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More Pay Deductions? THE proposal that Indiana compel employers to take

state gross income taxes out of employees’ pay sounds

‘ike an easy way to get the money in. * It is. Too easy. The federal government began doing that a few years Hack. By now it has half the workers in this country convinced that they don’t pay any taxes . . . that somebody else ays them. Anyone who believes that doesn't mind a bit if axes go higher; so the federal administration can squander ‘nd waste his money as recklessly as it wishes. To be sure, the cash is missing from the worker's pay ‘heck each week. He notes that shortage, and tends to blame he stinginess of his employer for it, and demand higher pay ates to keep up with his living costs. If he gets them the ving costs go up still higher, because there isn’t any way ‘ou can take out one-fourth of what a man earns and waste > on surplus eggs and potatoes and bureaucrats and let the van still have the living standard to which his whole pay ntitles him. uy

ss ® » : 880 IF Indiana adopts this “easy” way to get the money ‘n by hiding the tax it will be an open invitation to every uture state administration to spend more and tax more and

“~7aste more. The more voters they can convince that

“somebody else” pays the tax, the easier it will be to make it igher. Every citizen should, and in fact does, share in paying he costs of government. He has a right to know what those ~7sts are . . . to him . . . every month and every year. ‘ow else can he decide whether he's getting his money’s orth, whether he wants to pay more ...or less...” If Indiana's gross income tax division is failing to collect ie money due it, let it improve its own operation . .. not try ) unload its job on others. Making involuntary state tax collectors out of every -ndiana employer will cost Indiana many times as much as he relatively paltry sum that isn't collected under the presont system. :

A Diplomatic Absurdity

HE inability of President Truman and British Prime Minister Attlee to agree on a common policy toward ‘ommunist China overshadows the constructive accomplishents of their joint conference. And it is idle to say that the two governments do not atend to let differences on this point interfere with their united effort in support of their common objectives. Public opinion will decide that question and American hublic opinion is in no mood to be trifled with. : Americans are most concerned at the mgment with the “ate of their troops fighting with their backs to the wall in “orea. Those troops are under attack by the forces of Red ‘hina. To assume that the American people will accept ‘hat appears to be Britain's attitude toward those Red ggressors is a fante~tic absurdity.

» - on ~ ACCORDING to the statement issued by Messrs. Trunan and Attlee, “The United Kingdom has recognized the Central People’s (Communist) government and considers hat its representatives should occupy China's seat in the ’nited Nations,” and the United States is opposed to that. n its face this would seem to mean that despite the fact ‘ed China is at war with the United Nations, Britain still ‘els that the Communists should be seated in the United ‘ations in place. of the Chinese Nationalists, who are willing, ven eager to join forces with us against the Communist ttack. / How can any right-thinking American be expected to gree to that? President Truman, of course, has properly refused to

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Moreover, the joint statement declares that the Amerianand. British..governments..are-in.-complete agreement ‘hat there can be no thought of appeasement or rewarding 'ggression. That is sheer hypocrisy at a time when Britain nsists-on seating -Red-China-in-the United Nations:

» » » LZ - THE Chinese Reds have a gun pointed at the United “tations. To seat them in that organization under such cir‘umstances would be nothing but appeasement, and an act f such-cowardice that it would destroy the best hope of a hreatened world. i No nation could respect the integrity of the United Naions after so abject a surrender of principle. The joint statement also declares that the future of “ormosa should be settled by the United Nations. If that

reans this question will be presented to the United Na-

ons after Britain has been successful in seating Red China 1 the United Nations, it“follows that the intent here is to liver Formosa to the Communists as another contribution ward appeasement. : Formosa is under the government of Nationalist China —a government recognized by the United States. The 450,'00 Nationalist troops stationed on that island represent he only substantial anti-Communist force in all Asia, out‘de of the American forces there. Should we take any ~hance of surrendering this force to communism in order hat Britain may maintain its trading post at Hong Kong, hrough which it ships strategic goods to our enemies?

IT IS vital to the security of the United States itself hat Formosa be in friendly hands. Under similar circum- - tances in Europe, would Britain be willing to give Gibraltar ‘0 the Reds, or buy their favor by granting them a base in 3elgium? Formosa was used as the springboard for the Japanese attacks upon the Philippines and Pearl Harbor. That part of the communique dealing with the atomic omb—by our layman's interpretation—means that PresiJdent Truman retains full control. The President stated he lioped it would never be necessary to use the bomb, and

“hat “it was also his desire to keep the Prime Minister at all

informed of developments which might bring about in the situation.” On such eventuality, we trust v _misconstrue plain words, and claim

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A GOOD many years ago a Russian named Leonid Andreyev wrote a play called “The Sabine Women” which few people have ever heard of, still fewer seen.

Hoosiers Want Acti

Its action describes the half-legendary Ro-

man raid on the neighboring Sabine cities in search of wives, in which the Romans carried off by force all the women they could find. Thereafter the husbands of those kidnapped women go through a tough training program...

not, -it develops, in order to fight, but so they'll . : down

be strong enough to carry their law books to Rome and prove that the Romans were ethically and morally wrong in grabbing their wives. : ’ Eventually they do just that, march into the forum in Rome, pile up their stacks of law books and announce to the Romans they now are ready to prove that the raid was improper. But the Romans reply: : “Oh, we admit that. So what?” ; ro AE A i 5 DELEGATES to the United Nations last week must have understood just how these ancient Sabines felt. From the representatives of Communist Rus-

sia and from their Chinese stooges the United

Nations heard snarling tirades that added up to that same answer: “So what?” . They were simply. serving notice they intend to take whatever they have enough brute force

. to take, and that silly bourgeois questions of

right and wrong don’t interest them at all. That is no new position, of course. Commu-

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Beamer Gets Hot Potato

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—When“Republican-

- Wlect John V. Beamer, Wabash, arrives here to

take his freshman seat in the 82d Congress on Jan. 3, he will find a hot potato passed to him by his Democrat predecessor, Rep. John R. Walsh, Anderson.

Mr. Walsh will testify on what he Knows

about alleged swindles at the Bunker Hill Naval Dase near Peru before the House Executive Expenditures Subcommittee some ti this week, he said. * 2 He also announced that he/had volunteered to serve as counsel, witho a salary, until Chairman Herbert C. Bonner (D. N.C.) is satisfied that his subcommittee has reached the bottom of business deals that have gone on at

the base since it was declared surplus after

World War IL Mr. Walsh declared that he had known

enough about the interim report presented to.

the Bonner Committee by the General Accougying Office last Thursday to have used it as ammunition in his campaign against Mr. Beamer. He had hesitated to do so, although the transactions involved occurred in the fifth district under his (Walsh's). G. O. P. predecessor, Rep. Forest A. Harness, Kokomo, -Mr. Walsh said.

Could Have Been 2-Edged Sword IF MR. HARNESS had anything to do with them it hasn't been disclosed. Since it is absolutely certain that they occurred under the Truman administration, these matters might have been a two-edged sword politically it was pointed out. In any case, Mr. Walsh admits he remained silent about them, 3 His battle has been over renewal of a one dollar yearly lease to the Bunker Hill Corp. which handles the Navy property now and does a big soybean-raising business. ies Only salaried officer of that corporation is the vice president, Harry R. Curran Jr., who until his retirement in May 1947 was a Lieut.commander in charge of the Bunker Hill Navy Base. What that meant in subsequent developments there was the question raised repeatedly by Mr, Walsh, He will testify that he never received a satisfactory answer and has since been told by residents of the area that the lease has been renewed on the old one dollar-a-yvear basis. It goes to Bunker Hill and Bunker Hill turns it over to the corporation. But all this must be done annually with Navy approval, Mr, Walgh explained, ’ !

Paid Less Than $12,000 for Property EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT of the Bunker Hill Corp. is C. C. Harrah, who this week was named in the GAO interim report as first vite president of a never-operated Bunker Hill School of Aeronautics, Inc., which managed to receive and dispose of between $4 million and $7 million of flyable airplanes and other squipment for an investment of less than $12000, This was done through the War Assets Administration. : . First president of this phantom school setup, which was approved by the state but never certified by WAA as the-<law required, was James KE. Short, Hamlet, Ind,, bank director and owner of the James E. Short Produce Co. He formerly was a metallurgist with the U. S. Steel Corp. in

Gary. He also was in on the founding of the"

Bunker Hill Corp., according to Mr. Walsh, but

pending against it, President ‘of that corpora-

“fell out ‘with thé organization and has a suit

tion is Wayne Ladd, owner and operator of. the.

large soy bean processing plant directly across the road from the air base. ! While the GAO investigation proceeds, Mr.

Walsh wants the Bonner subcommittee to go

“out to Indiana and make a grass roots investi-

gation of its own. As the new Congressman from the district, Mr. Beamer would be invited to be present.

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REPEAT OF 1942 . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Looks Like War In Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—It begins to look like another case of here we go again boys, or all is confusion once more upon the Potomac. Everybody, except maybe me, has his own idea of how to handle those Chinamen. People are snarling at each other, new alphabetical agencies are going into business dally, Yt ladies in uniform are becoming plentiful on the streets, the powers - thatbe talk darkly of turning apartment houses into office buildings and for the first time in years yesterday I had to wait for a seat in a restaurant, If this {sn’t war, it's still a reasonable replica of Washington in 1942 and to give you one small example of what I mean, I'd like to present Walter P. Reuther, president of the CIO United Auto Workers Union.

The redheaded Mr. Reuther was supposed to

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‘tell the Senators anll Representatives what Reg-""

ulation W, forcing people to pay for automobiles in 15 months, would do to his members. He was in good form. His gestures, with both arms, - indicated that he had recovered fully from a.shotgun blast -by a would-be assassin a couple of years ago. . :

Before Mr. Reuther had finished he had “ac cused assorted bureaucrats of bungling and

some business leaders of profiteering; had discussed rent controls, bank credits, war policies,

THIS IS YOUR CITY . . . By Ed Wilson

‘It's Cheaper To Break The Traffic

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the defense act, and federal buck-passing. He also got off some nifties. Regulation W, he said, was like trying to

~ grab three hairs on the tail of a dog to control

the tail and thereby cause the dog to wag. He said a little later that the fellow in the middle milks the farmer on one side and the consumer on the other. “We're the only cow in the world that gives milk from both ends,” he added. #

Some of Mr. Reuther's charges were fasci-

nating to an old auto mechanic like me. Take .

the new rule cutting civilian use of aluminum

35 per gent. He said the government never even -

tho! bout pistons. Those are the things that g0 up and down inside automobile engines. Every automobile engine in America contains aluminum pistons, he said, except Chevrolets, which use cast iron, and Pontiacs, which favor chrome nickel. Put iron pistons in all the other cars and we'll have to redesign and retool

. their motors.

Projects 1and 2 .

“YOU just can't leave a couple of pistons out of an engine,” he assured the statesmen. “So. if you cut the number of pistons 35 per cent you also cut the number of cars 35 per cent.” ; His project No. 1 is to persuade the masterminds to save the aluminum from cigar lighters and jump-seat swivels and use it in pistons. ‘No. 2, he said, is to learn who is in charge of the square miles of obsolete flying machines parked wing to wing in the western deserts. “A literal mine of aluminum is in these

planes, which are no good to anybody,” he said. “Everybody I talk'to here agrees this is true, but I have not yet been able to find the man ..who is in charge of. these planes. Every time. I.

talk to somebody about them, I am informed they are in custody of another bureau across town. I go over there to learn the situation and that I have come tothe wrong place.” I don’t want to sound smug about it, because I'm not, but Mr. Reuther may be interested to know that this situation is normal in Washington. Even in times of peace.

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by clearly visible way back in April Rt y egistration. in Marion County tory plainly indicated a strong “protest” : ‘ Ey 8 ‘petitions being circulated here right now, and getting ready signatures, asking President Truman to get rid of Secretary of

any of the usual “pgessure groups.” Our two

5 -U. S8.- Senators report they are getting heavy

mail on the subject from back home . .. all demanding that Mr. Acheson resign. Analysis of the protest indicates it means not only Mr. Acheson, but everybody in the Department who had anything to do with our China policy. In spite of propaganda, which has been considerable, Hoosiers seem never to have been sold on what appears to them to be the State

Department's determined inténtion to liquidate .

Chi Kai-shek and Nationalist China comDletely and try to do business with the Chinese Communists instead. What has happened in Korea in the last few weeks has only confirmed they already believed on that score. was there any indication that opinion here was ready to go along with the plea Mr. Attlee brought with him ... that Europe should be saved first, regardless of the cost to Asia. Other communities might have a different view on that. Indianapolis has fewer close ties with Europe than most large cities, ‘Ancestors of many a Hoosier came here from Europe .. . but so long ago that all personal contacts with relatives abroad, and memories of another homeland have been lost. There is a good deal of opinion that Europe ought to be doing some= thing about saving herself, :

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SO IN Indianapolis, at least, President True man’s decision to keep the fleet in front of For. mosa, and fight Communist aggression in Asia was applauded, and probably more help and closer collaboration for Chiang would be, too, And, more than any diplomatic ventures, more speed in arming ourselves would strike & popular response, oh There's an air of realism around Indianapolis on this ninth anniversary week of Pearl Harbor, A feeling that the time for words is gone, now, and only actions will count from here in, that nobody is going to defend us unless we do it ° ourselves, .

“| do net agree with a word that ;ou.say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Don’t You Worry’ By Mrs. Druse, City IN REPLY to Thomas Markey’s letter in Wednesday's issue of The Indianapolis Times, “Is this Fair?" » There are a few statements that are not clear. As for high school education as yet boys are not being drafted until 19 years old and as for college education, since 1946 my husband is still going to night school, raising a family and

"trying a buy a home in order to make up for

the lost time he spent in World War II. You see I want him to live too. : i eS

OF COURSE 1 do not believe in sending men

or young boys off to war, but don’t worry Mr,

Markey, when war is officially declared, we'll all be back in uniform. You know that they are calling back the reserves and national guard. By the way, have you tried to enlist? I'm sure the ground or air national guard will accept you, then you also can sweat out your

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Won't Shirk Duty By R. L., City

IF Mr. Markey wants to go back into the service so badly, why doesn’t he go down and enlist. Why drag everyone else in with him. Some of us men who were in World War'II and have wives and children feel that we

families.

The four years that I have had at home

with my family are very precious to me and while I fought for my country before and will fight again, if necessary, I feel there are a lot

I am not a person to shirk my duty but after five years in World War II, I don’t feel that I am being a slacker by staying home as long as I feel I can. Re

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TRAFFIC is the nation’s biggest killer, Yet most people, including Indianapolis citizens, shrug their

shoulders and forget about it.

They forget about it if they can. Some of them, confined to wheel chairs and crutches, will never forget the killing powers of an automobile.

An unused room, the quietness of a cemetery, the antiseptic odors of a hospital, remind others of the frailty of the body. Heart disease, cancer, polio, B ...we spend millions every year to combat these man-killers, We all fear them. But the big killer, the automobile, is still relatively free to “kill at will.” Scientists spend years to ferret out, control and kill a disease. Many times it's the small, seemingly unimportant details that hold the key to disease control.

The same may be said of

trafic control. Too many of us, including law-enforcement officers, bypass the bothersome little details that often write the traf-

' fic-death headlines. ji:

- ~ A CASE in point is this account written by a traffic-law violator. -His name is not recorded here because same facts can be applied to hundreds of motorists through-

‘out the city.

“I'm an Indianapolis citizen with a wife and a kid. I own a car but I'm no millionaire. A buck’s still big money to me

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“I can park on the street in 1'4-hour zones and even yellow zones within the milesquare cheaper than I can park in a commercial lot. For the last three years my parking costs have been $4 a year. Yet almost every day I violated traffic laws on parking. “A friend of mine pays $96 a year to perk fh a commercial lot , . . another pays $100. “It's cheaper to break the law. “Actually I wish the police department could chase me off the street by enforcing the law. “I don't know whose fault it is. The point is there are hundreds of guys doing the same thing every day, “It makes a guy feel inse- . + as if he can't depend on the police for help, RY “I've parked in yellow zones with a cop watching me . . . yet no ticket. “I" ve parked on streets where all the cars on one side get tickets but on the other . +: no tickets. ir “How come?" «i

vision stumbled along when the strike was still an infant. Department manpower concentrated on the protection of Sanitation Department employees. The effect was almost crippling. -

Mobilized traffic officers In the mile-square were as scarce as hen’s teeth? PD invitations to a $2 session in cafeteria court were scarce, too. i . That’s all changed now. The threat of violence against san-

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itation employees has faded out. : The sharp, shooting pains of the department have given way to the old, dull, long-term headache: 4 Not enough men to do the b.

. # ~ THE Army cut the force below last year’s strength, Strike or no strike, the department can only afford to assign seven three-wheel traffic vehicles to the mile-square

to service parking meters and

zones. It has a total of 10 for the entire city. Account of the’ self-con-fessed traffic law violator is

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Moving violations fell from

51,998 last year to 47,270 this year, The decrease can be attributed to the .shortage of manpower caused by the “garbage strike” . . . not to an increase in safe driving. The Traffic Department is now waiting approval of its budget for next year. If it's OK'd it can try to buy six more three-wheel vehicles but the going will be tough. Uncle Sam is on the market for the same kind of vehiclés,

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dangerously behind city growth. Obvious solution?

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