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to retrench IL to retrench. The
way to resume is to resume. older
readers win recall that after. the
war between the States there was
long and animated discussion as
to how to resume specie payment.
Suddenly one day a practical Sec
rotary OF the Treasury had the
inspiration to use common sense.
BY the way, 1t IL q very uncon-
mon article, and uncommon in
men in big positions. Who was 1t
said the people would be aston
ished II they knew with how little
brains the world Is governed?
This common sense Secretary won
because he had slogan, brief and
catchy, which needed no expiana-
ton. ''The way to resume" said
he, ITS to resume" He did it,
and all the se-called wise con-
troversialists were siIenced. 81
never argy,s' said josh Billings.
against fact"
NEED NOT WAIT.
Secretary Mellon does not need
any amendment to the Constitu-
ton to secure the right to tax
government bonds. He is called
upon frequently to refund these
bonds. Recently he called in all
the Victory bonds. He can with
out waiting for the aid or con-
sent Of anybody terminate some
of the tax-exempt evil by the
substitution of taxable for non
taxable bonds whenever he is
called upon to- refund bonds. AS
they are refunded, they can all
be converted into taxable bonds
and what Mr. Mellen says he
wants to accomplish by an
amendment to the Constitution
can in part be accomplished by
the Secretary of the Treasury
himself. Why dees he net do
that?
Mr.. Mellon says the amend
ment he proposes to the Con-
stitution does not in any way
affect States rights. He asserts
without hesitation" that it lin
wolves no question whatever of
Stotec' rights and makes no at.
tack whatever on the credit of
the borrowing power of the States
or theii5 political subdivision.
Mr.. Mellon is not a lawyer. Do
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New York since my return
have found far. nicer than any
Frenchman met while studying
in Paris.
An independent American girl,
accustomed to depend upon her
brains in addition to her person
atty, cannot help but resent the
Frenchman's nonchalant indiffer-
ence to that part of the Ameri'
can woman's anatomy as impor-
tant to her as her ankles. Unlike
the Italian, who becomes enraged
at the notion that there are
clever women in the world, the
Frenchman Is amused.
It must be admitted, however,
that with this amusement and
the belief that women cannot be
independent and must be cared
for, women are really cared for
In France. They are not neglected
and forgotten, as is frequently
true of their pedestaled sisters in
America
Both these attitudes are, OF
course, extremes. 1t is for this
reason, therefore, that we find
a happy medium when both these
influences are alleged in a Euro
peanized American or IAN Ameri-
canized Frenchman.
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I. o. b. America, is by no means
perfect. The American man, how
ever, only about so per cent pure,
who has spent one of the forma.
tive years of his early manhood
abroad, comes very much nearer
to deserving the application of
that. arbitrary Characterization
perfect"
BY "a year abroad" I do not
mean a year in the trenches.
There he would be entirely
among his fellows, in conditions
peculiar. not to Europe, but to
warfare the civilized world over
Rather, the year that l prescribe
is one of contact with old-world
culture.
1t is the friction Of his ideas
and prejudices with those of his
foreign environment that ignites
his potentialities and develops in
him a personality that distin.
guishes him from the general
pattern of the American male.
OF course. the alloy works both
ways. The foreigner, If he is
Intelligent and cultural, after
year or SO in the United States,
Ia far more attractive than his
cOun;ryInen in Paris or London.
The Frenchmen have met In
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rnent, naturally they came to the
hotels. q
At that time, Mr.. Breast ex-
planned. the only first-class hotels
in Washington were the, old Ar
1ington and the Ebbitt. WIZARDS
had seen its best days, which
were to live again in the erec-
ton OF the New willard. There
was no Raleigh. no Washington.
no Powhatan. The Shoreham, in
the latter days of the old Airing
ton, was scarcely above the hori.
zon..
Everyone who came to Wash
ingtor for politics, art, religion
or anything else" said Mr..
Breast. had to come to the Ar
lington. Il was the only place
they could hope to meet the per-
sons they had come to see. lin-
less. Of course. they were stay
ing at private home.
KNEW THEM ALL.
Consequently, / had a speak
ing acquaintance with every we'll
known American who came here
during those palmy days. In this
way. knew the Vanderbilts, the
Goulds, the Astors. the CadwalIad-
ers, the Sturtevants-alI of the
old Knickerbocker stock"
Mr.. Breast shook his head and
settled himself more comfortably
on the capacious lounge.
The old hotels had their in
conveniences. he admitted. I'VE
used to heat the halls and Of
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IA meets a great number Of
Il "A people, including many men
congregated from the four cor
ners of the earth. Sitting on a
cafe terrasse of an evening with
friend, she is certain to be in
troduced to at least half a dozen
persons, with whom she chats for
an hour or two, and perhaps
makes an appointment to dine
later in the week.
A year of introductions, dinners,
theaters. teas and dances, inter
sperseda with stray hours Of paint
ing. visits to museums and after.
Moons of five-minute-sketche at
the Grand Chaumiere, has taught
me something about people, and
not q little about me, as they are
bred on the soil of Europe, three
thousand miles away from the i'm
fluence of America.
OF all the Frenchmen, Italians,
Engl.shmen, SWedes, Serbians.
Swiss and Russians / have met, /
mus conf, IS to liking none as well
as | do the Europeanized Ameri.
can.
Each one of these in some way
fell short Of being a perfect man
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HR r. LINCOLN said this ma
M ton could not endure half
Avn slave and half free. That
slogan became a shibboleth and
soon the doctrine of the hitherto
desp:sed abolitionists was the raj
lying cry of the North Will
Rogers recently said the reason
there cannot now be another war
was because there is no slogan.
There is something in the fact
that a cause not capable of hav-
ing it's purpose stated in a pop
ular slogan has hard shedding.
Just now we are in danger in
the Federal and State govern
ments of becoming a nation di-
vided into two classes-those who
pay taxes to the support of the
government and those who do not
The government may endure half
taxpayers and half tax-dodgers,
but is it right or just that this
condition should exist?
The Federal Government has is
sued many billions of dollars OF
tax-free bonds. They We're dur
ing the war purchased by every
body to help win the war. The
response to it's appeal was the
most remarkable case Of eager
bond purchasing known in his
tory. In most other wars. the
government sold it's bonds
through a few great banking
houses, paying a commission.
During the World War. though
bonds aggregating twenty-five bill
lion dollars were issued and sold.
not one was sold through great
banking houses. Mr.. McAdoo ef-
fected the sale direct by an ap-
peal to all the people. Talking
about striking the rock of Credit
and producing streams of revenue,
all former successes were as
brooks to the mighty ocean. The
Government continued the policy
long in vogue of making its
bonds tax free. Many Of the
States did likewise, Secretary Mel
lon is quoted as saying the adop-
ton of the constitutional amend
merit lie favors. permitting the
u - OF securities now ex-
~ you'd aggrega c new
va f's 1T taxable items i'm ex~
ce.s - sw2n:y billion dollars.
Think of twenty billion dollars
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NEWSPAPER SCOOP
WHEN HANNA DIED
PUT OVER BY CLERK
Back in Old Days, KeneSaW Mountain Lands
Was Private Secretary to Secretary of State.
Tom Reed Died at Arlington Hotel, at Same
Hour GridirOn Club Was Holding Its Meeting.
Memories of Costly Afternoon Luncheon.

They expect to get it. They pay
the hotels price. and they are en-
titled to everything that goes along
with it.
THE old hotel man went out Of
his way many times to impress q
certain guest with that guests inn
portance to the establishment.
They wanted that guest to believe
that the hotel would undergo q Sc
rious Inconvenience If he didn't
stay there.
HOTELS CHANGE.
Today in most hotels. I'm sorry
to say, the old friendly spirit OF the
innkeeper has been lost. went
into the hotel business when the
hotels were developing from the
inn type to the modern hotel. II
has been very interesting to study
the changes in conditions.
Today the average hotel man
registers his guest. gives him q
room and the guest becomes mere
" q room number. like convict.
Today the patron expects service
to be given as 50 much merchan-
disc.
Unfortunately, / can't become
too modernized. always regard it
AZ q duty to look after my guests,
to remember their names and to
keep alive the old traditions.
During the Limitations Of
Arms Conference, when the largest
delegation was staying at the
Lafayette, the hotel was crowded
to the limit. One day, a number
Of would-be guests, strangers TO
me. were standing before the
counter, and i was forced to tell
them that we had no further &C.
commodations. AS was speak
ing I noticed. entering the door,
an old patron.
DIPLOMACY FIRST.
On, I say there, Mr.. So-and-
50, / called, before he reached
the counter, I'm very glad you
telegraphed for your room. We
wouldn't have been able to put
you up otherwise.
by that simple stratagem
just one Of the tricks Of the
tradeI assisted an old friend
and made no enemies Of prospec-
tive friends.
II like my work. It can never
be like the old job, and it never
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You win usually find Mr.. Breast
behind the counter at the Lafay-
cite, engaged In the business he.
knows and loves. When he is
asked for "reminiscences. Mr..
Breast fondles his chin. frownsiand
then comes from behind the coun-
ter to the lobby.
There's no place for starting
like the beginning" smiled Mr..
Breast today, and his eyes grew
rneditative. well. I started in
af the old Arlington Hotel in 1887.
and there I stayed until the
Lafayette went up. five years ago,
and came here. It's a good
place. don't want any better.
OLD DAYS GONE.
.sBut hotels aren't what they
used to be. They've lost their
romance. They've become SO big
and 50 modern that everything has
become mechanical except the
man behind the counter. AS
soon as his work shows less Of
humanity and more Of mechanism
-weli. that's a good time for the
hotel to close up or get another
man
I'm the eighties. money was
plentiful, and those who enter
tanned in Washington or who
come to be entertained had more
than they needed. They didn't go
out to show how wealthy they
were, but concentrated their minds
on creating something of real
novelty. AS the hotels offered the
best advantages for this entertain
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British Twin Boys
Have Twin Brains,
Saws Their Teacher

PRANK EDWARD ALLEN and
william Macintosh Allen, the
eightand-a-half-year-old Windsor
twins. are so absolutely alike. not
only in build and looks. but in.
mental ability, that Mr.. j. Rae.
their fcrm-master at the Windsor
County School. is completely baf-
fled.
They have been at the school
only . fortnight, ana in marking
their papers he has frequently
given marks to the wrong twin.
Their marks for the fortnight
were exactly the same; conse-.
quently they are both placed thir-
teenth, and st together
Both boys are exceptionally
keen. said Mr. Rae. and very
sturdy. They are identical in
temperament. think alike, and act
In the same characteristic man
ner..
william is exactly = quarter Of
an hour older than his brother.
They are equally enthusiastic IN
outdoor games
Their mother states that when
they were on holiday in Scot
land. a scotswoman discovered
that the only way she could
identity the boys was that vii
lie was the more argumentative.
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the lawyers agree with him?
1t has been more than once
pointed out that when Charles
Evans Hughes was governor of
New York he opposed the in
come tax amendment 70 the
Constitution. The ground OF his
opposition a. he stated It then
was that it would permit Con-
gress to tax the income from
State and municipal bonds and
that this would place such
limitations ON the borrowing
power of the State as to make
the performance OF the functions
of local government q matter
of Federal grace" Other lawyers
disagreed with Governor Hughes.
One thing is certain: The Con-
gress has never exercised the
right under the Sixteenth amend
ment to tax the income from
State and municipal bonds. Il
did not accept the view Of Gov
erner Hughes that 1t could do
so. If it can do 50 now, Why
does Mr.. Mellon want to amend
the income tax amendment?
The way to resume is to
resume. The way to end tax
exempt bonds is to stop issu i
them and to refund all bonds q
tax-paying securities.
Copyright. 1929. by Twenty -FlHut
Century Presal
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Vienna Police
Use Movies i'm
Detecting Crime

VIENNA, Jan. 20.
THE Vienna police are expert
menting with picture films 70
detect crime.
When q muraerous assault Was
committed recently on an elderly
woman about 10 o'clock In the
morning, the police had a film re-
port of the crime and its circum-
stances displayed that same night
in the Vienna movies.
Within twenty.four hours the
assailants were caught upon infor-
nation fur ;shed by persons who
had seen the MOVIES.
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flces, and the guests were well
come to whatever heat came into
their rooms through the open
transoms. There was a charge OF
81, day for open CRATE fires in
the rooms. The hotel maintained
q corps of firemen, you might
call them, under two chief fire.
men, to make the fires and keep
them up"
He laughed.
II remember" he went on, "ofle
cold day when fifty people were
sitting around in their wraps,
asking for heat, and we were
thirty fires behind. But, let me
tell you, there was nothing more
cheerful than to come. into your
room and see q blazing fire in
the crate on . winter day.
TELEPHONE FEARED.
when the telephone came into
general use, It was . great COM
venience in hotels. Folks used to
have funny experiences with them
at first. Some Of the people
wouldn't touch them - thought
they were inventions Of the devil.
"A person could get the best
room in the house, and meals, for
IS q days and that was living
high. That was something to so
home and tell the folks about.
The restaurants hadn't come at
that time, and the hotel was 40
important for eating az for any
thing else.
Nowadays it's the usual thing
for a man who stops at a good
hotel to pay 81 or IS bill for
q room with bath. We used to
have a bath between two rooms.
In the moro modern part Of the
building the parlor suites and q
number Of single rooms, had pri-
vate baths.
'And let me tell you, they had
dinners-luncheons = teas - recep-
tions-in those days! They don't
have them now. And everyone in
formal dress, too.
zone event remember well.
and it shows that people spent
money at that time not for sake
Of spending, but for the best they
could get out Of It.
SOME LUNCHEON!
"An afternoon luncheon was be-
ing given to an exclusive company,
and the ceiling Of the banquet hall
was decorated with thousands of
American Beauty, Pierpont Nor
gan and La France roses. They
covered the ceiling and hung in
festoons from the walls-a canopy
Of roses! Why, they must have
cost $50 each.
When the luncheon was over,
but before the guests had arisen.
the hostess pressed a concealed
electric button and the diners were
deluged in q shower Of rose leaves,
while the decorations seemed not
at eli disturbed.
Roger Q. Gresham stopped at
the old Arlington. He was Secre-
tary Of State under Cleveland, and
Judge Kenesaw. Mountain Lands,
the baseball arbiter. was his pri-
vate secretary.
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SALE OF FAMOUS EBBrTT HOTEL RECALLS DAYS OF Ora
LAST LINK WITH OLD-TIME HOSTEIRIES ON POINT OF

the Arlington. when the GridirOn
Club was holding its meeting. At
the stroke Of midnight, when the
meeting adjourned, messenger
appeared In the dining hall and
told. the club that Reed had died
at that hour.
Mark Hanna also died there.
For three days the announce
ments Of his failing. and rallying
alternated swiftly. On the night
Of his death two New York news
papers had telephones direct to
their home offices. and one OF
them was a good friend of mine.
had promised to give him the
break, as theS say, on the news
Of TIanna's death.
HERE'S A SCOOP!
Being very close to the Han.
mas, was admitted to the death
chamber. The two men at the
telephones were carrying on .
conversation Of small talk with
their offices, to keep the lines
open. and three telegraph instru-
ments were ticking somewhere In
the lobby.
!" Il was at the door Of Hanna's
room when the end came. step
ped outside and. stood at the head
Of the stairs and signaled my
friend. he looked up. / made .
sign that ne would understand.
Hanna's dead, z I heard him
speak into the telephone.
'Whatg he. said, Immediately
after he had given the message.
Then he said good night and
hung up.
II walked down to him and
asked him II he had beaten his
rival.
I should say So he laugh
ed. do you know what they told
me when I broke the news? They
said our paper had just put an
extra on the street announcing
Hanna's deathF"
Again Mr.. Breasts features were
lighted with the smile that has
made him invaluable to the Laf.
ayette. But when he resumed his
talk he was serious.
MUST BE DIPLOMAT.
"A man behind q hotel counter
has to be diplomat. an optimist
and somewhat Of q liar." he con-
fessed. ''I learned my work un-
der q hard masterT. e. Roessle,
manager Of the old Arlington.
rye learned more than / can re-
member about the hotel business.
but know how to make con-
trast between these days and
those.
Here's an example: The time
l1as passed when q man VIII 90 up
q dark street or to some outeof-the-
way place to q hotel merely be-
cause relative keeps it or because
his father stopped there, or for
any similar reason. Such senti.
ment has gone out Of the mind Of
the guest and the hotel man. Do
you rec what / meant
'.This il a day when everybody
expects service. They don't come
into hotel-a first-class hotel like
this one-and demand sservice.
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5 Prisoners Flogged
by Order Of Court

WILMINGTON, Del. Jan. 20.
1--WE prisoners were punished
at the ancient whipping post
in the county worlxhouse.
Stripped to the back in their
cells the prisoners were wrapped
in blankets while being taken to
the post.
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and hide it away in tax-exempt
securities.
Why should Congress and Mr.
Mellon wait for the slow and
doubtful process of a Constitu-
tiona amendment to make all gov
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Are Now Exempt p"

vitation by the Government for
investors to refrain from putting
their money into industry and it
compels excessive taxation of
those who did not withdraw their
money from industrial concerns
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ernmental bonds subject to taxa
ton? They can stop issuing tax
exempt bonds for any purpose
whatever, land bank or joint land
bank or any other measure, good
or Of doubtful wisdom. The way
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OLD ARLINGTON HAD
UNIQUE POSITION in.
CTTY'S SOCIAL LIFE
That Hotel, and the EDDitt, MOnOpOlized First
Class Trade i'm Washington During Eighties.
Hotel Man of s. Years Service Recalls
Celebrities of Former Days, Vanderbilts,
GouldS, AStOrS, CadWalladerS, Sturteyants.

u7HEN the Ebbitt House goes down in dust to make
wv way for the great modern hostelry which, it is
rumored, win occupy the site at Fourteenth and F.
Streets Washington will have lost the last tangible link
the odme hotels and the establishments the pres
ent day.
probably win not then, be difficult the
evolution Of the hotel from the nn because James Breast
expects be chief clerk Of the Lafayette Hotel long
time to come.
old hotels the invariabe counsel is, .See Jim Breast He
knows about hotels than roomf of books could tell
you He's been in the game than years
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win be. There's little Of the gem
erous spending and the magnifl-
cent parties. and the time when
guests were. the principal support
Of the hotel stair has about gone.
But it's q pleasure to me to know
that my life has been one Of seF0-
Ice, and that, hope. 1t win con-
tinue to be as long as 7 i've"
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ASKS, "CAN NATION EXIST IF HALF EVADE TAXES?"

Of property in the hands Of
comparatively a small portion Of
the population exempt from all
taxation for schools. roads, health,
administration, provision for ma
tional defense and all other ex-
pense Of government! This has
given US a new Privileged Class
When the bonds were issued dur.
ing the World War, nearly every
citizen made a purchase. Later
these bonds drifted into the own.
ership of fewer and fewer peo-
pie who saw that by their pur-
chase they could escape all taxa
ton. The small owners lacked
that incentive to hold on to them
while the rich saw that possession
of those securities gave them
an immunity amounting to many
thousand dollars every year.
Half slave and half free-it
was not possible. Half taxpayers
and half ax-dodgers-can such q
privileged class be permitted to
escape all contribution to the sup
port Of the Government which
gives them protection? Ought it
not to be remedied at once both
as a matter of equal rights TO
all before it raises the indignation
the righteous indignation-of
the real makers of our national
prosperity against the favoritism
of it? Mr.. Mellon proposes an
amendment to the Constitution as
the way. He declares it as prob
ably the most necessary reform in
our system of taxation" and adds
truly: "The constantly growing
mass of axexempt securities
threatens the public revenue not
only of the Federal Government,
but of the States as well, and it
is reaching such proportions as to
undermine the development Of
business and industry" That ex.
r. preston is not too strong. It is
a moderate rather than an ex.
travagant statement.
PRODUCERS INJURED.
II people Of means can invest
their money i'm safe tax-free Sc.
"ui'ities. thereby placing them
>"lvs. in the privileged class ex.
cmpted from taxation, where is
he incentive to invest in farms
and factories which turn out prod.
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of Navy Wilson Cabinet Secretary
Mellon Is Eternaly Right I'm Declaring That No Tax
Exempt Securities Should Be Issued, BUT Why
Does He Not I'm Ref1nc1ing Short Term Bonds
Substitute Taxable Bonds For Bonds That
Are Now EXEMPT"

ucts which add to the wealth Of
the world, give employment to
labor, and make the wheels go
round? Every time in days of
peace that a tax-exempt security
is put on the market it is an in
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lands wasn't judge then. but
I had an opportunity to see in him
the qualities that now distinguish
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By HELEN FOX.

GIRL art student, in Paris.
meets a great number Of
people, including many men