Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — Page 2

Taxes on Corporations Should Be Repealed and Entire Incomes Taxed.

By R. G. ELLIOTT,

should be exit to the minimum that taxes might be reduced to a point where they would cease to curb productive energy. As the income of the individual must, in the last analysis, bear all the tavea, the laws should be revised so as to tax directly that income at rates which will raise the necessities of a minimum federal budget. This means that the taxes on corporations should be regaled} for a corporation is just a group of people, many of them of small means, who are being taxed unjustly through their share of their corporation’s profits being taxed at high rates. If the tax was placed on the entire income of every individual, then no income would escape taxation. None would be taxed more than once and it could all be taxed once and equitably. This ideal situation is now reached with respect to individuals in business and private individuals, also individuals conducting business in partnership. If corporations are permitted to retain a limited portion of their earnings for capital requirements, which seems necessary, practical difficulties make it seem unwise to tax the stockholders in general on these earnings which they do not actually receive. A graduated tax on the undistributed earnings of corporations would be the practical solution of the question and should be at rates that would encourage distribution of dividends. Should the business need additional capital and the stockholders so desire, reinvestment could be made after meeting the tax obligations.

We Must Begin by Making It Possible for the Farmer to Handle the Job.

By H. A. MOEHLENPAH,

Money and credits should be mobilized and swung to the weakest place in our whole economic program and put behind the farmer in sufficient amount as he goes to his summer’s work, to make it possible for him to make good on the task we have laid upon him. Our government, through the operation of the federal banks and the joint stock land banks, can do much by way of extending credit for long time at low rates. But it remains for the country banker to use these longtime credit facilities of the government so that he may always have ready and ample funds with which to meet the'short time credit demands of the farmer and other legitimate demands of his community. Greater production in all lines is urged by statesmen and economists. Financiers are admonished that every available American dollar should be turned into productive channels. But if we are to increase the nation’s output of essential products we must begin by making it possible for the farmer to handle the job we have cut out for him. Otherwise, not only will there be a shortage of food and clothing, but there will be also stagnation in many related industries. So, let's get behind the farmer.

“Millions of American Women Seem to Be Simply Fashion Mad Today.”

By REV. DR. J. R. STRATTON,

We cannot escape the unpleasant fact that millions of American women today seem to be simply fashion mad. They are nothing else but slaves to “style.” Women are complaining today of the “double standard of morals, and they do right to complain; but in heaven's name let them be consistent, and not by their mode of dressing, their dances, and other follies unconsciously foster the very double standard of morals which they so righteously denounce. A fossilized octogenarian or a self-complacent mollycoddle with ice water in his veins may be able to look at the sights which any man can see in modern society today, and in the dance hold in his arms a throbbing, beautiful young woman with almost half her body exposed and the other half clothed largely with good intentions—such a man. I say, under these circumstances may maintain a philosophical calm, but any young fellow with red blood in his veins and the elemental forces of nature operating in him cannot easily do so.

“We Have the Best Form of Government; We Need Not Be Afraid of It.”

In my opinion the best government is the one that governs least. We must get back to government conditions as they existed before the war. We must localize government. — The federal government has its functions, and they are well defined. The same is true of our local governments. But during the war period ♦hprp has been great encroachment on the part of the federal government en the prerogatives of our local institutions. The best way to tackle our economic unrest and to meet the reds in their attempt to Russianize America is to carry on an aggressive campaign of education, telling the people of our institutions and the rights and privileges of the individual citizen under our form of government. We have the best form of government that has ever beep conceived by need not be afraid of it.

Nat’l Ass'n of Credit Men.

If the world war has not lieen fought in vain, then benefits will accrue to posterity by reason of the sacrifices of the present generation. Is it not reasonable then that posterity should bear some of the financial burden arising out of the war? The country is being injured by the present unjust and confiscatory tax laws which should be revised at once. The time for retiring the war debt should be extended. The government should be- conducted on a sound economical business basis. The annual budget

By W. L. HARDING,

Federal Reserve Board.

in “Menace of Immorality.”

Governor of lowa.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER,

HURT BY “DOUBLE”

Englishman Victim of Unusual Circumstances. Reduced to Penury Through the Operation* of Man Who Resemble* Him With a Fidelity That Must Be Remarkable. Somewhere in England flourishes a brilliant scoundrel who is committing fraud after fraud in the name of Herbert Leslie Perkins, an impoverished herb seller of Wolverhampton, writes a foreign correspondent of the Kansas City Star. He Is said to look exactly like Perkins, even to a tendency to stoop. He dresses like him, has the same mannerisms and voice, and is sufficiently familiar with Perkins’ past to assume his identity before acquaintances —but he cannot write like him. For this theft of his personality Perkins has paid painfully. He has been Imprisoned five times, being acquitted each time at the subsequent trial. Four warrants are now out for his arrest, and a cloud of suspicion hangs over him that may result in other warrants. His savings of SSOO have been spent to earn his freedom, and most of his furniture and his wife’s keepsakes have been sold to support his family of six children while he has been in jail. He was first arrested October 15. 1919, for fraud at Gloucester. Five days after his release he was arrested again and taken to Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, where he was remanded for trial on the declarations of four persons that there could be no doubt he was the man who had defrauded them. Yet he never had been in Chesterfield before in his life. At the Derbyshire assizes he proved that on the day of the fraud he was at the Uttoxeter market In Staffordshire. Fourteen old specimens of his handwriting were produced. None of them was anything like the criminal’s. The jury promptly acquitted Perkins. While his friends were congratulating him in the courtroom a policeman pressed forward and arrested him for other alleged frauds. They dragged him off to Hull police station, where Perkins says lie lay that night wondering if he was “mad or only dreaming.” In Hull he was again positively identifled, and he had to remain 18 days in Hull prison_J>efore his trial. This time he had 14 witnesses to prove his presence at various markets distant from Hull on the dates that the frauds were committed. “I could have produced sixty witnesses.” said Perkins, “but it took my last cent to pay the fares of the fourteen.” The operations of the “slick” double hurt the police nearly as much as Perkins. They have four warrants for his arrest for a number of other frauds committed at Burton-on-Trent, Peterborough, Bristol and Leicester. The warrants are pigeonholed for the time being. The police are ruminating. Penniless, Perkins busily is digging up his herbs again and trying to sell them, but after 27 days in jail and with the shadow of prison bars still hovering over him he has little peace of mind.

Future Rapid Travel.

Mr. Lindsay Bashford, writing in the Edinburgh Review, foreshadows a London to Calcutta journey by rail in a fortnight. “The Bagdad railway,'* he says, “begins at Konia, in the heart of Asia Minor, where, by means of the Anatolian railway, it connects with Constantinople. From Constantinople to Aleppo the distance Is some 850 miles. From Aleppo, the line proceeds to Jefablus. on the Euphrates, and thence by Nislbin to the important center of Mosul on the Tigris; thence southwards to Bagdad and to Basra. The distance from Aleppo to Bagdad is about 650 miles. “Carry the imagination further, and we may reasonably picture, under the new political arrangements between Great Britain and Persia, the extension of the Bagdad railway to Teheran, and thence to Quetta and India. That done travel ‘overland’ between London and Calcutta should be a matter of less than a fortnight.”

Revenge.

Sucking a stick of candy, the small brother of the village belle eyed the visitor. The belle aforesaid had seen fit to administer severe punishment, and the small boy was seeking vengeance. “I know why Gwendoline wears her hair bunched down over her ears,” he breathed between the sucks and grins maliciously. “Do you?" asked the young man, to whom any news concerning his adored one was welcome. “Won’t you tell me?” “No,” he replied; “I daren’t tell anyone. But if my ears were as big as Gwendoline's are I'd do it, too."— Houston Post.

Another Use for the Airplane.

Eclipse observation by airplane is declared by Paul W. Merrill to be not chimerical. A modern plane could readily surmount any ordinary fog or cumulus cloud, though cirrus is usually too high, and, aside from cirrus clouds, the observer would have a wonderfully clear dark sky. And photographic observations are not out of the question. A DeHaviland plane with a Liberty motor, at 10,000 feet altitude, rides more smoothly than a train, and should permit direct photographs on a small scale, especially if the plane were equipped with a gyro •copic stabilizer. *

WOULD KEEP THE DEVIL BUSY

Why One Wise Old Turk Decided That the Telegraph Must Be a Good Thing. When western civilization first began to make its way into the Ottoman empire it provoked some very interesting reactions upon the oriental mind. One story that Sir William Whittali tells allows how unquestionably even the wisest Turks attributed the triumphs of western invention to magic and diabolism. During the Crimean war, says Sir William, the first telegraph was established in Turkey. This wonderful invention created tremendous astonishment among the Turks, who were quite unable to understand its workings. Among the more intelligent the discussions were not concerning the scientific principles that lay behind it but whether It was a good or a bad thing for humanity? — r— To solve the question It was at last decided to have a full debate by the ulema of the province of Smyrna, over which at that time a very wise old mullah presided. The meeting was held and fierce was the contention. Half the ulema declared that the telegraph was a good thing, because it quickened communications; the other half asserted that it could not be good, because it was an invention of the devil.. There seemed to be no way of arriving at a conclusion, when some of the Turks perceived that their chief, the old mullah, had not yet expressed an opinion. Both parties, therefore, eagerly pressed him for his ciew on the subject and agreed to abide by his decision. The old mullah replied: “My children, the telegraph, is a good thing.” “What!” said the conservatives indignantly. “Do you mean that it Is not a work of the devil ?” “Oh, yes,” repiled the old man. “Assuredly it is a work of his; but why are you so dull of understanding, my children? Can’t you see that if the devil is occupied going up and down the wires with each message sent he will have less time to trouble us mortals on earth below?” All the ulema acknowledged the wisdom of their chief. —Turkish Stories and Parables.

Arabs Bow to Airplanes.

Some of the most modern kinds of warfare have been used in regions where modern civilization had hardly penetrated before. It is an interesting fact that the Arab, who had remained unconquered while all the great empires of the world rose and fell, is at last succumbing before the airplane. He has never admitted allegiance to anyone but Allah and himBelf, and has threatened the lines of communication of all the empires— Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman and British, Even at the height of their power they could not overtake his swift horses when he returned to the desert after a raid But even the Arab horse has ng chance against the airplane. Britifl planes are now able to protect all parts* of the line from Suez to India. Thp French have been using aviators whose nerves went to pieces on the western front to chase the wild tribesmen in the interior of Algeria. And the “Mad Mullah,” when recently he began to preach another Mohammedan holy war, was routed by an expedition of British and Italians, who used both airplanes and tanks.

Paris a City of “Old Clo’.”

Paris just now is full of “old clo*.” Not only are new wardrobe dealers starting in all quarters, but even the cleaners are filling their windows with half-worn frocks and cloaks for sale. Obviously madame is making economies, remarks a writer in the continental edition of the London Mail. She must be as smart as usual, but as dress costs more than ever, she sells everything she can before it goes out of fashion, and thus manages to balance her accounts. The 'chand d’habits walks the streets more diligently than ever, and his dismal chant may be heard all day long. He easily fills his big black bag. Clothes, like money bills, are now constantly changing hands, and they are worn to the thread by their successive wearers.

Houseboat on Land.

The housing shortage in Cincinnati is presenting some unique problems to the building commissioner, George Hauser. The owner of a houseboat on the Ohio river asked permission to transfer the cabin of his boat to a foundation which he has prepared on Southside avenue. In, the summer he plans to restore It to the boat, thus using the cabin as an all-year-round home. The purchaser of a number of discarded cottages built%for the governtnent nitrate plant at Ancor, near Cincinnati, has applied for a permit to bring them into the city and erect them into flat buildings by arranging them three on top of each other. He contends that this can be done with safety and convenience.

Fixing the Blame.

“Here, there!’’ yelled Constable Sam T. Slackputter, the redoubtable sleuth of Petunia. “You knocked that there innocent bystander down while he was peroozing along about his business, ran over him. stopped, backed up, and passed athwart, as it were, of him again. What in fire do you mean by such doin’s?” , “Why,—doggone it!” cried the offending motorist, “he knew me, knew, the name of this car, and knew, too, that this is the first time I’ve ever driv’ this’n or any other, and yet, dadburn him, he went and got right in the way I”—Kansas City Star.

HAPPENINGS in the CITIES

Jurv of- Neighbors “Divorce” Pastor

L iverpool, n. y. — a selected "jury” of three neighbors has decided that Rev. W. W. Brunk, pastor of the First Methodist church, and his wife, whom he married twenty-two years ago, shall separate. As was agreed before they selected the jury the pastor and his wife signed the decision and have separated. took place in the parlor of the clergyman’s home. While the three children of the Brunk family— Lillian, twenty, a sophomore at Syracuse university; Alfred, sixteen, a student in high school, and Gifford, seven, waited in the dining room. Reverend and Mrs. Brunk told their stories. First they were questioned separately and then a joint hearing was held. Then the neighbors deliberated alone and pronounced their decision: That the couple would be —for the time being, at least—better off apart.

Jailed Genius Composes Masterpieces

GOLDEN, Colo. —In the county jail in this city Isadore Victor, charged with the murder of Marie Merold, his nurse, has written more than a score of marvelous compositions for the piano and violin, and six pieces, all he submitted, have been accepted by the Society for the Publication of American Music, of New York. When the trial of the twenty-three-year-old musical genius opens in Golden next November the story of his infatuation for the twenty-nine-year-old woman who' nursed him, at the Jewish Consumptives Relief society sanitarium, of his months of brooding after she transferred her affections to one of the staff of physicians, of his jealous act of shooting her thrice through the breast, of his being foiled in an attempt at his self-destruction and of his artistic triumphs on two continents will be told. " Meanwhile, the gifted young Russian is fighting a desperate battle against death from the white plague, having been transferred to St. Anthony’s hospital, following his lapse to the brink of the grave as the result of his six months’ life in a jail cell. While behind the bars young Victor wrote in one week the six compositions which are shortly to place his name among the elect in the violin world. One piece is dedicated to Mischa El-

Two Chapters in Life of “Dead” Indian

PAWHUSKA, Okla—This is the second chapter of the story of John Stink. Osage Indian. The first chapter has been told far beyond the borders of the “Osage nation” —how old John many years ago was carried out of his house to die, according to the custom of the Osages when one of their number nears his end; how he was pronounced dead; how he was buried under a pile of stones; how he came to, got out and was dubbed a ghost by his tribesmen; and how he was thereafter an outcast, an Indian without a tribe, dead to his own superstitious people, though still in the flesh. The second chapter: John Stink was lonely after he had “died,” so he spent much of his time in Pawhuska, which.

High Cost of Romance Hits Rich Briton

NEW YORK. — The amazing romance of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen and a cabaret girl—the divorced wife of a song writer —is disclosed today in connection with a suit for $500,000 against Sir Hugo. The suit was filed some weeks ago by Marvel le C. Brice and baffled inquiries until records found at Goshen, N. revealed that on November 7, 1918, Helen Oliver Brice divorced Marvelle C. Brice. On December 30, 1918—about six weeks later—Helen Elizabeth Oliver, her maiden name duly restored, became the bride of Cunliffe-Owen after a trip to Dudley. Mass., in the private car James B. Duke, the tobacco magnate. Service was obtained on CunliffeOwen a few weeks ago when he and Lady Cunliffe-Owen arrived in New York “for a six months’ visit.” Sir Hugo and the- lady hurried back to England.' ~ Prior to her first marriage Lady Cunliffe-Owen was Helen Mazie Oliver of Washington, Pa. In time she became known in Chicago cabarets and eventually appeared in Broadway

The next day Mr. and Mrs. Brunk called together at the office of George B. Dolsen and signed an agreement upon the terms of their separation. The paper read that Mrs. Brunk should take their youngest son, Gifford, and go to live with her bachelor brother, John Battle of Pensacola, Fla. Her husband was to pay her $2,000 —51,500 to be raised by placing a mortgage on the Brunk homestead and SSOO in cash at once. After signing the agreement the couple returned to the Brunk home, Where Mrs. Brunk prepared the supper. She straightened up their little home and then left on the midnight train, accompanied by her little son and her brother. “I believe that our neighbors arrived at the right decision —at least for the time being,” says Reverend Mr. Brunk. “It is probably the best and most sensible way out of misunderstandings.” Then he went, qn cooking his dinner. ■ There is one thing I would like to he understood,” said the son. “That is that there is not one breath of scandal on either side. I believe they will be back together soon —they are very fond of each other.” During the war Reverend Mr. Brunk served with the Y.M. C. A. In France.

man. a schoolday friend, whose friendship for the slayer is proven by a visit to his cell, when Elman plajei for him. Another is in honor of Albert Spalding, the American violinist, of whom Victor is a great admirer. “ ‘Remorse’ is my favorite,” said Victor. “It is in the sacred style, full of beautiful chords. "The Awakening' is in the style of Kriesler’s ‘Liebesfreud,’ but quite original. ‘Autumn Leaves’ is a- characteristic descriptive piece, a sad melody except where the wind catches up the dead leaves and sets them to dancing. It was hard to imagine that the handsome, brown-eyed boy had killed the girl he loved and now stood in the shadow of the gallows. The defense will be temporary insanity. Friends have donated from 25 cents to $25 each to help Victor fight his illness and prepare his defense.

though it Is the capital of the Osage nation, is a white man’s , town. John made friends with 17 dogs that wert as lonely as he. The town marshal notified him to keep his dogs off .the streets. John didn’t understand the order, or didn’t want to, and didn’t care a whoop anyway. Whereupon the marshal took a shot and hit one of the dogs—a little white one. John never said a word. He picked up the little dog and carried it out of town, He sat watching it until it died. Then he got up and said: “John Stink is through with white man.” And he has never come to town since. John lives under two blankets stretched between trees beside the flat stone where he watched the little white dog die. Most of his dogs are dead now. . His guardian sends him a basket of food two or three times a week. The government agency sends him his share of the Osage oil money, and he is a rich man. But he stands all day on the flat stone and practices throwing knives. He can kill a bird on the wing with a knife.

cabarets. She also filled minor .roles in moving picture productions. She was eighteen when she married Marvelle Cooper Brice, also known as Stewart Melly Brice Jr., adopted member of the Brice family, tnown for two generations in New York and Newport society. There is no record of their family life until just preceding the divorce in 1918. Then followed in six weeks the marriage in Massachusetts. Reports asserted the bridegroom’s gifts to his bride included a check for $4,000,000 and a necklace of pearls valued at $50,000.