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Evening star., 1926-03-28
S14.2SO.612

Average percentage of eight States 67.s4
According to the official figures re-
| ported by the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, the District of Columbia
paid in Federal taxes in 1924 nearly
| twice as much as these eight State
combined, and its percentage of aid
received to taxes paid ga Ia per
cent? is less than that of any of these
eight States and less than one-half
| of the average percentage (67.84) of
| the eight States combined.
If the extraordinary payment of
alien back taxes i'm 1924 be deducted
Federal taxes paid by the District i'm
1924 exceeds by four millions the to.
tai paid by these eight States com.
bined, and its percentage of aid to tax
payment Ia little less than so per
cent? is trif1e more than three
! States, about the same as one State
and largely exceeded by four States.
| The average percentage of the eight
States is 67.8i, as against so for the
District.
ID. G. Pays Twice What 1t Receives.
Thus the District in 1924 paid in
| Federal taxes according to the Off
| cial figures) three times as much as
the Nation appropriated in that year
for National Capital upbuilding The
normal tax payment by the District
in 1924, deducting from the total the
extraordinarily large revenue from
alien back taxes, was more than twice
as much as the national contribution
in that year for the Capitals up
building.
In percentage relation of national
| aid to national tax payments the Dis
tricts percentage 1873 1-3 per cent, ac-
cording to the official figures; some
thing less than so per cent, accord
| ing to the figures reduced to a show
| ing of actual normal tax payments)
compares with those of eight States
| approximating the District in size, as
follows: According to the official re-
| port. national aid in relation to ma
tional taxes is less for the District
| than for the States of Arizona, Idaho,
Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming,
and 10 less than half of the average
percentage of these eight States.
According to the revised figures of
Federal tax payments by the District,
which reduce the total tax payments
by the District in 1924 to those which
are current and normal, the Districts
percentage of less than SO is a little
more than Arizona, AZ; Idaho, 45O8,
| w yOLltlL6S fSsl1p dUOuL LIC SdIllG
as Montana, 1897, and less than
South Dakota, 60.24; North Dakota,
$685. New Mexico, 1891, and Nevada,
| 1861.
These payments to the States are
made on the $3.50 basis-that is, the
Federal dollars are to be matched by
State dOIlars--in precise accordance
with the wise half-and-haIf policy in
relation to the Capital of the law of
1878. This policy is SO sound and
beneficial that it is wisely employed
today i'm the Nations relations to the
States; surely i'm the light of this vim
dication and reaffirmatiOn it will be
retained i'm spirit and principle at
least i'm the relations of Nation and
Capital, where for nearly half GEN.
tury it has demonstrated its wisdom
and beneficence. Surely the Nation
will not today adopt the policy anew
i'm relation to the States and discard
it and the principle of definite pro
portiOnate contribution upon which IL
is based in the Nations relation to the
National Capital.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
Greece and Jugoslavia
Still Differ on Schools

Jugoslav officials have declared that
Jugoslavia has not the slightest in
tention of claiming from Greece that
part of Greek territory inhabited by
Slavs. That territory. they assert, js
Greek by treaty and there is no rea-
son why Slavs in that region should
not become good Greek citizens.
However, in order for Greeks IN;
habiting Jugoslavia to be permitted
to have Greek schools, 1t Is necessary
for the Greek government to accord
the same privilege to the Slavs in
Greece. It is pointed out that Greeks
forced their way into a Slav school,
In the Slav locality of Sorovttch, and
burned all the Slav books. Gen. Pa1H
galos. speaking for the Greeks, sag
he considered the rights of the minoff
ties as sacred and to be protected by
the state.
These two statements show the Off
cial points of view of the two govern
ments on one ticklish question that is
preventing the two countries from
getting together. Until this problem
and others. as, for instance. the Jugo-
slav outlet through Saloniki, are set
tied. there IL no chance for a Balkan
LocarnO.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
Many Agree with Houghton.

(closed circuit) Of 100, 200, 500. 1000,
1900 kilometers, and by niultiples of
500 to 5000 kilometers. and by each
1000 kilometers thereafter: speed for
loads Of $50. 500, 1000, 1900, 1000,
5000, 1000, ETC., Kilograms over the
specified distances Of 100 TO 5000 XII
lometers or more. Seaplane perform
ances also come under this grouping.
All such tests are held under the
auspices Of the contest committee OF
the association which. after being duly
satisfied that the performances are
correct and authoritative, submits
them to the world parent body, the
Federation Aeronautique Interna.
tionale, in Paris. Once the F. A. l.
has placed it's stamp of approval on
them, all the fast flying with winds or
dives or whatnot will have no effect
on the world record. And the associa-
ton would welcome the opportunity
to supervise an attempt to beat the
renowned 27S.4S record OF Ad1t.
ronnet.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
FAILURE AT GENEVA MUDDLES
u. S. RELATIONS WITH EUROPE
Debt Settlements Give Appearance of Insinceriy in
Reduction of Armaments, Gen. Allen Believes.
Many Object to Politics in League.

cludes the universally Of the league.
while suggesting the old balance of
power with its concomitant race for
ornaments. 1t supports a militaris-
tic policy.
The Geneva failure, while demon
strating the futility OF the declaration
that the league is a superstate, has
increased the difficulties that were
already looming. too large in the ap-
preaching preliminary disarmament
conference. The protagonists Of Lo-
carno must win II Americas estab-
lished attitude toward disarmament is
to have a reasonable degree of sue
cess. Perhaps the rude ordeal through
which the league has passed will serve
to bring about a reorganization that
will forestall any such impasse in the
future.
The interests involved In the fate
OF the LocarnO pacts and the stability
Of the league are of such importance
to the world that only intensive ma
tionalism may destroy them. Without
sincere desire for conciliation
through conference and the conviction
that increased ornaments advance the
chances OF new war scourges, the
notable progress made toward peace in
recent years will have been lost.
Universally Must Triumph.
When the present European bicker-
ings shall have yielded to reasoned
judgment. it Is hoped that the sub
committee on league reorganization
will make the next meeting at Geneva
in September noteworthy through
concession and agreement. To accom-
plish that all prospects of another bal
ance OF power must be sacrificed to
the policy of universally; and When
that Is accomplished, our country may
participate in conference on reduc-
ton Of armaments with a reasonable
hope that progress can be made.
Domestic politics in our country at
the present time is almost as potent
in defeating the ends of international
peace as is nationalism in Europe.
Witness .the debates in the Senate
when an international matter of i'm.
portance is being discussed. Our
country's interest in Europe Is becom-
ing ever more acute with the increas.
ing millions in new loans. We cannot
ignore the political considerations that
follow the financial investments be-
yoHd the sea. Even as a business
measure, stripped of all altruistic sen.
timent, the United States should more
than ever exert it's great influence for
peace and disarmament.
Copyright. 1e26)
Evening star., 1926-03-28

The most deceiving factor in avia-
ton is speedi
Speed, spoken of in terms Of hun
dreds of feet per second or hundreds
Of miles per hour, is the element that
sells aviation for military and COM
mercial purposes.
Speed, and with it the ability to
annihilate time and distance, Is what
has brought flying up to Its present
pedestal Of recognition. There Is no
DENYING that airplane travel is fast,
but how fast is 1t?
At regular intervals reports trickie
into the press from all over the world
of amazing speeds attained by such
and such a plane in flight between two
points. And because the public has
heard of airplanes travelling at 800
miles per hour or more, such stories
take the edge off the actual maximum
speed of the airplane, which Is 27S.40
miles per hour.
Two hundred and seventy-eight,
point forty-eight, miles per hour
doesn't mean thing when placed be-
side 290 and 800 or more. But the
aviators the world over have the ut
most respect and reverance for that
seemingly small 278.48, which has
1924.
Mark Likely to Stand.
That astounding figure to aeronau-
tical people, recorded at Istres, France,
in a hideous-looking monoplane called
the "Ferbois,' fitted with 500-horse-
power Hispano SuiZa engine, repre-
sents the maximum speed any airplane
in the universe can fly. Adjt. Floren-
tin Bonnet flew this ship over three
kilometer course four times, twice up
and twice down, which would guar
antee no assistance from the wind.
The average for the four trips then
was proclaimed to the world as official
by the Federation Aeronautique Inter
rationale, the world governing body.
There is not plane in existence 'in
the flesh" in America, unless 1t is
guarded With the utmost secrecy, that
can approach this record. in the
opinion of military aviators here. The
racing stock in Great Britain and
Italy is ineXcusably low--in fact, far
behind America, as demonstrated by
the entries of these two nations In the
Schneider seaplane trophy race at
Baltimore last October. America has
three new racing planes, two belong
ing to the Navy and one to the Army.
So France may continue to enjoy in
definitely the honor brought to her by
Adjt. Bonnet.
The Army's little black Curtiss
racer, with 600-horsepower y-1400
engine, captured the Pulitzer Trophy
Evening star., 1926-03-28
Budapest Finds First
Known ''RadiO" Crook

What with new broadcasting sta
tions appearing all over Europe and
long distance tests with America,
Budapest has developed a radio thief.
Police on the Andrassy Ut. seeing
a man carrying a suspicious-looking
bundle. stopped him and asked for
look inside.' The man dropped the
bundle. hit one of the policemen and
ran. He was caught after a hot
chase.
In the police station he made a con-
fession. His plan, he explained. was
to examine roof tops for antennae.
When he discovered an intake tho
rest of his work was easy. First he
drunmed lightly on a window pane
with his fingers. If the people inside
were not listening to a program some
one would be aroused by the tap
ping and would approach the win
dow. Then the thief would slip
away. If no one came he would
open a window, slip in and make his
haul.
He said when program was on,
every one in the household, even the
cook and the maid. would be listening.
BY using the radio method he had
robbed many apartments.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
27848 MILES AN HOUR STANDS
AS BEST SPEED YET MADE In AIR
Mark Set by French Flyer in 1924 Still Is Unsur-
passed, i'm Spite of Talk of 3OO-Mile Dashes,
Made Under Trick Conditions.

race at Mitchell Field, Long Island,
early last October, and fitted as a sea-
plane, likewise took first honors In
the Schneider Trophy few weeks
later. The speed this little lightning
flash made at both events came under
the class of 100 and 200 kilometers as
a land plane and the figures respec-
lively were 249.342 and 24S975. AS
seaplane they were 234.355 for both
distances. Then Lieut.. Jimmie Doo-
little Of McCook Field, Dayton. Ohio.
who won the seaplane race, established
a mark comparable to the Bonnet rec
ord, but only for seaplanes, of 245.713
miles per hour. The "Ferbois" never
flew as a seaplane. so Lieut.. Doolittle
and the black Army racer sit on top
of the world seaplane speed honors.
Go Fast With Wind.
There are airplanes in existence to-
day that can fly over 800 miles per
hour. but the circumstances in which
they do 1t is similar to getting q speed
of 70 or 80 miles an hour out OF the
light automobile which on the level
can only turn out so. Run this auto
mobile at full throttle along a level
stretch and then shoot 1t down a.
steep grade with the engine working
at maximum capacity, and 1t might
register 10 or 20 miles higher. But
that doesn't prove the speed Of the
car.
Sometimes a slow De Haviliand
(slow at 100 miles per hour after talk
ing about 278.48) will ride into a field
on top of a strong wind and when the
figuring Of distance and time are con-
cluded 1t will be proven that the D-H
flew as high as 140 miles per hour
quite impossible in still air for serv-
ice ship and over a long distance. A
short time ago one Of the mail planes
dashed into New Brunswick, N. j., the
Eastern terminus Of the transconti.
mental airway. at q speed Of $50 miles
per hour. The wind did 1t and the
plane going In the opposite direction
II in the air at the same time, would
have been slowed down to almost STALL
ing speed. The air line distance from
New York to Washington Is about 220
miles and with De Haviland the fly
ing time In still air is about two and a
half hours. But this distance has
been covered in a D-H in time ranging
from one hour and a half to five
hours.
Records to Try For.
According to the contest committee
of the National Aeronautic Associa-
ton, with headquarters here, the off,
cial governing body for aircraft per-
formsLnces in America, airplane rec
ords embrace the following categories:
Maximum speed on straightawsy y
three kilometer course, the peer Of
them all; speed for specified distances
Evening star., 1926-03-28
BY GEN. HENRY r. ALLEN,


American relations with Europe are
more muddled at this moment than at
any time within the past three years.
The Geneva failure, for such it was,
can well be attributed to the surrep.
titious understandings agreed upon at
Locarno, wholly at variance with the
worlds estimate Of the spirit Of that
conference.
The debt settlements with Euro
pean countries, particularly the one
with Italy, has aroused a spirit Of ami
mostly, largely because it Is generally
believed that II there were a genuine
determination by Europe to reduce
armaments a finding more favorable
to us could have been made. The spe-
cial opposition to the proposed settle
ment with the Fascist government is
founded on the fact that Mussolini's
however effective it be,
Is a challenge to all that American
history has taught in respect to gov
ernment and all that we have
preached over a period Of one hundred
and fifty years.
Many Agree With Houghton.
The alleged statements Of Ambassa-
dor Houghton, accepted by the con-
gress as reported in the press. have
irritated England and angered France.
After all. they are the utterances Of
one individual. They are, however,
In consonance with the views Of the
others who saw in the desire to put
Poland on the council Of the league an
effort to establish a counterpoise to
Germany's entrance. That spirit pre-
Evening star., 1926-03-28
US. MILLIONS TO STATES,
BUT DISTRICT is BARRED
Capital Pays National Tax More Than
Nine States Combined and Twice
Nine Millions Received.

revenue receipts for 1924 by States,
including the District Of ColpTbia.
This table gives the total internal
revenue receipts from the District In
1924 at $27,542,527. A foot note on
page 80 notes that this amount in
cludes over $4,000 900 back taxes on
alien property. Let us then compare
the Districts abnormal total OF over
$27, 900 with the payment of other
States, precisely as both figures are
given by the commissioner or IN
ternal revenue in his report. And
let us also compare what may be
viewed as the Districts normal pay
ment with those of the States by sub
tracing the $9.oOO,00O of back taxes
and leaving a payment into the
Treasury for the year of $1S.000,0OO
plus.
Crediting the District with the
payment of $27,542,527, it paid into
the Treasury more than 80 States
and Territories; i.e., Alabama, Ari-
zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa. Kan
sas, Louisiana, Maine. Mississippi,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire New Mexico, North Da-
kota, Oklahoma, Oregon. Rhode
Island, South Carolina, South Dakota,
1eIlHSSSGSS - ldIl, N0T1lOuIt w dSulIl5
ton, West Virginia and Wyoming-30
States; and Alaska and Hawaii-2
Territories.
ID. c. Pays More National Taxes Than
% States.
If the large payment of back taxes is
deducted and comparison is made with
what may be viewed as the normal
Federal tax payment of the District.
eighteen millions plus as in 191S.19, the
Districts contribution will be found
to exceed those of % States and Ter
ritories; i.e., Alabama, Arizona, Arkan.
sas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Ida
no, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla
homa, Oregon, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming,
% States, and Alaska and Hawaii, two
Territories.
The Districts payment of twenty
seven millions exceeds the combined
payments of IL States whose contri-
buttons total S26,917.921 These States
are Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi. Mon
tana, Nevada. New Mexico. North
Dakota, South Dakota, Utah. Yer
mont and Wyoming. If the Districts
total contribution be reduced to
eighteen millions, it exceeds the com.
bined contributions of nine States.
which aggregate $17,881 ,499. These
States are Arizona, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
Taxes and Subsidies Compared.
The editorial research report figures
the percentage relation of the money
moi TO ha hx-4 1o ,;+l,
Evening star., 1926-03-28
Federal Subsidies Since 1914.
pn 57s-h77 Editorial Research Re-

Federal Subsidies Since 1914.
Pp. 576-577, Editorial Research Re-
ports, December 13, 1924:
The rapid expansion of the Fed
cral subsidy system and the increasing
supervision and control OF state ac-
tivities by the National Government
by which is has been accompanied, has
been due principally to six important
pieces of legislation enacted during
The last ten years. These acts were:
THE Smith Lever act, May 8, 1914.
"The Federal aid roads act, July IL,
1916.
'The Chamberlain Kahn venereal
disease act. July 8, 1918.
THE Smith Hughes vocational edu-
cation act, February %, 1919.
1.-The industrial rehabilitation act,
June 2, 1920.
"The Sheppard Towner maternity
act, November %, 1921.
Under these acts approximately
3521,772,175 in Federal aid has been
granted to the States down to the
end of the fiscal year 1924, whereas
In 1914 the total of Federal subsidies
paid to the States annually amounted
to less than $6,500,0OO.
1.-THE resemblanceS among the six
principal acts establishing conditional
subsidies for the States are striking.
Each one provides for close co-opera-
ton between the Federal Government
and the State, and gives the Federal
officers great powers over the COOP
Grating State agency. In each case
the statues virtually declare certain
State officials to be agents Of the Ma
tionai Government in certain of their
activities. The requirement that the
state must match national appropr1a-
tfons from State or local sources is
common to all the acts. No state Is
required to accept any of the subsidies
or the conditions provided iii the Var1-
Gus laws. In each case the relation
ship is entered upon voluntarily, al
though it is evident that the State
Legislatures must be under consider
able pressure to match the Federal
dollar and to accept the terms i'm
posed, when subsidies are held out in
large amounts In the closing days of
the last session a new subsidy measure,
the Clarke-McNary forestry bill. was
enacted and signed by the President.
The appropriations authorized by this
measure for forestry purposes were
not new, however, since such appro-
priations for expenditure, in co-opera-
ton with the States, have been made
for more than a decade"
Paid to and by u. S.
It will be interesting to compare
what Washington pays into and re-
caives from the National Treasury
with what is similarly paid into and
received from the National Treasury
by some States apprOximating the Dis
trict i'm size.
The figures of payments by the
STATES into the Federal Treasury used
in the Editorial Research Study are
obtained from the report Of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue for
1924. page 50. wherein is printed a
liable giving Q summary Of Internal
Evening star., 1926-03-28

Berlin and Stockholm will be con-
nected by airplane service, the sched-
ule calling for six-hour flights.
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Amount of Federal Subsidies.

The total payments made by the
Federal Government to or on behalf
of the States during the fiscal year
1924 was approximately $145,O00,OOO.
This sum represented about per
cent of the total expenditures during
the last fiscal year by the National
Government" (See Editorial Re
search Report, 1924, page 572.)
"The purposes and amounts of the
principal subsidies during 1924 are
shown in the following table:
Evening star., 1926-03-28

Subsidies paid to the States
through the Department of Agricul-
ture for fighting white pine rust, the
European corn borer, gypsy and
brown tail moths. etc, bring this
total to nearly $145,000,000.
Evening star., 1926-03-28

~ + course, the main considera-
ton for the payment of
State taxes is the enjoyment
of the political power and
prestige involved in participa-
tion in the National Government
on equal terms with other Americans.
To be transformed through state
hood from the status of political
aliens to that of full-fiedged Amer
leans, with all the powers. rights
and privileges appertaining to that
status, confers a benefit upon the
individual of a value not to be calcu-
lated in dollars and cents; and
deprivation of this benefit involves
a loss which is also incalculable.
Every one, therefore, will recognize
the Justice of Washington's protest
against being taxed to correspond to
what other cities pay to maintain
State government, since the District
under the Constitution and the laws
enacted by Congress is not per-
mitted the right, privilege and ben
A-ANN---N---o
a State government. But very few
persons in the whole United States
appreciate the scope of the ma
teriaI benefits in bOunties and sub
sides which attach to statehood OF
which Washingtonians are wholly de-
prived. Our citizens joint committee
brief in 1915 recited the millions which
in the past had been distributed by the
Nation among the States, emitting the
District of Columbia. But these sub
sides by the Nation to the States are
not confined to the past, but continue
in vastly enlarged proportions in the
present.
SubVentionS or subsidies paid by
Nation to States in 1924, none of which
was paid to the District of Column
bla, are analyzed and discussed in
Editorial Research Reports. December
IS, 1924.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
Taxes and Subsidies Compared.

The editorial research report figures
the percentage relation of the money
paid to the States by the Nation with
that paid by the State to the Nation,
as Federal taxes. Let us include the
District in this comparison and note
its relation to States approximating it
in size
Evening star., 1926-03-28
BY FRANK HI. SIMONDS.

~ ARIS.--There is perhaps no detail of pres
L. ent-day Europe which 1t Is harder for
l the home-staying American to under
stand than the attitude which Is taken
Evening star., 1926-03-28
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

~ LANS for completing the Fed
- eral budget circle and for but
tressing the Federal Treasury
i against any possible leak in
Evening star., 1926-03-28
Editorial Correspondence of The Star.
BY THEODORE w. MOVES.

~ r course, the main considera-
ton for the payment of
State taxes is the enjoyment
of the political power and