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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Same Schedule for Maroons.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-University OF
Chicago undergraduates expressed
surprise today when they learned
the Maroons in the fall of 1914
will meet the same seven
foot ball teams that were on
their 1913 schedule. Stagg had
intimated that he would break out
of conference circles for at least two
games and it was expected that at
least one outside team would be
scheduled.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
When Women Rule.

Mr. Meekly-"Then you would have
the word obey omitted from the mar
rage service?" Miss strongmind-r
Not at ell; merely transferred SO that
the man will say it."--Boston Tran
script.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
VALLEY NEWS.
) = = 80 . = .

The farmers are not quite through
corn.
Mr.. Appel filled his regular appoint
ment at Valley church Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Adams and
family left Tuesday, December % for
few weeks visit with relatives in
Oklahoma.
Mr.. Victor Peters who is attending
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Notre Dame to Meet Carlisle.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
NoTRE DAME, Ind, Jan. 5-Notre
dame will meet the Carlisle Indians
in Chicago on Nov. IA it was announc
ed today. The game is me first land
ed for the Catholics on their 1914
foot ball schedule.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
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|l pyqfEypl y NEWS u

sumption that they will lit the ball
clean, whereas they often 90 nothing
of the sort, accounts in some measure
for the shortness in approach play,
which is almost as general if not
quite so obvious as in putting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05

8 TO m &C b 80 bad /
thought | could not
live Our doctor said
it was congestion of
the stomach. I would
goto bed perfectlywe
and wake up in the
night as bad as | could
be and live. Our doc.
tor said it would do
no good to give medi
cine internally. II 9
had to inject medicine
in my arm. Since tax
ing Oh am Der lain,s
Tablets l can eat any
thing / want without
hurting me-" This
form of indigestion is
extremely painful and
often dangerous. By
taking Chamberlain s
Tnhlnfc ar4n
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Chronic Constipation Cured.

Five years ago had the worst case
of chronic constipation ever knew
of, and Chamberlain's Tablets cured
me-" writes S. F. Fish, Brooklyn,
Mich. For sale by all dealers.-Adver,
tisement
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05

and especially. when you have fitness
ana weight in the stomach after eating.
the disease may be warded off and
avoided. Chamberlain Tablets not only
aid digestion, but strengthen and ipyig.
crate the stomach.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05

Hives. eczema, Itch or salt rnerm
sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch
OF your clothing Doan,s Ointment
cures the most obstinate cases. w.
suffer. All druggists sell it.-Adyer.
tisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Advice by caddies.

Mr.. Oulmet has written that his ten
year old caddie, in handing him club.
Invariably remarked, Keep your eye
on the ball" That lie could endure
such thing without falling on the
caddie and killing him is proof
stronger even than his great victory
of the young American champion s
nerve and self-control
The story makes one wonder
whether, granted the inhuman tran
utility necessary to endure it, 1t would
be a good thing to train ones caddie
10 drone BE up before every single
shot. Likely SO CHASTITY remedy
would have little result because short
ness is largely a tempermental weak
ness and, as near as may be, hope
1essly insuperable one
Yes, sir said Dr. Johnson upon
Gle occasion, but we must attend to
the difference between what men in
general cannot do If they would and
what every man may do If he would. "
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Rivers offered New York eout.

HIVers UHered New York Bout.
United Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5--Joe Rivers,
the Mexican lightweight, who is. ex-
rected here soon from Los Angeles,
today was offered fights with Jack
Britton and Freddie Welsh before To-
cal clubs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
TimIdltY Reasserts ltaelf.

Quickly, however, they awoke to the
fact that their last state was worse
than their first: as soon as a little
familiarity caused their natural tim.
fdity to reassert itself they We're short
er than ever. In the old DAYS when
they did harden their hearts the guilty.
would rattle against the back OF the
tin and sit down in the hole, whereas
the Haskell too often jumped out
again. The hyelier the ball the more
tragic and hopeless in the case of the
constitutional coward upon the utting
green.
A good style of putting can do much
towards minimizing the effects of
tlmidity. The man who by divine gif.
has the power of moving his wrists
easily and smoothly is not so likely to
get that fatal hitch in his putting ma
chinery as are those who are less rich
ly endowed. There is no more conr-
ageous golfer than yardon, but since
he has been a victim of this dreadful
and long drawn out putting disease he
is constantly short, because with G
locked wrist and quick Jerk the
chances of hitting ball quite clean
are, as too many of us know. extreme
ly small. The fact that golfers have
to base their calculations on the as
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Attacks Of Indigestion

ri believe Chamberlain Tablets have
saved my life, writes Mrs. Maggie Coil,
Golden City, No. II had pains in nv
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Carpenter May Fight In sydney,

CaFpehtIer Way Fight IN sydney.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PARIS. Jan. Georges Carpenter,
the French champion, will go to sgd
ney, n S. w, for fight Easter week,
provided suitable opponent can be
obtained. It was announced here to.
day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-05
Specific AaaIns. shortnsss.

In golf there are certain strokes
which are palpably out of the reach
of the ordinary person, but to hit the
ball few yards with a putter is not
at first sight one of them, and mad the
conversation been on the subject of
golf DR. Johnson probably would have
commended that every man might hit
the ball as far as the hole If he would
nor would even Sir Joshua REYNOLDS
have ventured to contradict him. New
ertheless it may be seriously argued
that men in general cannot get up TO
the hole however much they wish to,
and the few who can possess much
rarer and more heroic qualities than
would appear at first sight.
When the Haskell ball first made its
appearance innumerable players be-
lieved with that recurring optimism
which alone prevents golfers from
committing suicide that they had al
last discovered sovereign specific
against shortness, because when they
first bought rubber cored ball al
famine prices they could not rreven
1t from dashing boldly past the hole
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13
DISTRICT CENTENARY
Fair Play for Washingtonian
as Well as for Washington.
rom speech on Dist rict's centenary at
Board Of Trade banquet. 1891.

When the District corner stone was
laid thriving Georgetown was its nucleus
of settlement on one side of the river and
Alexandria or Belle Haven on the other.
The site of Washington itself Il plain
fringed by gradually sloping heights. was
"A series of pastures. marshes, patches of
cultivated ground and hills green with
many trees 1T was pleasing to the eye
and We'll adapted to its destined purpose
but those sections now most desirable,
both for business and residence purposes,
were then the least attractive. The river
front was the choicest portion of the city.
if the opinions OF the earliest purchasers
are considered Capitol Hi was a dense
forest scarcely touched by the wood
mans an Pennsylvania avenue was a
deep morass covered with alder bushes.
Massachusetts avenue, in the now fash
iona bile northwest, was Il bog. unframed
III part as late as 1862, in which year
Anthony rrollope. the English novelist.
waded along it knee deep through snipe
grounds. Upon this foundation the capt.
tai of today has been bult-the modern
Washington, the focus of national poll
tics. the great gathering place of the
people in conventions assembled. with its
quarter of a million of population, rap
idly increasing and spreading the capt.
tai over the whole of the present Dis
trict: a city sustained, approved and
adorned by the annual expenditure OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13
A SQUARE DEAL
FOR WASHINGTON
Our Tax-Burden Distinctly
Heavier Than That Of Most
American Cities.
No. II.
December II, 1918.

The primary responsibility fo1
the support and development OF
the National Capital is upon the
nation; and Congress, not the peo-
pie of the federal District. fixes
the amount of the latter's tax con-
tribution toward the cost of the
capitals maintenance.
The original owners of Wash
ineton donated five-sevenths OF
the citv's soil and Welded the
right OF self-government to the
nation on the understanding and
implied agreement that the nation
was to build up here magnificent
capital at its own expense, rem
bursting itself in part from the
proceeds of the sale OF the donated
lots. A pretentious city was
planned and lots were sold by the
government on the strength 81
this understanding. Patrick Henry
complained that the residents OF
the District might, under the ar
raneement, ENJOY exclusive emol-
uments to the great injury OF the
rest of the people, and pamphlet
protest was entered against Con
eress meeting all the needs of the
capital. on the ground that the in
dependence and sel!-respect OF its
citizens would be degraded. It
was from the beginning, IN theory
at least, the city of the nation, and
not the city of its residents, and
the primary responsibility tor its
development has always been III
equity upon the nation. and the
residents. who have no voice III the
disposition of the money eNacted
from them. are the incidental con
tributors.
In spite OF this conceded rela-
ton OF nation and capital. the
local taxpayers Of the District tor
three-fourths OF century were
compelled to assume practically
the entire burden of capital-mak-
ing, the nation violating or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13

ancient claim of the United States
against the District prior to 1873
as undischarged by the bank
ruptcy settlement of that year and
to collect it as living, valid OBJ
legation from the taxpayers Of to-
day is conhscation, the threatened
or boosted forerunner of a series
Of similar spoliations. The attempt
to shift the responsibility, blame
and punishment for alleged blum
ders by Uncle Sans agents in
handling the District finances
from these agents and Uncle Sam
himself to the impotent local COM
munity as a scapegoat, berated at
the same time with verbal abuse
imputing moral obliquity, is the
basest of baseless vili6cation.
At the foundation of all these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13
A SQUARE DEAL
FOR WASHINGTON
Against Campaign of Repudia-
ton, Confiscation and
ViIification.
POINTED LESSONS OF
1910 CENSUS FIGURES
Already Excessively Tax-Assessed,
Grossly Unfair to Raise Stand
ard of Assessment.
No. I.
December 16, 1913.

From the Washingtonian' view
point the anti-District policy prac-
tically proclaimed by the House
District committee discloses as
its dominant factors reputation,
confscation and vilitication. 1t
required four years of investiga-
ton and thoughtful consideration
by the statesmen Of the seventies
(and there were giants in those
days') to establish the equitable
basis of financial relationship be-
tween nation and capital. The
bill to eliminate half a million dol
lars of District revenue from
duplication under this agreement,
which was passed recently by the
House, at the instance OF the Dis
trict committee. without word
of debate, disrupted in day this
so-called permanent settlement OF
1873, and as a precedent spells
reputation. The bill to treat an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13
A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE NATIONAL CAPITA

traordinary group, outside Of all com
parsons with American cities OF cor
responding size in all the other states
of the Union.
Enthusiastically Over-Assessed.
Comparisons between Washington and
other cities in regard to the assessed
valuation of realty. for purposes OF taNa
ton, should always be coupled with me
understanding that the large industrial
esta blishmentS which elsewhere contrib
ute most heavily to the citys wealIh anu
taxable property are here in large meas
ure non-existent save i'll the form OF the
government departments and mechafital
establishments These local industries
however, are not included in the taNaole
properties, for the government holdihss
are exempt from assessment. tenst
when Washington is compared, IN TINS
respect with such busy industrial CEN
tiers as Detroit, Milwaukee and 1leVe-
land, the local total of assessed Nalua-
ton. representing an almost eNclusiVely
non-industrial community. stands aeaiiiet
the totals of cities where are scores. even
hundreds, Of mills and shops ana rae
tories, producing enormous values anu
giving employment to great nun,peis
Even so. the taxed fraction OF Mashifs
ton is assessed at higher total than any
of these cities. Here are the figures:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13

It is absurd to imagine that the taxed
fraction of Washington is underassessed
when its real property is rated III the
actual assessment as worth sSS'o4eo'l
worth sol sSS 100 more than that OF the
whole of Cleveland. with its great indus
trial establishments and its population
90 594 larger than that of the Dlstrict-
There are 331 ,O69 Washingtonians. one
third of them colored people. the vast
majority of them employed or very small
EMPLOYERS, with comparative TACK
of extensive and costly Industrial pants
with a minimum of even minor iiilioH-
aires and a maximum of clerks, Worhihs
men and small tradesmen and transient
an,.,aYn.vers These 331 ,OS9 Washing
tonians are credited with owning nearly
500 600 900 more of taxable real estate
than the ,663 people '229,o9f more .hd,,
in Washington who own the Wnole o.
the great. rich, populous and prosperous
CITY of Cleveland Does any one IN 'he
world believe this to be fact?
Is Il IN he believed that the taxed lrac-
tion of non-industrial washington is I'M
derassessed, when it is shown TO pc
worth. in terms of taxation assessfis zen :,
1s1 .Oo3 more than all of Buffalo. with
nopulation 90 646 greater, and with us
grain elevators, it's mills, its steel plant,
its lake commerce. Its manifold manu-
features and its retail business estao-
lishmentS?
Is the taxed fraction of Washington
underassessed when it is valued ton the
100 per cent basis) as worth s65, or, 100
more than the whole of wealthy pros
porous, busy Industrial Baltimore, with
227, 416 greater population? And S29'3.3'-
AL more in actual assessment than the
whole of Detroit, and S161,932.3326 more
than Detroit on the 10e per cent basis,
though Detroit exceeds Washington IN
population by 1867?
[See letter VIII for 1ol: figures suppeme.nthlnG
and corroborating in greater detail those OF lsio
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Said a Hundred Years Ago.

The orator at the laying of the
District corner stone 100 years ago
petitioned and prophesied: From
this stone may superstructure
arise whose glory, whose magnih-
cenee, whose stability, unequaled
hitherto, shall astonish the world"
Upon the threshold of the Dis
trict's second century we can do
no better than to repeat this
prayer and prophecy, so suggest
i've Of the bright anticipations con
corning the federal District which
prevailed at its creation. We
sometimes hear lofty reflections
concerning the narrow views of
the founders of the republic. In
respect to the capital we shall do
well if we fulfill the hopes, prophe-
cles and anticipations of the fore
fathers and not prove narrower
than they. 1t was their idea that
Washington should be a federal
city, developed by the nation and
subject to its control, but it was
not their idea that it should be
without people. Its grand frame
work indicates the expectation of
a large population. Washington's
imagination covered the fair fields
and wooded hills of his namesake
city with the homes of a numer-
Gus, busy and happy people,
people not to outward appearance
aliens, politically, and less than
aliens judicially, but clothed with
all American rights not absolutely
inconsistent with the fostering
control by the nation of the Ma
tional Capital. He predicted that
the city of the nation century
thence, if the country kept united,
would be, though not as large as
London, yet of a magnitude in
ferior to few others in Europe
/! One hundred years ago a great
mind conceived the idea Of a
statue of perfect symmetry and
beauty. This idea was impressed
upon the snowy whiteness Of the
heart of huge block of marble
and the statues outlines lay hid
beneath the stones rough and dis
colored surface For century at
intervals men have worked with
drill and blast, with pick and
chisel, to reach the heart Of this
rocky mass and to expose to sun
light and the eyes of men the per-
feet statue. Stroke by stroke the
statue is uncovered. Inch by inch
it rises i'll dazzling and perfect
loneliness from all that is coarse
and rude and ugly in the stone
and earth of its surroundings, as
the goddess of beauty rose in days
of old from the rough gray sur
face of the ocean. The century
old ideal of Washington is fast
becoming real, tangible, visible.
It is for us of the republics sec
ond century to give the finishing
touches to the work designed 100
years ago. Let no laundering
chisel mar the delicate outlines of
the developing statue whose beat
ty, half concealed, half exposed.
assures to America and the world
perfect embodiment of the ideal
capital.
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on the 100 per cent basis the real
estate in the assessed fraction of Wash
ington was valued by the assessors in
1a1O at a greater value than that in
any other of the above seventeen cities
excapt San Francisco and Los Angeles
the California cities constituting an ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13
Comparative Realty Values.

The following table gives the realty as
sessment basis and the realty assess
ments raised to the 100 per cent basis i'll
the case of eighteen cities most closely
approxmating Washington in size:
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TOTAL. VALUATIONS.
Mnshfngton 3iO.346.iai

The taxed fraction Of the real estate or
th, city and the limited personal property
are valued in 1910 at over thirty-f1ve mil
lions more than the whole real and per-
sonal property If the rich city of Cleve-
Land with aa9t greater population: over
ffty-four millions more than the whole OF
Cincinnati. with :i2.522 greater population;
over sixty-two millions more than the
whole of Milwaukee with 42.IsS greater
population over seventy-nlne millions
more than the whole of New Orleans.
with stH,6 greater population: over ninety
seven millions more than the whole OF
MINNEAPOLIS: over 1876 millions more than
the whole of Louisville: over ia millions
more than the whole of Indianapolis. and
over 176 millions more than the whole OF
St. Paul.
Per Capita Tax Levy.
az the 1ss cities, excluding Washington.
which exceed 10000 in population the
number whose tax levies were less than
that of Washington in 1910 is 129: more
than Washington. 80,
Isee letter XII for 1912 figures. and full com
ment thereon experimenting and eorroooratns
the figures Of 1901
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half provision of the organic act.
either as d whole and at a single
stroke or by plecemeal.
| The Oldest Inhabitants realize more
keenly than the younger Washington
mans the nature and extent of the dis
aster involved in a return from the
twentieth century conditions at Wash
tington to those of forty years ago. An
association. the average age of whose
membership is approximately seventy
years, enjoys wonderful retrospect
over a half century which has meant
much. not only to Washington. but to
America and the world. Our average
or typical Oldest Inhabitant Of todays
association was entering manhood at
the beginning Of the civil war. He
saw the capital. neglected and i'll
treated by the nation. as struggling
country village with zigzag grades. no
sewerage system. no street cars. no
water supply except from pumps and
springs. gas lighted only on a part of
Pennsylvania avenue and In the pub
| lie buildings, with no paid fire depart
ment, for police a mere onstabulary,
with unimproved reservations. UMPIRE
tentious dwellings, wretched sidewalks
and streets of dust or mud and mire.
He has lived to see the new Washing
ton. Americas most attractive city.
political. scientific. literary and art
center, with clean and economical
non-pa rtisan municipal government:
with surface remodeled. boastine more
smooth streets than any other Ameri-
can city; with an elaborate and costly
system of sewers and water mains;
with Convenient transportation by over
$50 miles of street railway. under
ground electric and barring the over
head trolley in urban sections; with
ample steam railroad facilities with
out grade crossings and with one of
the finest and most INTELLECTUALLY at
tractive Union stations in the world:
with broad streets, shaded for several
hundred miles with trees. making Of
Washington the forest city: with parks
and reservations of picturesque beauty.
with stately and imposing public build
lnes, and with comfortable and attrac-
tive homes. including many costly
dwellings of the most varied and pleas
ing architecture springing up on the
swampy pastures of the old Washing
ton
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BY THEODORE W. MOVES.

greater than that which ruled from the
Seven Hills, will be the just cause of n
profOunder pride than that which found
expression in the words ~ am n
Roman"
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Not only is WashfnSt9n's realty assess
mont excessively high when compare'
viii, that of other American cities. hut Its
total tax valuation. combining real ami
personal property. shows similar extra
ordinary excess,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-13

Bringing to the 100 per cent basis ines
cities. with Baltimore and Buffalo added
the table stands:
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THE SENATE STRUGGLE.

9. Letter VI, February, 1914.
Battle in the Senate. Not too
much money raised under half
and-half provision for wise and
economical capital maintenance
and development.
10. Letter VII, February. 1914.
Section 5 of d. c. appropriation
bill is in essence covert repeal of
half-and-half provision of act of
1878. Full discussion.