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Tyfanny Tax
Ways Invite
Avoidance
Deaf Ears Turned to
Small Birsiness Man
Being Wiped Out.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
PERHAPS intending only to
sensationalize tax avoidances
and evasions, the inquiry just
begun by a congressional com
mittee might yet serve a constructive
purpose by seeking to discover just why
the citizen is developing toward his
Government a strange feeling of
hostility.
Theoretically all citizens must obey
the law, but it does happen that, when
a ■ law is unfair, _
Inequitable and §|*
vicious, the people
begin to nullify it. f|
The most con-;
spicuous example |
of this, of course, 5
was the attitude
of many citizens
during the late
prohibition era.
There is, of '
course, no pos- ||‘
stble justification s
for the person
who evades the
law. There may „ .. ,
, . . .. David Lawrence,
be plenty of justi
fication for the person who avoids the
tax laws. As a matter of fact, there
may some day be logic on the side of
the citizens of the District of Colum
bia, for instance, if they even go so far
as to refuse to obey the tax laws im
posed upon them.
Our forefathers dumped a lot c* tea
In Massachusetts Bay and refused to
pay a stamp tax because they said
"taxation without representation is
tyranny.” Today the Congress of the
United States is about to Impose a
vicious tax system on the people of the
city of Washington and this, too, with
out granting the people of the National
Capital the right to vote for members
of Congress through whom their views
could be expressed directly on the
floors of both houses of Congress. If
ever there was a justification for tax
avoidance, it is to be found right
here at the seat of government.
I'Ut IUI
» But there are citizens outside the
National Capital who also may fed
aggrieved as they learn more and more
about the unfairness of the taxation
policies 'of the national administra
tion. Any administration which
bluntly refuses even to listen to the
pleas of hardship growing out of in
equitable and unfair tax laws and
merely shrugs its shoulders, so to
speak, and says, "Oh, well, we need
the revenue,1’ is due for a disillusion
ment and awakening some day.
Take the rase of the undistributed
surplus taxes, one of the most unfair
and destructive tax levies ever intro
duced. Small businesses are rapidly
being broken down by it while strong
monopolies reap the benefit. Protest
after protest has come to Washington,
but influential members of the Con
gressional Finance Committees say
indifferently, "But the Government
needs the revenue.”
Paraphrased this means: "We, the
hationaj administration, exercise the
right to do as we please to the citizen,
even'to the extent of ruining his busi
ness, and, while the law may work a
hardship, we need the money for boon
doggling just the same.”
Under such circumstances, the citi
ren says to himself: "The Government
Is unfair—I’ll beat the game if I can.”
' Members of Congress and of the
executive branch of the Government
who lately have been criticizing the
citizenry for alleged lack of morality
and defects in patriotism because of
tAx avoidance know in their hearts
that this is the sheerest hypocrisy
and thAt there isn’t a single man in
aide the Government who doesn't take
all th<$ deductions the law' allows or
doesn’t eontrive to get the better of
the tak eolleeor by legal means.
V «i • . m -» -
^ innjuiucs c .luuiriuus.
The tax inequities as well as In
iquities are numerous. They are well
known to all who have studied the tax
rulings of the Government under this
< and past administrations. The theory
has been that the taxpayer is always
wrong and that the Government is al
ways right. The king-can-do-no
wrong idea has nowhere been more
slavishly worshiped than in the Treas
ury Department in applying the in
rnfrne tRX laws. Equity is an unknown
virtue and assess the taxpayer be
cause we need the revenue is now the
rule rather than the exception.
Another serious practice is the way
the precedents have been built up and
the refusal of Congress or the Bureau
of Internal Revenue to reverse them
selves when a mistake has been clearly
demonstrated. Take, for instance, the
* question of business deductions. In
terest on a loan at the bank is de
ductible as a business expense. But if
the bank demands that a key executive
or inventor or some one who Is an
asset to the business should have his
life insured to protect the loan so that
the bRnk might- be reimbursed if a
valuable personal asset is suddenly
lost by accident, the business must
take out such a policy and bear the
expense. Yet the Treasury doesn't al
low tiffs as a deduction for Income tax
purposes. It happens to be a part of
> the cost of carrying the loan, but for
years the Treasury has refused to
recognize the simple equity behind
■tlch a claim for deduction.
Countless examples of this kind of
loose thinking may be cited. Con
gress, for Instance, Is chiefly responsi
ble lor an unwillingness to treat a
human being, with limited earning
power, as different from a business
or manufacturing concern, which may
take depreciation on its plant and
* equipn^ent as a business expense.
j»i Mian vvupvns.
Thus Margaret Mitchell, who wrote
“Gone With the Wind,” had a lucky
break When she amassed a nice sum
out of royalties, but if she acquired
$400,000, she would have to give hall
of it to the Government in taxes.
She doesn't turn out best sellers every
year like a factory does automobiles
Yet the Government regards her in
come as something to be penalized
, while the manufacturer takes depre
ciation's* an expense on his plant oi
equipment. The mental equipment
of, tha human being with earning
power! to be sure, may dtalinish oi
may be curtailed by illness or death
Ijtit the earned income is taxed virtual
ly the same as the unearned Income
which comes out of clipping coupon!
of inherited wealth.
’Mr. Roosevelt, for instance, inher
ited a substantial income. He didn’l
Have to work for it as did other mer
ire America, but the self-made mer
who rose out of the slumps by dinl
of hard work must give the Govern
ment virtually the same amount ol
taxes on their earnings as do th<
coupon clippers. There is, of courm
’ a small credit on the present tfy
STAND FALLS, 14 HURT
Photographer's Bleachers Col
lapses at Madison High School.
MADISON, Wis., June 19 t/P).—
Rain-soaked grounds were blamed yes
terday for the collapse of a temporary
photographer's bleachers in which 14
Madison Central High School seniors
were injured.
The stand gave way after about 50
of the 190 seniors had climbed to their
positions in the back rows, which were
about eight feet above the ground, to
have a group picture taken.
City Attorney Francis Lamb ordered
an immediate investigation.
—-»
Organizer Makes Charges.
WALLACE. Idaho, June 19 (/re
union organizer, said yesterday he
would file charges before the National
Labor Relations Board that the Hecla
and Sullivan Mining Cos. "inspired” a
435-to-61 vote of their employes de
mandng a secret ballot before striking.
returns for earned as distinguished
from unearned incomes, but it Is in
finitesimal.
Then take the situation with respect
to charity deductions. A man
might contribute money to a church
in Hindustan or to some local wel
fare agency of limited scope and yet
get a legal deduction, but if he con
tributes the same amount of money
to a vital thing like the National
Civil Service Reform League, which
attempts to fight the “spoils” system
and similar cancers in the heart of
democracy, no such deductions are
allowed.
Makes Own Rules.
The executive branch of the Gov
ernment arbitrarily decides what is
and what is not an educational cause
and makes its own rules as to what
is or what is not deductible in a
charitable or educational classifica
tion.
But the records are filled with ex
amples of injustice and arbitrariness.
Most of the mistakes are due to
the failure of Congress to write fair
tax laws. The Income tax personnel
itself is honest and well intentioned,
but limited by tax statutes. There
is hardly a thing which will be un
covered in the series of tax avoid
ances to be disclosed in the present
inquiry which haven’t been known to
congressional committees for the last
10 years. Congress has known all
along the loopholes, but it has ignored
something far more fundamental—
the principle of equity and fairness
which, if abused, merely leads to tax
avoidance on a large scale and ulti
mately to nullification.
Human beings resent unfair laws—
they always have and they always will
—and they may not some day regard
it as a falling from virtue to defy an
unconsciounable administration, espe
cially one that spends its money and
its powers on one group to the detri
ment of the other, and actually denies
the taxpaying group a voice in the
government. The old slogan that
“taxation without representation is
tyranny” was never better illustrated
than in the deaf ears being turned to
the small business men who are asked
to pay burdensome and Inequitable
taxes today as the monopolistically
inclined, with amassed surpluses,
stand by awaiting the inevitable bank
ruptcies or receivership of their weaker
competitors. _
* (Coprrliht. 1B37.) \
DROP ACTRESS’ CASE
Officials End Probe of Alleged
Attack at Party.
LOS ANGELES, June 19 (/P).—John
E. Bauer, foreman, said yesterday
the county grand jury had dropped
investigation of the charge of Patri
cia Douglas, 20-year-old film extra
i that she was attacked at a film sales
mans’ party May 5.
The jury refused to indict David
Ross. Chicago, whom Miss Douglas
identified as her assailant. Ross flew
here voluntarily to deny the charge
before the Jury.
Two parking lot attendants testi
fied they saw a man follow Miss
Douglas to an automobile, but said
Ross was not the man.
Fingerprinting of Workers Urged
DENVER, June 19 (A’l—Finger
printing of the Nation's working pop
ulation during the 1940 census for so
cial security identification was advo
cated yesterday by the Fingerprinting
Committee of the United States Junioi
Chamber of Commerce, in conventior
here. .
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
Wagner Act Defective
Merely Puts Union Agent and Employer in Cockpit.
Mediation Board Has No Power.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
THE three men whom the Presi
dent has appointed to arbi
trate the steel strikes—Messrs.
Charles P. Taft. Lloyd K.
Garrison and Edward F. McGrady,
have, in their different lines, excellent
reputations. They
command excep
t i o n a 1 esteem
from those who
know them.
The three as a
group are over
weighted on the
side of labor. Mr.
McGrady is an
official of the De
partment of La
bor, a subordi
nate of Miss Per
kins; Mr. Garri
son was head of
Mr Roosevelt's M.rk Su11Itsb.
first National La
bor Board—and that was not a
Judicial body; it was, by the statute
that set It up, a partisan of labor.
The third member of Mr. Roosevelt's
newly appointed Federal Steel Media
tion Board, Mr. Taft, is not as con
servative a person as might be in
ferred from the fact that he is the
son of a conservative Republican
President. Young Mr. Taft, indeed,
while a Republican, is thought by
m*ny Republicans to be closer to
me new iyeai man vu me puny ui urn
father.
Yet, if the new board, by the past
associations of its members, is pro
labor, nevertheless they are high
minded men who know how to ap
proach their present task in a judicial
spirit. Two of them, Messrs. Taft
and Garrison, have had legal training
and experience of a high order.
But however judicial this new board
may try to be, they will be handi
capped by the position of the man
from whom they derive authority.
President Roosevelt. Less than a week
ago Mr. Roosevelt, in a press confer
ence, took a position, and a strongly
partisan posiLion, on the very question
which his present appointees are now
supposed to treat without partisanship.
Mr. Roosevelt, when he was asked a
question about the C. I. O. strikes,
said that -no matter what the law
says or does not say, common sense
says that when two parties have
reached an agreement there is no rea
son why they should not put it in
writing. And whether an agreement
shall be put in writing is the principal
question which the new mediation
board is supposed to deal with.
Passive on Use of Name.
Mr. Roosevelt's partiality for C. I.
O., indeed his identity with C. I. O.,
is patent. To suggest that he at
tempts to conceal it would do him in
justice. When C. I. O. was being
organized, the organizers, in diverse
parts of the country, issued circulars
and put up posters which told the
workers that President Roosevelt
wished them to join C. I. O. This
use of his name was called to Mr.
Roosevelt's attention. He declined to
do anything about it, though ordi
narily he is sensitive to use of his
name, and has in the past adminis
tered public rebuke to persons who
used it without authority.
The head of C. I. O., Mr. John L.
■ Lewis, made the largest contribution
made by any contributor to Mr. Roose
velt's campaign fund last Summer.
He solicited from his United Mine
Workers and gave to Mr. Roosevelt's
campaign fund upward of $450,000.
A loan of $50,000 from Mr. Lewis'
United Mine Workers still stands un
paid on the books of the Democratic
National Committee. When some
Democratic Senators wished to pass
a resolution of outright disapDroval
of the “sit-down" strike, as prac
ticed by C. I. O. at Detroit and Flint,
Mich., Mr. Roospvelt resisted.
Even if Mr. Roosevelt's new Steel
Mediation Board so conducts itself
as to escape the cloud of their cnict s
partiality, even if they succeed in
bringing an end to the present strikes,
nothing permanent will have been
settled. Future strikes will not be
averted. Strikes are inherent in ihe
Wagner labor law.
No Mediation Provision.
Because the Wagner law is called
the “national labor relations set,”
many assume that its pumose and
function is to mediate and settle
labor disputes. The Wagner law has
no such function. It does not pur
port to deal iHth mediation, and the
board it seta up, the National Labor
Relations Board, does not pretend to
be a Judicial body. The Wagner law
is a law for the benefit of labor, and
the body It sets up, the National Labor
Relations Board, Is an agency of labor.
So far as the Wagner law affects em
ployers, It has the nature of a penal
statute directed against them. And
so far as the National Labor Rela
tions Board has a relation to employ
ers, the relation is that of a prosecut
ing attorney. This Is the frank In
tention of the Wagner law. The law
Is written frankly for the benefit of
labor, frankly for the purpose of guar
anteeing the right of collective bar
gaining.
The Wagner law makes It ‘‘an un
fair labor practice” for an employer
"to refuse to bargain collectively with
the representative* of his employes.”
But that is as far as the Wagner law
goes. The employer Is not required to
come to an agreement with his em
ployes. Lately, attempt has been
made to say that the Wagner law does
require the employer to come to an
agreement and sign it. This has been
repudiated by the author of the law,
Senator Wagner. In a letter written
November 2, 1935, Senator Wagner
said: "The law does not require any
employer to sign any agreement of
any kind.” Senator Wagner added:
“Congress has no power to impose such
«* iv^uaciucui. niiu oniBiur rvag
ner might have gone farther. He
might have said that common sense
has no power to compel any two per
sons or groups to come to an agree
ment about anything.
What the Wagner law does ls to
throw the employer and the repre
sentative of the union Into a cockpit
and tell them to ‘'negotiate.” About
what happens when the two do not
reach agreement, the Wagner law
says nothing. There is no provision
for appeal to arbitrators. There is no
1 provision for arbitration, compulsory
or otherwise.
It Ls the lack of provision for arbi
tration that has led to the present sit
uation. And the present appointment
of an improvised Federal Steel Media
tion Board Is an attempt to correct
the fundamental defect of the Wagner
law'. The improvised board has no
power to compel assent to its findings.
| Whatever comes of the present ges
ture, the fundamental defect of the
Wagner law remains. It ls universally
recognized that the Wagner law must
be perfected by making provision for
arbitration, and in other respects.
(Copyright, iP37.)
HONOLULU IS HIT
HONOLULU. June 19 (VP).— J. Whal
ter Doyle, United States collector of
customs, announced yesterday stop
overs by passengers on foreign vessels
arriving from other American ports
had been halted following an order
by the Treasury Department to en
force a law subjecting foreign *ships
to a bond of $200 for each passenger
landing. The order hits the island's
tourist business.
We, the People
Black-Connery Bill Might Confine Itself to Child
Labor and Basic Industries.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.
A SPOKESMAN for the Southern textile Interests Informed the Joint
committee on the Black-Connery labor standards bill that passage
of this minimum-wage, maximum-hours measure would destroy
our present foreign policy.
This is an exaggeration, but there it no doubt that just as the
N. R. A. ended our useful participation in the World Economic Con
ference at London In 1933, this proposal to enforce decent labor
standards through the commerce clause of the Constitution mag put
a crimp in Secretary Hull's trade-agreements program.
And so It should. If the price of his policy is the continuation of
child labor, sweated labor and starvation wages, his policy is doomed by
Its own confession. At the moment, -
the State Department 15 particu
larly concerned lest the law jeop
ardize the proposed trade agree
ment with Great Britain. This
anxiety Is pretty far-fetched.
We will never get a liberal
trade agreement with the British
unless the Central European mar
kets are opened up and London and
Liverpool resume their old position
as entrepot and clearing house for
Northern and Eastern European trade. This is highly unlikely unless
Hitler completes the economic unification of Central Europe and wins
British consent to the political change which this will imply.
A A A A
8uch a. development Is not so unlikely as It seems. The Blum govern
ment In Prance is being Inexorably forced into a policy of bank-note infla
tio*j, which will lead to disorders, disunion and general unrest in the
third republic, even if by a miracle M. Blum retains control of the govern
ment. The latest batch of Soviet executions has certainly cast doubt on
the ability of the red army to play an important part in European affairs
during the next year. Mussolini is tangled up in Spain and England will
have her hands full without going crusading against Germany's economic
expansion. So it is possible that the European situation will jell along lines
calculated to help our export trade.
In that case England in her own interest will make the con
cessions Mr. Hull desires, without the necessity for our reciprocating.
And, of course, if Central European trade does not revive, any trade
agreement with England would be a futile and ridiculous bit of face
saving. It is even possible that we might deal direct with Germany
instead of asking Britain permission, as in the past. I firmly be
lieve that we can have our trade-agreements program and the Black
Connery bill, too.
It would be helpful, however, if the Black-Connery bill should avoid
the blunders of the N. R. A. and confine itself to child labor and to basic in
dustries instead of taking on the whole Nation at once. Steel, coal, petro
leum, automobiles, construction materials, mining products, lumber, tex
tile, clothing, shoes, rubber, machinery, electricity—there aren't so many
of them that the initial set-up would be too complicated and they include
the bulk of the Nation's workers. Congress could add to the list from time
to time, as the need arose, and a trade-agreements prog-.am cofild be
adjusted so as to protect the basic industries and sacrifice, if necessary,
the marginal and uneconomic industries.
* * * *
On the other hand. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the
unreconstructed tories hope to wiggle out from under the New Deal via
the State Department and through those mysterious diplomatic phrases
so dear to the Hoover administration. A world economic conference is the
trick which will be pulled on us sooner or later and a lot of nice Idealists
will rally enthusiastically around the idea that we don't need to reform our
Institutions if world trade or world peace oir what-not is in the air.
This notion is the real danger to Mr. Hulls program. It is
up to him to demonstrate that there is no essential conflict between
orderly foreign trade relations and domestic reform.
* * * *
The State Department is all In a dither. Assistant Secretary nf
State Wilbur J. Carr has taken the first licking in his bureaucratic history.
After an internal dispute which
drew in the White House, G. How
land Shaw received the Job of di
rector of foreign service personnel
and the Carr protege wag passed
over. Bob Kelley, special pleader
for the old anti-Soviet policy, has
been nominated for a consul
generalship, and. if confirmed, ig to
be sent far afield.
Hugh Wilson, American Min
ister to Switzerland, is under con
sideration for the vacant post of Assistant Secretary of State. It is not the
happiest appointment which could have barn made, because it suggests that
the State Department is still hankering for another orgy of peace-monger
ing and irresponsible disarmament.
Wilson is our expert on disarmament and the League of Nations,
and knows the principal European diplomats. He will be used as a policy
expert and not allowed to have a finger in foreign service administration
or personnel. (Ceprrtgtu, 1P3?.* ,
Who’s Who
Behind the
News
In William R. Castle the
Republicans Have a
Dynamic Coach.
BY LEMUEL F. FARTON.
ILLIAM R. CASTLE. JR,
and William Hard, the new
Republican pep team, rally
party leadership to help
along that Democratic "revolt.”
That's just what it is, says Mr. Castle,
and In his opinion the Jefferson Is
land harmony conference won t help
any in restoring the President's "one
man power.’’
Mr. Castle, acting chairman of thp
National Committee, became a sort of
line coach for the Republicans last
February, and a liaison between party
headquarters and the few G. O. P.
men now encysted in the Democrats
Congress. Aided by Mr. Hard, pint
sized word-gunner, and one of the best
in the business, he has been entering
vigorous dissent from any and all
Democratic doings and making the
organization look a lot less moribund
than It did a few weeks ago.
It frequently has been noted that
the administration has been afflicted
with the academic itch, and the
present party defection has been
charged to too much professorial
meddling and muddling—the school
men displaying an elaborate ignorance
of the rules and personnel of oldline
politics. Maybe so. but, when the
Republicans wanted t,o hike their
steam pressure, they put on the job a
rormer English teacher, novelist and
assistant dean of Harvard, and a
clever journalist, who, in his 34 work
ing years, neveT mixed in politics until
last year. Such are the rough out
lines of Mr. Castle and Mr. Hard.
Where are the Tom Platts, the Uncle
Joe Cannons, the Tom Taggarts and
the Lemuel Quiggs of yesteryear?
They, and not the professors, used to
take charge at a time like this.
Mr. Castle, an intimate friend of
Herbert Hoover, was Undersecretary
of State under Secretary Stimson,
leaving the department in 1932. He
is a conservative of a precise, legalistic
pattern of mind, a marked success in
his 13 years in the State Department,
adroit and skilled in diplomatic punc
tilio.
He was born in Honolulu, the son
of an Island magnate, was graduated
from Harvard In 1900. taught English
from 1903 to 1905. published a novel,
“The Green Vase." in 1912, "The Pil
lar of Sand” in 1916. was with the
Red Cross in the war and in the State
Department in 1919. He says the
chief trouble with the Democrats Is
that they hate ruined the country
and wrecked our democratic system.
(Copyright. 1937.>
PAINT BRINGS SCREAMS
COLUMUS, Ohio UP).—William Saf
ford, 16, fell through the glass roof
of a theater marquee, landing on his
feet 10 feet below. His head and
clothing were crimson. Women
screamed, and Saflord was rushed to
a hospital in an ambulance.
Not until he reached the institu
tion did the youth have an op
portunity to explain the •'blood” was
red paint, spilled from a bucket on the
marquee. He was unhurt.
What’s Back of It All
Loss of Treasury Prestige Feared in Tax Evasion
Probe Now in Progress.
BY H. R. BAUKHAGE.
HISTORY is quite an old lady and often repeats herself, but she man
ages to put a highly novel Huirk into some of the tales she tosses
out as news.
As tax evasion investigators hunt the headlines, some tax
. collectors shiver a little.
Because—and here history winks reminiscently—there is certain ap
prehension lest the public lose confidence in the Treasury itself as an
efficient tax collector. A sentiment held by no less a person than John
Nance Garner—once.
“1 just want the House to understand this situation (the collec
tion of taxes and refunds), and especially my Republican brethren, as
to how much dependence can be placed upon statements of the
Treasury Department, based upon any statistics it gives • • * give me
an opportunity to investigate the Treasury Department, and /
will do it.”
Tltof urn* t ___ l ■ _ , __
- -- wmuu cpuuviun, ujuf, i-ftueiuuer id, iyou.
* * * *
The investigation that the
then^ member of the House of yiEE.wfE t/ff
Representatives was trying to pro- t’S Ac<v<.c>
mote was aimed at Treasury
methods, primarily, in permitting
the evader to evade.
He was unsuccessful. Two
years later, the picture changed.
It is now July, 1932. Repre
sentative Gamer has become
Speaker Garner, but, more than
that, vice presidential candidate. —
1 stiu have the same opinion about the necessity of an investigation,’*
he said. But he did not want to carry it out and have the people of the
country lose confidence in the Treasury; those were the disturbed days
before the bank holiday.
In Uvalde, Mr. Garner reads the news of the hearings. Perhaps he
wonders. Old Lady History chuckles at the new turn she has given an
ancient tale.
+ * * *
The La Follette Civil Liberties Committee is making history. Police
officials and others who took part in the Memorial day riot In Chicago
will face themselves on the witness stand. For the first time, a moving
picture film will testify at a congressional hearing. It has also been used
to identify the policemen and others who are to be called to Washington
to appear before the committee.
When the film is shown officially before the committee, an
important break, it is asserted, will be filled by the amateur shots
of a minister who had his camera trained on the riot scene. The
Interruption in the sequence occurred when the newsreel men
switched from a long “shot” to a close-up of a striker just before
the firing began, it is said that the minister's film will reveal
the fatal “first shot.”
* * * *
The cameraman who took the pictures in Chicago may go down in
history. In any case, his handiwork will.
This mechanical witness that can't be cross-questioned will stick to
its story as long as celluloid lasts, even then can be recreated and called
back to the stand indefinitely, and become a part of the archives of the
United States. As testimony before a committee, it is a part of the official
records of the Senate. Gradually, all records are being transferred to the
fire-thief-and-bomb-proof vaults of the Archives Building
The Senate has no safe place to store that inflammable and inflamma
tory negative. The Archives Building has. In fact, it has the most up-to
date vaults in the world for storing film in heat-and-damp-reslsting con
tainers. 6
The official reason for the withdrawal of the film from public
presentation in the theaters is that, like other -horror” scenes it
isn't “good theater.”
As the tax evaders’ investigation rolls on, grrat shovels tear into the
earth where the museum will soon rise which is to hold the collection of
priceless masterpieces donated by _.
Andrew Mellon to the American f”"*7—s
people. 7TT - V
At the same time, behind the V Sfefc'-'ruvJc
dull red facade of an ancient three- ;. j i,'
story-and-basement house on
Uafayette Square, across from the —
Write House, hammers are ringing.
Here Mr. Mellon will have an office.
Close by is the tall Brookings
Institution, of late severe critic of
certain New Deal activities. Around
the comer, wtiere once the wide branches of a historic elm once shaded
the home of Daniel Webster, rises the imposing Chamber of Commerce of
the United States. Gradually, this tree-filled square, upon which Dolly
Madison once looked from her own windows (the house still stands) is
being denuded of its historic landmarks.
But unless architects order a modern front, Mr. Mellon's Washington
headquarters will not change the profile of what is left of a treasured and
reminiscent skyline.
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