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down Latin American exports to this
country, and as consequence, with
diminishing also their purchase of
United States manufactured goods. The
protectionists attribute this decrease in
inter-American trade to the general
business depression which is being felt
throughout the world. They contend
that not the tariff, but universally bad
economic conditions are responsible for
lower figures in foreign trade.
1t is hard, until we have seen later
developments, to find out who is on the
right track. Possibly both are. Eco
nomic depression and high tariffs, COM
bined, must have produced the present
situation. In the meantime, and until
we find out who is wrong and who is
not, the fact remains that import and
the Latin republics has dropped several
millions of dollars in the last semester.
Statistics reveal that while in the
first five months of 1929 South America
bought from the United States goods
to the amount of $238,314,915 in the
same period of 1880 she had made
purchases in this country to the value
of only $157, 444 1903. Exports to Central
America also, fell from $36,593, 078 in
the first five months of 1929 to $31 $685.
637 in the first five months of the
from South America suffered loss of
nearly 100000 in the same period of
time and imports from Central America
one of $4,000,000.
This is not good news for American
interests on the other side of the Rio
Grande.
Mexican Disarmament.
Thirty-five Mexican policemen en-
tered the legislative palace 1.-The CAPT.
toll of Chihuahua the other day and
disarmed all members of Congress and
a good number of people in the gall
leries who carried latest-style guns on
their hips.
In Mexico to enter politics and to buy
six-barreled gun seemingly are almost
inseparable acts. All government OFF,
Gals, members of Congress and politi-
cal leaders are well protected against
possible unpleasant surprises and at
tacks. Hence it is that Mexican cleo
tions have a distinctly "Chicagoese"
favor. Only last week two casualties
were reported in a sanguinary incident
following the congressional elections in
Chihuahua.
To avoid the repetition of similar dis
plays of passion the Mexican authori-
ties are turning now to what seems to
them a very right solution, the confisca-
ton of all arms and means of COM
bat" even If members of Congress have
to be the first to surrender their guns.
I doubt If domestic disarmament bias
many possibilities of success. Mexican
elections without bullets apparently
would be almost as strange as American
elections without ballots.
(Copyright, 1sso.)
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Grand Old Explorer
Ready to Join Byrd

Marius Reonne, grand old man
among explorers, returned to his ma
tive town, Horton, recently after having
accompanied Comdr. Byrd to the An
tarctic. He is now SO years old but
still in the best of health.
He has enlisted for a new polar ex-
petition If Byrd goes southwark again.
He is enthusiastic about his exreri-
ences in Little America. secluded Ant
arctic spot familiar to him as result OF
his other visit when he accompanied
Can't. ROAD Amundsen to the South
Pole in 1912. Among his other expedi-
lions are those with Amundsen on the
FRAN, on the Gjoea, as well as the first
expedition to the North Pole by air
plane.
Mr.. Roenne brought home with him
a rare mineral from the Antarctic which
he hoped to present to the late Prof.
Nansen, but he landed just few days
after Nansen's funeral. He also brings
with him a Norwegian silk flag which
Bernt Balchen had in his plane when
he few over the SAuth Pole. and which
he Is to present q Prince Olav as O
token from Mr.. E&1chen-
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PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions to the Public Lii
brary and lists of recommended read
ing will appear in this column every
Sunday.
In the Sociology Room.
Bogue, IF. Administration of Moth
ers' Aid in 10 Localities. 1928.
Bowen, Ezra. Social Economy. He
Diemer, q. w., and Mullen, B. v. Pu-
pill Citizenship. IKF-D56.
Elliott, H. S. The Process OF Group
Thinking. Hell sap.
Giddings, F. H. The Mighty Medicine.
IK-G36m.
Keene, G. H. The Physical Welfare Of
the School Child. IRP-K25p.
King, w. l., and Huntley, K. E. Trends
in Philanthropy. IG83-K6l t
Schweickhard, d. M. Industrial Arts
in Education. IKT-Sch93.
Wood, c. w. The Passing Of Nor
malcy. I-WS55p.
History.
Dibelius, Wilhelm. England. F45-
Dumas. A. d. On Board the Emma
Adventures with 0aribaldis Thou
sand" in Sicily. w6s7-D89.E.
Gibbons. H. A. Wt@8 Horizons. JU-
Kaufman, Alfred. Modern Europe.
F30K l64m.
Young, A. M. Japan in Recent Times,
1925. F6T-Ys.
Nutrition.
Blunt, Katherine, and Cowan, Ruth
Ultraviolet Light and Vitamin D in
Nutritica. QD-B628u.
Eddy. w. X. Nutrition. Ru-Ed29n,
Roberts, l. j. Nutrition Work with
Children. QPB-R54n.
Education.
Alexander, Thomas, and Parker, Beryl
The New Education in the German
Republic. IK47-A1 %.
Drobka, F. j. Education in Poland.
1927. IK55-D83.
Garrett, j. H. Mass Education in Eng
land. 1928. IK45-G l9m.
Murray, A. v. The School in the Bush.
IK70-NI96.
Prosser, G. A., and Allen, G. r. Have
We Kept the Faith? America at
the Crossroads in Education
IK83-P94.
Dressmaking.
Dooley, w. H. Clothing and style.
TTC-D72S.
Hall. M l.. Fashion Drawing and
Dress Design. ITCH 1857,
Hyde, B. e. The Sewing Book. IT.
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took one last gulp and handed
over the glass with a smile.
A few hours previously we
had sat in one of the English
law courts. A young man had
been arrested only two weeks
before, charged with the helm
Gus crime of numbering his
mother. In the space of a few
days he was brought to trial.
The jury was chosen in a cou-
pie of hours, the case was
heard fully, including the tes-
'timony of medical experts, the
verdict was found, and the
murderer was sentenced.
In our country the crime
would have been a newspaper
sensation for months, while
1oanl
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the trial dragged its dreary
way through the maze of legal
obstruction.
We are ahead of the English
in many ways. We do business
more quickly, with more flex-
Utility, and more steam. But
when it comes to respect for
the law they have us dashed to
the mast. We pass thousands
of laws and disregard them.
The English pass fewer, but
they certainly respect and en-
force them. If you kill your
mother over there you're hung,
and promptly.
And when the bar closes
even the King can't get a
drink.
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Imports and exports from and to
Latin America have declined In the last
six months, according to official reports
from the Department Of Commerce Of
the United States. After a period Of
several years of constant increase, the
trade figures with the Latin American
republics have begun to 60 down.
The enemies Of protectionist tariffs
blame such decline on the recently in
creased irnNBrt duties passed by the
United Stats Congress. They charge
these excessive high tariffs with cutting
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again and asked each diner to
finish his drink because the
glasses must be removed.
A gay party had arrived only
little while before, headed by
a younger son of his majesty,
King George. I watched with
interest to see What would
happen when the waiter visited
that table. Would a prince of
the blood be asked to give up
his glass like any common
man? Or would a polite eva
sion occur in the case of one
so exalted?
My question was quickly an
swered. The waiter did, indeed,
60 to the princes table last.
But when he arrived, the prince
(CopyriR
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TN London we visited a fash
L ionable restaurant called
the Embassy Club.
1t is a place where the hoity-
toity dance, and my wife and l
had the pleasure OF feasting
our middle class eyes on a
large collection of young lords
and ladies, with sprinkling
of multi-millionaires and even
a couple of dukes.
A little after midnight a
waiter stepped up to each ia
BILE, according to the law and
custom in England, and re-
minded the diners politely that
the bar was about to close. A
few minutes later he came
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rants of London and Paris for the not
unpicturesQue life of king in the
royal palace at Athens.
He is q most Anglicized member of
royalty in looks and tastes. He had q
spell of training as youth In the Brit
iSh navy, and English imperialistS would
not be sorry to see him restored. But
Italy. to curb whose aspirations in Asia
Minor Lloyd George and the late Mar
uuis Curzon urged Greece into her dis
astrous war, financed by Greek-born
French domiciled munitions magnate
possessed of an English knighthood-
Italy, which hates the idea of an An
CLICKED Greek naval baStion to the east
of her, interfering with her freedom of
view and action in the eastern Mediter-
ranean, would be extremely annoyed.
Hence, as useual, a whole web of in
trigue and counter intrigue, influence
and counter influence, at the back of
this pleasant young ex-King who now
saunters around the Fairgrounds of
England and France with his Ru-
manian wife.
A few days after Carols advent in
Rumania, dark and romantic-look-
ing young man was observed In the
royal box at Ascot. 1t was Prince Da-
milo of Montenegro, whose wife claims
both King George v and Queen Mary
as her cousins. When he was last in
London, in 1918, he came with all the
pomp and honor of the heir to the
Montenegrin throne-young, romantic
and acclaimed. Now he has no throne;
his kingdom vanished in the postwar
Balkan merger operations. In London
he stayed in a hotel like any common
er, only derby-hatted detective on duty
outside the double doors of his suite in
dicating that the authorities consid-
cred him person of importance.
But Danilo Is romantic person
still a crown prince of that part of
Europe where such fantasies as the
Carol coup can occur. A few months
ago an action of some years standing
wasi decided In his favor, granting him
$4O,D0O damages against an American
aim company for their version Of THE
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To Discuss Roosevelt Doctrine.

Besides the round-table conferences
there will be an evening lecture on the
Nicaragua Canal project by DR.. Charles
G. Batchelder, and on Monday, August
II, the open-forun discussion on the
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NAP0LE0NIC MUSEUM
is OPENED IN ROME
Empire Relics Bequeathed to Gov
eminent by Count Giuseppe
Primoli.

ROME P).-A new Napoleonic mu-
scum has been opened here. 1t was be-
queathed by Count Giuseppe Primoli to
the government and contains two
rooms of the First Empire, one room of
the Second Empire and a room contain
ing clothing worn by Napoleon.
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GERMAN TAXP[AN
STRONGLY OPPOSED
Finance Minister Dietrich to
Have Final Tug of War on
Policy Soon.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 12.-Germany's finan-
cial program as set forth by DR.. Her
mann Dietrich, minister of finance, to-
day encountered rough going in the
Reichstag's Taxation Committee.
After solitary clause assessing civil
employees new rate Of income tax
had been passed on Thursday, the rest
OF the program including the proposed
taxes on bachelors and bachelor girls
met such opposition that DR.. Dietrich
this afternoon declared it useless to pro-
coed with second reading in COM
mittee
The final tug Of war still Is to come
in the Reichstag where, In view of Min
lister Dietrich's determination to force
his program through, it still Is possible
that bare majority may be found to
avoid dissolution and new elections.
The revised financial program, which
had the backing of Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening and provided tax of about
$25, 000,0 900 on bachelors and spinsters,
was put forward on June 2&
The remainder Of the government
deficit was to be made up by cutting off
00,000,000 marks of expenditures.
Laying special tax on government en-
ployeeS and another on all persons
whose incomes run above 5000 marks
year.
Should the finance minister prove
unable to carry out his refinancing plan
ne would In all probability share the
fate OF Minister Moldenhauer, whom he
succeeded recently. T'oday's events gave
DR.. Dietrich his first intimation that
serious opposition would confront anv
portion of his program.
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BY Thomas Community Center, Mac
farland Community Center and the
Elks Boys Band.
The Girls Club, next Friday evening,
will repeat by special request the comic
operetta 1.-THE Shepherd" based on
one Of Aesop's Fables, 1.-THE Wolves Are
Coming" which was a feature of the
Spring festival of 1880. Thirty-five
girls will take part in the skit, which
was written by Mathilde Bilbers and
produced under supervision of Mrs.
Neigh.
The Boys Club will offer its NINA
ture minstrel show, in which IS boys
take part, and the junior boys will
present THE Forge Song" as q special
new feature OF the evenings program.
Dancers to Entertain.
On Wednesday evening, July %, a
program will be given by the Tcherni-
koff- Gardiner Dancers, directed by Miss
Lisa Gardiner, in conjunction with the
United States Army Band.
The program on Friday evening,
August /, will be presented by the
Girl Reserves of Washington, directed
by Miss Mabel Cook of the Young
Women's Christian Association. offering
an outdoor fantasy, Moon Shadows"
Friday evening, August s, the Boy
Scouts of Washington will give a
typical Scout demonstration of the out
of-doors program.
Other well known Washington groups
will give the remaining August pro-
grams, with musical pantomime
version of an Arabian Nights tale as
a possible closing feature of the Sum-
mer season at the Sylvan Theater.
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Department involving In excess Of
$4,000. In 1929, 1t approved 622 In
come and excess profits and l62 estate
tax cases.
Although the total over-assessments
reached but $50, 7s5,922 in 1929, inter-
est amounting to $12,Ss6,9e5 was al
lowed. OF the over-assessments, $685.
203,52l was paid within 80 days after
the approval Of the claims by the joint
committee. The sum Of 1893. 1875 was
credited to taxpayers owing the Gov
eminent for subsequent taxes, and
attachments amounted to $8,613,275.
During 1929 the refund rate averaged
$6,306,074 a month, while during the
preceding Seven-month period it was
15,224,27 monthly. The report said
that of all the over-assessments In 1929,
$44,479,583, or II per cent, were at
tributable to the excess profit tax years
up to and including 1921, leaving a
balance of $18,306,339 In over-assess-
ments in subsequent years.
In the preceding 21-month period, tax
refunds due to the excess profits reve-
nue. statute amounted 20 80 per cent,
while only II per cent was applicable
to over-aSsessments for subsequent
years.
In view Of this, the report said, ut
seems reasonable to hope that the peak
Of the high refund years has been
passed"
ut Is believed" it added, "that the
decrease in the rate of r-assesssment
is largely due to the fact that the In
ternal Revenue Bureau has closed out
a large proportion Of the excess profits
returns. It Is evident that the refunds
will be much lower when all the excess
profits tax controversies are settled"
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ROUzER TO BECOME
Hymns ASSISTANT
Executive Post Under Capitol
:. Architect Created by
Congress.

Horace D. Rouzer, who since 1906
has served in the Bureau of Yards and
Docks of the Navy Department, both
as a civilian and commissioned officer,
VIII become attistant architect of the
Capitol August /. It was stated at
the Navy Department and the Capitol
Yesterday that Mr.. RouZer's training
in the Navy Department, and his as
sociations on Capitol Hill fit him pc
culiarly for this new position.
Mr.. Rouzer has for several years
advised the legislators on Capitol Hill
with regard to the framing of the Navy
Appropriation bills and other measures
affecting the Navy. He has frequently
been called upon for information OF
this character by Senator Hale, chair
man of the Senate Naval Affairs Com
mittee and other Senators and Rep
resentatives interested in naval mat
ters.
Lynn Chooses Rouzer.
The legislative appropriation act for
the fiscal year 1881, which went into
effect July /, makes provision for the
position Of an executive assistant to
the Capitol architect, who Is David
Lynn. This assistant will act as archi-
tect of the Capitol in the absence or
Disability OF the archtect. Mr.. Lynn
chose Mr. Rouzer for the new position.
Mr.. Rouzer was born at Thurmont,
In Frederick County, Md, July 26,
1885. He entered the Navy Department
I'M 1906 and has served there continu-
ously since that time. He was COM
missioned lieutenant in 1919 in the
Civil Engineer Corps, United States
Naval Reserve Force, and reached the
grade of lieutenant commander, being
on active duty until July, 1922, when
he was placed on inactive duty and ap-
pointed supervising engineer in the
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Senate Aid Sought in 1921.
In 1921 he was detailed by the Sec
rotary of the Navy to duty with the
chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs
Committee to assist in connection with
legislation pertaining to the Navy. This
duty. has continued to date under the
Craftsmanship of Senator Hale of
Maine.
During his commissioned service.
Lieut.. Comdr. Rouzer had charge OF
construction at the Naval Research
Laboratory, Bellevue, D. c.. project
that cost 81 100000, as we'll as other
important construction projects
Mr.. Rouzer's. residence is 1919 Porter
street, this city.
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FIREMEN MUST PHONE
FOR WATER AT NIGHT
Mains in Brazil's Capital Shut Of
to Allow Reservoirs
to Fill.

RIO DE JANEIRO (P).-Firemen in
BraZil's capital were called to fight a
night blaze, must telephone for the wa
ter to be turned on before they can get
into action
On several occasions night fires in
The downtown district have gained seri-
GUS Roadway before there was enough
water pressure. An explanation given
by the water and sewer department
reads:
"Our water supply is insufficient on
occasions and on this account is turned
of at night from the reservoirs so they
may. fill for "the following day. Ma
turally. when the firemen call. it takes
some time for full pressure to come up
in the MAINS
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SECOND PROGRAM
SET FOR CHILDREN
Friday Evening Sylvan The.
alter Event to Be Given by
Neighborhood House.

A new feature in the Summer pro.
gram Of outdoor events in Washington
is series Of children's programs be-
ing given at the Sylvan Theater by
various organizations, under auspices Of
the community center department, with
the cooperation Of the ofilce Of public
buildings and public parks in the Ma
tional Capital.
The second Of these programs will
be given Friday evening at 8 O'Clock
by Neighborhood House. under direc-
ton Of Mrs. ]. p. S. Neigh, assisted
by the Girls Club. Boys Club and
the junior boys in the vacation school
Miss Erba Birney, newly arrived In
this city to take charge of music at
Neighborhood House, will play the &C.
compartments for the program, which
will be offered in three parts. The first
program was held last Friday night
when the entertainment was provided
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TRI-CITIES OF FRANCE
GROW INTO SINGLE TOWN
Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing Are
Combining into Fourth Largest
Center in Republic.

LILLE R.-This city, Roubaix and
Tourcoing are growing together into the
fourth largest city in France, a rank
now held by Bordeaux.
This Is the home OF Une textile in
dustry and the close relationship be-
tween factories in the three places tends
to bind them together.
Roubaix, with $4,000 population, is
just northeast Of here and beyond 1t is
Tourcoing, with $4,000, while Lille is
credited with 100000.
AS street car lines and roads were
built to connect the three cities they
were bordered by homes and factories
until now one can drive 10 miles without
noticing the change from one town to
the other.
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Thigh TAX REFUNDS
| THOUGHT DROPPING
Congressional Committee Re.
port Shows Slump in Over
assessments.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Expressing hope that the peak of
high tax refund years had passed, the
report Of the Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Internal Revenue Taxation
made public yesterday showed a total
of $75,672,S8S allowed in over-assess-
ments of taxes in 1929 involving in ex-
cess of $75, ZOO each.
The report was submitted bv Chair
man Hawley and L. H. Parker. chief
OF the committees staff. It said the
rate OF over-aSseSSment had decreased
So per cent as compared to that of the
seven-month period beginning June /.
1928. during which $lo6, $50, $3.50 was
refunded.
Under the act Of 1925 creating the
committee, the group Is required to pass
upon all tax refunds, credits and abate-
ments recommended by the Treasury
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ike pores Of the leaves Is called. makes
necessary an adequate system Of trans
portation within the tree. A white oak
OF average size will give of more than
100 gallons Of water during q single
summer day. A forest Of such trees
must furnish as much moisture to the
ar currents as might body Of water
OF the same area. =
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GERMAN PLANT RAISING
is SIDELINE OF POWER
lighthouses Near Electric Plants of
Berlin Are Heated With
Exhaust Steam.

BERLIN Pl.-Flower raising has be-
come side line to generating electric
current.
The city Of Berlin has built a number
OF lighthouses near its electric power
plants and pumping stations. These
lighthouses are heated with the waste
steam from the power houses and in
them flowers are raised.
Results have exceeded expectations in
that imports of flowers from Holland
and Southern France have decreased
considerably.
The new enterprise thus helps to i'm
prove the German trade balance.
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NEW TYPE CARS TESTED

AN English railroad recently made an
exhibition of new types of cars put in
service upon its tracks. The train was
headed by the latest design in locomo-
tives, followed by a special car designed
Tor transporting heavy machinery. It
had % pairs of wheels. Then there
was very modern refrigerator car and
next to it was heated car for carrying
fruit in the process of ripeninR.
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DEFORE you ever think of buying
- furniture, you owe it to yourself
to- see that you get the most for your
outlay. To do this, you must compare
other kinds of furniture with Lifetime
Furniture-Prices particularly.
An investigation of Mayer & Co. prices
this week will prove to you that our
good, dependable Lifetime Furniture
costs no more than some of the I'm.
known, nondescript types with no par
ticular name or distinction.
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PIANO CLASSIFIED
Named "Most Intelligent, Most
Versatile" Musical Instrument.

According to Dr. William Braid
White, acoustics expert, the piano is the
most intelligent, most versatile and
most musical" instrument enjoyed by
human beings.
No player, no matter how skillful,
can play the same piece in the same
manner on the piano more than once,
according to DR.. White. Each musical
instrument has Temperament" of its
own which is constantly changing as
expressed in different tonal responses.
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Surfboards Propelled by Wind.

Surfboard races are now INDUCED In
with the aid Of a kind of parachute
balloon which catche. the wind and
pulls the boat. At the end of the course
the racers hold on tn balloon is
loosened and the latter collapses. The
race is generally to the one who gets
the bag filled first.