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el 5 THE areatee WORLD, MONDAY, peeee 15: 1920, s | air layers Close | the earth move with earth, largely’ a = las the result of friction, but as the distance becomes Ge t Off th Si d lk! ee ae - | @be eiiabiinn Biorld. | greater the air layers, less affected by friction, move e 9 1 ewa. The Now Fe nia ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, TheLove Storie: t Pubilehin! comparatively slowly. Something the same effect’ cee Peblepet > Darts, Except Sunday by the Press Publivhing mn iy vis ? a} ‘ Saure rCLaTaER,, Srosdcay.68 Part iy, could be produced in a pond by whirling a globe very | 0 reat ove Pere. Jerbenciocy: 68 Park how. rapidly in the centre, The water immediately sur- | % | rounding it would tend to follow the direction of the Albert Payson Terhu y MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS, “ but at a distance there would be little movement. | Coorg. 1920, by The tras Puiiahing Co, p ‘ co World) 4 EGU URL coare he ce otis eeaud ean peon| — necepuing this theory, the aviator would go Straight] <= : e08 Glen the local news published herein. up at New York until he got to the relative quiet of | No. 59.—Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte. Earnshaw, a rich country gentie- |man, lived placidly at his estate of Wuthering Heights with his wife and | their two children, Hindley and Cath- erine, ‘Then, coming back one day exe a trip to Liverpool, he brought | home a savage little gypsy boy, Heath- | elite by name, whom he had picked up in the slums. -| the higher atmospheric reaches and would there stop :. IT HELPS PYRAMID PRICES. jand permit the earth to roll by beneath him until San HE New York Chamber of Commerce is in ac- Francisco appeared below him, and then drop down. cord with The Evening World’s frequently ex- The difference in lime between New York and San pressed view that consumers are being needlessly bur-! Francisco is only 3 hours 15 minutes, Theoretically, | dened and present production needlessly strangled by “it would be possible to make the trip in that time. Prac: | «» the continued imposition of war levies like the excess tically, there is no possibility of such rapid transit. * profits tax. The theory is fascinating, plausible and seems rea- Se. JA special committee on taxation reporied to the sonably probable in light of Major Schroeder's report, | Chamber of Commerce last week in favor of a con- Cerlainiy it promises more practical benefit than sig-| ‘samption tax of 1 per cent. on all purchases of over nals or rockets to Mars. New “Yorkers may live to see | ee... This tax, the committee estimates, would yield | the day when it will be quicker to go by balloon-plane 000,000, while a similar tax of 5 per cent. “would | to London via San Francisco, Vladivostok, and Moscow | luce enough revenue to replace the entire Product | than by boat or aeroplane across the Atlantic. s And never again at Wuthering | Heights was life peaceful or happy. Heathcliff hated everybody except litule Catherine, whom he adoved from “ first. She was the one love of higy# life. Toward all the rest of the world he 00 “@ * vo.of the taxes on estates and incomes, including both | | leer aks: Snes ’ eee he e6fporate and individual incomes and the so-called | IF THERE WERE STATESMEN—. ‘Vlaited tive. lids who omcess One of these r Se. Profits tax.” F there were statesmanship in the United States Wes dea eee, eee | Linton, was deeply in love with wil- |ful Catherine. But she had e | heart for novody but Heathcliff. | The Earnshaws, however, had mo idea of letting Catherine throw her imffhe Evening World has repeatedly pointed out how) i : : ; | goed taxes ae passed on 1 the Peoknuttee plus aj" Senate to-day worthy of this’Nation and its tradi-) ‘Swhole series of intervening percentages tucked on to| tions, the significance of what is happening in Ger-| leave extra private profit in each hand through w' Pau many would suffice to rout the last of the treaty, s and a ; | Self away on a mere foundling, Bo * phe: goods pass. | wreckers and insure ratification in the hext three days. | they created a misunderstanding be- e| i C =| ., +, 5 ' ~ | 7 e 7 ver ® ®.On this point the Chamber of Commerce com A despatch from Washington printed in the Sun and) , tween the two lovers and brought i it would be wise to fix a tax on |the New York Herald this morning contained the the basis of a uniform percentage to be paid by | following statement : | vat the consumer at the time of purchase. “The pyramiding of costs which results from | the excess profits tax would then disappear. ‘The planter, the grower, the producer, the fac- tor, the manufacturer, the jobber, the whole: peace treaty, Te.8 MEAs Cas Caco ibbvpraause abreast ge ie Tne American public admits with shame that this “i ‘its progress toward the market the indefinite | Senatorial opinion may be well founded. am for excess profits tax described above.” So far, Senators opposed to the treaty and 86.2. Present day profiteering has had no stronger stim-/ League of Nations covenant have shown no desire to ‘whos than tempiation offered the commodity producer) view either as anything larger than issues offering Pressure (o bear which forced Cath- erine to marry Edgar, whom she | Rever loved, and to discard Heath- cliff, whom she worshipped. | Heathcliff, in black rage, swore to |seonat himself on every one con- | | | | i} The opinion of Senators, after they had read and digested the German revolution despatches, was that the German movement would have no effect whatever on further consideration of the cerned. The thought of vengeance became @ mania with him. He began by punishing Edgar Lin- ton dor marrying Catherine. He did | this by making love to Edgar's sister, | Isabel, whom Edgar cherished and guarded as the most precious thing | in the svorld. Winning Isabel by a whirlwind courtship, Heathcliff persuaded her in grote bari Rar him. Then, hav- or handler to use the plea of each extra cost to Salt possible party capital for a Presidential campaign in: | pride, he Data Ge aa ee GI B 0 his | horror by his brutal treatment. ea 6. the putting of it, PLUS SOMETHING MORE, into his| the United States see In due time Edgar and Catherine 3 be sy wifng price. | What does it matter that the* militarist’ element |had) a daugiter, and Heatheli and 1 eThe excess profits tax tempts the manufacturer to} pushes its way back to power in Berlin? | sabel a son. Heathcliff trom the st sought to continue his revenge {by a future marriage of these chil- |dren, and a Wrecking of their. lives, {in the hope of breaking the hearts of Catherine and Edgar. | Hearing that Catherine was dying. | he forced his way into her home and into her. sickroom, where he cursed | her for blighting both their existences | by marrying another man, Into her | dying ears he poured the story of his own deathless love for her and wee at her for not having married nim | After her death, Heathclifi's mania | for revenge grew mofe and more vio- JIent. Yet at every turn, now, fate 4@ | blocked bis plans, and saved thowe whom he sought to destroy, At las! "2 Boost his prices indefinitely, at the same time it dis-| What does it matier if disorder among the Allies courages him from expanding his plant and enlarging) resulting from the defection of the United States his production. | encourages the enemy to raise its head? | “It works both ways, therefore, against the consume: What does it matter whether Germany is republic Those who dislike the idea of a consumption tax! or monarchy, whether militarism stays conquered or S.may ask themselves whether after all they haven't a revives, whether there is a League of Nations or 110 “petter chance when they pay a tax openly figured at) League of Nations to guard the peace of the world? VO-the time of purchase than when they pay it indirectly; The Americans who fell on the battlefields of France *0.@ privately computed by a line of protit-takers and) are dead. Why bother now about that for which they toalay, sixteen months after the signing of the pte | fighting lasted. But now the trouble is over, why let) Eke, is lifting instead of lowering the cost of living. | them muddle domestic politics? . a It is penalizing production at a time when increased] Statesmen in tne United States Senate? .. production is of all things most needed. | They would only be in the way this week Manual Jaber, and have a very poor The Evening Work) , ;education. ‘That is why you never see I agree heartily wit) | oy) _brotests in print. (a workingmun), As a work you kindly ask those tingman myself 1 must admit that Mpions of Prehibition if t! of good, | ever Sweltered in the hold of a ship j with the temperature at 100 degree. or wrung o their undershirt in King. | rolling mill and hating every one els: ———— By John Blake (Copyright APPEARANCE ALWAYS COUNTS. INEWS FLASHES German prisoners taken by American troops were FROM ME Mi 3XICO amazed to see their captors making careful toilets ev morning. If trench mirrors had been lost, Doughboy; How mary more months of peace and how serious ——— rer ; azamenace to prosperity will it take to convince Congress | THE MAN IN AN AEROPLANE, at and has set everybody—and particu- | fhat war taxes must be revised ? | SAN dipi i f \larly the working class—to th ‘TO UROPEAN diplomats are afraid of a “Man only ne wie: LORE using ponds of water in the road for mirrors, would shave ${ Import Duties. “- he rillennium has not arrived yet; | or, blinded by sweat, poured Ls The President of the Repub " ‘ Horseback” in the present German Revolution. | |but Prohibition has brought it much | ™ in a foundry?) In such themselves carefully. Then they would clean the mud from aun o so nEeN an iayg i ; 4 Surpas: this is the suspicion that there may be |B&atet) For one thing the old-time | an tikes a cool gies of be or} shoes, puttees and tunics, brush their hair and be ready for We under date of Dec. $9, 1918 WILL IT PASS FOR THOUGHT ? urpassing even this is the suspicion that there may be|iincy’ wing its garish exterior and | wee times in an afternoon to enable ¥ tyocn, | EE cer j his wor H aye « ” sordid bac is relegated to the | im to k F all the astonishing iurns and twists of the}* “Man in an Areoplane” to reckon with. Holland sordid buck room ia relegated. to the | Hin st. I drank heavily from the age)! am ing to see whi “Such a cleanness!” said one Bavarian in the barb wire $j the following changes in the ap. ped into the final price. pfouent i *# ov The system of war taxation that continues in force} World aims and ideals were well enough while the! t the out- be treaty gymnasts in the Senate none seems more} M4y maintain an excellent military guard in the vicinity |of nineteen to within two years ago. fone Frontier wit mi te pen. “Such a country | import tariff of July 81, 1916: ve ly than Senator McCormick! cement of | Of the Hohenzoliern prisoners—but has it an air patrol? |) 2m now forty-five. Then with the| te tne suaday family plenickers | The American soldier was not a dandy. He was not A duty of 10 centavos pe ig than Senator ormick’s announcement 0! se of hibition or 4 A i ae ‘\ kit . ight, in: of } . " : fi {tumble ‘to myself, and cut out the © deprived of their beer or wine. fussy about his raiment. But his training had taught him ilo, gross weight, in place o} : » his intention to introduce a resolution | re ‘beer and all—for good. To-| | Wht will we do? Duy high-pow. | $ the value of appearance as an aid to self-respect. And he the old duty of five centavos, is bday i ; To the Rack, the Thumbscrew and the Hang- ys 8] of w doctors say | ered cars and run out to our country icceé upon glycerin, Tarig {j stating It to be the sense of the Senate that ee : bout curting Gut’ huoze otter’ pracy {clubs Or take passage to Cuba fora|§ knew that self-respect meant morale, and morale meant placed upon glycerin, if France should in the future be unjustly at man's Noose it appears that Candidate Anderson liy a lifetime 1 have) couple of we where we can get all!) § victory Item No, 46. : 1 Automatic Pistol of the . jtaken a new lease neon; We want? What do these gifte: ‘a ; A 1) iff N errwould view such rn attack with great concern | : {been incre ohen | ook! ae ADV Ice. | % into the training cantonments and compared them with the, repealed, for which there is sub- “© * \ and would not stand by idly, | aie selibor hoo, a ee ee '% natty uniformed men who had received their training, under- stituted and added the follow- > te br fis weohaad bg Te Wink WH. Anderson. 4 Aig toe ri a it ie 90—Fruits i wSenator McCormick is listed with Borah, Reed and) PERFECT THE SYSTEM. aid cid > bsdping dal ig hen stood the value of appearance. | ing: 0. Fruits in syrup or i ¥ nas a “bitter ender” opposed to American “en-| fF INDSAY RUSSELL, writing in The Independent, count. Noll jo my and give honor, compantor The same thing is observable to-day in the Boy Scout 3] i Meir juice, $0.50 ($0.25 U. 8. i Prarie z PF Nate fh litinakes URL ee Spenven' (Ghtldren shtink from. thels the soldier of God, whom Tlaud;!3 companies, whose members bave been transformed from 3| currency), per kilo, legal weight; ‘© tanglement” in Europeari affairs. Yet such a resolu- promulgates “Rules for a Successful Banquet. On the contrary, > Man who will save our countrsy loutish, round-shouldered lads into erect, self-respecting $| No. 904—Fruits of spirituous oy, fin would certainly be as clear an entanglement as) His directions are simple and to the point, and Wie tha Gag uscnapepenes |: Teen Deh Amina no road young American | liquor or in alcohol. (See under a. could be couched in diplomatic terminology. cighth and last is almost the best of all: y cyeu In’ time to apr te her. What mattered the war in D0? | The man who is well clad 1 spects himself, and without | “aguardientes” or. “iicores,” ao- Ve, “What does it mean? Europe would interpret it as Vagina apsakecacteoul ovactelkiig: bY a dase. (lemiectoruer Radane ania Why | What matters our sovial tr | $ self-respect the respect of others is not to be gained. | cording to the liquid in whicn x : ; hic at en ligt - Sy tbe niet does not the city administration b Forge th trivia! matters: Dress always as well as you can. Money spent on the fruits are preserved.) jer, AMefensive alliance, What else could it mes ight system—a warning green light at nine Mere public comfort stations al regu He will tell what is be clean linen and ties and shines is never wasted } ree F inutes, et ig! J is is bet r » jar imterva This oule >a - : ear ga . “ a i} Yet Senator McCormick is an avowed opponent ot BE sa ane eet ee ee BN Ere aca lise sites ee tere eI | ok Ceca, Wheutaes eaction You will think more of yourself if you are well-dressed, 3 | Lower California. fentanglement.” . mone sutoons: Tae Idan Fils pataneaiawte? and your easier bearing, together with your good appearance, The following modifications 1ED DRUNKARD, | 78 Ss sal co i if will make others think better of you. are introduced in the Tarif’ of And it is the opinion of others which will make your Import Duties issued July 81, start in the world good or bad, Start right and you will 1916, which shalt only apply to A subject for slurs, such as com trom curs | Just for doubting the world should | be dry | ay ., . y by; ewer \ a) whey . at | Phrase of the McCormick resolution: | Any banquetger knows well that when a contirmed Asking « Bo ‘Perhaps it will help to give the remainder of the para-| Granted! But then winat? | Now Mar aneueiianl What) 1 ahold ‘be made cleat \“overtalker” gets inio action a green light or red light | to co taiice ot The Evening W * sak dk Rast Many of the by who have continue right, Start with self-respect, and the respect of importations through the cus- that the Senate does not concur in the asser | WOuld have no more effect than a firefly in the Path) ye eee aoe ne en pet y| So God speed to Carrie Nation, |} others will come without your seeking it. : toms and customs divisions sit- tions of the President in his letter to Senator | of a joy-rider. Your true oratorical bore is dead to} War have had « big drawback in real Mii ruttatarcuen tie A EAlNat | taancaeannanerannanaiendareoanaasiacackananetannnnaeanmdessnannccc | abted ie fie norman auatrict ef pr Hitchcock. {all the world except his own mellifluous vocalization, | Paring for the future, Hundreds are greater men | : é | Lower California: Strap iron in df : Ae ; Nia alin the service ¢ |pid she earn a measly hin Too ee ee : P That explains, Senalor MoCormick succeeds in| He has wrecked many an otherwise enjoyable gathering, | fre. Ma puiteea ACLs PICTOR IGNOTUS.” | Mme res nig .thie- quention {nindntlie and 2 will pass it on to the | the Zor oh Aanne far binding ‘se proving that he is not thinking for himself. He lets} The subway signal system suggests an improvement, | Presented them wish, being as a mat-) Troy, Mureh 1920, jthat In along Seventh Ave-| greatest newspaper New York has,| Packages by a single turn ts the President do the thinking and then disagree ts colored dlalite wi pus or Saek Mee) BUR ELE tien hue I saw a load of furniture on the| The Evening World. exempt from duty; the rate for a en jo ig jen disagrees, jh sup plemenis colored lights with automatic mechan- eave Se oe ee, : : Remsers eby pears |sidowalk. Upon inquiring why it was! sty idea, though sinall, may be| coarse fabrics, jute and similar ical control, Require all speakers to ##ad on a trap) even enough to exist on | “rhe writer has had the pleasure of {Mg Twas tnld the old story of the laughed wt by many, but I feel sin-| fdres designated in Tarif’ Item * Rained 1 sy ihe, fC is & disgrace and an outrag 6 Hee nutord doub he ren cere in my views and would have) 47, ang Pea z Pets A RAPID-TRANSIT DREAM. be yr which swings down at eleven minutes by the (nat ‘the Government shoald, allow) fading one of your very worthy | ‘Then 1 went fo City Hall to hear! further comment on my suggestion. No. ne is reduced to $0.06 BG. IN AJOR R. W. SCHROEDER reports that he dis-|clock. Put this mechanism beyond the control of the | th! to votinue, ‘Why don't they act) rn ridiculous high eto II. 3 [auestions on which I supposed the! Avenue ‘extension in Brooklyn. | > ose ueignte ne ee Me * PR arg ej a ° e "fig ? ‘ e iCULOUS THER CORE OF tires pple elected " found | ‘ ast, 9708s weigh . covered “aerial trade winds" of great velocity at| Presiding ollicer, Make it inexorable as the ‘flight of | tleve this appalling altuation Moly did bit the “nail on the |Pepple Clected them. But I found! sreat automobile road for the past| eee 7 ‘The bonus, which at present is but| © 7 they were debating 4 State question, | few years, be changed to read Roose- , dhe altitude to which he ascended in his recent record-| tne. a dream too good to be true, is in the| l! a” When you jpanerted | that the young Lela and in passing coarse | velt Boulevard, a more appropriate | Import Duties. 5s alr only, and not in the veterans’| “White collared" class were the red ks about euch othe name for such a great th hfare? ‘ SSpreaking flight. They seem to ofler a wonderful op-} A trap door may and probably would not silence | tings: Should It become a reality, *|sufterers, ‘This cannot be doubted | very” personal, much to. tt ‘Tf the naine of Hamburg Avenue,| |‘ circular has been issued by portunity for a revolution in aerial transportation if|S2Me speakers, but if it dropped them into a sound| Would undoubtedly’ put thousands’ of| When one stops to consider the} ment, of some of the other Ald ‘ Brooklyn, can be changed to Wilson, the Merican Minister of Finance 9 ex-service men on their feet again, [ieeterias advances in incomes re-|but disgusting to many in the gal-| ,yenue, in honor of President Wilson, | 7 ” “sky ships can be devised which are able to take ad-) Proot vault below they would cease to bore the diners, lt thus enabling them to start life anew. jeeived by other (rorkers except thone Jay, ene went there ‘to hear civie| P Sec no reason why we cannot honor peritiing the BaUmenE ef im: v i he fow individuals who are so nar-| Whose duty it is to pli- | questions ¢ 5 | the greatest citizen the United States) port duties at Mexico City in ! © "Vantage of tie swift curroat of the rarefied aimosphere| Mr. Russell should carry his signal system to its | row-minded. as to eritielse. the bonus} hood from ceaseless work at a desk, |“ When a auestion or problem | ee re re poem Be I aiaus ofan eerie er ureivulupon “et ; ile ley vical conclusiot ke i echanicall r ex-service men are those who] The uneration received by the | came up, s $ housing the people Eh. PHPTERS s D NpOI ve sabove the five mile level. logical conclusion and make it mechanically bore | tor sited at heme and hed no ob-| average “swivel chair plugger" is far|in New ‘York City, three oF four ot! No. 194 40th’ Street Brooklyn, | compliance with the following a The direction of gales “from East lo West’) Proof. at in the way putting aside| too meagre to keep pace with the | the orators, or would be orators, w March 10, 1920. cacuiaticn) a. Vek chough money to rest easy, ‘They do|ever increasing living cost and it] immediately on their feet asking th gah Nez & i , 7 »s6¢ems to confirm the speculations of astronomers and | ener not consider anybody glse, as they|seems that no efforts are being made it be passed on to the Welfare Com- isc slacs a takamad First. Previous delivery to ays - : th lass and look out{to relieve such a deplorable condi- | mittee. Pe. : 4 f | sna cuntore at ine vore sah hk Physicists who inave believed that if the aerial sailor} Loton Horton, author of the infamous plea to Fompolves Most of ail, they are|tion, ‘The office employer and the| It does seem to me that we have a/ To tue Haltor of The Prening World: PRA ORAERTES SE Ae Fe ' ne on could mount high enough he would enter atmosp! duirymen requesting decreased production, is Peete Matustipe. the baya| public must learn of these facts or be-| most inconsiderate lot of men on the| Who gives Congress the power to, of @ bond satisfactory to the co i nig! i ey er almosphere | sure that a cent or two decrease in price would else but those | fore long the protesting voice of the} Bourd of Aldermen when they will exempt city and State employees from | tectors of custome, fully guaran naffec! cal disturbances se # ey wol clean ar” worker will be heard |not even try to remedy such a erying e tax? T of : ‘ f * swan gat ively unaffected by local disturbances and prac not change milk habits of consumers. ‘The ex tLe eer Bens Sn er ah ait eatteat chee Gy tel rallave tule aituation, Dur [cae (nega ABT Tay “Oth OF ex) teving the payment of import cally unaffected by friction with the earth. | treme expense of other foods gives milk dealer surely change their wiews. effort to see fair play, spend thelr time on State questions. | or patriotic. It costs the people that duties that may be imposed, CHAS . ANDT, I o ° end to tha ; ey Rag cpt - : saa Mi ne @*8 Perhaps their idea could be comprehended more an unprecedented opportunity to try to change Bre eam ee sail Andale Wilkes Era D, BRANDT. an? Ce eR or VOTE! [HAYS s0° nck fon SHALP INAS IVA Be Recend, The payment Of ad eva gales s | Brookiyn, March 7 3.F.| 2 age, L. 1, Ma 21920. | si / | muel ese fellows, and they have e be made é. Teadily by imagining oneself on the moon and looking these same milk habits, Experiments in milk “ - Iho right to make laws that are not| “uéice will be made spon the f : m price reduction in recent years have been so | w Shall They Dot Roosevelt equal for all basis of the respective tartff, eM ~ soratethe earth. In the centre would be seen the eart hess aul Sic Wakweon tha: oven Np. ler Ty tae Haaltor of The Kvening World yening World To the Kaitor of Th | HOMAS J. HOLDE with a surcharge of 25 per centom, A haa Pi e orton can nan i 4 1” e re or " f . Pras 3 " ' be ' bes 4 i ‘ lam one the hundreds of thou Will you kindly inform me through; An idea} struck me forcibly No. 171 78th Street, Brooklyn, March on its s fro. est to Eas! c Sika 4 | " Nm 3 > told ount o; ° “ ; Ht o 8 14 ais from) W 0 Fast, Th ho moze than guess at the effect, [sands who perform nerve-racking |your columns what are Aldgrmen for? several Umes within the past few! 19, 1920, of the total amount of the dutich et j : - " 7 ras ee Sea meta ~ a a ene enrerereneecittonmn. L —- “ f Sa Se —