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first quarter, but they hoped that the
receipts for March would run ghove
$400,000,000 and those for the first
quarter, ending March 81, well above
$500,000,000. At ieast one-fourth of
the total tax due was pald with the
Income tax returns filed, so that col-
lections for the first quarter will run
somewhat above the average for the
four quarters,
Indications are that the higher tax
rate for 1980 incomes will fall to off-
set the losses caused by the economle
depression by around $100,000.000.
Last year's collections for the first
quarter were $0628,000,000,
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President Hoover on Business and Pleasure Trip to
Porto Rico and Virgin Islands—Mayor
Walker Under Fire.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
RESIDENT HOOV-
er and a “stag
party” sailed from
rmy
ROBABLY twenty men perished
when the sealer Viking was
blown up in White bay, Newfound-
land. Of the survivors 118, many of
them badly Injured, managed to reach
ly Seabury had been put In charge
of an investigation of police frameups
In vice cases and of the conduct of
Norfolk, Va., Thurs-
day morning on the
reconditioned battle.
ship Arizona for a
twelve day trip on
which the Chief Ex-
scutive planned to
combine rest and
Rar pleasure with busl-
ness. Included In the
Gov. Theodore [arty were Secretary
Roosevelt of War Hurley, Secre-
tary of the Interior Wilbur, Capt. Wil-
liam Furlong, who handles navy island
matters; Capt. Charles R. Train, naval
alde; Col. Campbell Hodges, army
aide; various other officials from the
White House, and a bunch of newspa-
per men and photographers. Capt. C, 8S.
Freeman was in comfmand of the Arl-
gona and the vessel carried a full
complement of 90 officers and 1,244
men for it was making a shaking down
run after being rebuilt.
The first stop was at San Juan,
Porto Rico, and the President for two
days was to be the guest of Governor
and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at La
Fortaleza, the old mansion in which
governors of the island have resided
from the early days of the Spanish
regime. It was planned that Mr.
Hoover should make a tour of the is-
land in order to observe industrial,
agricultural and social conditions,
meet the leaders of the political par
ties and gain a general idea of the
success Governor Roosevelt has at-
tained in meeting the problems of the
Porto Ricans, which are many and
serious,
The governor In his official reports
and in communications to the Ameri
can papers has given detailed pictures
of the distress obtaining in the island.
Sixty per cent of the people are out
of work, he sald, either all or part of
the year.
The populatiomn density 18 exceeded
by few countries. It is 440 to the
square mile and even intensive agri
culture would not support this popu
lation, So it is Incustries that Gov.
ernor Roosevelt says must be devel
oped. More than 35,000 persons are
suffering from tuberculosis, 200,000
from malaria, and 600,000 from hook-
worm.
From Porto Rico the Arizona was
to proceed to St.. Thomas, principal
port of the Virgin Islands, where Mr.
Hoover was to be met by Dr. Paul M.
Pearson of Philadelphia, the recently
appointed civil governor, and Waldo
Evans of the navy, the retiring gov-
ernor. With them he was to study
the problems of the group, which are
as serious as those of Porto Rico. The
Virgin Islands used to prosper on the
manufacture of rum and the trans
shipment of European cargoes for the
entire Caribbean region. The prevall-
ing economic distress Is the result of
prohibition and the conversion of coal
burning vessels to oll consuming ships,
Only a few days ago the control
of the Virgin Islands was trunsferred
from the Navy to the Interior depart.
ment, and now in Washington it is
suggested that one result of the Presi.
dent's visit may be the amalgamation
of the group with Porto Rico as a
single political unit administered by
one governor,
HEODORE G. JOSLIN, Washing-
ton correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, has been made secretary
to President Hoover to succeed George
Akerson, resigned. Mr. Joslin is a
close personal friend of Mr. Hoover.
His main duties will be arranging the
President's calling list, handling visi-
tors at the executive offices andynain-
taining contact between the President
and the correspondents.
The new secretary is an experi-
enced political reporter and has a
wide acquaintance among public men.
He is a native of Massachusetts and
is forty-one years old.
EVELOPMENTS
in the campaign
to clean up New York
city politically are
coming rapidly. Dur.
ing the week formal
charges of neglect
and unfitness were
filed against Jimmy §
Walker, the dapper
and debonair mayor
of the metropolis,
now regaling himself
In California. The Samuel
charges were present- Ssabury
ed to Governor Roosevelt by leaders
of the city affairs committee and were
said to be of such a nature as to com-
pel the governor to take some action
toward widening the investigation now
being conducted Ly Sam Seabury
and confirmed by police and magls
trates. :
Governor Roosevelt had let It be
come known that he would not re
spond to any public clamor for a city.
wide investigation anc that be would
act only upon specific charges, such
as led him to appoint Seabury to in.
vestigate the conduct of District At
torney Thomas C. T. Crain. Previous
city magistrates,
The governor was asked by Crain to
revoke the appointment of Seabury on
the ground of bias, but refused, and
Crain was summoned to appear and
answer the charges made against him
by the City club.
Republican members of the state
legislature were s.ll trying to put
through a resolution for a general
inquiry Into New York conditions, but
were blocked by several recalcitrant
members of their own party.
URING the next three months, it
was announced ‘at the \White
House, President Hoover will carry
out an extensive speaking program,
delivering eight addresses and making
nine public appearamces. Besides this,
he is contemplating a trip to his home
in Palo Alto, Calif. The subjects of
his speeches have not been announced,
but It is understood he will take the
opportunity to set forth his own esti.
mate of the achievements of his ad-
ministration so far and his alms for
the future. Thus he will be In a meas-
ure taking up the challenge put out
by the progressiv:s at their recent
conference in V ashington,
The speaking calendar for the Presi-
dent as arranged Is:
April 13—American Red Cross In
Washington.
April 14—Pan-American Day, Pan-
American Union, Washington.
May 4—Internationa! Chamber of
Commerce, Washington.
May 21—Fiftieth anniversary of the
Red Cross, Washington.
May 30—Memorial
Forge, Pa.
June 15—Republican Editorial
sociation, Indianapolis, Ind.
June 16-%Dedication of
Memorial, Marion, Ohio.
June 17—Dedication
Memorial, Springfield, II.
In addition to these engagements,
the President is to review veteran: of
the Grand Army of the Republic at
their reunion June 16 in Columbus,
Ohio,
Day, Valley
As
Harding
of Lincoln
ENATOR HIRAM
Johnson of Cali
fornia, who is one of
the most independent
members of the upper
house, thinks the ré
cent conference of
progressive leaders
was a “fine thing”
and that the leaders
of the tepublican
party should call a
similar meeting, add-
ing: “Only good can
come from such gath.
erings.” He is convinced that “some
thing is radically wrong somewhere”
with the Republican party,
Mr. Johnson gave out a statement In
which he agreed with some of the
progressive doctrines and disagreed
with others, but said that “public con.
sideration, study and discussion con.
stitute the contribution and value of
the conference.” He asserted the coun-
try was naturally Interested In unem-
ployment, representative government,
the power question, monopoly's en-
croachments and public utilities, add
ing: :
“Some of our Republican brethren
not only belittle the effort but would
transmute it into the one public mat-
ter of concern to them-—politics. But
a philosophic onlooker who long ago
marked his own course, and prefers
in his own way to follow it, might sug-
gest that only progressives, in the In-
terim between sessions, bring these
vital questions up In public meeting
for public discussion. Can any one
imagine the standpat wing of either
party meeting together with earnest
and able experts and publicly discuss
ing economic problems?”
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Senator
Johnson
EATH once more has changed the
political make-up of the house of
representatives which will assemble
in December. James B. Aswell of
Louisiana, Democrat and ranking
minority member of the agricultural
committee, passed away at his apart.
ment in Washington after a heart at-
tack. He was sixty-two years old and
had served In congress for nine con-
secutive terms,
Mr. Aswell's death leaves In the
house 217 Republicans, 215 Democrats
and one Farmer-Laborite, Represen-
tatives John F. Quayle and David J.
O'Connell, both Democrats of New
York, died last winter, Thelr succes
sors, Matthew V. O'Maley and Steph.
en A. Rudd, are both Democrats. Rep-
resentative Henry Alles Cooper, Re.
publican of Wisconsin, died last Mafeh
1. His successor )as npt been chosen,
JC YERYONE has now filled his In.
come tax return, or should have
done so, and the experts in Washing.
ton are busy figuring up how much
Uncle Sam wiil receive. Treasury of-
ficials could not yet make definite pre.
dictions as to the collections for the
little Horse island, where a few in-
habitants tried to care for them with
inadequate food and no medical sup-
plies. Several others were picked up
by vessels that sped to the rescue,
called by the messages of the young
girl radio operator on the island. Be-
sides the large crew the Viking car-
ried the members of a moving picture
expedition,
NE of the earnest
hopes of the
American Federation
of Labor—the affilia-
tion ‘of the Brother
hood of Rallway
Trainmen with the
, federation—Iis soon to
be realized, according
to dispatches from
Washington, Repre-
4 sentatives of both
bodies and of certain
Secretary affiliated rallway
Doak
engaged during the week In drafting
the terms of an agreement for
amalgamation. Representing the fed-
eration in the conference were Presi-
dent Willlam Green, Secretary Frank
Morrison and Vice President J. AM. Bu-
geniazet, who also Is secretary of the
International Brotherhood of Electri-
cal Workers. Sitting in for the train-
men were President Albert Whitney
and James Farquarson, legislative
agent.
The drafting conference was the
culmination of negotiations that have
been In progress for a year, in which
Secretary of Labor Doak, in his for
mer capacity as legisiative ngent of the
trainmen's said to
have played an important part.
organization, Is
NEXPECTEDIY heavy demands
by World war veterans for loans
have made it necessary for the treas-
ury to raise $200,000000 in less than
a month, Secretary Mellon ancounced
a request by Veterans’ Administrator
Hines for $500.000000 to Boor pay-
ments on 1372006 applications re
ceived ap to March 15. It had heen
estimated $300.000,000 would suffice,
and 1'%% per cent treasury certificates
were issued to get that sum. Hines
sald, however, the £300.000000 would
be needed by April 11,
The veterans’ administrater also
told Mellon £1.000000000 would be
required to pay all loans.
N AL DAUGHERTY, brother
i former Attorney General Harry
M. Daugherty, was sentenced at
Washington Courthouse, Olio, to ten
Years In prison and a fine of $5.000,
He was convicted recently of ab
stracting funds from the now defunct
Ohio State bank of which he was
president and was refused a new
trial.
IETRO CARDI-
nal Maffi, arch
bishop of Pisa and
one of the most emi
nent members of the
sacred coliege, is dead
in Pisa at the age of
seventy-three years
in his earlier years he
gained fame as an as
tronomer and teacher
of philosophy: he
was made archbishop
in 1008 and four years Cardinal Mat
later was raised to the purple by Pope
Pius X. The same pope, it was ru
mored, considered deposing him be
cause he supporte’. the modernists
in a contest with the reactionaries In
the church. Twice, afterward, Mam
was considered a papal possibility, He
was always a great friend of the Ital
lan royal family, and he officiated las!
year at the marriage of Crown Prince
Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie
Jose of Belgium. For this he was
given the Collar of the Annunziata.
the highest gift of the crown.
Cardinal Maffi's death reduces the
Italian membership in the sacred col
lege to 28, against 30 foreign mem
bers, Therefore it is expected fu Rome
that a consistory will be held before
long at which the pope will create
a number of cardinals and give the
Italians at least equal strength with
the foreigners.
S° VARIED are the interests of dif
ferent countries that the tariff
armistice convention called at Geneva
by the League of Nations is forced to
report that it has falled to reach an
agreement, though It has hopes that
within & few years enough nations
will ratify the pact to make It effec
tive for Europe. ; bu
The conference was called by the
league In an effort to secure a truce
on the rnising of tariffs and later to
obtain a general reduction of tariffs
Only eleven countries ratified the
truce clause and all eleven made im
portant reservations, The usual res
ervation was, “If surrounding eoun
tries would also ratify.”
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Oh sorrowing heart, "tis Easter day;
Put off the robes of sadness.
They are not dead—they live for
aye;
Exult in Easter gladness.
They are not dead—they only wait
In joyous expectation
To greet their loved ones at the gate
In glorious resurrection.
—Pathfinder Magazine.
' Ancient Symbols
of Resurrection
The first temple to Ceres, the Ro
| man goddess of grain, was built in
| 406 B. C. to commemorate the deliver.
| ance from a great famine. At the an-
| clent festival of Ceres It wos a prac
| tice to fasten burning brands to foxes’
{| tails. The foxes—or corn spirits, as
| they were called—were turned loose
| and left to burn, so that thelr ashes
| might charm the grain and produce
an abundant crop. During this fest!
val grain was scattered about the
earth and thrown upon people, he
cause it represented fertility—the
germ of Ife. Our modern custom of
throwing rice on newly married couples
can be traced to this old pagan fes
| tivity,
Long before Christ the Romans
burned a new-born calf and scattered
the ashes over the soll to induce the
earth to yleld much grain. This cus
i tom was later Introduced Into China,
| und as Iate as 1804 porcelain images
| of cows were presented to farmers in
{ the spring to bring a good rice crop
In north Germany, Scotland and
England the shepherds used to wor.
ship Poles, the shepherd's god, in the
springtime. The sheep were first purl
fled by brushing and washing, then
sulphur was burned about them. At
night the shepherds lighted great bon.
fires and danced among thelr sheep
by the light of the moon and the fires
In the morning the shepherd looked
to the east, toward the resurrected
| sun, and washed his hands in dew. In
some sections of Europe the shepherds
| ®till dance at Eastertime among their
{ sheep, which now typifies the sialn
| Lamb of God.
{ The lamb is one of the earliest sym
| bols of the resurrection. Among the
| Christians of the East a young lamb
is always eaten on Easter Sunday.
During Passion week hundreds of
spring lambs are brought into the mar.
ket places and sold for the Easter
feast. This I= a great time for the
children of the household, who make
friends with the lamb as soon as it is
brought home. They tle ribbons
around Its neck, legs and tall and hang
gariands of flowers about its body.
Often the father finds it difficult to
separate the lamb from the child. But
a lamb must be slaughtered for the
Easter feast, so two lambs are usually
bought—one for the children and one
for the festival. The spared lamb be
comes the children’s inseparable play.
mate. At bedtime they argue with
ench other to decide who shall sleep
with the lamb. Perhaps this old cus
tom inspired the famous nursery
rhyme, “Mary had a little lamb and
everywhere that Mary went the lamb
was sure to go."~ Washington Star,
EASTER FLOWERS
Because they bloom at Easter,
This is the children’s name
For all the yellow blossoms
That thus the spring proclaim.
Prom out the dark, from out the
cold,
They offer us a faith to hold,
The color of the sunshine,
They spread upon the earth;
Bid us forget the winter,
And turn to days of mirth,
Thus hope becomes a joyous thing,
When Easter flowers bloom in the
~Kalfus Kurtz Gusling.
Easter Prayer
In the hour of our shortcomings, teach
them growing.
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Roman Churches
Commemorate
Death of Christ
Before altars stripped of thelr orna-
ments and surmounted by veiled erucl-
fixes, with the tabernacles in the cen-
ter standing open and empty, black-
vestmented priests, solemnly prostrat-
ing themselves, commemorate the
death of Christ In all the churches
of Rome and throughout the Catholic
world,
A procession of penitent, composed
of thousands of clergy and laymen,
wends {ts way to Santa Croce in Ger.
nsalemme, where a comparatively
large piece of what is said to be the
cross of Calvary bas been kept for
centuries,
Between the hours corresponding to
the time that Christ is supposed to
have suffered his agony, all business
is at a standstill, and traffic largely
suspended.
Holy Staircase Goal.
In the city of Rome the scala santa,
or holy staircase, enshrined in the
church Just scross the way from St
John Lateran. is the goal of thousands
of penitents, both Italian and foreign.
The tradition Is that the staircase is
the same that Christ ascended in the
praetorium of Pontius Pilate in Jeruss
lem, on his way to appear before the
Roman governor. The steps, all of
marble, are assumed to have been
brought fo Rome by St. Helena, moth
er of Constantine, the first Christian
emperor.
All day the pligrims ascend those
stairs on their knees, praying at each
pause. When they reach the top they
are permitted a view through a lattice
of the chapel known as the sancta
sanctorum, or holy of holies, an early
picture of Christ and some precious
relics,
In every one of Rome's 400 churches
the Good Friday mass of the pre
sanctified is celebrated. In each the
Host, consecrated the day before, on
Holy Thursday, is reverently borne
from the altar of repose to the main
altar, the choir chanting the Seventh.
century hymn, “Vexila Regis” by
Venantius Fortunatus. Its English title
is “The Banners of the Cross Advance.”
Veneration of Cross.
Thereafter comes the ceremony of
the veneration of the cross The
veiled crucifix Is taken down from
above each altar and gradually on
covered, the clergy chanting the “Ecce
Lignum Crucis.” whose first line, trans.
lated, is “Dehold the wood of the cross,
on which hung the salvation of the
world” The priests then remove their
shoes in sign of reverence, kneel and
bow three times and kiss the crucifix,
placed on the altar steps. Thereupon
the laity are permitted to approach
and perform the same act of homage,
In the evening the devotion to “Ma.
ria Desolata” (Mary Desolate) takes
JOYOUS SPRING
EASIER is » universal pageant,
south of the equator as well as
FEAST OF NATIVITY
JJ EFORE the advent of Christian-
ity, spring was always celebrat-
ed by the pagan peoples, and it was
only natural that the early Chris-
tians should make Easter one glori-
ots feast day, for Easter was the
same word as Ishtar, the great
spring goddess of ancient Babylon,
and the same word as “East”—the
place of the sun rising—it outranked
even Christmas, the early fathers
holding the day of the Nativity to
be only a preparation for Easter.
Some authorities tell us that it was
only as early as A. D. 354 that the
feast of the Nativity was celebrated
on the twenty-fifth of December,
while Easter in its origin goes back
to the Sunday itself. Among the
early Christians every Sunday was
a joyful celebration of the resurrec.
tion of Jesus. On this joyful sev-
enth day, fasting was not in order
and the faithful might say their
prayers standing instead of on their
knees.
place in virtually all the churches It
begins after sunset snd consists of a
sermon on the Blessed Virgin's sor-
rows, the recital of the “Rosary” and
the singing of the famous “Stabat
Mater,” whose refrain, transiated,
runs :
Holy mother, pierce me through,
In my heart each wound renew,
Of my Bavior crucified,
Santa Maria del Popolo, titular
church of Cardinal Mundelein of
Chicago, Is among the many churches
dedicated to the Virgin in which this
ceremony is observed, accompanied by
programs of sacred music.
Easter Observance by
Arizona Papago Indians
Summoned by the eastern sunrise
and Easter fire burning from an en-
shrined plle of volcanic rock, the
Papago Indians kneel in prayer Easter
morning at the Mission San Xavier
Del Bae, Arizona, in a ceremony dat-
ing back to the founding of the mis
sion In 1700,
The white plume of smoke from the
hilltop, while not a part of the Chris
tian Easter service, has been held
over from an age-old Indian legend,
and has come to be recognized st the
mission as the Eastern morning call
to the faithful.
A male choir of Papagoes sings the
opening of the mass as the sun rises
over the Catalina mountains near Tue
son, while Rev. M. Murphy of Chicago
intones the “Gloria in Excelsius Deo”
The Easter fire Is always lighted
Just before dawn, so that its plume of
smoke may rise against the first rays
of the sun,
Nature's Awakening
Ever since the world began all na-
tions have expressed their inherent
the merry festival of the cherry blos
while the Chinese burn