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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12

net return to the railroad with when
TO pay the wages of the capital IN
vested in the railroad l~as less than
two cents out of that cents ior
the cost of railroad operation Is
above per cent. OF the gross,
There are at least $4,000, OOO'0OV
of real capital in the railroad proper
ties OF the United States. They are
selling for at least $4,000, 100000 less
than their real value and unless they
get relief from rising coal and wages
their valuations will soon shrink an
other $4,000, 100000 and you can SO
tax them as practically to destroy all
the stock and bond value in them.
Now, II Washington wisdom should
decree that the railroad credit should
be instantly restored, that transpor-
tation might go forward hand in hand
with the Government in advancing
the war. how simple would be the
legislation to give the railroads an
other cent where they now get less
than five cents out of the dollar paid
bv the consumer. Railroad stocks and
bonds would then become available
not only as a basis for new money
and enlarged credit for the railroads,
bat railroad ownership would be good
collateral upon which TO borrow
money for the Governments Liberty
Loan.
The Government would also find
enlarged dividends upon which it
would collect a larger sum in income
taxes than at present and that with
out lessening the present capital &C
count of the country. Local and in
heritance taxes would also be larger.
Railroads are only a part OF the
INCORPORATED wealth of the country,
which incorporated wealth is based
under credit and industrial expansion.
You can tax the capital account to
its destruction or you can remove the
burdens resting upon capital account
and find an expanded fruit Thereon 70
reach in other methods OF taxation
as this fruitage enters into consump
ton.
The real point for war taxation is
that Of consumption.
One of the most scientific methods
/ Of war taxation would be to add q
per cent, or nearly 81 900, 100000 t
the nearly S4,OOO,0OO000 of transpor
tation earnings in this country. Their
tax the whole $5,000,000000 gross re
ceipts by 10 per cent. as war ta'
and we would have nearly $500 900 ,0OI
collected at practically no cost, w
would have restored the capital &C
count in the service of transporta
tion. insured the income OF capita
from which we must draw a large
income tax revenue and we could col
lect II monthly not only without cos
but without disturbance in the cul
rents OF trade OF finance and the wa
tax would be upon consumption, I
I which all taxation is finally shifte
and the railroad part of it would
) almost imperceptible. Inequalities o
! raw materials could be adjusted b
3 the Commerce Commission.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
With The Photographers

Is the German front Or in Franee?-Pittsburgh
Gazette Times
You may not admire the hod-up man, but you have
TO hand 1t TO him-Paterson IN. j. News.
It takes only a few letters TO change vacant lot
into garden plot-Duluth (iinn) Herald.
Most anybody ought to be able to borrow enough
books to fill five foot Solicitations Gazette Phoe-
niX)
It is surprising that any man be as active as
Bryan and always be the wrong side of everything
Indianapolis STAR
good looking Red Cross nurse is more OF an incen-
tive TO enlistment than iron a hero medal
ever will be.--Lima CO., Times Democrat
That Chicago who says his taxes too low
is in danger of being sent by his neghbors to the in
sane asylum.-Florida Times Union (Jacksonville).
The gutiest feeling; Preaching the economical
rice diet at home and sneakng portion Of Florida
strawberries MISUNDERSTANDING Gazette Times.
II is conservatiyely estimated that one person out
OF ten the behind him coming in and that
person Of twenty-five shuts the door behind him
going out.-Montgomery tAla) Advertiser.
In the mathematics OF government there is prob
lem that od-fashioned Jefersonian can't solve by
abstracting Republican from the service and adding
Democrat to the payrolL-Boston Transcript
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
Retroactive Taxation
CFrom the Wall Street JournaD.

tial cumulative liability would have
an effect on investments analogous
to that Of unpaid cumulative divi-
dends on the investment value OF the
common stock of a corporation.
Such taxation would by ex post
facto operation permit political
party deemed best adapted to legis'
late under conditions as they will ex-
fist in 1920, to reform the economic
policies Of 1918 when a great major
ity of the people in 1918 may have
then rightly regarded an opposing
party and policy better suited to the
year 1918.
In many instances the income re-
troactively taxed would be n fact
paying State. county, city and ma
tional taxes In many forms; in many
instances the extent of its public ser
vice in this way could not be analysed
at all.
It would prove a barrier to indi-
vidual trade expansion. A merchant
who carefully accumulated his profits
in his business so as to increase his
turnover. would be deprived of the
right and opportunity Of adjusting his
sales to the amount of his capital.
In fact, there is no fallacy in taxa
ton that does not find illustration in
retroactive income tax. 1t d'scour-
ages industry, makes thrift abortive
and stiles even the highly important
and necessary spirit OF private bene'
! violence.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
PURITY GIVES POWER.

There are still many persons in the
the greater is the power of the sys-
tenn to remvoe disease and the less
the liability TO contract it. Persons
whose blood is in good condition are
much less likely to take cold or to be
long troubled with it. or to catch ans
contagious or infectious disease, than
are those whose blood is impure and
therefore impoverished and lacking in
vitality. The best medicine for puri-
flying. the blood is Hoods Sarsaparilla,
and persons suffering from any blood
disease or any want of tone in the
system are urged TO give this medl-
cine a trial. Il is especially useful
at this time OF year-Adv.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
1T SHOULD BE A LARGE AND A BENEFICIAL
MEETING.

WILMINGTON patriotism cannot fail TO be stirred
w profoundly by the mass meeting that will be held
in the Queen Theatre tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
under the auspices OF the women's National Defense
Committee appointed several weeks ago by Mayor
Price
Addresses will be made by Secretary OF State Everett
c. Johnson Mayor James F. Price, DR.. Harvey Wiley,
Prof Harry Hayward Of Delaware College and Miss
Alice Carpenter.
AS the general committee has membership Of al
most 1000 and the public interest is intense the
audience should be both large and representative and
the meeting should be productive Of much good.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
Expansion Vital TO War Taxation
GOVERNMENT CAN VALUES, NOT DESTROY
COUNTRYs CAPITAL ACCOUNT.
OF Consumers Dollar Transportation Five CensCent Added Would
Bring s5OOOOOO,OOO Would
Yield s5OOOOOOOO, While Enlarged Dividends Swell
Income Tax Return.
(From the Wall Street JournaD.

Boston-The Boston News Bureau
says: We are asked by a valued sub
scriber to explain a recent paragraph
in which it was declared that our
national safety required a judicious
war taxation and that I'VE can take
two billion a year in war taxes from
the capital account OF the country and
cause loss Of forty billion. etc"
We can best illustrate this by ref
erence TO an English incident In the
year 1900 an increase in the cost of
coal consumed by English railroads
produced depreciation in the value
OF English railroads amounting to two
hundred and fifty million dollars
which shows how reduced net null
tiplied itself in a capital loss.
Now, suppose that the New York
Central Railroad had all its securi-
ties in the form of shares quoted in
present depressed times at a billion
dollars for a billion and a half of
property, which IL really represents.
suppose It were paying its present
5 per cent. dividend upon this billion,
or an income upon capital account
to the owners Of the property Of fifty
millions a year.
Let us imagine that in the stress
OF war, and without due consideration
OF the effect, the Government puts its
hand upon the New York Central and
takes that 8 per cent. income or $780,
100000 per annum. The market value
of the property would very quickly
shrink by at least $500, 100000 and
the owners of the property would be
s5O0,OOO,OO0 poorer. There would then
be $500, 10000 less property for the
local assessors throughout the coun-
try to assess; there would be aggre-
gate holders in this railroad feeling
$500. 200 600 poorer and there would
be a destruction Of $500, 100000 in
| property which was formerly good
collateral and upon which money
could be borrowed at the banks and
subscribed 10 the Government for the
10 per cent. Liberty Loan
In other words, TO quickly get $780,
100000. the Government can destroy
S500,000,000 OF the country's Capita
account.
Suppose. on the other hand, il
starts to build up instead of tearing
down and DEGREES that railroad prop
critics are selling at only twothirds
Of their value, which is very near the
truth today. and should. therefore, set
about to find lost values to get a
! basis for taxation for expanded credit
and for Liberty Loan subscription.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad made
an exhaustive investigation to dis
cover just what part of the cost OF
food products carried over its road
was due TO transportation charges
1t made clear that while the food
consumer paid SO per cent to tbs
original producer and 40 per cent. o
the cost to the commission man anC
local dealer. less than 5 per cent. wa
the cost of railroad transportation
entering into that food Therefore tn
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
D YOU HAVE NOT VOTED ALREADY-GO AND
VOTE FOR PRICE.

VOTE FOR PRICE.
is our confident belief that the Republican voters,
at their primaries this afternoon, VIII renOminate
lanes +. Price for Mayor.
We say that because the Republican electorate Of
Wilmington Is intelligent and because the candidacy of
Mr.. Price appeals to human intelligence.
There are many good reasons why Mr.. Price should
be renominaed
Thee is not one good reason why he should be re-
hired to make room for William G. Taylor the cnndi-
date OF j. Frank AlIee of Dover ed" Davis of Mil
ford and Benjamin A. Groves, of Mamensl and their
financial hacker, who also is a nonresident OF VIII
mingtOn.
Mr.. Taylor represents spiteful desire to cruelty
Mr. Price because he has been true 70 Republican prn-
,ipe.
Therefore If yOu have not voted already for James f.
Price for Mayor drop everything else and go to the
polls which opened at O'Clock this afternoon and win
close at o'clock this evening.
BY pursuing that you will have a right to feel
highly respectable politically when you leave the poll
ing plscel
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
A wATFRFRONT WILL COME-BUT wHENl

a social sense the harbor development dinner held
4 in the Hotel dupont last evening under the aus
pices Of the Wilmington Chamber Of Commerce was
delightful affair.
What its practical results will be remains TO be seem
John Meigs the harhor engineer who read his report
suggests that the Delaware river waterfront improve
ment be made on the south side OF the mouth OF the
chrstiana river That is doubtless all right so far as
goes but the time coming when that waterfront inn
prorement will extend from Claymont down to New
Castle and also embrace the Chrstiana river and Bran
dywine creek
That time may be many years removed, but 1t is sure
when the people arouse fully to sense OF the
ncacuabie injury they have suffered because of the
woeful lack in our city Of attractive and adequate har
Dor facilities.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
WARNING ABOUT GERMANY's NEW PEACE PRO-
POSAI.


THE warning which comes from the United states
minister Denmark that the people Of this coun-
try be not misled by the much advertised peace
proposal from Germany is timely.
He points out what is undoubtedly true, that the
purpose behind this peace offer is the that
has inspired other peace offers Germany has made,
the objects which clearly apparent to Della
wareans.
This purpose is TO inveigle the Allies into peace
parley before the Hohenzolerns driven from power
and the Prussan military machine is crushed.
"No annexatons and indemnites," probably will
be the German peace offer.
is unthinkabe that and our Allies will
sent to negotiate peace with Germany such i'm
definite and himsy basis.
To do so would be to admit that the democratic ma
tons have alternative but to continue to live under
terrible shadow OF German military auocracy and
be armed to the teeth to protect themselves.
Life would not be worth living under such condi-
lions.
There can be no assurance OF peace this world
while the Hohenzollerns. any other divne-right de-
generates rule Germany.
There can be no discussion OF peace terms with Ger
many until the German people have given evil
dence than they have given Of their desire to govern
themselves
As the President said in his war message to Con-
gross. "The world must be made safe for democ-
racy"
That is what we and our Allies are fighting to ac-
complish and we must continue to fight until It has
been achieved Delaware must play her full part in
that benehcent enterprise.
The world can be safe for democracy long
as Of the most powerful nations in the world is
ruled by military autocracy; military autocracy
which has no respect for treaties. conscience, no
scruples. no regard for the laws of God or man.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
pELMAR CLUB oFFIcERs.

bLecial 70 THE EVENING JOURNAL
DELMAR, Del, May 1.-THE annual
election of officers for the Delmar New
Century Club was held at the meeting
on Tuesday, resulting as follows: Presi-
dent, Mrs. II. NJ. Waller; first viee-presi-
dent, Mrs. :. NJ Ellis; second vice-presi-
dent. Mrs. Ira F. Hearne; recording sec
rotary, Mrs. A. L. Parker; assistant re-
cording secretary, Mrs. George T,
Richie; corresponding secretary, Mrs. S.
II. Whayland; treasurer, Mrs. w. S,
Marvil; State director, Mrs. Edwin L,
Sirman.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
IT WORKS WELL
A Combination That Is Doing an I'm
mense Amount of Good This Spring.

A superlative blood-purifying medi-
cine like Hoods Sarsaparilla, taken
before meals. combined with a super
lative iron tonic like Peptiron Pills,
taken after meals-makes the ideal
course of Spring Medicine.
No other medicines possess such
curative properties as these two great
restoratiyes working together
They reach the impure, impover-
ished, poisoned, devitalized blood, and
the worn, rundown. overworked, ex-
hausted system. They awaken the
appetite, aid digestion, purify and vital
ize the blood, give renewed strength To
the whole body, produce sound, natural
sleep. and complete restoration TO good
health-the greatest of all earthly bless
ings. 1t is said that s. invested in these
two medicines will bring better results
than 81 spent in other treatment.
IL will be wise TO get Hoods Sarsa'
parilla and Peptiron Pills today.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
SPIRIT OF THE
DELMARVIA PRESS
MN IT BE A REAL HOARD.

From the Smyrna Times.
Smyrna Town Council has named
an almost entirely new Board Of
Health. Let us hope they will be
la real" Board of Health and look
after the health and sanitary condl-
lions of Smyrna better than ever
There is always need of vigilance.
Smyrna has been singularly fortunate
in that she has escaped costly epi-
demic An active Board of Health
and the proper cooperation of citi-
zens will do much to make sanitary
conditions. better in the community.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
ma WHALER no rRAIN-

Charles t. II. Whaler. formerly OF
this city, left Philadelphia last night
for Fort Niagara for three months
training as lieutenant in the officers
reserve corps. Mr.. Whaler is a gradu-
ate Of Princeton, Of the class OF 1915.
and for the past two years has been
connected with Franklin dOlier and
Co, cotton yarn brokers, of Philadel-
phia. He spent a month last summer
in the business mems training camp
at Plattsburg.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
HOPKINs An BANTON

Agents for High Brown Bleaches.
Electric Combs and Pomades. Best
Ice Cream, 40c per at. Sodas. 5c.-Adv.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12
THAT Observation-Disclosures CONTROVERSY.

IN HAT is bitter controversy that has arisen between
Joseph Letter president of the Army League OF
The United States. and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt until
recently honorary vee-president Of that big organ
lzaon Colonel Roosevelt piQued because Letter does
not favor sending the so-caed Roosevelt Volunteers
TO France, resigned In doing he accused Letter OF
using the League TO "he deriment Of the army" and
added that opposition to the Roosevelt division plan
can only be OF a very unwise and improper kind"
II the colonel thought letter of resignation would
Brighten Letter events have revealed that he was mis-
taken. Incensed by the tenor Of the Roosevelt letter.
Letter made this spirited reply:
letter OF May s. resigning your Office in this
Eanizaton In reply TO mine OF May 3 have received.
The executive council at its next meeting Will take ae'
ton upon it. While you seem to think my letter indeh
mite, YOU have grasped the point which l wanted 10
convey. I opposed to the Harding amendment
The charge that ! using the Army League to the
the army and the country is personal TO
this charge let me reply an individual Because l
do not agree with you see nothing in my att-
tude but the betrayal of trust Do you think that you
alone think correctly? Did the Almighty constitute
you the sole arbter OF what is right and wrong? Has
no else the right to opinon2 can imagine such
a state of affairs in Germany alone.
Do you think that you are the most competent per-
in the United States to head the first expeditionary
Canddly do YOU think you have had sufficient milf
tsr5 experience 10 " any way quarry you inns p0'
Why not leave the business to competent people who
have been trained IT, instead Of injecting yourself
into the situation without the desire of of the author
tiles who be responsible for the failure
OF the conduct or the war.
l thought at first that your intentions inspired
->by patriotism / am now constrained to believe that
Your own schemes of political and personal aggrandze
ment lie at the bottom OF your agitation
The early disasters of the Civil War came from those
had received military rank the result Of possess
ing the political influence put them in commands for
which they We're not fitted Let hope that in this
war this can be avoided DO your part 10 this end Make
a sacrifice OF your personal ambitions on the altar Of
efficiency and as an OF real patriotism put enc
70 the political which has been caused by the
Harding amendment
T.ofT that fo moi
calculated TO placate the colonel though it may
serve 10 reconcile many admirers Of the former Pres
dent 10 the action Of Congress in rejecting the yolun-
teer division plan of the former President
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12

Patriots might remember that there is no bar pre-
venting them from selecting themselves for Uncle
Sans service.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12

The way Of wife with home is daredevil prop,
sition these days. with potatoes nine for a quarter
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12

It's getting be the regular thing for Of Cab
met members to enlist Good boysi
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-12

VIII American slang produce equivalent for do
ing his bit?" How about doing his best?"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-14

home of Mrs G. 0. Huckaby, just
across the pike who was away from
home, but Mrs. j. M. Walters, who
lives Just a few hundred feet down
the pike from the scene of the acct
dent came and opened up the house
and the injured ladies were given the
best attention possible under the cir
cumstances. They were later taken
in another car back to Franklin. Mrs.
Elliott received bruised eye and a
cut on the back of the head, and Miss
pinkston also received cut on the
back of the head and few other min
or bruises. No doubt but that the
ditch being filled with brush saved
them from serious injuries. The 9th
er occupants, outside of severe
shake-up, were not injured.
The remainder of the party came
on to Columbia and witnessed the
exercises at Camp Tom Henderson.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-14
DIV were also on hand. Flowers and

DIV were also on hand Flowers and
boxes of cigars.
The train left on schedule time, and
when the bugle sounded Fall in" the
boys stepped up and took their places
like trained soldiers. There was new
err a drawer set of men and a bunch
in higher spirits than the men OF Bat
terry when the train pulled out.
Captain Henderson and his able
corps of lieutenants and sergeants,
with the assistance of Major Horace
Frierson. was in charge Of the train
as it pulled out. Captain Adjutant
Reese T. Amis joined the battery at
+, Franklin and went on to Greenville,
/; S. c.. with Battery F, to which battery
| he has been assigned for the trip.
| There were many tears shed at the
departure of the boys, in fact there
was not a man or woman at the train
that did not feel pang at the de-
parture of these brave heroes, but
every tear that fell was a pearl and
was strength to the soldier for whom
it was shed,
This makes the second train OF sol
diers that has pulled out from Colum
bia since the United States declared
war upon the hydraheaded nations o
Germany and her allies
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-14
TEARING AWAY
OLD WOOD BRIDGE
NEW STRUCTURE TO BE ON RE-
ENFORCED coNcRETE-FlN-
IsHED EIGHT WEEKS.

Work of tearing down the orldse
across Little Bigby creek on the
Hampshire pike. is well under way
Everything is removed with the ex-
cention of the piers and they are
being removed. The contractors Tor
the erection of the new bridge state
that if nothing prevents the oridge
will be completed within six or eight
weeks.
The new bridge will be wide enough
for two vehicles to pass comfortaois
and will be constructed of concrete
reinforced with steel. The middle
n;er will occupy much less space IL
the water than the old stone pier
which will give a wider waterway OF
both sides of the pier.
? When this bridge is completed i
v;,l he for all time. as there viii Of
nothing in its construction that II
subject to time
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-14
MISS CATHEY AT
MOORE INSTITUTE
GRADUATED IN TIE SPRING or
1917 FROM THE COLUMBIA
HIGH SCHOOL.

Miss Edna Cathey has accepted y
position in Moore Institute at Guile
Okla and has the fourth, fifth and sixth
grades. Miss Cathey graduated from
the Columia High School at the com
mencement exercises last spring with
high honors and her selection as q,
teacher in the Culleoka school is q
deserved tribute to her qualifications
and ability.
Miss Cathey was for two years the
editor of the Columbia High School
Signal, the school paper, and her
work On the journal was a credit to
her, the school and the journal. Her
selection as one of the members OF
the Culleoka school faculty will prove
a great benefit to the school in many
ways.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-14
SAML. A. HAYS
TO MAKE CONTEST
CIRCUIT COURT CLERK WILL ASK
THE DEMOCRATS FOR AN
OTHER TERM.

Samuel A. Hays this morning form
ally announced his candidacy for re-
election as circuit court clerk of the
county, an Office that he has filled for
the past eight years with general sat
isfaction. Mr.. Hays has twice demon,
strated his popularity with the voters
of Maury county and his many friends
are sanguine of his success this time.
He is accommodating and efficient
and during his eight years in office
has discharged his duties with fidelity
aid ability. He is prominent In
church circles and has wide connec
ton in the county.