The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1917, Page 6

HY must there be all this fuss and feathers about finding the money to pay for the war, when a few weeks after ‘war was declared we created the machinery _ by which we made available all the fighting “men that Uncle Sam can use for a long "time to come? We got the men all right and got them ickly, but congress has spent more time ising ways and means to get the dollars than on all the other war measures com- ‘bined. What is the matter? Ask yourself this one question— ‘How id we go about the job of getting the men the army?” and the answer to the dollar estion may hit you in the face. In the conscription of men for Uncle — armies we took two distinct steps. First, we REGISTERED all men of mili- y age in order to find out how many were available. Then, after we knew just exactly how y were available, we proceeded by the fairest. means that we could devise to DRAFT into the service of the United the number needed at the present me for war purposes. ~ WHYe NOT DO EXACTLY THE E THING WITH DOLLARS? Why not register the dollars that should wailable for paying the cost of the war just the same way that we registered the n that ought to do the fighting, and then, E SEATTLE STAR Telegraph News Service at Seattle, Wa veal out of city, 36c pert By carri ‘AR BEAMS ft never again be said that; Impulsive, Emotional people. ‘were, the demand for tar and) fm this country would send | i ‘of these supplies up about *"S fallen for “Dearie 80 per cent in every locality “qualified” Americanism | Yolce to embarass the £OV- Unless you're prepared for = riot You've got to quit calling me “MM eee ee TO FRIEND HUSRAND hen you hollered, “Ah, and “Miseas,” And everything else till today . By E. ‘D. K. sto 1088 thet story, that her mother ive hopped when you tatlowed, “On, x that’s get to bel told tt in public before—and the From new till the Greet War is done—| Poltergeist thought she was mak- ‘| venge, the Yellow Hand, the Polter STAR—FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 1917, PAGE 6 by the fairest plan that can be devised, draft into the service of the United States by tax- ation,just exactly the number of dollars that are needed for war purposes? Did you know that every item of taxa- tion in every revenue bill is based on the wildest kind of guessing? It is the amazing truth. Neither congress nor the treasury de- partment knows within millions of dollars how many dollars any particular tax is go- ing to yield. They simply guess, allow a big margin of safety, and trust in the Lord. Suppose we tried to raise an army in the same way. Wouldn't there be a fine mess? THE KEY TO EFFECTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC CONSCRIPTION — IS REGISTRATION OF MEN, AND THE KEY TOE TIVE AND SCIE TIFIC TAXATION IS THE REGIS- TRATION OF INCOMES. We know that every dollar of taxes is finally paid out of somebody's income. War profits taxes are simply taxes on in- comes that have not been distributed; taxes on tobacco, liquors, sugar, coffee, and tea are paid out of the consumers’ incomes; tariff duties, stamp taxes, and all the hun- dred and one foxy schemes of indirect tax- ation that have been devised to fool the t tax- payer in reality take their’ bit out of in- comes just as surely as the direct income } tax. BY CAROLYN WELLS oh | woutd reved! ttself, and I would be nicked out of the chance that had 2\come to me to give my ingenuity And this is not as cold ed an it might weem at first Marybelle was dead— noth ald restore her life, and ifwhe murdered, {t ald at tintac lay w hat fort hand lon hat killed her she didn’t tell you last night, when w us the supreme s n of punishing the erimin een t give the That happy, hopeful young life must be avenged, and if there were a murderer to be found, | knew I shonld find him. He could not o jeape my pursuit, for | was prepared to put to use the very limit of my cleverness and skill. That bride to-be Iny down, I was certain, with calm aseuredness of waking next died of the effeets of the yellow hand. No, she didn’t want to tell the tragedy entirely. Dut that t | true, her mother did die soon after | that expertence. Marybetle told |the story long ago, but she ne ,| ing fun—and she was-—-and fn re happiness, geist Yellow Hand, came and | ™ore and better joys as time went n victim who doesn't de “HAM AND” |turned on Marybelle’s gaa }: a@ny particular sympathy {s (From the Montreal Gazette) don’t you see it! don’t you Instead, the house s invaded § trusting person who lets the Egg-Hogg. On Aug. 31, at the what other hand could have done by strange people. Coroner, doc a him off with Church of St. John the Evangelist, | j:7—tell me that! tora, police, detectives, reporters, dealer thing Just as Good. eee gentlemen have joined Knitting squads in neighboring ” circularizes a patriotic organization. i ‘your name to the list? We wit—ait. Arthur Henry Egg, son of Mrs. W. F. Egg, of Montreal, Effie Graham Hogg, daught the late Mr. and Mrs. ham Hogg, of London, oe We always feel—don’t you? —that the day is wasted If we haven't read something about ee Dougias Fairbanks, the Sweet Greetings, are you gouging White Violet of the Movies, soldiers? mes “ee (From the Newell Mirror) E. D. K.: May I arise tn great white cravat to inquire it Is that unscented toilet soap, exhales a more pro- ot odor than the scented vem t George L. Waterman wae kicked in the mouth last Thursday by one of his horses. The horse did not intend to kick his master. The horse thought it was another horse. rib Special reductions on bridgework. No charge for painless ELECTRO PAINLESS DENTISTS Southeast Corner First and Pike J. R. VAN AUKEN, Mgr. and shoals of helpfal or curious neighbors filled Woodhuret with an atmosphere in which mystery and crime Joastied against sorrow and mourning The coroner's name was Kemble and the Inspector's Biatr. pore the jury, hastily got together, had names, but they Interested me no more than @ page of the tele phone boox In fact, part of the inquest. The prelimin ary proceedings were of no use to my quest, and, too, I had made friends with a bright young repor- ter, and he promised to record for me anything that I might other wine mins. | It was Janet Field who tried to | quiet the over-excited girl. “Come with me, Cissy, dear!", |she satd, soothingly; “come wth me to your room and let's talk this over quietly.” “No, | won't. You know, Janet |I'm speaking the truth. You know how locked up the room was, you | know nobody could possibly get in jto turn on that gas, and you know Marybelle didn’t do it, and couldn't if she had wanted to. So you know | to know it must have been the Yellow Hand! Don't you know ft | Janet? Don't you know ft was in lrevenge for Marybelle’s telling t the hand last night? Answer Janet! Don't you know tt was Coroner with 1 knew the routine. Kemble would ask qu the alr of a recently- and then his precious jury would noddingly arrive at faise conclu sions and return an open verdict When called upon, I was ready a ‘impetuottsly it must have been that! | None of us blamed Janet for agreeing with the frenzied girl, whether she spoke truth or not, and prise, Lord Herringdean said, slowly, “There is no other so | lution. Call it absurd, if you will, there is no other way to account tue whole matter, but in the mean time, L had only the laudable pur pone of Increasing that knowledge. But Tam getting a little, oh, just |for the death of my bride. When|® very little, ahead of my story. It there {9 no poseibility of a human, ¥a# during the first examination of |hand in the matter, we must admit | the bed » police, that I, it to be the work of the fiends.” t thore examina "You } 1 Claey, sud bother me. The |denly calm a understand, and a little because you ng ve Marybelle. Oh ective, named Weldon, fussed ddied around, looking up the chimney to find en |tranee to that locked and bolted | room I remarked that I wan going to) examine the chandelier, and as no that awful hand up and turning ing.g And then Janet succeeded tn get ting the girl to go away with her, and I knew Cissy would be ten creeping up, up, turning — turn what I wa as it gave me ample access to the high burners without getting in their way. Instead of |beautiful Marybelle. I sympa thized with the Earl, I was sorry for Janet Field and Helen Wesley, but quite aside and t from all removing the glass |this—almoat, it seemed, with an.| shade from the burner that had Jother mentality—I rejoiced at ,my | been tur on, I climbed up and opportunity, come at last! I had | looked c I had already felt it over the top of the shade—and found it tipless. But now, able to see the burner from above, I nearly the unraveling to do, of the mys tery J had longed for; a myster fous death in an inaccessible room. Let the solution be Poltergeist, if it chose, er accident, or suicide, or murder in the firet degree—let the solution be as difficult, as impos sible as it might, | would find it I had not the alightest fear of failure, the conditions should baffle me not a whit; I would find the caune of Marybelle Mon’ death, whether it was by some simple, natural means or was the work of the Hand of Revenge. Now, given a mysterious death saw. Oh, yes, | know Sherlock Holmes wouldn't have moved a facial muscle, If he had seen a jack-in-the-box jump out at him from the gas globe; but I am like that man only in capability, not at all fn manner Still, I kept my rather Insecure footing, and picked out the object It was © ring, a lady's gold ring, set with a moonstone. 1 looked at |it thoroly, tho not with a lena (1 a haunting fear that a plain and ordinary solution of the mystery say, burglary or proven accident what he was looking wise about, I volunteered the information that, as the ring had not been dusty “THe MOSS MYSTERY" with anticipation of 1 aup- |; I didn’t attend the first | .|three accepted and willing to tell all I knew of | » derly cared for. one objected, I sent for a short | As for me, I had my heart's de- | step-lndder. A three-step affair sire at last. I grieved deeply for|Wa* brought me, which was just| fell off the step-ladder at what 1) the inquest must follow, as the|told you my mannerisms were dif. night the day. And this custom, es-| ferent, and besides I hadn’t a lens tablished by tradition and jong| ith me), then I put it back where usage, will, I suppose, always ob-|1 had found it, came down and told tain, But to me, an inquest ts a| Blair thing inept, inopportune. From| Greatly excited, he flew up the its bushel of chaff you may get a|*teps, two at a time, as far as he| grain of wheat in evidence, and| could, there were only th and then, again, you may not |taking off the gas globe e It to But the inquest is a necessary|me to hold, while he showed off evil and the coroner is an evil|the ring to all present necessity, #0 we must put up with| | called his attention to the fact both. | that the globe was very dusty in To me, the hours of that day sim jside, and the ring was not dusty ply flew. [—I may as well admit|nor was the burner, He looked | my business from the first--1 had| wise at this, but as he didn't know Fair Way to Raise Money to Pay for War Then why take 10 bites at a cherry? Why go to the nerve-racking trouble of filling out 10 tax declarations, whea one will do? Why use a tax system that requires the high- priced services of lawyers and accountants to solve its intricaté complexities when the whole thing can be made simple by the sub- stitution of just one tax on incomes? WHY SHOULDN’T WE HAVE AN INCOME REGISTRATION DAY JUST AS WE HAD A MILITARY REGIS- TRATION DAY ON WHICH EVERY AMERICAN WOULD BE OBLIGED UNDER HEAVY PENALTIES TO DE- CLARE THE AMOUNT OF HIS IN- COME WITH AS HEAVY PENAL- TIES FOR FRAUD AND EVASIO? AS THE CONSCRIPTION ACT. CON- TAINED AND JUST AS DRASTICAIT - LY ENFORCED? Uncle Sam would then know exactly how many dollars could be drawn on by taxation this year to help pay the war's cost, and it wauld be the simplest matter in the world with all this exact information in hand to figure out what the income tax rates on each particular class of incomes would have to be to produce the sums that needed to be raised. Every man’s self interest would drive him to help make this registration complete, for he would know that if his neighbor was a slacker on income registration day, it would make the tax rate on himself that to him: He looked very grave, and said! it w most unfortunate that she ba went him that meseage #0 of ner “Why, who ts her heir?” asked/| Blair, quickly | Several minor legacies, and Mra, Wesley, Residuary Legatee,” answered Curtis briefly, as stood, frowning in thought, My heart ¢ a jump. were not sul couldn't see the accident And if murder, then the first ques tion would be motive. hetreatiaw would be Copyright, Paget Newspaper Bervice when I spied tt, so far an one can h a emall article, it it had been placed ange gas hich globes quemily washed unt what I think,’ courteously 4 Wintr, and pocketing the for evidence, he replaced the glans shade and eame down the steps,” wore way clear to | However, for that matter, every- The ring bnsiness nonplussed mo. | ———— Had Marybelle put ft there for safe keeping? I knew her fear of burg lara, and {t was a good hiding | place, so that doubtless explained it. But if she chose such a clever hiding place for a ring of but mod- erate value at most, where had she concealed her pearl necklace? I never should have thought of | looking for a ring on the gas burner, ff | hadn't been looking for other reasons. Surely the mystery was deepening every moment. Well, we found nothing else as queer as that, but we found pretty conclustve evidence, at ¢| | It seemed so to me, that Marybelle | | didn't kill herself ters, quite a pile yr writing desk all doubtless addressed and stamped to go by the morntng’s mail Mr. Kemble at once opened them, tho I wae not sure that he ether within his rights. them, and after the reading I never again entertained the idea of suicide. Every one was full of plans, appofntments and en |gagements for the next day or two dressmaker made an One to a jarrangement for fitting a gown. “ “ One, to a dentist, asked for an ap || “SS pointment at his office. Two or| nyftations, or gave ns lowed when slight them see ag ae : One important one was to her coal needs by a big lawyer, Mr. Curtis, and asked him te me to see her a# KOON AS Pos. to, as she wanted to change her will She stated that her reason for this was her engagement, only just now announced, and she hoped Mr. Curtis would find it eonven-| | fent to come at once, on receipt of | | her letter. | Another, and very personal one, | coal must be saved! ae Nattinaee ‘Women sVieue ously popular with all told of ment, the lar nent party and the early date of the wedding. It ed such an exuberance of ness, such an exultant joy of | that it was Impossible to | not sincere. It told, | of the present of the pearl | | Mving, | betteve it + necklace, and sald that Marybelle | planned to surprise her guests currence with it om the morrow, And it wound up by saying, “I hope I can make Geoffrey ha and I feel Jaure I shall. He is a different type from Bradley, and his tastes are more congenial to my own.” Bradley Moss waa her first hus band, and tho I had never known him, | had heard rumors from the Wesleys of the uneven tenor of Marybelle’s married life | in the | nouncement of her betrothal, that the writer would voluntarily cut short the happy Ife she antict p But Weldon demurred a little. saying that if the lady had wanted to kill herself, she would write | Just euch letters to divert suspl clon. But T couldn't admit such an Joverdoing of that idea, If it were a true theory, Marybelle might have writtem one letter or two, making appointments, but not so many or #0 real T looked again at the chairs in General Admission, 10c; Bathing Privileges, 25c. the room. Without doubt, as she wat at her desk to write, she had |used that straight chair, slightly higher than the others, But even I saw she couldn't have gas key, Nor would she have done so if she could, and |then afterward used that chair to lay out her morning's costume! It was too absurd. Machiavelli him | with that, |reached the Jnelf wouldn't hove oheerved such minutlae of detail Lawyer Curtis arrived about then, and we showed him the letter K thing about the case was impos-| bathroom and to # large clothes rible. hands on anywhere, and I began to welcome the thought of the quer fee at the inquest, which would, at least, We went on with the scrutiny of the room he! inaccessible, I have sald all There were two doors of exit If thin} One to the hall, and I positively | burst in, the other opened Into the an | Wesleys’ roo then {t must be murder. | belle’s locked and bolted as the hall door, And the/and with just looked at | fastenings first. But the Wesleys! Impossible! | gone out at It, and bolted it behind them. Two pore doors led to the’ Announces ooverizng” “Policy Fi fuel Conservation During Fall and Winter— Beginning Monday, Sept. 17 Open Daily (Except Monday) From 2 p. m. to 10:30 p. Saturdays and Sundays, Open at 9 a. m. Until 10:30 p. 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No more business uncertainty while con- gress muddled thru long-winded debates. No more fears that this industry or sec- tion was to be taxed at the expense of that. No more special taxes inflicted to punish this business or that. Just one simple tax-rate on each class of incomes—heavy on big incomes, light on small ones—shat you could figure out for yourself without the aid of lawyers and ac- countants! ISN'T IT WORTH WHILE TO CONSIDER SERIOUSLY SUBSTI- TUTING THIS SIMPLE, SCIENTIFIC, AND EFFECTIVE TAXATION SYS- TEM FOR THE CUMBERSOME, UN- FAIR AND INEFFECTIVE METH- ODS NOW PRACTICED OR PRO- POSED. There wasn't a possibility | closet lay my We took everything out of the closet to search for secret pan- els or trap doors, but found noth- ing of the sort. The bathroom was lighted by one window, and this, as I have said, was open six inches and firmly fastened. It was as im- possible to open it from the out- side, as if it had been entirely closed Moreover, there was no ledge or balcony of any sort; only, a sheer drop of about 20 feet, the ground. The other windows in the bedroom were locked when I entered the room, and I showed the policemen how thoroly safe the fastenings were. (Continued in Our Next Issue) solution that I could tabulate the impossibilities When I say that it was by which we had , next back of Mary- ‘Thif door was as thoroly the same kind of Nobody could have m. m. The CRYSTAL POOL feels curtailment of the open hours will reduce margin. At a large cost our oil-burning for the sake of conservation. POOL has been tremend- far beyond calculation—and this popu- New ventilating and heat- ling all aches of Hawaii. Sanitary features as tests thrice daily by the Seattle CRY L POOL. 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