Evening star., 1932-03-18

The zero hour for filing 1881 Fed
eral income tax returns has come and
gone. The tabulation of the returns
and the totaling Of the cash receipts
is proceeding as rapidly as possible, and
the full extent Of business stagnation,
shrunken incomes, vanished profits and
staggering losses Of the past year will
soon be revealed by the tax figures.
Income tax collections, which have been
slumping badly for the past eighteen
months, are now in final nose dive
It is more than coincidence that the
income tax figures will come out right
on the eve of next weeks vote in the
House on the new tax bill. Though the
Democratic revolt In the House on the
sales-tax plan Is of substantial pro-
portions, both Democratic and Republic
an House leaders are quietly confident
that their coalition in support of the
bill, sales tax and all, commands votes
enough to insure its passage. If final
club Is needed to cinch the sales-tax
plan, its proponents Messrs. Garner and
Crisp, and its Republican allies, Messrs.
Smell and Hawley, are relying on the
sad news from the Treasury of the
, March IS tax collections in its relation
to the mounting Treasury deficit and
the falling prices in the security
markets.
The new member of the House from
the fifth district Of Mississippi will ar
rive next week to be sworn in and take
up his congressional duties. He is l..
Russell Ellsey, a school teacher, who
won q three-cornered contest in a spe-
cial election last Monday held to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Repre-
sentative Percy E. Quin. Mr.. Ellzey
has never previously held political office.
He Is a native of Mississippi, on the
sunny side of so, Is married, and the
member Of large family Of Ellzeys,
who are scattered all over his section Of
his State, and who rallied to his sup
port In the recent contest. The new
Congressman resigns as superintendent
of the Copiah Lincoln Agricultural High
School and Junior College Of Wesson,
Miss, to enter public life at the National
Capital.
The French consul at Boston is J.
c. j. Flamand, who has resided there
for half a century and is widely known
to the French-American citizenry Of
Massachusetts,. His initials u. C. u
stand for Jesus Christ Joseph" the
name with which he was christened.
Mayor Curley of Boston announced
that Consul Flamand will be on the
Curley "pledged-to-Roosevelt" Demo-
cratic Convention delegate slate, which
the Boston mayor Is putting into the
field in opposition to the pledged-to-
smith slate sponsored by the regular
Democratic organization in the Bay
State. The question Of the propriety
of an accredited member Of the French
diplomatic service standing as a can
didate in an American primary contest
and sitting as a delegate in an Ameri-
can presidential convention was
brought to the attention of the French
embassy at Washington. 1t was a
novel question. The upshot Of the
matter was that the Boston mayor
withdrew Consul Flamands name from
his slate and Is casting about for q
substitute.
my gal am 3 high-born lady, she
lifting refrain Of popular ditty back
In the days Of the gay nineties, well re-
membered by the older generation. The
chorus of another song hit Of the period
began you are my honey honey suckle,
I am de bee" The composer of these
classics was none other than the now
famous and distinguished Sol Bloom,
impresario Of the washington Bicen-
tenary. Recently a friend, recalling
Blooms youthful prowess as q song
writer, asked the director why he en-
gagged George M. Cohan to write the
official Bicentennial song. why didn't
you write the song yourself, Sol. It's
right In your line?"> the friend in
quired. without batting m eyelash
Representative Bloom replied, II might
hays 6ens o. s1cept thAt am trying