Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1923, Page 3

. x Su reRel lef Backing of Nation for District | Abe Martin Says: — FOR INDIGESTION BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief 25¢ and 75¢ Packages Everywhers Oh! They’re So Good The Original CARAMELS Fresh Every Hour Best Ice Cream That’s Possible to Make At Both Fountains 9th & G Sts. 609 14ih St. Rémmgton I Cash Registers Manutactared by Remington CashRegisterCo.Inc. Subsidiary of the RemingtenArms Company, Inc. LI0N. N ITH its printed, unchangeable Records and Totals, furnish facts necessary to guide and con- trol vour business. Features not shown on any other Register. It will pay you to see this machine before you buy. Hundreds of Washington mer- chants are using Remington Cash Registers. Allowance made for other makes of Registers taken in ex- change. H. George Thyson, Jr. Sales Azment 431 11th St. N.W. Phone Main 2403 SPECIAL \IOTICES MEETING he board of NOT BE RESPONSIE ontracted fo £ by uny o D WITHl a0 and DT | thix bill could be legally introduced 40 8t wt m VICTORIX designer at sive mill‘n: TOTSERY faded-out RTY, m-" a0, gallon, ROGT! Instruction Free Ladies. make your own lafs for the cost of 2 Hemstitching. quic TFARRIS HA 1010 F Prmtmg Individuality The kind that gets and holds attention. The Naltzismazl Capital Press | ITAVEBEAUTIFUL FLLOORS 0 s i v oo i aomn, €. ADANS, "Main 1457 day ard night. Your Car Won't ‘Kill Time’ —in the ropair shop often if we do your work. Our mechanics know their busi- ness, and You don’t pax for two men's time on “‘one man’s” job, R, McReynolds & Son sts in Painting, Slip Covers and Tepa. 1425 1. ST. Afn e Beale rooimg service Prmtmg Service HIGH GILADE | - reliable and eficient, BIGH PRICED | ence 1t PRINTER, BYRON S. ADAMS, Faister Ironclad Roof Paint made just for the purposs and applied by practical roofers with & reputation for doing thil Let us save your roof. IRONCLAD fmee, a2 i, “ProtecTin” The one wire medfum for keeping your i fof trom rust sud sdecar, Oldwtyic roof paint made just for the purpose. Let us_apply it NOW! KDON ROOFING 1422 F 8t. N.W. COMPANY Phone Main 933, ana o austicy”that ia eseel- | ! | these are: | therefore, happens that no appropria- = ‘"THE _EVENING Park System Urged by Sherrill Three-Quarters of Capital Without Ade- quate Play Spaces, City Planners Are Told in Plea for Support. Lack of vision on the part of the | of a comprehensive pulicy of park - levelopment for the nation's capita forefathers, and the difficulty in get- | PGt on the ‘Senate in 1901 ting Congress in later years to enact | uyeateq the commisslon known a8 j the necessary legislation. has been re- | the McMillan commission, to_ report o e o he ex- | @ plan for the park development of sponsible for the slowness in the . he District of Columbla, 'This LOI\I-' tension and development of the park- | jjsgion submitted a comprehensive ystem of the District of Colum- >plun 1;( park ex)véenfllo}l:. but unfor- o rrill, | tunately the work of the commission Lo o), O iy | WaS not brought to full fraition. be- officer in charge of public EY | cause of the failure of Congress to and grounds, in an address before the | pass the necessary legislation to an-l : »f the Association of City | Prove these plans and to provide for [ et O e rore Monday night | the Eradual ‘and systematic acquire- | Planners in Baltimore » | ment of the areas to be uitimately in- In his description of the park de- | lided in the parks. velopment of this city Col. Sherrill | "only llast vear were positive and i | effective steps taken to create a gov- called attention to the fact that the | STEELINE steps taken to create a gov- | government was many years in awak- | These steps consisted in the drafting {ening to the necessity of appropri-* of a bill and_its LIu\rodux“lllun in the ouse and Senate creating a Na- {ating money for the parks of the (0N3> Snd Renate creating a Naj | capital, and it has been difficult 10| imggine that the provisions of this impress each succeeding Congress Lill are already familiar to all of SVilhi the same meceneity: {you. At any rate, the important fea- @ ture of the bill is that It creates an “The government has not exhibited | eminent commission and empowers. it the required amo of foresight in (o adopt a comprehensive and con-| ter of ring adequate | tinuing policy of park and play thin undaries of the-! ground acquirement. not only in the Col. Sherrill said. “This is t of Columbia, but also in near- ore unfortunate inasmuch as and and Virginia, through sovernment has the advantage of erative arrangements between of Xes. {1he authorities of the government and ‘Center Well nned. tof those states. “Although the future necessities | Goes Beyond District, were not fully foreseen at the time| “These provisicns are of the ut- f ation of the District |most importance, in that they will Sherrill sald, “with | allow the park areas and forested to a few of the most far-|areas to be acquired independently of statesmen_of the early day |the District line when such areas center part of Washington was |are necessary for specific purposes, as riven a splendid plan with adequate | for the protection of Rock creek, or From 1790 to 1897 prac- | the protection of the banks of the additional areas were added | Potomac river. or for the protection ks of Washington by pur- | of the forested areas in Maryland or The only ones of any moment | Virginia. during these hundred years ou gentlemen from all over those reclaimed by the United | the country, interested in city plan- srps of Enginec an in- | ning which Involves the preservation dent to their dredeing operations | of nature's beauties in city develop- the maintenance of the channels|ment. the vital importance of this ac and Anacostia rivers. | bill will be at once apparent. If we ans West Potomac Park |are ever to have a great National was added, including all | Capital, worthy of the greatest na- | st of the hington | tion on’ earth, we must arouse a deep | Minument and south of B street. all | ersonal intdrest among the people of Bust Potomue Park of of the whole country in the develop- tia Park of 1. ment of the nation’s capital. A Telan of8 ancos. splendid start has been made in this after years of wrangling | direction by the American Clvie As- Yitter charges of | sociation, and let us ever keep in Waehi mind that Washington is in reality the capital city. the seat of the na- tion's government, the symbol of the power and glory of our wonderful people and the pride and inspiration of eve Amerfcan. “With the backing of such organi- zations as th scattered throughout the country for the proper develop- | ment of Washington, not ae a mu-| o P < | nicipality competing ‘with other mu Ahihwar slnE Rock fl’r:"_‘l ipalities of similar uize, hut fs the | seat of the nation's capital and fts| great workshop, where a multitude of | activities are carried on. will inevi- | | tably correct the lack of policy that has characterized the entire history of the nation's capital up to this| 1 ded jall of Anacd 1,600 acres. nsummated, thus creating I beautiful natural to be found in the vicinity of f the world. About i E Zoological Park. with was purchase i tending to the bridge. i Three Areas Bought. 'm_thix time forward ne park bout 3 athorized the pure time.” along the valley of tending from the Zoolog the mouth of the creck s ark, near the present Lincoln | i U. S.-FINLAND PACT. oon, or | Debt-Funding Agreement Reached, S o ncarly Pending Ratification. he scen that there | "f,',,,‘,'f,’,f‘ areas | Finland yesterday executed a debt | nece the es. | funding agreement with this govern- | itional Capital'} ernment, which, pending ratification | ng about 75 per o _Q Al DIt i ey ongress, becomes tentatively ef. park or playground areas. 1 ple of the difficultics| The agreement was signed by Sec- been encountered in secur- | retary Mellon, as chairman of the | iitions, even of small extent, to | American debt commission, and by | ing park arcas. I might cite Alex Astrom. minister of Finland that for a number of vears The minister handed Secretary Mellon t efforts have heen made to @ check for $9.132, adjusting the debt | » Congress to buy two small !0 an even § 000, on which the | is along two of the branches of | @Breement was culated. { Rock Creek as a means of protecting |, Payments under the agreement wit | ithe flow of that strean begin June 15, when the first interest | ismall _but tremendousl | installment is due. Actual reduction | have been rejected b, f the debt, the payment of which Nl d over again. In the pread over sixty-two years, will, have tand by tart December 15. | i | tablishme the District, t of the qua As i lllorulnt Congress eantime | we and see | The state budzet in California was drafted by a woman—Mrs. Nellie B. Pierce—who runs it as she'd run a | home. !ing operations. Lack of Clear Policy. the above outline of the devel nt of Washin FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Service Charge Never Over $1.00. Preserve It! | Paint It! Becker Paint & Glass Co. 1239 Wisconsin Ave. West 67 ‘ ///////// ret lhrou;:h lhn ou, Tollonse by more vears e e (o get appropriations to | |carry out the purchases authorized. {Those who are not familiar with the | | procedure required to secure funds | ifrom Congress would hardly believe | i of the steps neces: notwithstanding all ibilities of fallure, Congress and be signed by the Presi- dent, the work would only be fa started for then it would require ai {other year in which estimates under !jeet to a multiy !hudget and the committees { they could come before Congress. before | It, | i tions are made for many years to car- {ry out acts duly authorizing appro- { priation of funds. “In this connection, 1 might cite the | fact that the act creating the Arling- | ton Memorial Bridge Commission was | tion of $25,000 to prepare plans ¥ for this bridge, but no ‘appropriation made to carry out the authoriza- on until 1922, and then only after | repeated es ited und much personal effort under- |!u)wn to accomplish this end. “The nearest xl))pronch that we l\'l\e had to start in the formation | Young Men’s Pic-| tures well made $20.00 Dozen 1 | Honest lubrication is for sale at all Standard filling stations. Drive up and ask for Polarine —the “Standard” oil for motor lubrication. Polarine keeps all moving parts work- ing smoothly and will- ingly. You owe it to your car to make a reasonable annual in- vestment in lubrica- tion of the very best, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) a marvelous its advantages in home. “Our Recommendation Is Your Protection” Cooler Kitchens, Cleaner, Tastier Food UNIVERSAL Electric Kitchen Range is such —so wonderfully cool and de- lightful compared to hot, cum- bersome stoves—you should not delay the day when you enjoy A turn of the switch and the Electric Range is at work, All NAI‘IONAL ELECTRICAL 'y Company 1328-30 NchorkAvc. Phonc Main 6800 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, \‘Poor Indian’ Only ' Worth About 1 Billion Dollars The “poor Indlan” is weaithy. He owns material possessions In the United States valued at a bil- llon dollars, the Interior Depart- ment announced yesterday after- noon. His possessions include for- st lands, mineral and ofl rights, lands alloted and reserved, live stook and other property. In addition, there is $25,000,000 in the Treasury, representing funds belonging to Indian tribes, and in private banks in western states Indlan depositors have a total of $35,000,000. ENDS LIFE AT NIAGARA. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., May 2.— A man belleved to be Fred Dean of iagara Falls, Ontarlo, committed | suicide vesterday by going over the | American falls. He leaped into the { water near Prospect point, leaving a | note reading: “I can stand this no | longer.” We kin allus tell a pedestrian | whcn he sits down in a cafe| ’cause he decides so quickly. (Copyright National Newspaper Servi SACRIFICE SALE We have recently completed very extensive changes in our building to secure more room and find we are still crowded. In order to dispose of fine rebuilt electric cars rather than hold them until fall, we are offering them at the following sacrifice prices. 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In place of linings the coats are French faced, with all seams satin piped. This is the highest tvpe of tailoring. For young men the proper straight-back models, and the dignified styles for older men. The Norfolk back has displaced the old style of “sport” coat. What we’ll show you is correct for this season. All 40 Suits $27 75 All 50 Suits $3 5.75 All 60 Suits §’ 5,75 These include the best models produced in “Stratford” _ Clothes, “Fashion Park” Clothes, and the great Hickey- Freeman Co. (With woven-in Satin stripe) 3 for $5.50 Ay A superfine material that is unusually durable. Tailored with extra care, and has the “never shrink” neckband. neat pattern of guaranteed fast color. All sizes in