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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-06-11

G. j. Mead, representing the f. D..
Misner Lumber co.. is here from rul-
sa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
POSTAL DEPARTMENT
BENEFITED BY CHANGE

The Post Office Department is begin
ming slowly to stretch itself out into a
normal position following the vacation
of many of its choice rooms by the re-
moval of the postal savings division and
the office of the post office inspector in
charge at Washington to the new city
post office building near the Union sta
ton.
The south rooms on the second floor
heretofore occupied by the postal saw
ngs clerks will now be used for the
division of registered mails from the
eighth floor. while the offices of the
chief post oce inspector. heretofore To-
Gated on the fourth floor will occupy
the east rooms on the second floor va
Gated by the postal savings division.
The rooms the eighth floor are tc
be repaired and reftted for committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
Purposely Omit Returns.

Eut iuany Of the de,nqucnts purposely
omit to MAKE returns. expecting that the
government authorizes wilioveIiook them.
With such tn. compromise offered is one
to lit the case as far as i: can be decipher-
ed by the collectors. Frequently excuses
are made suggesting physical impossibllty
to make returns which investigation shows
to be flmsy. With plenty of time III
which to have made returns some Of
those who have failed to do SO urge III
explanation that they have been IN nos
pitfalls and We're unable 10 attend to IL.
while the investigator learns that the IN
capacity occurred just few days before
the time limit expired. There is no great
good Will extended TO such in offer OK
compromise, as there was plenty OF tune
when they could have attended to the
duty.
one case is told of a man quarantin"d
in his home over the expiration OF the
time limit. In this case it was regarded
as a physical impossibility TO make the
return.
A tax collector in delving into the delin-
Guency of an individual discovered that
this man was the president of a corpora
ton and that the corporation had not
made a return for five years. The Old
corporation law, while ii gave an exeni'-
ton to small corporations from the cor
poration tax. required returns from all
of them. The plea of this corporation
president that it was not understood that
the concern had to make returns was not
acceptable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10

and conference rooms and for an up-to-
date lunchroom. which will he installed
ny Mrs. Steers. whose present lunchroom
quarters now occupy the halls and dark
corners of the. eighth floor.
The rooms vacated also will permit of
the proper expansion Of the divisions of
appointments, salary and allowances and
free delivery attached to the first as
Sstant postmaster generals office on the
fourth floor. and divisions of the office
of the second assistant postmaster gen
eral. which have been stretched ont
from the fourth to the eighth floor will
he drawn together on the third floor.
Chief Clerk Chance said today that the
big working room Of the city post office,
when the office is moved into the new
building. will be used to store the mac
, tive files of the department. as il is ILL
lifted for clerical work. These files are
now stored in a rented building on the
outside.
Postmaster Praeger will still retain d
room in the department building proper
as now where he may be found at GER
tain hours of the day, but the other out
side rooms now used by the city office
will be utilized by the disbursins clerk
of the department, the captain of the de
partmental watch and the stationery di-
vision. Many of them will be fitted up
for conference or committee rooms. for
which Mr. Chance said there has been
much demand for some time past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
MANY GIVE EXCUSES
FOR NOT PAYING TAX
Thousands of Complaints Are
Filed With U. S. Attor-
neys by Collectors.
RUSES ADOPTED TO EVADE
RETURNS FROM INCOMES
Internal Revenue Bureau Not to
Undertake Special Campaign to
Run Down the Offenders.

Delinquency in payment of income tax
has been the subject of thousands of
complaints already filed with United
States attorneys by income tax collectors
all over the United States. Some of these
cases have undoubtedly been investigated
and put on the calendar for trial. the
great majority, however. are yet to he
acted upon by the law officers of the
government.
The income tax division of the inter-
nal revenue bureau Will not undertake
any special campaign to run down de-
lnquents. In the course of their duties
tax collectors will gather Information to
indicate evasion of the tax. intentional
and accidental. and will pursue a regular
course of bringing the matter to the at
tention of the proper authorities Now
that the great strain Of getting in the
returns and receipts from the tax is
over. there will be naturally more time
devote to cases of delinquency: other
wise efforts will not De increased
There two great divisions of Of
tenders against the income tax law
those who have failed to make any re-
turns of their incomes and those who
have made returns that are not in ac-
cordance with the facts. The first class
of offenders will be offered opportunity
to make return. pay up the delinquency
and half again as the law directs, and
compromise on the further penalty al
lowed by the law. which puts authority
to compromise in the power Of the inter
nal revenue commissioner. No fraud Will
be assumed in such cases unless there
is additional evidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10

meeting in the oak room at the Raleigh
Hotel. when a committee on organiza-
ton plans was named. The committee
includes three representatives from each
of the orSa niZations, and is TO consider
plans for organization. scope of the pro
posed club and eligibility reauirements
\ meeting of the committee is TO be held
next week. the date to he announced
later.
Gen. II. Oden Lake of the Army and
Navy Union presided at last nights
meeting. with Winfield Jones. army OF
the Philippines. cuba and Porto Rico.
secretary
Don't waste other peoples time while
YOU are wasting your own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
Multiplicity Not Always Desirable.

the original thirteen states number of
inns where the father of his country
stopped. Deep as my respect Is for our
great liberator. I cannot but voice my
criticism of his Judgment after having
stopped at some of the inns myself. Why
he should have lived his life in inns
and such inns-is mystery 10 me. That
is beside the point The nation may
grow used to a multiplicity Of inns. But
it can never forgive a multiplicity of
birthdays.
1T is unreasonable to hypothecate our
holidays on the theory that a man-even
a great man-can be born on several dis
tinct and separate occasions. 1t is con-
fusing and it will eventually hamper his
torianS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10

Denve~ receives SLIGO a month from
vented p1bl!c property
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10

Representative Roberts of Nevada ex-
pressed violent alarm when the propo-
sition was preached to him.
What would our future statues look
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
CHANGE IN HOLIDAY P[AN
IS VIEWED WITH HORROR
Mix-Up in the Dates of Birth of
Great Men Certain to
Result.

What is going to happen to George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln and
the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence? That is what members of
Congress want to know. and they have
been asking the question ever since a
resident of Cleveland submitted a plan
which he proposes to offer in a bill call
ing for celebrating on Monday all holt
DAYS save Christmas and New Year.
BY his plan holidays commemorative
the birth of our great men or i'll memory
of the accomplishment of mighty deeds
will be rearranged so that the lily en-
ployes will get two days and half off.
Fine for the clerks. But. argue con-
gressmen. what about George and Abra-
ham,
This would he a terrible situation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
No Compromise With Falsity.

But false returns will be regarded as
prima face evidence of intent to defraud
the government In such instances. it is
doubtful if any compromise Will be Of
fcred and it is probable that the law
courts will deal with all such cases.
Not every case of delinquency in making
returns to the government Of income is
properly charged to neglect or evasion.
There are instances where Justice does
not seem to he served ny eXaction Of the
compulsory peTalty Of ~ pc: cen; addi-
tional tax, without considering the bur
den of a further penalZation allowed.
Physical impossibiity To make returns
is frequently the cause of such dclin-
quency.
An officer of the government, stationed
in the Philippines. left there for home be
fore the blank forms Tor such returns
had been received in orIr iusUlar posses
sions. arriving Il month later in the
United States. he MAS confronted with
the fact that The time limit in which to
make returns had expired. He made re-
turns was necessarily mulcted the add
tional ~ per cent. but was not subjected
TO further penalty.
China where the political news of the
United States passed him 10y. returned to
TIE United States without ever having
heard that there was income tax for
which ne was liable rs AN American cit-
zen. Delinquent in making returns, nc
paid the inevadablc penalty.
There are workers out of the channels
of social intercourse and trade. who have
failed TO make returns in the SPECIFIED
time. In some instances the eNtraordi-
mary penalty has been compromised to a
small amount just enough to impress
upon them that the lax is to lie collected
rcXt wear. and il would be best to make
returns OF income in good time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
MILITARY CLUB UNDER WAY.
Committee on Organization Named
at Meeting at the Raleigh.

Preliminary steps toward the organiza
ton in the District of Columbia of "A
club embracing in its membership the
several veteran and military organiza
tons of Washington We're taken AT a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
Might Aid Government EMPLOYEES.

1T might" continued Mr.. Roberts aid
employees to have two DAYS and half
holiday extending from Saturday after
noon until Tuesday morning. But the
blow at tradition would be a frightful
one. We must think of our children
How would 1t sound If little girl got up
when she was asked when the peclara-
ton of Independence was signed and say
- can't remember, but l think it 5
July I'd this year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10

said one representative when he was APP
preached. Think of il. George Wash
ington's birthday anniversary would be
on the a6th OF February one year and
the Goth the year after that and possibly
the 18th the year after that. Things are
bad enough now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10

like" he wanted to know. We would
read something like this:
Abraham Lincoln.
Born February l.. 1902 Also
-" Born February Ii. 1909
" Born February IA lSae
=" Born February Is. 1909. and occa-
sionally.
Born February IL 1902
" Born February 10. 1sOa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

musical atmosphere. NOW lndt thc
student is prevented from studying
abroad, there is the best possible OPP
portunity to prove the fact that II was
never necessary for the student TO
leave his own country
There is no better place for musical
preparation than right here IN Brook-
lyn. The teachers in this borough ask
the question. "Why go to New YORK 10
study. when this city offers the hlgh-
est standards Of vocal art and when the
musical atmosphere of the home and
OF society is equalled by no other com
munity of the same population"
Brooklyn has been almost from its
foundation music-loving city. ne
progress made in the developing OF
musical centre has been more than
gratifying.
The Metropolitan Opera Company IL
looked forward to by the public as one
of the greatest influences to the mu-
steal education Of every student. Inc
symphony Society Of New York. with
the very instructive talks by waiter
Damrosch: the Boston symphony So
ciety and the New York Pm lharmonic
Society are fixed organizations upon
the musical calendar of this city. Con-
CertS are multiplying, ana WIN ~.
Apollo Club for mems voices, with
John Hyatt Brewer, the we'll known
COMPOSER, as director. and for womens
voices the Chamnado, the Mundeli
Choral Club and those directed by MISS
NJ. Louise Mundell. the Woodman
Choral Club and the Choral Art So
cietv for mixed voices make up the en-
scmbc organizations the public erJoy
and which have awakened desire III
every one who has musical talent.
With the plant just the change o. at
mosphere causes the flower to droop
ard die: just 50 with the voice. II u
is urged too much destruction Is the
result. 1t takes time to learn to con-
centrate. and the student must De
taught what and how to think.
The voice must be idealized by the
singer. This IS rot always understood;
BY working and studying more ana
more intelligently each day the voice
grows more beautiful and the express
sion of music is heard in every tone
produced. This is to attain the high'
est standard Of vocal artistry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

Of study is properly outlined and pre-
sentcd there is no reason why any
pupil cannot become at least good
player. So-callcd talented" pupils are
very rare. 1t is the student having no
marked talent, or in other words, the
majority, for whose benefit the regular
course should be outlined
If this is done the talented one, hav-
ing a great many of the secrets" OF
music by what we call intuition, will get
along all the better, for he will learn
the reason and theory underlying 1t all.
The public school and collegiate
courses are outlined on this basis, and
it is for this reason that any one ca
procure good average education IT
he will do his share of the work,
whether he is unusually talented or
not. 1t is the same in music. This -
prepared for the masses, and if pupils
will give the necessary time to prac-
tce it will be returned TO them tenfold,
provided they have the right kind OF
instruction.
The aim of all serious students Of
the art of panOfortc playing should be
to interpret composition just as the
composer himself would. At best tho
record of composition in the form OF
the printed page is merely an approx
mate idea Of the masters ideal, for no
system of notation could give accu-
ratcly what he felt at the time Of wri'.
ing it. II is for us. then. to allow GU
Imagination to fill in this gap and to
read between the lines" so TO speak.
The printed page is picture of
sound, and as such it should be taken.
If the composer played his own COM
position he would probably play as if
he were improvising. The performer
should work toward the same goal IN
his interpretatiCn of those selections
which he wishes to have in his roper
toire. In other words, he should mem
Orize the music represented and fOrget
the printed page. This means that re-
fex action should be established. To
work toward this end is The important
aim of all practice.
A great actor does not think Of the
printed page of Shakespeare; he lives
the scenes. The same must be true
when you play; make your music live
and give your experiences Nth great
expires sion.
The amount Of time that the pupil
spends at lesson with the teacher
forms very small proportion to that
which is given TO practice. 1t Is the
duty of every teacher to see to it that
this great amount Of time which is
given to preparing the lesson for reel
tation is not wasted. II IS needless to
say that upon this one phase o. music
study depends in great measure the
future success of the student.
Most pupils fail because they do not
know how to utilize this valuable
period of time. and. moreover. bccaus,
they are never trained 20 appreciate its
Importance The pupils practice
periods should be outlined in such u
manner as to allow periodical altera-
tiors Of thought tending toward men,
tai relaxation. In this manner fres,:
interest is aroused at each change and
e. greater efficiency in mcmorizing is
the result.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

w e r q x o l n x
"A bro d to
study. The cry
was, why go
to Europe when
this country Of
fers such adj
vantages to the
American stu
dent ." In most
cases the reply
was. "For the
Nou that thu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

only to give
the best Of in
struction to
those who wish
to study the
art as a life
work, but also
to extend his
efforts to those
who wish to
learn to play
as an accom-
DliShment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

How many of the latter and how
many even of the former class fail to
show results after years wasted ~
taking piano lessons" from an incom-
petent teacher? The blame in SUCH
cases is generally placed upon the
pupil. with the "ever ready" excuse
that he has no talent" If "A course
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11
EROOkYLN AS A MUSICAL CENIkE.
By NJ. Louise Mundell.

Before the present conflict in Eu-
rome existed thousands of students
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11
MUSIC FOR THE MASSES.
Ry ERNEST \. ASH.

Dir, ctor Of the Ernest \. Ash School OF
Pianofortc Playing.
The mission of any sincere teacher
Of pianofortc PLAYING should be not
The Washington times., 1914-06-09
MAIL BAG
(From Ths Iymss Reddsrs.)


To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Pictures of Creation at Belasco Thea
ter are apt TO mislead some people in
that they misrepresent labor.
One picture shows a meeting of the
Industrial Workers of the World and a
crowd OF people. This is said TO repre-
sent a need of Christianity don't
see where the need comes in The !. w
W. is an organization of working peo-
pie for the purpose of defense against
exploitation and slave labor. They be-
lieve trade unions are not effective
Theirs is a cause of right against
wrong. Therefore Christianity should
recognize the fight of the workers
against their Oppressors.
Another picture shows Samson
stretching forth his great arms and de-
stroying the temple and people. This
picture is said to represent Socialism.
This is a wrong idea The picture typi-
fies capitalism. Capitalism is destruc-
tive. Ii enslaves. robs, and destroys. ]
do not mean capital. The capitalist
class concentrating its wealth in trusts.
exploiting the people is called capital
ism. IL is not going to break the trusts;
bur il is Sgoing to destroy itself.
Those who understand socialism say
that il is constructive. evolutionary and
inevitable. Only resistance to il is
HENRY s. FRISBIE.
Bethesda, Md.
The Washington times., 1914-06-09

British commentators have accorded
to these views. 1t is very earnestly
urged. for instance, that even if Sir
Percy is right, he ought not to have
said it: his frank avowal is liable to
injure the prestige of Britain's naval
power by causing other countries to
suspect that her floating fortresses
are after all not impregnable, but
are as much bluff as substance.
Thus at the last the warfare of
matching and overwhelming arma-
mcnts resolves itself again into an
economic struggle. The power that
leads in battleships must not admit
their uselessness, lest it have to
start in a new kind of construction,
on even terms with competitors. It
must maintain an air of confidence
in those instrumentalities wherein it
excels, because the next thing to
winning battles is to keep the pos
sible enemy too frightened to start
hostilities.
The Washington times., 1914-06-09

menta! regulation of great capitals
tic aggregates, that will best be
analyzed and understood # all three
measures are under analysis togeth-
er. Indeed, it would very possibly he
worth while if all of them could be
passed and sent to conference to-
gether, so that conferees might have
the advantage, in case it seemed de-
sirable, of discussion among them
selves. Various details have been
pointed out, as to which conflicts
might arise unless the three meas
ures are carefully adjusted to the
common purpose in mind.
On one of these bills there is gen.
eral agreement of public sentiment.
1t is the one for supervision of the
capital issues of carriers. For a
very long time that sentiment has
been growing, and tho acceptance of
the theory is as general as its ad-
ministrative application is difficult.
On the other hand, the Clayton bill
is the subject of bitter differences,
and its rejection until after election
would not unlikely result in more
effective consideration of its merits
and demerits.
However. the President is deter
mined to have the three measures
acted upon at this session; and there
is no very great doubt that they
will all pass. The discussion will be
valuable, even though changes may
be few, because they will develop
snd crystalline better understand
ing of what is expected to be ac-
In time when legisla-
tion so constantly interferes with
the processes of business. that de-
tailed consideration which carries to
the public the best possible under
standing of what is being served to
it is calculated TO make compliance
with new laws easier.
The Washington times., 1914-06-09
A DISAPPEARING PEST.

A bit of cheering information has
just been conveyed to the public by
entomologists who proclaim that the
forest tent caterpillar is falling a
victim to it's own congested life.
This pest has done a vast amount
Of damage in this country.
This is the caterpillar which
builds large community webs or
tents in trees and appears in the
daytime to devour the foliage. Owing
to the large increase in numbers
these tents appear like the crowded
tenements in city slums. Disease is
following as naturally rs it followed
congestion of the human family. The
scientists say that disease resem-
bling cholera has broken out among
caterpiIlars and they have been
found on the ground by hundreds,
dying from weakness.
Although nature, reasserting her
sway, thus restores her balances by
reducing the colonies of caterpillars
to comparatively small sizes, mar
can do much to help the work along.
Burning the nests of the pests at
night is one sure way of killing the
colonies.
1t has been some years since
WaShip0ton has heen affIicted ,uitb
these swarms of caterpillars and the
efforts of the District authorities
have successfully prevented them
from getting a foothold in the early
spring.
There was time when nearly
every tree had its band of raw cotton
or glued paper around the trunk.
Things are different now, but ento-
mologists tell US to be ever prepared
to check the incursions of the nests
The Washington times., 1914-06-09
IR. JUSTICE COVINGTON.

The appointment of Congressman
}. Harry Covington of Maryland to
be chief justiceship of the District
s. preme Court brings to that place
J man who will command the high
sst esteem of bar and litigants, and
who at the same time has such IA
n iarity with the conditions and
necessities of the District as to in
,ure that he will very easily become
, figure in the local community.
During the three terms of his service
= the House he has taken much in
crest, and the right kind of interest,
n the affairs of this city, has ac-
,uired rather an unusually wide 10
al acquaintance, and established a
,lace for himself in the estimate of
ne community that naturally led to
he suggestion of his name for the
,lace to which he is now appointed.
lie appointment will be regarded
rather a personal one of Presi-
It Wilson, by reason of the close
lations between himself and the
. aryland member, and the latter's
tive part in the development of
s ministration policies. 1t is also
re that the people of Washington
II highly approve.