Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1923, Page 11

-BEGUN WITH TRAGEDY TWELVE MONTHS END| d WITH PROSPERITY Starting of New Conduit and Building Boom Among Out- standing When the future historian writes of Washington he will find | Feature | 000 being held by the Potomac Elec- | tric Power Company pending the de- cislon of the United States Supreme n the valuation of the com- | pany’s property. This litigation be- | ®an in 1917 and the money impounded | represents the difference between the | 10 cents per kilowatt hour collected by the company and the § cents the company is allowed to use by court order, s DISTRICT IN CONGRESS Legislation of far-reaching impor- tance to the Dist t of Columbia was turned out by Congress during the year just closed. That which touched residents of the capital more widely than auny other measure w. the new, permanent fiscal relations the District and the fed- ment set up by the ap- bill for the fiscal year policy for cral goverr propriation 1923, The law extending the life t | District Rent Commiss for tw years and the law compelling the re- of THE MERCHANT o D. O, MONDAY, MARINE IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1904 he following poem, written by a Washington man eighteen vear: € y ewith republished in connection with the present discussion of the |and a decision is expected early in the hip aid bill.) One thing your great party has Which, knowing its history, non In eariier years every ocean wai By the sails of your commerce; Quite out of existence, by Confel Who spread havoe and loss, far You must somehow restore it; your ago, sorely neglected, e would have expected. s whitened it was ruined, and frightened, derate cruisers, beyond the first losers. »ng line of coast, Your deep roomy harbors must soon see a host, Of American steamers, laden dow Which now all the nations have If you look to the government, & The minority raise; call it out-and The basis on wh ch’ they will 15 80 much more wn with the freight, o learned to await. + behold what a bobbery out robbery; te public money exalted; it really is funny. Why, if sibsidized shipping should be so derided, Are subsidized rivers and harbo They both build up commerce, rs provided? which without such assistance Could never have even come into existence. What's the differenc The money from w There’s money for lev ther, There’s money to cure all the ca Just this tering congression: A ship subsidy restricts deestricts. s money for weevils, ttle of evils, JANUARY 1, 1923 the school for tubercular pupils on the Upshur street tract was taken to court. Justice Bailey granted an in- junction and the Commissioners faled to complete their appenl in time. A | review of the decirion was asked and denied by Justice Bailey. An appeal from the refusal to grant the review was argued in the Court of Appeals ew year. |, Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, lieutenant | in charge of the woman's bureau, se- | cured a writ of certforari against the | District Commissioners and Justice Hitz heard arguments for and against her petition to compel the Commis- sioners to rescind their approval of vortion of a finding of the police trial board, which, in acquitting her of a charge of insubordination, added words indicating that she was “lack- ing in a proper conception of disci- piine.’ Justice Hitz has not yet sign- ed a formal order in the case, but is bhave sustained the |m understood to claim of Mrs. Van Winkle and direct- ed the preparation of such order. DRY LAW ENFORCEMENT SCHOOLS ADVANCED AS SYMPATHY FOR VITAL NEEDS GROWS Progress Made Salaries and H Toward Better igher Standard of Efficiency. of the Development of the intelligent sympathy community d the am- moval of snow and ice from the s Ther b " E 5 : . . s . o e e money galore for “promotion of amity, O. T. Davis, Sergt. James the vear 1922 one of the most eventful periods in the annals of the | Walks by the occupants of hou q o any National Capital. The year that has just pass brought tragedy with it when it still in its infancy when on the blinding snowstorm. the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater col- Condu lapsed, kill Ne fro old ninety-seven persc ¢ Begun. Aside be- ginning, tage of gatifying memories, The new water conduit ¥alis, for which the tions of tha city for a number of & few months ago Congress ordered a thorough i vastigation into the District's claim to the five million doil Jocal tax money which h: in the United States Tre years. fortunate the city pleasant this u left more 1 a heri many and or from Great civic organiza- fizhting started been was c have a years, > : rs of sury in recen Provision for Conl. coal strike was sett o apparent that winter the When the ed and ft becan would be scarce th up in 1 mmission_ the m ating the distribu necessity of Tife Under the ditec operation of 1 cerns maint Athoug empic ' workin pners set Tne w nearly be many war. twelve Daylizht Sa Wi te ofticial which Unsatisfac n inz ory. had unsatisractory immer with 1vlight by rien e last s an un- saving, nd carlic after made indi- would form of was brought about start the work m. When old hours in were th s repeited problem ons held attention With the ereasing ing 1 hour the was er the plan th in return ptem the future improving ic e limelight of pub- roughout the vear. number of machines in by 1 and bounds, park in the business section became more of & puz as the year progressed. The arri of the new the Commissioners organizing a spe al committee to study the question and rccommend methods of improve- ment. na to nf vear fimls Enactment of legislation the District governmer, a cash within five the most far-reaching Year in municipal affairs Congress at the same time made two other important changes operation of the machinery of Eovernment, namely Incre ing the assessment estate for taxation purposes two-thirds to full value, nd ing that half of all taxes be November and the of each fiscal veu By getting on a cash basis Congres; meant that the District <hould rajse such a surplus of revenues as would, after 1927 enable the city o mes each month its proportion of the ex- pense of running the city. Hereto fore practically all of the city's reve- nues were collected in May, which 1s near the end of the fiscal vear, The Treasury would advance the moncy for District expenses and in May ail District tax monty would o into the Treasury to meet the local govern- share of appropriations for ear. Maj. Donovan, that to create the city should from now unptil of $3,000,000." He requiring was e the in the local of real from requir- paid in balance in May auditor, estimated the required surplus se $600,000 annual 1927, figured making & tota that such sum, together with the payment half of the taxes in November enable the nmissioners t6 meet their obligations from month to month, Karly in the year Engineer Commis- sloner Keller began the task of re- Vising the building code, which work is S0l in progress he a of would i collapse of the Knickerbocker Theater in January served to concen- trate public attention upon the in- adequacy of personnel and salaries in the building inspeetor’s office. Congres as a result, appripriated $30,000 add tonal funds for temporary cmploves, but made no_increase in the salarie building inspectors forca . “IAries of Another aftermath of the Knicker- bocker tragedy was the formulation of legislation to provide for licensing of architects and construe tion engineers. Commissioner Oyster, in charge of the health, fire and police ,Jf,,a"f ments, engineered a city-wide clean- up campaizn in the spring, a feature f which was a war on high weeds on vacant lots. In April the Commi: a 3.6 per cent reduction in the wages of the 2,000 per diem laborers and mechanics in the employ of the cit A bureau of information was estab- lished in the District building early in the vear, with Dr. Wililam Tindall s dircctor. - Dr. Tindall is himself a walking bureau of information. A District_employe since the days of ov. Shepherd, he served as secretary to every board of Comissioners un- til a few vears ago. In June the Commissioners removed Dr. Lewis A. Griffith from the posi- tion of superintendent of insurance of the District, after he had declined to resign. The ousted official took the matter to the District Supreme Court, where it is now pending. Burt A. Miller was named superintendent to succeed Dr. Griffith. Maj. Cary H. Brown, assietant en- gineer commisisoner, was relieved irom duty at the District bullding by oners ordered 1t to get upon | the | ed in the onward march of time came twelve months ago. 1t was e night of January 28, during a ms and injuring many others | the chief of engineers and sent Camp Humphreys in September. M Raymond Wheeler was detailed succeed Maj. Brown in charge of cer- tain branches of the engineer de- | partment | The Ches | pany during the vear the city. on which engineers of any based a prediction that the population here would 000. On October 24 former Commis Macfarland was pres trict government by and unveiled in _the impressive exercises. Late in November civie banded themselves together in the | Washington Safety Council and set it to cut down the toll of deaths and iries the stree The first »owas staging of an intensive peake and I made a survey th in 4 t of the late Henry B. F. nted to the Di Mrs. Macfarland boardroom with { 4 portra leaders the eampa Decimber the issioners fol a up ¥ week with ap tment of a committee « a few thorough study tion and nent Toward the missioner Keller began tion bill providin zasoline used by he n ntire tra methods safet of outsiders to the rt rep of end of the vear Com- the prepa for a tax MOotoTists as a mea of bringing about automobile rec procity with Maryland. That state has aiready adopted the gas tax and offered to tall reciprocity with = th District it similar legislation Is en- a. | adjacent enacted I m | head of the District of through the year| neial condition.” M Daniel J The government passed 1id fin of in splen words audit | Donovan, city | With Iy $15 in the bonde of | 15 and surplus revenues wunt of §3 has list indebtedness Treasury to the an local municipality the of the best showings in one s American cities. The for the 104,79 nuc the District totaled iade up as follows ond cash last of receipts fiscal year :3 fron miscellaneous souree X received from United States as its proportion of ap. propriat Real extate 1860, v 1x ions for the last fiscal ye mounted to $5,431.- 180.23; on tangible personal property, including corporation taxes, $2.670,- 284.92, and _on intangible prope §949,058. Collecti from miscel- laneous sources aggrezated $1.866.- | 48247 Auditor Denovin t committes on \ ve vear preparin 1 hefore Congress the city H more th £5.000,000 | plus revenues, | Under the new system ordered by | < in the current appropriation now are payable (wice a November and_ May. As- Richards and Collector of Towers had a busy summer getting the tax bills ready in tim for the November pavment. when ap- | proximately £5.000.000 of the revenue for this fiscal year was paid in by property owners. Washington’s bonded wiped out by AWgust, 1924. The bonds, limited .000,000, “ha nearly run the fifty-year period, and the auditor hopes to have sinking fund assets sufficient to retire them at | the time scheduled. PUBLIC UTILITIES. and the fiseal citizens relations to de- claim { joi i ac of bhe 1 debt will | Teductions | in gas, electricity, tele- phone and street car rates were made during 1922 by the Public Utilities Commis: The cuts were as fol- lows: Street car fare, from five tokens for 85 cents to six for 40 cents. Gas, from $1.10 to $1.05 per thousand cubio feet to householders who use less than 50,000 cubic feet per month. ectric rates, a discount of 5 per cent on practically all classes of serv. 1€ felephones, a_reduction of 50 cents per month in the rate for unlimited residence service. Tow the end of the vear the Federation of Citizens' Associations sought another reduction in fare on the lines of the Capital Traction Company only, but the petition was turned down. The motor bus continued to develop during the year as a medium of trans portation in the District. The Wash- ington Railway and Electric Company entered the field with the establish- ment of four routes, namely: On Park road northwest, into Zoological Park, [into Rock Creek Park and one from Connecticut avenue and Columbia road to Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street. ! The Washington Rapid Transit | Company continued to develop, estab- lishing a route on Rhode Island avenue, busses alternating between 8th and Pennsylvania avenue and Potomac Park. This company started another line on achusetts avenue: from Union station to Sheridan Circle, but found no demand for service and dis- continued it. The Capital Traction Company was given permission to extend its tracks dcross the new Georgetown briuge and to charge a special fare df half a cent for each passenger transported | he commission rejected the peti- tion of the Capital Traction Company to remove its trolley poles on Con- enue between Calvert and streets from the center of reet to the curbs. The application for an extension of the 16th street bus line of the Washington Rapid Transit Company from Buchanan street to the District line was rejected, but a few weeks ago the commission decided to give another hearing on this question. During the year the commission received frequent and numerous complaints from citizens' associations against the operation of one-man cars by the Washington Railway and Electric Company, but adhered to its previous decision ‘that these cars are safe and adequate. ‘As the vear drew to a closs the records of the commission showed that there now is more than §3,000, | alties for the | in_numb. | force ance were other outstanding measures enacted during the vear. In_the District appropriation et the o ? the District, government pa expenses of the c ol the District which had been Years—was made the place of the in 1§ Full Valu The District provided that purpose of t at full valu by which the 40 per cent federal of the 60 in pe of pern old cent—a plan t for several nent, tuking 50-50 Anxesyments. poropriation act assessments for xation should be and for semi-annual payment of on real property, one-lalt on November 1 and the pther on May 1, instéad of an annual pavment. This change in the law was le s0 as to put the District on a cash-paving basis and to obviate the necessity of having the-federal gov- ernment .advance the District which were paid when the taxes were collected. The District Comumissioners were in- to levy sufficient taxes dtr- structed ing the next five vears to roll 1 bhack ing plan completely effective At the same time provision w made for an investigation to ascer- tain just how much surplus revenues the Dist had to its credit in the Treasur present. It has been timed this surplus now amounts bout $5.000.000. A joint committer was | ap Vith Senaior Phipps at This committse now en- saged in this work investigation and, under the law, must report t both houses of Congr or be the fivst Monday bru. t that pointed al with The District uppropriat ried important items for it the water supply of the capital and for school and strect improvements. Rent Act Extende On the ground that the housing sit- uation in the District still was acute the Congress put throuzh a bill in- troduced by Senator Ball, chairman District mittee, extending of the Ball rent act 1 The s bill provided the membership of commission to five. Although this act has in effect for seven hs. the President has not yet ap- ted the new ission and the commissioners continuing life 19, f inereasing been Doi old ot are The bill to compel District to clean the sidewalks and places of was through following the Knicke ater disaster. There had ovement foot for many put through a law whic stand the test of the courts the people to clean the residents of the snow and ice from T hocker been years to would nd force snow from | the sidewalks, and it is believed that the new will hold The law ‘has been framed if attacked in the courts called “bad check” law was it 1other put on the statute books dur- | ing the year. It regulates issue of checks, drafts and orders for -the payment of mioney and provides pen- making of drawer know funds in bank when the ire not srders Under another act banks in the District _are prevented from estab- lishing branches in the District with- that to out first obtaining the consent of the controller of the currency. New Police Created. At the u request of the trict Cor ione Congres: through a law postponing until June 1, 1923, the day on which alley dw ers in the all Di ys. It is expected, however. that either a further extension willl !have to be granted or that some steps ill have to be taken by Congress to 14,000} help se these before Jun Houee pol Congres people, some next force separate A White created by d which in reality strength of the police force, prior to this move the White Hous was policed by the regular city police. The laws regulating marine insu business in the District were re vised, a_new law being put through, de adds to front | building. 7 A number of important bills were passed through either the Senate or by ing_ action ry, with Tlouse without recei the other body nece the Presidential approval, to make them Some of these, it is hoped, will the close Taws. be - finally enacted before of the present Congress, March 4 next Among these are the Senate bills for increased pay for public teachers of the District, bill for a school stringent compulsory education law, and the Ball bill authorizing merger of the street railway panies of the District tomac Electric Power Company School Needs Probed. Several hearings and inves tions of important matters 60-40 plan of appropriating for pital and the people statute the made | up a surplus and thus make the cash-pay- s its ntil May the | in | adjacent to their homes put | uch orders there meet the | put ol the District must move from was, and tinct from the metropolitan police the since signed to be a model for the states. Congress passed a law providing for | the restoration to its former site of the | statue of Abraham Lincoln, a gift of the citizens, which for years stood in the District Supreme Court school the Capper census and more the com- and the Po- tiga- in the And money to head off impendin There’s money for forest For surveys, for the weather, Besides the free books. and exp They subsidy ery with sinister It any grant lacks agricultural What e but for commerce To pay for all thes When great tracts of land to th That was subsidized comme If their people want help, the m. They're exceedingly honest, dese \nd must have it, of course. hut To get back ocean freights, and t We can vote private gifts of all But don't ask us to help truly gr Increasing vour trade, giving th At the thought of it even each d Disregard all they say; give t And a new day will dawn for A | | sums of money for was th ' and no one was offended. No one got excited, objected or ranted g calamity; . for parks and for fishing. F Imost for the wishing. There is seed for the farmers, and 1l their relations, eriment stations. All ald to the farmers is rightly extended, To any one else it cannot be defen ed, neaning leaning, money expended, e railroads were granted; ; then why such commotion If you subsidize commerce to float on the ocean? inority t2lls us, erving good fellows, suggest an endeavor hey answer you, never; sorts of small sizes, eat enterprises, ousands good wages, lemocrat rages, hem one more good whipping, merican shipping. A H N e D PO S 1 L O lating to companies responding to alarms of fire was made. Companics | now respond to the sounding of the first round instead of the second, as heretofore, which means a saving of from twenty to thirty conds i reaching fires. Members of the de- nt participated in the base contest with the police, which netted $16,308 for the firemen's re lief fund, and the ticket purchased President Harding and the pen in signing his name w pre- 1 to Chief W n ization of « fifth battalion marked the changes during the year Battalion Chief Thomas O'Connor was appointed drill master. Members of | the force retired during the year were Capt. C. E. Ha pr.J Hooper. Capt. W utl W Virts and Priv P. Purcell, Henry, Lambert, J roer, P. 1. Carroll, | Cooper. E. C. Moyer, E. S. Folli T M. Catter- K W member of the depa al injuries during d natural death Marshall B L Boyd wnd D. J. Bi es during g the totaled approximatel nt re- the year. The dead nd | twelve $900.- 000 nths i Sounding of false alarms, approxi- mately 200, caused the department much concern and loss of time | it was while responding to alarm a few days ago that an paratus killed Alfred Bridenbec ran elderly man, former resident Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Chief Watson expressed himself as favoring a more stringent law for persons who send in false alarms. In three dozen in- stances fire compinies responded to calls received for fires In Maryland and Virginia, One hundred and sixty-thres persons, including many firemen. were injured or overcome at fires. an such POLICE DEPARTMENT. Retirement of Maj ford. superintendent, of Inspector Daniel Sullivan to the| vacancy were the most Important {chauges in the police department the | past twelve months. Detective Henry | G. Pratt was made inspector and as-| sistant superintendent, vice Inspector Francis E. Cross, retired. Capt. Albert J. Headley moted to an inspectorship and given full charge of the traffic bureau, while Capt. William S. Shelby wa designated acting inspector and| placed in charge of much of the more important work in MaJ loffice Other promotions included those of Martin Reilly, Ira Sheetz and L. J Stoll, who were made captains and placed in_charge of precincts. O. T. Davis. J. M. Walsh, J. F. Beckett, W P. Hess and Maurice Collins were| made lieutenants. Davis was pi in charge of the vice squad and (¢ lins was designated hack inspector. More than 1,900 arrests were made members of the detective office, orking under Inspector Clifford L. ant, chicf of that branch of the| service. Forty-one homicide cases were investigated during the year, according to Inspector Grant's rec- ords, and only one remains uns Arrests_were made in thirty-c cases. In another case it known that the slayer, a Gre returned to his native Identity of two colored another case became known, but they were not captured: while in the re- maining _case, that of an Italan storekeeper. identity of the slayer was not established. Total number of arrests for the | year numbered 66.426, the number be- ing made much greater than it other- wise would have been by reason of the strict enforcement of the traffic laws. Arrests of housebreakers num- bered 654, while there were 57 ar- rests In_murder and manslaughter cases. Charges of robbery were pre- ferred against 184 persons. Harry L. Gess- and promotion was pro-| Sullivan's District were conducted by congres- sional committees. of the Senate and House, Senator Capper of Kansas, prehensive report will be weeks, it is said. The Senate ings on the national ple of the District and reported favorably to the Senate, and it now on’ the Senate calendar. resolution here shall ators and be entitled to elect sen- representatives to Con- gress and to vote for presidential and vice presidential electors. The same committee reported fa- vorably also the Poindexter bill pro- viding for the election by the people delegate to the This measure also is on the here of a voteless House. calendar of the Senate. FIRE DEPARTMENT. George S. Watson, chief of the fire department, and members of the force were highly commended by the Di trict Commissioners for thelr work at the scene of the Knickerbocker Theater disaster, which required work for more. consecutive hours than had any other call during the year. More important promotions during the year were those of Capts. ‘W. F. Lanahan and C. F. Beers to the position of battalion chief. Thomas M. Robinson, superintendent of machinery, was retired and 0. E. Fearn appointed to the vacancy. A change In the regulations ge- committee held hear- Jones resolution for a constitutional amendment looking to representation for the peo- it is The proposes that the people A joint committee headed by investi- gated the school needs, and a com- made by this committee within the next few DISTRICT CORONER. An act of Congress deprived the coroner of means of transportation, requiring that official to defray such expenses out of his salary, which is the same as the salary provided for the office more than a quarter of a century ago. The work of the coroner necessitated trips to all parts of the District at all hours, and it be- came necessary for him to furnish his own automobile. During the course of the year Cor- oner J. Ramsay Nevitt viewed ap- proximately 1,500 bodies, and held in- quests in all homicide and most of the fatal accident cases. KForty-eight suicides claimed his attention during the twelve months. Qoroner Nevitt's most Wmportant inquiry was the inquest held in the Knickerbocker Theater disaster. and he was highly commended for the ex- peditious manner in which he con- ducted the investigation. THE COURTS. The District Court of Appeals at- tracted international attention by at least one of its decisions during 1922. The action of this tribunal in grant- ing a rehearing of the minimum wage cases and rendering a decision invali- dating the law fixing 2 minimum wage for women and minors in the District of Columbia was published ot only throughout the Unifed States jture, but at least one London paper de- voted a column to the opinion and it s noted in some French publica- tions. More than 500 copies of the opinion were sold. liast year in the absence of one of the justices of the court a dec had been rendered upholding the but on the return of this justice a reliearin - was allowed. Both de- cisions had been by a divided court, Wie former being rendered by Chief Justice Smyth_and Justice Stafford with Justice Van Orsdel dissen: and the latter by Just Van Orsde and Robb with the chief justice dis- senting The work terially aid, Congress of this tribunal was ma- d this year by the act of authorizing Chief Justice | Tait to assign judges of the United States sit in During judges he Court of Customs Appeals to the lociul appellate division the past three months these have been participating in rings. The court during the vear and has under ad- Visement about seventy-five cases, ir forty of which decisions are expecte shortly. In addition. the justices acted on 132 original petitions. During the year there were docketed 247 cases The establishment of an addit nal grand jury to investigate alleged war frauds’is the outstanding feature of a review of the Distriet Supreme Court. Congress authorized the new grand jury and gave Attorney Gen- 1 Diugherty $500.000 to prosecute war frauds. Only two indictments ¥ been returned and a third pro- dropped by the new grand jury. “Indictments were reported ihe ‘sale of surplus lumber from Army cantonments and in the pur chase of the Old Hickory powde nt at Jackson enn. The nd jurors were unable to find an overt acts in connection with an leged conspiracy to mulet the ernment in the sale of the Mugneto Company rendered vinions ding Bosch The most important indictments re- | |ported by the gular grand jury were the Knickerbocker disaster man- slaughter charge against the arch tect and four others connected with the building of the unfortunate struc. the collap: of which took a of 97 lives. and the indictment onspiracy against Charles . his three sons and eight others. demurry to the Knickerbocker in- i it was sustained by Justic Siddons and the government has ap- pealed. The Morse case is schedu or trial February 6. A total of 1 dictmenis was returned b regular grand jurors during 1922. The death sentenck for murder in the first degree was imposed on four people during last vear. None of the ntences was executed because of an appeal pending on the question of the right of the jail warden to hang prisoners. Six prisoners were sent to the penitentiary for life for homi- cides and Roy Gordon, colored, got thirty vears for standing guard while his brother-killed Stephen Miller, a storekeeper. Alberta Garner, colored, received term of fifteen years for killing her husband, Arthur. Howard 1. Holt, white, vears for intimacy with thirteen- r-old girl pupil of dancing den and Alfred Lawrence. a sol- dier, fiftcen vears, for an attack on nine-year-old girl. “Dapper Joe Lauzon, who is sald to have looted many residences and apartments to the extent of $100,000, {= serving a term of twenty years, while Charles A. Grock, sixty-five years old, drew asentence of ten vears for shooting former Senator Henderson of Nevada. ong the interesting cases in ty were the application of the ernational Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers for an injunction to prevent the operation of the Daugh- erty lahor injunction secured in Chi- cago, the injunction proceeding of the State of Lou retary Fall relating to one million acres of land in that state, and the petition of James McDonald, jr., of Palo Alto. Calif.. for the Immediate distribution of the residue of $2,500 000 of the estate of his father, James McDonald, Standard Oil magnate. the law side of the court the trial of the $500,000 heart balm_suit of Lieut. Lorimer C. Graham, U. S. N against A. L. Humes, New York law yer, took ‘six weeks, and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. Mrs. Constance Schack Gracie failed in_an attempt to establish an _ alleged lost will of her daughter, Gracie Adams. The court refused a mandamus to compel the Shipping Board to sell the “wooden fleet” to a New York corporation, and Mrs. Charlotte J. 1. McDonaid, now the Marchioness of Huntley, lost a suit to secure possession of $5,000 worth of personal property held by her step- son, James McDonald, jr. Estates totaling $7,116,501.27 were appraised by the Probate Court, where 960 wills were flled during the past year. A total of 1,182 petitions was filed with the register of wills, and 180 applications for appointment of guardians. The court signed 1,984 orders and the office force sent out 2,979 notices, stated 1,923 accounts, copied 22,002 pages and sent out 350 summons, There was a decline in new litiga- tion during 1922. On the law side of the clerk's office only 970 cases were begun and on the equity side 1,107 petitions filed. = During 1921 there were 1,313 lawsuits and 1,152 equity proceedings. Marriages in Washington showed a “falling off” in 1922. Only 5,820 bliss permits were issued, as compared with 6,070 in the preceding vear. The extension of the Ball rent act restored the appellate jurisdiction of the court in general term which was lost in 1893, when the Court of Appeals was organized. Appeals in matters of law from determinations of the commission now are heard by the chief justice and two assoclate Justices of ths court, Only five such appeals were docketed in 1922, and but one made ready for hearing. Decision in that case has not been rendered. The fight of the Pinay Branch Citi- zens’ Association to prevent the Dis- trict Commissioners from locating toll for Mor A got thirty in | al-| gOv- | siana against Sec- | On | Fdith Temple | McQuade and Private Harry G. Baur, composing the central squad of police dry law enforcement members of the department, assisted by thirty police- men in the several precincts, displayed an activity during the year that has brought commendations from their superior officers. It is related of th m th i a I3 hat th did not pl?\’ favorities in their work of enforcing the Volstead t, arresting poor and *h. The were f d to articipate in many exciting automo- blle pursuits and fights, but managed to escape serious injury '.\H‘tlslofl by Lieut. Mina Winkle and other members of the woman’s by u, Lieut. Davis and his .\.ulla(l raided dan, halls and so-calied “booze parti and caused con- *'}v”'ll;(ll(n” among gatherin, of rich- Iv gowned ladies and men in evening costumes, Records of the department show that arrests for violations of the sev eral provisions of the Volstead law totaled more than 11,000, gents of al revenue assisting the police many of them. The greatest number, 1,328, charges of illegal toxicants. Other tions of the have C. Van involved on of in- for via x sections dealing with certain phases of the law were as follows: ~Selling liquor, 1,094; illegal transportation 39 manufacturing liquor, 69; opcrating stilis, illegal possession” of stills, 2% p¥ing evid maintaining 5: conspiracy in connmection wi liquor traffic.” 9: failing to pay re enue tax illegal transportation of, illegal ‘sale” of and holing stills for failing to keep record, $1; using lled prescription, Records show a tots rests for intoxication twelve months, 431 for driving ve- hicles while under the influence of liguor and 234 for drinking in public Seizures by the police and revenue agents was a means of depriving bootleggers of large supplies of in- jtexicants. Whisky seizures alone {amounted to approximately %000 | zallons, w more than 200 gallons tof gin is item in the list of seizures Other ~seizures included 1,858 gal- lons of wine, 8,449 hottles of extracts, 364 gallons of homebrew, 457 gallons of alcohol, § gallons of brandy, 1,204 bottles of beer, 870 bhottles of tonics, 20 gallons of cognac, 7 gallons of assorted beverages and 7,095 gallons of mash. Eighty-three automobiles, two boats and two wagons were eized. Dosse. arrests dest nuisanc { I of = during the ve-1 an | | TRAFFIC BUREAU. ’ | | ! Fifty-four deaths resulted from traffic accidents in this eity during | the vear just ended, aceording to rec- | omis of Inspector Albert J. Headle chicf of the police trathic bureau, 4 decrease of two compared with the preceding year. The total number of accidents for the vear was 6,080, a decrease of 815 compared with the previous vear. Members of the t T point to the activities during week as having an important hear- ing on the question of drivers of automobiles taking extra precau- tions against accidents and probably reducing the number Provision for bureau n the southwest corner streets, and maters of the traflic forces standing matters of chief of the bur duri the vear. In_addition to atalities records show that ere | seriously injured and 1,930 Slightly hurt, the figures being sub: tantially the ame as the preceding year. | Automobiles licensed the past year | exceeded the number of the previous year by 1,922 i bureau safety a new home Gr of al for the ham building, 1ith and E strengthening were the out- interest to the au and the public| the the FILIPINOS ARE ADVISED T0 SEEK INDEPENDENCE Charles E. Russell, Addressing Club at Y. M. C. A, Says U. S. Moves Backward. Urging all Filipinos to make of- | forts to gain their independence, | Charles E. Russell, in an address at | the exercises of the Filipino Club at | the Y. M. C. A. Saturday night in honor of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the national hero | of the Philippines, declared that “the | United States s launched on a hack- ward track.” He stated that Amer- ica had stolen Haiti, Santo Domingo and Panama, and would steal Cuba if it could. “America,” - he declared, ‘“needs ome tonic that will lead it back to the original Declaration of Independ- ence. Representative Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin recalled the days of twenty years ago, when he was chair- man of the House-committee on insu- lar affairs, and the question of the day was the Philippine Islands. “Today,” he said, “the problem of the Philippines is not a political one but a national one.” He urged that the United States live up to its prom- ises in regard to the independence of the Philippines. R Alberto Vitan and Alfredo Samson, both members of the club, urged the | independence of the Filipino peoples and their right to self-government. Bernardo B. Gapuz, president of the club, reviewed the life of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. A musical program was provided. EE T SINO-JAPAN POSTAL PACT IS APPROVED BY HIROHITO Dispute Cabinet and Privy Council Compromised Amicably. By the Associated Pres TOKIO. January 1.—Prince Regent Hirohito" yesterday sanctioned the Sino-Japan postal agreement. The dispute between the cabinet and the privy council regarding the method of dealing with the postal agreement has been compromised, it is under- stood, and the cabinet has promised to submit all future agreements to the privy councll previous to signing them. - The fight between the cabinet and the privy council over the postal agreement resulted in the privy coun- cil passing a resolution condemning the Kato government's policy in its dealing with China. This action was unprecedented in _the history of Japanese politici It finally was de- cided to carry out the Sino-Japan postal agreement in the spirit of the ‘Washington conferencey Between jCallahan and legislators in the needs of the District schools & bition of the authorities for the future progress of the public cdu- cational system was one of the s alient achievements chronicled in the school history of the calendar year oi 1922. The past year was a period of some progress for the school system. Standards for a forward-looking edu- cational program were established An active interest was created in a more nearly adequate compensation for teac Continued efforts were made toward a higher standard of efficiency through adequate congres- sional ~ appropriations. manifested unusual interest in school conditions. Preparation for Future. However, the year was largely one of getting ready to do something. Whether it shall be counted as one of the years of real progress depends more on what may subscquently hap- pen than on what tovk place during the year. If the teachers’ salary bill, the ~ compulsory school _attendance and school census bill and the bills which are being prepared by the joint | congressional committee looking to- ward a reorganization of the sck system are enacted into law the year will have been fruitful. On the other hand, if this proposed legisla tion fails, the yvear will have to b nted among the years of little per 1ent progress Yhatever the future may store, the officials firmly bel interested — in better education for Washington must steadfastly work for the enactment of legislation neces- sary to make possible improved con- ditions and for wppropriations com- with the needs of th tem The united public which was so conspicuous the past vear must continue provements are to be secured. though no legislation was enacted by Congress, many changes of an iministrative ature were made during the year. These changes were designed to improve instruction, arify and systematize administra- tive pract to secure the unity of purpose and action among adminis. trative officials and to improve and eliminate undesirable condition; [ have support during if Increase in Enroliment. The vear was marked by large es in enrollment, particularly in high schools, Early in March there were 64,314 puplls on the school rolls. The atest statisties in N vember showed that the number had passed the 67,000 mark, thereby es- tahlishing a new enrollment record. Despite the great enrollment incre ment. but little ief from the over- crowded conditions was provided Fifty-two classrooms were added to the elementary school through addi- tions completed during the summer, but they served only to eliminate part-time classes and the use of portables in the communitie in which they a located. These addi- tional facilities include the new Rich- ard Kingsman School and the annexes to the John Eaton, Buchanan, Mon- roe, Mott. Wheatle and Deanwo schools, all of which were formal dedicated during Amer n education week, December 3 to 9, Economy Program Hinders. ‘orced economy under which government ix operating was seriously by the schools when original estimates of the hoard education were cut drastically by Commissioners _and the budget bu- reau. When the school budget wa submitted to Congress on December 4, along with other District estimates, { was minus more than $3.000.000 of the original amount asked for by the school board. The following day a movement was launched by the civic bodies of Washington through a rep- resentative commitiee of five headed by Henry H. Glassie to gress reinsert in the school budget all of the items deleted by the Com- missioners and the bureau of the budeet. Several changes in the personnel of the school board occurred during the year. FEarly in January Daniel A. ¥dwards, then president of the hoard. signed at the request of the justice of the District Supreme Court fol- lowing criticisms by members of the District subcommittee on appropria- tions of the House for his connec- tion with the Columbian Informa- tion Bureau. which advertised it in- felt the of the {would furnish essays for school chil- dren vac: was at certain stipulated sums. v created b filled April & was sworn sor on the board. Susie Root Rhodes. after ten of continuous service on the resigned and was succeeded by Raymond B. Morgan. Library Extension, One of the important actions of the board during the year was the ap- proval January 18 of the establish- ment of branch public libraries in the public schools in conformity with a plan for extension of the library serv- ice originally conceived about ten rears ago by Dr. George F. Bower- man, librarian of the Public Library. Shortly afterward the board adopted a resolution providing access to and use of the school branch libraries by all persons, regardles or color. On March 15 ard re- voked that part of the resolution per- mitting the indiscriminate use of the school libraries, following widespread pposition. ORfarly in February the Piney Branch Citizens’ Association condemned the use of Muzzey's American History in the high schools as “wholly lacking to inspire patriotism in the voung and tending to spread class hatred in America,” af the same time launch- ing a campaign to have it withdrawn The board investigated the charges, but has not taken any official public action, and the book is still in use in the high schools. Protest Against Sings, Ministers and_church organizations opposed to the holding of community concerts in the Central High School auditorium on Sunday night on the ground that they conflict with relis gious services in the churches initia l’\ a movement in December to hal; them abandoned on the Sabbath, or the hour changed. A committee of (‘|(\r'g‘ i men appeared before the board and formally lodged the protest, but the kchool governing body failed to ta action and the concerls are eing “Fhe - school military organization, i High Scho a the Washington High School CAoct torps, under the le ahace M. Craigie, U. S. A. had one of the most successful years in its history, from every standpoint. The year saw the cadet body expand greatly in personnel, while the physi- cal and technical military training glven the boys in the opinion of the school authorities, was greatly im- ved. P he annual competitive drill of the cadet corps, the greatest event _ol_’ the year in the organization’s activities, was won by Company I, of Western High School, commanded by Capt. We The his resignation when Daniel in as his sue- In June Mrs. n Congress | ol | have Con-| the firste time of McKin W. Shea victory | since 194 | Manual 7T E | Pany” 11 of Westen third places, respectiv | Books Out of Date. | Outstanding of the r | ports of the school officers during the year w prepared by Alexan T director of inte instruc showing that 126,895 geography textbooks in | the elementary schools, 20,406 are obsolete, unsanitary and badly worn. All of these out of date books speak of the Emperor of Gerr the Czar of Russta, and muke no reference whatever to the frontier ~hanzes in Europe as a result of the world war, Near the close of the vear the school board took a far-re » toward the elimination of “red tape” in_connection with the repairs to school buildings by approving at the request of the municipal authorities, | the transfer of the repair shop from | the supervision of the District govern- ment to the board This company Westerr mpa to for v H e rerous re- THE PRESIDENT’S YEAR e The usua who, (highly ant ters to adjust personally settle important domestic Most important was his ssful coal ard railro Through his i conference hers the Central A President e closing session ence last March efforts represeniatives Chile Peru came to Washington thrashed ut differences re their boundary lines. From time important conferences were held at the White House, the most notable being the discussion of prohibition enforcement by governors of sixteen a group of stecl oilicials 10 4 standard of workinsg hours for their e prominent fnan- ciers and b o tin stibie li condition throughout tic coun- | try. and a larg r Lagriculturisis extending aid raiser Considerable of tha Presidsnt's tention during the was given to preparation the tariff Lill legislation urged ke and passed during the vears was a revision of the internal revouve Low additional appropriations for the lief of disabled veterans of the {war. an_appropriation ta assist the development of state ¥ and a b increasing pensic ican and war vet widows The | soldiers' mender ing feder opment amendments act and the farme Four delivered vear just passed was an un- busy one for the inn rumental mat- ed upon to ser of vitally situalion, among the handling hewi 5 impol latter th strikes. ative sthere was a of representatives of rican coun Th addre the arms sconfer- and tarougn his the and zarding time to tates; discuss nkers si 10 “passa ather i President res in iehwavs Mex- and 1 S of eivil rans vetoed the il and h other things, n the merchant so-called S re extend- devel- marine; Fnsporttion of credit to esident bonus among om- large to 1 extension messages to Con by the Presiden which he personally read to joint sessions. What are lonked upon as Mr. Harding's most important puslic Speeches during the vear was the one at the one hundredih anniversary celebration of the birth of Ger s Grant at Point Pleasant. Oh the one at the official dedic. the Lincoln Memorial in Potonia last Memorial day President Harding little_traveling during months. Two w Florida the latter trips were made to Atlantic tan. N, Gettysburg, Pa., Marion, Ohio. and Point Pieasant. Ohin. On each of these trips Mrs. Harding accompanied her husband. The first bulletin teiling the world of Mrs. Harding's illness was issued at the White House September 3. and it was not until November 12 that she again sat up. Among the more important by the President ments ma <utherland and Pierce those of George Butler to the United States Supreme W s Postmas- Court Dr. Hubert ter General to succeed Will H. Hay and Justice W. R. Day to be ump at the mixed claims comission to p on claims made by Germans and Ame cans for property seized during the war. The public_reception on New Year day at the White House was not re- sum A number of proclamations were issued by the executive, prominent among them being the annual Thanks- iving day edic ucation week, Fire Prevention week, and one declaring that a national emergeney existed as a re- sult of the railroad shopmen’s strike. The policemen attached to the White House and grounds were transferred from the metropolitan police department to a newly created White House police force. 1t is estimated ces were three of 6% ind tiom of Park atively past twelve spent_ in ch. Brief ity Rar did the ks wer part of Al comy appoint- were that _the Tresident shook hands with more than 400,000 per- | sons during the year. He formally and [ informally received many nationally and internationally prominent men and women, among them being Georges Clemenceau, M. Briand, Earl Balfour and M. Viviani Would Abolish “3-Mile Limit” For Copyrights By the Associated Pross CHICAGO, 11, January 1.—Abc ishment of the “three-mile }im was urged by M, L. Raney Baltimore, before the _exegutive board of the American Library As sociation. It was not a prohibition discuszion, but_consideration of ihe proposed copyright law now, pen ing in_Congress, passage of iv was_advocated by Mr. Raner is chairman of the commiitéee book buying of the association. The: American copyright is in- beyond the three-mile limit, and we in_turn are not prevented by our law from etealing an Enxlich- man’s work, unless it has been nianu- factured here said Mr. Raney “This manufacturing clause, leveled against the English, keeps us out of the International Copyright Union. The purpose of the present bill is o repeal that clause so we may enter the copyright union and thereby et foreign protectfon for our authors and extend our own to outsiders without necessity of any second printing, or expense, or formalitys* of h who of val