Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1951 — Page 23

a difference. Here is a plant 8 run at a loss, that won't even hire a worker if he’s physically able to work anywhere else, that has a high employee turnover, and encourages its best workers to leave, because when a worker is able to get and hold another job it makes for a new one at Goodwill. It’s first objective is to provide jobs, at fair pay, to workers so handicapped they can't find other employment. » » - EVEN SO, the “loss” hasn't been very large. It has amounted, by the books, to about $120,000 in 16-years on a $1 million volume of production. That “loss” is made up by the Community Fund, of which Goodwill is a member, and by individual membetship dues and gifts. Since nearly all the workers who have drawn the wages would have had to live on tax-paid relief or private charity if they hadn't worked at Goodwill, its operation actually has saved this community some $880,000 by letting these handicapped workers largely support themselves. And in addition it has returned to well-paid commercial jobs and businesses scores

out of their own earnings, as a result of training they got on the job at Goodwill, It is, in short, the only place we know of where a dollar in a gift produces $8.33 in earned wages, instead of charity. - * ” - GOODWILL'S raw materials are the things most households discard—old clothes, furniture, shoes, toys, hats, kitchenware—after they are no longer usable. Goodwill workers repair and renew them, and five Goodwill retail stores find a ready market for what they turn out. The more such salvage material they get, the more workers they can hire, and the more wages they can pay. It is a job in which everyone in town can have a part. Goodwill memberships are $1 a year--or as much more as you care to contribute. And Goodwill trucks will call at any home around here to pick up the old clothes, and so on, that are ready to he thrown away. ‘That's all they ask. The handicapped workers some of them can't move out of wheel chairs—will just about earn their own way on that. "We don't know of anything that pays bigger dividends on less giving. y

Interesting People

(QLIVER EDMUND CLUBB went before the House Un-American Activities Committee recently to explain, ‘or at least comment on, his visit to the New Masses . editorial office in New York in 1932. New Masses was then the leading Comm#nist periodical in this country. Mr. Clubb, a Veteran foreign service officer of the State Department, now under suspension, had just returned from China on home leave when he visited the New Masses. It seems that he had seven letters from the late Agnes Smedley, pro-Communist writer, introducing him to some “interesting people” in New York. The consular official was hoping, he explained, to meet people who could give him a good picture of conditions in the United States during that. depression year. By chance, the interesting people Miss Smedley knew were to be found in the Communist magazine's office. So Mr. Clubb, shedding any possible. dignity as ‘an official of the State Department, climbed some rickety stairs to a ramshackle room where, he noted in his diary, he had “the most interesting meeting thus far.” Hig new acquaintances questigned him about the possibilities of a Communist revolution in China, What he told them we do not know. Nor what he found out about conditions In America —except, as his diary noted. one Communist editor “spoke of revolution but had no ‘hopes’ of it for the United States at present.” r

= Nn ” o r = SIXTEEN years later when the Communists overran China, Mr. Clubb was in Peiping as Consul General. Angus Ward was in Mukden in the same capacity. The State Department, bent on appeasing communism, had left them both in Red-conquered territory in the hope they could establish relations with the Reds, looking to our early recognition of Communist China. We do not know what kind of consular reports these two officials were sending back to the State Department about Red China. In any event, what happened to the two consul generals after they finally came home from Red China is an interesting commentary on the State Department, especially the men in charge of its Far Eastern Division. Mr. Ward, a foremost expert on communism and avowed foe, was sent to Nairobi, Africa. And Mr. Clubb was made head of the State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs.

If the Pinch Hurts, Pinch Harder

N A formal diplomatic note to the United States, the Communist government of Russia has protested the State Department's decision to call off the 1947 trade agreement with the Soviets. This is taken in some quarters as a sign that the curtailment of trade with Iron Curtain countries is beginning to pinch the Russian war machine. The Kremlin masters are so deceitful and envious there is no telling their motives in this note.

on Communist goods sold in this country for good

of handicapped individuals who now pay taxes themselves,

‘ But if our decision merely to withdraw tariff prefer-

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Commissioner of internal Revenue, in an exclusive interview. Mr. Dunlap was collector at

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“WELL,” Mr. Dunlap continued, “one of our agents discovered an apparent overpayment of $5000 that he could not account for in the

man's statement. So he went over and talked

to the fellow. ‘Sam.’ he said, ‘I can't account for this $5000." And Sam sald, ‘Well, I can't either. I just figure my income tax and then add $5000—that’s my insurance money.” Mr. Dunlap, a soft-volced, balding ex-cavalry-man (he was a brigadier-general in World War II), was asked about the Bureau's research

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BLACK MARKET .. . By Frederick C. Othman

Sounds Like 1945 and the OPA—

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23- Sidney 8. Gould of Brooklyn, N. Y., is a tiny little fellow with a tiny little mustache, who wears bright tan suits and black suede shoes, fe is a go-getter, or would be, if it. weren't for conditions. His "advice to you, if vou need a genuine chromium - plated towel rack for yeur bath. is buy’ it now. He makes ’'em, at least he did until he

appeared before the black market =subcommittee of Sen. Blair Moody D Mich N ow he’s pretty sure he's out of the chromium-plat-ing business. Invol untarily out To make the chrome stick to a \ ‘ os towel rack vou've Mr. Gould got to plate it first with nickel. The

. out of business standard price for

nickel anodes long has been 63 cents a pound. “You having difficulty getting anodes now?” asked Sen, Moody. If Sidney’'d had any hair to spare he would have torn it. “Difficulty.” he cried in a peculiarly loud voice from such a small boy, "Extreme and excruciating difficulty.” For 63-cent nickei ne now pavs $3. ‘It would ®t him more, except that he trades with a ouple of pals, the Messrs, Benjamin 8. Flug and Robert Corev of the Flurey Products Co. For 10 days now the Senator has been trving vainly to slap a subpena on Benny and Bob. The story that Sidney told was a weird on His pals socked him nine times the ceiling price for nickel--and even then they sold him sec ondhand scrap but he still appreciated it. The scrap nickel makes a horrid plating job, but Sidney's grateful anvhow.

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When Benny and Bob went into the nickel iobbing business, Sydney fent ‘em nis vvarcaousa and his telephone until they could get their own, “They asked me to extend the hand of friendship.” he réported.,, “That 1 gladly did. The Damon and Pythias handshake’ was ex® tended. They said they would néver forget our Kindness. ‘And they didn't. They kept us in business, you'll forgive my description, with this scrap scrap. “But it’s heartbreaking. Our finish is deteriorating and this has invoked the dissatisfaction of our principal customers.” Sidney didn’t so much mind paying nine prices for, nickel, he said, but he did think he ought to get good quality.

“They were continually being beseeched by me,” he said And they always answered that for every pound of scrap 1 got for $3, they had five customers who would pay $1.”

He added that he wasn't sore, He wasn't seeking revenge. All he wanted to do was turn out carioad lots of high-grade towel racks. So he told the Senators the truth as he saw it and now he feared nobody'd sell him nickel at any price. “I have taken myself out of the plating business,” he continued. This flabbergasted Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D, Iowa).

Peep Door Stuff

DO YOU mean to say that the supply of nickel just disappeared?” the Senator asked. “You'll excuse me, but you have used too miid a word,” Sidney said. “It more than dis appeared [t evaporated. To get it, vou had to open a peep door and say Benny sent me. Of course, if you want to pay the price, and meet the terms, meaning cash so the OPS can't keep track then there's no shortage of nickel They'll deliver to vour door in 20 minutes.” End Sidney's tale. I seem to have written the same story a dozen times in 19435. only with different materials, when the OPS was known as the OPA and the black market was an integral part of business life.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Only five months Ago the cot. ton bloc in Congress was raising the roof with Price Boss Michael DiSalle for slapping a price ceiling of 45.76 cents a pound on cotton. Today. with no visible sign of embarrassment. this same group is beating on the door of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, asking that he do something to keep cotton prices from sinking to the government - maintained floor of 31°71 cents a pound. The cotton industry now is urging that the government spend from $300 to $350 million to create a cotton stockpile of about 2.000000 bales. This would put the government in the market as the new a crop comes on and supposedly A keen prices from going lower. 5 Cause of this quick reversal is the now predicted huge cotton crop of 17.2 million bales ~-1.2 million bales more than the Aerienitore Denartment's “e godl of 16.000.000 bales. ” . 0» » MEMBERS of the cotton bloc. were testifying almost in mmison hefore Sen. Rurnet

into the income tax reports of a notorious

“We've been checking on him for years,” the commissioner replied, “and we have been over his returns with a fine-tooth comb. But we haven't found anything yet.” ” The new commissioner explained that the Bureau is not authorized to enforce anything but the income tax law. So, the source of a taxpayer's income is of no concern. Its only concern is that a taxpayer reperts his full income and pays whatever tax is due on that sum. “For example,” Mr. Dunlap said, “we're checking every dollar we find of pay-off money to see that the fellow who gets it also reports it as income, State tix authorities are eligible to see returns for the purpose of determining if 2a man has reported to them the same income he has reported to us. They get this material in confidence, of course.” . ¢ & < MR. DUNLAP just smiled when asked if it wasn’t possible for 1aw enforcement officers to use. this information in stopping violations of other laws. “A lot of this stuff is handled through cash payments, and they're hard to check,” the commissioner said. The new bureau chief deplores the fact that the bureau he now heads had been so widely criticized. He thinks it's not fair. - “Why,” he said, “there was not a single name in the Kefauver Committee report that we were not already investigating. But people don’t remember that it takes a lot of time, a fot of painstaking work by experts, to check an income tax return of a man whose business may be in violation of laws somewhere. Maybe we have to check every investment a man has made. “There are 58000 persons in this Bureau” Mr. Dunlan said, “and only about 100 a year are disciplined, and of these 95 per cent are disciplined for infractions of minor rules. Sb &

“WHEN a man comes to work for the Bureau he is investigated back to the time when he was a child. If he’s O.K. he gets a job. And, remember, we don’t pay salaries that are any too high. Our average is $4500 a year for salaries and expenses for an internal revenue agent. If we think one of our agents is living a little too high, spending more money than we think he earned, we investigate again. This is true in all our divisions, the alcohol tax unit and all the rest. “We need more agents,” Commissioner Dunlap reiterated. “If we had 2500 more, paying them on the average $4500 salary and expenses, they would cost the Treasury about $11,250,000 a year, and I believe they would cause to come into the Treasury about $225 million more in internal revenue taxes each year. “We can only spot check now. We should be able to make more careful checks on in-

‘Why Blame the Churches?’

MR. EDITOR: In reply to a letter from F. C. City. Why blame the churches alone for these disgusting, disgraceful cheats at West Point. For the last 16 years we have had just these kind of things going on in the United States. This goes way back to the beginning of the Roosevelt administration. Right in your city, if vou knew a politician you could get all the re-

lief vou wanted or as good a WPA job as you wanted and that was cheating wasn't it?

Every one couldn’t get the same things. Don't

try and tell me it wasn't that way because I know. I was there. I stood in line and waited for food for my children all but one time. Then I was so asha to have a politician walk past the line of 'peo aiting and say, "Take care of this woman. 8S fa friend of mine.” x

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1 COULDN'T look those people in the face, I was too ashamed and you can bet I waited my turn in line from then or’. But this is where vour cheating started and these boys in West Point can’t know any different for it went on nearly all their lives in the political circles. They certainly should have been punished more than they were for when you stop and think when they become officers they have our bovs lives in their hands and if they have to cheat to make their grades mavbe they wouldn't know what to do on the battle fields and sacri{ice thousands of boys’ lives I don't go to church but I still don't blame them for something the people themselves have done. There's lot of good church people and there are a lot that go just to pretend tney are good church people. They are the politicians and cheats. —M. C., City.

GRANDMA'S WAY

IN EVERY family there is one . . . who stands above the rest . . . and held in high regard by all . . for always being best . , , the one of whom we ask advice . . . when we've no place to turn . . . and need the loving comfort of . . . someone who shows concern . . in my family and maybe yours . .. Grandma rates high above . . . all my other relatives in knowledge and in love . . . for this dear snowwhite lady's seen . , . the world for many years . . and knows the real solution te . . . my heartaches and my tears . . . and that is why when 1 feel blue . . . 1 sit close to her side . . . and air my troubles one by one . ., for in her 1 confide. —By Ben Burroughs.

PRICES . . . By Earl Richert Cotton Growers Are Singing a New Tune

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come tax returns more often.” Commissioner Dunlap is eager for taxpayers to know that they are assured a fair break with his bureau. ; “I tell our agents that they have to be gentlemen. They must not lose their tempers. They must, above all, explain to the taxpayer all the means the law affords for his proteo-

tion, the procedures of appeal, and the like. They must impress on the people they deal with that we are concerned only with getting an honest return upon which the tax has been legally and fairly figured. That's our whole ob.” 3 The Bureau had-undergone its most severe criticism in many years when Mr. Dunlap took over. The agency was under investigation by

a special committee of the House, another of"

the Senate, and some of its operations had been condemned in the Kefauver Crime Report,

< o oe IN A sudden switch, 62-year-old George J. Schoeneman bower out and the 47-year-old Texan came. in. Before he took office, these things—in addie tion to the investigations mentioned above = took place: : The Boston Collector of Internal Revenue had been fired by President Truman for malfeasance in office. The New York Collector was reported on the way out, because of alleged incompetence. The St. Louis Collector resigned under fire. (These were presidential appointees.) The cperations of the collector's office in San Francisco were under investigation by the Kefauver Committee, the House Committee and a Grand Jury; three agents there had been fired.

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Hoosier Forum—‘West Point’

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

‘Set the Record Straight’ MR. EDITOR: I may be just a little guy in the scheme of things, but I do not like to be misquoted. The statement of C. D. C. that I recently referred to the possible suicide of President Harding to avoid facing the scandals of his administration is not a fact." I did not say that. I did not suggest it. I do not believe it. That’ kind of talk belongs behind some ald barn. President Harding died of natural causes,

aggravated by the burdens of his office and the possible realization that he had been Dbe-

““trayed by his friends.

I sta.ed that President Harding happily died before the scandals broke, and’ it was well he did, for the politicians and public would have

torn hig heart out for something that was no

more his. fault than it was, theirs. Presidents all have a few things in common . . . they are blamed for everything evil, get credit for nothing that is good, and are exploited alike by relative, friend, politician and.what have- you,

—F. M., City.

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Yiews on News

By DAN KIDNEY

COMMUNISTS have decided to ban the teachings of Confuscius in Chinese schools instead of ciaiming they came from Moscow,

MUSSOLINI'S nephew wants to restore Italian fascism. He should take another look at the family album,

A FRENCH wife killed her husband after he received a cabinet appointment. She probably wanted him to get a steady Job.

A HOUSE Ways and Means Subcommittee iz studying how income tax collectors get so rich, Maybe by making a public office a private trust,

GAMBLERS like public officials “let the chips fall where they may.”

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN told American Legionnaires that slander-mongers are “chipping away our freedom.” He cased Congress as one of the principal chip *joints.

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be bound to go up, argue the agriculture officials. And un-

Maybank's joint committee on be im. 16,000,»

Sen. Maybank, a South Carolina Democrat, was himself one of the most voluble exponents of this viewpoint. Yesterday, Sen. Maybank headed a group of influential cotton state Senators that called on Secretary Brannan to discuss what could be done to keep cotton prices from going lower. - » - THE COTTON bloe is now taking this view: The Agriculture Department is responsible for today's lower cotton prices, It urged the cotton farmers to plant enough cotton to produce 16 million bales. The farmers did. And now, as a result of complying with the government's wishes, the cotton farmers are being penalized by getting much lower prices

for their product. Since the *-

Agricultyre Department, is responsible, goes the argument, it is up to the Agriculture Department to do something. Monday, October cotton futures closed at 3462 cents a

have the government raise its der the

support price. Many members of the cotton bloc feel it would be bad politics to have the Agriculture Department raise its present 90 per cent of parity support price for cotton when 90 per cent is the level at which most other farm commodities are supported. But the Agriculture Department is reported to be cool to the stockpiling proposal though, officially, the matter is under study. In the first place, it is said,

the President would have to

declare that the stockpiling of cotton was necessary for the defense of the country. Seeondly, no money is now available from defense funds for the purpose and Congress would have to be asked for an appropriation. 8.8 = MANY Agriculture Department officials think the better

idea is for cotton farmers to °

place every other bale under

cotton-loan pooling system now in use, any profit made by the government is pro-rated back to the farmers, The government has just turned back to the growers $67 million in profits made from the 1948 crop cotton it received under loan.

Under the stockpiling proposal, the government would purchase the cotton outright and would keep the profits, if any. To bolster cotton prices, Agriculture Sec. Brannan already has lifted export quotas. The Armed Services also are being asked by the cotton bloc to place orders for future textile needs now to encourage the mills to rebuild their cot-

ton stocks.

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