Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1932 — Page 7

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MILLIONS JOIN IN VAST FIGHT ON SALES TAX Organized Protest Behind Stubborn Resistance by Congressmen. BY MAX STERN Time* SUIT Writer WASHINGTON. March 22—Upward of 50,000,000 Americans, through their organizations here, voiced opposition to the proposed general sales tax. Behind the stubborn resistance of congressmen from both parties to the new revenue bill with its $600,OQO.OOO sales tax provision is an organized folk movement of protest. Not counting the 1924 Democratic platform's repudiation of the sales tax, the earlier opposition of Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills and Undersecretary A. A. Ballantine and other protests against the new tax principle in general, here are some of the protests on record against this measuifc: The three great American farm organizations—Farm Bureau Federation, National Grange and Farmers Educational and Co-Operative TlJilon —all of whose representatrves officially protested the sales tax at committee hearings. “The sales tax meets the unqualified disapproval of the 27,000.000 people upon the farms of this country,” declared Fred Brenckman of the grange. Opposed by Labor Unions The American Federation of Labor, through repeated resolutions and through a broadside from William Green, president, last week, the A. F. of L., with its 4,000,000 members, represents some 20,000,000 people. The railway labor unions, representing 1,000,000 workers and their families. The Chamber of Commerce, which through its committee on federal taxation, recommended “moderate excises on a number of articles of wide use, but not of first necessity in preference to any form of general sales or turnover tax.” People's Lobby, headed by Professor John Dewey, denouncing the, tax as “governmental blackmail on hunger.” National Consumers’ League, through its president, Dr. John R. Commons, National Association of Retail Grocers, C. H. Jcnssen, secretarymanager, expressing “opposition to any form of federal sales tax.” Retailers Fight Sales Tax National Retail Hardware Association. Herbert Sheets, managing director, expressing “unequivocal opposition to any form of sales tax.” National Retail Furniture Association, Roscoc Rau, managing director, expressing opposition to “any form of sales tax.” National Shoe Retailers’ Association, James H. Stone, manager, op- j posing “a sales tax of any i character.” Garment Retailers of America; American National Retailer Jewellers Association; National Retail Drygoods Association, Carlos B. Clark, spokesman, who told the committee that with business pros- j trate "it is no time to impose upon it useless burdens.” Special groups of manufacturers, including California Packing Corporation, opposing the canned goods tax. National Association of Ice Industries; National Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers; American Cotton Co-operative Association; Associated Co-operate Industries of America. ■ American Electric Railway Association, opposing electricity sales tax on the ground that it will increase street car fares. Fear Disrupted Home Life National Electric Light Association, William J. Hagenah, spokes>man, who declares that a sales tax on electricity “endangers development, wouid seriously disrupt American home life.” Leading economists such as Dr. Iro Wolman of Columbia university. oppose the sales tax. Professor E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia has said that the sales tax "sins against the cardinal principle of equality of taxation;” Dr. William J. Schultz, financial economist for the National Industrial conference board, who says “the supreme drawback to a federal sales tax would be its social injustice,” and Dr. Joseph D. McGoldrick of Columbia, who says a sales tax would check consumption.” National Credit Men’s Association. National Industrial Conference Board, through its tax committee, reporting in the past against the sales tax principle. NEW BOOKS RELEASED Additional Volumes Made Available at Business Branch Library. New books rrleased this week at the Indianapolis business branch library include: Frankenstein Incorporated.” bv Wormer; Phantom Fame, the Anatomy of BalIvhoo.” bv Reldenbaeh: 'lnsurance as a Career. - ’ bv Sheriff. 'Labor Acreements Jn Coal Mines, bv Bloch: "Neighborhoods of Small Homes." bv Whitten: "Introduction to Advertising.” bv Brewster, and "Directory of the Rock Products Industry. IS3I-32."

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THERE aren't very many empty spaces on the map ajiy more. The man who finds one, and goes across unexplored territory to see what it is like, ought to be able to write an uncommonly Interesting book when he gets back. Bertram Thomas Is such a man. He went across the emptiest and most desolate part of Arabia, over mountains and deserts where no European ever had been; and his “Arabia Felix” is his record of the trip. But it isn’t, somehow', quite the book one expects. a a a TO be sure, it is a scholarly, wellwritten bit of work. The author is vivid in his descriptions of the tremendous stretches of barren sand and rock which his party crossed. He is exact and scientific in his discussion of the wild tribesmen, he encountered. His text is illustrated with a great many very excellent photographs. But the spark of genius that touches the writings of such Arabian travelers as Dcughty, Burton, and Lawrence just isn’t there. Mr. Thomas is better as an explorer than as a writer. That isn't to say that you won't find the book interesting. You will. It is to the writer's credit that he has popularized his subject without sacrificing those qualities that give it scientific value. “Arabia Felix” is published by Scribner’s, and costs $5. ‘JAKE’ INQUIRY ASKED Senator Gore Urges Investigation of “Paralysis Drink.” Bv Bcrippg-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 22.—Senatorial investigation of all circumstances surrounding origin, sale and distribution of the adulterated Jamaica ginger which caused “jake paralysis,” in the effort to ascertain the identity of those responsible for its manufacture, is sought in a resolution by Senator Gore of Oklahoma. Responsibility for the production of the poison w’hich claimed approximately 30,000 victims throughout the nation, particularly in the southwest and middle west, never has been traced to its source. While two convictions were obtained in Boston of distributors of the adulterated extract, the identity of the maker is still unrevealed.

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