Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1951 — Page 16

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Poor Picking Jos the second time Gen. Ridgway has had to acknowl edge to the Chinese and Korean Reds that Allied planes have shot up the area where we are trying to hold peace talks with the Communists, ! The latest violetion of the neutralized area occurred Friday at Panmunjon, new site, of the discussions. The Communists chargad that three Shooting Star jets str afed the area, killing one Korean boy and wounding his brother, Gen. Ridgway concedes that Allied planes made two attacks in the area, inflicting casualties on noncombatants. Ona previous occasion, last month; he admitted one of our planes machine-gunned the Kaesong zone. In both instances, the violations. were made ” ow. ARES ARETE REI TO Ber REG -Kaesong or Sn to latter is only a cluster of six mud huts unmarked on any map—in a high-altitude bombing attack. But only extreme carelessness can account’ for our planes flying in at.machine-gun range to shoot Gp a place which must be well known to the Air Force. Panmunjon is only six miles from Kaesong. The chances are thin enough as it is for any success in. the truce negotiations, but if the Air Force does not or can not exert stricter precautions the peace talks will be continually jeopardized—and the burden of their failure will rest upon us. Of course it was senseless in the first place to let ithe Communists pick the site within their own areca. But "pow that we have-accepted the place, the least we can do, to keep from falling further into their trap, is to see 10 it that none of our planes flies within 50 miles of the place. There ought to be plenty of targets elsewhere in Korea—even this side of the Manchurian border,

Packing Up (CONGRESS is getting ready to blow. : “There is a lot of work remaining to be done,” says Senate Majority Leader McFarland, “but the general sentiment both in Senate and House is to get out. Once members decide they want to get through, we move awfully “fast.” In other words, Congress is packing up, but it's going 10 leave a lot of duds strewn around the house. Tax-and-spend bills seem to be the only unfinished business certain to be wound up before adjournment. But Congress gets paid by the year, and while some members complain of being underpaid the Congressman who willingly gives up the job is a notable exception. The government's financial situation is spelled d-e-f-i-c-i-t as it is. And if Congress fails to pass the postal rate increases, for instance, there will be even more of the same. It has been a‘long, hard session, and the anxiety of the lawmakers to get back to the home hustings can be appreciated—the election year of 1952 looming as it does. But, with “a lot of work remaining to be done,’ little early to start home for Christmas.

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One Down, One to Go

HEN the roof is caving in, there is nothing to do but get out from under it.

William M. Boyle has resigned as chairman of the.

Democratic National Committee. He quit, he said, because the strenuous responsibilities of .the upcoming Presidential campaign “would put too much of a tax on my physical endurance.” But he found it necessary to say in his letter to Presi-

dent Truman that “I have at all times conducted myself

with honor and propriety.” Mr. Boyle was a $500-a-month lawyer for American Lithofold, a St. Louis printing firm, at a time when this firm sought a Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan and Mr. Boyle was vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. RFC turned down this company three times, but three days after Mr. Boyle made another appointment ior

the company president with RFC officials the first of a

series of loans Was granted. The retiring Democratic chairman denies any wrongdoing. So does the Republican National Chairman, Guy Gabhrielson. who also has had some dealings with the RFC in behalf of loans for a company he heads. Several Congressmen in both parties whose scruples cover a little wider area have suggested both national chairmen should resign. When Boyle quits, can Gabrielson be far behind?

Keep Jessup at Home

ENATOR SMITH of New Jersey has polled the 10member U. S. delegation to the forthcoming United Nations General Assembly in Paris for their individual views on China. He announced last night that they were unanimously opposed to U. S. recognition of Red China or turning Formosa over to the Peiping regime. It is a good comfortable bandwagon to get aboard, and the unanimity is encouraging, for Red China may be one of the crucial questions coming up in the Paris meeting. Philip C. Jessup is*one of the prospective delegates. His replies to Sen. Smith's poll consisted mostly of quotations from his testimony before a Senate subcommittee which is now considering his nomination to be a delegate. Substance of his testimony was that the United States never had considered recognizing Red China. But this hardly squares with the notorious White Paper put out by the State Department under the editorship of Mr. Jessup. The White Paper, which appeared nearly a year before Korea, was formal notice to the world thet the United States had abandoned Nationalist China and was looking with no great disfavor on those old agrarian reformers who turned out to be Communists, For that reason, this newspaper believes Mr. Jossip, in spite of his latest avowals, is unacceptable as a member of our United Nations delegation. We believe Mr. Jessup does not command the fullest confidence of the American * people; and that his nomination should be rejected by the ; Senate asa whole besre it Bjorn.

DUKE OF. EDINBURGH .

. By Andrew Tully

Prince Phil Talks To ’Em adh They. Swoon In. Their

ABOARD ROYAL TOUR TRAIN, Canada; Oct. 16-- If the Duke of Edinburgh ever loses his job as assistant wreath-layer for the British Empire, he can always go to work for Tammany Hall, bahy-kissing divigion, This guy is the greatest politician owned by the royal family since they caught Edward the Eighth daring to sympathize with those Welsh miners. No maiden aunt could have picked Phil for Princess Elizabeth’s ever-loving mate: he s strictly the kind of candidate that comes out of a room full of smoke and ward bosses. Phil, of course, doesn't have to run for anything — any more. He's safer than a Missourian in Washington. But he apparently just can't help making like a candidate for county commissioner. As for Canada itself, if Phil wanted to set himself up in hig own king business the House of Windsor wotlld he concgding hy noon @ election day,

Duke of E. . .. glad hand

TAXES By Earl Richert

How to Save Your Nest-Eqgg

x WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—With personal in-

. come taxes going higher, momentum is growing

_here for some sort of a tax-postponement plan

. Na. CEE RES oEaE = > Several proposals are in the mill. : But the basic idea of all_is to aid an individual to build his own retirement fund by permifting him to deduct for tax purposes the amount (to be limited) paid into it, ‘He would start paving taxes on this money. plus the increment, whenever he started drawing it: Bills before Congress now all propose the creation of retirement funds by agriculturalf labor, business, industrial and professional associations for the benefit of their members. The members would pay into the retirement fund, with their payments being tax deductible. And they would start paying taxes when they started drawing the money, either in lump sums or monthly payments.

\ Retirement Insurance .BUT Rep. Frederic R. Coudert Jr. (BR. N, Y.) proposes to go a step further. He will introduce shortly a hill which would allow individuals to deduct, for tax purposes, premiums paid intd annuity or retirement insurance. This would get away from the association idea. The individual, under his proposal, would pay taxes on his annuit whenever he started drawing it. Basic argument for these plans is that the present tax laws make it impossible for most self-employed persons—small shop-owners and professional people—to lay aside an adequate nest-egg for retirement. : They do not have the benefit of government pension plans nor of the pension plans of big corporations. Hence, goes the argument. the government must do something to enable them to provide for their own retirements,

Need More Study

THF, BILLS dealing with the association fdea of retirement funds grew out of a lengthy study hy the New York State Bar Association. Two of the bills, by Rep. Dan Reed (R. N. Y.) and Eugene J. Keogh (D. N. Y.) would permit the annual deduction for income tax purposes of 10 per cent of an individual's earned net income, or $7500, whichever is smaller, The restricted retirement funds into which this money would go would have to be approved by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Sen. Irving MM. Ives (R.N. Y.). who presented the Reed-Keogh proposal to the Senate Finance Committee. said he thought it was necessary for more study to be given, He said the 10 per cent permissible deduction. up to $7500, might be too high. “The purpose is not to dodge taxes but to give self-employed people incentive to save for retirement.” he said. ?

Interested in Plan . THE Senate Finance Committee showed interest in the plan. but said it must he given more study. Sen. Robert 8 Kerr (D. Okla.), a Finance Committee member, said he was sifre the tax-postponement-for-retirement idea would grow, Sen. Ives said he was glad Rep. Coudert was going to’ introduce his hill to make individual premiums for annuity insurance deductible because it would get that aspect before Congress too. But Sen. Ives is doubtful of the Coudert plan’s workability. “The Internal Revenue Bureau couldn't police it ‘and people would get away with murder,” he said. Rep. Coudert said some plan such as his was necessary “to save the self-employed class from permanent poverty.” He said the actual tax loss to the government would be “peanuts.” Advantage to the individual would be that, if retired. he would pay lower taxes when he drew out his retirement money.

NOBODY'S FRIEND

HE HARDLY ever laughed unless . . , he told the joke himself . .. in fact he set himself aloof , . . way up upon a shelf . . . now this person of whom J write . . . is just an average

guy . .. who let himself believe that he . . , is living in the sky . .. he is the kind of man whe makes . . . vou blue and ill at ease . . , ang

now I further wish to state , . . he's very hard to please . . . and I have often wondered if « « « he feels the way he looks . . . because he represents the things ... we see in horror books «+ « but oh how nice and sweet he Is . , . when it does him some good . . . but, sadly, only at this time , . . he acts the way he should. —By Ben- Burroughs

SIDE GLANCES

"She's whibey i is a oiling ovat couldn't he do his dash-

\ ing outside of a car?”

LADD ARLOUTAZE gan: on

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By Galbraith

z= unchivalrous to say so, of course. but the ph 1s that Phil seems. to he making a . bigger hit with the Canadians than his wile,

This casts no aspersions on Princess Elizabeth;

she's sweet and pretty and smiles so wistfully

and you love hep like a particularly wellbehaved daughter. But she lets it ‘go at that, whereas Phil is out ringing doorbells to bring in those last few votes.

YOU SHOULD see him at these stuffy luncheons the poor guy has to go to every time the

royal train stops. He acts as if his sole ambi-

. tion in life is to break bread with the Ottawa

City Council or the Toronto Board of Trade. He marches in with a big grin on his face and a boyish look for the women in the hotel lobby and from there on he's pouring on the princely charm, He sits there at the head table with every. body kow-towing fo him and you'd think hé was in the front row at South Pacific. He never wears that stuffy, mummified look that's standard for guests of honor. He usually has a broad smile on his face. And whenever the guy next to him tosses off a remark or two, Phil listens

with the air of a man grabbing an interview

with Bernie Baruch. "The guy ig kind of a mixture of Grover Whalen and Rudolph V#lentino---elegant and full of romance; but with a comman touch that's practically a left to the chin. When he and Liz were tossed a fancy lunch by Ottawa's femaie mayor, Charlotte Whitton, he had that goed lady practically swooning into the pea soup. You could almost hear her whispering “Dear, Dear” and mentally reminding herself to -wear that fascinating blue hat more often in the future. Arid all the while, Phil was giving with those looks a guy might use if he was sitting next to Betty Grable,

THEN THERE was the elderly war veteran at Kingston, bearing a breast full of medals, whom the Duke stopped to chat with for 30 golden seconds. When reporters cornered the old soldier afterwards, they asked him what the Duke said te him. His face took on a hewildered look. "Why," he said, “1--don’t rightly remember.” Of course, he didn't. The Duke gathers so

‘Jump!—It Says Here’

TAX BLUES

Let Harry T. Pay

WASHINGTON. Oct. 16-—The haberdasher, who ordinarily sells me a suit with two pairs of pants this time of year, said he had some nice ones. I had to tell him that Congress. with its 12 per cent income-tax boost, was taking my suit money this fall. He said, yes, that's what all his customers were saving. He said he guessed he'd | have to sell clothes to Congressmen and maybe President Truman: they're about | the only fellows |

with money for dou-ble-breasted suits. My tailor was a bitter man. What he

President and the lawgivers were the only citizens in America today with taxfree expense funds for which they need make no accounting. He's right. If anvbody else tried such a tax dodge, he'd go to jail. The gents who can afford new autumnal haberdashery are the ones who wrote a special law for themselves, It was four years ago that Congressmen gave themselves $2500 expense accounts and handed another of $50,000 to Mr. Truman. Lately they've been worrying about this; they've had complaints and not only from clothing salesmen. 80 they passed another law a few days ago, putting the President's $50,000 and their own £2500 back on the tax rolls. Then they amended it. The new rules won't go into effect until year after next. Now there's another scheme being cooked; the gentlemen are talking about giving themselves a salary boost, Statesmen like Sen, William Benton (PB. Cenn.), who is a wealthy man and who cannot be considered selfish, are talking out loud about boosting the wages of Congressmen to, say, $25.000 a year. Many of his cohorts are prepared to vote for this next year. Only one I know for sure who's against it is

CONGRESS .

SEL

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 When the record of the 82d Congress is completed it will show that President Truman was given something on most of his major requests, In a session notable principally for the bad relations between the White House and Congress, the President was given all he asked for on practically no measure, If half a loaf is better than none, then the President must be satisfied with what he was able to =alvage. The really remarkable thing about the first session of the

82d Congress was the way in which the loose coalition of

ern Republicans was able to impose its will on the Chief Executive.

Military measures fared better than the non-military re‘quests by the President. Money to run the American arms program was appropriated almost *, to the full extent requested. In some cases Cor even raised the ante. Rareas UMT —- universal military training was finally approved,

0 With 3 geiayed. eifective

By Frederick C. Othman

'Em, Too m — 4 Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.). He got up in public and said he believed Congress ought to start economizing at home: boys cut their wages from $15,000 to $10.000. He barely escaped with his life. Next vear, as he has each year since he was elected, Mr. Truman gets his $50.000 with no strings attached. Ader that, insofar ax legislative plans now stand, the President may be out of luck. I suppose this sounds as though 1 think the Chief Executive js getting too much money. This is not so: I simply don’t like the way he gets it. Anvhody else to garner £50.000 he could call his own would have to earn $500,000 a year.

Fair Is Fair TAXES may be high. but fair is fair. want to give our President $50,000 a vear. then let's come into the open with it and pay him a salary of £300.000. Then he can hand the tax collector a check for $450.000. Ouch! These unhappy reflections I am writing on the eve of the new $5.750,000,000 tax bill becoming law. Beginning Nov. 1, we'll all have to give the government an extra $1.20 or so for every $10 we've forked over in the past. Even at that the new law provides only ahout half of what President Truman wanted. The way I figure it, he'd have boosted income taxes around 20 per cent. So add another 10 per cent to that $450,000 I was talking about. Makes $45,000 left, Indicates that under President Truman's tax program (about which. we'll be hearing more next year) there isn't much profit in being President, no matter what we pay him. That is, after 1953.

What Others Say—

VIOLENT reactionaries , . . are trving to set «up ‘the government of our country as a political, economic and social guardian, running our business and making our decisions for us. That is Marxism —it ig treason to freedom. —George O. Browne, president Optimist International.

If we

. By Peter Edson

“Truman Got Part of Everything He Asked

date. The draft law was extended. G. 1. benefits were extended to apply to Korean vets. Insurance for the armed forces

he suggested the.

loan. Cordell Hull's reciprocal Trade Agreements act was extended for two years more, but Congress tacked on a “peril limit \also had to be sought.

Pea Soup

much political charm inte a phiase that one

of these days somebody is going to faint dead away when his royal highness remarks on the quantity of the Canadian sunshine, Finally, however, this handsome character has learned from some canny campaign mane ager that kels often grow up into voters. He showed it at Toronto the other day when he and the Princess went out to pin some medals on some well-mannered moppets at the National Exposition Grounds. wo dod THERE WERE 15,000 other kids in the jam but it looked as if they wouldn't see much of the prince charming because of all those photographers clustered about the royal party, Phil took care of that with a bit of political know-how that would have had Harry Truman gnawing on his fingernails. With an imperious sweep of his arm, he waved the photographers away, then glanced almost absentmindedly at the sea of childish faces about him. The kids gave him the Hopalong Cassidy hooraw, and Phil grinned. Like everybody else, he knew he'd won even the doubtful precincts,

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Hoosier Forum

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‘Jay Walking’ ’ :

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: “ARTE on This §6-callsd pedestrian: trol aw,

Just because the first few days of. enforcement were critical of him is no reason why he should not enforce the law or have it repealed. His. six weeks grace is up. He nor the police made any special effort to explain the law to the pedestrians by courtesy tickets, I have stood on the streets d8wntown at various times during the past two weeks and seen at least 100 persons jay walk in front of police, including motor police, with out any reminder of law violation or courtesy tickets. On the other hand I saw police protect jay walkers on N, Meridian St. at Pearl St. I stood around town especially to see the let down of the Mayor's baby. Of course after election, If he should be elected, it would be different then. He is showing moral cowardice and at the same time when our nation needs steel he ix allowing it to be plowed under like the wheat and the little pigs of the real New Deal in the manner of streetcar rails. —James J. Cullings, 107 8 Capitol

‘Who Sent 'Em?’ MR. EDITOR:

Open letter to “Disgusted Democrat’: Today. I received through the mail a printed copy of “Professional Politicians” that appeared in the Hoosier Forum last month. I waz quite amazed that anvone would go to the trouble of getting those copies out and mailing them via first class mail then be ashamed to sign their name to the three or four lines accompanying fit. Could it be that the sender has heen on the public payroll quite a bit himself? Perhaps he thinks he may wish to run for office later and fraid he is not as popular as he thinks. There have been times that I haven't shared the same viewpoints as some candidates and office holders, but I am not afraid for people to know what I think or sav. Therefore I sign my name to all letters I write, Perhaps “Disgusted. Democrat” would feel better in the company of bewildered Sen. Joseph MeCarthy when he gets in our city to camna’sn for Judge Clark. I wonder if Disgusted Democrat has heard about some of the Republicans who are talking in Mayor Bayt's favor?

—Robert C. Atkins, 514 S. Warman Ave.

‘ . Investigate Harry T. MR. EDITOR: . Most of the nation seems tn have quieted down about the MacArthur dispute. But it still lingers in my mind as none of the mast stupid decisions ever made hy a President. In my opinion neither President Truman nor anv other administrative official has ever given gatisfactory reason for his being recalled. ; Why doesn’t Congress demand that Truman Rive a complete and explanatory testimony of the reasons that lead him to make the decizion he did? Now that the Democrats have succeeded in getting rid of one great bulwark to dommunism, they are trying to use the same dirty tactics against Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, Congress had better clean house in Washington before it's too late. It should investigate every department in the President's cabinet. I believe it would even be wise to investigate the executive branch of government. Nobody has to be told that Harry Truman didn’t go to college; they can tell it, —C. D. R., Petersburg.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

KINGSTON, Ont.—Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh square danced—American style—at government house in Ottawa.

Come on, swing vour partners! Show some heft! Corners all; and a dosey doe; Alleman right, and alleman left, Bow to the ladies; heel and toe!

Thus. as the Princess has her fling And proves at dancing she's no square One question we are moved to bring: : Did she swing the Londonderry air?

to modify, Repeal of the livestoek slaughtering quota ban and of a fats and oil import

southern Democrats and north- ,

was increased. Disability pensions were approved for non-service-connected injuries, over the President's veto, . ” “ » REQUESTS for tax increases and the President's budget were cut somewhat —- the former more than the latter. The tax bill now looks like roughly a one-third reduction. But the economy advocates who early in the year talked of cutting the budget by. $6 to even $9 billion now seem destined to miss this goal by a considerable. amount. Supplemental appropriation requests in the first half of calendar 1952 might even send the budget for this fiscal year over the President's original 71.5 billion. Among other Presidential requests on which Congress has completed action, increasing of Export - Import Bank lending authority and waiver of the import tax on copper are about the only measures that went through gen.

» FAMINE relia for India, requested as a grant was changed by Congress into a

point” amendment which the President didn't like a bit. Export controls were renewed, but with Missouri Senator Kem'’s curbs on trade with Communist countries which the administration objected to as unworkable,

On domestic affairs, President Truman's reqyest for an omnibus housing aid bill was cut down to a defense housing bill. Reconstruction Finance Corp. reorganization was voted after the President changed his views to conform with con« gressional ideas, ~ ” »

ON OTHER governmental reorganization measures to carry out ex-President Hoover's commission recommendations; Congress did nothing. Postal rate raises are going through, but not for all requested.

The Defense Production Act of 1950 was extended, but for

a shorter period of time than

the President recommended. Then tacked on the

so-called Capehart and Her- : amendments

he President's foreign mili. tary assistance and economic ald program is finally going through. But it is not in the form which the administration asked for, and it is for a considerably reduced sum. "8 8 LOOKING over the list of unfinished business which Congress will still face on reconvening next January, it is shown to be not too formidable. This is not because Congress has cleaned the slate. Up to Oct. 1, only 151 public laws had been passed this session. No. 151, incidentally, “muthorized coinage of 50-cent pieces commemorating Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver.

The principal reason Congress hasn't passed many laws this session is that there haven't béen so many requests from the executive departments, In early 1850, the President had over 150 special requests before Congress. This gl of J Bn ; r was caused Inigely by deferment of non- : se programs,

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