Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1932, Page 10

' A—10 DUPONT CITIZENS HIT MAPES BILLS Adopt Recommendation for Sales Tax Study—0ffi- cers Are Elscted. Opposition to the Mapes taxation bills, in their present form, was expressed yesterday afterncon in a resolution adopted by the Dupont Circle Citizens' Association, meeting in the Mayflower Hotel. The bills were submitted to the asso- clatfon for consideration ing the unanimous diap; Executive Committee. One member of the association pres- ent during the consideration of the bill by the House es said he overheard a ntative remark “Let the people leave if they di it. We never asked ther prineip study that this { each individ ‘wipe out the ¢ the city. Advocates Sales Tax. recommen 1 address by J. A of the American Tas ho in his address advo: the sales tax form of taxation for the District Mr. Arnold read speech ~delivered before Congress by enator Smoot of Utah, in which } said that the afopticn of this form of taxation for the District was only a matter of time The association adopted a Tesolution petitioning the District Commissioners to pass an ordinance prohibiting the blowing of automobile horns in the cit between rs of 12 o'clock at ni and 7 o'clock in the morning. It was claimed by members that most of the horn blowing was done after 12 p.m, and then by persons sounding a warn- ing because they were speeding. Officers Elected. The annual election of officers was held, and the following were elected: Demarest Lloyd, president; Admiral William Ledyard Rodgers, first vice president; Mrs ry W. Watsqp, sec- ond vice president; Maj. Clayton E. Emig, third vice president; Frank C. Baldwin, secretary; T. H. B. McKnight, treasurer, and Col. E. G. Bliss and Maj, Emig, delegates to the Federaticn of Citizens' Associations An amencment was made to the con- stitution of the n abolishing the office of financial s Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt of the Community Chest celivered an address explaining the functions of the Chest and urging every member to contribute because of the g need this year, due > large unemployment in the city. Following her eddress Mrs. Swormstedt answered many questions ssied by members of the association Mrs. Eleanor Patterson was elected to membership in the orgzpization. WILL SPEAK ON RELIGION T W, Sinclals Bowen, Physician, to Address Teachers' Group. Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen, local ph clan, will speak on “The Hopz of thz Church—Religion_in the Home," at a meeting of the Teachers' Institute of the Department of Religious Education of the Episcopal Dioces> of Washing ton, to be held at 9:15 g'clock tonier at the Accension Parish, House, Twelft] and Massachusetts avenuc The institute holds' monthly meet- ings in the various parishes of the Wio- cese, at which different phases of the church work are discussed. The excerpts from a e h What a saving in money— | BY GEORGE My Most Interesting Case | T THE EVENIN( STAR, WASHINGTON! D. (., TUESDAY, J ANUARY 19, 1932. | 1 1 W. PHIEGLIP: Secretary, Disabled American Veterans of the ’ World War. | F ever there was a pretctype of the Cinderella tale, this story, with Mrs. Ralph Hicks the heroine, is it. Impoverishment such as one can hardly imagine describes the con- dition of the former abode of the woman and her three ittle girls. Time after time Mrs. Hicks had appealed to the Veterans' Bureau, asking for some compensation which she thought was due her after Mr. Hicks' death in Walter Reed Hospital in 1928 But no money was forthcoming, the officials at the bu- reau declaring that her husband, who had been a World War veteran, died from pneumonia and not from eny | disablement re- ceived during the war. So, striviag vainly to gived her youngsters a home of some sort, the discouraged young widow worked from G. W. Phillips. MAPES BILL IS HIT BY CITIZENS GROUP Chevy Chase “Gardens Civic Body Discusses Measuie | . After Report. Special Dispatch to The Star. SOMERSET, Md., January 19 sition to the Mapes bill, particulary that clause imposing a tax on Maryland I'residents gainfully employed in the| | District of Columbia, was voiced at the | January meeting of the Chevy Chase Gardens Citizens’ Association, held last night at Somerset Sciool house. The discussion of the Mapes bill fol- lowed a report made by Robert A. Lit- tleton of the recent action taken on this proposed legislation by the Mont- gomery County Civic Federation. The members of the Chevy Chase Gardens made it plain that they had no quarrel with the other pro- visions of the Mapes bill, but that they were emphatically oppesad to the sec- on tax.ng Meryland residents for Dis- trict cf Columbia expenses. Contest Awards Given. | ‘One of the principal features of the Monday meeting was the awarding of | prizes in connection with the Christ- mas lighting contest staged by the y Chese Gardens community and | also by the Montgomery - Suburban | Garden Club. Chevy Chase Gardens won first award in the contest staged by the Montgomery Suburbin Garden Club for the best lighted community in | the territory extending from the Dis- trict line to Bradley lane. On behalf | of the garden club, Jamzs C. Dulin, its president, presented to Chevy Chase Gardens a silver cup. | “Mr. Dulin praised the initiative | shown by that community in its light- ing deccrations. He commended also the decorations displayed by C:pt. and | Mrs. Mitchell on their home, which was sclacted by thé judges as the best | decorated house in the communities tn- cluded in the garden club contest, and | emphasized that the judges were under Oppo- | crganization (sunup to sundown for a $10-a-week pav check | We heard of her through a kindly neighbor, who told of the valiant losing fight being made by Mrs. Hicks, all the while fearing her three girls might | be taken from her. Finally she had to | give them up to a sister who was hard- | ly more suited to care for three grow- | ing youngsters. The cgse was investi- | gated and it was proved to the bureau that Mr. Hicks died of complications | which resulted from a heart disease| he had contracted fighting for his coun- try in 1917. ‘When a check of $1,600 collected in back payments and a compensation of $52 a month were given the work-and- worry-worn soldiers widow as Chirist- | mas gifts from this agency the look on | her face at that time was thanks| enough. Since then we have also placed | her in a Better position. And the utter- | ly discouraged Mrs. Hicks of a few weeks | ago is hardly recognizable as the happy person she now represents. » The case of Mrs. Hicks was one of the 775 during the year of which we assumed full responsibility for a tem- porary time. Incidental service was rendered to 2,241 cases and information | provided 478 people. considerable difficulty in deciding the winner of the individual house lLghting On behalf of the Chevy Chase Gar- dens Citizens' Association Mr. Littleton, representing the Christmas Lighting Committee, under whose auspices the town's separate contest was held, pre- sented Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Winn, winners of the first prize for the best decorated house, with a $5 gold piece and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Galbraith, win- i E | ners of the second prize in this contest, a $2': gold plece. Mr. Littleton com- | mended also two other houses which | received honorable mention in the con- | test—namely, those of Capt. and Mrs. | E. G. Mitchell and Dr. and Mrs. E. E. | Thompson. | Plan New Contest. | Charles E. Jackson, president of the Chevy Chase Association, announced | that he would appoint a committee to sponsor garden_activities in the com- munity, especially a lawn and garden contest which it is proposed to stage in the community during the Spring and Summer. Other matters discussed at the meet- ing were the plans to plant new trees | on several of the parkways in the com- | munity, the cleaning up of vacant prop- | erty now overgrown with weeds and the | improvement of sanitary conditions on several properties in the community. It was announced that dog kennels | which have been a matter of concern to | the residents of Chevy Chase Gardens | for a long peripd and which have been located just outside the community boundaries have now been removed. WILL AQDRESS GUILD Dr. A. M. Brodie Will Be Speaker at Hospital Group's Session. Dr. A. M. Brodie of New’¥ork Avenue | | Presbyterian Church will speak at the | | meeting of the Women's Guild of Sib- | | ley Memorial Hospital Thursday morn- | | ing at 10:45 in Rust Hall, adjoining the | hospital. | " "Miss Pearl Morrison, superintendent | of nurses at Sibley, will speak, telling ‘ | the group of the Christmas celebration | at the hospital. Mrs. Louis Potter will | entertain with a group of songs. o Bied o = The Greeks appear to have been the £rst to recognize that War was a poor | alternative for settlements dictated by | reason: that, at any rate, it should be | limited in its scope, and that some at- | tempt should be made to substitute for | it the process of law. | protection against winter CITIZENS CONDEMN MAPES TAX BILLS West End Group Calls for Campaign for Representa- tion in Congress. The Mapes bills for increased taxa- tion were attacked in three separate resolutions passed last night by the West End Citizens' Assoclation, meet- ing at Stockton Hall, George Wahing- | n University. In the first resolution the group went on record as “viewing with amazement and indignation” the proposal of such bills and “deplored-and resented the spirit_of hostility and animosity dis-| played in such a proposal.” More Taxes Opposed. The second resolution put the asso- ciation on record as “unalterably op- posed to any new or additional means of taxation, or increase in the present tax scheme.” with an idea of lessening the Government's part in the support | of the District, and likewise opposed any repeal of the organic act. The third, pursuing the Mapes bills further, urged upon the Federation of Citizens' Associations “an unremitting campaign for enfranchisement” of the citizens of the District, that thev may “secure the rightful and proper repre- sentation in Congress” and thus pre- vent further legislative proposals which would be as harmful as the present Mapes proposals. The association is continuing to press its demand for a new school in place of the old Grant School on G street be- tween Twenty-first and Twenty-second which, officers of the group 50 years old, insanitary and in- adequate. Sidetracked, Is Charge. Mrs. Belle Cutler Parker, chairman of the School Committee, reported that the matter had been taken to the Board of Education, but got no further than to be referred to the Subcommittee on Finance, Another resoiution passed last night opposed the appointment of the Dis- trict assessor to a position where he may act as expert witness in condem- nation proceedings. The association passed a resblution of regret at the sudden death recently of Max Cayton, one of its members, HELD TO GRAND JURY Frank Stanley Is Charged With Stealing Projectorscope. Frank Stanley, 27, was held for grand jury action under $2,000 bond by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court yester- day on charges of stealing a $200 pro- jectorscope and a microscope valued at $15. He pleaded not guilty. Police said the articles were taken from Joseph F. Robinson of 222 C street. fle‘lecii\'c H. E. Brodie was the arresting Pierce-Butler-Pierce Heating Equipment on Display Here 4100 Georgia Ave. AD-0145 666 Liquid or Tiblets used internally and 666 Salve externally, make a com- plete and effective treatment for Colds. $5,000 in Cash Prizes Ask Your Druggist for Particulars SHIFTS POLICE RESERVES Inspector, Edwards Puts 15 Men in First District on Patrol. Withdrawal of a unit of 15 mem- bers of the police reserve force at the headquarters of the first inspection district, Fifth street between M and N streets, was announced yesterday after- noon by Inspector L. I H. Edwards. A second unit of 15 members will re- main. Inspector Edwards announced that the withdrawal was made because there was not work enough in the dis- trict to justify the holding of so large a force of reserves. The men relieved of reserve duty have been added to the street patrol force, giving the depart- ment the benefit of the increased num- ber for active street duty. APPOINTING OF D. C. DELEGATE OPPOSED Citizens Object to Congress Repre- sentation Controlled by Commissioners. The Georgetown Progressive Citizens’ Association, at a meeting in the Cur- | tis School last night, expressed opposi- tion to proposed legislation to give Di: trict citizens congressional representa- tion by permitting the Commissioners to appoint a Delegate to Congress. Members of the association pointed out that this system would effect little, it any, improvement in the status of the District's tax-paying, non-voting residents. The Mapes tax bills were attacked for the second time in a discussion by the members. A resolution presented by Mrs. Eliz- abeth Sullivan approving the firearms law recently introduced by Senator Capper_was adopted. Mss. Leon Arnold, presiding, informed the association the school for tubercu- lar children here includes courses only up to the eighth grade. It was sug- gested that higher education be offered. . Presenting . .. SUPPORT PLEDGED MAPES PLAN FOES Lincoln Park Citizens Prom- ise Co-operation at Public Hearing on Bills. tion pledged co-operation with other citizens’ groups last night in plans to represent the interest of the District’s taxpayers when the Mapes taxation bills come up for public hearing be- fore the Senate District Committee. While no expression was made on the Mapes measures, the association dis- patched a letter to Chairman Capper of the Senate District Committee re- questing that the association be noti- f\ed of the date of the expected hear- ng. The association, meeting in Bryan School, B street near Fourteenth street southeast, made plans to co-operate with the Stanton Park and the North- east Citizens' Associations in sponsor- ing opening exercises at the new Northeast branch of the Public Li- brary, which will be dedicated about March 1. L. R. Tindall was appointed chair- man of a com: cial membersh: tion. The meeting was addressed by Mrs, Wayne Wirgman of the National Woman's Organization for Prohibition RE MUSCLES LIMBER UP QUICKLY One application of Musterole | often brings refiel, Us | u 4 this “coun- fer-imitant” should wive complete | | m comfort. 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