Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1951 — Page 24

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Well, Who Always Pays the Tax?

HE UPROAR in Indiana about adding the state's gross income tax to the price of groceries strikes us as sort of a tempest in a tea-pot. All the taxes on groceries—and on the store in which they are sold, and on the factory in which they were processed, and on the farm where they were grown—are paid by the person who buys the groceries. They always have been, and no one ever has devised any scheme by which anybody else could be made to pay them. They are part of the price of groceries, and if they were not included in that price -pretty soon there would be no grocers. » So the argument about them now is just an argument about how they will be added, not whether.

CONGRESS, over the heated opposition of the Office of Price Stabilization, passed a law permitting grocers to include tax as part of their costs in figuring a controlled price ceiling. That's the traditional American way of doing business, and if it could not be done that way a rise in taxes could drive every grocer into bankruptcy. OPS, by as specious a bit of interpreting as we've seen lately, now says that means the grocer has to figure the tax separately—five-eighths of 1 per cent in this case— and add it to each grocery bill as a tax. That would make this one a sales tax, and not a gross income tax, as the state law provides. State tax authorities say the customers don’t have to pay it.. No Indiana law authorizes such a sales tax. OPS officials say they won't do anything about it, either, if the customer balks at paying: The state will collect it off the grocer, though. And OPS will tell him not to raise the price of his groceries. And both will get real tough if he refuses to pay, or does raise his grocery prices.

THE NET result, as it stands now, is that on grocery items where the profit is less than five-eighths of 1 per cent—and there are a good many such—the grocer will lose money on each sale. Enough of that could put the grocer out of business. . This may just be a particularly foolish mistake by OPS. Or it might be another attempt of the bureaucrats to overrule the Congress. In either case it ought to be corrected, and quickly. Price “stabilization” as now conducted hasn't come to much anyway. It isn’t going to be helped by this kind of “rulings.”

lke’s Real Mission EN. EISENHOWER, on short notice, has arrived back _ in the United States on what he described as a “purely military mission.” "Of that we have little doubt—much political speculation to the contrary. :

For graver issues -are pressing to the forefront, in Spite of White House assurances that the summons to Gen. Eisenhower is not due to any immediate emergency. The sobering fact we face is that the United States has abandoned any expectation that Western Europe will be able to fulfill its defense commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty Program. Consequently, there must be a shift of emphasis from unfulfillable promises and long-range objectives to the more urgent need for equipping and training the forces now available, and doing this in the shortest possible time.

FRANCE is letting us down, and we are making no headway in negotiations, for adding Western Germany's strength to the Allied military front. Britain appears stalled at dead center in an economic crisis and, excluding Greece and Turkey, no other country is inclined to make the necessary sacrifices for all-out preparedness. As Gen. Eisenhower comes home to report on this disturbing situation, W. Averell Harriman, the new director of the Mutual Security Agency, arrives in Europe. His mission is to co-ordinate U. 8. economic aid as a further inducement to our European Allies to step up their rearmament in accordance with their actual capabilities. President Truman this week signed legislation appropriating $7,329,000,000 for our foreign-aid program, military and ecogomic. Whether it is more important to have 20 fully equipped fighting divisions by July of next year, or 60 by July of 1954, as the present retarded tempo appears to indicate, is a question that may have to be decided soon. Gen. Eisenhower's report to President Truman will be a weighty factor, : Meanwhile, American rearmament must in itself have priglty over all other considerations. Maybe we haven't d up all the bargaining power that lies in $7 billion, but by now it should be apparent that our fate in any final showdown will rest primarily -on our own strength.

Cheers for the Duke Wi

IY THE welter of those throbbing dispatches from Washington recording the visit of Princess Elizabeth and her consort, one facet of the big picture caught our attention. It was that Philip at times along the route of the procession got a bigger hand than the Princess, who, of course, was the star of the show. - We hope that our British friends will not be perplexed by this and, so far as the royal visitors are concerned, write off the American public as volatile and cinema-miflded— for, in truth, his highness is certainly movie stuff. Rather, we think, the extra-loud huzzas for the Duke may be attributed to a somewhat deeper. American characteristic. Americans generally have an unquenchable pegard and admiration, for also-rans—especially when they gallantly face up to the fact that they've come off second best. That is what Philip is doing, and it is no reflection

from singularly appreciative Americans. .

on his leading lady if occasionally he gets a great big hand °

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Foster's Follies

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Harvard . field hockey team rallied to win by a close margin, beating Endicott Junior Girls’ College by a score of 1 to 0. ’

His father went to Farming- .

dale, His brother to Champlain, His Uncle Tom won fame at . Yale, His cousin's now at Maine. But little Willie, brilliant soul, To all of those is cool. Field hockey is young Willie's goal— : And Harvard is his school!

AFTER ALL, only a silly Willy would want to waste his Saturday afternoons knocking himself out playing footbalk Until they make the game coeducational. Besides, like some of the others Uncle Tom turned out to be just a hack. Yep, Uncle Tom's cabbin’, Hockey always did strike us as kind of a mixed-up affair at best, but these inter-sex-sional games would seem to pose some pretty new problems. Imagine any gal engaging in any game with men when the rules call for a face-off. And picture one of those Harvard backs making a fast pass at some bandy-legged team-mate—with all those beauties on the Endicott Girls’ team. But many a Don Juan has ‘learned that any well meant pass can go awry. Can't exactly understand why a team of, husky sons of Harvard could beat the gals by only one-goal. Except maybe the fellows may have been penalized a lot. For holding. Then, too, you might expect a dis-staff team to be fairly handy with a hockey stick. And, like all women, that Endicott goalie was probably pretty cagey when the young men came too close. . Anyway, girls, as the referee says to the opposing centerforwards

after every score, ‘Bully for you.” Sy sy a &»

HEH - HEH HEADLINES: “Radio Station Gives Audience Eight - Minute Intermission.” Now, if they'll just give some of ‘the commercials a rest, everything will be swell. “Peasants Will Dance at Colonel's Wedding.” little later on ‘the colonel may do most of the dancing. While his lady calls the tune. “Cream of Paris Designs Offered by Salons — Here.” Which simply means the old man’s sweet disposition is about to go sour again. “Gen. Vaughan Afraid Truman Must Run.” For once the general will find a lot of people agreeing with him.

A TEAM of marriage counselors offer a list of questions to determine whether your marriage is up to par. Some of them aren't hard to an-

swer,

Q—Do you still look forward to coming home after a har day’s work? : A—The only day I work hard I am home.

Q—Do you quarrel much more now than you did during the first yedr of your marriage? A—Not as much. We're running out of crockery.

Q—Are you still careful of your appearance even though you're no longer courting? A-—Are you kidding? The office is full of pretty gals,

Q-—-Have you become Increasingly eritical of your wife's spending? A-~What's the use?

Q—Do you usually agree about where to go or what to do when planning a trip or vacation?

A—Always. Just as soon as the missus makes up her mind,

‘boys than educators.

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Hoosier Forum—‘Our Values’

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

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MR. EDITOR: It is disturbing to read the attitudes of Mr. Walker and Mr. Young toward Dr. Rusgell's opinions. They sound more like truculent little Only some form of fanaticism . . . most opposed to the best in American tradition . . . could be so intolerent of another man's viewpoint. It is moreover, alarming to sense that this new preoccupation with. “Americanism” is assnmijng all the aspects of religion. Our form of government is after all, a man-made schemsg, to regulate our social life, intended by those who formed it to secure us “life, ‘liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It is not synonymous with Christianity nor totally created by Christians, for many of its originators were deists and some even atheists, And as no man-made scheme is perfect, neither Is it perfect and to teach that it is, is to treat same vicious abandon as the Bolshevists . . . or any other tyrannical group in world history. We may believe that it is the best possible form man has devised to date . . . and do . . . but we can convince others, including our own children, of this only by showing it through

matic statements. Furthermore, anyone who truly loves America must surelv find all this self-vaunting, vulgar and rather disgusting. Leave the praise to come from others... as it must if we live up to our ideals. oS Oo

WE MUST remember; too, that our ideals are not exclusivelv or originally American. Locke, an Englishman, and Rousseau, a Frenchman, wrote of the rights of man long before our revolution . . . to mention only one instance of our borrowing. The concept of the dignity of man is as old as Christianity. As to our economic system . . . capitalism . it also is merely a means of distributing the wealth of society among its members and as such is connected only with our material lives, Communism alone considers an economic system so important as to determine the entire life of a people. Nor has capitalism always had the blessing of Christianity. Even as late as the 18th century usury . . . or interest taking . . upon which capitalism is built . . . met much religious opposition. Again we may believe it to be the best possible scheme for its purpose although it has its drawbacks as do the others in greater degree, hut the way to persuade others of this is to show that it above others does provide the best material life for all the members of its society. Simply saving it . or even shouting it . . . proves nothing to anyone. oS bb

WHAT 1 fear most in all this hue and cry is that so many of our people evidently believe that the right to make more money to buy more material things than their neighbor is the most important right, ranking above even the right of free speech or, the right to worship as one pleases. ’ - Every great civilization in- world history has been great because it valued the things of the spirit and mind above material things. We would: best serve the interests of our coun-

YOU'RE GOIN’ IN THE WRONG. DIRECTION

i By J. Hugh O'Donnell

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i= ‘IM GONNA WASH THAT ~ MAN RIGHT OUT OF MY

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—Assistant Attorney General Theron” Lamar Caudle is a close friend and business associate of Frank Nathan, alias Froy Nathan, a former Pittsburgh gambler and racketeer,

They've been on a “Lamar and Frank” basis since 1947, shortly after Mr. Caudle was transferred from head of the criminal division of the Justice Department to chief of the tax division, a post he still holds.

They have visited each other at their homes — the Caudle home in Washington and the Miami Beach home of Nathan, Mr, Caudle agmits that he continued his social and business connections with Nathan

Nathan had an arrest record. : t J n »

HE EXPLAINS his decision to continue to see Nathan by saying that Nathan had explained to his complete satisfaction the incidents which brought about Nathan's arrest. Pittsburgh and Oklahoma police records show no convictions against Nathan but he did forfeit $20 bail following his arrest on a gambling charge in Oklahoma City. Mr. Caudle said in an interview that Nathan urged him to go into an oil venture in Oklahoma. Previously he had been in oil ventures in Texas. For the most part, Mr. Caudle says, these deals were financed by borrowed money. None was profitable and he still owes a considerable portion of the borrowed money, Mr. Caudle says.

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“try and of the world by taking our lesson from

this. And let us learn the whole story, not just what we want to believe. Let us try to follow our+ best traditions instead of shouting some childish boast.

—Mrs. Louis Headings, 6050 E. 21st St.

‘The Real Issues’ MR. EDITOR:

The letter you published recently by the “sage” of Terre Haute; C. D. C., headed, “Let's Clean House,” was a pip. What he urged was,

. No matter if you have a good mayor or a good

candidate for mayor, if he is a Democrat. defeat him. There is a big, bad machine. ‘Now. if I were a Republican, and I have been, I wouldn't open my mouth about machine politics in this state. The idea that, no matter how provincial the election, it should be decided on the basis of who sits in the White House is the kind of philosophy that has brought about the conditions we now see all around us. When the leader is spectacular, opportunists by the hundred ride his coat tails and the people get a bunch of public servants that shouldn't be out of reform school, let alone in offices of public trust. Decent men and women, who have worked hard and long for the good of the public, find themselves defeated because they are not in the glow of the man in Washington. When the man in Washington becomes unpopular, the reverse is true. It is no good . .'. no good at all, and we are paying for that sort of thinking every day of our lives. The issue here is whether. on the basis of past performance of duty, Bavt's or Clark's record is the best. Ewing, McCarthy, bribes in the Internal Revenue Department, even federal tax increases, are not the issues in this city. Are we or are we not going to be safer on the Indianapolis streets at a decent hour, day or night—that is what I want to know. No big-mouthed politician is going to make me think and vote any other way. If I am the last person in the city, he can’t influence me by yelling some slogan that has nothing to do with the point at issue. —F. M., City

GOOD MUSIC

WHEN music's good to listen to . . . it spreads a lot of cheer . . . sometimes it even makes you feel . . . as though heaven is near + » + it soothe# the heart and rests the mind « +» It drives your cares away .. . and it can even show you to . . . a new and happy way + + +» in each and every cornér of . . . this world

in which we live . . . good music plays a leading part . . . and great joy does it give , . . the young and old, the rich and poor . . . can all enjoy its charm . , . for it is ‘spread by radio + +. to city and to farm . ... it leads to understanding and . . . it teaches those who hear . . .

that life is full of wondrous things . . . to :

cherish and revere, —By Ben Burroughs.

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ON.THE SPOT . . . By Chester Pater ~~ Assistant Attorney General Chummy With ‘Big’ Gambler

Mr. Caudle '... Lamar and Frank'

The only thing which dis-

turbed the “Lamar-Frank” friendship occurred . a few weeks ago, Mr. Caudle said. A friend reported to him, he said, that he met a man on a plane to Chicago and in the general conversation which followed, the Chicago man said Nathan was telling people in Chicago that he was in the oil business with Mr. Caudle and another top Washington official.

tJ n = “I TELEPHONED to Frank at Miami and told him to stop peddling my name Mr. Caudle said. “Then I wrote to this other government official and asked him to drop me out ¢f the oil

deal in which all three of us:

had an interest, though mine was a tgensy-weensy, itsy-bit-sy interest. I got a letter in reply saying that I was out.” Another incident in the Nathan career which Mr. Caudle didn’t have a full fill-in on was his arrest and trial in Pittsburgh in 1946 on a black market sugar charge. That trial ended in a jury disagreement and eventually the charge was quashed.

» ” _ MR. CAUDLE 8aid that after hearing about Nathan's arrest, he asked him to his home and they sat out in the kitchen while Frank “explained.” The sugar case, Mr. Caudle said Nathan told him, was “a frame” engineered by someone who wanted to “get” him because of some money lost on a horse race. Nathan said that after the disagreement, the late George Mashank, the as-

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sistant ,U. 8, attorney who rosecuted the case, told him e would not have prosecuted the case had he known at the time what he subsequently learned—that Nathan had been framed according to Mr.

Caudle, What Nathan didn’t tell Mr. Caudle, apparently, was the

testimony he gave at the trial, and which was backed up by a Washington man who is now serving a long term in a federal penitentiary for armed robbery. : . The government's star witness in the trial testified that he telegraphed $3200 to Nathan at a New York hotel to put over a sugar stamp deal.

un » ~ NATHAN testified that he got the money, but $200 of it was money owed him and the

-$3000 was to be bet on a horse.

In all, Nathan testified, he bet $4500 on the horse, which ran out of the money. “Do you remember the name of the horse?” he was asked by his attorney. “Yes, sir,” Nathan replied. “I'll never forget it. Art School was his name. He run in Belmont Park that day.” To corroborate Nathan's testimony, his attorney called Bryan O. Pearce, of Washington, to the stand. Pearce testified that he was employed at the time in the Office of Strategic Service. He said he went with Nathan at Belmont and also bet $75 on the horse.

“What was the horse's name?” “Art School.”

The facts are that this reporter subsequently checked with Belmont track officials and learned that Art School did not run that day or any day near that date. Two racing publications confirmed that information.

= ” ” THESE FACTS were laid before the U. 8. Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh and later before Mr, Caudle while he was head of the criminal division of the Justice Department. This was prior to the time Mr. Caudle said he first met Nathan. The Justice Department and the U. 8. Attorney's office decided that there wasn’t sufficient eviderice to charge Nathan and Pearce with prejury. Pearce, who has a police reeord dating back to juvenile days, is now in Lewisburg Penitentiary, Pa.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Can McKinney and

McHale Sta

y Friendly?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—Frank McKinney's taking the Democratic national chairmanship may mean the end of a beautiful political friendship between him and Frank

M. McHale.

That was the story kicking around here today after the Hoosiers had headed for home. Mr. McKinney, Indianapolis banker - sportsman - politician, came here bearing the McHale label. Having never before taken a place of prominence on the national political scene, everyone took it for granted that he was a “stooge” for Mr. McHale, Democratic national commit teeman from Indiana. The big figure of Frank McHale is well known around these parts. His law- business has taken him before numerous commissions and his politicking everywhere from Capitol Hill to the White House, The slight stir of opposition to Mr. McKinney's taking the chairmanship was based on anth-McHale sentiment and no reflection on Mr. McKinney. =» = »

AS IS his custom, when Mr. McHale arrived he took charge of everything. His erstwhile friend William E. Boyle Jr, was on the way out, and in putting Mr. McKinney in you could almost hear the shout: “The king is dead, long live the king.” Mr. Boyle, who is retiring because of ill-health and being politically overcome by congressional investigation heat, announced that President Truman had approved Mr. McKin-

- ney as his successor.

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that and maybe rightly so. And again maybe not. For it was recalled here that it was Mr. McKinney who finally got the President to appoint William Steckler federal judge in Indianapolis after the President reportedly had said: “¥# don’t intend to appoint a McHale candidate.”

¢ THAT U. S. pipeline ecompany, from which Mr. McKinney announced he “would divorce his interest because they want 100,000 tons of shont steel which needs government approval, is a McHale enterpfise, He didn't announce that he was going to give {t up,. although he sat right behind Mr. McKinney at the new chairman's first press conference at national Democratic headquarters, Sh

It is this closeness of McHale und McKinney that admirers of the latter predict may cause a clash. For in his appearaneés at the press conference and before the national committee men and women, Mr. McKinney ably demonstrated he is a man in his own right and not likely to be pushed around even by a political hea eight like “Boss” McHale. YyWeien The high ethical standards of conduct enunciated by the new chairman had a sincere ring, even if, as reported, thev were the joint product of himself and Mr. McHale.

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TAKING the tax collectors out (of politics through an appeal to President Truman was an act fitted to Mr. McKinney's words, Nor did he trim on the fact that he is no New Dealer or Fair Dealer at the press conference. He frankly told reporters that he is a banker with interests (n banking, real estate and radio. His station long has had a TV petition filed here, Having demonstrated his friendship on Wednesday for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the late F, D. R. and Democratic national committeeman from California, Mr. McKinney had nothing but kind words when asked about such Dixie Democrats as Sen. ‘Harry F, Byrd of Virginia and Gov.

James Byrne of South Carolina, 8 ~ ~

AS AMOS and Andy used to say: “Dey is all brothers in de lodge.” Certainly during their stay here, McHale and McKinney were as close as Amos and Andy but there are those who think the act can't last. One Hoosier cynic, attending the 1400 guest cocktail party at the Mayflower even advanced the view that Frank McHale wanted Frank McKinney to come to Washington because he was a too attractive figure ‘in Indiana and therefofe “a threat to McHale's leadership.

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