Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1951 — Page 8

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Fair Deal for Groza and Beard

SOME well-meaning sports fans, distressed over the plight "™ of Ralph Beard and Alex Groza in the basketball-fixing scandals, want to publish paid advertisements urging courts and basketball authorities to ‘go easy’ on the two stars. We hope they don't do it. As a matter of fact we've had to tell them we couldn't accept their ads for publication in The Times. Such a plea to a court that is about to hear serious charges against them would be highly improper, in any case. But besides that, it seems to us, any kind of special pleading, or mass pressure in their behalf will in the long run hurt them and hurt sports in general, which are in enough trouble already. These two young men have conducted themselves very well through this whole sorry exposure. They have frankly admitted their mis-step, they have shouldered their own guilt, they have not whimpered or whined or asked for favors. We're inclined to believe it was a single indiscretion of youth and inexperience and to have a great deal of confidence that they will never commit another. We're glad to learn that so many Indianapolis basketball fans feel the same way about them. There'll be plenty of chance to help, once the charges on which they have been indicted in New York are out of the way. They'll need jobs, and they’ll.need friends, and they'll need sympathetic understanding as they try to reorganize their shattered careers and start new ones. At best they have a rough road ahead, and we seriously doubt whether it lies in any phase of sports. But with the attitude they have shown so far, we believe they'll do all right.

Alibis and Fleas JOouN B. DUNLAP, Commissioner of Internal Revenue now for nearly three months, said in a speech he felt like the boy in the song which goes, “You've Got To Quit Kicking My Dog Around.” Expanding on that theme, Mr. Dunlap added: “He may have a few fleas on him, but we're getting rid of those.” He suggested the current scandals in the Internal Revenue Bureau might lead to loss of taxpayer confidence in the bureau and said that “all of us better draw back and think of the consequences.” He specifically included in that admonition the House committee investigating the

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MR. DUNLAP’'S “fleas” may be few, but they are big ones. Like the Brooklyn tax collector who Mr. Dunlap now says failed to report more than $32,000 in taxable income, covering the years 1945 through 1949—and got fired for it only this week. Not only were the “fleas” big ones, but they hung around a long time without getting brushed off. It wasn’t until Sen. John J. Williams and the House committee headed by Rep. Cecil R. King began nibbling away

at the scandals that the administration moved into action. 5 ” 2 = 2 =

AS SO far revealed, the scandals all developed before

Mr. Dunlap became commissioner Aug. 1, although none of

them was disclosed by the bureau itself. And when he was

appointed, the fanfare indicated he was a cleanup man, that this was a primary reason for his selection. : . But the commissioner has spent a disproportionate

t of his time making with the alibi, minimizing the

scandals. Which is all of a pattern with the standard cry

of Truman spokesmen that a finger pointed at an irregu<

larity is a part of a ‘smear’ campaign. If Mr. Dunlap wants to preserve public confidence in his agency, the best way is to quit pitty-patting around and get on with the delousing.

Let Washington Take Notice

HE LEGISLATURE and Governor of South Dakota have broken the rules by which most public officials abide. South Dakota has cut taxes. Not only did that state recently reduce the rates on two levies, but four taxes were pitched out entirely. And they did not install new money-raising schemes to replace the old ones. All this took place while legislatures of 44 states this year considered almost 1000 new ways to sock their taxpayers. We don't have the figures yet on how many of those bills passed, but the fact that they were talked over is alarming enough. The South Dakota general sales tax and auto registration levy were pared down one cent on the dollar. Three per cent taxes on beer, liquor and cigarets and a two-mill levy on property have been done away with. These were all known as ‘temporary’ taxes, passed to pay for a veterans’ bonus. Most of the bonus bonds have been paid off, so South Dakota did the unusual. Instead of finding new ways in which to spend the money raised by those taxes, the wise lawmakers abolished the taxes. This is such a common-sense, but highly unusual, course that we want to pass it on to Washington. And any other tax-bill writers who may be listening.

Vote for Soldiers

ESIDENT TRUMAN has asked the American Political Science Association to survey the problem of providing ballots for members of the Armed Forces who cannot vote because they are away from home. The association has said it would produce a prompt report. : » - Some states now provide the means for voting by residents who are in the Armed Forces. All states ought te follow the exmaple. Mr. Truman said absentee voting by the military was “never really as successful as it should have been” in ~ World War II. With that experience, however, a system should be devised to e.it “really successf . Hardly i de ha better ¥ Higw to cast his ballot.

TAX PROBE .

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—I1 am. pleased to report that Joe P. Marcelle, the ex-(by request) tax collector at Brooklyn, N. Y., didn't either, take a runout on the Congressmen investigating

him. One of Washington's {name on application) tried to poison him, was all. And there was poor old Joe so sick from crab-meat salad with yellow goo on top that he hardly knew up from down. He was writhing §, in pain, said he, while the G-men were looking for him and when he read in the papers that these sleuths were on the prowl, he felt sicker still. Joe turned out to be a small, swarthy than of 52, with shiny hair, a wrinkled brow and a worried air. Danged if he knew, he said, why the Commissioner of Internal Revenue fired him a couple of days back. He couldn't even understand why the House Ways and Means Committee was prying into his past. “I want to tell you how sincerely sorry I am if I caused you any inconvenience yesterday,” he told the lawgivers, upset. And I wandered into this restaurant .- .” A fellow at the next table was eating a bowl of this fishy salad. Joe told the waiter to bring him the same, plus a highball. The results were _ disastrous,

leading restaurants,

“Chairman Cecil King (D. Cal.) of the in-

vestigators accepted ‘his apology and Joe launched into the story of his life, which turned out, to be a rags-to-riches tale for: sure. He started work at the age of 8. At 14 he was peddling dental supplies and a few years later he was laboring in a Brooklyn shoe factory. Then he entered politics, studied law at night,

“turned up as Democratic leader in one of Brooklyn’s toughest districts. This, he said, he reformed into a Sunday school. What Joe wanted to be was judge of the New York State Supreme Court. The political powers-that-be said he'd have to get out of the

EGYPT... By Cylde Farnsworth.

Has U. S. Put Its Hand In Suez Canal Fight?

CAIRO, Oct. 27—The United States gm! is trying to help work out a diplomatic settlement of the Egyptian-British controversy over the Suez Canal zone

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G-Men Give Poor Old Joe a Pain

rough-and-tumble and into something dignified for a couple of years. Ag luck would have it, Joseph Nunan, the Brooklyn collector, had just been promoted to commissioner of internal revenue. Our hero latched onto that job. He said he found the office in-a mess. **Do you mean to say the office was a mess and the man responsible for this mess had just been appointed by the President of the United States as commissioner in charge of all revenue offices?” demanded Rep. Robert W. Kean {R.N. 1) : Joe said that was exactly what he meant. The gentleman from New Jersey said he was amazed. Joe said, yes, sir. .

Degree of Efficiency HE WENT on to tell how he'd brought efficiency to. the office and at least a small degree of happiness to the taxpayers who forxzed over nearly a billion dollars a year to him. “I

enjoyed one of the most beautiful relationships with the taxpayers,” he added. Joe spent a good deal of time out of the office in Europe and in Florida. Many an afternoon he journeyed to the race tracks to check up on his agents there. He usually placed a small bet, too, but that was incidental. In the evenings Joe practiced law. he handled guardianship cases. Some of these were vastly profitable. But Joe never did get nominated to the Supreme Court.. For 10 years he waited and collected taxes, but nobody ever tapped him for the black robes. Kind of made him sore. If he hadn't been fired, he said he probably would have quit. Later on, maybe,

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LAST AND FIRST

\ SOME people never éan be prompt -. matter how they try . .. you'll always see them coming late . . . with poor excuses why , . . they are the ones who push and shove . . . on trolleys or a bus... and seem to have the attitude . . . look out make way for us... they are

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. for when they hear it ring they start . . to move and run pell-mell . . . but strange enough they're first in line . . . when working days are through . . . to board a trolley or a bus . .. for suppertime is due. —By Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

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By Ludwell Denny

Austerity and Bureaucracy Knocked Attlee Out of Office

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—The British middle class voters are fed up with austerity and tired So they kicked the Attlee government out of office. At the close of the war they had enough of Winston G@mrchill and turned thumbs down on

the Conservatives, .

Now, as then, they are voting against— rather than for. And Mr. Churchill, who was the victim of that weariness before, is the beneficiary of it this time. Perhaps Mr. Churchill's greatest political asset is that those who elected him are not expecting miracles. They have had it so hard for go long, they probably will be satisfied with reasonable progress." The meré fact of change will help some. At least some of the old monotony will be gone.

Colorful Leader

TRANCE-LIKE fatigue of labor ministers will be replaced with the drive and zest of a team under the most colorful political leader in the world today. The greatest difference will be in how things are done, rather than in what is done. Basic shifts in policy are unlikely, either in the domestic or foreign field. But there probably will be more efficient administration, because . the

Conservatives have more experienced and bet-

ter trained men. The worst handicap of the new government is that {it is boxed in by unfavorable world conditions which it cannot control, and by public opposition to lowering living stardards to meet those conditions,

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Hoosier Forum—‘The Vatican’

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

Britain 1s not paying her way. Until wm produces more and earns more wealth to share, she cannot finance the welfare state subsidies to which she is wedded, And she cannot pay. for the rearmament required without welfare cuts, But in order to get elected Mr. Churchill and the Conservative Party gave a pledge not to re. duce the welfare state. On the production side, there is serious doubt whether - Mr. Churchill can get more productiy. ity out of labor. Many of the unions distrust him. In such key industries as coal a slowdown is more likely than a speedup,

Not Prepared HENCE the cruel paradox that the people who have reacted at the polls against austerity would have to accept more austerity tempo. rarily in order to escape. And they are not pre. pared for fhis. . Since Mr. Churchill promised no basic reform of the economic system, and since the voters ex. pect none, foreign affairs was a bigger issue in this election than . within living memory. Iran and Egypt forced attention. It is generally agreed that labor improved its position during

the campaign -by raising the cry of warmongers _ :

against the Conservatives, : This was a false issue. At the beginning of the campaign Mr. Churchill stated accurately there was no major difference be aE 28,4 parties in foreign or defense.polic ¢faimed, however, that he could apply the policy more effectively, ~ That is what he has to demonstrate now.

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MR. EDITOR:

Your thoughtful editorial “Mission to the Vatican” is greatly appreciated. You have raised many questions before the nomination of an ambassador to the Vatican is approved by the Senate. Personaliy—l—hope—that-{t—wtl-—never be approved. Nothing which President Truman could have done would have divided the nation more than this nomination. Millions of Protestants . and many Roman Catholics as you point out . are convinced that it violates the fundamental principle of the separation of church and state. We will therefore do everything possible to block this, what we believe to be, illegal and un-American appointment. —Stanley L Stuher, chairman, Commission on Religious Liberty, Baptist World Alliance

‘Help My Children” MR. EDITOR:

I am alone with my five children. I must work to provide a home for these children. 1 am trying hard to give them a normal life and give them the teaching, training and guidance so they might grow into honest and decent American citizens, - ‘Right now the future looks most unhappy for them. They have been trained to have the highest respect for other people's property. Must I create a lot of unhappiness by leaving them 50 miles behind and forcing myself to stay here in town where I can have employment? ‘We need.a place to live. Isn't there just one kind heart in this town that will give us a chance for happiness? If so, I can be reached at MA-8775. May God's blessings be most abundant. —Ruth Porter, City

‘Hurray for Me’ MR. EDITOR:

So, good old Joe McCarthy says the one important test of a candidate. for mayor is, “Is he willing to and has he denounced the shameful whitewash of communism, the corruption, the fur coats, the deep freezes, the RFC scandals in the’ federal government,” not has he any

experience in city government, In working with” , various city agencies, in presenting problems to .. the City Council and with working with all citifor ‘ the:

zens of the city, regardless of party, common good of our people. We have seen in the daily workings of .the city what Mayor Bayt can do fof our city, but as far as Judge Clark is concerned the most I

know of him. by the papers. is his ability to.

judge the quality of morning coffee. : “= a a

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ALSO, Sen. McCarthy's reasoning is rather on the “John is crazy; John is a man, therefore, it follows that all men are crazy,” when he says some Democrats are Communist types. Bayt is

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a Democrat, so it follows Bayt must approvas the Communist type. Judgh Clark. might be typed himself if he approves of this reasoning, as follows: John Doe is a murderer. John Doe is a war veteran, therefore all war veterans are murderers . . . since he makes such use of the fact he is a war hero. If the test for a good candidate 1s, “is he against sin?” well, brother, I'm" against it too, and “hurray, me for Mayor.” :

—Regina M. Hanley, 635 Coffey St.

‘Vote Your Cure’ MR. EDITOR:

Republican or Democrat, the people of In. dianapolis want good, honest, efficient govern. ment. We are getting that kind of government under Mayor Bayt's administration. I am a laboring man and know that Mayor Bayt is solidly in favor of labor. If we elect Mr. Clark mayor, here is what will follow. That awful Senator from Indiana, “blow-hard” Jenner will be elected governor in the near future. Now labor doesn't want this to happen. So participate in your government Go to the polls and vote for Mr. Bavt who has tried and proved that we can have good government. Vote your answer and prove to yourself that there's nothing wrong with local government that you, the citizen, can't cure.

—Clifford Gibson, 3048 N. Drexel Ave,

Views on News By DAN KIDNEY

ABOUT the best thing President Truman can do for the Democrat Party is not put a friend of his in as national chairman.

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PRINCESS ELIZABETH should feel right at home in Washington, D. C. She can't vote either, * & 4

FEDERAL workers got a 10 per cent pay raise so they can play put-and- take with the

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WHAT OUR Air Force néeds in Korea is that safety ‘device invented by the Russians— the Manchurian base, 4 &

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most is a bullet- -proof vest, . vo .4

INTERNAL Revenue Commissioner Dunlap told a National Press Club luncheon that all his tax collectors are bonded.. It looks now as though some are about ready for the jug.

BIG RUSH . . . By Earl Richer

Tax Deadline Shows Tight Scotch Supply

9 ASHINGTON, Oct. 27—The rush Pp p! the Nov. 1 liquor tax increase is showing up the tight supply ®) situation w hich exists on Scotch whisky in this country.

and the Sudan.

Egyptian newspapers Thursday carried reports and denials of “American mediation.” These reports were touched off by a flying visit the day before by U. 8. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery to King Farouk at Alexandria, The ambassador flew there and back in a naval attache’s plane. This was followed by a visit - to Mr. Caffery by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Salah El Din Pasha and consulation with British Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson. n u o THE American embassy refused comment on press specu-

lation about mediation.

That the United States could possibly be trying to mediate on an issue in which Washington is clearly supporting the British position was puzzling to many. 3 That unlikelihood seemed logical enough, But it did not eliminate the possibility the United States might ‘act to ease the international strain that has followed Egypt's ending of the 1936 treaty on British guardianship of Suez and a British - Egyptian partnership in the Sudan government. The United States, through

Secretary of State Dean Ache-

son, has voiced hope that the Egyptian government would reconsider its treaty walkout and its refusal to consider proposals of ‘partnership in an allied regional defense system for the Mid-East. The British offered to set aside the 1936 pact in. favor of a new one. ®

." FOREIGN MINISTER SALAH EL DIN said his visit to

Mr. Caffery was ‘personal.” He said he had no knowledge of mediation and denied a report that the Egyptian ambassador in Washington had telephoned about such American intervention. There is unofficial talk here about nationalization of the predominantly French company which operates the Suez Canal and about some kind of a paet between Egypt and other Arab States on the one hand, -° satellites on the other. Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's pillar of strength in dealing with the British and W. Averell Harriman, the United States mediator, was the ever-present threat that if the British made an armed move in Iran, the Soviet Union might decide to move its army to prevent establishment of an anti-Soviet base.

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SOME Cairo newspapers have been talking about the desirability of a pact with the Communists but it remained for the so-called national covenant committee, a political organization trying to form a uniteds Egyptian front, to put . the proposal most strongly. One of its recent resolutions

calls for non-aggression with

the Russian bloc.

Consequently, a visit ~ by Russian Minister Semen Kozyrey to the Egyptian Foreign Minister made quite a buzz in ‘Cairo. But Salah El Din said

the Russians were Plgpng :

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to a ‘vacancy in a "World 4% our God in heaven.—Marine Cuaplai Garson . "and, Dy on leave from Korea,

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"We were talking about candidates for mayor—did you have

to bring up that year you didn't get the new coat because | voted for Dewey?"

What Others Say—

‘PAINTING IS not quite as absorbing as teaching school, but the pay is better.—Harry E. Garner, Lakewood, O., .teacher retiring to take up house-painting.

. BY SOME time this fall, defense factories will really hit their stride. At that point, if we're not wearing economic life

belts, we'll be swamped.—Eric Johnston, economic stabilizer. - .

.. OUR. GREATEST hope and faith rests upon two mighty - symbols—the cross and the flag.—Gen. MacArthur, = :

AT THE front we were all alike befors God. . . . All prayed Goodman, Cleve-

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In some areas, Scotch drinkers are being told they

cannot buy by the case—that, because of small stocks, Scotch sales must be limited to one or two bottles per customer. This uhially applies only to the smaller stores, however. The Scotch distribution line from Scotland to this country has been on a hand-to-mouth basis ever since the outbreak of the war in Korea.

o s ” BEFORE Korea, the Scotch importing - industry figured

that 3 million cases (12 bottles to the case) were just about all that could be sold in this country in a year—and that its main job‘ was to keep this market. After the Korean outbreak, Scotch sales went up sharply and about 4 million cases were sold in this country last year. Industry leaders figured that this was just a “hoarding spree” and sales would drop back to normal by this year. But throughout 1951, Scotch has been moving just as fast

. a8 a year ago. Importers of

leading brands have found it impossible to build up a reasonable inventory and have

been shipping Scotch out as-

fast as it comes in. On July 1, only 240,000 cases, less than

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" “THE TIGHT supply situation on Scotch has no counter-

part in its United States brother, bourbon, _however, Warehouses are bulging with bourbon whisky and stocks on hand are: the; largest in history. vie

The increase in Scotch consumption in this country has upped dollar earnings for Britain from the normal $20 million a year to above $356 million. Scotch is Britain's largest single dollar earner. Dollar earnings per bottle also have gone up. Before Korea, the Scotch distillers averaged $1 per bottle; now they are getting about $1.17. The remainder of what you "pay for a bottle of Scotch goes to the U. 8. distributors in profits and, handling charges and to the U. S..government in taxes. What are the chances for increasing Scotch imports? : Not good, immediately, says John 8. Schulte, vice president of Park & Tilford Distillers Corp.

u ” » MR. SCHULTE says that because of the ‘great gaps” in distillation of Scotch whisky during the last war, there has been a gradual exhaustion of the whiskies distilled in 194D and earlier years. The limita

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