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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-11-02
COTTON SEED OIL
cHURNED IN MILK MAKES
FINE BUTTER

Live and learn. It has been found
says the State Marketing Bureau, that
Denmark, the leading dairy country
Of the world, consumed per capita, IN
the year before the war, forty-four
pounds Of margarine and eighteen
pounds of butter, while the United
States used one and one-half pounds
of margarine and twelve pounds Of
butter per capita Denmark's pro-
portion was about the same in H0l-
land, another great dairying country.
The thrifty Danish and Dutch peo-
pie imported American cotton seed oil
and churned it into butter. It Is
found that twenty pounds Of oil prop
erly churned in milk enough to make
one pound Of butter will make TWEEN.
ty-three pounds Of oleomargarine.
In speech on the American food
situation, by Congressman James y.
Aswell, Of Louisiana, he said:
when properly churned in milk
peanut and cotton seed oils produce
the same delicious, wholesome pro
duct as cocoanut oil so churned; yet
If an association Of American farm
ers want to churn their oils in their
milk so as to make delightful
wholesome food for sale, they must
pay $500 year license, give bond
for $4,000, and make daily reports
to the commissioner of internal rev
lenue. If they artiflcially color the
product so as to make 1t pleasing tc
the eye-as butter is artificially col
ored--they must pay 10 cents pei
pound tax, II they make it white
they must still pay one-fourth Of
cent per pound tax; but nobody
wants it white, just as nobody wants
white butter.
IF the grocer sells the colored fooi
in 10-pound packages or more, hi
must pay $3.50, or If he sells only thu
white food, he must pay 5000 a veal
license, and must make frequent re
ports to the internal revenue depart
ment
IF he sells in less than 10-poundl
packages, he must pay for coloret
food license of $4S, and for whit,
; Sc license.
1.-THE result of these restrictions IL
as shown above, that the American
people have available only about on,
and one-half pounds Of oleomargarin,
per capita per annum, and a who'll,
inadequate supply of butter, whicl
there is no hope of increasing"
He quoted from Senate Documen
141, Fifty-sixth Congress, Second ses
sion, "Adulteration Of Food Pre-
ducts" page AZ, as follows:
prof. Atwater says that margarin
is perfectly wholesome and has
high nutritious value. Prof. Schweit
ger says that careful physiological
experiments reveal no differenc
whatever in palatibility and digest
bility between butter and the bran
of margarine which he has exam
ined. Prof. Baker considers margs
rine quite as valuable nutritiv
agent as butter. Prof. Johnson say
that for all ordinary and culinar
purposes it is the full equivalent d
good butter made from ream. He r,
CARDS the manufacture of margarin
as legitimate and beneficient induI
try. Prof. Jolles says that puy
margarine is as digestible and nj
tritive as pure butter. DR.. Ames d,
clares that the manufacture of ma
garine in properly constructed facto
les is much cleaner than the man
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-11-02
TableJN1 Tote and a la Carte
The MeGca Of the Commands

erican and British statesmen [
b handling Of national problen'
,pecially food problems. ID
'ment Of the. living conditions
working classes in Japan, he
to be urgently imperative, and
reform should be inaugurated
big cities Of Toxic and Osaka
The sun., 1918-12-29
BONE DRY LAW PRESENTS ANOTHER GREAT PROBLEM
FOR NEW YORK REAL ESTATE INTERESTS TO SOLV

tation-where the school buildings are
new. modern and cheerful, where shops
and stores hound and where church ac-
,ommodations are provided for every
denomination or creed? And where Is
there a section sc we'll adapted to the
Ju.idGrS needs. where o formation
as 1t Is found in the northern reaches
Of the city Is unknown-where land
values are low and where the cost OF
the site and excavation Is less than
the cost of the excavation alone In most
sections Of Manhattan INT the Bronx?
This last Is of paramount Importance to
he loaning institutions, as the high cost
Of labor and material must be largely
Offset by the low cost of the land and
It's preparation in order to insure a fair
degree of competition with buildings
erected under more favor3 Die conditions
DIS to labor and material, which condition
prevailed previous to the a
"Our problem then as to building
loans Is largely the problem of ac-
quaintlng our loaning institutions Of the
city with the wonderful and paramount
advantages offered by Queens over any
other section throughout the entire city
In accessibility. desirability and adapt
ability, and also that the resistance TO
.,he how Of population into these wards
as exemplitled In the expenditure of
time, trouble and money Is far less than
Is to be ound in any other section OF
the metropolitan area.
With these facts widely known and
appreciated, loanable funds will flow
into our section In such volume that the
greatest building movement in the his
tory OF the city will be in~augurated."
The sun., 1918-12-29

In the rear. are rented at nominal rem
tails. many as low as $40 per month.
and the offering OF stores in Brooklyn
is away in excess of the demand, and at
the present time there are more stores
vacant In the borough Of Brooklyn than
ever before in my memory.
I am sure. therefore. tina the first de-
probation to real estate from the Dry
Law will be very severe, and probably
continuous until its cause Is forgotten.
The answer OF the prohfbitionist to
the effect that the people will spend an
equal amount OF money In other lines
will undoubtedly not prove true In the
borough of Brooklyn for many years,
though. OF course. II true. II will be
helpful md prevent as great n deprecia-
ton as would otherwise exist. But a
large and permanent depreciation In the
value OF small store properties must re-
suit from the bone dry law.
Tho prudent mortgages will not
probably suffer very much, for they have
for a long time been reducing their
mortgages on saloon properties. and
probably their losses will be immaterial.
These saloon buildings are in practically
no cases adapted to coffee houses or
soft drink places such as one finds
abroad, where the people assemble for
an evening OF personal association with
limited and un~intoxLcating quenchlnz
of their thirsts. The American saloon
has been constructed with the nucleus
OF the bar. where the man who wanted
to drink could put his foot up on the
rail n absorb his fluid with the great
est possible rapidity and go on with his
work and load.
The second effect OF the dry law is
now being efficiently discussed, TO wit
The increased taxes which must be col
lected from other sources unless the
State Il to spend less. The Lord does
not seem TO deal very kindly with those
who have spent ~judiciously, and the
proposition to spend less meets with
unanimous dlsapproval by those who dc
not pay. Every candidate for office
promises to spend less. and every candl.
date when elected spends more. There
fore. probably until a good commission
form Of government is adopted by State:
and cities we will be confronted with
constant charges OF admlnistratio
caused by thes. large expenditures. II
the additional income needle for Stat,
and city is to come from real estate
then 1t is ~"good-by'' TO real estate, for
this Is not the only deficit confronting
the city.
New York is confronted with a deficit
The sun., 1918-12-29
TAX PROBLEMS
TO Be DISCUSSED
Economists to Hold Annual
Conference at Albany on
Vital Question.

The eighth conference on taxation
and the 1915 meeting OF all assessors
in New York State is announced for
Jan. 22, % and "a in Albany under the
joint auspices OF the State Tax COM
mission and OF the state Tax Association.
The first session will be on the
evening OF Wednesday, Jan, %. Adj
dresses OF welcome will be delivered by
Gov. Alfred L. Smith and Mayor James
r. Watt OF Albany. The annual Bd-
dress will then be delivered by Prof.
Edwin r. 4. Seligman. vice-president Of
tho State Tax Association and former
president Of the National Tax Associa-
ton. A discussion Of recent tax leGis-
lation will conclude the evening session.
Thursday forenoon Will bring a dts
cussion of the costs and needs of the
state municipalities, also a discussion
OF how the State budget Is made.
Thursday afternoon will DO given
to constructive proposals for meeting
Government costs and needs. Ad-
dresses will be delivered by representa-
tivcs OF the State Conference Of Mayors,
the Tax Investigating Committee Of the
Advisory Council of Real Estate In
t%erests, the Citizens Union and the Real
Estate Board Of New York. The dis
cussion to follow will DO led by State
tax commissioners and others.
Thursday evening will continue the
game topk, and include a description
and explanation of the suggestion for a
~so-called model system of State and
local taxation, led by the chairman OF
the National Associations committee,
Charles J. Outlook OF Harvard Unlyer-
sty.
Friday, January "a, will be devoted 20
local problems in the forenoon. under
the craftsmanship OF State COMMISSIONS
Ralph W. Thomas That afternoon Will
b o held the corporation session. and the
topics will deal with New York
ON capital stock, incomes ard special
franchises. Members Of the State Tax
Commission include Walter II. Knapp,
Ralph W. Thomas and John J. Merrill.
The officers of the state Tax Associa-
ton are: President, Ogden l.. Mills
vice-presidents, E. II. 4. Seligman, Wal
ter II. Knapp, Lawson Purdy, II. J.
Cookinham. Jr. secretary-treasurer.
Charles ]. Tobin. Albany.
The sun., 1918-12-29
Greene Street Resale Proves
Opportunities Of Old District

Speculative value of property in the
old mercantile district was again H.
Illustrated yesterday when Mrs. Dorothy
Symes sold tho small loft building az ~
Greene street which she bOught last
June through Il. II. Ludlow & 60. Mrs.
Symcs Iesold the properly at a protit
but for how much the brokers in the deal
were not willing TO say. They admitted,
however, hat the advance is sufficient
20 fortune seekers giving
attention to realty in that section. The
huildlng is four stories Nigh, 1910 feet
wide and 100 feet deep on the west side
OF the street Just south Of Grand street
Mrs. Symes bought the property last
summcr on the advice of the brokers
that the old mercantile district had
greater value than w4s generally cred
tied 10 Il. The resale confirms this
opinion. Mrs. Symes gets cash and the
dwelling at 152 Prospect street, East
Orange, y. J., on q site 5lX20O feet
The Ludlow concern negotiated the
resalc. This Arm has been active In
that section. selling ana reselllng q num-
Der OF properties In Greene, Crosby.
Canal and Mercer streets Some Of The
resales AVE been at advances which
are nothing short OF sensational n
which should be included in the romance
of the real estate market OF 1918.
The sun., 1918-12-29

permanently lower. Brooklyn will suf-
Ter more h Manhattan. where there
10 very much more business and where
small stores pay larger rentals. The
Manhattan store pays a large rental
because the city Is built up in the all
more n the density Of population ie
therefore greater.
Again. the popularity OF construction
in Brooklyn has produced many thou
sand buildings three stories in height
with stores on the first floor and two
| apartments above. Under tho existing
laws these buildings cannot be altered
with any reasonable expense into three
family houses The result Is that these
stores are renting for mere nominal
rentals because there is an excess pro.
duction OF them. Very many were orig.
lnally built with a small apartment In
the rear OF the store to be occupied BY
the storekeeper. who generally was a
! widow or a lame or infirm person witt
little capital and unable TO do manuaI
O AN 'oAuS "a eheSo plopertlet
has been destroyed absolutely by the
Tenement Hous laws. for II by any
chance a person Is injured in one OF
these buildings occupied as an apart.
ment in the rear of the store even with.
out the consent OF the owners and con.
trary to the lease. the owner has beer
held for extreme damages because OF @
fire which did not originate in the store
floor.
These stores, therefore. as they can.
not be occupied with a small apartment,
The sun., 1918-12-29
Big FUTURE FOR
QUEENS BUILDERS
Capital VIII Favor Borough
Because of Natural Build
ing Advantages.

Building loans will be ootainable
again. They are essential to the life
OF the city. and the force OF necessity
Will break down the objections which
capital has at present to the financing
Of construction. John W. Paris. who has
long been associated with the develop
ment OF suburban Long Island and Is
a close student OF the residential needs
Of the community. discusses the Queens
building loan situation in the December
issue OF Greensboro, the official publica-
ton OF the Greensboro Chamber Of Com
merce. lie says that the future will be
one OF greatest activity for builders in
the history OF that borough. Mr.. Paris
writes:
The providing OF housing accommo
d1tions both for residence and CONNER
c!al purposes Is equally as distinct a
business as the building OF furniture,
clothing or the numerous other tenn
poral requirements Of a great cosmo-
pol'tan population.
when this branch OF Industry Is ac-
tive the capital Investment is so large
that the builder must procure a portion
OF II by the sale OF the credit which the
acquiring Of the lane and the erection
OF tho BUILDINGS thereon furnish him.
The desirab'lity and stability of that
credit depends entirely on the following
features, namely accessibility, desir-
ability and ~adaptabllity.
Accessibility Where the property can
be most readily. cheaply and quickly
reached from the great employment rem
! fro nf the ~ttN- lsstYg an,,th - Irg,, ,I..N
street, Manhattan. This is determined
by the best transportation facilities,
either elevated or subway.
Population always has and always
will follow the lines Of least resistance.
and resistance 10 the flow of population
consists of time, trouble and expense
Where, therefore. population can flow
to and from the great employment cen.
tire OF the city with the least expenditure
of time, the least amount OF EFFORT and
J the least outlay OF money. Is where the
/ majority Is bound to congregate.
"Desirability Where the sanitation
conditions arc good. Where physical
improvements are installed, and where
churches, schools and shopping facilities
are convenient and adequate.
"Adaptability: Where the Topographic
cal condition OF the land Is such as Ia
mako the least expenditure of time and
money necessary to 1T IL for the struc-
lures to be erected.
Apply the foregoing and where IS
there a section so accessible as those
parts Of Queens adjacent TO the dual
r8pld transit lines?
Where is there a section 30 well
adapted as Queens, where the land Is
| gently rolling with a porous open soil
adding immensely to health and SAM.
The sun., 1918-12-29
Why Tax Laws
Must Be Changed
TWENTY-FIVE per cent. of
N the total tax levy is now
placed upon real property


placed upon real property
in New York city.
The actual market value of
real property is probably so much
less than the present total of as
sessments thereof that the con-
stitutional debt limit of the city
has been exceeded.
Additional revenue is required
by the city to cover loss of the
excise taxes and the cost of city
administration as now organized.
Billions of dollars in personal
property located in New York r
admittedly not bearing a proper
share of the tax burden. Yet
they receive all the benefits of
government.
More billions are earned In
New York by non-residents, who
pay nothing toward the expenses
of the government under which
they prosper.
Equity in taxation assumes In
terms that those who receive the
benefits Of government will pay
therefor in proportion to their
prosperity. Taxable ability is
known to be the only fair and
adequate measure for the distri-
button of tax burdens.
Realty holdings are not a meas
ure of the taxable ability of any
citizen. Therefore the tax bur
den must be measured not only
by realty holdings but by person
atty holdings and otherwise
Advisory Council OF Real Estate
| Interests.
The sun., 1918-12-29
EQUITABLE BUILDING
SITE ONCE A GARDEN
Assessed To-day for $4,000.
600, Sold Then for $1,000
Increment Began Early.

More than n century has elapsed
since n portion OF the Equitable Build
ing site was distinguished by the name
OF a garden, according 10 the Equitable
city. Joseph Delacrolx. who came to
this country soon after the revolution
and was for many years the most pop
ular caterer and confectioner in the
city, established his vauxhall Garden
here In 1897. and until he removed
:urther uptown, several years later. It
was one of the best patronized resorts
for light refreshments and simple en-
tertaInments In New York. The genial
Frenchman had his little shop at 100
Broadway, right in the middle OF the
block between PINT and Cedar streets,
and in the real he had a typical sum-
mer garden where ices-a great dell
cacy at the time-Were dispensed to
the residents OF the neighborhood dur
ing the warm summe nights
Delacroix's little garden covered n
very limited area of what a century
before his time had been Peter Stout
enberg's tulip garden. For more than
a hundred years the present Equitable
block had been one OF the charming
gardens Of the city. but the growth OF
business soon after 1900 usurped so
much OF Delacroix's garden privileges
that he was forced to move to the
more open fields uptown. but he did
not reiinduish his confectionery shop
at 12O Broadway as his downtown
quarters until 1886.
The Equitable plot was a portion OF
the large farm owned by Jan Jansen
Damen. being ono Of the earliest
Dutch grants. The Damen farmhouse
stood on tho Nassau street side OF the
block. nea the Cedar street corner.
Later tho house WAS occupied by
Peter Stoutenberg when no got the
block for his tulip garden and II is
said that the building was standing
when the plot On tho Cedar street
corner was sold by the heirs Of Peter
StoulciIptIS W 1T JoHn bdlu lol
about $1,000, just prior to the revo-
luton.
DciHCroiX sold hts shop al 100
broadway In 1888 for 500, 900. a bis
advance over Its formcr transfers, fol-
he Dutch Church paid Peter Stouten-
berg 5000 for the plot, and when Della
croix bought It In 1896 he paid a little
less than 100000. In 1887 the building
on the site was enlarged and became
the National Hotel. To-day the site
Is covered by the Equitable Building
and the land alone is assessed by the
city of New York for SIS, 000, 900.
The sun., 1918-12-29

Duross Company has leased to Styles
& Cash the NTH loft at 3l4 West Four
tenth street for a term Of years; the
third loft at 1919 Sixth avenue to Frank
II. Bolsom and Tony Solvo. and the
store and basement at l6 East Eish-
tcenth street to the Benjamin Company.
Inc. for n term OF years.
James Kyle Il Sons have rented for n
term OF years to the United Cigar Stores
the store Mt the southeast corner OF
Fifty-first street and Lexington ave
nue., which Immediately adjoins the Lex
inFton Theatre also the store at the
northeast corner of Fifty-slXth street
and Lexington avenue 10 LouIsette.
Douglas l.. Gilman & %, have leased
the parlor floor of 81 West Forty-siXth
street to the National League for
Women's Service, Motor Corps Trans
portntion Division.
The III. NJ, Well Company has leased
for a term OF years the store at 42i
Seventh avenue, e Thirty=fourth
street, TO stern & Berger for the sale Of
mems furnishings for storage purposes
to the Union News Company the store
floor of 207 West T~hirty-third street /;
to John Peters the building at 2O6
West Thlrty-third street
The sun., 1918-12-29
WILL UPHOLD ASSESSMENTS.
New Rochelle Council Votes to
Carry Tax Fight to Highest Court.

The Counc!lmen of New Rochelle have
adopted a resolution UNFOLDING the Com
missioner OF Assessment and Taxation
and the Corporation Counsel, and au-
thorizinR the Corporation Counsel to
carry to the highest courts any of the
new certiorari cases that may be de-
cided adversely to the city.
Councilman Childs stated that while
the Corporation Counsel has that power.
he felt the Council should go on record
in backing him and the Assessment Com
missioner. and that they should be very
omphatically supported by the people.
After reading the pamphlet issued
by Commissioner Sutton" he said. ION
two or three cases that have been tried
| feel that there has been n serious mis-
carriage OF Justice and that the city OF
New Rochelle has had a pretty poor deal.
II seems outrageous that the common
taxpayer. who owns small property. who
frds 1t too expensive to fight In the
higher courts. should be obliged TO
shoulder tbs burden Of taxes whom the
The sun., 1918-12-29

Chandler and L. d. Woodwork for the
Advisory Council OF real estate inter-
ests, Stewart Browne and Adolph Bloch
for the Cnlted Real Estate Owners As
ISOLATION, Assistant Corporation Counsel
William H. King. Bryan l. Kennedy and
Henry Bloch of the Mayors Committee.
j. r. Lehman. secretary OF the COM
mlttee. and Joseph HeIernan. statistic
ian OF the committee.
Discussion centred upon the advisa-
bility of the State income tax and a
business tax advocated by the Ad-
visory Council the tax limitation plan
fixing the rate on real estate at 2 and
the rate OF personality at on%e-fourth OF
l per cent, eliminating deductions for
debt, sponsored by the Real Estate
Board, and the plan OF the United Real
Estate Owners Association, providing
for the deferment OF a fixed tax rate
on real estate until one year after the
adoption OF the personal tax law. which
would enable the city to ascertain how
much could be collected from personal
trxes before the tax Limitation on zeal
estate would become operative.
Advocates of each of these three
plans presented them for consideration
with the result hat the salient features
Of zach plan, Its advantages and dis
advantages became clearly established
OuI OF lnt great HldSS " OlSSuSS4OA'
emerged the principles which may form
the basis of n new tax bill ~embodyirg
tho best elements in each of the three
plans and eliminating the Objectionable
features.
The splendid splrit OF Cancellation
and willingness to cooperate which
~actuated every one at the conference
was unusually gratifying said Mr.
| Hirsch in a statement issued on the
| conference. "I feel confident that In
enite OF the prevailing differences Of
| opinion we shall encounter no insu
~mountable difficulties in getting every
one together"
Another conference Will be held to
morrow night. December 80, to whicl
the Mayor, Comptroller and Presidert
Cantor OF the Tax Board have been In
| vited. and an opportunity will he af
forded to these city ofncials who arr
charged with the enforcement and ad-
n,.nistratlon OF the tax laws 10 got r.
loser touch with the representative
! OF the real estate interests.
The sun., 1918-12-29
TO HAVE OWN SEARCHERS.
Register InstalIs Department.
Title Company Has Had the fob.

Title Company Has Had the Job.
Register Webster OF Kings county an
the Installation Of a Searching
Department which will make all the
official searches without outside assist
lnce starting January 2.
When Register Webster took Office ne
foutd that II had been the custom 10
turn over all applications for searches
10 a title company which had a con-
tract for this work. This frequently
compelled the applicant to wait many
days for a search that should have been
made In n very short time. The Regis
ter said he considered It an absurdlty
to call upon an outside concern 70 search
the records OF his own office. The con
tract with tho title company has nov
expired and the Register will do his OWL
searching.
The new Searching Department will
make searches Of all the records in tho
Registers office. including chattel mort
cages a SINAI fee will be charged for
this service, In addition the Searching
Department is prepared TO give free OF
charge to any person making application
the name and address Of the last owner
of record OF any parcel OF lard within
the confines OF Kings county. Register
Webster invites the public 10 use this
department for any Information concern
ing the records OF his office.