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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
NO VALID REASON SEEN FOR DELAY IN
 PAYING J: s. TAX
Income and Excess Profits De- cember Dues Needed-Do Not Care to Finance
 Holding of Commodities
By Associated Press

Washington November 21. Recent sugs sens that pay ment of tb ember 18th in stallment some and excess profits os should be post poned strongly discour- aged Int by the treasury in 9 Sment which declared thao S change should be en- tertained which would render uncertain the bulk of the gov ernment's tax receipts"
 Proposals for the amendment of the revenue act of 1918 to permit post ponement of the December installment and also for the extension of the met loss provisions to the year 1920 have come from various sources, the treas- 'ury statement adding "The agitation for these changes can only do harm"
 MAY NEED ISSUE
 Discussing the governments finan- cial programme, which 1t is said had been adjusted to the tax payment dates provided by the act the treasury as- serted that the December insta1lment of income and excess profits taxes was not expected to exceed $650.o0O. and further requirements must be financed through issues of treasury certificates of indebtedness.
 It would be impossible to defer the payment of the December installment or taxes without forcing the treasury to offer treasury certificates in pro- nibrtive amounts" the statement said.
 Moreover. to extend the time for
 the payment of the December in-
 stalimcnt would simply mem that
 the treasury would. in effect, be
 financing private business which
 should provide for itself through
 ordinary banking channels. if nec-
 essary. In this respect the pro-
 posaI is not different from those
 made to the treasury within the
 last few months that government
 funds be made available in various
 sections of the country to finance
 the holding of commodities.
 Extension of the met lossn provisions of the act was opposed by the treasury as equally impossible" The whole financial programme of the govern ment requires tha the treasury .be@abss. to rely on the collection of these taxes, the statement said. explaining that under the present law the treasury re- ceived in 1920 based on the income and profits of 1918.
 NO FAIR REASON
 There is no reason in fairness,' the statement continued. why tax payers who made profits in 1919 and became liable to pay taxes on the basis of these profits should be permitted to throw upon the government the burden~ of losses incurred in the conduct of their own businesses in the year 1920. The treasury must of necessity promptly meet the governments bills. If uncer- tainty is to be introduced now into the tax payment upon which the treasury principally relies. it will clearly be im- possible for the government to finance itself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
Gist of the News

GENERAL s~lIia< asks investigation. lfabansn to be free &from itiiteracy 7 within -Four years.
 tniiRlited sugar worries Cuba. ttoHnsbin man believed murdered. Two are slain by Memphis negroes. PuviN Times bothered by Greek situa- xien.
 LOCAL fpnt Long vigorous current Hr&SxA.F
 Eir sty little souls wards of city. Ghfsa en's rights must be respected. trt~4ans to aid Red Cross roll call. Frfsa cruse aids navy recruiting. ataist property selling feature of Fepsss saarket.
 i<ss run on Free Service Auto club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
NATIONWIDE MOVE. ID ACCELERATE THE.
 COUNTRIES TRADE.
To Consider Inauguration of Foreign Trade Financing Corporation to Finance
 U. S. Products
By Associated Press


 New York, November 21.- Bankers and business men throughout the country are urged, in a prospectus made public here today by the Amer ican Bankers association, to consider inauguration, by the first of the year, of the for eign trade financing corpora tion, under the Edge act, for the protecting of home indus tries and proper financing of American foreign trade.
 Action on. the proposed corporation. which will be capitalized at slo0,ooo,- 900, is expected at a meeting in chica- go on December 10 and II, designed to be representative of the entire cou1- try's finance and industry. tstabtish- ment of the corporation, the prospec- tus said. is considered vital to safe guard industry from "an anxious future with aIlenOdnt clements Ol uIemDlOy ment and unrest
 STAGNATION "StagnAtion has developed in the United States for commodities suoh IS wool, sugar. rubber, coffee, leather, certain metals and various other sta- ples," it added and to a lesser ex.e1t for wheat and cotton, whereas ,practi cally all such commodities are urgent ly required in many other countries of the world The American dollar Is at premium in practically every country in the world to such an extent that ex- ports from the United States to :nany countries during a considerable period have not yet been paid for by those countries"
 Other features emphasized are:
 Future exports from the United States for an indefinite time cannot be paid for in large part except over an extended period.
 ''In the case of countries where it is believed exchange may turn within a few months, buying in the United States has practically stopped, except where arrangements could be made fer postponing payment until excaange turns.
 JUST NECESSITIES
 "Europeap countries in genearl are being obliged to confine their par -chases here vigorously to necessities cf the moment, and are unable to obtain sufficient raw material 10 restore il cir industries"
 American export trade exclusive -ot Europe. lis beginning to back up their goods manufactured for exports into competition with goods man ifac~ tured for dom consumption.
 Foreign loans have been carried about as far as conservation War~ rants,' it stated and further credits must be of no longer than banks and industrial institutions can tegitimately be asked to carry"
 It is authoritatively stated that the rendering under the plan of spe aial assistance to any one country has not been considered as the object of The plan Is to encourage Americans foreign trade as whde, and as contempla- it would operate wherever such trade extends.
 The prospectus Is issued by the arr engagements committee appointed by President Drum of the association for the Chicago meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
FACING ARMIES

FACING ARMIES
 Warsaw, November 20.--Russisn boisheviki and Polish soldiers are face to face at various points along the Zbrugcx river in eastern Ga ltcia, a narrow stream which ,vns designated nt the peace conference at Riga as the nrmistice line, pend Ing a permanent peace.
 Reports from Galicia state ,hat more than 10000 of simon PetIurass forces have crossed the frontier. seeking refuge in Poland before the advancing boIshevik and that the advancing armies west Of Kiev are approaching the nrmistice tine.
 UKRAINIANS DRIVEN IN
 In several parts of the country the boisheviI<i have pursued the tkrainians for many miles and have taken thousands of prisoners. Large numbers of Ukrainians have been driven into Polish territory, where they have been informed. The boisheviki are standing guard along the boundary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
HUSBAND DESERTS;
 SHE TAKES OWN LIFE
Fly Asseciatea Pres.

Charlotte N. C.. November 21.--M 2 Harry J. Zem, whose husband prior tc his disappearance four month ago wa for 12 years head of the music deparf. ment of Elizabeth college here. was found asphyxiated in her home eariy today with her pet dog, also dead clasped in her arms.
 The authorities pronounced it a case of suicide, after reading letter whia she had addressed to friend request ing a simple funeral.
 Her husband, up to the time of fis departure. was prominent in local bus ness and social circles. He left a no to his wife saying she need not expet him to ever return Brooding over h. husbands disappearance is believed !. have been the cause of her act
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
GOT IT ALL
Hy A.socinteh Press

Asheville, N. C., November 2i Edgar Phillips was shot through the chest, Jake Bucliner Sas arrested and deputy sheriffs seized an automobile a truck, T gallons of whisky. 67 turkeys ' chicllens, 2 ducks. Il dressed hog and 10 bushels of beans as the result of a raid three miles northwest of Weaver liii tonight during pitched battle between officers and alleged liquor blockade runners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
YOUNG COUPLE EL0PE
Cupid Captures Madison County Pair
 and They Decide Upon the Romantic

Huntsville November 2l.-(Special D. Ted French of Curley and Miss Virginia Chandler of owens Cross Roads. eloped to Fayetteville. Tenn, Wednesday and were married. The report of the elope- ment was received here today They are members of well known families.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
By Associated Press

Dublin, November 21Thry reported to have been killed and many injured panic when back and tam insurgents invaded football match today fired the crowd.
 The Tpperary team playing against the Dublin Croke park before crowd of l5000 when ack and ans entered in force by the after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
Small Night Fire

Annisten. November 1.-tSpecial. )-A small blaze at the plant of the National Forge company. in the or>hern part of the city late Saturday ne, called the department to the scene. 1< v blaze was extinguished with little damage to the ~ropsrty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
TROUBLE BREWING
By Aasoeiated Press

By Aasociated Press Smyrna, \ % -ember %. The Greek gar rison here is showing asitation' and de- manding demobilizaton. There is a laeis of discipline anc clashes between partl- sans of NJ Venizelos and former King Constantine are reported.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
Irish Football Crowd Fired On By Black And
 Fans, Many Are Killed
"Tocsn' Sounds in Dublin at O'Clock Sunday Morning and Equivalent of "St. Bartholemew's Day" Starts With Murders of Sleeping Officers--In-
 discriminate Killings Dot City
By Associated Press

Dublin, November 21Shoong began again in the streets just before midnight and number of people reported killed. There is much military activity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
Duped Poland Again Sees Dripping Fangs
 or BoLsheuik Bear
Delegate' Says: Poland Has Not Loyalty Fulfilled Obgations"-Red Army Suddenly Facing Ga
 lician Frontier and Are Now Crossing
By Assocfafed Press

Riga 20-Peace negotiations between Rus sia and Poland interrupted today.
 Adolf Joffe head of the bolshevk delegation told M Domb ski chief of the Polish representatives that the work of ing for permanent peace could proceed until Poland oy ally fulfilled her promise to withdraw troops her borders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
Ten Cents a Pound

By A8BOcfat6d FTe69 Macon, Ga, November 2i Found loayes of bread will be retaiIed at 6 cents be- ginning tomorrow. Macon bakers an- nounced tonight
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-05
EAT LESS MEAT
IF BACK HURTS
Take a glass of Salts to flush Kidneys
if BLADDER bothers you-Drnk
lots of water.

Eating meat regularly eventually pro-
duces kidney trouble in some form or
other, says a well-known authority, be-
cause the uric acid in meat excites the
kidneys, they become overworked; get
sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of
distress, particularly backache and mis-
e-y in the kidney region; rheumatic twin
ges, severe headaches, acid stomach, con-
stipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness,
bladder and urinary irritation.
ine moment your, back hurts or kid
neys aren't acting right, or if bladder
hpthers yor, get about four ounces Of
Jad Salts from any good pharmacy;
take Tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast for few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and has been. usei for generations to
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them
to normal activity; also to neutralize the
acids in the urine 80 it no longer irri-
tates, thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia.
water drink which millions of men and
women take now and then TO keep the
kidneyB and urinary organs clean, thus
avoiding serious kidney disease.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-05
FARMERS GET ONLY $5.s5
FOR WOOL IN SIS SUIT

Sheep raisers in Indiana are lot
responsible for the high cost of cloth
ing. according to Claude Harper
Purdue University sheep specialist
and also secretary of the Indiana
Sheep Breeders and Feeders Associa.
ton, who had just issued a state
ment to the effect that the farmer
receives only $5.S5 for enough wool
to make a suit for a man weighing
ITS pounds.
A man who weighs ITS pounds
requires three and one-half yards of
cloth for a suit, the weight of the
clothing being from ten to eighteen
ounces a yard" Mr.. Harper says.
"The average medium weight wool
suit is made of goods weighing four
teen ounces a yard. At three and
one-ha,f yards a suit, the cloth in the
entire suit weighs forty-nine ounces,
or a little more than three pounds.
In the manufacture of all-wool cloth
it requires one and three-fourths
pounds of secured wool to produce a
pound of cloth.
"Therefore,. considering waste in
manufacturing, it requires about
sixty-two ounces Of secured wool for
an average suit Of cothes. Most of
the Indiana secured wool is selling in
Boston from $1.25 to $1.44 pound.
This wool scours around so per cent
of grease and dirt. At $1.44 scour-
ed pound, this makes wool worth 9
cents an ounce. AS sixty-two ounces
are required for the entire suit, then
the cost of wool in the suit is $685.
Mr.. Harper says that if a suit is
made of the very best grade of wool
which is selling at about $1.9O a
secured pound, then the wool in the
suit will cost S7.37. The cost OF
shipping, commission, etc., he says
is at least cents a pound, which is
deducted from the producers re-
ceipts. These suits, he pointed out
sell at retail all the way from $40 to
I SIS and higher.-Indianapolis News
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-05

When l found that books were too
dear to buy, 1 fell back on the old
books that l had. 1 was amazed by
their number. All around me = were
masterpieces that l knew hardly
more than by sight. Robinson Cru
soc" came upon me as long-delayed
revelation, though I had loved him
since I vas nine.
The richness of my dictionary al
most overwhelmed me. Really, a
good dictionary is reading for life
time. What surprises it holds? What
hundreds of words you don't know;
what hundreds you cannot spell!
How you grow into the intimacy of
speech; what relationships spring up
about you! When your dictionary
begins to live, you almost feel Ian
guaee in the making.I think for a
few weeks of delicate browsing, I
shall pasture on my dictionary alone.
A Bible, Shakespeare, diction-
a,y, and Golden Treasury, and
no man need be hungry. Upon my
word, have grown rich on having no
money and no books.
It was rather blow to me when l
felt "dryness" settling on my world.
I had always been bad sleeper, and
without the kind persuasion Of
nightcap, sleep, thought, would for
sake my pillow forever. With a grim
sense of fatality that was not resign
ton, 4 took my nightcap off. was
thinking what a pity it was never to
have a wink of sleep again, when l
woke up after very good night. My
nightcap was fools-cap that wor-
ried me with it's jingling bells. cast
it off and felt my head calmer and
cooler.
Do you know, 1 think that doing
without" is rather a growing pleas
ure.It is more than not mi1ng
things. 1t is attaining something be-
yond; it is Ginning hill into lighter
and purer air. It is sense of the
spirits being est man. Certain 1T is
that the more you do without, the
more you have. It is an earnest OF
the keen and starry existence when
the body shall be outgrown, the
spirit, in exquisite self-sufficiency,
shall fill the whole beings needs.
All the people who are learning to
do without are becoming citizens Of
new world larger, clearer, higher
than the old. Who could have
thought that such radiant gift lay
clasped in the hateful hand Of War?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-05
DOING WITHOUT

Cannon Landbridge in the London
Daily News.
How things have changed! re-
member the day when observing a
crease in my coat, turned into my
tailor's and ordered new suit. Now,
for five years,I have lived, as a bear
on his fat on my husbanded re-
sources. If pair of trousers showed
an undesirable roundness, l put them
between the mattresses of my bed. If
',y waistcoat were greasy,I rubbed
it with ammonia and water. If my
boots were down-at-the-heel, and
lumpy as an ancient pod of peas, l
put them ints the cobler's hands.
became connoisseur in patches-I,
who always preferred jaunty hole
to the patient premeditation of a
seam.
Everybody, suppose, has a few
old things lying about him, like rose
leaves in a garden bed. They are not
as old as they look. Old clothes can
learn sprightliness unguessed if you
60 the right way with them. They can
be refreshed like ancient pictures.
Like long lanes, they have their
turnings. Like damaged young men
in elegant shops, they can acquire a
smile of artificial charm, and teach
their wool second summer. They
can be turned out well-groomed
young fellows, in not too strong a
light.
Take your old things in rotation
every time their turn comes round,
they will come up smiling. l have
kept my four suits marching round
and round, like stage army of
about the same number. Happily,
have long preferred unobtrusive ap'
parel; you can't hide thunder and
lightning; carpet patterns will out,
But my symphonies and nocturnes in
gray were sweet, shy things, like
violets by messy stone. l find
can subdue the shininess of trous-
er-leg by looking firmly into peoples
eyes; it protects all but the very
crookiest knees. Of any faded
philosopher has found way OF
maintaining the level of his knees,
wish he would tell me the trick.)
With collars I contrive very sue.
cessful thrift. India-rubber and
bread crumbs are fine restorers. Be
sides, in this New-year light, gentle
dubiousness passes as merely an au'
tumnal shadow. Ny unfortunate hab-
it of losing my right-hand glove has
been neutralized by carrying an odd
| left glove in the covered hand.
One of the chief expenses of my
extravagant old days was the pur,
chase of books Merely reading a
book is painful pleasure to me.
want to read no others. If book
isn't better than ever at its tenth
reading, it never was very good.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-05
JOHN A. HOLLAND,
The Greenwood Piano Map

The largest dealer in musical instrr
ments in Western South Carolina. Sells
pianos, self-player pianos, organs and
sewing machine. Reference: The
Bank of Greenwood. the oldest and
strongest Bank in Greenwood County
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-13
KEEP HEPBURN ON THE JOB

THE way to settle the street-cleaning
- business is to keep Donald M. Hep
burn at the head of the Street Cleaning
Bureau. He has already proved that he
is the right man for the job. He is in
terested in keeping the streets clean and
in nothing else. He has already told
more facts about the situation than are
palatabe to the contractors, and it is be-
lieved that he has more at his disposal
that will be equally distasteful to the
men who have been paid large sums of
money for removing the filth from the
highways.
If the need for Mr.. Hepburn's services
here were put up to Governor Sproul it
is probable that he could be induced to
release him from his agreement to enter
the service of the state on March /. But
even if the Governor would consent to
release him, Mr.. Hepburn's services can
not be retained by the city unless an ade-
quate salary is paid to him. 1t is pre-
posterous to expect an engineer of his
standing to work for $4O00\a year. He
has demonstrated his ability to save the
city hundreds of thousands of dollars
and he has only just begun to study the
problems of his bureau.
Director Winston, of the Public Works
Department, plans to appoint a commits
sion of experts to inquire into the worth
of the work done by the street-cleaning
contractors, and Chief Hepburns vigor-
Gus and fearless methods will be an in
valuable aid to such an inquiry. He is
rapidly accumulating all the facts. 1t
would be waste of effort to let Hepburn
go and then pay consulting engineers to
find out what he already knows.
1t appears imperatively necessary for
Director Winston to arrange to keep the
present chief of the Street Cleaning Bu-
reau on the job and to permit him to go
ahead with the work which he has begun
so we'll
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-13
ANYTHING is POSSIBLE

THOMAS A. EDISON, who said on his
l seventythird birthday that it was
possible that Marconi is correct when he
says that wireless electric messages can
be sent as far as Mars, did not make an
astounding admission.
No man of science at the present time
is so rash as to deny the possibility of
anything He may regard this, that or
the other as improbable, but so many
wonderful things have been done that
he keeps an open mind.
AS an instance of the once unbeliev-
able, Mr.. Edison has cited the audion in
vented by Lee de Forest, which is so deli
cate and responsive thabwhen a fly walks
over the transmitter the sound is magni-
fled to such an extent that it would shat
ter the eardrums of person listening at
the receiver. Now, suggests the electri-
cal wizard, if the men of the earth can do
such a thing what cannot the men of
Mars do, who are said to be as far su-
perior to us as we are to the chimpanzee
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-13

of life affected directly by the costs of
transportation.
The rational way to obtain better
wages for all the brotherhoods, if higher
wages continue to seem necessary, is
clearly suggested by Mr.. Atterbury and
other railway managers, who are prepar-
ing to put the rail lines on new basis of
efficiency.
1t is conceivable that we are approach
ing time in which the railroads them
selves may be made to produce additional
revenue by improved methods of opera
ton. Certainly the railroads ought to
do a larger business than they are now
doing. Constantly increasing rates have
diverted great deal of their business to
other channels. The trend represented
by climbing freight and passenger rates
and ceaseless demands from employees for
better pay is directly toward lessened
utility and general impoverishment of
the big lines.
The stimulus of change, the plans now
under way to extend railroad service
everywhere through cooperation be-
tween big\a little systems, and the in
dustrial activity that will follow after
peace is declared should bring new pros
perity to all railroads. So increases may
come naturally.
If increases cannot be pledged now the
brotherhoods and their leaders will have
to cultivate the sort of patience without
which most of US could not continue to
exist. The period of transition from fed
eral to private control will be a trying
one for those who control the railways.
The government cannot afford to compli-
cate the task by a surrender to any de-
mand not based upon logic and justice.
Talk of q general strike is folly. In the
last analysis it will not be interpreted as
an effort to club either the government
or the railroads, but as the attempt of a
wrong-minded union to wiring additional
money out of public whose present diff
culties are far greater than the diff
culties of those who are making the de-
mand.