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THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1135
Congress in Stew over
Roosevelt's Tax Program
(Special To The Prs-Macon ian)
WASHINGTON, July 3.-As if
Congress did not have enough to
worrv about already. President
Roosevelt has given the boys on
Capitol Hill something real to think
about in his proposal that they
ought to draw up and enact some
new tax bills before they go home.
Specifically, he proposes that, in
addition to the present estate taxes,
Congress should put a tax upon
inheritances as well. The estate
tax is taken out before anything
goes to the heirs. It is the Presi
dent's idea, in the case of large
estates, to further redistribute
wealth by taxing the heirs on what
ever they get. And, for good mea
sure, he suggested that it would be
desirable to stick on some higher
taxes on the incomes of bik cor
taxes on the incomes of big cor
tion Tax now is per cent; the
President's idea is that this might
run up to 16J4 per cent on cor
porate earnings above some un
specified but large annual figure.
Many people are professing to be
surprised at what they regard as a
swing toward the left on the part
and other radical elements wnose
slogan is "soak the rich." These
radical Democrats and Progressives
seized upon the new proposal, and
their threats to "show up" the
President as insincere unless he de
manded immediate action, are be
lieved to have influenced him in
his insistence upon tacking the new
taxes to the bill extending the
"nuisance taxes."
As' a bit of political strategy, it
does not make much difference
whether laws to carry out the
President's plan are adopted at
this session or not.
G. O. P. Going Conservative
It is becoming more clear from
day to day that the cleavage be
tween the two parties in 1936 will
be sharply defined, with the Re
publican Party distinctly on the
Conservative side. Following the
action of the "Grass Roots" con
vention in Springfield, Illinois, the
recent meeting of the "Young Re
publicans" of New York went on
record for a distinctively Conserv
ative platform.
In the meantime, Congress has
passed the biggest tax bill ever
TODAY and
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constant
of Mr. Roosevelt. Anybody who , enacted in the United States, the
has studied his political past and
read his speeches during the Presi
dential campaign, including his in
augural address, has no real ground
for surprise; for the idea that
CHANGE
My friends fall into two distinct
classes, which seem to me to typify
the rather sharp division of all of
the people of the United States
these days.
I have many friend's who are so
conservative that any suggestion of
a change from the old order prac
tically stuns them. They can't do
anything about it except to froth
at the mouth, in the violence of
their denunciation of everybody
who wants anything to be done
differently from the way it always
has been done.
The other group consists of those
not always the very young who
think that there are a great many
things wrong with the world and
that many established methods and
principles in both economic and so
cial life ought to be changed.
I find these last usually the more
interesting, and am frequently quite
stimulated by their discussions as
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the pay envelope of every wage "
our manners, customs, economic
and social relationships need chang
pay envelope ot every wage
earner, to provide a fund for un
employment insurance, and for old
wealth is concentrated in a few age pensions. Instead of the Town
hands and that the great pools of send Plan of $200 a month for
wealth ought to be broken up for . everybody over 65, the Government
the benefit of everybody, is one
that he has frequently and emphat
ically expressed.
Capitol Hill Questions
Up on Capitol Hill the Senators
ing. I have lived a good many
years and I have seen innumerable
changes, .nearly all for the better.
Most of them have come about by
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. 2e what might be called the evolution
pension plan for persons over 65 T . .
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k' JZia k a. (Z, ,t dictatorial or coercive methods. I
a ,k c uum k at,n: -oso c nave never seen any cnange tnat
tuiu lucuiucts ui VUiikic die a nan uy nit itDUvviivt sMita. oiaica . .
was uiauv, nets in j tiiav viivi uvi tauav
Under pressure of the Labor ! more evil than good
Lobby the Wagner Labor Disputes
Bill slips through in spite of the
fact that nearly everyone in Wash
ington believes it is unconstitution
al. There is a suggestion that here
again is good political strategy, as
it may line up organized labor be
ing three questions : Can we or : can contribute more if they want to
should we try to pass it at this
session? What would be the prac
tical effect upon the national in
come if we did enact such laws?
And, third, but paramount in the
minds of the members of both
Houses, what will be the poliitical
effect?
The strong inclination of all hut
a few extremists in Congress is to
let the matter lie until the next
session, which will begin in Jan
uary, 1936. The boys want to go
home. The children are out of
school now, and their wives want
to get back to their home towns;
besides, the Washington weather
is getting hotter and hotter. They
still have an awful lot of business
to clean up before adjournment. To
work out anything that will meet
the President's idea of taxes seem
ingly will lead to endless debate
and discussion and maybe keep
them here until Fall. So, for that
and other reasons, it does not seem
likely that they will do much on
tax plans except to talk about them.
The answer to the second ques
tion, as to what the practical ef
fect of the new taxes will be, is
generally that they will not go very
far in making up the budget defi
cit. At all times the great bulk of
taxation is carried by the middle
class, and this middle class, the
practical economists in Congress
and Administration circles say,
would still continue to carry that
load. Very wealthy men who have
accumulated large fortunes can af
ford to hire very expert lawyers to
show them how to distribute their
wealth where they want it to go,
it is pointed out.
The paramount question in the
minds of everybody in Washington
is, really, as to the political effect
of the President's proposal. That,
in the view of the smartest po
litical observers, should be very
good for Mr. Roosevelt and his
chances for re-election. In effect,
it cuts a good deal of the ground
out from under the feet of Huey
Long, the LaFollette Progressives,
HUNUR one man
When four great universities rush
to confer honorary degrees on four
successive days to one American
citizen, it is a pretty high tribute
to that man's qualifications.
That is what has just happened
hind a movement to amend the to Senator Carter Glass of Virginia
Constitution, a movement which Yale- Princeton, Wesleyan and
looms up stronger from week to Tufts Universities all conferred up
week as a probable issue in the on him tbe Degree of Doctor of
I0.lfi mmnaicm , Law. That is goine some for a
The outlook for the Public Utili
ties Holding Companies Bill now
is that while it will be generally
drastic it will not contain the
"death sentence" which President
Roosevelt has asked for. This is
one of the few instances in which
the lower House has taken a defi
nite and apparently firm stand
against the President's desires.
Likewise, material modifications are
expected to be made in the Ad
ministration's Banking Bill before
it is finally enacted, although its
general purpose and effect will not
be materially impaired.
man who started in life selling
newspapers and working as a print
er's apprentice. But Senator Glass,
I think, deserves all the honors that
can be heaped upon him.
I was struck by one expression
in his address at Tufts. "Every
thing new is not right, whether it
be a New Deal or anvthine else."
x uai is auuiiu aim iiiiici auvitc iu
young people who are inclined to
think that all the ancient truths
and principles are out of date.
PHRASE grass roots
A lot of discussion is going on,
in print and by word of mouth, as
WASHINGTON . . . Above are the
two men who will head the skeleton
bed NRA until April, 1936, under the
appointment of President Boeeetelfct
They are; (above), James L. O'Neill,
Vice-president of the Guaranty Trust
Oes N. Y., named acting NBA Ad
ministrator. Below, George L. Berry,
President of the International Press
men's Union, aa assistant to O'Nutt
work, in collaboration with Dr.
Alexis Carrel, in inventing machin
ery by which living organs of the
body can be kept alive for an in
definite time after the death of the
body from which they were taken.
By the use of this device the
heart, kidneys and other organs of
animals and fowls have been kept
alive and functioning for long pe
riods. The importance of this is
that it will make possible 'the study
of the functions and diseases of
various parts of the body much
more minutely than previously.
It is never safe to assume that
because a man is an expert author
ity in one field he cannot qualify
as an expert in any other field. Of
course, the contrary is also true:
it is never safe to assume that
because a man is a great mathe
matician, for example, he is com
petent to advise on questions of
political economy.
CANDIDATES . . . Ool. Knot
I cannot guess any closer than
anyone else who will be the Re
publican candidate for President
next year, but I'm always interested
in the personalities of men who
are under consideration for that
honor. Just now there is a good
deal of talk about my friend Col
onel Frank Knox, Editor and Pub
lisher of The Chicago Daily News.
Colottel Knox is a New Engend
er transplanted fo the Middle West.
He still owns a New England daily
paper, The Manchester Union and
Leader, as well as his great Chica
go daily. He was running a news
paper in Northern Michigan when
he was Chairman of the Michigan
State Republican Committee more
than twenty years ago. Everybody
calls him Colonel, but the highest
actual military rank he ever gained
was that ol Major. He served with
Theodore Roosevelt with the Rough
Riders in Cuba in the Snanish War.
to where the phrase "Grass Roots" and went overseas with the 153rd
originated. It has become current ( Artillery Brigade, as Major, in 1918.
on the popular tongue since the) One thing is certain, that if Frank
"Grass Roots" convention of the Knox should get the Republican
Republicans last month. I nomination in 1936 he would put up
The current meaning is to imply, a strong fight. That's the sort of
that something, like the Spring-1 man he is.
field Convention, has nothing but!
the firm solid earth under it; that
it is not founded upon clouds. But
another meaning of the expression
is to signify something lying very
close to the surface. Grass roots
do not go down very deep.
I remember in my boyhood, near
ly 60 years ago, hearing a traveler
who had returned from California
telling about a new gold strike, in
which he said "there is gold right
at the grass roots."
Like other popular phrases it is
a useful expression.
LINDBERGH .... two field
It is not often that any man wins
fame in two different fields of ac
tivities. No two things could be
farther apart than aviation and bio
logical research; but Colonel Charl
es A. Lindbergh, the world's most
famous aviatior, has just astonished
the world of science by his original
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to discourage thieves. Markings
are being registered in the office
of Sheriff Frank Ballantine.
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