Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1951 — Page 18

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Telephone RI ley 5551 Give light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Who'll Make It a Million? NDIANA is well on the way to wearing the nation's badge of dishonor . . . “a killer state.” It won't be long before that fated person, Mr: X . . . the nation’s millionth traffic victim . . . will die. We're trying mighty hard to claim him as ours. 7 : Already traffic fatalities in the sfate have leaped 15% above last year's record for the first quarter. That's not counting the four members of one family who were killed near Muncie, Sunday, when their car was crushed by another car that was racing. : That's not counting the driver of the other car. He died too. Police say it’s a case of mixing alcohol and gasoline and boasting about it.

= = = ~ » s NOR is that counting the, girl who died of a crushed skull in a crash near St. John or the man who died after being struck by an automobile on a downtown Richmond street, Saturday. Last year in the first quarter 218 died in this state; this year 251 fatalities have been reported . . . and the quarterly report is not yet finished. In Indianapolis 17 died last year in this same period . . . 18 this year. This is going to be a big year for the reaper unless we all start using a little common sense on our blood-spattered highways. There is enough misery in the world without adding to it by sheer stupidity and carelessness behind. the wheel. Since 1900 about 968,000 people have died in traffic accidents in the nation. Who'll make it a million?

One-Stop Tax Service

THE idea advanced by State Treasurer William Fortune : for branch state tax offices equipped to handle all tax payments of whatever kind, is an appealing one. In these days of high.government costs, any plan that will save the state a little money, and the tax-payers a little effort sounds attractive. We believe the program he seems to be working out with Secretarv of State Leland Smith ought to be tried. It is simply a field test of the plan, in a. few counties, to see how it works. : If it proves efficiént to have licenses, vehicle, income, and any other state collections made in one office in each community then it can be extended to the rest of the counties.

In the Name of Defense

HE AMERICAN taxpayer has been underwriting the economy of the free world since President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act in March, 1941. Now, if President Truman has his way, a permanent European relief program is in prospect. When lend-lease was suspended in 1945, at the end of the war, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was set up to get the war-nations back on their feet. Uncle Sam put up 70 per cent of the money. After UNRRA, which benefited Communist and nonCommunist govemnments alike, came an interim relief act, the British loan and the special military and economic assistance program for Greece and Turkey. Finally—we were told—there was the Marshall Plan, the gigantic velief project to end relief projects. ® = = fH B= + A SOLEMN pledge was made to the American faxpayer that, at the conclusion of this program in 1952, our big overseas spending would end. : « Meanwhile, the Atlantic Pact was signed. Out of it evolved a program to provide arms for our European _ Allies. Here again it was the familiar story of “give us the tools and we won't need your men.” But since then aur government has agreed to furnish men, too. Now President Truman has told the Marshall Plan employees— who naturally want to keep their jobs—that he will ask Congress to maintain the “recovery” operation “on a continuing basis.” The only way to stop this reckless spending is to hit it with a meat-ax. And the time to do that is now. Our own economy will be endangered if these overseas programs snowball and perpetuate themselves, as President Truman seems willing to let them do.

High Finance

NEW YORK'S Mayor Impellitteri has proposed a ~ $1,336,000,000 budget for his city’s coming fiscal year." It's the fifth consecutive budget of over a billion dollars, the biggest in New York's history and, doubtless, the biggest for any city, anywhere, ever. To balance it, the mayor advocates new and increased taxes which he estimates will add $71 million a year to present revenues. : It's obvious that it %akés a lot of money to operate the government of a modern city—to support the schools, maintain the police and fire departments, perform the health and welfare duties, and provide all the other services expected by the citizens. And for municipal governments, as well as for other governments and for families and individuals, the cost of living has been inflating. 2 . - But it's interesting to reflect. what a relatively brief

time ~has_passed-sinee-the-idea—of—so—large—a budget for —

4 single city, even one as huge as New York, would have geemed wildly fantastic. ~ As recently as 1915-1916, the whole federal government operated for two years on not much more than §1,336,000,000. That amount, in 1940, would have paid off the entire national debt, with a couple of hundred thousand dollars left over. And in fiscal 1917, just before we entered World War I, total federal revenues were about $200,000 less than Mayor Impellitteri proposes to collect in city taxes and state and federal aid in the next fiscal year. ; % 4 ;

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DEAR BOSS... By an Kidney Hershey Likes Hoosier Plan

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Point 4 Allows College Men To Escape the Draft

WASHINGTON, Apr. 4—Point four of the Indiana plan for the maintenance of national manpower, which is the high-sounding title In-* diana colleges gave' their idea of how to stay open for business during draft“days; seems to have caught on with Selective Service. For the latest plan to let college men escape immediate military service, just announced by Hoosier Maj. Gen, Lewis B. Hershey in his role of draft director, appears ‘to carry out point four of the six-point program the educators were offering. :

- Gave Their OK

POINT four of the Indiana plan reads: “All students who ranked in the upper two-thirds of their sophomore class should be deferred to the end of their junior year. All students who ranked in the upper three-fourths of their junior class should be deferred to the end of their senior year. Students should be deferred for graduate study if they have graduated in the upper one-half of their senior class, have been accepted by an established graduate school, and continue to maintain satisfactory progress in a program leading toward an advance degree.” Representatives of 31 public and private colleges “and universities in Indiana unanimously approved the plan atthe Indiana Conference of Higher Education meeting in Indianapolis Jan. 4,-1951. It was revised on Feb. 12, and promptly rejected by the U. S. Senate when it was offered as an amendment to the draft extension and 18-year-old draft law by Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.). His junior colleague, Sen. William

" E. Jenner (R. Ind.) was one of the rew Senators

joining in giving the plan a small -voice vote.

Lack of Experience?

NOW, however, Draft Director Hershey has followed President. Truthan’s promise to draft-

. defer collegians and the schools behind the In-

diana plan will all become deferment centers, Selective Service announced. Neither President Truman, nor Sen. Capehart, ever went to college. Some attribute their thinking so highly of it to sheer lack of experience, A few of the dangers In the plan to “defer the bright boys” were pointed out by Gerald WwW, Johnson in Harper's Magazine for March. Mr. Johnson is a man with many college degrees. He specifically cited the Wadleigh and Hiss cases. : On Capitol Hill there is an angry undertone regarding the anti-democratic idea involved in making young men serve first whose country has served them least. It may have an effect of sending the whole draft and universal military service bill back to committee. It is being debated in the House now. 3

Too Much Credit

ONE WELL-EDUCATED law maker argued informally that the colleges are claiming too much credit for the sort of job they have been doing—particularly in the so-called schools of education. He maintained that it is: useless to teach teaching. if the teacher hasn't anything in mind te, teach. " . Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York spent a good deal of time apologizing for allegedly telling’ a governors’ conference some years ago that he thought the lobbying of educators was one of the worst rackets in connection with state and national government. Since the governors conference was an “off the record” session, of course he said he didn't ever say that. But there are more and more Senators and Congressmen here who are beginning to believe that quantative education will not save us. Nor qualitative either if it is purely of the A and H-bomb type.

MAN: AND" WIFE

A MAN and wife should be as one . .. a smooth, hard-working team . . . and do their best to realize . . . their every hope and dream + « + they should work toward a commen goal « . each other's happiness . . . so that they'll never want to feel . . . another’s fond caress + + « their love should be kept on a plane . . . that levels high above . . . anything that’s commonplace . . . or degrading to love . . . their joys should be confined to . . . the things in life that mount . . . the pure and wholesome pleasures and . . . the things that really count . . . then, too, they should respect the wants . . . and wishes of each other . . . for, after all, no two are alike . . . even brother to brother . . if they abide by what I've said . . . they'll weather every strife . . . and rightfully deserve to be... real lovers, man and wife. —By Ben Burroughs.

PARTY LINE. . . By Frederick Woltman

Greasy Thumb Guzik - Was No Clam, Mister

NEW YORK, Apr. 4—The parade of underworld characters - who clammed up on the Kefauver Senate crime committee had a striking precedent: the Communists have been doing it for five

years.

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CAVEMAN STUFF . . . By Frederick C. Othman

What Would a Knife and Fork Tax Do to Your Eating Habits?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 4—Honest John Snyder does not, either, want the population to eat its meals with chopsticks. Anybody who says so probably is a Republican. And you can leave out the probably. The Secretary of the Treasury's idea is for

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spoons. These uten- = sils, of course, he in- {\\ tends to tax. “Just like jewelry,” suggested Rep. Dan- = iel A. Reed, the leading Republican of Dunkirk, N. Y. “Why do you classify them 4 as jewelry?” Honest John let out RO HP) a small moan of anguish. Here he was with a right eye that hurt because of a recent operation. Here he also was feeling slightly embarrassed before the

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had come up with a multimillion dollar surplus instead of a deficit as he'd predicted 60 days ago. And here was a Republican worrying about spoons. The secretary said he did not consider eating tools in the same category as pearl necklaces. :

“Everybody needs a knife and fork,” snapped Rep. Reed. “What revenue do you expect from taxing them?” . Secretary Snyder turned to the 16 experts from the Treasury Department, who accompanied him to answer the technical questions. Frantically they thumbed through their looseleaf notebooks, but none could find the estimate on taxing eating implements. “And, another thing,” continued Rep. Reed, “you are planning to tax silver-plated flatware. I understand the amount of actual silver on them is infinitesimal. How much silver is there, say, on a silver-plated fork?” a

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Again Honest John appealed to his specialists and again they failed him. Rep. Reed then suggested that maybe he ought to tax all kinds of spoons, including plastic, tin and wooden. “That's an idea,” replied the secretary. “Yes,” agreed Rep. Reed. “And we've reached a pretty low pass when we tax knives and forks. “We can't go back now to eating with chopsticks, or with our hands. I don't think we need to.” The secretary started to answer that one, but thought better of it. ‘He was having his troubles reading the fine print with his one good eye and still the Republicans on the ¢om- . mittee were lambasting him at every turn. The trouble was that last January he told the same statesmen that the treasury was in such bad shape he'd need an extra $18 billion in taxes; $10 billion at once and $6 billion later. Now it turned out that his estimates of two months before were nearly $8 billion wrong. The taxpayers forked over $2.7 billion more than he expected, while the war spenders got rid of $3 billion less than he estimated. So, said the secretary, all he wanted Congress to do was raise ‘taxes $10 billion.

Government Economy

“AND I think I can assure you that vou are not going to get any $10 billion,” said Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins (R. 0.) Mr. Snyder almost winced, but he still was not prepared for what Chairman Muley Doughton (D. N. C.) had to say. The venerable Muley said the people were dead set on Congress forcing some economy in government, and what if the lawmakers cut three or four or even five billion dollars off President Truman's budget? “I have to resort to realism,” countered Honest John. “I don’t remember when Congress ever finally voted less than was in the budget. It may have cut there, but it always

has added there.” Touche.

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Hoosier Forum “I do not ag a word that you say, but 1 will ra to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire. a

‘Rent Control Is Communism’ -

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After talking to a great number of people about socialism, I find’ the majority believe: it to be a vicious thing and want no part of it. But they praise rent control as being beneficial to the masses and they don’t seem to connect the two. Rent control is one of the worst aspects of socialism or even communism. It is very unfair to the owner of income property and it takes away his property rights and the security which he has earned and has a right to expect. Rent control promotes the welfare state by creating a housing shortage, thereby causing a demand for more public housing.” The politicians have discovered rent control is a vote getter, so they want to keep it on at the expense of the property owner, : Toa Val de - THE VICTIMS of this law realize more than any other group. what it is:leading to. We sit by and see our property being confiscated before our very eyes, by three different methods: Taxes, competition with the federal government

and rent control. Worst part about it is, nobody will lift a hand to help. Property is being thrown on the market below its real value because the rents allowed are not sufficient to justify keeping it. Houses and apartments are taken off the rental market every day for the same reason. . We did not complain while the war was on. We wanted to do our part and were willing to sacrifice for the sake of the war effort, but ,then the war was over and they extended rent control from year to year in spite of the fact that there no longer existed a housing shortage. It was obvious that it was for political purposes so we now resent it because we Jo Bo believe ne group _to benefit another. in exploiting one gr Pd iy

‘A Free Man's Right’ MR. EDITOR: In answer to Mr. Schmidt's letter (“TV and Crime Probe’—Times., Mar. 31) I would like to compare his meaning with the common

question in the past few months: “Are you or have you ever been a Communist?” I like to believe it's a free man's right to refuse to answer that question, but if a man is not afraid to answer that question why not say so and let the world know it if he has nothing to hide? It's the truth the people want. Why should "anyone be afraid to tell the truth? I also believe ‘the Kefauver Committee did a wonderful job in bringing out the truth. Also I believe the article in the same issue of The Times, “TV Might Serve as Good Check on Lawmakers in Washington,” would be a big step toward getting a clean and honest government for the people. The government at the present time could stand a lot of improvement. —Charles Kingsolver, Kirklin,

‘Highway Slaughter’ MR. EDITOR:

The automobile crash on Rd. 67 in which a fine family was all but wiped out is the most revolting and shocking thing I have read in a long time. How long is it going to take the American people to wake up and demand an end to this kind of slaughter on the highways? The men racing those cars down, the highway are as great a menace to decent people as the men who go haywire and start shooting in a crowd. They should receive exactly the same treatment. About all you can see is that the Delaware County authorities promise to clean up allnight drinking joints. That may be a good thing for everyone. But that's not enough. The remaining members of those two racing cars which snuffed out the lives of four innocent bystanders should be put in jail and made to work at hard labor. ; The same goes for every other maniac that gets behind the wheel of a car and thinks he owns the highways. Lock them up. Get them out of the way. Let decent people live. —F. M., City.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

LONDON—A bicycle ridden by Louis King and a bus driven by James Victor King collided. The name of the traffic policeman? Albert King. ’ Said one King to the other King, “There's one thing I dislike, “A bloke who goes out cycling— ‘And cawn't control ’'is bike.” The second King began to swing, But something stopped h short. His majesty the law, named King, Said, “Pray, come to my court!”

EUROPE . . . By Andrew Tully

Truman Doesn’t Want ERP Aid Cut Off Yet

WASHINGTON, Apr. 4—President Truman has asked for continuance of the European Recovery Program, despite the fact that most of Europe is better off—production-wise—than it was before World War II. Thanks to three years and $11 billion worth of ERP:

replicas thereof) have been under orders to challenge the right of congressional committees to ask certain questions. Compared with some of them, Greasy Thumb Guzik was talkative. The questions the gangsters balked at differed from those the Commies stood up against,

tary, spent a year in prison for contempt of Congress. Because they refused to produce records of the Joint Anti-Fascist Committee, a Red-front, 11 directors went to jail. The Hollywood Ten also took prison terms rather than say if they were ever Communists, The latest to claim the Constitution's protection were Hollywood’s Howard DeSilva and Gale Sondergaard. Last month, a federal judge refused to dismiss contempt indictments against 18 persons who remained silent before Congressional committees probing communism. But, whatever happeng to the Kefauver witnesses, it looks like the Commies may win out in their plea ‘of selfincrimination. For the Supreme Court had already held « it can properly be invoked, in connection with Communist activities, before Federal grand \ juries and government agencies, such as the Immigration Servige. No ruling yet on congressional investigations. ” ” - ra LAR) Y PARKS finally came... in for the inevitable shellacking by his ex-comrades. Infuriated, the Communists denounced the star of “The Jolson Story” for talking before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As of last Wednesday, the former CPer

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Eugene Dennis tems AF OCH

although the average citizen would have had no trouble with any of them. It was’ about their incomés or connections with underworld racket syndicates that Costello, Frank Erickson, Joe

Adonis and Jacob Guzik re- became a ‘“turncoat,” ‘“com- + fused to talk. The Commies mon stool-pigeon” and “bellywouldn't discuss the Commu- crawler.” :

nist Party. . Because he refused to answer queries about his birth and pseudonyms, Eugene Dennis, the Rprty’s national secre-

As usual, the Commies didn’t hesitate to swat below the belt. Parks, .the Daily Worker suddenly discovered, ‘professes to be ‘against’ jimcrow but is not

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averse to using blackface.” Yet for years the CP was glad to

blackface Jolson roles. No jimcrow then. What really burnt up the comrades, of course, was Parks’ testimony behind closed

What Others. Say

THE driver who stops fot'“a +: "PEOPLE are an asset, a nat-

drink or two” becomes immediately much more reckless and dangerous to others.than the unsafest car, mechanically, on the road.—Elizabeth A. Smart, Woman's Christian Temperance Union. : |

capitalize on his.fame. from the. mies—So-the Party TESUITECted pp cocoon

is running 40 per cent higher than in 1938. TWO: Trade among ERP countries is 40 a per cent above 1938 and exports to the rest of the world have increased 50 per cent over prewar. THREE: A gr icultural production has jumped 9 per cent over 1938 and food

Mr. Truman supplies gen- ants more erally have been restored to prewar levels.

Only two major problems now face ERP countries. One is to boost food production an- | other percentage point or soto take care of. the 10 per cent increase . in population since 1938. The other concerns coal, where production has increased only 20 per cent since 1947 and which now is in short supply because of the big climb in

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ELSEWHERE, however, Europe’s industries are booming. In over-all industrial production, the parade is led. by the United Kingdom, which regently . tossed aside: its ERP crutch. There production is up 50 per cent over the 1038 figure. And of all the Western European countries, only Western Germany has not caught up with its pre-war production—it is producing only 95 per cent of the goods it did in 1938. Nevertheless, its

letters he wrote his wife, actress Betty Garrett, three years ago, stoutly defending the Hollywood Ten’s refusal to answer questions. ter

ural resource, and not a liability. . . . Humanity has the right, the duty and the privilege of having faith in the future.—Netherland's Dr. Egbert

il Vries, expert on rural econ- production has climbed 61 per omies, : ! ’

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ONE: Over-all industrial production in Western Europe now

France, which has received almost $2'; billion in ERP aid, has upped production 40 per cent over pre-war levels and her output of crude and finished steel is the highest in her history.

» 5 » ITALY, in tough shape, after World War II, has boosted production 19 per cent

over the 1938 figure. Its electric power output—probably the most important factor

goyerning her production—is averaging 20 per cent higher than last year. It is producing 78 per cent more motor vehicles and“ 30 per cent more cement than it did in the prewar years, and its exports are at a post-war high, From a defense standpoint, perhaps the most encouraging .

expansion in Europe has been

in its steel industry. It is now producing 54 million metric tons a year, compared with 49 million metric tons in 1938. Furthermore, new plants are coming into production in almost all countries and Ger-

unused capacity available for further increases in steel out-

% metic industries have shown a 25 per cent increase in production over the 1938 figure. Electric power production is up 78 per cent over prewar, And-—also of interest to. defense planners—FEurope now is producing 50 per cent more motor vehicles than it did in 1938, afd is launching merchant vessels at the rate of 2'; million tons a Year,

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