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Evening star., 1939-12-11

charge against domestic or foreign
corporation for the opportunity to
transact its intrastate business.
The exploitation by foreign cor
porations of intrastate opportunity
under the protection and encourage
ment of local government offers a
basis for taxation as unrestricted as
that for domestic corporations. In
laying a local privilege tax, the
State sovereignty may place charge
upon that privilege for the protec-
ton afforded. Then that charge as
here is based upon the proportion
of capital employed in Texas, cal
culated by the percentage of sales
which are within the State, no pro-
vision Of the Federal Constitution is
violated"
This case came up from the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals to which
Ford had appealed, losing in the
lower court.
In other action today, the court:
Agreed to pass on a decision up
holding New York estate tax levy
of 1882 900 against the estate of Mrs.
Alice G. Vanderbilt, widow of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt. The State sought
to tax a $5,935,57 trust left Mrs.
Vanderbilt by her husband for the
benefit of her children. She died
in 1894.
Consented to review a decision
that licensing agreements between
the Ethyl Gasoline Corp. and re-
f1ners violated the Sherman Anti
trust Act. This is one of the anti
trust cases brought by the Justice
Department. 1t won in the South
ern New York Federal District
Court.
Postponed action on a Govern
ment petition for reconsideration by
nine-man court of the tribunals S
recent four-to-four affirmance of
the action by Federal District Judge
Patrick T. Stone in dismissing in
dictments against II defendants in
the Madison, Wis, oil antitrust
case six months after they were
found guilty by jury.
Evening star., 1939-12-11
City News in Brief

Dinner. Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co., Hamilton Hotel, 6:15
pm.
Meeting, A. F. G. E., Internal
Revenue 20. At, Hamilton Hotel,
pm.
Meeting, Woodbridge Stamp Club
Taft Junior High School, pm.
Meeting, Alpha Chapter, Ks pa
Gamma Sorority, Raleigh HOTEL
tbs pm.
Meeting, Beta Chi Sorority, Ward
man Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Washington Chapter, Red
Cross, Wardman Park Hotel, 8 pm
Meeting, D. c. Bar Association,
Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Tau Beta Phi Sorority
Mayhower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Washington Hairdress-
ers, Mayf1oWer Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Zeta Beta Chi Sorority
Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Sergeant Jasper Unit, No
13, American Legion Auxiliary, Ra-
leigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Woodmen of the World
Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Women of the Moose
Mooseheart and Alumni Committees
Moose Hall, 8 pm.
Meeting, Railroad Retirement
Board, Annapolis Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Democratic Women's Ma
tional Council, Willard Hotel, 8 pm
Meeting, Converts League, Catho-
lie Daughters of America, Willard
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, District Grocery Stores
Hamilton Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1939-12-11

Meeting, Washington Chapter,
American Red Cross, Wardman
Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Junior Chamber of Com
merce, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Buffet meeting, Society of Resi-
Dental Appraisers, Raleigh Hotel,
8 pm.
Meeting, Women's Union, Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing, No. los,
N. F. F. E., Willard Hotel, pm.
Lecture, Catholic Thought Asso-
citation, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Peary Ship, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Associates Club, Lafay-
cite Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner, Washington Sales Repre-
sentatives Association, LAFAYETTE
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Sons of the Revolution.
Willard Hotel, 8:15 pm.
Evening star., 1939-12-11
State Officials Oppose
Federal Regulation
OF Oil Industry
Texuns Attack Cole Bill
As Unnecessary at
New Orleans Heurino
- the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1.-two
Texas officials expressed opposition
to Federal control of the Nations
oil industry in statements prepared
for hearing by a congressional SUBJ
committee today on bill proposing
such regulation.
The hearing is peing conducted
by subcommittee of the House
Interstate Commerce Committee
headed by Representative William
P. Cole, jr., Democrat, Of Maryland
The bill, approved by President
Roosevelt, has been attacked by
officials Of most of the large oil
producing States
Representatives of the Governors
OF all the producing Southern
and Southwestern States and of
Illinois, California and Nebraska
which have no State laws governing
production allowables. were expected
to testify at the hearing.
'Picture Of Efficiency"
The Texans presenting objections
to the proposed measure today were
E. o. Thompson, chairman of the
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
and member OF the Texas Railroad
Commission, which regulates the
petroleum industry in that State
and Jerry Sadler, railroad commits
sioner.
Thompson told the subcommittee
the Nation could present you a
picture of efficiency that shows no
need for any interference on the
paro OF the Federal Government"
The Cole bill, recommended by
President Roosevelt as a conserva-
tive measure, would create new di-
vision in the Interior Department to
set up standards by which avoid
able waste" in oil and gas produc-
ton would be judged Punitive
powers would be given the Federal
Government.
Would Set Up Formula.
Mr.. Cole, who arrived yesterday
with Representatives Mapes, Re-
publican, of Michigan and Kelly,
Democrat. of Illinois after a two
day hearing in Illinais, said the
measure did not strictly mean Fed
eral regulation. The Government
would "set up a formulas" he said,
with regulation of the industry left
to the States and the Federal Gov
ernment acting in "co-operative'
capacity.
Both Mr.. Sadler and Mr.. Thomp-
son contended that it was the right
of the individual States to regulate
oil production, and that they had
been successful in doing so.
Mr.. Thompson, remarking on
support of the measure by the Army
and Navy Departments, said. 1T is
not proper for the Government to
hold oil development back just be-
cause it might some day want the
OIL"
Evening star., 1939-12-11

Meeting, United Dry Forces Of
America, Y. M. c. A., 8 pm.
Dance, Ohio State Society, Raleigh
Hotel. $3.50 pm.
TOMORROW.
Breakfast. Early Birds, Willard
Hotel, 8 am.
Meeting, National Sand and
Gravel Association, Willard Hotel,
$50 am
Luncheon, Phi Kappa Psi, Lafay-
cite Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Dartmouth Club, An
napolis Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, Optimist Club, Mayflow-
er Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Civitan Club, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Buffet luncheon, Women's Ma
tional Press Club, Willard Hotel,
l pm.
Meeting, Legislative Committee,
Women's Bar Association, Mayflow-
er Hotel, S pm.
Dinner, Institute of Electrical
Contractors, Carlton Hotel, 6 pm.
Meeting, Gamma Chapter, Kappa
Gamma Sorority, Raleigh Hotel, 1880
pm.
Bridge party, Federal Bridge
League charity bridge, Wardman
Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting. Federal Transportation
Association. Department of Com
merce Auditorium, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1939-12-11
Edna MiIIoy Hurt SWIMMING

: NEW YORK. Dec. II R.-Edna
st. Vincent Millay, the poet, was
recuperating in New York Hospital
today from a strained back suffered
about 10 days ago while swimming
Her husband, Eugene Boissevain,
said he expected she might be dis
charged in about 10 more day.
Evening star., 1939-12-11

Lecture, D. G. Artists Union, 1923
H street NV, $50 pm.
Meeting, North Seventh Street
Businessmen's Association, 1mmacu-
late Conception Hall, pm.
Evening star., 1939-12-11
One-Leaaed Thief?

INDIANAPOLIS R-Detectives
tried to figure out today what man
ner OF man threw brick through
a shoe stores plate glass window
here yesterday. Only one shoe was
taken-size Sgd or the left foot.
Evening star., 1939-12-11
U. S. Buys American Toys

The Commerce Department re-
ported yesterday that SO per cent of
the toys bought in the United
States this year will be American
made.
Evening star., 1939-08-18
Subsidized Cotton

That the cotton export subsidy is
accomplishing what its hackers
hoped is apparent in Secretary Wal
lace's disclosure that the Federal
Government had agreed to subsi-
die the sales abroad of more than
100000 bales during the first two
weeks of August. The average Amer
lean monthly expectation during the
cotton year of 1938-39 which ended
August l was about 100000 bales, an
average which produced the lowest
United States export total since 1882.
Cotton is the great export crop of
this country, and the decline of the
overseas market was a large con-
tributor to the OOO,O0O-bale carry
over which was on hand August l,
and which served to depress the
market for the new crop. Of course,
all the 100000 subsidized bales were
not actually exported during the
first two weeks of August, but the
export market is showing a marked
upturn. And cotton futures in New
York yesterday rose from three to
eight points.
1t does not necessarily follow, how
ever, that the export subsidy is a
beneficial matter for the country as
a whole. Ultimately it is true, the
South prospers through broadened
cotton sales, but it must be remem-
bered that the export subsidy is paid
by taxpayers from all sections of
the country.
The present supposed necessity of
subsidizing cotton exports as an
alternative to losing our foreign
markets results in large part from
the price-pegging policies of the New
Deal. And if the pegging of prices
is to continue to be basic policy,
more and more subsidization will
be necessary.
1t Is inevitable that the payment
of export subsidies on cotton will
involve us in disastrous trade wars
with other cotton-producing states,
notably Brazil, and the Importance
to the United States of maintaining
cordial relations with Brazil has been
sharply emphasized in recent months.
In the final analysis, the real ben
eflciary of the export subsidy is the
foreign buyer. The Government, to
maintain an artificial price level,
sells goods to him at less than the
cost of production, while the Ameri-
can taxpayers as a whole absorb the
loss. The export subsidy is an eco
nomically unsound if not danger
Gus device, and the administration,
before becoming irrevocably COM
mitted to it, would do we'll to recon-
slider the wisdom of it's price-pegging
programs.
Evening star., 1939-08-18

old-age insurance is only q part Of
the social security structure. The
unemployment compensation pro-
gram can be expected to continue
exacting its own particular tax from
industry, while general revenues are
tapped to finance the other forms
of social welfare, which may be ex-
tended to include a national health
program, If the move TOR this fea-
ture launched in the recent session
of Congress can make sufficient
headway in January.
Congress has Just taken note of
the drain-both actual and prospec-
tive-on the national income, and
has lightened taxing provisions, at
least temporarily, to the extent of
approximately three hundred and
fifty million dollars annually. But
unless the whole scheme of social Sc
curity is kept within reasonable
bounds, such gestures are fruitless.
Evening star., 1939-08-18
Yours Truly

In the recently published corre-
spondence between Father Divine
and one Of the Presidents secretaries
concerning the formers prospective
purchase of the Vanderbilt estate
near Hyde Park, the most interesting
part comes right at the end. 1t closes
as follows:
With best wishes for your success
and all of your good endeavors that
you and all who are concerned may
be as I am, this leaves me we'll,
healthy, joyful, peaceful, lively,
loving, successful, prosperous and
happy in spirit, body and mind and
In every organ, muscle, sinew, joint,
limb, vein and bone and even in
every atom, fiber and cell of my
bodily form. Respectfully and sin
cere, am, Rev. NJ J. DIVINE (bet-
ter known as Father Divine)."
Here is something new in the art
OF winding up letter. George WASH
1ngton used to sign his Your obedi-
ent servant" "-certainly cold fiction
from one who never even obeyed
Congress if he could help it. John
Smith customarily ends his with
Yours truly"-an equally imper-
sonal phrase. 1t has remained for
Father Divine to come along and be
both founder and master of the new
symptomatic school of correspond
ence, obviously far more warm,
personal and intimate than any,
thing preceding it.
No other style is so successful in
taking the recipient right into the
sender's heart, not to mention his
pancreas, liver and other component
parts. The common or garden med
ical report is step In the right
direction, but is suitable only for
doctors and is not to be mentioned
in the same breath. The Divine
formula for signing off is both spon-
taneous and Joyous. 1t conveys the
notion that each atom, fiber, or cell
making up his bodily form is an
exceptionally lucky atom, fiber or
cell, as the case may be, and not
to be confused with those of lesser
beings. At the same time, the tone
shows that Father Divine would have
played fair, and If he had had any,
thing wrong with bone, sinew or
even vein, he would have come
right out and listed it somewhere in
the catalogue. The careful reader
will search in vain for symptom
indicating anything wrong with
his nerve.
Evening star., 1939-08-18

effort to examine problems for which
no solution has been found to date.
It is true that the bad features of
our present tax law are pretty well
defined. A number of corrective
steps were taken at the last session
OF Congress and Other unwise tax
provisions can be rectified next year.
There is little, If anything, that
representatives of the taxpaying
public can add to the fund Of knowl-
edge on these matters, but, even
considered in their entirety, they are
a small part Of the problem of tax
revision.
The principal difficulty confront
ing the revisionists is to find some
method whereby taxes which have
had an irritating and depressing
effect on private industry can be
excised without materially reducing
the volume Of revenue which will be
available to the Government. ANY
revision OF the tax laws resulting in
loss OF income to the Government
would serve only to increase the
improbability of attaining a bal
anced budget, and until the national
expenditures can be approximately
balanced with national income def
icit financing, with its ever-present
menace to private investments, will
continue.
This highly important matter of
maintaining revenues means, if there
is going to be any tax revision, that
new sources Of income must be found.
Ihat, OF course, implies the imposi-
tlon OF new taxes and a redistribu-
ton OF the present tax schedules,
subject which has not been fully
explored, and one which, in an elec-
ton year, is likely to receive but little
consideration from Congress unless
such reforms are supported by a
strong body of public opinion.
1t is in this respect that the leaders
OF industry, labor and the professions
can render real service. The soak
the rich" tax philosophy and deficit
financing have been discredited but
II those unwise policies are to be dis
carded new sources of tax revenue
must be established. This new reve-
nue. may come from several sources,
but one inescapable conclusion is
that salaried workers in the lower as
we'll as the middle brackets must pay
more taxes. And it is in the imposi-
ton of such levies that Congress
needs most the support of public
opinion, for the rank and file of tax
payers are also voters.
Evening star., 1939-08-18
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trdce1uell.

"Dear Sir:
II have enjoyed your articles In The
Star on birds. Could you tell me where
one could purchase a feeder and what
kind Of feeder is the best?
Il have been living in q Western city
and have had the birds for many years
on the window ledge.
Most Of my boarders were the finches
and sparrows.
'The finches become 80 gentle that
they come into the house and eat
Sincerely, A. B. L."
This is another case Of the famous
gentleman In the play who didn't know
he was speaking prose.
Here is some one who has used the
best bird feeder" in the world, win
dow sill, and yet wants to know about
some device!
OF course, bird-feeding stations, made
with roof, platform, seed hopper, and
the rest, are very nice, very interesting,
and helpful.
But the window sill remains the easiest
and in some respects the best of all
feeders, and any one who has been
successful in using 1t for this purpose
need not worry about any other way.
The wider the ledge, of course, the
better
This will allow for plenty of food.
Beginners at this sport seldom realize
how much few birds can eat.
The more room on the sill, the more
food the more birds. 1t is as simple
as that.
The great advantage of the window
sill is its closeness. The friend of birds
can sit within few feet of the pane, or
screen, according to season, and If he
remains fairly quiet can watch the song
sters at closest range.
This has its advantages One is that
the observer gets to know the coloration
of the specimens better than he can
when the feeding station is located In
the yard
At close range he can study the differ
ences in BIRDS which in some ways are
more important, in identification, than
the colors themselves In fact, one recent
book has been rather chary in its color
plates, relying mostly on shadings of
contrast between various species, in
order to give an approximation of the
way in which most eyes see birds at a
distance. Such scheme has its advan-
tages and disadvantages; the window
observer il he can lire the Specjmenc
to the sill, has the best view in the
world of the live, active birds, never
still a minute, either in motion or eating.
Birds move all the time, and eat all the
time If they can get the food.
Birds are forever sampling substances
to see if edible. Often they manage to
get sustenance out of the most unlikely
looking objects. We saw an English
sparrow the other day fly down to what
Evening star., 1939-08-18
Social Security Costs

The tremendous financial outlay
eventually to be called for by the
social security program is brought
forcefully to attention once more by
the Social Security Board forecast
that the old-age insurance phase
starting January l will fail by ap-
proximately eighty-one million dol
lars to be self-supporting after it has
run fifteen years.
The board figures are those used
by the Senate Finance Committee in
reporting on the legislation for lib
eralized benefits just voted by Con-
gress. They show that in 1855, the
six per cent tax collected in equal
proportions from employer and en-
ploye will bring in one billion, eight
hundred and forty-nine million dol
lars, and will fall for the first time
below benefit payments, which are
estimated then at one billion, nine
hundred and thirty million dollars.
The difference, of course, will come
from the reserve which was started
three years ago, and which, with
interest now paid by the Government
ut the rate of two and one-half per
cent, is figured at the end of a
decade and half to approximate
at least seven billion dollars
While it is agreed that allowance
must be made for a margin of error
IN these estimates in view of the
long period over which they are
projected and the possibility that
shifting economic tides may result
In substantial changes, social secur-
ity actuaries are reasonably certain
that for from ten to fifteen years,
the old-age insurance tax will exceed
the benefit payments now con-
templated.
After that, when the trend is to-
ward the deficit side, consideration
obviously will have to be given to
finding new sources of revenue, and,
as has been brought out before, this
problem would be aggravated if the
reserve" existed only on paper be-
cause the funds representing it had
been diverted to other channels, as
has been the practice.
1t must be remembered, too, that
Evening star., 1939-08-18

looked to be an old discarded rubber reel
Disdaining the passing cars, 1t pecked
and pecked away. Every time that on
rushing wheels drove 1t away, 1t re-
turned to the attack, and when last seen
was still at 1t.
II strip Of thin wood, an inch or two
high, could be placed along the outer
edge Of sill, 1t would keep much of the
seed husks from falling to the ground.
The beginner in bird feeding does not
realize just how messy two or three dozen
birds can be In the yard. Although this
number scarce will come to window sill
at one time, in the course of day there
probably will be as many, and their con-
slant eating will result in many hulls and
husks. The accumulation on the ground
is not very nice, after all, so anything
which will keep 1t on the sill is best.
Apartment dwellers, in particular, OBJ
ject 70 particles of food floating down by
their windows.
The small strip of wood often meets
this objection, and helps to keep the
food where 1t belongs. Also it affords
the birds ready perch when they fly
down.
A window flower box makes a partic-
ularly nice feeding station for sill, pro-
vided 1t is so fastened that it cannot
fall. In it may be planted a specimen
evergreen Of some kind, to make the
songsters feel more at home There are
some very charming small baby ever
greens which may be bought for this
purpose.
shallow saucer of water, sunk in the
earth of the box, provides bathing and
drinking facilities. Owing to the close
ness to the house, the water will keep
from freezing in all except the coolest
weather.
While so-called tie-back curtains give
the best view, all-over curtains keep the
birds from being restive.
Some of these net curtains with wide
meshes, popular in recent years, afford
good view, as well as coverage. The
latter is important, for some of the more
timld birds will not come If they see q
spectator so close at hand.
All in all, there is no better bird feeder
than window sill.
The only drawback is whether the
guests will come or not. Sometimes they
do, and sometimes they don't. The height
from the ground has something to do
with 1t. The higher, usually, the fewer
birds, and especially the fewer species.
Just why this is, is hard to say, for
height ought to make little difference
to them.
The closer to the ground, the more
squirrels-and rats. Rats are not desir-
able, from any standpoint, although
squirrels may be, il you have a sense of
humor. Rats in a yard are bad enough,
but on window sill they are highly un-
desirable. They will not get to a sill
more than few feet from the ground.
Evening star., 1939-08-18
Fears Consequences Of
Hatch Bill.

Fears Consequences Of
Hatch Bill.
To the Editor OF The Star:
The Hatch bill may not be unconstitu-
tional but it is un-American, for it pre-
sents the possibility that Government
employe may be fined $1,000 for express
ing public approval Of the New Deal pro-
gram of building roads, schools, bridges,
water power and other projects so men
can work and support their families.
Around Washington it will deprive
these good citizens of the right to govern
their communities, and give more power
to the professional politicians.
Bradberry, Md. JOHN RIGGLES.
August IA.