FRANK A. GOODWIN CHARGES HARVARD WITH TAX DODGING

"Harvard University is the biggest tax dodger in Massachusetts," Frank A. Goodwin, chairman of the Boston finance commission, told a crowded session of the Legislative Committee on Cities in a fiery speech at the state House yesterday. Defending his administration as head of the commission, Goodwin, who is a former candidate for Governor and well known Bay state politician, assailed the "blue bloods" of Massachusetts and in particular H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University.

Assails Shattuck, Perkins

Goodwin's charges were made in the course of an attack on the efforts of the rich to avoid bearing their share of the taxation, especially in regard to municipal economies through reduction in salaries. Shattuck and T. N. Perkins '91, a member of the corporation, have been leading the movement to reduce salaries of municipal employees. Goodwin stated, while refusing to make cuts in the compensation of professors and instructors at Harvard.

"Shattuck himself has an income of more than $100,000," he said "Yet, according to the papers there will be no salary reductions or curtailment of the Harvard teaching staff because they want to keep the best men they can get. They mustn't do anything like that at Harvard, but it's all right to cut salaries of Boston school teachers. They don't care much if we lose our best teachers."

Goodwin has been a stormy petrel in Massachusetts politics for several years. Registrar of Motor Vehicles under former Governor Alvan T. Fuller, he achieved considerable renown for his active conduct of that office, but later became involved in a violent dispute with the governor and was removed. Since then he has run for the governorship on an independent ticket but was defeated.

During the depression and this year in particular, Harvard, in common with many other colleges, has been the subject of criticism because its property is tax exempt.