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16 ‘POINCARE TAXATION * PROPOSALS SCORED Premier Acted Without Carefnl " Judgment, Writer Declares. = TASE OF FRANCES FALL «Country Reall; More Prosperous = Than Year Ago. - - BY ANDRE TARDIEU. '+ Radio to The Star, PARIS, January R.casures introduced by the Poincare government as a result of the ex- change crisls are now up for discus- fion. To many Frenchmen they seem oo hasty and ill considered, and un- le?l 10 the results sought. * Moy fhat all the chinery was set in motlon just because % few Amsterdam speculators sold francs. What happened January 14 yow is known. A Dutch group got Bold of the francs, which had been sent to the French military and civil dccupation forces in Germany, wsed them to boost the pound €rom @ to 8 at the opening of the stock 2¢.—The taxation accomplish over, it is not pleasant to think nation’s legislative ma- and xchange. e ering tho fact that the pound had bheen steadlly climbing for four Tears, that sudden spurt should have heen considered more as an Incident & an accident. Were not measures {0 halt the franc’s fall justified much earlier” Y Either such measures should have been taken long before, &r else the government should have declined to be stampeded into impro- Ulsed remedtes after one day of panic. & country llke France can and must handle s h matters in a calm orderly way. Faults or Proposals. Besides this question of e there is a technical side, namely *hat ihe proposals, hastily cooked up aftcr fwo vpars of inaction by the Polncare government, have all the faults of fmprovisation. They bear no relation to any general fiscal plan, and contra. dict some of the basic principles of Wrench policy. In 1922, when the 19 hudget showed an estimated deficit 4,000 0,000 francs, the governmeut deemed new t unnecessary. o- &ay, when the deficit hus disappear pwing to a large surplus of yield £itimates, partiament is asked to vote gew taxcs. It is paradoxical.s " Furthermore, M. Poincare ways insisted that France could not even temporarily pay through taxa- flon those amounts which, under the treaty, are charged against Germany. is astonishing to see him take a bontrary course at the very moment when two expert committees of the Meparations commission begin work. * Wil Ralse Living Costw. _ Again it is evident that with less Faste a better plan would have been ound. Stmply increasing all taxes 0 per cent s too childishly simple. ¥ will aggravate all the injustices iready existing in taxation and raise &he cost of living. Inquisitorial con- trol of security holdings will drive fhe rich to export their capital and Gnposs heavy burdens on small hold- mgs. And lastly, by neglecting the uestion of the floating debt. it ap- lears that the government has over- woked the one essential thing. nce the ordinary budget is bal- anced, noth‘ng is easicr than the task of reconstruction by means of loans, # two conditions are observed—first, that the floating debt be consoli- dated and, second, that the price of government bonds, which unfor- funately has been allowed to fall, e upheld. and morala, These two operations g0 and in hand and w d automat- cally raise the franc's value and use living costs to drop. Too Much Haste. » But the government was in too much of a hurry and let pass the Qpportunity to present a really com- Dlets p # ¢ By allowing itself to be stampeded by external pressure, the government Bas not helped France's credit four years France has rebalanced Mer budget and reduced military ex- penditures from_ eighteen billion francs in 1919 to five billions in 1924, Givil expenses have been reduced from eleven billions to six. Mean- while, the public service debt costs twelve billions on account of the war and Germany's failure to pay. This is ten and a half billions more than in 1913, but is balanced by the savings above mentioned. Tax recelpts were a little over four Millions in 1913. They were twenty- three and a half billlons in 1922, Loans are decreasing year by vear. Note circulation has not Increased: there has even icky franc. In a been a slight reduc- Nothing Jjustified hasty, pan- schemes for improving = the Economic Revival. * And there is France's economic gevival. Despite the German devas- fatlon, which touched nearly flve mil- lton acres, France Is producing more Wwheat than before the war. Her shipyards produced tons more in 1922 than in 1913, The irade balance has constantly im- proved and the first nine months of 1923 exports were only a billion less than imports, which figure is easily “overed " by “what foreigners have nt in France. There is no unem- ployment. Commerce with the col- onles is ten billlons greater than be- foro the war, and, finally, the devas- tated regions, which could pay only six hundred millions in taxes in 1919 Puid more than two billions in 1923, Tt is fair to say that the French situation warrants proceeding with 4ang froid and ripe refiection in de- fending the franc. Such measures Would havo greater efficaciousnoss i they were accompanied by & con- jiractive solution "in the political o] nstead of the ne Ve feld Instead of gative methods £ (Copyright, 194.) CRIES UNAVAILING, MAN DIES IN MARYLAND FIELD Grover E. Leonard Is Victim of : Heart Disease in Easton s District. &pectal Dispatch to The Star. EASTON Md, January 26.—~Grover B. Leonard, thirty-seven, son of Capt, and Mrs. Stephen Leonard, who live near Royal Oak, was found dead in & field today by James Kelly, with whom he worked. Leonard left home bstween 6 delock yesterday morning. wfl:n?fl: :? across his shoulder and dinner pail if his hand. In crossing the field he Bsuddenly became ill and called for help. His cries wera heard by some colored men, but they failed to de- | termine from what direction came. It s supposed that he nllt:l:‘:g 1ot consciousness. Not coming home last nigkt as usual, a sear was uade fo: him today and when foung, he was stretched out on the ground face downward with both arms stretched out and grasping a tuft of grass in each hand, while his dinner vail and ax lay about a hundred feet away. Dr. Samuel C. Trippe of Royal Oak said he died from heart dls!un‘ and exposure. Change Workmen’s cn;;enutiom Although workmen's compen: Jaws have been in effect mow sroon 1han ten vears in various states in the United States, changes in the law are constantly being made, and in one year recently changes were made in twenty-seven states. The revisions being made attempt to meet new problems arising out of actual work- ing of the existing laws, mainly as concerns the maximum compensation to be allowed and the application of iihe law, i 1 l ‘ l ! ten thousand | Upper: Macf: Henry W. Draper, Lenin’s Long Considered People Had Opportunity ncipal. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDE! By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, January For twenty months before his death Nikolal Le- nin was mortally ill and had taken no part in any state business. Had he dled in May, 1922, gs many then feared, Russia would not have sur- vived his loss without severe earth- quakes. But the man's strong will compelled death to wait. He died so slowly that even his truest friends gradually accustomed themselves to his fading away. News which, like those from a king’s sick bed reported Lenin's ap- proaching recovery, were indeed falss. But they made the people believe that the ruling triumvirate—Kamenefr, Stalin and Zinoviev—were following the counsels of a temporarily incapa- citated chief. Message From Lenin. At the end of the winter Lenin had read to the cleventh congress of the communist party a speech in which he told the party the bitterest truth. Our communist pride,” he said, ‘prevents us from realizing that the average clerk in a business house ac- complishes more than we, and that we, with all our great power. cannot provision the land as well as do pii- vate merchants. He who ias done something badly must begin again. Lconomy of administration, selection of men, administration of justice— everything is still ineffable. “But that must not make us lose courage. that we have already defeated the capltalists. We can and must learn from them. And if we cannot prove that we can quickly aid the poor, hungry peasant, he will drive us to the devil.” Theso are not the most pointed sentences from that speech, whose sublime, cruel frankness has never been attained by any other ohief of state. Lenin spoke like a csar, but this czar differed from others in that he did not conceal his own responsi- bilities and his own errors. Silent Since Confession. Since this majestically courageous confession of error, his voice has been mute. His unusually varied and tan- gled life could not have ended more worthily. Viadimir Ilyitch Ulianov, Lenin's true name, the son of a landed noble- man, grew up with the peasants and decided early In life to dedicate his life to freeing the poorest and most oppressed. When barely thirty years old, he already had become leader of the bol- sheviks, who had separated from the mensheviks. The mensheviks wanted to work through the douma. The bol- sheviks expected nothing from parifa- ment, but everything’ through revolu- | tionary action.” Lenin’s elder brother | a8 hanged on a charge of complicity in an assassination plot. *He himseif later was exiled to Siberia for helping organize a “fighting assoclation for the liberation of laborers,” but es- caped abroad. After such experiences, only brute force appeared to him to be effective lin class warfare. The Intelligence ‘and loglo of his theoretical writings ,had won fame for him, and had im- planted in him a certain feeling that a promaent place in history was re- served for him. Overthrew Kereasky. Russia’s war against Japan ma- tured the revolution's first fruits. Lenin returned to Russia secretly, but soon was compelled to flee and lived poorly in Finland, Paris, Zurich snd iGeneva. Following the outbreak of |the world war, he wrote his news- paper that the overthrow of crarism would be the lesser of the evils to be oxpected from the war. Sly people suggested to the German military command that the return of Lenin and his comrades would be the best means of destroying Russia. In a German rallway coach, they were brought through Scandinavia to Russia. At the end of the third year of the! war, Lenin overthrew Dictator Keren- sky, who desired to continue the war. Lenin ended the war in the Brest- Litovsk treaty, brought about a divi- sion of land among the peasants, and ‘became the only real might in the whole empire. He found highly gifted helpers and did not grudge them fame, but he alone exhibited Only we must not imagine |. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 27, 1924_PART 1. e e e—————————————————— e e I Ex that Webb's unequaled knowledge will Lrid School, Inset, Howard P. Stafford, principal. Lower: Langley Junfor High School. Imset, Fight With Death Russia’s Salvation During 20-Month Illness To Become Accustomed to His Absence From Office. himself as a creative statesman. His system was shipwrecked. but he was Honored and loved like a father. Peasants ~and _urbanites, ' laborers, soldiers and the petite bourgeoi: call him only “Ilyitch” (llyas' so and demonstrate by this familiar nickname that “they g ¥ bowed humbly before this man, as before a higher being. Only he could have carrled through the backward march from “war com- munism” to “state capitallsm.” “Ilyltch orders only what is nece sary and useful: If he wants it so it must be done. There's no other way." Year May Be Crisls. So thought a people who understood | nothing about soclalism a la tartare, but who saw in this little man with the Kalmuck lips, Mongolian eyes and other characteristics recalling Russla’s Tartar period, the divine tool of predestination. He cannot be re- placed. He was a real Russian, and had retained the instinct, the ‘clear knowledge of humanity and the humor of the peasants. The vear which begins with a labor government in England brings parlia- mentary elections to France, Ger. many andl Italy-and & peesidentisl election to_America, and the year in which the German middle classes hope for rellef from thelr frightful dis- tress, may also become a declsive year for Russia. Lenin lived simply in the Kremlin for his work alone, and loved the Russian people after hisemanner. But for him, as for Napoleon, the old proverb proved true which declares that nobody dies happy uniess he en- ters the Kremlin with the czar's per- mission. The Corsican had to flee NEW D. C. SCHOOLHOUSES DEDICATED DURING THE WEEK from burning Moscow to his destruc- tion. Lenin was carried from the palace dedicated to death to a =ani- tarium at Gorki. And Gorki, in Rus- slan, means “bitterness.” e Worth the Money, at That. From the Boston Transcript. his dollar & on it: Horses to follow—Hearse horses. Horses to back—Hobby horses. horses. Horses to let alone—Race horses. CHANGE ADVANCES UNDER LABOR RULE Peeling of Panio in Brih.in Sub- sides as Premier Takes Con- servative Course. CABINET CHOICES PLEASE Macdonald’s Hardest Now in Future. Problems BY A. G. GARDI By Radio to The Star. LONDON, January 26.— England this week has been shooting Niagara. The greatest politiogl adventure in its history was inaugurated, and everybody was surprised to find things still were much as before. The panic feeling entirely collapsed, and the stock exchange celebrated the advent of the labor government by a boom in prices. Even the Rotheremere press, which had been in a state of hysteria, sud- denly recovered some measure of sanity and grovels before the new prime minister. In short, for the mo- ment all is lovely in the garden. The explanation s to be found in Ramsey Maodonald’s Socotch caution and moderation. Evidently he in- tends to play for safety and secure public confidence. He has kept secret the constitution of his ministry, and formal announcement of it created an excellent impression. His cholos of colleagues indicated thet, he has no {ntentfon to upeet the national apple cart with extreme policies. foes Ministry Liberal. Vit! few exceptions might' represent. (ne Wbersl (i, True, Sidney Webb heads the board of trade and Philip Snowden the ex- chequer, but it is agreed by all hands | ER. | | i i i be invaluable at the board and Snow- den has moved definitely to the right of late years and is recognized as u formidable foe of the communist gov- ernment. Tre threo peers in the government, Haldane, Parmoor and Chelmsford, are all highly responsible men. One is e former liberal and the other two still are nominally conservatives. Lord Chelmsford's appointment to the ad- miralty was the chief surprise of the ministry. It was_ intended, no doubt, to placate the admiralty, In view of Macdonald's declsion to abandon the scheme for a proposed naval base at Singapore which the admiralty wants carried through, but which both labor and the liberals have consistently de- nounced. Wil Recognize Russis. Interest now chiefly centers on the action of Macdonald himself at the foreign office. It is understood that he already is in communication with Rus. sia and recognition of the soviet gov-| ernment is expected to be one of the earliest acts of the ministry. It is not expected that Lenin's death will affect the matter. Macdonald, like Snowden, has been an cutspoken critic of Russian methods, but has_always maintained that the internal affairs of Russia were of no concern o the other powe Public opinfon now Is generally favor- able to recognition, and it is expected that that event will have important re- actions in_the unemployment situation in England. That situation is showing substantial Improvement and if the new government has the luck to coincide with a trade revival, its prestige will begin in consequence. Relations With France. A much more difficult problem awaits Macdonald as regards France. Relations with that country have reached a new phase of bitternes through Premier Poincare's practi blockade of the British zone on the Rhine. Poincare has knocked out three British premiers in turn. Will Macdonald be a match for the new Napoleon? His relations with the French radical socialists should glve him strong ground for appealing for a more liberal sentiment in France sgalnst the domination of Poincare and trusts which aim at military des- potism in Europe and & monopoly of its economic resources. With a labor premier in England, the experts’ committee sitting in Paris and the fons ap- French e proachins, pments important d in the European situation are fin- evitable and jmminent. The fly in Macdonald’s ointment s the rallway strike which coincide with the advent of the labor gove: ment and has caused widespread i jconvenlence, 0 far the government higs not intervened in the strike. It will be dificult if Macdonald Is com- pelled to take a band in what amounts to & quarrel between the two rallway men’s unions. ‘The chief union with which J. H. Thomas Is associated accepts the new terms, but the locomotive men refuse. Great biterness of feeling has been engendered between the two bodies, which are picketing and counter picketing. Public opinfon s very hostile to the strike as the locomotive representatives signed the award against which the men have struck, Defeat of the men is not in doubt. Altogether the country ends the first week after shooting Nlagara in » cheerful frame of mind, with fears ADAM A. WESCHLER, AUCTIONEE BOUANCHAUD TO RUN. NEW ORLEA> January Hewitt Bouanchaud will enter second democratic primary for gov- ernor February 19, it was announced today after a ecting of Bouanchaud supporters. Mr. Bouanchaud led thy fleld in the first primary, but the |pressure had bheen put upon him by the Orleans press and varlous political factions to withdraw in fa vor of Henry L. . second mar Mr. Bouanchaud, a Catholic, mad. his campaign on an anti-klan ticket and said_he did not want the vote of the klansmen and would not appoint sman 10 office if a banished and an pectancy prevailin, are thick ahead and all of donald’s troubles are to come (Copyright, ) agreeable But the cloti~ Mie- R HIGH-GRADE FURS Also Millinery, Fixtures, Etc. In re Paul Leibel, Bankrupt At 1215 G Street NW. 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