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Where the Money Is BERS of the Senate Finance Committee indicate "* they will take their time in writing a new tax bill. ~ President Truman originally asked for $10 billion ew taxes. He still contends this is necessary to balance | et and meet the rising cost of defense. ’ The House has passed a tax bill calling for $7 billion in additional taxation, or so the authors claim. Senators in charge of the bill indicate they intend rewriting job on this measure, _* It needs rewriting. Because the House bill is a product of political thinking. It was drafted to offend the fewest possible number of people. It gives more weight to getting votes in next year’s election than to getting needed revenue the government. This bill taxes sources already taxed to the point of : returns, It doesn't tax where the money is. So it won't serve as a curb on inflation, and it won't raise the kind of money the government needs to put the defense ‘program on a pay-as-we-go basis.

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” . r * » » » EXPERTS do not agree on many phases of taxation, as testimony of the 200 witnesses before the Senate Finance Committee shows. But all experts agree on one point—the tax has to be levied where the money is. It can’t be squeezed out of a turnip already reduced to a pulp. Treasury estimates show that if the government confscated all the income not now taxed from all those above * the $10,000 bracket, the total revenue would not exceed $3.5 billion. But the non-taxed income below. the $10,000 bracket is more than $68 billion. ~~ Yet the House bill proposes to get most of jts income fromthe “top Dracketswihers St Just ait) The “already has been skimmed. = +. . In its many weeks of hearings, the Senate Finance Committee received an abundance of the advice it sought. Leaders of the committee say they aim to do a painstaking job of revision on the House bill. They say they will try to eliminate the “hardships and inequities” which they now see in the measure. ; : This kind of approach is essential. For no subject needs more light than taxation; and it usually gets less.

LI a} y 8 8 THERE is no such thing as a good tax. But if Congress lacks the courage to raise the needed revenue from the most feasible, fairest source—an increase in income taxes all down the line—sooner or later it will face the necessity of levying against less desirable sources.

The Soviets’ Sixth Column

A ALTHOUGH we have our many troubles in this country, there is some consolation in the accumulating evidence

that Stalin's commissars must resort to desperate measures nia“ “40 ‘maintain themselves in power. : :

Two hundred Communist leaders are reported under arrest _in Bulgaria, charged with disloyalty to Moscow. Brutal mass evacuations are being made from border

. ageas of Romania, Hungary and Czechslovakia. Four ‘gen-

erals have been arrested or have committed suicide in Czechoslovakia this year. New purges are in progress in Poland and Albania. The crew of a Polish minesweeper mutinied, put in at -a Swedish port and applied for political asylum. They were followed in a day by four other Poles who flew to Sweden in a makeshift airplane.

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= ” . - 1 IN RUSSIA the death of another general has been announced, bringing to 22 the number of high Soviet officials who have died under mysterious circumstances since the first of the year. A regime which must maintain ts control by continuing purges cannot have a feeling of any security. And economic stability cannot be achieved in an atmosphere of constant apprehension. Though the Reds have their fifth columns In free countries prepared to advance the Soviet cause by fair means or foul, they also seem to have a sixth column in their rear ready to stab them in the back at the opportune moment. And that sixth column apparently represents a vast majority of the people in the captive countries.

What Price Victory? . AVERELL HARRIMAN, President Truman's personal envoy to Iran, appears to be making some progress in his efforts to mediate the Iranian oil dispute. The fact that the British and Iranians have been persuaded to sit at the same table in an effort to compose their differences is of itself no small achievement. But has this been accomplished by the magic of Mr. Harriman’s diplomacy, or by the promise of U. 8. dollars? If there is any basis for the report that Uncle Sam is going to pick up the check if an agreement is reached, it will be well to reserve the applause until we know how much the deal is going to cost us. In the initial stages of this controversy, U. S. Ambassador Grady dangled various financial inducements -before the Iranians in an effort to settle the dispute. If Mr. Harriman succeeds where Mr. Grady failed only because he was authorized to raise the dante, it will be at . expense of the American taxpayer. That will be no less true if our check'is made out to Britain rather than to Iran.

, » ~ ” 3 : AS ONE of the principal custodians of world peace the United States has become the sustaining member of - various organizations that are devoted to, or at least giving : e to, that cause. But it would be going far afield to be putting our money on the

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Brownson Asks

-H Act Change

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis Republican, apparently doesn't believe in that old adage “let sleeping dogs lie.” He stil wants to modify the Taft-Hartley aw, *°- Today the fresh: man congressman from Marion County recalled that he and 8en. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) had 0 pledged themselves to 28 modifjcations of that statute during the 1950 cam- + Pag Ans be tiny - that pledge should kept, he said. Mr. Brownson has to run again next year, but Sen. Capehart's second term

Rep. Brownson . . . eager to keep pledge.

will not expire until 1957. “I am going to make a survey of both the House and Senate to ses whether the points of modification to which we pledged ourselves in the campaign are covered by bills already introduced,” Mr. Brownson said. “If so, I will be for those bills and not try to push others just because I can get my name on them.”

Delay Forecast IT I8 UNLIKELY that such a survey will show that any action is contemplated by this slowest moving of all Congresses on any part of the Taft-Hartley law. Particularly, the Capehart-Brownson point

, which would restores the closed shop to col-

lective bargaining isn't at all likely to pass in the 824 Congress. Union shops are still authorized, but the closed shop, still outlawed. "Union leaders, all of whom still say they are ‘Taft-Hartley repeal, are busy with other Matters at the moment. They are pushing President Truman to what they want through the new defense setup, from which labor members walked out and then walked back.

Called Wage Board Tw THIS IS CALLED the Wage S{abilization Board. In defense industries it largely bupplants the National Labor Relations Board. Signing

the new defense production act, President Tru-

man issued a blast against the Capehart amendment, which he thinks will make prices -soar, and Those were sweet words to the labor leaders. Thus, they are. too busy to keep up the pressure for Taft-Hartley repeal that they did after it was passed hy the Republican 80th Congress. Another factor in their loss of steam may be the terrific trouncing they took on the issue when the co-author of the measure, Republican Sen. Robert A. Taft, was so overwhelmingly elected in 1950.

Delivered to Delegates ; THE CAPEHART-BROWNSON 28-point Taft-Hartley reform program first popped up when delegates to the AFI, state convention in

Indianapolis- found it stuffed under their hotel room doors in the fall of 1950. That was just a few weeks before election day. Later Mr. Brownson went into it when he appeared before an Americans for Democratic Action meeting in Indianapolis with his Demo-

cratic opponent, then Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Some of his GOP supporters took a dim view of this Then Mr. Brownson came in an easy winner and most everyone thought the whole business had been forgotten. They put {t down as being what another Hoosier, the late Wendell L. Willkie, once called ‘campaign oratory.” Now {t may turn out Mr Brownson represents a new trend-—a politician who meant what he said. Even so, he isn't going to change that Taft-Hartley law this session.

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Russian 5i-ton tanks, he said, could “easily beat the tank in the U. 8, Army.” He sald War III probably would start

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ARMAMENT RACE . . . By Nazi Air Secrets

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief of staff, has admitted to Congress that tite Nazis were ahead of us in aircraft development in World War II, and that the” Russians used German knowledge to outstrip us in the same field after the war. But now, according oo ie to secret testimony Gen. Vandenberg gave on July 12, and recently made public by the House Appropriations Committee, we have overtaken the Soviet lead in development of jet air-

craft. > Moreover, Gen. Vandenberg assert- ~ ed that even with Russian progress, if > war comes, the "Air

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damage upon any nation that breaks <x dl good ward the peace.”

The General's statements were made in response to questions by Rep. George Mahon (D. Tex.), chairman of the subcommittee handling the Defense Department's appropriations bill for the.current fiscal year, Gen. Vandenberg conceded that it was sheer weight of our air power that defeated the Nazis and Japs in the air, but that if the Germans had had another year, their research might have overcome our advantages in production. He said the Russians, in a vast manhunt, rounded up hundreds of German jet, guided missile and atomic scientists. These gave Russia, Gen. Vandenberg said, a two to three vear lead over thé United States in air development. Gen. Vandenberg said that our object in World War II was to overwhelm both German and Japanese air forces and bring the war to an end as rapidly as possible. Therefore, we

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — Anothar big fight is brewing here - between the Civil Aeronautics Board and the nonscheduled passenger carrying

airlines. This time it's over a question of public safety. The

board insists that a particular type of plane the nonskeds use is being too heavily loaded for safety in takeoffs, To minimize the chance of accidents,. the board has announced that on Oct. 1 it will lower the permissible gross weight of this plane — when carrying passengers—from the present 48 000 poundg te 45 800, A year later, the board says it <will drop the "weight to 43,500. The plane is the C-46 Curtiss Commando, which was designed in 1936 for commercial service, but never put in production. During the war the plans .were dusted off and a ‘ modification of the ofiginal de--sign became the Commando, a sturdy warhorse of military aviation which won its greatest fame in the airlift across,

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both western and eastern fronts. It would take Russia only a matter of months, he sald, to sweep across Normandy in one direction and to Buez in the other. At sea, Russia would loose snorkel! submarines—about 1000 —to disrupt world communications. ® ¢

THE United States, Tsuji said, would be forced to rely primarily on its string of foreign air bases. Tsuji said the United States had no intention of nrotecting Japan. “It's silly to think the United States, in exchange for a few bases here, will defend Japan to the last” he sald. “It would merely Jead Russia to declare war on Japan. And the outcome for Japan would be hideous. If war should break out the United States would pull out of Japan, but not before it destroyed Japan's industry.”

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concentrated on mass production of air power rather than on research and development. That plan paid off, he said. When the war ended, U. 8. air power was supreme. “By contrast,” Gen. Vandenberg said, “the

~ Gefmans never stopped experimenting and tinkering with new and more. reyelurionaly forms

of afrcrajl and other aly weapons. “It is my opinion that one of the chief reasons for the downfall of the German nation was Hitler's obsession with change, As the fortunes of battle shifted,’ Hitler and Goering swung the research “and production resources of the Reich from long-range bombers to defensive fighters, and when this turn-about failed to gheck the Allied attack, they began to “experiment feverishly with such guided missiles as the V-1 and V-2. “As a result of these sudden changes, German air power failed to attain the full potentialities of German production, and the Luftwaffe was defeated.” Even so, the General said, German air power, in certain respects, was ahead-of our own at the end of the war. He said the Germans knew more about guided missiles and jet aircraft than we did. ”

2 Year Lead on U. S.

“HAD we not crushed them under the sheer mass of air power, it is altogether possible that had the war continued another year the long German lead in research might very well have succeeded in overcoming our advantages in production,” Gen. Vandenberg said. He said the Russians began to take advantage of the German progress as soon as the Red armies overran Eastern Germany. Soviet agents conducted a vast manhunt for German technical brains. They seized many hundreds of German scientists who were connected with the development of guided missiles, jet aircraft, and atomic weapons, By coming into possession of the German experience, Gen. Vandenberg said, the Russians in effect picked up at that stage a two to three-year lead on U. 8. air development, After the war this country demobilized and for a year or two did little on research and development.

AIR SAFETY . . . By James Daniel

~ CAB and ‘Nonskeds’ Set For Another Fight

“The other accident occurred at Seattle, Wash. A C-46 had one engine takeoff, clipped a pole at the . end of the runway and crashed into houses, killing five persons on the ground and two in the plane. The findings included the fact that 91 octane gasoline, rather than costlier aviation gas, had been used in The weight, on the one good engine, was in excess of what the CAB now

the C-46 and a great many of the war-surplus planes found their way into commercial aviation—generally leased by the Air Force to commercial lines at $600 a month rather than

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being sold. The CAB savs the C-46 never met the design stand-

ards for passenger planes used by the 168 scheduled airlines, but the nonskeds were permitted to use them for passengers and for freight, and Pan American World Airways uses a {ew for cargo flights in the Caribbean.

the takeoff. says is safe.

two-engine ' plane, wiich means that \t one of the engines fails, the gross weight must hot be too high a year apart. for the remaining engine to » carry alone, Recently the CAB decided that the aocident record of the C-46 in takeoffs was excessive. Further safety tests were run which the CAB says established the 43,500"pound limit as desirable. >

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” . THE official answer is that the CAB wants to give the C-468 operators. time to shift from passenger carrying to freight service. s CAB officials say the gradual approach will minimize oppo-

He insisted that Japan had. little tactical value as a U. 8. base In a Russian war, Never . theless, he claimed, the U. 8. fears a combina tion of Chinese raw materials and Ja je in dustry. Therefore, he claimed, we'd follow the Korean pattern—destruction of war potential before withdrawal, Tsuji claimed the United States is maintaining bases in Okinawa and the Bonin Islands “to bomb Japan and destroy her industrial potential before Russia takes over.” A Russian invasion of Japan, he said, would be comparatively easy. It would come from the north with the island of Hokkaido seized first. Next, he said, the Russians and Red Chinese would seize the southern island of Kyushu. Then the main island of Honshu—deprived of food and coal-—would be an easy target. Russia, with 500 Far East divisions, could easily spare 10 for operation Nippon, Tsuji claimed. After that, he said, Russia could concentrate on pounding the U. 8. mainland and eventually create “isolationism and defeatism” and final victory, ® < ¢

TSUJI'S speech was enthusiastically hailed by Japanese Communists and played on the front pages of several leftist newspapers for several days. Many Japanese say he was too viciously anti-American. But the fact he has been indicted indicates the authorities take a serious view of the incident. It came at a time when the U. 8. and Japanese governments are discussing the possibility of U, 8. bases here after a peace treaty is signed.

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‘Traffic Accidents’

MR. EDITOR: In reference to your articles and editorials on the subject of the numerous traffic accidents in Indianapolis, it seems to me that you neglect both to mention the primary reason and to suggest any definite program which could eliminate such accidents. Is it not true that the influence of the 500-Mile Race held annually here is terrific, especially on the impressionable younger set? Each youngster, at the most formative period of his driver's training attempts to imitate the stars of the race track both in style of driving and equipment of car. Thus it would not seem to be teen-age drinkmajor cause. .of accideats, for .

and well-obeyed, but rather the manner of drive ing itself. The first step in attacking the preblem would thus be to caution all drivers that hot-rod driving should be reserved for the race track. » od

STATE laws that could alleviate the situation would be obvious: ONE: Make the test required to get a license difficult enough that the candidate must have a thorough knowledge of Indiana and Indian apolis rules, besides knowing the mere mechanics of operating a car smoothly and accurately in observance of these rules. TWO: Require a semi-annual inspection of all motor vehicles. The latter law could at the very least make vehicles safe for driving, and, if the authorifies wanted to go further in their efforts, they could eliminate unsafe equipment on all cars. Stickers, birds, and trinkets covering windows of cars do not aid clear vision. Many other states have these periodic inspections and, by requiring vehicles to be perfectly safe for driving, have eliminated many accidents. Why must Indiana be lax in these tests necessary to insure the safety of its citizens? Hn

Dorothy A. Spemyrey;=$73 2v Emerson Ave,

‘Our $18 Million’

If no one has suggested it . . . I do not get papers . ... the way to get back the $18 million cut from relief by the federal government is to have the legislature repeal the act giving the federal government the right to impose income taxes on the state's employees and tax them the same amount for the state, —Bob Noelker, Morris.

FRIENDSHIPS

COUNT a friendship by the laughter... that you've gained while in its sway . . . never by the falling teardrops . . . that you shed while on the way . . . count the pleasant happy . never count the plans that failed «+. for even the brightest flowers .. . saw the time when colors paled . . . count the trivial and little , . . little things make friendships last . . . mightier than gold or silver . . . little things will hold you fast . . . count the dreams you shared while scheming . . . and the days—when skies were fair . . . and you'll have a happy memory . . ..of a friendship that was rare. —By Ben Burroughs.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

WASHINGTON = President Truman has signed a bill making it illegal to change the size or shape of a nickel or penny. The purpose of this latest ruling, Is one that is not hard to scent, The copper and jitney, no fooling, Should not be maliciously bent. So care for those coins, if you've any, The way that a miser loves his, The poor shriveled nickel and penny— Are in awful shape as it is.

sides agitating In Congress, they say they will offer engineering suggestions for improving the C-46 to carry - higher loads. Some 83 C-46's are being flown by the nonskeds, both for passengers and freight, and the operators claim the CAB is out to deprive them, on passenger service, of 35 per cent of their revenues, They plan to ask the board why, if 2 gross weight over 43500 pounds is unsafe, the order doesn’t apply to cargo-carrying C-48’s, since the risk to the crew is the same.

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