson, ‘chairman of House Armed Services Committee.

. By Marshall McNeil

GEN. MacARTHUR was ordered out of the Philippines by President Roosevelt, but while FDR resisted successfully efforts to make the Pacific the

No. 1 theater before the Euro- -

pean war was won, he seemed to have no basic differences with MacArthur over political matters. Lincoln's troubles were mostly with generals® who could not win against Lee and Jackson but he did have a major political problem thrown into his lap by another general. ’ wn = _ HE WAS John Charles Fremont, soldier, ‘explorer and political leader. He was the leader of the famous Fremont expeditions to the West.

He was one of the first two

Senators from California, and his opposition to slavery, his fame as an explorer, and his

in the conquest of Calithe

fornia helped him win’ presidential nomination in

‘ dlienate the

1856 from the newly formed Republican Party. He was defeated in the election by James Buchanan,

SOON after the Civil War began, Fremont's biographers, recount, he was placed in command of the Western Department, with headquarters at St. Louis. On Aug. 30, 1861-91 years ago this week-—he issued a proclamation in which he de; clared the property of Missou-~ rians in rebellion confiscated and their slaves emancipated.

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— His proclamation as prema-

ture, fearing that it might whose loyalty he still hoped

to keep. The adverse reports

of agents sent by Lincoln to investigate Fremont’'s management led to his removal by the

President.” —

‘GEN. FREMONT was given | minor posts, in which he didn't

do very well. But he was still

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the radical wing of the Republican Party. But he withdrew when he saw he had no chance, and would only split Lincoln's party. In the subsequent election, Lincoln was re-elected.

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