Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1932, Page 6

MINE VIGILANTE BEAT STUDENTS Ousted Arkansas Youths to] Return to Kentucky if Properly Guarded. By the Associated Pr KNOXVILLE, T April 11—Five | Arkansas collegians who came out of the Rentucky coal fields yesterday wear- | ing welts they said vigi conferred with Dr. John R. Neal, at-| ! re- rotection ntes infiicted, | of the people THE EVENING STAR, APRIL 11, 10532 BUSINESS FORCES MOBILIZING TO CRUSH "TAX REBELLION" BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. in Americ: governmental expenditure State, county and local—and the corre- spondingly heavy drain on the The problem i attaining a gravity of which the try at large has little or no conce In the highest administration quarters the country’s state of mind is described coun- ing Com- institution | here last night ! monwealth College near Mena, Ark. came and told of ejection from Harlan County, Ky. into Wise County. Va They sald they were beaten by Bel Harlan County vigilantes. They e\-‘ hibited switch-striped backs and other injuries. Lucien B. Koch, 24, director of Com- | monwealth College and leader of the| five, who had planned to distribute r(‘\lr‘f‘ to Kentucky miners and coples of the bill of rights to deputy sheriffs in the | mine area, said they intended starting legal action against theb ajlants. Wire for Advice. | They wired Roger Baldwin, di u*ri of the American Civil Liberties Union at New York, for advice. Koch said they would not decide on their mnext move .until a reply is receive. ‘The stude were not the only ones who charged rough treatment in the Kentucky mine area J s Price, 37, of 3 sentative of i mittee of Chi in Pineville, Ky severely beaten and return, Price said he returned to Pineville In the car of a passerby. He is attorney for miners under murder charges in connection with disorders At Harlan, Ky, Circuit Judge D. C Jones said he would ask the grand jury to investigate the alleged beating of the Arkar students if they filed a_com- plaint. Sheriff J. H. Blair of Harlan County said he would investigate if the students requested. Walter B. Smith, county attorney of Bell County. was quoted in press dis- atches as expressing regret bodily harm ad come to the stufents. He pointed | out the zalleged ing had occurred in Harlan County, and said “it has been | the policy of officials of Bell County | to protect even Communists and the most rabid agitators while in our| county.” | The students were ordered out of Pineville by Chief of Police Pearl Os- borne. who demanded they post $1.000 peace bond or leave. At the city limits | udents were taken in charge by | who gave them treir er the mountains, they said. Members of the Commonwealth dele- gation besides Koch are Harold Coy, ac Greenberg. 22; Sam Sand- /9, and Leo Cvrullo\n 19. CAPITAL GROUP TO AID CHILDREN OF MINERS Comimittee Named to Send Relief into West Virginia and Ken- taken into the country, warned not to| tucky Coal Areas. A committee to represent the Save the Children Fund of America in Wash- ington has been appointed to aid in re- lief of childref of unemployed West | Virginia and Kentucky coal miners ‘The national organization is denominational in character. The committee is composed of Mrs Walter R. ~Tuckerman of Bethesda, chairman; Charles B. Lyddane, vice resident of the Federal-American Na- fonal Bank, treasurer; Dr. W. L. Darby, seeretary of the Washington Council of Churches/ secretary; Bishop James E. Freeman, Bishop William F. McDowell, Dr. Augustus Thomas, secretary general of the World Federation of Education Associations; Dr. Lewis Merriam of the Brockings ' Institute, Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterfan Church; Mrs. J. M. Saun- ders, president of the District Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations: Mrs A. C. 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It of nearly every song that comes their way through the post office Leoking upon it as the the Nation now ras twentieth annual meeting of States Chamber of Commerac Francisco in May will be devoted most exclusively to X vision has been the three aspects of eral, State and local review the prog gress that Ioad s discussion nost alwavs concent xation, bec c that beats upon p gress, Washington auth | that ft is not so much t Sam collects wh! people, but the cost within_their own Statcs cities that 15 bleeding t “Tax Strikes” Common. m years of Ozto- cople be- yernment ex- were ex- It was during the ceding the stock m ber, 1929, that the Ame came &s prodigal in penditure of all kinds as tie travagant in their personal I The result was that the cost of administer- ing the National Government and 1 | governments of all corts ros $3,000,000.000 & year in 1913 to more than $13.000,000,000 in 1931. On a per capita basis the rise was from $30 in 1913 to $108 in 1931 As the piper could only be paid out of tax rev taxes have mounted all alone the line until narily law-abiding citizens are in a state bordering on revolt cgainst them “Tax strikes” are nowacays commor While®the United States Chamber of Commerce is moving to rivet the atten- tion of the business world on ths tax monstrosity, the Midwest commercial Jeaders, under the direction of the Chicago Association of Commerce, is organizing drives ugtout the Union costs. Before the association’s plans are completed it expects to have groups working in unison in no fewer than 1,000 cities. More than clubs have joined the crusade. Discussion at the San Francisco meeting of the National Chamber of the question “By what means can tax- payers' strikes be averted? By what specific means can business agencies marshal public sentiment in behalf of less and wiser public spending?” Every- body knows that local authorities all United States have been “blowing in” the people’s money with the recklessness of gambler: The basic cavse has been so-called local pride, which manifested iteel{ in a wild, gen- eral scramble among towns, cities. coyn- ties and States to keep up with the FOR those quick, impromptu arties, a hjepl'xone in your ome i a:real need, Inviting the quests and ordering re- freshments is simple—if you have a telephone, not so simple if you haven't. And telephone service costs so little nowa- days—only a few cents a day. In Washington, a telephone in your they have reached a point where ordi- | to enforce curtailment of Government | 2,000 Rotary | Cemmerce will range generally around | you can have home for as low as $2.50 a month The. Chesapeake and Potemac Telephone Company (Bell System) White House Hears of State County and Mumc1pal Imposts Whose Magmtude Is Stirring People to Frenzy. Joneses. 1f State A went in for a | grandiose scteme of road building, neighboring States B, C and. D felt they had to follow suit. If towh or city A, | B or C indulged in a luxury of big and | ornate city halls, schoolhouses or court- houses, town or city X. Y, Z automati- cally deemed that the prestige and honor of the community required it m; do as well or go the other places one or two better. There are towns corn belt of the Middle W during the get-rich-quick e the stock crash competed with one an- other in the number of municipal golf courses or outdoor swimming pools built Little or no heed was taken of the cost Bond issues were voted and floated with gay abandon The Day of Reckoning. | A day of reckoning for this era of frenzied civic finance is now at hand 1t is a day of increasing tax delinquen- cebt defaults, special assessment breakdowns and mounting deficits. Tt | is a day that must mark the end of froe public spending, unless communi- over Uncle Sam's brond domain to follow Chicago’s example | One of the practical ties a ers in San Francisco will » public school system and ication at the heavily en- ate universities. Some au- think there. are too many too elaborate scheol and col- | uildings, and too much “fancy o the youth of the land, gigantic cost to taxpayers ‘Should the curriculum be cut back to fundementals?” is one of the concrete questions on the Chamber of Commerce program In a recent address before the Legis- lature of Kentucky Melvin A. Traylor, | ident of the Pirst National Bank of Chicago, made some graphic statements about the tax situation. “Today.” he said, “tax levies equal the estimated equivalent of one day’s labor every week from every man. woman and child in the United States. Only a short time ago one out of every 22 persons gain- fully employed was on the public pay- roll. Today it is one in every 11, and said that at the present rate we 11 in only a little more than 20 n on the pubic L‘nld facts. “One million acres of land in a Middle Western State are taken over by the counties of that State for un- paid texes Another State has an $18,- 000,000 deficit; still another State, with $10.000,000 in signed contracts for cer- tain projects, is unable to raise a single dollar to ca on these projects. De- linquent taxes are at least twice as e 1930. and the percentage is | s 60 per cent, 70 per cent and per cent in certain communities. Schools are closed, bend issues are in default, hundreds of communities are tax bankrupt. Those are the basic facts which we cannot, must not, dare not evade.” (Copyri Elected for 42d Time. rv S. Everson of Kingston, Mass., | recently was elected town clerk for the forty-second consecutive year. MILLS BUIT.DIN Corner Pa. Ave., 17th & G Sts. N.w: 0% month. "Alse a sin- ARTHUR CARR Mills Blde. Natl 2865 MEtrop. flcece. 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Nye of North Dakota told a group of young men and women who gathered at the Belasco Theater yesterday afternoon to make known their abhorrence of war Senator Nye held the recent World War directly accountable for the pres- ent economic depression and scored the pdlicy that keeps American milit: forces “large enough to follow. prot and defend a few selfish, greedy Ame can dollars invested abroad.” He lauded the celebration last Summer of 150 years of peace along the Canadian | border, with no armaments or military patrols. The audience heard James Frederick Green, Yale scnior. who appeared be- fore the Geneva Disarmament Confer- ence with the plea of youth, sound the | keynote of the meeting. Platform Outlined. The young man, who addressed the “hoary heads and bald pates” of the conferees at Geneva, called upon the youth of the Nation to renounce war “as both impractical and and added, “we have set for ourselves the arduous task of making impossible its recurrence.” He outlined the 14 points of the student platform ¢ disarmament which was distributel t» a’l who at- tended the meetin: Representative Paul J. Kvale of Minnesota presided as honorary chair- | man and was asked to carry back to the Congress the message of the meeting. A message sent by Secretary Stimson was read. The Secretary of State said “On the eve of my departure for Geneva...1 am happy to acknowledge vaur pledge of support, and I am im- pressed by the zeal and spirit manifested by the young people of America We hope that through our efforts your heritage in world affairs will be some- what freer of the sense of international rivalries than ours of today, your foot- ing more confident and firmer in inter- national friendships. This goal can only be attained by an intelligent sympathetic interest on the part of the youth of today. Progress in disarma- ment is one clear contribution to a better world.” Following the meeting, Secretary Stimson’s message was answered by a cablegram which read: “Hearty appre- ciation message read mass meeting Assure you support for every effort to lend country’s influence prompt reduc- tion armaments as necessary world security and relief war taxation.” Luther Tucker Amc. - other speaker: Tucker. 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