Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-11-10

america is extremely fortunate in
being able to care for her disabled
soldiers as she is doing and 1t IS my
regret that France is not able to DO
as much for her men," Said Il. Pom
sot, consul general Of the French
Foreign Office in Washington as an
advisor to the French delegation to
the arms conference.
Mr.. Ponsot said that the rescon-
struction problem in France IS so
much more acute than it is here that
q comparison could not be drawn. The
entire nation, he said, suffered to
such an extent that it is not mat
ter of the state trying to compensate
the soldiers and their families but
of all trying to make the best OF their
losses. He declared it would probably
be ten years before the devastated
areas were restored and that to ac-
complish this work the country was
drawing heavily upon its future.
Those who are not able to live by their
own industry are supported by their
local communities, and not by the
state, he said.
a have Just returned from tour
of the South" said Mrs. Thomas u.
Winter, one Of the four women ap-
pointed to the Advisory Committee
of the Arms Conference, who attend
ed the session yesterday, Like all
other parts of the country, | have
visited, find uniform demand for
peace and limited disarmament. In
all my experience have never known
Of any measure that has received
such solid backing as this one OF dis
armament. 1t is not with the women
alone; the men, too, are determined
to have an end of all war"
Japan, through its chief naval ad-
wiser Admiral Baron kato, and
France, through Premier BRAND, hav-
ing already expressed themselves as
being willing to meet almost any
plan for Limitation of navieS that the
| United States may suggest, and 1t
being certain that Great Britain has
come to the conference in an equal
~ amicable spirit, it might seem from
this point, two days before the open
ing of the arms conference, that the
success Of the meeting is assured and
that all the delegates need to do IS to
meet, ratify the American plan and
adjourn.
But such is far from the truth. The
advance willingness Of the visiting ma
! tions to meet America half way on a
plan for limitation of armaments does
not by any means remove the scores
Of obstacles in the way of COM
plete agreement and many weeks
must necessarily elapse before the ma
tions can be expected to agree on de-
! tails so that they can reach final
agreement for limitation.
The establishment Of an internal
revenue court Of appeals to take care
| Of the hundreds OF tax cases now in
controversy before the Treasury De-
partment has been urged upon Presi-
| dent Harding by Senator Pomerene,
! DEM, Of Ohio. The Ohio Senator has
a bill pending to carry out his ideas
in this direction.
"There is a crying need for the es-
tablishment of some judicial body to
handle the thousands of cases in
volving disputed internal revenue tax
| payments" said Senator Pomerene to
the Gazette correspondent today.
Merchants, manufacturers, and busi-
ness men throughout the country and
demanding that some method be
adopted by the government through
which controversies over the payment
of internal revenue taxes may be set
tied with despatch and much of the
red tape now employed be abolished.
| Under the present system, it takes
two and sometimes three years to get
! any satisfactory settlement from the
Treasury Department. Endless red
tape is encountered and altogether the
present plan is nothing but hard
ship imposed upon American tax pay
ers. The passage of the legislation
| have in mind will meet the situation