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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
ENGLAND BEGINS ID FEEL HARDSHIPS OF THE WAR IN EUROPE Rich and Poor Hard Hit Alike By the New
 Taxes
NATION IS TAKING
 SITUATION CALMLY
McKenna Raising Two and One Half Billions Dollars-Motors Matches Amusements and Drinks Are Taxed

London, May 20.-(Special. )-A1- though England has been at war for more than 20 months it is doubtful if most Englishmen really realized what they were up against before they read the proposed new taxes in the budget introduced by Reginald McKenna, the chancellor of the exchequer. So far, the average Englishman has little felt the hardships of war. Even the re- gently increased income tax has not be- come payable in full, but from now on every man and every woman in England will feel the full financial bur den and the richer he is the more he will feel it, for the new budget dras- tically increases the taxation of the rich man, while letting the poor man off as easily as possible.
 A few years ago if anyone had sug- gested that England should raise over $2, O0,000,000 by taxation he would have been voted a madman, but that is what MT. McKenna proposes to do The last peace budget, that of 1913-14, raised a little less than $1.ooo, 100000. The pres- enl budget proposes to raise $2511, ,375,- VUV or more than two ana nalI times as much, and it will probably raise more for the experience of the British war budgets has been that the yield always exceeded the estimate. Of course, the income tax is the stand by of this as of all British taxation schemes and it is proposed to raise by 1t $217, 500,000 The excess profits tax imposed on those who are making eX- tra money out of war supplies will bring in $430,O00.000.
 MT McKenna has begun by adding a fraction over cents in the $5 to the tax on small incomes, which will now stand at 56 cents in the $5 on Incomes
 which do not exceed $2500 year. From
 that the tax increases steadily until | 1t reaches the man with an income oi $12,500. He will have to pay just 2E
 per cent of this income over the state
 l in case the income Is earned by active
 | work. If it is an unearned income
 | that is, an income from investments
 he will have to pay 25 per cent begin
 | ming at S10,000 a year and proportion
 ate sums if his unearned income is ! lower. The following table will show
 | just how the income tax will hit tht
 l ordinary middle class Englishman
 whose income is all earned:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Realism

From an Exchange.
 Whats all the that noise upstairs?" called the mother. q thought you were plaving house."
 We are, mamma the little daughter replied. Johnny is the papa and he has just come home from the store I'm arguing with him about money matters"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

the source' similar to that by which banks deduct income tax from divi- dends and pay it over to the exchequer The middle class man is demanding that his employer be compelled to de- duct income tax from salaries and thus relieve him of the necessity of having to provide several hundred dollars in one lump at the end of the year to sat- isfy the insistent tax gatherer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

sum for pensions and the interest and sinking fund on the war loans, Great brltaln will need an annual revenue of $l,osO, 100000. Deducting fD,m the reve- nue the yiell of the excess profits tax. which, of course, is purely temporary. the present taxes should raise perma- nent revenue of $2,115, 0CS, 900, which leaves very respectable surplus for the reduction of taxation or the ex- tinction of debt.
 NATION IS CALM
 One of the most surprising features Of the tremendous war budget is the calm with which it has been received. England is now fully awake to the magnitude of the task she has under taken and understands that it must be paid for. There is practically no grum- bling about the amount of the taxes and the only criticism that I have heard deals with the method of collec- tion of income tax from people of mod crate means. There is a growing de- mand for some system of collection lat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

The Whites of Their Eyes From Golfers. Fortunately most of us have forgotten
 the abysmal bunk we read in the school
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
JANUARY %. 1915.
BURNS.

The man whose birthday j. being celebrated
the world over today never reached fortune.
nor, IN hi4 lifetime, more than provincial fame,
yet hc stands ~ one Of the few poets really
loved by every generation since his own time,
and by every class and degree Of mankind
familiar even slightly with his works.
Scotland proudly claims him as her bard.
bnt he IL son Of the wOrId-the creation Of
its passion and delight; the heir to It's falIings:
the cxempar Of it, high ambitions; the trouba-
dour Of its loves; the penitent Of its folies.
Even in their brOadeat dialect his lyrics sing
the songs common TO all human hearts. 1.-The
Cotter's Saturday Night" "The Two Dogs"
and "1lighland Mary" are universal in their
appeal These and an hundred others reveal
kindness, breadth Of sympathy and Of un-
derstanding which make Robert Burns pre-
eminertly poet of the people, and th9E illus
trate how much more enduring are sincerity and
love than any quality Of mere briiance or pol
ish or any depth of erudition.
This deep humanity that is the essence of
Burns and his songs causes even the strictest
TO forgive his excuses and his manifest flaws.
His life, with its many unhappnesses, has made
the world better One hundred and fifty seven
years after his birth, and nearly one hundred
and twenty years after his death, he has 8
stronger hold ON the worlds affections than
when az the boy of Ayr" he was the literary
lion of Edinburgh.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
SAFETY FIRST"

Editor Honolulu Star-BuIletiR.
! Sir. ! do not think that the slogan
Safety First IS being given the con-
/ sideration that il should by the pub
lie. especially those who do not ride
{ in autos: and vaile Honolulu is eN-
trepely fortunate in not having many
accidents OF her streets. mt. | the pub
lie is educated TO observe the Ca&tl'n
that IS demanded from it. automobile
accidents will surely find a place in
the records.
The authorities do not allow auto
mobiles 10 climb up on the sidewalks:
should they not also prevent pedes-
trians from going out on the streets
at will? The majority OF the acct
dents Of the present day are the re
suits OF pedestrians crossing the
streets carelessly. without exercising
proper caution. One cannot stand on
any downtown sidewalk for Ave min
uteS without seeing a person start
across the street some place in the
middle OF the block, paying no heed to
possible approaching traffic that has
the undisputed right to the street at
that point, and are brought out Of
their dreams by the furious honkine
Of an automobile horn close to them.
Carelessness On the vart Of the pc
destrian rather than on the part of
the chauffeur is the prime cause OF
nearly all the accidents.
Quite a number of cities of the
mainland have ordinances forbidding
pedestrians to cross the streets in the
middle of the blocks or diagonally or
anywhere except at crossings. Such
an ordinance would work well in Ho-
nOlulu. 1t would be no hardship on,
pedestrians, as the cross streets are
so close together one would have but
a few steps to go to cross a busy
thorcughfare under the protection of
a traffic officer, and along the lines of
safety first"
CHAUFFEUR.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
eovKRxrKSr OWNERSHIP RAPED.

Government ownership as suggested by var
SoaS members of the present administrators !,
getting god many raps from the press of tht
ceaMtry> Two ct these Suggestions IN
TIE presidents message concerning the uaer-
chant aarSnes and that in ReszmasseT, general
Baraesoas 5 report concerning the federal own,
esSASp os telephone and telegraph lines in
HawaSS and other territories have aroused
mMcA criticism
The Boston Herald under the title .>Ont
Piece of Folly thns comments on that part Cd
he preSsaeasas message referring TO the noer-
chant marine
ssWhen. We wonder, have the lessons of all
eNa1neruaaa enterprise been so completely dis,
,eraraea as in the merchant marine argument
- ne nasSiaemtS message
sSWhen the risk has passed and ErdSaae uaFi,
- se,cSus 10 find ITS wax in sufficimt abuna,
- Sptn shese new channels the government
- wS4hasaw. But ii ranucd emit TO begin
1SSs s the presidents text What Inference
- Ia al;;sA as 10 draw
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
JAPANESE AIDING THE CARNIVAL

Thanks 10 the il-advised activities of one or
two agitators moved by personal reasons, the
Japanese community, was given some undesira-
BILE and undeserred publicity in reference to
the 1916 Carnival. .-... II
An effort was made to show that the com
munity SO disapproved of Governor Pinkham' :
policies that il would not cooperate with the
Carnival management in getting up the annual
lantern parade and attendant features of the
February playweek. The effort was combined
with plea for prejudice, but il entirely failed
OF tsparpose, The Japanese community as a
whole, and the representative men as leaders,
soon showed that they resented this effort to in.
solve an issue of the past--and never an inn
portant issue at that-with the annual Carnival
participation. There was no reason for doing
40 and plenty of reasons for not doing so,
Now the Japanese community, through capa,
BILE and representative committees, is going
rapidly ahead on plans for the most elaborate
features Of the kind ever shown. The Japanese
lantern parade, with its procession of fairy
floats is always one of the big features of the
CARNIVAL peculiarly attractive to the visitors
Artists in form and color. with a delicacy of
fancy and q felicity of execution, the Nipponese
always produce miracles of illumination which
STIR the crowds to thrills of delight, And the
japanese never forget that on the day they
have chosen for this parade Washington s
AlrthdayS-St is fitting 10 do honor to the father
az their adopted country,
The s,haeleS resident and tourist alike
viii look forward with pleasure TO the japanese
parade and the residents are particularly glad
te know that the effort TO stir up race prejudice
with the Carnival as basis has been properly
reAAked
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
EXCLUSION ACT
Held AN insult
TO RACIAL PRIDE
Nippu Jill and Hawaii Hochi
Urge Foreign Minister to
Change Policy to U. S.

The Nippu Jill in an editorial yes
terday gave Its yersi6g of the zexclu-
sion act proposed int e present Con-
it SAYS: H.,
J The Pan-Pacific International Fx-
position held at San Francisco last
year, and participated in by Japan.
helped to bring closer relations be-
tween Japan and America. On the
other hand Congress is trying to re-
peat what the California legislature
did several years ago. The state leg
islature tried to place the japanese
In disfavor by passing an act prohibit
ing japanese to hold land. Now Con-
gress tries to regulate japanese entry
into America
We dare say that this move on the
part of Congress is an insult and a
maltreatment of the japanese We
fear that this viii destroy the good
work done by the exposit IN The
japanese government has 50 far been
very weak in its stand on this 1ues-
ton II stood the limit in relation to
the immigration question. We blame
the japanese government for the pres
N1N A4~fCACuA We NUSL urge OIT
foreign minister TO change his policy
to~ard America and take stronger
stand On -hese questions
Hoehi Taxes Same Stand.
The Hawaii Hochi IA Its editorial
o. yesterday takes practically the
same rev as the Nippa Jill. declar-
ing that II Is Al Insult 10 tie Tzyzn-
csc They say
TIE movement II Coagress TO pass
an act which prohibits JsEenese from
anolng N tie United States IL I'D in
suit Those who have national honor
or racial pride caanof keep still We
DO not care What one OF two congress
De1 SAT for Tie znt5-yEpsnese rsyre-
De1I hg1 W. -GEI Enor rtsst .be &C
i9oO O Ih+sss c01gressDer represents
= large 1EIOV5tF o. To- 1hyaEa1s Of
the -s49-2+
We Ind thai tbe feeling IT the
I 1lts41 States 1DEE-6 japan Il getting
Hstrs sno more s7r8l1s6. Erd We te,e1
l-1k1 TINS tttE11ng Is t,CTEnd II fr.trg rssrr
s'tc results N tie fEtErg.~
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
MORNING ON 'CHANGE

oiaa continues practically I'm.
changed since yesterday, with only q
slight weakening of Is in most sales
Yesterdays sale OF the stock totaIed
1855 shares. Those listed today tota!
1850 shares, the majority at &lITs.
though many were made at IL IS. and
the closing offerings we're at IL b.
Total sales listed on todAy's change
sheet are 1911 shares Mcbride has
been very strong at S9.75, an advance
Of half a point over last previous sales.
The stock closed offered at that Level
With bids al $3.50 For the frs, time
in weeks McBryos Ees more active
than Olsa- the deals totzlfDg 5gs9
shsneE- Wsiaius has gained fraction
as has OnoDez-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
LETTERS

The Stzr-BgIlersn invites free ant
frank discussion IN this column Gu I'll
legitimate subjects OF current interest
Communicative are constantly re-
ceiyed 70 which no Signature IS at
tached. This I3per viii treat as con-
fdentizl signatures 10 letters Z the
writer's 20. desire. but cannot give
space tor ANONYMOUS communal
tnns)
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
PERSONALITIES

MRS. r. l.. HALSEY OF Honolulu
and her son, c. A. Halsey OF Martinez,
California, were in Santa Cruz. Cali.
fornia, on January 6, according to the
Santa Cruz Surf. They formerly re,
sided at Santa Cruz and planned on
spending a month there. =
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

1t may confidently be expected that Turkey
will regret her ignorance of the fact that Uncle
sam had taken a stand on the submarine cam
oaign. She had only read it in the papers, you
lnow-not been officially advised
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

The very projections who few months ago
we're roundly berating the American press for
telling DIR. Dernburg to go home are now la
nenting that Dernburg came to the United
States and saying that it was diplomatic blum,
Ter to send him. sEt
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
INCOME TAX FAVORED,

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H.tnt1nE I'll EDIEErrss 1EE haF tregp flEed
WEIh liz 5tsElksIErIErE In t,.s4e.IS. ,,,lrI,-
HisSs01n ff -EEE1ln- THiF VIZ Il -s.s~
lhtEBE't Il L nsiclEEKR .TlIIuIEr Rrte tET~
E1IP sun ( IlrErn.IEltrlB1 amend
Mani
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

L. w. DE VIS-NORTON: The pub
licity commission is endeavoring to
arrange that all parties OF visitors to
Hilo and the Volcano districts shall
be accompanied by a guide whose ser.
vices will be free, and who will not
only be able to point out the more
interesting features Of the journey
such rs the various trees indigenous
to the island, the unique features OF
the crater floor, but who will also be
able to relate some OF the ancient
legends concerning such places as the
Rainbow falls and boiling pots.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

JOHN CLINTON GRAY, a New
York broker, is expected to visit Ho-
nolulu and the Hawaiian islands soon,
according to the San Francisco ChrOn.
icle. Gray Is a son OF the late Appel
late Judge John C. Gray. who served
Is years ON the bench OF the New
York circuit court of appeals.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

The king of Montenegro is now without a
throne, but that need not worry him. Didn t
he help the Allies win great diplomatic vic
tory in the Balkans;
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

H. C. MYLES. British consul at FL
Paso. Texas and Mrs. .Myles are
scheduled to arrive In Honolulu on
March 10 in the Chiyo Maru, accord.
ing to Information received by Col.
iector Malcolm A. Franklin. Mr.. and
Mrs. Myles will go to Japan from Ho.
nolulu.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

One of the really amusing things is to hear
a man who confesSes he is a warm sympathizer
If one SIDE or the other attack the neutrality
If someone else.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

! We gather from the testimony of the military
Experts that what we really need for defense
is an army, navy, some guns, ammunition
md no strings to any of it.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
uIIIINIIINlIIQ

GOVERNOR PINKHAN; | hATe
had no ~ord yet from Maui in answer
10 the cable | sent them offering ald
10 the stricken people
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

If Emperor Josef is as i'll as the German en-
peror was recently, the poor old man won't be
able to sit in the saddle or direct battles more
than 70 hours a day.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

HERMAN RAPHAEL: l had a
letter rom San Francisco. yesterday.
and among other things learned that
business is pretty dead in that city, &!
guess il is due 10 the closing Of the
exposition.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

Wonder if the peace advocates and military
eSp&nsioniSts couldn't club together and get
excursion rates on their projected speech
making triust
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

The wei STATES ARE dry and 1be Dr. <7.a1e< are
wet
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25
EDITOR

when Alexander Graham Bell was >trug-
I Cling to place the telephone on commercial
basis when telephone stock was nearly worth
less. did the omniscient federal government
think it necessary TO intervene. to take the in
itiaI risk! Certainly not. and we thank heaven
today that it did not take the risk.
when, in the history of the United States,
has the public money been made a pneumatic
cushion for business risk! When, as the fed
eraI treasury was facing a deficit, and heroic
measures were necessary to meet huge military
and naval demands, has the government dared
to- suggest assuming task too risky even for
private capital! When has the entire popula-
ton been forced to become stockholders in a
concern too venturesome for millonaires to
manage!
"'Capital, says the president, cannot ac-
complish this great task of sudden Is the
.apital of the government so different from
other capital! Are the proceeds of radical in
ternal taxation less truly capital than private
resources! And are We to think for an instant
that the presidents amateur cabinet is more
competent to it's self-assigned task than the
leenest business minds of the country! Give
capital fair chance, Mr.. Wilson. Has it ever
iinched from a reasonable risk7"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

A reader wants to know why city finances 20
aften refer 30 ''overhea6- Doubtless because
city finances are over the head> of nsoSt Of thu.
officials
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

Bat then nobody REALLY hoped the i4oocne TAX
aaw would be knocked ont in e'cTE1- did yoR
ever know Of anything reducing taxes.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

~lRsaranaa Tang2e May F. travelled - ~
ports Washington, McTv ef the kni77lnc t1rele
haSr-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

A. X. VIERRA, Our new motor
grass cutter is surely a success. II
is a pleasure to watch il go rolling
along and eating up three or four
times as much at a swath as did the
old Armstrong machines.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

One swallow Will Uad make 4 >zurat-- te11 i
often sugcsSt> THE time TO <kB1t
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

Il am tired of having things read into my
.eports that were never written" says Engi-
leer Whitehouse and in the next breath he con
iues: Every supervisor got copy of that
'eport and it has been read four times at open
Meeting. Half of the supervisors say favor
concrete roads and half of them say condemn
hem Isn't that delicious comment on the
character of his report-the supervisors them
selves differ as to what the reports meant
What wonder things are read into them" that
lie didn't write!
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

AUDITOR JAMES BICKNELL: II
was all very we'll for the Judge to
sentence the men who forged pay
slip in this office, giving him a week
in Jail and 5000 fine, but just the
same the auditor had to 90 down In
his own jeans and dig up the SIG that
was passed over on the strength OF
the warrant
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

As a FeEnt ion real CONDENSATION, ras,1 r'sBds
ism / I'm II with mad rFlhis
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

No uruliIhnlarls1 VIII osrsr mistake IN TBU ~
fsr a dove fif ys.ac.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

--HT'RON X. ASHFORD: | am 90
ing to try little singing into that
new dictaphone machine OF mine, II
that works. I'm going to try two
or three ukulele solos. Might as we'll
get little pleasure out of the ma
chine
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

JUDGE w. l.. WHITNEY: With
the new policies worked out by the
industrial schools board in effect. the
boys at the Waialee reform school
ought to be happy. In several in
stances, the beard has followed out
suggestions made In the report OF the
1915 grand jury.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

GEORGE r. LARRISON: We
abandoned use OF the rain gauges up
in the mountains along the trails be
cause it was impossible TO keep them
in order. Hikers who had nothing
else to dc would pour out the water,
break the gauges, and throw the fun
nelS away.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-25

Measures been
safetyde ults Heehsbahk