Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1922, Page 6

” *+ national and local tax contributions for ; 3 THE EVENING STAR, . With Sunday Merning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.. s e R TR THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business o-;-,flnm St. n‘n% {en-‘y“lv;?h Ave. New York Offiee: 150 Nuss: . Ciileago Offiee: Tower Building. Kutopean Office : 16 Regent 8t., London, Bugiand. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning r, with ny is delivered rriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per ‘menth only, 20 eents per mouth. Or- m.-ilm:fi“ 3 mall, ot teleplione Mala end of exch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1y¥ Daily only. 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday only. mo., 20c - All Other States. Daily and Sunday. 1 yr., $10. mo., 85¢ Daily only. A1y 7 mo., 60c Sunday onlv 1 $3 00: 1 mo... 25¢ Our Fiscal Relations Crisis. "The provisions of the original Jones bill, which, diverced from the definite proportionate contribution plan, have been carried over to the Jones-Carra- way bill and coupled with the indefi- rite, fluctuating contribution plan, find the new union unnatural and abhor- rent. Provisions that were sound and wholesome coupled with the definite proportionate contribution plan are stultified and become worthless or Worse, when the plan is destroyed. Take the fixed tax rate, for example. As long as the national and local con- tributions for capital upbuilding were related under the definite contribution plan the tax rate could not be in- creased in the House by rider on ah appropriation bill without being sub- ject to a point of order. Since every increase of tax rate increased mnot enly District tax revenue, but the cor- responding contribution of the nation, tax-rate increase could not escape the point of order under the Holman law. But eliminate the definite propor- tionate contribution provision and conditions are reversed and ‘the tax rate is unsettled. After the change tax-rate increase no longer means that the nation must pay more, but that it pays less, for every additional dollar of District tax revenue. and increase of tax rate can then be proposed as a natural, original provision of the District appropriation hill in the House and avoid the point of order under the Holman law. Thus the Carraway amendment takes the tax rate from the pesition of stability as substantive law which it enjoyed under the original Jones bill and renders it unstable, fluct ing, subject readily to change on every appropriation bill, in accordance with shifting opinions concerning what is “reasonable” local taxation. Consider also the tax surplus held mo., 70¢ [ lion less than the total tax levy of | authority, ¢ | Milwaukee and one and three-quarter | greater part of the Navy for lack of tax, and then transforming the local | seem that their effect would be not tax money into national “miscellaneous ; only to destroy the ratio, but practi- revenue” and losing it, so far as the |cally put the American Navy out of District Is concerned, in the natlonal |the running. Treasury, suggests a form of raising| JIn the British house of commons «....March 8, 1922 ' national revenue that, manx think, |recently the chancellor of the ex- |finds no warrant in the Constitution. | chequer, Sir Robert S. Horne, insisted Obviously, it fails to meet the cond!- | that the personnel of the British navy tions imposed upon national taxation, | must not be reduced below 98,000 men. direct and indirect, which the Constl- | The American House of Represent- tution specifies. auves is suggesting for the American Even if it were constitutional, this | Navy 60,000 men, or fewer. President |method of municipal taxation ‘of a,Harding thinks 80,000 men for our single city to raise national revenue | Navy not top many. is un-American. \ Now coines a proposition in Con- Let us see how pleasantly our cap | gress, declared to be in favor witn by carriers at the | will fit if fastened upon the head of [ some of the holders of the purse some other municipality. In 1920 |strings, to keep the appropriation for Washington's total tax levy was ap-|fuel for the I¥avy at a point which proximately $12,000,000, nearly -a mil-® will Bterally, awcording to high naval tle up at the dock the millions more than the total tax levy | steam in the gauge. of New Orleans. — So, without men: enough to man the Assume that an alien taxing body. | ships or steam sufficlent to keep them in which neither Milwaukee nor New |even in practice ¢ruises, the country Crleans was represented, collected this [ may soon be askimg what is the use of money from the taxpayers of these |a navy at all; why not scrap the entire cities, the latter having nothing to say | seagoing establishment—an extrava- concerning how much in taxes should | gant supposition, ‘of course, but re- be raised, or-how the tax money should | flective of a possible resentment be spent. Assume that the alien tax-|against the present policy of the mgz body was by far the largest indi-| House. vidual property owner of the city, and Congress does nbt want to mistake that in view of the exemption from |the dominant sentiment of the taxation of its millions of eity real|country, which, as shown by expres- estate and in consideration also of the | sions of the people through the press obligation which goes inscparably | and in the communications to the ad- with absolute power of control in re-| visory council of the late conference, spect to the city's finances, the alien | Wants an adequate Navy—not an un- taxing hody had agreed that it would | necessarily large Navy, but always contribute toward the city's upbuild- | sufficient for defense. The country is ing on lines which it laid down doilar [ proud of the record of the Navy of for dollar with the city taxpayers.|“being always ready.” That will be Then assume that the alien toxing|but an idle boast if insufficient fuel body said abruptly’ to Milwaukee or and crews are given by Congress. New Orleans: “I will continue to con- —— e e trol absolutely your financial and 12g-| A change from a gald basis for cur- islative affairs, and will continue to}rency to one of natural values might collect from your taxpayers as many |be correct in theory, but it would re- millions of tax money as I please; but | quire so much time for popular com- I will no longer hold myself account-{prehension that important transactions able to spend in the city’s interest|would be seriously delayed. every dollar of this tax money. with equal millions of my own money in addition. Hereafter I shall put your twelve or thirteen millions of an- nual tax money to my own account in the treasury, and lose it and forget it so far as your relationship to it is concerned. And then I will spend T T TR T upon the city’s upbuilding whatever 1| Dr. Hubert Work, as next Postmas- please, whether totaling more or less | ter General, will receive a most de- than your tax centribution, respond. |Sirable promotion, but not quite the ing nobly, I hope, to the impulse of | Promotion in salary that his predeces- patriotic pride.” sor has enjoyed. Wherein would such a ‘proposition ———————— put up to the Americans of Milwaukee | Requiring candidates to declare jor New Orleans differ in principle [both for labor and for prohibition re- from that which threatens soom fopeal leaves the A. F. of L. with a confront the Americans of Washing-{large and somewhat complex contract ton? on hand. 8 —_—— —_——————— —_——— Protests that this country has not secured a proper advantage in naval apportionment ought to help in main- taining a state of friendly satisfaction in the minds of England and Japan. Paying for a Street. Mary Pickford has won a lawsait, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1 Our Citizens’ Associatioms Represent Local Sentiment The growth of the citisens’ associ: tion idea in Washingtop has steadily developed stronger and stronger com- binations of the people. humble and timid start, nearly forty years ago, when the first association was brought into being, there arenow in existence nearly half a hundred strong organizations which represent sectional sentiment and collbctively stand for harmony of effort among the people of Washington. While some of the earlier organiza- tions have long since petered out and disappeared in the rapid growth of the city, others, stronger, better and more useful, have taken their places. The idea—organization and a united voice to accomplish civic betterments —has never been allowed to dik. Congress, in administering District affairs, has been brought into direct contact with men of substance and enterprise, through the formation of these organizations. These men have labored to make Washington a pro- gressive and modern city agd have rendered it worthy of the title of “National Capital.” * ok Kk Harmony of thought and unity of effort have long been needed in Wash- way each assoclation had equal repre- sentation. The by-laws also included ‘the proviso that no assoclation could become a regular meetings for, three moWiths From a|member of the federation uniVss it had ber- vious to the application for Anember- ship and unless twenty-five 1%e or more had been present : meeting. R the citizens' association are not represented, making a totad of forty-one associations in the Na- tional Capital, The assoclations which are now meeting monthly and are active in the civic affairs of the city are Ana- costia, Benning, Brightwood, Brook- land, ' Cathedral Heights, 'Central, Chevy Chase, Chillum Castle-Wood- burn, Cleveland Park School munity, Columbia Heights, Conduit Road, Connecticut Averue, Congress Heights, Georgetown, Kalorama, Ken- ilworth, Lincoln Park, MIid-City, Mount Pleasant, North Capitol and Eckington, North Washington, North- west Suburban, Park View, Petworth, Piney Branch, Rhode Island Avenue ington. The day is not far distant|Suburban, Randle Highiands, Six- when, by virtue of these organiza-|teenth Su;eiz Hlshln':\d»‘iv Sm:‘e;l-:lt: . v Street Heights, Sout! as 5 tions, in teamwork with their co-|giiect O€IBGER COMtL rk. Takoma laborers, the Board of Trade, Cham- ber of Commerce, Merchants ' and Manufacturers' Association and oth- ers, Washington will rise as one man and speak in unmistakable terms of unity on the vital civic questions. The voteless condition Bf the Dis- trict of Columbia has done much to make these associ affairs of the city. With no other way of making their needs known, citizens of Washington, in seif-de- fense, have worked separately and to- gether to secure clvic improvements. While Congress, in many cases, has been slow to act, and at times failed to take cognizance of the petitions of these bodies, the associations have now become such a powerful factor in the life of the city that Congress can ignore them no longer. * ok ok ok When the citizes assoclation idea first took hold of Washington and several scattered organizations had been formed, each organization was interested only in the particular sec- tion over which it exereised jurisdic- tion. About eleven years ago some of the more active civic workers In the city began to wonder if some means could not be found to bring all these organiza- tions under one council and to unify the opinion of the citizens on questions af- fecting the city as a whole, After several failures and much dis- couragement on the part of some of the associations, the Federdtion of Citizens' Associations was formed. William McK. Clayton was the first president. Mapy of the associations were re- luctant to join the federation for fear ‘{that in the larger organization they wouM lose their identity as individual Park, Trinidad, West End and the Washington Civic Association. The associations which are not members qf the federation are East Washing- ton, Northeast Washington —and Southwest Citizens’ Associations. * ok kO tion The Star has followed the con- sistent policy of furthering the inter- ests of these organizations, believing that much good was being accom- plished by the development of unity lot thought and mediums for the ex- pression of local sentilment among Washingtonians. Through its col- umns, The Star has aided the assecia- tions in thelr effort for both sectional and city-wide improvements. The time has long since passed when each association was interested solely in its own locality. Within the last few years there has been a growing tendency of each organiza- tion to make Itseif more useful to the city as a whole. The trend of local public opinion of the entire city can soon be ascertained by giving thq question to the associa- itions for vots. In the mutter of the half-and-half plan, national repre- sentation for Washington, the public utilities and other vitally jmportant questions in the District, the citizens’ assoclations are able to give a true and accurate answer as to the feeling of the people. & The publicity seeker, the man who as a member of some association works only for his own good, haws dis- | appeared, and his place has been taken by other men of unostentatfous demeanor, who work for the comma.on good. Meetings of the various associatio8s |are business-like and well attended { Comedy is entirely lacking. They are The members of the |in dead earnest. Com- | H | From the start of the first assocla- embers each So steady has been the growi\1 of idea that there are now thirty-eight secticwial assoclations represented in the fisl- sration and three assoclations whictt The District appropriation bill in the {thus re-establishing her right to the Senate contains a Senate amendment |first-page prominence which Princess organizations. This difficulty was solved | forty-odd associations in Washington by the by-laws of the federation, which | are conscientious, self-effacing busi- provided that two delegates from each | ness men, working for the city as a n trust for us in the Treasury. Un- der the original Jones bill this surplus iby the Commissioners in paving streets Was recognized as local revenue to be under the permit system. The Com- applied at some time to the payment | of the District's share of municipal| expenditures under the definite pro-|the application of abutting property portionate contribution system. But!owners, Who must pay one-half the When this system is cut out of our|cost of the work. So runs the news. fiscal relation law the surplus is aban-| The amendment aims to furnish some doned and lost. To be sure, the Jones- | relief for broken-down and heaved-up Carraway subetitute authorizes the ap- | streets, if the people living on them, propriation of the accumulated taxiin despair of getting relief from the surpluses as District revenue, thuscommunity funds, will voluntarily levy recognizing that the surpluses are Dis-|a special tax against themselves for trict revenue. But this recognition is | kalf the price of the improvement. coupled with the provision which| The principle of making a man pay dumps ell District revenue into the | cne-half the cost of the street he lives Treasury as national “miscellanecusjon is & bad principle. His real estate Tevenue,” and cuts off all relation be-|taxes are high and the whole sum of tween this tax money and District |taxes collected should be drawn on to appropriations.” So the Jones-Carra-| provide the city with streets. It is the way provision merely resurrects the |business of the whole city, and not tax surplus long enocugh to be recog-!the business of neighborhoods, to sup- nized as District revenue and thefilply streets as needed by the city's buries it again in the Treasury as na-|growth. The sule in well governed tional “miscellaneous revenue.” The.|cities is to supply streets in advance District is favered with a glimpse of {of the growth of the city that such its long-lost surplus, recognized for a ! growth may be encouraged and tax moment as its own, and is then com- | values increased. g pelled to kiss it good-bye forever. The | The householder on a street has been general ‘result is to make a delusion jpaying taxes all the years he has lived and a mockery of our accumuisted ;in Washington. His taxes have gone tax surplus. | to making streets for all other citizens. The avowed purpose of the Jones- | He has made, according to his means, Carraway provision is to give the appreximately the same contribution District the benefit of a fixed, stable | toward the building of a street as was tax rate, which cannot be changed on {made by the man who lived on that an appropriation bill. Its effect, as|street and the man living on that street We have seen, is to render unstable | contributed toward the maintenance of the stable tax rate of today all existing streets and the building of raradoxically, in order to legislate @ {rew ones. A man buys a home in a tax rate not subject to change by | new «neighborhood. He has been as- rider on an appropriation bill. it pro- jsessed, or he has been paying taxes poses the new law as a rider on an jall his life into a general fund from eppropriation bill, in violation of the !which streets were built. The law is specific rule of the Senate, and in re- | suddenly changed, and when he moves versal of its traditional habit. The Sen- | into the new neighborhood, which has ate has lectured the House many times | added new taxable values to the city's | for attempting to legislate a change of | revenue, the government refuses to fiscal relations by rider on an appro- !jet him benefit by the taxes which he priation bill, and now it is proposed | has been turning in for perhaps fifty providing a fund of $50,000 for use |Mary has been monopolizing. ————— 1t has been demonstrated by Charles mis_sioneru can use such fund in pro-{nporse that it is not necessary to be i viding good roads or safe streets upon |, experienced navigator in order to enjoy thrilling ocean adventures. ————————— The only difference a home owner notes in connection with an increase of the value of ground and improve- ment is an addition to his taxes. ——————— } Interesting experiments are in con- | templation for ‘Washington, D. C, in fthe line of lower rents and higher taxes. ——ee—e————— A Kentucky woman has been put in jail for moonshining, Women claim a right to figure as lawbreakers as well as lawmakers. ————————— Grand juries are trying to find out why motion picture favorites cannot be as idealistic in ordinary life as they are on the screen. —————————— Senator Hitchcock’s remarks should be heard with interest. He is an ex- | perienced hand in treaty discussion. Lloyd George is having his troubles with an irreconcilable element in par- Hament. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOEHNBON. A Moment of Envy. No doubt he meant it kindly, The man so far away, ‘Who sent a pretty post card With a sunny scene so gay, ! Where the palms are lightly waving By the waters warm and blue. He sent the little picture As a sign of friendship true. that the Senate shall reverse itself, not only in respect to the definite propor- tionate contribution principle, but in respect to the method by which this legislative change is to be effected. When the contributions of natiem and capital community toward capital upbuilding are related in definite ratio every dollar of taxation ceflected from the District by our alien taxing body (Congress) means the payment for cap- ftal upbuilding by the government of another dollar (under the 50-50 ratio) or of 6623 ceuts (under the 60-10 ratio), and thes in taxing the District the government correspoundingly faxes itself. This arrangement faurnishes clearly a safeguard akainst excessive and unjust taxation by an alien taxing body, and gees far to satisfy the spirit of our American principle, which, even in the municipality, couples taxation and representation and declares that obligation follows power. % ‘When there is no relation between capital upbullding, and when, as un- der the present proposition, the alien taxing body is to tz:f and appro- priate as it pleases every dollar of taxation exacted reduces ‘the amount which the government must pay for cepital upbuilding, the safe- guard against unjust and excessive ta%ation is destroyed and the last ves- tige of pretense that in spirit or.in substance there has been conformity to the principle of self-taxation by a majority of taxpayers is swept away. There remains only the imperial levy of tax tribute by an alien despot, ir- vesponsible for the tribute money and ‘with power to be a benevolent or an dppressive despot precisely as he musity in the form of & municipal ‘While you're looking through the win- dow ‘Where the snow obscures the map, It is nice to be remembered By some far more lucky chap. You are glad that he addressed it; Glad that he did not forget. You appreciate it truly— But that picture makes you fret. Unspoken Wisdom. *“What is your object in refusing to be interviewed on this momentous sub- Ject?” “Because I've been thinking things over,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But you used to be very generous in giving your conclusions to the pub- lic. “It has recently occurred to me that what & man doesn’t say is not nearly so lable to get him inte trouble as what he says.” Jud Tunkins says this has been a mmmmmm;m owing to the fact that biizzards bad "m’womflngdentothu telephone instead of playing golf. Pacemakers. The blotters that they send to me With deepest gratiude I see. «How can I write enough,” I sigh, 7o utilize this large supply!” . Nataral History. ; “The lady you just met prides her- 3elf on having & t's tongue.” . “How In 1" exclalmed Miss Cayenne. “I never knew that serpents had suech an eppetite for tea and chicken salad!™ vears, and says to him, “If you want a street that is a street, one that is safe, travelable and the like, you must !my one-half the cost of it, and the cost Of building a street comes high.” ‘The man who is forced to pay a special tax of one-half the cost of making a street is robbed of his equity in that general fund to which he has been forced by law and tax gatherers to contribute. ) The California college professor who { comes forward with a declaration that lin little more than hal? a century |women will rule the world has evi- ! dently been too closely occupled with | study to-observe a state of affairs that { has existed for some time. ! —_——————— l It is clearly recognized by states- imen that an adequate water supply {for the District of Columbia is a pro- . tection to members of Congressas well |as to the general citizenship. —————— Even the willing worker with a snow shovel is powerless to battle with the mud in a few of our streets. —_——— Divergent Naval Policies. The British government is proceed- ing to conform to the spirit of econ- omy in naval expenditure embodied in the Washington conference agree- ment, but is differentiating, appar- ently, between wise curtailment and reduction which would cripple the navy and vitiate the effect of the pact upon Britain’s naval establishment. The United sn!eq and Great Britain are supposed to maintain the same ratio.of naval establishment—on pa- per. If the economy plin€ of Con- “De onlles’ comfort we's gittin® ant'n | LELL association should be appointed as rep- | resentatives to the federation. In this whole and for the benefit of their fel- |low citizens. More power to. them. EDITORIAL DIGEST The Battle for the Air. ‘The collapse of the rigid ZR-2 and the semi-rigid Roma, with the at- tendant loss of life in both cases, causes the Boston Transcript to gen- eralize the potential danger inherent in lighter-than-air-craft as “First, no thorough means of control for thege giant airships has yet been de- vised, and, second, the use of highly inflammable gas, hydrogen.” The proposed substitute for hydro- gen gas, the non-inflammable helium, whose development, in the words of the New~ York Tribune, was under- taken five years ago “at tremendous expense and with much enthusiasm,” would eliminate one element of the danger, but for the fact, as the Trib- une adds, “the enthusiasm has never waned, but the quantity of helium gas apparently has never waxed. “Until the United States has a suf- ficlent supply of helium gas, or some other gas suitable for inflation of air- ships,” in the opinion of the Hartford Times, “good sense dictates that there be no further experimenting in peace times with this dangerous type of air vessel,” a point upon which the Mil- waukee Sentinel says “there is no room for controversy.” The Indian- apolis Star thinks it “probable that not a life would have been lost had the Roma been filled with helium in- stead of hydrogen,” and this “simply because congressmen refused to ap- propriate enough money to continue experiments looking toward the com- mercial production of helium.” That the ‘[problem is a scientific and not & political one” is pointed out by the Rochester Times-Union, “and Cen- gress should let the scientists and en- gineers solve it, instead of trying to thwart the development of navigation of the air.” “In hesitating to develop our helium resources the United States is omitting the opportunity to make itself supreme in the reaim of ai ships and balloons,” states the Pitt burgh Sum, and the Waterbury R. publican_hopes that “the Roma dis- aster ‘will lead to greater efforts to make an increased and cheaper pr duction of helium the next proble to be solved in the field of lighter: than-air aviation.” Many papers are in sympathy with the New York Herald when it says that “mingled with the horror is an overwhelming regret born of. the that it need not have happened. t would seem to be a not unreasonable criticism to say that the Army should cease to ex- pose its men to the perils of inflam- mable gas when it is practicable ‘to obtain helium,” says the Adrian Telegram, and the Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal points out that “our Army aviators seem to monopolize, more or less, thq accidents whi take place in navigating the air” that “the Navy rarely has an accident of this kind,” and’ that “thers has not been a fatal accident in commercial aviation either in this country or in Europe in more than a year.”” Struc- tural deficiencies come in for their share of eondemnation of the Brit- ish air ministry in their report on ZR-2, and hopes the investigation of the Roma will be no less in the spirit of “scientific thoroughness” and “‘un- biased frankness.” ;l'he m-flhel:fl!da. News goes on to say, “becaus e been built to.stand still in her hangar, not to buffet the winds and sustain the pressures of the open upper air”* “Is the peril in structure 2lw! to destroy?” in- qui.es the 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat, and the Roanoke Times asks, “Is it possible that the greatest mechanical nation on earth cannot successfully compete with the rest of the world in this fleld of aerorbutics? since “other’ governments succ ully operate the large dirigiblé: Whether the dirigible is practical or not comes in for much discussion, but the great majority "of the papers are unwilling to abandon the trial. | The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telggraph states that “the Germans sent out eighty-three .of these huge craft, of which sixty-six were lost.”” and that *they 5"”“ of no decided mbi- tary advantage,! and the Buffalo Times believes the "loss of the Roma -confirmation of the wide- needlessly.” our airmen have perished will not be over until it is won.” The Mountain Lion’s Scream. In the Rio de las Animas valley, Colo- rado, W. W. Davles, a crack rifle shot and a pioneer hunter of many years’ standing, recently killed his fourth mountain lion this season. He has all the pelts stretched along his barn wall. It is pretty well covered, for not one of his trophies measures less than nine feet from tip to tip. Mr. Davies is in especially high fa- vor with the federal government and the Colorado state authorities, since no other animal is so destructive to the cattle range or the game preserves as the mountain lion. . This Is the sort of authority which this country needs just at present to scttle for all time the question, Does a_mountain lion ever scream outside the pages of a frontier novel? This “The battle in which controversy has raged from the Mex- ican border to the tall pines of Wash- ington; men have fought over it from the Missourl valley to the fic coast, and the outdoor magazines have sizzled in thesheat of the printed contentions. Old Ben Macomber, the San Francisco nature student and sci- entist, has-been egging the dispute along. He declares that trappers, hunters and stockmen say the mountain lion never screams. He produces also the statement of C. Hart Merriam, for many years chief of the United States biological " survey, who assigns the tales of the weird and awful scream of the mountain lion to the cry of a loon, the hoot of an owl or indiges- tion ‘of the hearer.—New York Herald (independent). Discarding the Old Dances. From Steelton comes the disturb- ing news that the Croatian residents | there have discarded their native dances for the jazz and other exotic gyrations that mark the American dance hall. Without doubt the Amer- icanizing process is under way, but with oonsiderable loss in this in- stance to both the alien and the native born. - If the Croatians must dance the modern steps, none can deny them the right, but they ought before for- saking the dances they brought from their fatheriand, teach them to their American friends. Most of the «Eu- ropean dances, folk dances, at least, are rooted in grace and a kind of attractive beauty, as contrasted with the hybrid movements of the extreme and daring dances in America today. It would be a fine thing for Amer- icans, if they do not care to return to the graceful dances once 80 popu- lar, and becoming, to at least take up the dance that is grounded in the gracefulness .of clvilization rather than of. barbarism. — Harrisburg Patriot (Independent democratic). The early «bird gets the spiice to park his flivver.—Toledo Blade. l Uncle Sam buys tragedies along with his dirigibles.—Nashville Ban- ner. . Up ' to date, the doilar-a-year men baven’t asked for adjusted compensa- tion—Elmira Star-Gaszette. It looks as though Max Oser's age might develop into an_international matter.—Dayton Daily News. ‘We can’t wipe out taxes, but we are not ¢ they can’t wipe us out— Gregnville Piedmont. Cleaniiness may bé next to godliness on one side, but it is next to impos: g,l‘l‘fla on the other.—St. Joseph News- ess. A Chicago judge says it's practically tmpossible for the poor to get justice in the courts nowadays. And the rich retuse to take it, so where does it all & -Richmond Times-Dispatch. The average husband's idea of an ldeal clinging gown is one will eling fo_his wife about three ye: Beattle Post-Intelligencer. There are rumors of & revolition n the dir! true fin T4 . but it is not likely that lution of th om of artifcial | Erestdent Obregon Will take aay of Hent: On thg o nm .t:: its sauce~~Vancouver Province. Cleveland ;lcrl!ort t‘o achieve h:'!:o eqx:quut must go on." that “every pos- | ble saf should be took & suspiclous 1 ket. “We m?:‘k NEW YORK Sunday, March 5 Direct to Penna. Sta., 7th Ave, and 32d 8¢, Leaves Washington Saturday Midnight, 12:45a.m.: arrives Penna. Nta. in the beart of New York City, m. 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