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operation between the dealers and the
public In an effort to reduce the cost Of
living which existed during the war in
promoting war activities.
Every thought In the city to-day Is:
How are we to get back to normal7
How to reduce the cost of living2 This
Is the substitute for the thought of a
year ago: How to get the war overP'
Mr.. Williams said that II the Attor-
ney-General had not started the cam
paign to lower living costs the increase
In food costs in his opinion would have
been enormous by Thanksgiving time.
Hoarding of foodstuffs as business
venture by fur manufacturers, bankers
and brokers' clerks and other nom
dealers In food isn't popular any more,
members OF the committee say, because
Of the machinery which Is being built UP
by Government agencies and associa-
lions of wholesalers and retailers OF
foodstuffs to compel the sale OF COM
modities at flxed margins of profit. An
other reason for the fast growing I'M
popularity of boarding. they add. 10 be-
cause of the opprobium attached TO a
"hoarder" when his hoard" is dragged
into public view and ne Is accused OF
trying to gouge hard pressed consumers
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
BIG SUGAR CARGOES
WILL END SHORTAGE
Enough Arrives to Assure
Plenty for Everybody.

Relief from the sugar shortage is
promised within the net few weeks, ac-
cording to the American Sugar Bulletin,
published by the American Sugar Re
filming Company.
Raw sugars having arrived in suffl-
cient quantity for reflners to resume
MEETINGS at near capacity" the Bulletin
says, 'the distribution Of refined sugar
has improved and will be in greater
volume during next week.
Sugars have beer reaching Atlantic
ports during the last week in large guam
tity. and. In fact, almost beyond the un-
loading facilities of the refineries to
handle promptly.
with the practical assurance of the
continuance Of raw sugar arrivals In
normal quantity, permitting refiners to
work near to capacity. the present re-
fined sugar shortage throughout the
United States promises to be greatly re-
lieved within the next few weeks"
William e. Gonzales. American Minis
ter to Cuba, who arrived yesterday on
the Ward liner Monterey. said ware
houses In Cuba fairly are bursting with
sugar. All that the United States has
to do to get all the sugar 1t needs. he
said, is to send ships to Cuba and get It
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
ROOSEVELT FLAG
WILL CROSS STATE
Star to Be Sewn On in Each
of Forty-eight Historic
Spots.
TRIP TO TAKE 81 DAYS
Will End at Oyster Bay ON
Eve of $4,000, 1000 Memorial
Fund Drive.

As a preliminary to the national cam
paign for 100000 for memorials to
Theodore Roosevelt at Washington and
Oyster Bay, flag flight" will be begun
at Buffalo tomorrow and ended In
oyster Bay October 10. The campaign
will continue during the week of octo-
Der 20 to 81.
High school pupils and boy and girl
scouts will carry an American flag
across the State over a route that will
take it through forty Eight communities
or historical interest In each commun-
ity a star will be sewed in place on the
emblem. The flag will be carried on
foot except between a few points in the
Adirondacks where automobiles will be
used.
1t is in the name Of Roosevelt, the
American, that the appeal will be made
and men and women Of all shades OF
political belief will join in aiding the flag
| flight. The flag, with its star field
blank. will be unfurled in Buffalo to-
morrow at the close of big meeting
| There the first star will be sewn on.
The flag will be placed under a color
| guard and will remain overnight in the
room of the Ansley Wilcox home In Buff
| falo. where Roosevelt was sworn In as
President, September IA, 1901. Thurs
| day morning the flag will be carried to
Batavia, where 1t will remain under
guard overnight in the old Holland Pur-
chase House.
The flight OF the flag will take It
| through the following communities each
Of which has at least one spot of patri-
otto interest Rochester, Canandaigua,
Geneva, watkins, Elmira, Owego, Bing-
hamton, Ithaca, Cortland. Syracuse,
| O3wego, Rome, Utica, Little Falls AM
sterdan, Jamestown, Warrensburg, Eliza
BEETHOVEN, Plattsburg, Essex, Port Henry,
Crown Point, Ticonderoga, Whitehall,
Port Ann, Lake George, Port Edward,
Saratoga Springs, Mechanicsville, Troy,
Schenectady, Albany. Hudson, Catskil,
Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, West
Point. Peekskill, Stony Point, larry
town, White Plains, Yonkers. Manhat-
tan, Brooklyn and Oyster Bay.
| The Brooklyn squad will carry the
| flag to the Roosevelt home on Sycamore
Hill, Oyster Bay. It will remain at
the home until 1t is taken to the high
school in the village, where the last star
will be sewn on. The flag is expected
to find a permanent place in the WASH
| ington memorial.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
THIEF PLEADED FOR PAL.
Asked Judge to Save hoy From
Becoming n Criminal.

LoRArN, Ohio, Sept. 1.-"Give me the
limit and be Just as severe as you want
to, Judge, but spare this clean minded
innocent lad" George Edwards, 81, told
a police Judge in Lorain the other day.
Edwards and his pal" Charles Cot
trill, IS, were arraigned on a charge Of
housebreaking. Edwards told Judge
Duffy he had coaxed the Cottrili boy to
aid him in breaking into the house He
asked that all responsibility be placed
on his shoulders
please give me all the punishment,
but spare the boy. Don't start him on
a path OF crime now" Edwards, whose
home is in Independence, Kan. said.
"If necessary" Edwards continued,
tack the boys sentence on to mine
Just allow him to go back to his mother.
that's all I ask"
The judge reprimanded Edwards for
leading the boy into the trap and sem
fenced him to six months in the county
jail.
Young Cottrtll will be returned to his
home In Hagerstown, Md.
Edwards smiled as the judge pro-
nounced the sentence. That's good
he said. Now. boy, go back to that
old mother; she needs you"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
ELKUS BOARD URGES
TERMINAL MARKETS
Recommends Spur Tracks and
Pier Connections for Two
in Manhattan.
WOULD PUT ONE IN BRONX
Reconstruction Of Wallabout
Mart Suggested-Open Air
One for Richmond.

Terminal markets for New York city
ana a permanent programme for termi-
nal market development by city and
State are recommended by the Recon-
struction Committee, OF which Abram
|. Blkus is chairman. in the last Sec
ton OF It's report just submitted to
Gov. Smith.
THE name terminal market" the
committee says, has a definite tech
neal meaning entirely distinct from the
term public market with which It fire.
quently is confused. 1t denotes a space
devoted to the meeting of seller and
buyer. wholesale as we'll as retail, pre-
ferably a building conveniently located,
directly connected with transportation
systems and providing for the storage,
distribution and display of foodstuffs
A market possessing any OF the above
| features may, under special conditions,
serve the purpose of a terminal market.
The one essential Is the connection with
| transportation facilities"
Makes Five lions,
The commission made the following
recommendations, as embracing its
| thought Of what ought to be done In
the establishment of and development
Of a terminal market system for the
greater city:
81. That the city OF New York utilize
the West washington and Gansevoort
| market sites In Manhattan for termi-
nal market purposes by constructing
spur track and pier connections, plat
forms and other facilities for the I'M
| loading OF freight cars and boats.
| "2. That the city of New York select
a site Immediately and start construc-
ton Of a modern terminal market In The
Bronx, connected with all the railroads
| entering the Bronx and with docks al
the Harlem River.
IS. That the present wallabout
Market in Brooklyn be reconstructed for
terminal market purposes and developed
~. That the cooperation OF producers
and dealers in Richmond be secured
for establishing an open public market
| where produce grown on the island may
be sold at wholesale.
so. That the necessity Of securing
the cooperation Of wholesale dealers
commission men and jobbers, as we'll a:
retailers, in any plans for the estab-
ilshment or operation of terminal mar
ket rtructures be not overlooked"
II. committee informed the Governo
that the system of shipment of food
stuffs in the New York market sis Sc
fully and accurately, described In tn,
report of the Mayors Market Commits
sion of New York city. published in 1913
and the conditions have changed SO littl
since then that II Is waste Of time ant
space to attempt to describe them here,
In summing up the evidence in favo
of the PROPOSE plans for terminal mar
kets and tire arguments against then
the report says.
THE Reconstruction Commission is o
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
EXPECTS MEAT COST
TO GO STILL LOWER
Williams Predicts Prices Will
Be Much Under Present
"Fair" Ones.
POLYTECHNIC is HALTED
Federal Food Administrator
Here Points Out His
Detectives.

boarding Of foodstuffs and profiteer-
ing in commodities listed by the Fair
Price Committee In it's twice a week
maximum fair price" announcements
"heve ceased to be n favorite form of
exercise" The quoted words are the
words Of Arthur Williams, Federal Food
Administrator for this city, chief Of the
organized official campaigners for the
TOW price Of living"
"I have been trying for four or 1--WE
DAYS to find q case of profiteering In
these commodities and have not found a
single one," Mr.. williams said to a SUN
man yesterday. This makes me think
that the food dealers are playing fair
with the Government and with the pub
lie
There has been no general survey OF
butcher shops. but there Is every indica-
ton that meat prices are going to be
much lower than the fair meat prices
that have been quoted"
Asked to point out the detectives of
the campaign which he is directing for
the Attorney-General OF the United
States in the greater city Mr.. Williams
said!
"The Acknowledgement is trying to
eliminate profiteering and to put the
hoarder and the gouger out Of business.
We think that this is being accomplished
through the aid of the dealers, the pub
lic and the press. II they haven't alto
gether been eliminated we now have the
machinery to expose the men guilty of
these practices as well as the unfair
dealer.
Another objective of the fair price
campaign is to give the food dealer a
guide to go by, standard by which he
may know that in the opinion of the
public he is dealing fairly by the public.
This too has been accomplished to a
large extent.
Another effort of the Fair Price Com
mittee is to get the women of the city to
buy carefully and TO avoid boarding.
don't mean boarding in the offensive
sense 1 would call 1t buying in fu-
lures A housewife ought not to buy
beyond the needs of her family. We are
trying to induce women to buy in per-
son, not by telephone. and to buy with
something of the same skill with which
q man who Is in business buys.
still another objective OF the Fair
Price Committee has been to secure the
cooperation of the food dealer u this
movement and to protect the fair dealer
from unjust criticism. There is not a
single instance of food dealers refusing
to cooperate with the Fair Price Com
mittee either as individuals or as q
group.
Another thought has been 20 get the
women of New York to purchase some
Of the lower price foods and use then
IN the family menus. Many of The
cheaper foods are just as good and az
nutritive as the higher priced ones.
The Fair Price Committee would like
10 get some effort directed to-day tc
home economies and secure the same CO.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
SERB CABINET SURVIVES.
OF Eight Votes Prevents
Its Overthrow.

I VIENNA. Aug. % (Delayed) The
Serbian Government, headed by Liouba
Davidovitch, has narrowly escaped being
overthrown in Parliament, receiving a
majority OF only eight votes
The voting took place lfter a debate
on the Governments programme during
which Premier Davidovitch. replying to
criticisms of his ministry, said that at
lacks made upon 1t were more against
the personnel Of the ministry than it's
politics.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02

from us not only by means Of opening
commercial credits to them but also by
freely purchasing their securities"
Mr.. Kahn stresses this assertion:
THE housing famine and the result
ing hardship and high rentals are due,
In considerable part, to the fact that the
private investor, generally speaking. has
withdrawn from the field OF real estate
mortgages, because they do not yield
him a sufficiently attractive return after
taking into account the income tax"
New Revenue Sources Urged.
Mr.. Kahn continues in this strain:
MY criticism is not Of the magnitude.
but of the method Of our tax measures.
My point is that we have omitted to Inn
pose certain easily borne, easily col
lected. greatly productive and well tested
taxes, such as-to quote only one minor
but characteristic instance-a stamp tax
on checks, and have grossly maladjusted
others. with the result that our revenue
legislation has largely contributed to
throw our economic equilibrium out OF
gear--to the detriment of everybody
and particularly to the great cost and
damage of the masses of the people.
realize, of course, that even II strict gov
| ernmental economy Is practised. we are
faced with the necessity of raising a
vast sum of money annually by taxa
ton.
For two years to come direct taxation
is bound to be far heavier than formerly
because in addition to the interest and
sinking fund on our war debt and other
items accruing more or less directly from
| tho war, we have TO meet the loss in rev.
enue arising from the advent of prohibi'
ton. But 1 am convinced that the
needed amount can and should be raised
with far less vexation. completely and
economic dislocation and disadvantag'
| than have resulted and were bound tC
result from the revenue measures now
| In force.
Everybody agrees, OF course, that we
must have a progressive income tax. bu
| II ought certainly not to be any heavier
than that of our chief competitor, Grea
Britain, in any part of its scales lit II
now considerably heavier in its uppel
scale and so per cent. heavier in III
maximum scale). II possible 1t shoult
be less heavy in its scale, because tina
would aid US in our world trade; ant
It ought to be possible. for our population
is twice as numerous and our wealth
much more than twice as great as tina
of Great Britain, and the financial wa
burden which we have to take care o
| Is much less than that OF Great Britain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
FINDS TAX SYSTEM
HELPS RAISE PRICES
Otto H. Kahn Wants Experts
to Revise Law on More
Equitable Principles.
SALVAGE BUREAU NEEDED
Banker Reviews Causes and
Remedy for High Costs of
Living From New Angle.

Otto II. Kahn has sent to Washing
ton a memorandum as to possible
measures for alternating the high cost
of living" In response to request
from a public officer whom he does not
name the flnancier makes several sug-
positions which he believes will be help
full. These are
First. appointment by the Govern
ment OF a non-political body OF experts
ito study the effects OF the various kinds
of taxation which have been in force
during and since the termination OF the
war and to make recommendations to
Congress based upon such a study.
England has such committee.
Second. creation Of Federal bureau
OF salvage similar TO the one which
saved $500, goo, 900 for Great Britain In
three years by teaching the people to
utilize things which formerly went
largely into the scrap heap. This
bureau, as visioned by Mr.. Kahn. also
would be charged with the function OF
teaching and promoting thrift.
Third appointment by the Govern
ment of one or more non-political COM
missions, consisting of business men,
farmers and economists, for the purpose
of making studies and recommendations
on a non-partisan basis.
Speaking Of taxation. Mr.. Kahn finds
Il remarkable that in the discussion Of
the causes OF excessively high prices
this subject has hardly been mentioned.
Yet it Is. believe, demonstrable fact
that the unscientific system Of taxation
adopted in this country since 1917 has
played a considerable part in boosting
prices," he says.
Tax Purposes Partly Defeated.
He believes 1t to be Doth wrong and
fatuous" to advocate a system which
would spare wealth, but cannot escape
the conclusion that "the very extreme
Of the burden laid upon business anC
income has partly defeated the purpost
which the trainers OF our taxation leg
isiation largely had in view" He con.
tinues:
This is not the place to argue the
question whether in the pre-war era
industrially invested capital received to;
large a part Of the national income
| In some respects ! believe II did. Blu
| the fact is that since 1914 the wage
Of labor have been vastly increased.
The farmer also rightly receives d
much greater return than formerly. ant
II must be remembeed that both tn,
wage worker and the farmer are littl,
bur dened by direct taxation. The return
on industrialiy invested capital. on thu
ether hand, after making allowance fol
| taxation, has no doubt been diminished
! on the whole. and In many cases yer,
| greatly diminished. II. in addition, II Il
| considered that the purchasing power o.
the dollar has been reduced by nearl,
| one half, 1t will be seen that the actua
Weld Of industrially invested capital h
much less than 1t was prior to the wa
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and that there has taken place in fact
q drastic readjustment in the dlstribu-
ton OF the national Income.
1.-THE excess profits tax until the pres
ent year ranged from so per cent. to e5
per cent. over and above an arbitrarily
fixed and, everything considered, low re-
turn on money actually Invested In busl-
ness. In addition to that, every corpora
ton had to pay an income tax OF IL per
cent. on its total profits. Let us assume
the case OF an incorporated business for
which the excess prof1ts tax amounted
to, say, 40 per cent. That means that 1t
was impossible for such business to
make 81 profit over and above the
arbitrarily fixed and low return above
referred to without charging something
over 81 to the purchaser. The Govern
ment takes the difference. In addition
to that the Government, OF course, takes
the Individual income tax.
Tax Adds to Production Costs.
The excess profits tax has tended
furthermore 10 increase actual cost of
production. inasmuch as costs naturally
are deducted before taxable profits are
arrived at, and, therefore, under the
operation OF the excess profits tax there
Is not the sumo lnuuCeI1elJ db uIlCfei
normal circumstances to keep costs
down as much as possible, but In fact
rather tho reverse. Nor is there any
longer any inducement to employ accu-
INFLATED profits in the business without
capitalizing them, which, of course,
makes for lower cost of production. On
the contrary there Is every inducement
to capitalize every Justifable item-and
this makes for higher cost.
THE excess profits tax in peace time
must not be COMPOUNDED with the war
profits tax in time of actual warfare.
A war profits tax, however heavy, is
wholly sound, morally, socially and eco
nomically. and it's effect on prices Is
largely mitigated through circumstances
and agencies which are operative when
country is at war
THE objection to a very heavy excess
profits tax in peace time rests not SO
much on equitable grounds as on the
ground that on the one hand it does not,
and cannot, accomplish the social pur-
pose aimed at, and on the other hand It
terds to hurt trade, discourage enter
prise and burden the public. Our ex-
cess profits ta1 certainly has not stop
ped but rather has intensified what Is
commonly termed 'prof1teering.'
'If ever the American people should
reach the conclusion. almost incalcula-
bly, far reaching in the ramificattons OF
its effects, that profits are to be limited
| to a definite maximum, they will have
| to accomplish that purpose by direct
| statutory enactment II cannot be ac-
compllshed by excess profits taxes"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
MUNICH UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Soldiers and Machine Guns Are
Posted in the streets.

COPENHAGEN, Sept Munich, the
Bavarian capital, is under martial law,
the Deutsche Ta0es<eituno Of Berlin re-
been posted in the streets.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
Legion Bill Reported Out.

WASHINGTON, Sept. Favorable re-
port without amendment was to-day or
dered by the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee upon the House bill providing for the
Incorporation of the American Legion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
Child Killed by FAN.

Elinor Glynn, aged 4, was killed last
night when she slipped and fell out of a
fourth story window at her home, 1881
Second avenue. Her skull was fractured.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-02
Personal Tax Hampers Thrift.

Mr.. Kahn holds that our personal in
come tax, by reason of the kind and
manner of Its graduation, breeds ex-
travagance and therefore higher prices
instead of promoting frugality. He
quotes a sentiment he has often heard
expressed what is the use OF trying
to save n few hundred or a few thou
sand dollars when the Government takes
It away from us in chunks?" Moreover
the investor In order TO recoup at least
a part OF his income tax demands Sc
curities yielding higher rates OF interest
thus enhancing the cost of capital
which again makes for higher prices
Or by buying tax exempt bonds he
diminishes the quantity OF money avail
able for private enterprise. Or he turns
to speculation and enriches the "ge,
rich quick" promoter.
In the iong run, Mr.. Kahn says, the
investors reluctance TO buy bonds sub
ject to the income tax or his insistence
on an abnormally high rate OF interest
is bound to affect unfavorably our export
trade. because IL the world under exist.
ing circumstances is to buy from ut
we must enable foreigners to borrow
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-08-21
caIIusp Peel
1t OFF Quickly!
Nothing On Earth Like "Gets-It'
For Corns and Calluses.

A spot of thickened skin on the
bottom Of your foot which SO often
makes walking an agony, is as easily
removed by wonderful "GetS-I 1t" as
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-08-21
SNOW is WHITE.

Senators declare that never, no
never, will they approve Article III
If the League of Nations without a
reservation TO the effect that we
cannot be drawn into war without
the consent of Congress. The Con-
stitution of the United States says
we cannot 60 to war without the
c,nsent of Congress; the men draw
in Up the Covenant understood that
a 81 nowhere tired to commit us to
d &C are or 60 to war without an act
O CONGRESS. Article 10 does not
c ,n,mit us to war with or without
Congress. 1t merely says if one
nation tries to grab the land of
another the council # the League
of Nations shall advise" as the
means of making the one respect the
rights. of the other The council
advises, then Congress does as 1t
sees fit. A reservation" to that
effect could do no harm, but it seems
unless. 1t is like declaring that
snow is white.