Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1925, Page 3

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THOMAS rooms, AND THE FORTY SECOND § dend of two and oie-k been ‘dectared R A It per cent ) has e 2 the preforred stock of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, ble J;m»l} 1925, dAII I;»lrl’n of cer- ox of sald preferred stock of recor The "Titn" aay ‘o Febroary: 1025 nessiae °8 stamp changiog the time and manner of pays idends thereon from semi-anoually %o quarterly, shall receive on March 1, 1925 one-half of said semiannual dividend.' o A dividend of one and one-fourth per cent (11,7%) on the common stock of the Wash: inglon Railway and Electric Company been declared.” payable March 1, 1935, to common stockholders of tecord af the elose of business on the 14th day of Februarys 1955 Books for ihe transfer of the preferred wud eommon, stock of tie sald company will' be closed from the close of businees on the dav of Fabruary, to The opening ‘0¢ bartt Dess on the 15th day of Feh H_ M. KE PITTSBURGH DEL......... PHILADELPHIA EEKLY SERVI AND_FROM BOSTO! POINTS. THE RIG FOREMALL Loms 7 AND INTERMEDIATS 1125 14th A Milli Printing Plant —capable of executin . o< g every printing The National Capital Press 12101212 D BT. N.W. Quality Printing Pays ~—That's why we're BUSY all the time, HIGH GRADS, BUT NOT HIGH PRICED BYRON S. ADAMS, FRINTER, e S 512 11em st YOUR ROOF REPAIRED REASONABLE. S OF ABILITY. " Try the best. Adams 1643 Col. 8739 Tinning Company 14th_St. N.W. Have That Roof Examined Today! —Call Main 14 for expert roofer. Don't delay. e Roofing 1121 5ta fRONCLAD s, iz taas. LEAKY. ROOFS —will give years' more service It we got the order for repairs. Call us up! KOONS Couravy. shone aaip sos “Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness” ‘Why wear Diamond it Frit en e Dee Jem Kionor T se Jem - Satties 50c: i R. HARRIS & CO. Corner 7th and D Sta. N.W. Petition to Congreas, urging rejection of H. R. 473, which substitutes lump-sum payment by matiom for copital upbuilding in lieu of defi- nite proportionate contribution pay- ment, as provided by mew organic act of June 29, 1922, To the Congress of the United State: Your petitioners, the Citizena’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations be- tween the United States and the Dis- trict of Columbia and the presidents of its comstituent organizatioms, re- spectfully represent: The Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations between the United States and District of Columbla, or- ganized in 1915, is now composed of authorized representatives of the Board of Trade, Chamber of Com- merce, Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, Federation of Citizens' Associations, Committee of One Hun- dred, Builders and Manufacturers' Exchange, Bar Association, Columbia Heights Citizens' Assoclation, North- east Citizens' Association, Georgetown Cltizens' 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. * ok ok ok 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, is as follow We contend: First, 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 19 which reaffirmed the principle of de nite proportionate contribution by lo- cal community and nation toward Capital upbuilding, but changed the 50-50 ratio to 60-40, imposing the 60 per cent burden upon the local tax- payers. The committee’s piatform of prin- ciples, thus modified, was announced by the executive committee of the citizens' joint committee, October 31, 1923, as follows: We contend: First, that the United States should contribute largely to the maintenance and upbullding of the National Capital. Second, that this contribution should be a fixed and definite proportion. Third, that this proportion should be 60-40, 60 by the District taxpayers and 40 by the United States. * ok x % 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 cxpenses of the District of Columbia, but shall pay the sum of $5.000,000 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- tlonate contributfon system, under the beneficent operation of which the Natlonal 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. * Kk ok It destroys the unrepresented pital's safeguard against excessive and unjust taxation, The compro- mise law of 1922 coupled with the imposition of new and heavier tax burdens upon the Capital the vitally important offfetting 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 teature of the compromise law of 1922 which is clearly adventageous to the people of the Capital. The vital feature of the act of 1922, carried over from the act of 1878, 18’ that it fixes a definite équitable atandard of national participation in Caplital making, related to the ‘con- tribution exacted in taxes from the Capital community, and does not leave this standard to the shiftings of caprice. From 1800 to 1874-8 the national and local Capital contributions were indefinite and unrelated. Each con- tributed what it pleased toward Cap- ital upbullding. The nation meas- ured its own obligations in terms of dollars as next to nothing. The local community raised and disbursed its own taxes at.its pleasure. It me: ured its Capltal 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 expenses. 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. Im thus exerciaing 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 natfonal Tremsury, and that the sggregate revenue ‘whould be expended for Capit: building. This provision protected the District from excessive taxatlon by causing a taxgatherer, alién 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 thé 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 1378 was rooted. Thet 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 national and local contributions, and, leaving all taxing power in the hands of the United States, deprives the umrepre- sented Capital of {ts safeguard of - Columbia. against exeessive taxation by m tax- ing body fn which it is not repre- sented. = LR O S 3. It destroys the fiscal peace met- tlement promised by the mew organic act, X . To raise mow the issue of & lump- sum _payment .substitute for-dsfinite proportiontte contribution by the na- tion Is to reopen the fiscal relations peace settlement of June 29, 1922, to plunge the House and Senate into the old, wearisome wrangle, o hurt- ful to the District, over the issue of definite - or indefinite proportionate contributior toward Capital upbuild- ing and over the ratio (50-50 or §0-40) of definite -proportionate’ contribu- tion, v 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 relatidn: controversy. If the act of 1922 left for a few years to work outits vindication on its merits or its fallure on “its- demerits this needed rest will be secured. If the old controversy over definite proportionate contribu- tion is to be renewed by compulsory discussion of this bill this rest will be denied, one of the avoved main purposes of the act of 1922 will ke defeated and the understanding upon wkhich this compromise legis- lation was based will be flagrantly violated. 4. It teaches a false theory com- cerning the relation of nation to rudes annually upon the at- tention of Congress the suggestion of a large cash donation to the Capl- tal, as if the primary obligation of national city upbullding were upon the local taxpayers, and the natlon 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 Caplital 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 glven 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 wili, in fact, bear the primary responsibility of Capital up- bullding, and the local taxpayers will be recognized in thelr trus 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. * ¥ x ¥ 5. It veduces to a minimum or de- stroys any ch: of equitable pro- portionate contribution by the United Staten 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 proportionate 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 upen the District's half of District appropria- tions. Whenever it s 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- portionste contributions are on :the 60-40_ retlo, the nation throngh Congress will either apply, as equity seems to demand, the 50-50 ratio or will make the existing 60-40 ratlo retroactive and add to the District's surplus only 40 per cent from the national Treasury. But if hoth the 50-50 and the 60-40 ratios are de- stroyed, and when the surplus comes to be expended there is no definite proportiomate contribution by nation and 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 upbuflding of the Capital. * X x x 6. There are mo offsetting beme- fits to the injuries inflicted by the bilL Broadly, Weshington Is tempted to surrender its safeguard of natlonal proportionate contribution by the as- surance that through a lump sum payment system the Capital will escape the tender mercles of the | Contribution for the National Capital Petition by the Citizens> Joint Comilliitee on Fiscal Relations Between Uniied States: and District budget bureau and will win the privilege, mot of texing itself with- out_restraint, but of being taxed by Congress without limit for the up- bullding of the nation’s city. It 1s suggeated that thérs will be immunity from - budget - bureau cutting down of Uncle Sam’s Capl- tat upbullding outlay If the ex- Henditures are made in a lump sum instead of as a proportionate part of the District’s tdtal municipal ap- propriation. But if Uncle Sam is compelled by any . year's fiscal conditions -to eut down all of hig expendjtures, 'in- cluding his outlay on- National Cap- ital, upbuilding, he ~Will obviously make this retrenchment whether- in order ‘to do it Be reduces & lump sum_contribution or helds down the total District .outlay. of. which. be 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 {5 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 proportionate contribution. This bill will not cause the Dis- trict to escape supervisiom and na- tional contribution cutting by the budget bureau. It does not increas the certainty of a nutlonal comtril tion or fixity in the amount of wuch contribution. It does mot avold fric- tion-breeding ratio discussion, but om the contrary aggravates it. It does not increase a particle the District's power to participate in its munieipal lexislature. Comgress still has ex- clusve power to determine how much it shall be taxed, and by whom and for what purposes it fax. momey all be expended. * K X x 7. This bill is jug-handled, sided, unfair. It gives back to the na. tion its pledge of proportionate col tribution, w! accompanied national seisure of the ital’s power of self- taxation, without restoring to the Dis- trict this self-taxing power of which it had been depriv practical ef- fect in to place a imum lmit 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 s not represented to increase the local burden of taxation at its pleasure un- checked by the existing requirement that every such Increase be reflected inest Lecation in Washington Edmonds Building 917 Pifteenth Street East Side McPherson Square ‘Ten Stories Two Elevaters Bright Rooms Rich Woodwork Moderate Rentals WAarDMAN - 1430 'K Street Main 3830 Cellars AND Walls WATERPROOFED Absolutely Guaranteed Deferred Paymients If Required Wm. Ficklen & Co., Inc. EnestnurFarms Mok «The Knowing Mother Will Have No Other™ Pure Fresh Milk HANGEABLE weather makes a' uniform diet all the more necessary. Cold, blustery days call for such perfect circulation and warmth as is furnished . by nutritious and easily digested foods. Distributors of Walker-Gordon Certified Nursery Milk —the only certified Nursery Milk sold m Washington <& Chestnut Farms Milk is a- safe, dependable, year-round food for all the family during all the year. New patrons will receive prompt, courte- ous service by calling the office direct by phone. Ghestrut@Farms Day: 116 Connecticut Ave. ”y : FRANKUN400Q C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1925.° in some measure in national taxation for Capital upbuilding. The maximum national contribution is made definite during the time in whch Congress-refrains from dimin- ishing it; but all limits are declared oft 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 the local taxpayers will not partici- INDORSE 5:YEAR PLAN. : Barry Farms Cltizens Send Resol tions to District Board. Thé Harry Farms Cltizens rAssocia- tion unaninrously jhddrsed. the five- year school bullding program at a meeting of that organization held in St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church pate at any time in- the decision of ilast night. - the amount of the increase, the methods of taxation by-which the in- crease is secyred and the purposes for which the tax money is spent, For the reafiolia’ above petitioners earnestly urge the rejec- tion by Congress of H. R. 473.° fllEoDfl’E ‘W. NOYES, - ‘= - Chatrman Executive CoMmitiée Citizegis’ Jolat. Committer on- Dis- trict-of Columbly Fiseal Relations; E. F. COLLADAY, -~ -~ - Preaident Board of Tradei ISAAC GANS, - s . President Chamber of Commerce; ANTON STEPHAN, ' President Merchants and Manufac- turer” Assocfation; CHARLES A. BAKER, Prestdent Federation of Citizens’ Assoctations; STANTON C. PEELLE, President Bar Association; HERBERT L, DAVIS, Preatdent Columbja Heights Citi- sens’ Ansociation; : EVAN H. TUCKER, President Northeast Citisens’ As- soclation; J. A. OLIVER, President Association; Georgetown Citizens’ H. E, STRINGER, President City Clubj H. V. HAYNES, Preaident Diatrict “of Columbia Banker's Asseciation; J. . WEEDON, President the Real Estate Board; ARTHUR D. MARKS, Preaident Rotary Cl HARRY G. KIMBALL, President Kiwanis Club; JAMES M. PROCTOR, President Civitan Club. FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Service Charge Never Over $140 CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND has Electricity, Sewerage Gas, Water, “ERR WARREN —on improved D. C. property at prevailing rates of interest. See Mr. Field | Hedges & Middleton, Inc. Realtors 1412 Eye St. N.W.- Franklin 9503 Co-Operative APARTMENTS Lesson 7 Q.—Who pays for the ex- penses of operating the building, the repairs and ‘maintenance of equipment? A.—Each tenant.owner bears such portion thereof as Is represented by his proportionate in- terest in the entire equity of the tenant- owners In the property. If he owned one-twen- tieth of the equity, for example, he would pay one.twentieth of subse- quent expense. It should be borne In mind that all such ex- perises are bound to be very materially lower than If they were In- curred separately by in- dividual owners of indl- vidual properti SAMPLE APARTMENT FURNIEEED by W. B. Moses & Soms Open Daily Until 8:30 P.M. Cleveland Park Apts. 3018-28 Porter St. N.W. The 4th Btreet Beyond Zoo on Coun. Ave. 925 15th Street Main 9770 Evenings—Cleveland 2253 The program affects the Barry Farms Schools, pnder the provision which calls for the construction of an elght-room addition and the purchase of land near the school. - The associa- tion also adopted a resolution Indors- ing the semi-official city council as outlined by Col. J. Franklin Bell, Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict. o y A letter was forwarded by the as: soclation to Willlam F. Ham, presi- dent of the Washington Railway and Electric Co., expressing the gratitude of the association for the granting of a bus service on Good Hope road, Alabama avenue and Blue Plains, cony necting with the main system at Nichols avenue southeast. A copy of the letter was sent to the Public Utilities Commission. A plan for defense in war by flood- ing the ground ahead of the enemy with flaming oil has been @evised. =T Our Easy Terms at present. values. surroundings.” 0. J. De Moll R 2 2 T2 T2, T UR Another impressive feature of Our February Sale We doubt whether so many Library and Sofa Tables of excep- tional beauty have ever before been gathered together in one place. ‘We are certain that there has been no such collection of remarkable There are Tables of all sizes and proportions, of every desirable style and at almost any price. “Where the Piano goes we have the correct furniture for its 0.J. De Moll & co. 12th & G Sts. 1111172771111 I2 L1 LI AL ELLL LI LIS S L L LI I L 2L L L L L L LI LI I L AT AL P 1210720 Valentine. Flowers What custom cquld there be more charming than that of sending flowers as a remem- brance on St. Valentine’s Day? Whether your loved one is a golden-haired sweetheart or a silver-haired mother, she will be enchanted with flowers and! will keep th=m fresh through the day by placing a piece of ice in the water and at night will put them in the ice-box. The -ice-box should, of course, be filled with pure, clean American Ice— the safc ice, made of drinking water. AMERICAN ICE COMPANY ' cientific Men Like [EIT At 36th and R Sts. N.W. < Several live here, another has just purchased. is the style of homes, the pleasantness of refined neigh- borhood and a price within their reach. When you buy insist on Good Neighborhood. It Protects. Price, $8,500 Up It Why Pay Rent? SPECIAL NOTICE® The Principal Office of the J. Maury Dove Company “:7:7 7 Is Now Located in the Tfansporfati‘on Building (Ground Floor) 1625 H Street N.W. The concentration and centralization of our activities and facilities (of which this move is only a part) will permit us to render an even greater degree of service to our customers than Money-Saving Values for Thursday Sirloin Steak . 1b., 19¢ Porterhouse Steak . Ib., 29¢ Bouillon Roast, 1b......23c Prime Rib, Ib. ..........23¢c Plate Beef, Ib. ..........9 Pork Loins, Ib. ........22¢c Fresh Hams, Ib., 24c Fresh Shoulders, Ib., 17¢ Sauer Kraut, 2 qts. ....19¢c Piece Bacon, Ib. .......23c Cheese, Ib. . e s I2C Finest N. Y. Leg of Lamb, Ib. . Smoked Hams . Ib., 2lc Oranges, doz., 123c Grapefruit, 6 for 25¢ Lemons, doz. ..........35¢c Kale, 3 1bs. ............20c Yellow Onions, 4 Ibs....19¢c Celery, Stalk ........12Y%c Iceberg Lettuce ... . . ...12Yc Sweet Potatoes, 3 lbs. ..25¢c Bananas, doz. . ME Potatoes, b Ibs., 28¢ Bread . lodf, 5c _— S 2 O T D 2 27227 222277, Emmons 8. Smith Y2 2T 2 TP, 222 N a man de- cides to smoke a better cigarette his choice is invariably Melachrino. ORIGINAL MELACHRINO [ Milk . . gqt,Ilc Pancake Flour, Ballard’s, 12Y5c Self-rising Flour, Ballard’s, 11c Picnics, Asparagus, Del Monte, 2V, can ...38¢c Davis Baking Powder, 5-1b. can ceee..84c Davis Baking Powder, 12- oz. o ooes19e Navy Beans, 3 lbs. .....25¢c Lima Beans, 2 lbs. .....29¢c Campbell’s Beans .9¢ Good Brooms . .. .e.37¢ Mayonnaise, all kinds ...23c Corn, Honey Drop, Maine . can, 15c Del Monte Tips, can Ginger Snaps, 1b. ... ¢ Fruit Salad, 2Y2 can....38c Heinz Beans, small, 3 for 25¢ Van Camp’s Milk Wesson Oil, pint .... Yellow Cling 2Y, Peaches, 2 16c Short Stop or Cascade Peas, Kingfisher, can....12¢c Pineapple, 2Y; can. .....29¢ Raisins, pkg. ....ccc...10c Chum Salmon, can - ....12c Tomatoes, No. 3 can, I5¢ Tomatoes, No. 2 can, 10c Cocoa, 1-Ib. can, 125c Sugar . . b, 6c Hydrox The Best Selling Cake in: the World—for this Week, 1b,, 32g