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i { Ce Ad Aly Mr ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 tc o3 Park Row, New York. Park Row. Park Row. ‘ik Row. RALPH PULITZOR, President, 63 J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 6 JOSEPH ——————— PULITZEK, MEMDER OF THR Ase 4 ely. he use for rep f hod alm the TAX WAR PROFITS FIRST. EPORTS from Washington strengthen the hope that the) House Ways and Means Committee is drafting a war tax) bill which will make its first demands upon the bulging pockets of the war profiteers. The people of the United States are ready with their toil and savings to back the Nation’s fighters to any limit. The unfavorable impression made upon the country at large by the Treasury’s schedule of proposed taxes on luxuries, so-called, is not due to lack of loyalty or unwillingness to bear the burdens \ of war. An American sense of justice is responsible for the feeling regarding these taxes, It seems utterly unfair that the load should rest more heavily upon those who are making daily and hourly sacrifices for the war than it does upon others who are notoriously and shamelessly profit- ing thereby. Tast week the report of the Federal Trade Commission revealed| extra war profits amounting to $121,000,000 made by five big meat packing concerns. At the same time it was disclosed that one packer, alone—J. Ogden Armour of Armour & Co.—received in Jannary,| 1917, a check for $915,817 as his share in the profits of one of the leather companies subsidiary to Armour & Co. Tanners’ profits in 1916, the Federal Trade Commission found, “were in several instances two, three, four and even five times as large as in 1915,” and the 1915 net profits in turn “showed increases of from 30 per cent. to more than 100 per cent. over those of 1914.” Coming down to the shoe manufacturers, wider margins of profit| ;Proved to be the rule, while in the shoe business, the Commission| noted, “it appears that the retailer has profited more in Proportion | than the wholesaler.” Is it to be wondered that, with these facts and figures fresh in mind to account for present exorbitant prices charged for footwear, the public is shocked by @ Treasury proposal—put forward the very next week—to tax the purchaser of @ pair of shoes costing more than $6, on the ground that shoes higher than $6 must be a luxury? Shoes are by no means the only necessity upon which the war) profiteer has marked up prices until the cost to the consumer puts even commoner grades of the article in the luxury class. Is the consumer, then, to pay a war tax on a price which Tepre- sents, not the economic value of the commodity, but the greed oi! those who make and sell it? Common justice would seem to demand two things: First, that no consumption taxes should be based on current! prices while profiteers have a hand in the fixing of those prices. Second, that taxes on the lesser luxuries of the people should not be imposed until full toll has been levied on the enormous profits! which have been and which continue to be made in many quarters ont! of war conditions. | EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, July 13, 1918 | i] oe x eae aes = = ee Nees, cS SERS Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Coprricht, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World), . 40-EMMA EDMONDS, Nurse and Union Spy in the Civil War. MMA EDMONDS was a Canadian girl. She startef for England to visit relatives there early in 1861. She had travelled as far as New York when the Civil War began. Instead of going on to London, she went to Washington and enrolled herself as an army nurse. Emma was a splendid nurse. Detailed to field duty, she worked among the wounded in the very centre of the Battle of Bull Run, and was highly praised for her skill and her laughing disregard of danger. Thinking she could do more good for our country as a spy than as a nurse, she next applied for a Job in the United States Secret Service and received the appointment she sought. Emma's first assignment was to penetrate the Confederate lines in dis- guise in search of certain needful informatien. Shearing off her beautiful hair, she stained her face and head a dark brown and put on a ragged suit of plantation laborer’s clothes, Thus made up as a negro roustabout, sho set forth for Yorktown. Near Yorktown she fell in with a gang of negroes who were on their way to work on the fortifications, Emma joined them and was put to work with the rest of the gang, This gave her a fine chance to make a study of the Yorktown defensvs, Every right she would jot down what she had observed during the day and would draw maps and make out accurate munition lists, These reports she hid in the soles of her big shoes. She also picked up gossip of the movements of various Southern armies, Incidentally she saw and recognized a man who formerly had visited the Union camps around Washington in the guise of a peddier. She now real- | ized he was a Confederate spy and made a note of the fact in her report. At last, one dark and rainy night, Emma made her escape from Yorktown and tramped back on foot to Washington, where sho turned over her maps and her other informa- tion to the Government authorities. Some weeks later—this time in the char- acter of an Irish apple-woman—she entered the Confederate lines once more. Brrr } Goes to Washington } on Foot. o She told the Southern pickets she was a resident of a district invaded by the Yankees and that she was fleeing to the safety of the nearest Con- federate camps. In this capacity Emma found no trouble at all in going wherever she chose, And she picked up many things of importance during her wanderings from camp to camp. In all, Emma Edmonds entered the Confederate lines no less than eleven times during her career as a spy, and seldom twice in the same manner or in the same disguise. She was a clever actress and always played con- { scientiously and brilliantly any role she might choose to assume Her perils were many, but she did not know the meaning,of fear. \ During the Battle of Hanover Court House she was in full military ant- form and served temporarily as an aide on Gen, Kearny’s staff. It was Emma who, when Kearny was hard pressed by the enemy, rode through a galling Confederate fire in quest of reinforcements for the badly ham- mered Unton troops, Her pluck in going through this deadly peril and her skill in finding | the reinforcements saved Kearny’s army from destruction. Once, on spy duty—disguised as a fugitive country woman—she found a dying Confederate officer in a deserted hut. ° ® She nursed him through his last hours and She Nuri Foe did all she could for his comfort Till Death. Just before he died the sick man ‘gave Pf » her his watch and a written message to be carried to his commanding officer. Emma | tuifitiea the mission. The sacredness of her errand not ofly won access for her through the lines, but enabled her to hang around the comman¢- | ing officer's headquarters and glean much interesting information of tne Confederate movements, Emma Edmonds later wrote a history of her Civil War activities, which reads like a series of d'Artagnan adventures. Says Barton: “Her reports had a material influence upon more than one battle fought during the four years of the war.” By Sophie Irene Loeb Strange to say, the world {is still full |of hers who clatmed to have super- of “nuts.” Get a nut-cracker, I say. | natural power and who told her that YOUNG girl friend of mine has | Their heads are filled with nothing-|her son was “now lying dead om a A grown ill with nervousness | ness, anyway, and the sooner they are | battle field.” She described the whole | over the tommy-rot that a for- | broken the better, eee aie mother—a most distress- tune-teller has! 1 should like to see the full letter | ing scene. told her relative | of the law invoked on all these sooth-| ‘The poor mother was so troubled to her flance in |sayers, who cause so much suffering | over it that, as she put it later, “I Get the Nut-Cracker 1918 by The Prem Pubinbing Ox, | (The New York Byening Worbt) Why should anybody profit by war? Why should men be permitted to pile up gains a hundred times bigger than they could ever hope for in time of peace, by no greater effort than that of seizing opportunity created by national peril and national need? France. and sorrow. It 1s more important] jost three years of my life instead The young girl | now than ever before that their fool-|of three months tn the worry of it.” tried to put on @/ ish prophecies go unheeded, for the|Now her friend was not a fortune brave front and|reason that most everybody ha@s/teller and did not get any money at times said she | somebody in the war and are natural-| for the prophecy, but she ought to did not believe in| iy thinking of their loved ones who|have had a fall sentence for it just fortune - tellers, | have gone to fight. the same. and oulja boards, | We ail know that war !s a hazard-| She is worse than a professional Why, when many are giving their lives and many more the las! ounce of their strength and endurance, when self-denial and sacrifice are required of man, woman and child in a crisis involving the safety, of the Nation, should a certain number of individuals be allowed to! grow richer and richer at the expense of others who stand ready to part with their all? Surely a great people can make war without guarantecing colossal and utterly disproportionate rewards to a few persons upon whom the! furnishing of essentials may for the moment depend? \ Surely the true and loyal American in war time would not relax his efforts because he was asked to forego all save the of profit he might expect in time of peace. Directly texes on all luxuries great and small be the people of the United States will pay them, om necessities, too, if need be, normal increase come necessary They will pay taxes But meanwhile give them every chance power, their industries, their faith in Safeguard their earning their continued prosperi ty. Don’t begin by taxing these things ruthlessly and at sandom. ‘Tax wisely, tax progressively. ‘Tax war profits first, ; i F ane as Sar Letters rom the People A Workingman om Prohibition. = They would, oh, Ho gladly, give thes! To the Biitor of The Evening World jlives in place of their loved'on vut I thought it was bad enough to|they may not even have the happiness come home from a hard day's work and have to drink near beer, since the ateohol was reduced in it, but now to ling little gifts of s , because t Way to get the much reqi over to the boy. Why is thing i hear that after Jan. 1, 1919, we won't |4re tobaceo funds, &c., but those well be able to get any at all—I think that oetalng lst buters cannot reach all. te “rubbing it in.” I have always |prother saying act, outer from my been as true to my country us any-|send me son ia body else, but when I see that a few Something to perhaps Prohibitionists can make laws to de. |M"vkes?” I ko running about the vity Ruetyiie titcis sacecialiy the pore, j hear of any Way to send Of things they have been used to A a AG 20 [a.t can't am beginning to get a feeling of re: ps Pe LT bedlion in my beart, and I think other x otficer for what he requests * workingmen fee! the same way, I've so written to him, but he evident A DAILY READER. jy receives no mail, He has been gone No Mall in Ten Weeks. |for ten weeks now and atill has no To the HAwior of The birening World letter from me There are heartbroken mothers, Are our beloved soldiers, who are giving their lives, not entitled to r0- ceive letters? WARRIOR S SISTER, ters and wives whose beloved inen ‘ave gone to battle on foreign shores. | were sim and things like ous game and how possible It is for | pretender, because the friend believes | that, but It was plainly evident to her | those loved ones to be wounded or|in her sincerity more than she would | family and her friends that the fakir |even killed, It 1s certainly bad enough the person she pays. It is danger- had made a deep impression on the | when jt actually happens and the ous business, especially in these days, girl, In her moments of solitude she |news is verified, But to go on be- for people to presume to tell what gave great welght to the seer’s state- | lieving something some silly person is occurring miles and miles away, or ment that the young man had been! has prophesied as having occurred | otherwise foretelling the future. Killed in a battle; and although no jor will occur without any knowledg¢| «mese are days when people's word was received to corroborate this, of such a thing is ridiculous to 84Y | souls are sorely tried. It is criminal | the young woman honestly believes |tho least, that it has occurred, and that the news has been delayed. to add to the new atress. And such | I know a little mother whose bair visionaries should be treated accord- | asked Mr. The Jari * 1918. by The Pre Pas'ivhire Os, (The Now York Prening Worl) | S Mrs. Jarr betrayed no desire to speed the departing guests, Mr, Jarre accompanied his bachelor friend, Mr. Jack Silver, an the young lady of the varieties, “La Superba, the Firefly Venus,” down to the door, “Where shall we go, dear heart?” Silver, as the taxicab driver threw away his cigarette and awaited instructions, “Don't speak to me!” cried the young woman as she stepped into the vehicle, displaying an astonishing form was everything. “If it wasn't you have to slant through cheaters, I'd slam you one!” Mr. Jarr wasn't quite sure, but it is bis belief that the young lady was inferring that but for the fact that Mr, Silver wore eye glasses she would strike him in the face, “What's the matter, pettikins?" asked Mr. Silver in entreating tones. | became as white as snow within three ingiy, | months worrying over the fate of her son who had gone to war, It ‘They cause more harm than was not until she had received a be- be estimated. There are all |lated letter from him that she re- When, oh, when, will we stop heed- ing these would-be detatiers of our destiny? can ever And as for you and me, when the | “nut comes near us, get @ nut- cracker, “Matter?” replied the irate artiste. “To think of me playin’ amall time around the home snare of cheap surplusage of feet for one in whom | Fa m 1 | y By Roy L. McCardell jing to get time, till me feet is sore | going around to the booking offices. | And you float me around instalment- plan snares, I'm an artist, I am! And if my time ts took up, let !t be | took up in'trestin'! Get me?” giving vent to his honest opinion, Mr. Silver evidently got her, for he|“is that a wise and experienced murmured that his only desire was|Man-about-town, a seasoned old to please her. bachelor, should fall for ‘the inno. And such was his agitation that he cent child’ racket. I have no doubt hardly noted Mr. Jarr’s parting fe-| She is a good girl, but I should imag- Heitations, As for the young lady,|/né he would know that a young she noticed them not at all. woman whose career has been along Mr, Jarr returned in great bewil-| the lines of such amusement enter- derment to his apartments above. prises as open air shows and yaude- “Well!” eried Mrs. Jarr, “I must| Ville, as she admitted, would be at ay, YOUR friend Jack Silver" least sophisticated.” | Here she lapsed into a gasping st- What do I care for the creature?” lence, as though language was in-|#%ked Mrs. Jarr. “I will not even sufficient to express her astonish- ,"4ve tHe opportunity of cutting her ment and chagrin, when I meet her again, for tt is most “Hem,” said Mr. Jarr feebly. “The | Unlikely I shall meet her again! But longer they run the sooner they| Tam astonished at Jack Silver bring- his association with a coarse, dull- minded young person who poses in vaudeville with magic lantern ple- tures thrown on he “What gets me,” sald Mr. Jarr, smash.” | {pg Such @ person to my house, Lean “But how dare he? How dare he?" DOW understand Mrs, Jenkins's griev- cried Mrs. Jarr, “It's an insutt to| *nce me! Of course, that is the kind of a iat 1s Mrs. Jenkins’s grievance?” | person that would appeal to you! eee eccet | Jack Silver knows that! But tol, oo is i Jenkins says that every think he would parade around to my e' unday automobiles, hired or | bi 4 |simps! Here I'm layin’ off an’ try-| house showing off. Yes, proud of | °0'rowed, with some intoxicated man kinds ef these seers who foretell the | gained her spirits, lives of people they have never seen. It all came about through a friend Rigid Rules Make Passports Hard to Get). it sun" In These War Times ‘cc 1D you ever run across one | D of those technical people who are adapt on every- HOSE who travelled abroad in| in effect for two years from the date| ening in the Book of Knowledge?” T the euxy days before the war,|of issuance, In the United States! sskeq Lucile, the Waitress, as the seine Oo, When a passport was little | passports may be granted and issued | joriendly Patron attacked his canta- more than an idle formality, would] only by the Secretary of State, They | ioupe find such document an absolute|are not issued by our diplomats ant “Yes, indeed,” he replied necessity In a visit to-day to # for-| consular officers in foreign countries! «wen, if they bore you like they eign country, An American civilian) except in case of emergency. In| qo me you got a whole regiment of Without such | eredentials could not) diplomatic procedure these document® | my sympathy,” she went on, “One “pass the port” of even an Allied na-|have a bigh significance, When aa of ‘om was in here to-day and what tion; indeed, it would be extremely Ambassador js “handed his past! gg you s'pose he was technical difficult to leave these shor with ports," it Js sm that relations be- | about out hepa Han of the Biate Dy parle tween his own Government and that| +, qon’t know.” aia fis in abet Pte ace ree iccredited have| «you're whistlin’, you don't! It prove his trip is absolutely essential, | eached the breaking point; words Saier etaeiads Ble back this statement with )-| are of no further avail; the question Was mousetraps: a a Pee Ary wwter, | At issue must almost surely be settled flow of learning was because a mouse ; by force of un across the floor, When he sees and finally swear allegiance to ths] ° 2 r wa be Metis tier States. » st no ta wabby on the dotal ‘: United St AT rt must not WHERE IT STARTED. it he gets fi em Whe: dele Aaa | fall into the hands of enemy sp 11H expremwiona, “Come it atrong”| {Eve you got mic , ys. fhe previous document aga P raw It mild,” wore firat| “ ‘Od yeu I says in @ sort of noo specimen of the engraver's art, be 1 by the leader of a famous+compos hokus manner, ‘We got all ing the American coat of arms and/operatic orchestra to indicate to his the modern improvements We also the seal of the Sta Department, | ¥ nists when he wanted them to) got a cat you ain't met yet.’ and also the photograph and a Ply loud or softly, ot any poison for ‘em? he aska, minute deseription of the individual : = No,' I tell him, ‘We don’t poison ereey ree WORDS! WORDS! WoRDB! | ot cre. Our passport system was estab. nn ‘ ithe Ay 20 quotations | “wet was referring to the mice,’ he ished in 1796, and the first issued MAOsne he meaning of ‘ats are all right.’ 1 answer, ‘cats are very more than 300,000 words were | ®*2% pollected for a new English dictionary, whose editor, Sir James Murray, died | fine. ‘ recently, . cause he's got claws.’ letter sheets, F have been evolved the mode which is @ certificate of identification Lucile the Waitress | ‘You see, tt was just @ little out- | break of merriment on my sector, but he don’t care #o much for it. He frowns, “ ‘Say,’ he mays, ‘do they pay you ring them bum jokes?’ “Bum jokes for the bums,’ was all I says. “ ‘Huh,’ he sa "You think you're funny. Nobody elge don't think so.’ | “ ‘Look around you,’ comes from little me. ‘Notice the grinning face on all these victims in your vicini- tude and you will change that thing you think is a mind, “Well, sir, I wisht you could ‘a’ |been here, It knocks him kerbingo | and he sidetracks the wit and humor stuff. He just grabs off a bite of Irish stew and says: ven't you got any poison for the mice?’ “Him being aalf way civ! again, I cool down. No, I says, ‘only the food. Once \in a while one gets hold of a biscuit and no sooner does he think @ tooth in it then it's flowers for him! Means his demise, eh?" | “Tt sure does, He just closes his d—n eyes and dics.’ “Well, Listen, Si, you should ‘a’ jlamped that fellow laugh, He doubles up like as if it's the food in- to We got one called Santy be-|stead of merrimegs. That makes me| Hooper giving us the once over now sort o' fongive him for bis bombastity, , of her husband's acquaintance—not hers, she says, and I belleve her— . | rolls up to thelr door in East Malaria, By Bide Dudley)" the queerest people swarm her SES ere house. Ladies, I repeat the word, ‘ladies ahem! of the most vivid complexions and—well, ask Mrs, Jen- kin. Mr, Jarr thought this outburst was “That makes him mad again, ‘I'm|the end of the storm, but {t was only not peppering nobody,’ he says. ‘And, | the beginning, if 1 was you I'd not get so gay with my remarks about the guests’ man- ner of dining.’ ‘Look out,’ I says, ‘or you'll laugh yourself into a fight. You're pepper- ing several of your neighbors with that stew.’ “They never come and ask her to go for @ ride, Mrs, Jenkins says!” Mrs. Jarr went on, “They boast of “It was too much for ma Here 1|What they have eaten and what they am an easy-going, happy, lovable per- |have drunk at the road houses, and son and him ruffling me like that! |they actually COMMAND Mr. Jen. 1 had to hand him one, so I just |kins to provide them with more treage up like Dr Goci's eara at the (ladon, And ohoe one af the seman North Polar bear and say: ‘Friend, |ttempted to light a cigareette, out you must be rich, You've already | Mrs. Jenkins stopped that! And Mrs, spent a dime's worth of that stew |J@nkins says she knows some of then. | shooting the innocent bystanders, | Will speak to her when she's shopping | You only got a dime's worth left and, {With friends whose opinion she | if you ain't flush in the bank account, | ¥#lues. And yet, after all that, rau starvation is staring you In the map. |WANt US to take @ house ty the “That ended it. He hops off his stoo} | SU>Ur>s and leaves the place flat, Didn't ever | “Why, not at all,” murmured Mr. a eat the rest of his stew.” 4 ‘ ; “Hoe was foolish,” said the Friendly|_ "%¢% you do! And that's what Patron, “It was good stew—or, | V0uld happen, and among the visit- aa maa eek ing autolsts would be Jack Biiver “No ‘or rather’ about it,” said ane lL HORGRAAE ANUAL "Hel halt Lucile, “It was the same stew. His | A” taste Hudtean fry pocahly, “The went right back into the pot. Say, , ualve bachelor! “When the angels fall, they fall so far!" quoted Mr, Jarr, But Mrs. Jarr strode out of room and slammed the door peated her, ! pai boy, we don't waste nothing around here with this Grub Commissioner and again, No, air, not us!”