The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1921, Page 3

NEW GOVERNM FOR TICKET SPECULATORS WILL END THEATRE GOUGING pone ean “Tt Will Drive Us Out of Busi- hess,” Wails One Hard Hit “Spec.” NEW RULES ARE RIGID. Brokers Will Now Have to Pay Fair Revenue Tax to Government. 'y Sophie Irene Loeb. Another bomb was thrown into the camp of the ticket speculatora to-day by another regutation of Commissioner Wiliam M. Williams, who is deter- mined that the Federal Government shall secure its just taxes from the sale of theatre tickets, The new order of Commissioner Williams, Chief of the ‘Internal Revenue Bureau, will compel all ticket speculators to make @ complete return, which will include every ticket sold and how much wos paid for it by the patrons. In other words, a new form was issued to-day which is now deemed to be proof against every possible eva- sion and which will effectually close the door to abnormally raised prices of tickets, as strongly urged by The Evening Work. ‘The brokers now will have to teil the Government exactly what they charge for seats and divide equally with the Government when they sell im excess of 50 cents over the regular or be llabie to imprisonment or a fine of $10,000 if they falsify this new form of return, In my talk to-day with Assistant United States District Attorney Tay- lor, charged with prosecuting violators of this rule, he assured me that nothing would be left undone in that department to obtain the conviction of guilty speculators who are defraud- ing the Government of its Just taxes and at the same time guuging the pub- lic out of thousands of dollars by‘ex- orbitant prices for, theatre tickets. is new return form, following on the! becls of the regulation from Washington demanding that every ticket have printed on the back the price at which it is sold as well as the pame of the seller, it is believed, will go a long way in climinating the prof- iteering business concerning theatre Uckets, ONE OF THE GOUGERS SETS UP A WAIL. | As one speculator admitted to-day “If we can't get this new ‘return’| ing picture houses has been the one|like as fut as his caricatures make | ENT RULES DO YOU GO TO THE THEATRE ? J E theatre tickets at any pla other than box offices is pa: is stamped or indelibly written on the back of the ticket, person who sold the ticket. If this has not been done, will he dence to William H. Edwards, Collector of Internal Revenue, put an end to the enormeus prices charged for theatre tickets by prohibit the average person from purchasing tickets at a moderate 2 _ - MOVIES CUT DOWN, Ink Is Also to Be Conserved in the Writing of Contracts VERY person purchasing asked to see that the price he together with the name of ‘the please notify or send such evi- Custom House, and thus help to ulators, which price, SOPHIE IRENE LOEB. apn for Actors. LOS ANGELBS, Jan, 11.—The day of fabulous salaries for movie stars, | of extravagant productions, of over- paid directors and executives is at| an end, the chiefs of the great Los| Angeles film colony agreed to-day. The last few months have seen a gradual change in the movie business, as in other lines, due to the general business depression, As a result the movie chiefs have agreed that during : | ‘ewer stars will twinkle, | Fewer productions will be released. | Ink will be conserved in writing | salaries of screen favorites, as the figures will not be so large. ‘ Thousands of cinema actors have been thrown out of work, There has/ been a wholesule slashing of wages of those retained. | Decrease in the attendance at mov- | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1921, G. K. Chesterton Here on His First Visit Says ‘World Needs a Benevolent Despot;’ Likens Woman to Gun Noted English Poet and Dramatist Answers His Own Question: “What Is Wrong With the World?” —Even a Demagogue Might Give Us Democ- racy. “Flapper of To-Day--Flaps” —“Emancipation of Mod- ern Woman Is the Eman- cipation of One Who Has Jumped Into a Sausage Machine.” Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “What the world needs is a benevolent despot or demagogue who will give it democracy. “Woman i ‘@ a gun—her range is limited. But in th® home she hits a man like ten thousand of brick. “The flapper of to-day—well, she flaps! She is out for a high old time, and she doesn’t care who knows it. “The ‘emancipation’ of the mod- ern woman is the emancipation of one who has jumped into a sau- sage machine, “The supreme effort of most of our would-be reformers is direct- ed toward giving people what.they don’t want.” Thus, “in the paradox that com- forts while it mocks,” G, K. Ches- terton, essayist, movelist, dramatist, poet and one of the four most brilliant men now writing in English—the oth- ers are Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and W. L. George—crystallized for me some of his reaction against our], world of to-day. Mr, Chestérton kas just arrived In America to pay us that first visit he put off for so long. He used to reply to invitations with the following gen- tle remonstrance: | «1 nave my vision of New York— Ah, why should I undo it?” At last, it seems, he risks disen- chantment, and I found, with Mrs. Chesterton at the Biltmore, this big, gentle, leonine man of letters—six feet of him and 200 odd pounds. There is a delightful stor# of how an American, * driving with him through London, remarked: “Every one seems to know you, Mr. Ches- tertoi “Yes,” mournfully Gargantuan author. don't, they ask!” He really doesn't responded the “And if they look anything Mr -Limited in Range a is’ the reason for our unrest—the fact that the common man no longer owns and enjoys the common things he wants from life—his home, his wife In it, his little patch of ground. Here 1s a word Belloc and I coined to ex- press this widespread individual—not State—ownership of house and land: the word is ‘Discributism!* “But how can we ever go back to hi T asked. ty CAN go back.” insisted Mr sterton, “and on several his- toric occasions when it has not gone back it has gone ahead—to dogener- ation and extinction. Capitalism inhuman, Intolerable and inefficient, ‘To change from it we need that rare, that mysterious, that almost unknown thing to-day—statesmanship. We need a statesman who is not of the tribe of politicians—a benevolent des- pot or demagogue who knows the wants of the people. Nowadays we have so many good folk trying to give the people what they don't want something every one wants—for ex- ample, bread—these reformers say to eath other, ‘Now, if we preach and write enough pamphlets, perhaps we can persuade the people to want: po- tato peelings, or divorce.’ r Prohibition,” I suggested. xactly,” agreed G. K. C,, “al- though,” he added with a pleasantly urbane smile, “I do not think I should | criticise the institutions of the coun- | try I am visiting.” “Haven't you said,” [ reminded him, Instead of a general distribution of PLEADS GUILTY AS JURORS FREE HIM Defendant in Dry Case Gets Nervous at Long Deliberation and Changes Plea. Max Schoen, thirty, a saloon keeper, of No, 177 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, to-day talked himself into a sentence for violating the Volstead act. Schoon was tried before Judge Chat- field and a jury in Brooklyn on com- plaint of Prohibition Agent John Ryan, who testifie®® he bought whiskey from the defendant on Dec. 3, The jury deliberated five hours, Two minutes before it returned with @ verdict of not guilty, Schoen asked permission to plead guilty, Judge Chatfeld remanded him until to-morrow for s#ntence. Assistant United States District torney Reynolds learned chemists failed yesterday, at the trial of Chris, Moonan, bartender for John Stone at 108th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, to produce the all-important “Exhibit A’ ‘without which the prose- cution could not hope for victory, Pro- hibition Agent Wittenberg testiNed he bought a gingerale highball from Moonan on July 11. But when it came Ate to-day why ROMANCE IN VISIT OF PRETTY HEROINE HERE FROM FRANE | Marcelle Montarlot Ran Away Three Times From School to Serve With A. E. F, Experts in pulchritude say that rarely has a transatlantic Mner brought in a@ prettier young miss than Marcelle Montariot, who ar. rived to-day on the Red Star steam- ship Finland, indeed, one with such @ romantic story to tell. Mile, Montariot arrived in Ameri- can uniform bearing the “A” of the American Army of Occupation, and this is her story of how she got It: When the American Army reached France in 1917 she was in college there. She liked Americans at first sight and as soon as she could get away she fied from ooliege and en- Aered a training camp for American officers near Lyons. There her par- ents eventually found her and hur- ried her back to her studies. But she ran away again at the first op- portunity and joined the 29th Divi- sion, from New England, becoming official photographer to the division. Once more her parents found her and back she went to college. But Mile, Montarlot was not to be held by books, A third time she deserted college and in this instance went to Germany, joining the American Army of Occupation at the bridgehead ut Coblenz, There she was attached to the Provost Marshal's office, becom- ing later an expert in finger-prints. An American Army officer put hor aboard the ship at Antwerp and Dame Rumor hath it that as soon as he can get leave from Coblenz he is coming to this country to marry the young lady, She is now on her way to Boston to visit the mother of an officer she met in Germany. or, MUST PAY FOR LAST 30 ustice Benedict Onlers _ Baylies jr. to Pay of $21,603. Justice Benedict, in the Supreme Court to-day, yun Baylies jr. to pay his Bdith M. Baylios, thirty alimony. The amount is sald $21,603, Mrs. Baylies lives st No. 332 # Street, Brooklyn, while her band resides in nhatt were married in 1882, according aMdavit of Mra. Baylies, but vorced seven years later. The at that time awarded her $40 @ alimony. One child was Baylies—who is now thirty mm, and unable to support himeelf. Baylies claims her former paid the $10 monthly but « A Baylies, according to’ the has been married twice sines. 4 e igi arms Serge" sad Sow did’ not know he éwed alimony. HIT BY TRUCK, MAN DIES, Carried Goat In Taxicab for Midnight Meal\’ “Denny” Ate Most Everything in Sight When Taken to Brooklyn Restaurant. id x About one hundred men and women were eating at 1 o’clock this morning in McCann's restaurant, No, 33 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, when @ taxi drove up to the entrance and a big, smiling man who spoke with an frish brogue and carried about him a suggestion of something with a “kick” in it got out and addressed himself to a companion inside the cab, “Hey, Denny, get; we're goin’ to eat!" he shouted loud envugh to at- tract the attention of a score of diners near the entrance—and also the res- taurant manager. A moment later there gtepped sedately from a taxi a mmall, gray goat (afterward described as a Belgian goat). “You can’t bring that, animal in here,” expostulated the-manager. “Well, if you can keep him out you're a better man than IT am,” re- turned the man. “Everywhere I go, he gocs, That's the goat that broke the Hindenburg fine.”” ii Anyway, the goat got past the swinging doors and then the fun be- gun, The owner ordered a meal for himself and a double portion of doughnuts for Denny, But before the doughnuts arrived the goat went foraging among the tables, nibbled at a bunch of celery before a woman diner, took a bite out of the cloth that covered an adjoining table and in “ * Investigate Reported to Them. _ i Thaddeus Duffy, forty-nine» id old, beon received in being hit by an mobile mifk truck Sunday night im 63d Street, netr Ninth Avenue! “aa teialty wae taken to the he e © pel phy: told of the accident and sald been treating Duffy Duffy's friend, Michael Hi 68 Amsterdam Avenue, wh Injured man was taken. had no record of the accident investigating, front of Finally & newsboy entered with early copies of a morning nowspaper. The goat became interested in the smell of ink and ate the headlines from a story about the missing bal- Joonists, Ths goat ate the doughnuts when they were brought in, The owner of the animal refused to tell his name, but said the goat had been the mas- cot of the 27th Division in the war. FRANKLIN SIMON MEN'S SHOPS 2 to 8 WEST 38th STREET Savings of $26 to $43 on a Single Suit in \ TOMORROW ANNOUNCE modified, it will put us out of busi-| wig cause The | him, however, and he has a head big | «that the modern woman instead of | te to produce the highball {t was not, of the upheaval. peg Jopinion that the situation is only|enough to go with his massive tall-! being emancipated as she thinks, In| {0,0 found. ar eaation toma oan A U cede ted Sale of In answer to this Saul Subber, the! temporary was expressed by one pro-| ness. His eyes are brilliant Bngiian (26 truly @ slave of industrialism as that the chemists looked for a phial n npre n 3 i} ye- | . Me the energetic Assistant Superintendent of) qucer. |blue behind the big rimmed eye-|""AhyT believe that, even thongh I ee er the name of Joba, Stone the Collector'’6 offices, Internal Reve-| “While it is to be regretted trom] glasses; his wavy hair, steel gray;|did say It myself,” he answered, a| lodged) instead of under Moonan's nue Service, says: “It will not b@ the viewpoint of the players, it is a| his heavy mustache, bright yellow. | twinkle In the blue eyes. name, modified. T ington haye taken a firth stand| wgainst the lax methods that have) @ whole,” he suid. ' “Many movie organizations have e authorities in Wash-| health condition for the industry as Physically, he is the Newfoundland dog type; mentally, he is the crack- ling electric spark of the heaven- grown out of theatre ticket specula-| laid off practically their entire staff |home-and-mother party, the only tions, and have given orders to pro-) and salaries have been reduced, Those |man who can give the cleverest radi- ered as you see. i Collector William H. Edwards has accordingly sent out a large supply, of these new forms to the brokers. | EXCERPTS FROM THE RULES) THAT CAN'T BE DODGED. As an evidence of how complete this return must be and how dicult) defrauding the Government is made} by such a return, the following few! excerpts from the new form “re- turn" Bre indicative of its drastic re- quirements: Returns and payment of tax.— Return on Form 729 with remit- tance covering taxes collected in any month mmst be in the hands of the Collector of Internal Rev- enue (or his authorized repre- sentative) of the district in whieh * ‘the principal office or place of business of the person inuking the return ts located on or before the last day of the succceding month. Returns must be signed And sworn to before an officer quthorized to administer ouths; byt it the tax is less than $10 the return may be signed or ac- knowledged before two subscrib- ing witnesses. Records.—lvory permon or or- ganization required to make a re- furn should keep such records as will show all payments, admis- Mons, or members upon which tax is required to be collected. Ir ie suggested that daily .ccords bo kept on this form. ff this is Gone it will facilitate the prep- aration of your monthly return his form. or admission tickets,—The price of the tic shall be conspicuously ana indelibly printed, stamped, or Smitten. thercon, together with the name of the vender. Penalty not more than $100 for viola- clause Bvery person, cor- poration, partnership, or associa~ Vion who faila (1) to fle a turn on time |s liable to a pen- tite of 25 per cent. of the amount Sr tax; (2) to pay the tax on time or All be liable to a penalty of 5 per cent. toxether with Interest at the rate of 1 per cent for fach full month; (3) to furnish information for the 0 $2 computing the tax eM be gubject to a penalty of not more than $1,000; (4) who makes a false or fraudulent return is lia- bie to a penalty of 60 per cent. of the tax; (5) who wilfully falls to comply with any of the pro- visions of the law shall be fined salaries which have been inflated | must come down,” said another, Where twelve pictures were pro- duced in other years but three or} four will be produced in 1921, is the| general opinion. 729-A—Show in each of the blocks outlined below the name and ad- dress of the theatre from which you have purchased tickets, Use @ separate block for cach theatre, (b) In Column 1, show the es- tablished price of ‘admission ap- pearing on the tickets or cards of admission, exclusive of the ad- mission tax, (c) In Column show your selling price, exclusive of admis- sion lax. (d) In Column 3, show by ab- breviations whether the perform. | ance Was held during the matin: or evening. Use “M” for matinee and for evening. (e) In Column 4, show under | date the total number (quantity) | af tickets sold by you, including tickets sold on telephone orders, for each performance held on that purticular date, at the price ap- pearing on the same line In Col- umn 2, (f) Tn Column 6, show the toial amount of the excess charges on the tickets sold by you, at the co appearing on the same line in Column 2. (g) In Column 6, show the tax due by you on the excess charges (at the 6 per cent, or 60 per cent. rate, as the case may be), | (h) In Column 1, show the bal- ance of the 10 per cent. tax co lected by you ed un your sell- ing price. For example, you.pay 20 cents tax on a $2 ticket and collect 25 cents on your selling price of $2.50, You must enter in Column 7 the difference between the amount paid by you as: ad- mission tax to the ‘theatre, cents, and the amouht collected by you from the person to whom you sold the ticket, 25 cents, viz, 6 cents. A new system of checking up with stubs of theatre tickets is being de- | veloped in the Revenue Department here in accordance with this new re- turn, and it is only a question of a little time until all violations will be definitely known, All speculators charging more than 50 cents will find very little to gain if they must actually divide with the Government. For example, any spec- ulator charging $1 would have to give 60 cents tothe Government. He might just as well gell bis tickets for 50 | mot more than §10,900, or Im- prisononed for not more than one both. * preparation of return Form cents advance if he finds that he! cannot evade the law on the return of the dollar, On the 50 cents re- turn he has to return only a tax of 2% cents. | the labor cal debaters a Roland for their Oliver. They would have an unfair monopoly of wit and epigram were it not for He published several years ago a brilliant book of social criticism which he called “What Is Wrong With the World.” “What is wrong with It to-day?” I asked him, after he had insisted on my taking the armchair and had balanced and crowded himself upon a delicate, stralght-rigged affair which, I felt morally certain, wouldn't last out the interview. Luckily, it did! “What, briefly, is the basic cause of | all the things that are bothering us— unrest, profiteers, the Bol- sheviki, the problems of women?” “Christian civilization began to break down at the end of the Middle Ages,” answered the man whom his readers know as the greatest press agent mediacvalism ever had. “But,” he added quickly, “the most recent cause of all our troubles is cap- itulism, that social experiment which is almost a new as the typewriter, and which is already outworn. “So many persons seem to think that the only alternative of capitalism | ( is Socialism, ownership by the State, continued G. Kx. C.. who is one of So: cialism’s most earnest opponents, “quite forgetting the way the world was arranged up to the last hundred years or 30. “In the past the normal thing was for each man to live in his own house, | with his own wite and children, and to raise his own food on the land around him. Sometimes he was led a slave, sometimes a serf. \That merely meant that another man said to him and his brothers, ‘You must give me some of the products of your labor.’ But at least he, the ordinary man, was left with a place to sit down. “With the advent of capitalism this man and his brothers were turned out on the highways of the world. He had not where to lay his head. He wld not be sure of work. What an outrage it is that a man should have to wander along the road and think to limselt, ‘My God, I wonder if IT can find a job!’ At best the capital- ist said to him: ‘You must give me all your services; you cannot raise your own food or live under your own roof, and in return I wi you some wages—not too much!" HOW CAPITALISM CAMOU- FLAGES ITSELF. “That is arrangemer rading wader sich ne and ‘efficleacy,’ into whioh society masane ‘pro, bat is the condigion has got iteelf; that give | / THE CHESTERTON VIEW OF WOMEN AND FLAPPERS. “The emancipation attained by the modern woman is about equal flo that of somebody who has juinpbd into a sausage machine. In her home she was queen; shielded by all sorts of chivalries: ou weren't even sup- posed to answer her back. A woman is like a gun; she has a limited range —limited, usually, to the drawing room or to a fairly long hall. But in the home she hits a man like ten thousand of brick. “Outside she is ineffective. 1 pity the ardent Suffragette who becomes, say, a cleyk in a pork-packing fac- tory and ekpects to make the wheels go around a different way. In poll- tics, as in industry, women have ac- complished no great change, nothing in the way of real reform; they ‘use the stalest of parliamentary tactics and war cries, “The emancipated woman herself is not what she was,” added Mr. Chesterton, with another twinkle, have seen the change in my own time; the severe, strenuous, ‘ad- vanced’ lady of my generation has riven place to the flapper. and as for the flapper—well, she flaps! She is out for a high old time and she doesn’t cate who knows it, Far from denying her sex, she wishes to ac- contuate it anf to get all the pagan joy out of life it will bring her.” “And do you disapprove of her? T asked, “There are fashions in heads, just as there are fashions in hats, and sn't lead a charge against "serenely allowed the author Orthodoxy.” “Certainly there are some characteristics of the flapper which 1 prefer to the determined sex- lessness of her predecessor, “What is wrong with the world for woman in it is that she, like mai cannot get from life the things she wants—marriage, children, a dignified place in her own home. It was nearing dinner tlme, when I want a dignified place in my own home, so 1 rose to go, Instead of offer- ing the feminist arguments which confute G. K. C—some of us think, PRIMITIVE DEMOCRACY, THAT'S THE CURE-ALL. “Doesn't the one Instead, I sa) word ‘democracy’ express what you Delleve would ‘right most of the world’s wrongs “Democracy—that [a it" he an- swered seriously, “Perhaps, some day, If we live long en®fugh, we may enjoy as much democracy as a little Ser- bilan ®, as much democracy as a primitive tribe.” Then the smile came back into his eyes, the chuckle Into his crisp, beau- y articulate English voice. “Wells observed G. K. Chesterton, the old man of the primitive yade wil the other men afraid Vd like to know how he it! Wd ke to know how common | MAN KILLS WIFE AND SHOOTS SELF | Four Children Flee From House— | One Says Slayer Had | Been Drinking. (Special to The Evening World.) BATAVM, N. Y., Jan, 11.—Crazed by liquor and angered by his wife's threat to call the State troopers for |protection Frank Bllis, thirty-cight, |Killed her with a rife bullet and then |shot himself dead in their home six miles north of here last night, The only other occupants of the | house were four children of the wife, Laura Stone by her former husband, Charles Derwick, who died five yoars ago. In an upper bedroom the children heard the argument, a scuffle and two shots, after which | they crept down stairs and fled to @ neighbor's house. ne oldest boy told the Coroner that his stepfather had been drinking hard | for a week. About 10 o'clock last | Aight he eame home intoxtouted und | abusive, and when Mrs. Bilis deciared | she would call the 1 lis locked the d Sh toward the baok door where he her as #he tried to open it, fired a] bullet into her left temple and then| shot himsel fover the left eye POKER GAME RAIDED; | HUSBANDS HAPPY Half Dozen Thank Philadelphia | Police for Breaking Up Wives’ Liitle Party, Special to The Brening ¥ PHILADELPHIA, Jan, U.—A half |dozen Philadelphia husbands have thanked the police. When they go out for an evening wife has not got a kick In the world. A couple of |nights ago the wives of those halt dozen socially prominent w ar- rested for “sitting in” at a poker! Habn, at whose house the! was given, is threatening to| bring legal proceedings against the police for accusing her of running a woling houre. | Jeut, Montgomery, who staged the | raid, says the husbands have com to him personally and thanked him | r breaking up the game. ne s thalh ais ee eet eee had ame regules poker fenc { ered tint the tin on thw sel came (ie bubbies w VOR COLDS—ER. JONN'S MEDICINE. | wuccess for” oolde cousin —aar. ine ¢ Hand hitherto tailored suits at any time. Regular Prices *105 and *110- Reduced price 67 Pas Regular Prices *85, *90 and °95 Reduced price $ 9, HESE are extreme sacrifices, such as have not day just now to disregard considerations of value in making reductions to the public and we are con- forming to conditions.. You yourself, however, cannot afford to disregard considerations of value reduced price as at a regular price. And saving 26 to $43 on suits unmatched at their former prices in this city is quite the most important clothing opportunity of the hour. cAll from Regular. Stock Men’s is -Tailored Suits | a Ryne vt Pere FS SG Se rts Le been known in high-grade hand- in this city. But it is the order of the Quality is just as necessary at a