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Evening star., 1951-07-05
Editorials on Taxes May Be Dull Reading, - -
But This One Talks About Your Future - -
Reprinted from the Minneapolis Star. July z 1851

the moral equivalent of SAYING that a
worker who averaged 500 week earn
ings in 1916, At, 48 and 20 must here
after pay an "excess income" tax of SO
per cent on all Of his current earnings
above SIS week, no matter whether his
current earnings are 500, $1OO or S11O
a week.
Stockholders In corporations are gwen
the most extreme tax boost of any group
in America. Take as an example a cor.
poration with 500 stockholders that earned
million dollars a year before taxes
in '46 through 40 and is currently earning
the same amount. The company's income
tax on that million dollars of earnings
in 1946 through 1949 would have been SO
percent or $380,0OO. Thus there was
then left for the expansion of the business
or for distribution as dividends S62O,OOO
or an average of $1,240 per stockholder.
Under the new tax bill that company,
with the same earnings, would pay
So percent ordinary tax and an 50 percent
excess profits tax for total of $3.50, 500.
This would leave $410,500 of net earnings
for business expansion or dividends, or an
average Of 1921 per stockholder. In other
words, each stockholders "take home
pay" even before figuring his own per-
sonal income tax, would be reduced by
more than one-third.
Senate Should Write .,.
A Better Tax Bill
AS passed by the lower house of con-
gress the administrations tax bill is bad
in almost every particular.
It would not seriously retard initiation
because it does not syphon off sufficient
purchasing power from the mass of the
taxpayers to accomplish that.
Its method for computing corporation
taxes would tend to reduce, not increase,
production and consequently would be in
flationary. An equal amount of revenue
could be raised from business with less
harm through flat increase in tax rate on
corporation earnings.
The excessively drastic increases tn
higher bracket individual income tax rates
would tend to eliminate sources of risk
capital for new business ventures, and
would dry up those personal incentives
which have contributed so much to higher
national production, and consequently to
a higher average standard of living.
Fortunately the senate finance commit.
tee is headed by an intelligent and cour.
ageous man. Senator George, who can GER
tainly comprehend the vicious economic
consequences that the enactment of the
tax bill in its present form would produce.
Senator Thye and Senator Humphrey
have not yet taken any public position on
the bill, and Minnesota voters might do
well to express their views to them.
Americans who want this country to
follow England's path into socialism should
support the bill in the form in which it
passed the house. Those who don't favor
Transforming our system into q British
type of drab socialism should make every
effort to see that the senate drastically
rewrites the bill
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Domestic Substitute
For BurIap and Jute
Cultivated in Florida
BY the Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK, July 5.-A home
grown substitute for critically
short burlap and jute was step
closer to reality today with the
first commercial planting in this
country of kenaf. plant devel-
oped in Italy's pre-war colonies
Is years ago.
The plant will be grown in the
warm, humid swampland of Cen
trail Florida by the American
kenaf Fiber Corp.
Alexander Guterma, president
of the company, said at his Office
here that kenaf fiber is as tough
and versatile as the jute now i'm
ported from India and Pakistan
He predicted it will be widely used
as a replacement for burlap in
sacks for potatoes, sugar and
feeds, for twine and ropes and
as backing for linoleum and car
pet.
U. S. To Buy Crop.
The company is developing
$500 acres of rich muck land at|
Belle Glade, Fla, in the Lake
Okeechobee area, but only $40
acres will be used for this years
kenaf crop, Mr.. Guterma said. I'll
is expected to yield is million
pounds of fiber. Practically all of
the fiber will be sold to the Gov
ernment's Commodity Credit
Corp. at contracted price of sol
cents pound under an arrange
ment whereby the CCC provided
the seed at 98.5 cents a pound,
He said the United States is stock
piling kenaf fiber and kenaf seed
for defense purposes.
According to Mr.. Guterma
Florida is capable of producing
more than one billion pounds of
kenaf a year-equivalent to the
country's yearly imports of jute
and burlap. At present rates, SUCH
a crop would be worth $500 mil
lion, he added.
Disagree on Qualities.
Industry sources disagreed to-
day on just how good substitute
kenaf would be for Pakistan'sI
jute. Sack manufacturers said
the imported fiber was more pill
: able and that sacks made from it
could be reused more often. Mr..
Guterma said kenaf was just as
good if not better than burlapI
produced by the slave labor
as he called it-of India and PAX
lstan. He said India's present
wheat famine resulted from over
planting of jute. and that United
States producers could match
foreign production costs by sub
Stituting machines - combines,
reapers. fully automatic decorti-
cators-for human labor. The de-
corticator is a machine that ex-
tracts the f1brous substance from
the kenaf plant by peeling off the
outer bark.
Most of this years kenaf fiber
output will be sold to the Gov
ernment in bales of 350-400I
pounds. A very small amount will
be sold to private buyers, Mr..
Guterma said, but by 1852 kenaf
should be available to the general
trade in greater volume.
Evening star., 1951-07-05

Association.
A native of New York, the new
executive secretary is a graduate
of the University of Virginia and
the New York School of Social
Work.
He was on the staff of the
Cleveland (Ohio) Family Service
Association before taking the
Springfield post in 1943. From
1914 to 1916 he served as a Navy
communications and public rela-
tions officer.
He has been a visiting lecturer
at Springfield College and Ameri-
can-International College and
president of the Massachusetts
Conference of Social Work.
Mr.. Theban is married and has
a daughter.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
ArmIess Boy Finds
He Is Left-Footed ,
BY the Associated Press

ATLANTA-At 13. Jerry Cad
well of Moultrie faces a most un-
usual problem. He knows he's left
footed but he still has to find out
whether he's left-handed.
Born without arms, Jerry has
acquired remarkable skills with
his feet and toes and can feed
himself, write, weave rugs and
perform many other acts. with
his left foot which is more adept
than his right.
Now he is in the process of
having artificial arms fitted and
then he'll have to learn how to
use the devices-and find out
whether he's left-handed.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Present and Proposed Income Tax Rates

The table below shows the present and
proposed federal income tax for a married
man with two children in different income
brackets. 1t also shows the present and
proposed amounts of take home income"
1.-THE amount left after taxes) and the per.
centage that the present take home In.
come" in each income bracket would be re-
duced II the new tax bill as passed by the
house Of representatives should become law.
A deduction Of 10 per cent from gross In.
come In each bracket has been made to
Evening star., 1951-07-05

cover estimated state income taxes, inter.
est payments, charitable contributions, etc.
The government automatically permits this
deduction on all family incomes up to
$4,000 in size, without requiring any sup
porting evidence. Persons with larger In.
comes are required to itemize and prove
their deductions for similar purposes. This
10 per cent deduction has been assumed In
each bracket, has been deducted In comput.
ing the tax and has been deducted before
calculating take home income"
Evening star., 1951-07-05

Mr.. Theban
has headed a
similar organi-
z a t i o n i n
Springfield, and
will direct the
work of the
agency formed
last winter by
merger of the
Children's Pro-
tective Associa-
ton, Family
Service ASsoci-
alton and Fos-
ter Day Care
and Counseling
Evening star., 1951-07-05
John 6. Theban 10 Direct
Family and Child Services

John G. Theban of Springfield,
Mass. has been appointed execu-
tive secretary of Family and Child
Service of Washington.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Patience Is q Virtue

Says a sign over the traffic
lights in a small Mexican town:
Don't be impatient. This STOP
light has been waiting for you all
day."
Evening star., 1951-04-13
10 0uantico Grid Foes
Include Holy Cross
LITTLE SPORT

The Quantico Marines football
team will meet Holy Cross and
nine other opponents this fall
with a possibility of an 18th game
with George Washington.
The Leathernecks repla ce
Georgetown on the Holy Cross
schedule in a game at Worcester,
Mass, November IS. The sched-
ule adds Fort Jackson. John
Carroll. st. Bonaventure and
Lakeland Air Base besides Holy
Cross and drops Youngstown,
Scranton. College of the Pacific
and Niagara.
Marine officials are trying to
fill their November "a date with
George Washington or possibly
Fort Myer. The slate lists four
home games, all against service
competition.
The campaign opens September
Is with a night game against
Xavier at Cincinnati. The Ma
rines have been holding spring
practice this year under the guild
ance of their new coach, Capt.
Bill Justice. brother of Charley
Justice. North Carolina all-Amer-
lea. Hosea Rodgers. another Tar
Heel star. will coach the backfield.
The schedule:
September-I5, at Xavier, night; %. at
Dayton, Ohio; 20. Boiling.
october-6. Paris Island; 13. Fort
Jackson; 20, at st. Bonaventure; 27, at
John Carroll, Cleveland. night.
November-3. at Camp Leieune; 10.
Lakeland; IS, at Holy Cross: "A, open
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Near Star Bowling Title
To Be Decided tomorrow

Washington's near star match
game bowling champion will be
crowned tomorrow night at Green
way Bowl where the final three
rounds of the Ellis Goodman
elimination for pinmen with 12t
or less averages are scheduled te
start at z o'clock.
Competing in the four quarter
final matches will be Hall Will
liams, Johnny Parke, Howard
Blaskin, Bill Bursey, Paul James
Dale Valentine. Leon Rice ane
Frank Caruso. The four winners
in this group will bowl in the
semiflnal with the two victors
clashing for the title in the final
Also high on the weekend bowl.
ing program will be the second
round of the Anacestia Spillway
elimination and the weekly handi.
cap events at Takoma and Mount
Rainier. T
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Totum and Rowland Disagree
With Morgorito on Redskins

like to go to the pro games. others
like college games. It's true that
the Redskins have larger gates
than the colleges. but they play
on Sundays and put on the kind
of shows we can't.
We're working for a different
objective than the pros. guess
sometimes a fan might skip a col
lege game on Saturday to go to a
pro game Sunday if he didn't have
the money for both, but maybe it's
balanced by the fact that the Red
skins help increase football in
tereSt."
Rowland had similar thoughts
I'm college we don't pretend to
compete with the pros" he said
Here at George Washington we
still are working on the PROPOSE
ton that we can make college
football an attractive proposition. -
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Intru-City Feuds
Continued From Page CID

conner breaking into the Cubs
probable lineup is First Baseman
Dee Fondy.
The White Sox. champions OF
the spring exhibitions, yesterday
wound up their spring grind by
splitting a double-header with
Memphis, a farm club.
The White Sox loaned Pitchers
Billy Pierce and Harry Dorish tc
the Chicks in the first game ano
suffered 20 pasting. There wa:
no leasing of pitchers in the sec.
ond game and the White Sox tri.
umphed. IL, in seven innings.
The Cubs were idle.
The Athletics-without Conni,
Mack at the helm-meet the Ma
tional League champion Phillie'
in the first of three-game cit.
series.
TIE teams are fielding squads
much the same as the 1850 line
ups. ....-
Both were idle yesterday. 4
scheduled Phils- Cincinnati game
at Charleston, w. Va, was rainet
out.
Z The Cardinals and Browns wint
Evening star., 1951-04-13

up their city series at Sportsmans
Park in st. Louis tomorrow and
Sunday.
The Browns yesterday beat Tex
arkana, TO, giving them an 11-18
spring record.
The Cards took a 1917 decision
over Little Rock, bringing their
spring record to 1915. Red
Schoendienst's grand slam homer
and a four-bagger by Enos
Slaughter brought the club out of
it's hitting slump.
Tommy Glaviano, Cards third
baseman who was injured Tuesday
might, is expected to return to the
lineup when the club opens its
home season April 20. X-rays
revealed no shoulder or chest
fracture.
The world champion Yankees
were back in New York today
ready for their exhibition game
with the Dodgers at Yankee Sta
tdium.
Il Rain washed out their scheduled
exhibition yesterday with the
Pirates at Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Catholic Baseball,
|nterhigh Track Open

Interhigh track and the Metro
Ipolitan Catholic Baseball League
were to open their seasons today
St. Paul's meets DeMatha at
Sixteenth and Kennedy streets
NV, st. Anthony's plays .Gonzaga
at Taft Field and st. Johns in
|vades Georgetown Prep in Catho-
Ilic games.
Three interhigh track meets
were rained out yesterday and the
Eastern-Tech meet at Tech is re-
scheduled for today. Roosevelt
Coolidge will be run off May 2
and Wilson-Western has been
slated for May 3.
A triangular meet featuring
Episcopal, Wilson and Anacostia
will be held at Episcopal today,
while. five non-league baseball
Igames are on the card.
The diamond schedule has
Mount Vernon at Roosevelt at 3:15
and Bladensburg at George Wash
lington, Blair at Coolidge, Friends
lat Western and Priory at St. AL
bans. all at $780,.
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Congressional Opens
Schedule April Is
with Golf, Stag Night

Congressional Country Club will
open its tournament schedule with
a program for members and guests
on Wednesday, April 25, that will
include golf in the afternoon and
a dinner and boxing matches at
night.
The schedule announced by Tom
Wheeler, tournament chairman,
features the Congressional Mem
ber-G Guest Invitation June 1924
and the Pro-member tournament
September 26. both previously an
nounced.
The club annually honors Wal
ter Johnson. Walter r. McCallum.
Capt. AL Norton, USMC. and DR.
Devito in memorial tournaments
The Congressional women golf
ers opened their schedule today
under Mrs. H. c. McCord, chair
man.
The mems schedule:
April 35.onhcial opening day and stae
May 5. 6-Blind bogey. benefit junior
golfers; II, 13--Walter Johnson Memoria
Tournament; 16--Intra club pro anna
teur; 10, 20-President's Cup: 20. 27--
first and second round matches in Presi-
dents Cup: 30-fiag tournament in honor
of Capt. AL Norton, U. S. NJ. c.; mixed
scotch foursome.
June .. 3-Semifinals and finals in ali
fights OF Presidents Gun Tournament;
9-nine- hole sweepstakes; To- mixed
scotch foursonie; 10. q. %, 23, a.
Congressional Member Guest Invitation
Tournament; 80. July waiter McCallum
Memorial Tournament
July MIXED fourball; 5-club junior
championship; 7. S-qualifying for two
man team championship; IA. 15-first
and second round matches, two-man team
final two-man team championship; as,
|29-family tournament.
August 4. 12-Treasurers' Cup: s.
mixed scotch foursome: IS, 19-sweep-
stakes: 25 through September Club
championship qualifying, SO holes.
September !. .. 3-Scnior CHAMPION
ship; 3-mixed scotch foursome; 4. s. g.
7-women's club championship; H.
Confessional Day; Is. .l6-first and sec
%, 23-semifinals and finals, club cham.
pionship: a6--pro-menibe Tournament
with Mid-Atlantic PGA members; 20. 30
october 8. 7-Tatum Cup; 11--Dr
DeVito Memorial Tournament; 14-Brum-
fiel-Jenkins Trophy mixed scotch foursome
November 10--Awards nisht.
Evening star., 1951-04-13

! Two college football coaches
here do not agree 100 per cent
with Bob Margarita, until re-
Gently coach at Georgetown, that
the Redskins hurt college foot
ball around Washington.
Margarita, arriving yesterday
in Cambridge. Mass, for his new
post as assistant coach at Har-
ward, said, 1.-THE Redskins have
made Washington a pro football
town." Bob cited examples o1
small attendance at severa,
Georgetown games that should
have drawn larger crowds as proof
that the fans do not 60 to COL
legiate contests.
Neither Jim Tatum of Mary
land nor Bo Rowland of George
Washington see it exactly that
way.
There's room for BOTH" is the
way Tatum put it. Some groups
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Y VoIIeybaII Tournament
To Be Held Tomorrow

The 14th annual Cherry Bios
som volleyball tournament will be
held at the Washington YMCA
1886 G street NV, starting at
10 am. tomorrow.
Thirteen of the leading YMCA
and college teams in the East will
compete in the event. The ia
Imaica, N. Y, and the Washington
Y clubs are among the favorites.
George Washington University
Maryland, American University
and Springfield (Mass.) College
will compete for the collegiate title
with the winner going into the
quarterfinals of the main tourna-
ment to seek the Cherry Blossom
crown.
Evening star., 1951-04-13

zaga and st. Johns. Catholic
league representatives, by identi-
cal $50 scores and showed fine
mixture of good pitching and slug
ging. Washington-Lee has been
getting excellent hurting from
Charles Hodge and Lefty Eddie
DeSimon who combined to toss a
no-hitter at st. Anthony's and a
one hitter at Bladensburg. We'd
nesday Hodge gave one hit in five
innings and Don Kildoo finished
to shut out Montgomery Blair,
60. Z,
Harry Lee, Mount Vernon coach,
says he thinks he has another
good team but wasn't putting too
much strength in the twin routs
Of the Catholic League opposition.
1--WE played good ball but I think
Gonzaga and st. Johns haven't
rounded into top playing shape
yet" Lee commented.
Ace hurler for the Mounts and
probably the top moundsman in
the area is Jasper Lakey. Lakey
is a sthree-sportsman-an all
Northern Virginia end choice in
football, a basketball standout
and an ace pitcher,
He won IL straight last year in
cluding three over WI, the only
losses the Generals suffered
Lakey's only setback was in the
southeastern scholastic tourna-
ment in Tuscaloosa. Ala, where
he dropped a 81 verdict to Chat
tanooga.
Already the 190-pound hurler
has received overtures from sew
eral colleges and major league
teams as has slugger Eddie West
West pounded out a 350-foot-plus
home run against Northwestern
University when the Mounts prac-
ticed against the college boys.
WI. posted a 1871 mark last
year, including IS straight before
running up against Lakey and
the Generals mark was the finest
among class A schools in Virginia,
Coach Pete Rockwell seems to
have just as good a team this
year.
Besides excellent pitching from
Hodge, DeSimon and Kildoo he
expects to get plenty of power
from Second Baseman AL Martini
Third Baseman Jimmy Hill and
Catcher Eppie Riddle. Martin
and Hill knocked homers in early
season games and Riddle also ha.
been strong at the plate.
Rockwell is looking forward tx
q big night Tuesday. His clut
plays Chamberlain at WI. ane
IL the Generals win it will be theil
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Royals Out 10 CIinch
NBA Crown Tonight
BY the As.oeioted Press

NEW YORK, April 13.-Roch-
Iester's rangy Royals try tonight
for their fourth straight and de.
Gliding victory over the New Yorl
Knickerbockers in the Nationa
Basketball Association champion.
ship SERIES,
The Royals, three up in theil
best -of-seyen duel. play on the
|Knicks home court.
II the Knicks win tonight, the
series will move back to Rochester
where New York hasn't won E
game in three years.
Rochester is sparked by Arnie
Risen, called by Joe Lapchick, New
York coach. a more valuable per-
former than George Mikan oi
Minneapolis or Alex Groza of In.
|dianapolis.
The SO center has scored Il
points. a 23.3-point-a-game aver.
age, and grabbed 47 rebounds
Rochester's Bob Davies and New
York's Vince Boryla have 17-point
averages.
Evening star., 1951-04-13
D. c. Netmon lmperiIs
Leader at Hot Springs
BY the Associated Press

HOT SPRINGS, Va, April 13.-
Top-seeded Malcolm Fox was close
to an upset in the Hot Springs
Golf and Tennis Club tennis tour
nament yesterday. but he finally
won past the steady play and bril-
liant returns Of James Heiskell of
Washington, 3-6, 12-10, 6-3.
In doubles, HeiSkell and G.. E.
Nichols of Chappaqua. N. Y, were
eliminated by Don Shannon and
Kyle Creason of Washington and
Lee University. 6-4, Ga. Fox
teamed with Phil Neff of Wash
ington for a Go. 6-1 doubles
triumph over another w. 81 L. pair,
Don Barbe and Buck Bouldin,
60, 6-1. Neff won q singles
match by default. as did Don
Wheaton and Larry Middlekamp
! of Washington in doubles.
Evening star., 1951-04-13
Exhibitions
CONTINUED From Page C-13

lit 18 circuit clouts and rs runs
for the Giants in their last eight
games.
Monte Irwin set the pace for the
Giants yesterday with two homers
while Whitley Lockman. Bobby
Thomson and Clint Hartung hit
one apiece.
NORFOLK, Va. - SouthpaW
Johnny Wander Nicer apparently
lis not the answer to the Indians
relief pitcher needs.
Johnny, only player ever to hurl
two straight no-hitters in the big
leagues, tried out in the fourth in
ming yesterday and the Giants
pounded him for five runs on seven
hits.
Now SO, the former Cincinnati
great was hired by Cleveland last
week strictly on a trial basis. He
may not get another chance.
Evening star., 1951-04-13
%%fHlcH SCHOOLS s

coacn's 1o0th victory in SIX years
at Washington Lee.
In his stay at WI. Rockwell
has piloted the team to SO wins
in 125 games, one State cham
pionship and four Northern Vir-
ginia titles-both marks probably
tops for any coach in the State
In addition Rockwell has started
more than 10 boys who are now
playing in organized professional
ball.
Coach Bobby. Hart at Eastern
is getting his team ready to de-
fend its interhigh title and despite
the loss of all except Dave Keys
from the million-d dollar field. il
appears the Ramblers will again
be the team to beat.
Last years inf1eld was one thai
comes around only once in q
coach's lifetime" Hart said. 1--WE
are certainly going to miss them
We had Keys at short, Pat Dyer
at first, Sonny Settle at second
and Buba Kalas at third, and they
were some combination. They
made five double-plays against the
Plebes last year."
Also missing is Jim ODonnell
star pitcher last year, who now is
in the Navy stationed at Great
Lakes. However, Hart seems to
have plenty of pitching strength in
Sonny Wise. Dick King. Dick Tor
bert, Eddie Marr and Warren
DeverS.
Jimmy Sullivan. 400 hitter
last season. and Lefty Ralph Sita
star halfback on. the Ramblers
championship football team, viii.
lead the outfielders. The infielc
will probably have Pete Barnhouse
at first, Teddy Fones at short ano
Keyes at third, but second base is
still wide open. Pat McDougal
and Chick Payne will share the
catching.
Eastern had a 17-2 mark last
year with one Of their losses COM
ing from Episcopal when the
Ramblers' second team took or
the Maroons and the other at the
hands of WI with neither O'Don-
nell nor Wise on the mound. East
|ern easily could have gone un.
defeated last year and other inter.
high opponents better beware, fol
the Ramblers seem strong agair
this campaign.
Though the season is still in
knee pants. the Northern Virginia
Baseball Coaches Association is
making plans for an expanded
metropolitan tournament with the
tentative dates set for May 80, 81
and June l and g..
District public highs did moi
enter the event last year. but the
Tournament Committee looks fol
the league to accept invitations
for it's champion and runner-ur
this season.
Rockwell and Lee have beer
named temporary chairmen oI
the Tournament Committee, with
the coaches of the Northern Vir.
Iginia champion and runner-ur
taking over at the end of the
season. It's a fair bet Rockwell
and Lee won't lose their commit.
tee jobs.
Plans are being made to invitl
two teams from. Northern Vir'
lginia, the 1nterhigh, the Catholic
League. two Maryland representa-
tives and two outstanding pref
school clubs. The 10-team tourna
ment is a fine idea and shoule
decide which is the best higl
school team in the area.