Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1937, Page 5

D.C. VOTES URGED FOR TAX CONTROL Columbia Feights Associa- tion Hears Demands for Right to Govern Levies. Demands for national representa- tion, local suffrage and State's rights for the District were voiced last night by members of the Columbia Heights Citizens' Association at its first meet- ing of the season in the Fourth Pres- byterian Church. Col. Luther Robinson Maddox, chair- man of the association’s Committee on Legislation, declared, in opposing the proposed business privilege tax, that the people “will have to rise up and demand their rights if they want any action.” There would be no such proposals as the “business tax” if the people of the District had a voice in public affairs, others contended Sees Check Through Vote. Alton B. Carty, chairman of the Taxation Committee, asserted “the people should have a say in such mat- ters through the voting privilege.” Col. Maddox, Carty and George H. Brown were appointed to make a gen- eral study of the tax situation for report at the next meeting. Attention to the increase in traffic fatalities this year over last was called by Brown, who charged ‘“you can't get &ny action on recommendations ta the District Commissioners.” Declaring street car safety zones to be “death traps,” Brown advocated having all automobiles stop behind street cars to permit persons getting off to reach the sidewalk in safety. He proposed further that automobiles not be allowed to ride on the car tracks past the safety zones, and that parking close to street corners be eliminated. Brown praised The Star's safety campaign. Zoning Changes Protested. ‘The association adopted a resolution opposing i proposal to rezone Massa- chusetts avenue from a residential to a commercial area. Opposition also was expressed to the proposed rezoning of the lot at 1361 Harvard street from residential to commercial. A hearing was scheduled to be held on this proposed change at the District Building at 10 o'clock today. Indorsement was given the “free lunch” plan for underprivileged chil- dren in public schools. John M. Boteler introduced a reso- lution, which was adopted, indorsing the object of the District of Columbia Suffrage Committee. Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, Ppresident of the association, presided at the meeting. . Roosevelt (Continuéd From First Page.) majority of the farmers wanted surplus control. No Comment on Black. Mr. Roosevelt said he had no com- ment to make regarding Associate Justice Hugo L. Black, and added he had not been in touch with him since the justice returned from a vacation in Europe. The Prestdent was reminded of a statement he made before leaving on his tour that Black was out of the country and had not had an oppor- tupnity to read a series of articles contending the justice held member- ship in the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Roosevelt said then there would be no further comment until Black returned. That statement, the President said, strongly implied the possibility of a later statement, but did not neces- sarily mean there would be one. He suggested he probably should have said at that time there would be a statement when, as and if, cir- cumstances indicated a further state- | ment was in order. The President said he found a bet- ter understanding among the yoters of what it was all about. For example, he | said, he did not hear any complamt | when he mentioned that W. P. A. and | P. W. A. have got to be curtailed, whereas two or three years ago there | would have been an awful howl at such & suggestion. Today, he said, the people under- ktand that the relief and public works pregrams were not mere handouts, but &n economic program that shifts with the economics of the Nation. He sald it was not necessary any more to keep 2,000,000 persons on re- Lief. He said, in response to a question, he saw no conflict between his reclamation and acreage reduction | programs, because curtailment toox | place almost in every case on poor land. He said he found much land in the drought areas of the Northwest that should never have been cultivated, and that if farmers there would trans- fer to the irrigated Boise Valley, for instance, they would plant other than surplus crops. Interest in Surplus Control. He said he had found no lack of Interest for surplus control in good crop areas because the farmers evi- dently remembered what happened before and were now better educated to the requirements. The President, in mentioning re- gional planning as the fourth meas- ure of his next session program, ex- plained the Norris bill for eight re- gional planning boards was not a “little T. V. A. proposal.” The Tennessee Valley Authority act, he said, gives the T. V. A. complete charge of the whole Tennessee water- shed, with authority to build dams and transmission lines, prevent soil erosion and build model communities. The Norris bill, he added, would give the new boards only planning and no administrative authority. The administrative phase depended & lot on how Congress deals with Gov- ernment reorganization. ‘Now that the new public works department has been eliminated, he said the same end could be achieved by having this work co-ordinatetl under the President. Board Recommendations. If a dam was to be built, he said, 1t would be done by the Army en- gineers or reclamation service, with the regional boards recommending various works to a national planning agency in Washington. These recommendations would be sifted by the President with the Budget Bureau and a preferred and secondary list of projects submitted annually to Congress. If the eight agencies, for example, asked for $800,000,000 of projects and the Government pocket book could stand only $200,000,000, Congress ‘would be given two lists of $200,000,000 each. NG_STAR, WASHINGTO Young John L. Lewis at Princeton o Comment (Continued From First Page.) as long as the safety of this country is not directly menaced there was no possibility of an active intervention on the part of the United States in world affairs. They feel now that, despite the distance which separates America from both continents, the President’s speech is going to bolster the morale of the other nations. It is felt in the capitals of t tarian states that the sabe policy which nas proved so successful in the last few years may be less successful henceforth. President Roosevelt's speech was not made on the -pur of the moment. It was the result of a well-thought- out policy based on international de- velopments. The President for many months has been watching the European and the Far Eastern situations with increasing apprehension. New War Appears Inevitable. He had hoped that the nations of Europe and the Far East would be as reluctant as the people in this country to get entangled in another war. But confronted with the cold facts that another world war appears inevitable; that the democracies of Europe were powerless before the de- termination and power of the dicta- torships, he began to consider ways and means to avoid another world catastrophe. American diplomats and special ob- servers, who, at his bidding, have made a thorough survey of the situa- tion, reported that the pillars of the Western democracies were crumbling, that their people had become resigned at the idea of donning the steel hel- met and the gas mask and fight once more a hopeless war, that they were looking anxiously toward the United States, which, in their opinion, was the only power in the world to create the necessary frame of mind to stave off this impending catastrophe. Europe’s Affairs Academic. The moment to make a spectacular declaration had not arrived until the new Japanese aggression against China. After all, the European af- fairs had only an academic appeal to the minds of the people of this country. But when the recent Japanese ag- gression occurred, the dangers of an- other war became clearer to the minds of the men in the street in the United States. Even then, President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull believed that Japan would listen to reason. For two months the State Department has told Tokio officially and by intimation that this country could not accept with indiffer- ence the new situation which the Jap- anese government wants (o create on the Asiatic mainland. To the intimations given by Ambas- | sador Joseph Grew in Tokio and by Secretary Hull to Ambassador Saito in Washington, the Japanese an- swered with a smile and a shrug of the shoulders. The American official notes were re- Alkalize Excess Stomach Acids Almost Instantly the “Phillips’’ Way The fastest way to “alkalize” is to carry your alkalizer with you. That’s what thousands do now that genuine Phillips’ comes in tiny, peppermint flavored tab- lets —in a flat tin for pocket or purse. Then you are always ready. Use it this way. Take 2 Phil- lips’ tablets —equal in “alka- lizing” effect to 2 teaspoonfuls of liquid Phillips’ from the bottle. 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The administration leaders saw in that answer as well as in the actions of the Japanese government a clear indication that unless some deter- mined stand is taken, all the peaceful efforts of the Unite States Government would remain fruitless. Dictators Saw U: S. Isolated They also realized that there was a strong relationship between the Euro- | pean and the Far Eastern develop- ments, and that the determined atti- tude of the dictators was predicated on the assumption that the United States was wedded to a policy of isolation and would remain so for a long time. They believed that the people of this country would not back Mr. Roosevelt in an “‘adventurous” policy. President Roosevelt's speech in Chi- cago was a shot across the bow. He warned the dictators that he was con- fident that the people of this country would be with him in a “stop-this-kill- ing” campaign. And he hopes that this warning will be sufficient to make Tokio, Berlin and Rome reconsider their policy and endeavor to obtain | whatever they consider their rights by | negotiations in the frame of the exist- | ing treaties and of Secretary Hull's 14 | point American diplomatic credo. Further Step Considered. Should this hope be frustrated there is no doubt that the admin- istration intends to go a step further and co-operate with the other na- tions in re-establishing law and order on the war-torn continents. The ma- chinery for such a purpose is avail- able: The Covenant of the League of Nations, the nine-power pact, the Kellogg pact and a number of multi- | lateral treaties. 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