Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1951 — Page 12

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The Holdouts

IGGING into the muddle in the Internal Revenue Bureau has resulted in a “side” scandal which is inexcusable. Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard reporter, tells about

it today. He discovered that thousands of employers, after de-

"ducting income tax from the wages of employees, hadn't

turned the money into the Treasury. And they Have been getting away with it—to the tune of more than $06 million; as of Oct. 31. What happens is that these delinquent employers gimply use the money for their own purposes. A relative few, apparently, just skip with it, or lose it. Social Security deductions, as well as“income tax, are involved.

2 ” 2 ” . . THESE employers have no right to this money. It belongs to the government. The employees have paid it and are entitled to full credit for their payments. In this case, the trouble cannot be blamed wholly on the tax collectors. Some of the fault lies in the law. It isn’t tough enough. But there also ix evidence of enforcement policy. An overwhelming majority of employers pay up. They comply exactly with the law. That only serves to make the delinquencies more invidious,

a louse and lackadaisical

This thing is just as reprehensible as some of the more \

dramatic types of skulduggery which have shown up in the federal tax-collecting system.

Dollars, by Air

(HEAPER plane travel to Europe is about to become a reality. The airlines which fly the Atlantic have agreed on a 8488 round-trip New York-London tourist fare for the 1052 season, April through October. That is well below the 1951 figure of $711. There is a huge untapped market of Americans who would like to go to Europe on vacation, but who have had neither the time to go by sea nor the money for plane passage. These travelers spend dollars abroad—dollars which are sorely needed by our Allies in Europe. And they're not drained from the taxpayer. Pan American World Airways saw this potential market and months ago began advocating low-cost fares. This newspaper supported this effort from the start, and congratulates Pan American as well as its competitor, Trans World Airlines, which joined the campaign later: : Their success was only partial; actually they wanted a fare of around $400, but their European competitors outvoted them. ; We hope this is only the beginning. Meanwhile, we commend these two companies for their good business judgment and their patriotism.

We're Proud of Him

N CLEVELAND the other night, the editor of the Cleveland Press—original member of the Scripps-Howard family—was given the brotherhood award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Editor Louis B. Seltzer is the-first newspaperman to he selected for this annual citation. For many years, Louie Seltzer has been a notable in the newspaper field. He has been editor of the Cleveland Press since 1028. He got there from a running start as office boy. He is a native Clevelander come to a ripe usefulness in his home town. None of the many encomiums which have flowed naturally to Mr. Seltzer could be more fitting than this brotherhood award. For Louie Seltzer has been preaching and living decent, honest, forthright brotherhood all his life, even before the organization which honors him came into being. In behalf of Editor Seltzer, a fellow worker, this newspaper, as part of the Seripps-Howard organization, takes a gracious bow, because Louis is not the kind to take it for himself.

Four Vogelers Now

HE Red puppet government of Hungary announce. recently that the four American fliers forced down inside the Iron Curtain were being held as spies. So now we can expect not one but four Vogeler cases all over again in typical Communist travesty of justice. The severe questioning. The long trial. The phony confessions. The brain-searing punishment—and finally, long imprisonment in a filthy Communist cell on a starvation diet. Oh yes, the State Department is going to.“act.immediately.” It is going to “protest,” and send stiff notes. it did all that in the Vogeler case—and Robert A. Vogeler stayed in jail until it suited Hungary to release him. And William N. Oatis is still behind Red bars. dt -So, about all we can do is hope, and pray, for the four American prisoners—-as the State Department dons its kid gloves to tackle the jungle laws of a jungle land.

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My, How They've Grown

SOME weeks ago, Internal Revenue Commissioner John B. Dunlap said the only trouble with the tax-collecting

agen 4 was “a few blemishes.” nder proper diagnosis, the blemishes appear to have turned into a terrible rash of understatement.

Grunt soned Groan

: PROFESSIONAL wrestling, a form of vaudeville, is having its biggest year, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The paper says the grunt-and-groan industry has compiled ]

one of the outstanding success stories of 1051. Probably symbolic of the, times. Although we notice . ore groaning about, things ‘as hey are than , gaming from efforts to correct them.

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CRISIS IN BRITAIN—No. 1. mei Hi Too Many Peale In England Refuse To Face The Hard Peels weedy

LONDON, Dec. 10-~A l#rge section of the British population is blissfully unaware that their- country faces a crisis. There is full employment, The average work-

- ing man and woman finds more money in the

pay envelope in terms of pounds and shillings— if not $n buying power—than at any time in the past. Food costs are low, because of government subsidies. The government also pays the doctor bills, Te the person “content to exist at slightly above a subsistence level life presents few problems--but to anyone concerned with housing, or inflation, or not content with stand. ing in queues for bread, problems are many.

2 ¢ ¢ WHEN THE easily contented person is told

that Britain is drifting into bankruptey under the present policy, it Is not: surprising that he

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shrugs it aside as Tory propaganda, as nearly half thé voters did at the recent election. Some ofgthose who refuse to face up to the hard facts of Britain's economic situation are people who ought to know better, * 4 ¢ “I AM AFRAID you have been misled by Win ston Churchill's flair for the dramatic,” I was told by a professor at London University to whom I had recited some figures which res flected upon Britain's solvency. But since economics was not his field, he confessed he hadn't gone into the subject, However, the Board of Trade, an unofficial agency, reported that while British exports reached an all-time high last month, they failed to keep pace with the import total which widened the 1951 trade gap to $2,936,400,000. The deficit was only $845800,000 at this

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Defends Truman Administration

' WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—Only a “tiny minority” within the Truman administration are guilty of wrongdoing, according to Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing. The Hoosier-born Democrat neglected to add that this ‘tiny minority” appears to be pretty near the top. That puts the matter in the same light as the old gag about 50-50 rabbit stew made with one horse and one rabbit. New Democratic Chairman Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis, in his recent New York address sald the government employees were 99.9 per cent honest. With 2.5 million civilian workers on the federal payroll, that could still leave 2500 in doubt. It is the places that they occupy that counts most, of course, Even after T. Lamar Caudle testified to adi of his shenanigans while head af the Justice Department tax division, Atty. Gen. J. Howard McGrath told the Federal Bar Association here: “I believe that when all the storms and winds have passed, not one lawyer working for the United States will be found to be derelict in his duty or to his oath of office.”

Takes Up Cudgels MR. EWING" 18 a former “million dollar fee” New York lawyer. He took up the cudgels for the disgraced administration this week-end, “I believe there is a threat to our survival in the attack on the people's confidence in the democratic System of government,” he told a meeting of the Negro Civic Associations of Washington. “Not so long ago we were being told that nearly anybody who worked for the federal government was probably a Communist. This

year we are told that government employees

are probably crooks. “You and I know that, in any large crosssection of human beings, there are going to be a few bad ones. You and I know that most law-abiding, hardworking, patriotic men and women. Of course we must root out skulduggery and unethical

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practices in government and everywhere else, and our necessary defense of the honest and dependable government employee must never be used as a cloak to protect the scattered individuals who have been dishonest and should be punished.

‘Equally Ruthless’ “JUST AS A surgeon ruthlessly cuts the bad tissue from the healthy body, we must be equally ruthless—-and equally careful not to harm the body itself “We must always be on our guard against punishing“the majority who are innocent along with the tiny minority who are guilty. We cannot afford to allow loose accusations, innuen‘does and insinuations to take ihe place of due process. “We cannot permit designing men to use our disgust .at dishonesty, in and out of government, as a smoke screen for an assault on the whole process of responsible government in our democratic republic. “We cannot permit the hue and ery against alleged immorality to serve as the vanguard of the attack on liberalism in America. If we should make this mistake, we will be undermining our own liberty and our own progress for the sake of misguided partisanship.”

Fair Samples THE McGRATH-EWING speeches are fair samples of how Trumanites have turned “liberalism” into “gliberalism” in Washington today. In a Chicago intervie®, Mr. McKinney, the new broom man, also insisted that “corruption” has been overplayed and will not be an issue in 1952, The main Democratic campaign, he said, will be directed toward two issues: Foreign policy and getting the party's message to the voters. Mr. McKinney said he wants particularly to take the party's message to the “millions of

young people, who have taken the lush period

of the last 15 years for granted.”

Lush for whom? The witnesses before the King committee?

McCLEAN, Va, Dec. 10 — I am now trying to Ameritanize a Peruvian Indian, I am beginning to believe this is a mistake. He probably was better off in the first place. Last spring you may recall, my bride brought up from Lima a youthful Indian, named Victor Chumpite, to be general factotum around the beat-en-up acres of the Othmans. Well, sir, he was a wonder. He cleaned the house, cut the

raised his wages. Never did a hired man labor like Victor. When he tried to work at night and also on his day off, our foot down. We re-

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time last year. But that was due in large part to the high prices Britain's colonies were getting for raw rubber, tin and wool. When Britain was forced to buy on that same inflated market this year, the trade deficit began to mount. ‘Britain isn't ucing as much as it is consuming, and higher production costs are in prospect, to “further darken the outlook. The Socialist government, through its intimate alliance with organized labor, managed to postpone most of the wage increases until after the October election. Now these demands must be met, The coal miners are demanding increases

‘which will cost the nationalized industry $84 -

million a year and add an average of 42 cents a ton to the cost of coal. Freight rates were increased 15 per cent in April and face another boost of 7 pet cent if a new wage demand is granted. * & 9 : DEVELOPMENTS abroad have added to the mounting woes, . The loss of Iranian oll production, an important source of revenue as well as fuel, was followed by the costly military occupation of the Suez Canal Zone, which will pay dividends only in ill will, however necessary it may have been. Now rubber production in Malaya, Britain's best dollar producer, is being sharply reduced by the abandonment of many rubber plantations because of the terrorist tactics of the Communist guerrillas. For more than two years military authorities in Malaya have been begging London to supply armored vehicles for thé patrols which have been guarding the rubber operations. But these were not furnished in sufficient numbers to control the situation. Now more extreme measures may be necessary before order can be restored, if indeed that is still * possible, Meanwhile, rubber production has been reduced by one-half, While these sources of revenue have been drying up through a policy ot neglect, the cost of Britain's home front welfare program has been mounting. Now Mr, Churchill's govern-

" ment has been called upon to make up the

deficits and balance the books without sacrificing any of Britain's social gains. It is not going to be easy to do. Although Britain voted the Socialists out of office in October, the voters did not repudiate the Socialist program, but only part of it.

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THE NUMERICAL returns in the elections were: Labor, 13,911,000; Conservative, 13,708,000; Liberal, 723,000; others, 199,000. Keep these figures in mind. When the Socialists came into power in 1945 they had a twofold program: the nationalization of industry and the building of a so-called welfare state. The first part of the program was designed to pay the costs of the second. It did not work out as planned. The Socialist Government encountered no difficulty in dividing up the wealth which Britain had created under private enterprise. through its ambitious welfare program. But the Socialists discovered that the nationalization of an industry would not of itself make that industry produce dividends, and particularly the expanding dividends which they required for their purposes. On this phase of their program they found themselves on a dead-end street. Coal was a sick industry when the Socialists took it over and it is sicker now than it was then. The coal miners are getting older and fewer because not enough young men are

in, ‘but the miners’ enough of them to Ri Sxsting vacancies,

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going into the mines to meet the needs of the industry. - Some Italians have been brought union refusés to abeept

BEFORE World War II, Britain exported coal, exchanging it, ‘among other things, for eggs. butter and cheese. Now it must buy

‘some of its coal and look elsewhere for the

money to buy the products it uféd to get in exchange for coal. Steel and iron were nationalized last year and this year’s steel production #& a million tons behind last year's output. Failure to stock sufficient scrap iron was one reason for the drop in production. Now the British are asking the United States to lend them 800,000 tons

‘of steel.

In the recent campaign, the Conservatives pledged themselves to restdre steel, iron and trucking to private ownership but agreed to support the welfare program which had been greatly expanded under Socialist control. In their 1950 campaign, the Conservative Party also announced its intention to abolish food subsidies. But this = issue

ignored in the recent campaign. Retail prices of essential foods are kept low

by an annual 2 otpenditire of about it $1.19, 000, 000 on consumer subsidies. Milk which sells for 11 cents a quart would fubsidy. : But this is one

budget out of balance: The subsidycomes out of taxes and taxes are reaching the point of diminishing returns. ». db wd REPEAL of the subsidy law would raise food prices, which would be most unpopular. But Britain isn’t producing enough out of its own resources to afford such luxuries. Without borrowed money the program couldn't have been carried as far as it has been. How a public which has grown accustomed to government handouts reacts when they are curtailed was trated when the Hampstead fed to end a deficit of $70,000 from the rental of public housing. A deputation of 150 tenants protested when the council voted to fix maximum and minimum rents based uport income. Yet the new rentals in no case will exceed onhe-seventh of the family income. From this demonstration it 18 easy to imagine what the reaction would be if food prices were allowed to reach their natural level. Thus

- the Tories hesitate about abolishing‘ the sub-

sidy, even though believing it must be done,

BONEN ERERRNERNNY

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MR. EDITOR: I have been saving this beef for a long time,

Hoosier Forum—'Poor Thinking’

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

but when the salt is in the open wound, then :

it’s time to. come out in the open fighting mad. I, like some 150 million other people, can only get facts by what I read in the papers and magazines and hear on the radio. Many times

these facts are distorted and twisted so that they are no longer facts but downright lies.

I have read letters from readers in your paper that indicate a great deal of studied thinking on the part of the writer. Others X have read are downright stupid.

The reaction I get from some of these letters is sickening. It certainly indicates the type of thinking most of us have been dding. As one very bright person puts it in her letter, “We never had it so good.”

¢ & WELL, if you call two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and plunged us into debt

by billiont having it good, I'll take the “bad old days” before 1933 and before our New

© Dealers and Fair Dealers started taking us for

& ride that is going to lead us right down the road to socialism. And when these bright people who think they've got it so good wake up and realize what

‘has happened to us, guess who will do most of

the wailing?

It may not be too late to save ourselves yet, but it's a lot later than we think. If we don’t think so, ask some ofsour true patriots who still love the United States of America for what it really stands for and not for what they can get out of it for themselves. Ask them and they will tell you that there is one last chance to save ourselves from disaster and that chance will come the first Tuesday of November, 1952. wd. V. D,, City

| WONDER . . By Frederick C. Othman

Victor Works Like Indian, Spurns Pay

Now he had a d deal of leisure time, which Hilda tried to devote to teaching - him English. He liked ‘this idea, but as the days passed, he grew more unhappy. s

dition: That we paid him nothing at all. I delivered him another lecture on Americanism. He was not impressed.

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‘Just Be Sure...’ MR. EDITOR: Yes, let's bombard Washington and have our boys come home from Korea, and let the Reds came over here as they wish to do. I just received a letter from my nephew who. is ih Korea and in it he says: “Dear Aunt Ida: I'm sure glad I'm fighting communism here in Korea instead of on North Meridian St. If the people back home just knew what communism really is, they'd be glad we're here fignting it too, instead of in the good old U.B.A.” It was subversive groups, and also ignorant but well meaning mothers who kept after the government right after World War II for their boys to be sent home. They were aided by some Senators, and home they came, too soon. Just be sure there aren't some Russian secret agents working among you who would bombard Washington. That sounds like one of their lines. —Ida E. Davis, Monyanhan Apts.

‘Bayt and Politics’

MR. EDITOR: So, one of your readers thinks that his honor, Phil Bayt, got what he deserved ia the recent city election for Mayor. He has a right to this opinion, but I have to mine, too, and I think he is as wrong as a person could be. He asks that people return to the Democratic fold. Yet, he tells us that the reason Judge Bayt

was not liked by his own party leaders is that

he is not a crooked politician. - That's enough for me. down decent men for political crooks, I want none of the party, and as long as the present litical element is foremost in the Democratic rty, men who opposed Bayt, I and many others whom I know will not return to the local Democratic political fold. And efforts to dis¢redit Judge Bayt will get nowhere, as too many people know the high type man he is, as even the News and Times conceded at election time. —James T. Foreman, Ambassador Apts.

Saturday night, when I've got to pay him. What he'll 4d then I have no idea. End tale, ° I swear it's true, To you » who've had hired-man trouble, I must report I've got it worse.

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He came to me finally and in simple Spanish he was sure I ¢ould understand, he said he had two complaints: we didn’t have enough work for him to do; we paid him too much. 3 I nearly fell through the kitchen floor, I assured Vietor that he was in the United States,“ where people didn't think that way. I told him he t to be kicking about

laboring too long for too little, °

He was not amused. This did not make sense to him, Bo we tried to make work for him. Had him do things that didn’t really need to be done, such as transplanting bushes and painting the barn. I also wanted to cut his

salary, but the tenderhearted Mrs. O;, an American if ever

ABOUT THREE weeks ago he made up his mind for sure. He sald he was ashamed to take our money for doing #0 little and would we kindly find him a job somewhere else? He said he'd come back in the spring when there was more work to do, provided - we'd agree to lower his salary. So Hilda wrangled him a job in a busy restaurant owned by a friend of ours. Here Victor was happy. He didn’t earn much and he could work as hard and as long as he wanted. We dropped in frequently for dinner and chatted with him. Our place, meantime, was going to pot. Hilda had an idea. She suggested to Victor the other night that if he kept the inside of the house, as the outside, and po learned

to cook perhaps she could keep ‘him busy. bands I hn . He's now making the fy. es aml ih ng again. OF :

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