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Evening star., 1917-10-03
SENATE DISPOSES OF THE
$2,500, ,O0Oy coo TAX BILL
Adopts Conference Report Without
Roll Call and With Only Per-
functory Consideration.

Without a roll call and with only
perfunctory consideration the Senate
yesterday adopted the conference re-
port on the bill which is to raise 1884,
$4,000 Of taxes in addition to those now
laid by law. The Senate paid scant con-
sideration to the measure, and during
most Of the afternoon there were less than
a score present.
The bill was signed by Speaker Clark
and Vice President Marshall shortly after
noon today and was sent at once to the
White House.
The sponsors Of the bill were apollo
getic for many Of its provisions, ad-
mitting that it contained many fea-
lures to which they were opposed, but
that some kind of bill had to be
passed and this was the hest they could
do in the circumstances.
The restrictions upon second-class
mail came in for bitter criticism, and
1t was predicted by Senator Smoot that
before the law goes into operation II
will be modified by Congress next ses.
sion.
The bill now is estimated to raise
about. $S50. 100000 from incomes. cor
porate and individual, and about ST.
000. 100000 from war excess profits.
Other major levies are $50, 0,0O0, 900 on
tobacco. about $275,000.00O on liquors,
100000 on frst-class mail, 10000
600 on automobiles. $77,500, 900 on
freight transportation. $60,000,000 on
passenger transportation, $32 200, 900
from stamp taxes and $50, ,000, 900 from
amusement admissions.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
NEXT STEP BY OFFICIALS
NOT YET DETERMINED
National Woman's Party Attorney
Insists on Public. Hearing of
Workhouse Charges.

Following the failure yesterday OF
national woman's party members to
appear before the District board of
charities and press their charges
against Supt. William H. Whitaker
and his conduct of affairs at the work
house at Occoquan. uncertainty pre-
vailed today as to what would be the
next step of the charities officials in
investigating the complaints filed.
George E. Hamilton. chairman of the
investigating committee of the board.
will call meeting of the committee in
the next day or two. when plans for
continuing the inquiry probably will be
adopted.
When asked as to what would be the
next move of Cameron house leaders.
who refused to testify because the pro-
ceedings were to be held behind closed
doors, Dudley Field Malone. represent
ing the suffragettes, said: Il never
prophesy.'
Evening star., 1917-10-03
TWO. ARMY CAMPS NAMED.
Camp Merritt in New Jersey; Camp
Stuart in Virginia.

The big Army camp near Hoboken.
N. J.. has been named Camp Merritt
in honor of Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt.
United States Army, who served in the
civil war and commanded the first
expedition to the Philippines, and the
big camp near Newport News, Va. has
been named Camp Stuart. in honor of
Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, the distin-
guished Confederate cavalry officer who
was killed at the battle of Yellow
Tavern Va. in May. 1864.
In announcing this action the Sec
retary of War said the policy of the
War Department is to name the camps
ing their lives to the development of
the United States and the acquisition
by American citizenship of its present
status"
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Congressional Inquiry Einted.

Threats of congressional investiga-
ton, however. are believed to be con-
tanned in a letter filed with the COM
mittee by Mr.. Malone yesterday after
noon. in which he said:
I'VE are ready with-sur witnesses and
afiidavits to aid your honorable board in
every way, provided you meet the con-
ditions above named. But if you insist
on a hearing behind closed doors we
cannot submit our witnesses to star
chamber proceeding and shall readily
find another forum in which to tell our
story"
The committee met at o'clock yes
terday afternoon in the District build
ing. for the purpose of beginning the
investigation of conditions at Occoquan.
No witnesses appeared. but Dudley
Field Malone, counsel for the suffra-
gettes, accompanied by two attorneys,
Judge ]. K. NJ Norton and Samuel Brent
Of Alexandria, Va, and ellison Gardner.
arrived at the hour appointed and Mr..
Malone presented written request for
a public hearing,
Evening star., 1917-10-03
JOINT DUTIES ARE DEFINED.
National Committee Outlines Rela-
tons of Government and Business.

Duties of the government to business
are outlined by a committee Of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. which is cooperating with the
Council of National Defense. The COM
mittee points out:
Business must dedicate to the nation
every facility it has developed and
every financial resource it commands
on such terms and under such circum-
stances as our government shall de-
termine to be just Business owes the
duty to submit unhesitatingly to such
regulation and control by the govern
ment as may be necessary to concen-
trate the industrial resources and
energy of the country toward winning
the war.
THE duty which the government
owes business is equally clear. The
government owes business the duty of
wise and constructive leadership. The
control over business carries with 1t
the responsibility that the control be
exercised in a manner to produce the
results desired and to impose no un-
necessary hardship"
Evening star., 1917-10-03
HANDLING MAIL FOR SOLDIERS
All West Of Mississippi f0r Foreign
Force to Be Assembled at Chicago.

The Post Office Department has au-
ehorized the establishment of a western
military terminal at Chicago, where
will be assembled all mail collected
west of the Mississippi river addressed
TO members of the expeditionary forces
Heretofore New York city has been
Tho distribution point for the entire
country. but 1t will handle only mail
collected east of the Mississippi after
the Chicago terminal begins operation.
The departments announcement said
that, while everything possible is done
70 facilitate the movement of mail to
the soldiers, ocean transportation is abb
normal and consequently there is some
delay. In preparing parcels. Especially
Christmas packages. calculation should
be made on it requiring thirty days
xor the parcel to reach the American
soldier in France.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Committee Makes Reply.

After reading the communication the
committee informed Mr.. Malone that
the proceeding was not to be a trial. but
rather an executive inquiry, similar in
every respect to inquiries that are con-
Quoted by the board in all charges pre-
ferred against any of the institutions
over which it has Jurisdiction, and that
the investigation would be conducted in
the customary manner. The woman's
party representatives then departed and
the committee adjourned subject to call
OF the chairman.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
PLEA TO CONGRESS
FOR SPECIAL FUND
Sum of $4s9,C Needed for
Obtaining Information for
Army in France.
PROBE OF FOES ACTIVITIES

Military operations of United States
forces in Europe will be seriously handi-
capped. says the conference committee on
national preparedness, unless Congress
makes the special appropriation of s4s9,-
600 asked for by the War Department to
enable Gen. Pershing and general staff
officers to obtain information of the ac-
tivities of the central powers.
Committees Statement.
In an authorized statement, the COM
mittee says:
THE intelligence or information section
of the general staff collects and distributes
the Information upon which the opera
ton section makes its plans. Such infor-
nation is gathered by American intelli-
gence officers the world over-in the Bal
kans. in Russia, on the western front, in
Mexico, in South America, even in the re-
mote sections of India and the far east
Its agents must have money at their COM
mand to collect information Of military
Importance to the United States
Gen. Pershing's observers at the bat
tie front also are part of the intelli-
gence service. These observers, stationed
at strategical points, supply the COM
mander of the Army in France with news
of troop movements both of the enemy
as well as by our allies. 1t is the in
formation upon which Gen. Pershing will
base his decisions after the Americans
have occupied their trenches.
Evening star., 1917-10-03

James Phillips, alleged to be an organ
izer Of the Industrial Workers of the
World, wanted in Chicago on a charge OF
conspiring against the government in con-
nection with the draft act, has been ar
rested in Boston.
Evening star., 1917-10-03

the thirty-day grain storage limitation
will not apply to seed grain. Lots may
be kept for seed purposes until the end
of the next seeding season. but can
not be sold at a price exceeding by
Is per cent the selling price of No. 1
wheat at the elevator where stored.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Now Relying Upon Other Nations.

while we are today relying upon the
information supplied US by England,
France, Italy, Belgium and Russia, we
must not depend upon it entirely in the
future. No nation gives any other ma
tion all the information it possesses un-
less such information fits in entirely
with its own military policies. The time
may come-who may say that it is not
already here?-when the United States
will no longer care to follow blindly
the military leadership of any other
nation, when we will consider that our
own purposes in this swar can most
quickly be achieved by striking on some
other front than that which is consid-
cred most important by our allies. To
secure this Independence of Judgment
we must have our own observers on all
fronts.
Even here in Washington, in the de-
partments, spies are working to get in
formation of value to the enemy. With
the Pershing expedition itself are sus-
pected traitors and spies whom the war
Intelligence department must watch.
"At any cost of money the work of
our secret service must not be ham
pered. Any waste of money now. If it
is waste, is small in comparison with
waste of lives in the future"
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Takes Steps to Assure Seed Grain.

In order to insure the retention of
sufficient seed wheat and rye to sew
next years war crops. the Department
Of Agriculture today announced that
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Corp. Hart Killed in France.

Gen. Pershing has cabled the War
Department that Corp. Ernest F. Hart,
Signal Corps. was killed in France
Monday by the premature discharge of
Evening star., 1917-10-03

record-breaking price of s150 per
nundred pounds. nearly three times the
usual price in past seasons, is being paid
by planters in north Louisiana, particu-
1arly in the Monroe section, for cotton
picking.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
n hand grenade at practice. Corp.
Hart's father. B. W. Hart. lives at OK
ford. \. C.

If you want work read the want COL
umns of The Star.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
Wasting Water Powers.

Through a long course of legislative
fatuousncss our country has lost mil
lions of dollars in wasted power, and
stands to lose many millions more unless
the present situation is remedied. The
Fundamental economic principle about
hydraulic power is that every cubic foot
of water that plmges downward UNI
utilized is a sheer waste of inherent ma
tional wealth. If YOU do not dig up
your coal or cut down your wood its
fuel value remains, while in the ease of
unused water powers the water of the
present runs to absolute waste.
The thing of vital Importance to the
country at present is that all the sources
of hydraulic power which are econOm
ically available should be brought quick
~ into use so as to give modern indus
try a fair chance. The water which i
not used today is waste capital. We
lneed water-pOwer legislation which shall
/ give encouragement toward the imme
date development of every horsepower
worth the while, with provision to pro
tect the government in it's ownership i
\ You like, by regulation of prices and b,
/ limitation of charter rights, but still
constructive instead of destructive a
at present. The electro-chemical in
dustries need more power at Magyar
and legislators should see to it tina
these great industries are taken care OF
t-Metallurgical and Chemical Engineer
ling.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
PUZZLES THAT KILL TIME
They Always Show Up the Dizziness
and Persistency of the
Other Fellow.

Now and then you see man so
patient that he even can sit down and
wait his turn to try to work puzzle.
No, We'll take that back; there isn't
any such man. When some fellow who
ought to be at work pulls three rings
out of his pocket and invites some
body to do something or another with
them, all hands want the rings at the
same time. The dull fellow who gets
them first can't do the trick. but he
hasn't sense enough to give up and let
you have item. You ask him to let
you try it. but the stubborn fool works
away. Finally he gives it up. You
reach for the rings, but another fellow
grabs them. OF course, he is too stupid
to do anything with them, but
he holds to them as if they were his
child.
At last you get them. You have
had them hardly ten minutes when an
impudent whelp reaches over and
catches hold of them. 1t looks as if hi
is going to try to take them away from
you. After you give it up, severa
others fail on it. When the rush /:
| over, no one in the crowd would give
| two cents to know how the trick i
/ done, and the fellow who owns tn,
rings puts them in his pocket and goe
! on about his loafing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
Light Mea Assuring.

The candle power of two sources of
light cannot be compared by looking
at the lamps themselves. The color
of light and the intensity are very de-
ceiving to the eye.
The following is a simple method of
comparing Illuminating values:
IAN extremely simple light measur-
ing device, or photometer. can be i'm
provised by placing sheet of paper so
that the light from two lamps fall on it
at the same angle and then holding a
pencil or other small Opaque object at
little distance from the paper so that
it casts two shadows side by side.
IF the lamps are equally distant
the one of higher candle power will
cast the darker shadow; if the paper is
moved SO as to make the shadows
equally dark, the more distant lamp
is the more powerful in proportion t.
the square of the distances. "-Electri,
Merchandising.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
"Irl Teach You How to Catch Birds

glad I'm sleepy. It's feeling | most
particularly enjoy
- have nothing to do with it,
though said the Cat, snappishly.
Every Well said SNOWFALL. Let's
be friends. I've brought game with
me-
"'What is it, asked the Cat.
It's ball of string and we unwind
it and catch it, and have most
gorgeous game. l watched two Kittens
next door playing it the other day. It's
the very newest game
"'You're a Kitten. indeed-a very
| young Kitten said the Cat. That game
/ is as old as can be. 1t has been in ex-
/ istence as long as Kittens have-and
that's a long time. Every Kitten thinks
| it's a brand new game. Oh, how silly
YOU are Now I'll teach you how to
catch Birds, That's far more fun.
Wen lie still and then we'll pounce on
those Song Sparrows over in the Or
chard
"'That sounds very thrilling said
the Kitten.
| HS sung spurious we've SlhSihc
quite cheerily, for little did they know
that the Cat was going to teach the
Kitten such a cruel game. And they
had been safe for such long time thai
they weren't on the lookout for such {
thing happening.
But just at that moment Betsy
came out with q bowl of milk and ;
tiny plate of bacon.
$50 the cruel game was forgotten
about and the Song Sparrows were
: still safe in their Orchard Nest.
But come to think of it," said Dad
dy, this story has been about Cats a
much as Birds. and you especial.
asked for a Bird Story"
''It was just the sort of story W
wanted; said the Children, 'for yoI
8 told us about the escape of Birds"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
The Chinese Taxicab,

We are assured that the taxicab is
no new thing, being, in its general
principles, a thing known to the an
Gent Romans; but now an orientalist
goes even further and asserts that me-
chanical carts capable of registering
distances travelled by counting and
recording the revolutions of very large
cartwheels connected by cogs with 9th
er concentric or eccentric horizontal
and perpendicular wheels of proper
Tomato diameters, have been well
known to the Chinese for LOO or ], SOC
years. On top of the cart was the
figure of a man holding a drum, which
he beat when one Ii, third of a mile
was Travelled. Some carts had, in ad
dition, a figure holding a cymbal
which was struck when the drum hat
been beaten ten times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
UltsIlG -
and sealing uaX of cabbaSes- g. kin,
THE JAN UARY TIA W
Y Howard Liam

The January thaw is a dispense
tion Of providence which catches the
unwary tourist twelve miles from a
set of non-skid chains. 1t is one of
those quiek-acting dispcnsations which
cause men who do not believe in re-
ligion to secure a new and unbiased
idea of what is awaiting the unrepent-
ant
In the chilly steam heated latitude
of the northern states the month Of
January was intended in the first place
to show how far down the mercury
in a - thermometer could 90 without
striking bottom. 1t is entirely out of
place for January to warm up 50 that
people can 90 without overlapping IN
derwear and astra khan socks, but ev-
cry once in while this happens and
everything begins to thaw out except
the hard coal market. One of the
worst things the people of the NORTH
have to put up with is a two-faceo
/ January which starts out like an ant
artic ice foe, and then tries to ruin
the clothing business by springing {
thaw which makes the Lincoln high
Protected by The ADJ
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
D4DDY'S EVENING
FAIRY TALE % WARY |
80. :>yIl $50 aj''!a;:'!S;!!x;!!5:a J
SONG sPARRoWs' ESCAPE.

"What shall tell YOU about this eve.
ning?" asked Daddy as he came into
the room where Nick and Nancy were
waiting for him.
Tell US about Animals" suggested
Nick.
"Or Birds" said Nancy.
"All right" agreed Nick. Eve haven't
had a story about Birds in quite q long
time. | think / would like one very
much"
"And | would love it," said Nancy.
Dear me, l suppose then it had bet
ter be a Bird story.
"Yes :" shouted both the Children.
"Some Song Sparrows," commenced
Daddy, had not gone away for the
winter. The place where they were
staying was not so cold as some of our
winter places, but still it was not es'
pecially warm.
"They had been in the same place al
summer and had their home in nest
which they had built in an old tree
! They had been very happy all summer
anu ll'iAA SAiJOS W tIC4L NV AAOAA4N -tA'
mensely.
"They We're quite near barnyard
And one day a Song Sparrow had hat
! quite an adventure which he hope'
would never happen again. He had al
most been caught by a Cat he ha'
thought was sound asleep on tn
Farmhouse porch. But that had onl,
taught him to be more careful.
"Once, too. they had narrowly es
capped from old Mr.. Owls visit.
Every day little girl named Betsy
who lived in the Farmhouse, brough
out plenty of bread crumbs for III
Birds and in the hot weather she pu
low basins of water in the orchard an
on a very wide fence so the Birds coul
get all the water they wanted to drinl
and to take their baths in.
''NOw, in addition to the Cat VIII
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30

Evidently Uncle Horace doesn't in
tend to let the opponents of his legis-
latlve program occupy the floor all the
time. He spoke yesterday III explana-
ton of the reasons why he favored the
consolidation of the agricultural and
forestry departments, and there was
nothing about his statement that was
difficult to understand. 1t was time IL
meet the opposition that seems to be
rising against this particular recon-
incubation of Governor Graham, and tC
our way of thinking it met it squarely
between the eyes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30

In all this talk about what will hap
pen when the European war is over not
word has been said about the
crowned heads, except a vague hint
that if the entente really triumphed
the Kaiser might take Napoleon S old
place at St. Helena. After peace is
signed the common people of the sev
eral nations may take a hand in the
management of their own affairs il
such a way as to shake off severa
crowns.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30
is OLDEST CHRISTIAN NATION
Abyssinia's Claim to the Title Found
ed on Technicaiity Entitled
to Credence.

Abyssinia claims to be the oldest
Christian nation.
The claim seems founded on a tech
nicality entitled to credence, but
which has not accomplished much for
Christianity in the last nineteen hun
dred years.
Rulers of Abyssinia are proud of de-
scent from the queen of Sheba and
from Solomon as the result of the for
mer's visit to Jerusalem. AS Solomon
had many wives and an immense
harem he may have married the
queen of Sheba, but there is no testi-
mony to the fact other than the tradi-
ton in AbysSinia, which was the an
cient Sheba, with which the Jews had
large commerce. The country was
Christianized through monks from
Egypt, and it is said that one of the
Christianity the official religion, thus
antedating all other nations. The mat
! ter is really of only academic import.
ance.
We are apt to think of the Abyssin
ians as heather negroes STEPPED in the
deepest barbarism. On the contrary
they are a rather virile people, as al
who have attacked them know. The,
have a civilization that is suited t
their environment and while it ma,
not be up to the standard of SPLENDID
which the queen of Sheba is suppose
TO have maintained, it is comfortabl
enough for those who live there.
recent years many explorers hay
found much to surprise them, and it
within the memory of this geperatio
that Italy made an unsuccessful a
tempt to seize the country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30

As result of the season and the
sort of weather we have been having,
alterations of the respiratory organs
and channels are just now prevalent
throughout nearly all of the northern
states. I'm many eases these maladies
are serious, and in all they have seri-I
Gus possibilities. Unfortunately, they
are iust the maladies which, especially
in the beginning. most people who 10
not ignore them as much and as long
as they can, think themselves compc-
tent to treat without the assistance of
doctor.
Everybody knows something that is
good for n cold" by no means all
of this knowledge is valueless, else,
probably, would the race have been cx-
tinct long ago. But for the proper use
Of most of the popular remedies there
Is need of more discrimination than is
commonly possessed and not iufre-
queutly treatment that is commenda-
bile in itself becomes quite contrary
unless incidental risks are understood
and guarded against. 1t is to be re-
grcttcd, too, not that information as to
scientific medicine and its armamenta-
rum is now more widely diffused
among the public than it used to be-
but that too often the extent of its ac.
quircment is exaggerated in the minds
Of those TO whom some Of it has come
In consequence of that, powerful
F., drugs too often are taken or admins
tered by "laymen' who know their eff
fects, or some of their effects. in ;
general way, but are quite ignorant Of
the perils that accompany their bcne
fits and Of the precautions that mus
he taken to restrict or modify their ac
ton.
These amateur doctors will not lear
the lesson there is for them in the fac
that when a real doctor is i'll he real
lies that he is not in a condition t
| prescribe for his own woes, and get
| iIblHtI Itdi totlbI TO 40 II. Idtlit
and theory in this matter are not a
ways in accord, but when they are no.
it is the practice, not the theory, tina
is wrong.
Especially should the unframed al
stain from dosing themselves with an
of the new synthetic drugs. Some c
them are so much more dangerous tina
others that the others pass for harm
less, and are sold as freely as flour {
salt. In reality, however, even ii
most innocent of the lot need the so
Of watching that only the physical
- can give, and the chances are tn;
~, when they do no harm in inexpert han,
they do no good. Meanwhile, preciol
time is wasted and cure is made mo-
1 difficult.