Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1931, Page 8

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All rights of publication of | ispatches herein are also reserved. —— The Administration’s Tax Plan. A specific plan for an approximate | belancing of the Federal budget has been laig before Congress by the Presi- dent and the Secretary of the Treasury. It proposes in general a return to the tax system of 1924. It adds certain miscellaneous taxes, broadens the basis of income taxes by lowering exemp- tlons, increases the normal rates on | incommes and also the surtaxes in the | higher brackets. These increases, it is | recommended, will run to July, 1934, or & period of two and & half years, by which time it is computed the present deficit will have been reduced, if the tax returns equal the estimates, to about & normal condition. No definite computation is made on this score, though it is expected that if the tax scheme proposed yields the revenue which experience indicates the gap be- tween expenditures and income will bave been closed within thirty months. ‘These proposals are already under | eriticism. Democratic opposition to the administration plan has been imme- diately expressed. There is objection to making the tax increase apply to the 1931 incomes, to increasing the normal income taxes and to other features. In the House of Representatives, where tax legislation must originate, and| where the Democratic control is com- plete, there will be eventually some | concrete plan of revenue raising. It will probably differ in many respects from that just submitted. Indications point to a refusal by the House to a broadening of the income tax basis and perhaps an increase in the rate of sur- taxes in the higher brackets. It is sug- wgested furthermore that the House may adopt a revenue plan which will not yield enough funds to balance the books but will compel the adoption of a policy of borrowing to meet this emergency. As an alternative, in part, to the general income tax revision to yleld a Jarger return, & sales tax is quite likely to be proposed. The administration does not recommend such & tax. It has bhowever, many supporters, on the ground that it is comparatively easy to administer and is more certain of re- sults than an incressed income tax, Sspecially in & time of diminished in- comes, Upon Congress resis now a double re- sponaibility. It must provide ways and means not only of maintaining the Fed- eral Government in solvency by lower- ing, M not wiping out, the deficit, but #t must keep the appropriations down even below the figures of the past| through economies and by abstention from new projects involving heavy costs. The President has stated the condition of the Treasury. The Congress must | meet the situation. | Unfortunately this crisis climaxes on the eve of & national election. It is in- | escapable that it will be faced In & spirit of political partisanship, Tax in- creases are unpopular, especially in a time of general depression, The Demo- cratio organization in the House will | naturally seek, for the sake of advan- tage in the campaign that is soon to| open, o place upon the shoulders of | the Republican administration the bur- | den of responsibility for the tax increase | proposal and for the necessity demand- | ing it. The interests of the people call for a treatment of the matter in a non- | partisan spirit, in a spirit of wisdom and consideration for the public welfare | rather than for the advantage that may | be derived from a political maneuver. | ————— s | People who back in 1897 used to| ¥0 “blking"—and indeed, children, there | ‘Were some—now use the word “auto- ing” e A World Debt Conference. Minus American participation, a “conference of governments” to deal with world economics, which Prime| Minister MacDonald proposed in Lon- ' don yesterday, would be Hamlet with-| out the melancholy Dane, If there| ‘Were any doubt as to that, it would be removed by Mr. MacDonald’s explana- | tion that one of the specific acts of| such a conference would be to examine | “questions of international debts which Me at the base of our currency prob-| lomn " ‘There was perhaps an even more di- rect hint at the paramountcy of the United States in any confabulation on the eause and cure of world financial illa. Broad revision of the international | economic structure could be hoped far, | the British premier sald, “only with a| rwalimtion by all nations that what- | ever their own circumstances, their, cantinued prosperity and internal peace depend on the peace and prosperity of the whole world.” America is the one remalning creditor nation. Even France, next to our own the richest country, is & debtor nation, despite her present financial sway over Europe. The French owe both the American and British treasuries enormous sums of money. Mr, MacDonald's suggesticn of a round table to unravel Mother Earth's tangled economic skein will evoke mixed emotions in this country. Our interest in world rehabilitation is sacond to none. That fact has just been aitested | avold criticism as to its policies or oper- | securely founded upon common-sense | quarters over from the most exaited quarter that the United States does not find it possi- bie to be an oasis of national prosperity in & desert of international depression. Economieally, it s an interlocking universe which we inhabit. Yet the prevailing atmosphere in America is far from favorable to any scheme, conference or otherwise, which might seem directly or indirectly to point to demands upon us for further financizl lenfency to the outside world. Senator Johnson of California has asked the Ecnate to institute an investiga- tion of American investments abroad. The inquiry will probably be ordered. It will extend into the question of foreign debts, especially those owing to the United States. IMr. Johnson op- poses ratification of the Hoover mora- torium. He will fail to prevent it. But ‘t will b2 surprising if the facis and Giscussion brought out by a debt in- quiry do not develop a healthy sn- tipathy to any extension of Columbia's role as fairy godmother to “abroad.” Were Europe and Asia even half way inclined to give serious consideration to disarmament end to compose some of | the quarrels that are breeding new wars, the possibility of our sitting in at & debt conference would be a stronger one. With China aflame, with a League of Nations demonstrably incapable of enforeing its peace dictums, with great powers demanding political and security guarantees before they will cease squandering national fortunes on war machinery, with Soviet Russia dedi- cated to debt repudiation and Hitlerite Germany ready to embrace the same principle—with such conditions send- ing forked lightning through the inter- national heavens, the American people could not be blamed for hesitating to embrace the MacDonald plan with unalioyed enthusiasm. A world like today's is bound to fortify the United States in the belief that, until further notice at least, char- ity begins and should remain at home, Loose Chatter. That any organization of the scope and responsibilities of the Washington Community Chest should successtully ation methods is naturally too much to ask. But with this fact granted there is this to be said, in view of what seems to be an abnormal amount of loose chatter with which the public has re- cently been regaled. The Chest, which will put forward its major effort for the current year late in January, is, in the jucgment of ninety- nine out of every one hundred informed Washingtonians, the finest achievement in local welfare work since such work was first undertaken in the National Capital, It has brought to Washington for the | first time efficlency in the raising and spending of funds locally contributed to alleviate suffering and distress and want. It has cut the cost of fund- raising more than in half. It has re- quired of member agencies standards of accounting far superior to those gen- erally accepted prior to its inaugura- tion. It has released for full-time serv- lce to those cared for by the individual agencles, the workers of those agencies who, before the Chest, apent much of their effort in seeking the funds neé- essary to carry on. It hias brought intouulmolmounovuhn;u active part in this community's wel- fare endeavor scores of thousands who before the advent of the Chest played Do part in this community obligation. It has relieved the city of an incessant series of drives, campaigns and appeals. It has ralsed more money at less ex- pense, distributed the increasing burd more equitably and supervised the e; penditure of the funds raised more ef- ficlently than even its strongest advo- cates dared hope before its introduction to the city. It is headed and directed by leaders of this commynity who Justly hold the full confidence and gratitude of thelr fellow citizens for hard wark, cheerfully and gratuitously performed in the in- mofthepoormdmflmngorchk city. And, in that the welfare nceds of the city are the personal of every self-sustaining citizen, they can be truly said to be working for each and every member of the community. The Chest is Washington's own. Its success is a matter of pride to the city. It has never countenanced policies or practices which are open to just criti- clsm. And it may be safely assumed that it will never do so. And those few who, whether for motive of self-exploi- tation or petty disgruntlement, seek to bring it into disrepute will ultimately find that they have but discredited themselves, and that no structure as and true charity as is the Chest can be harmed or weakened by their futile propaganda. —te—— A Virginian fainted while paying his taxes. If the promised plans of newly- arrived legislators miature, ambulances are going to be extra busy later on, | while manufacturers of handy restora- tives-should rise well above the depres- sion. e———— — Bossy Gillis Bumped at Last. While it would be probably too much to say that relief is felt by the entire country over the result of the mayoralty | election at Newburypert, Mass., held on Tuesday, there is no doubt that much | rejoicing is being expressed in various the defeat of “Bossy” | Gillis, The politizal career of this young | man has held national attention bscause of the peculiar circumstances in which he first got into the geme. Ecme four years ago he, the propricter of & gasoline filling station, fell out with! the city officia's, who denied him the right to cut down some trees that in- terfered with his business. In = temperamental outburst he declared that the city government was out of order and he proposed h'mself as a candidate for mayor. Newburyport was shocked at the news and later was astounded when Gillis actually won at the polls, getting the votes of enough other objectors to the established regime to swing into the office. As soon as he was elected he went ahead and felled THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO proposed himself for the Republican nomination for United States Senstor. Some of his followers even suggested that-he might go higher and furnish Massachusetts with its first President of the United States since John Quiney Adams. But Bossy's senatorial offering fiivvered and presidential hints were heard no more. Nothing daunted, Bosay aliowed as how he was willing to serve & third time as mayor. But alas! Newburyport had had enough and on Tuesday he was beaten after a heated campaign. In the largest vote cast in the history of Newburyport, Gayden Morrill received 3,932 ballots to Bossy's 2818. So passes Bossy, the firebrand. He gave Newburyport four lively years and that staid, conservative old town will really never be the same after that experience. * ——t— That Famous Bridge Contest. 11 it is doing nothing else, this famous bridge game that is now going on in New York between Sidney Lenz and Oswald Jacoby on one side and Mr. {and Mrs. Ely Culbertson on the other, is a boon to the manufacturers of playing cards. The quartet amid much ballyhoo are to play one hundred snd Aifty rubbers to demonstrate something or other about contract bridge, and a new pack of cards is used on each deal. Of course, it would take Einstein to figure out how many packs of cards will be dealt; but if every deal were a game & mere trifie of three hundred boxes of the pasteboards would be brought into play, providing that one team or the other won both games of each Tubber. Naturally, there will be deals that are not “game hands” in fact some of them will be passed by all con- testants, and there will be rubbers which Tun to the maximum of three games. And then many of the bids will be set, which will undoubtedly add to the gen- eral merriment besides using up a Jot of new cards. Oh, welll Anything to relieve the depression! And any one who tries to figure out the number of packs to be played with by the masters will probably have a large-sized hes- ache before he is through. As to the play itself, # 15 very interesting and will unquestionably make a bridge star out of a present- day mediocre devotee of the game. It Will do this in the same way that watch- ing Bobby Jones play golf in the moving pictures will enable & person who is always over s hundred to go out the next day and break eighty. ——. The National Guadalupe Congress, meeting down in Mexico City, condemns the Y. M. C, A, the Y. W. C. A., med- ern fashions, immoral films, alcchol and divorce. That is quite a compre- hensive platform, but they seem to have left out the Salvation Army and revolutions. ————— Bengal, India, is said to be suffering through the “lack of a fighting pro- gram.” Is it possible the Bengal tiger communicated this lassitude to his Princetcn cousin? ————— Right of way—something the average city motorist considers he has all to himself nine-tenths of the time, and Guring the remaining tenth shares in a big-hearted way with others. ———— A bag-piper is the hero of the latest Metropolitan operatic success. 8o far, however, no saxophonist has made the grade. Germany declares she possesses no “standing army.” No more than Notre Dame University has any “first team.” SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, A Neglected Toiler, The Congressman, he has to work Eleven hours a day. If he should ever dare to shirk, The deuce would be to pay. And when eleven hours are through In time's relentless flight, Perhaps he'll find so much to do, He'll have to toil at night. If he a holiday should find Within his easy reach, It means he must apply his mind To getting up a speech. Ungratefully we let him fret, Exerting all his powers, And no one says he ought to get More pay or shorter hours. The Short and Frequent Word. “If you want to be understood,” sald the youthful orator, “you must employ short words.” “Thet's true,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “But it's a mistake to follow out that ides to the extent of over- working the pronoun ‘I'" The most you can ask of the man who has an ax to grind is not to drop it on your foot after you have helped ' him sharpen it. The Wife’s Cigars. Oh, let her buy! And do not mind The Christmas joke inventors. You'd buy an inexpensive kind And she'll buy fifty-centers. Literally Speaking. “Does & bootlegger actually carry liquor in his boot?" “I dunno,” answered Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. some of the stuff does taste that way.” Soarelty, Every one has a favorite mispronun~ ation, There is perhaps no men alive, no matter how much of & purist he may be in things lingual, who does not pro- nounce at least one or two words wrong or wrongly, as the reader chooses. We were put in mind of this the other day while listening to the broad- cast of an article by a horticulturist. He was speaking of deciduous shrubs; that is, shrubs which lose their leaves in Winter. The accent properly comes on the second syllable. “Deci-du-ous” was the way this speaker pronounced it. Then he halted, there was an em- barrassing silence, he laughed slightly, and pronounced it correctly. What had happened? The listener knew perfectly. he man was not ignorant, but no Coubt had been in the habit in his ;ln:fiy of mispronouncing this word for fun. When an-amateur gardener first runs upon “deciduous,” mo:ify: trees or shrubs, he 15 likely to be puzzled over it. As & joke he may attempt to pro- nounce it exactly as it is spelled, a favorite trick with the humorous- minded. Liking the sound of it, he will there- after among his friends and cronies pronounce it incorrectly “just for fun.” * % & % It will never do, therefore, when one hears some one mi unce s word to have tremors suj ty and jump to the conclusion the other is an ignorant fellow. Maybe he is just joking. Or perhaps the section of country in which he was born to mispronounces the word, and he kuE: to it out of loyalty to the home folks. There are many parts of this great nln: glorious land of ours where it is “hof A hog out there is & “hawg,” and the man who says it any other way is at- tempting to “put on the dog,” as they u{i “Dawg.” of A . et he may say * and “log’ without af ng any un attention. %ub 2 pork animal is and must be a “hawg.” ‘The Capltal of the Nation is “Warsh- n" with these good people, not . Just why they put that “r" before the “h” no one knows, but they do. Maybe it is because of the famous statement “Pirst in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” EE ‘The writer here will never forget the great guffaws of laughter, by no means restrained, which followed the request of & comrade made in a coudtry res- taurant for & cup of coffee. Out there they call it “cawfee,” and the man who Insisted on pronouncing it to rhyme with “ah” soon found him- self the innocent butt of the entire | simila lace. 2 “A cup of kafee!"” roared the counter man, with & broad wink at the other T patrons. “A cup of kafee!” screamed an un- seen person behind the partition. “Did you say you wanted a cup of cawfee?” asked the counter man, again bestowing large and generous winks on the crowd, now on the alert, as only country crowds can be when they are making game of some one. “Yes, if you please—a cup of kafee,” replied our innocent friend, not sensing the joke. “He wants a cup of kafee!” roared the counter man, pretending angrily D. t & crime to call a hog just that, | that the invisible person had misun- derstood him. “I heard you—a cup of kafee!” bel- lowed the unseen. . _C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931. % THE EVENING STAR l::m Here 13 a classic © ! A new bone has been thrown to the political dogs of war on Capitol Hill— the Hoover-Mellon tax revision and tax increase plan. The indications are it will be fought over bitterly and when 1t emerges from the fracas in the form | ReWspaper readers of an act of Congress and goes to the President for his approval he may not or. | be shie o Tecognize the plan which he for hog. and log, on “crick” for creek and “sut” for soot. S Yet we always said “root” for root, although many people, even of the high- est culture, pronounce the latter “rut.” No doubt it is all a matter of one's early childhood and environment, modi- fied by one’s schooling and one's taste in such matters. As we have stated, we have never heard an; rson talk for any particular length o‘y&e without catching him or her in some pronunciation or other which sounded strange to our ears. Similarly, our way of saying those words necessarily would him as wrong. A recourse to the diction: would not settle the matter, after for either one of us. e 2 s St et on the old-time pronun 3 & “bum” for bomb and “Roosians” for Russians, and ordinary bomb and Russians do not sound right at all. Even if one is corrected by one of those rude boors who does it nastily and ly, or even more nastily and covertly, one will not give up the pro- nunciaf of years. * ok kX ‘Why should one? There is nothing queerer than Eng- lish pronunciations, unless it is Eng- lish spellings. It 1'; lmgosuble to explain to a for- eigner that “I say” is pronounced as written, but that “he says” is pro- ncunced “he ses.” ‘The man whom the man educated in books is likely to regard as “an ignorant n” invariably says “And he .says to " pronouncing the “says” as spelled, not as spoken in English. 2 ‘The educated man says “He sez” in stinctively without once thinking about the matter. There are hundreds of such cases in English. The explana- tions would be recondite or entirely un- necessary, for English is “as she is spoken,” rather than as she is written. In other words, English is a great, living language, llvi.ng in the mouths and ears of human beings the world over. We do ourself an injustice and our beloved tongue a greater when we stop to criticize another for a mistake, either in grammar or in spelling or pronunciation. 2 Often we would be very amazed in- deed to know that the fellow is right, that his way of talking goes back 300 ars perhaps, or even back to the eat days of imperial Rome, and that e might bolster his word or words with linguistic lore far in advance of our | few petty rules. There are mountaineers in our coun- try who speak a language remarkably r to that spokca in England in the days of spaciou¢ Alizabeth. The speech of these people, as reported in a biok published last year, is remark- ably attractive. In fact, colloquial speech in times be- comes the speech of the cultivated. The word the cultured man shrinks from today may be the word his chil- dren accept without remark. Speech is for the speaker and for the hearer, not for the grammarian or for the student. English is a language of the tongue and ear, rather than of pen and paper. A few mispronuneiaf will hurt no one, and let him who is Kflk:lo:! fault be first to shout “Wrong!” e dare. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands + Mexico, D. F.— | ber of visitors brought by motor coaches possess some medieval tomes on Spanish law, which inform us, among other curi- osities of ancient jurisprudence, sbout a rare p ent wont to be inflicted on cats guilty of robbery. The “Fuero General de Navarra” (“General Btatutes of Navarre”), in volume V, chapter 7, section 20, in & mass of other details regarding this subject, provides that “In any case W - cat is suspected of thieving by day or by night, this is to be its punishment: The owner of the cat shall take a cord 10 palms in length (40 inches), and fasten one end to the neck of the cat. he shall drive a stake into the ground and bind the other end of the cord to the stake, As the length of the cord about the neck of the cat will measure not more than one palm, this will permit the animal to move within a radius of 9 palms, or within a circle 18 palms in diameter, the center of which is the stake. Thus shall fhe cat be chastised for its pilfering for a period of 14 days.” nasmiich as & live cat would never submit to cuch treatment, we are but justified in believing that first they killed the cat! * ook o Munich Brewers To Feed 2,000 Persons Daily, Berliner Tageblatt.—Tne four largest breweries in Munich, the Loewen, Spaten, Pschorr and Paulaner-Thomas establishments, have declared them- selves ready, from the first of November to the end of February, to feed daily 2,000 persons in Munich. These per- sons are to be selected by the Welfare Bureau, and the kindness will consist ing giving each of them nis midday meal. They will pay the landlords pro- viding the dinners at the rate of 50 pfennig (12 cents) per capita. Inas- much as the number of meals to be fur- nished during this period will total ap- proximately 240,000, the cost of the charity will amount to 130,000 merks ($30,000). X% ox Citizens Protest Poor Condition of Street, ario Del Comercio, Barranquilla. —Varlous citizens who have their resi- dences in the Calle de Felicidad, in the vicinity of the Avenue La Maria have come to our offices in a body with the motive of protesting relative to the condition of their street after the re- cent downpours. It has remained in 80 flooded and miry a state that auto- moblle traffic is impossible, and that of the ox-cart nearly so. In fact, all “Though I must admit that'commercial movement is at a stand- still, and will continue in that deplor- able condition until the authorities send out & gang of men to remedy the situa~ tion, either, by draining off the water “True friendship is scarce,” sald the or building’ a causeway through the man who frowns. “It only seems 30, replied the man Who amiles, “to those who do not know how to deserve it.” Verbal Power, It surely takes a lot of talk to run this werld of ours. Your steam and eléctricity are secondary powers, For every time mmtwmwuz‘mw in operation, a matter straight You've got to get & spirited assemblage in debate. To organize & company or make a social [ part, again over spread— It doesn't matter what is done s0 much as what is sald. the offending ‘trees, and for that act he was sent to jail, and for part of his term he conducted the affairs of New- buryport as mayor from the city's prison. He was, in common parlance, & “wow” by President Hoover, who tells Con- gress that “our self-contained national economy, with its matchless strength and yesources, would have enabled us %o yecover long since but for the con- flmmhmm of a wayor. He did all sorts of unusual and unconventicnal th'ngs, and con- eervative Newburyport felt assured that i he ever offered for office again he' Eben, “Is cat he's Lible tor git sorter | ¥haie would be swamped, On the contrary, Bossy ran fer & second term and was S0 let no dull philosopher your flow of | bers language balk. Let’s all get together while we talk! talk! talk! “De only trouble 'bout er man’s being Worst spots. The delegation remalned in our offices some time urging us to bring this matter to the attention of the proper municipal department, * ¥ ok x Guayaquil Employs New n’m Cleaning System. El Telegrafo, Guayaquil—The munic- 1 prefect tells us that the depart- ment of street cleaning is im, ing. A better system, % gl is ment, for the Formerly the streets Were gwept on one day, and the refuse thus eccumulated left for carting sway the next day, by which time it had " redistributed itself, for the most iR e the thorough(lnes. unctions are c gmd nn::lumoualg kgk machines, wm also gather up an e away the scourings to theldrl:np at Pueru;d Duarte. Nu.:- of the unemployed are pow emi- tpl%o? Inatlh}s wom of sanitation in re- urn for their mainte: their families. e o et * % ok % King and Queen Not Annoyed at Church Service, Daily Mail, London—1t is authorita- collection of rubl ver for good-natured all de time,” said Uncle | tively atated that there is no foundation report lished in easy and satisfied wif 'imse’f, Be is wif oviods slee.” T Same €2 Mall) that the been annoyed the B pers (not in the and w the |allowance of 150 pesetas annually has each Sunday to Crathie Church, where their majesties worship during their “‘%’h“ Bu.mo{:h the King and Qu e r . and Queen were contemplating, in uence, the provision of a private chapel at the castle also is denled in authoritative quarters, * %% nish Junta es Provisions for Orphans. A B C, Madrid—The Junta for the Protection of Infancy is taking up an- other season’s work with new vigor and broader scope. Orphanages will be rovided by the society in every prov- gwe, u;d -mnx:emle;n.;o have Se:g c?rnf; pleted. for placing yS an [3 orphaned both of father and mother, in private families. These will be selected from the Valencia institution and 3 pesetas a day will be paid the foster | parents for their care. An additional also been voted by the junta for the purchase of each child’s clothing, etc., which brings the total maintenance of each child in a private family to 1,200 pesetas yearly (about $120). More chil- dren will be taken care of in this way as funds become available. ——— s Cost of One Cruise Might Defeat Cancer Prom the Ann Arbor Dally News. A warship has been asked to join in the crusade against cancer. Dr. Ellice McDonald of the Cancer Research Laboratories wants one for such a pur- se. Not actually a fighting ship, but he funds that would build a smaller one—a cruiser. Such an amount of money would finance for a century all the cancer research work now going on in the United States, says Mc- Donald. “One cruiser for oancer would insure banuhmi;n of the plague,” he confidently. nu'elfi wi nos Warships are for national defense, and so is cancer re- search. The fleet is maintained to keep out invading enemies. Cancer is an_invading enemy of appalling poten- tialities, More than 100,000 die from it each year in these United States. ‘Why ‘should the Government dis- criminate between enemies, spending huge sums to hold human foes at a distance while allowing soldiers striv- ing to conquer diseases t:z struggle along heir own resources? & on\vte need the warships, without doubt, until such a day as the world agrees to disarm. We will always need war- ships, to police the oceans, for that matter. Warships, including cruisers, are important as instruments of pre- paredness. But of even greater im- Bortance is money to combat human s, Let the cancey researchers have one or the equivalent of it in tax ::nu:r to conquer that devastating fis- ease. The victory would be greater than any ever fought on any battlefield in the L\lhy the world. He Knows Already. From the Omaha Evening World-Herald. nl;lor; Pu-Yi grabs that Manchurian throne he ought to have a chat with W. Hohenzollern and Alfonso Bourbon. ———— He's Elected. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A sclentist states that a red flag will not madden a bull, He will cheerfully be permitted to perform periments. ———— Where Cdon Skins Go. Prom the Ashland (Ky.) Dally Independent, A nollege town is a place where the locomotive that hits & coupe kills all seven passengers, o Bunglere. the Charlesten (W. Va.) Daily Mail, ’“'.l‘-ht ;-um of the hunting season show that Americans handle guns as Tockiessly 83 they handle motor cars. for land his Secretary of the Treasury originated. % ox o ‘Taxes threaten, indeed, to become an ul::porunp t Xuluu in the national cam- paign. Few, &ny, get pleasure out of paying taxes. An increase in taxes pmp:ue: on the eve of a national caa- pa & courageous move on the part of the administration, even though the taxes be vitally needed to help bal- ance the budget. But no one expects it to be a popular move. The Demo- by the administration. That has already been indicated by Democratic spokes- men, who attack the President and Mr. Mellon's plan to lower the personal ex- emptions of the income tax and increase the normal tax rates, and who deride preposals to tax checks and drafts, tele- Ehones and telegrams, radios and the ke. The effort of the Democrats will be to convince the taxpayers that if they are put in power the Federal taxss will be lighter and certainly that manry thousands of voters will escape the income tax who would be taxable under the Hoover-Mellon plan. ' * ok X X After repeated warnings that unless the expenditure of public funds was checked and drastically reduced, is- sued from the White House and the Treasury Department, it would be necessary to increase the tax levies, the blow has fallen at last. The members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, who are inclined to attack and do attack the proposals of the Presi- dent for. tax increases, might have thought of the American taxpeyers while they were voting in the last Calgzreu for the expenditure of huge sums of money, not the least of which was the so-called soldiers’ bonus loan, which cglled for putting out more than a billion dollars at a time when the Federal Treasury was rapidly rushing toward a huge deficit. vetoed the bonus bill, and it was passed with a whoop over his veto. And to- day there are clamors for more big governmental apprcpriations, with the understanding that the money is to be used to go anead with huge construc- tlon programs and that the money is to be borrowed. * X % % The plain truth of the matter appears to be that It would be unwise for the Government to undertake to borrow even the whole amount needed to wipe out the present deficit, which may run to $2,000,000,000 by the close of fiscal year unless taxes are increased and the revenue grows larger, Yet the present Congress will doubtless be deluged with pleas, many of them ad- vanced by the members of Congress themsel"fi:h (a;un appropriations nn%:u from a e lon_dollars to five bil- lons of dollars to de bu 0~ grams of every and N The credit of the United States Govern- ment is sound, up to the present. What the Congress does in the coming session, tions | unless therc is wise leadershi shake the national credit to the w tion. Once let the can pogfh be- come fearful of the stability thelr own Government’s money credit and the situation is likely to become chaotic. * koK % Taxes, therefore, take their place alongside of the tariff, prohibition and water power, not to mention the busi- Dess depression, s 8 major issue for the natfonal cas 0. Some of the President’s Republican advisers, parti- cularly those on Capitol Hill, pleaded with him not to raise the tax issue at this time. But other Republicans, in- cluding Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and Senator Binghst1 of Connecticut, gh mu.hm&nec- €] fevied hould realizs that the time ly and that the p1ople should realize “orgy” of go tal e impositon of sadioear has come to end an tional Federal country by Senator Hiram John- of lornia introduced will seek ummdhtr” action on a L Teso- lution authorf and directing Senate Finance ttee to my.% gate the “sale, 1l and allocation vl ot forene bonds of securities in the United i e " It is the" " cebifornia mhfiwfl;m make on the ] Senator Senator J “Hoover moratortum, the facts were b B “.l huge sums of Am known * ko % has indulged for the last “‘warming: ‘The Senate two days in a H. Moses of New Hi , Wi served for several e i tempore. The it is scart principle, It ia one aln M Moses has aroused the xrmr:n Replilb]lcam from several occasions. The Progressive Re- publicans have taken this route to slap at Mr, Moses, although he is the choice of the ublican party in the Senate for the th “;be Aom1 of , e Progressives have decided among themsefvg; that there is to be no consideration for the majority rule formula and that they will run amuck against the New Hamp- shire Senator, There is remarkably little interest in the country over this squabble among the Republicans, but if it is kept up and the Senate finds itself tied up over the row when it should be doing other business, the country may begin to take notice, The bitterness among the Republican mem- bers of the Senate is increased by this fight. It may be that when it comes to the election of a an of thy Senate Judiclary Committee some of the e Republicans will vote against Senator Norris of Nebraska, on the ground that he is a Democrat, anyway. ———— Millionaire Crop Takes a Slump. From the Ann Arbor Daily News. mmmnt{: lnv;-r be;r‘.:m ndu{.;.d sub- stantially in num| ing peat two years. That is one of the stories told by preliminary figures on the in- million was reduced from 1,471 to 460. The porten! Concentrated wealth does not make for circulation of money, and circula- ton 1s what the Nation needs most at present. There is no reason, them, to ahake heads dublously over the fact that the mililonaire "crop is not ef bumper proportions this year, Mr. Hoover | F, the next | ears as President pro | claims the i3 will estab! its suprema ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. 3 Expert researchers, who cah get you information on sny . subject, are 34 'your commana_ without charge o A 2-cent stamp will you * of f . today. Make your in- quiry easily read and easily under- stood and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Who started the Red Cross Christmas seal?>—B. A. T. A._Miss Emily P. 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Pixed stars are so called because they mppear to change their positions so slowly in comparison with the planets, Q. Why is a person who collects or nu‘i}u coins ed & numismatist?— C. 'A. 'The word has & Greek derivation, being composed of two words which mean current coin. Q. What part of Louisiana is known | as the Teche country?—H, W, A. 1t is the lake, or bayou, part of the State. Q. Who invented jiu-jlitsu?—R. M. 8. A. The origin of jiu-jitsu is uncer- taln. It is attributed by some to & Japanese physician who learned the rudiments of the art in China. Others claim that it was in common use in g A T o are 21 lu-, China, but that the Japanese have modified it greatly. ' Q. How long has the Jockey Club TRD wis ibcepdrated Wi e was laws of the State of New Yok, on Feb- ruary 8, 1894. ' The first annual meet- ing was held December 31, 1884, It now has jurisdiction over all the fiat racing in the State of New York, : It also i | o 4 § ¥ 3 ey i i i i i s | 3 5 £ b / § i B 2 B § ML EE, i § P i - i i § i i [ I i Mahatma Gandhi is going back to Incia without having accoplished what pected — complete independence for India. But was the conference in Lon- table conference without drafting a new congtitution for India might be called a fallure i the lack of agreement had béen between Great Britain and Indis,” says the New York Times, with the as- sertion: “The deadlock at the London conference was between Indians and g F g ¥ Bok his most ardent followers prcbably ex- the 8 ‘ il ¥ il g i E i i i EE i E j i 6 3 8 g dians. It was an the of [Of the roynd- minority safoguards in & Todarated s largely sutonomous India that the dis- cussions broke down. The ques~ tions of united ent to the demands among delegates themselves, of England to gml & united Indian demand. Not all been poasible to u:‘:‘l‘t in tully,” and ts out it 80 success- | that “the break- down of the Teveals the seriousness of the differences the various Indian elements themaelves.” lntzt!.;re;txe; of the m's&n the ‘1‘“ Anf o 'ess says: esmen for India’s numerous religous or social mi- norities bave aligned themselves against Gandl;émfl;d hhhldvinr.—mon!y high caste lus. They demand guarantees that the minorities will not be diserimi- nated against because of faith, race, social conditions or birthplace before agreeing to any plan which might put the Hindu majority in comtrol, either at Delhi or in local governments.” the Express is of &oe opinion that the | Indians “cannot set up a nation until they shall work together.” * ok ok % The Duluth Herald comments: “India | is not yet reac won't be until the atate of mind of the majority makes racial and religious mi- norities secure. They are safe now only because British is there tect them, and m"h only likelihood that 1f Britain withdrew, a its investments there, not even Gandhi could prevent a zhlfif-ly “How f an % when the In- gdians themselves will come t3 no agree- ment on the nature of that govern- ment?” the Houston Chronicle declares that “obviously Gandhi is asking Brit- certain release India to chaos the mption that his own xo!lcwlnxon oy, Recalling the history of 2R ity Mo et Sl m as a for- merly united and free but = n:n a than autoecratic tyrann: o . 'The M Cenioal Asa, “who ha prinei) Briti for ‘real liberty,’ and | ! i ] E3 M { M ?Eg 1 Bu Conflicts in India Are Held Responsible for Parley’s En One reason why we are so critieal of our courts, one reason why we are so anxious to eliminate as far And | i3 it influence in the' gel partisan judges, is the realizaf ¥y and fusice:” They Sand-in g crty a; . trast to sl can Britam help h‘ufln establishment | distri 01 Indian tion b~