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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
HONOR L1NcoLN's ANCESTORS.
Americans Plan to Erect Tablet a
bingham, England.

NEW YORK. June 20.-An organiza-
ton called the Lincoln memorial COM
mittee has been formed to erect tablet
in bingham. England, in honor of the
ancestors Of Abraham Lincoln. Lin
coins ancestors came to this country
from bingham. and at least five genera
tons can be traced previous to 1857,
when Samuel Lincoln. the great-great-
great-great-grandfath Of Abraham Lin
coin, came to this country.
. The tablet will be erected in the Hing
ham village church. The Inscription will
be: I'm this parish for many generations
lived the Lincolns. ancestors of the
American Abraham Lincoln. To his.
greatest of the lineage. many citizens of
the United States have erected this me-
mortal in the hope that for all ages be-
tween that land and this land and all
lands there shall be malice toward none.
with charity for all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
PLACES CREPE ON BUST.
Democrats at Capitol Had Failed
Thus Honor Stevenson.

None Of the democrats officially en-
ployed about the Senate wing of the Cap
itol thought to decorate with crepe the
bust of the late Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice
President during the second Cleveland adj
nlinistration. who died a week ago. 1t
was Michael Francis Doyle. Philadel-
phia lawyer and democrat who noticed
that the bust had not been draped with
crepe.
why isn't this bust draped?" he asked
a Waterman.
The Waterman replied that he thought
the democrats were so busy they must
have forgotten.
well, I'm not too busy said. Doyle,
and he went out and bought some black
crepe, which was then .draped about the
bust of the dead statesman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
SHIP SINKS; THREE MISSING.
Mississippi River Steamboat Goes to
Bottom,

ST. LOUIS. June 20-Thirty three per-
sons were on board the excursion steam
boat Majestic, when 1t sank in the Mis-
sippi river near here early today and of
these three are unaccounted for, watch
man and two deckhands.
The others either swan ashore were
taken off in lifeboats Of which the steam
err CARRIED six or found safety on the up
per deck which remained above water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Traffic Club at Chesapeake Beach.

The members of the Washington Traffic
Club are today at Chesapeake Beach en-
joying an outing. The base ball game be-
tween the Wharf Rats and the Jail
Birds" is a feature Of the program. A
large silk American flag. with a streamer
bearing the name of the winning team, Is
the ..houe Of contention" The club is to
play a game. with team Of the Balti-
more Traffic Club some time in July or
August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
PRESIDENT |NSPECTS
WORKSHOP OF BRYAN
Enters State Department for First
Time Since Inaugura-
ton.
Greatly Interested in Picture--He
Fails to Break Af1y Precedents
During Short Stay.

President Wilson for the first time in
his life paid visit to the State Depart
ment this week. Although since he came
into the presidency fifteen months ago
the country's foreign policy has been
constantly on his mind as the varying
phases of the Mexican situation rang
their changes, not until last Flag day did
Mr.. Wilson step within the precincts of
the State Department At the conclusion
of the exercises on the east front of
the State. War and Navy building last
Monday the President and Secretary
Bryan walked back into the building to-
gether and as they passed through the
CURED to Mr.. Wilson that he would
the foreign office.
Visit Entirely Informal.
So escorted by the premier of the cab
met and the presidential aids. Col. w.
Mr.. Wilson took the elevator to the sec
ond floor of the building. Tine visit was
entirely informal. Eddie savoy, who has
swung back the door of the Secretary S
Office to admit thousands of the great
Wilson first went into Secretary Bran s
private chambers. Then The little com
pany Went ac; oss' the hail to- the din,
lomatic anteroom. whore President Wilson
viewed with Keen interest The COMPANION
pictures of Secretary Daniel Webster an.
Lord Ashburtou. who negotiated ths
treaty settling the boundary between IN.
United States and Canada.
The President was interested to learr
that Websters family bequeathed these
pictures to the State Department with
the understanding that they always
should be hung together. They are
among the finest portraits in the depart
ment.
And Secretary Bryan had this il
mind when he escorted his chief into
the great diplomatic reception room
where hang portraits of all the for
mer Secretaries of State. AS Mr.. vii
son stepped into the spacious apart
ment Nj. Bryan was heard to say
while the portraits here are numer-
Gus we don't claim that al, of them
comply with the canous of art. But
Mr.. Wilson was thoroughly interested
in the collection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20

Taft while President once visited SEQ
rotary Knox. but he was not a
stranger in the big building, for, be
sides serving as Secretary of War, he
was intimately associated with the
building and the War Department
through his administration of the
Philippines as governor general. Vet
eran attaches at the State Department
recalled also that President McKin-
ley was a frequent caller on his Sec
retaries of State. John Sherman and
Judge Day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Precedents Not Smashed.

AS the clerks in the three depart
ments had previously been dismissed
for the remainder of the day. few
knew of Mr.. wilson's presence in the
building. While it was Mr.. Wilson $
first visit to the State Department, he
did not smash any precedents in going
there Probably no President ever saw
less of Washington than MIR. Wilson
previous to his Inauguration. Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Arthur E, Rabbit Granted Divorce

Arthur E. Rabbit has been granted an
absolute divorce by Justice Gould from
Julia E. Rabbit. The costs of the pro-
ceedings are assessed by the court
against the wife and the correspondent
The husband is given the custody of the
two children. with permission to the
mother to visit them at stated times
Attorneys P. B. Ray and J. W. Whiting
appeared for the husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
J. Roy Price Made Commander.

]. Roy Price has been appointed COM
mander of the District Of Columbia Dr.
vision Of the Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams by order of the commander-in-
chief, it is announced. Mr.. Price was
commandant of Washington Camp, No.
3O5 this year. He is a member of the
Southern Society. the North Carolina
Society and other organizations of the
city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
BAND CONCERT.

At the White House this after.
noon at 5 o'clock by the United
States Marine Band. William H.
Santelmann. leader.
March, "Old Comrades" .Teike
Overture. "Pocahontas."
Santelmann
Serenade, Les Millions d'Arle-
quin" .Drigo
Two Movements from "Pagliacci."
Leoncavallo
(a) Prologue. (b) Intermezzo.
Grand Scenes from Romeo and
Julietta" ... .Gounod
Waltz, "Woman's Love and Life"
Won Blon
March, "Pythian" Morrison
1.-THE Star spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Annual Budget Now :
About $1.O0O.OOO.OOO

the United States. There is, of course,
no way of comparing the two amounts.
because the British budget includes SO
many expenditures that in the United
States are taken care Of by the state and
city governments. The influence of the
income tax on the total. however. forms
an interesting comparison.
The most that is expected of the new
income tax in the United States is
that it shall furnish 100000, 900 reve-
nue. a year, or one-tenth of the total
propriations. In Great Britain the In
come tax produces, about 100000, 900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Eutrapped Miners Rescued.

IIEGE, Belgium. June co-,he zoe
miners caught in the Vieille Marriage
coiliery near here yesterday when fire
broke out and penned them inside
finally made their escape with the aid
of rescue gangs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Work for Your Employer

The wide wake employe
may double the value of his
services to his employer by
hunting for him each DAY
the best opportunities Of
fered in the classified pages
of The Star-uSe Star Want
Ads as leads" for new
business for your employer
make his business grow
by the use of your surplus
energy-so after business
enthusiastically for him
read the Want Ad pages
in The Star.
Telephone your Want Ads =
to The Star. Phone Main
:A4o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20

| The Appalachian Insurance Company
, of Bristol. Va, was sold to the Columbia
/ Life Insurance Company Of Cincinnati
! subject to the approval OF the insurance
: departments of Virginia and Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
The BRITISH CRISIS.
XXXV.-The Income Tax.
BY Frederic J. >Haskin.

LONDON. June Before the Both Of
June Americans will have experienced
the novelty of paying an income tax
The experience. however enjoyable or
distasteful. will be confined to those who
have an annual income of more than
$4,000 or. in the case of unmarried per-
sons, of more than 5000.
Our British cousins are much more
generous in affording opportunity to pay
this sort of tax to greater proportion
of the population. Every Englishman
who has an income of $500 year must
pay an income tax on all income in excess
of that amount After this year the ex
emption will be reduced to $500. This
abatement, however, does not continue
but is decreased gradually until. when the
income is more than $500 a year. none
of it is exernpt. and the tax must be paid
on the whole. amount
Furthermore, a distinction is made be-
tween earned and unearned incomes, SO
that q person who receives his income
from investments pays greater amount
of tax than he who receives money in the
form of salary or for work actually done
The graduation Of the. income tax, I'M
like that of America, applies to the whole
income For instance, the surtax in the
American income tax on incomes above
$4,000 applies only to that part of the
income above the nty-thousand-dollar
mark. while in England the similar super
tax applies to the entire income without
exemptions or attachments.
The income tax in England has shown
a great many fluctuations since 1854, but
in the last
Forms Good Part thirty. years
of British Revenue. tandanov r.n
idly to increase, and since 1900 has
been depended upon for very large
part of the British revenue. The new
budget introduced last month not only
increases the rates, but makes changes
in the graduations.
For instance John Jones. having an in
come of $3.50 year, being married and
having two children, will pay an annual
income tax of $50. Under our. system,
of course, he would pay no income tax
at all. -
John Smith, having an income Of
5000 a year, II: he lived in the Uhfted
States would pay an annual income tax
of $40. Living in Great Britain he
would pay, If he earns his income, $1Sl 30.
Ii he should be so fortunate as to de-
rive his income from investments and it
should be regarded as unearned, his in
come tax would amount to 1888 30, or
more than tfirty-three. times as much as
an American income tax.
| Let us go up step higher. Take the
| man with an income OF $4,000 in the
| United States. He would pay an income
tax Of $50. If the same man should
| move to England he would pay 1850.
Above $4,000 income no distinction is
made between unearned and earned in
! comes The rate goes on up until an in
come of $4,000 pays tax OF 1920.
From a man who has an income Of half
| a million dollars a year the income tax
collector will collect SEQ. 200.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
EMPLOYEES Of DISTRICT
NOT OFF HALF A DAY
Saturday Holiday Period Is to Be.
gin for Them Next
Month.

Many District government officials and
employees who had planned weekend
trips beginning today were forced to
change their plans yesterday afternoon
when the Commissioners decided not to
interfere with the usual custom Of hav-
ing the Saturday half-holiday season be-
gin in July.
Because of the announcement that Sat-
urday half holidays for federal govern
ment clerks would begin today, .em-
ployes of the District government thought
the District heads might adopt a similar
plan A final decision was not reached
until yesterday. when the Commission
ers Informed Alonzo Tweedale, auditor
for the District, that weekend vacations
| would be granted during July. August
and September as heretofore.
Will Motor to Baltimore,
Despite this announcement many out
ings which had been arranged will &c
through according to schedule. One OF
them is an automobile trip which r. l.
Bradshaw, secretary to Capt. Brooke
Engineer Commissioner; w. w. Curt.
| and L. P. Robinson of the engineer
highway Office will take to Baltimore
and vicinity. They will motor over t
| the Maryland city this afternoon ant
| expect to return late Sunday.
| Capt ]. L. Schley. assistant engineer
; commissioner. also will leave today fo
| Baltimore, where he will Join a party o.
| friends ON yachting trip to Annapolis
! Capt r. G. Powell, assistant enginee
| commissioner. will be another of tn,
, week -enders. He left no directions a.
| to where he might be reached in tn,
| event his presence here should be need
| ed before Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Explosion Shook Countryside.

The explosion. which occurred about
am. shook the countryside. lifted
roofs from many cabins and demol-
ished many small buildings The score
of psnic-stricken surface workers
rushed from the mine. followed by a
dense cloud of smoke and poisonous
fumes.
Appeals for help were dispatched to
many towns. and residents organized
an emergency crew and began the
work OF rescue.
when the first rescue crew arrived
a large force of men set about to clear
the shaft working desperately as the
means of the entombed men came
1eepiy from the mine. The means be-
came fainter and finally ceased Thou
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Conservatives Called
Little Englanders

err things rendered necessary by the i'm
perial spirit The result was that the
conservatives waved the flag and induig-
ed in imperial -heroics, with the effect OF
turning the liberals out of office. LII
tie. EngIanders' they We're called with
much fine scorI. and the taunt' was SO
effective that many liberal leaders forgo,
their pacific tendencies and shouted for
the empire as boldly as any tory. II,
So it has happened that 1.-The present
liberal government has spent more money
on the navy than any conservative gov
eminent The trouble is. in the view OF
the opposition, that Mr.. Lloyd George
persisted in finding the additional reve-
nues required by raising the income tax
and the inheritance tax. He has given
the imperialists the battleships they have
asked for, but he has made the same
wealthy class pay the bills
In every English family above the
lower classes the income tax is not mere
" matter Of father writing a check
once a year. but question that obtrudes
itself into the family budget almost every
day. :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20

year. or nearly one-third Of the total
revenues required.
In addition to this. the death duties,
or inheritance taxes. produce about
of the British nation. Inheritance
taxes in the United States are levied
only in some of the states, and ade-
quate comparison is impossible, al
though the British tax is much greater
than has ever been proposed in this
country.
The death duties begin on any es-
tate passing on the death of the
owner the value of which exceeds
$500. On these small estates the tax
is ! per cent and it increases grad
ual1y until it reaches Il per cent of
the value of all the estate of more
than 100000 When rich man in
England dies the newspapers tell the
story of the value of his estate and
the amount of death duties paid by
his heirs, and describe the sum as a
"windfalF to the treasury.
The facts are that the British states
men have found the income tax to be
the most effective
Found to Produce in revenue-produc-
Great Revenue. ing ing power s,.. and the he
political effects.
For more than half century Eng
land has been steadily progressing to-
wafd direct taxation as opposed to -in-
direct taxation. The gradual .-reduc-
ton Of the tariff duties during the
first half of the nineteenth century,
resulting practically in free trade.
necessitated finding new sources Of
revenue, and while excise duties.
stamp duties. inhabited house duties
and various other internal revenue
measures were tried, it was in the
income tax that harassed chancel-
lors finally found relief. Direct taxes
now furnish 60 per cent of the ma
tional revenue, an increase of 10 per
cent in ten years.
There is absolutely no question but tina,
the imposition of an additional supertax
on incomes of more than $4,000 a year
raises an awful howl in the columns OF
the newspapers and creates much dis
turbance in the clubs. 1t is equally true
that it is very difficult to get an ordinary
laborer worked up to such pitch of in
dignation over this outrage that he will
thereupon vote to turn out the taxing
government and put in the government
that will take the tax off the ten-thou-
sand-dollar income and put it on him.
self
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Flies and Mosquitoes Scarce.

The report of the medical ohicer of
the Virginia guard shows the camp to
have an excellent health record, with an
absence Of flies and mosquitoes There
was not single case of Sickness" he
said, during the encampmnet, and the
health of the officers and men was bet
ter than we have ever had on any pre-
yious encampment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20

The annual budget Of the United King
dom is now just about $1,000, 100000, or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
EFFORTS RENEWED
TO RESCUE MINERS
Faint Hope Is Expressed, How
ever, for Entombed Men at
Lethridge, Alberta.
FEARED THOSE NOT KILLED
ARE OVERCOME BY GASES
Latest Figures Place Number in
Mine at 236-All But Forty
One Thought Dead.

LETHRIDGE, Alberta, June 20
With but faint hope of finding alive
any of the miners still entombed in
mine No. 20 of the Hillcrest, Alta. Col
lieries. Ltd, where an explosion yes
terday is believed to have killed all
but Al of the 236 men in the mine at
the time, the government rescue
crews. after a night of toll, today con-
tinued with renewed vigor their efforts
to penetrate to the imprisoned men.
Although mine officials encourage the
belief that many of the entombed men
are still alive. this belief is not COM
mon. as relatives and comrades of the
missing men fear those who were not
crushed by falling debris were over
come by the poisonous gases that filed
the mine chambers Immediately after
the explosion.
Although it was officially stated last
night that only 225 men, composing
the explosion occurred yesterday, later
figures, declared to be authentic, place
the number at go.
With Al of this number accounted for
as alive early today, the other 1875
still in the mine are believed to be
dead or with no chance of surviving
the gases until rescue can reach them.
But few bodies had been recovered
three removed yesterday.
All-Night Search for Victims.
Under the glare of seafch!ishtS- trained
mine rescue workers from the British CO.
lumbia station at Fernie labored through
out the night with the Alberta province
crew, clearing away the debris that block
cd the mine passages near the entrance
AS most of the miners were working sew
cral hundred feet from the mouth of the
mine when the explosion occurred the res
cuers do not expect to recover all the
bodies for several DAYS
Storm-crippled wire communication with
iillcrest. which delayed several hours
yesterday the news of the disaster, had
made 1t difficult to get complete details
This is the third great disaster in
crows Nest Pass in the last ten years,
and in number of dead it is expected to
Exceed in magnitude the disaster at
FRANK ten years ago. when that village
was buried by the collapse of a mountain
and 125 inhabitants were killed. -Four
years ago thirty-1ve men were killed in
the Bellevue mine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20

1t used to be cardinal principle o.
liberal politics in Great Britain to op
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20

The income tax in England has shown
a great many fluctuations SINCE 1854, but
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-04-16
Charleston.

Stcciai 10 he Ne7Os
Our Sunday school and prayer meet
ing is getting along fine.
Clifford johnson and wife visited
their parents at Tucker Springs. Mr..
and Mrs. W. B. Mcintosh, Saturday
and Sunday.
Dave Seaborn and children visited
his sister, Mrs. Matte Mowery, Sat
urday and Sunday.
Messrs. Sim Hooper and Cecil Alex
ander went to White Oaks to see their
best girls Sunday.
Clint johnson and wife visited Bob
McClarey and family Sunday.
Dock Coloums gave the children an
egg hunt Saturday.
Miss Ollie Mowerv returned to High
School after being absent three weeks
on account of having the measles,
Whitley Mowery and wife visited the
latter's father, J. K. johnson, Sun
day.
Clemmie King has got his house
about finished and will move in it this
week.
Mrs. Matte johnson, Mrs. Una
Beatty and Misses Eva Witt and Lucy
Epison visited Nora and Dosia King
Thursday evening.
John. Bryant and wife and children,
and Dan Bledsoe attended church at
Heneger's Chapel Sunday evening,
W. T. Beatty visited his daughter.
Mrs. Mamie Gilbreath, Friday night,
John Howard and wife visited S. F.
King Sunday evening.
F. H. Johnston and family visited
their uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Mcpherson. Sunday.
Mrs. w. T. Beatty and Miss Matte
Mowery visited Mrs. Beaty's daughter,
Mrs. Pearl Hooper, Sunday.
Nora King is on the sick list.
I. B. Witt and John Epson went to
Cleveland Monday with load of corn.
T. E. K.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-04-16
HAVE A COUNTY PLATFORM.

The following is an editorial from
the Progressive Farmer, which is at
tracing the attention of thinkers iu
this section.
These are the limitations which it
seems to us that farmers organiza-
tons and farmers leaders ought to OBJ
serve in politics, and within these
limitations all should now get busy to
elect progressive legislatures on pro-
gressive platforms and see to it that
party conventions and platform COM
mittees and party executive commit
tees are controlled by genuine repre-
sentatives of the people. Perhaps the
first and most necessaryg thing is to
have county platform, and make
your party commit itself definitely to
the progressive measures your people
want. We would again suggest the
following for consideration:
1. Better schools and compulsory
attendance between eight and twelve.
2. Better roads.
3. Legalized primaries.
4. Heavier Inheritance taxes.
5. Heavier taxation of various lots
and lands held for speculation.
. 6. Segregation of lands between the
races where the people want it.
7. The Torrens System-if your
State hasn't it already.
s. Salaries instead of fees for coun-
ty offices.
8. No retained attorneys for corpor
ations as members of the Legislature.
10. A better business system FOR
the county, requiring chairman of
to give more time to
work.
.. II. Laws to prohibit children I'M
der fourteen working in factories.
10. A law to make cohabitation of
the races a crime. and to make proper
ty owners responsible for renting