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Evening star., 1937-11-17
TAX ASSESSMENT
TO BE RECOMPUTED
Bureau Is Sustained, However, in
Claims Against Executors
of Estate.

By the Associated Press.
The Board of Tax Appeals ordered
the Bureau Of Internal Revenue yes
terday to recompute a deficiency of
sl1,5l0 in 1882 income taxes assessed
against Roger J. Whiteford and Edgar
N. Brawner, both Of this city.
The bureau had assessed them as
executors of the estate Of Henry N.
Brawner, jr, former owner of the
Chestnut Farms Dairy.
Sustaining the bureau. the board
determined the executors could not
deduct s4O0 paid by Brawner for an
audit Of receipts and expenditures of
Woodley Park Towers, an apartment
which he contemplated purchasing
1t upheld the bureaus determination
that property Brawner owned at 1415
K street NV. was worth s69,448 in
stead of s125,ooO.
The board overruled the disallow-
ance of s4,253 Brawner paid as at
torney's fees in connection with his
dairy business. It overruled likewise
the disallowance of $21, $50 Brawner
deducted as losses on loans to Nc
Keever g. Goss, real estate firm. It
reduced this deduction, however, to
$16,364.
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clllatory than any in lon,, time. It
recognizes that there is a condition
in the country which demands the
reconsideration of certain policies,
especially those concerning taxation.
1t offers an olive branch to private
enterprise. 1t pleads for co-opera-
ton.
The President does not abandon
the program which was sketched as a
reason for calling this emergency
session Of Congress. And, from the
viewpoint Of realistic politics, it is
difficult to see how the President could
suggest or imply. that it should be
suspended.
The Roosevelt administration repre-
sents the left wing Of American public
opinion. That is where its strongest
support lies. The more intransigeant
wings of business opinion appear to
expect Mr.. Roosevelt to act as though
he had been elected by the supporters
OF Mr.. Landon. That is silly.
Analogy Continued.
But the Blum -Chatemps govern
ment-to carry the analogy a little
further-is demonstrating how ex-
tremely difficult it is to effect a
transition in policy which will really
accomplish the results which are uni
Versally desired. Because such a
transition by such a government is
unlikely TO be made whole -heartedly.
The French Popular Front govern
ment, Tor instance, is now pretty well
convinced that the 4O-hour week.
which they established universally bv
law. is having a very bad effect on
production and on the total economy.
But 1t Is afraid of the trade unions
and therefore afraid to recommend
itS modification. Similarly. and like
the Roosevelt administration, it wants
10 attract and release capital. but it
feels that it must guard against spec
uIatlon. But to guard against spec
ulation and at the same time to recoe-
nize that there is such a thing as
healthy speculation.
What is needed, both in France and
mere, is seriously to consider whether
on fundamental theses, the Govern
ment may not have been mistaken. A
fundamental thesis of this Govern
| ment-Which was reiterated again this
week, by the Mayor of New York. Mr.
La Guardia-has been that relief from
| unemployment can be achieved by
radically shortening the working day
ana the working week, thereby dis
| tributing' work. and that the higher
the wages of the industrial workers,
the larger is the total purchasing
power of ths country. and the greater
is economic prosperity and stability.
Debatable Method.
That high wages and more leisure
time for workers are socially desir-
able is not debatable. That they are
desirable goal is not debatable. But
that, under all conditions, radical
| raise in wages and radical shortening
OF the work week. will reduce unem-
ployment and bring about general
prosperity is extremely debatable.
The experience of France would
seem to demonstrate that it is prob
ably not so. If what should be a
result, is put in the position of a
cause, then the result may be quite
different from the one which is de-
sired
Small industries and businesses dc
not exist in separate economic world
of their own. They exist alongside of
and often integrated with. large bust
nesses, and to an enormous extent they
Evening star., 1937-11-17
Jerry-Built Reform
Administrations Shift to Right Might Come Upon
Better Solutions

are dependent upon the large busl-
nesses, especially for credit.
If the large corporations are shut
out Of the benefits of reformed taxa
ton system, the small businesses which
are actually irrigated by the large ones
simply will not be. That, at least, is
the belief of some economists who
have been most consistently right.
One of them pointed out long time
ago that the amount of credit ex-
tended to business by business is larger
than that furnished by the whole
commercial banking system.
Reaction In England.
There is Conservative national
government in England because of the
havoc created by the new deal" Of
the first Labor government, which
eventually was repudiated by large
section of labor.
The whole argument Of reform or
recovery is illusory The two are the
same thing essentially. One needs re-
form for recovery and recovery for
reform-if you accept the theory of
the New Deal that reform is possible
without the destruction of the existing
economic system.
The essential to such an integration
is in temper and procedure. The prin-
ciple must be accepted that in all
classes and groups are men Of reason,
good will and understanding, whose
opinions can be freely consulted, whose
motives need not arouse, q priori,
distrust, and whose observations, with
the facts to buttress them, can furnish
material for deliberation, by the repre-
sentatives OF the people. In that con-
nection one might remark that we
seriously need to consider the reor-
ganization Of our Government. The
plan proposed by the administration
does nothing to reform what is one of
the weakest and yet the most impor-
tant parts of the whole Federal struc-
ture-the legislative body. Congress
itself, which desperately needs imple-
mentlng with civil service of advisers
Jerry Built Reform.
Reform that is built in q day is
jerry built, and will collapse in the
first storm. There are innumerable
examples to prove tin England
during the first Labor government; In
Germany under the republic, and in
France right now And a good pre-
fabricated government hasn't yet been
devised anywhere
Temper, too, is important, and espe-
cially at this moment There are men
OF reason and understanding in the
business world and in government.
The symposium on the utility question
which the Atlantic Monthly published
in August and September is proof of it.
There Arthur Morgan Of the T. Y. A.
and Wendell Wilkie of the Common
wealth l. Southern Corp. each set
forth their views on the utility ques-
ton. The amount of agreement far
outweighed the differences.
To find ways whereby this kind of
temper can function more vigorously
and more freely is perhaps the chief
problem of liberal government.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-11-17

lines conversations with Cardinal Mer-
cier. The son has the same religious
fervor, but diverts it to the subtle
scholasticiSm of intricate empire poll
tics.
AS Viceroy Of India, he won the re-
spect of Mahatma Gandhi, that other
famous mystic. In England, it is said
that it was his mandate, more than
that Of any other man, that drove Ed
ward from his throne and barred later
reconciliation with the church. Ger
tam it is that he has been quietly
gathering new strands of power in the
last year or two. 1t would be difficult
to name any single man in England
who has greater influence
He has but one hand, his right. a
deft, lean ARTISTS hand. But he can
ride and shoot, and so his hunting trip
with Won Neurath, the boar hunter,
may not be just make-believe. He is Of
pale, clerical aspect, 6 feet 2 inches
tall, with a long, brooding face. broad
forehead, with thinning black hair
slicked down, and round, inscrutable
poker-chip eyes.
Evening star., 1937-11-17

100000 homes will be within
creased freight
among the classes where the housing shortage
Just another problem
brick (or lu1nber) there rates.
the
buy houses because Of the OF Irving
AS Secretary Morgenthau
political science dinner You
Skipper Kennedy the Maritime
column last August about to apply long
the crew in the same boat when he
One probably O. P NJ of
the Maritime Commission Shipping Board for manv
the capacity.
There riH, howeuer, be
to Mr. Brown Wrote a lot of
the majority the
monumental surrey of the American marine
Mr. Brown reported the is
seaworthy. -
Some member of the to
new ship aoat little longer before
Evening star., 1937-11-17
Epical Law Tourney,

At Chattanooga a woman, once a
musical critic, sits in judgment in
an epochal law tourney which may
decide whether "a new social system
is to be evolved in this country" az
one reporter puts it. She is Judge
Florence E. Allen of Columbus, Ohio,
heading three-judge Federal tri-
bunal as l8 power companies. with
assets Of more than Sl000,000. 900,
advance their constitutional challenge
against the T. V. A.
Judge Allen, born in Salt Lake City,
the daughter of Western Reserve
University professor, was a prodigy
in Greek and Latin at and ready
for college at 13. She attended West
ern Reserve. the University of Chi
Cago and New York University. She
studied piano in Germany. She be-
came musical critic for a Cleveland
newspaper. studied law, became coun-
ty prosecutor and, in 1920. was elect
ed judge of the Court Of Common
Pleas
Evening star., 1937-11-17


In combat have been grounded for The
applies to Of his artillery
The para
those Britain. Their ships
bring materials
from the uod. giving
technical
AS long the Chinese
thing to put end to
ress his treasured supplies
nuany possible Now he beginning heart
ne will give But guerilla
1are system instead Of the strategy
For guerilla campaign he
yield but little The Chinese expects
e to worry the Japanese
the Ehpans should cked Marshal
Badogio
time being cordial relations with
the United States
Vargas dictator type He is personally
Chuchu vegetable vegetable
How long Chuchu will be with American
democratic ideas depends how
ingredients will be than the et-Hu brand
Whhe to the time being is
ms statements that nothing wl
fpeen the United States and Brazil uiNh
When the admirers OF the press
tor 'positire"
Evening star., 1937-11-17

possible and. indeed, distinctly prob
able that the undivided surplus tax
if enacted into law as basis of Ameri-
can tax policy will be a major cause of
the next economic collapse experienced
by the United States"
Blame Falls on President.
Today the individuals responsible
for influencing the Presidents mind
are unknown to the public, and Mr.
Roosevelt himself is properly being
blamed because he refused to take the
advice of experts in his own Treasury
Department who counseled against
The move. If America were a parlia-
mentary government as in Britain
and France, the administration would
be compelled to pay for its mistake in
either lack of confidence vote or dis
approval at the polls But under our
rigid system there is no way by which
public opinion can register its dis
approval through elections except at
stated intervals wheh the damage has
already been done. The only remedy
the American people have between now
and 1910 is the congressional election
of 1888, and that's why members of
Congress, seeing the handwriting on
the wall, may possibly outrun Mr..
Roosevelt in changing the tax laws
and giving encouragement to business
and private capital.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-11-17
EDUCATOR HONORED

The Cornell Club of Washington
held a luncheon meeting yesterday
at the Cosmos Club in honor Of DR.
c. S. Hollister, dean Of the Engineer
ing College of Cornell University. He
is in Washington for the convention
Of the Association Of Land Grant
Colleges and Universities.
DR.. Hollister spoke on the past
present and future of the Cornell
Engineering School, DR.. Robert Scott
Lamb is president of the Cornell Club
and E. S. De Witt is secretary.
Evening star., 1937-11-17
VETERANS SUIT FIGHTS
RULE ON DISABILITY
District Court Action Charges
/ Benefits Curtailed by Stipula-
tion on Time of Proof,

Otto John Stockman, 1882 Biltmore
street NV, a World War veteran.
asked District Court yesterday to
compel the Veterans Administration
to revise rule which he said has
cost disabled ex-service men thousands
of dollars.
The rule objected to was that
benefits under war risk insurance
policies may not cover a period Of
more than six months prior to fur
nishing due proof of the disability"
Through Attorney c. L. Dawson
Mr.. Stockman told the court he was
permanently disabled in April, 1928,
and applied for his insurance benefits
last January Z. Although his record,
with the complete proof OF his in
jury, was in the administration files
from the beginning Of his disability,
he said, veterans of1icials held that
Evening star., 1937-11-17

Johnson Assistant Secretary of Commerce
coud not speak for the department. At this
planned that he had called
the department. -
later ~r
Memories the
Gay OF Congress rather indifferent House
WIN EaWns heard the Presidents ndieny
oeh al one point there was burst of applause
applause accompanied
sound ironical 1t the where
L believe that
regard the
Copyrh 1881, by the North
Evening star., 1937-11-17

certainly proved flop leader Of the
There doubt that the power
looking
hopefully toward Sir John Simon chancellor
He strong with few scruplesn politics
drawback
party 1t is true that he has absorbed
will be difficult for the
standard
The choice
eToryd
Evening star., 1937-11-17
What's Back of It All
Railroad Plea for Freight Increase Faces Opposition
on Ground 1t Would Retard Building.
BY II. r. BAUKHAGE.


NY bricks
to fall on the effort Of the railroads freight
That is the housing
the Interstate Commerce the plea of
Clay Products Institute probably other makers of builders
suppes) According
the administrators ambitious the
freight rates
The
ton charges after they had railroad
They petoned of 1885 made
manent This graneed certain restrictions
Now
This would homes the
people about officially They third
cost of brick tile which railroads
insist that is would extended building
gram for the lower brackets impossible.
Evening star., 1937-11-17

due proof Of the injury was not
made until last January"
Thus. instead of receiving benefits
starting from April, 1928, payments
to him were extened for only six
months prior to his application, the
suit stated.
Evening star., 1937-11-17
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

A FRENCH journalist, who sees
~ many similarities between the
~ Roosevelt and Blum admin
istrations, between the New
Deal and the French Popular Front
government, remarked: Here in
America the Chautemps government
Evening star., 1937-11-17
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Vicount Halifax One of
England's Most
Powerful.
By LEMUEL PARTON

r EXPERIENCED onlookers in Brit
E ish politics tell me that Wis.
| count Halifax, speeding up his
visit with Hitler, is the most
adroit and facile mind in England and
that ne can weave whole tapestries Of
brilliant statecraft while his runners
up merely purl two and drop one. He
Evening star., 1937-11-17

ttAsIo oeS 1SNA
ed the Blum gov
ernment. Only
here Mr.. Roose-
velt appears both
as Blum and as
Chautemps. You
have a shift to
the right, under
the pressure Of
financial neces-
sity, but the Pop
ular Front re-
mains intact"
The analogy is
suggestive. The
Presidents mes
sage is more con-
Evening star., 1937-11-17
Museum Curator to Talk

The collection and preparation for
exhibition of dirosaur remains will
be explained tomorrow night to men,
bers of the Washington Academy of
Sciences by c. w. Gilmore, curator of
the division OF vertebrate paleontology
OF the National Museum. The meet
ing will be held at the museum.
Evening star., 1937-11-17

is an extreme
conservative. Hs
ii k e S Germany
and the Germans
like him.
He is a religious
mystic, the au-
thor Of a life OF
John Keble, poet
and divine. His
father, who died
in 1924 at the age
of 95, was the
leader Of the An
g | &C a t h Ollie
m ov { m e n t in
England, and in
itiated the Ma.
Evening star., 1937-11-17

While Great Britain is farther
away than any other country from
the dictatorial form of government,
there are many in the United King
dom who would like to see a really
strong man at the head of the
government. Even the Britons be-
gin to tire of the NELLY mellow"
politicians who are leading them
now.
Chamberlain may be an ex-
cellent purse keeper. But he has
Evening star., 1937-11-17

of the adminis-
tration are frank
ly e Xpr essing a
d O u b t full and
skeptical attitude.
In other words,
business ope S
the Pr e sid e n t
means what he
sa Us, but for the
most part there
is doubt that Mr..
n o o s e NelC mas
changed his atti-
tude toward the
business world.
This is perhaps
the most nnf0r-
Evening star., 1937-11-17
SENATORS SEEK VOTE
BY PEOPLE ON WAR

OoPpC4 dAAN 40 l. O1ACClC ASCSO1u.
tions Ask Constitutional Amend
ment-Dictator Question Raised.
Senators Capper, Republican, Of
Kansas and La Toilette, Progressive,
of Wisconsin both introduced yester-
day proposals for constitutional
amendment to give the people CT the
United States the right to pass on
wars abroad before they are declared
by Congress
The La Toilette resolution is dou-
BILE barreled, as it not only gives the
people the right to declare foreign
wars but also passes on military die
tatorship in this country during any
war
Senator Capper emphasized that q
war abroad means billions in new
national debt and more loans to for
eign nations which will never be
paid.
Evening star., 1937-11-17

majority of his fellow commission
ers believe that amendments should
be passed pronto. Senator Cope
land is said to be ready to sponsor
them as soon as he has received
and approved the drafts which the
commission is working on at pres
ent.
Back in March, 1896, when
Mr.. Brown was called as a witness
Evening star., 1937-11-17

The Structural Clay Prod
ucts Institute" its representative
intends to tell the administration,
has estimated the housing Short
age in the United States to be
100000 dwelling units, a figure
that resulted from comparative
surveys covering various social as
poets of the country from before
the depression. More recently the
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
New York has announced that
Evening star., 1937-11-17

IHE opinions OF the DerS this page their oDn
o Tecessary s The Stars Such opinions presented IN
me Stars eDor to gDe all sides OF questions of interest to its
TeaderS although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1937-11-17

Modern warfare demands not
only airplanes and heavy guns and
tanks, but also an ample supply of
spare parts for these and an in
exhaustible amount of ammuni-
tion. These the Chinese have not.
Chang Kai-shek had at the
outbreak of the hostilities fair
amount of small arms and am
munitions and some 100 planes.
of the latter he has practically none
left. They were either destroyed
Evening star., 1937-11-17
This Changing World
Indications Seen Pointing to Chinese Switch to
Guerilla Warfare
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Chinese full retreat This
markabe displayed
strategy Of the Chinese
Army Officers it impossible for Chang
resist successfully the Japanese onslaught.
s oppose
tanks and aipanes with machine guns rifles
Evening star., 1937-11-17
Business Men
Slow to Gain
Confidence
Hope Roosevelt Means
What He Says, but
Await Results.
Bv DAVID LAWRENCE.

w yORD reaching here from the
n financial and business COM
" " munities of the Nation is
that President Roosevelt's
speech has failed in itself to bring
confidence and that many business
men enraged at the treatment they
have hitherto received at the hands
Evening star., 1937-11-17
Community Chest Report
Continued from Page A-9D

Roosevelt High School, Miss M. p. Brad
SHAW ---------------
Science 1918, p. ]. Rayford-
Taft Junior High, Mrs. M. r. Merritt
M. M. Washington Vocational, Miss L. c.
Randolph
Western High School, DR.. E. s. Newton
woodrow Wilson High, N. J. Nelson-----
Board Of Public Welfare e
Elwood Street.
Board Of Public Welfare, Paul l.. Kirby,
K. v. Timmons
District Training School, DR.. James
LNWdlu =
Receiving Home for Children, Grady H.
Leonard ~--. --------.-...- =
Public Assistance Division. Miss M. Alica
: Hill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
CHASE PARK

Dolls of all shapes, sizes and ma terial were very much in evidence at the Chase playground this after noon for the start of the annual doll show. Names of prize winners will be announced tomorrow.
 Planned for later this afternoon at the playground was rehearsal of the Chase contribution to the Story Book Festival" which will be held by all local recreation centers at Hamilton park on August q. Chase will do "The Old Woman in the Shoe"
 Characters selected to date are: The Old Woman, Ruth Good enough; the Fairy Prince, Rosalind Biron; Jack and Jill, Maureen and Donofrio; the painted doll, Joan Tommy Quirk; butcher boy, Gloria Velte; children in the shoe, Mary Foley; Claire Mullen. Maureen Mo- Kenna, Lillian Guilfoile, Tom Mul- hall, William 'Mulhall and Donald Newcomb. ,,.,.,,
 Those in the singing group are Jane Stollar, Shirley Cole, Patricia Benoit, Airline Benson, Margaret Kilborn, Jacky McGrath, Donnie McGrath, Buddy Villano, Mike Carosella, Bobby Brophy, Mona kourshakoff, Henry Poporozzo Christine Hinkley, Alice Hinkley Lorraine Forgette, Mary McGrath, Guerino Vincenzi, Bernadette Bert ram, Gloria Colella and Rose Car osella.
 Tonight the girls volleyball team will meet the Division street girls Those on the Chase park team are Eleanor Kirchberger, Rita stollar Irene Jones, Doris Foster, Josie Taylor, Dorothy Kirshberger, Ber- nice Foster, Margaret sturgis and Jean Nutbrown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
Playground ActiDities.

lowing prizes were awarded.
 Marion Swentor, who brought along seven kittens from the same litter was awarded a prize for the "cutest" entry. These feline yowlers were named after the Dionne quins and the Duke and Duchess of Wind sor. Ronald Nardozzi startled all and sundry when he appeared on the scene with a goat. He walked of with the largest entry prize. A hoptoad won the smallest entry prize for Eleanor Hoey.
 A dog and four kittens won the most unique entry" prize for Irona Nichols. For the prettiest the judges couldn't decide on one so they split the prize between Thomas Mecca, who had cocker spaniel, and Thomas Delaney who brought along 8 thoroughly frightened rabbit.
 Others entered in the show were: Ruth Weaver, Edith Laudati, Bar bara Jones, Noreen Straw, John Scully, Shirley Kay, Betty Cook, Jack Johnson, Austin Weaver, Sally Begley, Eleanor Welch, Joseph Cip- riano, James Welch, Aileen Cohen, Fred Mrazik, Robbie Swentor, IT, win Slatnick, Bobby Kelly, James Hoey, Theresa Riccuito, Theresa Honyotski and Jack Honyotski.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
Happy TaX.EXemptS

Suggestions have popped up from time to time for taxation of union dues and funds. Seldom If ever have such proposals come from any, one conspicuous for friendship to organize labor, but they have arous- ed some curiosity as to just what groups and organizations are im- mune from federal taxation, and here's the list:
 Labor, agricultural, horticul- tural organizations. Mutual sav- ings banks not having capital stock represented by shares. Fra ternal beneficiary societies, orders or associations, operated under a lodge system or for the exclusive benefit of members of the fra ternity itself operated under the lodge system, and those providing life, sickness, accident or other benefits to the members of such organizations or their dependents. Domestic building and loan asso- citations, the business of which substantially is making loans to members.
 Cooperative banks without capital stock, operated without profit. Cemetery companies owned by members and non-profit mak. ing. Corporations and community funds for religious, scientific charitable, literary or educational