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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
IF YOU DON'T LIKE OUR INCOME
TAX SYSTEM TRY EUROPE.

If additional funds for national defense be
raised by internal taxation it is fair enough raise
part of them by extending the income tax
European countries present system is exceptional
smallness of the rate the argeness of
the exemptions
The normal under law paid
on net incomes up to $4,000 That is the rate paid by
majority citizens subject the
$4,000 the progressive with the size Of incomes
but our maximum is seven per cent imposed n
comes exceeding 100000 year In England today
SO per cent incomes taken by the govern
our present exemptions 200 year for single
and $4,000 year for married men. In many for
eign countries everybody with much $500 year
has TO pay income There is therefore nothing
radical proposal exemptions should be
reduced to $4,000 for single and $4,000 for heads
o families
There might be no harm in making the minimum
exemption little lower, if the rates kept
low For there is another consideration just i'm
the necessity of the governments raising
money 1t is that every citizen should have a
seriousness of the contribution makes the nations
expenses.
Indirest taxation has fostered the indifference to
little direct taxation for the citizen just enough
TO make him sit up take notice. without feeling
grevous burden would quicken his citizenship
and make him better critic of ineffciency and
agance in government expenditures
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
AMERICAN TRADE AFTER THE
WAR

Pensacola, Fla, News)
The National City bank Of New
York makes he prediction that after
the war all of the countries Of
Europe Will engage in a commercial
war in an effort TO regain the trade
they have lost during the struggle
IL is suggested also that this country
strengthen its trade relations in or
der 10 hold the trade il has secured
IN countries that We're formerly sup
piled by one or more of the belliger-
ent nations. This is sound advice
and should be needed i'm particular
insofar as Central and South Amer
lea trade is concerned. Business in
these countries which was formerly
done by Germany and England is
now being carried on by the United
States. After the war this country
cannot hope TO keep this trade un-
less IL prepares in every way To meet
foreign competition.
Ii is also indicated that after the
war this country viii reap a rich
harvest in trade on account of sores
that the war viii infict When the
peace treaties are signed Germans
viii not be any more eager TO trade
With Frenchmen than Frenchmen
viii be 20 carry on business with Ger
mans or Austrians. From all OF the
aeHgerents the United States VIII
get much business on account of this
keen luminosity. The extent OF this
business IS indicated by the state
ment (; the French Industrial and
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
PROPOSING TO FOLLOW LINE OF
81 Fast RESISTANCE

sec'y MeAjoos long statement as to Uncle sam
financial condition and the necessity of doing some
thing TO increase put out as "a feeler'
and we've already got some feelings about IT,
The proposition reduce the income tax exemption
as 10 married persons 10 $4,000 should be kicked goou
and plenty by everybody Interested in the
welfare Of the country 1t looks like make-smtt Tor
the nzzIe made collection of the from the big
fellows 1t is much easier to catch the little feo"s
who can't tight. hide. If more national income
Is TO be desired through taxation of incomes should
be got through sful collection, and by increasing the
ta, on the big incomes probable that if the
tax were properly collected under the present law
larger sum would BE- realized than would result from
lowering the exemption married folks from $1,000
TO 50 OOO such in exemption would simply
mean making tens thousands Of families stand for
losses due to administration indifference or ineclency
collecting what the rich ought TO pay but escape
paving by perjury and concealmelt. The country VIII
not commend the making Of more income taxpayers
simply because they easy catch, in the face OF
the failure to collect under existing law.
The secretary seems to high probability that the
one cen; per pound duty on sugar will be retained
by congress reversing itself and so it may That one
cent hits everybody but il will likely be paid with as
little squawking the part Of the plucked as any
other contribution that the consumer has to put up
The fact that a tarin reforming democratic congress
reverses itself that has received such pull
ing hauling and basting sugar schedule is some
thing that party needs ory to charge up to profit
and Of reputation.
Mr. McAdoo also suggests taxes on gasoline oils
horsepower Of automobiles. internal combustion en-
zines "and various other articles To men
ton which taxes he feels would be widely dfused
and scarcely felt" and the folks ought to be willing
TO stand it in national preparedness aid de-
Tense
we guess that would not cause much
Of a roar IF widely d1used' in times of prosperity
Preparedness and patriotism considerations not TO
be overlooked but a tax is and it pinches when
folks are short Of money AutOno bilists TO be
the particular that the secretary is hunting out
that's getting to be pretty much fad. generally.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
WITH OTHER EDITORS
THAN OURS
THE FRIEND.
ogden. Utah. Examiner. }

AO6Qtns L ldns examiner
This friend is ACKNOWLEDGMENT
from any friend you ever saw. He
is as inconsistent as a March wind
and as steadfast as a trade wind
He is as kind and gentle and in
dulgent as mother with a sick child
when he deals with me and as stern
and unrelenting as a war lord when
he deals with my enemies. He has
MS dream that never came true, but
he looks 70 the east and dreams
again. He found me by accident and
vet he has always known me. He
takes my word for t,le missing chap
ters just as he takes yours, for
have no monopoly Of his friendship.
He is your friend as well as mine.
II you do not know that. you are a
dullard or else you never needed a
friend. which is the worst thing that
could happen tc a man, because he
has never been one. So now We will
call him our friend and we will
analyze him together just like the
sewing circle dissects the absent
sister. He has enough horse power
10 make him famous II he would con-
centrate the current on his own
wheel. but whenever we blow out a
fuse or ground a wire we hook onto
his line without so much as asking
permission, or putting on a meter.
He has punch as well as power and
il all goes with his friendship. Don't
you remember when that big dynamo
looked like a dead Indian? He en-
tered all his force IN making it go,
and when he succeeded didn't the
big dynamo keep all his cable and
attachments without even thanking
him for the lift out Of oblivion? Sure
you remember it now.
Then there was the time he threw
himself in the breach when that
other mutual friend of ours was
painting with the hounds at his heels.
He saved the man We know he
did because we saw the man con-
graduating himself after it was all
over. with never "a thought for our
friend who was responsible. He lives
in hopes that some day his friends
will be his friends. and vet he knows
that they will be his friends as long
as it does not cost them anything.
He has worked 1t the trade of being
a friend until il has become a fixed
habit. we might say a vice. for he
cannot resist the temptation.
He can count men by the score
who have won by the grace Of his
friendship. but they never make any
special effort to show appreciation
or return the favor.
What's that you say, He's not a
friend, he's a gOat?"
Well. perhaps you're right but
what's a goat but an unappreciated
friend?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
SOME RESULTS OF WAR THAT
ARE NOT ALL BAD.

Cheer up! Reports on the compensations of war are
beginning come An report says that
there being total lack of blue dyes. the familiar blue
jeans disappear the clothes of the toll
ers will be in pinks yellows browns and so forth
Good thing! The lack of artistic tone OF the farm
always depressed us. The eternal blue overals on
green simply shrieked against color sameness
every time went get the cows drive the horses
out OF the swiH the pigs jeans
discarded, there will be endeavor for the proper
effects.
How much effective if the old is
MIXED by lady in a red apron for instance! And
you already the flashing of the hired mans
pink overalls he raises fertilizer in the
tinted barnyard? Observe Belinda shooing the hens
out the pea-patch with her heotrope pelisse and
there's father the cellar churnng, a
sweater while little Tommy working at the
chip-pHe in old pants.
With the everlasting blue jeans gone, the possibility
for artistic color among the toilers simply
immense. Let the Germans keep their old blue dyes!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
CUTTING OUT THE "AFORESAlDS"
AS LEGAL VERB!AGE.

An important reform in American procedure IS
foreshadowed by movement in New York city. Inc
County Lawyers association has asked District Attor
ney-Elect devise simplihed method Of pro-
cedure for criminal and he is now at work on the
matter.
The need OF such reform only in New York but
IN nearly every state the Union be seen from
simple instance The form of indictment for
hrst degree murder in states is about 400 words
containing "aforesaids' and is "saids Here is a
characteristic passage from a specific indictment;
one mortal wound Of the breadth of
one inch and the depth of six inches. of which
said mortal wound the said John Doe, from the
fourth day Of April, in the year aforesaid until
the fifth day OF May in the same year afore-
said at the borough and county aforesaid, did
Ianguish. and aaguishing did live, and on which
aforementioned day the said John Doe. at the
borough and county aforesaid. Of the said mortal
wound did die.
Aside from the fact that it's customary for man
afflicted with metal wound" to die it may be re-
marked that any man who used such language as this
in the ordinary affairs life would be set down as
either pedantc fool a lunatc.
BY way OF contrast. consider the full indictment for
first degree murder Canada, which reads, in full
follows:
The jurors for our LORD and king present that
Richard Roe murdered John Doe at Toronto
in Cdate).
The proIixy anu vain repetitions Of legal forms
are inheritances from many generations of backward
looking specialists II is time 10 break away from
tem bring their language and logic mp TO date as
Canada (Which derived It's legal institutions from the
same source has done.
Not only is such reform as the New York lawyers
propose line with common sense, but IL Is way TO
a simpler direct and expeditions rendering Of
Justice Excessive formay and strainng for technical
precision have only made legal documents vuller-
able Too many rules have made court procedure a
puzzle and hndered the administration of Justice
return TO sane simplicity in all forms of legal process
would be 10 the interest OF the public and would help
TO the egal profession from the popular dis
esteem into which has fallen
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
FOOTBALL BRUTALITY.

Now that the football is over and the country
a mood the it, turn with ap-
preciatve interest article in a Paris sporting
paper
Every season furnishes its list of dead and wound
ed, complains the French sporting writer. cannot
comprehend how any nation that pretends to be civil
lied and humane tolerate brutal a sport
Somehow. can't help comparing our casualty
lists" with those of Europe covering the period
And while the bruisng and ne-breaking that occur
football grdirons undoubtedly have something
rough and british in them it's hard develop proper
sense of disgust ana horror when turn and see the
millions Europe tramping each other in the bloody
mire of battlefeds
This isn't precisely the time for Europe to give
America lessons in gentleness and humanity
Besides, it be that these very sports which Of
fend the old world by their roughness outlets of
our combatve energy which operate safety valves
and from the brutates Of war
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
THE MELTING POT
COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

WE have it straight from a Har-
ward professor. one Munsterburg by
name. that the war is to end by
spring and that he has good reasons
for thinking so. He will not tell US
what the reasons are. but explains
that he il psychologist, not a
prophet That helps some but does
not make clear why the armies are
To be maintained. comparatively in
active, through the winter. on the
other hand the warning powers are
preparing TO prolong the struggle
indefinitely.
PSYCHOLOGICAL theories are
beautiful things. but they lack the
tangibility Of a stubborn fact.
a WOA.AN'S idea of extravaganza
is best expressed in eggs.
THE city Of Kendallville is much
in doubt whether it should be wet
or dry. At present it is wet at the
Will of 20 of its citizens. These 20
represent the majority on the ballot
The remainder of the voting COM
munity is equally divided on the
question. Now, then, what would
happen if the women were permitted
to vote?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
ANSWERED.


CNotre Dame Scholastic.)
Said 1 to the Crow:
"Oh, what do you know
OF Life and it's mysteries?
And why acquire
Such mOurnful attire?
Enlighten me. if you please"
The Black knight winked
And cooked his head,
Then simply: Cause"
At length he said
I cried to Red Breast:
Your life is a jest.
Your troubles are all too few"
From the hour of birth
Your tune is mirth,
Now what is Life's cost to you?'
He looked the part
OF thinking deep,
Then Robin turned
And answered: Cheap"
Walled I to the Bee:
Surely you will help me
In my quest for elusive Truth!
How can ] forget
All worry and fret
And feel the pure gladness OF
YOUTH"
He flew so quick
IL made me dizzy,
And as he passed
He hummed Keep bizeeer
ID. EDMONDSON.
WHILE the contributions for So
cial service amounted to a neat sum
as the saying goes. Good VIII
week was most conspicuous on the
buttons.
FRIEND wife" writes G. r. T
says if 1 can cook my own dinner
at the Rotary club she doesn't see
why she should worry
WITHOUT vouching for the accu-
racy for the quotation, How beau
tifUl and good it is TO see brethren
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

dwelling together in unity" with
special reference TO The promise of
republican senators To help demo-
cratic senators fight the hlibusters.
THE two hunters who were killed
in Indiana during the hunting sea-
son must have been shooting at a
mark There isn't enough game
available in Indiana 10 flavor the pot.
The Foundation of a Law Practice.
(The Docket
In connection with the belief that
has prevailed in some frontier COM
munities that, without a knowledge
of cards. a young attorney could not
hope TO sustain himself during the
first few years of his practice. it is
interesting to recall that Edmond
Hoyle O672-1769), celebrated as the
father of whist, was educated for the
bar. That the profession for which
he abandoned the law brought TO
him the large pecuniary success
ascribed by some biographers is
doubted by Cavendish, who calls at
tention TO recitals in Hoyle's original
edition that a treatise was lately
dispersed among a FEW Hands at
Guinea Price" and that he had
framed an Artificial Memory which
takes not off your Attention from
your Game; and if required he is
ready 10 communicate it upon Pay
ment Of one Guinea: and also. He
will explain any CASES in the Book.
upon Payment Of one Guinea more"
MR.. BRYAN'S last hope of the
presidency has vanished. The Mis-
souri, mule which was to have been
presented to him on his election has
been chloroformed on account of old
age.
IN our opinion the Marion youth
arrested for stealing two pumpkin
pies from a window sill, where they
quilted on the ground Of justifable
kleptomania. The tendency in Amer
lean youth TO swipe pie is inbred and
redheaditary.
SAYS He VIII Walk on Water. -
Headline.
About as easy as riding on the
water wagon.
THE Birth Of a Nation" remind
ed the Old travelling man Of when he
! tried to sell northern made goods in
the south The southern merchant
would look at his card and say, Il
wouldn't buy your goods if l could
get em for two bits" And the
only thing TO do, he remarked, was
to pack your grip. call your dog and
get out.
SINCE old Hos has left us we
/ have been very much in need of a
local topical versifier. Is there no
one within the radius of our circula-
ton who wishes to immortalize him
self or herself, as the case may be?
ABOUT the only thing we think of
that you can't do electrically is
golf
GINGER works better.
c. n. F.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

commercial commission which reach
ed New York this week. Members
of this commission stated that they
came here to purchase after the war
S16O. 100000 worth Of structural
steel. iron and machinery. They
stated that such orders were for
merly given 70 Germany, and that
the first order would be only the
beginning OF such business with the
United States.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

Gasaway, the gifted poet Of the
Wilson County Citizen. twanged his
Tyre in accompaniment to the follow
ing last week. "Higgledy. piggledy.
my black hen lays an every now and
then; nine cents dozen, sometimes
ten, the profits all go to the middle
men. kansas City Star
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

4 New Yorker, who is described
as an economist. has figured out that
a family OF five can live Well on
sos a day Suppose he tries II on
himself for awhile and then comes
around and shows us.-Waterbury,
Conn. Republican.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

California produces more than
20.0OO.0OO pounds of walnuts an
nuaHy. and soon the largest estab-
Hshments in the world for handling
and cleaning these nuts viii be in
tershire. sleep in Stanordshire. drink
operation in that state.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

When the editor OF the New York Saats-Zeitung de-
clares that Great Britain wants form alliance
the United States he isn't giving away any
And there isn't in Europe-not excepting Ger
many-who wouldn't jump the chance of an Amer-
can alliance. The Staats-Zeitung needn't worry
however. After 126 years of single bessedness Uncle
sam is satisfied il alone for while longer
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

Those who suggest a white border
around the American flag as a SYM
Dol Of peace might also consider the
Of a white feather among
the stars.-Terre Haute, Ind, Star.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03
RECALLING THE RECALL AND HOW
1T DID THE WORK.

Nov turn f0r a moment 10 that beautiful httle
miners strike out i'm Arizona
For Do. these many years the state of Arizona has
been in the grip few bloated eastern capitalists
who owned the cream rich copper deposits Of
the state The mine owners have just ABOUT run
Arizona politically Chemically morally and otherwise.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

Those intellectual lights who write
for the Chicago Tribune are always
discovering something remarkable
"A fresh egg has a flavor no other
egg has announces Doc Evans.
So has another egg, Doc.-Gary.
Ind, Times.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

The sound OF the military rifle bull
let. travelling at 1900 feet a second.
is like that OF a long blacksnake
whip. violently cracked However.
the bullet beats the sound and If a
man struck by one hears a crack
ing il is from some other missile.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania waited he got
down in san Antonio declare himself candidate for
the republican presidential nomination. Maybe he ex-
poets Texas go republican year figuring on his
old friend Joe Bailey hash up that chronic demo-
cratic majority Optimistic. isn't he
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

California has warned the unemployed population
rest of the country TO keep out OF that state
II that's meant hint TO the east il won't arouse
any particular resentment for almost everybody in the
with half enough ambition go TO California al
ready has a Job.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

ATHENS. Dec. Sit is reported
that a British coast defense gunboat
in Egyptian waters has beeC sunk
~ a German submarine
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-03

And now part OF the Nebraska republican party asks
that Burtons name be put their presidential ballot
They've already got Roosevelt and Mayor Thompson.
Of Chicago. on IT, Those Nebraskans simply want
long and varied
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-08-20

with over $4,000 hogs each-Fayette,
Hancock, Preble and Clinton. vinton
with 1876 hogs and Cuyahoga with
1856 rank lowest.
The variation in the number OF live
stock in Ohio for differnt periods is
an interesting study. While tile mum.
Der of sheep has rapidly decreased,
Ohio has more cattle today than she
has had for thirty years. The most
remarkable fact of all is, that in spite
Of steam roads, interurbans, bicycles.
motorcycles and automobiles, Ohio
has today more horses than at any
time in her past history, except last
Cattle reached the highest record in
number in Ohio in 1860 with a total of
1902, 772, or over four hundred thous-
and more than at present The record
number of hogs in the state was g..
165 5000 in 1862. In recent years the
number of nogs in Ohio has been in
treasing.
The decline in the number of sheep
during the past half century is Ohio's
most serious agricultural loss. The
high prices of wool during and follow
ing the Civil War caused the number
of sheep in the state to increase
from 3,36S,174 in 1860 to 7,6SS,S45 in
1868. At that time there were 25
counties with over one hundred thous-
and sheep in each, and as late as 1885
there were fifteen with over one hun
dred thousand each, and one, Licking,
with 227,G04. In 1885 there were ten
counties with more sheep than the
total today in the lightweight coun.
ties. There is not a single county in
Ohio today that has one hundred
thousand sheep. This decline in the
number of sheep is serious loss to
the hill counties of Ohio, and the de-
crease is not justified by the recent
price of wool. With wool about %
cents per pound, there ought to be not
less than four million sheep in the
state, and that number at the present
average weight per fleece would pro
duce a larger number of pounds OF
wool than were shorn from the 1858,
$40 sheep in Ohio in 1868.