New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1918, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1918. THE BIRTH OF THE PLAG. —o day the sky, line city, are, as a rule, SERVICE Bous. On the other | fnnot be blamed for | ad- | treats Glory, streaming full 'gainst | Smiled down on a marching by; Then streaming far turned its geze | Where our “Jackies”, so danger can phase one ff a customer icomingly, or of “Our Boys” if. she were a h to worry adding to any- nting spleen upon Ind person. Let us b as courteous to- We expect them to lil find that gantnesses to mar to ruffle our at any time, During slave. ot 2 : about a1t o'er the sea dear, ne'er With o thrill of just pride it | furled to full length | And breathed dGown a something that there | imhues all with strength | But suddenly drooping, it clung to its mast, this is the impulse its folds passed un- And that through justice, my claim to m fai truth, as I share- With these, brave their all ne'er in a should fall! titie, so wave, 1 always should UATION. and noble, who of- | | { | In i war statement |, . as follows: i font the cnemy | Bt counter at- | some local | Awest of | b ot Ricims | ehanged. | we may accept | _ tion as being i1t coincides with | eadquarters an- | I'll give of my stripes red eroush for Ithe positive side | the band, Iy no mention is | A10UNd enoush 8ot the tr~mendous | ~rmereon | sna st in conbat, nor is | deep hlue on ~iven the Ger- | To represent fHuns were e , and true, points. It has long“ etica of Ludendorff to{ erman populace with | The sacrifice great offer up there for Which are true so far as | e s St ®| That star of it which omit a great deal Nl infavorable for the German | e e A t we may be satisfied with | was supreme. fhe enemy admits. On the sec- | o < | And all shall "day of a great offensive, when It A is to be expected that the attack | mo those in the struggl ould reach the of ts| Freedom true! strength, tho German high command | Their faults, or their matter how grave, Fore’'er are wiped out ice, so brave! confi honor In the trench, or the open, the air, on the sea, They give up their and guard me! Athene sprang forth from head of old now let a flag fold! lives to protect the gor to their hones un- white fof a center sprinkle the stars of ever each boy, brave 9. 3 the chance on And should one by land, or the sea pure zold 'mongst the sleam To world that his gift be tokens of gratitude who kept height errors, no by their serv- Bment, | 15 compelled to confess that the situa- | | tion of Rheims is unchanged’, i which | In order to and itis of the nation's These are two features for t, the Children’s Wel- IS are volunteering for the | this early stage of the battle. When B weizhing the infants of each | W€ consider, too, that the Allles esti- bommunity, and tabulating the condi- | mate the German 100,000, | munications assert 5 1 delivered ! attacks.” | Their virtues are graven on mem'ry's bright page, TiN time is no more, growing bright- er with age! Humanity ever the world round shall sing oOf glory, ‘Our shall bring. that the enemy has “several violent counter unusual losses thus far at the that ‘ 3 + s Boys' to this banner fon of each, so that its growth may andSmhen atest s all along the time to time, and rem- not pe noted from In many a heart is a void, never filled, ation may indeed be | And tears blind the eyes, vet the 5 | senses are thrilled: | A feeling of pride with the pain baies applied if progress is sat. | line Entente soldiers are holding their Jositions, the si sfactory positions, th tu 1s at once a wWork of mercy |Sid to be most favorable T e e endeavor. The nation- k1 directors have alloted to the ladies| Woe to the Huris. £ Connecticut the task of saving one | is going to F In New Britain a borps of workers has been organized | hnd a | | patriotic i Tom" Sharkey i ion, 1ce. ‘Our housand habies. L | So—my sglory. T'll share with Boys’, far and near, Without them to back me fall, I fear; T'11 fling to the breezes this banner, so new: Its name shall be ‘Service' for me and for you. “For ruck Smashes Coal Cart."” where | nd will proceed at once with the du- | —Headline. L =oon ies outlined above. The city has been Flivvers rush in angels fear to tread. and the district the ufi volunteer in | divided into districts, o leader must rely upon help Germans call their of Peace’. When will look like a storm in pieces. The “Storm offensive a ladies who finished it this lady, especially may find it di If called stop will to assis noble work. While nearly every where'er its colors shine out ‘neath the sun, are | Be it here on our shores, or the land of the Hun, all 'twill be known served to the end | Democracy's life, and i’ defend!” And children, icult to spare the time, | one with Sitfe _ | The said to have set the day Kaiser's weather experts upon to she should | that she is doing something for the mother | - “The her if condi- | Crown Prince on a window help, ) 1 for the drive. | oo that to reflect when she assists, | They didn’t anticipate such a frost. Your Tlag to of other children, which she would be | Kaiser sat chatting with the glad to have done for tions sill of the Un- fall- ! _fLovingly inscribed to “Our Boys” ! hy Margaret L. Finnegan. i [Editor's Note—These verses were read at the unveiling of the service : | flag presented to the Beaublen school, York adopts the plan pro- { C'hicago, and will he used with equal of at the presentation of flags to ente Joffre”, who | other schools. Miss Finnegan, who 4 lives in Chicago, is a niece of J. M policemen the | pipyozan of this city.] were reversed Everyone is | Potsdam Palace.” did News Ttem sacrifiicing comfort nowa- not have a days and there should be a ready re- gponse to the call for assistants. The ladles of New Britain have made an It enviable reputation in the matter of promptly all appeals of a charitable or patriotic nature. Let them the present in- stance that that reputaion is one the; the babies! personal fortunately they ing out. New posed. to name one its principal | succ answering horoughfare will teach the demonstrate in correct pronunciation? ! = | AND PANCI | Now tnat adjourned — X the solons will have an opportunity | TWhat little murder to hie to the ball park | friends Wilhelm and Tenine? and reflect on the question whether | NeW York Sun deserve. Help Congress has is a themselves lfkce 30UT SHOPPING. Another type of | mives an awful pain is the con- many Austrian and | structive critic whose attitude seems of | to be that he isn’t going to be proud Russi Phe centrdl powers | of his country until he has to.—Ohio : 4 2 ¥ | State Journal. every- | Will have a hard time trying to set | - ag | them to the front again. They've had | Tt is long since we have heard from the | enough. | Yap, but it may soon figure in the { | news as a victim of the typhoon | \which hit Guam and the Philippines mourn the | __Springfield Republican. He wa — Governor Holcomb (i o voung he used to or 6:30, and in the evening | An inexhaustible stock of good nat 1 he evening | k of good nature | /o vuyere in the state, notably at s AT che of all the officers’ training camp of the C. . | knew him (i, at Niantic Sunday. The governor considerate, he or | - example of a stalwart New resident.—Middletown Press. the 1918 candi- have in advance Miilean | 2oy baseball is a non-essential occupation. | and are typical “dog days’, —sultry depres Nearly every day for the past there thunder-storm, American that exceedingly ing us No German | leased by weel matter how has been a prisoners war are re- which is indicative At of oppressive hu- midity times most body possible such avoids the streets as the much during hours when the an e sun beats down upon thorouzh- | iE i Hundreds of friends “Diek” fares, Consequently, traordinary | amount of late in | passing of Murray the 8 o'clock, hours at drug stores and other shopy | ich the shopper is ghopping is which done is evidently as be for he is fteroon, at stores close at | & real man. with a warm heart and | as won admiration who keep open after that time real 5 ne Congressman ! the she will make all necessary purchases | Lonergan's speech in 5 earlier in the day, and not compel House on water power in One consolation evening's edi- | dates for office may furnishes one more proof that | of election lies in the fact that even | if defeated they need not be long out B a job.-—Atlanta Constitution man ! S The senafe in drafting a bill prohi the sale of liguor after Jan- | may have considered the psychology tho leaf.—New York $Sun to L The next natisn that s ought to be pay in advance Con- the store clerks to work so hard to- | necticut, printed in last ward the closing hours, when they are | ton, tired after their feet | since morning. “Gus” is awake to the of right having been on needs We a torrent of the to their wants v | have seen | district and that he is the customers pour out abuse | in the right place on fat did not customary the ! piting of ! sons latter A e th the | Whatewer | Colonel the 1ed clerks hecause anvone may think his credit two hefore The nd demanded im- 1 of the death of Quentin, his youngest attend of new promptness ot infre- Iloosevelt’s policies, quently, customer entered the {10 service are surely a store a second or the | him and to their country S made to for it, doors were closed S5 on Indinnapolis News mediate attention from who died a hero's death in clerk who w Such an i exhausted | SO0 ! France, was job will be regretted by the na- who at all times willing to quit a good drift wood shares, 1s ont earn the thousand the navy for the base.~—Cap- Hap | read Ma and caich starting s all ready to depart for home j tien forget that customers should not on there is a state law which 2 prohibits the employment of girls for | The people of Bismarck, North to the of thw} city. The “Bismarek" on at the railroad station i n18.000.ton aHIp was bullt in Bel- oblfterated overnight with paint, and | fast, Ire, in 15 days. And we know the following was printed in large let- | some fellows who take all summer | painting their canoe.—Springfield Daily New: To Well with this blockheaded ' ekl offered hy of a submarine kly. dollars diseovery per'’s W more than certain hours every day, | Dakota, evidently object name word permits his cler he is Hable to a fine. There need be no ferences betwen a to work over hours, a sign was 7% 1 | | | | and that if the proprictor of the store I | | disputes of dif- clerk and a tomer, if each tries to be consider- ate of the other's feelings. A clerk, & geurse, should always be polite, cus- | ters: You might have knawn it, A Ger- 3 (5D bes What did he ever do for us? . Hun. j man sympathi-er ]been connected with the weather bu- ling lon by t viki To know that they died for humani- | they | retween | [ by | warehouses of the | was organized | of perfect reau, and immediately he got his walking papers the clouds disap- peared and the wind shifted to a fav- orable direction.—Middletown ve- ning Press Dr. Garfield’s latest prescription for his suffering patient—the public—is much like those that have gone be- fore. It calls for restriction and privation, though there is an abun- dance of coal in the ground. The anxious patient would cordially wel- come anothe doctor.—Providence Journal long privi- tax on Can anybody keep a cook enough to give the family the lege of paying a government her?——New York Sun. The gates of cur ship- building plants autos of the workers. some of the men r as to give the hosss a Baltimere many of are clogged with 4nd, perhaps, kind-hearted lift the way American on home! Convics have gone on e Wetrersfield prison. nev satisfied.~ trike Some Ne at people ase T.ondon If there are E whisky in the United States in bond there must be about half that much more in the mountains of North Car olina not out on bond Record. 10,000 gallo Gov, O i1l rattie his IFord’s ribs. Well, it's a tough running or rattling. igan) lLeader bor bt automohilely joh Ford, (Mich-~ to Oxford beat a Every Belgium many. erican billions a academic Eagle. man, woman and child pays $150 a year to If we were also subdued, collections would be about 15 year; but that is merely an consideration Broolklyn in Ger- Fugene V. Debs who was arrested Sunday, was nominated on Mon- for representative or something the socialists. A little thing like being pinched does not deter the so- cialistic class from honoring a hero in their estimation—Middletown Tve- day | ning Press, suecessor to Uncle Ho- race Johnson to give explanation of the absence of the summer season. But there is no necessity of going to the shore to enjoy the coolness of the nights after the heat of —New Haven Register. There is no Now that the kaiser's ox has been gored, he doesn’t admire the bolshe- so much.—Meriden Record. circus is now involved in a railroad wreck in the middle west. That is a pretty barsh method of getting free advertising.—Norwich Bulletin. A second Expatriated, fighting what to be the most hopelessly desperate fight, that the world has ever known, the Czecho-Slavs have rendered an enormous service to the cause of civ- ilization and bid fair to render other services still greater. And they have been animated by the purest passion for freedom, and that alone.—New London Telegraph. A member of the German reichstag has been quoted as saying that “mil- itary agriculture has proved a fail- ure”, presumably referring to the driving of peasant farmers by soldiers and the robbing of them later of the fruits of their labors. In the United States “military agriculivre” in the form of voluntarily worked “war gar- dens” has proved a success.— Wester- ly (R. L) Sun. New York is,to handle package ight by store door delivery. Thi is the scientific and economical way to transact this business. Much of he confusion and delay in the hand- ling of goods less than car load lots grows out of the system of storing in the freight houses, until the owners call for them. Wndless delay and confusion is thus created. Goods are or overlaid. Room is occupied commodities that owner. A system would be a and a great Bridgeport lost deliveries troubles. power.— immediate of many trucking of solvent saver of Times. COMMUNICATED. OUR ASSYRIAN CITIZENS. What They Are Doing to Help Win | jured. the War. Tditor of the Herald: Hoping that vou will kindly publish the following statement in your esteemed paper, T beg to submit this article about my countrymen The occasion of the 4th of ebration feeling of minds whether the of New Britain knew who we and what we meant., and for that son it was deemed neces: y to some explanation. The earliest history of in New Britain dates frow about 1895, For a number of the public hardly knew there v represent-d in this city until the lat- ter end of 1904 when a brotherhood at the South church, under the name of the Persian-Assy- Brotherhood. Since that timeo have becen known as Tuly cel- has left a doubt in onr as to people were, re: give our colony vears s such a nation rian we No doubt both names are right; a, being the name of the country where we came; Assyrians our nationality. In conditions of the ple. Persi from noting to the de- world and | ourselves, as there are Assyrians from here also, we would rather go name— Assyrians, all As- Turke, under our as a matter of satisfaction to the world. Tt is a matter right to our real tional name. Now the question may arise as to who are the Assyrians The old history will tell you we were the first followers of Christ. Remem- ber the thrse wise men represented on our fioat on Elihu Burritt day in May, 19107 This nation hag kept the national syrians in use na the | Columbia | Am- | the day. | | luxury taxes. appeared | should be in the | war purposes, | squeeze in Persians, | and as Assyrians by some of the peo- | reference | who the attainment of a common end without waste of days in conference The mingling of troops of the seve: nations has inspired comradeship and confidence which have greatly stif- fened morale. The Allies were driven to unite their armies under a single com- mander by the danger arising from desertion Russia. That event aiso enabled them to concentrate on the western front al] their initions and material, much of which had been formerly destroyed or treacherousiy surrendered to the enemy by Russin. Bible and stood firmly in that faith | course, the term luxury is a re!atlve' through all the persecutions and tor- {one. The fur of Felis domesticus, a tures of the enemies to that faith. 25 phonograph, 50-cent socks, near Today as we become known to Am- | diamonds and filled gold watches may ericans and other . nationalities in | be highly prized indulgences to some this city, we realized that Fourth of | people. They are quite proper ob- July was a real blessing to us while | jects of taxation on a reasonable joining others in the spirit of the day. | scale. They are being extensively The night before the Fourth there | bought just now by the profiteers of was a spirit of enthusiasm among all | war labor and, no doubt, an enormous Assyrians. At a mecting of 200 per- [revenue can be derived from them sons gathered for the purpose of ar- |and a thousand similar articies with- ranging for the parade, one person— |out hardship or oppression to any one, John Isaac, by name—gave one hun- | buyer or seller. But it is rather ab- dred dollars for the honor of carrying | surd to call them luxurfes. the. American flag: two others, Moses | 'The fact is, this new departure in Sargis and Saul Moses, gave eighty | Uederal taxation appears to he mado dollars each for the privilege of car- | rather from the point of view of Scot- | rying the banner and the service flag. | land Neck, North Carolina, than from | There w more than yrians { that of the United States. The termi- in the line, drilled by our soldiers in | nology gets mixed from having service. The last float in the line of | foundation in the standards of a husy march w: of Assyria, “The [center with a population of 1348, a Morning T This name meant | rallway station, a telegraph office, a the eastern where the sun rises | money order Post Office and an ex- in the this glory is not a | press connection, are assured but a fit The | by the veracious Rand and McNally Liberty and sam {Thus we find a hotel bill exceeding 32 a day per person (a. p., presumably) presented as an extravagance requir- ing the curb of a luxury tax. This to 2 mere New Yorker may seem almost funny; but it really is. not more so than almest all the other standards of maximum exception, given in the { tentative schedules, the metropolitan standard and not that of Scotland Neck being applied to them. In a word, the new tax plan, while fundamentally sound, is apparently in the hands of men incapable of apply- ig it wisely. First of all they know little or nothing about the United States, broadly speaking. In the sec- | ond place, they miss the point of their |own good idea; they are trying to make of it something that it is not and cannot be and that would render it fiscally unproductive. Finally, they seem strangely blind as to the practi- cal workings of taxation. To illus- trate, they schedule a 50 per cent. tax on the retail price of watches and clocks. Apparently they do not see that this would virtually stop all sales | of these instruments, that the Treas- The Strain of the Kings. (Charleston News and Courier) Tt takes a prett stand the tough monarch of a its to strain, war like this one. Francis Joseph of Austria could not do it because he was too old. He had been through a great deal In his long life and was better used to strifa and excitement than most monarchs but he had already passed the allotted span of man's years and this struggle broke him down. The of Russia was not of the right stuff for such an ordeal as that through which Russia passed. Perhaps no monarch in his place, no matter how strong and capable, could have avert« ed the storm that swept Russia; but Nicholas could not even make a real effort to avert it. Ferdinand, the long-nosed ruler of Bulgaria, is of another soxt. He is’ tough enough, in all conscience, if current report be true ,and an able man within limits. His namesake of Roumania, a member of the Hohen- | zollern house, has fallen upon misfor tune and has had to bow to the gale; but to have come through it at all ha must be possessed of considerable stamina. Hapsburg Charles, Francis Joseph's successor, is struggling im the tempest now and there is littla likelihood that he will weather it suc- | cessfully and gain a safe harbor withi his crown still on his head. TFor English George the conditions are different. He is-a king, but Greas ury would, therefore, derive no rev- | Britain is in all save name a republic. enue from the tax and the net result | Albert of Belgium is every inch & will not be provided for. The Treas- | Would be the ruin of an industry and | man. The hordes of the Hun have ury is soon to lose revenue from whis- | # branéh of retail trade and a new [swept him from capital but not key, wine and beer to the amount of | and formidable displacement of labor | from the hearts of his people: and & many millions, by reason of national | With a corresponding convulsion to |day will come when—if he does no¢ prohibition, which Congress evidently | face when the war is over. meet a soldier’s death in the means will establish within a year for the | Unduestionably the ways and means | time—he will to Brussels hon duration of the war regardless of | committee has started on a good trail. | ored and praised by the world. Vice the fate of the prohibition amend- | Perhaps a féw weeks of study and |tor Emmanuel of Ttaly, small of sta< ment to the Federal Constitution. In |outside advice from pedple who know |ture but great of heart, has faced order to find the balance of the $8.- |and are not actuated by, prejudice |with courage and common sense soma 000,000,000 to be raised by taxation, | alone, may save them from blunder- | difficult situations and has conquered it 18 propesed by the treasury to levy | in& in its pursuit. The signs are not | them all. William Hohenzollern, tha direct taxes on the consumption of | inhopeful. Tt is something even to | center of the most powerful autocs £00ds or services under the nape of | have a sane idea launched. We look |racy the world has ever seen, owes These would consist of | oPtimistically to new light | much to the fact that this autocracy percentage taxes on even the retail |SPread in the taxation darkness which fneeds him and must in its own inter- sales of mumberless articles of per- | has for the last year or two brooded | ests protect him. That he is of the e e ns e n | over Washington. 3 tough monarchs everyone will grantg bought a shirt for more than $2, he | puifbom myjch Liejopes Lol HisE O would pay a tax on it, just as now he | toll=hllessfianaihow imtch 1o el renttg pays a tax land morning as of Statne of we patent of ou name referred President Wil- small nations people of ave doing | where an appeal was made, to the proclamation of son great \s to the right of we would like to let th New Britain know that our bit”. We have from New Rritain in the service Almost every Assyrian has bought Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps, and contributed toward the Red Cross. We are doing all we can to help the I"nited States of America and further- more, our men in the old country are on the battlefield, wher little while ago, Mar-Shimmon, our patriarch, the great patriotic commander of the Assyrian killed—fighting for the the rights of Assyrians. Very sincerely, (Signed) we ibout 45 men rmy, was Allies and for BABA JONES “Lmxury” Taxes. {(Springfield Republican) « Income and excess profits or war profits taxes are to be raised to very near the possible maximum. No mer- | cy for the war profiteers. But still | the $8,000,000,000 required in taxes | his return see @ A Dynasty of Madmen. (Contributed by Robert H. Davis to the National Security League's cam- {paign of Patriotism Through Educa- | tion.) 3 on theater tickets. Such stances history must decidé. p taxes would be called luxury tax We come at last to Mohammed of not without some straining of the Turkey. This Sultan had no hickory word luxury, but luxurious living is a quality. He was as soft warm highly relafive matter and, in a world | America cannot contemplate defeat; | Wax. Fe held the title but not tha that has come down to brass tacks, |a lasting vietory is alone admissible, | POWer, and doubtless he bothered his even a $2.50 shirt may be SO T e R e ol fieg e ;v in, such as it but little about perhaps as a luxury. sians it will be our last war; if we win | TUrkey’s war problems. Yet it i Luxuries have always been taxed, |this war against the Prussians, it will [ Sald that the war weighed on him in peace times, especially imported |pe the last war. We are fighting a | Neavily and it is not surprising to luxuries. We may well face the |dynasty of madmen, super-saturated €410 that he has gone. He was not necessity of extending to unheard of |ywith the idea that they aré chosen hy ¢ ‘"¢ stuff that these stern times re lengths the classification of luxuries, |the Divine Will to conquer very na- auire so as to include many articles within | tion not of their blood. a certain price range that hitherto They have the primitive impulses | have escaped direct taxation. If there | of red men, with whom this conntry is no other way to raise the moneV |has already had some experience. A needed for the war, then the peoprle |typical Prussian was the late Geroni- should be reconciled to these proposed | mo, chief of the Apaches, a medi- taxes even on retail There is cine man with a high rating as a tor- another justification for them, to wit, [turer. It made little difference to the discouragement of unnecessary | Geronimo whether his victim was production and wasteful consumption. | male or female, old or young. The If the people will not save their mon- |sight of human blood appealed to |and the Mail have been about fifty- ey voluntarily by habits of thrift, the | him. He was known among his peo- | fifty, since the war began. Each of Government will be forced to make |ple as “The Apache Devil.’ Even so |them warmly supported the war, buff them economical by taxing them in a |they revered him. warmly criticised the president and way to discourage needle heavy | He was the wickedest Indian that | those who were carrving on a war expenditures on essentials or any ex- |ever ranged the North American con- | The Tribune say: penditures whatever on non- tinent. He took the warpath with- | “Herr Dr. Rumely tials. The so-called luxury taxes are [out justification, raided the settle- | He touched the money defensible for two reasons, thercfore, | ments, shot the peaceful peoples from | believably crude.” the collection of revenue and the dis- | ambush, broke every truce, and car- Ogden L. Mills, director of the Tri« couragement of waste. ried on a campaign of shocking bru- | bune, was bondholder of the It is urged by some critics that |tality until finally exhausted by his during the ownership of Dr. R these two objects are antagonistic and | own vicious career, he surrendered [ When the Germans put their may defeat each other. People maist {and died a military prisoner IFort | into the Mail,*they did what be encouraged to spend their money, | Sill. { could to make r. Mill's bonds it 1s argued, if trade is fo flourich, | Sitting Bull, chief of the Sloux. de- |real money. and unless trade does flourish, large |veloped the Prussian monarchial trait{ Hearst triumphantly asks the Tri< consumption taxes cannot he collect- | of remaining in his tepee while his|bune to explain its lack of knowledga ed. No fault can found that | braves went out to die. He was not [ of the German connection with the argument as a piece of veasoning, bu' |even present at the Custer massacre in | Mail, and suggests that the Tribt s the fact remains that if the Govern- |the Little Big Horn, although he ar- | more vexed with Rumely’s awkward- ment is to take from the American |rived shortly afterward to decorate | ness than with his unpatriotic cons people $24,000,000,000 in one vear for | himself, and subsequently toured the | duct. either by borrowing or | country as the chief who wiped out| The Tribune for partisan taxation, they must save that amount | Custer's command. Sitting Bull was | constantly belittled the administration somehow from their income. That|a long-range blood drinker. He also | at Washington, though it supported means the cutting off of expenditure {organized the Messiah craze, another | the war. in certain directions; it cannot be | pPrussian device designed to camou-| Partisanship and German cash pro= helped even if some industries are in- | fiage inherited savagery, and mislead | duced like consequences. The 'Tris his disciples. { bune was influenced by partisanship. The gross annual The Hohenzollerns are to the worid | The Mail, by German money American people estimated | what Geronimo and Sitting Bull were | Col. Roosevelt will do well to st spond with the present level of prices, | to the American plains. It is their de. | carefully the lesson of these facts is probably frem 60 to 70 billions of |struction, or ours. The scouts of the dollars—of course no one knows even | prussians are among us; the torch is approximately the precise amount. |in their hands; their poisoned arrows The bulkc of that annual increment |are on the wing; the Prussian ‘“Mes- of wealth the people have spent on|siah” who prefers to burn churches themselves, their living, their pleas- [ rather than to pray in them, is on the ures and thetr luxuries. How much | march. We must cross our thresh- they now save is a matter of guess- |olds and meet them, or they will work: one financial authority is re- | cross our thresholds and destroy us ported to caleulate the annual saving If Germany is victorious, the world at 18 billions, which is over twice |jg lost; if GGermany is defeated, the what it was in peace. If that is world is saved then there must be an additio = = expenditure of some six s to Hearst and the Tribune. (Bridgeport Times) Hearst is a lucky man. The arres of Dr. Rumely, who acquired the New York Mail with German money, has given him a distinct advantage in respect of the disloyalty charges | made by the Tribune. The Tribunes | | sales. | | | en- was a hl That wa hey- with motives; income of the to corre- 1dy Fusion in Tdaho, (Ttica Observer) Out in sanship is parties are Idaho patriotic nor feot Both the st of Senators Rorah, a Republican, and, Nugent, Democrat, and so hoth will renominated and re-elected A mine owner named Sam-* man of good reputation and a Republican, has heen asked to take both the Democratic and Republican nominations for Governor. There are State offices to be filled whick presumably will be distributed tween the two parties, the acid to be applied, however, as to their Am- cricanism. the practical procedure they are putting partisan politics out of it and setting a pretdn example partis having pe work united in ypo be prosperon nelson, a billions, if the Government rais The Weakest Spot. 14 billions in revenue. The American people much more if they were placed under the .sharp spur of necessity. The main. prohlem war taxation is psychological, that is to say, it fis moral. How much are the people ready to endure and to suffer in order | that the nation may achieve the ob- jects which it has professed in enter- ing the war? (Portland Oregonian) It looks as though the first couster-offensive will be made by Italy against the ragged, hungry, dis- pirited army of Austria. With ample food and munitions and with the aid of British, French and American ar- tillery and airmen, the ltalians should be able to drive back the army of the Hapsburg unless the Germans should reinforce them. Fail ure of the latter on the Oise and be- fore Rheims suggests that they have no troops to spare, ant any weaken- ing of their fo in France might be the signal for Foch to take the offensive in that country also e The brighter outlook for the Allies may be ascribed directly to the pool- the present time. Prices are too ing of their force and to the single and income and profits taxe command. They have been able to more than half the means of those | strengthen every weak point prompt- ordinarily buy luxuries. could save aiiteq | OERET be- test of : By very good We Cannot Wait. Tribune York Evening Sun) (New York of the posed taxes luxury taxes is exposed in very recital of the objects be Luxuries in the true sense of bein bought or in- dulged in to a very small extent at (New It may be historically the true that Lit "he absurdity ling pro- Tost we Germany ovsk. B war at wait Brest e to cannot to see taxed the word are The Militant Czechs, (New Hien Bedford Standard) The only red-blooded patriotic Rus- sians these days seem to be the ()rl]y and to time each movement for | mians, s B consume