Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 254, 5 September 1918 — Page 7

BRINGING UP

WAR INTERESTS INTERFERE WITH WORLDJERIES Chicago Nationals and Boston Americans Make Belated Start in Battle. i y Associated Pr9 CHICAGO, Sept. 5. The Chicago Natiofoala and Boston Americans at 2:30 this afternoon will make a belated start in their battle for the baseball championship of the world. The weather permitting, the clubs were to tl. Kama .a .4 ...a A 1 ri yaj mioiiuuB)', wmorrow ana calur-l day and 'will entrain for Boston.! for Boston, where the remainder of the big series will be staged, beginning Monday, until one club has won four games. Despite the fact that the phesent scries marks the swan song of baseball until after the war. interest was at a lower ebb this year than ever before, in the opinion of worlds series veterans. Threatening weather may have been responsible, but only a handful of spectators gathered for the "early morning watch" yesterday, and even fewer were there today. The advance sale of tickets, however, it was announced, was up to expecta-

tions. Managers of both clubs said j young manufacturing industries which today they contemplated no eleventh were beginning to spring up in the hour changes in their lineup. -There , new country, particularly in New Engwsa a possibility, however, that Dave land. , Dugan might be replaced in the Redj As soon as this measure had been Sox infield as a result of a split fin-; decided upon, the House of Represen.ger. sustained in practicing Tuesday. ! tatives began to consider the.estabJack Coffey was picked to substitute ; lishment of a Treasury department in case the injured second baseman and again the question arose as to proved unable to perform. Following whether a single Individual should be Js the batting order: entrusted with the financial responslBoston Hooper, rf; Shean, 2b; i bility of the nation or whether that Ftrunk, cf; Ruth, If; Mclnnls, lb; I responsibility should be placed in the Scott, ss; Coffey or Thomas, 3b; hands of a committee.

Schang, c; Mays or Bush, p. Chicago Flack, rf; Hollscher, ss; Mann, If; Paskert, cf; Merkle, lb; Pick. 2b; Deal, 3b; Killifer, c; Vaughn 'or Taylor, p. Vaughn for the Cubs and Mays for ! the Red Sox were considered premier mound possibilities. Manager Mitchell expected to put his best bet foremost by starting his giant left bander, while Boston prognosticators claim Barrow would start Mays and Meld "Bullet" Joe Bush under wraps for use later on in the coming crisis, should any develop. Visiting magnates were unanimous in the verdict that the present series in demonstrating beyond all daubt that interest in professional baseball has waned, for the duration of the war at least. It was pointed out that among the spectators today were a large percentage of uniformed men, on furloughs from Camps Grant and Custer and from the Great Lakes naval training station, and there was a conspicuous absence of men of military age on the bleachers. Magnates said that the patronage of the men in the service could not be couned on to support the game appreciably and that the adjournment for the period of the war therefore would have been advisable without the mandate of the war department. Public interest has turned overseas, the magnates declared, and in the same breath predicted that from a financial standpoint this years' series would not equal its former successes. 1 Out of town delegalibns this year were smaller than ever before. Illustrative of the argument that baseball is proving an unpopular war time sport, .Phil Ball, president of the St. Louis American league club, said compliance with the suggestion of President Ban Johnson would have paved his club $S,200. He said his losses on the Brown's last eastern trip totalled that amount. REV. ETTERlEADS OHIO CONFERENCE EATON. O. Sept. 5. In the annual flection of officers, Rev. J. E. Etter, rf Troy, was elected president of the I Miami Ohio unrwuan conierente, which closed its centennial meeting Yifrei Wednesday afternoon, at the Christian church, after a five days' session. Rev. J. J. Douglas of Greenville, was elected vice president, and A. C. Brandon was elected trustee. Rev Etter succeeds Rev. H. A. Smith, formerly of West Milton, as president of the conference. Rev. Smith had been at the head of the conference the last several years. He retired because he has taken a pastorate in Indiana, outside the local conference dfstrict. Delegates to the American Christian convention, which convenes this fall In Conneaut, O., were selected as follows: Rev. Hiley Baker, Rev. J. G. Bishop. Rev. J. J. Douglas, Rev. Edwin Flory, Rev. O. P. Furnas, Rev. George Enders, Rev. A, W. Hook, Rev. D. G. Pleasant. Rev. O. W. Powers. Rev. G. B Masterson. Rev. L. W. Ryan, Rev. n" F. Vaughan, Rev. Presley Zartman, Rev. "W. J. Young, Rev, Alva M. Kerr, Rev. McDaniel Howsaro, Rev. J. E. Etter. Rev. O. T. Thomas, Rev. M. T. Morrill.

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U. S. Financial Transactions Based on Action of Early Colonists

fBy Associated Press.) -"WASHINGTON, Sept 5. The great financial transactions which now occupy the attention of the American public, and which have been made necessary by war, are by no means innovations. They are based absolutely upon the articles of the constitution of the United States ,and so perfect Is the basis thus provided that one might think the founders of the republic had been endowed with the gift of looking far Into the future that every emergency might be met without deviation fro mtheir original plan. (It Is well known, however, that the constitution was in reality a document of compromise and that it was drawn up in its present form only after bitter disputes I . V - . k . .3 .! ..a nM A n am . J" iuo pari, ui we ueiegaico icjjicbcuimg various parts or tne country, eacn or wnom sougnt to gain seme aavantage for his constituency.) It was with difficulty that the advocates of a more centralized govern ment secured for Congress the right "to lay and collect taxes, duties, Imposts and excises," and as a safe-guard to state rights, the opposition insisted that a clause be inserted in which it was decreed that "all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." A schedule of import duties was adopted January 4, 1789, providing for an advalorem rate on about thirty articles, and this was assessed in such a way as to Kive protection to the Hamilton's Measures. Alexander Hamilton was appointed to the post, however, in September, 1789, and although he was only thirtyfive years old, he was probably better fitted than any other man in the United tates for the position. While confidential secretary to General Washington, during the early years of the Revolution, he had devoted much time to the subjects of finance and trade. In 1781 he communicated to Robert Morris an elaborate plan for a bank, and in 1782 he was receiver of continental taxes in New York. To these special interests he added an experience as congnsional delegate, lawyer and pamphleteer and had been especially insistent in demanding national regulation for the collection of revenue. From the very first Hamilton displayed great initiative and immediately formulated a plan for funding the public debt which by that time had grown to immense proportions. Hamilton estimated that the foreign obligations of the country amounted to $11,710,000 while the domestic obliga tions were about $27,383,000 in principal and $13,030,000 In accrued interest to which might be added $2,000,000 for unliquidated debt. There as violent opposition to Hamilton's plan, but it finally prevailed as did his demand that the Etate debts be assumed by the federal government. The funding act was passed August 4, 1790, and by it the president was authorized to borrow $12,000,000, while a loan to the full amount of the domestic debt was also authorized, subscriptions to be received in any of the certificates of indebtedness which the government had previously Issued during the Revolutionary War and the Confederation. It was dus to Hamilton that the first national bank was established in 1791 and that the coinage system wati put upon a solid basis. Both of these were regarded with suspision by many people, but it was not until Congress adopted the recommendations of Hamilton and embraced them in the tariff bill of 1791, that the unpopularity of the secretary of the Treasury assumed its full proportions. Following the assumption of the Etate debts, the need of further revenue became imperative and Hamilton recommended that a tax be placed upon distilled spirits. This aroused intense antag onism, since the consumption of spirits was so common that many people contended that its special taxation was a discriminating burden upon one of the necessities of life. Beginning Successful. So marked was the opposition on the frontier, where it was found convenient to reduce corn to the form of spirits in order to overcome the difficulties of transportation, that in southwestern Pennsylvania an armed band inaugurated what is known . as the Whiskey Rebellion, which was not put down until the troops had been called into the field. The whiskey tax was not profitable, however, and a tax was levied then upon a wider range of commodities including carriages, certain spirits, snuff, sugar and the incomes from auction sales. Direct taxation was proposed In 1794 and four years later the first direct tax was Imposed upon all dwelling houses and lands and upon slaves between the ages of twelve and fifty. The amount apportioned among the

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several states was $2,000,000 calculated to fall as follows: Upon houses, $1,315,000; lands, $457,000; slaves. $228,000. The tax did not operate ac cording to the estimates made before its passage and payments were so tardily made that at the end of three years much of the tax still remained unpaid. However, the government on the whole, made a successful beginning with taxation, and while economic development was backward, the population was not compact enough and the expense of collecting taxes was great, there was .no longer reason to fear that the excise duties Would be a despotic invasion of a subject's liberties. The people were beginning to realize the necessity of adequate support of the central government and the lesson was learned none too soon. The clouds of war had begun to gather and the American people were again facing the necessity of meeting those emergencies which war brings with it. On The Screen WASHINGTON "A Law Unto Herself," at the Washington Thursday. In the Champagne district of France in 1849 lived Le Sieur Juste de Larme, whose daughter Alouette, loved and was secretly married to her father's overseer, Bertrand Beaubion. DeLarme had determined that his daughter should marry Kjjrt Von Klassner, a Prussian. Bertrand is killed by Kurt and Alouette not knowing this, is forced to marry Kurt. . ; Ten years pass. Alouette lives for her son, hers and Bertrand's who firmly believes that he is French, although Kurt believing- the boy to be his own, tries- to impress on him that he is a German. The boy is named Bertrand. Under Kurt's care the De Larme, vineyards prosper, and no one suspects that under the wine presses, emplacements have been built for German guns. Ben Turpin, the celebrated Paramount-Mack Sennett comedian, whose squint is his fortune, is at his best in "She Loved Him Plenty," the latest comedy of the organization named, which is on view at the Washington theatre this week. Mr. Turpin is seen as a clerk in a pawn shop and all who know him need no assurance that he is fully up to the requirements of his role. He is supported by Polly Moran, Charles Lynn and Marie Pr'evost. MURRAY The new Paramount picture, "His

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Own Home Town," starring Charles Ray, is said to be one of exceptional interest and which affords Mr. Ray one of the best roles , he has enacted In many months. The story deals with the corrupt operations of a political ring in a small town and with the efforts of Jimmy Duncan to rid the city of this degrading incubus. In the development of the story there are many scenes of tremendous interest' and it goes without saying that the dramatic action, in which Mr. Ray figures nost conspicuously, is tense and nerve, racking. Both the star and his support have been afforded ample opportunities by Larry Evans, the scenarioist, for the display of their respective talents. The picture, which will be presented in this city at the Murray Theatre today, was produced under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, which in itself is a sufficient guarantee that the usual high standard established by Paramount, is amply maintained. VAUDEVILLE AT THE MURRAY Spraugue and Dixon in "The Camera Man arid the Girl," also a high class act, "The Dixie Seronaders," will be shown the latter part ' of this week, starting Thursday. The week of September 9, some very high class acts are to be shown at the Murray. MURRETTE Patriotism is the keynote of the new Jane and Katherine Lee play, "Doing Their Bit," which is to be seen at the Murrette Theatre tonight for the last time. The play has to do with spies and slackers, and the part the. two gifted youngsters play in circumventing the toes of their country. A pretty love element enters into the plot. The cast surrounding Jane and Katherine Lee is said to be of exceptional merit. "Doing Their Bit" will be supplemented by the usual comedy and concert features. September 25, 26, 27 ! COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 Death sen tences of ten negro soldiers who participated in the riots at Houston, Tex., August 23, 1917, have been commuted to life imprisonment by President Wilson. Cl'T THIS Ol'T IT IS WORTH MOYEY DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip. enclose with 5c and mail it to Foley & Co., 2S35 Sheffield Avenue, Chicago. 111., writing your name ana address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Piiis. for pain In sides and back; rheumatism.' back ache, kidney and bladder ailments: and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for constipation, biliousness, headache and sluggish bowels. lor sale by A. (1. Luken & Co. Adv.

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RED SOX MAY 60 TO FRANCE TO PLAY BEFORE SOLDIERS Harry Frazee, owner of the Boston Reds, has honored the wish of his manager, Ed Barrow, and says if his men win the American League flas Barrow can take them to Paris and play them in exhibition games there for the benefit of our soldiers in France. John J. McGraw has promised to take the New' York Giants to Paris to meet the Boston Reds, and this means that the trip will be a winner. For McGraw has been on many of these trips, and has always made them a big success. In the winter of 1913-14 Charles Comiakey and McGraw, leading Chicago and New York players, made a tour of the world. They crossed the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, the Japan and China seas, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. The first trip around the world of American professional baseball players, led by Anson of Chicago, and Ward of New Yoik, took place in 1888 and 1889 and was a failure financially. But the trip made by the ComiskeyMcGraw teams in 1913 was a winner, and after all expenses were paid Comiskey and McGraw are said to have divided $100,000 between them. This time the trip is bound to be a winner financially; and the fact that all the gate receipts are to go to the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. funds means that the teams will play in England and France to record-breaking crowds, and that the game at last will be placed on a solid and lasting foundation in those two countries. "Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling" to know that you look trim, trig and all there ? Nothing can add more snap and go to your appearance than a MADE-TO-MEASURE suit of ALL WOOL fabric. This is a year for wise buying. Get clothes that fit well, look well, wear well. I can make them. There's real economy in my prices. The Roy W. Dennis Shop Tailors 1018 Main St. PRICES Main Floor, 22c 3c tax. Balcony, 13c 2c tax. Children, 9c 1c tax. Matinee All seats 13c 2c tax except Sunday and Holidays. HIGH CLASS MOTION PICTURES a SPRAGUE

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Single G Will Race at State Fair on Friday INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept 5. Leaking, skies, which made the running track at the State Fair grounds a sea of mud, prevented the trotters and pacers from going through, their stunts here yesterday, but the runners had their session of three aces. The track's caudition prevented the holding of the big race of the week between the two Hoosier star pacers Single G. and William. This race has been postponed until Friday, when it is hoped the track will be in condition for the grueling test between these two sidewheelers. Masonic Calendar Thursday, September 5, Wayne Council No. 10, R. & S. M., stated assembly. Saturday, September 7, Loyal Chapter, No. 49, O. . S., stated meeting and initiation of candidates. FRECKLES AND TAN SOON FADE AWAY A freckle is merely a discolored, "rusty" spot lodged in the skin itself. Some Ekins are peculiarly sensitive to the effect of sun and wind. If your skin is of that kind, here's good news for you. A chemist, whose freckles used to embarrass him juite a bit, one dayi found nut that .-Innrhrd tptratA wna a i simple and pleasant way of treating this trouble. The skin seems to absorb it quite promptly, and the way it gets after those rusty freckle spots is really wonderful. Get an ounce of danthol tetrate from any well known druggist, and apply it with the finger tips twice a day for a few days and notice the result. This is also an excellent way of removing tan and similar discolorations of the skin. It costs very little and is not a bit unpleasant to use. Adv. ROBINSON BROTHERS

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MILLER-KEMPER TEAM WANTS TRY AT CITY BASEBALL CHAMPIONS Another contestant for the city championship has developed In the Miller-Kemper baseball team. That team will challenge the winner of the Giant-Athletic game Sunday for the championship. Next Sunday the Miller-Kempers will play at Arba, Ind., and the following players are requested to meet at the corner of Seventh and South G street at 12 o'clock: Hill. Snyder. Hartman, Meyers, Rife, Kutter, McGIIl Retz, Byrkett, Pitcher, Fine, Craycraft, Wilcoxen, Hennegar, Long and Dunham. TOO WEAK TO FIGHT The "Come-back" man was roalljr never down-and-out. His weakened condition because of overwork, lack of exercise, improper eating- and livlns demands stimulation to satisfy the cry for a health-giving appetite and the refreshing sleep essential to strength. GOLD MEDAL, Haarlem Oil Capsules, the National Kemedy of Holland, will do the work. They are wonderful. Three of these capsules each day will put a man on his feet before he knows it; whether his trouble comes from uric acid poisoning', the kidneys, gravel or stone in the bladder, stomach derangement or other ailments that befall the over-zealous American. Don't wait until you are entirely down-and-out, but take them today. Your druggist will gladly refund your money if they do not help you. Accept no substitutes. Look for the name GOLD MEDAL, on every box. three sizes. They are the , pure. . original. Imported Haarlem Oil Capsules. Adv. EXCELLENT MUSIC COMFORTABLE SEATS Today THE. HJDT Featuring THE LEE KIDS Also Official Allies WTar Review Friday and Saturday PAULINE FREDERICK in "Her Final Reckoning" Also a Strand Comedy featuring BILLY RHODES PRICES Adults 13c, War Tax, i 2c; Children, 5c; War Tax, 1c. ; PLAYING THE PICTURES

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