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Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21

Boston on Monday. returning Thurs day to attend the New England Rap tist Evangelistic conference. While in Boston they were guests of Gordon Theological College
 A duet was rendered by Mrs. Marsh and Arthur Proulx ai the services Sunday at the Eastford Baptist church North Ashford. The latter, with his mother, Mrs. Eva Proulx. together with the pastor, were elected as dele gates to the Ashford Baptist Associa. ton convention to be held on Tues day at Spring Hill. The pastor, Rev, Norman Nj. Bloore. preached on Con version" In the evening the Christ ian Endeavor was led by the pastor
Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21
WOODSTOCK

Miss Flora Chase is on the sick list Edward R. Rollins is in New York this week.
 Miss Janet Reed has returned Co Manchester, N. H.
 Miss Imogene Smith has been a re- cent guest at W. J. Lindeman's.
 George Holt 2nd has returned to the Stone School at Cornwall, \. |.
 General John NJ. Carson has gone to Washington, D. C., for a week.
 Rev. Mir Covell of Boston preached at the Hill church Sunday morning.
 Mir. Barbour Is to occupy the pulpit at the Hill church this coming Sunday. Mir. and Mrs. Ernest Williamson of Worcester were in town for the fair. Andrew L. Lyon left on Tuesday for Asbury Park. N. J. He took the trip down by automobile and will remain several weeks before returning to
Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21
EAST PUTNAM

Byron A. Larkin is visiting in Brooklyn.
 Mrs. 0rray Cutters relatives from Hope Valley, K. l. called on her Sun day.
 Mrs. W. II. Cady Is visiting her sister. Mrs. Nelson Baker, in South bridge.
 Amos Johnson has been entertain ing his brother and family from New Jersey.
 Mrs. l. C. BurriIl entertained her brother, Adelbert Tripp, from Wash ington, K. l.
 Mrs. c. P. Burrill received first prize on tatted camisole yoke at the Woodstock Fair.
 Mr. and Mrs. 4. F.. Chapman en- tertained friends from Rochdale and Worcester, also Frank Skinner and family of Webster.
Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21

taining happening in Eastford. for many a long day. Carnival hats. toy whistles and flower baskets. together with confetti and streamers, helped make merry the evening. not forget ting the dancing. Sandwiches. punch, wafers and ice cream were served to the fifty or more guests from Putnam, Pomfret. Phoenixvillc and Eastford.
Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21
NORTH ASHFORD

\ prayer meeting will be held on Friday evening at the residence of W Farnham.
 Rev. Norman Nj. and Mrs. Bloorc accompanied Rev. J. C. Stoddard to
Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21

An actress who went to Paris seek ing new plays for the Theatre Guild of New York returned recently with out any. She stated the plays she had seen in France were -so dirty" she would be unwilling to reproduce them in America
Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21

Next Sunday an evangclistic service will be held.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
VETERAN MAPMAKER
DIES AT HOME HERE
Ernest J. Sommer Pioneer in Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Service.

Ernest r. Sommer. seventy-seven
years old. resident Of Washington for
more than half century and a pioneer
in coast and geodetic survey work. died
at Providence Hospital Monday after
long illness. Funeral services took
place today at Lees undertaking par.
lors, where, In accordance With the
wishes of the deceased, the remains
were cremated.
Mr.. Sommer was native Of Cam
staff. Wuerttemberg. Germany, coming
to this country in 1859. He frat To-
TO Washington in 1870. He has lived
here since that time.
He became attached to the stan OF
the old bureau of survey. the parent
Of the coast and geodetic survey. re.
ceiving an appointment on July l,
Der 8, 1918. he remained in the serv-
ice. resigning then because Of i'll
health. Since his separation from the
service after forty-eight years his
health had been steadily failing.
Mr.. Sommer was on a number of
the most important missions Of the
survey bureau. He aided In adjust
ment of Alaskan boundaries and in
mapping previously unknown sections
of the Alaskan coast. He was Sc
tSClcQ IdtST Olle Oh tnS EuTFey
party for the proposed-but never
accomplished--ship canal across Mex
ico many years ago, and WAS regard
cd as an authority on topography.
His former colleagues adopted reso-
lutlon OF sympathy for his death.
He is survived by a widow, Mrs.
Lena Sommer. and three sons, K. +.
Sommer. DR.. II. .. Sommer and J. G.
Sommer. The local residence of the
deceased was at the Fo1ger apart
mentS. All I'd street northeast.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
EARNED INCOMES GET
PREFERRED TAX SLASH

Continued from First Pase.)
Evening star., 1923-11-15
ARMORY MEMORIAL
| PROJECT REVIVED
Fifteen Organizations of City
/ to Discuss Plan Tues.
day Night.

Another step in tho movement 70
have erected in thisscity National
Guard armory to be a memorial to
those who have died in the wars IN
which the country has participated
will be taken at the present rehtea
armory. at 472. L street northwest
Tuesday night"at' S O'Clock. AT that
time there gflts be /. an organization
meeting Of designated representatives
Of patriotie and civic bodies of the
city, forming ~ joint, committee 70
work out plans for taking the matter
OF the erection of such an armory UP
to Congress.
Fifteen organizations of the city
have designated committees to form
q. part of the Joint committee. ,-.
Organizations Represented. :
The organizations and their repre-
sentatives are:
Veterans Of Foreign Wars: Maj.
Hodges and Capt. Edwin >. Bettel-
helm. jr.
Board of Trade: w. l.. Bcale and
Frederick a. Fenning.
Chamber OF Commerce: A. Leftw!c
Sinclair and Charles w. Darr
Merchants md Manufacturers, AS
sociation: NJ. A. Leese and Charles +.
Crane.
Veterans of Foreign Wars: Lieut.:
Kenneth l.. Ccontz. U. :. NJ and
Francis c. Huhn.
American Legion--Capt. Watson 3.
Miller and Col. George l.. TAFT.
Military Order of the world War-
Maj; John Scott and Capt Godfrey
NJ. 5. Tait. ~. =
Grand Army of tho Republic-Dr.
Henry A, Johnson and Frederick: w.
Archibald.
Reserve Officers Association-slaj.
r.. E. B. Mckenny.
Disabled Emergency Officers of the
World war-Capt. II. Turner Lewis
and Lieut.. l.. S. Ray.
United States Spanish War Veter-
ans-Richard L. Lamb and William
Kiwanis Club-w.lliam II. Warner
and John c. WinsTnan.
Rotary Club--Col. Leroy HERON
and Capt. Charles Demonet.
Newcomers Club-John NJ. Cherry
and DR.. J. r. Wolf.
Lions Club-George =. Du Bois and
Virgil +. Bourne.
Evening star., 1923-11-15

titled to call his income earned. But q.
farmer who owns another farm and
hires others to work for him Is engaged
IN business just as Is a corporation
ana does not enjoy for that part of
his income any 25 per cent reduction.
The head OF a business or partner who
works In a business is entitled to the
20 per cent reduction. The absentee
owner. however who lives on the work
OK others and on the profits made, by
the capital he invests is not entitled
under the proposed plan to anyj25 per
cent reduction.
Decreases For An,
But even the persons with unear,ied
incomes Will get q constderabie re-
'ductton over previous years. ]. Thus
at present there Is a normal tax Of
4 per cent on the first $4,000 on every
body'5 net income after deductions
have been made. This rate win be
reduced to per cent for everybody
whether receiving earned or nearn-
ed incomes. There is another tax of
per cent on all net inIomes above
$4,000. This will be reduced to 6 DER
cent.
In computing taxes under the pro-
posed Mellon plan, the taxpayer would
make out his return taking the usual
deductions and calculating the nor
mai taxes end surtaxes and then he
would calculate his total tax. II.
however. all OF his income Is entitled
TO be classed as earned" he then
takes a rs per cent reduction on his
total tax. II only u part OF his in
come is earned he calculates a rs per
cent reduction On that portion of his
tax Whieh Is based On the amount of
income earned.
BY far the larger number of tax
payers making personal returns are
in the class of earned incomes. The
taxpayers who have the other type
OF incomes would receive their hene-
nts through the reduction OF normal
taxes and by q general scaling down
Of surfaces ~" I"
Evening star., 1923-11-15
RAILWAY ANSWERS
.RECE|vERSH|P PLEA
Virginia Company Says Of
fenses Charged Were Set
tied for Years Ago.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 10
Branding the allegations of Matte
III. Newcomer Of Washington mis-
statements OF facts" and saying that
the offenses charged are all concern
ing matters that have long since been
thoroughly settled. Gardner L. Boothe,
representing the Washington and Vir-
ginia Railway Company, today pre-
sented a demurrer TO Judge Samuel G.
Brent of the circuit court of Fairfax
county, sitting here asking that the
petition for a receivership be dis
missed
Alleged mismanagement OF the COM
pany many years ago was brought up
in the petition Of Mrs. Newcomer,
owner of two Of the $1,000 bonds OF
the company which have defaulted In
the payment of interest. which was
presented to the court by c. NJ Mar
illat, attorney for the petitioner.
While the defendants named in the
petition chiefly concern the Washing
ton and Virginia Railway Company.
it names several corporations which
are shown to have been out or exist
ence since 1918 when tney were
Evening star., 1923-11-15

will permit taxpayers in the earned
income" class to retain approximately
$l0O.O00.OO0 a year. the same amount
OF revenue being made up in another
part of Mr.. Melons plan for tax re-
vision.
Even some Of those who oppose a
revision Of taxes at this time concede
that this particular suggestion of Sec
retary Melons IS sound and that 1t
ought to have been applied in pre-
vious years. Other countries have
made such distinction In thefr-'tax
systems.
Theory OF Differentiation.
The theory back Of the differentia-
tlon between an earned income and
what Is technically called an unearned
income Is that a doctor or a lawyer
or bookkeeper or a clerk works year
In and year out just as a mechanic
or q iaborer using up vital energy,
vvidual gets old and his strength has
been sapped he cannot pass on his
through.
Such a man, however. today pays
amoun, to $4,000 ~ Year. for mi Instance sss
as does q man who has accumulated
through inheritance or otherwise a
capttal.fund OF $33,500 and has invegt-
ed It at per cent. The two thou
sand dollars OF interest he receives
on his money has been produced by
the work Of $33. 500 invested in pro-
ductiye enterprise or In securities Of
one kind or another.
There are people with funds
amounting TO 100000 who have in
vested it at per cent and who are
drawing an income of $4,000 a year
and living nicely on that The
100000 Will never be destroyed. 1t
can be passed on for generations and
each year, If properly invested. IL can
Darn per cent. But the lawyer or
the doctor or the actor or the high
by years of study and investment of
time and money in the getting Of a
good education finally manages to
reach a point in life where $4,000 a
year is earned can only have that in
come during the years of his etti-
cheney. When his energies decline
his practice, X he be d doctor. for in
stance, declines and he cannot pass on
his reputation to another. His capl-
tai Is his mental ability.
Mr.. Mellon says that such individuals
should not be In the same category as
the persons who live on invested funds.
for a salary or wages. but who have
saved enough money to invest in real
estate or small businesses. The proposed
law would require the taxpayers to
show on their returns how much OF
their income Ia earned and how much Ii
unearned or due to investments.
Thus a farmer who works on his own
farm Is to be considered as salaried
worker or wage.earner. for he is en-
Evening star., 1923-11-15

merged with the principal defendant
corporation. - -s-
Charges made in the petition that
the Washington Virginia Railroad
Company had sold certain Of its holG-
fngs were answered by attorneys Tor
the railway, and it was claimed that
every cent that had been realized on
certain transactions had been used 10
retire part of the company's debt
The Continental Trust Company OF
Washington filed an intervening petit.
ton, which also asks the court 20 'ap-
point a receiver to Investigate the al
legged mismanagem and to report
the most efficient manner in which to
attend to the company's intricate and
depleted financial condition.
This petition shows that the Contl-
mental Trust Company is the owner
of eight bonds OF the company, which
have u par value Of $1,000 each.
Bank Holds Notes.
In addition to these bonds, the con 4
pany is holder Of nearly $4,000 in
collateral trust notes of the company.
which should bear per cent inte--
est. az we'll az 1852 shares or the pre-
ferred capital stock and 3e2 shares %
the common capital stock OF the dc
fendant corp oratfon.
The Integrity Trust Company, sue
cessor to the Merchants' Trust Com
pany of Philadelphia, filed state
ment which shows that II. as rep
resenta tive S.of stockholders, IS not
ready for a receivership.
John S. Barbour, attorney for TINS
company, says that it was not 10 tho
best interest of the bondholders that
a receiver be named now.
Figures introduced today show thas
the company, while admittedly de-
faultinE so far as the interest on it5
bonds are concerned, has since 1879
retired much Of its current indebted
ness and is now nearly on a SOUND
basis of operation. Day and thinner
man, operating engineers OF Philadel-
phia, have had charge Of the com
pany for the past three years.
Arguments are expected 70 coDtinne'
until late today, when IL Is believed
that Judge Brent will take the matter
under advisement
Evening star., 1923-11-15
MOTORISTS OF STA
CLUBS TO GATHER
1924 Policies to Be Shaped
Here in Interest of 500,-
600 Members.

Three hundred and seventy-four au-
tomobile clubs Of the United States.
with memberships aggregating 900. 900
motorists. are preparing to take an
active part In the annual convention
OF the National Motorists Association.
which opens here tomorrow and con-
tinues Saturday, according to Fred H.
Galley, executive secretary OF the Or
ganization.
Following election of officers, this
conference will formulate 1924 poll
cies affecting the ownership and op-
GRAFTON OF the 100000 motor We
hicles registered throughout the coun-
try. Included will be policies affect
Ing road building and maintenance,
city traffic problems. headlight manu-
facture and usage, automobile steal
ings. safety on the highways, national
and state legislation, tax imposition
and collection methods. fraudulent
automobile organizations and schemes
and standardized emergency mechan-
ical and towing service through off,
ctal y. NJ. A. garages.
Details of Club Work.
Other policies will deal with inter-
nal details of club work, such as I'M
provemenu of touring and map serv-
ice. legal advice and the like.
A policy of eliminating waste in
road building, together with the advo-
eating of appropriations for more
durable roads. will be brought up. 1t
Is aimed to make 1924 u record high
ways building year.
The greatest emphasis Will be
placed, not on traffic regulation, but
on the providing of more nearly ade-
quate highway facilities, In order to
lcatch up and keep pace with the rapid
increase In the number of motor We
hicles manufactured and put into use.
Legislation, with particular refer
ence to taxation and the regulating
of automobiles, will be dealt with.
Hotel Headquarters.
Headquarters will be in the Hotel
Washington, and practically all the
delegates to the convention are ex-
pected to be in the city not later than
midnight tonight.
There will be a banquet the evening
OF Friday, November 16. President
Coolidge will receive the delegates at
the White House at noon Saturday,
the 18th.
During the business sessions and at
the banquet the convention will be
addressed by cabinet officers and gov
ernment officials interested In the de-
velopment OF good roads and auto
mobile manufacturing and regulation.
Nationa! officers include: Judge
Walter d. Meals of Ohio, preside Mt +;
Richard II. Lee of New York, first
vice president; B. H. Hagerman of
Kansas City, vice president: Eugene
Stuart Of Louisville, vice president;
J. Borton Weeks OF Philadelphia, vice
president; H. NJ. Lucius Of Baltimore.
treasurer; Fred II. Galley Of Cleveland,
secretary; T. L. Ertsman of Chicago.
q ssistant secretary. and Raymond
Beck OF Washington. manager.
Evening star., 1923-11-15

David W. Mulvane of Kansas, chair
man: Charles d. Hilles of New York.
William NJ Butler Of Massachusetts.
Harmon l. Remmel OF Arkansas. and
r. +. Williams. will present the ar
Ruments of the contending cities to
the entire national republican COM
mittee for final decision. The result
probably will be announced when the
committee meets as whole on De-
cember IL. John T. Adams. chairman
Of the national committee, also at
tended.
Before receiving the invitations
Chairman Mulvane announced that
the subcommittee would expect to
have them present in written form.
too, all containing the guaranteed
hotel prices that would prevail dur
ing the sessions Of the convention.
This item and the question OF an ade.
Quate auditorium were the two
which most interested the members
of the committee during the addresses
today.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
TURKS ASK U. S. CITIZEN
BECOME CONSUL GENERAL
Would Appoint Louisiana Bug
Dealer to Big Post-As-
sent Here Sought.
By tte Assotiated press

By tfe Assotia ted Press
SHREVEPORT, La. November Is
Col. George Haddad. local rug dealer.
has been offered the post OF: consul
general to the United States. with
headquarters in New York. by the
Turkish national government:
He has taken the matter, up with
the Labor Department OF the: Ameri-
can government at Washington to as
certain IL his American citizenship
would bar him from accepting the
post.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
MARLBORO ENTRIES
FOR FRIDAY,

tOh FRIDAY,
., FIRST ST.! RacE=patse. 5000; for. .wo.y..r.
Evening star., 1923-11-15

Mrs. Agnes II. Rouse is the only
woman member Of the Kansas City
Live Stock Exchange, having been a
successful broker for twenty years.
Evening star., 1923-10-31

today ang got nothing, but ! sew
fresh track behind the camp, and
open case Of biscuits and cut out
skin for my boot soles and / make
thread out Of sinew and ! gather bis
cult crums together and take them to
eat. Very clear and sunshine.
April 16. - got my boot
soles already and soak them, and
Knight said he was feel bad.
April II. guess knight
is feel worse he didn't have tea this
evening; he said he was headach."
The stupendousne ess of her task
and the sheer horror of her situa-
tion is sometimes almost more than
Ada can bear:
ITS hard for woman to take four
mans place, to saw wood and to
hund for something to eat for
Knight. This is the worstest
life I ever live in this world
and trying my best in everything
IF Knight happen to die
what will / do here in this island
all alone? He is laying In his bed
since February 9. and now, April 21st.
he is looks bad. And it's long
time yet till we might see ship come.
Well, God knows everything"
The coming of Sunday seemed to
make her recall more vividly her life
in Nome:
Apr "a Sunday. 1 didn't go
out today. l just wash my hair and
read the Bibil, and / think of folks
are in church this morning and this
evening, and now I'm writing IL
Evening star., 1923-10-31

| to bed early last night. and ] was
| thinking that we haven't enough
! wood for today, and ! said to myself
| LII sleep some until late this eve
| ming, then I'll go make cup of tea
| and go to bed again; SO about 10
o'clock I weake up again it was in
the morning. I was glad when /
know it's morning."
AS the diary goes on it becomes
| more and more prayer on paper
something written not to men but to
April 30th. And it's still blowing
hard this last day of April Knight
| Is still living like any body. So IL
| l happen to get back home I don't
know how much 1 would be glad. God
home again. There Is no one pity
me in this world but God, even there
| is no hand would help me but God.
May 1st. Still blowing little but
not much; ! can see sun shining
| through the little hole. And / read
| the noted tnotes) that 1 write some
| time ago this winter about Mr..
knight and 1t says If Knight live
until May l would be glad SO 1t hap
pen that he still living. He was just
dieing in first (firsD part of Febru-
ary and now he Is still living until
May 1st day. And If the ship comes
next summer don't know how much
| would be glad"
no one In the clV1liZed world can
know with what joy Ada Blackjac
greeted the first sign of spring. In
the arctic 1t is the snow bunting, in
stead of the robin. which brings the
first message of spring. On May Sd
Ada writes:
II was out to chop wood today and
| saw snow bird, oh, my, how / was
glad to see snow birds come and
was over to the traps and didn't see
anything, even track and l open a
can Of biscuits"
Feared Being Left Alone.
The fear of being alone, which is
always in her mind, enters even into
her dreams-dreams which seemed all
the more significant to her from the
fact that Eskimos attach a supersti-
tious Importance to them.
May 4th. Wind blowing hard
rom west so ] can't go out today.
Well, / went out to fix stove pipe
| , dreamed last night that | was in
/ and somewhere and knight and
was all alone and Knight left for
siberia with one dog and 1 was left
III alone. ="
Constantly, too. she dreams of her
son:
II was out getting wood. l didn't
go out to the traps. Wind blowing
! from west Clear and sunshine On
third Of Nav knight eat Polar bear
| :ub paw. And ! dreamed last night
1 was with lots of people and Ben
Evening star., 1923-10-31

broken English with pencil so dull
that at times the words are scarcely
legible..
During her two years on the island
the Eskimo girl had seen her COM
panions writing in their diaries day
by day and heard them talking of
the necessity of keeping their rec
ords. One by one, as knight sue
cumbed to scurvy. she had taken over
all of his chores. Now he charged
her with the only remaining task
. that of keeping up the diary. While
his hand was fast becoming too weak
record of their life and death strug-
gle on Wrangel Island.
This record of Ada, in its pathos
and horror, forms a climax to the
story of the ill-fated men of the ex-
pedition. A woman and a dying man
cut off by a hundred miles of ice
from the nearest human being.
Diary Is Reproduced.
shall reproduce the quotations
spelled as they were written, with
only such punctuation as will make
them understandable.
The first entry Is headed; Made
in March H.. 1929" week before
Knight ceased to keep his diary. and
has to do with what is to them a
"The first fox I caught was in
February Fl and the second March
and and 8. That makes four white
foxes. And then. in March IL 1
makes seven foxes altogether. Four
teenth / got headach all day. l am
taking aspirin. 1t seems didn't work.
Oh, yes. in 18th ! got new army
places Of traps. Fifteenth 1 was over
to the traps. No sign of fresh tracks,
and / put new sole on my felt slip
pers, and washed the dishes and l
feel very much better than yester-
day. Very clear all day.
"March 10th. 1 have not feeling
we'll for three days. First day it was
headach and then ] had stumpick
trouble and today feel much better.
] was over to the traps. Last night
He said he give them to me. Very
nice day SO far.
March 18th. caught one male fox
today. Fat one. too. 1 wash my
head. head; And oh yes 1 got snow glasses
"19th. 1 was over to the traps and
found that fox had been in trap and
she run away with the trap. And /
haul two sled load and chop wood"
Polar Bear Appears.
The polar bear for which Knight
had been longing so desperately ap-
peared too late to be o. any use. 1t
came on March 26. when Knight was
utterly helpless and before Ada had
learned to shoot
"26tk. This morning about II
o'clock / saw polar bear on the ice,
and I saw three foxes one with trap
on her foot. ! haul one load on sled
and saw four cuts off log and chop
wood. I pretty near finish my belt
Undoubtedly. at this time, Ada was
quite sick herself There is the pa
thos of a sick child in the entries of
the next few days.
"27th. Oh my, / feel very weak