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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25
Tax Rate of Washington and
High Property Assessments

FISCAL relationships of the District and Federal Govern
ments will again be an important question at TINS winner
session of Congress and will continue to agtate tna O
and the people Of Washington until fairly settled.
Just settlement is extremely important to the future OF tn
city the voteless citizens whose CHIEF outleS are " ~
sufficient keep this Federal reservation an
spot for visitors this country and all other countries
The issue in Congress especially in the House the attitude
of which toward the District has been distinctly unfair M
five or six years mainly based the tax rate palo
Washington citizens The House claim that the rate 10
below that of most American cities and that until the raSe
reaches basis somewhat equal to that OF other cltles
increase its proportion OF funds to help MAINTAIN ~
city. 80. ,..;. rnrross is
now contributing less than onefifth OF the money
operate this Federal city year Unless the House coe
controlling this question changes Its mlno Inc
Governments part Will grow less Wnlie Gn@V VI ""Se
citizens will increase. .l4;o,,,
The fight in Congress nothing less than one to
local taxpayers FOR the heavy revenues essenId 70 0e
maintenance of Washington
reports are that the efficiency Bureau completing
survey for Congress which will reveal that the tax rate OF
Washington is already higher than the majority OF American
This has Iong been the contention of representatives OF
Washington people Inc official. e
xpes of the Efficiency Bureau acting for subcommittee
Of the House District Committee have visited many
cities this sr,er studied rates and Ine
carefully prepared figures will be available Congress Ine
will not offer opinions but will let the facts and figures speak
for themselves.
Washington practically stands alone among american CUES
in honestly assessing real estate and other properties AZ
approximately their full valuations In many other cities the
basis is as low % per cent of values Naturally
the tax rates in cities must be higher than that OF
Wash;ng+on On the same basis of assessments mere,
washington taxpayers could afford to pay almost twice Inc
tax rate they now pay and then save money -
Assessments are only low in many cities Dut poncay
favored property escape with mucn DeW
the fixed rate Of g. 80 so per cent Of valuations one
nol;tica boss in Chicago property valued at
It assessed at tre than $1oOOoOO That grat
such as we do not have here.
ro,ess nows that this condition does prevail elsewhere
and that big property connected with political
escape their just obligations resulting IN hgn tax rates
There has never been charge Of favoritism properly
assessments in Washington On the contrary there are
complaints that properties assessed at far more
than they viii bring at private SALE
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25
LISTEN, WORLD!
Manicures for MuddIed Minds
By Elsie Robinson

Adam in q cave, women have put
life in order and made it Deauti-
full
Adam found the cave, but Eve
turned 1t into a home.
Adam dragged home the bloody
deerskin, but Eve cured 1t and
decorated it with quilts and beads.
Bringing beauty out of brutality
that was woman's big job. And
her pride in her personal appear
ance was tied up with her big job.
Women wear beauty as a plant
wears flowers--and for exactly the
same reason--as a lure that life
may be carried on. And for that
reason women put beauty into
their homes--that life might be
carried on with greater fineness
and pride.
Men hunted food for the body
Women hunted food for the soul.
And when a woman ceases to
care for beauty you may be very
sure that she is sick in the very
foundations of her life.
Women should delight lin lovely,
shining hair. soft, fragrant skin,
dainty clothes. They should be
proud of these things. and from
their pride in their own beauty
they should build more beauty
around them.
Much of our married misery and
melancholy would be lifted If
every woman could have a pretty
new dress at least once month
and go to a beauty parlor at least
once in two weeks.
And the moral OF this is: Get
your wife that new fall outfit,
Jim. 1t will pay big dividends.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25

They're curing insanity with lip
sticks and marcelS.
No, I'm not joking. Beauty par
lors have been installed in many
American insane aSylums and
tangled minds are Strengthening
under the operators skilled fingers.
Wonderful what touch of
rouge and a dash of brilliantine
will do for a scrambled spirit!
And why not? What's sanity?
The attitude of a seIf-respecting
mind that has lifted itself above
savagery ard is eager to play the
game with its kind.
What's insanity? The fear and
fury and indifference of mind
which has lost its bearings and is
no longer able to play the game.
Restore pride ar d eagerhess to
a sick mind and you're well on
way to cure.
Lipsticks and marcels restore
pride and cagerness to a womanis
sick mind. Pride in herself-eag-
erness to do something with her
self.
Clean up the ugliness and I'm.
tidiness of a woman's body and
you'll go long way toward clean
ing up her soul.
And that goes for more than in
sane women
It goes for every daughter of
Eve.
Women need beauty.
This Is not mere vanity. 1t Is
fundamental law of feminine
character.
Women need beauty because
they must build beauty.
Since Eve first plated roser in
her hair and made a home for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DIR. Brice BeIden-

You may not be worried about
yourself or some member of your
family, especially one of the chill
dren, when conditions would
really warrant concern on your
part. There is nothing more dan
gerous than false sense of sc.
curity unless it might be a state
of chronic alarm over trivial
things. / am prompted to make
these observations in view of the
failure properly to appreciate the
early indications Of tuberculosis
by a majority of those who be-
come its victims.
1t is not easy to know when
to suspect tuberculosis so that,
without undue nervousness, you
may yet realize at very early
stage that something is wrong
and take the disease in time.
The normal condition of the hui
man body is one of health. Any
deviation from this standard, no
matter how slight, should be in
vestigated. When you get coughs,
colds and other minor ailments,
the chief reason why you are sick
is that you have not played the
game squareIy and have broken
some of the rules of right living
that is to say, violated some OF
the natural laws. II people would
only. realize this, this great fun
damental fact, there would be less
tuberculosis. The smallest part
of medical treatment is the Civ.
ing of drugs and the writing OF
prescriptions. In spite of this
fact people continue to expect
this of their doctor as his princi'
pal service. They even sometimes.
resent any attempt to teach them
the ways of right living, espe->
cially when he reproves them for
having broken the fundamental
laws.
An important agency in teaching
about tuberculosis is the tubercu-
losis association. Another is the
patient who has been discharged
from a preventorium or sana-
forum, bringing with him his
newly-learned lore of how to live
healthy sanitary life and how to
carry on at home the rules of
health and hygiene that have been
taught him in the institution.
State and local boards of health
and education have a splendid OPP
portunity that is far too often
neglected. The natural laws Of
right living should be taught in
those grades of public schools in
which the subjects of physiology
and hygiene are taught.
Patients constantly consult doc
tors for a cough that has lasted a
few weeks or because they have
spat up some blood. 1t is not that
these are unimportant symptoms,
but that they follow others that
should have been more stressed
and recognized earlier. The great
majority OF persons would say that
the important early signs for the
recognition of tuberculosis are
cough, sputum, blood-spitting, pain
in the chest, etc. But this is a
misstatement.
Most patients admit that before
any of these things appeared, they
had been feeling utterly exhausted
at the end of the days work, that
everything had become an effort
TO them and that they had been
losing weight and strength for
months. If they had only con.
suited a physician earlier, i. e.,
when these symptoms first ap-
peared, many lives might have
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

TT seems strange, indeed, 20 en-
l. ter the Garden of Allah by
train. A shrek of the locomotive
whistle announces the pass of Ell
Kantara-the narrow opening in
the great rocky barrier of the
Atlas Mountains that border the
broad Sahara. Then a burst of
binding sunlight and one is in the
desert.
Putting over the golden sea of
sand. the train pierces a spot of
green, topped with tall palm trees.
1t is the oasis Of Biskra, the Gar
den of Allah. This marks the
terminus of the railroad. From
here, one must travel east b.
camel.
On streets canopied by palm
trees and lined with sun-drieG
brick walls, swarthy-skinned tur-
baned Arabs in long white gowns
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

lie who believes no thing, who
believes only the shows Of things,
is not in relation with nature and
fact at all. Carlyle.
Vanity is as i'll at ease under
Indifference as tenderness is under
2. love which it cannot return.
Eliot.
There are some defeats more
triumphant than Victories.-Mon.
taigne.
Assuredly, fortune rules all
things; she raises to eminence or
buries in oblivion everything from
caprice rather than from well.
: regulated priueiplAr z. -tSallusts - :.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25

Some men go to pieces and
die before they have ever really
LIVED, because they won't stop
working and piling up the dol
lars. Others go TO pieces and
pop off before their time, be.
cause they won't stop playing,
and give their tired old heart
valves a rest.
There is time to RETIRE"
from everything. And the best
time is at the height of your
fame. your success, your charm
or your glory. When you've got
EMQQGHl ,-..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Fill each blank:
Spain caused by the cruel treat
of the by the
g. mugwump IN independent in
3. Perjury is false
The the Aeghenes Kentucky was led NV
in 1859 ~
book published after death author is called
- book. ~
Do know
6. Where does come
What play of Ibsen's sponsors independence?
8. What is meant by "Peter's Pence?
, 9. What makes burning
10. What is a pattude?
Match correctly
II. Edwin Abbey Believed in notification
IL. Antonio Canoya Explored Greenland
Painted panels in Bosto Public
13. Leopold Damrosch Library
IA. William Baffin Modelled lion
10. John c. Calhoun Conducted the Metropolitan Opera
IAnsWers on Magazine PAge\s
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25

Music hath charms to soothe d
savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend knotted
oak.
I've read that things inanimate
have moved,
And, as with living souls, have
been inform'd
BY magic numbers and persuasive
sound. -Congreve.
All authority must be out of a
mans self, turned, either Lprn an
art, or upon a man. Beacon.
No man can be brave who
thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate. who considers pleasure
the highagt Cicero -. i - .
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25

silently steal by, leading softly
treading camels. Black-eyed women
pass, wearing huge earrings, their
bare brown ankles encased in
ieweled circlets, while merchants
iazily sip coffee in front of tiny
shops.
At one end of the town one
NAV find a small door in a high
white wall. 1t is the portal tc
the rear Garden Of Allah. Inside,
the air Is freshened by thick
tropical foliage-thousands OF
flowers are in bloom. Through a
lane of trees the facade Of a
white building is visible, while,
at the far end of a winding walk.
one leaves the cool shelter of the
park with it's myriad dells and
flowing fountains to find the
desert spread before him, the
waves OF burning sand reaching
as far as the eye can see.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
Time to Retire

Time to Retire
The thing that / admire most
about Gene Tunney and Calvin
Coolidge is that they know when
they've got ENOUGH. They know
when it's time to retire!
That is something that few men
and almost no women appear to
know. Yet it's the whole secret Of
HAPPINESS!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-25

Most of a mans headaches come
from never knowing when he's got
enough to eat or enough to drink.
And most of his heartaches come
from never knowing when he's
got enough money, enough pub
licity, enough work. enough pay
and above all enough WOMEN
in his life!
Most women never know when
they've got enough hats; some
never know when they've got
enough shoes and lots never
know when they've got enough
husbandsi
And no woman on earth ever got
enough love, enough attention or
enough admiration. There lSNI
that much in all the world!
You can feed a woman flattery
from breakfast time until mia.
highland the next morning youH
have to begin telling her the same
sweet things all over again, or be
accused Of 'negiecting" her.
Many a mans love has been
strangled to death by wo-
mans persistence in hanging
around his neck, and signing Tor
more love" or more petting or
"just anuzzer litty kiss" A KISS
and Il political office can last
just a little bit too long-and
thereby turn q President or
woman from an idol into
pest.
A woman never knows when to
STOP. When to stop talking
when to stop arguing, when to
stop coaxing--or when to stop
saying good-by! She will vow
never to speak to a man-and
then call him up, next morning.
just to vow the same thing
all over again.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26
Fox Announces
Control of West
Coast Theaters
BY United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-William
Fox, who started in the motion pie
ture industry % years ago with a
tiny lantern slide house in Brook
lyn, has bought 800 theaters in a
single deal
The announcement that Fox, who
is president of the Fox Film Corpor-
alton, has acquired control of Wes-
90 Company, a holding corporation
for 250 theaters in the West Coast
theater chain and 80 in the same
circuit in Wiseons,,n. establishing
Inn as one of the leading theatrical
magnateS.
Although he declined to reveal
what he paid for the theaters, Fox
said it would take $100,000,000 "to
reconstruct them
BY the purchase of the new thea.
ter properties Fox IS theater chain
has increased from 40 houses to
$40 and he already has started on
building program for the erection
of % new ones which will cost $780,
100000.
The combined seating capacity of
the recently purchased theaters is
$4,000 and the box office receipts
are estimated to total $35,000,000 q
year.
The Wesco chain is in Oregon,
Washington, California, Montana,
and Nevada.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26
WHICH DO YOU WANT?

Hickmans or Lindberghs-which do you choose?
That is the question the Imperial County Council
of Boy Scouts puts up to the businessmen of Ell Centro
tomorrow. There can be only one answer.
The council asks for $4,000 from this city to carry
the Boy Scout work for this year. 1t is small
contribution when considers the work that being
done among Imperial Valley boys.
To the businessman who has no boys of Scout age,
and who perhaps is not closely in touch with the work
the Boy Scouts doing, say ask any police court
official juvenile officer, school-teacher clergyman,
employer or anyone else coming in contact with grow
ing boys if the Boy Scout movement is worth while.
There also be but answer to this question.
The businessman need only go back to his own boy
hood and think how much it would have helped him if
there organization like the Boy Scouts in
existence, to show him the right path and teach him
how to live his life usefuly and still miss any of
the fun that is boys right.
The Boy Scout is taught many things and there
is beautiful and manly Scout creed, but it all be
summed up in two words-"Be Clean"-clean mental
gram will develop strong, sturdy healthy men, Leav
ing the boy to his turns out the other
kind of boy, who fills Juvenile courts and reforma
tories and makes US ask ourselves How do young fell
lows get like that?"
According to prison statistics, s3 per cent of the
inmates at San Quentin under "a years of age at
Folsom (meaning second and third termers) 55 per
cent under 80 years of The businessman must
support these fellows Isn't it cheaper to contribute
little to teach boys that the straight and narrow
is the only path?
The argument that the boy get all the train
ing he needs in his home if parents do their duty does
not hold water. Boys away from home great
deal. Much mischief be learned in a few minutes;
much harm which it may take years to throw Off
Visit any troop of Boy Scouts; notice the manly,
confident way which they will talk you their self
confidence devoid of the freshness that makes
feel like spanking youngster; let them tell you
of the things they do and learn about in Scouting
things you dreamed of when you kid.
Tomorrow Of your fellow-businessmen will
call upon you for donation to aid the Boy Scout
work. They are busy men, taking valuable time from
their affairs to help boys-boys such you and they
once Have your donation ready for them
that you will not waste their time your Don't
make it necessary for them to hagge with you try
to convince you.
We all know that times little tight, but give
what you can. Tell the fellows who call you,
Here's mine; was kid and have kids of my
own now and | want to help. [ wish it more but
it's the best do and I'm glad to be able to do it,
It's up to all of us-Lndberghs Hickmans for
the boys will take places in Imperial Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26
Defendant Wins
Suit Over Crop

The case of Georgia May Singh
against A. Takahash was heard b.
Judge Larew in superior court, de-
partment one, yesterday with the
court returning verdict in favor
cf the defendant and cross complain
ant.
In the original complaint the
plaintiff charges the defendant with
having unlawfully cut lettuce ON
some of her property and sought
damages in the sum Of $3,200. The
defendant in a cross complaint
charges that he had contract with
the plaintiff for cutting and sell
ing the lettuce and held that the
plaintiff was indebted to him as 4
result of the transaction.
The court in rendering its verdict
awarded the defendant and cross
complainant Judgment in the sum
of Sll4.69 and cost of the case.
Kendall B. Perkins appeared for the
plaintiff and Fred Trude for the de-
fcndant.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26

That is what comes of being proud
and tall.
But if Uncle Wiggily noticed the
high weed. so did the Wind. The
Wintery Wind was blowing across
the fields of snow, whistling through
its teeth and making everything
twice as cold as before.
Il alone, of all the weeds, am
left to stand up here said the
Tall weed to itself. ~ am higher
than the snow, l am very beautiful.
| shall stay hire forever to be high
and proud. "
AS Uncle Wiggily hoped closer,
thinking to find beneath the snow
at the foot of the Tall Weed, some
sort of adventure, the Wintry Wind
blew harder. And the cold breeze,
hearing what the Weed said, whist
led angrily and howled:
$50 this Weed thinks it will stay
here forever; does it9 Ha! Not if
have anything to say! With that
the Wind blew harder and, all Of
a sudden, the Tall Weed was broken
off close to where it came through
the snow. Over on the white drift
it fell with its feathery plumes.
"Oh. alas! This is the end of
mel sighed the Tall Weed.
THAT is what comes of being
proud!' whispered the sleeping
brown, low weeds under the snow.
'That is what comes of being toe
high and proud. =
And the wind laughed as it top
Piled the high weed over, breaking
its slender stem.
Alas, Alas! This is the end of
me.' sighed the Tall Weed.
Uncle Wiggilv reached over and
picked up the Weed by its slender
stem, for now it was broken loose
from its root.
"Why,' said the rabbit gentle
man with a twinkling of his pink
nose, this weed will make a fine
feather duSter for Nurse Jane.
will take it home with me- He was
about to hop away with the broken
Tall Weed, when, all of a sudden,
there was a growing noise under
the snow. Uncle Wiggily started to
hop away, but the growing sounded
louder. And what happened next you
shall hear in the story tomorrow
night. If the tongue in the lace
shoe doesn't stick itself out at the
rubber boot, l am going to tell you
about Uncle Wiggily and the bear s
tickler.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26
Boy Scouts Hear
Excellent Talk

Boy Scouts of Troop met at the
Flks hall last night and heard as
the main talk of the evening an in
teresting address by b. Vaudeville
Jr., deputy scout commissioner who
is here from Los Angeles. Scout
work in general, the Importance of
carrying out work in accordance with
the directions of the scoutmasters,
aud other subjects of interest to
scouts were discussed by the com
missioner.
Ralph Reynolds seoutmaster of
Troop II and chairman of the court
of honor gave a talk on the Court
which was enthusiastically received
by the boys. 1t was planned that
Troop is to put on the program at
the next Court of Honor meeting,
which is scheduled for Tuesday Of
next week.
Thirty six scouts, W. Il. Grant,
scoutmaster, Clarence Axtcll, assist
ant scoutmaster, and eight visitors
were present.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26

The cross-complaint was filed by the
defendants ". +. and Beulah Abra-
ham, naming the defendants, Nom
yer. as cross defendants.
The suit pertains to a contract
for the purchase of some property in
tie Rio Vista subdivision at Braw-
lev. The cross-complainants charge
the cross-defendants with misrepres-
entatior in that the tract of land
under dispute does not contain the
stipulated number of acres declared
by the oss-defendants. The cross
defendants deny the allegations.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-26

little weeds. Please don t speak to
me-
So the little low weeds left the
tall weed alone, since 1t was 50
proud. That was in summer. When
the weather grew colder the low
weeds began to shrivel and turn
brown, getting ready for their WIN
ter's sleep. The tall weed also turn
eG brown, but it did not shrlvel
down, and in place of the green
streamers on top there appeared
feathery bunch of plumes which
would have tickled anyone brush
ing against them.
"Now that winter is here, said
the Burdock to the Dandelion may
be the Tail Weed will flop down
with us to keep warm under the
snow.'
"Maybe," E" said the Dandelion,
shivering in the cold blast.
But when the snow came, though
it covered the low weeds warmly
under its white blanket, the drift
was not deep enough to hid the Tall
Weed. Straight and stiff the tall
weed stuck up above the snow.
This is what comes of being
proud, said the Tall Weed to IT.
self. u am sure | must look beauti-
ful rearing my head of tickling
plumes above the snow. Not every
Cne is as high and proud as | am! >
So when Uncle Wiggily hoped
out of his hollow stump bungalow to
look for an adventure, which he did
every day, the rabbit saw the Tall
Weed above the snow.
"It stands up there like sign
post said Uncle Wiggily to him
self. "'Perhaps il marks the place
where there is an adventure under
the snow. / will hop over and look.
The Tall Weed saw the rabbit
gentleman coming and was more
proud than ever. Swaying in the
wind the Weed said:
"'Ah, / am attracting attention.
That rabbit is coming to admire me.