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INTERNAL REVENUE TAX SETS RECORD Secretary McAdoo's Report Shows Increased Use of Liquors and Tobacco. TOTAL TO BE HALF BILLION Great Boom in Business and Pros perity of Country GJven as the Cause of Remarkable In crease in Receipts. WASHINGTON. May 28. Half a bil lion dollars will bo the Government's Internal revenue, tax toll for the fiscal year ending June 30 next, according to a statement Issued today by Secretary JIcAdoo. This sum, which Mr. McAdoo Fays exceeds by many millions all pre vious estimates, will be made up sub stantially as follows: Taxes on whisky, beer, cigars, cigar ettes and tobaccos, $303,000,000: taxes on the incomes of individuals and cor porations, $115,000,000; emergency tax collections. $83,000,000. Money Keeps Pouring In. The volume f money pouring into the Treasury has steadily increased month by month since last Fall until it is- now greater than at any time since lait Fall, until it is now greater than at any time since the effects of the war began to be felt. Mr. McAdoo ac counts for the situation as follows: "The great boom in business is largely responsible for the Increase in receipts in internal revenue. The pros perity of the country with the attend ant wider scope of employment and in crease In wages, has, in itself, resulted in a larger consumption of taxable ar ticles, greatly augmenting the Govern ment's revenue." Consumption of whisky, cigars, cigar ettes and tobacco has increased, accord ing to revenues received, while con sumption of beer has decreased. " For the first ten months of the fiscal year receipts of taxes on cigars, cigarettes and tobacco increased $5,505,121 over the corresponding period a year ago, due in large part, the statement says, to the great improvement of business conditions. Income from LJquor Gains. The statement continues: "Notwithstanding the spread of pro hibition, collection on distilled spirits for the 10 months of the current fiscal year increased $10,013,140 over the cor responding period of a year ago. This is due in great measure to the effec tive enforrcement of the internal revenue taxes on dlBtilled Bplrlts. It is estimated that through the cam paigns of the treasury department against under guaging, equalizing and blockading in distilleries, the revenue of the government has been increased by probably $5,000,000 annually. . "The only article of -taxation show ing a decrease is beer, which is due principally to the increase In the pro hibition laws. "It Is estimated that the expendi tures from the internal reveue appro priation for the current fiscal year will amount to $7,200,000; and even if the collections amount to only $495,000,000 the cost of collection will be 1.45 per cent, the lowest in the history of the internal revenue service. If the col lections amount to $500,000,000 the cost of collection will approximate 1.44 per k:ent." Mutter of Opinion. From Harper's Bazar. "Mary!" Father's voice rolled down the stairs and into the dim and silent parlor. "Yes, papa, dear." "Ask that young man if he has the time." A moment of silence. "Yes; George has his watch with him." "Then ask him what is the time." "He says it is 11:48, papa." "Then ask him if he doesn't think it about bedtime." Another moment of silence. "He says, papa," the silvery voice an nounced, impersonally, "he says that he rarely goes to bed before 1. but it seems to him that it is a matter of personal preference merely, and that If he were In your place he would go now If he felt sleepy." In Naval Terms. From the Kansas City Journal. "This is the rhinoceros. See his ar mored ilde?" "Urn. And what's this?" "The giraffe." Gee! He's got a periscope!" An Atlanta. Oa., pastor, who has run a ehoestrlna; of $100 into such real money as $20,000 by cotton speculations, and who will row build a trade school for poor children, liss admittedly manipulated his talent with all the adroitness and effect one could pos sibly wish. POSLAM STOPS ANNOYING ITCH Brings Relief and Comfort With First Application When any itching skin disease af fcts or even when any slight erup tional spot begins to itch and burn, spply -Poslam and you may be quite confident that the trouble is having tne right treatment. 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J 1 - . 1 ; ' ifc-4, n-' l ' ' J J.tMES TRADE IS CAUTIOUS Business and Finance Are Not Greatly Worried This Year. PEACE TALK HAS BEARING Present Unbounded Prosperity Is Itegarded as Likely to Continue for Year at Least, Despite Campaign Year Traditions. 'BY HAL M. LYTLE.' CHICAGO. May 28. (Special.) "A cautious attitude" best describes the position of business and finance at this timej' This influence, the near approach of the Republican National convention the increasing cost of doing business and the consequent cutting into profits and- the-- labor disturbances are ' the features. It also must be admitted that the constant reiteration of "peace talk" is having some Influence, although - few business men and bankers can bring themselves to believe there will be a stoppage of hostilities in less than an other year. Taken as a whole, business and this is particularly true of the bankers Is putting its house in order to be abje to meet any unexpected contingency. A more opportune time for readjustment, with prosperity seemingly unbonnded. could not be found. Setback Not Expected. It is agreed there will be no material decline in general prosperity during 1916. The general opinion is firmly fixed that American industry has got too great a swing at this time to fear a material setback for at least a year, or perhaps two or three years. There are two things to be considered in this connection: First, how far will the great pros-. peritv that has come to American pro ducers since the outbreak of the war carry them forward. Independently or future foreign orders for thier goods? Second, how well are American re tailers stocked to meet a good-sized business -during the next year or two 7 War Saves Financial Situation. Neither of these questiones Is an swered easily. Of one thing, how ever, there ls.uttie oouoi. m indus trial and financial circles. It is the view that the war rectified a bad do mestic financial situation, and that it is owing to it that our wealth nas been so increased as to create a heavy domestic demand for all sorts of com modities. The question remains as to whether this impetus will be sufficient to carry us over a protracted period of greatly reduced foreign demand. It was not many years ago that busi ness men invariably would begin to talk, on the eve of presidential nomi nations, about the depressing influ ence which the political conflict was certain to exert. In such years as 1876, 1884, 1896. and 1900 the cam paign was accompanied with busi ness hesitation and severe financial and Industrial reactions. The tradi tion that such a situation was to be looked, forward to was repeated, some what, in spite of the fact that the presidential year of 1908 was a year of revival from the 1907 panic, and that 1912 was a year of real prosperity In which It was difficult to discover the slightest direct influence of home politics on business. Big XTpset Not Looked For. It is recognized that as a general principle a change in the presidency may mean a change in legislative condition, and the financial mind dis likes a change from the known to the unknown. There never has been a presidential year in which the platform declara tions of the opposing parties were so completely in doubt, within a few weeks of the National convention, as they are today. Many persons believe thai the same thing is true of candi dates for the Republican nomination. Whatever happens, there seems to be a general feeling of satisfaction that neither the "upsetting of the curren cy." the ripping off of the tariff," or 'the prosecution of "big business' is in the least likely to be a conse quence of the success of any Presi dential candidate now actually in sight. MISS SILLIMAN IS SILENT Teacher Only Says "Tilings Are in Bad Shape in Germany." ROTTERIUM, via The Hague to Lon don. May 28. Mis Mary Silliman, the teacher In the American school for girls at Constantinople, who was re leased after being held In Germany on the charge of espionage, wa a pas- TITE MOTCNTNG DEATH'S DOOR AT HIS HOME. J. HILL. senger on the steamer Ryndam. which sailed for New York, yesterday. Miss Silliman declared she never bad anything to do with espionage. She had no complaint against her treat ment at the ha-nds of the Germans but refused to narrate her experiences, "for thft sake of others involved." Beyond asserting that "things are getting in bad shape in Germany. Miss Silliman refused to discuss the conditions there. She left Constan tinople about the end of February after having worked several months for the American Red Cross. Althougn she said some of the worst stories of Armenian massacres are exaggerated, she declared fearful things happened. Shei saw crowds of Armenians driven from the suburbs of Constntlnople toward the Interior and places the number of victims at 300.000. SUNKEN HULL BRINGS $3 ILL-FATED SCHOOLER TO BE RE BUILT AT COST OF S 35,000. Vessel Has Record as "Hoodoo" Ship and Ended Last Voyage at Bot tom of Porto Rico Bay. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May 15. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The hull of the ill-fated Amer ican schooner Forest City, known among shipping ' men along the At- I lantlc Coast as a "hoodoo" ship, is to be raised from the bottom of the bay here and rebuilt. The Forest City was burned on New Tear's day, the blaze being finally extinguished, after burn ing for 24 hours, by the sinking of the hull. Now the hull has been purchased at public auction for S3, and after a pre liminary survey the purchaser has an nounced that the hull will be rebuilt a cost of approximately 135,000 and when completed it is believed that the schooner will earn back her cost in a very short time. The Forest City, disabled by storms ano'wlth more than half of her crew of 11 ill of berl beri, was brought Into port on December 13 last, after having been out 71 days from Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa. The schooner was in distress when towed into port, she was leaking badly, some of her spars were gone and it was thought she would have to unload all her cargo here and go Into drydock before she could carry cargo again. Her cargo or paim oil, valued at S125.000. was be ing unloaded here when she took fire on New Year's day, and was thought to have been completely destroyed when the remains of her hull were sunk In the bay by the Coast cutter Itasca. The fire was not her first bit of ill- luck. The ship was built at Millbrldge, Me.. !n 1904 and was first named the Myrtle TunnelL Before she had sailed many years, the Myrtle Tunnell had gone fast on Frying Pan Shoals, off North Carolina. ano It was several months before she was pulled off, bot tom up, and towed Into Savannah to be rebuilt and renamed the Forest City. The schooner was twice waterlogged, and during the Winter of 1912 she was caught in a gale off the New England Coast and battered so badly that she put into Nantucket Sound leaking bad- y. ner sans mown away and spars broken off. Her captain was sick and confined to his cabin at the time, and ceiore neip couia come the schooner was frozen tight In the Sound. Shipping men said the schooner never made a voyage of any great length without having something happen to her. At the time of the fire. Captain H. B. Allen was her master, and he was mak ing his first trip in that capacity. It Is said that the Forest City was the third ehip he had lost. She was owned by Frank el & Co.. and was registered at Savannah, Ga. The schooner cost S40.000 to build, and had a cargo ca pacity of 1500 tons. J. J. HILL AT DEATH'S DOOR (Continued From First Pare.) doctors and surgeons and their assist ants, v Last night when a special sedative was wanted by the surgeons and it was found that none could be obtained nearer than Chicago, Louis Hill ordered a special train on the Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy to bring the medicine. The run from Chicago, 431 miles, was made In 8 hours and 3 minutes, which is said to have shattered all speed rec ords between the two cities. After its arrival at the. Hill residence, the doctors decided not to use the sedative. Different From Other Talks. Chico Tribune. ' Her talk stood out above many oth ers that have ben given there within the year, primarily bec"e she said that which would be of valuo 1 the students, and then the thing that marked her. talk far beyond many others was the fact that she said what she wanted to say and stopped. Spain has been practicing; Irrigation for moM than a century. Its first, canal havlos; been begun in 1814. OREGONIATf, MONDAY, TURKS FEEL THEIR PART IN WAR IS BIG Ottomans Become 'Cocky and Take High Tone, Even With Germans. BRITISH FAILURE MARKED People Who Had no Hope at Start of Saving: Constantinople Now . Supremely Confident Russian Advance Causes No Concern. BT ARNO DOSCH FLEtTROT. When Erierura and Treblsond fell tho British in the Levant expected to see a panto run through Turkey. I was trtavelllng along the blockaded Turkish coast at the time, and I took the word of the British for it that Turkey would crush like an eggshell. But Erxerum and Treblzond fell. and Bagdad seemed doomed, and yet Turkish com plscency was not disturbed. The Russians are following up their successes now and are advancing steadily westward, but the Turks seem to be more cocksure every day. They are defying all their enemies to com on, and what is much more signifi cant, they have given the Germans dis tinctly to understand that they are not to interfere in the Turkish show. The Turks have surprised the L vant At the beginning they were a Jelly-like mass and did not know their own mind. They were so apathetlo that they let themselves be drawn into the war by the stupidest of tricks. But they have met with so much apparent success since, due to British failures, that even the Germans hardly find it possible to liva with them any more. Fall of Capital Expected. When the British fleet first began bombarding the forts at Gallipoli the Turks were so sure Constantinople would fall immediately that Govern ment' officials placed their households In special trains ready to go. They had no troops with which to defend the forts from the land side, and they tcok It for granted that the British would disembark troops and capture the forts from behind. They were so certain that Constan tinople would fall that they prepared to burn the famous mosque known to th Christian world as St. Sofia. As they had used it as a Mohammedan place of worship since the fifteenth century, they did not mean to have it fall Into Christian hands again and once more be used as a church. So they brought many cases of petroleum and loads of wood to convenient points close to tne mosque, ready to be light ed as the invaders neared the city. Faith Not Unbonnded. Nothing now seems less probable to the Turks than that Constantinople will fall. Even the steady advance of tho Grand Duke s Russian army can not disturb their faith In themselves. They have prepared positions a hun dred miles or so to the westward, with Sivas. In Armenia, as the central point. and t.lere tney are waiting. The Ger mat military engineers advised them months ago not to attempt to hold Erzerum, but to retire to Sivas, where the lay of the land" gives the Turk an almost Impregnable line. They are doing it now, fighting as they go, and the Russians will have to crush tha line before the Turkish Empire begin to break up. It is a long way from breaking up right now. Last Winter there were perslsten rumors that the German General Mackensen was headed into Asia Mino witn an army corps. As a matter o fact he went down through the Bal kans with the intention of taking an army corps into Asia Minor, but the Turks flatly refused to let him go, and he had to swallow their refusal. Germans Lose Hold On Turks. ine Germans have- not nearly so strong a hold over the Turks as commonly believed. In fact, the Turk are very "cocky" with the Germans, and the Germans find it advisable to step gently about Constantinople. The Turks have acquired their cocki ness during the war. The British, by their series of absurd blunders at Gal lipoli and In Mesopotamia, have . done most to give them their assurance, and, as there were also French troops at Gallipoli, they feel that they have whipped the French, too. It is apparent now that the Turks had no intention of attacking the Sues Canal last Winter, but they bluffed the English Into thinking so and keep ing half a million men in Egypt all Winter, and they are vastly pleased with the success of their ruse. If the Russians are advancing stead ily into Turkey it is taking a large army to do It, and there again troops are removed from Europe. The Turks feel sure that the Russians will never get west of Sivas, and meanwhile they can point out to the Germans how they are keeping Russians engaged. Alto gether the Turks by being in the war are keeping over a million of allied troops and a large proportion of the allied fleets busy, and they are in a position to "talk. Turkey" with the Germans. 'CITIZENS' NUT DEFINED DISCHARGE OF FIVE NATURALIZED AMERICANS CAUSES STIR. Refusal of Secretary Baker to Permit Forelarn-Born Persons on Mine Layers Aired In Congress. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 25. Representative John son, of Washington, sought ineffectu ally to inject into the Administration's shipping bill an amendment which would have the effect of declaring, so far as that bill is concerned, that tio word "citizen" should mean either naturalized or native born citizens. The amendment was voted down and the bill stands "citizens." leaving It to Ad ministrative officers of the Government to say what an American citizen shall be. The Johnson amendment was prompt ed by the recent order of the Secre tary of War ordering the discharge of five naturalized American citizens em ployed on a mine layer, and direct ing that on that ship or ships of that t pe only natural born Americans here after be employed. In the discussion of Mr. Johnson's amendment, attention was called to the fact that the Presi dent has In his own Cabinet two nat uralized Americans, both of them full fledged American citizens, notwith standing their foreign birth, one tne tiftcretary of the Interior, who was born in Canada, and the other the Secretary or - born in Scotland. Attentfon RrC; a-. called to the fact that there are quite a naturalized Americans in the American Cor. . -and all through the Government serv- ice, and as Representative Greene, cf Vermont, pointed out, during the Civil J War tho United States jladly accepted MAT 29, 1916. it tfUtUi? Eft 5553 fiimti H gggj res-tied on 1he ocean m a spot so for a v-And". ffi fy HI McCrmack j p Victrola The instrument of the world's greatest artists IpMi ps-gsJt Important warning. )(:5'i-l!s 1 - - J' Victor Records can be ( ,l J, j , ' vJferA Lj if rr safely and satisfactorily A -olf' 4imkle BGLASLJul V (i V 1- - played only with Victor "vV'W to- , i r Fimdlmm or Tangm-tonm P ii VVf V rZ-ZTi 5 7 - Stylum on Victors or llV5rVJ TLtT Victrolas. Victor Rec- jL.Ji TnP pZ IF ords cannot b safely WfRREHRATM rTuftpHY Es fT;-1 -: played on machines 1 9y , , ,', -1 B - with jeweled or other N, e-i . : - reproduclns; points. s"sj' J'-.Jsa.:l; ;,t, ' - littllf (fyli To fasur. Vlrtor quanta I : i 11 ; ,- I feS-! 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Tha word 'citizen' appears all through this ship purchase bill, and the word means in the United States what It has al ways meant until the present Secre tary of War Issued an order making a distinction between native-born and naturalized citizens. I have shown the Secretary's remarkaiblo order to a num ber of members of the House of Rep resentatives, all of whom at first said it was impossible that any such order could have been issued; that there had been some mistake. But there is no mistake. I have seen the orier. It has resulted, to my knowledge. In the dismissal of five citizens, naturalized, if you please, but citizens of the United States nevertheless, employed as sailors on a vessel of th United States in Puget Sound doing Government work for the War Department. The first man who signs the protest to me is John W. Carlson, born in Finland. The second is Alfred Christianson, born In Denmark.- The third is I Hermansen, born in Norway. Tho fourth man is Carl Thomasson, born in Norway, and the fifth is William Matheon, born In Finland. All are naturalized citizens. Some have been citizens for . man years. "Mr. Chairman, fifteen and one-half millions of people of the United States are foreign born. Most of them are naturalized. This order seems to dis credit the loyalty of every one of them. It seems to say that their oaths of al legiance mean nothing. Twenty-seven per cent' of the population of the dis trict I -have the honor to represent here Is foreign born. Nearly all of them have been naturalized and have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States, and I firmly believe that every last one of them meant that oath. Other members of Congress will make similar affirmations corce-rning the naturalized citizens in their districts." Panama Cana Slides. Roch . liJ- v.4 Democrat and Chron- . Ici. Major-General George W. 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New Victor Records demonstrated at all sealers on the 28th of oach moats Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, recently gave the Christian Science Monitor an explicit account of the causae of the great slides which have given so much trouble to him and his engineers. To illustrate the natural law which the unstable banks follow In their movements. General Goethals cites the fact that In building up an unconflned pilo of sand on level ground, as new material is added to the top there Is a movement in the sides which continues until the slopes reach what Is called "the angle of repose." If. Instead of making a pile, a trench Is cut through a natural pile, the sides will move until the angle of repose is attained. If the cut is made through material which rests on an inclined surface, the mass will elide down even with the trench, and if the mass Is on soft ground the soft material will be squeezed out in a hump or mound at the top of the slope. It is this unsqueezing of mud In the canal prism which has made all the trouble. It is stated that steps will be taken which will prevent the recur rence of the upheaving of the canal bottom. Precisely what will be done Is not disclosed. But It is known that practically the only effective remedy is to reduce the load on the banks. War in a Nutshell. Chicago Journal. Here Is a Chinese student's summary of the war's causes, as published In a Shanghai paper: "Now there is a great battle In Europe. This began because the Prince of Austria went to Serbia with his wife. One man of Serbia killed him. Austria was angry, and so write Serbia. Germany write a letter to Aus tria, 'I will help you." Russia write a letter to Serbia, 'I will help you.' France did not want to fight, but they got ready their soldiers. Germany write a COLUMBIAN NATIONAL LIFE of Boston, Mass. INSURANCE IN FORCE 67 MILLION DOLLARS Old-Fashioned Contracts for Producing Agents D. C. HERRIN, General Agent, 503 Spalding Building letter to France, 'Ton don't get ready, or I will fight you in nine hours." Ger many, to fight them, pass Belgium. Bel gium say. 'I am a country: I am not a road.' And Belgium write a letter to England about Germany, to help him. So England help Belgium." Who can do better In the same space? Man led for Money. , Philadelphia Ledger. He Tou used to say there . was something about me you liked. She Tes, but you've spent it all now. E I PERFECT" COLLARS PALACE LAUNDRY