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The Washington times., 1933-06-05
Who Pays Taxes?

Resolutions adopted declaring that taxpayers would
send their notices their deputies if the totals
greater than last year" More than the word deputes'
(nstead of Congressmen the idea itself be denti
fled French and American The resolutions at
the end of taxpayers meetings all France To attend
these meetings shopkeeper closed for three hours in
national selling strike. The French take their taxes seri
ously.
It strikes me they take their democracy seriously
Opinions the comparative degree Of democracy in Amer
lea and France differ but these opinions concerned
only with the machinery Of elecng representatives and
presidents On the fundamental question think there
be difference of opnionhe average Frenchman believes
that he influence his to do what he wants.
he is ready to demonstrate to write letters Che may even
sacrifice thrift teegraph and go to meetings The
whole Of France f you by the placards) IS always
seething with meetings of protest.
We likely be buried under local. State and Fed
era taxes burdensome to unheardof degree in the
coming years. If the totals aren't twice three times
those of last year will be grateful The idea OF thou
twenty in every county, thousand in every State never
occurs We only Northclffe sald docle
people-we an intmidated people.
committee with longish has issued report
the of depression. The does not matterit
the Committee the Relation of Consumption Production
and Distribution of the American Engineering Council
Engineers scientifically trained and certainly not
discovered by the engineers is exactly the put forth
by radical economists two years ago-too much saving
Rich people saved much and put what they saved into
factories producing goods without creating
buying power absorb the goods which the factories
would make The also denounce the idea that
ever had any general overproducon. There may have
been overproduction single line; but Horace Kalen
who is philosopher and not engineer said long ago,
overproducton general thing has yet occurred
in the history of the world.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05

Depression or no depression,
YOU can spend your two weeks
vacation in Washington, enjoy a
score of sports. including golf,
swimming, horseback riding, fish
ing and tennis for only $40.
This was the estimate made to-
dav by Frank T. Gartside, chief
of parks, and Edward Kelly, of
the parks office, who compiled
an ideal vacation program for
stav-at-homes this summer.
No two days of the fortnight
reneat the same activities. Some
thing is planned for each morn
ing, afternoon, and for several
evenings. Among the sports
listed are four 18-hole rounds of
Golf over different courses; six
swirns at Mckinley Pool, an auto
mobile tour to Mount Vernon,
hand concerts. fishing and
Canoeing at the Tidal Basin, pic
MICS. tennis, and horseback riding
in Rock Creek Park.
information on the $40 vaca-
tion-at-home plan may be secured
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
PAIR HOLDS UP
CANDY STORE

Two unidentified colored men
held up a cigar and candy store
in the 1000 block of Seventh St.
N. w., shortly before noon today
and escaped with SO.
The proprietor, Nick Raptake,
was not at the shop at the time.
His clerk, George G. Williams.
told police that the men came
in and asked for a bag of pea
nuts. While he was making
change one of the men pulled
a gun and said:
"Give me the money"
Williams stood by with hands
raised while the men emptied the
cash box. They then strolled out
of the shop and turned the cor
ner and disappeared. The street
was crowded at the time of the
hOldup.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
Lost Load of Beer
Just Nap for Driver

A large truck and 100 barrels
of beer might seem easy to find
with the entire police force theo-
retically on the lookout.
Saturday night Francis Ramey
of Ballston, Va, told police a
truckload of beer he owned had
disappeared.
All night long and well into yes
terday there was no trace. Mr..
Ramey himself finally located the
truck three blocks from Eleventh
and E Streets Northeast, whence
it had disappeared. The driver
had parked it there to take nap.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
PUG. DEMANDS
CASH LIABILITY
FOR TAX|CABS
Insurance or Bond Asked
To Satisfy Judgments
In Emergencies

Spurred by the recent decision
Of Court of Appeals justice,
scoring the lack of financial re-
sponSibility on the part of taxi
cab operators here, the Public
Utilities Commission today sent
a letter to Congress urging pass
age of a bill requiring cab owners
to carry public liability insurance.
The letter was addressed to the
chairmen of the House and Sen
ate District committees. It urged
that the respective committees
urge passage of the measure at the
present session as emergency leg
islation.
The bill provides that all COM
mon carriers must make provision,
by insurance or bond, to satisfy
any judgments obtained against
them as a result of damage to
persons or property. The amount
Of the bond or insurance would be
determined by the Public Utilities
Commission which would be given
power to adopt regulations to en-
force the provisions of the bill.
The action of the commission
followed the decision of Justice
William Hitz, of the Court of Ap-
peals, in ordering new trials in two
cases involving taxicabs. In his
decision Justice Hitz advocated
compulsory insurance and added
that leach cab constituted a
patential danger to its passengers
and the public, yet having no
financial responsibility to either
beyond an equity of redemption in
some used motor car"
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
MONETARY PLAN
W|NN|NG.T|P

The news Of a development of
a system for the use of silver and
gold which, it is said, would sta
bilize world money markets and
prevent fluctuation, captured first
prize last week in The Washing
ton Times newstip contest.
The second award was made
for the story on the crash at
Boiling Field in which two per-
sons were injured.
Other prizes were awarded for
the following tips: The suicide in
front of the Branchville Volun-
teer Fire Department building;
throwing a brick through the
window of B. c. Harvel's home,
which narrowly missed hitting
his wife; holdup of a Takoma
Park grocery store, and injury
of James w. VALLEY, of Wood
lawn, w. Va, in an attempt to
catch ride on freight train.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
SCHOOL CADETS
OPEN REVIEW

Looking their best, with their
shoes bright, their gloves and
belts a pure white, and their but
tons cleaning in the bright SUM-
light, the Washington High
School Cadet Corps today began
their two-day annual company
competitive drill at Griffith
Stadium.
Eight companies from the third
and fourth regiments, Eastern
and Western High Schools, re-
spectively, drilled throughout the
morning at half-hour intervals,
while eight companies from the
second regiment, Mckinley High
School, competed in the after
noon.
Companies G, L, M and H, of
western; F, B, c and D, of East
ern, and K, E, A, H, G., D, F. and
B, of Mckinley, were in the COM
petition today, with IA to take
the field tomorrow.
At the conclusion of the drill to-
morrow afternoon, the Allison
Naylor diamond-studded medal
and other awards will be pre-
sented by Brig. Gen. Charles E.
Kilbourne, U. S. A.
Federal Post No. 824. of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
present medals to captains of the
companies taking second and
third place, and other awards will
be given to the winning non-com-
miSsioned officer and the success
full cadet band.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
THREATS JAIL
PANHANDLER

Lowry H. Lowe, 81, of the 100
block Pennsylvania Ave. N. w.,
was sentenced to serve 60 days in
Jail in Police Court today on a
charge of assaulting a man who
refused to give him a dime.
Carl Stegman, of the 100 block
Constitution Ave. N. w., said
have approached him on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue and asked him for
a dime. Stegman said when he
refused to give him the money,
Lowe used abusive language and
tried to cut him with a razor he
took from his pocket.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
GIVEN
D, {, RELIEF

The District Commissioners to-
day signed a formal receipt for
$140,767 appropriated to the Dis
trict by the Federal Government
under the Lewis Wagner Relief
act. The money probably will be
available today or tomorrow.
The money represents one-third
of the amount spent for relief
here during the first quarter of
the current year, plus approx
mately $4,000 for administration
costs.
Director George S. Wilson, of
the Board of Public Welfare, said
the present funds will be ex-
hausted within about 10 days and
that the new fund will be used
to carry on relief work here until
the new appropriation in the Dis
trict supply bill becomes avail
able July 1. The fund will be
administered in the same manner
as the regular relief funds.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
2 Women Battle
Purse Thief
But Lose

Mrs. Asia r. Seal 140O block
Meridian st. N. w., gave a young
purse snatcher almost more than
he bargained for when he robbed
her shortly before midnight at
Fourteenth and Quincy Streets
Northwest.
Mrs. Seal was walking with a
friend, Mrs. Suit Thomas, 1400
block Quincy st. N. w., when the
robber grabbed her purse with
such force that the strap was
broken.
Mrs. Seal pursued and threw
the robber to the ground when
she seized the rear of his trouS-
ers. She followed him into an
alley after he scrambled to his
feet. Mrs. Thomas ran to an
other entrance to the alley to
head him off.
The man escaped in a car
which had been parked in the
alley. The purse contained $3.50
and an English f5 note, which
M sr.Seal said, she had been
carrying two years.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
Marine Commander
Gets HerOiSn1 Medal

Brig, Gen. Harry Lee, com
mandant of the Marine base at
Quantico, has been awarded the
silver star medal, the War De.
partment announces, as a cita-
ton for heroism in the fighting
just before the battle of Belleau
Wood, while he commanded the
Sixth Marine regiment.
He has a large collection of
medals, including the Distin-
guished Service Medals of Army
and Navy, the Victory Campaign
Medal, the Legion of Honor of
France, the Croix de Guerre and
others.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05

popular. He let it be understood that
he was not only friend of the plain
people, but a divinely inspired guesser
as to what the plain people wanted;
his weekly newspaper, John Bull, was
supposed to be a guide to the heart of
England; and he actually became so
powerful during the war that he might
have had a place in the cabinet-prob-
ably to shut him up.
One reason for his success was that,
in spite of Northcliffe, England never
had a really popular press; newspapers
were considered necessary evils, and
Asquith, as prime minister, would
rather have thrown "pressman" out
of doors than speak to him.
So Bottomley flourished - and
guessed wrong: His two glaring errors
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
WANPLER MUST
STAND TRIAL ON
TAX CHARGE
Court of Appeals Denies His
Plea, Orders Case Heard
in Baltimore

T. Morris Wampler, well-known
local attorney, will have to stand
trial on a charge Of trying to
evade income tax payments, the
Court of Appeals today decided.
The decision affirmed action of
the District Supreme Court in de-
ming Wampler a writ of habeas
corpus after U. S. Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage had ordered
him to Baltimore for the trial.
Both Points Thrown Out
Through Attorney William E.
Leahy, the accused lawyer ap.
pealed from the courts decision
on two grounds. He contended
that the Maryland court, which
issued a bench warrant against
him after an indictment was re-
turned, was without jurisdiction
since his tax return was mailed
in Washington and if any offenSe
was committed, it was in the Dis.
trict of Columbia.
Wampler also contended that
he was not permitted to offer
evidence showing lack of prob
able cause at the hearing before
Turnage. The Court of Appeals
held both of these grounds were
without merit.
Regarding the first point, the
court decided that an income tax
return is not made according to
law until it is actually received
by the Collector of Internal Rev.
enue.
Courts Opinion
AS is the second point, the
court held the evidence offered
was not to show lack of probable
cause, but was evidence to show
good faith and honesty in filling
out the return.
Concluding the opinion, the
court stated:
Petitioner, who is a prOmi.
nent member of the bar of the
District of Columbia, should
welcome the opportunity for an
immediate trial, and since the
distance between Washington
and Baltimore involves no Seri-
Gus expense or inconvenience,
there exists no element in the
case of hardship sometimes
found in removal cases."
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
R0BS WOMAN FLORIST

A neatly dressed robber with
sleek black hair held up Mrs.
Hattie Beall yesterday in her
flower shop, 1900 block Good
Hope Rd. S. E., and made her
lie on the floor while he took
$45 from the cash register.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
True Type
English Prophecies; French Taxation;
u. S. Thrift
-By GILBERT SELDES-

the obituary notices Horatio Bottomey,' the English
journalist and promoter picturesque stories
told, but little said of the highly immoral lesson to be
learned from his The great thing about Boomley
as Journalist that he ALWAYS and always
The Washington times., 1933-06-05

were placarded all London just as England was apou
to declare his pacard read Ito hell with SerDa ana
Just as America was about to come his pacard warned
England trust the United Sates-the issue OF John
Bull which just joining the Allies made
it seem likely that would join Germany!
Scandal and Racket
His methods simple In of the blacklist months
of 1917 he had posters in every subway and kept them
there for weeks, with the three words, Good News
Coming!" No good came, but after the German
break through and the counter attack half year later
Bottomey could refer back to his prophecy go
His gossip column about the House OF Commons was 1ul
of syly suggested scandal his friendship for the sooers
and sailors tremendous racket (Which ruined him IN
the end but long he told people the exact opposite
of the truth he tremendously successful and ntlu-
entia 1 remember minor secretary IN the foreign
office saying to II wish could sink Bottomley IN
the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, But it never occurred
to any official in England that the way to couneract bo
tomley to create popular press which could be trust
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
Two-Week Vacation Here
Will Cost Puny $40

at Mr.. Gartside'S office in the
Navy Building.
Evening star., 1933-12-01
PUBLIC PROTECTION
IN INVESTMENTS Seen
Johnson Tells Roosevelt Bankers
Have 80 Days to Draft Fair
Practice Provisions.

Investment bankers are expected
through their N R. A. code to correct
abuses now affecting public interest and
speed the flow of capital into channels
that will help hasten recovery.
This forecast was made by Gen. Hugh
q. johnson. recovery administrator, in
submitting to President Roosevelt
studies of the code. Under Its pro-
visions the investment bankers have 80
days in which to draft the fair practices
requirements and submit them for ap-
proval.
The bankers are represented as volun-
tarily asking for the code limitations
because they regard them as "neces-
sary" to the public interest. The code
provisions. to be filed. 1t was asserted
will place the investment banking
business on a far sounder and fairer
basis than 1t has been In the past"
THE investment bankers definitely
realize the need for fair practice pro-
visions to govern business" Gen. john
son declared, "and at their recent ma
tional convention decided that adequate
provisions be made part of the code.
They have voluntarily agreed to submit
fair practice provisions in q supple
mental code within 80 days of the
Presidents approval Of the CODE"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-26
Cooperation Is The Answer

''All recognized agencies, whether they be governmental, private or educational all agencies that have investigated the agricul- tural problems of the United States ]. have agreed without exception that cooperative marketing is the only answer" said Senator Royal S. Copeland in recent address.
 Mir Copeland's speech was principally concerned with the strike troubles in the New York Milk Shed. He pointed out the fal- lacy of attempting to bring about a given end by illegal force of arms, under the lead- ership of professional agitators. and com pared that with methods of the cooperatives which are working to better the farmers position by the use of economic weapons. The first can bring agriculture nothing but distress and disillusionment; the second IS making definite progress and is on the threshold of its period of most decisive achievement.
 During the last few years we have seen good many experiments in relieving the farmer. The most far-reaching have been conducted by the government. All the re- sources of the land have been behind them and they have. in the long view, done infinitely less than was hoped The bene- fits they have brought have been temporary
 they have aided number of farmers for short time, and then have become more or less imperative. Government has made its most definite farm progress when it has sought to advance the interests of the CO., operatives when it has used its influence in helping organizations of which the aver- age farmer really feels he is a part.
 The farm disturbances in New York and the Middle West have brought out by con- trast the stability and soundness of the CO., operative movement The eo-ops are on the side of good government, of ordered change. They deserve the support of every citizen who wishes prosperous and happy national future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-26

How many people really know why the old Pennington canal was builtl For that matter how many people know there ever was canal that went through Pennington! Wen answer the last question first by say- ing that some people can even recall where the canal was. As to the first it remained for Charles Rufus Harte of New Haven to give an insight into the canals history in a recent address to the Connecticut His torieal Society. He claimed that the canal was built at the insistence of New Haven finaneiers and merchants who wanted to take away from Hartford and Springfield their river traffic. That's logical to believe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-26
4 Book q Day by BRUCE CATION
Describes Revolt"
 In English Painting
Asesze,.sEe.

"poor Splendid Wings" by Frances winwar, is the colorfui story of an artistic movement which once upon time looked ex- ceedingly big and important-the "pre- -Rapha elite" movement that had all of England by the ears m the middle of the last century
 A little band of artists tried to break away from Journalism. They decided that the artist should paint the thing as he sees 1t for the God of things as they are, as hipnns put 1t, long afterward. They loosea what seemed to be q clean. new wind in the rather stufy connnes of British culture.
 < And what a crew they were these pre- Raphaelites! Miss Win war presents them in all their color, their self-consciousness, their Greenwich -Viliage-madness; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, talented and fighty, who dug up the body of his wife seven years after her death to reclaim a book of poem! he had buried with her; Ford Madox Brown, plugging along without recognition; William Nor ris, who turned back to medieval ism and dreamed of killing indus trialism; Ruskin, perhaps the greatest of them all, lugging hii crippling Puritanism along like q weight; Swinburne, satanic geni' us, melodious and damned.
 Well, they painted and sang and dreamed of beauty; and all the while they missed the point oi their age, somehow, and the pres ent generation finds them curiously outmoded. Their painting trailed off into the prettmess of Burne- Jones, and Swinburne gave way to sophomore, Ernest Dowson. The fountains of the great deep broke up soon after their departure; ex. cept for Ruskin, none of them had guessed that the wind might lit in that quarter.
 "Poor Splendid Wings" is fine spirited book. It won the Atlantic sb,O0O non fiction prize; Little Brown & Co offers 1t for s3.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-26

There seems to be well-defined purpose behind various news stories in the Water bury American and Republican lately. Feat. ured in them is the fact that certain city contracts are being performed by firms that were not forced to bid for the jobs, but were awarded them without competition. The same mistake was made during the recent mayoralty campaign, but it so happened that the only correct interpretation of the affair appeared in the Democrat. A g.o.p. eam- paign speaker declared that the law pre- vented the city awarding any contracts with out calling for bids. This was accepted at face value and naturally good many voters accepted it as gospel truth. The law, how ever does not state this. The city can award contracts without calling for bids if in the opinion of the proper officials the work can see plenty of merit in calling for bids on be done better in this way. We personally city jobs. In the first place it would kill off any possible criticism from critics of tine administration. But we do not believe that the city should be bound to do this every time work becomes necessary. In the long run this would prove too expensive for any municipality. That's why we have pro- vision in the law. And that's why good many of us think that the campaign to force the city into awarding contracts on bids 100 per cent won't bear fruit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-26
Recalling Ancestry

One of the commonest misconceptions of American history is the notion that the Middle West has past, historically speak ing. that goes back only about a century. Just to show how faulty that idea is, the city of Fond du Lac. Wis. is going to hold . tereentenary celebration next year. It will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the land ins in Green Bay of Jean Nieolet. one of those mazing Frenehmen who pushed into the heart of the American continent at time when anything west of the Alleghenies was more remote and unknown than the center of Asia today.
 As far back as 1634, then. the recorded history of the Middle West was getting un- der way. You could have assembled all its white inhabitants into good-sized auto but, if you had had one handy. and its signs of eivilization were few and far be- tween. But it is worth remembering that the pedigree of the interior goes back nearly e far as that of the eastern seaboard.
 Furthermore, it's pedigree worth read ing. There are few stories of romantic ad- venture more truly satisfying than the one which tells about French penetration of the Great Lakes region. Those old names like Nicolet. Marquette. La Salle. Joliet, Henne- pin. Cadillac. and so on have glamour about them that time cannot dim. Those men were empire builders. whose efforts - in the strangest way imaginable - paved the way for the building of society that they. never anticipated.
 They dotted the land with their names and with words from their language. To- day's Middle West still uses them names like Fond du Lac. and Prairie du Chien. and Msrquette. and Detroit. and Vineennes. and Navarro: you could fill page with them. The land that now is the granary and work shop of a nation once was part of the dc- ,minions of the Grand Monarque of France; the fleur-de-lis waved over it generations