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Evening star., 1930-06-26
New Louisiana Press Tax Bill
Seen as Consumers Burden

Attack on. freedom Of the press is
charged in the Introduction into the
louisiana LEGISLATURE of q measure
which would place q heavy tax on news
paper advertising and confer the right
of public offlcialS to take other action in
connection with the newspapers. Gov.
Huey P. Long. who has had some con-
troversies with the press Of the State, Is
declared to have requested the legisla-
ton. General opinion is that the tax
of is per cent on gross receipts for ad-
vertising is oppressive; that by selecting
one business the measure would be ur1-
constitutional as class legislation, and
that the tax would be passed on to the
consumer, thus mjuring the business OF
Louisiana communities.
THE bill would impose q special tax
upon merchants and other business
men," says the Altoona Mirror, "for all
advertising published from year to year
AS the merchants are undoubtedly taxed
In various ways upon the annual buSi-
ness they transact, such legislation
would seem to be both superfiuous and
oppressive" The Charlotte News holds
that such q tax would be passed along
necessarily to the purchasers of news
paper space and, therefore, II would fall
heavily upon the purchasers of commod-
tiles advertised" The Detroit News adds
that customers could avoid the tax in
but One way-by buying outside the
State; that "thc bill. II successful, would
be an invitation TO citizens of Louisiana
to buy goods In adjoining States, where
prices would naturally be lower"
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"If the bill is enacted" according to
the Oakland Tribune, 1T will fall shortly
of It's own weight, for the penalties will
be many Louisiana will be of the
national map. so far as advertising goes;
its papers will be made smaller, and the
business man or manufacturer who
would call attention to his wares will
have to pay, not on the basis of cireu-
Iation, but is per cent in addition" The
Kansas City Star comments: "It Is
hardly necessary to say that modern
business Is built on advertising. With
out advertising, business would stagnate,
there could be no mass production,
prices would shoot upward, and the
whole system of modern industry and
trade would be dislocated. 1t Is incon-
ceivable that Louisiana would desire to
penalize itself by discouraging the use
OF this essential instrument of progress"
When city taxes amount to 2 per
cent Of the value of ones property" re-
marks the Louisville Courier journal,
the property owner feels outraged.
Nothing like this Is per cent license tax
has ever been heard Of in modern times.
1t Is not to be expected that the Legis-
lature will enact this fragrant piece Of
legislation. The courts would knock 1t
out quickly" The Hartford Courant
asks, If Louisiana can take away is
per cent of the gross advertising receipts
or its daily newspapers, what Is to pre-
vent other State governments, smarting
under the editorial lash, from doing
ikewise?"
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THE bill is designed to punish the
press. for its impertinence by taxing it
to death or slavery" asserts the st.
Evening star., 1930-06-26
Australia Ahead.

FROM the oregon journal.
Business houses intending business
with Australia will find value in facts
brought by e. c. SQUIRE, trade COM
missioner OF the United States Govern
ment in Sydney, the first city of
Australia, with 1900, 600 people.
Thirty-Seven American industries have
established branch factories in Aus
tralia. with an investment Of $780,
0O0, 600, says Mr.. Squire. This alone
indicates a market in the antipodes.
1t also suggests another factor. The
national industrial policy of Australia
Is hostile to importaLIonS of goods that
can be manufactured in the country
Therefore the system Of tariffs and en-
DargoeS DaS, uniformly renders it more
prontable to operate machinery in one
OF the Australian states than to ship
goods from an American coast.
An example Of one of the most sue
ceSSful branch factories is that estab-
lished in Sydney by the Jantzen Knit
ting Mills Of Portland, makers of SWIM
ming suits.
A business connection with Australia
calls for careful consideration of the
credit situation there. Australia is
passing through q period Of serious re-
adjustment. Its financial leaders say
two years will be required before the
as commercial problems to solve. Gov
ernment control of business presents
difficulties. Mr.. Squire quotes the fed
eral treasurer of Australia as saying,
How do you expect Australia to buy
$700, ,000, 900 worth of goods year from
overseas when our exports amount to
approximately $500, 100000 a year and
there is something like $3.50, 900, 900 to
be paid annually overseas on the ma
tional debt?" And Mr.. Squire adds:
This explains why the Australia au-
thorities have found it necessary to
reduce the imports by such means as
embargoeS. At the same time 1t shows
that Australian authorities are fully
alive to their situation"
Australia is on one of the sea lanes
that lead from Portland 1t belongs to
the great group Of Pacific common
wealths that will become more i'm,
portant and more attractive TO this
0ort as the years so by.
Evening star., 1930-06-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRAcEwELL.

All men are pedestrians at times; that
is Why the problem of the man afoot
Is an important one.
The peculiar difaculties of the mil
ltonaire do not affect most Of us, nor
do those besetting the popular concert
artist, or screen star.
Most men are no more screen stars
or ptanistS than they are millicnaires.
But every man Is q pedestrian, and,
TO who walker Ia, why he walks and
howl
The problem is by no means confined
exclusively TO the pedestrian in relation
to the automobile, although this phase
Of the subject has rather been In the
verbal linelight.
The pedestrian, in himself, and for
himself, and particularly in relation
to other walkers, is q most interesting
study.
THE proper study Of mankind" said
Pope, with much point, ''is man"
He meant pedestrian man.
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The man afoot is the natural man,
as ne came from the hands Of his
Nothing has been added to him to
make him feel conceited.
He has no horsepower under his hand,
therefore feels no inclination to run
over another fellow human being.
One may walk around a great city
for years on end-or however years
arrange themSelves-without once be-
ing In o collision with another pedeS-
trian.
Here enters one of the most connical
OF human evolutions one In which
practically every one has participated,
at some time or other, but one from
which 1t Is safe to say even the most
solemn man manages to extract a
smile.
We refer to this dodging process in
which two persons often indulge when
they pass on a walk where there is just
room enough for two
You go to the right, he goes to his
LETT, which happens to be your right.
Both seeing the inevitable collision. grin
broadly, say Excuse me" simultaneous
ly, and duck the other way.
still being face TO face, the two Of
you attempt to right matters by exc
cutting the same maneuver 1t the same
time.
Both dodge left.
So you still face each other.
Usually by this time one or the other
breaks into Q hearty laugh, which en-
tirely saves the situation. Usually the
first one to smile stands stock-still,
and thus permits the other to go around
him as he pleases. The problem is
solved.
There is another little habit some
pedestrians exhibit which has never
been satisfactorily explained.
Two men are walking In the same di-
rection, one attempting to overtake and
pass the other.
The man In front often will so weave
from side to side, although entirely un-
consciously, that the one In the rear
Will be unable to get by.
Perhaps in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred this action will be unconscious
on the part Of the blocker.
Yet the man behind will be unable to
pass him. Sometimes this will become a
nuisance, then the only thing TO do Is
to brush by at a rapid pace.
Most pedestrians are very touchy lik-
ing neither to be pushed nor even
spoken to. Maybe once in a lifetime q
pedestrian will flnd occasion to call the
attention Of q fellow walker to the fact
that his pipe, hastily cramned into a
side pocket, has set his coat G1ire.
Hey, there!" Is the customary salu-
Evening star., 1930-06-26

dovn. 1t May be supposed that the ep-
ponenta Of the treaty, seeking delay In
It's consideration, have mustered as great
showing IS pcsslhie In making the de-
mand On the Frelident that the treaty
vote be postponed until November OF
December. Very properly the President
will ignore the demand.
The opponents OF the treaty complain
that the Summer season is at hand and
that 1t is inhuman to compel them 10
remain in Washington and work on this
treaty. If these opponents Of the
treaty had net insisted upon holding
the pact in the Senate foreign rela-
tions committee for seven weeks II
might well have been disposed Of by the
Senate by now. Furthermore, attend
ance in the artineially cooled Senate
chamber, kept always ut about seventy
two degrees, will be no hardship on
Senators who remain at their desks
Indeed, the members of the Senate
should be able to put In far cooler days
at the Capitol than the rest Of the pop
ulatien Of the National Capital.
Senator Moses Of New Hampshire, the
Republican president pro tempore Of
the Senate. the chairman of the Re-
publican senatorial campaign commit
tee, is among those who voted against
the favorable report of the treaty to
the Senate q few days ago. The Sena-
tor from New Hampshire has been a
leader in the demand that there be no
consideration OF the treaty ct this time.
He, too, has urged the need Of a rest
for the members of the Senate. Yet
Senator Moses not long since has re-
turned from an ocean voyage after hav-
ing sojourned in Europe for several
weeks. Probably it is his sympathy for
the other members of the Senate,
rather than any desire on his own part,
which leads him now to protest against
continuance Of the Senate in Wash
ington.
Because Of the demand for the pas
sage Of the veterans bill and because
Of delays in the Senate over the def
cheney appropriation bill and other meas
ures, adjournment of the present session
Of Congress at an early date has been
threatened. If there is to be no ad-
journment, the proponents of the naval
treaty might with good grace call up
the pact for consideration in the Senate
without waiting for the President to
call a special session.
Evening star., 1930-06-26
A Stirring Flight.

For careful planning and skillful exc
cution-a combination that generally
assures suceess-probably no flights in
the history Of aviation have exceeded
those Of Maj. Charles Kingsford-Smith
and few have equaled them. A born
organizer with a genius for welding to-
gether a group Of expert technicians in
various lines and one of the finest pilots
in the world today, Capt. Kingsford-
Smith and his sturdy three-motored
plane, the Southern Cross, have circum-
navigated the globe by air with the
single exception of the American trans
continental hop. This he plans to do
within the next few days.
When the gallant Britisher, with his
specially picked crew of Evert Van
Dyk, co-pilot Capt. ]. Patrick Saul,
navigator, and John w. Stannage, wire
less operator, glided to perfect land
ing yesterday at Harbor Grace, New
foundland, he was the first to make the
perfect esst-to-west Atlantic crossing.
Many before him had tried the treach-
erous flight-attempts that had cost nine
lives during the past few years-with
only one success, that of Maj James
Fitzmaurice, who, with his crew of two,
Spanned the ocean but unfortunately
was lost over Labrador and was forced
to land in bleak and almost uninhab-
tied country. And while the Southern
Cross did not attain its goal of New
York, due to shortage of gasoline caused
by adverse headwinds, the flight was
perfect to the extent that the plane was
set down on the North American conti-
nent in good shape to take off again on
the next leg of its journey.
To the magic of radio Maj Kings,
ford-Smith attributes the epoch rn"kint
Atlantic crossing, and to large dsgre,
he is right, as the plane was flyinI
through dense fog for large percent
cge of the time, which made naviga
ton extremely diticult. But in thi
eannection 1t must be remembered
Evening star., 1930-06-26

The Decision Should Be Made.

The House apparently prefers to
ditch the 1891 District bill rather than
compromise on question that has been
debated periodically for many years
past The House, rather than admit
that there are two sides to a question.
prefers to infiict all the inconvenience
and actual hardships upon the resi-
dents of the District that are threat
ened by the failure of Congress to
function legislatively for the Capital.
The continuing resolution, by which
maintenance funds for District activi-
ties provided for in 1880 will be ap-
propriated for the next fiscal year. has
been drawn up hastily and dumped in
the House hopper and is expected to
90 through that well oiled machine in
Q day or so, possibly today. The terms
Of the resolution must be interpreted
by the auditing authorities. So far
no one knows exactly what they mean.
So far none of the agencies at the
District Building is sure where it
stands, or what it will be called upon
TO do or permitted to do during the
fiscal year about to begin. 1t is doubt
full If the terms of the resolution will
have been made clear to them for
some time after Congress has quit. The
municipal authorities are pretty much
in a funk, and all they can do is to
wait.
Has any attention been given, has any
effort been made by the House to frame
this continuing resolution in such
way that the hardships to result from
unemployment may be minimized or
that the emergent conditions apt to
confront the municipality will be met?
Have any conferences been held with
the District officials to obtain their
advice on what should be the extraor-
dinary provisions of this extraordinary
resolution? Apparently not. The idea
on the part of the House is to bluff
this thing through, hit or miss, and
If the bluff is called, the people Of the
District will pay the price.
No one has been able yet to sit down
with pencil and paper and figure the
actual cost in dollars and cents to the
District if the bill fails. In the high
way department alone, however. work
will have to be done that otherwise
would not have to be done If the regu-
lar program for street improvement
were caxried through. Some estimates
Of the cost of this work already run
as high as 500, 900, which will be nee
essary to prevent deterioration and
even larger loss. There probably are
other departments Of the District that
viii be forced to spend money that
otherwise could be saved. Counting up
the cost of these items and including
the wasted effort and confusion in
municipal affairs that may be expected
If the District bill fails, the attitude Of
the House is not only stubborn, but Is
based on false conception Of economy.
In the long run it will cost the Dis
trict and the United States lot of
money.
Throughout this controversy some of
the members of the House have insisted
that they have reason to believe the
bill will pass in the end. If that is so,
is it not time now to end the confusion
already developing in District affairs?
There Is work to be done, and the city
should be at It.
Evening star., 1930-06-26
Indifference to Candhi.

From the Charleston Is. O. Evening Post.
One remarkable feature of the Gandhi
movement In India is that thus far 1t
has failed In greater degree than almost
any similar movement of the past to
gain important numbers of supporters
and enthusiasts among liberal and radi-
cal elements in Europe and America. The
principles underlying Gandhi's peaceful
revolt are not very far different from
those which actuated the American
Colonists in the eighteenth century.
They are unquestionably in line with
the nationalistic idealiSm which was
highly regarded in the heyday of Wood
row Wilson'S preachmentS on the re-
organization of society. They are put
forward at a time when the home gov
ernment at London is in the hands OF
the Labor party, a SocialiStic element.
The number of people affected form
one of the worlds largest single ma
tional groups. Nevertheless the interest
aroused in other countries is only mild
and little is heard of any outside move
ments in sympathy with the nahatma
and his cause.
Perhaps it is the color of the people.
Perhaps it is the distance of India. Per-
haps people do not grow enthusiastic
over causes any more; at least, for the
time being. They are weary Of any
rights and wrongs but their own. Ma
hatma Ganohi has apparently hit on
a bad time. He has not caught the
world in tune with revolution.
Evening star., 1930-06-26

tation on such occasions. Invariably the
man afaFs VIII lock terribly insulted
and be on the point Of asking, II one
may judge from his expression, iust
what you are about.
The moment he happens to look
down, following yeur pointing finger
and sees the smoke arising from his
coat, he forgets his anger, claps his
hands to his coat, and does not even
rendered. Nor can you blame him for
his impoliteness
Similarly, when some passing gentle
man fnds 10 necessary TO call ones at
tention to q button and buttonhole
v-aich have not eoincided, usually one
does not return thanks, but hastens to
rectify the omission.
The man who walks for the pleasure
OF the thing, even IL he Ia going some
where, has several charming diversions
which may occupy his mind as he goes
along.
One of these is to select some rapidly
progressing person about q half block
ahead and attempt to catch Up with
Intuitively such pace settlers know
that they are being followed, and In
varlably try to keep from being passed.
Thus two men, modestly walking
along the streets of the National Capt.
tai, initiate Mississippi River steamers
OF the old days, put on full steam ahead
and plow up Connecticut avenue as If
there were some prize in store for the
man who reached Dupont Circle first.
Another happy little amusement in
wolves the use of the eyes. The day has
long gone by when women and girls re-
sented being given the "once over" as
1t has been called
man may give a casual, capable
glance at a nice-looking girl today
eeiving q punch in the jaw.
Both male and female pedestrians
like to look at the ladies. since this
portion Of humanity is, by all odds, the
most picturesque and therefore the most
interesting, especially when one is out
for a walk.
q. Women, too, by their more revealing
costumes, otfer more opportunity for the
Stuoy OF human anatomy on the hoof.
1t IS an amazing thing, to such stu
dents, how no two women are con.
structed exactly alike.
We have heard women remark itl
One will be fat one place, the next fat
another; one will have pretty legs and
poor arms, the next pretty. arms. and
ugly legs.
1t Is an amazing pageant. indeed, and
few pedestrians miss any of it, although
perhaps few are as honest as your
correspondent.
We might suggest one thing to the
merchants: They should change their
show windows oftener. Window shop-
ping" as 1t is called, is a favorfte
recreation of pedestrians. Merchants
should never forget that 1t is the man
and woman afoot, not the man and
woman awheel, for whom they deco
rate their choicest windows.
Motion, the rage of the hour, should
be incorporated in all show windows by
the simple expedient of keeping their
contents changed from day to day. This
change need not be complete. A single
new object will satisfy the regular
pedestrian, but he expects that much:
ne looks for 1t, and he should not be
disappointed.
Pedestrianism is not Just a mere
bringing OF one foot in front of the
other for certain number OF blocks or
miles; It Is at once an art, a recreation.
and, with some of us, a necessity. By
all means let 1t be as pleasant as
possible.
Evening star., 1930-06-26
Trash in the Parks,

Now that the Summer heat is felt,
the people are taking to the parks in
the evening for the sake of such cool
ness as may be found there. Potomac
Park is thickly populated after dark
on these hot nights. Many hundreds
of people sit or lie on the grass, along
side the river, and gain refreshment
from the breezes that watt across the
water, even when the air is stillest.
Some of them defy the dew and rest
upon the bare ground. Others, fore
handed in preparation, take motor rugs
or blankets to spread over the grass,
Many, however, use newspapers for
protection from the dampneSs. These
are the ones who cause the littering of
the park with trash, to give it a most
unsightly appearance in the morning.
The park users who take rugs and
mats with them from home for pro-
lection against the dampness Of the
ground do not leave these articles be-
hind when they depart. They care
fully gather up their property and
take it away with them. Why should
not the others, who spread old papers
on the ground. gather them up and
take them away? Because they are
sloven and Indifferent, and because
they give no thought whatever to the
appearance of the park.
To gain a concept of the disregard
Of many people for the proprieties of
park use, 1t is but necessary to drive
through Potomac Park in the early
morning, before the attendants, small
squad of whom struggle with the refuse
left overnight, set to work gathering
up and burning the papers strewn over
many acres. The place of natural
beauty Is transformed into a place
OF ugliness. Just few seconds Of con-
siderate action by the hundreds of
park users the night before would pre-
vent this spectacle. But they should
worry! This Is their park, and they
use it as they use their own domestic
properties. Let the cleaners work.
That is what the cleaners are for!
1t is a punishable ofTense to strew
trash in the parks. A systematic effort
should be made to enforce this rule.
Only few prosecutions and punish
ments would be needed, with attendant
publicity, to check, if not to correct
wholly, the deplorable habit of trash
spreading on the part of the park
users. The park Is their park only
SO long as they treat 1t decently.
Evening star., 1930-06-26
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.

The Electric Light.
Around the light arrives a crowd
OF winged creatures strange,
Some with a song exceeding loud
With many a tuneful change:
And some with gold or silver wings,
They strut in stately pride
Among a throng of timer things
That humbly wait aside.
Around that light they flock and fly
In busy wonderment,
And probably they question why
Life brings them discomfort,
And ere this little hour is done
For better or for worse,
They say This light is the great sun
That makes our universe"
Evening star., 1930-06-26
A Sign of Weakness.

The round robin" letter addressed
to President Hoover by members of the
Senate, urging delay in consideration of
the London naval treaty until next Fall,
is indicative of the weakness Of the op-
position, not its strength. Twenty
three Senators are reported to have
signed the letter, which sounds formi-
dahle. But 1t appears that fourteen of
these Senators have indicated that they
propose to vote for ratification Of the
treaty when the ballot is taken. This
leaves a net vote of nine Senators op-
posed to the treaty on the anal show