Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 6

STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, MAY 15,1922, - —_— e THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY..........May 15, 1022 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor EE A S W R R e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busizess Office, 11th 6t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New Office : 150 Nassau St. Chlcago Office: Towe: Bullding. European Office : 16 Regent St., . England. The Evening Star, with the Supday morning edition, 1s delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daly only, 43 cents month: Sunday ouly, 20 cents per month., O re y ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Maln 3560, Cotlection 18" made’ by carriers at the ad of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., ; 1 mo., T0¢ mg only. . 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday only. 1yr., 3240 All Other States. Dally and Sunda; Dally only.. Sunday only The Full-Value Standard. 2y, 819’.83- : mo., 85¢ | that 1yr., $7.00; 1 m A3 $500: 1 men S50 | ton repeated manifestations of-its sincers concern for their welfare, and they are doubtless grateful that in this matter it has used its good offices to promote a settlement of this long-standing con- troversy. ‘With ‘the Tacna-Arica boundary definitely and finally fixed to the satis- - faction of botk Chile and Peru there will remain no political question un- settled in South America. The na- tional limitations of all other countries are distinctly determined. This alone has stood for the disturbance of rela- tions south of the isthmus. The hope is that adjustment may be effected directly between the two gov- ernments as represented by the en- voys now meeting here. The United States does not stand in the position of umpire, though, of course, if re- quested to do so by both sides, with as- 1mo., 20¢| surgnag that its award would be un- veservedly @ccepted, & would serve in ity. Nothing appears now te that such e necessity will frise, for the representatives of Chile and Peru open their meetings in a spirit of settlement that promises re- The full-assessment proposal carried | sults, by eniendment No. 1 in the District appropriation bill as a feature of the plan to put the District on a cash basis of revenues to meet appropriations The 8. 0. 8. From Genoa. Having falled completely in their Tas revived a menace against the tax- efforts to agree upon & program for payers of Washington which has often been resisted in the past. vance of the basis of taxation here the restoration of Europe, and es- Ad- | Pecially with respect to the part Rus- sia shall play in such restoration, the has been proposed before in a spirit of | POWers assembled in conference at suggestion that the District is under- Genoa have appealed to the United taxed. Whenever this has occurred | States to come to the rescue. Their the District has shown that it is not | PIAR I8 to adjourn the Genoa confer- undertaxed, in comparison with other cities of approximately the same size, that on the valuation, made by conscientious as- sessors, and coupled with a reasonal oo ence and reassemble it a month hence at The Hague, where the chief busi- ontrary its two-thirds | 20SS would be to appoint a commission on Russian affairs. A formal invita- nyy | tlon to this government to send dele- high rate, produces & per capita tax gates to The Hague has been extend- levy which is equal to upon other city dwellers and higher than many. that tmposed | *d through Ambassador Child, the in- vitation carrying with it, of course, the expectation that the United States In 1914 such an argument was ad- | ¥Ould accept membership on the pro- vanced, to refute the then-pending pro- posal of full assessment. In another posed Russian commission. This move brings squarely up to column on this page today is printed | the American government the neces- @ summary of the District's defense based upon federal census statistics and reports. Doubtless if the same op- portunity were offered now in 1922 as was given in 1914 to show the fallacy sity of a decision as to whether the time has come when this country can helpfully play a part in European re- construction. The first reaction of Americans will be that the invitation of the charge of undertaxation in this [10uld be declined, but @ hasty de- District, and the universal false pre- tense of the claim of full valuation, the argument of 1914 could in facts and fgures be brought up to date. Taxation results from two factors, assessment standard and tax rate. ‘Washington's two-thirds, honestly an fairly estimated by the assessors, is in many cases higher than the sup- posed 100 per cent essessments of other cities. In 1914 there were only sixty-three cities out of 195 of over 30,000 population no: cision to do that would be as ungen- erous as it would be unwise. Most of the nations of Europe which are floundering aebout now in their de- spair are our friends. We want to help them if we can do so without q | further imperilment of American in- terests. Moreover, most of them are our debtors, the aggregate of their indebtedness totaling nearly twenty billions of dollars. Therefore, it is to our interest to help them, if they can minally on the 100 be brought to ways of wisdom and per cent basis, and in practically all prudence and away from the short- of these sixty-three cities that stand- ard was confessedly only nominal, the actual assessments being below the full values. The fact was in 1914, and doubtless is today, that hardly anywhere else the United States, no matter what the nominal assessment rate of valuation may be, is realty actually assessed so close to the real value as in Washing- ton. Inequalities of assessment, of whicl complaint is made now as in the past, sighted selfishness which is @ not un- natural product of their despair. Both sympathy and understanding, but especially understanding, are nec- essary to a right decision. The Presi- in | dent and the Becretary of State and their advisers have sources of informe- tlon which necessarily are closed to private citizens, and competency to make the decision runs with the re- sponsibility. The country will accept j |2nd cheerfully abide their judgment, as it did in the matter of the invita- not to be cured if and when the; tion to Genoa. Even the few who ::.t Iuolncreculng the standard oyl criticized rejection of that invitation assessment, This is as true today as |Dave come to recognize that it was best. it was eight years ago. —_—e—————— The Victory Memorial. But the circumstances surrounding the invitation to send delegates to The Hague are quite different from those Today begins in Washington the col-| which surrounded the Genoa invita- lection of funds for the District’s|tjon. The scope of the Genoa confer- share of the cost of the George Wash- | ence had been defined and limited by ington Victory Memorial. That cost|the Cannes resolutions, and the 13 estimated at $7,500,000 for the erec- | United States had either to participate tion and endowment of the building. | within the prescribed confines or stay 'The District’s quota. is one-thirtieth of | out, It chose to stay out. Now the that amount, or $250,000. Thirty thou- | Genoa conference has failed, and the sand leaflets have been sent to as|proposal for a new conference to save many people In this city asking for|the situation is predicated solely upon subscription. At a few dollars each the | American participation. ‘This opens full sum will be raised. If everybody | the way for the American government who gets this appeal will give that|¢o lay down the terms upon which it much the success of the enterprise is|will participate, if it participates at assured. For when Washington has|aj, The Washington armament con- subscribed its quota it may be as-|ference was a success because it was sumed that the rest of the country will | ynder American guidance, ‘and be- also respond. Certainly no success can | cause in his opening statement the bo expected unless this city, in which | American Secretary of State outlined the memorial is to be placed, does its|q program so bold, yet so sane and part. fair, that it swept all pettiness aside. ‘This direct appeal to the people of | With some such procedure at The ‘Washington, beginning today, will| Hague next month a way might yet « last through the 20th. Six days are|pe found to save Europe from the thus given for the response, which |pankruptey and chaos which threaten should be immediate and complete. No argument is needed to prove ‘the need of this structure. That has been her. P —— Sovietism must be credited with at demonstrated scores of times within |1eget one notable achlevement in put- recent years. The sentiment that in-|yno the country hitherto known as es the enterprise is most patriotic [ ugarkest Russia” squarely into the and uplifting. It is proposed to erect | gpopiight. § a building that will stand not only as e practical memorial to George Wash- — e A few nations would like an ar- ington, but as a tribute to the Ameri- rangement by which Uncle Sam could cang who fought and fell in the great ‘war. Gold stars will be put upon the celling of the central hall, one for each American life sacrificed in that struggle. Some of the state quotas for these gold stars have already been voted by legislatures. Washingtén should be proud to be prompt in sub- scribing for its section of this galaxy of glory and honor. —_———— “Dont’s” for the summer will soon send a check for a few billions when not able to attend meetings. —————————— Having been dismissed from the films by Mr. Hays, an objectionable comedian announces his intention of elevating the legitimate drama. ———— A sea serpent has been sighted from a Jersey coast resort—another sign that we are getting bk to the good be In order. The presence in the land | %1d times- of the bootlegger makes the “don’t” referring to alcohol even more impor- tant than before the days of prohibis tlon. Mr. Harding as Orator. President Harding's reputation for ready and felicitous speech confronts him wherever he goes. The people, Instead of leading the world in dress |Men and women, want to hear from Paris is now regarded as seeking to | him. They assume that he has some- set the fashion in military uniforms. The Chile-Peru Meeting. thing interesting to say, and that his manner of saying it will add to its value. And he usually complies. The demand for a speech brings a speeth Today begins in this city the meet- | worth attention. ing of the representatives of Chile and For many years our Presidents, with Peru which it is hoped will end a dis- | but one exception, have been on the pute between those countries over | Harding order. boundaries. The Tacna-Arica issue has | McKinley, Mr. Gen. Harrison, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft troubled them for years. It is com-|end Mr. Wilson all spoke frequently plex and difficult, involving large in-|while on their travels and with fine terests, both industrial and political, | effect. Gen. Harrison had a gift for a and its solution may prove hard to|short and extemporaneous deliverance. reach. But the present meeting has | He could enchain a crowd in a minute, been arranged in a spirit of edjust-{and hold it as long as he liked. Scorn- ment, and there is a prospect that a |ing rhetoric and going straight to the settlement may be effected that will | point, he invariably left be accepted by both governments. & thought or two behind that his hearers turned The United States has been instru-|over in their minds long after his de- mental in promoting this meeting, and | parture. As a stumper he had few it is eppropriate that the session be |equals in the country. held in Washington. Both Chile and ‘The exception was Mr. Cleveland, ~Peru know that the United States is|who traveled but littls and was not not-only friendly but impertial in its|ready with his tongue. He had not sjudgments. toward- bothe -It-has-given | beensa- jury lawyer v.h'fle at the bar, nor had he ever served as a member of a legislative body. Hence he lacked readiness. Moreover, he lacked the personal magnetism that radiates from & man with a message and entirely confident of his ability to put it over. ‘When & President hears a call for a speech, he is well advised if he com- plies, whether he has much or little to say. Ce.pitol Hill. The situation on Capitol Hill is not surprising. There was never a chance to wind up as early as June 1. Talk of that kind, heard often in January, was largely in the nature of “jolly, and {ntended for new members already figuring on re-election. “Work hard,” they were told, “and you can -leave ‘Washington in time to conduct your primaries in person.” 0ld members could not see it. What they saw was a crowded card, end factionism rampant. They did not give June 1 a thought. If they speculated at all about adjournment the day was fixed somewhere between August 1 end September 15. They could ap- praise the difficulties in the way. Responsibility for the situation is a matter of opinion. The fact is that Congress got off on a slow foot. The special session did not yield half the fruits possible and expected. The ma- Jority, unwieldy in the House, simply Jogged along. 4 As a result; questions which should then have been disposed of were passed along in an unfinished form, or in no form at all, to the regular sesslon, and have been clogs on the wheel since December. 1t 1s said, and it is true, that at the start Congress did not appreciate the magnitude of its task. More business awalted attention than the leagers had calculated for. The war and the pre- vious administration had bequeathed embarrassments 80 far out of the ordi- nary that time and close study alone could master. Straws and Dates. This matter of when to put on the straw hat s not worth worrying about. It is not, in truth, a question of dates, but of temperatures. There are days in January In this climate ‘when a straw hat would be comforta- ble, but, of course, nobody would dare to wear such a hat then, unless he ‘wished to create a sensation, almost a riot. Yet in January straw hats are being worn in Florida. Why, then, 1s there any rigid line in custom? Why should not the straw hat be available for wear without comment or criticism whenever the sun is warm enough to make such a “lid” suitable?- Conservatism rules still in this as in many other matters, however far the world has departed from conserva- tive ways. Little by little the straw hat date is being advanced, but men are much less courageous in such mat- ters than women. They count the cost of change more shrewdly. They are more sensitive to jeers and smiles and questioning looks. Verily, the female of the species has more nerve than the male, in matters of dress. And that is why the straw hat is slower in coming forth in spring than it really should be. } Evidence of progress toward Rus- sian normalcy appears in the stay granted eleven persons—eight of them priests—condemned to death for try- ing to prevent church looting by so- viet agents. When appeals are per- mitted some hope may be felt that Moscow is becoming less hurried in brutality. . i Chancellor Wirth of Germany holds the record for official longevity in that post. He has been In office for & whole year, and doubtless so long as he can stave off pay day on the reparations account he can.continue. ————— As varying reports arrive from Genoa the conference takes on the aspect of & controversy between opti- mism and pessimism. i Should the argument persist, there may be enough importance attached to daylight-saving to make it the foun- dation of new political parties. Missour! is putting it all over other states in the matter of primary pyro- technics. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. | , Time o’ Day. He doesn't know just when to go To office, by the clock. The time of day in disarray Has brought him many a shock. But when at last some hours have passed, * His doubts serenely flit. .| He promptly shows how well he knows ‘When it is time to quit. About the train he will complain That starts he can’t say when. As he prepares for tollsome cares, He's most perplexed of men. Yet mystic art asserts a part, Contusion to defeat, ‘With mind secure, he’s always sure ‘When it is time to eat. Keeping Ahead of the Crowd. “Do you claim to be a leader of the people?” “Not exactly,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “I only try to be a good guesser as to which way the people are going next.” . Jud Tunkins says very few great men have park statues erected while they are alive and can see them; which is rather mercitul. 3 Musings of a Motor Cop. Sweet Gladys Green has quit this scene. ‘We learn it with regret. She stood next to the gasoline And 1it a cigarette. According to Circumstances. “I understand your wife is a parliamentarian.” “She is,” replled Mr. Meekton, “when there is a large assemblage. But as between Henrletta and myself, there don‘t seem to be any rules of debate whatever.” = “Dar's dis to say foh s whealbar- row,” said Uncle Eben. “It helps a fine man earn money ’stid o’ was'in’ it foh gasoline, False Pretense of Full Valuation ‘Without & word of warning and without the slightest opportunity for an expression of local public sentl- ment on the subject, Congress has already in effect changed by law the standard ‘of District tax assessment of realty from not less than two- thirds to full valuation. For the record Washington makes post-mor- tem protest. The District assessor assesses in practice up to and on the average slightly beyond the two-thirds mini- mum valuation. This faithfulness in assessment reduces the tax rate to be applied to the assessment roll to produce the necessary tax revenue, until the District’'s tax rate already seems low when compared with the rates of many other cities, which with nominal full valuation assess- ment Actually assess only from 30 to 85 per cent of full value, and must correspondingly increase their tax rates to secure the needed revenue. If the District is put upon the full valuation basis, it will go there, not only nominally, but in fact, and in eomparison with other cities whose low assessments require high tax rates Washington’s still further low- ered tax rate to conform to the in- creased assessment valuation will by its smallness elicit additional hostile comment, and the District will be put even more on the defensive against the charge that, measured by the false standard of its comparative tax rate, it is undertaxed. 1t the District tax rate is re- duced to conform to the increase of assessment valuation the revenue re- sult will be the same, and no practi- cal benefit will be derived from the unsettlement and hurtful confusion of the District’s assessment and tax rate figures. The change will have no tendency correct inequalities of assesament of small and It untair discrimina- in assessing botl two-thirds of thelr mn at properties Value the same discriminations will be made by the same assessors in assessing both at their full value. 1If, on the other hand, the tax rate 1s not thus decreased, the tax on realty will be increased in some per- centage up to G0 per cent as the maximum. In comparison with other typical and comparable cities Wash- Ington's realty is already too heavily taxed, and the suggested increase of this tax up to a maximum of 50 per cent threatens disaster in these days of heavy financial burdens and high cost of llving, especially to the small property owners and taxpayers of Washington, paying from $1 to $100 per year of tax, who number 50,000. Thus the change of standard at its bext will do ne d at its worst will do great harm. Pk ok KX 1In 1914 the increase of the standard of assessment to full valuation was proposed openly In the regular way by a bill considered by the House District committee. Opportunity to express community opinion concern- ing the proposed legislation was given, and the proposal to change the standard of tax assessment got nowhere. ‘Washington's 1914 protest against this change of standard, as voiced in editorial correspondence of The Star, may be considered for a moment in view of the denial of opportunity to protest against a similar proposal in 1922, * kK ¥ 1914 ,Washington's In defenders said: Uniformity can be as readily secured by using the two-thirds basis of as- sessment as by using the so-called full valua basis, and uniformity is the only vital essential of a just asseasment. Full valuation for assessment ineans full and true valuation for sale nowhere in the United States. Reports to the census of a 100 cent assessment valuatiom, if c strued to mean 100 tion between buyer falxe and misleadin in all that has pre- ington realty in comparison wi that of other cities. The same fail ure is responsible for the determined ne ment banis to the e tion, even though that change thi 50 per cent increase of the al- heavy burden of taxation. xcept in a few cities of the states of Minnesota, Washington and Wis- eonxin, the census-reported relations of assessed to true value are slurred as incorrect by the census authori- ties. They are the guesswork of mu- nicipal officials, influenced by a nat- wral impulse to exaggerate the re- ported percentage relation. Since these reports are inaccurate and mis- leading, the cens calculations of tax-rate on true valuation based upon them are tainted with the same error, and are absolutely worthless as n measure of the comparative actual tax-burdens. The census authorities make clear the unreliability of these ! statistics and of the Inferences deductions from them. The only reliable measure of com- parative tax-burdens is the per eap- ita tax-levy. * k% % If the taxpayers of a community have absolute control of the tax-rate, and that rate is flexible and easily and ' quickly altered, it is entirely immaterial, so far as the community is concerned, whether the assessment is at nominal full valuation, or two- thirds, or one-half, or one-quarter valuation, provided this basis is ap- plied with absolute uniformity to all property. The tax-rate goes up or down in inverse ratio to the assess- ment.to produce the amount of money required to meet the municipal ex- penses. Under these conditions the nominal 100 per cent valuation is the simplest. since it must first be aacer- tained before the fractional bases can be cllc.lllliied-v ‘But the conditions which: prevail in the District remove it from the cate- gory of citiesin which this slight ad- vantagé of full valuation over other valuations i8 enjoyed. N The tax-rate is not fixed by the tax- payers, but by Congress. The amount of money to be raised through the lo- cal taxpayers' contribution toward National Capital maintenance is fixed, not by those taxpayers, but by Con- Gress. The nation, through Congress, will not, as long as it participates in National Capltal maintenance and up- building, surrender the power to fix the national and: local contributions for thecapital's upkeep, and to this end to determine the tax rate. Tt is proposed by the full valuation bill to unsettle the tax rate and to give the power to the Commissioners to alter it from year to year, the sug- gestion by inforence being that of a decrease in case the full valuation is substituted for the two-thirds valua- tion, But the George report in discus- sion of the unsettlement of the fixed tax-rite and the substitution of one altored from year to year hints that the bresent rate is too low. The House District committee (1914) is on record as opposed to any unsettlement of the rate which by any possibility can result in its decrease. Unsettlement of the moderate rate of tax now prevail- ing might mean only its increase. * koK Ok What Washington needs is the uni- form application of the present stand- ard, and not either an Increase or decrease of its assessment resulting in the unsettlement of the rate. It is not necessary for convenience {h comparison and to assimilate Washington to other American cities 4o on the nominal full valuation basis. Full valuation means full val- uation as the words are construed im other cities. The comparisons to de- fermine whether Washington's taxa- tion 18_reasonable are With other aitles. sam To make comparisons fair the e construction must be placed Upon the terms employed. The census shows that comparatively few Ameri- can states and American cities have oven & nominal full valuation of realty for tax purposes, and the evidence is Sonclusive that in most of the cities which have & nominal full valuation ont is not at 100 per cent :h" Now in the light of these acts is the District's valuation to be ralsed from 66 2-3 per cent to 100 per 1| than full valuation and 62 nominally. the small minority class and then be further boosted into & class by itself by compelling the assessors to assess not merely nominally but actually at the 100 per cent valuation? The cen- sus figures suggest that this is done nowhere eolse in the United States. What kind of comparisons could be made when full valuation meant something’in Washington which it did not mean in any other American city? * K kX ‘Why compel Waghington assessors to assess at full value when very few American cltles pretend to do it, and none is actually doing it? The aim is to have Washington reasonably as- sessed and taxed as compared with other American cities. Why should Washington’s assessment basls - be made to exceed that of the vast ma~ Jority of American cities? The census of 1912 shows that of 195 American cities having over 30,000 population 133 are assessed at less at full value. Of these 62 cities 22 are in Massachusetts, 14 in New Jersey and 12 in Ohio, leaving only 14 in ajl therest of the United States (3 Rhoda Island, 3 New York (out of 17 cities), 2 Connecticut, 2 Kansas, 1 Maryland, 1 New Hampshire, 1 Pennsylvanla and 1 West Virginia). Thus only eleven states contain any cities assessed at full valuation and four of these states have only one each of such citles, There are 1 cities with full valua- tlon asseesments in the remaining thirty-seven states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colo- rado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, 1lli- nols, Indiana, lowa, Kentucky, Lou- isiana, Malne, Michigan, Minnesota, Missourl, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carollna, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Why should the representatives of these thirty-seven states vote to compel in Washington an assessment valuation not exacted in any of their home olties, Why should any sSuth- ern congressman fix an assessment basis at the capital which is not ap- plied to any of his constituents? Why should any representative from Kentucky or Iowa or Missour{ force upon the capital a burden-in- creasing assessment standard which (had;:nleu of his state have repudi- ated? * ok X But not even the representatives of states which have cities that report the 100 per cent basis of assessment should vote to increase the basis of Washington's assessment, for the comments of the census authorities and a comparison of actual figures Indicate conclusively the unreliability of these statements of full valuation. Forty-eight of the sixty-two cities which’ report full valuations are in three states ‘'whose laws compel such nominal valuations. But if the as- sessors of Newark or New York are asked what the actual relation of the assessment to true value is they will say 75 or 85 per cent, and not 100 per cent, Full assessment valuation is nowhere the same as full valuation for sale. Why should Pennsflvania vote full valuation for Washington when only one (Philadelphia) of its sixteen cities even pretends to have such valuation, and when the Philadelphia assessor will tell you that the actual assessment is very far from the true value? * ¥ X ¥ That the 100 per cent valuation is nominal only in many cases is ob- vious from the slightest inspection of the figures. Take Baltimore, for instance, the one large southern city which has a nominal 100 per cent valuation. The Baltimore assessors (1912) report the full value of all the real property in great, prosperous and wealthy Beltimore as $372,651,- | 502. The Washington assessors re- port that two-thirds of the full value of the assessed and taxed fraction of tion on the 100 per cent basis $49; 483,730, or $122,832,228 more than wealthy, busy, industrial Baltimore, with 226,784 greater population. The ame lesson is taught by comparison of Washington's two-thirds valuation of $330,322,487 with the full 100 per cent valuations of Newark, $301,209,- 664, and Jersey City, $190,857,512. Of course, it is absurd to suggest that the full valuation of real property in such cities as Newark and Jersey City is in reality less by millions than the two-thirds assesed valuation of real property in the taxed fraction of ‘Washington. Hardly anywhere el the United States, no matter what the mominal assessment rate of valuation may be, is realty actually assessed so close to the real value as in Washington today. Prior to the act of 1902 requiring not less than two-thirds, valuation the law enacted In 1883 required land 1 to be assessed at its true value. It was found, Assessor Richards testifies, that values assessed under this law were “some of them one-tenth, some one-quarter, some two-thirds, but none of them seemed to be up to the full valuation. Most of them, how- ever, were close to the two-thirds mark. So Congress passed an act requiring that hereafter none of these assessments should be less than two-thirds of the true valuation.” The proposition now is to return to the old law of 1883, requiring true value assessments, under which these widely varying underassessments ‘were made. * ¥k ¥ X The tendency in the United States is away from the false pretense of full valuation assessments. Between 1910 and 1912 Ohio by a state law re- quired its cities to make full valua- tion assessments. The Ohio cities, thus coerced, were the only. cities with nominal full valuation in 1912 that had not full valuation In 1910. On the other hand, some cities in five states exercising their right- to choose in the matter have abandoned the false pretense of full valuation and announced a lower percentage. These states are New York, Con- fecticut, Kansas, Michigan and Iowa, and the last two states are left with- out any cities whatsoever of 100 per cent assessment valuation. The cities passing from full to a lower valua- tion include Detroit, New Haven, Al- bany, Topeka, Dubuque, Troy and Cedar Rapids. There is an advantage in having the assessment standard uniform. for | all the cities of a state, as is pro- vided in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Ohlo. Uniform and not neces- sarily full valuation is The virtue in these statutes. To _cause the District to enjoy the ! bemefit of this uniformity it is onlyy necessary to see that the two-thirds rate in applied uniformly . and equitably over the whole District to nll sections and t3 all kinds of prop- erty. This is a matter of adminis- tration and mot of legislation. She Cramped His Style. Spme time ago a man once high in| the military hierarchy of Prussia asked (and obtained from the present courts) a divorce from his wife on the ground that she had become a revo- Illlfionllt. and that life with her w: for him unbearable. Now in Cal fornia a writer of movie scenari has as] divorce from his wife be- cause e stified his creative ability.” The 0 -casfes show points of simi- larity. In both the situation existed 8o aptly outlined by the colored woman who, having parted, sald of her own man, “Why, I jes’ natchally los’ interest in that pusson.” The allegation of the scenario writer that his wife “stifled his crea- tive ability” may possibly remain in creative minds, movie minds and others as a phrase conveniently vague yet holding a definite cause of com- plaint. The married man frequently finds his wife deeply influential in his life. 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