Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1951 — Page 26

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Radar Will Work—Let's Get It . = : JNDIANAPOLIS police have given a thorough test to radar equipment for catching speeders, Ti demonstrations which The Times was happy to arrangas They watched it in actual and successful use in Columbus, O. : ! They have tried it out on our own city streets, under our own conditions, again with complete success. All Indianapolis judges who have observed it on trial agree that its records will be admissible as evidence in trials of speeders. : . Our prosecutor, our chief of police; the head of our police traffic division and the head of our police communications division all have indorsed it as a needed weapon in the war against the dangerous driver. ~ » n » » ” BY A happy coincidence it is made right here in Indianapolis, thus assuring good delivery and service if any ever is required, and complete local responsibility for its per‘formance. - : . Its cost is small, and where it has gone into use elsewhere has quickly been more than repaid by release of some traffic control officers to other police duties. It seems to us this is an investment that will pay big dividends in safety. If during its whole lifetime it catches only one speeder —and saves one life—it will more than repay what we put into it. . : ‘Indianapolis should act without delay to install this proved, modern, efficient ‘tool of traffic safety.

Indiana vs. the Bureaucrats

EDERAL bureaucrats in Washington, who didn't succeed in dictating to the Indiana legislature last winter what laws it should pass for Indiana, appear still to be intent on Punishing this state for refusal to obey them. . ¥ Arthur J. Altmeyer, federal security administrator, now has set a ‘final and formal” hearing for May 15 to’ decide whether He will, or will not, send on the $18 millions he is holding as half of Indiana's whole state welfare budget. He raises the question at all on the thinnest and most specious of legal technicalities—and no moral grounds

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THIS is Indiana's money, of course. It was collected from Indiana taxpayers—every penny of it—to operate Indisna's welfare system. Not one cent of it is a “gift” from the federal government—which as a matter of fact doesn’t send back anywhere near as much as it collects in this state. Mr. Altmeyer’'s “bureau,” for instance, lives out of the difference.

For a dozen years these bureaucrats—we suspect with very good reason—have tried desperately to keep secret from the taxpayers what becomes of their money. Enactmetit of moderate and wholly proper legislation in Indiana last winter to require an accounting of it at least to the dul¥: elected public officials whose duty it is to supervise all other spending of public tax money was done here over the , lou}: threats of an anguished bureaucracy. Threats, in’ effect, to wreck the whole program unless they could tell us what laws we dared pass. MY. Altmeyer’s hearing is the first step toward carrying out those threats. 1 ny » y 8. = “GOV. SCHRICKER has countered promptly and properly by dispatching to Washington an able Indiana delegatiom to represent this state at the hearing. We trust he is prepared to carry the matter into the federal courts if the bureaucrats decide they are powerful enough to go through with their obvious intentions.

“The issue here is not the needs of the folks who are getting welfare aid, great as they may be, nor of the $18 millions, important as that may be. . The issue in question plainly is whether any state may still enact its own statutes through its own elected legislative body—or whether a handful of bureaucrats who have never been elected to anything by anybody is going to dietate what our.state laws shall be,

The Low-Down

T IS a curious coincidence that President Truman's private eye left Tokyo the day after Gen. MacArthur's departure ~—and flew directly to Washington with stacks of records and documents, ° He is Maj. Gen. Frank E, Lowe, a reserve officer and pal of Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, the President's military aide. He turned up in Korea last summer with presidential credentials authorizing him to go where he chose, read what he pleased and report to Mr. Truman, exclusively. Later on he took an office just down the hall from Gen. MacArthur's in Tokyo headquarters.

Since Gen. Lowe's return, the Pentagon has sought to _ create a further aura of mystery about him, but it is known that he reported promptly to the White House. Subsequently, at a press conference where the MacArthur topic figured prominently, President Truman seemed recharged with optimism-—but again, it may be only a matter of coincidence.

It's all rather remindful of a system. used by other ‘countries, particularly before World War II. It was well ] ‘ a, for instance, that German and Italian embassies £ ad were constantly under the surveillance of some nominally placed underling who reported back to the ighest circles on their activities. The practice has had

even wider and uninterrupted usage in still another country

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CHIPS ARE DOWN IN LONDON . . . By Ludwell Denny

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Free False Teeth And Spectacles Mask Rearmament Issues

. LONDON, May 3—The great false teeth’ de-

bate in. the House of Commons is. a sham battle -

started by Labor Minister Aneurin Bevan when ‘he reigrfed from the Cabinet on that and the rsarmament issue. It's phony because the budget proposal to charge patients 50 per cent for false teeth and glasses is not a cut in the welfare state health system as Mr. Bevan charges. It’s merely a device to get more money for free hospital service. The budget would increasé social services,

“including food subsidies, over $140 million, mak- .

ing a total of over $5.3 billion, or double 1945-486. But phony or not, the politicians of all parties are scared because the polls show about 60 per cent of the voters agree with Mr. Bevan's demand for free dentures and spectacles. The proposed spectacle charge is $5.60 to $11.90 according to the type of framé.

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As the totalvamount is so small—it's estimated at $67 million annually--the Bewanites are making their fight on the “principle.” They tharge this is the thin edge to destroy the welfare state; “and that if the first-year rearmament budget starts the process, the third year will finish it. Mr. Bevan's “principle” of no charge for government health services ‘was dreamed up for that purpose. It had been suggested before and Mr. Bevan himself; as health m'nister, im posed charges for aid and transportation to a - hospital for infants’ food in clinics. The public also pays parf of the charges for other services, including school meals and milk. Of course neither false teeth nor spectacles are really ‘free’ now-—Ilike the ‘rest of the health service they are paid for by the people in the world's heaviest taxes. a

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ON THE MARKET . . . By Frederick C. Othman Despite Chlorophyll Geraldine Is Still an Ordinary (Ugh) Goat

"WASHINGTON, May 3 -All I know for sure about the concerted attempt to fill us citizens full of chlorophyll concerns the fact that the farmer in my family has bought a goat named Geraldine.

All day long she munches grass. This is mostly. chlorophyll, cums but it has no effect ss on Geraldine. She's 3 = still a goat, though = = for reasons unknown === T= to me the pupils of E = her big, brown eyes A=

are square. Perhaps di, chlorophyll is: the’ cause. J Maybe vou've been reading about chlorohyll. It's the myseR stuff that Si) makes grass green. It «ay also has the power to imy turn sunlight into food for the likes of Geraldine. This has been going on for a long time, Now the masterminds in charge of making us human beings prettier, healthier and sweeter have decided that chlorophyll is good for us. Every drugstore counter is loaded with greenish, chlorophyllic goos designed to make us fragrant and smooth of surface. Even as 1 write this I am chomping on a wad of chlorophyll chewing gum. This is green, the exact shade of a park bench. It costs 39 cents a pack, which is a little high for chewing gum, but then it is supposed to make me redolent of a pine tree on a dewy morning. My teeth I have polished with green, chlorophyll tooth paste. This costs 75 cents per small package (I mention prices for the benefit of the auditor who might otherwise be surprised at my expense account), but this chopper cleanser also is something “apecial. The booklet says the chlorophyll helps promote normal healthy gum

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tissue and also acts against the proteolytic, anaerobic bacteria in my mouth. Golly. I didn't know I had ’'em. : There also are on the market chlorophyll ointments to rub on the skin, chlorophyll solution to sprinkle on the head, and chlorophyll mist to spray up the nose. All these preparations are a beautiful, deep green. I have not yet tried them on the theory that I should prefer to remain a nice pink color, with freckles. There are chlorophyll pilis for people who never have acquired a taste for grass and,. so help me, Hannah, there is coming up.shortly. for ladies chlorophyll cold cream. The manufacturers claim it js the greatest discovery yet in

beauty preparations. This they have got to prove. If the lady who bought our goat, namely

Mrs. O., shows up in the near future with her pretty face masked in green cream, I shall complain to the Federal Tiade Commission. Maybe the green won't rub off.

Strong Stuff

THIS chlorophyll is strong styff. It may be that with it permeating our very pores after the salesmen really get going, we'll turn into a nation of green people, with grass growing on our scalps. This is frightening. T once saw a movie titled, “The Boy With the Green Hair.” He had an gwful time. His scalp was the true color of chlorophyll. The FTC even now is looking into the claims being made for chlorophyll, while I am trying to maintain an open mind. I intend to give the rest of my chlorophyll chewing gum to Geraldine. She should like it. She likes anything, including a pile of asbestos shingles in my barn. I'll also rub a little chlorophyll tooth paste on her. and all that, plus the free chlorophyll she gets in the pasture, should have an effect. It had better. Otherwise, I'm shipping Geraldine to the proprietors of- the chlorophyll works.

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‘charges on health patients.

The labor government's purpose in making the 50 per. cent-of-cost charge on these two things, besides obtaining more funds for hospital service, is to eliminate abuses by the people now careless with dentures and eyeglasses they get “for nothing.” While the Bevan teeth crusade is a phony. there's a real battle behind it. That’s.his struggle to:prevent the proposed rate rearmament, which necessarily will reduce already low British living standards.’ Sain He's agreeable to rearm only if that doesn't entail sacrifices, doesn't provoke Stalin and doesn’t “tie in” Britain to American policy, which he dbhors. : So the teeth issue was the excuse for rather than the cause of his resignation which already

-has shaken the wobbly Labor Government and

brought ‘nearer the genéral election the Tories are expected to win. :

Mr. Bevan said on Apr. 3 that he would not Be

remain as a member of a government imposing A week ‘later Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Galitskell called his bluff with a budget doing that very thing. Despite the Tory ridicule he didn’t resign until Apr. 21. Then only two other ministers went out with him, his other ‘ministerial supporters insisting, that false teeth was too small an issue Yor resignation. That drove him, in his letter of resignation, to bring the real issue of rearmament into the open for the first time. But to do this he had to reverse his February position when he supported—at least for public consumption and t> keep his cabinet job—the same rearmament program. Although Mr. Bevan thus is very vulnerable, both the Labor Government and the Tory opposition are moving cautiously on the matter

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‘Big Ballyhoo’ MR. EDITOR:

The statement “You can fool some of‘ the people all the time,” made by the self-styled “great humanitarian” LeBlanc, who helps teenagers to get plastered drinking his “24 proof” alcohol cure-all, was never more true than it is today. - > The recent bally-hoo over the “soi-disant man of destiny,” is proof of that statement. This same conceited opinion was the cause of Napoleon's downfall; Hitler and Mussolini were also afflicted with it and we know how they ended. President Truman was absolutely correct in firing MacArthur, but he should have done it many months ago. More of our boys might be alive today if he had.’ woh GEN: MacARTHUR ig the victim of personal ego and unscrupulous politicians who have done everything within their power to discredit and defy this administration's policies. We like to think the Senate is a place where gentlemen of mature minds meet to solve important issues. Instead, recent developments indicate many are making “nincompoops” of themselves. They boo the President in public places; they stoop to pugilistic conduct with their fellow Senators and others resort to fake photographs and the big lie. . . .. So far in the history of the world there never have been enough mature people in the right places. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him. —Alma Isbell, Greencastle.

MR. EDITOR:

Just when do you think this so-called war will quit? Will it be played along until another presidential election? If what .I hear is true, it will do just that. Haven't they killed enough of our boys for nothing? Now what do you men think? Suppose ‘women refused to give up their boys-for cannon fodder, what then? Just out of one war right into another is too much. Let's settle this thing for good. —A Mother, City. MR. EDITOR: Some of President Truman's friends seem to like to point out the histrionic manner in which Gen. MacArthur makes his speeches. We would like to point out that the manner in which the General makes’ his speechés is of little importance, one way or the other, as ong

as he speaks the truth. And that he does speak

the truth cannot be denied even by his most prejudiced critics. The American people want to hear the truth. regardless of the manner in which the General delivers it . , _ histrionic, or otherwise, —=JI. D. Ranley, Richmond.

MR. EDITOR:

Gen. MacArthur comes back in the midst of the greatest political controversy of the century and then says with a straight face that he doesn’t want to become involved in any political matters. The fact is that Gen. MacArthur was visited by a constant stream of politicians, business leaders, publishers, etc.; during the time of his Japanese command. Avoidance of involvement in political affairs could easily have been achieved by delaying his return until the discussion surrounding his removal had subsided. Instead, he chose to capitalize on it. This seems to. constitute its own commentary on his contentions. ~—City Reader. MR. EDITOR: Some of President Truman’s friends speak of him as having great courage. The President seems to have the courage to do the wrong things, but lacks the courage to do the right things. And his friends seem to lack the courage to distinguish the difference. ! —T. 8. Frome, City.

TAXES ON DOMESTICS . . . By Earl Richert

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Mac’s Ego’

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but «ill defend to the death your right te say it."

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“principle” device. They approve of the welfare state and health service in principle. On the other hand, in principle they approve charges when justified. They've been divided on whether the proposed charges are. justified but probably will decide that they are. tMeanwhile, the government is fighting fits rebel but leaving open a possible line of retreat

if public pressure or Tory maneuvers make that

expedignt. . Retreat probably would be limited to making the charge on appliances a one-year experiment only. Mr. Bevan probably is accurate in his_forecast that rearmament will require welfare state cuts next year. But the government hopes the public will understand

-the necessity for them by that time.

MR. EDITOR: If it be true, as most people believe, that we would have bombed China long since and would now be over Russia, not burn if them up by the acre, but by the 10 or 20, or ©50 mile square, but for the belief and fear that Russia also has the same thing; then it is true and factual that strong preparedness can prevent war when . . . and only when . .. both sides are equally and fearfully prepared . .. for peace. —Rev. R. E. Roll, Clinton. MR EDITOR: The prayers of millions have been for right and sound leadership . .-. for someone to lead he joruss of integrity and fearlessness. ypnotized by the evidence of so much graft and corruption, we needed a rude awakening. We have too iong been looking at the wrong side of the picture. MacArthur represents the qualities of patriotism, unselfish ‘service, absolute and unassailable integrity, freedom from any taint of politics . . . humility, courage and fearlessness. . - . Instead of being so cohcerned with the method by which he came, let's look at the larger view. It was the best thing that could have happened to America and the world. —Mrs. H. R. McKinstray, R. R. 12, Box 280 A.

Washington and Gambling’ MR. EDITOR:

George Washington said: “The government of the United States is in no- sense founded on the Christian religion. The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammendan nation.” The Constitution of the United States says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . .” So the police were reluctant to raid a church bingo game. To raid the professional gamblers and not the for ‘“charity’s sake” . . . gambling is discrimination. There is no room for discrimination in a democracy. The for “charity gambling” is an old saw used to cut around the law. Furthermore if we had social and economic freedom there would be no need for charity because the present poverty breeding corrupt system of economic slavery along with its gambling would be abolished. —H. Sprunger, City MR. EDITOR: When you pay 10 cents for three bingo cards and you win a.cash prize, that makes it gambling. Doesn't matter if it's in a church or not, as long as you receive a prize. I think there is enough profit made at these church games to warrant renting an dutside hall for those reasons. I have never been taught in church or Sunday school that there is any excuse or justification for gambling, particularly in a church which is supposed to be a house of worship and not a profit making organization. I am personally proud to belong to a church that does not sanction such practices. Gambling is gambling and certainly the church is the poorest place in the world to practice it. —Mrs. A. Westerfield, 311 E. Sumner Ave.

TO HEAVEN

EACH evening when my day is done . . . and I've but naught to rest . . . I hurry home to someone dear ., . someone I love the best . . . and when I reach my humble place . . . a smile awaits me too . .. mixed with a loving tender kiss . . . as fresh as morning dew . .. it's then my happiness begins . . . for so close to my side . stands the one that I adore . .. our hearts are closely tied . . . and after supper we enjoy - - - the peaceful quiet hours . . . listening to our radio...or walking ’neath the bowers... then as the sandman makes his rounds... we join in silent prayer . . . thanking God for giving us . ,, the peace and love we share. —By Ben Burroughs

Texas Housewives Seem-to Be Only Rebels

WASHINGTON. May 3—United States housewives have done “very well” in meeting the first deadline for payment of the on domestics,

new Social Security Revenue Bureau.

taxes

and enforcement of Social Security taxes.

“Marshall, Tex. is the only place in the whole country , Where we've heard of people getting their backs up in opposition to the tax. And we first heard of that about 8 weeks ago.” (A number of Marshall housewives have vowed they would not pay the tax on the ground that it is not constitutional.)

Mr. Arick declined comment on what might happen if they continue to refuse to pay. But the Internal Revenue Bureau's procedure would be the same as in other cases. An estimate of taxes owed would be made and a bill sent to each housewife. Then, if there was no payment, the government would seize enough property to sell to pay the tax, Bureau officials say they. are certain the Marshall incident

will never-reach this stage, -3 ’ however. COPR. 1961 BY NEA SERVICE, we, T. . Rea U. 8. PAT, OFF The bureau has let it: be ; "Why can't they investigate some nice people!" “+. . known ‘that it will go easy on

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housewives who, either because of lack of information or laziness, failed to get their returns filed by the Apr. 30 deadline. A housewife sending in a late return should include a written explanation for her tardiness. Almost any excuse will suffice at this stage. She

town, or simply did not have the necessary information. The bureau, for the time being, will waive the penalty for late filing, which is a minimum of $5. Education, rather than enforcement, is the big task of the bureau on the new taxes, Mr. Arick said. “Once there is general education we'll have excellent coverage and compliance,” he predicted. ” » os THE new taxes amount to 3 per cent’ of the wages. paid domestics if the domestic receives over $50 in a three: month périod and works-on 24 days: The employer is supposed to pay 1's per cent and the domestic 113 per cent, but

the employer can pay it -all if Wages paid ones day-a-week maids are exempt gince the 24-day test is not

Some employers of once-a-week maids have notified the bureau they would like to pay

the taxes voluntarily so the - maids could get on the Social Security rolls. But they pave

‘been told ‘they cannot.

Some maids are known to have asked their employers not to -pay the tax because they might get caught on federal income taxes. And bureau officials admit that information used on the Social Security returns will be used as a check against income tax filing.

o ” = BUT before long, they say, there will be domestics who start drawing Social Security. The word will get around of these monthly checks and any resistance by the domestics should vanish, bureau officials think, : As for enforcement, there is no- thought of door-to-door checks to see if housewives are complying. Rather, the maids themselves are counted'on as time goes on to tell the bureau when their employer is not paying the taxes. Then, it is thought, a letter from the bureau will bring the housewife around. Penalty for willful violation runs up to a $10,000

both. A spot qgheck of early returns, Mr: Arick said, showed that the percentage of imperfect returns was much lower than on those . from business firms. Of course, they are much more simple, : ogy t . »

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