Evening star., 1941-03-16


have overaoved into be dst d ] IN @ .hH psts @
be for the children they
cannot carry the load without Federal aid
The load of the heavily
unless Congress amends existing
to continue spending qarter-mon dollars more to educate
nonresident children
declined the of the
be permitted to install additional parking meters The chairman
OF the subcommittee indicated prohibit parking
certain unnamed streets downtown.
d. G. Equitable Tax System Is a Difficult Problem
The House District Committee is up against difficult prob
lem in framing fair law provide carry
the added load imposed by the expansion the
passage would help some but would
only add about based the budget
This amount would OF course be increased under the formula
either the total amount OF the appropriation the Government
land increased.
Those prob
lem see IN the so-caed PondSam the farest
and most logical solution This plan the result
study by tax made for Joint
Internal Revenue Taxation 1t is combined income and sales
tax plan.
The income tax would apply $4,000
per apply on all tangible
personal property
and commodities already subject special would
under the plan.
Placing the income
Congress persons
would have been exempted under the to the income tax
bill adopted by the House Monday
The Pondstam proposal would supplan existing
Of taxation would give District equitable
structure The plan did have fair consideration
plan impartial tax
experts
cdenta questions conditions These experts the advisers
joint Congress dealing with national taxation
The sales claimed would be collect
app visitors and other ransiens from whom substantial
nue. would expected There would be question dmce
legal residence it would apply all alike The sales tax feature
in thrift and considered
advocates with the theory ability pay.
Local advocates income opposed sales
to the theory that the income levies according ability
plan say
that the peculiar conditions the District make impossible
position of fair income tax which would apply small
They theory may right a normal
the of
Mnnbia.
Affairs Subcommittee of the House District Com
mitee
number of the civic trade organization committees
must be more money found but no one seems to know where
Merging of Municipal and Police Courts Would Help
Judge Nathan Cayton of the Municipal Court address at
the dinner Federation Citizens
to the proposal the Municipal
Courts He promised benefits through the
The would of
judges would be interchangeable assign
men made by governing chief judge Assignments would
made the needs required For example
operate two more Jury courts could be provided the business
warranted.
Under the plan the Jurisdiction of the
would be increased to 500 from $1,000 This would
relieve the District Court of cases and help keep the work
Of all the courts current
The supervising chief judge would keep record of the work
of the courts and of each udgee number Of heard
the time spent on the bench and at the court
The of the Small Claims Court which introduced
by Judge Cayon has for him supporters of this other
reform which he earnestly advocates number Of civic groups
and the Bar Association the only few oranza
tons have registered dsapproval.
Making Citizens Associations More Representative
Whenever civic job which
the citizens associations and the Federation Citizens Associations
well equipped the question arises to how these bodies
be made representative consequently influential
This problem for there always outsiders who know just
how ought to be but will enter and help do in the
right
To patriotic organizations called these associations
lacking patriotic religious
these associations do reflect sufficiently neighhorhood
and community sentiment opinion
Of those in the welfare these associations
the needs along social welfare lines
AL Of these could neghborood
and exert intelligent informed influence groups
that they falling Short the blame belongs
know how ought to be done but only crcse from the outside
Associations might this problem going
bers of the right kind become representative
nuny and raise the standard through enrolling the critics.
good membership the associations
appeared the Mission Bulletin" which
at the street meetings of the Central Union Mission
out into the highways and byway and conan them
The School Boards New Liquor Protest Policy
1t Is understood that the newly adopted policy Board
OF Education protests against the granting Of liquor licenses
will not meet with approval Of number the groups
these that have in their efforts
liquor places away from school neighborhoods
The modification policy relates protests against
licenses practice
granting renewals located schools
This because belief
tectng the school neighborhood when original
filed The policy hopes will materially enhance
value of its protests.
Under the policy general rule protests
against renewals only additional protest
able where violations law detected
school, The holds that should
tnue be filed against all places moral
because he has policing places
The attitude OF the citizen with that of the
tenden 1t one OF continuing protest They that the