Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1924, Page 2

ed Gives Pleasant Surprise -to Local Preperty Owners. INCREASE OF 20 CENTS ;m’ount Made Necessary by Great- »er Appropristions and Fiscal Relations Change. . Tac tax rate on real estate and tangible personal property in the District for the new fiscal year will b §1.40 per $100 of assessed value, the Commissioners announced follow- ing-a board meeting today. _‘Annouricergent of this figure was @n_unexpected surprise, since it had been predicted that the new rate would probably go as high as $1.50. "The old rate was $1.20, so that the eftect of this order will be to add to tax bills in November and next May 20 cents on each $100 of assessment. An unexpected increase of approxi- mately $33,000,000 in the total as- sessed value of real estate was the orincipal factor that enabled the au- ditor to make the new rate as low as a $1.40. Remnon for Imerease. The fixing of a higher tax rate for the new year is due to the increase in’ the total amount appropriated in the coming twelve months, together with the fact that Congress changed the fiscal relations in such a way that the District's proportion of the ses is greater than last year. ®In submitting h ¥evenue of 3$15,073,744.41. i Continuing his report, the auditor ®aid: ' “The total obligation against the 4evenue collection for 1924 represent- #d by the regular District apropria- tion acts for that year, deficiency &p- opriations, and the second fifth of he cash fund of $3,000,000, amounted o $15,061,744.57. Jor the fiscal year 1924 exceeded the ppropriation charges by $11,999.84. fhls amount, together with the credit b the District of Columbia arising #rom the unexpended balances of ap- ropriations carried to surplus by arrants of the Secretary of the reasury, enabled the District to ‘arry forward to the fiscal year 1925 @0 be considered as an element in fixing the tax rate for that year, a E’The revenue collections, therefore, Jevenue credit of $597, ! Contributions of Umited States. il “For the fiscal year ending June $0. 1925, the total amount appropri- fated by the District appropriation act 1 $26,474,308, from which is deducted ems chargeable to the water fund, ymounting to $1,196,860, and items argeable to the gasoline tax fund, amounting to $925,000, leaving the fmount to be paid from revenues of he United States and the District of Solumbia_$24,352,448. The contribu- dlon by the United States for the scal year 1925 is $9,000,000, leaving he net amount to be raised by the istrict of Columbia, on the basis of ihe amount appropriated by the Dis- rict_of Columbia appropriation act, ;xs,aaz,u& *To this amount must be added the third sixth of the cash fund of $3,- 800,000, or $600,000; the estimated ex. diture for refunding erroneously taxes, $50,000; the estimated ex- Penditure for extension of streets and increases in salary #®f officers and members of the police nd fire departments and officers and #eachers in the public schools, to- Ether with other miscelzaneous items ‘In the second deficiency appropriation ict for 1924, which failed of passage, amounting for the several purpeses s a_charge against the revenues of he District of Columbia, $2,545,948. A further item of $400,000 is aiso added as the estimated deficiency in {Ippmprhflons for the fiscal year ai Aavenues, $50,000; 925. For all of the several purposes dicated the total estimated charges Against the District revenues for the bcal year 1925 are $18,998,396 (com- idered for the purpose of fixing a tax te as $19,000,000). Estimated Revenwes. “The estimated revenues for the cal year 1925 start with a revenue fredit of 3597,1 uilding associations, etc., $1,’ fources, $2,000,000. %angible personal property. * *The estimated total assessed val- uation of taxable real estate for the Tiscal year 1925 is $800,000,000, and for tangible personal property, §16,000,- 0, making a total estimated valuation {oy both purposes for the fiscal year 1825 $900,060,000. The application of = $ax Tute of $1.40 on each $100 of the 71l valuation assessment of real es- 4jate and tangible property will, there- re, produce am estimated revenue uf 312,600,000, Tt is, therefore, recom- Jendod (hat the order set forth at . te be, g of this report, Sxing & I3t oF $1.48 Tor the year 1935, be ap- ved by the Commissioners. FIGHT ON GOLF LINKS i IS ATRED IN COURT Que Player Charges Ancther s Xnocked Him Down and Broke S Club Over Knee. dismizssed the case. ,The evidence showed that Wannan, Ying out a practice stroke, was TeTmoRsteated With DY Crooxor. wite | $495.000,000 for ought the stroke was dangerous to 'standers. Wannan took exception Crooker’s interference and a dis- fi(e arose in which Wannan charged ocker struck him and knocked himv] wn and then took his golf club amd #woke it across his kmee. Crooker Made general demial to all of the < JJ: Schuldt said that Mr. Crooker his authority znd started Qtoelcd e trouble by his interference and t if Mr. Wannan bad violated any the rules of the golf course he }d have reported it to the super- méflut of the grot x +* Cleared in Boy’s Desth. #faCoroner Nevitt yesterday afterncon jucted an inquest at the morgue thec ase of Gerard Bier, weven |gitemdant relief from the burdem of ars old, 2030 Plerce Mill read, who| jnterest. On June 30, 1521, the a.l killed by an ice wagon in an| gebt was $23,97%,000.000. rear his charge of the team, FURTHER BUDGET CUT '" ASKED BY PRESIDENT Organization of Government, P TAXRATEFXED TSRS Lower Rate Than Anticipat- The text of the President's ad@ress last night befgre the Government's Business Organlzation meeting fol- “This is the seventh regular méet- ing of the Business Organization of The first of these meetings was held three years ago. This marks the close of three years of action under the budget system. At the first meeting was commenced intensive campalgn in behalf of the people who pay the taxes in our country. The foes of that campuign were extravagance and inefficiency in the public serviee. we have waged this intensive cam- It has been a united effort, and united effort never fajls of ac- The people of this na- the Government. progressive reductions in thenr esth mates for funds. hered to budget brocedure in passing two auccessive nights this week had ok 5 po o upon these estimates. e appropria- | redbed the cellar ¥ oharg such as ‘the worl tions granted have been in Rarmons’ ine s Matthews, cf the financial program of the Chltwfh!i:ecuflve. i the D“ll h & we met six months ago I k(apital t of “real sacrifice” for the stated to you that this iEhU for €6on- § 1 See ang T Ol &L 4907 14th street, omy had but one purpose—that its |1 Tevenue officers early today benefits ;mldhluu?le > the whole ::d I the basement of the Forsberg ough reduction in tawes.| residence and Taxes have now been reduced. While | 0 “co's, ond, csptured two intruders, our Immediate need is for tax reform, | T Ot Whom is a policeman detadled to as distinguished from tax reduction, | the sixth precinct, and the other a resi- we must continue this campaign for | dems. 6f Southwest economy 50 as to maice Passible far- | et o Southwest Washington who, po- ther tax reduction. For three years complishment. tion are beginning to win. “In that short space of time we have accomplished the unbelievable. Unco-ordinated procedures of official action have been co-ordinated. partmental interests have been made subservient to the common interests of the government as a whole. business of government has been es- tablished on an efficient basis. have done this, and for doing it you the thanks of This has been and 'We owe this to |11€0:8a7, Ras been in the tofls of the law the people of our nation, to the peo- | on.pievious occasions. !‘:); Whfi rIl.ul:‘ )l:ay with their tell. e relief which has recently been afforded must be only the beginning. ;'-fl me Suspended from the o in all your orts, in all your | force,. teved of equi; bear in mind e SYupment and in- that you are making them for the people of ourscountry. There could are entitled American people. is_their fight. “We are often told that we. are a and we are. of the people, and that only a8 we He made a brief state- serve them well and faithfully shall [ meut, it is understood, but its natune| Sussestion for Emsuing Years. For the fiscal year ending June 30, | S8crifices—Bluege (), Picinich, Lee, Tich country, often reminded that we are in the best financial condition of any of the great powers, and we are. must remember that we also have a of existence and a higher standard of living. We have a freer government and a more flexi- ble organization of suciety. is given more is required. state of savagery American civiliza- tion is the product of a constant and mighty effort. ~“One of the we succeed. Efficieney Reguired. “This insistent demand for economy | The arvests of the two men at 3| 00000 the President asked be in- and reduction in expenditures neces- | 0'Clock this morning resulted f; ot sarily requires increasing eMmency | NGU-PUEIMd trap arranged with the | ** 5 g g of administration. I realise that it | been vacamt, Mrs. Forsbe 1926, the President asked estimates is making an ever-inoreasing call | children belag out of the” oity. soh | be Prepared for cutting down the cost upon the administrative ability of | Mr. Forsbers living aboard hie anry | O, admiaistration, exclusive of the Tssponsiblc officials. But this is a call | the Oldot, in - lemands a most o \idpiry int ‘the field of | berg found the front Goor partly | o) il BLOETam of sharp reduction your activities so as to remove en-|open, several rooms of the the President justified on the basis of ( v 3 house - i tail all those which may be reduced | Pre~Volstead liquior gome. His stock ¢ Chiet Exee- / ° report to the 'ommissioners,0 n which the new tax ate was based, Maj. Daniel J. Dono- Aan, auditor, revealed that the old ¥ate of $1.20, with other sources of Fevenue, including the tax on intan- ible property, the tax on utilities, banks, building associations, etc., and ollections from misciellaneous Bources, there was collected a total 1f. maintains itself. e o e greatest perils to an the disregard country such rights do not appear to be in immediate danger from direct attack, but they are always in jeop- ardy through indirect action. “One of the rights which the free- man has always guarded with most jealous care is that of enjoying the rewards of his own industry. ing that the power to tax is the pawer to_ destroy, take a certain amount of property or another way of saying that for a certain portion of his time a citizen must work for the government, the authority to impose on the people has been most Our own Consti- revenue bills should originate im the House, be- cmuse that body more representative of the people. “These precautions have been taken because of the full realization that laid upon the people by excessive taxation, any disregard of hold and enjoy the property which they have rightfully acquired, would be fatal to freedom. A government which lays taxes on the people not required public necessity and policy is not a pretector of liberty, instrument of tyranny. condemns the citizen to servitude. Seeurity for Property. “One of the first breaking down of free government is a disregard by the taxing power of the right of the people to their It makes llttle dif- ference whether_such a condition i} Prouttt Sha Aioagh the will of & dictator, through the power of a mil- itary force or through the pressure of an organized minority. sult is the same. can enjoy that without prejudice to the welfare of “If there is any question as to the authority of heads of departments or [ 7943, I8 considerel amoug the most | rjghey s establishments to discontinue or re- Critietnes Reeki duce anyphase of existing work, it | 1® notifiad pollco of the Tenth pre-| oasiE atien Tlimy. desine: that ums e e 3 ch of "the| “A government,” solemnly declared . the op- | n®ighborhood, they found two of Mr.|the President. “which lays taxes on Other Changes Bring portunity today of the government's | Forsberg’s suitcases, filled with whis- | the people mot required by orgent administrators is not to enter upon |k, hidden in a clump of buskes|public mecessity and sound pesiic 1 z new fields of enterprive. On the other |in the rear of the l4th street car barn. | policy 1s not a protector of liberty Sham Reductions. hand, it is their duty and dnnpnr(unlu ;‘eves;vu blocks. -"',-)'4 Yu:te';u Mr.|but an instrument of tyranny. One to carry on approved and necessary | Forsberg returned again to his resi-|of ¢ rat el e activities with the smallest possible | dence and found that @nother en- e e oL Ntheib enk Ny expenditure matter to me. The duty an: carefully guarded. of new activitie: aged unless being of the nation. should hm‘:h?:fi: Last night Detective C. J. P.|economy could be reduction of the|ChANEes and other circumstances cul- We, the ‘admin. | Weber and Foliceroan W. S Brown, | number of government emphoyes. In|minating July 1. Some of those let et ko Dboth of the tenth precimet, and Pro- [ poin out how money could be[out will get other jobs on bonus Dusiness iateresesoVormments great | U ition Enforcement Ofker E. F.|saved the first definite sugseation of 2 §E§Lfi”§@3flffim“'éin&"&fi§"z§§“(::¢'2 home and waited for developments. | personnel,” dectared by the Chief| AMONg the heaviest losers was the tions devolving upon ue wmger 'me |Lewis stationed himself in ihe garage | Executive to be “by far the most|bureau of standards, which lost sev- law. And we should sccompisn thie|at the rear, and Weber amd Brown |costly item in our expenditwres’” enty-five men, including professional, with the smallest possible demand(Did in a closet in the basement| , _ oW ool Becommended, upon the Treasury. We have made ¥ real progress in this direction. responsibility to the taxpayers de- mands further progress. “TOMOrrow We commence a new We will have a smaller is supppsed any oppression their right to sound - public the new tax law. h We will have on’ inomesne other hand. | rion *Gismounted and embered the | workers. charges. The werld war adjusted|Dasement by the rear doar, whieh| ~Printing and binding also were | the blennial census of manufecturers gompensgtion act alone adds $132,000,000 charges for 1925. OwWn property. are organized for the fight. reasonable security in the possession of their property, which is guaranteed by the Conmsti- against unreasonable tion, freedom is at an end. “The common man is restrained and hampered. in_his ability to secure foed and clothing and shelter. are decreased, his hours of lador are lengthened. “"Against the recurring tendency this direction there must be interposed the constant effort of electorate and of patriotic public serv- The importance of a comstant reiteration of these principles canmot be overestimated. They cannot be denied. They must not be ignored. 7 “There is a most urgent necessity for who are charged Wwith the sponsibility of government administra- tion to realize that the people of our country cannot maintain their own high standards, they canmot compete against the lower standards of the rest of the unless we are free from ex- cessive taxes. With us economy is im- It is a _full test ?( our na- tlonal character. Bound up in it is the true cause, not of P ests, mot of any privilege, but of all the . 1t is_pre-eminently the source of popular rights. It is always the peo- ple who toil that pay. on an expenditure program which, | Still here, all right” public_debt, I desire that this gTam be reduced do,not contem, fof the next by $83,000,600. I |claim. were about to remove bottles plate total expendttures |from the shelf when Brown and Web- fiscal year, whi ., with drawn pistols, rushed them Tax Reform U rted no losses today. exceed Sa,sw.m.myexdu‘;vnc:r‘:!‘:‘el ana'p % Hesptmine s % redemption of the Public debt. ' Thiy will give us a surplus & 1925 Of $108,000,000 This: or & srbasl| Rone is sadd to have taken things|is “thx reform. as distingeioned rom |ameunt of difference, comparatively, & complacently, but Grossman did not | tax reductiom,” but said that tax re- | between the budget as submitted fo The people have faith in us. We|comply at omce with the command of | duction was still needed. In his typ. | Congress and the must preserve this faith. Our efforts |Brown that he throw up his hands|ical short semtences ~and direcis and our accomplishments are also|and the officer was eompelled to use | method, the President declared. o |Pristed. serving as imspiration %o the other |force, it was said. am for economy. After that I am for| Gen. Lord’ reviewed the activities of all ting the example for reduction In the [nite estimate of the amount of liguor | * It was the President’s first public | i co-ordination wors mea anocered o ord which was taken from his cellar, but | speech since being nominated by the | a new co-ordinating board, with the 5 inary peace-time conditions. placed the value roughly at $1,000. Hepublicans at Cleveland to suaceed | “far from simple title of the imter- Our duty | Among the missing bettles were | himself in the White House. He took | departmental Bosrd on smintacs or rogressed in |such rare brands of whisky as Old |occasion to review the Drogress of | Hen Brmeedoe 50 we must | Jordan, Hunter, Haig & Haig, Trimble, | three years of the budget which | rToje board: sald Gen. Lord, “hes i Question of Persemmel. nessy brandy and various German |ent reduction in expeditures.” service in an 1-;L?Rflfi_z,°‘fle “¥ou, with your intimate knowl- |Nothing but liquowr is missing from |ceipts, the rPesident said, ‘whows that mm‘emn:’mg vm.“d wnh“mmm“l:-ho: edge of the details of your work, |his residence, he believes, although a |in the face of a progressive redac- know where further practical ecomo. | H10FOUSh search had mot been com- |tion in receipts we have achieved a | simplification of mies can be effected. er surplus, shouid be our aim. nations of the world. We are set. cost of government and for return here can be no faltering. As we have p these last three years, brought forward $rom the fiscal year 1924; estimated coMections of tax for imtangible per- Bonal property, $2,000.000; estimated| {oliections of tax for utilities, banks, 3 ,000; ‘estimated collections of penaities for overdue taxes, $125,080; estimated col- Jections from various miscellaneoun This leaves $12,- ,000 to be raised by the application ®f a tax rate to real estate and It seems to me, worthy of our highest en- this which gives the real importance to this meeting. “I would not be misunderstood. am not advocating parsimomy. to be liberal. government- pay rekl. And, in this sam Public _service ttled to a suitable reward. But there is a distinct limit to the amount of public service we can profitably employ. We. require national defense, must be limited. We peed public im- ovements, but they msus e L We have to make some capital mvest- must be certain to tve fair returns. Every dollar ex- pendea must be made in the light of ational resources, ai Bacioma” It is here that the budget system gets its strength as a method of fiscal administration. Reviews Progress. ““What progress we have made in or dering the national finances is easily shown. A comparison of our receipts and expenditures for the last four years Rlustrates conclusively what has been accomplished during the three years of budget stem. P ror he fiseal year ending June 0, 1921, the last pre-budget year, o Spenditures were $5.583,000,000 and $5,624,000,800. icceeding three years, cll‘:ldea the year which ent expenditures $3,697,000, B0 only when abso! can effect econom: “A further fertil is the item of p: I am sometimes ber of government come to my attentiom. that all are n : effort for economy and : The the foderal service Refuse to Pay 0il Tax figures of the budget in the most easil interdepartmental board of e Cosipetadi lymn ubderstood and entertaining. fashion, | CONCracts and adjustments, ‘the Played & mos| MEXI > July 1.—The oil men | Gen. Lond described by comparisoas the important part. ‘The m':-ny and | are refusing to pay the expert Quties | $2,000,000,000 difference bstween what ments, but they efficiency in co-ordinating H executive order have s — nationsl needs. I that this work go on. I realize the work te perform. This in the interest of the “You are now Hminary estimatos for the s today, our 3,795,000,000, $3,497,000,600 ' re- Here we sow a progres- consistent re on in ex- Senditaves On the other side of the for 1922 were _Sylvian J. Crooker, 1365 Park read, Was defendawt in the ,United States ##anch of Police Court foday, charged with assault upon Arthur T. Wannan, S#13 9th street, last_Saturday on the blic golf links in Rock Creek Park. gdn Schuldt, after criticizing the ‘eri@ant for undertaking to regu- ate the personal comduct of players g3, the nks, took his personal bond T our receipts 09,000,000. This tentative il - 9,000,000; 1923, $4,007,000,000, and mita- | conatantly on trial. s tion is in furthermnce of my “An analysis of these figures shows that in the face of a progressive re- receipts we achieved a substantial surplus at the end of each of the fiscal years—$3i4,- 060,000 for 1922, $319,000,000 for 1923 and which I have stated 23 being the expenditures, receipts and surplus for the fiscal year 1324, which ends today, are only approxi- mate. We will not have the actusl figures until the books are fnslly Th rplus smecumulated at the end o; ::ah of the last three fiscal has been fed on of the vflm the reductions required ‘W?l.lh ut the aid of this 0 ublic debt would be $1,100,- i than it now stands, and thi charges would be some 345,000,000 Ereater Next year than we 1 now have to pay. ‘Alowg With this reduction in ex- ditures has gone a uction of the public to the reduc- in addition to by law under home Saturday morn- The jury reported a verdict of acci@ental deuth, exonerating Ross T. Oakes, 123% 34th street, who was in | 000,900, has been reduced again by more than , to $22,349,000,000. In 192% it o BOSTON AB, " Collins, rf... 4 o Wamby, 2b .. 4 L 5 J. Harrls, 16 - 5 0 ownts |Guy Rone and Cormpanion|Reduction in Governmental|Yeach#........... b , | <Arrested in Cellar of Home | Expenses to Point of “Sac- & 500 of Gustave:W. Forsherg. rifice” His Object. 2 o $1,000,000,000, anil stands-at an esti- o ° Tra, Fdutien: T . poare o T . $2.732.000,000, ana mesns & saving or | JOUSEBREAKING CHARGED [SEEKS LOWER TAXATION 1 o interest of more them $120400,000 (1] (] 5:':'&":‘,;‘.:""".?'."“."‘,‘:.":.:k:;’;",'“;".'f'ffl;‘.‘:',i': ioe Lie i n. Lord Follows With ‘Address s B "1 T this campulgn we have Nad 3 Tabuleting Saviags Under aClarke batted for Lee in clghth inning. :?all'l.::(‘%;nsrelon?fir;"i::n(h.r:g uupfif:’t t symm. O’Neill batted for Plerey in ninth inning. SR e ] = NASHENS IO In the face of smaller federal in- . Setting a trap for burgiars who on come and tmcreased expemditures in|Rice, rf..........an.. has ad home of Gustave W. Forsberg, prom- | War bonus, President Coolidge has inent ciubman and commadore. of the | O74€red econemy in administration to|S- Hertls, 2b.. next fiseal year, fn order to “make pessible further tax reduction.’ Addressing the seventh regular meeting of the business organization of the government at Memorial Con- tinental Hall last night, the Presi- demt reported on the success of the Dbudget system in government for the Past three years and dwelt at length on the right of the people for lower| ‘taxes. Director Lord of the bureau -of the budget described in more de- | Bosten The arrested policeman, Guy Rone, tall the operations of the year. Washington......... be no nobler cause or one showing ‘The surplus for the fiscal year clos- higher patriotism. Bear in mind al- | cha 5 3 ng last might, the Presid - ways that we are here as the servants Harry Grossman of 314 4% |ed at $498,900.000. S Three-base hit—Fiagstead. Stelen base—Wamby. ‘Wwas not .made public. Coup Well Planmed. 1925, the estimated surplus of $25, Martina, Essell. creased by ecomomy and efficiency to aid of Mr. Forabers. Theonoiih For the fiscal year ending June 30, oo ! public debt and postal service, to & his home Stnday morams w2 Srorat | toal of 31,860,000, ing was sounded by the Ch| - —— e ‘:nh:".:“’.:’_lg: utive that ome of tho. Sreabomt E';:';' bas had as lous as twenty-three [ur ‘Gipe cxiemsive republic lay in valuable collections in Washington. down of free government is a disre- trance had been made and thousands|gard by the taxing power of.the right initiation Poliee Witch Place. one of the principal avemues of Lewis took up posts at the Forsberg | the President was the ‘matter of | "o\ where they could command a clear three men state, an automabile truck | am satisfied that it will lead to great- had been left open by the previous|scored by the President as a fertile| ©f 1923. approx- intruders, and, the officers say, | field for economry." At the Tressury Department 280 our: fixed, groped their way directly to the wine | Warning. Was Eiven “some officials | Were dropped from the rolla fn the “A real battle faces us, but we |Cellar—a concrete vault built Into the | who apparently feel that the esti- | Ofice of the register and 175 from the The best | Mmain basement. On the way, one of | mates transmitted to the bureau of | 108Ns and currency division. The of- estimate today indicates & surplus of | them was heard to say as he felt ome | the budget are the esttmates which | ice Of the contreller gemeral, an inde- approximately $25,080,000 for the next | of the bundles of liquor on the floor, | they are authorized to advocate be. | Pendent establishment, removed fifty This estimate is predicatel | left from the night before: “IUS |fora the committecs of the Geasvessr | Cmploes. ; These persons were served with due| The Deépartment of Agrivulture let exclusive of the redemption of the| They then wailed into the wine| 0520 RITSONS Wors served with due | ,u¢ twenty temporary employes and amounts to $3,083,000,000. | vault, which had been left oben after | 4.y was unlawful, and warmed that, | the CiVil Service Commission reHeved expenditure pro_ [the Secomd robbery, amd. the pelice | \i TRl " Krecutive 1" propasc t; | ABout fiftesn from their duties. The protect the integrity of my budget.” | WA State and Navy departments and govermment printing office re- and placed them under arrest. President Coolicge reiterated his ool clecconsumunonen Bloccoononumucs - 5 Ry »Ieeaoae-eo—weP l:lOQOO"QGN L Brig. Gen. Charles C. Dawes, Re- N —— | must be treated o, and that he is slommoccosep olumcmnoscn cls-‘nc-auccP 2 z 3 - bases—Boston, 9; Washing- MILLION TEACHERS IN MOVE FOR PEACE, N. E. A. INFORMED | 17,108 s it irmstoraed o ot and it (Continued from First Page.) Cut in Appropriations and ment of Agriculture, Approximately $00 government em- “In the past twenty years the gov- |of dollars worth. of expensive liquors 1o ped ernment's activitien have developed | bundied up in the cellar, as thoush | * o porbge Lioir, oD Property.” | Ploves hero were dropped from the o OIS T Sy Crered|bunaisd iupl S Of particular interest to this city | department rolls today as the result Wwas the President’s declaration that|ef lack of appropiations, normal organization, taught in the rural schools . teaching stendards and preparation | he stump the greater part of th of rural teachers, Rebutlding of school plan attainment of standards, model s - romsio training achools for teachers and or- p ey Mg ot B i ganization of the subject matter for ¢ he is going o be rural schools are contemplated in | antme sor auri ard 1ote o the committee's program of improve- | ola eampaigner, and he knows th: subprofesstonal, clerical and custodial Ous | View of the whole room. ‘We must reduce the government | workers. Most of the professional | About 3 o'clock this ~morning. the|Day roll” said President Coolidge. “I | workers ‘were paid from funds contalning two men pulled up in the | er efficiency.” No line of procedure|Other departments for whom tite bu- alley near the Farlbor‘.farn‘ amd e laid .}:v& however, nor was | reeu 'll-doln: '"kfi:"‘ sueh funds one was heard to remark. “Let’s see there any further suggestion to the | 3T¢ Do longer available. o e buren o e athe, Jemsening | (" o" block in clear. They then | department Oficials tancerning how | . Three hundred workers were drop- n 4 T | skirted the block and returned. The |they are to let out more gowerament | Péd at the bureau of the census, these Baving been employéd témporatily on Report om Tliterates. In discussing the report Mr. Foght stressed the fact that mahy of the houses” e will open headquarters in Evan: are not only too small, but are in-|ton, Il sanitary and in cherge of immature| Will have a force on hand to assst teachers. “We need a different kind of | zng to carry out the details of “if ‘things | own individual activities. system today,” he deciared, are to work out right.” The illiteracy report presented by [Dawes expects to make a tour of ihe more { country. The details of this grea: than 4,300,000 illiterates will be en-|speaking trip will be determined b titled to vote in November for Presi- | William M. Butler, chairman of the dent of the United States and mem- | Republican national committee Mr bers of Congress. It was stated In the report that|and was in conference with Presiden: there are 4,931,905 acknowledged il- | Coolidge and G&n. Dawes following literates in ¢he United States, accord- | luncheon together at the White ing to the last census, but there are|House. This conference is expected probably more than double this num. | to last the greater part of the after- Mrs. Steward disclosed that — Foree Used on Ome. statement that what is now meeded Mr. Forsberg could not make a defi- | more ‘weonomy.” Gallagher & Burton, Three Star Hen- | showed “a progressive and 'comsist- | organized . and French champagnes, he stated. An analysis of expenditures amd re- pleted early this afterncom. substantial surplus a1 the end of each | In the business of 1 I desire; how- | The investigation of the robberies |of the fiscal years—$314,000,000 for uidating war 70u Eive empecial atfention |today was taken part in by Head: |12, 3$210.000.080 for 1925, and $3h- | Teoiienon b oy ", the T aeral atter of persommel. This is | quarters Detective Pat O'Brien and | 000,000 for 1934 1oalt ont of & gonr yeerl vm 0! by far the mn%mmy item in our ;Jsm" sip”w“{ul: n‘:r‘r;ber uor &rm —::h period, the Presi- 3 e ‘war, res. ‘e must ' inger prints on S, wi low sills PO om! ere was “‘rarogres. loac Ereater graphed. Mr. rsberg ieves that | amount 0 ut , 722,000,000, with e connection I desivs | Sntrance to the house first was |an additianal sawing of interest of mere | oaSrey TEeesury has received 31,295, O n,“m’“‘“ of Iruvel ordera | Enined by use of a duplicate key. Ev- | than §126000,000 each year. The present | 653’ s ra itern is too - An order for cravel should be Civen |at one (of the porch windows, ‘and u |000,000. partments. tely necessary. screen een rermoVi rom a cel- - Tn this item. 7% |lar window toward the back of ime Gen. Lord’s Budgoet Showling. tinven the eved o, samounce.” con- fleld for ecomomy | hous: Gen. Lord, who followed President | rved | Eeneral, “that Uncle Sam's rinting and binding. Julius Eanet, attorney associated | Coolidge on the program, declared We still hax by startled at the num- | With James B. Archer, arranged this | sucainctly that “in three budget years assartm: ‘:'d owever, quite a nice which | afternoon to have Grossman released ( We have cut the ordinary expenses of ways, ;:“‘ & ry docks, marine rail- It camnot be |on bail. government in half. bk ngs and miscellaneous ssni ma gt 0 In his accustomed marner of present- | S3PPlies, which we will sell idences of jimmying were apparent |public debt was reported at 321,264,- ing the most hard-heaced facts and | $35:000,000,000. fixed by the finance minister, demand- ey et tonl Sutiof ‘e fedsbal selling price of oil, according to aw- | year ending today. it It is accomplishment pre-{art of lfl?-‘mmflt of the be | the American governme: my purpose te trsammit to Cu: spenathrift, and 1t i b moking | e ropriations in the force or iaposition to : Hepareroonr sy Com- excluding the interest on and reduc- | i, he cem 10 a | excees | (olied, By the FemoEOr i tion in the publie debt and the postal | o remtiac oy o 1L Anan 3 : JoTvice ool met exoeed a total of{"UT0 maintain this cgodition puts ws twice the walue of the Fraise fer Ofce Fover. requires us to [United States votton crop of 1932, and | The chief co-ordinator, Col. demonstrate whether we are weak- [nearly two and one-balf times the o Bt;l:h.:. was mu.‘rof: m:u-:rr lngs, or whether we have strength |yalue of the country's wheat crop in of character. 19237 cial praise in the government saving: program, by Gen. Lord, who aiso re-; ferred Wwith commendstion to Col.] kel i ic Bidsss [T 1411 program of patrietic Tusic to the 1d‘l"q== of the M“:. or, . itk “The Bias Gamgied Bea Der who either were overiooked census taking or have concealed their | others during the next two davs. “Of approximtely 5,000,000 men and | cies to be foilowed in the campaign ‘women of the United States who can- | must be determined, many problems not read or cannot write,” said the |must be ironed out, and, above all. a report, “some of these illiterstes were | real plan of batfle must be drawn up. o Lt - D-ndmlsc:lly ‘Will Set Notifieation Date. ough the statement may seem. me i schools in the past falledl to tench | Fellowins these talks the dates for writing in the early grades, and chil- | the official notification of President dren iearned to read through their|Coolidge and Gen. Dawes of their first, second and third readers with- | nomination at Cleveland must be sat, out having a pen or pencil in their |and something of the nature of thebn amounts appro- “the schools, o Finds Teaching Neglveted. Presenting Mer report ofi. classroom |y - T ers’ problems. Mre. Bradford | Union Station on the Capitol Limited. that in the modern sys- tem of ‘education so much time taken by the temcher and child h outside interests that there is little |20d Mr=. Dawes alighted, but in the © | station few persons recognized them. o clamroom work, She 8PPall | Any ‘Mumber of mews Dhotographers eférence to the standardisation and ecessary forms. , the federal ed for » “teaching week." 1 o _classroom work. Mrs, Bradtord siv repericd that a |he alighted. Henry M. Dawes, con- questionnaire circulated by her com. | troller of the currency, the general's mittee showed that there are 8000 |Drother, met the couple at the station teachers throtghout the country who | and motored with them to the White are in favor of lengthening the school | House. It will be in the controllers day, on_the ground that fhe present |office in the Treasury bullding that Thoe who | Gen. Dawes will make his headquar- favored a longer school day, she said, { ters during his stay here. believed the time should be devoted| As Gen. Dawes alighted from the Qquestion- | car at the portico steps at the front naires also were said to have shown |of the White House he hurried over their {to a group of newspapermen await- classes were too large and too many |ing him, most of whom he knew, sax had to be taught. unwieldy clase,” the report, “is an obstacle to good teaching, and to produce really fine s snsnt oG PSSy | 1) S, TENNIS STARS he explained, “American war muni- Property valued at $371.081,. 55 has been transferred between de- = g i school day fs too short. to su; A 5 Saing’ are eomeltey o pervised study. sald |out greeting my old friends.” dition _implies sheer teacher and 8 wroup of exceptionally responsive ren. The ideal num- ber of pupils to & teacher in grade DflN work is quite generally accepted as "OSE AT WIMBLE botween twenty and thirty, althougn 2 réspectable size nority that a ‘tewcheér can do justice to no | BY the Associated Press. more than twenty students.” Setsction of Subjects. One of the major problems of the school is to hiake such welection of gurriewtum tmatorials from the social | tournament, losing to Jean Bomotra s will contribute mOSt |or France, 6—4. 4—8, 6—0, 6—2. B tfties nd by Hoviae eronmes roctar | R.Norrls Williams 11 of the United Il contribute towsrd the | States won his way to the semi-finals stressed | by gefeating A. R F. Kingscote \of in her report on character Problems | pugiang, 57, 64, 63, 6. g (he best se factors,” | Watson M. Washburn of the Unitdd th?;mm“eflt“ “tloot'e::':er m.a.-“n States was eliminated, losing to Louis wide an neuaintance as may be with bl - ot m'am':l: ";:i"n'm:.-- best shots were inter h: ! - ;::::‘xfi?t:?em:-fim»e’l‘:y.zn ihe | mingled with o many wid and un- \ Tressarry in 1931, ‘the last pre-budget Specifications board, it ing tax rate, in accordance with the |year, and what it took out in the fiscal | &8 Teported, “has isswed fo @ate 184 master specificatiops, within sixty thoritative sources. Tramslated ‘to other tarms, Gen.|38Y8 'Will 1Ssue forty more, and has _— e (Lowd said this saving was equivalent [ 5iXtY-five technical committees mt to “half the gold coin and bullion tn Work on materials and devices that the United States at-the present tne, | Rearly cover the entire national field heavy demands upon the members of | the futility of age, but by the char- [tne emtire savings. of 125s0 006 ae: | of Durchasing. the several co-ordinating boards. |acter and ability of maturity. positars in the mation's maving banks| The federal real estate board, in They have also their departmental| “We have had the se-somtrol to|for & period of twenty months, the | COMPilation Of the Yalue of all real o Salls again |put into effect the budgct system, to [VAIUS of all the passenger automobiles [ PTOPEIY owned by the United Staces. ho Untorens og iaa s or & merifice |live under it and in accordance with produced throughout the United States | je than at Hrat compatel . Se now In the | ples ey B | total is $1543,665,61181. This does very . h not include the_public d Tor that Aacad yeur Homi3oor |Mghest importance. It means that o alXoveds the e serane e v insist found that the eéntire value was Genturtes experience | Kingscote was able to win the first m to a e oF opinion | set. which was closely ocontested. among enlightensd peoples that the |and to battle sturdily in the other development is to be|sets against his opponeat, Who was Jove of God and Tove | & manifestly superior player. Wil- b of this|llams’ next oppoment Wwill be Rene ligfous ‘sectarimtism. Francis T. Hunter and Miss Lillian ore howid Do mo rererence to Sfter m;c':'nfi“ ica, defeated J. C. ences creeds mor rk an < in to absence of Tand, 64, 2, 6—1. After sdjournment this afternoon |y, o . gefeated Jea the delegates ‘and i of the open | @ucted in their honors by a score or with e mm?:;,.;‘ Japanese Accept e, ontribation o sdudation o; Chance to Attend it A s wnd e “Open u teachers | ¢ orge Watwon, §—i, 3—8, 1—6, 6—3, ge_con- | Fegree W rintendent : %| Reparation Parley of ‘the Natibhal and Teachers: Mary llfam A. Sutton, superintend- | represented by her ambassadors te ent of schools of Atlanta, Ga. DAWES ‘I WONDER™ ENDS SPONTANEITY General Declares, as Candi- date, He Must Answer Queries With Care. [ LEARNS “TRICK” ABROAD Arrives Here for Conference With President—Plans Active Campaign. O | publican vice presidential candidate, © | who arrived at the White House to- O |43y with Mrs. Dawes for a three-day visit, has cast aside his “Helen Ma- © |ia" phrase and his adopted a new one—"I wonder.” The general explained to his inter- 1 | viewers when he arrived at the White O | House that being a candidate for Vice ©Q | President is serious business and 1 | not going to answer every question put to him without giving it plenty of thought, and therefore he has de- n | cided to answer “I wonder” when 1| 2sked to give his opinion on impor- 5 tant matters. 2| "I guess that sounds strange com- ing from me, but you fellows will get used to it.” Gen. Dawes said with broad smile. “T must talk sense now - lls—Of Piercy, 6; off Mar- | and must be cautious in my replies na, 5. Struck out—By Pierey, 1; by Ma My statements should” be pondered over in advance and my public utter- ances should be prepared carefully tima, 1. Hit by piteher—By Piercy (Martina). | This is different business from being mpiren—deswrs. Ormsdy and Evans. | director of the budget, and a& mucl as I like ‘gassing’ with the Whitr House reporters I must forego tha Dpleasure, if I am to be quoted Learns From Freach. “1 can see you fellows don't take to that ‘I wonder’ answer of mine.’ he said. “T'll mit it is new to me like it when I commence to see the results. 1 learned it abroad Wher - |1 was working with the reparations commission questions would aris plans of the committee of 100 on rural | which caused us to ask how thes education to launch a national cam-|would be accepted by the nations in paign in behalf of rural education. As | terested; and when this or that ques & part of the movement, he said, coun-|tion as to how France would accep: ty and local committees are being or-|it was put up to one of the leading gamized in every state. The Depart- | members of the French delegation American | that gentleman would look wise fc Farm, the National Parent-Teacher As- |a second or two, and then to our dis sociation, the Nationa) Grange, the So- |gust would ans ciety of Equity and the farmers, as|could never get anything out of him well as weveral other agencies or-|S0 when I found myself Presiden ganized for the soctal and economic | Coolidge’s running mate I knew tha: growth of wural Ameriea, hte pointed | my remdiness to answer any and al out, @re expected to co-operate with |questions without a second's refiec- the committee. The campaign will support, sehool special reference to the one-teacher schools, * o | to make his first speech of the ean s I and wife” echools, con- | aign in Lincoln, Neb, about Sap modern wer. ‘I wonder.” W tion was not going to help the cu cover hool | any, so I just decided to imitate tha® SCeith | Frenchman and snswer. ‘T wonder Gen. Dawes did say that he is goin ber 1. He sald he expects to be on time from then on to election day He intimated that he was going to take more than an ordinary part i that his part is going to be actua In|on the job early and late. He is an game. He learned it under MeKm and Hanna and others of the leader of a generation ago. Will Open Headquarters. The vice presidential candidate sa | his _home town, where h the national and state organization. Following his Lincoln speech, Gen Butler returned to Washington todav in |noon amd to be followed up with Many questions concerning the poli- acceptance speeches must be agreed upon. Gen. and Mrs. Dawes arrived M« at 9 o'clock. Many of his fellow- %s | passengers on the train waved the- i |candidate a cheery farewell as he and movie men were om hand when ing to them, “I can’t go in here with- WIMBLEDON, Eng. July 1 in- cent Richards, American tennis ace, today was eliminated from the myen's singles of the Wimbledon lawn temnis Raymond, South Africa, 6—0, 7—5, 1 certain ones that the steady going | LaCoste of France. ~C. Middleton, Eng- jorman E. Brookes amd Carl ey Washer and By the Associatod Press. LONDON, July 1.—Japan has acoepted the invitation to take part in the intérallicd conference on reparation. to be held in Lon- 4don this month, it was announced by Reuter's today. She will be Great Britain and France.