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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
Income Tax Fugitlyes -.

Experts on taxation could draw no
clearer picture OF the failure Of the
existing income tax, surtax and super
surtax system than the one contained
In the Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enue's simple tabular analysis Of the
1913 returns. 1t is astounding TO md
from those figures how individuals
with incomes OF $4,000 or more have
been driven to shun the confiscatory
surtax as burnt child shuns the fire.
No matter what alibis or excuses are
offered, the fact remains that the up
per reaches OF the income tax system
are a failure.
Until It gets out OF the sphere OF a
levy on income and becomes in effect
a levy on capital the income tax is
highly successful. The dividing line
seems TO be at $4,000, for at this
point the falling Off in returns for
1918 showed that the surtax was re-
garded by great numbers as a dis
criminatory capital levy, and whether
by seeking tax exempt investment,
transfer OF property or other means
they avoided submitting to II.
In 1917 a total of $500 individuals
reported incomes Of more than $4,000.
In 1913, after the general increase in
the surtax schedule. the number de-
clined to $500. AS the size of in
come increased the number of indi-
viduals reporting in that class de-
creased proportionately, until in the
case of incomes above S1,O00000 the
number reporting took the greatest
drop Of all, with decline from 141
In 1917 to 60 In 1913.
On the other hand a large increase
was recorded in returns below $4,000.
The increase is no doubt due to the
fact that persons whose incomes are
below $4,000 are in the great mum
Der Of cases dependent on salaries fo-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
Wild Men Who Get $4,000 Year
Each From the City.

The Comptroller, addressing the
Mayor and referring to the President
of the Board OF Aldermen, spoke as
follows in a meeting Of the Board
Of Estimate:
Cant you stop your garrulous
confederate? Hit him on the head
with the gavc',"
The Mayor has been seen 10 lose
his temper in the presence of the good
natured Mr.. UNTERMYER. Happily he
did not lose It at the instance Of the
Incorporate Mr.. CRAIG. Mr.. LA GUAR
D1A's skull is still unbroken.
II, under the stress Of emotions
which unfortunately possess too many
meetings of the Board of Estimate,
the Mayor had followed the Comptrol-
ler's prompting and assaulted the AL
dermen's President, Mr.. CRAIG would
have been as guilty as Mr.. HYLAN
for he who counsels or commands a
crime is a principal, according to the
penal law Of this State.
1t is dangerous thing for one wild
man TO urge another wild man on.
And CRAIG and HYLAN are by far tie
widest members Of the board. The
only wilder persons are the citizens
who pay these men $4,000 a year
each, supposedly for the city's benefit,
but really for the expression Of per-
sonal fury by two mouthy fellows.
Next year there may be an oppor-
tunity for the voters to hit the pair
over the head with n ballot box. I'm.
less, Of course, they have been re-
moved by the Governor.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
Latvia Energies.

Within week of the signing of the
armistice small but sturdy race on
the coast of the Baltic declared It's in
dependence of two mighty conquerors,
Germany on the west and Russia on
the east. Ravaged by both during the
months that have interviewed, Latvia
by dint of hard fighting won her free
dom and Let's all over the world have
just celebrated the second anniversary
of the birth OF their republic.
In the war the Germans overran
Courland and part Of Livonia, the for
mer Russian provinces occupied by
the Let's. Then came the attack by
the Bolshevilzi, who In spite of their
professed acceptance of self-determina-
ton vigorously objected to its practice
by the Baltic States.
The Let's were driving the Boil
sheviki out on the east when they
were attacked in the rear by the rem
nant of the German army Of occupa-
ton, aided by the pro-German ma
tive land holding nobility and their
retainers.
Under threat OF allied occupation
Of territory east of the Rhine Berlin
succeeded in calling off Won DER
GoLTz's troops, and the danger to
Latvia was ayerted.
Then the Let's turned their atten-
ton to the Red armies in the east and
soon were pushing them back oil along
the front from the Esthonian border
to the junction point with the Poles
ON the Dvina. Beset by WRANGEL in
the south and engaged with PnsUDsKI
in the west. the Bolsheviki finally
made peace with Latvia, treaty very
advantageous to her being signed on
August II. 1t was ratified by the
Latvian Constituent Assembly on Sep
TENDER .. Soon thereafter it was an
nounced that American relief for chill
dren in Latvia had ceased because the
country had sufficient food to meet
its needs.
Thus Latyia energies from her
trials, not yet very strong, but at
least unshackled and able to begin the
work OF reconstruction. She now pro
poses union of Baltic States, to
standardize currency, transportation,
customs tariffs and telegraphs, and
to coordinate their defences in case
any of them is attacked.
The geographical position Of Latyia
is very favorable. She has three
spacious ports, Riga, Libau and Win
dau, the latter two being open al the
year round. Before the war nearly
half of Russia's western exports
passed through these three ports.
They are again becoming centres Of
commerce, ship tonnage entering Riga
tripled since last March, while
fhe exports have more than doubled.
Among other things Latvia can sup
ply to the world much needed fax and
wood pulp. Every indication points
to a prosperous future for the little
State Of Latvia.
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CARLSBAD AS 1T is.
Information From q Cure Seeker Who
Has Just Returned.

To THE NEW York HERALD: VIII you
kindly print this letter for the benefit of
those of your readers who. like myself
arc Obliged to take cures in Europe?
have just returned from Carlsbad
I went by way of Italy and soon found
out NV mistake. The way to reach
Carlsbad is through France by de luxe
train. In these times ordinary travelling
is difficult on the Continent.
Carlsbad is just as it was before the
war: the fool Is plentiful and delightful,
and the woods and walks kept up as OF
old: and, better yet, we are not looked
upon as enemies. but as friends
strangely enough, we are not liked in
italy and are not well treated.
Carlsbad is now in Czecho-Slovakia.
The town was full in the season and the
hotels all open some of the big hotels
are still open all winter. When 1 went
there I was very i'll; I can now walk my
ten miles, so that the journey was worth
the Inconvenience / suffered; but had 1
gone through France the trip would have
been much easier.
ONE TRAVELLER RETURNED.
NEW York, November 20.
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ART EXHIBITIONS

National Arts Club. 119 East Nineteenth
street. Books and book plates
Keppers. East Thirty ninth street. Spe-
cial exhibition OF engravirRs by old MASTER
ings by T.. w. Benson and w. l.. Metcalf.
Public Library, Fifth avenue and Forty
second street. Paintings and recent additions
TO the print collection.
DE Zayas Gallery, 549 Fifth avenue. Paint
inRs by Cezanne.
Montross Gallery. 500 Fifth avenue. Works
OF Vincent Van Gogh and etchings by living
Americans. AdIniRsion free.
Knoedler's, $50 Fifth avenue Wood en-
cravings by August Lepere.
Alderman Galleries. 10 East Forty-sixth
street. Sporting pictures.
Schwartz Galleries. Is East Forty-sixth
societe Anonyme. 10 East Forty-seven,h
street. Modern paintings.
Daniel Gallery. West Forty-seventh
street. Modern American paintings.
Museum Of French Art. 500 Fifth avenue.
Contemporary French paintings.
Kennedy Gallery. 6i3 Fifth avenue. Fitch
ings by Louis Orr.
Alnslee Gallery. 61j Firth avenue. Paint
ings by George 1nness. wyant and Martin.
Portraits by Miss Il. F. Rockwell.
Gmpel & Wildenstein. 81 Fifth avenue.
Annual exhibition of the New Society OF
Artists.
Enrich Gallery. TO7 Fifth avenue. Deoora-
tive paintings OF the eighteenth century.
Durand- Ruel Gallery. ~ East Fifty-seventh
street. Modern French paintings.
Folsom Galleries, 104 West Fifty-seventh
street. American paintings.
Mussman Gallery, la West Fifty-soventh
street. California landscapes.
Hanfstaengl Galleries, 152 West Fifty.
seventh street Etchngs.
Historical Society. 10 Central Park West.
Paintings by old masters.
Museum Of Natural History. Seventy
seventh street and Central Iark West Per
manent collections.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
Slackening Business shows I'm Life
Insurance Written.

The general slackening In business
all over the United States is now be-
ing clearly reflected in the number and
amount OF life insurance policies writ
ten in some parts Of the country, ac-
cordlng to reports from large agencies
to the Insurance Press, which makes
special effort to keep informed on
contemporaneous incidents in the field
it covers but the amount of insur-
ance taken out this year in the United
States compares favorably with the
record of 1919.
In its latest report Chicago agency
which has paid for a million or more
dollars month in insurance every
month for eight consecutive years
gives $2,173,400 as its October pro-
duction this year, against S2,307 900
for October, 1919. During the last
previous five months the managers Of
this agency observed "a general slow
ing up Of new business"
I. A New York agency which in Oc-
tober, 1919, wrote $2,6o5,175 of paid
up business fell about a million dol
lars short OF this record this year,
but for the first ten months Of sis
year it wrote S24,155,313 Of Insurance,
against S19,326, 1874 in the correspond
ing months of 1919. Another New
York agency exceeded its OctODer,
| 1919, business in October, 1920, hr
S150,000, almost 10 per cent The
Pittsburg agency OF one company,
without disclosing tothls, says it has
attained certain volume OF business
1t set for itself this year. The Octo-
Der, 1920, business of a Dallas. Texas,
agency exceeded that Of year before,
and in the first ten months of this
year it has written SIS, 900 900, against
S10,169,000 in the corresponding
months of 1919. This years October
New England company was 20 per
cent. greater than that Of October
last year. A Los Angeles agency
wrote S1,116,O3S last month, against
SS35,900 in October Of the previous
year. For this agency in ten months
Of this year the new business paid for
was $11, 13S,S77. against $s,02s,225 in
the corresponding months of 1919,
1t is apparent that despite the dis
turbance in industry and business
which has been operative during a
considerable part Of 1920, and which
must inevitably be Of great influence
in life insurance as well as elsewhere,
the amount Of new business written
this year will be highly gratifying. 1t
will be Of interest to find out what
the lapses and cancellations Of policies
amount to and also to what extent
loans on policies are sought.
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lars or anything like billion dollars
of income out Of tariff duties because
the imports would not come in now
and could not come in under such
heavy duties as would have TO be
levied even to approximate Senator
CUBTIs's figures. Furthermore, this
country could not slap the brakes too
heavily on the bulk OF our imports
without grinding our vast exports out
of existence.
When practically all the free gold
in the world is in the United States
when Europe is up to its neck in debt
to the United States, when its credit
has been stretched to the swapping ten
sion, when even South America is inn
plorlng help, our greatest foreign Gus
toners cannot pay us for what they
want to buy from us except with their
own goods. Either it is swap or it is
no trade.
We have got to take a reasonable
and safe quantity of foreign goods
from foreign nations not merely to
get the interest which is due us, and
not merely to get some of the prin-
cipal of the debts owed US paid off,
but TO keep alive the foreign buying
markets for our own exports.
If Senator CURTIS wants to know
what these export markets mean to
American producers let him ask the
farmers of his own State OF Kansas
and of his neighboring States of Ne
braska, Iowa. Missouri and Oklahoma
whether they want to sell their sur
plus crops abroad or. want to burn
them in the fields. Let Senator Cur
tbs ask the stock raisers in his part
of the country whether they want TO
sell their surplus beef and mutton
nbroad or want to let the sheep and
cattle starye and freeze to death as
the easiest way to get rid of them.
Let Senator CURTIS ask the copper
producers In his own Western terri
tory whether they want to ship q
great output to foreign consumers or
whether they want to let the red metal
stay buried in the earth while their
huge plants lie rusting in idleness,
with their wage earners out of work.
Let him ask other producers in other
sections where they would get off.
Then let Senator CURTIS ask him.
self whether the Congress of this busy,
troubled, hard driving nation will have
much more time to waste on his propo-
sition to get a tariff gallon out of a
pint jug than it would have to con-
slider seriously prospectus by Sen
ator CURTIS or anybody else on a
weird scheme TO make green cheese
out Of the moon.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
WASHING MADE A SCIENCE.
American Laundry Owners Have Long
Had q Research Department.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The fol-
torial page OF your paper has been
called to our attention f:
From London comes the news of the
formation OF the British Lnundrymen's
Research Association. II should have its
fellow on this side of the ocean. 1t win
be true research when the laundryman Is
able quickly TO discover how the 1914 col
lar got in the package sent to the $50
FOUNDER and why man opening a pack
age of supposed dress shirts comes upon a
linen skirt or some other garment equally
useless to him.
AS n matter of fact American laundry
owners are bending every energy toward
the improving of their product and SER
vice to the public The Laundryowners
National Association has maintained a
department of research with the great
est research organization in the United
States, If not in the world. for the past
five years. We refer to the Mellon In
stitute OF Industrial Research OF Pitts
burg, Pa.
The work of our fellowship in this
institution is as much in the interest Of
laundryowners, for It is through this
fellowship. which we term our depart
ment of chemical engineering, that
laundryowners are advised first as to the
nature OF the goods they are handling,
and second, as to the right materials to
use in the cleansing of these goods as
well as to the best ways to use these
materials In the interest OF economy,
quality of work produced and effect on
the customers linens.
Through this department, standard
formulas for Mushroom practice have
been worked out, and charts containing
these formulas will be found hanging in
the Mushrooms of many of our members
in New York city. as well as in other
laundries throughout the entire United
States.
Then for the past FIVE years we have
maintained department of mechanical
engineering, the duty of which depart
ment is TO teach our members economy
in the burning of fuel, how to utilize
the waste heat or the condensation that
comes from our ironing machinery. Yes.
practically all machinery in laundries
nowadays is heated with steam, and for
Inat reason cannot possibly .SCoTCu VI
damage the linens that are entrusted to
our care.
Then this department also gives at
tention to the perfecting OF our ma
chimes, the arrangement of them for eff
flcient use. Then, again, in 1914 this
association standardized n system of
cost accounting for laundries, which sys-
tenn has now been installed in over 400
plants throughout the United States and
is being installed in other plants as rap
idly as the accountants which are en-
ployed by the association can get to
them.
Through the ,-forination that comes
from the use tt this system laundry
prices are based on the cost Of produc-
ton, after allowing only reasonable
compensation for capital and effort en-
ployed.
LAuNpRYoweJERs NATIONAL AS
ISOLATION, by Roy H. MCCLURE,
Financial Secretary.
LA SALE, H., November 20.
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A BONUS TRUST FUND.
Plan Proposed to Former Service Men
Not In Need of Help.

To THE New YORK HERALD There
exists among former service men consid-
cradle opposition to an indlscriminate
bonus such as that adopted by the State
on NovC4Abcr 2. Should the means be
afforded them many would gladly relin-
quish their share of the State bonus in
favor of the disabled, the wounded and
the needy.
To this end the writer would suggest
that plan be formulated whereby ex-
service men who are not in need OF the
bonus may be enabled to assign their
share Of it to trust fund, to be admin
istered by an organization such as the
American Red Cross, the fund so
formed to be properly invested, so that
the income thereof shall be available for
all time to assist those of our ranks who
are now, or shall in the years 70 come,
be in need OF assistance.
BENJAMIN z. MARKS,
Ex-Lieutenant, Infantry. United States
Army.
New YORK, November 90
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
Try Enforcing the Present Immi-
grafton Laws to Protect the
United States.

Commissioner WALLIS Of the Immi.
grafton Service, who has charge OF
the reception, examination and deten.
ton or admission of aliens seeking en-.
trance into the United States through
Ellis Island, addressed the National
Industrial Council In this city last
week and told the members some start
ling things.
Mr.. WALLIS said there was world.
wide plot, in which corrupt officials
OF European Governments and Off.
cials of immigrant carrying steamship
lines are implicated, TO dump crimi-
nails and incendiaries here. He went
on to say:
Every man and woman coming
here from abroad should be COM
PEELED TO present q police certificate
showing that he has never committed
crime or been In prison, and med
ical certificate OF freedom from con-
tagious or loathsotne diseases.
Our AhHPt%AApA OAA NiAAS olAN AAhCN
be made stricter, and in particular we
must watch the ship crews and stow
Always.
lone boat camc in recently with a
crew Of eleven hundred. Many OF
these are Bolsheviki and criminals.
They swarm down the sides OF the
ship and are or into the country be-
fore any one can stop therl"
IT is impossible to see why, undel
the immigration laws now on Tho
books and the passport regulations
which the State Department has pu
into operation, all OF the undesirable
catalogued by Commissioner Wallis
should not be turned back here q
the steamship companies which b-inG
them.
If this ~ done the steamship com
panies will very quickly stop bringing
TO this country persons who are likely
10 bc turned back. The transporta.
rloL lines carry immigrants for the
sake Of a profit, and If the laws on
our statute books are enforced the
sale Of tickets TO criminals, the dis
cased and the insane will stop.
Under our present laws criminals
paupers the mentally deficient, an
archists, persons suffering from con
tagious and lathsome diseases, indi
viduals liable 10 become publ
charges and illlterates are excludes
from admission. Alien stowaways ar
also ineligible for admission.
II any persons falling within III
prescribed classes are getting ashor
here they.are doing It in violation o
our laws, and the enforcement Of tn
existing statutes would protect u
from them. If the laws are not bein
enforced the fault is with the linn
grafton Service.
There Is talk Of asking for new law
70 restrict immigration. But ne'
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Ctssattlen
with rain to-day; tomorrow przas.Sly
rain, followed by clearing; fresh enst
and southeast winds.
For New Jersey-Cloudy and unsettled to-
day. probably followed by rain tonight and
tomorrow, not much change In temperature:
moderate southeast winds.
For northern New England-Snow or rain
to-day and probably tomorrow; fresh east
For southern New England-Rain and some,
what warmer to-day; rain tomorrow, fol-
lowed by clearing; fresh and probably strong
easterly winds.
For western New York--Rain to-day and
probably tomorrow; not much change in
temperature; increasing southerly winds.
WASHINGTON, Nov. GA storm OF
marked intensity WAS central tonight over
Lake Michigan and moving eastward. and
coast The storm over the great lakes has
been attended by rains and snow and gales
in the upper lake regions and by rain In
valleys, New England and New York. Tho
Pacific coast storm Is attended by strong
winds and gales and rains In the north
Temperature has fallen decidedly over tina
plains States. Rocky Mountain region and IN
central Mississippi Valley. 1t has changed
but little in other regions.
The outlook is for rains and SHOWS IN the
region OF the great lakes, New England
and New York and unsettled weather and
ViopdDly Ile Nuio Fdllcy ti.'
middle Atlantic States. In the south Atlantic
and east gulf States the weather will be
generally fair.
The temperature will fall in the region o,
the great lakes, the Ohio and lower Mis-
sissippi valleys. 1t viii rise somewhat Mon
day in New England. Storm warnings ars
displayed on the great lakes and on the
north Pacific coast.
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
reau stations. taken at L. N. yesterday
seVenfy-fifth meridian time.
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Imprisonment for life Is the sentence
pronounced on the kidnapper and
slayer OF BLAKELY CoUGHL1N, the thir-
child stolen last sum
mer from the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
GEORGE II. CoUGHLIN In Norristown.
Pennsylvania Tho Judge said he re-
GREETED he could not sentence the flend
to death; the kidnapper said he would
rather die In the electric chair than be
locked up for the rest Of his days. If
he spoke truth, his punishment Is emf
nently satisfactory. Let us hear OF no
movement to win him n pardon.
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SPAIN FACES CIVIL STRIKE.
Government Employees TO Plan
Denominations First.

MADRID, Nov. 21.--Discontent in all
the departments Of the civil service e.
rapidly increasing in consequence Of the
refusal OF the Government TO respond 10
appeals for increases in salaries IN or
der that ON 3loyees may meet the higher
cost of living.
Committees OF Government employees
in forty-niuo centres Of administrator
throughout Spain have called for stimuli
taneous meetings on December 3 to de,
mand increases in pay. In the event
the meetings are prohibited resolution,
will be sent 10 the Government, which.
will be given one week In which TO reply
a refusal by the Government 60 compr
with their demands may mean a~gen
eral strike of the civil servants.
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Il was decided to-day by the execu-
tive board OF the American Engineering
Council, of which HERBERT HOOVER is
president, to appoint committee TO in
vestigate industrial waste.--Netos from
Washington.
1t is a Job worth doing thoroughly.
Industrial waste lays heavy and an
unnecessary tax on all OF us.
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HOPE FOR TAXPAYERS.
A Man of the Kind New York Needs
Brought to the Front.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The hour
has produced the man!
In the darkest days of wisconsin
fearless Judge out West said to certain
labor politicians eff you do not obey
the law / will make you obey It."
Now n fearless lawyer In this city
has said in effect to the small fry poll
ticians who are getting ready to saddle
upward Of $3.50, 0oo. 900 on the tax and
rent payers next year eff you do not
clean your house will make you clean
IT,"
Perhaps the hour Of deiiverance is
near ashland In this city. h.
NEW YORK, November 20.