Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1922 — Page 3

SEPT. 19, 1922

MENUS KB 01 INCHES > fIROUSECONGRESS Movement Started to Uncover Causes of Complaints From Everywhere. BILLIONS IN REFUND CLAIMS Public Without Knowledge of Big Appropriations to Correct Errors. p.u c. c. LYOX Time* Staff Corrr*f>ondcnt WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 —A move to bring about a congressional investigation of the working of the Federal income tax system is under way here. There is hardly a Congressman who lias not received from constituents complaints against the present methods employed by the Government in the assessment and collection of income taxes. On the other hand Attorney General Daugherty, in his report to Congress. declared the Bureau of Internal Revenue now has before it refund j claims amounting to “billions of dollars.”

Nevertheless, under the system in vogue, the public is kept in absolute darkness as to who wants the “billions of dollars." and to whom are being paid the $100,000,000 appropriated by Congress for cash refunds. Congress itself doesn't know. The enforced secrecy which surrounds tl ° system, a secrecy imposed by law, not only invites favoritism but the Government could be defrauded of hundreds of millions of dollars annually without the knowledge either of the Secretary- of the Treasury or the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Fine for Disclosures Officials and employes who would divulge an income tax or tax refund secret would subject themselves to fine and imprisonment and bar themselves from ever again holding Government office or employment. Such information as Congressmen have has come largely from taxpayers who have learned conditions through their own personal experiences fn defiling with the system. Some of the allegations are: That the small taxpayer is unable to have his tax .claims adjusted because of priority given large corporations with million-dollar claims. That claim handled hv attorneys, who were once officials or employes of the income tax division, are given preference over claims handled by attorneys who never had any such connection. That changes made in the manner of handling cases by the abolition of the audit review division have made it possible to “railroad" claims through the division. That most of the force of the income kax division, since Jan. 1. 1922, has Kieen concentrating upon claims for , refunds to the neglect of Government j claims for additional tax assessments that remain uncollected amounted to j hundreds of millions. That the statute of limitation is j liable to become operative, with con- j sequent great loss to the people, un- j less there is a reform. That the audit review division, now ‘ abolished, last year alone saved the 1 Government millions of dollars ! through its discovery of errors in the audit of returns. These are a few of the things that Congressmen are being told is wrong with the income tax system and should be remedied. ASKS RILEY CELEBRATION Superintendent Requests Schools to Observe Poet’s Birthday. Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent of public Instruction, has addressed a letter to all school officials calling upon them to join with the pupils and citzens of Indiana in celebrating Riley Memorial ween, Oct. 1 to 7. Mr. Burris called attention to Riley’s love of lltttle children and pointed out that a great many hu-man-interest lessons could be learned from a careful study of his popular works.

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DENBY’S AID MAJ. MAURICE E. SHEARER Maurice E. Shearer, major. United | States Marine Corps, today was appointed aide to Secretary of Navy Denby. Major Shearer was born in Indianapolis and is officer in charge of Marine Corps recruiting. lie will retain this position. His military service began with the 27th Indiana Battery of Eight Artillery, of which he was a member during the Spanish-American War. He I joined the Marine Corps in 1901. Major Shearor was cited for bravery j m action durin gthe World War and 1 received the Crotx de Guerre with palm and the Distinguished Srevice : Cross.

SORORITIES HE PLEDGES FOR 1822 Butler College Girls Choose New Members for Start of Fall Semester. Indianapolis girls who attend Butler College have an opportunity of becoming members of one of five National sororities that have chapters at Butler College. They are. Kappa Alpha Theta. Kappa Kappa Gamma. FI Beta Phi, Delta Delta Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha. In addition there is a flourishing local sorority. Delta Pi Omega. TH?' larger part of the membership of these sororities is from Indianapolis. It has the distinction of having the largest sorority alumni association in the world, with more than 300 members. The five national sororities ut Butler all have residences either owned or leased, which house from ten to twenty girls each with their chaperons. The sorority and fraternity houses are under the regu- I lations of Butler College as to hours, , social activities and pledging. During the month of August the sororities gave “rush parties" for their prospective members, the Anal affairs being the matriculation day spreads held yesterday noon. Yesterday afternoon “silence" started and ! lasted until noon today when the lists of pledges to the new sororities were | announced. "Silence" means that during the hours decided upon, no “rushee" may talk to a member of any sorority. During the time stipulated each girl Is expected to decide to which sorority she would prefer. By midnight of "silence" each has received. by messenger, the names of the sororities considering her for membership. She then sends the college authorities the names in the order of her preference. This was all accomplished last night and the results is the pledging of the following girls: Low Visibility According to a newspaper, stockings were invented in the eleventh century. And they were not seen until th twentieth. —Life.

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BALL BROTHERS DONATE 150,11 TO m FIND Hospital Campaign Secretary Announces Largest Single Gift for Institution. DONOR MAKES STATEMENT George A. Ball Says Riley Hospital Is Needed and Worthy. A gift of $50,000 from Ball Brothers of Muncie to the building fund of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, now in course of construction here, was announced today by .Tames W. Carr, executive secretary of the State executive committee of the hospital. The gift is the largest single one which has yet been made to the hospital which, when entirely completed, will represent, a total expenditure of $2,000,000 and will care for sick and crippled children from every Indiana county. The gift from Ball Brothers, who j are known as among the leading manufacturers of the State, was made known by George A. Ball, a member of the State executive committee of the | Riley hospital. In announcing the gift Mr. Ball said It was presented to ! the hospital building fund by Ball j Brothers and the estate of William I Ball, who died about one year ago. The estate participated in the gift. Mr. Ball said, because William Ball had participated in conferences relaI five to this and other gifts which have ! since been made by the Rail family of brothers. In addition to George A. ; P.all the brothers participating in the gift are Edmund, Frank and Lucius. “We consider the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children one of the j most needed and most worthy institutions of its kind.” said Mr. Ball in presenting the gift. | “You know,” Mr. Ball continued. ' “the Itiley Hospital for Children will I really be the gift of the people of the j State to the State in memory of 1 James Whitcomb Riley, and for the 1 children he loved. It is an ideal conl eeption.” AMERICANS HEAVY DRINKERS Pop Bottles From One Year Would Circle Globe Five Time*. WASHINGTON. I). C., Sept. 19. Bottles used In marketing carbonated beverages consumed in the United States annually, if placed upright side by side, would make approximately forty-two rows extending from New York to San Francisco, or five rows encircling the globe. This estimate was arrived at by Dr. W. W. Skinner. United States Department of Agriculture. and one of the leading water and beverage authorities in the world, after an extensive survey of the soft drink consumption. This enormous consumption is attributed by I>r. Skmner to the recog nition by the public of the real merit of present day bottled carbonated beverages. It has resulted in this branch of the food industry being one of the best policed industries in the country. The Federal Government is constantly watching the manufacture of these beverages for interstate shipment to see they are of the highest quality. Every State has the most stringent laws governing the manufacture of the bottled beverages. In some respects bottled carbonated beverage manufacturing is easier to police than others, for if the best ingredients are not used and the highest sanitation not attained the product will spoil on the hands of the manufacturer before he can get It Into the hands of the consuming public. Wheelbarrows Stolen Four wheelbarrows were stolen from anew building at Alvord and Twenty-Third Sts. early today. A. D. Brown. 2242 Broadway, told the police that they were worth S2O.

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Sees Way to Check Crime 50 Per Cent in Next Five Years, Says New York Police Head

RU E. M. THIERRY Timea Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Richard E. Enright, police commissioner of New York, looms up as the leader In the solution of one world problem which politics seems unlikely to hinder —"to make the world unsafe for criminality.” “I don’t expect to see crime utterly banished,” he says, “but I do see a way to cut it down 60 per cent in five years.” Commissioner Enright, just back from Europe, where he converted the pol.ee authorities of s.x nations to his ideas, told in an' interview, the program he will lay before a meeting of the National Police Conference—which w:ll really be international in scope—on Sept. 11. This is the program: 1. National and international police cooperation on a systematic basis —an "entente cordiale in police affairs.” 2. A central bureau under Fi-ierai auspices as a clearing house for the identification of cr.minals, and for the automatic gathering and exchange of records, fingerprints and photographs. 3. Broadcasting of complete infor-mation—up-to-date records, fingerprints. photographs —of habitual criminals about to be released from prison.

PHONE INCREASE PROBABLY WIFE MEET REJECTION Service Commission Expected to Overrule Petition of Indiana Company. The public service commission today was expected to overrule the motion of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, asking that rate increases in the Indianapolis and toll cases, be approved until such time as the commission made State-wide investigation of the Bell system, provided the Bell Company would withdraw Its injunction suits in Federal Court. Informal discussion of the matter by public service commission mem hers supported the belief that the motion would be a veritable acceptance of all that the Bell Company could hope to gain by Federal in junction and that such action would be a sweeping reversal of the commission's stand in the matter. It has been the contention of com missioners since the Bell coses were reopened that the matter should be carried to a definite conclusion and that no compromises should interfere with the commission's investigation of the company's affairs. COMPLAIN OF DETOURS Auto Association Says Road Men Kail to Mark Properly. Many complaints have been regss j tered with the main office nnd the various branch offices of the Hoosier State Automobile Association concern ing lax methods or lack of method employed by some of the contractors and road officials in indicating detours around closed roads. It is pointed out that few barriers on highways have red lights at night, and that this, aside from being a law violation, is an offense against the commonest of safety rules which should not bo condoned In any community. lx>ral members of the 1100 sier State Auto Association are now asked to check up on all improper barriers and improperly marked de tours and make reports thereon. In asmuch as this membership covers the entire State it is expected many re ports will be forthcoming to the head quarters office.

4. An agency to combat criminal anarchy, to keep tab on movements of "reds.” 5. Police supervision of immigration to prevent by international cooperation, entrance of criminals and anarchists. "Crime is receding all over the country,” says major crime in New York alone Is 20 per cent less than in 1916 before abnormal war conditions came. But we can out .t more. “Too many in America think the law is a joke. I found England has less crime because there ie a wellgrounded respect for the law. But I think some parts of continental Europe have more crime than America. "Criminals here no longer fear punishment in prison; they consider It a sort of u holiday. Prison life isi too easy and comfortable. The prison reform faddists have broken down respect for law. “That is why I advocate keeping closer tab on released prisoners—not to persecute them, hut to help those who are entitled to help anil to prevent the confirmed criminal from committing further crimes. "Nobody has more sympathy than I have for the first offender. Many are rescued even after the second offense.

TRAVELING BAG TAKEN James E. Maxwell, 3546 Balsam Are., Reports Theft. James E. Maxwell, 3546 Balsam Ave., today reported to the police a thief stole a traveling hag from his automobile, parked at New York and Illinois Sts.

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straight—than all the reform and welfare leagues put together.” In explaining his program for a central records bureau Enright said it would be entirely independent of any Federal secret service agency and was not in any respect a step toward, or advocacy pf a Federal police force. Senator William M. Calder of New York, he said, had drawn a bill embodying it, which probably will be introduced in Congress following the National Police Conference session. “Its initial cost will be $250,000 a year with a gradual reduction each year,” Enright says, “until it should eventually pay for itself in the help given Federal agents alone. In five years crir-e could be reduced perhaps fifty per cent, millions saved In property loss, and deaths due to criminal ity—which are said to have been 80,000 last year—would be reduced tremendously.” High police authorities from London and Paris will attend the September conference here, Enright says, and probably also representatives from Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Naples and Brussels. “The proposed central bureau,” he said, “would be strictly a clearing house, with no field force, no control, no Jurisdiction. With foreign cooperation, assurances of which I received while over there, it will become an international clearing house. "Checking criminal anarchy, through immigration control, is one of the most important phases: for most of the crime of this sort during the last ten years, Including the Wall Street bombing in which thirty-nine were killed two years ago, has gone unpunished.” Commissioner Enright, a man of

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