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ECONOMY AND FIXED
TAXES REALTY'S AIM
Brokers Map Out Legislative Cam.
paign to Attain Two Important
.,... Objects. ....

Economy in the administration OF the
municipal and the State governments
and fixed tax rate are the aims OF the
legislative programme Of the Real Es-
tate Board Of New York this year. At
tainment OF either object would mean
much for the local real estate market.
A fixed tax rate would be likely to pro-
duce great wave Of popularity In the
real estate field.
The board feels that the limit should
not exceed. for all purposes, Q per cent
on real estate and one-quarter Of 1 per
cent. on personal property. The tax on
occurred debts is now one-ffth OF ! per
cent. annually. and the tax on mort
cages one-half Of per cent. payable
once only during the term Of the mort.
gage. Tax on mercantile and manufac-
turing corporations is per cent. on mel
income. payable annually.
Real estate men believe that the tax
on all forms of personal property should
be the same, and as the proportion OF
personal property in the city Of New
York Is estimated as eight to one, that
one-quarter Of 1 per cent. tax on per-
sonal and a per cent tax on real e.
tate would be a fair and equal distribu-
ton Of the burden OF supporting local
and State governments
"As all real estate In private hands Il
taxed. so should all personal property
be taxed" says the board. land the De-
partment OF Taxes and Assessments
should be given all the power needed to
enable a proper levy against personal
property to be made. The personal tax
should be levied and collected before
February is Of each year and should BIZ
at the fixed rate Of az mills. q.
THE additional sums then needed for
the support OF the Government, less the
surplus revenues of the general fund,
should be levied on real estate. but in
no case should such levy exceed per
cent. of the assessed valuation.
''The amount so raised will be ample
for the support of Government honestly
and economically administered.
Certain interests" the Realty Board
says, ARE now talking of new sources
OF revenue and asserting that a tax on
personal property cannot be collected
They seem to feel that mans home
which usually Is purchased after years
of thrift, Industry and self-denial, is
n proper subject for taxation, but that
personal property, however obtained. is
sacred-in spite Of the fact that per.
sonal property needs the protection OF
Government more than real estate. The
claim that n personal tax cannot be
successfully levied and collected is oil
the same character as the claim urged
against the imposition OF an income tax
A 2.5 mill personal tax can be levied
and collected. There should be no ex-
emptions and all other forms OF taxa
ton on such property should be abol'
ished. II. as the advocates OF no tax
on personal property claim, rich men
will leave the city, their departure would
be welcomed, for they would prove
The sun., 1918-10-27
TO SELL BANKERS ESTATE.
Fine Place Mt Great Neck In
Special Offering.

Joseph p. Day will offer at absolute
auction sale on Wednesday. November
6. in the Vesey street salesroom an in
teresting plot OF land in the aristocratic
section OF Great Neck. l.. /. The land.
which Ia to be sold to close the estate
OF the late Gilbert NJ. Plympton,
banker. is situated In the famous Bay
view avenue overlooking Little Neck
Bay and Long Island Sound and
consists of ten and a half acres OF va
cant land and will be sold in acre par
cells or as a whole.
Upon his retirement from active life
me late Gilbert NJ Plympton devoted
his Time TO farming and used the land
which IL now TO be sold as a private
park TO Indulge his hobby for handsome
ana other forms of gardening. He built
modern greenhouse and various barns
upon me land. laid out beautiful ave-
ryfs OF trees and built roads, planted
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'ome money and wants to invest in real
estate should place himself In the hands
~ reliable broker, n man OF eNpe-
rience and ability, and dollars to dough-
nuts an investment will be made which
will bring good return and the posi-
,!lity of selling at a proAt. because real
estate generally. no matter where it Is.
Is worth. according to real estate men,
\ good deal more than 1t is held at
This is not a ehoestring market, yet a
few thousand dollars will buy lot OF
real estate. The man who can buy a
property without asking terms can de-
pend on getting property at a low price.
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every variety OF fruit trees. bushes,
hodges and all Kinds Of fowers

Several beautiful estates of New
Workers are Immediately adjacent
Among the residents are Sherwood
Aldrich, Preston Pope Satterwhitc, Cord
Meyer, II. f. Sinclair and Garrison
Cowl.
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MORE SMALL WEST SIDE SUITES

The Duross Company has leased the
three story dwelling at 223 West Twelfth
street to Paul Mccoy and Garrett
Hughes, who are altering II into BACH
elor apartments also the three story
dwelling at 34S West Twenty fourth
street to Frank WIKI, who is altering il
Tor studio apartments. and for Hugh
King. his four story and basement dwell
Ing at S22 West Fourteenth street to
Gustav Dauer for five years.
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NEW JERSEY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
NJ o NJ T CT AIR

VI, 900 Beautiful New England Tapes-
try brick Residence; excellent convenient
iocat"hi large living room, dining room
Dutlery, tiled ltltchen, bedrooms 3 baths
Interior, woodwork old ivory: double OAK
noors throughout: copper leaders cutters,
murdoch, op. LnckawRnna, MontclaIr,
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SALE AT RIDGEwooD. N. J.

p S. S. Walstrum- Gordon & Forman
have sold for the Wilsey Realty Com
pany to Morton NJ. Curry OF Douglas
ton. l.. l., the dwelling at 267 Hillcrest
road. Upper Ridgewood; also leased
for DR.. John b. Hopper to J. d. Chap
pell of New Haven the dwelling at
81 South Maple avenue. Ridgewood. y. j.
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TRADES HOUSE FOR GARAGE.

DR. Waite A. Cotton has sold the four
story and basement dwelling. on lot 20 !
x9G.S, at 759 st. Nicholas avenue, to
Walter {. McGee. who gave in part pay
mont the two stcTy and basement garage
AT 3lS4 and 1886 Webster avenue, on
plot 5Oxl52, occupied by James Nc
Creery 4 Co. as n Bronx distributing
station. George Howe was IN broker.
The sun., 1918-08-18

F Katherine Mayo's book, The Standard
L Bearers, had been offered to the
reading public in the guise of fiction
there would be few who would not be will
ing to concede to the writer vivid i'm
agination and remarkable ingenuity. But
these stories, which have appeared in such
dissimilar magazines as the Atlantic
Monthly, the Outlook and the Saturday
Erentng Post, are all stories of actual
appenings-records of several months
investigation Of the work that has been
accomplished by the Pennsylvania State
Constabulary and tales which the author
has learned from the lips of the men in
that heroic service.
Katherine Mayo's work has already ac-
compGshed great things. The author Of
these stories was in fact largely rrspon-
sible for the recent organization of the
New York State troopers. But with the
sociological aspect Of this work we are
not concerned; what we are concerned
with is the fact that these stories offer
the reader a series of adventurous narra-
tives with thrill on every page Grim
inal mysteries which had baffled the
county police are here unravelled in a
way worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
Before the State constabulary was Or
ganized terrorization was a part of the
normal life of many of the remote min
ing and mountain districts of Pennsyl-
vania. Malta and black hand societies
were exacting tribute under the noses of
the county police, who, themselves intim-
idatad, feared to make arrests. Dis
orderly houses and gambling dens -four
iShed openly. More than one Sheriff had
paid with his life for his temerity in at
tempting to make arrests. Even in the
few cases where arrests had been made il
had been impossible to secure convictions.
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hardly the place one would look for this
remarkable pair, and the explanation Of
why they are here is their new play Al
legiance, which has overshadowed all their
other artistic interests for a long time.
"Amelie wrota Allegiance. 1t is her
work." the Prince said. 1--WE talked and
thought it out together, but she wrote it.
1t is our greatest interest" That they
have worked as few playwrights do, any
of the members of the east will testify
1t isn't unusual in this generation to see
married couples with individual talents,
but it is most unusual TO see them with
interchangeable gifts which they use at
random. About ten years ago the Prince
wrote a novel, The Passer-By, and the
Princess Illustrated it by way of diver
sion. When ! mentioned it the Prince
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Tales of the Pennsylvania Constabulary

as whole communities were under tribute
levied by organized gangsters.
The early history of the State constab-
ulary was the record of one bloody and
adventurous fray after another. A mere
handful of men, scattered over widely out
lying districts of rugged and mountainous
country, they would go in groups of two,
three or half dozen, sometimes singly,
into veritable hellholes- Storming barri-
caded houses against men armed with re-
peating rifles, they rarely failed to secure
their prey and usually alive, and, what
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of service. The very fact that the term
servant has come to mean something
derogatory in the eyes of those who are
supposed to serve us, shows how grave
the situation is, and until this Is changed
there won't be any comfort for house
keepers"
The Princess is not one of those women
who give vent to patriotic sentiments
about the war and then when the war
strikes home finch. l had been watching
a young, very young, aviator who walked
about the adjoining room and when 1
spoke Of him she said, "You will know
how right think the war is when 1 tell
You that am willing to have my nephew,
who is the last OF our family, 60"
New York in summer, particularly the
sort OF summer we are now having, is
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made some awful Russian faces and de-
clared that it was a terrible novel, but
remember that it was good.
No one is more pestered for statements
as to how long the war will last than
Princess Troubetskoy. She has 4 sort Of
sixth sense At least she does things with
the ouija board that must make Patience
Worth jealous, but just now she hasn't
anything to say about the end except
that she is hopeful.
just as I left l asked the Prince how
he likes being a Prince. "Isn't that Just
like people!' he cried, and again the Rus
sian face. "Here Amelie and have put
our whole thought and time on a play
which involves the most vital issues Of
the day, and you ask me how I like being
q Princew
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was the more remarkable, they got con-
victions
Gradually the terrorizers became the
terrorized. The people, realizing that there
was power able and willing to protect
them, went to the State police with their
grievances, and from that day the power
OF the terrorizers was gone.
These stories of fact are refreshing
reading.
THE STANDARD BEARERS. By K.rH
EsINE MAYO. HOughton Mifiin Company.
$3.50.
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BY CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE

BY CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE
A FEW months ago Prince and
"A soldier CHANGED to be sitting to-
gether in a train. The soldier didn't know
that he was talking to Prince or they
gether. When the boy said that he was
on his way to the city to have picture
taken for his mother the Prince offered
to paint portrait for her instead. as a
gift.
1t was SO near the end of the month
that the soldiers funds must have been
very low, but the card that the Prince
gave him said, "Prince Pierre Troubet-
skoy" and somehow the thought of being
.'done in oils" by a person whose name he
couldn't even pronounce must have been
too much for the soldier, who was just
one Of those ordinary American boys who
sauirm at the thought of anything i'm
pressive but go off to die gloriously and
modestly day after day. At any rate he
never came.
"How splendid they are!" the Prince
said. II wish that might paint them all
before they gow And if you had gone to
his studio during the spring you might
easily have seen French or American
officer on leave sitting for the very sort
of portrait that the soldier refused.
The Prince is just Pierre Troubetskoy,
but his wife, in addition to being the
Princess Tronbetskoy, is Amelie Rives,
whom everybody knows about. She writes
such good stories that when In a recent
serial publication Of one Of her novels
the principal scene of the most thrilling
part was omitted through a mistake, it
was still interesting enough for the mis-
take to pass unnoticed by most readers.
When the main love scene in one of Mr..
= Howells's books was eaten by a mouse it
was discovered in time for him to rewrite
it, but no such opportunity was given the
Princess and yet she bore the shock with
remarkable fortitude.
Amelie Rives is just the sort of person
we would pick out for Princess. She
measures up TO our ideals of all that
fairy princess should be and it hardly
seems fair for one woman to have so
much talent and beauty all at once. 1t is
quite evident that she has got hold of the
spring of eternal youth, and her fame as
a beauty long ago travelled over several
continents. Though attended by faithful
Italian servants, unlike most women who
are fortunate themselves she is very sym
pathetic and annoyed over the domestic
problem of most of the country.
There is nothing finer than service,
good service of any sort" she said. "0f
course l write and paint, which is quite
different from doing Homework, but
after all everything that we do is a form
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like war, prompt and we'll organized
help"
Years of devoted missionary work
with preoccupied officials and a heed
less. short sighted public at length
bore fruit. After the Geneva Treaty
received the signature of President
Arthur on March /, 1882, it was
promptly ratified by the Senate, and
the American National Red Cross
came into being, with Clara Barton
as it's first president Through her in
fluence, too, the international Con-
gress of Berne adopted the American
Amendment" which dealt with the
extension of the Red Cross to relief
measures in great ealamities occur
ing IN times of peace.
The story of her life from this time
on is one with the story of the work Of
the Red Cross during the stress Of
such disasters as the Mississippi Riy-
err floods, the Texas famine in 1885,
the Charleston earthquake in 1886, the
Johnstown flood in 1889, the Russian
famine in 1892, and the Spanish
American War.
I'VE gain as we give, If we would
find our life. we must be willing to
lose il"
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accomplishing with high devotion, with
an attitude that amounts almost to re-
hgious exaltation, the woman of France
bears the burden.
Now. conditions being as they are, does
it lie within the heart of the American
people to preserve and hold to every con-
venience of our life at the expense of adj
ding an additional burden to the woman
hood of France? This is the exact ques-
ton that is involved in our substitution
of other cereals in place of wheat.
The women of France must be enabled
to hold up the morale of the French SOL
der until next spring. The morale Of
the house decides the morale Of the SOL
der in the fighting Line. We can do this
by giving to them the greatest possible
freedom in their food supply, and Of this,
wheat is the chief factor.
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OUR LADY OF THE RED
CROSS, CLARA BARTON
From "Heroines of Service" by Mary
r. Parkman.

Clara Barton was present on six
teen battlefields of the Civil War; she
was eight months at the siege of Char
leston,- and served for a considerable
period in the hospitals of Richmond.
When the war was ended and the
survivors of the great armies were
marching homeWard, her heart was
touched by the distress in many
homes where sons and fathers and
brothers were among those listed as
missing" In all there were $4,000
men of whom no definite report could
be given to their friends. She was as
: gisting President Lincoln in answer
ing the hundreds of heartbroken let
ters, imploring news, which poured IN
from all over the land when his tragic
death left her alone with the task.
Then, as no funds were available to
finance a thorough investigation Of
every sort of record of States, hos
pitfalls, prisons, and battlefields, she
maintained out of her own means a
bureau to prosecute the search.
Four years were spent in this great
labor, during which time Miss Barton
made many public addresses, the pro-
ceeds Of which Were devoted to the
cause. One evening in the winter of
1868, while in the midst of a lecture
her voice suddenly left her. This was
the beginning Of a complete nervous
collapse. The hardships and pro-
longed strain had, in spite Of her ro-
bust constitution and iron will, told
at last on the endurance of that loyal
worker
Miss Barton in Europe.
When able to travel, she went to
Geneva, Switzerland, in the hope Of
winning back her health and strength.
Soon after her arrival he was visited
by the president and members of the
international Committee for the Re-
lief of the Wounded in War" who
came to learn why the United States
had refused to sign the Treaty of
Geneva, providing for the relief of
sick and wounded soldiers Of ALI the
civilized nations, our great republic
alone most unaccountably held aloof
Miss Barton at once set herself to
learn all she could about the ideals
and methods of the International Red
Cross, and during the Franco-Prus
sian War she had abundant oppor-
tunity to see and experience it's prac-
tical working on the battlefield. At
the outbreak of tho war in 1870 she
was urged to go as a leader, taking
the same part that she had borne dur
ing the trials of the Civil War.
Months of service in caring for the
wounded and the helpless victims of
period of nervous exhaustion from
which she but slowly crept back to
her former hold on health. At last she
was able to return to America to do
vote herself to bringing her country
into line with the Red Cross move
ment. She found that Evolutionary
prejudice against "entanghng alliances
with other powers" together with a
singular failure to comprehend the vi
tai Importance of the matter. militat-
ed against the great cause.
why should we make provision for
the wounded?" it was said. I'VE shall
never have another war: we have
learned our lesson"
1t came to Miss Barton then that
the work of the Red Cross should be
extended to disasters, such as fires,
floods, earthquakes, and emidemics-
"great public calamities which require,
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whatsoever has the characteristics of
the Teutonic race is superior. The Gull
tural value of a nation is measured by
the quantity of Teutonism it contains -
Woltmann; "Poitische Anthropologie, -
page SO.
The Teutons are the aristocracy OF
humanity, "-(Ludwig Woltmann; ''Die
Germanen in Franlzreich,' page So
1--WE are morally and Intellectually
superior to other nations; we are without
equals. = Gasson; letter in Amsterdam
mer," Oct. II, 1914.
THE German people is always right,
because it is the German people and be-
cause it numbers 81, 900, O00 lotto Rich
ard Won Tannenberg; "GrossdeutschIand;
Die Aufgabe des zWanzigsten Jahrhun-
derts, page 231.
Providence has willed that we should
be it's instruments. William /; Speech,
March 8, 1871.
THE Spirit of the Lord has descended
upon me. | am the instrument of the
Almighty '--( William II present Kali
sef); Proclamation to the Army of the
East, 1914.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
BY Or. AIonze Taylor.

MY words are not powerful enough to
do even scanty justice to the most heroic
figure in the modern world, and of ages
past-the woman of France. OF the
healthy men who are engaged in the
military service in France, practically all
are engaged either in transportation or in
the manufacture Of munitions, leaving
the agriculture absolutely to the women.
Not only this, but they have stepped into
the place of work animals; you can go
into any section of France today and see
women of magnificent noble womanhood
hitched to the plough and cultivating the
soil All of the agriculture rest upon their
shoulders. The home. always an extreme
ly efficient home, maintains few old
men, the wounded, and the tnbercular.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
PLACES OF INTEREST IN
AUGUSTA.

The Meadow Garden-George Wash
ington's stopping place.
Stevens Creek Al, 900 horsepower
hydro electric development.
Butt Memorial Bridge-Memorial to
Archie Butt.
Lake View Park-One of Augustus
amusement parks with large lake.
The Whitney Place-Home of the
first cotton gin.
The Medical College-Rated as Al.
The Country Club.
The Bon Air Hotel, The Partridge Inn,
The Lenwood-Three of Augustus
Tourist Hotels.
The Lagoon-Famous duelling grounds.
Sand Bar Ferry-Historical feature
ST. Paul's Church-Sight of Old Fort
The Sand Hills-The suburbs-among
the most beautiful in the south.
The Levee-Protecting Augusta from
floods, is Of peculiar interest-The
Board of Commerce.
A Massachusetts woman calls Khaki
yellow peril to young girls. A German
mind couldn't have conceived a worse in
suit to the American soldier.-Army and
Navy Magazine.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
TEUTONIC CONCElT

sovereigns, pubiicists and statesmen are
issued by the Committee on Public
Safety and taken from "Out of Their
Own Mouths" published by D. Appleton
and Co., 1919
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-01-05

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weather 10 bad 700 have rheumatic
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sediment: the channels oetsa ~ irri'
tated. obliEins you 70 Ct up Two o.
three times during the night
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and Aush o6 ths bedys usinous waste
gst about four ounces a JaA 0alts iron
any pharmacy: take . tablssDooaful n
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ssw days and yesf Kidneys vim thso
act Gns and bladdse Aisee6sss disao'
pear. This famous salts b made ttoo
The acid oe grapes aad js0ea juiea
combined win utAia. cpd has beea
used for ssnsratoas 70 clean aaA stiD
uIate siugsish kidnsys and stop blaA'
der irritation. Jad Salts y Inexpensive
harmless and makes . delightful e6og'
yescent lithia water drink Which NIL
lions Of men and women take now aa1
then. thus avoiding serious kidney aa6
bladder diseasee.-Adv.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-01-05
LEGAL N0TIcNS


Klamath Falls. Oregon. Dec. 3e.
lsl7.-rhe undersigned will receive
bids at the once OF the Reclamation
Service. Klamath Falls. Oregon. until
two O'Clock p. n. January 80. 1918.
whom the same viii b opened. for the
rsclaiming Of about $500 acres Of
swamp land In Pelican Bay. Upper
Klamath Lake. orsgon. within the
klamath Project. No rental will bs
enacted for the uss Of the land; but
the successful bidder viii bs required
to begin work within six months from
the ddts Of the contract; to complete
the work within years from said
date and - give bond In. the sum Of
e9o.o0o With aa acceptable surety.
conditioned Tor . faithful compliance
With the terms OF the contract. Each
bidder must state the shortest period
OF time for which hs will accept the
uss Of the land q consideration for
reelaiming Il. which period will be
eensidsrsd IN awarding contract. Bid.
dess and othsrs interested may bs
present when bids are opened. For
further Information and . COPY Of the
contract 70 b entered into apply to
ua-J. D. Bead. Project Manager.
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