Evening star., 1939-10-01
Capital SideIi9hts
By viii p. Kennedy

Jerome Conor, sculptor of the Nuns
of the Battlefield in front of St. Mat
thew's Church and of the Archbishop
Carroll statue in front of Georgetown
University, is now making his home in
Dublin, and is busy completing his Lusi-
tania Peace Memorial He expects to
come to Washington some time in De-
cember bringing a bronze model 3 feet
high of his peace monument with an
Irish stone pedestal, which he will pre-
sent to the National Press Club IA favor
ite rendezvous of his) in memory of all
deceased members of the club and
Washington correspondents. He is max
ing arrangements with the dean of the
club, Charles A.. Hamilton, and Ralph
Hoyt Case, representing the Press Club
Legion. Conor's peace memorial is the
first statuary bronze ever cast in Ire
land, and is the only public monument
made completely of Irish stone and
bronze. The foundation and stone struc-
ture are already completed in the public
square in Cobb. in front of the place
where all the 300 recovered bodies of the
Lusitania victims were laid out for iden-
tiflcation after they were brought in by
the Irish fishermen. They are buried in
% graveyards from Cobb to Aran Islands.
There are ITO of them in one cemetery.
Conor is now completing the bronze work
depicting typical Irish fishermen and
casting the large winged figure of Peace
in Gods Name" % feet high, in the
world famous O'Byrne Bell Foundry,
which for more than century has been
sending church bells all over the world.
There are three heroic figures on the
memorial. Three tons Of bronze and so
tons of stone are used The inscription
is In three languages-Latin,E English and
Gaelic. This memorial is being erected
under direction of commission of which
William H. Vanderbilt is chairman, Mrs.
j. Borden Hartman secretary and treas
urer and Oliver Hoyem executive direc-
tor. Other members of the commission
are Charles E. Hughes, Clarence H. Mac
kay, Frank L. Polk, Owen D. Young,
Morgan j. OBrien, Claude G. Bowers,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ebert Hubbard.
I'd, and Daniel Frohman. The sculptor
is now restoring for his home and studio
the famous Cambridge House, Mont
pelier Hill, Dublin, which was formerly
the home of the Duke of Cambridge.
commander in chief of the British forces.
Four States have followed the action
of Congress in abolishing the tax on
intangibles for the District of Columbia.
replacing it with an income tax. They
are Michigan. Maryland, Oklahoma and
Nevada. The latter by legislative action
will soon decide on a constitutional pro-
posal to prohibit property taxation of
intangibles entirely. Beginning in jan
uary, 1941, intangibles in Michigan will
be taxed 6 per cent of the income they
bring, with a minimum Of one-tenth of
l per cent and maximum of three
tenths Of per cent on their par or face
value. Maryland this year replaced its
classified property tax with classified
personal net income tax Income from
intangibles is taxed now at higher rate
than other income. Oklahoma's law
now defines clearly conditions under
wAAASA AAId1ASAOAcS 6Ie C&XaOIe ana aOOl.
ishes tax ferrets." Nine States tax in
tangibles uniformly with other property
Arkansas. Illinois, Maine, Missouri,
Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas
and Wyoming. Ten States virtually ex.
empt intangibles Arizona, California.
Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, New York,
North, Dakota, Utah, Washington and
Wisconsin.
The law mills continue to grind. For
ty-two Of the forty-four States which
had Legislatures in session this year en-.
acted an average Of 402 new statutes.
California with 1,124 new laws took the
high record, while New York enacted o27
and Arizona hit the low mark with 80.
There were 57,925 bills introduced, Of
which 1891 became laws-and Cover
nors vetoed 1900. CALIFORNIA; Governor
vetoed 275 and New York's 400. Out OF
$500 resolutions submitted In the vari-
out State Legislatures also were ap-
proved.