Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1922, Page 6

.Selated system' of financing the capl- THE i ideal benefactor, benevolent and benefl- | apartment houses which havq no nams }THE EVENING STAR. cent, it only this seltdmposed.compul- | sign. v(i ] .. With Sunday Morning Editlon. | sion to be just is removed; that grudg- | _ Electric signs ha ',‘.Lm’ym n Wh ‘9 Wh Atthe Arms o A ingly resisting a half contribution of | New York and a few other cities they ) WAZHINGTON, D. C. a 40 per. cent contribution he will, if | cover the front of ngs and stand A O S 0 Conference FRIDAY........January 6, 1022 | ne is relieved of his promise to pay | high above the roof. - anything in particular, enthusiastical- [ been under regulation of the building .SHEODORE W. NOYES....Editor |1y insist upon paying far more than[and fire authorities of cities. These & 1s asked or expected. signs have increased in number, size * ¥'he Evening Star Newspaper Company Innn:om. 11th St. and Pensylvania Ave. T T S and splendor till they do more for . New XLHI—M. Robert Silvercruys secretary-general. M. Silvercruys was born in 1893, and is probably the youngest secretary- general of all the nine delegations attending the Washington conference. He attended the University of Lou- vain and the University of Brussels, | where he recelved his doctor's degree, and took a course in post-graduate wol;( at Cambridge University, Eng- an In 1914 the world war broke out, Belgium recelving almost the first fury of the storm. Like thousands of other patriotic young Belgians, M. Sil- M. ROBERT SILVERCRUYS. vercruys at once entered the army as a private, second class,- of infantry, and a private, second class, he remain- | cluded Washington in her itinerary ed until the end of his service. This|and is well remembered here. For came after about a vear and a half |this service King Albert granted her and was caused by disability, due to a|distinguished recognition, making her severe illness incurred in the line. gf}a chevalier of the Order of Leopoid. duty. 8he is one of the few living women of In 1916 M. Silvercruys came to the|her age who possess this coveted United States and was engaged as a|order. member of the faculty of the Univer-| M. Silvercruys is nearly slways in sity of Pennsylvania, at which insti- | his office in the chancery of the em- tution he taught French literature, in | bassy. During the absence of the am- which, needless to say, he is exceed- | tassador last summer he acted as ingly well grounded. The lollowlno’ charge - d’affaires. His spécial In- year saw him at the University terest outside of his diplomatic du- Wisconsin in a similar capacity, fol-|tfes lies in literature, especially lowln’ which he entered the service|poetry,”of which he has written sev- of the/embassy here eral books. His long residence in the The father of M. Silvercruys is a|United States has given him an un- member of the supreme court of Bel-|usual insight into American ideas and glum. His sister, Mlle. Suzanne Sil-|ideals, and he confesses to American vercruys, made a tour of the United |sympathies. He is unmarried and States In 1917 and 1918 on behalf of speaks English fluently and with the Belgian relief campaign. She in-|scarcely an accent. shall be expended. Under these condi- tions there can be no “just” or “rea- sonable” local taxation imposed by an alien body fn which the taxed are not represented. Under the half-and-half plan-hostile tax imposers are held in check by a system which' causes every jucrease in local taxes to increase correspond- = {ingly the national contribution; under the substitute every dollar of local taxation that can be raised decreases correspondingly the necessary nation- It Has Long Baffled the Mur- |5, rimibirion, Which svstem sate- derous Assaults of Its sented and impotent local taxpayers? - This hasty review - Enemles- J y of pertinent capi. o was' scon made an attache and in Suonth; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. X these electric signs to the advertising g x " | 1920, the 1 ing in th - o ey e 5 Okl e 3alh | vanced that soctalism would gredtly | %105 electrlc SiEne.to the adverng e legation having in the mean. Railroad bridges across the Potomac in a'way to reduce to a minimum the N/ 5 Socialisf m gTess, the illumination streéts than the % m_"*"?lflmc; e ezt Bingag. | THE iejaad | publtc authorities ‘::‘ould do. Yet, oppo- . ROBERT SILVERCRUYS Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. | Some years ago, when. Victor Berger sition Has set in agatnet them h‘: New entered the service of the The Ereatog S, with the Bunday morsing | 1oL S0USht and obtatoed & seat in |y St LrUR AL ey, T Belgian legation hers about aaidien, T e e Y T cits | CongTess—long before the world war gl 5 . Eotlecdlon 1e” made by carrlers. at the [0t o his election; that. sa time been made an embassy, he was of each mouth. Ess e mrfi‘ frs cmmm the fyture holds for the electric 81gN | promoteq to the post of secretary of Bste by Mail—Payable in Advance. |would secure for the cause a hearing | ! 20Y man’s guess. Whether oppost: | embassy. it coutd tion to them will grow.until they are| when the Belgian delegation ‘to the m"llll’ and vh'lfl.h- L Bot otherwiss enfoy, Bad that forced frem the streets and housetops 5 such a hearing was'all that was neces- armament conference was arranged fl; l:ndl Sunday..1yr., ls_ag: i mz., ;sz ey fa b renin o ha cannot be forecast. By many persons‘n.' gilvercruys was appointed as- .@tnday only 15, $2.40! 1 mo., 200 Mr. Berger came, and. 'saw, and !¢ electric sign is conslde;'e:m a very sistant secretary-general. Not long 0 z £ ’ useful thing, and in ‘many instances a | thereaftér the secretary-general, ¢ All Other States. spoke, bhit did not conquer. The House ¢ oy oiooang ‘beauty. Pol le Telller, was relieved of his du- Beily and Sunday.1yr mo., 85c { listened with politeness, but did not ties and made a technical adviser to fly only yr. follow him. The cause of socialism 5 hic sion M. :fundav_on vr. was not spread over the country. Mr. The Bndge—nn.w sm" the delegation, on which occa: A 3 Berger did not even hold his individual ‘War Department rules have been A Motion to Reconsider. own, but dropped out of Congress at |changed in regulation of the operati ®ould ke persuaded to ‘reconsider its| An argument of this character is hasty action in destroying the princi- {advanced now by’ that faction of the P!e of definite vroportionate contribu-|socialist party urging ection in this|traffic delays on those two important tion by nation and iocal tax-paying|year’s campaigns. Mr. Berger failed, | thoroughfares of travel. At present eommunity in financing the capital, | it is stated, beciuse at that time in-|there is a ‘supposed’ closed period of Washington wouid urgentiy appeal to|terest in socialism was largely aca-|thirty minutes, between 8:20 and 8:50 & o reconsider. demic. . In the main, the world was|a.m., during which the draws are not Before this vitally important legis- | moving smoothly. opened for any craft. As a fact, how- Bation is put in final shape the leaders| Now, all is different. The world is|ever, the draws are opened even dur- ©f House and Senate, who will be re-|in ferment. Men everywhere—and in|ing this period if a boat comes along ®woonsible for this revolutionary and|{America as elsewhere—are puzzling |and whistles for clearance. This in- #njury-threatening legislative experi- | Over questions of -government—pro-|terferes with the traffic, especially ment, ought in fairness and in the | Posing new systems, or changes in old | that of the electric cars bringing peo- @aterest of safe and sane legislation | systems. Put some fluent socialist, or @ consider carefully in joint confer- | several of them, in Congress while this ence what Congress ought to do in|condition exists, and the cause will €he matter. be bound to gain. * A few hours before the Senate sur-| There are some very fluent speakers ®endered its wise, traditional policy |in the ranks of the socialists, and this Suddenly and without warning by |vear's mnominations for Congress ‘¥lelding to the Caraway amendment, | should show the men the party is look- $he chances were bright for agree-|ing to for leadership in its latest cal- ment by House and Senates upon a|culations. Mr. Debs is barred by the Eefinite, liberal, capital-developing sys-|loss of citizenship, and Mr. Berger | hours except for the thirty minutes in tam of District - financing, which | practically by the two recent refusals{the morning named in the present ®hould be both fair and wise, and |of the House to admit him to member- | rule. a which, while retaining the organic ship. But there are others, and they| Almost al of the -river craft can -@ct's basic principle of definite pro-|are to be found in New York and the | make the passage without the opening Portionate contribution, should take | middle country. of the draw except at very high water. Bote of'the change of conditions in There has been, however, no sys- forty-three years and modernize and Schools of Political Study. tematic attempt to observe the closed Sring up to date the sound and whole- This is from Liverpool: period, with the result that at the time ®ome legislation of 1878. Through the| mne unionist party has voted to or- |f the greatest rush of travel, both Benate's resistance the House Mapes g:nl;: lcho;.flll c'n:( wllflu‘lm:tudf’ 13 steam and lrolle;;; ;enbfldleh md’:-o:: 811 had been killed, and in neither | Sducate unlonist workingmen open for & tug, holding up hun House nor Senate was any one openly :,'g‘;m‘,ml.l objecBiof ‘?'hu"‘ bolshe- | ¢ people. All of this river traffic can genewing advocacy of enactment of| It is difficult to think of bolshevism |be governed as fo time in a way to the indefinite, fluctuating, will o’ the | getting- a strong, ar anything like a‘|avoid any interference. Most of it wisp, unsystematic system of capital | controlling, hold in England. Condi-|consists of scows or canal boats naneing. The fssue was upon the |tions, disturbed as they are and have|towed by -tugs, or tugs -alone. By atio of definite proportionate contri-|been since Armistice day, are very |hinging smokestacks practically all of bution. The House insisted upon the | different there from what they were in | this traffic can pass under the bridges €0-40 rutio. The Senate upheld the | Russia when Lenin and Trotsky seized | without opening the draws. 80-50 ratfo, but yielded in two appro-|power. At that time Russia was.in| One trouble in the regulation of the Priation bills as a temporary tentative | chaos and the people in panic. Every-|traffic through the draw spans arises ratio to the House’s insistence upon | thing was ripe and ready for the ¢én-|from the‘fact that the law prescribing $0-40, the permanent ratio of substan- | fident faker and nervy tyrant. the hinging of stacks rnakes no men- tive law remaining still at 50.-50. The| England is not in chaos, and the/tion of flagstaffs, and so some of the only logical outcome of this clash of | people are not in panic. Moreover, the | river craft, by maintaining tall poles, fFatios was apparently either a Hq rank and file are far superior in in-|together with hinged stacks, are able wvictory at 60-40 or a Senate vlctorywfi telligence to the rank and file of Rus-|to compel the opening of the draw for 8050, or & compromise at 55-45. The |sia. Nothing. resembling czarism has | clearance. The law should be amend- ¥eal and surprising ratio conclusion of | ever been felt in England. The people |ed to affect a minimum use of the this clash was, however, 00-00, or |have never been: under siich cruel re-|draws by river craft. Meanwhile, the 200-00, because the Senate. in a mo-{pression that its sudden lifting would ment of Inadvertence saw no serious{cause such éxcesses as have marked 5 T 2 @blection to a proposition which on {Russian history in the past few years. | great volume of traffic to mfl;f{om;fl:a ®ise an@ sound grounds it had for| In Aierica Heéfe what s known.as|city.. 8:l0zat rnastue forty years been resisting. bolshevism is -almost unthinkable’:injf ***->*' - 1 £ a2 g Liills on s On the assumption that there wouldd{ connection with our affairs. If schools| The 'airship and submarine ratios 92 scme definite ratio the original | of any sort for the teaching of govern-{assert themselves as.mare. important Jones bill was framed in terms which | ment are needed they should be used|tndn the-capital ship ratio: X made it applicable to any ratio, and | for pointing out, not so much the ——— i which bullt upon the definite ratio{deficiencies- of other systems, as the| (pina is becoming aware of the fact @ystem & sound structure of construc- | superior merfts of the one under|sh.¢ numerous devices relating to Sive legislation, which made the law | which we are living. * - commerce and war make the wise and substantially conform to the present) We have always been.a favored and patient Confucius an unreliable guide gractice of District financing with im-|fortunate people, and therefore have|,nder modern conditions. provements of the practice; which|become a somewhat spoiled people. % fixed a definite sum, related to the gov- | We have taken our great good fortune ernment’s contribution, for the Dis-[too much as a matter of course, and Srict to raise each year; which pro- | hence without sufficient appreciation. Wided a sliding scale rate of taxation on realty and tangible personality to 9roduce -this mecessary local tax feverus, and which prevented the trou- Blesome accumulation of surpluses or @eficlts by earrying them over either @s credits or debits into succeeding gears. The Caraway amendment over- Qurned the definite contribution foun- @ation stone of the original Jones bill, end nullified and stultified the sound end wholesome provisions of the Jones ®ill bullt upon that foundation. 3 TIs 1t too Iate to go back to considera-| Time has vyet to decide. whether bflon of this rounded, well balancéd sys- { women have improved politics or poli- Sem of wisely constructive legislation? | tics has advanced women. 3 Ars we firrevocably committed to & Srude, ambiguous, fluctuating, unsys-( Aq'an American -contribution, Ris- Qustic myutat sians must regard & ¢argo of-focd as Everybody knows now fairly well than Trotsky. Whe Bound reasans for relatindithe tax | T UTC . UO SUprecistad g mnoney collected by an alien gath- Aarer. from District residents to the Mponey - supplied for capital develop- nt by that alien tax gatherer: If @ongress, which the District has not the time the war ended. He cents per month; daily only. 45 c-‘:(-&l: broke out—the aergument was ad- present this opposition would limit Silvercruys was at once promoted to 3¢ by any possibility the Senate|the end of his term. of the draw spans of the Highway an ple into Washington from Virginia for the day's work. Under the new rules—which it is hoped will be more strictly observed than the old—river craft can pass through these draw spans only between 10 and 11°'a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., save that when in high water the clearance gauges read less than 16.7 feet the draws may be opened at all, The Lesson of the Record. tal histofy suggests the following ‘War Department rules.should be rigid- 1y enforced for the protection of the conclusions: WILL ITS FRIENDS SLAY IT 1. The fluctuating plan of indefinite 3 contributions, fixed from year to year by Congress, deprives the capital of UNDER A DELUSION? | the ettective sateguard against exces- . sive local taxation and of the guar- (From a it of Theod: W, N bef Joint Bacal cmmlttee Ociobes 26 19155 | anty of a substantial annual capital Two practical questions in respect to| cOBtribution by the nation, with financing the capital have been of| Which the half-and-half plan bless- vital fmportance from the beginning: | S it- 23 (1) Shall the national and local con-| . It furnishes no ground whatever cnlarging the na- tributjons be definite or indefinite, re- | tion's sense of obligation toward the lated or independent? (2) Who shall | capital. This plan, under which the determine the relation of the amount ;::‘.?;'5 y':“”"':gh C"l',lgfef»‘- ":‘%‘; 'J‘"" ar the national contribution, of these contributions, respectively? | &zisted from 1800 to 1878, During thic The history of the capital has'dem- | period the national obligation was onstrated distinctly that these con- W";;';‘Yv' exclunive, d°“';'"=“"&'~h Jnst as s today. e nation, witl u’ tributioms should be definite and re- |Jilorey” to measure its capital obliga- lated, and that if indefinite and unre- | tion in dollars and contributing what lated to insure justice each contrib- lll nle-_ll_;d, co&n;ll:ute% little or noth- A ~|ing. e indefinite fluctuating plan :"“'(;‘"’““’ have a voice In determin-|p 5ugne distress to the capital and ng the amount of his contribution. | shame upon both nation and capital. Since the day of the creation of the Sh'ould ‘we“ge eager to revive it and capital the nation’s obligation to-|TFeturn to it? : % 3. The plan of definite proportion- ward the nation’s city has been the|gate contribution toward the capital's e e nating. Not the obligation itself, but| Vailed since 1878, has no tendency to - j oz prevent the. nation from spending Every man who has allgwed his ex-}the degree in which it has been recog- | what it pleases on national lines for penses to run ahead of his,income has|nized and met has been the fluctuat-| capital development through other h e r in the equation. ot :‘” of the "‘“_-““fi t-;;’nb:f‘};::::’ Erom 1800 to 1574-1378 ihe national R e ) soan o District om a general cancel 3 lebt- | and ‘local cap! contributions” were 7 daiivhs S 3 indefinite and unrelated. Each COn- | mation mog- ot are tiee Capital, the g i 3 < . tributed what it pleased toward capl- 1 he le of ———t————— tal upbullding. The nation measured | Spost to Rip, and of Argontine in ro- Musical Shows-have been described l.c;:;nt otbli::mr:“}n t;;m!l of :0&!" spect to Buenos Aires, there was o G e costumes. o - The loc: m- | nothing in the half-and-half plan to ;mfl:g{on scenery and munity raised and digbursed-its OWR| restrain it. On the contrary, through the costumes. Col. Bryan has always been an advo- cate_of peace. The gentle dove, how- ever, has ungratefully neglected to keep the spotlight trained in his di- rection. capital obligation considerably beyond| gelf, that national pride in the na- the limits of its meager taxable re-| tion's city was developed which has - sources, and twice became practically | jnspired the nation's affectionate con- In arranging for a maval holiday ::ntkhrupt :!'o.'."',fl;';';'z".',% :l‘r;«:!ntl ‘L’:.‘.{fi‘ sideration and fostering care of its . 3 St e nati i - imodern capital. Since the 'half-and- there is need of careful consideration | i, - half plan has thus had no tendency ’ to check or discourage the most lib- National Obligation Recognized. | .} ‘oypenditures on exclusively na- In 1878 the nation confessed its vio-|tional lines in capital development, the abolition of this plan will have no lation or gross neglect of its capital tendency, :to' inake’ Congress: more obligatipn. It gave practical expres-| patriotically liberal. on either na- sion to its revived sense of this obliga~ | tional or municipal lines. tion In its undertaking to DAY.ome- Will o' the Wisp Plan. half the accumulated funded indebt- ‘The proposed plan leaves Congress, edness of the District and one-half of | s in which the District is not sent- future expenses. It took from' the amne At B rer |District the power of seif-taxation and assumed completely exercise of ““w"!'l“.‘"“;::;:e ;r::”:;":";'::“ ration that it thinks such amount to as we . 15 exercising st . " taxation without representatiom over | b® ‘Just”.and “reasonable,” and then the District the nation safeguaded the| to hand over.the whole of the tax local community by the pledge that to | money to the National Treasury with- ‘ As a man of thorough.“methods) Lloyd George has been. inclined to| give his personal attention to one con-j ference at a time. of the advantages attained by those -who'work while others. sleep. Sa3 At Yap can never hope to be as strong politically as it is geograpbically. SHOOTING STARS. " BY PHILANDER JOHWSON. A Great Assistance. I'm very fond of literature. €* B It helps me in my-life, It guides me'to & modd secure From'envy end from atrite. ed, with exclusive power to tax the capital community in any amount it Ppleases, on the basis of its own decla- T Propaganda should be claised among the most deadly and insidious of the B ) @hosén as its leglslature and in which | There are fears that commerclalism 22 S every dollarieollected in taxes from{ oy¢ further accountability to the Dis- % art. It leads to aspirations high the local taxpayers should be added™a ¥ ® is not even fractlorally represented, | Will Fégulate dipiomacy as well as And fills m.; heart with hope, | dollar from The national Treastes and | trict for o penmy of it. If a com- & o decide as to what kind and what < s Tt also tells/me ""fi iy iz . that 3:" -‘ufln:: lrevegmfid:houl%hble m_llflll{ is :{‘o(r. ‘:o.m’; itself, if an lllea A‘ % it 7 ere expe! 'or capital upbul ng. 8] hody in whicl t is not represente: Smoukts of Jocal municlpaNtates Dis- vertising Sigus .My razors and my sbap. provision protected the District: from | i to tax it, the tixed and unrepre- Srict residents shall pay,andistocollect| Once every shop. in & street had its excessive taxation by causing a tax-}gented community absolutely needs nd spend these taxes as it pleases, it | trade symbol, which : was ~often a = p ./ i|gatherer, alien to the unrepresented) for its protection against excessive ‘ Z : : ; L Diseretion. - - - District, to appropriate from his own | t. some binding limitation and 2 ebviously tends to prevent unfair and | gigantic specimen of thé goods sold| " «You don’t:make as many speeches tr:llury for the District's = benefit r:::en:un? upon the ;'.‘qwer of its allen @xcessive taxation of the unrepresent. | within, as a.watch, & boot, an-um-|gs you usad to.” . - ° - oery, tllmat he lnprflvfllgfl Yro'&,"-h = f:,‘,h’;f,";; {itk; ul:n imposed by (2 k2 F 2EXTZ0 28 3 b, rict's tax-revenue. very. lar ~and-hal 5 @d aad to avold gross and unmistakable | brells, a wood man .cloaked with a fo,” replied Senator Sorghuni. “A | he took under the tax power from the | In the last Congress influentisl rep- rubber coat, or & set of harness:on a|man who wants: t0 be: popular .myst | local community increased correspond- |resentatives urged that just and rea- ion of the American principle Which couples taxation and representa- | wood tiorse. These atood on 'the foot- |gvoia detalning peopl ingly his own capital contribution. sonable taxation of the capital would b4 apl no #too 3 lo:with talk when 3 - §lon if the alien tax gatherer sorelatesa { way or hung above it. Then; they m rath, - It is now proposed to release the|raise over $14:000,000. The amount ;s % er be-at the picture | United States from its self-imposed | declared by the- District appropria- “““;"‘;"‘“’““:’:m'“‘;:ey to that | foot the - “walliway”. wer promise to contribute & definite tion bill to be needed for capital ‘whicl e collects from unrepre- | striped " pole ‘of the barber: and sur- e . 2 amount annually in meeting obli- | maintenance an evelopment was 3 B 2 * e 3 e g . on of capital upbuildi; and to| about, $12,000,000. If the proposed wsented taxed that in taxing the latter | geon, the mortar and pestle “af the| ‘Jud Tunkilis says’famb s peculiar, x‘.:‘éo that -.m‘:mnt ugcaml:.;nd fluc+| plan m‘beeh in force and these repre- B¢ in effect correspondingly taxes him-| pharmacist -herbalist, . the green |the . assertive jimson weed inspiring |tuating, on the same basis a8 before| sentatives, no longer restrained by the If the two centributions for capi- | bush of the taprdom, thé gilt balls of fmore n%“ it is not proposed to return |act of 1878, had enacted their views 187! are : . District its r which existed | of - Diitrict taxation into law, the “t&l development: -not thus definitely | the pawn shop, the red Indian ‘of the TRE - g’at?r.e 1878 of. ni":’n “through self- istrict would have been taxed over Di Yelated every dollar of tax money | tobacco shop-and the ‘signs ‘et th MO 3 taxation the amount of 1t own capi- | $14,000,000, and this amount would “@xacted from the unrepresented taxed | Blue Dng:g Green. S:l,‘n and klnc': ; 3 mhm““o{n e T&o e l: 'l? col ?" dm”(e::;eial:ls ‘w::m;l 'ii'if t;::: _ J o e power tal easury. 7 tn gross, undisguised and shameless | Arms inns.. Thé streat hacame clut- |Far. biggsr, hotter suns-revolve in | 1875 ts tax the District as It Pleases| approriated $1£,000,000 from th wiolation of the principle of self-taxa-|{tered with signs: -Most of these Torms |- space, . 3 but is freed from the limitation im-|tional ‘Freasury - for capital main- o w o 1 : fve loeal taxation by | tenance. Theoretically the two trans- @ion by majority decisicn. of advertising have passed away. ‘- |- Astronormers agree. A ‘2::'2.3?:1‘&:.5 ander the o:;:m%"-b{ setions would be absblutely unre- ‘When ‘the ’:!;mrflmhns are related | Then ‘¢dme ‘a. period ‘when painted | This:little one of;ours, if held in-place, | ot con‘elnonflfinltlfi' t“‘tnig n.:em P {:wt' h::‘:vr:r ;:alvfle e:\!‘;: g @very dollar of tax ‘momey exacted | slgns were swung .ahove.the sidewalk | ~ Is good enough for ‘me; " If, however, .(ho MaYRD 18 noX.tod o ! J S ipal t ing, ‘| of the District and the appropriation om the Washingtonians increases |and 'bannets 'stretched - : 2 e e P oqmity 15, fix, tha | for the Oapital. - Washington. would @orrespondingly the quasi-tax of Uncle jount of | @am; when the contribations are not Tocal It local [:thus be taxed twe millions more than o-:l‘nmuhltv is tb raise :nmumy all| {ts total municipal expenditure, arnd @elated every additional ‘dollar of tax Smoney that can be wrung from the of the local revenus, it must on Amer- | would 'have no right, no power and R PRE les tax itself, determining | no opportunity even to inquire what wnrepreseuted, . - n R Ir. Dustin, ’“‘1%‘{«3’ much shall be : of this donated surplus, or, in- Belpless Washingtonian dcum"q:u ‘t:: p >, flp’“‘h“ ifiw:h”to.inu: m!! to-any | 2nd for what purposes the tax money | money thus wrung from it. emount ‘which Uncle Sam must pay citiéd’are : 1 - : —————————————————————————————————————————————— tical Infl £ i rity, or the rod Women’s Polif nenoe, — | Boye Dl e Findergarten Men have been trying to rule the|of life, but all ‘wise - mothers know 2 e their sons-have grown be- wocigifor unnopberyd mflu g %‘d ‘;"xc:art‘ln age p?mu on. fs “the for various reasons have made'a pi fhing”; and all wise mothers are botch of it. But with all|furthermore aware that a man, when led, is gentle 'as a lamb, but when forced becomes his natural donkey f. . en will make their greatest hit m by deed. what became of any of the tax fbor capital development. The assumptien that under the un- ‘@ Tegialators will be more patriotical- fip and ) | much as business 13 envisd by @ idle wapital ‘development ~ ignores human 6] @atare. It assumes, for instauce, that the man who frets under the require- same—primary, exclusive and domi-| municipal -expenses, which has pre-; cY now to cnt' out | taxes at its pleasure. ‘It measured its| the operation of the organic act fit- | Here’s your HAT! —and perhaps it will be well to hurry in for it, for we are clearing Knox Borsalino and $ 9 5 Dobbs Stetson hats 8 ‘ Formerly $8 to $16.50, at Felt, beaver and velour hats; the finest qualities from America’s best makers. from regular’stock. Black, brown, i:een, pearl and Knox mixtures and derbies. Sale includes every high priced hat in stock, excepting Dobbs and Stetson felt hats. Velour, $3.65 Felt hats, $1.95 Approted styles in the season’s newest shades. Wide range of shades and styles for the sale All silk Tined and trimmed. Brqwn, black; —include sample hats as well as our regular green. stock. Broken assortments from regular stock. (The Heeht Co., main floor.) Men’s brushed wool scarfs, °]-¢ Warm, cheery scarfs under- priced a third. Buff, brown and oxford shades. (The Hecht Co., main flvor.) All $3.50 Manhattan Shirts are now *2-3% Because this is the Half-Yearly Sale, when’ Manhattan permits us to cut prices on our entire stock. Immense assort- ments; full fresh varieties; all under- priced, thus— $2.50 Shirts, $1.65 $6.00 Shirts, $3.85 $3.00 Shirts, $1.95 $7.00 Shirts, $4.65 $4.00 Shirts, $2.65 $7.50 Shirts, $4.65 $4.50 Shirts, $2.95 $8.50 Shirts, $6.35 Dutchess $5.00 Shirts, $3.35 BT trousers Men'’s silk ties, 85¢ 5465 After-Christmas clearance of broken assort- ments of high priced neckwear. Solid colors in Sold on the basis of 10¢ a staple blue and black; neat dots and stripes; button; $1 a rip; a rigid guar- fanciful floral patterns. 2 ST oS antee that insures long wear. ] ] + Cheviots and worsteds in pat- Imported Sllk hose, GSC terns for shop and office work- Fine-quality hose in pure deep-bodied silks ers. All lengths, with plain or —you can handle as roughly as a lisle. Full fash- S aiel v Sonedand ey fiuhed ek Glisice SEBlsASEnd) S CoLIopHAmS; fpraist jeincs 229 ito colors. Get a six months’ supply at 65c. 50. (The Hecht Co., main floor.) (The Hecht Co., main Soor, south annex.) The Half- Yearly sale Our Entire Stock and The Hecht Co. uits & overcoats Full dress, afternoon and dinner suits are not included THIS is a straightforward sale that ‘takes in everything without any reservations. : 'We haven’t a lot of clothes at one price, with . the clothes you want at another price; we’ve avoided grouping to save you from groping. The whole story is told l:ight here: - All suits & overcoats $35 to 840, ! $27._50 $65 to 870, :"553-50 $75 to $85, .359.50 $55 to $60. $43.56 , $97.50 0’coats, $'69.50I 'V - No charge for dlterations . (The Hecht Co., main fioor.)