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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
Man Will Try ANYTHING to Evode Taxes

siduously burying his unreported in
come in the ground. Digging it out a
few years later, he found it had turned
moldy. The miscreant then got the
brilliant idea of sending the money to
the Currency Redemption Division Of
the Treasury Department. A few weeks
later he got fresh bills back, plus bill
for his evaded tax. What he didn't know
was that the Currency Redemption Di-
vision is blood relative of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue.
Another tax dodger, a California
farmer, found he could not cram any
more money into his ty-deposit box
and finally took it to the bank proper.
The bank promptly reported the I'M
usually large cash transaction to the
Treasury as required by law. Result:
The hoarder was presented with bill
for nearly a half-million dollars in de-
f1ciencies and penalties. Revenue Of
f1cialS say that had he buried it, he
might still have it.
Tax-evading plots run the gamut
from clever to stupid. One willy schemer
filed a phony return in invisible ink,
theorizing the signature would disap-
pear by the time his falsificationS were
discovered. It didn't. Another tried to
hoodwink the Government by the sly
device of listing each Of his children by
it's right name and then relisting them
by their nicknames.
InformerS, actuated by prospects of
reward or by sheer animus, often help
internal revenue investigators trap
tax offenders. Not long ago the con-
troller Of big department store was
fired. In fit of pique, the discharged
employe went straight to the Bureau
of Internal Revenue with a story that
eventually cost the firm $257,000 in
unreported back taxes.
The Bible has it in Genesis XII 1-9
that the Tower of Babel was built by
men hoping to reach Heaven. The
Lord, the Bible says, became alarmed
at this threatened intrusion of his pri-
vacy and descended to earth, striking
terror in the hearts of men by con-
founding their speech so that no man
could understand his neighbor. Thus,
He prevented them from finishing the
tower.
But tax revenuers have another YER
sion. According to them, the builders
of the tower were faced with the prob
lem of how to pay for it. They finally
decided on tithes--an ancient tax. Out
of the semantics of the revenue decree
imposing the levy came confusion of
tongues. Thus out of Babel" comes
the word "babble." Since then, the
story goes, men have been babbling
about taxes.
Apochryphal though this account
may be, it contains at least the ger
minal evidence of truth. A sampling
of letters to the Bureau of Internal
Revenue from harassed taxpayers sug-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
By Charles E. TroceWeH

cries of millions of children, but it is
not until later in life, in strange
place, that the sounds of the coo-oo,
90, 90 recall the old home to them.
X X
Our correspondents second bird
probably is a white throated sparrow:
Many species of sparrows come here,
10 in all, but the most common ones
are the song sparrow, white-throated
sparrow, and the white-crowned SPAR
row. And, of course, the English, or
common sparrow, held by some to be
finch but no sparrow at all, just
weaver bird.
All the sparrows will come close to
the house, as will the dove and others,
if food is put out, and If there is not
too much disturbance.
One thing that helps draw birds close
is the blank appearance of the modern
house. The use of Venetian blinds has
given the home withdrawn look which
is as useful as it is deceptive. It fools
the birds into thinking the place just
a hunk of something in the yard. prob
ably a sort of hill or small mountain,
to be flown over, or perched on at will.
The theologian would say it doesn't
think, the psychologist would say it is
unessential whether it thinks or not,
Teddy Roosevelt would have screamed,
Mature faker." At any rate, the
banker the house in appearance, the
better the birds like it. What they are
afraid of-let us not be afraid-is hui
man beings. If it looks like small
hill, all right; If it looks like barn,
OK; but IL 1t looks like a human hab-
itation-watch out, fellows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
Cole

Glass falling and Dind rising Wind
bloDn from Labrador,
from north and east and bringing
storm;
the ,Deathercock atop the steeple spins
and seems to scream;
Atlantic breakers drum on rocks and
piers,
burst Nth fine thunder on the
heGdlands:
Ndrrag1nSett running south from CheSd-
peGke to HGtterds,
the sea blue-blGck or nearly so. and
sky as tDeL;;
the lighthouse at Cape Breton burns
through 1ohistIing Sleet
and horizontal SnoD:: somewhere
shutter bangs,
the tDildo1Ds strain, bare eln1S are
Grched NTH stress:
this is full symphony of storm.
Then suddenly the lull. as GiDesonte as
the storm itself.
the lull, and long slotU crash of mares:
but Just before sundotDn the break IN
clouds,
the fssured golden sctmitar of level
light,
light that promises peace this
evening,
and noU the land blo,Dr, gulls return.
Frederick Ebrieht
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
V'oteIess- Delegate Plan

Your February q editorial "Reviv-
ing the Voteless-Delegate Plan" points
out how pointless the proposed voteless-
delegate plan is when Washington's
population exceeds that of any one of
10 States, and of Delaware, Wyoming
and Nevada combined. They have vot-
ing representation in Congress; the
District should also have it, you say,
only an amendment to the Constitu-
ton is required to achieve it. But even
more shocking is the contrast in the
local self-government possessed by those
States and denied to the District. To
rectify that would only require con-
gressional legislation. To deny to the
Congress the authority to delegate legis-
lative power, subject to congressional
veto, in local matters TO a locally elected
city council is contrary to good sense
and reason.
Sidney KoetZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
His Legacy Lives On


now beside Nicolai Lenin, but the dead Josef
Stain is by no means wholly gone from this
world. In most portentous sense, he continues
to live on in all the evil he has left behind him
the monstrous evil of the vast and unprece-
denied system of conspiracy and tyranny that
he built up on a global scale, step by step,
nation by nation, through the three dark
decades of his pitiless iron-fsted reign of
terror.
This is a fact that the free world can ignore
only at the risk of being overwhelmed and
destroyed in piecemeal fashion. Possibly
Stains death will result in slow but sure
diSintegration of the Soviet Empire. Possibly
Georgi Malenkov-a relative stranger to the
Russian and satellite peoples-will prove in
capable of carrying on the work of his synthet
icaly deif1ed predecessor. Possibly rivalries
within the Kremlin will lead eventually to an
internal explosion, wrecking the Communist
dictatorship. Possibly China and other lands
behind the Iron Curtain will in due course
break away, like Yugoslavia, from Moscow's
domination. Possibly any number of fatal
things will happen to Red totalitarianism as
the years wear on. But the United States, its
Atlantic allies and lke-minded nations
throughout the globe would be carrying wish
fulness to the point of lunacy if they permitted
such conSiderations-mere conceivabilities-to
tempt them into lowering their guard.
1t is of first Importance, of course, that our
own and allied governments give the closest
study to all the possible consequence bright
and dark-of the sudden transfer of power in
Russia. 1t is of first Importance, too, that they
be prepared to make the most of whatever
uncertainty or uneasineSs or lost sense of direc-
ton may develop behind the Iron Curtain from
this point on. But the overriding responsibility,
the top priority need, of free men everywhere is
to see to it that there is no backsiding in the
task of building up their political, economic
and military rampartS against the threat of
Red aggression. Certainly-as of now at any
rate-the change of dictators in the Kremlin
has not diminished that threat. That is why
the work of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization must be carried forward without let-up
That is why the six-nation European Defense
Community requires early ratification. That
is why there is every reason to press for closer
inter-allied agreement-such as that promoted
during last weeks visit here by Britain's Eden
Butler mission-on matters like trade and the
barring of strategic shipments to Red China.
The need for this sort Of action has not been
reduced in the slightest by the fact that Stain
is dead. On the contrary, the Kremlin con-
ceivably may become even more dangerous in
his absence. In any event, todayS funeral
services in Moscow have been staged Only for
him, not for the system of despotisn that is his
black legacy to mankind. That system still
thrives and threatens, and the free nations
must therefore keep on arming themselves
against it as fast and as thoroughly as possible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
SnoiI Flour Richer
Than Fresh Eggs
Tests Pushed to Check
Value in Poultry Feeds
By Thomas R. Henry

Powdered snail is richer than fresh
eggs in some essential food elements.
1t may prove a valuable addition, at
least. to poultry and livestock feeds.
This finding has just been reported
to the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science here by DrS.
Albert R. Mead and Arthur r. KEN
merer OF the University of Arizona.
Their work was spurred by the migra-
tons of the giant African snail which,
since the war, has become major pest
of the Pacific Islands. The mollusk must
be killed literally by the millions to
prevent serious crop depredations. They
removed the shells and dried the bodies
OF the pests, which they afterwards
ground into fine meal. This meal then
was analysed for its content of amino
acids, the basic substances from which
are built up proteinS, the building
stones of human and animal bodies.
PrOteins in Eggs.
Eggs are considered one of the best Of
protein foods. The snail meal was found
to contain ten of the amino acids. Most
of these were less than in the same
amounts of whole egg but two of the
most important, argentine and lysine,
were more than twice as abundant.
The great deficiency of various cereal
meals, especially cottonseed meal as
stock and poultry feeds, is in lysine.
THE immediate inference is" says the
report, that this deficiency could be
overcome through the addition of snail
meal. Tests designed to determine both
the effectiveness of this combination
and the growth adequacy factors Of
snail meal alone are being set up in
chick feeding experiments at the Uni
verSity of Arizona"
Considerable variation in the food
factors of snail meal was found in diff
ferent lots of snails. This is probably
due, the Arizona experimenters believe,
to the type Of crops on which the mol
lusks have fed and also to the time of
year. The snails are hermaphroditic
animals, with both male and female
secretions. The double sex organs be-
come very large at the height of the
reproductive cycle, and it is at this time
that the essential food elements in the
bodies are most abundant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
Worms in Arctic Water.

Polar seas are full of worms.
A total of 80 species of these curious
creatures collected at the Navy's Arctic
Research station at Point Barrow.
Alaska, have been identified at the
United States National Museum by DR..
Marian H. Pettibone.
They are close relatives of ordinary
earthworms and of the strikingly
luminescent moon worms of West In
dian waters.
They vary in length from a fraction
of an inch to more than foot Most
of them live on the sea bottom. Some
burrow in the mud. Some find shelter
in creviceS in underwater rocks. Some
build around themselves tubes of a
parchment-like material secreted from
their bodies. From the tube they ex-
tend their heads. Others dwell in tubes
like mollusks in shells.
They vary widely in their ways Of
life. Some live on other worms. Some
eat only organic matter found in the
bottom mud. Some are provided with
a plume, strikingly like a birds
feather, with which they fan in minute
sea organisms. These feathers, usually
basically white but with bands of red
or green, often are quite beautiful.
Feet Change,
Most curious are the changes which
occur in some of them during the re-
productive cycle. When the worms
reach sexual maturity, according to
DR.. Pettibone, the ordinary bristles with
which their bodies are covered break
off and are replaced with other bristles
better suited for swimming. Their tiny
fleet" become paddle-like for the same
purpose.
In some species the rear half of the
body, containing the eggs, breaks off
entirely. The animal probably dies soon
after this reproductive stage.
The worms were collected over a
period of three years by Prof George
E. MacGinities, director of the Point
Barrow station.
Some were obtained through holes
cut in the ice, particularly some of the
active reproductive individuals. Many
others were washed ashore after storms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
STRENGTHENING the Diplomatic Team

The slow but steady process of rebuilding
our diplomatic first team has been advanced
further through President Eisenhower's nomi-
nation of John M Allison to be Ambassador
to Japan and Robert D. Murphy to be Assistant
Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs.
Both nominees are career Foreign Service men
who bring to their new assignments particular
qualifications for these posts.
Mr. Allison has spent virtually all of his
career in the Far East, or in dealing with Far
Eastern affairs In that area, his principal
preoccupation has been with Japan, both before
and since World War II. During the drafting
and negotiation of the japanese peace treaty.
he was adviser and deputy to Special AmbaSsa-
dor Dulles, now Secretary of State. Since then
Mr. Allison has served as Assistant Secretary
of State for Far Eastern Affairs
A politically stable and economically
healthy Japan is essential to the non-Com-
munist cause in the Pacif1c-Far East area.
In turn, American understanding and support
are prerequisites to Japan'S attainment OF these
elements of strength. Mr. Allison will be in
position to aid in this evolutionary process.
Mr.. Murphy, now giving up the post of
Ambassador to Japan, has had experience IN
virtually all parts of the globe and has
demonstrated particular skill as trouble
shooter" It is talent that can serve him in
good stead in dealing with the complex and
often delicate problems of our relationship with
the United Nations. He had first-hand contact
with the Soviet Russian manner of diplomatic
dealing during postwar service In Germany.
The lessons learned there should prove useful
to him in the new deal" which may develop
on the U. N. stage as the result of the change of
command in Moscow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
Lobor-Industry Discord

The administration experiment of seeking,
through an advisory committee representing
labor, industry and the public, either agreement
or counsel on Taft-Hartley Act changes appears
to have ended in failure
1t is not surprising, if that is the case,
and there are grounds for considering the whole
effort politically naive one It could in fact,
prove to be even worse in the sense that the
breakdown of the committee session over a
procedural issue was accompanied by an ex-
change of accusations and recriminations that
hardly will help the cause of any constructive
revision of the Taft-Hartley law or of obtain
ing labor-management harmony on other legis-
lat1ve problems. In any case, unless personal
appeal from President Eisenhower prompts the
members to patch up their quarrel, there can be
little value to the Labor Department or the
administration in seeking further legislative
guidance from this particular group. While it
is possible that it might be of service on other
than legislative problems, the party line" split
in this case has been accompanied with enough
bitterness to raise doubts
Actually, the practice of setting up these
industry Iabor-public bodies has not been &C
companied by marked success. Feeling them
selves committed to represent the narrow in
terests of their respective affiliations rather
than the overall national interest the labor
and management members on such bodies
usually are in firm disagreement. This often
leaves the so-called public representation in
the position of being able to render no service
other than acting as arbitrator.
1t is quite proper that the President should
be anxious to have all viewpoints in advance
of his own recommendations for labor legisla-
ton, particularly with regard to the Taft
Hartley Act. There are direct and simple ways
to obtain such information. however, and with
less risk of rolling the waters than by asking
all sides to sit down and reconcile their VIEW
points before presentation to either the White
House or the Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09

lying, misleading, equiyocating, quib-
bling, fabricating, discriminating and
otherwise altering the truth about their
incomes over a comparatively short
period-about 40 years.
It was 40 years ago-February Is,
1913-that Congress ratified the 18th
amendment providing that "the Con-
gress shall have power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes, from whatever source
derived, without apportionment among
the several States, and without regard
to any census or enumeration"
The average taxpayer regards March
Is with passionate loathing, pSy-
Geological attitude induced each year
not so much by the prospect of being
required to cede portion of the fruits
of his labor to an abstraction called the
Government as by the horrendous, SOUL
searching work he must put into COM
plotting the coldly inquisitive question:
naire. Emerson had an insight into the
problem when he wrote "Of all debts,
men are least willing to pay taxes. What
satire is this on the Government"
Although the vast number of Ameri-
can taxpayers are grudgingly honest in
making their returns to the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, an impressive num-
Der Of ingenious schemes to dodge the
personal tax levy are ferreted out by
revenue agents each year. Not all tax
dodgers are big-tim racketeers of the
Capone stripe. Many are individuals
in the community commonly thought
to be paragons of virtue-judges, min
listers and civic leaders. Because of the
manifestly impossible job of auditing
every tax return that is filed, a good
many tax frauds go undetected by
revenue agents.
Irony frequently plays a part in the
discovery of tax evasions. One tax
dodger was given to the practice of as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
'Fishermen's Shortsiqhtedness'

TISneTmen S Consequences
AS fishery biologist for the State of
Maryland, have no part in the devel-
opment of administrative policy, and
take no position regarding the success
or failure of pending legislation. My
duty is simply to compile factual data
pertaining to the fish and fisheries of
the State, but feel that it is essential
that, when available, facts should be
used as bases for the arguments pre-
sented. have seen facts misrepresented
in press, and have heard facts misused
in public hearings. A sound, lasting
solution to the problem can be found
only in truthful presentation of factual
information.
The February q issue of The Star
contained an editorial entitled, Fish
ermen's ShortsightedneSs," in which
certain errors appeared: Cd Shad and
herring are at an exceptionally high
level. 90 Striped bass are below the
all-time peak of 1850, but in 1851 (most
recent complete data available) were
above the average for the period 1941-
1850, and there are indications of
successful coming stock of young fish.
Croakers and trout are at very low
level of production. This, however, is
true along the entire coastal range of
these species, and over exploitation by
Maryland METERS cannot be considered
the sole cause. 90 Striped bass do not
spawn in January and February. Drift
gill nets take only II per cent of the to-
tai annual commercial catch of striped
bass during January and February and
average less than 20 per cent of the
annual catch during their entire oper-
ating season.
r. E. TiIfer,
Biologist, Fisheries, Maryland De-
partment of Research and Edu-
cation, Solomons, Md
Editors note: The Star erred in re-
ferring to the huge catch of rockfish
in February, 1948, as having occurred
during a spawning rum" The fact re-
MAINS however, that many tons of fe-
male stripers-potential spawners-
were destroyed. The proposed legisla-
ton before the Maryland Assembly
would control the netting of both
spawning fish and potential spawners,
as conservation measured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09

gests the general malaise that afflicts
this bewildered genre.
From Helena, Mont, came letter
from a taxpayer who wrote: Il have
great desire to have my income tax
square when join my fathers who are
sleeping through eternity. It probably
would be good idea to have inscribed
on my tombstone. His income is paid
in full, so the Government will please
not modest this stone"
Another taxpayer sent this Valentine
to the Bureau of Internal Revenue
here:
I'D climb the highest mountain
"I'd swim the ocean blue
"IId cross the burning desert
ITO get away from you"
In Vermont, a State notorious for it's
rugged individualists, a man wrote in
the space on the tax form captioned
do not write in this space" the follow
ing non-conformist answer: I'LL write
where damn please" The collector
of revenue in Syracuse, N. Y, received a
letter recently from an inmate at Au-
burn prison appealing to him for a re-
fund on his last income tax. He told
the collector he needed the money be-
cause he was temporarily unemployed
and would not be back on his feet for at
least another year.
In an application for an extension of
time for filing her tax return, one lady
in Wichita, Kans, wrote: MY hus-
bands sudden passing away last Thurs
day makes necessary this request for
few days in which to get man to re-
place him. This may take week or
two unless I am lucky" From Texas
came a typed return from a bachelor
who listed one dependent son. The ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
Questions and Answers

Inc SCa1 readers can get the answer to
question Of fact by either writing The Evening
Star Information Bureau, 1900 street NV.
Wash'r".Hn D. G. and inclosing 3 cents re-
turn postage. 0r by telephoning Sterling 3-7363
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Who was the famous composer
who, as child, left his bed to practice
the piano secretly at night?-A. P.
A. Handel's father chose for his son
profession of the law. A friend,
however, smuggled clavichord into
the attic of the Handel home, and here
in secret, George Frederick practiced.
The child's natural bent was thus CIV
en- an opportunity to develop.
@. Was the Hudson who discovered
the Hudson River. English or Dutch?
F. F.
A. Henry Hudson was an English
navigator. At the time that he dis
covered the Hudson River he was
employed by the Dutch East India
Company of Holland. His first name,
therefore, was also spelled Hendrix.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09

aminer returned the blank with a pen
ciled notation: "This must be a steno-
graphic error" The blank promptly
came back with the notation, You're
telling me'
Probably the classic summation of
taxpayer aversion to taxes was made by
an irked gentleman from Minnesota
who paraphrased: "Only two things in
life are certain-death and taxes. What
I resent is that they don't come in
that order.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09
The Red Cross in Need

Only IS per cent of this years local goal
of ST ,531 900 has been raised in the Red Cross
drive thus far This means that the work OF
"the Greatest Mother in the World" in metro
politan Washington is threatened. Activity
cannot go on without funds. From its begin
ming in 1881 the American branch of the inter-
nationah Red Cross movement has depended