Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1927, Page 3

Cpemn've Apartment Homes [“l'\' Washington's Most Desirable Co-operative Building | | | Congress, MEMOIRS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1927. OF UNCLE JOE CANNON As Told to L. WHITE BUSBEY, His Confidential Secretary for Many Years. CHAPTER II. nearly erything..- that 1s published about Roosevelt there is some reference to the fact that he never took up the tariff question when he was President,” said Uncle Joe Cannon in continuing his story of Theodore | Roosevelt. “But he did toy with the idea. On the last day of November, | 1904 the future policy of the party, and in It was a paragraph in quotation marks ! ggesting tariff revision. He did not v that it was a quotation from the ge he was about to send to but he did say that he thought @f making such a recommen- dation to the legislative branch, and | invited my opinion. Phillips Terrace Apartment 1601 Argonne Place Just North Col. Rd. at 16th NN 7% 722 % 2 Several very aftractive Apartments ranging in size from one room, reception hall, kitchen, bath, to four rooms, kitchen, reception hall, bath and p h. . SERVICE UN RENTALS RE. William S. Phillips & Co. Inc. 1432 K St. NW. Adams 8710 Main 4600 CELLED ASONABLE 7 % ~— 24 Don’t plunge in. Before you rent see Corcoran Courts 23d & D Sts. Furnished or Unfurnished Apartments $39.50 to $87.50 CAFRITZ 14th & K Main 9080 o PR A IR Stained Teeth Made White. in days! l Thousands of people have dis- covered this new, better way ... WO substances are necessary 10 whiten teeth and keep mouth and gums healthy. But in & single tube they are useless. A remarkably simple device— the double tube—has at last made pos- sible the use of these two necessary in- gredients. One tube is within the other. The two substances are squeezed out to- gether and you brush your teeth at the moment they are mixed. This is the ideal way to white teeth and firm gums. Dental authorities say “This si the surest way to white teeth.” Thousands are dis- covering the surer, quicker results of NEW-MIX. Try one tube and you'll sce the difference for yourself. Get NEW-MIX ab any Peo- ples Drug Stores or at any other good store. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE_TO STOCKHOLDERS. The annual Election of Officers and Direc- f the Washington Six Per Cent Per- manent Building Association wil 1 At the office of the Assoc now. on Wednesday, M: open from 9 am, to pm, L. G. OSTERMAYER. Secretary. FULLY EQUIPPED OFFICE AND WAITING yoom suitable for physician or dentist. lo- cated mear Commerce Department. for ‘rent St rengonable rental {o reliable tena MORRIS WOODWARD, realtor. PART LOAD RICHMO! & | cisive way: | some | Houses—Senators “I received the letter just as T was selting out for Washington, and when I arrived T called on him and discussed his letter. I agreed with of his' proposals, but advised against opening the tariff question in December, when it could not be dis- posed of before Summer. I don't know what effect my argument had, but there was nothing ahout the tariff in his message. ‘White House Conference. “About the middle of February, shortly before the adjournment of Congress, he toyed with tho idea again and for the last time. At that tirae there was agitation for tariff vision from, strange to sa men who, as a class, have alw: opposed to ‘tariff tinkering,' A group of manufacturers of agricultural im. Plements in the West thought they saw a large field abroad if they could get, cheaper steel, and from them the agitation started “Their arguments had been pre I have never believed that the tariff should be framed in the interest of a class or a group; it should be for the benefit of all, of manufacturers and workmen alike. The country was prosperous. We knew from long ex- perience, too, that no matter how great an improvement a new tarifl may be, it almost always results in the party Jp power losing the next election. “Well, about the middle of Febru- ary, 1905, I got an invitation to the ‘White House. When I arrived I was shown into the cabinet room, where I found, sitting about the table, a group of the leading members of both Aldrich of Rhode Island, Allison of Towa, Hale of Maine, Platt of Connecticut, Cullom of Illi- nois and Penrose of Pennsylvania, and Representatives Payne of New York, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Gros- venor of Ohio, Tawney of Minnesota and Dolliver of Towa. Asked for Advice. “The President came in. buoyant as always, and seemingly with nothing more important on his mind than a game of tennis, He explained briefly that a good many people had urged him to say something in his inaugural address about the tariff, and he was inclined to favor the idea of advising Congress to take up the matter of revision when it met the following December, It could not, of course, take it up in the few remaining days of its existence, but such a recommen- datlon in his inaugural address would put the whole subject before the country for discussion. “He asked us to give him our views and he turned to Senator Aldrich to start the ball rolling. Aldrich, you remember, was chairman of the finance committee, which deals with such subjects, I knew he had made his arrangements to go abroad almost im- mediately after the adjournment of Congress, March 4, and spend several months investigating European cur- rency systems. Therefore, I was sur- prised when he briefly commended the idea the President had suggested. Only Two in Opposition. “I knew, or thought I did, that he was opposed to any tariff revision at the time. Either he did not want to lead the opposition to what he sup- posed to be the President’s views, or he thought it would be more politic to wait for a better opportunity. Any- how, to my astonishment, he indorsed the idea, and so, almost as much to my surprise, did Allison and Hale, though they were not overenthusi- astic. “Then the President turned to the Representatives, and Payne, the chairman of the ways and means committee, which initiates all tarift legislation, fell right in line and in- dorsed the President’s idea. So did Tawney and Grosvenor. All this time Roosevelt was sitting on the table, swinging his legs, listening, asking a question now and then, but for him remarkably quiet. “Now he turned to Senator Orville H. Platt, and Platt spoke out vig. orously in opposition to any tariff re- vision. He put his opposition in the most forceful terms. The president, still swinging his legs, listened. with- out an interruption, and when Platt got through asked me for my views. I said: ‘Senator Platt has expressed my opinion.” The President got off the table, grinned broadly, and said in his in- ‘It is evidently the con- A been | sensus of opinion that the tariff should 0927, CAll ship , should _be BLE FOR of the ¢ War. as fo wd other matters will be furnish- st. by either of the following aren G, Harding Camo:, Mr. ns he nan, 11 R st 108 Varnum st the_ Evange 34 John Seward. I WII ; debts_contracte I.. ANDERSON. i REE s, 1 rsi-class ,,, ERG v hed #ns put in ich soil 10th_st A RETURN Li w _York. Phil ‘ne. ) 96 AD OF F delphia_or B R AND STOR PERS__WHY HAVE DIRTY Hoover's cycl il wash 6 gallons, $1.25. delive . Est. 1 not be revised until after the next presidential election.” Never Heard of Again. “He did not ask another question, |and that was the end of the great and mighty discussion over the tariff. The after the next presidential election, three years and nine months away, but was never again heard of as long as Roosevelt was in the White House. As we drove away from the White House we all laughed consumedly over his ‘consensus’ consisting of Orville Platt and myself. “I don’t think, at that, that he w: influenced by what we two, or rather Platt, said. I think he had already |made up his mind that the introduc- OUR REPUTATION | AS ROOFERS wide, and our m; Derience is at your serv Call North 26 o IRONCLAD Eztex T NEVER DISAPPOIY BYRON S, ADA PRINTING IN A HURRY High grade, but not high priced. 11th W ts 9th & Evar Ste. N.E. AMILLION DOLLAR =—printing nlant eauipped to handle every kind of printng fob. The National Capital Press 22101212 D ST. N.W, Phone M. 650 y sears' ex- | 5 Compare —this beautiful new English type resi- dence in Chevy Chase, D. C,, with any home in Wash- ington at anywhere near— | $22,500! {h 3830 Garrison Open every eve- ning this week for your inspection. | Drive West on Harrison | to 38th and South to ‘ Garrison | N. L. Sansbury Co., Inc. | 1418 Eye St. N.W. Main 5904 after his clection to the presi- | dency, he wrote me a long letter about | sented to me, but I was nct impressed. |- civillzation, but to benefit himself. He subject was not only postponed until { ‘consensus of opinion'—the | / AH this time Roosevelt was sitting on the table swinging his legs. law, to extend the operations of the secret service until the detection of | counterfeiters—its only legal power— {became almost lost in the multipli | of its activities. Our wars helped this |tendency along, for when spies were eded here was an organized spy tem right at hand, and after the were over it was pretty hard to | get back into the old lawful channels. In fact, Presidents-didn't try very hard; some of them, even in time of | peace, went on extending and increas- ing the duties and powers of the secret tion of the tariff question would pro- voke a long and acrimonious debate and endanger other legislation in which he was much more interested. “He didn’t care for the subject and didn't know anything about it. I say this without in any way disparaging him. He frequently admitted it. Economics, figures, statistics, sched- ules, a balance sheet—all these things meant nothing to him. They made no appeal to him, they seemed dull, sor- did things. Which is a curious thought, considering that Roosevelt was a man of powerful imagination, |service. and to a man of vivid fancy one would | “Yet all this time the secret service think the romance of business, which | Was nominally engaged only in pr bas been the inspiration behind all |venting counterfeiting, and annually our marvelous achievements, would |it had to base its requests for appro- stir_his pulses. priations on that ground. Of course, “To Mr. Roosevelt, I think, the [the money demanded iMcreased every pioneer, the hunter, the trapper, the |¥ear; and in 1908 the chief of the ‘se- soldler, was a heroic figure, almost |cret service admitted to the House one of fhe heroes of mythology, while | committee that he had to commit per- he pictured the business man safe and | Jury every time he signed the pay roll secure from attack and thinking only | for his operatives.” of his profits. I think, if the truth (Covyright were known, he rather despised trade. And yet the pioneer and the little shopkeeper of the pioneer days, and after the shopkeeper the small mer- chant who was succeeded by the cap- tain of industry, were in no respect different, except that the merchant took greater risks. ““The ‘pioneer broke into new ground not_because he was an apostle of | 1927.) all its streets. ™ SAVINGS % n 5: BAN A SAVINGS 710_1 Nealg went to the unbroken lands because he saw opportunity. Tt was profit, al- ways profit, that allured him. So it was with the man of business. The hardships of the pioneer were his, the heat and cold, privation and the In- dian; there was no distinction, and while the settler brought with him only his meager stock of household goods and his strong right arm and his courage, the merchant in addition had put his money in his stock to be sold for the comfort of the community, and what he lacked in muscle he made up in shrewdness ‘and intelligence. The-men-who bridged the rivers and built the railroads were not the only pioneers.” The Rooseveli-Cannon Row. “My- personal row with President | Roosevelt,” resumed Uncle Joe, after he had finished telling the pleasant side of his relations with that states- man, *came at the end of his admin- istration, and it was sharp while it lasted. It set the country by the ears for awhile, and yet it arose from so simple and apparently trivial a thing as this—that the secret service wasn’t legally a general agency for the de- tection of crime. Not one person in a hundred knows this, but it is the fact. Detective stories without num- ber have heroized the secret service, and its powers have been pictured as endless, but by law it existed only for the detection of counterfeiting. “It was, however, such a handy in- strument for finding out ‘things that admipistration after administration | continued, wholly without warrant of | Brookland Courts 1218 Perry St. Free Frigidaire Service ‘We are offering in these two modern, fireproof buildings the best rental values in the entire city, Apartments of five rooms and bath as low as $60- per month, “AJl apartments have hardwood floors, full tiled baths with builtin. plumbing, in- cinerators and free Frigidaire service. Excellent janitor service, SULLIVAN BROTHERS 819 15th St. Main 7821 AUCTION NEW HOMES EASY TERMS Thursday, May 5th 4:30 P.M. 43rd Place and Chesapeake Street PERFECTION In Garage i Construction Built to last, in any style or size. is all you need to pay. Ask for further particu~ lars, WASHINGTON CONSTRUCTION CO. 200 K St. N.E. Lincoln 10100 Anthracite OAL Our April prices will be continued during May to allow those customers who have not filled their bins to take advantage of the lowest prices of the year. SUPERIOR ANTHRACITE is making new friends for us daily. Let us prove our state- ment that our coal is the better kind. John P. Agnew & Co. 728 14th St. . Main 3068 See the large de- scriptive advertise- ment elsewhere in this paper. Alexandria, Egypt, plans to pave | FRANCIS E. CROSS - DIESIN HOSPITAL :Retired Police Inspector Served for Three Years on White House Detail. Cross, retired police in- spector and a lifelong resident of | Washington, died at Sibley Hospital | Francis T | vesterday aft Funeral services | will be held at his late residence, 319 nth street southeast, Thursday noon. | morning at 10:30 o'clock with Rev. E. | | Hez officiating. and Lebanon Lodge, " A. A. M,, of which Mr. Cross was a member, assisting. Interment will be in Congressional Cemetery. = News of the Cross was recel | police headquarter ber of the force fol Swem Inspector regret -at a mem- He was death of ed with Served in Nav, Inspector . as born city on May 20, 1853. He served an apprenticeship as a painter in the navy yard and then entered the naval © for eight y After his dis. e from the Navy he engaged As a contract painter. On July 11, 1884, he was appointed a private in the Metropolitan police force. His rise from the ranks fol- lowed. He was made an acting ser- geant on March 7, 1891; sergeant on March 3, 1892 night inspector, July Bl aptain, May 10, 1901; in- July 1, 1906. At White House. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, and five other high police of- ficials will ,act as honorary pallbear- ers. The others are: Asst. Supts. C. A. Evans and H. G. Pra; H. H. Harrison, A. J. Headl W. Brown, During the Spanish-American War Inspector Cross was detailed at the White House as the lieutenant in { charge of the guard and he remained | at this post for threée years. He was secretary-treasurer of the Maryland | Division, Sons of Union Veteran: He {is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sallie H. : one daughter, Mrs. Gurley { B, Fry d two brothers, John Henry | of this city and Thomas Everett of | Maryland. In this spectc Officers Await Retirement. John C. Oakes Corps of Engi- stationed at Charleston, 8. C., |and Col. Allen Parker, United States | Infantry, at Huntington, W. Va., have been ordered to their homes and await retirement at the convenience of the | Government. To those immediatel Phone Main 2270 ational Capit THESE HOMES TODAY. Great Ex-Official Dead 8 RIS~ ”.&{we { . CROSS. MME. ORLOWSKA DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS | Wife of Second Secretary of Polish Legation Formerly Was Mrs. John Barrymore, Mme. Katherine Harris Orlowska, wife of the second secretary of the Polish legation, Léon Orlowski, died in New York vesterday after a short illness, according to word received here. Mr, Orlowski was with her when she died. She was years old. Mme. Orlowska was the first wife of John Barrymore and played on the stage as his leading lady. She wa a well known golf player and recentl lived at the Congressional Countr: Club. She was the daughter of Mrs. Kath- erine Brady Harris and tha late Sid- ney Harris of New York, and the granddaughter of the late John R. Brady, also of New York. She spent much of her .childhood in Flushing, Long Island. After obtaining a divorce from John Barryniore, she was married later to John B. Pratt of New York, from whom she obtained a divorce in Paris. She was married to Mr. Orlowski in New York in 19; If the Mayflower AND OTHER HOTELS WOULD USE THE NIGHT DEPOSIT VAULT OF THE FEDERAL- AMERICAN THEY WOULD EN. ¥ THE HIGHEST DE- OF PROTECTION. Wardman Management STONELEIGH COURT Connecticut Avenue, Corner of L St. Available for rent a few apartments, housckeeping‘ and non-housekeeping, furnished or unfurnished. desirable suites of offices on the first and second floors, admirably adapted for physicians. All suites are being put in peffect condition. v seeking an apartment there are offered the following, specially priced: Two Rooms and Bath, $65 per Month, to Nine Rooms and Three Baths, $270 per Month Complete hotel service, if desired Restaurant with a la carte and table d'hote service Breakfast, 25¢-§1.00; Lunch, 50c-65¢; Dinner, $1.00-51 Unlimited parking allowed on L Street INSPECT TODAY Apply at Office or Also, 25 Resident Manager INVITATION All Contractors and Sub-Division Developers Are Cordially Invited to Visit Our Demonstration of the UNIVERSAL POWER SHOVEL At 13th and L Streets, S.E. On Wednesday, May 4 & Thursday, May 5 Steuart Motor Company | Exclusive Fordson Tractor and Tractor Equipment Dealer 346 Penna. Avenue, N.W. Phone Main 3000 A Restrictep InviTATION OF COURSE, all who will may inspect at what length they please the three Sager-built homes. that crown with new: laurels the fine art of homebuilding in the Yet possession is reserved, We cannot help thinking, for you whose means and manners and home-ownership desires are in harmonious accord with residential comfort ande convenience and refinement such as you'll fall short of finding elsewhere. 4 SEE You've a treat in store! Exhibit Home 3846 Cathedral Ave. In the More Exclusive Residential Northwe:t To Inspect 7o out Mass. ave. 1o~ Cathe- National Cathedral. Open for Inspection Daily CHAS. D. SAGER REALTO% B 924 14th St. N.W. Main 36, 37, 38 | | | | | “wnls Connell. The title role; made |famous by Mrs. Mimiie adderh COMEDY IN THREE ACTS. y Fiske, will be played by, Miss Bessie Club Announces St. Paul's Acad- | Mills. Others appea s in-the cadt | will be: Hazel Conaghen, Ann | Mr. Connell, Gec | Dillon, _Adelaide rs. Bumpstead-Leight,” a com- | Deeds, Mary Kelly edy in three acts, by Harry James |Gaeorge Larkin and James Smith, will be presente® by the | A Mackin Club for the benefit of St Paul's Academy tonight and tomor- | row night. The pla emy Benefit Entertainment. a Broade: tablished at ta. Bombay the direction of About You! Think of the honest cffort that is put into paying rent for poor flats— Just what have the public schools done for this country? is under o Taiface o Bislaiek Howe Todiy At 1704 37th Street N.W. 1435 K Street Main 2345 Reduced Prices on New Homes in Edgemoor Never before has it been possible to buy a Home in Edgemoor—Washington’s most exclusive suburb, at at prices ranging from— $10,750 to $14,250 But here is a group, every one of which is worth more—but will be sold at these remarkable conces- sions. Beautiful types; wonderfully well built, fin- ished and fixtured. Exhibit Home 8 Montgomery Lane Open Every Day and Evening MCEEVER-'AOSS Deal With a Realtor Main 1415 K Street Don’t Miss Seeing These new 20x35-ft.—7-room Homes, 4 bedrooms, with 3 porches; tile bath with built-in tub, shower and fixtures; large garage opening on 20-ft. paved alley. Decatur St. Bet. 4th & 5thN.W Right near Sherman Circle on one of the highest points in Petworth 10,950 When you see these Homes you will realize what it means to share in the enormous savings and vast resources of The Cafritz Construction Company. Financed the Cafritz Easy Way Open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Either car line, 16th st. bus. or we will send out auto. CAFRIT: Owners and Builders of Communities M. 9080 14th & K NOW IN OUR OWN NEW HOME—1416 EYE ST. N.W. Sh News iro -mt;_ Eye St [@] W BEAUTIFUL PARKSIDE HOMES 6, 7 and 8 BIG rooms fpedical ldb:lbrln it Main 8949 SHAPIRO HOMES are selling FASTER than any OTHER homes in the city! WHY? BECAUSE they are the BIGGEST and BEST VALUE in EVERY location. —Come out tonight and inspect any of THESE homes and SEE for Yourself! )\ And up for BEST \'¥5. brick or stone construc- " tion, 1 or 2 tile baths, OIL burners and every feature. Exhibit Homes 1726 Irving St. N.W. 1718 Hobart St. N.W. Marietta Park Paved Streets and Alleys - NORTHEAST New Homes Only $500 Cash, $69.50 Monthly 8,990 7 LARGE rooms, semi- detached English de- sign, tile baths, built- in shower, BIG 145-ft. lots, ALL latest fea- o psmanas 7,95 Cash, Semi.detached .v e, ¥ 6 BIG rcoms, 5500 tures. . Exhibit Home 1817 Otis St. N.E. All Exhibit Homes Open 9 AM. to 9 P.M. Completely Furnished $69.50 for $8,950 Monthly Big 20x32, $9,950 . *10,990% rooms, semi-detached homes 2 Exhibit Home 3 425 Madison St. NW. 9