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The New York herald., 1921-08-14
OWN in Atlantic City the other day
a flying squadron of fifty United
States revenue agents swooned down

~ OWN in Atlantic City the other day
a flying squadron Of fifty United
- States revenue agents swooped down
upon the concessionaires of the famous
Boardwalk. They made arrests right and left
and when they got through announced that
40 per cent. of the venders OF ice cream,
soft drinks, cigars cigarettes and proprietary
medicines had been detected evading the
revenue laws. 1t was estimated that the re-
sultng loss to Uncle Sam aggregated several
hundred thousand dollars a month, and
many millions year.
The incident is cited in support of recent
statement to THE New York HERALD by Col
William Hayward newly appointed United
States Attorney for the Southern District
of New York, that the Government is losing
enormous amounts of money every day
through the petty peculatons and cheap
thievery of this class of revenue deadbeat
III connection with the running down ana
prosecution of, these petty evaders another
line of interest is opened to the effect that
the United States Attorneys office Is under
stated and underpaid.
But let the former line be followed first:
Revenue experts attached to the Office OF
David II. Blair Commissioner of Internal
Revenue in Washington, have estimated that
New York city should produce in luxury
taxes every month approximately $lo,ouu,oVV.
The average monthly collections are about
81, 500, 900, or $3,500,O00 short of what the
experts statistics based on collections from
other sections of the country indicate should
be produced.
1t is not, Col Hayward has observed since
assuming Office, that the proprietor of an ice
cream stand, drug store, haberdashery or
whatnot fails to collect the tax from the in
nocent customer. That he seldom fails to
do But the Governments loss accumulates
through the unscrupulous individual. who
having once collected the tax. puts 1t in his
own pocket and let's it go at that. Based on
the number of cases of defrauding the Gov
ernment of luxury taxes collected and the
proportion of instances in which Federal
Judges have imposed jail sentences Col.
Hayward has estimated that every minute
one of these tax dodgers spends in Jail Uncle
Sam saves about 100000 by reason of the
deterrent effect of the example upon others.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

That payroll shows:
/ Corporation Counsel. ................s1600O 900
2 Assistants at $40. 0.000............. 0,Oae'
Assistant. ..................... $500
6 Assistants at $500. 5000
5 Assistants at 81 900. O.............. 90. 600
5 Assistants at s6.500. 00.........,..,.. 80 500
3 Assistants at $50 0.........,....... is, ,00n
. Assistants at $500. ................. 49,500
S Assistants at SIS, 900. ........,....... 10000
7i Assts. ranging from s4,T50 to $3.50. .247 266
Likewise the current budget for lawyers In
the office of the District Attorney of New
York county shows the following:
District Attorney. y....,....,.,... $4,000
] Assistant. .................... 10000
I Assistants at 500 e.000.............. 10000
Assistants at $1,000. ...,........ $1,000
Deputy Assistants at $500. ......> 1900
Deputy Assistant. .........:.. 5000
11-Deputy Assistants at $4,000. ....... 49.50O
Deputy Assistants at $4,000. ....... 5000
Deputy Assistants at $500. ...... $4,000
Deputy Assistants at $3.50. $500
Deputy Assistants at S2,Ss0. 28,Oa0
Deputy Assistants at $4,000. .... e16s00
Total ...............-...... -..s275.s40
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
w THEREVER the young singer goes to
M perfect his or her art whether to
Milan Paris Berlin, London or

\" perfect his or her art, whether to
Milan, Paris, Berlin, London or
New York, the remark sure to be uttered
by the teacher is:
you have a fortune in your throat"
This is what Malibran's brother in law and
instructor told her; 1t is what PATHS father
said to his wonderful child to inspire her
with ambition to practise her solfegg: so
many times has 1t been used as q spur to
musical study that it may be called formula
of the teachers. From Garcia and Grisi to
Gali-Curci the formula has never varied and
cit should not vary, because cdeteris pdribus
it predicts truly.
OF perhaps half dozen singers who after
ward earned great fortunes the prediction
was not made, but quite the opposite Jenny
Lind made an unfavorable impression on the
Paris teacher whom she consulted at the be-
ginning of her career Lillian Nordica was
advised as Lillian Norton to attempt any
career rather than singing, and of Caruso his
first teacher said:
I'm four years, yes. in three, poor Enrico
will not be able to sing an audible motel"
Nevertheless this teacher hedged on his
own opinion by putting his pupil under con-
tract TO pay him large part of his earnings
for much longer than three years How
much the lamented tenor earned by his
golden voice in his twenty years of fruitful
singing may never be known. Even the
great fortune that he left may not be accu-
rately known and the sum total of his earn
ings will always be speculative.
Caruso Knew Each and Every
Cent, but Never Kept Accounts
Caruso himself knew to n soldi He did
not keep account books. but he kept every
thing in his head, and he could tell without
hesltating a moment what he had earned
in opera, concert voice record in any year
from 1900 TO 1920-21. Such accounts in the
class from which Caruso's phenomenal gift
raised him so remarkably, infallible.
If the figures generally accepted as cor
rect. 81 ,b00.0 900 for his residuary estate. are
so. then these figures moy he easily multi
piled by two in order to arrive at the
amount he earned In twenty years. Reports
OF the large sums he expended for works of
art, jewels and In charity are astounding
and in some instances are known to be
apocryphal, but the statement made that he
lived at the rate Of 500, 900 year is within
reason and probably true.
Caruso's friends who knew most about
his generous nature, free disposition of
money, never called him careless In his
treatment OF II or Indifferent to the good
things money can do; they are the persons
who estimate Caruso's yearly spending for
the last eighteen years at 100000 year
A fortune in his throat! Literally
But between what the worlds songbirds
earn and what they leave after the voice Is
stilled there is a wide gap The artist is
never (or seldom) provident and IL the long
list Of the most famous singers from Mario
to Caruso were to be scrutinized Ii would
be found that the example of the latter IL
exceptional. More great singers have died
in moderate circumstances. or even poor,
than have left fortunes behind them.
That this sober conclusion drawn from q
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
COMPARISONS of Salaries in
u. S. and County District

1T is impractieable to give precise data
upon the volume of work OF this office with
the volume of that in the offices of the Cor
poration Counsel of this city and the New
York county District Attorney; but our work
is lust as important as that In the other two
offices and the compensation is greatly dis
proportionate Both those offices are con-
Quoted in the immediate locality of this the
employees all live under the same conditions
and are drawn from the same sources OF
supply The Corporation Counsel does only
civil business for the city of New York. The
County District Attorney OF New York
county does only criminal business This
office Of course, does both civil and criminal
business and covers eleven counties. The
figures as to the number of lawyers and their
salaries in the three offices speak for them
selves"
Attorneys office as of July 26, 1921, showed:
/ United States Attorney. ........... $4,000
Assistant u. 5. Attorneys at $1,000. 1900
/ Assistant ". s. Attorney. ........... 5000
Assistant IT, s. Attorneys at $500. 1O,sOO
Assistant IT, 8. Attorneys at $500, 1000
% Assistants from $4,000 to s1,900... $500
Total .#s-'.'.. 'SlV-i'"V
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
BY Elimination Losses Are
Traced to the Small Dealers

Thus the bulk of the monthly deficit of
SS500 900 in New York city seems to be ac-
cumulated. according to Col. Hayward and
his assistants, through the failure Of the
small distributors of ice cream, soft drinks
and tobacco and the inconspicuous dealers in
other luxuries to make proper returns to the
Government.
1T seems difficult to imagine" Col. Hay
ward said, that the pennies stolen from the
Government by the soda fountain owners
would amount in the. aggregate to such a
large sum until one sees the brazenness
with which the thing Is worked. 1T is hard
practically inpossible--to catch them unless
we were to station Federal agent at every
suspected soda fountain to. count the money
as It comes In, and that, of course is
impossible.
'I can sympathize with the man who tries
to cut down his income and excess profits
taxes TO a minimum. But consider man
who charges n shopglrl a 2 cent tax on Is
cent soda and then never turns the amount
over 10 the Government the lowest type of a
thief That Is not tax evasion. 1t is plain
ednbeZzement-theft.
"The man who does that is not taking
anything OF consequence away from the rich
person alone but Is grasping al the throat
OF every American citizen who patronizes his
fountain by forcing other taxes higher The
effect OF this on the working man is obvious
II compels him 90 forfeit more of his pay.
1T is for this reason that we are asking
the Federal Judges to give this type of
soallawag a good stiff prison sentence every
time we convict one This is the only way
to stop them. A man will bet thousand
Dollars he steals from the Government
against his chances OF being caught and
thousand dollar fine. But he won't bet IL
against thirty day prison sentence.
IT these sort of public grafters draw only
fines they can step out of court and make
the fine up in month. But IL they were
made to sit In jail for n spell and think 1t
over-well, the Government might be able to
let up some on the amount and number of
these obnoxious taxes brought about by the
war"
Col. Haywards advocacy of prison sem
tences for tax evaders opened the question of
what proportion of convictions he and his
assistants got in the cases that were brought
to trial.
Good" exclaimed the prosecutor, but
that leads TO something that has been
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

Within few weeks Col. Hayward ex-
poets to have ready for presentation to the
Federal Grand Jury evidence adduced before
the Lockwood committee indicating general
and widespread violation of the Federal anti
trust laws. He expects to get a great many
indictments and hopes to be able to bring
the cases to speedy trial, but here again he
is confronted with another probem-the
paucity of Federal Judges
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

While uniformly they go eventually to the
Appellate Courts-generally to the Supreme
Court-they go on records made by the regu-
lar members of the staff Of this Office"
In the same report Col. Cafrey wrote con-
cerning the admiralty division of the office:
AT present the District Court for this dis
trict has admiralty calendar larger than
any other court in the world. There are
more than three thousand cases on it. OF
these, those in which the Government Is con-
cerned are upwards Of 1000. (The figure
now is in excess of 1.2OOl. The amount in
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Col. Hayward Does Not
Pronounce Blanket Indictment

Col. Hayward does not mean to pronounce
blanket indictment against the large num-
Der of reputable business concerns which
have gone to considerable trouble and ex
pense to install reliable system of checks
and audts, both public duty and as
protection for themselves in the computation
of the amount they owe the Government on
account of the luxury tax. These are
numerous. Practically every reputable con-
Germ of any size has some such system in
operation. But it is the smaller itinerant or
less scrupulous individual who charges the
ice cream soda and drops 2 cents of the
purchase price into a tin box Labelled war
tax" and then empties the contents of the
box into his cash register before he counts
up at night that the Government is after.
The luxury taxes originate, for the most
part in business houses of standing and
reputation and the Governments loss in this
respect it is believed, is comparatively small.
There have been exceptions, of course-cases
where double sets of books have been kept,
one to show the Government and another to
record profits-but these have been few, and
where suspicion attaches it has been an easy
matter for the Government agents to in
vestigate. Similarly the amusement tax now
has become a simple matter of administra-
ton and collection. With the amount of the
tax printed on each theatre, baseball. opera,
racetrack and other amusement ticket the
public becomes, in effect auditor and the
checking up and collection routine matter.
The deficit between the estimates and the
amount actually collected from this source
now is small.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Contrasts Salaries of His Force With City's
Legal Staff and Amounts Paid to County
Prosecutors Office

In addition TO the above there are four
special assistants. employed on part time.
whose compensation Is determined by the
Attorney General.
A glance at the budget of the Corporation
Counsels office diseloses the margin of differ
ence In the compensation paid by the city as
compared with the Federal Government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09

with c. of E. ''Swede" Lindell. the
best Quarterback seen in Topeka for
years, was plotting the team. Mason,
Cossman and others of LindelPs kind
were in the lineup. Maj Harvey,
colored, was in the backfield.
The ball was kicked, returned and
Washburn entered play. On the first
play following the kickoff, Trun. a
sweet end, was put out of the game.
Knocked cold for an hour or two.
The accident seemingly took all the
fight from the Ichabods. Lindell
played the one poor game in his career
and the rest of the Ichabod stars were
negligible in their efforts.
Washburn lost the game.
And last year the two teams bat
tied to a 14-14 tie.
Early in the game McNair, fullback
for c. of E., grabbed a tumble on his
| own ten-yard line and raced the re
naming ninety yards for touchdown.
But Washburn was used to flukes
in c. of E. games and they didn't give
up. Last year the c. of E. men were
fortunate to escape with a tie.
But this ik 1921. The two teams
are evenly matched.
! Pittsburg defeated both teams, c.
! of Z. while she was crippled. and
| Washburn before her stride had beer
reached.
Friday will tell quite a tale.
| If Washburn wins, she can certainly
beat st. Mary's in the last conference
| game of the season.
If G. of Z. wins-we'd nearly be Sc
| bold as to prophesy a win for her over
the Emporia Normals on Turkey day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09

the exception of Sterling, whom they
play the week after Southwestern.
Kansas dopesters are looking for a
defeat for Hays.
The Southwestern men have plowed
thru hard schedule, with improve
ment all the time. They defeated
Friends and Sterling. and lost one
game TO each of the EmpOria teams.
let them tie with that college for sixth
place.
All of which points favorably to a
Southwestern victory over the ever
victorious Haysmen.
Hays is worried. The students and
faculty alike are entirely willing that
the Hays Normal school should win a
championship. But they realize the
game with Southwestern might cause
the hopes to go glimmering.
Sterling wouldn't be so bad. If they
can win over Southwestern the cham
pionship is fairly clear.
The game of second best imp0r-
lance is the Washburn-C College of EN-
poria battle Armistice day in Emporia,
We approach this subject with a
feeling of dread.
Like all Topekans, we want to see
Washburn win another championship.
Not only because we live in Topeka
and attended Washburn, but because
the Ichabods have staged a remarkable
come back from a violent slump. Their
return to form was a hard, long fight
but they made the grade, and sur
prised the entire state by defeating
| the heretofore victorious Emporia
/ Normals.
/ A lot of fans feel the same way the
colin does. not because of a prejudice
but because they admire the team that
will fight against Odds and win.
But the College of Emporia team
! is one of the most dangerous aggrega-
/ lions We know. They are as PREACHER
Gus as shifting sands when it comes to
spelling hopes for honors in football
DOM
That's the reason we approach the
game with dread.
Two years ago, Washburn invaded
Emporia with an almost clear stretch
for championship. The game was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09
COUNTY OFFICERS TO COME
Here Next Week for Annual Official
Council Meet.

There will be 1000 Kansas county
officials in Topeka next week to at
tend the annual meeting of the KAN
sas Official council November 16. II
and Is. There is a new organization
on the list this year. The eight Or
CARNATIONS which have composed the
council in past years included the
county clerks, county commissioners,
registers of deeds, district clerks,
county treasurers, probate judges.
county engineers and peace officers.
The new organization is made up of
probation officers
The county engineers association
will meet at the quarters of the
Chamber of Commerce, and the peace
officers in Memorial Hall The other
organizations viii meet in the state
house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09
FEWER CASES ARE TREATED
Public Health Nurses October Report
Shows Decrease.

There was a decrease of IA in the
number of cases under the care of the
Public Health Nursing association
during the month of October. There
were 1856 cases forwarded from Sep
TENDER, fifteen new cases were taken
during the month, 129 cases dismissed,
leaving total of seventy-twc patients
under the care of the nurses when the
month closed.
During the month of October the
Public Health nurses made a total OF
273 visits of all classified lions. There
were eighty-two nursing visits;
twenty-eight miscellaneous visits: 121
investigatiYe and instructive visits;
three visits to physicians offices, and
thirty-nine business visits
Six cases of tuberculosis were dis
covered among the thirty persons who
attended the free tuberculosis clinic
There were nine suspects, and fifteen
were returned. Four of the six cases
discovered at the clinic are now at
the city sanatorium.
The figures as given are taken from
the October report of Miss Mary Alex
ander, supervisor of the association,
made to the directors of the organiza-
ton in their regular monthly meeting
held this afternoon at the city hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09

We print it right here
that if you don't know the
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a joy'us jimmy pipe-GO
GET ONE! And-get some
Prince Albert and bang a
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For, Prince Albert's quail
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09

baker university, coached by Emil
Liston, will play the Emporfa Normals
saturday. in a game that might turn
another hope aside
The Baker men have not had an
exactly prosperous season, but their
losses have been by hairs, and their
wins big.
The Orangemen defeated McPher-
son, were defeated to by C. of E,
tied scorelessly with Pittsburg Nor
mails, and were defeated by a one
point margin by Washburn.
The Baker aggregation, altho hold
ing ninth place in the conference per-
centage column, is decidedly not a
weak team.
Their backfield, composed of Capt
Warren Rice. Bollinger and the two
negroes, Giles and Ted Wright, is a
good one.
What they can do with the Normal
ties depends in a large measure on
the lose to Washburn last week.
Morale has a lot to do with it
and if the "dobbers' of the yellow
Jackets" are down, Baker might have
a look-in.
Doc Garfield Weede has contract
ed for a hard weekend with his team
of scrappy warriors from Pittsburg.
The Normalites go to st. Marys
Thursday to battle the Catholics, and
return Friday to Plttsburg Tor game
with the Oklahoma State School of
Mines
weede didn't think he was playing
enough games in the home town for
the fans so he took on an extra game
just to make it interesting.
K. U. and the Aggies are facing
hard contests this week in Nebraska
and Ames, respectively.
Altho Nebraska had played only one
Valley game, she won it decisively,
and gained a place at the top of the
ladder. where the fans say she'll stay.
K. US next game following the Ne
braska struggle, is the famous con-
test with Missouri at Lawrence on
Turkey day.
The Aggies play Ames Friday at
Ames. The Ames men hold fifth place
in the standings. with three won and
two lost, while the Aggies are in
tight tie with Missouri at second
place. Both teams have won three
and lost one.
George Vandever. substitute center
on the Ichabod eleven, is quarantined
with scarlet fever on the third floor
of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house
He was taken sick Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09
KANSAS GAMES THIS WEEK
Friday.


washburn vs.. College of Emporia
at Emporia.
Kansas Aggies VS.. Iowa State at
Ames.
bethany vs. Mcpherson at Linds-
borg.
Fairmount vs.. Oklahoma Baptist
college at Wichita.
Hays State Normal vs.. Southwest
Ottawa q. VS.. Friends at Ottawa
Pittsburg NormaIs VS.. Oklahoma
State School of Mines at Pittsburg.
Thursday.
Pittsburg Normals VS.. st. Mary's at
Mcpherson VS.. Bethany at Linds-
borg.
Kansas University VS.. Nebraska at
Haskell VS.. Notre Dame at South
Bend. Ind.
Baker vs.. Emporia Normals at En-
poria.
The semi-finaIs are on. This week
will effectuaIly eliminate several
teams that have a chance, if ever sc
slight, at the conference title.
9fODdDly llle ulOoL 4iIpOl ldHL Z Lle
of the conference will be the Hays
Normal VS.. Southwestern conflict at
Hays.
The Hays men are as yet unde-
feated. They are the only team in the
conference to claim a clean slate in
the 1921 race. But they have played
only weaker conference teams. South
western might be termed the strong
est team they will meet. Beginning
at the bottom of the conference
standing list. and working toward the
top, you'll read the names of the
teams played by the Hays men, with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09

Prince Albert is sold In
foppy red bags, tidy red
fins, handsome pound
and half pound tin hui
T,7ioorS and an the pound
crystal glass hunidor
toith sponge I5lofste7er
top that keeps the to-
bGcco in such perfect
condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09
Presbyterian Conference starts.

Atlantic City, Nov. 9.-Virtually
every state in the Union was repre-
sented at the opening session today
of the national executive conference
of the Presbyterian church in the L.
5. A. at which the fixing of a financial
budget for next year will he the chief
business. The conference will con-
tinue until next "wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09
Buy a pipe-and some PA.
Get the Joy that's due you!

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on Vcry Hot Day

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