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The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Budget Keeps Taxes
Under Control, Finds
Committee in Probe
By FRANCIS j. TIETSORT.


NEW YORK. Oct. S0.-Startling
facts with relation to the new bud
get system and its vital part in the
movement for responsible govern
ment were obtained today by the
Hearst newspapers. The National
Budget Committee, of which John
T. Pratt is chairman, and which
fought for and obtained passage Of
the budget and accounting act,
summarized the dangers of the
present situation as follows:
See Plot In Congress.
There is a projected insidious
= plot in Congress to nuIlify the
effects Of the budget law. Revoca-
ton of the rules providing a single
committee on appropriations would
leave Congress free to utilize the old
log-rolling tactics through a dozen
committees on appropriations.
C-The Government now is spend
ing half million dollars an
hour, but many politicians regard It
as insufficient to put over" their
pork projects.
0-There are now ESQ distinct lob
bies maintained at Washington
for the set purpose of loosening the
purse strings of the Treasury.
U s. Has Huge Payroll.
A-Out of 100000 population,
the United States has Al zoo, 900
wage earners, of whom 2,700,0U0
are on Government payrolls, Fed
eral, State and municipal. One Of
every fifteen persons is maintained
in a job at the expense of the
other fourteen. When the republic
was founded, the cost of govern
ment for about 100000 of popula-
ton was IL cents per capita. 1t
is SAB per capita per annum at
the present moment
The National Budget committee
sees the peril of tremendously mount
ing taxes for every man, woman and
child in the United States unless the
rapacity of politicians is checked.
+. /. Jones. of the committee, said
today:
Lauds Hearst Papers.
The Hearst newspapers in call
ing attention to the impending dan
ger are performing a public service
OF first rank. The peril is actual.
4 sharp watch must be maintained
on certain members of Congress at
the forthcoming session and during
the next few years."
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Budget System Cause
of Steady Decline in
Cost of Running u. S.
By EDWIN j. CLAPP.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-The Fed
eral budget law of 1921 was the
beginning of a scientific system in
Federal finances. The budget law
is mainly responsible for the steady
reduction in expenditures of the
Government at Washington, which
fell from $6,141, 745,24O in the year
ending June 80, 1920, to $685..
209, 1880 in 1921, to S3,795, 3O2, 500
in 1922. and to $685., 487, O20 in
1923.
1t is notable that the Budget
Bureau has done its greatest good
along the lines not contemplated
in the law, which merely gave the
President the organization to pre-
pare for Congress a scientific SEIZED.
ule Of outgo and income.
First. the Director of the Budget
has developed an efficiency orRani.
zation with a branch in every sec.
ton OF the country. Reports from
these branches enable him to CHECK
up on the preliminary estimates
of department heads in a business.
like manner.
Second, the budget director has
prevailed upon the House and
Senate TO reform their practices.
There used TO be fifteen House
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committees making appropriations.
Now, by House rule, only the
Appropriations Committee makes
them, after receiving and prun-
ing the estimates of the other
committees. Just so the Senate
Finance Committee alone passes
on appropriations in the Senate.
Third, the House Appropriations
Committee has accepted 1t as a
principle that the appropriations
actually made for each depart.
ment shall not exceed the budget
estimates.
In general, during the last two
years, this principle has been OBJ
served. The glaring exception was
in the rivers and harbors bill
The budget recommended $40, 6O3..
600 for rivers and harbors i'm
provement in 1922, and Congress
Increased it to $63, 1853 900. For
1923 the Bureau of the Budget
allotted to rivers and harbors items
total Of SAC, 600, 900. Congress
appropriated $75,564, 900.
Indications in this coming Con.
gress are that the members are
out to abolish the indirect re-
straints of the budget law, namely,
the single committee for-appropria.
ton system, and the gentIemen's
agreement to keep expenditures
within budget limits.
They talk of a 500, 900, 900 rivers
and barbors bill this coming sea-
son. Chairman Langley, of the
House Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds (the ranking
Democratic committee member heart
lily assenting), has announced a
s1OO. 900, 900 omnibus public build.
ing bill: an omnibus bill being one
in which the largest possible mum.
Der OF Representatives get a ride,
which they hope will terminate in
a new term at Washington by re.
election in 1924.
The Budget Bureau cannot stop
these grabs. Remember the House
OF Representatives, under the Con-
stitution, has the sole right 20 APP
proprfate money, pass deficiency
bills and levy taxes or authorize
bond issues to meet the total. The
Budget Bureau can merely present
facts and make recommendations to
the President.
Nothing will stop congressional
Iextravagances but stern words from
the people back home, that they
want less money spent and lighter
taxes imposed. and that the men
who come back with that record
in this respect are not going to be
reelected.
Our people are stockholders in
the biggest corporation in the
world, the United States Govern
nent. The budget shows us what
can and what should be done in
economy by Congressman, directors
Of the corporation. If they don't do
1t, they should know that they
will be turned out and a new board
installed. The Budget Bureau has
done its best. Now 1t is up to us.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Baltimore Council
Urges Retention of
u. S. Budget System

BALTIMORE, Oct. SO.-The ma.
tional budget system was Endorsed
vigorously by the City Council in
resolution adopted at its weekly
meeting last night.
Congress was urged to keep the
system in force in all departments
CT the Federal Government to pre-
vent a return to careless and ex-
travagant expenditures.
introduced by Bryant.
The resolution was introduced by
Howard Bryant, president of the
council, with reference to efforts
under way to destroy the budget
system, as exposed in recent inVcs-
legations.
With the remark that the Fed
eral budget directly affects all poo
pie of Baltimore, as 1t does every
city and State, Councilman Edward
s. Stanley moved adoption of the
resolution. The motion was sec.
onded by chorus Of voices. With
two dissenting votes, the resolution
was adopted.
Text of Resolution.
Mr.. Bryant, in answer to quea-
tions by Thomas Flaherty, council
man, said the question was per-
fectly plain-it meant that the
council was called upon to say
whether it favored the budget plan
which had worked so we'll in the
State and the municipality. Tie
vote was taken by "ayes" and
noes"
The councils declaration reads:
Whereas the budget system of
apportioning public expenditures
has proved highly beneficial in the
State Of Maryland and the city
Of Baltimore by preventing waste
and extravagance; and
Whereas, 1t is currently reported
that efforts are under way to de.
stroy the budget system in use by
the Federal Government, the re-
suits OF which would certainly be
a return to careless and extrava-
! CANT expenditures; now. therefore,
Copies to Delegation.
Be it Resolved, by the City Coun-
Gil of the city of Baltimore. Md,
that the Congress of the United
States is respectfully but earnestly
urged to continue the budget sys-
tenn and vigorously support its ap-
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EAL OF BUDGET LAW WOULD BE CALAMITY SAYS B. CF0RBEs
Capital. and Labor to
Fight for Budget

CAPITAL and labor, as represented by two national
organizations vitality affected by governmental
- tivities are in favor of Congress retaining the
budget system, it declared today.
At the offices Of the United States Chamber Of Com
rnerce it was stated that the organization is
definitely record in favor Of the budget and that in
the absence of instructions the contrary from its
membership it will continue to fight for the budget
At the offices of the National Federation Of Federal
Employees was stated that the organization has always
stood for business system in handling appropriations
and is not contemplating any fight the budget It
added that any fight develops over appropriations
for the various departments the contest will be waged
against the decisions of the Budget Bureau rather than
against the principle of its existence.
The United States Chamber Of Commerce put on
record for the budget through nationwide poll Since
that poll various chambers Of the country
have reiterated their previous stand The most recent
the Los Angeles Chamber Of Commerce. which adopted
a resolution along this line only few weeks ago.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Child, 8, Dies When
Halloween Dress
Catches Fire
international News Service.

LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 80.
Marie McGilvery, eight, put on
new Halloween costume to sur,
prise her mother and father.
It was dark in Marie's house
and she struck a match to guide
her to the front hall where her
mother and dad were to enter
the house.
Flames ignited the flimsy
Halloween gown. It was burned
from the child's body.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Nc
Gilvery opened the door ready
for their Surprise"
Grief supplanted smiles. Their
little girl was lying in the front
hall-dead.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
HARRY w. SCHMTTS HEADS
CATHOLIC PARISH COUNCIL

Election of Harry w. Schmits as
president of the st. Paul Parish
Council Of Catholic Men, at a con-
ference last night in the parish hall,
was announced today.
Aeneas Collins was elected vice
president, Leo II. Schlegel, secretary,
and John d. Leonard, treasurer.
Ernest F. Boddington, associate d.
rector of the National Catholic Wei
fare Councils news service, spoke on
the history and work of that service.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
D. c. MAN FINED.
IN ROCKVILLE
COURT
T. ]. Sands Appeals From
Conviction on DisorderIy
House Charge.

ROCKVILLE. Nd, Oct. 30.-on
charges Of keeping q disorderly
house and dIsorderly conduct.
Thomas ] Sands, young Washing
tonian, was fined 500 and costs and
SIS and costs, respectively, by Judge
Samuel Riggs in the police court
here yesterday. He noted appeals
to the circuit court, and the cases
will be tried again at the November
term of that court.
Sands was arrested at an early
hour in the morning about q week
ago, when Policeman Earl Burdine
visited q house at Takoma Park
this county, OF which, IL was charg-
ed, Sands was in charge. According
to the officer. he found theresfOur or
five couples, most of them under
the influence OF liquor.
Sands, SO the officer testified, adj
mitted that he was in chargeaOf the
house. In passing sentences on
Sands, Judge Riggs stated that the
practice of residents Of the District
Of Columbia coming out into this
county and violating the law, and
then beating" it back to Wash
ington had to be broken UP.
The funeral of Mrs. Gertrude
Fletchan Hoskinson, widow Of
Thomas Hoskinson, who died Satur-
day at her home in PooIesvilIe, this
county. aged sixty-nine years, took
place yesterday afternoon from the
home, the services being conducted
by the Rev. DIR. Mast, pastor OF the
Poolesville Methodist Church. Burial
was in the cemetery at Beallsville.
The state conservation commits
sion has appointed Waldo M. Gheen,
Of Bethesda. deputy game warden
for the county.
/. Judge Robert b. Peter has drawn
the following to serve as jurors at
the November term of circuit court
in place Of others previously drawn
but excused for various reasons:
James w. johnson, Roland Woot-
ton. Gilbert T. CIagett, Robert %.
Hagner and Calvin B. BealI. Those
excused were Bradley III. Dutrows
Arthur r.. Fletcha1l, Harry G. Hur.
ley, Joseph McCloskey, and James
MolesWorth.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for
the marriage Of Miss Doris f. Peck
ham and Crisanto Relucia, both Of
washington; Miss Carrie Belle
Posey, Of Frederick, Nd, and Rush
Pursley, Of Penca City, Okla; Miss
Blanche T. Norris and George FL
lott, both Of Washington.
John Koob, of Washington, was
injured seriously in an automobile
accident near Middlebrooke, this
county, early Sunday morning, when
a touring car he was driving col
hded with q much smaller car. In
attempting to drive around the
smaller car, Kooh's machine struck
the latter, causing both cars to up
set. Koob was painfully injured
about the head, face, and body. and
Mrs. Koob was also painfully hurt.
They were given first aid by DR..
Horace B. Haddox, of Gaithersburg,
and later in the day were able to
return to their home. None OF the
four occupants of the other car was
hurt. Both cars were badly damaged.
Jesse A. Brooks, resident Of
Wheaton, this county, died at his
home Saturday. His death was very
sudden, and was due, it is thought,
10 heart disease. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs Blanche A. Brooks,
and four children. The funeral will
take place this afternoon from
Sergeon's Chapel, Washington.
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plication in all departments of the
Federal Government in order that
the entire nation, including our own
city and State, may enjoy the bene-
fits of the economy and efficiency
resulting therefrom.
Be 1t Resolved, further, that
copies OF these resolutions be sent
to all the members Of the Maryland
delegation in Congress.
Fifteen Councilmen voted for the
resolution; Mr.. Flaherty and Am.
brose j. Kennedy voted against it.
Two councilmen were absent.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
CONVICT TAKEN
BACK To n. c.
PRISON.
Man Captured in Arlington
County Was Serving Term
for Killing.

CLARENDON. Va, Oct. co.
Deputy Sheriff James d. East and
officer Walter X. Hansen left yes
terday for Raleigh, N. c., with John
Monroe. alias Sid Monroe, alleged
slayer Of Ruby Williams in Ashe-
Vile, N. c., in 1918.
Monroe, who escaped from the
penitentiary at Raleigh in 1919, was
captured by Deputy Sheriff East
and Officer Hansen October II, near
Hume Springs, Arlington county.
Former Police Judge William G.
Cloth, candidate for the office of
Commonwealth Attorney of Airing
ton county, speaking before the
members of the Thrifton Improve
ment League last night, said that
he felt his record as an official
of Arlington county for eight years
qualified him for the office of
Commonwealth Attorney. Cloth said
that during his term as police judge
he had tried hundreds of prohibit
ton cases and only twenty-four
were dismissed, and that every per-
son brought before him and con-
victed of gambling had been given
a jail sentence.
DR.. C. r. Boyland, Arlington
county school dentist, has been
selected to represent Rossville Lodge,
No. 397, A. F. ard A. M. of Georgia,
at the cornerstone laying of the
George Washington Masonic Me-
mortal Temple at Alexandria Thurs
day.
Professor Kemp, superintendent
of Arlington county schools. an
nounced last night that the public
schools of Arlington county would
be closed that day, so that teachers
and children could attend the cor.
nerstone laying.
the Organized Women Voters
League of Arlington county, an
nounced yesterday that the mass
meeting annoucned for Friday night
at the court house, would be held
Thursday night, November 1, at
8 o'clock.
Thirteen-year-old Billy Smith, of
Clarendon, in company with a
Washington lad, who is known to
the Washington police when brought
to the Arlington county jail yester-
day by Asa Donaldson, of Cherry.
dale, and turned over to Deputy
Sheriff z. o. Hines upon investiga-
ton resembled a young Jesse
James with two hunting knives,
two pistols, one box of cartridges
and a pocket full of penknives.
Donaldson, thinking it was
strange to see the two lads so early
in the morning, called to them, It
which the lad from Washington fled
making his getaway, but Billy,
loaded down by his young arsenal,
was unable to run.
Investigation proved that the
store Of Cavanaugh & Hendricks,
hardware dealers Of Georgetown,
had been entered, as the articles
found on Billy were later identified
by H. w. Hendricks.
Billy was questioned yesterday aft
ernoon by Headquarters Detective
Burke, of the Washington police ie-
partment, and still maintained that
he did not go into the store, but had
met the lad from Washington on the
Key bridge. When asked where he
spent the night he said part Of 1T
was spent under the bridge.
Billy is being held at the Arlington
county Jail awaiting the arrival of
Representative of the State Board
of Public Welfare at Richmond.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Alaska Railway Repaired.

Repair work on the 100 miles of
the Alaska railroad, damaged by
high tide and heavy storms, has
proceeded to such an extent that
traffic will be resumed within the
next few days, the Interior De-
partment announced today.
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j. 5. EFFICIENCY
R|D|CULED BY
WOMEN
National Council Urged to
Raise 100000 for 1925
D. C. Meet.
By SONIA LEE.
International News Service.

DECATUR, H., Oct. 3O.-Five
recommendations Of the president.
Mrs. Philip North Moore, of st. Louis.
were received by the National Coun-
Gil of Women in the first sessions to-
day. Quiet, business-like procedure
marked the opening of the six-day
biennial meeting. Reports of Off
GERS, appointment of committees and
announcements OF future conferences
were the order.
Mrs. Moore's recommendations
were:
Five Propositions.
That each organization represented
in the council make its work known
through a printed publication.
That the finance committee be
empowered to plan campaign for
raising 100000 needed for the quin-
quennial convention of the Interna-
tional Council in Washington, May,
1925.
That each organization arrange a
session next year to advertise the
International Council.
That a committee be appointed to
attend the joint conference in Lon
don in May on prevention Of the
causes of war"
That a committee be appointed to
consider and send a plan for the Box
peace award.
Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, Of
Estes Park, Colo. slated for the
presidency of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, poked fun
at what she termed governmental
waste in overlapping of bureaus in
a talk today.
Bears Taken Care Of.
1.-THE Alaskan bear is so well taken
care of by Washington that three
bureaus are solicitous for his well
fare-one for the white bear, an
other for the black bear, and third
for the brown bear.
''All Alaska is finding itself seri-
ously handicapped by the overlap
ping of bureaus. We certainly can
not progress or even hope to COM
plete the business of government
when thirty-eight departments are
concerned with the affairs of Alaska.
Our bureaus are overworked and I'M
necessarily so.
Reorganization should begin in the
Cabinet. We are not nation
specializing in war, and yet we have
departments of both army and navV
when these might be consolidated
without a reduction of efficiency.
Somehow the Government man.
ages not to keep pace with the prog
ress of a private enterprise"
The Washington times., 1923-10-30

Headaches From Slight Colds.
Laxative BRoMO QUININE Tablets relieve the
Headache by curing the Cold. tonic laxative
and germ destroyer. The box bears ~ Olgna-
ture Of E. w. Grove. S0e-Adyk
The Washington times., 1923-10-30

Is the United States Government
TO be the only large organization
in the land whose expenditures
heavier than any other organiza-
tion-are to be subjected to no
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How do you like the prospect?

Do you want to be subjected to
q few more severe turns of the
taxation screw?
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These log-rolling- pin-headed poll
ticians are banding together to
throw the whole budget system on
the scrap heap.
It interferes with their little
game Of filching from the public
treasury all sorts of big and little
sums for all sorts of projects
to distribute money among their
favorite constituents.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30

Excellent" you say. Rotten
cry a horde of politicians who
revel in getting their claws into
the old-time pork barrel"
The Washington times., 1923-10-30

Mrs. c. M. Rogers, chairman of
the Organized Women Voters
League of Arlington county, an
nounced yesterday that the mass
meeting annoucned for Friday night
at the court house, would be held
Thursday night, November 1. at
o'clock.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-05-16
IN MEMORY OF TOLEDO DEAD
Buckeye City and County to Erect Mag
nificent Monument to Memory of
War Heroes.

A monument of living fame" to me-
morialize the heroic dead of Toledo, O.,
and of Lucas county, is to be erected
on the most prominent spot in Memo
rial park, new project, which, ac-
cording to founders, will soon become
reality.
Sweeping through the park is road
way, already. known to Toledo citizens
as Memorial Way" Sides of this
roadway are flanked by trees, each of
which is named for some man from To
ledo or Lucas county who made the
supreme sacrifice in the World war,
bearing his name in everlasting bronze
and keeping forever fresh his memory.
Other roadways of the park will be
named after cities, towns and particu-
lar engagements in which these men
fought. The whole centers around the
great monument, where a tower of I'M
usual proportions is surmounted by q
light which may be seen for miles.
The site of the park covers 215 acres,
much of which is forested and natural
ly adaptS itself to landscaping. While
a portion of the park is to be used as
a general cemetery, section near the
monument, which will permit the in
terment of 1000 bodies, has been set
aside for the use of the American Lee
gion, where the bodies of soldier and
sailor dead may be inferred and per-
petual care assured. The administra-
ton of this section is directly under
the Lucas county Legion council, who
will have seat on the board of trus-
tees.
Dedication of the memorial trees is
planned for Decoration day, at which
time the Legion will have charge of the
services. The ceremony Of the laying
of the corner stone will occur later in
the summer.
The Memorial Lantern" as the
monument is tentatively known, will
be maintained by the park officials
without cost to soldiers organizations,
and arrangements are being perfected
by them to make the burning Of the
great light perpetual.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-05-16
KNOW THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
Minneapolis Aliens, Members of Amer
icanism Graduating Class, Sing
'The Star-SpangIed Banner"

At least one group of Minneapolis
aliens have proved that they know
the words Of the national anthem,
"The Star-Spangled Banner" better
than do many native Americans, ac-
cording to a report received by the
Americanism commission of the Amer
lean Legion.
These aliens, all members of Amer.
icanization classes conducted through
out the city by school and naturaliza-
ton officials, have completed their
night school work and made up a
class. of 60 graduates at a commence
ment day program recently held.
Greeks. and Italians mingled with
the blond sons of Norway and Swe-
den, lads not out of their teens sat
on the platform with number Of
middle-aged women and older men,
all with a mutual. desire-to become
American citizens.
AS the closing feature of the COM
mencement day program both the
class and the audience, numbering
nearly 1000, stood and sang the ma
tional anthem. Those of the class
knew the song, every word of it,. The
learning of it had been one Of the
most interesting achievements of the
whole course of training for citizenry
they had undertaken. Many members
Of the audience, singing away, stun
bled over words of the verses, forget
ting them, while those who were as
piring to become American citizens
sang every word.
Diplomas were presented to all
graduates Of the class by Minnesota
school and naturalization authorities,
under whose auspices the classes are
held. The classes are well attended
and are decreasing difficulties which
naturalization presents to the foreign
er, making Americanization problems
much easier for both the authorities
and the aspirants for citizenship.