Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 3

THE EVENING THURSDAY, 22, 1923. {I.§. SEN]' B“_“[]N Loss of Revenue in Dry Law IBROADIN | Ceing Widenpread Interen Actual Enforcement Nets Profit to Uncle Sam, But Evasions and Crime Phases Prove Difficult Problems. | H BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ! prohibition for the fis car ending ('This {8 the fourth of & serles of seven | last June was as follows articles written after an exhaustive study Federal fines pllected f the prohibition question in which during the year, not President Harding, Prohibition Commlis- including collections in Private American Capital ¢ Helping Rehabilitate War- i Shattered World. e Theo s LM CoS E Commle 'neral Willebrandt, Wayne B. Wheeler of the Antl-Saloon League, Capt. W, H. Stayton of the National Association’ Op’ posed to Prohibition and other leaders submitted to private fnferviews with tie writer and gave their candid opluions on luw enforcement and the outlook.) STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., ——————————— FEBRUARY . 22, statesmen have to look at a thing from both a local and national view- l Snapshots. —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. P \ point, and he flayed the *“organized i i minority,” which, he alleged, ‘“was i persistently bringing pressure to bear for thelr own Interest “Whereas, a number of those In | the legislaiive body make mistakes and have opinions which, to certain Individuals seem foolish, the major- ity of them have the country a heart and want to do what is best, he stated. Representative Mondell said he be- lieved that nearly all the member 7 {of the legislative body were repre- / sentative of the average intelligence B | of the constituents who elected them. | ! “I belleve that we would have bet- | ter government if the representatives ¥ isent here were left alone to do what i they think best and not have sug- 4 gestions while here,” he continued. i In conclusion, he dwelt upon ‘the {tendency for the last few vears of leaning upon the nation rather than Because of our car contract this year, we have openings for 2 real sales- men on our Hupmobile sales force. If you are a live salesman with a good, clean sales record, in the automo- bile, real estate or stock and bond Dbusiness change, increased and desire a WENT TO 21 COUNTRIES Call Friday Morning | supporting 1t.” “Instead of so much VPORINE |looking upon the government for {Lenefits, 1t would be better to try harder to support it.” he went on. | No Sort of Foreign Enterprise Ap- pealed to U. S. in Vain, Figures Show. the District of Colum- bia and Alaska $2,791,305.2 | Amounts paid in promise suits .. | Amounts collected in taxes and penalties not including taxes on le- gal manufacture and Tegal sale of Intoxicat- ng liquors for medi- clines, e . . Amount of bonds which action has been taken toward forfeit- ure: @ e REALIZES HE'S CAUGHT DOESN'T DARE LOGK. AUCTIONEERS EYE AND TQO CLOSELY AT AUCTION HASTILY SRHIPTS GAZE EER FOR FEAR HELL | “The country is sound and is send- % {ing good men to Congress and they THINK HE!S TRYING TO mean to do well,” he said BIn | He praised Representative Alice Robertson of Oklahoma for her cour- age and gameness for standing up for what she thinks is right. Goldsborough ~Adams was to membership, Miss Marla anagh, idirectors of the study, were in charge. | ‘Q WONDERS 1P AUCTIONEER 1S FAKING BIDS . KEEPS His EVE OM HIM® THINKG HE'LL DROP IN AND WATCH AUCTION FOL A MINUTE OR wo Sterrett & Fleming, Inc. Champlain St. and BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | 14 ;. p hition expensive? And how KaiCesnaiiond American capital Is helping to re-|has the Treasury overcome the $300,- habilitate a war-shattered world at{ 000,000 loss in taxes which used to be the rate of nearly a billion dollars a | collected on beverages? Does the gov- Year. Tt is not Utfited States Treas- | ernment get any revenue out of the i ury money, but the funds of private | liquor illegally sold by *bootleggers” ! American investors that are making|and does it collect any income taxes | 15 | | | TR, this practical contribution toward | from the “botleggers” themselves 80,000,000 Penalties. Te-establishing normal conditiens| Those questions go to the root of| On tep of {his are accumulated | . The National Capital's Greatest Real Estate Organization abroad. The exact figures for 1922.|the problem, and while it is true that | items of approximately $80.000.000 in | Just compiled and circulated by the [menaliestor wiblationtor thio trfemmal ! 4 Federal Reserve Board, are $869, 9:.-‘ the amount of the tax rate that used 000. They represent an increase of to be 250,000,000 over the amount loaned imposed on liquor sales when | - the traflle was lesal. . This ity | t r l illion was held up) courts for to foreign countries in 1921 and the million was heid up in the courts fc ‘l l’e ‘!m awhile until a Supr Court_decis- | 1otal is mnearly $300,000,000 greater n made clear the fact that the old han the figures for 1920. Thus. while . AN te S S PRANTICALLr LUCKILY SOMEONE OVER- DECIDES WATCHING b Needs HEDIDNT MEAN BIDS. MAN DOESN'T AUCTIONS 1S TOO MUCR OF A NERVO internal revenue laws had not b, ur so-called “internationalis: STRAIM) from a moral standpoint a negative answer to each would still fail to {deter the crusader who believes the greatest good to the greatest number cannot be measured in dollars and cents, there is a widespread interest in these material phases. First of all, prohibition enforcement | itself is not expensive, but really profitable financially to Uncle Sam. { Nine million dollars was appropriated | { by Congress to enforce the Vol d law. The Treasury balance sheet on AT CRITICAL MOMENT IN BIDDING HIS NOSE ITCHES. AUCTIONEER. ANNOUNCES TO BID. AUCTIONEER DARE MOVE A MUSUE BID OF % 2.50 RAISES IT TO §3. THUL DEAL 1S CLOSED DPORTRAIT OF A MAN WATCHING AN Borah May Pay — ONDELL ASSHLS | CLASSLEBSLATON | As Soviet Guest| { Declares Senator Borah, republican, 1daho, may Le the guest of the Russian soviet Seek to Carry Out Wishes of Whole People. Treasury Department s arranging for hea #s so that Interested par- ties may present their claims for r lief before distraint proceedings are I started whereby the government seizes all the property of the deliy quent taxpayers Even if o ver collect bizx margin « ent over the o The several staies, of course, coliect their own fines and if prohibition is Wiy paving its way so far as federal | penditure is concerned, it be | DEGREESATG.W. L. Midwinter Convocation Held at Memorial Continental Hall This Afternoon. ing for American governments to the world, the thing that money—has been aquietly, id powerfully at work ‘Twenty-One Countries Helped. No fewer than twenty-one different countries been helped with American capital. It has gone to the motest quariers of the globe. Go crnments, national or municipal Lurope. Asia, Australia and South \merica have been accommodated. | Canada has been financed to a pre gious extent, American loans to Dominion borrowers accounting for 10 less than $248.601,000, w nearly one-quarter of the grand to- I To Hawaii and other United States possessions $41,072,000 was ad- vanced. The extent and varied char- acter of American loans to foreign =overnments, municipalities and cor- porations are shown by the following abulation Australia ... Tuteh East Tndies. . igium .. «zechoslovakin Tenmark ... ancs ... etherlands Norway 5 Tuzosiavia . \rgentina Toiivia .. Tirazil repealed by the Volstead act. Now nw‘ uterventionists” have been clamor- { { steadily An extra room on the first floor. This room in the new Walker-Built houses. with tile lavatory and clothes closet, may be used as a first floor bedroom, sun par- lor, music room, den or nursery. half this it would sti for the of enfory amount show Iy have 1$40,000,000 to aris-Lyons- {Mediterranean and $11,010.- 1000 to the Holland-American Ste iship Company. Telephone companics {in Canada, sugar companies in Cuba stroet railway cetric power companies in_ Novi tia, petroleum corporations in Venezuela, steamship lines in Denmark and little towns i {the Canadian province of Sashkatch- jewan were among the borrowers of {American capital. The city of Sois- {sons, around which some of the blood- Jiest battles in France were fousht {obtained an American loan of $5,000. 1600 for reconstruction purposes.’ crmany—an is to the textile able in legal Ger- ing at the time ot the gr (&0 i GuvAS Al I1ON WILLIAMS (C) Whegler Sva. Inc. St It is one of the many, many features of these new homes on Jenifer and 41st streets, Chevy Chase, D. C. Ohio, 216,000 000 in fines. This item was di- {vided between the state and the| county treasuries so that the com- munities which did the prosccuting { received about $1.360.000 last year | out of prohibition cases | There is no way of telling exactly the { 1s thit have been recovered by the | iry in income tax cases. Oue | is pending in which a “boot- legger” made oul an income tax { turn for $6.000 when he had in reality | an income of § Curiously encugh the Dep: Justice in | | nen e e TR DIy haLinstinces unable to iy roUmTipalit ik OF X get the evidence to convict individuals W : increasing degree, but doing so at af 2 ; e 0 ¢ Gteadily declining rate of interest, OF |EUilty of participating in illegal ‘00| the foreign issues brought out in the|liquor traffic but has munaged to tip 0 | first four months of 1921, not one was | off Treasury Department so that {sold on a basis to yield less than xfin tion could be made whether W ider cent, and the return to the in-|fraudulent income tax returns were W | vestor averaged around 81 per cent.|mad | figures contrast with gradual-| Perjury Prose " 601000 | Ling Sields on 1922 transactions| puocecutions have been instituted B00000 | to as low as 5 per cent ¢ $100: [, Trosecutions have meen Inaituiad '(H!(l.lullv Dominion of issue : floated at par in April loan was made in { of 66,000,000 mark lof Elberfeld. repa | 000 | Shan currency e Open Daily for Inspectionr WAEKER 813 15th St. N.W. s S (T government if he arranges for the Luropean trip next spring he has been considering. Mr. Borah said today he had re- ceived and accepted, provisionally, an “unofficial” invitation to go into | Russia a: the guests of the soviet government. He has decided to go, he said, if conditions make it at all possible. The Idaho senator long has been | an advocate of a resumption of re- lations between the United States and Russia. Interest Rate Declining. investors of the United States nding to the govern- corporatiuns and The are not only W | ments, induscrial We need an amalgamated organiza- tion which would be against all spe- cial_interests and wholly for the peo- ple,” declared Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming. majority {leader in the House, in an address be- fore the Washington Study in the Highlands apartments yesterday. Speaking on the “Legislative Branch of the United States Government.” Representative Mondell explained briefly the functioning of Congress and pointed out that the representa- tives strive to carry out the will of the .peonle. Stating that Sixty-two students of the ing class of George Washington Uni- versity will be given their diplomas {at the annual midwinter convocation to be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock | at Memorial Continental Hall, 17th and D streets. The exercises will follow the procession of the graduat- ing class, led by the faculty of the university. John Garland Pollard William and Mary Col the cony, Hodgkin ity, also and Re cellor of say the graduat- Main 2430 Canada . Lo Newfoundiand ©.011111ITIIIIT No Appeals in Vain, - No sort of foreign enterprise ap- aled to the American money mar- ket during 1922 in vain. We loaned D100 the anada Maine; Earle Charles Lassen, Wa ington; William Carl Longstreet, Jersey; Robert Wallace Marshall, Kentucky; Francis Sydney Rees Maryland: Nichol Main Sandoe, Dis- . ge, w make i trict of Columbia: Authwin W. Stoltz. cation address. Howard L.|1llinois; Alexander Wilbourne Wed- president of the univers-;dell, Herschel Smith Whitehurst, will address the graduates, | Georgla, and Willis Harold Young,| Lucius Charles Clark. chan- | Minnesota. American University, Master of laws—William Campbell the prayer and benediction Lyon, Pennsylvania: Rex Arthur Pix- Those Getting D i ley. Michigan. T i omESER Master of arts, presented by Dean he following graduates will be|penning—Herman Robie Ames, New given their degress this afternoon: |yjampshire; Ralph Crawford Howard, 3achelor of arts, presented by Doanl sippi. Howard Hanna Martin, ey Ol e D_]jmc”nun s; John Joseph Mucclo, Rhode of Columbia; Hxlda_ Chester Bowen, .":::.n‘;!u:“d DO T SR O paLticl eof Columbla; James Irving | “Doctor of philosophy—Edward Law- A Sork: John Ryan Dally.lrence GriMin, District of Columbi District of Columbia; Joshua William | 1858 600 PHETEL 00 SnUR A2 { Davies, Ivania; Samuel Mayer | prancis Melcher, Tilinols, and Joseph { Dodek. District of Columbia; Jona- Hyram Roe, Virginia. {than Foster Hagan, Virginia; Eliza-! R0 808 W0 "Bean Ruediger of peth Rembro Hall eot ‘él‘[:(‘:“;!vandmaln for degrees in teachers' Monroe Hester, District of Columbia; | (o1l bachelor of arts and bache- interested in |has bought tities of | Charlcs W lossd D mESIG S batios SMALy | { the commereial and political welfare | securitios who in{hugh Lee Hurl e Gety, Drstrice ot Columbie: {of the countries in which his Ameri- [farge real estat actions | Hugo Augustus Agnes Josephine Gregory, District of H LTS T0 | can dollar has been invested, This|often be caught, : gove Thomas Claftey Lavery, - Missouri:| Cojumbia (with distinction), and Mar- SEEPINE | interest augurs well for the solution fhas no difficulty in getting the neces-James Earl Montgomery, Indiana;|zaret Eva Whitzell, District of Co- wf perplexing problems of an inter-|sary information from business{ Roger Sherman Newell, Dismict off inpia i national mature and for an increased | houses. because it has the right to in- | Columbi rie” O'Dea, Maryland; | WRPIS o o0 Dean Miller of study of our foreign trade opportuni- books under a variety of exist niel O'Flaherty, Virginia; Charles| .oniidates for degrees in the college b ing statutes Ralph Pagter, District of Columbia.{ ot engineering, bachelor of science | The “bootlegger” . and Leo Henrs Roche. Connecticul. |in chemical engineering—Julius Fred- cash gets little joy out of life. Man Eachelor of laws, presented by Dean | Hijop istri a Vielator of the law who has made | Ferson: Mildred Ruberta Callahan | ooy oS B e tony hoeha Salesman, capable of tak- . 3 oy : ing sition of manager, fagents on the scent without knowing ppi; Conway Peyton Coe, ¢ Jit simply by extravagant purchases in city or town where he is well sales department. Old es- - obert Sherm wis, T i Maryland; Emanuel Maurica Davidove, | Rogary e ls ottt known. There are many who are es- Secretary Mellon Explains Inabil- laryland; Emanuel Maurice Davidove. | Columbla. Bachelor of science in me- || tablished firm. Have 12 to = ‘Sylvester Stan- chanical engineering, Carl Dewe: 15 salesmen. Salarv and caping detection. but as the govern- ment departments co-ordinate their ity to Comply With Legislative Resolution. come. fax - returns whea in reality there wasn't enough proof availizble A leading federal reserve bank au-|i, pet a conviction nlum.r the Voi- | thority, commenting on the flow of | stead law. M. Mabel Walker Wille [ American capital into foreign enter-|piundt §Siant Altorvey meners | brises. says has direct supervision not { MThe readiness with which mas of | the vrohibition cases. but the | these issues were absorbed by Ameri- | zation of Income tax frauds, office home. | tion ©of the state of public opinion [ Usually tie “bootlexiers” are afraid | toward affairs abroad. American con- |of the criminal of the income fidence that ultimately and within a tax law. They may be able to escape | reasonable time the troubled affairs|with a fi a light sentence on a | of foreign countries will be corrected but an Income | most naturally finds expression in a more serious willingness to invest in their securi- [matter. Many “bootleggers” fear that | ties, whether national. municipal or |if they ceposit their money in the | industrial banks the government will detect the Thousands Now Investors. Gl e e PR “Of /paramount importance the lwhat they do not realize is that the fact that thousands of American citi- | government has many waye of keep i zens have for the first time virtually ling track of purchases. Most stat | become stockholders in the other na- |require registration of ownership o i tions of the world. Never before has|automobiles. This information is a there been a distribution in the ) cessible to the federal government United States, either in volume or|One clue leads to another. A suspeet amount, of foreign securities equal|who returns an income tax statement to that which has taken place since [showing he is engazed in some small January 1. 1921. Every one of these |retail business, but who stockholders” Is vitally ROM _THE AVENUE AT NINT professor of COVERED MOVING VAN | Plttshurgh via Cimberland abo Wants load. Main 3120, Br. 556, due to certain members of the legislative body leaning too much toward the will of their con- stituents, they sometimes did not do that which would be best for the ! country and people as a whole. { He condemned those seeking legis- | lation for the benefit of certain inter- | sts; also those who sign petitions | and send letters and telegrams and | | the | For Spring 1923 0 NG [0AD OF FU Washiogton from Baltimore. nd New York. SMITIT D i to { Philadelphia | S AND STOIRAGE (0 | XOTICE OF A3 MEETING. y eholders of Co Stock of i Yon are | ueeting of | Wilkins Com- | e | od Txland ave, e, on Wednes. | 28, 105, AL 3 o'clock p.ore for election of directors for the ensiing ‘year and for thie transaction of such other husiness &5 may_come. et JOHN B S ILKINS COMPANY ARCITAM: DAULT, Secretary TARN AVAILS PHILAT 5% PITTSBUIGH . NRIE . in other ways attempt to influence members of the House without tak- ing the trouble to make a study or an | investigation of the particular issue at stake. { Very often those interests which | lappeal to us from sentimental, moral | {and other standpoints at first, when ! {given much thought and considera- tion from all angles, will seem en- tirely different to us Mr. Mondell said. | "He_told his audience that the best “Wanted’ Ixperienced Real Estate notitied icholders of the Jol Carolina; Kenman. lowa:| has tran v YORK. STRANSFEI COMPANTY, 1 R Old Floors Made New New rs laid. Nt ADAMS, Barrister e s i i FORD CARS ONLY Yalves ground aod carbon cleaved. . 82 Motor_overhavled 5 S 2 ixxion and (Copyright, 1923.) who hoards_his X OUOTED 10 LABOR. ON' ALL MAKES CARS. | McManamy, District of Columbia, and PR . = Robert H. commission will be offered & l'lI A activities nd one bureau helps out SUPER M ginia; John Christian Gall, outh Carolina: Jonathan C. Gibson. the other the c! s of getting at|Virginia; Lois Gates Gorman, Penn- the incomes of the “bootleggers” will jsylvania: John__ Graydon Harlan, improve daily. Pennsylvania; William Armstrong Must State Busineas: Hunter, Idaho; Olive B. Lacy, New Every man must state his business | J°#¢¥7 Alexander Arthur La Fleur, and sources of income in his income tax return and swear fo it. Many GIMMI GETS IT. “bootleggers” have an ostensible | business and make regular returns to; __ g 4 Philadelphia Man Sentenced to Six the government, but they conceal Months for Spanking Wife. their true source of income. There no way to detect fraud simply by amining the income tax return itself. PHILADELPHIA, February 22.—Rob- | Suspicion develops as_a rule out of .. Gimmi was vesterday sentenced to | {some circumstance which starts the {gx months in the county prison for i panking his wife. He pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and bat- {investigator on his trail and one of | | the first things he checks up is the | tery after his wife testified against him William Robinson Ward, jr.. District | of Columbla. to right party. All appli- cations treated confiden- tially. Address Box 326—X Star Office ve s Cor i Cats. nw, PLUMBING, TINNING, When 708 think o Bl bing. hink o Carow & Fry « 1011 H st n.w. Main 1261. 1 For Over 40 Years PRINTING High Grade—But Not High Priced. BYRON S. ADAMS, PRINTER, * 512 11th 8t THAT MATTRESS Wouid feel better if it were cleaned and renovated, Bi T IT SHOULD BE DONE PROPERLY. Phone Main 3621, 610 E St. N.w, BEDELL’S MATTRESS il Investors and Speculators il Four Houses on || Wide Avenue in Southeast Price, $750 Each These houses can be remod- eled and sold at a good profit. J. Dallas Grady 322 Maryland Building The House yesterday refused information on the amount of diplo- matic liquor entering Washington since the prohibition amendment be- came effective, January 20, 1920. Secretary Mellon, in a letter to Speaker Gillett, explained that he could not comply with a resolution adopted ! by the House last Friday; following refusal by the Secretary to give simi- Jar data to the House' judiciary com- i mittee. The resolution was introduced VIOB was SHOP| Business Properties Improved and Unimproved L Street N.W. type of business in which the suspect is engaged. 3 i It's a long and tedious process, but | the government is practicing patience and getting resullts. Yet if the amount expended to en- force prohibition is offset by the total of fines imposed and even if the gov- ernment does recover a_ good bit of Imported Tweed FACTORY iIVE PER CE: T TO DATE OF vhat the Mome Bullding Assoclation ‘members. Payments. 81 e day. Wm. T. Galliher. pr Linkine and Wm. K. Reeve, vice Dresidents James M. Woodward. secretary; R. . 9 Son, treanurer. o PRINTING — We Can Handle the Largest or Smallest Orders. The N%I DCapitaI Press —Rook ThousLE Grafton & Son, Inc., T3, Lo “‘Heating and Roofing Experts for 35 Years, Asbestos Roofing Cement Ntops leaks in any kind of roof. I apply same and guarantee roof. $1.00 ga K, 1 Dbuckets, delivered in D. C. $1.25 gal o sn 1.gal. buckets. Estimates free. MADISO CLARK. 1314 Pa. e. Phone Linc. FHEDD .'.'fiat"}'fi. ';';.‘,;‘.'x;."".fi.,y Bevds 706 _10th sonets, giciis, KiFAIRS Have You Ever Been ON YOUR ROOF? Let us tell you what condition it is in without cost to you. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. Tioofing Dept.. 1114 9th st. Ph. M. 2490-2491. Biggs Puts HEAT in Heating.” We Want to Be First £ —ii Vapor & |, 2o, hinde whenerer 3lot-water| el ot i oud i ; o Heating. | PLUMBING. e o ‘The Biggs Engineering Co, WARREN W. BIGGS, President, 1310 14th st. n.w. ‘el. Frank. 317. Old-fashi d inciple 5. with modern business methodn has iech our standarzd for 25 years. Place your roof work in safe hands. Get our esti- mate. 4SOON | rhe stinion s | Printing Plant BOOF] COMPANY. 1422 K St N.W Phoue Main 933, month a_share. | | by Representative Cramton, republican, of Michigan, a “dry” leader, who told the House that publication of the data | would furnish one remedy for the{ leakage of embassy liquor charged by | Washington nolice after raids in apa ment hous > “In view of the principles | to international intercourse.” said Mr. | Mellon's letter to Speaker Gillett,| “and the existing immunity to which {diplomatic representatives of foreign governments are entitled under inter- national law and other statutes, T am inot in a position to transmit this in- { formation to the House of Represent- 1atives for the reason that it wouid be incompatible with the public interest to furnish it. { Mr. Mellon's letter, under date of vesterday, was written after he had communicated with State Department officlals, who took the view of the! matter outlined by the Treasury Sec- | retary in his communication to the | House. Mr. Cramton said today he had no comment to make on the let- iter at this time, desiring first to give | jit “thorough consideration.” i | ACCIDENT COSTS $3,500. f { Sam Levin Consents to Verdict for Injury to Boy. H Ferdinand Galban, fourteen years| jold, was riding a bicycle at 16th| | street and Blagden avenue northwest, | May 30 last, when he was struck by | an automobile belonging to Sam | Levin. The boy sustained a fracture | of the right arm. Mr. Levin yester- | day consented to a verdict for $2,000 damages against him by a jury in| Circuit Division 1, before Justice | Hitz, in favor of the boy, and for an | additional $1,500 to the boy's father, | Eugene Galban, for the expense to| which he was piaced by reason of the | injurtes of the boy. Attorney Wharton E. Lester represented the plaintiffs. AL T Some of the statemen who are look- ing for presidential lightning to sirike them should be toid that the open mouth is a non-conduetor. Toledo Blade, E money from ‘“‘bootleggers™ through the income tax investigations, the fact still remains that on the liquor tually bought and sold through illicit channels 10 inte revenue taxes are collected and the $500,000,000 los in taxes has not been wiped out by any taxes on soft drinks Prohibition might have had a hard | time ir the European war had notj come and =otten the American people | used t paying three and four bil-| lion dollars annually in taxes. In- deed, the income tax laws came op- portunely for the prohibitionist. An item of $500,000.000 can be swallowed | up in the budget by a manipulation of other items and a change in tax rates, And when the present sy of taxation on specific item burdensome there is always the s tax idea whereby the experiment in taxation can be continued until some other substitute is offered. Revenue Loss, Factor. To the outery that the drink bill f the ation has not decreased, the; prohibitionists point to the increases| in saving bank deposits and the large | volume of transactions in the retail | ores of the nation. But to the com- | plaint that a large amount of tax Wwhich used to be collected on wines. | whiski beer and other alcohol Deverages s not now forthcoming there is no answer, It is los therein lies one of the factors w ultimately may have a good deal to do with the movement for legalizing the sale of a beverage which is not intoxicating, but which contains more than the 11, per cent of alcohol spec[-' fied by the Volstead law as the upper limit. Practically all the suggestions for| modification which have been intro-| duced in Congress in the last two years have had coupled with them some plan for raising revenue. The idea that the soldier bonus could be paid by a tax on some light beverage has many more friends in Washing- ton than might appear on the sur- face. Opinions differ as to what chance any legislation raising the al- coholic content above 1% per cent would have. butl there are certain busic facts which underlie the whole controversy, and these will be out- ined In tomorrow’s dispatch (Copyright, 1923.) t | LN . S NIRRNR, Some Fire Add the charm of this fire to your living room. | What a treat at night to watch the indescribably beautiful firelight that is thrown into the room. | What comfort to feel those charming rays of heat as they are thrown into space. heHUMPHREY Radiantm'e Various Sizes and Designs $15.00 Up Cheerful Gas Heaters, $4 Up Edgar Morris Sales Co. Factory Distributors 1305 G St. N. W. Main 1032-1033 i ) 1410 H St. N.W. Main. 727 Member Washington Real Between 16th and 22nd $4,500-§135,000 EAVER BROS. | 735 15th St. N.W. New York Av. | FLAT TIRE? JUST A REMINDER-- TODAY IS WINTER’S LAST HOLIDAY INSPECT 3rd and Rhode Island Avenue N.E. You will want to be in your own home by Spring. 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