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THE BKOOKLYX DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21. 1918.

"GOD KNOWS, I DID NOT WILL Mangin will be called off before his task is completed. It would seem from this that the Germans now in retreat fTrade Mark RegiatrrNl.) being adopted, because Mr. Kitchln and the sponsors of the bill are intent upon raising money for the war and are opposed to exemptions. But the colleges which this exemption would serve have proved their value to the war as they have never proved it in times of peace. The same is true of the hospitals, while we can place our war burdens more wisely than upon those philanthropic organizations Chocolate Soldier," for example, Is taken from Bernard Shaw, and no doubt that thrifty Celt draws royalties from its use.

Is his percentage to be conscripted as well as that of the Viennese composer? ''Madame is a typical French melodrama straight from Paris. Have the American rights been sold to a German manager that they should be taken over? The sunie question arises as to the operas of Wolf -Ferrari. He was educated in Munich, to be sure, but he Is Finances of U. S. Are Based on Constitution will not find complete security even i after they reach the Hindenburg HneJ That Foch will make every effort to bring the enemy to disaster there can be no doubt.

He hag In reserve fori the furthering of this purpose an! American army, as well as many unused British, French and Italian divisions. The Americans, we were recently told, now have a sector of their own. Where, we do not know, but it is in Champagne or in Lorraine. When tbe British have finished their present operation it would not be sur-! prising if the Americans again took; the offensive on a larger scale thartj before. This is only one of many possibilities suggested by the situation still developing.

The Allies are moving from victory to victory, and while the enemy is being kept on the run, much more is being accomplished. We are taking numerous prisoners and guns, position after position is being' stormed or flanked and the whole en-1 emy line is being shaken. But be- hind it all there is a larger strategic! purpose which will lead to final vic tory, perhaps much sooner than we have dared to hope. LABOR'S DRAFT-LAW PROTEST. "Who Is asking for this legislation? Is it the Colorado Fuel Company or the great Steel Trust? Are soldiers of democracy to be used as strike breakers?" These questions are put to the House Military Committee by Frank Mor rison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, not attacking the dsaft principle, not even attacking the extension of ages affected, but bitterly antagonizing the "work-or-fight" pro vision introduced as an amendment by Senator Thomas of Colorado.

The issue was bound to come. Nor is it altogether a one-sided Issue, though most of us realize that continu ous Industrial "push" is needed to win the war. The American Federation of Labor has been loyal. It is loyal. But It does not hold that Richard Roe, la borer, working at wages for John Doe, captain of Industry, should be coerced into taking what John Doe chooses to give, by the fear of being drafted, even though John Doe Is engaged on, and is making his money out of, Govern ment contracts.

"Industrial conscription" is what the Rev. George R. Lunn calls the pro posed legislation. Against industrial conscription organized labor has set its face. But with or without the Thomas amendment an entente should oe possiuie, is possime, and we are sure will be established.

If men do not stop work but only ask the Federal Government to adjust conditions in private plants, they are likely to get whatever is justly asked. The Govern ment has sufficient powers. And it is not being administered by forces hos tile to organized labor. AS TO TAKING OVER POWER PLANTS. The Sims bill, carrying an appropria tion of $100,000,000 and empowering the Administration to construct or take over electric power plants and connec tions, is suid to have the President's full approval and is likely to be en acted.

Under that bill every power plant hi the country, even if it Is a municipal plant, will be held at the dis cretion of the Government. But we believe, and all Americans are inclined to believe, that no powers will be ruthlessly exercised, and that war demands the delegation of authority. Primarily, tbe creating of power plants at the mouths of coal mines, the use of refuse coal there, without load- ng or freightage charge, and the dis tribution of the power over a wide area without any expense save the lay ing of wires, is an intelligent partial solution of many problems. What coal an be used in this way will be most economically used. And in some sec- ions a free use of existing undeveloped water power for making electricity will avoid the use of coal altogether.

That several shipyards can be made vastly more effective with cheap power is undeniable. It may not be neces ary ever to take a private or corpora ion plant. But the freedom to do tills where any complications arise is an essential part of the needed legislation COME HIGH, BUT WE MUST HAVE THEM. The appeal of the Merchants Asso- iation to General Crowder to exempt the New York policemen from the new draft law Is based upon the fact that it has been found impossible to replace the 15 per cent, of the force already rawn into the Army. The protection the city is imperative, from both a military and a civil point of view.

If he policemen between 31 and 45 were be taken into the Army that pro- tion would practically have to be given by the Army, so that the matter us broad ns it is long. One other result of the difficulty in replacing soldiers drawn from the 'olice and Fire Departments is likely be an increase of pay for the higher rade men In both services. The wer grades of both recently secured addition of $15(1 a year to their pay, fter the firemen had organized them- dves and Joined the American Federa tion of Labor. The Board of Estimate thought that It could not find money for fhe increase, hut under fires-sure it found It. The upper grades are now asking for a raise from $1,500 to $1,800 a year, and ofliclals admit that the demand will have to be met by the Hoard in the fall, because It Is impossible to keep the forces up to the necessary minimum strength on any other basis.

The situation Is the result of war costs and war wages nnd the burden will have to lie borne us other war burdens are. But It would be unwise In the face of that condition to deplete the forces further through the draft There Is no need to make a bud matter i' by as If to 1 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. It was due to Hamilton that the first national bank was established in 1791 and that the coinage system was put upon ar solid basis. Both of these were regarded with suspicion 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 as sumed its full proportions.

Following the assumption of the State debts, the need of further revenue became imperative and Hamilton recommended that a tax be placed upon distilled spirits. This aroused intense antagonism, since the consumption of spirits was so common that many people con I tended that its special taxation was a discriminating burden upon one of the necessities of life. 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 several States was $2,000,000, calcu-lated to fall as follows: Upon houses, lands, slaves, $228,000. world was there a time when the gospel of the Master was so needed as now, when men and women working for peace and righteousness and who have loved ones in the trenches, and the men in the trenches, themselves, are looking so eagerly to the Highest for comfort.

p. WANTS NEW PRIMARY LAW Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: It is doubtful if Bolshevik leaders could devise and perpetuate in the interest of Germany a more complete organization for the perpetuation of "bossism," to the exclusion of concern for the people, than has the oligarchy that dominates our political destinies! Our redemption lies with the people at large, and not with the existing political oligarchies that have no conception of public welfare not Identified first with their paramount selfish designs. The remedy lies with legislation that will be effective In correcting our present fallacious primary election laws, designed by the bosses to fool the voters and to encourage their own nefarious aims. A primary law to be effective should be shorn of deceptive subterfuges. The inauguration of a perfect primary election law should embrace a compulsory provision that all citizens of voting age should participate In its operation.

HENRY C. BUCKHOUT. i AlcDonough street. 'Desirable Men' 1 1 he increaaing number of aprnstwu. today, ma, be Rcpountrd for by th.

docrcajring nnm-bir of really dcsimbls men. The iRev. John Roach Straton. That this true, one owns with grief, Which every pastor shares Thero'd bo no wil'dug spinsters If All men were millionaires. The men who are to be desired i Must be, like Bayard, brave; r.ut, if the servants must be hired, A wife much more must crave.

There's charm In a poetic air And in a taste for books; Uu most of feminine despair Will come from ill-paid cooks. There's glory In high sentiment. As every woman knows; Hut poverty, 'tis evident, Is quito the worst of woes. this is true, one owns with grlcfi Which every pastor shares There'd be no willing spinsters If All men were millionaires. J.

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or make inquiry by telephone. No, 61100 Main. A SENSATIONAL DECISION. If the Appellate Division shall sustain the sensational decision of Jus-. tice Cropsey in the action brought by John Kissel against Controller Travis, the legality of every designation on the Republican State ticket will stand impeached.

Justice Cropsey rules that the name of Mr. Travis cannot be put upon the official primary ballot as the Republican candidate because out of the fid.lNK) or more signatures attached to his petition nor more than 700 are valid. The tfmifm ins thousands are rejected by the court because the notarial acknowledgments of the signatures are not verified by the certificates of county clerks. Justice Cropsey holds that the election law demand such verification, except in relation to the "00 signatures obtained in Albany County where the designating petition is filed and where the notarial acknowledgments are declared to be sufficient. If the provisions of the election law are so mandatory and precise as Justice Cropsey thinks they are, an extraordinary condition of affairs has arisen in this State.

Designating peti-, tions have been formulated and offi- cully received and filed at Albany in plain disregard of legal requirements which, Justice Cropsey insists, are vital nnd indispensable to the prevent inn of I fraud. It is curious that the law, I interpreted in this decision, should re- gard the certificate of county clerk: outside of Albany County as a check I upon the notarial acknowledgments and not require such a check In Al bany County, where the filing of pe-i tit inns takes place. There was, of course, no intention tc evade the law in the filing of these petitions. If the certifications of the county clerks were understood to be imperative under tile law they could easily have been obtained. The method pursued was that of other years, when ii" question or illegality was ever raised.

No question of illegality has been raised this year except in the case i of this one State official, who seeks a renoniination under the primary law. we have in tie doubt that the Appellate Division will take into full account the absence of any evidence of fraud or deception, and will also note that designating petitions in other years have not been challenged on the ground assumed in the Kissel action. The time for appeal is brief. The necessity for a decisive opinion is urgent. The candidates who j.

affected and the great number of who have signed the designating J' petitions in good faith are eager to whether any necessary provision the statute has been ignored, or i whether Justice Cropsey's decision represents a strained construction of the law or a plain error of interpretation. If the decision be sustained immense, confusion will result through-pout the Stale. ENEMY OPERAS AND PLAYS. It is right for the custodian of alien property to seize the royalties of Germans and Austrians on their gP'ays and operas when performed in tliis country. There is no reason why foreign -owned property should be exempt from seizure that does not to a German-owned dye factory gor shoe shop.

Rut the practical working out of the plan involves considerable difiiculty and some humor and reveals as well what, a large extent our musical comedy stage is Indebted to German for its material. Few who went to see "Little ulluy Blue" or "The Dollar Princess" thought that they were fattening the pockets of enemies who collected royalties on those works. The list of works whoso German origin is well known or obvious is long, but it is supplemented by many in which such authorship would not be discovered without Inquiry. The list as published also gives rise to pome queries. The text of "The ii which maintain those physical and moral reserve forces which are vital at all times but are especially so in war.

The exemption should be made, KEEPING THE ENEMY RUNNING, For sustained effort and uniform success there has been nothing in this war at all comparable with the Allied advance since July IS. Without a mis step, without a moment's hesitation and with a sureness and swiftness that have been as surprising to the rest of the world as they have been confound ing to the Germans, the Allied force have moved forward from one victory to another. Fine tactics, sure to com mand the admiration of future genera tions, have been employed with marked success, but with it all we have been able to glimpse a grand strategic plan leading beyond present victories to ultimate triumph. The keenest students of the war hav hardly been able to keep pace with the swift moving developments of the past month. Before the situation created by the dangerous enemy thrust, calcu lated to envelope the Rheims salient, was fully grasped, Foch had delivered his memorable countcrstroke.

Few critics at the moment dared hope for more than the arresting of the German offensive. In a day the whole situation on the Marno had been reversed and an enemy offensive had been turned into a disastrous retreat. Before the full effect of this blow was apparent came the stroke in Picardy, with the subsequent blows north and south, lead ing to the portentous situation that has come with the new British offensive launched north of the Somme this morning. If we leave out of account for the moment the Allied success in the Soissons-Rheims salient and consider the situation in Picardy alone, we are struck with the close resemblance 10 the great Battle of the Somme in 1016 and the situation produced by that Allied offensive the following spring. But, while there is a resemblance, there is a vast difference in the relative positions of the contesting armies, The first Battle of the Somme is being fought over, just as the first Battle of the Marne was recently re-fought, but there has been a great revision of the situation in the Allies' favor.

Like thi second Marne battle, the present Somme battle suggests that Foch is relighting the greatest battles of the war after a careful restudy and according to plans that reverse all the conditions in favor of himself. Two days ago the German lines In Picardy were almost the same as those held before lie Anglo-French offensive was launched on the Somme on July 1, lflii. It took six months for the Brit ish and French to advance half a dozen miles over this territory in 191(1, Yesterday and the day before a French army, striking north from the Aisne toward Noyou, turned this line from the south and with it the enemy positions north and east of Soissons. On I he north the British this morning in less than two hours had gained more. ground than they covered in the whole period of the first Battle of the Somme.

As was noted a day or two ago, the British held the high ground in front of Gonimecourr, Hebuterne and in front of Scire before the present battle began. It was this high ground that Iv ld up the British advance in the first Somme offensive. It served as a jump ing off place for General Byng's attack this morning. He has made a great jump and was well on his way toward Eapaumo a few hours after his attack started. If the recent advance of the British south of the Somme is to serve as a gauge, we may expect British tanks to race around Bapaumc before the day is out.

With this combined success of the French and British in the last few days it is safe to assume that the Picardy field Is now far more dangerous for the enemy than it was at the conclusion of tbe first Somme offensive. That offensive was a costly failure so far as immediate results were con-eerned, but it made the great strategic retreat of the enemy the 'following spring inevitable. Today the Germans are facing a forced retreat over the same ground. There is no time for the planning of a deliberate withdrawal, nnd the big question of the moment is whether the enemy can go back to the Hindenburg line without uttering tremendous losses nnd finding that line turned when he gets there. It may be recalled that despite the utmost precautions and the really re- riarkable skill of the first German retreat in ricardy the Hindenburg line was almost, turned in the summer of IW7, before the Germans were well settled.

The only thing that prevented the Allies from breaking that iinc was the new system of defense introduced by the enemy and the collapse of Xi voile's offensive on the Aisne. tnrougn no fault or the general. and Nivelle had a great plan for T.I17. They began their campaign with iremeniloiis attacks before Arras nnd on the Aisne. It was the new elasllc defense of (he enemy using inaeliine-giin nests in shell holes anil concrete blockhouses that saved the northern hinge of the line.

Around Laon Nivelle was prevented from breaking the southern hinge by change of policy on the part, of his 'government, which compelled him to abandon fhe offensive. Today we have every reason to believe that the answer to the elastic defense lias been found in the use of tanks and there is no danger that the head of a musical conservatory in Venice, and there is no reason to Slip- pose that he Is not as Italian as his nvuslc. The phonograph records of Emmy Destinn are taken over, a fact which suggests a considerable impairment of the incomes of some of the German singers who have been engaged at the opera in the past, as well as of Kreisler and some of the other violin ists. The royalties on most of the German plays given in the German theaters here and In the West have been conscripted and we shall prob ably hear dramatic outcries about the "dollar living Yankees" from seats of Kultur. Since Mr.

Palmer is to turn these royalties into Liberty Bonds, his real problem is to maintain the productive value of the properties he has seized. Old hands in the game are often not able to do that. MISSISSIPPI AND VARDAMAN. Mississippi deserves sincere congratulations on her response to President Wilson's appeal for a repudiation of James K. Vardaman.

In the Democratic primaries, which dictate the selection of a United Slates Senator, the victory of Pat Harrison of Gulf- port is complete overwhelming. Har rison is serving his fourth term in the House of Representatives. He is a patriot, and a gentleman. Born in 1SS1, twenty years younger Jhan Vardaman, he is two decades farther away from the bitternesses of the reconstruction period. Varda man's boast was, "I was reared on the farm." Pat Harrison is not ashamed to have It known that he graduated from the State University of Louisiana.

John Sharp Williams, the senior Sen ator from this State, is neither a boor nor a reactionary. After January 1 Mississippi will stand with her sister States, unabashed, undisgraced, in line with the sentiment of the nation. Here is a relatively small State, a poor State, which for a long period of years before the war bad an Influence in the Senate far greater than her material interests or her population justified. Xo American historian can neglect such men as George Poindexter. one of the most polished speakers the Senate ever had Jefferson Davis, next to Calhoun, the South's keenest thinker: Robert J.

Walker, father of the Walker Tariff, anil a constructive statesman of a high order. Even in the reconstruction years there was some personal ability in the men who went to the Senate. Adelbert Ames of the old Massachusetts family carpetbagger; Blanche K. Bruce, colored man, but well educated, of genuine capacity and not devoid of manners or of self restraint. Later, after the Whites had regained the State, came L.

Q. C. Lamar, who preluded his senatorial experience with four terms in the House and followed it with service as Secretary of the Interior under Grovir Cleveland and as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. After the Civil Wnr( Mississippi was more than poor, worse than poor. Nowhere, not even in South Carolina or in Louisiana, was the negro peril graver.

The long stretch of rich cotton lands along the river had a laboring population of Guinea Coast ignorance, superstitions, habits of life; inflamed with the high spirits of a freedom not won but conferred distinctly not fitted for citizenship. Of the methods used to meet that menace in practical polities little need be said save that the Kemper County massacre was only one of a series. But the effect of those methods on the dominating white party is only just passing away. Men of lawless violence were needed for lawless nets. They claimed their reward.

Men of cultivation, of sincerity, of devotion to order, commonly to stand aside. And James, K. Vardaman was the latest may lie be the last representative of thai oligarchy of roughnecks. Vardaman stood for lynching, stood for denying civil rights to the negro majority in Mississippi; stood for wrecking negro education, before he stood against Woodrow Wilson at a time when war demanded unity. He is well out of public life, and Mississippi is well rid of him.

TAXING CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. The present Federal revenue law. passed two years ago, taxes the net value of estates and thus seems to exempt bequests for charitable, religious and educational uses from taxation, as well as speeilic bequests to individuals. As a matter of fact it docs nothing of the sort, for the reason that it is a common practice for tors to make bequests to individuals and institutions and then to bequeath the residue of the estate, after all these charges are paid, to charitable uses. In such cases the entire tax is paid from this residue, the specific bequests are exempt and the charitable use bears the entire burden.

To meet this injustice Mr. Rainey has introduced a bill to exempt from taxation all bequests for exclusively public purposes when made to the United Stales, a State, city, county or town, and also all bequests "for uses of reli literary, charitable or educational character or for the encouragement of rt or for societies for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals." This amendment should be included in the new revenue bill now being nelcd upon. It Is in danger of not worse so long as there are men to be found in unnecessary industries. The twenty-three Washington suf fragettes halved their sentences by a hunger strike. A letter of approval from Mr.

Hoover may be expected, but has not yet been made public. Secretary of War Baker keeps his hold on his old friends In Ohio. His re-election as chairman of the Demo cratic Central Committee of Cuyahoga County is well worth recording. Republicans pick to oppose Champ Clark In his Missouri district H. B.

Dyer. That Dyer will have all the colors of the rainbow before Champ gets through with him is a local pre diction. John A. Tollshus of Syracuse, In dicted for sedition and repudiated by Edward Schoeneck, must feel that he, too, conies in for the double cross, which is the one symbol or totem of Republican State politics today. 'I am opposed to prohibition," says Frank H.

McDermott of Newark, a candidate for the Democratic nomina tion for united States Senator. If he wins, the Applejack State will have the champion she has missed ever since the passing of Martine. Charles W. Bryan, brother of Wil liam Jennings, seems to have been whipped by Keith Neville in the fight to get the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska. The Bryans are a lot too "dry" to suit Nebraska's cities.

AS TO LEWIS AND HEARST Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Under the heading, "Hearst manager of Whitman campaign, charges M. E. Lewis," there appeared an interesting article in Sunday's Eagle. 1 have never met our Governor or Mr. Hearst, so what follows Is not urged friendship.

I voted for Whitman twice and expect to vote for him again, purely on the record of what he has accomplished. A record which, when compared with that of the citizen who assails him, renders the latter so far my knowledge goes, very negligible. said charges came from some commonplace layman they might be looped upon by the general run of Intelligent men and women voters as the mere vaporlngs of a weak, excited mind. But when such charges come from a person holding an Important public onice, ana wno is an aspirant for the highest office within the gift of the voters of the State, they must be noticed. If the said citizen, however, can prove his charges, not by mere conjecture and hearsuy evidence, but by real facts that Is, matters of honest record lot him, at least in this one instance, follow the manly example of Mr.

Henrstand make said facts known the public over his own name! B. A. RONZONE. 827 Greene avenup. CATHKDRAfi OP RHKTMS.

Temple of Light by Darkness overthrown. How now in dismal ruins dost Thou stand! Thy storied walls and consecrated stone, Appealing vain before the ruthless hand Of Sacrilege and Lust to Heaven cry For vengeance on the vandals, foul and fell, Who, in defiance of the Lord Most High, Train on Ills sacred Shrine the shafts of Hell. Too much to hope -Thy grandeur to restore, To heal, unsenrred, wounds of Hate; the gaping The muster minds that shaped Thee are no more, And sleep, 'tis well, unconscious of Thy fate. Yet shnlt Thou live, undlmmcd, within our heart, Triumph of Love and Masterpiece of Art. FRANCIS T.

LEAHY. Washington, August 21 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 from their original plan. It was with difficulty that the advocates of a more centralized government secured for Congress the right "to lay and collect taxes, duties, im posts and excises," and as a safeguard 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 fer an ad valorem rate on about thirty articles, and this was assessed in such a way as to give protection to the young manufacturing industries which were beginning to spring up In the new country, particularly in Now England. Alexander Hamilton was appointed Secretary of the Treasury, however, in September, 1789, and although he was only 35 years old he was probably better fitted than any other man in the United States for the position.

While EXPERIMENT OF FAITH A Book by Bishop Fiske on Real Religion. It is a popular belief, if we can judge by letters in newspapers and by sermons, that the religious person of today, especially the man, has little more than an intellectual assent for fundamental Christian tenets; that the man is rare who believes with his whole mind, conscience and heart fn God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Bishop Coadjutor Charles Fiske, D.D., LL.D., of the Central New York Epis-clpal Dioce'so, makes a strong plea for the more enlightened and Christian attitude in "The Experiment of Faith" (Revell). This is a fascinating study at any time, but Bishop Fiske adorns his with gems of reflection and advico that stimulate eagerness to know more, to study further, to step into the path of Implicit obedience to accepted truth. His book is calculated to be especially hope building to the unattached followers of Christ, men of strong religious feelings and convictions who are not enrolled anywhere as Christian believers and feel that they cannot honestly identify themselves with any church.

He gets close to the popular Idea when he says: "Is it not true that those who are most conscious oi uou are often least able to tell why they believe in Him?" This should be especially interesting to tbe superficial critic of the Bible, who puts his views in the abstract form: "Only a very fow of the so-called good Christians can tell in some way why they believe in God." Bishop Fisko's chapters on this point in religious criticism are, perhaps, the most animated of his essays. There is an absorbing timeliness about them. They grip. Some will wonder, after they have read them, what they have done with the faith they have, and if it does not bring one nearer to the real aim of life to know Christ and to realize why they Hhould believe In Him. In this little volume they ran also get ft new and beautiful appreciation of Christian missions as the real Christian brotherhood on a large st ale.

To say that the Christian missions are a step nearer to immortality may touch deeply those who have read much about them and their faithful sacrifices for the salvation of souls. KEEP CHURCHES OPEN Editor Brooklyn Dally Eagle: There Is only ono guess needed to determine why a writer In The Eaglo fhe other day suggested the closing of the churches during the war. The answer is that he has no use for thr church or anything for which it stands. Never In til's history of the mam fammmmst.