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KNUTSON VIGOROUSLY
DENIES ALL CHARGES
Brands as “Damnable Falsehoods'*
Allegations Prosecutor Seeks
to Get in Record.
EXPLAINS BRIBERY OFFER
Says He Was Confused at Sudden
Arrest in Virginia.
Sr « SlafT Correspondent.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSK. May 1. —Representative Har
old Knutson of Minnesota denied spe
cifically and vigorously all chargee
against him and stood firm under hot
grilling when he was placed on the
.' land today in his trial for a serious
offense. He indignantly branded an a
"damnable falsehood" certain allega
tions on his conduct which Common
wealth Attorney Gloth sought to In
terject into the record.
Representative Knutson admitted
hi offered SIOO to arresting officers to
avoid arrest and publicity.
"1 offered Officers Wise and Burke
JIOO to fix it up." Mr. Knutson said,
upon resulting direct testimony at
the opening of the session today.
and they asked me if 1 had the
money on me. 1 told them that I had
"lily $C or $S on me. but that 1 would
write a check. They said I could stop
payment on a check, and then I told
them I’d leave my car for security.
"At the time I thought I was ar
rested fop a minor offense. After
making this offer Wise and Burke
first went behind the automobile and
had a talk, and then they came back
and we went to jail.’’
Arrital at Jail,
After arrival at the jail and the en«
try of the charge against him. Mr.
Knutson said that he remembered
saving "My God! this will ruin me."
"I asked the sheriff.” he continued,
“if it wasn't possible to give bail and
lie replied | couldn’t have bail if I
had $20,000 in cash. I asked him to
Jet me call up some friends and he
said 1 could not do that. Then I
wsked him to let me call up my
mother so she would not sit up and
wait for me. and he said 1 couldn't
use the telephone at all.’!
Bitter interchanges between oppos
ing counsel marked the day’s session.
Couldn't Tell Tiaie.
Daring the cross-examination while
the prosecution was questioning Mr.
Knutson sharply relative to time he
interjected; "Unfortunately, I left my
snop watch at home.”
This answer, like other answers,
brought litters from the spectators.
At another time the prosecution j
asked him whether he drank or not
and he said that he would take aj
drink occasionally when not feeling
well.
Me described in detail his offer of
SIOO to the officers in order to escape
arrest. He charged that he had no
opportunity to collect his thoughts
and give a . oherent explanation of j
the reasons for his stop in an auto- j
mobile with la-roy Hull, who was ar- i
rested with him on the night of March i
9, because the officers told him at the 1
time ho would have to explain later.
Stress Bribery thircr.
Prosecution stressed the point that j
although he did not have time to ex- j
plain. In- had lime to attempt bribing*
arresting officers.
Representative Knutson emphat- *
ieally denied testimony of Sheriff:
Fields to the effect that he had asked j
when brought to jail for a blank (
cheek on the Riggs National Bank *
and had promised to fill in any |
amount named for his release.
Former Representative Campbell of i
Kansas and Representative Fish- of |
New York testified as character wit- j
nesses for the defendant.
The jury was taken to the spot '
w here Representative Knutson and
Mr. Hull was arrested on the night of
March and the defense rested.
The case probably will go to the
Jury this afternoon.
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Petition of Citizens’ Joiit Committee on Fiscal Relations Between United Slates and District of Columbia
For Preservation of Just Principle of Definite Proportionate Contributions by Nation and People of Washington in Capital Upbuilding
Pentium «• Caagreaa, argiag r Jreiiom ]
| »f M. H. 473, which *»neltHnt*v*
liapua paynrat by for |
| rag'fal apkalldiag la Hen of 4efl
>lte proportionate ea«(rlW<lo»My
■eat, ■■ provider) by organic
art of Jane 2*. IK2.
To the Congress of /if Lnited
States: j
Vonr petitioner*, the .'Mlxras' Joist
Committee ea Elaeal RelaHoaa be
tween the Halted Stnf* «■< the Dis
trict of Colombia aaj the piwldraln
of Ita roaatltneat re
•peetfally repmrat
The Citizens’ Jtfnt Committee on
i Fiscal Relations letween the United
States and of Columbia, or
ganized in 1915,1 s now composed of
authorized representatives of the
Board of Trajfe, Chamber of Com
merce, Merchants and Manufacturers’
Association. Federation of Citizens'
Associations. Committee of One Hun
dred. Builders and Manufacturers’
Exchange, £ar Association, Columbia
Heights Citizens’ Association. North
east Cltizffis’ Association. Georgetown
Citizens’ Association, the City Club,
the D. t. Bankers' Association, the
Real Estate Board, the Rotary Club,
the KiAanls Club, the Clvitan Club
and tl£ Cosmopolitan Club.
$* * *
The platform of principles laid
down by the joint committee and ad
hered to in the committee’s brief in
the hearings before the joint select
committee in 1915, the House District
committee in December, 1919, and the
Senate appropriations committee in
April. 1920, is as follows:
’ We contend; First, that the United
States should contribute largely to
the expenses of the District. Second,
that this contribution should be a
fixed and definite proportion. Third,
that this proportion should be at
least one-half.
This platform was modified by the
District’s new organic act of 1922,
which reaffirmed the principle of defi
nite proportionate contribution by lo
j eal community and nation toward
Capital upbuilding, but changed the
50-50 ratio to 60-40. imposing .the 60
per cent burden upon the local tax
payers.
The committee's platform of
ciples, thus modified, was announced
by the executive committee of the
citizens’ joint committee. October 31,
1923, as follows:
We contend: First, that the United
States should contribute largely to I
the maintenance and upbuilding of
* the National Capital. Second, that :
thin r*«trikntl*a should be n fixed
and definite proportion. Third, that |
this proportion should he 60-40. 60 by
the District taxpayers and 40 by the
United States.
4= * * *
H. R- bill 473 provides "that on and
| after July 1. 1924, the government of
i the United States shall not bear any
fixed proportion of the expenses of
i the District of Colombia, but shall
■ pay the sum of $8,000,000 annually to
ward defraying such expenses of the
j District as may be appropriated for
jby law.” This bill thus destroys ut
-1 terly the definite proportionate re
: tated plan of Capital contribution,
i to protect which practically all of
i organized Washington has united in
! the Citizens’ Joint Committee.
I This bill (H. R. 473) should be re
! jected for the following reasons:
I. It destroy* the definite propor
tionate contribution system, under
the beneficent operation of which the
! National Capita! has wonderfully de
veloped, and which, after seven years
of exhaustive and pro
longed discussion, has been, vindi
cated by retention in the 1922 law.
♦* * *
2. It destroys the nn represented
| Capital’s safeguard against excessive
and najnat taxation. The compro- i
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The Fun Shop
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Our Own
LOST AND FOUND.
Department.
Myrtle Broom —Can some one give
me the rest of the poem beginning:
I am dying, Egypt, dying.
Dear Myrt—This is the best we can
do:
I am dyeing. Egypt, dyeing.
Using henna, for I’m told
That’s the stuff for unifying
! Those silver threads among the
gold.
Elizabeth T. —Can you tell me the
finish to the line:
Call me early, father darling.
Dear Lizzie—lt’s mother’s finish,
not father’s, which you are seeking.
Thus:
Call me early, mother darling;
Such a sale! I can’t be late!
Fifteen-doliar Paris models
Cut to fourteen ninety-eight.
Why Not?
Nipp—How long- did Gray hold
down his job?
1 Tuck—Until he made enough to buy
i a lounging robe.
—C. H. Thompson.
Back to Eden.
They found him wandering around
in a dazed condition, bearing the ear
marks of a vigorous quafrel, a black- '
ened eye. bleeding nose and a gap in
his front teeth.
Filled With pity; they seized him by |
the arms.
“Come, old chap, let us take you
home to your wife.”
He groaned piteously.
“Don’t you understand?” he mar- j
mured feebly, "that’s where I got it.” 1
—Dennison Varr.
The man who invented work never
finished the job.
Some Do Remain Faithful.
[ I noticed that she was quavering as j
I approached her. and I could not |
help but see that her breath came in
quick, sharp gasps. My heart soft- j
err’d and I resolved that although l!
had been miserably hard on her, I
would not be In the future. My errant 1
heart had even prompted me to leave *
her now that her first youth was
passed, and I was ashamed. After all,
she was my pal, my standby. She had
ever been ready to follow my slight
est wish, to go with me to the ends
of the earth. My conscience smote
me as I gazed on her today. She was
still vigorous, still sufficiently up to
the minute to pass muster anywhere.
All she needed was a coat of paint
and a new set of tires.
—Mary F. Kingston.
___
Wild Willies.
By George S. Chappell. N ’
Tattle Willie, with some ink.
Gave the speaking tube a drink.
Then he whistled down to Lena;
We had to send her to the cleaner.
Willie, who's an awful cut-up,
Told the minister to shut up.
This made Uncle Luther say;
"Ain’t I often felt that way?”
i
Fulfilled.
“Phil, dear, for years everybody
THK EVENING STAR, WASH INGTOX, D. THURSDAY, MAY 1. 3024.
misc law of 1922 coupled with the
imposition of new and heavier tax
burdens upon the Capital the vitally
important offsetting benefit of re
tention of the principle of definite,
proportionate contribution, the Dis
trict’s safeguard against excessive
and unjust taxation by a taxing body
in which It is not represented. This
bill deprives the District of the only
feature of the compromise law of
1922, which is clearly advantageous
to the people of the Capital.
The vital feature of the art of 1922.
carried over from the act of 1878, Is
that it fixes a definite equitable
standard of national participation In
Capital making, related to the con
tribution exacted In taxes from the
capital community, and does not
leave this standand to the shiftings
of caprice.
From 1800 to 1874-8 the national
and local Capital contributions were
Indefinite and unrelated. Each con
tributed what it pleased toward Cap
ital upbuilding. The Miation meas
ured its own obligatloms in terms of
dollars as next to nothing. The local
community raised and disbursed its
own taxes at its jtleasure. It meas
ured its Capital obligation consider
ably beyond the limits of itf* meager
taxable resources, and twice became
practically bankrupt in performing
almost unaided the nation's task of
Capital building. ...
In 1878 the nation confessed its
violation or gross neglect of its
Capital obligation. It gave practical
expression to its revived sense of
this obligation in its undertaking to
pay onc-lialf the accumulated funded
indebtedness of the District and one
half of future expenses. It took
from the District the power of self
taxation and assumed completely ex
ercise of the right to fix the local
contribution as well as its own. In
than exercising, taxation without
representation over the District the i
nation safeguarded ike national com
mnnlty by the pledge that to every
dollar collected In taxes from the
lootl taxpayers should be added a
dollar from the national Treasury,
and that the aggregate revenue
should be expended for Capital up
building. This provision protected
the District from excessive taxation
by causing a taxgatherer. alien to
the unrepresented District, to appro
priate from his own Treasury for the
District’s benefit every time he ap
propriated from the District's tax
revenue. Every dollar he took under
the tax power from the local com
munity increased correspondingly his
own Capital contribution.
The law of 1922 retains the prin
ciple of definite related Capital con
tributions. in which the law of 1878
was rooted. That the ratio of this
relation was ehanged from 50-50 to i
1 60-40 did not alter the basic prin
[ ciple involved.
The pending proposition destroys
all relation between the national anti
luixl contributions, and. leaving all j
taxing power In the hands of the
I tilted Stales, deprives the unrepre
sented t’apitnl of Its safeguard
against excessive taxation by a tax
lag body In which It Is not repre
sented.
* ■* H= *
3. It destroys the fiscal peace set- j
tlement promised by the new organic
act.
To raise now the issue of a lump
sum payment substitute for definite
proportionate contribution by the na
tion is to reopen the fiscal relations
peace settlement of June 29. 1922, and
to plunge the House and Senate into
the old. wearisome wrangle, so hurt
ful to the District, over the issue of
definite or indefinite proportionate
contribution toward Capital upbuild
ing and over the ratio <SO-50 or 60-40)
of definite proportionate contribu
tion.
The avowed purpose and promised
result of the new law was to bring to
House and Senate and people of the
District a period of wholesome and
refreshing rest from fiscal relations
controversy. If the act of 1922 is
left for a few years to work out its
i t indication on its merits or its failure
1 on its demerits this needed rest will
Ibe secured. If the old controversy
j over definite proportionate contribu
! tion is to be renewed by compulsory
i j
| has joked about the bride’s first apple j
pie.”
“Tes, dear?"
“So my first pie will be a lemon.”
And it was.
—William M. Newman.
Oh, Abused Woman!
I If you have ceased to be in love |
they call you inconsistent.
If you choose not to love at all
they call you indifferent.
If you love any one else but the one :
they want you to love they call you
false, and only when you give your
self to him whom they think you
ought to love arc you called loyal.
Yours is a hard lot indeed, oh,
women! —Satanelio.
Modesty.
Kriss—Modesty is an admirable
trait in a girl. *
Kross—But even blushing calls for
a certain amount of cheek.
—Kenneth Andrews.
'Copyright, 1923. Reproduction Forbidden.)
PROVISION IS OPPOSED.
Civil Service Commission Against
Blankets for Special Agents.
No necessity whatever exists for a
blanket provision for “special ex
perts,” as contained in various bills
introduced into Congress providing
for new offices and additional per
sonnel.
“Experience has already shown that
the term ‘special expert’ covers a
multitude of evils,” declared a state
ment issued today by the Civil Serv
ice Commission.
The statement says that the fun
damental act of the civil service, .to
gether with the rules promulgated by
the President, arc sufficiently flexible
to meet any situation.
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discussion of this bill this rest will
be denied, one of the avowed main
purposes of the act of 1922 will be
defeated and the understanding
upoh Which this compromise legis
lation was based will be flagrantly
violated.
4. It tearbe* n false theory con
cerning the relation of nation to
Capital.
It obtrudes annually upon the at
tention of Congress the suggestion
of a large cash donation to the Capi
tal. as if .the primary obligation of
national city upbuilding were upon
the local taxpayers, and the nation
wore only an incidental contributor,
a Voluntary and benevolent donor.
Since the nation in 1878 recognized
and assumed its National Capital
power and obligation, its responsi
bility in respect to the Capital has
been primary and dominating. As
late as 1916 this relation of nation to
Capital was fully recognized and
clearly set forth in the report of the
joint select committee of Congress,
which made the most thorough, ex
haustive and able study of the fiscal
relations of nation and Capital that
statesmen had given to the subject
since 1874-8. As long as all the
assets and revenues of the national
and local joint contributors toward
Capital upbuilding are in the hands I
of the national joint contributor, and
as long as all decisions concerning
the amounts to be paid by the joint
contributors, respectively, and con
cerning the expenditure of the Joint
revenues are to be made by the na
tional contributor, the latter must
in equity, and will, in fact, bear the
primary responsibility of Capital up
building. and the local taxpayers
will be recognized In their true re
lation as merely incidental contrib
utors of fax money, not fixed in
amount by themselves, but exacted I
at the pleasure of the other joint I
contributor.
** * *
5. It reduces to a minimum or de
! stroy* any chance of equitable pro- 1
porttonate contribution by the United
Staten la a p propria ting and spending
the District's accumulated Treasury
tux surplus.
Another practical effect of destroy
ing the 60-40 ratio will be to reduce
to a minimum any chance of equi
table proportionate contribution by
the United States when our accu
mulated tax surplus comes to be ex
pended. This tax money was col
lected by authority of the half-and
half law solely to apply upon the
District’s half of District appropria
tions, Whenever it is expended it j
would be equitable to spend it under j
the half-and-half law. the United
States duplicating it. If when the :
rurplus comes to be used the pro- :
portionate contributions are on the)
* 60-40 ratio, the nation through j
Congress will cither apply, as equity
seems to demand, the 50-50 ratio, or j
will make the existing 60-40 ratio!
retroactive and add to the District’s
I surplus only 40 per cent from the
I national Treasure. But if both the
50-50 and the 60-40 ratios are de
stroyed. and when the surplus comes
to he expended there is no definite
proportionate contribution hy nation
and taxpaying Capita], then th.e
chances are 100 to 1 that the nation i
will not participate at all under anv
percentage of obligation’ to enlarge |
the surplus fund for the upbuilding j
of the capital.
** * *
6. There are no offsetting bene,
fits to the injuries inflicted hy the
bill.
Broadly. Washington is tempted to
surrender its safeguard of national
proportionate contribution by the as- 1
surance that through a lump sum!
payment system *.he Capital will I
escape the tender mercies of the !
budget bureau and will win the
privilege, not of taxing itself with- *
out restraint but of being taxed by !
Congress without limit for the up- j
building of the nation’s city.
It Is suggested that there will be j
immunity from budget bureau j
cutting down of Uncle S’am’s Capi- ;
tal upbuilding outlay if the ex- j
penditures are made in a lump sum j
instead of as a proportionate part of !
the District’s total municipal ap- I
propriation.
VISITS 0. C. COURTS.
i Woman Justice From Hayattsville
Watches Procedure Here.
| Mrs. Retta D. Morris, mother of
i three grown children, two sons and
I on" daughter, who enjoys the dis
i finction of being the first woman to
; he appointed a justice of the peace
for the state of Maryland, was a vis
itor to the Police Courts and Traffic
{Court today. She came to the courts
for the purpose of familiarizing her
self with the manner in which jus
tice is administered in the National
Capital Police Courts. She was intro
duced to Judge Gus A. Schuldt and
District Attorney. Ralph Given. Judge
Schuldt invited her to occupy a seat
on the bench with him. which she ac
cepted. and remained watching the
operations of the court for an hour
or more.
j Mrs. Morris was recently appointed
! a, justice of the peace for Hyattsville,
I Md.. where she and her husband. Prof.
: K. J. Morris of the Hyattsville High
i School, make their home.
Marriages in May are considered
unlucky in France.
i • I
MEN’S WEAR
The well-dressed man of today
realizes the importance of his
appearance, and therefore pre
fers STEIN-BLOCH
Clothes for their exclusive style
features.
You will appreciate the ex
tensive selection of STEIN
BLOCH SUITS at $45.
SSO and $55 which we are
now showing.
SIDNEY WEST
(INCORPORATES)
d hat^ p 14th and G Streets ST c£o'rara H I
.. . 1
But if Uncle Sam is compelled by i {
any year’s fiscal conditions to cut
down all of his expenditures, in
cluding his outlay on National Cap
ital’ upbuilding, ho will obviously
make this retrenchment whether in
order to do it he reduces a lump
sum contribution or holds down the
total District outlay, of which he
pays a proportionate part. Indeed,
it is easier to make this direct spe
cific reduction than indirectly by
cutting and mutilating the District ;
appropriations. There is greater
fixity to the definite 8 proportionate
contribution than to that of a. lump
sum. It is far easier for those who
think that the nation should pay
nothing today toward Capital main
tenance and development to reduce
or deny entirely the annual lump
sum than to change the ratio of
proportionate contribution.
This hill will not cause the Dis
trict to escape supervision and na
tional contribution cutting by the
budget bureau.. It does not Increase
the certainty of a national contribu
tion or fixity in the amount of such
contribution. It does not avoid fric
tion-breeding ratio dlscuaslon, but on
the eonlmry aggravates It. It does
not Increase a particle the District’s
power to participate in Its municipal
legislature. Congress still has ex
clusive power to determine how mneh
it shall be taxed, and by whom and
for what purposes Its tax money
shall be expended.
♦4 4 4
7. This bill is jug-handled, one
sided, unfair. It give* bark to the na
tion Its pledge of proportionate con
tribution. which accompanied national
seizure of the Capital’s power of self
* taxation, without restoring to the Dls
. trie! this self-taxing power of whirh
It bad been deprived. Its practical es- ■
i fret Is to place a maximum limit on
; the contribution of the United Stnlcs
and to remove the limit entirely from
the contribution of the local tax
payers.
Indeed, the announced purpose of
the proposed legislation is to enable
a taxing body in which the District is
not represented to increase the local
burden of taxation at Its pleasure un
checked by the existing requirement
that every such increase be reflected
in some measure in national taxation
for Capital upbuilding.
( The maximum national contribution
j is made definite during the time In
which fonsress refrains from dimin- j
! ishing it: but all limits arc declared I
| off in respect to the local contribution, {
I and it remains definite only in the |
j certainty that the .local tax burden j
1 will be largely increased, and that I
i the local taxpayers will not partici- j
! r*ate at any time in the decision of
ihe amount of the increase, the
methods of taxation by which the in- j
crease is secured and the purposes for j
which the lax money is spent.
For the rruonN above slated your
petitioner* earnestly urge the rejec
tion by t’ongre** of H. 11. 473
| Theodore W. Noyes, chairman exe- j
! cutive committee of citizens’ joint i
| committee on District of Columbia
fiscal relations; E. F. Colladay, presi
dent Board of Trade; Isaac Gans. pres
ident Chamber of. Commerce; Anton
Stephan, president Merchants’ and
Manufacturers’ Association; Charles
A. Baker, president Federation of |
* Citizens’ Associations; Stanton C.
| Peelle. president Bar Association;
I Herbert L. Davis, President Columbia
| Heights Citizens’ Association: Evan
| H. Tucker, president Northeast Citi
| zens’ Association; J. A. Oliver, presi
| dent Georgetown Citizens’ Associa
tion; H. E. Stringer, president City
Club: H. V. Haynes, president District
of Columbia Bankers' Association; J.
;C. IVeedon, president the Real Estate
I Board; Arthur D. Marks, president
* Rotary Club; Harry G. Kimball, pres
j ident Kiwanis Club: James M. Proc- |
i lor, president Civitan Club.
.
MRS. C. S. JACKSON DIES.
Was Daughter of Late Bear Ad
miral W. T. Sampson.
Mrs. Catherine Sampson Jackson.
| wife of Rear Admiral R. H. Jackson.
' U. S. N.. chief of naval operations
1 and daughter of the late Bear Ad
miral W. T. Sampson. U. S. X., a
j veteran of the Spanish American war,
I died at her residence in the High
lands apartments last night.
Funeral services w ill be held at the
Church of the Covenant, Presbyterian,
tomorrow morning at 11 . o'clock.
Interment will be in the Arlington
cemetery.
Mrs. Jackson was born in Palmyra.
New York, which also was the birth
place of her father. She had been
in this city for the lasi year.
She is survived by three sisters,
j Mrs. R. C. Smith, wife of Capt. R. C.
i Smith. U. S. N„ now at Summit, N. J.;
; Mrs. IV. T. Cluverius, wife of Capt.
jW. T. Cluverius. U. S. N., now sta
; tioned at the Navy Department, this
! city, and Mrs. H. H. Scott, wife of
j Capt. H. 11. Scott, U. S. A., retired,
; of Flushing. X. Y.; also two brothers,
| Lieut. Commander KaJpli E. Samp
son, IJ 8. N., and Harold B. Sampson.
PROMINENT WOMEN
TO ATTEND Y. W. C. A.
Meeting to Be Held ».t Grace Dodge
Hotel May
9-16.
The Hon. Mrs. Montaugu Wa.ldc
grave, London, England. who is to
preside at the world’s eoniiniltee off
the Young Women’s Christian Asso
_____—.——elation, will arrive
' n ' Vashinß,on for
» held May 0 to Hi •
Hodge Hotel.
T Prominent wom
• en from many na- j
tions will attend j
jIHH t h m n
BHL \ mon
i i
nCTToijBfcCTiwQK r! ■ ( 1
1 * ar. Tlo
i 'on n i i-s -of I 'or t
mouth. Cady Glad
stone. who is the 1
MBS. WALDEGRAVE daughter -in - law I
of the immortal ]
Gladstone in England; Countess Elsa !
Bernadotte of Sweden, Kraulein Zar- :
nack. Miss Schu Ching Ting. Mine.
Petri, delegate from Austria-Ilun- I
gary; Mrs. Appaswamy, delegate from | |
India; Miss Mary Rossi, delegate from j j
Italy; Mrs. Klta Kasewaga, vice pres- j |
ident of the association in Japan ; |
Broken Gert Hemingsen, world com- ] |
mittee member In Norway; Miss Roxy ,
Marlin, delegate from Egypt; Miss I
Mary Rutherford, general secretary I
from Malaya, and Mrs. 11. J’. Coates, I
from South America.
It is the first time the world com- j ]
mittee has met in the United Slates. ) :
These distinguished women with a '
background of experience from the
older nations of the world are com
ing to help in solving the social prob- .
lems that have arisen in this and I
other countries since the world war j
and those problems which are com
mon to all countries at all times.
Never before have women met in |
such a large delegation, nor have j
they met on a more common ground. !
nor liars they hud greater belief in I
the things that a Christian world!
movement will do.
Tho day se;*?ions will be held in the I
Garden Hcu.m. and the program, will!
be confined unite largely to the work 1
of the committee. The first open j
meeting is scheduled for May 12 at i
Continental Hall. Mrs. Uob> rt i.an- |
sing, chair man of the hospitality com- j
mittee. will preside. The Hon. Mrs. i
Montagu Waldetrrave. president of !
this international assembly, will be |
introduced. Rady Gladstone will |
speak on ‘'Migration Problems Affect- i
ing' All Countries.” Mrs, H. C. Mel. !
a member of the national committee ;
of China, and Miss Elena Ranriazuri j
of Mexico City will also speak.
Trade Board Dismisses Complaint.
| The Kederal Trade Commission to
| day dismissed its eomplaint against)
■the American fan Company of New
i York city, charging discrimination in
! price contracts and nnf.-ir methods
;of competition. The charge was not
borne out by testimony, the commis
aion stated.
Patches
on Your Face?
—Did you get ail the
whiskers off this morning?
—Did you have to hurt
your face to do it?
—Frankly, sir you ought
to try the new Gem Blades.
They are perfect blades,
and they are guaranteed
to give perfect shaves.
Marvelous New
GEM
Double-Life Blades
Uam GEM Safety Razors
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FLAT TIRE?
MAIN 500
LEETH BROTHERS
Service Ckaigc Neve, Over ILW
WHEN YOU THINK
—of Pointing. Paperhmging and Decorat
ing think of Taylor.
tm Estimates mad. am request.
HARRY W. TAYLOR CO.
paperhanging and painting
2333 18th St. N.W. Tal, Col. 1077
The Connecticut Inn
1124 Connecticut Ave. Bet. L & M
Food anywhere
Combination Breakfast . JOc
Special Table d'Hote Dinner
65c Nightly
Open from 7:30 n.m. to 8 p.m.
Breakfast—Lunch—Dinner *
Crabflake Au Gratin
An additional selection to
our Business Men’s
LUNCHEON C (\ n I
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Restaurant
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Street
"Pradncts from Farm eUBt
to Ton”
IP®
With cold* and influenza all
too common just now, it pays
to take regular preventive
measures against them. Spray
your nose and throat night and
morning with Zonite (direc
tion* on the bottle). Prevention
is always easier, better and less
expensive than a cure.
Zonite—the remarkable, new
antiseptic has the unique
power of destroying germ*
without harming the delicate
tissues that germs thrive on. ,
It is several times as powerful
as pure carbolic acid—yet non
irritating and absolutely non
poisonous. At your druggist.
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If you knew
what ageing in wood §
does for pipe tobacco
Even the finest Kentucky Burley
Tobacco (and that's the kind we use) is
green and raw when it’s pulled. You
could hardly smoke one pipe load of it.
And here’s where Velvet is different:
Our ageing takes out that rawness and
harshness, and makes the tobacco mild
and mellow and gives it fine flavor.
Ageing in wood does what no artificial
treatment can do.
Bern ember —Velvet Tobacco, aged in
wood.
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Now Is the Time to Plant
1 ROSEBUSHES I
I We Are Handling the Entire Supply of A. Gude Sons Co.’s |
2-Year-Old Rosebushes, Including— |
I Columbia, Premier, American Legion, Mme. Butterfly, i
Ophelia, Yellow Ophelia and Many Others
® These Bushes Are Pruned Ready for Planting and
Will Give Abundance of Bloom This Summer
On Sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of This Week Only
| Price 69c Each; SB.OO per Dozen |
| White & Co., Inc. |
J4th and H Sts. N.W.
I 9-DAY SALE I
STARTING TODAY I
Oranges and Grapefruit
Oranges, 35 lbs. Grapefruit, 35 |j
average about $ | .65 lbs. average 26 $1.25 1
85 to the bag. X l " r= to the bag. .. . X — 1 i
Direct from grower. Drive by and take a bag home. They jc
are easy to carry on the street car. ■
Attractive Prices to Dealers by Box or Car . Lots |
J. A. COOPER I
400 12th St. S.W. |
Open 7 A.M. to 6 P.M. |
BARGAINS!
1006 to 1014 3rd St. N.E.
Just North of K St. N.E.
SSOO CASH
Monthly Payments
Open Evenings and Sunday
Large Lots to Paved Alley
Room for Garage
Hot-Water Heat
Electric Lights
Sleeping Porches, Large Front Lawns
Take H St. Cars to Third Street and Walk North
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What You Earn I
is present income. What you mtc means ■
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Surplus of $2,500,000.00, and which ©per- * K
ates under Federal supervisor means M
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*' president r t |
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