Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1922, Page 4

% {'Venice Restaurant 612 9th St. N. W. ¥ Second Floor Front Chicken Dinner Regular Dinner . Spaghettl, per ord . Meals at All Hours Open Exeellent Service LACKING BALL ACT, SEES RENT RAISE Q\# LAFLIN éorresnon;;t—n—eclares His Established 1589 When You Think of Eyes i Claflin Optical Co. oy 4l’er Cent Money Offer ‘Why pay 7 per cent on roalty loans Toen %ey Toanat 41 Investors in our jig_returns. Circular free. Sriawf” DfsCOUNT CORPORATION Directed by Washington bankers. Munsey Building Tel. Main 5419 Fine for Neuralgia Musterole insures quick relief from neuralgia. When those sharp pains &o shooting through your head just rub a little of this clean, white oint- ment on your temples and neck. Musterole is made with oil of mus- tard, but will not burn and blister like the old-fashioned mustard plas- T Get Musterole at your drug store. 23c and 65c in jars and tubes; hos- pital size, $3. Better Tkan a Mustard Plaster ;i } 1 — A 9 The stain for floors, doors, window frames and interior wood- work. A stain and polish combined that does the two jobs with one application. “61” will not scratch—will not turn white—will not show heel marks. You can “hammer it with a ham- mer.” Any person who can wield a paint brush can apply it. Eight shades: natural, walnut, light oak, dark oak, mahogany, forest green, dull finish, brown. f We sell it and guarantes it. W.H.BUTLER CO0. MAURICE FLYNN wnsterste 609 C Sf. Betsn M= 1] All Druggists — Keep a tube THOS. LEEMING & go. NEW%TK When your hands get red and inflamed, just use Nox- zema Greaseless Oil of Cloves Cream one night and “feel it heal.” Get Noxzema from vour drug- gist or send this clipping with 10 (cost of mailing) for a large free demonstration jar. Noxzems Chemical Co., Balti- more. Md. Shave With Cuticura Soap The N W ‘Sith(:lvtvflugay Penetrating, Antiseptic - Zemo 1100 Will Help You H Wever mind how often you have tried and failed, you can stop burn- ing, itching Eczema quickly by ap- . plying Zemo furnished by any druge ist for 35c. Extra large bottle, 1.00. Healing begins the moment Zemo is applied. In a short time usually every trace of Eczema, Tet- ter, Pimples, Rash, Blackheads and similar skin diseases will be re. moved. For clearing the skin and making it vigorously healthy, always use Zemo, the penctrating, antiseptic fiquid. When others fail it is the one dependable treatment for skin troubles of all kinds. o p PiLLs weeten %to_maq:h , 'STOP ITCHING ECZEMA ! Landlord Waits Chance to Fix Increase. Two varying views on the Ball rent law for the District of Columbia are contained In letters to the editor Judson I. Kingman. Ward, in defense of the act, declares that If Congress fails to enact a rent law for the 'of The Star from John Wgrd and | District “there will be a very sud- den and unusual raise on rents; the pricés of homes will be raised to enormous heights and many will be forced to buy who cannot keep up their payments.” On the other hand, Mr. Kingman states that “one good thing about the Ball law is that it has boosted the prics of property about 50 per cen Mr. Ward says he is the owner of a house which he rents to tenants for $37.50 per month, but lives in a rented apartment that has Jjust been increased 37 per cent in price. {“My landlord,” he added, “is only awaiting an opportunity to raise me again but if he can force me ouf | of ¥ apArtment by an unjust high rent, I can force my tenant out, so I am_protected. “What I want is a fair rent law that will protect us all until con- ditions will adjust themselves as near painless as possible,” he added. Mr. Kingman said he i8 “supposed” to own the property at 2007 H street, n.w., and has been trying to get possession of ft, for his son, since last August. “I found to my amaze- ment when i went to the rent com- mission early last August, Mr. King- man wrote, “that there was only two ways that I could get the tenant out—by occupying it my- self, or tearing It down completely and erecting & new building.” Mr. Kingman said he then sought a fair rental for the house, which has nine rooms and bath, and on Febru- ary 6, he stated, the Rent Commission handed down a decision raising the rent from $40.50 per month to $52.50 per month. A few days later, he con- tinued, the tenant appealed to the commission for a rehearing, which was denied. Collected, But Wouldn't Pay. “I sent the temant a bill for the back rent due and also the month of March,” wrote Mr. Kingman. “He im- mediately went to his subtenants and told them as his rent had been increased he would have to increase theirs and collected from them $60, but refused to pay any rent to me, even the original $40.50. This man has a position in the Commerce De- partment, and I am wonderghg it the gvod old U. 8. A. really protects such people.” “It is too bad Mr. Ball or some ’ulh"‘ senators or congressmen who i are such ardent supporters of rent legisiation do not own rental prop- erty,” Mr. Kingman wrote. “I think If they did they would be the biggest kickers the District. “I see by the papers a committee is to be appointed to see what the trouble is with the housing situation. “Possibly some of the supporters of the Ball law will want to invest in rental property here, it is such a good thing. My idea is that no sane per- son will put in a dollar under the present conditions.” In connection with his statement that the “Ball law has boosted the price of property about 50 per cent.” Mr. ‘Kingman said he would have sold long ago “if It wasn't for the faot that this particular piece I speak of lies between two others that 1 own, .and‘l do not wish to cut my property n two." Believes Motive Selfish. Returning to Mr, Ward's letter: He said he is a member of the Washing- ton Board of Trade, Builders’ Associa- tion and the City Club. *“I do not know one man in the organisations to which I belong that was in the first- line trenches, nor do I knew a man who had a son in the first-line trench- es,” he declared. “All that I know in the organizations thati I have mentioned, that were in the great war, had S O S (save our skin) jobs. They belleved in the paint trade slo- gan, ‘Save the surface and you save all”’ None cared for any one to ‘Say it with flowers” We all believe that there were many men in the first-line trenches, as evidenced by the funeral and burial of the unknown hero. Ap- | rarently these first-line trench men were not sons of real estate dealers or real estate owners, but the sons of real estate dealers’ tenants, whom the real estate dealers and owners are'now pleading with Congress to be allowed to squeeze to the limit ‘of supply and demand, So called.” “l have talked with a number of real estate dealers,” he continued, “and I am convinced that the only interest the real estaté dealer has in. the lapse of the rent law is a purely l:«»Iflsh one, the enormous profits that jwill accrue to them. ' They are not. iconcerned in the suffering that will entail upon the father of the man was in the first-line trenches, f there is trouble over the high irent question, who will enforce their demands—the sons of the real estate agents or the sons of the renters?” i —_— I INCREASE IN BUILDING. {Department of Commerce Reports { Marked Activity. Marked stimulation in some con- ction is shown in contracts | rded during the last three months reported to the division of build- :ing_and housing of the Department of Commerce. i The department announced today (that in twenty-seven states in the northeastern part of the country building contracts awarded in De- cember totaled $101,000,000, and in January and February, $75,000,000 vach. “Although normally, it was pointed out, theso are the months of ileast activity in building, their con- tract totals compare with a monthly average of $73,000,000 in 1921, PRAISES HUMANE WEEK. ' | President Lends Support to “Be- XKind-to-Animals” Drive. { NEW YORK. March 20.—The| | American Humane "Association has ! jmade public a letter from President | Harding giving his approval of *Be- i Kind-to-Animals-Week.” which the asegociation is planning to observe throughout the country, beginning April 24, “l have expressed myself many times in favor of this humane and appealing movement,” the Preaident wrote, “and I firmly believe we shall effective step taken to promote the humane treatment of defenseless animi and the protection of the weak and suffering. I ‘lm 1 “Very truly yours, WARREN G HARDING.” | — i DELEGATES TO GENOA. | iSweden Names Representatives toi | success, ~ the Economic Conference. BSTOCKHOLM. March 20.—Announce- | ment of the appointment of Sweden's delegates to the Genoa economic con- ference was made today. ‘Among the appointees are Hjalmar Branting, { cum premier and forelgn minister: Marcus Wallenbers, leading Swedish finan- eler, and Prof. Karl Gustav Cassel of Btockholm University, international financial “expert, who has acted as financial adviser to the league of.nh- tions, and wh pean financial subjects have been widely quoted In America improve our human soclety by every |.| “With very best wishes for your| | ose writings on Eute- | | The Summer Crop Is the Only Uncertain One. N /s \ a/% oy VIRGINIANS JUBILATE. ‘ Express Approval of Route Given Lee Highway by Legislature. | The second of three meetings ar- | ranged by the Lee Highway Associa- | tion In nearby Virginia towns to cele- | brate the action of the Virginia gen- | erally assembly in enacting legisla- | tion providing for the routing of the | Lee highway over Key bridge. through Cherrydale, Falls Church, Fairfax and Bristol was held in Fair- | fax Saturday night. i ‘The citizens of that town also or-| @anized a Lee highway unit and | chose the following men for its offi- | |} Young; vice ! | cers: President, L. H. president, F. S. McCandlish, and sec- retary and treasurer, Dr. ¥. W. Hud- dleston. Among the speakers were Thomas Keith, an attorney; H. H. Millard. secretary Arlington-Fairfax county unit_organization; Rufus Day, a Washington attorn: . W. Pobst, secretary Haymatket, Va. Citizens’ Association, and Alfred G. Karger, publicity director of the Lee Highway Association. The third and last of tha meetings will be hel tonight at Cherrydale in the school auditorium. ALUMNI TO MEET. Western High Association Is to Be, Reorganized. | Reorganization of the Alumni Asse- clation of Western High Scheol, which | ceased to function in the winter of 1919, | will be undertaken at a_meeting of the | graduates in the auditorium of tae| school Friday night at ¥ oclock. A committee of the alumni has been at work for several weeks endeavoring to locate all former members of the asso- ciation and graduates to invite them to attend the reorganization meeting. All persons who have attended West- ern for at least one year and who left the scchool in good standing are eligible to membership, POLICE WANT ENGINEER. The local police department wants | a marine engineer, at a salary of | $1.000 a vear, plus ihe bonus. i Receipt of applications for the ex- i amination to Le held by the Civi}l Scrvice Commission will “close April { . Applicants must he twent 7 years of age, but under fo cound physical condition. must hav a common school education,la as chief engineer ixsued by the steamboat inspection months' exp X —of the spri il = Paints FECKER TAINTS Thets ohe for Clean- for esery redecorating problem ean-Up Week will bring. Tat Up Week | it o hout ths” rignt paiats and methods of application. Becker Paint and Glass Co., CHAS. E. HODGKIN, M 1230 Wincansin ave. Phone West 67 cDEVITT Making Slip Covers —up in the newest stuffs at THE MOST REASONABLE Phone Pa:csls that'll give you best materia’s, workmanship an Main geryice. Roant 211 1003 Sth St. N.W. 2% Ses us also about Wimdow Bhades. Upholstering TO UPHOLSTER YOUR $-PIECE PARLOR SUITE Your Made ou Furniture ' By our experts at prices which are 25 per cent lower than any other concern in Washingten. New vdlma ; R e T :flh’i“,' & MR.GEORGE RADISH STARTS CLEAMNING UP THE YARD FOR HIS GARDEM. AFTER To$SING RUBBISH OVER HIS SHOULDER INTO THE WHEELBARROW FoR A FEW MOMENTS ME TuRNS To SEE IF HE HAS A LOAD HOUSE s I Clean-Up Now PAINTS —and get ahead of the Clean-up Floon Week (April 3-8) campaign. Reilly STAINS will furnish the right kinds of Paints, WAX AND) Polishes and other required “bright- VARMISHES 1l eners” at SPECIALLY LOW e PRICES. FINISHES f{Window Glass Cut to order. s+ | HUGH REILLY CO. FURNITURE 1334 N. Y. Ave. PAINT Oils PAINTS Ordr Your Easter Suit or Topcoat Made to Measure At Prices Greatly Below Regular Prices Start at 30 tur Splendid Variety of Worsteds Are Ready. All Prices Below Regular to Start Business Going—! We are satisfied to take a shorter profit—we want to keep out organization busy. Easter is g little later this year, but it will be worth the while for every man who seriously thinks of ordering his new spring clothes now to take advantage of our below regular prices. Newcorn & Green tailoring and perfect fitting is known to thousands of men in Washington. We have a 23 years' reputation as Merchant Tailors to uphold, and, please bear in mind—we never sacrifice quality or werkmanship to make a low price possible. Newcorn & Green 1002 F St. N.W. —By WEBSTER. THREATENED FOR FAILURE ' TO APPEAR AS WITNESSES iy ‘Winchester Colored People Also In- formed That Ghost of Condemned ‘Will Haunt Them. Special Dispatch te The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., March 20.—Cer- tinshurg, W. Va., last week and testify N V00 e mericioh st st 50 ; 3 hanged for crlln»lnuT; n.:::c!:::lg a m: Ideal “”d. Wh’m service in i e o i Jrofireiom as. e by o rectness and courtesy with which we endeavor to characterize our services for your. satisfaction. enilig messages from negroes who were W.R.Speare Co. || - L * e active in Peyton’s defen: UNDERTAKERS Efforts were made to induce a consid- erable number of negroes, some of them 1208 H Street N.W, (Formerly %0 F St. N\W.) prominent among their race, 10 go to Martinsburg and testify that Peyton was in Winchester at the ti of the alleged assault, but they refused to go, saying that they had no knowledge of the man's whereabouts at that time. When Peyton broke jall at Martins- burg lagt week he left a note, saying he was going to get evidence to estab- lish his innocence. He made straight for Winchester and sought out a num- ber of n es, trying to induce them, it was to aid him in establishing 5 an alibt. » Now that Peyton has been sentencod, reports have become current that his former boon companions are threaten- ing those who refused to perjure them- selves. They are also sald to have been informed that the spirit of Peyton, known among Some negroes es a magician and fortune teller, will | haunt them. | ERIE TO SEEK $5,000000. | Plans of the Erie railroa Ing u $15,000.000 indel fulls due April 1, s Almus R. Speare Clyde J..Nichels sion, which gave the road autaority to issue and sell $5,000,000 in 7 per cent This Magnificent Overstuffed Suite Won Saturday Night at the Shriners’ Fair by . MRS. BERTHA BRENEMAN, 3512 10th Street N.W. Manufactured and donated by United Upholstery Co., 911 7th St. N.W. HERE’S AN OFFER! | We will make you an exact duplicate of this royally luxurious suite, ‘ covered with the same handsome mohair and velour combination on S4002 We are also taking orders for the same model suite, in attractive tap- estries and mercerized velours 1954 / UNITED UPHOLSTERY CO. ‘ Washington’s Biggest Manufacturers of Upholstered Fumiture 911 7th St. N.W. PHONE MAIN 3419 SLIP COVERS AN D DRAPERIES REPAIRING RE-UPHO#STERING AND REFINISHING Fe e e ke e e e e 3k gk sk sk sk sk sk sk ke O sk sk et sk ook sk sk sk ok sk ke sk ke b ok ;***4**???****** Colodny Pharmacy Fourteenth and Clifton Streets Y2434 24 4 26 25k 2 363 2 2 2 2 2 2 22 3 X 36 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 26 3 2 2 3 2 is another convenient BRANCHAOFTICE 1f it is in your neighborhood take your Classified Ads into Dr. Hyman Colodny, or Dr. F. E. Ruth, Messrs. L. Gaylor, Samuel Phillips or the Misses’ Lillian Liechtenstein or Lucinda Sanford— Dr. Colodny’s assistants~and save yourself a trip downtown. 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