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Spade Work First

HCO Rs will enact an excess- ss-profits tax. That is certain. President Truman has called for a “just and fair” tax to “recapture excess profits made since the start of Communist aggression in Korea.” The Senate has ordered its Sngnce committee to bring up such a tax, applying to at least three months of 1950 “profits, for action as early as possible next year. Committee Chairman George has pledged that this will be done. Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, and most of its members, favor such a tax. So do Speaker Rayburn and most other House Democrats. So do many Republicans. The political appeal of such a tax is so strong that relatively few members of either party will dare vote against it. ‘But-responsible congressional leaders of both parties, and the Truman administration itself, know that drafting excess-profits tax legislation which will be just and fair and effective in its professed purpose is a complex, difficult job. s 5 = s wu THEY want to take enough time to be sure that job is done carefully and properly. And they are right.

Yet a few-demagogic-Democrats-in-the House; echoing -

the demands of labor-union leaders, are fighting to write slapdash excess- profits levies into the pending “interim” tax bill. As Speaker Rayburn has told them, they. cannot win this fight. By continuing it, they can only delay final enactment of the “interim” bill and collection of needed extra revenue from higher ordinary rates on individual and corporation incomes. That they might also delay adjournment of Congress is unimportant. For, since excess-profits legislation is certain, the promise to enact it early next year should be kept, and Congress should stay in session now at least long enough to get its tax experts well started on the preliminary spade work. And a lot of spade work needs doing. A hastily prepared, carelessly considered excess-profits tax could do great harm. Pe = * = =» IT COULD disastrously hurt small companies with reco of moderate earnings in the period selected as a base above which profits are considered excess, yet fall comparatively Jigndly ‘on big corporations with large earnings. It could speed up the inflation it professes to curb by encouraging corporations to spend recklessly on higher wages and other business costs instead of holding prices down or paying huge percentages of their profits to- the government. ; ~ Union leaders well understand that tendency of the sort of excess-profits taxes for’ which they have been

clamoring. The ease with which large wage increases are

now being won doubtless is due largely to widespread recognition by industry that such taxes are inevitable, Indeed, there is compelling reason to believe that the effect of an excess-profits tax, however carefully ‘enacted, must be inflationary unless it is accompanied by firm government controls on wages, prices and other costs.

"The Bigger Indiana National ~~.

'Y ESTERDAY the boards of two banks met, as directors do periodically, but this time they were of a single mind. First the board of the $330 million Indiana National “Bank gathered around the. directors’ table at 3 Virginia “Ave. and voted to merge the assets of the Union Trust Co. with their bank. That was at 11 a. m. Then they went to lunch. But some of them, 13 to be exact, had another board meeting in the stately, time-honored directors’ room of the Union Trust Co. up the circular iron stairway, at 120 E. Market St. Co. There the board of the Uhion Trust Co. voted . into the minutes its own approval of what the Indiana National Board had done before lunch. » n RJ n » ” WHAT really happened. was that the Union Trust Co. passed out of existence and dissolved its identity with - ‘the’ money-bulging Indiana National. The town which already had boasted ‘about its “big bank” got an even bigger one. And-the Indiana National,

- now pushing to completion a modern addition, had acquired,

a needed and much-wanted trust department. . This gives Indiana a $382 million bank to serve the fast-growing industries of its home town, and reach out to: smaller communities, extending to - them . the vast resources and services of one of the top 50 banks in the nation:

Working for Taxpayers First NE of the age-old customs of politics is the take-it-for-granted requirement that persons holding political jobs in government contribute time as well as their money , to the party organizations sponsoring them. - There is no quarrel with the theory that these workers are obligated to some extent to their political organizations. ‘But when party - organizations high-pressure. these

——workers- to do political werk on ‘government time paid for ~~

by’ the taxpayers it is, in effect, robbing the" public. ~ - - ~ » Id Gov. Schricker’s order, prohibiting State workers from leaving their jobs to do political chores for the Democratic Committee on the taxpayers’ time is Protecting the public's interests which is good politics. - These employees are working for and are being paid by ~ the taxpayers to do a full time job in public service first. contributions they want to make to their party on their dure is their own |

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ALLIES .-. . By wel “Debny + German Army Issue Pushed

Bargaining Move Seen To Spur European Defense .

WASHINGTON, - Sept. 14:-The American proposal to the New York meeting of Allied « foreign ministers for creating a West German army now is partly a bargaining move. Like the President's qualified pledge to send:

“France to planned. “As a practical matter no large” German external force could be created this year or next, even if one were SuthBrIzed, this week id the Allies. The Big Three are not as“far apart as their present bargaining positions would. seem fo indicate. Their basic approach is the same, and their ultimate interest is the same. All three have good reason to fear a revival of German militarism. But all three agree that the present threat of Soviet conquest is worse.

Need German Help

AND all three agree that West Germany cunnot be defended adequately without the help of Germans. As the defense of West Germany is essential not only to the Germans but to Allied security, and as the Allies have top many military commitments in the Far East and elsewhere in Europe to concentrate all their forces there, West German rearmament is inevitable. The practical question is: under what safeguards? Even on this point there is no essential national disagreement among the major Allies as such. The disagreement or different emphasis, rather than genuine disagreement—is really among different groups within each allied country. _And the different emphasis among the experts is chiefly a matter of guessing what Stalin will do. If Stalin is going to start a world war soon, then one kind of Allied policy is required. If Russia is going to hold off the invasion of West Germany for two or three years or more, then -an-entirely different -Alied policy toward West German rearmament is called for. Or, if Russia herself is not going to &ttick but simply use her East German satellite army and fifth column for a Korea-type “civil war, then still a third Allied method would be most effective in meeting that special type of menace.

Policy Limited

BESIDES the difficulty of guessing what Stalin will do, and therefore of preparing intelligently the right kind of defense, there are certain factors which limit the Allies’ choice of policy. One of these is the shortage of arms— there is little chance of supplying enough tanks and heavy equipment for Allied forces in the next two years, much less arming a large German external force. The probable immediate result of all this is that France ‘and Britain will Dotsunde the United States that an internal German. forcehave priority over an external army, but that the American proposal to supply a limited German army will induce France and Britain to raise larger armies of their own to absorb scarce equipment.

Wage Demands ~ Unions Preparing for

Another Round of Boosts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14- High officials charged with keeping their fingers on the labormanagement pulse expect a sustained new union drive this fall for another general round of wage boosts. o TT At the same time, between now and Jan. 1, they look for an unusual number of industrial disputes, including strikes, resulting from wage demands. I - i. CIO unijens in automobile and electric manufacturing have been most active in pushing wage demands recently. But now the AFL “is preparing to join in the campaign for general boosts. The AFL unions: “In view of their rising cost of living and higher taxes, workers will need substantial wage increases in the months ahead. The federation urges unions to secure financial reports of their companies where possible and to negotiate wage increases which will not cause a further rise in prices”

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THE AFL, in its “monthly ‘survey’ also noted that “larger wage increases are already being negotiated. It is significant that since Korea wage increases have been averaging between 10 and 15 cents an hour, though lower figures were common before then. This is in keeping with. higher prospective. profits and workers’ needs to maintain living standards as prices and taxes rise.” One factor expected to accelerate the payboost drive is the decision of Congress to put off until next year an excess profits tax on corporations. Another factor is that unions recognize the advantage of trying to.get their wage demands: settled in advance of any decision by the Presi-

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HOW TO STOP REDS

FLUSHING MEADOW, N. Y., Sept. 14 ~The fifth General Assembly of the United Nations, convening Tuesday, faces historic decisions in the expanding struggle to escape world Communist control. Secretary of State Dean Acheson will come to Flushing Meadow to ask members of the 59nation peace organization to unify and solidify their efforts to protect governments everywhere from Communist minorities seeking to seize power through revolution. And Russia's Andrei Vishinsky will make an impassioned appeal for that kind of peace that would permit Communist groups in Indo-China, the Philippines, Iran, Germany and elsewhere to foment civil wars without interference from the United Nations. The major United Nations struggle lies between the American idea of collective security and the Russian idea of many isolated and localized class wars.

Reds Distrust Ballot

ONE OF the important developments in this post-war era has been world communism’s loss of faith in the election box. It has discovered that cqmmunism can win only by overpowering majorities with force. It has never won a country through the ballot. All of the world's trouble areas will be spotlighted in the meeting that will run for three months before a Christmas adjournment. A special session early in 1951 appears certain. On the docket are 73 items for decision, including the Korean situation which finds United Nations forces fighting their first action to stop aggression. The question of whether the majority of nations will subscribe to the United States theory of collective defense or whether they will withdraw into an isolation that would permit Communist victories around the world is complex and filled with danger. The United States probably will have little trouble winning support to stop the aggression of one country against another. Should Bulgarian and Romanian Communists attack Greece or should the Soviet Union seek to overrun Iran, world sentiment undoubtedly would demand collective aid for the victim of aggression. That is why many believe Russia will carefully avoid this type of war,

Domestic Situation MUCH LESS support can be aroused for

domestic anti-Communist struggles. That is why

the United Nations has never moved to help the governments of the Philippines; Indo-China or even of China beat back Communist forces. Many, countries. see. this..type of. war. as a-

" “domestic situation” and that is exactly: what

the Kremlin wants. It wants a dozen or.more of such “domestic situations.” ‘Behind the Iron Curtain, it is difficult to learn how many North Koreans have been trained by Russia, how many planes and tanks have been furnished by Moscow and -how many of the decisions for war have been formulated inside the Kremlin. The United States, seizing the lead. already is committed to defend beleaguered governments in the Philippines, Indo-China and Korea against Communist revolutions. =~ The most important of these

“domestic sit-

~uations’. is. of..course, building up-in- Germany

where Russia is reviving the Wehrmacht in the Eastern zone to. attack Western Germany and subdue it.

WASHINGTON, Sept. letter charging that the Marine chine almost equal to Stalin's” apology to the Corps.

events directors, news analysts, __media men, public relations.directors, publications advisers, writing assistants, editorial experts, research speeialists and just plain press agents who comptise the Administration's corps of propagandists in the federal government,

‘.® ” - oR . BACKING up the President's . current term of office is one of .the most amazing propaganda machines ever assembled. The President's own Bureau of the Budget admits that there are only two agencies in the whole gov public relations men. . They -are the General Accounting Office and Interstate Commerce Commission. And - they are not properly classed as agencies of the ‘executive branch of the government. = A recent congressional in‘vestigation of the propaganda activities of the agencies under ‘ thé President revealed that * more than 45,000 federal employees were being paid $75 _myillion for the public enlight- »» -.*eament of what Une Jam was

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‘UN Facing Historic Decisions

The crux of the battle at Flushing Meadow during the next 90 days will involve the American idea of helping constitutional governments survive against internal Communist aggression as opposed to the Russian demand that the United Nations keep hands off.

Quick Action >

THE convening of the General Assembly will make it possible for the free nations to act on any subject quickly without a tieup in the Security Council where Russia is able to block progress by using its veto. * One of the most important issues will be the admission of 14 new members, nine of them considered friendly to the Western world and five of them Soviet satellites. Russia has blocked these memberships in the past. The Assembly also will decide whether

: Trygve Lie will be retained as secretary general

for another year. The former Norwegian foreign minister has made both sides angry from time to time but has come as close as possible to steering a middle course.

HEDIGINE ...By Earl Richer Most Patent Drugs Test OK

All gs 1 Checked on Vitamins and Minerals

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—Americans pay millions of dollars annually for patent medicines said to have specific vitamin’ and mineral contents. What are the chances that the products contain; ibe vitamins and minerals in the potency

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entt-says- Dr Eimer “Nelson, chief of me division of nutrition of the pure food and drug administration.. “We examine more than 1000 products a year and our records show that on the whole the vitamin and mineral content able. I a depengabie and Drug Administration maintains a constant program of testing, selecting samples from drug store shelves, warehouses salvage sales. oo” a km is found to be deficient, the usual practice is to seize the entire shipment so that it cannot be sold to the public. There were 35 such seizures last year for vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Heavy Penalties ALSO. the offender may be taken to court on a criminal charge, the penalty on first convic‘tion being a $1000 fine and a year in jail. . Penalty on second conviction is three years in jail and a $10,000 fine. * A San Diego, Cal, vitamin pill manufacturer was fined $1000 and put on probation for five years last April for placing a vitamin-deficient product on the market. Most vitamins are produced synthetically in large quantities by chemical companies. Other vitamins are obtained largely from fish liver oil. Many minerals also are synthetically produced. But some, such as jron, come from the natural raw material. ~The iron in medicines comes from iron ore and is reduced to a powder by a chemical process.

Vitamin Contents

DR. NELSON said his laboratories had exe amined Hadacol, the comparatively new medicine now. selling widely throughout the South as a vitamin and mineral supplement. It was found “to have the vitamin and mineral contents advertised for it, Dr. Nelson said. But the maker of Hadacol has had some trouble with its advertising. It now has voluntarily stipulated with the Federal Trade Commission that it will drop certain claims concerning the therapeutic properties of Hadacol. The company no longer will say that Hadacol assures good health and restores youthful feeling and appearance. Nor will it say that Hadacol has any healing value other than such as results from the Vitamin B-1, Vitamin B-2, iron and niacin which it supplies—and then only when clearly limited to cases resulting from a deficiency of one or more of these nutritional elements.

Big Road Show

THE Hadacol company has been sponsoring a gigantic road show through a network of southern cities, admission being by box top. { Among. the entertainers. was film star Mickey | Rooney who was paid $2000 a day. j The Hadacol company now turns out $20 million worth of its product a year. Next vear, it hopes to sell $50 million worth from an enlarged plant. .

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‘Editorial Welcome’

By Mrs. Ralph Smith, 2153 Shriver Ave,

Such an editorial as “Let Freedom Ring” “in Thé Times was due and welcome, I hope it was in time to inspire a recast of plans by the Church Federation *and Mr. Dolivet- may be heard. The Times’ offer to publish his speech is praiseworthy. I should like to. .feel that. Marshal Stalin himself might be given audience in America without fear of any Communist threat. Fear spreads- fear and confusion. Applying the muzzle tends to become a habit and indicts our Democracy more than it does Mr. Dolivet's alleged Communism.

‘Not Handouts’ By H. E. M.,, City

Persistent references to government “handouts” on the part of those opposed to governmental economic action at the citizen level call

for a restatement of the principle upon which. |

such action is founded. ‘In a “representative” government, in which

the pedple elect public officials to carry out their

desires in matters affecting the public interest, such officials are bound to carry out the commitments upon which they were elected. The funds thus allocated are not “handouts” but

‘ represent public ‘management according to the -

popular desire.If the people are wrong in their demands for this type of administration they are open to persuasion by honest means, but they have a right to expect’ freedom: from subterfuge or abstruseness in the presentation of arguments. Their principal point seems to be that since business interests..have. historically. prospered under a system of public grants, a reinstitution of the same principle on a broader scale to in‘clude the public is mot amiss.

By Galbraith PUBLIC RELATIONS . . . By Douglas’ Larsen

45,000 Workers on U.S. Propaganda Payrolls

ing use of press agents by the agencies isn’t fooled by dodges used to keep them on the payroll. A handful of the big crop agents still can call themselves public relations men on budget requests. Most —of-them are buried in requests for appropriations ! “writers,” “editorial experts,” “information specialists.” This makes it harder for Congress to crack down on an agency's propaganda activities, o » ‘THE President was particularly inept in picking on the Marines Corps among the services. It has always been the theory of Marine Public Relations that each Marine is his own best press agent, It is a matter of fact that the 83 rines formerly assigned to “do ,, the Corps’ public work actually operate on that,

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doing. That figure includes the -83-persons in the Marine Corps who work on public relations, whom the President charged with being equal. to Stalin's ‘propaganda machine.

= a = THERE'S no doubt that that figure also includes plenty of public relations men who do a legitimate job in helping the taxpayer learn about the expensive functions of his government. But those who have covered the Washington scene for the last 10 years or so have seen an ever-increasing abuse

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of this legitimate function of the government, until it's dif-. ficult to distinguish between - what's legitimate and what isn’t. : : The ghost-writer of political speeches for government big: shots is’a permanent fixture in ~ ‘every official's office. In fact “it's the administrative square nowadays who insists on writing his wa wras of wisdom.

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‘Propaganda Weapons’ By Doris Lytle, Indianapolis

Congratulations to The Incianapolis Times for its editorial, “Let Freedom Ring: One episode of this kind may be regarded by some as a flash in the pan, better to be ignored and sooner forgotten. If memory serves me cor- 7 rectly, however, this is not an isolated incident but one of a number that have taken place in recent months. Using the very techniques in our own country which we claim to deplore in the totalitarian regimes, reveals a craven.fear and a woeful weakness that must be the concern of the responsible elements of the community. The pattern is all too familiar in the countries that have crumbled from within before ever being attacked. Any appeal made by politicians, business, labor or any other group for support by appealing to fear, religious or racial hatreds at this time furnishes propaganda weapons for those who would descredit America -abroad. Such activity is just as subversive a3 any now branded as Communist.

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SEN. CAPEHART and others. nave been. de--ploring the faet that our-beys do-not-know what they y Ire fighting for in Korea. Can it be that effo to supress information about communism and the zeal to keep 6ur young in ignorance of the nature of other political systems by banning books and teaching of the subjects has’ resulted in- the confusion so bitterly described? Being of the “better mouse trap” school of thought myself, I cannot help feeling that a positive faith in our American ideals and a sound knowledge of the nature-.of the opposition should be standard equipment for our youth going out from our communities to the wide world which beckons them in peace as well as in-war.. | Keep up the ‘good work £0 well begun. Tha advocates of intolerance and suppression in Indianapolis are in the minority I have found.

and potentially dangerous the weapon of .a big propaganda machine can be in the services. The small Marine public relations force has never approached the flagrant violation of discipline which the Navy public relations staff engaged in at that time. If the President had pulled out his comparison to Stalin's propaganda machine at that time and applied it to the Navy or Air Force he would have been less “vulnerable. » » WHEN the Hoover Commission sent its able agents into the executive departments to try to make an analysis of the propaganda program of the agencies, it turned out to be 25 | impossible task. The agents reported. that the whole thing

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