Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1924, Page 3

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CKEEVER«dGOS REA LTORS | :S 1415 K St. N\W. Main 47521 lants _for sale; hedges. F W A vanload of €. to Phil EMITH'S shington, D. el Boston. r ste. . B30 o'clock hetween a Cap and a Ford truck please commmn the MERCHANTS' TRA BEFORF our prices. You can get monds, goid a line of solid We' pay co elsewhere. 1 plat lver tea more th 2ivo buy dia- ¥ & large aue English CHRISTMAS and restored to At _yon PROGRE: " TOWN_TALK TAVERN, Dioner, $£1: Luncheon, 40« Breakfast, ___ SPECIAL MONTHLY RATE: When Windows Rattle It's a sign of fuel wasted. ALL-ME’ SEATHER STRIE atope the rattie aaq Eaan ne for estimate: cash or terms. J. F, €0., 3121 14th n.w. Col. 612, W AND TEFINTS order, it desired, ‘Ending alko work d mirrors and picture frames, RIGHTWAY F! 1417 6th St N.W Finishe SOME PEOPLE that hair mattresses are the only kind that may be renovated. This s incorrect; FELT, COTTON AND OTHER KINDS may be RENO- VATED squal to NEW. 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Mercy” | the Petition by t‘he Petition to Congress, urging rejection of H. R. 4 ich substitutes lump-xum payment by mation for copital upbuilding in lieu of def nite proportionate contribution pay- ment, ax provided by mew organic act of June 20, 1922, To the Congress of the United State: Your petitioners, the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations be- tween the United States and the Dis- trict of Columbia and the presidents | of its constituent organizations, re- spectfully represent: w “The Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations between the United ates and District of Columbia, or- ganized in 191 | authorized Board of Trade, merce, . is now composed of representatives of the Chamber of Com- and Manufacturer: Associatibn, Federation of Citizen: Associations, Committee of One Hun dred, Builders and Manufacturers' | Exchang ssociation, Columbia Heights ( Association, North- cast Citizens' Association, Georgetown Citizens' Association, the City Club, the D. C. Bankers' Association, the Real Estate Board, the Rotary Club the Kiwanis Club, the Civitan Club | and the Cosmopolitan Club. | oL ke The platform of principles laid down by the joint committee and ad- {hered to in the committee’s brief in the hearings before the joint select { committee in 1915, the House District committee in December, 1919, and the Senate appropriations committee in April, 1920, s follows: We g st, that the United States should contribute largely to the expenses of the District. Second, that this contribution should be a fixed and definite proportion. Third that this proportion should be at least one-half. This platform was modified by the District’s new organic act of 1 which reaffirmed the principle of defl nite proportionate contribution by lo- 1 community and nation toward pital upbuilding, but changed the 0 ratio to 60-40, imposing the 60 per cent burden upon the local tax- payers. The committee’s platform of prin- ciples, thus modified, was announced by the executive committee of the citizens' joint committee, October 31, , as follow e contend: States’ should Merchants First, that the United contribute largely to the maintenance and upbullding of National Capital. Second, that this contribution should be n fixed and definite proportion. Third, that this proportion should be 60-40, 60 by the District taxpayers and 40 by the United States. e H. R. bill 473 provides “that on and after July 1, 1924, the government of the United States shall not bear any fixed proportion of the expenses of the District of Columbia, but shall pay the sum of $8,000,000 annually to- ward defraying such expenses of the District as may be appropriated for by law.” This bill thus destroys ut- terly the definite proportionate re- lated plan of Capital contribution, to protect which practically all of organized Washington has united in the Citizens' Joint Committee. This bill (H. R. 473) should be re- jected for the following reasons: 1. It destroys the definite propor- tionate contribution system, under the beneficent operation of which the National Capital has wonderfully de- veloped, and which, after seven years of exhaustive investigation and pro- longed discussion, has been vindi- cated by retention in the 1922 law. %k \ It destroys the unrepresented Capital’s safeguard against excessive and unjust taxation. The compro- mise law of 1822 coupled with the imposition of new and heavier tax burdens upon the Capital the vitally important offsetting benefit of re- tention of the principle of definite proportionate contribution, the Dis- trict's safeguard against excessive and unjust taxation by a taxing body in which it is not represented. This bill deprives the District of the only feature of the compromise law of 1922 which is clearly advantageous to the people of the Capital. The vital feature of the act of 1922, carried over from the act of 187, is that it fixes a definite equitable standard of national participation in Capital making, related to the com- tribution exacted in taxes from the Capital community, and does mnot leave this standard to the shiftings of caprice. From 1300 to 1874-8 the natlonal and local Capital contributions were indefinite and unrelated. Each con- tributed what it pleased toward Cap- ital upbuilding. The nation meas- ured its own obligations in terms of dollars as next to nothing. The local community raised end disbursed its own taxes at its pleasure. It meas- ured its Capital obligation consider- ably beyond the limits of its meager | taxable resources, and twice became practically bankrupt in performing almost unaided the nation’s task of Capital building. In 1878 the nation confessed its violation or gross neglect of its Capital obligation. It gave practical expression to its revived sense of this obligation in its undertaking to pay one-half the accumulated funded indebtedness of the District and one- half of future expemses. It took from the District the power of self- taxation and assumed completely ex-, ercise of the right to fix the local contribution as well as its own. In thus exercising taxation without representation over the District the, nation safeguarded the mational com-| munity by the pledge that to every | dollar collected in taxes from the local taxpayers should be added a dollar from the national Treasury, and that the aggregate revenue #hould be expended for Capital up- building. This provision protected the District from excessive taxation by causing a taxgatherer, alien to the unrepresented District, to appro- prioate from his own Treasury for the District’s benefit every time he ap- propriated from - the District's tax revenue. Every dollar he took under the tax power from ‘the local com- munity increased correspondingly his own Capital contribution. The law of 1922 retains the prin- ciple of definite related Capital con- tributions, in which the law of IB78 was rooted. That the ratio of this relation was changed from 50-50 to 60-40 did not alter the basic prin- ciple involved. The pending proposition destroys all relation between the mational and local contributions, and, leaving all power in the hands of the Citizens’ THE EVENING of Columbia. against excessive tnxation by a tax- ing body in which it not repre- sented. * ¥ ok ok 3. It destroys the fiscal peace set- tlement promised by the new organic aet. To raise now the fssue of a lump- sum payment substitute for definite proportionate contribution by the na- tion is to reopen the fiscal relations peace settlement of June 29, 1922, and to plunge the House and Senate into the old, wearisome wrangle, so hurt- ful to the District, over the issue of definite or indefinite proportionate contribution toward Capital upbuild- ng and over the ratio (50-50 or 60-40) of definite proportionate contribu- tion, The avowed purpose and promised result of the new law was to bring to House and Senate and people of the District a period of wholesome and refreshing rest from fiscal relations controversy. If the act of 1922 is left for a few years to work out its vindication on its merijts or its failure on its demerits this needed rest will be secured. If the old controversy over deflnite proportionate contribu- tion is to be renewed by compulsory discussion of this bill this rest will be denied, one of the avowed main purposes of the act of 1922 will be defeated and the understanding upon which this compromise legls- lation was based will be flagrantly violated. 4. It teaches a false theory com- cerning the relation of nation to Capital. It obtrudes annually upon the at- tention of Congress the suggestion of a large cash donation to the Capi- tal, as if the primary obligation of national city upbuilding were upon the local taxpayers, and the nation were only an incidental contributor, a voluntary and benevolent donor. Since the nation in 1878 recognized and assumed its National Capital power and obligation, its responsi- bility in respect to the Capital has been primary and dominating. As late as 1916 this relation of nation to Capital was fully recognized and clearly set forth in the report of the joint select committee of Congress, which made the most thorough, ex- haustive and able study of the fiscal relations of nation and Capital that statesmen had given to the subject since 1874-8. As long as all the assets and revenues of the national and local joint contributors toward Capital upbuilding are in the hands of the national joint contributor, and as long as all decisions concerning the amounts,to be paid by the joint contributors, respectively, and con- cerning the expenditure of the joint revenues are to be made by the na- tional contributor, the latter must in equity, and will, in fact, bear the primary responsibility of Capital up- building, and the local taxpayers will be recognized in their true re- lation as merely incidental contrib- utors of tax money, not fixed in amount by themselves, but exacted at the pleasure of the other joint contributor. * ok ¥ % 5. It reduces to a minimum or de- stroys any chance of equitable pro- portionate contribution by the United States in appropriating and spending | the District's accumulated Treasury | tax surplus. : Another practical effect of destroy- ing the 60-40 ratio will be to reduce to a minimum any chance of equi- table proportnate contribution by the United States when our accu- mulated tax surplus comes to be ex- pended. This tax money was col-| lected by authority of the half-and- half law solely to apply upon the District’s half of District appropria- tlons. “Whenever it is expended it would be equitable to spend it under the half-and-half law, the United States duplicating it. If when the surplus comes to be used the pro- portionate contributions are on the 60-40 ratio, the nation through Congress will either apply, as equity seems to demand, the 50-30 ratio or will make the existing 60-40 ratio retroactive and add to the District's surplus only 40 per cent from the national Treasury. But it both the 50-50 and the 60-40 ratios are de- stroyed, and when the surplus comes to be expended there is no definite proportionate contribution by nation end taxpaying Capital, then the chances are 100 to 1 that the nation will not participate at all under any percentage of obligation to enlarge the surplus fund for the upbuilding of the Capital. * ¥ % % 6. There are mo offsetting beme- fits te the injuries inflicted by the bill, Broadly, Washington is tempted to STAR, WASHINGTON, Preserve the Principle of Proportionate * Contribution for the National Capital Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Between United States and District surrender its safeguard of national proportionate contribution by the as- surance that through a lump sum payment system the Capital will escape the tender mercies of the budget bureau and will win the privilege, not of taxing itself with- out restraint, but of belng taxed by Congress without limit for the up- building of the nation’s city. It is suggested that there will be immunity from budget bureau cutting down of Uncle Sam's Capi- tal upbuilding outlay if the ex- penditures are made in a lump sum instead of as a proportionate part of the District’s total municipal ap- propriation. But if Uncle Sam any year's fiscal conditions to cut down all of his expenditures, in- cluding his outlay on National Capt ital upbuilding, he will obviously make this retrenchment whether in order to do it he reduces a lump sum_contribution or holds down the total District outlay, of which he pays a proportionate part. Indeed, it is easier to make this direct spe- cific reduction than indirectly by cutting and mutilating the District appropriations. There 1Is greater fixity to the definite proportionate contribution than to that of a lump sum. It is far easier for those Who think that the nation should pay nothing today toward Capital main- tenance and development to reduce or deny entirely the annual lump sum than to change the ratio of nroportionate contribution. This bill will not cause the D trict to escape supervision and na tional vontribution cutting by the budget bureau. It does not increawe the certainty of a national contribu- tipn or fixity in the amount of such contribution. It does mot avold frie- tion-breedi: ratio discussion, but on the contrary aggravates it. It does mot increase a particle the District's power to participate in its munieip: legislature, Congress still has ex- clusve power to determine how much it shall be taxed, and by om and for what purposes its tax money shall be expended. ok 7. This bill isx jug-handled, ome- sided, unfair. It gives back to the na- tion itx pledge of proportionate con tribution, which accompanied national selzure of the Capital'’s power of xelf- taxation, without restoring to the DI trict thix self-taxing power of which it had been deprived. Itx practical ef- fect is to place a maximum limit on the contribution of the United States and to remove the limit entirely from the contribution of the local tax- payers. Indeed, the announced purpose of the propsed legislation is to enable a taxing body in which the District is not represented to increase the local burden of taxation at its pleasure un- checked by the existing requirement that every such Increase be reflected in some measure in national taxation for Capital upbuilding. The maximum national contribution is made definite during the time in whch Congress Yefrains from dimin- ishing it; but all limits are declared off in respect to the local contribution, and it remains definite only in the certainty that the local tax burden will_be largely increased, and that is compelled by of Quality Columbia 9613 18th and Columbia Road Don't Abuse Your Eyes 1f _they hurt or burn see me for an examination. v' Archie D. Engel Formerly with Roe Fulkerson 615 15th St. N.W. Next Keith's Theater Phone Main 7108 Mortgage Loans Prevailing Rates of Interest 5 SEE McKeever & Goss Realtors 1415K St. M. 4752 Drink More Milk! @UR carefully selected, pasteurized milk con- tains. all the elements that are needed to build strong bones and hard, white - teeth. Growing children and young peo- ple especially should en- joy more creamy, ing of the rich, health-produc- EfimmwfimmEMQ #The Knowing Mother Will Have No Othezr™ Pasteurized milk also supplies the much-to-be de- sired vitamines and calo- ries—it invigorates. There is no waste milk and m They are 100 food. Phone to our pure ilk products. per cent real today—have 'your name on our list for daily service. Ghestnut 116 Conmnecticut Ave. FRANKLIN4OQO D. C, ERIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1921 the local taxpayers will not particl- pate at any time in the decision of the amount of the increase, the methods of taxation by which the in- crease Is secured and the purposes for which the tax money is spent. For the reasons above stated your petitioners earnestly urge the rejec- tion by Congress of H. R. 473. ) THEODORE W. NOYES, Chairman Executive Committee of Citizens’ Joint Committee on Dis- trict of Columbia Fiscal Relations; . . E. F. COLLADAY, President Board of Trade; ISAAC GANS, President Chamber of Commeree; ANTON STEPHAN, President Merchants and M turers’ Association; fac- CHARLES A. BAKER, : President Federation of Citizens’ Associations; STANTON C. PEELLE, President Bar Assoclation; HERBERT L, DAVIS, President Columbia Heights Citi- zens’ Association; EVAN H. TUCKER, President Northeast Citizens’ Ax- soclation; J. A. OLIVER, Presldent Assoclation; Georgetown Citize: H. E. STRINGER, President City Club; H. V. HAYNES, Pre: District Banker's Assoclation; ent ot Columbia J. C. WEEDON, President the Real Es ARTHUR D. MARKS, President Rotary Club; HARRY G. KIMBALL, President Kiwanis Club; JAMES M. PROCTOR, Prexident Civitan Club. As EBONITE “Strings" to a Stick, ; %, So 1t Winds Araund the Gears BE GOOD TO YOUR CAR Buy a can of EBONITE today. Lubricate the Transmission and Differen- tial Gears (rear axles). You will notice how well it lubricates, stops neise, pre- vents Wi and saves repair bill filling is enough for all sea- son. Beware of substitutes, see that you get EBONITE. At dealers’ in five- pound cans, and at service stations from the Checker-board pump, only. EBONITE (1T'S SHREDDED OIL) FOR TRANSMISSIONS AND DIFFERENTIALS DR. L. B. EVANS SPEAKS. “John Marshall” Is Topic of Wash- ington Study Lecture. Dr. Lawrence B. Evans, counselor of the Brazfllan embassy, opened a course of lectures this morning at the Washington Stady, 1734 N streer, tak- ing for his first subject “John Marshall” This lecture will be fol- lowed by six others on the lives of notable men in Washington given by well known historians of the Distric: 3 Dr. Evans s an authority on inter- national law. In his first lecture on the history of government in Washington Study vesterday Representative Robert Luce of Massachusetts brought to the at- tention of his audience modern de- mands for ancient forms of repre- sentation in Congresses .and Parlia- ments and broader powers in the Chief Executive. The bl-cameral form in America and England s a reduction of broader representation of the first Parllaments of England, he sald, and man: political scientists. today ad The Sale Of Finer Footwear Continues to save fashionable women REAL money on shoes !Iley d be firaud to have at any price. vocate a form that would more truly represent the business or commercial life in America, which our House of Representatives does not, since its membership is so largely professional Mr. Luce reviewed the policies of stronger executive power advocated by Prof. Ford and the late Woodrow Wilson when professor at Princeton as reversals to early one-man nower evelopment of govern- e United States is supposed to be dry land surrounded by three mile: of dry wate HOES made for our regular $10 to $12.50 stocks—but many of the styles so new we hadn’t yet shown them at any price! of pairs—more than 30 fashionable models— in every size and width. 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To the men of the present day we need only call attention to constant business growth as evidence of the favor we enjoy. It is your patron- age that has made this new store possible. By the generation that has passed the name of Our new store is in the very heart of Washington's busiest mercantile center, which we feel will best suit the convenience of our customers. As always, our slogan will be—Quality. antee of satisfaction, and results in a substantial saving in price to our customers. We make the shoes we sell. This 1is a guar- We intend to inaugurate many new features, which we feel will add much to your conven- ience. Among the need. “Favor Us With Your Presence on Our Opening Day N. Hess’ Sons, 607 14th St. Souvenirs for the Occasion We Will Be Happy to Greet You” them, a custom department, for which we believe Washington has long felt ISESTSES)