Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1937, Page 14

A—14 PHILIPPINES HAL COCONUT OIL TAX Quezon and Paredes Jubi- lant Over Supreme Court Decision. BY JAMES G. WINGO. President Manuel Quezon, in Paris, and Resident Commissioner Quintin Paredes, in Washington, are jubilant over the Supreme Court decision last ‘week which enables the United States to continue collecting $2,000,000 a month for the Philippines. The money is derived from a proc- essing tax of 3 cents a pound on Philippine coconut oil. In upholding the legality of the tax the Supreme Court pointed out that the Philippines occupy a de- pendent status in relation to the Fed- eral Government, thereby giving Con- Rress greater power to legislate for the welfare of the islands than it would have in the case of a State. No excise tax collection has been paid to the Philippines, as provided by the revenue act of 1934, but on March 31, 1937, the United States Treasury held as a separate fund for the Philippines $46,830,391.21, the to- tal accumulation of taxes paid by United States processors of coconut oil. Congress Must Vote Fund. Although Congress must appropri- ate that amount before the Philippine Commonwealth can collect, no diffi- culty is anticipated in that direction. The estimated regular income of the Philippine government for the current fiscal year is less than $33,000,000. One-fourth of that amount has been appropriated for national defense. Necessarily other activities of the Commonwealth have been curtailed in order that a new army may be organ- ized and maintained. Most needy among the activities of the commonwealth are education and health. There has never been a time ‘when there were enough teachers and achools in the Philippines, but the need for such is more urgent now than ever before. For 1937 more money was appropriated for national defense than public education. | Talk of School Crisis. | Next month Philippine public schools will again open for & new achool year, and in the last six weeks the people have been talking about the school crisis. In Manila alone it 1s feared that 3,000 elementary school graduates will not be admitted into high schools because of the lack of facilities. It is expected that public | education will benefit most from the tremendous excise tax windfall. In 1937 public health was allotted only $2,000,000. This is far from being sufficient for the needs of a country of | 18,000,000 people, who are continuous- | ly beset by tropical and Oriental ! diseases. Outside of the eradication of pesti- lential diseases, one of the most ap- parent improvements of the Philip- pines during the American regime is the increase of the average Filipino's stature. At the turn of the century the height of the average man in the Philippine Scouts, a part of the United States Army, was 4 feet 11 inches. At | present it is 5 feet 4 inches, an increase | of 5 inches in a period of a little over | three decades. Health Not to Suffer. Americans in the Philippines are | 80 eager to see this progress in Fili- | pino health maintained that they | feared that the relatively expensive | national defense program of the Com- | monwealth would cripple the work they began. However, with $2,000,- 000 falling into the Philippine treas- | ury every month, it is believed that | the health of the Filipinos will not | suffer. | How this tremendous windfall will affect Philippine attitude toward in- dependence remains to be seen. Pres- ident Quezon has objected vigorously to . the 3-cent excise tax, but also has expresed gratification over the favorable decision of the Supreme Court. In his objection he regarded the tax as a violation of the spirit of the McDuffie-Tydings independence | act. However, his actions after the | Supreme Court decision and the happy statements of inferior officials indi- cate that the windfall would be suffi= cient to soothe ruffied Filipino feel- ings. After all, the Philippine gov- ernment may find the coconut oll tax & blessing, for there is no apparent means by which it can obtain $24,- 000,000 annually without almost dou- bling the present taxes, which an impoverished people already consider pretty heavy. —— D. C. MAN HONORED Lieut. Col. Covell Elected Member of M. I. T. Corp. Lieut. Col. W. E. R. 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