Evening star., 1923-03-20
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

the law which deprives tho residents
or alleys i'll Washington or owners or
property used as residences and 10
Gated upon alleys is in violation OF
that provision. 1t does not provide
Tor compcnsating the owners, while
1t orders that all such property shall
cease to be used as residences. a
suit for injunction to prohibit tf1a
enforcement of that order win there
tore be filed in d few days.
me attorneys allege that to forbid
the use OF the property for residences
Is tantamount to condemning il, since
there is no other use that would be
practica BILE and profitable. The onIv
reason for it's condemnation, thev
claim. is the alleged public sanitary
interest, which the Constitution SAYS
the owners must be compensated To
compensate them it will be necessa-y
10 nave due process of law" The
court must appoint appraisers 10 az
certain its present value prior to the
new laws Interference. The owners
Would thereupon recover that ap-
praised value before they could 10
dlSpoSSeSSed or the tenants elected
Ar all events, the legal suit ard
injunction will probab bly, prevent i'm
mediate action in enforcing the Lax
June ] and the 10000 threatened ter
anus VIII nave a period Of grass 70
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boris landmark, which they of old
time have set in thine inheritance.
which thou shalt inherit, in the lana
that the Lord thy God gfyeth thee, t.
possess it,
That IS what the folks around
Washington Circle want their preach
erS to use as a text for carly sermons
Ihe George Washington statue has
stood upon its pedestal there for over
sixty years 1t is the oldest bronz-
lnhdbltant of the city. Now IL is
moth eaten and the horses head
Is nodding TO the breeZes. so that b
Is necessary to send the man VINO
was first in war, first in peace anu
first in the bronze of our statues t.
New York to have the holes ampu
tated.
Fandals who object to Hobby Horse
Jackson standing in front of the
White House during a republican ad
ninistra tion are now proposing that
when President Washington comes
riding back astride of his bronze
charger he be parked there where
Jackson now stands and the fiery
democrat be sent to Washington Cir
Gle. The parking ordinance, perhaps
limits parking privileges opposite the
, White House to sixty years, and So
time is up for Jackson. Besides
what had Jackson 10 do with tn
other characters i'll that square, All
of them were WaShiugton'S aides o.
subordinate revolutionary officers
, Lafayette. Rochanbcau. Kosciusko
and Won Steubeu. They never sai'
luted Jackson. and they would rall2
around their old &C. @" with srear
enthusiasm.
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But the neighbors of Washington
Circle cry out III wrath and quote
Deauteronomy xix.14 to show that NJ
such removal can be tolerated. The
chances are that when that old stS
lion comes prancing down Pennsyl-
vania avenue he will go straight bacE
10 his old stand like any other horse
who has stood and fed at one place
! for years Anyhow. officials decide.
! it will take an act of Congress t.
provide any other feeding trough for
! him. 1t might take two years T.
start Jackson from in front Of The
, White House. especially in view OF
! the piayhCrSe he is riding. and ~
I two wears more. some sanguine demo
/ Gratis suggest. Jackson might f1nG
congenial company near his preScIi
! station.
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Cnkept hedges are unsightiy. say
Col. Keller, Commissioner of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and he orders that
no more shall be planted in WASH
ington. Somehow that order does
not beautify the unsghtliness OF
ovcrgrown hedges already lnarrinG
many lawns.
Copyright 1928 ly T. Y. Collins1