Show I LETTER E J I S IlOA ROAM HOU 1 ST CO fir B Charles Charl 1 P. P Stewart SEA NESt Ser Sers SerIce Ice WASHINGTON S Sept Jt The Thc automobile poor people who have a flivver and nothIng else- else came In tor or their share or of con con- consideration before the National Conference of oC Catholic Charities in Washington recently Plenty of oC whole families-whole tam fain spend pend all their time wan wan- dering derin aimlessly around the coun- coun country country try in their cars wIth no other home livIng on handouts of at Co food ad and traveling on handouts of gas gall oline Miss Louise McGuire or of orthe the Catholic Ca vice school said Some ot of these folk tolk stop atop occa- occa Miss McGuire added while the head had ot of the family does II a little work but many of oC them are constantly on the go At best the father Cather of oC a a. family ot of auto tramps doesn't get much of at a job for he wont won't stay h I It The vagabond instinct Is too stronE tron In him and his dependents dependent As soon ass as hes he's earned a few Cew dot dot- dollars lars they're on their way This new kind ot of gypsies Is so recently developed that we hard hard- hardly ly Iy realize we have It with us and It Is entirely unstudied as ae yet nt Probably Miss alias McGuire whose attention wu was attracted to It through concern for tor the future of oC children growing up such utter vagrants Is the best beet authority relative to the breed Without going Into figures for no statis- statis statistics statistics tics are available else ello declares It numerous nn and Increasing Increasing-a grave problem soon to be met metrue rue Tho treasury department which keeps hammering away on the Idea ot of the tho futility of federal tax reduction It if state and ond local tax lax atlon Is to continue to 10 Increase has fIgures to prove how serious the situation Is when federal years earli ago 00 taxes were vero higher than Ihan the they are arc now ISOW and other laxeR were not so eo II high lit h. h of nil all taxes In tIre the country central government took 59 per cent and state and local government 41 Last year the federal government took IS 8 ISper per cent and state and local governments 72 This according to treasury of- of Is partly because federal taxes have been coming conring down but it Is much more because state and local taxes have been moving up Of OC course the state and local figures are arc an some average parts of oC the country are arc worse than others but those where there hasn't been an advance are few tew and tar far between Officials point out too that I Ithe the Individual who walks I Into I a local treasurers treasurer's office and pays I his tax direct generally isn't the tho theone one who carrIes thu load lie He usually p passes his burden along Every ery merchant for for- instance adds IsIs taxes In with his overhead over over- head hoad making prices higher on everything The consumer who may not realize hes he's being taxed toots the billIts bill Its It's much more important for Cor his doctor to keep the aviator In prima primo physical condition so that he wont won't have accidents than to patch him up ward afterward remarks Major L. L 1 H H. Bauer Dauer of at the army medical corps The major quotes BrItIsh air records Th The tint first year or of the war 60 per cent ot of their aviation fatalities were due to the pilots pilots' physical defects Dy By careful selection and care or of fly lIy- ers era they cut this down to 12 per cent It may be interesting stays says Major Bauer Dauer to know that ot of the cadets at Vest est Point an and Annapolis who are supposed to tobe tobe be or of more than average physical makeup leIs Ices than halt half are physically cally caily qualIfied to tI fly |