Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 6

6 CTENS ABROAD ASK TAK RELEF merican From Brazil Says Business Is Being Killed - by High Levy. Failure of Congress to exempt from the Federal income tax income de- rived by American eltizens conduct- ing business in foreign lands is “kill- ing American business abroad,” Rich ard i omsen, president of the Amer mber of Commerce for Brazil, de d in an interview here yesterday. Mr. Momsen has come to Washington as representative of his orgs 0 and the American Cham. ber Commerce of Cuba to urge (8 ©ss to write such an exemption into & tax revi Lill Although the House pted a lim ited 1 tion for such income. the . finance committee, Mr. ited out, refused even to 1d eliminated the entire M n sald he was If Congress had fi information as to the handicaps “uch an income tax imposes speedily would grant the exemp- ton that is extended by every other in the world to its citl- mption Too Light. wision voted hy the he ways and means heard arguments for 0. K. Davls, secre Nutional Foreign Trade ind other foreign trade ex- ot go far enough, in the most American chambers abroad, Mr. Momsen ovision exempted for al citizen of the United received as salary or the sale of export States of tangible wperty produced in the in respect of such he i actually em- ide of the United States, if for morg than six the taxable yvear.” . comment of the Senate finance in striking out the pro- t was unnecessary be- ome tax credit alread by the United States of nt of such tax paid to a ment, did not take into the actual fucts of the . Momsen said. es Heavy Burdens. “While it Is true,” he sald, “that Amer r : abroad are per- mitted 1o deduct from their American x the amount of their forefgn tas only income or excess of foreign governments Most cou s levy a great varlety of business and other taxes whicn are entirely unknown or unheard ot in the U States. As a result, the present partial ‘exemption’ in the form of a reduction is to a great of no value. countries where the income tax A is greater than that in the 1 States, it would seem that the desire Is nol necessary. is perhaps only one coun- which le a higher income % than the United States. Brazil, where I have resided for the greater of the last 18 years, is in that \tegory. There are, however, a mul- de of other taxes which are im- posed upon business and professional men there, which if added to the in- come tax probably would make the total @ greater burden than our taxes in this country. Every business man in Brazil, for example, has to a municipal business tax, Which many classifications runs into of dollars a yvear: he must kn on his place iere, and numer- City Taxes Are Heavy. cities also exact the payment tary and a multitude of other taxes on business in every form. To fers]l zovernment he pays & X known as the industrial and he also pa: fed- a tax varying from of the rent or rental ses he occupies. American in Brazil can- axes from his Amer- In other countries is no income tax at all taxation is levied in the situatlon is still jortant point is that the is the only Government exempt | s dertv sther ade con s of com- the foreign ihor costs in this at least Le relieved en of the income .M atroind tion und king their foriunes abroad. n clause, he sald, could irnwn so as to exclude entitled to Its benefits by Mmiting the exemption to “eirned in- come. it not too narrowly defined CHAMBERLAIN DISGUISED. Sir Austen Dons Spectacles and Looks Like Comedian. LONDON, January 30 (#)—Horn- are w complete Austen Chamberlain. 2 monocle m his ut for writing and read- dons the blinkers which give of un \merican of the Locarno on his sperticles he- tore A s name to the his toric dr S s movinz b ture cameras caught him wearins the heay *h English come- diar s wewr when 1bey portr: an Am o Mr. Harvey V& WOl nied specticles and Mr. Houghten also w CHICAGO CAFE HELD UP. §2.000 and Ring Stolen From Heart of Business District. CHICAGO, afe in the Chicago Rialto, in the o al business district, up about 3 p.m. today by two who escaped with a little mo than 32,000 {n currency and a Aanmond r alued at $1,000. Only a few pa were in the place, among then Samuel Cole, owner of the new 'rn_and Astor hotels, wis relieved of his valuables. om was chiefly known for years as proprietor of Freiburg's dance hall in the old Twenty-second street segre- gated districts CEILING-SEEKING Altitude Flyer Reveals Thrill of Battle With New Conditions. 200-Mile Gales Threaten to Land Aviator Far From Flight Base. Note—TAs conguest of (he upper by man 1 the sirange siory of dno. world. Because new conguests are minant in this field of one of the jew American Rave made alticude flights rel v of wAGL it means to attempt feats like tAat of Lieut. Macready of the American Arm i1z0 0f the Fren: Jorces. " Hou does it fesl to travel 5 ‘o 8 miies above the earih? 'The question 15 anewered by Lieur. McDurmen: in (o articies “The second articie 1will appear tomorrow. By Lieut. Corley McDarment The attempt Friday of Lieut. John A. Macready to set up a new world's altitude record for aeroplane fAlght and the announcement that the French alrman Callizo is about climb Mount Everest by alrplane have a very keen interest for all aviators, becau: the men who fly know-—as perhaps the general public does not know—the weird sensations and experfences {nvolved in altitude flying. It offers the severest test in aviation for both meu and ma- chines. An aviator golng up for an alti tude flight must wage a continucus battle with the vacuum. It seems paradoxteal to carry on a duel with nothingness, but this vacuum of space is a deadly com- batant. It cries to every celi in the body to release its gus. It pulls at every corpuscle in the blood in an attempt to draw out the little par- ticles of afr that are carried therein, and sometimes the blood itself is drawn out through the skin. Even the tiny sacs of flutd in the brain are called upon to release their quota of air and help fill the immense emptiness of space. Winds of Whirling World. An unsual element that an aviator encounters while trying to climb to the highest shelf of the atmosphere and pluck the altitude trophies, is the terrific wind. An easterly wind of about 200 miles an hour blows con- stantly out near the rim of the alr. This 15 the wind that the earth makes in Its rotation. At the equator the earth drags the ir around with it at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour, but this speed slows up near the pole: It is about 700 miles an hour in mid- dle Nerth America. But as the air is going with the earth, the velocity 1s not noticed in the lower strata. Out at the edge, however, where there is nothing to make friction, the air whips with great velocity. One avi- ater trying for an altitude record in September, 1918, was blown 200 miles off his coyrse in about an hour and @ half. If an aviator stayed up long enough, and there was cloud strata below cbscuring the earth, he might be in danger of descending in the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Ocean. Lets Ailr Oooze Out. By climbing up into the rare atmos- phere slowly—and most atrplanes climb more and more slowly the higher they go—an aviator can gradually let the air ooze from his body without serious discomfort. But a too rapid ascent will cause rupture of skin and hlood vessels. Just how far a man can he natured” or “aired out” in this way nobody knows. But it {s certain that what goes out on & high altitude fiight must be put back on coming down. The return to earth causes more discomfort to aviators than the going up to great heights. The rule | now is to come dpwn to about the 20,000-foot level and cruise around for a ‘while in order to get accustomed to earthly atmosphere again. Even from this altitude an aviator cannot descend at once to earth without seri- ous consequences. Air Is Very Thin. The kinetic theory of goses indi cates that one-half of the earth’s at- mosphere i3 contained within the first 31 miles above the surface, and one. half the remainder 18 within the next 3% miles. With the atmosphere ex- tending to less than 100 miles at the most, it is apparent that when an avi- ator gets over 30,000 feet he is plow- ing through the skimmings. In making flights to great altitudes, the horizon continually climbs up to a level with the airplane. It looks like the rim of a glant punch bowl, and it becomes wider and a little dim mer the higher a flyer ascends A man would have to go up ahout 2,000 miles before the bowl rim would drop away and an arc of the earth's clrcumference could be detected. Of course, there is no immediate prospect of an airplane flight to this altitude. As an example of how close to the earth the highest altitude flight is: If the earth were a ball § inches in iameter, a helght of 100 mi or 8 feet, would represent a dis- tance of only one-tenth of an inch, 1f 4 man on the moon could see an air- plane making an altitude record flizht he could probably not see dayllght be tween the plane and the edge of the earth. The human body would probably burst at an altitude of 100 mil It would certainly do so {f taken to such a height quickly, for the air pressure there is only about one four-hundred- millionth of that at the surface of the earth. Toneliness of Heights. The loneliness of great heights oppressive. The few clouds that sometimes creep as high as 25000 feet are like Icy ghosts of another world. Sometimes a spectral snow storm is encountered, the snow com ing from nowhere and never reaching the ground, as the flakes turn into cloud mist thousands of feet below. Flying through heavy snowstorms in July or August is not an uncom- mon experience to aviators who go up to unusual heights. The flash of the propeller blade, the up-and-down dunce of the rocker arms on the engine. the cofl of trozen gas from the ex- aust pipes and the quiver of the sitm white hands on the instrument dials are the only movements that an aviator sees when he goes after an altitude record, and all these things are a part of himself. He lives with the machine. It is the only other liv ing thing in that void realm. The steady drone of the motor tralls off into space, and not the slightest echo of reverberation i3 hewrd. There fs not enough air to hurl echoes back, even If the sound reached anything. This unnatural loneliness helps to make the passage of time seem long. ¥rom the immense heights such earthly things as automobliles, trains, trees, individual houses, are lost to view. A road or a river becomes a tiny thread, small lakes resemble pearl shirt buttons, towns and cities fade Into little patches of squares that have a color slightly different from the countryside. In Different World. All this makes high flying a differ- ent world from ordinary flights at moderate altitudes. When flying low, an aviator can see people moving around; he can see washings on the ack-yard lines, and by going lower e can even see what garments are hung out to dry. In this way the low-fiylng aviator can still feel him- self a part of the ordinary world and recognize his. kinship with the earth and the people on it. 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