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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-01-06
How Much Will 1t Yield,


unnecessary the surtaxes on in
comes, allowing flat rate to be
levied all the way up, and it
might even be sufficient to eX-
empt all incomes below $4,000,
S., 900, or even $4,000. The ex-
empted individual would still be
contributing because he would in
directly be paying the sales tax
on most of the articles he
bought, although it might not be
apparent to him.
AS to verification of what
would be raised by a | per cent
tax on turnover in this country,
a test is furnished by the ex-
ample Of France.
A tax of | Ito per cent was
levied on all business turnovers,
and this tax went into effect on
July 1st Of this year. Most care
full estimates of the French sta
tisticians indicated that this tax
would obtain in revenue some
5, 4OO, 100000 francs. Unofficial
reports of the first-month (July)
collections show that the amount
resulting was much in excess of
the estimate.
Some indication Of what am
cunt could be raised in this coun-
try by a tax on turnover of |
per cent may be deduced from
the careful French estimates. If
we take the total estimated to be
obtained in France, namely, s.
400, 100000 francs the equivalent
at the par Of exchange in dollars
would be 81 ,OS0.OOO,OOO. The rate
there is Ito per cent. At l
per cent the amount would ap-
proximate $l,OOO,OOO,O0O (S9S1,-
OOO.OO0).
Our population is some two
and one-half times as large as
that of France, but our turnover
in business would probably be on
a much larger percentage than
that of relative population. We
are nation of spenders com
pared with the thrifty French
people, and our business turn
over can safely be estimated as
four or five times as large, if not
more.
This would give a revenue in
this country on a ! per cent tax
on turnover of from a minimum
of two and half to three billion
dollars up to from four to FIVE
billions and even larger sum.
| have found in the course of
a very large correspondence on
this subject that the impression
prevails in many quarters. espe-
cially in Washington among le-
glslators. that the tax on sales
here proposed means tax on re-
tail sales to be paid by the con-
sumner.
We can not too widely educate
people out of this idea.
The tax on retail sales paid by
the consumer is the most disturb
ing, irritating. and altogether I'M
popular method of collecting
taxes perhaps ever invented. II
is the mustard gas of taxation.
1t is illustrated in the soda-wa-
ter tax. where. for every l5-cent
drink. the public has to get a
little pink ticket and pay two
cents more for ia most out
rageous tax: over l3 per cent
but the annoyance is almost
worse.
This does not describe the tax
on gross sales. or turnover. In
this turnover tax. the seller. not
the buyer. pays. This is the way
it would work:
The merchant or seller would
take from his books once a month
the total amount Of his sales and
forward the statement to the
collector with his check for per
cent Of such sales. This would
be the method all along the line.
So you will see that the retail
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-01-06
Senator Reed In Auto cr,.h

WashingtoE-Senator James A. Reed
OF Missouri escaped with only q shak.
ing up when his automobile collided
with trolley car in front OF the New
Willard hotel. The automobile was
eighty damaxed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-01-06

Chile Denies japanese Alliance.
Santiago. Chile-Luis Aldunate Ech.
everria. the foreign minister. issued a
statement denying rumors regarding
an alliance between Chile and japan,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-01-06

Bare clothes
thousands of children
Poland
10 ha end
when Herbert
American Relief Administration the
Committee (Qakers)
Christ in America the Jewish Joint
Columbus the T. NJ c. A. A. havede
to raise $33OOOUU to help m. 'o""
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-01-06

published in Pictorial Review
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-01-06
Why Not a Fair and Square
Simple System of Taxation?
By WILLIAM C.. CORNWELL

An Address Before the National Association of Colt
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Hays Out to 'Humanize7
Postal Workers. Tasks
New Postmaster General Writes
100000 Employees They Are
Partners i'm Public Service

From The Irt5u..e's Washington Bursdx
WASHINGTON, March o-Postmas-
ter General Hays sent to-day to the
more than three hundred thousand en-
ployees of his department a message
promising to humanize the tasks of the
employees by putting heart" into their
jobs.
"The postal establishment is not an
institution for profit or politics; it is
an institution for service, and it is the
Presidents purpose that every effort
shall be made to improve that service"
said the Postmaster Generals message
Every effort shall be exercised TO
humanize the industry. Labor is not
commodity. That idea was abandoned
1921 years ago next Easter. There are
three hundred thousand employees
They have the brain and they have the
hand to do the job we'll, and they shall
have the heart to do it we'll. We pur-
pose to approach this matter SO that
they shall be partners with us in this
business. 1t Is a great human institu-
ton, touching every individual in the
country.
Il know that with three hundred
thousand men and women pledged to
serve all the people, and honestly dis
charging that duty. fairly treated and
properly appreciated, all partners with
us here in this great enterprise, we
can do the job. It's going to be done"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Harding Defers Choice
Of Philippine Governor

FROM Tho Tribune's WASHINGTON Bureau
WASHINGTON, March Until
Major General Leonard Wood com
p'etes his investigation Of Philippine
affairs and flies his report and recon
mendations with Secretary of War
Weeks no selection of Governor Cen
eral will be made, the War Secretary
announced to-day
THE Governor General Of the Philip
pines Will not be selected until late
IN the summer Secretary Weeks said
Il want to get General Woods report
before deciding on the appointment.
Charles f. Yeater, the Vice Governor
is serving as Acting Governor Gen,
eral'
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Men Offer to Take
jersey Central's
IOU's for Paw
Former Elizabethport Shop
Workers, Hearing Road Is
Unable to Secure Funds.
Decide to Wait for Wages
Sneciol Dispatch to The Tribune

ELIZABETH, n. j.. March ga
committee of railroad shopmen former
ly employed by the Jersey Central
Railroad told representatives of the
local Chamber Of Commerce here to-day
that the 1900 idle employees of the
Elizabethport shops of the Jersey Cen
tral Railroad have decided to extend
credit to the road for their wages. The
committee said that the men mad de-
cided to accept 0 US for their pay
# the company will reopen its plant
here and discontinue contracting for
repair work outside of Elizabeth
The shopmen's committee, il was
said, has been instructed to draw up IN
agreement embodying this PROPOSAL and
submit il Immediately TO Charles A.
Chamber superintendent of motive
power of the Jersey Central.
The reason for the recent shut
down in the repair shops of the rail-
the road to secure funds to pay its
men. All necessary repair work, it was
learned, was being sent to the Baldwin
Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, to
the American Car and Foundry Com
pany and to other repair shops. On hear
ing this the men who were formerly
employed in the local shops of the
Jersey Central voted to accept the
] o Us OF the railroad company
until such q time as the financial corr
dition of the road would warrant meet
ing them. They stood opposed, how
ever. to the reduction in hours and
number OF days week OF employment,
which was the alternative suggested
by officials Of the railroad
When the credit proposal was
brought 10 the attention of William G.
Bresler. president of the Central Rail
road, he said: The Jersey Central
will not give 0 Us. 1t will en-
deavor to come to an unders tanding
with its employees concerning rates Of
pay and working conditions, and il
possible to reach a fair understanding
whereby wages and working conditions
may be established on fairly COM
parable basis"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Taxes Forcing
Titled English
TOGO to ork
War Levies So Heavy They
Can No Longer Afford TO
Be Idle, Declares Harry
Gordon Selfrid g e
Urges Closer Relations
Speaks at Luncheon Given
in His Honor by the
Merchants of This CITY

Taxations due to the war are nress-
ing so heavily on members of the Eng
lish aristocracy that they no longer
can afford to be idle and, therefore.
are educating their sons to engage in
business, Harry Gordon Selfridge. the
originator of the American department
store in London. told a group of busi-
ness friends az a luncheon given in
his honor yesterday at the Hotel Bilt-
more.
Mr.. Selfridge declared that "snob-
bishness," formerly shown toward q
business career in England, was fast
disappearing. He cited instances to
show that titled Englishmen With vast
estates were finding that, because of
taxes, they are unable TO be idle as
formerly Even colleges were taking
friendly view toward educating young
men to be merchants, he said.
Wants Closer Relations
The luncheon was given by Samuel
". Reyburn, president of Lord & Tay-
lor and of the Associated Dry Goods
Stores. M. Reyburn said he heartily
supported q suggestion made by Mr..
Selfridge that merchants Of New York
and London establish closer relations
in the promotion of American ideas in
trade.
..until recently, as every one knows
the English gentleman was inclined to
look askance upon business" said Mr.
Selfridge. But these conditions are
now happily changing. The old-fash-
ioned shopkeeper with his narrow ideas
is becoming q broad minded merchant
| recently talked before a meeting OF
the head masters of some of the
schools and was delighted to observe
with what enthusiasm they greeted my
remarks that the English boy should
be educated with view Of his coinp
into business.
The fact is that taxes are so heavy
now few people can afford to live idly
on their incomes from estates. In two
or three generations they would fine
that their estates had disappeared. Ths
result Is that they are gradually going
into business. The old snobbish feel
ing about trade. which began when
George L came to England, is disap-
pearing. The spirit Of Elizabeth's
time, when the adventurous English
merchants risked their fortunes anc
lives to expand British trade, is re.
turning, and now, as then, the flag is
following the trade
Guests at Luncheon
Mr.. Selfridge said he hoped New
York merchants would make his Lon.
don store their headquarters when ir
Europe. His establishment, he said
was always at the disposal of those
who wished to promote more intimate
contact between business men in New
York and London.
The guests a the luncheon were
Thomas Cochran, Of J. P. Morgan &
p c.; W. d. Ager, general manager
Harrods, North America; C. P. Perrie
L.rd ( Taylor; Louis Stewart sr., pres
ident James McCreery & Co; G. F
Kunz, vice-president Tiffany & Co.; R
NJ. Stauffen, treasurer Associated Drv
Goods Corporations c. J. Dunn, Lord &
Taylor; A. c. McMaster, Weep president
L'rd Taylor; +. 7. Lewis, Lord &
Taylor; 7. ?. Tracy, Lord e. Taylor;
J. Straus, president r. H. Macy &
Co; c. A. Gould, president Hahne &
Co.; D. H. Cowl, James A. Hearn &
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Held in $4,000 Bail on
Grand Larceny Charge
Railway Association Bookkeeper
Is Said to Have Embezzled
COMMANDS Funds

William Owen Gibson. thirty-one
years old, OF 209 Underhill Avenue,
Brooklyn, a bookkeeper, employed by
the American Electric Railway Asso-
citation, with branches throughout the
United States and New York Office at
. West Fortieth Street, was arrested
r Detective Thomas J Ford,
OF the West Thirtieth Street station,
vain grand larceny by Philip H
Gadsden, president Of the association
Magistrat Joseph Z. Corrigan, of the
West Side court, held him in $4,000
bail for trial in General Sessions.
Gibson is alleged to have cashed q
comDanv voucher for $500 at the
Guaranty Trust Company, saying the
money Vas to be paid to an offce ex-
pert in *he Washington Office of the
concern. Gibson is said to have later
confessed embezzlement of This and
other moneys to Gadsden. Gibson is
himself an efficiency expert. He had
been employed in the Washington office
for three years.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
10000 Dress Workers
Strike in $50 Shops Here
Garment Makers Ask S25 Mini
mum Wage and Reaffirma-
ton of Agreement

More than ten thousand misses and
ehildrens dress workers went on strike
yesterday in response to call issued
by the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union. About two hundred
and fifty shops in New York. Brooklyn
and Brownsville are affected. The work
ers demand reaffirmation of the old
agreements between the employers and
the union, minimum wage of s25 a
week and reestablishment Of the old
wage scale.
According to Sol Seidman, vice-presi-
dent OF the garment workers union, in
charge OF the strike. the employers cut
wages about six months ago from SIS to
$40 week. The workers demand that
this decrease be recalled. According to
Mr.. Seidman, about 80 per cent of the
employers already have made applica-
tion for settlement with the union.
settlement headquarters will be opened
by the union Monday morning at
Cooper Square nvtel.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Cherrie Back With
1000 Birds; Tales
Of Head Hunters
Natural History Museum Elk.
pedition Finds Primitive
Race in Ecuador: Gets a
Big Scientific Collection

After an eight months expedition in
Ecuador H. E. Anthony and George X.
Cherrie, of the American Museum of
Natural History, have returned with a
large collection of 1000 odd birds and
nearly 1000 mammal skins. A few
species are believed to be new to
science.
AT the Museum yesterday Mr.. An
rhony, who is the associate curator of
mammals, explained that the expedi-
tion was undertaken for research pur-
poses and that most of the work OF
collecting specimens was done among
the Jiavro Indians, one of the few re-
naming tribes of head hunters" in
South America.
He said that these Indians have been
visited by white men before, but still
live as did the Indians Columbus
found. They are a polygamous people
and look down on the "Christianos,"
as they call the white men, because the
latter do not take more than one wife
at a time.
Most Of their head hunting, Mr. An
thony said, is due to desire for the
other fellows wife. The habit is TO kill
the husband and take ali mis- wives and
children. The husbands head is then
removed with an unpleasant looking
knife, slit open IN the back so that the
skull can be removed and sfilled with
hot pebbles and sand and sewed up.
The stuffed head is then treated with
dye, which converts the copper color
OF the dead husbands face to swarthy
brown. When finished the head is about
one-third the original size and is hung
on the wall with the other lifelike por-
traits in the conqueror's collection.
lnfdelity is a terrible crime among
the Jiavros. The suffrage movement
has made no progress among the Jiavro
women, who are still in comparative
slavery. Their place is strictly in the
home, and if they are caught wander
ing outside it with a man they are un-
kindly treated. The first offense is
usually punished in this interesting
fashion: The husband takes the same
unpleasant knife, which is a huge af-
fair and chops at the crown of his
wife's head until she drops unconscious.
Mr. Anthony said that many Of the
women are dreadful to look at, because
Of this careless treatment. The second
offense is greeted with a long lance,
which is stuck through the lady's legs.
she then being pinioned TO the ground
for a week or so.
There are no third ofenses.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Bar Society Assails Lands
Cleveland Lawyers Object 10
JUDGES Baseball Position

CLEVELAND, March 9.-The Cleve-
land Bar Association tonight adopted
q resolution protesting against Fede raj
Judge K. NJ. Lands accepting the posi-
ton of baseball commissioner. The
resolution, which. was drafted by for
mer Congressman Paul Rowland, Of
Ohio, declares Judge Landis's action is
inconsistent with the full and ade-
quate performance Of his duty as q
Federal Judge, and that it CONSTITUTES
a serious impropriety" on his part.
The resolution indorses the report Of
the Congressional Sub Committee on
Judiciary, to which was referred i'm
parchment charges against Judge Lam
dis, filed by Congressman WeIty, Of
Ohio, and "favors the fullest and most
thorough investigation. to the end that
the high standing Of the Federal ju-
dietary may be maintained.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Ice w a9ons
in China

AT home or abroad the Aneri-
can must have ice"-nust have
it delivered to his home. SO
there are ice wagons in China
appropriately drawn, says an
American resident, by coolies.
Coolie delivery may be all right
in China. but the American, in
Americas biggest city, demands
the quick. regular service made
possible by Knickerbocker's
hundreds Of horses and speedy
auto trucks.
KrIckerbocksr Ieliverr ics 10 your
home or Place Of 5t45tre5s zcith sueh I'M
form reguiarity "you can almot ses
your elock By the dr,scY'5 arrlsdl."
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Boy Robs Bank of $4,384
Alleged Gambler Arrested After
Clerk Tells of Losses


HARTFORD, Conn, March s.-Leo
L. Boutillier, seventeen-year-ol clerk
in the Fidelity Trust Company here,
told the police when arrested to-day
on charge of embezzling s4,384 OF
the banks funds, that crapshooting and
other forms of gambling had caused
him to steal. One man was taken into
custody as result of Boutillier's con-
fession regarding certain gambling
orgies in which large su.us are said to
have changed hands. State Attorney
Alcorn announced that others would be
arrested.
After Boutiller's confession, It was
said that the proprietor of small
grocery in the south end of the city
reported that he had lost $4,000 in a
crap game at the same place where the
former bank clerk is alleged to have
lost funds
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
$50 Added to Police Force
Many Graduates of Training
School Go to Traffic Squad

SIX hundred and fifty new patrolmen
we're added to Commissioner Enright's
'oFce last night. with the graduation
u the March class Of the police train
.ng school in exercises at the 69th
Regiment Armory. 1t was announced
az headquarters that a large part of
ene new increment will be used in
augmenting the detective bureau staff
aiG hlllng up various traffic squads
me detective bureau now has $50
operatives and forty-three new men
VIII be added, while the present traf-
ac force, numbering 831 men will be
.hlcreased by 1877. The new men on
'ne "a traffic squad will be apportioned by
~oding twenty men to Traffic A, Four
zenith Street to the Battery; forty
e,ght men TO Traffic y, Fourteenth
o'reet to Sixtieth Street; fifteen men
20 Traffic G, Sixtieth Street to the
AorIhern 80 boundary; thirty-three men
% traffic d, comprising all Brooklyn;
= scur men to Traffic E. comprising ali
sgueens, and five men to Traffic f, the
bronx.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Baker Made Reserve Colonel
Former Secretary Asked Weeks
for Appointment in Corps

From The Trtbunes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March e.-Newton D.
Baker, former Secretary Of War, was
to-day rendered commission as colonel
in the officers reserve corps in the
Judge Advocate Generals Department
by Secretary of WaI John w. Weeks.
Upon his retirement as War Secre-
tary Mr.. Baker informally advised Sec
retary Weeks that he would appreciate
an appointment in the reserve corps.
Mr.. Weeks assured him that his ap-
pointment would be one Of his earliest
official acts.
Acceptance by Mr. Baker of the com
mission enables the War Department to
call him into active service at any time
within the next five years in the event
OF an emergency. The commi ssion like
wise makes him subject to call for
training. When he is thus called into
active service Mr.. Baker will receive
the salary of colonel. While on the in
active list no pay IS authorized
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Manufacturer Is Slain
While i'm Woman's Attire
St. Louisan Mysteriously Killed
While Seated in Auto in
His Garage
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ST LOUIS, March 9.--Frank c.
Herbst, wealthy president of q store
fixtures manufacturing company, was
shot and killed late last night while
he was sitting at the wheel Of his au-
tomobile in gasage at the rear of his
home He was dressed in woman's
clothing at the time OF the shooting.
The police are working on the theory
that Herbst may have been mistaken
by the murderer for Arthur F.
Lapierre, president of the Lyre-Ol la
Manufacturing Company. Herbst had
purchased Lapierre's home and auto
mobile only five days previously and
had just moved in. Several persons
have been arrested in connection with
the case.
One Of the two bullets which struck
Herbst passed through the corset he
wore and lodged in the right lung.
The other struck his right arm. A
third shot struck the automobile body.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10

the Gray Motor Corporation and the
manufacture Of cars to be sold at
about 81 800 will begin at once. It is
the expectation Of the officers Of the
company that cars will be placed on
the market this summer or in the fail
at the latest.
Mr. Klingensmith Will be the ppesi-
dent, Mr.. BealI president and gen.
eral manager, George H. Kirchner.
president Of the First State Bank.
treasurer, and J. 3 Moran, secretary
and assistant treasurer
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Former Ford Official
Heads Ne,u Auto Firm,
SPECIAL Dtspatch to TIE Trih,ln. .

DETROlT, March 8. Frank L.
kilngensmitn, recently resigned from,
the Ford Motor Company: Frank F.
seal, former vice-president of the
!. rackard Motor Car Company, and Will
liam A. Blackburn, former factorv
manager OF the Cadillac Motor car
Company, announced to-day thew had
organized new company for the man
ufacture of automobiles in Detroit.
The new concern VIII be known as
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
4rmour Denies the Packers
" ould Welcome q Strike

CHICAGO, March "a statement
denying charges that the packers
would welcome a strike as a means Of
gettlng rid OF accumulated products
which now were in storage" was issued
'o-day by j. Ogden Armour, president
Of Armour & Co.
The charges were made yesterday by
Dennis Lane, secretary Of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Work
ers Of North America, in commenting
On wage reductions announced by the
packers.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10

pr. Royal s. Copeland, City Health
The gentlemen doesn't know what
ne Is talking about when he says the
rent laws apply to new houses. If the
city can build houses for monkeys in
Bronx Park 1t can build them for
babies and people as we'll. The de-
cislon IN the Court Of Appeals fully
vlndicates our efforts to relieve the
housing shortage"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10

Sen; s. #. Rothschild, Abraham l.
ss.raus; BENJAMIN Stern, vice-president
stern Brothers; Philip James, Mar
snail Field & Co; c. r. Shipley, vi,e-
president Lord g. Taylor; Russell A.
Brown, Lord e. Taylor; Louis Stewart
Jr, treasurer James McCreery & Co;
Z, v Silverthorne, James McCrecry g.
Co.; E. L. Hengerer, president William
president Franklin Simon & Co.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-10
Japanese Cut Shin Wages

Japanese unsubsidized shipping COM
panies are reported to have abolished
all seamen's war bonuses and to have
reduced wages on the fiat rates by from
20 to 80 per cent. Aay men objecting
have been dischargec knd replaced by
scamen, Gf whom large
numbers are available.