The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Unien St. MEMBER OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSTAFERS Entered as Second-Class Matter May 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of € 1878, ingress March 3, e i sitive nde temmrae —— vd By mail, out of city, 55c per month; 3 months $1.50; 6 mentha, $2. bs year, ington. Outside the atate, TS $5.00, in the State of W: 0 $4.50 for 6 per year. By carrier, city, 30c mo. Co. Phone Main 600, Private departments, —— NN 4 | | | | | The Excess Profits Tax - The final draft of the new war tax bill contains the excess profits tax. ’ The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, a na- tional organization, polled the local Chambers of Commerce A majority “but with in and other trade organizations on taxation. favor the retention of the excess profits, equalities removed.” In plain English, the excess profits tax is— Taxation by means of which the small stockholder pays a part of the taxes due from the large stockholders. Or, Taxation by which the small stockholder in a large corporation pays a greater rate of taxes than the large stockholder in a small corporation. We have a secretary of the treasury, William G. Me- Adoo. Not three weeks ago McAdoo said: “The excess profits tax must rest upon the wholly indefensible notion that it is a function of taxation to bring all profits down to one level With relation to the amount of capital invested and to deprive industry, > foresight&\and sagacity of their fruits. The excess profits tax exempts eapital and burdens brains, ability and energy. The excess profits tax | "falls less heavily on big business than on small business. * * * * “Any graduated tax upon corporations is indefensible in theory, for Sorporations are only aggregations of individuals, and by such a tax the “numerous small stockholders of a great corporation may be taxed at a higher rate than the very wealthy large stockholders of a relatively @maller corporation. The object of a graduated tax should be to make taxes fall upon the rich, who are best able to pay them. The graduated Xcess profits tax disregards this.” : ‘ Mr. McAdoo is the financial adviser of President Wil- As the president’s adviser on financial matters when oe doo is away there is an assistant, R. C. Leffingwell. Now what does Mr. Leffingwell say about the excess profits “We find that the excess profits tax tends to fall more lightly upon big business than upon small business. Big business tends to be overcapitalized. Overcapitalization exists more often in big bust ness than in small business. * * * Conseque’ the excess profits tax does fall more heavily upon small business enterprises than upon great business enterprises. * * * It woutd tend to recognize the principle that capital shall carry an exemptiqn from taxation and that industry, foresight and enterprise shall not carry an exemption from taxation to the same extent. Capital must be ree | or ae it is an important factor; but if we depend wholly upon that factor * * * we shall be overburdening industry, foresight ' and ability, and giving undue exemption to capital unaccom panied by those things. * * * | “Our principle is to lay the heaviest burden on the man hav. ing the biggest income, and in no case out of proportion to his income in dollars. But the graduated excess profits tax applied as it is to corporations disregards that principle and very often it taxeg more heavily the smal) stockholder in a great corporation than the great stockholder in a relatively small corporation.” The average man does not like mystery, and it is cer- tainly a mystery why this friendless excess profits tax, arraigned as it is above by the secretary of the treasury ‘ his assistant, should, with their consent and approval, _ be written into the new tax law. It cannot be to raise the money, I money, if not collected in the form of excess profits taxes, ‘would be distributed as dividends and a similar amount be raised by direct tax on the income of the stock- of these corporations. ; One thing, of course, is certain—that this tax, which mo one defends and which is critictsed as bad by the finan- heads of the administration in Washington, will not d after the war is over. In other words, the excess ‘its tax can only “get by” during the war and there- jis not, and cannot be, a permanent part of our tax _ ation system. German face winter with less fuel, less food and less hope than since they started the war. After-War Problems _ 3 Innumerable questions already suggest themselves with relation to after-war reaction and readjustment. Here are a few upon which you may care to cogitate; and ruminate— WILL thousands be without work thru the inactivity of special war industries? WILL those who left private life for war endeavor return to their pre. vious pursvits? WILL the number coi Mer providers be forraidal : WILL the places vac > be held for the boys pouring back thru every port? fe WILL Uncle Sam guarantee employment to the wounded, crippled, but i if not completely incapacitated? WILL total disarmament of the central powers be one of the allied peace rulings? a WILL the problem of the unemployed force down the cost of living? by VILL the American merchant marine be turned over to private owner- ship? WILL government railroad and wire control be a permanent factor? because this same led to continue occupation thru loss of for- No longer shall genius, singers of sonnets, writers of | roundelays, pursuers of perpetual motion with w trivance and invention, exclusively enjoy the distinction of | ird con-| luxurious hirsute adornment. | 3 Like the redskin of plain and frontier, men on the 4 daily business war path will soon be seen with braids down their tax-burdened backs—if a certain Barbers Supply 4 Dealers’ Holdup Convention in Chicago wins its we ¥ Haircut, one dollar; shave, fifty cents—that is their| _ platform. | Before undertaking a shampoo or massage, these prof-| iteers of the shears will no doubt ere long ask three days’ Notice in order to carefully investigate the patron’s finances| and credit. | Can You Beat It? | 4 At hand is a card from one signing himself “Op-| timist.” We'll not publi the card until we've made up| our mind whether to cheer or cuss. Bs The crux of this communication is that thousands and thousands of our boys will return from the war armles: legless or otherwise mutilated and thus forced to depend upon mental labor. Hence, the race will be extraordinarily | uplifted by the more general exercise of brains. | J If “Optimist” will kindly send in his street number, | _-we’ll venture to call with a blue-ribboned wreath for his | optimism and a Winchester for what else is coming to him.| WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ARE THE SAME AS” MONEY. GOOD AS CASH. | ed by those who do return to the domestic sphere | ,. clerical tasks, who desire perma- nent positions. Then there are two forn tr they would be MUNICIPAL AND Jactresses yet had they not been THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1918. The Man ‘Anonymous’ Answers Critics After | Usual Man-Fashion Dear \ Grey: Here is to my ¢ s, both pro and con, with thanks for the kindly spirit in most of the letters. The sum of a large number ef experiences is sure to be nearer the truth than one individual experience, even if the} sum of that experience does not absolutely apply to any one} particular case, coeys If the sum of human experience is not the truth, still it is the means by which we arrive at the truth. If we must not judge the future by the past, of what value then is human experience? How will a woman who has gone wrong in the past do right in the future if she does not judge from the past what the future of wrong-doing is? IN WHAT PHASE OF LIFE DO WE NOT JUDGE | THE FUTURE BY THE PAST? Is it not fair also to judge our own future from the past of others, or must we all drink carbolic acid in order to be justified in calling it poison? If there is a law of cause and effect, then given the same people, and the same circum- stances, you will get the same result. | If one of these people is careful in the staging of the circumstances, the result is two-thirds accomplished. The other third may have been changed by the appeal of love or to vice, as the results will show. | If we suspend sentence on our judgment and “give an- other chance” it will be because LOVE and HOPE have tri- umphed over experience and discretion. If confidence and happiness return, it will depend upon a new past that must be built out of the present, so that we may judge the future from that second past. Both the pleasure and the pain of the first past are lost. You cannot unscramble an omelet poison someone has put into it. What is wrong for a woman is wrong for a man (that ennobles). What is right for a man is right for a woman (that de- bases). If we lose the love we crave, it is because we have failed to appeal to the ideals or to pamper the weaknesses of the one who has ceased to love u The lover appeals to the ideals, the rake to the weaknesses, and the result depends on character. That man-made law—always we hear women complain of it, and yet man is woman-made from the cradle to the grav He is handed from his mother to his sister, his sweet- heart, his wife, and if the result is so deplorable, women should be the last to say so. Man cannot be blamed for using the virtue woman casts aside, and taking it at the price she herself puts upon it—that of a waste product. Is it the pas- sions of men or the tongues of women who keep an erring woman down? If a man’s illegitimate advances are repulsed, he ad- mires and respects that woman for it. If a woman's illegitimate advances are repulsed she ridi- cules, hates and scorns that man. Which more truly esteems the good and the right? So women really admire a true man? The man who has betrayed his friend’s confidence ex- and leave out the | pects to be killed. The woman who has betrayed still more expects to be loved back to rectitude, and trusted in advance. Right for right’s sake is the only hope, the only shield that will protect the home, and the woman from the appeal to her weaknessgg. If we could all be loved for nothing it would be worth just that—NOTHING. THOSE WHO GIVE ARE THQROBREDS THOSE WHO EXP. SOMETHING FOR ITHING IN THE SAME CLASS WITH T SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. ‘ ANONYMOUS. as a cook, altho my experience has Mt. Rainier Higher Than Pike Peak been limited Such branche of the Dear Mis y: Is Pike's Peak|*ervice are not so rigid as to higher than Mt. Rainier, and it so,| Physical qualifications, I understand ae ee INQUIRER,’ | Will you be kind enough to advise Mt. Rainier ts 14,520 feet high |™e¢ 98 to whether I can get into i anything of this kind 1 where and Pike's Peak 14,000, making - her Rainier the higher by 520 feet. to r t I am of dra age and ie ai in class two at present Must Await Orders Coomera. From War Department . > yous | Dear Miss Greys 1 would accomplish what you wish, but preciate your helping me to it is impossible, as all recruit- the service. I was unfortun ing offices are permanently loosing my upper tecth some two! closed. You will simply have or three years ago, and have been| to awalt orders from the war rejected on that account for active! department, which will enable service, I have been thinking that} you to enlist, or to be re- classified a man might be able to get in An Arpsterdam dispatch says Ger-) was made for this service and we man soldiers in Baden sang the Mar did not have to pay any war tax for Fine. But wait till the it DJILH French sing it there. ef @ Parca | The wind never scares a girl who There are six ways to say it,"|has a pair of new silk stockings. postcards Shorty Simms: “Red, blue Paras and white; blue, red and white; white. a . red and blue; white, blue and red;|, 7% Cobb has quit professional blue, white and red. And red, white baseball for good Ty has nothing and blue, which is the real way.” on us. We quit it long before we were as old as he Naren a as he is. Fine for Automobile Ballast Miss Anna Parr, in charge of the women’s department, said there are also other applicants, well trained in LIBERTY BONDS stranded in Butte—who would like any kind of work except housework They informed Miss Parr that they might not object to becoming house. wives—but they did strenuously ob- ject to working as housemaids, They declared to be competent clerks r the smiles that are won derful auxiliaries to salesmanship. | Both are pretty One is 20 and the other is 22. One is a blond and the other is a brunet.—Butte (Mont.) Miner CORPORAT! BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD JOHN E. PRICE & CO. | Ninth Floor Hoge Building THE BEST | Cup of Coffee in | “The kaiser may be hanging iron | crosses on ‘'em,” suggests K. L., “but we're decorating ‘em with wooden Town seumere Served with John W w York and REAL CREAM Philadelpt open at 10 and Fine Hot m. and p.m. He's HOYT’S crazier than Henry Fora, isn't he? | DOUGHNUTS The Generous Folk | or SANDWICHES HOYT’S 322 Pike at 4th We Never Close. Editor: And don't forget that the | 3. E. Co. continues to furnish free | straps.—W. N. Mditor: barber is one of those old-fashio: men who has motto, “Live and let li ” He makes no charge for lather.--J. B Editor; Traveling to Chicago the other day I could not help observing that the brakeman called out the names of the stations. No charge! ton Certeis to nee can come to herself, war time, Jane, After an unexpl first of a new Over and over again I read the « see if I really can believe my own ¢ » NSORS WERE NOT IN. | VENTED FOR WAR | USE ONLY oe —- * think T do not want to spend $1,000 baby’s tender body The trouble is, I suppose, that I do not understand a Mttle bit the| Probably few women do. 's Why it's so easy for the profiteers to raise prices on everything | differ Tha from rent to rubbers For myself, I'm willing to give nee between “profit” and “pre Hun, but I do not want anything back ag: ometimes I get almost superstitious at e some war b hope to have everything, including the return of | 66 my soldier boy? } That seems so much more than my share of happiness in this terrible 2 F. Bob. a3 ade of history that down deep in my heart I am afraid to hope for it. Magic or Ss ‘0 get rid of that terror, I'd gladly live in the poorest way. I'd cut and| stitch the very plainest lite garments for my child-to-be, with joy in my { heart,-if I could be sure the cost of the cloth I sewed were not made by | VERY morning profiteering. Now I am sadly doubt I know how to be poor because I was brought up that way. More i over, Bob and I always lived modestly, in spite of his father’s handy; OUt in our sunshiny check book, on the salary and commissions Bob made in a stock and bond| kitchen, after Father office. Hob was doing splendidly until the war cut down such transactions. ood and Then Daddy Lorimer insisted on paying our bills, but Mr. Bob would have | has waved goodbye, none of it. I never asked my husband's reasons. Now he is gone, andt| J git and watch. ed to live with hia ts, and it is a marvelous home to have. | ., my life would be easier if Bob had taken me into his con-| Bobs, he watches, too—with big, lef Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper nterprine Ass'n to Jane orca~ © been saying wreck the elder z he { | | goes up $600 | Whenever an immigrant lands at Ellis Istgnd ang makes his home on Manhattan Island, he boosf's thes values an equ This doesr $600. much. Land and houses, and all other kinds of 1 and businesses and professions of every sor¥, have their values in human lives. worth on ten times it would t to “THE PEOPLE Are the Precious Things of Earth Upon Whom ‘ Other Wealth Depends” BY THE REV. | Every time a baby is born in worth less than the id to the original inhabitants for its possession. fact that a certain piece of property on Man- hattan Island was recently was made possible because 10,000,000 peuple live in and K » price of real CHARLES STE New York city t t bables and immi The law says they are wot ne man on Manhattan $28 which ¥ not kings and kaisers, not and jewels, not lands and houses, but PEOPLE are the precious things of earth, upon whom all other Daddy Lorimer gave me, to| $1,000 for a baby's layette— | about New York. and I wonder where all the Lort-| The people mer money comes from. “The| | $TELZLE Lorimer Chemical Co." is now turning its output over to the gov 1 know, but And nment tribution! made sometimes ofiteering ut this ful from war profits to clothe my | and give to the war on the| n—except my darling husband. | — - ~ When Mother Works wealth depends, ardly as a| = a | Mrs. Ola Powell, of the U. 8. de) Rear Admiral Coontz will partment of agriculture, has offered two copies of her book “Successful Canning and Preserving,” to the per-| at sons exhibiting the two best quart or pint Jars of canned salmon at the Yakima state fair. the dance to be held Harvard ave. Saturday night. The | event How dare I live, smoth- | working hard to earn their Mother works it, wide open eyes and pink cheeks—we Without him, 1 must think out hard problems for myself, such as the relation bet micals and war and profiteering and my baby's | layette. N re have I doubted Daddy Lorimer’s wisdom and hon | exty. But r t I know about the "Qu of Smiles,” I've been put T comes out of a big white ting these awfully bothersome If a man ts immoral in t r ness life If a man exploit his wife in love, will he not find {t easy to exploit his country in war? I'd like to put them to Mother last word on such topics—b of « domestic jons to myself. Lorimer. life, can he be moral in his bust she has always read the all of the personalities would out of the story for her | can with writing on it, | with a tight lid Mother pries off. It's a fufly, good-tasing wder—and sometimes I can ick the spoon, when I'm very So many teaspoontuls Mother counts out ever so care- I nsors are not an original invention of nat at war. | ne ‘addi They've existed most families and have had steady employment ever | ei Pak cae rag derrard since human beings began to talk, a minute, pops it into Beb's (To Be Continued) i | bottles —and the magic is done. on — — | If there’ ee ees ‘ | . drink it—and any, it's ¢: NE Pastor Will Speak | ACCEPTS IT ‘OCKHOLM, Sept. rick Charles of ¥ 1 the F h crown diet will meet soon acceptance Prince Lemon Juice For Freckles Girlie! Make beauty lotion et home for a few cents. Try it! squeeze the Juice of two lemons into ao bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion oeautifier, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the neck, arms and hands each and see how freckles and blem- ishes disappear, and how clear, aoft and white th in becomes, Yes! it io harmless Adler-i-ka- Helps Son! “My son had inflammation of bow els and was greatly bloated (with gas). After giving him Adler-i-ka he is completely CURED. Doctors did him no good.” (Signed) M, Gerhard, Ferdinand, Ind Adler-ika expels ALL gas and sourness, stopping stomach distress I ANTLY. Empties BOTH up " lower bowel, flushing EN ntary car Reme ALL, foul matter which poisons sys tem. Often CURE constipation. Prevents appendicitis. We have sold Adler-i-ka many years, It is a mix ture of buckthorn, cascara, glycerine other simple drugs. Swift Drug Co. and leading druggists. and nine “IF 1 HURT YOU, DON’T PAY ME.” This te my message of deliverance to you from the fear that accom panies, Dental, operations. 1 EXTRACT, FILL, CROWN TREAT Teeth’ absolutely wi pain in all cases but acute ab conditions. and hout we 2 in your high-clasi sateead's” Oy ter STERLING DENTISTRY Office Hours: 0 a. m. to 6 p.m FALL STYLES and materials for Suits, Coats and One-piece Dresses, RABY TAILORING CO.,Inc. 425 UNION ST. ND PIKE ST. 4065 | at Club Luncheon pastor of the! YP, you have a baby—or if you want to help somebody else's baby to health and happiness—let us send you 12 feedings of Nestié's Food, free, and the bi Send today. Rev. G. T Westminster will be Gunter Presbyterian church, the principal speaker at the Big brother and I, we get baby’s care — by specialists. wheel him in and he plays with his toes—’cause Bobs is my baby, Mother says—and the magic is all forhim. meat and potatoes, and toast, and apple sauce, and milk, and rice pudding, and when I ask Mother why Bobs can’t have all these too, she laughs and pinches my cheek an’ says: “‘Honeybunch, Bobs Is get- ting fresh, clean milk, cereal iS ais a suger some ot! ce wen in thet fufly powder — just fixed right for bis tummy to like !"" And if that isn’t magic, I don’t know what is! ig, free 96-page book, all about It means safety, Friday noon luncheon of the Seattle| health and happiness for that baby. Chamber of Commerce and Com- | " merelal Club, {the Masonic club rooms Dr. Gunter's theme will be “Our Answer to the Kaiser.” a A commit tee of the members’ council is work ing on @ surprise element for the it is declared will luncheon, which cause a sensation. advice. First — MY PAINLE not make least pain or annoyance. questioned. Plates T have specialized in making plates for a number of years, so that I feel competent to fit any person needing plates. Several years of study and ex- perimenting have resulted in of silver and gold, designed es- pecially for irregularly-formed mouths, where the suction is insufficient for the ordinary | plate. If you have trouble | with either your upper or | lower plates I am sure I can remedy it. of workmans| surface, ME MANY YEARS CROWNS ARE WERE MADE. Open Evenings Until 8 o’Clock. Sundays 10 to 12. the perfection of a metal plate | FATAL DISEASES OFTEN START WITH POOR TEETH Many people fail to recognize the seriousness of neglecting their teeth, especially when cavi- ties have been of long standing or when sore and bleeding gums, tartar, foul breath, etc., al- most surely attest the presence of PYORRHEA. In my studies and laboratory experiments in the East and West I have traced so many fatal ail- ments to criminal neglect of diseased teeth that I may be pardoned for so often urging my friends and the general public to have their TEETH EXAMINED NOW AND OFTEN. To show that I have more than a mercenary interest, | MAKE ALL EXAMINATIONS FREE OF CHARGE, so that in event of your teeth being sound, you have incurred no expense, but have the additional satisfaction of professional Many patients say to me, “I need dental work, but it is so nerve-racking, and the last fillings did not last.” Now I try to make my statements plain: METHODS ARE That means just what it says. I can- any more specific save by adding that modern science has produced methods of treating the most nervously-inclined persons without the ABSOLUTELY econd—MY GUARANTEE IS IRONCLAD. My fillings WILL hold, my crowns WILL remain tight, my bridgework WILL stand a lifetime. In fifteen years’ experience my guarantee has never been | Teeth Without Plates I always recommend restor- ation of teeth or replacement without plates where condi- tions permit. By using Steele's patent porcelain replacable teeth on a gold base I have had splendid success, and have pleased my patients. I can do the same for you, even though y ay have been advised to use plates. If you hav good teeth it will pay | call for an examination before | having them extracted CROWNS ARE GUARANTEED—My guarantee hip and quality, unquestioned in 15 years, goes with all crowns made and fitted in my office by myself or the registered dentists on amy staff. I use 22-k. molten gold with cast cusp biting gauge in thickness, and fit these crowns so that it is impossible for them to work loose. I CAN REFER YOU TO PATIENTS FITTED BY AGO WHOSE GOLD GOOD AS THE DAY THEY ce | ena REMEMBER MY GUARANTEE I absolutely guarantee to cure PYORRHEA before undertaking your dental work, I make thorough exam- inations with latest im- proved X-Ray machine free of charge. I_use a really painless method so that my pa- tients enjoy, rather than fear, the work. If you are nervously inclined, rest as- sured I am_ practicing painless dentistry that is really painless. Myself and staff are registered dentists of proven experience. My equipment, as _ well as my methods, are thor- oughly modern and de- signed for your comfort and convenience. DR. C. S. FULLER ™ DENTISTS N. W. Cor. Pike and Second Ave. Third Floor Eitel Bldg. We Please Ourselves When We Please You. nts are ‘operty, sland, 1s waid crowns for the benefit of the Red Cross on the pavement a Roy st. om Bremerton band will furnish the music for th Ahh am a er