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What State of Ohio Did.

III 1911 the state of Ohio made q new
assessment If all real and personal prop
r~tv and An honest and scientific effort
was made TO secure an appraisemcnt Of
property at its full market value. or
yaiue If sold under fair average condi-
lions The general results of that en-
deavor for the state as a whole 50 far
IS the same relates TO farm or acre
property may he noted by the following
acts:
There we're in Ohio in 1911 25.4S6,950
acres of land that were assessed as
acres and not as city or town lots IN
rglo the United States census of agrl-
..,I!ture reported 2il03,IoS acres OF
rarnl land. The difference in the TWO
statements of acreage represents tarm
land omitted by the GnumcratorS and
lands used fo= mines. forests anu
Kindred purposes. The census reported
rhc value Of farm lands in 1910 as 81
6J4,1 400. while the assessed value of
the acre property IN 1871 was $i'3o.-
10000.
Making allowances for the land COW
cred hv the assessors and not by the
census OF farms, and taking further
@ocniZauCe of the advance in farm prop
rrty which took place in Ohio between
1910 and 1911. the assessed Nalu" OF
acre property in Ohio in 1911 must
nave constituted at least 80 and pos
-!bIy was % per cent of Jhe average
market price. 1t was markedly above
any forced selling value of such lands
'rhn probability IS also raised that the
real and other property OF the citizens
II Ohio covered by the census statistics
If cities was. taken q whole. ssimil2r-
! assessed.
There is. however. evidence at hand
Indicating that the assessors Of some
81 the cities Appropriated to an ar
Ifraisal of 100 per cent. while others
fen slightly below the same. A com
pariSon of the acre and farm land val
Ees In the counties in which the twelve
OHIO cities containing over 10000 in
habitants are situated indicates in a
general way that the ratios in some Of
them must have been very close to 100
per cent and that in none of them did
u probably fall below 80 per cent. The
data in hand show in word that
when an urne&: and intelligent effort
- made to secure an equitable assess
tuent as between city and city and he
tween individual and individual a prac-
deal success can he secured and was
mus secured for Ohio whole and
especially for the twelve larger cities.
I-o- =. real definite Judgment with refer
cnce to the subject students must await
. careful compilation of data relating
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ROOSEVELT IS MUCH LIKED.
South Americans Call Him Very
Sympathetic-Home in April.

NEW YORK. March 4S.-''Muy sim
patico." or literally. very sympa-
thetic is the name by which Col.
Theodore Roosevelt has become known
in the regions of South America he has
traversed on his trip. Frank Harper,
the coloners secretary. revealed this
Thursday when he landed in this port
from South America via London. bring
ing with him a tortoise for the New
York Geological Park and five cases
of material for the Museum of Natural
History, containing skins of mammals
and a number of birds.
Tine natives refer to MIR. Roosevelt
in that way" he said. They think
that he is d very fine fellow.
Col Roosevelt, said Mr.. Harper. would
reach the mouth of the Amazon river
in about two weeks and expected to be
back home some time in April. -.
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CLAIMS $4,000 DAMAGES.
Daughter of Famous Indian Sues
Local Railway Company.

Miss Sophie Pitchlynn. daughter of the
late Peter Paul Pitchlynn. chief of the
Choctaw Indian tribe and of whom
Dickens spoke In his american Notes
as the only gentleman whom he met in
America, has brought suit against the
Capital Traction Company to recover
damages in the sum of $4,000 for in
juries alleged to have been sustained by
her while a passenger on car of the
company December 10, 1913.
Miss Pitchlynn claims that while a pas
senger on a car. and while standing at
the rear end of the car. waiting for a
transfer the register rope broke while
the conductor was in the act of register
ing her fare. causing the arm of the con-
ductor to strike her with great force and
violence, causing and producing serious
and permanent injuries.
Attorneys Rosa F. Downing and
George A. Berry appear for Miss Pitch
lynn.
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BERMUDA EASTER LILIES.
FREED BY THE COURT.
Woman Released Upon Telling Why
She Killed Her Uncle.

CALHOUN. Ga. March 2S.-After Mrs.
Charles Chapman told the court that
she killed her uncle. Sidney Chapman
because he was guilty of improper con-
duct toward her. Justice Fox. presiding
at her preliminary trial here Thursday
ordered the woman's immediate re-
lease and she was restored to freedom.
Mrs. Chapmans confession was not
unexpected. as her lawyers had an
nounced that she probably would make
an important statement in connection
with the killing. Last Saturday morn
ing the body of Sidney Chapman was
found lying outside the door OF Mrs.
Lizzie Starnes' home Mrs. Starnes and
her daughter. Mrs. Charles Chapman,
were arrested as suspects. and Charles
Chapman later was taken into custody
on the same charge.
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MAY NOT COME HERE.
Sir Lionel Cancels Sailings and May
Go Direct to Rio de Janeiro.

LONDON. March 2S-Sir Lionel Garden,
British minister to Mexico. yesterday
Cancelled his booking on board the
Mauretania, on which he was to sail
from Liverpool today for New York on
his return to Mexico City.
1t is understood there is a possibility
of Sir Lionel going direct to Rio de
Janeiro to take up his post as minister
to Brazil instead of returning to Mexico.
Nothing. however, has been definitely
decided as to his future movements.
The only statement the foreign office
would authorize was that Sir Lionel 3
passage to New York had been cam
celed and that no date had been liked
for his return to Mexico City.
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HUMAN LABORATORY IS
SUBSTITUTE FOR JAIL
Chicagos Treatment Of Men Who
Fail to Support Their
Wives.

CHICAGO. March 2S-on the theory
that they may have diseased brains.
and that they may require mental
treatment substitute for punish
ment. Chicago husbands who do not
recognize their obligations to support
their wives hereafter may be sent to
human laboratory instead of TO Jail
Those arrested on other charges may
receive the same treatment.
ChcaGos new psychopathic labora-
tory. the first of its kind in the United
States, will be established in the near
future as an auxiliary to the municipal
court. IL was announced today. Judges
of the municipal court yesterday COM
pieted their plans for the establishment
and maintenance of the laboratory.
Director Chosen.
Dr. William !. dickson of Vincland.
y. J., who studied in the court abora-
tory at Berlin. will be the head of the
Chicago laboratory. Miss Mary Il.
Campbell of Milwaukee, who did re-
search work at Johns Hopkins and
Harvard University. will be the asso-
ciate director.
BY making a scientific examination
of defendants il is hoped the judges
will be enabled to deal with them in
a manner to produce the best results
when cases come to trial. Experiments
in the Berlin court laboratory are said
to have shown a positive connection
between physical and mental deficiency.
All Subject to Examination.
The backward boy may be back
ward because of defective sight or
hearing, explained Chief Justice OIL
son. Persons who come into the police
courts, the boys court. the morals
court and the court of domestic rela-
lions will he subject to an examination
in the laboratory if 1t appears prob
able they need it.
Money has been appropriated and
similar laboratory will be established
in connection with the Cook county
Juvenile court
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Per Capita Tax Value.

With reference to the average per cap
tia. true or marke; value. of ali property
subject I" taxation by the property tax
in the cities of the United States. DR..
Powers said that for the great mass OF
then, this varies from 81 900 to Sl.'H.
These" he said. are the cities with
which Washington can properly he COM
pared \ very few cities only have tax
able property that has a per capita value
which exceeds S1,.hO. Those cities are
with hardly an exception cities much
larger than Washington. such as New
York ana Boston. the former of which
has an average valuation of little less
than $1,000 and the latter a little over.
1T should be noted. however that in
both cities the street railways and steam
railroads are taxed real property and
are some other cities. Further the as
sessed valua ton. of Boston and some
New England cities includes the values
of bank stock owned by residents of
other communities. the tax on which ac-
crucs not to the benefit of Boston or the
city shown in the census reports, but TO
the towns or cities i'll which the owners
of the bank stocks reside. The cities in
which railroads and street railways, tele-
graph and telephone are taxed as prop
crtN will in all cases show higher valu-
atiur OF taxable property per capita than
those in which saiu corporations are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-28
PLAN POORLY PATRONIZED.
Chicagos Municipal Store Shows
Light Returns Since Opening.

CHICAGO. March 2S,-Chcaso's mu-
nicipal store. where the needy were to
purchase supplies at cost. has done a
daily average business OF SOL since it
opened February 10, according to state
ment by the city controllers office. Ad-
vocates of the enterprise admit it has
not filled any longfelt want.
The store does not deliver goods and a
rigid investigation is made of every pro-
spective customer. These are the rea-
sons advanced by Joseph Meyer. county
agent for the lack of 4 more extensive
patronage.
Many persons would rather trade else
where than TO be looked mp by the county
as though they We're charitable patients.
said Mr.. Meyer. Only persons out of
work and not owners of any property
are eligible as customers.
The city council appropriated $4,000
for the operation of the store this year
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Wants Million New People in 1915.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2S.-"A mil
lion new people for California in 1915"
was the slogan throughout a banquet
rendered Thursday night by the exposition
officials to visiting members of the Trans
continental Traffic Association. whose
session in this city came TO an end Thurs
day. At the final session of the asso-
citation the fare from New Orleans dur
ing the fair period was fixed at $3.50 for
the round trip. with a three-month limit
attached. The exposition rates were ex-
tended to include the Canadian lines.
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Complete Investigations.

For the Years 1900 and 1901" Dr.
Powers said. the division of the cen
suS. under my supervision. made more
or less complete Investigations relat-
ing to the ratios between the true and
assessed valuation of real property in
all counties of the United States
The method employed for determine
ing that ratio in the great majority
OF counties was comparison of the
values of farm lands as returned by the
census enumeratorS in 1909 ard the
assessed valuation Of acre property in
those counties. The information above
noted was supplemented by the results
of studies made by the agents of the
bureau of the census and by private
agencies with reference to the subject
based upon the selling price and as
sessed value OF lands that had been
sold in 1900 and 1904 The complete
results of the investigation referred
to were presented in 1905 IN the census
report on wealth. debt and taxation
The methods developed by the in
N"stigation whose results are embodied
IN that report have more recently been
Improved by many of the state tax
commissions. and the bureau OF the
census is now engaged with agents in
Tn" fields in collecting data for a sim
liar report for the year 1872. If in this
investigation the census utilities all
the new methods that have been de-
vel0ped in the last ten years and cX-
ponds money necessary to secure tabu-
lauon OF the assessed and true value
of city real estate that was sold in
1912 the new report of the census re
Ia ting to wealth. debt and taxation will
provide all the information desired
"f the true and assessed value OF land
liz all our cities.
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Iowa Makes Worse Showing.

The great state of Iowa makes
worse showing than Illinois with refer
euce to its ratios between true and as
scssed valuation Of property and the con-
asst between it and Ohio is marked. The
agricultural census of the state in 1910
included an acreage of :;393O,6sS. The
assessors of that year reported as lands
spart from city lots 34,G1l.Sl3 acres after
certain deductions for road areas. Inc
census gives a value to the farm OF w.
~ 80 400 The assessors appraised the
larger area as having selling value OF
81 Cos :,76 c66 After making considerable
deductions from this amount for road
areas and other exemptions one-fourth
of the remainder was carried on to the
tax book as the value of the land Tor
taxation purposes.
THAT taxable value. Judged by the
farmers statement of the census emu
rneratfon. could not have been for the
state to exceed - per cent and may nave
fallen below II per cent OF the true Vaiue'
as that term was understood by the as
SCISSORS of Ohio and by the census emu
merators in all states. The state laws
require all properties to be appraised al
their true value and assessed at one
fourth of the same. The facts stated
above indicate that the lands of Iowa are
not appraised at more than one-half their
true value and their assessment as thus
made is not to exceed one-half the legal
rate. or rate stated in the statute.
The results obtained in Iowa and Hi
uois as compared with those noted for
Ohio clearly demonstrate that tax laws
are not Seif-operatinS and the reported
ratios of assessed or true value of prop
erty may be far from correct ratio wheth-
or the law call for assessment at true
value or at some fixed portion of the
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Freeman to Get New Trial.

NEW YORK, March 2S-Albert Free
man, who was convicted with Julian
Hawthorne and DR.. w. }. Morton of using
the United States mails to defraud in
vestors and sentenced to five years in the
atlanta prison. has been granted a new
trial by Federal Judge Mayer. In
his decision Judge Mayer stated that the
new trial was granted because Michael
kehoe. who served in the case, was ar
improper juror in that he had "a preju-
dical bias
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Chicago Investigation.

In Chicago an investigation in 1876
penSe of the commercial bodies of that
city. demonstrated that the realty in the
less than 10 per cent of its true value.
To correct the evils that had dev sloped in
such marked degree in these two states
the legislatures enacted that property
should be taxed at 20 per cent and %
per cent of the true values. respectively.
This legislation took effect in the two
states in 1898 or 1880. Illinois raised its
rate from 20 per cent to - l.; in the
years since 1890 The enactment of the
laws in these two states can with truth
be called the first legislation OF note
in the United States aiming to correct the
evils of unequal appraisement of property
that had developed in the several COM
munitieS
The act of Congress in 1902 forhddins
the asses $ment of property in the DIS
trict of Columbia at less than wo-thirds
of its true value. was of the same essen
tial character as the legislation of Ili-
noiS and Iowa four years earlier 1t was
an effort to prevent an assessment of
property at rate far below the one fixed
by earlier law. The wording of the act
of 1902 calls attention to the fact that
the evils at that time to be overcome i'll
Washington were far less than those
which existed in other states, notably
Illinois and Iowa
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Expect to Prove Alibi for Koetters

CHICAGO. March 2s.-The prosecution
rested yesterday in the trial OF John B.
Hooters for the murder of Mrs Emma
Kraft of Cincinnati who was slain with
A hammer III d Chicago hotel in l9lZ.
Attorneys for the defense said that they
world nroye an alibi for Koetters.
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Electrocution at Richmond.

RICHMOND. Va, March 2S.-Waiter
Boyd. negro. of Richmond. was electro
cuted in the penitentiary here yesterday
morning. He stabbed to death another
negro last December.
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The large barn on the farm owned by
William H. Martin. near Shepherdstown,
W. Va. was burned Tuesday afternoon,
together with its contents
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The Illinois Law.

That the Illinois law is not epui-
tably enforced as is the law of Ohio
may be noted in a broad. general Way
by the following facts for the state as
n whole: The area of land in Illinois
assessed other than as town lots in 1911"
was 2i.l+%. S1% acres. of which 322. 3%i
was returned as in farms. according to
the United States census report for the
same year.
The farm lands We're reported by their
owners to the census cnumerators to
have a value of $S.J222, 1880. while the
greater area of acre property had a
value for taxation purposes of only $500
S11Sc:4. II allowance is made for the
character of the land assessed. but not
class of realty was not assessed at 20
exceed ~ per cent and possibly not to
exceed Il per cent Of its true value.
1T is also proha BILE that the average
assessment Of other property was made
at the above low ratio, or barely one
half the legal ratio of onc-third. A care
full study of the available data indicates
that Chicago assessment was at approx
imatelv the legal ratio OF 10 per cent
instead of the ratio of - per cent given
in the statistics of cities, and that no
other city. with the exception OF Rock
ford had d ratio exceeding % per cent.
Most of them had ratios not lar from
20 per cent. and one or two OF them ap-
proNimated the ratio OF the state as d
whole The city counties as whole are
plainly maintaining an assessment that
approximates the legal requirement lar
more than are the rural counties, thus
reversing the conditions that widely pre-
vailed in Illinois not far from 1898.
Using the ratio between farm and as
sessed values of acre property obtained
as above for the various city counties OF
Illinois, il is found that the average per
capita valuation of property assessed TOR
taxable purposes for the Illinois cities
as a whole did not differ materially from
that of the cities of Ohio as given in the
,euSIIs report for 1872.
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The evidence at hand clearly indicat-
ing that the assessed valuation of prop
erty taken as a whole in Ohio is substan-
tally the same as the true selling value
the twelve cities of Ohio taken as a
whole may be considered the best basis
for compa ring the assessed valuations OF
any city such as Washington.
Those cities have property of substan-
italy the same quality and owned under
very nearly the same conditions eX-
list in Washington. 1t is extremely i'm
proba BILE that the average property SUBJ
ieCt to taxation in the average of these
cities of Ohio is very greatly different
from that in Washington. In using the
census data of the statistics Of cities in
1872 for Ohio as a basis of compa rison
with Washington. considera ton should.
however. be taken of the following fact
In Ohio street railways. teleSraphs and
telephones pay taxes upon their prop
erty. while in Washington they are taxed
on the basis of receipts or earnings. The
Ohio cities. therefore. include actual
property that which is not included in
Washington.
1.-THE ratios of assessed to true valua-
ton of the land in Illinois. obtained in
the same manner as described above for
Ohio do not indicate the existence Of an
even. just or equitable assess
ment. This comparison and its results
explain the wide difference in the per
capita figures of the value of property
assessed that is to be found in the cen
sus statistics of cities for the cities OF
Illinois The statutes OF Illinois for as
vide that the value of property for as
sessment purposes shall be one-thlrd OF
the full or fair market value.
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Jailed for Train Wreck in France.

MELUN. France. March 2s.-Sentence
of four months and one months i'm
prisonment, respectively has been pro-
nounced on the engineer and con-
ductor of the Marsele-Lyon Paris cx-
press. which was wrecked here MOVE M
hcr 4 in collision with another train.
Thirty nine persons were killed in the
accident and large number Were in
iured. The engineer and conductor were
charged with criminal negligence.
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axed on their earnings or some similar

taxed on their earnings or some similar
basis.
Iowa and Illinois We're among the
first states to legislate for the purpose
of correcting. if possible. the MANY
vicious and incorrect practices relating to
the assessment of property that grew up
in all the states of the Union in the
thirty years which followed the civil war
In all states the assessors acting under
laws which authorized and directed the
assessment at full fair value fell into
the habit of assessing on a lower basis
This tendency had become marked in all
sections of the country early as 1873.
when the organic act for the city OF
Washington was enacted. This tendency
received great impetus, especially In
the central western states, during the
period between 1SI.;. the year OF the
panic. and 1895. In some states the de-
cline of the ratio has become great as
to limit the taxing power of the common
wealth. as well as of the counties and
cities. This was the case notably in H.
linois and Iowa.
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Ohio Cities Compared.

to the selling price and value of realty
sold in the largest cities of that state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-28

Miss Iva Green and Howard c. Weker
of near Martinsburg, w. Va, We're mar
ried at Hagerstown. Md. Thursday.
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Tenth Street Sc.

Mrs. f L. Dcaic. 13t 10th 81. Sc.
Washington. says: Il had that Tired feel
ing and the doctor said | was afflicted
viii kidney trouble. | suffered a great
deal from pain in my back. didn't sleep
well and i'll the morning didn't feel like
doing anything. | used different kinds OF
medicines hut without benefit. until
got Deans X idncy Pills. They soon gave
me relief
L. Frank Kirrhnrr. 1Ilf 4th st. NV,
Washington. says: My back was weak
and painful and al times | was scarcely
able 10 staop lift. | had constant duh
pains through my IONS. and felt n,er-
abb in every way. used D"an's Kidney
Pills on Il friends advice. and have never
regretted dniu.; 80. | have, previously in
.inrsed Deans kidaey Pills through the
local papers and Al this time l gladly
confirm my former statement. My kidneys
have not bothered me since
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-28

Charles c. Bell. 6I2 c st. y. e.
Washington. says: Some time
ago ! had spell with my back
and | suffered awfully. My back
ached all the time and | got very
weak. | was almost able to
work. The doctor treated me. but
! didn't get any relief saw
Doan's Kidney Pills recommend
ed SO highly that | finally got a
box at stevens Pharmacy. Thev
drove all the pains and aches out
of my back and made me feel bet
ter in every way. The statement
I gave after | first used Doan's
Kidney Pills, ! am glad to CON
firm now"