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SEEN and HEAR around the NATIONAL CAPITAL By Carter Field FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington.—Capitol Hill is Kim ply amazed at the falling off In nail from constituents lately. Mnny offices of senators and representa tives are right now receiving less than 10 per cent of their normal mall. In the face of the fact that a sweeping new tax hill Is being writ ten, to be imposed on the country, this situation is absolutely unique. The answer, according to some old-timers, is that the people back home do not understand what Is go ing on. For one thing, most people who have been rending the newspa pers about the new tax bill as snme that the whole thing Is aimed at the big rich corporations, par ticularly the ones with big sur pluses. One senator told the writer that he had Inquired in his own home town—he happens to come from a very small city- and had discovered that not a single busi ness roan In town thought the new tax bill would hit him! “The only people who are Inter ested," he continued, "are stock holders Id some corporations, and more of them are pleased than alarmed. They think the new law will force their corporations to pay bigger dividends, and they are all for that." But the really amazing fuel ap pears to be that owners of little corporations are convinced, with out knowing anything About It, that they will be exempt—that only the big fellows will bear the new burden. And this does not make them very angry. Whereas, senators point out, the committee program In the house provides a whole schedule of new taxes for corporations with Incomes ranging from $10,000 a year down ward as well as from $10,000 a year upward. Have Wrong View Most of these owners of small corporations rend the original press •torles a (tout the new tax plan— that President Roosevelt wanted to eliminate the present corporation Income tax, the present corporation capital stock tax, and the present excess profits tax, and substitute this sliding scule tax on undis tributed earnings for all of them. They still hold that view, despite the obvious fact that congress has no Intention whatever of repealing the corporation Income tnx, and may even retain, In whole or In part, the capital stock and excess profits taxes. In short, the effect of the new bill, when completed, will be to add the new taxes to the old, not to substitute the new for the old, as the President recommended. Nor Is there any doubt that the President will accept the changes. Nothing else will provide the rev enue the government must have, especially as congress Is determined to go as lightly as possible on ex cise taxes. With respect to little corporations —those with "adjusted net Incomes" of $10,000 or less—there Is a slid ing scale tax In the house commit tee plan which goes up to 20.7 per cent on all undistributed earnings. Quite a sizable slice out of earn ings which a struggling little cor poration might be anxious to use In building itself up! So the little corporation Is far from exempt! Sliding scale tnxes In the com mittee plan for corporations with Incomes from $10,000 a year up end this Includes a very great many corporations In small towns which are not regarded, even af home, as anything but little fel lows—rise much more sharply. These slide up to 42% per cent on all undistributed earnings In ex cess of 57% per cent of the net in come. It is true that there are several classifications on which the burden Is eased—railroads, banks, corpora tions with debt obligations requir ing the discharge of a certain part of the debt every year, etc. Rut the owners of the little corpora tions who think that their small ness Is going to prove an um brella are due for a very rude awakening. Tariff on Textiles Bearing in mind the important part that the closing of so many New England textile mills, duo allegedly at least to a flood of im ports of Japanese textiles, played In the Rhode Island congressional election last year (a sweeping Re publican victory). Republican mem bers of the house ways and means committee will write a very po litically minded minority report against the new tax bill. One of its features will be the suggestion of new excise tariff taxes, particularly on textiles. These would follow the pattern of the so-called excise, but really tariff, taxes Imposed several years ago on oil, copper, coal and lumber. The minority report will stress, of course, the thought that new taxes would not be necessary if the government would only curb its spending, and devote Its attention to finding ways to save money in stead of searching for new meth ods of extracting money from tax payers. It will lay great stress on the idea that every dollar so taken from a taxpayer is a dollar which otherwise would bp spent by the taxpayer in some way or other, and hence would play Its part in providing employment. The Idea of an Import excise tax on textiles, Instead of a tax on cor porations' undistributed earnings, Is expected to make a big hit In New England, New York arid New Jer sey, and will be calculated to cause a little discontent with the Demo cratic program In the Southern tex tile section, particularly In the Caro llnns. Incidentally, if any strength should develop for It, the proposal will be most embarrassing to Secre tary of State Cordell Hull, who Is still enthusiastic about Ills reciprocal trade agreements, and Is gradually hammering down the protective tar iff wall by this system. Many cas ual readers overlook the point that every time Hull agrees to a reduc tion In a duty on a given product In a trenty with one country, that reduction promptly applies also In favdr of every other country with which the United States has a "most favored nation clause" treaty | And that means most of them. Appeal to Farmer* For example, when In the re cent treaty with Gannda the duty on Imported liquor was reduced from $5 to |2.50 a gallon, the same reduction promptly applied to Scotch and Irish whiskies. With a view to appealing to the farm belt, the Republican wuys and means committee members will recommend heavy excise tariff du ties on agricultural products of all sorts. This Is aimed at offset ting the appeal of the New Deal’s AAA farm benefits, now changed to soli erosion payments. This phase of the report—while no attention will be pnld to It by the Democratic majority—Is expect ed to prove rather embarrassing to Democratic house members. For the majority members of the ways and means committee have agreed that there are to be no excise taxes whatever In the bill, despite the fact that President Roosevelt and the Treasury department have insisted there should be. Of course the President and the treasury contemplated very differ ent excise taxes from those the Re publican ways and means mem bers will recommend. They were thinking of something more like the AAA processing taxes. Quoddy Project Pnssamaquoddy may get a new dress und become not only respect able, but an actual asset to the New Deal, Having pulled a couple of rab bits out of the Mnine hat In the last two weeks, Roosevelt and Far ley would surprise nobody In Wash ington If they adopted a sugges tion from the Navy department. It Is simply to abandon Quoddy as a large electric producing plant, and convert It Into a naval base! Enough power could be pro duced by the tides to Justify—In political arguments, at any rate— the original claims about harness ing the tides. There Is plenty of water there, It is pointed out, nnd of sufficient depth to produce a good harbor, providing a couple of breakwaters are built. But the big argument In favor of It Is that such a naval base would be at the nearest point In the Unit ed States to Europe! It is almost two days’ sail closer to Europe than New York, and one day’s sail closer than Boston. Causes Some Worry It 1ms been especially worrying because the marching up the hill and down again, with congress turn ing thumbs down on a project the President had started, with the President fishing during the fu neral, naturally attracted consider able attention In Maine. The state of Maine folks, politicos here think, are n very hard-headed lot, with strong objections to seeing their money wasted. So If the project could be turned Into something that could be defended as useful—espe cially If the Maine folks could be convinced that the new naval base would add materially to Maine's In dustries—retreat could be turned Into victory. Quoddy then could actually be made an asset In getting out a good Democratic vote In September, with resulting psychological benefit to Democratic workers in other states, as they labored for Roosevelt's elec tion in November. All of which is the more Inter esting because a lot of sentiment is developing on Capitol Illll ngainst spending all the billion and a half dollar relief appropriation j the President has demanded for ] boondoggling projects. e—WNU Servlc*. WASHINGTON T O D A Y “Federal Triangle” In Washington. Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. HE annual spring rush of tourists to Washington is on. In the Nation’s Capital even the perennial visitor is greeted with something new to enjoy. This year new buildings, recently opened, In and near the great triangle be tween the Capital and the Ellipse, will be a feature of a tour of the city. (laze down upon the modern Washington from an airplane. As always, the simple grandeur of the White House, the Capitol, the Lin coln Memorial and the towering Washington monument draw the eye and make the heart beat faster. But neur them new wonders have ap peared. Quietly and steadily, with so lit tle fuss that residents were hard ly aware of It, thousands of car loads of stone and metal—whole mountains in the aggregate—have been hauled Into the city and reared Into monumental buildings. Acres and acres of old, unsightly structures have been razed on Cap itol Hill, around Its base, and along broad, historic Pennsylvania ave nue. In their place stretch parks, wide boulevards, or long, handsome houses of government. In the angle formed by the In tersection of Pennsylvania avenue and the new Constitution avenue, beautiful Champs Elysees or Rue de Rlvoll of Washington, rises a mighty wedge of masonry, the famed “Federal Triangle," eight blocks long. In this single group Is the most amazing collection of government buildings that the world has seen. Beneath the roofs of this Tri angle work nearly 20,000 govern ment employees, about as many ns the entire population of Batavia, N. Y., or Daytona Beach, Fla. Every day dozens of people get lost In Its 20 miles of corridors. Massive and Beautiful. In sheer size the cluster of build ings Is staggering. Even from high above. It Is as If a dozen or more of New York’s tallest skyscrapers have been laid on their sides, formed Into a blunted arrowhead, and cut and twisted to make courts and wings. One unit—the Com merce department—Is longer than the Chrysler building Is tall. But It Is not merely an Impression of bigness tjhat one has In the wan dering plane. Long ranks of ma jestic columns, graceful arcades, a wide plaza, ^nd solid rock walls give a beauty and simplicity that make these enormous newcomers tit com panions for the classic White House and Capitol. The uirplane turns, and far off In the distance, beyond the Cap itol dome, appears u gleaming white marble temple, comparable in beauty even to the noble Lincoln Memorial. This Is the new United States Su preme Court building, the only real home of Its own that the nation’s highest court has had. For the flrst time In American history a citizen now might gaze upon the separate, permanent abodes of the three branches of Ids government — legislative, the Cap itol; executive, the White House, and now, for the judicial, long shel tered In the old senate chamber, this temple whose dignity and Impres siveness match the majesty of the law Itself. Suspended in History. As you cruise about, other splen did white buildings appear, new Jewels in the familiar setting along the l’otomac. Beyond the Lincoln shrine the new Arlington Memorial bridge links north and south. Down the Virginia shore of the winding river a wide Apptan way, the Mount Ver non Memorial highway leads to the home and tomb of the Father of Ilis Country. From the steps of the Capitol all the way down to the river, two and a third miles away, sweeps a broad stretch of tree-dotted park land. Gone is much of the mushroom growth of temporary wartime struc tures. Their removal gives new beauty to this Mall, main feature of the grand plan conceived by the Revolutionary soldier-artist, Maj. Pierre Charles L’Enfant, when he laid out this city with broad, sweep ing, prophetic strokes to be the cap ltal of a vast country. Hanging between earth and sky, you seem suspended in history, halfway between the past and the unfathomable future. How would the city look a hundred years hence, or twenty, or a thousand? For months now, returning trav elers from Timbuktu or Teheran and pilgrimaging citizens from Dodge City or Dubuque have been pausing on emergence from Wash ington’s Union station and uttering exclamations of admiration and sur prise. No wonder! Insteud of ugly brick walls and tar-paper shacks of World war vintage, a splendid park cut by wide drives sweeps across to the Capitol. In the midst of the magnificent plaza, if It be summer, a fountain plays, its water glowing with subdued colored lights. The Senate Office building, off there at the left, has had its face lifted—and a handsome face It now is, with a long row of Roman Doric columns. A street car line that once marred the scene dips discreetly un derground. Beneath a broad lawn is a subterranean garage in which 270 senatorial cars can be parked. Supreme Court Building. But to look upon the latest crown ing glory of Capitol hill one should stand on the front steps of the Cap itol, where Presidents are Inaugu rated, and see the new Supreme Court building. Its beauty height ened by the green of trees and grass. It occupies a historic site. Early patriots in powdered wigs foregath ered at a famous old hotel run By William TunnlclilT on this spot be fore the War of 1812. After the British burned the Capitol In 1814, a building erected here housed con gress until the marks of the torch were erased. In Civil war times It was used as a military prison. Everything about the Supreme court's home Is on a majestic scale. Look at those blocks of marble, one at each side of the steps. Each block weighs 45 tons. They are two of the heaviest marble blocks ever brought into Washington. The two bronze doors weigh 3,000 pounds apiece. The eight Corinthian columns are 51*4 feet high. The pediment above them catches the eye, not alone for Its size, but for its interesting sculptures In which the features of historic or living men are recognized. Inside the massive bronze por tals a main hall lined with 36 state ly columns—each made from ona solid piece of stone—leads to the courtroom where the nine black robed Justices sit. At their own re quest the room was made only about 60 per cent larger In floor area than the old Supreme court room In the Capitol. Btchly colored marble col umns and sculptured panels lend beauty to the lofty chamber, 45 feet from floor to celling. Wonderful Libraries. In the Folger Shakespeare library, down the street, reposes a fine col lection of books and Elizabethan treasures, even the supposed corset of Queen Elizabeth, solemnly stowed away In a vault and showed only to a chosen few. Behind the Library of Congress an annex almost to double its ca pacity Is being built, although al ready it Is the largest library in the world, with more than 9,840,000 books, pamphlets, pieces of music, and other items at the latest count. Down from Capitol hill, past a shining new House Office building lately reared beside the first one, the trail of t he new Washing ton lends to Pennsylvania avenue. In some of its now vanished build ings—masses of rubble and ruined walls then—the first bricks flew In the “bonus army” riots of 1932. Halfway along “The Avenue,” be tween the Capitol and White House, there stretched off to the left In the early days of the city a dreary swamp where Washingtonians were wont to shoot “reedbirds.” On this unlikely site now stands a structure in many ways unique — the National Archives building. Here for the first time Is a worthy, safe and permanent home for the precious records of the na tion, some scrawled In failed ink on yellowed paper by early patriot hands, others punched out on mod ern typewriters, or even contained In sound motion picture films which will he preserved and shown here. To guard against deterioration — to keep Father Time at bay as long as possible—both sunlight and nat ural air are bnrred from the archive storage sections, which are wiudow leu. HOfc^RE t/oujem / DR. JAMES W. BARTON T*ll<i About © Use of Thyroid Extract WHEN the overweight in dividual reads of the great loss of weight that has been accomplished by the use of thyroid extract, he or she im mediately seeks out the family physician and suggests that he prescribe thyroid extract. If the physician knows the fam ily well he knows whether or not the thyroid extract will be of help because it is only useful in cases where the individual was always fat or became fat when emerging from the boy or girl into the man or woman—at the age of puberty. If thyroid extract Is given when the overweight is due simply to Dr. Barton overeating or un derexercising, it may cause heart, and even thyroid trouble. With the dlnl trophenol there has been a few deaths, a number of cases where a skin rash appeared and oth ers in which the sensation of taste was lost whilst taking this drug. The rash disappeared and the taste came back when the dinitrophenol was stopped. Dr. D. M. Dunlop, in the Brit ish Medical Journal, by direct ob servation on overweight patients under treatment, found that the ab sorption of dinitrophenol was ex ceedingly rapid, a noticeable effect being produced on metabolism (the working of the body processes) a quarter of an hour after the patient had taken a single dose, and the greatest effect of the whole day oc curred within one hour after the drug was taken. This effect would last for 24 hours, but in 4,8 hours the rate at which the body proc esses were working was about down to normal again. Three days after the patient stopped using this drug, the body processes were exactly at normal. Difference in Effects. This short time in taking effect, and the short time the effect of the dinitrophenol remains after its use has stopped, is in direct contrast to the slow onset of the effects of the thyroid extract, and also the long time before its effects have worn off. Thyroid extract takes three days before its effects are felt, and its effects last for a whole week after the patient stops us ing it. However, while dinitrophenol in creases metabolism by as much as 50 per cent, it doesn’t raise the pulse rates as much as ten beats, whereas thyroid extract by raising the rate at which the body works by just 20 per cent, increases the pulse rate by 24 beats. While this would seem to give dinitrophenol an advantage over thy roid extract, Doctor Dunlop points out that there is really no way the physician can judge or gauge just what is going on in the pntlent’s body when dinitrophenol is used. Further, Doctor Dunlop considers the weight loss produced by dini trophenol exceedingly disappointing as compared with thyroid extract, as thyroid extract separates the water from the fat tissue better de spite the profuse sweating pro duced by dinitrophenol. Every pound of fat holds over three pounds of water, so getting rid of fat gets rid of weight also. May Be Discomfort. Another point about dinitrophe nol is that if the body processes are not increased more than 30 per cent, the patient doesn't feel any particular symptoms, but if in creased up to 50 per cent—the full effect of a safe dose—there is much discomfort and a feeling of ex haustion. However, despite all the points in favor of using thyroid extract in some cases, and dinitrophenol in others, Doctor Dunlop points out that neither dinitrophenol or thy roid extract can compare with di etetic restriction as a weight re ducer. Thus those who are wondering whether or not they should be us ing drugs to reduce weight, can take comfort in knowing that cut ting down gradually on the food Intake is the safest and surest method of reducing weight. • * * Fever Is Helpful. “Isn’t science grand! After study ing fever for only 4,000 years, sci entists have learned that it helps them cure things.” The above is from “Isn't It the Truth” column of the daily newspaper. Unfortunately it must be admit ted that mankind has been slow In recognizing the value of heat to the system. A rise in temperature is a sign that something has gone wrong inside that body of yours, but it is likewise a sign or reminder that your body processes are work ing so hard that they are overheat ed in their efforts to keep up with the extra needs of the body as It tries to tight off whatever it is that is attacking you. ©-WNU S«rvtc«. Two of a Kind By E. P. O’BRYAN ©, Modure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. SLIPPERY M’GONIGAL was no body’s fool around race tracks. Occasionally it became necessary for him to go away for long stretches at a time until the race-track cops forgot what they wanted him for, then he’d show up with a new nume and maybe some new clothes. His greatest stroke of genius at a dis guise was when he had all his snags pulled and got himself a brand new set of grinders. Not only a new set of shining ivories, but a set with a lot of gold teeth in front, too. It was surprising how different the gold teeth made him look. He’d had the [dates for these made deep er so that they stretched the skin around his mouth, giving him the appearance of a long faced, serious looking youth. Just to see what effect the gold teeth had, Slippery went into a sa loon one night, wearing Ills white ones, and had a few drinks with the bartender. Then he went back to his room and changed to his gold ones. He also changed Ills hat and suit. When he came hack, he smiled broadly at the bartender. “Tell me that yarn again,” he said. “The one about the widow." "What story was that?" the bar tender said. “I don't recollect." “The one you told me half an hour ago—when I was in here before." The bartender shook his head. “Guess it must have been Gus, the bartender I relieve.” The little old guy In the gray cap Slippery spotted the next afternoon interested him more than any pros pect he had ever singled out. Once the man had opened his wallet to make a two dollar bet and Slippery had been close enough to see what the wallet contained. He caught the flash of several C notes and his pulse quickened. The little old man In the gray cap was leaning over the rail watch ing Showgirl romp home In the fourth race. Slippery with expert fingers transferred It to his own pocket. He looked around just In time to see Captain Miles of the guards pushing his way through the crowd, making straight for him. Slippery made the fringe of the crowd In time to have a good start on the policeman. Though Captain Miles called upon the fleeing man to halt, and threatened to shoot. Slippery knew that no sane police man would fire in that crowd. He kept right on running. When he reached his hotel he changed clothes hurriedly. He also changed back to his gold teeth. Except for an occasional visit to the restaurant downstairs he scarce ly left the hotel for a week. Then one day he put In his gold teeth, had a few shots of whisky and set out for the track. It would be a cinch. No cop would recognize him after a whole week, especially If he kept laughing all the time and flash ing those gold teeth. As he left the saloon, be turned back and asked permission to leave his topcoat, lie remembered he had worn it the day he helsted the wal let. “Sure,” the bartender said, “hang It right over there. I’ll keep an eye on It.” It was the same bartender who had failed to recognize him the other night when he had come back wearing his gold teeth. At the track he nosed around, looking for dope on the horses. He had money now and could lay a lit tle bet. Suddenly he felt a hand upon his arm, then fingers gripped It hard. He turned to face Captain Miles. Though his heart was In his mouth he managed to smile broadly, expos ing his gold teeth. “Well,” Miles said, “ye come back, didja? I didn't think ye would. I been waiting for yez, I have. Didn’t think I’d forget that face, didja? Or maybe ye thought it was my day off, huh?" Slippery tried to tell Captain Miles that he was a stranger in town and this was his first day at the track. ‘‘Gwan, ye lunkhead! Don’t ye think I got eyes in me head? Why. ye lyin’ rat, I’ve a mind to—’’ “Ail right, you win.” Slippery said. All the way back to town he tried to think where he had slipped this time. He certainly had fooled that bartender. Why hadn't those teeth fooled the cops? He asked Captain Miles to let him go by the saloon for Ills topcoat. The bartender didn't remember about the coat. “Hut I just left it with you less than an hour ago.” Slippery insist ed. “That's it hanging over there." "Don’t ye remember this hlrd?” Captain Miles asked suspiciously. “What's he tryin’ to put over on yes now?" "I do remember he was in here about a week ago." the bartender said. "Remember, we had a couple of drinks and I told you the story about the widow?” Slippery nodded. A great light was : beginning to dawn upon him. “It must be his coat all right,'* the bartender went on. “If he left it here an hour ago, be must have left It with Al. I’m Gus. We changed shifts about twenty min utes ago. Pretty hard for some peo ple to tell us apart, you know. We’re twins and lots of times they get us mixed up." >411 >4round /he House Wood ashes make an excellent fer tilizer for shrubbery and rose bushes, also for dahlias, peonies and del phinium. Scatter ashes over soil. It makes it sweet and has a tendency to loosen It. • • * Sweep rugs the way of the pile. 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