Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 5

TAX PUBLIATION REPEALHELD LOST Advocates of Change Weak- en in Face of Congress’ Firm Stand. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Income tax returns for the vear 1924, on which first payments have Just been made, will surely be puh- lished, thoug the lists will not be available for a few months. . Despite all the furore which first pub! tion made, last Autumn, the advocates of repeal are gradually losing their fire and energy and be- ginning to acknowledge that it's a losing fight—that publicity has come to stay. The Supreme Court of the United States still has before it some cases which will settle whether newspaper publication or “private publication,” if thers is such a thing, was intended by Congres: and the lower courts have already said that publication means by any method—newspaper or pamphlet or anything else that con- veys the information to the public. For example, an enterprising indi vidual might even go to the collector of internal revenue in a district and| get all the data on dozens of indi-| viduals and step up to the micro- Pphone in the evening and read them off on the radio The present law would not prevent that if the deci- &ions of the lower courts are affirmed. Repeal Plans Falled. Tt is significant, however, that the ®dministration after denouncing the publicity sections of the law as vic- ious did not attempt to get a resolu- tion of repeal through Congress. The Teason was a fear of provoking a controversy in which the insurgent Republicans, radicals and some of the Democrats might join and the result would be a tie-up of appropriation bills and other urgent legislation. The administration faces the same thing next session. The new tax bill which will be drawn by the House ways and means committee in co- operation with the Treasury Depart- ment probably will not mention the publicity section, as the new measure Wwill in a sense repeal large portions of the existing law. But it is certain that the radical group will start a fight for the retention of the pro- vision and then the administration »8gain will have to decide whether it 1s more important to suppress facts &bout income tax returns and make @ stand on that or‘use the provision &s a trading point for lower surtax rates, sgainst which the minority and the radicals may again combine. Damage Not Yet Proved. The trouble with the publicity pro- vision is that while there has been dpnunciation of it as unfair to the income taxpayers, most of the mem- bers of Congress are not yet con- vinced that any great damage has been proved. Most of the taxpayers, in fact, more than 6,000,000 persons, pay relatively small sums, and their returns are of no special importance to any except a few of the curious. The returns of corporations and wealthy persons are more and more a subject of scrutiny. Some of this class- are taking the position that wpublicity is going to be a good thing in the end, for it will prove how un- productive are high rates of taxation and how much is golng into tax- exempt securities that might have gone into taxable securities the tax rates were not excessive Dozens of cases of injustice done through the publication of income tax returns have been brought to the atten- tion of the Treasury, particularly in those instances in which companies re- yort deficits, and a damaging impression is created about their financial status. More sy athy with the repeal of the publicity section has been developed in Congress on this account than any other, but the prevailing idea is that this is offset by the advantage to the public in_knowing more about the operations of large corporations and individuals from whom a large part of the entire annual revenue of the Government collected. The administration will not recede from its position. Publicity of the ncome tax returns will be made in the Autumn as provided by law and a denunciation of the practice will be made by the President and the Treasury in due time, but the feeling now fs that the administration will viage a losing fight on this particular gection of the existing law unless public opinion really does become aroused when the 1 returns are | made available (Copyright, 1925.) it | the Pacific coast Under the title “A Few Words From a Winner,” Tech Life, stu- dent publication of the McKinley Manual Training School, prints the following article by Frank I ‘Winant, winner of The Star's $100 prize for this school in last year's oratorical contest: “The coming oratorical contest under the auspices of the Wash- ington Star not only offe the students of Tech an opportunity to increase their knowledge of his- tory and improve their ability to speak in public, but also an op- portunity to take part in a school contest. The winner may spend the prize money, but he cannot erase from hisgmemory the joy of striving, of diZ2ily going before a sea of seemingly immobile faces and doing his best! “Every one cannot win, but everyone can take part, which is almost as enjoyable as winning. It is not only the duty of every able speaker at Tech to participate in the contest, buf it is the duty of every loyal Techite as well. “I can offer only one word of advice to the participants, namely, ‘Lean on the subject’ Your sub- ject is the Constitution, and, al- though you may introduce the life of some great man into your speech to lend color and back- ground, it is advisable to end up strongly with the Constitution it- self. Frequently your constitu- tional hero may be dropped from the essay by the clever use of a transitional paragraph. Whoever wins this year will certainly have to put up a real fight, but the prize is worth fighting for. OFFICIAL IS SHIFTED BEFORE OUSTER PLEA Yumas Petition Work for Removal of Superintendent and Three Others. By the Associated Press. YUMA., Ariz, March 27,—A delega- tion of Indians representing 400 mem- bers of the Yuma tribe waited on Sec- retary of the Interior Hubert Work here yesterday and presented a statement asking that the Department of the In- terior remove L. L. Odle as superintend- ent of the Yuma Reservation. The application was belated, since only 24 hours before Supt. Odle was notifled from Washington that after 12 years’ service at Yuma, he had been appointed superintendent of the Puebla Indian reservation at Albu- querque, N. M. Byron A. Sharp of Umatilla, Oreg., will be the new superintendent at | Yuma. The Yumas' request, signed by George Sterling, chairman, and Patri Miguel, secretary of the Yuma council, also asked the removal of E. A. Holt, assistant superintend- _'H. Justus, farm expert, and Mrs. Jackson, field matron and inter- preter. which was . WILL PROBE SERVICE. Davis Aide to Study Naturaliza- tion Offices on Coast. Investigation of the Department of Labor's naturalization service will be undertaken by Assistant Secretary Robe Carl White, who left today for He will visit of- fices of all naturalization examiners in the West. . Because she thought people laughed Chilean horses are of the etrain and are very high-spirited Arab Jetferson L. Ford at her hair, recently bobbed, a Lon- don girl downed herself. , Hotel Manager, Replies te Dick Oldsmobile Dear Dick: Those transients that portation from the Old: get the habit of trans- smobile Coach go into transports over a habitation at the Franklin Square Hotel. I don’t see how your Convertible Coach bed could equal one of our Simmons beds equipped with a Sealy Mattress—the same as those other hotels you mentioned—they just don’t come any better. Chronic victims of insomnia have suc- cumbed to their sleep-inviting lure. Irving Boernstein’s La Java Band will induce ou to trip the light fantastic as lightly as the Oldsmobile (oach trips along the high-way. You'll find the interior of La Java as attractive and cozy as your Coach on a windy, rainy day and as exhilarating as a drive through cool winding roads in mid-summer. Consider me registered for an Oldsmobile Coach demonstration—after which I'll demon- strate the appetizing qualities of the Franklin Square Coffee Shoppe’s luncheon. Yours—always INN, JEFFERSON L. FORD, Jr. #Franklin Souare Hot Cat 14 NW. 7L WASHINGTON. D.C. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1925. Student committee for the contest at the McKinley High School. Upper, left to right: Charles Miner, chair- man, Miss Katherine Chase. Lower: John W. Mauchly. “One thing is certain: The win- ner at Tech this year must win the city-wide contest and retrieve some of Tech’s lost honors of the past This is an enormous job, but an inspiring one, for, while there is nothing in high school life so pathetic as losing for Tech, nothing is so glorious as winning." Depolores Police Affront to Wife JAUSTRIA OFFERS APOLOGY | ELORIDGE ASKSAID ON TRAFFIC GODE Seeks Advisory Committee to Help in Drafting New Regulations. Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge began today, the organization of an “advisory committee on traffic,” composed of civic and municipal representatives, as the first step preliminary to the drawing up of an entirely new traffic code for Wash- ington. The advisory committee, Mr. Eldridge said, will be assigned the duty of re- writing the District traffic regulations to comply with the new traffic law. The traffic director thus made it plain that he will not arbitrarily exercise the power of prescribing speed, parking and other important traffic regulations pro- vided by the new law. Must Rush Work. “The advisory committee will decide to what extent the speed laws will be enforced in various sections, what the parking rules shall be and all the other intricate problems that must be solved before the trafiic law goes into effect May 3, Mr. Eldridge declared “The old traftic regulations auto- matically become void on that date. We haven't much time left in which to revise our code of regulations in accordance with the new law, but with the whole-hearted co-operation of the committeo the new set of rules will be ready in time. They have got to be ready, that's all Mr. Eldridge said the advisory com- mittee will be composed of & repre- sentative of each of the following or- ganizations, in addition to himselr, the corporation counsel and a mem- ber of the Police Department: Cham- ber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- clation, Federation of Citizens' Asso- clations and the District of Columbia Division of the American Automobile Association. Asks Daily Meetings. Each of these organizations, he stated, has been requested to name a representative to be a member of the committee. The bodies have not vet had time to act on this request, it was added Director Eldridge said that because of the short time intervening between now and May 3 he will ask the com- mittee to meet dally until the code is_completed. I C. Moller of the Bureau of Public Roads, well known traflic engineer, arrived in Washington this afternoon from Columbus, Ohlo, and informed Mr. Eldridge he would accept the position Fred Seiler, second assistant, accepted some time ago. American Minister Washburn, at| Vienna, that the minister of foreign | affairs of the Austrian government has tendered apologies and regrets for the discourteous treatment of| Mrs. Wilbur Keblinger, wife of the| American consul at Bombay, at the hands of police of Wiener Neustadt December 30, 1924. Mrs. Keblinger is visitirg friends in Washington Her husband is a Washingtonian, former. 1y of 2006 Klingle road. Mrs. Keblinger haa forgotten her passport on the occasion of a trip she was making through Wiener Neustadt, when she was detained by police. Although she presented an envelope addressed to her and bear- ing the name of her husband, the American consul, and his address, and although she said her identi could | be established by phoning the Amer- | ican legation, she was detained at a police station for five hours until the local police could discover, through police in Vienna, her identity. Apolo- gies were fittingly forthcoming, it was® explained, as her husband had rendered unusual service to the Aus- | trian_consul's family and to prison- {ers under his care at his European post when war was declared / | =SS ‘4\\’»,«' % % R & R4 > ’%é S ) % S S 1005 Pa. Ave. | of United States Consul. | Word has been received here trom| ROTARIANS TO ELECT. S | Richmond Session Also Considers |dictme: Division of District. RICHMOND, Va., March 2 1 of and | whether thirty-seventh lof tary Clubs, now embracing bout 50 cities in Virginia and east- rn North Carolina, shall be divided, were before the district convention here today Nomination of candi- —Elec- officers to the tion decision as district officers were made at the mornin, session and balloting on the no | nees took place during the noon | luncheon recess. Should the conven- tion decide to divide the district, it was stated, the governor elected in this balloting would serve as head of the district in wiich his club is located and another governor elected over the other district. The women attending the conven- tion will be entertained at tea this afternoon by Mrs. E. Lee Trinkle, wife of the Governor of Virginia. at the executive mansion. The conven- tion will be brought to a close with A dance this evening A “SPECIAL VALUE” —on 350 Superb 2-trousers Spring Suits and Topcoats—For Men—For Young Men—For Collegiates. April 1 only—After that, $35. 2 Vo &K ) $&& > S Collegiate Colors and Shapes are Keen in the Spring Hats Robinhood, $3.50; Mallory, $5: Stetson, $7 Money's Worth or Money Back D. J. KAUFMAN .%. dates for district governor and other | WHEELER INDICTED ! WITH 2 OTHERS ON LAND PLOT CHARGE (Continued from First P: overt acts. the indictment made the| first specific charge against Senator Wheeler, declaring that on March 8, 1923, he addressed a letter to Camp- bell asking for detailed facts as to the sale of a portion of the lands con- cerned to the Standard Oil Co. of Cal- ifernia, “in order that when I take it up with the Department of the In- terfor that I will be able to intelli- gently discuss the matter.” “Within the next day or two I will also take the matter up with some other parties here in the city whom I think will be interested,” the letter concluded. On March 13, the indictment de- clared, in reciting the sixteenth “overt act” of the series charged, “said Burton K. Wheeler and Edwin S. Booth sent to Great Falls a cer- tain telegram.” This message, addressed to L. V. Beauleau, at that time an attorney for Campbell, read: cure and mail at once complete list Gordon Camp- bell syndicate and individual hold- ings, giving each separate legal de- scription and character of title di- viding acreage into two classes, that in which title is, absolute and un- questionable, and that in which title may be in doubt. Am writing letter In full tomorrow. Do not wait for| letter for this information—B. K. Wheeler.” The eeventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth specifications likewise con- cerned messages reputedly exchanged | by wire between Campbell and Sena- | tor Wheeler. On March 14, the eigh- teenth count sald, Senator Wheeler| wired Campbell that he was “leaving turday for Europe. Have taken up your matter with parties. Writing Baldwin. Suggest see him," it read. James E. Baldwin was a law partner of Senator Wheel- er, who was a witness called before the grand jury. As the nineteenth count, the indict- ments sets forth a telegram purported to be from Campbell to Senator Wheeler, dated March 14 “Please advise when you expect to return,” the message said. “Belleve matter of Lincoln permit vitally fm- portant. Is possible you can discuss matter with solicitor and 1 can come to Washington and discuss matter with him with view to satisfactory | settlement even during your absence Feel this permit should have promp: attention. Choteau well looking best.” As “overt act” numbered 20 by the indictment, the document set forth | telegram from Wheeler March 14 which was noted in the body of the message as “answer date Great Falls.” “Have already discussed permit| with solicitor,” the telegram said “but did not have number. Wire that to me and I will arrange to have you see him in person if you come here.’ Also on the same date, March 14 e, signed “Gordon Campbell said: “Replying your wire date permit referred to is No. Will be glad to see solicitor ington any time convenient In the last four “overt acts” the in-| dealt with the association | {of former Soliciter Booth with the | conspiracy charged. A letter from | mpbell to Booth on May 4, another | letter from Booth to William Spry. | commissioner of the General Land | | Office, asking approval of certain as- | | signments of ofl “and gas permits, | nd a third letter from Booth 15| | Campbell, saving that former Assist- | it Secretary Goodwin was | Washington, but would be informed as to the enterprise on his retu were included. All these were date in May, 1 The final document set forth in t was a letter written on June from Booth to Sen- ator Wheeler, referring to ‘som» very important matters in relation to the Gordon Campbell matter that [ must | see vou about at the earliest possibie dat This letter was written to Senator Wheeler undgr the address of “United States Senate,” but said “I note by the papers that you will leave for America shortly, and I presume you will reach here within Wash- More Spccx'al Values in Smart Spring Splasl’les! N Brittany Flannel Attached . CollarShirts ... .. Silk Tri- color Suspenders .......$1.85 Pongee Pajamas .........$1.39 Lisle Golf Hose............95¢ Madras Knee U’suits ......95¢ Pure Silk Hose (3 for $2). . .69¢ Fiber Hose (3 for $1).......39¢ few dayvs. I am addressing you so to catch you before you leave DEMONSTRATION This price thru Qg o . * I will be glad if yo call the Department of Justice. Tho indictment 1s signed By Pey- ton Gordon, United States attorney; William J. Donovan, Assistant Attor- ney General; John S. Pratt, R. P. ewart and Oliver E. Pagan, special assistants to the Attorney General he grand fury made its report to | Justice Adolph A. Hoehling in Crimi- nal Division No. 1. Wheeler ana Booth immunity and grand jury. both waived testified before the “Human Fly” Is Extradited. Frank Lee Young, “human fiy,” re- cently arcested by Policemen Deyoe gnd Helde because of his alleged Hold-up of James Cliffin, colored chauffeur, on Riggs road near the District line, was surrendered to onstable Thomas Garrison of Prince Georges Coumty, Md., today. He will be given a preliminary hearing in Hyattsville tonight FEDERAL RESCUE AID AT MINE IS PRAISED West Virginia Governor Wires Secretary Work Appreciation. 184 Fatalities for Month. Secretary of the Interior Work has received a telegram from Gov. How- (ard M. Gore of West Virginia ex- | pressing his appreciation of the work performed by rescuc men of the Bu- reau of Mines in the rescue and re- covery operations after the explosion jat the Bethlehem Corporation at Barrackville, W. Va. Gov. Gore, who was Secretary of Agriculture until March 4, was present at the mine | mine during the | rescue operations Acting Gore, the Interior entire period of upon a request acting Secretar has authorized George S. Rice, chief mining engineer, and .J W. Paul, chief coal mining engineer of the Bureau of Mines, to appear before the inquiry committee investi gating the explosion in which 33 men | were killed Coar mine accidents during the month of February caused the death of 184 men, the Bureau of Mines nounced today, of which 51, or m | than one-fourth, were due to a mine explosion at Suilivan, Ind., February 20. Accidents at bituminous caused 134 fatalities, while 45 were killed in anthracite mine ace dents. Reports to the Bureau Mines for the first two mont 1925 show a production of 10 tons of coal and a logs of 406 1 {from accidents at the mines, indicat |a fatality rate of 3.85 per ! tons produced m Gov the mines men of 7.000 E o NINTH- T e Srom_the AVENU His Easter Clothes, from Hat to Hose, are plainly Parker-Bridget There is an unmistakable mark of quality about all the apparel that comes from the Parker-Bridget Company. And boys like to buy their suits and furnishings here because it’s a real man’s store. P-B “Prep’’ Suits With Two Pairs of Trousers $35.00 We feel the importance attached to the ev nt of selling a chap his first long-trousers suit as much as he does. P-B trousers, at 3359 are mind. enough not to adverti just bought your fir New grays, fawns, unfinished worsteds. “PREP” Suits, with two pairs of styled with this idea in They are youthful—but mannish se the fact that you've t long-trousers suit. browns, in cheviots and P-B—First Floor P-B Clothes for Rowe Sailor Suits, made in Gosport, England, sold here exclusively. $6.75. All Good Scouts Official headquar- ters for Boy Scout Equipment, Scout suits, shirts, hats and furnishings. *NATION LY P-B Four-piece Suits for 1)11_\'>. coat, vest, trousers and golf knickers. $15. Other {our-piece suits, $20 to $35. Durable Siuigt for boys, light and dark colors., $8.50; for boys 2 to 8 years Jierisiey: yvounger Middy Suit of tan linen, washes well. For boys 2 to 8 years. Price; $3.75. T f‘# Spring Oxfords for