The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 1, 1917, Page 6

hree Billions of Excess War Profits in U. S.] Just when the senate finance committee was put- hg the finishing touches on its war revenue bill Secre- of the Treasury McAdoo upset the apple cart by ling the senators the war department alone would hortly need about five billion dollars more. Of course, his means the finance committee will have to draft a revenue bill, and consider two big questions: First: How much shall be raised by direct taxation nd how much by bonds? ' Secondly: How much of the direct tax shall be ised by levies upon excess profits, how much on in- and how much on the articles used by the ordin- consumer? The other day a senator, asked how to supply the enue lost if the liquor tax was knocked out, replied God knows!” Right after McAdoo’s statement Finance Chairman Mmons expressed himself as quite at sea on raising new vast sum. Then, catching his second wind, he THE SEATTLE STAR) | a im Ave. | F Near Union St. NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWsrarkny vice of the United ress Assoctati th up to 6 mos, 6 mos 41 city 26¢ @ month ‘Hard Time for Neutrals All is ready to put into actual operation the first of the| Swar plans entrusted to the president—control of exports ‘Under arrangement with the British government, the ited States and Great Britain will, practically, have control 3 world’s trade in their hands, which a mighty splan and mighty big control. It means perhaps mighty ities in the future, since the world is going to be very for some time after peace comes | it in plain words, we've directly engaged in the of starving Germany. } American food supply will be used first to feed | cans, secondly to feed the allies, and what is left will the neutrals under such tight regulations that it cannot ans y. latter fact will spur the U-boats on to making hotter | neutral ships, which means that neutrality is going to real hot time in sticking to its neutrality | red, that neutrals are to get only what's left over from | 1 is and allies is a warm proposition in itself. To tor- § Meutral shipping, under such conditions, will be like up both head and tail of neutrality. sir asson From Doctors fe learn today a lesson in patriotism and unselfishness | doctors. In at least one state (Ohio) the medical) agreed to share fees with doctors who go to the if Dr. Brown goes to the front and Dr. Smith stays! Smith forwards to Brown half of any fees he may get) iting Brown’s patients in Brown's absence medical profession is filled with traditions of heroic pselfish action, but there is nothing that quite matches) for broad gauge human goodness on such a large scale.’ fe have to thank the war for showing up in the human immeasurable amount of lofty idealism and willing- serve and sacrifice that ordinarily we would not sus-| there. | le hope many will follow where these doctors lead ice on Woman Slugger | “Mayor Gill and the council are backed up by a unani- community in offering $1,000 for the capture and con-| of the woman slugger, or sluggers, who terrorized He for weeks past. Tt is worth every bit of that amount, and more too, to rid of that kind of beast “The money is not really needed as an incentive for the fehension of this sort of fiend in an aroused community, #t is an indication that the city, as a whole, means EDITORIALETTES | | LEBEDEFF, RUSSIA'S new minister of marine, is reported have “served with distinction” In the war with Japan. First time ever heard of that sort of a Russian navy officer In that war. | PIRST THING, when Elihu Root tries to take a little rest,| goes to acting devilish again. “THE EIGHT-HOUR day has the sanction of society,” Wilson; but not the sanction of the lumbermen’s society. “RUSSIANS AGAIN take initiative,” says headline yesterday. Wf they’d only pass up a referendum and a recall on their latest YOU'VE GOT to hand it to Charlie Reynolds—a pi as a fighter. maker as ALL WORDS ideas on.—Beecher. 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PAGE 6 added: “To start taxing the consumer directly is only a matter of ‘breaking the ice.’ If we start we can get a large proportion of the money wanted.” Simmons reminds us of the man who walked all) serns come down to Washington to talk about the | The United States Steel corporation alone earns $335,000,000 excess profits per annum. Every time the representatives of these big con- price around a reservoir hunting water. He talked of digging| of steel or copper, or what not, they say in effect: a well, All the time an abundance of crystal fluid was at hand. Simmons proposes to dig down into the pockets of the ordinary consumer, who is going to assume more than his share of war burdens before he is thru. ordinary consumer is already having his troubles mak- ing ends meet. Every increase in earnings is more than counterbalanced by mounting food and clothing prices. There remains for the consideration of Simmons and his fellow senators the for the past three years been fattening off of the war and which will continue to do so, the war p VERY CLOSE TO FIVE BILLIONS PER ANNUM. ARR ARR enn, 28. D..2.8.. OLYUM At that worse, as holda out Editor The Star: A fow doys ago local papers recorded the co (Of & Fesidence for ‘© grain exporter, which called to my mind visions of the Dig Bend wheat grower of Fastern Washing ton, and ne is legion, who has lived tn a little thi © fourroom shack year after of jitney riding ten't ong as the good weather e- The commanding general of Ger many’s alr forces says America will be of no aid to the allies, because she must begin at the beginning All persons who know of a better place to begin will please announce the same | eee | CERRO GORDO MADE SAFE ror THE EDITOR Thra some ov ht lant week owe ed to mention the return of Mra. Jones and daughter, Alice, from h relatives and friends at yea his bed and over his food. I saw him balancing his ac counts at the end of the year's ln bor. Possibly he could pay the grocer, who had supplied his table with wecessities he coulda’t pro duce, Possibly not Did his wife have money to frit ter away at picture shows and soda fountains? She scarce knew such things exist. She prob ably had hoped for a new drew | when the wheat was But she wore last year's and the next year she wore them again. The farmer read that his wheat had been sold somewhere for three times what he rec i He knew that he had wronged, but he didn't burn up any Warehouses nor tear up the rail road track, He remembered his citizenship and his weapons of free speech and the ballot and highly resolving to use these weapons more sealously, he gathered up his plowsharea and proceeded to ham- mer new edges for next season's plowing. While a witness to a nearriot on the streets last w the farmer as he is today again came to mind. His country Is beginning to take notice of him, but at what a pric His “long boy” has heard democ racy’s call, Silent, almost dumb, he drives to the station. Then with the knell of a lonk farewell ringing tn his soul, he fairly burns |the road with his old Mivver, lest some ardent 1. W. W. should blow up bis threshing machine In his ab- sence, If he arrives to find the worst has happened, he hers up the pleces and repairs to his shop to hammer them together again for the uncompleted harvest. These are true pictures of our Washing- ton wheatgrower Pillaged and harassed at both ends of the game, he still stands consecrated to the task of providing the people's bread. A farm journal and the Spokesman-Review on his center | table he philoso ot the man of Galilee tn s heart, he res every step. Quiet, con . repressed. With wn The Hem was given to « member of the News force, but was leet im some way before It reached the news columns —Cerre Corde (HL) News crs The body of the famous Charles) XIL. of Sweden, who wae ed 200 years ago, was exhumed recently by sctentists, who X-rayed it to de cide Just how he met his death. All they could agree upon was that he | was dead been THERE ARE AGOUT 5526: JED THROUGH OU i AS ANS, Sev ae i. WILSON NOW TO THIS Wear CARRY YOUR BUNDLE L. W. 8. passed this one in to us: My wife Is tr¥ing to help Her country She read In the papers Of all the good Bhe could do By not saying, “Deliver it, please bs by saving Chauffeurs for the arm And gasoline for The airplanes And U-boat chasers. So now When she comes Downtown And buys A spool of thread, Or paper of pins, Or a pair of gloves Or a hat pin, She takes it home In her own auto, Which she drives CHAPTER III They were indeed a queer-look ing party that assembled on bank —the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncom fortable. The first question, of course, was how to get dry again. They had a consultation about this; and after a few minutes it seemed quite na- tural to Alice to find herself talk- ing familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of some authority among them, called out, “Sit down. all of you, and Listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a Home. |large ring, with the Mouse In the “ee gee tees aa Canada. unr innty young beether to the| you all ready? This is the driest been congratulating ber- thing I know. ‘William the Con- es. Meare queror, whose cause was favored by the Pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted lead. ers, and had been of late much ac- customed to usurpation and con quest. Edwin and Morear, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria—” “Ugh!” sald the Lory, shiver. “Il beg your pardon!” Mouse, frowning, but very politely; you speak?" ‘ot I!” said the Lory hastily. said the dwin and the Chauffeurs for the And gasoline for The airplanes And U-boat chaser or— She brings it Over to my office And I carry it nr, the Mouse, “are oe store in Berkeley lamped by E. M. Sign on Springs, W. P., of Tacor “Hardware, Notions, and Everything Else.” One in Hagerstown, Md.: “Mies Fish. Fresh fish and Gro- certes.” a Va. Groceries with a And Joo Ruffkut is a barber in| “aid Chicago. “l A. Skirt & Co, manufacture wom-| s/t t en's clothes in Passaic, N. J., and|> f ' Morcar, the earls of Mercia and A. Pantz is a tallor in the eame| Norcia, declared for him: baila and even Stigand, the patriotic Archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable How a u getting on now, my dear?” it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke. “As wet as ever,” said Alice, in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.” “In that case,” said solemnly, rising t eee A man whose name we cannot print for obvious reasons, has adopt- ed one of the most novel and effec tive ways of which we have heard to ald food conservation He manicures his own fingernails in- stead of going to a manicurist (We expect to receive four or five letters asking what « in this paragraph.) immediate adop{¥n of more ener- getic remedies “Speak English,” . The officera who studied French in West Point report that the French people can't understand them, It's surprising to learn the natives are so ignorant, But they | are not to be censured. said the Paglet | those long words; and what's more, I don’t believe you do either!" “What was I going to say, vantage of West Point. learning French at| would be a Caucus-race ? ying Alic We're beginning to see how the “Why,” said the Dodo, ezar and his crowd got away with| way to explain it is to do it.” their graft so long. bled England and France and Russia, hard pressed by) wet]-settied huge corporations which have | he It is estimated that and his fellow finance members that now is the time to rofits, in excess of the ordinary profits, RUN | call the bluff of all the war bride and war baby corpora- Letters to the Editor CONTRIBUTED BY NEUTRAL | ninohing loyalty to the flag, he ts| wale |democracy against anarchy $150,000 to a| Wanbington farmer, type of Amer jto thin with the|them to lo sand drifting thru the cracks Into /ance thru t | ] | “Alice in Wonderland” = BY LEWI8 CARROLL x (Continued from Our Last Issue)| race course, A Caucue-Race and a Long Tale !t sald), and then all the party were anid the| handed them round as prizes. There the Dodo|“We beg your | its feet, “I move) elegant thimble. se there is/that the er eae for the) fished this short speech they all| melancholy tone. h “I don't know the meaning of half|so grave that she did not dare to|! shall ever see you any more!" said bowed and took the thimble, look- | low-spirited | ; You must | the Dodo, in an offended tone, “wan! ing as solemn as she could. remember they didn’t have the ad-|that the best thing to get us dry | “What is a Caucus-race?” said| and confusion, as the large birds | looked up eagerly “the best | taste First the Dodo marked out al back. “Let us charge a price we think will keep our busi- ness booming and our plants busy. Then you can grab back for the government any excessive profit by a heavy tax on our earnings.” Of course, they were merely bluffing. They had war necessities. They were perfectly willing to bleed their own country. They had no idea their bluff might called. It might penetrate the mighty brains of Simmons | tions. -——_——— —* Shoot Girl as Spy | eo —_——e an indestructible entrenchment of The foa's beat. God bless him. I should Ifke to invite ooth sides sickening controversy over profita In Seattle to consider this te citizen, That would help k at thelr own griev e small end of the tel- eacope. Shackled by middlemen’s | profits and high freight rates, frus trated by his help, organized &nd pledged to hin defeat, combated by the from of winter and the heat of summer, callous to neglect and ingratitude, the farmer has risen above every discouragement and maintained his contribution to the social fabric. What if he went on strike thene summer days? Where would we be If he falled to deliver the goods, or lay down on the job? Answer—Capital, Answer — Or ganized labor, MOTHER OF A SOLDIER. ow wHo Editor The 18 TRAITOR? Star Following is the miners’ version of the labor troubles at Kennecott, Alaska: On June 16 200 miners employed in the Jumbo and Bonanza mines, Kennecott, Alaska, walked out, as this was the only way to enforce . * their demands. This dispute wan A Paris’ court-martial has convict the fourth one in 18 months, There|@¢ Miss Macleod, known on the was no walkout in the other three #aRe as Mata Haria, Hindu dancer, casce, as the company officials | of *pying, and has sentenced her to bluffed, bulldozed and browbeat the | 4eeth. She has appealed men into accepting the terms they a8 were willing to offer. This time, at the firet hint of opposition, the min- ers walked out, as they had learned from previous bitter experience that there was no chance of con verting talk Into money at the com food business men! When the company officials men tion patriotism, the men know it Is simply a case of the Kennecott Copper corporation wrapping ita dividends in the American flag, and saying: “Hands off; don’t soil the flag!” They have a new scheme now. They used to defend their dividends with a club. Of course, everyone knows that |the government needs the copper, but when a “billion-dollar outfit" is unwilling to sacrifice a few dollars savory past as the Kennecott Cop from their already abnormal prof. per corporation, have a false ring.|its, bow could anyone expect the As to the declaration that the com-| miners to continue working for 20 pany couldn't pay such wages, the|per cent less than the prevailing men were not impressed, as they; wages for interior Alaska? So, knew that the company w oaking | Kennecott stockholders, what do a daily profit of at le $50,000. | you think of the business sense of The proposed increase, affecting #0| the men you have chosen to safe- few men, could not possibly affect guard your investments? And, peo- » dividends to sv appreciable | ple of the United States, who Is the Yot the company preferred | traitor? * men walk out, Ue up the! HAROLD JOHNSON, mines, and sacrifice those profits. | McCarthy, Alaska. And people think the directors are | (Formerly Jumbo mine) Next Novel “The Allison Pearls” | | BY EDWARD H. HUR je the company officials started raving about unfairness, de clared they couldn't possibly pay such wages, and appealed to the patriotiam of the men. Cha of unfairness, coming from a company with in a rort of circle ("The exact shape doesn’t matter,” and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more. | “You promised to tell me your history, you know,” sald Alice, “and why it is you ha Cc and D,” she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be offended again. “Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, and sighing placed along the course, here and there. There was no “One, two. three, and away,” but they began running when they Mked, and left off when they Mked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or 80, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out, “The race is ove and they all crowded around it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?” This question the Dodo could not answer without @ great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead while the rest waited in silence, At last the Dodo said, “Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.” “Thut who is to give the prizes?” quite a chorus of voices asked. “Why, she Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, “Prizes! Prizes!" Alice had no idea what to do and in despair she put her hand into her pocket, and pulled out a “ box of comfits’ (luckily the salt| » And Dy Aa the Gee Tap teat water had not got into it), andthe Lory. Eee | Alice replied eagerly, for she was was exactly one apiece all round. | aways ready to talk about her pet “But she must have a prize her-|“Dinah’s our cat. And she’s such self, you know,” said the Mouse./a capital one for catching micé “Of course,” the Dodo replied,| you can’t think! And oh, I wish very gravely “What else have you got in your! This speech caused a remarkable | pocket?” he went on, turning to sensation among the party. Some! Alice. of the birds hurried off at once; “Only sald Alice one old Magpie began wrapping It sadly self up very carefully, remarking, | Hand the |"I really must be getting home: the | Dodo. |night air doesn't suit my throat!” Then they all crowded round her) On various: pretexts they all once more, while the Dodo solemn-| moved off, and Alice was soon left ly presented the thimble, saying, | alone. | reptance of this| “I wish I hadn’t mentioned our And when it had| Dinah!" she said to herself, in a “Nobody seems to like her down here, and I’m sure the whole thing| she’s the best cat in the world! they all looked|Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; “but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking "You not are attending!” said walking away, “Please come back and finish your story!” Alice called after it jand the others all joined in chorus “Yes, please do!” But the Mouse of courae,” said the | CTY Walked a little quicker | “What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” jSighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight “L wish I had our Dinah here, | jknow I do!” said Alice aloud, ad dressing nobody in particular. he would soon fetch It back!” a thimble,” it over here,” said cheered. Alice thought very absurd, but could not think And here poor Alice began to cry | laugh; and as she she simply again, for she felt very lonely and of anything to say, In a little while, however, she The next thing was to eat the again heard a little pattering of comfits. This caused some noise footsteps in the distance, and she half hoping that) complained that they could not|the Mouse had changed his mind, theirs, and the small ones |@nd was coming back to finish his choked and had to be patted on the | story. However, it was over at last, (Continued in Our Next Issue) e e e e turning to Alice,|e e e “It is a long tail, certainly,” said . e ee the Mouse to Alice, getting up and ————— you could see her after the birds!” |— England levies a tax of about 80 per cent upon excess profits. The same thing might be done here with equal justice. IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE A PECULIAR W. FOR DEMOCRACY WHICH SENT DEMOCRAC SONS TO BATTLE AND TAXED DEMOCRACY’S TEA AND COFFEE AND FOOD AND CLOTHING TO PAY FOR IT, WHILE PLUTOCRACY, WHICH FATTENS OFF OF WAR, WAS LEFT COMPARA. TIVELY IMMUNE. 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