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The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
Tax Revision.

II RELlMINARY discussion of proposed Federal
il tax revision seems to have already developed
certain facts to public opinion There is little
or no material objection to repeal of the excess
profits tax. There is considerable objection to any
cut that will be slash, in the income surtax rates.
though~a moderate Or even considerable reduction
there would be accepted without much protest.
The general public, while emphatically desiring
to take large slices from great incomes are coming
to realize that results rather paper than in
actual cash. There are many ways of avoiding such
taxes the most familiar being by investment in nom
taxable securities, which in turn is apt to induce
expenditures through this medium and so, react in
larger tax rates in smaller governmental units, and
piling up of Indebtedness.
But there is another form of taxation proposed
as to which there appears to be distinct cleavage
of judgment. This is the sales tax or tax on gross
sales, in business. Business approve of this
probably because easy to pass to the buyer. 1t
has the further advantage of spreading the required
revenues over the entire population.
Everyone would have to pay at least according
to purchases. This very fact creates much natural
objection, it would come from the rich only in
this proportion, and strictly according to buy
ing power the income tax is supposed to do,
though in fact it does not.
The greater objection however, is the general
feeling that any such would be passed along
merely in sufficient price increase to meet it, but
that it would be used excuse to pad prices.
Buyers have often heard increased freight rates.
and ike excuses, made the for heavy in
in the price of individual articles that they
have become suspicious, perhaps unduly so.
Justly unjustly, the fact remains that un-
popular have been the so-called luxury taxes"
the proposed sales tax is already still more unpopu-
lar. The luxury tax has the advantage of being
definite When it is paid, it is fixed addition to
price and every one knows, not alone exactly its
amount, but that it goes to the government
As to sales tax, there could be no way of GER
tainly checking how in what amount it was
passed along. Some business houses might absorb
it; others could not, while others might make it
source of added profit. No questions its adj
vantage in simplicity, in of collection and fairly
definite estimate of return. But the party which
imposes it, would to take in its hands a
future that was decidedly slippery.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
Back to Another Lair.

TIGER hunting is logical Intermediary step
i from war to peace. 1t offers certain, but
not too violent surcease from the strenuous life of
strife between men, 1t is such q let-down as Theo-
dore Roosevelt used seek. 1t is what his French
prototype, Clemenceau turned to after his release
from the wars responsibilities. .s
Now he is back in France He comes as he
went, at just the opportune time. Having piloted
the to successful end, he dropped wholly out
of the aftermath He returns entirely free from the
political alignments which have been made clear of
the personal relations and antagonisms, free agent
to his vast influence he WILL for the good
of France and of all the world.
There is little reason to doubt that he is yet
the idol of France among its common people and
with the army. His halo shines all the brighter
because of the intervening period of his absence
from the political arena. He probably can almost
do he will with, France in the present emergency.
France will feel assured that he will regard only
France. He will have mercy on Germany save
as mercy will result in French advantage. He can
look the situation in the face without pledges or
tanglements, and also, without personal ambitions
The good of his people will be glory enough for
him. ..r-.s.t ~ 81 ..e.-. a-.-...
If his influence goes to further invasion of Ger
many, and to the Prussian iron hand applied to
that country, so it will be, regardless of what the
British do. No other Frenchman knows Lloyd
George he does; and other knows all the in
tricacies, purposes, influence and real expectations
of those who framed the treaty. He was the power
in the Council of Four. He knows how much of
the treaty was csmouhage, and how much was meat
If his influence goes. on the other hand, to an
immediate lump settlement If he wills less rcpara-
tons in bulk and period of payment if he comedies
anything to Germany France will quite surely fol-
low him, especially, as would be probable BRAND
should agree with him.
The Tigers return from the lars of his fellow
tigers, to the lars of politics. is quite certain to
soon develop a positive, Interchangeable French pol.
icy. He is about the only question mark left.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
Wilson-Lansing.

THE foremost conclusion in reading former
/ Secretary Lansings book THE Peace Nego-
tations," is that holding Cabinet position under
President Wilson either snecure or impos-
sible-- A member of the Presidents household had
to be either minor unacquainted with independent
opinions and judgment, or get out.
Mr.. Bryan found this So as did Mr.. Garrison,
Mr.. Lane, Mr.. Gregory, and MI. McAdoo. Mr..
Lansing's mistake was not in not resigning when
he found himself wholly beyond agreement with
his chief Paris. but in not resignins soon as
he returned to this country.
II would have been mistake for him to have
refused to sign the treaty. He was not then his
own master. That he disagreed with many of the
provisions; that he reluctant to sign; that he
would not have agreed to certain stipulations had
his advice or consent been asked, is but an Incl
dent Paramount to all to have the treaty
finally effective and he was right not to blow up
and blow up the conference at the same time,
Most that he tells is bat confirmation of what
those who closely followed the press reports, felt
assured 1t is intensely interesting as chronicle
and as a character sketch of Mr. Wilson But his
strength and his weakness passed in review be-
fore the public by who while he has griev-
ance and just one, merely takes his day in court
10 present his evidence.
Il is not startling to be told that when Mr.
Wilson went to Pars to match minds with the Dip
lomats of Europe, he had conception of the
character of the minds he would have to match and
how totally unequal he was to the sort of test he
would meet He the victim of his own inno-
cence. He matched simplicity of thought with
trained intrigue: honesty of convictions with agile
opportunism; idealsm with gross ma.erialism
1t was not far contest and one he should not
have undertaken. He unhorsed at the first joist
when he renounced the very FIRST of his fourteen
points - open covenants openly arrived at He did
not realize that the minds he to match could
onysw work and win in secret, while his own equally
demanded the sunlight of open publicity.
Strangely, or perhaps quite naturally. he never,
as Mr.. Lansing shows, lost complete confidence in
himself, His guilelessness never discovered that
his friends were in fact his covert enemies. and
knew the ways of guile backwards and forwards.
While he did not consult with his associates
on the American delegation, nor with those many
specialists in the American group. save get GER
tain data. they discovered by leakaet much of the
process used by the other three of the Four They
found hat the league being used as a pefpetuzf
trading stoe4 and that Mr. Wilson's devotion to this
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RBooMING FLOWERS SHOW
sFRING,S PROGREss.

Further progress OF spring was
recorded at the last meeting Of the
Wild Flower Preservation Society
when twenty-five wild and seven
cultivated plants were reported in
bloom for the first time this year
during the week ending March %.
The list is as follows:
Wild howers-Benzoin. twin leaf.
yellow violet, tinted spurEe, rue
anemone. broad-leaved spring beau
~. golden club. mouse ear cress.
shepherds purse, trout lily. blue
bells, blue cohosh, COW psrsnip.
Rafinesque's violet. Dutchmsn's
breeches. hispid buttercup, smooth
rock cress, bulbous cress, purple
cress. wakerobin, ivy-leaved speed
well. false strawberry. spotted
cranesbill. meadow parsnip.
Cultivated plants-Poets' narcis-,
sus. leatherleaf. wistaria. towering
crabapple, apple, English daisy.
iris.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
IHEEg
METRIC SYSTEM.

To the EDITOR. The Washington Herald:
issue of March ?, would like to
afirm that the metric system has
become widely used in this country.
especially during the past twenty
years. Meters, liters and grams
are now known and understood by
most Intelligent people.
Many American schoolboy sprint
ers, for instance, look forward with
the keenest desire to holding the
worlds record for the 1o0-meter
and 2o0-meter events. The ZOO
yard race is approximately the
same thing as the 200-meter race.
but the event should be in meters
to be worldwide.
The fact that fractions OF all
kinds are readily eliminated when
the metric system il properly used
Is not yet generally appreciated in
America. Some time ago I asked a
well-known Doctor how tall one OF
my own children was when FIRST
measured. He looked up the rec
ord and said "54 centimeters.'
congratulated him on measuring the
child in the modern method and
he told me that the the large hos
had never measured children n any
other way. The centimeter is well
adapted for this purpose. There is
no need of using any other measure
instead of the centimeter to define
height. For instance, instead of a
man being known to be feet Sh
inches in height, his height may be
defined as ia centimeters.
For machinery, where great ac-
euracy is required. the millimeter
is most convenient. Here again IL
is rarely necessary to use fractions
of any kind. The 75-millimeter gun
was one of the potent factors in
popularizing the metric system with
American officers and enlisted men
The following testimony of d.
H. Graham. of the Graham Roller
Bearing Corporation, is of interest
in this connections:
I'VE use the metric system en-
tirely-for all our bearings, even
figuring the diameter of our rolls
in millimeters. We also use the
metric system for all calculations,
after arriving at the final result.
transposing the answer into inches.
I'VE certainly favor the gradual
adoption Of metric Standardization
of weights and measures in the
United States, and will do all in our
power to further same"
Very truly yours,
HOWARD RICHARDS, Jr.,
Sec. American Metric Asso.
Washington, March 26.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28

matter Of interpretations and re-
servations that will be acceptable
to America. And the English are
not disposed to quibble over the
name. The United States7 The
position of President Harding Is
hardly what IL was three months
ago. 1t seems to be changing to
meet the conditions that have come
since he took oath. His State De-
partment is swinging out from its
firstVerbit. The idea Of a separate
peace through the Knox resolutions
seems dead and done for. Il is
hardly discussed except by the sir
reconcilable." Resistance to the
league idea is softening In wash
ington. The new administration Is
getting some practical ideas Of the
giant dificulties that would lie in
the way of a separately negotiated
peace that failed to carry the terms
Of the treaty Of Versailles, and
that treaty, be IL remembered. has
welded into its very structure the
covenant Of the leaguA
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immigration to the Land.

n MAJORITY of the immigrants to America
"A are peasants and essentially farmers Ameri-
labor under present conditions would never take
up in large tracts the lands idle, but by cut
ting them up and offering them to the immigrant
we will offer him chance to realize his fes dream
to own land-and at the same time we will be
rendering economic service, to the country
We plan to group them somewhat on the European
village plan and offer them the advantages of ex-
pert agricultural and home demonstration instruc-
ton through the Department of Agriculture"
This is the statement of w. w. Husband the
new Commissioner of immigration 1t is most COM
mendable. 1t is ideal as to what should be- So
far as the farm end is concerned, he will find plenty
of States organized to help him. His troubles are
going to be across the water and at>our ports.-
The port cities still resent any immigrant
getting passed INTO the back country with money in
their possession. They cry back to the land" in
hard times, when no has the means to get
there with enough to make start But they first
do their own picking. r
Across the water the lure of America is high
wages. They have not learned there that these
high wages are hard to get and that there is now
a very great surplus of labor of all kinds In the
earlier days, the lure was land 1t the hope to
become the owner of farm and be secure in its
possession.
Then the push was to the West where every
State had homestead land, very scarce and
far away. But at that the Northwest still has
public land school land and broad at very low
prices. But the work Of direction and warning is
too late when it starts on this side of the ocean
If Mr.. Husband wants to avoid IA great measure
of disappointment, he viii form cooperative afli,
ance with American consular agents to tell the
would-be immigrant the exact truth. The laws
should permit these agents to also refuse pass
ports to those who are seeking jobs in industry
where there is labor surplus, and pass only those
seeking land settlement who have the money and
experience to fairly assure their success.
His plan reads simply. Its application would Be
anything rather than simple. But it is right 1t is
what should be and it is what can be if the proper
machinery and authority is provided.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
on Explorers Form NelU
Legion Post in Africa

AKRON. Ohio, March 27.-Main-
tanning contact with the main body
of the American Legion by native
runners. travelling post Of the le-
gion Is today moving through the
Jungies of Portuguese West Africa.
The post is the first on the Dark
Continent and its, establishment
leaves Australia as the only contI-
nept which has not been penetrated
by the Legion. ! Twenty-three oil
explorers, headed by Robert. II.
Wamsley, fell to. discussing the war
ON the trail out of Loanda, Angola,
and twas discovered that eleven of
the number were former service men.
Wamsley communicated with Akron.
Ohio, Post of the Legion. which ar
ranged to obtain the necessary pa
pes from national headquarters t.
establish the African. post. The ex-
piorers will remain In the wilds for
three years. ~ .'F.J-
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
WOMEN AND SCIENTISTS PLAN
RECEPTION TO NINE CURIE-

Plans are being made for the
local reception to Nine Curie.
chemist. discoverer of radium, who
will sail from Paris for America on
May as the guest OF a committee
Of American women and scientists.
The reception in Washington will
be only one Of a series Of events
on the program that n being ar
ranged for Nine. CUrie and her two
daughters who will. in q i've weeks
tour. visit many parts OF America.
when Nine. Curie lands she will
be presented with q thimble full
Of the chemical element she and
her husband isolated for the first
time and which has proved SO use
full both medically and scientifically.
This single gram OF radium will
cost 100000 and will be bought
with funds raised by American
women
Never has she possessed such an
amount Of radium for her individIi
ual use and II is this gift that can
be used 10 further her experimental
work Of Riding the world Of cancer
by use OF radium. that she desires
above all else. Washington women
who wish TO contribute TO this
practical tribute 10 Mime. curie
should send their gifts 20 Charles
]. Bell. Of the American Security
and Trust Company. who has con-
sented to act as treasurer.
Mrs. Harding will act as honorary
hostess during Madame Cures visit
TO Washington. and will be assisted
by Nine. Jusserand. Mrs Charles
Evans Hughes, and Princess Lubo-
mirska. The committee arranging
for her reception includes DR..
Charles d. wslcott. president Of the
National Academy OF Sciences and
secretary OF the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition: DR.. Hugh Cumming. Of the
United States Public Health Bu-
reau: DR.. Livingston Farrand. OF the
American Red Cross: DIR. Vernon
Kellogg, OF the National Research
Council: DR.. John c. Merriam.
president Of the Carnegie 1nstitu-
tion: Or. Charles L Parsons. of the
American Chemical Society; DR.. s.
W. Stratton. of the Bureau n.
Standards: Mrs. Robert Woods Bills
Miss Mabel Boardman. Mrs. Henrly
c. Corbin. Mrs. Henry P. Dimock-'
Mrs. Marshall Field. Mrs Gilbert
Grosvenor. Mrs. J. Borden Hartman.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Miss Julia
Lathrop. Mrs Nicholas LonEworth.
Mrs. Edward b Mclean. Mrs. Nah
Ion Pitney. Mrs. Hope Slater. Mrs.
James wadsworth. jr. and Mrs. c.
d. walcott-
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objective. splendid as It was, enabled his Willy
eo7workers to gain point after point to their own
advantage. . .
Confident in his own dominant personality. ss-
sured IN his exhalted place IN the worlds opiAipn
accepted as the arbiter and protector Of al the
earth's common peoples. Mr.. Wilson had reason to
believe he could and would control at the peace
table. With publicity he would have done so. As
to the league Of nations he did But asSthe strong
est foundations may. be sapped. so his very
strength proved his weakness. =.
Mr. Lansing's book will probably arouse for a
time, the old controversy as to Mr.. Wilson. Both
sides will have another inning. Mr.. Lansing viii
be extolled by the one and thrown on the ash heap
by the other. But the unbiased reader viii not be
much influenced by his disclosures. Rather he will
be confirmed in judgment which has no rancor,
that President of the United States should not get
into that kind of muss with that kind of people.
Inevitably he would be at disadvantage because
of his very office and its demands. Also they will
be satisfied. most have been, that after his ex-
perience at Paris. Mr.. Lansing should not have
waited to be dismissed. He =,
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
Open C6urt L letters to The HeraIh
A>YHSgASa6lHz5bHaaoGS s7saa1SfTEa FEEA

no man or woman utter the fool
ish statement that Christ Jesus. the
Just Judge. could not establish a
church better than any human be-
ing. He could not give His auto
cratic command. Teach all things
whatsoever / have commanded you"
to twenty centuries Of teeming mil
lions of different races without a
visible organization. One in faith.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
MEN OF WASHINGTON.

MEN OF WASHINGTON.
During Glacial Periods"
How often with reluctant feet"
I've stood upon the icy street,
Afraid to stir, afraid to start.
With trembling limbs and beating
heart.
While helpless, hopeless. thus
stand,
To me has come a helping hand;
The postman on his homeward
track.
The soldier from his campaign back.
The businessman, the statesman
grand.
To me have held a helping hand.
By men of high and low degree,
But all alike in chivslry,
icy ways with snow o'er-
spread
To Isles of Safety was led.
No words suffice to sound their
praise,
A monument l cannot raise,
/ do not know their names to call.
But this I know-God knows them
all.
And in the archives of the sky,
Their names are registered on high.
As recking not OF gain or loss
These men who nobly Came
across" GRAC1AS.
Washington, March 2e.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
LOCAL A. A. 4.
HAS NEW HOME.
Old Trunk Yields Treasure.

When an old iron trunk in the
Hungarian treasury building In
Vienna was opened recently it was
found to contain thirty-one pounds
Of opals valued at 100000. .ooe kro-
men, They will be sold TO foreign
5ewelry merchants on behalf e ths
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
PRAISES HERALD STAND.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
want to congratulate you upon
the splendid editorial which you
had in your Sunday paper. and one
which you have published since then.
The attitude OF The Herald towards
practical moral reforms, especially
under the new management. is an
inspiration to all the friends Of
temperance and law and order.
Such papers deserve the support Of
all good citizens.
We are having a rather strenuous
time in securing an honest enforce
ment of the law. We are going to
win. and II will take a little extra
time to do IL. Unless we can main
tain the law and its enforcement.
the government itself is in jeopardy.
= Thanking you again for your
splendid cooperation in this fight
for the enforcement of the law, am,
Yours very cordially.
w. B. WHEELER,
Attorney and General Counsel.
Washington. March 25.
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Thousands Honor ssB. h. IT."

CHICAGO. March 27.- Memorial
services In honor Of Bert L. Taylor.
t"B. l. IT," were held today at the
Blackstone Theater. Addresses were
made by his intimate friends. The
Flonsaleys,. of whose music he had
always been very fond. rendered his
favorite p6lections. The theater was
crowded to capacity, and among the
hundsd1 who stood outside was Ir-
vin Cobb. the humorlst.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
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Adirfs. ssa>las
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Monday. Msrei 2s. InA
FLATTENED EARTH PoLEk
CoMPLICATE MAP MAKING =
1T has long been Known that Sur
earth Is not spherel but that he
polar diameter is abott twenty-x
miles shorter than the equatorial a.
ameter. We thus have q spheroe.
which IL nattened at the poles. ID
making maps il is desirable TO tal4
this irregularity Of shape into adj
count" said DR.. Oscar s. Adams, Oh
the Coast and Geodetic Survey at the
meeting Of the Philosophical Society
at the Cosmos Club Saturday night.
II is comparatively easy to deter
mine map projection for the sphere.
since every point upon IL In like
every other point in respect 20 the
sphere itself. With the spheroid. he
-,piaincd, this property Ia no longer
20 be found.
If IL is possible TO project the
spheroid upon a sphere In such q
way that any particular property Is
preserved, we can then. by q second
step project this sphere upon the
plane and by these two steps secure
4 projection Of the spheriod that has
the desired property preserved" said
DR.. Adams. There are two impor-
tant classes OF projections used for
map making: The conformal class
that preserves angles and the equal
area class which preserves all areas
in the same ratio. In all projections
of the FIRST class the spheroid Is pro-
Jected conformally upon the sphere
as an intermediate step and this re-
suits in a correction TO the latitude
leaving the longitude unchanged
Using this idea. d was found that
the spheroid could be mapped upon
a sphere SO as to preserve areas un-
changed. provided that the sphef
had a surface area equal in all rh
spects TO that Of the spheroid." ex
planned DR.. Adams. A correction 20
the latitude can be computed, leaV-
ing the longitude unchanged just as
in the case of the conforml pro-
jections. Formulas and tables for
this correction will be published by
the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
MORE ABOUT ST. PATRICK.

To the Editor, The washington Herald:
1t is not just to your generosity
in permitting the use of your news
paper columns to impose upon your
patience by a rapid barrage Of COM
munications concerning st. Patrick,
so thanking you for your courtesy
beg permission to say a final word
in answer to Miss Margaret Lees
letter of this morning. I complain
that she infuses matters extraneous
to the question of the religion of
Patrick McAlpine, now called st.
Patrick. 1t puzzles me how Erin
can be Roman Catholic for 1900
years IL her Patron Saint taught
some other religion.
There is no such Institution mem
toned in any history as a Catholic
church distinct from the Roman. 1t
is figment of the Imagination, an
invention of some English Protest.
ant. Prior to Father Luther, King
Henry. VIII and few more promi-
nent Roman Catholics who reyolted
against the See of Rome in the ear
ly part Of the sixteenth century,
there was no Christian religion in
the whole world but the Roman
Catholic.
The Churches of Russia and
Greece were one with Rome until the
ninth century. when a separation
occurred, not on doctrine. but ON pa
pal authority. Let Protestants and
Catholics love one another. for love
d4eth many bitternesses,s but Let