Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1951 — Page 26

"WALTER LECKRON

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Ctime and Taxes rR d B E U. 8S. SENATE'S crime investigating committee, : having heard testimony in 14 cities from some 500 wit- ’ , reports: 4 That at least two huge crime syndicates are . hesating {ni his country, with “Lucky” Luciano, the deported vice po arhitrating. their disputes from his exile in Italy. % That illegal gambling is a $20- billion-a-year business.

& That a secret underworld government enforces its own Tag and carries out its own executions. ¢ That it has caused widespread corruption in federal, stdte and local governments. : - #& That there is “shocking” evidence of official connivance Behalf of organized erime. % And much, more. % Many law-abiding citizens will wonder what the fedgovernment can and shoyld do about this situation. Senate committee promises to try to answer the quesin detailed recommendations for legislation.

» ” "8 = = BUT there is one charge by the committee about which g federal government can, and emphatically should, do reat deal right now. # This is the charge that the Federal Bureau of Internal, Wenue is letting gamblers, mobsters and gangsters “get nly with murder” in their income-tax returns. 8 The committee asserts that the government is being auded of tax revenue which may amount to “hundreds pillions.” It says racketeers submit returns which the bulleau “would not accept from.ordinary citizens.” It is apgarent, the committee adds, that most if not all of these etUrns are “fraudulent,” but that many are not ‘scrutinized “even ordinary care.” “Ordinary, law-abiding citizens, trying hard" at't ig tie Er to be conscientious about theil income-tax ‘r eturns, have all the right in the world to demand quick: action on _ this charge. . |... Granted, it isn't a simple: matter to find the truth about the income of a professiotial gambler or racketeer. Granted those who defy other laws will also try to corigeal the . ‘amount of their take from organized crime. : But the Bureau of Internal Revenue has extriodinaty. powers to ferret out the facts about such matters. If it needs more power, it should have that. If it isn't making full tise of the:power it already has, Congres Showid 1 use its fn power to find why, not: wis

Raise Postal Rates

PRESIDENT TRUMAN has, sent Corres his annual plea LT for higher Postal rates! a shot, by all means, ; raise rates. i Ec The question is whether Mr. friar in asking for enough. He estimates that, at present rates, the Post Office defiwould be $521 million in the 12 months beginning next

Ju “Unsound at any time, such a deficit would, as he says, be worse than unsound now when the taxpayers must carry a heavy burden of defense costs. : Mr. Truman proposes to cut the deficit to $160 million— the cost, he figures, of services the Post Office performs for - the government itself. : a. .8. = 2 ) ss = BUT THERE is no assurance that the rate increases he seeks would make the deficit that small. For, as he points out, postal costs will rise if railroad and airline mail-car-rying charges are boosted. And—though he doesn’t mention this—those costs will rise further if Congress gives postal workers the higher wages they want, need and deserve. : However, judging by past performances, there will be a lot of boggling in Congress over Mr. Truman's request for $361 million in additional postal revenue, to be raised by— Doubling the 1-cent rate on postcards, circulars and advertising matter; doubling the rates on newspapers, magazines and other publications; making parcel-post rates high enough to cover costs, dnd raising charges for registry, insurance, COD mail and special delivery services. We agree with the President that “now, more than ever, it is wrong to ask the taxpayers to bear costs that should be borne by users of the mail service; many of whom have en- . joyed large special PHvileges in the form of Tow, 2 subsidized postal rates.” 3 n 3 ” THE TIMES Pas said repeatedly that'we w want no subsidy from the government—that we are willing to pay the full, accurately determined cost of delivering that part of our-circulation which goes by mail. We now urge Congress to vote such rate increases as are necessary to make the postal deficit no larger than $160 million a year. The increases, of course, should be fairly applied. There should be few, if any, exceptions to the rule that private users of postal services must pay their own way: The government should cut down its own extravagant use of those services. And Congress should put into effect without more delay the Hoover Commission recommendations for divorcing the Post Office Department from politics and making it a more efficient, more economical business institution.

Sorely Missed

fered a relapse in his illness and must postpone indefinitely his return to Washington. He is urgently needed there. His presence and counsel would lend immeasurable value to the ‘great debate” Congres. ;

i 8 Republican Senator was the chief architect and Pp onist of the bipartisan foreign policy which held together-so well during the war and for a few years after. He was especially effective in reducing the bogey of internationalism to a plane of realism. He was largely instrumental in gaining overwhelming congressional assent to

Sen. Vandenberg, great patriot; ‘great moderator and Goniciliator of verge, viewpoints, is sorely missed now,

. “hege. man ; is £4 a viniad : ‘ ni Nag,

“our part in the North Atlantic Pact. .

‘imes ‘GERMANY AND THE WEST .

MANZ Business Manager ful signs in Germany today is Chancellor Kon- _ rad Adenauer's fight against appeasement, :

For

“ever to hit South

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By Ludwell Pon”

* FRANKFURT, Mar. 1--One of the few hope~ HE IS a German patriot trying te save his country, and a practical politician trying to save his own neck.' He also is against comniunism He is doing a- better job than the head of -itself. any other Western European governmént to gxpose. Stalin's phony peace terms, and to prepare the public against Soviet trickery at the fortheoming Big Four conference. "Not that He is succeeding very well. The task hérets harder than elsewhere, And he is

ho popular leader;

is having with him — he is a hard and shifty

“equality” will be given to Germany in exchange for limited rearmament—the Allies have a tre-

paign against 4 a Moscow-made “peace.”

‘Decadent SffRersey +. By Talburt

OVER HERE WE HAVE j co ONLY

ONE TE fM

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TRYGVE LIE . By Frederick C. Othman

It's Only Expected—The Wife : Stays Up While Hubby Sleeps

SANTIAGO, Chile, ar. 1—Mrs. Trygve Lie, the motherly looking wife of the SecretaryGeneral of the. United Nations, is my kind of gal. Takes. care of her husband's health, no matter what happens to- hers. They were on the way down here via-sleeper plane for the current meeting of the United Nations’ Economic Council, which is perhaps the biggest whoopla of its kind

of the major domos in charge of the meeting estimated that it was -costing a cool $500,000 and you taxpayers know who is paying a ‘good chunk of that. This hotel where diplomats and I are staying was one of the shocks of my life when first I saw it. T'd expected an adobe kind of place,

found one of the de luxiest-hotels I ever did see in the midst of an ultra-modern ¢ity. The Indians, if any, are wearing beautifully tailored, white linen suits. What really floored me was that swimming pool on the roof. I have no idea what this called for in the way of extra steel and concrete to support the tremendous weight, but there it _‘was, surrounded by magnificent view of some of the highest mountains in- the ‘world, a profusion of tuberous begonias, and diplomats (after 5 p. m., that is) sipping champagne under striped umbrellas. This champagne .business is not quite such an extravagance as you might imagine. It is made in Chile from grapes grown in the local

America. All the berths unfortunately were taken, except one. And the portly Lie must weigh 250 pounds, while his = handsome, gray-hair-ed wife definitely is not on the skinny side. So the rumor spread among the 300 diplomats doing their stuff in the incredible Carrera Hotel that: the Lies slept together in their single berth. ‘“Eempossible,” exclaimed a Frenchman, laughing. So the story grew, as stories will even among our most serious people, until I thought I'd better do a little checking. Panagra's stewardéss on that flight, a Chilean girl who alsp believes in taking care of the menfolks, said it was not true. Caramba. It was a lie. The Secretary-General was an important man, who needed to be wide-awake on_the morrow. So he took the berth, put on his pajamas, and slept the sleep of the just. Mrs, Lie sat up all night, The stewardess was amazed that anybody presumed her nocturnal arrangements could have been otherwise. The wife of the SBecretary-General caught up on her own sleep later and when I saw her in.a summery dress at the 15th floor, rooftop swimming pool of the Carrera, she looked fine, Almost as well-rested as her husband. ‘The Council has been meeting here now for a week, but it hasn't accomplished much yet on account of the usudl United Nations bad boys. . Every time the gents try to get some good work done, the Communist delegations start yammering about the injustice of it all, with a few insults for the U.S. A. thrown in. Maybe later they'll talk themselves out, I hope 80. One

SIDE GLANCES.

per large bottle. Chile obviously is the place for anybody with a champagne appetite and a beer income.

Mug of Champagne \ THERE is so much of the ‘bubbly stuff around that last night at dinner the management served no shrimp cocktail to start; it produced instead a mug of champagne with mashed strawberries stirred in it. There also was entertainment, unscheduled. To the front of the hotel with flaming torches came perhaps 500 local Communists, urging the United Nations to go back where it came from. So they yelped for a while, or until their flares grew dim .and then came a force of Chilean police in white coats to ease them back, gently. Nobody got hurt and it looked to me as though everybody, including the cops and the statesmen, enjoyed the proceedings. With luck, unless I go bankrupt at what is

joints in the world, I'll have some good advice, Chilean style, for Ser Estes Kefauver’s crime committee. Here nobody is allowed to gamble unless he can show his income tax bill, stamped paid.

, By Galbraith LABOR .

T is sad news that Michigan's Sen. Vandenberg mes" 10

WASHINGTON,

fense-mobilization policies.

the defense drive. Acceptance yesterday. by the United Labor. Policy Committee of the wage-ror-mula concessions E r.ic¢ Johnston. announced Tnesday nignthf would be afi complete cave-in from what committee members said w h e ni they heard about them. Mr. Johnston, economic stabilization administrator, signed and thus made effective at once .the wage-contrdl formula adopted two weeks ago by the public and management members of the Wage Stabilization Board. The labor members pulled jut. when that formula was voted. Mr. Johnston aiso made public a letter to Cyrus 8. Ching, chairman of the

Mr. Johnston +. . classified

COPR. 1981 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

"Well, if there's inflation, why do you only give me fen dollars

a for a fon- dollar check?!" : three ipportant changes in the

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‘with Indians in ponchos out front. Instead, I'

vineyards and it costs approximately 90 cents”

said to be one of the most elaborate gambling lasting monument to the incompetence, bungling and stupidity of our political leaders.

Wage Board, recommending

<- Can Adenauer Win His Fight Aint Red Appeasement Attitue l¢

For, if the Germian people remain “neutral,”

neither Allled ‘refusal to accept

ference terms nor the nt government's

Stalin's con-

acceptance of German military En with

Regardless of the trouble the United States the Alles, will secure this country. Not only

are unwilling German troops unwanted, as

man publ is worse.

Stalin

bargainer over how much and how fast political Gen. Bisenbawes says. But an ynwilling Ger-

a perfect set-up for a phony mendous stake in his counter-propaganda cam: peace conference. His obvious purpose continues

to be to lure the Allies into a plausible settle-

ment which will “free” Germany to oe ne.

his hands. o ¢

EVEN if he falls, he will have won i he can persuade. the German people that we have

> rejected freedom for them and peace. « ; Stalin appears to be offering—and the Allies seem to. many Germans to be refusing—pre-.

cisely the things these people want: Unification of the divided fatherland.

Freédom from military service and a crush- - °

Ing rearmament load.

Liberation from foreign’ military occupation and foreign political controls—withdrawal of

the hated Soviet dictatorship of the East German zone, as well as evacuation of the lenient but still resented Allied forces from West

| Germany.

Safe neutrality in the present Allied-Soviet - cold war and in the shooting war they think

will follow.

If millions of French, Belgian and British

patriots think appeasement is

preferable

continued cold war, Allied rearmament and its alleged provocation of atomic war, it is hardly surprising that the Germans are suckers for

the kind of “peace and freedom”

peddling. SE

Stalin is

BUT Chancellor Adenauer is spelling out to “ befuddied Germans the facts of life in.a Rus-sian-threatened world. He repeats over and

over:

ONE: German neutrality cannot prevent war, nor will limited German defense—10 to 15 divisions at most, compared with Stalin's 175 divisions—provoke war. The best preventive of war is adequate Western defense, which includes

Germsdn defense,

TWO: In event of war (Germany cannot escape involvement. Neither side would respect German neutrality because geographically she

is in between.

THREE: If there is no war, a demilitarized and neutralized Germany would be at the mercy

of Moscow.

FOUR: A neutrality policy would not unite

the German people but divide them.

FIVE:

Germany's only hope, in peace or in

war, is as a member of ‘a united democratic

Western world.

Because “neutralism” is based: on the false ~ hope ‘that Russia can be trusted, Chancellor

Adenauer in his public appeals hAimmers away on these sensitive spots in the ( Gertian juin) : = -under tha HEE - puppet state Stalin operates in the Riissian

. » Enslavement of “fxs 14

occupation zone oft Germany. S8ince.the war, he charges, 200,000 have been thrown into concentration camps and nearly half of thém have

died there. Over 37,000 have been deported to :

Russia.

_ Hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war—nobody knows how many—are still missing in Russia, starving or. dead in Red

labor camps. > o

STALIN has robbed Germany of one- -quarter of her total territory, and his East German puppet regime this month blessed that theft. That 1s the vast area beyond the Oder-Neisse line,

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Moos

‘WFBM-TV Childish’

MR. EDITOR:

Just got through reading "Disgusted Father” in the Hoosjer Forum and I heartily agree with

him.

It's the silliest thing I ¢ver heard of

taking the Ken Murray show off television just before the broadcast of the ball game gets started, just because they advertise beer. I imagine there are a lot of high school kids who have TV sets, and if they look at them they

are sure to see a lot of beer ads.

So why should one beer ad, just before the basketball game starts, make much difference. > .

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THERE are probably a lot of people like me that really enjoy the Ken Murray show, not the advertising. I usually take the time they are advertising to get me a cup of coffee or something to eat during the rest of the show. And I think WFBM-TV was really acting child‘ish when it refused the beer company's offer to run the show without the commercials.

I haven't anything against basketball. But I don't care for it and

a good clean sport.

It's

I don’t think it's right to take up so much

time on TV.

1 like to relax of an evening and

now I'll have to shut my television off and

listen to the radio.

I paid quite a lot for my television, expecting to see a lot of top-notch programs, not to look

at basketball.

—Mrs. R. F., City."

‘Political Stupidity’

MR. EDITOR:

The pages of history recording the tragic episode of bloodshed in Korea will remain a

First, a

bluff was hurled at a nation that i&8 much too well informed of our weakness to be disturbed by any such tactics. Our bluff was called and

. By Fred W. - Parking Waae-Defense Scrap Is Growing Worse

action yesterday, but here are

Mar. 1—The quarrel grows worse between anonymous samples:

organized labor and the administration over wage and other de-

The outlook is for a long siege of bickering, with the big union leaders “including themselves out” from active parts of

formula znd requesting study of other items that might be liberalized.

Mr. Johnston would have the board permit “escalator” clauses in existing labor contracts to continue pushing u wages with the cost of ling until next June 30; make the same arrangement for annual wage increases rewarding increased productivity; and exclude health, welfare ' and pension benefits from the 10 per cent ceiling’on wage bansts granted since Jan. 15, 1950. The escalator and productivity payments would .be studied again before June 30, with pessible changes in their reygula-

tion. - ” ”

MR. JOHNSTON also asked the Wage Board to study cases involving hardships and inequities, and thany other -facets of the problem growing out of the complicated task of trying to regulate fairly .the

. intricate structure of wages in

American industry. Members of the Labor Polley Committee did not want to be quoted prior to the committee's

A CIO me

doesn’t begin to meet labor's demands.” An AFL member—“We already have rejected the essen- - tials of this Johnston proposal. It is a long way from what we want.” .

» ANOTHER

_ “I'm surprised and shocked, as well as disappointed. Shocked, nm because Mr. Johnston did not use the authority given him by law to determine policy, but ° threw the whole mess back to the Wage Board.” Mr, Johnston told reporters he thought ruling on such a personal matter wages can be done fairly only through a tripartite board,

with labor as well as manage- Labor Maurice Tobin, They" ment and the public’ repre- got no satisfaction. wi Sed rings” benefits 1a & On “fringe” benefits, ne sa ~ they divide into two classes. Barbs a In one category he placed on ; .. ei Deh and Noitare fa {x beneéfi 'whict are. a form o he and to that degree are awn 2 flatiovary.” He said od are hard to express in. dollars and cents,’ but that other “fringe” benefits wan be Come sorihg and the translated into increased in- bird will be getting the worma=. fationary spending power let and In the (al probably turks loose,” ‘Thats why M: Jguns- + it over to a tout. : 4

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Ge _ but also the Western nations. They fear French revenge. Non-Socialists are suspicious of the British Labor ment. And after ving uns der U, 3. oeub lon any, Sormane 't like . Pacifist BB is not, mor element 1n "German neutralism, . It is. the reaction ot a recently defeated and still very people, - caught between two ' glants who knocked them off their master-race perch.” And it is the reaction of a nation long condemned as war-mongers and mad-dogs, Whose *Bypostitical rivals” of the Weat first .

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disarmed them and then asked them to rearm.

soon or late they will end up in the aggressor's . camp—fighting-for Russia when they tink they are Agnting for. Germany: A Ti

For what, they ask? Certainly not for the c ki sake of Germany, they say. x 0C The problem—Chancellor Adenauer’s and the : Allies problem—is to convince them that the ' Lam “cause” which they are asked to defend now ‘ is far better for the Fatherland and for them- : Stey selves, and has a much better chance of victory, ' ab than anything the Kaiser or Hitler offered them. End The problem-is to persuade them that the uni- - fication of divided Germany, its growth as a , Chairs free and prosperous nation-—even their survival : ‘ —depends on becoming a loyal and responsible | part of a democratic alliance capable of self- § defense. : Do | . Until the German people understand “that, : for yo "they will be a potential, mendce second only to . ls ‘next d Red Russia. If they go their present stupid way, } 1d

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; Or : it wr io WE DIE Pleasures die .. , and” never see the fun . . . in facing this life with a smile . . . from dawn to setting sun . .. then we are heading for a fall , . . and that is true I'm sure i. . for something is the matter and +. «+ We meed & magic cure . . . and when the fire of our hope . . . is down to the las{ spark-*- . +... then it's time to see the light . .. for we are in the dark . . . when we fear mot for what's to be . . . and sort of just don’t care .. on we are deep In quandary ... and, living wi despair . . . oh yesjmy friends’ whén we lose i» - these . . . the things that gold can’t buy . .'=*

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when love and all its thrill is gone . . : we live, but yet we he, :

—~By Ben Burroughs | we

Stalin’s only tion which saved our ‘necks in the last two aE However, at the gutbreak of the war in Koreas. thanks to our modern. machinery and produc-*: tion methods supplied during World War IL Russia was turning out at least 30,000 planes, s- 2 a ratio of 10 to one. = > IN WORLD WAR II our aircraft productiorsx was tripled. Today Mr. Truman has asked Hater it be increased five fold. Airplanes adequate fo! our present needs are far more complicated than our finest used in the last war and require’ twice the training time for workers and fou times as many man-hours to build. a Ironic enough on Apr. 13, 1949, a bill passed’; the House 271-1 appropriating 851 million dols= lars to inerease our Air Force to 58 groups. However, Mr. Truman ordered this money put’ in reserve. None of this money was spent .untils it was reappropriated for the fiscal year 1951. Mr. Truman's comment two days before they, Korean outbreak was that we couldn't pay for«s it now. Sd & 3 YET when Mr. Truman declared a nationah emergency, I distinctly remember his plugging’ the vote-getting socialized medicine scheme and the Brannan ‘farm program as an absolute must, cost evidently being no object. A democracy can exist only where peopl wil think—people. who hold sound reasonin superior to a joy ride on the political gravyy train. We just don't get something for nothing. Do we as a nation prefer to sell our birth right for a mess of tainted pottage to be dol out by a welfare state? Those.opposed h . better speak out and do so loudly and quickly]

—Herbert Ray Worth, City. (Additonal Letters on Page 27) -

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ton said he asked the Wagds Board to authorize one class and study the other. " ‘.Wage Chairman Ching sont: out telegrams asking all mems«« «= -bérs of the Wage Board to bey" “oft hand for a meeting yestéras day afternoon. The manage-ss Jost, meriibers answered tney:” be-there. Attendance of i the resigned labor members: depends on a decision by the? Labor Policy Committee, and ..is doubtful. by MR. JOHNSTON'S actions: ranked in union ‘abor Com, with a meeting the Labor Com mitteé members held earliens with Charles. E. Wilson, di«®* . rector of mobilization, on-man< ‘ power. The union men wanteds > Mr, Wilson to restore. contro over this field to Secretary of

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as a man’s