The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-01

With the U. s. Board og Tax Appeals already staggering under Q load of D,000 pending actions, the prospect of what will happen when the complicated law begins to function is giving Internal Reve et1ue officials the jitetrs.
 one Of the main pFeoccupations of Internal Revenue Commission CT Guy T. Helvering has been to reduce the number of cases tAks en to the Appeals Board.
 AS Q result of heroic efforts h0 has succeeded, during his three years ir office, in settling 2i ,4b7 cases pending before the board. This iS an alistiFne record.
 More and More
 But alaSI While Helverlng was cleaning up one docket others were accommodating. A total of l3,ei3 new cases piled up while the i,467 were being settled. Of these, approximately 5000 still await dis- poBal.
 Government experts once recon. mended that tax appealerS be rec quired to post heavy bonds. Tn cost of filing . suit is now only 9i0. By increasing this ten times, it was argued, . large number of appeal actions would Do discour. aged.
 This waS dropped for fear 1t would discriminate against small firms. But the fact remains that many appeal suits are filed Tneres y to delay payment.
 The Bar
 Morris Ernst, prominent New York attorney, was putting on Q skit ct tho annual dinner oS the New York Bar association, and pretended to enact c telephone Conversatoin by John W. Davis, former democratic candidate for President and President and fA- Inous attorney for Liberty League interests.
 NO, I'm sorry, but I can't take your case," said "Nfr. DavlS' according Co EFnsvs takeOfE "NO, I csnt do anything about lt. You'd better see Lleb0wltS at the Civil Liberties Union, he might do something for you ... Oh, we'll, that's different. Why didn't you tell me you had robbed . bank? ! thought you had only robbed . grocery store.
 Supreme Court Justice etonO oS tho Supreme Court was among those present, and seemed to Ap" preciate the Sklt most.
 Disagreement
 Some of the Senate Progressives are grousing behind the scenes about the National Conference of Liberals recently announced by Senator Bob LaFollette.
 Young Bob'B motive in calling tho meeting was to decide on c position in the presidential race.
 At c private meeting of Con- gre@ionai Liberals called to dig- cuss this, Senator George Norris pointed out that La FolletteB pro- posed conference would not Do Q large one and the TeactionaFy op. position would make capital of this lack. He Baid the conference was not necessary.
 Added Weight for F. D. R.
 It was also pointed out that neither Senators Horah nor III. ram Johnson could Do counted on to Dc present, and this too would discount the importance of the meeting.
 However, Young Bob insisted that it was good strategy to stage c conference; thAt even small gathering would give weight to their individual declarations for Roosevelt.
 He offered to assume personal responsibility for issuing tho call, and on that basis did 90.
 WaISh.IIealey Act
 Hundreds of Firms doing bust. ness with Uncle Sam are duo for . rude shock October when Secretary Frances Perkins begins enforcement of the Waish-Healey set.
 This is the measure which bans child and prison labor, sets up thO AO.hOur week and mlni- mum wage standards for oil firms setting government con- tracts.
 President Roosevelt recommends cd the iegiBlation immediately of. ter the supreme, court wiped out the NtsA, but it ianguished in the House Judiciary Committee until tho closing hours Of the recent session.
 At that time, opinions varied widely on the effect of tho bill. Even it's sponsors were in the dark regarding It's results.
 Potent Medicine
 But now Q confidential check has been made by the Labor De- partment, and it reveals that the new law Is very potent medicine, indeed.
 The survey discloses that the set will cover Q great many more workers than anyone ever expect ed. The first estimate is between three and four million.
 The Labor Department estimates that government contracts now