The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1918, Page 12

EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, April 13 ESTABLISHED BY JOS) Published Dally Except re a, ‘iH PULITZER, by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. rk Row, York. 63 to} i ANG dienes gosern PULary MEMDER OF THE ASSOCIATED eras Wey is cxeecsis veabeeecersuv eet B00ee- | SHOULD MULTI-MILLIONAIRES BE THE ONLY AMERICANS | PERMITTED TO MAKE PAYMENTS ON THEIR INCOME AND EXCESS PROFITS TAXES AFTER JUNE 15? N VIEW of the fact that estimates of the total the Government. will receive from income and excess profits taxes now run as) hig’ $4,000,000,000, the Treasury is said to look with less lisfavor on legislation to provide that these taxes may be paid in installments on and after June 16. ‘| This sound measure of relief, which The Evening World began to “urge last January, was further indorsed this week by a special dele-! gation sent by the National Conference of State Manufacturers’ Aaso-| ciations to point out to the Internal Revenue Commissioner how | greatly a system of installment payments for war taxes would easo the burden upon busine: The manufacturers put special stress on the argument which this newspaper has again and again emphasized: Buying of Third Liberty Loan Bonds would be immensely stimu- lated by the announcement of an easier adjustment of the war tax load. Business concerns all over the country would take Liberty Bonds for resale to their employees much more freely if they knew they could pay their heavy taxes in installments extending into the latter half of the year. The effect upon individual buyers would be equally advantageous for the Loan. Under the circumstances the Government can well afford to be} considerate. This first extraordinary and for the most part unfore-| seeable levy upon American incomes and business profits is going to produce for the Treasury sums far greater than anybody figured. ‘The Jaw has proved highly complicated. To comply with it has been most difficult. Thousands of individual and business tax returns have been unavoidably delayed. Revenue officials admit it will be well nigh impossible to check up all returns and send out tax bills before June 15, the date when, as the law now stands, full payment of all war taxes is due. It would be unfortunate if during the next two months—with the greatest, perhaps the decisive battle of the war going on in France and with a big war loan campaign under way at home— Americans were to feel their ability to lend and give in aid of their country hampered by uncertainty and pressure—more unfortu- nate still if that uncertainty and pressure were the result of the Government's insistence upon the immediate and full collection of taxes which it could lose nothing by accepting on easier terms. Inasmuch as tho total to be realized from these taxes over and above the most sanguine earlier estimates is admittedly enormous, the moment Treasury heads admit that the granting of a longer term of installment payments for income and excess profits taxes might help the Third Liberty Loan, it becomes nothing short of their impe duty to work for such relief, Several measures have already been urged upon Congress to pro- vide for the collection of income, and excess profits taxes over a more extended period. By Sophie HE other day I talked with her a one of the greatest mothers of the day. Her service flag is bearing four stars, She has given her best— | this wonderful woman, the great artist, Schumann- Hetnk, But all of her glory and all her success 1s| as nothing com- pared to the| great marvel of her motherhood. The mother tnstinct 1s so strong within her that tt would mother the world if tt could. Above all Just at present she ts busy moth- ering her country—this country, ive} It is time for Secretary McAdoo to put the Treasury solidly behind legislation to this end. ‘ ; Suggestion is made that multi-millionaires whose incomes are 60: big that it takes weeks to figure them out, be given time beyond June 15 to settle their tax bills! | “Wor, after all,” she says, “it has If anybody is entitled to such extension it is most assuredly | given to me everything—all that I Americans w! |have and am, T shall never forget hose income and excess profits taxes are more e: ily | the atruggio of the ye ‘over there’ | figured than paid, but who are every bit as ready as the very rich ~th® years of enerisy and longing to take their share of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stampe, and toll, with Jittle opportunity and| to! with less encouragement. contribute to the Red Cross and other war aids—if only the total | “Hut over here it all came—oppor- burden is so balanced that they can carry it. tunity, recognition and success and appreciation, and what ts there for ¢ | mo but to return {t in full moasure as far as I can? This is the land shat | has made me, as it has made millions if . Bermin nant Lone With the Consolidated Gas Company of New York paying 4 7 per cent. dividend last year on close to $100,000,000 capital of others, and this ts the time to} and the Brooklyn Union Gas Company clearing 8 per cent, on prove our gratitude, $18,000,000, as per figures printed by The Evening World yes- | “Of course, what mother does not terday, the present move of these corporaticns to set aside the 80-cent gas statute looms up a large and luscious piece of profit eering even in these fruitful times yearn for her dear ones? And, my heart goes out to all mothers—the | mothers who have given up—they who have less to give than I-who have on! yO given all, Never were mothers ao Nobody questions the fighting power of the Irish, It's all | needed as they are to-day.” | there. But aan can't coax . ey La can't ie f ai bea And J believe that even if her nine| ‘ L grandchildren were old enough sho there's no way to shove the enemy n front of \t WOHid Wabt. each {0 DAVE a bare la os “t= —_ tho big fight, Having sent her sons as soldicrs she {8 herself marching What says the Liar in Berlin to the Liar in Vienna? through the ranks singing her mothe: or | ere 7 |nongs, for she has left us to go to : hi : {the camps. And to-day | Hits From Ss arp Wits. Heink, who holds her citizenship | Even money has become too busy; After the war we | PAPAES BA Mas Apareet } sige put aside thes great oporatic arias of any Jour uni to do much talking. n . Coprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening |clalist, if white clothing for One Wonderful Mother Irene Loeb World.) this Spartan-like spiri and so much of It 1s found in so many other moth- ers, less illustrious but whose sacri~ fices are tremendous. It 1s the song of these mothers that Schumann- Heilnk carries to the soldiers. It Is the pictures of these mothers that she draws before’ them in her stirring songs to-day. It is In the cry of these mothers that she urges the democracy that will not down, It is for these moth- ers that she sounds the chime of cheer. In a word, she carries the message of all mothers—American mothers—as sbe proudly wears the four stars, And withal, gentle readers, know that this woman carries her portion Of sadness and regret, For some- where, fighting against her four strong, stalwart American soldiers, 1s one of his brothers on the other side of the fight. Oh, the strength of her to bear ft all! May more power come to her, and to all the mothers whose message she carries, so that “when the boys | come home” each will be ready to sing again her song of weleomel — Newest Things in Science The megaphone Invented by a Bos: ton doctor 1s formed on the theory that the ram's horn is the technically correct shape for the best sound ree production, eee About 90 per cent, of the off ab- sorbed by waste or rags used tn wipe ing machinery 1s recovered by a cen- trifugal machine that an Englishman has invented, an Mixtures of air and vapor from| benzo}, petroleum or alcohol are used |in a new blowpipe invented in Eu- rope. P . . . According to a Laon Jon eye spe- infants were abolished, in @ generation there would be @ 20 per cent, decrease in the number of persons with defec- tive vision, ee A Connecticut inventor's musteal instrument has a sing of more than usual length and 1s played with a bow wihilo held be- tween the knees, an aluuinum horn 8, amplifying the sound, ‘yess A Duteh tn’ 1 scarcely la tors telephone that r than a lead pencil gun tha her world fame and iy singing “The Tf all the wishes that were ever|ty-six mil Soldier's Dream" (of mother) and made had been gratified, humanit “When the Boys Como Marching Jot would be even harder than it Milly-—tf¢ kiss me rn] Ho phat) Albany Journa, soream for What for? | : oe I don't need an, Philadelphia | ry Sammy who hears her Worry is Like a ge: you | Kecord. will think of his own mother, and gent hateh, anything out of it but Ci tear is sending to him a note of eps you from going to sleep on men ean hit the nafl on the| love, of hope, of co ‘ nest.—Binghamton. I jead, bu net rh Mit the] 10%% ef hope, of cour Many a tales | nail on Binghamton | other, having given sons and daugh- Go to the dog and learn a lesson | Press | ters and granddaughters, ts ready to of saving. He buries his bone, You} a he sit back in the parlor with her knit. throw yours in the ganbage-—Mem-| Wh 1 optin Hero's t | ttn Feed liee pbis Commercial Appeal | Louisville Courier-Journal comment. | "28 Bele’ ( ee 1 ine that & dollar eons rant comments |" But mot se with this mother, gh tolen sweets are often hard to dl-| poker gam a it 1—Miwau. gives, gives, giv of herself. Ob gest.—Chicago News. kee News. what a fine example the world over- depends upon the heat generated in & piece of platinum wire by elec: tricity to produco vibrationy that transmit messages, violin string | The Jar By Roy L. 667 PCHOSE little military sults for boys are very cute,” re- marked Mrs. Jarr, she looked up from her fashion paper. “In fact, the military effects predominate in all the fashions. Look at riding habit for a young woman, It Royal Flying Corps.” “Yes, and the women are wearing skirts short enough to be called kilts,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “I saw two ladies on the avenue, big strong strapping girls with pleated skirts of Scotch plaid, und I thought at first !t was @ couple of Highland grenadiera in front of me.” Mrs. Jarr gave him such a@ look, gaze. “I was thinking of getting our Willie one of those kilt sults in the Jarr Clan plald, you remember?” she said finally. ‘But I'm glad I didn’t, for Mrs. Slavinsky got her little boy one of those same kilt sults, and the salesman told her it was the iden- | tieal tartan of the Slavinsky Clan, | “Tho Slavinsky Clan seems to have one strong Scottish trait,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “and that ts thrift. Young as ho ts, Master Izzy Slavinsky seoms ‘bent on putting money tn his purse, or rather ‘bawbbees In his sporan' as the Highland Slavinskys would say.” “Well, I think that our Willle re- gretted that he objected so strongly to my gett lanes ch kilt sults," Mrs, Jarr went on, “He has since told me that young lIsadore Slavinsky wears the costume! and his little Glengary cap, and lets | one of the older boys lead htm around | the streets with a string, to follow the street pianos; and people him pennies, although the Ita lwith the street pianos | object"—— | “Does our Willte want to be made a monkey of, too?” asked Mr, surprise. “Oh, dear me! Is that it?” erted Mrs, Jarr. “Well, the children are so eager to get pennies to buy Thrift | Stamps fhey will do most anything, you know, And, anyway, our Willie had nothing to do with {t but to hold the string, I believe.” “Did he get any of the Darwintan theory pennies to buy Thrift Stamps with?” asked Mr, Jarr, “No, that's why he quarrelled with the little Slavinsky boy, and that's why he now wants a Harry Lauder suit, as he calls it. Now that cold weather {3 over and hig poor little 9 can't get cold, I have half a mind t him a Scotch costume, When- this} |a Glengary cap and follow hand or- | {s modelled after the uniform of the but Mr. Jarr returned an innocent) g him one of those little} strenuously Jarr, in| r Family Copyright, 1918, by the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) lever you see the Scotch Highlanders | charging the German trenches In the moving pictures everybody always cheer! “Do you think everybody would cheer {f our boy was to don kilts and gans around simulating a Simian?" Mr. Jarr inquired. “Where's your Scottish pride,” not Scotch; it's your family that Scotch, Our family !s Welsh, you know that?” eald Mra, Jarr. Henry"——~ “Uncle Henry is @ welsher, I rio line’—- “The Cymric ta on the Cunard lin Mr. Jarr interposed. ‘Let me see, was the Cymric torpedoed or wasn't “Please don't try to be facetious!" snapped Mrs. Jarr. “I'm speaking the royal line of bards and harpers, MY family descended, ons, you know?’ bat them. “The Katser has a swell | with our British allies then,” sald Mr, Jarr decisively. “People that tako a cold bath every morning of thetr own free will don't know when they're | they get in them and stay in chance Mrs. Jarr agreed, “and an Order of the Bath!" QUICKSILVER SHORTAGE, diminish during the last decade, “Come to think of ft, our family {s/ “Unele | of the Cymrie people, from whom, of Early Brit- | «qz| -B (panting)—Y-Y-y | English lady told me one of their| Men who opposed the extsting author- highest orders of knighthood 4s the ity and so brought on the confilct at! wounded uy silver has been for years almost once ruled us sie world’s production of quick. | stationary, with a tendency to| Stories o1 Spies By Albert Payson Terhune 1918, by the Pres Publiahing ( SASSULITCH, Russ E Catcher. HB long and bloody death-grappie “ 8 Cleve rest Nihilist NO. 14.—VERA eLw the Russian Government and the Russian “Niht was at fis height, Working craftily and in the the various to kill Sroups of Nihilists were killing or se y high Russian official who roused their hatred. The secret police were straining every nerve to bring the Nihilists to execution or to Siberian ¢ But Nihilists were not easy to catch, Their ranks included all classes from peasant-students tu Princes, And they took shrewd precautions against spies, Many rumors of Nibilist plots reached the police. And occasional arrests were made. But scores of | Russtan officials were killed by plotters whose conspiracies had never been ‘suspected. One Czar had been slain by Nihilists, ‘The lives of all bis euc cessors were in daily perl. | (The word “Nihilist” is derived from the Latin, “nihil,” which means “nothing.” Nihilists were thus “Nothingists.” They sought to turn Russia's |aynasty into nothing. And no one can deny they have at last euceceded. | Perhaps & little better than they meant to.) | Grim Gen. Trepoff was appointed Prefect of Police, Trepoff's father bad } deen killled by Nihilists, Loe declared war-to-the- | farm death against all of them, He hunted them down | ENihiliste Make Vow$ like wolves. The Nihilists, in turn, hated Trepoft | to Destroy. and vowed to kill him, Attempt after attempt was « made against his life. But always in vain, \ Ho was driving home from the Police Bureau | one afternoon when a shabbily dressed girl ran up to his carriage and sprang on its steps. She levelled a pistol at the General and pulled the trigger. Trepoff's alde knocked the weapon out of her hand as she fired. The bullet few wide. In a moment half a dozen policemen had seized the would- be murderess, } She was dragged to prison and there was cross-questioned. She said (her name wos Vera Sassulitch and that she was an ardent disciple of Nihil- jem. Sho said she was ready to dle in the holy cause and her one grief ! mercilessly persecuting her Nihilist brethren, Trepoff had always scoffed at the death-threats that came to him by nearly every mall, Now, to prove his contempt for the puny efforts of the | Nihilists, he had the girl kicked out of the court room ani turned loose He said she was crazy and that he would not give her the morbid satisfaction (of posing ag a martyr. Vera Sassulitch went free, The Nihilists received her with open arms. | They proclaimed her a heroine and took her to their hearts, he had risked a hideous death to strike a blow in their behalf, Nothing w too good for her, Their secret. thelr private lists of mombers, their hidden meeting Places, their plots—all were confided to Vera. They knew they could trust | her, They could afford to do nothing of the sort a spy—a police spy! She was the cleverest woman in the “Third why Trepoff had chosen her for the role of Nihi Vera and Trepoff had planned beforehani h tempted murder. They had rehearsed tt to: and then with the alde, who was to knock pistol out of the girl's hand. Vera had learned by heart the speech of def: which she was to declaim in the court room, For Vera Sassulitch was employ. That is farce of the at | Oar Clever Woman Spy leceives All, eee the Tre poff is said to have written the speech for her ani to have arranged for {ts circulation among the Nihilists. The spy now found herself in clover. She had the eas! mt Kind of « time in gaining from the Nihilists all the information she wanted. Ths information she always turned over to Trepoff, who acted on It with su deadly ferocity that Nihilism was all but stamped out. In time the Nihilists grew to suspect their adored “heroine,” and Vera's ents were transferred Sereaey, Trepoff into another fleld of police usefulnes: tal a Camp Comedies By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1018, by the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) The Comforts of Home Scene: Camp Diz, Time: Late Afternoon. (A group of Boys are lolling about the barracks in that delicious jasst | tude which follows a day's hard drilling and precedes A( tho life of the party)—All hands; ~~~ ‘round; how’ll you have your aigs! Btn marked disgust)—Aw, shut) ate. A (heartlessly)—You gotta go! Are you sweating now, Bill? | up! B (defeated) —Y-yeh! | A (imply serene neta A (with triumph)—That'e better, |the matter, 14111? Don't you feel an af-| Halt! Of with his wrappings, fel- finity for algs to-day? lows, Roll him in the drift, B (in a trance)—There's only one} thing that I'm really hankering for) this minute, A (in mock tendorness)—And what {s that, dear? Open your heart to father! B (ignoring the Josh)—I'd give my B (shrieking wildly) —Oo—oh—og—- ouch! (They roll him tn the fey stuff untit he turns a beautiful purple.) A (giving orders)—'Nuft! Now tor the Swedish stuff, boys! Lay onto him like ho was a Teuton—make him mow,” interrupted Mr, Jarr. neck for a Turkish bath! (Loud!feel tho strength of Uncle Sam'e “Yes, we are Welsh, Cambrians,| laughter by chorus.) army! Cymric," Mra, Jarr went on, not| A (Jumping to his feet)—Gentle-| (The orders are obeyed. The victua heeding the interruption. “Our Cym-| men, you hear what the boy says? A|S4@8ps a dit and falls limp.) Turkish bath. Let it not be eald that we allowed him to wither and die with longing. Up and follow—| carry on! (A. pulls B, to his feet and forms a flying wedge of tho rest of the bunch, Poor A is the apex, They rush him up the steep slope of the | nearest mountain.) A (after a tow minut —Are you out of bre: A (with military brevity)—Hait! Clothes on, B—(as they carry him stretoher fashion)—I'll get back at you for this Vu A (in high {ndignation)—Listen to the tngrate! I ask you if I did not | do all tn my pow upply the com- forts of home, He was pining for a ‘hard going) | ‘Turkish bath. On the spot wo gave th, BI? him what he cra ed—the steam room “Sure! Mr. Jarr remarked, Juntil he sweated, the ool plunge. have heard of the Early Britons, they| 4 (comblacently) eyen the rubdc Could anything be invented Saving Daylight. me | Are you sweating, B as ger rage ea a modern Early Britons live in these| 8 (resentfully)—N y-you walt— meee ine flats. I can hear them up before) 4 (firmly)—That's bad! Rush him)” A (indulg ask you, daylight running the water in their|2@Tder, boys, over the top to the) amenthe express |tubs to take their bawths. But, do| heel of that snowbank near the sum. | UneiMe LN sae you know I think they are bluffing? tt ; | Shudder anticipate thee I think the early morning tub te ™ (helplessly) —T don't wanna got | quences! mostly camouflage, You can't tell) ~~ Biases — me people LIKE to jump into a tub| Tr h N S f P ot eo cold water every morning. I e New Spirit o atriot's Day. think most of them fust run the DW spirit will mark this, Malor Pitcairn, ie water, look at it and then they have A ar’s celebr: of Patriot's |of Minute Men dra ; = " |a subject of conversation all the rest Day, The old fecling against | ington village BA ie |of the day.” | Great tain, our old-time ene: were le P ante Man “I'm sure you're wrong,” said Mra. has vanished; to-day American aid | had for beget Jarr, ‘(he English DO take cold! pritigh soldiers fight shoulder to!of Abrah: shoulder in this last and greatest war | for the freedom of the world 1 his mer Tho first battle in tho struggle of hesitated, for, the American colonies for liberty waa Englishinen, 1 fought on April 19, 1776, and tho an-jwhom they niversary has long been observed ax | eairn diss a holiday by the people of Massachu- | shot t |sotts and Maine. The story of the |and ride of Paul Revere and of the Minuto | Thi lot w harg was ht in 4 time the Mi Lexington and the fight at Concord! fore tt will be retold to-day tn thousands of jin grim earns American schoolrooms, but without | Concord the the least feeling against those who|the British : |Micted by thin w h | ar lasted many Early on the morning of the fateful years, but they have now he creme day a British column, commanded by | healed, | Was that she had fatled in her effort to kill the tyrant, Trepoff, who was 80 _