Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1927, Page 7

ARLINGTON SEEKS STATEROAD AID Citizens Urged to Ask That More Highways Be Main- | tained by Commonwealth, Va people CLAR (Special) County Highway more of rouds cotnty commissioner clared last night in a meeting of the Council of Citizen: review of conditions Mr. Green stated that s Virginia's wtest the of about 12 more to the St than they receive in return. The fact | that Arlington last vear paid into the | State treasury $78.000 more than w returned to her gives her the right to expect more in the way of highway | development, Mr. n said 1 Mr. Green intimated that county is to econtinue the which has been so marked in the last | few more revenue must be pro vided, presenting figures to show that taxes are less, by far. County than they are i other nearby States. Statements sald, that Virginia, and particularly Arlington County, is tax ridden are not borne out by facts and figures Ja of on \DON The should ry 18 Arlington the State taking over K. Green revenue. insist Commission its Harry of de ess hefore District s, on in the Arli ¥ countie in revenue it the progres Cites Comparative Taxes. piece of property in Arlingto at §88 would draw a tax of $12 vland, $109 in West Virgin R in North Carolina. The individual tax in Arvlington i< ess than the cost of educat st gle child. he said The need for increased re Green declared, is heir the schoagls than in any other depart ment of the county’s funetions. The county has a school indebtedness of approximately $1,000,000. drawing i interest of ut $50,000 per with sion made for sinkin A taxed n M and wwerage enue, My more it a grave situation and must be met or the schools annot be kept open.” he said, adding that the peo ple would soon be given opportunity at a public meeting to express their wentiments_regarding the matter. As a means of meeting the situation, Mr. Green s sted that the hoard of supervisors absorb part of the State tungible tax, which was abolished by the segregation act of the last session | of the Legislature. 1'nder this act the | county loses the intangible tax, which | emounts to about 4 per cent. The ! tangible tax amounted to 25 per cent Mr. Green said, and, to keep within the law, the supervis: uld absorb the t M e-third of the county’s revenue ix derived from | public “utilities and industries. and that he was in favor of more of this | tyne of development. He was roundly | applauded when he said: “The coun ty should zone off an area not suited to residential purposes and invite in dustries to set up their establishments | here. This would lighten the burden | of the small home owner. i Given Vote of Thanks. ‘alling _attention to the great s made by Virginia in road build- and school development, Mr. Green said that no State in the Union has made greater progress “under such trying handicaps.” The liquid assets | of Virginia_are sufficient in them. | selves 16 wipe out all of its indebted- | nd the people could live on its own natural resources, Mr. Green said. “This is a happy situation that few States can boast of, and there is no room here for pessimism.” he con- | cluded. a4 Mr. Green was given a rising vote of thanks for his address on motion of Grover E. Payne. On motion of J. R. Williams a com mittee was authorized to study the school situation as outlined by Mr. Green. L. C. McNemar, reporting for the commitiee named to seek police pa- | trol for the Federal roads in Arlington | County, stated that no law could be | found to place definite jurisdic over the roads on any part branch of the county, State or vernment and that Federal le ion now seems to be the only means | of accomplishing the desired end. The smmittee with the county sheriff, the | United States marshal at Alexandriz and a representative of the judge ad- vocate general's office of the War De- partment will meet with Representa tive R. Walton Moore and ask him to sponsor such a bill, he A resolution offered by Eacho advocating a spe fire protection was referre committee Mr. Eacho was elected president o the council by 10 to 9 over A. A Moore, who has been acting as tempo. rary president since tentative o zation a few months ago. The on was challenged when claim made that one of the allied organi: tions had cast three v with only two allowed, resulting in a clash as to which of two was the accredited dele- zate.. It was voted that the election should stand until the status of the delegation could be definit lished. J. R. Williams of Par elected first vice pr Miss Bessie Christian of Fort Heights, second vice president ver E. Pavpe of Ballston and L. C. McNemar of counsel. COMMISSIONERS HEAR OF PAPER BOX EVILS | Protest Made Against Use of Pub- | for id. Richard L. 1 levy for | to the fire T secretary Clarendon lic Space Racks. evils and the ady vending The newspaper bated before the Distri today at a publi they called to prot ued use of public papers throuzh 10kE. The hearing the District e boxes « ers a ring, which st the space held in 1he Build the « 1 bhattery Heading the I ), Baker. former who appeared as the Washington Daily prominent I r J. Whiteford ening Star route J. Lambert shington Tim: Complaint nst the contir of the boxes was made by tributors of The Star, who. with Whiteford wealed to the Com ers to revoke the order of & , permitting their pace to theé morning news :rs, and a’subsequent order of Av 3, 1923, extending the same priv 2e to the afternoon papers. he Commissioners heard arguments two and a half hours, and then recessed repr Herald red the s dis My bey for Since the advent of the bohbed hair crage it is estimated that 5.000.000 ‘omen visit harber shops every year in the United States. | for | man b | would | w { church | utter | those | that ! Mexico. | €hurch, ! sourian continded THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, $JANUARY 18, 1927. bl 7 'ELESTUS M. SPRINGER OBSERVES S0th BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY)| | Former Boston Merchant and | Wife Receive Friends at Home in Celebration. iNew England Acquaintanges ! Send Large Cake—Wed More Than 50 Years. Elestus M and | at rs old today, Nineteenth street M. Springer, 84, sat wtulations | friends | “Many | Tiv retirns The Springer stant Juvenil pro ihe Court Clarence was born 1837 n_ for in Sidney, | He was a mer more than 30 of the Springer Bros.’ been all uver the United »s and Furope and has crossed the Atlantic 12 times. He ted in the Who's Who of New England, and the farm at Sidney has been in the family arly 200 v iends in Boston sent My SENATE DEBATE ‘OVER RELIGION STIRS UP DISPUTE, Springer (Continued from Paze.) statement by | the Mexican | interfering with | hu of religion dent P Calles sayi wernment was not ‘the religious convictions of any Unfair, Says Bruce. then served he | librarian of Congress daily fi and that_ he The Senator notice ask the examine ents of his views attempt to explain to the Sen-| ases of misrepresentation of his' views. bow such misinterpreta- tions might be pccounted for. ‘nator Bruce, Democrat, M declared Senator Heflin's were an unfair reflection upon many of his constituents. Calling attention “the illustrious Bibh Grave nd cyclops of the Ku Kluf Klan,” rday was inaugurated Governor Alabama. the Maryland Senator continued ‘Notwithstanding the ties that exist between me and my fellow Catholics of Maryland, not one single Catholic pre not one single official of the ever me or ed to me 2 attitude on to nowspapers st e, in » my the Mexican situ- ation “We est land one of the Knights of Columbus organi- n the country 1 almost scorn ay they are body of 3 highly riotic ‘men are to found in the commonwealth ‘Who was n r. to the firing line in the World War than the members of the Knights of Columbus?” Denies Intolerance. | Responding, Heflin said he had been acked outside of this chamber t who favored ** but never b fore had he been attacked on the S ate floc “I have been have in Ma e zations accused of intoler- | ance,” he continued. “If my deter- mination to keep my country out of w = intolerance let the \“"il'lfl from Maryland make the most of Heflin said important British oil in ts recently had passed their Mex- jcan titles to oil companies in which retary Mellon had large holdings. 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I do not want to weaken his hand,” Senator Reed declared as crowds in the galleries leaned forward to catch his every expr “I do not beljeve we are in any dan- of war with Mex i red up by intemperate papers.” Senator nder in ger stir intemperate s articles in the news Reed joined with the Mary- sserting that no living | atholic had talked to him to urge the United States stir up a ligious dispute or to foment in | At the outset he declured | was reared in the Presbyterian “My ancestors signed the covenant Jf that creed,” he said. “Nefther, si am I 2 member of the Ku Klux K “1 hold no brief for M Coolidge or for his subordinates.” the Mis “But in the diffi cult _situation which now presents | itself I do not propose to interfere | with the efforts of the Executive to | protect the interests of the United States until or unless it becomes mani- fest he is pursuing ngerous course ‘Mexico has not in all r faith with us and 1 I*Mort: enimproved property oans 1/ __1001-15% St N.W. e Use Plantabbs on i el e ] pects kept should like to % HL. 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Plantabbs are sold and recommended by druggists, florists and seed dealers every- where. 25c, 50c, $1.00 and $3.50 per packe Plantabbs ODORLESS PLANT FOOD TABLETS {Mfd. by Plant Products t Baltimore, Md, | | er celebrated th ful | dependence | gether on every and on, | & big birthday all over the world sent greef Last February Mr. and Mrs. Spring ir golden wedding an Mrs. Springer wrote her poem on this oceas 1 followrs: niversary husband end story well nigh told m our lives. now we How like a right Tiose lives of our As we blot ou And reioice to And still. with evex of faith. o break. earth's “hadows flee 1 ion out | am willing to rdministrs @ chance to problem Is Re s Prejudic not_zoing to be any war ‘0 imless Mexico forees that war by violating the rights of the United States Calvin Coolidze march an Army over a controversy No one would let wanted to.” snator Reed decried the appeal” to religious prejudices the Mexican situation “It is shameful, no matter by whom made or where made,” said he, Catholic and Protestant; Jew and Gentile ed the Declaration of In and since have died to field of battle.” Doctrine, Senator Reed went on, imposed an oblization upon the United States in the present Mexican situation “Other s these countries and have a right protect those interests if we do see to it that they are protected “And if other nations are forced to go in, then a war may come, which might be a real war. Our task is vers work that Ass: There’ with Mex is not going down into Mexico involving religion him do it if he to sig The Monroe in to not have interests Give me the decimeter of a man's intelligence, and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance,” Reed d. Heflin Intorrupts. Heflin here intejrupted the nator. and denied he had ed the religious issue. “You brought it on the floor of the Senate,” Reed ¥houted. - “Your voice rolled and rumbled from this chamber until the old waterlogs in the Potomac bobbed up and down in the river.' “Let tk nator go ahead,” Heflin shouted. I shall have something to say when he finishes." “Oh, I know you will,” Reed fired back. “And the rivers will flow on days without end.” Heflin replied that he had been motivated by no impulse other than his sincere opposition to war when he Senator Missour precipit BROO or NEWW convenience of Coach Service fro You step from the The Baltimore & O No long walks or Asst. 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Cahill, | Marbury 1 Standardization Is Studied. ‘ the there -were tings admission | of members an? a scientific sion | There was also a round table confer | ence on the progress of hospital stan- | dardi At the scientific session | Dr. Geor David wart pf York, president-elect of the American College of spoke ot the treatment tumors. | Stephen lottesville; | | Va s of the | stomach of this pa | per was led by Willis | | of Richmond of the morning session was by Dr. Howard | . o | F. Strine of Washington and dealt Leading tAES | ith thyroid surgery. Discussion w ‘! watched local physicians perform deli- | by [y Edmund Horgan speakers | cate operations at three hospitals this|at (he afternoon session were Dr morning. ank L. Hupp of Wheeling, W. Va.; The lelf'.\(\ were the members of the obert I’ Bay of Baltimore, Dr. American sllege of Surgeons from les H. Mayo of Rochester. Minn nd, Virginia: West Virginia and Thomas W. Moore of Huntington the District now holding their Va., and Harry B, Stone of ’unml meeting at the District ke, Va umbia Medical Society building A community health meeting savfield Hospital there were [ he held at the Medical Society Build- | s by Dr. Thomas Neill H. | ing tonight. to which the public is in- | Schoenfeld, Dr. H. T K and | vite nd at which motion pictures | W | Geors Wly | showing the functioning of the hady | will he shown under the dirvection of | Dr. Allen Craig Chicago lirector of the American widence | Surgeons, and! At the annual banguet of the {at the Mayflower last night, Dr jr.. Dr. J. M. |art criticized the prohibition law 1 Horgan and Dr. [said he wished there w a_ clearer | There were clinics | understanding of the value of alcohol | tions conducted by Dr. Adrug. He said that INEress as well have passed a law pre jventing people from eating certain the | foods which are not good for them | Dr. Mayo said that he favored pro | hibition, but was “nu bigot.” [0 DOCTORS OBSERVE OPERATIONS HERE Members of College of Sur- geons Attend Clinics in Local Hospitals. clinics for the i Following sectional me pant { Che on ul ssion Dr. A. Muratt The third paper H surgeons of three Dr b= Dy W R Dr of will At elin H Dr D College ations gave At oper; Dr. J. T. Kelley, number of of | wn ' Hospita tions of the there rations hody Stew a jons by without oper made his first speech iKnights of Columbus. “Why am 1 criticized by two of the sharpest tongued men in the Senate he asked. “ls it because qf Catholic constituents? Is it because of presi lential ambition?" Ends in Comedy. regarding CALL DISTRICT OFFICIALS.v | Witnesses Before Suhcommnm on D. C. Budget of House. ! the subcommittee | hudg of the The Alabaman’s speech ended \ touch of comedy which notably laxed the tension of the hamber. Warming up to a peroration. with one rous | he inadvertently swept his desk cle: lof great pile books, papers locuments, sending them hurtling to | the floor his chair and into the waste The galleries fell into a 2 viola tion of the rule against laughter the next instant Heflin lifted a h lean arm for a mighty thump on his de nd land e (S itoy ¥+ Robinson, assistant to the enginee Mayfield of ol Uhagenutor [0f highways; Dr. George F wormed within the line of ,,h,.; ',,\’ Shn [and other officials of the Wi ashington | peripatetic oration of the Alabaman, | PUblic Library Mayfield jumped from his seat and | moved over two rows to a zone of | Mrs. Mabel Bassett, mother of three a while Heflin reached his cli- | children. led the Democratic ticket ax In a roar of laughter from the | in the recent general election held in floor and galleries. | Ollanotis. with | e crowded ofticials witnesses hefe District District | again today . fap nd | the Commissioners and District N who the subcommittee | out prepara the District bill, other officials called at the heat 11 ing today are Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, .. Hunt, engineer of highways; L opr Besides | ations comr of Daniel Donovan e sit with tor ting through on of You Are Cordially Invited to the Novena in Preparation for the Conversion of St. Paul, Beginning January 17 —at the— National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Catholic University) Sermon Daily at 5 O’Clock P.M. Ry Rev. Francis P. Lyons (St. Paul's College) Novena Prayers and Benediction January 17 January 25 Ta= o — 4 —n o— L & &)) FITTIE KLYN YORK? Cr if you are going to NEwW YORK The same convenient trainside service takes you from Jersey City to the Motor Coach Stations Waldorf-Astoria 5th Ave. and 33rd-34th Sts. Pershing Square Building 42nd St., east of Park Ave., Tppolne the Grand Central e rminal and Commodare Hotel. ¢ Ohio modern Motor m trainside to the train_right into the hio Station, 191 Jor- stairs W. Phone: Main 3300. Pass. 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Cyvru adelphia publishe rman of the presider t announ to obtair ider wa | now stored The | Hal Mr By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA. January 18 ate Supreme Court today dismissed | the appeal of Joseph Cicalese to pre- | vent the taking of Philadelphia ballot Vare-Wilson senatorial Wast ey al Barry leave Iate planned to n today. and make angements there tomorrow for freight cars or motor trucks to tra pot the 2,000 boxes to the Capital They will be stored in the Senate Of iilding until after Mareh 4, when vecount will be started pav K 1 honor chay Ticited iy hoxes is cam 1 said Mr. Gib nsequential, save vears will be very worthy fice the hdlnl hoxes nate special com- | . contest brought by William B, Wilson [EVANS NAMED GOVERNOR. Demoerat William Vare, | Republican, orial seat in | Retired Naval Officer Going to Vir-| Whar- | i 2 Post United \ppointed it Department the | ot the ¢ the delivery to the S which 1 our v s W to rule William against for Americ a for the sen: was Walker succession to Senator George gin Islands Waldo Navy, retired, ernor of the announced at the Navy | this afternoon. He will late Capt. Martin Trench Capt formerly governor n Samoa Kvans States has been n Islands Aside - - ask for Horlick's \ The ORIGINAL Malted. Milk Pleas Brushed "he boxes are in the joint custody of Mayor Kendrick and John M. Scott prothonotary of the Philadelphia Civil Courts. 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