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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-22

secure as far as he himself is con cerned and is not deeply affected by the criticism of the people. There fore, he goes into the problem with out consideration of himself He would reduce the rate on incomes above $75,0o0 to prevent investments in nontaXable securities. He would Increase the rate on small incomes. He would impose sales tax. He would impose a stamp tax He would increase the rate of postage.
 But the Congress knows that every man who licks a stamp damns the party which forces him to do so And Congress knows that the people would wipe out of power the party which relieved the man of large in- come and burdened the man of small income And Congress knows just how unpopular sales tax, tax on consumption, which leers into the face of every housewife as she does her daily marketing, would be- come.
 To JuRgIe Figures
 IL is a safe guess, therefore, that the revision of the taxation scheme will be political. It will result in
 
 relief of the burden.
 There will be no sales tax and no stamp tax The rate on the incomes of the rich will not be reduced; the rate on the incomes of the poor wil not be increased.
 The excess profit tax will most likely be discarded. It can be dis carded in safety because excess profits this year will yield only small proporA Aon of the sum yielded in previous Years. To make up TOT whatever loss is thus suffered the government. in all probability, will deprive corporations of their $2,0oo exemptions This would impose an extra burden on each corporation Of only SS0 per annum. But there are nearly 200 900 corporations in the United States.
 G. 0. P!s Responsibility
 The republican party cant reduce taxation at the present time. No other party could But the republican party is in power, and the people expect IL to relieve the burden in accordance with it's prediction promises.
 MT Melons programme would in crease the burden, temporarily. He contends that if the additional bur den is accepted, things would soon so adjust themselves that business would permanently improve, and the era of prosperity return. But the pol iticians have themselves to look out fer, and it is safe to predict that Mellon will rot have his way, and that the juggling scheme will be in- augurated.
 There might be partial rehef from soda water taxation. But even this concession would be followed by ar additional infliction, probably on l1:xuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-22
REPUBLICANS MADE PROMISES WITH NO IDEA ID CARRY OUT
Will Be Taken to Task for Lack of Achievement Within Period of
 One Year
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The Age-Herald
 60O Davidson Building

Washington, July -(Special)- The party charged with responsibility for legislation is always a troubled party. The republican party, hay ing the responsibility in the most un- settled, perturbed period of this na- tion's history since the civil war, is especially distressed.
 Its poignant anxiety is emphasized by the promises that it made during the presidential campaign, promises which 1t cannot fulfill, and the knowl- edge that 1t will be taken sharply to task for it's lack of benefcent achievement with in the short period of one year.
 Up to the present in this extraor- dinary session the republican party has done little, and nothing to i'm prove the economical condition of the country Il is beginning to realize that in the matter of the tariff and tax revision it has set itself task most difficult of satisfactory compile tion.
 The Tariff Difficulties In the matter of the tariff the re- sponsible leaders of the republican party know that in this stage of the WOAA0 iCSOFtiS lOAAcW eAAN W VI ~ war it cannot intelligently prepare permanent measure of custom duties either for protection or reve- nue. This country and all other countries of the world are unsettled and perhaps unstable. | The pendency of the tariff bill in the House revealed sharp division re- garding the rates on lumber. Presi- 1 dent Harding, because of American oil interests in Mexico, protested against the proposed rate on oil, The measure is now in the finance com niittee of the Senate. It is cer- tanty that it will be rewritten. Its | enactment is a matter for NoVem- 1 Der, and possibly for January next year.
 The great difficulty confronting the republicans IS the fact that ba- rons of protection fh the present are practically free traders. Big bank CTS do not want tariff because II was by permitting Europe freely to trade that they expected to recover their loans. Exporters are more Vl- tally concerned in the present in finding new markets than in protec- | tion.
 The Mellon Programme Regarding tax revision there is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-22

Your precious marriage portion hundred dollars! A paltry hundred dollars!-Confound your guardians impudence" He crumpled Up the check and hurled it to the floor. Tomorrow (ConclusionJ Mary is
 Lucky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-22
FOREIGN POPULATION
 OF BIRMINGHAM

Washington, July 21.-(Special.)-- The bureau of the census, department of commerce. made public today statement showing the distribution of the foreign-born white population by country of birth for Birmingham as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-22
AtCupid'sCal
 By MA Y CHRISTIE
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure Newspaper
 Syndicate
CVII-Overreached

AseEierad enjoyed the At Cupids Ca by May Christie will be glad know that another May Christie will start n Monday
 The title of "The Disturbing Kiss" It de- hghuy interesting and spirited tale of Natalie Dueane and oldir Maurice DAnby Their adventures have been the that has written by the gifted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-22
The Mellon Program,he

Regarding tax revision there IS sharp difference between the Secre- tary of the Treasury and the Con sress. MT Mellon is one of the rich est men in the United States. He Is
Evening star., 1921-12-02
BlAMES MAN ALONE
FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
Commander Evangeline Booth Says
Inhumanity to Fellows Is
Real Cause.

Blame for unemployment and for
hard times rests on man alone. Com
mander Evangeline Booth Of the Sal
walton Army said today, discussing
| the general topic of Unemployment
now before the sessions of the an
i nual congress of the eastern terrific
rial division of the organization.
The worlds trouble. she said. Is
traceable to nothing more or less than
mans inhumanity to man."
1.-The crops grow just the same.
she continued; 1.-The rains fall. the
needed SHOWS come. the mines give
up their ore and the cattle dot our
hills-just az of old. Never has God
or nature ceased to bestow the bless
ings that come from the earth.
Honest differences Of opinion can
be settled without disturbing the ma
Chinery of progress. Differences due
to unreasnnableneSs never can lead
to anything but disruption.
".et us come to understand each
..tser better. let us in the light of
honest reason practice teamwork. the
li,e-giving grease on the worlds axis
then unemployment ana hard times
will be no more.
Commander Booth expressed the be-
lief that the very worst of the un-
employment situation has passed. but
makes the point that the resumption
of manufacturing and Industrial ac-
tivity will come too slowly to meet
the needs of the very poor this win
ter.
Hunger cannot be dealt with
through slowly improving condi-
tions," she said. "but must be met and
satisfied today and reasoned with to-
morrow.
"Therefore. while reports reach us
Evening star., 1921-12-02

this lot. Every new rough or
smooth finish wool material is
shown, as well as silk plush. Some
extensively fur trimmed; some
richly embroidered others braid
finished. Majority silk lined
throughout.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
BLAINE REPUBLICANS
EXPRESS THEIR LOYALTY
Invincibles Attend Session. at
Florida Avenue Baptist
Church.

1--WE are here to give reassuring
proof that we are ever ready 10 faith
fully and honestly discharge our OBJ
legations to our government and to
do everything possible to assist the
administration in meeting the many
problems that confront it,, Francis
Wells. president of the Blaine lnvln-
chile Republican Club, said last night
at the convention of colored people
from various parts of the country
being held in the Florida Avenue
Baptist Church.
This convention is being attended
by colored men and women. many or
them prominent in republican politics
in various sections of the country. II
is being held under the auspices or
the Blaine Inviucibles, and its nnai
session will be held tonight.
Prominent among the out-of-town
delegates to the convention are H. G.
Burdett and Jerry Hawkins. VINO
head the Maryland delegation: Prot:
witherspool and Oliver r. Rogers OF
New Jersey: Prof. A. {. Capes or
Georgia William II. Sheldon OF New
York and j. NJ. Anderson of Ohio.
The convention will be concluded
tonight with the reading of reports.
Those who will address the final ses-
sion. besides President Wells. Will
be Bishop l. N. Ross. Mrs. Julia Ma
son Lavton and Rev. j. l.. :. Hollo-
man. The speakers at last nights
meeting were Prof. John r. Hawkins.
John w Lewis. Rev. Henry j. Calls,
Rev NJ W. u. Norman and Mrs. Marie
Madre Marshall
Evening star., 1921-12-02

that business is repiving and facto-
ries resuming. we realize the turn in
the tide will not come fast enough to
relieve us from the pressure which
this long enforced fdleness has put
upon us throughout America. How
ever. with the help of the ever r-faith
ful and patient public. we will. some
how, meet the issue"
Evening star., 1921-12-02

Ger L. A. Newfield. Miss Conway con-
suited physician a few days ago
about sore throat and he sent cul-
ture to the health office, which turn
ed out to be positive.
The house was placarded and dur
ing the day the health department
Evening star., 1921-12-02

street northeast yesterday after she
had been quarantined there for diph-
iberia.
A colored ambulance driver from
the health department located the
nurse at union station late yester-
day afternoon and took her to Provi-
dence Hospital.
According to Assistant Health Of1-
Evening star., 1921-12-02

received a request that the patient
be removed to hospital. DR.. New
field said that when the ambulance
reached the house Miss Conway had
gone out in violation of the quar-
antine regulations.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
BY BUD FISHER.

In view of the prevalence Of diph-
iberia in the city at this time. l do
not see how ! can overlook this viola
ton of the regulations when Miss
Conway recovers," said Health Officer
Fowler today.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
Last Years
Price, $3.50
2-Pants Suits
BOYS Mackinaw Coats

Heavy Winter d 4 ~
weight Coats. in n4SS
popular mackinaw
styles: made with big convertible
collars and breast and hip pockets.
to IL sizes.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
QUARANTINEIS IGNORED.

Court action may be taken by the
Conway, twenty -nine-y -year-old nurse,
who, the department charges. left
the home Of a relative at 22S 11th
Evening star., 1921-12-02
DIES AT 1O8 YEARS.

GAIESBURG, H.. December g.
Mrs. Martha Barbour. los years of
age. died here yesterday. She spent
her early life in slavery on West
Virginia plantation:
Evening star., 1921-12-02
Girls Serge Dresses
$2.85 to $6.98

Girls 4 to 16 years
Dresses of high grade
serge in all the new
novelty styles, in
Guiding MILDLY, mar
row belted. straight
line, embroidered and
braid trimmed.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
MARvELs OF THE WAR.

Nothing in the way of war story
that has come out of the late European
conflict quite equals the interest sur
rounding the why's and wherefOres of
the English fleet going out to meet the
German fleet in May, 1916. The war
had been on almost two years then,
and the Germans We're thought to be
completely bottled up by the English
blockade. Suddenly, however, the
news flashed over the world that there
had been great marine battle in the
North sea. The Germans had dared to
leave the Kiel canal and face the Eng
lish. At the moment the heart of the
whole world stood still awaiting re-
suits. After awhile the facts deyel-
oped that the English had won de-
cided victory. The event assumed
greater proportions when it became
known just how badly the Germans
had been whipped. But it has only re-
Gently become known how the English
fleet happened to be so closely on the
watch. 1t seems that a device had
been invented that made it possible to
locate the exact spot, geographically,
where a wireless message had originate
ed. The morning before the sea fight
the English had received wireless
flash sent from the German flagship,
and the device showed that she was at
certain spot in the Kiel canal. The
next morning the wireless showed that
the flagship had moved seven miles
into the North sea, and Admiral Jellico
at once gave Admiral Beatty orders to
move into certain positions with divi-
sions of his fleet, and soon after this
the battle was on. The whole story is
perhaps as romantic as any that the
war developed, though there are al
most certain to come some wonderful
stories not yet revealed about the way
the submarines We're put out of COM
mission. The man who predicted that
| science would win the war was not far
| from right.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
LOST BALLooNisTs FOUND.

If some well-infOrmed person would
tell the world what there is to be
gained by risking the lives of valuable
army officers in let-loOse balloon he
would be comforting a gift upon hui
manity which has hitherto not been
told. A balloon before the wind has
been loosed many times before the
three officers sailed away in early De-
cember, but aside from similar records
of temperature that have been gather
ed from captive balloons, little has
been added to science from that
source. 1t is pretty generally accepted
now that the dirigible is success
of a kind, and great progress has been
made in its construction in several of
the leading countries of the world,
Germany leading in that direction be-
fore the world-war. But dirigible
and the ordinary gas bag are differ
ent, and the latter without steering
apparatus is always more or less dan
gerous and has added little or nothing
of value to our stock of aeronautical
lore. Luckily the three men have been
saved after long air voyage in Il
gale to the foot of Hudson'S Bay.
They made the longest recorded vOy
age, and their experience was no
doubt dramatic in the extreme They
will be acclaimed popular heroes
when they finally get back to their
native land.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
PRESENT STATUS OF READING
IN AMERICA.

The nations librarians say the girl
of today is essentially 'lowbr0w.
She affects knee skirts, is pretty, wears
tortoise shell spectacles and converses
under high pressure, but the books she
reads-if any-are light stuff.
The young woman who is said to have
asked librarian for 1.-The Four Horse
men With the Erysipelas" and some
thing "jazzy" in the way of poetry re-
veals startling state of the feminine
mind, If she is typical of her sex.
Where are the young persons who dote
on feminism and digest weighty tones
having to do with. woman's larger
sphere of usefulness and world poll
tics? They must be somewhere, else
where would the clubs recruit their
new members?
War books are no longer in demand,
say the librarians They are gather
ing dust on the shelves, and no wonder.
The world is heartily sick of the war
and everything appertaining to it. Be-
sides, the war books worth reading
could be numbered on the fingers of
one hand. Works on spiritualism, Oc-
cultism and new thought are being
eagerly devoured. Bad cess to Sir
Oliver Lodge and Sir Conan Doyle |!
They have been instrumental in de-
throning the reason of many unfortu-
nate persons who had barely enough
brains as it was to get them through
life in decent fashion.
Fiction is not as much read as for
merly. War veterans are still calling
for useful books that will enable them
to earn living, but college students
are not reading much of anything ex-
cept their prescribed courses and the
newspapers. College life is now so col
orful, not to say complex, that the
young man or woman who occasionally
contrives to look into a text book or to
acquire a smattering of literature is
doing reasonably well.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
MR.. HARoINe's CABINET.

Mr. Harding is catching fits,"' so to
speak from many of his party organs
about his INDIGESTION regarding his cabi-
net. Most Presidents-elect have not
taken so long as Mr.. Harding has to
come to some sort of conclusion re-
gardng the mainstays of his cabinet.
Charles Evans Hughes, unquestion-
ably, has been approached on the place
of secretary of state, and he stated
i'm recent interview that he would
give the matter attention., or rather
consideration. Since then, however,
the situation has been considerably
muddled though the announcement of
Senator Penrose that the cabinet posi-
tons did not matter, meaning that the
senate and the President were all that
counted 1t is strange state of af-
fairs. Perhaps it does not matter,
though, after all. The secretary of
state is always amenable to the de-
sires of the President, and would not
take "a stand incompatible with his
purposes. But it will not be long be-
fore March rolls around, and at least
little while before that date we shall
know Who's Who in the Harding Cabi-
net. There was never moment in the
country's history when the best men
that can be found We're needed to man
the government. That much is certain.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
DECEMBER WEATHER.

While December was not record
breaker, the weather was away above
normal on several counts. The mean
normal temperature for December is
34.4 degrees The December mean
normal 1920 was 37S, nearly 4 degrees
higher. The humidity normal is 20
per cent, while December was dryer
with only GO per cent. The highest
temperature was 80 ON the 18th, the
lowest Is on the 26th. The highest
temperature for December of record
in the Weather Bureau was 6S, Decem-
Der %, 1891. The lowest was Ii below
zero, on the 18th, 1917. We all re-
member that cold weather. The wind
cavorted quite some this last Decen-
Der, reaching a velocity of seventy-five
miles an hour December from the
northwest There was an excess of
rain over normal of 1.64 inches. There
was snowfall of Is inches on the
26th-27th. The greatest twenty-four
hour snowfall in any December was
IA inches December 26th-27th, 1890.
There were six clear days this last
December, twelve partly cloudy, thir-
teen cloudy AS coal saver Decem-
Der was very accommodating.
These records are from the United
States Weather Bureau, to which the
world owes great debt of gratitude
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
the Cigarette

IF you are a cigarette smoker.
i and unacquainted with
Lucky Strike. buy a package
today, and find out for yourself
why they are so popular.
You will at once notice the
delicious flavor of Burley to-
bacco, delivered to you abso-
lutely fresh. It's toasted.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
ENFORCING PROHIBITION.

Gradually the lines are being drawn
on the illegitimate sale of intoxicants.
The government agents are still fool
ing themselves into the belief that
they can succeed in putting down the
liquor traffic. 1t is going to be an al
most impossible thing to do. The rem
edy is really worse than the disease.
Had the law undertaken to actually
regulate the sale of all forms of strong
and mild drink it would have been far
better. AS it is the law is openly vio-
lated and hundreds of millions of dol
in revenue lost When Maine was for
many years the only prohibition state
it was as easy to get liquor there as in
any other state. Up there they would
deny this, but it was fact, just the
same. The matter of sending men to
prison for violating the prohibition law
will not stop or even retard the sale of
liquor. Crime was never as rampant,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08

property and individual liberty, and
for discharging the obligations with
respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty
of Paris on the United States, now to
be assumed and undertaken by the
Government of Cuba"
Twice in the past has the United
States interviewed in Cuba. The Gov
eminent is not DESTROYS Of intervening
again, and would much rather see the
Cubans so adjust their present diff
culties as to render such a step un-
necessary. But i. the situation should
be reported by General Crowder as
warranting Intervention third time
there will be no effort on the part of
the American Government to dodge
its responsibilities in the matter.
There is every reason why the situa-
ton in Cuba should be Strengthened as
expeditiously as possible. There has
been an insistent complaint on The
pert of Americans. as we'll as Cubans,
affected By the moratorium and fear
that a revolution might be provoked in
Cuba If the uncertainty concerning
the result of the recent national cleo
ton in that country continues.
While it is asserted at the State De-
partment that this Government has no
intention of supervising the Cuban
elections at this time, it is not known
what the mission of Genera. Crowder
will bring to pass.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08

iieet, accompanied by staff OF Amcri-
can army officers.
There is every reason for believing
that General CrOwder is vested with
authority to intimate to the Cuban
President that It may become neces-
sary for the United States Govern
ment to intervene, under authority #
the Plat Amendment, unless the
present financia and political situa-
lion is quickly remedied.
The President, action was annOunc-
ed at the White House in this state
ment by Joseph +. Tumulty, private
Secretary to the President:
Upon Instructions of the President,
Major General Enoch Crowder has
sailed for Havana, Cuba, on the U. S.
5. Minnesota.
General Crowder goes to Cuba to
confer with President Menocal regard
ing conditions in Cuba. The moratO-
rum and financial crisis in Cuba con-
tinue, the solution of which appears
more difficult II account of the I'M
settled presidential election. con-
tiuation of the present situation would
prove most detrimental to the prosper
ity of Cuba and harmful to the rela-
tons between the United States and
Cuba.
"As this cannot but be matter of
the closest concern to this Govern
ment because of@the special relations
existing between the two countries,
the President has instructed General
Crowder to confer with President
Menocal as to the best means of
remedying the situation"
The special relations to which
President Wilson'S announcement re-
fers are covered in the so-called Plat
Amendment to the act of March 2,
1901, defining tn future relations of
the two countries, which provides:
"That the Government of Cuba con-
sents that the United States may ex-
ercise the right to intervene for the
preservation of Cuban independence
the maintenance Of a Government
adeulIata for tha nrOtection of life,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-08
CHURCH NOTICE.

On Sunday, January 9, at the morn
ing service of the Congregational
Church of Grantwood, the Rev. Mr..
Blum will occupy the pulpit as one
of the series of speakers under the
auspices of the Woman's Missionary
Society.
His subject will be, "The Open Win
dow and the Unlatched Door"
The next entertainment in the series
being given in the Congregational
Church will take place on Friday, Jan,
uary IA, the special attractions being
Al Baker. ventriloquist and magician
and Edith Beach, humorist.
Tickets can be obtained of any mem
Der of the Mems Club or Mr.. ]. II. Van
Wagner.