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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Misses Betty Pepper and Maybelle
Lundquest, who are attending Tempe
Teachers college, arrived home Thurs
day to spend the Christmas holidays.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Miss Ethel Morgan, from Houston,
Texas, is home for the holidays.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Herbert Mills has bought a new
Chrysler car.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Clyde De Roe is visiting his mother
Mrs. Sam Adcock, for several weeks.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Wilcox is enjoying an unusually wet
winter. Snow fell Wednesday night,
melting almost as fast as it fell.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

The community Christmas tree held
at Wilcox Friday night was big sue
cess and was attended by nearly every
one in town. Santa Claus was present
and had present for every child. The
Christmas bags for the tree, containing
candy, nuts and other things, were
prepared by the girls of the domestic
science department.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

M. B. Sloner of McNeal made a brief
stop in Wilcox Monday while on his
way to San Simon to visit his daughter,
Mrs. Lillian Reed
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

! Miss Charlotte Wistritch is home for
few days from Phoenix, visiting with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gut Visit
ritch. Miss Wistritch is a graduate
nurse of St. Joseph's hospital at Phoe-
nix.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Swan and little
daughter, Marion, of Eel Paine. Mexico,
are guests of Mrs. Swans sister, Miss
Helen Morgan, for the Christmas holi-
days.
Jack Ehgle of Stafford is in Wilcox
on business this week.
Ed Mayer of Arivaca canyon was in
WILCOX last week.
Miss Bessie Mayer arrived from Tue
son Friday to spend Christmas with
home folks.
! Mrs j. B. Cook and daughter,
! Gladys, are spending a week in Ell
Paso.
Miss Ruth HALEY is here on visit
from Abilene, Texas, the guest of her
brother, Robert HALEY, and family
! -~---
! 'fNo Breakfast Complete Without
[ The Dispatch"
Dispatch Telephones-S1 and 81
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Miss Ruth Briscoe, Miss Elizabeth
Moore and MISS Lolamae Cole have
returned from the Arizona State Teach
ers' college at Flagstaff to spend the
holidays with home folks at Wilcox.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Tom and Henry Warren and Tom
Price arrived from Douglas Thursday
to spend Christmas with their families
in Wilcox.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Miss Ruth HALEY is here on q visit
from Abilene, Texas, the guest of her
brother, Robert HALEY, and family.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Mrs. Margaret Martin of Tempe
Teachers college is spending Christ
mas in Wilcox as the guest of her
aunt, Mrs. J. C. Bennett.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Mrs. ]. B. Cook and daughter,
Gladys, are spending week in Ell
Paso.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Mrs. Miles Choate of Light is spend
ing Christmas in Wilcox with her
sister, Mrs. ]. T. Price.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

The Wilcox basket ball town team
played the Stafford team at Wilcox
Thursday afternoon.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

'iNo Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch"
Dispatch Telephones-S1 and 81
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Miss Bessie Mayer arrived from Tue
son Friday to spend Christmas with
home folks.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Ed Mayer of Arivaca canyon was in
WILCOX last week.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Jack Engle Of Stafford is in Wilcox
on business this week.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-26

Miss Irene Crawford, Vera McPeters
and Jerome Umphreys spent Tuesday
in Dos Cabezas as the guest of Mike
Sims
Evening star., 1926-03-22
Capitals Streets in a
Disgraceful Condition

To the Editor of The Star:
AS a native Washingtonian and one
taking pride in the National Capital,
I think it is an absolute disgraCe-the
condition of the streets of Washington
the most beautiful city In the world.
It certainly seems to me that the
American Automobile Association and
the citizens associations of the Dis
trict of Columbia would take this mat
ter up with Congress and that one of
the papers would fight for better as
phalt streets for this beautiful city of
ours.
To those owning automobiles 1t Is
really no pleasure to drive over such
bumpty-bump and uneven thorough
fares-with holes in the asphalt as ap-
pears on at least IS per cent of the
streets of the National Capital. Bal
timore and Philadelphia, which are
manufacturing cities-their streets in
the business and residential sections
are in far better condition than the
streets of Washington. ! know this
to be a fact, as l have driven over
them many times.
We, the automobile owners, pay
personal tax on our cars and it GER
tainly seems that we are entitled to
better street conditions. 1 trust you
will publish this, and l would like to
see other automobile owners and prop
erty holders write to the paper. and
also to the District Commissioners and
members of Congress that are on the
District appropriations committee.
Here's hoping Washington. the pride
of nearly one-half million people, will
have the finest streets in the world,
which it should have!
FORREST II. RIORDAN.
Evening star., 1926-03-22
New York's Vehicular Tunnel.

Several years ago work was started
on the driving of a pair of tubes
under the Hudson River between
New York and Jersey City to accom-
yrodate vehicular traffic. 1t is now
announced that the first motor car
next June and that the entire turnel
will be put into service within the
next twelve months. the total cost
of the construction, it is estimated,
will he sac 100000, with an additional
10000, 900 for engineering and ad-
ministrative expenses. Computations
place the capacity of the two tubes
at $4,000 vehicles daily as against
80 900 handled by the fourteen ferry
lines. The hourly capacity of the
tubes at the peak of traffic is figured
at $500 cars in both directions.
This vast undertaking will, it is
expected, bring great relief 10 New
York and New Jersey in the matter
of moving traffic across the river.
buI IL Inlay result III ii'I ooSii5 Iiio
traffic congestion in New York itself.
At present comparatively few motor
ing residents of New Jersey take their
cars into the city. Most of them
commute" by train because of the
difficulty of CROSSING the North River
and of finding storage space for their
cars in Manhattan. The addition Of
trars.t capacity for $4,000 cars day
t1 fhe 32.0oe now. carried BY the
Evening star., 1926-03-22

ferries may not mean, however, an
equivalent addition to the number of
cars daily reaching Manhattan from
the Jersey side. In all likelihood the
ferry use will fall off materially.
Already there is talk Of another
tunnel for vehicular use. 1t will not
be started, however, until there has
been chance to observe the work
ings of the present one. Engineers
estimate that the next under-river
tube can be built much more cheaply
and more speedily. This tube now
approaching completion presented
particular problems, differing from
those solved in the driving of the
railroad tubes now in service. The
vehicular tunnel is twice the size of
the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel.
being large enough for twoand-a-
half story house to he showed through
the bore from end to end. The ven
tilation problem is particularly seri-
Gus in a vehicular tunnel. The ema-
HdllOfl Ol cOInDuSlloI SdScS iil1NSS ~
necessary to change the air freely ano
frequently. 1t is computed that by
means of ducts with openings every
fifteen feet there will be a continuous
supply of fresh air entering the tun
nels throughout the entire length, the
air being completely changed every
ninety seconds.
Plans for the construction of a sus
pension bridge across the Hudson, re-
Gently announced as approved. will
be pressed despite the prospect of an
early completion of the vehicular tun-
mel. New York needs both end more.
Evening star., 1926-03-22
Shutting the Buildings Pack.

Abortion in committee of the whole
of an amendment to the Independent
offices bill appropriating $250,00O to
meet the expenses of readjustment
of certain Offices of the Government
will doubtless be followed by final
action to this effect. 1t is important
that the funds be provided, as make
shift pending the completion of build
ings under the general construction
program, which, it is hoped, will be
authorized at this present session.
The Governments situation with
regard to office housing has become
serious. The lack of room is ham,
pering every department and bureau.
Combinations have become necessary
to meet the most pressing require
ments. Yet even though offices are
crowded together with only a rudi-
mentary regard for relationship, it
has been found that 10000 square
feet of space is still available, and is
rated as wasted, This space can,
it is estimated. Ak-saxed bxss<eamr
Evening star., 1926-03-22
Our Tax Burden High Enough.

All loyal ashingtonians wish a
maximum Of development of the
Greater Washington as the City Beau
tiful. the City Healthful, the City Wise
and the City Good, and a maximum
of fair play in the taxation of them
for National Capital purposes by a
taxing body in which they are not
represented.
All of Washington desires that the
millions necessary to meet the accumu.
lation Of neglected wartime munich.
pal needs. to maintain adequately the
fine progressive Capital of today. and
to develop worthily the Greater Wash
ington Of the future shall be appro.
priated and spent. All Washington
also desires with equal fervor that
equity shall dominate the division of
the cost Of this great projected develop
ment between the Nation and the Ma
tional Capital local community; and
between the taxpayers Of today and
those Of the future, in such fashion as
to cause the latter to bear their fair
share of the cost Of great permanent
improvements of which they among
Washingtonian will be the main bene-
iciaries.
The Districts 1926 property tax levy
Of over twenty million dollars and It's
per capita tax levy Of s4321 are high
enough.
The District is now bearing in COM
parison with other cities an adequate
tax burden and a sufficiently heavy
tax rate in view Of it's high standard
of assessment eand of it's comparative
fullness of tax collection and of the
peculiar disabilities under which it
labors.
These contentious are to he elab-
Grated in a series of articles of edi.
torial correspondence, the first of
which is printed elsewhere in today's
Star.
Evening star., 1926-03-22
Gen. Grants Father Was
Guest at the White House
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
All Washington was interested in
reading the article by Robert T. Small
in The Star Of Friday, March 10, to
the effect that, within the memory OF
the oldest Inhabitants of the National
Capital, no one recalls that Presidents
of the United States other than War
rem O.. Harding and Calvin Coolldge
ever had the privilege of entertaining
their fathers at the White House.
The article in question seems to
have been correct in SO far as enter
tainment overnight is implied. but
there must be q great many persons
still residing here who can recall the
first administration of Gen. Ulysses >.
Grant. Grants father, Jesse Root
Grant, was alive all during his hrst
term and was present at his first IN
auguration and thereafter at inter
walls came to this city and visited Win
and rode with his illustriOus son.
In chapter XIII of Hamlin Garland
exhaustive book, General Grant; His
Life and Character" it is stated: His
mother Hannah Simpson Grant, was
not present at the Inauguration. She
never saw Washington, never saw her
son surrounded by the evidence OF his
mower and attainment. Uncle Jesse
was present with his daughter, Jennie,
but they were not marked hgureS.
Old Jesse occasionally came on
during the administration and put up
at cheap hotel not far from the
Executive Mansion. He called on his
son or went driving with him. but
did not seek close COmpanionship with
the autocratic Father Dent. Mrs.
Grant desired her family to- he with
her, and her sisters as we'll as her
father and brother became residents OF
Washington and were often at. the
White House"
In chapter XIV occurs the following
passage: During the first year OF
Grants second term Jesse Root Grant
died in the S0th year of his age.
Although the President took special
train he did not arrive in time to see
his father alive. Old Jesse was re-
puted to have said proudly, i am the
| only man who ever lived to see his
son elected twice to the presidency.
! His last days were peaceful, though
| full Of pain"
The elder Grants record of Wh1ch
he thus boa sted seems to be as yet
secure The generals failure to get
there in time was furerunner of the
present Executives sad experience.
r. NJ. KAUFFMANN.
Evening star., 1926-03-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

reasonable they will object, often
strenuously. too-and the joke is that
most often they are right. You can
fool all of the people
X X X
The quarry owner informed us that
we could get n ton of her stone for
iron men, and that said ton would
cover between 35 and 40 square feet.
A ton seemed an enormous amount
of stone-but we should have known
better.
We have bought coal.
Upon going home we got out the
yardstick, which some charitable
firm had kindly left at the front
door--the name is on the stick. but
we cannot remember ever having
looked at it-and proceeded to meas
ure the space Whereon we propose to
superimpoSe a terrace.
This, to our astonishment. meas
ured . by 8 feet, or a total of 72
square feet, which would require
some 9 tons of stone slabs inches
thick.
The bright idea then came-why 3
inches thick? Would not an inch
and a half do. thus doubling the
amount of coverage, making ona ton
do what two normally would.
should be inches thick. in order TO
prevent them from being cracked by
the FROST
'Tis true, so the lady said and so
we believe.
The question now resolves itself
down to whether we would prefer to
have 3.inch slabs and have them
whole, and pay SIC. or be the proud
possessor of IL inch slabs In our
terrace, and run the risk of having
| them crack. and pay IS.
SO the thing boils down to matter
| of simple mathematics, with the old
pocketbook holding the key to the
| situation, as usual.
x 4 X
| We noticed letter in an advertise
| ment the other day in which the
writer thereof declared he always had
| liked the best of everything, and that
was why he had purcha sed---~-
! Well, we, too. like the best of every
| thing, but often the best costs more
| than we can afford to pay. Maybe
YOU have had a similar difficulty.
| We. too. would prefer the 3-inch
| slabs, but the thinner ones ought to 40
about as we'll First, we propose to
simply place them on top of the turt
| and then erect "A trellis on one side
!
| The back steps. with their rail, VIII
| form the other trellis, on which Will
| be trained A similar screen of Jap
anese morning glories of the large
ruffled variety.
| Along the front OF this terrace of
ours we intend to dig two small beds,
| about foot in width and per-
| haps feet long, thus leaving an
entrance way of . feet wide in the
middle.
| You who are wrestling with the
| problems of the universe may not be
| much interested in what we will plant
| in those two beds. but we, who long
ago gave up the job of rounding up
and putting our brand on the world,
| are much interested in it.
AS we sit at our ease in the most
! comfortable rocker we can find. rock
ing back and forth on our fancy stone
/ terrace we want to he able to look
| out over our flower beds into the rest
of our garden. We want to see our
| gladiolus and our small friend. the
| humming- bird So we must not plant
! flowers that will grow more than ?
| feet tall What shall ii he?
| Suppose the slabs refuse to stay
put" and wiCGie up and down? All.
! building a terrace is just one thing
after another
Evening star., 1926-03-22
BObs Still Shake Defiance
In Face of Hairdressers

getting is good" as it announces to
its readers that the latest reports
from Paris say the bohbed hair regime
ia about over, and that another year
will see the end of it
-
The st. Louis Post Dispatch
figuratively speaking, raises its glass
To NJ. Magnanaro. saying: 'As for us
he-men-We fellows with hair on our
chests-for us, the passing of the bob
is an occasion to cut loose. Let every
last one of us lift zippy glass of
sarsaparilla to NJ. Macnanaro and
shout 'Bravo.'-just like that"
That the wearing of bobbed hair is
by no means a. universal custom in
the United States is the contention of
the Worcester Evening Post. which
states: That the younger generation
is not entirely devoted to bObbed hair
leaves the question open as to whether
they ever will he. The two young
women most talked about in this
country continue to wear their hair
long and say they have no relish for
bohhed hair. They are Helen Wills
and Marion Talley. Both are nota BILE
examples of poise and self-control and
bY nc means are 10 he considered
freakish in their tastes There are
thousands of other capable girls.
continues the Post, who also wear
their hair long
X X X
Referring to certain BARRIERS who
complain that the fair sex is losing
its wOmanly charm" the San Fran
cisco Bulletin believes that "a protest
from BARRIERS would seem to be the
last WORD in ingratitude. seeing that
bobbing has added millions Of dollars
to tonsorial revenues" The Bulletin
also quotes hair experts view that
''if the fashion continues. women Will
become not only bald but bearded"
and says in reply: Woman has
not yet gone the length of initiating
man by boxing the head in an air
tight compartment. AS for the spread
of boards and badness among women.
that is a matter of less concern for
the present generation than for pos
terity. and as a humorist once re-
marked. Why should we worry about
posterity? What has posterity ever
done for uS?"
Evening star., 1926-03-22

bination of certain branches of the
Department of the Interior under the
same roof. that of the great depart
ment building at Nineteenth and G
streets
To comprehend the manner In
which the Government has. in the
absence of a comprehensive building
construction program, been compelled
to manipulate it's office housing, 1t is
necessary only to point out that
while some branches of the Interior
Department are scattered outside OF
that structure, certain branches of
the Department of Commerce are
located there. The Office of the So
licitor of the Internal Revenue Blu
reau is also there located. Thus the
Interior Building" contains parts of
three departments, and not all of
its own.
With the s25o0oo provided by the
amendment that was tentatively
adopted on Saturday it will be posi-
Government offices pack, to the end
of saving the 10000 square feet of
space now wasted and to bring some
thing a little closer to order out of
the chaos of room and building allot-
ments.
But this is only palliative meas.
ure. 1t does not actually provide for
any more room and it makes no pro.
vision whatever for future growth,
certain to come. The only cure for
the present wasteful, costly condition
is the erection of a series of buildings,
on large scale of present and
future provision. beginning immedi-
ately. That cure is proposed in a
measure which is rated as one Of the
most urgent Of the session, action
upon which is to be expected before
the gavels fall.
Evening star., 1926-03-22
Bishop Claggett and the
Washington Cathedral.
To the Editor Of The Star;

To the Editor Of The Star:
The following may he of interest to
Mr.. Augustus Y. Gray, whose plea
for Memorials to Maryland Heroes
was published in The Star for March
u:
The Right Rev. Thomas John Gag
sett, d. D., first Bishop of Maryland,
and the first bishop to be consecrated
in the United States. died in 1915, ana
was buried beside his wife at Groom
Md In 1898 the general convention
of the Episcopal Church, meeting IN
Washington at the time learned that
his grave was mot guarded by mon
ument appropriate to perpetuate the
memory of a man who bore such rela'
tions to the very beginnings of our &c
clesiastical life" and they appointed A
committee To arrange for the proper
honorinc of his memory.
In consequence of this the remains
Of the bishop and his wife were re-
moved to ST. Alban's Church, and
from there, AS soon as Washington
Cathedral was sufficiently we'll ad-
vanced. to a vault in the crypt. where
they are AZ present.
A committee of the House of Bish-
OPS has been appointed to erect IN
Washington Cathedral, when that edi-
flee is completed. tomb like those in
English and European cathedrals, as
a fitting memorial to this man who
was so prominent in the early history
both of church and state-for he was
the first chaplain of the. United States
Senate, as well as the friend of many
eminent people of his day.
And as Washington Cathedral is de-
signed to be a national cathedral. it
could well be a place for memorials
not only to Maryland heroes, but to
those men who h I'VE labored for the
upbuilding of the Republic at any
place and at any time. Consequently
Washington Cathedral and its compile
ton may become worthy object for
the attention of all patriotic Amer
leans. (REN) II. w. TlCkNOR.
Evening star., 1926-03-22
''War Between the States.
From the Savannah Press.

From the Savannah Press
The New York Times, whirh hos
been correctly described by a CORE
spondent as 'the leading paper I'm
America" refers to the Civil War AS
the War Between the States"
This correspondent however. takes
the Times To task and declares:
There never was any war between
the States. There was war by II
States in rebellion to destroy the
Union"
There Is no use discussing these old
matters. The only thing that the
South has ever contended was that
there was ample justification in the
Constitution for secession. There is
no contention that it would have been
best to have two republics in this
country, but the men who studied the
constitutional history of America have
founded their position upon the docu-
ment as originally formed.
Strange to say, all this discussion
originated from the announcement
that the Louisiana State University
would dedicate its new plant in April.
No less. a parsonage than James G.
Blaine emphasized before the world
the doctrine that Louisiana was a
sovereign State and that the General
Government was not responsible for
her acts. This was after the lynching
of Malta members in New Orleans
when the kingdom of Italy protested
against the treatment of its nationals.
Whatever one may think of the
war between the North and the South,
the New York Times Is right when
instead of characterizing the Civil
War as q war of rebellion, II al
ludes to Il as the War Between 'te
States.