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Acting Treasury Head
Takes Issue With
Eccles' Tax Views
Administration Has Not
Decided on Levy Boost,
Hanes Declares
By the Associated Press.
John W. Hanes, Acting Secretary
of the Treasury, asserted today the
administration had not decided on
a tax program and that recom
mendations for higher taxes, made
by Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of
the Federal Reserve Board, did not
represent official views.
, Mr. Hanes, talking to reporters,
had thiS*to say about recommenda
tions made by Chairman Eccles in
a speech at St. Louis last weelc:
“I’ll say I don’t think he spoke for
the administration.
"I doubt seriously if he spoke for
Congress.
"I am certain he didn’t speak for
the Treasury.”
The Acting Secretary said the ad
ministration had an “open mind”
about taxes, and was still studying
suggestions from thousands of busi
nessmen. He added that it particu
larly wanted to study the prospects
for increased revenue from present
Saying business prospects for the
next six months were “optimistic,”
Mr. Hanes expressed belief that
present tax rates probably would
yield considerably more revenue.
The former Wall Street broker,
grinning despite a wrenched right
arm as the result of a squash game
last night, said he saw no signs of
any serious business setback this
winter, although he looked for a
moderate seasonal slackening after
the peak of Christmas shopping.
Although the Treasury official
would not say just what parts of the
Eccles recommendations he did not
like, informed sources indicated he
was particularly disturbed by the
recommendation for restoration of a
modified tax on undistributed cor
porate profits.
Mr. Eccles also suggested reduced
exemptions on small incomes, high
er rates on $5,000 to $50,000 incomes
and higher corporate income taxes
to take a share of war profits. How
ever, at the same time he suggested
a reduction of consumer taxes, such
as Federal excises and States’ sales
taxes, and advocated readjustment
of social security taxes so the taxes
would not exceed benefit payments
at least until times got better.
Mr. Eccles explained that he ad
vocated the tax program as a sub
stitute for proposals from some
members of Congress, that relief ex
penditures be curtailed in propor
tion to increased national defense
expenditures.
Golf
(Continued From First Page.)
trict of Columbia for more than 18
years, gradually growing from a
lease on a nine-hole course in West
Potomac Park in 1920 until today
the S. G. Leoffler Operating Co.,
hoo rl ari K«. C rt T ^
monopoly on public links golf
within the District of Columbia.
That the business must be a
profitable one is shown by figures
for,the 1938 calendar year, when
Leoffler’s operations were not as
large—by two golf courses—as they
are now.
In 1938 the gross income for ’all
operations of the S. G. Leoffler Op
erating Co., according to Govern
ment figures, was $231,901. Operat
ing costs were listed at $133,365, the
cost including salaries, insurance,
taxes, wages, etc. These operations
include, besides golf, the swimming
pool in East Potomac Park, a com
paratively minor operation. The
lessee apparently receives a net
profit in excess of $90,000.
Controls 90 Holes of Golf.
The Leoffler organization controls
about 90 holes of golf in the
city of Washington, scattered in
five different links operations. Mr.
Leoffler himself is the public
links czar of the city, the
undisputed king of public links golf
within the District of Columbia. For
if you will look at the geographic
boundaries of Washington you will
notice there is not a private golf
club within the District. The
Leoffler properties—with the single
exception of the Army-controlled
Soldiers’ Home and War College
golf courses—are the only links
properties within the territorial
limits of the District of Columbia.
How has this one organization
w
and this one man perpetuated his
control since 1921, while today the
Leoffler-cOntroUed organization Is
winding up the eleventh month of a
new five-year contract for the live
existing public courses within the
District of Columbia and one now
under construction? That is one of
the many questions the pubUc links
golfers of the city are asking. The
angles and ramifications are many.
Here aft a few of them:
Back in 1920, when a nine-hole
course in West Potomac Park was
the only pubUc golf course in Wash
ington (and when the city was in
the beginning of a major golf boom),
Col. C. O. Sherrill, then the Army
officer in charge of public buildings
and parks, asked for bids for opera
tion of the course laid out by Walter
J. Travis and Col. W. W. Harts at
Hains Point in 1919 and 1920. S.
G. Leoffler submitted what Col.
Sherrill described as ‘‘the only busi
nesslike bid” for the golf course
operation and secured the contract
for a limited time.
The contract called for Mr. Leof
fler to maintain the course and to
provide adequate golf facilities and
at the end of the specified time to
turn over the course in its original
condition. It also carried a lease for
the inadequate little nine-hole
course in West Potomac Park, which
is a “beginner’s” course and a make
shift layout.
Contract Renewed Repeatedly.
Down through the years Mr.
Leoffler repeatedly has had the con
tract renewed and expanded. At
one time two of the city’s courses—
Rock Creek and Anacostia—were
leased by the Welfare and Recrea
tional Association, a semi-public
corporation operating cafeterias, etc.,
In the Government buildings. But
Mr. Leoffler has broadened his con
trol and now operates all the
courses. Nor has it been altogether
a money-squeezing monopoly. Mr.
Leoffler himself has acted the part
of eood Samaritan on manv nrrst
sions. Under his direction and
with money contributed from his
pocket, or that of his company, pub
lic links teams have gone forth to
represent the National Capital in
a dozen national tournaments. Mr.
Leoffler's present contract is with
the National Park Service, repre
sented by the Office of National
Capital Parks, whose present acting
head is Frank T. Gartside.
Mr. Gartside succeeded C. Mar
shall Finnan, recently transferred
by the National Parks Service to a
post in Utah.
Last December Mr. Leoffier again
obtained the contract for operation
of all the public golf courses in
Washington, over the competitive
bids of three other groups. These
were the Welfare and Recreational
Association, a Government-spon
sponsore unit, and two private bid
ders. It made the sixth or seventh
'•enewal of the Loeffier contract.
But what has the Leoffier organ
ization done for public links goif in
a city where golf happens to be the
main individual sport? To get back
of all this you must realize that
public links golf is on a pay-as-vou
play basis, that the fees are com
paratively cheap and that the public
courses generally are the poor man's
country club.
Facilities Well Used.
You also must realize that it isn't
an unusual summer week end that
finds 4,000 persons using the golf
facilities at East Potomac- t’ark,
with 38 holes; 1,800 using the two
nine-hole courses at Rock Creek
Park, 1,500 using the Fairlawn
course in Anacostia Park and nearly
800 playing the easier course in
West Potomac Park. Figures on
the Deanwood course for colored in
Northeast Washington are not avail
able.
The development of golf facili
ties has been great since Mr. Leof
fler made his first contract. Since
he took over operation and control
of public golf in the National Capital
public golf facilities have been in
creased from 18 holes in 1821 in West
and East Potomac Parks to about
90 holes, scattered through all sec
tions of the city. The West Potomac
Park course remains the same as
in 1921. It is a sand green course
which hardly has been improved.
Expenses for development of new
courses generally have been borne
by the Government. The lessee
Mr. Leoffler, is responsible for main
tenance.
Where Mr. Leoffler took over in
1921 a nine-hole course in East Po
tomac Park the golf facilities in that
area have grown to 36 holes, di
vided into one fairly good 18-hole
course and two other mediocre
nine-hole layouts. - Mr. Leoffler
also operates the two nine-hole
courses in Rock Creek Park, the
18-hole course in Anacostia Park,
the new Deanwood, D. C., colored
course and the West Potomac Park
course.
Back in 1923, when public links
golf was in its Infancy in the United
States, the East Potomac Park
course was the scene of the na
tional championship. It was played
over courses that have barely been
changed from that day to this.
These courses were not adequate in
1923. They are pitifully inadequate
now. Mr. Leoffler wanted the 1939
national public links championship
and bid for it. The tournament was
awarded to the splendid Mount
Pleasant course in the neighboring
city of Baltimore, a publicly owned
and operated golf course.
Under the contract approved by
the National Park Service last De
cember, the Leoflter organization
controls all the public golf courses
In Washington for five years, begin
ning January 1, 1939. This contract
also includes the projected new 18
hole course In Fort Dupont Park,
now being built with the help of
the Civilian Conservation Corps.*
Figures on Contract.
For the record, the contract ap
proved by the National Park Service
provides the following rental to the
United States for the monopoly con
trol of these public golf courses: A
guarantee of $10,000 per year; 3 per
cent on the first $150,000 of gross
Income; 4 per cent on the next
$50,000 of gross income and on the
next group of gross incomes in units
of $25,000 each, percentages of 5,
6, 7 and 8; with a guarantee of 10
per cent to the Government of the
gross over $300,000.
Is this profitable to the operators?
Would they continue bidding for
the contract if it was not profitable?
/ And the fundamental question,
“Why are the people of the District
of Columbia and nearby Virginia
and Maryland, who cannot afford to
belong to private clubs, required to
pay to the operator a nice profit
for the privilege of playing golf
on Government-owned golf links?”
Public links golf in Washington,
Judged by the standards of other
cities, is not expensive. The charges
on the Loeffler-controlled courses
are: Nine holes, weekdays, 15
cents; 18 holes, 25 cents; nine holes,
Saturday afternoon and Sundays, 25
cents; 18 holes, 50 cents. These are
not excessive charges. They gen
erally are low as compared with
charges for public golf in other mu
nicipalities of comparative size. But
they are apparently high enough,
taken with profits from other con
cessions operated in connection with
golf, to pay the operator a good
profit.
But the golf courses themselves
do not compare witn those in other
cities. Roughly. *35,000. could be
spent profitably at East Potomac
Park alone to convert that course
into a test of the game adequate
for a city of the size of Washington;
*20,000 more could be spent at Rock
Creek Park and a similar sum could
profitably be spent at Anacostia.
But the latter course eventually wiil
be used, in part, as an integral unit
of the Fort Dupont course. Opening
of the Fort Dupont course is con
jectural, however. It may be five
years or more before it formally is
opened.
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