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ke [F NO STATE TAX OUR TAX RATE S HIGH IN SCALE Payments Are If Interest Deducted Our Tax Rate Is Relatively Still Higher. NO INCREASE OF OUR PRESENT TAX RATE espondence of The Sta THEODORE W. NOYE! ARTICLE VII as the measure e Using of made tax proach t might actual h In the tax rate tax burdens, of readjustments order that curacy wined burdens of mparative eries of closer and fairness compar the of Washington rates i a in tax with those other cities. nominal total tax rate and iv we have | 1 {is 16.88, which exceeds the readjusted | rates of 33 out of the 36 citles with | which it i compared, and 18 exceeded by Beaumont, Tex., | only St. Louis; 1a [ and Li Ohio. | 1f the Census Bureau's 1922 valua- | tion of Washington's ratio of assessed |10 true value I8 applied, Washington's | tax rate, less State tax, less interest { puvments on indebtedness, is 15.33. {which is a higher lax rate than those of 30 cities out of 36 figuring in the table, including Cleveland and Cincin nati, and less than those of 6 citles, ineliuding 2 small cities of Ohio, 2 of Texus; St. Louis and Norfolk Using only the National Municipal Review's (1926) ratings of relations of assessed to true value, let us compure Washington with a few other large cities not included in the table of low- | 1ax rate. high assessment cities { | Total tax rate ap- | tax rate adjusted on the 100 per cent | in consideration of the yatio, only city in the list has a smaller rate than Washi When admitted divergences full assessment valuation are «o ered and the reported relation ed to true value is applied. Wasi tax rate (Nationa basis o, one = ngton at the § Municipal Review) exceeds in rate cities and 1s less than 11, With W on's readjusted tax rate at § (census, 1922) Washington's rvate arger than those of 13 cities and less than those of 23. The second readjustment deducts from all the tax rates the percentage represented by intevest payments on indebtedness. These interest pay ments represent heavy borrowi clties before, du-ing and af war period, benefiting the cities in warving degrees in permanent public Washington was not permitted to secure any permanent public improvements in this throuzh bond issues. Since Washing 1on does not enjoy the public im provements corresponding to those benefit these other cities and paid for in Interest, etc. ercentage of tax rate represent ing interest should be subtracted from e tax rates of other cities before fair comparisons can be made with the tax rates of Washington. When interest payments are thus deducted, Washington at the 16.5 ational Municipal Review) tax rate ¢xceeds the rates of 29 cities and is Jower than 7 cities. With Washing ton at 15.33 (census, 1922) the Cap- jtal's rate exceeds those of 25 cities and is less than those of 11 cities. third readjustment deducts from the total tax rate (city, county. school district, State, etc) the frac tion of the total rate which repre sents State taxes. On the basis of the 17 tax rate Washington exceeds 9 cities and is exceeded by 7. On the basis of the 15.44 tax rate Wash- ington éxceeds 23 cities, is exceeded by 12 and has the same rate as 1 The final readjustment, made in the following table, combines the previous readjustments and deducts from the total readjusted tax rate, less State tax rate, the percentage of tax represents interest payments In the resulting comparison Wash ington’s tax rate at 16.88 exceeds those of 33 cities and is exceeded by 3. At the 15.33 tax rate Washinston exceeds 30 cities and is excecded by 6 improvements. way which ave The which Dayton Youngstown Canton_ . Springfield Lakewood Lima Lorain . VIRGINIA Richmond Norfolk Portsmouth Roanoke Newport News Peteraburg Lynchburg St. Louls, Mo. .. Providence. R. I i Filsamasn ,EB28828 22 B © Wheeling. © Charieston, W. . Winston-Salem, Washington, D. C. ... [Ratio assessed 10 trits value, 1007 — [Ratlo "assessed o true valwe. $0.80-—rating census, 1972 15. TEXA San Antoni) . Ralns ouston’ 1 Fort Worth . El Paso . Beaumont Galveston Waco When State taxes alone are sub- tracted the results shown forth in ghe second column of the above table ®re striking. At the 17 tax rate of the Municipal Review, Washington exceeds in rate 29 of the 36 citles with which it is compared in the above table and is exceeded by 7. The 29 cities which, when State tax rate is subtracted, it exceeds, include Cleveland, Cincinnati, 10 out of 12 of the Ohio cities, all but 1 of the 7 Virginia cities, includ ing Richmond: 5 out of 8 of the “exas cities, including Antonio Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, ‘Providence, Atlanta and Birmingham ®. Louis is the only large Ccit: €7.78 which exceeds Washington's 1 If Washington’s ratio of assessed to #rue value (90.80). fixed by the Census Mureau in its decennial report of 1922 on wealth, debt and taxation, is used n the comparison, Washington with » readjusted tax rate of 15.44 exceeds 23 of the cities in the above table, is exceeded by and has the same yate as 1. Six Ohio cities have a greater rate and six a less. It ex- ceeds six of the seven Virginia cities and four of the elght Texas cities, sncluding San Antonio, Dallas. Hous- ton and Fort Worth. It exceeds Providence, Atlanta. Birmingham, Yittle Rock and Wheeling. The large cities which exceed Washington 44) are Cleveland, 16.14: Cincinnati. | , . Louis, 17.78. When in addition to deduction of the State tax rate the percentage of rate representing interest ‘is subtract #d, the adequacy of the tax burden imposed upon the Washington tax- payer of today is further emphasized. Tu this final readjustment, using the Municlpal Review's rating of 17 for Wuhxnion. our city's readjwmed rate Ratio assessad to true value Readjusted 1o _ Percentaze. .3 represented 3 by interest T tax rate. tate tax rate, less per centage repre sented by in terest. | | Note how closely together the read justed tax rates of these large citles run. We have Washington's readjust ed tax rate (16.88) exceeding that of | Cincinnati (13.57), Cleveland (14 54) and an Francisco (1 practically the me as that of Detroit (16.95) and less what than those of St. Louis (17.26), Los Angeles (17.79). Indlanapo lis (1832) and Minneapolis (18.88) It the Census Bureau's 1922 valua- tion of Washington's ratio of cessed to true value (90.80 per cent) is applied, Washington's readjusted | tax rate, less State tax, less interest | payments on indebtedness, is 15.3: | which compares with the correspond- ling tax rate of a few other large | cities as follows. | the | Cincinnati J Cleveland Washington | $an Francisco Detroit | Our Tax Rate Should Be Low. | Washington’s equitable tax burden | should be among the lowest per capita | in the country. It is conceded by the { reasonable that non-industrial, non- commercial Washington, with the small taxpavers in Government em- ploy constituting the city’s financial backbone, is poorer in taxable re- sources than the average American | city of its size and is less able to bear | the same tax burden. No other city has so large a percentage of property xempt from taxation as the National | Jital, with a very large fracticn of the city’s realty held from the tax list by the United States, and within that exempted fraction the city’s only great industrial plants and factories. The extraordinary exemption of tax able values makes the same burden weigh the heavier upon the taxpaving fraction of the community. No other city, perhaps, has so large a percent- age of non-taxpaying transients, who | figure in the census but not in the | tax list, as Washington, which, from | its very nature as the Nation's city, is comparatively unstable and shifting 7, ating of Municipal Review, a4 1544 1 1 1 in population. The disabilities, com- mercial, industrial and political, which attach to legal residence in the Na- tion's ty tend to cause those who live within its boundaries to secure or vetain legal residence elsewhere and to keep off the city’s tax list. Thus the non-taxpaying census population, which reduces the nominal per capita tax levy without, in faet, making cash contributions, is at a maximum, and the taxable resource at a mini- mum, with the result of serious disad- vantage to the District in D pita comparison. How much per capita of tax levy could Philadelphia, Balti- more, New Orleans, Chicago, Cleve- land or Milwaukee afford to pay if its largest taxpayers, the owners of its mills and manufacturing plants, were omitted from the calculation; if onefhalf of the closely built-up section of the city were exempt from faxation, and if an extraordinarily larze percentage of its population were transients or non-taxpaying for other reasons? Capital's Peculiar Disabilities. 1t is conceded also by all reasonable people that the tax burdens of many American cities contain factors which represent conditions not found here, and that in estimating the equitable tax burden of the Washingtonian the sums representing these factors may be eliminated, since its government | by Congress, under national safe- | zuards, prevents graft and renders unnecessary and unfair any compui- sory local tax contribution to meet expenses of this character. On general principles the Washing- tonian’s tax burden, whether figured on tax rate or per capita tax levy, should not include payments for what be does not get, and what the tax- a4 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1926. THAE EVENING pavers of other cities do get. For example, no State tax here, since no State benefits. It is generally con- ceded that the Washingtonlan’s equi- table per capita tax burden should be less than that of the citizens of the average industrial, commercial Ameri- can city approximating Washington in size, location and general conditions. Washington's assessment is com- paratively on such a high standard in relation to true value that its com- paratively low nominal tax rate is oftset, and in view of the peculiar dis- abilities under which it labors its tax rate of $17 per thousand is high enough and its comparative tax bur- den is adequate. Q. K. D. COAL ISSUE IS PUT UP TO CONGRESS WITH WARNING ON FUTURE (Continued from Kirst Page) te companies which he said con trol 75 per vent of the hard coal pro duction in Peunsylvania About 50 per cent of the anthracite pro duction, he sald. is furnished by companies th, are mak ing money, while cent lose money and the othe cent re volve bLetween alternate gains and losses. The New York member of Congress furnished the committee with reports of the treasurer of Penn sylvania, which he said. showed enor mous profits accruing to the big an- thracite operators during 19 Mr. Jacobstein said any legislation (0 be effective, must not only prevent strikes, but must establish control of coal through its entire progress from the mine to the consumer This must be done, he said, to relieve the operator from some of the blame which now attaches to him Jor Wgh prices. Representative \Wyant, Re publican, of Pennsylvania, said when dealers can sell soft coal in Wash ington for $15 a ton for w ich they pay between $2.50 and $4 a ton one is making a great profit. Mr Wyant added that at the time con sumers in_Washington were paying $15 and §16 a ton for soft coal, public utility companies were paying but or $6 a ton for similar coal Bituminous Industry Overdeveloped. Mr., Jacobstein said the bituminous indus{ry is overmanned, overdevel oped and overfinanced. He called it a speculative industry, in which mine owners take full advantage of a favor. able market, suffer lean fat years and must meet the keenest competition in the matter of price to show a profit. He said that 200,000 men are normally out of work in the coal mining industry and most of the others work only part time. “When there is work for the miners only two or three days a week.” he said “they must have wages of $10 or more a day to maintain their families.’ ““At the present moment there is the keenest rivalry for markets be tween the union and non-union fields. The union fields are losing ground Whereas a few years ago 60 per cent thra per 15 pe of the soft coal was mined by union | non-union labor and 40 per cent by labor, today just the reverse is true “This means a_conflict between the Mine Workers' Union and the opera- tors. Their agreement expires in 19 Steps must be taken now to prevent | a strike.” He added that he does not think consumers at the present are paying unreasonable prices soft coal Representative Jacobstein was close Iy questioned by Representative Coop- er of Ohio as to the reason for the freight differential on coal traveling through Ohio to lake ports originating in Kentucky or West Virginia. Hear. ings will be resumed at 10 o'clock to- | morrow morning, with Mr. Jacob. stein again on the stand HOT WORDS PASSED AT HOUSE HEARING OVER JUDGE ENGLISH (ontinued from First House officials found it neces: to admonish members against the use of indecent language With an agreement limiting debate there remained six hours today for discussion of the case by members Leaders hope tha vote will reached tonight, although the ability of a succession of roll calls made them doubt whether the wind-up would come before Friday. Although yesterday's proceedings lacked the color of Tuesday, members appeared to show a keener interest in the discussion, frequently interrupting to ask for additional information on points at issue. Clear definition of the duties of the House as restricted to investigation, similar to those of a grand jury, was brought out by several members, as disputes over guilt or innocence of the judge developed. Exact Words Taboo. Speaker Longworth’s warning of Tuesday not to quote the profane language the judge is alleged to have used in court, however, did not pre. vent meinbers from referring to the forbidden words by initial letters, word pictures and pauses. Representative Hawes, Democrat, Missouri, sponsor of the original reso- lution to investigate the judge's con- duct, contended that ‘“restoration of justice” should be the only object of the House, with no element of politics entering into the situation. He as- gerted the language Judge English is charged with using was indicative of the man. “There is a phrase which some men use,” he said, “a phrase which brings in a man’s mother; it is a phrase that in certain sections of our land no man can use without smiling unless he expects to be shot.” It was to the utterance of this epithet that Speaker Longworth ob- jected on Tuesday. Separate Vote Expected. The part of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch in pressing charges against the judge was attacked as “exceeding the bounds of public duty” by Repre- sentative Arnold, Democrat, Illinois, and commended as a public service by Representative Christopherson, Re- publican, South Dakota. Several opponents of impeachment assailed the investigating committee for failing to obtain testimony from C. Thomas, galleries that be | row night some [ T | special order of business immediately years and | time | for | prob- | CITIZENS COUNCIL VOTE PLANS MADE Distribution of Rules Today Completes Preliminaries to Election Saturday. With and the circulation of final rules regulations for conducting the election of six the Cit- izens’ Advisory Council by members of the Federation of Citizens' Asso- iations Saturday night, arrangements the for councilmen nxet were completed today mains is the voting for from the 13 candidates The election of the members of the advisory council will be held tomorrow night in the board roomn of the District Building by the Federation of Clvic Associations, of which Dr. (i. H. Richardson is presi dent. There are six contestants for the two pusitions The candidates of the Civic Federa- tion are: William H. Lewis, jr.; George ason, Elzie Hoffman, H. D. H. D. Woodson and Dr. Rich- the president. Two of these Dr. Richardson and Coun- are standin for re- members of for balloting Washington's vear Al six for | formally that re- | choices | en dson, candidates cilman Beason sction WE Approximately ted to take part Civie Federation pected to T 't 70 members are ex- in the voting at meeting tomor pe the for the urday tes and David rules and regulations ederation election ght, distributed to all d candidates today by Secretary Babp of the federation, provide that if the election not completed by midnight Saturday night a recess will be taken until the following Monday night. The meeting will start at 7 o'clock sharp. The election will be a e tizens following the reading of the minutes of the last meeting Bach delegate will for not more than six nominees on each bal- lot. A majority vote is necessary for election. Because of the limited seatin of the District Building board room, | sident Jesse ¢. Suter of the Fed ation has ards of admission o the 96 delegates onl with one vis. each delegate in addi invited guests include rict Commissioners, Senators Capper and Phipps, chairmen, re spectively, of the District committee | nd the District subcommittee of the wppropriations committee; Represent ative Zihlman, chairman of the House District committee. Repre vote space tion, & the Dis ttee on District Colladay nd former presidents of 'd other prominent ork appropr Charles the i Thirteen on Candidate List The candidates standing for election F. M. Cannon, sponsored by Washington _Highlands; Proctor Dou erty, Chev ase: Robert Faulkner, M g Havenner. ton Kenilworth, Benning, H lands and Congress Heights; William G. Henlerson, North Capitol; R. F. Mancill, Conduit Road: Frank | 1., Peckham, Burleith; hillips, Sixteenth Street Heights: Ernest H. | | Pullman. Manor Park; John A. Saul Brightwood; D. Shoemaker, Ta- koma, D. C.; Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell | District of Columbia League of Wom | en Voters and Kalc ma; Robert Stro- bel, Southwest: Harry N. Stull, Stan- | | ton Park, Lincoln Park, District of Columbia Parent-Teacher Associa | tion and Brookland; W. I. Swanton, Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant | and Washington Chapter of Engi-| nee; George R. Wales, Cathedral | Heights, and Fred S. Walker, Park View. Of this number four members of the counci Messrs. Ha venner, Stull, Swanton and Wales. Councilmen Torbert and Baker, elect ed last year, refused nominations | again. The campaigns being made for these candidates have been characterized | this year by a quiet emphasis on their qualifications without any great deal of ballyhoo work ok o ok How Quickly Can a Car Stop? At a recent trial a California city a young woman was suing for damages following injuries suffered in a street car accident. An ex-mo- torman testified that a car traveling | 20 miles an hour sould be stopped in | a space of 30 feet. The young wom- | an’s counsel denied vehemently the ex-motorman's statement. ‘here- upon the judge and jury went to the scene of the accident and gave the ex-motorman a chance to demon strate. A special speedometer, consisting of a wheel attached to the side of the car, was used in the test, says the Popular Science Magazine. Measure- ments made b this instrument showed that the best the driver could do, with the car going 20 miles an hour, was to stop the car in a space of 114 feet. Pat Gets It Straight. From the Boston Transcript. Pat was a new hand in the packing room. One of the packers called out to him: *“Pat, bring me same excel- sior to pack this vase in.” “Excelsior?’ said Pat. “Phwat's that? “You know, like hay.” “Oh, it's that mane,” sald Pat. e at present in that stuff that looks long sawdust ye under Judge English, and urged that the case be sent back to the judiciary committee for additional inquiry. Several members have announced they will ask for a separate vote on each of the five articles of impeach- ment, and this is expected to delay the final vote. EASTER S\ Myéranges Plants. $1.50 and up. Rambler Roses, $3.00 and wp. Baskots of Spring Flowers. $5.00 sad Pk Gorsages, tu': i Boses-of Flowers, $9.05 and up. VAST DISPLAY AT SAVING PRICES WHI ORDER BARLY SUPPLY D TE e L5 T4th & H 5 & "o 829 14th St NW. two colored | | ciation, Advisory Council Nominees And Who They Are Note—The Star today presents a short aketch of six of the candidates for seats on the Citizens' Advisory Council, elec tions for which will be held Saturday night, " The candidates presented below complete the list of the nominees Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, 17 Twenty-first street, a woman Demo- cratic leader of the city, was named for the council by the District of Co- lumbia League of Women Voters. She is an active leader in women's clubs and in poli- tics. She was a delegate to the Demoeratic na- tional conventiol at San Francisco and at New York City. She is a member of the Women's City Club and _of the Women's Trade Union League. She was a candidate for the council last vear and polled & large vote. Robert Strobel, 210 Tenth street southwest, a master plumber, was named for the Advisory Council by the South Washington Association. He is chairman of the committee of that body on police and fire protection and member of its executive commit- tee. He has for a number of vears been a member of the Volunteer Firemen's Associa tion of Maryland and is a member of the cil of proved Order Red Men, Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fel lows. Harry northe: States for the MRS, SNELL. the MR. STROBEL. Stull Fourth t, a reporter at the United ‘ourt of Claims, was nominated council by the Stanton Park Citizens' Assocla- tion, of which he is president and a charter member, and has the in dorsement of the Lincoln k Brookland nd Parent T her Associations. He delegate to ieration of ‘Associa and has active in as affairs years. member District - Guard here for 13 3 efore_he became a_reporter he w n auditor at the Court of Claims. He has lived in Washington for 35 vears. W. 1. Swanton, 1464 Belmont street, lawyer and civil engineer, was nomi- ted by the Columbia Heights' Asso- of which he is president, nd by the Mount Pl iant Associa- tion and the Washington Chapter of the American Associa- tion of Engineers. He is a member of the present Ad sory Council nd has been ac- tive in civic enter- 408 street been sociation for many i MR STULL. eration of Assoc number of years. He is a member of the District Bar Asso- ciation, the Dis- trict Library As- ., the Washington Chapter of n Association of Engineers, and the Institute of Technology. He has resided in the District 23 years. George R. Wales, 3609 Norton place, civil service commissione was nomi- nated for the Advisory Council by the for a SWANTON ] On the Gladstone of a diplomat, the Kit Bag of a salesman, the Fitted Case of a society wom- an, the Oshkosh Trunk of a tour- ing bridal couple—you'll the little metal disc of quality which reads ations | | Cathedral Heights’ Citizens’ Associa- tion. He is a member of the present council. He is a delegate to the Federation of Citizens' Asso- clations. He is a graduate of the | Natiomal Univer- | sity Law School, is a_ member of the District bar and has been ad- mitted to practice | before the United | States Supreme Court. He has | been a member of | the Civil Service | Commission_since 1892 1 Fred 8. Walker, 760 Rock Creek Church road, a printer, was named for the council by the Park View Citizens' Association. He also re- ceived the support | of that associa- | tion last year. He 3 is employed in the | /% 1 | office of the 4 Trades Unionist, a labor organ. He was president of the Park View body for several ears, {5 a dele- gate to the federa- a || tion and aided in 4 drafting the pres- ent council plan He has been a resident of the District since 1909 ORE PROCESS DUE T0 HATRED OF DIRT| By the Associated Press. . DENVER, April 1.—From a wom- an’s hatred for dirt has developed the oil selective flotation process which has made the treatment of complex and low grade ores a success. Mil lions of dollars have been made and saved by the method, although its originator, Carrie Everson, has passed into practical obscurity. 7 J. J. Clark, majority owner, in’the big Kittmac mine at Silverton, Colo., tells,how she stumbled onto the idea, and other Denver mining men vouch for his story. “One day in 1897, Clark says, “Miss Everson was in her brother's assay office in Denver and saw a pile of dirty ore sacks which her woman's instinct for cleanliness impelled her to tackle She doused them in a pail of sudsy water and swished them around until | a scum appeared on the surface of the water—a scum which, to her appeared to contain mineral values although at the time she_ could not conceive of metals floating. “She removed the scum, poured out the sudsy water and found at the bot- tom of the pail a sludge which she knew to be only waste rock particles. The mineral values had floated to the top while the rock sank. “Her brother analyzed the scum and determined that lead and zinc values had ridden to the surface on the grease bubbles of the soap, just as in the modern flotation process they rise to the surface on tiny rafts of ofl. “The brother took up the idea and started to develop it in a small way, trying to interest many prominent mining men In a short while many scientific investigators were at, work on the same thing, but it was geveral vears before the oil flotationi nethod became any more than a secondary method for separating ores. “The idea never died out, however, and 10 years ago metallurgists in Aus. tralia made a great step by floating silver, lead and zinc separately in dif- ferent oils. The war halted perfec- tion of the process and it was not until 1920 that both MR. WALES. IEDWARD T. DEVINE Economist to Serve as Dean a member of | Commission, i juniors in colleg: Australian and | not enly ripe perience in to American University scholarship but_wide many phases of governmental philanthropic activity. Work With Red Cross. Dr. Devine received the degree Ph. D. from the University of Penn sylvania in 1893, embarking in a ca reer of teaching. !e was professor of social economy in Columbia Uni versity rom 1905 1o 1919 e has had several connections with the American Red Cross, including the n of chief of the bureau of ees and home relief for awhile during the World War, special repre sentative in charge of relief at San Francisco in the 1906 disaste and also at Dayton, Ohio, in 191 One of Dr. Devine's principal ac tivities in philanthropy was his or ganization of the New York School of Philanthropy, of which he was di rector f three 8. Dr. Devine is the autho number of books on social and economic problems and has been lecturing on soc & industrial problems and lation His home 112th street, New York ity In his letter of acceptarce to Chan cellor Clark, Dr. Devin 4t his recent week in Washington cor firmed his conviction “that in the 1 sciences, no s than In other fields, th jonal Capital offers ex traordinary laboratory facilities. The Red Cross, the Federal bureaus and the local agencies are there at hand rich and almost untapped resources for field wor JOINS AMERICAN . of New Graduate School Next Fall. Clarke night an- Chancellor Lucius € American University last nounced the appointment of D; - ard T. Devine of New York City, author, lecturer and educator, to be dean of unives ly graduate school, and professor of social economy. Dr. Devtn? wi Pres of foreign re ident _ Harding's | Fact-Finding Coal and formerly _a professor _at Co- lumba_ Universi- ty. He has recent- Iy been making a lecture tour of the country, follow- a trip of in- vestigation in Mexico, but is expected to assume his position as head of th graduate school by the opening of the next Fall term. | Changes in the grad nounced by Dr. Clark, include the shifting of the School of the Political Sciences from a graduate status to that of a ‘‘professional s 0 which admission will be open to |e i Dr. Albert H. Put the School ymes di |SHOWS VALUE OF COURTESY. DR. DEVINE. liams as His College. m Lyon Phelps in Ser ars ago W spirited in of New it to make the value e « Mazazine A Watts, generous busi- said that he to his ate school, an- and Haven a speect shed to k f 1 propriate anecdote It happened that 1 had an | When Garfield was a bov, h | intention was to enter Yale, but. fear g that the Coll f the Elms was too aristocratic, he decided to write to the presidents of Yale, Brown and Williams, asking for the necessary qualifications for 1 sion. The Yale president made a formal eply, and so did man of Brown 1iso did the Williams president but he added one line: “We shall ba glad to do what we can for Tt one second to write Hia and w now ad an ap , who had been dean ¢ of the Political Sciences, b rector of the pr ional sche Dr. Collier Shifted. Dr. Frank W. Collier, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who has asked to be relieved from the administrative work in order to give more time to teaching, has been named head of the department of philosophy. Dr. Collier also has taken up the task of inaugurating a move to raise 500,000 to endow the Bowden Parker Bowne chair of philosophy, and will co-operate in this work with the uni versity efforts, now under way, to|field to de raise within the next three years a| AS a res sum of $6.000,000 to meet educational | Williams needs. The College of Liberal Arts|zraduated continues under the direction of Dean | States, of George B. 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