Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1923, Page 13

-+ —%h Uncle Sam Proves Success - As Wasllington’s Market Man Center Market Shows Good Profit for First Year. Dealers Satisfied Despite, light Boost in Rent. I'ncle Sam’s experiment as a mar- ¥etman, in taking over at the behest W Congress the management of Cen- + market, which has been in opera- for and which covers approximately two city blocks, two and one-half acres of tion nearly 125 vears or nearly Land, is proving Uncle Sam has summered and win- as marketman during one of t trying periods in the mar- of perishable foodstuffs, for market has been under the f the Department of a success. Keting Center adm Agriculture nistra more than a year ne Rental Rate. Starting July 1 ss of deal- pay the rental space they or the at every rent hax the each cla same rate of foot for the Center market mity and to tr ame. this adjust by C. Kitche rs will per square occupyin suke of unif dcaler the bheen ardered sup: rintendent Thix will resalt in u merely nominal increase and in Some cases in_quite a conslderable e The increases will average abou S per cent W come instances Avernge Rate Lower. \ the increase the rates ged for stalls in the market are than prevalling rates in owned buildings. serious critieism among the because Uncle Sam ha thus raised the rent. It will in e the $5.000 or $6,000 a year, and « distributed among 143 des seen that it den wi © vately here dealers as this ers it will be readily A not prove a very heavy them, the surplus -1 into improvements. past year more than $25.000 was tin improvements. Now the ad- istration is installing four first- ary baking stands New Poultry Counters. \lready there have been installed itary poultry counters which a provide for display of these products under glass, one fish counter of the design and a large num- wor of miscellaneous repairs to stands ve heen made Superintendent Kjtchen with th co-operation &f experts in the hureau of agricultural economics is now con- ducting experiments on refrigerated counters « new stand is built the work entirely at government e and the amount of increase in is charged so as to spread of the _equipment over a period The old market company, ined. used to let the stand- all costs of improvements. Turnover Slight. have been few who gave up stand privileges in Center mar- sinee Uncle Sam took charge, turnover” has been slight. So administration of the market by artment of Agriculture meets e approval of the tenants. stand holders now and many others waiting to on_any of \ £ promptly During tu " is Pense rent cost of ve 1t is exy holder pay There their ket Th the the almost as get stands The gross sales reported the rket during the calendar year . including the wholesale business n_the market. totaled $14,594.- 1d that did not include sales by approximately 200 farmers e space on the south side o market building. g ploy Meat Inspecior. the important rules put der federal administration t was the employment of inspector. whose duties are that all meat offered for sale s pure and wholesome and fit for human censumption, and that the equipment and utensils are kept in a clean and sanitary condition. A num- ber of regulations have been put in force designed to make the Washing- g in a meat to see pri- the | C. W. KITCHEN, Superintendent, Center. Market. ton Center market a model for. the entire country. One rather important change made in co-operation with the District commissioners was in regard to park- ing near the market, which, like everywhere else in the District, a_ problem. When Superintendent Kitchen was first put in charge he found that there was a great deal of complaint that patrons of the market | could not find any place to park their cars when they came to do their marketing, and he found that many who work in the market—both deal- ers and employees—were in the habit of p; ing thei rs all day. So a parking limit of one hour was put into effect about the n ket and this has resulted in an increase in patron- age Record of Kitchen. . W. Kitchen, the superintendent of the market has been with the De- partment of Agriculture for about ten 'S, Prior to his selection by the ecretary of Agriculture to take di- rect charge of the market, Mr Kitehen was in charge of the market- reporting service on fruits and vege- tables in the bureau of agricultural economics. 9 Profiteering is not allowed in Cen- ter market. P ible profiteering re- cefves dra attention in the law which placed Center market under government control Nobody Efected. Superintendent Kitchen has never been forced to take action under th provision bcause he h. received I no complaint of profiteering. The | prices are gathered once a week and | published. “Comparison is made from | time to” time of prices charged in the | market and those prevailing in other | markets. The dealers are required .!l' make statements each year show- | ing the gross sales, the costs of goods sold, expenses. etc. That informa- | tion” is of considerable value to the | Department of Agriculture fn con- sidering the cost of retailing food- stuffs in the National Capital and as compared with the cost in other cen- | ters where similar Information 1s Lavailable _nder the government's administra- tion institutional advertising has been started. The dealers have been brought together in a co-operative adv the market as a whole vertised. “1 do belleva general advertisements have ac quainted the people of Washington with the facilities in Center market { about which they did not have infor- mation before,” said Superintendent Kitchen. *This has been particularl. helpful with new arrivals in the cit: Market Made to Pay. So far as the financial situation is | concerned, Center market as it is be- ing operated by the government is strictly a self-supporting institution A force of sixty perso; to operate and superv the market. This force includes accountants, in- spectors, refrigeration engineers, electricians, pipe fitters, carpenters and laborers ‘ Center market property was ac- quired by the government fourteen months ago at a cost of $960,250 for the builldings and improvements, the land on which the market is erected being the property of the government under a long-ttme lease to the mar- ket company. is being that th, Minnesota’s Choice of Senator Vital to Harding’s 1924 Hopes i | i i | Election Will Show Year Ahead of Cam-. paign If Former Vote Is Still Alienated by Discontent. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Minnesota’'s special election of a United Sta senator to be held shortly is taking on the proportions of a national campaign. Fortunately unfortunately special election will bring to a cli- max fully head of the 1924 presidential campaign two phases of national politics that cannot but have an important influence on the of President Harding. First, has the farmer discontent of the west substded? If it has Mr. Hard- ing's prospects are immeasurably im- proved or a year flect on Congress. Second, the farmer discontent still as potent as it was last autumn when Senator Brookhart swept- Towa and Senator La Follette won his over- whelming victory in Wisconsin? If it is, then the chances of harmony in the nest Congress. where the LaFo Jette sroup holds the balance of pow «r, augurs poorly for the accomplish- ment of anything Important and means a constant bombardment of the Harding eitadel. The death of a veteran, Knute Nel- son, whoso record of independence in The United States Senate was unpar- alleled, yields a controversy over a succestor that would have attracted only perfunctory interest were it not Yor the surprising defeat adminis- tered to Senator Frank B. Kellogg Jast autumn Uusally when people talk about clections they think about a contest hetween Republicans and Democrats. Ther: is no_such’ (hing coming in Minnesota, That's what makes the Minnesota contest national in aspect and significance, Farmer Vote Decisive. IUs a fisht inside the republican party between radicals or liberals and conservatives. The farmer-labor party operating in the revmblican ranks on the one hand and the con- ervative interests of the state on the other meet in battle with the leaders of each group aware that in an agri- cultural state of such size the farmer vote is the deciding factor. But the farmers themselves are di- vided into radicals and conservatives. The North Dakota experiment next door has been sufficiently notorious for radicals to boast its advantages and for conservatives to point out its perils. The election of Henrik Ship- i stead, the candidate of the farmer- labor party, last autumn was a sur- prise, because it was thought the North Dakota doctrines were on the decline when the opposite appeared 10.86 the casc. The real trouble is th at the farmer- the | future | labor leaders have dramatized the discontent of the farmer in much bet- | ter fashion than have defenders of }Iht existing regime in presenting promises of a program of relief. Sena- tor Kellogg was a member of the “farm bloc” in the United States Sen- ate and had something to do with the | | pushing through Congress of nearly every piece of legislation the feder- ated farm bureaus wanted { Tactics More Successful. The answer is that his opponents went further and further to the left of radicalism and made him appear a conservative alongside of Ship- stead. Conditions are somewhat parallel today. Senator Shipstead has a can- didate in the field, Semator La Kol- lette will probably go to Minnesota | to help elect said candidate, and the entire national republican machinery will be put behind Gov. Preus, who. while not a standpat republican, is nevertheless sufficiently popular in | the state to win, if any regular re publican can. Efforts to’ get President Harding to invade Minnesota in person have been futile. Politically he could not | afford to participate in the campaign in aid of Gov. Preus. Use Harding's Speeches. The President, however, is not in- different to what is going on in Min- nesota. His speeches on the western trip dealing with agricultural subjects will be used in the state of Minnesota by party workers who probably will seek to ald Preus by pointing out that the national administration at Wash- | ington wants him and needs him. But ! as for any definite commitment by Mr. Harding, he cannot take the chance of increasing the number of natural foes he will have in the next Senate where the margin of ten or ele’®n votes is none too comfortable, especially when there is an insurg- ency already as formidable as that which broke up the Taft regime. Minnesota’s election is bound ‘to have an important bearing on the presidential campaign as well as the legislative outlook for next session. Radicalism beaten in Minnesota means a rise in Harding stock. Radlcallsm triumphant means more trouble for President Harding and incessant tur- moil In the next Congress. (Copyright, 1923.) Sufficient Cause. From the Louisville Courler-Journal, “I trust this lecture is being given for a good cause.” “A very good cause, I think,” re- sponded the lecturer. “I have g wife fand six children to support.” is | tising experiment through which s is employed | ACGESS TOBALTIC PORTS FOR RUSSIA Reval Conference Proposes to Form Union and Make Fewer Fortifications. By Cable to. The Star, BERLIN, June 16.—Russia will r | tral ‘and ceive free access to the Baltio ports Phillip Levy’s Annual “50-50” Sale at 735 7th St. N.W. starts Monday morning at 9 o’clock. This sale—dedicated to June Brides and The Better Homes Movement—comes at a time when it will prove welcome news to those who are planning the furnishing or refurnishing of their hames. . The 50-50 Plan is this: Pay one-half down on the furniture you select—vou are then charged with only one-half of the balance, which may be purchased on Easy Terms 3 ; The values listed in this ad are the low prices that you pay after the 50-30 Discount (mentioned above) has been deducted—and no further discount from these prices Original price tags remain throughout the store. Come in and figure your own discount be allowed. Refrigerators Reduced Our entire line of high-grade Belding Hall, Cold Refrigerators cluded in this gigantic money-saving sale. a model and size that will | Storage and Phillip Levy a reirigerator here in THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, which she lost through the forma- tion of Independent Baltic states from sharply individualized territories for- merly included in.the old Russlan emplire, If the program of the forth. coming conference.of all the states bordering on the Baltic sea, or vitally interested in its use, becomes a reality. Reval is to be the seat of this con- ference, and the nations invited to attend inolude Ksthonia, Latvia, | Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Formation of Union, The object of tha conference is to form a Baltic union on the fol- lowing principles: 1. The Baltic sea to be made neu- all fortifications along its shores. with the exception of Zund and Beltow, to be dismantled. Gur- in- There's is pect satisfy the needs of any home—at prices that will make every refrigerator sell hurry, Hall refrigerators stagt at... Terms, $1.00 Kitchen .Cabinets No woman wants. 1o spend _any. . more.-gmo in the kitchen these® warm days than is absolutely necessary, and any woméin who owns a kitchen cab- inet will tell vou that does shorten her work in the kitchen. Buy. a sliding top kitchen cabinet at the 50-50 sale price for only... Terms $1.00 Weekly, Sliding Couches Whether you are in need Gil Cook Stoves If you want to cut down on your fuel bills—and have a cool kitchen during this hot weather—you will be highly satisfled with.the cooking and baking results that you get on one of ofr American Home Ofl Cook Stoves. They are clean, odorless and safe. Sold in. 2.3 and 4 burner sizes. 2- burner light housekeeping model oil cook stove with- out stand sold.at our 50-50 sale | price of.. of Terms P $1.00 We_ekly in grade furniture and home furnishings we have forgotten The mother who wants to put her baby in a crib that she find white all-steel +,sale price PL- < 4 Terms_ ‘S\ 00 Weekly in a 50-30 sale prices on Belding $1 650 Weekly ] Our 50-50 sale brings you a 10-piece Walnut Dining Suite for. ... To prove once and for all time to come— Levy sale—do form an unparalleled money-saving opportunity, we are now offering a 10- piece American Walnut Dining Room Suite similar to one pictured above at this low price. Many other beautiful period dining room suites are now offered at savings that are in line Baby Cribs this sale of high- not the little ones. with the can feel is safe—will that kind here. A enamel drop-side. crib now goes $695 Terms $100 Weekly the one of .these for your extra guest—or you wish to fit up suitable for two—or you wish these couches yourself—sy find & spléndid assortment here at Phillip Levy's dur- ing event. tary. “room for rent,” to ‘sleep on one of double duty sliding ou will this money - saving An all-steel sani- sliding® couch now at our Out-of-Town Folks This money-saving cuf-price furniture sale is for you. arc hot buying. People living out of town are entitled to the same liberal terms during this sale that city folks are. Welcome to look even though you Investigate our plan of refund- ing railroad fares and remember that'we pay the freight. D. C, JUNE 17, | risons at the two remaining fortin- | cations to be composed in equal parts of troops from all the Baltic ‘A states, under international command. | Eleven land frontiers to be divided | from one another by neutral zones. | 2. Land customs frontiers to be | abolished so far as is possible, and Russla to be offered free use of such Baltio ports as Reval, Riga, Windaw and Libau. 3. A Baltic union, to be represented as such at the league of nations through the representative of the | particular Baltic state which at the | time happens to be a member of the | council of the league. Value to Eastern Europe. | Sweden and Finland have aiready | declared their support of this plan, | but Russia thus far has not indicated | her attitude. Realization of the plan In this w is_regarded as of the utmost im-| | portance, and, it is declared, would y you can buy $200.00" worth Prices cut on Bedroom Suites Four-piece Walnut-finish Suite. ... .. 1i you are_going to need a bedroom suite wi that you buy it now—during this sale—while prices are down we now offer a walnut-finished bed-room suite that in bed. dresscr, and semi-vanity dressing table—at the low price 1923—PART 1. I ——— contribute vastly to the pacification of eastern Kurope. Particular ‘lmportance is attached to the provision. giving Russia un- hindered approach to the Baltic sea, for her loss of the old Russian Baltic ports has been regarded as one of the most fertile seeds of future wars. | {Copyright, 1923.) Why the Dead Sea Is Salt. From the Living Age. In a lecture before the Royal Geo- graphical Society, Wilfred Irwin dis- cussed the chemical composition- of the River Jordan, which is responsi- ble for the extreme saltiness of .the Dead sea. Analysis of samples taken from different parts of the river shows that even near. its ‘source the water Is highly impregnated with various salts, chiefly .common table alt and ehioride of ‘magnesia. As the of furniture for $150.00, etc. hin the next quoted above. Terms, $1.50 Weekly or $6.00 Monthly value above. Terms, $2.00 Weekly or $8.00 Monthly room suite—similar Terms, $2.00 Weekly or $8.00 a Month Parce Levy &€ j 735 Seventh St,NW:i—Between G&H. ' . __WASHINGTON, D. C water passes through the Sea of commemorate the visit of 129 12 months our advice—is As a sample of what to des a chifionier. how-end ‘175 hat 19 store buying power and a Phillip Galllee there is a slight increasc in its salt content, but the calcium sul- phate and the silica, which it also contains. decrease. In the immense evaporating pan of the Dead sen the salt-—that is, the sodium chloride—is crystallized. whereas the magnesium chloride remains in solution, —_———— “St. Paul's Penny.” From the Wide World. An underground chamber, supposed to have once been a chapel, on the banks of the Thames in London. is sald to contain nothing but an old silver coin. The cofn is Roman. and is sald to bear a representation of the head of St. Paul. The coin is called | “St. Paul's Penn By a historical incident it was at one time almost |counted among the crown jewels, or at least the crown relics. “St. Paul's Penny” was supposed to | t. Paul to | Britaln, and was probably preserved in the chapel until the eighth cenk! tury. the ninth century it 1s sup posed to have Leen carried away by the barbarians, and it reappeare. after the conversion of the northern Goths, in possession of the royal fam ily of Gothlar His royal highnes the duke of Gothland, retained it al Wways in his own private custody unti}, he decided to exhibit it to the publiy, He is said to have placed it in the chapel with his own hand and sealed tup in a glass ca Rare Rivalry From the London Punch, A plot to kill Trosky has just been 1. Tt is =aid that the ring was told that lie must not do Trosky was already two a sassination. head of Lenin, and jealousy would be caused. Rugs Reduced In our any size and quality « that you like at a price that is che Our 30- . rUgS, ETass Tugs, new parture rugs, tapestry brussels, axminster velvet and wilton rugs Liberal Terms rug ply mad rug Yours Is Here Adding a touch of refin ment to your heme with good - looking davenpor table is a matter of sma cost now at Phillip Lev A brown the one _pictured now goes the 50 sale price of.. above Comfort Phillip Levy's 50-50 Fur- niture Sale includes our er tire lime of beautiful ree fiber, cane and and maple porch This roc that your home needs. rockers with wood seat prices as low as...... 3-piecev0verstufled Suites......... $ 1 69-5—2 On the spacious display floors of the Phillip Levy store.you can now buy a beautiful overstuffed living room suite at a price that is lower than we have offered for several years. Whether you' favor tapestry or velour you can be suited here in:a living room suite that will live up te your idea of satisfaction and be down to your idea in price, Just now we arc offering a 3-piece overstuffed loose-cushion living to picture—up- holstered in tapestry at the low price quoted above. Pullman sensational savings. B upholstered - day bed 50-50 sale price ...... Terms, up-To-the-minute i Rug and Floor-covering De- partment You will find most rug that is little or no more than the ncludes rag de mahogany-finish Davenport Table similar to $1675 mahogany er: £ your opportunity to save 25 per cent on rockers - Day Beds Reduced Phillip Levy’s 50-50 furniture sale brings the prices thesey high-grade nationally advertised double-duty day beds ‘down’to a Jower margin than you have ever seen them, .in fact every day bed in our mam- moth bed-davefiport department Liberal Terms. Baby’s Rid i to invest ST in best vet any y in a for do mot baby 1 than 1s ne carriage, t q sule at Phillip Levy's affords vou the one best opportunity of tha year. A Reed Fiber Baby Carriage may now b bou for only an _extra room v home without pay i more rent--by pla one of these handy bed- davenettes in_your living room. Our 50-50 sale brings you a bed vlavenette with Ing as, £1 Weekls. & Kroehler be sold at $5950 will uy a tapestry now at the $1.00 Weekly