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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25

Of $4,000 Is recommended Tor paint
ing under the roadway Of the High
way Bridge and jurisdiction and con-
troll over the bridge Is Transferred TO
the District Commissioners AFTER
July /.
The total appropriation for the
maintenance, etc, OF sewers, $ol2,OOO,
an increase OF $4,000. This includes
q $4,000 Increase for the pumping
station. and $4,000 increase Tor
suburban sewers.
Cleaning Budget Cut.
The appropriation for cleaning ana
sweeping the streets Is cut from
$500, 900 to s375. 900. while the amount
for disposal of city refuse Is increas-
ed from S656. 900 to S750,00o. This In
crease 10 due to the installation OF
equipment in the garbass-disposai
plant. and to the collection OF mis-
cel,aneous refuse by the District Gov
eminent. The estimated revenues
from garbage disposal for 1921 Is
$250.000.
For the Metropolitan police the bill
carries a total Of S1,771,973.S7, which
La an increase Of $78,17212.
The officers and members or the
Metropolitan police are provided for
in the same number as for the cur
rent year. and at the rates OF COM
pensation fixed by the act approved
December 8, 1919. The total increase
in salaries over the amount In the
current appropriation bill 10 $685.
293S7, and the Increase over the COM
bined amounts provided in the cur.
rent bill and the act of December B
is 357,512.12.
The pay Of the chief clerk Is In
creased from $4,000 to $4,000. and one
additional clerk is provided at 1880.
Other Changes.
Eight additional employees are rec
commended for the House OF Deten-
ton, with salaries totaling $4,000.
The employment of six guards. a
janitor, and three matrons Is denied.
The harbor patrol gets $500. the
same as last year.
The total appropriation for the
Fire Department 10 $1.271, 600 an in
crease OF $22, 500 over last year.
The officers and members of the
Fire Department are not changed,
and tho salaries are appropriated for
in accordance with the increases pro-
vided in the act approved January
"a last The total increase In the
amount Of salaries over the amount
in the current appropriation act Is
s3oO14O and the increases over the
combined amounts carried In the cur
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OF
Limerick No. IS

Movie fans among the ranks of the
limeptcksrs hailed with glee the linn
erick by J. r. stikeleather, and a
large number OF good last lines we're
received. But in spite OF the fact that
Washington movie fans have some OF
the best movie houses In the country,
II remained for "A Hyattsville woman
to write the winning line.
The winner Is Mrs. Allie Kennedy,
rs Baltimore street, Hyattsville. Nd.
She IL the wife of S. T. Kennedy. a
printer on the stan Of the washing
ton Herald and a former newspaper
reporter. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy
have been writing last line for the
limericks every day since the contest
began. Mrs. Kennedy often said she
had no chance OF winning prize,
while her husband stoutly Insisted he
would win. When he was told the
"missus" had won he was pleasantly
peeved."
Maybe they have better Cor worse)
vamp pictures in the Hyattsville
theaters, but In any event Mrs. Ken
nedy was In the habit OF watching
her husband during the vamp pic
lures. hence her last line.
Here are four other lines that APP
pealed to the judges:
"Oh, she's had six husbands they
say" by Annie A. Burroughs. Thirty
frst and Date streets, Mount Rainier,
Md.
The dishes don't mind the delay"
by Francis j. Mulvey, 234 Fourteenth
street northeast.
PA cooks while Ma watched the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25
MARYLANO'S BONUS
BILL Up TO SENATE
House Passes Measure TO Raise
100000 BY Bond Issue
on to Third Reading.

ANNAPOLIS, March 2s.-The night
over the es-soldiers' and sailors bonus
has been transferred TO the Senate.
There Is no probability that those who
oppose the bill In It's present form will
nght IL on the third reading In the
House.
The bill, as passed to its third read
Ing by the House late last night. pro-
vides for a bonus OF slo for each
being fifteen months-and a bond is
sue OF u, 600. 900, the interest and sink.
ing fund to be raised by direct taxa
tlon.
1t Is hardly likely that the Senate
night will take place this week, but
that there will be a tight in the SEN
ate seems certain.
What the outcome will be cannot be
toretold. The general opinion Is, in
the light OF the overwwhe Ginning VIC
tory for the bill In the House, that
the Senate will not reject, but that the
battle will be on the referendum ques-
ton. weii-informed people think the
majority OF the Senate Is In favor of a
referendum. Supporters OF the plan
argue that II is only fair to the tax
payers TO let them pass on whether
81, 900, 900 of bonds. said to be bigger
than any State loan ever made be-
fore, shall be issued.
Two States have passed bonus laws
Wisconsin and Massachusetts,. The
former appropriated Sl5,0o0,00o, sub
ject to a referendum, In which the
people approved the proposal. The
latter appropriated a maximum OF
$50, 900, 900. Wisconsin gave $40 a
month, as the bill now In the legis-
lature proposes to give the Maryland
men. Wisconsin. however, provided
that $50 should be the minimum paid
payment to be made to relatives OF
deceased beneficiaries. Massachusetts,
made a fat payment of 500.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25
900 Pairs Oxfords and Spring Shoes
:: 4 !: S $ f: Il $3.50

Spring High Shoes for dressy
young men.
TTan Oxfords, Tan High
Shoes, Black Oxfords, Black
High Shoes, and in ali sizes,
at all our four stores.
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D. c. BUDGET RAISES
Z TAXES 66 2-3 PCT.
Sl8, 100, 484 Allotted In Money
Bill for Needs of Capital
In 1921.
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NSontlnueu from flrsI IdBe.D
the proportion chargeable TO them
by approximately s350.O00. IL the
sum should be appropriated on the
basis OF the enacting clause OF the &C
companying bill, the United States
would pay the amount. which. under
The half-and-half plan, would repre-
sent defcit in the District revenues.
TaI Rate Increase.
The committee has incorporated
In the bill a paragraph recommend
Ing an increase In the rate OF tax
alton on real estate and tangible per-
sonai property from IL per cent to
sh per cent II Is obvious from the
condition OF the finances OF the Dis
trict OF Columbia for the current
fiscal year, the estimates requested
to be considered for the fiscal year
1921, the probable deficit for the fiscal
year 1921 under appropriations in this
and other bills. the postponed pro-
5ects from previous years. the growth
OF the city during the war and the
permanency OF major portion OF
such growth, that the affairs of the
city can not be conducted with fair
ness to the community and the tax
payers OF the United States without
an increase I'm revenue.
The additional revenue resulting
from a Sc 2-3 per cent Increase In
taxes will amount approximately TO
IS, 1000 for the fiscal year 1871.
Such taxes are returnaele in Noyem-
Der OF this year, due in November Of
this year and must be paid In May OF
1921 in order to avoid penalties. The
bulk OF the taxes will be paid in May
1921. and therefore will not be avail
able to any great extent to meet APP
propriations until the fiscal year 1929
The total revenues for the fiscal year
1921, II the increased rate of taxation
IL put into effect, would be approx
mately $15.334,460.
The estimates upon which the bill
was based totaled $20,329, ASST, the
total appropriations for 1920 being
s16.0s6,5 22,75.
Many projects previously appro-
priated for were omitted by the com
mittee due to the increased cost OF
accomplishing them. These totaled
91,512,700.
Inclu ed in these omitted items
were estimates Of $355,000 for water
service extensions, S3s1,700 for
twelve street improvement projects.
$s4.50O for additional school sites, $50
for new site for Industrial Home
School and $350,000 for site for the
new refuse disposal plant.
The sum of s2,27O,OOO requested by
the Secretary of War for beginning
the work of providing additional
sources of water supply for the city
was not submitted to Congress for
consideration in connection with this
bill.
To Boost Water Rates.
The District Commissioners are d.
rected to increase the scale of water
rat in effect in the District of CO.
lumbia by not less than % per centum
per ahnum for the fiscal year ending
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25
MAN SHOT IN ARRAY
OVER WOMAN, WEEDS HER

SALISBURY, Md, March 25.-The
shooting affray In this city ten days
ago I'm which Ephraim Hillman, POGO
moke City, was shot and John Mel
win, also OF Pocomoke City, was the
alleged assailant. took on a new fea-
ture OF romance on Friday when
HIllman and Miss Lydia Pusey, of
Pocomoke City, the woman over
whom the men quarreled, were mar
ried in Princess Anne.
HiIlman, according to reports re-
ceived in Salisbury, went to Princess
Anne Immediately upon his discharge
from the Peninsula General Hospital
here and was met there by Miss
Pussy. The couple went at once to
the Methodist parsonage and were
married by the Rev. Leolan Jackson.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25
ARM FRACTURED, MARKS
HIS MARRIAGE LICENSE

HUTCHINSON, Kan, March 25.-
Raymond Rhue had to sign his name
by a mark in getting a marriage H.
cense here a few days ago. Rhue Is
said to be the first white man IL
censed on a mark" signature in many
years.
Rhue's use OF the mark was due to
the fact that he had fractured right
arm which was bandaged In such .
way that he could not use 1t. He
made the mark with his left hand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25

THESE are NOT Si2 to
L SIS valueS-but are
"Ace High" at the price.
1.-TWO smart new Spring styles,
each of English OxfordS and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25

June 80, IssIi Provided. that such In
crease shall remain "A effect untll
otherwise provided by law.
This was done $50 as TO provide a
water fund adequate for the contin-
uanee OF the extension Of the system
OF water distribution and at the same
time provide a rate that will not be
excessive TO the consumers In com
parison with the rates paid for water
In other localities"
On the basis OF the estimated rev.
enues on the present rates tsOs,OOO
the Increased rates should raise the
water revenues TO 100000 for 1921.
raid from Iaesss.
The expenses OF the water service
are recomme nded to be paid entirely
from the revenues OF the water de-
partment as before. The amount car
ried In the bill for the water service
Is SS4s,ll0, which would create a de.
fcit OF sss,i10, which would be cared
for, however. by the balance In the
water fund expected to be carried for
ward from 1890 OF approximately
$4,000. BY the proposed increase In
water rates the committee expects to
care for the yS55.00o for extensions
eliminated from the bill.
Many recommendations for salary
Increases are contained In the bill az
reported to the House. No provision
Is made for the e240 bonus, that mat
ter being left to the legislative APP
propriation bill. The salaries OF the
Commissioners OF the District OF Co
lumbia are Increased from $4,000 to
$4,000 per annum.
Pay OF members OF the Police and
Fire Departments Is increased In ac-
cordance with the Increased pay bills
for these departments recently en-
acted by Congress
Increased salaries for school teach
srs, police judges and others In the
service of the District government
are provided for In the measure.
street Repairs.
The total appropriations for I'M
provements and repairs of streets is
increased from s1.519,16O to s1,773,56O,
or by 1884. 400.
The appropriation for assessment
and permit work upon streets Is In
creased from 100000 to S2s5.OOO.
The committee recommends the i'm
provement of thirty-four street
projects aggregating $496 600, as com
pared with the improvements OF
twenty-three projects aggregating
S1Ot,1tO LOT tHe tthI' ho
Commissioners requested Improve
ments OF forty-six street projects ag-
gregating $s77.30O.
The principal items Of improve
ments recommended are as follows:
Grading Connecticut avenue north
west, Pierce Mill road to Chapel road,
500, 900; reconstructing the Canal wall
northwest, $4,000: paving Nichols
avenue southeast, Sheridan road to
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, $4,000.
Paving New Hampshire avenue
northwest, / street to Twenty-seventh
street, $4,000.
Paving Potomac avenue southeast,
Eleventh to Thirteenth streets, $780,
900.
Paving Twenty fourth street north
west, X. street to Virginia avenue,
$4,000.
Paving Belmont road northwest,
Massachusetts, avenue to Connecticut
avenue. $4,000.
Paving Louisiana avenue northwest,
Pennsylvania avenue to Tenth street.
sec. 900.
Paving Potomac avenue southeast,
Pennsylvania avenue, to Sixteenth
street, $4,000.
The combined street repair appro-
aggregating 100000 for
tn current year, are Increased to
ss25,O00 for ensuing year. A new item
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Tnrce Appropriations FEu"tuNNeu.
The limit of cost OF the new build.
ing between Eighteenth and Twen-
tieth streets and Monroe and Newton
streets northeast. is III -eased from
tI35, 900 to 100000, and the sum OF
$50. 00o is appropriated in addition to
the sum Of $4,000 already available.
This building was authorized in 1915
The II nit OF cost TO the addition e.
tho Phelps School Is increased from
$4,000 to 100000 and an approprin-
ton OF $4,000 IL recommended In ad
dItion 10 the sum OF 100000 already
available. This addition was au-
thorized in 1917.
The committee has eliminated tNe
appropriations for additions to the
Wheatley, Takoma, and Gage Schools,
all Of which were authorized in 1917.
cannot be built within the amounts
already appropriated
An eight-room addition TO the J. n.
West School, to cost not to exceed
500 900, Ia authorized and an appro.
priation of 100000 is recommended.
This Is tho only school building
project in the bill which was not All :
thorized by n former act.
Appropriations OF $40 900 each are
recommended for repairing and remod.
cling tho old Central High School and
the VI street High School to put them
In better condition for use as junior
high schools
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25

France worries about the drop
in the value Of the franc, com
pared with the English pound ster-
ling, and even the remarkable
steadiness of the German mark, in
spite of German disorders.
French cables predict absolute
prohibition Of all importations
into France. IL France buys moth
ing from the outside her money,
theoretically, will not be below
par, for no country will be asked
to take it as against the money of
that other country.
That, however, is only saying
that a mans note is good as long
as he makes no effort TO get it
discounted. The problem is to
make the French note, which is
the money of France, good every
where.
The problem affects all Europe.
England owning so much of the
outside world, is better off than
others, but even her money suffers.
Early in the armistice it was
pointed out that since France ex-
poets to find prosperity through
German indemnities. the franc
must depend for its value largely
on the value of the mark. No man
is rich if his debtors are bankrupt.
What France, Italy and the rest
of Europe need is restoration of
Europe as a whole. A continent
is living body. Part of it cannot
be we'll if another and larger part
is decaying.
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play" by Hugh A. Brown, 300 Fourth
street southeast.
THE wheels of which turn the
wrong way" observed Edith virginia
FickIIn, 1905 c street southwest
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French court. men and women We'd
with each other In fancy folly.
Then gradually man came TO his
senses and realized that what he
had Ia his head. not what he wore
on his back. made the difference.
The remarkable thing is that so
FEW men make fools OF them
selves.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-08
7rotzky's Wife and
Children Hidden in
Berlin, Says Report
BY LIES BOUTCH.
Internat ional News Service.

BERLIN, Nov. 8.-Has Commssar Leon Trotzky, of the
Russian soviet government hidden his wife and children in
Berlin to escape the dangers of possible counter revolution
in Russili
Is it true they living in luxury at the home OF the
Zionist leader Dr. Handtke at 10 Blebtreustrsse Bern
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-08
TAFT WILL
Be Chief JUSTICE
Rumors Say Judge White Plans
Resignation and Ex-Presi-
dent Gets Vacancy.

Fprmer President william Howard
TAFT. Il was freely predicted by lead
ng members OF the bench and bar
here today. may become the next
chief Justice OF the Supreme Court OF
the United States. succeeding Chief
Justice Edward Douglass White. APP
pointed by Mr. Taft while he occupied
The White House.
Chief Justice Waite, considered one
OF the greatest legal authorities who
ever occupied the Supreme Court
bench, 10 DESTROYS OF resisning. &C
cording TO persistent rumor here,
from the very exactins duties imposed
upon him by his high Office. He 10
seventy-nve years old and has the
reputation Of never having spared
himself at his work.
Appointed Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court in 1894.
In 1910 President Taft made him CHIEF
Justice over the advice OF party lead
ers. Chief Justice White. q Democrat,
born in Louisiana, had formerly oe-
cupied q seat on the Democratic side
OF the Senate. Staunch Republicans
brought great pressure to bear on
President Taft, but the latter. utterly
unmoved. went on with the appoint
ment. Eminent jurist himself. Il was
an open secret that In his opinion Jus
tice White was one OF the greatest liv-
ing authorities on law and the Consti-
tuition and Justice itself when II came
10 decisions.
Now. along with the rumors of the
possible resignation OF Chief Justice
White, still peer OF the worlds most
noted jurisconsuits. legal stars here
are openly predicting the appointment
of ex-President Taft to succeed him
shortly after President-elect Harding
takes his seat next March. Senator
Harding n known to have q very high
regard for the legal genius OF the only
living ex-President. Too, both are
from Ohio-the next President from
Marion, the former President from
Cincinnati.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-08
WIFE LAUDS HUBBY
AS THEY DIVORCE
BEST Man | Ever Knew, and
Fault All Mine," She Says
In Statement.

CHICAGO. Nov S.-John w. Sturdi-
want and his wife are still on the
best of terms and think highly Of
each other, although their divorce de-
cree was signed here. Mr.. Sturdi-
want is head Of an advertising con-
Germ.
They agreed to separate during a
business-like consultation. After the
session and with his wife's approval
he published the following advertise
ment in the newspapers:
Personal notice--On and after May
81. will be responsible only for
debts contracted by myself.
John w. Sturdivant."
Mrs. Sturdivant then issued the fol
lowing public statement:
my husband is the best man i ever
knew. We were married when wa,
sixteen years old and lived together
thirteen years. In all that time !
never had the slightest cause for
complaint against him. He was a
prince. He loved his home and his
children and provided we'll for us
Whatever fault there was lay with
me.
II am not home woman. but a
business woman. 1t seems like l was
made for business. I should have been
man. We talked things over and
agreed that a separation was the best
thing"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-08
HAPGOOD R|D|CULES
JUS. RUSSIAN POLICY
'Ex-Minister to Denmark Com
pares American Methods to
. "AIice In Wonderland"

The American Governments pre-
scription for the early re-estapiish-
ment OF peace In Russia. terminates
after three years OF experience win
Russia and twenty years experience
with the French revolution. would
make an excellent addition to alice
in wonderland" according to Norman
Wapgood, noted author and editor and
former minister to Denmark.
Mr.. Hapgood. who now Is making
his home in the Capital. read an
editorial on the Russian situation In
ne Of The Times local contem-
,oraries yesterday, and he felt COM
,elIed TO comment as follows:
"By some literary Judges Alice In
Wonderland 10 held to be the most
prlllisnt piece OF modern criticism
4 Washington paper yesterday
rintsd IA leading editorial that brings
+, nicely back to the sort OF logic
set pervades Alice.
FIRST. II quotes Lloyd George a.
ing that there will be no peace In
nrope until there Is peace In Russia
RE Il reflects: how true: but the
Icy pursued by all the powers, with
ae excep tion OF the United States. Ia
urectly opposed to the early re-es-
rlishment OF peace in Russia.
"And what IL this peace-producing
.,IIcy that the editorial intellect
Fedits to. our Government? 1t has
two parts.
"First-refuse to recognize self
determination In any part Of the
former Russian empire. IL Esthonia
sets up a separate government. winch
Is recognized by the present control
ling Russian government, refuse 10
recognize II. That Is holding all ter
ritory in trust for the Russian peo-
ple,' (meaning a class Of the Russian
people. neither Esthonian nor Red,
and ably represented in Washington.
II is by every means to encourage
the Russians to overcome the enc
mics in their STRONGHOLD Make
peace, in short. by instigating real
Russians (address. Sixteenth street,
to make perpetual war. after three
years OF failure, on the only govern
ment there Is. until the United states
Government Is pleased.
''Second-'Pen up the Reds In RUS
STA That IL. blockade. starvation,
prevention OF news.
the sanitary Gordon, substitution OF
our governmental propagSnda for
free Investigation. refusal Of pass
ports. abuse Of every war power to
make trade difficult.
such, after three years Of expe-
rience, and after twenty years expe-
rience with the French revolution. 10
a prescription for the early re-estab-
lishment of peace in Russia
"'Alice in Wonderland ought to
have a new and enlarged edition"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-08
FRANCE WARNED
TO QUIT WRANGEl
Journalist in Paris Labor Organ
Points to Folly Of Crimean
Fiasco.

PARIS. Nov. s.-writinE I'm ''Hu-
mantle Paul Lou . discussed the In
reference OF France In Poland and
Russia. saying;
with his retreat cut off. General
Baron wrangei IL near a decisive de-
feat by the Reds. This time Frances
labor will see that the government
does not rush to his aid a. II did In
the case OF Poland,
simultaneously with the news OF
the rout Of Baron wranEsi In crimea.
IL IL revealed that 'the anti-Soviet
forces were unefficially bvt actively
aided by the American Red Cross.
which. while not giving a single
penny directly to WTangel. 10 spend
Ing millions In relief work In the
area which he controls, this strength
eninE the moral stamina Of the hand
full OF adventurers whose daring plan
to seize control OF Russ q by occupy
ing tho Caucasian ranary II nov
ended In complete failure.
"Reveating 1t0 miles In a. few days
Wrangel Joins Yudenitch. Denikine
and kolchak In the growing list of
beaten Advsnturers who have ham
mered at the gates OF Russia The
m raculous feat OF the Soviet chiefs
In transferring a whole army corps
in few days from the Polish front
TO Crimea has definitely abolished
Wrangel as factor In the Russian
situation.
only equalization can now save
the Crimean army. which Is cramped
in small area, from the horrors OF
winter starvation"