South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 40, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 9 February 1915 — Page 4

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TIIK incomi: TAX RITTUIINS. Within :i f t w 1uvh tho Manks have 1'fcri 'li.'-tri but 1 fur returns for Intumo tax fr the y-ar li'l". A year ;if?o at th!s tinif it would dilflrult t cx;mL'(r;ttf- th- annoyance felt by tho.e I i-v I - to such tax. Th n-tfula-tions of tin- trrasurv deiartin-nt v. ere more or le.- vam'.e. Hank mm anJ other authorities lif- ! rl ;u to their inUrjirt tation. Sum armif-d that a married oujil would iiae to pay tax if their joint inform -as St.CuO. while others dHelared that a joint i neon ie under S'),0o, rnitrht Le efmjt. To eornilir.ite the mailer lnrther. last year'.s return was for lint Ii vp-: sixths f a year. After the ini umi! on a Kivcn item wa.s fitfund out for a year, it had to he divided by five-sixths. Many a tax payer found Jiat his arithmetic had gone bad under this scholastic test. The profanity expended was infinite. One tax payer known to the writer, leinj In doubt as to what exemption he mint claim, left the exemption line in the return blank, thinking that the internal revenue officials would fill it out for him. but they failed to do So he ha 1 to pay the tax on his whole : orne without exemption, then Fii though the red tape of filing sworn petition for refund, witli corrected returns, and the repayment has not yet been made. l.r.st year som newspapers conducted tolumns of questions and an-j-wers on the income tax. T-iearned h u t hori! Vs offered answers surrounded ly much lejral erliae. over which the perplexed tax payer puzzled his head us best he mi-ht. I-ast year's law was put through in haste, hut this year the blank return is in much bettor shape, and seems clear enough in ordinary cases. Space left for the wife's return after each item, so that one blank can cover the income of both husband and wi. While many income tax payers are not reconciled to this tax. and arctic that it is unfair, this is a country where it pays to submit good naturedly to the will of the majority. The average man can not get much excited about the MitTerinus of his neighbor on a $lo,oio income, who is taxc 1 JG0 under the law. A HLOW TO P.LACKMAIL. On e more the United .States supreme court has settled a ridiculous !aw by simply applying the rule of common sense. This t-.me it is the miscalled "white slave law," which as interpreted and enforced has been making the government an accomplice in the business of the blackmailer. This law was clumsily framed and hurriedly passed at a period of public hysteria, when magazines and ether pu blicai Jons hail led to the belief that then existed a huge international syndicate dealing in women. No such syndicate lias ever been discovered, though individual criminals do conduct this horrid traffic, and aro constantly being detected and punished under state laws. The Maun law, through an oversight in wording, was immediately perverted into an Instrument for blackmail. It made immorality punishable for eroding a state line, ami applied the punishment to the man only. All that was necessary was for the blackmailer to decoy her victim across ji state line and then threaten him with the terrors of the law, which made federal judges, district attorneys and fliarshals her accomplishes. Jler previous character, her consent, had nothing- to do with the man's crime. The supjeme court has cut out this blackmail game by a decision that the woman can be punished as well as the ma n. This makes it a just and beneficent law. i'ii(i:ouiis roil Michigan ih:i;s. Kx-t.Ii.-v. t'ohpaitt of Texas addressed a mass meeting in Detroit, Mich., Saturday night. his subject being "American Neutrality." Had the Detroit committee made it "American Non-neutrality," the exgovern: r would have felt more at Jjme. The unwarranted inteiference of Colquitt, when governor of Texas, in matters of a national character aolely. n connection with the war department's handling .f the Mexn an border troubles, is still fresh in the recollection of all. Ills repeated attempts to get Into the spot light by silly threats to use the Texas national guard to protect the border iti.s from "Mexican a;Ktession" mUht have led to dangeicu-s complications had they not bet-n so puerile as to evoke amusement in-t-tead )f .-crious consideration. His speet h at Detroit, redundant wi'h declarations of personal patriotism, breathed of fre and brimstone, and n-pounded a dratic doctrine of nation. neutrality filed with ego to ii superlative debtee. The- Tcas t--;i. fi'imr would pimu.!e til. -amp!e of tin- warlike Na.7o!o;i, whom he r -emtde? in face liVM'-AUe to a marked extent, hut

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M CI I A XI UK .MIILOX. The Fidelity Trust Company of Newark. N. J., declared a special dividend of .W'.O per cent on Jan. In round dollars it amounted to se ven million imokons. The employes ot the Fidelity Trust were given a whack at the melon rind by being voted a bonus of 10 per cent of their salaries. The declaration of the dividend was due. primarily, to the Fait of some L'0.000 shares of stock of the Prudential Insurance company of America which was recently mutualized. It's too bad that times nre so hard the Fidelity Trust had to part with its heirlooms. Jts interests have so long been linked with the Prudential that the tie was thought to be well night indissoluble. But, in these trying times, none of us know just when we may be compelled to put our family jewels on the bargain counter. The Fidelity's Prudential holdings evidently brought a stiff prices. Home life insurance stocks we wot of, beautifully engraved ones, too, are being sold at so much per dozen certificates. It makes real striking wall paper, too, if pasted with the gold seal out. Maybe, 'when ours is as old as the Prudential's, it will be valuable for some other purpose. We'll live in hope. nyyiii:hi; you liki:. A reader asks: "I am anxious to know what is now considered the capital of Mexico. Will you pleaso inform me?" The Republic of Mexico, reader, now has six capitals. The first is Mexico City, oy courtesy the national capital; the second, Chihuahua, where Villa mostly holds forth; the third, Vara Cruz, Carranza's favorite retreat: the fourth, Cuernavaca, Garza's latest capital; the fifth, Puebla, where Gutierrez is stopping for the week end, and the sixth is under Zapata's sombrero. You arc permitted, reader, to make your cwn choice. The assortment is said to he sufficiently varied as to suit the most discriminating tusto in capitals. We trust, dear reader, that you will be able to make a selection that will prove satisfactory In every respect. NOMI0 POLITICAL. PULL THAT! Folks who have been thinking that pretty near everything putrid, in American politics has been presented will have to take another guess. A biP, fathered by one Graham, is up, in the Ohio assembly, which proposes ?o put the selection of county liquor license commissioners in the hands .f- executive committees of the major political parties. It is enough to inak1 old Demon Hum laugh. l,egal permission for the party bosses to run the saloons would be a howling old reform, wouldn't it? WIIKItKAIlOUTS. Here's the layman's view of the Thaw case, and maybe you can figure out where justice is at: New York state holds him as one of the criminal insane. Insane! Get it? New York state will now prosecute him for conspiracy. Conspiracy, shrewd brain work; Get it? We hope you get it. It's got us. Maj. Tait, Col. Gregory and Maj. Hughes are In Victoria. B. C considering ways to guard the boundary between Canada and the United States. . They'd better hurry. First thing those Canucks know, we'll go over the line and eat all their eggs. They say that in his suffrage speech Congressman Bowdle said things "which cannot be, with propriety, printed in a newspaper." Great cott! and Ohio refused to return to congress i man with all that command of language! Great Britain is going to buy up all the mouth-organs in the United States for her soldiers. We don't care, we don't care! If she takes all our trombones, too. she won't rattle our neutrality. John Klink a butcher of Lafayette, Tnd., bought a c ow which was slaughtered. A bright silver dollar was found Ui its stomach. Will Mr. Klink please ascertain just where the cw was grjzed and wire at our expense. Meanwhile, it is observable that the honest, impassionate potato doesn't go so high as to become the nectar of the plutocracy, exclusively, or no low in price is to discourage the grower, 'llah for spuds! In that North sea fight, the battleships he Kan to hit each other at a range of over nine miles. Some fights still depend upon "the man behind the gun " A Cbirago reporter has been badly wounded in the check t7 shrapnel

near Warsaw. Those Germans certainly do fire the strong shrapnel!

S"ix members of the California sen- t ate,, just convened, have no bills to i Introduce. California is almost as pro-gre-ss-ive a." Indiana. letter? offered in the contes1" of Nordlca's will show that even that great artist's concerts were sometimes financial failures. Ha! Carranza's on top! His currency s selling at in cents, Villa's at 9. But, maybe Villa has presses that will turn out the most. If thv Turks take Suez canal, maybe in doiru: it they'll show us how to defend ours. Statesmen Real and Near. By Fred C. Kelly WASHINGTON. Feb. 3. Wyatt Aiken, member of congress from South Carolina, has a persistent mania for collecting acquaintances. He wishes to know everybody, regardless of nice, .sex. color, occupation, or social position. And he cannot be accused of widening his Acquaintance entirely for political purposes, because he plies his hobby most assiduously in Washington, where k.o one votes. It is the height of Aikens's ambition to have a speaking, or at least a nodding acquaintance with every man, woman and child in Washington. To this end' he utilizes every odd moment in fraternizing casually with persons in all walks of life. There is scarcely a doorkeeper, white or colored, in any of the government departments that Aiken doesn't knowby name. He knows preachers, waiters, shopkeepers and barbers whom no other member of congress ever see?. Every Sunday he goes to a different church. .Sometimes it is a Catholic or a Protestant church, and then, again, it is a Jewish synagogue. It matters not to Aiken what kind of a church it happens to be so long as he can meet somebody that he didn't know before. He works the same system on restaurants. Nearly every day he tries a new one. And before he leaves the place he has scraped up an acquaintance with the proprietor and one or two of the waiters. If Aiken desires to buy a hat or a pair of shoes the incident is not merely a commercial transaction, but an affair full of golden opportunity for widening one's acquaintance. He will shop about, talking to one tradesman after another, and will end up by purchasing his hat or shoes in an obscure little store that the average person would never have thought of. When the ordinary congressman steps on a street car he pay his fare unci there the personal relation between himself and the conductor practically ends. But with Aiken the giving of his ticket to the fare-taker is a fulcrum from which to pry open a bit of conversation. He desires to find out the conductor's name and to make his own name known to the conductor. All that Aiken requires Is a few mo rev terms in congress, and be will know every living creature of high and low degree In the nation's capital. Sen. -elect Bob Broussard of Louisiana was talking to an old sugar cane planter down in that state a few weeks ago on the subject of politics. Although the man had been a lifelong democrat he exhibited a strong antipathy toward Woodrow Wilson. Broussard asked him why. "Wei!." the planter explained, "in the first place he. had the tariff reduced on sugar an! prices dropped. We were in a bad way. Then the European war occurred and that forced the price of sugar up again. Thanks to the war we arc in a fair way to be em our feet once more. But what do you suppose Woodrow Wilson's up to now I see by the papers that the blamed cuss wants to stop the war." (Copyright, 1913, by Fred C. Kelly.) TWENTY YEARS AGO Reminders From the Columns of The Dally Timea. The Central Iabor Union accepted an invitation to hear Rev. IJ. Town preach on "Jesus, the Carpenter" at the First M. E. church. X William Lake's house, near Lakeville, was burned. An ordinance was introduced in the city council to enforce the cleaning of sidewalks. H. D. Higgins, a jeweler and mechanical genius, died in Mishawaka. A. L. Brick delivered the funeral oration. A QUESTION". "I wote to Mr. Stubbs, the man my son works for in New York, and asked him how Dick was getting along, and where he slept nights." "What did he say?" "Why he wrote back saying Dick is all right, and that he sleeps in the othee during the day; but he doesn't know where he sleeps nights." New York World. BY Till: SKA. Jack (to the summer girl) You will pardon me, but may l ask you your age? Floss (bluMiinglv) Oh, yes. Jack Well? Floss I have just seen 19 summers. Jack May I ask you another question? Floss Certainly. Jack How long were you blind? iuji:iti:i). "Was she self-possesed when you proposed?" "Yes, and er she is yet." New ! York World. It has been compuated that at the tome of the arrival of Columbus there were I'i.OOO.OUO Indians in North and South America. rniii: (XHisirr diimonstkation: Ladies Visit the Kasalle theater. Thursday. Feb. nth a. m. to 12 m. Kxpert demonstration of the Splrella Corset on living models. Ladies' only admitted. Advt. Miller, the tailor, acain in business. Third floor Jefferson Hldg. Spring goods on display. Cb-a.ning and pressing. H. P. b620. Advt. (Will) OF THANK'S j We offer our thanks to the Italian j people wbo attended the funeral of I Frank Lurtine. Advt. JA.MF.JS lilUGIO.

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Spoaking' of uriMMIes tldngw the January Forum nicntioiin kangaroo hunting in Indiana. Orit genial unknown friend, Wright Atem, has favored us with the story of Jake Beans in rhyme, but it i too long to get into the pot and too good to pllt into, a serial. If it could be put in the coridenser and reduced one-half we could handle it to better advantage. IT looks as if we neutrals would have' to put it up pretty strong to Germany1 tin the blockade question to have any effect c n the kaiser. Hie kaiser is smeared with warpaint. His nostrils sniff the battle from afar. Neutrals and other crawling things are beneath the range of his vision. Nothing short of a war fleet or an army division is likely to divert his gaze. AS a matter of fact nobody expected the mayor to make excuses for trying to clean up the city. The only excuse would be failure to make the cleaning WE wish to submit the following for the Melting Pot, viz: The future sign on Jacob Heckman's (the barber) Ford automobile is "Watch out for Heckman's close t-have. it runs on an alcohol tonic." A. C. AND S. L. T. Vei-M Foni tlie 'Varsity. (Notre Dame .Scholastic.) We arc too wise to modernize; our dally deeds we systemize; We rise at six, and go to bed at ten. On ste.vs and fries wo Fletcherizc; the steaks afford good exercise; The pies are tougher than the subway-men. We pationize the actor guys. On Wednesday nights we Orphemize. The prize for lemon shooting we have cinched. We ostracize the 'dear that tries, like Mary Mae,' to moralize. Our f.uise is that of innocence when pinched. We memorize no monstrous lies; nor do we ever bullecinizc. (The campus now has too many hemale cow.) We Journalize and poetize, the Safety Valve we satirize. Men lamp us and respect our learned brow. WELL what is the relation of the ellurch to public health. Our idea was that the church relates to matters subsequent. the man with tiii: (ji'xr. Chapter I. Considerable of a stir was caused at the 1). K. Brumbaugh residence by the entry of burglar Tuesday evenLESS MBIT IF BACK ID IBS HURT: Take a glass of Salts to flusti Kidneys if Bladder bothers you. Eating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble in somo form pr other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overWorked; get sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of distress particularly backache and misery in 1 the kidney region; rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary irritation. . The moment your back hurts or kidneys aren't acting right, or if bladder bothers you. get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the ncid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with lithia, and has been used or generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neutralize the acids In the urine bo it no longer irritates, thus enabling bladder disorders. : Jad Salts. cannot injure anyone Snakes a delightful effervescent lithiawater drink which millions of men and women take now and then ta keep the kidneys and .urinary organi clean, thus avoiding strlous kldnej disease. EYES EXAMINED tad Headache Relieved without th um ii!1!',1;:!!! EytuitwSpedic!i 'ihi'fciihWii.i'jjnjlit! 'ii'll'll'vl'l'lli li:ii!;ii.'li!1-i.ni::!:ii,:: Bmi .. : '(..It .l.l,-)ff,Ij.1 NiitiilinAMiswxs'ii. H. LE MO NT REE toolh lirnd't Leadla OpUmetTiH ami Manufacturing Optician. S2tVi S. Michigan Mrect. flome Phone 6504. Dell Phono SIT. Dandays fram t 10:80 a. sa. by Appointment. led Line Always at Your Service. Home 5013. BcJl 13-607 The White Houc of ur i Modern 1 Ionic- i iiriii-ln rs

inc. In the middle of the nicht Mr. Urumbaugh was awakened by jome one kicking against the back door. It is that this was done to see if anv

me was awake. Mr. Brumbaugh took ! his trusty gunu and made his way down into the reception hall and there was waiting for the fellow to make his appearance. . (To bt continued.) . IN pleading guilty to the c harge of manslaughter Mr. Dodge failed to live up to his name. "WITH the thermometer recording 4S degrees below zero in upper Michigan it don't seem necessary to pass an exclusion bill to keep the Japs out. P. T. B. "EVERYTHING from a silk shirt to a plow" w ill be exhibited at the "made in ouih Bend" show, or you might say anything from a ham to a Singer. A PEACE meeting in Chicago was made up largely of Irish, Germans and Austro-Hungarians, yet it is mentioned with some surprise that the speakers could not agree. TIIK IWKM AND THE SCIENTIST. Keel Two. (By the Burr Oak Acorn's Poet.) But now here comes the educator. Hatched out of the smooth-tongued incubator. And goes thrft the country prancing Telling you he is direct from Lansing. He says your land must be treated To raise more bushels and then be cheated Cut all to pieces by the sword That Is used on the Chicago board. Get one load of 'tatoes on the track Then prices go right down kersmack, The buyer tells you he can't stand So many 'tatoes raised on such poor land. The educator tells you it is great, Just put on a little more phosphate, Put on all that it will stand, On your high priced farming land. Then he will promise you That next year when he comes thru He will tell the same, same story, But dear old farm In thee I glory. The End. EVERY once in awhile Sen. LiFollette rings in with something like a conference of neutral nations, which never gets anywhere. IF it's made in .South Bend you may know it is good, whether constructed of fibre or metal or wood. Wc use the material, the best of its kind, and the mechanics employed are the best you can find. Not merely because we say It is true, but because the world knows it as well as you do. THE supreme test of our philosophy comes in February when life is at its lowest ebb. C. N. F.

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Two Oierations Reported Succosful When New .Method Is Kmplojed Conscious But Feci No Inln. FORT WAYNE. Feb. '. The "twilight sleep." hypodermic method of operating, has been used at locaW hospitals twice in the past 10 days, and both patients are so far on the n ad to recovery that the many interested surgeons who watched the operations feel confident that it is successful. Neither was a case of confinement. It was first used on Lawrence A. Schallenberge r. who underwent a de licate operation at it. Joseph's hospital a week ago, and whose heart action was so bad it was impossible to administer an anesthetic. The "twilight sleep" tablet was resorted to. and the young man went through the operation, conscious, but suffering no pain, and already is able to sit up and within a day or two will be taken home. The other operation was performed at the Lutheran hospital several days later upon a Mrs. Cunningham of Antwerp, O., and it, too, was highly successful. As far as the hospital recoids ? how, these are the first cases in which the "twilight sleep" has been used. Dr. Budd Van Sweringen was the surgeon in both cases, and feel that the operations resulted so successfully that he will be able to perform others with the same medium. Chas. L. Lawton. Dist. Agt. Equitable Life Insurance Co., Towa. 1 1 2 S Portage a v. Rell phone S02. Advt. ectricity aid the

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Captain is Made .Memtx r of Firemen Pen-ion Board. John Stoncy, captain ( Hose company No. was elected trustee of tho tirrmen's pension fund to succeed John Wentland. captain of Hose company No. 1, at toe annual cle.tio:i held by the South Bend tire department Mond'.v. , si i:msiup .moyiii:xtn. NEW YORK. IV b St earner sailing today: Patria. Marseilles. Hue to arrive today: Philadelphvi from Liverpool: Hclligolav ip-mi Christiana: Luigi Cianipa. from Naples: Lincolnshire from Aiciers; Minneapolis from Liverpool; rdur. i fn-m Liverpool; Pannonia from Glasgow; America from Cadiz. Cold to Mead Relieved lu one minute. Mort-y bsk If it f;iiU Get a 2-V or ."-V tub of Catarrhal Jelly Use it quick. For ehronlf nasal r &- tarrb. dry eat-irrn. svre tos. nigb. Fp.efziug. iie-:e Md, -tt Write fr free tuple. Tl.e lirt drv? ud will do good. Ak druirirl!t. Kondon Mfc. o.. llnnejpd!. Minn. ii the Home JSeaelits eer 2C "Hi A V

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