Show SEEN SEENa d HEARD around th th National Capital B Ely CARTER HELD W Washington No No No one know knows where the tie figure of rM rM mentioned mentioned men men- In connection with the Pre l- l lents dents tax lax t as the amount certain certain tain schedules would came came from But It la is no secret that while no clever deer work hud had born been done dool In figuring the re rr returns turns turn for tor they wore were obviously wrong the figure url did mean something What the figure ure meant Will was the e estimate estimate esti esti- tl mate of ot n ft certain brain truster now nowery very ery much In the middle Ruddle of ot what the tho treasury needed each year In addition to present revenues Tho The reason noson the figures ure were iw so far tar wrong In fling fixing the tho amount which those mysterious levies would raise mille for tor no one has hns ever admitted parenthood parenthood parent parent- hood hOOlI for tor the figures n either was that the administration after arrer working out the schedules schedule did not ask the treasury to put rut Its 1111 experts on them The renson ren ren- son Ron nn for tor this was not an nn oeral oversight ht but hilt the tho flirt fact that Treasury Secretary Mor Mew Pentium had Just expressed himself In such Ruch vigorous terms against R the tax proposals ls being made ml at nt that time that the brain trailers who had won the Presidents President's approval hesitated to auk ask him But let no one be hI deceived about the significance of ot the n figures despite the discrepancy that the IIII rote rates mentioned men n. n do not produce the The rates were not Imagined by bl enterprising en In newspaper reporters Nor was the Both were weN eon con Inside the administration and formally Ily given out The only ad advantage ad 1 of ot the denials Is III that the administration Is now free freeto freeto to 10 produce an entirely different set act of ot rates and an Rn entirely different total anti nd Insist that these new figures represent represent rep rl repS rl resent ent carefully worked out studies of ot the problem While the Ihl can cnn never nl prove that the first figures were official Want More Taxes All AU of which la is only Important rally cally 1111 Actually what Is ls important Is that thai certain trusted and anal at the tho moment suet advisors advisers to the President believe the treasury should have a year r more In taxes than are arenow arenow now coming In AI AHo this Also n this opinion was s held prior to the 0 avalanche of ot decisions do de against AAA processing taxes If It you yon will examine the highest scale scalo e of ot taxes which on nn reported report ed to 10 the house bouse ways and ond means committee com ont and then boost hoost the whole level letl by about one fourth the taxes would woul d represent the treasury judgment o on n what t Is needed to make up for tor 1 th the tho e present deficiency In revenue as all s seen see n by ci a t very potent In potent In Influence with the lie the President President brain brain and d 2 the loss of ot processing tax In revenue e This Is not a prediction that an any y such rates will he be enacted The I Pr Pres President resIdent res- res ident has bas no Idea of ot going anything g like that far tar He Ill le never did Ills Ilia orl- orl inal lash Idea was to Increase taxes taXIs only on very large Incomes and Impose e levies on very large Inheritances and ant gifts Also to boost hoot corporation tar tarby taxes IntS es by the sliding scale aimed at b bigness It Is perfectly true truo that the sliding scale corporation tax tnt Is II frankly regarded re reo by as 8 just jest an opening wedge That the ultimate objective Isto Is Isto to make the taxes on large corporations corporations corpora so heavy as liS to make It advisable e for tor many of ot them to dissolve and certainly for tor no more mergers to be con can I lint Hut at the time of ot hi his proposal Sll th the e President had no Idea of ot Irritating ananny a ai s many nanny people as would l be hit and hl hit t hard by any tax tas program which would woudt 1 raise the amount of ot money needed Not this year yc-nr or next New Day in Politics Maybe Business will come to a malt ration that there Is a new day dlf i In n American politics as RI well as a Ne New w Peal In Washington In time to save sari e Itself but bul It Is about an even en bet beL betIt It appeared some months luck hark that thaI t the public utilities tow long politically th the e roost most stupid aggregation of ot successful 1 men In other oilier Holds fields In America hat had 1 learned nt ot least the Ihl elemental rules a athe of ot f the new game But even this demon striation does dOla not stem seem to tin have ha had d niu much h effect on other bu hu 1 neUI men The Immediate case In 10 point Is fe th the r administration drive e against s exemplified In the Ihl sliding scale rille tax on Oil corporation Income If It It 11 were just II a boost In taxes no one except perhaps the Immediate taxpayers would be ln In in- But Its lis' avowed object Is a better social sOIla I order Which means that the sliding 11 scale Idea Is ii Just the opening wedge hunt the present proposed top tOil rate rate rate-If If the administration l a Pas as Its way way way-la la only the beginning Ih that beginning that t the eventual object Is to make little ones out ant of or big ones And h big ones does 1105 not Just cleana mean clean a few enormous corporation such a as United States Stales Steel General Motors American Telephone etc Me It Include virtually every evey corporation hI big enough to tn ha time have f Its stock listed on the New v York Stock exchange ll list t. t Or un th the Curb for fur that matter The highest proposed rat rate 17 In J percent per percent cent applies on nit all corporate l Income In excess of or Hut But the next nex lowest rate raIl 17 11 per cent Includes al all corporations with Incomes In excess o or of Actually lIy for tor all nil the tho talk lalk of ot taxes ta belli being reduced on small sma II cur cor only those with Incomes below tie tie- low a 8 have l year their taxes re to- Aud even t that reduction I is I. trifling In making this sweeping than tion of ot President Roosevelt though this liny tiny be denied Ignored the advice of ot both Ith Treasury Secretary and Brain Truster Trust er Holey Motey It represents a complete triumph for tor the Frankfurter left lett wing branch of ot the New Deal Uin Using tiling Wron Wrong Tactics Tactic Whereupon Business following the tactics of ot long IonA ago attempts attempt to fight It through the United States Chamber of ot Commerce and the National A Association tion than of ot Manufacturers neither of ot which can scare a representative from tram froma trama a doubtful district or worry a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York senator Just why fluidness Business In fn general does dOls not take a leaf leat from the amazing sue sue- success eras cess which attended the letter writing campaign of ot public utility stockholders Is la hard to figure Not because this letter let letter ter writing campaign ln really did the utilities much good The final bill Is la tough enough on the holding compa comps companies oils nies almost to suit Roosevelt The significant fact Is that this letter writing campaign resulted In a majority majority ma ma- In the house of ot representatives for tor precisely what the letter writers demanded The fact that the letter writers did not demand enough really to save their bacon Is Is not of ot consequence consequence conse onse quence fluence In this connection They got what they asked for from for from the house I of ot them obviously can get what they want any time time time-It If they make It clear enough and In time A couple of ot hundred excited stockholders living In one congressman's con district can scare him to d death nth But he puys pays no attention attention atten atten- tion whatever to the national allons Ills only concern concern Is votes In his district I This was not so 80 Important up to the I new day In the days when bos bosses ls l's controlled states Big Business operated operated oper oper- I through them I Why Ickes' Ickes Worries We have hll only two unemployed persons per sons eons and they have been unemployed f or tor or TO 80 O years That crushing answer made by the Idle little town of ot Colebrook way up In northwestern Connecticut near the M Massachusetts line Is la one of ot the reasons tenons ten rea S sons ons why Harold 1 L. L Ickes' Ickes gray hair hairs hairIs i Is s getting thinner Why the public I works part of ot his activities seems to tobe toe i he be e bugging bogging down clown Why some Borne administration adminis officials are oro wondering If It It would not have been blen better better providing of ot course the White WhIle House had harl thought of ot It first to first to let Carter Gla Glass s of ot Vir Virginia slots ginia Alva Alvn Adams of Colorado and other senators have their theft way about substituting two billions of ot doles for tor four billions of ot work relief relict But that Is not the only problem which Is la worrying Secretary of ot the Interior Interior In In- t enor Ickes and lInd and the White House house- a and rid which Is illustrated by Colebrook When the word first got round that could leave a big grant grout of ot f federal money for tor a II line floe new road there was much excitement round and about the tile village The Tho pro progressive element suns all for tor It It It would mean the spending II of ot money and money and prosper pros 1 ity 17 But opposition was not slow In 10 showIng show show- Ing InA Its Ita head bend The handful of at merchants mer mer- c chants hants might ml want more moro customers but the summer residents did slid not net want a lot of ot workmen messing th the e place up Again the merchants might Eke Ike the Idea of ot a n fine line new th through gh road that would cause many auto tourists tour taste Isis to stop atop off ofT make moke purchases at lea least t bu buy boy meals But tut the folks who have been heen the mainstay of ot he community for a generation living up there on mosey money made elsewhere did dh not want the tourists trouping through did not want the flavor of ot the old oM community spoiled spelled In short wanted to to keep keep klep things s just jest as sa they were But nul the Progressives s did not give up They kept on fighting tI Then suddenly It was discovered that the money so kindly tendered by Mr Ickes would Involve In volve valve using a new road rond plan approved by the state highway commission This would necessitate cutting culling a n corner ofT off the beautiful and ond historic old oM church which Is la the center of ot the whole Colebrook Colebrook Colebrook Cole- Cole brook legend Didn't Like It 1 Even Kven rn the progressive element didn't like that Rut Hut they did l not give up lip And they IhlY might have hll won their tight fight at that and Mr likes Ickes might have o purred over snottier another soundly plated lII public c works project But there therl was wa more trouble to 10 come the sort of ot trou hie that Is always magnified td In to n exactly Inverse ratio to In the size of ot a comi the pity the agonized yelps of ot taxpayers afraid of ot hither higher assessments I IFor For It was suddenly realized by these gentlemen gentlemen and and ladles for tor there are area a lot of ot widows willows owning property around Colebrook that Uncle Sam was only giving 43 per cent of ot the money Fifty five Fifty five per cent would have ha to be bl raised by hy the Ihl local lorn I taxpayers In short shor that there would have to be he a bond bom issue and Ihl they would have to pay the Interest and und sinking fund for this Issue for tor the next 15 20 or yens jears Fur For the rest of ot their lives as most of ot them then saw sow it It IL All for tor what To have n a new lIew road through their thel township which would bring In tour which only the merchants wanted tint that would bring a flack of ot aliens into In Into to 10 work on the rondo road and destroy th the simple pastoral touch of ot which th the community boasts boast and finally would chop off ofT a corner of ot their ther h historic torl church And only two Iwo unemployed persons In the town township neither o ot of whom opponents confidently asserted could be bl Induced to so M much as loo look at ot a or shovel In connection with the new work So o the town n suddenly 8 discovered that Connecticut had a tog log and prideful prideful pride pride- ful history of ot Independence that I Iwas It was not for tor Colebrook proud prom of at Its own and Nutmeg traditions t to te accept charity from the federal gov goo eminent And the proposal was turned down said laid the progressives Patriots said the summer Bummer real resi dents denla len |