Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1935, Page 3

FAILURE ADMITTED BY TOWNSENDITES Friends in House Say Pro- gram Is Unworkable, To Draft Changes. (Copyright. 1035.) The Townsend plan bubble for a quickly spent old-age pension of $200 a month blew up in the House of Representatives yesterday when its friends were forced to admit that the program, as popularized, was not workable. Even if the four-point tax levy on transactions, incomes, estates and gifts, provided in the revised Mc- Groarty bill, should live up to the most rosy of revenue estimates, they ruefully acknowledged, the first-year pensions could not exceed $50 a month. The highest estimate of ini- tial revenue was $4,000,000 and the prospective pensioners would number tetween 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 per- sons. ‘The admission came as Representa- tive James W. Mott, Republican, of Oregon, who favors more liberal old- age pensions than provided in the administration’s social security bill, explained that the new McGroarty bill, which may be offered as an amendment to the security measure, is not the original scheme of Dr. F. E. Townsend. As a friend of any program liberal- 1zing the $15-a-month old-age pension of the security bill, Mott said he wanted the members of the House to know that it was the revised Mc- Groary bill that probably would be offered. He said he thought members of the Townsend Clubs and others ought to know the difference made by the revisions incorporated in the bill. It could not, he added, provide more than $50 a month. Changes Admitted. Questioned by Representative Frank N. Buck, Democrat, of California, and John K. Martin, Democrat, of Colo- rado, brought out the figures, and it remained for Representative Isabella Greenway, Democrat, of Arizona, strong supporter of the Townsend plan, to explain that the changed sit- uation had been discussed fully for Townsendites in the clubs’ publica- tion issued under date of April 8. ‘To many members of the House, the news was a revelation, and may serve to make votes for the compro- mise despite the heavy tax levy the plan contemplates. Again Representative John S. Mc- Groarty, Democrat, of California, au- | thor of the first and second Townsend plan bills, indicated that he had little hope for action in the present Con- gress. Regretfully he said: “We will take what we can get for a starter. We are anticipating a re- jection at this session. We are al- ready laying our lines for the Seventy- fifth Congress and organizing /Tow! send Clubs in every congressional dis- trict. “Our first bill was crude. This revised bill is scientific and states- manlike and is not being jeered at any more. None will be able to say it is unworkable.” Four Taxes Proposed. As revised, the McGroarty bill pro- vides for four separate taxes to raise the fund necessary to pay pensions to all over 60 years, not to exceed $200 a month, and to be spent within the month paid. It does not, as in the first instance, authorize the pay- ment of $200, but as much of it as can be paid out of the fund raised by the taxes. As explained by McGroarty. the taxes should provide a fund sufficient ! to pay $50 a month for the first year. with $100 at the end of the second year. At the end of the third year the spending procedure provided would bring a recovery sufficient to pay $125 to $150 monthly in the old-age pen- sions, and by the end of the fifth year the amount should reach the limit. None would get more than $2,400 a year. Chief among the taxes proposed is the “transaction” tax, newly named for the old sales tax. but wider in its application. The tax section of the revised bill, from which experts said that not more than $4.000.000,000 could be raised at first, follows: “Section 2. (A) There is hereby levied a tax of 2 per centum upon the fair gross dollar value of each trans- action done within the United States and territories; also, in addition to all other taxes, a tax equal to one-tenth of the tax levied upon all incomes under the provisions of the revenue act of 1934 or any amendment there- to; also, in addition to all other taxes, a tax of 2 per centum upon the fair dollar value of all transfers of prop- erty by devise, bequest, or other testa- mentary disposition or legal descent and distribution of property, as now or hereafter taxable under the provisions of the revenue act of 1934 or any amendment thereto, and also, in ad- dition to all other taxes, a tax of 2 per centum upon the gross dollar value of every gift in excess of the fair value of $500.” —eeeeee SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE_ 1S HEREBY GIVEN THAT ROE- ert Priedlander is selling his grocery busi- ness conducted at 200 Rhode Island ave. > Creditors are notified to present their Ciatms to Albert W. Jacobson. Attorney. 3001 15th St. N.W.. on or before Monday. April 15, 1935. ‘This notice 1s given under the Bulk and Sale 15% es Act. NOTICE 1S HERI ‘A. Guiffre is selling his retail liquor busi- EBY GIVEN THAT GUY ness conducted at 518 9th st. n.w. Cred. itors are notified to present their claims to Albert W, Jacobson. Attorney. 1001 15th st n.w., on or before Thursday. April 18. This notice is given under the Bu! lesiiotes s s o noeges DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU BUY A new 1935 Buick 8. completely equipped. deliverea in Washington. for § Orme’s M Note: This article is reprinted (with minor changes bringing statistics up to date) from The ‘| Sunday Star of March 13, 1932, The article has appropriate bear- ing on the situation today. Editorial Correspondence of The Star. THEODORE W. NOYES. HE Seventy-fourth Congress, our new National, State 'and Municipal Legislature, is now functioning vigorously and will soon make important decisions upon urgent items of necessary local legis- lation and appropriation and also upon unjust legislative proposals which threaten injury to the Capital com- munity. In what spirit will the Congress, with its large percentage of new members in both House and Senate, approach this legislation? In what spirit will the Capital community welcome its legislators, new and old, and co-operate with them in sensible suggestion of wise and just laws and in rejection of such as are inequitable? The Washingtonian, powerless to participate effectively in his own taxation and government and im- potent to withstand those individual legislators, who, he believes, have abused their power to tax and govern him, has in particular instances exer- cised too freely and offensively the privilege of the hopelessly defeated litigant of “cussing the court.” And also in individual instances the Dis- trict’s legislators, with all powers in their hands to wound and even to destroy, have taken too great offense at the verbal sputterings of the aggrieved and helpless and have too vigorously retaliated. v | Too many of Washington's legisla= | tors have come to view their constit- uents as unappreciative, ungrateful | greedy, selfish and censorious, and too many of these constituents, also gen- | eralizing too broadly, have come to | view the legislators, selected for them | by the Constitution, as carelessly ! ignorant of their needs, as contemptu- | ously indifferent to and neglectful of their welfare or as actively hostile. The crying need of the hour is a change of thought, a change of heart, a new policy under which each of the capital-building partners shall heed the injunction “Put yourself in his place!” with the result of substituting | mutual appreciation for recrimination. Fair play and mutual regard are watchwords of the new policy. Fair Play for Congress. The Washingtonian in accordance with it will render deserved and be- | 1ated tribute of grateful appreciation | to the long line of Senators and Repre- | senatives, who have faithfully per- | formed the unselfish, difficult and aimost thankless task of dealing as ,mnslderately and justly with their | Capital constituency as with their | home constituents. Washington knows | and honors these men—its loyal, help- | tul friends, public-spirited workers in | the task of capital building, though it | may not have put this eppreciation | and honor into words as promptly and adequately as it ought. When Washington puts itself in the place of Congress and recognizes the difficulties and embarrassments under which Congressmen labor as District legislators it will be easier for the city to substitute at times appreciation for fault-finding. The Capital may then even feel a pride in having as its local legislature the greatest legislative body in the world; a legislature which, through neglectful and sometimes threatening in District legislation, ha'.s ever in the great crises of the Capital’s history acted justly and wisely and | sympathetically. Though the Nation lrrom the beginning neglected its obli- gations toward the Nation's city, it frankly confessed its fault and came to the city’s relief in 1835, when Wash- ington had bankrupted itself ln'trying to perform unaided the Nation’s task of capital making. So in the seventies of the last century, with a recurrence of the conditions of 1835, the Nation not only shouldered one-half and guaranteed the whole of the bankrupt- ing debt, but undertook, as & matter of equity, to share all the expenses of capital-making for the future. So in 1915, when the organic act of 1878 was attacked and the people of the Capital were described as under- assessed and undertaxed Congress on the basis of weeks of searching and intelligent investigation by a con- gressional joint committee vindicated the local taxpayers, declaring them to be adequately taxed, and so handled the question of future taxation that the 50-50 provision of the organic act remained unaltered until in 1922, when the percentage ratio was changed from 50-50 to 60-40, but the principle of definite proportionate contribution by the Nation was preserved. And in spite of divergence in appropriation practice this principle has remained until this day the substantive law. 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They are drawn form and reflect the spirit of every section of the Union. Owing no divided allegiance to a State, they are American in a peculiar sense, the most American and mational of all Americans. They are now generally recognized as by far the largest contributors to the upbuilding of the Capital. They gave of their own property that the Nation might practically own and ex- clusively control a national city. They donated to the Nation five-sevenths of the area of Washington. They gave the land from .the proceeds of the sale of which the original public buildings were completed. Nearly all the work of street improvement and Capital-making which was done for three-fourths of a century was done by them. Through disregard by the Nation of its financial obligations to the Capital the Washingtonians were in 1835 forced into bankruptcy in. the public-spirited .attempt to bear alone the Nation's burden. In the same spirit they endured in the seventies the travail of the birth of the new Washington. They have paid their proportion of every national tax, direct and indirect. They pay as much per capita in city taxation, the census reports show, as the average taxpayer in the American cities ap- proximating Washington in size and conditions of environment, and owing to their peculiar disabilities their tax burden is distinctly hard to bear. They have risked life and shed their blood in every national war. As a border community Washington sent many of her sons to the South in the civil struggle; while to preserve the Union the first volunteers came from the Capital, and Washingtonians sup- plied more troops in excess of their quota than any State except one. In the War with Spain they sent to the front a fine regiment, far exceeding their quota in numbers. In the World War they sent more of their sons to Army. Navy and Marine Corps than eight of the States, and in ratio of voluntary enlistments to total number inducted into military service the Dis- | trict exceeded forty-three States. In| 1919 the District contributed more in war taxes than fifteen States, more than five States combined. In every Liberty loan it far exceeded its quota. The proportion of its population sub- scribing to these loans was greater than anywhere else in the United | States, greater than any State of the Union. They have thus placed both | sacrifice of treasure and blood- sacrifice upon the Nation's altar. In modern times of peace the public spirit of the Washingtonian is equally in evidence whenever sacrifices of time or of energy or of money in the city’s interest are required. Our business and professional men—the educa- tional, scientific, literary and artistic | elements of our population—our work- | fngmen in public and private employ, | our department clerks and other Gov- ernment employes, our Winter resi- dents in process of conversion into ‘Washingtonians, combine to constitute one of the strongest, most intelligent, | ican communities in the | republic. The census of 1930 and other up- | stitutional legislators. The city’s pop- ulation exceeds that of eight of the States. Its population of voting age | (over 21) exceeds that of ten of the, | States. It paid more in national taxes in the fiscal year 1934 than each of twenty-four States and more than nine States combined. ‘The Captial is no longer merely the camping place of transient Americans, but has developed into a homogeneous sourceful, populous, public-spirited, patriotic, with a marked civic self-| consciousness, with a strong com-| munity get-together spirit and with an | inspiring community pride. Our Great Local Legislature. Applying the doctrine of an exacting | and far-reaching national responsi- | bility toward the Capital, what is the obligation resting upon Congress when | it acts as local legislature? 1 Clearly it denies the justice when legislating for the District of disre- garding entirely the local needs, condi- tions and prejudices and using the Capital as a national experiment sta- tion, where dubious legislative projects may be tested as an example or a warning to the Nation, with no one injured but the District (as apothe- cary's cat), if the experiment is un- successful. This basis of legislation once popu- lar is now little used or feared. 1t forbids such legislation solely or primarily from the point of view of the legislator's home constituency, with the Congressman posing as the grudging dispenser of alms alleged to be contributed by his district or State to the greedy merchants of the| Capital. It makes of the Congressman as| local legislator a representative under the Constitution of his Capital con- stituents as distinctly as if elected by | them; under the same obligations, as if thus elected, to consider patiently and sympathetically their point of view, to crystallize into legislation as| far as practicable and reasonable | their opinions and wishes and to pro- | tect faithfully their interest and wel- fare. As local legislator under the Oon-,' stitution the Congressman represents | not the Nation, not the State, not the Be Wise—ANY MAKE WATCH Cleaned Regulated Adiusted Guaranteed Trade Mark One Year Bring This Coupon Monday and Tuesday Special pert and cleaned with the Iatest modern eiec- On our records we have over 50,000 satisfied _custemers. . J. F. ADAMS NAtiona! 2032 American community—intelligent, re- | tit D. Reciprocity in Fair Play Our Need in Washington Is a Square Deal for Everybody—for Congress, Our National, State and Municipal Legislature, and for the People of the Capital. congressional district, but the District of Columbia and its approximately 500,000 Americans. *The extensive powers in respect to the Capital conferred upon Congress involve equally far-reaching responsi- bilities and obligations, and sacrifices in the Nation's interest are required on both sides of the partnership. A great power is to be greatly, nobly ex- ercised, controlled by no motive or impulse that is small or mean or base. The greatest legislative body in the world, representing the world’s fore- most Nation, is to build up, typifying that Nation, the world’s greatest Cap- ital. The Nation’s city which the forefathers nobly planned is by us to be perfected on lines no less noble. The Capital which wisdom and patriotism are to make truly great in- cludes not only the physical city, but the people who live in it, the men and the women who make the sacrifices in the Nation’s interest which call for sacrifices of time and thought and patient consideration by the Nation through Congress in return. The obli- gation is to build not merely a beauti- ful city, but a healthful, wholesome, well governed, contented and self- respecting city. What, then, will the Nation do with its city to make it more attractive, more healthful, more creditable in every way as the National Capital. What will it do with the Americans who constitute the people of its city to promote their physical, political, in- tellectual and moral welfare? Americanize the Washingtonian. ‘The Nation could easily remove by constitutional amendment one cause of the District resident’s reasonable dis- content. This cause of offense and injury, thus readily to be effaced, is found in the Washingtonian's irritat- | ing, humiliating and hurtful condi- | tion of political and litigating im- potency, which degrades him to the | level of the alien politically, and de- bases him below the level of the alien, the United States Supreme Court says, in access under the Constitution to| the Federal Courts. As the Senate Committee on the| District of Columbia has said in re- porting upon the constitutional | amendment which corrects this polit- | ical inequity: “The proposed constitutional amend- | ment does not reduce the power ot‘\ Congress in respect to the Capital, but adds a new power; it does not pro- pose the admission of the District into the Union as a soverign State; 1t | does not propose the destruction of the ‘10 miles square’ provision of the Constitution; it does not lessen in the | smallest degree the control by the | Nation through Congress of what re- | times suggested, now | Rome January 7. C., 'APRIL 14, 193 deniably in equity entitled, will cleanse him of the stigma and stain of un- Americanism, and, curing his political I':gobenty. will arm him with a cer- er. “It will relieve the Nation of the shame of un-Americanism at its heart and of impotency to cure this evil. “It will inflict no injury or hard- ship upon either Nation or Capital to counteract these benefits.” / Upbuilding of Greater Washington. The greatest of our public men have been the strongest champions of the Capital. George Washington created it and gave it his name. Thomas Jef- ferson, with and following Washing- ton, was a planner, founder and up- builder of the city. Andrew Jackson threw himself with enthusiesm into the work of adequately bridging the Potomac, urged the allowance of a delegate in Congress to the District, and in his administration, with his co-operation and sympathy, the Nation came to the financial relief of the community bankrupted in per- forming the Nation’s task. Discrimi- nation between the later’ Presidents, frgm Lincoln to Hoover, all of whom have been friends (or at least not unfriends) of the District, might seem invidious. But it is only justice to record that Grant, the man of deeds, not words, had the opportunity which he effectively utilized to lay broad and deep foundations of Washington as truly the Nation’s city, while Cool- idge and Hogver will be recorded in | history as among the great master | builders—probably the greatest in the | last half century—of Washington the | City Beaptiful. Great men from all sections, in Con- | gress as well as the White House, have | delighted to labor to make the Capital | worthy of the Republic. Clearly lheu[ is noble work for any statesman in| identifying himself conspicuously | with the upbuilding of the Nation's Caiptal. In these days of easy divorce, trifling | causes of dispute often disrupt thei‘ family partnership, but in the Capital- making partnership between Congress representing the Nation and the people of Washington, divorce, though some- on one side and now on the other in a spasm of dis- content, is neither feasible nor de-| sirable. What the Constitution of the United States has thus joined to- gether is not to be put asunder. Since, then, these partners are to live and work together in Capital building, let them by mutual consideration, for- bearance, sympathy and regard live | together happily and work harmoni- ously and effectively to the end that through their joint labors a mag-| nificent Capital may be developed, | which every Washingtonian may with | patriotic enthusiasm claim as his home | and of which every American may be proud. ALLIES IN ACCORD ON PEACE MEANS AS PARLEY ENDS (Continued From First Page.) bilateral mutual assistance pacts she feels should re-enforce any general security system. | French and Italian delegates to the conference also found time to extend and amply provisions of the accord Premier Mussolini and Pierre Laval, French foreign minister, reached at An Italo-Prench mutual assistance | pact is virtually in its final stages. it was stated authoritatively, and this may be extended to bring in other | mains of the ‘10 miles square’; it does | most public-spirited and most Amer- not disturb in any way the financial | tween the Latin bloc and Great Brit- whole rejation of Nation and Capital; it is| ain is envisaged. not based upon either the abolition or |to-date statistics add to the reasons retention of the half-and-half law; it t5 work out the final wording of their | for appreciative consideration of their does not propose or involve changes agreement. Capital constituency by the city’s con- in ¢he municipal government of the Summing up the results of the confer- District. “It plans to bestow upon the 437,000 Americans of the District a distinctive, basic right of the Ameri- can citizen—in a government of the people by the people for the people— | in a government which roots its jus- | tice in consent of the governed—in a representative government which in- separably couples taxation and arms bearing as a soldier with representa- | | | | lon. | “This distinctive American privilege | decorates the American with a badge of honor and arms him with power. Its lack slurs the Washingtonian as unfit and defective, and slurs the Nation as in this respect un-American and impotent. “Washington will cease to be the only American community—numerous, intelligent, prosperous, public-spirited and patriotic—in all the expanse of continental and contiguous United States whose fitness to exercise na- tional privileges (as well as to bear national burdens) is denied. “National representation will clothe | Latin nations. Later an agreement for friendship and consultation be- Members of the three delegations | will meet again at 10 a.m. tomorrow An official communique ence will be issued afterward. After publication of today's brief official statement, British, French and Italian spokesmen said they had defi- nite instructions to give no further details of explanations before the ap- pearance of tomorrow’s communique. PACTS TO BE RECOMMENDED, PARIS, April 13 (#).—A final com- munique to be issued at Stresa tomor- Tow, would recommend bilateral air pacts | between England and France, France | and Italy and Italy and England. They would be modeled along lines of the prospective Franco-Russian ac- cord and fulfill the air treaty en- visaged in the recent talks in London between the French and the British, it was said. . Editor Talks Tomorrow. 1 Dr. Walter E. Myer, editor of the! American Observer, will talk on “Can America Keep Out of War?” at 8 pm. tomorrow at Central High School un the Washingtonian with a vital Ameri- can privilege to which he is un- 43 Years THREE NEW 1935 CARSON — 17 jewels. 14-K filled natural yellow old. With inlaid glnk enamel dial (shown). $50 Gold Numerals, $52.50 der auspices of the school's parent. teacher assoc : S at 935 F St. Tarnish-Proof HAMILTO N|SILVER CHESTS Watches PRESENTS Holds DESIGNS BARTLETT—17 jewels, 14-K filled netural yellow gold, mirror- lapped. With modern design applied gold mar- ker dial, only | bring the disputants together, to get | Labor | signed the pact. it was reported here tonight, |~ 5—PART ONE. RUBBER INDUSTRY STRIKE AVERTED A. F. of L. Claims Major Gains, but Akron Sees Failure. (Continued From Pirst Page.) the office of Assistant &crvury“ Edward F. McGrady. Miss Perkins made only a brief statement after the agreement was completed. The document, she said, in substance was the same as that proposed by Green and Claherty early yesterday. “A conciliator,” she said, “doesn’t have much to say. His duties are to their proposals and counter-proposals and to try to explain them to each other.” Miss Perkins Voices Thanks. Happy at the successful conclusion of her first start-to-finish mediation job since she became chief of the; Department, Miss Perkins | thanked each of the manufacturers | and labor men individually after they | CéPtion among representatives of labor. | Green discussed the agreement point | by point with newspapermen in his | explanation of what the federation | employes had won. Before the agreement was renched” he said, referring to point one, neither | the Goodyear nor Firestone com- | panies had met and dealt with fed- | eration representatives. “This means that the management of all three agrees to meet and deal with the union,” he said. | The agreement to post the results of negotiations on bulletin bcards, he also called a “victory for labor.” “Never before were the union men able to get a memorandum of agree- ment,” he said. Last Clause Stressed. ‘The last clause, concerning the cre- ation of a fact-finding board, Green said “means that collective bargain- lfl; is made real.” ‘Heretofore,” he said, “they (the| management) would sit around and | talk, but wohbld not come to any| agreements. Appeals and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and any ap- peals therefrom. “4, There shall be no strike or lock- out or discrimination, pending final decision in the cases now pending in the Court of Appeals for the sixth circuit, and in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and any appeals therefrom. However, if griev- ances are not settled satisfactorily, they shall be referred to a rac!-nnd-g ing board of three neutral members, | approved by the Secretary of Labor. | If the recommendations of the board | are not followed by either party to| the dispute, then the other party may be relieved of the obligation contained in this paragraph.” AUTG PACT DRAWN. Labor Board. DETROIT, April 13 (#)—The Au- tomobile Labor Board laid down to- day a “constitution” designed to in- sure lasting peace in the vast industry. Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of the three-man board named by President Roosevelt slightly more than a year ago, said the rules were issued to facili- tate “genuine collective bargaining be- tween management and labor.” More than 180,000 workers in 48 plants have elected their collective bargaining representatives, and elec- tions in 20 additional plants probably will be completed by May 15, Dr. ‘Wolman said. The “constitution” met a mixed re- Francis J. Dillon, organizer for the American Federation of Labor and a bitter critic of the board, said he studied the rules thoroughly. Only 8 per cent of the 187,311 em- ployes voting in primary or final elec- tions have designated their preference for A. F. of L. candidates. Bargainers Named for Year. members of the bargaining agencies are elected for one year, and that elec- | tions shall be held in the plants “un- | | freedom of choice.” This feature of the elections has drawn fire fre- quently from Dillon, who contends the voting should be conducted away from the factory premises. Recall of representatives can be ac- complished by a petition signed by a majority of eligible voters in any dis- | trict, the rules provide, and special elections will be held to fill vacancies. The representatives need not be employes of the plant. The rules also provide that employes “That section now makes collective bargaining more real for the rubber workers than they have ever had it before.” About 35,000 rubber workers would have been affected by the strike, understood to have been set for to- morrow. The federation claims about | every effort be made to settle differ- | 12,000 workers in the three plants, but the companies deny the union strength is that great. Last night's settlement followed. | by nine hours, Green's statement that the federation “would not recede from its position that the National Labor Relations Board's decisions be | enforced.” | At one stage, Miss Perkins told re- | porters, it looked as if the two view- | points never would be reconciled. Text of Agreement. The text of the agreement: “1. The management agrees to meet with employes and with the chosen representatives of any group of em- ployes for the purpose of adjusting grievances and complaints and for the purpose of negotiating upon hours, wages and conditions of employmenr\ for those they represent. Conferences will be held promptly upon request and | grievances and complaints disposed | of as expeditiously as possible. “2. The company will post on its bulletin boards in departments af- fected any changes in hours, wages or working conditions arrived at through negotiations with any group of its employes. “3. 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