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TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-08-01
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
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WHAT | HEAR IN ENGLAND

with the government they would simply md
themselves commandeered by the defence OF
the realm act Lloyd George is now going to
put the screws on still tighter All that he
needs to do in this field of government pur-
chases is to make the "costings" system abso-
Iutely universal.
Let US suppose, however, that you have
large trade with the general public. This IL
the real problem. Prices have gone up for the
general public very rapidly and very much
without control. This is where the owners OF
coal and the owners of ships have made their
really big profits They have not "gouged' the
government particularly. When the govern
ment buys coal and when it buys space III
ships it buys at fixed rates. 1t does not buy
at the market. The way in which big profits
are being made is by selling at the market to
the public at large. This is the sort OF
"profteering" which Lloyd George doubtless
had especially in mind when he said, in the
course Of his first speech as Prime Minister,
that "profteering" must be subjected to further
rigid restrictions in order that there might be
a closer approach to the principle of equality
of sacrifice
At present the only formidable obstacle to
"profteering" in most commodities sold to the
general public is the "excess profits tax. This
applies to all firms which are not controlled
establishments" The controlled establish
ments" pay the special tax have already men
toned. All other firms pay the excess profits"
tax 1t is levied on all profits which you may
make in excess of your ordinary pre-war stand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
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Bv WILLIAM HARD

a rather nasty way of getting its boots and
its other non-munition supplies for its soldiers.
1t does not depend on the bids received from
you and your competitors. 1t does not depend.
even Oh its knowledge of the current market
price of boots Often you would be delighted
if the government would simply pay you the
market price, but the government would rather
not 1t has acquired passion for costing
It invokes the Defence of the Realm act, UNI
der which, as manufacturer remarked 70 me,
it can do almost anything except declare that
your wife shall be somebody else'5 wife for the
good of the nation, and it examines your books.
What are your costings in making boots? so
much. All right. You shall have the exact
cost of the boots plus peace time profit Not
a war time profit. A peace time normal aver
age humdrum profit. So far as government
purchases are concerned you shall be not one
penny better of per pair Of boots sold than in
peace time. In fact considering that govern
ment purchases in peace time were not made
by any means so vigorously, you shall be a
great deal worse off
This system of buying on "costings" has
been extended TO cover a vast area of pur-
chases. II is being still further extended all
the time Thousands of manufacturers would
be charmed If they could sell their whole out
put 70 the general public and not deal with
the government at all. But if any set of manu-
facturers should Importantly refuse to deal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

lar he makes he pays taxes amounting 70 621a
Englands financial future.
Let US imagine that you happen to be not
quite so unfortunate as he is. Let us imagine
that your total of taxes is not five-eighths of
your net income, but only one-half. Your net
income was $4,000 pounds. Your total Of
taxes is $4,000. Your spending money, taxes
deducted, is $4,000 final.
This is far too much. You do not really
need Sc 900 The Fabian Society is grieved TO
think that you have 5000 But cannot
sweat the rich to their skeletons all at once.
These things have to be done bit by bit Your
drop from gross income Of 100000 TO final
spending income Of $4,000 was considerable
drop. In fact doubt if any such drop was
ever before enacted by the taxing authorities
Of any nation.
1t is clear now, hope that il you want to
get millions suddenly and keep them perIna
nently by manufacturing fighting supplies
for the British government, the thing TO do is
10 manufacture them in the United States.
You will not get very far on your road by
manufacturing them in England.
SO much for supplies which are really fight
ing" supplies. But perhaps you are making
supplies Of some other sort. Perhaps you are
making boots Here your chances are better. Or
perhaps ought to say that they used TO be bet
ter. OF late the government has begun to have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

ard of profits. IF this excess this year snO,N
be 10000. you hand over $4,000 Of 1t TO 'n'
government. 1t is stiff tax; but, even 90 /
leaves many millions of unexpected pounds U
the hands of traders.
It would be unfair to assume that uSS
millions are devoted simply to rlotous 1--WE
A very large proportion Of them 90 70 )"
excellent purposes. The first is war loans ~,
war loans summon and receive an amo1h' "
support which is the amazement oil lhe n''"'
cial world. This support is greatly inSfe'"'
by the existence Of unexpected masses OF sp','
capital in the hands Of traders who nave .i'T
"excess profits" And the second is war enS'
ties. The money going into war char'iese,e,
month is really paralyzing to the spee'S''.
from abroad Take n small instance; l".'
a "club" here called the Union JACK OIuO'
is for soldiers and sailors on leave IN L0'O'
It is building an extension of its premises
short time ago it printed its second hSt
subscribers to its extension fund. I'm r,m
that the number OF persons controuuns
which is S476-was 1874. And thus Is '1
one small incidental local charity, r'aAine
real stir at all. The big charities are cows,
1.-THE London Times" Fund has now gone
yond sos. 900 900 and the Prince of WaleS ~
has now gone beyond S30,0OO,oOO. The wen
do are not boarding their wealth. ,,.T
Nevertheless, one can hardly doubt tha' Law
George is absolutely right in believing
excess profits" should be further res.'X ..x
either by further control of prices or by ia'~
taxation. If Lloyd George completes ,ne -.
ess through which wartime 'prohteer"s r,c
been tanned in England and if he brings
land TO the end of the war with that sol, i.
"nrofteerng' knocked toothless ne w" al
accomplished feat which in 10 previous
has even been attempted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

it was not forgotten that on the day when u.
young men Of his class were called to milts,v
service four years ago Jean invented exruss
after excuse and malady after malady 70
avoid being called.
In spite Of his cowardice he was BRAY.
enough, or foolish enough, to love, greatly
but hopelessly, the beauty Of St. Esteub.
Madeleine Duval. % course, she would h.v.
none of him, or at least she told him so manv
times. There were many, however, who b..
lieved that she was sick with love for him. a,
he was for her, but was ashamed. and dan,
not face the ridicule of the village nor he,
own conscience.
So, when the war came, Jean went away
white of face and trembling, and Madeleine
was not even at the station to waive him !,
goodby.
And then, one day, the widow Gaoux an.
nounced that Jean was coming home-that
he had been given a two-weeks' furlough.
That afternoon there were more customers
than usual at the cafe, for many came to ask
the Pere Lemunier whether they should 30
far honor a coward as to go to the train To
welcome him. And to all of them the Old
soldier replied:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
st. Esfephe Prepares TO Welcome
Home the Village Coward

What if you think him a coward? Has
he not been fighting for France? Welcome him
if you are wise, my friends"
And so, reluctantly, little crowd gathered
at the station on the day that Jean Galoux.
the coward, was TO arrive. Madeleine DIVA
was in the crowd, but scornful-eyed and
laughing. The train drew up to the litt.
platform, and Jean stepped down before the
waiting group. But it was not the Jean VINO
had gone away from st. Estephe. The boy
they saw was big and ruddy-cheekcd, and
bearded, erect and smiling. Beneath the gray
kepi a-tilt on his head showed the white Of
surgical bandage, and on the sleeves of bis
greatcoat were newly sewn the chevrons Of
sergeant.
The Widow Galoux ran to him and took hin
in her arms.
"And what have they done to you, poor lit.
tie one?" she cried, looking at his bandagel
head
But, nothing at all, petite Mdm0n" replied
Jean, laughing at the tragic face, except
that am a sergeant"
He patted her plump black shoulders, look
ing all the while straight at Madeleine, who
stood, pale and wondering, at the edge Of tn.
crowd.
Then the old Lemeuner stepped forward
and took Jean by the hand.
Listen, my friends" said he, sit is fitting
that we properly salute this Jean of ours, who
has come back" He unfolded a week-old Paris
newspaper and began to read aloud.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
No, 1t Is Not Always Dull in ST.
ESfephe by the Bridge

Jean Galoux: Courageously held his at
vance post with hand grenades during 81.
hours, single handed. Wounded and cited in
the order of the day of The army" And
turning to the boy at his side-"Open your
coat, Jean GalouX"
And Jean unbuttoned his greatcoat slowly
and sheepishly, and there on the breast Of
his tunic flashed the Gross of the Legion Of
Honor.
But Jean did not hear the cheers or fee
the hands that clasped his. He was looking
only at Madeleine, who was coming SLOWLY
toward him, her eyes never wavering from
his. She reached him and put both her hands
clasped upon his breast.
my big JEAN" she whispered, Il am
proud"
Before all the world he took her into his
arms.
my Mada' said Jean, the coward, tn"
is why could do it," She leaned on his bresS
and kissed the cross that hung there, and nen7
raising her head, met the lips that bent doFH
to hers. Her man was not a coward and nae
come back to her.
No. it is not always dull in st Estephe dS
Points.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

to be wondering when the widow Dantezac will
marry the Notary Che has called upon her
every Thursday evening for fifteen years.,
and Dussaulx, which started soon after the
Franco-Prussisn War over some question of
a cow, is still being waged with all its ancient
bitterness.
The Great White Way of st. Estephe,
which consists Of the cafe restaurant EAU
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

to increase your plant and TO increase your in
vcstment and that much of this new plant and
new investment may be left useless on your
hands when the war is over. Ten thousand
pounds plus $4,000 is $4,000. You keep
$4,000. The difference between 100000 and
$4,000 is $4,000. The Chancellor of the EX
chequer comes along and takes that $4,000.
He needs it. He puts it into the national
treasury TO carry on the war. You take your
$4,000 pounds and congratulate yourself.
In q few minutes, however, you again meet
the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Last time
he saw you he treated you as firm. This
time he treats you as an individual. He wants
your income tax. Your income tax on $4,000
figures out 24,129 shillngs and pence. Call
it $4,000. 1t is just one-third of your net in
come. You now have $4,000 left You started
off with twenty. You are now down to eight.
You are not quite so happy.
But you still have to face your local gov
eminent Your national government is more
or less through with you. Your local govern
ment has not yet begun.
You still, of course, have 70 pay your local
rates" These vary. They cannot be calcu-
lated in any precise relation TO your income.
They depend much on the kind OF house you
choose 10 live in and on the amount Of ground
you choose to have around II. / know man,
not excessively wealthy, whose national and
local taxes put together amount 70 IL shilling
and 6 pence In the pound. That means five
eighths Of every pound Re makes. Putting IL
in our money, IL means that out OF every dol
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

~ Ne Of the clearest indications Of the diff
ference between this war and all pre-
vious wars in England is TO be seen in
the restrictions which have been placed around
the ancient and once honorable art of profit
eering." The chances Of making war-fortune
in England to-day out of anything supplied
directly 70 the government may be regarded as
decidedly slim.
Imagine for instance, that you are manu-
featuring something that can be construed to
be among munitions of war" 1t may be cleo
trical instruments needed for communications
by wire or by wireless in the operation Of his
rajesty's forces on land or sea- Along comes
a notice from the government tagging you and
saving that you are now Controlled estab-
lishment" Every few days the Ministry Of
Munitions announces new batch OF con
troued establishments" They now include all
important-and several thousand relatively un-
Observation-Disclosures furnishing the govern
rnent with those supplies which are peculiarly
Fighting" supplies.
Let US see now what happens 70 your profits.
You al once come under Part 2, Section
). Of the Munitions Of War act Of July 2,
1915. Your increased profits, due 10 your in
creased sales Of telegraph instruments needed
e. war, begin 10 suffer a serious decline The
Government examines these profits. It com
pares them with the profits you used 70 make.
Let US suppose that in the two years before
the war your profits, on the average, were
10000 a year. i>st US suppose your present
profits are 10000 a year. Very well you are
allowed 70 keep your old $4,000. You arc
also allowed To keep an additional 20 per cent
on your old $4,000. That is, you arc allowed
% keep an additional $1,000. The argument
for this Is that you probably have been obliged
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

OT. ESTEPHE DIES POINTS. The name
will bring back to you no recollection Of
eleventh century churches or Roman
ruins. There are none there. It will call up
no picture Of dusty and bored tourists peering
through the gloom Of side chapel at black
ened and cracked canvas thought TO be Cor
regio"
Baedeker does not know st. Estephe, or, If
he does, it is one Of those towns which he
grandly dismisses with the phrase latter pass
ing through uninteresting country and the sta
ton Of ST. Estephe (171a NJ, we arrive" etc,
etc. Baedeker knows it not, and therefore the
tourist, subservient in all things, passes 1t by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

Solel du Midi" and the ten metres of gray
elled tervasse in front of it, feels the war
however. The young bloods Of the town, who
used to foregather there in the late afternoon
to drink their "bock' or their qpinqntnd, at
the eight green iron tables under the striped
awnings. are sitting in trenches in Artois
or Champagne drinking out of tin cups, with
no table at ALL and under an awning of chilly,
leaden winter skies. OF the gay parties
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
Who Is 1t That Little Jeanne
Meets Every Night After DinnerP

First of all, the young men of the town have
gone to the front. But there is no lack of SOL
diers. In the cdserue which fronts on the
Place de la Refine is housed battalion of re-
serves, and all day there is drilling in the tree
shaded square which gives into the Place.
Many of the men are in a uniform of some
coarse white stuff, for they are recruits and
have not yet been given their horizon blue.
They are not much like the soldiers one sees in
Paris assisting at ceremony at the Invalides
or on duty at the Ecole Mlitaire-trained
troops drilling with the machinelike precision
of West Point cadets. These are awkward and
undisciplined, and no two of them hold the
rifle at the same angle. But after a few
months of intensive training these same re-
cruits viii begin to carry themselves like SOL
ders and will say adieu to st. Estephe and
climb into their third class carriages, cheering
and waving goodby, and be whirled away to
heir post somewhere back Of the front, where
they will be merged into the great army of
their countrymen, and the little village in the
south will know them no more.
These recruits are not from st. Estephe.
They are gathered together from all the region
roundabout and brought here for their train
ing. So they are strangers to the townspeople,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
Thousands of Soldiers from Paris;
Millions from ST. ESfephe

No one whom the world knows was ever
born in st. Estephe, no saint was martyred in
its market place, it has no museum, and the
village Millions who sleep in the shadow Of its
ugly little church are not known in Paris. In
time of peace it numbers perhaps 1000 souls.
It is just a French village, one of thousands
scattered throughout the length and breadth Of
France. You will find it on the sunny slopes Of
Provence, or nesting in the foothills Of the
Pyrenees, in the fertile plains Of Normandy or
among the black defles of the Cevennes. We
never see these little st. Estephes, but they
are just as much France as Paris is. Did you
ever stop to think that in the great army of
Frenchrpen which is stretched across France
to-day, while there are thousands Of Parisians,
there are millions from st. Estephe? The mud
spattered poil1s who stands in the north of
France, his back to his native land and his
grim face turned toward the enemy, has never
seen Paris. Perhaps until his military service
began he had never travelled further from his
birthplace than the nearest market town. But
he is France, as the country is finding out. II
is ST. Estephe which is giving its millions
We know what Paris is doing in war time
what she says and thinks and does; what she
sees in her theatres and buys in her shops.
But what Of st. Estephe? What is going on in
the back waters of France, that are un-Bae
dekered and unknown?
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his life. and was at once tne luol .ahu Vie
despair of the good Widow GalouX who lives
in the blue villa with the mimosa tree in the
yard at the end of the old bridge. Jean spent
his DAYS fishing and lying under the mlmosa
tree and his evenings in the cafe, and was,
altogether trial to the industrious and hon
est folk of st. Estephe.
But, worse than all, Jean was coward.
One remembered the day when he had refused
to fight the drummer from Lyons, who had
thrown the wine in his face at the cafe. And
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and unusual interest is shown III
them. There Is always a respectful
audience around the square when
they drill-an audience for the most
part made up Of women and children
and old men-and the kindly end
hospitable villagers make much OF
their guests. Perhaps for the mo-
raent they take the place in their
hearts Of their own sons and hus-
lands who are fighting. The young
girls Of the town did not all have
lovers to send to the front, and so
the recruits are not deprived Of the
Establishments of lovely woman dur
ing their novitiate. Il is common
knowledge that Georgette, the phar-
macist's second daughter, is walking
down by the river every evening
with that tall one from s., and
NJ. lie Marie has been trying to find
out for days who it is that his
little Jeanne meets after dinner at
the dark end Of the parade grounds.
st. Estephe's one industry is the
making of chinaware. The factory
stands, gaunt and ugly, out on the
border of the town at the end Of the
Rue de la Sous-Prefecture, and be-
yond it stretch the clay pits, gray
gashes in the green countryside
But now it is closed. For time,
even after Monsieur B, the
owner, was modified as lieutenant
Of reserves, and with him most OF
his operatives, the work went on
under his assistant with handful
of women. But finally the assistant
was modified, too, and the plant
was shut down. Fortunately there
is little poverty in st. Estephe.
Most of the families have a COM
Portable sum laid by, for the French
provincial is thrifty soul Besides
this, the government gives q small
weekly stipend to such soldiers
families as have no savings, and so,
while one must economize, there Is
little actual suffering for those left
at home
Though the factory is idle and
most of the young men are away,
the village life goes on in much the
same way as it did before the war.
The village is not like the city. 1t
is rather comparable to what the
city was a few centuries ago-self-
supporting and self-suficient, and
with few points of contact with the
outside world The blacksmith shoes
as many horses as he did before
the war. The grocer sells as many
vegetables, and the druggist as
many pills. Since no one buys luxu-
RES anyhow, one does not suffer for
the lack Of them. A restriction Of
national commerce does not affect
the little towns that are to a large
degree self-supporting.
NJ. lie Marie gives his reception
Years Day, as he has always dc
town drunkard goes to Jail with h
.ional regularity. And the old g
hanging in row over the rails of
bridges are still fishing with the s;
sistence. The war has not changed Il
however, for I believe no one has e
them catch anything. The villagers