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best figure them in dollars. A shor
which rented for 500 before the so.
cialistic government made these laws
now brings only $500, and store
which may have brought $1,000
month may now rent for $50. This
does not mean that the tenants lower
the prices Of the goods i'll the win
dows. On the contrary they keep on
charging as much as the traffic will
stand. I know a butcher who paid
$50 a month rent before the war. He
Is selling meat at the old stand, but
by the law his rent has fallen in valus
from $50 to $1.20. In the meantime
he has raised his prices and the
marks he receives for his beef and
sausages seem to the people here out
of all reason. 1t takes only three
pounds OF beef or less than three
pounds of sausage to pay his rent
for one month. and a good-sized hog
would pay his rent for three years,
This condition prevails in every
German city and in all kinds of bust
nesses. If the same fate should come
TO the United States the rent of every
store would drop from dollars to
cents. and any shopkeeper who reads
this can figure out what his rent
would be by taking what he pays
now and dividing the sum by 10000.
or even more as the money continues
to fall. For instance, the man who
is paying $500 a year would then be
paying cents, and he who is paying
$1,000 would have his rent reduced
to so cents. The only difference would
be that he would have TO light and
heat his establishment and pay his
share of keeping up the repairs on
the building.
lc.n--i.h4 1aoa carn.nter,s World TrarelsA
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West Point Celebrates
121St Birth Anniversary

He brought to his field of usefulness
a broad scholarship, ripe experience
and unerring judgment. He took the
academy after it's youth had been
almost wasted and, by appropriate
discipline, training and culture. de
yeloped one of the foremost instltu
tions of learning in the world.
While upon an official mission ~
, Europe, Thayer had culled from the
most noted war schools Of the Ole
world the best features Of their cur
riculums, and afterward introduced
them to West Point.
Mai. Thayer was from the Corps 81
Engineers. From the founding OF the
academy until 1866. the superin-
tendents Of the school were all from
that corps. Since that date. however,
they have been selected from the oil
ferent arms of the service.
Cadets from the academy have at
tested their usefulness in all phases
of civil life, as well as in the service
Their military services attest thelr
worth. In the trials OF the self-sacrl-
fcing profession in which they nave
cast their lot, they have learned that
"all hours wound; 1t is the last one
that kills" The record of West Point
heroic dead is incomparably glorious.
When LIE Tour d'Auvergne, who
with his matchless deeds OF ValoF
gained the proud title Of the "nrst
1renadfer of France, finally fell with
his face to the enemy. Napoleon Is
sued an order prescribing that the
soldiers name should be carried on
the active list, and to this day the
sergeant of the company to which he
belonged calls lie Tour dAuvergne
and the color sergeant answers Mort
an Champ d'Honneur." If the roll OF
West Points graduates were to be
called today answer could be mace
for. not one. but for hundreds oeau
on the field of honor.
When an army officer is clothed
with authority he avoids everything
| which savors of puppyism. an eVli
sometimes born of power. and shuns.
as well. a spirit of dogmatism. which
ia only puppyism grown to maturity.
The flag is kept in constant view. II
Is not simply piece of bunting not
q mere cluster of brilliant colors, out
the emblem of dignity, authority ana
mower. If it be our privilege TO oHer
up our life in its defense. its gentle
folds will rest upon our bosom "
death.
During the world war many or LID
graduates of West Point did they.
bit" over there. The morale OF tne
students was Of the highest during
the war Gen. S. Z. Tillman serVeo
as commandant or superintendent or
the academy during the war Several
wears ago Gen. Tillman, then lieu
tenant. had been assistant in the de-
partment of chemistry, succeeding
Prof. Kendrick on January l, 1881, as
professor of that department. He had
also served for one year as assistant
in the departments of philosophy and
mineralogy and geology. He is now
on the retired list of the Army.
Sons of West Point, in the honor
able career they have chosen, what
ever laurels they may win. are always
ready to lay them down at the feet
of their country.
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Europe, and now is as large as Chi
cago and Detroit together 1t has
| buildings which compare favorably
with any of those cities. 1t has
business quarters artistically built
with fine stores and offices. it has
palaces and apartment houses lining
street after street and running far
out into the country. and all of its
buildings are occupied by as good
people and as bad people as you will
find in any of our great municipal
centers. The most of these buildings
are returning practically no rent
whatever to their owners and the ten
ants occupy them almost rent free
The owners have no more power over
| their property than the man in the
moon. 1t is true they have the right
to sell, but these rent regulations re-
main with the property and few care
to make nom income bearing invest
ments. The result is the buildings
are seldom offered for sale as long
as the owners can keep up their
taxes or live without spending their
capital.
y x
THE rent laws have caused an enor-
j nous fall in real estate prices.
Big properties have been going beg
sing. A short time ago our govern
ment was offered the mansion In
which our ambassador lives for one
fiftieth of what 1t will sell for when
Germany comes back to normal The
price was $4,000. and our ambassador
| tells me il is easily worth a million
! or more. The building is large enough
for the offices of the embassy and
also the home of the ambassador. 1t
heart OF the business and official CEN
ter. within a pistol shot of the pal
ace of the president and not far from
Under den Linden and the reichstag.
The state department has refused to
give me the rent price which our
government is now paying, but in nor
NAL times it would easily bring every
year one-half the amount of the price
which was asked for the property.
AS 1 understand the proposition, it
was submitted to Congress and a bill
authorizing the purchase of the prop
erty was practically passed when
! some minor local matter interfered
and it went by default.
Later the Austrian embassy in Ber-
lin. a property equally valuable, and
built especially to suit the demands
! of a great diplomatic establishment,
could have been bought by US for
$4,000 and it also was lost
These are samples of the penny
wise pound foolish policy of Con-
gress which is content to have
our diplomats live and do business
in the shabbiest quarters of some Of
the most important European capt.
tails where it might have bought le
cations and embassies equal to those
of other great nations for a song.
The housing and official quarters of
its diplomats are disgrace to the
United States, except where the dip
lomat is rich enough and generous
enough to pay for a respectable office
and home out of his own pocket.
In the meantime many foreigners
are taking advantage of these low
real estate prices. The Americans,
Dutch, Swedes. Swiss, English and
Danes are purchasing homes or busi-
ness buildings with a view to their
own use or investment. Castles on
the Rhine have been sold for one
| tenth of their values. Only last week
New Yorker telegraphed here the
sum of less than $100, and for it
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bought a three-story building which
before the war would have cost at
least $4,000 to put up. One of
our Army officials has an apart
ment house which cost him $65. He
took it with a mortgage of a million
marks, but that was about $40 at the
time of the purchase.
/ was shown yesterday a small
apai tment house that cost $4,000 to
build and which has been sold for
$40, and a large American trading
company has recently bought one Of
the best business corners of this city
at price less than the cost of con-
struction. The building contains
sixty rooms and the company wants
them all for it's business. Forty of
the rooms. however, are under leases
made before the present rent law
was passed and the rent the ten.
ants are paying is tenths of cent.
where it should be dollars. The COM
pany has no means of getting these
rooms as long as the existing rent
laws continue.
i: x x X
IN this connection, any one thinking
i of making a German investment
either in real estate, in industrials,
or in securities of any description
should look into the laws relating
to each investment before he quits
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in his money. The German govern
ment and business men have a
method of controlling certain institu-
tions by legal enactions through
what are known as plural voting
shares. These can be held by Ger
mans only, and although only small
number may be issued they may reg
ulate the sale and management OF
the institution. A single share may
be worth ten or twenty votes and a
few small German investors may be
able to control the machine.
The laws as to the eviction of
tenants are such that after buying a
property one may not be able to get
possession of it. He can collect the
rent at the legal rates from the peo-
pie who now hold the leases, but he
can not raise the rent nor make
new leases until the present tenants
voluntarily leave
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Realty Owners Find 1T Is Proftab to Rae Buildings

a building which cost 100000. This
building contains thirty fats of nine,
eight and seven rooms, and It's rents.
after the socialistic government took
charge, were so low that the man
could not pay the taxes. He then sold
the property for less than $4,000 in
marks and arranged with the owner
to take one Of the apartments and
manage IL for per cent Of the rents.
The falling mark has wiped out the
value of his selling price and made
his s per cent a starvation PROPOSE
tion, and he has agreed to change
the percentage contract for a fxed
payment Of $500 gold value per
month, for which he Is to manage the
building.
an the other hand, there are men
" who are making fortunes out Of the
hard luck of such victims. They are
buying with the expectation OF being
repaid a thousand fold when normal
conditions return. Hugo SHINES re-
Gently paid $4,000 for the Esplanade
Hotel, which Is easily worth several
millions. The sale included the fur
niture and supplies, and 1T is said the
wines in tho cellars alone are worth
more than the whole purchase price.
A captain Of industry here makes the
assertion that II Germany ever re-
turns to Its pre-war condition, SHINES
will own more than half of the re-
public.
The rents for stores and shops have
been raised to about ten times the
mark figures of before the war, but
the mark then was equal to gold. and
it is now hardly worth the wood pulp
OF which it is made. These rents will
be raised, but they cannot go up as
fast as the mark goes down. / can
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Iron From Cuba.

LONG the north shore of Cuba
near the sea at its eastern end.
in three areas which formerly ap-
peared to be simply expanses of bar
rem ferruginous soil. recent explora-
tion and tests have shown that there
exist deposits of a very pure iron
ore. amounting to 2,000.000.000 or
5000, 0,00o,000 tons. When deprived of
the large percentage of water which
1t contains, this ore will yield from
40 to As per cent of iron. Ore from
this source has already been exported
to the United States.
Evening star., 1923-03-25
BY FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
BERLIN, Germany

BERLIN, GerndnS-
w v HAT rent are you paying for
n the home where you live? l
Wv mean your house, apartment
or lodging of one or more
rooms? I want the figures to show
you what you would pay if you lived
here in Germany.
Suppose you have only a room or
small apartment and your rent is
$50 a month. If you lived here in
Berlin you might have the same quar-
ters for less than so cents year,
but you would have the heat and
light bills to pay.
Suppose your apartment consists of
five or six rooms and YOU pay $50,
Your rent here would be less than
9 cents month, and if you paid 500
1t would rise to is cents a month or
q little over 50 per annum.
But you may he Il nabob with a
whole house to yourself or a palatial
apartment that rents for five or ten
thousand dollars year. Men with
the same tastes as YOU are living in
quite as good apartments and houses
in the cities of Germany. and paying
therefor only about eight 10 sixteen
dollars for the term of twelve
months.
took tea this afternoon with a
lady whose twelve-room apartment
faces the Tiergarten on one of the
most fashionable streets of Berlin.
The house cost several hundred thou
sand dollars to build, and many of
the rooms are twenty feet square. \
similar apartment in as good Il loca-
tion in Washington would cost $4,000
year and in New York il might cost
fifteen or twenty. Her rent is just
SS per annum or about 20 cents for
each month.
I am debating this to a typist. She
has a comfortable five-room apart
ment with a kitchen and an extra
room for her servant. The rent for
the apartment before the war was
$40 a month and in any city of the
United States 1t would bring at least
$40 more. The typist tells me she
Is paying less than cents a week.
and she gloats az she talks of her
landlord. She had "a fight with him
the other day because he wanted to
raise her II cents per annum, a rent
increase of l cent Il month, and she
came out victorious as supported by
the law and her lease.
As ! laugh she grows quite indig-
nant at my sympathy for the owner
of the property. saying that the rent
Is quite fair for she has to pay her
own heat and light bills. which raises
her expenses to Sc or 81 per month.
She is especially warm about the heat
question, saying that coal has so
risen that her winter supply will cost
$40. I laugh again and she indig-
nantly adds that $40 means about
1000 900 marks, which is the annual
income of many a small clerk in
Berlin.
DUT think of 1t. you people in our
- big cities at home who are pay
ing SIS and more for each ton of hard
coal. and whose monthly rent for
similar quarters is $50 and upward
instead of S cents at hers. The man
who pays $40 a month rent in the
United States is paying one hundred
and twenty-five times as much as my
typist Is charged for her comfortable
fiat. She says / do not put the thing
rightly, for the earnings of the peo-
pie here are in marks and so small
they cannot afford more. In the
meantime l am wondering how the
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Value Than
at
the United States Lost Opportunity Get Embassy and How Are Buying Up
Property Of Country arning ngtoI oInveso
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EPISODES THAT DON'T COUNT
A. WAIDRON.

7 us eyes met hers and recos-
- milton was immediate. She
turned her car from the pro-
= cession and drew up to the
curb. where he Joined her.
Just two years" she remarked.
Two years to a day." he replied.
THAT was the period I fixed, you'll
remember"
when did you return? Weren't
you going to look me up?"
'T got in this morning. Phoned an
hour ago. You were out
Come" she thrust an extra wrap
and a robe from the seat beside her.
"Get in, please. We've something TO
talk about"
Quite a lot" He climbed into her
car. She swung back into the pro-
cesssion on the avenue and at the
next corner took less crowded way
and ran under the speed limit.
you remember when we last rode
together?" She looked up at him
smiling. 'I called you too sentimen-
tai"
Because wouldn't marry you,
though I loved ou.''
"And 1 rebelled, holding you weren't
to blame because the trustee Of your
fathers estate had stolen your patri-
mony.''
yet you remember my answer. when
you asked me IL would have married
you if you had lost your money instead?
Two years isn't long, after all; but we
had better remind each other Of all
that conversation"
"Yes. You said then you would have
felt like beggar living on my bounty.
1t really was NONSENSE foolish fas-
tidiousness."
fBut Pm of the same opinion still"
"T'm still Of the other opinion.
don't see why two persons who care
for each other need concern themselves
| about what others think"
| ssILL grant you that as a natural
i proposition. But we can't deal
| with life upon the natural impulse that
survives. Life Is artificial. Civilization
has erected certain hazards that con-
troll. We have inherited habits and
prejudices, and are victims Of environ
| ment. I didn't want any of your inti-
| mates to say behind your back that
you had taken pity on me. Nor did
| want any Of my intimtes-for your sake
as well as my own-to raise their eye
brows behind my back. Even friends.
you know. are deceitful in some things.
Our artificial life breeds duplicity."
But you were wrong in one thing"
"In what?"
"In insisting when you went away
| to Alaska to win fortune
"a foolish venture these days. OBJ
livion Is the surer end of such an en-
| terprise."
Don't interrupt. In insisting that
we shouldn't write each other. That
we should be silent for two years, at
| the end Of which you would come back,
or 1 would consider you lost. That
was wrong. Life is too complex these
| days, according to your own argument.
to put affection away somewhere undse
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w v HAT rent are you paying for
n the home where you live? |
e Wv mean your house, apartment
or lodging of one or more
Evening star., 1923-05-31
SAVE 100 CHILDREN
IN HOSPITAL BLAZE
Workmen Aid Nurses and Fire
fighters as Pittsburgh Build
ing Burns.
BY the Associated Preas

BY the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 31.-The
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was
destroyed by fire today. More than
one hundred little patients. most OF
them crippled. were moved to the
Magee Maternity Hospital nearby
So far as the authorities were able to
determine there was no loss of life
The main building. built many
years, ago and widely known as the
Moorehead homestead, was the center
of a number OF frame wings built as
the needs of the hospital increased
The fire started in one of the wings
and spread SO rapidly that fire chiefs
saw the place was doomed and di-
rected their attention to saving the
children.
Nurses, marshaled under Mrs. Ford
the superintendent, sand reinforced by
workmen from factories and a trolle y
barn in the neighborhood, carried out
the children while a dozen or more
automobiles from residences nearby
drove close to the burning buildings
and hurried them to the other hos
pital a few blocks away.
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DESPERATE, KILLER
OF TWO, IS SLAIN
Weeks of Persuit Ends in
Death Of Youth Who Ter
- s,E y.
rorKed County.
BY the Associated PreAs. :.

BY the Associated PFess. ..,.
NORTH BAY. Ont, May 31.-After
two weeks Of terror, this town today
stood free of the menace of Leo
Rogers. twenty y-one-year- desper-
ado, who last night fell before the
bullets Of posse that had sought
him since May 16, when he escaped
from a court where he was on trial
for minor offense when he flourish
ed a cardboard pistol.
Two men were killed and several
fell wounded by bullets from his
automatic pistols before the youth
was brought down when surprised by
possemen who came upon him as he
was washing his hands in Lake Nips-
sing.
On various occasions Rogers had
threatened TO kill North Bays police
chief and the judge before whom he was
being tried at the time of his escape.
The population was in a state of ter
ror during the time he was at large.
Arrested by Constable Fred Lefebvre,
Rogers escaped from court May 16.
The next day he telephoned the North
Fay authorities that they could find
him at a certain lonely snot near here.
A posse found him true to his word.
Lefebvre in the fight, was shot to
death. Rogers escaped in the. under
brush. For days he was trailed, but
always managed to make his escape.
An expert w3odsman and an unerring
shot, with pistol or rifle, his pursuers
held him in high respect. Later he
was wounded when posses apparently
had ringed him in.
Early yesterday watchers saw a
youth stink into the home of the
father Of the desperate. They were
met by n fusillade of shots Sergt.
Urquhart was shot to death. bullet t
through the heart. Although the
house was surrounded. Rogers made
his way through the Gordon and again
escaped into the woods. The posse
men found his trail at daylight, and
came upon the youth at nightfall
Evening star., 1923-05-31
McAD00 DENIES PARTIES :
POLICIES ARE SIMILAR
Hits Belief That There Is Little
Difference Between Republicans
and Democrats.
By The A.sociated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE. KY, May /. 31.-Wn-
liam C. McAdoo. former Secretary OF
the Treasury, reviewed the success OF
the federal reserve system, told of the
benefits received by farmers from
federal land banks. urged that the
voters send to Washington In 1894
men possessed of the brains and
courage to enact a reasonable tariff
law and to solve the railroad problem,
and declared "Encle Sam is bowling
fer democratic DOCTOR" in an ad-
dress before the Jackson Democratic
Club here last night. l.,
Mr.. McAdoo said the statement is
often heard that. no difference exists
any longer between the major politi-
cal parties He challenged the truth
of this statement. saying. THE same
old conflict between privilege and
equality" continues to rage. with the
democrats for equality for all. as
against privileges for the interests"
Mr.. McAdoo came here from French
Lick. Ind. and left after the address
for Chicago.
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MISS T0UZALIN TO WED.
American Girl Will Be Bride Of
French Journalist.

NEW YORK, May 31.-Grosvenor
B. Clarkson. a former director of the
United States Council of National De-
fense, has announced the receipt of a
cablegram from Paris telling of the
engagement of his cousin. Miss Char
lotte NJ. Touzalin of New York and
Colorado Springs. to Maurice Muret,
French journalist. who is nem-
ber'of the Legion of Honor.
Miss Touzalin's father was one of
the builders and z vice president of
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad. Her grandfather was Sam
ue4 -. Miller who for thirty years
vas = justice of the United States
Supreme Court. During the war she
won a decoration by the French gov
ernment for her work in DR.. Alexis
Carrels laboratories.
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ALIBI IN ,FL0GGlNG CASE.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, May 31-Indi-
cations are that the case Of Ernest
G. Jacks. Ketona dairyman. being
tried upon the charge of kidnapping in
connection with the, logging Of DR..
j. D. Bowling, city and county health
officer, will go to the jury late this
afternoon.
The defense closed yesterday after
noon. Its efforts were directed to-
ward establishing an alibi for Jacks,
whipping party. He admitted under
cross examination that he had had
trouble with the health department in
reference to his dairy.
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dred delegates were present from for
ty-eight nations. including most Of
the European countries and North
America, South America. China, Ja-
pan, India and South Africa.
G. Sherwood Eddy, United States
delivered an address. on the signif-
canoe of the conference.
Evening star., 1923-05-31

A recent surveyed coal field in
New Mexico has been estimated to
contain more coal than all the coal
which has been mined and consumed
in the United States to date.
Evening star., 1923-05-31

Charles y. Templeton, the present
livelihood in his younger years by
working successfully as a farm hand,
store clerk, janitor, cook and machin-
isf
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The wise father husbands his re-
sources in order that he may husband
his daughters.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
Y. M. C. A. PARLEY OPENS.
Delegates From 48 Countries
Gather in Austria.

/ By the Associated Press.
PORTSCHACH. Austria, May 81
The second world conference Of Y. M.
c. A. workers was opened here by DR..
Hemingway of England. Nine hum