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Y W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ ~ President Editor Business Manager’ PAGE 10 Monday, Mar. 19, 1051

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QECRETARY of the Treasury Snyder announces a big government. drive against income-tax evasion by gamblers, racketeers and other criminals, ; . The Bureau of Internal Revenue is organizing a special ‘fraud section which, Mr. Snyder says, will be composed of “expert investigators who have demonstrated ability to get results against the professional criminal type of tax evaders, regardless of the difficulties encountered.”

He adds that tax data on racketeers will be disclosed

"to committees of Congress which have authority—as the"

Treasury and the Internal Revenue Bureau do not—to make: ~ such information public, = BRC, PRE ee. . . ® 0»

_. SENATOR Kefauver's Crime Investigating Committee charged recently that big-time gamblers and racketeers were “getting away with murder” on their income-tax returns. :

Secretary Snyder and Internal Revenue Commissioner

Schoeneman feel that this criticism was unfair. They say that, despite difficulties which often are “numerous and gevere,” the bureau has been making a tremendous effort to catch up with underworld tax evaders.

It is now investigating 485 cases intolving gangsters

and mobsters, according to Mr. Snyder, ahd is considering criminal prosecutions in 88 of these cases. - : Unfair or no, the Kefauver committee's criticism certainly does seem to have spurred the Internal Revenue Bureau into more vigorous action than it was displaying previously. : © Witness $he organization of that special fraud section. “ Ana-winess the filing of tax-évasion cases against Ralph Capone; brother of the late “Scarface” Al, and against two prosperous professional gamblers in Washington, D.C.

. . . ” - UNLESS the Senate extends its life, the Kefauver committee will go out. of business soon after it ends its current Hearings in New York City. : | It is much too valuable a committee to lose just now. Its opportunifies for useful service are far from exhausted. The gort of information it has brought to light, and could continue to bring to light, is urgently needed to help law-enforce-ment and ‘tax-collecting agencies in their work. And the gort of prodding it can do also is urgently needed to keep law enforcers and tax collectors on their toes. | The Senate should tell the Kefauver committee to stay

on the job.

InflationtPicks Your Pocket

THIS Congress has been in session now two months and * two weeks, and has not yet done anything to check the rising cost of living. : ! Larger revenue than had been anticipated has the Treasury temporarily using black ink, and that fact seems to have acted as a not-so-temporary sedative on the taxing committees of the House and Senate.

Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means

Committee promises a new start “after the Easter recess.” (It is unfortunate that inflation is taking no recess.)

rs s 8 8 8 8 i TREASURY Secretary Snyder will be called before the committee again to outline the administration’s full program to put the emergency budget on a pay-as-you-go Hasis. It is hoped the secretary will now say the Treasury will settle for the $10 billion tax increase asked a couple of months ago, and will not later seek an additional $6.5 billion, which Mr. Snyder had first said was inescapable.

Meanwhile, defense munitions contracts are now being let at the rate of $60 billion a year, and when we get around to paying for those orders the Treasury's black ink bottles will go back onto the cobwebby shelves. And, unless Congress lays much heavier taxes, prices will continue to rise no matter how many freeze orders issue from Mike DiSalle’s office. Wholesale prices have increased about 20 per cent in the last year, and in the same time the Bureau of Labor Statistics says the cost of living has increased nearly 8 per cent, a figure likely to bring a snort from most any housewife with a market basket on her arm. s ” ” . ~ » < CONGRESS wouldn't consider laying a 20 per cent wholesale sales tax, or an 8 per cent retail sales tax—and we hope that, never happens. But it wouldn't be any costlier to the consumers than what has happened. : We prefer income taxes to sales taxes, but one thing even more insidious is price inflation, and that is caused largely by the failure of Congress to lay the taxes to collect the revenues the government will have to have to pay its bills. : Congress should stop being bemused by a temporary surplus and get on with its job:

Like Old Times

MOST delightsome tidbit of news out of Washington for "+ quite a spell is the jury verdict that a man's desk drawer is his castle, :

e Indianapolis Times’

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“Who Will Pick >

to pick these yomng people

DEAR 05s d cot Beier Jenner Calls UMT Political

Charges Truman Trying To Teach Youth His Ideals © WASHINGTON, Mar. 16—In denoiificing the universal military training of the 18-year-old draft bill as it passed the Benate, Ben. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) charged President Truman with trying to establish an “elite corps” of youth with indoctrinated political ideals. Since that time, Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, who is also a Hoosier, has

announced a program for deferring the. “bright

boys” from the draft so they can continue in college, y Such deferments are sharply criticized in the current Harper's Magazine by educator and publicist Gerald W. Johnson, He points out that the “bright boys” are often the Wadeleighs and Hisses and that the average American takes a dim view of such intellectuals.

Cites Rise in Veterans HE ALSO makes the point that this country is rapidly becoming a nation of veterans and they are not likely to choose for leaders men who have never had similar experiences in the armed forces. : ; Sen. Jenner, who sought to divorce the - draft of the -Senate bill from UMT r 16 votes for his project, cast one of five “woes RpAinst thy draft whegsure. |“ = He contended in his floor speech” that the bill, as drafted by the adrnistration, provides for “universal service” and not just UMT. ’ “The youth of the nation, boys and probably girls, are to be drafted not only for defense against an enemy, but so that the administration can assign them where it thinks they are needed in whatever it decides are the civilian needs of the nation,” Sen. Jenner charged.

‘Elite Corps’ “THE FIRST step’in that direction is the new elite corps: The President is authorized, in the committee bill under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to free from military duty a group of persons selected for study or research in medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, the sciences, engineering, the humanities, and other flelds determined by him to be in the national interest. “What is left out? Can you think of any‘thing that Mother Hubbard clause does not cover? Their expenses will, of course, be paid by the government if they cannot pay without undue hardship.” x “We need not worry about whether, the numbers are to be 75,000 or 150,000 because we know how often the administration has asked authorization for a little token program, only to come back, year after year with appropria- , tions that Increas® like the green bay tree, | §

“WHO is going who are to make up our educated elite? Of course, we will see competitive examinations, but we know whose sons will prove most eligible. Chairman William Boyle of the Democratic National Committee will probably decide whose sons are best qualified. “In a few years all the educated young people in the country will have the right political ideas. ‘Remember there will not be many students left outside this charmed circle. There will be officers’ training programs in the military colleges whose curriculum is approved by the Defense Department. Young men in the ROTC will be deferred for further study, if they accept commissions. Students will be inducted and then assigned to study for the civilian needs _ of the nation. . » “With most of their students in uniform, with most of their funds coming from the ~ government, what will happen to the independence of our colleges?

Eligible for Service

“AFTER their studies are completed these ybung doctors and engineers and Latin teachers will still be eligible for military service and can be assigned to civillan service jn the national interest. “That ‘means that as our young people come out of the colleges and technicil schools, they can be directed by the government to work in atomic energy plants, to any work in government departments. We do not know how much of the work of private industries and private farming and private colleges will be done by these young men under military discipline. “The report of the armed services committee tells us frankly that the new program is universal service, not selective service or universal training. Every one in the age group will be taken in, on a strict universal, impartial basis of age. Soon there will be no one in the covered ages in civilian life. Our colleges, our trade unions, our political parties, will not be able to recruit any members until they have been conditioned by universal service.

‘How Much Left?’

“BWVERY young man will be assigned "the step he is to occupy in this hierarchial organization. After a few years in such a strait-jacket, how much will be left of American initiative and enterprise?” , Whether Sen. Jenner's broad interpretation of the UMT provisions of the draft bill is correct or not, the. House is expected to pass the measure with the requirement that further action be taken by Cangress before the President can establish any UMT.

FAMILY OF NATIONS . . . By Charles Lucey American Republics Sat for March Session 3

: | Mar. 19—Two main themes probably will WASH > of 21 American re-

dominate the meeting of Foreign Ministers

ublics to begin here Mar. 26. P First, there will be the basic political the friendly relationship that binds the

"Uh Hub! Swept It All Under the Rug’

approach to cementing Western Hemisphere's rooted in the U. 8. wish to dem-

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Prospects of Life

‘EN ROUTE TO McLEAN, Va. Mar. 18—My whirl around South America is nearing its end and I'm bringing home nothing but happy memories, a sunburn and a few trinkets such as

will give the customs agents. no problems. My

tiger, my llama, and my talking bird I had to leave behind. ’ - The souvenirs I i oS picked up in Santi- * ° ago, Buenos Aires, » Montevideo, Punta Del Este, La Paz and other places were inanimate: stuff like silver bracelets, water colors of gauchos, and hand-

so soft it looks like velvet. Not until I reached Peru did m loot get interesting. In Lima Don Jose Poblete, the leading > vintner, and his family long have been friends of my bride and myself. His daughter, Florita, presented me at once with a large green bird with a red tail that spoke Spanish fluently. No cuss words, either, because Florita personally had schooled him. Regretfully I had to turn him down because of the American regulations regarding parrot fever. Florita's young man, who is an aviator in the Peruvian Air Force, thought that was a shame, but he had a gift for me against which no laws have been passed; namely, one tiger. It was a baby, lady tiger, with stripes and big golden eyes and never have I seen a friendlier, more playful animal. In a few more months, said this kindly young man, with plenty of milk and beefstew I should have the finest tiger in McLean, Va. I tried to explain to him how grateful I was, but that McLean wasn't quite the proper place to rear a tiger. He was disappointed and I was embarrassed. I said—and this was a mistake— that what my bride really would like was a llama. A llama, in case you've never seen one, is a kind of cross between a camel and a goat, with maybe a little kangaroo somewhere. in his family tree. Young Jose's eyes lit up. If I thought my Hilda wanted a llama, he had one. He did, too, out at the family farm. It was a fine gentle llama with an intelligent face. He liked me, right off. Jose said you could tell when you made friends with a llama by the way he snuggled up close. If he decides he doesn't like you, on the other hand, he spits in your eye.

SIDE GLANCES

GS MA

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ON THE WAY HOME . . . By Frederick C. Othman

in ‘the U. S.

Sound Uncivilized to Me Maw...

Obviously I coul®-nat turn down this gift, also. 80 I took up this problem with Panagra Airlines which now is sailing me on the way to Panama at 20,000 feet. How much, asked Panagra, did this llama weigh? About 600 pounds, I said. A little large to fit in a reclining seat of a DC-6, Panagra replied. It didn't

* refuse to take my: llama to the- states, you

understand, but it was not enthusiastic.

So I had to report to Jose that because of

this stuffy attitude toward llamas as passengers, I was forced to leave mine in Peru.

“How,” he asked, “would you like a Python?” .

An Exotic Touch

I GULPED. He said he meant a dead one; merely the skin of one, which he hastened to unfurl for nearly 15 feet down his: father’s front hall. He said it would be good for shoes, or perhaps to decorate our living room. I hope my bride likes it; should give our mantel piece a fine, exotic touch. So the only thing worrying me now as I

is how am I ever going to get over my South American ways? At 5 p. m. I have learned to like my tea, with rum in it. At 9 I have cocktails, I usually dine at 11, leisurely, on beefsteaks two inches thick and strawberries with cream that I eat

with a fork. I drink only wine, both white and

red, except when it’s pink and I never get up

- until 10:30 a. m., when a walter brings me a sup

of coffee strong enough to walk. “

This is too good to last. In a few more hours I'll be dining at home on hamburger, unless my bride has a bowl of spaghetti. I'll be drinking water and getting up to the tune of an electric alarm clock. Soutids uncivilized to a South Americano like me.

TWO SIDES

THROUGHOUT my life I've tried to be . . . most fair in what I do . .. I've tried to listen to all sides and get the other's view . . . I've tried to weigh each problem that . . , confronted me each day . . : . . . the best and righteous way . . . for I have found throughoiit the years . . . that very often I... have benefited by opinions . . . from the other guy . . . I've found that everyone of us

+. «+» has slants on this and that . . . and real"

mediation is . . . a friendly welcome mat . . . ‘and so it is with nations ... in this world where we abide . . . they all would be much better off . .. if they saw the other's side. —By Ben Burroughs.

By Galbraith

up faster whe the trucks on them

.in the hope that I would take .

#1 do not agree with a word y, but 1 will defend to the death your ne" ‘Congratulations’ . MR. EDITOR:

Congratulations to Miss Mikels for winning first place. Hoosier Headliner award for excellence in newspaper reporting. She deserves it, I have never met Miss Mikels, but her work evidences basic honesty, : technical skill and above all a warm, human outlook. : With some of the local papers so full of obviously slanted news it is indeed refreshing to pick up a Mikels' piece and know you are reading facts about real, live people. tulations again, Miss Mikels, and the best of luck to you in all your future work. ~Times Reader, Olty

‘Sorry, Fellas’ MR. EDITOR: Notided a couple of letters in the Hoosier Forum the other day about truck drivers and bad roads. According to the truck drivers nobody should complain about the roads being beat up. .After all they didn’t have a thing to do with it. If their overloaded trucks break up

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the highways it's not their fault. It's the fault

of the road builder or of the public, Too bad, boys, just doesn’t sound Tight. Seems as though the highways

& ... WOULD like to oblige you and get off the

‘highways, but every now and then I have to 80 someplace by car and sometimes my family ~

likes-to take a little ride. Can't very well walk and the bud drivers wouldn't turn around if my wife happened to see a place she wanted to stop. Maybe you boys could oblige my wife and take her on a joy ride when and where she wanted to go, . Why don’t you. build: your own roads? You said you could do it. That would make everybody happy, including your boss . . . or would it? Take another look, fellas, when you happen to be giving your wife a ride or going to visit someone on your day off. ; . Ordinary Motorist, Oity.

“Victims of Brickbats’

MR. EDITOR:

This organization (National Federation of Federal Employees) has noted with gratification the article in your issue of Mar. 5, entitled “Reporter Snoops Around and Discovers Ni Loafing in rnment Offices Here.” ‘ Fedéral employees, and, so far as we know, ‘state and municipal employees are usually on the eceiving end of brickbats tossed in their direc-

thought or”effort gbes into thejr daily work. Whem, everything is gol alright ‘no one . takes notice but let 3 few employees, during a relaxed moment, stop to take a breather as is commonly done in private industry, there will likely as not pop.up a reporter or newspaper photographer. who will take note of the scene and hold it up te their thousands of readers as a typical example of what goes on among their civil servants. . Local public employees appreciate such recognition of their efforts as your article gives them. Trey are just plain everyday citizens, who are really not parasites but are hard working, honest people trying to make a living and to give value received for their salaries. We are sending a copy of your article and of this letter to our national headquarters in Washington, D. C. —Clem J. Keller, National Federation of : Federal Employees, City.

‘Truman and lke’

MR. EDITOR: I hope Harry Truman does, let -Ike come home to run for the presidency in 1952. It's about time. You can bet your boots. that if Ike is here and if he runs, he'll sweep the country. This is not a slight against Ike, but anyone would probably sweep the country after having a belly full of Trumanism. It beats all how a man can have corruption looking him in the face almost every time he talks to one of his protected friends and not see it. All this stuff about RFC should show little Harry that all is not right in his parlor. But he’s not the kind of a man to turn his back on a friend. Only thing we wonder about is how many friends Harry will have when the whole thing comes down around his ears? : —Democrat Has Been, City

What Others Say—

MANY signs indicate that America is ready for a great religious revival . .. (but) crowds drawn by spectacular or entertaining or eccentric preachers do not give strength to the church, —Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, minister, Christ Church in New York. So, 0" 3 TO defer military service until a young man's education is complete may mean deferring it four to eight years, It would be better for most individuals to get their tour of duty over and done with before they enter college. ; —President James B. Conant, ° Harvard University.

SHORT SUPPLY .. . By Earl Richert

Government Plans Cut in Copper Export

WASHINGTON, Mar. 19—With a 25 per cent cut in copper used for civilian goods coming on Apr. 1, the government is preparing to slash the amount it will allow to be exported. Reports are that the export cut may be as much as 33% per cent—from the current quarter allocations of 30,000 tons down to 20,000 tons.

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family of nations. This will be onstrate to the Latin Amer{cans that in this time of world crisis we wish to consult with them on major policy matters, Second, there will be the problem of economic co-opera-tion and an attempt to find assurances that if total war came Latin American countries would not be shut out of world markets. There is some Latin American apprehension about materials shortages from this country. Similarly, because of our dependency on Latin America for certain vital materials, it 1s important to the U. 8. that supply lines be

The office may provide the desk and exert a sort of. kept open vou

eminent domain over drawer space, but when a man starts squirreling away his private bills, toothpicks, pipe-cleaners} personal mail and extra-strong rubber bands—that, brother, is his, and kindly keep out. . Case came up when one government worker started Roklog around in the drawer of another—and got bopped .his nose. The nose-bopper conceded it wasn't strictly is drawer because he didn't even have a desk. But he ned squatters rights to one small cache, and the jury d it was perfectly okay for him to swing ‘on an intruder ut warning. : 2 nd x Like we said, it's slightly tangent to the trend of Washipgton thinking, but clap hands for a jury that upholds 8 citizen's r these days in any form.

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THE AGENDA mentions three items: * Political and military cooperation for the ‘defense of the -Americas “and to prevent and repel aggression; strengthening ‘the ‘internal security of the American republics; emergency economic co-operation.” The military phases apparently will get less play than political and economic -questions—there may be requests froth some countries for more

and greater military aid, but

there ‘is nothing new about

< that, Almost all the countries south of border shave

economic problems they will

‘wish to discuss in relation to the vast U, 8. war economy. Brazil's transport, for example, is based heavily on gasoline, and it is concerned about being shut off from supplies in wartime. :

- - - - IT talks of building new refineries—Iit could store crude oil but not gasoline. It wants to be sure its coffee and other products’ get to market. So with other countries. Some countries already are pressed seriously by newsprint shortages. Assurances of a continuing steel supply, at a time when there isn't enough steel to go around in the U. 8, is worrying others. Edward G. Miller Jr, assistant Secratary of State for Inter-American Affairs, says the U. 8. is going into the con-

ference with full understanding .

that these are serious problems for our Latin American friends. He says we are prepared, subject to the limitations of our own economic potential, to go as far as possible in meeting the points of view the nations present. . - ” BUT HE points out 30 per vent ‘of U, 8. industrial output is' to be diverted to war production, and sacrifices already

‘are being made here at home,

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GOP. 198% BY NEA SERVICE. ING. T. Wh, REG. U, 8 PAT. OFF,

"Jones is a mystery to mel You'd think he didn't have a dime, the way he never squawks about taxes!”

The Foreign Ministers won't try to solve all the big prob-

. lems themselves, They'll refer

many questions ‘to technical

committees working on poli-

tical, economic and military phase Except by unanimous consent of the ministers, the

conference will be limited to the subjects already specified. Unless’ special action is taken, there will be no formal discussion of a matter such as Peron's attacks on the news paper La Prensa, which have stirred world comment in recent days.

The 30,000 tons allotted for export this quarter (Jan.-Mar.) amount to slightly more than 7 per cent of the estimated first quarter supplies of new copper (domestic and imported) of 410,000 tons. John C. Borton, Commerce Department ‘export control of-

. business after that.” - ”

ficial, said that even’ the cur- -

rent 30,000-ton allocation is 25 per cent below the so-called minimum requirements of Atlantic Pact Countries and other friendly nations which are U. B. copper customers. 4 : ” # ~ IN 1949, copper exports ave

: eraged 42,000 tons quarterly,

and last year 30,000 tons. Mr. Borton said that actual exports during the current quarter would be well under the 30,000 tons allotted because of transPonauon and other difficules,

Not involved in the alloca-

tion of U. 8. produced copper are the approximately 48,000 tons of Rhodesian copper now going to Britain the ports of Houston and veston. This copper, owned by the British Ministry of Supply, was brought into this country for smelting, and the entire trans-

“Of course, we could have grabbed the copper,” said Mr. Borton. “But I'm afraid our smelters ‘wouldn't have got much more of this foreign

» HE SAID this country had a substantial excess in smelting capacity and that for some years ed copper ore, had been coming here to he smelted before being shipped to the foreign purchaser. In most cases, the smelting concerns collect their charges in copper. No U, 8. copper was licensed for export to Great Britain during the last quarter of 1950 and only 1% tons of copper wire have been licensed during the current quarter. . The Economic Co-operation Administration however, has announced allocations this quarter of $7.3 million for cop-

‘per purchases by the British

in either the U. 8. or Canada. Practically all of this copper, ECA officials said, will be purchased in Canada. The money is from ECA allotments une expended when Marshall Plan ald to Britain was suspended. France is getting the largest amount of U. 8. produced copper under the current gquarter allocations, approximately 7400 tons, Other countries re-

action was licensed by the ceiving V. 8. copper include . Comtjes Department 1a Oc. . Italy, Switzerland, the Nether