Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1924, Page 3

- INDORSES D.C. FLAG Our Flag Chapter Represent- ed by Those Who Favor Proposed Design. “ OF ACTUAL BY THEODORE W. NOYES. This article of the fiscal year 1D22-1023, and cites census bulletin figures of 1915 and of 1820. The District's rate has been reduced from $13 to $12 per thousand, but the reasoning and conclusions of the article are as applicable todny as they were a year ago. the suggested design flug Ly John Mackaye was published in The 20, for its display of mmittee of “Our Flag iters of the Ameri- Tevolution, urges the need for . flag to represent the District of Colmabia and especially one which Wil he readily distinguishable to an In a recent House debate Washing- ton was reproached by a speaker with its low tax rate of $13 per thousand. and representatives of cities which were paying a rate of $30 per thousand were called upon to note with indignation this alleged under- taxation. This " reproach mmendin Dist wh bry nplic pres,” 1 « is based upon theory that a low tax nate means lght t; tlon and a high tax rate jmeans heavy taxation, and that. since S0 many of the states have enacted laws requiring full assessment valu- ation. the tax rate applled to these assessments to produce the actual tax levy measures with approximate accuracy the relative tax burdens of the various Amerlcan cities. But students of taxation know that this theory is ftallaclous; that the laws requiring full or real or true cash o3, Cojterae ssessment of property mueh behind the times. lare very generally dinobeyeds Rexearch by Committee. the degree of disobedienc ter much vesearch the committee | greatly in the states that found that only twice i fluk {ation meuns an erdited to triet of « ibiu, | 200 amd this sumetimes called } ihe old Georse Washington hatchet |per cent In some great cities in a the Distrlet militia. This has (state like Ohio, which wold in the center fs a small | thousand: that ths reports to the RE o “:;lx::_mi\l'\-v;’:“»‘-.;“i;\-a‘l"-‘"’tl\;f census of the relation of assessed to s of militia forecs Tt is a fug {TUe Value, with a few notable excep- Y hich has seen brave serviee, but ftions (which s In 1o e e das of ofii- |indicate), vary in widely different de- ecogn the commit-lgrees from the truth; with the re- The committee sult that the value of the tax rate b Sets alone or in combination with alleged i full valuation assessments is abso- lately destroyed as a reliable stand- ard of measuring relative tax bur- dens. False Pretense of Full Valuation, The the it has not District, the committee, s composed of Mre. Albert M. . chairman; Mrs. John T. Sad- Ars. Howard L. Hodgkins and e cer Muss < bill providing a distinctive flag the District of Columbia, as in- troduced in Congress by Senator Ball passing ¢ citizen of the Distric Tobably no eity,” it adds, n greater display of flag ou, but so far as hav Wi than iz a Nag ar that full valu- where from 20 per Ml of + Dlue DR has i h; w, adds 1o helieves that the ug should mot be of an rate pictorfal type. The seal of District of Columbia, “which fami 0 one in i hundred Dis is of this naturc. contains, amonz other items, w ple- ture of the Capitol building, a train s crossing a bridge toward the < sun, « statue of Washington, male holding a wreath and | blet containing the word ‘Con- | an cagle, a wreath Inclos- te when we me a ter- CIST1) with the “Tustitia o false pretense of “full valu- wid, confessed. The state tax commission of Mis- nesota has satd: “Lver since Minnesota became a state we have had a law among our atutes requiring that ‘all property shall be assessed at its true and full value in money.’ Never since the first assessor started on his thankless task has property of a 1 that been associ- government for s and who was for that keeper of the slfeves in simplicity of design for He is heartily in favor of u flag | District and thinks the design | some way indicute the three of the wovernment—legisia- - and judicia®. Pe Dunbar's ¢ this Dr. District ¥ kind tn Minnesota been assessed at fits ‘true full value or, with few ceptions, has any serious attempt ever heen made to so assess it. The uniforns, uni- versal custom has been to assess at, from 25 to 50 per cent of uctual valu land this custom has had the long continued approval of the people, the silent support of the law-making and, in large measure, the acquiescence of the law-cnforeing departments of the state government.' the National Tax Aesociation of 1919 Isidore Loeb, pro- economics University of ouri. reported concerning recenmt legislation in that state f ‘the provisions of the law re- ng all property to be asecesed at its true value had been observed, the dificulties would not have been 60 serious. With locally elected as- gessors. however, there were great differences in_ tlie rate of assessed value among different individuals and classes of property in the same coun- ty and among the several countles of the state, with a general tendency to keep the assessments much helow the true value. While certain elacses of counties were as- the average for all kinds of properly throughout the state was probably less than one- third of the real value.” TIn Missouri the assessment is at “true value.” At the same conference John B. rofessor of economics Indi- 4 y, reporied concerning conditions i Indiana: he results of the most receut in- vestigation are shown in table indi- cating the ratlo of assessed to true value of land and lots, 772 sales be- ing checked up in thirty-six counties by experts employed by the special tax commission of 1915. According to the investigations of these experts employ v the commisefon on taxa- tion, who secured the geal estate transfers in thirty-six colintles and compared the assessed valuation with the true valudtion as found by check ing up each transfer, the average a sessed value of lands and Jots in taese thirty-six counties was 37.79 per cent of the true value in 1916. The countfes in which lands and lots were assessed ut the lowest percentage of true values were Allen (32.7), Car- roll (30.18). Lagrange (31.39). Lake (25.15), M (29.01), Porter (31.52), Starke 53), Topton (32.04). In {thesc thirty-six counties the ratlo of assessed to true value ranges from 22.53 to 59.49, while the legal ratio Is 100.” These confessions are samplés of conditions in & muititude of states. The census bulletins show from the reports to them of the relation of assessed to true value that a great multitude of cities acknowledge that their assesemeuts are not full valua- vions in accordance with the rate fix- ed by law, and the census authoritics in effect discredit the reports of such valuations from the citles which claim mnot to underasse In respect to thirty-four of the sixty-eight cities over 100,000 in 1910), it is admitted in the report of relation of assessed to true value that agsessments are less, in many cases far less, than the legal ratio, and the census bureau discredits re- ports of full legal vaiuations in the other thirty-four. Local admissions and all independent investigations es- fablish almost cverywhere the false pretense of full valuation. in and . execut the ‘three might the commities added. Other Clity Flags. 8 £ municipal flags ¥ of the larger ¢ flags—has usually ac- owth of civie pride or of ‘some event of great the clty’s history, the Baltimore’s muni- cipal tlag, . was clios Whe City was planning 2 lionor of the writing of “The Spani'ed Hanner. Charles Moore, chairman of the{ Fine Arts Commission, who was cone sulted about the drafting of the bill, favors the movement for a flag and believes the d n should be simple | nd emphasize in some way the idea that the District fs the seat of the cantral govi t of all the states. The present ment for a Dis- trict flag originated with the mem- | bers of Our Flag Chapter, D. A, R Who are responsib! for the introduc- tiie Bill now in Congress. The | apter was organized in 1905 by Mrs. A (. Wilkinson, who was one of the first 125 membe of the tional iet Daughter of the American Revolution. Tt was Mrs. Wilkinson’s devotion to the flag o the Uni ates and her interest for many years in everything con- eerning it that gave the inspiration for the name which the chapter be: ‘The present regent John T. Sddler. o NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGE TOMORROW AT 2 0'CLOCK The Chev: fad fashion, ome thirty ¢ have individual companied the the celebration importaunce in committes ussc 7 Chase neighborhoed bridge party will take place tomor- Tow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs, Frederic E. Farrington, 410 Conn fcut aveune. This is the third of the neighborhood parties heing given under the auspices of the civic section of the Twentieth Cen- tury Club for the benefit of the Juvenile Protectlve Association. Mrs. Farrington, president of the club, i hostess for the occasion and will he assisted by Mrs: Richard Pay Jack- on and Mrs. Ernest R. McComas. March 4 the downtown neighbor- hool group will give a bridge party At the Wom: City Club, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt, chairman of | the committer, is being assisted by Mrs, Hamiiton' Dimick, Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Mrs, Joshua E Jdohn F. Jones and Mr igne. Among_ th who aken tables are Mrs. J. B, (§| Robert Griffith, Mrs. D, ] ute, ek Allen, ‘Mrs. Emma_Saul, Rall, Mrs. John C. Wulff, | €. Marsh, Mrs. G. T. Haw- | = Alexander Steuart, Mrs. J. Mrs. s, Mrs. Wil everns, Mr: David__ A. Per H. Russell, Mrs. Mrs. Virgil B, C. Pefferman and have Nichols, Ars. Alysl J ‘4“3. Ar R. Mok lam C. Skinner, Mrs. “ilward B. n, My AN D ) for electricity; electric 1ams 800, . IROAD, 1S busine of any’ kind. Hox Smaller Tax Rate, Larger Tax Burden To show the fallacy of the theory the tax burden necessarily follows the tax rate, consider Washington's experience, which is Teproached with decreased taxation on account of re- duction of the tax rate from $18.50 per, thousand to $13, when, as a mat- ter of fael, owing to the change in assessment’ standard, the large de- crease in tax rate meant an actual in- crease in tax burden. In most of the states the tax rate is merely a percentage figure that must be applied to the assessment valua- tion to brinz about the amount of tax money that the self-taxing com- munity decldes that It will spend upon itself in that particular year. 17 it n.as valued its property for tax purposes on high standards of assess- ment, then the percentage rate to pro- duce'the lesired amount is low, and it it has assessed its property on a Cost money, worry and trouble, | 5l low standard its rn[be lg pl:ofl“CE the 5 "€¢| same amount must be high. For ex- okl reliabla srooflagieEperis Yor 85 years. ample, in the Ohlo cities (as in Wash- - g g ington), the rate is low and the as- Grafton&Son,Inc., s e | sessment IS high, In lowa the rate “Hes Expet for 35 1s very high and the assessment is Heating and Roofing Exverts for 85 yeara |18 very 'high anu the ssscsment is We Always Make Good Ltates a8 a whole, we find the widest - = fs in tect | rate, and this diversity is absolutely when called on to put roofs Derfect Immaterial, for no one who nows the conditions dreams of taking the JRONCLAD IS, fone Main 14. | comparizon. Two Classes of Tax-Rate Citles. Let Us Paint Your { Washington is thus in the class with AutomObllc and a high assessment, and at the ar. FA tomplete paint job—from old | other end of the line from citles in 200 O3 1o o aarer oons or calle Esth. | states with high tax rates and low mates cheerfully given. LYK GUAS AUTO - are some cities with low tax rates and high assessments, and’ other Giti 7 =z KTOCK OF FIRST NA- f Do Witt, Arkausay, to be sold lien on Satdrday, March 11834, o aroom of C. G o & Co., 715 OF SHRUBBERY, furnisied and planted. s order and cared for. HEKRELL & SO 10th” s 9640, REGISTRY O THE FREEDM nurses {s now_located at 216 El R S owes, evergreen, Tawns put in firkt wotl. . A. Y WILL NOT BE THLE, FOR DEBTS contracted by others than myself. Cecil D, Cooper. Clarendon. Va. 240 FCRNITURE REPAIRED ND — UPHOL ~tered_at your home: will go anywhere. Ad- dress Box 587, Star office. . Leaky Roofs From SNOW AND ICE end it all 10 a hurry by simply calling u diversity that is conceivable of tax condition, Cun we serve you? Rooting 1221 5th X.W. | tax rate alone as the standard of ‘ icitles in states with a low tax rate Ny the Iyk glass process. We save you time T T sy GLAS_AUTO | uegessments. Below (figures of 1918) R, COMMITIEE {TAX RATES NO MEASURE for taxation varies Ko, mome states to more than 100 | limited | the census authorities | population -(Census | TAX BURDENS with high tax rates and low assess- ments: (From Census Bulletin 1918, Table 30.) Massachusetts cities — Brookline, $15.70 (clty. $10.84); Boston, $17.70 (eity, $15.20); Springfield, $17.80 (city, $14.81), Michigan — Grand Rapids, (elty, $13.08). New Hampshire—Manchester, $16.26 (city, $12.08). Some New York -cities—Lowest, Niagara Falls, $16.39 (city, $10.57). All Ohlo clties—Akron, $15.40 (eity, | $11.95); Canton, $13.26 (city, $10.08); Cincinnati, $15.50 Celty, $15.06); Cleveland, $15.05 (eity, $15.10); Co- |lumbus, $14 (city, $1048); Dayton, $15.40 (city, $10.97): Hamilton, $14.60 ! (eity, $10.63): Lima, $13.20° (city, | $9.68): Loraln, $13.84 (city, $10.85) iNowark, $15.00 (city, $11.30); Spring- {fleld, $14.90 (city, "$11.62); Toledo, $15.37 ~(clty, $11.99); Youngstown, $14.42 (elt; : Zanesville, $17.20 $18.20 jlvania cities—nila- delphla, $19.87: Johnstown, $18.58; Lancaster, $18.91 (city, $16). All Rhode Island citles—Newport, (elty, 310.66); Pawtucket, (eity, $1 Providence, (city, $13.86); Woonsocket (elty, '$14.92). Virginia " efties — Lynchburg, (eity, $11.98); Norfolk, $17.87 3 $15.75); Portsmouth, 3 - $17.87): Richmond, § oke. $16.08 reity, §14. Vieginin—Charleston, |lr.:'(\', 5‘541 s ‘P.“ Huntington $19.58 ¢ Ceity, $14.98); Wheeling, $12.50 (cite e ) e $1250 Celty, | Wisconsin cities—Green Bay, §1 $1268): Kenosha. $15 (elty, | g ;. $14 (elty, $11.35): Iwaukee, $19.80 Ceity, $18.50): Och. $17.50 $13.50); Racine, 15 West Big Tax Rates (Over 830), All Califprnfa cities except San | Francico; highest. San Diego, $46.30. Pueblo, Colo., $30.10, Jacksonville, Fla., | $48.52; Tampa, ies, except Atlanta. i Boise, Idaho, $31.91. Ilineis cities: Aurora, $65 |cago, $62.73; Danvilte, 3 jcatur, $74.30; Bast St. Louts, $89.60 Jollet, $94.80; Peorta. $68.40; Quiney. ;'23{? Rockford, $52.34: Springhield, | ndlana: Highe st Chicago, | sipdlans: 1 ast Chicago, Al 'Towa Hi aaie ] Rapids, $91.05: FiEhent, Codar IEm e« ynell Bluffs, $90.09; | Minneapolis, Minn., $36.70. { Most Missourl cities, ex H Ll{\x( 3 incoln, 106.38; $106.25, pesas | Some Xew York citi burn, $41.21. outh Carolina: Columbla, $42.75, -\_Il Tennessce. Neprly all highes ashington ‘cities; Bellingha $36.04; Everett, $54.69 (elty. $301an eattle, $52.51; Spokane, $41.45; | coma, X Note " that Chicago’s tax nearly four times us large as that of Boston. But the Bostonfan's auctual ! tax burden, measured by dollars and | cents of le Instead of being onh'| a little over one-fourth of that of the Chicagolie is even greater. Citien With Our Tax Rate. Analyzing these figures we. find city tax rates in 1918 less than Washing- “"H'S city tax rute today (8$13) such cities as Brookline, Mass., $10.8 {Nisgara Falls. N. Y., $10.57; Akron. Ohio, $11.95; Canton. Ohlo, $10.08; Co. |lumbus, Ohio, $10.45: Dayton, Ohlo, | {310.97; Hamtlton, Ohio. $10.63 Lima, | Ohio, $9.6 Springfield, Ohto, $11.62 Toledo, Ohio, $11.99; Youngstown, Ohi $10.82: Zanesville. Ohlo, $11.94; New- | port, R. L. $10; Lynchburg, Va., $11.95: | Charleston, W. Va., $12.60: Wheeling, | :‘} "Zi. 35\‘“@ Green Bay, Wis., $12.45 nosha, 5., $12.63: Madis s, $1130; Raclne, Wis., iz, 2oison, Wi | We find ety tax rates in 1918 only ! a little more than Washington's city tax rate today ($13.00): in $15.29: Grand Mich., $13.05: veland, $15.1 86: Norfolk, Vu., ., $13.17. We find total tax rates (inc including state tax) ¥ {little morc than Washington aity rate today, in such cities &s Clnoin. nati, §15.50; Cleveland, $15.55; Irovi- T, citfes, Nebr., Omaha, highest, Au- Charleston, $5 Ta- | rate is in eity | Boston, ‘quitably | in 1918 only a dence, $15.62, ; Reduced to an Absurdity. These facts and figures show con- clusively that cities paying more than twice Washington's tax rate (or up to $30 like those cited in the House debate) are mot twice as heavily tiaxed as Washington, unless they are | also about twice as heavily taxed as! Cleveland, Cincinnati, Boston, Provi- | dence and Richmond. 1f these com- parative tax rates show that Wash- ington is only half taxed, they prove falso that every one of the Ohio cities (fourteen), every city in Vir- ginia (five), and every city in Rhode sland (four) are only half taxed. If tax rates are to be accepted as standards of measuring tax burdens, then the clties cited in the House aying about « $30 tax rate are nof only twice as heavily tax burdened {as Cleveland, Cincinnati, Washington. Providence and Richmond, but they| are themselves only half taxed in comparison with Chicago, $562.75 Aurora, IIL, $66.92; Peoriu, $58.40 Quincy. $60.10 and Rockford, $62.34 and they aro iess than a third ae heavily tax burdened as Jolet, Tl £94.80; Cedar Rapids, Towa, $91.95:: i Council Bluffs, Towa, $00.09: Lincoln, ! Neb., $106.38, and Omaha, Neb., $106.28. What comfort can the city with its| comparatively low tax rate of 330 get out of boasting that it bears twice the tax burden of Washington, incinatti, Cleveland, Providence and Richmond, when measured by the same standard it is compelled to con- fess that its tax burden is only ome- half that of Chicago and less than a third_of that of Cedar Rapids, Council Blufts, Lincoln and Omaha? Rule Works Both Ways. The cities averaging about $30 tax rate, accused by Chicago of being only half-taxed will naturally ex-i amine Chicago's tax rate (362.75) to ascertain if Chicago is really more than twige as heavily taxed as them- selves. Examination ~will _disclose that Chicago’s assessment valuation is confessedly so low that its net per capita tax burden is In many cases less than their own. If in spite of this relation of tax-rates they are not half-taxed (but full- taxed) as compared with C.icago— why should they insist merely on account of like relation of tax- rates that Washington is not fully taxed but less than half-taxed in comparison with themselves? Do not the same principle and the same reasoning in consistency apply to both? R. $15.06; Richmond, Va., Preposterous Results. ‘The preposterous results from the use of this standard of comparison demonstrate its unreliability and worthlessness. Who believes for a minute that the $30 tax-rate citles cited in House debate are really taxed twice as heavily as Washington, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Providence and Richmond? Who belleves that Chicago is taxed four times as heavily us these five cities? Who ‘belleves that Cedar Rapids and Councll Bluffs are taxed six times and Lincoln and Omaha seven times as heavily as these cities? ‘Who places any co lence in the fluctoating “full yalustion” yardstick which is mot of the same length in tes or even in both cities the same state and led im practice pre- duces the ridiculous resulta above, indicated?! A falsc premisc is xelled | three-quarter millionn | statement of common THE SUNDAY 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, upon and a false conclusion fs im- evitable, A Truer Tax-Measuring Yard Stick. Discarding this false standard of measuring relative tax burdens, let us seek & tax-measuring yard stick which is approximately reliable. The figures compiled by Statisticlan Starke M. Grogan for 1920, utilizing the cen- sus of that year W ascertain per capitas, will be helpful. r caplin tax levy comparis the only even nppro: measarement of relative el tax burdens, As we have done in 1915 and 1918 so let us do in 1920 in the comparison In tax burdens of a group of populous. y DProsperous und progressive cities witl | the capital. Take, first, the nearest great cities, Washington's larger fm- medlate neighbors to the north, Bal- timore and Philadelphia. Add to the largest citles of Pennsylvania and Maryland, on the Atlantfc coast, Jer- sey Clty of the same section; then add New Orleans, the larg eity in Louistana and the south, and Atlanta, the largest city of Georgla; add also the largest niddle west cities, llke of Illinols, Missour!, Ohio. Wis- consin. Minnesota, Kentucky—that I Chicago. St. Louls, Cleveland, Milwiru- kee, Minneapolfs and Louisville, and Denver, the largest city of Colorado, among 'the Rocky mouptain ards, a 3 parixon h these typical nnd wenlthy citlen, is mot the caplh equitably taxed? (All of the figures and com- ments below are as of the date of 1920.) ‘Washington's Heavy Realty Tax. In realty tax levy per capita five of the twelve cltles exceed Washington and seven are less. The eltles in or- der of their realty tax levy per capita Minneapolis, 0.0 adelphla, timore 20, Ba . 221 & ulk 0.33; Washington, Terse Louls, : Orleans, Louis- Washington realty inx sufliciently high when It exceeds per caplia that of Clevelu: Denver, New Orleans, | Loutsvillet Should it allt Persoualty Tax High Enough. In personal property tax levs cities exceed Washington and ve smaller per caplitas, In of personal tax per capitas t arrange themselves as follows 2 ew Oriean: : Minneapolls, 9.54; W ington, 8011 Milwaukee, 7.10; Chic: 7 Louisville, 6.48; 5.45: Jersey City, uts, 3.44: Philadelphia, 1 Washington's personal tax enough when it exceeds per caplta Chicago, adelphia, B fiwaukee and other el per cent in the intangible made by the act of June : Reasonnble Total Tax Levy, Tn total general and special prop- erty tax levy vitles exceeded Washington and X citles had smaller per capitus in the following order: Minneapolis Philadel- phia, 31, 2 : Atlanta, 1 t Minnespolis at the top of the list, « und Loulsville at the bat- and note how closely the total per capitas approxfmate in the tha Chi evy per y heavy when it ex- hat of Haltimore, New Orleuns, Jermey City und St. Louin? The total tax levies that are near- est to Washington in amount are as follows. Baltimore . St. Louis .. Minneapolis Milwaukee Washington New Orieans Jersey City Denver Louisville . tanta In not Wawhington aufficiently high when Milwaukee ex- 1t by Iesxs than a million, when eds New n« hy one and and when it ix greater than Denver and Loniaville total tax levy combined or Jersey City and Atlanta combinedt SPEEDIER JUSTICE IN U.S. PLEA MADE BY HUGHES| ntinued fre ( tability and elasticity” of the com- mon law. which had becn able, he suid. to kecep pace with vancing clvilization, alr ing “the long road from Puri Plymouth Rock to spectacular Holly The simplification projected by the institute, Judge Faville said, could be a “clear, clean-cut and conclse aw,” which it to the bar, the bench rican people.”” Benjamin Cardozo, associat judge, court of appeals of New York, discussed at length the various eriti- sms which have been launched against the program of the institute nd replied to each specifically. charging generally that such criti- clsm_was “founded fn misconception of the whole project.” High Praise for Root. “The law,” he sald, “must be stable. and vet it cannot stand stilL” The proposed restatement would prove a quickening influence he thought. not only in the science. but philoso- phy of law. The wealth of statutes and of precedents was declared by Judge Cardozo. to be not only “our despalr, but also our opportunity. Tributes was paid by both Secre- tary Hughee, and the presiding offi- cer. Willlam H. Taft, chief justice of the United States, to Elihu Root, « founder of the institute. The chief justice proposed that a telegram be sent by George W. Wiokersham, president of the organization, ex- pressing “love, affection, apprecla- tion, and thanks to God that we hav. a man among us named Elihu Root. N Spring Flowers. All the favorites at Gude's. Home- grown specimens. 1212 F.—Adyer- tisenrent. would be a WARSAW HOLDS SERVICE IN MEMORY OF WILSON Military Bands Play Chopin’s Funeral March in City Hall. Honor in Name of Street. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, February 23.—President Wojctechowski, the speakers of both houses, the members of the cabinet and the Amerlcan legation, Gen. Haller, chief of staff, and many Americans today attended an impres- sive ceremony in memory of Wood- row Wilson in the city hall. funeral march was played by massed military bands. Later it was announced that one of the streets of Warsaw would be named after the late former Presi- dent. The Rare Book S—hop 723 Seventeenth St. 1201 B . . Highest Prices Paid —for entire Libraries or Single Volumes, Prints, En- gravings and Autograph Let- ters. Representative will call. CASH PAID and purchases removed promp!l', high | nd Chopin's | EBRUARY Macready 1 gnores Still Hopes for Altitude Mark Ready for Third Eflorll To Surpass Record | Of French Ace. , Will Start Again as Soon as He Has Means of | Making Flight. Special Dispatch to The Star. DAYTON, Ohlo, February Although warned by anonymous let- ter writers of dire things that would happen to hi; 1f he did not cease his attempts to get closer to heaven, Lieut. John A. Macready, the intrepid | !A\rm fiver, expressed himself today us being ready for a third effort to wrest the world altitude record from |the French ace, Sadi Lecointe. “I'll be reudy to go again,” he said, “as soon as 1 get something to &0 with, Fallure to surpass Lecointe's record in his sensational flight priday, although reaching an altitude of 4,- 983 feet, wel u bitter disappointment to the flyer who accompanied Lieut. Oukley G. Kelley on the first non- ston flight across the continent. T in the coveted record he will hav to reach w cetling of 5 feet, but + sitid he did not intend to stop try- 5. Lieut. acreads tod chile resting Ly several Warning that had he was preparing successtul attempt. Some I'rom Fanaties, of the riters represented hemselves 1o he sclentists, while others plainly were religious fanatics. Of the Jatter, some predicted thut he would burst if le did not cease flying so high, while others warned him that the vengeance of God would cause him to be damned to a life of everlusting encircling of the globe. |A few told him that he would be hurled budily into hell if he persisted {in defying the luws of gravitation. Tt was cold where Macready was Friday. He sald he looked at the thermometer when it passed fifty de- grees centigrade. It reached sixty and then stopped. Basing his cal- culations on the time the thermonite ceased to register und the remainder of the time he was in the alr, Mac ready figured that he was fiving around in weather that was about grees below zero Fahrenheit. | of the alrplane’s instruments | tfrozen and tiny blocks of fce | |coated the fur collar uround Mac- {ready’s tace when he landed. Two {small boles in his helmet let In the % nds to freeze his lips and! dy i himeelf ! from his flight | dozen letters of scumulated while for iday's un- wmnsed aid he had almost reach- when something in the 35,001 vot Lepere super- rger let go with 2 bang that shqok #hip from end to end. “The first thiug 1 thought to jump. I looked over the 1o see if all was there and w to leap if 1t wasn't. flight was ended.” BANDITS BAFFLED i BY CASH REGISTER Hold Up Three in Southeast Store With Pistol, But Leave | Empty-Handed. | of was | plane | ready It was, but th | ‘}'inder of Skeleton Skeptical De- ] Tgnorance of the ways of the cash rexister proved disastrous from | monetgry standpoint for two young { bandits who entered the store of | | Philip Cohen, at 1543 E street south- jeast last night. held up the proprie- | jtor and two clerks with a pistol and | {went away cmpty handed they could not open the drawer. i hold-up was staged about 30 o'clock when the store was de- except for the three men- tioned. The two men had been seen previously loftering on the street orners. When they had those in the store with their hands above their heads one of the thieves went to the cash register. This register is the type in which one has to press the keys one after another in order to open it One bold bandit stuck out his finger id pushed the key.. The bell did not ring. He pushed four or five, but he did not have the comb!mation, He ratched his head. frowned and took the place of the other bandit who was holding the three inmates of the store at attentlon, while the latt ayed the task of getting the loot. | Fullure again resulted. “Get over here and open this thing for us,” or- dered the first bandit, speaking to Mr. Cohen. ) Mr. Cohen was about with the request and toward the cash customer ontered andits, evidently from the battle because money to compl was heading./ register when a the store. The | nerve strained with the cash reg- Four hundred dollars remained se- | cure in tho cash register. Polica belleve that the two men were known in the neighborhood and feared that the advent of the cus- tomer might result in their capture. Detectives Kelly and Serivener, who {investigated, were furnished with| complete descriptions of the t imen. = BRITISH RADIO FANS | HEAR KDKA PROGRAM | By the Associated Pres | February 23.—The trans- | missfon of Amerfean concerts as part of the regular program for British iradio fans was carried out success- fully this evening. A concert from station KDKA. Pittsburgh, was pick- ed up by Biggin 'Hill, Surrey, and transmitted to London by telephone and then retransmitted over the British Isles. Shortly after 11 o'clock a volce was | {heard announcing the program, which included the “Westinghouse Band.” The singing and playing of “God Save the King” and the “Marselllaise then followed. but this was very faint, owing to bad atmospheric con- ditions. The concert lasted forty minutes, British broadcasters announce that jthey intend to carrv on experiments and hope they will be able to trans- mit Ameriean concerts nightl 24, 1924—PART ywho found the | Johnson 1. Warnings; LIEUT. JOUN A. < his simp of the episode thaut o disappointment in his heart. Dutles at Seachlight. way of tell y won't give up, though. He Ind. CHis vears as ouldn’t countenance tl ady joined Uncle corps of fivers he got quite a fe lessons in consistency away out chlight, Nev. John A. Macrea almost marde ‘s town was the sh rehligh justice of required a two-fisted prospectus of time will prove handled them Probabl sons in home in s parts, lLefor through ) he h Army pilot Before Mac Ard “ tria thir neinge, tiring | Lecointe and that Mucread the man to ¢ said, it wouldn't | frald to t DOUBTS BONES FOUND would b probably I he doo - beeru THOSE OF SLAIN GIRL|: spite Police Readiness to Make Arrests in Killing. By the Associnted Press. ORLANDO. Fla., The theory that the man skeleto found and near a lake might not be thosc Johingon, two Fess. who in_Octobe night when P ruury s of buricd here Wed of Miss year-old orla anced er Johnson, Darts of the expressed belicf that had been buried for several Johnson's_statement confl the belief of police that the body that of Miss Johnson and thut composition after bLurial “had alded by quicklim Chiet” of Detectives MeMahon tonight for Sulphur Springs, Fla. bring back the cgro who is h there as a suspect in the case. ated that the man who it bel to have hired the neero to kill N is still under surve of tho li ckealet the bo ars, in one and tha ' Makes the Deaf He?n Lle 6LUSNEE | EXCESS PROFIT TAX m's 1Y | They declured it unfatr, and Jobs archlight ' jargued th that | cut the maximum beaten | ould be . they | x Remarkable Invention Enables the Deaf to Henr All Sounds Clearly Products Corporativ Ruilding, York, that they | device which w auditory uerve is mot to hear as perfectly is normal. To sent it o @ mumher o leen deaf for years, and they report mos gratifsing results. Maoy state that hear the slightest sound With perfect vs and that their natnral iwaring has bwe greatiy improved. o proud of t fident that evers person amazed and delighted with offer to send it one by parcel post on ten days’ free trial, do not ship €. 0. D., nor do the any deposit. own rlak_and expen fen full days to try it they waut 1o heep it or not | no obligation whatever, evers troubled with deafness ‘in ans take advantage of this lberal fu offer. Just send them your name address for deserintive it trisl request blank have at last per i as on ¥ destr. Whose h il roqu ¢ At thel i the e e et A there | who tria £ it thoronghly fhes people who hud | thaey oted o 1 enahle evers one whos 1 t rers an . that they prepaid Ty - Fm <honld ! 1 and | re and free “In Man Roth Henlth and Sickness Are Contaglous! LECTURE Sunday, February 24, 8:15 P.M. at the Gold Room of the Playhouse 1814 N Street Zia Bagdadi_of Chicago Wil Speak on “Physical and Spiritual Healing” All are invited No admission fee and no collection Dr. An exclusively residential section of detached homes. - Contain- ing seven million feet of forest-covered land, with six miles of im- proved streets. Includes what remains of The Triangle of Increasing Values between Connecticut Ave., Massachusetts Ave. and Woodley Road (Cathedral Ave.). Over five million feet of land sold. Over 150 homes from $15,000 to $200,000 built and under construction. Actual im provements and home values exceed $5450,000. Wooded villa sites, Jots and central and side hall homes, with lots from 50 to 115 feet front—Park Office, 32d and Cathedral Ave. (Woodiey Road). Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Established 1890 g Dupont Circle ‘Telephone Potomac 2200 Member Washington Real Estate Board. . 2| Mr. Frear said the ta L - 6. W.HEAD ON FUND MISSIONTO CHICAGO President Lewis to Tell Alum- ni Dinner of $446,416 Raised to Date. A Bit of the Past By Star's Former Carriers. “I carrled & Star route about thirty vears ago for the late agent, J. L. { Thompson,” writes Charles A. Vose, 1987 234 street northwest. “Al Roach, | imow with Mayer & Co. furniture| { dealers, had charge of us kids.” | €. s. Dawson, 905 M street north- | west, had a private route on which he { supplicd about 200 customers with a | good many Stars decades ago. It be- New York avenue En!! 7th street. It extended back to St. Patrick's ceme- tery on the old * through Moore's lane to Glenwood cemetery. Afterward Mr. Dawson carried a regular route for the late Martin Leese. He says he can re- member the old barracks at Tth and O streets and the erection of the old Pennsylvania railroad station at 6th and B streets. “I am In good health in spite of my six 2 conclude Mr. i lonesome 4t times, as many of the old faces.” } Addison H. Barbour, 1306 North Carolina avenue northeast, sold Stars i on a regular route of his own in 1864 und 1855, William Burke, 342 E street southwest, as a boy scid Stars on the { Pennsylvania avenue corner where Ogram's drug store was located, and S0 sold the News, a now defunct sheet, printed at 10th and D streets northwest. He sold extra Stars the duy of the Ford Theater disaster. Those were hard days,” he remarks, “but, my best days at that time. Henr: Hopkins, 2710 12th street wrried’ routes for Agents ud Harry Comgins. He fore the time of Gar- tild's assassination, which was in 151, and kept it up for six or seven vears. For the past fif n ycars he | his been connected with the general lund office, Loth here in Washington, { und in the field service. On his routes | he had as subscribers Senator Allison i:md many other notable President Willlam Mather left Washington for Chicago night to carry to the alumni Geerge Washington University resid- ing in that city the news that t sons and daughters of the Institutios living here have raised $446,416.71 to date toward the university's million dollar endowment fund. Dr. Lewis will speak at an alu dinner in Chicago tomorrow night « the University Club in that cf is expected that a definite goal will be set there, following the exampl of New York city alumni, who hav. pledged themselves to rafse $300,000 $45,116 Day's Returns. A total of $45.116.71 wus reportes by the team organizations at the re port luncheon yesterday, at New Willard Iotel, making the amoun subscribed in the drive to date $446 418.71. Another luncheon will be held March 1. A gift of $1 was m: fund yesterday by tho W Hotel. Gifts amounting announced by E. H. Goodwir f the special zifts cor ere gIf1s of £1,0 00 by Gen. Mrs. E. H. Goodw Ruddock Guy L. Gof 5200 1 1 Lew oundary” andg up as 'gan at the late Matt Rooper's bar, at | = de to the iingto Johnson, 500 by 1,000 by Wil ) by Mrs, Hill. J anonym, \ J. ported contributions | FOR REVENUE BILL orted_ contribut DEFEATED IN HOUSE | teams %are s forio - . 3, $664; No. 4, $T No. 6, $1,000; $2,197.50; No, No. 14, $260 for the pas The_reports b d from First Page.) harging that it would affect small corporations se- vercly, while larger ones would be |uble to avoid it. and cited arguments democratic of the | Treasury against of No. Sceretaries tax. would bring | nd $200,000,- annu; 3 would permit a red N - i No, normal tax from fieptodrn per cent or less, | tuch a in between § 1000 additio 10 9,000 sevenue No, 70, in 123 the corporation Der cent o 10 Student Total $74,000. Henry H. James, report student body, announced that $10 has been contributed by the dents since the last report meetin This brings the student total Amendment Defeated. amendment to the Frear pro- ! offered by Representative Burt- ness, republican, Novrth Dakota, to rate on the excess profits tax from 50 per cent to 20 per ent was defeated, 125 to 106, before r 5 ia the final vote there lave teans ha 1S to date, making an averaz = of $108 for each donor. Dr. Lewis said last night that t drive to date was a remarkable ex- empl 1 of the spirit that is 1l heritage of every one whose priv g it has been to_have been asso ed with George Waushington Ur An 10 ove divided over pro- including Chairman increase the inherita ax and impose a gift tax. Democrats have indicated wou support {such a move, and 4 fizht is expeeted | | on this issue Monday. Mr. Green plans rsity. “Co-operation and to propose the zift tax, while R L iy oy, oS { sentative Mills, republican, New York, B . ¢ | is expeected to lead the opposition to such a proposal. Representative dem New York, issued a statement Yester- tacking provosed increases in te tax. | i i i H e, Killed Playing With Gun. BERLIN, February 23.—The dent son Senor_Vicuna, Chi »nsul ieral in Ber wus sk and % at Hainichen today whil Bl th a revolver. Cell of |LAST WEEK de- been | In Which to Save 2ually On the Purchase of a All-White Range Formerly Priced $105.00 PriCE $84.00 Many sizes aud prices of the all-whito and semi-enamel to select from. EASY TERMS EDGAR MORRIS SALES COMPANY Washing Distributors Baltimore Phone Main 1032-1033 1305 G St. N.W. FOR RENT-— Stores and Shops In the most desirable and fastest growing section of Washington At Rents That Are Most Reasonable IN NEW FIREPROOF BUILDING CONN. AVE. AND R ST. N.W. AND 20TH ST. At Prices Ranging From $115 to $175 A MONTH Cellar With Each Store ALSO 3 STORES ON 20TH ST. SIDE Prices, $50, $60, $75 For Further Pgrh'cnlm.'s See Randall H. Hagner & Co. 1207 Conn. Ave. Phone M-in 5700 Semi-Enamel Range Formerly Priced $56.50 SALE PRIC $45.20 Come in and see theso Ranges on display and make your selection NOW