Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1922, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY.....March 8, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES. ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Penpsylvanta Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau St. Office: Tower Bullding. European Office . 16 Regent St., London, England. ditor The Evening Star, with the SBunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 80 cents per month: daily on'y, 45 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per mouth. Or- ders, may be sent by ‘mall, or telepiioze Maln 6000. Collection 1s made' by carrlers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday. Daily only. Sunday only All Other States. Daily and Sundav. 1 yr., $10. Daily only. e Sinday oni, The Conference Period. As the District appropriation bill Proceeds to the conference stage be- tween the House and Senate for final composition of the differcnces between the two bodies, the District may be in- dulged in the hope that the spirit Which impelled the Senate to recog- nition of necessity of increases in ap- propriations for certain local needs of especial merit may animate the con- ferees. Those increases were by no means unreasonable or in amounts | that should disturb the equanimity of the most pronounced economist. In fact, they would make for economy, real economy, that is to say, in the long run. It has been pointed out heremfnrel that the appropriations were ‘“cut to the bone” first by the bureau of the budget and then by the House, and that where the Senate made partial restoration—for it did not meét the original estimates for the District’s needs—the action was taken in behalf of the ultimate general welfare. The conferees when they come to settle the differences . between the House and Senate will find the largest single item of Senate increase to be the provision for adequate water serv- With any other man placed now at the Fead of the British government this confidence would be weakened. As to Genoa, to hold the conference without Lloyd George would be like “‘Hamlet” with the mad Dane missing. The Genoa conference was his con- ceptior, and he is the only man who knows what it is all about. Without bis directing genius there will be small chance that any good accomplishment will come out of it. Since the confer- ence call was issued Lloyd George has rlayed his hand with such master skill that doubt and skepticism have gradu- ally given way until even the French are beginning to see prospects of real achievement. Only yesterday the semi- official Paris Temps published an edi- torial urging a policy of solidarity and generosity, and broaching the subject of an international loan to help Ger- many meet her obligations. It is just such a policy as Lloyd George has been trying to persuade France to fall in with. An Associated Press dispatch from London says the prime minister ‘‘has acceded to strong representations and will remain to see through the govern- ment's Irish and Genoa policies.” If he sees through these two policies, and they come through successfully, upon what ground could the opposition re- nrew demand for his resignation? It looks, in fact, as if the clever Welsh- man had maneuvered his opponents into giving him a stronger hand to play than he has held since the armi- stice. A general election following suc- cess at Genoa and in Ireland could conceivably result only in returning Lloyd George to power, more strongly intrenched than he ever was before. The President as Host. The President in a recent address { pronounced against aloofness: frankly declared that he enjoved being near the péople, and wanted them to enjoy being near him. At a rally of republican women in Kansas City Monday, Representative Alice Robertson of Oklahoma said: “We have in the White House the ‘most human kind of people—your kind and my kind."” The manifestations of the spirit the President possesses and confesses are ice—$1,500.000 of immediate appropria- 1 proving a valuable asset. He and his tion and authorization of contracts for $1,400,000 more. There can be no pos- sible excuse for refusal of the House conferees to accept that, in the light of all the official data and reports sub- mitted showing the desperate condi- tion confronting the water supply. The increase of $416,150 for improve- ment of streets and roadways is war- ranted by evidence visible to the eyes of every senator and representative, the neglected, wretched and dangerous condition of miles of streets and road- ways. The increase of $616,180 for schools is not a penny too much, as the reports of the officials show. The legislative issues coming before the conferees are of vital importance. 1. The House proposes the 60-40 ratio of definite proportionate contri- bution. The Senate proposes indefinite and fluctuating contribution, and no ratio at all. 2. The Senate proposes $1.75 tax rate on realty and tangible personalty, . an increase from $1.50 of the organic act, the present substantive law. The House proposes a sliding scale of tax rates to raise the District's share of the cost of capital upbuilding under the definite proportionate contribution system. 3. The Senate raises the issue of equitable expenditure of the District’s accumulated tax surplus. 4. The Benate proposes $2,000 ex- emption from taxation of improve- ments on real estate. 5. The House proposes legislation to apply only to the appropriations of the pending bill and to the fiscal year for which the appropriations are made. The Senate proposes legisla- tion to become the permanent sub- stantive law of the District. 6. The House proposes to change the ratio of contributions for payment of interest and sinking fund of the funded debt from 50-50 to 60-40. The Senate adheres to the 50-50 ratio in application to this particular obliga- | tion of the United States, which has ‘been judicially construed and hereto- fore unvaryingly and consistently treated as the contractual obligation of half-promisor. If this American community's opin- fon were sought on American princi- ples concerning these issues of local taxation the verdict would undoubt- edly be in favor of the principle of definite proportionate ' contritution, and of a sliding tax rate scale to meet the definite amount exacted from the District; in favor of equitable use of the accumulated tax surplus to meet the District’s definite share of the ex- pense of capital upbuilding; and in favor of adherence by Uncle Sam to his pledge as half-promisor of pay- ment of the 3.65 bonds, which consti- tute the fumded debt. —_——— Many people express admiration of the beauties of Washington, D. C. In some muddy parts of the city, how- ever, it is mnecessary to say it with overshoes. —_————————— The Department of Agriculfure has never been ablé to understand why a forest should not come under its su- pervision, the same as a corn fleld. ———— Lloyd George Stays On. Again has Lloyd George triumphed over his opponents in British public hfe. He *“called” the opposition by offering to resign, and it quickly de- veloped that demand for his resigna- tion was neither so widespread nor so i tent as had seemed. There was no man in the opposition ranks of suf- ficlent caliber either able or willing to take over the burdens of the premier- ship. It was a working out of the old American political adage that “You dannot beat somebody with nobody.” " The criticalness of two problems makes it seem fortypate that Lloyd George Is to remain in office. One is the Irish situation and the other the Genoa conference. There is no other British statesman so capabie of deal- ing with either. Conditions in Ireland are so grave as result of the Limerick “revolt” and De Valera's continued agitation against the Free State gov- ernment that any day may witness a general conflagration. About the only hope of & peaceful solution lies in tHe almost unanimous bellef of Irishmen that Lloyd George intends to abide loyally by the terms of the treaty. party as well are profiting by them. The President's first act in office was a strong act. He opened the daor of the White House and said to the people, “Walk in."” The war, and other things, had barred them for some time. They had become restive under the restraint.* The war now over, and movement among the people having become nor- mal again, so cordial an invitation is- suing from so high and cordial a scurce gave the greatest pleasure and was instantly accepted. The people have been walking into the White House—their house—freely ever since. Old-time scenes of hospitality and good cheer there are again the rule. The home life is the life. and the White House is. and of right should be, the first of American homes. Its influence carries far; and where that influence is genuinely and thoroughly human the effect is observable on all {ciasses and in all sections. —_—— Champ Clark’s Memory. Yesterddy was the first anniversary of the burial of Champ, Clark, and Mr. Garrett of Tennessee embraced the oc- casion to pay a tribute in the House to the memory of that able and estimable man. At the conclusion of the brief address, all the members present rose and stood in silent assent to the senti- ments that had been uttered. As a public man Mr. Clark was of the House and for the House.. The arena suited him perfectly, and in it he attained high place and distinction. He was four times Speaker, and with the prestige of service in that place came within an ace of his party’s nom- ination for President in & year when a serious republican division threw that office to the democrats. No member of the House ever testi- fied to & higher appreciation of the op- portunity it offers for public useful- ness. An appointment to the Senate was offered to Mr. Clark in circum- stances promising election almost as a certainty. But he declined. He liked the House so well—felt so much at home and so sure of himself there— he decided to remain; and a republican cyclone was necessary to uproot him. He went down, as so many others did, before the blow that will make 1920 a memorable year in our political his- tery. The House likes a good, stout fighter, no matter on which side of the chamber he sits. It has repeatedly testifled to its admiration of Mr. Can- non, and yesterday it testified to its admiration of a man of similar mold of the opposite party. —_————— Reorganization of the United States government appears to ‘be contemplat- ed with as much appreheénsion as one of those plain ordinary shake-ups in a big town police department. ————e Divorce in Alexandria, Va., has given that city a supply of gossip that surpasses the product of many a far larger city. ——————— There are democratic hopes that the {league of nations can be interwoven into a treaty proposition in Washing- ton as well as in Versailles. Ireland, instead of spreading the love feast that was expected, con- tinues to look like an armed camp. ———r—————— Mr. Bryan on the Administration. Expressing the opinion that “the weakest point in the administration is its economic policy,” Mr. Bryan pre- dicts that “the economic questions will be paramount in the fall campaign.” The economic policy of the repub- licans has not yet been fully defined. They are behind with their work. But before the adjournment of Congress they will have completed the record upon which their appeal to the coun- try next fall will be based. Suppose it shows when completed less ground for criticism than it now does in its incomplete state. Suppose the country proceeds uncomplainingly to give the measures a trial. Para- mounting economics in' such tircum- stances will not be an easy matter. And another thing. The democrats cannot rest their campalgn on criti cism alone. They must present an eco- nonfic poliey of thelr own, and pledge ENIN themselves to support it If successfil at the polls. But if successful next Novem! what will they be able to do between then and the campaign of 19247 It they control both houses of the next Congress, the White House will bar the way to any economic policy they may fashion on Capitol Hill. Mr. Hard- ing {8 uncompromising in his adher- ence to republican economics as illus- trated by years of legislation and em- bodied In the latest republican na- tional platform. A question which may bulk'large in next fall’s campaign will be this: Shall the republicans, who are in fuil con- trol, be indorsed, and thus legislative progress continued, or the democrats bo put in partial control and the whole question of economics halted, and thrown when the time comes into the campaign of 1924? For, in order to do business, the democrats will be obliged to carry not only Congress but the presidency four years hence. | Streets. The street situation shows some signs of improvement. In the Senate yesterday an amendment was agreed to increasing the House appropriation for repairs of public ways from $431,- 250 to $500,000. The Commissioners have also authorized ten sections of asphalt resurfacing work to cost about $90,000. All this is little enough when meas- ured by the run-down and torn-up con- dition of the paved stréets and the mileage of streets awaiting paving. It is encouraging to ohserve that the case of the streets, or the case of the peo- ple living on the streets, is receiving some attention in Congress, and this beginning, though a small one, may lead to better things and happier condi- tions. After several years of no re- pairs, or repairs and extension of paved streets far below normal re- quirements, due to the stress of war and post-war problems and confusion, it is a big order to bring the streets up to par and provide pavements for the streets that have been built up since the opening of the war, but Washington and its friends must and will keep the situation before the au- thorities until it is settled right. f Col. Bryan goes away back of the league of nations to the time when he was Secretary of State. The intima- tion has gone forth that he would not be averse to an understanding that the pending treaty is based on the Bryan arbitration treaties. f President Harding is now, as at the outset of his term, willing to listen to advice, but certain portions of the| present supply do not sound altogether dieinterested. ! The English are laying odds that Lloyd George will not resign. The process is referred to not as betting, but as insurance. It is a highly inter- esting form of sport, just the same. i Those who hope that old-time elo- quence will be restored to the halls of American statesmanship are awaiting j with eager interest the debate on the four-power pact. ! A Dbenevolent tendéncy has been shown to take the display of hosiery ofi the muddy“streets and put it in a comfortable show window. i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘ Nobody Knows. In spite of all the wisdom great The years disclose, ‘There are some things, we're bound to state, Nobody knows. ‘Why do the fashions change each spring? And new surprises seek to bring? Why can’t we wear the same old thing? Nobody knows. There may be people up in Mars ‘Which yonder glows. Canals and even trolley cars; Nobody knows. Right here on earth we have our cares. How shall we handle tailway shares And transportation rdtes and fares? Nobody knows. You know from whence your income came. But where it goes You can’t remember and exclaim, *Nobody knows!" You set the figures in array And calculate the tax you'll pay. How all that money got away Nobody knews! Vanished Simplicity. “Do you remember when they used to have torchlight processions in con- nectioh with political campaigns?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Those were the good old days when people were willing to walk. Now if you want to get up a procession for yourself you've got to hire automo- biles.” Jud Tunkins says the reason wo see the worst side of so many people is that a man is liable to keep silent when he’s happy instead of when he loses his temper. $ it Yet There Is Always Fruft. Let's have it over with and done! The frost may spoil the springtime. fun. Each annual custom must prevail. Here goes! The fruit crop’s going to faill Establishing a Precedent. “Do you think we ought to require payment of loans made abroad?” “No,” answered er. Corntossel. “Payin’ of loans is a nuisance.” “But cancellation of the debts to which T refer would not assist you.” “It might. I'm eimin’ to be con- siderable in debt and when payin’ time comes I don’t see as how the authori- ties could fail to show me as much consideration &s they would & for- eigner. “Dar's mighty few people,” eald Uncle Eben, “dat don’ believe dey's in- titled to sympathy; an mighty few dat won’t_resent it, if you offers it too liberal.” PN S Budget System orcéé Senate To Centralize Appropriations FTER , walting for a year, the Senate has finally taken stéps to adjust its legislative func- tions to the budget system. 1t has changed its rules, so that all ap- propriation bills will hereafter be handled by one committee, the com- mittee on appropriations. In the past seven of the big annual supply bills have been considered by other committees. The post office bill has been handled by the post office committee; the Army bill, by the military affairs committee; the Navy bill, by the naval affairs committee; the agricultural bill, by the commit- tee on agriculture; the rivers and harbors bill, by the committee on com- merce; the diplomatic and consular bill, by the foreign relations commit- tee, and the Indian appropriation bill, by the committee on Indian affairs. The House, in which the appropriac tion bills always originate, was forced to act earlier than the Senate, apd adopted a plan for a single enlarged appropriations committee. Further, a plan was worked out under which the appropriation bills were entirely re- arranged, with different grouping of items and different titles. * K ¥ K The change in the House was mnot accomplished without a wrench. In the Senate there was a struggle also. Not unnaturally many members of the various committees which have held the purse strings for different de- partments of the government did not relish giving up this power. The whole question of the budget system is new yet. Never before has it been attempted to imstall such a system in the federal government, whose ramifications and_ complica- tions are on a vast scale. In fact, the federal government, under the hodge- podge way it has been developed and carried on, has become so com- plicated that no man alive today com- prehends and understands the gov- ernment of the United States in its entirety. The budget system, which is being tried out for the first time this year, 18 a tremendous effort to improve the organization of the government and to group its activi- ties in such a way that the public at large can see them and the average citizen may know what his govern- ment is doing with the money it takes from him in taxes. * k x X The President, when he came into of- fice, pleaded for more business in gov- ernment. The budget system is one of the means undertaken to bring this about. In the business world the pres- ident of a corporation and general man- agers are the executives. They propose lines of policy to the board of directors, involving various expenditures. The board of directors, who represent the stockholders of the corporation, pass upon these proposals. oughly speaking, the President of the EDITORIAL DIGEST The Reservation Habit. Given the United States Senate and a treaty to deal with, history ap- parently can repeat itself with the greatest fluency. “The four-power treaty,” says the Charleston (8. C) Post (independent democratic), “is traveling practically the same road; the ‘treaty of Versailles went along in the Senate.” And developments in that body are producing practically the same reactions in the daily papers as did those of two years ago. Some genators have acquired a habit, the Chicago News (independent) thinks, and the four-power treaty will simply have to run the gantlet of those “former irreconcilables,” who aver that they are not opposed to it and would gladly. ratify it “were they satisfied that President Harding's interpretation of it is absolutely cor- rect, and that other governments, or other American statesmen, will never have an opportunity to ‘put something over' on Congress and the American people. But since they are not satis- fled they are busy framing super- subtle reservations.” i However, “since Mr. Harding is un- willing to submit the record or dis- close what passed during the course of the negotiations,” the Aberdeen (S. D.) World (independent) feels that the Senate is “quite justified in mak- ing its own interpretation and at- taching any safeguarding reserva- tions it thinks proper,” for “there must be nothing behind ‘these treaties that can arise in the future to qualify thelr plain terms.” To this attitude the Milwaukee Sentinel (republican) replies that “the entire atmosphere of the Washington conference, the unexampled publicity, the frankness, serve to destroy any lingering sus- picions that the tricks of the old diplomacy were utilized or that any- thing was injected into the treaty which does not appear clearly on Its face.” Rather, the “interpretative” reser- vations which are being urged are merely manifestations of an “incur- able malady,” as the Lynchburg News (democratic) expresses it, or, as the New York Tribune (republi- can) puts it, the plaintive dirge of an anvil chorus chanting, “No reser- vation, no treaty.” Accordingly. there has been accepted by the Sen- ate committee a reservation which the Tribune says is merely “a psycho- logical sedative,” the “healing vir- tue” of which is that “it says in language as the Senate understands it what the treaty says in language a8 the negotiators understood it,” written “In_the Senate’s own hand- writing on the bond.” That reserva- tion, which in still another figure the New York Globe (independent) calls “a sort of vermiform appendix’ which BSenator Brandegee has secured, reads th ““The United States understands that under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this.treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no -alliance, no obligation to Join in any defense.” Obviously, the Chicago Post (inde- pendent) comments, “everybody else understands the same thing, too, o why talk about it? ¢ ® * Why, for the sake of saying ‘an undis- puted thing in such a solemn way,’ &hould the Senate refuse the courtesy of ratifying the treaty outright?” gmr? for the purpose, the New York orld (democratic) wreplies, “of as- Beorting the majesty/of the Sente.” But “if the Brandegee reservation gerves to qulet the fears of those who believe, or profess to believe, that the United States is, under the terms of the treaty, obliged to fight the battles of its allies” the Salt Lake Tribune (republican) thinks its ac- ceptance will be a good move, for, as the Grand Rapidg Herald (repub- lican) says, “it is mere surplus dec- larations ® ¢ * but being useless it also is harmless.” The Indianapolis News (independent) agrees that “if there has to be a reservation there could hardly be a less objectionable ond but it insists that “no reserva- tions whatever are needed.” and it 2grees with the New York Times (in- dependent democratic) that “there appears no doubt that there are more than votes enough in the Senhate for a lean-cut ratification,” and that President could get it if he would ask for it, since, the Philadeiphia Public (independent) de- ‘clares, “the nation is in agreement with President Harding that reserva- tlons are unnecessary.” Let the ‘senators. have their reservations since “they are bound to have their little game,” but the New York Post United States and his ‘cabinet may be considered the executives of tie couu- try, the Congress may be considered the board of directors and the people are the stockholders of the government. The executive submits, with the assistance of his cabinet and the bureau of the budget, the estimates of what is needed for tne government, to thé Congress or board of directors, who in ‘turn pass upon these matters for the people or stockholders .of the government. But | Congress reserves to itself the right to cut down or add to these estimates as it deems wise. * ok ok % X The estimating, under the budget law, has finally been centralized in the bu- reau of the budget. And with the action of the Senate, both houses of Congress have centralized the scrutiny of these estimates in the hands of one commit- tee in each house. The whole effort is to centralize, to impose the responsibil- | ity upon a single organization in each body, and to hold that body as far as possible responsible for keeping the ex- |penditures within the revenues of the 'govemmenl‘ and also for seeing that there is a'proper distribution of the funds of the government to its various branches, A single illustration of the man- ner in which appropriations have been handled in the Senate under the old scheme will indicaté the extreme wisdom of placing these matters un- der one committee. Suppose the military authorities desired to have a fortification erected in Charleston harbor. Men are necessary to man the fortification. They were_appro- priated for in a bill handled”by_ the military’ affairs committee. Guns and ammunition were appropriated for in the so-called fortifications bill, handled by the appropriations committee, and the purchase of the land upon which to place the fortifi- cation was carried in the sundry civil appropriation bill, handled also by the appropriations committee. lll was the testimony before the Sen- ate by Chairman Wadsworth of the military affairs committee that nei- ther of. these committees was fully aware of what the other was doing. * * % X The suggestion has been made by {Senator Wadsworth and others that Jin the process of evolution of the budget system thére shall eventual- ly be formed a joint congressional budget committee. This joint com- mittee’s duties would be to canvass both the estimates of the revenue for the ensuing fiscal year and the estimates submitted by the execu- tive of expenditures for the govern- ment, and then determine what the total amount of the expenditures for that year should be, and allocate a maximum to be expended by the va- rious branches of the government, as, for instance, the Army, the Navy, the Department of Agriculture, etc. Then only by & suspension of the rules of the House and Senate would |u he possible to exceed this amount. uch a plan, they hold, would still further tend to put more *business in the government.” the President should go in for the | same dubious form of amusement.” | "1t was never intended “to give the Senate a velo over the President in | foreign relations. et this, the Cleveland Plain De (independent | demacratic) feels, “is about what is | coming to pass,” a situation which | the Boston .Herald (independent re- | publican) believes has become S0 serious that be modified shall have “to stop and consider | where we are at” for it should not | take another war to convince us | “that we need an effective mechanism of international negotiation.” i Americans in Constantinople. COLOGNE.—A' suspicious corre- spondent of the Koelnische Zeitung in Constantinople notes that Amer- licans are penetrating more and more | into the region and seems to fear that ! “big business” is pteparing to lay its heavy hand on the treasures of the east. He writes: “The Americans seem to be settling more and more in Copstantinople, | where vigorous competition, both jdiplomatic_and commercial, is going on between them and the English and j Italians. “They began by increasing the i schools and charitable _institutions.' 5 | Afterward they created branches to their banks and oper many industrial departments. thousand Ford motor cars have sold in Constantinople alone rice and flour markets belong almost | entirely to Americans. “It is evident,” says the writer, “that the Americans are keeping an eve on Atolia and its fabulous wenlth. Mr..Giles, the American charge d'af- is showing extraordinary ac- the present time. He is rapping at all the official doors in the hope of obtaining some advan- i tages. “It is not only a question for the United States of obtaining the Ana- tolian petroleum wells, but of ob- taining the right to build ports, rail- ways, construct roads and sell their up-to-date agricultural machines, millions of which are waiting already in the docks. “It is said at Constantinople that American business men have offered Kemal Pacha tremendous financial and business advantages in return for important concessions in the mines, which are very rich in chrocme and ,manganese, discovered two months Up Speaks the Sheik ul Islam. In Angora there are beauteous dames. In Angora there also dwells the Sheik ul Islam. The sheik is an old Turk, austere and dismal. His job is to keep the religion of Mahomet as religious as possible. This is all he has to do. But he finds it somewhat of a task. Do not the beautiful women g0 about unveiled? Do they not flaunt their loveliness in the eyes of men? Yes, they do, and they do more and worse. They converse Immodestly with foreigners, infidel dogs, Franks from Europe, the dumned.. Unabashed, they have these unbelievers to after- noon-tea. And, horror ineffabie, they dance with them! ‘These things, authentically ob- served, have rested heavily on the 8oul of the Sheik ul Islam. At length the burden has become too painful for endurance and he has burst forth into denunciation and invective, quite re-| gardless of the uncomfortable fact that the erring ladles are members of the highly aristocratic households of the mightiest men of Mustapha Kemal Pasha’s government.—Cleveland Plain Pealer (independent democratic). America needs more exports and fewer experts.—Indianapolis News. | “Sidestep lively” seems to be the congressional motto.—Asheville Times. | Lenin says w he wants now Is money. Then let him come to Amer- ica and lecture.—Toledo Blade. A German chemist says he can -npp'\y Imitation coal at half price. That'senothing. American enterprise supplies it at. full price.—Boston Transcript. / e “I miss my husband,” wails:an eastern woman. Daily practice in a ooting gallery might eventually lln,rlns results—St. .Joseph News- ress. : Maybe those railway. unions will ratify that compact of the miners with reservations Insuring against ;amgfln‘ alliances, — Indianapolis TR — George Harvey wore black silk knee zreeches and silk stockings at the wedding of Princess Mary. Nothing ‘we could say would make this para- ‘kanses Gasette, - Have you often stood at the water’s edge watching the happy parties gliding through the water in a brightly colored motor boat ? Ever wish you might own one some day? So did the owners of many of the boats you have watched— and here’s how they got one: By SAVING a definite amount of their salary every pay-day. > y @ b i\ Ovse- Ides. at All IF there 1s any éreciit for the i1dea of a downtown edition of Hahn's, it be- - longs to the many in-town and out-of- town friends of ours who have been prompting us about it. Back of nearly every success has been “a good listener.” We're glad we listefied! As we watch the “passing show™ that wends its way past the new City Club, and the quaint little stores it so “moth- erly” wings, we feel that we have made a happy move. =~ The doors will be open in a few days. The New “City Club’ Shop™ of Alslo : . Cor. 7th & K Sts. 414 9th Se. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. 233 Pa. Ave. S.E. 37 W. Lexington St. _ . ' Baltimore, Md. (independent) sees “No reason why graph funnier.—Arl + S ; o g