Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1928, Page 3

-~ NOD.C.STATETAX SINCE WE ENJOY N STATE BENEFITS In Comparing Tax Burdens With Washington State Tax Should Equitably Be Deducted. 'NO INCREASE OF PRESENT $1.70 TAX RATE ro BY THEODORE W. NOYES. In comparing tax rates, aggregate | taxes and per capitas, it 1€ to be borne fn mind that the total taxes in other | cities than Washington include State, | county, school district and city taxes Washington figures show only city taxes, the total tax and the aty tax | Correspondence of The Star. | Territor | Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Fiorida, the National Treasury with what is sim- flarly paid into and received from the National Treasury hy some States ap- proximating the District in size. ‘The figures of payments by the States into the Federal Treasury used in the | Editorial Research Study are obtained | from the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for 1924, page 98,/ | wherein is nrinted a tab'e giving a sum- | {mary of internal revenue receipts for 1924 by States, including the District This table gives the total internal | revenua receipts from the Distriet in| 1924 at $27,542,527. A footnote on page 99 notes that this amount includes over $9,000,000 back taxes on alien proper Let us then compare the District's ab- normal total of over $27.000,000 with t. payment of other States, precisely | both figures are given by the comm! | sioner of internal revenue in his report. { And let us also compare what may be | | viewed as the District's normal | | ment with those of the Statcs by sub- | tracting the $9,000,000 of back taxes and leaving a payment into the Treasury for (h> vear of §18,000.000 p:us Crediting_the District with the pay- | ment of $27.542,527, it paid into the | Treasury more than 30 States and s—1. e, Alabama, Arizona, | Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, | Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, | North ' Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, | Rhode Island, South Carolina, South | Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginfa and Wyo- ming—30 States: and Alaska and Hawaii—2 Territories. D. C. Pays More National Taxes Than 23 States. If the large payment of back taxes Is deducted ana comparison is made with being the same. Washington contends that in comparing with her the State | tax should not be taken inte account; that as she enjoys no State rights, privileges, bounties and benefits she should not be figured to pay justly as| part of her normal tax burden what | other cities pay in consideration of the enjoyment of these State rights, priv- fleges, bounties and other benefits. (See arguments before joint fiscal commit- tee in 1915, House District committee in 1919, and Semate appropriatiens committee in 1920.) Of course, the main consideration for the payment of State iaxes is the en- Joyment of the political power and +prestige invoived In participation in !“the National Government on equal terms with other Americans. To be transformed through statehood from | the status of political aliens to that of | full-fliedged Americans, with all the powers, rights and privileges - apper- taining 1o that status, confers.m benefit | upon ‘the individual of a value not to| . be calculated in dollars and cents: and | Geprivation of this benefit involves a Jost which is also incalculable Every one, therefore, will recognize the justice of Washington's protest against being taxed to correspond to what other cities pay to maintain a State government, since the District under the Constitution and the laws| enected by Congress is not permitted | the right, privilege and benefit of en- joring and maintaining a State govern- | ment. But very few persons in the ties and subsidies which attach to state- | hood of which Washingtonians are wholly deprived. Our eitizens’ jolnt | committee brief In 1915 recited the millions which in the past had been| distributed by the Nation among the States, omitting the District of Colum- | bia. But these subsidies by the Nation | .to the States are not confined to the past, but continue in vastly enlarged proportions in tH# prefent. | Subventions or subsidies paid by Na- | tion to States in 1924, none of which | was paid to the District of Columbia, | are analyzed and discussed in Editorfal | | ming what may be viewed as the normal Federal tax payment of the District, eightecn millions plus as in 1918-19, the District’s contribution will be found to exceed those of 23 Stales and 2 Teiti- tories—i. c.. Alabama, Arfzona, Arkan- sas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Towa, Maine, Mississippi. Montana, Ne- oraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ore- | South Carolina, South Dakota. | Vermont and _Wyoming States: and Alaska and Hawaii—2 Te ritories. The District's payment of twenty- | seven millions exceeds the combined | payments of 11 States whose contribu- (ions total $26,917.921. These States are | Arizona, Idano, Mississippl. Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakoia, Scuth Dakota. Utah, Vermont ana Wyo- 1f the District's total contril tion be reduced to eighteen millions, it | exceeds the combined contributions of nine States, which aggregate $17,881,499. These States are Arizona, Idaho, Mon- tana, Nevada, New Mexico. North Da- kota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyo- ming. Taxes and Subsidies Compared. The editorial research report figures the percentage relation of the monev paid to the Siates by the Nation with that paid by the State to the Nation | as Federal taxes. Let us include the District in this comparison and note its | relation to States approximating it in e Percent ! Received W State or Natio Capital a1d. £5.000.000 - Paid in Federal Dist. Col $27.343,527 (int. Rev. Reo. ) S18.000.060 . £0,000.000 % idaho ontana. x S Dakota Wyomine S14.280,617 Averize percentaze of eight States 67.8 According to the official figures re- | ported by the commissioner of internal reven the District of Columbia paid in Federal taxes-in 1924 nearly twice as much as these eight States combined, ang its percentage of ald received to taxes paid (33 1-3 per cent) is less than that of any of these eighi States and less than one-balf of the average per- centage (67.84) of the eight States com- binad. If the extraordinary payment of alien ck taxes m 1924 k'fllfldl.'::o hteen millions plus of norma o :'t‘t«l taxes paid by the District in 1924 | of Columbia | ¢ | eighth Congress | schooling at Cincinnati, | Monitor. | States as Minister to Montenegro under THE: SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D..« 0, APRIL .3 1928—PART 1. tions of Nation and Capital, where for nearly half a century it 'has demon- strated its wisdom and bheneficence. Surely the Nation will not toddy adopt the policy anew in relation (o the States and discard it and the principle of defi- nite proportionate contribution ypon which it is based in the Nation's rela- tion to the National Capital. LONGWORTH HEADS R. V. Fleming, Mrs. Walker to Decide Star Finais. Headed by Speaker Longworth and George H. Moses, president pro tempore of the Senate, a jury of five persons is { announced today to act as judges of ! The Star finals of the fifth National Oratorical Contest. May 10. The others are: Jesse C. Adkins, president of the District of Columbla Bar Association: Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs National Bank, and Mrs. Willilam Sherman Walker, vice president-general of the D. A. R The jury completed yesterday when Randolph Leigh, director-general of the contest. received the last of the five acceptances. This group will choose the best orator from the field of eight district winners, who will present their respective 10- minute orations on the Constitution in an _eight-unit meeting to be staged in eight auditoriums of the District. The duty which the members of the finals jury so generously accepted is gravely important not only to each of the con- tenders for first honors in the meet, but to the entire zon mbracing the Dis- trict of Columbia and neighboring | | counties of Maryland and Virginia Fach Judge a Leader. The decision of the judges is impor- tant to the contestants because of the prizes at stake: a three-month tour of the nations of Europe and a cash award of $200, in addition to the right to compete in the national finals contest in the Washington Auditorium May 26. The decision is vital to this news paper’s contest zone because the qu ity of its representation in the battle for the high school forensic champion- ship of the entire Natlon depends upon the selection of its best available ma-| terial and that material will be found in The Star finals. Each member of the jury. however, is capable of judging such a contest as| The Star finals will be, for each is him- self a leader in his respective field of endeavor. Each man and the lone woman have listened to countless speeches in their careers and each has delivered orations at nationally impor- | tant functions. Speaker Longworth, Representative from the first Ohio district, came to the Capitol first as a member of the Fifty- His constituency re- turned him to Washington for the 11 subsequent Congresses, and his fellow | members of the House elected him tc | their highest office—that of Speaker during the sixty-ninth session. Mr Longworth received his preliminary and he re- ceived his A. B. degree at Harvard{ University. He later studied law a! Harvard and at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated Senator Moses represents New Hamp- shire. Educated in the public school: of Eastport, Me. and Franklin, N. H Senator Moses subsequently was gradu- ated from the Phillips Exeter Academy | He received his ‘A. B. degree at Dart- | mouth College In 1890 and his A. M | from the same institution in 1893. Hc | took a LL D. at George Washington University in 1921. He has been a mem ber of the Board of Education of Con- cord and editor of the Concord Evening He represented the Unitec President Taft. D. C. Product. Mr. Adkins is a product of the Dis- | trict of Columbia public schools and the holder of the degrees of bachelor | means of selecting a winner. | each ORATORY JUDGES ‘ SN | Senator Moses, J. C. Adkins, | Upper. left to right: Speaker Long- worth, Senator Moses and Jesse Adkins, president of the Districi of Columbia Bar Association. | Lower, left to right: Robert V. Flem- !ing. president of the Riggs National Bank, and Mrs. William § | Walker, vice president general, | contestant will deliver his speech. In this way a potential audience of 15.000 | persons may hear a part of The Star finals, whereas if the speakers appearcd on a single platform. the greatest pos- sible number of persons who could hear them would be 7.000. The champions of each of the local public high schools will be heard in their own auditoriums. The champion {of the private and parochial schools | district of the District of Columbia will | present his bid for victory in an audi- torium of a private or parochial school The Virginia champion will deliver his contending speech in the auditorium !of the National Museum and the Mary- land champion likewise will speak in the same hall but at a different time. The order in which the eight speakers will be heard will be announced later Important modification in the method of determining the victor will be used by the jury this year. The low-point total system, which has been used for several years, still will be the first By t, write his own ballot without consultation with the other members of the jury and the con- testant having the lowest numerical rating total will win first place if he also secures the rating of first place from the majority of the judges. judge will In Case of Tie. If no contestant sccures both the lowest total and first place from the majority of the judges. then the judges will be called into consultation to se- lect by a majority vote the out of the the lowest scores. In case two contestants are tied for first place and one of the two has lirst place from a majority of the judges. | the one holding first place with the | majority of the judges shall automatic- ally become winner without consulta- tion. In case there is a tie for first place and a tie for second place, with four contestants thus involved, and no con- testant has received first place from » majority of the judges, then the judges shall go into consultation to select the winner from among the involved four. In case three or more contestan's are tied for first place and no one of trem has received first place from a maority of the judges, then the judges sha!l go into consuitation to select the winner from the three or more contestants ties for first place. Wales Wins and Places. WELLOW, Nottinghamshire, England April ‘14 ' (#).—The ® Prince of Wales won the second race of the Ruford point to point meeting here today, Lady Doon. He finished second in the first race. Thousands of Bargains in winner | three contestants having | O riding | HARRI&I& LEGISLATIVE FUNDS BILL PASSES HOUSE $17,500,000 Measurs .000 to Improve Ventila- tion in Chambers, The legislative appropriations bill carrying_euthorized expenditures of al- most. $17.500,000, was passed yesterday by th> House and sent {o the Senate Tho measure carries appropriations for the expenses of the Senats, the the House, the Capitol police, the 'foint committes on printing, the office of leg- islative counsel, the architect of the Capitol, the Botanie Garden, Library of Congress and Government Printing fMice. Among the expenditures authorized was $328.000 to provide an improved and modern ventilation system for the Senate and the House. Since 1917. & million tubereulous cattle have bsen destroyed in the cam- paign against tuberculosis in stock. SAVAGE Health Motor Exerciser and Reducer Includes ASKS SMUGGLING CURB. President Coolidgs rejommended to Congress yesterday that a special unit of expert investigators be created in the Customs Service for the prevention of diamond smuggling. | The proposal, approved by the Bureau of the Budget, called for an estimated expenditure of $103,720. In addition the President asked the appropriation of $439.840 for employment of addi- | tional guards and searching squads at | the Port of New York and for an in- crease in the water patrol along adja- cent rivers, together with the necessary cquipment to carry out their work. wee Heaters Water New—First Quality—8$6.25 and $2.25 “Delivery System Unexcelled” DN R 3 BRANCHES 67&C Sts SW S*AFlabeNE POCKBOTTOMPRICES /5021 Ga AmNW HORSE SHOW DATES SE AS MAY 119 | | | | I | | | Many . Unusual Features Promised for Events at Bradley Farms Tract. | | | A |, The National Capital Horse Show will be held at the newly acquired Bradley Farms tract of the Horse Show As | clation on Mzy 17, 18 and 19. The ac- quisition of the new grounds will en {able the association to present the show in a bhetter setting and with better | faclities this year than ever before. | The committee has obtained the ervices of Frank Gaskins, a veteran | manager. Melvin C. Hazen, who In | past, years directed the plans, will con- tinue his work this year Because of manner in which the re- cent list of prizes was received it is expected that the number of entries will be particularly large and probably !the most notabl> list ever entered in | loeal horse show | Tt is considered almost certain that a feature of the show will i the exhibi- tion of Temptatiol the sensational mare now stabled at Greenwich. Conn The Jynior League will have an im- { portant part in the show. Mrs. Chaun- cey Parker will shortly announce the members of the league who will be on | tha committes | _The officers and directors who are at | present_working on the plans include Col. Robert N. 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Capital and Surplus $1.000,000 1‘\\\ | little Jess than 50 per cent) is a trifie Pederal Government to or on behalf of | as ene State and largely exceeded hy' served as assistant United States dis- the States during the fiscal year 1924 | four States. ‘The average percenlage ;. trict attorney and assistant United was approximately $145.000000. This the eight States is 67.84. as against 30/ giates Attorney General. He ix pre sum represented about 5 per cent of 'O ‘e Distriet | dent of the Distriet of Columbia Bar o D. C. Pays Twice What It Recelves. | Association and a member of the New | the total expenditures during the last| D- C York Bar Assoclation { fiscal year by the National Govern- ’!'hull, the Dug‘l)cld"l'r; ::'ll‘h'vzgd‘:‘l &):r.l Fleming studied at Priends | " 4 - Federal taxes (acCOr rhool and at a Washingtos igh o 'S".M|m’ R figures) three times as much a5 the .chool He was graduated lrr\mnflrl(:lx;:" 1924. page 572) | Nation_ appropriated in that year 0T | washington University, where he su “Under thess acts approximately | National Capital upbuilding. The mor- | cialized in polticzl economies and cy $521.772.175 in Pederal aid has been Mal tax payment by “'; ".':t:‘."...'.“"*"'-' law. In addition to being presi granted to the Stat : | 1924, from the dent of the Riggs Bank. Mr. Fleminz e es. down to the | oxtraordinarily large revenue from allen | o yico president of the District of Co- end of the fiscal year 1924, whereas in | back taxes, was more than twice a%|,mpia Bankers' Association. He hold 1914 the total of Pederal subsidies paid | Much as the national centributlen In membership in the local Board o t0 the Statss snnually amounted to Jess | P2t Yoo for the Capita bullding. | Trade, the Association of Reserve Cit nually amounted to Jess | “in percentage relation of national ald | Banyers, the National Economic Leatn sy 9808000, | o national tax payments the Distriets | and several prominent clibs ; " reentage (33 1- r cent, according " ” Paid to and by U. § D sl figuies: something less | Will Hear Eight Contests. Tt will be interesting to compare what | than 50 per cent, according to the' In hearing the eight contenders for | Wunlnm pays into and receives from , figures reduced to a showing of actual | the championship of this area, the jury | = e — normal tax payments) compares with | will be transported to eight’ separate | those of eight BStates approximating | meetings in each one of which a single | o axy | he District in size, as follows: Accord. | il | ng to the official report, national aid | # _____17* | in relation to national taxes is less for | X PERYICE POREMAN | the District than for the States of ol T Dt Ariu‘ma, ;amo. thllnns:'bvm New + | Mexico, North' Dakota, Bouth Dakota | |and Wyoming, and is less than half | Charles Macalester of the average percentage of these eight foaves 1th e Whart Daily Btates |§ 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. According 1o the revided figures of . 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