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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-07

The PUBLIC FORUM
HOW TO TAX THE PLUTES.-
Mr.. Hoyne seems anxious to extend
some relief to the little fellows who
have but little to tax and~bUt little to
pay with when necessary wants are
satisfied. The object is Iaudable, Tor
they need relief.
But as long as confusion reigns as
to what is property and why it should
be taxed, little progress may be eX-
pected. He declares that the assess
ments of personal property disclose a
decrease of $27,OO0,OOO under last
year. In ignorance of the actual facts
and fundamental principles relating
to taxation he charges a plot to load
the taxes on the little fellows to the
limit and tighten the burden on the
plUtOcrat. The plOtters are the board
of assessors and, presumably, the rich
who are to be benefited.
Capital stock Of corporations is le-
gauy personal property, but actually
it is not property at all It is merely
the evidence of the ownership of the
actual tangible property of the cor
poration. If the tangible property is
taxed, as it should be according to the
popular notion of taxation, the taxing
of capital stock would be double tax
alton. Capital stock and movable |
tangible property can easily be re-
moved from the jurisdiction of taxing
powers. Perhaps investigation will |
show this to be the cause of a large |
part of the decrease in personal prop |
erty which Mr.. Hoyne imagines is
brought about by the plotting of Of |
fcials.
If he wants to make Chicago really
poor in respect to the possession of
real wealth, continued prosecution of
wealth owners will soon bring the de-
sired condition of poverty.
Real wealth will not stay long
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-07

Inc great Dulk OF personal proper
ty in Cook county consists of stocks
of merchandise, food products and
other forms of real wealth, which is
in course of exchange from producer
to consumer. Taxing this real wealth
would make prices higher and lessen
the amount of wealth consumed.
Merchants and manufacturers would
be at a disadvantage and unable to
compete with outside dealers. Bust
ness would decrease and thousands
of people would be driven from the
city to other points where taxes were
lower.
The taxation of real wealth is a
crime because it decreases the pro-
dUctiOn of wealth, which we need and
must have. The failure to recognize
this fact makes a disastrous muddIe
of the whole revenue system. The tax
burden Of Chicago falls mainly upon
the food and clothing and shelter of
its citizens. Because of this the cost
Of living is high. Improved land is
taxed to the limit and vacant lots are
cherished and noUTished with light
assessments. So that land speculation
goes to the limit.
Thousands of vacant lots, some Of
them Of large extent, lie idle and I'M
used, while the population is crowd
ed into the slums and piled one upon
another in six-by-ten apartment
houses. Vacant lots make an enor-
nous increase in public expenses, in
policing and paving and lighting and
watering long streets past unusued
land.
Get the land values of Chicago for
public purposes, Mr.. HOyne, and you
will get the milliOnaires. They are
laughing in their sleeves while you
are fruitlessly chasing personal prop
V. Wells.
TO READERS OF DAY BOOK
For como time in tho no OF yrvo bo-o
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-07

TO READERS OF. DAY BOOK
For some time in the past we have
voted the Republican and the Demo-
cratic tickers and repeatedly placed
the old party politicians in power. We
have given them a majority in the
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- M~ Up to the Minute mA
S SFo sly [1l,!5j'yE 1s -
NZ)SN - BY"cIUo"
CUBS COPIED TWO
Chicago Nationals Are Now Out
of the Cellar.
Red SOx Practically Have Their
Pennant Sailed Away.

Chicago, Ill, Sept. 2S.-Chicaso
pulled out of last place Monday by
winning both games of a double
header from Cincinnati. The first
game was won in the eighth inning,
when George weakened and the locals
punched four hits with two bases on
balls and clinched the game. In the
second game Chicago got the jump on
the visitors by hitting Snyder hard in
the first inning and piling up a lead
which could not be overcome, owing
to the fine pitching of HUMP prizes. The
fielding of Mulligan, the Cubs re-
cruit shortstop, was feature Mana
ger Bresnahan tried out a new catcher
named Wallace in the first game and
he performed in good style. No other
games were scheduled in the National.
Red Sox Almost Safe.
The Red Sox, closing the season on
thier home grounds with to vic
tory over st. Louis, approached within
two games of clinching their claim to
the championship. Two more Boston
wins, two Detroit losses, or a Red SOX
victory and a Tiger defeat will decide
the race in Boston'S favor. The
Browns found Leonard off form and
took the lead with three runs in the
second inning, assisted by Lewis's err
ror. Boston scored two in the third
on a pass, SCOTS double and Gamers
hit and tied the score in the fourth
through Sisters wildness and Wag-
ner'S double. st. Louis again took the
lead in the fifth inning when Sisler
and ShOtten singled, Howard was hit
and SiSler scored on Lees sacrifice fly.
Boston settled the contest in the sew
enth by timely hitting and by taking
advantage of the wildness of both Sis
Ter and Weilman, who succeeded him.
Shore, who replaced Leonard in the
sixth for Boston, pitched almost per-
fectly. Mondays results follow:
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WREsTLE AT CLAY CENTER.
Two Big Mat Matches Are Booked for
This Week.

Clay Center, Kan. Sept. 28.-James
H. Maxwell, president, and Charles
MonteIl secretary of the Clay Center
Athletic club, have arranged for two
high classed wrestling matches this
week. The, bouts will take place in
the Air Dome. The first one will be
between Tommy Long, of Lincoln,
Neb., and Tommy Doctor, of Rydall,
Kansas, on Tuesday night. Wrestling
fans in this locality are acquainted
with Doctor and as Long won a de-
cision over the Kansas man last year
he thinks he can do it again but if
he does he is sure some wrestler as
the ombatants have a large side bet
the winner to take all
Friday, October 1 Alan Eustice, of
Wakefield, Kansas, will wrestle Jess
Westergard. Westergard has a ma
tional reputation as a wrestler, having
met Gotch, Ordeman and others while
Eustace is one of the stars of the state.
There will be good preliminaries each
evening. The mat fans are assured a
treat at these two matches as they
are the best bouts ever staged in Clay
Center
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BREWERS DOPE
Nj. Z. Coach Thinks the Corn.
huSkerS Look Best.
AmeS Leads the Valley i'm Num-
Der of Vets.

Columbia, Mo, Sept 2s.-And
now comes Coach G. L. Brewer, ath-
letic director of the University of
Missouri with some facts and fan
cies'' on the football outlook in the
Missouri valley. Coach Brewer, be-
ing no more than human, and claim
ing no prophetic powers, does not pre-
tend to say, as yet, that Missouri will
beat Kansas, or yet that Drake or
any of the rest of them will suffer
defeat at the hands of the Tiger
host. He simply has a little done
for the dopesters and has no objection
to letting them share his informa-
ton.
Nebraska Story.
To begin with Nebraska, for Ne
braska, as Kansas and others will re-
member, led the teams of the valley
last year, Nebraska, as is her wont
has very, very bright season ahead
If veteran material and past records
count for anything. Nebraska, ac
cording to Coach Brewer, looks strong
Rutherford and Chamberlain, her two
star half backs, known to football en-
thusiasts as the pride of the valley"
and Corey the giant Nebraska tackle,
are all back in the Nebraska ranks
And according to advance dope the
new material at the Lincoln school is
nothing to be ashamed of. So, says
Coach Brewer, valley elevens may
continue to be respectful to Ne
braSka.
Next on the list is Ames. Ames
finished second in the valley cham
pionship race last year. Amos has
returned the biggest number of men
in any conference team this fall, nine
regular men, among them are Uhl,
famous full back, Moss, quarter back,
and a number of last years allMis-
souri, valley team, Deffke and Reeves.
Reeves is the heaviest man in the con-
ference. He tips the scales at 240
pounds and is six feet six inches tall.
Tigers Light.
Much of Coach Brewers figures on
other teams comes to him from other
coaches and from news he gathers day
by day. There is one team he is get
ting the information from first hand
That is the Missouri university team
that finished third in the valley last
season. Seven old men are on hand,
practicing every day on Rollins field,
trying with all their old time form to
keep the places they won last year on
the Tigers team. They are: Captain
JAKE Speelman, Groves, Van Dyne and
Lansing in the line, and Woody,
Rutledge and Collins in the backfield
Missouri certainly has the numbers
this year if she has nothing else. Up
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AUTO DRIVER INJURED.
Harry Grant Badly Burned When His
Machine Caught Fire.

New York, Sept 2S.-Harry Grant,
noted automobile driver and twice
winner of the Vanderbilt cup race, was
so badly burned Monday while con-
testing in the elimination trials Tor
the Aston cup race at the Sheepshead
Bay track that he will not be able to
enter the contest next Saturday.
Grants automobile caught IRE
while travelling at IO0-mile an hour
clip and Grant and his mechanician
were enveloped in flames They
brought the machine to a stop and
jumped out, but Grant was severely
burned on the legs and arms and was
taken to a hospital.
The mechanician escaped with
slight burns. Hospital authorities
said that Grant would not be able to
leave the institution for at least ten
days.
Those who qualified for the Aston
cup race were Wilcox, Oldfield, Rick
enbacher, Cooper. Resta, Aitken and
Haup- Resta made the best time,
speeding at the rate of 106 miles an
hour.
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INJURED BY KING COLE
N. Y. Pedestrian Run Over by Ball
PLAYERS Automobile.

Yonkers, N. Y. Sept. 2s.-While
Leonard C"King'O Cole. pitcher for
the Yankees, was driving his automo-
bile along South Broadway, in
Yonkers, Sunday night, he ran over
John Nutro, "a years old Nutro's
skull was fractured and he is in a
dying condition in st. Joseph's hos
pital.
Nutro was crossing Broadway at
Washington street. He became con-
fused by the lights, hesitated, then
again started to cross the thorough
fare. He was hit before Cole could
stop his car. Cole was arrested and
held for $1,000 bail pending the out
come of Nutro's injuries. Cole left
his car N lieu of bail and continued
his journey to New York by train
with his wife and Mr.. and Mrs Birdie
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FOOTBALL AT ELLSWORTH.
High School Is to Have Its First Team
Since 1905.

Ellsworth, Kan, Sept 28-Ells-
worth is to have its first football team
since 1905. The coach and a num-
Der of town pigskin enthusiasts de-
cided to put Ellsworth high school on
the map once and for all in high
school athletics. So Thursday after
noon, acting on the suggestion of Dr.
Bowles and Lloyd Sparr, the business
men made a football contribution of
1927 in less than two hours This
amount is sufficient 10 buy all equip
ment and to start the season clear of
debt.
Henry ironing, principal of the
Ellsworth high school and former
star on Ottawa university eleven, is
coach and has already developed a
bunch of scrappers with all the ear
marks of a winning team.
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Transfer Philadelphia Games.

Philadelphia, Sept. 28-There will
be no major league baseball games in
Philadelphia until next Saturday. The
game scheduled between Philadelphia
and the Chicago Amcricanse today
was played in n doubleheader last
Saturday. Those with Washington to-
morrow and Thursday have been
transferred to the national ca pital and
Fridays scheduled game with the
New York Americans will be played
in a doubleheader here on Saturday.
Poor attendance is given as the reason
for the changes in the schedule
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Prepare World Series Prices.

Boston, Mass, Sept. 2s.-The pros
pective world series games to be
played at Braves field next month
may be seen at prices ranging from
fifty cents to five dollars, according to
an announcement by the management
of the Boston American league base
ball club The highest price will be
for box seats. Other reservations in
the grandstand will cost three dollars
each. Applications have been pouring
in for weeks and are being filled
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BASEBALL TODAY.
National League.

Philadelphia at Brooklyn, clear, )
p. m.
Cincinnati at Chicago, cloudy,
p. m.
No other games scheduled
American League.
Detroit at Washington, clear.
No other games scheduled.
Federal League
Newark at Pittsburg, clear.
Baltimore at Kansas City, clear
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HIGH SCHOOL GAME TO-DAY.
McLean's Warriors Meet CarbondaI,
in Curtain Raiser of Season.

This afternoon the Topeka high
school eleven plays Carbonate high
school at Western league park for the
first game of the season. This game
was scheduled for last Saturday in
the mining town but rain interfered.
On Saturday, the Topeka team goes
to Junction City for match. The fol-
lowing week McLean's eleven invades
Manhattan.
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Tannehiu to Manage ST. Joe?

st. Joseph, Mo, Sept. 2S.-Lee Tan
nehill, who was a member of the
worlds champion Chicago White Sox
of 1906, but has been third basing for
the Des Moines club of the Western
league this season, probably will be in
baseball next season as manager of n
Western league ball club, perhaps st.
Joe.
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weling-Dundee Bout Off.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 2s-The
ten-round boxing contest planned for
October 1 in Milwaukee between Joe
yelling, Chicago. and Johnny Dundee,
New York lightweight, has been in
definitely postponed.
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Shreveport, La, Sept. 2S.-Bobby
Waugh, of Fort Worth. champion
lightweight of Texas, was given the
decision Monday night in the sixth
round of scheduled fifteen-round
bout, over AID Wolgast. of Cadillac.
Mich, former lightweight champion.
Up to the sixth round Waugh had the
best of the fight. The question of
foul was decided by physician who
was called into the ring when Waugh
fell to the floor
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to date eighty-five men have been
given suits on the varsity squad and
sixty-five on the freshmen. Brewer
and Indian Schultz are not disposed
to be gloomy over Missouri's outlook.
1.-The squad is light said Brewer last
week, but is has some good stuff in
If
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A STIFF PRACTICE
Coaches Put IchabOdS Through
the Mill Monday.
Annual Freshman-V Varsity Game
on This Afternoon.

With Dean Rogers driving the line
men under a merciless lash and Grip"
Gray teaching the basketball end of
the game to the back field, the Icha-
bods had their best practice of the
season Monday afternoon
Wayne Cook, last seasons efficient
manager, was among the spectators on
the side1ines, as was DR.. Ernest, one
| of the teams most faithful supporters.
| Cook. who is now making ice cream
for Cornhuskers, will remain in To-
peka until Saturday to see the Cooper
game. He says Nebraska has team
that should clean up every. eleven
that has the temerity to face her.
Freshman Game.
This afternoon the varsity squad
will line up against the freshmen, and
Saturday the first scheduled game will
be played with Cooper college. The
game with Cooper was originally
scheduled for Friday, but has been
| changed to Saturday.
| Coach Gray seems to be well pleased
with the prospects, and there is no
doubt but that the material looks
much better than it did ten days ago.
The coach is reticent about the most
! likely candidates for the various posi-
lions, but from the way they showed
yesterday it looks like the season
might open with Rice at center, Stew
Billings on the trench line and Nc
Gosh, Villepigue, Captain Beals and
another half in the back field. Cham
peny, who is expected to play the
other half, is rnrsin@ p sprained back
and will not try to put on a uniform
for several days me above selec-
ton is only a guess, and it has a swell
chance of being botched up if some
of the other men, including Barrett,
Cox, Muirhead, Enfield, Heller, Groth
and Bailey and Pettyjohn should set
their heads to play real football and
do their best.
The Freshman List.
Among the freshmen who are out
each afternoon and from whom to-
days line up was to be picked are
the following: Babcock, Barton, Pal
mer, Bailey, Parrish, Callahan, Ma
lone, Colvin, Dehn. Hope, Perry, TruIl,
Peasall, Pfaffe, Splitter, Rice, Shaw
Kendall, Dean, Douglass, Edgar
Forbes, Miles, Harris and several
others.
Student Manager Joe Haynes and
his assistant, Harry Champeny, spent
Monday afternoon setting the goal
posts at the west end of the field
that is Champeny set the posts and
Haynes did the experimenting.
It is understood that Dean Rogers
has been employed as regular line
coach and that he will assist Grip"
Gray throughout the season.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Batterles-GeOrge and WingO; Law
ender and Wallace.
Summary: Two base hit-Griffith
Home rum. Williams. Stolen base
-Groh ca, K Williams, Rodgers
CD Bases on bal1s-Off Lavender,
/; off George 2. Struck out-By
Lavender. 5: by George, 4. Umpires-
Byron and Orth.
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Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 2S.-President
Barney Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg
National league club, announced to-
day that Edgar Collins, an outfielder,
had been released by the waiver route
to the Boston Braves
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Batteries Snyder. McKenery, Cal
lahan and Wingo; HUMPHREYS and
Archer.
Summary: Two base hit-Saier.
Three base hits-Humphries, McKen-
cry. Stolen bases-F williams (2),
SAFER, Mulligan- Bases on baIls-Off
Mckenery, 1; off HUMPHREYS, 1.
Struck out-By McKt merry 8; bv
Callahan, 1. Umpires-Orth and
Byron.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE,

Boston. 10 /
Batteries: weilman. Koob, Sis
Ter. and Agnew; Shore, Leonard, Cady
and Carrigan.
summary: Two base hits-scott.
Wagner. Bases on balls-Off Sisler,
A. off Leonard, 1; off Weilman, 3;
off Koob, l. Struck out-By Sisler,
4; by Weilman, l; by Koob. 1; by
Leonard. 1; by Shore, 2. Umpires-
Dineen and Nallin.
At Philadelphia-s R H E
chicago -..--..
n Batter.eH@ Scott Morrisette and
Schalk; Perkins, Mayer, Eccles and
McAVoy.
Summary: Two base hits-Lajoie,
Oldring, Bankston, Damrau, Perkins.
Home run-Jackson. Stolen base-J.
4; off Eccles. 8; off Mcrrissette, 1.
Struck out-By Scott, 8; by Eccles, 1;
by Morrisette, 5. Umpires-
lin and Hildebrand.
AT washington-scor R H
Wa5binston ....::... 10 8
Batteries-Covaleski and stanage;
Boehling. Dumort, Harper and Ain
smith.
Summary: Three base hit-Kava-
naugh. Stolen bases-Kavanaugh
Bush (2). Bases on balls-Off Boeh1-
ing, 8; off Coveleskie, 4 off Harper,
l. Struck out-By Boehling, 2; by
Dumont, 5; by Coveleskie, 8; by Har-
per, g Umpires-Evans and Wallace
At New York-Score: r Fl z
Gleveland: --..-..--.'
Batteries: Mitchell ard O'NellI;
Russell Brown and Alexander.
Summary: Two base hits-Alexan-
der, Mitchell Three base hits-Roth,
Smith Home ~uns-Kirke, Willie
Bases on baIls-Off Russell 5; off
Brown. l; off Mitchell, 5. Struck out
BY Russell, 4; by Brown, 3; by
Mitchell, T. Umpires-Chil1 and Con-
molly.
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WoIgast Loses on a Foul.

Cree, who were with HIM when the
accident happened.
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FEDERAL LEAGUE.

No other games scheduled.
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Braves Get an 10. collins.

,dtteIles- r wilson, Opnam anc
Smith; Bailey and a. Wilson.
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Drawn for the Topeka State Journal

(Copyright, 1915. by II. c. Fisher
Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Off,
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ION BASTILE DAY"
French and American Ideals Are
the Same.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Many noteworthy editorials nave ap-
nearcd in The Tribune Of late, but OF them
all the splendid tribute TO France, ent't'eu
"On Bastile Day." appealed to and stirred
me the most.
France has been the pillar Of European
democracy ever since her rise as hauon'
Having endured two attacks upon her anu
her institutions and ideals, attacks ~hicn II
successful would have set the world pacA
hundreds of years in its development tow
ard ultimate democracy, she is now valiantly
fighting not only battle for her very exist
ence but for the ideals OF democracy the
ideals Of America!
What France stands for we Americans
stand for. That is the erux of the situation.
and let us not be blinded to it by clever ana
bewilderng sophistry. Consider what Amer
lea stands for and then what France hgnts
for and let us see If they are not identical.
America uphods democracy, personal tree-
dom, liberty of speech and press. Her form
Of government is republican. Her Ideals are
republican. She, true to them, cherishes
with her whole heart and soul her ideal OIL
nation and a race as we'll as an indivicuaI
living it's own life, according to Its own
IDEALS and culture, not those which any other
nation or race may seek to shackle on her
through force. Kultur finds nothing but
adherence from America when it seeks TO
impress itself upon an unwilling world.
Now. if we will consider France we shall
find she has ever been the exponent of de-
mocracy The throes through which she
passed at the time of the French Revolution
however horrible and exaggerated they were,
proved this. Personal liberty, freedom OF
speech and press together, with the most re
publican and demo ratio form Of government
in Europe, exist in France to-day. She has
republican ideals and aspirations. She be-
lieves in the right of nation as nation
to live by the light of its own ideals and
culture. For all this is France fighting to-
day.
So France and America stand linked to-
gether by a bond of ideals which ought TO
and will as time goes on bind each closer
to the other during this conflict France
ought to have our moral support, not be
cause of sentiment remember Lafayette.
though there is ample ground for this, but
as a matter of logic, because she is fighting
for what we represent in world politics to-
day; and lest we forget or become indiffer-
ent she is now sacrificing her hearts blood
to perpetuate them.
When the last scene Of this colossal con-
hict has been played l firmly believe the
voice and spirit of America will echo across
the Atlantic in tones of gladness and Of
gratefulness to France, saying: "Well done,
servant and protector of democracy Well
done!" THOMAS +. CONROf.
New York, July 16, 1915.