Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1921, Page 2

9 - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE "2, 1921—PART 1 IFCULLEY WARDS | GIVEN HIS NAME Six Children Made Citizens of U. S. by South Carolina Court. "BIG-HEARTED ADMIRAL THEIR LAWFUL PARENT Y&nngstem Make Progress in Eng- lish and Show Benefits of Careful Training. Special Dispateh to The Star. ANDERSON, S§. C., June 25.—Under the hammer of the court of common pleas six little Russian children, na- tives of Sebastepol, were made bona- fide citizens of the United States and 11 Newton | South Carolina, when Admi | R. McCulley of the United was given his final decree in the mat-| ter of adoprion. legal proceedings of | which Admiral McCulley started some ! months ago. Preliminsry procee ings have gone Ba¥ore and the final decree gives| Avderson the following new citizens:| Luidmila MeCulley, Anasatia McCul ley, Anton‘a McCu \inotochka M Culley, Feador M Toinotchka | McCuliey ! The final decree of the court brings to a se one of the m unusual option ever recorded in history, that of an American bachelor, an wumiral in the Nawy of the United States, a man with a big heart, and ! one who realized the suffering of the infants of Europe. and has assumed | the life task of rearing a family of | children of alien blood. i Now With Adwmiral's Mother. { The six Rus: youngsters, with their Russian governess, who were brought to the United States last win- | ter, arrived in Anderson. June 5, from | the admiral's Washington home, and are now at the home of his mother, | where they will remain for the sum- mer month: Since their arrival in Anderson, the | Fog Signals Off Coast Suffer in Sinn Fein Raids. LONDON, June 25.—Warning has been issued by the admiralty that the fog signals at Fastnet, Bull Rock and Skellig, off the southwest coast of Ireland, are unreliable owing to Sinn Fein raids on the lighthouses, which have endangered the lives of sea voyagers. SENATOR ALLOWED | TOENTER RUSSIA Mr. France Granted Permis- sion After Assailing Hughes- Hoover Policy. By Cable to The Star and ) Copyright, 192 BERLIN, June 25—United States Senator Joseph I France of Maryland will be admitted to Itussia “under cer: tain conditions,” it Is learned authori- tatively today. Senator France later confirmed this. He refused to say, however, what the “conditions” were. In a few days the senator will go to Riga, where he expects to meet soviet ol 1s. he senator was informed that he would be allowed to enter Russia following an interview he gave to Novy Mir, the official bolshevist organ, in Wwhich he assailed the Hughes- Hoover policy toward soviet Russia, and the allies and not s to be responsible for woes, and predicted that the American people would soon force the Washington government to change its policy and conclude a trade agreement with the bolsheviki. Favor Trade Resumption. ._Senator France told the bolsheviki nterviewer that thirty-two senators now favor a resumption of trade re- lations. “The declarations made by Mr. Hoover are not the last word,” said Senator France. “The last word be- longs to Congress, and Congress_does prople the mmand. When little Russians have been the source | word Hughes of much interest to local people and | 4nd_Hoover dare not disobey it. on several occasions parties have been | “A resumption of trade relations given in their honor. Under the guid- | between the United States and Ru ance of their governess, Miss Patrick, | $12 18 absolutely csscntial to the in the children have made remarkable |ierests of both ntries. This progress in the study of English, and | lru¢. despite the declarations to the while their flow of ianguage is ham- | $ontrary - made by Hughes and pered materially by the Russian ac-|Hoover. . cent. they readily understand when | Serator France further informed n to. ially interesting is the prog-| ress of the youngest child, who is only i three years old, who has learned the months of the week and without h to thirty Nicolai Retains Surname. tancy can count | the bolshevist organ, “There are only three countries in which true de- weracy is being practiced, namely, the United States, Germany and Rus- ia. There is much in common between the United States and soviet Russia; for both our and your country are tuled entirely by the people,” said the ];\'.m the sption of Nicolai, the !senator. oldest of the the orphans Mixslo b ) n Private. were adopted € usual w; S & an and retaining his |05 to Russia as a representative of 3 The Soung sman. {the United States government or Fodries 3 " |business interests, but purely in a 3 ¥ vears old, r me a member of the local v Scout: ‘ s orgapization. Nicolai probably better acquainted with mili- | tary than his yvoung friends, for in} a2 member of a similar | organization and, in addition, served | two years with the Russian forces | against the bolsheviki. On the whole the daily life of the children is extremely interesting. Re- gardless of the fact that the admiral is a bachelor, his system of rearing children is not altogether theoretical. for those who have visited thé chil- dren since their arrival here and have noted their progress daily are con- vinced of the fact that the children shown great improvement in health, deportment and along educa- tional lines. PROPOSE NEW SITE FOR WALTER REED | Sgontinued from_First Paze.) ana develop there the great medical | center planned for Walter Reed. More convenient and better locations than the present Walter Reed site | can be found, Representative Keller | says. The growth of the city in that| direction would make it possible for the government to sell the present ! Walter Reed site and get enough to buy a new site in a more advantage- ous and secluded location, he has been advised. He also says that there is additional land near the Sol- diers’ Home which should be in- cluded now, before land values climb higher, so as to ure adequate space for future growth. The building of the proposed car line out 1ith street extended should be delayed until the removal of the hospital can be effected, Representa- I tive Keller feels. Buildings Called Fire Traps. The present Walter Reed buildings i are for the most part “fire traj Representative Keller says, and re- i fers to a hearing last session before : the House rules committee on a bill : by’ Representative MacLeod to im- * vestigate a fire at Walter Reed. ‘Is the time to move the hospital” Representative Keller says. “The lives of the soldier patients, many of them maimed and nerve-shattered, should be considered more important even than annoyances caused by traf- fic. Adequate hospital facilities in a _ proper location should be provided i for them." : Representative Keller emphasizes that whether the car line runs through the Walter Reed property or not the surrounding territory will soon be so closely built up that this will not be a proper haven for the are now character of patients that . being cared for there. ;CARNIVAL PROGRAM READY ifrish Supporters Plan Special Cele- ‘bration on July 4th. - YFinal arrangements have been com- pleted for the Independence day icarnival to be held at Georgetown i'University campus July 4, under the suspices of the American Association Tor the Recognition of the Irish Re-{ Ipublic, according to an announcement 'smade last night by the committee in icharge. -~ The gates to the grounds will be ithrown open to the public at noon, and after Commissioner Oyster hasi officially opened the demonstration on | i behalf of the city, 2 mixed chorus of| 300 voices will sing “The Star Spangled { - Patrick J. Haltigan_ will then read the Declaration of Inde- Pendence, followed by Joseph Scott ‘©of California, who will deliver the oration. * 'The flag raising ceremonies will be wonducted by a detachment of United Btates es from the navy yard, nassisted by members of the American ‘Legion, under command of Maj. Ulrich. Preceding the athletic program, which will occupy the greater part of the afternoon, fifteen of the crack riders from the 3d Cavalry at Fort Myer will give an exhibition of trick riding. Refreshment booths will line the grounds,- and will be in charge of woman members of the five local coun- g S private capacity in order to learn the truth about Russia and report his observations to the American peopl Apparently the substance of the i terview given by Senator France wi cabled to Moscow, where the attacks on Hughes and Hoover produced the desired results and obtained for the senator permission to tour Russia. NEW $10,000 POST IN BUDGET VACANT (Continued from First Page. port annually to Congress and special reports from time to time when he believes economies can be effected in expenditure of public funds. There is particular interest in this section of the law: “The controller general shall in- vestigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of pub- lic funds and shall make to the Presi- dent, when requested by him, and to Congress at the beginning of each regular session, a report in writing of the work of the general account- ing office, containing recommenda- tions concerning the legislation he may deem necessary to facilitate the prompt and accurate rendition and settlement of accounts, and concern- ing such other matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of pub- lic funds as he may think advisable. In such regular reports, or in special reports at any time when Congress is in session, he shall make recom- mendations looking to greater econ- omy or eficiency in the public ex- penditures.” Likely to Name Republican, If Judge Walter W. Warwick, the present controller of the Treasury, is retained in office on account of his efficiency, the existing accounting and audit system can continue uninter- rupted, but aside from taking the best patronage job to be disposed of, it is not likely that the present ad- ministration would be willing to stand before the people of the country as admitting that to get an efficient con- trollee general they had to take democrat. So the chances are slight that any democrat of half-and-half republican will get the job. A new man assuming charge of the general auditing office must take the organization of these offices as he finds them, because he will have ‘had no opportunity to make any per- C study—unless n tipped off long in advance that he is to be appointed, in which case he could, of course, be giving study to the matter. While the controller of the Treasury and the assistant controller are presi- dential appointees, all other employes of these accounting and auditing of- fices are civil service employes, with the exception of four jobs, the salar: for which is between $5,000 and $6,000. ‘The total amount in the current ap- propriation bills for these offices is $3,000,000. ‘The new general accounting office is a separate and distinct establish- ment, not under any department. The offices that pass out of existence on Friday have been under the Treasury Department. The new law provides, however, that the office of controller general Is to occupy the old quarters used in the Treasury and the other administrative departments by the six auditors. Would “Conmsolidate Reorganizers.” Coincident with the concern over the appointment of a new controller general, members of Congress are isomewhat facetiously suggesting that it will soon be necessary to create a new commission on consolidation of the reorganization and consolidation agencie: These now include the fol- lowing: The joint congressional committee on reorganization of the administra- tive branch of the government, with Walter D. Brown as personal repre- sentative of President Harding head- ing the committee. . The President's special representa- tive, Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, who is making a special study of pub- lic welfare. The controller general, in 8o far as the budget law puts certain duties regarding economy and efficiency upon him, as stated above. ‘The bureau of the bl::fiot. ‘which is :hllodchmd Yll.t”h “detalled study of ) ,.‘Ymufi" States bureau of ef- foleacye . Upper: Gordon Leetch, manager of the bathing beach, announcing the winning team. Lower: The Lanxburgh store group, winners of the silver cup, for best designed bathing costumes. tie Spencer and Julia Cunnipngham. PHYSICAL FITNESS. | 5000 Bathers Throng Tidal Basin IN SCHOOLS URGED Authorities Declare for Com- pulsory Training and Course in Hygiene. Urgent need of a compulsory phys- fcal training and hygiene course in the public schools of Washington was emphasized by school authorities last night as the result of a recent medical examination of girl grad- uates of the high schools who plan to enter the normal schools in Sep- tember to train for a teaching carcer. Institution of such a course already has been given serious consideration by the officials, who have been pre- cluded from taking any definite steps toward this end and because of the lack of adequate facilities at many of the schools. Statistics tabulated by medical in- spectors showing the precise number |of defects of the girls who took the examination were not revealed. It was said, however, that out of about | eighty of the prospective teachers only three passed the test, the most rigid of its kind ever given appli- cants for entrance to the normal schools. Remedial in Most Cases. ‘The defects of the girls, it was stated. were remedial in most in- stances. They consisted principally of precarious teeth, slight visual de- fections and underweight. As high, as sixteen bad teeth were discovered in_the mouths of some of the girls. Girls who failed to pass the ex- amination were instructed how to correct their physical defects and were advised to do so during the summer. They will, be re-examined in the fall before the opening of school. These conditions not only were found among the high school girls, who made application for entrance to the normal schools, it was pointed out, but a number of women who have been holding temporary positions in the school system, who took examina- tions to qualify, and others who ap- plied for appointment as probation- ary teachers, upon examination by medical inspectors, were found to be physically defective. These women also were told that they would have to correct their defects before they would be appointed teachers. Increased Efficiency Is Aim. In giving the prospective teachers a rigid physical examination, it is the intention of school officials to increase their efficlency and lessen their chances of becoming ill while on duty. It also is their ultimate plan to make the Washington teachers the most healthful of any in the nation. If a compulsory physical training and hygiene course is introduced in the schools, officials are certain that within a few years many of the un- derweight children in the schoola can be restored to normal weight, and the remedial eye, tooth and other defects can be corrected. GOES TO FORT SAM HOUSTON. Lieut. Col. Clarence H. Connor, Med- ical Cor; has been relieved from duty with the Red Cross in this city and details to duty at Fort Sam 'Houston, T L) IRISH IMPERIL SHIPS. |FAIR. BATHERS PRESENT A PRETTY SIGHT IN COSTUME CONTEST AT TIDAL BASIN BEACH To Get Peep at Dazzling Beauties “*Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud, *Tis virtue that doth make them much ad- mired, 'Tis modesty divine.” Dear Folks: Jus' lemme say that the old party who scribbled the above lines sure rung the bell an's entitled to a see-gar. For in a fair field, with no favor, jedged by a cluster of the most critical connysoors ever as- sembled in one gatherin’, 1i'l' old Miss Modesty, coupled in the runnin’ with the stablemate “Style,” spreadeagled her fleld an’ galloped off with firat honors in the bathin'-soot contest down to the Tidal basin bathin’ beach yesterday afternoon! S-0-m-e day. folks! Peeved nearly to delirium over the loose chatter ad- vanced by advocates of the one-piece swimmin’ sootlet. that fair wimmin in the water looked abs'lutely foolish when totin’ excess luggage in the way of extry draperies, the costume ‘dee-signers of some of the classiest department an’ specialty stores in our good city, backed by that Rock o' Gibraltar, the Merchants an’ Manu- facturers’ Association, held a If'I' bow-wow an’ dee-cided to settle for all time this much mooted question! So, with the sanction of Col. C. O. Sherrill, our new superintendent of public buildings an’ grounds, an’ the co-operation of that intrepid 1I'l chev- alier of decorum, Charles Christopher Columbus, a committee was appointed to arrange for ‘the contest, an’ to honeycomb the city for five unbiased artists to pass final jedgment on just what Sis should or should not wear when she flops in the water. List o’ Critisizers, That success crowned the movement from the outset will-be plainly saw after one squint at the followin® list o’ criticizers who accepted invitations to set in at the hearin'—I mean showin’: Cliff Kartoonist Berryman of The Evening Star, Johm Boobar, My Joe, of Kiwanis fame; Charlie Dodge Semmes, the Rotary chief; Eddie Brashears of the new Civitan outfit, an’ our old friend Roy Neuhauser of the big City Club, pinch-hittin’ for Ed. Graham, who was called out o' town. Some temp'rement, eh, Ernest! An’ what's _more, the entire outfit showed up a full hour before the gong sounded. So, when at 3:30 o'clock, the Leetch brothers, Gordon an’ Sid, the main works at the basin, sprung the barrier, an’ dainty Florence Skadding of the Bertram Cohn Company quar- tette, dolled in the cutest, cunnin’est, darlin’est, 1i'l dark blue two-piece ar- rangement trimmed around the bot- tom with fuzzy-wuzsy stuff, led the minute that makes them seem each other in their wild scranble to get a peek at the costumes, an’ once, when Jack Boobar stopped the pro- ceedure to ask a few questions the impatience of the crowd was so great that the ropes nearly snapped. Jedges Jealous of Berryman. At the final round-up twelve girlies in all, representin’ Lansburgh & Bro., the Palais Royal an’ the Bertram Cohn Company lined up in front of the Jedget ch to their dee-light—the , 0" course—an’ after some’ turrible close scrootiny an’ a mess of the “shuash” stuff, the first named concern was awarded the bon-bon. Gallantly waitin’ for nearly ten minutes until Mark Lansburgh had | got_through throwin’ bokays at his models, Mister Berryman hopped over the rail piece, an’ after shakin’ the hands of each winnin' contestant, presented cunnin’ 1i'l Mary Lee with the beee-utiful silver cup that went to the winners, durin’ all of which time, Charlie Semmes, Ed Brashears, Roy Neuhauser an' Jack Boobar nearly throwed eight different kind: o' spasms. Jealyus, did you say? ‘Well, mebbe, but then Cliff was chief justice.’ “Twas a fair verdict, though, for chic Julia Cunningham, in gorgeous cerise, flounced with flowery para- phanalia; the pretty 1i’l Spencer sis- ters, Thelma an’ Nattie, one in dark purple trimmed with white an’ t'other in sweet lavender, bespattered with yaller; cute Iola Swinnerton all bound up in black an' aforementioned Mary Lee also in sombre black sure made up a picture that was good for sore eyes.' Many Other Wondrous Beauties. Howsum'ever there was others! The Palais Royal girls, Winifred Casey, in black satin an' velyet; Elsie Wal- ker, in black silk; Hazel Murdock in cerise an’ Lillian Morris with a striped effect looked neater 'n all get out an’ finished a close second, while Mary an’ Helen Shartze an' the 1I'l Skad- ding miss from Bertram Cohn’s pulled up a good third with all lookin® chip- per! In short, folks, with everything took into consideration, the whole proposition was one of the most suc- cesstul of its kind ever attempted in this neck of the woods, an’ it proved beyond any question of a doubt these two pertinent facts: First, that fair woman can make herself just as com- fortable an’ a durn sight better to look at in a skirted bathin’ soot than she can in a ‘“scrimpy,” an’ second, that between umpirin' ball games, jedgin’ race horses, an' actin’ as assistant starter at a bathin soot contest, the last-named position wins off by itseM! Until we meet—a-gain! DOPEY DAN, —_—— U. S. TO “SHANGHAI” BIG SHIPPING MEN then we will talk policies. I have been in Washington long enough to have learned that it you have the courags to differ with the members of Con- gress on something, which they know you are doing with courage and good faith, they will support you if you do it with courtesy and intelligence, even it they come to you originally with a different viewpoint. All this talk of pressure from Congress is only to cover up incompetence. What I have said regarding Congress and the way to approach its members is also true of the press and the citizens of the country. “In organising the Shipping Board I will do it along the same lines that a big corporation would do its own business, Jooking out for the profit for the stockholders and the stockholders in t.‘c case of the Shipping Board are the people of the Unitgd Btatea”™ Right to left: Jola Swinnerton, Thelma Spencer, WASHINGTON RANKS FAVORABLY WITH 27 CITIES IN ASSESSMENT ‘Washington compares favorably with twenty-seven leading American cities in the assessment of real estate, as night by Assessor Willlam P. Richards. Although the law requires that local property be assessed at only two- thirds its real value, the records of sales show a ratio of 70 per cent be- tween the actual assessment and the sale value of local property. A table compiled by the assessor dis closes that twenty-one cities which are supposed to have a full-value assess. ment fall short of the mark, as shown by saies in those cities. Chicago Striking Case. The most striking case in the table is that of Chicago. With a population of 2,701,705, the assessment amounts to $757,914.948. Sales of property there indicate a full value of $3,03 659,800, or an assessment ratio of . Salt Lake City and Wilming- ton show a full-value assessment Three cities in Minnesota—Minne- apolis, St. Paul and Duluth—only show ! UNIFORM CARFARE RATES T0 BE ISSUE Complete Information Will Be Gathered at Hearings Next Month. When hearings are held next month on street car rates the Public Utilities Commission will endeavor to obtain as much information as pos- sible from those who testify on the question of whether it is right or wrong to keep the rate of fare uni- form on both systems. 8 This was indicated last night by a member of the commission, who pointed out that the commission in- tends to consider at the hearing the petition of the Federation of Citizens' Associations for a separate rate of fare for the Capital Traction Company. The commission, it is known, does not feel that it violated the law in fixing the same rate of fare for both companies, but the members will strive at the hearing to obtain all the advice that is offered on_this phase of the street railway problem. Meeting Tuesday Morning. In accordance with notice given a week 8go, the commission will meet at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning to determine upon a date for the open- ing of the public hearing. Officials of the street railways and citizens | will be present Tuesday, it was in- dicated last night. ! S. R. Bowen, vice president of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, which would be more af- fected by a reduction in rate than would the Capital Traction Company, stated definitely that his company would be represented Tuesday. The commission must give ten days’ notice from Tuesday of the date of the hearing, which means that sessions probably will begin on July 11. Will Oppose Present Cut. It is known that the Washington Railway and Electric Company will oppose any change In the rate of fare before September 1, the date fixed on_for the expiration of the present order. The commission probably could fin- ish taking testimony and arrive at a conclusion before August 1. but the Wumnfwn Railway and Electric Company will argue that any reduction decided upon should not take effect un- til the existing order explres. ‘The company will base this conten- tion on, the ground that it has en- tered Into contracts for track work in the belief that it would collect the present rate of fare until September. SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT. ‘Admiral” Hays is expected to be at the helm when the New York harbor mail bgat service is inaugurat- ed July 1, s for which have been opened at the Post Office Department. A boat turned over by the War Department will be repaired and re- christened The President, and will be one of a fleet of three used by the New York Central raflroad, the suc- cessful bidder. ‘There will be both day and night service for incoming foreign mail, the bulk of which will deljvered direct to the railway terminals on the Jer- sey side, {occurred on July a 40 per cent assessment, the amount required in that state. According to Mr. Richards. the re- maining twenty-one cities shown in his study should have a full-value as- scssment, but vary from 25 to 92 per cent. In a memorandum to Commissioner Rudolph, explaining the table, Mr. Richards said: “In 1916 this office had occasion to prepare an assessment table which showed a list of twenty cities having populations of from 43,000 to over 2,000,000. The data was from the cen- sus report of 1915, and in one column showed the population, in another column the assessment of real estate in another column the proportional part which the assessment bore to the full value of real estate. These pro- portions or ratios of the assessment to the full value were the result of a comparison of sales obtained from the various cities, and these ratios were in no case 100 per cent is, the as- SAFEST POSSIBLE JULY 4 SOUGHT FOR CAPITAL Police Head Will Issue Fireworks Order Soon and Other Efforts to Be Made. If the efforts of the District Com- missioners and the chief of police prove effective, this city will experi- ence a safe and sane Independence day. sane provision of law was made part of the police regulations, officials told a Star reporter, very few fires have 4, and but. few! fatalities have marred the holiday spirit. While the present regulation has not made the city wholly safe and| sane in the matter of celebrating, the improvement has been great. | Maj. Gessford, superintendent of po- lice, said last’ night he will issue a Fourth of July fireworks order ini the next few days. “I hope parents will advise their children to use care in the handling of sparklers,” Maj. Gessford stated. “The sparklers are supposed to bel! harmless,” he added, “but two deaths | resulted from their use last year. Children should be taught not to throw the sparklers at other persons or into automobiles. The metal be- comes heated. and is liable to & to dresses or do other harm. tention of the public to the provision of law which reads “No firework. squib or other making explosives of any be sold or delivered, discharged or set off within the city of Washing- ton, or the more densely populated portion of said District without spe-; cial permit from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. The regulation, Maj. Gessford ex- plained, prohibits the discharge of firearms, cannons or torpedoes, the law is applicable the entire vear. Only one application for permis- sion to have a fireworks celebration ithe approaching Fourth has been received by Maj. Gessford. He said he knew of several other celebra- tions being in contemplation. but if the sending of applications for per- mits is delayed, he added, the time may be too short to enable the Com- missioners to issue them. It is cus- fomary for the superintendent of po- lice to recommend to the Commis- siohers the granting or rejection of the applications. —— MME. CURIE LEAVES U. S. WITH TREASURES SAFE Radium in Steel-Lined Box and Mesothorium Officially Sealed. NEW YORK, June 25.— Accom- panied by her two daughers, Mme. Marie Curie sailed for home today on the Olympic, bearing with her many de- grees from American universities and two precious packages presented her by the women of America. These packages are In the ship's strong room. One is a steel-lined ma. hogany box, weighing more than 250 pounds and holding a gram of radium, valued at $110,000. The other package contains half a gram of mesothorium, another metal- lic element, valued at $30,000, which the distinguished scientist will use in connection with the radium in her search for a cancer cure. In order to safeguard the mesotho- rium, the United States bureau of standards sealed the package and the seal will not be broken until the m.etal reaches the Curie laboratory in Paris. Dr. Vernon Kellogg of the National Research Council, and Mrs. Kellogg, who was chairman of the women's committee which arranged for the purchase of the raidum, are escort- ing Mme. Curie home. DR. SIMON IS SPEAKER. Graff Memorial Building Dedicated at Newport News. rs. J. W. Hechinger, Mrs. Leona 1 Graff and daughter Shirley have returned from Newport News, Where they attended the dedicatio exercises of the Graft Memorial build- ing. This building. given by Mr. E. J.°Graft in memory of his brother, William A. Graff, is to be used as a community center and equipped with an auditorium, library, recr tion and study rooms. Dr. Abram Simon of this city made the dedication address. Mr. E. J. Graft of Newport News is in Washington for a day or two. MAJOR ORDERED HERE. Maj. Daniel D. Pullen, Corps of En- {::nu. on the Panama Canal Zone, been ord to "i“- city for duty in the office of the chiet of ! War Depar shown by utatistics made public last | Since 1909, when the safe and) are | Supt. {said to have been marked to die in the ) 9 ke e in the Maj. Gessford intends to call the &t-\jian 40 ooine were severely cut with and | 1t engineers, frol Assessor Richards C;mpiles Table Showing Real Estate Valuations Throughout the United Szates. sessments were less than full value as shown by sales, and in many stances they ran below 59 per cent. one case as low as 20 per cent. in 24 other 25 per cent cent, in another 20 per cent, and so on. “It was found that these cities had a combined assessment of $105 per inhabitant, and if there had been a full value assessment as indicated b sales the average would have bee $1,155 per person or inhabitant. $1,400 Per Person. “This office has lately had occasion to gather up the same kind of data, including some of the same cities, and additional ones, altogether twenty- seven different cities with population running from fifty-three thousand and up to over two and a half mill Three of the es seem to be asse ed at very close to 100 per cent. or least are rated that way. The low Chicago, at 25 per ce valu any of the other citie close to 50 per cent of full value ratio of the real estate a 3 the full value of property ed by sales, was obtained mc state, county and city the inclosed table shows the source of the information census reports were relied on few cases and the population taken almost entirely from the « of 1920. This table discloses th zombined population seven cities tabulated is o million, and that the assessn the rate of $740 per perso k reduced to full value would be per person, and th last figure cor. responds exactly to the figure dedu in 1916, “The present assessment of the Dic trict of Columbia is somethi than $1.000 per person. and if the ment be reduced to full value ac ing to sales of 1917, 1918 and 1918, t full value of real estate would he at about $1,400 per person. Thi sponds very closely with th ment of New York c but cent above the full value disclosed in the twenty-seven cities tabulated here- with.” WOMAN PRISONERS STAB IN ESCAPING Alleged Plot to Kill Officials Leads to Riot in Ohio Reformatory. . Br the Ascociated Press. MARYSVILLE, Ohio, June 25—A number of prisoners and attendants at the Ohio reformatory for women here were stabbed and beaten this after- noon as a result of a riot designed. according to officials of the institu- tion, to effect the escape of twenty- five prisoners after killing the super- intendent and three emploves Sheriff Collier and a deputy were called to aid the reformatory officials in subduing the rioters, ten of whom escaped, but were later apprehended officers and a posse of citizens in a wood near the institution. Wray Croy, Fay Corder and En- gineer Clyde Eckenrode, who with Mrs. L. ittendorf, g were butcher knives in the hands of inmat. fireworks or noise- | Mrs. Mittendorf was uni T Kind Shnlli Was uninjured. Lena Prugh. an inmate, after stab- bing Eckenrode in the arm, was felled jby the engineer with a hammer. Re- i gaining the floor, the Prugh woman then made for Supt. Mittendorf, who felled her with a mattock handle, render- ing her unconscious. { The Prugh woman and Bertha Sla- ger, another inmate, are in the in- {stitution hospital. Croy and Coder ! were stabbed in the shoulders. Ac- cording to officials, Supt. Mittendorf and the three employes were to have been murdered at 1 o'clock tonight. The trouble is said to have started over inmates obtaining tobacco, one of them being punished for the of- fense. IMPROVED WATERFRONT, AIM OF CAPT. OYSTER Commissioner Seeks to Make Chan- nel From 14th Street More Attractive. Improvement in the appearance of the water front from the foot of 14th street to Washington barracks is one of the aims of Commissioner Oyster, it became known late last night. The Commissioner has asked Maj. Cary H. Brown, assistant engineer commissioner, to make inquiry for the purpose of finding out if there are any old structures along the channcl ! front which could be removed. The District government has a wharf committee, which. it is_ex- pected, will co-operate with the Com- i missioner in determining what steps, if any, can be taken to make the water front more attractive. This committee is composed of Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk of the engineer department; D. E. McComb, superin- tendent of bridges, and Lieut. Russell Dean of the Harbor police. Some of the property along the water front is owned by the District government and some by the federal government. If any of these struc- tures are found to be worn bevond economical repair. steps may be tuken looking to their removal. BIRTH CONTROL MAY WIPE OUT OLD WORLD, IS VIEW Speaking before the Eugenics Re- e Aagochuon P‘ridly-'!v Prof. Ir- e Y ving Fisher of Yale University de- clared that there was a posml:“xl;‘,\" that birth coatrol might “prove means of wiping out the old world and replacing it by a new, from the best_seeds of the old.” “The first effect of birth control seems _ distinctly bad,” Prof. Fisher sald, “because it is first practiced by the intelligent class and is for that class, as Mr. Roosevelt said, ‘race sul- cide But the truth is that we can- not vet tell what will ultimately hap- pen as the net result of birth control. whether race degeneracy, depopula- tion or race improvement, or all three in_succession.” Whenever civilizations have de- cayed, the speaker said, their places have been taken by strong and fecund invaders, adding that in the case of birth control “the invasion may ccme r within the decadent nation it-