Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1921, Page 30

e = = sz oot i THE - NING STAR,|they clog the calendars, until wit-|tice and it should bé"stopped. “At cer; P li * H °ppo A . F.[FI'Y 3 HE - EVENING ST AR, e, o otnos secomes | in sonie 1 seseme 3¢ wine «| Politics at Home|Difficult to Make Taxation ASEARS AGO '—r—%—— unavailable and then théy are dropped. | car to & halt a certain distance beyond [ - i m’ TIIE STAR . WASH GTON, D. C. A few go up to the grand jury, and |a switch or intersection, to make room Women and Party Pa v SUNDAY August 28, 1091 |there remain on the calendar of that|for two halting cats st once. But at tronage. ear ust -0n Peo 0| L hugte e el hianunt S phyment : Jury or, If indiotments are found, on | those points the car-stop sign should|, A CAmpalgn approaches in Mary. specimens in the government service| Dyring the civil war quantities of e the calendsr of the court, be placed at the most advahced point, [187d, and both parties are donning . . are set to work sweeping up the halls | poyger were accumulated in and THEODORE W. NOYES....Editof | Handbook making prevails in the|and it should be strictly vbéerved. At|their Gghting clothes. The women of BY THOS. R. MARSHALL. ing that one Is compelled to pay |I7 OUF bl department bulldings? -around Washington District today to a wide extent. The|present the motormen aré practically|the state, who were active and ef.| . Feormer Vice President of the more than another for like service. | This 18 & mystery to tax the investl- |poygor Georeg for military pur- The Ev Star N .| fective last year, are expected to United States. ‘When the railroads of this country gational facilities of the brainiest 3 % o/ - ening ewspaper Company | arrests that are being made from day | ignoring the rules except to stop some:- bear mmission tha the poses, and . theso Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsyleania Ave. |10 day evidence the general prevalence | where on the block in which a car-stop|® Part this year. FULLY appreciate the diffoul- |, ahall adopt the continental syatem |SOWssion that ever spen: several| 1In City. magasines were Chieago Ofn:. Miree Natomel Bask Beiding. | of this evil. Apparently the crusade is|sign is posted. Whether this.is play.| On the republican side they are ties of the administration with |.and sell Srat-class snd second- |FORIYR OF Sees CEENE WP POresty | arawn on for the supply of the Arms. European Ofice: 3 Begent S8 Lonon. not deterring the handbook makers or | fulness, or perversity, or ignorance, or |*HOWInE @ practical spirit. At a meet- e oD e gl chu‘ll:skt(l. the first-class ticket 1500 fActs 10 PO ."n:r:::u’;‘zv‘.':’l: When the war ended many tons of 5 oy loes | N8 held in Baltimore the other da; ternal taxes. It was apparen -permitting the holder to ride in the powder remained, but no special anx- players. Doubtless they are willing to/sheer incompetence, the publie does er day a frof . shelf. s vy s e e ey {take & chance even If arrested on get-| not know. But it s neverthefess im-| eommittee was appainted to conter e ot sy 5:;":;"“::: o:'."‘:::fl‘:“’"‘:;‘:: qolobitia 8 fact that 1n many of the b e e e s o et Its per th; deil; , 48 its ho e party leaders on tl 2 . 2 Al en ul ngs the brawnies S SeSii: SLoa b {ng froe by deleyn and postpmnements {setint, whatevee the Wit o R n “hn ] Dl evenns o hres cunta and at | 6om o te publo Wil be emored. [belkioet tatess andcherwite irwces | Saving the swmwper o€ 1671 WMk in- ; phone X . 3 e following commen S0og Sollection e made by carriers at the | o clear up all these cases. If the Po-|mission to admonish the railroad com.|Present is thus quoted in 2 special to] postage to remain unchanged, cost- One of the chiet gbjections to the g iy taxkioE N SSpinE IS th bty Bar of A'u‘us: 23, 1672 St lice Court is crowded with them a few | panies that the car-atop signs are abso-| The Star, published Yastorday: ! ing as it does the government mil- | present revenue law fa the fact |done by the regular force of char: oBince the explosion at the arsenel 0 gave lere has been considerable uneasi- night sessions would serve. If jury|lute and not relative markers of the | y.® it5 (3%, 56 WOmen Who gave| jions of dollars in excess of the | however honest a man may be he [Women :'"x‘:fi. =2 3:!: l:;:;l“o'fdt:: D N ¢ Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 4 Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 Dally only.. i H Sunday only mo.,.70¢ [ cases go from the Police Court to the 30C | grand jury and the Criminal Court let trials are demanded an extra jury panel should be summoned. If the that congestion continue. There is a| difference between police accusation 3¢ {and indictment. When the indictment The Unemployment, Problem. The executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, now in ses- sion in Atlantic City, has a remedy for unemployment. It proposes to give work to every man, woman and child naw idle in this country, but it will mnot wait for the revival of industry. In a proclamation it demands that is once returned the accused is marked, though possibly innocent. In these cases the chances are altogether in favor of correctness of accusation. It is true that the Supreme Court of the District is heavily crowded with busi- ness, but there is a prospect of rellef through the -creation of additional Jjudges, either specifically for this dis- trict or at large for assignment to par- ticular circuits. But even if .the courts do not both our federal and state govern-|promptly dispose of the cases the ar- ments “immediately concern them- !rests should continue in all instances selves with putting into operation!of prima facie guilt. It is. of course, processes of production for public im- provement of buildings, roads, ete., and to use the credit of the country for the encouragement of productive Pprocesses.” Labor cannot be employed without capital. At present privdte capital is ' shy, and is lowering.- the volume of employment because of uncertajnty of returns and fear of loss. The labor council proposes to substitute for pri- vate capital the capital of the public, the funds of state and fedéral govern- ments; in other words, the funds of the ‘people. State and federal govern- ment funds are provided through taxa- tion in one form or another, and only by that means, save through borrow- ing, which in liquidation is but an- other form of taxation. At present the chief cry of the peo- ple is for a reduction of taxes. If this Atlantic City proposition were to be adopted taxes would be increased, per- haps. doubled. The capital necessary to put 4,000,000 at work would mount into the billions. The people them- selves would provide it by heavier in- come taxes, heavier commodity, sales, tariff and other taxes. The trouble with the Atlantic City proclamation is that it approaches the question of unemployment from the wrong end. It ignores the fact that government, whether state or federal, cannot create work without paying for it, cannot make industry without capi- tal, and cannot raise capital without taxation. And, furthermore, much of discouraging to the police to have these cases in effect ignored, but if they will persist and keep bringing them in, the handbook business will be made too full of hardships and hazards to be followed as freely as in the past. ———ate ——————— The Soviet's Fropsganda. From Moscow cof=es & dispatch that shows how far the good faith of the soviet government goes in its agree- ment to admit American relief work- ers without official restriction. It states that the bolshevik officials were preparing to receive the first install- ment of the Americans, and that meanwhile the principal business street of the capital had been fréshly plastered with posters in English. French, German, Itallan, Scandinavian and Russian, calling on the workers of the world to unite and abolish in- ternational frontiers and announcing that “Russia 1d the heart of the world revolution.” It is quite eithin the power and right of the soviet government to deco- rate the streews of its capital as it pleases on any occasion. It can pro- claim its virtues and its policies, pur- poses and aspirations as freely and frankly as it wishes. But there is no mistaking the purpose of this fresh coat of bolshevik bombast on the walls ot Moscow on the eve of the arrival of the American relief workers. In fact, it is actually avowed by the soviet foreign minister .in an interview in THE SUNDAY- STAR, WA‘SfIINGTON, D, places where the people are to board the cars. -Tax Ahead of Tariff. i Decision has been reached by the Senate finance committee to put the tax bill ahead of the tariff, and to con- sider the former next Thursday, by which time the hearings on the tariff bill, already scheduled, will be ended. If the committee's plans work out the tax bill will be ready for submission to the Senate on reassembling. ‘This is a gratifying program. With- out doubt the country hopes for a set- tlement of the tax question as early as possible. It is more concerned in that than in the tariff, For the taxes pro- vided for in the revenue bill are direct- ly collected and immediately affect In- dividuals and business, whereas the tariff is an indirect tax, and its effect is felt remotely and tardily. If the tax bill can be presented to the Senate by the 21st of September ! it will be possible, with diligence in the Senate and in conference, to lay the bill before the President for signature hy the 1st of November. It will mat- ter comparatively little whether the tariff bill is finished before. the expira- tion of the special session or not. It is, of course, to be desired that both of these Dills be enacted into law be-I fore the regular session begins, fol‘( there is much work to be done at that| session. This extra session was called | particularly for the enactment of these two measures. But of the two that which revises the tax schedule is more important than that which changes the tariff rates. Business cannot adjust until the tax scales are known, and if| that question can be settled by Novem- ! ber 1 a long step will be taken toward industrial revival. ——————— ‘While preserving the unostentatious tranquillity that is the privilege of a man whose partisan support has not been dtrong enough to maintain his political leadership, Col. W. J. Bryan cannot fail to regard the widespread and earnest advocacy of: peace .J something of an indorsement of --l of his favorite policies. —_———— The fact that Henry Ford has made a railroad pay is regarded as the in- publicanism are, for the most part, not women of leisure or of great means—they are workers. As work- ers, many of them at least feel that party recognition of the value of their work for the party is only just and fair at the hands of the party when lucrative positions are being parceled out.” This" is reasonable. Laborers, men or women, are worthy of their hire. In this way is expressed the case of men, and why not also that of women? In the matter of patronage distribu- tion has always been based on capacity and character and faithful party serv- ices performed. ‘Women are entering very actively into politics now. Some are offering for office. Others are accepting assign- ments for organization work. Still others are rendering assistance on the stump. Why not, then, room for them at the counter when pie-cutting time rolls round? These Maryland women have the right notion of things, and are justi- fled in presenting their cldims to recognition in time to insure their con- sideration by the party managers. The Presidency and Sport. Gov. Cox is a golfer. He is spending the summer near Bretton Woods, New ‘Hampshire, and plays the game there to admiring galleries. In a picture, re- cently taken, he appears in a golfer's togs, and looks well in them. He stands firmly on his pins, and shows a good, round calf. The expression on his face is that of a youngish man re- Joicing in strength and physical ac- tivity. For forty years the newspapers have carried much readable gossip about political celebrities—our Presi- dents in particular—and their favorite pastimes. Mr. Cleveland, it will be re- membered, was a gun, and usually filled his bag. A popular picture of |him showed a man in hunter’s suit, seated in the stern of a small boat, ‘with his eyes peeled for ducks. Gen. Harrison was a gun, but did not indulge himself often. He did not hanker overmugch for fleld and stream. An occasional outing sufficed. Mr. McKinley had no game. A cigar, a roomy armchalr, a political friend or foe—he was at home with either— seated close by, afforded him all the recreation he desired. Mr. Roosevelt was a fine horseman, 1 R G -Cy AUGUST- 28, 1921—PART 2. amount received for carrying it, would cause widespread dissatis- faction. No wonder Secretary Mel- lon’s suggestion was rejected. The proposed oconsumption tax, however fair in principle it might have been, was calculated to sub- Ject the government to the charge of shifting tax burdens from the rich to the poor. Objection to it might have been lessened if there had been eany way to frame the law to assure ultimate consumers that all along the line, from manu- facturer to jobber, to wholesaler and to retailer, much more than the tax would not be added; but the theory that each person han- dling the article is himself a con- sumer and therefore entitled to re- coup his losses, made pyramiding of the tax probable. Then there was the argument that a consumption tax is not in proportion to property and earn- ings a fair distribution of the ex- penses of government among the people. A poor man probably eats more than a rich man, he usually has more children to feed and to cléthe, and A consumption tax, however fairly it might distribute the burden among all the people, would not distribute it in propor- tion to the wealth of the land. * % k% I have always felt that part - of the reason for Army and Navy ex- penses was the preservation of the vast wealth of our country. It has seemed in the past that people have not cared to make war with the poor. Their desire has been to overcome the rich and thereby make the expenses of the war and a profit besides. If, therefore, tax- ation could in some way be di- vided so that the ordinary expenses of government could be paid propor- tionately by a consumption tax and the extraordinary expenses of the Army and Navy could be paid by a tax on the wealth of the nation, graduated In accordance with the amount of wealth each person pos- sesses, that plan might furnish a fair and just way out. I do not advance this as a workable idea in the present emergency. It is only suggested as a feeler for fu- ture consideration in the event it survives. s However necessary and justifi- able was the excess profits tax in the war, it has outlived its emer- never knows whether he has paid all his taxes or not. He cannot tell what moment a federal grand jury may conclude to indict him and blacken hia reputation if it does Dot furnish him with a striped suit of clothes. The tax on my income ‘was not large enough to pay a war ‘worker through one of the beauty “shops of Washington, yet I never knew how to make it out on the blanks furnished by the depart- ment of internal revenue. I have not yet been discharged by my government for the first return that I made. I was told that an ex- tension of time was being taken for the purpose, I suppose that the government might examine still further my simple sources of in- come and ascertain whether through ignorance or design I was defrauding it. I hope I did not, in- deed I am sure that I did not in- tend to, and yet before I get through this thing I may be com- pelled to base my hopes of acquit- tal on what I belleve to be my reputation for honesty and fair dealing. The present 1aw was enacted in the midst of a war. By force of circumstances it was hurriedly prepared. But the war is over now and care should be taken to . S0 simplify the new law that any man of ordinary intelligence may know what he is to pay. The law shotild be so plain that no scoun- drel may escape conviction «on the ground that f{ts complications made it impossible for him honest- 1y to figure up his tax. As the law now stands it holds out & signal telling & man which way to g0 if he desires to avoid the just payment of his income ‘tax. Take this illustration: If I have $100,000 invested in a certain stock and my neighbor has a like amount of the same stock, I may on the 31st day ot December sell my stock to my nelghbor at & $10,000 loss and credit myself with this loss on my income tax return. My neighbor may sell his stock to me at a like loss and take a like credit. Thus we dre as we were, yot each of us has avoided pay- .ment of an income tax on $10,000. When it comes to the question of the income tax the only way in which the government can deal fairly with its citizens and satis- fy them that it is dealing fairly more employes at 9 o'clock neces- sarily tracks up corridors. Then dust accumulates during the day as vis- itors and others who have business with the department come and go. So uiong comes a man weighing 200 pounds, pushing a brush before which some sort of sawdust is sprinkled. Why the big fellows cannot be put at some more strenuous work, as their bulk would appareatly warrant, and slighter men put at the clean-up work, is the question. * % Third Assistant Postmaster General Glover told some interesting stories last week about some of the fourth- class postmasters throughout the country. These are the postmasters at the smallest towns or villages, where the presiding genius of the mails usually runs a store. But Mr. Glover is not responsible for the following story, which was re- called to local postal workers by his own account of the difficulties of deal- ing with the fourth-class officers. A democratic postmaster in a mid- dle western village lost his job when the republicans came into power un- der President Harrison. For four years the ex-postmaster chafed un- der the restraint, while his rival, from his store down the street, dis- pensed Uncle Sam’s malls. For four years the ex-postmaster glared from his own store, formerly the home of the post office, at the store up the street. The land was elected Presi- ry next morning the former go-kmuter appeared at the post of- ce. “Well!” he shouted, triumphantly, “turn it over!” And without more ado he seized the post office furnishings and mail and transported them bodily back to the old post office site. - * * Fear of the dentist still survives. Those early funny-picture men, who years ago depicted men extract- ing teeth with gigantic tweesers, while their victims writhed in agony, did their work too well. Even the children of the present generation, whose teeth may be ex- tracted without any real pain what- ever, belleve In that ancient agony. Of course, even today most people dis- like to go to the dentist. A little girl in this town was in tears on the morning her mother was to go to the dentist to have a tooth pulled. She clung to her mother. “Mamma!® she sobbed. him kill you!" Clevel “Don’t let * s Rivaling that man from the south who wrote officials here to find out “in what state Alexander the Grate is buried,” a local government em- ploye had an idea of what he wantéd to say, but his spelling was a bit off. _Heard and Seen in regard to the powder stored at the government magasine there. At the arsenal there was only about 500 pounds stored—making the explosion felt as far as Alexandrisa—while at the mugazines in question (Army and Navy) there are about 150 tons, suf- ficient, should an explosion occur, to demolish all East Washington and shake the Capitol building from base to dome. In no other city, we be- lieve, 15 it allowed to store powder within the municipal limits, and there seems to no good reason why Washington should be especially endangered. course, every pre- caution is taken by the authorities, but the arsenal explosion, at dead of night, shows that no precaution can insure safety. There is danger when powder is being transferred from and o the magazines, also from the work of filling bombs, which is carried oa in the vicinity of the magazines; and there will soon be another danger from the sparks from the engines on the Potomac railroad. . To this may be added the myterious perils from unknown causes, such as operated at the arsenal, whether from sponta- neous combustion, the movements of vermin, or what not. It is suggested that a fitting place could be found at Fort Washington, now practically useless, and from there it could be readily transferred by water to the arsenal or any other point in =mail quantities as needed.” * * % It has been the fixed rule ever since street railways were established in Washington when trans- A Transfer fers were issued from one branch to another to Problem. ,equire their presenta- tion at the points of intersection. Protest against this, however, was raised half a century ago, as attest- ed by the following in The Star of August 24, 1871: here may be valld reasons for holding the transfer tickets of the W. & G. Railway Company good only at points of intersection, but if they ex- ist we have never seen them stated, and we confess that we are unable to evolve them from our own inner con- sciousness. “Tuesday evening, for instance, lady, a stranger in the city, accom- panied by a child, had occasion to Take & transfer tickel from the Ave- nue line for 7th street north. Finding no car at the crossing, but observing that, as is usually the case, the locality was largely infested by dirty, nolsy boys and vulgar, leering loafers, she concluded to walk slow- 1y up the street and take the first car, which was then in sight. It over- took her at or near the crossing of Louisiana avenue, but when she got aboard, being ignorant of the arbi- trary Fules of the road, her tickets Were rudely rejected and she was forced to pay her two fares a second time or be put off the car. “Now. 8o far as the pairons of the horse cars are concerned, the major- ity of them find it less fatiguing and pleasanter in every way to saunter gency. In my opinion its reten- with them is to sweep away all ly along, to be overtaken by the the labor employed under such a planj Which he welcomes the advent of the| spiration of some sarcastic criticlam.|g fine shot, an enthusiastic pedestuian| tion on the statute books would | intermediate Steps and plange at | He had been asked, along with fet Yar than to stand still in the Would be waste, for a large part of the |relief workers as giving an opportu-|There may be such thing as profes-|and & capable hand at tennis. His pas-| not produce much revenue. The | once into the ultimate reception |others, to submit his ideas for a cer-|heat and dust surrounfed by e work. done would be of a sort. that|nity “tc break down the wall of|sional jealousy, even in the railroad|sion for outdoor life was boyish in its| state of business is such that there | of-the income. To my mind the ,,"““. for aned e e ol e O ad | coed which colletis at the junctions. i could be well postpomed or.distributed | cAlumny as to conditions in Ruyssia business. . 2 + « |inexhaustibllity. 1sn’t going to be any excess profits only fair, just and satisfactory |finally turned it In, with a note to|and notably at that at 7th street And | over & long period 6f yedrs. which so long bas estranged the <1 " Mr. Tatt liked Horseback riding, and| UpOR which to levy & tax The | ‘fncome tax is ens that s levied |his superior sfcer | L o, | 200ty tare Concerned, they can in. The. unemployment problem will not | friendly peoples.” A 1 2 D- wad a judge of & mount. He was a, Consress is doing well in provide fuion (tie income of the man who | B0, DR pas: S e aasked by actommodat: be solved by artificisl:means:- It.can| In short, it is designed to spread the e e aébotee of golf durig his preswential| 125 f0F 1t9 Tepeal. finally receives it. Thers should CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | ing the public in this respect. be sqived only by’ the revival 6 Indus- | propaganda of world: *#evetiitfoh "““"""“"—49‘. e, ** &% “be no excess profits t4x, and I | e e try, which, in turn, depends upon the |through the American reliet column. [ personal exam Mr. Wilson was also a follower of 1 do not pretend to be a financler, | ~foubt that tigre should be any | * ke 1 ab- which a variety of functions may be - but 1 d a student of corporate tax. Like the definition return to normal conditions. Industry |It is hoped that these workers will al iz golf, and Mr. Harding is playing 4t{ Dut as & lawyer and a studen i D ; b eased truth of sovietism and | concentrated at one desk. political economy I gained distinct | Of @ lle, the surtax is an abomi- 1s today slack bécause of two factors, |sarb the bl trut sov] often. So that Gov. Cox,- spend: ¥ ? the I a 3 ranem! home. views on the subject of taxatien. ation In the sight of the law an high taxes and high wages. “The surest | t it it to the folks back ing his playtime in New England| mpoce views I cannot say are | & very present help in time of b 5 N way to get the thillions now idle back | With that childlike reasoning that has| It will take some time for even the knocking the little “plll” about, 18 not| wnolly correct' in principle, but governmental trouble. There um’:' Unerowned m‘_ .m Birth of & Revolution. to work is for prganized labor. to cos|characterized the whole soviet enter-{most industrious secret service ®X-|qy i the fashion, but recommending| there is someth ore than prin- |- ahould be no surtax: Few men have stood more in the| Are revolutions the work of fire- = mething m: P operate in ‘the Teturn- to the pre-war |prise, Lenin and his associates evl-|pert to locate all the funds that are py;eq¢ 15 the sportdoving world as| ciple to be considered in levying 4 se % public eye since the war than Hugo | bugs, or are they due to “spontancous scales of compepsation. The labor ele- | dently think to convince the world of |reported to have my: Pt one who, if fortune smiles on him| taxes, highly fmportant as it 18 |'” Thers is no reason why the man |Stinnes. “King of Prafiteers,” the |combustion”? A writer in the Paris ment of cost in .production is the|its economic errars by letting it see|peared. 3 thres years hence, will be able to give| that the principle be acientific. It | of small income should mot pay a |Paris Figaro calls him, yet this in-|communist organ L'Humanite (which, heaviest single unit, ‘and until it is|through its representatives how won- e — an account of himself in the sporting! 18 Of equal fnportance that the in- tax on it. It would be heipful to {dustrial genius is more than that :’ncide!:;:‘!ll‘y. u(-.;:::xl the ‘nr:lo th:-::- brought back to its economic propor-|derfully well the Russian communist day in|fleld. dividual citizsen know just what him if he did. We take more in- |The Figaro says: lozen es of s in poin! - tion industry will flag and unemploy- |scheme has worked. “‘:Ihl ';.ulebnw:‘o:. nz uArmiltloem .“mhn{ 1:: his tax is and on what theory it | sorest in things In which we h: “The ghost of the uncrowned king ;r;:ggn: i nlel:l.,t Shey e ‘::; ment will previl Tchitcherin, the forelgn minister, is being levied. Take the uproar | o g;.ncing part. It is probably |of German industry seems to follow [pyrst out “anonymously” and are S e eoei el Aatican ralletiwocKer W 1L S usie s L0/ RAWETISh DEFDOseS A McAdoo Club. about Mr. Mellon's $10 sutomoblle | ¢rye howaver. that the expense of |you everywhere in the peregrina-frequently as surprising to “revoiu- e aco “that corpses are mot hanging| e>tInE 0 peace demonstrAUON. . | g pan hag opened. The Showme| (3%, Not belng the owner of ons | coliecting taxes upsa incomes of |tions across central Europe. You Sionacie ek Sbineohedy el Col. House Returning. about the streets of Moacow, nor are} ————— state is showing the way for 1924, She| on ' rog TUPLey; producsss “$1,000 or less would cest the gov- |hear whispered in Vienna the names |"*:2 skeptic friend of mine who calls Sa.w nathing wrons Wih,the tax. ¢ as much or more than the |of papers and enterprises in Which | himself a realist said to me smilingly Col. House ia on the sea, en route|there any starving people eating dead| Now that war is over many people |is doing unto others as she is constant-| But if I had contributed to the ernmen m pa) ; s e Tovo) | the other day: “The revolution busi- home. He will land next week. He has |bodies here, a8 somé accounts would |regard “daylight-saving” time as_ a|ly asking others to do unto her. A| ability of Henry Ford to purchase ;‘:' .::“:‘_"’”‘n:::‘ ::""::' i“"”“ :‘m:::l::e = ":‘flbul ed"'m ness s mot ‘o‘l':lfce:eroy' well. The ”» jus S ng to visited the principal capitals of Eu-|have Americans believe.” Who is 80|technicality that could be advantage-|McAdoo Club has been organized at| Muscle Shoals, I probably would Gm:""; ot inceat o1 o m"""‘u’ egard to plebiscite move- | forces is progressing. Moscow is fer- rope, and conferred with, leading statesmen, in office and out, about the situation, political, economic and so- cial, of today. We may believe, there- fore, that he is thoroughly informed about existing conditions “over there,” and probably has well defined views about what is necessary for the re- habilitation of all that war-swept ter- ritory. He knew his way around, He had made the rounds before. His several visits as President Wilson’s friend and personal representative had taken him simple as to think that the American rellef workers will see any such thing, even though they may be visible in Russia? Foolish as the soviet com- mental work, they are not o foolish as to neglect the very obvious precaution of cleaning up ahead of the American relief column. The column may pro- ceed where its directors will, but there will always be a sufficlent notice of the program to permit preparations in ad- vance. 2 ] Come unto us and feed our starving' ously dispensed with. 4 ———— s " The modern “dirigible" has not yet shown any great improvement on the clumsy &nd unréliable Zeppelin. The Shipping Board is affording a number of people an opportunity to ‘walk the economy plank. SHOOTING STARS. Sedalia, a city of good size, and the home of some clever politicians. Most politicians - know of James A. Reed, but for standard-bearer they prefer Willlam G. McAdoo. The home man is shunted for the New Yorker. But Mr. Reed is not being neglected. ‘While, according to this demonstra- tion, he is a prophet without honor in his own country, he is being honored elsewhere. A Pennsylvania democrat proposes him for President three years hence,.and describes him as the logical man for that year's leadership. have felt that the government was singling out an item of my prop- erty for taxation while permitting my stylish neighbor who rides in a handsome equipage . behind a span of thoroughbred horses to go free. 0% 1 have talked with ménv men about Pullman faves and the taxes on them. There is almost universal condemnation, not because of the money that is paid, but of the way in which it is collected. No one save a trafio man can understand the traffic system. I paid $5 ex- less. Starting it that figure, a tax :should be levied upon an inceme, say of $1,500, so as not to let the man who has an income of $1,035 feel that he has been unjustly treated in comparison with the man of $1.000 income. The tax “should be a definite and fixed tax. Passing up the line of incomes, the tax should increase, but always should be a definite sum, thereby eliminating the so-called syrtax. It could be made to prodyce as much 1f not more révedue than the ments. In Hungary he is supposed to have made great plans for exploit- ing the mines of the country. Final- 1y, in Germany the good citizens who speak of his tremendous activity re- gard him as a glant, the Goetz von Berlichingen of national industry. Stinnes is already a legendary figure. His personality is surrounded with a halo and his words are quoted as historical. “In order to separate as much as possible reality from fiction, I ques- tioned an intimste friend of Stinnes, S ——— menting a division among the revo- lutionary syndicalists. There is not much doing at present.’ “And 1 answered: ‘Revolutions are not the work of leaders. Revolutions are not made like insurrections, by a bold enterprise prepared before- Revolutions break out quite y themselves. By their suddenness they upset all calculations. The leaders only appear and exercise au- thority over them when once they have broken out. For example, the French revolution and the Russian revxolllilol;. “In 1789 there were no parties and no press in France. There were no signs of plots or organizations. It is quite in vain that some reaction- ! 2 2 2 Fort resent method of levying. and it. | who has been ed successively the lary historians have tried to prove into many quarters of consequence,|millions, says the soviet gavernment, BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. Before that time rolls around, how.| Cess fare from Néw York to P 2 . “Coal Baron” the “Potash Prince~ |the contrary. It is emough to and given him an insight into the or-|in effect, to the “Américan rellef or- —_— 2 |ever, Mr. Reed will have to.test hisy Wavne. h‘-t‘r‘::n"::; :“Zv{"“::: :;““" ::.::.""'::":‘;':: oonvince the “ahipping Magnste he “Buper. |the correspendence’ of sy i B * Gas. g tren; on the same that 3L at,” an e “Bu: 88 iser.” lelegat persons and ERuSSstica of {hings gatiatiosHand sy 3 e strength at home. Next year a senator) P78 0"\ "1, excess. Another | ’taXing power has been invoked to | “It is little known in France that|to form an idea of the Mo nodd On this visit, however, the colonel was not gathering information for anybody in office, but for himself; and maybe he gathered as much as on any of the previous visits when his friend in the White House was deeply con- cerned about the war and its progress. ‘What use Col. House will make of this latest information after he has reduced it to form is a question for speculation, and there is speculation about it. He may use it in a book— he is still suspected of a purpose to put out & volume or two about the war and the. Paris peace conference— or he may-in some less formal ‘way put it at the service of those in office who can make it serve in work that will shortly be in hand. The disarmiament conference will afford an opportunity. In New York, missars have been in their nurnl while on this errand of mercy learn checked, to the sameé situation that prevails here. The bulls and the bears on Wall street are still lsaving the creation of actual values fo others, while they ve attention ta the world's greatest [ guessing contest. | ——— e — Diplomatic. documents are giving, evidence of the fact that the gregtest legal can, when theéy choose, excel In the art of lucid brevity. Alrship ‘experiments_continue to be highly expensive and doubtful as to practioal result., In days of old it came to pass, And bade us shed a tear: A countryman blew out the gas, And left this earthly sphere. How limited that ancient way! How modest its intent!. They turn a gas jet on today ‘To quell a regiment. Absorbing Oceupation. “Can't you get me a government Job2”. asked the willing worker. “ra_like to,” answersd Semator Sorghum. “But a man in goverhment employ has to work so hard nowadays that you wouldn't have time to be any help in my political campaigns.” Jud Tunkins says people are natyral- 1y egotistic. Whenever the Darwinian from Missouri Is to be chosen, and the expectation is that Mr. Reed will offer to succeed himself. ‘The fight for the democratic sena- torfal nomination should be a very pretty one. Mr. Reed antagonized the ‘Wilson administration on the Paris peace treaty and on other matters, and last year the Wilson influence kept him out of the San Francisco conven-: end is not yet. They took credit for it. Presumably, the feeling 18 the same now as then, | ©PP for iproduces and manufactures, aad the and 'this movement at Sedalia—a little early, but certain of wide attention on man left the train at Mansfield, Ohlo, without paying excess. It is not so much what we pay that in- stills discontent as it is the feel- the utmost.to distribute the bur- dens of government equitably over , the incomes of the people. (Copyright, 1931, b3 Thomas R. Marmkall.) Specialists Push Trade Drive. dustrial and commodity special- tion, to which he had been-elected s TS, U pert in his passioulsr = (Selegute:F An; 1t s hndcatoodithe line, who have made & marked suc- |, cess in thelr own . private business, Mr. McAdoo, it is needless to my,|are now in charge ot Uncle Sam's| was the choice of the Wilson men at|campaign for foreign trade. These the .convention, and his friends were [big business men are organiszing and instrumental in Mr. Reed’s. defeat.|directing: & -co-ordinsted, systematic stady of the world’s needs and the ortunities in all forelgn markets the goods that the United Sta turérs and dealers individually in an to ertain the ezact nature assistance most urgent- 3 of the officia! Y needed. They will then proceed :‘ uln.’:.ho‘hl:qu&rld nnt: tr.nnamm \a wide facilities ose - experts will relating to 'y fcan business repor commodities By : * 2 From & geographical staadpoint also. pass upon and interpret for the benefit of Amer- ch a8 are recaived from the trade representatives of this country mnow stationed at foreign posta. Stinnes, born in 1870, at Mulheim, has ch bloed in his veine, he being the son of a descendant of the Huguenots, who emigrated in the seventeenth century to the Rhine coal mine, taught him to be interest- | kn g‘aln coal. At the age of twenty nes worked as a miner and wield.. ed the pick and the lamp. spoke Of cra and dreamed of cite. Att ty-three he foundeq the Bnro.funn house, with a capital of 60,000 marks. Success crowned his commercial genius. Forty years later he was to preside over the destinies of siyty mines in Germany and many navigstien company as well 28 paper and chemical factogies. In Mt.' the war made him into the king of teers. is Gollath,” says the writer, “has not the Napoleon appearance of cer- tain Wall street bankers; a small boler, his hllmlnfl eyes Jooking oyt under his heavy Iids, the lower of his face bristling with a mu, 1 black beard, in rt and & small suddenness of an irristible moveme which struck them with stupor t.:!: |lnldn them powerless. The leaders who headed the bands of peasants to assault castles, crowds of artisans assaulting the town halls or the municipal toll offices, are all obscure men whose names are not even own, “The Russian revolution was m: uch lme same in 1917. The bolshevist eaders who directed it later on were at that time in prison in foreign countries. Lenin was awaliting events in Switzerland. It was not .g:a cadets of the douma who gave e signal for insurrection. ‘They Wwere surprised and scared. vaded douma could only register ac- complished facts. The leaders of the first soviets, where workmen and soldiers fraternized, are just as un- known as the peasants who rose in rebellion in Provence, Bretagne, Al- sace, Dauphiny and ten other prov- inces from'January to July, 1789. l “This s a natural consequence of things, ‘The in- says the writer. *“The lead- ers, precisely because they are lead- 4 E 33 A “deliver the goods.” At Col. ! et s | _ —i best way to N e ers, feel their responsibility. where he spends his winters, Col o i T theory is mentioned everybody thinks}that account—is a pioneer expréssion the same time, they are training &!the b is now well fortified with w -..- l;le\.n,vb. SR Rrathy ey s fi.em';n lllyy "f':txo:: House will be In easy reach of Wash-| gypping by the “Stop” Sigms, * [the oke s on the othar. fellow. of it. From this Missourl acorn will 2| ;"¢ assistants to mast the de- divisions covering eastern |cellaborators. Like ali the great fn-{leave nothing to chance. Ther Z-zr n3%ez, by wire, or mail,’or fast rail- e “ tall odk grow—snfficiently tall to top m westeyn Eusope, lfla‘\n Ames- | dustrial leaders, . fallure. The unknown future weighs road train, and will know personally some of those assembled to settle im- portant world affairs. — e Prophetic fear doth not discl - Our shortage for the by and by. Of wards the dictionary shows An inethaustible supply. other gaks in 19247 Ceremonal display was ahsent from [in th the ‘signing Gf the peace treaty. with [under Gérmany. It will be hard for Wilhelm ! thé uf 'l mand for apecially qualified men a3 the foreign trade grows. 5 This s the phase of reorganisation Départmént of Comnierce, Secrqgary Hoower, that is of tmost present interest to Ames- fos, the far &sat @nd the nedr 3 The eastoth and western Eurcpean - divisjons were created withih the last féw diys. The chiefy of these Row divisionis will give spe- east. el h.'. s he knows za) oW u“:mn. ?m-n secrel qdfn n tha “information o Iy e.tbu n::n:'uml:'“n 'l’; ll.u!-:-,:a.!nc . y of & inl of oguse o lgtter edigtely en: iy ruel Ohe ot b e of his a former officer etvice of the heavily on their boldness. In April, 1792, only four months before Alltpult 10, when the throne was upset, Marat, discouraged, did not believe in suc- cens. “What a revolution characterizes and distinguish K “miltl es it ‘from an insur- “The use of the word “dirigible” as 3 g tion to incoming Ml':“‘ t is_the impetus of anarch: " > : cer g . .. | Hohenzollern to.understand how Preds.|1can business men. It brings the bést | cial sttentian to 1 LS| which oarr : Y. N N o Conflicting Opinion. .. ' dent Ebert could forego the opportu.|busihess mihds of the eoumtry into | from & reglonsl standpoit, to pro- jzolied this L5 Ny mm-u‘_t& along. :z'- l-fnr’: craft is open to quéstion. how to set in motion forces in their own land that will bring it, If un- ized co-operstion with tha fed- vide. Ameriopn manufacturyrs ‘with Revelution stirs the unorganised The day for an insutrection valley. In fact, his mother's maiden name is Coupienne. “His father, who had interests in & “How fast can you £o {n your fiiv.|nity for & personal demonstration, re-| orEaA! 2 1 heormat im it {s | masses. e A et geads ent in- ith ‘aclivities to}the hest informativh ohtainable from e of the money, For it 3 The Hasdbook Arrss i ol | e S S AR v R R 4 s e b i | o M £ e Septe B et “Aut B ! ] cem——— s, dtable. yo! [ > F s 7 ? Handbook. arrests are occurring Chuggins. “Fhe -!':-n-n enid sixty-| Tn the light of recent Russtan his:|ih8 b Sondiciony throughou fln?: ‘." foal dpoint, et “Whers. witt X Rla ases not mean, of course, that with & frequency that eusgests the five miles ad our, but the conatable| tory. referencs to leader as & “amr”| commerclsl WML 1L | maiitien ot Tee burdag of torsign | o5 Wio directs, 'smon | 1t [x Impossible to recosnize by cer- 9 the Lmit.” thoa rather than ssreasm. prLE SR e : i Jame = roaching, ~F o . say of the Commissioners’ crusade says twenty's ¢ vlunlm pathos er than b _6f forsign andidomes: n«-flh “tl! ‘rmnb:!nna. :r. the “v :-. m::. ..f;ech:':;{ Te lh‘zm-‘::‘:: t:; .':i‘:'&": r‘h&'e'i'r Speinac Leat. pacticalariy zienn- aud : e e tlo commercs s Just completing the | taw; whidh Will pay speclal altention e 615,000,000 | IEht. when they muttipiy ot the sem pernicious form of gambling. But the ‘The “eonquest of tha afr" _means | organisation ‘o &’ number of spaciel | he. ©0 o8 of the im-]marks? thut he gives| time concessions and EREQUIAg o€ it peogle i, ROC long, bard struggle Involviag lods of |n:::mal or commodity divistons. ]! a e wauid tavor & Incapabie of remadyiag the ot encugh. They should be prosecuted, 3 2 3 ? life and propérty. . . ., The men in charge of these divisions ) monarchy l?oeu- and, on the other and it convictdd punished. Yet ravely “It does. The chatcs df Broy R et S i e iked experts fn thairgartics the hth-yn-llonm does a handbook case come.to trial 18 not great. But the quarrel you're| In the light of military experiences|ular- Zpey Wil °‘°:; = the pofnt of verdict: Most of them | board. lisble to have with ‘s husky lifeguard] Prussian motto should be “Never touck asiocias] from time to time until involves considerable peril.” again.” S