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EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, July 11, 1918 Publiched th Row, Preas PubR New York. eeident, 63 Park Row. 63 Park Row, cretary, 63 Park Row. og Company, Nos. 63 to PER OF THE ASSOCIATED Phmaa, entitied to the we. for requbiieation of Aercatetice IRL taped abd aias th Tonal ‘sews Geblbee bee | -NO. 20,778 THE PROPOSED LUXURY TAXES. IL term Juxnry will have new and drastic meanings for Ameri-| T cans if the tax echedule presented by the Treasury Department) to the House Ways and Means Committee becomes law. It may surpriee not # few men to find a pair of socks costing forty cents in the luxury class. Thirty-five cent hosiery is the high- est the proposed schedule permits to go untaxed. Twenty per cent. on the price of automobiles and motoreycles will cause less protest. ‘The publie might rejoice if more people swore off motorcycles. A tax of 10 or 15 per cent. on men’s sufts selling for more than $30, while women’s suits may be purchased untaxed up to $40, is a| gallant differentiation which ought to be appreciated. | Bhoes over $6 may have been a luxury once, bat the leather profiteers are trying to foree the public to regard footwear to-day at anything under $10 es either inferior or “marked down.” In fact the whole schedule, as spplied to current retail prices, ratees the instant questian: Since many of these current prices are admfttedly exorbitant owing to the activities of war profiteers, in ft fatr to tax purchasers on the basis of what they are made to pay for, let us ey, shoes and dothing, while price boosting in the case of these necessary articles is permitted to go on unchecked? It is proposed that the United States go much further with an inftial war tax on luxuries than did France or England. At the same time profiteering in the United States prevails to a degree that puts the prices charged for many common commodities into the lurury class even when the commodities themeelves, at their Pf actual economic values, do not belong there. Can a luxtry tax based on retail prices be just, then, until the Prices themselves cease to depend upon the tender mercies of prof- iteers? Sy By a vote af 36 to 83 the Senate voted yeuterany to eetain in the Food Bi the Gore amendment which would prohibit all sales of beer and wine as well as distiNed Nquors in the United States after Dec. 31 next. ‘The prospective loss of @ $14,000,000 grape arap to the wine growers of California adds zest to the programme of the “bone dry” contingent, ‘ Destroying Amertoan Mberties and tmpoverishing Amer jean industries appear to some minds the only convincing proofs that we are winning the war for freedom and prosperity, | ———4 —-——_____. IN GERMANY. ILE voice that has proved itself on many oceastons since the ty beginning of the war the aanest in Germany is heard again in tones that show no fear of even the “All Highest.” Maximilian Harden, now and then suppressed but never extin- guished, blazes out again in bitter denunciation of the Imperial Ger- man policy which evades all promises that Belginm shall be restored: “Why was yon Kuehlmann’s speech discussed in forsign countries only with contempt and abused at home with fury? | 6 Because there was nothing in it which convinced them of the | uprightness of its author. “The restoration of Belgium to {ts condition of July, 1914, must be guaranteed, or the answer put off until America, England and France have been eo defeated that even after a Period of years they will not be able to raise themselves and will declare themselves conquered. Anything else is sham fighting. “He who loudly counts Belgtum as among the hostages, that is, among the territories gained after the open declaration of war, tincreases thereby in foreign countries the crowds of these who do not attribute to the Prussian-Germanic spirit freedom, right, honor and morality.” | The last five words Harden takes from the Kaiser’s own mouth| and throws full in the faces of the Imperial ministers and war lords. Add to this the warning of Deputy Stroebel uttered in the Prus. lan Landtag that a million American fighters already in France are proving the terrible emptiness of earlier assurances as to America’s weakness and that millions more of these Americans will come over- + eas to smash German power to utter ruin unless the German people rid themselves of their Government and “, ¥ oe ; eee geonagietali el d their politicians of war The demands of international justice and the condition by democracy begin alike to be understood and accurate Germans themselves, ; And it is plain the magnitude of the impending danger seen on the western horizon is greatly increasing the clearness of German understanding and the forcefulness of German statement, -_ ot 8 imposed ly stated by By Sophie affers From the Grip! eit aos as bs y Me eae otha Irene Loeb Coperight, 1918, by The Pram Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worlds, YOUNG man of eighteen secks| If this letter had been written be- advice and presents the folk #- ing problem: “My mother died when I was a child, and I have not lived with my father but have worked tor different relatives of mine for my board. 1 went through the grade school and oe My graduated trom FB yo A Erasmus Hall High School at the age of sixteen, That was a year and a half ago. Although I always had inten- tions of going to college, I was forever confronted with my financial difficul- ties and I determined to go to work. “To-day I am employed in the fur business and have @ very good chance for advancement, but for some reason or other I can't bear the idea of re- maining in business, My old ambi- tion to study seems to have been awakened. “One thing, however, my experi- ence has done for me, Bucking up against the work has made me much older than my years tell. If I should |go to college, I will have to earn my way through aud take care of myself at the same time, “What would you advise me to do? We should realize,” says ex-Premier Asquith, “and act as (hough we realize, that a league of nations 1s neither @ vague {tical abstraction nor an empty rhetorical formula, tute rete and definite tdea and that tts embodiment in practical e 1s by far the most urgent constructive problem of inter. national statesmanship, Agreed. But ‘sa big destructive Job to fintsh ap first. Hits From Sharp Wits. thrift stampe u buy, grow The people who believe only halt they Dear generally have the habit of selecting the wrong. half.—P! ° oflnollog ta 6 half.—Philadel. . jay y sw rs being entertained tn homes now on will please remember when the host arches his ¢ 4 mean @ thing.— ‘osburgh Ga Times, : . Appeal. om at widow 4 | ° The worst thing about listening on party line is that you can’t. tell vout giving’ your nion Press, . money, bu buy | you'y ton Bice money ing won't) a van | wih Americans vours t Pray a pre Nows and Tt is human nature to desire to be ‘ual to your superiors and superior to your equals.—Chicago Newa . Still, scandal-mongers keep @ lot of people camping A person » Pouen't call y: As a man's idea that he was cut out ward, 2 rs |Stick to business, which in time may net me quite a bit of money, or shall |1 take a big chance and go to col- lege? Bear in mind, however, that 1 will be more than eighteen years old | whey I start.” fore the war, I would have advised tbis young man with ambition for migher education to take the chance and go to college—work his way through if necessary and satisfy his desire, For it is a healthy one. ‘The literature of to-day is filled with the accounts of young men who bave worked thelr way through col- lege and risén to positions of promi- nence against afl difficulties, But to-day there is a difference. Although we have not been in the war long enough to see tt to the extent that we should, yet sooner or later we will come to a realization of things as they ara Of paramount | importance {9 the consideration of what relation you or I bear to our fellows This has been accentuated to a great degree by the war, That is to say, that no individual who has the welfare of his country at heart should change his position or other- wise make a move, even to bis per- sonal advantage, without stopping to consider the winning of the war, There is no question that seen safely go before this one for the resulting good of all, If each per- son were to think and act this way the war would won, and the sooner we would be adjusted to a new and better state of affairs, with good prospects to seck out our in- dividual pursuits with success, Therefore I say to this young man stick to your busines and grow in it Remember that millidns of men never bad a college education, and | How the Sick Are Healed by Colors a | Es’ | for Officers in London are pro- nounced a success by the Lancet and the British Journal of Nursing. Be- Heving that the feeling of being shut in depresses a patient and retards his recovery, these hospitals ha been decorated to give the effect of open spaces in early spring, Ceilings are painted a “firmament blue,” walls and furniture “sunstine primrose,” a greenish yellow, to represent the tint of sunlit follage, while woodwork and floors are painted @ primrose green, says Illustrated World, Chicago. Window curtains are double, the jouter st pale yellow, the inner pale mauve, and all other furnishings are along the stralght of harmonious shades, All colors are aud narrow way.—Bingbamton Press, ie 8 tho: things of spring, the time of growing nowhere appear reds or for @ great career decreases his use- browns—no colors of death or decay. contal si. An American color qpecialiat goes | lack, ‘S of the healing effects of|much further; obstinate cases of in- colors at the McCaul Hospitals |somnia and dipsomnia have been cured, ho asserts, and even shriveled arms restored to vigor by scientific Applications of color, “These color cures are espoctally adapted to ner- yous and blood troubles, because through the breathing system color Uy upon the blood system, sfore directly upon the ner- vous systen Royal blue, fawn, crimson lake, vivlet mental stimulants; mental sedative, So pronounced have been some of the results obtained that clubs are being formed to study the practical effect of colors upon the race, These studies go far back into history, trac- ing the effects of color upon the na- olive tions—how they have responded to color as plants do to the sun, and how they instinctively seek the colors jg elements they themselves ws sil | or chrome are | green a Covariat_1918. By J. H. Cassel | Pres fablishing Oo, | ty The fork Exening World.) A Job or a College Education hundreds of them are rien of tne hour to-day, There is always opportunity for an ambitious one to attend evening schools tn the interest of higher education, The sheepskin does not always mean the best man, At any rate the big thing of the day Is to keep the wheels of industry moving #nee 60 many men are at the front, and each of us who can must thrust personal ambitions aside, for the present, to help in this connection. if 1 were this young man I would make up my mind that I was going to mucceed in a big way in this business, and would act accordingly, Besides men much older than he have entered college after they had accumulated enough to take care of themselves, by thelr own efforts, and have been the better for it, In the mean time nothing is being lost, The young man is keeping to his business, learning a good trade |And making himself independent of assistance, Having been graduated from a good High School, he has @ fair chance and can still continue studying along | with his business efforts, In @ word, all hands are needed to make for the progress of war and bring peace If | you are doing your best in this con- nection I know of nothing better—not . @ college education. ‘The Jarr Covrratt. 1918 by The Prem Puts ichine On (The New York Evening World. ALKING of war, do you remem- ber what day this 1s?” asked Mr. Rangle in a sentimental tone and winking at Mr. Jarr. “Hold on there, you fellers!” erled Gus, in whose cafe on the corner the gentlemen first named were stand- ing—“Hold on there! Every time | hear them wolds ‘Don't you know what day this iss? I know it means a fight, Ewvery time my Lena starts that, it starts something, Generally this Iss the day we got engaged and we got married, or the dar her Uncle Heinie died on Onton Hill and didn't leave her anything. Always it means a fight” “Yes, Gus, you are right,” #ald Mr. Jarr, with a sigh, “And in this case it means @ fight, too. This may be a great war in Europe, but let us drink to the heroic deeds that we have done on the battlefield of Buena Vista!” “And don’t forget the gallant men who died scaling the seemingly tm- pregnable Chapultepec!” said Mr, Rangle. “What ts that Choopoolchoopeck?” asked Gus, “Is it a fish that you took the scales off?” “We speak of grim-visaged war— the first Mextcan war, whi. we were called upon to remember the Alamo!” Ellabelle M Qourright, 1918 by ‘The Prem Pubtis 4s On, (The New York Evening Worlt). LLABELLE MAH DOOLITTLE, E the noted pootess, was on the programme at the meeting held by the Women's Betterment League of Delhi Friday afternoon. She read two original poems, each with its little lesson, therety making the affair both entertaining and in- structive, Mrs, Elisha Q. Pertle, Promptress of the League, presided. latter a darling lttle girl by the name of Sapula Marsh had sung @ song called “She's a Sweet Old Lazy Giri,” the poetess was introduced. Miss Doolittle stepped to the front of the rostrum with the ease that characterizes the talented entertainer, She was garbed in pink wash war éilkoline, trimmed with drippings of twine clusters, giving her a delightfully bushy effect, and in her hair she wore @ dandelion as a symbol of simplicity, Her appear- ance sent a wave of admiration over the assemblage, “Fellow sisters of the League,” she began, “my first poem ts called ‘In Praise of the Peanut’ 1 will now read tt.” ‘The graceful girl gave @ little » | always ae Doolittle hitchy-koo step forward, clearing her throat as she did 90, and read the fol- lowing: Kat ‘of pemnate : Wits “for you "willbe After reading the poem Miss Doo- little surprised her audience by tossing peanuts about the hall. The ladies all caught at them and soon the more fortunate ones were cracking and munching in great glee. Mrs. Cutey Boggs and Mrs, Skeeter O'Brien added a touch of interest to the affair by struggling to get the same nut. Mrs. Boggs finally got it and popped it into her mouth, Mra O’Brien was incensed and many sided with her. The peanut, it seems, had fallen in her lap and should have been hers rightfully, When the two mem- ie quit snarling at each vther, romptness Pertle said: i “Diow, friends, for gueh you Women in War By, Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 19.—QUEEN ELIZABETH: AND THE CLASH WITH “THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA.” ’ jLAND was threatened with destruction. Philip IL, the all-powerful King of Spain, had declared war on” the island kingdom. He had marshaled an army many times larger than, England's. And he had collected a war fleet that fairly blackened the water—perhaps tae largest and most formidable fleet the world had then ecen. This Spanish fleet was known as “The Invincible Armada.” It was making ready to swoop down upon the British Isles, clear the sea of all British ships _ and land an army which was to overwhelm all Engy* land. . Spain fn that day was the world’s strongest a tion. England was just rising from the rank of @) third-rate power. The impending contest between the | two forces was fearfully unequal. | England was unprepared for the war. standing army was smaller. She was ruled by a woman—in an age when women had to overcome many obstacles before they could make men re- | gard them as equals, much less as fit to govern a kingdom. Yet, with a fery spirit and with the brain of a born martial leader, Quesn Elizateth took instant steps to resist the crushing invasion, She rallied to her standard every man who was fit to carry arms. Sho had old ships patched up and strengthened and added them to the little fleet, She was lucky in having gallant officers and shrewd advisers, but she herself was the fiercely dominant spirit in the mobilization. In unbelievebly short time the English fleet had massed to meet the oncoming Armada, And England's stanch i't- Good Queen Bess tle army of regulars and recruits was intrenched ve Raises Fleet. i near the coast, Ms Queen Mlizabeth hurried to the camp In person to inspect her troops and to inspire them to greatér | valor, Ghe mounted a war hors: and In half armor, and’ carrying a general's baton, she rode along the thin line of troops drawn up for review. 8 She wns not a beautiful or a romantic sight just then, this ‘arrogant war | queen, She was getting well along in years. Her sallow, thin face was | scarred with wrinkles that no cosmetic could blur, Her teeth were yellowed | trom constant use of tobacco, Her keen eyes and her great hooked beak of Her fleet was small. Her | ready and eager to die for her. | a nose were not moulded on beauty’s lines, Her beautifully poised head was crowned by a flaming red wig (#be yemed no leas than thirty of these scarlet wigs) to bide the scanty gray _ | hair beneath, | No, she was not beautiful, althou gh she was crazily vain of the beauty she thought she possessed. Yet, at sight of their martial queen, the whole army burst into ecstatic cheering. | They saw greatness as 6 Yet her presence now stirred ttfem | Phere was no need, however, for her ugliness and tho ridiculous wig. They know that her queen was largety offset by her personal sins and cruelties to chivalrous adoration. They were the army to die for the Queen A | miracle of weather saved England from invasion. ’ Down toward the British coast | sturdy ttle British fleet | Then, over the seas, tempe: driven helple: driven many Big Storm wrasie} { the Armada. ‘ ——ee \* upon a wou It emote the ren | 's, It sma: the storm's. and ended forever the menace of It did more, 1 | that mighty nation never recovered. aay to forget It?” “How did you come asked Gus. ’ “Those were the brave days when we were 21,” interjected -"r. Rangio, ignoring Gus's question, “The seen is still fresh in my memory,” he add- ed, turning to Mr. Jarr, “as you stood waving the flag and rallying you somrades with the cry, ‘My brave boys, follow me!’” : “and you, too, 014 warrior!” srrepiad ate Jarr, but speaking sole- ly to his friend Rangle: “I have seen your valor tried in many @ grim struggle in the first Mexican War. On the plains\of Monterey I saw you stand defying lead and steel. A he- role figure against the sun, you stood, breathing the red flame of battle and combing the grape and canister from your gory locks!” Gus looked inquiringly at Mr. Ran- in. Sl cpy gollies! You must have combed al your hatr out to get rid of them grapes and canistere,” he said, “So that’s why you are too old for this war? Why didn’t you explain it be- fore?” “A true hero {s ever modest,” re- plied Mr. Rangle. “Don't you remember the day you lay #0 sorely wounded behind the escarpment?” asked Mr. Jarr. “When you crept through the lead- By Bide Dudley [to be, we will hear another by Miss Doolittle. Please oblige, Ellie!” Miss Doolittle had chosen as her subject “The Girl of Sixteen.” This time she did 10 graceful little hitchy- ,koo step forward. The subject was |tar too serious. She merely walted juntil all were quiet and then began |reading in a low, musical voice such as Sarah Bernhardt used to employ when her stage lover had done some- thing perfectly terrible The poem follows: The girl of atxteen yam! and "ane Me a a Tne titty Tut she may be tamberamental Bhe abound never be scolded Or Me ia & fool Because she is 4 darling eit, Not ‘ike ‘a team ‘of inition, My father, Peter P, Doolitdle, TRE, for nd we it it's no of these Sonne ele only tree, year higher wrbo ‘sammie tat 0 lug, ‘The poetess bowed sweetly and backed up-stage, In anoter m -.cnt she was gone. First a stillness set- ed over the audicace; then came an uproar, The ladies applauded 4::y great gusto, All weme pleased. mada’s ships in a dozen directions. war vesgels were sunk by the storm, Others were swept the invincible Armada. The set forth to meet its gigantic foe. broke—a gale that scattered the At= Some of the ssly ashore on the coast; others were miles off their course, Out against the crippled foe like a swordfish nded whale dashed England's {ieet. nants of the Armada with a force heavier than had been ,ed what was left of Spain's once peerless sea power, ‘a Spanish invasion on English shores, ft struck a blow at Spain's very heart; a blow from which By Roy L. McCardell en messengers of death, through the thorny chaparral, under the enfilad- ing fire of a hundred thousand rift men, and brought me the drink?” re- marked Mr, Rangie. “Say no more about tt, I would gladly do the same again for a com- rade in arms!” cried Mr. Jarr, “Tortured by my wounds, frenzied with fever and thirst, hat drink trom the old canteen was sweeter to ms than any drop I have ever tasted!” said Mr, Rangle. “My Ups were .eeked and swollen, my tongue was parched and dry, my throat was full of dust"— " “Say, don't talk that way!" erted Gus, “It makes me so thoisty I can't stand it!” “What do YOU know about war? You never fired a cannon!” sald Mr,° Jarr, turning upon Gus with a scowi,” “But I got a thirst, ain't it?” ree plied Gus. “I got a heart too. “You a heart?" remarked Mr. Rana é gle scornfully. “Listen to him!" . “Sure, I have a heart!" declared’! |Gus stoutly, “Maybe I didn’t served jin the Mexican wars, but my Lena's Uncle Heinle, he fought with Sigel 't and he got a pension, too,” + “The old ranks are thinning out!™, jsaid Mr. Jarr with feeling. “Kew of us survive to tell the tale of bivouse land bat “Ah, these civilians! ‘They do not appreciate that we poured out our best blood lke water that the tion might live!" “Why didn’t you tell me all this - in mex) na- on Decoration Day or Fourth of July?” asked Gus, “Come, de friends mit me, I'll set ‘em up, I am- -what you call it when you'll fight for your country?" “Patriotic,” suggested Mr. Rangte, “Sure, that’s it!” replied Gus, “Say the word and I'll put out the flag, Have another and take a cigar," They took all he offered them, ea. ‘ luted and marched out with military precision. Gus was still excited about it when Rafferty, the bullder, came in, “When was the battle of Booner 8 asked him, the first Mexican’ War, about y years ago,” replied Kafterty, , nothing,” said Gus. “On}. yt get thirsty every time 7 ' about It!" Leal | “Never id," remarked Rafferty, + “when tho American Army gets | | through Limburger it is coming back through Cologne,” —— § SEVEN MILES OF VILLAGE, EMPTON, near Bradford, Eng. K "tae peau tar ine village in the world. It st f fy) along a single ved fora distant ell 4