Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1922, Page 6

6 2 " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1922, - o ree oy New Rent Commmission System Is Giving General Satisfaetion| 'WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY..........July 3, 1922 e - risem in a political .mevement; and a.fward, and. as they ‘rise they corre fight between 5,000 of them and the |spondingly lift the engine so that et pelice resulted from an attmck made |times the drivers: actually leava: the by the workers: upon headquarters of [Tail surface. Herein is: the disadvan- a supposed royalist organization. Thix|tage of the reciproeating locomotive affair, following the riot at Darmstadt |as compared with the rotary compul- last week on the occasion of a memo-sion of the electric motor. It has long rial meeting for Rathenau, when, [been recognized by railroad men thal through suppesed coilusion between:|extrenje high speed is an element of the rioters and the police, many husi- | dangen save an elegtric lines. ness houses were looted, is regarded| It will be important to learn the as a sinister suggestion of @ rise of|exact cause of the Winslow wreek. If' THEODORE W. NOYES. ..Editer .ane for which Missouri has become: | famous—it likes to be shown. A 'landlord whose rent charges are: de- [ termined: by the commission to. bel 4 HANGES in. mathod of pro- cedure; provided for under: the recent extemsion. of the Ball rent act have resulted: ! l'h_fx_zvuh' Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Peansylvanla Ave, * New York Office: 150 Nassau St. FALLS Chicago Office: First Nationsl Haak Bollding, Eursgesn Office: 3 Regent St., Londoa, England. 5 Evening Star, with the Sunday moruing: editiap, is delivered by carriers within the; city: at 60, cents per month; dally only, 43 cents per | month; Sunday only, 20 cents per montix Or- ders ‘aay be sent by mail or telephone Main Coliection is made by earriers at the each montn, Rafe by Mail—Payable In Advance. .. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, 70c Daily only 1yr., $6.00; 1 ma., 50c Sunday only. 1y, $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ ! All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yT., $10.00; 1 mo., $5¢ Daily only 1yr, $T. on ., $7.00% 1 mo., 60c Sunday only. $3.00; 1 mo., 25e. 1y = "The Tax Rate Dilemma. In determining the tax rate for the new fiscal year the Commissioners facé.an embarrassment that is caused | by, forces wholly beyoud their control. | Thg new law just enacted requires that the assessment of real property be inicreased to full valuation from the two-thirds basis that has prevailed for many years. Obviously the tax rate is 10 be reduced, as the rate for the last fiscal year weuld on the 100 per cent basis yield more money than the ap- propriatiors require. But the rate is not to go down to the point merely of producing enougl to meet the current requisitions on the sixty-forty ratio of District-federal eontributions to capi- tal maintenance. For Congress has by this same act required that enough additional money is to be raised by taxation during the next five years to put the Distriet, by its accumulation, on a basis on July 1, 1927, to meet its appropriation obligations out of its ownl’ cash without callng upom the Treasury for advances. It is undesirable to fix a tax rate that will raise more than is equitably required for this purpose. That is, radicalism. the reichstag for the passage of'e bill empowering the government to use extraordinary, measures in suppres- sion of the reactionists. A draatic measure has been prepared which iff made into law would create a power for suppression equal to that of the Russian government hefore the war. There is seme question whether Wirth can command a majority for this bill. Should the measure fail the govern-| ment would be in a dangerous posi- tion between the reactionaries and the radicals. the failure of the bill, would, it is ex- pected, undertake to hamper the a&d |ernment a cent, except possibly a ministration. Indeed, the Wirth gow |charge for electric lights duri ernment might be forced to resign ‘This, however, it is feared, would lead | nual salary basis, which was not in- to dangerous demonstrations by the socialists, who, it is definitdly known, | House expenditures are comcerned, have been strongly influenced by the Russian propagandists. a sum sufficient to enable the District to meet its 60 per cent drafts between July 1 and December 1, by which lat- ter date one-half of the yi taxes will have been paid under “the new system. This, it has been roughly esti- mated, is an increase of about one- twelfth, inasmuch as in the course of five years five-twelfths of a year’s ap- propriations must be accumulated. On the other hand, it is not desira- ble to carry the tax rate too low. Be- cause of the 100 per cent valuation, which obtains practically nowhere else.in the United States in fact, théugh it may obtain elsewhere in theory, a comparatively low rate will suffice to yield the necessary revenue préduct. Judging from past experi- ences, it is easy to believe that there will be an immediate exclamation against the low taxes in the District on the part of the congressional critics of the capital community. Héfe is the dilemma: If the rate is maintained at a peint where it is not subjeet to unthinking criticism much more money will be-raised than is necessary even with the requirement of cash-basis surplus accumulation. If the rate is fixed at a point just suf- ficient to yield the necessary funds the District is scored as a tax-dodger. A further surplus of District reve- nues, caused by the raising of more money by taxation than Congress will appropriate, is a source of danger. Al- ready there is in the Treasury some five .million dollars accumulated by this process, which the District is not now allowed to use, and against which claims have been filed, to Be deter- mined by a joint congressional com- Chancellor Wirth is about to ask The former, encouraged by Thus the German republic stands today in danger of collapse through the meeting of these two forces of re- | tion is under consideration, sction and radicalism. Judging from |’ True enough. the present temper of the German peo- | there was no money cost, and all that ple there is little doubt that in such a | Mr. Voigt required of members—at- test the latter would dominate. Early Crisis in Strike. Today is a critical one in the strike | 1€8- of ‘the railway shopmen, but the crisis is much more acute for the strikers: than it is for the railrcad manage- ments or the public. Officials of tenance of way workers are meeting in Detroit to determine whether the 450,000 men who keep the tracks in repair shall be “ordered out on strike. If the decision is in favor of & strike the situation will take on ads serfousness, but it will not immedi- ately result in suspension or even cur- tailment of traffic, and as maintenance of way labor is chiefly unskilled, men to take the piaces of the strikers would not be hard to find. If the de- cision of the maintenance of way of- ficials is against a strike, the shop crafts union: and their strike cannot long be main- tained. That the outlook is mnot re- garded hopefully is indicated by the announcement of President Fitzgerald, head of the railway clerks’ union, that he will wait awhile before de- ciding on a strike call. Apparently the clerks have little eagerness to cast their fortunes with & cause that has so small a chance of success. Estimates of railway executives is that the roads can be kept in uninter- rupted operation from several weeks to three months with the‘ repair shops standing idle. But the executives are not resting in the expectation that the strikers will be back at work in time ta avert interruptions to traffic. They men to take the strikers’ places, and reports from different parts of the country indicate that they are meeting with measurable success. There are hundreds of thousands of idle men who need and want work, and not an | hospitals. The grotesque terrors of the inconsiderable number of them are]French commune have not subsided machinists. The situation is such that the re-|us imagined. cruifing of strikebreakers will be less difficult than ordinarily is the case. The strike lost standing at its incep- | musical comedies will be better next tion because the heads of the shop-|geason. There is a limit to the fatigue men’s unions refused to make & final | that a tired business man can endure. effort to avert it, and with the govern- ment assuring full protection to men willing to work, to be a strikebreaker mittee. It is therefore highly unde- _sirable to accumulate another surplus other than that which Congress now requires for cash-payment purposes. In facing this dilemma the Commis- stoners will doubtless be guided by = strict construction of the new statute, which simply requires them to put the District on a cash basis by July 1, 1927. They are entitled to take into| eccount all of the equities in their In- terpretation of this law, and to give the District the benefit of any doubt thakimay arise. e ———— There must be moments when Panch Villa is teripted to quit the dear old farm anG show these modern Mex sbandits a trick or twa. So far as the general public is con- cerngd the most successful strike is the one that never happens. X Stress in Germany. Proceeding promptly and vigorously the government at Berlin has-caused the &rrest of men for the murder of Fog Minister Rathenau, with proof that seems to establish their guiltsconclusively.’ It has at the same,} time, uncovered a widespread mon- arcifical plot of which this crime was appérently one of the moves. So ramffied is the organization, it would sedmh” from reports from Berlin, that for the present further researches have, been abandoned, as enough is in hand now to occupy fully the atten- tion—of officials. The uncovering of this condition has driven the mon- archical party into hiding. Rathenau’s murder has thus proved a boomerang, and Instead of weakening has greatly st{éfigthened the republican govern- ment. A peculiar condition prevalls in Ger- n at this time. A strike of print- er¥'fs in progress in Berlin, causing thé Suspension of practically all the newspapers. Thus the cdpital and a large part of Prussia are without in- formation of the important events that have occurred during the past few Says in the pursuit of the Rathe- nau assassins and the exposure of the monarchical piot. The printers have, in effect, established s cemsorship at the capital. In consequence, the wild- est rumors prevafl, and Beérlin is in & ferment ef excitement. e ‘ ghe-miners of central Germasy have is deprived both of stigma and of risk. There is every reason why union labor as a whole should deprecate the strike of the shopmen. Impartial arbi- tration and adjustment of industrial disputes has been one of the founda- tion tenets of unionism, and the most hopeful experiment in that di- rection yet undertaken, the Railway Labor Board, was flouted and defled by the shopmen’s officials. ——————— — As evidence of his good health and spirits, Attorney General Deugherty remarked that he had digested with pleasurable comfort a table d'hote breakfast on a rallway train. No further testimony as to tempera- mental serenity or physical endurance should be demanded. —_————————— Congress members used to resent remaining in Washington through the summer. Now they regret the neces- sity of going back home to line up the voters. ————t————— Occasionally President Harding, in policy of listening to advice in order to give some. Eurcpean financiers are busily en- gaged on the rather ancient problem of how to get rid of debts without pay- ture of the accident. At latest accounts five were killed and about seventy- five were hurt, some seriously. The it is estimated, at seventy-two miles an hour, apparent- train, running, i i H | 5 i % : i f j i E i ! | i i i : | | main. | the temper of members on edge— ditional filibuster designed and conducted to s will be left high and dry, |BY, default—by absenteelsm.” R in: a generally hetter understanding the switch “was. faulty some an® I8|,44ween the District Rent Commiss blamewarthy. for its failure. If'it Was | oion and the publie, opened: by mistake: the. respensibility | Principal among these changes, in- rests witly the. persen: who. gave the |corporated: in the law through amend- order, or without orders pulled. the. | ments, is' that requiring the Bent Com-. switch, If high speed alone was the | mission to announge, in all rental de- cause the blame rests upon these-who terminations, the “fair and reason- fixed the schedule that required the |able value of the whole praperty; the engineer to drive at such a reckless|allowance for maintenance, repairs, rate. 3 | taxes, service ahd all other expenses; ZE% {the separate rentals of the whole The Filibuster and the Cost. property as fixed by the commission, or if not fixed by the commission, then Mr. Veigt, the ariginator and con- ductor of the recent one-man filibuster as paid by the tenants; the commis- sion’s estimated net return to the in the House, thus replies to his critics: owner upon the value as fixed by it, My filibuster did not cost the gov- and such other findings of fact as the commissjon deems proper to submit.” * k% % In other words, the commission must announce the valuation of the apartment house or other rental property on which the rent decision is based: must estimate an ameunt of money reasonably expected to be paid ing two night sessions. The members- of the House and all employes are on an an- creased or decreased by the filibuster. It makes na difference, so. far as the whether it is i'r: :lcuhn; ane hourlur out by the landlerd in keeping up his ten hours each day. It is: not too |propert: = A e b S e St property during the cours: of a year; at T T Berenip ot “the | muat fils with the determination the complete schedule of rents in each case, although only one apartment in a large building may be affected by the decision, and must state the per- centage of net return which It is esti- mated the property owner should re- ceive under the determination. These requirements are being met daily in all decisions handod down by the commission. Announcement of the additional facts consumes but lit- tle extra time and space and the knowledge thus imparted to' both landlord and tenant alike serves to dispel any cause for misunderstand- ing as to the factors taken Into con- sideration in fixing the rent The commission must determire each of {these points for itself. anyway, in order to reach a fair decision, and the complainants and defendants are en- titled to the same information, it ap- pears. House shall be present attending to their official business when leglsla- Strictly speaking, tention to business—was imposed on them by their commissions. He was only asking that they attend to busi- The- cost of a filibuster—especially of the one-man variety—is that it creates a spirit of impatience. 1t puts snarls things up generally—and in that way affects other questions than the one in hand. It renders a legisla- tive body less fit to handle business. A number of ills may issue from a * k¥ % This precedure is considered a vast lm,pr?vemenl over the former practice of tite commission in announcing only the bare decision as to the rent ad- judged fair and reasonable. ‘The American puablic as a whole possesses a trait more or less similar to the correct only one. The remedy—the preventive—is contained in the short and simple vernacular. “Stick around. Stay on the job ’til the job is completed. Uncle Sam has the first call on those in his pay who have undertaken to execute his orders. No loafing. No legislation In the vocabulary of a Congress en- tirely vigilant there is no such word as filibuster. Oppose Congressional Vetd for Supreme Cowit Decisions. constitutional amendment to abolish the Constitution” is the edi- torial estimate of Senator La Fol- lette's proposal to take away from the Supreme Court the power to de- clare laws unconstitutional by per- mitting Congress to re-emact a law thrown out by the court. It generally is agreed that the Wisconsin senator was “playing politics” when he at- tacked the Supreme Court in an ad- f “A It was a mistake to discourage the newspaper correspondents at The Hague. A conference like every other enterprise depends in great measure on the amount of publicity it can com- mand. l The ex-kaiser is offering his old car- riages for sale. The anclent equipage will be of no use to him if his zealous friends in Berlin succeed in providing dress before the convention of the him with political band American Federation of Labor. But e nd WAEON- | (he very fact that he reiterated and amplified his original sentiments on The United States statesman who|the floor of the Senate after more * Iare making active efforts to recruitdefined the tariff as “a local issue” |than a week's mature consideration could not foresee the circumstances|added to their significance in view of which make it an acute matter of|the fact that he essays to Bucceed world concern. himself in next autumn's elections. In consequence the newspapers seem convinced that the receptiom which ! Illinois miners held dances near a very timely manner, interrupts his | il 4 % his doctrine received from union rep- resentatives shows a radical trend that must be combated. “La Follette’s attack on the power of the Supreme Court must be con- sidered in the light of the present day tendency toward radicalism,” says the South Bend Tribumne, for neither Le- nin nor Trotsky, the Cincinnati En- quirer asserts, “could have devised a into ancient history as far as many of ! Producing managers promise that It is not, to be sure, the Chicago Tri- bune adds, revolution of vielence Russian anarchists have in many ! or bloodshed. but it is none the less instances become converted to the be. | (B¢ most radical suggestion vet of- 5 fered by the notoriously radical sen- |li2f that any kind of a government is|ator from Wisconsin.” H Against this _cry for “sovietism.” fECUsEitRan S el however, the Baitmore Sun inter- poses a bit of history. “La Follette and the American Federation of Labor are not gullty of latter.duy radical- " it says, “‘or presenting a n 8- e when they demand that the fed- eral courts shall have a bit put be- tween their and that a strong re: brile be put in the hands 2 Co ey are y re- Sowlng ons of the battle cries of Thomas Jefferson.” “There can be absolutely no doubt,” the Sun continues, “that the Consti- 5 tution as we kuow it was made by Burope’s war debts require the Supreme Court.” and given a suffi- it G & good | strong. opposition to “Judicial diplomat to develop the accomplish- La Follette's fll’o“‘ first-rate accou g ore paper belleve ments of a first-rate intant. o i i 1 The average citizen refuses at this time of year to be agitated &ver a coal shortage, =0 long as the ice man calls regularly. i The Hague is not developing nearly as many literary entertainers as the ‘Washington conference produced. ! was slso time, “is not to be stamped as utterly improbable of acceptance.” Certainly “there is nothing ex- tremely radical about the proposal to submit a constitutional amendment lto the people,” the Raleigh (N. C.) Motion picture producers are con- vinced that Mr. Will Hays is all the censor they need. Times concedes, and “if the people ot this nation wish to amend the Con- t: de for a_congres- stitution to provi et SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Rip’s Advantage. ‘When Rip Van Winkle slept along Through twenty blisstul years, There wasn’t any jazzy,song To agitate his ears. that “they are at . But before this country embarks on what the Appleten Post-Crescent calls “this happy experiment in ir- responsible government{’ its editors want to analyze very minutely just what it would mean. To the Wheel- ing Intelligencer “it would mesn that the anmtll;a conl% M‘ra:‘fi by a mere majority vote o ngress. The process would be extremely simple. Lesislation in direct contra- diction te the Constitution could be vnsnd..dnm to t] Court, de: nounc: back to Congress and be made com stitutional by the mere act of re- pas " A g to the Gramd Rapids Herald, “a more complets de- sertion of the theory upon which the American mermute founded scarcely could oecur even system of soviets,” because “the Con- The Catskill elves who handed him A sleéping draft intense, ‘Were not the bootleg boys so grim ‘Who leave us in suspense. And that’s why R. Van Winkie seems A man by Fortune blest, Permitted to pursue his dreams In unobstructed rest. The Perilous Laugh. “You never tell any humeorous anecdotes in your es,” re- marked the friend. “I had to quit trying to embeilish my discourse with touches of fun,” re. pited Senator Sorghum. ‘““The comedy went 80 well that the audience ‘wouldn't pay any attention to my seri- ous arguments.” Jud Tunkins says the cost of living has made the woman with the market basket more prominent than the man with the hoe. # the judiciary, committed to unpar- tisan justice, would become subordi- nate to the legislative branch, es- sentizily political, and the century-old independence of the three branches of American government would cease.” 1f such an amendment were adopt- O h reiieva Congtess from.the ne would relieve Congre: - ceuli!'!“.o.flne,m constdering. the com: stitati of condition which, the &hflldd’ Bul- July 4. A point of great advantage we will sain Star As people celsbrate from ses to sea, | Other country Horatory sasmfoand sane > |} As pyrotechnics now appear to be. Damcing. “Do you asnce? - “I used to,” replied Miss Cayenn: “But now, as is the custom, I simply stand still end wriggle.” — *“Sooner or Ister,” sid Uncle Nben, |'* “s crapshooter 15 ginetsr come home broks wif ds same: old excuse; ‘T didn’ know it was loaded.”"’ X : more perfect cngine of destruction.”; under a Times declares, “it f any enactment.” =& ‘more than they-should be is naturally comminsjon’s determination. A ten- -ant who imrequired to pay an inorsase | over his;present rent is likewise curi- |/ ous to find out the reason/for such action, In the past, much of the criticism which has been aimed at the Rent Commission or at the Ball act has been concerned with the alleged ab- scurity of the commission’s findings. Persons have wondered just how the commission set about reaching a de- termination—whether, it was by a percentage rating in comparison with pre-war rents, by a fixed standard, ‘per room” charge, or by computing net return and the rent uate, to; produge it. Under the revised procedure there, is no room for doubt. The vital fac- tors entering inta a ‘conaideration of every rental schedule are plainly stated along with the rent fixed. Unless the owner or tenant may dis- pute the accuracy of the commission’'s property valuation, the sufficiency or the inadequacy of the maintenance allowance, or the amount of return granted the owner, the determination cannot reasonably be protested, ap- parently. * % % % An interesting development in con- nection with the commission's com- pliance with the new provisions of the law is the amount of net return which is being allowed property owners. The commission go far has decided that a net return of 8 per cent is a fair profit for the investor. This return, it seems, has been satis- factery to both sides to date. The valuation being placed on buildings named in the decisions is understood to represent the fair mar- ket value of the property at the time of tire announcement—not Its originat | production cost. Consequently, own- ers of apartment houses which were erected in war time, when material and labor prices were at their height, and who have been fixing rents on the basls of cost or amount of money in- vested, are finding that these rents will suffer substantial reduction at the hands of the commission, if brought to that body’s attention. EDITORIAL DIGEST marks, and the fact that it has been taken up by the American Federation of Labor suggests to the New York Journal of Commerce that “there is an evident effort to induce orgenized labor to take up the cudgels as an anti-judicial bod:; Senator La Fol- | lette “may not have been guilty of | treason,” but the Knoxville Journal and Tribune thinks he was “at least guilty of sowing the seeds of treason and the applause with which his re- marks were greeted served as an in- dication that the sowing was done in responsive soil. Marbles Imperiled. Marbles, which shares with Jjack- | Stones and a few other games of skill the aistinction of having remained from time out of mind unspoiled by | | formal regulation, is in danger. game is being taken out of the con- trol of its natural guardians, the boys, | and is in peril from well meaning bhut short-sighted enthusiasts who would transform it sport to a national contest. Adver- tisement and pretentious competitions are likely to work its ruin. Boydom has safeguarded marbles. Save as parental prejudioes interfered in the Incident of plaving for keeps adults have been excluded from its control. Under these circumstances the traditions and rules of the game have been safe. Its rich vocabulary —every boy who shoats an alley from taw knows at least a little Greek—has been handed down from generation to generation unchang: i explicit, terse, racy. Its rules have jbeen preserved in their genuineness. Its literature has remained voluntary land disinterested. Tut reform now menaces the game. { Formal competitions, with aldermen. mayors, governors as patrons, mean of etiquette, solemn definition of the | meanings to be attached to words and phrases. Officialdom will interest it- self in disputes of the kind boys set- tle directly and without the interven- tion of authority other than. that which resides in an active fst. P}:rh-m L:.ltmn the lp'l;. 'Zf. ;ganw; corded to Prestage q o Louisiana, just now beginning their trip through the world, marbles may have fallen so low as to high commissioner.—New Exit Fog. In the fleld of Tadio- activity one discovery doth tread upem another's heels, so fast they follow. When Senor Marconi talks of ex- ploring the short wave-length and of projecting & flying shaft of radie wave in a desired direction straight at a receiving station intended to re- ceive it, more is meant than meets the mere lay ear. But an immediate by-product of this new discovery ia clearly indicated: a conquest of the element which has hitherto baffled navigators—fog. It seems clear that this latest development will make possible quite accurate navigation in thick weather, thus reducing the haz- ards of seafaring by a large margin. ‘Beyond this, howaven, It is-all some- ‘what stupefying to the average Iay- man. He feels flmfi'l‘ ‘were happesing over his are fraught with his weal. but also pos- sibly freighted witi B Retily ‘Sevacesing, and Refora ne is 3 has managed to h& the- forces in his” own natere which impel him. to misuse the forces of mature which he. has siready ~—Boston Globe. Rog 19 & hos, whether he hogs stitution would become transient; the. take & ride in the side car of a motor cycle—Fiorida Times-Union. Auto {ntoxication used to be looked sfter by the doctors. Now Tt te looked 'ter by o police. News. T It may seem a bit odd that Sena- tor yway should put more condl. ment into the Senate than does Sena- tor Pepper.—Canton News. from a neighborhood i {3 interpretations of rules. codifications | (& 2 to 3 beautiful skin. It cleans not enly the sur- _ face, but the pores. . Itgently, delightfully, wakes up the.cells, the cixculation. _ It softens with its pure palm and cocoanut ails. Delightful to use—delight- ful im its lasting resuits. 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