Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1933, Page 8

TAXES FOR RELIEF 'BAFFLE NEW YORK Legislature to Meet This Week to Consider New Revenue Sources. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 22.—The city that, eats up an annual budget of half a billion dollars is scraping the cupboard bare for its 136.000 needy families. As a result, the State Legislature will meet in special session at Albany Wednesday to hear what Father Knickerbocker has to say for himself and to help him find a way out of his| dilemma. The city figures it will need $22,000,- 000 or $23,000,000 to keep its unemploy- | ment relief agencies functioning the re-| mainder of the year Beyond that it | will need $41,000,000 a year extra for| at least two more years, in the opinion of Welfare Commissioner Frank J ‘Taylor. Taylor has warned of riots money is not forthcoming. Bankers Stop Loans. The bankers in Wall Street will make| no further loans until the city finds| new sources of revenue. It is the latter fleld that the Legislature will aid. Banks already are owed $30,000,000 in| short-term notes, $25,000,000 of which | are due on December 22. As Controller Charles W. Berry phrased it: “The city is now at the end of its| present resources and only by obtaining new revenue can the city continue its Telief program.” How is the money to be raised? Mayor John P. O'Brien suggested a ' it the| ity tax on automobiles and a toll on | 3™ bridges, but his proposals were howled | down. The Board of Aldermen pro- posed & tax on dance and music in- structors, but that did not get far. Critics blame the present plight on extrava- gance and poor economy, while its friends assert that thousands of prop- erty owners have fallen behind with their taxes and that unemployment re- lief is an extraordinary burden. From January 1 to May 31 this year the city spent $13,611,797 for that item, while the State and Federal govern- ments contributed an additional $17,- 084,326. Fare Tax Is Possible. As the Legislature prepares to meet, two possible tax sources stand out in discussions. One is an increase in the State sales tax and in the stock trans- fer tax, the additional revenue to be refunded to the cities by the State. The other is a 2-cent tax on subway fares. Gov. Lehman, in consenting to call a special session, warned at the outset that he was oposed to any tampering with the State tax machinery. A 2-cent subway tax would produce an estimated $40,000,000 a year, just short of the amount sought.” But the S-cent fare has been one of Tammany Hall's biggest prides—and an election is coming in the Fall. Mayor O'Brien has turned the task of formulating a tax program over to the Democratic leaders of the Legisla- ture, both New York City men. He hopes the fact that several up-State cities could use some extra money themselves will win the Republican- controlled Assembly over to & rise in the State imposts. Judge Reverses Sign. A sign in Mexican recovered from a King Oity, Calif,, bootlegger's place was used with excellent results by a local judge. The sign read: o credif ‘When Mexican offenders ask for time to pay fines, the judge mere- ly points to the sign THE ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR $ 9.50 The famous | are mistaken, of the city ndxmnumtiorh . THE SUNDAY “Rev. Dr.” Hull’s Tariff Stand Bewilders Foreign Diplomats Secretary Believes All Evils Have Root in Trade Barriers. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. I At a dinner table in a foreign lega- | tion in Washington one of the diplo- mats referred to Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull as “the Rev. Dr. Hull. ‘Whether this title was given him be- cause of the faulty knowledge of tne English language on the part of the Hull's long seymons on the necessity of reducing tariffs, is still a secret. One of the American guests, however, cor- rected the foreign representative. “You Mr. Minister” said the American. e is not a missionary, but an_apostle. Secretary Hull was an apostle of tariff reduction before he went to Lon- don as the chairman of the American delegation at the World Economic Con- ference. Whether he will come back with a different point of view is & mat- ter which remains to be seen. Listens to Everybody. Seldom has there been a more courte- ous and considerate Secretary of State than Mr. Cordell Hull in any adminis- tration, Democratic or Republican. He is patient with the diplomats and with the newspaper men. He listens to every- body without the slighitest sign of bore- dom, although, in more than one in- stance, he has*had ample cause to de- sire to cut his interviews short. Only once since he has taken over the administration of the State De-| partment has Mr. Hull lost his temper. And then it was only at the lack of efficiency of some of his junior assist- ts. ‘What happened was this. Because an author, who had been an official of the State Department intended to publish a | and ciphers to which he had had access, |1t was decided to submit to Congress a | new bill to make such publication pun- | | ishable. | Mr. Hull gave orders to his legal de- | | partment to prepare the bill and some | young attorney, in connection with at- torneys of the Department of Justice, | drafted a bill which, had it passed | through Congress. would have muzzled | the press completely. The press protested against it, and the assumption was that the bill, as it | | had been drafted, had the approval of the Secretary of State. Quickly Modifies Bill. | Mr. Hull's hands were trembling as | | he came into the press conference next IID perfectl FREE DOG BOOK Write for your free copy of the famous Sergeant's Dog Book on the diseases, care and feeding of dogs. Our Free Advice Depart- ment will answer questions about your dog’s bealth. Write fully. 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And few countries are interested in tariff | reductions at the present moment. | "'The appointment of Mr. Hull as Sec- retary of State was somewhat of a sur- prise even to the Initiated. sensational book making use of codes| He had never been in the limelight; he had never attended even a Gridiron dinner—nobody had thought to invite him. In the Senate and in the House he was respected but only very few really knew him. His relations with his colleagues were confined mostly to “good morning” and “good afternoon.” The Secretary is not a good mixer and never was a “glad hander” in his life. {He may have made speeches in the |House. but nobody remembers them. | Yet, there is not a single Senator or Representative who has not the highest regard for the quiet, silent man who has spent his time in his office studyin, the tariff question under its manifol aspects. International affairs are often the synonym of international intrigue. 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N.W. very | STAR, WASHINGTON, agk him shout the last Abyssinian im- port duty on cocoanuts, or the Lichten- a1k 1o you Jor Biours, iving y0u the for 3 most minute details on these mun. Sees Tariff as Sole Evil ! Tariffs are a Fetish with him. Solve | them, and you solve the world crisis. conversation between the Secretary of State and the newspaper correspondents at 8 conference: “Wg:i.ll position of the United States in to the new situation that has deve in the Far East?” he would be “Well, gentlemen,” he would answer, is undoubtedly ay unpleasant situ- ation, but its importance must not be overrated, and we should look at the | basic and fundamental causes of the rid’s ills, which are the unhlpry sit- uation created by these abnormal tarift barriers. Do away with these and you will find the whole world in a happier frame of mind, which inevitably would lead to an adequate solution of the question you are' referring to at this e . “What are you going to do about the | debts, Mr. secreury;"‘ \ “Gentlemen, this is again another question the importance of which is | greatly overrated. Let down the bar- | riers which are preventing today the free flow of international trade and you will see that this question will, become one of minor im| e.” And 50 on. The Secretary of State is looking at the world through the spectacles of tariff barriers. They are, he believes, the sal- vation or the undoing of the world. Pained By Opposition. Hull actually was pained when it was suggested to him that other nations may not look upon this tariff situation in the same light as he saw it. It was suggested to him that the political prob- lems which were keeping Europe an army camp may be the cause of trade | barriers. He eyed incredulously his in- | terlocutors and replied: “Surely they | cannot be so short sighted and not see | \ of tariffs— to be bothered with the daily trusts One might paraphrase as follows the | ing D. C, JULY 23, 1933—PART OKE. the real reason for this unrest in the world.” State is too busy problem—reduction ‘The Secretary of with the real world routine of his department. He all his collaborators and leaves the de- tails of his office to them. After all, what are they paid for? He had noth- to say about the appointment of any of his assistants. He had no pref- erence for anybody in particular and whoever was chosen by the President or by the party machinery was good enough for him. He likes and respects all of them and naturally expects the same loyalty from them. Unlike his predecessors, who liked to impose strict discipline in the personnel of the Department, he allows everybody to do what they think best, their conscience being their best guide. Lets Assistants_Alone. ‘When he was asked, in accordance with an old established rule which has | prevailed in the State Department ever since it was organized, whether he had been consulted by one of his assistants who decided to syndicate his knowledge in the columns of daily newspapers, he simply answered that it would be best for the State Department news- paper men to talk to that gentleman personally; he had nothing to do with it and knew nothing about it. To the old-timers, who like a more | stern discipline in Uncle Sam’s oldest 2 | prise of the foreign Ambassad branch of Government, this attitude of % slack. ‘The glamour which accompanies his office does nov interest him in the least. On the contrary, he is try'ng to avoid the mutxg functions and celebrations to which the Secretary of State is sub- Ject. 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