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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
SECRETARY MELLON SUGGESTS
 FURTHER TAX REVISION
Announces That Treasury Departments Policy With Respect to Deferment of Soldiers
 Bonus Is Unchanged.

Washington, Dec. 7.-Further re- vision of the tax laws with a reduc- sion of the maximum income surtax rate to 20 or o5 per cent. and adjust and estates. is suggested by Secretary Mellon in his first annual report, transmitted today to Congress.
 The secretary also. announces that deferment of the soldiers bonus Is unchanged and urges propmt fund ing of the aen billions of foreign loans as "one of the outstanding needs Of the presetn economic situation"
 MT. Mellon also informs Congress that the maturity within the next six months of s6.750. 100000 of the short dated debt makes 1t imperative tha: the government pursue a policy of the utmost economy and avoid new un- dertakinEs thai would throw addi- ttonal burdens on the treasury and enbarrass the funding operations with respect to the floating debl.
 Revenue revision is the subject upon which the secretary lays the most stress. He says She changes in the tax law voted by Congress last month give substantial relief to bus mess and industry and restore in some measure the freedom of business transactions but >aur system of tax ation still requires careful and proceeds 10 say that if the loss of revenue resulting from the reductions in Surtax and other rates suggested . cannot be made up. Spy rigid economy in expenditures" it can be met either by placing a !ax on certain specific articles, or by a low-rate general tax on a brcad-class of articles or trans actions"
 Tt is of vitad importance Mir. Mel. made in our scheme of taxatior whereby the burden will not fall un- duly, whether directly or indirectly
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

upon any particular class and at Lhe samo time will not seriously interfere with productive industry and the gen eral prosperity of xhe country.
 Tt would not seem either wise or necessary to change from our present system of taxation to new and untried plans. By retaining the income tax with reasonable surtaX rates. which in peace times ultimately should not rise above 10 per cent. taxpayers would still be required to contribute in pro- portion to their ability to pay; while by placing a. certain amount of tax on specific articles, or classes of arti- cies, or transactions. at so low rate that they could readily be borne with out injury, the income tax could be materially simplihed. the tax laws and at the same time the needed revenues would be raised without the evil effects now resulting from the present excessive rates of taxation MT Mellon informs Congress tha' the amount of revenue involved in the suggested reduction of rates 'is not nearly as great as is generally SUD- | posed"
 | saTo reduce the s,,rtax rates to q
 minimum of 25 per cent, and gradu-
 ating the reductions through all the | brackets he says, t would mean ar
 apparent loss of about S13O,0OO,0 O,0OC
 in revenue A 20 per cent. maximum
 rate on the same basis would involve
 a revenue loss of about S2OO,0O0. 900 l Other adjustments which should be
 made would probably involve al
 surtax rates. This loss of revenue however, would not be permanent, fol
 the reduced rates would ultimately bt
 productive of more revenue thar higher rates due to the increase il taXab ble transactions"
 l Reiterating arguments that the eff
 feet of high surtax rates is to keel new capital out of productive ente
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

When a loaded motor truck weigh ling with it's load 22,5o0 pounds and ymoving at a rate of fifteen miles an hour encounters an obstacle on the highway sufficient to give the rear wheel a drop of one-quarter of an finch the effect upon the road Is prac- ltically the same as though the total weight were multiplied by three. In Ia sense the huge motor truck be- comes a projectile and batters the pavement by a succession of mighty impacts.
 have developed among highway en- gineers, one method being to seek to design a rigid powerful structure, which will withstand the impact as armor plate is expected to withstand the projectiie. This method does not seek the line of least resistance but the line of most resistance. It Is an effort to- match the strength of the destructive agent with an equal Or superior strength on the part of the defensive agent. This method calls for constantly increasing thickness of slab and more metal reinforcement, just as more powerful guns and in projectiles call for thicker armor.
 Cushion tke Shock In West
 This method has found considerable favor in the Eastern states, but out on the Pacific coast highway engi- neers have for the past quarter of a century been practicing a method of construction, to which they point as the infallible solution of the i'm pact problem because the method is founded upon the simplest dictates of common sense.
 In California and Oregon they do not attempt to stop tho mighty im- pact of the motor truck in its tracks, 30 to speak, but they cushion the shock Instead of constructing a rigid slab with portland cement concrete, sand and stone, they substitute for port land cement, asphalt. They thus ob- tain an elastic slab which c1ings close to the earth subgrade beneath 1t,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
NEW SCULPTOR 0F THE SERVANT
 GIRL PROBLEM L.E|:!
Training School for Stu dents of Domestic Science Will Turn Out Household Assistants Instead of "Hired Girls"

New York. Dec. 7-Hilda. the waitress, Gretchen the housekeeper and Sarah the slumg gullion are about to discard the opprobrious appelation of servant girls for the more digni- fled and modern designation of 'household assistants By this strn- of ultra ra-modern women, here hopes to eliminate the servant. problem the question which has vexed man, and more particularly woman ever since the cave-dwelling troglodyte began to realize that not even a mace or stone hammer could keep 8 menial | on the job.
 The Bureau of Household Occupa- tions has just opened a training school in practical domestic science | for girls and women. Mrs. Richard leader of the movement to uplift the | servant girl believes that at last she | has the solution of the domestic prob i lem. which, like the poor, we have
 The bureau plans to put TiIlie and l Hilda and Sarah and Gretchen and i all the rest on an eight-hour day basis
 with an hour for lunch, and all that l wIl be elevated to the same plane as l that of all other feminine occupa- | tions, such as stenographer, book | keeper. etc.
 'sThe time has come'' explained Mrs. Boarjman, when if housework
 is to be done systematically and well
 
 ways available. we have got to ele-
 Vate the profession
 Shorter Hours Plan
 "You can hardly blame a girl for
 seeking some more congenfal work.
 when housework calls for living at
 the home of your employer, giving her
 as much of your time as she may de
 mand whether it be day or night. Under our plan. if the assistant comes
 to work at seven in the morning , she is through at four in the after noon, having had an hour for lunch Our plan calls for different shifts , in the homes which at present employ l more than one servant. The plan , works to perfect. as I have tried i out in my own home for a number of years. using as many as four shift l some times and at other times only having one shift My home has TUT moothly, the girls have been satis- , fled and it has not cost me any more money than when the girls lived . at my home and were on irregu1ar hours.
 'tOur training school will make the l girls intelligent houseworkers. They : will have a uniform which we hope to
 dignity to the extent of the trained 3 nurses uniform of today. The girls will be taught cooking, serving, the care of bed and living rooms, of the silver, ironing, light laundry work l and everything necessary to keep
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
PRESIDENT OBRECON GREAT FRIEND OF
 THEATRE

Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 7-Gen. Alvaro Obregon, president of Mexico, Is revealed as a friend of the theatre in general and of stranded theatrical people in particular in tales told here by a troupe of Los Angeles dancers.
 The dancers. all Los Angeles girls who were chaperoned by Los Angeles woman, went to Mexico City to entertain in connection with the Mexican Centennial celebration. Their contract, they said, called for round trip tickets.
 But, they said, when their engage ment was concluded. they were re- fused transportation home. They appealed in turn to representatives of the American State department, anu
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
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absorbs the shock Of impact by slight ly yielding.
 The Western engineers say that If you put shock absorbers in the vehi- cle why not put them in the road They point to repeated tests, which have shown that the elastic or rather resilient slab made of asphalt and stone shows more than double the resistance to shattering by heavy blows than has been shown by any rigid slab of similar thickness and design.
 "6laek Base" Lasting
 On the Pacific coast the flexible type of pavement is commonly known as black base" because the entire slab is black with asphalt.
 At visalia, California, is 8 black base pavement of total thickness of seven inches of combined base and top laid in 1894 and in good condi- tion today with no outlay for main tenance during 27 years.
 More than 12,o8o.oo yards of black base type of pavement have been four-fifths of this large yardage are not over 5 inches in total thickness. The reason so thin 8 pavement is effective is because 1t reduces impact by cushioning the shock instead of resisting it, keeps the subgrade or earth foundation dry because the as- phalt is waterproof. And the sur face Is subjected to 8 scarcely per- ceptible wear because the pavement gives off no dust.
 Even where concrete, brick or block pavements have already been laid they may be protected from impact by an aspha1tic cushion top, which at the same time protects rigid foundations from cracking through expansion and contraction by mere nearly equalizing moisture and temperature conditions.
 Saving of many million dollars by using instead of heavy reinforced rigid pavements the flexible slabs so popular on the Pacific coast will un- doubtedly result as the merits of black base pa~enents become more widely
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
BENEFIT CONCERT
 TOMORROW NIGHT

In the High School Auditorium to- m orrow evening music lovers of he city will have an opportunity to hear a concert by the Harvey HubbeH Inc. be lending helping hand to the young musicians of the city who are members Of the Junior Philharmonic orchestra as the proceeds from this concert are to go to meet the e&" penses of the orchestra.
 A pleasing program has been as- ranged under the direction of pr. G. E.. Conterno. In addition to the local soloists: Miss Anna E. Schnet- man, soprano; John A. Zahornashy, baritone, and Maestro c. A. DAurta, accompanist.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

to the secretaries of the Mexican treasury and interior, they declared, but met only failure.
 Then one of the girls managed to obtain an interview with President Obregon, who paid the dancers hotel bill and provided them with tickets back to Los Angeles.
 In addition to this. the girls relat- ed, President Obregon provided trans rortation back to New York for forty-two American chorus girls when the show they were with became stranded.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

opinion or one of the servants. A fornidatbfe-looking young lady, rosy checked and fair haired, looked like a good prospect.
 'fHow do you think the plan will work? she was asked.
 She stared, wau-eyed. for . nao- ment and replied:
 "Ach, fch weiss nichtl"
 And she was more tazan k&af right at that.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

Advertise In The Times
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

F Ve ry afternoon from i to , by phonograph a n d every Monday. Wednesday a II q Frid ay evening from 2 10 s o'clock by the Welte-Mig- non Original Re producing Piano. Special piionograph concert for Chl- dren on Saturday afternoons from 1 to 4:30.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
Poland China Sale Called Off.

The newly organized Poland China
Breeders Association of Iowa county
with Dale Randall, Livingston, pres
ident, and John Livingston, Dodge
vile, secretary, decided to hold a
bred COW sale some time in February.
The logical place to hold this sale
would be Dodgeville being in the
center of the county and on two rail
roads. The committee in charge of
the sale investigated the place to
hold the sale in the city of Dodge
vile, and found that a sale in the
city is out of the question due to the
poor housing facilities. The only
barn large enough is the Pengelly
livery barn but Mr.. Pengelly refuses
to lease his building for sales.
All the teaching done during the
first 35 years of the University of
Wisconsin just about equalled the
amount done in the institution last
year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
SWEPT OFF ALL VEGETATION
Ancient Records Tell of Visitation
of Locusts That Were Followed
by Dire Famine.

A passage of lOcusts in France. in
1913, entirely cut up even to the roots
more than $4,000 acres Of corn near
Aries, and had even penetrated into
the barns and granaries, when, as it
were by Providence, many hundreds of
birds, especially starlings. came to
diminish their numbers NOtwith-
standing this, nothing could be more
astonishing than their multiplication,
for the fecundity Of the locust is re-
markable.
Upon an order issued by the govern
ment for the collection of their eggs,
more than 5000 measures were col
lecteG, from each of which, it was
calculated, would have issued nearly
two millions of young ones. In 1850
they entered Russia in immense di-
visions in three places, thence passed
over into Poland and Lithuania, where
the air was darkened by their num-
bers. In many parts they lay dead to
the depth of four feet. Sometimes
they covered the surface of the
earth like a dark cloud, loaded the
trees, and the destruction which they
produced exceeded all calculation. In
1915 immense swarms visited the
ISLANDS, of FOrmosa and Tayowan and
reused sucn b Taz..-s that 5000 per-
sons DIED Of hunger.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
APPLE TREES POINT MORAL
All Of Us, If We Would, Can Find Sat
isfacticn in Little Life Dream
Coming True.

Oliver Wendell Holmes tells Of a
man who. In youth, planned to buy
a certain piece of land for home
stead, and on one part of it to plant
an apple orchard, so that he could
have the Towering trees in spring, the
ripening fruit in summer and apples
to eat and cider to drink in winter,
says the Vancouver Sun.
Years passed, the man progressed
toward old age; his son grew uu, mar
ried and had q son. Finally the
money was saved, the land bought,
and the three men, grandfather, ia
cher and grandson, debated the ques-
ton of planting the apple orchard.
The grandson said it took apple
trees seven years to come into bear
Ing, and he could not take any inter-
est in anything happening so far
ahead; the father said no one could
tell what would happen in seven years,
and they had better plant yearly
crops; the grandfather said he would
plant the apple trees himself, and he
did, and lived IA years, and during the
last years Of his life enjoyed the
sight of the Towering trees and the
apples and the cider in the delight
and satisfaction of a little life dream
come true.
Wherefore, says Doctor Holmes. If
the time comes when you must lay
down the fiddle and the bow because
your fingers are too stiff, and drop the
oars because your arms are too weak,
and come at last to the reality of
spectacleS-if the time comes when the
fire Of life has burned low, that where
it's flames reverberated there is only
the somber stain OF regret, and where
Its Goals gloWed there are only the
white ashes that cover the embers Of
memory-don't let your heart grow
cold, and you may carry cheerfulness
and love with you into the teens of
your second century, If you can last
SO long.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
air MeIrose y

Melrose abbey by moonlight is q
sight that is difficult to forget and
from there short ride takes tha trav-
eler to Abbotsford, the home of Sir
Walter Scott, where the study in
which the great Scottish poet wrote
''The Lady of the Lake." "Marmion
and others of his well-known noems
and novels, is practically in the same
state as when he died. His velvet coat
and cap with small eagles feather
at the size. the inkstand on the table
with the quill pens beside it, and his
letters, with the small silver castor
from which Sir Walter sprinkled sand
ON the paper to dry the ink, are all
there to interest the traveller. An
other sort of drive can be taken TO
Dryburgh abbey on the banks of the
Tweed, where the poet is buried with
his two favorite hounds at his feet.
The ruins Of the abbey are situated
in a wood on the high banks of the
river which rushes by at a great rate
and teens with salmon in the sum-
mer.-New York Times.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
Curious Behavior of Yanotze.

The YangtZe, the great muddy river
Of China, is one of the greatest Of
streams, and it's valley is the most
densely populated and closely cult
waited river basin in the world. It
crosses the whole Of China in it's g.
0O0-mile course to the sea. The
Yangtze has a different name in al
most every province, and pours flood
Of diluted mud through half it's valley,
tingeing the ocean for more than a
hundred miles offshore There are
many interesting features of this
most interesting river.
When the SHOWS melt In Tibet and
the monsoon pours it's annual flood
on the watershed, the Yangtze rises
so or 100 feet at Chungking, 10 or 80
feet at Ichang and 40 or 80 feet at
Hankau, sweeping in a fierce flood
from June to October, and then fall
ing as rapidly as foot day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
BIG PRICE, BUT WORTH 1T
England Paid Kingdom for Bill OF
Rights and Has Never Re-
GREETED the Fact.

One writer has aptly observed that
England paid kingdom for the Bill
of Rights, but 1t was worth it. Lit
orally the observation Is true, for Eng
land presented to Prince William Of
Orange the British throne at the
same moment that the protocol Of the
Bill OF Rights was submitted for mis-
sanction or rejection.
England found herself In a guam
Diary with James II fugitive In
France, and William Of Orange, SON.
in-law of James, with $4,000 Dutch
invading the country. Anarchy was
imminent. Then to save the country
the opposing factions agreed that a
parliament should be elected, which
should enact q declaration Of rights.
SO in 1850 parliament, duly elected,
decided that James had forfeited his
throne, and it was offered to William
and his wife Mary. The declaration
of rights was presented to their males
ties in the banqueting hall at White
hall from a window through which
Charles I had stepped out onto the
scaffold 40 years before
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
FIRST TO ILLUSTRATE BOOK
Roman Writer Is Credited With Inno-
walton, Many Years Before the
Coming of Christ.

Book Illustrations are so common
nowadays, and the various processes
Of reproducing pictures in print SO
highly developed, that it seems al
most strange to contemplate the fact
that there was a time when the first
illustrated book created a veritable
sensation.
The event occurred in the year 70
B. G. Varro, a rather mediocre writer
Of ancient Rome, had been struggling
for recognition for good many
years when he suddenly conceived the
idea of preparing volume containing
the biographies of 700 of his most ia
nous fellow-citiZens.
History is silent on the rather in
teresting question whether Varro
charged them for his services or not
but it is loud in his praise as the
first writer who conceived the idea of
illustrating his work with portraits.
They were crudely drawn, and as
to whether they were good >fikcneSses
or not, will always renain I'll open
question. But they were Illustrations
all the same, and after that the Gus
tom of embellishing historical works
with drawings became d fad among
the writer's of those days.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
Jenny Lind in 1851.

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton writes
In her book, I'm Old Pennsylvania
Towns" that while visiting in HOl-
fidaysburg friends told her Of other
and more romantic associations, still
recalled by old inhabitants who re-
membered Jenny Lind's visit to Blair
county in 1851. Mr.. Snyder related
an incident connected with the Swed-
ish singers stay at the Mountain
house, which was situated at rail-
road junction near Hollidaysburg.
While at this hotel the singer en-
gagged carriage to take her up the
mountain side and on reaching place
from which there was an extended
view of the distant mountains, the
valley and the Juniata flowing
through it, she was so impressed by
beauty Of the scene that she greeted
it with an outburst of song so ex-
uuisite, said the narrator, that the
birds, her only hearers except the
coachman, must have felt that rival
of their own kind had joined them.
The view of the hill and valley may
have reminded the Swedish nightin-
gale of some scene in her own land,
as the song with which she broke in
on the stiffness of the mountain side
was "Home, Sweet Home"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
Must Keep Farm Records.

1.-THE year 1922 is to be an out
standing one in the field of studying
farm problems" says John S. Don
aid of the agricultural economics de-
partment of the University of Wis
consin. 'Never before" he says,
"did the farmers give so much at
tention to the business side of farm
ing as they do now, and from present
indications these problems will be of
Istill greater Importance next year"
Mr.. Donald states that manage
ment has new meaning to the farm
er. He now acknowledges it as the
key to successful business operations
and with the coming of 1922 is
working to find a more efficient sys-
tenn of management than has prev
iously been used. AS the factory
manager began work to solve this
problem some years ago, so the farm
er is doing now.
'The first step towards better man
agement is the keeping of records
and accounts" Mr.. Donald explains
A simple yet effective farm account
ing book has been provided by the
state college of agriculture. This is
sold to them for the cost of publish
ing and with the coming of the new
year is being called for more than it
ever has been before.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-29
House In Form of Teapot.

Among the oldest of unusual cot
tages is the queerly shaped little
house by the roadside in the parish
of Dalderby, near Horncastle, in Lin
colnshire, England 1t Is well known
locally as Teapot Hail." 1t has so
whimsical an outline, and stands so
plainly to be seen of all who pass
along this road. that It Is almost as
famous In it's way as Lincoln Min
ster itself. The story purporting to
account for the name of 1t Is that
merchant-skipper. captain many years
ago Of one of the once-famous East
India clippers, retiring from the sea,
built himself this extremely modest
dwelling, and fashioned it, in abusive
mood, in the shape Of teapot. The
model itself is now long forgotten
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