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WAR TAXES
 NOW EFFECTIVE

In response to number of requests for further enlightment regarding the recently imposed war taxes we present ;he following summary of the tax i'm positions which directly effect the peo- pie of this section.
 Transportation
 The War Revenue Bill, effective November 1, 1917, imposes the follow ing taxes on transportation, and are Co be paid by the person paying for the service:
 Freight
 For transportation by rail or water between points in the United States. tax of three per cent on freight charges Is assessed.
 Express
 One cent on each twenty cents of expitss charges paid for transporta- ton between points in the United Sta:es
 Telephone, Telegraph, Wireless Mes
 sages, Etc.
 Five cents on each telegraph. tele- phone or wireless message or conver- sations which originate in the United States, for which a charge of 15 cents or more is made, charge to cover ser vice over all connecting lines.
 Passengers
 Eight per cent on passenger charges by rail or water from one point in the United States to another or to any point in Canada or Mexico, except: When fare does not exceed 35 cents and on commutation or season tickets for trips of less than 30 miles.
 Ten per cent on all charges for seats, berths and staterooms on trains or vessels
 Stamp Taxes
 Beginning December l, 1917 stamp taxes were levied on transporta :ion as follows:
 On passenger tickets, one way or round trip, sold in the United States for passage by any vessel 10 a place not in the United States Canada or Mexico as follows: On tickets costing $lO or less. no tax On tickets costing not exceeding s30 the tax is one dollar. On tickets costing more than $30 and not exceeding $GO, the tax is $3.OO On tickets costing more than sCO, the tax is $500.
 Parcel Post Beginning December 1, 1917, a tax stamp must be affixed on all parcel post packages transported in the Uul- ted States as follows: Packages on which postage amounts to 25 cents or more tax of one cent for each 20 cents or fraction thereof. Stamps must be affixed before pack age is mailed
 Postal Rates. Effective November 2 1917, the first class letter rate Was increased one cent
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New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

writing Is: Il am not in nearly az danee-.
Gus place as was when last wrote"
heard the other day of thre. o+,..
young fellows whom I knew we'll ~ ~
same county. Their father has inst d;as y.
nome and his three sons are at ~ 49, q.
oat1lefront From another family know
@ ene TOUR sons are in the army. navy srd
nying corps. These are onlv oxarnniaa. INV
there are scores Of others. s'0'
AS ! said at the beginning, thes. ,ro .u
plain Irishmen. They never thinL - ~ S,'
are doing anything fine; they only love +hs,y
naelVe country we'll enough to die !, no..
ueiehce' AT time when the air ia fu,l -
oia'nor a ana we are deafened with the noise
oi olnn Fem and pro- German plots onS
rlots and the howls of the sals.s+,,,as ,,.s
rr'endi { y of Irish Freedom, it rests ons ,na
to think Of them 'Ss o"e
Inc statement is repeatedly published II
Inc newspapers that conscrintion 10 ~ 80
poseo ny every class in Ireland. Do M w.
heve it. Would it be human natr ..os pc. Pc
we who have seen our sons and hro+sass sass
an and husbands and nephews as we'll -es's.s e.,s
lr1ends and neighbors, volunteer IVA W.
70 ale Tor what we consider ius+ sns as
righteous cause should oppose national san enc
wee now for those men whose nn1,, 80 ser +
TO stay safely at home in Ireland ars |.sn rass Is
Nan.s,a nu ~ai SUSAN GRACE KINCH.
newark Dell, May 20, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
The Remedy

On Saturday an Illinois jury ac
Gultted eleven men charged with being
implicated in the Prayer lynching Every
right minded citizen must deplorc this
evident breakdown of an attempt to vim
dlcate law and order.
On the same day the executive committee
OF the American Bar Association issued
an address suggesting that mob violence
like that at Collinsville is encouraged, not
by the failure of the Department of
Justice to curb alien activities and to
give enemy aliens due protection, but
by unfair newspaper criticism of the
departments policy.
There is conflict in logic between
the Bar Associations statement and the
verdict of the Illinois jury 1t is inpos-
slble to believe that twelve jurors at an
OBSCURE illinois county seat were moved
oy baseless newspaper criticism Of the
Attorney General. They were governed
by deeper feeling-a feeling which ex-
lists in every state in the Union.
In the face of the record made in this
country for four years past by German
agents and German sympathizers sub
Jects OF the Kaiser cannot safely be left
at large. The restraints now put by the
government on their activities are too
invisible to convince or even impress the
public Every community resents the
presence of alien enemies, and it's re-
sentiment is likely to flare out on anv
provocation which engenders the spark
OF popular hysteria
The proper thing to do with German
subjects is to intern them. That is the
cheaper and better method of insur-
ance against espionage, sabotage and in
furious propaganda. One guard in an
lnternment camp can keep an eve on
twenty enemy aliens. Twenty civilian
agents are not enough to keep an eve
on one dangerous enemy subject left at
liberty
lnternment is also the humaner and
juster method. We owe enemy aliens
protection in SO far as they are willing
to recognize the obligations of their
military status. They are civilian pris-
oners. They are entitled under the laws
OF war to the refuge against mob vio-
lence which internment offers them. We
do not do our duty to them or TO our
selves when we allow them freedom Of
movement and action.
IT the present policy Of the Depart
ment of Justice is persisted in there
will be other lynchings like that of
Prayer and other acquittals like that at
Edwardsville, both deplorabe and both
bringing US into discredit as nation.
And tor the scandal of both the govern
ment's policy of non-internment will be
responsible.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
The Literature of Oratorv

War time lends itself naturally to a
revival of the more or less obsolescent
art Of public speaking 1t is a time of
emotions, time Of stirring and a time
when, of all times, we need counsels of
optimism and steady faith. Of all the
many voices that have been lifted to
rouse and inspire populace always pre-
occupied with it's especial and personal
concern there has been none which has
sounded more resolutely comforting
and reassuring note than that of our
distinguished Secretary of the Interior.
He has done we'll to gather together
some of the more notable of his utter
ances in little book just published by
Messrs. Stokes. Yesterday The Tribune
Review reprinted some fine passages, in
Guiding the telling address upon "the
flag" The latter is now and may long
remain the most widely quoted gem of
the wars eloquence.
1t is pleasure to recall that the
department most usually cited for it's
high and smooth running efficiency has
as its presiding genius one of such large
vision and able to speak so we'll his own
thoughts and a nations aspirations. Our
fluctuations to Mr.. Secretary Lane.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Is There Help,
To the Editor of The Tr;bun.

WV "ui'ot OF Inc Tribune.
Sir: President Wilson states that ovsr,,
man should either fight or be usefullv en-.
ployec. Every true American indorses +bis
statement Where a skilled msn--no+ =
mechanic--cah obtain useful emplovmen. -
puzzle -
Numerous agencies are ready to place ~.
'aoorer IN useful capacity. But what
ABOUT my case-onc of hundreds. and how
can get more useful employment?
MY present position is a good one an
partner in growing business. Unfortu.
nately' feel that at the present time II 10
useless one. We manufacture ,px,ru
that the country could we'll do withont
am married. I require more MONEY! .i
eborer's position pays. am sk;iiaa a,,
executive. am a skilled employer Of lahor
want to help my country and am w;li;ur
to make a considerable sacrifice whar" ,"s
abilities can be Of service in winninr w., ss
war. ''"s TIE
is there an agency for men such .sr.
If not, why shouldn't the eovernrant am
'ao,'sh a clearing house where large 49,.
working for the government can =. n,a ,,s"s,
IN touch with this class of men? 'o
New York. May %, 1918. 1--we
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
The Steel Corporation and Its Rivals

IN the great era of consultations, when
the United States Steel Corporation was
formed, there was great fear that
all industry would come under these
gigantic combinations and that a kind Of
industrial serfdom would ensue. Seven
teen years have gone by, and how little
these fears have been realized In most
industries the balance has inclined
against Capitalization.
Thus the Standard Oil Company now
has no such predominance in the oil trade
as it had twenty years ago, when Mr..
Rockefeller was its active head. The
Bell telephone companies have practically
shut out their former competitors, as was
inevitable. But in the electrical industry
the General Electric holds about the same
position as in former years.
The Reading Company is a great pro-
ducer of anthracite, but it has no monop-
oily; and in coal, iron, copper, milling and
other lines there have been no formi-
dable combinations. Sears Roebuck do an
enormous mail business, but it is baea-
telle compared with the retail trade in it's
territory; it effectively gives the lie to
the everlasting twaddle about the enor-
nous profits Of the "middlemen,"
The greatest corporation of all, and the
greatest industrial combination ever
known, has failed to keep up with its
smaller rivals. In recent article, from
which we shall quote further, Mr.. George
q. Selden points out that while the
United States Steel Corporations ineot
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
This Machine War
By Theodore M. Knappen

send to France for the drawings and save
the time taken in designing? Here enters
the metric system a retarder of war, or
let US put it the other way, and say it is
the absence of the metric system in this
country. Our workmen, our machines, are
not adapted to the metric system To trans
late the metric system into our system
would take time and then it would result
in awkward decimal fractions. We might,
OF course, have prepared FOR war by hav-
ing our designs worked out and the ma
chimes, tools, jigs, dies and fixtures, ETC..
already made. But before the war we
would not have had the advantage Of the
French artillery designs.
Coming Through
Ford is making cassons for 4.7-inch and
loo-mlllimetre field guns, 1000 OF the
former and 10000 Of the latter. Except
the wheels, they are entirely Of steel and
parts OF them are of armor steel to afford
protection to the men handling the ammu-
milton In battle. The French tvne usa.
considerable wood and has a mechanical
dump arrangement which we have dis
carded IN order to simplify and hasten
production. Production should have started
April 1, but the navy and aircraft had the
priority in materials and machines 20 Ford
has only begun production in quantity now
nevertheless the whole order will be COM
pleted on time, September /, which means
2'ooo or better month and 100 dav.
Ford Technique
Here again Ford applies the automobile
method The building parts move along
IN regular sequence of completion and
then the completed parts flow method;ca,,v
into the finished whole. Some of the parts
are duplicated in the two different tvn.s
but there are, nevertheless, 4o4 senarate
parts to be made, assembled into units and
then collected into wholes. The Contract
involves about $4,000, 900, SO, roughly. the
hrst eleven thousand caissons will cost
Sl3'ooo apiece. But when they are done
the equipment will be ready to 90 on in
definitely with $500 caissons q month
The Germans wanted a machine war e,a
they are getting it. Our kind Of machine
war, war of machines made hv r,soh,
takes time to start but it is stron. 90 ~.
finish.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Plain Irish

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Would it interest you to hear a tale
of Irishmen, plain Irish, with no hyphens or
qualifications?
In the autumn of 1914 there were three
brothers, young men who were born in Ire
land, of ancient Irish blood They had
lately moved to Australia. Their ages were
between eighteen and twenty two
On the outbreak of the war the YOUNGEST
enlisted first and went with the Anzacs to
Gallipoli. He came through that alive and
was afterward sent to France.
In the meantime his two brothers had
enlisted and also been sent to the West
front.
In December, 1916, the eldest was killed
in action; the second was wounded and
taken prisoner and later died in Germany
Some time after this happened the British
War Office honorably discharged the young
est Of the three and sent him back to his
mother because she had been lately widowed
and left with three younger children in
strange land.
Thsre are two brothers, cousins of the
men above mentioned and of the same name.
one Of whom was in Canada when the war
a private and. after training in England ard
doing good work in the motor transport
service, was made an N. c. O. Later he was
given commission and ordered abroad with
his regiment. He is now staff officer and
serving on the burning plains Of the Far
East
His brother, young married man with
two children, living in TIE South of Ire
land, few miles from his native place.
volunteered and was accepted in 1918. He
has seen nearly three years service in
France, and Just at present is in hospital
in Kent, England, waiting to be treated for
rheumatism, and in the meantime recovering
from loss of blood which he volunteered to
give for TRANSMISSION to another wounded
soldier, who was so weak that he could not
be operated upon without it.
/ did not read these stories in a news
paper or hear some one else tell them. All
these FIVE whom I have mentioned are boys
whom / fed and washed and dressed and
nursed, and probably spanked, when they
were children. They were all born and
reared in southeastern county in Ireland
and bear we'll known Irish name. We can
only fill in their stories by imagination, for
they tell US little or nothing Of their ad-
ventures. Their usual stock phrase when
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
More Work, Less Parade

We are gradually learning what to do
and what not to do to win the war.
Moreover, we are discovering that what
was essential and necessary few
months ago is not always necessary to-
day. And when work ceases to be neces-
sary it becomes dangerous hindrance.
1t is waste, and we can more readily
lose the war by waste than by any other
blunder.
Parading, for instance. Parades Of
soldiers are not apt to interfere with
their training and offer little room for
criticism. Parades of civilians, men or
women, are another matter. A few
months ago we needed them all to bring
the war home to every last American.
There was inspiration and great benefit
from these early marches.
That day is now passing. The Red
Cross parade might we'll be 4he last of
its kind. The huge success of the Red
Cross campaign flowed not from it's pub
lie proceedings, but from it's magnificent
ly organized house-to- house canvass. Such
canvass takes time and devotion. But
it has been demonstrated to be far and
away the cheapest and easiest and fair
est method Of raising large funds.
No waste time! The fewer. HOLIDAYS
the better. The fewer parades Of work
ers the better. Let every minute count.
For it is minutes that will win the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

have not begun to strip for war. We
talk of an unlimited army; but we do
not realize what it means. We boast
OF what has been accomplished, and it Is
not In itself insignificant, but In propor-
tion as we vaunt our achievements we
bclittle our power and resources.
We have the faith. We have evoked
the spirit. How now to bend the ener-
giles OF 1oo,ooo,00o people to the business
OF war before anything else-that is the
problem. So far 1t has not been even
dimly imagined.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

~ ETROIT, May 28.-Mottled in camou-
fage to look like frogs, artillery
caissons are taking form in the
army and navy section of the Ford motor
plant. Long and arduous are the prenatal
processes, but prolific the delivery of the
war implements when their time has been
fulfilled.
Shrouded in military secrecy are most Of
the preparations and movements Of this
protean war; Who, for instance, outside
the inner circles knows what our artillery
preparations are? Here is glimpse that
suggests it's magnitude, a glimpse that can
not by any possibility give aid or comfort
to the German: In the Ford factory alone
they are making eleven thousand caissons
for field artillery. Presumably that means
eleven thousand guns. When the apex of
production is reached one caisson will come
forth every ten minutes. Somewhere about
that time, or not long thereafter, gun
will be produced every ten minutes.
Difficult Simplicity
There are about seven hundred parts in
such simple looking affair as a caisson.
To layman it looks like q box on two
wheels, just cart in which to carry shells
and powder. Completed that is what it is.
1t wouldn't take a group Of workmen very
long to make one. But when they had
made one, 1t would take them Just as long
to make another. To attain quantity pro-
duction takes time in preparation, but when
the preparatory period is over making and
putting together those seven hundred parts
is done almost automatically and entirely
by machinery in some form or other. Just
to get ready to make caissons the Ford
plant has had to install some three hundred
machines. These machines had to be made.
Then they had to be equipped with cutting
tools, dies, jigs and fixtures adapted to the
making Of all the different parts. All of
these require thought and elaborate draw
ings Their making is task of time and
infinite care. Upon their accuracy depends
the success of Standardization and inter
changeability.
Thumbs and Inches
The thought naturally arises that since
the guns that to go with these carriages
are of French calibres, if not of actual
French manufacture, why did we not just
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Disclosing the Division of Wealth

Figures have been made public reveal
ing the enormous preponderance in num-
bers of small subscriptions to the last
Liberty Loan. In this regard there has
been a very notable gain from the first
campaign. Thus, in the New York dis
trlct the total number of subscriptions to
the first loan was under million; to the
second just over two millions, and to the
third there were 100000. In the same
way the total of the subscriptions under
$4,000 amounted to only % per cent of
the first loan, to 20 per cent of the Sec
ond, while to the third they were 47 per.
cent-nearly half
In like manner subscriptions of $780,
600 and more were 62 per cent of the
first loan, "a per cent of the second and
only slightly more than one-third-35 per
cent-of the last. The figures reveal un-
mistakably the growing popular interest
in the war. 1t is one Of the healthiest
and most cheering Signs we know of.
We wish the government could seize
this opportunity to make a little further
analysis of the loans, for we think dis
closure of really tremendous import and
interest could thereby be made. Roughly
speaking, the vast majority of people
nave subscribed more or less according
to their actual means-that is, their in
comes. This is probably true for rs per
cent or more of subscribers. 1t is enough.
at any rate, to give\a very clear idea of
just how the nations income is divided
up. At the present time we have no such
information.
NOW, II the government would sinnlv
tabulate the number subscribing $50
Sloo' S2oo and so on, we should have an
extremely valuable index. If, along with
THIS, the Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. would, in similar way, tabulate the
returns for the income taxes this wear
or last year, we should have a second in
dex which would, we venture to think be
remarkable parallel. If the two should
be mutually ccnhrmatory we should
Know as we never have known, lust how
wealth-in the larger sense-that is to
say, lncome-is distributed amonp tho
people of the nation. Our belief ;s 4ho+
th's might prove the most utterly de-
structlve blow to demagogy and the
1omenters of discomfort that could he
dealt; for we believe that it would show
that probably three-fourths or four-ffths
OF the people of the country eniov sub
stantially the same income. If this could
De proved it would then be possible to
snow that the war is and must be, abso-
lutely, the whole peoples war, for the
simple reason that if it is not there
would be no one to pay for it.
Even now it is clear that all the in
come OF all the rich-that is, people with
incomes of, say, over $4,000 a wear
would not keep the war going-our end
of it-for ninety days.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

production last year was a little more
than double that of it's first full year,
1902, the production of the other steel
companies had increased d 1-3 times
The smaller companies had grown rela-
lively twice as fast. 1t is very notable
that, as Mr.. Selden points out, the net
profits per ton in the Steel Corporation
through the fourteen years down to the
opening of the great struggle in Eu-
rope tended to fall steadily. This de-
cline in net profits, Mr.. Selden shows
was not true of two Of its larger ri
walls, the Republic and Lackawanna COM
panies. Their profits remained about
even, though they were considerably
smaller throughout, owing to a somewhat
different character of product
In brief, the greatest Of all comhina-
tions, in a field that lends itself pecul-
iarly to concentration economies, has not
shown any kind Of business superiority,
and has not led either to large extern
sion of its primacy in it's own field nor to
imitation in Others
In other words, it is clear that busi
ness initiative, genius for management,
energy and foresight have all the scope
and are as effective to-day as twenty or
forty or four thousand years ago. These
QUANTITIES, as is clear from the history of
United States Steel and, for example,
Mr.. Schwab's Bethlehem company, have
not tended to flow into or become concen-
traced IN the largest enterprises. And
the reason, we think, is very clear.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
German Mathematics
tFrom Ths Indianapolis News)

Inc difference between the casualty fig
ures on Allied losses as compiled BY the
Teuts and those officially announced bv tbs
Allies suggests that along with Kultur and
other undesirable shings the Huns rs.
system Of higher mathematics.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

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