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Tax Held Oppressive.

Although members of Congress are
accustomed to criticize the District for
it's ''low' real estate tax, the facts
show that Washington's tax Is not
only considered abnormal by experts
who have studied the situation from
national viewpoint, but is actually
becoming oppressive. To substantiate
this statement there are many in
stances where property owners have
been subjected to increases. of more
than 100 per cent in their taxes on
District property in the past four
years. During the fiscal year 1924.
for instance, the last year that the
6O-4O principle of apportionment was
applied by Congress, the tax rate was
$1.20. Today the realty assessments
have increased in many cases 33 per
cent and over, while the tax rate has
been from $1.20 to $1.70.
The method of assessing property
on its market value in the District al.
ready is coming in for renewed criti.
cism, and will come in for more when
the tax bills are received for the next
fiscal year, according to forecasts.
Here are a few cases, given by the
agent Of a number OF properties in
Washington, which show the actual
trend Of taxes here in the past four
years and the increasing burden Of
property owners:.
On New York avenue between
Twenty-first and Twenty.second
streets. Two frame houses last as
sessed at $3.50 are now assessed at
$10.551.60.
On a corner of Ninth and d streets
property Is assessed for taxation at
$40 square foot. A few blocks away.
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cooler at night; tomorrow fair, fresh
southwest, shifting to northwest
winds. Observation-Disclosures, SS. at
pm. yesterday; lowest, 65. at IN.
yesterday. Full report on page 5.
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Extension of Boiling Field to in.
clude the area around Giesboro Point,
they reminded, would be highly ad-
yantageous to commercial uses as
well as to the Army and Navy for
number Of reasons. In the first place,
it would give a Emile field. which
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03

William N. Wiley. s8-yearold resident
of The Dallas. Ore. who still hoes his
garden as he recalls the days when he
drove Lincoln and Douglas through the
States on their famous presidential joint
debating campaign. "''F"''" '""''
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Farm Machinery Outlay
Makes Care Important

The average farm carries an invest
ment of about $500 worth Of imple-
ments and machinery. 1t has been
found by many farmers that there Is
profit on time spent In caring for
machines representing so large an
outlay.
By this time of year most of the
field implements have been put under
cover, if they are going to be housed
at all. Whatever remains outside con-
tributes to the enormous annual loss
of machinery due to water and rust.
Good care is the factor which lets
one farmer get twice as much use
from equipment as another does.
few essentials in making machin-
cry last until it wears out return a
substantial profit to the farmer. For
this reason the provident man keeps
his implements under a tight roof
when they are not in use. During the
winter all surfaces are protected with
oil or paint and thus the machine is
kept ready for use next season.
Very often field implement needs
some repair or adjustment before it
will be ready for another season. One
of the most effective systems devised
for taking care of such jobs is to tag
the part needing attention. Then,
during some slack period in winter,
the actual repairing is done. Tag
ging eliminates the need of remem-
bering jobs which so often ends in
their being forgotten.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Fire Useful to Destroy
Weed and Insect Pests

To destroy weeds at this time is
most effective way to prevent heavy
infestations next year, says Charles
F. Rogers, deputy Colorado state en-
tomologisr for weed control.
Weeds that nave been cut should be
partly dried before they are raked
into piles. Later when they are
burned. care should be taken that no
seeds or stems are left unconsumed.
There is another and less obvious
end to be served in burning weeds in
the fall. Many insects are harbored
over winter in the stems of weeds.
Where weeds are lacking in the late
summer or early fall, insects will not
be plentiful the next season in such
weed-free areas, because they lack
winter quarters and because many of
them will be killed when the plants
are burned.
Weeds in waste places and along
ditch banks are the most common
winter resorts" for insects. The use
Of fire In these places is almost the
only way to control both weed and In
sect pests at once.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
"Shamateurism" Called
Tennis Chief Menace

"Shamateurism' is the greatest
menace in the world to good tennis,
in the opinion of Charles B. Cochran,
who has been managing Suzanne
Lenglen and other professional tennis
stars on tour through England.
Professionalism will do no more
harm to tennis than it has to golf,
cricket, football and baseball said
Cochran. "The all-important thing is
to keep amateurism and professional
ism entirely separate, and not to have
purported amateurs camoufage their
professionalism"
Professional tennis has brought
great tennis within the reach of the
masses, so Cochran says, and since
municipalities have encouraged ten
mis- playing so generally by providing
courts there is universal desire to see
good tennis at a low cost. This was
impossible with strictly amateur
matches.
''At Glasgow crowd of $1,000 sat
through rain to watch Mile. Leng-
len and her associates in professional
tennis" Cochran asserted. "This Is
said to be the largest crowd that ever
attended tennis match"
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Build Up Bee Colonies
Before Winter Weather

The poor honey flow of the past
season will mean weak colonies If
the bees are not properly prepared
for winter weather.
Those young bees that will live
through the winter and make up the
colony next spring are being reared
before the first killing frost, states
c. L. Sans, beekeeping specialist at
the North Carolina State college. The
older bees will die during the cold
weather and will be of little value to
the colony and so anything that inter
feres with brood rearing during Oc-
tober will result in the colony being
in poor condition for winter.
'The successful beekeeper, there
fore, sees to it that each colony has
a good, prolific queen" says Mr..
Sans. "a queen that has been reared
during the past season is preferable.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Bright Green Alfalfa
Hay Is Equal to Meal

In an Ohio pig-feeding experiment,
bright green alfalfa hay fed in rack
proved fully equal to alfalfa meal in
rate and economy of grain. One lot
Of 405-pound pigs was fed corn,> tank
age, salt, limestone, linseed meal, and
alfalfa meal. The pigs gained 1.21
pounds daily, consumed 1851 pounds
Of feed per hundred pounds of gain,
at a cost of S5.s7. The pigs consumed
1876 pounds of alfalfa meal for each
100 pounds gain. Another lot of pigs had
the same feeds except that alfalfa hay
fed in racks was substituted for the
alfalfa meal. These pigs gained 1.32
pounds daily, consumed 1862 pounds
of feed for each 100 pounds gain at
cost of S5.SS per hundred pounds. The
pigs consumed 27.4 pounds of alfalfa
hay for each hundred pounds gain.
The difference in the quantity of al
falfa consumed made only Is pounds
difference in the amount of tankage
and linseed meal consumed.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Agricultural Items
>-s-<>scS.c~c.c-

Good seed is good crop insurance.
Lime and legumes are the best
friends.
A farmer reaps what he sows. Plant
smut with wheat and you will reap
the same.
Lime does the same thing for soil
that sugar does for a cup of coffee.
1t sweetens or corrects the acidity of
the soil.
The character of the people deter
mines more than anything else the
progress of the community.
The farmer who boosts his alfafa
acreage is raising one of the best hay
crops and furnishing his hogs with ex-
cellent pasture.
An investment of ten cents per acre
toward smut prevention this faH may
save many dollars when the wheat is
harvested next year.
A trench silo if your soil is heavy
enough and well dTained, may give
you the means of storing roughage
for winter feeding if hay is scarce.
Why take chance with the "smut
germ" when dose Of copper carbon
ate and smut treating machine will
take the profit knocker out of your
1928 wheat crib?
When sweet clover is cut with
grain binder, considerable seed is lost
by shattering as the clover is elevated
and bound. Such waste may be
avoided by hanging pans below ths
hinder
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Accounted for by Depth to
Which Roots Penetrate
Soil in Building.

Popularity of sweet clover and al
accounted for by the depth to which
their roots penetrate the soil, says 81.
A. Lunt, of the soils and crops depart
ment, college of agriculture, Uniyer-
sity of Illinois.
Measurements made on the Harts-
burg experiment field Of the college
showed that the maximum depth of
roots Of various legumes in the fall
following spring planting were: Com
mon sweet clover "a inches, alfalfa 80
inches, Grundy county sweet clover
o inches, red clover 80 inches, alsike
16 inches, dalea 10 inches, hubam 9
inches and Korean lespedeza s inches"
Two Other Requirements.
Vigorous growth and thorough IN
oculation with the proper bacteria
are two other requirements which,
along with deep root penetration,
must be met by legume that is TO
be used for building up the soil, Lunt
pointed out. Responsibility for the
last point, that of inoculation, rests up
on the farmer himself, rather than
upon the legume. The soils may or
may not be already inoculated. If not,
the farmer must supply the bacteria.
If the nitrogen fixing property of the
legume is to be utilized.
"A legume that makes a vigorous
growth will add more easily decom-
posable material to the soil when it
is plowed under than will a legume
that makes a small growth. The OBJ
ject is to incorporate into the soil as
much material as possible which will
decompose rapidly and leave in the
soil considerable humus containing
plant food elements for future crops.
Building Up Soil.
For instance, a ton of legume hay,
such as clover or alfalfa. when added
10 the soil is far more effective in
building up the nitrogen and organic
matter content of the soil than is an
equal amount of straw or corn stalks.
This is true because: ~ the legume
contains five to six times as much
nitrogen as does straw, and (2) there
is a smaller loss of organic matter
during the decomposition of the le-
gume than there is in the case of straw
or corn stalks.
Deep root penetration is essential
IN order that the potential plant food
in the subsoil may be brought nearer
TO the surface. Furthermore, deep
roots probably are a factor in open
ing up the tighter subsoil, their roots
when decomposed making the soil
more porous and building up the Or
ganic matter content of the SOIL"
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Increased Demand for
Yankee "Hooked Rugs"

The demand for, American hooked
rugs of the better kind not only keeps
up but seems to increase. By Ameri-
can is meant Yankee rugs, not those
which are imported from Canada,
chiefly Nova Scotia, but those which
the patient housewives of New Eng
land hooked century ago or more.
Some of these have real beauty in
their colorings and patterns, and the
years have softened and toned down
any crudities of tint that may have
been originally worked into them so
that they harmonic definitely and un-
obtrusively in a decorative scheme.
There is something most attractive
about a hooked rug, for it symbolizes
the patience and the Conscientious
ness and the effort to bring about
beauty that are part Of the American
heritage of character and used as
part of the decorations of a modern
home they bring into it an element
that is none too plenty in the turmoil
of this life of the Twentieth century.
The Antiquarian.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Blonde or Brunette

A Missouri preacher who has mar
ried more than 1000 couples during
his pulpit career mentions the circum-
stance that the brunette brides take
their union rather more seriously
than the other types The red-headed
girl comes up to the altar with the
best of a sportsman. She wants to
show you what she has captured with
out describing the size of those that
got away. But the pastor says that
among the blondes there are very
many dumb-bells. They do not seem
to know what it is all about and few
of them seem to care. But it must be
understood that this Is a Missouri rec
ord and may not apply so rigidly TO
the brides in other states. Out here
the rumor that blondes are dumb has
never gained much headway.-Los
Times.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Parasite Control in Animals
Almost Complete.
prepared by the United States Department
Of Agricultural

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agriculture0
The system of swine sanitation de-
veloped by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture in Illinois is now
being used successfully in Georgia, ac-
cording to DR.. E. NJ. Nighbert, federal
specialist in swine-parasite investiga-
tions, stationed at Moultrie, Ga. One
live stock owner recently marketed his
second crop of pigs raised under the
svine-sanitation plan. Ten pigs, ap-
proximately six months old and aver
aging close to 200 pounds in weight,
topped the market.
The system of raising the pigs in
wolves methods which control infesta-
ton from parasite worms. Tests
showed that the parasite control in
the pigs marketed was almost COM
plete, which accounts largely for their
healthy condition from time of farrow-
ing to the finishing and marketing
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Pilgrims Go to Palestine

In connection with the war memo
rial unveiling in Jerusalem a large
party of pilgrims is journeying on a
modern pilgrimage to that city. The
war graves and battlefields of Pales-
tine and Egypt are included in the
itinerary, and all places of Biblical
interest around Jerusalem will be
seen. The stop there has been
timed to coincide with the unveiling
of the memorial by Lord Allenby.
The party will visit the pyramids and
Cairo. and later will stop at Rhodes.
Crete, Cyprus, Malta, Naples and
other places of interest.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Taken for Sea Serpent

Bathers at the beach of Toulon,
France, were thrown into a panic
when through the waves came plung
ing what looked like a sea monster
on rampage. Two bathers were in
jured in the scramble to get out of the
way of the beast" which, when il
struck shore, turned out to be big
torpedo that had been launched In
the submarine target practice in the
outer harbor.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Skinless "Hot Dog"

The thornless rose and seedless
orange are joined now by the skinless
shot dog" The frankfurters are in
closed in a synthetic vegetable coy
ering instead of the usual mem
branous skin. The vegetable jacket
is removed after the dogs" take
shape and before they are shipped to
market from the factory.-Popular
Science Monthly.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Sweet Clover Pasture

During recent years in many parts
of Canada and the United States,
sweet clover is being recommended to
solve pasture difficulties. Undoubt-
edly this crop has proven a boon on
many occasions and apparently has
many desirable qualities. There are
some serious drawbacks to it's use,
chief of which is its bitterness.
If stock can be induced to eat it be-
fore il becomes too coarse its abun-
dant growth provides a large carrying
capacity.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
alker Inyincible

Notwithstanding Mickey Walkers
decisive victory over Tommy Milligan,
there are quite host of Britons ready
TO tackle the worlds champion on rea-
sonable terms. Their eagerness is due
TO a remark passed by Charles b.
Cochran that there is not boxer in
Europe capable of defeating Walker.
Cochran's estimate of the situation
while probably true, is rather quite
broad and Walker may run into
snag of some kind.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Major League Star Also
Is Reporter in Winter

5ohnny Neun, Detroit Tiger first
baseman. is baseball player in the
summer and reporter in the winter.
AS soon as he doffs his Tiger uni
form he hurries to his desk on the
Baltimore Sum-, AT odd times he ref
erees and writes about soccer games.
He also is basket ball official
Neun has been in many spectacular
plays this season. He turned in the
only unassisted triple play in the
American league
In seven-inning game he stole FIVE
bases and made five hits, all singles.
During a double-header, with New
York he stole home in each game. the
second time under the eagIe-eyed
Herb Pennock.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Legunne Crops
Are Very Popular

There should also be enough work
er bees to care for four or five combs
of brood. Each colony needs to have
at least 20 pounds of honey so that
brood rearing will not be restricted
for lack of stores and extra room
should be added for the storage OF
nectar in those sections where there
is a fall flow of honey. When these
conditions have been met, the bees
will see TO it that enough young bees
are reared to winter the colonies"
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
SANITARY PIGS TOP SOUTHERN
MARKET BECAUSE OF QUALITY

date. The system of swine santa
ton has also stimulated interest in
pure bred breeding stock. When para
sites are effectively controlled, the su-
periority of well-bred live stock over
Inferior kinds is so apparent that
progressive swine owners quickly i'm
prove their herds.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Helen Jacobs Changes

Helen Jacobs, one of California's
leading tennis players and Berkeley
girl, may enter Stanford university in
January. The reason of the change
from University of California, where
Miss Jacobs was a freshman. is said
to be because Stanford opens in De-
tober and California in August BY
making the change in colleges Miss
Jacobs will be free to play tennis in
September. when many important
Journeys are scheduled to be played
OF.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Kitchen Tyranny

Mrs. A.-Two is company, so they
say.
Mrs. B.-1es, our cook never al
lows us to invite more than that
Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14

picture contracts, and. because her Ia
ther was a butcher. she was honored by
the meat dealer associations throughout
the country.
Then came Mrs. Millie Gade Corson,
who also.swam the channel and collected
for it with vaudeville tours.
George Young, the young Toronto
swimmer, was next, to be chosen by the
fckle Dame Fortune, writes ii. 81. Bar
Gus in the Detroit News. He swan the
Catalina island channel, received big
cash prize and toured the country in
vaudeville.
Now we have Ernst Vierkotter, a
German swimmer, who last year made
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
NerUe

'If my daughter has accepted you,
why come to me?
Il would like to get expert advice
as to the advisability of marrying
her.'-Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14

amateur at the time and did not collect
recently, competing in and winning the
Toronto swim for which he received
prize of $4,000, and in few days ne
had contracts for vaudeville, motion pic
lures, writing books, advertising various
articles, phonograph records and other
things aggregating S145,OOO.
Before be is through, it is likely he
will clean up quarter of million dollars.
Vierkotter K twenty-seven years old,
stands feet 111a inches in height and
weighed 1S2 pounds when he entered
the Toronto swim. He lost 12A pounds
in the race.
The new swimming champion, the
oDIx, ono RI u-in tyU0 International races
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14

Out of 1000 working boys to whom
health tests were given in New York
city, only 225 were pronounced phys
ically normal.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Make Big Money in Swimming

would Fortune face to face wear swimming
she the English channel
with theatrical and motion
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.|3!sll4C|!d2

E3ll1iG4CIQY
Carl Mays is one of the best hitting
pitchers in the majors.
Jess Barnes, former National league
star, has been signed by Toledo.
Ty Cobb's legs may be slowing up,
but his tongue functions as nimbly
as ever.
Great Britain now has over 1000
professional footballers, and 10000
amateur players.
Tom Edwards, a football star at
Michigan, is also member OF the
Detroit police department.
Harry Heilmann Of the Detroit
Tigers won the American league bat
ting championship in 1921, '23 and 20.
A golf course recently constructed
near Mountain Iron, Mimi, has been
named the Mid-Iron public golf links.
Ed Brandt, pitcher of the Seattle
club of the Pacific Coast league, has
been purchased by the Boston Braves
for $4,000.
The Kansas City Blues of the Amer
ican association will more than prob
ably" return to Lake Charles for the
1928 spring training season.
Midnight baseball is enjoyed by sol
diers in Alaska, where night is day
under tie Arctic circ,e.
Pat Malone, Minneapolis pitcher,
has twice equaled the American as
sociation record for consecutive
strikeouts this season by tanning six
batters in a row.
Pitchers "Chad" Kimsey and Nor
ris Young and Catcher Joe Mays of
the Muskogee (Okla.) Western asso-
citation club, have been sold to Tulsa,
champions of the Western league.
Football earnings are expected to
pay the cost of University of Michi-
gan's new stadium, as well as the
S5O0OOO intramural sports building
and the 100000 women's feldhouse.
Alfred Shrubb, England's great rum
ner and college coach, recently retired.
He trained Oxford last season and
previous to that was in charge of
Harvard's squad. His career covered
80 years.
Joe Marty, the pitcher sold to the
New York Yankees by the Lincoln
club of the Wes,ern league, plays un-
der an assumed name. His real name
is Joseph Marticornea, and he is of
Italian extraction.
Lieut.. Col Edward D. Miller, who
served for many years with the Brit
ish army in India, is known as 1.-The
Father of Polo" Since leaving the
army he has devoted his time to the
training of polo ponies.
One of the old track marks that has
defied the efforts of modern runners
is Maxey Longs AZ seconds fiat for
the straightaway quarter-mile dash,
made Oh the old racetrack at Gutten-
burg, n. j., q years ago.
Tiger Flowers and his manager.
Walk Miller, estimate that they have
Travelled over 100000 miles through
out the United States, Mexico, Cuba
and Canada in order to appear in bouts
arranged for the former.
Gretchen Allen, a seventeen-year-old
swimming star of Florida, has -
medals and ~ ribbons for finishing
first place in various water compe-
titions. Numerous second and third
prize trophies grace her collection.
Vic Hanson, former All-American
and eX-three sport captain, has re-
turned TO SyracIse university as an
assistant to Head Coach Lew Andreas.
Two golfers. Blanche Warden and
E. NJ. Hesley. scored holes in one on
the 1S5-yard sixth hole at the La
fayette club. minneapolis, recently.
Bruno Bethel. manager of the In
dianapolis American association base
bait team, will continue in that ca
pacity in 1928 it is announced by
James A Perry. new owner.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14
Educating Prisoners

Criminals in Turkish prisons are to
be taught to read and write, and none
will be released till he knows his al
phabet.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14

Oranges recently were sold at Liver
pool at twelve for a penny, owing to
the arrival of an-unprecedented sup
ply from Spain.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14

People will promise a great deal
10 get rid of an annoying person.
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14

You can stand listening to a man
rave If it does not excite you.
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Nothing seems to please a woman
more than to be able to say to
man: ST told YOU so."
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Diamond Dyes
Just Dip to TINT, or BoiItoD DYE
The Cure

Wife-My husbands ears bother
him terribly.
Doctor-Send him to the seashore.
II he can't go-you go!
The Ely miner., 1927-10-14

There is neither jealousy nor self
ishness back of a friendship that Is
worth while.
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His right punched out when he
a b. a in the hands of his young sister,
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swim in II hours and AZ minutes He was
did collect the He turned