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Evening journal., 1917-04-24
a ROTTEN BILL PROVIDING FOR SHOPPERS TO
HOBBLE THE PRESIDENT.

HrHERE has never been n holder attempt TO invade
the prerogatives of the nations chief executive and
the officers under him than that fathered by Senator
Weeks of Massachusetts, and Congressman Madden, OF
Illinois Each Of these precious patriots has introduced
resolution providing for a Joint Committee OF Con-
ercss on Conduct Of the War" II is to be made up
OF four Democratic and two Republican Senators and
three Democratic and three Republican Congressman.
II shall make a special study OF the problems arising
oui Of the war; shall confer and advise with the Presi-
acnt and heads of the various departments and shall
report TO Congress It shall have power TO send for
persons and papers. summon and compel the attend
ance OF witnesses, etc.
Mn other words II is proposed TO hobbe the Presi-
dent Of the United States, the Secretaries Of War,
Navy and state the generals OF the army and the ad-
mrais Of the navy They are to do their very urgent
work in the greatest crisis in the nations history with
a bunch OF shoppers and Paul Prys at their heels
They are to be forced to dvulge important secrets OF
policy and strategy and leaherlunged feather
Drained statesman may spill the news during de-
bate just as Senator Stone did in a Senate speech
Article II Section H. Paragraph /, Of the Consttu-
ton Of the United states would to put quetus
on this whole dangerous scheme. 1t says:
"Ihe President shall be commander-in- chief Of the
and navy of the United States and OF the militia
OF the several states when called into the actual
vice OF the United States"
If Congress will attend to its own business IL will
have enough to do. What the nation wants from its
servants in the Senate and the not Paul Pry
bills, hobbng bills but bills approprating money for
the adequate carrying Of the war; and legislation
that will give this country adequate military estab
lishment
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

| conditions that will keep money out
Of, rather than pour it into, the Treas
ury. Take the suggested income tax
of 40 per cent on incomes of and
above 10000 a year. Right now
possessors of such incomes are sell
ing their securities by the wholesale.
They intend to put the proceeds into
Government bonds, exempt from all
taxation. Not only would the Treasury
not get from those persons what such
a measure would try to give it, but
on such funds transferred from gen
eral securities into Government bonds
the Treasury would get from them
nothing at all
Nor would the general securities,
now in the hands of new owners, yield
from those new owners revenue any
where near what the measure aimed
at. They would be divided up in small
holdings subject to only a low rate.
In one mans hands at the 40 per
cent. rate, an income not drawn from
Government bonds would be expected
to yield the Treasury more than $780,
900 a year. But that million a year in
come shifted into hundreds of hands
would yield relatively only trifle to
the Treasury.
Likewise with the tax on excess
profits of corporations and partner
ships. Obviously, if the business pro
fits, out of which come individual in
comes, are commandeered recklessly
by the Government there will be that
much less individual return to be
taxed as income. Obviously too, II the
earnings of a business are diverted
into the Treasury too heavily, the en-
terprise the expansion and the earn
ing power of that business will be
crippled. so that, as the process goes
on. there will be less and less of the
excess profit for the Government 10
take and the Treasury to get, whereas
a more moderate tax that would pro-
mote and encourage further enter
prise, expansion and earnings, would
make for more and always more reve-
nues that could be gathered into the
Treasury.
Those are only a few examples Of
the ways in which extreme taxation
methods could and would defeat the
Governments purpose of raising huge
revenues. They form only a part of
the reason for assuming that. while
the country is behind the Govern
ment in this war, while the people are
ready and willing to give men and
money in full supply, the Government
will neither deliberately pillage nor
heedlessly sacrifice the industry
business, wealth and welfare of this
nation.
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

TIE BACK FIRE SQUAD ON HOW NOT TO DO Ut.
II cans ean. are i'" D''" ''''' ''' '"'''S''' ''''
Every day, while this lasts. thousands OF help
less persons in Belgium, Serbia and the invaded re
gions of France will be starving TO death.
Every day the misery and suffering of millions will
grow worse.
Every average day about 5000 will be killed or
wounded on the western battle front alone.
Every day that we hasten the sending of American
troops to Europe cuts off a day of the Perhaps it
cuts off more than that
It isn't the deadly execution they will do. It isn't
the idea that they will descend upon the hostile
riors and eat them alive It is the tremendous moral
force greater than all armies that lies in the notice
to the world that not nation obliged to let
others do our fighting, we not in this war with
dollars alone but with the full strength OF 10000
people
Facing these facts the half-witted and the half
hearted in Congress and out want TO waste time over
a bacl1-hre scheme to wait for volunteer army.
At the present rate of enlistment It will take six
years to raise an army Of 100000 men, That's ALL
The same order Of mind demands that no American
troops ready shall be sent to Europe.
The swift, stiff punch does the business.
Universal military training and meantime the Ameri-
regulars to Europe That is the way to end the
and free the world from the horror and blight
OF it,
This is our job and anybody who goes in the way
Of it is not only an enemy to this country but an
enemy to all mankind.
Now that the Germans have extended their fright
funess from the killing of women and children to the
sinking OF relief and hospital ships and TO the
ruthless murder Of wounded German soldiers on those
hospital ships it is time for every civilized nation on
earth TO assist in putting end to the warlike acy-
ties Of such a barbarous nation
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
A pROPHECY FnLFILLED.

nUR prophecy has been fulfilled. The fund for
" building Thomas r. c. Church not only reached
the prescribed 100000 mark but went $111S7 beyond
g. In other words after paying all the expenses Of
the ten-day Embarrassing campaign fully 100000 will
remain for building purposes, the site for the new and
handsome structure being already in hand
The success of the campaign is a glowing compli-
ment 10 the Rev. John J. Connolly, pastor of St.
Thomas parish and his assistant Father Lynch, whose
purposeuness and popularity made the campaign pos
sble 1t also fine tribute to the generosity OF the
people of Wilmington and to the splendid team work
done by those who were engaged actively in raising
The money.
We felcitate Fathers Connolly and Lynch upon the
success Of their laudabe enterprise We congratulate
the people OF Wilmington upon their generosity May
the directors OF the campaign and the members OF the
leans derive much happiness from the good work
hey have done.
When the handsome church edihce has been reared
nt Fourth street and Grant avenue it will stand as
stately monument TO all Of them.
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
POOLING WITH DYNAMITE.

A GROCDTVS boy in Brooklyn had wireless tele-
graph apparatus and amused himself one night by
sending out the urgent call for help s. o. s.
A cutter picked it up at sea, and shot it
into Washington, which relayed it instantly TO all the
other cutters and many other ships For many
days thereafter the cutters and others went patrong
up and down the coast from Maine to Florida, looking
for the vessel in distress.
Yes And every time anybody suggests that de-
vice OF such unlimited chances for mischief and dis
should be allowed in any hands but the govern
ments chorus OF smps in Congress sends up the cry
that this would never do because it would be a con-
cession to the deadly doctrine of government owner
ship"
The of Congress is the cuckoo bird perched on
a seat and mechanically repeating things he knows
nothing about.
To allow anybody to store unlimited explosives any
where he pleased would be wisdom compared with our
present practice OF leaving wireless telegraphy in ire
sponsble private hands But nothing short of catas-
trophe will pound that into the timber heads of the
cuckoo tribe.
In the present emergency every wireless outfit in
our country should be, in the broad sense at least
under government control.
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

New York this authorized minimum
would be 5000, our Guard being pro-
portionately 10 population much larger
than the Guards in most OF the other
states. But thereafter an increase of
80 per cent. annually was to be made,
until the Guard represented a strength
Of 500 for each Senator and Repre-
sentative in COngress-in New YOrk's
case an expansion to $4,000. But any
state is permitted to go to the 500
per Congressman basis as soon as it
wants to do so.
The strength Of the National Guard
in all the states is today about 125,0O0.
The peace strength permitted under
{ the Hay law is about 100000, counting
/ 100000 for men and 10000 for officers.
/ There are places. therefore, in the
/ National Guard for 3l5,0OO volunteers.
If the Guard is put on a war footing
there Will be places for 100000 more.
Estimating at $4,000 the number of
Guardsmen transferred as instructors
to the new conscript armies. SOS, 900
volunteers could be utilized in the
Guard alone. In the Guard and the
regular establishment together 765, 900
could be utilized.
There is no indication that volun-
teering will bring in anything like that
number. Volunteer returns now are
pitifully small. They are almost micro
| scopic. The Hay law provides for con-
scription as a means of recruiting the
Guard, if volunteering fails. The Gen
eral STAFF bill provides for conscrip-
, ton both for the Guard and for the
regular army in case volunteering
breaks down. In our opinion, conscrip-
tion will be necessary all along the
line, although it may not be resorted
to- at once except for the new armies.
The government is giving the volun-
teer a chance. It will accept 765, 900
volunteers, II they offer themselves.
The passage of the General STAFF bill
will not of itself extinguish the volun-
teer system. That system will quickly
extinguish itself by showing that Il
cannot be depended upon to furnish
troops as rapidly and in such numbers
as they are needed under the condi-
tions of modern war.
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

Trench warfare it was; "furrow warfare" it soon
will be-
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
A Flimsy Excuse
(From The New York Press. L.

Many Congressman are excusing
their hostility to selectiye conscrip-
ton on the ground that the General
Staff's bill limits too strictly the op-
portunity to volunteer There is little
sincerity in that argument The Oppo-
nents of conscriptiOn are more con-
cerned about protecting slackers than
they are about preserving tho honor
able distinction attaching to voluntary
service. They are not working in the
interest Of those who want to have
the satisfaction Of offering themselves
freely. but in the interest of those
who want to dodge their obligations
Co the State.
The fact is that even IL the General
Staff bill passes there will be an op
portunity for volunteering on a large
scale. There will probably be more
places open for volunteers than there
will be volunteers to MI them. The
regular army is to be enlarged at once
to its maximum strength under the
Hay law. On a war basis, with all the
increments added at once which were
10 be added in five annual instalments
the regular army will number 293 000
Its strength today is only little over
100000. So there will be an immedi
ate demand for 100000 men to I'LL out
the ranks of the regular establish
ment, and many thousands more will
be needed to supply vacancies created
by the transfer to the new armies of
the regulars assigned to them as drill
masters and instructors.
The War Department has recently
made the argument of the anti-con
scriptiUnists even more absurd thar
it was originally by ruling that the
state governments may create at once
new National Guard units and bring
their Guard quotas up to full peace
streng h. This decision is i'm accord
ance with the language Of the Hay
law. which permits any state to make
at once the increases in the strength
of its Guard for which that law pro
vided. BY June 3. 1917 the Nationa
Guard in each state was to consist
of 200 enlisted men for each Senator
and Representative in Congress. Foi
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
GERMAN KINDNESS.

VNHERE has been a good deal said about German in
humanity in this war, but nothing illustrates the
brutshness Of the German official character like the
following story by no less authority than American
Ambassador Gerard
"One day read in the North German Gazette a para
graph which told that a number of the inhabitants OF
northern German town had been guilty OF improper
and unpatriotc conduct toward prisoners OF war;
that they had been jailed for varying terms and their
names printed in the North German Gazette that their
names might be exposed to shame and their falsty
made known 20 generations of Germans to come
II said to myself Good last some Of these Ger
to be punished for maltreating prisoners OF
war. / directed the American consul there 10 make
report the matter He sent back word that train
load Of Canadian prisoners OF war was being taken
through the town when necessary to put the train
on siding. Some Of the prisoners communicated 10
curious townsfok gathered about the train that they
were starved and had nothing to drink The towns
people had given them food and drink and that was
The crime Tor which they imprisoned and held up
to shamel
Il had seen small boys, with German simplicity and
kindness, march about the prison camps armed with
bows and arrows, shoot arrows tipped with nails at
prisoners, but had not before heard OF such thing
as this"
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
Effective Taxation Must be Sane, Success
full Bond Borrowing SouRd
lFrom the New York sunl

With Congress ready this week to
take up the details of the Govern
ments war finance measure it must
be evident to clear thinkers that
crackbrained theorists and fiamboy-
ant politicians win not be permitted
to have anything to do with the work.
They may talk about it; they may not
touch it. For either unsettled intel
lects or clumsy hands the problem is
not only too vast, 1t is too complex.
For extremists, either radical or con-
servative, IL is too delicate, the risks
of mistake are too many, the penalties
OF failure will be too tragic.
Because to be effective taxation
must be sane. we must assume that
the Government will not plunge into
an irrational tax programme that
would defeat the very purpose of the
Government-to raise abundant reve-
nues. Because to be successful bond
borrowing must be sound, both for
the Government and for the country.
we must assume that the Government
Will not borrow in quantities or at
rates that, while hurting its own
credit, will wreck all other credits in
the country and so weaken or kill the
capacity of the public to support the
Government financially.
Let us consider what the Govern.
ment, determined to win the war and
needing huge treasure to win It, can.
not safely do and We may surmise ap.
proxlmately what the Government will
do, because there will be nothing else
left TO do that promises success, Sc
curity and honor.
1t is inconceivable that all of a sud.
den money will be borrowed in vol.
ume so prodigious and in sequence so
swift that it will be necessary TO pay
a high interest rate to bid funds away
from all other fields. Such a course
would dislocate the whole American
money market. endanger savings
banks and insurance companies, upon
which the welfare of the public is so
largely dependent, restrict the bank
accommodations of business and man
ufacture, bar railroads out of the lend.
ing centres, and threaten not merely
the savings but the very livelihoods
of wage earners. The Government war
borrowing therefore must be prudent:
at the same time 1t must 80 hand
i'm hand with war taxation wide
enough and deep enough to yield in
comparable revenues but not immod-
crate enough to dry up the sources of
revenue.
It is inconceivable that the Govern
ment will adopt either income tax
rates or excess profit tax rates under
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

There was a little Kaiser and his name Bill; he
got in the worlds way and then stood still Teuti
Tcut!
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
GEMS OF THOUGHT

golden mind s.oops not to shows of dross-shakes-
peare
:-:-:-:
And if you mean to profit learn to- please
Churchill.
All the ends OF the earth shall the salvation Of
our Gol.-lsaiah, lii:1O
.-.-.-:
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities. and
in every assertion keeps doubt in reserve-Froude
t-.-.-.
Traditions are worthy Of respect only when they
serve the real needs Of the present-Dayid starr
Jordan.
:-.-:-.
Archaeologists are the chaps who can find and iden
my the pearls OF Cleopatra dissolved in vinegar and the
very pebble with which David downed Golath-C l.
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
With The Paragrsphers

Nothing makes a woman With real pearl neck
madder than to have the limitations good-Ohio
State Journal (Columhus)
AT the river Aa the war which has been disportiug
among the rs begins its red alphabet over again.
Springfield Ciass) Republican.
The man on the corner says: There hasn't been a
Id put on yet which hasn't sooner or later worked
loose Norwich (Conn) Bulletin
Personally think bit Of rouge may be becoming
to anyone. but it is awful for any lady to look like
little red harn.-Galveston (Tex) News
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
"rM GOING TO HAVE NEW SHOES TODAY, AN
WHEN l GET THEM ON I WON'T
SPEAK TO .YOU!"

A PIPING voice uttered those words outside our
window.
It was little girl OF the neighborhood.
Three other little girls looking at her with
what may have been amazement what may have
been disgust.
We hope It disgust.
Please good fathers and mothers for your chill
drens sake. don't teach them pride of possessions.
Don't lead them believe they little better than
their playmates because their clothes little neater
little newer.
This kind Of pride will make them unhappy as they
grow older
furthermore It will make them feel inferior to chill
dren who little better dressed than they. And
you don't want them to feel inferior do you?
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

Russia will make separate peace with Germany
The other nations in the Quadruple Entente have re-
ceved to that effect from the Russian Pro-
visional Government. For the democratic government
have been shameful betrayal Of trust that would
have disgraced Russian democracy in its very cradle
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

Dover is coming to the front in fine shape in the
matter Of military preparedness. With its Defense
Committee, its Red Cross branch and several other
forms Of activity it is setting splendid example for
the other towns in the State
Evening journal., 1917-04-24
AN mPORTANT pEFENsr MrrrINc

NH UGH important work will be done az the meeting
lF1 OF the Executive Committee Of the Wilmington
National Defense Committee tomorrow evening II
will be held in the Board of Education rooms Former
Congressman Thomas W. Miller. chairman, viii pre-
side
Since the last meeting held several OF the sub
committees have been doing effective work. notably
those on recruiting 1t is expected that all Of them
viii make reports and that new work will be mapped
out
1t is highly important therefore. that there be a
full attendance.
Evening journal., 1917-04-24

He who holds "war BRIDE is ucker than she who
holds war bridegroom.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-09-20
Posadzony 0 nlorderstwo.

Newark, N. j. Flip Kusek, la
%, zamkniety zosta4 W wiezienir
ma podstawie doniesienia zlozone
go przez Michala Kusaka, II kt6
rego Pasek zamieszkiwa}.
Wed}ug opowiedzenia. Kusaka
.Pasek w miesiacu maju lnia} "a
mordowac kogos W Pittsburgh
obrabowac $500 czem podob.
no wygada} sic pred iona Kusa.
ka, kt0ra znalazla diva rewolwe-
ry spory zapas kulek W pokoju
Paska.
Kusak d}ugo przechowywa} ta-
jemnice, az wreszcie nam6wi} Pa
ska sam MIN uda} sic do czwar
tego oddzia}u policyi. Pc wys}u-
chaniu history obydwu osadzono
W wieziieeniu,. a w miedzyczasinl fpo
]icya wdrozy}a sledztwo W. tel
sprawie. - ..<I,a, =
Pasek przyznaje sic, ze byf W
Pittsburgh W miesiacu majn, lecz
zapiera sic spelnicnia zbrodni. Ma
wyt}6maczenie sic przywiezienia
pokaznej sunny pienieznej powia
,da, ze odebra} je cd niejakiego
Komnstantego rs Krowca " Pittsburi
g1. 6.
Policya tutejsza powiadomila o
tel sprawie wladze policyjne W
Pittsburgh.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-09-20
Dlecku pek}a czaszka,

st. Louis, Mo. J6zef Grzyb,
pnr. 1416 N. 9ej ul. rzucil butel-
ka od piwa w niejaka Eve
Schwartz, lecz zamiast w MIA, ira
fiji W jednorocznego chlopczyka,
kt6rego trzyma}a na reku. Die
cko uleglo peknieciu czaszki. Gdy
aresztowano Grzyba, powiedzial,
ze rzucif W Schwartzowa butelka,
poniewaz ublizyla jego zonie j
kopne}a ia W brzuch.
Onegdaj iona Grzyba, Helena
powifa W szpitalu przy Garrison i
Lawton ul. niezywe niemowle,
skutkiem czcgo aresztowano
Schwartzowa, pod oskarzeniem
dzieciob6jstwo.
Kobiety pok}6cily sic 0 rachu-
mex groceryjny W sk}adzie spo--
zywczym Schwartzowej pnr. 805
0 O'Fallon ul. Schwartzowa kopne-
la Grzybowa W brzuch, "a co zn6w
Grzyb rzucif W MIA butelka cd pi
wa.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-09-20
s4ss
Z INV PoLSKlCH
W AMERYCE:.
CHICAGO.
0lotnla sic zabieajqc
bizuterye.

Przed kilku. dniami ulotnila
sic zdomu swego wuja szesnast-
ka Anna Komiska wraz bizute-
ryami wartosci 5000. List, kt6ry
W domu po jej skamforowaniu sic
znaleziono naprowadzil ia slad
Leo,ia Lugowskiego, lepiej znane
go pod nazwiskiem s. c. Campbell
Stwierdzono tez, re Campbell jest
W bliskich Anna stosun nkach.
Przyaresztowany, ME chce wyja-
vic gdzie dziewczyna sic znajdu-
jc. Pedal swdj wick ma % llata,
lecz rekord .jego policyjny wyka-
zuje, ze liczy on dopiero a lat.
Poniewaz hugowski Campbell
ME registrowaf sic, oddany zosta}
W rece w}adzy federalnej,. kt6ra
najpierw bedzie sic z MIN rozpra
wiac.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-09-20
Walk we Francyi.
Paryz-Londyn, 20 wrzesnia.

TaIyz-AOn0yn, ~ WIzesAAs''
w Szampanii walka artyleryl "a
cieta; mad Moza Niemcy atakowa
Ii pozycye, pod Courrieres, ostat-
MO zdobyte przez Francuzow !
ia przestrzeni 500 metrow zdo--
fsli odebrac okopy W tym punk
Gle; dalszy atak wstrzymany Mad
Aisne pod Classmates Niemcy O
negdaj nagly wykonali atak, kto
ry jednak odparto wlelklem'
stratami nieprzyjaciela.
= Ma angielskiem skrzydle nle
ma wazniejszych wydarzen' a"ls
tyka dzia}a dose pomyslnle = M
mo ME sprzyjajacej pogody; re9
dy poza linie niemieckie ida Jed
ne "a drugini; onegda] bomoar-
dowano aerodromy niemleckle y
okolicy Ghistelles j Thourout 2 d
brym wynikiem; wszystkle masz!
! ny wr6ci}y calo.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1917-09-20
Salonista ponosi podw6jna
Strate.

Jersey City, N. J. Podczas gdy
salunista Jak6b Kasperski, pm.
16O czwarta ul., zdrzemnaf sic W
salunie, W niedziele wieczorem,
mu $3.50, kt6re dzie1
przedtem wyeiagnaf z banku.Kra
dziez spostrzegl aopiero wtenczEs
gdy zona jegos przyby}a do salu-
nu, azeby zobaczyc, dlaczego jej
MAJ ME przychodzi do mieszka--
MIA. Kasperski zawiadomif o kra-
dziezy policye, kt6ra na dobitke
zfego, jeszcze go aresztowa}a "a
to, re W niedziele mia} salun OF
warty. Aresztowano takze cste--
rech gosci, lecz ci udowodnili, re
pieniedzy ME skradli i wypuszczo
no: ich ma wolnosc. Sprawe wzieli
W rece detektywi.