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The Barnwell PeopIc-SentineL BkrnwcIL 8. C- Thursday, April 23, 1936 News Review of Current Events the World Over Congressmen Hurrying With Tax and Relief Programs— * Black's Committee Wins a Decision—Distracting Rivalries in European Diplomacy. By EDWARD W. PfCKA^D „ f) Western Newspaper Union. Harry L. Hopkins C ONGRESS settled down to earnest work that would clear the way for .farly adjournment, the two chief mat ters under consideration being taxes and relief. Demo cratic members of the house ways and means committee worked In executive session to draw up the new rev- | enue measure which m they expect will yield I;;! about $790,000,000 In >:■ additional tax** during |n the next year. The ml- norlfy members stayed away, scornfully as serting their presence was useless because the preparation of the measure was utterly partisan. Representative A. P. Lamneck of Ohio, Democrat, was Insistent on his plan to raise $.*>00,(X)0.- 000 by a flat 20 to 22 per cent tax on corporation Income. To produce $2G3,- 000,000 more and bring his plan nearly up to the money requirement outlined by President Roosevelt, Lamneck would repeal the present exemption of corporation dividends from the nor mal Income tax rate. On that, he was In agreement with the committee pro gram. Harry L. Hopkins, head of the WPA, appeared before a subcommittee of the house appropriations committee, also In executive session, to urge compli ance with President Roosevelt’s re quest for an additional billion and a half to finance relief In the 1937 fiscal year. Various committee members at once demanded that Mr. Hopkins tell what had been done with the $4,8(X),- 000,000 granted last year. He was said to have promised to do his best to satisfy them, but Chairman J. P. Buchanan warned the minority mem bers that "this Is not to be made Into an Investigation." P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, happy and well tanned, wound up his fish ing cruise In the Bahamas and re turned to Washington. He landed at Fort Lauderdale and boarded his spe cial train at once, being accompanied for a time by Governor Sholtz of Florida and James A. Moffett who may be appointed assistant secretary of the navy to succeed the late Henry Roose velt Governor McNutt of Indiana, pnsihle keynoter of the Democratic convention, went up from Miami to greet the President. On the way to Washington Mr. Roosevelt stopped for half a day at Warm Springs, Ga., to look at his farm and take a swim in the resort pool. Passing through part of the region devastated by the recent torna does, he received reports from eyewit nesses along the route. Senator Black S ENATOR BLACK’S lobby commit tee won a considerable victory in the District of Columbia Supreme court when Chief Justice Wheat refused to enjoin the committee from using the tele grams from and to Wil liam R Hearst which had been sei/.ed. The Judge held that the court had no Jurisdic tloa over the commit tee, and said he could not see that the free dom of the press was in any way Involved. Said his honor: *'I have not been In- lormed yet of any case In which any court has assumed to dictate to a com mittee of the senate what it should do and what it should not do. and I do not feel that I have any right to Inau gurate any such principle as that." Elisha Hanson, counsel for Mr. Hearst, announced that he would a|e l>eal from the decision, anil It was certain that the case would ultimately be taken before the United States Su preme court. Continuing Its Investigation, the Black committee heard the testimony of Fred G. Clark of New York, na tional commander of the Crusaders. Mr. Clark denied that the organization had ever engaged In lobbying, and de clared that it had assailed the meth ods of lobbyists in a national radio broadcast. Senator Black endeavored to show that the Crusaders, the American Lib erty league, the Sentinels of the Re public, the Southern Committee to Up hold the Constitution, the American Taxpayers’ league, the National Econ omy league, -and similar organizations opjHtsed to the New Deal were sup- |K»rted largely by the same small group of wealthy industrialists. One of his Investigators put in a list <f contrib utors to two or more of the groups named. Mr Clark obtained permission to Include in the record a list of hun dreds ot small contributors, who sent in sums rnng'ng from $1 up in re sponse ToThe radio program. M USSOLINI’S African adventure Bud Hitler's Rhineland doings and future Intentions, tangled togeth er, have created a situation that seemed to Inperil the formal friend ship between Great Britain ami Frame. The P.rltish were imdsling that Italy be curbed, that her uae of poi son gas In Ethiopia be taken op by the League of Nations and that peacq negotiations between Italy and Ethi- opla be opened quickly to forestall any attempt' by Premier Mussolini to sign a settlement which might rlsq from ruins of Halle Selassie’s Ethi opian empire. Foreign Secretary Eder Indicated the British were determined to make peace progress ‘‘before w« leave Geneva,” Britain reserving its decision as to what to do next If this conciliation effort failed. The conciliation committee of the league was making little or no prog ress, and In Rome Mussolini told his cabinet that Ethiopia's armies should and would be “totally annihilated.” His own forces, meanwhile, were mov ing rapidly toward Dessye and Addis Ababa. France was reverting to her for mer policy of letting Italy go ahead with Its African conquest, devoting her attention mainly to Germany and cen tral Europe. The British continued to treat all that In a conciliatory way, which disgusted the French. Premier Sarraut handed In his government’s reply to the Hitler settlement pro posals, submitting In return Its own plan. This demanded that Germany keep “hands off” the rest of Europe for 25 years, renouncing her apparent Intentions of action against Austria, Danzig and Memel, and claims for colonies. It submitted a French peace plan based on “collective security” with regional mutual assistance pacts hacked by an International army di rected hy a commission working through the league. S ENATOR'NORRIS’ bill creating • Mississippi Valley authority to ap ply the TVA experiment to 22 states is not approved by the National Grange, which thinks It would be absurd to bring new land into cultivation by irri gation while farmers are being paid for letting their land lie fallow. Fred H. Brenckman, legislative representa tive of the Grange, appeared before a senate agriculture subcommittee and said the organization also objected to the proposal to construct huge dams throughout the Mississippi valley for the production of hydro-electric pow er. He favored a scientific program of soil conservation but insisted upon a- distinction between conservation and reclamation. He also advocated a sci entific flood control program, but dis tinguished between flood control and hydro-electric power development. Like previous witnesses. Including electrical engineese and Morris L. Cooke, the New Deal’s rural electrifi cation administrator, Mr. Brenckman Informed the committee tlmt flood con trol can be accomplished only by con structing little dams Tar up In the headwaters. F IVE hundred members of the Work ers’ Alliance, In convention In Washington, marched to the White House to demand continuation of the Works Progress administration, but neither President Roosevelt nor any of his secretaries was there to receive their petition. The men were orderly and the police did not molest -them. WPA Admlnlstratop-Hopkins also was absent from his office, but his assis tant, Aubrey Williams, received the delegation. David Lasser, national chairman of the organization, told Williams the group had been promised food and shelter during their stay In Washing ton and transportation to their homes. Williams said that under a regula tion promulgated February 2 no fed eral funds could be donated for con ventions of the unemployed unless congress made a specific appropria tion for that purpose. D F EDERAL money totaling $976,000.- 000 will be spent In the next four years on low-cost rent and slum clear ance construction projects, provided t h e administration’s housing bill, intro duced by Senator Rob ert F. Wagner of New York, Is passed by congress. Mr. Wagner hopes It. will be put through during the present session. The measure Is a com promise of the many proposals made by the various relict and housing agencies Deal and was drafted after a series of conferences with President Roosevelt. It .would cre ate another bureau, with five direc tors, Including the secretary of the Interior in his ex oftlclo capacity, re ceiving $10,000 salaries. The authority would he empowered to make grants not tq exceed 45 per cent of the total cost and loans for the remainder to any public bousing agency for the acquisition of land and the construction of “low-rent” housing projects. The loans would be repayable over a period aot to ex ceed 00 years, at such rates of Inter est as the authority decreed. Sen. Wagner of the New UE to the insistence of Senator Vandenherg for publicity on large AAA benefit payments. Secre tary Wallace has begun telling about them. He made a partial report, withholding the names of recipients with three exceptions. This revealed .that the largest cotton rental benefit payment, $123,747 for 1934, went to a Mississippi company headed by Oscar Johnston, an AAA official. Among the largest cotton payment recipients In 1933 were the Mississippi state peni tentiary, which received $43,200 for controlling production on its cotton acreage, and $25,500 to the Arkansas state prison F LYING -through a fog on Its way to Pittsburgh, a Transcontinental and Western Air liner went far out of Its course, plowed through the for est seven miles southeast of Union City, Pa., and smashed Into a granite wall on Chestnut Ridge. Nine pas sengers and the two pilots were killed. The stewardess. Miss Nellie Granger, managed to drag one man and the sole woman passenger from the flam ing wreckage, hound up their wounds, ran four miles to a farmhouse from which she telephoned to Pittsburgh the news of the disaster, and then returned to the scene to care for the survivors until a rescue party could arrive. The pilots were Hying on a radio beam, and it was believed theit radio apparatus failed. At this writ ing there is no other explanation. S OMETH IN(r new In Spanish history took place in Madrid. The parlia ment, by a vote of 238 to 5, ousted Niceto Alcala Zamora from the office of president of the republic. This ac tion, accomplished hy a coalition of Socialists. Communists. Left Repub licans and ten minor groups, was taken on a Socialist motion that the presi dent had acted illegally in dissolving the hist parliament before the elections and that therefore he should he ex pelled from office. Rack of this mo tion. however, lay radical sentiment that Zamora. In using his power ac cording to personal whim, has ham pered the progress of the “republican revolution." Diego Martinez Barrio, streaker of parliament, was made temporary pres ident to serve until elections are held R USSIA has rejected Chinas pro test against the soviet-Outer Mon gollan mutual assistance pact, hut as serted the treaty does not signify any territorial claim hy the Soviet union over China or Outer Mongolia. The Russians believe that Japan plans to set up puppet states In North China and Inner Mongolia and then to seize Outer^JlIoiiguliH The Manchukno government gave out details of a Moody battle between Mancbukuatis end Outer Mongolians in which the latter were repulsed, los ing six bombing planes and some tanks. R ESOLVING itbelf into a court, the seinte began the impeachment trial of Federal Judge Ualsted, L. Rit ter of Florida—the twelfth such case in 137 years. It was believed the trial would Inst at least one week. The defendant was represented by Carl T. Hoffman of Miami and Frank R. Walsh of Washington and New York. The prose cution was In charge o f Representatives Summers of Texas, _ Hobbs of Alabama Judge Ritter nn( ] Perkins of New Jersey, who presented the charges. Originally approximately wit nesses were summoned for the trial, but 29 were excused because of with drawal by the prosecution of two specifications in article seven charg ing Judge Ritter acted Improperly In electric ra’e and banking proceedings. Judge Ritter Is charged In seven Impeachment articles voted by the house wltti allowing A. L. Rankin, a former law partner, exorbitant receiv ership fees, with “corruptly" receiving $4.5(IU from Rankin, with violating the judicial code in practicing law while on the bench, and with evasion of taxes on part of his 1929 and 1930 In comes. In a 12.000 word reply. Ritter de nied all of the charges. He asserted none of thv? actions cited had ’•brought his court Into scandal and disrepute" or “destroyed public confidence In the administration of justice” in that ••ourL I _______ T ORNADOES tore across Missis Sippl, Alabamn, Gcorgi.t \rkansas and Tennessee, leaving «' • and de struction in their wake H*nut 4«Ni persons were killed and hundreds ot others injured, and the property losse> ran up Into the millions. The little city of Tupelo. Miss., suffered the most, with nearly 2tJO on the death list and more than a hundred homes smached Into kindling wood. A few hours later another tornado struck Gainesville. Ga.. and In three minutes had nearly ruined the busl ness section of the town and killed more than 150 persons. In fires that followed the storm the bodies of many victims were burned beyond recogni tion. The mining communities rear Co lumbia. Tenn., to the north and east of Tui»elo. counted seven dead. Red Bay, eastward In Alabama, lost five lives to the merciless wind. Near-by U.oonevllle, Miss., had four killed and Batesville. Ark„ suffered one death. Washington! Digest jg||. National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART Wiat SHE TOLD WORN-OUT HUSBAND Shecodd bare reproadadtenfor I N A decision concerning a specific action of the Securities Exchange commission the United States Supreme court ruled against the SEC. and In Its pronouncement It uttered a alg* nlficant warning against the'exerclse of arbitrary power by governmental agencies. F.s|»ecinll.v censured were the ••fishing excursions." often undertaken hy commissions aud congressional com- Rlltb , A i I ON A1 P't Washington.—In the last few weeks In Washington, we have heard little Ait r tL abont any govern- All Talk mental affairs ex- About Taxes taxes. Every one charged with re sponsibility for maintenance of govern ment credit or the maintenance of the supply of cash to carry on the era of ^pending is talking about taxes. It is In truth the predominant subject, over shadowing even the lobby investiga tion headed by Senator Black, Alabama Democrat, with that committee’s record of obtaining private telegrams by sub terfuge. It really Is not startling that every one should be talking about taxes be cause, however you examine the ques tion of government at this time, your analysis must Inevitably lead back to the question of the source of funds. And how could it be otherwise? We have a national debt $5,000,000,000 larger than It has ever been before, and still going higher; we have seven or nine or eleven million people unem ployed—depending on the source of your Information on this point—and we are confronted with declarations from President Roosevelt and his ad visers that more must be spent. It seems perfectly obvious;, therefore, that saner minds should be examining the whole economic structure of the na tion to determine from whence the money Is to come. Congress Is In the midst of working out a new tax bill. The house of rep resentatives, where revenue legislation must originate, according to the Con stitution which Is still operative, Is up to its neck with the tax problem. Il ls trying to work out a tax bill that will carry out the White House orders to take more money from corporations by levies on surpluses along with some minor schemes of taxatioh designed to Increase the total somewhat. During the time the house ways and means committee was trying to formu late a tax program on the basis of the President’s tax message, there was a perfect deluge of tax discussion here abouts. I think It may be said In this connection, also, that the house ways and means committee did a rather ridiculous thing as a preliminary to presentation of a tax bill to the house. It actually began hearings on tax leg islation without a tax bill In legislative language having been drafted. As far as I can learn, It was th» first time that witnesses were called In and asked to testify as to the efficacy of proposed tax legislation when there was actually no language In legislative form about which those witnesses could testify, either for or against. All the committee had before it was a so- called "committee rep<*t,” a statement of its views ns *to what ought to be done and It was almost pitiful to wit ness Individuals who are expert on taxation attempting to catch on to some will-o’-the-wisp and say that it was sound or unsound. Yet; that was what Chairman Doughton, Democrat, North Carolina, and his committee asked them to do. Perhaps I ought to explain for the benefit of those hot acquainted with tax legislation that there Is nothing so Important in a tax bill as the exact language. There are few places In law where the use of a particular word or the placing of a particular comma makes so much dif ference. In tax law, the dotting of an i and the croaking of a t are, in deed, important, • • • One benefit has accrued from this situation, however, and I hope, as I believe everyone else desiring good gov ernment and proper laws hopes, that It a tax bill generally mure acceptable than has been pro posed thus far. The maelstrom of discussion that hai4^Arisen from the house ways and means committee hearings has made a good many peo ple “tax conscious." Being “tax con scious” at this time, a good many men capable of thinking straight have begun to offer suggestions. 1 have been receiving some of them myself and one that has come to me has impressed me so mucli that I am going to use the substance of It In tliis column. It comes to me from Mr. Harry A. Wheeler, widely known business executive and banker of Chicago. Mr. Wheeler has been rec- ognized for a quarter of a century as a man who is given to looking rather far Into the future and for his ability to analyze problems, circumstances and conditions on a long-term basis rather than on urgency of current re quirements. “Since the consideration of the cor porate surplus tax act began," Mr. Wheeler v rote me, “I have watched the proceedings closely for some al ternative proposal that would produce a substantial tax revenue and yet tend to strengthen the program of the ad ministration to assure continuing busi ness recovery, create definite added employment in industries still down, and lower production ^osts and prices to the ultimate consumer. "No one denies that Increased fed eral revenue by taxation Is impera tive, hut it may be o[>en to argument *Uetbei- this can best be produced by I’Mii Wheelet's Suggestion will result In the direct route of tax levies to cover full requirement or by beginning with a plan that will produce a large pro portion of tfie requirements and per mit the use of the remainder to ac complish the results first above stated. “The proposal is very simple, quite capable of being written Into legisla tive provisions; it would carry a clear guarantee of useful results and reach the final full requirements of the gov ernment by progressively increasing taxable profits. “I propose that whatever.per cent of undistributed profits may be deter mined upon as the tax base, permission shall be given for a draw-back or re tention of say 20, 25 or 33Vi per cent on condition that this amount shall be used for capital expenditure to Im prove and cheapen production and distribution facilities. “The draw-back may be by repay ment to the taxpayer upon voucher evidence that the amount has been actually expended or by credit upon the second year’s tax levy. “Corporations wjll not fall to use this remainder an4 perhaps even add to it out of their available corporate resources. • • • “Permanent goods industries will at once be stimulated by the knowledge that purchases will Stimulate be made to an ag- Industries gregate of the draw back, and stimula tion of employment must result in most needed quarters. “The universality of this improve ment in production and distribution facilties will create the competitive conditions that will compel savings to be passed on to consumers, hut if any corjioration tries to hold the addedL. profits they will be taxed away In the following years. “Living standards may he raised by making more commodities come within the range of prices the public will pay. “Forced distribution In dividends to escape corporate high brackets will find a large part being paid to stock holders taxed in very low brackets and the result over all is not unlikely to prove disappointing. “Increased tax rates on Income or j earnings leads to the struggle to avoid payment by every device that can be developed. 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In other words, it has been proved too many times to require dis cussion that higher tax rates reduce the incentive and the chief opposition to Hie administration proposal is Just i that. It takes away the Incentive of the corporations to*make more money which would he available for taxation. ' The Wheeler proposal, therefore, of fers an incentive to corporations to proceed with plans of expanding their operation and thereby Increase the number of workers on their pay rolls. • • • I repeat that i do not know whether ; the Wheeler program Is the complete answer but tbe fact Nearing that a man of bis ' LET HIM BE FREE FROM WORMS Whenever you decide to free your child from Worms or Tapeworm, get the medicine that will drive them out with one single dose. Dr Peery’s‘DEAD SHOT Vermifiigg SOc a bottle at rirarriita or Wright’» rttl Co., 100 Gold St., N.V. City. Stomach " "You? 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