Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-24

The President continues confirmed
optimist on questions of Treasury
finance. The September income tax re-
ceiptS have fallen far below the CORE
| spending quarter Of year ago. Though
customs receipts, which dwindled so
| tremendously during the Summer, are
expected to regain some of the lost
ground during the remainder of the fis-
cal year, no such hope can be enter
tanned for income tax payments in the
immediate future. The latter must in
evitably reflect the diminishing earn
ings and profits of the present period
Meanwhile the daily outgo from Uncle
Sans Golfers continues at the highest
peace-time peak ever known. Neverthe-
less the word deficit" is taboo in admin
istration circles, and Treasury officials,
taking their cue from the White House.
persist in disclaiming that any boost in
taxes is imminent Mr.. Hoover's efforts
to balance the budget by welding the
economy ak in Government expenditures
are attracting scant public notice, but
are none the less powerful and persist
ent. But how to curtail expenditures
without hiring less to the detrimsnt of
employment and without buying less to
the detriment of business Is a riddle
| which taxes the ingenuity of the best
| engineering mind. Payments to us by
4
counts. heretofore applied by Secretary
Mellon in reduction OF our own public
debt. can be used in a pinch toward
general operating expenses. This is the
Presidents ace which he is holding to
play If the need arises rather than sub
NIT the country to tax increase.
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Senator Reed of Pennsylvania rank
ing Republican on the Finance Com
| mittee, allowed himself to be quoted
last week to the effect that he did
| not see on the face of things how the
/ per cent tax reduction voted by Con-
gress last year could be continued this
year. A similar view is privately en-
| tertained by many of Reeds colleagues
I in the Republican camp on Capitol
| Hill Unless there be affirmative action
| by Congress at the December session
! income taxes revert to the rates In ef-
| feet last year, and thereby the tax
payer will pay at higher rate than
| he did this year and from his stand
point his taxes are increased Congress
deliberately made the reduction for a
single year its continuance to be con-
| tingent on subsequent circumstances.
| Mr.. Hoover is already on record as
anticipating the continuance of the
horizontal / per cent reduction. But
If he urges this course upon Congress
some sharp repercussions are apt to
ensue.
Philip La Toilette, the next Governor
of Wisconsin, 33-year-old son of old
Fighting Bob" did not rely on the
| radio In making his winning fght to
defeat the Republican Stalwart, Gov.
Kohler. He travelled over the State in
a small car, meeting the voters face
to face and sometimes speaking as
often as nine times in one day. In
the so days preceding the primary he
claims a record total of $50 speeches.
He Is rated magnetic orator, with
platform manner strongly reminiscent
of his famous father. Senator Bob, jr.,
his older brother, but only 35 at that,
got in the news last week, too, by
marrying a pretty Washington girl,
whom he had known from childhood
and who for a time since he came
to the Senate has been his secretary.
Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, Democratic
senatorial nominee in Massachusetts,, Is
not the orator that his Roman surname
might imply, nor any close kin OF the
famous Calvin Coolidge as might be
inferred He is, however, Yankee oil
exceptionally ingratiating manners,
keen business man who has 'amaSSed
fortune in manufacturing enterprises,
| cultured and cultivated WITHOUT pelns
highbrow, and all in all an attractive
personality who may go far In polltlfs
even though he starts bit late in life
| If elected Senator it will be his first
public office, except for a term as
mayor of his home city of Fitchbure
| He is like Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York, in that he is lifelong
Democrat wearing the name of a Re-
publican President There Is the fur
ther similarity in that Coolidge halls
| from outside of Boston and is in no
way Identified with the Boston city
Democratic machine, just as Roosevelt
has been disassociated from New York
Tammany. Coolidge is for repeal of
the eighteenth amendment without
rating as q rabid wet.
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Secretary of State stinason on his
return to Washington last week was
called upon to deny = recllrrence Of