Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1926, Page 7

FEWER AND BETTE LAWS, TILSON'S AIM Majority Floor Leader of House Due to Oppose Many Pet Projects. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Fewer and better laws—that is the ®logan of the House leadership. “In my judgment, the one tendency Jhow visible in our American govern- mental life that is most dangerous to the stability and perpetuity of our in- stitutions is the mania for and snore laws,” sald Representative John 4, Tilson, Republican, of Connecticut thte majority floor leader in the House ‘This is the philosophy which is guid ing him in his present position of re Eponsibility for putting through th party’s legislative program, Mr. Tilso® Said, and expressed the hope thi shen the present Congress expires o March 4 it may be said “with muc i h that the most important worl 1 have done has been in the direction of preventing the passage of bad o unnecessary laws." “If ever what we call ‘liberty” fails, Mr. Tilson continued, “and any form of despotism, either of the many o the few, comes to the people of thi v, it will be more on account the tendency for multiplying law than any-other. Judge-made law i necessarily increasing as the numbe und complexity of human relation increase, but the worst offenders ir this direction are legislative bodies Tendency Called Universal. “I recall the story of a young mar AWS har and confided his ambitions to an old practitioner. ‘What do you know about the law inquired the old law ver. ‘I know pretty nearly all of it, sald the boy. ‘I have read the Re. vised Statates through three times.’ The old lawyer laughed. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘and when the Legislature meet: in January it will probably repea! uost of what you know.’ “The tendency toward a multiplicity of statute laws is universal, and n¢ legislative body is free from it. So far as the Federal law is concerned, i is largely due to the extension of Fed- S TAR, WASHINGTON, | EMPTY LIFEBOAT SEEN. !Dflftins Vessel Believed From ! Burned Coast Guard Schooner. | NORFOLK, December 20 (®.—an |empty lifeboat drifting three miles [ southwest of Cape Lookout and an | equal distance from the scene of the | destruction by fire early Saturday of the Coast Guara schooner Lincoln was sighted Saiurday night by the | steamer Nantucket, the maste | that vessel informed Coast Guard au- thorities here in a radio message. | Those aboard the Nantucket saw no | signs of lite in the boat, and left it | adrift. . It was believed the boat may have jcome from the Lincoln, but whether any of the six men of her W now missing put matte: of conjecture. DISTRICT INCOME TOBE ESTIMATED Dcnovan Wil Make Study of 1927-28 Revenue as Basis of Taxation. off in it was a A study of the District's probable ncome for the 1927-1928 fiscal year vill be started this week by M daniel J. Donovan, with a view to >commending to the Commissioners tax rate for that year. Maj. Dono- an said today that he expected to port the results of his study to the ity executi soon after the begin- ing of the New Ye A difficult problem will confront the wditor in arriving at a pew tax rate The reassessment of property being made by Tax Assessor Willlan P. Richards, the first annual a ment under the new la figured tc -aise the assessed value of taxable property from about $950,000,000 to $1,200,000,000. Present Rate Cited, If the present rate of taxation 31.80 on $100 of assessed valuation— is continued next .year, it will add 4,500,000 to the District’s income from eal estate alone. Maj. Donovan declared, however, n eral activities into new flelds, such as income taxes, estate taxes, prohibition and the regulation of business in a number of different ways. Govern- ment bureaus are given power to make regulations which are often more voluminous and complex than the law itself, and in general the de- mand is the cure of all human ills by legislative enactment. A halt in this direction should be called, at any rate long enough to give lawyers time to catch up with at least reading, if not digesting, the legislative output. “1 have referred to the fact that bumper crops of new laws during nearly a score of years have come under my immediate observation, but do not understand that this orgy. of legislation has proceeded with my un- qualified approval. The record will bear me out in saying that I have ne my bit to limit the congressional utput. . Too Many Laws Now. “I like to think of the old farmer who was elected to his State Legis- lature, and on the first day of the session arose in his place and moved that ‘We do now adjourn for good.’ His friends rushed over to reason Wwith him. ‘What de-you mean,’ they remonstrated, ‘by moving to adjourn BoW? Why, we've only just met.” The old fellow grinned. ‘I know we've just met,’ he said, ‘and that's why I want to adjourn. I think we have too dern | many laws already.’ The old farmer states a lamentable fact, and at the same time expresses my own legisla- tive views. . ““The mania for new laws, which is costing the people enormous sums and accomplishing so little good, to a con- siderable extent grows out of a desire of active minority groups of our peo- | ple to regulate everything and every- | body. They wish to hasten the mil- lennium and reform the world by law. They are our best people and do not | deny it. Many of the most insistent | for laws and more laws are the loudest in thelr profession of Christianity, | but they seem to have given up hope | of bringing ‘peace on earth, good will | to men’ by moral suasion and look | to the policeman to make people good | by, force and the jail to keep them so. | “If T understand human nature | aright, such a plan will never work. Law and force have no place in the domain of consclence and religion. To | those who believe that it can be done | in this way I can do no better in | answering than to quote these sound | 4nd memorable words of St. Paul: ‘If | eousness shall come by law, Chrlst s dead In vatns s 7 27 then Thousands of pet legislative propo- sitions that are being pushed by vari. ous individual members or groups of members, it thus seems, are not likely to meet with much encouragement from the majority floor leader of the House. —— MASONIC RECEPTION PLANS COMPLETED High Officials Expected to Attend Affair in City Club on January 5. Final arrangements are being made | for the annual joint installation, re- ception and dance to be staged by of- ficers and members of Masonic clubs of the District of Columbia at the City | Club on January 5 under the auspices the advisory board of the clubs of he local jurisdiction. {of her husband seven hat he does not take these figures ‘seriously,” when asked what whould be the probable cut in the tax rate as 1 result of the expected increase in -evenue. “Of course, we may not col- iect taxes on all assessments,’ said, “and then, too, you must remem- ber that we have no surplus left in the Federal Treasury now. That is all wiped out by the estimates for 1928, In the last few years we have had the surplus to fall back on to keep the fax rate dowr Effect of Change in Figures. A difference of $500,000 in recelpts or expenditures, Maj. Donovan calcu lated some time ago, means a differ- 'nce of 5 cents in the tax rate. Therefore, a 45-cent reduction in axes would be possible under this rule if the new tax assessment pro- duces an increase of $4,500,000 in the District’s revenues. But Maj. Donovan feels that he will be able to show in his report to the Com- missioners that such a reduction is not possible next year, and is not so sure right now that there can be any cut at all MRS. SARAH INCH DEAD. Widow of Admiral Resident of City for 50 Years. Mrs. Sarah Whitney Inch, 68, widow of Rear Admiral Richard Inch, U. 8. N., and mother of George W. Ken- nedy, 901 Alabama avenue southeast, died at the home of the latter on Saturday night after an illness of 10 weeks. Mrs. Inch had been a resident of Washington for the past 50 years, whom she has lived since the death ars ago. High requiem mass will be sung at St. Peter's Church, Second and C streets southeast, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in Cathe- dral Cemetery, Baltimore, Three Thefts Yield $80. SELMA, Ala., December 20 (P).— Thieves early yesterday robbed the Plantersville, Ala., post office, taking off the door, carrying away a 400- pound safe on a stolen express truck and breaking the safe open with a stolen sledge hammer. They got about $80. Jeanne De Vesley, champion female weight lifter of France, has issued a defi to any woman in the world to meet her in a contest. of | now | he | having been born in Baltimore, Ma. | She is survived by her one son, with | THE EVENING ! CONGRESS SPEEDS | WORK TO GET AWAY [Both Houses Face Heavy| |+ Tasks in Half-Week Be- fore Leaving for Home. | i ed Press. ! starts off on a half-week with its membership | i edge to pull away from the Capitol early Wednesday, so there will be | time to reach home for the hanging | of stockings on Christmas eve. i The Senate expects to bundle up | | with true holiday spirit the smy.mu,i By the Assoc Congress of work to 000 omnibus rivers and harbors bill and get it out of the way by tomor- row night. Then, if there's time left and members feel like it, the Interior Department appropriation bill may be | taken up before the break for home. | In the House things ave different. | Today has been set aside for consid- | eration of a batch of small bills on | the calendat, and leaders are opti-| mistic enough to believe they can keep a quorum the next two days un- | til the Agriculture Department supply bill is acted on Committees Are Stirring. Unlike most pre-holiday seasons, there’ n unusual stir in the commit tees of both houses. The Senate judic meets to King resolutions ions into committee | rtering of Fed- or Reed, Dem- committee into sei the primary expenses nquiry it started last Summes Democratic Senate leaders mean while have decided to oppose.the seat- ing of Frank L. Smith, Senator-desig nate from Illi while Senate Re publican leaders have frowned upon his coming to the Senate at this time because of the hitch that the fight over his qualifications would meke in the legislative program. May Report on Pepper. ile the Reed committee is in ses sion it also may act upon a request | by Senator Blease, Democrat, South | Carolina, for a partial report of the in- vestigation into the primary expendi- | tures of Senator Pepper, Republican, | | Pennsylvania, who was defeated for | renomination. | At the other end of the Capitol, the House naval committee expects to gather for at least one session before the recess to discuss a bill introduced | by its chairman, Representative But- ler, Republican, Pennsylvania, pro- | posing construction of 10 light scout | cruisers of 10,000 tons each. | The House irrigation committee | may vote on reporting the Swing { Johnson Boulder Canyon Dam bill, | while a military subcommittee plans | to continue work on a bill proposing | adjustment of Army promptions. Cape Cod Purchase Opposed. The rivers and harbors bill faces | stiff opposition in the Senate from a | group of members who are opposed [ to the section proposing purchase by | | the Government of the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts for $11, 500,000. With passage by the House of the alien property bill proposing settle- ment of German and American | claims growing out of the World War, there is 2 possibility that this measure may reach the Senate in time for scant consideration before | the holiday recess. It may come up | even before the Interior bill, but lead- ers were not in a position to say def- initely just how the program would | work out. Chairman Borah of the foreign re. | lations committee, who has opposedthe | claims measure as confiscatory, prob- | ably will start a fight on the bill when it reaches the Senate, but he has promised socretary Mellon, with whom he conferred over the week end, that he would give it most care- | ful ‘consideration in deference to the Secretary’s wishes. ! ion to W Grab for Hat Costs Life. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., December 20. | —Samuel Diehl Bollman, 59 vears old, a farmer of Snake Spring Valley, near Everett, died yesterday of a | fractured skull, received in a fall | from the running board of an auto- | | mobile late Sattrday, when he re- | leased his hold in an attempt to catch | his hat, which was blown off. Where G Street Crosses Fourteenth l That's Where We Are THE | ‘ FEDERAL-AMERICA IR ; N! Grand Master Gratz E. Dunkum and high officlals of many Masonic | urgamz:ulnns re expected to be pres- | . L. Corbin, president of the Tonic Club, is in charge of the installation | and reception, assisted by Frederick I. CoX, interstate commerce commi sioner and president of the Fiv Points Club; Col. B. L. Lloyd of the public health service, representing the Sojourners’ Club; Joseph D. Sulli van, president of the Circle Club; John O. Bowen, president of the Anchor Club; J. Boyd Dexter, past president of the advisory board and past pres: ‘dent _of the W. Riley, vice president of the visory board and past president of the - Rallroad Square Club. William Musser, the advisory board, will be chairman of the floor committee, assisted by the presidents of alt clubs participating. S. C. Bready, secretar, hoard, will be marshal. M D. Hense is president of the advisor hoard 120 TO SING ORATORIO. Mount Vernon M. E. Presents Pro- | gram Tomorrow. The oratorio “Messiah,” by George Frederick Handel, a Christmas Vernon Place M. E. Church South to- morrow night at 8§15 o'clock. A chorus of 120 will sing under the direction of R. Deane Shure The soloists will be Elvina Neil Rowe, soprano; Julia Culbreth Gr coptralto; Thomas N. Leef, basso John L. Mitchell, teno Gotwalls. organist. Rev lambeth will preside. Willlam A. raftsman Club, and O. | past president of f the advisory | mu- | sical, will be presented by the Mount | VALLEY OF NATURE has filled a valley with wonders in Yosemite—shoulderin mountains, musica waterfalls, giant trees, lakes and tumbling streams, snow and flow- ers—a vast panorama of contrasting scenes of sheer magic snd splendor. Come to this all year wonderland and store your mind with mem- ories of beauty, excite- ment and sport that will never fade. Come to the Yosemite Valley via the Sunset Route. Convenient service for 120-mijle motor side trip over the famous Apache After California Visit Hawaii, Australasia and the Orient SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES and Edith F. WONDERS Trail and for the mar- velous Carriso Gorge. Sunset Limited, a splen- did, de luxe daily train New Orleans to Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Club Car, Observation Car and latest type Dining and Sleeping Car Stopovers allowed on all tickets via Sunset Route. This delightful trip is outlined in detail in a folder that may be obtained by writing to A. J. Poston, General Agent, Passenger Dept., 165 Broad- ‘way, Room 2015, New York City. | TRAINING SCHOOL GIRLS, Government Pay Checks Smaller— | Only the Paper? Government pay checks are to be_smaller. Disheartening news for the army of Federal workers, if it meant that salari were to be slashed. Efficiency and standardi- | ition have stepped in and dictated | a new size in Government pay i checks, not in the amount of their | face value, but in the measure- | ments of the checks themselves. The new Government pay checks are to be three and three-eighths inches wide and eight and three- eighths inches long, according to an agreement entered into between the Treasury and the division of simplified practice of the Com- merce Department. The change will be made immediately. FUGITIVES, CAPTURED Elsie Crosen and Thelma Phillips, Each a Mother, Arrested by the Police. Elsie Crosen each 20 vt from for 214 K thel and Thelma Phillips, | ars old, wanted the National Training rls, were arrested yesterds street, where they had left habie: The girls disappeared chool, taking the infant about ‘a week ago. They it is alleged a_watch, c belonging to the tendent, Mrs. Mar; are charged with grand larceny. The two young mothers got 2 at the K street house Saturday. | hoth went ouf, leaving the bables and | saving that they would soon be back. Police were notified when they had | not appeared at midnight A watch was put on the hous he girls were arrested by Policen George W. Lynn. The Crosen girl is at the House of Detention d her companion at Gal: linger Hospital. AUTO KILLS LAWYER. Victim Found Under Upturned Car Near Virginia Home. WARRENTON, Va Nelson Fell, 32, of Creedmore, was found dead early erd beneath his automobile on The Plains yarrenton road some time after he ad left the home of Fairfax Har- | on, president of the Southern Rail- | road, where hq was a guest at a dance. There were no witnesses to | the accident, but it was believed the completely_demolished car had been | crowded off the road. | Fell read law at the University of | Virginia. During the war he was an | attache of the Department of State. He was engaged in business in New York City before coming here to practice law. g g o Historians generally agree that about 700 Redcoats marched at Lex ington. from the with them, December 20 | B | most | cis ! loved by | A radio has been (.. MONDAY, IS CONGRATULATED Ohio Representative Lauded by G. 0. P. Floor Leader as “Our Ablest.” Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio received the congratulations of members of the House today on his h birthday anniversary, being de- seribed by Representative Tilson, the Republican floor leader, as “our ablest, most respected and most beloved col league. . more than a third of a cen- tu Mr. Tilson said, “Mr. Burton has heen a conspicuous figure in th life of this republic. He first served in the House of Representatives in the Fifty-first Congress and, with an intermission of only four years, con tinued to serve here with notable dis tinction until the end of the Sixtiett In 1909 he went to the ates Senate, where for six e served with equal distinction le then voluntarily retired from the Senate and for a number of years was in outstanding figure in the busines life of the great metropolis of this country. “When he reached the age at whict men who have been pre- eminently successful think of retiring from active business Senator Burton | retired, but not to lapse into ease an« | idlenes Not Theodore E. Burton 15 then thay he reached the de on to come back to the House o Representatives, where he had previ isly spent 16 delightful years in con zenial public service, in order tha he might devote the ripest and bes vears of his life to the service of hi country here in this body. among us now, honored, us all, a_veritable tower strength in our midst. “As he today passes the seventy- fifth milestone along the highroad of life, crowded with notable deeds of usefulness and crowned with th friendship and love of his fellows, w honor ourselves by pausing in our work to honor his life. “Minority Leader Finis Garrett of Tennessee also paid tribute to Mr. Burton's long and able service. Mr. It w | Burton then replied briefly, while the House applauded vigorously. Church Tower Dedicated. clal Dispatch to The Star. FROSTBURG, Md., December 20.— The new tower erected on St Sp John's Episcopal Church, Frostburg, | was dedicated yesterday by Most Rev. John Gardner Murray, primate of America, Protestant Church, who gave the address. Radio Installed in Jail. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 20— installed in the Anne Arundel County jail. Sheriff Michael Carter has ordered a turkey dinner for the prisoners. Cigarettes will also be handed out. DECEMBER BURTON, 75, TODAY Episcopal | 20, 1926. | President Re-Elected for 20th Con- secutive Year. For the twentieth consecutive vear A. C. Hayden elected presiden of the Musician: Protective Union, No. 161, American Federation of Mu sicians, at a meeting yesterday Musicians’ Hall, 1006 E reet. Other officers elected were: A. Celfo, vice president; John E, Birdsell, secre. | tary; Harry C. Manvell, treasurer Donald Wade, sergeant-at-arms; Max Esberger, Ray Peters, Ray Hart, Jack Jacoby, William M. Lynch and C. V Schofield, board of directors; W. W Greenwell, C. J. Benner and H. H Meiners, trustees, The following were selected to rep resent the organization at the con vention of the American Federation | of Musicians in Baltimore in May ohn E. Birdsell, A. Celfo and Harry Manvell. ARREST FOLLOWS SHOOTING OF TWO. Virginia Students Insulted Wife, Charge of North Carolina Prisoner. By the Associated Press. ALBEMARLE, N. C., December 20. —A man registered (A Cran field was held for preliminary hear- | ing here today while Salisbury pol investigated a charge that he shot two Washington and Lee University | | students in the Southern Railwa - tion there Saturday night. Edward W. Streit, brother of C. W. Streit, jr., former Auburn foot ball was in a y i but not severely hurt. panion, whose name was not continued his journey with a minor wound. The youths were on their | way to Birmingham, Ala., for the | holidays. ~ Cutley wa$ captured here v ay by a negro. Police quoted him as saying he shot the students i entment of remarks they m rding his wife, who was a pas- senger with him between Winston- | Salem and Charlotte, N. C. The | woman remained on the train. | SALISBURY, N. C., December 20| | (. —Rallroad men who witnessed the | shooting of two Washington and Lee | | students here Saturday night by C. C. Cranfield of Winston-Salem vigorously denied that the boys had insulted | Cranfleld’s wife, as the prisoner claimed in a statement from the Stan- ley County Jail, where he is held. The boys occupied a drawing room five cars from the day coach in which ‘ranfield and his wife were riding | they said, and did not leave their com- partment between Greensboro and Sal |isbury. Flagman O. R. Pincton of the Danville division told local officials to | watch Cranfield, as he thought he wa | acting queerly, and had remarked to | him that he would have to get off the train at Salisbury or be killed. Before local officials could locate him the | shooting had occurred. ! The River Clyde, the boat made | famous at the Gallipoli landing dur- | ing the World' War, when it was run | ashore to protect British troops dur- | ing action, recently has been convert- ed into a collier. eA «word to the WIVES— CHRISTMAS” in cap *“NO MORE WORRYIN’,” as the song says, about what to give the man who smokes a pipe. Here is the National Joy Smoke, Prince Albert, all fussed up in holiday attire. A gift to gladden his heart on the Big Day; a generous supply to keep him happy. Peeping out of the special Christmas carton is the pound crystal-glass humidor with sponge-moistener top. A container to grace any smoking-stand or office-desk. As practical as it is good-looking. 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