Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1922, Page 3

} 2000000 SEALS SOLD IN DISTRICT ‘Amount May Climb, as More ! School Divisions Report Sales. KOBER THANKS PEOPLE Quota of Three Million Expected to Be Reached Before Campaign Is Dropped. two million seals have been #0ld in the District of Columbia dur- ing the Christmas campaign. Up to Jast night the receipts at the head- wuarters of the Tuberculosis Associz- tion had just turned $20,000. There are still several of the school divi- sions to hear from and more returns are expected from booth captains and the private schools. Every mail_is bringing remittances for seals that have been used on Christmas mail packages. Tt is vapected that the final returns will W that last years total of 2,600,000 als sold-in ihe District of Columbia will be exceeded. Some who have never before par- ticipated In the seal sale have helped tu swell the grand total by their ef- rts this year. A noted example of this is found in the case of the colored 1ight schools. Through John C. Payne receipts for the sale of over 20,000 als in these schools have been re- ported. The schools participating e the Armstrong, Dunbar, Cardozo, Vocational, Garnet, Lovejoy and Ste- vens night schools. Kobar Issues Statement. Dr. George M. Kober, president of the Washington Tuberculosis Associa- on, last night issued the following statement: “In no other one form of community effort has the Christmas spirit oused so nearly universal expres xion as in the buying of Christmas sealy. Individuals and organised zroups of people have had their ecial Christmas adventures in love * and good -will. but nearly all sections of the community have bought and wd on their various Christmas mes- sages and gifts the little tokens of hope bearing the picture of a mother with babe in arms as sold by the Tuberculosis Assoclation for the pur- e of stamping out the white plague. treet cars and bus lines have "ried the ‘Buy Christmas Seals' plac ards. Stores, banks, hotels and club: have displayed the posters and cut: outs showing Santa Claus with finger pointed remindingly at the magic ¢mblem. and many of these have as- sisted in the sale of the seals over their own counter. Booth sales have been conducted by a large corps of volunteers, who have rendered most efficient and_gracious service. The hools and churches have en thelir own important part in this Yuletide erchandising project, and each teacher and school child has had his or her quota of seals to sell. the newspapers have co-operated nost generously in giving publicity 10 the Christmas seal sale. Net Up to Quota. “While we are not yet up to our city quota of three million seals, which is the estimated requirement for carrying on the work of the Tu- berculosis Association during the ming year, the receipts to date are considerably more than at the same time last year, and returns have not Yot been received or accounted for from a large number of schools and ther organizations. There are also 1 considerable number of individunl purchases of seals yet to be pald for, and the prospect is today very good that we shall equal, if nof ceed, our Over and to assure them that this asso- iation intends to carry on its educa- tional d preventive work the com- ing year with increased vigor. This ans not only help for those threat sreater safety for all. this work will be centered largely on the children of the community 1hrough co-operation of the public ‘ wchool authorities. STAGE BIG MAN HUNT. All Available New ' York Police Called Out to Repel Crook Invasion. NEW YORK, December 23.—Aoting «on tips from western cities that scores . of known criminals were headed to- rd New York for a holiday “clean- up.” Police Commissioner Enright to- might ordered on dutv in the Manhat- 1an shopping district every available man in the metropolitan department. including the headquarters cl.yrical »taff and 800 reserve detectivea — SPECIAL NOTICES. #HE_ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS BIBLE FOR ANY- Lody's debts b L. CALLISHER, 1428 New York ave. n.w. TO HOME OWNERS. I have something of considerable value to if you wunt fo build a garege on your . INSURANCE B ne.stockhelders of the shington and_Geor Monday, Japuary 1, 1923, for the vnnm- o ecting thirteen directors tor o he, Susutng ol from T N HOWARD, Secretary. VONNECTICCT, PIE _COMPAY sl meeting of the stockholde: tion of the directors of thix mll Jeld at the Mwfl]' office, and O st ‘Weds ldl 15%.° Poita opén from 1 o % b Lt '5' Sary fo Fcd Tnclasive. o o Japuars 3 3 o President 18A. l“fll:. A l&cw»&oof Wi}h n:u Brush EEauTaieTs Auto Re- | 5t R0 S imer Sov.: et pairing & JE, SFier, b Meay s e Painting. | st ‘u'mcml-. ek, Frapk. 317, | | " THE |Weeks Bares Industrial Preparedness Plan of U. S.| For U.S.; Gives Thirteen Civilian District Control Chiefs Named. Article Details Big System l to Facilitate War Work. How the War Department is work- ing toward a plan of industrial pre- paredness capable of marshaling Aperican material resources in or- derly support of American man-power should & natfonal emergency demand it is revealed by Secretary Weeks in an article prepared for the Janu- ary issue of the Nation's Business, official organ of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States. Already, the Secretary writes, thir- teen “ordmance districts ve been marked out as a part of the ll‘ldu!trlll mobilization plan, and in a civillan leader, a man hi in !ha business life of his community,” has volunteered to serve as a point of in- timate contact between the govern- men: and business interests which could be of service in war-time pro- duction. Progress also has been made toward establishing a similar contact with airplane producers. and a uni- form fixed-price contract has been drawn in tentative form for use in future war purchases. Staft for War Service. The logical development of this project, Mr. Weeks adds, would be the creation of a civilian general staft to control war-time industrial mobi- lization. He suggests that in further- ance of the scheme it may be sable to place from year to year “small educational orders” to All peace-time needs and to maintain & eleton organization readily con- vertible to war requirements. “There are being_established be- tween the War Department an American industrial life everywhere, sald the article, “points of contact that should bring the American peo- ple into this business of making ready in peace for the task ®hat the American people alone can accomplish {in yar. “It is in our ordnance problem we have been able to make the most. headway thus far. The ordnance dis- tricts marked out in relation to the peace-time industrial establishment available in each district for ord- nance production are thirteen in number and are known, respectively, ENTHUSIASM JOHN W. WEEKS. as the Baltimore. Boston. Bridgeport, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, De- troit, New York, Philadelphia, Pitts- burgh, Rochester, San Francisco and St. Louls district: District Selected. “The district chiefs so far appointed | are as follows, the military titles where used lndlcaunl’ a reserve com- mission H. Tenney, at Bos- m i C A ankun. at Brldse- ort; E. A. Russell, at Chicago: C. L Harrison, at Cineinnati Col. Rascon Little, at Cleveiand: Fred J. Robinson, at Detroit: Col. John Ross Delafield, at New York: J. C. Jones, at I'hila delphia, M. Dravo, at Pittsburgh, and M. E. Singleton, at Louis. “These men will have the war-time i about 330 miles of film. Th. Job of procuring 90 per cent of ord- nance ~ material, as government arsenals can produce at most but 10 per_cent. “It i to_be noted that this entire project rests upon the patriotic will- ingness of civillans, be they reserve officers or not, who have volunteered to undertake this work. T think it well to emphasize again that the plans we e formulated look to the de- Yelopment, under Awsistant Sec of War Wainwright. of w might term a ¢ i eral staff, to the co-ordinate function of munitions procurement as the general staff of the Army s charged with the duty of employing the selected man-powes Jand the mobilized material for come bat purposes.” IS LACKING we OVER CONFERENCE IDEA| (Continued from First Page.) ing the debt funding commission, amending itin such a way that Amer- ican delegates to the conference would have latitude for negotiation, then the holding of the conference. would be worth while—from the Eu- ropean point of view. But officials who have acces. to the best sources of information:are not at all sure that it would be desirable—from the American point of view. In fact, they very much incline to the opinfon that it would be highly undesirable. Combine Against U. 8.° ‘With such a conference convened. with debts and reparations, supplfes of raw materials, stabilization of cur- rencles and all other economic ques- tions spread out on the table, the game would resolve itself -into one where it would be to the interest of the European nations to combine their play against this country, the object being to see how much they could get from the United States without giving anything.in return. And the very first point of attack would be Europe’s debt to America. t| Every effort would be made to have it appear that nothing could be done in the way of reparations adjust- ments or other settloments until the Unitea *'States had - either canceled this indebtedness outright or scaled it down to a low figure. If the United States fell in with the plan, then France would consent to surrender such part of her reparations claims as she has no ce of ever col- lecting; loans undoubtedly would be arranged and other adjustments ef- fected. But if the United States de- clined thus to bear the whole burden of Euro readjustment, then the conference would break up and the world would be told that it had failed because of the grasping self- ishness of America. Questions Not Cempled. Responsible and informed officials of this government are so convinced that the question of debts owed this country ive no connection with reparations settlements that they have scant patience with those who seek to couple them. Their convic- tion i{s based on arguments which seem unassailable. The qu o1 f the amount of the reparations would have to be settled, they contend, even if Europe did not owe America a dollar. The amounts which Ger- many can pay have no relation to the amounts which ice, for in- stance, owes the United States. If it is possible for Germany, without economic_ruin, to ply only $12,000,- 000,000, sie could not pay more than $12,000,000.00( if the entire French debt should be forgiven. And i it is possible for Germany to pay CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS, LUTHERAN. \ev:cr-yu- Ntwml(nd‘f !IIVXCIAT :30 O'CLOCK. Carels frem Tower, € o'Cloak. s Ghristmas Service, e S, e, announced his $12.000,000.000, France and the other allles would continue to ins collecting that sum, whether were to retain the mon OWwn uses or pay it out in liquidation of what they owe this country. If the United States were to cancel the $11,000,000,000 of debts owed it by the ‘allies, and the allies in turn were to deduct a like amount from the total of the reparations claims against Germany, leaving her still 1o pay every cent she can pay, the view of this government is that it would amount simply to America being compelled to Pay such part of the reparations as it is impossible to collect from Germany. As Amer- foa did not start the war and’ was not vanquished in the war. it is not conceded that America should be called upon to pay for the damages of war. Could Net Bar Politics. Considerable surprise is cxpPessed in executive circles that members of Congress who have stood out so strenuously against political entan- glements with Europe should be push- ing for\the proposed conference. It is asserted that to hold a conference on reparations -and European economics without politics entering in and occu- Pying the center of the stage would be utterly impossible. These ques- tions, to Europe, are essentfally po- litical, and politicians and political | parties rise or fall with them. It ‘would be Amer- e taken into an international conference and discussed without any political em- barrassments. Not only is the do- mestic politics of the European na- tions bound up with these questions, but at every point they touch inter- national politics, and once this coun- try permitted itself to be drawn into a conference in regard to them, it is held, there would be no escaping po- litical involyment. Diligent inquiry fails to disclose that there has been any change in the attitude of this government, that not only are debts and reparations sep- arate and distinct questions, but that the debts owed this country by six- teen separate nations constitute with each nation a separate and distinct problem in itself, each to be handled separately and on its merits. And this being the unaltered view of those responsible for international inter- course, it is understandable why there ‘is_no immediate enthusiasm for the Borah proposal for an eco- nomic conference. SENATE BATTLE SEEN OVER BORAH PROPOSAL FOR/ECONOMIC PARLEY (Continued from First Page.) all Europe to come to Washington to reach understandings and agreements in which officially we participate and which in good faith we must aid in executing. The difference is the dif- ference between the policy of Wood- row Wilson and that indorsed and ap- ?;;A;sd by the American people in Among the other members of the irreconcilable group, Senator La Fcl- 1lette of Wisconsin is bellaved to Ve in opposition to the Borah plan, al- though he declined to be quoted, and Senator France of Maryland favors the proposal. ‘Watson Presses Reservations. I Reseryations or amendments to the Borah proposal as embodied in the amendment to the Navy appropr: tion bill, advanced .by Senator Wa son, are two. Firat. that the a ment should specify that the United States would not obligate itself at I.h. conference to waive any.of the Second, that the amendme; .hnuld specify that the United Stat would not undertake through the conference to enforce any of the provisions of the Versallles treaty— that is, to enforce the cll‘rrln‘ out of lplrluont by German: fuch of the fight in l.he Senate yroh-my will center about such rese: vations to the Borah plan for a co: ference Senator e of Mas: chusetts, republican leader, while ad- mitting ‘that he was not - particularly opposed to 'an economic conference, lnmltad that he must know vhn it wa. about. He =zaid, smiling! ’y. thlt he had had some uporlenu n dnltlnl “reservations.” or Curtis of Kansas, upublle-.n wnln. dld not declare hlmlll! for or I‘llnlt the ‘proposal, he, sald that i sych a plan was to b. ‘adopted there -bonld I;. some llll;luflo=. ed in lered by t?: conference. b Democratie Approval Hearty. On_the democratic side of the chamber ‘Senator Fletcher of !'loru:. I. !olt Mbmrd of ers” alwy lndicated thelr hearty ap| posed -conference o it wouid be i ‘wouls adap! rrison of Mississippi. Texas and Harvey Starts ‘vouchsafing o | ‘be- fes, h 000 2d t of v d. the led. Senator Borah. o ‘walving the debts of pean S g A 13 Tepara- nl\tlmdo mhlflxs it would be th kind of good offices of States should be No Statement ‘The New York Tribune. By Cable to Ou:nll: LONDON, Doonm 23.—Gaeorge Harvey, ambassador from the United States, salled for [T America on the Berengaris from | Southampton to- day, without any statement as to his trip or noesible on the rumored |-} American repara- [ tions commission to Eui Dlans to take 4 BARVET. long holiday as so visit to lelhl xo:“ o :l". ool Stanley Blldwhl. chlncellor of the exchequer, sajls on Wednesday for tho“?rlt(lh Amarl:&n debt conference on. Ambaseador Har will undoubtedly take D:l?lr in tvhgli discussion. Mr. Baldwin does not expect the session to last long. VIRGINIA CENSORS BAR SIX OUT OF 750 FILMS —— 1,744,000 Feet Passed Upon by Board During Year, Set- ting Record. Special Dispatch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va., December 23. rfifly Janvary 1 the Virginia state ard of censors probably will have gxamined enough motlon pictures to ake a strip of celluloid film which would reach from Princess Anne county to the county of Lee. At any rate, the board, up to December 1, had a record of having inspected 1 This means ve passed upon 750 different pictures, repres senting a total of 1744 reels and caryIng 1,744,000 feet of film. The maximum day's run of the board’s two projecting machines hus been forty-tow reels, or 42,000 feet - f film. This record will hardly be ex- ceeded at any time in the near future, Forty-two reels. the equivalent of that the three censos seven ordinary feature pictures, are sufficient tax upon the eyes of the censors, to eay nothing of the labor in connection with the projections. It is the policy of the board, however, i promptly to clean up each day’s of- j ferings and to have them out of the office before closing time. Rarely have circumstances necessjtated a de- parture from this rule. Of the 750 subjects examined up to December 1 six were rejected in toto, but the distributing agents were a corded® the privilege of submitting |their rejected offerings in recon- tructed form. Two exchanges thus far have availed themsolvea of this privilege ando their pictures, altered in accordance with suggestions of the board, have been re-examined and pansed. Elimination of offensive scenes and of objectionable subtitles have been ordered in ninety-five of the 750 sub- ¥ | jects screened. Undoubtedly the num. ber of changes would have been far greater had Virginia not received a large percentage of films previously censored by the Maryland board. In- cluded in the 750 pictures inspected were many geographical and educa. tional films, which, though both en tertaining and instructive, were, from the censors’ viewpoint, innccuous. DOUBLE ELOPEMENT OF STUDENTS NIPPED Youthful Dreams of Marital Bliss by Four Rudely Interrupted by Detectives. Special Dispatch to The Star, CUMBERLAND, Md., December 23. —Raliroad detectives at Chillicothe, ©Ohio, “nipped in the bud” a double elopement of Marietta high school students, it developed yesterday when the four principals I‘elurned to their homes in Sisterville, W. Va. The couples are: Luella Starling, aged sixteen; Leona Petrle, aged fif- teen; Wade Beaver, aged nineteen, and Louls Beaver, aged sixteen, brothe Louis Beaver was a lasf minute substitute for Edward M Bride, aged nineteen, who lost his nerve shortly before the start of the elopement, police sa: The plans. which were Adisrupted by the interference of the detectives, included & trip to Cumberland, where the marriages were planned, and a double apartment for the newlyweds. They were awaliting a train to Cum- berland at Chillicothe when the sus- picions of the detectives were aroused and the quartet was ques- tioned. The story “broke” at tho hearing In juvenile court when the brothers were arraigned. 1t also d veloped that the boys had 13 cents and Miss Starling had withdrawn $90 from the bank to finance the elope- ment. P —_—— Flowers for New Year. Potted plants, roses, etc. Order from Gudn 1212’ F.—Advertisement. DRIVE YIELDS Sl ,500,000. Federal Tax Collector Prou‘dl Against Gotham Delinquents. NEW YORK, December 23.—A drive lllr!nd six weeks ago ainst de- linquent - federal taxpayers in the second New York dlltrlct has yielded nearly $1,600,000, Frank K. Bowers, collector of :’nternll Tevenue, an- nounced_ tonight. The collector has issued about 80,000 warrants for distraint, which are ing distributed to more than 100 fleld deputies, he said. at the rate al 1. a week. Uncollected taxes and alties amounted to $300,000,000 ‘lhen Collector Bowers began his crusade, B On the demo- val of the plan. .um lldl fl‘lo dfihlu is expected to lei lon the Ver- sallles tr“t 'l(h crltlnllflll of the Tapuplicans for not having ratified that pact, 4nd the declaration that had they done so, it would not now be necessary to hold such & conference as_now prepose sen-mrp McNary of Oregon, republi- can, who took an active part in trugsle over the Versailles treaty nd who was & member of the so- 1 ::‘n he !lvored the plan advanced by “mild reservation” group, sald “Iln to Crities. Senator Borah, in support of. his proposal and in reply w atmelm- of it, said: 5 mm Y €conol *It is idle to talk uh:u any 9, one knows be/u.nc.ltdf ::E Congress of the lfl!t‘:llk. too, of our becom! volved in Kuropean polmn through such a conferenc matter of fact, we are already in- velved in Europe through ocur rnpro- entatives sitting with the unu commission and through thn Amnflul troops which are kept in “l‘h' Unlud States weuld be offer- fices at an ecomomic to help settle quuflenl I- sottled. b-(m there can peace freiyween those: dpuntries” e | Ariz., Harden:Sees New Christmas As Pdmwea for _World.’s Ills a5 Pfeaent Era Writes, Citing Jeremiah’s Proplwcy Mothers Lament Bpecial Cable to The Btar. mmtmhuh-udtookmnnhn— pened once before when. Jeremiah prophesied the dawn of Christianity. Grief hangs cloud-like over everything. Millions of mothers lament their dead children. Distress cripples whole na- tions and the air vibrates with the groans of those languishing in misery. But suddenly. the rays of a star pene- trate the darkness and attrict the attention of the wise and powerful and suides them to Bethlehem, ‘%o the manses wherein the Savior of Enkind was cradled and shepherds hear from the lips of the angels in the midst of the dark night: “Glory tu God in the highest “Peace on earth, good will to man." Is this miracle now to be repeated as thin suffering hag been? Thousands of Germans belleve it today. “Our suffer- i 18 eaing 10 Set ond s they, sy e wortd 1e beginning to see that it cannot exist without Germany’s reco ery. America is going to intervene. It will grant a big loan and compel France to reduce her claims. After a few years the mark will recover its old value Dollar’s Decline Hatled. The tangible reason for this beliet here {5 the fact that the dollar declined 3,000 marks in the last few days. All the Test aa I write is intangible rumor. hav- ing as its origin political and financial epeculation. The causes for political ulation’ are less evident than the in object of the financiers, who desire 10" Duy raw. stuits Tor Germany. . and shares in Germany below yesterday’ exorbitant prices, and wish, by boosting the mark, fo reduce thelr forelgn billa. The great Anglo-French business negotiations, with _reparations and the near ¢ast as the objectives, are yet unconcluded. Kemal Pasha’ Turks want money and, naturally. a8 they did not recelve the 250.000,000 franca they demanded in Paris, they fiemsd to England, where s gave them a for | L600000 Feriing ith & prospect of | © further aid, thus spolling the French' game on the one hand and the Rus- sian on the other. Blufiag at Lamsa The course of the Lausanne con- ference henceforth can be nothing but a bluff, but England, who will- ingly paid a large sum for her share of the control of the straits and tran- quilization of the Indlan Mohametans, has as yet not found an effectual means of making France yield on reparations. The effort to_do this by lowering the exchange rate of the franc has been unsuccessful, despite the fact that American private institutions helped in_the matter for pacificist reasons. French railways have had British money advanced to them, while Frenoh trade with Russia has been rendered possible, with the re- sult that the position of the franc necessarily Iimproved. During the recent London confer- ence it became clear to Premier Poin- ;care that America’s | | : Dead Children. help ‘would be btainable only when France desisted ’ from military force. He alnres.edl | this intention in the chamber, and Deputies Tardieu and Loucheur, who | desire to succeed him, agreed with hi Th! rogress, but for s still “Long: to erary. T r France to be brought to the British viewpoint on the principal questions—the near east, reparations debt and disarmament—she must be intimidated and made to appear as the only obstacle preventing solution of all political and economic difficul- ties_with American help. " Large Loan Not Remedy. It is comprehensible that this wish has engendered the latest rumors, but it is impossible that this belief pre- vails in America, whose co-operation 1 myself have frequently stated is necessary, but that even a large loa: could miraculously heal the world's| economic _ sickness {s foolish to be- lieve. What is the origin of this sick- ness- France claims more money than QGermany could possibly find. Jand wants to recover her narkets. The American want to sell the product of their so American manufacturers want to s ‘ment in the healing power of u loan | when he considers all these symp- jtoms? What would happen whose proceeds would be exhausted in a year in a country which to printa” twelve billion ~paper marks | daily? The certain consequence would be'a terrible industrial crisis | which we have thus far cscaped, but which could not then be avoided as! s00n as the manufacturers had uscd up their materials. Girl Lies Much Deeper. The cause of the evil lies much | deeper than those who think only of { reparagions. ope’s _economic sit- uation 'became untenable through the war which killed half a billion men, and at the same time buflt up new industries in other parts of the world and destroyed Europe's quasi-monop- oly. FEuropean industry must he r organized on a smaller scale through inter-European c: The wise man’: the way any mere wight. Franco-Germap collaboration. | which could be obtained now, includ- | ing the French colonles by a tactful; honest policy at Eerlin, should be the first tsep toward economic restoration and would be the best substitute for a United States loan pact which the bankers refuse to conclude. i A second, and no longer distant ol Jective would be a Pan-European eco- nomic organization. The seeds of this would be fertilized by the manna of a loan, but If the latter falls too soon from heaven it will only shrivel barren earth. The idea of a Chri tian community in the west came from Asia. If America forces the old continent to a recognition of an eco- nomic community as the only remedy for the greatest misery then will the Christmas miracle be renewed this time in a solld earthly way and the gentle warm sun of world peace will rise over all men and bring good will once more. - (Copyright, 1922.) Mistletoe Traditions Hark Way Back to In recent vears the disappearing mistletoe for Christmas decorations recalls that of this traditional ven: rated plant there are about 500 known species, mostly tropical and parsitic. The European mistletoe, viscum- album, has been for ages consecrated to religious purposes by the Celtic nations of Europe, and has been held in pecular veneration by the Driuds, especlally when found growing on the oak. Traces of the old super-| stitious regard for mistletoe still| survive in European countries, as in the custom of kissing under its| hanging boughs at Christmas. Some weeks ago a D ph ap- peared in the forestry and 5c|entlflc publications of the country that the United States Agricultural Depart- ' ment was endeavoring to eradicate FIRE AT MOVIE STUDIO | BURNS 1,100,000 FEET | Damage at Universal City Totals| $350,000, Including Value of | Destroyed Films. | By the Associated Press. 1,0S ANGELES, Calif., December 23. —Fire at Universal City, a suburb, late today destroyed 1,100,000 feet of film at the Universal studios, gutted one building and resulted in the injury of | one man. Damage was estimated at $350,000, including the value of the mo- tion picture films. Between thirty-five and forty produc- tions were included in the destroyed prints. The negatives from which the prints were made, however, weres saved. Besides the one man, Edward Bush, & film cutter, who was said to have been seriously injured, four others were Days of Druids the parasitic mistletoe from a species of trees most subject to Injury: that its growth on coniferous trees.in the northwestern United States is such as to assume in many regions the nature of a serious forest problem. On inquiry at the office of inves- tigations in forest pathology it was found that the efforts of the d-parl- ment were directed at the mistletoe | genus razoumofskya. a large species which grows in our northwestern states. In the United States the niistletoe is phoradeddron, a genus of plants, re- sembling viscum, and gives the forest and orchards a peculiar appearance in winter. Bulletin 360 of the office of forest Dllhvlo‘y of the bureau of plant industry, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, by Dr. James R. ‘Welr, gives an interesting account of this species of mistletoe and its effects on the growth of trees. SNAPPY PREMIER OF ITALY CALLED NAPOLEON FOURTH | By the Associated Press. ROME, December 23.—+Napoleon the Fourth” is the title by which Benito Mussolini, the young pre- mier of Italy, is fast becoming known locally, owing to his resem- blance to Bonaparte in personal appearance and in his daily inter- course with his visitors and lleu- tenants. Six representatives of the press. after. speaking with Mussolinl for over an hour the other night, were evenly divided as to whether this Napoleonic attitude of the fascisti leader was natural or merely a pose. Mussolini snapped back his an- swers In short, Incisive sentences. slightly burned or overcome by smoke. They were Herman Kerry, an acto Fred Archer, heard of the art title de- partment, and Frank’Atkinson and Ed- ward Curtis, film cutters. FINDING OF LOST FLYERS IS STILL UNVERIFIED Army Officers Investigating Report of Charred Corpses Have Sent No News. Verification eof - finding the two bodis of the Army aviators, Col. Francis C. Marshall and Lieut. C, L. ‘Webber, a late hour last night, flr AMarshall, 'fln of the former aviat Iler residence, the Brighton Ho! been ready for more than a week to leave upon receiving authentic infor- mation. Two Army officers left Friday in an automebile ‘to investigate rumors of the findin bodies on the Papago Indian reservation, seventy- five miles west of Tucson, Arix, but have u yet sent no word to Nogales, from whence they departed. SOUR STOMACH, GAS, BELCHING. One Dose of Many times his right hand wan- dered into his waistcoat across his chest, and” with his-clean-shaven face of a somewhat sallow hue and short, but stocky stature, ho presented a plcture not unlike th!( of the llrl( Napoleon after he placed himself upon the throne of Franoce, Fasoist] soldiers have a sort of adoration for their leader, and this resemblance to Napoleon seems to make a great impression on them. had not been established at ;| Connecticut Avenue Bridge, Wardman Hotel. Prices With Ave. m dmly from 9 to af a;w A Community of in Woodley Park Finished and wunder construction—just over the Flyer Takes Trip Along treet Feet Over C rowd By the Associated Press. . PARIS, December 23.—Aviator Becheler today introduced the air- visne Into Paris’ already compli- cated traffic problem when he Vit ited the air salon in a little tour- st machine, crossing the .Champs _Elysees only forty feet from the ground and landing exactly opp: site the entrance to the exhibition. The police w him coming and stoped all traffic to prevent an a cident. Then, as Becheler folded the wings of his airplane and pushed it against the curb like an automobile, they served him with notice to appear in court on & charge of violating the ordlnln against flying low over the city. —— DR. B. C. PERRY PLACED ON STATEHEALTH BOARD : Head of l(ontgvmery County Com- missioners Honored by Governor. DR, B. C. PERRY. Dr. Benjamin C. Perry of Bethesda, Md.. has just been notified by Gov. ert C. Ritchie that he has been appointed a member of the state board of health, for a term to expire if May, 1928. Dr. Perry's appointment as’ brought about, the governer stated, under the reorganization plan, which is now being worked out among the many boards, commissions and departments of the state government. With the appointment to the board comes the distinction to Dr. Perry of being the only one outside of Balti- more selected for the board, as the remaining members of the body are from Johns Hopkins Hospital or mem- bers “of the medical profession of Baltimore. Dr. Perry is president of the board of county commissioners of Mont- gomery county. His term is to ex- pire in May, 1923, but he probably will be a candidate for re-election. Under his leadership the board has reduced taxes in the county to a point where they are the lowest in the state and also has made extensive public improvements. Dr. Perry, in addition to his public service, is a_practicing physician of Bethesda and also a member of the board of directors of the Central Trust Company of Maryland, at Fred- erick, the largest financial institution 'in the western part of the state. He has lived in Bethesda for the past t\\'e years, going to that place from Frederick. where he spent thirteen ars. He is a graduate of George Washington University and has taken post-graduate work at Johns Hopkina Tniversity. PLUNKETT SAILS FOR U. S. Plans Six-Week Visit in Interest of Irish Agriculture. LIVERPOOL, December 23.— Sir Horace Plunkett sailed today on the Adriatic for a six-week visit to Wash- ington and other American cities in behalf of the Irish government. Sir Horace, who for many vears has been interested in agricultural sub- jects, having held a number of official Dositions in that connection, will in- quire especially into agricultural efforts in the United States. 2699 Exclusive Homes near Rock Creek Park and Terms—Less than Rent Reasonable $2,000, and $150 a month, of which $94 is & saving, See our complete model "Home at 2822 Commecticut 5:30. Furnishings courtesy e |SEE HIGHER REALTY VALUATIONIN D. . New Biennial Property As- sessment Will Be Published on January 2. TOTAL VALUE IS BASIS Appeals Will Be Allowed for Six- Month Period Under Law. 'l‘ha new biennial assessment of all estate in the District will be muc public January 2 and will show I tol.ll valuation in excess of present it was predicted at the Dis- trlct building yesterday. Officials of the assessor's office were not in a position yesterday to even estimate what the new assessment will aggregate, but they freely pre- dicted it would be greater than the present total of $727,000,000. A staff of employes will work with their sleeves rolled up this week get the new assessment books fin ished before New Year day. So, after the celebrations of Chrisi- mas are over and the old year hasx been ushered out. taxpayers will be- gin to flock to the District buflding to find out what valuc has been put on_their homes. The new assessment books will be open for appeals for six months from January 1. Blanks have been pre- pared at the District building to be filled in my appellants. Here ar £ome of the questions you must &n- £wer in noting an appeal: In what year was the property ac- quired” What was the full consid eration? What do you consider its true value? State whether the prop- erty was acquired by auction, ex- change or private sale? Is objection to the assersment based on the value of land or improvement? ‘When the last assessment was made. the law required only Congress recently ordai that property in the DI trict must hereafter he assesscd full value. In making that chang Congreas also directed that taxes b paid half in November and half in May of each The new legisla- tion was enacted %o late in the year 1922 that Assessor Richards found it impossible to revalue property on 100 per cent basis in time for the No- Vember tax payment. Ome-Third Added. The only thing he could do was to arbitrarily add an additional one-third to the existing two-thirds lue a=- sessments. The taxcs due in Ma: will be based on this makeshift as- sessment. But the tax bills for the fiscal year beginning July 1. 1923, will be based on the new assessments that are (o become public next week. The rate of taxation to be applir. to the new assessment figures will not be fixed by the Commissioners until the appropriation bill, now in the making, has become law. Under the new fiscal arrangement the District must raise from taxation 60 per cent of all appropriations. Thus when the appropriation bill has been enacted the Commissioners and Aud- itor Donovan determine by calcula- tion what rate applied: to the assess- ment figures will produce the re- quired 60 per cent of appropriations This Year the tax rate in $130 per 8100 of assessed value. What it wiil be after July 1 will depend entirel: on the amount to be appropriated for the District for next year. It was predicted the District building yesterday that many apart- ment house assessments will be high- er on the new books. In the case of dwellings, some wiil be assessed higher, while others will be lower, according to the improve- ment or deterforation that has taken place in each neighborhood since the last assessment was m: Millions of dollars’ WOl o property that Is taxable now will Ro on the exempt list after January 1. as the result of having been pur- chased by the government or by charitable and religious institutions that are not required to pay real estate taxes. One of the most notable instancex of this kind will be the Center Mar- ket, which has passed to the control of the Department of Agriculture. Office in your Neighborhood —and make full use of its convenience when you have Classified Ads for The Star. Here are the North- west Branches: 1418 ot. 458 Vermont ave., John C. un. and P ate. Day'e Pharmacy. th and U Clemence. um 228 Cuftow’ stn, . 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