Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1931, Page 35

BINGHAM POINTS OUT NEED FOR ADDITIONAL TAXATION 'llcmber of Senate Finance Committee Discusses Problems in Radio Forum Address. §53 | b | does not object to the 2 | which enables him to THE SUNDAY ART TWO. . Restoring Athens of Africa ’ Cyrene, Ancient City of Libya, Forms Connecting Link Between Biblical History and Antiquity pleagant topic in the whole realm of governmental activities. I never heard ©f any one who enjoyed paying taxes. The most unpleasant, and, therefore most generally concealed fact in con- naction with taxation is that no one | who buys anything from a ride in the street car to a fur coat actually escapes taxation, As President Coolidge once vividly pointed out, every time you buy & pair of shoes you help pay the taxes of the retaller who sold them to you: ©of the wholesaler who s0ld them to the shoe store; of the manufacturer who them to the wholesaler; of ‘merchant who sold the material the manufacturer; of the packer who the hide to the tanner; of stockyard, where the animal was soid; ©of the railroads that brought it to the stockyards and of the farmer or ranch- the taxes and the retailers’ one you it are wea: 13 g i ] § iz i g85Es i i g? f2§ i sy 3 z;§ L it ? « -1 g H i § H H S gi g gi . : | £ 5E i s | % i : H 3 H 3 8, a8 E iz B g8 5 gs gi z g S g i i incomes went into effect, 206 persons who had taxable incomes of a million dollars or more. Then the high tax rate went into effect and not- ithstanding the enormous business wmn‘a‘w’u in tions and supplies in war, the number of During the war we enarmously in- creased taxes on such persons. What ‘words, - | by add! ar, immed! position because, In the first place, it is a nuisance to be obliged to put a 2-cent stamp on each check that one makes out and, in the second place, n> | one be'ieves he is going to get improved service for what he spends. Yet it would help carry the load. A few years ago the Federal Govern- ment collected & reasonable tax on all automobiles and motor cycles when they were sold. This tax produced a good deal of revenue, most of which might fairly be sald to have been spent on_Federal -buflding jects. In 1923, 1924, 1925 and lfi.p’lohe United States Governmen and proper way to raise the millions of dollars which 'we spend on Federal-aid I utomobile and motor cycle taxes hich we formerly received a hun- knows that we have an one knows that behind millions lollars every week. ows that we do not want i 8% | -bullding program. it seems to me, that every willing to see this tax fort to meet the deficit. ‘Were some nuisance taxes years when annual sur- i 23 i t | ties, like municipal and State bonds. It is obvious that merely to raise the rates on income taxes, even though the spread is made wider than it is at pres- ent, will not greatly help the situation even though it ought to be done. Must Help Pay Taxes. ‘When I look at the steadily increas- o of - uxuum lnnm:rt:“ any of us can s xes still higher. On the other hand. when I study the heavy burden of indebted- ness that is growing heavier every year. paiticularly on residents of our larger cities and towns. it does not seem fair to increase this burden of indebtedness ing to the already enormous bur- den of debt which the war left upon our shoulders. Do not be misled by persons who tell you that they have a plan which will make somebody else pay the taxes and {THE ANCIENT GREEK SCULP- TURES. BY PROF. LUIGI PERNIER. Royal University, Florence, Italy. NOTE—Cyrene, to most, is merely a name that occurs somewhere in the Bidle, and ihe chances are we would have 10 “Iook o make sure of its commection. was the home town ofs the chance er named Simon, who wes com- the ezecutioners of Jesus to f the way to all ident; John omits it. in_the Acts {nat ‘ooivgiot o BoTtlotel rdthertng: o hahiZn " n f,lo‘iftl Arst MNM"I preached Chris- aity. These pagsing mentions of Cyreme in e New Testament marrative do mot o nver might Boure today—simply because everybods knew about it and took it for granted. At the height of its power Cyrene was han 100,000 inhabitants, o ‘Greece and Egvpt rthage. overshadowing its rank as @ center of commerce was Cv- rene’s proud place in the intellectu life of “the worid. Its medical school i art flourished ‘poet. phill among its E In the article that s . Per- r tells of the marble temples, Roman s, altars and other magnificences of ancient world which 1) des of kmen have reciaimed from the ust of desert oblivion and which stas ument alike o ancient building genius and an" devotion " to 'the ving Hellenic period and a s flex of the glory of ceased to exist with the death last t citizen, Bishop Sy- the most elegant of an- clent Christian writers and the last champion of Latinity in Cyrenaica. From the period when a small band ot famishing refugees from the Island of Thera, under the leadership of Bat- tus-Aristoteles, founded the city of Cyrene in the seventh century B. C., on the most beautiful part of an ele- .| vated table-land, to the beginning of the fifth century A. D., when Synesius THIS HEAD OF ZEUS RESEMBLES CYRENE, A CITY BUILT ON A TERRACED HILLSIDE. was forced to witness the destruction of his beloved city wnrough the in- vasions of barbarians and the violence of earthquakes, more than 10 long cen- turies . Since its downfall, Arabs, and have neg- it could be Bedouins lected the buried city; likened only to an immense city of the dead—one of the most impressive of the ancient world—spread out upon descending terraces of rock around the inhabited area. Until the beginning of the Italian excavations, the visible ruins of the city were few and silent; here and formless remains, such as isolated columns, emerged from flelds and gar- dens which covered- the place where Cyrene flourished. European travelers during the last century hunted among the ruins, chiefly in search of treasures, overthrowing portions of ancient edi- fices and thus destroying valuable pages of history. Task of Italian Scholars. For the reconstruction of bygone ages it is necessary to trace the monuments from their remotest origin and cause them to live anew through their lit- erary remains, inscriptions and works of art. Italian scholars. duced by the English explorers, Smith and Porcher, in 1861, which has served as feference until now, has a topo- graphical value but it has little cer- tainty in regard to the ruins of the vanished ages of the past. In 1925-'26 our architect, 1. Gis- mondi, executed a new and precise map. This map shows, among other. details, traces of the circuitous wall on the western side of the hill, identified as This was the task assumed by | in the ‘The plan of the City of Cyrene pro- | to | THE BATTERED HEAD OF AG- GRIPINA THAT WAS FOUND AT CYRENE. eastern part of the terrace to their own tum. t‘e”panmdn( Lh’em f!flll!’l thfi lbl’nc- uary of a wall an a portico of bow-shaped construction. monumental inscription of }’l" states that the Roman / the most ancient stronghold, at the foot of which were Sacred Fount, the Sanctuary of Apollo and the Theater. On the eastern side of the other been a sanctuary of Artemis, but now proved through a votive inscription and a énost beautiful head of Zeus, discov- eréd there in 1926, to have been dedi- cated to Jupiter Olympus. The divine effigy, with its gilding and the ivory-like brilllancy of its marble appears to imitate the tech-| o nique of idias’ immortal masterpiece and, like the similar heads of Zeus of the lden “staters” coined in the sacred mint of olymgh in the fifth and fourth centuries B. C., it seems to serve for us the most faithful - tion of the Phidian creation. Extensive Ruins Revealed. , however, this new an extensive juding those on a terrace which exiends north of the Fount of Apollo, and those of a height ‘The rulns on the terrace others to the Greco-Roman Agora. The present excavations have proved that or! Auo(!helr?ln(mnt of the Fount of llo as far as the sustaining wall of the terrace was oc- carled by the monuments sacred to the cult of Apollo, Artemis and other di- :I.nluu‘ as well as to Beus and Hades, uri. . The Romans adapted the baths in th§ i e g i ol H CONSERVATIVES ATTACK LATIN AMERICAN POLICY Writers’ Criticisms of New Attitude Held Reactionary in Face of South- erners’ Approval. BY GASTON NERVAL. RECISELY when the Latin American policy of the United S';:u is, (orb:::hnfl!lnlt 't‘fme in mehy years, g to com- mand approval and good-will on the other sice of the Rio Grande conservative elements in this country endeavor to 4hrow stones at it. And even hold it responsible for a restless state of political conditions in the Southern nations. | Of course, these conservative attacks | —which come from the same reaction- ary elements who refuse to keep abreast {of the times and still believe that the | policy of the big stick is the latest | word in American foreign policy—do not amount to much, as-against the almost unanimous applause with which the Latin Americans themselves have greeted the new attitude of the State Department. However, when they go so far as {trying to blame this changed policy for abnormal political conditions in the on the advantages and disadvantages of the new policy of recognition, which, unanswered, may lead to a complete misunderstanding of the Latin Ameri- | can situation. Let us follow them in the order in which they appear in his work entitled “Wanted: A Consistent Latin Ameri- fairs, an American Quarterly Review.” Mr. Davis makes the first mistake when he assumes, from the fact that constitutional elections have not yet been held, that the, violent changes of government in some of the Latin re- publics have not the approval of the populace. “National elections have not yet been been held to ascertain the will of the people regarding the radical | changes of government,” he states, try- |ing to convey the impression that the State Department acted with unwise celerity in extending recognition to these “military dictatorships before the peoples in question had had an oppor- tunity t> express acquiescence by bal- lot or other constitutional means.” can Policy,” printed by “Foreign Af- | Pal yords, 1100 persons ‘of the original had put their money into non- | ive You the benefits of somebody else’s taxable securities. As President Coolidge | thritt, kil and good fortune: Tnes e outs | may succeed for a short time, but in e Aot o OLienTE | the long run it cannot be done. When to find a rate which will produce the |YOU bu¥ anvthing you help pay some- largest return t | body’s taxes. Pricas are as low as pos- show that - the hig sible, but the dealer must take into con- the larger revenue® Experience i ap | Sideration all costs. including the burden the other way. When the surtax rate | Of taxation. on incomes of $300,000 and over was only | , Perbaps because this has not been 10 per cent, the revenue was about the | fully understood by the great mass of Bame s when it was At 68 per cent. " | Citizens: perhaps because we like to fool | ourselves by thinking that the Govern- Failed by Seven Votes. ment which pays for good roads and In other words, when you start put- | beautitul buildings is something apart i (Put- | from ourselves: perhaps becauss we :}:u SxCessive taxes on persons of IATge | pave failed to remember that eventually come you make it orofitable for them | every cent which the Governm, fo put their capital into non-taxable | spends must come out of the pockets Sourities. Now. the day may come | of the people and does not come out of ot mn‘:mw"dm S pionsti- | thin air, ye have been very extravagant issuance of tax-exempt securi- | Soicq,ihe days when the successful sales ties. The last time such a resolution as presented In the House of Re ves 247 we v recol n favor of it only T vorex less than the |04 Municipal governments since. the lon by e House of an amend- - e about ment to the Constitution. Even that "'"';“ dollars annually for every pe i a13 000000 000" 3t eoa ok ADELY 10 | fve Sears that cost has Tisen to s 000,000, of tax-exempt s son N e e, |, et S > may we may 1 o W crea levying a heavy innénmhnre’u?\' ?:mfiilg :“g"f‘h“fl." to the cost of the war estates which have en E | Bu e governments are NOW spend- measure of tax e::m';m ‘lhr};ur:; | ing more than times as much as in holding State and municipal securities, | 1913. Local governments, municipal It is worth considering. ties and cities are spending about four The burden of taxation is one of the | imes as much. That is not due to the most serious burdens which today con- | WAT but to extravagance. Municipal fronts the men and women who own | $XPenditures and State expenditures their own homes and who can only | have been 'S‘ouu steadily upward each avoid paying the tax on that real es- | Yar. even though Federal expenditures tate by giving it up to the sheriff to| be sold at public auction. Even then the tax is paid out of the results of the sale. terms of billians of dollars. had been kept at about the same figure years. for several Matier of Serious Concern. t least are | Every one of you who is listening to g e P S mediate return or satisfaction. No one | €Very one of us the rising cost of Gov- igarettes objects | ernment is a matter of serious concern fact that every | Incidentally the incrcasing burden of | taxation resulting from the rising scale of Liberty bonds taught us to think in ¢ The increased cost of Federal State ® | South it is time to call a halt to such | implications, Whoever thinks that the new policy of recognftion of revolutionary govern- | | ments by the State Department is re- sponsible for the epidemic of revolt Await Normaley. ‘The fact that national elections have not as yet taken place in some of the Southern republics by no means im- plies a disapproval of the recent coups which has been sweeping over Latin |getat Eiections must give way, first, America in the last two years shows } to an elaborate period of economic and a political mrggx_x_ntmnfio vcaum.ry P 3 (Continued on Four e.) HOLLAND FIGHTS SLUMS BY RAZING TENEMENTS \ Looking to Comforts of Poor by Build- ing Houses Through Building Loans. 4 “have been as unfit D BY HERBERT ANTCLIFFE. condemned for human habitation and ordered to HE HAGUE—The Dutch are more proud of many of their ancient buil inclue old houses W line the laces, markets, Wwel similar public or tions. Some of toric interest to the any place in the worl fact is added that of the f ciation which many can claim with “patrician house,” but which few claim with a royal palace or a building erected for public use. Alnogside these, however, are houses equflly”u old of which neither the au- | thorities nor the people in general are | proud. Two or three centuries ago recent years has been taken vigorously in hand by the various municipalities, so that Holland is gradually a model to other European countries on the question of housing the poverty- stricken. For several years an average of more than 800 houses a year in Amsterdam at part of the world. | 4 not even be deserving of an an- | swer, for the answer is in the mind | of every intelligent newspaper reader who has been jn contact, for the last few months, with inter-American af- | fairs. Examine Reports. | it when the charge comes—in led form, it is trie—from such 80| PEIPING _The depreciation in the ority in international relations as e Onder- | Value of silver, which is the money e ghg‘v':héo‘:im{uushed |standard of China, is resulting in the T, it seems wcnhwnneh 1w ewwn;:!_ rhnmt ksurces:u’}h qurt;‘t S Pieltilzlng e reasons that induce him : |has known. e erican military “Certainly it is difficult to escape the |forces in the Philippines and Hawail lusion that even thaul{l flsuch ;‘ne in a large way rdpobl:?ihlt r‘:r this may not cause revolutions. record ar, for never lore ve S0 s to encourage rather than to dis- imany wives'and familes of Army, Navy age them.” and Marine officers come to China. t> the series The news that a traveler could “do changes of governm: China” for less money than it costs to place in nearly live tourist ‘style probably anywhere else e Latin American countries during in the world was quickly, spread among tre lasy two years, Mr. Davis asks him- |the military forces of Uhcle Sam sta- {- “Is it merely a coincidence that | tioned in the Pacific area, through the ere have been more revolutions N medium of the officers’ wives, eager to Latin _American repuh:;’l‘s D:lfig g;h-'herre they’ cmggn c};lnze tnraeu gold Secretary e y rs for more our and some- o ecagnition to TeV- | times almost five silver ones olutionary governments m-'; umnz!‘ h:h; advantage ol(.‘o hhe dm& in égve; we a period of thel 5 en almost wholly on the side o e e s ‘m:k tourita,’ for these foreigners who : hrase “more e their home in ave nof nlu(emn‘;n'lh‘:tme m"’f..? other period e ,:neflu:, to the sne r_figx\‘:m uxl:y ug: istory,” which rather ex- [these aliens receive their bistory.” which sounds TRIEf f; | mationalcurrency of the "lind. and fggerated. 1 would answer fence. but |these people are hard hit, indeed, in this coinc] o " L, { the 1&13?‘:351’:' ’31: number of polit- | their efforts to make ends meet. Their fcal. "Soclal and _economic _conditions |higher standard of living than that which had long been in the making practiced by the nationals of -China and which were bound to explode in requires that they buy products which a reriod of grave firancial distress. | have increased in price proportionately P - with the fall in silver. utionary Elements Known. | 3 t does not appear necessary to enum: Curios Hardly Affected. once more the elements which! Tourists, however, benefit from the ry fover fact that the curios and the handicraft corrupt | creations which the7 buy have hardly a with been affected at all by the fall in silver, |for they are produced by Chinese labor the |almost wholly out of Chinese products. Mm:u*w have been able to live on foods and in Chin exceptionally few and ries. in woul v ¢ of revolu- nt which 1f of all Silver Slump Prospers Peiping On Tourist Trade, Largely American retain foreigners and pay them on the same level as the Chinese, because the |expenses of the former are so much | higher. The Chinese are not yet ready to take over complete control of the | foreign-supported _ institutions, it was | pointed out, and it would be impossible to attract foreigners to China if thei pay was greatly under what they oot receive &t home. 1 Want Pay in Gold. | The Chinese who have agitated for | I equal salaries have asked that their | be computed in gold also, but Wee'ore virtually insurmountable dif- ficulties to prevent this. The foreign- supported institutions are intended to train Chinese for their own and not Western organizations, and the former already have repeatedly complained |over the large discrepancy in pay be- ‘g“rn vgx;t they‘ncan give and what e foreign organizations provide. They |declare that this prevents them from | buik up their own institutions, for |the ese, of course, will work where ‘flw can get the most money. | To further increase their stipend by |payment in gold would give them sal- |aries which in the eyes of the Chinese | would be phenomenal, indeed, and lit- erally unheard of in the country. s e ppnmddm:&e 5y |largest foreign-su stitu |this country said that the only solu- |tion to this problem will come when |{Chinese will be eno to take |over complete control of own in- ‘;fll““onl. He golnu‘d out t.h-;flthue |foreigners who have families, a - eep their rag zlckm‘:‘.r:hm& ir | i § 5 go i 3 i = 5y g a 82 ws 55 ticularly those who wish to children in school in America rather another on the of ::fl’l'- however. IGENEVA ARMS CONFERENCE TO DECIDE FATE OF WORLD Whether Nations Will Continue to Pour Resources Into War Machinery or Turn to Peace Is Question. BY ALBIN E. JOHNSON. ENEVA.—Dramatizing disarm- ament is the somewhat diffi- cult task that is now con- fronting certain governments, some hundreds of statesmen, publicists and people inter- the success of the first World it Conference, scheduled to meet in Geneva in February. Sixty- three countries haye been invited to participate. Most have accepted. Yet but a short 15 years ago the word disarmament was scarcely known. Today it is on almost every lip. The fanaticism, however, of its opponents and advocates has so involved the issués that few people ly know what dis- armament is all a Jjourn: ested e Germany, supposedly down and ow: and saved from financial and economie collapse by President Hoover's mora. torium, finds her resources amj to spend more per man on her ited army than any other nation in the world, including the United States. Every soldier gets an officer’s education, | it appears. Although “disarmed” by the | peace treaties, Ge: ’s armaments /has risen from 497,000,000 gold mar] in 1924 to 769.113,000 gold marks in 1929. The pace is being maintained this year. Beyond Germany lies Russia, where a Soviet Utopia publishes records which show thgt in 1924 her armaments ex- | penditures were only 436,000,000 gold Tubles. In 1929 they were 939,000,000 o the sign its in accordance with . o 1 the year Em] Amsterdam, The Hague and Other Cities| o't urodiecivs ty | suits combine s |Inventor Says Planicopter Combines h | tical fiight they are polnting riearly up- ward. TrSepowel TetUrn. | pellers with blades of greater width | ut. \ Politically speaking, “disarmament” fold rubles, and this year they will be anding at | 125,100,000 gold rubles. vitable temptation jpons for the securing of nationalistic ends, as is evidenced in Manchuria today—and war. ‘War Theoretically Barred. Theoreueng wrg has been outlawed through the flos, , Which 57 1a- tions have signed. eoretically reason has supplanted force as a method of settling differences among the 55 coun- tries which belong to the League. Be- sides these two agencies, more than 150 |y bi-lateral arbitration and conciliation 10 years. Then ‘World Court and stacks of other “paper pledges” to maintain peace. Aluwg: it seems unbelievable, it is a fact that is in the world 2 With so much inflammable material lying around, Europe volcano. One i T § i K o i H 2 ¢ i i i | if i § | | I LN g i T '*‘zéiig i i iiis e war than she is for ed. Airplane’s and Helicopter’s Advantages Patents have recentg been issued to Gaetano Ajello of 315 West 106th street, | sufficient New York City, for a new type of air- called the planicopter com! 3 the inventor's opinion, all the ad- vantages of the present-day airplane and the helicopter, while avoiding the | large defects of both. Models of the show & more orthodox design most machines capable of high inclination or vertical the major feature beln'cm -mup-fl | Chinese in Hawaii Balk At Aiding Home Country HONOLULU, Hawali—For the first com- ition to the up- ‘motion. The motors are mounted to the wings and vary their tilt with them. For ver- wer of these motors is deemed sufficient by Mr. AjeHo to more would less than a pound a hoi than those in l\.\u'fllhu‘dm earned money to travel by-llflet car. Some critics also point to the small- in the houses hu. nouses | U, S, Fleet Will Visit Hawaii for Maneuvers i it fi g 53 l’gs ] ] % ] I ; 7t il i g LB LI =t