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Show $4 sUXxrfc ffTfk WASHINGTON, D. C If you hap-pen hap-pen to see in Washington a man, probably prob-ably hatlcss, in the back of a big, open auto, gesticulating and hollering into a rubber disk, very likely you will have seen Arthur Brisbane, Hearst's high-priced editorial impres-sarlo, impres-sarlo, getting out copy for his signed "Today" column. Brisbane works In queen ways and places, and one of his places is his auto, equipped with a dictaphone. dic-taphone. Ho loves to get hold of some man like Congressman Bacr, take him in his machino and pump the ideas from Baer into the talking machcine. It is roported that Brisbane has one of his offices fitted as a bed room, and that he gets up' at 4 a. m., and, after a dose of strong hot coffee, gives th dictaphone a vigorous barrage. ! A resolution has been prepared by. Senator "France of Maryland, instruct-' Ing the senate committee on cxpendi-l tures in the department of justice to1 Inquire into the use which has been made of tho half million dollar appropriation appro-priation made by congress for tho apprehension ap-prehension of anarchists- Congress got very liberal after -the porch was blown off Mr. Palmer's house, but while no anarchist has been discovered, discov-ered, convicted or punished, Mr. Palmer Pal-mer has spent money liberally in a campaign of propananda against so-called so-called "reds" sending out photostat material and boiler plate to country newspapers by the ton. It is charged also, by Judge Anderson Ander-son of Massachusetts, thaht the department de-partment of Justice has been taking an active hand in promoting communist activities in order htaht there might be such activities as the object of raids. If this charge by Judge Anderson Ander-son is true, the seuate wishes to know it. r Senators Borah, , Gore nad Prance, are members of this committee and will see that the inquiry is a genuine1 one. i Tho taxation program of t.he.Itep.ub-licans t.he.Itep.ub-licans is not likely to add to the popularity pop-ularity of that party. On April 2, the ways and means committee made a re-'port re-'port outlining certain policies. The ! committee favors a tax on sales by which it is hoping tq raise three billion dollars a year. It has proposed at the same time to reduce the excess profits tax by one billion dollars. A tax on sales is a frank attempt to transfer the burden from the few rich to the many poor. The people who buy are the ultimate consumers. A tax of three billion on sales will be magnified magni-fied many times before the revenue reaches the treasury. There is no way honesty to collect a sales tax. Every firm which is practically placed on honor to render an accurate account of money collected as tax. There is no government machinery adequate to chceck up such returns, and the result Is that the tax becomes only another honest system' of taxation would take account of the enormous dividends which are officially reported from month to month and year to year to the stockholders of great corporatiions producing necessaries of life. |