The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1918, Page 14

EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, 21 February The EVening Word, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Published Daiiy Except Sunday hy the Pr ling Company, 63 Park RALPH PULATZB J. ANGUS SHAW, T JOSEVIL PULITZER, Jr | To the Slaughter! a Nos. 63 to MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. anata Oe Seuss ie, te Sein eons aves eabllanee barca jeevnns NO. 20,688 EVERYTHING TO GAIN. SON for postponing the third Liberty Loan until April r afier, “subnormal economic and business conditions” are adduced—these conditions brought about, it is pointed out, by unprevedentedly severe weather, fuel shortage and a transportation ve-up combining to slow down industry and commerce and cause a general money stringency. Also, reminded—and few will deny it— we are Extensive profiteering and inflated costs of bare living have reduced to the lowest ebb in years the spending power of the small consumer—tbhe man tn the street. One thing, however, must have occurred to Secretary McAdoo | and other heads of the Treasury Department Patting off the neat Liberty Loan until April brings it atill nearer to the time when a considerable number of Americans are ‘low ebb of spending | paying far bigger taxes upon| their last year's incomes than they could possibly have foreseen while they were earning the same going to be deeply concerned not only with @ yower” but also with the necessity of of Comparatively few persons pay their income taxes early. The weight of this year’s war tax upon last year's earnings will be felt mainly during May and the first half of June. Through preceding weeks there will be the ever-present consciousness that income taxo: By J. H. Cassel Americans 1 = Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune abt. 1918, by the Press Publisbing Co, (The New York Hrening World), NO. 75.—THE WHISKEY INSURRECTION, Cop wo very violent little rebellions raged in the young United States over queer and petty causes in the eighteenth ceutury’s last days. One of these wag caused by a tax on windows and another by a tax on whiskey. Both were fought out in the ordinarily re Spectable State of Pennsylvania, An earlier article bas told of the window war. Among the many ways our infant Government em- ployed to raise money was by the levying of a heavy tax on all whiskey distilled here. An act to that ef fect was passed early in 1794. And at once trouble eet in. There were four counties in Pennsylvania that lay west of the Alleghenies. These counties had been laws and who resented having the Government do it for them, They were a thrifty crowd, these Western Pennsylvanians. They made much money by raising quantities of rye and then by distilling that rye Into whiskey. There was a steady and growing market for whiskey. ‘Then, in 1794, came news that the Government had decided to cut down the distillers’ fat profits by charging excise fees on every drop of whiskey made, As the distillers and their friends did not like “his new tax at all, they decided to pay n- attention to it, but to go along barn as before, without sharing their profits with any one. } New Tax Law Government officers went out there to collect the Is Ignored. tax. They were driven away and some of them were 3 handled pretty roughly. Back they cams at the head of posses to collect the tax by force. Thsy and their posses were thrashed in open fight and sent about their business, When further force was offered, the whiskey men not ony overcame It but started reprisals, They burned Government buildings, lestroyed bags of United States mall, tarred and feathered such officials as they could catch, and performed other acts of petty defiance to show they were not i } to be trifled with. e thust be paid by June 15 i ‘There was an effort to call out the local militia, Then the Government i | i! } C7 found the militia had gone over to the rebels, who were now about 7,000 Such a time can hardly be considered highly favorable for the % stron| i dove id Fa — I opular war loan or fo: . 7 up of President Washington ordered Goy. Mifflin of Pennsylvania to call out floating of another popu war in ¢ r the speeding uy a 4 |the whole State militia. The Governor refused and the rebellion began to War Savings campaign expected to gather impetus as the yeer " spread into Virginia. Civil war threatened advances. ' Washington acted then on Federal authority and mustered in the militia ed s of four States, He thus had 13,000 soldiers under arms. The retels boast There is a way, nevertheless, to ease the unusual load laid upon ed they could put 16.000 fixhting men into Ge field. ‘0 | rn =o Under Gen. Henry Lee, the 13,000 Gover s by this year's unexpectedly heav come preby § \? \ ; overnment Americans by this years unoxy LY DOSYy AB COMMS, tae) Lnereby s U. 8. Soldiers $ troops moved against the rebellious counties, Parkine inereasing the confidence and cheerfulness with whieh they can sub- i Move On. son's Ferry was the headquarters of the insurgents, tcribe to more Liberty Bonds and buy moro War Savings Stamps i ’ iste adi Lad Sale MN SIS ple of the United States have responded nobly to appeals “a Now, it is one thing to bellow deflance at a Government which Is far e to the o help the nation out o : : * distant and whose nearest representatives are too few and too weak to en- made to them to help the n HN of their current and future | x, force the law. It is quite another thing to stand against an organized army earnings. { sent out by that Government. Vhy uldn't the Government now make it easier fo: 4 This was a wholesome truth which now began to dawn upon the tne Why shoul i r n 1 it easier for many of ii \surgents. The whole na was against them. Behind the 13,000 men al- them to help still more, by giving them the privilege of paying their! Bi ready jn the fleld were countless thousands more, ready to spring to arme ny " *resident’s co! a The a income taxes, if they so desire, in several instalments after June 14? y at (hele adored Ecesidents comimane: | Tie \destion of avelding “duty (ee si ; A : : , whiskey suddenly became of very small importance compared with that of Phe Treasury of the United States can lose nothing by a policy avoiding death by rope or bullet. which relieves pressure upon pocketbooks it desire: ee Before the punitive expedition could reach Parkinson's Ferry the in , ea } pon | # to see open for} surrectionists laid down their arms In scared surrender, But not before ite further needs their rebellion had cost our impoverished young country nearly two million The country’s business and financial balance can lose nothing by dollars plan which draws millions of dollars of tax money out of circulation | : - * gradually instead of all at once, A A B h | Yr ( rl R fl t Why doesn’t Secretary McAdoo cause to be set before Congress rd ac e 0 1 e ec 10ns the all-around desirability of an amendment to the War Tax Law ok By Helen Rowland which shall provide that Income Taxes may be paid this year in fixed t 1 Coprright, 1918 by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), watalmenis up to Dec. 1? ee . — _ - _ s = Se ee HE most thrilling moments in life—the first day of one's first love . . . affair and the last day of one’s last love affair. Shipbuilding profiteers showed a fine sense of fitness in h rr h tN Ve | h rr | est wea tnlng eMarriage That Never Fails The Jarr Family eae nee oreea re +. | - one longs for “something to happen,” at thirty one won. By Sophie Irene Loeb . By Roy L. McCardell ders “what will happen next,” and at forty one fears thas THE CLOSED SHOP. Covyright, 1918,"by the Prene Pablihing Co, (The New York Breaing W Constisht, 10:8, by the Trews Pablisinn Co, (The Now York Ftening Werk | “something may happen.” . HE closed shop, for which William L, Hutcheson, head of ( AST night I dined with a young; that might come. And so I always | 66 HERE'S my meerschaum|be cruel to dumb animals. ‘That ae i : ; ; - ; ] couple. They have been mar-|try to make him see how ° d ripe? ed Mr. Ja nouse should be put in the ond ' * Carpenters and Joiners’ Brotherhood, has obstinately he! rae wet Vela tiehaa TG ecadin MAC Walia bane A el ped naka acorn da Salis Dae aes Love’ ta’ the: wine that makes the world’ go) ‘round ‘ is i 5 ) , a \ t r vik a e not § im going in front room for my marriage the awakening, and divorce the “water wagon,” out against the Shipping Board in the face of the nation’s they will ever g¢ In direct contrast to th . 1] to smoke in my dining room, ¢ that your mother has forgotten Op Which we clinb vowing "Never axain\® urgent need of ships, is not, as might be supposed, a principle whi old except as years | have one in mind, people similar | you?’ asked Mrs. Jarre in turn. » went for, After I get in the front Ns is bal ‘ ly a F : i ; ; ie count, There is alcireumstances. The union s 1 out m going to smoke up some m, Willie, you bring in the mouse works entirely for the workman’s protection, as against the employer's reason, They have| Very promising, but I fear its future | thing!” growled Mr, Jarr, “It's too] and put it right in by Mrs, Gratch A young girl must choose between being “respected” selfishness learned how to|is fearful cold to smoke on the fire escape or he poor mouse will be so happy, | and being kissed; but a clever widow can usually mane * On the contrary, the employer often finds that the closed shop ony me spirit of A ee nversa as will convince] the roof; it's too far to go in th oor papa will be so happy, Mrs, | its mownem 888 to be both. A . . youth alive you of the reason, He will whisper} basement and smoke with the Jani-|(ratch will be so happy— But it ts — eaves uch worry Pspo! y rage: . th t * ” : him much worry and resp nsibility. It fixes wages and hours) Contrary to the| Into the ear of the sympathizer some-| tor, Where's my pipe » bo a surprise for her, so you must A man filnge an old love affair or an old coat aside and forgets {t; « for him, settles disputes, provides him with extra labor when neces-| eynic, there are| thing like this: “Iam sorry my wife ‘ease, papa, 1 saw your pipe in| rush ri in and throw the mouse} woman folds it away in lavender, just “In case” she may “need {t again, *ary, and furnishes him with a convenient intermediary through whicl | marriages that) is not here to-nig She is such 4] the front room—the big yellow pipe, ght at her feet, as it were!" some day.” he candeal saw lal sonst Wish thane ba emai e : a. never fail, They | home body. She d t care for any- little Miss Jarr “Yes, papa,” said the dutiful child : in more or less impersonally with those he employs. | Somtemartieet aro not in Heaven, |/thing but the eh 1. She is all] “Now don’t go in there!" cried Mrs | “And, Hokey, won't she holler!” | N nee 1 The man who suffers most from the closed shop is the independ-|either. ‘They are made by earth-| wrapped up in the house.” He willl Jarr as Mr, Jarr started toward the) “Willie!” sald Mr. Jarr, "I am aur- | cineee fe a faithful photogravure made from the glowing illusions ent workman who finds that neither his willingness nor hia skill avails | bound spirits—very much earth-bound aie i ave & gr sigh and add] front of the house, “Mrs, Grateh ts| prised at you!” | Which love has painted on the imagination. } é é : confidentially: "She never did under 2 hap on the davenport. She's| And he slipped away — “to get him a jobi Jane where "3 sr Jand very much alive. i gan pped awa % & : job in ap here the union has decreed he shall not | ‘This coupte ts one of them, I know | stand me just worn out after the Friends of! He had no sooner reacued the front fier a divorce a woman goes Into spiritual half-mourning, but a man e employed, Jmany others. And while cach ts dif The truth ts he never tried to have} peace mecting.” room n Master Jarre came running | Steps back into his old life as calmly and casually as though he had just He may be the better man for the work and the employer may | ferent In some respects, “ae nae yiian with tae warey Ge the SPP SNE ve geht ML ad eer er ON raeRCE eUReT eh sire EARLE aL NL a . 2 ental roc t held happiness | many times wit w of the nan who pipes for peace | The chil laughed in chile know him to be the better man, Yet he stands no chance whateror|™°nt® k that has heid hapy nant ea u sh in who pipes for peace Is asleep dren laughed in chil _ ' lance whatever] i, the same tn all Iren because she was willing in tho front room, and yet I'm not) Master Jarr threw the mouse, but | Women of forty have two resorts to camouflage—to deny it emph elongside the inferior worker who can show the union card and the! 1 might sum it up in one word— | 0° left for sakes permitted to smoke pipe in| it missed Mra. Gratch's lap and fell | cally—and ‘o dety it sonmneticalis 7 mphatt« union O, K, onmrassahin After dinner this; While she was w em she had | peace!” asked Mr. Jarr on the floor. Whereupon the daunt-| ~ a ‘ not the sar da As she f less Mra, € fi d neither | ear ai sco |couple went to a moving pic eamed a reasonable remon. 3 aratch, who feared neither “ap, . ; The independent man may be full of the independeut zeal, initin- |e nie Bae veeais thes war carly dave and 1 tof. ns and, after giving it some| 2 Nor mouse (for she wae a fight- Personality” is the little lamp within the soul which shines through, *'ve and industry that push ahead to invention or improvement and | at the opera; another night to u a¢ pt himself to her interests and re ne Ate: Sher vanncunesd Saad lattice ast, Pianos gath danpialde) one | As you go through the world you radiate, or just give a dim little light, eometimes make a fortune for themselves and the shop that employa| ous drama. ts! oo i Dara 3 © would slip quietly into the front | poor rodent to a pulp OF pass Unseen, according to the aise and luminosity of your soul, : 1 * : r nt he had only ber women fri vo 1 | Mr. J gay hriek, for the ——- them, Nev 1 . And they enjoyed them ¢ »- | Or nd see !f she could find Mr. arr gave a shriek, for a MB prigioner _ cloved inp principle a clares that euch Bl cether hile Seth aro token | Decauso It was most conventent i Se albes and if she could find tt | sho We to Dayal am RAS Olen 19h Bla Pehaw! By establishing all these sweetless, meatiess, drinkless rules n shall not work with union workers unless he puts off his inde-| together; and in each other's pa the fen die ee aimlve : 4 ne per) and bring it out without awakening | si Spat it oan iS A 5 m the Government {fs actually taking the bread out of the mouths of all the pendence and becomes a union man \there Is no parting, either, Toast Su Ravan ity wr consea tol Mrs. Gratch, the pacifist, Mr. Jarr| No, tho children didn’t get to the | rheumatism spectalists! Th ° he o 0 ry . lig vate! 4 a bad cold, and wire, |" DR Seer *° | would be permitted to smoke { movies, either, The fact is, the employer is by no means the one who profits | tay Walter had a bad cold, and wife! 1. Atte drit J a thnte Se| Would bo permitted to amoke it in the | Movies lther a oe == least by the closed shop. While the one who profits most is not the behead ed PIARRE & Bh | diawatisfaction ee pal oh sy ee eg ied SrOUnIs, Better be an old maid's darling than a young widow's “trophy , ' ne sit up, noke oul of the window on the atr- i$ Speen workman, but the labor leader who fights for the closed shop as the| she didn't do ft reiuctar ro they had salled 201 ahast ° , . f pa They | 1 yuarantee of his dictatorship and the foundation of his power sindly. She knew that she w And . een. mE f his power glad § 7 Mr. Jarr sulleniy agreed, and Mra —- P __ enjoy the confab of women, know ad thor thea | date tripped tly into front a e e a e€ oO oO 1 c . , f yne even with as z Ls sel PE s ust eawakenc a a 3 * Letters From the Peo p le = sor ted} r to go and f 1a Pooper: aie bee kened Mr By Bide Dudley | Silas Crockett, driving past they When the Uplift Section of the e nted her to go and jratch, and in the conver n that ¢ t ow "i Please limit communications to 150 words pig agreed ey prrag'e ale pastes sip Greiekrand {8 te eons BRE) AR Hye arises pres eunatey ool Sarat ar ein on his old roan| Women's Betterment League of Delhi Serks 84m Day for Spec Pollce-| Theodore I Shonts. stating that if/care of.” But she wahted to be TAAEMASS. HAS e Me NONOE | enate pine The New York Krening World! | owhate met at Hugus Hall that afternoon oe New York City couid' be divided. in| pie tails to find a f da- | PAPAS DP pationtly tor aome| $6(MHEEP! Cheep!” Pepa kot there, Miss Ellie?" Promptress Mrs. Pertle announced a To we ¥ 1 The 4 World Wo Ron : , ‘ ; ; n of Jo 1 ter sretting taps tently: for som The same floating out | 5 called | treat . divic ieee a Nor ts all this Interest one bd teen minute re be ne sound cam . as Doolittl 1 AN Ay in The Evening World fividing tin - PY oa cligh ie s tpvasnleh § as individuals i att ae ae , - a Jarr began on the balmy alr of the Doo Ms # Doolittle held up one hand, | “Miss Hllabelle Mae Doolittle," she ed that the Police Commiastoner ing the cl A LAL el Bi a tH. But tt ie ® periuino an legree—a degree star to wonder ans sh Hg Were 89] tittle cow-lot in Delhi me rs the first ¢! icken of the #ea- | said, “will now read us her latest poem * planning to reduce the force of spe- | hour ahead, that this arrangement | on the part of one toaect the w beer a sh aenTN aa ; hey had been Cheep {ao she replied. “It ts a sign of | ‘Spring Is Nearing—How Lovely!'” ' cla atroimen guarding bridges and h oe eae be lines tw Aditional of the other, though unexprosse Th S _ i . prom} is is * 818 vies, and Straight Into the window of the nage also an evidence of the love] With that she read the poem It publie ties and that they are be- | the morning aNd nae car ee | hey act lave, live it every d. e Ouns Light 1 WAS ODIY RR BOUT OF evening |moolittic home it went, It was the|{"® hen bears the egg. Isn't It won-| follows, lucky reader; ing paid $430 a day. Asa matter of /ning. Tour traMc expert, might ‘we |@ word, they try to be harmont t 50,000 ‘ dae window of the bedroom of the noted | detul | "Mi acring, oF almont spring, 1 meas, ya day |interested in ennestie ye * wo hey HE giant 6 00 candle- powe A glance under th 1 Jeveloped | poctess, Ella: Mae Doolittle. | “Look out you don't step in that Acroes the cowilot comes 0 ery, personal ly think that he willbe apie} Ob, no, they are not s ‘The Hybt instatied N » fact that the children were quiet| It was morning and the sun shone | mud puddle right ahind ye," said Silas f smaller eniual . y to find so: good pointe tin it are real flesh-and-b! h ia one ft ing because were p! = p yCr rekett, 1 di ae yee fea aah ta JAK. [hey believe in the human cq world and mak f tts vieinity er achipea imbibe Meets WE Ls aaa poetess sat bolt upright! M48! He was too late, In her Joy Sass the oid back ban fy ene 08) " “Sweetleas Sanday” Next. |. to consideration ¢ dingly brillia edhgacdeby as 7 > tid . ' the noted etess h How charming! My een: td Very hard | To the Editor of The Erecing Wortd and take it in : . had alive on a string 1 be poetess had put one foot pe ctarmisg! Ay aeutimest doce thicken, of liv In view of the shortage of sugar| hour, They have thelr au 1 hoon demonstrated tes , willie!” 8 Mr. Jarr. “Would! “The old black hen has a chicken,"| backward. It sank to the ankle, i} My alpter'd cid, ‘Teomep “Mareen as wissione " : > €X- at present why would it not be ad. |they know how to forg em 1 riy-two and ¢ ons Of] 34, tike to go to the mov Wine oho bald Gosh!" came from the young wo-! “ ~ esigking Nohara. “we | ¥l \s patriotic, to ada | forgive them. They do no tam. | them to do th work of | rig you like to go Cheep! Cheep!” man as she jumped for dry land |) Pipette ola any $40 day 3 the many other|!¥ feuds or spite the: Bubs ae He gueexe Strangely enough, t Iven aald| The fervor of the artistic girl was| With no further ado she turned and! yore a tetum to ¢ oy HERMAN lean” aye we aro trying now? I have watched them pie} but scientifi ot ton} nused, She leaped out of bed| Tan like @ frightened fawn to the! 41 means that epring is aig Chairman of Special Patroimen, | | An the avers Usually eats! whose marriage has resoly f long and elabe Tak- | sald Mr. Jarr, “you mustn't gracefully, grabbed a kimono with| kitchen door. Into the house she went! Ore of our minister last week How 4 the Subway Cro any other da ver wth Tinto @ success. It works eur wele © exuberance of a poetic soul,|@%d up to her room, Said bie salary mae to dollars ay To the b 1 "Toe Evening W 4 eo week 1 would | |) t it to work ~ * : : is , | “Hey, Ellie! Yer tr n ' Bowing gracefully, sumgest t ef feds hey both wan ty ex , . sad @ pelr of shoes with de-| ys er trackin’ up the + the poeteas With great intereat | note your plan | nae frany's Walter would like s ae War Savings Songs ‘ipped OB @ DAY Of aim tomnataire.| Matti,” called Peter P, Doolittle, backed UP tage and took a seat ona call to your atten that on Fet ee ‘ nave” abe said; “but | . but| iow does you Thrift peat tat Staoping over the old hen she|teply: Miss Doolittle deposited the! 3 gem sank tnto the Tel ere ahecasel'e sucarsiion scx itha | ae ldren Aas ey Stooping " }minds of the ladies. Then the add sug on to the! wanld be w® Mo thin nage (bard he works and ti i Plat ho | Very well, Um glad to tell gently picked up the chicken @nd held|chick on her bed, snatched pen and’ piauded with great gusto ¥ a President of toe loterborough ines, | rifice. &. HM, have the ‘nest egg’ for the | ry ¥ human mind, Tre green (aps in a row ‘\t to her throbuing heart | paper and wrote a poem All were pleased, oo eSracr ” i