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The Washington times., 1934-05-16

John A. Remon. general man
ager of the C. & P. Telephone
Company, will throw out the
initial ball to inaugurate National
Capital League on the North
Ellipse at S p. m. The contest
ants will be c. & P. Telephone
Company and Potomac Electric
Power mines.
George Veach Is scheduled to
hurl for the Phone Boys" while
Jack Howard will pitch for the
opposition.
Pig'n Whistle diamonders, who
played under the colors of Dixie
Pigs last year, will tackle the
Bookbinders on the West EllipSe
opening Bill FleSter'S Industrial
circuit.
Another game will be played
in the National Capital League
when Center Market plays Pre-
mier Cab on Monument Lot No.
3. Jack Bentley, former New
York Giant player, is expected to
perform with the Market team.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
SPORTS G!
Bv KIRK MILLER
Neither Giants-Griffs : Ahearn Is Happy
Play Top Ranking Ball In Fight Game Again
Ball Fortunes Tickle Ruth Is Sensitive
By KIRK MILLER

the old razZberry back Of first
base? why, I've never done any.
thing to deserve that. What do
they want me to dO-fall in my
tracks,"
Thus the man who has done
more for baseball than any other
player now in spikes feels the
ingratitude Of the type Of fan
who often is guilty Of mean little
dem onStra tionS which he
wouldn't perpetrate II he'd stop
to think twice.
Cabinet Members Go
One wonders who is going to
run our Government around
here when June IA and the Car
nera-Baer championship fight
takes place up at Long Island
Bowl, New York.
Among the ringside guests,
according to information COM
ing from Madison Square Gar
den Corporation, are Postmaster
General James Farley, Secre-
tary of State Cordeu Hull and
Attorney General Homer Cum
mings.
Others of prominence ex.
pected to be ringside spectators
that night include Mrs. Isabel
Dodge Sloane, Trainer Bob
Smith and Jockey Mack Garner,
of the well-known Brookmeade
Stable. Governors Albert
Ritchie, Of Maryland; Joseph
Ely, of New Jersey, and Dave
Scholz. of Florida, will be among
the State executives present,
while Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia, Of New York city, will
head the list Of city executives
to attend.
Zero Hour Passes
Midnight last night, the zero
hour in baseball law which de-
clares no team could be caught
at sunrise today with more than
% players on its roster, has
changed the baseball directory
considerably. AS a result
Catcher Roy Spencer, former
Griff catcher, finds himself cut
off from the Cleveland Indians
and Pitcher Burleigh Grimes is
let loose by the st. Louis
Browns.
Lyn Larry, Yankee infielder,
will receive his mail for the rest
of the season in care of the Bos-
ton Red Sox, and the six-foot-
six Jim Weaver goes to the Chi
cago Cubs from the st. Louis
Browns, via Newark, N. j. Larry
will play short for the Red Sox
and Bill Werber, who got in
baseball training around Wash
1ngton, is to take third.
Pitcher Sylvester Johnson
and Outfielder Johnny Moore Of
the Cincinnati Reds, change
places with Outfielders Wesley
Schulmerick and Art Ruble and
Pitcher Ted Kleinhans, Of the
Phillies.
Washington rid itself Of Catch.
er Elmer Klummp and Pitchers
Ed Linke and Mark Filley, Chat
tanooga got Klummp and Linke
and Filley went to the Albany
club, the latter being also fur.
ther enriched by the acquisition
of Phil Page, left-handed pitch
er, and Glenn Chapman, out
fielder Of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Tigers of Detroit shaved
off their list the name Of
Pitcher Steve Larkin, sending
him to Toledo, and the Chicago
Cubs rid themselves of Lynn
Nelson, a right-hand pitcher, in
favor of the Atlanta outfit. So
all major leagues start even to-
morrow with % men to draw
from in their battles from then
on as there were no games to be
nlAVed today
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
RAIN HOLDS UP CHAMP

ATLANTIC CITY N. j., May Is.
Road work in the morning and
boxing drills in the afternoon was
the order of things at the train
ing camp of Jimmy McLarnin
today. The weather kept the
welterweight champion, who meets
Barney Ross in New York, May
%, idle most of yesterday.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
GIANTS, 10; CUBS, 3
NEW YORK
Totals 43 Is 2712 Totals .36 727
1Batted for Thinning in ninth.

New York ......2O / O1O3 do
Chicago .... o. 90 90 8
Runs-MOOre (S), Terry 90. OFT (2),
Hubbell, Galan. Klein, CamiIli. Errors
ming. Runs batted in-JacksOn 90,
Stainback. Ryan, OFT ~, CamiIli,
O'DOuI, Moore. Two-base hits-Stain
back. MancusO, Ryan, O'Doul, Klein.
Homo runs-Ott, Camilli. Moore. Sac
rifice hits-CritZ. Terry. Bases on balls
Off Root. 9. Struck Out-By Hubbel1.
5. Hit by pitcher-By Hubbell (Klein);
by Root (Terry). Hits-Off Root. 8 in
innings. Losing pitcher-ROOt. Passed
ball-MancuSO. Left on bases-New
York, IL: Chicago, 7. Umpires-Pfir-
man, Magerkurth and Barr. Attend
ance-lO,OOO. Time of game-1:57.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16

All, the tickle turn Of affairs
which surround the game OF
baseball!
One minute you're soaring in
the heights and the next you're
yelling for a life-belt.
Consider the two current races
in the major leagues.
A month of the new season
has come and gone and what
do we find!
The world champion New
York Giants are riding along
none too comfortably in fourth
place in the National League
standings.
And the Washington Griffmen
are not even occupying a posi-
ton in the first division Of the
American League ratings.
A few months back these two
clubs, with practically the same
personnel they carry now, were
fighting it out for the suprem-
acy of baseball, but you'd never
guess it by the brands OF base
ball they've displayed over the
past 30 days.
Ahearn In Element
Goldie Ahearn is in his ele'
ment again.
Never happy outside Of the
fight business, Goldie has Sc
cured himself what is COM
monty called a "spot" and Will
be matchmaker Of a boxing out
fit which will hold forth at the
Riding and Hunt Club and
which will stage weekly bouts,
summer and winter.
Goldie has spent considerable
of his life either as a fighter
or a promoter, and gives the
Riding and Hunt Club a world
of experience in entering the
pugilistic field.
Thus washington is sure to
have competition in its boxing
promotions, because just as GER
tain as you're reading these
lines, Joe Turner, with Frankie
Mann as his matchmaker, Will
turn up with the exclusive
rights at the ball park for stag
ing boxing.
The only conflict there has
been between President Clark
Griffith and Turner in closing
the deal for outdoor shows at
the park this summer, has con-
cerned the advisability Of at
tempting both a weekly fight
show and a weekly wrestling
show. Rather than to yield his
chances of getting the park
for boxing, Turner is reported
to stand ready to make a con-
cession and confine himself to
semimonthly wrestling produc"
tons.
Ruth Sensitive
You might think Babe Ruth is
a big rough guy with a tough
hide, but the huge fellow is quite
sensitive. He was plainly at
fronted in New York last Sunday
when the fans booed him be-
cause he asked for a substitute
runner following that bruising
he got by being hit with one OF
the deliveries of pitcher Thorn
ton Lee, the Cleveland hurler
who low-bridged Cecil Travis.
In the dressing room whence
he went for examination after he
hobbled down to first base, Babe
made no secret Of the fact that
he was as much hurt by the
verbal shots of the fans when he
surrendered first base to a pinch
runner, as he was the impact
with the ball. He Is reported as
having buried his head in his
hands and moaned:
"They were bOOing me because
I didn't stay in the game. Did
you hear that gang open up with
The Washington times., 1934-05-16

Two other games are listed to-
day in the weekday loops. Union
Printers stack up against G. P. o..
in the Departmental League at
S p. m. on the South Ellipse,
and G. P. O. Federals oppose
Interstate Commerce in the Fed
eral wheel on the Monument
grounds.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
Freschi to HurL
For Tailor Team

Joe Freschi will climb the hill
for the Rinaldi Tailors when they
tackle the st. Mary's Celtics at
Alexandria Sunday at 3 p. m.
Either Lefty" McIntire or
doc" Dreifus will pitch for the
Celtics. The TailorS are unde-
feated today, having won eight
games.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16

4Bafted Tor Dean In eighth.
st. Louis. ....... 1910 90 O-5
Runs-Frey. Leslie. Lopez (?), Jordan,
Butcher. Martin. ROthrOck (2), Frisch,
Medwick. Errors - Cuccinello, Mooney.
Runs batted in-ROthrock (2), Jordan,
Medwick, Collins (2). Frey (3). Taylor.
TwO.base hits - Collins, Jordan. Med
wick. ROthrOCk. Home run-ROthrOck.
Stolen bases - KOenecke. Martin. Frey.
Taylor. Double plays-JOrdaB to Frey
to Leslie. ROthrOck to v. Davis, Roth
rock to F'risch. Hits-Off Benge. 8 in
5; off Lucas. , in 2; off Mooney, II in I
(nOne out in eighth off Dean, 1 In !.
Left on bases-BroOklyn, 8; st. Louis. !.
Bases on balls-Off Benge. /: off Carroll,
L: off Mooney. 4. Struck Out-By BenEe.
1: by Carroll, I: by Mooney. 2. Hit by
Pitcher MoSney Leshe R;u,1r A.
tendance - 1000.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
PLAYERS SEE
Win STREAK
STARTING
BY GARRETT WATERS
Times Staff Correspondent

AlmeS SthLG OOfEeBpOnuenC
CINCINNATI, May 16.-What is
that intangible something known
as consistency?
Will it ever favor the Washing
ton Griffmen this season? Will
the team get going like last year,
when its performances, both at
home and on the road, rated the
notice of every opponent in the
league?
These, among other questions,
were before Manager Cronin's har.
ried gang today as they stopped
off here to play an exhibition
game prior to their first Western
series of the new campaign at
Cleveland, beginning tomorrow.
One Answer
One Of the answers was that
the possibilities were still there
that a turn around in form might
be made. On paper the team is
quite as strong as in 1888. when
the pennant was won by ample
margin. The same spirit prevails
Nhile the performers, although
they have been knocked around
from pillar to post since the start
OF the season, continue to believe
in themselves.
What more is necessary, they
ask, other than victories on the
ball field which they realize win
remnants? Surely, a break will
come soon, maybe on this West
ern trip where events are bound
to adjust themselves in regard to
the season as a whole.
1888 Remembered
Right here memories of a
truly sensational and gratifying
Western journey of 1888 are
brought to mind. The Griffs
were decidedly down" then,
almost as much as they are now,
A couple of inspiring victories
were registered. The pitchers
began clicking. The hitters be-
gan seeking 'em out, and presto,
before the league could catch its
breath, the team was pressing
the New York Yankees, the
league leaders, like no other
occurrence in moons.
Today, Manager Cronin's men
had these thoughts in their re-
spective heads as they neared
their first series of this Western
Journey. Lightning has been
known to strike twice in the
same place, they argue, and why
not during the next two weeks?
For this to happen, Cronin and
boys realize they must begin
hitting, that better than 500 ball
must be played and that they must
not worry when a loss is taken
here and there.
CrOnin in Slump
Yes. they realize all this. but
today they voiced in confident
terms they were for what narrows
down to real test, and this in
cluded Manager Joe Cronin him
self, who has been in the worst
batting slump in his career as a
big Lacquer.
Earl Whitehill will begin the
Cleveland series tomorrow, Cronin
has decided. Monte Weaver will
take" the second game and
Thomas, the third. By that time
the team hopes it will jump over
to Detroit with a grand victorious
stride behind it, the idea being to
keep it going in the following sets
of games against the Detroit
Tigers, st. Louis Browns, Chicago
White Sox and New York Yankees
respectively.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
SOUTHERN LEAGUE

New orleans. 21O $50 10 II 1
Atlanta ,......... O4O 900 "a 10
Batteries-JOhnSOn and Autry; Schmidt,
Jacobs and PaImlsanO. Called end
BIrminEham 900 400 1O1 OIL 90 2
Nashville ....... 900 100 1O4 O2-8 II o
Batteries-White, Dunaway and Red:
mond; Chaplin, Reid, Eiland. Stafford and
Knoxville at Memphis postponed,
rain).
game postponed, rain).
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
AMERICAN LEAGUE

"Btandlng year ago THIS daLe'
xGames behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
(Au Hames fained out and called &C.
count Of wet RrOunds).
TOday's Games
NO games scheduled).
The Washington times., 1934-05-16

Baseball Statistics
(IncludinG Yesserd0y's Games)
NATIONAL LEAGUE

STANDINGS year ago tins date'
1GameS behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
New York, 10; Chicago, }.
Brooklyn, 8; st. Louis, 5.
Boston Pittsburgh (Rain).
Philadelphia Cincinnati (Rain).
TOday's Games
mo games scheduled).
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
Leading Batsmen
LEAGUE
HOME RIMS
RIMS RATED IN

Gehrig. Yankees 31TMedwick, Cards. 25
Suhr, Pirates. rs
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
CLEANERS ANXIOUS

C. & P. Cleaner and Dyer in
sects are booking Saturday and
Sunday games at Lincoln 10431.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
Western, Tech Stage
Rained Out Series
Tilt Today

Western and Tech baseball
teams will clash today at $3.50
p. m. in the interhigh series at
Eastern Stadium.
The teams were scheduled to
play yesterday, but the rain
caused the poStponelnent.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
Two Leagues Start Today,
Conditions Permitting

the grounds dry up sufficiently two weekday baseball
.pnes will commence their 1884 season today.
The Washington times., 1934-05-16
DODGERS, 6; CARDS, 5
ST. LOUIS


Totals. .38 IL 81 IS Totals. .SS 1871 0
1Batted for Benge in sixth.
2Batted for Lucas in eighth.
Slated for Durocher in eighth.
dRaffad for Dean In eiHhfh
Evening star., 1934-04-10

We restore the buying power Of that
group in the United States who in
1929 furnished approximately 80 per
continue to suffer the agonies Of this
economic depression.
Concentration Of Wealth.
The concentration Of wealth In the
hands OF q relatively small number of
people has been the inevitable conse-
quence of q nialdistribution of income
This process has gone ON in this coun-
try for many generations. The war
Speeded up concentration Of wealth
and 1t went forward apace during the
period after the war. Recognized
studies Of this problem we're made by
DR.. wilford I. King. Taking these
studies as q basis and tranSlating
them into q simple illustration. we
get a startling picture OF the extent
to which wealth Is now concentrated
In the United States.
Let us assume that 500 represents
all the vast wealth Of this country.
the richest nation on earth. Let US
assume that 100 individuals represent
the entire population Of the United
States. Now, If We divide that 500
representing our vast wealth among
those 100 people representing all ourl
citizens as wealth is today divided in
this country. what do we find? We
find that ! individual would have $50.
l individual would have 50. "a persons
would have $122 each, and rs. or all
the remainder. would have less than
cents apiece.
This illustration not only presents
the problem which must be solved, If
We are ever to find our way out Of this
depression, but 1t also presents q
situation which should give pause to
every citizen who desires to see the
institutions Of democracy maintained.
All history clearly demonstrates that
concentration Of wealth such as has
taken place in the United States is
inimical TO the perpetuity Of demo-
cratic institutions. Upon this basis
the advocates Of higher taxes upon
those who are best able to bear the
burden could rest their case. But
there are equally il not more impor.
tant considerations to which I now
desire to direct your attention. This
economic crisis is graver than war.
It Is more fraught with danger to the
institutions Of the Republic than any
war In which We have ever engaged.
Government Aid
To meet the emergencies in this
crisis 1t has been necessary for the
Federal Government to come to the
aid Of its citizens to relieve distress
and want. and to prevent in part hu-
man suffering and malnutrition. It
Evening star., 1934-04-10

carry on this program requires N
efncient tar system, with heavier bur.
dens upon those able to bear them
than ever before in our history.
do not make this statement because
T believe that we must balance the
budget In the technical and arith-
met,cal sense. As q matter of fact,
I think we have been trying to bal
ance the wrong budget. The budget
that I should like to see balanced
would LIST upon the assets side 125,.
100000 people. It would list our
natural resources, our oil, our coal,
our lumber. bur minerals, our water
power. It would list our transporta-
ton system. It. would list the great
est industrial Development that the
world has ever seen. It would list
our great agricultural resources. On
the other side Of the budget would be
listed the obligation of any society
and Of any government worthy Of the
name to assure to every man, woman
and child q decent and . full life. II
We will discharge that obligation, II
we will balance this greater budget.
We win put the operating budget into
D0AoAASS ONCAtASAlL - VIC AdAA ~ val
ance this larger budget, If we fail to
discharge this obligation We owe to
the people of this country, then no
matter how long we 60 on with
cheese-paring methods on the regular
budget, we shall never balance it so
long as the level Of economic activity
remains at its present point or sinks
even lower.
This program Of necessity requires
q tax system which will produce SUI
ficient revenue, not to balance the
operating budget, but to maintain
government credit.
We have reached the point where
we must ascertain whether those who
give lip-service to our present system
are willing to pay the price to save it.
We must ascertain whether those
who have the biggest stake in saving
this system are willing to contribute
to the Government through graduated
income and estate taxes a suficient
revenue to make it possible to carry
on these collective expenditures until
the war against depression has been
won
Evening star., 1934-04-10
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON c. TUESDAY APRIL TO- 1884,

has been necessary likewise for the
Federal Government to provide em-
ployment for . part Of those who are
out Of work and who cannot ind en-
ployment In normal business activities.
! am convinced that the Federal Gov
eminent will have to carry on q much
larger program Of employment than
has thus far been adopted. It will be
necessary to continue these huge col.
lective expenditures over q long period
OF time. Failure to recognize this fact
will court disaster.
All the way through this recent pc
riod those who have been fighting for
an adequate program to restore pur-
chasing power on the farms and In
the cities have been defeated because
Of the unwarranted optimism of peo-
pie who have refused to face the facts.
Year after year. when We have come
forward with adequate measures, We
have been told that prosperity was
just around the corner. It was this
belief that prevented the adoption Of
q program In session after session. It
was only the deepening Uf the crisis
and finally the collapse Of the bank
ing structure which made 1t possible
to secure the enactment OF program,
inadequate though It was.
In connection with the tax bill now
pending in Congress We must decide
how We are to meet the cost of
government. the cost of war and the
cost Of the extraordinary expenditures
to meet the emergency. In all Jus
tice, In all equity. there Is only one
sound course open and that Is to
require that the increased taxes shall
fall upon those who have the ability
to pay. Not only because this policy
Is sound in principle, but there Is an
other reason. The improvement in
business has been largely due to ex-
penditures made by the Federal
Government. We are therefore doubly
Justified in requiring those who have
been in part the beneflciaries of this
program to come forward and to
assume their fair share of the tax
burden which these expenditures
make necessary.
Offers Amendment.
Consistent with the tax policy out =
lined, offered an amendment in the
Senate which provided a normal tax
of per cent, which Is 2 per cent
higher than that proposed by the
Senate Committee on Finance.
The surtax rates in my amendment
began with surtax of per cent
on net incomes in excess of $4,000,
with gradual increases, bracket by
bracket, reaching q maximum surtax
Evening star., 1934-04-10

rate Of II per cent On. net taxable
incomes above $1,000 900.
shall give q few examples Of how
this amendment would have operated.
Assuming Q married man with no
dependents, having . net taxable In,
come, after all exemptions Of 5000.
my amendment would have imposed
q tax of $l2 as compared with tax
Of $40 under the existing law. In
Great Britain this taxpayer, under
their rates, would pay $311.
A taxpayer with q net taxable in
come of $4,000 under my amendment
would have paid $6l6: under the
present law, $3.50; in Great Britain,
81 ,862. II the taxpayer had . net
income Of $4,000, under my amend
ment he would have been required to
pay $12.955; under the existing law.
So, 900, and In Great Britain such Q
taxpayer would have paid 3ls,655.
II the taxpayer had . net taxable
income Of $780, 900, under my amend
ment he would have paid $42, ,993;
under the existing law. $50, 100. and In
Great Britain q tax Of $4S.lo2 would
be imposed.
A taxpayer with $1,000. 900 Of net
taxable income under my amend
ment would have paid $7l6,3lS; under
the existing law he would have paid
$57l,158. and in Great Britain he
would be taxed $639. leo.
The Treasury estimated that the
amendment which offered would have
raised $lS5,000, 900 more taxes than
are received under the existing income
rates. Opponents of higher income
taxes contend past experience demon.
strates that lower rates produce more
aggregate revenue than higher rates
would yield. They also argue that
with tax-exempt securities existing IN
this country in such large volume,
high income tax rates will cause large
income taxpayers to invest In tax
exempt securities in order to escape
the rates imposed. If they are heavy.
Opponents also argue that very heavy
rates may induce flight Of capital
from the United States.
Answers Cortentions.
The answer to the first contention
Is that we have no statistics which
prove that low rates of income tax
alton produce more revenue than
higher rates would yield. The figures
which opponents cite are based upon
the high revenue collected under the
relatively low rates imposed during
the past three Republican admins
trations. These figures are entirely
misleading because they do not take