Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 24

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢ OCTOBER 18, 192 —PART 1. - R P S e e e L S P e PR e L e e e et U e e P e e ot W EFFORTT0CANEL MESSAGE ALLECED Radio Operator Says City of Rome Sent Recall After First News of Disaster. the Assoc Press BOSTON sted The steamer Rome tried to cancel her fi relative to the ramming October ot |“Roosevelt Day” To Be Observed In D. C. Schools Theodore Roosevelt's 67th birth- day anniversary, October 27, will be observed In the District public | schoc ! Ballou notified all principals yesterday to arrange fitting ceremonies for the day. Thus there has been formed a trinity of American presidents whose natal days are observed in the Washing- ton schools— Washington, Lincoln and Re elt Roos life, Dr. Ballou told the principals, “typifies persever- ance. courage, physical and mental h, all devoted to the bet- se e X501 and the loss of t of his fellowmen. The ASSAIL GOVERNING BODIES IN BUSINESS Campaign Organizers Would Prevent Federal, State or | City Encroachment. | By the Consolidated Press. | An organized campaign to take the | Government cut of the hotel busi- | ness, the grocery business, the twine | business. the shipping business, and | some 80-0dd other kinds of private jof three runs perhaps the largest hotel in the world, right here at Washington, f the benefits of its woman clerks, but that activity {s a war relic and, it is believed, may reasonably be expected to shrivel to nothingness in the not distant future. State and City Enterprises. The main drive of the forthcoming campalgn is against the ever-widen- ing encroachment of State and city government_upon flelds heretofore re- garded as the domain of private busi- ness. These lately have extended themselves beyond all previous bounds. Thus, In Michigan, for instance, the State has gone into the twine-making business, and its competition is re- ported to have caused the shutdown private plants making the commodity. In Seattle, an llustration borrowed from the list of citles, the municipal government owns and operates its street car system, ‘‘to its own sorrow,” in the language of one of the men behind the forthcom- ing drive. The State and the city, in the opin- fon of the interests promoting the campaign, have no business entering into competition with private commer- cfal organizations. Government has unlimited capital, they contend, and has but to call on the taxpayers to make good losses—a provision at- tached to no form of private endeavor. Government can sell at far below cost, but the taxpayer makes up the differ. ence and the private concern is put out of business, it is claimed, result- ing in a double loss to public funds. At National C al. Here at Washington the Federal Government is engaged in numerous small manufacturing enterprises, man- aged here but located throughout the country. One of these is the manu- facture of ink for the mammoth print- ing establishment housed at the Gov ernment Printing Offl avy yard: it 1s clafmed, go so far in some cases asito make metal furniture for war- ships. Government construction s done in many cases by the Government itself, a form of competition which is re- garded unfair to the private co: cern and productive of lessened re enues to the Treasury, inasmuch the taxes which would be collected from private concerns dojng the work | are not forthcoming when the Gov ernment does it The cost of Government dabbling in private business ventures is reck- oned as high. Figures have been gathered from many citles and States to support the claim that the Govern ment cannot compete with private in- itiative except at a higher tax rate on its citizens. Municipal _enterprises such as waterworks do not come within the scope of the movement, for it is rec operation, perhaps, {s warranted, but there is no justification, it is claimed, for Government going into the ce ment business, as one State has done in the recent past. Government’s Business. More than a score of business or- ganizations representing hundreds of American business concerns are up in arms against the seemingly growing policy of extending the field of gov- ernmental activity to private manu- facturing and industrial under- takings. These organizations feel that it is the business of Government to govern—not to make clothing, ships, sealing wax, printer's ink, ce- ment, cotton cloth and the like. Representatives of these organiza- tions have been quietly making an in- ventory of just what all forms of Go ernment are doing along that line, and have been frankly amazed at the Washington soon will r sound with what they have to =av against the practice and will learn what they propose to do to stop it (Copyright, 16 BUS LINE HEARING SET. Utilities Body to Get All Views on Silver Spring Route. The Public Utllities Commission « cided yesterday to hold & public he: ing before passing on the request the Washington Rapid Transit Co. t run its new Silver Spring bus down Sixteenth street to the Lincol: Memorial. For the time being t busses will terminate at Sixteenth a Buchanan streets be held in th board room of the District Buflding Island on eptember 1. Ourie, radio operator pical Radio Co., testified Lefore the naval inquiry | ating the disaster. who intercepted sent out by the the disaster notitied th ator that the s of his life is u splendid ex- ample of hte possibilities lying before every Ame an youth.' Dr. Ballou has further planned to honor Roosevelt by renaming Business Iligh School after him. business, in which it finds itself en- gaged today, Is about to be launched here under the sponsorship of tax- payers and private business interests with whom it competes. For some months past the proposal has been under consideration by en- terprising organizations centering here. Lately it has come to a head Within the next 10 days there will {be a meetinz. in Washington, of a steering committee to arrange plans {for a larger meeting—probably be- fore Congress convenes—to take {tion designed to place Government buck in the governing business only and_exclusively. The drive is not polnted at the Federal Government alone. Far from it, for beyond the present shipping mess, the Feredal Government is reckoned as one of the least tres passers in the field of private enter- prise. True, Good Furniture Good Furniture THE WRIGHT COMPANY the City testi messige Our Underselling Prices Mean Something When You Consider That We Only Sell— GOOD FURNITURE A BARGAIN IS DETERMINED BY WHAT IS SECURED IN THE PURCHASE. A “Cheap” article is not a bargain at any price. QUALITY is the supreme test of SATISFACTION. An item of Furniture that is without quality cannot possibly serve its purpose. WHEN YOU BUY AT THE “WRIGHT* CO.—you are assured qual- ity—THAT IS WHAT MAKES THESE PRICES BELOW —GENUINE FURNITURE BARGAINS. he testities station, added “Have you ramn act_position and details This message, Ourie said, was sen DURANT REPORTED R oTs o Navy Messaze: | Seeking to Regain Control of Ourie said that the City of Rom Corporalion Wall Street Brokers Say. then radioed, through his the City of Rome, d da S eply 1o Ravy's message was jave D, Nothing the Natlonal Government | save Expect to arrive said that the first the City o# Rome came | 08 aylight time, and read “We rammed E Block 1 1 2 t Ciis 8 3 “KOZ," | control witness | ge fro The New ¢ tomor- is at- ck into Corpora- YORK, October Herald-Tribune will s ow that William . Durs npting to buy his way of General Motors | tion, according to Wall Street reports. Rrokers who professed some Knowl- am edge of the Durant op s are i the mer, | quoted as saying that he - sent him thés mes. | steady buyer of General Mot . for more than six months, during which time its price has advanced from a low for the year of 64% to to- day’s high mark of 137. Durant began Jif a grocery clerk, | t five s ago his net worth was | | am., some time be s stocks message. Capt. Diehl o Infor to give you.” W a v di*er, of Rome 1 a | subn; s | b has James testified seven-foot t $100.000,000. early y he me into e control of a wagon manufactur- tion of the hull of ti# | ing enterprise, which later turned to | \arine showed me that the S-51,the manufacture of automobiles, and City of Rome were steaming | which formed the nucleus of the cor- | se, the steamer | poration now i the General Mo- | n the submarine. | tors Corporation. 51 started to swing to starboard Fifteen years and before she was well started, the | was pressed for cash, and, this was City of Rome swung starboard | only through relinquishment of con- and struck her a slapping blow | trol to the bankers who supplied it. another Navy | Durant left the organization then and | Ingram's testi | started the Chevrolet Company. Five nable to say how the | yvears later, by a financial coup, he| on occurred, he testified, because | regained control of General Motors, d not inspected the hole made | but lost {t again through financial the steamer in the submarine's | difficulties in 1920, when control port side. He did see, he said, a|passed to J. P. Morgan & Co. buckled place on the starboard and the Dupont family, where it has ich he thought resulted when the | remained until the present. els crashed. The inquiry was then| The last five years have been de- adjourned until next Monday. voted by Durant to rehabilitating his fortune. BURGLAR GETS JEWELRY. Break at Home, Through Broken ‘Window, Leads to $243 Theft. The home of Charles T. Hartman, 1223 F sfreet northeast, was entered sterday through the rear window, [ weenChemical Con fne the crash occurred In his and the Dull—Unfit Watch a sparkling drink change things in an hour Often men and women rise in the morning feeling dull and unfit, be- cause the system is clogged. The poisons and wastes depress them. There are long ways and short ways to a remedy, but the shortest and pleasantest is this: Drink a glass of water on rising, her hot or cold. Add a little Jad It will make a sparkling, pleasant drink. That will flush the intestines. Note the radical change in_an hour. _The results come from acids de- rived from lemon and grapes, plus lithia, etc. And they are at your command every hour of the day. | 'Learn what Jad Salts mean to you. | How soon they can change conditions. They may save you countless hours of depression. The coupon will bring you a liberal sample. Ask us for it—now. ago General Motors Secretar BOOKCASLE $38 mahogany Floor and Junior LAMPS e i s e ko Mohair 3-Pc. Living Room Suite Georgette Shades. Metal stands. Underselling Price in which the glass had been broken, || 568 Madison Avenu Upholstered in a plain rose or taupe l 77 . Tes Similar laws, he sald, perhaps more | and $243 worth of jewelry was stolen. || New York..Dept.185C. Free t mohair. The sides and back in velour. Reversible ~cushions, deep, comfortable spring construction. A demonstration of our underselling policy. exacting to forelgners, are in effect| The robbery is believed to have|| Mall mea Free Sample of Jad Salts, | T \ in this dountry. He credited recently | taken place shortly after 730 last ; E 2l published criticism of the law to “pri- | night. The loot included a dinner ring . vate interests that are friends neither | set in platinum, a cameo pin and| DSOR (‘H—\IR $5.75 Mahogany finish. veneer— Finished in i Leautiful piece. CINCINNATI, Octobe ) Mexico's position In proposing the new law to limit foreign stock holdings in Mexi n corporations holding land in hat country was detended tonight by | fanuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassa- dor to Washington, In an address be. ore the Commercial Club of Cincin- 1 of Mexico nor of the United States.” | watches. | WHITE ENAMEL BED $5.99 Continuous post—underselling special. FALL CLEARANCE OF OUR IANO | enrimE sTock S ALE . Of Traded-in—Shop-worn—and Used Pianes IANO SALE 2 PER WEEK Dining Room Suite Underselling Price 10 pieces in Tudor design—the chairs are upholstered in leather or tapestry with semi-enclosed china, 66-inch buffet, etc. The unique drawer arrangement of the buffet and the entire suite’s design are features. and the piano is soon pai for! Such fine used piancs on sale as— KNABE STEINWAY BRADBURY STORY & CLARK and many others. = iy / Winl delfved any piano T ] ey toyour home. The world’s greatest makes go on salo at a fraction of their orig- .inal cost. Newer such low ‘prices and terms! CONSOLE TABLE and MIRROR $11.00 Finished attractively in Polychrome. SPINET DESK $19.50 Mahogany-finish Spinet Desks— decorative and useful. Tomorrow’s Greatest B;r.; in PLAYER PIANO. Slightly Shop-worme—Looks Like New *1I8§ ) 1 Player Piano’ ~ This great bargain will be shown to the first customer entering our store. Monday morning Come early—be the lucky one! 35 Act Quick--Don't Wait DOWN Delivers to Your Honle Upright Piano ‘28 To the first upright piano buyer will go this used piano at §281 Think of it—and act quick! _Bedroom Suite Underselling Price i-piece Suite for the bedroom, in Huguenot walnut finish enhanced by CONVENIENT TERMS OF CREDIT overlays of burl walnut. The large pro- portions of each piece and the general Our Department of Accounts will be pleased to arrange TERMS of Payment (weekly or monthly) to suit your convenience. Englander Davenport Couch $37.50 Cretonne mattress—opens to a full double-bed size. " A ftine—latest model—sho) worn Player Piano—just - Brand New. See thisl Gate-Leg Table $15.95 36248 Genuine Mahogany-top Table, construction make this suite unusually low priced. Player Piano °295 The enly”” Brand-New Player in the sale. row will say it is worth $600. Ur'ght Piano A great Bargalp. Well worth the price. Ask to at this Im see it _ not be dupli Hurry! First Come First Served! Best Bargains Go Firstl. LYRIC PIANO CO. 1738 14th St. N.W. Knabe Grand °295 Everyone knows of the high quality of the celebrated Knabe This bargain is a sample of the many others to be seen. - New Baby Grand Oniy one new Baby Grand' This offer Will ated when eold. BREAKFAST TABLE $7.75 Unfinished—white. A very special value. OIL HEATERS $ 5 50 Don’t miss this extra special. Nice things to have around chilly mornings. Always Right wn 2uality and Price 905 7th Street Out-of-Town Buyers Welcome! Railroad Fare Refunded Within 200 Miles 1f You Purchase. OPEN NIGHTS | DURING_ 1 THIS SALE