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r C. A. Spsagub Eajll C Brownleb Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers Salem, Oregon Sunday March 17, 192$ Edntooal The Break-up of the White Party, TWO years ago Pierre Crabites, a Louisiana Democrat and a Catholic, wrote a magazine article vigorously opposing the. candidacy of Al Smith for the presidency. He opposed him both as a Democrat and a Catholic, particularly the lat ter, feeling that the stirring of religious controversy would injure the cause of his church. ' The result turned out just what he predicted. Now Mr. Crabites, who is active as a judge of the international tribunal at Cairo, writes another article "A White South, or Black?" for the North American Review. s - He writes as a southerner, a southerner of the old school whose major concern is white domination," and whose en grossing fear, is negro domination. He sees in the split of the Solid South a great danger. Hitherto the whites have formed one political party in the southern states. The last election showed a division in the ranks of the white party republican and democratic. He fears for this situation: "This condition carries in its wake the imminent peril of bloodshed orj of negro rule." . The Mississippi scheme for disfranchising the blacks is in danger of being terminated through the education of the negroes and their growing thrift in accumulating property. Many negroes can now qualify as voters who do not vote be cause of their fear of white control of elections. With the southern whites divided, each fraction will be apt to encour age negro voting the entering wedge toward negro dom ination. The judge writes: "X ft it tkat aouthera wkita will CTtW w wrtra tfc condition tkat txistsa artag reconstruction days bee dm I think thai Z knw aomatMnf of annan natar. One tra Cancaaiaa alsmeiit at ths toata divide on aratdaaUal tasass ad it ss lrtaed on Kovembar ft, 1921 tha thirat for offlco and ardor of conflict will canao snlttlrtini to cstt ayes at those nnreglatsrod black votes. This aaoana that tals aoloct Black Brigado, whathtr tt ho large or mall, wffl ooonor or Utar hold tho oalaitco of sowar In tho tern aolld Confodarato atatoa. Thia roratt will ho aa ' larrttabla a tho Call of Doom, and will begat aa awakening which will apoU biooa- He nroDOses the effective recognition of the White Par- ty of the southern states, which could be either republican or democratic in the individual states. Elections would be determined by the party primaries with only the whites eligible to vote. National or presidential questions could be settled simply by submitting the rival electoral tickets to the vote of the primary, the vote of the electors being in ac cordance not with the party label of the one party, but with their personal pledges.. , , m - I r The article is suggtMlve not only as, a .study; m the changes which the last election may effect in the south, but as a reflection of the unchanged attitude of the old south erner. With bitter memories of carpet-bag days, he cannot see why any negro should be permitted to vote. Hiff program is a counsel of despair, dooming' the negro no matter how ' good and competent a citizen he may be, to permanent dis franchisement. We would regard that policy unsound in pr litical theory and dangerous, to social security in the long . ii xl 1 1 - il H run. cut ine souinerner always ciaiuis me iiurmciuc ww i get his viewpoint, which is probably quite true. New Views on the Borah Proposal IT1HE Borah amendment to the naval construction bill, has B . A a a aw " JL focused the attention of publicists Dotn at nome ana abroad to the long-vexing question of the "freedom of the seas." This is the spear-point which impinges on Amenco British accord. Handed down from the Napoleonic wars to the present day, the law of the sea remains the law or lorce. I - . . . . . . saw al . The right of the neutral now must yieia to tne exigency oj iwar, unless it is backed by might Naval "parity" is one an swer to this century old question the answer or prepared hess. Senator Borah hopes for another answer the answer of law through treaty: "The right to carry everything m ? legitimate commerce except actual munitions of war that 'j is the only definition of the freedom of the seas that will ever be satisfactory." Comes now John W. Davis, former ambassador to the court of St. James, who realizes the. growing "tension be- ' ''tween England and America due, m part, to the breakdown ,of the Geneva conference on disarmament and in part to the 'separate Anglo-French naval compromise. Mr. Davis, who : can't getaway from the use of force as contemplated in the covenant of the league of nations, in his article in the April I issue of "Foreign Affairs" comes out plainly for an agree- "merrt that we should not insist on our neutral rights at sea when other nations are engaged in coercing a covenant breaking state; and that in return Great Britain should fully accept our interpretation of neutral rights m a regular pn ; vate" war, that is a war where no party was branded as :i covenant-breakingr In other words Mr. Davis wants the United States to ; insist on no neutrality where other countries are "coercing1 .a covenant-breaking power. It is singular that friends of the league of nations are continually try mg to tie up the United States with recognition of its sanctions and with co-operaticn in "enforcing peace."- The implications of the Kellogg ''.treaties are for peace based on the force of public opinion -actuated by interpretations of international law by the world Mtcourt, and not through "coercion". :.; Probably the most interesting contribution to the cur- rent discussion is contained in a recent issue of the Man- Chester Guardian, leading British Liberal weekly. We do not expect to find the opinions of the Guardian reflected in the British admiralty, but the facts stick out that the old Brit- ; ish weapon of blockade now becomes, a threat through the use of submarines and airplanes in war. So important to the thoughtful consideration of the question of "freedom of the seas" is the Guardian's comment that we print it at some length, in an adjoining column. . . Can't Use Horse Power If We Don't Use Horse Sense Nvl" ., Ym A detective inspector of New South Wales, William J. Mackay, has been visiting this country. He reports that in his country last year all but eight of the automobiles stolen during the year were recovered. .This is one of the provinces of Australia, "with an area of over 300,000 square miles and a population of over two million. That s a great record. Where do the heredity fans come in on this score? We know, that . . - Australia was colonized quite largely by British convicts. The secret is of course, the more efficient Dohce methods. Police work there is a life employment under very good con ditions, instead of a brief spurt of political enterprise we have so much of in this country. Harry Daugherty rises from obscurity long enough to tmxr T Vi Q f Via nmvor lmnm Bnvttiinor ahsttif Via "lifflA crronn . house on K street." He's been a long time protesting his ignorance. The most interesting reading we can imagine will be the "letters and diaries" to be published some 25 or 50 years hence, of the members of the Ohio gang. That is, if they leave any letters or diaries. It would almost be worth while sitting on the world that long to get to read the "inside dopol' on Jesse Smith, Gaston Means and the other members of the plunderbund. - j'; - - - -I We supposed that women were eligible for jury service in most all the states,' now that women have the right to vote. That is not true. Only 22 states have added that to women's rights or duties. Women ought to do all the jury work, sow that they don t raise big families, and do all their - work by electricity. That would leave the men on the jobs to earn enough to meet the installments as they fall due. Congressman DePriest, who succeeds the late Martin B. : Madden in the house of representatives, is a negro. . He ; comes from a strong negro district in Chicago and is said to be representative of. the worst elements of the negro wards ; Wives of congressmen are. all a-flutter over how to i take care of Mrs. DePriest. Some of them will want to ap- ply Jim' Crow regulations all right. . . " ! The Corvallis G-T quotes a college "professor" as saying "the good germs are to be numbered by the thrillians." Those ty must be the collegiate varieties. ' - i .in They Say... EzpretMkMM f Opimloai Stoteaaaa Bedni - Welcomed far Cm la Otis All Letton Mart Writer's Name. Though This Heed V-rt ba Printed. - ' i . Freedom of the Seas Lay Seirmnioinis No. 6: "A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION." . I commend unto you Phoebo our sister, who la a aervant of tho church, that is at Cenchreae: that yo receive her in tho Lord, worthily of tho aalnta and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may hare need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self." Romans 1: 1. 2. This Is nothing but an old let ter of recommendation about Phoebe. Panl tells something about her In commending her to the followers of the faith in the city of Rome. She was a member of the church In the old Greek city of Cencbrease. That was the town where Paul had a haircut before he sailed to Ephesus. Phoebe wasn't just a church member, she worked at the Job. She was a helper of oany includ ing Paul himself. Whether she cooked some rice for Paul or patched bis clothes while he was working as tent-maker at the nearby town of Corinth he doesn't say. But Phoebe was a member of the female "service club" of her town, so she got a good rec ommendation. We wonder .why she went to Rome. There was a lot of travel in those days to be sure. Lite i was restless. They had an out burst of road building which wasn't repeated until the days of the Columbia River highway. Sail ing vessels were leaving frequent ly from Corinth to Italy and were quite safe from pirates, thanks to the Roman nary. Maybe Phoe be's husband got a transfer to the imperial city. Maybe she wanted to locate there herself. At any rate she got this letter of recommendation from PauL Was it not the first "church let ter?" Phoebe was planning to affiliate with the church at Rome and- this served as her certificate, From now till Easter the Sa lem pastors will be trying to lo cate people who have moved here from other towns who didn't do like Phoebe probably did and get right into church work. It is a good time to look up church letters, whether old or new. They won't be signed by Paul, like Phoebe's; but the good pastor in the old home town will probably give you a good send-off, whether you deserve as good a one as Phoebe got or not Bits for Breakfast By R. J. Hendricka Speaking of great cows S ThOsnhJect of this. annual slo gan number, we need a rapid de velopment of our dairying indus try about as much as any other one thing S And the superior opportunities in this field here would justify a well. organized advertising cam palgn to get more dairymen. - A growth, will come naturally, but it is not fast enough. - . There Is' another major field needing exploitation. We need more flax spinning here, leading to specialty mills, employing large forces; keening -the money at home mounting sums of It 'annu ally. . The state flax plant is Just now arriving at a point where it will be turning out more fiber than. our local -mills can work up into yarns, twines aud cloth. This condition has not existed before. with a certainty of being per manent, and arith a rapidly grow in surplus of the fibers. It Is here now, to stay. To the limit of the state's requirements, which will be flax from about 10,000 acres. Alter that, or course, there will be private plants. These, too, could not heretofore have been made to pay. They would pay now, with free labor; owing to improved machinery and meth ods. U This field will justify exploita tion in a large way. Jt would pay the Portland and Salem and other chambers of commerce In the Wil lamette Talley to major on this. t would pay the state and the counties to help. It would result la a vast Increase of taxable property" In the Talley counties. In a thousand ways, direct and In direct. We arc ready now for a flax and linen Industry boom. We war never ready for this before. The work so far has been In the nature . of . pioneering, which o(J course had to be done first. . V Is The make-up man bad to crowd out the conclusions' on the sugar industry developments In the bits column of yesterday. Tke Idea Is this: .Our people should watch derelopments, r-i note what Is done with the t iff law that is being framed. If ample protec tive rates are allowed, the time will be here for the Salem dis trict to go after beet sugar fac tories, and get them. . It Is noted that the people of the Salt creek district in Polk county are asking for a new road. They want to make it easier for defeated politicians to go "up Salt creek." ' It Is to be noped that our guests of the past few days, attending the basket ball tournament, have found Salem living up to her am bition to be the city of welcome; the outstanding convention city. We can afford to capitalize more and prepare" better along thee lines wis Salem small boyv answering the question of his teacher about how iron was discovered, said his father told him they smelt It ' Is Medford youth fell asleep while watching the basket ball finals. and the rooters -from the pear city threatened to have him ar rested for kid napping. , ' . V, S :.v - : ' From IS 10 when Hidalgo led his patriotic band against, the armies of Spain, till the present day, when Calles Is in charge again to restore peace, Mexico has had a long series of revolutions. The great trouble Is the 12,000, 00 Ignorant and poor, the mass of the population, and the few ambitious leaders, anxious for power and graft This revolu tion will be put down 1 by " the strong hand of Calles, Mexico's greatest leader. But there will be other revolutions, till the mass of Mexico's millions is raised from dense Ignorance- and dire poverty. "- AT BOTJXDABT lEEETINO STATTON, March 16. Mayor George Keech, Prof. H. E. Toble and the" members of the school board. Grant Murphy, Dr. Beau- champ and J. W. Mayo, were in Salem Friday to meet with the district boundary - board to dis cuss new transportation" legisla tion," etc.-. Representatives from Turner and Aumsvilla were" also present Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The Statea. Oar Fathers Read March 17, 1904 Some excitement was occasioned about town when the word was circulated that all the city ordin ances passed prior to 18 9 S had been destroyed or at least were missing. W. H. Downing of this county was elected president of the state board of agriculture to succeed George Chandler of Pendleton. INDEPENDENCE The follow ing officers were elected for the Independence Improvement club for the ensuing year: Dr. O. D. Butler, president; Dr. E. L. Ketch- um, vice-president; G. A. Hurley, secretary; and U. JU Frailer, treasurer. ' Editor ofx the Statesman, Salem, Oregon. ' My Dear Sir: A prominent eltisen of. your city has sent me a copy of tfcf article entiUed. "Nelson Unable to Fix Blame," which appeared in the March 14 Issue of the States man Since tne article involves my name In gross misrepresenta tion it has been suggested that F make reply through your columns. In the first place, let me say, I had no conversation with anyone following the Chemawa-Salem game.- except with Coach Sparks and Roy Keene. To the former I expressed the thought that I had expected Salem to win. " To the latter I expressed regret that Sa lem had not won, in order that the state tournamenfr-Tshould be a financial success. I know no one from Chemawa and I spoke to no one from Chemawa. Any statement to the contrary by Mr. Nelson Is an outrageous false hood. As well the language as quoted by Mr. Nelson is not my style. The 'remarks of the two Irate mothers were directed to Mr. Kirk. No reply was made to these mothers by either Mr. Kirk or myself. I merely sat by and smiled. Mr. Keene and Mr. Sparks were also present: the in cident occurred In Mr. Keene's office. Mr. Nelson's Investigation to learn who was responsible for the not apparently was entered into an endeavor to shift the odium and responsibility that attaches to himself in the affair, as well as to whitewash the members of his team who were the leaders In the demonstration. Bob Kelly, George Beechler. uon eiegmuna, joe King were among the b.oys who were prom inent In the demonstration at the Willamette gym and who persued me to Dallas. They were recognized by any number or people here at Dallas, when they stopped In the confectionery here to learn the location of my residence. As well, they were Identified by the sheriff when or dered to leave town. King. Sieg- mund. and Beechler admitted in my office, when they came to apologize, that they were In the crowd. Kelly did not come to apologize: he probably did not wish to be identified as the one who had been particularly abu slve and threatening to me at the door of the Willamette gym. This attempt now, by Salem school authorities to shift their responsibility In the affair Is cow ardly and contemptible. very respectfully, R. R. Turner. March 10. Uockade, Great Britain's traditional weaposi la war, has becptne more aangeroas to nerseix tnaa to outers la tnis aay or aaomanne and airplaae; to abolish this weapon In favor of freedom; of tho seas would ba to her advantage, Uilnks British weekly, which strong ly favors a Anglo-American entento aa guarantee of world poaco - The most powerful weapon used In the Great war was the strangle hold of blockade. Without it the total defeat of the Germans In November, 18 IS, would have been impossible. But it also came very near to achieving the total defeat of Great Britain, and, with her, of all the Allied Powers, in April. 1917. The blockade against Ger many was carried out by the Bri tish fleet at that time the most formidable ever known aided by the powerful French. Italian, 'Jap anese, and. later on, American fleets, as well as by the clrcum stance that Germany, being sur rounded by her Continental ene mies, wks blockaded by land as well as by sea. But the blockade against Great Britain was carried out by a few German submarines with bases a long way off and with no access to the English channel because of the narrowness and consequent in violabllity of the Straits. "How was it that these few submarines (of a now old-fashioned and relatively ineffectual type) could be almost as formidable to this country as the tremendous combined arma das and armies of the Allied pow. ers? The reason is that this coun try is hypersensitive to blockades. and much more so now than dur ing the war. Except in special cir cumstances such as existed then and will surely never exist again, none of the great continental pow ers can be blockaded as effective ly as Germany was in the war. But to blockade Great Britain and inflict on her a defeat far more catastrophic than even the defeat that came upon Germany, nothing would have been needed save a few more German submar ines. Today a Continental naval pow er with suitable bases could swift ly defeat this country, all the more so as aeroplanes (against which there is no adequate defense) would complete the work of the hostile submarines. Indeed, it is possible that merchant shipping in the English channel would be destroyed more rapidly by attack from the air above than from the water below. Total defeat could come without the landing of one enemy or the bursting of one shell on i British soil, or the loss of one British soldier, because Great Bri tain can feed herself for no more than seven weeks. Blockade, our traditional weapon In war, has become far more dangerous to ourselvseaihan to others. hardly an exaggeration If Great Brittatn and the United States come to an agreemeat in which maritime law will haive been re vised so that the principle of the freedom of the seas jariii be car. ried out. then the cause of uni versal peace will have been won, whereas if they do not come to such an agreement this cause will have been lost We pdblish an im portant letter from ajn authority who states .the essence of the problem in the words "The truth is that for the two powers Inher iting a common civilisation and to a large extent common ideals the freedom' of the seas rightly un derstood in the light of the new conditions ,1s a cojmraon ob jective, not a matted of dispute. We both want freedjom and we both want peace." That is un doubtedly so. ' Anglo-American relations have been badly disturbed by the abor tive "navaL compromise and by our new entente wlti Franee, by our failure to accept the Kellogg pact without reservations, by the anti-Americanism of pur reaction aries, who have helped the cruiser bill to pass the senate and have given the American ladmirals all the encouragement But in the last few has ben an Improvement. The im they need. weeks there In the king's the United sides of the It follows that to abolish .this weapon altogether would only be an advantage to Great Britain. In deed, more than this it might be her and the Empire's salvation. And more even than this, the pe culiar part which the -right of capture at sea has played and still plays in Anglo-American relations makes it seem reasonable to hope that If maritime law were modi fied so aa to suit both modern needs and modern ideals the only possible cause of an armed conflict William Wechter, president of the Golden Rule and Annex min ing companies, has gone to the mines at Bohemia, near Cottage Grove. JEFFEflSON IS To the Editor of The Statesman Labor, of course, is divided on the prohibition question. Orean ized labor passes wet resolutions with considerable regularity and! between this country and the TJnit unanlmlty, but the man who wish- ed States would be removed, the es io a iniormea Bnouia never f two- countries could at last begin forget that the transportation unions, which are biggest labor affairs fnii Knnls.n... unions In the United States, are ef the Kellogg pact could work i7 ia it T themselves out, ... a x.l ,J It Is hardly an exaggeration to aav uauj uia auiuuft a, IWU" l au i a .' . . . or. f Arriil4 i.w "7 i"" wuna, anairs reveal no vv w V0wav SBWaa H BHWAY CRASH JEFFERSON, Mar. 10. (Spe cial) Friday forenoon as Forest Miller was returning home from Jefferson, a car driven by a Salem man collided with Miller's car. about a mile north of Jefferson. Both cars were badly damaged. No one was injured. Miss Virginia Mason of Jeffer son who has been teaching in the Woodburn high school since Jan uary, has been re-elected for next year. Mn. Jennie Parker of Eugene was the guest of her sister Mrs. J. R. McKee Friday. Mrs. Mary Lamb and Miss Frances Byram motored." over from Tillamook Wednesday eve ning and visited schools in Albany Thursday. They spent Friday at the Silverton schools, returning to Jefferson in the evening. John Mitchell was one of the greatest and most loved and trusted leaders of organized la bor who had at heart the real In terest of the laboring man. While he was the head of the Mine Workers of America, he gave out this statement: 'I believe that liquor has con tributed more to the moral, intel lectual and material deterioration of the people and has brought more misery to defenseless worn en and children than any other agency in the history of man kind, The same thing holds in Eng land, where Ramsey McDonald. late Premier' of the labor govern ments strongly dry. and John Mor- ley stated that "England must put a stop to the liquor traffic or it will put a stop to England." Li quo Is certainly the foe of labor. intelligent labor is therefore a foe of liquor. j. d. Mccormick. Salem, Oregon. March 16. 1929. problem of greater Importance than the problem commonly known as the "freedom of the seas. Indeed and this again is mense Interest taken illness throughout States, where It received as much publicity as It-did hare, has been a revelation on both Atlantic. There Is In this coqntry a grow Ing recognition that friendship with the United Statjes should be the supreme object of our foreign policy, and that the only permis sible entente is one ith America. The new entent withj France still stands, but the movement against it has developed on 4 broad front a movement inspired by dislike of any British commitments on the European continent, by a real un easiness orer the dinger to our relations with the Ulnlted States, and. ultimately, by ilho resolve, deeply felt by the people of this country, that there shall never be another war. and si strong and very sound suspicion hat a lasting Angio-r reocb entent means anoth er war as surely as an Anglo- American entent means no more war. Tn the United States, who have made that magnificent and orig inal contribution to the world's peace, the Kellogg pact, there is absolute readiness, indeed eager ness, to discus's a revision of mari time law with a vtewj to establish, ing the freedom of i the seas. In this country there la still a cer tain reluctance to follow the Am erican lead, for the admiralty is strong, and we do not easily break with old and - deeply Ingrained traditions. Nevertheless, the desire to compete with the KJnited States in naval armament Is not felt everf by the British government It never existed amongst the Bri tish people there iave been no American "naval scares" as there once were German 'kaval scares." and the passage of the cruiser bill has been accepted without the slightest Hi-will bjj the British public. j The time la therefore ripening for an Anglo-American conference on the freedom of the seas. The very idea that such a conference should "fall Is altogether intoler able, -"' - Mrs. AUie Cain Going to Canada STATTON. March 16. Mrs. Al- lie Cain, who has resided here the past 20 years or more, expects to leave soon for Canada where she will make her home with-a nephew. She has been in poor health for some time and has vbeen living alone, her husband having passed away several years ago. She will sell her household goods and home here. Wednesday Club Given Bridge DALLAS, Mar. 1C The Wed nesday evening club waa enter tained this week at the home of Mr: and Mrs: V.- R, Kent. : Two tables of bridge were played. At tending were Mr. and .Mrs. Ralph Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Eakin. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kreasoa and the -. host . and - hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Kern, - . - COFFEE RETTJRX S -. W. N. Coffee, pastor of the Free Methodist church, has returned from a trip to Seattle,, where ha attended the Northwest Bible Ed ucational convention and a meet ing 6f the Board of Trustees of the Seattle ' Pacific college . and will 300 Attend Big Woodmen Party; Greatly Enjoyed LAKE LABISH, Mar. 1. (Special) Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors numbering over 300 made merry at the Chemawa Woodmen community hall Tues day night The Matthes orchestra, the Ha waiian banjo trio and the Salem orchestra all provided music A short and spicy .program inter spersed with charming songs, a humorous skit worth coming miles' to see, and refreshments were among the features of the get-together meeting. Frank Matthes .won the hand some "monkey wrench" ouilt. Home Exchange Made This Week A real estate deal where br the J. J. Ackermaa modern residence at 1S35 North Capitol street comes into the possession of Mr. and Mrs. George Sletarth in ex change tor the Siefarth six-acre tract on the Silverton road was completed this week by the J. F. Ulrich company. Both parties moved . Immediately to their new homes. FIRE DEPAUT - HAS FIRST DRILL MONMOUTH, Mar. 10. (Spe cial) Monmouth's fire depart ment members held their first out of door practice Tuesday evening and went through considerable drill formulae. The water was turned on to enable hose manipu lation at full pressure. At the bus iness meeting a membership com mittee was named to include George Cooper, acting fire chief; Fred Hill and J. C. Wilson, offi cers of the hose company; Nick Nelson and Kenneth Wilson, offi cers of the hook and ladder com pany; Ed Westcott and Don Bing man, officers of the chemical company; and Dr. C G. Stem and Dr. F. R. Bowersox. Ed Westcott was named chair man of the finance committee and was empowered to appoint two others to 'assist him in duties per taining to that office. NEW Mil STORE again occupy his pulpit this Sun day morning. - PLEASES VISITORS Hundreds ef pleased townspeo ple thronged the new Kafoury store Saturday when the Liberty street location of the firm was for mally opened for business." Visitors found a store modern in every degree with the latest fa cilities for display of goods. A large basement running the full length of the building houses the "Thrift store" which offer ex ceptionally low prices to the pur chaser - -t--,;.:" ' :-' c Until May the Kafoury store on State street will be continued, the firm operating this business in conjunction with that on North Liberty street. PQUR IN FAST Treasury -Officials Unable to Guess Total! Amount -for This Year WASHINGTIN, jMarch 1. (AP) Cash was pouring Into the treasury today at a fate that made It Impossible for officials even to guess as to the tojtal which the Match IS income tax payment, the first In 1929, will reach. Collections offices . throughout the country were iot attempting to makea tabulation of the cur rent totals, but in response to Washington Instructions, were rnshing their receipt Into banks, since the treasury! technically is very nearly , up toj Its bank bal ances with expenditures, and needs the money. 1028 Figures Exceeded - By the .latest available figure, which showed the Condition of re ceipts at the close of business March 15, income tax payments tor the month were running about $5,400,000 ahead of receinta to the same date last year. If this rate of increase Is maintained the government may rtcelve $50,000, 000 more In March this year than It recovered last year. Though this oossibllltr was seen by some officials others were uouduhi xaai n weuia be realised. Total Receipt Unknown Considering . all these factors the . treasury woWld , not attempt even a guess today at what total receipts would bejand.lt waa con sidered unlikely that any definite knowledge would Ibe available be- . fore Mareh 33. Last year the eovernment took In 1513,000.000 from Its March Income tax sources and if the in dicated increase) is maintained this year the flknre mixht be raised to I5f0.ti00.000. There are some grounds If or expecting an advance but until hand Secretary aides will refrain It. it is actually in Mellon and his from Indicating