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must always face the desire of Con- gress to increase the tax cut. What Treasury officials were really fighting was the group advocating 1$400,000,000 or over. And if the tax o {eut is increased by anly $100,000,000 when the actual returns come in, the - | Treasury is likely to consider its posi- {tion thoroughly vindicated. % | Entirely apart from the merits o this academic controversy on who was right or wrong in his guess, there is Interest Created as/a comfortable feeling in Washington | that Congress was content to wait for |the actual figures and that the ap- propriations will not depend on guess work. Wide Early Figures Show Trend to Gain. Trend to Revision Seen. With a definite sum to spend, the problem of getting a tax bill passed THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, Lilacs, Last Plants Worked .on by Burbank, Bloom By the Associated Pres SANTA ROSA, Calif., March 22— Five new lllacs, the last plants the late Luther Bur- bank, are in bloom on the experi- mental farm near Sebastovol, Calif. ‘They are declared to be the most beautiful specles of lilacs ay as being very large double wi “hose-in-hose flrgwem.“ being double same NOTED WRITER DEAD. George A. Taggart, Author of Pop- ular Songs, Apoplexy Victim. , 8. C., March 22 (®). George A, , 58, formerly well known in metropolitan journalistic cir- clee and at the close of the eighteenth century a_writer of ‘populu songs, died here late Tuesday night of apoplexy. He left & long list of persons to be notified in event of his death, including Franklin P. Adams, Jullan Street, Min- nle Maddern Piske, and Maurice Mc- Laughlin of the Brooklyn Eagle. ‘Taggart before death prepared his - | the newest organized and the youngest bY | in age enter MARCH 22, 1928, FILLMORE GIRLS’ GROUP .WINS IN SONG CONTEST Grade School Reserves Take First Place as Result of Competition at Y. W. C. A, The Girl Reserves of the Fillmore | Grade School, Thirty-fifth and R streets, composed of students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, won first place in the song contest at the Young Women's_Christian Association Tuesday. The Pillmore group, which was formed about six weeks ago, was in the competition, all the operetta, “The Pled Piper,” to be | tured by the Stuart Junior High School, given at the Y. W. C. A. Saturday. Second place in the contest was cap- while the Hine and Macfarland Junior Uaquestionably the biggest piece of will be a contest of priorities and & mews that Washington has had for the | guestion of how the tax burden will be business world in many months is the | distributed. data on tax receipts. If the revenues for 1927 run ahead of 19826, the prophets of business depres- wion will be completely discredited. If the fax receipts are as estimated by the | ‘Treasury, the theory that in many re- firmed, and Congress will be cautious | f PYeholofic Dart o R about enacting a iaw reducing rates at a time when future receipts are belicved uncertain. ‘The battle of figures and estimates has a significance other than tax red tlon. It relates to Government expendi ture. Flood control appropriations and many other items now held in abeyance to see how much money will be sble depend on what the prosp surplus of receipts over expendity ‘will be. Receipts Running Ahead. Just now the receipts are running ahead of last year by more 0 000,000, If this ratio is the Treasury will have to adm and the early votes on various proysions in the House of Representatives show the trend of tax revision, As a barometer of business, tax re- ceipts always have been regarded as having some value. Generally spes ing, the impression that the dosl.ns months of 1927 were not favorable has & psychological effect on business plans If the re- ceipts should show that much of the talk was unfounded and that 1927 in many instances was a better year than 1926. the opportunity for the pessimist to sell his philosophy to the business world will be correspondingly dimin- ished ‘Tax receipts, especially corporation returns, have become a measure of business efficiency as well as prosperity. s doubtful whether the final figures | be ready for analysis much before | middle of Aoril. though the Treas- ' is receiving telegraphic reports from varfous collection districts and should have approximate figures within he next 10 days. D. L. i L e the other contestants being junior high school students. Miss Louise McKirdy is president of the Fillmore Reserves, Press and the Dramatic Mirror, ijascasituie: RS MALAN TO QUIT CAPETOWN | Consular Service Appointments, |and Miss Ruth Little their trainer. The T TR ‘M&mbe“‘:r&‘e Pg;elmg:rvlc:egchool victors will sing between the acts of Minister of Railways Faces Impor-|&" the Stal partment have been as-| e misterot e i ® signed to duty as vice consuls at foreign tant Mission in Lisbon. B D. An- drewar” Ohlo, te W Stdne WS, 3 arsaw; ney H. Mareh 33 UP-DE. G, W. Malan, minis: | BLONT: Jr. New Jersey, to Autofagasta ter of railways and harbors, will sail for Rln'“ John 8. m‘;’ }“:2“’*";"{"' g Lisbon, on April 7. The fact . ¢ N o that h.l'fl.lumt:h before departmental c’:nwn. and Charles A. Page, Massa- estimates are completed is taken to in- | PUSetts. to Havana. dicate that the mission is important. | It 1s understood the union of South Africa is anxious for l}r:ww Mozambique Windsor Castle is one of several great | houses in England the windows of which have never been counted. OVER 70 YEARS OF SUCCESS . tive labor for the Rand mines, as well as interworking railways. 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