Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1929, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., DECEMBER 22, 1 929—PART ONE. SIGAL QUESTIONS T0 BE DICUSSED Prohibition Included in Pro- gram of Sociological Society | Sessions Here. e | Social questions of the day, including prohibition enforcement, share with | technical subjec's the program of the | American Sociolcgical ‘Society, which will open its annual mceting here De- cember 27. The society has as mem- bers the deans and leading professors of departments of sociology in colleges, heads of organizations engaged in wel- fare work and social investigators and | writers. William Oghurn of the Uni-| versity of Chicago is president. Prohibition is to be taken up at a lJuncheon meeting held on December 28 jointly witn the American Statis- tical Association. John G. Gebhart, a writer on social subjects and a former director of charities, who is now cirec- tor of research for the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, | will read a_paper on cnforcement and | its social effects. Engaging in the dis- cussion will be Prcf. Irving Fisher, the Yale economist, who recently brought out & book .n defense of the amend- ment, and Prof. Herman Feldmen of Dartmouth College. Prof. Lobert E.| Chaddock of Columbia University will preside at the luncheon. | Topics Are Announced. The soclologists bave their head- | quarters at the Hotel Willard, where | most of the meetings will be held. The Chines2-foreign conflict, newspaper treatment of the relations between oriental and whits races, a study of the amount of foreign news carried in the American press, police problems in th- light of modern science and the part that city life pleys in juvenile delinquency .r: {opics for the open- ing session. Religion comes in for discussion on th~ morning of the second day of the mecting, opening with a paper on “Manna. Magic and Animism in Mod- ern Religion.” Topics of less general interest are “Experimentation in Face- to-Face Interaction,” the “Uses and Limitations of Behavorism in Sociology” and “Individual Implications of the Family Pattern.” Joint Meeting Scheduled. A joint meeting of the sociologists with “the delegates of the American Economic and the American Statistical Association will be held in the evening in the Washington Hotel, with Secre- tary of the Interior Wilbur presiding. Following the meeting, addressed by the presidents of each society, a smoker will be given by the local universities in the Spanish garden of the hotel. Ar- rangements for the convention and for entertainment of the delegates are in the hands of a local committee, of which Elwood Sireet, director of the Community Chest, is chairman. Other members are: Prof. Earl S. Bellman, University of Maryland; Dr. Hugh 8. Carter, committee on medical | 13 men, women and children in Wash- | filed returns; in Detroit, 7.2 per cent; | in Cleveland, 4 per cent. care: Dr. John M. Cooper, Cathalic Uni- versity; Hildegarde Kneeland, Federal What Do You Know "National Capital Has More Than Average Number of Well- to-Do In Its Population. in Washington have incomes high enough to compel them to file income tax returns. This is about 7% per cent of the total population, as estimated by the Federal Census Bureau, It amounts to one income tax return filer for every ! PPROXIMATELY 40,000 people ington, or about one in every three families. In the whole United States only 1 person in every 30 had an income high enough to compel a Federal income tax | return. Hence, if people who have to file income tax returns may be con- sidered well-to-do, Washington has over 100 per cent more well-to-do among its m}l:alhltnms than the United States as a whole. ‘These are some of the findings from the official figures on income tax re- turns, just collected and compiled for a recent yean More Wealth in Washington. If you work and live in Washington, you have a better chance of having an income of the well-to-do level than the average citizen in cities of about the same size. In the 10 cities nearest Washington in population, five larger and five smaller, three filed more income tax returns than Washington, one about the same and six had fewer income tax filers. Of these 10 cities, only 2 had more income tax payers per capita than Washington and 8 had fewer. For the whole group of 10 cities there was 1 person who had to file an income tax for every 17 people as against 1| for every 13 in Washington. 1 As compared with certain other cities | in the same section of the country, 7'> per cent of Washington's population filed Federal income tax returns, as| -against 5 per cent in Baltimore, 5 per cent in Philadelphia, 43, per cent in | Richmond and 31, per cent in Norfolk. | Of the total population, 8.8 per cent filed income tax returns in New York | City, as compared with 7.8 per cent in Chicago. Both were eclipsed by Pitts- | burgh with 9.2 per cent, although the largest proportion among the largest cities of the country was from San | Francisco, with 11.1 per cent. In Wash- ington 7.5 per cent of the inhabitants Many Poor in Los Angeles. The picture of Los Angeles as pri- marily the playground of the wealthy retired classes is somewhat disproved by the figures. If we estimate its pres- ent population at 1,000,000, which is about half way between its last census figures and the figure held to by its most ardent boosters, it is seen that | only 8.6 per cent of the population in | Los Angeles, or one in every 12 persons, had an income high enough to file a | return with the Government. The figures published by the Govern- ment show that about 40 per cent of Bureau of Home Economics; Prof. Dud- ley W. Willard, George Washington University; Maj. Donald Armstrong; Lisle Burroughs, Community Chest; Rev. Dr. John O'Grady, Catholic Chari- ties; James L. Fleser, vice chairmi American Red Cross. 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W, $125 Platinum Top Pin—3 large Blue ... 575 White finent brilliancy, Iady’s diamond mount- .$490 Solla Plati- diamonds, and $65 14-kt. solid gold “Bruner” d 15-jewel movement. About Washington? the incomes of those with more than $100,000 a year comes from dividends and from 15 per cent to 45 per cent from capital net gains, with only from 3 per cent to 1312 per cent from wages and salarie: Of those with incomes between $5,000 and $10,000 a year, 42 per cent of the | income from wages and salaries, 814 per cent from partnerships, 19 per cent from business profits and only 10 per cent from dividends. i As far as success in business is con- cerned, about 1 in every 30 engaged in professional service (iaw, medicine, engineering, etc., filed an income tax return, 1 in 30 engaged in trade, 1 in 900 engaged in manufacturing estab- lishments, 1 in 800 engaged in trans- portation and 1 in every 700 farmers. (Copyright, 1920.) MASKS WILL COMPETE. 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