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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Pile War Tax On Silent Poor Noisy Rich Escaping
SENATE IGNORING
WILSON'S POLICY

Coffee is to pay one cent a
pound tax which will be doubled
or trebled by the time the con-
sumner pays 1t.
Even Candy
Tea Is to pay cents a pound
tax, which will likewise increase
In transfer.
Cocoa, food for the sick and for
children, is to pay three cents a
pound, and the price increase will
be not less than six.
Candy Is to pay a heavy tar.
All soft drinks and soda foun-
tain syrups are to be taxed.
Every substitute for John Bar
leyoorn except water Ia to be
taxed, and It is suspected that was
merely overlooked.
The only substantial thing the
finance committee has done in the
consumers interest has been to
strike out the 10 per cent increase
in tariff duties carried by the
house bill.
Rich Arc Howlers
Just as serious as the transfer
Of the burden OF war-oost from the
rich to the consumers IL complete
abandonment by the finance COM
mittee Of the pay-as- we-go policy
urged by the president.
How far they have carried this
abandonment is shown by the fol-
lowing figures:
Secretary McAdOo, speak
ing presumably for the presi-
dent, urged e2,246, OO0, 900
be raised this year by tax
alton. The house bill would
have produced 1885,, OOO,-
900. Senator Simmons says
only 81, 100, OOO, 900 will be
raised by taxation - more
than billion dollars less
than the president urged.
Against all this business few
letters Of protest have come from
the plain people, but bales have
come from rich manufacturers
bowling against any tax on them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Comes From Alberta
To Offer Services

Coming all the way from Alder
ia, Canada, Benjamin j. Smith,
age 80, a farmer who formerly
lived in Tacoma, appeared before
City Clerk Nickeus Saturday and
registered under the selective
draft act. He explained that he
had been unable to reach Tacoma
June 8, but that he wanted to
serve his country. He has wife
and child on his Alberta ranch,
but refused to claim exemption.
Maurice Sherman, age 26, an
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Plan Rally For
Liberty Bonds

A 100 per cent efficiency cam
paign to make the final week of
the Liberty Bond campaign a
rousing one will be started Mon
day night at a meeting of Tacoma
business men in the Commercial
club.
I'VE want to plan a shoe-leath-
er campaign, where several of the
Tacoma men can wear out their
shoes in giving Tacoma 100 per
cent on sales of the Liberty
bonds,' said E. r. Elliott Satur-
day morning.
The clock moved ahead Satur-
day to $1,8S4,500, 119 sales hav-
ing been made Friday, totaling
$23,900.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
100000 TO BE
RAISED HERE

Tacoma will allow soldier European
medical aid!
big one-n the the third of fighting
Plans of
national Red week. June 10 2 outlined Saturday meeting
the II
This the first conference captains pledged his whole
hearted support the
At the meeting pointed out that failure Tacoma
contribute result
Iown superficial
The A. Of
committee Each of the
each will district
The
ports
The the who will act
John Baker, j. Walsh August BOen IT, Ripley
riggs Louis Beam Joseph Ca1man Ralph Stacy Maddox
Jacobs, II. Y Walker and A. V.
The national campaign under the direction Of Red Cross council Of
appointed President Wilson,
Cornelius Bliss Edward Hurley Gnayn M Murphy Charles
Norton, William H. Taft and Eliot Wadsworth.
Side side with
600 for the Tacoma General hospital
This will be launched
Masonic temple at S15p.m
will
hospital work.
president of the board of trustees of the hospital.
Scenes of the the hospital will be the
q Five Minutes Tacoma General hospital
Preceding the will
Eagleson, Dr. Clarence A. Smith, Dr. Speah and A. H. link
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
that some aged senator BACKED

that some aged senator BACKED
some lobbyists eye.
Recently, when the whole coun-
try was shouting for certain
definite action, when congress It.
self was already agreed on the
same. the representative from this
district delayed the vote, which
was certain to be overwhelmingly
favorable, by making a speech to
show that he was with the major
lily.
That is all right as far as II
goes; but what is the rest of It?
You must remember that re-
cent events have brought the pub
lie into real intimacy with the
government.
We have petitioned congress,
telegraphed senator's, purchased
an army post, enlisted, Joined the
Red Gross, bought Liberty bonds,
registered for selective service,
ETC., etc.
We have become aroused to the
necessity Of defeating a dangerous
and desperate enemy.
We want to see 1t done quickly,
effectively and efficiently.
We are saddled with a burden
some cost of living, we are facing
a sweeping war tax. We want the
money to be raised with Justice
and spent with wisdom.
Therefore, IL would seem that
the newspapers Of the Northwest,
either severally or Jointly, would
be wise to send reporters to Wash
ington who could send us detailed
reports on the activities of our
servants there.
Let US have some news of our
representatives and senators 9th.
er than that which they ladle out
to us themselves.
We need to know when they get
up and when they go to bed. how
they dress, what they eat, how
much they drink, are they on the
Job early, do they stay there and
tend to business?
What do they do and say? How
do they vote?
Are they serving the country OF
special interests?
| Whom do they associate with &?
What committees do they be.
long to. When do they meet?
What part do they take? How
do they stand In Washington ?
How do they compare with 9th.
ers? How does the machinery
work? What causes the delays
What are the jealoueies and am.
billions?
Please don't suggest that the
Congressional Record is what
am looking for. In the first place
want news before II is stale.
Secondly, have a suspicion tina,
the venerable Record is padded.
Thirdly, there is lot of stuff
In Its pages which has no Interest
for me or anyone else.
/ would like. to know how Il
gets there, but / don't want Il
read II.
Fourthly, the G. r. reports onl,
that which is said upon the stage
/ want to hear of what goes on
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Congress
EDITOR THE TiMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
II, as is generally supposed, the
object Of newspaper is to furnish
the public with the kind OF news
the public wants, permit me to
suggest that you seem to be over
looking one of your very best
bets.
refer to the lack of news of
the proceedings of congress in
general, and the activities of the
senators and congressman from
the Northwest in particular.
1t is true that you give a short
summary each day of what ie
going on at Washington. You tell
us perhaps that the poor are to be
taxed out Of proportion to the
rich, or that the two houses are
In a deadlock over some detail,
or that the congressional from
Montana sobbed as she voted, OF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Bv ellison Gardner

WASHINGTON, June 0.-Here
for the first time arc the big facts
ON how the senate finance com.
hittee Is throwing the hooks into
the plain people to make them pay
for the war. II this committee ID
let alone two weeks more IL will
slam the whole burden onto the
poor and let the rich out almost
scot free.
Why the finance committee is
running the game this way is sim
pie:
Reason No. when spe-
cial interests are taxed they
howl; when the poor are
soaked they keep still.
Reason No. 2.-These nine
have q majority of votec In
the committee: Simmons,
Penrose, Lodge, Gallingcr,
emOot, Townsend, Williams,
Hoke Smith, Stone. Their
records are SO we'll known
they require NO Who's Who
ing here.
These legislative buccaneers
have gone so far in the process Of
ramming the gouge into the poor
they have even voted to tax the
water that puts the fizz in your ice
cream soda - and that's next to
taxing the air you breathe.
Choice Samples
A complete list Of what this SEN
ate committee has done to pick
the pockets of the poor would fill
. newspaper page, but here are q
few choice samples:
Knocked out 26 per cent in
crease In rates on incomes over
$4,000 adopted by the house.
This increase made the rate on In
comes over a million dollars As
per cent.
Killed increase In Inheritance
tax which had passed the house
without protest.
Struck out retroactive income
tax which would have collected adj
ditional taxes on basis of this
years returns.
Consumer Is Hit
Killed tax on automobile manu-
facturers and transferred 1t to au-
tomobile owner.
Rescinded tax on munitions
manufacturers which has been In
effect more than a year and pro-
duoed $25,000,000 revenue.
Now see what has been done to
the mild and inoffensive con-
sumner:
His sugar is to pay tax of half
cent pound when 1t leaves the
manufacturer. Experience shows
by the time the tax is transferred
to you the price will be raised at
least q cent a pound. This will
yield government $45,000,000 and
will cost the consumer $780,
100000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09

alien Russian, registered Saturday
but claimed exemption because he
is a member of the 1. w. w. and
has scruples againts warfare.
More than 80 persons have reg
istered since Tuesday, each claim
ing that he was unable to appear
at any registration place on the
day set aside by the government
for the work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Tacoma Police
Officer Quits

Patrolman Charles B. Lindsay,
former night captain of detec-
tives, resigned his position Satur-
day to enter private business,
Richard Fflkins, removed from
the department two months ago
for reduction of force, will fill
the vacancy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09

Thank you, Mr.. Chase, for
the suggestion. There is
nothing an editor appreciates
more than such a letter from
q reader.
This paper and. I presume,
the others in the Northwest,
are amply covered" at
Washington. Live. able re-
porters are there to get lust
the sort of material you
mention.
The only trouble now is
that congress is passing its
days and nights in locked
committee rooms or in storm
cellars.
Until you and the rest of
the people back home do some
more prOdding, or until the
president succeeds in bring
ing more pressure to bear, the
nation apparently will be
obliged to put up with the
disgraceful spectacle Of a
wartime congress idling away
its time.-EditOr.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Telephone Gossip

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Some people believe it is per-
fectly right to sit at a telephone
from one-half to three-quarters
of an hour and talk nonsense. II
an emergency arises and the
phone is needed right away, the
person who is paying for it has to
wait, fearing he might hurt the
feeling of the long winded talker.
This happens day after day. Must
we go on resenting It privately?
WORRIED,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09

behind the scenes.
Finally, l want to get 1t on the
corner for a penny.
The information which only an
energetic, intelligent and consci.
entious reporter could gather Is
the information which will enable
us to do our duty as citizens.
Furthermore II will put a prod
In our hands when a prod Il
needed.
Very truly yours,
ROGER E. CHASE, JR.,
S005 No. Prospect st
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
ALLEGED PLOTTERS
PLEAD NOT GUILTY

(United Press Leased Wire.D
CHICAGO, June 9.-Gustav
Jacobsen and Albert Wende, in
dicted last week with Baron Won
Reiswitz, former German vice
consul of Chicago, and others for
alleged conspiracy to foment q
revolution in British India, today
pleaded not guilty in federal
court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Logger Killed;
Neck Is Broken

Richard Cube, age "a, employed
at the st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber
company's logging camp at Ka-
powsin, was instantly killed Fri
day afternoon when a snag which
was being removed by a donkey
engine suddenly became uprooted
and struck him In the back of the
neck. His neck was broken.
Body taken to the ]. r. Farrell
undertaking plant, Orting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
in THE EDITORS MAIL

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09

older one Of conscripting
men. The fact that IL never
has been done before, how
ever, does not diminish the
justice behind such action
Editor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09
Conscript Capital
EDITOR. THE TIMES:

EDITOR, THE TIMES:
The government does not beg
for men; it conscripts them.
The government does beg for
capital. Can you tell me why II
does not conscript capital?
r. A. HOLMES.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-09

Capital certainly should be
conscripted, and we can each
help by writing our congress-
men TO that effect.
IL Is true that never before
has any war been paid by the
CONSUMPTION Of wealth-and
the idea Is therefore new and
harder to put over than the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
HENS ON WHEATLESS RATION
Results Given OF Experiments Con.
Quoted With Puliets. at Ohio
Agricultural Station.

When wheat costs more per pound
than corn, it has little to commend it
as feed for laying hens. Egg pro-
ducing is low and mortality is high
when wheat constitutes most of the
ration.
Fifty pullets fed ration Of 81 per
cent corn with bran, oil meal and meat
scrap averaged S9.5 eggs In one year
Mt the Ohio agricultural experiment
station. A second lot fed similar
ration except that wheat replaced corn
laid 95 eggs per hen in the same time.
Four hens in the corn lot died and 20
In the wheat lot.
Two lots of 80 hens were fed these
ratlons year later. The corn-fed
hens produced 2,s45 eggs in "a weeks
and all lived. Those fed mainly wheat
laid only 1880 eggs In the same time
and % died.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
ONES INABILITY TO SLEEP
insomnia May 30 Overcome by For.
getting About II and Avoiding
Unnecessary Excitement.

If you don't sleep well don't worry
about it. Your lack of sleep isn't go
ing to kill you or drive you insane.
That is the substance of the advice
given by a doctor writing in the Amer
lean Magazine.
1t is advice that good many nerv-
Gus people need, observes the Kansas
City Star. How often do you hear
some one apprehensively complaining
that he lies awake call night" The
chances are that he only thinks he was
awake all night, and that in reality he
got several hours of sleep between the
spells OF wakefulness. But even If he
was wakeful, it is nothing to be
alarmed about. Especially is it moth
ing to warrant taking medicine.
The way to get over insomnia is TO
pay 70 attention to it, and not to talk
about It, Sleep is largely matter Of
habit. 1t depends on living ration
ally and going to bed at regular time.
You are likely to be wakeful IL you
stir yourself up IN the evening. II
you work at night or get deeply in
terested in anything you find it diff
cult to relax That is the chief rea-
son for wakefulness after party. The
excitement OF the crowd interferes
with sleep. The ideal way is to taper
off the days activities as evening
comes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
Oandfuffy SaIps
Lead 10 Badness

II you have dandruff get rid OF it
quick--it's positively dangerous and
will surely ruin your hair If You
don't, DandrufPy heads mean faded,
brittle, gray, scraggly hair that final
ly dies and falls out--new hair will
not grow-then you are bald and
nothing can help you. The only sure
way to abolish dandruff for good is to
destroy the germ that causes it. To
do this quickly, surely and safely
there Is nothing so effective as Par
Isian sage, which you can get from
w. L. Gokay and good druggists
everywhere It is guaranteed to
cure dandruff. stop itching scalp and
falling hair. and promote new
growth, or the cost, small as it is,
will be refunded,
Partisan sage is a scientific prepar-
alton that supplies all hair needs
an antiseptic liquid, neither sticky
or greasy easy to apply, and delicate
ly perfumed,
II you want beautiful, soft, thick,
lustrous hair. and lots of it, you must
use Partisan sage Don't delay-be-
gin tonight little attention now in
sures abundant hair for years to
come, w. L. Golcey will supply you
and guarantee nsEsy refunded ir net
sstisRc tsry.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
FRAiL HUMANITY
Here and There and Everywhere
With the Personal Equation.


Some mechanics of the Charles
Town navy yard are now receiving
wages of 500 week.
The limitation on the supply OF sug
ar threatens to bankrupt the candy
and soda water business of druggists.
A Maryland woman first learned
that the United States was at war
when asked to buy Liberty bond
Twenty-seven South Dakota social
lists have been convicted OF violating
the spy law and interfering with the
draft
A Chicago woman recently died
penniless in home for the destitute
founded by her husband.
A Massachusetts farmer says that
milk would cost 50 cents a quart if
farmers received the wages paid TO
plumbers
Under a new law, national banks
will have the right to issue large
number OF 81 and So bills at cost Of
about Z cents bill.
Major Henry l.. Higginson 1.-THE
Boston finlneier1 in recent Liberty
Bond speech, said that Americans
would either buy bonds now or
crutches and collins later.
Dr. Antoinette Konlkow, at the
Boston school of social science, re-
Gently implied that first love is not
ape to be lasting and urged marriage
founded on surer love.
When a North Dakota branch of
the Red Cross found itself without
wool for knitting its members
sheared the wool from their own
sheep, carded and spun 1t and the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
WOULD NOT ACCEPT HUNDRED
Forty Pounds Compensation for Dam.
ages on Railroad, All Old
Covenanter Would Have.

One Of the first railways laid in
North Britain connected the ancient
city of Perth with Aberdeen. In Cham
hers Journal there is a pleasant pic
tire of stanch old covenanter at
Whinnyknowe who was subjected to
loss that called for compensation from
the railway company. William Reid,
there Is no reason to doubt, gave CARE
full consideration to the question of In
jury, and when the railway official
waited upon him he had decided the
exact amount of the damage that he
had suffered. '
The official told the farmer that the
company had agreed to allow him the
sum Of one hundred pounds in recon-
pense. R
"A hunder pounds y exclaimed the
old covenanter. II wanna touch 1t.
l have considered the matter and /
have made up my mind as to what
should get. I winna TAX hunder."
IT would strongly advise you to ac-
cept," replied the official. "You are
uOL llhcly " SCt LuOlGs thihh thV
directors have been generous"
"Too much so! too much sol" was
the startling reply. II Wilma talk the
hunder; III hae forty pounds and not
a penny more"
"Oh, is that the trouble?" was the
laughing response. "Well, here is the
order for one hundred pounds, which
you will receive when you call at the
Office at Perth"
william Reid accepted the order.
and week later presented it at the
companys Office. A clerk asked him
to sign a receipt, and this the farmer
did for forty pounds.
"You are to receive one hundred
pounds, not forty" said the clerk,
counting out the money.
The old farmer was angry. II told
your man." he cried, that would
TAX forty and not penny more; and
will not hae it. / want nae mans
Etller that I've nae RIGHT tor
And William Reid, after twice count
ing his forty pounds. pushed the re-
mainder back across the counter and
walked out OF the ofiice.--Youth's
Companion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
No Cyclones on lnr,.

OF late years It has become common
to call every violent storm icy.
clone,' which is plainly erroneous. A
cyclone never occurs except on the
ocean, asserts a weather observer, be-
cause cyclone Is u violent, whirling
storm of great area. and no such storm
could occur on land. The so-called
cyclones of the West are "torna-
does" which are whIrling storms OF
great violence, but contracted in area.
Tornadoes have been known whose
greatest width did not exceed a few
rods, and those which exceed several
miles in width are very unusual.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
GOOD PREVENTIVE or COLDS
Use One Ounce Of Copper suIrhate to
Ten Gallons of Water or Potas-
stun Permanganate.

AS good preventive of colds in
poultry, use copper sulphate one ounce
10 ten gallons OF water or enough po-
tssslup permanganate to turn the wa
ter blue. Good ventilation and plenty
Vf fresd air are essential In the hen
house, but one should guard against
arafts.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
- =
How Vessels Sink.

Nearly every class or design of ves-
sci sinks in a particular way. For in
stance. the old type OF slngle-bottom
steamers, with few or no bulkheads--
that is, in the modern sense Of the
term--almost invariably founders on
more or less Of an even keel and not
with the bow or stem up in the air.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-04
knitting is proceeding as usual.

knitting is proceeding as usual.
The superintendent of instruction
OF Oregon lists as the 10 virtues TO
be taught to Oregon pupils homes.
ty, truthfulness, cleanliness, obedi-
ence, respect. courtesy. patriotism,
kindness, industry and punctuality.
Mrs. Katherine Lent Stevenson,
president OF the Massachusetts Won
ems Christian Temperance Union,
says that the khaki uniform consti-
tutes q new yellow peril because of
the fascination it exerts on young
unpoised girls.-Leslie's Weekly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-01
Washington and Newport News
Short Line Railroad. Line Will be
Allowed to Build Structure.

Legislation permitting the Wash
ington and Newport News Short Line
to construct bridge over the Poto-
mac river at point near Indian
Head, Md, got big shove in Con
gress yesterday. Senator Martin, of
Virginia, secured a favorable report
on the bridge permit bill from the
Committee on Commerce, and an
hour later he secured its passage
by the Senate.
A similar bill has been favoranly
reported by the House Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce. If
IT, House passes the bill at this
session promoters of the railroad,
which will be developed into a new
short line from Norfolk to New
York by connection with the Balti-
more and Ohio at Washington, de-
clare they will have no trouble TO
mnance the enterprise.
As has heretofore been stated, the
new railroad will connect with the
Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Shep-
herds, opposite Alexandria, which
will bring the new line to our doors
The Baltimore and Ohio Company
over forty-four years ago extended
their tracks to Shepherds for the
purpose of connecting with the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad and the Southern Railway
at this place. For a time passenger
trains were transported across the
river as well as freight trains, and IN
1880 the steamer Excelsior" was
built for the purpose of transporting
trains from Quantico to Shepherds.
The steamer made a few trips be-
tween these points, but the line never
became permanent. The transfer
service, however, between Alexan-
dria and Shepherds vas continued
until the construction of the Poto
mac railroad yards, adjoining Alex
ardrla, twelve years ago, when the
transfer was abandoned