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The Washington times., 1937-02-09
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson
ARE WOMEN UNFAIRLY SACRIFICED FOR MEN?

'Sweet Home a going business.
Yet in spite Of the fact that they
work overtime to get themselves
married, and usually enjoy far
more independence with their
husbands than they could posi-
bly, have had with any boss,
there's still an almost unanimous
agreement amongst women that
Wives Are Done Dirt.
At this point, the ladies will
brush all logical argument aside
and answer as follows: "It's all
matter of SensitivenesS. Women
are so much more sensitive than
men. A young, innocent girl has
so many lovely illusions when
she marries. But men are such
coarse creatures. It's simply Grim
inal the way brutal man will
destroy a gentle, refined wom-
ans dreams"
And that reasoning, sisters, I re.
gard as pure and unadulterated
Tripe. There is not the slightest
shred of proof that Women are a
particle more sensitive than men.
Indeed, all vital satisfies concern.
ing lynchingS, guillotinings and
scalping parties would seem to
prove the contrary. Nor is young
girl more given to dreams than a
young boy-if as much!
MANY VIRTUES
The simple fact is that there are
as many gentle, idealiStic young
husbands as there are gentle, ideal
istic young wives. And exactly as
many callous, unscrupulous women
as callous, unscrupulouS men.
This whole fantasy of Feminine
Sacrifice is both untrue and unfair.
There is no evidence to support II,
and we women use it merely to en-
nance our dramatic Importance
and gain our ends. But like all
phoney devices, it boomerangs and
and ends by cheapening us, rather
than increasing our value.
1t isn't worthy of us, sisters. We
have real virtues which are in
finitely more convincing than this
Victim Pose. We have actual cour-
age, tenderness, intelligence and
loyalty. Given the chance, men
would respect us on our own merits
and cherish us as companions, in.
stead of regarding us as they all
too often do-aS malicious poSeurS
and possible doublecrossers.
(ThiS column Uelcomes com.
nentS. Letters presenting per.
SonaI problems may also be
sent. All letters tUiH be handled
cOntidentidlly and dnSWered
promptly, if stamped, addressed
enDelopeS are tncLuded.)
Copyright. 1887. By King Features
| Syndicate. Ine.l
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sible for the un-
happy situation
namely, our
e n t ir ely un-
necessary and
d o W n r i g h t
nasty feminine
notion that we
W o m e n are
sacrificed to
and by men.
I'll a d m i t
t n e re n a v e
been periods in
history W h e n
t h e bre a k S
weren't so good
e. Ia HAln
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Expenses and Receipts

TTIHE District subcommittee of the House Appropria
tions Committee starts hearings the local supply
bill for the coming fiscal year with the city's financial
condition in a seriously muddIed state.
It seems almost useless to hope that this condition will
be clarified before the committee completes and reports
the bill but it should be determined now by all con-
cerned that before the time for preparation of
another bill the existing uncertainties Will have been
resolved
The principal uncertainty of the moment confront
ing the subcommittee and likewise city officials is
the amount of money which will be available to the Dis
rict next year meet the expenses to be incurred as
result of the bill which the subcommittee starting to
prepare.
Without knowledge of the amount of revenue to be
expected the wisdom of Solomon would be taxed to
determine what amount shall be spent or how it can most
wisely be divided among the multitude of agencies of
the local government.
District officials can and will furnish the subcommit
tee with reliable estimates of the amount of money they
will collect from local result of taxation dur
ing the coming fiscal year.
But unlike any other city in the country, that cannot
be used as the base for determining what the city
ntelligenty spend.
That knowledge can be reached only after Congress
itself has decided what amount the Federal Government
will appropriate its share of the local expenses by
virtue of the fact that this is the National Capital.
Even under the best Of conditions this figure is rarely
available until the last minute of consideration of the
District appropriation bill.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE EXPENDITURE ITEMS
ARE USUALLY DETERMINED FAR IN ADVANCE
OF ANY DETERMINATION OF THE MATTER OF
REVENUE
This year, however, further complication is involved
in preparation of the District appropriation bthat is
the so-called Jacobs reror on fiscal relations.
This report throws many complexities into the re-
lationship between the Federal and District govern
ments that it would be impossible for the Congress to
straghten them all at this session if it let the
entire calendar of national legislation stand over.
Representative Ross Collins and his subcommittee can
scarcely hope to utilize the Jacobs report to any real
extent in considering the appropriation bill when is
noted that the House Legislative Committee the Dis
rct has had to appoint several subcommittee to study
particular phases of the report and when the Senate
District Committee is proposing to investigate the
Jacobs investigation.
UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES REPRESEN-
TATIVE COLLINS AND HIS GROUP MIGHT GIVE
CONSIDERATION TO THE SUGGESTION THAT
FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE BILL WHICH THEY
ARE NOW FORMULATING THE JACOBS REPORT
BE SET ASIDE AND THE AMOUNT OF THE FED
ERAL GOVERNMENTS SHARE BE SETTLED
WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY OF THE CONTRO-
VERIFIED RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE
JACOBS COMMITTEE.
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the judicial Sys-
tenn so quiet
that not even
his secretaries
knew about it.
Earl is right
as usu al, it
seems, because
there is on e
physical ar i.
stick that can
be used to mea-
sure just how
many peopl e
had any idea
t h a t the Su-
preme Court t
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

>tace IN puddle. The Geographic
Board will find the name Windy
Gap" as the entrepot to Death
Valley on that topographic map
over there by the water cooler.
Later old Dan and his partner
went back there and put sign
up:
"If you go in here wear a
brass tag with your name and
address on it so your folks won't
be paying express charges on
the wrong bOnes."
The salt never loses its SAVIOUR
if the buSybodies leave it alone
Later in the Victorian era in Eng
land some ultra-nice people were
/ worried about the luSty and ribald
tavern signs of old England and
started a national movement to
rename them, along with many
of the villages.
One of these tavernS, near Mac,
cleSfield, was called The Quiet
Woman" Its painted sign had the
figure of buxom woman-but she
had no head. This, the reformers
attacked as an insult to woman
hood. There was a low, menacing
groWl from the ancient pot houses
The Quiet Woman" still swings
and creaks in the breeze, as she
has done for the last $50 years
and Upper footing" is still up
per footing"
Rowdy, raffish, Swashbuckling
old San Francisco had among its
many restaurants the Fly Trap,
the Bug and Louise" the Bucket
of Blood" and the Poodle Dog"
The Forty-niners had met mud,
blood and tears and weren't afraid
of them. Their names were a
gesture of defiance. California,
too, had spasms of reform in names
OF streets and places, but nothing
came of it.
RETAIN NAMES
From the Spanish occupation
the names of its villages and towns
read "like a litany of the saints. y
Twenty years later, with the in
fluX of Middle WeSternerS, there
was an effort to change them tC
names like "Kelsey's Junction" OF
"JohnSonville." This, too, failed
The old restaurants carried Their
names to the end. The Poodle
Dog" and the Fly Trap" are, be
lleVe, still going.
This writer believes that when
men have gouged something oui
of the wilderness, and perhaps let
their bones there, the name tney
gave it should be respected, even il
it sounds like a chunk of Stag. He
believes, kfurthermore, that with
the encroachment of governments
on the individual all over the world
every man should be elert to defend
his own.
Note that one of the first thing
Mussolini did when he got power
was to assign permissible names
for babies and forbid all others
At last accounts, I heard that my
old swimming hole in Indiana wa.
still called Duck on Rock" Anc
I'm telling you now, dear Govern
ment, I shouldn't like to have yoI
change it.
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

"At long last" someone has come
to the rescue of marriage Miss
Jane Todd, member of the New
York Assembly, has for the second
time introduced a bill providing
that all marital aspirantS be given
The Washington times., 1937-02-09
Greatest Show of Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

on each side designed and con.
structed with an eye to perfect
balance.
Maybe they will have to move
the courtroom to the library on
the floor above. With its hand.
carved oak pillars and pediments,
some people think it's a more
beautiful room than the cubicle
where the sessions are now held.
The Washington times., 1937-02-09
MORE PROBLEMS

Earl Goodwin, The Washington
Times White House correspondent,
says that President Roosevelt kept
his message on reorganization of
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

One still hears constant COM
plant from women that they're
getting a raw deal, being held back.
If so, I think I know the thing
which is, above all others, respon-
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

Personally, I don't think it's true
that a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet. Here in
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

Marriage is so EASY that it's a
shame to take the certificate.
ANYBODY can get married, ANY
time-and almost ANYWHERE
Even In Jail
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.O
Evening star., 1937-06-22

Continued From First Page.)
Democrats, attracted unusual atten-
ton in the Capitol because it was
the first time he had disagreed pub
licly with a Roosevelt measure. Nor
mally he is in charge Of guiding
administration legislation through the
Senate.
Borah and Glass Favor Plan.
Senator's Borah, Republican, of Ida
no and Glass, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia urged approval OF Robinson's
proposal
Il don't think economy of ad-
ministration has been a character
lstlc OF our relief program" said Bo-
rah. calling increased Government
spending a creeping paralysis which
has reached near the Nations heart"
Glass, former Secretary of the
Treasury, asserted
Congress is precipitating the coun-
try into actual bankruptcy by its
extravaganza"
Glass pointed out the public debt
was $4,000, 900 900. Demanding econ
omy in Federal funds, he warned his
colleagues that disaster lay ahead.
More economic crimes and blum
ders have been perpetrated by Con-
gress In the name OF starving people
than the imagination can conjure
up" he exclaimed.
Glass Says "Never Again"
He announced that he never again"
would vote for any lump-sum ap-
preparation Ito be turned over to
minor, irresponsible officials"
He referred to past relief appro-
priations, which have been voted to
the administration largely without re-
strictions.
Neither the Federal Government
nor local governments appreciated the
burden that present taxes imposes,
Glass continued
They are taxing their brains to
think up new forms of levies," he
exclaimed
The idea OF my home town, with
its bonds above par, borrowing money
from the Federal Government to build
sewers" he continued sarcastically.
Federal money-where does the Fed
eral Government get money except
from the pockets Of the taxpayers?"
Evening star., 1937-06-22
Evasion
Continued From First Pape.)

figure was for additional taxes claimed
due besides those actually paid in
various years between 1882 and 1896.
Leming said that the cost OF the
policies amounted to little or nothing
in actual cash outlay because prem
iums were met in large part by loans
obtained
Leming testified all those named
have made offers of settlement.
Leming detailed methods for creating
foreign insurance companies, buying
big single-premium policies from them,
and then borrowing on the policies.
This borrowing by a policy holder,
he said, made it possible for a tax
payer to make a deduction in his tax
return for interest paid on loans.
Leming said Dwight for one year
took out s2,793,720 insurance policy
with the life insurance company. bor-
rowed slightly larger sum from the
company, and deducted sl4l ,628 from
his income for interest payments.
This, the witness continued. brousht
a reduction by reason Of interest in
taxes which actually amounted to
$53.448.48
Company Organization Detailed.
Before going into details of the
Dwight case, Leming said that in 1881
a Walter c. Baber, of New York City.
whom he described as a citizen of
Great Britain, was instrumental in
organizing the Standard Life Insurance
Co.
The company was incorporated, he
said, with 5000 shares of $40 par
Evening star., 1937-06-22

meanwhile by the Treasury De.
partment showed revenue from that
source totaling 1881, ,7l7,e02, or 80
per cent more than last year for the
comparable period. The collections
were up to June 10, with only IL more
days to the fiscal year. All taxes for
the same period were up IS per cent.
The greatest increase on a percent-
age basis came during the first 10
days OF June, when collections Of
$504,l55,45l reflected a gain OF SO
per cent over the same period last
year.
AS the committee received addi.
tional names Of those avoiding income
taxes, either legally or otherwise, tho
question Of issuing subpoenas to re.
quire appearance of some of the per.
sons was to be considered by the com.
mittee today
An open Invitation" to those named
was issued by the committee when it
began hearings last week, but no re-
sponses have been received. At that
time Senator Harrison spoke of is.
suing subpoenas in at least one case.
but no definite action was taken.
Firm Is Dissolved.
The law firm Of Hughes, Schurmau
& Dwight, mentioned by Mason
Leming, Treasury attorney in WASH
ington today in discussing the crea-
ton Of foreign insurance companies
as method Of reducing income tax
payments, was dissolved June 10.
oscar R. Ewing, an attorney, ex-
planned two new firms were organized
following the dissolution. He said
one of them, of which he and Charles
Evans Hughes, jr., are members, is
known as Hughes, Richards, Hubbard
&s Ewing.
The other Ewing said, is known az
Dwight, Harris, Koegel g. Caskey.
Evening star., 1937-06-22

value each, Of which 10 shares were
subscribed for but not paid. Baber,
he said, took five shares.
Late in 1882, Leming asserted, the
organization meeting was held and
elected Artemus Pritchard president,
William c. knowles, vice president
and Reginald Pritchard, secretary
treasurer
In addition to Baber, one share Of
stock each was transferred to the
present stockholders, he said, describ-
ing them as Artemus and Reginald
Pritchard, Knowles, c. Trevor Kelly
and Frederick Pinder.
In late 1882, Leming said, William
Baylis, who was Babers partner in
the Baber, Baylis Co. of New York,
approached Richard E. Dwight.
Witness Held to Topic.
At that point Leming diverted his
testimony to other topics without
saying what topic Baylis and Dwight
may have had under discussion.
Leming said that he understood"
the firm OF Hughes, Schurman &
Dwight had been dissolved, II think
last week"
The Treasury officials put into the
record two announcements of the for
nation Of new law concerns, one
headed by Hughes, the other by
Dwight. The announcements, dated
June 10. mentioned the dissolution of
the firm Of Hughes, Schurman e.
Dwight.
Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mis-
sissippi interrupted to instruct the
witness: Tell us what happened"
"Mr. Dwight Leming resumed,
"had an income in 1882 which could
be wiped out by a deduction of
$4,000. He undertook, with the
Standard Life Insurance Co., Ltd, of
the Bahamas, to enter into a con-
tract"
Representative Treadway, Repuh-
llcan, of Massachusetts asked whether
Dwight had attempted to cover the
contract up"
Leming replied he would come to
that presently"
Members of the committee wran-
gled heatedly today over methods
used by the Treasury in selecting for
public disclosure names of persons
accused of tax lodging.
The argument broke out as today's
hearing opened, with Attorney Leming
prepared to discuss the tax avoidance
device OF foreign insurance COM
panies.
Representative Treadway asked un-
dersecretary Magill how names were
being selected to illustrate types OF
Evening star., 1937-06-22

evasion and avoidance and then as
serted he did not believe the Treasury
had discovered revenue loopholes only
last March.
Magill replied, Most Of these mat
ters are not particularly new"
Turning to Treadway, who set next
to him, Representative Cooper, Demo-
crat, OF Tennessee snapped: There
Is no confusion In anybody's mind
but yours"
All Get Names in Paper.
Chairman Doughton began banging
his gavel loudly.
Rap all you want to-" Treadway
roared, Il don't care whether YOU
like it or not"
You're just trying to get your
name in the paper" interjected Rep
resentative Vinson, Democrat, of Ken
lucky.
That's more than you do" Tread
way shot back. You can tear up
the papers II you want TO-"
Another time Treadway stormed: !:
I'm not sitting here like a bump
on a log"
Magill said the Treasury had no
list of names it wanted to give the
committee and that it wanted to use
names 1t does give merely to illus
trate cases OF tax avoidance.
I'VE are concentrating on devices
and loopholes," he said. I'VE hope
the loopholes will be corrected by leg
1slation this session so we won't have
. leakage of revenues"
AS background for his remarks,
Leming read section of the tax law
which he said allows deductions from
gross income of all interest paid
on debts In q taxable year.
He added that in allowing interest
deductions Congress had no intent OF
creating tax avoidance device.
Recently" he said, "a citizen OF
some prominence was quoted as say
ing that Congress In effect didn't
know how to pass q law which would
get the revenue. That gets us right
into the heart of this whole thing"
Leming said Baylis lived in Phila-
delphia. He said Dwight was an out
standing attorney.
The witness read a letter of appli-
cation for policy to the Standard
Life Insurance Co., Ltd, which Ros-
we'll Magill, Treasury undersecretary,
said was written by Dwight.
The application asked issuance Of a
| policy for single premium OF $2,-
793,720. The application, which Lem
ing said was dated December 20, 1882,
stipulated that the company would
make loan to Dwight OF $2,832 $40
| The latter sum, the letter set out,
Evening star., 1937-06-22

would be the loan value at the end
Of the first policy year. provided S
per cent interest on the anticipated
loan was paid in advance.
Leming submitted figures which.
he said, were designed to show that
Dwight had . total income OF $780,
1858 for the years 1932-1935, inclu-
sive, but reported only $17,5l8.09 for
taxation.
"So-called interest deductions" dur
ing the period, Leming said, amounted
to $578,07l during the period. Leming
said, however that these deductions
were disallowed by the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau.
Describing details Of what he said
was the transaction in which Dwight
engaged, Leming declared that on De-
cember ~, 1882, Dwight wrote to the
Royal Bank of Canada, at Nassau,
and said he wanted to pay the Bahia
mas company single premium OF
$2,793, ,720 on a $4,000 900 insurance
policy.
He gave notice, Leming continued,
that he wanted q loan of $2832, $40.
and would pay the company one years
interest at S per cent or $141, 1928.
Thereupon he would receive from the
company a discounted dividend loan of
$94,848.
Dwight, Leming said, asserted he had
caused Baber to become his agent IN
connection with some of the borrowing.
Senator La Toilette, Progressive, Of
Wisconsin said he would like to see
AL the file" on Dwight's tax returns.
Helvering agreed to supply it.
The Senator said that an internal
revenue agent, as far back as 1892,
must have reported why Dwight's de-
duction for interest was dsallowed.
Yet no investigation was made, he
said, until last January.
Income tax collections announced
Evening star., 1937-06-22
FRANCO DEMANDS
SANTANDER YIELD
Insurgent Planes Scatter
ProCIamations Over
Basque City.
BY the Associated Press.


HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish from
tier, June 22-Insurgent air squad
rons scattered thousands Of proclama-
tions over Santander today demanding
its surrender.
Airplanes also shoWered the coun-
tryside with pamphlets reporting the
capture of Bilbao, advising govern
ment troops that further resistance
was futile and calling upon them to
lay down their arms.
Will "Clean Up" Coast.
A conmunique from Salamanca,
capital OF the insurgent Spanish re-
gime, said Generalissimo Francisco
Frances columns were spreading
northWestWard from Bilbao and quick
ly occupying the territory between the
captured Basque capital and San
tander, about IS miles to the west.
1nsurgent officers said their next
objective would be to clean up" the
whole coast on the Bay of Biscay.
The drive toward Santander brought
the capture of Oquendo, some miles
southwest Of Bilbao, and other villages
an insurgent communique said
"Disorganization Of the enemy's
camp becomes greater and greater"
the statement said
Basques Entrenched.
The government, on the other hand,
declared the retreating Basques had
entrenched on the left bank of the
Gadagua River and were holding
mining and industrial zones close to
Bilbao
Refugees streamed westward
toward Santander, last important city
still held by the semi autonomous
Basque administration, which gov-
erned three Of Spain's provinces.
The Basque government charged
that the insurgents had bombed and
machine-gunned many of the refugees
as they fled and asked Great Britain
and France to help remove them to
safer places In government-held por-
tions OF Spain.
Evening star., 1937-06-22

engineer for the Civil Works Aminis-
tration and has been for some time
assistant administrator OF the Works
Progress Administration. He had been
notified earlier this month that his
services would be terminated on the
coming July /, it was reported today.
Upon his departure for the Euro
pean mission last year, Bakers duties
as assistant administrator were di-
vided among four others holding that
rank; namely, Corrington Gill, Mrs.
Ellen Woodward, David Niles and Col.
Harrington.
Evening star., 1937-06-22
Relief

CONTINUED From First Page,)
Evening star., 1937-06-22
FIRE AT GALLINGER

Fire, said to have been started by
wax which was being heated on 4
gas stove, caused slight damage In
the kitchen Of tuberculosis ward No.
5 at Gallinger Hospital today.
Several fire companies answered
the alarm and extinguished the blaze
within a few minutes while patients
from nearby wards watched.
An estimate of the damage was not
Immediately available.
Evening star., 1937-06-22
REBEL PLANES OVER MADRID.

Preparations Believed Made for New
Attacks.
MADRID, June % (P).-Eighteen
insurgent planes, the second group
within a week, secuted Madrid today
in preparation for apparent new as
sault on the permanent capital Of
Spanish government.
The squadron was preceded by six
pursuit ships, which few over the city
before noon. They disappeared with
out dropping bombs.
Evening star., 1937-06-22

Perhaps Al Smith didn't like the food it
that something else ispeasng but the
hm hont ms usual personable smile He Uas attending the
tersonan Democrat uhich that for government
lasting as long the people uan to last With him
dOre Rousseau, president of the club II. Photo,
Evening star., 1937-06-22
OPEN c. |. 0. DRIVE
FOR RUS. WORKERS
New Government Union Is
Authorized in Lewis
Statement,
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
That leaders in the militant C..
!. O. n1opement Were preparing to
extend activities to include Federal
Dorkers has been rumored in the
Capital for some time. Independ-
ent groups Uere first to approach
the John L. Le,Uis organization,
and the o1tliation plan then def
nitely took shape when a large
group OF liberals" split With the
american Federation of Govern
n,ent Employees, and cast their lot
Nth the other organization.