The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1919, Page 12

EDITORIAL PAGE | Ss ULLAL, February 8, 1 ———— - 6a wt Rery bor Jt How Saar Ware Phat ts aig ‘BY JOSEPH PULITZER, 1 Pe —_— || Pubes Dally ept “a bark ite Frese Fupushing Company, Nos, — W E : RALPH P' TER Pres aon, Park Row, é r é n (Z J. AN SYA ithe , Trea Pork JoO#8) SEP Liter Jt., Secretary, 63 Park ‘ow. ' By A eit? Payson Terhune MEMBER OF THF ASSOCIATED Press, be Copyright, 1M, by TY Publish “0, N York bre World.) Atocited Prom i octatels smite’ te the, yon fo, recat, of . 1919 ishing Co, (The New York Evening Wort Eo amet aera ‘credited hts taper eden cal ‘Sem om alse No. 35—Denmark’s War With Prussia and Austria. VOLU ME ODiscevess ‘ veveveee | e HIS ts the tale of a highway robbery, pure and simple, if 2 | with Bismarck as the arch-rovber and with the plucky 4 | little country of Denwurk as the beipless victim, JUST AND WISE. | Two giants—Prussia and Austria—held up a midge ' i and picked his pockets. The rest of the world selshly } N ONE most important respect the new War Revenue bill, despite looked on und made no move to inta-vene, All thas dile not happen in the socstled Dark Avis, but in th. atter half of we nineteenta century AS a war it was feebly contested, though contested with all of Denmark's puny strength and dauntless coufege. But its ending and its after-resulls helped to shape the future of Burope. Denmark for years had been the prey of stronger powers. Napoleon id the luckless kingdom under his thumb. Then the Congress of Vienna lopped away Norway, which had been part of Denmark, and made the Danes cede it to Sweden. Among the richest possesions of Denmark were the Schleswig-Holstetm Duchies, and on these Piemarck cast cov- banners etous eyes. The territory would look well Ps | ree Holde Depmark$ on Pricsia’s fast-sweiling map, he figured, Under His Thumb. and he set out to acquire it. The people of the United States have responded nobly to heaitatns) pecbcrenoserntsch J Even in those days Prussia longed to appeals made to them to help the Nation out of thelr curreat : | conquer the world with mailed fist. But at iat talare eabnleads a , 4 f i j f “et ‘on that time the mailed fist was not yet strong enough for such an effort as ore a vic Silica ai aa ts lle Be | Was made, inter, in 1914. Still the Sohleswig-Holstein provinces seemed | Needful to Prussia’s swifter development, and Bismarck revolved to anne® them to help still more by giving them the option of paying | them. . their income taxes, if they so desire, in several instalments So Prussia combined with Austria, making @ secret arrangement to after June 157 divide the loot with the latter country. Austria, as “the bully of Europe,” The Treasury of the United States can lose nothing by eagerly entered into the echeme—perhaps putting faith in the lying old aw & policy which relieves pressure upon pocketbooks it desires maxim that “there ts honor among thieves,” or else not realizing that to see open for its future needs. Prussia would never willingly share her plunder with any accomplice. The country’s business and financial balance can lose ‘The death of the Danish King, Frederick VIL, in 1863, gave Bismarek the opening he had been watching for. Christian IX. succeeded Frederick nothing by @ plan which draws millions of dollars of tax money out of circulation gradually instead of al! at once. to the throne, Bismarck then thrust forward a puppet of his own as heir Why doesn't Secretary McAdoo cause to bo set before to the throne, ‘This pretender also assumed the title of “Duke of Schles- wig-Hoistein.” In the ensuing tangle Prussia and Austria made forma! claim to Congress the all-around desirability of an amendment to the War Tax Law which shall provide that income taxes may be paid this year in fixed instalments up to Dec. 1? { the increased demands it makes upon incomes and profits, is far more considerate than its predecessor of 1917 toward those who will find it hardest to pay these unprecedentedly heavy taxes. 7 The new revenue measure provides that income taxes may be : ad i f ! i | POeswe ae oO paid in four instalments extending over a period of nine months. yi? 1 During the early part of 1918 The Evening World, in a series of editorials, strongly urged upon Congress and the Treasury Depart- ment the justice of thus easing the war tax burden for shoulders upon which it bears most heavily. On Feb. 21, 1918, The Evening World said: om Schleswig-Holstetn, The Danes confidently expected that other great nations would interfere in behaif of the right. But Bismarck apparently had guarded against euch a move. None of the Powers made any activ : : ; ; protest nor went to Denmark's aid, : Last year the Treasury decided it could not wait for the money. | Accordingly the Danes prepared to defend themselves as best the: , “we so Femained'| t Gay ot ‘ PhS yo might. One historian gives the following terse account of what followed: The time limit for the full payment of all income taxes remained ‘ PP | “Denmark, unaided by allies on whose support she had relied, was June 15. | forced to go single-hunded into the unequal : fmmanmnnnnmnnmnnnmmnare % contest. After a brave but utterly futile The new War Revenue bill | Danes Accept Terms } attempt at resistance the Danes found them- Committce of the Senate and House, on the other hand, contains a | “provision of precisely the kind urged by The Evening World. | of Armistice. selves forced to submit to the terms die- wannnnnnnanannnnnnmnnan, vated by their powerful foes and to resign oder Title I1., Income Tax, is found in Part IV., Adminis- | 2 . : ’ SE prative Provisions, the following: j df \ agreed upon by the Conference | net only Loeunburg and Holstein, but Schleswig. By the peace of Vienna, 1864, the Danish King bound himself? to submit to such decision as Prussia und Austria should adopt in regard to the destiny of the severed Danish provinces.” All Europe was virtuously aghast at the bold-faced robbery which none of Burope had taken the trouble to prevent. But, by sharing the’ blame ee Sue AV THAl cance. esl @lhar wis provided in, thd ‘with Austria, Prusma was able to make good her abominable position, * | fs - Y ow ' { 4 : ‘ $ | As soon = blic indignation had h. © or 5 ! section and sections 221 and 237 (dealing with alien individuals | “ A ; 13 at { +a 4 - rae if G | down Bitwnarck prey lis moet move, Prien: GAR i rea ear ° or corporations subject to taxation) the tax shall be paid in | : . Pa GA aN . G | the unsuspecting Austrians. end in seven weeks had ( ved them, (TI four instalments, each consisting of one-fourth of the total | ory that wear haa areaay et fla tn this we amount of the tax. The first instalment shall be paid at the | lop: eha time tixed by law for filing the return (March 15) and the =| ie cn as ae - second instalment shall be paid on tho fifteenth day of the | ; ; - al tbird month, the third instalment on the fiftcenth day of the | é 1c t 1on O e arr an ily e ara- uck Goifer } sixth month, and the fourth instalment on the fifteenth day of . the ninth month, after the time fixed by law for filing the A f By Roy L. McCardell By Stuart Rivers ett return, | r Z u y l n 2 | Couyright, 1919, by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Hvening World.) i Copyrabt, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York E ‘ peace terms included the ceding of Austria's full share anish loot to Prussia, Thus did the stolen Schieswig-Holsteia become Prussian territory. Bas : : What Is One Woman’s Bargain Is Another An Unfinished Round on the Public Li “a This means that a man with a $100 income tax to pay, whose By Sophie Irene Loeb Woman’s Fe | Payrosa ever play golf on a public| know, disgusted like, 1 a ot savings have been depleted by extra demands, whose income is/ Cenariahy SEGRi WS The Vree Saiishlag Cay (The Neer xcee, Brea lag aria.) if said Mrs, Jarr. “1') D Maks, Wadie? Not Well, say, | Smithers wouldn't do nothin’ rash, Either Side of a Question Is All the Same LLY Gy \aeag takers "vuttered™ [ke odie poor Armenians p such fine things for n we Me to a Born Arguer. | sald Mrs, Jarv sadly to Mr.|have company—people I don't ike~ | }OUre ® re (ie Lon saeutagettg Risa Deaven he bit it the nexiitg Jarr, meeting him in the hallway. | because thowe are the people you have | nurn to dodge the swift ones up thero | time--sliced into the woods, but we jt “ t! ot |"And 1 want to show you a hand- | to do the most for, But you can leg | (CO ve% eee Laver apbociil La biloba without any casualties em drawn table cloth T got at such a bat- me bave the $10 I saved buying tt BAY BOE SPB BRUNE Pe ' pine gaint” |Tha's what you oan do." live. | I dug out of about four divot holes | ‘ : Smithers—y ow Smithers—looks 4 . Mr, Jarr did not quite see the con-| “I'm glad that your system of eco-| 0”) vou kA joks | and come up to the green playin’ six | like be could take a bite out of a golf!and looked around for Smithers, then nection as regarding Armenian euf- |nowsce do not prompt you to the be-| 0 sn sue oun Meo ee ee ip over the Bill end. fering and the hand-drawn table lief you have saved $25 on it,” re-|/) d wm | e an friend of mine|¢ven argue about that because she | 1°" 2 | red $3 s lke Smithers—maybo they got cause. | wanted to know what he'd done with Fone oe ancl tried to rive the impression that she Clot but said nothing and, after he| marked Mr. Jarr, “for {haven't that i Ordinarily he's known as just plain | his clubs. | jhad received his home-coming kiss,/much money;” and be passed over | ‘ i knew something about thin, tJ J # ri er avoided a person something about everything. | 17 “jane took up the thread of her.the $10. “bugs.” Of course there's some that| Smithers ain't protane—ordinarily— 1 es er. Her associates soon realized that she | i ed and and 6 | but an Faas fran didn't : \ remarks as she removed a superfluous! “The idea!’ cried Mrs, Jarr. “Didn't hyd a Fae Ginga Bon chetia pera ets Fis form his bag and left it ' - land projecting one from the drawn T tell you Clara Mudridge-Smith had 4 ox that's the place to find out if|and held my breath semstrained to the utmost by the high cost of living and who does not} o4 to se s Liberty Bonds to pay his income tax, can pay that ameent to eell bi ' P “ec HEN she came into the this pernicious habit, For it is @ * tax this year in four payments of $100 each on Mareb 15, June 15, W room I just pleaded an ex-;h pure and simple eek x AR cuse and left. I knew my] She puts up an argument on every- i Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. | luncheon hour|thing. Men did not like her because The bill further provides that extension of time for the payment | would be spoiled.” | whenever they talked to her about | of any given instalment may be granted by the Commissioner. But In these words a|their ®usiness Interests she would here interest is charged: Ip any case in which the time for the payment of any in- stalment is at the request of the taxpayer thus postponed there shall be added as part of such instalment interest there- My friend ial oe x Joined ge har vesnnens work. | paid too mud for ber tablectoth, the when he drives without wal in for} We let the next pair bebind go | one of the kindest /md pretty soon she had the whole | ™ Oo) 4 eng i eee erell that | the crowd uaead to get out of the way] through—which come pretty near op at the rate of one-half of 1 per centum per month from women in the vit in an uproar, Sbe knew how | o yes,” she went on, “a poor Ar- | same kind as mine? ORS Om that's a habit of hiv—or when hc | breakin’ Smithers's heart, and after © it would bave been due if no extension had been 01 7 ous to everyt to cut bandages better than any one (Menlan man was hero to-day telling | saving money, I call that extrava-| ai out of a foursome to look the | he'd collected his belo the tim world, She is gracious to y me all his troubles! A: mance!" Lind belongings from the granted, until paid, If any instalment 1s not paid when due, and rarely speaks evil of any one xe, she thought. Even wanted to] ooo) ot eit nd he had the | 6 rie " . ey [Test of the afternoon fur a lost ball, |landscape, we finished the hole. 3 thes 4 4 "Do you know Tb tell the teacher, Pretty soon this gir | (10) usiCul laces and everything, ell, don't eave any more me On a golf course tittle things like that! Both of us did equally bad on the the whole amount of tbe tax unpaid shall become due and aie en MEP ‘ound herself practically alone in tuts AR4 T Just couldn't help buying some- | that was advieed Mr. Jarr. “It 18| Vor" ome people terrible Inests ut Sraithers hed a ras on eee ble upon notice and demand by tho collector. Phere are people that ¢ = group. hing from him to heip him along, | hard on the old bank roll-or at least) A niway, tais bein’ the closed season | on the third and chippe payable up Ther people that can no m Rad soun e See dead to 6 regents pped a mashie for , her hand, the taxpayer may pay his entire tax in a|Kece from arguing than they can re I kvow of s (ether who: Bron ee en nother whey 1 psy) | Wake wee ee ‘ lat the club, Smithers calls me ‘up one| bis second dead to the pin. He was On the other hand, the taxpay vay pay is er *\ train from eating. it is a terrible |#¢Parated from his fumily beeau ig tablecloth--I've paid more Supper won't ibe ready for an hour! qay last week and says he's evolved uw all ready to let bygones be bygones t his everlasting argument abc for a centre plece of the same work. yet, f him that ANd the man told me he was losing to run over to Clara Mudridge-| Van Courtlandt, where he ¢ said Mrs. Jarr, “and I am 691D% | hrittiant scheme of hittin’ the trail for!and call it a fine game when we single payment insiead of instalments, “in which case the total | thing. If they would only argue about |"! 5 f y overything, They said n bam-| heard some one shoutin’ ” ” } » the time an “a Jing MPortant things or of something ti very espe i he 1 r utin’ “Look oust 4mount shall be paid on or before the time fixed by law for filing | (ay get somewhere, But this girl | Ne got ised to arguing that when | M0ney on it-—but I wouldn't give him Smith's for a few minutes, Sbe i! mer the pill for eighieen spasms with-| Smithers run for a tree and hid. I the return (Murch 15 next), or, when an extension of time for filing |somenow just will not agtee with you |something came up that he really | At more, and so he let me have |fecling badly. Thinks she is Eving to out doin’ any damage to the surround. | didn’t get time, al I could do was } ) n } fay, [OR anything; on the aimplest state. | Wanted. he argued himaclt out of it. |, [have the influenza and phoned mein’ furniture. duck~—and pray. Then the ball passed che return ‘has been granted, on or before the expiration of the | ment she puis up an argument There seem to be peopte whose aim | “E'® Very handsome,” remarked | if | couldn't come in aad cheer her! 1 played golf on « public course, | between us singing a song of murder | “You may say to her, ‘Thia tas! i” life is Just to take the other side are dere up as she has a terrible fit of depres-| Eadie—once, so 1 wasn't holdin’ my and sudden death : ‘ teen @ very mild wonter.’ ef any 4 and (hey can angur And all hand work,” Mra, Jarrwent| sion, And IM take my tableclot®| breath ‘till T got there, but smithers| After a tim thers come out payment in instalments, the framers of the Well there. hus been some rainy Wii as Much fervor on the side they /O% “Clara Mudridge-Smith has got over with me and show it to her.” — | wept into the phone and I finally gave) Well-he missed the putt, finally yave given wise and just consideration to |eather early in the fall’ she an. /are AgWinst ax ¢ © other ne just like it and sho paid twice as) So Mrs. Jarr hurried out on her er-\in, He stopped for me in his car and | made the hole in five, and from then ait rsa! aa awe T have known friends bécome stran-| (Wel as L did for hers, It would have | rand of cheer to a depressed friend. | we begun the great adventure. 28 you might say the round really ‘shirts are be mado shorter, | 87s to each other and oat ene-| in SHORP At $30 and I only ga “Look, Clara!” ghe cried, a3 the | To start things rea) pleasant and! started ce - Ee r paid an income tax 24 may say “lL have sceu # mies becaus this proclivity for! {2 Man twenty for tt, So you owe! maid ushered her into the invalid: |soviabte there weren't any caddies,! But [ will this for Smithers, he gi oa In this are many wh ever pa an on AN any that are quite long,’ she will | parleying and parrying about trivial me aN “Look, I bought a table cloth just 1ks/you never exw Smithers carry his own certainly oan come back. It was one Moar before; many whom, even though they have had time to plan lanewer e things, Mar time such people! | low do Lowe you $107" asked Mr. yours! What was it you guve for} clus, didja, Eddie? the twelfth | that he tied two wood ) : 1 Nop will she be satisfied with a | wonder why they war, | OF youry—like this one We waited in line for only about {oguthen: tomuiat screnpeant for bigger war taxes, the greatly incre ie WI prebs NAVY | ere anawe But if you give any | The reazon is that. th soon! “Because I saved $10 in buying it,"| And she displayed it ima caumiclt waanlt’ Wary Growded'see hia brassle light up someanim because their efforts to keep up with the cost of living and at the | sign of inuing the argument you ou Mrs. Jarr explained, ‘1 readly saved| “T can never remember what I buy! tbat day—and finally it come our turn| pear the green and I breathed a prayer j } a left tl t may expect a slog it until As a general proposition we tke; ever © much more by not going to! that ix, I can never remember what I/to bit off. The weather was a little| that it was somewhere nevr the hole, Same time respond to war mands have lef fem: scant Margin | has the last w So what Lao w people, not those who con-|'2? expensive store where Clara Mud- | pay for uhings. 1 just, have them | bit chilly and we'd gut cold, Snitth-| Smithers kinda raised my hopes a Soe from which to hand out cous rable lump sums; many whose power | People like that ts to give them absc it disagr Of course, no one; '4ee-Smith got hers, She thought! charged!" said Mrs. Mudridge-Smith. | ers teed up, then he knocked a eink | Little by lettin’ out a yell of joy treatment,” iny friend conch \ for a placid person with. | 't Was SUCH @ bargain that she tool! “But my husband kuows, for he car-]outta the ogone. It surprised him| We finally got to the green and be- De and willingness to help Uncle Sam are substantially strengthened | here is considera wisdom in| out any opinions and one relishes an |! there, L thought she was going to! ries on and says he is being ruined considerable--Smithers bas paid out) sun lookin’ for Smither ball, you at by opportunity for distributed payment her words. I know people Just lke rgument about some. , Ke me @ present of one, but she is} when the bills come to him.” a lot of money to me and some other | know, casual like ud the pin at ' : that, I recall one young woman who | thing so envious of that haven't as) “put you. inust remember, I was] Pros. learnin whut he likes to oa!) first. then ir bunkers and finally iY e certainty that income taxes ean be paid, if the War Revenue |pecame the most unpopular one in| ‘Those people who give their views MUCh money as has--she doesn't! with you when you bought yours,”| “his form,” we u burs rae he} “say, nm says a kid we hadn't ney j 7 1 h 1d her set Just because she persisted he 1 ont haat | want them to huve the things she has, Jarr ted, “{ think you paid| looked over his shoulder and saw noticed b Wan Pou looKiit te vassed as it siands, iv four instalme between March 19 and nestly, even though heatedly, and] * Mrs, Jarre ins! hy hink you pi . n : kin’ fow Ge Bill is pase mel formet it and. smile. afterward ave| 2 she took me to the store when whe] $50 or $10 for it, And they told you| tbat ball etill sittin’ on the little pilo/somethin't | ‘ 5 3 | mote cheerfulness, confidence bought he d-dra able: , a > use in repoutin’ wha © Dec. 15 will do much to promote cheerfulness, confidence and] FACTS WORTH KNOWING. worth while. But the chronic apgutiey | POUsHt her hand-drawn tablecloth and | \, was an exclusive pattern, Well, 1|°% sand BES rs og) Smithers sald, but L told tie kid war F courage in many places where industry and business need them ) Finland's mineral deposits, long | leaves you with something bitter and | TY6d about how cheap it was, because |onty gave $30 for mine. A poor Ar- Bewideg tha’ m pe ne in the stone it was all about vat ahi known but unexploited, will be thor- | distasteful and you don’t long to sco knew I'd never pay $45 for one! menian, 1 pitied htm so, I couldn't] standin’ around the tee, grunted, you a ‘Huh, wigs, “A boy took i It should help greatly the coming Victory Loan oughly studied by an orgunization re- | him very often yhen you and the children are s0| gaggle with him, or I might have got- + He ran off that way,” and he points _- ear rn e nag jcently formed at Helsingfors and sur ‘The truth is the argufying afflic- hard on the ‘able linen! ‘Phe children ten it cheaper!” table cloth and said she really must) Smithers didn't anvibing Tae | veys will be made for new ones. usual ttep ol . cut their bread on the tablecloth as shana!” er friend thanked her for| just stuck his putter in his bag, ple PUNCTURELESS AUTQ TIRE. | HEART BEATS AFFECT WRITING. | ** eM ema i r new on \ Ny a matter of ¢ it A attain . | “It may be second-hand!" snapped] go, and bi d fo re Bp Bin Dutear ale Cg p ked Ins f inner tube nev According n Eng! fy s * rarely see a person like tha hen I Joolking and you are the ailing ¢riend calling and snid she felt the visit had | pp ee ae en tanta the over ta a iD: WARE ve 8 A ecording to an En cl ist rac! which theatre or res 2 4S almost a. ad!” a here 1 the eve eee ies MN) A Pack Ie WHEN theat coastul places in life. They | *oet 4s bad . it is brand new," sald Afra, | really checred her up. Apes BUR BS BIBI alz bony Punctureless auiomobile tire has 3] there ia an individuality in heart|taurant pa 5 can jeave their cigars Jarr withered and worn, They tested that he was vary ‘As I told Mr, Jarr, Lam never| But after Mrs. Jarr was gone she|says I, not thinkin’ Pemovable rubber core that is solid| heats affecting the handwriting to|when they enter with the assurance ul @ at M 01 | ant, but really couldn't hag. | told the maid to give that old hand: | I hay rg a apts Yr ; | te careful and ‘irs, Jarr could put | age 5-| drawn table cloth to the janitor’s wife|I come hom: y, juste emeept for cup shaped air spaces a‘ | such @ degree that it can be iden |that they can be obtained again, clea e world welcomes one with oF he Anest napery on the table and with the poor man,” pad were getting sol iittie bit Ubankg'l that 1 was oti ange : he wo: h opin- he table gle those things wer i ‘ tl L wa @asb vide to afford regiliency, tified when writing is magnified, and intact, bas been des! sons but Bot one who is 0; D GIRS Og ag id \gned, ua by pinionated. [he'd do it no harm, Then Mre. Jarr gathered up the ovmmon) jouima|