Evening star., 1923-01-11
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL v. COLLINS.

mflfar, but not cheap thermos bottles
such as these must be, to- be practical
for milk service, requiring hundreds
daily. All that has delayed the revo-
luton of housekeeping, so that all
cooking could be done in central
plants and delivery made to thousands
Of homes at meal time-alI smoking
hot-has been the lack of adequate and
cheap containers.
Think offwhat it would mean to
tired housewives to be able to aboI-
Ism nome kitchens-except for special
dishes like mother used to make
ana having the roast the vegetables
the dessert and coffee delivered AT
nxeo nours by the parcel post wagon.
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Down with the skyscraping tariff.
am protectionist, but not soarer
into such ethereal attitudes as caught
an uppercut bin" on Mr.. Biffar's chin.
This knockout blow was the assess
mert on 200 little parts needed for re-
pairing automatic revolvers; Mr.. Bif-
tar repairs reVolvers for a living. He
imported these 200 parts, and the
manufacturers bill was SO 79. but a .
the law puts an import duty of $1.25
on each separate piece of such items,
pIus 90 per cent ad valorem. his
tarin account on that 1919 worth of
flmports amounted to $21l99 Now he
wants Senator McCumber and Repre
ssntatlye Fordney to introduce a spe-
claifPlll to reimburse him. He re-
pairs revolvers. He is using the i'm
ports for that purpose Mr.. McCunn
per and Mr.. Fordney did not mean it,
they VIII hasten to REMIT mean re.
vokeg that rate. They understand
what his business is They want ~,
explain that they did not mean il at
All Nhere did he get, that name
bnIar! us an ominous name.
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Representative Madden, chairman of
the House appropriations committee.
| opposes the plan to erect government
buildings for the Department of Agri-
culture and for archives and the De
| partment of Labor-thereby saving
Sl'ooo,OOo year rentals now being
expended by the government He
bases his opposition on the alleged
high cost OF building material and
labor and on the theory that, in case the
government undertakes large build
of building homes.
The District committees, headed by
Representative Langley and Senator
Smoot, argue that whateye the gov
| ernment is paying now in rentals Is
based on the cost of replacing the
! many buildings occupied, hence there
/ Is no economy in renting. Besides,
! there is great risk to the archives Of
| the nation, great inconvenience and
| loss of efficiency in the departments
| scattered over the city, and the occu-
| pancy Of the rented buildings by the
| government puts the government in
| rent-competition with private firms
| and keeps rentals up to exorbitant
| rates. Private owners expect the
government always to pay top-notch
IA ha IL hai
| mulcted numerically. and there Is
/ only extravaganza as result of
penny-wise policy of postponement-
The statement of Mr.. Madden that
the government architect already has
on hand plans for 1872 government
buildings which he cannot begin 10
build, because no contractors will ac-
! cept the contracts at the limits set,
| only proves that Congress has not
! kept in touch with present costs as
| compared with antebellum costs. It
| proves nothing else but that the cost
! limits must be revised on those prof.
ects. It does not prove. they argue,
| that costs of material or labor are
| coming down for many years. IL ever
again In this view the supervising
architect concurs. Not only are these
| main buildings needed in the capital
| to save rents. but other buildings, in
cluding many post offices, where the
government is now paying millions
annually IN Ients' Snoulu OS SohS4u
cred.
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Make the university safe for de-
! mocracy" is the slogan adopted by
| the American University Of Washing
| ton. All the students will be author
| lied by the faculty to make sugges-
tions affecting the policies of the in
! stitution. The experiment is safe, for
/ all of the students are adults. taking
| post-graduate work All hold de-
! grees from other colleges, hence bring
| ripened ideas based on college expert
ence 1t Is not likely that freak plans
] will be sanctioned by the soviet control