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Evening star., 1945-12-05
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Rainier; Mrs. A. T. R., Brandy
t0ine, Nd; Mrs. E. F. L., Mrs.
L. S. D., Takon1a Park, Nd; Mrs.
M. c., Mrs. T. r., Silver Spring;
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Hngton; Mrs. N. M. F., Rockville;
Mrs. D. C. T., A. C. G., Mrs. G.
H. L. Mrs. R. H. Y, M. B. L.,
Mrs. r. M. M, Mrs. M. C. H.,
Mrs. H. ~, Washington.
Our thanks to these readers
for their contributions, Which
Were similar to others previously
YeceiDed:
Mrs. H. B. H., BeltSuille; Mrs.
N. R. w., Bladensburg; Mrs. v.
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A. c., Bethesda; Mrs. A. L., Sill
Der Spring; M. M. P, Kensing-
ton; Mrs. C. E. B., Washington
GroDe, Nd; Mrs. J. F. de Y,
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Mrs. L. S., Mrs. B. M. W., Mrs.
J. H., E. d., Mrs. G. L. L., D. C.
H., C. M. B., Washington.
Application for future RCH
book has been received from Mrs.
v. v. c., Charleston, w. Va.
RUM BUNS?
(Fron1 Mrs. H. J. E., Siluer Spring.
Gould some one please furnish mt
instructions for making rum buns
I have tried to make them but
haven't been very successful.
X X X X
ANSWERS TO QUERIES.
-(From r. A., WaShington.)
Washing Pig Skin Gloves: Dis.
coloration of white pig skin gloves
from washing, can be minimized by
using neutral soap with luke warm
water. Rinse thoroughly in the
same temperature of water. Add 6
little white vinegar to the last rinse
Dry in a warm place in the shade
but not near stove or radiator.
Heat and alkali are harmful to any
animal fiber, wool, silk, leather OF
fur. So remember to use neutra
soap in luke warm water in clean.
ing these materials. Keep the water
the same temperature Throughout
the process. A quick change of tenn.
perature causes shrinkage ane
stiffening of the material.
A Knitted Helmet: Instruction
for a knitted helmet for size 8 car
be found in book No. 178 "WoolieI
for Babies" (page 15), which can b'
obtained from the Spool Cotton Co.
745 Fifth avenue, New York. JACKIE
and leggings are also included.
making Doll House) Doll Furni
ture: Article in October, 1945, issu,
of the Woman's Day Magazine en-
titled doll Furniture You Car
Make" gave some very good idea
for inexpensive furnishings for eacl
room of house. A copy can be OBJ
tatf1ed from Stores Publishing Co
Inc, 10 West Forty-fourth street
New York 18. N. Y. Working plan
for real handmade wooden dol
furniture can be found in the 80
page book DOLLS Furniture" b,
William Klenke. published by Nc,
knight g. Mcknight, Bloomington
III. Cardboard dolls furniture ma.
b constructed with very good re-
Evening star., 1945-12-05
MEMORY GUILT?
LINOLEUM CARE.

(From Mrs. H. K. Arlington.J
want to make memory quilt"
from pieces of my little girls dresses
but have not found a pattern that
seems just right. Does any one have
suggestion?
y x X X
COMMENT.
(Fronr Mrs. w. r. b.. Washington. J
First my sincere thanks to Mrs.
j. A. c. for the explicit and clear
directions on how to fix Upper
Both of mine are again serviceable.
Simple, when you know how!
Here is question which continues
to puzzle me. Why is it that we
read interesting food articles on the
advantages of many so-called
health foods" but never find these
available in our grocery stores?
Our family particularly likes whole
grain foods, such as brown rice
(Which I find occasionally and a
variety of soy products. Soy bread
is particular treat. Peanut oil is
another item that should be gen.
orally available. I know that most
of these can be sought out at spe-
cialty stores, but feel that house
wives who like to experiment with
recent improvements in nutrition
should find the materials more &C
cessible. I believe also that many
more people would use them if they
were not considered as fads.
I should be interested to hear what
some OF you think on this subject,
but just how to register for some
action is another problem.
* X * *
Evening star., 1945-12-05

(Fron1 Mrs. H. J. E., Siluer Spring.
Gould some one please furnish me
instructions for making rum buns?
I have tried to make them but
haven't been very successful.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

of eight cakes OF guest soap in tn
shape of blossoms, delightfully."- gift
boxed in pink or blue.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
SAuERKRAUT.

From Mrs. T. S. T., Washington.J
Shred cabbage and salt as for
slaw, bruise slightly. Pack into jars,
do not seal and use in to 6 weeks.
A brine will drain and overflow, but
do not worry about that.
The Nome nugget., 1945-01-03

significance of hard ex-
perience and tested against
rights under enemy she'll
ing, hostile sharpshooters
waiting for the advancing
platoon, grim fights for life
in ruined villages. What
Private Rubin says, during
a brief pause in his mud
dy, uncomfortable, danger
Gus existence, is what he
means. A soldier sees how
powerful his country is for
war. He must find it hard
to believe it cannot be
equally powerful for peace.
He has a right to ask that
it should be.-(New York
Times).
The Nome nugget., 1945-01-03

It seems to us rather
contradictory to have, on
the one hand, commissions
studying ways and means
to develop Alaska's re-
sources, and the Interior
Department, on the other
hand, devising ways and
means to discourage CAPT.
tai from venturing into
the development of the
same resources.
The Congressman who
attended the recent Inter-
Tor Department hearings
in Alaska and Seattle
should have ample evil
dence of the discourage
ment of capital" policy of
the Interior Department.
Will they, and their col
leagues, support an appro-
priation of four million for
promoting the develop
ment of Alaska's resour-
ces while a cabinet officer
is discouraging capital
from expanding to the Ter
ritory?- (Juneau Empire)
The Nome nugget., 1945-01-03
FRONT-LINE
PRIZE ESSAY

A soldier in the line
finds it hard to think of
victory "as meaning any,
thing but an end to fear, to
loneliness and death, and a
chance to go back to pick
up the strands of inter-
rupted life This is the
testimony of Pvt. Isadore
The Nome nugget., 1945-01-03
WHOA-GIDDAP--
WHOA!

Something is going to
happen to Alaska after
the war. But nobody
seems to agree ON just
what's going to happen.
In October, Governor
Gruening said in Seattle
that Alaska will gain a
million in population i'm
mediately after the war.
Soon after this the Unit
ed States Employment Ser
vice offices in Alaska and
in Seattle stated that too
many people were coming
to Alaska already and
there was unemployment
in Alaskan towns.
Recently numerous au-
thors, writing on Alaska,
have hailed the Territory
as the promised land for
settlement for the veter-
ans of this war.
Other writer's have
painted beautiful pictures
of the unlimited. oppor-
tunities" for the expansion
of new industry to Alaska.
But at the same time the
Interior Department seems
to be doing its best to dis
courage any development
of the Territory-first
through the reservation
hearings scare, now in the
form of a bill in Congress
that would put all tide
lands in Alaska under the
control of the Secretary of
the Interior. Under the
new tidelands bill, leases
to tidelands would be
granted or revoked by the
Secretary of the Interior,
depending upon his judg-
The Nome nugget., 1945-01-03

Rubin of Brooklyn, who
has just won an essay
prize contended for by
men of the Fifth Army's
front in Italy. But the SOL
der thinks of other things
too. He thinks of the world
he will have to live in
when he comes home, and
such enemies as poverty,
insecurity, prejudice, dis
unity" that will still have
to be conquered. He be-
lieves, in Private Rubin's
words, that eff we can
sweep aside untold OBJ
stacles to smash the most
ruthlessly efficient ma
chimes of destruction ever
devised, surely we possess
the vision and practical
genius to organize for
peace, security and a world
designed for living"
For Private Rubin and
his comrades these words
can't be merely words.
They are loaded with the
The Nome nugget., 1945-01-03

of course, is of no good
without access to the land
across the tideland-
hence passage of this bill
would in effect give who
ever happened to be the
administrative officer of
the Interior Department
control of all lands in Alas
ka.
Every day, thousands of
letters from prospective
Alaskans pour into the Of
fices of our Territorial and
Federal officials in Alaska,
to our Delegate from Alas
ka, to the Interior Depart
ment in Washington, D. c..
In the last year espec-
tally there has been en-
couragement of large
scale migration Of return
ing servicemen and others
to Alaska.
But, according to a re-
cent edition of the Wall
Street Journal, soldiers
who flood the Interior De-
partment with hopeful let
ters get this discouraging
advice:
'The undeveloped north
land can support only
1000 more families in the
immediate post war
years."
The Interior Depart
ment explains further:
TITS still too far from mar
kets for profitable farm
ing, mining and timber
cutting"
So our million shrinks
to a few thousand.
All right. How is the In
terror Department going
to take care of the 1000
families? Private enter
prise has been discourage
ed by the Departments
policy for the development
in Alaska. The truth is
that the Interior Depart
ment is going to ask Con-
gress for almost four mil
lion dollars for Is months
work by an Alaska devel-
opment advisory commits
sion.
Does this mean then
that Alaska is to be devel-
oped by another Federal
bureau at the cost of ST.
900 per new Alaskan fam
lily?
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Police Study Money
Account for Clues
In Langford Murder
By the Associated Press.

Gs the ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, June GA book con-
tanning names of individuals and
organizations, with. amounts of
money noted after each, was found
today In the Park avenue home OF
Mrs. Albert E. Langford, whose 63-
year -old husband was shot to death
Monday night.
Police, stymied in their search for
the slayer, studied the entries,
which one official said cover a long
period and indicate that every sum,
no matter how trifling, was listed.
There were no notations giving
the purposes for which the money
was paid, police said, adding that
many names recur frequently. No
estimate Of the total amount listed
was given, but the police official said
It was substantial,
Money Angle Probed.
Mrs. Langford, 10. an art and
music patroness, has contributed to
the careers of many men who be-
came successful on the stage or in
concert work, police said. They
pursued one theory that two men
who tried to force entrance to the
apartment Monday night may have
sought to obtain money from her.
More than 10 persons, including
several prominent social and the
atrical figures. have been questioned.
Police continued their search for
the death weapon and for the two
men who went up the Hotel Mar
guery's main elevator to the Lang
ford apartment shortly before the
wealthy businessman was slain.
Among those questioned was
Evelyn Nesbit, former stage beauty,
who was the central figure in the
fatal shooting nearly 40 years ago
of Architect Stanford White, for
which her former husband Harry
K. Thaw, was tried. Police said
Miss Nesbits questioning was merely
incidental to the screening being
given to every friend, acquaintance
and associate of Mrs. Langford.
Shot in Hallway of Apartment.
Mr.. Langford was shot in the hall
way of his Park avenue apartment.
Mrs. Langford told police she was
sitting in her bedroom with her
husband when there was a noise
at the apartment door.
My husband went to the door"
police said she told them. Il heard
two strangers say they wanted to
see me. They wanted to talk to me
about Raphael Diaz' they said.
Diaz was a former Metropolitan
Opera singer and protege of the
Langfords, who died nearly two
years ago.
My husband left them at the
door. returned to the bedroom. I /
told him to tell them I didn't know
them and wouldn't see them. Then
I heard thud, and a groan ran
to the door and found my husband
slumped to the foyer floor"
Evening star., 1945-06-06

estate taxes. thus plugging loop
holes in the structure about which
there had been criticism.
AS regards taxes on real property,
1t was brought out in prior studies
that taxes paid by residents of the
District were on an average of
those paid by residents of compar-
able cities throughout the country.
1t is the same today 1t should be
stated, however, that a consider
able amount of additional revenue
has been derived from this source
through reappraisements of proper
ties already on the tax rolls as we'll
as from the development Of hereto
fore unsettled sections of the city.
1t must be remembered that the
area Of the District is limited; that
there is no room for expansion
The amount of taxes to be derived
from real property is therefore also
limited. In fact. it is lessened every
time the Federal Government pur-
chases additional property and
every time the Congress sets aside
q tract of land for some special
purpose. At the present time there
Is discussion of the establishment
of q memorial to war veterans on
valuable piece OF land which II ap-
proved would not only remove the
property from the tax rolls but
would eliminate the possibility of
sllch additional revenue that would
be received should a private build
ing occupy the site.
Parks. .-.
The development of park areas IN
the District deserves major consid-
Grafton. For a number of years Con-
gress has given much thought to
this question.
The first large tract acquired was
the National Geological Park. which
was purchased under an act Of
A A -
Evening star., 1945-06-06

lie 4U-OU pdSk VI ppIOpt lde ellls
was repealed by the provisions OF
the District Of Columbia Revenue
Act, approved May Is, 1888.
Prior Investigations.
An examination of previous re-
ports shows that the findings of the
various committees centered prin-
cipally on two points. namely:
ID That a just rate of taxation
be paid by the residents Of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
% That the Congress should pur-
sue a definite policy of regular and
liberal appropriations for the de-
velopment and upkeep of the Dis
trict of Columbia commensurate
with it's status as the National
Capital
It is with these two points, there
fore, that this report will be con-
cerned.
Taxation.
The present Organic Act of the
District was enacted in 1878. 1t was
provided therein that the District
Commissioners would submit an
nually to Congress, through the Sec
retary of the Treasury, estimates OF
their needs for the current and other
expenses of the Districtsfdr thessuc-
ceeding fiscal year, and then fur
ther provided
And to the extent to which CONGRESS
shall approve of said estimates. congress
shall appropriate the amount Of 30 per per
oer oePfm eea hetd0i of such spa sps
shall Be levied and ASSESSED upon the
taxable property ano privileges IN sac ha
United States and Of the District Of Co.
umbit.
While the Congress from the be-
ginning had made lump-sum pay
ments to help defray the expenses
of the Capital City, by the enact
ment of this law it definitely rec
ognized the obligation of the Federal
Government to provide for a large
share of It's expenses and at the
same time provided the method by
which the tax rate to be paid by
residents of the District would be
established; that is, by providing
that
the remaining 50 per centum Of such
approved estimates shall be levied and
assessed upon the taxable property ana
privileges in said District other tnan the
property of the United States and OF the
District Of Columbia.
The procedure for levying taxes
was restated in the act of June 20,
1922.
The residents of the District OF
Columbia are and always have been
ready and willing to pay their share
in the upkeep and operation of the
Capital City. However, it must be
remembered that the remedy for
the criticisms of the tax structure
of the District in prior investigations
was not in the residents but in the
Congress, and it was only in recent
years that the Congress acted to
remove the bases of these criticisms
The District of Columbia Revenue
Act of 1887, approved August IT,
1887, as amended by the District
of Columbia Revenue Act of 1899
approved July 26, 1899. provided the
principal changes in the tax struc-
ture. BY these acts there were
established individual income, cor
poration income. inheritance and
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Continued From First Page. J

sum basis, with considerable con-
troversy repeatedly occurring before
the amount of the payment was
definitely determined. The contro-
versy and debate during this period
alone should be sufficient evidence
p. of the necessity for adopting a
formula which would automatically
fix the amount of the annual pay
ment as Congress passes the Appro-
priation Act for the District of
Columbia. ~s
History of Fiscal Relations.
The fiscal relations between the
Federal Government and the Dis
trict of Columbia government have
passed through three phases, as
follows:
Cd Period 90-1S7s.-During this
period there was no fixed system,
with the result that in some years
there were lump-sum payments and
In other years no payments at all
1t was during the early period. how
ever, that Senate subcommittee
recommended. in 1885, that the Fed
eral Government pay definite pro-
portion OF the local government ex-
pense, based upon its property hold
tngs in the District, but no action
was taken thereon.
90 Period 79-1924-During this
period payments by the Federal
Government were on a fixed per-
centage basis.
The $3.50 basis: The fixed per-
centage system was established by
the act approved June II. 1878, en-
titled AN act providing a perma-
nent form of government for VIE
District of Columbia"
This basis of appropriating was
continued in effect through the fis-
cal year 1920.
The 40-60 basis: In making ap-
preparations for the District of
Columbia for the fiscal year 1921
Congress provided that 40 per cent
OF the sums necessary should be
appropriated out of any moneys in
the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, and so per cent out of the
revenues of the District of Columbia
A similar provision appeared in the
Appropriation Act for the fiscal
year 1922, but it was not until the
Appropriation Act for 1923 that this
40-60 basis of appropriating was
made permanent law.
90 Period 1925 to present.-Not-
withstanding the permanent law en-
acted in 1928. beginning with the
fiscal year 1925, Congress appro-
pr1ated the Federal share in a lump
sum each year. Payments under
Evening star., 1945-06-06

March 2. 1889, at cost of $3.50 1854 "a,
one-half Of which was borne by the
United States and one-half by the
District of Columbia The admin
istration of the park was placed un-
der the Smithsonian Institution, but
all expenditures for improvements,
maintenance. and operation have
been paid from the funds of the
District Of Columbia.
The next step in the development
of the park system was the purchase
of Rock Creek Park, which was
established by an act of September
81, 1890. This act declares that the
tract shall
be perpetuaily dedicated and set apart as
a public park or pleasure ground for the
henent and enjoyment Of the people OF the
In 1924 Congress created the Ma
tional Capital Park Commission
Qater changed to the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commits
sion)--
TO preserve the national scenery in and
ABOUT washington. ana 10 prOVl0e Tor O
comprehensive, systematic and continuous
development OF park. parkway and play
ground systems of the National Capital
and its environs.
The commission was authorized
to acquire such lands as in It's Judgment
shall be necessary and desirable q
within the limits Of the appropriations
made for such purposes
AS regards the national aspect Of
the program, the act provided that
There Is authorized to be appropria ed
each year, In the annual District of Co.
lnmbia Appropriation Act a sum not ex-
eeeqins ! Gent for eseh inhabitant Of the
continental United States as determined
by the last decennial census. a5sg
This language was used intention
ally to imply that the money SO ap-
propriated would come from all the
people Of the United States, In
whose name the title to these parks
rest, and not merely from the tax
Evening star., 1945-06-06

finding is based upon the following
facts:
/. The District of Columbia Is the
seat Of the Federal Government set
aside for Federal purposes, with fun
legislative powers retained by the
Congress.
2. The area Of the District Of CO.
lumbia is fixed. 1t cannot expand.
Therefore, when the Federal Gov.
ernment purchases property the tax
revenue previously received on such
property is lost to the District and
cannot be replaced The residents
of the District In fairness should
not be expected to make UP such
loss In revenues by increased taxes.
3. The enormous increase in the
expenses Of the District of Columbia
during the past 10 years has been
occasioned by the tremendous ex-
pansion of the Federal Govern
ment, with no commensurate in
crease in the payment by the Fed
eral Government. During the past
six years there has been no change
IN the amount of the annual pay
ment.
4. The residents Of the District
through increased taxes have ade-
quately. fairly and cheerfulIy pro-
yided their share of the cost of op-
Grafton and upkeep of the National
Capital.
1t is believed that the annual
payment to the District of Colum-
bia should be based on a definite
formula, by the operation OF which
the amount of the payment would
be automatically computed, thereby
eliminating the controversy which
has continued through the years
both as to the amount and method
OF payment. Such a formula is
presented herewith In the form OF
a draft of bill for the considera-
ton Of the committee, and provides
that the annual payment win bear
the same ratio to the total revenues
covered into the general fund Of
The District Of Columbia during the
last complete fiscal year, exclusive
of the annual Federal payment, as
the land owned by the United States
in the District bears to the entire
land area Of the District.
JOHN F. FEENEY.
HAROLD E. MERRICK,
THOMAS J. SCOTT,
Investigative Staf.
This ratio would work out to rnaka
the Federal payment about sl2,-
900 900.