Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-07-22
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BY lemueI F. Parton
LO0phOles for Statesmen.

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Loopholes for Statesmen.
NEW YORK. - Statesmen fire.
~ quently may be found on this
or that side Of the lOophOle. In
June, 1888, Guy T. Helvering, now
unrolling the governments roster
Of alleged tax-dOdgers, was the sub
ject of a bitter senatorial debate.
Certain senators fought his confir-
nation as commissioner Of internal
revenue.
They charged that, as an income
tax lawyer, he had procured re-
duction in the tax bill of the Slim
Jim Oil & Gas company from ST.
211, 900 to $451 1000. However, he was
confirmed, and, discharging his Off
cial duties, puts the finger on the
wealthy evaders" for the congress
sional investigation committee.
Prof. Roswell Foster Magill, au-
thor of the tax-av0idance report,
wrote books giving pointers on le-
gal loopholes, before he went to
Washington. No moral turpitude has
been charged. 1t just means that
Dizzy Dean may be pitching for
Washington next year instead Of st.
Louis.
Commissioner Helvering is
shrewd, portly, ruddy, white-haired
Kansas politician who wears good
clothes, carries a shiny malacca
cane, smokes good cigars, knows
his way around and says little. He
was in congress from 1913 to 1919,
a tax income lawyer thereafter, ac-
cording to the somewhat heated and
vehement charges Of Senators Has
tings, Couzens and others.
He has been a close friend Of
Postmaster General Farley for
many years and it was understood
that he was the Presidents per-
sonal choice for the internal reve-
nue. post.
He has been active in Kansas pol
itics for many years, a former SUI
perintendent of public construction
under Governor Woodring, and cam
paign manager and chairman of
the Democratic state committee.
He was born in Felicity, Ohio, in
1878. His family removed to Kansas
when he was eight years old. He
studied law at the University of
Michigan, and was county attorney
of Marshall county, Kan, before he
went to congress. He is one of the
hardest men in Washington to see
and correspondents have mainly let
it 60 at that.
Middle f-the-Roader.
DR. JAMES ROWLAND AN
~ CELL, retiring president of
Yale, is an aggressive middle-of-
the-roader, which seems not such
bad idea, considering the plight of
extremists, right and left. He will
receive a salary of 1000 year
as educational counsellor Of the Ma
tional Broadcasting company.
L. R. Lohr, president of the NBC,
says it will be full time work, add
ing that "broadcasting has man.
date to operate in the public in
terest, convenience and necessity"
All this will presumably be in DR..
Angels department.
1t would be difficult to think of Dr.
Angel as a mere emeritus. He
said he was retiring at sixty-eight
because of obvious and offensive
senility," at the same time demon
strating the contrary by some lusty
swings at the New Deal. He will
~ fNr I1
fore taking on the radio engage
ment. When he retired as dean of
the University of Chicago in 1921,
the Carnegie foundation snapped
him up at fat salary, but, before
he got his chair warm, Yale was
after him. He is always in de-
mand.
Baccalaureate orators used to see
"the orb of Rome sinking in a sea
of blood" and warn us that we were
getting that way, too. Now we are
heading "dOwn the same abyss
which has engulfed Europe" which
was DR.. Angeles phrase in his fare
we'll address at Yale. That is, I'M
less we do something to check the
slide.
He has struck out vigorously
against the Supreme court reorgani-
cation, sit-down strikes and insidi-
Gus collectivism as he sees it ex-
emplifed, in the present admins
tration. He is a conservative, and
"middle-of-the-roader" is an apt
term only in denoting his adherence
to traditional cultural and govern
mental patterns. He was a profess
sor of psychology for 26 years be-
fore becoming president of Yale, his
father having been president of the
University of Michigan for 38 years
until 1909.
His notable achievements at Yale
have been administrative. He ef-
fected sweeping reorganizations and
during his incumbency endowments
rose from $50, 000, 900 to $100, 900 900.
The value of university properties
scoring a parallel rise. He was the
first president of Yale who was not
a Yale graduate.
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