Show 1— Edward J Higgins new commanding general Ms guard of honor at Fort Myer carrying the flag 8—Artist's conception ef the Armstrong seadrome S'a£betweenjSwJ’ erkjgod Bermuda Hoover la Inaugurated and Seta Hia Program Before the American People By EDWARD W PICKARD HOOVER is now States of the United America snd Calvin Coolldge Is again a private citizen Despite the wishes of Mr Hoover that the inauguration be as simple as possible the committee In charge made the event the gayest of Its kind In more than a score of years and the national capital wus with visitors who particithronged pated In the three days entertainment The feature included a reception for the governors of a large number of states with their staffs nn air circus that enlisted army navy and civilian aircraft the great inaugural parade and a charity ball Being notified about 11:30 Monday morning by a committee from the seiy ate and house that the time for his Inauguration was at hand Mr Hoover with President Coolldge escorted by averode down Pennsylvania cavalry nue to the capltol and In the senate Dawes chamber snw Vice President swenr in Senator Charles Curtis as Mr Curtis umde a Vies President short address and the Presidential party went to the inaugural stand there Mr Hoover took the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Taft of the Supreme court and mnde tils augural address Thereafter the Presidential party betook themselves to the White House ate luncheon and from the reviewing stand In front of the executive mansion watched the long Inaugural parade which took about four hours In passing and oarer which hovered a hundred airplanes Mr and Mrs Coolldge following the set by Theodore Roosevelt precedent left Washington in the afternoon for their “home lu Northampton' Mass — President Hoover’s address was listened to with enthnslasm not only by the vast crowd present hut hIho by a radio audience that embraced a considerable part of the country's popn latlon It set forth his view of the state of the nation and of Its relaother nations and Ills conwith tions ception of the policies best designed to promote peace nnd Improve living It Rut more Important conditions disclosed sn eminent engineer's vision of a huge program of public works In exthe next four years Involving the penditure of billions of dollars and of a farm relief program that while costreturn tremenly will he believes for capital dously Increased profits the great exand labor Offsetting the new Presl suggested penditures dent pointed the wuv to governmental economies beyond even tty8: He of the Coolldge administration of waste In proposed the elimination the processes of government to nn extent that would save the taxpayers more than would be expended on waterways farm relief snd other projects combined This would be accomof plished by a radical reorganization the federal government on A lentlfle of functions linen of reclassification sad eventof overlapping elimination ual reduction of personnel HERBERT ELMO SCOTT WATSON T WON’T be long now until Uncle Sam will be saying te his children and “Glmniley two and a approximately half million Individuals and of a nearly million of Individ groups nals will be digging down In their end pockets handing UTjT over a certain part of their 1028 earnings to their Uncle ho Is In need of this money to aid lng a nation of more than 120 000000 a continuance and guaranteeing of their “life liberty and pursuit of hapAll of which Is by way of piness eying that the filing of Income tax returns by corporations and Individuals and the payment of the first Installment of the 102S Income tax Is due od March 15 Just what that meant was Indicated by a newspaper editorial writer who observed recently that “Many persons are bothered not so much over payment of their Income tuxes as over the complicated task of making them out Even the man who finds after an session with his Income tax blank that be owes the government cents has to go only through the same complicated processes as the man who ts entirely out of the find stamps' class “In addition to the general govern ment of the United States many dividual states Impose an Income tax have not become ad Municipalities dieted te the practice- but If they should the average man who has to sit up lata to clear up the difficulties Involved In checking up his mltk bill might as well prepare to ask for a week’s vacation In which to pursue the elusive and many Hines beclouded Issues which the ordinary lax blank B r t f f H f i t r I presents “Income taxes In the Uulted States Twentieth century product out of the stress of warSpringing time conditions they have nourished to such an extent that an occasional bumper crop prompts the government to hand back the surplus The state have not yet complained of overflowAt this time millions ing treasuries of amateur accountants each armed with an adequate supply of lend pen ells a ream or two of note paper text books on mathematics government ctr culars and ‘hope that springs eternal are squaring away tor the annual gresf American task of ‘filling out my income tax blank" It was Just 20 years ago that Uncle Sam decided to Impose an Income tax for It was on July upon his children 12 1000 that the Sixty first congress to the legislatures of the proposed various states the following amend “The con ment to the Constitution gress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on Incomes from whatever derived without sources apportion ment among the several slates and without regard to any census or eno meratlon" This amendment was accepted by all of the states except Con necticut Florida Pennsylvania Rhode Island Utah and Virginia It was de dared to have been rutlffed as Article amendment to XVI or the Sixteenth a law In the Constitution and of Philander C Knox proclamation are Cling to Strange Ways strange peoples In sad plains of Asl and the have strange Stic Russia ways that the Soviet government will no' mutter what be long In changing efforts are made One of these peoples is tbs Kal macks One of their peculiar prae‘Ices Is to cast their dead out la open and other fields for dogs vulture of the sort It Is a matter scavengers There are man the broad steppes secretary of state In President Taft’s cabinet on February 25 1013 Last year Unde Sam collected a totol of 12174 543 10289 in Income tax This represented a total of returns of which 2520509 were dividual tnd partnership and 718134 were corporation Of the total tax was paid In by the $88272711364 dividuals and partners and To realize by corporations what vast sums Americans have paid out of their pockets into Unde Sam's pockets all you need to do la take a look at he folowlng table of Income (ax collection during the last ten years: $5411208002 2000783902 8938030003 3228137673 2OS6018465 1601080534 1841739317 1761639019 1074104141 2174573102 1918 1019 1920 1021 1022 1023 1024 1925 1020 1027 America Is universally looked upon ns the richest nation on eartft and an on how the commentary Interesting weulth of the Individual American creased especially during the war Is shown In the Income tax returna during the same period given In the table In 1913 a total of 33751)8 reabove turn a were filed In 1914 there were In 1915 there were 336052 337515 wnd In 1018 437006- Then eame the sudden wavs of prosperity during the war and In 1917 the number of returns From then on Jumped to 3472890 there was a steady Increase In the number of Individuals who filed Income tax returns In 1018 there were 1019 saw 5332760 filing returns and in 1020 the number reached the Then a revision peak w 1th ’7250044 of the Income tax law caused the number to drop to 6002170 It rose to 6787 481 lu 1922 and then Jumped to In 1024 a total of 7608321 In 1023 7369788 persons filed Income tax returns In 1025 there wae again a sharp drop In the number of Income tax returns to 4171051 20 1020 On February President Coolldge signed the Revenue Act of 1028 a new law for the year 1923 and thereafter which fixed the normal tax at Hi 3 and Individuals rate 5 from per cent for net Incomes $4(XH) up to $100000 It also decreased rates and Increased the surtax the personal exemption of s single person to $15(10 and of a married person oi head of a family to $3500 It also raised to $200u0 the amount of income which may be considered as earned and taxed at lower rates The first five thousand dollars of net income In alt cases Is deemed to be earned Some Interesting facts on the Income tnx situation especially In regard to the Increase In amount of such tax being paid Into Uncle Sant's pocket lo despite rate cuts were contained a recent press dispatch from Washing ton which reads as fellows: fr S McCoy Washington —Joseph has mads an actuary of Income 4aa statistics of ths 1’nlted States for four years and points out soma retnsrksbls facts For W of pride with them to see the bones picked clean In short order— it augurs well for the deceased-Ion ths contrary the bod Is neg tected or onl devoured parti they take It tor a sign that the departed led a wicked and depraved life The religion of the Kalmucks ts Laroalsra ladiaaa Cwod Swim mars The Bureau of American Ethnology says that the Indians were remarkable swimmers and some of the tribe's were tn the water as much as were Mr on years congress has depended to furnish ths ways and means McCoy and tha finance committees Information on which to frame tariff and tax measures Ills opinion Is considered ths last word on federal taxes Mr McCoy compares ths calendar with that of 1927 year of “Ths total taxable net lnoome for was 18122963921 returned by 4090 Individuals while for 1927 It was 18062610787 returned by only 2(68869 said Individuals" “That Mr McCoy la Income as same ths net practically was returned In from 60 per cent as many Individuals as returned similar come In The net Income returned tn excess of by those with Incomes 10000 however Increased from In to 10106817127 In Ths net Income alone did not Increase but Increased the total net tax returned to h26243497 tor from 059134183 for 1927” made Commenting on the showing Mr McCoy snld: “The strange almost unbelievable fact Is revealed by these statists s that In aplte of ths reduction of the tax rates by fully per cent out of the total number of 7298481 for turns ngaiegsllng 4122243 Individuals In 1927 returned net taxes of 137111312 In exceaa of that re Ths average tax turned for was 9579 turned for and for 200 an Increase of average lax of US per cent and of gross tax of 199 per cent as compared with a duction In the number returning taxable net Income of 891 per cent and a reduction In tha average tax rate of about per cent “The reason for thla anomaly Is clearly ths enormous Increase In the number and Income of the larger together with of the the elimination of ao many mailer taxpayers” Mr asserted that the collecMcCoy tions show that Secretary Mellon was right when he told congress that a within season In Income lei rates results In a greater tax yield ” Mr "Another thing shown” MoCoy id "is ths displacement of Individual bv corporate business The 1927 prelim that the Income tnary returna show truni individual business waa 3528702 while the total gross Income returned was 127106621548 Ths by corporations total net Income returned by taxable was 18082610 Individuals for as taxable net compared with 8088200906 Imome returned by corporations “The entire Income returned by In dlvlduals from wages and salaries was 10046866086 as compartAl with only as ths returna for individual 362870204)0 Thla would seem to Indicate business that Immense sums must be paid to salaries by and taxpayers as wage corporations "The marked effect of the new Income tax laws upon ths wage earners is flected In ths returns of Incomes from as compared wages and salaries fot with similar returns tor 1927 In aplte of the great Increase In incomes and In creased prosperity these returns for totaled over 3i00000000 more than did similar returna for Thla ta accounted for by ths personal exemption per cent for single persons of and of per cent for married persons and heads of families which reduced the number of returns over 3100000 Individto 127” uals from Mr based McCoy his study on statistics of Income" for the calendar (rear “The total number of Individuals makreturns for 124 waa I 298481 while ing tor only 4122242 made similar turns a reduction of over 43 per rent” — he pointed caused by the increased personal exemptions provided by the revenue act of "The number returning net Imome ta excess of 10000 however Is another there were isgnti of such story For returns as compared with 343958 for l27 an Increase of over S4 per cent The number reluming net incomes of over 1100000 tor was 6094 and for 11067 an Imreaee of nearly per cent Ths number returning Incomes In excess of lltxxiOOO for was and for an Increase of almost S3 per cent” the primitive Polynesians They swam six or seven different ways iucludlng treading water and would dive to the bottom of deep wider A common in stltutlon among the Indians was the sweat bath They would sweat In a constructed specially sweathouse which was closed up to keep the heat In and when they thought they had sweated enough would suddenly run outdoors giving throw Into the cold water and themselves after a while reenter the sweathouse to dr off sines they had ao towels In Its final dny cleared legislation and left some Fill- killed or postponed busters were frequent and In some rases effective They caused the senate to abnndon the congressional reby the apportion ment bill passed house and to consent to the continuation by a committee of affair of the The second deflelene Indian huresu supply bill minus the $24000000 prohibition enforcement Item was passed Senator Pill had senate after by the conducted a filibuster on behalf of his for a demand that the appropriation canal route survey of the Nicaragua The senrftO also he cut In half the on conference report the adopted bill after the rad naval appropriation leal group had made a hard fight so $12370000 will be made aval'nhle for cruiser work CONGRESS unfinished starting building program opposition of Despite the stubborn that body the wets In the house as passed the senate meamrertnowir j of of a for the' Salvation Army 2 — Gen Charles P Summered with full general to which rank be bad Just been promoted transatlantic air Ben Ice tb first pfwhlch will be half the Jonea bill which Increases the maximum penalties for first offender The proagainst the Volstead act for the deportation posed legislation of alien gunmen failed because the senate conferees refused to accept certain provisions In the house hill holding that they created unjustifiable equities Efforts to postpone the natlonol orirestriction gins immigration plan which goes Into effect July 1 also failed to The President transmitted a national of the revision congress the which decreases origins quotas British quota from 65894 to 65721 and Increases the German quota from 24908 to 25937 and the Irish from 17427 to 17853 Norway is reduced from 2403 to 2377 Sweden from to 3314 and Denmark from 1234 to 1181 President Hoover may obtain the repeal of the revision plan at the exHe session of congress traordinary opposes it on technical grouuds holding the national origins figures cannot be accurate and that It Is best to leave the quotas to the present census basis for the sale and CONTRACT’S United States and American Merchant lines and the construction of two palatial liners by Paul W Chnpman A Co Inc of New York were signed The documents provide that the necessary legal guarantees the ships will remain under the American flag for a period of one year and maintain a regular schedule Chapman takes over the operation of the eleven ships of the two lines Including the Leviathan and will let contracts for the construction of two liners but nearly as large as the Leviathan faster and more luxuriously appointed are to be speedier than any ships They now built or building Chapman agreed to pay the shipfor the fleet ping hoard $16300000 and some shore property Approximately half of this sum Is to he paid nt once The shipping board agreed to loan the purchaser approximately of the con$50000000 as cost of the proposed new struction liners of the highest order saved Colonel Lindbergh and his fiancee Miss Anne Morrow from serious Injury or death down In Mexico City The colonel and Anne had been on a little airplane ride in the course of which a lotot was wheel landing LIndy told the young lady they would upset on surlanding hut not to be frightened rounded her with cushions and flew until about the gasoline was exto avoid the possibility of hausted He then came down to explosion ground with the utmost rare and skill The plane upset as he expected and he sustained a dislocation of the shoulder but Anne was unhurt The colonel's injury was attended to at a hospital and he took Anne home In an automobile which he drove with his He declined to talk about left hand the upset Insisting It was “not an accident merely a mishap” Showing that the “mishap” hadn’t daunted them LIndy and Anne made three short flights next day the colonel handling the plane with one hand who was Ruth George Haldeman Elder's pilot on her attempted transmade a fine nonstop atlantic flight flight from Wlndsor rintr to Havana Cuba In 12 hours and 56 minutes the French aviator Joseph Lebrlx on an experiand two companions mental mall plane flight from Paris crashed In the to Saigon Lower Burma when Guir of Mataban more than eight days out from MarThe plane was destroyed but seilles the aviators escaped serious Injury Walter Schert who was helmsman of the dirigible Angeles when It was brought over from Germany and of the Graf Zeppelin on Its round trip snd the United between Germany died In Berlin from balloon State gas poisoning Airmanship members of the BANKERcommission last week discussed the possible lsne of German war debt bond The prevailing view seemed to he that the Issue should be for not more than a billion dollars and the term for amortization should be thirty to It was years of the amount thought should be allotted to the United States and to Europe sines Europe has the deepest interest In tha settlement The settlement plan devised by Sir Joslah Stamp's subcommittee provides for the division of ths ennnitlefi that Germany Is to pay anThe first and nually Into two pari must pay the larger portion Germany but the balance she unconditionally may delay discharging If the payment would endanger the exchange rate and threaten again to depreciate the mark This provision waa necessary because when the plan to revise the Dawes plan was agreed on the original transfer committee which safeguarded the German finances was automatically dissolved and the Berlin representatives Insisted that they need this protective organ if they are expected to pay anything like what the aille- demand and In lesser degree tha Europe was Interested In the publication In a Utrecht newspaan per of documents disclosing beleged secret military agreement Dr J tween France and Belgium Louden Dutch minister to France dean explanation manded and the French foreign office asserted the as printed treaty and its Interpretation BelIn the paper were falsehoods gium’s foreign minister made a simThe Belgian chamber of ilar denial deputies decided that If any Belgian minister had signed the alleged treaty he should be prosecuted In the courts The editor of the Utrecht paper declared the source from which he secured the documents was “absolutely above suspicion" that they are the of a meeting of military exminutes perts signed and officially sealed and Include the text of the HOLDAND treaty TROTSKT the exiled Is said to be In aD adand his vanced stage of tuberculosis have been trying to arrange friends for his removal from Turkey to some Those In Germore beneficial clime many have prepared for him a cottage of Berlin where he In the outskirts and his wife can live in simple comfort If the German government con- sent LEON HUItRICANFS swept across several the Middle Sonth last killing nearly two score perInjuring many others and doing considerable property damage The regions hardest hit were In MississipIn pi Arkansas and northeast Texas Wisconsin and Iowa there Minnesota were blizzards that interrupted transIn Missouri and Ohio portation southern Illinois there were threatening floods and the region about Iis a hit was by destructive gale Angeles week son JACK SnARKEY Of Boston young WL Stribltng of Georgia the much ballyhooed heavyweight fight in Mlama Beach snd was given the decision by Referee Magnolia after ton ronnds of rather unexciting In The Southerner battling younger than his lighter and less experienced had rather the best of the opponent earlier rounds but Sharkey generally Strlbllng's really formidable avoiding right wore him down with body blows and fairly won the decision Both were brave aad fighters enough showed considerable skill bnt ths writers present agreed that sports neither gave promise of being chammterta! Thirty-fivthod pionship sand men and women paid $100000 to see the fight Sharkey's guaranteed share was $100000 and received $00000 of Havens plot to assassinate President of Cuba overthrow ths and force military Intervention by the United States Seventythree persons were charged with complicity and some of them were arrested Among those still at large was Gustavo Mu'hndo y Morales a cousin of the President American secret service operatives were said to have been In Havana helping Investigate the plot POLICE officials Machado DR NEWELL DWIGHT REV LI 8 pastor of Plymouth church one of Un- most’ Brooklyn noted pulpit orators of the time died In his home In Prouwltte’ X T lie wa horn In Inna 70 years ago and first won fain- ( preacher tn Chicago and Evai-to- J i |