Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1921, Page 2

DENIES PLAGUE OR FAMINE iN SOUTH Representative Byrnes Urges President to Deal With Of. , ficials Starting Report: THINKS INJUSTICE DONE Writes Mr. Harding He Welcomes Pellagra Inquiry, But Sees No Need of Charity. Representative Carolina Byrnes of South | asked President Harding | in 2 letier ¥ :sterduy to take “appro- priate action toward offivia s who by misrepresenting conditions misied you into making the statement that parts of the south were u {n- lly menuced with famine and plague Replying o tue «“ntUs letter of | Friday in which JIr. harding said that | if investigation developed t. at reporis | had misrepresented coagitions offici refutation would be desirable, Mr. Byrnes wrote . Thinks. President Misle you very wuch for o | a,ree that s al tae bwiewu Of punic hewili Service siovid e tinve its iav stsucn and | kuow that ated for (i s mscal ,vwi 33 enable the s:rvice 19 in.esiigate ‘uigeases of man' th: represcatativ:s of the health service ad. appropriations committee ti tois sum they would continue their pellagra investigations. And there 18 no objection to tie special investi- gation you have directed the health Service to make. What I deeply regret, Mr. President, and what i be- lieve the people of the south regret. is that before such an investigation was made you were misicd into stat- ing in your letter to the I'resident of the Hed ('-0s<— “‘It must bring a shock to the American people to realise that g gre..t BoCUun UL tnelr own counity, which they are wont to think of as immune ,Irom such expetignc-s, is actuslly | menaced by famine and plague. For that is wh i .o would b calied if it should befull any other cou-try. and we may is well gve it s right Rame. | ““It_is, of course. a consequence of | the economic disorguniz.tion foilow- ing the war. and it demands instant and vigorous attention. Our peopl 80 long and 50 often moved by splen did charitibleness towa~d unfortu nates of other linds. will never per- mit such an affliction here." Denfes Existence of Plague. from the Pr sident of the tui=s. this statement has mnanded attent on and has been | ed in p-actieally (very news- 1 ‘ber in this country, and doub less in the press of other nations. Tt is 10 these stutements we take exception We may be overs nsitive, bu® the ave #ze American dislik-g to have placed front of hi a flag ind'caiin~ | the presence of a plague, when as @ matter of fact the. exists w th.n | his home nothing to justify that char- a terization. And. lkewice, where there is no famine he dislikes to be held up ¢s the object of charity and compared with the ‘unfortunates of other lands' for the relief of whor arvation and disease our people have so gemerousiy conteibuted, Upon reflection I think you will &gree that these statements are not warranted by the report as to the in- €rease of pellagra in Mississippi. Even 12 it should develop that these sta- Ystics are correct, the indicated in- crease of pellagra in one state would Dot constitute a plague or & menace to the entire south, b cause the di ease is not contagious. And certainly there is nothing in the telegram of the editor of the Spartanburg Herald to warrant either of the two swtemen's in question. In ‘In my judgment there quote, he “expressed the i ot the health service should | continue its investigation this year. | Everybody agrees. and Congress has authorized it. But yoy will note that he says: “In my judgment there 18 nothing alarming in the situation.’ and in that part of the telegram which ¥ou did not quote in your letf.r, Which bears directly ‘upon the q tion. Mr. Hearon stated Says Charity Is Not Needed. “‘There is. of course. nothing ev approaching famine conditions ‘In lhelr: l?n of South Carolina. Crop condi- tions are excellent, and there s to be more food in this county. grown upon its own Iand, than ever in the ”‘!l’oryllolrv the county.’ ‘I ca t to your attenti I am satisfled it is !ru‘l- R eande the south. The fact that cotton is selling below the cost of production and ues- e R T e | Swiss Aviator Flies i To Top of Mont Blanc Highest Peak in Alps By the Assuciated Press. | CHAMONIX, France, July 30. | ==Munt Blane, the higheat sum- l mit of the Alps, was conquercd today by aviuter. The suce cesnful airman was Durafour, a Swixs fiyer, who had previo fatled In two wttempts to L on the summit, Todny, setting out from Lnusnnne, ke roxe to a Kreat helght and ul;luately ef- feeted @ landing on the moun- (aln peak, 18,752 fest above sea level. i Takiing off frem the summit, Duratour made a .favorable de- scent, tinally landing ut Chamo~ Bis. | | NORTHELIFFE ENDS VISIT TONEW YORK London Publisher Leaves on | Way to Toronto—Avoids Talk of Contravercy. BY the Assoc ated Press, - NEW YORK, July 30.—Iovd North- ! cliffe 1=ft for Toronto tonight on another | leg of his journey around the worid. The Eritish publisher declined to answer any Questions having reference to his con- troversy with Premier Lloyd George or the interview erroneously attributed to him by a British newspaper in which King George was quoted as having told the premier, in a conversation gconcern- Ing the Irish troubles, gpat “I cannot have my people killed in this manner.” No Orders for Dominions. “London has no orders to give the! dominions,” was the comment of H. Wickham Steed, editor of the London | Times, who accompanied the publisher | to Toronto, when asked whether he ex- pected any such incidents as the can- cellation of the Hritish embassy dinner in Washingtan, to which they had been invited, on the remainder of Lord North; clifte's tour, which will take him through Canada, Australia and other ! parts of the British empire. | The interview attributed to Lord Northcliffe n some newspapers abread and which brought farth a de- nial from the king credited to ed in Monday's issue of the ew York Times, from which it was taken. Mr. Steed, however, declared today thit he was misquoted. “The direct siatements attributed to | me 1 did not make.” he said. “I could ot have made them. because neither Lloyd George nor the king told me what they sald to vue another. I do not know to this day what they said to one another. 1 “As to the uctual facts of the Irish situation, It is a fact no one can con- teat that the possible settlement growing out of the truce directly accountable to the speech by the king at Belfast—a great-hearted, copsider-! ate spcech. i “It Is also incontestable that King George feela for all his subjects an equal solicitude, and nothing would rejoice him more than to see pro-! spectlve peace in Ireland Supports _Irish Efforts. “The London Times has worked very hard for the last two years to| promote the settlement in Ireland | that the government seems to be ap- proaching. and we have given Mr. Lloyd George's covernment the full- ©st support when it scemed to be treading the path of peace. We shall continue to give the Lloyd George Zovernment fullest support in all ef- forts toward a successful comclusion. No one knows that better than Lloyd George, who for two vears has ha pertinent reasons to kmow how true it is. That and that alone was the sense of the quite infarmal talk 1| had with the representative of the |S! New York Times." Lord Northeliffe played golf on Long Islang today with Thomas W. Lamont, New York banker. who! the publisher ! said, defeated him soundly. REPLY SENT FROM LONDON. | King’s Secretary Acknowledges Message From Northcliffe. has forced the south to the productios while the appealing for as- sistance in marketing iis cotton at g fair price. and for more liberal credits in order to hold its product until such fair price cin be secured, its “people are not menaced with fainine, and are not seeking charity. “T write you aguain because of your statement that if investigation develaps that reports have misrepreaented condi- tions an official refuaiion is desirable. 1 thought that you should know that the reople of the south do not question the accuracy of the statement that pellagra may have increased in some one or in several states, byt what they complgin of is the statement that the entire south vestigation include the accuracy of th statement. and if the facts do not justify ity you will make an offiaial refutation of it: "1t will be exceedingly graiifying to us. and I shall hope that in doing so you will take appropriate action toward the ofiicials who by misrepresenting condi- tions misled yau into making the state- ment. “I a ou again, Mr. President, that it is. with great hesitation tha people of the south have taken exception 10 your statement. They are conselaus of ‘the fact that your utterance was baged upon information you believed -to be reliable, and impelled by the highest motive that can prompt the actions of man. Meat Offered for Relief. The Institdte of American Meat Pack- ers announced yesterday that through its president, Thomas E. Wilsan, 20,00 pounds of meat had been offered Surgeon General Cumming of the public health service for use in prevention and cure of pellegra in any district the service might designate. The telegram from Mr. Wilson added that the institute would be glad to co- operate if further quantities of moat were needed and assumed, in offering the donation. the health service wouls “organize proper and effective facilities far distribution.” The meat would be selected by experts, it said, on the basis of "adaptn(imy to pellegra patients.” U. S. LOST MILLIONS IN ‘NATIONAL STEAL’ OF WAR MATERIALS (Continued from First Page.) -— official who is thoroughly cognizant of many of the facts in the ca There was no Wi n which y could determine that the states were | Electric Power Company the commis: not going to use the material in road |sion cstimates the ne: the law | return. of approximat work. Congress had pasi authorizing the transfers, and there | Without reforring by was nothing for the federal officials{plan, the arder gives the reasons why [ that plan was not adopted. part: te do but turn over the property ‘when proper request was made. One of the investigators, whose name was withheld as ‘well as the branch of the federal government ‘which is conducting the investigation, is thoroughly familiar with the sur- plus_property disposal activities of the War Department immediately fol- lowing the armisti He was given his instructions y. immediately @ of the reasons for the plan. which the commission rejected, ‘Washington Railway apd Electrie is now impounding, the tractian con- cern, by meana of court action, might ba able to keep fares at the present | tion, the testimony of the Washington Railway and Electric Company was to available for the railway needs, company could. have ace duction in car fare to 7 ca the public would have beem bene- fited.” that has been made before to this com- mission and urged as wel upon commit- tees of should authorize the restoration’of the rates for electric Jight- apd power to those in rior to its order 223 of | ¢, July 18, 19! mum rate to be Electrie LONDON, July 30.—Lord Stamford. ham, private seeretary to to Lord Narthcliffe, who is W New York, acknowledging receipt of Lord Northcliffe’s message of yesterday, in which he denied having given an in- terview in New York which was the subject of 3 statement from the king read in the house of commons yester+ dry by Premier Lloyd George. “I have communicated to the king your messa, received this mernin, Lord Stamfordham's message read. “His majesty is glad that it confirms the statements made on his authority by the premier in the house of com- mons yesterday.” MAY GO TO COURTS TO BLOGK FARE CUT (Cont'nusd from First Page.) procesa bejng used by the traction concern ia knewn to have beem con- sidered by at least one member of the utilit'es commisaion before the rate order was passed. In fact, one -calied Qyster which contemplated a 10-cent eled- tric rate and a 7-cent car fare, was the belief of Commissioner Oyater that unless, relief were given the Company system by permitting it to use the funds the power company level for an indefinite period. The Commissioner tool view of the matter, ! y had m: this impou e nd | a Estimates 7 Per Cent Returs. In its order affecting the Potomac. rate_ will yio .l ely "7 per cent. name to the Oyster t says, in “The same plea is made in this case Congress, that the commission T, v’h-n it reduced the maxi- charged by the Potomae frem 10 cents Power a lawer rate than they I!fllll:i otherwige Traction Company systems. dey_say: opening of the hearings shall. il h’)‘" other organizations? pany sh | April 30, 1821, the rate of return was 10.69 per cen! tions made by the commission, the re- sult for the Capital Traction Compa far the year ending May 31, 1931, give a It the two princin: compan their operations during the period under consideration combined, it will be found that they have earned on the average a return of 7. thelr combined fair valu duction from fair value be made for depreciation accrued since the date of the commission’s valuation of the properties (July 1, 1919), the return |becomes 8.10 per cent. duction | from the’ evidence in this omse, and after considerating the effect an revenues of the combined companies, reaches the conclusion that the token unchanged n T r inter-company transfers to continye.” ! WITH SO MUCH BEAUTY AROUND, PICKING WINNERS IS. NO EASY TASK FOR| BEAUTY OF DISTRICT JUDGES AT BATHING BEACH SHOW. Lower: The fal to 8 cents per kilowatt hour. This is urged on behalf of the Washipgton Rai way and Electric Company, 88 a means d | of making up the deficits in the railway operations of that company. The Wash- ingten Rallway and Hlectric Cempany owns or controls and operates several eet railway companies, and is like- wise the owner of all of the stack of the Potomac Eiectric Power Company, is prohibited by express act of Congress from owning and acquiring the property of the Potomac Electric Power Company. The Washington Railway and Electric Company and the Patgmac Eiectrie Power Company are twa separate and distinct corporations, furnishing differs ent classes of service to different groups of customers, Even though the com- panies were combined there is no justifi- cation either in law or in equity that onc class of consumers be required to pay a higher vate than the company’s service is worth in order that consumers of an entireiy distinet class may enjoy have to pay.” Uniform Fare Bxplnined. ‘With respect to the new street car rate, the commission, in its order, ex- plaine why a uniform rate had been adopted for hoth the Washington Railway and Blectric and Capital The or- in part: hairman_announced at the ey that there were three questions before the com. “The mission in this case, which it desire to have dlscussed. One was the ques- tion raised by the Federation of Citi- A in_which it was implied that the mmmla‘n. tofore establishing a single rate of tare on the street railway lines in the umbia had exceeded its the law. The second Assuming “that the commission has been within s rights in here- and ;s free to fix a single rate af fare for all the street railway lines, hall the present rates be continued, as petitioned for by the Washington Rullvai .n;l EI«;}H& .?;“".‘5'“’5",‘35 e e i+ Th!‘lhlrd Shall these tion wa. changes, ;’f any '-‘h}ngu are made, hecome ef: ective on’ the 31st ay of August, the present order expires, when or shall they become effective at some eariler date? “After carefully revigwing the rec- ord in this case and weighing the arguments fl question, the commi; presente i the the opinlon that it has acted within the law in estahlishing a single rate f fare on' the several street raflwny within the Distriet of Cclumb n and that its action ip so doir fully justified in the clrcum- Returnn Were Averages. “In connection with the secopd qu he effect that under the present rat fof fare it had earned a return of 5. per cent on its fair value for the year paying 10 cents for elactricity and ‘gnded May 31.1931. The evidence sub- the company is impounding & cent ;mitted by the Caiital Praction Com- and a half of it, which do any good sald Mr. Oyster. ows that for the year ended According to calcula- ate of return of 1087 per cent. street raillway ies be considered as one, and 3 per cent on , or. if de- ““The commission believes that a re- the rate of fare is justified he lare shauld be reduced from 73 oents t to remain 7 mntv.“lr m‘lltnf.l.u' 0 Tel flr before the judg Let them show at Coromada He Up on the shores of Maine; ‘Neath shelterin' palms, where lovebirds aeree Or close by Lake Champlain! But, when it comes to beauteaus looks, Neat style au' modes-tee, Then take me to the “ywimmin' bole™ Right here iw old D. C.! Dear Folks:— 1 despise bluster, an’ lay no claims to bein’ a copnysaor on feminine gharms, but havin' in my short apan heen a gye-witnes to some Of the most pree-tentious bathin' beauty aombats ever staged in these United States, just lemme &y that npwhere in all thia broad.lapd, from the aun- kissed shores of Santa Barpara to the rooky oliffs of gay Nooport, have I ever heheld sich a galaxy of scin- tillatin’ loveliness @8 was displayed in the monster beauty an' costume cnnl:‘nl.dqwn &% ther1t1 old "udal bastn veaterday afternoon! folks, buh-lieve me, ‘twas there! ~From the dainty 1’| elfiuns in their. rain-bow tinte draperies to the portly Diannas in gorgeous array! An' how in the world the keerfully see-lected tribunal, composed of four of the mast eritical observers to be found in the eas ever repdered @ verdict without bein’ closeted is a wonder In itself an' way beyond me! Verdiet Wi Cheers. But they done it! Ap' when Miss Mgry O'Toale, recently abnointed Jedge of our munycipal courthouse by President Harding, aetin' as ohief hrough the hnnn‘{ af her po- sition, let it be knowed that 26 Fthel 'M. Morganston, of 1611 Hobart sirect, was cuusidered by tne jedges Twas there, o justjee all the Raw milk is hard to digest for babies- Scalded ov bail- ed milk is easily digested and daes pot constipate, Milk poor in fat is best for babies. Pour off some of the cream when milk appears, very rich. Every baby should get small doses of erange juice or_ strained %al\l‘lld temato {u diluted in some water, ctween hottles. ance ar twice daily, These suh- stances contain u}utmea of vitamines Wwhich he p the as- similation of food. Give the baby plenty eanl, boiled water hetween hnt- tles. A healthy haby needs 20 pacifier. Keep 3ll milk-cald'snd cov- ered. Miss Ethel Morganston Winner Of Beauty Prize at Tidal Basin the most beee-utiful girl present, the gheer that went up from the 10,000 onlookers proved beyond question that the verdict waas just! lushin' clean back to her ear- pieces, Miss Ethel. a willowy bru- nette of the Charles Dana Gibson type, showed her appreciation of the big silver cup by smilin’ her sweet- est an’ chirpin’ “1 thapk you! It mightn't be out o' order to men- toin here that this same Misa Mor- anston finished a very close second n the recent automobile prize contest conducted at the carnival of the ueorfl division of the Roosevelt Memo- rial fund! Some finisher, eh, folks! Olive Rirmingham Next. Then, after some tujrible close serootiny all along the line, second rige in this event went to gunnin' i1 hlack-haired Olive Birmingham of 1008 10th street, who also made a few brief ree-marks on receivin' her prise—a nifty lookin’ bathin' cape— an’ ’i‘m the crowd shouted! ~ Up to this stage of the proceedyre the. sailin’ was ocelubrious. but when 1}. me time tq seeslect the twa cl !2?!.1 lookin; hathin’ =oats, the heat got its work in, an’ the argu- Tyin' started! True, it wasn't exiry di v cylt for the mixed joodiciary to ote ungnimous on protéy lols Swin- nerton, of 3125 Mt. PleAsant street, a8 the winner of the silver cup, as her tasty black silk arrangement, all flounced” around in red, an' she car- ryin' a red bumbershoot an' big eddy-hear, wag by all odds the na est lookin' costyme in tha whole blogmin’ outfit, but pickip’ a rupner up for this charmin' 11 picture WasR't. no sasy, matter, an' sure upr set 3 mling! . ortefunt ot this juncture the ar- tistic temprement of the bench. com- osed of Cliff Berryman, eartoonist o Bhe Star: William Chandiee, the main works at the ‘Washington School of Art, and Frank Neipold. the well- " Hot Weather Advice for Babies 1t ip raw milk that couses mearly looas 'wels among bables. Dress the baby lightly. Use no flannels. Keep the feet uncevered in hot weather. Protect the baby against flles and mosquitoes by net- i ting. Besides the daily bath, spange the baby off once or -twice a day. Keep the baby in the open air and in shaded places as much as possible. Do not allow the sun to strike it. Cover lightly or not at all. Very delicate babies are often suceessfully raised by milk powder, made by the cylinder precess, disselved in boiled water. Do no’ worry the baby or fondle i, It needs quict, o Geat the senltary veting of yowr Wilk sespli 8t the Health Ofics. Thio Bulletin is paid for by the soquery £oR FREVEFHEN o7 sicxmuss knowed local landscape painter, com- .menced to get fidgety, an’ formin’ a 1i'1 soviet the three argufyed for nigh on to forty minnits with Jedge O'Toole over the limitation of arma- ments, I mean garmaments! Contestants Not Flurried. By’ this time L. Gordon Leech, su- perintendent of the tidal basin, an’ promoter of the show, was. throwin' ¢ight different kinds of-spasms tryin' to keep the crowd back of the ropes. even the water was gettin' nervous, but strange to say the contestants themselves didn't become flurried! Merrily they. strolled around, stralled around, stroljed around. an’ there ain't no way o' “tellin' just how long they woulda strolled around. had not Jedge O'Toole finally convinced the insur- gents whereip they was outa gear, an’ then, amidst tree-mendous applause. dainty 1i'l Geneva Inez Coates, of 1373 il‘rviug street. was picked from the e an’ declared the second! > he, toe, ive 3 cute 1i'l bathin' cToe, after ecept the jedges who n' it out, hopped into the river an’ the big doin's was over! Nice work, Mister Leech! Keep up the good work an’ the time won't be long before beauty contests will be one of the most popular out-door sports this side of the Mississippi! I thank you, DOPEY DAN. MADDEN WILL.HELP IN BUDGET SLASHES (Continued from First Page.) drive it has been found that many re- ports are required under law, not only annual reports Yrom the government establishments, but reports from scores of commissions and boards and institutions. These have been accumu- 1ating during the years. The clerk of the House is now re- quired to make & report annually on these reports, and while his report is usually quite brief, it représents a good-sised volyme for him to merely list the reports that have to be sent to his office and printed as public doc- uments. These reports cover expendi- tures, activities and what-not. There is little uniformity about them. Identical Form Sought. It will be an important task in it- self for a subcommittee to sift down thege reports snd get them concen- trated to a systematic and identical form, but it should result in a ‘sur- prising saving, while making the work in the government departments much easier. Though the printing of them is charged up to Congress, it re- quires a great amount of clerical time and materials to prepare these re- port re was & provision in the last do’g-':'i‘en'cy bill iputhnrhln‘ the head of a department to discontinue the printing of any annual report to keep down the printing and binding bill. This was enly with regard to reports for their own yse, but did not affect the reports sent to Congr which are for the most part printed and charged to the printing and binding bill of Congress itself. The corrections in the budget sys- tem must come from the administra- tive branch of the government, be- cayse such yeforms cannot be effected through legisiation. In attempting to ass & law to durb a particular abuse a few offending oficials the term of the act myst be made general, and so it is apt to hobble the really effi- cjant. oficiala. UNDER SINGLE CENSOR BY PRESIDENT’S ORDER President Harding has {ssued an exyecutive order which givés to the Fine Arts Commission supreme au- thority for regulating the designs of statues, fountains and monu- ments, park plans and government building operations in the District of Columbia. 1ssued after the President had as- certajned the views of the District Commissioners, the order assurgs & single control of all federal con- Struction operations which in any way could affect the appearance of the National Capital. It is as fol- lows: “It is hereby orderéd that essen- tial matters relating to the design of medals, insignia and coins, pro- duced by the executive depart- ments, also the designs of statues, fountains and monuments, and all important plans for parks, and all public buildings constructed by executive departments or the Dis- trict of Columbig, which in any es- sential way affect the appearance of the city of Washington, or the Diatrict of Columbia, shall be sub- mitted to the Commission of Fine Arts for advice as to the merits of such designs before the execu- tive officer having charge of the same shall approve thereof.” BRYCE EMPHASIZES VALUE OF LEADERS Former Ambassador Tells In- stitute of Politics Masses Must Follow. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSETOWN, Mass., July 30.— The development of international re- lations as begun in the days of an- clent peoples, and as continued to the present day, when “they have been shattered by a desolating war, and not resettled by any real peace,” was taken up by Viscount James Bryce tonight in the first public lecture be- fore- the Institute of Palitics, now meeting at Williams College. “Broadly speaking.’ he declared, “international relations are what the leaders of peoples make them, be- cause under every political constitu- tion that has ever heen devised the many are led by the few.” The opening lecture of the institute series attracted an audience that filled Grace Hall to capacity, the members and guests being augmented by hundreds of visitors from all parts of New England Discusses Nature of Man. Viscount Bryce spaké, in part, as follow; “The starting point for an inquiry into the reiations of communities is the nature .of a man, or shall 1 say man as he ‘was in a state ofnature Let us try to remember through the whole course of our inquiry into the relations of nations two fundamental propositions. One is that every in- dependent political community is, by virtue of its independence, in a state of nature toward other communities, being subject to no comtrol except that which public opinion, or the fear of consequences that muy follow from disregarding public opinion, may im- pose. The other is that the prospeet of Improving the relations of states and peoples to one another depends on the possibility of improving human nature itself. _“A sound and wise view of national interests, teaching the peoples that they would gain mare by the ca-oper- ation of communities than by their conflict, may do much to better those relations, but in the last resort the question is one of the moral progress of the individual man who composes the communities, Lord Bryce briefly sketched the ca- | reers of Napoleon Bonapart, marck, Cavour, Kossuth' an sini. Bis- Maz- Great Mem Unmpredictable. “I note the careers of these men.” he went on, “as instances to show how large is the unpredictable ele- ment in the field of international as well a8 in that of democratic poli- tics. Madern writers, claiming to be scientific, try to represent the general causcs as everything and the indi- viduals as no more than particular beings in whom the tendencies of an age are embodied. ..“If these had not been embodied in Napoleon or Bismarck or Cavour, so they argue, they would have equally well been embodid in and given force to some other personality. History contradicts this assumption. Crises arise when some strong man is need- ed to embody the eRorf an age seems to be making, but the man does not appear and that which he might have done is not achieved. Had there been no Bismarck and. no Maseini, we should have been today a very differ- ent Burope All calculationg, all predictions must leave a wide mar- Bin for the influence which the pres- ence of some powerful personality may exert People What Leaders Make Them.' _“In all political action, and espe- cially in foreign relations, the peo- ple have little knowledge and even less initiative. Broadly speaking, they are what their leaders make them. Under every political constitu- tion that has ever been devised, the many are led by the few. d\ e “The less the mass knows of the rnl fl(“l]fi and th? really significant sues, the more it must depend o prominent indjvidual men lt{’r‘ :uidx-l ance; and the fewer are the promi- nent figures that can be watched and judged. This is especially true of ins ternational issues, because those are least within the knowledge of the average man. He must trust some one. “Whenever one traverses after nightfall a dangerous mountain path. the man who knows the path must be*followed whate the riski He may miss the way; he may perhaps wish to lead vou astray, but if you have no knowledge of your own. it ia better to follow him than grope in the dark among Dprecipices. Euro- pean people have been groping in the dark for the last few years and their relations to one another during and since the war have been left to 2 few guides.” 3 PLUNGING CAR KILLS SIX. GRAND JUNCTION, Col., July 30.— Six men were killed and six others injured, three ‘geriously, when a tramway car cable slipped out of the swivel late today at the Schuyler Doyle 8hale Company’s plant, the car plunging to the floor of the gulch, 2,000 feet below. N LEAVES 136 LIVING KIN. GREENVILLE. 8. C., July 30.—One hundred and thirty-six descendants of four generations survive Mrs. Harrlet Bagwell Ridgeway, who died at the of eighty-five yesterday at her home near the Laurens.Greenville county line. Bhe leaves ten chiidren, fifty-one grandechildren, sixty-nine great-grandchildren, an six ~geat- great-grand-children. — STEPS OFF MOVING AUTO; DIES GREENVILLE; 8. C., July 30.—Mi Gladys Davis eighteen, died at th eity hospital thip afternoon as & re sult of lvu‘rlu received yesterda; afternoon when she tried to step of the running board of & mdving autor wmobile, 2 BUDGETNEXTIOB CITY HEADS FACE Annual Task Will Be Started About August 15 and Re- quire Month to Finish. With rate decisions out of the way, the District Commissioners have an other big job eonfronting them., that of preparing the District's next annua! budget. This task will be started vigorously about August 15 and will require & month of their time Just now the Commissioners are pretty much in the dark as to what improvements they are going to ask for. In the first place, they have not made an estimate as to what the District’s probable revenues will be. for it is on the basis of anticipated revenues that the budget annually is framed. Then, there is the question of whether any limitation, outside of the limitation of available revenue, is to be placed upon the estimates. in line with the government's economy program. Estimates to Be Submitted. These preliminary considerations will have been pretty well canvassed before the middle of the month, by which time the several departments of the icipal government will b next fiscal year Commissioner Kutz said yesterday the Commissioners have been asked by a committer of business men to inolude in the budget & recommend:- tion for a new buflding to house the office of the recorder of deeds. The request, he stated, will be considered when the budget is heing prepared It®was indicated the Commissioners also will consider the advisability of asking Congress to replace the Cal- vert street bridee. over Rock creek This structure is bearing a hewvier volume of tr-fic than was contem- plated when it was buflt. The Com- missioners re:' the time for replac- ing it i drawine near, but whether they will hav- s fll ient fundg for in- itiating the p-oi -t in the next budget is doubtful. Condult One of Bix Items. Probably one of the largest iteme in the budget will be in connegtion with the building of the ten-millien-dollar conduit from Great Falis, for which Congress provided an initial appro- priation ef $200.000 in the Army bill for the current year. This legisla- tion saddled 60 rer cent of the cost upon the District: the other 40 per cent on the federal government. Fed- eral and Dist-ict government officials say the conduit should be built in three years. if pecsible, on aceount of the fact that W-shington now de- pends for it wa'r cunnly on an oh- Solete conduit. To complete the new line fn three voo - wonld call for an expenditure nf ~rv than $3.000,600 71— nually, of whi-h he Distriot would have to provide -0~ than a million and a half dolla~< ~nnually. i Will Conntder Requests, | The conduit improvement, there- fore. is golng to be ane of the most important facto-s the Commissioners will have to reckon with during the next few years in allotting revenues for_hudget purposes. The Commissioners, as usuel, will consider requests for improvements to be submitted by ens' associa- tions. Citizens' bodies will be asked to recommend the improvements {which they consider most needed in |the sections they represent. Under {the requirements of the new federal {budget system the Commissioners {will_fave to complete the District estinates and submit them to the Treasury by Beptember 15. {DIVERSE TAX VIEWS AIREN RY FRAMERS (Continued from First Page.) {mittee & revision straightout repeal. New Sources to Be Found. | While cammittee republicans—und they will frame the tax bill—have reached no definite decisions on the proposed revisions, it appears to be fairly well established thut there will be no alterations in the normal rates on individual incomes or in the amount of exemptions allowed. Therc probably will be some shifting of the tax burden in other directians. and Mr. Fordney is of the belief that some Rew sources of taxation will | be found. 2 The chairman said last night that he was studying the Canadian system of taxing luxuries. particularly in their relation to the so-called lux- ury taxes imposed by the present American law. [llustrating the dif- fecrence between the two, Mr. Fordney s8id that in this country, in the casc of wearing apparel, a luxury tax was imposed on the cost above a specified sum, whereas in Canada a tax was imposed upon the wholesale price where the cost was in excess of a given amount. All Taxes Called “Nulsances.” bill proposing Asked about the repeal of what characterized as taxes, such as that on soda water, Mr. Fordney said, smil- ingly. that all the taxes in the bill were “nuisances,” Treasury and internal revenue bu- reau officials are expected to present some new recommendations to the committee tomorrow in executive ses- sions, a8 well as renewing the ad- ministration proposal for rkpeal of the excess profits and higher sur- taxes and increasing the normal in- come tax on corporations from 10 to 15 per cent. Chairman Fordney, Representative Longworth and many other members of the eommittee are known to favor this plan. Mr. Fordney said it would make for simplification. He was of the opinion that the revenue received by the government would be substantial- ly the same, but said that in any event he thought it was the general belief that corporations should not pay as much in peace times as in time of war. May Be Ready September 1. There is a difference of opinion among members as 1o the time which will be necessary to frame the tax bill. Representative Frear, republi- can, Wisconsin, sald last night it might be September 1 before the measure could be made ready for the House. He declared the subject was a highly {mportant one, and should be given earnest thought and study. In this connection, the Wisconsin member sald he was opposed to any one dictating to the committee what should or should not be done. e —— RAIN DRIVES OUT ANIMALS. WAYCROSS, Ga., July 80.—A serics of storms, resembling cloudbursts, during the last three days have driven many of the wild animals from the Okefenokee swamp. Total rain- fall for the month is eighteen and a half inches, most of which has flllfl’ in the last three days. » [S