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FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT j
Washington.—The Passamaquod
dj tidal power and Florida ship
canal projects have won a reprieve
from the congressional death sen
tence. It wns the first sign of Pres
idential maneuvering to get the ap
proval of congress for the two proj
ects dumped on Capital hill's door
step last January by the President,
and treated so cavalierly by Mr.
Roosevelt ever since.
Whether It Is the real breath of
life or a mere reprieve will depend
upon critics of the two projects.
They can talk the resolution to
death if they wish, unless all nope
of adjournment is thrown to the
winds. Incidentally there Is noth
ing the Republicans in the senate
would rather talk about than Quod
dy and the Florida canal. They
know they are on safe ground—that
the country regards both projects as
a waste of public money—and that
public reaction was so strong
against them that even the over
whelmingly Democratic house and
senate had to vote them down.
If the resolution Just Introduced
by Senator Joseph T. Robinson is
passed, there is very little doubt as
to what will happen. It provides
that a board of three engineers is
to be appointed to study each proj
ect, and to report to the President
on June 20 or before, this year. If
they report the projects to be ‘‘Justi
fied," the President, under the reso
lution, would then have the approv
al of congress to allot ten million
dollars for the Florida canal and
nine million dollars for Quoddy out
of work relief funds.
All the members of the board are
to be engineers who have not in any
way been connected with either
project. They would be appointed
by the President and receive $50 a
day plus exiienses for eacli day of
service.
Causes Surprise
Critics of the project were sur
prised at the resolution, though it
has been intlmuted at the White
House that some new plun would be
worked out for Quoddy. There had
been no such hint about the Florida
canal.
Senator Duncan U. Fletjher of
Florida has been watering the
White House ns well ns the senate
office building with his tears In be
half of the cnnnl, while Gov. Louis
J. Brann has been talking grimly
to the President and James A. Far
ley about what would happen In
Maine’s September election If Quod
dy were simply dropped overboard
by the administration.
Democratic senators In New Eng
land were Inclined to think that the
move to revive both projects was
Just a political gesture, aimed at
pleasing Fletcher and getting Brann
In a good humor.
It was pointed out, however, that
the Maine voters were rather prac
tical, and that If the res dutlon were
allowed to die because not enough
White House sieum was turned on
they Just might resent it.
Another possibility of course Is
that the engineers, if told by the
President before he appoints them
that they are not to worry about
pleasing anybody, but shall report
their own convictions, may bring In
an adverse report, thus agreeing
with all the previous studies made
of Quoddy. An adverse report
would provide ample Justification
for not going ahead.
This view Is held hy those sena
tors who have thought for some
months now that the President had
finally been convinced by Harold L.
Ickes and others that Quoddy was
a pure waste of money, and thnt
Mr. Roosevelt'* reference of the
whole matter to congress bad Just
been a way out. Especially, they
point out, as l»e did not ask any ad
ministration Support of the proj
ects when ttiey were under consid
eration.
Tax Lawyers Busy
Washington's long array of tax
lawyers, the men who tight to keep
tax payers from being forced to pay
what the bureau of Internal revenue
Insists upon taking, almost regard
less of the law und the precedent,
have been booked utmost solidly
from now on. In many Instances
their services are to start with the
passage of the present tax bill.
Incidentally they are advising cli
ents to postpone any move toward
reorganization. Numerous Incidents
Where reorganizations, mergers or
other forms of change in the cor
porate structure were desired have
been put off until after the pass
ive of the tax bill.
Dependence on the tax lawyers
■trikes some of these very luwyers
as rather amusing at the moment
Two of the most successful told
this correspondent that they could
not make out the foggiest Idea of
what many of the provisions mean.
But at present no one has the
Slightest idea what the tax bill will
be like when it becomes law. The
senate is working on it. That’s all
anyone knows.
All of which piles on top of one
of the most annoying problems
business has to contend with—the
attitude of the Internal revenue le
gal department, headed by Robert
H. Jackson.
1 “II—in,” he began. “We knew the
board of tax appeals did not pay
any attention to the rulings by this
court, but we did not know It was
also Ignoring decisions of the Su
preme court.”
Every lawyer In Washington
knows that there Is violent dis
agreement in policy between the
lawyers of the Department of Jus
tice and those of the bureau of in
ternal revenue. As pointed out in
a recent dispatch, Jackson’s policy
Is to litigate, not to compromise.
One Important case recently was
decided against the government.
Lawyers who had several different
cases precisely on all fours, so far
as they could see, were frankly
informed that the government
would not appeal, hut that It would
not regard the case ag a precedent!
Which amounted, as Washington
tax lawyers see It, to a concession
by the bureau of Internal revenue
that if they had to take the case
In question up to the Supreme
court the government will lose
again. Nevertheless, despite this
obvious belief on their part, they
would not compromise existing
cases of a similar nature. They In
sisted upon making every claim
ant fight In the courts.
This Is fine business for the tax
lawyers. It makes big fees for
them.
La Follelte’s Plan
The most amazing thing abont
the senate's fumbling around on
the tax bill Is thut the one man,
who down In his heart comes
closest In agreement with all the
ltoosevelt doctrines, Is the one who
Is lighting for a tax plan which
probably would be the most disas
trous to the New Deal In November.
This Is Senator Robert M. La
Follette of Wisconsin. His pro
posal, which Is causing so much
concern at the White House and
among the brain trusters. Is to
boost Income tax levies on Indi
viduals getting less than $50,000
a year, all the way down the line,
and to reduce the present exemp
tions so that millions of additional
persons would be obliged to pay In
come taxes, and all those now pay
ing a small Income tax would have
to pay more.
LaPollette Is for this proposal
for two reasons. He wants the gov
ernment to keep on taking In
enough to he able to keep on with
Its social reform, farm relief, and
other Progressive policies. He be
lieves that this Is the only way
to bring In enough money. He
knows, and so do practically all
the senators—only many of them
would not think of admitting It
publicly—that the hill as passed by
the house will not produce the ex
pected revenue. And he knows
also that If Its rates were so boost
ed that it would, the result would
be a rather long drawn-out, hut nev
ertheless effective killing of the
goose that lays the golden egg.
Further, he knows that If this
last Idea Is wrong—If the corpora
tions by one device or another are
able to weather the storm—It will
Just be because they are able to
work out some way or another to
pass the tax on to the consumer
anyhow. Few senators are more
familiar, for Instance, with the ac
tual operations of the excess profits
during the World war, and In the
period Immediately following. The
levy was Intended to get hack some
of the Ill-gotten gains of the profit
eers. As It turned out. It forced
the ultimate consumer to pay more
for everything.
The Alternative
Hence Senator La Follette is
deadly serious when he says that
congress will either accept his
boosting In taxes on small Incomes
or lie compelled eventually to tax
food. Especially as La Follette
knows also that the present meas
ure, even If changed so as to ac
tually produce the revenue the
treasury says It must have, still
fails very far short of balancing
the budget. There must be a tre
mendous Increase In taxes after
election In order to have the gov
ernment taking In us much money
as It pays out.
Of course every other senator
knows this, too, but most of them
are confining their remarks to other
subjects. Certainly Senutor La Fol
lette I- the only pro-New Deal sen
ator who is even whispering about
thw? needs for greuter revenue, and
honestly looking about to deter
mine from what sources It could
he obtained.
Almost without exception the
senators going along with the ad
ministration on the bill are simply
doing a chore. They know the
present structure will not raise the
money needed. Many of them pri
vately agree that the bill Is apt to
do a great deal of arm. Many a
senator who will vote for the
measure Is telling friends he If
afraid It will result In steering the
ordinary business cycle in the dl
reetlon or more violent ups anc
downs, with better booms anc
worse depressions, encouraging
reckless spending in good years
and forcing strict economies In bad
Copyrlsbt.—WNU Strvi*«.
Where Tutankhamen’s Tomb Was Found.
Prepared by National Qeographlc Society.
Washington, D. C.— WNU Service.
TOMB thought to have been
cut through the solid rock
over 7,0(JO years ago was dis
covered recently ten miles soutli of
Cairo, Egypt. Apparently robbed
centuries ago by thieves who cut
through two large slabs of stone
guarding the entrance, it still con
tained a bundle of arrows, and
some symmetrical Jars, probably
put there for the benelit of the soul
of the dead person, who Is believed
to have been a nobleman.
Modern "safe-crackers” have noth
ing on ancient Egypt tomb rob
bers. They had a system all their
own. At Thebes the very men who
dug the underground chambers for
the dead and prepared the sar
cophagi for the royal mummies
sometimes tunneled under the site.
Thus they were ready to break
through the floor and the bnse of
the sarcophagus and so withdraw
the mummy and Its Jewels. The up
per surfuces of Wie royal sepulcher
would give no hint that the body
had been taken away.
A tomb that survived 33 centuries
of grave robberies was that of Tut
ankhamen, hewn In the limestone
cliffs near Luxor, Egypt. When
officially opened In February, 1923,
It still contained the king's mum
my, sarcophagus, rich cofllns, and
numerous art objects. The ante
chamber alone contained 1G7 ar
ticles of Importance.
Statues of the King.
Facing each other across ttie en
trance to ttie Inner chamber were
two nearly life-size figures of the
king, each stricken stiff by the artist
and standing helpless In Its vain
attempt to guard the royal tomb; a
mace in one hand, a long staff In
the other, with a palm-leaf guard
below the hand. The portions of
these statues which represented skin
were the dark, almost black, color
which distinguishes the male figure
from the female In Egyptian art.
The headdresses, collarets, armlets,
wrlsthunds, maces, and staffs were
gilded and the sandals were of
gold. On each forehead was the
royal cobra of Inlaid bronze and
gold. The eye sockets and eye
brows were of gold, the eyeballs of
aragonite, and pupils of obsidian.
In the antechamber with the stat
ues were a large funeral bouquet,
a linen chest filled with the king's
undergarments, and a casket whose
vaulted lid bore paintings depict
ing lion hunts. The sides of the lat
ter were decorated with paintings
showing the king in battle against
African and Asiatic enemies. The
contents consisted of the king’s rai
ment. Most of the paraphernalia
was badly crumpled and the fine
fabrics had almost perished.
Well preserved, however, was a
leopard's-head buckle found on one
of the robes, and a golden scarab
buckle. Finely wrought In silver and
gold nnd inlaid with curneliun, lapis
lazuli glass, and turquoise glass, the
design of this buckle proclaimed
the name of the king.
In the tomb were alabaster vases
filled with unguents. Though in the
tomb of King Tutankhamen for 3,300
yenrs, the unguents retained their
perfume and became viscous In the
sun.
Some of the objects found In the
tomb which Tutankhamen wished to
use In the afterworld Included a
stool, made of solid ebony Inlaid with
Ivory and mounted with gold. The
feet of the stool represented ducks’
heads, and the seat was Inlaid to
represent an animal skin. The king's
throne was covered with gold and
silver and Inlaid with semi precious
stones. Upon the back of the throne
| was a tableau representing the king
nnd queen under the Aten (sun),
the rays being in bas-relief.
Discovery Was a Sensation.
Words cannot give any impression
of the decorations of the sarcopha
gus itself. This great box appeared
to be of wood, covered with gold
leaf or thicker gold, which was
quite bright and had across it a
fine frieze in lapis lazuli or faience
enamel. It appeared to an observer
to be about nine feet high, and
about eighteen or twenty feet long.
The discovery of Tutankhamen's
tomb was world news. Thousands
of columns of newspaper space were
devoted to It In every country. Never
before In history had an urcheolog
ical discovery so captured popular
Interest. After the art objects had
been removed and protected, the
tomb with its sarcophagus and
mummy was opened for visits by
the public. Probably 100.000 vis
itors in all bad entered the tomb
by January, 1934.
Business men throughout the
world pleaded for the right to use
these 3,300-year-old designs for
gloves, sandals, jewelry, and textiles.
One American silk manufacturer es- j
tabllshed a scholarship for study of ;
the designs.
The incomparable treasures from i
Tutankhamen’s tomb, whose salvage
required years of arduous work,
were exhibited in the Egyptian mu
seum at Cairo, where they occupied
several galleries In the crowded
show house founded by Mariette
Pasha.
The official opening of the in
ner chamber of Tutankhamen’s tomb
was on February 18, 1923. The
queen of the Belgians was the hon
or guest. A staff correspondent of
the National Geographic society de
scribes the event.
On February 17, he arrived in
Luxor, crossed the river and start
ed on foot for the Tombs of the
Kings. Plodding along on foot he
exchanged Arabic salutations with
the white-toothed village girls, felt
the African sun on his back, and
watched the camels stalk by on
their way to the cane fields.
On the Way to the Tomb.
The morning freshness was still
in the uir. Gangs of prisoners
were grading and watering the road
which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
of Belgium would use on the mor
row, when she came to pay the first
royal visit to Tutankhamen In
more thun thirty centuries. But
the correspondent did not keep to
the winding ways, made smooth for
automobiles, which glide like a
chalk-white serpent between the
tawny hills. Beyond the green fields
he saw the Colossi of Memnon and
made for them. He wanted to pass
the many lesser gaping tomb
mouths before he finally came to
the royal tombs behind the lime
stone ridge.
The noonday sun was hot and
getting hotter. He shouldered his
heavy camera and started up the
steep path. Thus should one ap
proach that hell hole in the hills
where the greatest of Pharaohs hid
themselves and where not more
than two or three still lie undis
turbed by modern man. As he
passed the tomb of Setl I and
turned toward the lower entrance
of the valley he saw below him a
small white tent, a wooden shelter
for the armed guard, the clutter
of lumber which archeologists use,
and the new wall of irregular stones
which hid the entrance of Tut
ankhnmen’s mausoleum. This su
perheated graveyard, which was
to become a picnic ground and levee
for royalty on the morrow, was
a silent place. Correspondents wait
ing about for news spoke In whis
pers, ns though the secrets of the
spot would be violated by loud talk.
Mystery hung as heavy on the place
as mystery can in the full light of
day.
Official Opening a Spectacle.
Early the next day the corre
spondent rode out again to the
scene. The stage was all set for
the big event of the day, the offi
cial opening. As the day grew hot,
small companies of visitors arrived;
but there had been no attempt to
make this a popular holiday and the
crowd never numbered more than 200.
About noon there arrived a squad
of camels laden with food and drink
for the distinguished guests. The
last of them seemed to be sweating
from the heat, an unusual phenome
non, made plain when one noticed
that his load was ice in gunny sacks.
None of this feast was eaten by the
guests, for the train which brought
Her Majesty and Lord and Lady Allen
by to Luxor was so late that lunch
ing out there In the graveyard of
royalty was not to be thought of.
Those who had come early had al
ready eaten their lunches in the tun
nel leading to the tomb of Amen
messe, as one eats in a railway
lunchroom, with one eye on the
clock and the other on the door. The
nge-old walls of stone echoed to the
rattle of the portable typewriter op
erated by a press reporter.
Then came Lord Allenby in his
motor car, to wait near the bar
rier to welcome the queen.
A motor rolled up; a white-clad
figure alighted; there were numer
ous Introductions, especially to those
Egyptian officials present, and the
queen, with Mr. Carter leading the
way, with Lord Carnarvon on her
left and with Lord Carnarvon’s
daughter Just behind, went down
the incline that led to the tomb
mouth. Within a moment Her Maj
esty had entered the shadowy por
tals of Tutankhamen's tomb.
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The Arithmetic Test
In this test, ten oral arithmetic
problems are given. Head each one
carefully and see how quickly you
can find the answers. Do not use
pencil and paper.
1. Add 8*4. 4*4. 3%, 6*4.
2. A person has $.',000 in the bank.
He withdraws 25% of it. How much
money does he withdraw?
3. A gallon of gasoline costs eight
een cents. How much does twelve
quarts cost?
4. Change 13/8 to a whole or
mixed number.
5. A caravan traveling eight miles
a day goes thirty-six miles. How long
did it take?
6. What Arabic numeral cor
responds with the itoman MCXI?
7. A suite of furniture costs $80.
The company allows 2% discount for
cash. How much will the company
receive on a cash sale?
8. A person has $5,000 in the
bank. He withdraws 25% of It. How
much money remains in the bank?
9. A horse can run a mile In two
minutes. Using that basis, how fast
can he run one mile and a quarter?
10. Change 2,222 into Roman nu
merals.
Answers
1. 22%.
2. $1,250.
3. 54 cents.
4. 1%.
5. Four and a half days.
6. 1,111.
7. $78.40.
8. $3,750.
9. Two and a half minutes.
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