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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13

The excess profits tax will i'm
press everyone who has to make a
return under 1t as an example OF
barbario frightfulness. 1t Is un-
like any tax ever imposed In any
civdlised country. BY next March
All American asylums will be full
Of people who lost their minds try
ing to calculate what they owed
Uncle Sam under this terrible tax.
Lawsuits to determine its applica-
ton will still be going when our
Observation-Disclosures are dead and
buried.
WHO MUST PAY? Every cor
pOration with a net income exceed
ing $4,000 and every partnership
or individual with a net income
derived from the operation Of any
kind OF business which exceeds
$4,000 for the present year is IL
able to pay tax on the amount
OF its excess profits. This includes
everybody that buys or sells any
thing. all kinds of agents and CON-
mission men. including CONNER
cial travellers. unless they are on
= fixed salary without commits
Sions. 1t also includes all kinds of
professions. 1t hits farmers, doc
tors, lawyers, storekeepers, eu-
thors, real estate men, contractors,
and, In fact, everybody that works
who Is not on a fixed wage or sal
airy and has an income big enough
to come within the scope of the
law.
WHAT ARE EXCESS PROF
IT'S? Excess profits as now defined
bear practically no relation to the
amount earned before the war. II
you want a rough idea of the ex-
cess profits of your business, take
the amount by which Its net In
come for 1917 exceeds s per cent
on the capital invested, and sub
tract $4,000 from this IL you are
operating a partnership or indi-
vidual business, and $4,000 IL you
are organized as a corporation.
For example, suppose your capital
u 100000 and your net income is
$4,000. Eight per cent is 5000,
to which you add $4,000 for cor
poration and $4,000 for an indi-
vidual or partnership, leaving the
excess profits $4,000 for a cor
poration and $4,000 for an indi-
Vdual or partnership business.
IL you want to know exactly,
you will have to do some REAL
figuring. Here's how you go
about 1t:
First determine the net income
OF your business for each of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
"a MORE
FIREMEN
PLANNED

Additions to the Tacoma fire
department during 1918 were held
up by the city council Saturday
until word could be received from
Lee Mckenzie, president OF the
Washington underwriters. as to
whether the increase In efficiency
would result in reduction In in
surance rates.
The city council Friday after
noon tentatively agreed to add
"a men to the department. Pet
tit had formerly announced that
40 men would be needed to bring
the new two-platoon system up to
former efficiency.
AS soon as the council had
acted, Petit went to Seattle and
asked Mckenzie whether fire in
surance rates would be reduced
in Tacoma II the f.remen were
added. Mckenzie promised to re-
ply some time Saturday.
The council set aside $4,000 at
its Friday afternoon session for a
breakwater for fishermen at Old
Tacoma.
Work on the breakwater will
being this winter. All the fishing
boats will be kept in Tacoma, in
5 cad of going to other ports for
safety during the north winds.
Money for the breakwter was
found by cutting 100000 from the
emergency fund appropriation,
saving $4,000 from a Dock street
paving fund by declaring an I'm
provement district there, and de-
ferring the construction of a sewer
in Wilkeson gulch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
BY Charles E. Russell

Here In the United States many
persons were greatly astonished
when they read that the Battalion
OF Death,'a regiment OF women,
had actually gone to the Russian
front, drilled and trained to fight
in the trenches like men.
We need not have been aston
ished.
There was nothing very novel
about Il.
Russian women had been fight
Ing in the army ever since the war
began.
Patrol Platform.
When | was on my way from
vladivostok to Petrograd the sub
iect was introduced convincingly
to my attention by the vision of
an armed woman soldier patroling
the platform of station at which
we had stopped one morning.
She wore the regular uniform
of the Russian army, with the
number OF her regiment done in
yellow on red band at her shout
der, and very likely | should have
not noticed II WAS a woman II IL
hadn't been for her hair.
This was done up In a big yell
low twist like a section of hawser
at the back of her neck directly
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
WELL TREATED
ON SEEADLER

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Is. -
None Of the barbarities which
have characterized German sub
marine operations marked the
activities of the wrecked German
sea raider Seeadler, according to
report from the captain OF the
British bark British Yeoman to
Balfour, Guthrie & Co., made pub
lie to-day.
The British Yeoman was sunk
by the Seeadler Feb. %, 1917, in
the South Atlantic.
After the British Yeoman's
crew had been transferred to the
Seeadler, the Yeoman was sunk
by bombs and her captain given
receipt for the vessel by Count
Luckner, commanding the raider.
The report declared the prison.
ers were given liberty OF the ship,
were we'll fed and treated respect
fully.
The last of March the Germans
raised the British flag on the
French bark Cambronne, placed a
British captain in charge and sent
the prisoners to Rio Janeiro.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13

plan cannot apply. So the act
provides that they shall pay a flat
rate of S per cent on the amount
by which the net income exceeds
$4,000 IL they are organized as
corporations and $4,000 IL they
are run by partnerships or indi-
viduals.
WHAT rs CAPITAL? 1t will be
seen that the application of this
tax depends absolutely on the def
milton of the word capital. That
Is what the conferees from. the
house and senate have been
wrangling over for two weeks,
and the nose they wrangled, the
worse II got.
Actual capital invested as 1t
stands in the bill has no relation
whatever to the amount of stock
outstanding, nor does II include
bonded Indebtedness or borrowed
money or property. 1t must be de-
termined for each business and for
each year by adding the following
items: Actual cash paid in, the
actual cash value of other prop
erty paid in to secure shares IN
the business, and the surplus or
undivided profits actually employ
ed In the business. Patents, good
will and franchises are to be al
lowed only the cash value of the
stock or other property exchanged
for them, in the case of all in
tangibles not to exceed 20 per cent
of the stock now outstanding.
HOW TO CALCULATE TIE
AMOUNT OF EXCESS PROFITS
TAX. After you have determined
the amount of excess profits. as
described above, you are ready to
figure the amount of tax you will
have to pay. First, find out what
per cent these excess profits are of
| the actual capital for the present
year. Then apply the following
rates:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
BRITISH WIN
in E. AFRICA

LONDON. Oct. 13. British
East African troops have occu-
pied Ruponda, an official state
ment announced today. The SELF
ure of the village is important, in
asmuch as the enemy had intend
ed to protect the retreat of its
main body. The British occupa-
ton will enable thanking move
ments against the retreat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
GERMAN WOMEN
ARE TOLD 10 GET
CHILDREN, ANY WAY

lCOhunued From Page Une.1
"T'he diet restrictions arc
not for her. Milk, which even
the sick cannot get ON doctors
orders except In skimped
quantity and then skinned,
Is for the girl on woman about
10 become mother. And
plenty Of food and when pos
sible, deiicacies."
She continued:
THE breeding of the race. Tha
is the desire of the rulers. Til,
nurses. not trained but practical
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
BURGLARS STRIP
HOME OF JEWELS

Burglars entered the home OF
r. F. Raber, 2204 No. Union av.,
Friday night by forcing a window,
and stripped the dwelling Of jew
elry. The loot, valued at over
$3.50. included two watches, a
jewel case, two gold chains, lava
lier, three bracelets, a razor, spec
tacles, and 81 in cash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13

years, 1911, 1919 and 1918, by
subtracting from the gross amount
of business done in each of these
years the proper abduction for ex-
penses. interest, taxes and depre-
citation, substantially as described
for income taxes, except that you
cannot deduct gifts and charitable
donations. Average these and see
what percentage they are of the
actual capital invested in the bust
ness during the same three years.
II they average less than per
cent, you will be allowed the full
Ia per cent; but IL they average
more than per cent you will he
allowed only per cent. Only II
they fall between and 8 per cent
do you take the actual average.
For example, with 100000 of ac-
tual capital, II the average net in
come is $500, that would stand
as SO per cent; but II the aver
age was only $4,000 you would be
allowed 7. per cent, while If the
average was $4,000 you would
be allowed only 9 per cent. So
you will see that while you have to
go thru all this rigmarole In maxi
ing your return, for all practical
purposes you might as we'll take
an average Of per cent and let it
go at that.
After you have got this pre-war
rate of profit determined, you ap-
ply that percentage to your pres
emit capital, add $4,000 to 1t for
individual or partnership business
and $4,000 for corporation. and
subtract the result from your net
income for the year 1917. This
gives you the amount OF your ex-
cess profits on which you will be
taxed.
FOR PROFESSIONS and all
kinds of businesses and trades In
which only a nominal capital is
employed, it is obvious that this
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
SHORTER DAY FOR
RAILWAY CLERKS

The working day of all N. p.
clerical forces is to be half an
hour shorter, 1t is announced from
st. Paul,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13

Uncle Sans fighting redskins
are about to go on the warpath
again. and woe bet'de the kaiser's
legions when the war cry Is heard
on the battlefields in France. Ia
dams In the selective service army
aad in the national guard are
cD3ecially fitted for sharpsho ting.
ard such perilous work in No
Mans Land as cutting barbed wire
entangiements. These five In
dian warriors Of Uncle Sam now
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
MANLY TELLS HOW EXCESS
PROFITS TAX WILL WORK


the great recently passed
with profit third Monday corporation
and other mposed-Editor
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-13
DIVORCED

Elizabeth Deighan and Harry
II. Deighan were divorced by Su-
perior Judge Card Friday after
noon.
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your profits on $1,000
100, or 81 per. cent.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
ROOSEVELT

Mrs. II. Devereux was an out Of
town visitor Monday.
Thomas Loland, of Atlantic street..
was in Perth Amboy Monday night.
Mrs. Edward Coughlin was a visitor
in Elizabeth Monday.
Mrs. Warner, of Jersey City, renew
ed acquaintances here yesterday.
Mrs. W. Milliken was an out OF
town visitor yesterday.
Miss A. Walsh spent yesterday In
Perth Amboy.
Joseph Young has resigned from
the employ of the American Agricul-
tural Chemical Company.
John Andrews is i'll at his home In
Lafayette street here.
Miss Gwendolyn Ross was a visitor
in Newark yesterday.
Samuel Harris is confined to hts
home by illness.
Albert Yorke, of Railway, visited
relatives here yesterday.
The local branch of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians will hold spe-
cial meeting here tonight to CONF
plete arrangements for their ball to be
held here Saturday night.
Fire Company No. 2 will hold an
adjourned meeting tomorrow night
TO transact business postponed at the
scheduled regular meeting Monday
night
Samuel Carson is recovering from
Illness.
Mrs. Chester King, of Bryant street
is suffering from felon on the finger.
DIR. Charles Hull went to Newark
yesterday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
>---A AEIllcNEN
llllfkSs


Miss Ruth Prentfss is out again ar
ter her recent illness, but will not re-
turn to school.
Miss Dorothy Manning is Ill with an
attack of the measles.
Fifteen young people united with
the Presbyterian church Sunday.
Miss Marie Thomas. of Hillside ave
nue., will give miscellaneous show
er" to Miss Dorothy Price on Friday
afternoon.
Professor Sidney Gulick gave anoad-
dress at a union meeting in the Re-
formed church Sunday night.
There will be an open meeting
of the Music Study Club at the Metu-
chen Club house Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock. Mrs. II. B. Johnson will
be hostess for the day and the sub
ject will be Folk Songs and Dances" {"
Mrs. George Silzer and her son,
Parker, have returned from Pine
hurst.
Mrs. McClave is visiting her father,
Mr., Fine, of Newark.
Mrs. A. C. Hunt is spending a
short time at Atlantic City.
Mrs. Brice Quint will leave for the
coast the last of this week to visit
her mother at Los Angeles, Cal.
Mrs. Anna Schenck has returned
from Boston, after visiting her broth
er, William Hall, of that city.
Auction" will be played at the Club
house Friday evening. Mrs. Louis
Witte will be hostess.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
WOODBRIDGE

The women of the Congregational
church will hold a rummage sale
Thursday and Friday, March 20 and
80, the place to be announced later.
The prayer meeting of the Con-
gregational church will be held at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Cod
dington tonight at o'clock.
Mrs. John Connors, of Perth AM
boy, attended the confirmation serv-
ice at st. James church last night.
Mrs. SAKE, of New York, has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Heating. Mrs. SAKE sang at
st. James church last night.
Mrs. E. A Hayes has returned to
her home in Highland Park. having
spent few days with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. f. DUNCAN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Peterson
and daughter have returned to their
home in Perth Amboy, having spent
the past two months with Mrs. Peter
sons mother, Mrs. Nellie Huber.
The sewing meeting of the Pres
byterian church will be at the home
of Mrs. ]. E. Breckenridge tomorrow.
The people of Woodbridge are
fortunate in having the privilege of
listening to an address by Hon. Oliver
w. Stewart. of Chicago. Mr.. Stewart
Is to speak tomorrow night at the
First Congregational church under
the auspices of the Flying Squadron
Foundation. This organization has
as Its head Hon. ]. Frank Hanly, for
mer governor of Indiana. Mr.. Stew
art has been closely associated with
Governor Hanly for nearly two years.
They worked together in the long
campaign which took the Flying
Squadron of America into every state
In the Union, and they are continu-
ing that association in the work of
the Flying Squadron Foundation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
FRENEAU

Mrs E. Kelly, of Matawan, was a
Freneau visitor Tuesday.
James Lamberson was an out of
town visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. J. Applegate and daughter
Elizabeth were Perth Amboy visitors
Tuesday.
Miss Florence Thompson was an
out of town visitor Monday night.
Arthur Roberts was Keyport Wis
itor Tuesday.
'' Mrs. walter Brown, r., was an out
of town visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. John VOORHEES, was a Keyport
visitor Monday.
Elmer. Boyce was Keyport visitor
Tuesday.
Mrs. Richard Thompson and daugh-
ter spent Tuesday with her mother
AIRS. >Qglvie, in ,Keyport.
Mrs R1nSeff. S1s aQ ~. 81 Of toXl
visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. George Deitz was New York
visitor recently.
Mrs. James Kelly was Keyport
visitor Monday
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
60 TO SCHOOL
WEEK IN KEYPORT
Pleasing Events Held in Bor-
I ough Schools Largely At
tended by ParentS-Great
Progress Being Made.

Keyport, March 14.-Much interest
is being manifested in Go to School
Week" in the borough, the local school
holding many interesting events in Or
der to entertain all who care to visit
the schools during this week. Yester-
day afternoon the primary depaTtm ent
Under the direction Of Miss Evelyn Luf-
burrow, assisted by the other primary
teachers. gave an interesting enter
tainment in the auditorium which was
well attended by the parents of the pu-
pills as well as their friends.
This afternoon the high school gave
an entertainment and tomorrow af-
ternoon the grammar grades will hold
forth. Parents are particularly urged
to visit the school this week, when
special means of entertainment have
been provided.
Those in authority are working hard
to make the Keyport school as good as
the best. A commercial course which
was added to the high school course a
few years ago has met with approval
and many students take this course
and have obtained positions through it.
The local high school has been plac-
ed on the approved list of many OF the
best institutions including Syracuse
University, Rutgers College, University
ems Institute of Technology and the
normal schools.
The pupils of the high school are
enrolled as follows: Bookkeeping,
thirty seven; typewrfting, forty;
shorthand, forty; English, 140, Latin,
thirty-seven; history, eighty-six; COM
mercial arithmetic, nine; plane geom-
etry, twenty-four; algebra, 103; Ger
man. seventy-one; science, including
laboratory work, fifty-nine.
That the school is progressive is
proved by the fact that there Is an in
crease of thirty in the high school over
last year. Should this increase con-
tinue the present school will soon be
Inadequate for the needs of the pu-
pills and a new high school will have
to be built. Out of this years grad
uating class four have declared inten-
ton of entering college and three ex-
pect to enter normal schools.
One hundred of the grade pupils
take the Current Events" paper which
gives them all the news of the day In
a condensed form. Much interest is
shown in the debates this year, the
local school winning from South Am
boy In the recent debate. the locals to
go to South River for the next debate
in the tnterscholasic debates now in
progress.
A spelling match will take place in
the school in the near future. among
the pupils of the seventh and eighth
grades. in preparation for the county
event to be held at Asbury Park on
April IA. April has been decided
upon as the date for the elimination
contest. The county event will have
a representative from each school. and
the one qualifying from Keyport will
receive a silved medal suitably inscrib-
ed. The board of education has offer
ed a cash prize of SIS to the local win
ner and other prizes will be donated by
public minded citizens of the borough.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
OLD BRIDGE

Rev. {. G. Luther, pastor of the Bap-
list church, continuing his line of
thought from the previous Sabbath,
preached an excellent sermon Sunday
morning of the theme, "Life's Emph-
asis."
Old Bridge may not realize 1t, but
1t is destined to be more or less a
summer resort town, A year ago,
Jean Bickle, an ex-chef of some of the
leading metropolitan hotels, purchas-
ed the Home Boarding School prop
erty and placed it in modern hotel
conditions He has it now ready for
guests, and as the warmer weather
comes, Mr.. Bickle expects to fill the
house. The writer was presented the
other day with pretty little folder
which Mon. Bicl1le is using in adver-
tlsing the resort, which he has named
villa Eugenie," which contains sew
eral excellent views of the resort and
or scenes along the river. Old
Bridge is glad to have this additional
enterprise for the town and hopes
that its success will make it a perm
anent fixture of the place.
Speaking of having visitors in town
FOR the coming season, brings in an
other thought. When we expect COM
pany we always like to present our
best appearance. Why not the same
Lor our town! Otner towns around US
are striving to make their town dress
attractive, because it not only looks
better, but also because 1t pays in the
advertisement of the town. This is
matter for every one in the town, and
every one can and should help in this
community matter. Why can't the
churches, school, ladies clubs and So
cieties, and lodges get together and
form Village Improvement Society
and appoint days for a general clean
up2 Think it over, everybody.
Ralph Hatfield, who held position
as operator for the Pennsylvania Rail
road at GY tower at Runyon for some
time, recently resigned his position
there and has moved his family to
Pottstown, Pa, where he formerly re-
sided
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hoffman have
moved into the department of one Of
George ID. Rue's houses which Mr..
and Mrs. Hatfield recently vacated.
Alfred Kise is having cement block
bungalow built on the lot next to the
Old Bridge garage, of which he is the
proprietor.
Eugene Osborn, who Is working in
New Brunswick, spent the week end
at home here.
Benjamin Roller, Jr,rwho was home
several days last week from his work
at Metuchen, returned there Sunday
morning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
TO COMPETE IN MEET

Roosevelt, Mar. 14:-All arrange
ments have been made to send a
local delegation to Perth Amboy
saturday night to compete in an in
door athletic meet at the Y. NJ. G. A.
there. There will be Jumps and races
together with a basketball game with
employed boys of the local and Perth
Amboy Y. NJ. c. A. branches com
peting. The local contestants are re-
ported to be in fine fettIe and they
expect to give the Perth Amboyans
a warm tussle.
The list OF scheduled events fol-
lows: Twenty-yard dash, standing
broad jump, potato race, half mile
relay, half mile run and a basketball
game for employed boys.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-03-14
kET7OR1
morning.

Miss Florine Coble. of Asbury
Park, spent the weekend as the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Fred c..
Ogden, of West Front street
The caste of Our New Minister"
will rehearse at the church this even
ing, the entertainment to be given In
Calvary M. E. church on the last
Friday in March.
Mr. Walker has purchased the
barn owned by the late Charles Stout
and has moved it to his lot recently
purchased by him on Mott street.
Miss Cornelia Henwood, of Second
street, spent Sunday with friends in
Matawan.
The Junior Epworth League of
Calvary M. E. church will hold their
annual bazar at the church tomorrow
evening.
Mrs. Howard Hanson, of Perth
Amboy. was the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Judson S. Hopla, of Elizabeth
street. on Monday.
With the approaching Easter sea-
son it has been suggested that the
merchants of the borough have a
uniform spring opening some time
during the present month and to
continue until Easter. The PROPOSE
ton thus far presented has met with
the approvar Of all the E66fe,seeSers
who have been approache0on the
subject, and is no doubt an excellent
proposition.
Mrs. George M. Collins. of Main
street, spent Tuesday with her broth
er, Charles Percival, and family at
East Orange.
The local shad fishermen have
gloomy prospects for a good shad
season this year, stating that they
expect the season to be very late and
not to begin before the middle of
next month. Owing to the large
amount of ice and snow in the bay it
will take some time for it to reach
the proper temperature for the fish
to come here.
The Sewing Glass and Mission
Band of the Reformed church met at
the home of Rev. and Mrs. F. T. b.
Reynolds on Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Eloise Daniel, of New York,
a former resident of the borough,
was the guest of friends in town last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs J. Nelson Nagee, of
Brooklyn, were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Warwick last week.
Mrs. Harry Osborne was the guest
of friends at New York on Saturday.
William Brannan and family have
removed from South Keyport to the
Captain William Adameit house on
Second street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony sidot have
returned from their honeymoon trip
and are now housekeeping in the
Maurer fiat on Broad street.
Arrangements are now being COM
pleted to enter six men from the
Monmouth County League in the
worlds championship bowling tour
nament at Syracuse, N. Y, from April
8 to 80. 1t is thought that Cecil s.
Ackerson, of Main street, will repre-
sent the borough at the tournament.
Misses Doris and Dorothy Arm
strong are spending several days as
the guests of their grandparents. Mr..
and Mrs. John c. Schenck, of Red
Bank.
Mrs. Richard Lee and daughters,
Misses Miriam and Lillian Lee, of
Broad street, have returned after
having visited with friends at New
ark.
Il. H. Cook of Atlantic Highlands,
~""~- Monday as the guest of friends
in town,