Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1928, Page 5

| » - HOOVER ASSAILED THE EVEN NG STAR. WASHINGTON ESDAY, JANUARY 4, \CITY'S GROWTH ATTRIBUTED TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT schools in the last fiscal year was $11,287.664. The estimated expendi- 8, rant $12,000,000 for the fiscal year which will begin July 1 next. Without going into detail regarding } of business, politics, liglon and mor: fiseal s 18 year I8 sked to tional affairs. fes that 8 men of the city is incalculable. ese organizations cover the fields soclal wellare, s, science, education art, patriotism, civies and of i A mere list of the boc have their headquarter would il se N SHIP SINKS AGAIN expenditures of the municipal govern- i branch offices here 1t would include Prepare for Christmas of 1928 By joining our Christmas Club (the largest in the City in 1927). Be.with us next year. Join one or more of our five classes. AS WILSON BACKER esidene Workers Now Exceed cnom With $ll.000.000 pay Roll Each Month. fi b"' fAnonymous Letter to Con- C ¢ B Bus; peet of gress Members Refers to IPSRROUNNS SRS S . o Nepemiltate. In 051 wis | Nationn! Geopamlt. Sodety. and: h e g ., while this year it will be| American Federation of Labor. 1918 Stand. The cost of health and Tocas: tis: Conventio: Nitation for the city has jumped m $2.219,691 in 1921 to $8731,060| This is the convention city withot llel. In recent ye; The cost of running the of the municipal gov- rly 100 conventions a year 1 $1,028,888, and 1 there were be mentioned in pasging | newspaper columns, enditure for highwiys has [ such organizations as the Chamber o 91 in 1921 to| ‘ommerce of the United States, Aner- | r, with a pros. Institute of Architcets, Daugh- ! v the next flseal the American Revo fon of life and | A Red Crosy, Pan-An ment, it n 1S CABLES BREAK Lost Vessel Brought to Sur-| face, but Lines Fail to Hold. ARTICLE 1L vear 1928 which will BY DONALD A. CRAIG, next, is approximately | For the fiscal 9 hington is the headqua of | to hle about $115,000.000. Ge : et greatest business in the world—a | Salaries gixlative branch cked in an anonymous letter sent | 1 Beat el IR T8 T ment 10 fiscal year are e 10 members of Congress, inclosing a | hundreds of thousands of men and hout $14,304.000. Thi copy of a letter written by Mr. Hoover | women all over the globe, and whose alaries of senators to Frederic R. Coudert of New York | pav voll in this ci one is nearly | representatives, employes of November 2. 1918, urging support of | §11.000.000 every month. House and workers in Iupsident Wilson. In the executive and branch offices | office of the The anonvmous_letter, which was | ¢ t1)js business organization there are | in the Libr mailed from New York in a plain en- { more than 560,000 workers, of whomw L H'“}h-*! S 0,000 live here. The rev- " : e, which is the largest of the husiness in one year is! printing establishment in the world | SIS0 S S0 Sdt c democratic | more than $4,000,000,000. The stock- | District Government saliries for th;!‘I.:Hm‘:,“\\:‘::;“‘“:} o anding the patri- | pald ve tire 120,000,000 people of | fiscal vear ara ahout $4.655.000, or | &G T LG Tires sub- of Repub- | (he United States. Congress, as the | about $30¢.000 more than in the zot Bureau wi A [ H ¢ udget Bureau with the he | hoard of directors chos these year. The estimated Distr Wilson | stockholders, meets he roll for the fiscal year 1 ti-admin- | At the head of the gi 1. 'uld be supplanted by | is the President of the United States. |~ Any important change in the num ast on_the | por of employes of the Government of . He Washington, or | Government. except the Arniy money they have to | Navy personnel, are taken into “ted In the husiness of | sideration, and the District Al estate operators, | ment salavies are included, the - te 11 of local busi- | in W < activity., A survey of busines 1907 ns in the National Capital nee. into consideration the s business ore spe- enormous pay roll. More Employes Now. por cent more Govern- | el o t_cmployes in Washington now | AS Washington has 1 the United States entered | lation. new probie Car. The reductions which | Sented in transportat > of the war | ton of the thousands « 1. The | in providing light. h and r L in phone and other maxi- | the f extendins World | best vaving sireets and rc 2 | and the pre viding new public s more teachers and mor | cilities 1o take o numbe and proy 1th and sanitation. | cong public welfare work, recreation and| ructed tr numerous other municipal activities, | Patomac The personnel and expenditures of | Washington the District government have expand led to the new demands, and these figures furnish another method ¢ judging the rate of growth of the | city. There was n big jump in the rev enues and the expenditures of the city government in the fiveyear period | umber 13 from the fiscal of 1921 to the | tectural heauty fiscal year of 1t 1 that time the | dling throngs from $15.033 expenditure 5, end June 30, £114,000,000 it is expected By the Awociated Press tary Hoover's republicanism is $50.00 Class Deposit $1.00 each week $100.00 Class Deporit $2.00 each week $250.00 Class Deposit $5.00 each week $500.00 Class Deposit $10.00 each week 21,000.00 Class Deposit 520.00 cach week / R Capt. Myhre, skipper of the Venosta, A AND TRUST_COMPANY o today described the weird scene us the T T ol 0 A ——— SR eE S S tional Education Association held dereiict ieht fast in the powerful its convention here In IFebry 1926, Whichy M Vanoute Htd ended by 15,000 pe i o il 26L Eaprte. N eIy il u\lr‘l‘:.. I R in the past. But a glance at some of L 15h the surfa the presentday or those 2 ¢ . ves of the erew " i of quite rceent years, reveals a very 5 N s P w rrect, cs and | improssive picture. strange brillianey 17 Phe city today has about 60 hotels, powertul flood lights of the ttay th a total of 12,000 rooms, exclusive lighted the shattered hulk with an BRANCHES : ! bl imost phosphorescent glow g t innumerable rooming houses 1 Phosy nt g " (5 e the fourth best equip The derelict hune in sy th and Masachusetts Ave. hotel eity in the Nation, being s o sea W Northeast-8th and H Ste. NE. urpassed in this respect by New 4 2 S Atlantic City and Chicago. Southwest—Tth and E Sts. S.W. Northwest—1140 15th Se. N.W. & cenment in 14 this year it is § me news ! ster fish | " which went the hurricane of Counell of Learned met here | August, - Wi CERUETECIEOT Tor t week. It comprised 17 different | flecting moment at dawn on New Year organizations. Alrcady 51 conventions | doy on the fishing banks. Then she are scheduled to mect here in 1525, | dvopned into the depths as eable and nobody can predict at this time | parted how many more will come. | The It is estimated that an average of the (o <ons from outside Washing- | ocean fi attended conventions here | fean annually in the rs. They | with no spend something like $2,000,00, or even every year here. Wien the de- tment of superintendence of the Columbia, The total actual expenditures of the bottom in a ernment in the last fscal ,501. The appropri- present fiscal year ag- ate a little more than $39.000,000, | while it is estimated that the Dis- of Congress, the Bo cam trawler Venosta wrested mbia from her tomb on the r where the pride of Amer | oner r met her fate urvivor of a crew of 20 (o Near 130,000,000 This Year. When all branehies of the ! prurative figures are not alwuys avail- ihle. Detailed inventories of the el privote business have not been made I5th and Penna. Avenue pital. Surplus and Undivided Profit- Over £6.900,000. teral ind the fiscal yea estimated i steady incres | e to Washington for 1important reasons, One is the and comfort of the city. An s the fact that the Federal CGov. | ernment is | Transportation fa cilities X 1d not the jeast inducem 't that Washing- | ton Ml - disseminating | news the whol world not surpazsed anywhere oise There was no chanee to IDISTRICT ACCOUNTING |, o i CHANGES ARE ASKED 1" 400 e v awls first num show Central-- t ped [ little trawle Then i yith e sudden | waves, it dropped plummet and out of sight i the thr ineh steel eables which had hauled it 1o the surface parted under the seain, | wn in popu- enormous increise in ghe number have been pre- | of stores and moving picture theaters has been apparent to all. There are 5 moving pictu tors in the eity, magnificent nd in the world. 12 speaking th structures of th Washington ha with a total seat- | 047 person: uilron he situation today the future. It time caught the e, those on the Venosta ht o fthe Dawn, the missing am- in - monoplane in which Mrs. W. rayson and her s hid disappeared while on v to Newfoundland, the city. | Efficiency Bureau Describes Audit- ed around the ¢ to keep pace e Nation. pay roll in s ing of Vouchers on Purchases They believe service to the| i e times as large and | it v we entered the war. It - | has been cut down from the war peak £ nd is now actually increas- D. J. KAUFMAN. Ixec. 1005 Penna. Ave. 1724 Penna. Ave. ment this k®and a ed between | as Cumbersome. and ria on_the <outh side of the Potomac River. This| Certain changes in the method of is the largest railroad yard south of [aceounting for materials purchased for e Tateint Take | 10 Engincering Department of th sht coming into the city | Municipal government are recomme 1 in a report received by the Dis- | Union § rict Commissioners today from the In archi-f poderal Bureau of Efficiency | The Commissioners also received | another report from the bureau de scribing the preparation and auditing | of vouchers covering payment for sup- | plies purchased as cumbersom s | re five different processes shington | through which a voucher must pass s that It | hefore completion of the ndustr audit,” sald the lacte housands whole procedure requires more time ollars to the city lon the average than the usual dis- The greatest movement of | count period of 10 days. The voucher Spring, but they {jg delayed too long for the District ound, with alws government rightly to take advantage 8 of discounts. in in. From the litth who came here with ernment w warty in the 1 THIS WEEK ONLY Men’s Special 20% DISCOUNT Business Suits Top- coats Quercoats, heavy Overcoats, very heavy Cleaned the “FOOTER” Way FOOTER' 1332 G St. N.W. Phone Main 2343 1784 Columbia Rd. Phone Col. 720 Phone—Our Truck Will Call the F n it moved ] , the number of Fe ased in 1916 to | | in the | sy These figures !and those which follow with respect to al employes, except where speci- ted. do not include employes tive and judicial branches the Government nor commissioned, ed and enlisted_personnel « N v _and Marine Cory nor employe t . Coudert and was . Toover's lett November 2 1 in the mor 5. 1918, passenger trains a in part We Invite Charge Accouns- Buy on the Budget Plan model for | over., United Support Urged. ve yours of Novem! Tourists an Industry. sum we must | President. Pay As You Get Paid No Interest or Extra C’mrges CROWDS!! CROWDS!! hat we | Of_the District governm ned lead-| B¥ the time the war ceased the | number of employes had mounte | the enormous & tlonal purposes amoun | whom 117,760 were living in the Dis- | $1 The estimated reasing trict and its suburbs. | s field for the Now Over 60,000 | cal year are $2.6 it penditures o3 r the number of Fed- | | gated $5, Woshington gy nning of that pe of the local governn numbe 1o steady women who ¢ ally business crnment, mounts at’ all seasons portions stream of men and here on business. with the annuall 1t incr of the ction | in the rehabjli- | Our object in to =ee the establishment . With a_cor s in the central em- side of Wa responsibieto their ¢ of a's bure he world. eral i during ) . e up for the failure in | when ot i President | page vears to provide enough modern | present session of ¢ tal s Ir" ident Coolidge | school bufldings and to permit the well into June. This will| ge carried forward, resulted in | public school author to get rid of | ring and ¢ of excep- reductions in the size of the | wooden portables and in son v business for W each . until a low m; stop wding in Jfor e assrooms of the class of old is no city in the I December 31, 1926. By the | brick structures Washington o or st gpune the, number, had | Washington schools are fumous all | quarters for every concelvable sor 800 while “it was 60,267 : wy and | A national organization without fts 2 modern methods of instruction. The | main ofice or a branch office in the Z_R;;ak In Ii-gr'”ll “,l!;;:ylh;:‘i ore;;]nl.,\' inadequucy of school buildings has | Capital City is coming to be an excep- 7.510 Federsl e ves here, their | held them back, but this want is being | tion. What this means and what it salaries aggregated $42.536.340 a year. | overcome, | The expenditure for | will mean fn the future to the busi- iifiml{v}oumed "to “approximately “;t"! A S 450 and? hington. | attempt to 1 mgress will prob- of their milltaristic sen to Monument to Genius. September 1, e is no ater monument to | : nius than the ¢ ith the MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U S L reasury wtocracy ¥ through the G their allied peoples themselves, President will not only millio of Course! It's Olll' Annual MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE All Fine Suits and OVCI‘CO&tS _ All $45 Suits 328.7 3 $33.75 (Extra Pants to Match, $o) All $55 Suits, $36.75 (Extra Pants to match, $8) - following estimated totals show | 2 how the Washington pay roll of the ! ve the | Federal Government has fluctuated in | boys und | recent fiscal years: | this course D. C. MASONIC CLUBS IN JOINT CEREMONY Senator Wheeler to Address Organ- izations Tonight Marking In- stallation of Officers. R s Attan rank Kell // Sepator Wheeler of ” J.F Kelly, Inc. I Ve the speaker tonight Soint allation of officers of the Masonle | Clubs of the District of Columbia || e to be held at the City Club at & = | / 7 ocloek. . E ) 4 The merting will be under the au- . 1 ady ard of the 7 //// . ¢ which M. D. Hen- 7 oy mes T. Gibbs, y e s of the Dis- / g s, will deliver the . N\ 7/ a Do You Need in The Line of MILLWORK small Ore th NN ——— %///// \ N Pries of /,'{;'"Z: T ’\C‘ N erethonies of inviallation, | 2 ks > ? 1 e | ( to close two of our Norman | olderstoresand con- " Gy 1. % entrate d n! centrate downtown! H. War- All $50 Suits (Extra Pants to Match, $8) Don't let aiaper irritation or other skin disorders fret your baby. The soothing, healing propertics of Resinol have for years been successful in reliev- ing skin irritations of all kinds. Rashes and eczema— often, Elmer commity, usser headed by ix composed of the of the clubs, s n, Anchor Our Entire Stock of 2.500 Quality Suits, and all our Overcoats. Blues. 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We are all seers in the City of Life, How much we see ' \ depends upon the keenness of our vision. 1f it's / 10 par we should know it, and keep it that wa ” >N % 1" o's 4, i ois up to us to know n oand N / 4 correct discrepancy. Ty inere your powers d f observation, the first step i the sight direction ould be diected toward Pz dor & complete eye examnation See Etz and See et 1217 G Streets not for low normal any $l.39 J tor 84 D 7th & K And two stores about to close 414%h 233 Pa. Ave. S.E. RN D 1003 Pa. Ave. Y Pa. Ave.