Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 3

WHAT GREAT NATIONS DO FOR TFrom argument of Theodére W fore fofut cougressional’ fiscul 2915} 1L The second question: Does the nation encourage increase ®f local taxable renource: All nations except the United States encourage the development of the tuzable resources of the capital com- nunity, direetly or indirectly, In Varying degrees, or, at least, do not discourage commercial, manufac- turing and industrial development. The United States alone among na- 1ons under a systematic though un- written policy cripples commercial and manufacturing growth of Wash- ington, thus reducing to a minimum its taxable resources and its ability to meet unaided the heavy drain of Nutional Capital municipal expenses, Washington is and has been al- w poor in taxable resources, and hias been erippled commercially and industrially by deliberate national policy In ‘the interest of Baltimore, Rich- 1a0nd, Philadelphia and other neigh- boring commercial ~cittes Congress has, historically, discouraged Was ington commercial and industrial growth. It has deprived the Wash- ingtonians of the means of self- support found in the local industries develop in the ordinary Ameri- city. "It has concentrated the sreat local industries, corresponding to the factories, mills and manufac- turing plants of other cities, in the hands of the government, and then | b, the apportionment-of-offic, law shuts out from the ified service | in these great national-local iudus- | iries all who claim Washington as aj rosiderve, including the growing Youth of the cit Thus Congress enies the capital great industries of | own: it shuts out Washingtonians irom the national-local industries; it drives out from the city the growing Youth that they may.(ind elsewherc the means of self-support. How Municipal Lxpense Paid, Tie third questio: Does the nation contribute toward icipal expenses, cither discrimi- in favor of the capital in thix or contributing ajl the cities of the i Nearlv all the nations contribute something toward municipal expenses of capital, some of them very little, some of them in lai mounts; some ©f them in such ations’ make 10 discrimination between the capi- tal and other cities of the nation, | Sume of them in such contributions favor the capital. Nearly all the na- ions make such contributions by 3uecting wholly or in part heavy items of municipal expense ch as ire department, edu street improvement, ete., ¢ by appropriating under 1w fixed amounts or a fi age of the total municipal expenses. 11 Cape Town. however, the Union government, a property owner, agreed d res be- ttee in and not tinuing d percent- abpropriations for | municipal improve- capital. has since 1878 If-and-half provision of | ted liberally bly f 1 municipal expenses, und alone among the na- tious has made its payments under this head a fixed percentage of the | expense. Or rather under the conditions which existed, with the obligation of capital mainte- d upbuilding resting upon it. ¥ exacted from the people in taxes a fixed and cer- pereentage of the expense which has teelf incurred in exclusively nanaging the capital's affairs as its &0l government Tn Ottawa. I orfa and Rome the eapital commu (1915) dissati money contri- ntenance and In Ottawa it igorously advocated the financtal con- | tions and relations to those of the District of Columbi: For Pretoria a lump sum in the same amount has been voted annaally by the Union | zovernment since 1910, but the capi- 14! community omplains that this amount is Inadequate. In Rome the 1 and capital community have ,-operating to make the eity magnificent capitals of the ce 1870 millions have been nded for this purpose. For street nprovement alone ipal loan 0.000.000 guaranteed by the na- t'onal government has been made. The vork of canital unbuilding has gone | H. HARRIS_ ANNOUNCER © ion “from the Marsland Hardware & . 1109 W st. ne.. and Mr. J. kel W OULD LIR aint A. Zimmer- WA 1iture ED—T0 fo Washington from Raltimore, Wil- Iph {ITH'S TRANS- T TO DATE OF wiindrawal with safety to your principal is what the Home Bu'lding Assoclat 5 % members. Payments. $1 TR K. Ton, tremsnrer PLUMBING, TINNING, Jobbing is our speclalty. When Foi thlnk of plumb: Carow & Fry 011 H st n.w. s " Riggs Puin HEAT 1n sleatiog. Plan With Biges Now Heating & Plumbing Vapor or Hot-water plant just | mits, and pext winter will be < free"rrom discomfort. Prices 4th st ne el Wy Would feel better if it were cleancd and renovated. LOT IT SHOULD BE DONE PROPEKLY. Phone Main 3621 610 17 8t N.W. BEDEI'L’S MATTRESS FACTORY L. Wieser—Colorist LANTERY SLIDES A SPECIALTY. rrodE VO vl ™ o ELAEI mo. For Over 40 Years PRINTING RVICE SERVICE SHOP| " High Grade—But Not High Priced. PRINTER, BYRON S ADAMS, favmme, ROOF TROUBLE Call Main 769, ' ! Grafton& Son, Inc., T3 5i%% “ieating and Roofing Experts for 85 Years.” P-RIN-T-IN-G ! R We Can Handle the 7 The Million § | Lay t or Smallest Printing Plant | " Orders. s ) | The Nationa! Capital Press 12101212 D 2k Rainy Season Cothing! let us make your roof perfect at a emall ¢ost. Free estimate. Phone us now. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. Raoting Dept., 1114 Oth st. Ph. M. 2450-2401. We've been saving leaky roofs fn! ‘Washington for 25 years. If your roof nceds_attention, take advantage of Jong experience and_ reliabill ‘ways pays. Call us up! 1422 F 8t N.W. KOONS EGupiNy Hie sisin o0s: SHEDD Root Leak? Phone M. 314 Expert service. Reasonable charge. 1 coat of Liquid Asbestos Rasdug Cement to any Kisd of roof. 1 guaran: roa shme. Al%o sold in bulk, $1 gal. In 5-gal, }ackets, el in D. C. FEatimate free. MA SON 1814 Pa. ave. 5.0 Line. 4218, THEIR CAPITALS B AR, WASHINGTON, —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. EL| OF AFRICA. Degeribe Litfle-Known latest of large mammals to become known to aclence, has its home, will be the subject of an fllustrated le ture by T. Alexander Barns, Fri‘ay afternoon and evening, before mem- bers of the Natlonal Jeographic So- rica, was accompanied by h's wife in a trip through remote of * the Belgian Kongo and nylks terris tory. Photographs wers 'obtained o numerous tribes, including pighie; and cannibals, and of & large number i pended on | tim {actment of the ahead too fast for the local resources, and the city finds itself debt-burdene: and oppressed by heavy taxes and complains that the nation causes it to bear too great a share of the load. Paris, Buenos Aires and Rio are cap tals of nations which have contribut- ed lavishly toward municipal ex- penses. France contributes about two millions annually for Paris police, and a large fixed sum for street and side- walk making and repairing.. Police and Streets. Almost universally the police are a part of the nation’s military estab: lishment and are maintained partly or wholly by the nation. In Paris the police force is under a separate | prefect from the one who controls / the general’ municipal administration and he is appointed by the national government. The record of the rela- tion of nation and capital in respect to the paving and care of the Parls streets is interesting and suggestive. Says Gaston Cadoux in “Les Finances de la ville de Paris de 1798 a' 1900": “Untll the revolution the paving and : care of streets in Paris was directed and pald for by the nation. A decree of year VI germinal continued this arrangement on the ground that the streets of Paris were continuations of public highways. The same plan was continued until 1826, In 1828 a decree was passed for the sharing of the expenses by the city of Parls, though no definite proportion seems to have been established.. By a de- cree of 1856 the expenses of streets, avenues, quays, bridges, boulevards and public squares were to be shared equally by city and nation. Cleaning was included ‘In expenses. A decree of 1862 continued the half-and-halt contribution of nation to the streets, | etc. but provided that the amount | paid by the nation should not exceed 4.000.000 francs. A decree of 18 provided that the nation should bear the expenses for all streets, bridges, boulevards and public places which | could be classed as continuations or ! parts of imperial routes: the city of Paris to pay expenses for all others. Nevertheless the city of Parls could, with consent of municipal -council, be charged with execution of all neces- sary care of streets in consideration of payment by nation of half the ex pense, not to exceed 4,000,000 francs a vear during a period of ten years." The half-and-half arrangement was | continued without _legislative con- | tract after the expiration of the ten- { ar period. In 1891-2 the contribu- | tion under the half-and-half arrange ment was reduced to 3,000.000 francs | in spite of the BUS REGULATION TOPIC THIS TMIE UNTIL HE ACTUALLY SEES ENGINE'BE- FORE GIVING SIGNAL. Tnder the royal street plan design. ed in Washington by the nation for | the nation's city every avenue and every street was an imperfal high- way. made broad and magnificent by deliberate policy and with title iIn fee simple in the nation by gift of | the original proprietors, who also gave other lands to the nation to be devoted in part to the improvement | of these national streets and avenues. __The nation shirked ite obligation in respect to the streets and avenues given to it and endowed by the donars. For more than thirty years, | during which period $700,000 had ! been realized from the sale of lots! pledged in part for the bepefit of | impovements. fiis expenditures upon streets and avenues, which were its exclusive property, were less than $700 per year, and its annual appro- priations since that time until 18 had been widely varying in amount | and. at the best, inadequate. In other | words. having secured the magnifi-| cent donation of more than 70 per| cent of the soil of Washington on the promise that part of the proceeds | cf the sa of donated lots should | be applied to sireet improvement, it practically abandoned the work of | street iniprovement o the scants resident population. Up to 1871 it expended on street improvements | only $1.000,000, while during _ the | same period the local government ex- streets more than nine | that amount. The flagrant in- | American Association Midyear Conference Brings 1,000 Dele- gates to Washington. Regulation of busses, taxation of electric railways and a report on what has been done to carry out the recommendations of the federal electric raflway commission will feature discussions at the midyear conference of the American Electric ! Railway Assoctation which opened { today at the Willard. About a thou- sand executives from all parts of the Cnited States and Canada are in at- tendance. Bus regulation will receive much attention because a large majority of ing bus competition in some form. The contention of the association is that busses should not bo permitted to compete with established eclectric lines and that non-competing busses should be regarded as common car- riers and subjected to the same regu- lations as electric railways and steam lines. Dwight N. Lewis of Des Moines, Sus Was one of the. reasons for the en-]of Rallway und Utility Commission- organle” act of 1815, | F8, who Las been making a study of Later the nation extended the grand | bus and electric railway regulation street plan of the original city, with sonie modifications and reductions of | bus discussion tomorre: the percentage area occupled byj Uol Kellef, Engineer Commissioner streets over ‘suburban Washington | Of the District of Columbia; Commis- and the outlying District. But it re- | Sioner Elwell 'of Connecticut and fused to extend the half-and-half | Henry L. Doherty of New York will plan to these new streets, so far as | discuss regulation generally. the cost of extensions was concerned, | “nd now by the Borland amendment | Port of New York will duscuss taxa it is shirking a part of its share of | tion. Commissioner Alexander For- the cost of paving and improving Ward of Virginia, John A. Drescott, these streets, as well as of the streets | still unimproved within the original | = ——— city Contrast this record with that of | government, France, which until 1826 paved and . control it. cared for the Paris streets entirely at | self- its own expense. and until 1856 even when it does not H axed and locally self-governed | capitals are dissatisfied even with the THINKS HE SEES (T COM- - MG AND STARTS GENERAL STAMPEDE - FOR DOOR THE FALSE the roads represented are experienc- ice of the nation.in this regard | President of the National Association | throughout the country. will lead the ! State Senator Frederick M. Daven- | Some of these practically ! RETURNS - AMID “DARK FINDS HE WAS M= 100kS O WIS POST TAKEN RETIRES INTO CORNER RE- ALZING THAT GENERAL. OPINION 1S HE'S NOT QUITE BRIGHT EMERGES WITH TELLOW-DASSENGERS TO SEE TREGHT TRA ROLL BY ALARMIST (C) Wheeler Syn. Inc. THREE PERSONS INJURED ‘ IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS | rourteen Defendants Charged bisy it by - Teack-Anothsr: Is With Violations in Court. | e daily grind of the Traffic Court { Knocked From His i v brought out only small H . most of the cases heard being Bicycle. { minor Vioiations of the traflic regula- tions. There were fourteen cases in William Nally, eight years old, 1221 | which defendants were charged with D> street northeast, crossing the stre violating the speed regulations. near his home yesterday afternoon.} Those convicted of that offense were: vas knocked down by a motor truck | gpert R, Price, tined $100; >, Har- 1 by George M. Fox, Brentwood. | pna o€y Md., and a rear wheel of the vehicle | wo& 5% passed over his leg. He was taken | yard . !home and treated for bruises to his | 573 Rr B L on. 515 Heka ibody anil feg | Dixon, $i5: Charles L. Boetler, $ Muurice' Savoy, “colored, seventeen | (Ot 3[87 CRALES L5, BORERn S47 years old, 413 Ridge street, sustained | jgar01d E. Rhone, $30, and James A an dnjuryrto his right leg vestcrday | Simms, £10. Flourney Minnefee, fined afternoon as a result of a colllsion ¢, "oni qing. also was taxed $40 for between his bicycle and a tourlng car | g other violation of the traffic rules. driven by John M. Goins, 1344 U |nother violation of the f street, at 6th and ' N streets. The | This makes a t(ots bicyele was demolished jigessed dn Athe An automobile driven by John T.|da¥ Kelly, 60 I strect. bucking from the curb near 5th and D streets yesterday afternoon, was struck by o street car and damaged to the amount of $100. Kelly rcceived a slight inj to his arm. $375 IN TRAFFIC FINES. Stanl G. Fitzhugh, Richard A. fines as- si;[;rerior Metal Garage Satisfied president of the Investment Bankers' | Association of America, and Alfred T. Davison of New York also will| Owner. diseuss this subject. | A Frrioto g R 1| Geo. B. Milter, 433 Much interest centers in the report || Phome of the president, . C. D. Emmons Baltimore, on what the electric rail- ways have done to carry out the re ommendations of the federal electric railway commission. Three years ago, when one-sixth of the electric rai { ways of the country were bankrupt. the government made an extended in- “ vestigation and told the industry | what it must do to be saved. Elec- itric railway leaders now here say that the advice of the commission has been followed carefully and that results are encouraging. 3 Sessions today were devoted largely to commitiee meetings. Open sions will be held in the Willard ball- | room tomorrow morning and after- noon. At the annual banquet tomor- ight President Emmons, Secre: y Fall, former Vice President Mar: = and Thomas N. Carter of | e aric N 4., will speak. Matt Horne Bus]ness and George O'Connor will entertain. | 7th St. S.W. or eatimate. North 1943 Superior Construction Co. FLAT TIRE? and Wild Sections. A little-kriown part of Atrica, where wild elephants, gorillas and mountain lions abound, agd where the okapi, fore we move to Thirteen Ten F. clety, in the Masonic Temple Audi-|of wild animals. 'Mr. ,Barns also torfum. climbed several accvy Yolcandes of Mr. Baras, ‘an English explorer and !the region and photpgraphed their author and authotity on central -Af- boiling:crat Only a Few Days before we move--- nothing reserved Any - Hart Schaffner & Marx Suit or Overcoat in our entire stock ' MAINS500 | BRING A LOAD OF FUR-| —to atart installing & Modern | an moon as the weather per- | jlargely at its own cost, and which | since that year has applied the half- { and-half arrangement, with a limit tion of its maximum contribution to four and three millions of francs. National Representation. The fourth question: Are the people of the capital repre. sented in the national government? Every capital in the world except | Washington is represented on_ equal | terms with the other cities In the na. tional government. 2 Municipal Representation. The fifth questign: Huve the people of the capital any volce in questions of local taxationf Do they control or participate in the municipal government? Every capital in the world except Washington, whether in Lurope, Asia, Africa, Australia or the Americas, has a volce in respect to questions. of local taxation, and either controls or participates influentially in its mu- nicipal government. The London and the Berlin municipal councils have more power than that of Paris. The municipal counclls of Brussels, of Ottawa, of Copenhagen, of Toklio, of Cape Town and of Bern have more power—that is, greater freedom from | limited degree of intervention and con- | trol in their municipal affairs exer- cised by, the national government. tal community. All three cities huve full representation in the national {government, and also enjoy a prac- tically self-taxing municipal govern- ;ment in which the national govern- ment merely participates. Yet these cities are dissatistied with their prac- tical relations to the nation. Though Paris is *which the national millions both for national and municipal purposes have | been | has its elected municipal council with i authority over taxation and loans, it chafes at the domination in certaiu matters of the central government | which appoints the city's prefect or i mayor instead of ficer to be elocted by the people, as in other French cities. Athens seeks i greater general powers in its munici- !pal government and freedom to a ..greater extent than at present from national supervision. Christiania pro- | tests against appointment by the king { of three municipal magistrates, influ- In ! | Paris, Athens and Christlania larger @ j freedom of action and increased au- | { thority and power in the municipal | government arc sought by the capi- | the pride of France upon | lavished, and though the city | permitting this of- | WARNING! The Hnld-UpmM:n Is Here $1,500 Hold-Up Policy Wil Pay for What He Takes (Money—Merchandise—Securities. Etc.) Costs Only $7.50 a Year I¥s Worth It—Act Now PAUL F. GROVE Insurance—All Kinds Phone M 776 243 Woodward Bldg. Properties Improved and Unimproved L Street N.W. Between 16th and 22nd $4,500-$135,000 EAVER BROS. 735 15th St. N.W. A “Sleep-Clothes” Special for the Wide-a-Wake eupervision by national authority— ential executive officials, and con- than those of London and Berlin.' But every one except Washington has an influential voice in its local the municipal council. " 'Wonien Know the Most About Homes It’s a man’s job to pay for them. -They-are a protection to woman. Man-enjoys -the comforts. How would you like to ‘leave your wife a 3-room flat? Why Put Off? Over 200 Men Have Bought Real Homes in Our Intown Suburb 14th Street Terrace Don’t cost you a cént to see tliém, to see what other ::len al:'se d):)ing——AND HOW. Come see what we mean by— Why Pay More? TO INSPECT Take 14th street car to Jefferson or Ingraham ltree{flnorlhwelh Several sample homes you should see. Open until 9 o'clock every night. © Owners and Builders tends that the people of the city | should elect these officials, as well as | Cotton Pongee At the Restful Price of Xt $4.29 % A Real $2.00 Value -Just about time to look over your stock of pajamas—here’s the chance to replenish it at very low cost. These are genuine Cotton Pongee garments, well- made, cut right and trimmed with silk frogs. The colors are plain Blue, Pink, Lavender and Tan. All sizes from A to D. They're real $2.00 values but tomorrow’s price is, $1.29. 910 Seventh St. “We Request the Return of Anything That Can Be Bought for Less Elsewhere” | Raleigh Haberdasher Theoimg Xens 1109-1111 Pennsylvania Avenue 1319-1321 F Street g ) STORE NEWS “KNOX” Hats for Men at This Shop ONLY Final Clearance AT LESS THAN HALF Do you realize that this must mean less than actual whole- sale cost? And manufacturers have advanced prices for next year from $3 to $5 per suit or overcoat! There’s plenty of cold weather ahead for this season—and - you'll be supplying your needs for next year. Here’s what you buy for ' Any Overcoat In Our Shop The Prices were up to $50 Our 45 Suits (Some in the Lot were $50) Actual cost charged for alterations