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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, . D. C. IMONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932 U. 5. LAND CLAIMS G0 T0 CONGRESS| Bills to Pay $615,000 for Quantico and Yorktown Posts Introduced. By the Associated Press Claims against the United States to- taling $615,000 for lands acquired at Quantico and Yorktown, Va., for M: rise and naval posts during the World W, bills Smith introduced by Representatives Bland of Virginia The largest amount claimed, $375,000 15 by receivers of the Quantico Co., Inc. 1d 2.000 acres of land in Prince Jounty now used for the Quan- base. An additional $100 Bruce McIntosh, re ate of Dr. Hugh B 3000 acres more in- ine post 000 for Prince William. s also would provide n County for uantico, $75,000 streets which 1 tracts taken over by | 1918. In York Yorktown mine vernment in whi depot 15 located public roads a the Governme lands were proclamatic in h the e depot taken over by n November 4 $300.000 Less Than Rent. ants 1 was and id by resulting tutes less land owners with- auth that 300.000 alre under ation ¢ ich the as those agreed to b nent and land own- 8 in ions signed with the Department WAGNER WILL OFFER REPEAL RESOLUTION With Not Seeking Liquor, Concerned Senator Declares. Democrat. New York to offer a res ot seek ed with “the n, wh is intended as created sy destroy the “It has only was ended to added It was intel of abs ed to develop a Nation t has brought up a ger ige of tem mp al g e upon our standard; it ceded in br n every dard.” ECONOMIS} TO SPEAK “Unemployment and Disarmament” Women's League Subject. Morley, economist attached to Afl of Brookings Institution, W national Peace and Freedom, Feb- t 3 pm. at 1811 T street, it ced today. 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The District Is Not Undertaxed No. 1. were carried to Congress today in | $65,000 was asked for | appropriated by | contend | the | Constitution's | ol Note: This is the first of a series of special articles discussing past and present attempts to show that Wash- | ington escapes payment of fair tares. ‘ VERYBODY agrees that the bur- | den of taxation in Washington | should compare favorably with | | the burden of taxation in other | comparable communities, rea- | sonable consideration being given to the peculiar disabilities under which this taxpaying community suffers, which make its tax burden harder { to_bear. | The countless disputes over fiscal ions have usually had their genesis | in the claim that the people of Wash- ington are not paying their fair share | toward Capital development because | | they are undertaxed. | 1t is the purpose of this and other | articles that will follow to show that | Washingtonians have been able to re- | fute the charge of undertaxation. | Washingtonians are confident today that a fair analysis of the latest avail- able data reveals the District'’s tax | burden of today as relatively high. The Right of Petition. g in fixing its taxes, an cities do, Washing- tor ft with only the right of peti- tion, and must, therefore, rely on the fair-mindedness of Congress to be equitable in passing judgment on this question. In approaching the subject axation Washington reminds mem- s of the Congress that they sit as supreme judges over the District, from whom the local taxpayer has no appeal. | The local community, therefore, urges the National Legislature to weigh care- | fully all the factors that should be considered in a comparison of Wash- ington with other municipalities, and to have in mind espectally the fact that the National Capital differs in several | important respects from other Ameri- can cities. com wit 10 voi Am. paring Washington's tax bur- other cities it is ccntended t there should be eliminated {rom the comparison (1) State taxes; (2) cxpenditures elsewhere on interest and sinking fund for funded indebtedness. Since Washingtonians enjoy nonme of benefits of statehood, they should be required to match that part of tax bill of thase who possess the n ileges _accompanying ate. Although Wash- ald a con- of the al City, n out den 1gton | tantly of maintain e thrown into the annual that fssue y munici- ies is the e. there is rans should ligher taxes for ewhere for which they in no way respc Non-Extensible Boundaries. The geograp! boun Washington are rigidly fixed and can- ot expand. At the same time an un- ially large part of the area witk boundari; is the | confine to he community local tax burden Because this ation develop uld be a fertile sc Washington rec : t would not fit of Beautiful area which carry the cf th rial cities, whi e of tax rever Capital development pital as the Cit ubmits that this re: fact ate. But the d value, stand- ire the tax must be measured 1 with the basis of assess- Washingt s followed a rd of sment. This past as well It Always Highly Assessed. k the b of the compar of tax 1906 and 1907 show years the Di ict's : its rate low y much above 1905, Veag 1890 showed that year greate al tax le 809 American municipalities on. In the Washing not inclu g district 1 that Washington's was much higher in t cities of ap- ize, and there- rate of $1.50 per of the actual tax 1890 period from 1890 to d from the 1 city to cover Imost doubled its p 1 ore nearly double rcal estate assessment. The same was m in 1905 of an excessively assessment. coupled erate tax rate, producing for gton a per capita tax burden tly above the average. The Babcock Report. It is appropriate here to make ex- tended reference to a report from the House District Committee in May, 1896, adversely reporting on (H. R. 4448) “A bill to repeal all provisions of the law for the payment by the United States of one-half of the appropriations for the District of Columbia.” That re- port. which has come to be known as | the Babcock report, taking its name from the then chairman of the House District Committee. was unanimously inst the proposal for repeal of the fixed ratio and went at length into the reasons for that opposition. 1t repeated the history of the found- ing of the Capital, it referred at length to the concept of the Capital in the minds of the founders, and of the neglect of the Capital by the Federal Government in the early days of the Republic. 191 boun- the u- its Argument Against Repeal. In its argument against the proposal to repudiate the law of 1878, then cnly 18 years old. the report declared The fact that the Nation, which at the beginning took title by gift to five-sixths of the area of the National Capital, still owns more than half in value of the real estate of the District, irrespective of tle streets, of which it holds the absolute fee, and the fact that Congress still exercises the power of exclusive legislation over the entire | District conferred upon it by the Con- | stitution, combined to raise a fresh | and present obligation on the part of | the Nation in respect of its Capital | independent of and in addition to the | equity arising from national acts and Tepresentations in the creation of the { city and District. “To change the act of 1878, as pro- posed by this bill. would be a clear repudiation of both the equitable and | legal obligations assumed by the Na-| tion in regard to its National Capital. | This we cannot believe Congress will do. “A repudiation of national obligations in respect to the Nation's City would result either in a discreditable capital, poorly sustained by remsonable taxa- | virtual confiscation of | duti | District | Texas, ~ Utah, | Arizona, Charge of Inadequate Taxation as Made by Mapes Committee Recalls Many Previous Attacks, on Same Grounds, Refuted in the Past by Pres- entation of the Actual Facts. tion upon local resources, or in the local property through excessive taxation. * * * The District Did Its Duty. “The District has shared in every national tax and undergone special na- tional burdens. Since the enactment of the internal revenue law in 1862 the District has paid to the United States Government under such law to the amount of $7.815.830.80, and of customs duties during the last ten years $557,790. The latter figures, it should be added, represent only the actual amount received from duties at the custom house in Georgetown, the port of entry of the District of Colum- bia. It is estimated that only about 5 per cent of the goods imported into the District pass through the Georgetown custom house, the remain- ing 95 per cent coming through other ports at which, of course, the duties are levied “The only national taxes that fall directly and unmistakably and in as- certainable amounts upon Americans are the ernal revenue taxes The States and Territories which have con- tributed in 1895 less internal revenue collections to the National than the District of Columbia Alabama, Arkanscs, Delaware Maine, Mississippi, Montana North Dakota, O 1 South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, ington and Wyoming (16 States), and Alaska, Arizona, Indian Territory, New Mexico and Oklahoma (5 Territories). “The per capita contribution of the of Columbia is greater than that of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kan- sas, Maine, Montana, Mississippl, Ne- vada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming (22 States), and Alaska, Indian Territory, New Mex- (5 Territories). mbia contributed revenue taxation, he National Gov- more than the of Maine, V Idaho, Arizona, are Idaho, Nevada, Wash- ico_and Oklahoma “The District of in 1895, in interna for the support of ernment considerab combined contributior m Mississippi North Dakota, Wyomir F ory and Alask: “The records show trat for the War of 1812 the citizens of District paid a dircct tax ¢ in com- mon with the Stat 4 a volur tary fund of $5,000 and gave it to the President to defend Sapital up a building for C when the Capital was bur tendered a loan of $500,000 d the public buildings, whi authorized the Presider . $20,000, d hare of rs for the Mexican V me of her sons g ide fam District common seven of their _quotas d 187 per paid with States Disirict t more the Un ct's ‘home t was there that one into the late thus b excellin one, and guard’’ bee we would have exce The first voluntee United States service were citizens of the District, and this day they have not been paid for their equipments, furnished at their own cost. No bounty for volunteers was ever paid here Though ing all the the District has not shared in the distribution land and money among the States for educational and other pur- poses, but supports its school system out of the annual revenues “While the General Government has given to the States $28.000,000 surplus cash from the Treasury and for pub- lic schools, agric colleges, railr other improvemen public Jands, inar District schools has tively inconsiderable, and it given to the District an acre public lands for these purposes In 1890 Congress provided for an annual appropriation of $25.000 f agricultural and mechanical schools fc each State and Territory, but excluded the District from any share therein ‘A large number of the pupils in the public schools of the District reside in the States and Territories. All G ernment_employes and officials, includ- ing Senators and Representatives, may send their children to the District chools, and many availed themselves of this advantage. Congress has en- acted a compulsory law imposing a fine of $20 on each parent or guardian for failure to send each child of school age to schcol weeks each year, * * * In conclusion, the District of Co- lumbia asks from Congress only jus- tice, and not favor. Its pecple make no appeal to sympathy, nor to pride but, strong in the equity of their case, as here presented, they invoke for it the impartial judgment of an enlight- ened Congress. If it is said that other city has balf its expenses paid by extraneous aid, it is answered that no other city has to maintain a mag- nificent Capital, fit to be the political metropolis of scventy millions. If its financial system is anomalous, its situa- tion and its oblizations are equally an- The only child of the Union, Senator Southard styled it 60 years ago, was never so worthy as now of its ‘illustrious parentage. The ‘exclu- sive legislation’ of the American Con- gress surely entails upon that body a grave responsibility, gnd all that is asked is that the relative rights and obligations of the District and the Government may be discussed and de- cided in the forum of reason, and by the well settled principles of the Con- stitution.” Dist as even SW in the al de- of aid to compar has ne of been the Results of Comparison. In June, 1905, Washington, with a populati-n of 302,883, had an assessed value $239.461,985. Some of the other cities at that tire ranged as fol- lows: Cincinnati, 343,337 population, $180.528,850 essed value; Detroit 325,563 population, $200.304,940; Mi wankee, 312,948 population, $152,037 355 assessed value; New Orleans, 309 639 population, $111,768,121; Newark, N. J. 283289 population, $153,006.055; Minneapolis, 261,974 population, $104, 002.917; Jersey City, 232,699 population, $95,935,305: Louisville, 222,660 popula- tion, $92.435344, and Indianapolis, 212198 population, $94,761.400 When the tax levy and assessment are presented on a per capita basis, in- dicating the effect ¢n the individual texpayer, the average Washingtonian at that time bore a heavier burden than the average resident of any of those cities. The following table, based on a cermis special report, shows the per of | capita comparisons Per capita assess- ment. $663.07 846.36 611.14 551.28 852.70 671.64 Per capita tax levy. ...310.69 12.44 1146 12.13 12.79 11.13 1249 924 Cincinnati .. Detroit Milwaukee New Orleans. . Washington . Newark ...... Minneapolis .. Jersey City Louisville i aum Incianapolis .. 9.94 Inquiry of 1915. Coming down to 1915, when Congress created a Joint Select Senate and House Cemmittee to find out whether the local population at that time was bearing a fair _share of the cost of maintaining the National Capital, the city sgain had Treasury | South’ Carolina, | fitted | no | !been accused of being underassessed and lightly taxed. The specific charge which confronted Washington just prior to the 1915 in- quiry was that District realty, measured by the standards applied in other cities, was worth $744,000,000 in 1912, though assessed for only $330,000,000. The basis of this charge resulted from a miscalculation based on a mathe- matical error of omission that required months and months to overcome. it is discussed here at some length as sig- nificant of the genesis of many charges hurled at Washington for alleged under- assessment or alleged tax dodging Answering this contention, the Citi- zens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Rel | ‘lons made an exhaustive presentation of comparative assessment and tax data which not only refuted the claim of un- derassessment but showed that, con- sidering the limited taxable area of the District, the local community was bear- ing a heavier tax burden than most other American cities In his final argument at the 1915 Learings Theodore W. Noyes, on behalf of the Citizens' Joint Committee, said “We first endeavored t prove that | the '$744,000,000 valuation of Washing- | ton in 1912, upon which this assault is | based, was the erroneous conclusion from insufficient or false premises of a single witness, and was grossly and grotesquely excessive. The faithful val- uation of Washington in 1915 at $58 000,000 under civilian commissioners and by assistant assessors in full sym- pathy with the doctrines of Henry George emphasized the gross excessive- ness of the $744,000,000 valuation in 1912.” Basis of Attack Contested. Mr. Noyes analyzed the procedure by which Herbert J. Browne had arrived at the conclusions regarding District realty values which found expression % | the report of the George subcommittee | in 1912, and which formed the basis of | subsequent attacks on District taxation | in House cebates In this connection Mr. Noyes in his 1915 argument con- tinued “No cther witness than Mr testifies to a $744,000,000 valuation of | the whole city or to a sectional valua- tion reached by multipliing the assess- ment of every lot in it by an arbitrary | number, as five or three and one-thir | to learn its true value. Other witnesses testified as to values of particular lots Mr. Browne generalized incorrectly from their specific evidence. “It makes little difference as a gen- eral proposition whether Mr. Browne is right or wrong in his allegation of specific cases of underassessment in 1912, but when he uses such cases as the basis of generalizations concerning the value of entire sections and of the whole city his foundation cases must not only absolutely accurate Mr. Browne's selected cases ned out to be neither typical ly accurate. corroborative w ! s of the $744.000,000 whom Mr. Browne appeals fa He mace Mr. George, using Mt Browne's words as a witness, say in his report | ““The total taxable realty values of the District of Columbia. fixed by your committee at $744,000,000, fall well wit n the sum indicated by a forthcomir census bulletin, which places the re va of the Distr $1.200 - 000,000 Deduct from this $400,000,000 for Pederal and municipal teal prop- erty and allow $25,000.000 for church legations. hospitals and cther exemptic wder. 000,0C0, is bove t riative your com- | Browne nor_gener: “Every fairne ess valuation to still est 1,000,000 ate of Uncle Sam as a Witness. regard, make upon im- pression upon of this comn T this stateme he Census to its plied in writing bad made no est real estate in the since 1974 that lating plans for investigating ct for the jear 1912 prepared no figures for a bulletin none would be subject for at I Dur accuracy hat the Ce ate of the He Browne h been recent have it he It estimates the t istrict in 1912 at $1.1 1t estimates ail th District at $271,88 e ex- at 540.161, and the y at $495.483.730 on! $26.000.000 away wne's guess, but this total $271.000,000 of person ex- pt or taxable, and Mr. Browne in his ductions from this total makes no ance whatever the personalty the result that the Gov- whom he announces Mr. George announce) as g to $775.000,000 valuation realty, testifies to on or less by $280,000,000. Would Have Ruined City. The Brow Comn ment of 1912 was followed & of preposals in the House the “half-and-half plan a trict taxation to a point where it would have covered all of the expenses of the Capital City at that time. Speeches | made by members of the House at that | time indicated how the excessive esti- | mate of realty valuation in 1912 be- | came the basis of these unreascnable legislative proposals | In his argument in | declared “Having followed with some care the course of legislation in the last Con- gress, T say this in all earnestness—and I think that any one who examines into I the facts even hastily and superficially ‘\\—h] agree with 1 say that this $744.000.000 ~ valuation, demonstrated | three years later to be about $200,000.- 000 too high, was accepted as gospel truth and furnished the basis of attacks upon Washington which, if successtul would have ruined the community.” akes taxable 000,000, $495,- 1915 Mr. Noyes Washington Fairly Taxed. That Washington successfully refuted the erroneous beliefs of that day re- garding its assessment and taxation of 01‘1913. »\\hxch stated in its report: “We find from the evidence of fair- minded men, residents of Washington familiar with real estate values in gen- |era|. that the present as: sment of real estate for taxation is f: and rea- sonable We are perfectly aware that many discrepancies may appear even in the best regulated assessment plan, and instances of inequity may be found is the present assessment in W: shington; but, taken as a whole, the assessments made against al the different locations i i etaie n the city are constituted is a fair and reasonable re- sponse in such taxation for municipal benefits received by the citizens of the District. ton is approximately $16 per capita. In a rcasonable tax lev the taxes imposed.” Senator Wwrks, in recording his sepa- rate views, sdded: “The people of the District ars nc: undertaxed. They are, in my judgment, bearing their full share of the burden of the expenses of. the District. Just now * * * I think they are being taxed too high.” Overassessment Shown. With regard to the claim of under- | assessment, it was brought out during { the 1915 inquiry. by comparing assess- | wents with sale prices and a few offers | to sell. taken from every section of the city during the previous five years, that the assessor had valued at over $36,- 000.000 realty which, by sales and a few cffers to sell, was shown to be worth $34.000,000 Figures of true value, based on typical sales in 20 American cities, were secured at that time by the Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, show- ing that in n?rly all those cities the but | { to the | him. | “The payment of taxes on real estate from the assessments as they are now | The annual tax in Washing- | the judgment of your committee this is | i at this time, espe- | cially when we consider, as we must, | that a large proportion of the popula- | tion here pays but a small amount of | | depths real estate is indicated by the findings | of the Joint Congressional Committee | lasses of property in | Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. JERSEY WETS HOLD Frieda Hempel, Soloist, ‘With National Symphony. RIEDA HEMPEL yesterday—in the lingo of the theater— “stopped the show.” After singing Strauss’ immortal “Blue Danube,” this much- loved soprano, who Of recent years has been specializing in “Jenny Lind” concerts, received such an ovation as completely halted the wheels of prog- ress of the after- noon. Miss Hempel, s solo- ist with the National Sym- phony Orchestra at Constitution Hall, eclipsed all previous soloists in the matter of applause— and _won for herself such a personal tribute of affection as few have re- ceived before her. It was hearten- ing yesterday to see such a large audience and such enthusiasm, and such a warm wel- come as was given Hans Kindler when he jumped in his own light fashion onto the concert platform. A it was more than pleasant, too, 0 hear after the cOncert Was over, and as the audience unwillingly took its way home, such verbal bouquets as “well—1I have yet to go to a nicer concert.” The concert music, the mood, Frieda Hempel. was just that. The the impetus given it by Maestro Ki the suppleness of "the orchestra—Mr. Manning's plucking of the harp strings, and the fact that when & sheet of music fell from its stand the violoncello section half of it could continue | without it—all this combined ‘o 2 . make this popular Sunday afternoon | Failure of Immediate In- concert more eminent than its fore- | bears. The extraordinary progress dorsement Lald to An“_ of the orchestra playing selections it had played earlier in the season Dry Pressure. [ | = | was so easily discernible that one could easily wonder if it was the same group. Notable in the “Lohengrin” Vorspiel, No. 1, was the velvet quality of the violins; in the Grieg “Peer Gynt Suite” the contrast of thematic detail, and proof of the orchestra’s ability to create atmospheric vivid- ness; and in the Jarnefelt “Praeludium” and dances from Borodin's “Prince Igor” the shadings provided by Mr. Kindler's reading. In other words, the orchestra, under its director’s hearty swaying, seemed completely relaxed and unafraid— and soared upward with an easy grace, although' one or two of its more violent crescendos could have stood an extra shot of orchestral gunpowder. Miss Hempel—a gracious artis, if there ever was one, and mcst respon- sive to the giant ovation she won for herself—first sang fhe aria “Dich teure Halle” from Wagner's “Tann- hauser, and then after her encore, and the Grieg Suite, the “Blue Danube.” All of these pleased the audience to such a degree that she was forced to make inumberable “comebacks” and bowed and bowed and waved her hand in thanks, to the audienci—and might, in fact still be therc, but for the fact that when she was obviously saying “enough is enough” Mr. Kindler stepped gallantly into the breach raised his (Stokowski's) baton and bean the “Praeludium.” It was all m -t pleasant and provoked more o wsiasm than any National hony program of the year. E. de S. MELCHER. Ay the Assoclated Press The incessant swing of political weather vanes has brought new develop ments in the contest for the year's presidential prize. The engrossing Smith-Roosevelt poser in the Democratic fold developed & bit over the week end, but most conspicuous of the new factors was one affecting the practically unopposed Herbert Hoover. Anti-prohibition pressure on the Presi- | dent was the interpretation placed here on the New Jersey Republican Commit- tee’s failure to come out at once for the renomination of Mr. Hoover. Decision Put Off. This State was one of the first t- roll under the Hoover banner in 1928 but now its party heads have pu off deciding whether to send their dclega- tion to the convention uninstructed or | to support the President Democracy’s news was led by a Massa- chusetts declaration for Alfred E. Smith. Ely and Senator Walsh, important in the party councils of the Bay State were the supporters of the enigmatically silent New Yorker, Time is soon to bring a showdown on his intentions, however. Work for Gov Roosevelt’s declared candidacy 13 being pushed in Massachusetts and many | other_sectors. There is a _prediction | that Smith's name will go formally into { New Hzmpshire'’s March 8 primary. Collision Indicated. It he makes no move to stop it, this State and one or two others in the East “n- Front Row Washington's Theaters. Reviews and News of Newman On “Spain, the Republic.” STUDENTS psychology were in their element yesterday at a travel talk in the National The- ater, where E. M. Newman, the lec turer, presented stirring movies of pani olutionists in action. They were sn locting and burn- ing con Other shots revealed the destruction ¢ crous statues and w h of the havoc was wr rhyme or rea The pictures disclosed that Madrid ha characteristics of an Amer.can city. Americans who yearn for a retreat free from traffic need not seek relief in the capital. bec o the signals istalled at all busy inter- mob The N ica’s G seen; g A wman's tour of Corpu the bur Columbus, and re- sort A light program touch added by movies of the at a Galic The native costumes we The bridegroom’s mothe th tradition. danced ir vard until all the gifts had been pre- nted Glimpses also were given of Valla- dolid, where Cervantes wrote “Don to the quaint « wedding COMPOSER.OF STATELY MUSIC, will bring Smith into a head-on colli- sion with his successor at Albany The week end brought also a new call for a third party, uttered by John Dewey of Columbia University, head of the League for Independent Political Action. It was he who, a year ago, | started a short-lived boom for the vet- eran George Norris of Nebraska. Dewey land his cohorts now name no candi- date. 'NORFOLK EXPECTING LEVINE TOMORROW Witness Against Detroit Gangsters Quixote”; Leon and its cathedral, the cleft at Ronda, Cadiz, the southern seaport; Barcelona, Mont- srrat and Seville Mr. Newman will lecture on iin” next Sunday Ber- | = ] Good Points | In Gayety Show. A LTHOUGH not quite as good as was expected, the burlesque dis- v at the G last night proved r from a und her charming r won a spontaneous ovation from the axpayers. Rae, a sophisticated ed girl. numbered among merous hits, “Minnie the " and Ger than last year, jus e with seve Returning to Face Per- jury Charges. te trude I g February 1.—*“Sol testimony helped cony Detroit gangsters _or killing men in a De- nt house last September e here tomorrow P charges se in mak o epping teams Mery Noel & ed exceeding ttributed to fear of man, as ectiven C are Earl nton. conspicuous ired for such emulates the ugh. but he de a par 1 an old exceptions for & new and Charli to save the the low K. OF C. Td GIVE BALL te Floor Show to Be Pre- sented at Mayflower. manfully trying ship. F. L.C. "M. E. DOWNEY.” MERELY MARY How Young Irish Girl of Middle West procluced “Ml'ssa played Ol’lfiGli'Cat Occasions Revealed‘ the Asso NEW Downey Mi in Gregorian of St lated Press YORK, February 1.—M. E composer of the majestic mass, sa Nativitatis,” which strode forth thythm from the dim Pat Cathedral for ristmas day, is just er friends Irish girl, frem the v. and unastuming, M the distincticn of being the only Middle has woman 7, Mary, who prefers E. Downey, played chorus of 150 men, the hoir of the Cathedral in St Paul, Minn. her birthplace. Since then she played in San Francisco, in Nova Scotia. in Kansas City and in New Jersey. has composed string quar- tets, plano and volce solos and liturgical music. fo be the o) Scminary Hard Work Wins. “Somehow when women succeed in their work, people think it's because of some God n and mysterious en- dowment,” Mary said yesterday. “It’s just hard work, concentration and constant attention to physical fit- ness. the same old things which are taken for granted in the lives of suc- cessful business men.” Hers is one profession, she believes, in which a member of the fair sex cannot capitalize on the fact that she is a woman. In fact, Miss Downey has bowed to the public demand in one respect— the name “Mary” never creeps into a program or on the cover of a manu- seript; the use of initials instead, shc says, is a necessary deception. Because she believes she could not combine a domestic career with her musical career, Miss Downey has step- Will Rogers PARIS —Bad flying weather to- day kept us out cf Berlin. We had better quit writ- ing notes to Japan_or she will have all China, Every time they get a note they take another town that they had not thought of till our note give ‘em the idea. Quit writ- ing and warning ‘em what not to do. Walt till they do something that will really affect us. This war was originally private between them and China. The way we got in the last war was through notes. We send so many that na- tions can't tell which one we mean. Our wars ought to be labeled “En- tered on account of too much pen- manship.” as determined by . vere greater in most cases than the :ssessr;‘;m values, while here the valu- ation of the assessor was greater than that fixed by the sales in transactions amounting to more than $34,000,000 in value. true values, | sales, nd Helen master of cere- ancl Nativitatis n at the ge of Lec END SPIRITUAL RETREAT Concl cat ata Semi: avenues, ter with American 1 current economic problems The retr an ann vided for the students by Providence of St. Mar s conducted by the Rev of St. Joseph's College, 1 J. Isemen ped over the 30-year-old line without having married “Most people th marry just as you wo I faced the idea squarely and came to the realization that a woman cannot fulfill her personal ambitions and be an intelligent wife at the same time she explained. a three-day stude Wisco! ay clas: that they can d fling on a coat sin event the Sister of -the-Woads John F. Cox Phila- pro- A Confirmed Classicist, s of Miss Downey has never been caught up in the trend of moderni he a_classicist through and through, and she says the Gregorian chant is e a source of delight to her. “It isn't usually performed properly in_this country, you know.” she said “It should be fairly f’st in tempo Profound melancholy is only one side of Gregorian music; through it all Is a triumphant joy carried along unceas- ingly from phrase to phrase e Credo in her Christmas moss is built on such a theme. It took her year to write*the mess, whick Second one. Her greatest dis ment came when she was unable hear it when it presented @t Patrick's on Fifth avenue. one of most importent cathedra’s in the co try. Her duties as organist and choir conductor at the Church of St. There: in Brooklyn prevented her presence there. She is now writing the composition of a funeral mass and, in all probability it will be published end played like it predecessors, under the mannish signa- noture, M. E. Downey. NOVENA WILL BEGIN Two Services Here Daily Will Mark Eight-Day Celebration. 28 Years of Service DENTISTRY In All Brapches LOWER PRICES to S EASTER TERMS FREE DENTAT | XRAYS 5y | | RESTORINGLOST TEETH ! During dental practic the many years of my e I have developed a successful technique for restoring ost teeth. I invite you to take ad vantage of this service, Dr.CarletonVaughan DENTIST 932-934 F St. N. W, ©Over Metropolitan Theater MEtropolitan 9576 Two services daily will mark the celebration of a novena to Our Lady of Lourdes at the Church of the In maculate Conception, Eighth and N streets, it was announced by Rev. | Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the | church, today. The novena will begin Wednesday and will close with the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Febru- ary 11. 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