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Evening journal., 1922-01-09
INCOME TAX AND
PROFITS LIABILITY

Following Is a statement from
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue.
David II. Blair. relating to the pro-
ceduro with respect TO inquiries re-
ceived by the Bureau OF Internal
Revenue regarding tax liabilities:
Requests are being received daily
for rulings and advice upon abstract
cases or prospective transactions in
volving questions Of income tax and
profits liability These requests are
so numerous and the insistence on
prompt action so great that II seems
advisable at this time definitely to
outline the Bureaus policy which
will govern the consideration OF these
requests
''rhe Revenue Acts OF 1918 and
1921 depart widely at many points
from prior law or practice, and have
given rise TO new questions OF such
importance, complexity. and number
that the resources Of the Bureau are
no more than adequate to advise tax
payers promptly Of their present liz
bilities arising out OF past transac-
uons. IL Is impossible TO answer
every question which the invention
or ingenuity OF the inquirer may de-
wise without negiecting the funda-
mental duty OF determining tax LA
bility upon the basis Of actual hap
penings. Under these circumstances
the administrative necessity Is OBJ
, vious Of giving precedence over alb
stract or prospective cases to actual
cases in which the taxpayer desires
! to know what are his immediate
liabilities under the law.
1T viii be the policy Of the Bureau
not to answer any inquiry except
under the following circumstances:
1.-The transaction must be com
, pleted and not merely proposed oi
planned
THE complete facts relating to IN,
transaction, together with abstract
from, contracts, or other documents
necessary to present the complete
facts must lie given.
THE names OF all the real partie
q interested (not dummies" used ii
the transacion) must be stated re
: gardless Of who presents the ques
! ton whether attorney. accountant
tax service. or other representative.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
HIS 0. K. ON
BOBBED HAIR
Minister Also Says Short
Skirts Are All Right If
Girls Want EN-
LONG GARMENT
is A HANDICAP

One minister in New York City,
according to the women Of his par
ish, shows coed sense in not criticis-
ing their apparel. He is the Rev.
Charles A. Woodward, pastor Of the
Mission of the Redeemer. in the Mar
BILE Hill section OF the city.
In brief, he approves Of bobbed
hair. IL a girl wants to wear It that
way; of short skirts. since he can see
no more reason why a woman should
hide her ankles than man; trans
parent blouses. worn even at busi-
ness il the girl so desires; low-cut
blouses. If she prefers them to high
collars and neckbands; but he does
think women should not wear fiashy
colors or try to attract attention to
themselves.
The fact OF the matter is DR..
Woodward has gone step further
and has planned fashion show for
his church, so that the women of his
congregation can see the latest styles
without going out of the parish.
Forty members of the church have
offered to act as models and a prom
inent dress manufacturer is loanine
the costumes for the show.
This is a strictly sanitary aee -
SAID Doctor Woodward, "and tLat is
why l believe women should wear
short skirts. comfortable clothes and
bob her hair-If she feels so in
clined - although personally do
not like bobbed hair It's up to the
girl on the hair question. 1 under
stand a girl can wash her hair
oftener when It is short, and there
Is so much dust in the city that fire.
quent washing is necessary"
When asked II he objected 10
transparent blouses he said:
They save laundry expenses and
are practical. I admit like to sec
young business woman clad in a
tailored suit and neat blouse, but IL
she prefers a crepe or serge and
satin frock. that is decidedly her af-
fair. Many girls do not have any
opportunity to display dress except
in their places OF business. Social
life does not claim them. and while
l do not believe in party dresses, a
young woman is justified in wearing
a suitable silk or satin dress to busi-
ness"
How long or how short do you
think she should wear her skirts?"
THAT again is a matter Of sani-
taion." replied Mr. Woodward mo
sensible business woman or house.
wife is going to drag a long skirt
after her. Long skirts would be a
handicap in subways and in hus-
Ting about city streets. A skirt even
to the shoe tops might be too long.
| Therefore, II a woman wears a skirt
which displays several inches of her
ankle there should be no cause for
disturbance After all, her ankle
should not attract any more atten-
tion tkan a mans. And men have
simply got TO quit ogling the woman
who Is comfortable and sanitarily
dressed.
I'm time this condition is coming
about" concluded the Rev Mr..
Woodward. when women first
wore short skirts, men would turn
on the streets to look at them. This
summer so many women followed
the fashions that a womans ankle
no longer caused a stir.
This fall skirts are a triie long
er. but they will never go back to
ground length, or even to shoe-top
length. Women are going to dress
for business. comfort and TIE work
they have to do. They need not be
extreme or fiashy
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
&. W.PEPPER IS
PA. i. 5. SENATOR
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ber, North Dakota, today was for
mally selected chairman OF the Sem
ate finance committee, succeeding
Senator Penrose. Pennsylvania.
McCumber's selection which was
made by the committee. will have to
be ratified by the Senate. This is re-
garded as virtually certain.
There was no discussion as senior
ity entitled McCumber TO the place.
The committee on committees also
selected Senator Frelinghuysen, New
Jersey. as a member OF the finance
committee TO hll the vacancy caused
by Penrose's death.
No action was taken on other va
cancies thus created. They include
the banking and currency, naval af-
fairs and immigration committees.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
JAIL FOR MAN
WHO BEAT Wife
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hitting her a severe blow in the
mouth.
Probation officer Handy testified
that citruk is 3s7 in arrears on the
order and that he does not work
steady. Three different positions
were secured for him by the Asso-
ciated Charities, who have been TAX
ing an interest in the case H. behalf
of the neglected wife and children,
Mr. Handy stated. Because OF Cit
rulS's abusive conduct. workers Of
the Associated Charities fear to go
to his home, Mr.. Handy related. He
said that from his several investiga-
tions, he learned that CitruS has
been mistreating his wife.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
v NLEN AT DINNER.

A. r. Lindley, general secretary OF
the Y. NJ. c. A., addressed the dor
mitory men at a dinner in the as
ISOLATION rooms last night on 10y
atty" He said the success Of men
was often measured by the loyalty
to a cause rather than by actual re-
suits achieved.
A. F. McCabe presided at the din
ner. These dinners of the dormi-
tory men viii be conducted every
Sunday night during the winter.
While the dinners were first instl-
tuted by the dormitory men, they
are open to any member of the r.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
REFLECT DIRECTORS.

Stockholders OF the Farmers Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company held
their annual meeting at their Of
ces. S33 Market street. this morning
when the retiring board OF man.
ayers were reelected. The board
follows:
Three years-Alfred A. Curtis, Jo-
seph Bancroft. Frederick Brady
Horace l.. Dilworth, J. T. Skelley.
Two years-John M. Mendinhall.
One years. ID. Townsend.
The new board will meet on next
Tuesday .and elect officers.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
WATER BOARD ROUTINE.

At the meeting OF the Board OF
Water Commissioners this morning,
samuel J. White. city treasurer. re-
ported s27 7.ss1.s7 in the current ex-
pense fund. and s4S5.46 in the spe-
clal expense fund. The current
weekly payroll OF s2.526.e0 and the
special weekly payroll were ordered
paid
The pumpage for the week ending
Friday, January 6. was 92,047. $40
gallons as compared with 1885. 100
gallons for the corresponding week
OF last year. The consumption for
tho same week was s0.4s7.o00 gall
Ions as compared with S0.3600 600
gallons for the corresponding week
last year
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
RUSSIAN REDS
TO PAY DEBTS
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participation in an international
economic conference;
I. De Jure recognition OF the So
Wet by the allies.
2 The Moscow government shall
assume the debts Of previous Rus
sian governments.
3. Citizens OF other countries who
have lost their wealth through the
Russian revolution shall be indemni-
fed. (This shall apply only in the
case OF citizens OF countries which
recognize the soviet.)
A. The soviet government will
guarantee private property rights in
Russia.
II was believed here the preiimi-
nary agreement concerning Russian
participation at Genoa would recon-
mend a loan by the Allies 10 the
soviet government.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
GRACE WONfEN 10 MEET.

The Grace Young Women's Home
Missionary Auxiliary will meet at s
O'Clock this evening. at the home Of
Miss Viola p. johnson. 1907 Union
street. Dovouons will be conducted
by Mrs. II. /. Lawton and the pro-
gram will be in charge Of Mrs. N.
T.. Mecarraher. -
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
TOPKIs SONS BUY
OUTLET STORES STOCK.

r. Topkk Sons. 42O Market
street, have purchased the entire
stock Of hosiery. corsets and under
wear OF the Outlet Stores OF this
city. According TO an advertisement
In this paper, the goods viii be put
on sale by Topkis Sons at half of the
outlet prices.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
What Makes You Right
or Left Handed?
It's Your Brain, Says Hereward Darlington
BY HEREWARD CARRINGTON,
Scicntlst and Anfhor.

AS II ever struck
you as curious
that most people
are right hand
edf
Why should
they be2
Probably you
have been more
struck by an oc-
casional person
you may meet
who is left-hand-
ed and you con
slider him "odd. ."
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
NEIGHBoRHooD GAGE TEAM.

Meetings Of the newly y-organized
Delaware Girls Club Of the Della
more Neighborhood Association will
be held weekly at the Porter street
health centre. Plans are now under
way for the organization of a bas-
ketball team.
Officers of the club are: Mrs.
zaves, president; Pauline Plystack.
vice-president; Anna zuchowski,
secretary; Jakowbowski, treasurer.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09

take action TO protect one another
in case of trouble. it is said.
Regarding merchant ships. there
are two questions, the possible con-
version Of such ships for offensive
fighting purposes, which would
make them dangerous armed cruis-
ers, and the defensive arming Of
these vessels as a safeguard against
submarine attack.
The plenary session now impend-
ing-is expected to prove a sort of
"clean up" affaf in the work of the
conference.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
MRS. y. A. BRNGHURsr DEAD

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Bringhurat. 1915
Park Place. died on Saturday after
an Illness OF many years. She was
the widow OF Henry r. Bringhurst,
who has been dead for 21 years
She was born In Wilmington, and
was a member OF the Society Of
Friends. and a member OF the board
OF directors OF the Female Benevo-
lent Society.
She is survived by two children.
Harry r. Brlnghurst. Jr., attorney.
and Miss Elizabeth A. Bringhurst.
The funeral viii take place from the
late residence at 2.3O o'clock tomor-
row afternoon. The Rev. Richard
" Trapnell. rector Of St. Andrews
Church viii conduct the services
Interment viii be private in Will
mington and Brandywine Cemetery
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
sIsTERnooD MEETING.

The Sisterhood Of the Adas Ko-
desh Synagogue will meet at 7.3s
o'clock tonight in the vestry room.
1t has been decided that the future
meetings will be hel& at the Syna-
gogue instead Of at ~ West street.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09
TAKE MARRIAGE LIcENsEs.

Magistrate Broman has issued
marriage licenses as follows:
L. Irving Hutchison. Newark, to
Clara f. Thorpe. Porters.
Fezzie Hubbard, Elsmere, TO Viola
NJ. Lewis. 523 West Seventh street.
Evening journal., 1922-01-09

Scotland now has a population OF
fssz zss. which Is three times what
r sas a 1901. There are 1856. .452
more siych women than men
Evening journal., 1922-01-09

lied, and in ieft-handed persons the
right hemisphere. Left-handed
persons, therefore. use fhe oppo-
site side OF the braln-the right
side instead of the left side.
But just why do they do this?
No one knows exactly. We can
only assume that heredity plays its
)art here, producir- a certain
number OF left-handed persons in
very generation. There are no
Indications that left-handed per-
sons have naturally criminal ten
dencies or are otherwise queer"
as many persons believe.
May Affect Speech.
A very practical side TO this
question develops, however. When
only one half OF the brain is thus
developed, an injury to that side OF
the brain may leave the individual
dumb, for instance. IL the speech
center on that side is affected. but
II the other side is sound, II can bC
trained. II the patient is not too old
But II, in childhood. the child is
taught TO use both. hands equally
weil both sides Of the brain arc
then developed, and the subject has
not only the full use OF both hands
and arms. but also both sides oi
his brain, and is much better Off ir
case OF accident.
We should, therefore, train al
young children to become ambidex-
trous, TO use both hands equal,
well; Il may stand them in good
stead later on in iifel
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iereward Darlington

In this picture of the cortex of
the brain, "A Indicate the speech
and writing centres. The arrow
shows you how the nerve wires are
crossed SO that your left brain con-
rols your right hand and your
right brain your left hand.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-08-18
The Wish Is Fullfilled---W What Now
SECRETARY oPNENr COUNCIL

Before the Zionist world are these
three questions:
1. The Jewish Agency.
2. The actual development of Pal
estine.
3. The creation of responsible
financial instrumentalities.
Involved in these questions are the
following:
l.. The part the Zionist Organiza-
ton should play in all of them.
2. The reorganization of the move
ment so that it can function.
! 8. The Division and ALLEGATION of
duties, political, economic, etc.
! a. The insuring of responsible rep
resentative action at Zionist confer
tences and congresses in all matters,
And let me add, whoever seeks to
work out these problems in terms of
party or group interests will stretch
the eye in the needle to the length of
the equatorial line. And whoever
seeks to solve them with phrase or
catch-word will blunder as badly as
did those who thought the financial
solution was in the magic power of
the word "Maaser." AS Euclid said
of learning, "There is no royal road to
Zionistic success"
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

nation secret because Roumania is
seeking to negotiate loan from the
Rothschilds. Roumania has never kept
a solemn pledge. It's promises are
worse than scraps of paper. Its word
in International Conclaves cannot be
trusted.
I think if Jews did what Samuel
Samuel, M. P. of England, did the 9th
er day, it would have salutary effect
upon some of our enemies. He brought
action against woman because she
wrote letter to a prominent Eng
lishman asking him to support the OPP
ponent of Mr.. Samuel for Parliament
because cit behooves us who can vote
to give that vote to an honest and
honorable Englishman and not to an
alien Jew" Mr.. Samuel won his case
in court and compelled the woman in
question to apologize and to promise
not to repeat such defamations. He
proved that he was not an alien and
that he is Jew by religion and de-
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alien influence, but it was a joke. I
know of complete chapters that would
not pass in polite society. I am anx-
ious to hear what anti-Semites will
have to say on this subject. We have
been accused of corrupting the NOR
ais of the nation through the movies
and the theatre and Henry Ford went
so far as to say that the class of
apparel sold by Jewish merchants cor
rupted young people. Now let's have
show down on this literature issue.
Roumania has always been a bad
actor so far as the Jews are con-
cerned. So it is not surprising to
learn that 40 Jews were executed by
Roumanian military authorities after
they have been granted amnesty by
the King. They had been imprisoned
for political offenses and after being
pardoned were on their way from the
prison when they were killed one by
one. 1t is said that an effort was
made to keep this wholesale assassi-
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-08-18
MEXICO MAKES LARGE LAND
GRANT TO JEWS /

Chicago q. T. A.)-A charter
granting sixteen million acres of land
for the colonization of Jews from
Eastern Europe and detailing the
concessions under which the grant is
made, has been obtained from Presi-
dent Obregon of Mexico, Paul w.
Rothenberg, lawyer of this city who
has just returned from Mexico City,
announces.
Mr.. Rothenberg who received the
original offer two months ago, went
as the head of Jewish Investigat-
ing Committee to Mexico City, to
negotiate the agreement with the
Mexican government. This agreement,
Mr.. Rothenberg says, has been
reached and the charter signed. The
charter, comprising 100 printed pages,
will be brought by a high Mexican
official to Chicago, it is said. It is
issued in the name of the Mexican
Jewish Colonization Association, an
organization formed for the purpose
of exploiting in behalf of homeless
East European Jews, the Mexican
grant of land.
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scent "and proud of the fact"

There is only one point I want to
consider in the communication sent
to me by Benjamin Sold Levin re-
garding the establishment of Jew
ish university. While Swarthmore
and Haverford are Quaker colleges
and Goucher is Methodist and
Princeton is Presbyterian, yet he
knows quite we'll it is utterly absurd
to compare them with a JEWISH
UNIVERSITY or with a CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY. He knows quite we'll
that Jews will go to Swarthmore and
Princeton and to Goucher, too, but
Professionals will not go to a Jewish
university nor to Catholic univer-
sity. He speaks of the Jews as "a
denomination" religious group, so
to speak; apparently he is right yet
there is so much confusion today that
no one seems to know whether we are
a race or a religion, whether we are
nation or not. We cannot compare
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it, and it is not in criticism that I
say, believe that it's opinion is not
an opinion at all, Because there was
no adequate study of the question and
assuredly the rank and file of Ameri-
can Zionists do not know that the
question-which may decide the fate
of the organization-exists.
Let us draw a few distinctions.
The Zionist Organization as it exists
was developed to register political
national opinions which found their
mass expression in Congress. That
opinion centered around the Basic Pro-
gram. That Basic Program register
ed a wish to create the Jewish home
land in Palestine by public law, good.
The wish is fulfilled. Public law has
enacted the Jewish homeland. That
changes the purpose of the Zionist
Organization. We have the public
law now we need something else
acts that will make the law real, ac-
tive in it's operation. If we do not
acknowledge this change in the front,
we can expect others to do no bet
ter.
But when we change the purpose of
GIlS lllOVcIlSllC, VIC lHUoI CLdlSC ICo
character, and when we change it's
character, we need new mechanism.
Examine the shekel payer-the vox
populi of Zionism. The shekel payer
registered his opinion on the principle
and went his way. Who knew him?
What more was expected of him? He
served we'll. What useful opinion can
the shekel payer now register? He
disappears with his vote. He is
neither responsive nor responsible.
How can this elusive voter build up
Palestine? What serious authority
is there in the delegates who are
elected by shekel payers?
Let us be frank, for we blame no
one in particular when we say that
politically the Zionist Organization
has been a great achievement, but
from it's inception it has been fail
ure financially. The Jewish Colonial
Trust never raised more than its
minimum necessary capital. The Jew
ish National Fund has shown that
all Jewry cannot compete with
one Jew. The Emergency and Resto-
ration Funds raised less than other
war funds-the Keren Hayesod has
done no better. The Trust and Ma
tional Fund met with no serious OPP
position. We had a world of senti-
ment with us. Let us be honest;
Eastern Jewry, that reservoir we now
talk of as the great source we miss,
gave pennies. 1t is true that in 1920,
and again in 1922 there was raised
in the United States of America twice
the amount raised throughout the
Zionist world in 1900 but that is no
serious progress in twenty years.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-08-18

A timely discussion intended to
force thinking on basic problem
the problem of the Zionist Organiza-
ton and the Jewish Agency now the
mandate has been confirmed. The
article deals with question to be dis
cussed by the Zionist Annual Confer
ence in Carlsbad on August 23rd.-
Editor.
"The mill will not grind with the
water that has passed." Until the
Zionist Organization learns this, con-
fusion will remain the order of the
day. The calling of a Jahresconfer-
enz, following the issuance of the
mandate is to my mind a character
istic blunder, for the conference is
body with limited powers and all that
it can achieve, at costly amount of
travelling, is to summon a Congress.
The mechanism of the Zionist Organ
ization is not only out of joint, it no
longer applies. If the Zionists will
not bow before a political fact, we
cannot expect the rest of Jewry to
acknowledge that fact.
There is need for applied thinking;
not the thinking that goes into arti-
Gle writing or speech-making, but the
thinking that is used in pattern cut
ting. Applied thinking is unpleasant
exercise. You have to tell yourself
over and over again that you are
wrong before you can by test prove
that you are right. The business of
Zionist Congresses and Conventions
is to build up mechanism that will
function and to register clear opinions
on Zionist problems so as to guide the
mechanism. The Zionist organization
is not built to function according to
our present needs. The recent 25th
convention of the Zionist Organization
of America illustrates that. 1t was
organized according to the formulae
of the first convention. Some of the
subject matter was changed but the
formulae remained intact. The same
criticism applies to the Carlsbad Con-
gress. A Zionist gathering imagin-
ing that it is parliament comes
hurriedly together, and with equal
hurry disperses. Some resolutions
are jammed through. There are
victors and vanquished The real
problem has not been faced. The
Jahresconferenz cannot face it either.
1t is not prepared for the task. The
American delegates have credentials
but no instructions, for the Conven-
ton kept aloof from the vital prob
lens. No one knows what American
opinion is; perhaps there is no Ameri-
can opinion, and that too is danger
ours.
Three months ago, the World Zion
list Organization issued circular in
viting opinion on the character of the
Jewish Agency. I believe the Ameri-