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Evening journal., 1921-09-07
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Excess-Pro6ts Repeal May
Be Retroactive to Last
January
MELLON FAVORS
THE NEW PLAN

WASHINGTON. Sept There is
a growing sentiment in the senase
finance committee 10 make the re-
peal OF the excess profits tax retire
active 10 last January /. instead OF
effective next January / az provided
for in the House revenue bill. Chair
man Penrose said yesterday in an
nouncing that the committee ex-
pected 10 complete today preliminary
consideration OF the House meas-
ure.
II is understood that Secretary
Mellon viii suggest retroactive re-
peal Of this tax when he appears
before the committee tomorrow TO
submit a written statement as TO
future government money needs.
Such repeal was provided for in the
tax bill as originally drawn by the
House ways and means committee.
but Republican members Of the
House voted in conference 10 post
pone the date TO January /. 1922.
I Members Of the Senate committee
are understood to take the position
that the Republican party made a
definite promise 20 repeal this tax
Immediately and that this Is set
lied pledge in the public mind. The
same position was taken by most
Republican members OF the House
committee. but Western representa-
tives led a successful fight for reten-
tion OF the tax for this calendar
year.
Treasury experts have estimated
that retroactive repeal OF this levy
would cut t45O.0Oo.0 900 from the
revenue total in the next calendar
year. making the income on the
basis OF the House bill s2.540. .00O.-
O0o for 1922. The House committee
also proposed retroactive repeal Of
! the income surtaN brackets In ex-
cess Of 32 per cent estimated to cut
an additional 10000. 900 from the
yearly revenue. This matter has
not yet been taken up by the Sem
ate committee, however.
A new feature in revenue legisia-
ton now under consideration by the
Senate committee would make pos
sible speedy refunding Of taxes i'm
properly paid Treasury experts have
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Evening journal., 1921-09-07

this country and England. Is derived
from Champagne and indicated one
who came from that section Of
France.
Copyright. 1921. by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
HITS MANNlSH VOICE
OF WOMEN IN POLITICS

CHICAGO. June 14.-It is not neces-
sary for women In public life to as
sumo masculine voices, Miss Degmar
Perkins president OF the National
Association for the Improvement OF
American Speech, said yesterday. Miss
Perkins is in Chicago studying pc
cnliarites Of language used In the
Middle West
Educated people, especially some
women in politics. seem to think
slovenly, slipshod speech 10 smart and
original. Women in public life do
not appear to realize that II Is not
necessary for them to assume mascu-
line voices
Miss Perkins. who Is a graduate OF
Bryn Mawr and a native New Yorker.
said she believed great good would
be accomplished through her organi-
nation. She said she found people
OF the lower walks more willing to
change their pecularities of speech
than the educated and socially prom
inert
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
HOT DOG" BARKING AT
CONEY ENDED BY STRIKE

NEW YORK, June 14.-Ccney Island
cause the thousands that flock to the
great playground to go hungry dur
ing their visit.
The cry of many vendors OF the
delicacy known as hot dog" may not
resound along the boardwalk for
members of the sausage suffers union
have decided that they will stun saus-
age eight hours a day and no longer,
while the employers insist they should
work ten at reduced wages. Confer
ences have failed to bring about an
agreement. The supply of hot dogs
was said to be sufficient for only one
days consumption.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
Percy Pollock a Bright Star
Glen Echo Park.

Old man S-l Care 10 having stren-
uous times these days trying to get
In hts heavy work with that big per-
centsge of Washington folks whs
have learned that q visit to Glen
Echo Park not only means pleas
ant outing but also provides the
easiest escape from the swelterfng
heat that finally arrived In the Dis.
trict.
This was especially true on Sunday
for Minister'S Band played to capacity
crowds both In the afternoon ana
evening for the attendance fgures
ran far up into the thousands.
After being closed as usual over
Sunday the ball room was again the
center of attraction last night. the
dancers being out In full force. The
moor was filled almost from the nrst
and ohemann's Jazz Jssters went the
limit in jazzing in response to re-
peated demands for encores-
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
B. r. kEITH'S--'
Vaudeville.

The bill at b. r. Keith's Theater
this week can be termed only fair.
Probably II was the intense heat
of yesterday, but the performers on
the program went through their
turns with very little life.
Henry santrey is the headliner, as
sisted by his syncopated band of
ten pieces. He gave long pro-
gram of songs accompanied by his
orchestra that was we'll received.
Al Lydell and Carleton Macy put in
a temperance in their favoritc
vehicle, ''Old Cronies." which gave
them many opportunities for ec-
centric comedy as two civil war
veterans.
Joe Rome and Lou Gaut, the
short and long comedians, were one
OF the hits of the show with their
comedy and acrobatic dancing. while
Emma Haig assisted by Richard w.
Keene. contributed dancing turn.
La Bilbianita danced several Span
ish dances with much grace. but
there was so much sameness about
theG that the speciality lost much
OF it's entertaining qualities.
Florenz Ames and Adelaide Win
throp presented burlesque on
marriage. the knighthood system of
old and types OF the early SOS In
their sketch, "Alice in Blunderland."
Mcfarland and Palace showed much
harmony in the singing of popular
songs and Jack HanIey opened the
show with his funny sticks.
Pathe News and Topics of the
Day completed the bill.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
Men Walk Backwards
After They Drink
Jungle Brew

CHICAGO, June 14.-American
home brewers, laboring with hops
and malt in dusky cellars or be-
hind drawn blinds, are the veriest
amateurs when compared to the
jungle natives of South Africa,
according 10 the Rev. William C.
Terrill, Methodist Episcopal mis-
sionary, of Johannesburg, British
South Africa, who is visiting Meth
odist headquarters here.
So skillful are the bush savages,
the Rev. Mr.. Terrell says, that
they can make alcoholic drinks
from practically anything that
grows in the jungle. Oranges,
lines, sweet potatoes, pineapples,
corn. casssva root and all kinds of
native fruits are turned into strong
drinks.
The compounds of the kitchen
distiller are mild alongside some
of the South African beverages.
The Rev. Mr.. Terrill described a
drink which reverses the motor
nerves, giving tipplers an irresist-
ible desire to walk backward, with
a carnival of ludicrous antics. The
liquor comes from the fruit of the
cashew tree. The abundant Juice
fernents in the sun within a few
hours, and the longer it stands the
stronger it becomes. When fer
mentation has gone far enough the
natives distill the product and OBJ
tain liquor with very high al
coholic content. as well as big
percentage of ammonia.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14


Mary Ryan. this newest play is really
an opportunity for as perfect bit
of character deIineation BY Percy
Pollock as one might wish. Ex-
celIence is ever it's own reason for
being, hence the presence of Mr.. Sam
born In "The Turn in the Road may
explain why this play is. lndeeo'
there is no other reason.
Mrs. Stanley, the widow OF Rev.
Eben Stanley, a fiinty New England
Methodist minister, Is facing the
world with two children and an In
come OF 500 year. The Rev. Eoen
would probably have said per
annum" Married at eighteen to a
man of forty, she had never really
lived.
Cooped up in a Methodist parson-
age, forced to regulate her comtngs
and her goings by the possibility OF
arousing small town gossip, she Is the
weak-spirited victim of her surround
ings and her tyrannous children. The
latter, raised in the same atmosphere.
may be pardoned for their narrow
ness.
Into this picture OF pettiness and
sorrow and grieving memories steps
Mr.. Samborn, Mrs. Stanleys father'
lie comes with lHV sps'N VI 'f'
own newmown hay. He at one sets
a new standard OF thought. He Is
not in chains. He never was. This
grieved his wife. who was largely IN
terested In her soul and blissfully
content when her daughter married a
minister old enough to be her father.
"S'pose she's In heaven now" muses.
old Samborn. well. s'pose I'm headed
<trsight fer hell's hre. oh hum" And
he winks.
Always did like terbaccer.- he con-
tinues, IAN cider-'specisily when It's
lust a wee bit hard. Your mother
rever could excuse that"
Tied TO a bleak New England farm,
Samborn has always wanted to travel
and see things. He wanted TO see
Lillian Russell. Niagara Falls, Palm
Beach, San Francisco, William Jenn-
ngs Bryan, New York and Billy sun
'ay. SO he goes to New York and has
he time of his life. missing Lillian
,usselI because she's married now
n keepin' house"
without Samborn, Nellie Stanley
would never have come out OF her sur
,ounding. as a darodiI from the hard
round TO greet the crocus' Prof'
Iiddings. OF Sinclair College. With.
,ut Samborn. The Turn in the Road
yould be a bioodless thing. limping
long to oblivion from birth. IL may
OF last long as IL Is, but II II does
amborn will be responsible, not
ellie Stanley
Percy Pollock's work from frst to
81 cannot be improved. He has the
cent and the msnnerisms OF the
ankee farmer to the last iota. He
-ovides the only matured humor In
e play. He Is the handspring Tor
II OF the action. once he appears.
,ellie Stanley. rescued from the
hades OF the departed, and almost
sainted, Rev. Eben. is in turn rescued
from the blighting effects as seen In
ber dear offspring" by Prof Giddings.
All ends happily--snd prettily, too.
But the one outstanding fgure In
this play is Percy Pollock's Mr.. Sam
born.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14

Sugar should never be added to
batter puddings before boiling or bak-
ing, as II makes them heavy.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
MIDDLEWElGHT CHAMPION
WINS SUIT FOR DIVORCE

BOSTON Mass. June 14.-Johnny
Wilson. midileweisht Champion Of
the world, whose right name Is John
T. Panica, Saturday won a divorce
from his wife, Elsie Panica- Judge
Fiynn granting the decree after a
s,ief hearing. The case was uncon-
tested.
Wilson named a Henry Hennessey.
Of New York, alleging he discovered
the pair in an apartment In Nsw York
earIy this year. The Wilson's were
n n.erried In New York In 1915.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
BURGLAR GETS 10000
AT VINCENT ASTOR HOME

NEW YORK. June 1.-THE Fifth
avenue home of Vincent Astor was
entered June I, in the afternoon, by
A burglar, who made away with
loot which was valued at between
$40. 900 and $4,000, 1t became known
to-day.
Jewelry and trinkets belonging
to Mr.. Astor. Mrs. Astor, and r. Pc
ters, said to be cousin of Mr..
Astor, we're taken by the thief
who entered the house by the serv-
ants entrance.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
NEWS OF ALEXANDRIA
AND NEARBY VIRGINIA

ALEXANDRIA. Va, June 14.-An-
nouncement is made of the marriage
of Mrs. Clara Virginia Quale and
Clarence f. Campbsll, of this city.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. f. B. Jackson at the parsonage
of the First Baptist Church last
Saturday.
K. B. Walker, circulation manager
of the Alexandria Gazette, who was
injured In an automobile accident
at Gettysburg, Pa. last Sunday has
returned to this city. Mr.. Walker
Is suffering from a sprained wrist.
In the corporation court, Judge
Robinson Moncure presiding, true
bills were returned by the grand
Jury yesterday in the following
cases: Thomas Baggett and An
tonia Lemeshewsky, alleged viola
tion OF the state prohibition law;
Joseph Jenkins. alleged malicious
shooting.
City Health Officer L. e. FouIkc
has issued a typhoid warning to
men and boys who bathe In the
river of this city. He cites tie
fact that all the sewerage OF wash
ington and Alexandria empty into
the Potomac.
A lawn party. which was given
yesterday by the ladies OF st. Rita's
Church on the lawn adjoining that
church at Mt. Ida Arlington county.
will be repeated this evening.
A meeting of Alexandria Lodge
No. 75s. b. p. o. Elks. was held at
the home on Prince street last eve
ming.
The Woman's Auxiliary to the
American Legion held a meeting a,
the rooms of the Chamber of Com
merce last evenins. The committee
having In charge the recent poppy
day made their report
At the meeting of Marley En-
!. o. o. r., held last
evening the second degree was con-
ferred on a large class of candidates.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
Sam Harris Makes Mistake in
Billing Mary Ryan as Prin-
cipal Performer in "The
Turn in the Road" Open
ing at National.
ByLoUIs ASHLEY.

Sam Fl. Harris presented "The Turn
In the Road" with Mary Ryan. at the
National last night. II Is new
comedy by A. E. Thomas, suggested
by a short story by Walter Pritchard
Eaton, and is staged by Sam Forrest.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
JOY OF FAMILY REUNION
is SADDENED BY DEATH

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE JOY OF a
reunited family was turned TO grief
here Saturday night when William
II. Bond. purchasing agent of the
Standard OIL Company died OF heart
disease shortly after welcoming his
wife and daughter on their arrival
from New Orleans.
Bond had welcomed his family at
the Pennsylvania station and was
escorting them to their new home
here. On the subway he collapsed.
He died shortly after being removed
from the train.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
AUTO!ST FINDS SAFETY
ON LOCOMOTIVE PILOT

SHAMOKIN, Pa. June 1<.-Driinc
his automobile In front of a passenger
train on a grade crossing here. Charles
Moran, forty years old, a mining en-
gineer, escaped death by a miracle
when the machine was struck and
dragged a distance of 100 yards.
when the train was brought to q
stop Moran was found perched on the
pilot. His only injuries were a few
cuts and bruises about the body and
face. The car was totally wrecked.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
Steamer st. Johns.

A capacity crowd was carried by
the steamer St Johns on Its forty
mile moonlight trip down the Potomac
last night the warm weather proving
a strong incentive for enjoyment.
Dancing. for which excellent music
was furnished by Sokolov's Orchestra,
was one Of the Incidental attractions.
The ST. Johns will make the same
trip tonight and every night UP TO
and including Friday, leaving the
Seventh street wharf at 7:15.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
Bull Kills Toreador.

MADRID. June i4.-Ernesto Pastor,
the Mexican toreador. died yesterday
as a result of injuries sustained last
Sunday in the bull ring here. Ply
sicians had considered the hurts un-
important. but blood poisoning set In.
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
BULLETS MARK DEBATE
IN TURKISH ASSEMBLY Y

LONDON, June 14.-Revolver shots
were exchanged in a heated debate in
the Turkish nationalist assembly at
Anrora, said an Exchange Telegraph
dIsnatch from Constantinople today.
Mu.tsphs Kemal Psshs, head OF the
turkish nationalist cabinet threat
sned to resign
The Washington times., 1921-06-14
THE CAST,

College Boys-Carrington snort, Wlam
Leonard, Horace Milleron- ana heroert
Jenkins. o.,
College GirIs-Inez Coyne, Helen Clare.
claire Martin and Vivian Wing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
The Wisdom of the Race

There may be a trace of Eastern
fatalism in Joseph Conrad's phi
losophy, but it blends admirably with
the Western common sense of Eng
land and America. 1t is as if an
older and loftier mind looked through
and beyond our youthful hit-or-miss
democracies, our rule of thumb prog
ress, and saw an underlying prin-
ciple, not a definite school of thought
or creed or policy, but general way
of living and thinking and acting.
That underlying principle Mr..
Conrad sums up beautifully in some
brief paragraphs written for The
English Review of Reviews, of which
Sir Philip Gibbs is now editor. He
was asked for comment on Ideals
for 1921" and this is what he said:
II have never tried to systematic
my impressions of the state of public
affairs and the notions q can hardly
call them ideas) which have occurred
to me. believe that the imponder-
able elements of the situation will de-
termine the solution of the problem
of the future: the latent sagacity of
the race rather than the ideas of in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Humane Execution
TIC the Editor of The Tribune

TIC the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Nevada is about to try lethal
gas for the execution of murderers
who are sentenced to the penalty of
death. In the method used for the ex-
ecution of those who are to die under
the law for crime committed, no one
would be likely to interpose objection
to that procedure which would be hu-
name to the greatest degree.
What would be the objection to
death by suFocation? By immersion
Of the head under water death would
ensue quickly and without suffering.
The person condemned to death would
be strapped on his back to a board.
The board would be held in a frame by
pivots, over a tank of water below the
lead of the board.
fitting the board to perpendicu-
lar position would immerse the head
OF the doomed person in the water of
the tank. Death would quickly follow;
after that the board would be returned
to horizontal and the body could then
be removed. ELMER LEE, MD.
New York, April IA, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
The OK and the Gander

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The story of the Greensboro OK
and gandcr reads like an old fable
Queer affinities between creatures of
different species are not uncommon, but
FOR gander to know that an OK is
bind and needs to be guided to a wa
terlng place and that it is the appoint
ed guardian for that purpose is UMPIRE
oedented. And for the OK to know that
his honking friend is leading him to
the water is almost beyond belief.
Yet such is the story being circulated
all over the country. The writer saw
nothing of it until the death of the
grief-stricken OK, by reason of his en-
forced separation from the gander, was
announced in The Tribune of April l.
The refusal of the OK to eat or drink
was the cause of his death.
To finish this pathetic story proper
ly, the poor gander should now refuse
all sustenance, and, lying down in
front OF his heartless owner, should
squawk out his last breath in re-
proaches for his cruelty to the OK.
II Pythagoras could have had such a
case to bolster up his doctrine of
metempsychosis he would easily have
found the souls of two human lovers
in the bodies of the OK and the gander
of Greensboro, Ala.
LUC1US F. SPENCER.
Passaic, N. j., April II, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Resisting Prosperity

According to the Federal Bureau
of Labor, the fall in wholesale
prices has been more than 35 per
cent. The Federal Reserve Bank
of New York makes the fall 48 per
cent. Bradstreet's index puts it at
about as per cent. Probably 40
per cent is a conservative estimate,
while the fall in retail prices is
from rs to 35 per cent. This lag in
retail prices on both the upward or
the downward swing appears to be a
universal law.
Something else than the widely
discussed contraction of credit has
plainly affected prices, for the total
loans Of the member banks of the
Reserve system are now only Z per
cent under the high point of a year
ago. Obviously fall of about 40
per cent in prices as against per-
haps 10 per cent in circulating
media raises interesting questions
concerning the quantity theory of
money-question similar to those
raised when the rise in prices dur
ing the boom years was greater than
the increase in the volume of cur
rency and of bank loans. The ex-
PLANTATION of the price changes is
clearly not so much in the quantity
of media as in the rapidity of it's
circulation. But rapidity of circu-
lation is affected by the fact that
with actual or forecast changes
in prices the money turnover quick.
ems or hats. When prices are fall
ing off money stagnates and de-
posts tend to lie unused. The hold
ers of money and deposit credit re-
Gently have not so much suffered in
their holdings of available purchas-
ing power as they have changed in
their disposition to use it for buy
ing things.
1T is clear, then, that IN this sense
the buying public has been causing
the depression rather than the
banks. The slump began long be-
fore credit was materially restrict
ed. 1t has been continuing practi-
cally irrespective of the supplies of
available media. 1t is clearing up,
while both loans and deposits still
are contracting. The sag that has
been and the recovery that is to
come must, therefore, be interpreted
as questions of what the buying pub
lie is disposed to do rather than of
the amount of credit that the banks
are able or willing to grant for the
doing of it.
Thus there is refutation of the
common notion that changes in price
levels are to be accounted for by
changes in the velocity of the cir
culation of exchange media. To as
sert that money is d wing sluggish
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

Mr.. Hardness may also be relied IN
and through his past connection with
the public commission Is thorouphlv
conVersant with both the legal and
pract'cal aspects of the traction
problem. General Organ has no
claim to special knowledge, but he is
a man Of high intelligence and firm
character, and we may be very sure
that he did not leave his sense of
honor in France and is incapable Of
disregard of a trust.
That partisan considerations did
not affect the nominations is shown
by the fact that two of the commits
sioners are not of the Governors
political party.
Despite some general impression
to the contrary, the new commission
does'not come into existence to exc
cute predetermined plan. It's DUTY
IS to devise a plan-none is handed
to 1t. It's discretion is little linn
tied. What it will do depends on
future ascertainment of what il is
wise and proper to do. Il is nm
committed to any particular course.
1t is we'll to keep this fact firmly in
mind when discussing the commits
sion and its work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Republican Duty in the South


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A certain business element is
now urging the Republican party to
eliminate the negro completely as
pawn for the building up of white
Republican party in the South. The
industrial and economic prosperity of
that section-and it is admittedly
greats based upon negro labor, and
any producing class, regardless of its
color, is entitled to be comfortably fed
comfortably housed, comfortably edu-
Gated and comfortably employed. But
of more Importance still is it that
those who must obey the laws should
nave a voice in the choosing of the
law makers and those who pay taxes
should have voice as to how their
money shall be spent.
These are but reasonable and human
demands. We may never hope to at
tain the maximum of prosperity until
every section of our country guaran-
tees to the humblest inhabitant the
fullest protection of the laws.
To do this it is not necessary that
we indulge in experiments calculated
either to explode the laboratory or de-
stroy the chemist; it only needs the
practice of little common sense sat
urated with the principle of the Golden
Rule. Will we do it? Yes, if the Re-
publican party, in obedience to the man
date of November 2 last, will conduct a
searching investigation of these back
ward looking tendencies and, faithful
in its resolve that there shall not be
created or maintained under our de-
mocracy a permanently disfranchised
peasantry, enact forceful legislation
for the efectuation of these ends.
LUCIUS SUMNER HICKS.
Boston, Mass, April IA, 1921.