Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1951 — Page 24

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Which Paper Do You Read?

“(GAMBLERS Close Up Business Here Over New U. S; Tax Law.”— (Headline in The Indianapolis Times.) “Gamblers To Stay Open.”— (Headline in the Indianapolis Star.) : The odd thing about those apparently conflicting stories is they're both true. ; Some gamblers are going to shut up shop because of the new federal tax, some have already done go, and some are going to try to keep on operating. Unless some high federal .court finds the new law unconstitutional, though, these last are in for some rough going. ; The federal law requires them to register, with the names and addresses of all.their employees and an uneguivocal sworn statement that gambling is their business. Those statements, by law, are public records. That means that anyone, which includes any prosecutor, or policeman or sheriff, can go and see them, and can take them ‘into court as evidence that the fellow who made them is a gambler. To save our own law enforcement officers even the slight bother of going over to look, we'll publish them in The Times, too, as fast as they appear. The law requires that they include, also, the names and addresses of the small army of “runners” who sell the weekly lottery “books” in most of the factories and offices in Indianapolis. ¢ = = ”

PUTS the gamblers in a fairly hot my it seems to

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us. If they do not register, or do not tell the truth in their registration, the federal courts can fine them from $1000 to $10,000 and send them to prison for as long as five Years. .. If, on the other ham, they do register and swear that they are running lotteries or horse books; they can be haled into the county courts as gamblers. If they admit, in those courts, that they are gamblers; they can be fined up to $500 _for each offense. If, however, they deny under oath that they are guilty they've then sworn to two contrary statenjents and one or the other is likgly to be considered per.jury. The penalties for that could include a couple of years in state prison,

SO THOSE who enforce the law, who orton, have complained that it was full of loopholes and quite inadequate to deal with gamblers, have a new, and apparently very powerful weapon in their hands. © If they use it no gambler can operate. Now it's up to them.

McKinney Takes the Helm : CAN conscientiously congratulate -the Democratic Party on getting Frank McKinney to be its national chairman, even while we wonder whether congratulations in order to Mr. McKinney on his new job. He has plainly stepped into one of the hottest spots in the country. ‘ The party, which he must attempt to reorganize for next year's campaign, is torn by internal strife into what actually amounts to two or three parties. Exposure of corruption among men it has placed in public office already add up to a record of misdoing probably amnequalled in the history of this nation.. His immediate predecessor as national chairman, has just quit under fire amid a barrage

of charges involving improper use of the party's chief post.

itself. Twelve months from now the national chairman is expected to have it ready to face a-réferendum of the people on the record it has made. a o = » IT’S OUR opinion that Frank McKinney can do it—if ‘anybody can. ! He has been a successful raiser of money, which is one of the two main jobs of national chairman. Those who have watched his career in Indianapolis business know he is a competent organizer, which is the other main job. He takes a clean record into the office with him, and he’s a man who will kéep it clean. He was quick to cut himself loose from the one very slight business connection he had with a firm that has a perfectly legitimate priorities appeal pending ‘before a government agency. Otherwise the national chairman hasn't much to do with the third big task the party needs done before it faces the voters again—which is a long overdue housecleaning of those who have sold out the party and their country for their own profit. The whole tone of party politics and its impact on government is set by the head man—President Truman, himself. Actually a national chairman is appointed for just one purpose—to wifi the election. ; The Democratic Party is fortunate to get Frank MeKinney for that job. hr

How Many Leaves in a Book? E'VE BEEN noticing, here lately, a great to-do in the newspapers and the press service wires around the

country about how many leaves has a tree, with even the

federal govetnment getting in on the argument. ~ Seems Ed Sovola reported in The Times, a long while ago, 354,563 leaves and if you don’t believe it go count "em yourself. Then the other day a newspaper task force in Columbus, O., could find only 11,321— (well, what did they expect from a puny little ol’ Ohio tree?). Now a U. 8S. pathologist says there were 44,500 on his tree in Georgia, But today it all becomes clear.

TODAY Ed Sovola’s new book entitled “(and don’t ask us why) “Monday Follows Tuesday” appears on the book counters all over the country. In it is the original story about the leaves, and a lot of other good yarns, too, and FA, who is as smart as the next one, suspects all those leaves have been stirred up just to get some publicity on the book. ~ We hope it gets plenty. This is his first book, and he's proud of it, and it is a good book, and we're proud of it, too, and ‘of Ed Sovola, who writes the column called “Inside Indianapolis,” on the page just ahead of this one every day. Many of his best columns, indeed, are in the book, which is - a bandsome Jab, well printed and Rustrated. And well

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TARR UR TE TIPPLERS’ JOY

Anybody Got.a Fig Leaf? A

By Frederick C. Othman

If the Tax Is Too High There Are Always Moonshiners, Son—

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—The crowds of tipplers jamming the liquor stores to beat the new federal tax were too much for me.

I think *

maybe I've got a better idea, anyhow; I'll look

up a moowshiner in Fairfax County, Virginia, for a supply of salubrious, drinking whisky at prices I can afford. Namely, $1.85 per quart jar of the best corn squeezings, distilled from mountain spring water, -well-aged, and guaranteed not to blow off the top of my head. Only the other night the cops knocked off one of these Fairfax distilleries. There are

plenty left, not. only in my home county, but -

all over the land. As of this moment the’ legal whisky distillers claim they're being outproduced by the shiners. Shades of Al Capone. What the new tax will do, the lugubrious legal boys hate to think. I've been talking to

Views on News 3 4 $ By DAN KIDNEY WITH a “new broom” at national headquarters, it will be interesting to see whether the Democrats are going to clean house or clean up. > > % DEMOCRATIC national committeemen felt right at home in Washington. with the Princess and Duke present. After all they are self-made Princesmof privilege. <P oo oo A HOUSE monopoly subcommittee paid high tribute to the dollar-a-year men in government. Found they are worth every cent of it. ~ @& do & cn PRINCETON University got a million from 2 coal operator who was too busy making it to go there. > “ & » MRS. ANNA M. ROSENBERG'S pictures from Korea look like she is in training te write “My Day." . o ae - vp BERTRAND RUSSELL says Britons have more individual liberty than Americans.

-we still have food with our meals.

WHERE IS LOVE.

But

some of them and they are so mad over prospects they've taken to drinking ice water, straight. even startle a bootlegger. ——

All Over the Place

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olL DISPUTE . is By Ludwell Denny. Coe

Ls There a Chance Iran May ~ Be Planning a Real Bargain?

They reel off statistics hat might

THEY claim that as of now ‘there are more .

units in the bootleg whisky producing business than in any other. Nineteen thousand, six huh-

dred and forty-four illicit stills got the axe in the year 1950. My experts say that there is no other line of work in America today that has so many individual factories as the Jgoonshiners. Sawmills rank second; commercial printing plants third. For the last two years the revenuers and the locals in blue have been bashing. in the illegal stills at the rate of 353 a day, Sundays included. All’ the distilleries wrecked by the law last vear had a daily capacity of 677,179 gallons. This is 199,179 more gallons than the legal gentry made, Wo wonder the latter have a headache instead of a hangover.

The Treasury Department figured. that the new hoost in taxes, adding perhaps an extra half-dollar to the price of medium-grade whisky by the time it reaches the customer, will reduce sales by 35, or maybe 7, per cent. THe tax-paying distillers insist this figure, like =o many other Treasury estimates. is too low They guess they'll lose at least 15 per cent more of their business to the bootlegger. ‘Including mine

In case anybody’ 8 interested, I "used to be a first-class liquor producer, myself. I don't think I've lost my touch. In the long. long ago when I was a bachelor in Denver and

. .room-mated with the fabulous Art De Greve we

WHERE ARE the lips that I'm burning to :

kiss . . . the promises that they have told . . . where are the eyes that once shined just for me « + the heart that I'm yearning to held . . . where are the words that gave strength to my heart . . . the love that was fashioned by twe + + « Where are the smiles that were part of my

life . . . just because they were from you . . .

where are the songs that we sang in the night + + « the thrills that were once so divine . . . where are the hopés and the plans that we made «+ » made when you said you'd be mine , . .

. Where are the arms that belonged just to me

. back when my heart was so gay ... where are the dreams that have vanished in air ., . I wonder where they are today. —By Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith i

con BRT we "That's the boss’ 5 Wied hve so litte makeup today | think she

i believes I'm plain enough to be his secretary!"

hh aléohol. ° half with distilled water.

had a deal with a little man who arrived ‘at our apartment the first of every month with a galThiz we mixed half and

Then we added some juniper oll and perhaps a touch of orange ess nee and shook well. The result was good, if I do say so myself, and a whole Jot chezper

than legal gin as of Nov, 1.

Something Special ;

ONE DELIVERY of our gallon of alcohol turned out to be blue. By the time we discovered that, our bootlegger was long gone. That month our gin was like the sky'in' color; our guests thought it was something special. We also bought in the drugstore small vials of bourbon whisky flavor, with which we experimented. The results never were first class, though I must say that once we produced imitation peach cordial, which tasted as good as anything imported from Europe today at $7 per fifth.

All this will indicate to the younger gener:

®ation and the Treasury Department that liquormaking isn't as difficult as you might think, =o long as vou maintain a broad-minded attitude about the flavor. Moonshiners, here I come, I'll bring my own fruit jars.

PARTY LINE .

NEW YORK, Nov. 1—One” achievement in which the Communist Party can take great pride is its invention and perfection of the “front” technique. : _A~ Communist front's any outfit that functions behind a facade of impressive names and high-sounding declarations of but always with the _basic objective of giving aid and comfort to the party. There have been hundreds of fronts in the last three decades. And they've - done more to bam- . boozle, befuddle and collect dough from the American public than the party could ever « hope to accomplish waving the red banner. ‘ : Over the past month or sg three prominent figures, whose names were thus used in the past, got an inside look at Commie front operations. It ‘was a revealing sight.

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‘ THEY WERE Judy Holliday, star of both Broadway's and Hollywood's ‘Born: Yesterday,” Oscar Hammerstein II, play-wright-author of “Oklahoma,” “South Pacific” and “The King

‘book publisher. : ol front is jal “The

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—The United States probably will succeed in getting the British and Iranians to resume negotiations, but there is no sign of any acceptable ‘compromise of the oil dispute,

Though Premier Mohammed ‘Mossadegh is >

anxious to talk on his own terms, and remaining over in Washington for that purpose, he is as fanatical as ever. Several times ‘in the long Tehran negotiations he | seemed to be on the point of agreement, only to wiggle out at the last minute. The slim chance that the Nationalist leader may actually be ready to strike a real- | istic bargain here springs from important developments in Iran during his absence. These include . ONE-—-Lack of oil revenues, due to expulsion, of the British company from its: big Abadan refinery, is having the anticipated bankruptcy effect on the Tehran treasury. London's retaliation, in removing Iran from its favored.trade position, is adding to the economic strain. TWO-—Political opposition to the extreme Mossadegh policy is reviving. It was sufficiently strong last month to prevent parliamentary action desired by the Premier. But he forced a “temporary, superficial unanimity at home by appearing before the United Nations in New world. Now his opponents again are pointing

EGYPT .

Mossadegh + « » vain hopes

York as Iranian champion against. the.

out that he is not getting the results in nationalized oil and revenues he promised. As a result he has sent orders to postpone national election preparations until his return. THREE--Mossadegh's hopes of getting large American interests to manage and market nationalized oil—despite British. legal claims arid the World Court’s order—have proved vain, And the German, Russian and satellite experts, who wer€ his aces in the hole, canpot provide the necessary tanker fleet,

Blackmail Threat

FOUR-—Mossadegh's, tacit blackmail threat to make a deal with Russia, unless Britain and the United States give him all he wants, is beginning to boomerang. He has been unable to collect the old $20 million Iranian gold reserve which Stalin holds in Moscow. Stalin wants oil concessions in northérn Iran, which would violate the nationalization laws, And Stalin is insisting that Iran legalize the out-

lawed Communist (Tudeh) Party, whose activi-

ties already weaken Mossadegh’'s hold. Meanwhile the new Conservative government in London wants to resume negotiations, Despite Churchill's attack on ths late Labor cabinet for being too soft in Iran, as a renowned imperialist he is In a better position than his predecessor to make any compromise with Mossadegh which might help Britain: in the Mid East crisis. Hé needs a settlement.

Logically, therefore, the prospects should bs -

excellent. But Mossadegh is neither logical nor dependable. So the whole situation is as big

a question mark to Western officlalé “as it

ever was.’

By Clyde Farnsworth

A New Outcry for Revenge ?—

CAIRO, Nov. 1—-The Egyptian government's announcement that 19 Egyptians have been killed and 125 injured by British gunfire in the

Suez Canal Zone since the abrogation crisis de- -

veloped Oct. for revenge. That's the least of its probable effects. greatest would be a resort to unofficial guerrilla warfare against British forces.

16 is bound to raise a pew outcry

A Bigger Fire? : THE INTERIOR ministry last night issued a statistical table of accusations against the British. The table listed 72 cases of “pillage,” 42 “dislocations of communications,” eight cases of “damage’’ and 38 other offenses including assault and battery and “arrestation.” The annoncement also stressed that there hasn't been one British casualty. The ministry promised to furnish substantiation of the 19 reported fatalities. the tabulation represented reports confirmed by official investigation not only in the dead and injured, but in other categories. This boxscore case against the British is calculated no .doubt to stir national and international sentiment against what the Egyptian government calls American supported British aggression, but it's certain also to fuel a bigger fire which Egyptian political extremists have been trying to kindle. Egypt's tough Interior Minister Fuad Serag El Din Pasha likes to think publicly of liberation battalions as a popular national movement. But he says they're not being armed by the government.

SERRANNNRERENERNANS

The

Officials said.

Hoosier Forum—‘See the Doc?

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

He has denied that the government would resort to undercover hostilities with the British. If the government resorts to force rather than non-co-operation as a means of harassment, it will declare so publicly, he said.

Al Daawa, the newspaper organ of the Moslen ‘brotherhood, followed up Serag El Din's inconclusive statements with an announcement that commando detachments already have been

formed to’ take the place of Egypt's amy in battle with the British.

eo “It's a deplorable fact that due to Britain's deliberate policy, Egypt's regular army has not attained such standard# as may render it capable of engaging fn battle with § well-equipped, well-trained modern army. Nor would it be wise for Egypt's regular forces to embark upon an unequal fight” Maitre Sayed Kotb wrote in Al Daawa.

Just the Thing

HE FOUND that irregular warfare was fust

the thing. “The movement is not a superfluous one, but iz really a national resurrection, whatever may be {ts result. The British now are resorting to acts of terrorism in order to dampen popular enthusiasm, but their own situation and that of the whole Western camp will not last long in this part of the world, as they will never have safe rear lines. “Such militia detachments, however, will not

be ready to act unless the government abolishes

all restrictions on carrying firearms. This step on the part of the present government will prove that it is really in earnest.”

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MR. EDITOR: You talk =o doctor's office to see if have can a dentist. Do you know that I am one of many people who never go to a dentisé or doctor because it takes money and money for just a visit to be checked we haven't got and if you

they er or ft

go to a hospital it still takes some money and.

bus fare so people like me are the people who haven't a chance. We can't spare $5 or $10 or even $4 for doctors. We just go on never knowing if we are sick or not. If you whnt people to have a checkup. why not open a free place in every town once a year and I'm sure more people than

vou know about would feel it a gift from heaven.

--A Reader, City

‘Thanks a Million’

MR. EDITOR: I would like to express my appreciation for the fine job your paper did in honoring the 28th Division by printing the two special editions, Although I didn't write you at the time the first edition- was printed, whenr—the 28th went on Southern Pine maneuvers, it certainly was a nice paper. Likewise, I enjoyed the edition which told of their departure to Europe. Since my husband

is located with this outfit, I naturally consider”

it the best. But, could f put in just one little criticism? All of the 28th aren't Pennsylvania National Guardsmen. More than half of them, like my husband, were drafted. Remember that when you print another special editiop, will you?

—Mrs. Merl L:"Willen, Coal City,

. By Frederick Waltman

and I” and Bennett Cerf, the

calmly of people dropping in 2

department, the prosecutor, or whom

‘Gamblers and Politicians’ MR. EDITOR: Wonder what will happen now that the gamblers in this town have to pay a tax and register, too. . Paying the tax isn't hard. All business, legal and lllegal, does the same thing. Just pass #t on to the customer, he'll pay or he won't buy. If he wants the product bad enough, whatever it may be, he'll pay. But on this registration business, watch out. There may be more to that story than meets the eve. If the local newspapers are smart they will publish all the names of these characters and then see what happens to them. If they are not arrested a short while after their names are published, which after all constitutes a signed confession of gambling, then it’s a sure bet that someone else is responsible for the existence of gambling in this eity. Who could that someone be . . the polich

Whatever this law is worth you can bet o one thing. It's going to be a dangerous thing for the politician who deals in the shadows. — Interested Reader, City.

PAGES FROM THE PAST

THE GHOSTS of people long since gome + seemed to engulf the room , . . and spider webs that choked the walls . , . Just added to the gloom . . . the ancient cl} that , , enhanced the mystery of . , . th tales I had been told about «. . ra he

once bloomed love . . . each TN. ‘poriralt of departed

1 could feel them watching me . . of coldest steel . . . and as I stood dlelight , . . that fell upon the floor , yy candle: to imagining + +» What happened years before. —By Ben Burroughs

What Goes On in a Commie Front—?

- seemed lifelike and so real . . . thdt

Committee for the Negro In the Arts” (CNA). It sprung into being in January, 1848, constructed from the skeleton of the National Negro Congress which had fallen into disrepute since its capture by the Communist Party. Messrs, Hammerstein and Cerf were listed as “initiating sponsors.” Others. included Elsa Maxwell, Henry Morgan, Aline MacMahan, Margaret Webster, Dean Dixon, Libby Holman, George Abbott, Hazel Scott and Elmer Rice. Since then, the CNA has been plugging away, promoting letter-writing campaigns, dele-gation-visits and picket lines all of which were diligently reported- and applauded in the Dally Worker. Among its targets were guch radio programs as “Amos 'n’ Andy,” “Beulah” and “Aunt Jemimah.” ~

4 ” . LAST JUNE-the CNA's executive commiiteé got especially indignant. It delivered an angry blast at the U. 8. Supreme Court for upholding the

conviction of the 11 Comimi-

nist leaders, Just what connection there is between Negroes

in the arts and the Smith anti-

subversive act may not be clear

to the ordinary person. But it

was to the CNA,

“This decision,” - sald the CNA;-in the very words of the party itself, “ushers in an era of bookburning and thought control in America.” And, said the statement, reaching way out into the far blue yonder, it therefore jeopardizes Negro artists and “the full pursuit of Negro culture.” Meanwhile, CNA's letterhead carried the names of Holliday, Hammerstein and Cerf. So, on Sept. 8, the three had their attorney, Arthur Garfield Hays, write the committee ask-

ing who authorized the use of .

their names. On Sept. 17, Ruth Jett, the executive - secretary, replied with a brush-off. The files, she said, diately available with reference to signatures giving authorization.”

| MR. HAYS came » right back: « «4» your letter , . , does not answer my question, I want to know from whom you received the authority .to put these names on a list of sponsors of

the CNA. They all deny hav-

ing given their authority.” To which Miss Jet answered that Mr. Hayes’ clients had been so listed “from a time beyond which memory of the present staff runs not to Abe,

“are not imme--

Anyway, she added, it would

? be A “monumental task” and

“antirely impractical to to search the files. Then she got In this sanctimonious ersek: "Has it not occurred to you that the forbearance of the designated sponsors in permitting their names to be used without protest on our printed letterhead since 1948 would tndicate that up to now have had no Pressing for having the use of names discontinued? . ‘a

“THAT your clients should,

like themselves under- compulsion

to deny, like Simon, causes to

which they were once devoted,

_ 1s not tobe held against

by those who understand plight.” After that insult, she did agree to drop the names. To make certain, Miss called on the CNA to notify its mailing list that she is “not in any way affiliated or confected with” it. Other names are still on the letterhead: Carl Van Doren, 8am Wanamaker, Margaret Webster,

' Garson Kanin, Dorothy Park-

er, Libby Holman, Joe David-

- don, + Betty Garrett, Lee Sabin“And,” of course, Paul

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