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the annual revenue raised and spent
by the United States. AS this
country has considerably more than
twice the population of Great Brit,
! ain, it is not difficult to understand
the acuteness of interest with which
the British public notes the develop
ment Of the Lloyd-George measures
for getting a larger and larger rev.
enue.
The rates in the income tax are
to be increased markedly, because
the budget must be about 49,OOO,C 600
larger than last year. But the in
crease is to affect incomes only
above $4,000; while in the case of
incomes under $1,000 the exemption
in favor of parents with children is
even to be made more liberal than
now. That is, the whole tendency is
toward more exaction from the large
incomes and more moderation with
the smaller ones. In the administra-
tion of the land taxation, again, a
reform is to be effected through
which the tax on "site value" or
"unearned increment" will be mod
Grated in consideration of the erec-
ton of improvements. This, of
course, is an inducement to get prop
erty improved.
Despite its immense tax burdens
to maintain army, navy, and other
services, the British government pro-
poses to help out 4 number of nu-
inequalities that are on the verge
of bankruptcy; and it will extend
aid, also, to local authorities for the
maintenance of health organizations,
road building, and the like.
A few years ago such budget as
Mr.. Lloyd George now brings forward
would have been denounced as con-
fiscation of the most wicked sort.
1t is remarkable, therefore, that the
experience Of a few years with the
new system of taxation has largely
smothered the clamor against it. The
people who are hit hard-the land
owners and the holders of great in
comes-of course, don't like it any
better than formerly; but they are
in a sad minority. Moreover. the
predictions of ruin for the country
which they indulged so freely when
the first budget along. these lines
was brought forward, have utterly
failed of realization. Britain as a
whole is prospering, and the reports
of the present spring conditions gen.
orally agree that the expected sag
ging in industrial activity has not
taken place.
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With the Bark On >
y

No man can be truly rich who has
never been really poor.
The boat that drifts must go with the
stream.
There is much in a name A family
has given many a worthless
man a standing in the community.
With all the wealth that Croesus had
he never knew the comforts Of a mod
crn siO-a month fiat with steam heat, hot
water gas range-and a janitor.
The strong minded woman who re-
solves not to say. This is so sudden, -
never gets the chance to make the re-
mark.
The quality OF the liniment does not
matter when it is to be applied to a
knot in a wooden leg.
The man who starts out to see life"
often sees what causes death.
The mile you walk seems longer than
the one you ride
You might ss we'll be hoist by your
own pstArd n BY the other fellows.
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and there must be some satisfaction In
having one about the premises.
There are limitatioEs even to the uses
of a hairpin when handled by a clever
woman 1t will not serve for a snow
shovel or for paying gas bills.
The way to keep a secret II to
keep 1t secret.
II may not pay to be honest but II
does not always pay to be dishonest
Beggars can be chosers to the ex-
tent OF choosing from whom they shall
beg.
The polish on the case may not help
the tone OF the piano. but II helps the
salesman dispose OF the instrument.
OF course. the worm may turn. but
even then II hardly becomes an import
ant factor in civilization. It makes lit
tie difference which way the worm u
headed.
The sober second thought so often
advised, must be preceded by first.
4 mansard roof is all right, but Il
will not look well on log hut
Love may be blind. but the little god
can detect gold by the ring.
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FIGHTING THE STATE.

Out of the experience of Home
,ead, Pennsylvania has learned
isdom about labor wars and similar
rife. An efficient and well-drilled
tate constabulary has been organ
zed, fully capable of protecting
Lroperty and suppressing incipient
isorders. Those who place them
elves in opposition fight the State
and not a private enemy, and be-
ween the two things there is
World of difference.
The constabulary has kept the
Deace and justified on many oc-
Gsions the wisdom of its organizers.
1t points the way to at least par
tial solution of the problem with
which Colorado and the country
nave had to deal, for with blood
she'd averted and order maintained
ven the bitterest strike must work
itself out to some reasonable. con-
C. 'uSion.
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ORTHODOXY AND Pc
TROLEUM.

Civilization was Graded and the
mp of knowledge was first lighted
~ Egypt; but through all the CEN
4ries from the Ptolemies to Kitch-
ncr it occurred to nobody to bore
T. hole and see if there wasn't oil
With which to feed the lamp.
Then came a wise Englishman who
cad the second chapter of Exodus.
And he fell upon that passage which
ays that when the daughter of Levi
are her a son, and sought to hide
nm that he might be saved, she
took for him an ark of bulrushes,
nd daubed it with slime and with
itch, and she put the child therein,
I'D laid it in the flags by the rivers
rink"
Some research convinced the Pen
ateuchal student that the only pitch
nat could have been available for
he mother of Moses TO make her
.rk tight must have been pc
roleum, with which she bedaubcd
ler clay.
This particular Britisher was or
hOdox; he took his Bible to mean
that it said in the most literal way.
onvinced that there was petroleum
n the Nile country in the time Of
Pharaoh's daughter, he set his feet
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straightway toward Egypt. And he
took with him a diamond drill,
wherewith straightway he bored a
great way into the earth; and, Lo!
the petroleum burst forth and gushed
even to the surface, as he had fore
seen from his reading of the words
of the prophet, Thus the daugh-
ter of Pharaoh unwittingly served
as the handmaiden of the Standard
Oil Company
Development of the Egyptian oil
has gone steadily on, and recently,
it is reported, real Kansas gush-
er was opened. 1t produced so
much that the facilities for stor-
age and transportation were hope
lcssly inadequate, and it had to be
bottled up, which was finally ac-
complished with measurable sue
cess. A refinery has been built,
prospecting goes on apace, and
Egypt begins to look like a real OIL
producing country Of the next gen.
Grafton.
The moral to this tale seems to
be concerned with that ancient rid
die about "where was Moses when
the light went out?" Plainly, he
needn't have been, had he known as
much about oil as the reader of his
biography, forty centuries later,
knew.
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MEDIATION'S COLLAPSE.

General Carranza has notified the
\. B. c. mediators that he can agree
o no armistice with Huerta. and
annot send Representatives to par
icipate in the negotiations if the
cneral question of pacifying Mexi-
% is to be taken up. He is~merely
Wiling to participate in the affair
frr the purpose of considering the
arnpico incident and the reparation
NcXico should make to the United
ates.
The effect of all this is to make
e mediation perfectly valueless.
arranza insists that he is the right
Il ruler in Mexico, with whom
one the settlement OF the Tampico
rident can be effected. But the
acts spoil his theory: he is not in
rntrol of Mexico; he is not at Mexi-
% City; he is not at Tampico.
There is left nothing for the me-
.lators to do but consider the repa-
ration to be made by Huerta for
the offenses to the United States at
Tampico, and by the time any de-
termination of that question is
cached Huerta very probably will
ave been eliminated from the sit
alion. and the verdict will be value
-. Carranza has already given
ssurance to the United States that
hen he is in control proper repara-
,"n will be made for the acts Of
ne unauthorized" Huerta.
Meanwhile, the military situation
round Vera Cruz is more menacing.
.ruerta, facing what seems to be
cvitable defeat at the hands of
ne constitutionalists, is looking for
'ouble with the United States, evil
nntly calculating that he will be
etter off if the United States comes
. Mexico City to get him than if
ne is left to the scant consideration
lila will give him. In this regard
'iuerta is doubtless correct, and it
very keen realization of this fact
rat makes Huerta the more danger
= is element. Unless the rising dis
ontent in Mexico City brings a coup
hat deposes Huerta, he may yet be
Die to pull down the temple and
5orce a march to Mexico City by
ne troops under Funston. Likely
Tough, that will ultimately be
ecessary in any case. Whether the
re or the other faction of Mexicans
in nominal control of the capital,
is by no means to be accepted
lat the United States can escape
he responsibility of putting its firm
. rip on the situation.
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THE RUBBER SUPPLIES.

The automobile brought a start
ling increase in the worlds demand
for rubber, and speculation in rub
Der properties and products was set
afoot which extended from London
to all the great financial markets.
"Rubbers" became as dominant in
British markets as "Kaffirs" had
been a few years before, or as
"Coppers" once were in Boston.
Yet today, with consumption yet
increasing fast and no limit in sight,
there is reaction, and fear among
rubber investors that the supply of
rubber will outstrip the demand and
stocks go off. The reason is that
with increasing demand, there has
been a great development of rubber
plantations in various parts of the
tropics. Cultivation Of the various
species of trees that produce rubber
was induced by the sudden demand.
Before the automobile era, little rub
Der had been raised in this way.
Supplies came from the tropic for
ests by rather hap-hazard route,
which could not safely be relied on
for the increasing requirements. So
cultivation was undertaken on a
large scale. Now it is feared that
cultivation will presently overstock
the market.
A recent authoritative presenta-
tion in the Times of London ana
lyzes the conditions. So recently as
1909 the world produced only 1000
tons of plantation rubber to $4,000
tons of wild rubber. The planta-
tion product increased fast, reaching
$4,000 tons in 1912 and 1900 tons
in 1913; that is, it increased near
200 per cent in four years. On
the other side the wild product grew
only from $4,000 tons in 1909 to
10000 in 1912, and then fell off to
$1,000 in 1913. In every year of
this period consumption was greater
than production.
Many new plantations are just
coming into bearing. They were set
out in the era of speculation and
now threaten to bring such quanti-
ties of rubber into the market as to
depress the whole industry-and in
cidentally cheaper very much the
maintenance Of automobiles. The
situation is one that must crafty
people who don't own rubber shares.
1t proves that humanity is pretty
certain to meet the emergencies that
confront it; that civilized methods
of production through highly organ
lied instrumentalities is at last
cheaper than savage; and finally,
that, so far as the rubber idustry is
concerned, the tropics have been sub
jugated. Gathering rubber was few
years ago esteemed business for
naked savages in the Jungle where
white men might not go and live;
today the jungle is taking back
seat to the plantation where white
men conduct the business of rubber
production Oh dividend-earning
basis. 1t is just one more example
Of the wonderful productive capacity
Of the tropics when they shall have
neen harnessed to the methods of
modern civilized industry.
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THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Mr.. Lloyd George goes merrily on
his way developing a British taxa
tion system warranted TO stand any
strain. He has just presented new
budget in the commons, thc sixth
since he has beer chancellor, which
sticks close to tn" lines heretofore
followed in his financial measures.
The rev budget looks to the colIec-
ton of $1,O29, 100000 in the fiscal
year, which is almost the same as
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What's on the Program, in
Washington Today
Meetings. evening:

Meetings. evening:
Masonic-National Lodge, No. IL: Arnninius
No. IS. Myron NJ. Parker. No. "a: King
David. No IS, and Takoma No %: 1.afay-
cite Chapter. No. 5; Washington Naval, No
s; Mtthras Lodge OF Perfection Scottish
Rite: Mlzpah Chapter. No. s. Order Of
Eastern Star.
knights OF Pythias-webster Lodge, No. 7
Excelsior. No. Il. Capital. No. "A. and
Myrtle, No IS
Odd F'ellows-Washington Lodge, Ne & and
Golden Rule. No. Il. Amity No. n.
Meeting Southern Relief Society. Gr1diron
Room. New Willard. q. m.
Interstate Commerce Commission hearing
mezzanine floor. New willard
Supper dance by Mrs Hawkesworth and Mrs
Groner in large ballroom. New willard
Lecture by Prof. E. j Banks. at new build
ing OF National Museum. p. m
Address by Congressman O'Leary, at Con-
suners League meeting. at Chamber OF
Commerce. Sis.
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Commercial Candor.

Il assure you, madam. these kitchen
knives represent the greatest value ever
offered at the price
They certainly look nice and seem
very cheap. The only question is-will
they cut?''
"Ah. madam. IL you ask me that I'm
bound to say that they will not; but that
is their one fault.''-Punch.
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sake, serve our l'llOW-lleIl' anu 'l'
first commandment Of the law makes
reIirion to consist in the scfSlCC Ol
God and in the SerNlc" "I rdn.
Christianity. the histori" maniTca-
ration Of the Eternal Mind. makes
work for humanity - rundrmcntal
priucip!c OF religion Amen. am N.
| say to sou: rs long as YOU did il
tn ON. of these my least hr.thrca,
YOU did II I" me.
Md working for man - n"t the
hoI.cIess tash That pcssimist3 rrn-
claim II /" 10. Progress is III" 'aU
Of God : creation. The Creator hts
bestowed upon uE faculties "ap1h'o
of expansion. and ii is II VIII that
Ns summon into action their AtsuS
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THE RESERVE BOARD.

The selection of the Federal re-
serve board marks the completion of
preliminaries to actual work of or
ganiLiag the new banking and cur
rency system. There is no doubt
that the announcement is timely be-
cause of the recent disposition
toward a more optimistic business
outlook. The assurance that the
new money system is to be launched
in time to give its support and IA
cilities in the crop-moving period of
the coming autumn will encourage
those business interests that are
devoting every effort toward restor-
alton of the full measure of good
times activity. The shorter the period
of transition from the old to the
new conditions, the better for all
concerned.
The personnel board will consist
of seven members, of whom the Sec
retary Of the Treasury and the
Comptroller of the Currency are ex
officio selections under the law. The
President has announced four of the
five others: Mr.. Richard Olney, to
be governor of the board; Paul M.
Warburg, of New York; Harry A.
Wheeler, of Chicago; and W. P. G.
Harding, of Birmingham, Ala. The
fifth appointee has not been an
nounced.
The geographical distribution of
the membership will first be noted,
and will be generally approved, save
for the fact that the great inter
mountain West is left unrepresented.
AS there is TO reserve bank between
the Missouri rigar and the Pacific
coast, the people of that wide region
have naturally hoped that this
omission might be in some wise bal
anced by giving them a member of
the board. However, this detail is
less important than the choice of
the right men for the service.
Two Of the appointments, especial
ly, will attract wide attention and
general approval-Messrs. Olney and
Warburg.
Mr.. Olney has won, through
the quality and variety of his pub
lie services and the general sound
ness of views he has espoused, a
large measure of the public's con-
fdence. He is of advanced age,
which fact alone occasioned some
surprise when his name was first
brought forward as the probable
head of the new institution. 1t is
presumed that he will continue at
the head of the organization for a
comparatively short period, giving
counsel and leadership in the great
work of organization. His retire
ment would seem likely to bring Mr..
Warburg to the governorship, and
it would be difficult to find a man in
this country better equipped. He is
4 young man, a German university
product, the scion of a banking
house with an honorable record of
more than a century. He has had
4 highly cosmopolitan experience, in
Germany, London, and Paris, which
has thoroughly familiarized him
with the details of European sys-
TENS. He is one of the real schol-
ars of finance, a student of its prob
lens in theory as we'll as a banker
in practice. He will come to the
board from the great international
house Of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and
with the reputc of having contrib
uted very largely of the substance
Of both the Aldrich and the Owen
Glass projects for currency and
banking reform.
The other appointces are men Of
good qualification. and it is stated
that this, rather than politics, has
been the sole test in making the
selections.
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Amusements.

Rarnum & Bailey Circus, Fifteenth and II
streets northeast, and 8 o. m.
Belasco-''Within the law" 20 D m
National-''What's Wrong" Sis D. m
Columbia-"Bunty Pulls the String" SIS
p. m.
Polrs-"Bousht and Paid For" 2l6 and s:ls
p m.
Notwithstanding. c:I5 and Sis p. m
Cosmos-Vaudeville, continuous.
Casino-Vaudeville, afternoon and Svening
Gayety-Burlesque, 2:l6 and Sis p m.
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is man. To be
come God-likc in
deed. must ever
be the supreme
end OF our willing
and our doing
Direct homage is
cue to the ma
jrsty Of God.
and this homage
God d e m an d9
from us. Eut ne
demands a : o
that we for Ills
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Truths By Women Who
Bureau Helps Girl
NllOW Wage Farmers
Workers Clearing House

The Womans Exchange a comparatively org
zaion woy general clearing honseds
uomans work and is much needed
conjunction NTH the Vocational Guidance Bureau aeco
pishe good by helping find work for with living
age work for which the most suited and work for the
unframed Many fine things done by this empionen
bureau for working girls which Miss Clara Field tells about
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The divine purpose in the creation
and tho urcs.rvution of the universe
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Latent Talents Awakened.

These vocational readings often
awaken 4 slumbering talent or
taste CT which girl may have
been dimly conscious but had not
the confidence to pursue as a pos
sible vocation. or they act as
stimulus to the ambition OF those
who have not felt quite sure OF
themselves in their chosen voca-
tions, and we can recommend them
with more confidence when thus
assured that they are working
along the lines for which they are
hest fitted. With this knowledge.
and that gained from past records
and references. which we inveStt-
gate carefully, we are able TO
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Must Study Each Case.

Then. there are the sad, and all too
frequent cases of young women left
by worthless husbands to care for
themselves and their children. We
must find out first what they can
do. and next how they can do 1t. and
still take proper care Of their child
rem.
From the first We have felt the
need of some vocational guidance
with these unframed workers. and,
therefore, we hailed with delight
the opening Of the Vocational Gull
dance Bureau in the Woodward
building. Established under the au-
spices Of a committee chosen from
the Chamber OF Commerce, the
Board of Trade. and public-spirfted
men and women specially interested
in both educational and business
enterprises. with John Dolph. OF the
METROPOLITAN Life Insurance Com
pany, as president
In its three short months of ex-
tstence II has proved its value. and
ass people have been examined and
helped. We have been in close touch
with II from the beginning. and are
glad of this opportunity to express
our gratitude to Prof. Blumenthal
and his efficient secretary. Mrs.
Thompson, for their sympathy and
practical help in many puzzling
cases. particularly with the young
neopls who were wandering in an
aimless manner from one odd job
TO another, not sure what they want
ed TO do, nor what they were fit
tod to do.
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Back to the Bible

ats constructive ideas the Bbe far dbope those OF
books of religion as the heavens are dbope the ea
WASHINGTON GLADDEN..
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By MISS CLARA FIELD.
The Business Woman's Exchange
is one of the recent outgrowths OF
the Girls Friendly Society, SO charm
ingIy described in these columns last
week. So large a proportion Of the
members of the Girls Friendly are
self-supporting that some Of their
devoted leaders have felt the need
of more help in placing them salts
factorily. and when Deaconess Car
roll visited Chicago and saw the
splendid work accomplished by the
Business Woman's Exchange there.
she Immediately determined that
some such office should be opened
here, and as the board of managers
In Chicago was most Interested In
passing on the results of its expert
ence, in explaining methods and ad-
vising us. 1t was comparatively easy
to plan the work, and start at once
on a good business basis in WASH
ington. especially when the most
serious obstacle was removed by
Mrs. Boyd's generous offer to finance
the undertaking.
The whole third floor of 133s G
street northwest, centrally located.
anu dOly dudlltu " the pui-
pose in every way. was comfortably
furnished and placed at our disposal.
and the doors were thrown open for
business February ]. 1918.
Bureau Has Wide Scope.
THE object of the exchange" as
stated In our first circular, "is to
establish a bureau for business wom-
en-. where all matters pertaining to
their business interests can center"
With the underlying hope that II
might gradually develop into a gen.
eral clearing house for women's
work, We announced that we were
ready Ito register applications for
stenographers, typists, bool<keepers.
cashiers, and all kinds of special and
general office clerks. as well as for
the various trades, such as dress
making, millinery, shampooing. mani
curing, and other miscellaneous
work. We have since added to that
list practical nurses. masseuses, sec
retaries, companions and chaperons,
housekeepers and mothers helpers,
teachers and governesses, also char
women, house-cleaners, and tempo
rarv workers Of all descriptions.
Our applicants, now numbering
$50. have ranged from the little school
girl of fourteen. Just starting out
with her permit to work. to women
of seventy or over. and Of every
grade of intellect and ability. Each
comes with a different problem,
which must be solved in a different
way. To find work with a living
wage for the poor charwoman or
laundry worker who Is struggling
to keep a home for herself and her
children is hard enough. but still
harder often is the problem Of the
refined attractive girl, or woman,
from a luxurious home. where she
has been educated for everything
except the hard fight for her living
in the over-crowded business world.
We have. with infinite labor, placed
several such. who, long past middle
life. have Unexpectedly found them
selves without homes or resources OF
any kind.