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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
By Samuel Crowther
NeU York Tribun~
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European BureL1
oo,yrisht. 1919. New York Tribune Inc)
ONION, Jan. So - The second
night after I reached London I
dined with man who was sup
posed to be rather we'll up on indus
trial topics. | asked him what the
Great factories were doing to make
physically ready for the peace trade.
"Let me give you just one incident"
hs answered. 81 went into the Mid
lands seven months ago to see some
oId customers who had turned over to
making munitions. | asked for one of
the partners. He was long time COM
ing in, and he apologized: we heads
have our offices in another part of the
building now The munitions business
runs itself with a junior in charge.
We are giving all our time in getting
ready for peace trade"
Certainly it was impressive, although
thoroughly un-English, to envisage
these manufacturers withdrawing them
selves from the world so that their
souls might commune freely with the
spirit of the world that was to come
with peace. 1t caused me to think what
a marvellous change had come about
in English ways when q group of
healthy Britishers could sit hour after
hour and day after day propounding
and solving questions of world trade.
One might imagine Germans doing that
sort of thing, but not the English. But
here they we're planning their trade
campaigns, just as the Germans plotted
to destroy thcir foes. The "war after
the war" was on in truth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Credits Computed
in Special Gases

The Senate bill provides further for
the computation OF the credit in two
special cases:
81 If the corporation had no net income
Tor the pre-war period if the amount
computed as provided above without the
specific exemption OF $4,000 is less than
10 per centum of its invested capital for
the taxable year, and
% If the corporation was not in exist
ence during the whole of at least one cal
endar year during the pre-war period.
In the first case the credit is the
sum of an amount equal to 10 per cent
OF the invested capita! for the taxable
year and $4,000. IN the second case
the credit IS the sum of $4,000 and an
amount equal to the same percentage
OF the invested capital of the taxpayer
Tor the taxable year as the average
percentage of net income TO invested
capital for the pre-war period Of cor
porations engaged III trade or business
OF the same general class as that CON
Quoted by the taxpayer. Sucn amount.
however, IN no case is to be less than
10 per cent of the invested capital of
the taxpayer Tor the taxable wear. The
assessment In the latter instance is
dependent upon the determination. by
the Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
OF the percentage of representative
corporations. If such determination,
however, is not made within thirty
days prior to the time fixed for filing
return the credit is to be computed on
the basis Of 10 per cent of the invested
capital of the corporation for the tax
able year and an adjustment will be
made when the average percentage has
been determined by the department.
In the methods prescribed for the
computation of the war-protits credit
it is apparent that corporation NOT
III existence during the pre-war period
is treated more favorably than cor
poration which has increased its capital
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Small Corporations Protected
Against Excessive Taxation
Ne" Revenue Bill Limits the Amount Collectie on Incomes
From Moderate Capital Inv observation-disclosures Made i'm
System for Computing War Profits Credits

period consisting of the years 1911. 1912
and 1919, or 100000, plus
ID 10 per centum of 5000, 900 (the diff
ference between 100000. the average in
vested capital for the pre-war period and
) 100000, the invested capital for the tax
able year.. or $4,000. and
ic) The specific exemption of $4,000
amounting to $1,000
If, in the foregoing case. the capital
for the taxable year should have been
lower than the capital for the pre-war
period the waf-profts credit would
have to be reduced by 10 per cent of
the amount of the decrease in capital
An important change was made in
the House bill by the Senate, in con-
nection with the change of the amount
of the credit due 20 an increase or
decrease of capital in the taxable wear
The House bill provided that the aver
age net income of the corporation for
the pre-war period should be increased
Or decreased, as the case might be. bv
10 per cent of the invested capital.
added or withdrawn since the close of
the pre-war period. This provision was
contrary to the fundamental principles
OF tax based on profits, inasmuch
as the invested capital on a particular
day, that is, the end of the pre-war
perlod, would determine the amount OF
the deduction, whereas the amount OF
income which was being reduced or in
creased was based on the average fo1
the 0re-war period. The Senate, conse-
oh 4 l.
that the average net income for the
prc-war period should be increased OF
diminished by 10 per cent of the diff
ference between the average invested
capital for the pre-war period and the
invested capital for the taxable year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Bull, Also Unreay for Peace Is Fumbling Rehabilitation

hired all the press agents in the world
is quite unfounded. The English poll
ticians have nothing to learn from US
in this respect. They have none of our
crudeness of statement. They do not
come out fat-footed and ingenious, as
did our aircraft people. They let you
draw your own conclusions. And
whereas l was previously sure that
something very much like the millen.
mum was waiting around an English
corner, am now equally sure that the
Angel Gabriel has not even looked to
see if he owns horn, much less made
ready for a foot.
England is just as prepared for
And the astonishing side of it all is
that she thinks that we in the United
States are all fit and primed for peace
and she is holding us up as an eX-
ample of what an efficient government
might do in england. Sir John Foster
Fraser, who has just returned from a
tour in the United States, has this to
say:
"Whatever effect this great move
ment will ultimately have on British
overseas trade, we must admire the en-
thusiasm Of the Americans. Of course
there are rivalries between big con-
Germs, but | was tremendously i'm
pressed with the prevailing unity tow
ard making 3 big, bold effort to secure
commercial supremacy for America.
The spirit was that they were not only
doing something for themselves, but
much for tho glory of America.
"The United States Chambers Of
Commerce are much more real and live
things than are our own. Their manu-
facturers are much more generous in
throwing money into a common pool to
provide them with information about
the needs of foreign markets. Being
shrewd and practical men, they know
that the war has disorganized the trade
of European countries; they assume it
will take years before it can become
stable again; they are aware how the
shipping of the Allies has been de-
stroyed by the U-boats. Therefore
they realize this is the hour for them
to make the jump.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

of these schemes is that they involved
a control by the government; England
is presently enmeshed in probably the
largest bureaucracy the world has ever
known, and the people in charge are
immensely fond of the power that they
exercise; they do not want to give it
up, and spend considerable part of
their time devising attractive schemes
for not giving it up Most of the plans
for reconstruction, can say with en-
tire confidence, are but efforts to keep
Jobs intact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Calls Wives Items
OF Furnishings

In long pull of resources and of
endurance the economic futility of
American women might easily, as | be-
lievc. have lost us the war. | impute
no individual fault anywhere. Whether
and how far the women would have
filled the places had they been opened
no one can know But it was not the
less strange faulty of futile blum
dering that actually the places were
not opened. The enormous reservoir
of productive power went almost un-
tapped.
But why?
The answer is that, especially in
America, the factory system has dis
placed the old domestic industry.
When the work was in the home the
women did it, together with the men.
Now, however, the work has left the
home. But tho established social ira
dition requires that the women still re-
main at home, despite the fact that
nothing in the way Of really serious
"ViN 10 IeiJ 10 De OOHe tHcIe. lie
woman has not followed her job-and
has lost it. Labor union policies also
oppose her entry into the factory
whittier the work has gonc-evcn
though she may have no home to re-
main in. Both restrained and repulsed
the women Of America have tended to
abdicatc their economic functions and
TO sink-or rice into economic de-
tendency. This divorce from economic
activity goes, indeed, soSsar that II the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Reconstruction and Beyond
War Has Added Many New Aspects to the Woman Prob
len Leaving Spinsters to Fight for Living in DebtR
den World, Economist Says; immigration Not Harmful

Are they to be allowed to work? Hus-
bands are lacking even for the women
that we already have. Fewer mar
riages and later marriages arc ilicreas-
ingly the American rule. Our woman
problem was already serious enough.
The praise that has been lavished on
the women of America for the part
they took in the winning Of the war
strikes me, | confess, as grotesque
nonsense. Instead, take the degree
of their non participation to have been
q national blundcr and an institutional
reproach. The German women and
the French women always did work.
and during the war they worked more
and harder. The English women count
ed for much less-and yet for much
in the great emergency. Our women
did relatively little Out of the thirty
seven millions Of males in America be-
fore the war Of so-called working age
above ten years-thirty millions were
breadwinners; out of the thirty four
and half millions of females, eight
millions. There were, then, something
like twenty-siX millions of emergency
reserves in this great reservoir of
leisured or semi-leisured women. Pre-
else data are unavailable to determine
how many women out of these twenty
six millions were actually set newly
at work; but till toward the end of the
war not much more was accomplished
than a shift from other occupations
domestic service, etc.--into the war in
dustries. Probably for the average of
the war period the net increase in the
number of women workers fell short of
enc million
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

IdI oNSuttdnt, Guaranty Trust Conn.,
pany Of New York
TNHE new revenue bill, which i'm
poses the war profits and excess
profits tax, provides in effect for
an alternative tax on the income of
corporations based either upon the pre-
war profits or invested capital of a
corporation, whichever is higher The
text of the bill as passed by the House
stated the tax in the form of alterna-
tive assessments, but in the Senate, in
order to overcome legal objections, the
bill was amended to impose a single
assessment. AS provided in the Senate
bill, the rates of tax are as follows:
First Bracket Thirty per cent of the
net income lin excess of the excess profits
credit and not in excess of 20 per cent
of the invested capital
Second Bracket -Sxty-hve per cent of
the net income in excess of 20 per cent
OF invested capital.
Third Bracket-The amount by which 80
per cent of the net income Tin excess of
the war-profits credit exceeds the sum of
the taxes imposed under the first and
second brackets. lSec. 30D.
The tax proposed for 1919 is en-
braced in the first two brackets, but
the rates are reduced to 20 per cent
and 40 per cent respectively. The 80
per cent applies in 1919 only to cor
porations which derive net income in
excess of $4,000 from government con-
tracts made between April 6, 1917, and
l,o,.
tax shall he the sum of the following:
CD Such a portion of the tax computed
at the rate specified for 1918 as the part
of the net income attributable to such
government contract contracts bears to
the entire net income and
CD Such portion of the tax computed
at the rate specified for 1919 and there
after as the part of the net income not
attributable to such government contract
or contracts bears to the entire net income
AS applied to a specific case the war
profits and excess profits tax for 1918
of corporation is computed as fol-
lows:
Pre-war Taxable
period. year
Net income $500 900 $3.50 900
Invested capital $780, 900 700 900
Excess profits credit $4,000
War-profits credit $4,000
Computation of Tax
First bracket 3Oee of
($l40, 900 less $50 000) S 81 900 S24. 300
Second bracket $50 of 10000 1880
Total tax under first and -
second brackets SOS, 300
Third bracket 500 of
(S250 900 less s % 0O0) 1927 900 S1O1 son
Less tax under first and
second brackets sos. 300
Difference SIS 800
Total tax under first. sec
ond and third brackets $40. 600
Income tax $l4c,400
at l. per cent s17.568
Total tax s1te.16a
Two entirely distinct and separate
deductions are to be used in computing
the tax; first the cXcess-p profits credit
referred to in the first bracket, and
second, the war-protits credit referred
to in the third bracket.
In the foregoing example the excess
profits credit is per cent Of the in
vested capital of 100000, plus $4,000,
amounting to $50 900 The war-profits
credit is the sum of
(a) The average income of the pre-war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

or tuberculosis or plague or war
Doubtless the notion has some mean.
ing for certain purposes-for example
IN terms of power for national aggres-
sion or defence in the making of war
But, taken in terms of individual in
terest and individual welfare, the pen
altles of death are with the man that
dies-the loss of income loss to hin
OF his income, not loss to you or tc
me. Even the parents that have reared
him are not poorer in pocket by his
death. His earnings he, and not they
would have had and spent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Reconstruction Ministry
Merely Spreads Hopes

Associations of manufacturers have
not only made their plans, but they
are putting them into practice First,
there is the shipbulding; then there
are the enlarged plants for increased
productions; next there are deputations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

suffer. Other laborers may even be
benefited
And now we are prepared for an
aspect of the postwar problem that is
most serious and most tragic. The
millions of dead and invalided in Eu-
rope are not merely a subtraction from
the total valid population-not merely
from the productive forces-not mere
ly finally from the man power for pro-
ductlon; they are subtractions from
the number Of future husbands for the
young women and of future fathers
Surplus of Manageable
Women Over Men
Europe, therefore, and measurably
also America has before it the series
of problems that must attend a dis
parity of numbers between the sexes,
men. And worse still, this surplus is a
surplus of marriageable women over
marriageable men. Society never runs
wholesomely or safely on this basis
But that is no part of our present
question. Nor again are we concerned
for present purposes with the fact that
because of the restricted birth rate of
the next ten years there must be TWEEN
ty or thirty years hence q dmnished
supply Of maturing men for workers
and of maturing women for mothers.
During the period of rearing children
are rather liability in the home than
an asset. The proximate burdens of
the world will be less instead Of
more by the lack Of children to be
cared for. Our problem is merely what
must Europe Immediately do with it's
millions Of girls maturing into war
spinsters.
Surely they will have to work And
certainly there will be need for their
work. But it will be work under the
stress of new and dire necessity
not merely for self maintenance, but
to help pay taxes for a war debt, posi-
support the war invalids work under
even worse conditions than ever home
less, sclf-dependent, minated, chidless
and hopeless women have earlier
known.
But Will these women be allowed
even the scant good fortune Of labo
rous selfmaintcnance? There is, at
least, no tradition in Europe that
women may not work, no labor poll
cics and programmes that they shall
not. Nevertheless the life Of women
in Europe is TO be increasingly more
cruel than for the men. Emigration
viii, therefore, especially appeal to the
womcn--only that emigration is itself
somewhat Of a luxury. 1t takes money
savings. But Europe, no matter how
rigorous in holding it's men, will let it's
surplus women 90; possibly it may as-
sist them to 20.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
The Part Of Women
In the Great War

But in rany parts Of America the
women somewhat outnumbcred the
men even before the war. What then
In 10 be done with tho rev immigrants
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
By Morris F. Frey

TaE ConSultdnt, Guaranty Trust Com.
pany Of NeO York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

non-economic home.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-15
WILKES THEATRE

Oliver Morosco's popular comedy
drama success. Upstairs and
Down. will be the offering Of the
Wilkes Players at the Wilkes the.
atre for next week. starting with a
matinee Sunday.
Besides the feet that the play "a
one OF the best In its line that has
ever graccd the American stage. It's
presentation here by the members
Of the wilkes Players will have un.
usual interest In that II will intro.
duce to the patrons Of tho Wilkes
theatre for the first time pretty
Mary Thorne. the new little ingenue
who comes from the Wilkes Players
In Salt Lake City. whore abe has
been appearing for the past two
years and who was previously con
nected with the Aicazar stock corn
pany of San Francisco. In the role
OF the baby vamp." next week she
viii have an excellent chance to
display the ability that has made
her n great favorfte WHEREVER she
has appeared.
Upstairs and Down" has TO do
with the upstairs and downstai. =
doings OF the elite society OF Long
Island. Mary Thorne. as the
baby vamp." while engaged 10 one
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-15

film play IL made In n studio. Ac.
tual scenes viii be- made on the stage
in fun Wow 81 the audience and with
Seattle young women and young
men as tho players Tho pictures
will be shown az the same theatre
as soon a. they can D. prepared for
the screen. Tom Ward. weilkuowu
director. will drlli the actors and
supervise the camera work. Pie
lures viii also be made ~ the audi.
enccs at each p~rformsnce.
Vera Mercercau. charming
young eathetic dancer. AZ. the head
Of her own company. viii appear In
'Relncarnation." a. dance spectacle.
Among the assisting dancers. l.
George Mccormack.
Tindy and Mahoney viii pfcsen,
IS minutes % hilarious fun IN their
Cruise Of the poughnut-. the Cal
Ions and their luuatic sticks have
Juggling feature.
Harry and Eta Coniey present
rural piayiet AT the Cross Roads 4"
william Dick. vaudeviiIc'a gifted
guItariat. will give the bin an excel.
lent musical feature. The pantaKc-
scope win show episode No n 81
Smashing barriers" featuring WIN.
lam Duncan.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-15

s1
Tbe headline attraction AZ the
Woore next week Is the offering OF Er.
neut Il Ball and Maude lambert.
Han u one of the best.known com
poeers. and his Mother Machree"
ard Till the Sands OF the Desert
Grow Cold are heard In every home.
This offering should be a musical
treat of some proportions.
George Price. who used to come
hers with sCuddles" Edwards In Gus
Edwards Band Box Revue. viii be
another stellar attraction. His i'm
presentations are said 10 be almost
uncnnny In their accuracy, and his
singing and dancing arc real art.
Indoor Sports" has TO do with
the ways and means employed 10
make the desired pop the question. :
II 10 a story Of Mamie" and "Bess''
and their company.
There has seldom been seen on the
stage a NOSE delicious bit Of trav-
eety than that offered by Collins and
Hart This delightful burlesaue on
1hc feats Of athletic performers Is
cruciatingiy funny.
A clever young woman who pre-
f<rs to be known only as phina will
- on the bill with company Of
clever young Philippians. Singing
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-15
"Den't believe Tint Old Humhug
About Uric Acid' ueinE the Cause
of Rh~umnttsm--Ifs Net so."

Emphsticaily asserting that thou
sands Of unfortunate sufferers have
been led into taking wrong treat
ments under the old and false belief
that Uric Acid" causes rheumatism.
Pastor "a. W Reed says;
AS do some of our highest med
zeal authorities. ] now know that
Uric Acid never did and never viii
cause rheumatism' But " took me
many years To find out this truth.
learned how 10 get rid of my rheu-
matism and recover my health and
Mysteries OF kheumatism.' work
written by an authority who has
scientifically studied the cause and
treatment OF rheumatism for over. 20
years. II was. indeed. veritablc
.revelationl
II had suffered agony for years
from rheumatism and associated dis
orderv. apd Mrs. Reed was tortured
yond endurance. We had read and
talked so much about Uric Acid
that our minds seemed poisoned. But
the Inner Mysteries Of rheumatism
made IL all clear TO us, and now we
are both free from suffering and
MYSTERY we endured sO many years.
1 believe l was the hardest man In
the world to convert For me 10 dis
card the old Uric Acid theory, and
what ! now know to be absolutely
false for the new. scicntific undef-
standing of tho cause and cure OF
rheumatism. was like asking me to
change my religious bcliefsl But l
did change. and IL was n fortunate
day for me and mine when l did sol.
NOTE-"The Inner Mysteries Of
rheumatism" referred TO above BY
Pastor Reed, lays bare facts about
rheumatism and Its associated dis
orders overlooked by doctors and
acientists for centuries past. 1t Is u
work that should be In the hands OF
eveEy man or woman who has the
slightest symptoms OF rheumatism.
nrurltisr lumbago or "ont. Anyone
Who sends name and address 20 Al. +.
Clearwater b9a u ST.. Hallowell.
Maine. will receive " by mail. pos
tage paid. and absolutely free. Send
now, lest YOU forget the address,
IL not a sufferer. cut out this an
nouncement and hand IL ~ some AZ
flicted friends.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-15
PALACE IMP

with the opening ~ the new bin
NJ the Palace Hip sunday a variety
OF amusing comedy guaranteed 20
disperse dull care is promised. Rob
bins and Fulton being prominently
featured an gloom dlspellcrs ln their
skit entitled AT the Town Pump b
Alvins and Aivins will present a
series Of daredevil balancing stunts
The Coal Driver" O. the TITLE Of
a skit offered by Toilette. Pearl and
wicks. Francis and Fox are a good
looking pair who divulge a number
OF entertaining surprises IN their
vaudeville oddly
Two Corkera In Cork" ~ tho bin.
ing OF Hilbert and Nugent. a pair
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-15
BAD BREATH
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
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