Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1931, Page 14

VERDICT ON CHAIN STORE TAX WAITED Indiana Levy Decision Ex- peoted on April 13—North Carolina Appeal Filed. By the Associated Press. Chain stores and the Legislatures of many States will keep a weather eye on the Supreme Court when it meets April 13 in expectation of a decision in the $ndiana chain store tax case. If the statute is upheld some of the harmony in the jangle of chain store cash registers may vanish. The Indiana law frankly is an at- tempt to regulate and check the growth of the chains. Familiar arguments for and against them were heard in briefs and speeches attorneys presented to the court. A Federal three-judge circuit court in Indianapolis declared the tax unreason- able and the law void, but Indiana ap- | pealed. Tax Is From $3 to $25. The law was passed in 1929. Under ft taxes range from $3 for one store | # $25 for each over 20. Lafayette Jackson of Indianapolis, eperating 225 stores as the Standard Grocery Co., assailed the law as dis- eriminatory and unconstitutional. He said an example of its unfairness was his tax of $5,443, as compared with that of many department stores which did a bigger business but paid only $3. ‘The Indiana Board of Tax Commis- sloners in defending the law said a State had the right to “discourage a slpecific business and encourage snother Owner’s Argument Cited. Mr. Jackson replied facts “support the conclusion of the court below that the act does not relate to public health, fibhc welfare, public morals or public ety.” One attack by a State Jaw on chain alnres has already failed in the Supreme ‘ourt. A Pennsylvania law which prohibited members of a corporation from acquir- ing a drug store unless they were li- censed pharmacists was declared uncon- stitutional. The North Carolina chain store tax also is pending in the court, but it was filed several weeks after the Indiana cas®. It places a flat tax of $50 on each chain store. The statute was sustained by the North Carolina Supreme Court and the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. appealed. CAPITAL PLAYGROUNDS HELD BEST IN NATION District Supervisor Returns Here, Confident Washington Has Peerless System. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor of playgrounds, has returned from a two-month tip to the Pacific Coast more than ever confident, she sald, that the “best playgrounds and playground in- structors are to be found right here in ‘Washington.” ‘While on her trip which combined businmtmm gl‘e:s\;xe. un.dnhodu lu; spected g ayground system of Chicago and the [;mmm in & number of other Western cities. Bhe learned of she sald, which Te. ip Mrs. Rhodes visited her 88-year-old mother, Mrs. A, D. Root, &% Shawnee, Okla, and then went on to the Pacific coast to visit in Los Angeles, her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. Mrs. R. A. Straten. Chicago’s playgrounds are among the finest to be found anywhere, she said, but despite all the money expended there, she belleves the Wi system superior to any in the country. Greece bought more goods from the United States last year than from any other country. Why? THE SUNDAY Enlisted Men’s Haven CLUB HOUSE TO BE BENEFITED BY MOVIE SHOW. Service men’s club house at 1015 L street. efit of the club house of the en- listed men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, under the auspices of the Women's Army and Navy League of Washington, were announced yesterday. The management of R-K-O Keith's Theater is co-operating with the league to make the event a success. A comedy farce, “Cracked Nuts,” featuring two of Hollywood's most popular comedians, will be shown for the first time in the Capital, and special tickets are to be sold, admitting the purchaser to any performance during the week of the benefit. LANS for a movie carnival from P April 17 to April 24, for the ben- Boxes to Be Sold. It is expected that boxes will be taken by members of the cabinet for the night of April 17, as well as by high officials of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Enlisted men will be given {al liber- ty to come to Washington from Quan- tico and Fort Humphreys to attend per- formances during benefit week. ‘The Women's Army and Navy League of which Mrs. Hoover is honorary presi- dent and Mrs. Ben. H. Fuller, president, has for many years had as one of its special objectives the providing of a comfortable and attractive home for enlisted men of the services, shtioned‘ in Was] or its environs, or pass- | ing through the Capital. " ugh the generosity of Senator and | Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf of Rhode Island | the building adjoining the clubhouse at | 1015 L street was purchased last Sum- | mer and work was immediately started | to remodel and renovate the house for | use as an annex to the club. Mrs. Met- calf, who has long been interested in | the work of the league, was prompted to make her gift through appreciation of efforts made in the past by the Women's cle Sam’s 4 place and a home commensurate w‘lmi the dignity of the uniform. The small salaries paid to soldiers and sailors make it almost impossible for enlisted | men on leave to afford suitable lodgings while passing through cities. Started 40 Years Ago. ‘The first “clubhouse” provided for en- listed men of the service was a small purchased over 40 years ago, at d and C streets, possessing but four beds. With the passing of years, this sold and new property acquired, t building on was until, in 1925, the presen ing L Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate of 1% cents per days and 5 cents Sundsy. SHOULD YOU BUY A ERARARAM §IX OR EIGHT @ Because — ONLY Graham gives. 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As the New York club has been made possible through memorial gifts, it is hoped that the Washington club also may assume a memorial character in the near future, and that memorial gifts may be made by friends of service men which will make it possible for the club to, some day, be self-supporting. At a meeting held Thursday by the Women's Army and Navy League, Mrs. E. St. J. Grebel was appointed chairman of the committee in charge of arrange- ments for the forthcoming benefit, and Mrs. R. P. Craft was appointed chair- man of the committee on publicity. 05 Two men trying to smuggle eggs | from Spain into Portugal were shot | recently by customs guerds near | Guarda and badly wounded. 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Seniors in High Schools Will Give “The Toy Shop.” More than 100 girls from the senior high schools here and the George Mason High School in Alexandria will take | part in “The Toy Shop,” to be pre-| sented as their fifth annual operetta by the Girl Reserves of Washington | April 9, 10 and 11. The play, to bei given at the Y. W. C. A, will be under the direction of Mrs. Alice Sigworth Morse, drama director; Miss Mary M. Burnett, music director; Miss Mabel R. Cook, Miss Dorothea MacDowell and others of the Girl Reserve department of the Y. W. C. A. ‘There will be three performances. ‘That on April 9, at 2:30 o'clock, will have an audience of children from 3 dship use, St. hanage, St. Ann’s Infant , the Washington Home for Foundlings, German Orphan Asylum, Hillerest, Nelghborhood House, Baptist Home for Children, Swartzell Methodist Home, Episcopal Home for Children and the Masonic and Eastern Star Homes for Children. “The Toy Shop,” by Jessie L. 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