Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1929, Page 13

VIEWS SUBMITTED FOR COURTHOUSE Third Conference at Rock- ville May Settle Bond Issue Question. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md.. January 5.—More facts on the proposed new courthouse and jail as to costs, taxes, enlarged site and requirements of a rapidly de- Veloping community are expected to be laid before the courthouse committee, eounty officials and legislators at a third conference next Friday and an| acreement may be reached. Yesterday's conference was featured by the sub- mission of statements by mem the House of Delegates and Dr. Jones, State Senator. said ‘ “To the Building Committee on the New Montgomery County Courthouse | and the Board of County Commis- | sioners for Montgomery County “Gentlemen: We, the undersigned members of the House of Delegates | from Montgomery County, herewith | ienify our willingness to support an increase in the bond issue for the con- struction of an adequate fireproof court- house at Rockville, in the amount of as) ch of $150.000 as may be recom- | "’Sl’u?»d by the courthouse building committee and the architects as nec- essary for this important purpose “In the 1927 session of the Maryland Legislature, we supported a $250.000 county bond issue for the construction of a new courthouse at Rockvile and | 2 $50.000 bond issue for the construc- | fion of a new jail. Both of these bond | jacues were actually merely legislative | horizations to the Board of County | Commissioners of Montgomery County to issue such bonds if these projects could be completed without raising the county tax rate on that account . “The general reassessment of 1928. which added an additional $18.000,000 1o the taxable basis of Montgomery County (90 per cent of which increase 1 due to the higher valuations placed ‘on unimproved property in the subur- ban sections of Montgomery County »ot only made it possible for the Board | of County Commissioners to issue the $250,000 courthouse construction bonds | and the $50,000 jafl construction bonds without. increasing the county tax rate, | but also made it possible to issue the £150.000 bond issue for the construction of gymnasiums at the Rockville, Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Takoma- | Silver Spring High Schools, and to “build in 1928 (and temporarily finance) jadditional school construction in the ‘amount of $300,000 (which additional | {school Tooms are now available for the |present school vear) and to very largely complete the schedule of road construc- ion decided upon by the Board of ‘County Commissioners on May 1, 1927, all without increasing the county tax | rate. Previous Bond Issue. “We are advised by the clerk to the Board of County Commissioners that at the 1929 session of the Maryland Legislature Montgomery County can authorize $1,750,000 in additional county bonds without increasing the county tax rate. “We regard the existing bonded in-| debtedness of Montgomery -County as moderate and this condition is support- ed by comparison with other municipal- ities and counties and by the important fact that Montgoraery County bonds carrying a 415 cent interest rate have been reguls7iy purchased at above par by bankig¥ houses in New Yorx, tPmladfllphia. Baltimore and Washing- on, “Of the $1,750,000 additional bond is- sue that the 1929 Legislature can issue without raising the county tax rate, a considerable portion has already been obligated (by the statement of Senator Jones and the undersigned members of | the House of Delegates) to the Board of County Commissioners for the pur- pose of paying for the 1928 school con- struction and the 1928 road construc- tion, both of which have been tempo- rarily financed by the Board of County Commissioners. “In addition, we are committed in writ- ing to provide funds for the balance of the road construction program adopted by the Board of County Commission- | ers on May 1, 1927, | ‘The above commitment, however, will leave the present Legislature able to | issue a substantial portion of $1,000,000 | in new bonds for the purpose of addi- tional public improvement in Montgom- ery County without raising the present tax rate. “The following courthouse building committee has for the past two and one-half yvears been engaged in The | study of ne>ds and plans of a new court- house and main governmental admin- | istrative building for Montgomery Coun- ty. particularly as affecting the office space needed by the various agencles of the government of Montgomery County. The courthouse building committee coasists of Judge Robert B. Peter, Dr. Beniamin C. Perry, president of the | Board of County Commissioners; Clagett | C. Hilton of the Board of County Com- missioners; Preston B. Ray. clerk of | the Circuit Court: Berry E. Clark, clork | to the Board of County Commissioners, and Robert G. Hilton and Otho H. W. ‘Telbott, both of Rockville. | ““The courthouse building committee on | December 11, 1928, advised Montgom- ery County's representatives in the Maryland Legislature that a minimum of $438.000 would be required to build a courthouse of sufficient size to fur- nish the office space needed by the | various departments of the county gov- ernment as at present constituted and | to provide reasonable office space for | probable expansion in the next 10 years. | This plan has been approved by tho | courthouse building committee, and in- | cludes the construction of a jail in the upper story of the new courthouse. Join in Recommendations. “The architect, Rossel E. Mitchell of Chevy Chase, and the consulting archi- tect, Delos H. Smith of Washington, join in the recommendations of the courthouse building committee. The courthouse appropriation of $250,000 and the jail appropriation of $50,000 make $300,000 now available for this | construction, ‘We have complete confidence in the | ability of the building committee to | decide upon the amount of space need- ed, both now and in the immediate | f for the public offices of the and herewith agree to support | e ommend to pro- vide the space they regard as necessa “However, we most strongly feel that the new courthouse, to be built at a ction cost of over $400.000, | should be located on a site of adequate | ize to allow Montgomery County’s new courthouse and main~ governmental | buillding to have the advantage of | proper spacing and parking as an architectural set-off and balance. We regard the present courthouse site or square as entirely inadequate | for a new courthouse building of the | size recommended by the courthouse | building committee. “We, therefore, respectfully recom- mend to the courthouse building com- mittee and the courthouse architects and to the Board of County Commis- sioners that they consider the purchase of additional land for the courthouse square, and we agree to support an ad- ditional bond issue for the purchase price of the land necessary for tmsi much-needed enlargement of the main | public square of Montgomery County. “We believe that the courthouse prop- | erty could be extended either south or | west to the great advantage of the pres- ent and future generations of Mont- gomery County's citizens and taxpayers. “We respectfully call attention to the fact that $80.000 of Montgomery County general bond issue funds have already heen spent in the town of Bethesda widening Wisconsin avenue from the bers of | Eugene | The delegates | | | | reali Tbero-American International Exposition is Frank L. Goll, who will have charge of the corn he will show. By the Associated Press. | Spain’s influence through four cen- | turies of agricultural development in | America will be revealed by an elaborate | exhibit the United States is sending to Seville for the Ibero-American Inter- national Exposition March 15 to October 15. Under direction of Frank L. Goll, the , display will be arranged as a picture | story of the part live stock introduced by Spanish explorers has played in the | civilization of the Western Hemisphere. The exhibit will be conducted in the United States Building. which has been erected among other edifices to be used | by Spain and the countries she helped colonize at the zenith of her power. Historical Events Portrayed. Intricate miniature reproductions of | historical events bearing on American agriculture will tell of the first live stock brought to America from Europe by Christopher Columbus, under the flag of Spain, in 1483, and depict Coronado, in 1540, introducing sheep | and cattle into what is now the United States. One of the most interesting facts to be brought out in the exhibit is that in 1785 the King of Spain sent to George ‘Washington a fine Spanish jack and two jennets, stock the latter used for breeding purposes at Mount Vernon and which has had a profound in- fluence upon the mule-producing in- n_ingenious wave-making mechanism to the miniature scene the Department of Agriculture is to shew at the first live stock, introduced into America by early Spanish explorers. dustry of this country, the animals of which now have a value of a half | billion dollars. | ‘To add realism to the story, the De- | partment of Agriculture is preparing | miniature sceens of Spanish explorers | landing in the New World. Every re- | production is from authentic data, even ! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. WAR-BROKEN STATESMEN FIND REST IN NAPOLEONIC PALACE| INDEPENDENCE MOVE Deschanel, Pichon, Viviani and Klotz Sent to Magnificent Solitude to Recover Mental Poise. || his_intellectual fatigue, the result of| U. S. TO PAY SPAIN TRIBUTE (above) will add a touch of at Seville, depicting the landing of the Below of the department’s exhibits, and some 'U. S. WILL ACKNOWLEDGE DEBT TO SPAIN THROUGH EXHIBIT to the rolling of the sea and the char- acter of the terrain. Other exhibits will include corn, cot- ton. tchacco, wheat, sheep and wool, protective and sanitary measures against live-stock discases, dairying, poultry and roads. The poultry section will give prominence to chickens of Mediter- ranean origin—Leghorns, Anconas, Mi- norcas, Black Spanish,and Blue Anda- isians. In the sheep and wool exhibit the great influence which Spanish merino sheep have had on the wool industry will be shown. The first merinos were imported into this country in 1793. s Exhibit Is Friendly Mov Spain has been interested in activities of agricultural experiment stations, and the exhibit will reveal some of their work. There will be a compresensive display on general production and mar- keting of agricultural products. Held under auspices of the govern- ment of Spain, the exposition is for the purpose of strengthening the bonds of amity and understanding between Spain and the countries discovered or colon- ized through Spanish enterprise. The Congress of the United States appro- priated $750,000 for Federal participa- tion, two-thirds of which is to be used in erecting the United States building, which at the close of the exposition will become permanent quarters for the consulate at Seville, To direct American participation, the President appointed a commission of five members, with Thomas E. Campbell, former Governor of Arizona, commis- sioner general. Other departments of the Government, will have exhibits. Goll, who will represent the Depart- ment of Agriculture, is_senior physi- ologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry. District line to its intersection with the old Georgetown road, and that a similar $80,000 has already been spent in Silver Spring for widening Georgia avenue from the District line north of its in- tersection with Sixteenth street and the >olesville-Baltimore highway. If the property in the square be- tween Court street and the Frederick road west of the present courthouse were purchased as an addition to the court- house site, Montgomery avenue (the main business thoroughfare of Rock- ville and the main State highway over which all three State highway routes between Frederick and Washington con- verge through the business section of Rockville) could be widened from oppo- site the present courthouse to the Fred- erick road and so greatly improve traf- fic conditions now existing on this most imvortant arterial highway to Frederick | for the benefit of both through and local traffic. Such a widening would also eliminate the danger and inconvenience existing for years at the intersection of the Frederick road and Montgomery averue. “We believe that the town of Rock- vilie is a business and residential center of a most important and growing sec- tion of Montgomery County and we be- eve that its business center is as equal- v entitled to an apropriation for widen- ing its business street as were Bethesda and Silver Spring. All three of these important business sections are located on main arterial highways which require widening. “In view of the fact that the land be- tween Court street and the Frederick road, if purchased, would not only fur- nish adequate and economical space for the construction of the needed public offices of Montgomery County, but| would allow the front of the new court- house to present its best view to the main street of Rockville and the county, | and also serve to eliminate the existing bad traffic conditions on Montgnmory‘ avenue from Court strect to the Fred- erick road, we respectfully recommend to the Board of County Commissioners | 2nd the courthouse building committee | that this land be purchased and added | t the courthouse site and that the | cessary legal steps be taken to close t street and add that street to the courthouse site. “We desire further to state as a mat- ter of record that while we are content to accept the recommendations of theE courthouse building committee and the | architects on the courthouse with re-| gard to the office space needed and the | interior design of the courthouse, we feel that the drawings of the proposed | front of the courthouse as now lmd(‘r" consideration are of too standardized a general type to give Montgomery County the benefit that it should derive from the appearance of its new court- house and main administrative build- | ing “ | “We feel that the exterior is now| designed too much along the lines of conventional office bullding and_ high school construction and respectfully hope that the new building on the en- | larged site can be designed with in- | creased majesty of architectural effect. | “Montgomery County has _already | provided $300,000 for the construction of the new courthouse and jail and we are expressing our willingness to provide an additional $150,000 for construction purposes in addition to the money necessary to properly enlarge the court- house site and we belleve that the architectural design of the county's most important and costly public build- ir‘lg should be given greater considera- jon. “Respectfully submitted, “DR. GEORGE L. EDMONDS, ICHARD H. LANSDALE, “E. BROOKE LEE, “HARVEY J. WHITE.” Views of Senator Jones. Statement of Dr. Eugene Jones read at the conference yesterday: “The Honorable Board of the County Commissioners and Courthouse Building Committee: “Two years ago over 200 people from every section of this county met in this courthouse to consider the advisability and feasibility of adding to the present courthouse for the purpose of protecting the records of the clerk’s office from The matter of erecting the clerk’s office on one corner of the courthouse square and conneating the same with a covered runway was discussed, but a majority of those present thought 1% better to build a new front with wings on either side extending beyond the present side walls. Architects were requested to give the members of the General Assembly from this county an estimate of the cost of such a front, and also the cost of a new jail on a new site not too far from the courthouse. The members of the Legislature were told that $250,000 for the courthouse addition and $50,000 for a new jail would be sufficient for the needs of our county government for some years. “Acts were passed authorizing the sale of bonds to the amount of $300,000 for the above-mentioned purposes, and said bonds were sold at a premium. Two years nearly have passed, and about all that has been accomplished is the purchase of a piece of ground at a high figure, east of Montgomery avenue, near the building formally used as a livery stable by the late Jacob Poss. Plans for the proposed fail, plans and drawings for the proposed new front to the courthouse, and an in- spection of courthouses with jails on top, and a_request by the honorable Board of County Commissioners and building committee, that the members of the Legislature from this county pass another act authorizing the issuing of an additional $150,000 worth of bonds, in order that the jail may be erected on top of the courthouse, and the new wings extended an additional 15 feet on either side for more room to carry | on the county’s business, and to accom- modate 30 jail cells, and the payment to date of $7.500 to the architect. Frontage Is Criticized. “I am of the opinion that these en- ]argcdd\'mg: give a frontage all out of proportion to the square upon whi thr‘nmur!hmlse'is taten “It appears to me, after seeij plans for a few minutes, that 1.?1‘: g:s tension of 15 feet on either side is ex. tended to furnish the necessary office space that could have been utilized in the original drawings which show so much waste space taken up by hall- ways and lavatorles “What assurance have the t; - ers that the members of the 1931 Gene eral Assembly will not be asked for another bond issue to complete this monstrosity of a front you propose to add to this building, if ‘we should ac- ceed to the wishes of the county com- missioners and building committee? “I have been rather liberal heretofore in voting for bond issues for schools, roads and substations or county bulld- ings in the lower sections of the county, at a cost of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), making a total of three hune MEYER CONCLUDES GREAT CLEAN-UP Federal Farm Loan Head Ends Quiet, but Effective, Purging of Process. BY { When it comes to lending oceans of | public money to “stabilization corpora- tions” and other agricultural institu- | tions under farm legislation in | Hoover administration, there will be | just one man in Washington who will know most about all | problems. That man is Eugene Meyer, | present farm loan commissioner of the Federal G;overnment. Mr. Meyer is just concluding one of the biggest—and yet one of the | quietest—cleanups that has ever hap- | pened in the Government's history. In | the course of a relatively few months {he has ruthlessly house-cleaned our Federal land banks, our agricultural intermediate credit banks and our joint stock land banks, all coming under the supervision of the Federal Farm Loan Board, of which Mr. Meyer has been the operating executive since the Spring of last year. Purifying Process Terrific. Various officers of such banks in various parts of the country have been conveyed to jail or have been sentenced to jail or are now under indictment or are on their way to indictment. The purifying process has been gigantle and terrific, and t there has been no | making of ploitation of purposes and no impairment whatso- ever of the reputation and credit of our Federal agricultural banking system. In , instead of an impairment, there has been an enhancement. Mr. Meyer is now selling the bonds of the banks under his care at a better figure than was obtainable when he took of- fice and began investigating and prosecuting. When it is remembered that the securities involved in our Fed- eral agricultural banking system have now reached the titanic sum of $2.000.- 000,000, the scope and the delicacy ,n{ Mr. Myers accomplished task be- come apparent. He has been in the public service in Washington now for a decade. He i about years of age. He had made a vast fortune in private business by the time he was 40. He lent several hundred million dollars of public money to agricultural institutions and to banks as managing _director of the United States War Finance Corporation—and got the money back. He has prob- ably now made a lot. more money for the United States Government than he ever made even for himself. “Jim” Watson Wins. His greatest achievement, though, has undoubtedly been his noiselessness as a vacuum-cleaner of the Federal agri- cultural banking system over which he now presides. He has cleaned it in the midst of noiselessness instead of noise- someness. ‘The Federal Farm Land Board smells perfectly sweet again now, and the Republican party feels very grateful to Mr. Meyer. ‘The Republican party can also brag on “Jim" Watson. “Some” Republican is Jim. He said some mighty mean things about one Herbert Hoover at Kansas City last June. Then one Her- bert Hoover, instead of Jim, got the Jim, however, then just recently went and got the Republican nomination and election, that is, the certainty of it, as the Republican leader of the next Sen- ate in place of “Charlie” Curtis, who will become Vice President. Jim, as Republican leader, will be able to do dirt to Herbert as President. But does he plan to do it? He does not. Does he glare at Herbert and whet a knife for him on his sole? No, sir-ree. Does he intend to trip Herbert up and lay him low and have revenge upon him? On the contrary! Jim is a “regular.” Let us now do homage to the virtues of ‘“regulars.” God, presumably, will punish their vices. Let us reflect, with awe, upon their vir- tues of forgetfulness and their virtue of forgivingness. Just as soon as Herbert was nomi- nated at Kansas City, Jim wholly for- gave him for provoking him into making mean remarks about him. Jim also for- gave himself for making the remarks. In fact, he entirely forgot the remarks. He also entirely forgot the reason why he ever made them. Herbert was now “the leader of the party.” That was enough for Jim. Not one “reformer” in 20,000 in the same circumstances could do it. Let us take due note of something or other in “regulars.” | HEADS COMMUNITY BODY. F. G. Augustine Elected by Asso- ciation in Seat Pleasant. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, M{., January 5.— F. G. Augustine was chosen president of the Seat Pleasant Fire and Com- munity Welfare Association at the an- nual election held in connection with the last meeting. Other officers named were: R. J. Panholzer, vice president; H. F. Rudolph, secreiary; I. 1. Main, treasurer; H. E Donn, chief; J. E, Farr, assistant chief: C. G. Penkert, captain; George Cady. first lieutenant and Frank Duvall, second lieutenz Clarence Mace was named trustee for three years. — . Hagerstown Schools to Open. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. January 5.— Schools will reopen Monday affer six days’ delay due to the prevalence of influenza, it was announced today by Superintendent Byron J. Grimes. dred and sixty thousand dollars ($360,000) for additional buildings to carry on the county’s business, to say nothing of the amounts for roads and schools in all parts of the county. “I have voted both in the finance committee and on the floor of the Sen- ate during the Ritchie administration to keep down appropriations so that the’| State tax rate would be reduced. It has been reduced and the State has progressed very materially in schools, roads, the preservation of health and many other ways. |. “Why cannot this county's tax rate | be lowered without interfering with its | progress and prosperity? I believe it can. How? By a close scrutiny of all appropriation bills and requests for funds which may be asked of us during the coming session of the Legislature, and a careful consideration of the real | necessity of such measures, “I am going to begin this session by opposing this extra bond issue of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (8150,000) because I do not believe it is necsssary, and I shall endeavor to treat all other requests for more bond issues the same way, if in my judg- ment they do not appeal to me more strongly than the proposition we have before us. “In taking this stand for a redue- tion of taxes I am reasonably sure the majority of taxpayers of this county are in sympathy with me, because, after all, it is not a question of how much gain we may or may not have in the taxable basis of the county, for an increase in the basis does not, always mean a reduc- tion in the rate. “What the average taxpayer is con- {‘rm:g with L: t}rlohnmounlt of taxes he as to pay out of yearly earnings, “DR. !&!m JONES.“ "~ ‘State Senator.” | WILLIAM HARD. | the | such ! Republican nomination for President. | JANUARY 6. By the Associated Press. LA MALMAISON, France, January 5.—This is the city of the living dead. Light and gay, even frivolous at times. in those days of the First Empire, when. | Josephine, Napoleon’s vivacious ' creole: Empress, held court here. it has be- come under the Third Republic, the refuge of harassed and broken down politicians and statesmen, the “Pan- theon ot former great Frenchmen still alive.” The war which on the flelds of prime of life, the flower of France, also levied a terrific toll among ifs states- men, who wrestled with the problems of the rear and lived the hours of anguish | when the enemy hammered at the | gates of Paris and the cancer of treason | was gnawing at the country's vitals | from within. The former lost their lives with a smile, but the minds of the latter foun- dered in the gloom with the rictus of terror or vacancy on their faces. Four former leading statesmen of France broke down mentally since the Armistice. ‘They were all interned in La Malmaison. To have since died. Paul Deschanel, President of the | French republic, and Rene Viviani, | French premier at the declaration of | war, came to La Malmaison and left it {only to go to their graves. i Pichon Is Inmate. Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign | affairs in Clemenceau's war cabinet, and { more recently Lucien Klotz, minister - | of finances in the same government, are still inmates of the sanatorium. Situated in a magnificent park ar- | renged by Napoleon for Josephine, the immense building, surrounded by flog- iers even in the coldest days of the Win- ter, gives one the impression of an arti- ficial paradise, for which it was in- tended, rather than & house of gloom. ‘The greatest secrecy is maintained by the attendants concerning the actions of the patients. A pretty nurse, still young, but on whose features sad experience has al- ready traced the imprints of age, told the correspondents inquiring after M. Klotz: “This is a private sanatorium: | no one here will speak to you."” | Yet it could be learned that when of the great clipper ship. battle mowed down 1,500,000 men in the x-President Deschanel lived here|same men of science 920 1 PART 1. overwork and anxiety during the war, | was of the mildest character. He was| the first of the quartet of great French- | men to be stricken down, a few months after he had achieved his life’s ambi- | tion and reached the highest honor | which the republic can bestow, the | presidency of France. | He wandered through the large park, | his unfailing good humor and impeach- ‘| able politeness never failing him. but he | | had to be watched lest he enter into one of the ponds that glisten in the | beautiful sunlight. “I have seen too much | blood and fire,” he would say with a | sad smile when warded off the water, as_if waking from a dream. ' He died in 1924. Viviani Mildly Deranged. ‘Viviani, the greatest orator that mod- rern France has produced, was wont to | launch out into impassioned tirades, as | if once more addressing the chamber, which e had so often dominated by the charm and warmth of his oratory. All of the retired statesmen were trou- bled with mental derangements of the emildest and most inoffensive sort. Their nghlts;x2 simply went out. Viviani died in Strange it is that Pichon’s delusions, | he who handled France’s foreign affairs throughout the dark year of 1918, with | ‘the Germans at Chateau Thierry and Soissons, should revert to the early days | of his career. when as minister for [ France to Peking he lived threugh the | siege of the city by the Boxers. M. ‘Pichon never talks of the late but | tinuously. His health is | Former Minister Klotz. the last to | join La Malmaison colony, has been | removed temporarily to the infirmary | of Fresnes Prison. An effort is being made to_transfer him to La Sante | Prison. He is not a direct victim of the war, but has suffered financial troubles, in which the fortunes of his mother and his wife were involved. He was caught in the last slump of the New York market and is reported to | have lost heavily at the races and bac- caret. | The doctors say that a few months’ | rest may bring the former Clemenceau | | minister back to normaley, but the T that the he sees Chinamen hounding him con- DEMOCRATS LAUNCH Six Smith Opponents in Recent Election Named on Committee at Alexandria Meeting. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, January 5— About 50 men and women, old line Democrats who voted against Alfred E. Smith in November, met at the George Mason Hotel Thursday evening for a discussion of whether there should be formed an organization in the eighth congressional district of Wvirginia for taking concerted action in future politi- cal controversies, county, State and na tional. Frank Lyon of Fairfax County was elected chairman and Miss Mary Evelyn Bell of the same county, secretary of the meeting. Expressions were given by a dozen or more of those present, and they were unanimously for maintaining an independent organization so they would be free to cast their votes for such candidate as seemed to them best fitted | for office. The following resolution was unanimously passed: “Resolved that a committee of 12 be appointed, three each from Arlington, | Pairfax and Prince William Counties and from Alexandria City, to meet with like committees from other counties in ihe eighth congressional district, to con- sider the organization of an independ- ent body of electors to be designated the Independent Democratic party or such Sther appropriate name as may be deemed advisable by the general com- mittee thus created.” The full committee has not been com- pleted, but John P. Lyons and W. ‘Thomas French of Arlington County, C. H. Brown of Alexandria, W. S. Athey of Prince William and Joseph E. Berry and Frank Lyon of Fairfax County have been named. other Clemenceau cabinet member, Pichon, is doomed to end his days in the sanatorium. Sturdy as an oak, at the age of 87, the Old Tiger himself, who has seen much younger colleagues carried away in the maelstrom of life, looks forward to his approaching fourscore years and ten with the clearest of minds and the healthiest of bodies. Even his bitterest political enemies, and they are many, have to admit: “La Malmaison will never open its gates to let the Old Tiger in.” And then they add: “He would promptly overthrow the Malmaison cabinet." Lower Prices... as well as some other good news If you like to make money—by saving it—get around to the Reo salesrooms before the crowd. You'll find 3 things you never saw before. 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TREW, President Salesroom Open Daily Until WARRENTON HUDSON-ESSEX CO., Warrenton, Va. JOHN A. KEYSER, Washington, Va. GENERAL SUPPLY CO., Martinsburg, W. Va. LOUDOUN GARAGE, Leesburg, Va. -1 ELKS OPEN EXERCISES OF DEDICATING HOME Party From Washington Led by Representative Zihlman Attend Cumberland Ceremony. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., January 5— Exercises attendant upon the dedication of the new $100,00 home of Cumberland | Lodge, No. 63, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, began here this after- noon, with Murray Hulbert of New | York, grand exalted ruler, in charge | of the initiation of 25 candidates into { Cumberland Lodge. The work was done | by the degree team of Towson Lodge, which won the State championship prize. Lawrence Ensor, district deputy grand exalted ruler, accompanied the | Towson team here and is paying the lodge an official visit. Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, a member of | the local lodge. arrived with a party of Washington Elks to take part in the event. Tomorrow afternoon the public dedicatory exercises will take place, when addresses will be delivered by | Grand Exalted Ruler Hulbert and Chief Judge D. Lindley Sloan and Associate Judge Albert A. Doub, who are mem- bers of Cumberland Lodge. Tomorrow night the grand exalted ruler will be the guest of Frostburg Lodge at a re- ception, and he will deliver an address in the Lyric Theater. FOX HUNT LICENSES URGED IN MARYLAND Necessity of Restocking Birds and Rabbits Each Year Cited by | Advocates of Law. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 5.—A move- | ment to require licenses for fox hunters | has Leen started in Maryland. Rabbits | 2ad birds need to be restocked each year | by the State from funds provided by | teir license fees and yet the fox hunter | pays mo fee. “We don't want to do anything that | will burt fox hunting,” said one of the | license advocates. “It's one of the grandest sports ever known. But we do feel that the fox hunter ought to pay for his fun just as we pay for ours. “The license is only $5.25 and I never heard of any fox hunters who couldn't pay that. “What we pay goes to restock the covers with the game we shoot, but they wouldn't need so much restocking if the foxes didn't kill more than the hunters.” FLYING CLOUD 7yemasrer 1HE mATE THE TREW MOTOR CO. 1509-11 Fourteenth Street N.W. Phones Decatur 1910 to 1913 9 PM.; Sunday Until 5 P.M. A. A. AUSTIN, Staunton, GEORGE WASHINGTON GARA a. GE, Winchester, Va. POMEROY MOTOR CO., Fredericksburg, Va. ROBERT V., NORRIS, La Plats, Md,