Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

Adoo would tax personal servants Tor
two reasons: First, to get revenue /;
| second, and more important. to force
those who are engaged at service, into
occupations essential to the winning
of the war. The Secretary does not
, go so far as to say that Mrs, Biddle,
or MRS. Cadwalader or Mrs. Stotesbury
shall wait on the door apd wash the
dishes. but he intimates rather broadly
that my lady's maid" might be more
patrotically employed, and that
James" the butler, might be work
ing in a shipyard. swabblng the deck
or shouldering a gun. There is a con-
stitutional question involved in the
servant taxing proposition. but il is
pointed out that license would be
effective and produce as much revenue
as head tax. It is not certain the
Treasury recommendation to tax
servants out of service into war will
he adopted by Congress, but the sug.
gestion is sufficient to demonstrate the
urgency of our war needs. 1t also
and that moral is: Be prepared-be
prepared to cook your own meals if
necessary. This war is going to last
long enough. as Washington sees it,
to set up a few autoCrats and to break
Il few proud spirits.
MITCHELL PALMER is serving
AVA the Government at a compare.
lively small salary. but he is coming
to be one of the biggest of our finan-
ciers. He has more money in hand
at the present writing than Stotes
bury, Schwab, Sproul, Grundy and w.
w. Gibbs rolled together with the
University of Pennsylvania and
Swarthmore College thrown in for
good measure. Altogether the funds
in his possession as alien property Gus.
todian amount to approximately $500
100000. This money represents Ger
man interests in ,the United States and
much of it that is not employed in
enterprises taken over and operated
pF the Government is invested in Lib
erty bonds, where it will remain until
Congress decides what shall be done
with it. The Democratic leader of
pennsylvania has also become a manu-.
facturer on large scale, having con-
troll of iron and steel works, textile
and other establishments, most of
which were started under protective
tariff laws which their present direc-
tor as a member of Congress, helped
to unmake,
NHE ramifications of the new revc.
- nue. bill are far-reaching. They
provoke variety of views and criti-
clsms that tend TO, intensity the mag
nitude of the task assigned to the
trainers of the bill. Who would think
the mere matter of classifying medic.
maj preparations under one head would
provoke discussion? And yet our
friend, r. Lincoln Mcneil, the elo-
quent young president of the Kensing-
ton Board of Trade, comes forward in
the name of the American Association
of Pharmaceutical Chemists with a
demand that ethical medical prepara-
tons be separated from proprietary
medicines. II see no reason" says
MI. Mcneil, why such preparations
as DIR. Smiths Corn Cure or Doctor
Joness Lung Healer which are usu
ally sold on their advertising, should
not be put in the same class as luXu-
les and taxed high. The preparations
n which We are interested are official
and known formulas and used by the
medical profession In a most scien-
life way Verify. this war in Europe
mas penetrated every phase of Amer
can life and interest
COMPLAINTS reach the Capitol
- about variety of topics, but the
atest and oldest comes from certain
camden and Gloucester county farm.
ars, who have the notion that Presi- /
lent Wilson or some other national
authority should see that Mayor
Smiths Philadelphia police prevent
oeculations from the market wagons
If Jersey farmers delivering produce
% Dock street and other points along
he river. The writers evidently as
sumo that the Federal Government
lcquires jurisdiction in the interest
If food conservation.