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prospectus sure to bring better times
to Mergenthaler, to give it the neces-
sary facilities for its export business;
permitting its foreign plants to oper-
ate profitably and removing the labor
problem.
MerEenthaler is one of the few
companies that have been able to do
business and maintain dividends
without mourning bonded debt. and
this fact makes it all the more val
liable as an Investment.
1t is an excellent collateral for
loans all the year around.
Last Week of Campaign
During the last week Of the fourth
liberty campaign the banks of Wash
ington will remain open every even
ing until 3 o'clock. This will give
those who are late in making good a
chance to come in up to the eleventh
hour.
A Timely Suggestion.
J. S. Bache & Co. in their regular
circular this week, under the caption.
The Problems Of War Labor" have
this to say:
zone of the serious problems pre-
sented by considerations of peace is
the welfare of labor. This is espe-
cialiy a governmental problem. be-
cause at the present time the govern
meat is the employer. to vast and
abnormal extent, of labor. Wholesale
Unemployment when the actual need
OF war material ceases would: result
should the government suddenly shut
off production.
ut may be paternalism, but it would
seem wise that war manufactures be
continued on an orderly scale, gradually
diminishing until such time as the IN
dustries Of peace could be recognized
and operated with increasing activity
to take up the slack. The gradual ter
mination Of war work would help solve
that have turned their plants more or
less wholly to war work. To resume
peace operations in these it will
be necessary to obtain new supplies Of
raw material, which, in some cases,
would take much time
Mr.. Bache has anticipated the Ger
tain result of the closing Of all pro-
ductive activity In the interest of the
government for war purposes. With the
lines to war activities the wholesale
disturbance Of labor is a serious matter
to contemplate, and yet It must be
squarefy considered.
1t is the one threat contained in the
approach Of peace.
Labor can hardly expect the big wares
OF the war period to continue, with
bonuses and big extra allowances, and
yet labor has not given any evidences Of
graciously yielding In these matters.
which must be adjusted. If the nation Is
to take its place as competitor for the
trade Of the world II is an adjustment
that must be made, no matter what the
cost, and . matter OF which the gov
eminent must take cogntzance.
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for years added little extra for the
holiday season.
The earnings for 1919 were sz,73s,-
s22; for 1918. $2.7ss.S22; for 1914, ST.
547,s4s., or thres-xear average Of
$2.6s4.769. The earnings for 1915
were fs1.749.4ss: for 1a1s. el.sss, ESQ
and for 1917. SLsss.lss, q thres.year
avsFngs Of sl.7tS.4ss. - 16
When the decrease in earnings IL
taken into eonsideEstioH, shareholders
should find much comfort in the fact
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Oil Company of Mexico. one Of Lord
Cowboys properties.
Another story on the street was to
the effect that a fight for control was
on. Investors still have confidence.
even at the higher prices.
Local Securities.
Local Conditions other than OH
Mergenthaier have not changed dur.
the street car fare is admittedly near
at hand, but it is questionable if ar
low as the lowest fare any place in
the country, the ive-cent fare, can
be made to meet the increase in the
cost of operations il the anniversary
transfer is insisted upon.
Transfers should not be issued
from one car to another where a.
through trip is possible If the car to.
destination is awaited.
Local securities should begin 70
show a little firmer tone on the peace
prospects. Mayhap after the liberty
loan campaign which is occupying
the attention Of the public today they
will do better. !.
Henry Clews on After the War. ::
Henry Clews has this comment on
the situation: !.
1T has always been thoroughly an1
ticipated that war profits were but
temporary and that many plAnt5
would be scrapped with the advent OF,
peace. For such reasons very few OF
the war stocks have advanced in keep.
ing with their extraordinary earnings.
Heavy taxes upon the latter also ef~
fectuaIly prevented their infations
Such induStrialS as can easily read
just themselves TO peace conditions
are, of course, affected less than pro-
steel
tile, food and mineral industries will
all readily meet changed conditions.
Their excess profits may gradually
disappear. but SO will the excess OF
taxes. to a large degree.
THE steel industry will undoubt-
eddy continue very active after the
war, and so must many other indus
tries. as Mr.. Gary predicts. to fill the
void caused by delayed construction
at home and intense destruction in the
war zone. For petroleum: copper and
other minerals there will be an as
sured demand for a long time to come.
after the war. For all the better in.
vestments the same is true, because
the country is expanding and develop
ment of home resources has been I'M
duly retarded
Public utilities should regain much
of their impaired standing, provided
they secure fairer treatment from
public service commissions than;
hitherto, as seems not unlikely. In
this respect the federal government
has set a good example by its fair
dealing with the railroad. shipping.
telegraph and telephone companies. 20
although there have been minor
difficulties between managers and tho
government, the latter has. upon the
whole, treated security holders justly
by guaranteeing. reasonable and suit
able returns In consequence the Sc.
curities of many such concerns have.
recovered part of the early depression
that resulted from the war and tie
absorption Of practically all new saw.
ings by government issues"
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the House bill to be levied on profits
ABOVE the. pre-war; standard, that is
on all the profits during tha war
which are above the supposed normal
profit in any business.
In al the plans that have been pre-
posed Congress has tried to define
the basis of normal return The fl C.
tors and risks Of business are so diff
ferent, that no single standard can
possibly apply to all businesses and
an enort to average . the. standa, d
gives immunity to conc ems whose
normal profit is below the standard
and cuts into the normal and necee-
oary income of those whose normal
profit is above the.stand ALL The pre-
war standard, while Fair in a ma
Jority of cases. Leaves. many pros
porous pre-war businesses relatively
untaXed. This>has been the chief OBJ
lection to the --prelwar standard
The investment bankers urge that
maximum of revenue with mini
mum Of injustice can .be readily OBJ
tanned by giving to the Treasury the
necessary administrative power to
modify in each case the prescribed
standard the excess above which is
sunJect TO 30 per cent tax. This stand
ard, they urge. should be the average
net income OF the pre- war period, but
if the Treasury finds that this stand
ard does not give a substantially nor
NAL return in any case it may either
raise or lower the standard. To quote
from the amendment proposed by the
bankers: I'm order to make the COM
war period correspond with the com
putation of netcincome for the tax
able year, and. as nearly as may be,
equal to normal profit per unit of bust
ness and normal return on the cap
ital and other factors. if any. EN-
ployed in producing such income, and
for such purpose the commissioner
snail compare the taxpayer with rep
resentative concerns whose war profits
credit has been satisfactorily deter
mined and which are. as nearly as
may be, similarly circumstanced with
respect to character and units of BUSH
ness. TO- capital and other income-pro-
ducing factors and to all other reIe-
want facts and cireumstances."
finance committee presenting this pro-
posal Robert r. Reed Of New York,
counsel for the association, says:
by the adoption Of the general plan
now proposed the Treasury would be
able to get the maximum of revenue
from each taxable corpora&ion.t The
collection would be adequate and uni
form. Accidental lardships and acct
dental immunity you'd be avoided.
Necessary business enterprises would
not be arbitrarily discouraged or de-
stroyed- The risks incident to adif-
ferent classes of business as well as
the risks incident to a particular busi-
ness could be recognized Normal in
come. the return necessary to bust
ness life. would be subject only to the
normal tax. while every extra dollar
above the normal win contribute so
cents to the war needs Of the govern
ment. A basis will be reached in
each case. which will make the 80 per
cent levy above that basis just and
bearable." -
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Suggestion on Taxation.

The Investment Bankers Associa-
contributed greatly to the success Of
the several liberty loan drives, 10 also
contributing through its taxation
committee and counsel In the work of
formulating tax measure that will
produce the desired war revenue with
OF the country.
Il 10 supporting before the Senate
finance committee the Treasury pro-
posal Of . war profits tai and L. urg-
ing a plan for this tax. which It be-
lieyes will make its application uni
form on all classes Of business.
An so per cent tax i5/orescribed by
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that regular dividends have not been
skipped tor even one quarter.
Nearly q million . year set back
through the war and the disturbance
Of business conditions for the corpora
ton. essentially q peace stock, would
have made many corporations pass
dividends entirely, but AeFgsnthaleF
Is too good for that.
Mergenthaler was earning SO to So
Q share on its stock before the war
and paying is per cent; since then IL
has bssn psyiug 10 to l2h per cent
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EVANGELICAL AND OTHERWISE

typesetter during the past week.
Mergenthaler has msas fortunes for
many psspls, 1t has paid good Atvi-
dends. maintaining . 10 per cent dis
trjhnttch In tbs faee Of unfortunate
conditions engendsred by the war, and
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Mexican Petroleum's Flight.

The manner In which Mexican Pc
troleum shares have been climbing Of
late has given strong approval to the
many good things that its friends
have said of it for the last two or
three years when 1t was selling scores
Of points below present quotations.
It's ten-point advance on Friday was
a sensational climb. s. One ruynor ac-
credited the buying - interests xiden-
;ical with tsle control OF 1.-The Ea.lc
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Flea for Oil Interests.

Declaring that q decided shortage
in oil exists and that every effort
must be made to conserve present
supplies. Mark ReQua, Oil administra-
tor. urged the Senate finance commit
tee to take no action that would in
any way obstruct production. He
urged the committee to be liberal,
that production might be encouraged.
At the committees request he will
prepare an amendment.
Mr.. Requa told the committee that
while . new plan by which gasoline
less Sundays can be abandoned has
not been entirely worked out. 1t is
proposed to request automobile own
efs to restrict the use OF gasoline at
al times as much as possible and use
IL only when necessity requires.
Tho committee accepted the House
provision taxing patent medicines
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Holders Of Thousands Of shares Of
Mergenthaler stock in Washington
found much cause for satisfaction in
the sharp advance, practically 80 .
share, in the price Of the good old
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Quiet Trading on Paris Bourse.

PARIS. October l2.-Trading on the
bourse today was calm. Three per cent
rentes were quoted at 81 francs: eX-
change on London. &c francs confines:
s per cent loan. IS francs IS centimes.
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Isaac Cans Put on War Committee.

Isaac Cans yesterday was appointed
one of the twelve members of the war .
service oommittse Of the National As
ISOLATION Of Retail Ciofhiers of the.
United States .
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1926 N. \. Ave. rH 49,, LEY
MONEY TO LOAN
. % D. G. Heal Estate. ISvest Rstsl
Jesse L.. HE1SKELL.
1<O8 b 1t. NV.

Oil Company of Mexico. one of Lord
Cowboys properties.
Another story on the street was to
the effect that fight for control was
on. Investors still have confidence.
even at the higher prices. =
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NEWS FROM OVERSEAS
/ SPUR TO THE MARKET

Mowuga sh sekhg stand k
NewYmk Stock geln The ofada Wb
k prices Genk zan Heyar1 to date
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LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
HALTS REVENUE BILL
Senate Committee Not in Session
Today Due to Absence of
Members.

The Senate finance committee did
not meet today to consider the Yeve-
nue. bill. because q number of it's
members were scheduled to aid in the
hberty loan drive yesterday. The COM
mittee will resume its sessions tomor-
row.
Tho committee in revising the war
revenue bill has approved a BUSH
ness or occupational tax. House provi-
sions placing a tax of $40 on all persons
engaged In any trade, business or pro-
fesslon" whose gross receipts exceed
$500 were adopted after being amended
SO as to include farmers, whom the
House had exempted. Announcement
was made that amendments which
would furnish some relief to farmers
would be considered later
In considering the special tax sec
ton the committee accepted. with
some changes, House imposts on brok-
ers, proprietors of amusement places,
tobacco manufacturers and buyers Of
new or used automobiles and motor
cycles. Sections leyying excise taxes
upon the capital stocks of corpora
lions were temporarily passed over,
but these may be taken up Monday,
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Tax on Brokers Cut in HALF.

The House tax of $500 on brokers was
cat in half by the committee, which
amended the section SO that the sale of
q stock exchange seat for less than
$1,000 would be exempt from federal tax
House schedules taxing proprietors of
theaters and other amusement places on
the basis of seating capacity, as we'll as
the section levying $500 against circus
ovnera. were accepted. The provisions
e1empting chautauquaS. lecture lyceums
agricultural and industrial fairs and ex-
hibitions under the auspices of religious
or charitable associations. as adopted by
the House. also were accepted.
The proposed 10 per cent tax on sight
seeing automobiles. based on their gross
receipts, was amended SO as to place
nat tax of so on each car seating moro
than seven persons. A new section was
added fixing a rate of SO on each pas
senger automobile seating not less than
TIVE persons nor more than seven used
rs public conveyance
1mposts against tobacco manufacture
efS were approved without amendment.
House impostS on new or used auto
mobiles other than electric to be paid
by the purchaser were reduced one
half. The committee also reduced the
tax on electric automobiles from IS
peP horsepower, as provided in the
bill to So and the weight tar from
50 cents to IS cents for each ZOE
pounds.
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09
HAVE PLANNED MODEL TOWNS
Beauty as Well as Utility Considered by Architects Building Homes
 for War Workers.

Nearly all the towns being built in the vicinity of war plants will be per manent. Sc permanent houses of q type satisfactory to the best skilled labor will be built, 100 here, 1000 there, and as high as 10000 in one or two towns and covering whole square miles of vacant countryside with pret- ty little houses, boarding places. stores and theaters, paved streets and all utilities, expertly laid out by the foremost town planners and archi- tects in America.
 Haste is the main thing in these new towns, but beauty and good taste have not been forgotten. Planned and built as they are by able men in single large operations, they will show to Ameri- cans many of the best examples of harmonious real estate developments we have yet seen-hy far the best housing and neighborhood. conditions that American labor has yet enjoyed. The operation at Camden, for in- stance, will have 2.000 little houses in groups, all in pure and varied colonial architecture, designed by Eleetus D. Litchfield free from clashing con trasts of style.
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09
CHAPTER XVI.
The Irncha

Of all the military measures em- Pluyed by the SpaniardS III their wars against Cuban independence perhaps the most unique was the troeha- trench or traverse. Martinez CampoS during The Ten ' aars' war built the first trocha just west of the CubitaS mountains where the waist of the island is narroweSt. Not until Wey- ler's time were the two methods of paeifcatioH, the troeha and the concen- tration camp. developed to their fullest extent. Although his trechas hindered the free movement of Cuban troops and his prison camps decimated the peaceful population of several prov inces, the Spanish cause gained little. Both trenches and prison camps be- came Spanish graveyards.
 At the time Johnnie 0'Reilly set out for Matanzas the war--a war without battle, without victory, without defeat had settled into grim contest ef en- durance. In the east, where the insur- rectos were practically supreme, there was food of q sort, but beyond the Ju- caro-Moron trocha-the old one of Campos' building-the country was sick. Immediately west of it, in that district which the Cubans called Las Villas, the land lay dying, while the
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09
Duluth Sets Good Example.

The city of Duluth has erected q schoolhouse and extensive playground on land donated by the housing com pany. The Gary system of education is applied in this school, which is equipped with auditorium, gymnasium. library, workshops and laboratories Land has been set aside for a Prot estant and Catholic church. Approx imately eight acres have been assigned to use for clubhouse and recreation grounds. The clubhouse and grounds are leased by the hausing company to the Morgan Park club, which is com posed of employees. A separate club building. or neighborhood house, is pro yided for people who live in low-rental houses. Aside from the opportunities for outdoor sport offered in coHnec- tion with school and clubhouse grounds are baseball and football grounds. ten his courts, a skating rink and equip ment for boating, bathing and camp ing. A modern hospital is another feature.
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09
INSECT VICTIMS OF BOOZE"
Scientists Familiar With Many Varie. ties That Indulge in a Sort of
 Bacchanalian Festival.

There would seem to be no partic- ular reason from the human stand point why the ivy should be called the plant of Bacchus, since no wine is made from its berries EntomologiStS however. have found that the ivy flowers provide veritable bacchana- lian festival for q number of insects. Men of science are wont to sally forth at night with lanterns to capture the intoxicated moths that crowd around the greeniSh blossoms. When the willow is m bloom they find similar scene of dissipation around its yellow catkins
 The tipplins insect may be used to point q moral by the prohihitionist, since rum not infrequently leads to its ruin There is fly so addicted 10 wine that Linnaeus named it the eel lar fly" which appellaton Kirby changed to the more appropriate one of the cellar wine thinker" Kirby states that the larvae of this little fly, whose diet he could attest from his own observations. disdainS to feed on anything but wine or beer, which, like Boniface in the play, 1t may be said both to eat and drink.
 There are bees and flowers whose random meetings result in the same curious phenomenon. On the single dahlias and gailardas of the garden bees are often to be seen in the same maudlin sta te, and these bees are more frequently of the black and yellow
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09
~ Ll0ulQ l0Nr) o9, r AfIglp5 1A ....-.-..-.- 9,1--'-A 97,91--'-A
WOODEN SHINGLES ALL RIGHT
Ieadino Cities Throughout the coun' try Have Refused to For
 bid Their Use.

There are only a dozen or so oI tiie iarger cities where the use of #ooueh shingles is specially barred. Al ISusl 45 of the largest cities, including Ne" York. Chicago, Philadelphia, oLe'e- land, San Francisco, Dallas Tex , Detroit. Mich. and so on down the iist even to the national capital, permit the use of wooden shingles Wl'l,ih their corporate limits outside CT tue congested zone.
 "This." an architect says, "ls suIl- cient proof that the advantages ol .he wood-shingle roof in residential als- tricts are still recognized It Is raih- CT unfortunate for the logic of some oi those most strongly opposed to the use of wooden shingles that theE house their own families under sueh d roof"
 An investigation revealed furtheF that some cities after enduring the re- suits of an anti-shingle ordinance uh, iii their patience became exhausted by the harmful results in the retara- ing of building operations, either nave rpDealed or are planning to fepeal such ordinances. Houston, Tex" Tor example. after having passed through nine months of building stagnatloh, repealed its anti-shingle ordinance Ill that city is was found that the effect of the ordinance was to retard just At per cent of the building of small homes as compared with the eofre= spending period of the previous year.
 In refutatfon of the claim by the makers of substitutes that wooden shingles frequently cause great con fagrations, investigation shows that of the 1T fires involving losses Of more than $5o0o00 in 1917 throughout the country, only one occurred in q residence section where wooden shin gles predominate.-EXchange.
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09

peared to be a thinning of the woods. After listening for a moment or two. Hilario dismounted and slipped away; the three riders sat their saddles with ears strained
 Hilario returned with word that all was well, and each man dismounted to muffle the feet of his horse with rags and strips of gunnysaek provided for the purpose. Then, one by one. they moved forward to the edge of the clearing. The trocha lay before them.
 O'Reilly felt a pair of reins thrust into his hand and found Hilario exam ming a large pair of timers shears.
 Do you wish me to go with you?' he inquired of the guide.
 The latter shook his head. Antonio will go; he will keep watch while I clear path. If anything goes wrong,
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09
HOW NAMES BECOME CHANGED
Sometimes Intentionally, but More Often Due to the Wear and
 Tear of Time"

@Who Was Nho7" is the suggested title for new book to contain the names of all persons who have changed their names. A new publica- ton will do that in England If the work is carried back far enough 1t will be found that scarcely a name has survived the wear and tear of time. Some of the changes are intentional. like our daily applications in court, but most of them are due to bad spoilers or poor pronunciation and phonetic spelling to express the errors of pro nunciation. Our Dutch ancestors had q habit of cutting off everything that went down to and including the "Van." The name "Burch' was originally Birch and meant a man who lived by the birch tree. It Is q curious com ment on this new book that the Lon don newspaper editor who is putting it out has juggled his own name after the English custom, when taking q tile Good names are a misfortune when they are used like family DOT traits to make snobs-Exchange
The Monticellonian., 1918-08-09
Only Type of Eaale Known.

A Russian grand duke, one of the czars predecessors, was once the guest of a German prince. It was early in the century. In Russia the imperial douhle-headed eagle is to be seen everywhere and on everything throughout the empire stamped. paint ed, embroidered. or seulptured. At that period the education of grand dukes WAS somewhat limited. This grand duke went out shooting in Ger amny. and. among other things. shot a large bird. He asked an e1peri- enced huntsman who accompanied him what the bird was. An eagle. your highness," was the answer. The grand duke turned on him in an irritated way How can It be an eagle" he asked "when 1t has only one head?"