Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1925, Page 6

6 L THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THE EVENING STAR ! saying that his “hat was in the ring," [zhm slips, the purpose being to pre- [ With Sunddy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY.......October 19, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Trem ¢ Blsinsss Oce: ¢ nd Pennevivania Ave New Fork' r‘?{”m TG Eaa42nd st hicags O ower Ruilding Buropean Office . 16 Regent St.. London. England. The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn. Ins. edition. is delivered by carriers within the citr at 60 cents per month: dajly onlx. cents ‘per month: Sunday onle. 20 cents Per ‘month, ' Ordera may he sent by mail or telaphone Main 3000, Collection is made by carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily 2nd Sunday 1vr. SR40:1 DT oy Veosaon: 1 Sinday onls [RESR R A All Other States. Daily and Sunday. .1 vr.. £10.00 Daily onlv 1vr. $7.00 funday only 1vr. $3.00: mo.. mo! mo.. 1 i 1 mo. mo.. 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Procs js sxclusively entitled f0 the uss for repubiication of all news dis- Patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- fted in this paper and also the local news bublished heren Al rights of publi of pecial disnatehes herein are also reserved e = SRS Taxes Are Coming Down. The House ways and mea mittee squared away today on a course that is expected to result in legislation considerably reducing the present Federal tax burden. The peo- ple generally are more interested in this pocketbook legislation than in any other that is to come before the Congress at its ion beginning in December. There a: no great moral issues over which the countr: i divided. Times comparatively £ood. The Republicans are in the saddle in the Senate and House and in the White House. They will be responsible for such legislation as is enacted, and they hope to go tn the country next ¥all with the claim that they are en- titled to 1ed in power be- cause of economical conduct of the Government which has made it pos- sible to reduce taxes. The Democrats, on the other hand. are apparently planning to make a fight in Congress even greater reductions in than those which the Republican ad- ministration willing advocate. They will tell the people that if the Democrats had in pow the burden would have heen reduced even more. The Demc ity in com- be contin tor or is to hecn er tax rats. heing in the minor in Congzres and without a voice the exccutive department of ths Gavernment, are in ny wav respon; hle “for the 1t the ex- penditures of the Government exceed revenues, to teo drastic the tax theirs would not Government the owing ents i ies he the blame condition would fall upon in power. It hehooves the admin tion, therefore, to go carefully and to stay within the limit of safety. Un- der the leadership of President Cool ldge and Secretary Mellon it is expect ed that the majority party will cut the coat of expenditure according to th» cloth of revenue, =0 that there may be no defict. . Secretary Mellon a ad dressed to Senator Fdge of New Jer sey, scunds note of warning aza t too extravagant ideas of tax reduc- tion. He frowns upen a suggestion that ail net incomes up to £5.000 be exempt from taxation. a proposal that Demoeratic quarters. the party tra in a letter dvanced Republican of the Treasury that A result in revenue to the. Government amount- ing to $16 He discounts the argument that it costs n and audit the taxes Incomes than the amount estimating that the taxes on net incomes of $. i not greater than $5.000.000 a year. It is a mistake. in the opinion of Mr. Mellon, to limit the dircct Federal fncoms tax small group of the people. The sreater the number of people with a direct interest in the economic conduct of the Government the better. Furthermore, the small taxes now levied on persons with in- comes of §5.000 under, while a considerable asset to the Government when taken a small drain upom the resources of the tax- payers. “The xes are coming down" the burden of the song which Repub- licans and Democrats alike are sing- to the people. Even the defend- er< of the higher surtaxes are vielding to the demand for tax reduction. The n sliced, and the so- < will be the sub- of attack. One proposal is that poliey of the Government ke chanzed so as to spread the payment of the public debt. which is the war debt, over sixty-two yvears instead of twenty-five vears. It is argued that the war debts to the United States are being funded in sixty-two annual payments by our foreign creditors, and that the American peoplé should he allowed a similar respite in paying the governmental debt. While the fuggestion tickles the ear, it has a procrastinating sound that will not ap- peal Americans who helieve in putting their financial house in order as quickly as may be without tao great a burden on the people, so that the country will be the better able to meet those emergencies which may arise in the future The ways and means committee of the House plans to have a tax-reduc- tion bill ready when Congress first meets, and to pass it through that hody before the Christmas holidays. The country will wish the committee all euccess in such a plan has been n some Secreta this w a loss of 00,000, re to collect the smaller of the taxes, of collecting .000 and lees on to a very ana collectively. is ing mal tax is to be called nuisance t ject the to those Should Europe succeed in straight- ering out her own affairs it will be a matter of pride to the Old World and a considerable relief to Uncle Sam. ——— Gov. Smith’s Declaration. Just as Gov. Smith gzained his_zreat- est prestige in New York through his victory in the mayoralty fight and es tablished himself firmly as the leader of his party in that State, sufficiently 1o warrant his presentation to the Democrats of Chicago and their friends | from neighboring States, he scnds a shock through his devoted adherents by a public announcement. Aroused by an alleged interview at Wilming- ton, Del., in which he was reported as tion | taxes | The criticism for such a | and | The | points out | he took occasion in the course of two public speeches in New York and Brooklyn Saturday to say that he is “through holding all public office.” Just what this means is now being variously interpreted. There are those who read the governor's state- ment literally, and regard it as a de- nial of candidacy for the governorship for another term, or for the senator- ship next year, or for the presidency in 1928; in other words, as a valedic- tory to “all public office” in explicit truth. Then there are those who con- sider it merely as a gesture, a graceful wave of the arm to signify concentra- tion on the job in hand and nothing | more, without prejudice to the future. It will be remembered that Gov. mith was ‘‘persuaded” to rup for governor a vear ago only with great difficulty. He had repeatedly stated that he wished to be allowed to return | {0 private life at the close of his term and devote himself to business. He was, however, drafted for duty. What happened in 1974, now say his ad- mirers, will happen in 1926 and per- haps again in 1928, They are not dis- couraged by this latest declaration. Naturally, however, this statement by Gov. Smith is pleasan: reading out !in the great open spaces where men are men and likewise political as- pirants. In those sections where an other candidacy for 1928 is favored | (he phrase “threugh holding all pub. lic office” is being read literally and with full faith. But even if it is true that at the expiration of his present term as governor Mr. Smith will ir- vevocably and definitely and finally enter private life with no political houghts whatever, it does not signify | { that the national nominating conven- ) | tion of his party in 1928 will be a har- | monious gathering, moving swiftly to | the selection of a standard hearer for the presidential fight | | ———— The Mall-Avenue Triangle. A committee of the Washingion Board of Trade has recommended the { suspension of taxes on all new prop- | {erty erected on the south side of Penn- sylvania avenue from First to Fif-| [ teenth streets for the next ten vears | 25 a means of encouraging the devel- | opment of that section of the eity This brings pointedly to attention the | long delay of the Government in tak- i for public building purposes a | tract of land in the Capital excep-| {tionally suited to such uses and ur- gently required in the Federal service A project for the acquisition of the | entire Mall-Avenue triangle from | Second to Fifteenth streets and from | Pennsylvania avenue to the park was started more than a quarter of a century ago. It was obviously the | most Suitable location for public of- Dbetween the Capitol and the | | White House. In conformity with| th plan, which was recognized by | the Senate Park Commission {ing fices, as in the line of logical Capital develop- | | ment, Congress appropriated for the! purchase of the five “squares” at the | n end of the trlangle, hfllweeni Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.| Those tracts were acquired by con- | |demnation. Previously the Post Of- fice Department west had been erected. two blocks to the east. Later. the! | District Building was emplaced one|of compelling them to step up and| {block eastward of the five-square (ract. Since then nothing has been | checked by the authorities is one of | 'done toward putting this area to the|the most difficult since that of belling | for which it is so plainly suit-| of view of public | { convenience-and Capital improvement. | | “Despite the delays of Congress in !thic matter, the blight of possible public purchase of these squares has | !lain upon the tract to discourage pri- |vate development along the south| !side of Pennsylvania avenue and to| | react unfavorably upon the property | ion the north. In consequence, Penn- | {evlvania avenue, Washinzton's main {thoroughtare, a street famed through- | [out the world for its beauty and its| | historical associations, remains for| |the greater part of the stretch of | inearly a mile and a half from the | Capitol to the Treasury in a back- | |ward state. unsightly for a consider- {able portion of that distance, and al- |tosether unworthy of the Federal city. The building needs of the Govern- ment are acutely urgent. Every de- partment is cramped. At least ten new structures are required to bring | the equipment up to date. If they| were undertaken at once, a sufficient part of a decade would be covered | by the building operations to bring | labout further needs in consequence {of the gradual enlargement the | public service. It is desirable, there- fore, that in any comprehensive pub- {lic bullding scheme areas should he i selected permitting of further ex- pan The Mall-Avenue triangle is particularly suited for such use It has often been urged in the in- terest of such an economical devel- opmeéht that the tract be taken as a [whole, and <o far as possible treated as a unit for the losation of struc- tures with a view to future enlarge- ments. Remission of taxes for a period to encourage private building would he | predicated upon the hypothesis that the Government does not intend to take this area beyond its present hold- ings within it. It is only fair to the | «wners of this land that they bel glven some assurance as to the fu- ture. and with the public building program now in the way of early adoption this would seem to be the time for such a definition by a de- cision either 16 place the new struc- tures within this tract, so obviously suited to that purpose, or to scatter (hem without plan and without se- quence. a of on. . The English people love their Prince of Wales, asserting the right of a free people {0 preserve the form of monarchy which is bound by so much gentiment into their history—so long, at any rate, as the form does not in- terfere with freedom. e Motor Cars and Ferryboats. | Motor owners in and around New | Tork who use the ferryboats across the rivers to and from the big city are having a good deal of trouble with a Federal law enactéd somé years ago and amended for enforcement last March. This law forbids the starting of the motors of the cars before the ferrvboats have heen made fast in {run on separ | and vent accidents. Since the amendment last March Federal inspectors have been placed on boats. Owing to the fact that the law had become verita bly obsolete through non-enforcement most motor owners were unaware of | the prohibition and many violations were noted. The inspectors took the numbers of the license tags and re- ported the cases to Washington. Names and addresses were obtained and in the course of time—much time, as various spools of red tape were un- wound-—proceedings were started. So several months after the violations motorists were haled to court for breaches of the law last Spring, of the circumstances of which they were blissfully unconscious. Tn some In- stances, 80 long was the lapse of time the cara had changed hands and per- fectly innocent persons were taken to court and faced with a maximum fine of 3500 for violations that had been committed by prior owners of the cars. Now an effort is being made to check up on the premature car starters promptly. Probably the publicity that has been given to the plight of the 2,000 motorists who have heen charged under the law will serve as an effec- tively preventive notice and warning. The law is a good one, but-the appli- cation of it has been somewhat clumsy e mnia Interurban Grade Crossings. Two fatal grade-crossing accidents occurred yesterday in Michigan, in one of which five persons were killed and in the other three. The motor cars were not hit by steam locomo. tives, but interurban electric cars. Tt makes, however, no difference to the victims in such cases as to the means of their death. A swift, heavy electric car {s as deadly as a locomotive. In the development of interurban trolleys in this country little attention has been paid to the matter of grade crossings. These lines are usually ex tensions of the urban system. in many cases following highways and cros: ing streets and roads at grade. Oper ating on frequent headway, with no harriers whatever at the crossings, these electric trains or cars are really more dangerous than are the steam trains, which are less frequent and te lines off the highways, with gates at the fre quented crossings. In the movement for the elimina- tion of grade crossings consideration usu: of the interurban trolley must be had | seriously. It is idle to look for the cor rection of this great evil through the protection of the road users at steam | train the electric line crossin crossings it are left “guarded” only by bells or visual siz nais of warning. PR 5 The price of coal responds to the law of supply and demand. As to the method of limiting. all laws, whether made by Nature or man, prove inef fectnal. A discouraged base ball “fan” al ways recovers before the 8pring mar- ket for score cards opens on the grand stand B Weapon carrying should be discon- tinued by lawbreakers. The problem have their and suns blackjacks the cat arose in Mouseland. ———— All that will popular Prince of Wales will be a definite report that he found all the countries he visited in their usual locations and in a fairly good state of order. e The motor bus promises to broaden the question of trafic regulation un- til it reaches far beyond local limits. The airship will turther enlarge it to international proportions. (- = Forbidding a man to speak on so. cialistic subjects is in danger of con- veying an impression that he ix more persuasive and convincing than is actually the case. SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON Fleeting Glory. There was a flea Who sald. “Oh, look at me’ My situation’s fine. This dog’s entirely mine! While other fleas Abide in lowly ease, Tl climb with care Upon the topmost hair. Fleadom I sing! I am the real thing! Let them obscurely jog; I'm greater than the dog—— P.S.—At this point in the fable some one came along with a can of insect powder and the dog shook him- self. Conserving Popularity. “After all you are hut a servant of the people. “Why emphasize the fact?” re. joined Senator Sorghum. “'I see no ad- vantage whatever in getting myself mixed up in the public mind with the servant problem. Jud Tunkins says in his settlement Truth is mighty—scarce. Customs Persist. Turkish girls wear knickerbockers And the harem is no more, But the grafters and the knockers Still are active as of yore. Concealment Demanded. “There ought to be more laws against carrying concealed weapons.” We don’t need ‘em,” protested Cac- tus Joe. “What Crimson Gulch wants is a law to make Mesa Bill keep his gat under cover 'stead o' flourishin® it promiscuous.” The Agitated Escort. 8hall 1 summon a doctop To help you to quit? Are you dancing the Charleston Or throwing a fit? “When a man claims dar ain’t no sentiment in business,” said Uncle Eben, “he don't take into account de deep affection of de human race foh money.” ' exposed, perhaps | be expected of the « T, Do vou remember when, as a little fellow, vou lahoriously spelled that out? C—a cat, | you said. triumph 1t seems (0 me this educational work of felis domestica is often overlooked, In summing up the virtues of the ani- ma). Honest Tom has been assisting the children of America to read and spell decade after decade, bhut receives precious little credit for it. Much has been made, and rightly. of the fidelity of the dog. The cat, how- ever, is faithful in his way. Although he never siobbers over us, as the dog does, he sticks close to the back porch just the same. When a mouse is in the offing. then the cat ““does his stuff.”" Through the ages he has taught himself (o clear the habitations of all rodents. This he does to the best of his abil. | {ity, with what success may be gath.-| ered from the fact that eminent writ- ers in encyclopedias, huge treasure houses of knowledge. declare that without the ordinary house cat Amer- lca would be overrun with rats and | mice, her agriculture a failure. | * ok ok % A cat. in general nothing but a large mouse. ever think of that? The Creator. In drumming up the animals out of nothing. had a few stock patterns, of which He made very good use The next time your cat sits on its haunches before vou. looking grave 1¥ into the air, notice how very like a largs mouse it appears Long tall. upright ears, bright eves —these and other points startingly | resemble a mouse, if viewed with this | 1dea in mind | Yet the cal is its own creature. 1t belongs to one of the most distinctive | tribes in the world. Dogs vary %o in struciure that one scarcelv would imagine they were members of the same family A cat. however, in’ the world Any species of the family felidae, | of which our domestic cat is a type. | looks for all the world like its fel- | lows. ““The tiger in the house’ the French have called Puss, and the des. ignation Is felicitous. | Stalking through the grass after | a bird, our cat seems a veritable tizer | on a reduced scale. Similarly, through the family. the similarity ists. Lion, tiger, leopard, puma, wild cat. lyny. cheetah—all are brothers to_vour family friend. S0 long has the cat lived with man | that its origin s lost In the past. res- ervoir of so much we never will get out again. Egypt commonly is given credit for iis birth. The first record shows it living on the same terms of familiarity with the Egyptians as it holds at our firesides today. | Like man. the house cat has had a stormy career. From being a god {10 the Egyptians. it sank to the com- panion of witches, and was perse cuted along with those poor old women. Once society torture cats I barity stint | boys” today On the whole. however, the cat oc | cupies the most satisfactory place in soclety It has ever had. Steadfast | appearance, is | Did you is a cat anywhere | it smart to velic of bar | <ome small | thought and this survives in LOST DOLLARS ABILLION A YEAR | | BY M. B. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | lowing ! | t i true to us as the dog. In its different [ sort of way, the cat still sits In front | of our fires. contentedly wearing its | snappy coat of fur | * ok ok ow 1 When little Johnnie laboriously ] spells out “c-a-t.” he little thinks that around the world it is written much the same. i If he were to go into any land and | pronounce the word “cat.” he would | find every one would understand him The anclent Greeks called it “katta,” the Romans, “catus. Our own spelling and pronuncia tions is straight Anglo-Saxon. The Danes know him as “kat,” the Swedes as “katt,’ the Germans as “katze" and the Russians as “kot.” The dog. though a closer friend of man, is left far behind in the inf ence he has had upon our language. Everywhere in literature and folk lore one runs on to mention of the cat. Fishes and birds have been named after Tom, whence we have the terms “catfish” and “catbird.’ When we call a woman a “cat,” we mean a spiteful woman. probably from the spitting propensities of felis do. mestica when angered. A “catboat” s a small vessel. with a slender stern and thick amidships, named after some fanciful resem blance to the build of the house cat. “One old cat,” “two old cal.” efc., are names applied to games played | with balls, the forerunners of our| modern base ball. | So, when the attention of the Nation | is centered on a world series, Puss| purrs her satisfaction i o ox When the seventh game of the late world serles was postponed on account of rain. no doubt many persons de clared it was “raining cats and dogs Cats are aiways given the premier position in this respect. T have vet tn hear any one speak of “it raining dogs and cats. So entwined with the life of man is| the ecat that some of his personal habits and characteristics have hecome a part of our language When a mother calls a curiosity ‘cat,” there is no any one’s mind what she m curiosity of the cal, which of him into trouble, is proverbial Similarly, the reproach often hurled by children at each other, “Yaa-a.| ‘fraidy-cat,’ " is based upon the well Known caution of the house cat. to which (ralt the soft-bodied animal owes its continued existence in a world that has been the ¢ ction of many tougher creatures “nine lives,” t00. are proverbis Since the normal bov or girl is a friend of cats, it Is not surprising to find that the cat plays a large part in| fairy lore and children’s songs. Puss in-Boots and other famous cats testify to this as well as many such phrases “a cat may look atl a king." elc When children seize a bar and tu hemselves over in the air, theyv call it skinning the cat,” unconsciously re- ferring to crueler days of long ago.| The cat is s0 common a creature that often his worth is overlooked. It} is well. then, to recall, now and then, Just how close he is to us. and how much a part of our lives and language | he is { If for no other reason than the fol. | the cat ought to command our « child doubt ns is iny The | ls His respect He is the only free creaturs ern civilization that in mod- | pays no taxes. | | LEVICK. { I—Introduction. Editor'a Note: This is the fest of sir articies by Mr. Levick. showing annual Stock fraud losses greter than the main tenance cost of the U'nited States Narvy. | | The American public has beén called the most gullible in the world. | Before it bu a diamond, it at least tries to scratch the window pane; if buys an automobile, it wanis to |see if the car wili run as far as the| fcorner. But when it buys securities lin one time out of ten—an estimate made by experts In the prohlem—it }hands over its money merely because it is asked to | | It hands over somewhere between | 1$500,000,000 and $1.000.000,000 a year | to bright young salesmen who work | \vhe one-call method, to high-pressure | go-getters known among themselves las “dynamiters.” even to unknown | voices on the telephone—perhaps one | {of eight such voices working In the “boiler room” of a fake financial i house, telephoning to the names as| |they happen to appear in the phone book. There are always enough | {names o make it worth while, even | at_long distance rates. The gypper is twice as efficient as the sound financier—or his puhlic is proportionately twice as big. He is more aggressive. The bulk of secur- ities sold in America, by volume, are sound, but the bad sort are put across by a picked body of crooked special- ists who form a disproportionately small part of the total number of pro- fessional sellers. There is no form of legitimate in- vestment which is not copied by the crooks. There is no form of fraudu- lent_indorsement which has not been used at some time or other, from mare disingenuousness to outright forgery. The public bites—and the public in the end is the individual investor. Not So Simple. Don't call the buyer a sucker. The term makes the problem 0o simple. The city business man when he gets | on unfamiliar ground is apt to fall| just as hard as the farmer. The proof Of that lies in statistics. The estates of men who have made fortunes in Wall Street have shown worthless securities, sometimes bunk securitles. On the other hand, there was the farm. er's wife miles outside Seneca | Falls, N. Y. Two urbane young men {from New York stopped at the farm with a little proposition—a ‘“switch” game or one of the staple schemes of the free lances who work &mall town; and rural roads. “Well” she sal “I'll think it over: you come back." When they came back they were ar- rested. The farmer’s wife had taken the trouble to find out just what their proposition amounted to. Loser Is Silent. Mostly the buyver doesn't find out— hefore. Hence the billion dollars a year. Of course, the total loot of pro- fessional securities swindlers is not known exactly. There are no records of such things and usually the loser shuts up out of shame. But the an nual loss, according to estimates ac- cepted by officials of the New York Stock Exchange, is from half a billion to a billfon. Those are the figures ac- cepted by Government officials, city and State prosecutors in New York, and by men like Henry L. Doherty, the utility operator and investment banker. One billion a vear and the 3.000 legitimate securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange—an accu- mulation 6f many vears—are valued roughly at only $60,000,000,000. This securities loss is one of the higgest items of all in the financial crime toll. William B. Joyce of the National Surety Co., a member of the organizing committee of the na- tional crime commission. has est; mated it as forming half the total loss from all sorts of fraud. A bil- lion is four times America’s loss from bhurglary, larceny and petty theft. It is ten fimes the forgery total. It is four times the loss caused by trade |in 1924, with enough left over to pa) frauds as estimated by officials of the National Association of Credit Men, | | Who have been expressing alarm over | the increase of financial crime. How to Figure It. Yet a blllion dolla is hard (o imagine. The mind wants | a measure. Well, then, take either | the little or the big estimate of the | securities fraud loss, either $500,000, 000 or $1,000,000.000. What could he | done with it if the getrich-quick fel- | lows didn’t grab it off? Put the situation in the best ble light—even half a billion of these: | A return of most 10 per cent on the total value of new capital put into | American industry of all kinds in 1924. | The total investment in common and ! preferred stock in the printing and | publishing industry of the whole coun- | try: we could atart this industry all| over again with one vear's dead loss to_the stock crooks. The similar investment In the paper and pulp indusiry The total cost of the American Navy . despite all this possi half the Armx's cost And what of the larger figure? billion? Think of all the big gas tanks all over the country, and the plants that | fill them, and the pipe system. The! par value of common and preferred | stock in all the gas companies in the land is less than a billion dollars. Equals Pre-War Debt. The investment in stock in coal min- | ing and in agriculture with its related interests and in manufacturing wood products is about a billion per in- dustry. A billion dollars represents roughiy per cent of the public debt of the Federal Government. It equals almost exactly the entire public debt of the United States in the vear before we entered the World War 1t is considerably more than the new capital put into American railroads in 1924, almost as much as was put into public utilities, and nearly three times the aggregate new capital investment | in iron, steel, coal. copper and oil com- bined. In 1924 America made a total invest- ment of $5.569,689.190 (excluding re- funding operations) in legitimate Amer- ican securities of all kinds, including Canadian issues brought out in the United States. And it gave more than one-sixth as much for wildcat stock. Moreover, 1924 was a big investment vear: the figures compiled by the “inancial and Commercial Chronicle show that the new legitimate invest- ment in the four previous years ranged from three and a half billlon to four and a third. But the public kept right on throwing another billion or so away. And who does the throwing? (Copyright. 1925.) The Tomorrow: “Who Loses Them?" —r——— - Duke Becomes Mason. The Duke of Argyll. hereditary master of the royal household in Scot- land and chief of the Campbell clan, is devoting much time to work as a stonemason on a tower that is being constructed near Inverary Castle. ‘With only two other masons, the duke is erecting a tower after an old Italian model, wherein will hang a peal of belle. 1t will add an artistic touch to the home of the chlef of the Camp- bells, which is already noted for its beauty and the splendor of its art treasures. Its art gallery contains the most famous collection of Gains- boroughs in Great Britain. R Plutocrat. From the Colorada Springs Gazeite and ‘Telegraph. One angle of social unrest is best typified by a small boy with an un- spent nickel in his pocket. |large panel on the right-hand s | shoula be {in MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925. Argentina’s Hero To Be Honored Here. To the Editor of The Star: The unveiling of the equestrian statue of San Martin will take place on October 28. The statue is located in Judiciary Square, directly opposite the center of the Pension Building, and faces the rear of the courthouse. This statue was donated by the peo- ple of Argentina to the people of the United States. It was accepted by John W. Riddle, then Ambassador to Argentina from this country, and it wag shipped on July 5, 1924, on the the shipment of the statue tRere was sent to this city 35 tons of sand. 1 tons of cement, 37,000 bricks, hand made, of superior quality: 67 blocks of granite from the quarries at Cos- quin, Poe, Cordoba. All this material for the constructfon of the pedestal i being the natural product of Argen-! tina. The bronze statue was cast in three pleces; the horse, with the legs of the rider attached, ail in one casting. The trunk, or body from the waist up, in one casting, and the third plece being the tall. which alone welghs nearly as much as the horse, as it Is solid and of great weight, in order to pre. serve the equipoise of the statue. The whole statue when assembled will weigh 22 tons. The horse 1s posed on his hind legs and is probably the largest equine of any of the eques trian statues in the city. It is a replica of the statue of Gen. fon de San Martin (1778-1850). in Buenos Aires. There are also five other eques. trian_ statues in South America of | San Martin. * oo ow The granite pedestal this statue is 16 feet square and feet high. Just below the plinth of the statue there is an opening. This supporting |18 for the reception of a block of onyx, it heing 30 inchex long. 16 inches hizh and 20 inches wide. This is 10 be used ‘as a corner stone, as it were. and will be the recepticle of the usual articles, such as coin. manuscripts papers and such things as are usually contained in a corner stone. This is a magnificent plece of onvx. it being a native production of Argentina. On the outside of this there will be a panel containing an inscription. Di- rectly opposite on the rear of the pedestal will be a panel in bronze con- Laining the escutcheon of Charcabuco. On each four sides of the pedestal, bout 4 feet from the ground, there will be inscriptions in raised letters cut in the stone. That on the right side will be Charcabuco, 1817. On the east side, Lima, 1821: on the south de, San Lorenzo, 1813; on the porth side, Maipu, 1813. There is also a de, in bronze, showing Gen. San Martin crossing the Andes, and on the left side a similar panel representing the }u'nclamnnon of the independence of Perii. The figures on borh of ihese panels are in high relief. The copper which entered into the composition of the bronze was an Argentine product. As this statud was a free gift (o the United States from the people of A gentina, who were contributors to the fund necessary for the production of this statue, the cost of the same has not been divulged. The site for this monument is most appropriate. At one time it was about decided to erect the statue at Chevy Chase Circle, rather out of the way, one would think. as the appropriate place for such a prominent statue in the city proper. There is one criticism in regard to the posi- tion of the statue. That is, it is fac- ing the rear of the courthouse, the hack heing toward the Pension Bufld ing. One would think that this posi- tlon should have been reversed. How- ever. that is a matter of viewpoint on the part of the Commission of ne Arts, as it was probably respon sible for the position. *x oo ‘The bronze brigade of the ity of Washington now musters 16 horses This is the only equestrian statue of a forelgn warrior in the precincts of our city. Pulaski, while not a native of this country. fought and died for us in the Revolutionary War. It is passing strange that the first equesirian statue to be erected in the city was that of Washington of North America, and the latest be that of the Washington of South America It ma last da far away from his native heath. He lived for some time fn obscurity and quiet In France, where he died in 1550. A beautfful equestrian statue was erected to him in Boulogne-sur- Mere, France. FRANKLIN ———or— Justice in Inheritance Tax Discussion of State and Federal in- heritance taxes. stimulated by the op- position of President Coolidge and Sec retary Mellon to any sort of Federal death duties and estate taxes, has established these two basic proposi- tions: (1) The Federad Government ought to vetire altogether from the field of taxation, (2) the States ought to accept the principle of reciprocity and relieve inherited estates of multi- ple and other forms of confiscatory taxes Measures short of the two mentioned might, afford alleviation. but thev would not meet the full demands of Jjustice and sound public finance. Representative Green, chairman of the House committee on ways and means, seems to believe that, if the Federal Government were permitted by law 1o give full credit to estates be mentioned here that the STEELE. | paying inhefitance taxes to States, in- stead of the 25 per cent credit now allowed, Inequalities complained of as grievous would be eliminated and fair- ness would be assured. This is an er- ror. The relief would be inadequate in many if not most cases. In the first place, the State inheri- tance taxes are often confiscatory in the higher brackets. Reductions should be demanded in the maximum rates. In the second place, it has been dem- onstrated that even a very modest estate may be taxable in no fewer than seven States. The canny rich men who go to Florida 1o die as citi- zens of that State because it levies no inheritance tax commonly have estates subject, in whole or in part, to heavy taxation on sbme other States or even whole flock of Commonwealths. It has happened, indeed, that and administrative expenses equaled or even exceeded the total value of a rich man’s estate. Inheritance taxes should be levied once, and once only. This is the case with realty, and it should be the case with bonds. stocks, and all other forms of intangible property. Already sev- eral States have established limited reciprocity in inheritance taxation, and the movement is slowly spreading Dby reason of the intrinsic merit of the demand for simplicity, reason and jus. tice. + The duty of Congress is to acceler- ate the movement by abandoning the Yederal estate taxes.—Chicago Daily News. JEESEE—— Hindsight. From the Altoona Mirror. The man who is always looking back can see where he was, but bt where he will be, o Dad’s Outfit. From the Birmingham News. Dressing up isn't much of a task for dad. All he needs is a clothes brush. o No Measure of Industry. From the Harrisburg Telegraph. Even the young man in the wide trousers MAY have ®e visible means of support. American Legion. Together with | i revolutions per is o of San Martin were spent | Q. Was it ever correct 1o say Mrs Senator and Mrs. Secretary. as. for example, Mrs. Sénator Borah?- H.C.L. A. Edna Colman in ‘“‘Seventy-Five Years of White House Gossip” quotes | from the account of the Lincoln inaug- | ural ball, published in the New York | Times. The article uses the phrase, | “Mrs. Secretary Welles.' “Mrs. Post- master General Dennison” and “Mrs. | Senator Harris.” Q. What is the highest number of minute used In auto. moblle engines?—L. H. | A. The American Automobile Asso-| ciation says that 5.000 is the highest number of revolutions per minute used in cars, this bheing the Miller racing car. | Q. How dn numbers with A In 1916 divorces compare in marriages?—F. S there was reported divorce for every 12 marriages. 1922 this number had increased to divorce for every 10 marriages, and it is estimated that the present rate is about 1 o 9, making the United States grant the greatest number of divorces of any country in the world. Q. How much salt should be added | 10 cabbage 10 make sauerkraut? | M. B. | A. Two pounds of salt should be | used 10 190 pounds of cabbage Q 1 In 1 What are the principal honey vielding plants?—D. M. & A. In the United States the greater | part of the honey produced is alfaifa honey from the Western Siates. where several million dollars’ worth is sold every vear. Sweet clover, | | white sage and other mountain flow- | ers also co ibute to the \Western supply In the Central States it is white clover. sweet clover. Spanish needle and heartsease honei. In the Southern Siates. cotton. mesquite horsemint and sweet clover. and in the East. North and Canada buck wheat and white clover are the iead- ing honev flowers. Orange hlossoms cleome. aster and hasswood complete the liat. Q. In legal matiers leading queation’—G G A. When a question asked a wil- | ness. who s undergoing examination is so worded that Ji assists (leads) | the witness by suggesting the answer | desired by the questioner, such ques- | tion is called a leading question. | Questions of this class are excinded when they have reference to facts or the ifke that are of material im- portance in connection with the case in which the tesiimony of the witness is intended to be utilized Q. Tas Dr. Holt, author and Feeding of C any books recently A. Dr. Luther January 14, 1924 Q. What causes ihe blue haze 1ha seems to be abou distant moun- tains—H. G. A It is what is a w H Holt Care | en 1. Emmet died | the same fthing that causes the sky to iook biue, namely. the scattering of light by the itself and by the minute dust motes and other forelgn substances in it This scattering is very litile for red and vellow light, but relatively larse for blus and violet. Now there is not mueh violet light in the lower air 10 be scatiered. bui there is a great deal of blue. Much hiue light therefore, comes 1o us from the air in everv direction. Hence. disiant mountains seem biue. being seen through air that sends to us more blue light than any other color. | Q. Kindly tell me how stomachs a cow has'—J. H. A. The digestive apparatus of 2 cow is divided into four parts. which are commonly called stomachs \ many Q. What is the percentage of oil in copra®—B. C A If it Qs sun vields 50 to il it dried of oil or kiln per cent Untll further notice \\nshln;ilvn'fl tavorite indoor political sport will be the fashioning of tax plans. Already the congressional woods are full of them. With this week’s assembling of the ways and means commitiee and the beginning of public hearings. plans are expected to emerge at a tate comparable only with the falling of Autumn leaves. Many of them are doomed to be just as ephemeral. In| the House there are the Garner and Bacharach plans, respectively Demo- cratie and Republican in origin. In the Senate there are the Smoot and Underwood plans, respectively Re. publican and Democratic in concep- Uon. But the tax plan game is voung. It will not begin to rage in full fury 1l members of Housa and Senate drift back to Washington in numbers. Then the master minds| will function at high speed and new schemes for the fiscal salvation nf! the plain people will be evolved over- night. Already it seems certain that | neither party will derive campaign advantage for 1926 from tax reform. | Republicans and Democrats alike f: Vor sweeping reductions. Democratic strategy will be bent toward depri 1 ing Coolidge of real credit for lifting the country’s tax burdens. PR Secretary Kellogk is reputation for plain speaking. The other day a New York banker came along to obtain the State Depart ment's view of a projected foreign government i0an. The Coolidge ban on further advances to America's de- linquent debtors had just been pro- mulgated. In the pasi, when would be overseas borrowers came dollar- hunting and were inhospitably re ceived, it has been the custom for Wall Street to offer some diplomatic alibl. The international banker in question asked the Secretary of State it there were any objection to in forming of the real reason why she couldn't get a loan in Amer- ica. “Certainly not.” said Kellogg. “Tell her she can get A new loan when she pays her present obliza tions."” acquiring a * ko * William Knowles Cooper. general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. for the Distict of Columbia and all paints near, recently visited Oxford Uni- versity and was invited to attend a meeting ot the American Club there. This consists of the 96 Rhodes schol- ars at Oxford. When Cooper arrived, he found that the program of the evening was a speech by and recep- tion in honor of Emma Goldman. The Washington boss of the “Y." in whom the professional pulpit will gain an eloquent recruit whenever Cooper cares to desert administrative for evangelical work, found an Ox- ford college that still lives in_the days of 1776. It's presided over by a dean who is a bitter-ender on the subject of the American Revolution. He has decreed that as long as he is alive no “American rebel.” Rhodes scholar or otherwise, shall ever cross the threshold of his college. * ok * ¥ Congress will have a new “baby !in December in the person of Rep- resentative Samuel J. Montgomer: Republican, of Bartlesville. Okla. He will be barely 29 vears old when he takes the oath. In college days Montgomery was a demon center, guard and tackle on the husky foot ball team of the University of Okla- homa. During the World War he was a ['nited States marine, listin | mortals who were added to the | sale.” | that | guests ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. hot-alr dried it max as 74 per cent ofl Q. What is an orphan car?-C. A. C. A. The term orphan is applied to automobiles that are no longer heing manufactured. give as much Q. I buttermilk fattening?—F. R. A. The Bureau of Dairying does nof consider buttermilk fattening. By action of the organisms in buttermilk the milk sugar is used up and therehy | reduces some of its fattening power. Q. Please give the names of lh'Hm;i » of Fame in 1925.—F. J. L. A. The names that were added in 1925 were John Marshall, Charlotie Cushman, Asa Gray, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Willlam Tecumseh Sher man. Q. What was the real name of the famous circus clown, Dan Rice’— W A. His real name was Daniel Me Laren and he was nicknamed as a child for an old Irish clown. He be gan his professional career as an ac robat and clown with Seth B. Howe circus owner, 1845. He was a partner in Spaulding’s Circus until the out ak of the Clvil War. After the Civil War he was financlally unfor inate, but was engaged by Adam Forepaugh at a salary of $35.000 a vear, afierward increased to $1.000 a week. He retired from the stage in 1882, e was exceedingly lavish with money for charity. On one occasion he gave Presideni Lincoin $32,000 for the benefit of wounded soldiers 2nd their dependents. He died in Fehru ary, 1900. Q centuries A :) A. The life of ecorn. in fave circumstances, rarely exceeds 10 y. Q. What cobblestones 8LT..C A. Such work enced stone cutt and hammer are Q Will corn that has heen kept for grow If it is planted? h is nsed masenry proce: for tn split work? requires an experi A pltching ‘ool used. Please give the names of the de vices used on aircraft to determine the density of the atmosphere. the temperature and the speed of the craft’—E. L. B A. The density of the atmosphere js determined by an altimeter on an airplane: the temperature thei mometer: the speed. by an air speed indicator. Q. What are the of the Burean of Animal Industry?—H. F. It A. It carries on research on anima diseases, includinz chemical. hacieri ological and zoological investig: investigations in dairying, breeding and feeding by a duties anima Q. What is the superstition or belief connected with eating goose ¢ Michaelmas day?—R. B A. There is an old prov eat goose on Michaelmas day never want money all round 1t you vou wil the How did Swinburne rank? N A. One eritic says: “At the deatt of Tennyson, in 1892, Swinburne w undoubtedly the greatest living poe (Ask T'ncle Sam about it tkrouai the Washington Information Burcn of The Star. All knowledge the Go ernment is gaining through researc and investigation is arailable to yon Don't hesitate to make your wants known. A 2-cent stamp will bring o the information uou need. This ser ice is for all readers of The Star ar is designed to be heipful to all 1he avail themselves of it. An effect clearing house between the Govern- ment and the people will aid you. aui it is yours for the asking. Address your wants to The Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin. director 21st and C streets northiest) WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. v in actlon 1o 1d a2 gunnery sergeantcy. Montgomery still wears the scars of German shrapnel which invaded various portions of his anatomy at Belleau Wood. e got into the war in company with an Oklahoma foot ball mate, “Trim” Capshaw. who used to make sensational end runs around opponent teams while Mont- gomery was holding ‘em in the line * % ox % The American-Russian Chamber Commerce has just issued a warning to United States business men not to he tempted bv Sovie Russia’s bait_of “$160,000.000 worih of orders ready to be placed if 1oy term credits are granted.” Moscow terms are 30 to 35 per cent on de livery of goods. and the balance o an average of two-and-a-h 3 trust. The Russians also dangle lie- fore our merchants and manufic- turers the advantage of “direct bu~ ness.” instead of through German British intermediaries. The adminis tration, looking upon the Sovie proposition as grease to lubricate way to American recognition nounces, quoting President Coolidge = first message to Congress, (h ‘American principles are not for The American-Russian Ch ber of Commerce ¥ American through gallant citations firms are advised scan contracts with Russia_care fully and require at least pe cent of the purchase price in cash on delivery and a sufficiently large initial payment to insure accept anc The United States Government im- poses no embargo on trading with Russia by any business man or firm that loves adventur * ok * ® Senator Borah got his first zlimpse of the Atlantic Ocean three or foin vears ago while a guest at the home of Senator Lodge at Nahant, on the ‘ockbound shore of Massachuseits near Boston. Borah was makinz week end visit to his famous prede cessor as chairman of the Senate com mittee on foreign relations. The I4ahoan had arrived at night. Nexi morning after breakfast he took up his station on the porch of the house. atop a promontory overlooking the ocean, unaccompanied by anybody or anything except his own overmaster ing thoughts. There, with his cele brated slouch hat shading his gaze, Borah sat for nearly four hours, chin resting in hand and el on his knee—like Rodin's “The Thinker'- peering across the Atlantic as if trans fixed. No one ventured to interrupt him, and he himself gave no sign he cared for ay other occupa tion, Perhaps Borah's dream of the splendor of America’s isolation was woven that day. * ok x ¥ Tt's not generally known that just before he retired from the Senate last March Magnus Johnson wag the guest of President and Mrs. Coolidge at dinner at the White House. Other included Magnus' surviving Farm Labor colleague in the Senate, Henrik . Shipstead, and Mrs. Ship- stead. Mrs. Johnson had returned to Minnesota and was not present. Bis- marcik used to say that his best ally in the tedious art of managing poli- ticians was his cook. It may have ‘been the news of the President’s hos- pitality to the Scandinavian Sen ators that paved the way 1o his t umphant reception at the tennial in Minnesota a fe, Inter. las a buck private, and bucking his (Copyright. 1925.)