Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-12
XA7ashington
w LETTER
BY H. 2. WALKER
PERSONS IN NATIONS EYE
Star star Correspondent.
star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGToN, Aug. IL.

WASHINGTON aug. ASs
Instead of knocking Mr.. Bryan
into cooked hal" says the w ASH
ineton star. president Wilson
knocked him into plug NAT, Wh1eh
he now wears as secretary OF state.
Railroad profits in the United States
for the month of May amounted to
a little less than two million doIiars
a day. according to the monthly
eta tenent of the Bureau OF railroad
Economics, a press agent service sup
ported here by the railroads TO op-
nose railroad regulation ana govern
ment ownership. The totai earnings a
of tbe 800 S97 miles Of railways Tor
the month were $500, OOO day; 1t
cost S5.92d 900 a day to operate the
roads and run trains, and their taxes
were SAL 800 a day. The prontS left
for navment of interest and dividends
amounted to 81 972, 1922 day, or at
the rate of So. SO for each mile of road
for each day. And this doesn't IN
clude express company profits
Senator William Hughes has Joined
the white flannel contingent in the
Senate. and wears a silk shirt and
white shoes with his hair-striped
white suit.
Postmaster-G General Burleson's re-
cent reduction of parcel post rates
in the first, second and third zones
brings out even more strikingly than
before the absurdities of the zone Sys-
tenn of rates. Now you can send an
eleven mound parcel by mail 150 miles
for fifteen cents. TO send the same
MARCEL 151 miles costs 81 cents. 1T Will
90 200 miles for 81 cents, but for 3Ol
miles the rate is 6S cents, etc. In
stead of one country. so Tar as the
marcel most is concerned, the United
States is divided into as many differ
ent countries as there are posto11ces'
The cost of clerk hire for hunting up
postal rates and classifcationS prob
ably amounts to more imam tne reNe-
me that would be lost in cutting out
the zones. and making a rate of
cent a pound anywhere in the union.
Osborne and Colby agree that it is
wrong to allow individuals to get
rich at public expense by taking the
increase i'm land values created by the
community Osborne thinks the COM
munity should take all of this value
for public uses; Colby wants TO take
IL a little at a time. In other words,
osborne says, This is robbery, let's
stop the theft" and Colby says,
Sure it's robbery; We'll tax EN-
per cent. on everything they steal"
Mulhall says he was sent to help
WAYNE Parker and Major William II.
Wiley in their campaigns in 1910, but
the results he obtained will probably
make it difficult for him to get a let
ter of recommendation as cam
paign manager from either of them.
William j. Brennan, business agent
for Local So. and a delegation of
stationary firemen bound for their
annual convention. were walking up
Pennsylvania avenue a few days
ago when an aristocratic electric VIC
toria passed, with a liveried chauffeur
on the box and a gilt coat of arms
on the door.
Must be a German or Russian am
bassador. out for drive" suggested
one of the firemen. They asked
policeman.
mo indeed" said the cop. with
true Washington politeness, that's
the official automobile of Mr.. Cor
nelius j. Ford, the public printer"
Dye mean that the government
furnishes that rig for Connie Ford
to ride around in?" queried one of the
delegates.
Eyes. indeed affirmed the police
man.
t"Well." gasped Brennan, can you
beat it? Labor is sure coming into
it's own in this administration