THB KAMAIT l»0«T. F»BRF»ORT. N T.. rWDAY, MARCH 2»r T»l» Pl«« 7
SEAFORD .
Mr and Mra. fJcorm Weeks, Jr., *A «on «p«nt the week-erxl at thair
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BALDWIN
Mlas Mary E. Southard haa been l^enflned to her home for the pcMt few l#«y«, hut R !• hoped that «he will ftoon he on the road io recoTery.
« A number of men of thia villag* i;|«d 8l)4o some 'Yorkers' caaftht a tWrire number of anapp<>ni laat ^nn- l>i«y, and from all appearances the ti»n are biting well. Mr. Schachtel [is again on the Job with Ashing par- fti«« and the number caught by the Ifarty of four that he had out Stin- rwiy were one hundred and fifty.
t. EdwaVd K. Mills spent the week-end '•t his home in SeaJord.
¦Mrs. Josephine Steck spent the i week-end at her daufhter's home here.
I Mrs. Nelson Verity spent Tuesday ^In Brooklyn wKh her dauiphter, Mn. Kdward Mansfield.
\ Miss E. Milla was again taken to ; Marcy Hospital on Tuesday, and it is **xpected that she will be obliged to 'vnd«rgo another operation for gall [•tones.
LUTHRRAN CHTJRfTH
Pastor, Rer. WilWam Steinbicker.
On >Ea«t«r Sunday the Bible Sehool meets at the ustMl time. The eren- inir service will begin at T.M prompt¬ ly. This serrice will be for the mem¬ bers of the scHool and congreiration. A special pTorram of carola, recita¬ tions and special music has heen ar¬ ranged.
.Sunday after E««t«r the Sacrament of the Lord's Sapper will be admin¬ istered. The rejrular monthly meet¬ injr of the Parinh Aid Society will be held at the home of Mrs. Steinhiclor, .S.3 Smith street, Rockville Centre, on Wednesday, April .1, at 2..'10 p.m
With the warm weather on hand, work on the new basement church building on GrirAm place will be push¬ ed forward rapidly. The building is to be ready for occupancy before Summer. With a building of its own and the improved facilitiea the con- greication will have, St. Peter's will be able to do a more aggressive work for the Kingdom of God and the com¬ munity. The school has of l«te heen enjoying a constant growth with a sood attendance.
"THE'RICH MAN'SWAR' A HATEFUL CALUMNY"
American Business Meiv Ready to Malce Saorifioet With¬ out Stmt.
TAXES HERE AND ABROAD.
American Taxation ths Moat Dame- eratle In the World.
A Good Friday service will be held In the Methodist Church at 8 o'clock.
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The I/adies' Aid Society met with Mra. .M. J. Vooris Thursday after¬ noon.
Choir rehearsal at the Methodist .Church Saturday evening at 7.30. Bi- hle .Study Class will meet at 8 p.m.
WANTAGH
' There will be Easter services in the church Sunday, both morning and evening, and Sunday School at 2.30 p.m.
There will be a Christian Endeavor j meetir^ in the church Friday even-, Im? «t H o'clock. The topic will be, l'^K«medie.<) for Intemperance." Vera j ^DaaA will lead the meeting. i
' The King's Daughters met at the j home of Mrs. R. E. Jackson Tuesday | afternoon. I
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The entertainment and dance given In Bellmore Fire Hall last Friday evening waa a ?reet success *nd ev¬ eryone enjoyed the pleasant /sven- big. The net proceeds .were over a hundred dollars clear, and it is for llie 'bendflt of the Red Grose.
The Red Cross also held a luncheon In the Wantagh Fire iHall Monday which waa also a great succeas. A Mjrular businesa meeting was held following the collation.
Mrs. Howard Ketcham, daugrhter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Jamea, is en¬ tertaining a aon bom Monday, March 25. iMother and balbe are doin^ nicely.
iPrivate George H. fiiems, after ar¬ riving in Camp Wadsworth Friday from his furlougrh, was made a cor- iporal.
A. Bonuck, the relief agrent, who has had charge of the railroad station for the past month, left Monday. Mr. Bonuck was very well liked and many friends were sorry to have him leave. Mr. Singer has been engaged as the regular station agent.
Fred Schaardt is improving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. Schaardt have closed their horn? here and have prone to live with their daughter in Bellmore.
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Rubbers and Shoes Repaired while you wait. All work guaranteed. Reasona¬ ble Prices. JAMES PISCiOnA, Pr«p. 85 Raiiroad Ave., Freeport, L. I.
LEGAL NOTICES
COUNTY COURT. NASSAU COUNTY.
Jam— W. MeChasnar. aa Ad-
ralDiatrator of th« Good*.
Chattel, sad Crwlita of
GM>rKa W. MeCliaaaay. da-
aaaued. PialatiS,
•gainst Porraat D. Smith and Althu- Nonca or saul
•a Smitli, his wife ; Samuel
Biehlar and Sidnajr H.
Swasay, as Reeeiver of the
I)roi>erty of Forreat D.
Smibh, Defaiulanta,
AT THE N. Y. THEATRES
BEIAjK STORY .\T HIPPOD'ROME
Beginning last Monday Balle Story returned to the Hippodrome as the prima donna of "Cheer Up!" She was Mrelcomed by thousands of Hippodrome patrons who remembered with pleas¬ ure Miss Story's success in Mr. Dil¬ lingham's, initial production on this big stage, "Hip, Hip, Hooray." She is considered the most popular prima donna ever .seen in this series of amaz¬ ing productions, and for h^ return Messrs. Hurnside, Hubhsll and Golden prepared a new song-production call¬ ed "Pretty Poll," which was inter- golated in the jungle scene of "Cheer ne!"
Ma?al Force Needs 1,000 Recruits
The Naval Reserve Force needs 1,000 recruits at once to be enrolled Sis seanu'n for the period of the war. They are to be sent to Pelham for training, and as this is the finest training canvp in America, the oppor¬ tunity should not be missed.
If in the draft, go to' your Local Board ard they will give you a letter permitting enrollment in the Naval Reserve. All enrolling ollices of the Navy throughout the United States will accept applicants, including th' regular enrolling offices at No. 115 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn; No. 34 £aat Twenty-third street, the U. iS. S. '^Recruit," in Union Square; No. 225 West Forty-second street, and No. 51 Qtambers street, New York.
SMTHVILLE SOUTH
LUTHERAN CHURCH Instead of the usual sedsiuu ui the achool and service there will be a •pecial service for young and old at 8 p.m. Sunday. The service will con- pist of carols, recitations and spe- |ial music. E>veryone is cordially wel- 0ome. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered on the Sunday after Easter. The service will Men with th« preparatory ritual. ThA time will bo 3.45 p.m.
In pur*ua«ee of a Judgment of for«eloaur« •nd aale, dw, mada and entared In tha Sbbove- entitlad •ction, and bearing data tha 9th day of February, 1918, I, the nnderaigned, the referee In said Judgment named, will Bell at publie auction, at the rotunda of the County Court Houae, at Mineola, Naasau County, New York, on the
80TH DAY OF MARCH, 1918, at ten o'eloelc, in the *-ninrnn nfnilhtit day, the premiaea directed by said judgment to be sold, and therein deacribed as follows:
All that eertain lot, piece or parcel of
land, with the buildings and improvementa
thereon erected, situate, lyinff and being at
i Baldwin, in the Town of Himpstead, Nassau
i County and State of New York, and bounded
and described as follows: I BeKinning at a point on the westerly line of Harrison Avenue distant Three hundred and nineteen (319) feet southerly from th' corner formed by the intersection of lh< westerly line of Harrison Avenue with th< Southerly line of Kailroad Avenue and run¬ ning thence southerly alons the westerly line of Harrison Avenue Ninety-five and eitcht tenths (96.8) feet more or less to lanil formerly of Marxarot Story, now of the Ea- tate of Thomaa W. Pearsall, deceased ; thence running north sixty decrees, forty minutes inn* 40') went alongr the said land of the b^stato of Thomas W. I'enrsall One hundred thirty-nine and seven tenths (139.7) feel more or less to the Easterly line of Und of Pearsall and thence northerly along tlw easterly line of aaid land of Pearsall to the aoutherly line of land this day conveyed by the parties of the first part to L.ewis H. Roes, and thence easterly and at right angles to the westerly line of Harrison Avenue and ttlongr the southerly line of said land of Lewia H. Ross, One hundred thirty-seven (137) feet more or less to the said westerly line of Harrison Avenue at the point or place of beginning.
Together with aU the right, title and in¬ tereat of the partiea of the first part, of, in ami to Harrison Avenue in front of and adjoining said premisea to the center line thereof, and being part of the same premises which were conveyed to the said Forreat D Smith, one of the partiea of ths flrat part by Tredwell D. Smith and Susan P. Smith, hla wife, by deed bearing date the 26th day of September, 189S, and duly recorded in the offlee of the Cierlc of ths Cuunty of Queena on the 26th day of September, 181)3. in L.it>er 994 of Deeda. page 2SE.
Dated: Freeport, N. Y., February »th. 1918. JAMBS N. GEHRIG. Referee. Ekwahds a BuDi, Attonseys for PlaintifT,
Office a Post-Ofnee Address, 1-7 Railroad Avenue. FrM»port, New York.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Purauant to an order of HON. LEONB O. I HOWBLL, SurrogaU ef tha County ot Naa- : MU, notice ia hereby viven to all peraona hev- . lug claim* against Francea E. Norton, late ^ uf the Town of Hecnpetead, in the said county, deoeaaed, to preaent the aame with tha vouchera thereof, to the sutieeril>er tha I aaacuitw of the taat Will and Tsatament of I said deeaeaed, at Iter pUce of tranaswUng I buaiaeea at the ollee of WiUiam 8. PetUt, I Vluc Rockaway, New York, oa or before the Itth (lay ot Uay next. Datied, Mineola. N. Y., NoTembcr S. 1817. , ANNE L. DeMOTT, Bzeeutor.
I WlLUAM 8. ParriT, I Attorney for Exeeutor,
Fax Soekaway. Mew York.
Ymr kaawMiw of rwl asUte vaJaai ta ftikt eommunity la not c<NnBkte, nor proyer- •aaesitW up tu date, unlsas you raiMl our
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By OTTO H. KAHN. Nothing Is plainer than that hnsl- nesa and haslnesa men had everything to eain hy preserving the coDdltlons which existed during the two and a half years prior to April, 1917. under which many of th<>ni made very large profits hy furnishing supplies, provi¬ sions and ftnanclal atd to- the allied nations. Taxes were light, and this country was rapidly becoming the great economic reservoir of the worTB.
Nothing is plainer than that any sane business man In thla country muat have foreseen that, If America entered the war, these profits would be Immensely reduced and some of them cut off en* tlrely, because onr govemment wonld step in and take chnrge; that it would cut prices right and left, .is. In fact, it bas done; that enormoua burdens of taxation would have to be lmi>o8ed, the bulk of which would naturally be borne by the well-to-do ; In short, that the un¬ precedented golden flow Into the cof¬ fers of business was bound to stop with our Joining the war, or, at any rate, to be much diminished.
But It is said tbe big financiers of New York were afraid that the money loane.d by them to tbe allied natlona might be lost If these nations were de¬ feated, and therefore they maneuvered to get America Into the war In order to save their investments.
Proof That tha Chargs Is Absurd.
A moment's reflection will show the utter absurdity of that charge. Let us assume, for argoment's sake, that tbe allies had been defeated. Let ns make the wildly Improbable assumption tbat they had defaulted for the time being npon tbeae foreign debta, the greater part of which, by the way. Is secured by tbe deposits of. collateral in tbe shape of American railroad bonds and stocks and of bonds of neutral coun¬ tries, aggregating more than suflBclent In value to cover these debts. Let us assume that the entire amount of al¬ lied bonds placed In America bad been held by rich men in New York and the east Instead of being distributed, as tt Is, throughout the countr:^,.
Is it not perfectly manifest that a single year's'American war taxation and reduction of profits would take out of the pockets of such assumed holders a vastly greater sum than any possible loss they could have suffered by a do- fault on their allied bonds, not to men¬ tion the heavy taxation which is bound to follow the war for years to come and the shrlnkiige of fortunes through the decline of all American securities lu conseQUL'nce of our entrance Into tho war?
Not only Is the "rich man's war" nn absurd myth; the clmrne Is a hateful calumny.
Business men, great or small, are uo different from other Americans, and we reject the thought tbat any Ameri¬ can, rich or poor, would be capable of the hideous and dastardly plot to bring upon his country the sorrows and sufferings of war lu order to en¬ rich himself Business men are bound to be exceedingly heavy flnanclnl losers through America's entrance Into tJie war. Every element of self-interest should have caused them to use their utmost efforts to i)reBerve America's neutrality, from which the.v drew so- much profit during the two and a lialf years before April, 1917. Every con¬ sideration of persoual advantage com¬ manded men of affairs to stand with and support the agitation of the "peace- at-any-prlce" party. They spumed such Ignoble reasoning; they rejected that aflSltatlon; they stood for war when it was no longer possible, with safety and honor, to maintain |>eace, because they are patriotic clilKens flrst and busluess meu afterwards. Our income T«x and Taxes Abroad.
(1.) The largest incomes are taxed far more heavily here than anywhere else in tbe world.
Tbe maxlmui^ rate of Income taxa tlOD here Is 67 per ceut. In England tt ts 42Vi per ceut. Ours lu therefore 60 per cent, higher than Euglaod's, aud tbe rate lu Euglaud Is tlie highest pre- >ailing anywhere lu Europe. And In addition to the federal tax we muat bear In wind our state and municipal taxea.
(2.) Modsrate aud amall Incomes, on the other band, are subject to a far •nailer rata of taxation lier« than lu ft'|<ft«'^ ^
fn Amerlrn Incont^a of aiarrl^Kl men np to |2.nnn «re not snhl^t to snf fed.'ral Income tmx st all In »Bn(r1an<t «h« Inemne ta« f« m p«r mm. on ll.MA
•% l.MO
7% !,«««
(These are the rate* If the Income Is deHwMi from salaries or wsgea; they sre atlll higher If the Income la derived from rents or Inveatments.)
The Rngllsh scale of tsxattnn on In¬ comes of, say, tS.OOrt, |5,000, f 10,000 nnd 91.5,0(1) respectively sversgea as follows as compared to the American ratea for married men : Inoem* tax in In
rate on Bnirland. Annerlca
•t.WM 14 p«r c«nt. I-I of 1 p. e.
1.000 It per cent IH P «
It.OOO to per cent. tH p. o.
ll.OM It p«r cent. ( p. e.
(If we add the so called "occnpn- tlonnl" tax our total taxation on in¬ comes of 110,000 Is (t\ pel cent, and on Incomes of |lft,000 9% per cent.)
In other words, our Income taxation is more democratic than that of any other country In that the largest In- comea ars taxsd much mora heavily and the amall and modsrats Incomes much mors lightly than anywhere ala« and incomes up to 92,(X)0 for married men not Uxsd at all.
(8.) It is true, on the other hand, fhat on very large incomes—as distin¬ guished from the largest Incomes—our Income tax Is somewhat lower than tho English tax, but the difference by which our tax ts lower thnn the English tax Is in<:pmparably more pronounced in the case of small nnd moderate Incomes than of Inrge Incomes. Tho "Excess Proflta" Tax Hero and Abroad.
Moreover, If we add to our income tax our so called "excess profit tax," which Lb merely au additional Income tax on earnings derived from business.
WP ehell And that the total tat te which rich men are**iihJ«K«t is In the grwit majority of cases heavier here tKan In Knglaixi or anywhere else.
(4.) It ts likewise fnte that the Rng llsh war excess profit fax Is 80 per cent (less varlons ofTnets and sllowances). whilst our so called excess profit tax rangcM from 20 per cent, to flO per cent.
But It Is poflrely misleading to hasp s cnncliiMlon ns to the relstlve heavi¬ ness of rite American and British tax merely on a comparison of the rates, because the Rngllsh tax Is asseaaed on a wholly different bnnis from the Amer¬ ican tax.
Tha American excess profit law (ao called) taxss alt profits derived from business over snd above a certain mmierate percentage, regardless of j whether or not such profits are the I result of war cohditlons. The Amerl- I can ta^ Is a general tax on Inoqjhe de- ! rived from bnslneae In addition to j the regular Income tax. Tha Kng¬ lish tax appliss only te «xee«a war proflta—that Is, only to the sum by which profits In the war ycsrs exceed the profits In the three years preccil- Ing the war, which In England were years of great prosperity. In other words, thp English tax Is nominally higher thah ours, but It applies only to war profits. The normal profits of busi¬ ness—I. e., the proflls which business used to make In peace time—are ex¬ empted In England. There, only the excess over peace profits Is taxed. Our tax, on the contrary, applies to all profits over and obove n very moderate rate on the money Invested In busi¬ ness.
We Tax Normal Proflta, They Tax Only War Profits. In short, our la^vInakerft have de¬ creed that normal businesa profits are
taxed here mnrh morp hpnTfiy rlinn Ig Rnsrlnnd. whllp direct war prolf>s ari IsxrHl Ipm hesvlly.
ToH will sgree with me In qiiestlnih Ing hoth the logic and the Juntlce of that method. It wonld seem that It would be both fairer and wIner and more m accord with public sentiment 1^ the tax on bnalne«« in genemi wera dpcrenaed and, on the other hnnd, an Incrensed tax were imposed on specific war profits.
(6.) Our federal inheritance tax II far higher thsn It la In England or any* where else. The mnxtmum rate hert on direct descendanta Is 27H per cent as against 20 per rent. In Englnnd. In addition to thst, we have state inher¬ itance taxea which do not exist ta Rng< land.
(fl.) Of her total actual war expen¬ ditures (exclusive of loans to her al¬ lies and Ijiterest on wnr loans) Kng. lsnd haa raised leas than 16 per cent by taxation (France and Oermany far less), while America la alMut te ralas by taxation approx Imataly 28 per esnl of her total war requirements (excln- slve of loans to the allied nations snd of the amount to be Invested In me^ cantile ahlps, which, being a produc*'' tlve Investment, cannot properly Im classed amoM war expenditures).
We men ^business are ready and wllllna; to-iw taxed in this emergency to the very limit of our ability and to make contributions to war relief work and other good cannes without stint The fnct Is that, generally speaking, capital engaged In business la now being taxe<l In America more heavily limn anywhere else In the world. We are not complaining ahout this; we do not Bay that It mn.v not become neces¬ sary to Impose still further taxes; we are not whimpering and squealing and agitating, but—we do want the people to know whnt are the present fncts, nnd we ask thpm not to give beed to the deinngogne who would make them hellove that wc arc escaping our share of the cotninon bunlen.
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COAL ANNOUNCEMENT
We will accept your order for Spring deliv¬ ery, subject to any decrease or in-^ crease in price.
It is to Your Advantage to Place Your Order Now
Kindly Communicate With the Nearest Branch
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THE LYNBROOK COAL CO. Lincoln Place Lynbrook, N. Y.
Telephone, 780 Lynbrook
ROCKVILLE CENTRE COAL CO. 69 Morris Ave. Rockville Centre, N. Y. Telephone, 25'i Rockville Centre
FREEPORT COAL CO. 19 Main Street Freeport, N. Y.
Telephone, liQH Freeport
LAURELTON COAL CO. Sprin8:field Ave., Springfield Gardens Telephone, 1 898.W HpriuKfleld
General Offices: Lincoln Place, Lynbrook, L. I.
