Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1921, Page 6

{THE EVENING STAR. ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SFHURSDAY. . . December 22, 1921 p THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor Whe Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Naesau St. Office: First National Bank Bulding: Buropean Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at €0 cents per month; duily only. 4 per menth; §unday ouly, 20 cents per month. Or- may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 6000. Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 Daily only. 5 Sunday only. All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.01 Daily only. Sunday onl; A Startling Transformation. The Caraway amendment to the Jones bill concerning the District's fiscal relations exactly reversed every vital principle embodied in the Jones bill. The amended or substitute bill stood for everything that the original Jones bill had fought, and absolutely destroyed practically everything for ‘which the original bill*had contend-d. The transformation of Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde was net more abrupt and more startling. The original Jones bill represented the Senate’s traditional inflexible stand in support of a definite proportionate contribution arrangement between na- tion and capital community for capital maintenance and upbuilding. All of its wise and wholesome provisions were based upon some definite pro-! portionate contribution system: not necessarily upon the half-and-half plan, but upon some definite ratio, whether 50-50 (which the Jones bill named) or 40-60 or 45- The original Jones bill provided in substance that Congress should appro- priate in satisfaction of District needs. &s submitted in the Commissioner: estimates, whatever amount it deems wise and necessary, advancing from the Treasury the needed funds for capital maintenance and development | and reimbursing itself from local tax- ation in the amount of the District’s proportionate part (30 per cent or 4 55 or 60 per cent) of the total appro- priation; that the District shoulderaise its part of the capital developmént fund by applying each vear to the| fixed standard of rate on realty and tangible per- assessment a tax and decided by this provision of the substitute bill. Third—Until Congress shall fix some other rate, taxes shall be as they are, except that the-rate on realty and tangible personalty shall be $1.75. | Tax rates are to fluctuate, changing | frem time to time in conformity with |the diverse views of successive Con- gresses concerning what is “reason- able™ taxation. Fourth—"“The appropriation of an amount equal to the unexpended or unappropriated. surpluses of the Dis- trict revenue shown by the reports of !the Commissioners t. have been here- tofore accumulated and deposited in the Treasury of the United States, in addition to the estimates submitted for the next fiscal year, is hereby au- thorized.” Without some”exempting { provision in respect to our tax sur- i ‘imuses accumulated under the half- i and-half law they would by the nation- or confiscatory provisi alizing ¢ the substitute bill be converted like future local tax money into national revenue, and be merged and lost in the miscellancous national revenue. | Perhaps the intent of the Dill is | to say that while hereafter the nation { will promise to pay nothing for capi- | tal upbuilding that is definitely related | to local tax-money. it will carry out its promises in relation to the money accumulated through . congressional negleet of municipal needs under the | operation of the half-and-half law in {the past: that it will not make its | withdrawal of promise of proportion- e contribution retroactive, | close up equitably { the half-and-half period before starting inew books or discarding books of ac- count altogether under the néw in- i definite. fluctuating system. 1f this is the intent, then Congress ought, it would seem, in this bill to provide for {the meeting of spe unmet nicipal needs of the past, not adequate- ly covered by the estimates, such as those for additional school buildings, increased water supply and improved streets, and appropriate for these pur- ses twice the amount of the Dis: rpluses, in accordance with the half-and-half law, under whose terms this tax-money was collected. After Uncle Sam has thus spent in capital development the tax-money now held lin trust, to which his promise of pro- { portionate contribution attaches, he can with a clearer conscience enter ithe future prom ing period, during which he will continue to ex- ! » despotic and undivided legisla- {tive power, will f1ocal tax-money which he exacts, and will bind himself to no definite pledge of capital upbuilding expenditur: { the spirit and purpose of the ori ! Jones bill are to prevail in the sur. islation. this provision of th iplus le but will { s books covering ! mu- | make his own thel sonalty. which, in connection with other tax revenues and accumulated | Substitute Dill should be elaborate surpluses of unexpended District tayes | And made definite along the lines in in past years, should approximate the | dicated. capital's obligations for the current; The substitute bill then removes the ! limitation of the Commissioners’ year; that there should he | A sliding scale no decrease of tax imates to twice the amount of estimat- ed revenue. This limitation is built below the present bas e on recognition of the half-and-half law in this s—11 4 per cent— sti- | thus reducing to a minimum the po sibility of a deficit: that any defieit which might occur should be cha against and reimbursed from the Di trict revenue of the succeeding vear. and that any surplus of unexpended District taxes should go over to be expended for the capital's benefit as District revenue in some future The rounded, constiuctive lexisle tion which the original Jones bill pro- posed made the law' tonforwd to the present practice of financing the Dis- trict and improved both law and pr tice. It solved the troublesome proi- lem of District deficits and surplus by sending either deficit or surplus automatically either as a d credit over into the financing and r enve raising cf. the cuccceding v years. The Senate repeatedly whelmingly adopted this | & substitute for the 1 and as the Senat District appropriation bill. The ver: day before adoption by the Sena the Caraway substitute, which redu. to zero the national promise of defi- nite contributions for capital develo ment; the Séhate had refused to re duce the nation’s definite cont from 50 per cent to 40 per cent. “What does the Caraway substitute for the Jones bill provide? First—That the general expenses of the District shall be chargeable to and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. This one provision is in ac- cord with the letter, spirit and ‘effect of the original Jones bill, and of the exjsting substantive law of 1878. In all three the primary responsibility is recognized as resting upon the United States, which is protected from loss or risk by possession of all the assets and securities of capital as well as .mation, which controls absolutely every cent of the money contributed “for capital maintenance by both par- ties, local and national, and which has ¥undivided and despotic power to fix the “amount of local tax contribution. to decide by what method of taxation it shall be collected, to collect it and to |spend it. From the beginning the na- tion’s obligation in respect to capital !maintenance and upbuilding has been tin equity and on principle primary, <dominating and (like its pewer to gov- pern) exclusive and supreme. Second—The substitute bill provides ithn: the District tax rate shall be fair $und reasonable. Congress is the sole | Judge of what is reasonable, and the § effect of this provision is to say that i Congress, without the check of any pledge of proportionate contribution, *may tax the District as it pleases. ! fThe District tax revenues “shall be ¢-covered into the Treasury of the SUnited States as miscellanecus reve- #nue.” This provision nationalizes the local tax revenue, and severs all rela- between the District’s tax money definite contribution for capital uilding by the nation. This pro- on which, in connection with the repealing clause, withdraws all defi- ite promise ‘of national contribution capital maintenance and, perhaps -uneonstitutionally, converts our local $tax money into national rcvenue is in wharp, radical contrast .with the origi- L—l Jones bill, which provides that al! fct tax money, when deposited %n the Treasury, shall be held in #the Treasury as a trust fund for of the District, to be ap- the District’s proportion Zof the cost of capital upbuilding, what- & may be. The issue between toor a and n, both us se Mapes bill Iment to the over ” o ibution i definite and indefintte and fluctoating | yeil.” | nd of the principle of proportionate mtribution. When the substitute bill a principle of proportionate contribu- { tion. and eliminates all connection and {relation between tax revenue and es- !timates and appropriations. the rea- son for the limitation ceases to exist tand the law is automatically killed The new law appropriately recognizes the fact of this death. The substitute bill conclides with xemption of $2 {of improvements < a new tax provision not in the orig- ! o real estate. This {inal Jones bill, which is to be decided {on its mgrits. Tt reflects the single- {tax idea in discouraging refusal or i nt land. and in i tailure to improve v | rewarding such improvement, with the owners as the special ben- fene It deserves thoughtful con- sideration by Congres: For many vears organ on. through the Citizens” Joint Fiscal | Committee. which combines nearly all ur great bodies, has been {fighting desperately. and with some | success, for the definite proportionate Washing- civie | contribution system of financing the ! eration, and the hope is that the; District. and against the indefinite, fluctuating system. Now, without the { Slightest warning of danger, in a mo- iment, In the twinkling of an eve, ! without even the opportunity to sound a call to arms for defense, defeat has {come., not in pitched battle, but through a change of mind of our | Senate friends. Who can wonder that the capital community is shocked and somewhat { dazed? —————————— Lack of information as to details ! relating to the arrest of bombing sus- {vects s calculated to impress Mr. | Burns with a better opinion of War- saw’s detective abilities than of its news facilities. ————————— His avoidance of international con- siderations in his activities makes it clear that:our old friend Santa Claus, were he not a myth, might make a great diplomatist. ——————— Some of the money turned frem European printing presses is worth propaganda. ————————— “Ellis Island would please some of America’s immigrants better if it were equipped with “‘one way” traffic signals. ——— The American Yell. From an account of Marshal Foch’s arrival in Paris yesterday: As he alighted from the train bringing him from Havre there were thunderous cheers of the American variety. Marshal Foch stopped suddenly, smiled broadly and, turning to mem- bers of his party, he said: “Paris! Paris! be Paris city I'm arriving at.” A phrase coined in our civil war days whieh had a great run while hostilities lasted and which survived the war. It was coined as a compli- ment and generally accepted as one. The phrase was “the rebel yell.” ‘Whenever the Confederates charged they came on with a shout that made the welkin ring. Their opponents gave it a name and the name stuck. One hears it today understandingly. A crowd manifesting sentiments of ap- proval in an enthusiastic tone and way wutters what is called “the rebel » oontrfbutions is raised] It seems now to have become the troys the half-and-half law and the ! 000 in the ‘assessment | This surely cannatl It must be an Am.rclll THE EVENING STAR WASHI GTON, D. American yell. Maéshal Foch made a wide tour, crossing the continent, and heard it everywhere he went. - And it so impressed him he now likens Parisian enthusiasm to it. He in- spires it everywhere he goes, at home and abroad. The marshal, speaking to his friends, said that *“his trip to America had | been one of the most wonderful events of his life.” It was that and more. It ranks with the most remarkable jour- neys in history. Certainly no popular figure of this generation has received away from home such evidences of ad- miration and good will as this French soldier received in America, from one end of the country to the other. And the enthusiasm continued, unabated, for two months. The Parking Report. The citizens who bave served as a | committee to survey and report on | parking conditions in the District have rendered a valuable service in their thorough and thoughtful consid- eration of this difficult subject. Taking up the matter at the point where the Commissioners left it, after endeavor- Wng to frame corrective parking rules that were immediately protested by the people, this committee has pre- sented a series of practical proposals which may well form the basis of action. They were asked by the Com- missioners not to touch upon matters requiring legislation by Congress, but they have. with propriety and wisdom, | included in their report certain propo- sitions that will, to be made effective, call for legislative action. For in- stance, they suggest the widening of a number of downtown streets to give {more room for the movement of the ttraffic. This, of course, could not be done save by Congress. The parking problem is one of the most difficult that presents itself today in Washington. With the great growth of automobile use it has become a most serious question to know what | to do with cars when they are halted for any purpose. If they are parked {in the streets they lessen the space available for traffic movement and for the loaaing and unloading of machines and busivess vehicles at the curb. Yet there are no facilities to meet the i Regulation of parking on the time it is difficult and calls for a large force of inspectors. It is a question { whether storage spaces can be pro- viged by private enterprise at rates which will at once encourage pa- tronage and vield a profitable revenue on the investment. Such downtown torage garages would be denendent lmost wholly upon’ daytime pat- ronage unless considerable repair and maintenance work was done in con- nection with the storage of machines. Taking all these considerations into ccount, the citizens' committee pro- I poses a one-hour parking limit, the i provision of open spaces at the end of each block and in the middle of the longer blocks for loading and unlcad ing: reduction of the space between parked vehicles, prohibition of parking in front of certain classes of buildings and a definition of the principal con gested area in somewhat less in- {clusive terms than those of the Com- missioners’ recently rescinded order. Encouragement of construction of { downtown garages, at which cars can ! be stored at davtime at low rentals, is commended. It is not plain. how- {ever, just how this can be brought {about. -The business of garage build- {ing will not be promoted unless there is an assured patronage, and morc- over. unless service is certain to be | rendered that will make it practicable to take a machine into such a place quickly and to remove it quickly. In short, there will be no garages unles: they can be made to pay. and they will not pay unless the public can he | assured of quick access and reasona- ble rates. If to the expense of main- taining a machine is added a material i cost of daily downtown care the owner { will be likely to take his chances in the streets. even if he has to park at a { distance from his place of business. The Commissioners will find in this report material for profitable consid- i i | { will be able therefrom to frame regu- | 1ations that will meet general approval and perhaps suggestions for legisla- tien that will help to eolve this trou- blesome problem. —_———————— During his residence in this country Trotsky must have acquired enough {of an idea of American institutions to make him realize how much more benefit he could have conferred by or- ganizing Rotary Clubs instead of soviets. —_——————— Historv is quite likely to contem- plate the disinclination of Wilhelm Hohenzollern to be regarded as re- sponsible for the world war as a case of side-stepping. —————— It will take years, perhaps cen- turies, to determine the styles of su- perstructure to be reared en the nu- | merous “Foundations” the twentieth century has witnessed. —————— His" desire to be let alone for a | about as much as a great deal of the | while showed foreknowledge in the mind of Clemenceau that events would :so shape themselves as to demand a statesman’s undisturbed cogitation. —_——e——————— The fact that he has escaped trial does not prevent Wilhelm Hohenzol- lern from intruding upon public at- tention with an energetic defense. ————— Beer might be considered with favor by economists if a means could be de- vised to require people to pay taxes on it without drinking it. No Christmas Candles. Announcement that candles will be displayed in the White House windows Christmas eve .in maintenance of the old custom of Yuletide, caused a gen- eral reaction of pleasure’ throughout the country. It was to be expected that this example would be followed generally end that the windows, of American homes next Satirday night ‘would twinkle in welcome to the day of rejoicing.. But this is not to be. At- tention has been called to the fact that there is great danger in such a use of open flimes' in the windows of modern houses, and in consequence the White House plan is canceled and the word now goes forth reguesting that the suggestion of “window {l-| {demandy for car storage downtown.! ~ C., "I‘HI,J'RSDAY DECEMBER 22, 1921 that other dividends will follow as soon | as legal difficulties surrounding -the collection of assets are cleared up. No a beautiful symbol, but it is a serious ' estimate is made of the prospecdve' danger. In most houses today are(total of salvage. But every investor curtains which ignite easily. It u!ought to receive this Christmas check impossible to estimate the loss by fire | as a bit of “velvet,” or something not} that would probably result from a|expected and therefore all to the good‘ i lumination by this means be not fol- lowed. A lighted cardle in the window is general window illumination Saturday | Anything that comes out of this wild- | ‘night. This matter hds already been )cat venture is clear gain. The mouney considered by the Safety Underwriters | was lost when it was invested. This Laboratories, created to foster means!is a truth that should be clearly| for fire prevention, and it was at the |learned by people who ‘are prone to |l instance of that valuable organiza-|put their money into business schemes tion that the White House example | without taking guidance from de-| was canceled. pendable advice. The more alluring, There is no proper substitute for the | the more promising of quick and large lighted candle on such an occasion.) returns, the more doubtful the poten- An electric light will flluminate the | tial investor should be. It is, of course, window, but it does not give the same ' hard to persuade some people that a effect. Only the flickering flame stands | project that promises such a return for the spiritual meaning of Christ-|as 50 per cent in forty-five days, or in mas time. This is not a matter of | forty-five weeks for that matter, can- illumination, of display. It is not a :not be sound and square. Some must question of merely following a con-jlearn by bitter experience, and the spicuous example. The light is put;Ponzi investors are of that class. in the window, if at all, in token of | Great misfortune in their case is that the welcome for the coming guest. ) they are mostly people of small means Let the light so shine from within, { who could fllafford any loss and to even though there be no flame at the | whom, therefore, these present small window. So long as the spirit istrecoveries are most welcome. | present there is no need to endanger | e e 1 the home itself by a token that, how-| So autocratic has the soviet govern- ever beautiful, is unnecessary if the|ment become that it seems doubtful true meaning of Christmas is felt. | whether our old friend Santa Claus can operate in Russia without a per- ! mit from Lenin. Von Jagow’s Sentence. Dr. Traugott von Jagow. former | Berlin police commissioner, has been | sentenced to five years' imprisonment. ] 1t isnot the van Jagow who wasat one | inet cr time GGerman foreign minister and who figured in the pre-war and war-time negotiations, but a I personage. Why was he imprisoned? For war- time atrocities, cruelties, iniquities of | any kind? Not at all. He was con- | victed of taking part in the Kapp r bellion of March, 1 He was xuil!yl of trying to overthrow the republic. It would have been a different story | if he had been tried at Leipsig for complicity in war cruelties. He might | have got five months, or perhaps five weeks, if convicted there. There is’a totally different scale of justice for those who scheme against German security from that which is applied to those who violated the laws of hu- manity. —————————— China’s business is more or less com- plicated by an almost perpetual cab- is. “And lingered for a while, Rejoieed to find that they had not Forgotten how to smile. i The youngsters, it can’t be denied, Their gentle arts employ To make a merry Christmastide For grown folks to enjoy. i A Berlin society has burned thou- sands of volumes of books of Indian fighting and hairbreadth adventure, with a view to protecting youthful minds. 1f the hooks of certain so- called philosophers had been similarly treated the intellectual impulses which led to the world war might have been averted. Striving to Please. “Your constituents say you are not as sociable as you used to be. “I'm doing my best to please,” id Senator Sorghum. *I fear the times have become a little confusing. One group of constituents likes a man who preiziin s b Lt g e 0L A T e L O —_———————— American poiitical life has come to| be recognized as a great training { school for magazine editors. 1 —_——————— There are two kinds of diplomacy. One sceks an understanding. The| other aggravates a misunderstanding. —_—————————— A Ponzi Dividend. Those who invested in Ponzi's get- rich-quick scheme which he promised would vield 50 per cent returns in forty-five days have mot lost every- thing, even though the financial wizard is now doing time in a penal institu tion. When the bubble broke trustees were appointed to look after what re- mained of the scheme of foreign ex- change, or whatever it was that Ponzi was working. and now they have col- lected enough clear money to mail a dividend of 10 per cent to the in- vestors, sending out more than 10,000 checks for a total of $344,244, and} ranging all the way from 29 cents up to $2,035. But this is not necessarily all they will, get. The trustees say { | French negotiations @night be sim.|is sociable and familiar, while others plified if M. Briand could be at both |don’t admire anybody who isn't i ends of the cable at the same time. haughty and distant. And it's rather dificult offhand to tell which is iAn awful waste of children not to which.” Jud Tunkins sa; that when he plays golf the caddie is supposed to look, but not to listen. Economies. Some scientists have hinted that a Christmas tree’s no good, H Since in the aggregate it means an awful waste of wood. I am not scientific. So I own, it seems to me i have a Christmas tree. “It 'pears to me,” said Uncle Eben.H “dat de world was discoverin’ dat any | fool kin make folks miserable, but dat a smart man to make ‘em i Wealth and Happiness. “Do you believe that wealth brings | happiness?” “It depends on how it's come by,” answered Cactus Joe. “There ain’t| no stack of blue chips big enough to compensate a man for gettin' caught dealin’ off the bottom of the deck At this time of year it takes a good lawyer to play base ball successfully. i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. H Holiday Benefactors. | 0ld Santa Claus set out to run | Across a ballroom floor. The children had a lot of fun. The grown folks had much more. The elders crowded 'round the spot H ! ‘Who’s Who XXVIII—Vice Admiral de Bon. Atthe Arms Confcrence ‘ EW actors come upon the 1 stage as the arms conference progresses, and they play im- portant, 1if belated, roles One of them, Vice Admiral de Bon, senior French naval officer, will be much in the epotlight. France has approved the Hughes naval reduction plan in principle. It is largely Admiral de Bon's. task to | aevise a French naval policy that will {be in accord with the American pro- I posal. The task has been delegated to capable hands. His career has been an active one since he obtained his first commission. Few know so well as he the French navy and its needs. While the United States, Great Britain and Japan debated the ratio for capital ships, Admiral de Bon, to a large extent, left the capital ship out of his calculations. The assurance, informally given, that France would not make an issue of the dreadnaught question, went far to clear the at- mosphere of the early sessions of the conference. Admiral de Bon has plan- ned a navy of defense for France—a navy of light ships and submarines, rather than of dreadnaughts. The territory of the French colonies is fourteen times larger than that of France, or as large as the area em- braced by the United States. It is no small navy, therefore, France must have if it is to meet her necessities of defense and be commensurate with her position as a world power. Ad- miral de Bon thinks the light ship and the submarine will fill the bill. There has never been any fear felt that the Hughey plan would preclude the building of whatever number of ships of this type France might con- sider essential to the establishment of a navy purely for defense purposes. Admiral de Bon rendered con- spicuous service during the war. A8 commanding officer of the cruiser Du Chayla, he was at Tangiers, in 1905, at the time of the kaimers famous visit. At the beginning of the war he held the rank of rear admiral and was_superintendent of the dockyard at Brest, where his activity consid- erably hastened the mobilization of that important arsenal. In 1915 he was placed in command of the division of supply and trans- port of the French Dardanelles expe- ditionary force. ' Later he superin- tended the landing of the army of the orient at Saloniki. When the allies, in 1916, decided to abandon their po- sitions at Gallipoli, it was Admiral de Bon's task to direct the re-em- parkation of the French troops and their supplies. He accomplished this with none of the supplies falling into the hands of the enemy. For the suc-| cess of this operation the grade of vice admiral was conferred upon him. Immediately thereafter he was ma chief of staft to the French navy. l | ! l l VICE ADMIRAL DE BON. the next two and a half vears, or from | 1916 until the armistice, he was in! This was the beginning of the most important period of his career. For charge of all anti-submarjine opera- tions of the French navy. After the middle of 1917, the arrival of the American forces which had been sent to Europe to take part in the anti- submarine operations enabled Ad- miral de Bon to form close relation- ships with Admirals Benson, Sims and ‘Wilson, and these associations soon developed into warm friendships. In 1917 the French officer was named, successively, member of the comite de guerre and representative at the al- lied naval council. His part in the work of the council is mentioned in warm terms by Admiral Sims in his book, “Victory at Sea. Honors were in store for the ad- miral after the war. As did Admiral Benson, he officiated as a naval ex- Dert at the peace conference and drew up the naval clause of the treaty of Versailles. This work finished, he left Paris in May, 1919, and returned to a sea com- mand. He was in charge of the Medi- terranean fleet, but when it was de- mobilized, he remained at Constanti- nople, in command of the French naval forces in the Levant. .‘Admiral de Bon had just returned to France, at the expiration of this command, when he was selected to accompany Premier Briand and the other ¥rench delegates to the Wash. ington conference. |Let it be FURNITURE! A gift that will be remembered for years lo come Drop-leaf table —mahogany finish; with shaped top. Suitable for iiving or "breakfast room 1574x341% inches closed, 40x34)% inches open— 522 Child’s dresser Just like the one shown—oak wahogany finishes. $3 95' Vith drawers and A lampsale made possible because of a lucky § purchase of —a maker’s surplus stock —a maker’s floor samples together, with reductions on —our own regular stock LElectric lamps and gas Jamps floor, table and boudoir lamps—all styles in this sale. This telephone set T‘iolidhnak telephone tabie any chair. Note that table has com- $5'95 partment for book Silk shades—solid colors and com- binations—and shapes {rom the simple flat styles to the elaborate pagoda effects Floor lamps, $14.85 up. i = This gas or ¢lectric Table lamps, $7.95 up. floor tawp. mahogany Tinish base— Boudoir lamps, $2.95 up. «Fourthi flour ) $15.75 Fancy rocker —oak or mahogany finish; highly pol- ished; saddle seat.. Rustic smoker té««‘ —solid_hickory, showing natu- ( — ral bark; tobacco or ‘,JAQ)' cigarette jar; match $4'95 1/ holder, etc. YAliees —_— Grandfather’s clock —reproduction of an old French style; solid mahog- vi gong sounds § every quarter of the hour All hall clocks reduced 25% Child’s high chair —constructed of solid oak; col- lapsible style; can 58'75 be converted into Fiber wardrobe —for children’s apparel. Cre- wheel chair ....... . tonne lined: white or ecru sl l .75 enamel ..... Candlesticks 5149 v O Late arrivals— price deeply cut} to close them out quickly. Attractively shaped Music cabinet Baby walker —genuine mahog- yt;;w}v‘inggst:?s. “. or sheet music... high, 6%-inch base. . Here’s the gift for him - . Shoe blacking box, $]-15 Strongly made of oak, in - weathered finish ; with foot rest and compartment for brushes and polish. See 5 —bright brass style sketched. stands, with lion $3 95 head handles....... 5]13.95 chenille portieres, $¢-9 pr. Just 22: pairs—all we could get for this sale that so many women prefer for hangings— lends to the home. have silk braid edge and come in deep blues, Portieres of a soft, fur-like fabric Because of the air of richness it These chenille portieres are reversible; greens, rose, tan and brown. 40 inches wide. . Turkish towel sets, $1.25 Sets comprise large Turkish towel and wash cloth edged in pink, blue or gold. Satin damask spreads, $4.29 Beamtiful, lustrous finished spreads in a number of pretty patterns; doublebed size; scalloped. (The Hecht Co.—third floor.) 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