Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1923, Page 13

$5,502,061 Surplus Is Demanded For D. C. by Auditor Donovan, MENACESNATION Maj. Gen. Edwards Declares (Continued from First Page.) &: this time the controller general's offlce has increased its balance to the | credit of the general fund to $7.580.- 454.05, thus leaving a discrepancy of only $704.28. Effo are still being made to locate this latter difference, which arises solely through the pres- ent system of divided responsibility in the expenditure of District appropria- tions. Fixed Obligationx. ““The accountants (on pa of the roport) reproduc statement pre- pared by the auditor of the District of Columbia. showing that the only fixed obligations against the general fund balance on June 30, 1922, were the unexpended priations, the District which amounted to $2.077, a ng free and unencumbered surplus revenues to the credit of the District n the Treasury on that date of $5.5 051.34. But from this amount the countants, again using fisures of ti suditor of the District, deduct $3 69, arising as the result of ccr- items treated in one fiscal year tax rate purposes and in another voar for accounting purposes, thus ing the Dis'vlct a mef fre nlus on that date of $4.778.457.65, sub- oot to an unlocated differ of £590.25. In view of the fact that the i tion by your commitie Go nd beyond Ju 19 tted the only it should deal with ir y “ctual free and unencumbered s 5 the credit of the Distri is 3.502,061.54, embraced in th will take pli and partly partly the report alance to the credit nd of the Distrl or «ubstantially verifie rrectness of the statement swunt made by the contrc ral's office of the flscal re tween the United States ai | 1riet of Columbia to June 1 ! well as the ledg accounts of office of the auditor of the District of | Columbia. A “The accountants (pase 15 of the report) stato that e « at the starting poi investigi- tion, July 1, 1911, e o United States by ot 865,081,581, Thls was the balancs Crtified to be due at that time o auditor for the = e and the epartments (since merged into the ceneral accounting officer. the i for the Dist W dater veritied ect by es investigatior ) “The accountants (on pag: the report) invite attention to vertai “redits treated as cash by the 1 trict, amountin: to $301.41 .n.:— ing from what are termed ‘“dray back certificates” These certificate as stated by ount s, We 5 tasued unde! L ot .'»“ C'ongress approv 1 i nstances wher uproveinent ind proves the of ac- or gen ations be- Distriet B pecial assessments prior t had been fo o b erroneou q acceptance of payment of and a later ac iy 9, 18 crtificates received i 3 stould be mor i Credited to the Distric Drawback Certificates. The Dis did here ! expressly gave it S e uecount set up the £ §351,412.90 in drawba & cash be rmitted 1 th 5 in axes of ( : what it 1o total nerential injus- <, and one that hy chargii strict whel was ful Maves report, s asis of that hurseme inited State committ 3 tlon rej i seeking to accompl The accountanis (cn pug the | report, and agail on DAEE to the uncollected taxes 0W the Dis- trict on July 1 when the present form of gov went eame into being Itics, are re- istrict on and here ites has in this sum ption 1l terms pay question o 10 of ported by them as ed and credited to_t after July 1. 1578 st gan in that the Lnit equitable considera parently_on the sissur United States unde¢ centum of appropri trict on the basis of and collected on and 3 and that any owing prior to that , but thereafl od, could not be et up vl tribution by the United States is another matter ver fully covered n the Mayes rep question of drawbac merely @ rehash of those subjects i tho report of the accountants. The accountan v the wvery material fact that as ¥ t of the Mayes and Spalding reports Congress equired the Distri o trausfer from ta revenues to the credit of the rev- enues of the United States $2,444,148.14, 1 which amount the sum of $1,008. 3 represented reimbursements to the United States on account of loans the District betweea 1874 and 18 The uncollected xes on July 1, 1878, would properly be subject to such re- | {iabursements as u set-off. Moreover, the controller of the Treasury has con- | sidered this particular feature of the| \ccountaints' Teport in a very able and | exhaustive decision. (Ses 21, control- | ler's decislons, page 403.) | The Mayes Report. | “In the Maves report the followins | statement is made. \ “On July 1, 1878, there was due the | District of Columbia from the tax- nayers, on scount of unpald taxes, nearly'$1,600,000, of which sum about | 9 per cent was due for taxes for the lscal years 1875 to 1878, Inclusive. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of this sum were afterward collected b: e District officials and paid Int the Treasury of the United States to meet. that 60 per centum of expenses| )¢ the District_of Columbia for the! cal years 1579 to 1911, in i which ‘expenses Congr in the act of June 11, 1878, sald should be met! from taxes theréafter levied and as-| sessed upon the taxable property and ivileges of sald District, and uot! from taxes theretofore so levied and]| assessed.’ i “In commenting on this statement the controller says: ““Pago 65 of the report shows ther that $381,765.11 of these taxes was collected during th vear 1879, of which $346.676.49 was collected_on account of taxes levied | for the fiscal vears 1875 to 187§, in- clusive. No other specific collection of these back taxes is shown, though the accountants have stated generally ! that hundreds of thousands of dollars | were in_fact collected. nor does thej report show the amount of the Dis-) 1rict’s floating indebtedness outstand- ‘ng on July 1, 1818, which was sub- sequently paid. It is not in reason to. assume that all of the floating in-t debtedness incurred prior to July 1,! 1878, had been paid prior to that date,, and’ that, as suggested by the ac- countants, all amounts collected after =ald date for taxes due prior thereto were applled to the expenses of the District estimated under the half-and- half plan of the organic act. **S8o far asIam advised it Is not pos- sible to ascertaln the exact amount of taxes assessed and due but not paid on | June 30, 1878, which have subsequently heen collected and paid into the United States Treasury, nor is it possible to ascertatn how much of the expenses of the District incurred prior to July 1, 1878, have been paid since said date, wd how much, if any, of such payments 1as been charged to appropriations of lon and how much has been charged to tho District revenues. Accounts Are Mixed. = ¢ theso facts could be ascertained and they should disclose an excess of revennen collect® since June 230, 1878, on account of taxes then due and un- a 1 t { | fur- back | fiscal |0 1 1o app | of construction paid over payments made since that time on account of expenses incurred on or before said date, such balance would, fn my opinion, be properly chargeable with any indebtedness stiil due on account of said expenses, Includ- ing advances made by the United States to pay the interest on the 3.65 bonds. If, in fact, the acts in question impose on you the duly or grant to you the power to reimburse the Treasury of the ited States out of District revenues, you would then no doubt have authority said balance, or so much there- of as might be necessary, after proper proportional credit to the District, to re- imburse the United States for advances made under the terms of the sald acts. am given to understand, howe: % that because of lapse of time, and in- suflicient or incomplete records of the fiscal operations of the District, it is not now possible to segregate the old revenues and expenses from the new; nd it is therefore impossible to ascer- tain the amount of any balance of old revenues which may exist, or to ascer- tain with certainty that there is any uch balance Neceasities of D. C. And in the same decision the fol- lowing very pertinent observation is made by the controller: nd’then there is very reasonable nd for assuming that when Con- sed the act of 1878. the or- t. it intended fo wipe the an so far as the antecedent uncertiinty was concerned @ fresh start. Legistation the period hetween 10 s 4 and 1575 had not been after tetermined or systematic plan, necessitics of the Distriet had circumstances for the to require approq plan d in an apparent intention to the “application District to ‘District needs and to from the federal Treasury stever additioval might be re- guired. The organic act took no ac- count of and made no provision for the payment of any indebtedness Towing out of the transactions of the preceding four vears between the government and the District, and n was permitted to con- tinue for thirty-five years. But while theso conditions may in a measure tend to support a contention that the if existent, had bee: I do not find in them justification for » holding. It is very the Uni to any on Ju “INTERF ON ADVANCE (Pages 10 to 12.) “No comment {s made on this chap- it this time as the matters pre are consummated transae The questi the allowance interest on bala *f the general fund of the District is red to. but it is understood the subject of interest is one to taken up by the committer. “PURCHASE OF CONSTE MATERIAL” (Pages 12 and 13.) “Nothing contained under this cap- bears dircetly upon the real pur pose of the investigation. The entire chapter is, merely a criticlsm of th present bookkeeping and administra- 1 in the offi the purck officer the ing and issuanc, aterials. *TION PLANT.” neirest be require revenues furnish clear from what is said d States has no valld part of the uncollected - 3, 1878, = CTION “TRASH Rl This ¢ to tra tair on trash " seell trust < of the United Such moneys ist 31, 1922 the Treas- ierely in e trict ed on A hether in the ot always ane wdjustn sfers hetwe different the necessary bookke ries. This matter is only pers to the investigation to the exte liad the transter of moneys on or before June 20, 1 trict’s general fund bal have been increased by slightly B lightly “DISPOSITION OF ¢ CEIPTS.” (Page 14.) “In this chapter the accountants direct attent o Teceipts from cer- tain licenses, privileges, ete., collect- ed and deposited in the Treasury wholly to the credit of the revenues { the District. and show that for the fiscal years 1912 to 1922 inclusive, ch_receipts amounted to $6,300,- I8.57. The accountants say “If these collections for the years 1912 to 1922, and those prior, had apportioned as were certain other from District Bources, lance in the gen- eral fu e 30, 1922, would have been considerably less, “This is a most important subject, primarily because of the great amount ‘of monev involved, on the basis of =uch co s since July 1, 1878, and, further, because of the very plaln intimation by the account- ants that all such moneys should have been divided between the United The or ury volve funds an ir nent that made e D would over AIN RE ec States and the District, fnstead of the | | District taking all. To prove the right of the District to moneys of this kind it is necessary to consider certain legislation and controlling decisfons, “The organic act required the Com- missioners to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before October 15 of each year, estimates of the amount neecessary to defray the ex- penses of the government of the Dis- trict for the mext fiscal year. The ct declares that: o the extent to which Congress shall approve of sald estimates, Con- gress shall appropriate the amount of 50 per centum thereof, and the re- maining 50 per centum of such ap- proved estimates shall be levied and ed upon the taxable property and privileges in said District other than the property of the ~United States and the District of Columbia.” Miscellaneous Revenues. ler the terms of the organic act . commencing with July 1, med and beneficially received for the entire mount of all ceilaneous revenues, and this was the rule of action, concurred in by the accounting officers of the Treasury and established by deflnite and con- trolling decision, until the passage of 1e District appropriation act for the fiscal year 18§ pproved July 1888), when Congre for the time by specific legislation, menced to deprive the District of the entire credit to certain of such rev: nues. By legislative provisions adopt- d from time to time throughout the years from 1888 until the present Congress gradually provided for the distribution between the United Stutes and the District of all but sev- enteen of sixty-one items of miscel- laneous revenue, Forty-seven of th items, on and prior to June 30, 19 were credited in proportions of 50-30 or 60-40 be- tween the District and the Uni States. The remalning seventeen, which the District received entire credit for, are now the subject of a report pending before the controller general of ths United States for his decision as to whether such items were affected by the legislation con- tained in the District appropriation act for 1923, requiring all revenues recelved by the District on and after July 1, 1923, derived from any activ- ity or source appropriated for by both the United States and the Dis- trict to be divided between the two in the same proporion that each con- tributed to the tivity.. The purpose of this legislation tain revenue jtems which have not been included by specific enumera- tion in prior legislation for div n between the United States and the District, to be credited’in part to the United States. The legislation, how- ‘ever, is very clearly prospective in its operation. For the Information of the commities, I am forwarding herewith & copy of my report of No- vember 6, 1922, referred to by the ac- m The | seems to! released, | es to the credit | is 1o require cer- | .THE EVEN countants, which is now before the | controller general for decision: also | 4 memorandum of the several laws | passed by Congress between 1882 and | the present time relating to the col- | lection and division of various items ot revenue of the District. Crediting of Receipts. “An Important point it {s desired to | emphasize 18 that in each of the| many legislative provisions for the division of certain receipts between the United States and the District, (see memorandum referred to) Con- | {gress has specifically defined and | | named the classes of moneys sub-| | ject to such division. Under the ac- | copted rule of statutory construction | those classes of moneys not included |in the enactments continued to re- | main the entire property of the Dis- | trict. This 1s the rule of law followed | by the accounting officers of the| Treasury, including the controliers of the Treasury, and more recently | the general accounting office, and has | been the rule since the beginuing of | the present form of government,| {in the District in 1878. And the fact should not be overlooked that the act in every instance in crediting receipts in the Treasury and upon the books of the Treasury either wholly 1o the District or partly to the United States and partly to the District fs) the act of the accounting_officers of the federal government. It is bu® a reasonable presumption to hold that these officers would use every proper ns to see that the legal Fights of United States In the application eceipte were fully protected. Lawrence, controller reasury, in n decision ren- jdered on August 24, 1882, four vears | {after the passage of the organic act, | referring to the ownership of fines sllected fn the Polico Court (one of | the items credited wholly to the Distriot), says “Fines ‘imposed by the Police Court belong to the revenues of tho Dis- i triect, but, by force of the statutes, are |to be paid Into the Treasury of the ! United States, and can only be paid {out by authorlty of an appropriation {295 in another dectston. rendered April 25, 1884, Judge Lawrence, Tre- \ferring to section 4 of the organic yact and the act of March 3, 1879 (20 ) Stats, 410), says: “The first act mentloned declares {that ‘all tuxes collected’ fn the Dis {trict “shall be disbursed for the ex- penses of said District’ This wor taxes, is a nomen generallssimum, it cluding taxes on chattels, and on realty, assessments, licenses, fees and ! revenues in every form, which, as the | statute says, are to he ‘collected.’ But ‘the latter act shows that Congress ( foresaw that the District would some- | {times receive money ‘otherwise’ thau taxes, as (1) from sales of property, | from profits on investments, and, | (3)_ by gifts, bequests, ete. | : as accordingly provided, that ‘all | { revenues of the District ® ¢ @ from | taxes or otherwise. shall be deposited the credit of the treasurer of the | Uhited States, in the Treasurv.’ But it is not provided, that all revenues ‘shall be dishursed for the expenses of said District,” but only that ‘taxes collected® shail ‘be so disbursed. And {no money can be drawn from the | Treasury, except by virtue of an ap- | propriation. Annual Estimates. “The act of Junc 11, 1878 (20 Stat, 101), requires annual estimates to be transmitted to Congress of pr posed_expenditures for the Distric i then provides that To the extent to which shall approve of said es gress shall appropriate 50 per centum thereof; and i ning 50 per centum of such ap- | sved estimates shall be levied and | assessed upon the taxable property | nd privileges in said District other than the property of nited States and of the District of m- Dii “Here, agaln, is a provision that the expenses of sald District’ shall be pald from money ‘levied and as- sessed upon the taxable property and privileges—taxes which can be ‘col- | trom revenues “otherwise’ derived. | | Thus, only taxes on property and | | priviieges.” taxes which can be ‘col- | lccted'—are appropriated to ‘be dis- 1 | | NG STAR, WASHINGTON, {15 *hown by t {1 D., C., THURSDAY, WARNS PACIFISM concerning any liability on the part of the District under the appropria. tions of $80,000 and $2,500 for the ac- quisition’ of additional land for the National Zoological Park (page 19 of the report). “OLD BALANCES CARRIED ON E;gl SURY DEPARTMENT LEDG- Propaganda Rife in U. S. as Europe Girds for War. (Pages 20 to 26.) No comment is made or deemed necessary. “FUNDED DEBT OF THE DISTRICT OUTSTANDING JUNE 30, 1878 (Pages 26 to 35.) o comment is made or deemed necessary on matter appearing on | Dages 26 to 33, except as to the ques tion presented in concluding para- sraph on page 33. The accountants call attention to the act of Congress approved June 10, 1§ authorizing the Commissioners of the District to issue certain bonds to un amount not exceeding $1.200,000. und to the pro- Ylsion in that act that it should ot e ¢ ed to make the United States liable for any part of the prin- cipal or Interest on the bonds, = The principal and interest werc pald from appropriations made jointly from the revenues of the United States and the District. This matter was very fully covercd in the Mayes report, but no reimbursement was required to be made to the United States by the District, on the ground, so 1t I understood, ‘thut Congress in making | annual apbropriations for the. inters | st and sinking fund of the District on the half-und ! busis thereby | repealed by the terms of cach saen appropriation t part of act of June 10, 1879, ,xe mpting the United tes from the liability indicated. hat appropriations apparentis e deliberat lade in this way with a full knowledge of the ¢ rcumstances report of the tre urer of the United States (as ofiolo of the sinking fund of the District) referred to by the account. #Dts on page 34 of this report. “FUNDING DEBT OF THE DIS tentiall % 2 DISTRICT | Potentiality. OUTSTANDING JUNE 30, 1900 T | 1 ornig ((CECH 36 and 36 - i3 is merely a verification of the outstanding 3.65 United States held as sinking fund | U7eme limits by the Irench Investments ($4,517.500). No comment | 51V the radicals control of their gov 1s deemed necessary. st [x:'xmw»m and tie up with soviet Russia- s i government that still hus an army of SINKING FUND OFFIC 1,500.000 men, who arc not tired o (Pages 36 to 41.) war- s country “No comment {s dcemed necessary €Xcept as to the matter on page 40, the purchase for redemp- 3.65 bonds at prices In cx the par value of the bonds. T buntants show that from June 30, to June 30, 1914, such bonds of 5,600 were par value of $7, med at @ premium cost ( 1 undetermined Steps Must Be Taken to Halt Pernicious Influences. propaganda while ground—was sounded before Those at any price,” who were so thorough 1y muzzled while th, was fighting overscas. declared, have “soft, mushy ing on the minds of the people rotting the backbone of our nation And while this country is gazing to wird the Utopia of scrapped and navies, he warned, the same wa that engulfed Europe in 1914 is gath ering momentum again. Soviet Chief Menace. Iy suggestion to your great com mitte en. Edwards satd, “is this Remove ignorance, not only about in same of Germany, but in soviet Russta pocifism that is eating our natfon.” Pacifist propaganda ha: carried into American o lle versities and students by are ca at the heart o even es and uni hun of 1 the re- v of such Edwards cl sser a tly rehased interest) of $1,4 1t is shown that purchases were at rates as high as $128 value. It has b the amount made Der £100 par contended th 4 in paying m accrued interest) for onids, Whether such was the leary at this tim not the District is mot re-|°win compliance with your reques sponsible. The entirc administration | am retarning herewith the copy of the <ing fund office, including | the report of the accountants I the expenditure ppropriations for e for my use in preparing u interest and principal the ded | (hereon debt of the District, was transferred | o onp, | to the Treasurer of the United States by the terms of tho org: law even exemp! all such expenc the auditor “OFFICE OF port of the acco: tyabove styled chapte i ntal to the inv | Eurther comment is decm { ntants under lax o DONOVAN, Auditor.” from aud stric THE COLLECTOR TAXES. (Pages 41 to 47.) “The statements of the accountants under thie caption are not material to the real purpose of the investizat Further comment is deemcd unne sary at this time. “OFFICE OF THE REGISTE WILLS OF THE DISTRICT OF LUMBIA" (Pages 43 to 50.) “OFFICE OF HE_RECORDER DEEDS." (Pages 50 to 54.) nted in the bursed for the expenses of sald Dis- triet.” Congress has been careful to | appropriate not all the revenues of | the District, but only that part of the. revenues derived from taxes on prop erty and privileges. It evider that Congress did not ‘appropriate’ or authorize to be used the whole i come or profits which might accrue the District The act of March 1879 (20 Stat., 410), refers to ‘revenues’ | arising ‘otherwise’ than from taxes,| and requires ‘all’ to be deposited in | the Treasury.” | “And finally. in endeavoring to de- termine whether the Congress that| passed the organic act intended to eplit hairs and divide local dollars | between the United States and the! District it Is only necessary to real- ize, among other things, the financial | condition of the District at the perfod, | with an enormous indebtedness, tl heratage of an earlier government, and a bankrupt treasury. “In the last paragraph of this chap- ter the accountants very briefly refer to the fact that moneys collected in { the Supreme Court of the District arc deposited in the Treasury wholly to jthe credit of the United States. Al- | though the District has a very clear | cquity in such moneys, as It pays 60 per centum of the appropriations for | salaries and expenses of the court,! and was charged with one-half of the | cost of reconstructing the bullding accupied by the court (about $900,000), | no effort apparently was made to de- ; velop the total of such moneys cred- ited to the United States, 5o that the measure of the District’s equity might CERTAIN DISBURSEMBENTS NOT INCLUDED IN EXPENSES OF DISTRICT.” (Pages 15 to 17.) nry Allowances “The accountants here show that since July 31, 1911, salaries and al- lowances have been paid wholly from federal revenues to certain Army offi- cers, including the several Engineer Commissioners and their assistants ‘assigned from time to time to duty in connection with the supervision of certain inters s of the District gov- ernment,’ the amounts so paid from that date until June 30, 1922, aggre- ting $2§2,422.18. The accountants ‘harge that ‘in the accounts and re ports of the Secretary of the Treasury and the muditor of the District no consideration has been given to the above expenditures, nor to the com- Densation of certain other Army offi- cers . . . " The reason for this is very simple. Congress has never re- quired the District to pay any part of such salaries and allowances. The ingineer Comunissioner is a member of the Board of Commissioners by detail by the President, pursuant to the provisfons of the organic act, and his assistants are also detailed by the President (29 Stat, 246). Other Army officers referred to are assigned to public works retained under the control and supervision of United States authorities by the organic act. “The suggestion by the accountants that the District should pay part of the compensation of clerks and supervisors of the general account- ing office can hardly be Intended to be taken seriously. It {s just as reasonable and logical to extend this idea to the budget bureau and other departments of the federal govern- ment having to do with District mat- ters, if not to Congress itself. "The accountants (on pages 18 and 19) call attention to certain disburse- ments charged wholly against the United States for increase of compen- sation (the bonus) to employes of the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of the District, public_build- ings and grounds and the National oological Park, amounting in all to $345,602.52. The basic salaries of the several employes were derived from appropriations payable in part by the | United States and the District. Wheth- er a charge of $191,880.85, as found by the accountants, should now be made against the District in this con- nection is & matter for vour commit- tee to decide. 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BOSTON, January 18.—A regiment of | soldiers “couid not~ enforce prohibition !in Massachusetts with public opinion | unchanged, James P. Roberts, prohibi- tion enforcement agent. £ald as ho was | supplanted in the office by Albert J. Lynch. Mr. Roberts declared the public state ure of enforcement. —_— HARVEY TO RETURN. George Harvey, the American am- bassador to Great Eritain, who has negotiations here, is expected to re- turn soon to his post, but it fs not known whether he will reach there in time to participate in any exchanges on the subject which may take place in London. right of any group to distributa un- ‘| truthtul stitements in American in- { ®titutions of learning and he called “fupon the committee of one hundred | | to take immedlate steps to neutralize | its errect. H Deplores Soldiers’ Treatment. deplored America’s gleot of her returned denounced those who apparent - | soldiers; ho ternational affalrs, but about our own { would forget the doughboys' sacrifice | The great, grave menaco at 1 see in the crisis between France | and Germany s not in the republic in France and declared that greatest mistuke mado by this gov ernment during the world war was that jt drafted lives, but did not draft capital and labor He drew enthusiastic applause when he declared Congress would have to pass a law automatically drafting - | every man, woman and child 1f an- other war should come to the United States. | Robert U. Johnson, ambassador to |Italy under President Wilson, spoke at length upon the international crisis precipitated by the invasion of the Ruhr. Defending Franc X speaker quoted the late Herr Erzber - | ger, first finance minister of the Ger n republic, as having mafd in 1 at Germany could pay $2,000,000,000 d marks a year. -| "France is not only § ng military measures to collect the war debt, Mr. Johnson said, but is entitled to the sympathy of the world. The comm!ttee of one hundred, un outgrowth of the Natlonal Civic Fed- eration, will close its two.day s sion here this afternoon, This com- mittee is composed of Eome of | best known amen and women in the 1{country and has appointed Alton B. f| Parker president of the National Federation to find a_way of the American pe obligations in the international field today. the £ t3 stified in adopt- ilk Crepe of mind has been the real cause of fail- | been In Washington during the debt | the | ople their | Federal Game Wardens Find Wild Fowl Sold in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, La., January 15— Owners of sixisen restaurants wer errested here yesterday following Lincoln 1 night, including Sunday | This is emergency road | not open after 5:30 p.m. | { | | | | To Ford and The R. L. Taylor Motor Company 14th & T Sts. NW. Announces the opening of a NEW EMERGENCY NIGHT SERVICE —in addition to their dav service. Our trucks have been fully equipped to make minor repairs anywhere in the District of Columbia. trucks carry a full line of parts, tires, gas and oil and are in charge of expert mechanic service from 8 o'clock in the morning until 1 o'clock at The charges are nominal, charging for the actual timc the mechanic spends on your car after getting to you. When in difficulty during these hours call— The Emergency Department, North 9600 alleged wild ducks were on sale violation of game laws. The raldd were conducted by George A. Laws yer of Washington, chief gam: warden of the United States, and t game wardens of Alabama, New fexico and Nebraslka. in Owners These , wlio will give efficient service only, as the shop is | “Pape’s Cold Compound’’ Breaks a Cold in Few Hours | | Every druggist nere guarantees cach packago of “Pape’s Céld Com- | pound” to break up any cold and | end grippe misery in & fow hours or money returned. Stuffiness, pain, beadache, foverishness, inflamed or See Adjoining Page for Other Bargain Basement Bargains This “Extra” Friday Bargain Consists of Hundreds of New and Dainty Spring DRESSES AT A PRICE SO LOW YOU WILL BE TEMPTED TO BUY THREE OR FOUR Irresistibly Charming! The Materials—- Taffeta de Chines Wool Crepes THE ILLUSTRATIONS —have been sketched by our artist and are e: pictures—but there are a host of other stvles equally as charming. Dresses for Afternoon, Business, Shopping. Tea or Dance-- a Dress for Every Occasion=-All at No.C. 0.D's Phone Orders xchanges Extra Clerks Insure Intelligent and Quick Selections ilk Persians Wool Velour: congested nose and head relieved with first dose. These safe, pleasant tablets cost only a few cents and millions now take them instead of sickening quinine. Tie PALAIS ROYAL The Shopping Center—I11th and G “'s.—Est. 1877—A. Lisner, Pres. Extra act - in Fact, - -~ s !!!!!!!!Illlll‘ll dENEEESRENS AR ESNENEENERANRERNNRENSS Arranged on Racks According to Size. Misses’, 16 to 20; Women’s, 36 to 44. Tomorrow—Palais Royal—Bargain Basement. SEENREEERERERT