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s i.e i earn I. fciOUi'.i ti , , National Cj: 1 "lgy CARTES IT- - J5 ' Washington. Grave - concern Is felt by high administration officials over the, lack of eagerness 'of so : many people, all over the country, . to get off relief rolls, even when fairly good Jobs are offered.; It Is Impossible to obtain accurate fig ure about this phase of the situa tion, all the bureaus, , admlnlstra- : flnna. . mih)Im , Ato tiatn van much publicity shy about this dis ' turning development - It la known, however, that reports from all over have been received, and that President Roosevelt's hopes of getting everybody off the relief rolls as speedily as possible have : run up against a very stiff resist t, ance. .-..ai';:';:,'...1; ' In many cities young men eligible for the CCO camoa are refnalns to take the examinations. In one large city families are Insisting they do not want their boys to be trained as soldiers that they bear beer la sold at the camps that their boys would have to associate with low charac ters, f ' Professing entire Ignorance of the situation In that city, the COO officials here Insist .they do not be lieve the objections cited by the parent are genuine. They say that the talk about military training was , very widespread when the camps were first started, but that It broke down of Its own weight a short time ago. They believe the sole and only reason Is unwillingness to get off relief rolls. In other dtles. In fact In most cities, enrollment In the OCO camps has been way below what was ex pected, and the answer Is believed by officials here to be just unwilling ness to get off relief. But In every , Instance officials say to Inquiring re porters from the city in question: "Please don't mention that you talked to me about this." Incidentally the Veterans' bureau' has been having Its trouble along the same line. A Real Problem The whole question brings up the point whether the United States Is ' now going through what England went through a few years back. In 1 England the dole brought some In- . teresting consequences, and, as they occurred before the depression hit this country, there was quite a self righteous "feeling in this country that Britain was bringing her trou bles on her own bead by pamper ing the dole collectors. J i Then came the depression, and ' the New Deal. Whereuoon It be vy came progressive in this country to Insist that it was the duty or the government to- take care of the cold and hnnerv. and reactionary to point to Britain's troubles on the . name sort of Droblem. ' Kmm it la helnir realized that It Is a problem Involving fundamental . traits of human nature, ana tnat the United States Is not very differ ent In the character of its people from Britain. No one, not even the most bitter critic of the administra tion an Canltol Hill. Is advocating that people should be allowed to starve or freeze. But a very jnter ptlne mental transformation Is be coming apparent In New Deal cir cles. For example, a high official of the Federal Emergency Belief admin istration was told that his agents In a large middle western city had threatened to take families off re lief If they refused to permit their sons to go to the COU camps, or ir able-bodied men in the families re fused to tale Jobs which were of fered. :' - ' ' "I have not heard about that," w aaid ahortlr. "Ton see It Is a purely local problem. The man on the ground handling toe rener situ ation has authority to handle the matter In any way he sees fit." 'You mean If be turns families off the relief rolls for such reasons as that, It is entirely up to him?" he was asked. "Exactly," he replied. "would me local uuicitua ura&e a report to headquarters here about f-' it?" the questioner persisted. "Nothing of the kind need be re : ported," he replied. ' ' And his whole manner indicated, what some of bis underlings told the writer in confidence, that he .. did not want any such reports I Cut Huge Fortunes s President Roosevelt's objective Is the redaction of all large fortunes to a maximum or l7,ouo,uuuau . lnrn Incomes to a maximum of SQ0 000 a year. He -said this In a con versation a few days ago witn a i wrv rich Democrat who ,lnd nenraiiy nan netm uik utuiuaigu , fund contributor, and the geathv ; man Is still sputtering about It ' in another most Interesting con- versatlon with a Wisconsin man -whit had hacked him when Rooae- "' 'valt tmIIt -needed backlna. In the ( pre-conventlon days, the President advised nis cauer to -hj jibci to Wisconsin and make "your peace i ;'with the I Follettes. They are our kind of neonle. ! , Which of course Is purely cor Mthnmriva of what, the President 11 has been saying about his tax pro- . gram-KOat ll nas two vujeeuvea, B , better social order, as well as rev- 5 enue. T ' innnwhile business . men . as a whole are aghast at the prospect, for they see. In the drive against i bigness almost surely furtner Doost- lng of the rates to rpply against all ,1b i on do nut agree 1 with the o, entirely aside from their li interests, of this policy. - I tf them admit that there Is g merit In the conten tion so i a made In private con verso J i by Justice Brandeta against I In privately .owned corpmat.lv j... Frequently, they ad mit, ninny of the faults which char acter! 9 an large scale government operations creep In when a corpora tion attains unwieldy else. They even admit that instances can be cited where the mere size of the corporation Increases the cost , of whatever unit it may manufacture. or the Item of service It may ren- J der. s .. , (, Take the Automobile ' But they Insist that for the most pare these instances are the excep tions, and not the rule. A favorite illustration of the reverse Is the au tomobile. Anyone who knows any thing about manufacturing admits that If the automobiles of this coun try were produced by say 200 man ufacturers of fairly even ; size, the cost per automobile to the pur chaser would be more, than double. The best Illustration of this Is the Ford car now manufactured by a' fairly good sized plant in Strasb ourg, France. That car costs the purchaser In Paris about f 1,700. This Is not due to the protective tariff, for the car Is made In France. Actually, of course. If the ears were made in the big Ford plant at Deaf' born, they would pay 100 per cent tariff, and still save the purchaser a good deal of money. , . It le the French 'quota system on, Imports which forces their manufacture on a small scale at gtrassburg. - Manufacturers contend tnat 11 Ford cars were produced by sep arate plants of small size in this country, each owned by a different owner and operated independently In short if the policy desired by the administration in this use of the . taxing power: against bigness were forced into - effect the car, would cost purchasers in this coun try more than the $1,700 charged In France. For It so happens that wages in the Straseburg plant are lower than In the Dearborn plant All of which helps to explain what some critics of the plan mean when they Insist it Is a "distribution of poverty" not a "distribution of wealth." i. ' -t One Real Danger -5 r - Only one phase of the huge "share the wealth"-tlevel off the big for tunes" and "pass prosperity around" taxation program of President Roosevelt seems In any real dan ger. This Is the sliding scale tax aimed at big corporations. . There seems no doubt whatever that the big levies on inheritances, and the boosts in the upper Income tax brackets, will be approved by con gress, substantially as desired by the President Already a trickle of protests has begun arriving from holders of com mon stocks lb the big corporations. A few of them have1 already real ized that heavier taxes dtt the com panies In which their savings are Invested hits mem, and them alone. For the bondholders, and the pre ferred stockholders, will .continue to get their interest and dividends, if they are earned. Additional taxes will hit the equities, not the debts, of these corporations. . -' If the big companies should do anything like as thorough a job In rousing their stockholders as. the utilities did, there Is little doubt that this phase of the program would be In serious danger,: For there is nothing like -the spontanea ous appeal to this levy that there Is to the proposal to tax big for tunes, both when lq estates and in Incomes. ' , ' , ' Some lawyers are contending,." however, that the big Inheritance taxes are unconstitutional. They contend that the object of the tax Is not to raise money for the needs of the government, but is purely social In character, with, the object of lev eling off fortunes. This,, they con tend, runs counter to the Constitu tion. ; ' - . Not much attention Is apt to be paid to this by the senators and rep resentatives. "Sock the rich" lias always been a popular slogan, po litically, and the theory that It la good politics to vote for such legis lation. Is strongly held. , Question of Politic ' '' : '' Lots of men In both house and, senate will vote for , these levies who do not really approve of them. Hence - the comparative - certainty that they will pass. ? Opposition to them might prove very hurtful at the next election. , tfThe opposition! based chiefly not on any theory that it Is a bad idea to cut down the big fortunes- though there are a few who Insist that many big fortunes have proved far more beneficial to the public at large than if the same amount of money had been spent by the gov ernment but on the old Mellon theory of efficiency. , ' v- - ; -; Andrew , WV Mellon- waen "secre tary of the treasury, frequently con tended that lower percentages of taxes of the high brackets would bring more money Into the treasury than higher percentages. He pointed to the fact that every time taxes were reduced on big Incomes, re ceipts from big Incomes Increased. Critics of the Mellon regime al ways insisted that the reason for this was merely because it occurred during a rapid rising tide of pros perity, r Coarrlfht WNU setvic Oklahoma City's new sons law permits oil wells to be drilled In the heart of the btntiness district as shown here The day may come when tall buildings are torn down to make room for the skeleton-like towers. : Gets $2$,0(Kh-the Lucky Dog! ; .1,! .'v le ' Nothing to be sniffed at was the $25,000 willed to Pet, this Eskimo spitz, by his late mistress. Miss Margaret McDermott of Chicago, who asked that he be placed in the borne of a woman who loved" dogs. Pet Is now the charge of Mrs. Hulda Rhode and her grandson Lawrence Dennis, shown here, who were friend of Miss McDermott New Troops : Fresh Italian troops and small four years war In Africa, shown as In Italian Somaliland. t t , . ' ' 'MAP WOMEN'S AID Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, , assist ant program director, who is busy In Washington with plans for em ploying 500,000 women with part of the President's $1,880,000,000 works- relief fund. V for Italy's Ethiopian Front ; tanks manned by Italians and natives, they passed In review, before Gen. Rodolro Qrazlanl llelt, on tno.stana; ' , -',''''. ' . -' 1 WAR IN Africa, -5ay8 Duce,' : Will Certainly I 1 . s " Come by . OCTOBER; Premier Benito Mussolini goes right ahead with his plans tor be ginning a four-years' war against Ethiopia In the fall. Italy, now over populated, needs more room to ex pand, says II( Duce, and now Is the time to do It Efforts of Hallle Selassie, Ethio pian emperor, and of other nations have failed to effect a compromise, and new troops and military equip ment are arriving In Italian Somali land almost dally.'-; , ; ! 1 ' Great Britain, through' Its Capt. Anthony Eden, Journeyman attend ant of John Bull's League of Na tions, affairs, offered Italy a gener ous slice of British Somaliland as aconcesslon If he would guarantee peace In Ethiopia. Mussolini flatly refused. i f , II Duce has also threatened to ''remember." the nations which have offered to supply Ethiopia with Taxidermist for Defunct -NRA Dod6 J Meet Prentiss J.; Coonley, upon whom has beea'placed the charge of making the dead :NRA assume something of a lifelike appearance. Miv Coonley was code administra tor of. the ld JNatlonal Recovery administration.,- : - ; He has been advanced: to the po sition of director of the new divi sion of business co-operation, In an attempt to; revive - the 'more note worthy phases Of NBA.. . . . ,' -; ready to wage Mussolini's proposed . RULES CHERRY FETE J Genevieve Pepera. Manistee blond, was chosen from western Mich igan's fnlre.it to reign as queen over the national cherry festival at TrS' versa Cltv. Inl If. 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