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New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
War Tax Payments
In 3 InstuIn7ents
To Be Permitted
Especial Dispatch to The T,1bune)


WASHINGTON. July Payment
in three equal instalments Of the huge
Federal taxes to be levied upon excess
profits, war profits, corporation in
comes and individual incomes for
the prosecution of the war against
Germany will be provided for in the
$4,000, 100000 war revenue bill by the
Ways and Means Committee, it was
learned here to-day This provision
will be made for the purpose of easing
the financial strain imposed upon cor
porations and individuals in meeting
the heavy tax bills to be levied
Under the plan, tentatively agreed
upon by the Ways and Means Commit
tee, corporations and individuals will
be allowed to divide their taxes in
three parts, the first part to be paid
March Is, the second part to be paid
June Is and the third part September
Is. This plan stretches the tax pay
which will be easier not only on the
big taxpayers but will make the with
drawa of funds from banks more
gradual
The plan now in vogue for the pay
ment of Federal taxes calls for the
transfer of the tax funds into the Fed
eral treasury within the short period
of fifteen days from June Is to June
80. The taxes paid into the Federal
treasury during this short period this
year ran over $4,000, 100000, and many
big corporations and large income tax
payers were sorely tried to find the
money to meet the payment. The banks
also were strained to raise the funds
for this large transfer of money within
such short period.
The hardship the one-pavment sys-
tenn works upon a community was
brought out in the case of the Wheel
ing internal revenue district of West
Virginia. Had the Treasury Depart
mcnt insisted upon the payment of all
the revenue taxes in that district in
cash lump sums there would not have
been enough money in all the banks in
that section to have met the payments.
Proprietary medicines will be called
upon to raise big part of the war
taxes. The Ways and Means Commit
tee has decided to raise the tax on
these kinds of drugs from to 10 per
cent. This tax will affect all kinds Of
prepared or so called patent medicines
now placed on the market.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Food Prices Vary Greatly

WASHINGTON. July 3O.-A remark
able disparity of local market food
prices is shown in reports received by
the Postoffice Department from places
along the routes OF the recently estab-
llshcd rural motor truck service
Rural motor routes, forming a
cham from Portland, Me, to Washing
ton, d. c., with branches in New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia, are now in daily oper-
alton. New routes have also been es-
tabiished in the middle West and
South.
Inquiry made by the department
through postmasters regarding local
market prices for produce at places
along these routes shows that the
prices of first grade eggs vary from 35
to 65 cents dozen, potatoes from Sl5O
to $2.35 a bushel, roasting chickens
from 70 to 40 cents a pound, broilers
from 80 to rs cents pound and butter
from 36 to 81 cents pound. These
differences in prices are frequently
between towns but few miles apart,
it is stated.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Shipping Board Head Pro-
tests to Priorities Commit
tee Against New Venture
Raises Labor Question
Work of Emergency Fleet
Corporation Endangered by
Activities Already Started
Especial Dispatch to The Tribunc)

Especial Dispatch to The Tribunc)
WASHINGTON, July 3O.--Thc War
Department wants to build ships. This
Hurley, of the United States Shipping
Board. made protest to the priorites
committee of the War Industries Board
against the proposal The committee
will hold a special meeting tomorrow
morning to determine whether the War
Department will be permitted materials
to proceed with its shipbuilding pro-
gramme.
The War Department has already let
contracts for & half dozen large cargo
Company at Everett, Wash. 1t has
further commenced the construction of
4 yard at Wilmington, N. c. Both
projects, officials of the Shipping Board
declare. are seriously interfering with
the Emergency Fleet Corporations
work
The Shipping Board has two govern
ment yards already under construction
at Wilmington. The addition Of a third
yard at this point will seriously com
plicate the problems confronting the
labor and material supplies for these
yards. The War Departments project
at Everett is said to be interfering with
Fleet Corporation work at Seattle.
where there is now labor shortage of
1000 ship workers..
General George w. Goethals is said
to be responsible for the War Depart
mcnt's shipbuilding programme. No
adequate reason for its projection has
been advanced as yet.
The West Coast Shipbulding Com
pany, which has secured contracts with
the War Department, had been denied
contracts by the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration on account of labor short
age in the Seattle district. The War
Departments award Of contracts to this
concern, it is pointed out, will open the
door for united assault by the hun
dreds of disgruntled contractors who
have been Vainly seeking contracts with
the Fleet Corporation for months.
1t is said that proponents of the
concrete ship proposal have received
which is now considering the construc-
ton of 10,000-ton vessels of this type.
The Shipping Board is now construct
ing concrete shipyards and perfecting
a standard concrete ship design. 1t has,
however, been averse to expanding the
concrete programme until it was GER
tain of the practicability of this type
of vessel.
1t is considered likely that the prior
tiles committee will rule against the
War Departments "fier" in shipbuild
ing on the ground that it would seri-
ously interfere with the labor and ma
terial programmes Of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. Chairman Hurley,
it is known, will insist that the War
Department keep out of shipbuilding.
In this connection he will point out
that the Fleet Corporation has been
each month considerably ahead of its
schedule of ship deliveries for assign
ment to the War Department.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
u. S. Employment
Office to Open in
Queens Tomorrow

An Office of the United States En-
psoyment Service will be opened to-
morrow at III Hunter Avenue, Long
Island City, in cooperation with the
State Public Employment Bureau. A..
]. Portenar, of the state bureau, will
be examiner in charge and will have
a staff of eleven men and women as
sisting him to bring together the en-
ployers and employees of the Borough
of Queens.
simultaneously with the Long, Island
City branch the other branches of the
state bureau in Brooklyn, Albany,
Syracuse. Buffalo and Rochester will
be merged in the United States EN-
nloyment Service. as a step in the gov
ernment's policy looking toward the
nus banding Of labor for war needs
The President, in statement made
pubic on June II. urged call employers
ENGAGED In war work to refrain after
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
U. S. Now Has a Flare Light
To Hide Airplane Bombers

WASHINGTON, July Perfection
of an airplane flare for use in night
bombing expeditions over enemy terri
tory, was announced to-day by the Ord
nance Department.. The fare is re-
leased from the plano in a parachute
and is set off by air friction.
At height of 1000 ,eet. 1t was an
nounced. it will cast a light of more
than 400,0 candle power over an area
one and one-half miles in diameter
The glare prevents detection of the
plane from the ground, it was ex.
planned.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Dependents Will Be Helped
Red Gross Section Asks SOL
diers to Record Needy Cases

The care of dependent families of sol.
dlers and sailors viii be undertaken bv
the home service section of the Red
Cross, it was announced Yesterday in
a bulletin issued to men in the Amer
can forces by Mrs. John N. Glenn. the
chairman. ''' WY
ANY soldier or sailor who knows Or
fears his family is in trouble should
appeal at once to the home service"
Mrs. Glenn said. "Home service means
sympathetic advice. expert information
about laws and regulations. medical
attention. spiritual comfort and every
thing which can be given by real
friends to compensate the family tor
the absence of the man in the service -
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Draft Cuts Servant Lists
Two Rockefeller Families Short
35 on Domestic Stats

BRIARCLIFF. July 3o.-The Rocke-
feller brothers, John d. and William,
through the working of the Federal
craft. have contributed thirty five
members of their domestic staffs to the
National Army, it was disclosed to day
ty the local exemption board Will
lam Rockefeller is conducting his
Mount Pleasant estate with twenty
fewer servants than he had before the
war, while at Pocantico Hills, John y.
Rockefeller has parted with fifteen of
his former male domestics.
Other households affected by the
selective service plan are those of
Frank A. Vanderip, V. Everit Macy and
James Speyer, all residents of Ossn-
ing
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Ten Per Cent
Tax on Autos
Now Planned
Continued from page !

tomobiles. In the case Of motor trucks
Il tax Of only 5 per cent was agreed to
be levied.
Theatre Taxes Doubled
"The committee had under consid
Grafton a tax on admissions to
theatres. operas, motion picture shows,
etc. The committee favored doubling
the tax on admissions and club dues,
and also to impose ! cent tax on
all admissions where the maximum
charge does not exceed 7 cents. I'm
der existing law all motion picture
shows, theatres and other amusements
whose maximum charges do not ex
coed five cents are exempt from the
tax.
"The committee purposes tomorrow
to take up the Injuries tax sugges
tons of the Treasury Department.
The tobacco tax schedule was post
poned, awaiting receipt Of some data
and statistics from the Treasury De-
partment which the committee has
asked for
1t has been estimated that a gross
sales tax on all articles and on trans
actions affecting all articles would pro-
duce upward of 81 2,0OO,OOo,O0O if only a
2 per cent rate were adopted.
Suggestions Cut in Half
The committee cut the Treasury sug
gestions in half, SO far as rates are
concerned, on most OF the articles af-
fected by days tentative agreement
on 10 per cent tax on original sales
of articles included in the existing ex
else tax class.
Under the present law the tax on
automobiles, trucks. piano players,
raphaphones. monographs. talking
machines and records, sporting goods
and cameras sold by tn, manufacture
er or producer or importer is 3 per
cent of sale price; on perfumes, cos
metics. proprietary medicines, toilet
soaps and waters, hair dyes and tooth
pastes and chewing gum, 2 per cent;
club dues, 10 per cent, and admissions
to amusemcnts, 1 cent per 10 cents or
less price, or, in case of permanent or
lease use of oncra house or other
amusement seats and boxes, 10 per
cent of sale price.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Long Island City Man Is
Killed by Broadway Car

Louis Manciniello, hfty-nine years old
a florist of 8s Marion Street, Long ISL
and City, was instantly killed yester-
day. when a Broadway surface car
struck his wagon at Twenty frst
Street, throwing him directly into the
path of another car.
The mans two sons. James, twelve,
and Frederic, ten, who had come over
to Manhattan to help their father with
3 load of ferns. were asleep in the back
of the wagon. They were uninjured.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Strike Ties Up Mails
Millions of Letters Accumu-
late in Canada's Postoffice

WINNIPEG, Man, July 80. No less
than two million lettcrs are piled in
the postoffice here because Of the
strike of clerks and letter carriers
postal authorities estimated tonight
Clerks from leading mercantile houses
are trying to sort out business mail
but no effort ct private delivery is be-
ing made.
Similar conditions, it was stated pre-
vail in the other cities of western Can
ada, where the strike has been in prog
ress for more than week. T. "
Crothers, Minister of Labor, is here
comforting with the strikers, who arc
holding out for board of Cancellation
to act on their demands for Increased
wages.
OTTAWA, July 30.-C. ]. Dohortv
Acting Postmaster General, expressed
the belief, at the close of a Cabinet
council to-day, that the postal strike
would soon be over The government
sent telegram to labor leaders in
western Canada asking them not to
complicate the situation bv callinr a
general strike, which. it was reported
they had threatened to do.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31

various government departments est;-
mated their steel needs for the vear
at 22,000,000 tons, as against present
capacity of about 100000 tons. II
is estimated that each ton Of steel re-
Quires nearly five tons of coal in H.
manufacture and transportation. tn
supply this steel for ships, shells rail.
and other war material would reouire
110,000,000 tons of coal.
Demands Are Heavy
"a large percentage of the coal for
bunkering the ships of the shipoine
Board and the navy and for supplv;ns
the by-product coke ovens which must
be maintained to keep the steel indu~.
try going must come from the coal
fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Maryland, which produce the par
ticular grade Of coal required for these
purposes.
"These fields must, 20 large extent
also fill the industrial coal demands &c
New England, New York, New JERSEY.
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware,
West Virginia, Virginia, to lesser ex
tent those Of Ohio and Michigan, and
to considerable extent the metallur
gical and illuminating gas plants Of In
oiano ana limos. Even the record
output now coming from these pro
ducing .ields cannot meet the con-
stantly increasing demand of the gov
ernment and the war industries and at
the same time care for the normal in
dustrial demands of this section of the
country.
"To-day's conference discussed plans
for allotting the coal produced in such
a way as to give each section of the
country its pro rata share of the
amount remaining after the war re-
qulrements have been filed.
1T was made clear that the use OF
coal IN some war industries would be
necessarily restricted by reason of the
shortage in the supply of steel and
otner raw materials. These restric-
tlons will permit the diversion of some
portion of the coal which the fuel ad
to non-war industries to more diracf
war use." - :
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Fourth Hold-Up Man Indicted

Charles Finnan, twenty five, of AS
toria, Long Island. the fourth and last
to be arrested for holding up crap
game in the ST. Francis Hotel in Nav.
1917, and stealing $4,000 in cash and
Jewelry from the players, was indicted
yesterday for robbery in the first de
gree. AL Johnson Edward Kohl and
John Price, his associates, are now
serving long terms in Sing Sing.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Gen. Bridges Completes Work

WASHINGTON. July Lieutenant
General Bridges, head of a special Brit
lsh military mission to the United
States, has completed the task of CO.
ordinating British military agencies in
this country, for which he came to
Washington several months ago. The
work of the mission now is being con-
Quoted on the lines he has laid down,
by the British army officers, who have
been placed in charge of the different
branches of the work
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Rejects State Insurance Plan

BOSTON, July 3o.-A resolution per
mittlng the Legislature to establish a
system Of social insurance was rejected
by the Constitutional Convention to day,
107 to 81.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Many Enlisted Men
Receive Commissions

WASHINGTON, July 3o.-Thc fol-
lowing commissions were announced
to-day by the War Department:
Reserve Corps
The Press., 1918-08-29
CURE FOR LITTLE AILMENTS
Real Trouble Can Usually Be Depend. ed On to Make One Forget
 the Smaller Ones.

Man and animals alike, it's wonder full what a shock will do to heal our errors and our weaknesses. The only thing that ever stopped Uncle Bill in an argument was a dishpan, or some heavy, blunt instrument clOuted over his brow, and in his younger days he was some argufier, as his scars attest.
 Here Is the case of the blind man in San Rafael, Cal, who fell 40 feet off the rOGf of his house, and found his eyesight restored; Aunt Ellen, who was bedridden for years, was the first person to reach safety when the house caught fire, and her bad hip has been practically all right ever since; you remember that crippled negro, who beat even the dogs home when the bear charged out of the brush.
 A lot of us have troubles that are only in our minds when we are fed a little real trouble we forget the smaller ones. There is, perhaps, an opening for a sanitarium that will take crip- pie or an invalid and throw him off a cliff, or crack him over the head with a brick or a crOwbar-anything to wake him up, make him forget his small worries, and heal his diseased mind.
The Press., 1918-08-29

carholIe Acid for cs,buneIes.

In an article in the Ncv York Med ical Journal Dr. Edward H. Ochsner reported very favorable results in the treatment of earbuncles by injections of carbolic acid. The injection gives immediate relief from pain and the sore heals rapidly.
 Ttere is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and for years It was sup posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is n local disease. greatly influenced by constitutional con ditions and therefore requires constitu- tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Med- cine manufactured by F J. Cheney x Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is q constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. one Hundred Dollars re- ward is offered for any ease thnt llHlfs Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
 F. J. CHENEY & co, Tol' lo, Ohio.
 Sold by Druggists, i'c.
 Halls Family !'ills IT constipation.
The Press., 1918-08-29
M.L. p.ta of HornhllIs.

The yellow hornblll. one of the most interesting of the species, Is a com parativeIy fearless bird and is easily killed. The male Is fond of perching on the tiptOp of tropical trees and making a noise like a young puppy.
 The natives in Africa find young hornbllls easily tanned. They dig the birds out of the tree nests when quite young and raise them on milk and berries in their huts. When grown the hornbiIl remains attached to It's foster parents and will eat out of the same dishes. Left free, the hornbill comes and goes much as does q pet crow and remains about the hut un- til the first mating season, when 1t goes away with one of its kind, rare ly to return.
The Press., 1918-08-29
aseeause"

Jelly has been busy with riddles. 'sNow I' she cried. and held up for pub lie inspection the legend. "Why did the orange ice creamf" printed In large letters. Because 1t saw the sausage roll under the table" said Elfrida. "My own is much better" announced Jelly, evidently bursting to declare 1t. She was cordially urged to do so. Be cause 1t saw the lemon sponge on the dumb waiter" she proclaimed tri- umphantly. "Quite nice and cool" said Janet approvingly. "The vista of possibilities you open upw murmured Peter. "For instance, 1t might have seen the banana trifle with the maids of honor. Or the gooseberry fool with the nuts from Brazil. All very pain- full to an orange of really nice feeling. But I like your dumb waiter. ."-"All the Joneses," by Beatrice Kelston.
The Press., 1918-08-29
whx He Would Not Build.

It is in a Jewish legend that Methn- selah declined ut the age nf six hun drpd ar sO tO go to the trouble of build ing house because the Lord answered his question as tu how much longer he had tO live. and the patriarch de cided that three hundred years was too short time to warrant him in making the exertiOn. Undoubtedly MethuSelah preferred his tent and was ready to grasp at any excuse for stick ing to it.
The Press., 1918-08-29
The Lute.

The lute has vanished. It was one of the oldest of instruments, and had a beautiful vibrant tone somewhat like that of the harp. But its size and com plexity were against 1t. It had long tail, and many strings, and while its size increased its power and range. it also increased its weight and made it cumbrOus. The minstrel of today plays on the mandolin, the guitar or the banjO-and the lute is forgotten
The Press., 1918-08-29
THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO.
 September I, 1887.
Items or local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty-one years ago.

B. c. Pinney is remodelling his home at Stafford Hollow.
 l. A. Medberry has sold his tea store to F. A. West, from Windsor vile.
 The Central Vermont Go. is build ing granite wall on the north side of the cove back of the Warren block.
 Union Miss Eva B. Tifft of Vest ford will teach the school in district No. 1; Miss Mary Severy in district No. 2; George Towne, No. 3; Miss Emily Curtiss of Westford No. 4.
 John Clark of this village, gradu- ate of St. Michael's college, Toronto, will enter Montreal seminary Septem- Der 20. Daniel Shea, his classmate, has begun the study of medicine with Dr. c. B. Newton. Charles Mccarthy a student at Middlebury college, Vt., is to study medicine with Dr. J. J. Hassett at Lee, Mass.
 Born.-Stafford (Orcuttville) Aug ust 18th, son to Patrick J. Hanley' Stafford Springs, August 11th, daugh- ter to Robert Furness. Stafford, 9th, daughter to Wm. B. Robbins, August 10th, daughter to Alice BarsaloW Stafford Hollow, August 18th, daugh- ter to Fred J. Glover. Wilmington August 25th, daughter to Charles Robbins. Somers, August 17th daughter (Bessie Julia) to Fred L. Wood.
 Married Stafford, August goth, by Rv. F. D. Buckley, George Dawson and Elizabeth Newell. Stafford, Aug ust 2Oth, by Rev. F. l.. Batchelder Vernon J Brown of Union and ROsille Young of Holland. Mashapaug, Aug ust 28th, by Rev. T. c. Denman Daniel Thompson of New Brunswick and Emma Hudson of Mashapaug.
The Press., 1918-08-29
Art and Aereditv.

The musical instinct is very often nereditary-witness the Jews. Wht have been the most musical race in the world since the days of the Old Testament. It does not. however, fol low of necessity that if p?rentS arc artistic the children will follow suit despite the famous reflection of the cOuntryman who remarked that, now Mr.. Wordsworth was dead. he sup posed his son would carry on tie Old mans business.
The Press., 1918-08-29
DjsiIlusionment.

"When yo' sees cullud puhfessah rise up and pick at dem crinkly side whiskers O his'n and srlonve down dat fancy vest you am amazed at de ponderOsity O de spectacle" said old Brother BuckalOO. "But when y0' listens to his transplavication y"' finds dat when yO' behelt dem whi*kcrs and dat vest yO' seed it all. Amt dat bout so, Brudder Jurdan?"-Kansas City Star
The Press., 1918-08-29
Early American Diplomats.

The first American minister 1, France was Thomas Jefferson, wh represented this country under tn Confederation and during the revolu ton before the Constitution was adopt. ed and the United States was organ ized. After the adoption of the Con stitutiOn, the United States was first represented in France by William Short as charge d'affaires Q79O) ant then hy Gouveneur Morris O192) us minister
The Press., 1918-08-29
Pottery the Oldest Art

Pottery is the oldest the longest ana most widely diffused of all human arts. Its history, if recorded, would be :ls old as the history of man ; it's record ed history begins With the building Oi tery known is Egyptian, but every pe0 pie, civilized or barbarian, has prac ticed the art in one or another form All study in every department of arl begins at period l.,t long after th Mosaic dPluge, but pottery is th
 arli,,St of all forms of art.
The Press., 1918-08-29
Adds life to RaiIroad Ties.

Railroad ties last about eight years under normal conditions, when they have to be renewed, which costs good deal of money and calls for a large force of labor, says Popular Science Monthly. It is estimated that treated ties which are first kiln-dried and then immersed in hot creOSOte untii sat urated, last twice as long. They are absolutely waterproof and imperviOus to rot.
The Press., 1918-08-29
Safety Matches Cause of Disease.

"FGu.' writer's in turn" says tht U@eSkrifi fer Lueger, Copenhagen. de scribe cases of eczema which they were unable to eXplnin in the otherwise healthy patients until they learned of Rasch's experience with local poison ing of the skin from the use of a cer- tain brand of safety matches. In most of the patients the burn was on the thighs core TGndin.- to the trousers pockets in Which they carried the match hOvoS."