Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1924, Page 10

PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX HERE $4,746,234 Levy Made by District Assessors | Exceeds Last Year's Figures by $185,922. REVENUE TOTAL TO BE HIGH ‘Will Run Near $20,000,000—More Employes Needed. The people of Washington are ex- Pected to pay in per- sonal prope for the fiscal year ending June 30, District Asses- sor William P. Richards announced last night This figure Tesents the levy. taxes due on th by his staff. It in July before Towers this levy has actually The levy for the year now draw- ing to a close is $185,922 more than s last year and marks a steady in the volume of personal sllections hards said, rep- the amount of | axsessme made some time Collector of Taxes to state how much of Dbeen collected Mr. R or ts will be is able for the of onal and real estate, cnded yesterday and Collector Towers estimated last night t between 1 sis millions flowed into the ipal purse during the last two majority of payments be- in the last half the period payment hoth b ks—1 made month Taxex Total $11,947 9. announced that from to May 12 of this vear. ms” from all sources— sile licenses and mis- es—amounted to $1I, great stacks of bills that during the last fort «d on_the ledgers the e to $18.000,000. ount of revenue raised la year was 3 Mr. Towers predicted ight that when the books close on June 30 for the current year the total sum collected will sure equal lust ves igure and may even run to $20.0 More Employes Needed. experience of the past year ¢ new syvstem of making out a tax bill for lot and ( land has d ated the for an nCrease number of el n_the it an individual 2 oration vwned a long list of ferent mropertics one itemized wax prepared Under the new Lem each piece of property mus epurite bill and be recorded on jedeers separately. The change < made in the interest of accura of buokkeeping. but no provision w by Congress for additional clerks to cover the increased amount of work thus created, Bookkeepers to Be Busy. When the tax-paying period closed v the it was filled with | bundles of bills id_ che: that will | keep the clerical force until June 30 entering on the 1L The persona! tax lev: includes tungil mounting to $1.168. 1gible taxes totaling $1.899 bulance represents taxes y public utilities, banks and huihlingl associatio To s W how | has grown as a Mr. | ards ave poured night are ent total will be The total 1.374.87. or u dif- bill Ok, of $4.74 property the personal tax source of revenue, led that in 1910 the an unt collected was only $1.- ®7.000. or just about one-fifth of this timated collections. In 1917 personal collections amount- cd 1o $1 .0 The e mous increase between 1917 and is due largely to the act that to 1918 the law only applied to gible personal property. In 1818 it was extended to cover in- tanzible property stocks and bonds The e in the use of automobiles also has been & factor in boostin nal property collections as_tangibl Tax bills that we not paid dur- May will bear a penalty of 1 nt in Jun nd 1 per cent more month they remain unpaid. DENIES SCIENCE KNOWS SECRET OF LONGEVITY 0ld age problem which has lonz interested men of science, par- ticularly biologists. Whether life can be prolonged or not has always been a question that fascinates any little medical read ancient books the men of former a greater age than writes Dr. Lafora in “Revista Argentina de Filosofia” (Buenos Aires), as translated for the Mil- waukee Journal. Tt is quite natural, therefore, that our scientists should study and try to reconstruct the conditions under which a greater age can be obtained. Longevity secems to most men a very desirable thing. The great Ru: prio prope ing per ¢ for ea is a one knows a 73 who about science. e learn pochs reache we do. ian biologist, Metch- nikov, believed t old age is caused gradual ntestinal intoxication. is intoxication destroys slowly but surely the m important cells of the human organism, and when this process has reached an excessive de- gree it causes death. Prof. Lorand and his followers have a different theory about old age: they ‘nre convinced ihat old sgasis # natural phase the great cycle of human life and that it is due to «a perfectly normal weakening of all cells in the human body. This theory ix combated by Prof. Biedl, who. pe. licves that changes in glandular se. cretion cause a decay of the brain cells and all other human organs, I have studied the symptoms of pathological aging of the brain with particular care. I found that they are nothing else but exaggerations of the vmptoms of normal old age. 1| studied the structural pathological injuries of the brain of insane old men and took photographs of them, which show clearly all the signs of senile dementia in the nerve fibers of the brain. The process of mental decay fs slow and moderate in normal old per- sons, while it is quick and prema- ture' in the case of pathological senility. It is very probable that the injuries in the brain are not the cause of old age symptoms, but are, rather, the result of an intoxication of the brain cells, which determines the be- ginning of old age. 1s it possible to fight old age and its symptoms? Is it possible to re- store youth to the brain cells and to the human body as a whole? Science has not yet been able to give Pathetic conditions in the homes of some of Washington's pgor and needy hut-in: into, whose lonely lives The Star hopes to bring a little joy through the me- dium of redio, are described in letters wrliten by the invalids or their friends. One tells of & woman who has been paralyzed for fifteen years. “I lived in her neighborhood until about three months ago,” sald the writer, “and, being the wife of her pastor, had an opportunity to become very well acquainted with her. Her husband is quite _Aged and almost an invalid himself.” * ok % % A woman on Bates street wrote. am sending you the name of an lady who has been a cripple *shut-in’ for more than ten She is very poor and I know a radio would be wonderful for her. * ok % a friend of a “shut-in” For more than From came this letter: twenty vears Mrs. has been an invalid, and for over five years of that time has been confined to & chair in her room. I feel that if a radio set might be secured for her in some manner it would be greatly appreciated RADIO SETS FOR ALL irst Page.) (Continued from residents, and fans who are itably inclined espe- cially the radio fully cognizant of the value of radio as a tonic for the sick. Need of Old Sets. There are hundreds of radio en- thusiasts in the District who bought or made crystal sets when radio was in its infancy, later replacing them with the more expensive tube receiv- ers. Some of these fans still have these crystal sets in their possesion. 1t is these sets that are lying idle in the cellar or attic that The Star wants to give to the “shut-ins.” 1f you are one of these radio fans get the set out, put a pair of head- phones with it, if you have an extra pair, and bring them to the business office of The Star, on the first floor of The Star building. A certificate will be given the donor, showing that he has contributed a set to The Star's adio shut-in fund.” Tube sets are not wanted. May Send Cash Some of the fans may have an ex- tru pair of headphones which have been discarded, and no crystal set. In that case send in the phon Those who haven't either can send a cash contribution that will help buy sets and phones. Moreover, the recipients of the crystal sets will need antenna wire, insulators and other essential equip- ment. It will require money to buy it. Contributions for this purpose, in any amount, will be received by The Star. The names of the con- tributors and the amount contributed will be acknowiedged in the columns of The Star. win The more than 3,000 Boy Scouts in Washington, through Edward 8. Shaw, scout executive, have volun- teered to install the sets without cost. Virtually all of these boys are sufficiently familiar with the tech- nique of radio to do the work satis- factorily. As soon as the sets are re- celved they will be overhauled by the scouts, if necessary, put in first-class working condition and installed in the homes of the deserving “shut- ins.” The sets will not be given to any “shut-in" except upon an affidavit signed by a minister or phy . The clergymen and doctors Who prob- ably come into contact with scores of invalids each day, are asked to _send . the names of such persons to The Star. Cennus of “Shut-I The tensus of the poor and needy “ghut-ins” in the District to whom The Star hopes to give crystal sets as the result of the establishment of its “radio shut-in fund" was taken about a month ago by Le Roy Mark. An appeal was made to the radio fans by Mr. Mark on three occasions from WCAP for discarded crystal sets. In response the radio fans donated for- ty-three sets, seven pairs of head- phones and {n addition cash contribu- Tions, for the purchase of antenna wire and other requisite equipment amounting to $230.25. The Boy Scouts already have started the work of in- stalling these sets. List of Contributions. The cash contributions sent to Mr. Mark, which will be applied to The Star's “radio shut-in fund,” minus a small amount already used to pur- chase equibment for the installation of the forty-three sets, follow. Henry P. Ewing, Mount Vernon Apartments, $1; Mrs. H. A. Clark, 2014 4th street northeast, $1; anonymous, $3; Mrs. Daisy M. Smith, 2235 Cath Sdral avenue, 35: anonymous, $11 Elizabeth C. Dallas, 43 Roanoke Apart- ment, $5; Henry 'A. Jaffe, 720 1ith street, $5; Mrs. Olive Seymour, 618 I street, $1: Miss Bertha Marsh, 909 Massachusetts avenue. $10: Isadore Hershfield, 1115 Connécticut avenue, $5: Rev. Willam B. Waller, 1731 Co- lumbia road, $2; Mrs. A. G. Wilkinson, 1521 Kalorama road, $5; D. E. Coff- man, 515 E_street northeast. $1; Mrs. Margaret Merillat, 2662 University place, $5; Mrs, Mary E. Bell, 1846 Ver- non street, $2; Mrs. Sallie I Goode, 1314 Connecticut avenue, $1; New- ton Hanger, 935 Massachusetts ave- nue, $2; C. D. Neldon, 1311 P street, $1; Miss Dorothy Gardner, 3805 Kanaw- ha street, $2; Charles Willlams, 1003 Rhode Island avenue, $1; A. E. T. Hansmann. 1011 Mather building, $2; Dr. M. L. Turner, Berwyn. ~Md., $10; Lo R. Turner and wife, 1751 Kil- bourne place, $5; W. A. Roberts, 43 R street northeast, $§1; Mrs, 8. Shrader, 653 East Capitol street, $2 H. W. Smith, 3919 13th street, $5 C. W. Smith, § Walter Stilson Hutchins. $50; ‘onvent Girl, $4; Letitia E. Hanna, 1789 Lanier place, tall Sets. a satisfactory answer to this ques- tion. . ey Last Peep for Him. From an Euglish Paper. There was a vacancy in a certain Scottish kirk and the congregation was “hearing” the candldates, each fif whom took the services for a Sun- & e of them was 2 young man, ob. usly very full of his own impor- tance. After he had delivered his sermon he waited until the kirk emptied. Then he took a long look around, while the beadle, anxious to ited impatiently. v fine church you have said the young preacher at Oh, ve think it's a fine kirk, dae Weel, tak’ anither guid look at it.” said the beadle, bitingly, “for it's the last ye'll ever see o't.”" And it was. —_— The Limit. From London Answers. Husband—what's the ou can get along on? x Wife—The most you'll give me. very least $5; Amy S. White, 1734 North Capitol street, $1; H. F. Baker, Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, 437 Chest- nut street, Philadelphia, Pa., $5; Fred G. Heinl, 129 South 7th street, Terre Haute, Ind., $2; Mrs. George T. Bell, Woodward Apartments, $5; Mrs. C. D. Cartwright, Darion, N. Y., $1; Harry G. Kimbally Evans bullding, $5; Charles A. Rowe, 5th and F streets, $2.26; Mrs. C. H. Schrimer, 1726 17th street, $1; Miss K. M. Jacquette, 3110 13th street, $2; Mra. Walter J. Jermey, 1417 Park road, $5; Franklin 'W. Marsh, 1361 Perry place, $1; John Forest Donigan, Mount St. Sepulchre, commissariat of the Holy Land, $10; Miss Emma W. Child, 1336 Eve street. $3.50; Mrs. James K. Jones, sr., 1812 19th street, $15; Thomas W. Lock- wood, jr., 2212 Massachusetts avenue, $10; Mary J. Jasman, $5, and A Well Wisher, $1. Total, $230. Gave Crystal Set The crystal sets already received by Mr. Mark, which are now being installed, were donated by the fol- 1oV Brown. 1124 B street north- east; Mrs. H. Frey, 2700 Connecticut gvenue: I R. Hamaker, P, E. Silver- man, 1900 H street; Mr. and Mrs. A. Rowe, 3532 Park place: A Tanbelln Ao Hunter And AMise SHUT-INS ARE SOUGHT THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. HERE ARE SOME SHUT-INS d STAR’S RADIO FUND WILL AID Accompanying the name of a civil war veteran who has been sick since 1900 came the following letter: “I know the war veteran would love to hear through a radio. He hasn't been able to move a hand or a foot for fifteen or sixteen years and I think he would enjoy to listen-in on a radlo. I am seventy years old and radio makes me think 1am twenty-five. “We. have here in this. neigh- borhood a human derelict—a semi- invalid,” wrote a friend of a “shut- in" “After a severe spell of ty- phoid fever he has been a com- plete human wreck, a source of anxiety and constant care for his aged father and mother. The per- son in question is weak mentall and surely a radio would do him a world of good—something to look forward to during the day and new entertainment every night.” * ¥ ok ¥ The wife of an invalid wrote this: “I have had a®very ill hus- band for more than three years. He is confined to his room most of the time, in a rolling chair. He will never get well. He cannot go to’ church and hear the word of God. My husband was always WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROW Keystone View. Rare in Heaven. From London Mail. do only women go to C., JUNE 1, 1924—PART 1 Take It From Her. Village Busybody—No, I certainly ain't goin' to vote this year—not for Heart Beats Photograpehd. The cardiograph, ‘'a nevs electrical Instrument, is béing used by quite a From_ th Percy—So your * did I Know -the Her Gentle Hint. . /) ! Boston ateib 10D sou such a good Christian man. A radio set would bring the wonder- ful sermons to him.” D e e e Dora S. Pierson, Park place; M. G. Smith, post office box 1362, Wash- ington, D. C.; Earl S, Crogan, Cairo Hotel; R. L. Isherwood, 1 9th street, Albert street (Continued from southwes . wished to make Joseph W. Shart the defendant statement, his attorney, Ontario apartment . Oniario apartment . Stauffer, 3647 13th street; Hothger, 1008 B street south- west; George E. Sartwell, 1211 Jeffer- [ Bl son street; R. A. Buckler, 2562 36th street; Mrs. W. B. Turp Clifton Terrace; Brooks, Bennings station, route 1, box 1855, District of Columbia; C. W.'Sint, Cherrydale, Va.; no name, and Star Radio Compan: 415 11th street (fifteen). Albert Trew, 811 E street south- west, donated a coil of wire, and the following donated headphone Harold F. Lane, S. Murdoc 1513-a 3rd street: John E. Stauffer. 47 13th street: R. L. Rothger, 1008 B street sonthwest, Mrs. W. B. Tur- pin. 405 Clifton Terrace, and Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Turner, Berwyn, Md —_— Off the List. From Eversbody's Magazine. Mr. Ives had just been telling his wife about a business associate whom he would like to entertain some time at his home. 0, sir,” replied Mrs. Ives, “1 cer- tainlyy shall not invite him and his vife here.” Why, my dear, why not?" queried Ives, ‘Becaus: entertained recuperated His Comeback. 4 the Boston Transcript. They had one of their usual tiffs be- cause hubby was late home for sup- per. “You're always late,” she said in- dignantly, “you were even late at the c h the day we were married.” he answered bitterly, “but late enough. it meets for sentence mext fall. 40 were finished. issues involved in all heresy.” “The trial has brought light theological darkness, and the ness comprehended it not”” said statement. The aocument Brown ulained because the defense rawn from the court orthodo: nd added Says Trial In Not Over. had hocked thereby. But every the church time and energie The statement conclud M explained Mrs. Ives, I her once and she never | cal tion those whose minds live in annot be sustained. it will charge what cannot even be theologians.” not Their Great Drawback. From Life. One girl (to another)—The trouble with men is they get so interested in their work. 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Hopkins-Armstrong, 1319 F Street N.W By auto, Spring, up “The inference is that one may liberal. =0 long as no bishop is new thought is shocking, and so long as sumed to set limits to h n thinking it must exhaust its hunting heretics."” ‘The trial, of course, is not over. “Long before the hi_her ecclesiasti- “l CANNOT BE DEPOSED,” ASSERTS BISHOP FOUND GUILTY IN HERESY CASE but satd would submit a writ- ten communication to the court when op Murray pronounced a bene- diction of peace and the proceedings In a statement issued after the trial Bishop Brown declared himself grati- fled with what had been accomplished “in making the public see the real to dark- the reiterated Bishop regard for the church, com- not “a standard of ourts can pass upon the ques- it will have become obvious to ; this entific age that a charge of heresy More than that, become obvious that such u stated. 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