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- THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, ; PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24. 1918. 9 RADICAL CHANGE Rearrangement of Allied Credits Will Eliminate Handling of Loan! by England. WILL RAISE FUNDS BY TAXES Great Britain Does Not Purpose to Leave Any of Cost of Great Contest to Posterity, Reason. Washington, April 24. (U. T) Revo lutionary change in the financing of the world war will soon occur. A re arrangement of allied credits which will eliminate the handling of loans by Eng land to the allies has been virtually agreed upon. The United Stales has extended cred its of 15,285,600,000 to the allied govern ments, more than half of which has gone to England. Contemplated changes would discon tinue credit extensions to England and In turn would supply the other allies with funds for which they have been depending upon Oreat Britain. Great Britain plans to raise her war funds through taxes, "leaving none of the cost to posterity." In practically auspendlng loans to her allies, Oreat Britain has forced immediate action on the part of the other governments which have been looking to her for help, England had built up a monster pur chasing machine befora the United States entered the war. Through loans from ftie United States, the British and all of her allies had -Advantage of this machine. The problem confronting the allied governments now is liow to retain the British buying or ganization through a different system ' of credits. The British government has said it stands ready to aid in any way but until Assistant Secretary of Treasury Crosby reaches Washington, officials here would not discuss the arrangement. Crosby has been this country's financial representative In the Inter-allled war council which is to give up direction of loans under the new plan. France and Italy "iretofore hav used taxes largely m obtaining money with which. , to run the war.- Neither has gone so far as Br'taln In floating bonds, so according to the view held by some officials, the proposed rearrange ments of credits will be in a measure a result of a plan to distribute the bur den for : those countries. It was not known her whether self governed colonies and dominions of Great Britain are affected. Italy has Issued bonds for war pur poses to the extent of only S3.1S4.SOO, 000. France's loans In the prosecution of the war now aggregate approximately S20.000.000. Each country's debt Is much larger, indicating that the inter nal tax assessment has been very heavy since both nations nave small national wealth from which to draw revenue. Compared tt the British policy of tax In heavily. Germany, according to data gathered by the '"'"al reserve board, ha practically borne her war ex pense by Bonds. This, it was believed, account for optimistic statements that her war taxes were surprisingly light. Not Believed to Be Portland Soldier It Is believed here that the Ben Newell mentioned In today's" casualty list from General Pershing's headquarters is not the Ben Newell who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Newell, 721 Prospect Drive, Portland, Mr. Newell this morn ing had heard nothing from the -war department. The soldier is mentioned as having died of pneumonia. Ben Newell of Portland is known to be In France as a member of the Sixty fifth Field Artillery regiment. He was employed In Portland at Ladd & Tllton's bank and left a position there to enter the army soon after the declaration of war. . He is rated as a sergeant, while the Newell of the dispatches is a private. German Tri-Plane Captured in France Paris, April 24. A German trlplane was brought down and its crew of three taken prisoner in last night's German air raid, it was officially announced this afternoon. The raid was frustrated. All Austrian Dukes Summoned to Vienna Zurich, April 24. (U. P.) The Arch duke Eugene has summoned all the Austrian archdukes to Vienna for a conference on "urgent Questions," Prague newspapers declare. DELINQUENT TAX LIST OCCASIONS NEEDLESS WASTE Example Cited of Benton County Man Who Was Charged $1.50 for Notice of 18-Cent Tax. PADDED LISTS ADD TO COST Extra Publication Authorized and Paid for by Taxpayers Amount ed to 11 Columns in This Case. James W. Bingham owns an acre of land in Benton county. The tax for 1918 amounted to 18 cents. Mr. Bing ham neglected to pay it until It be came delinquent and the fact was pub lished with the delinquent tax list in the Benton County Courier and the Ga-sette-Times. The description of Mr. Bingham's acre filled three lines of type as set by the two papers. They both charged 5 cents per line per insertion, and they both printed the list five times. There fore it cost Mr. Bingham 11.50 to be no tified that he had failed to pay his tax of IS cents upon his one acre of land. In other words, the cost of notifying Mr. Bingham of his tax delinquency by publication was 833 per cent of the total amount of the tax which he owea. But that Is not all of the .interesting story made plain by the face of the de linquent tax list of Benton county as published by the Benton County Courier and the Gazette-Times. Law Hakes Exception The law of 1917, after directing the tax collectors of the various counties to cause publication of the list of property upon which taxes are delinquent, says "Provided, further, that the provisions of this act shall not apply where the amount of the taxes so delinquent against any parcel of real property Is less than SL" v In other words, the law directed the tax- collector of Benton county not to publish the description of James W. Bingham's property in the delinquent tax list and force him to pay 833 per cent -for .the cost of publication. Publication Unauthorized by Law However, Mr. Bingham was not the MINOR TAX DELINQUENCIES ?oS, deeHrCpnV 80 A ,"1h "Benton . . county, . '. 313.22 Jas W Bingham hook.f page 343 and book. 60 page 427, Cont. 1 acre in Benton county. S IS LWL3ueh-A6.SA 129. only delinquent property -owner in Ben ton county who has been saddled with tax publication charges contrary to law. The Benton county list fills approxi mately S columns In the Benton County Courier, and an equal space In the Gazette-Times. In each of the pa pers are found approximately 230 lines of property descriptions upon which tne delinquent tax ranges from IS to 94 cents per description. This totals ap proximately '1 columns per Issue, or la columns In all, which Is not author ised or warranted by law. It amounts in total to approximately 1115 which has been charged against the property owners of Benton county and paid to the Benton County Courier and the Ga-xette-Times without authority of and contrary to the law governing the pub lication of the delinquent tax lists. Other Chapters ef Story There Is, however, still another chap ter to the 'Benton county story. The law provides that the tax lists shall be published four times. The list was pub lished five times In each of the two papers In Benton county. The Benton County Courier was paid $198.75 for the list as published by it. while the Gazette-Times was paid $193.50 for the same job, or a total of $392.25. One-fifth of this, or $78.45, was not au thorised by the law and was an extra charge added to the taxpayers without authority or legal sanction. The last chapter in the Benton county story is found in the fact that at least one column could have been cut out of the list had it been properly condensed In the composition. Had this been done, it would have reduced the tax list to approximately 4 columns per edition Instead of and would have cut an other 10 columns off the total publica tion by the two papers. Care Troposed for Waits To sum up. had the tax collector of Benton county eliminated the property upon which the tax was less than $1. as the law directed him to do. he would have saved approximately 15 columns. The extra or fifth publication padded the job by approximately 11 columns. as permitted by the tax collector. The padded style of composition in which the list was set by the Benton Ceunty Courier and the RMtt.TImM. anil permitted by the tax collector, added 10 columns to the necessary length of the total publication. Had the delinquent Ui notice bill, now being circulated for signatures, prepara tory to being placed on the November ballot, been the law. the cost of notify ing James W. Bingham of the fact that he owed 18 cents taxes would have been S cents Instead of $1.50, there would have been no extra publication, no pad ded composition and no needless and outrageous burden cast upon the taxpayers. High Cattle Prices Accomnpainy Higli Beef Prices If consumers are to pay less for beef, live-stock raisers naturally will receive less for cattle. If farmers are paid more for live stock, consumers will necessarily pay more for meat Swift & Company pays for cattle approximately 90 per cent of the price received for beef and by-products. The remaining: 10 per cent pays for dressing, freight to market, operation of distributing houses, and in most cases, delivery to the retailer. Net profits also have to come out of this 10 per cent. This margin cannot be squeezed arbitrarily without danger of crippling the only effective means of performing the complex service of converting cattle into meat and dis tributing this meat to the fighting forces and to consumers. Swift & Company's net profit on beef during 1917 was only of a cent per pound. On all products, it was a little less than four cents on each dollar of sales. Com plete elimination of these profits would not affect appreciably retail prices of meat, or farm prices of live stock. Swift & Company will be glad to co-operate in devising methods that will improve conditions in the meat and live stock industry, I- 1918 Year Book of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois 1 Swift & Company Maril L Watson, lot 7, B 18 S John, Peter Gillespie, lot '2, B 19 $ Jas Roy Ball, lot6, B 19 $ Geo-Conley, let jfT 19 $ Wm M Cooper, lot 10, B Pacific Land Co, lot 12, B 19.4 John Swam, lot 1, B 20 $ Pacific Land Co, lets 2, S, 5, B 20 ; f. J R LundweU, let 4, B 20 u.$ D A Parsons, lot 6, B 20 .$ Louis Mitolko, lota 7, 8, B 20.. Geo Elliott McCaity, lot. 12, GenW Pine, loflgffi $ Matt A Cacparac, lot 19, 3 20.4 Maseuio Bretto, lota 4, 5, B 21 .... Cuas Bonomi, .lota8.: 9. b -2i : -.S John Swain,, lot 10, B 21.S Pacific Land Co, lot 11, B 21 Geo S Saltcc, lot 12, B 21 S ii E Noble, lotr. 13, 14, B 21 J:.r.ies Besco, lots 15, 16, B 21$ Mike Benlurfs, lot 17, B 21.... Goo DM cClellan, lot 18, B.21$ Louis A Hepburn, lot 19, B 21 $ J M Jacirt, lots 21, 22, B.21S A L Collotte, lots 23, 24, B 21 Edw W Heimcn, lot? 3, 4; B 22 ! $ David R Riddick. let 5, B 22.... Pacific Land Cd, lot 9, B 22.. Mrs Lena Manefleld, lot 11, B 22 $ . W M Young, lots 12, 13, B 22 $ j Jas S Moon, lots 1, 2, B 23 $ John F Paslc and Jas A Rad- enick, Tot 8, B 23 $ Pacific Land Co, lots 7, 8, B 23" : G W Carroll, let 9, B 23 .$. Wm W Hancock, lot 11, B 28 f. 8 LI ti if Nag-el and E S Jands, lot 14, B 23..- t Dayton J Gilliland, lot 1 B 21 $ Mrs. Lena Lenhart, lot 2, B 27 $ Geo Kfcrap, l.t 6, B 27- $ Chas Fisher, lot 14, B 27 $ -j Two Big Stocks pSy S3 Under One A Vm I Roof - iji 941 I I 0 " 1 'QMP Iff IT Ql Ready-to-Wear Shop 2 O'liMjllLfllLs iJ 350 Morrison Street ii Has Been Moved Cl : i AfiflMW 344, 346 8i 111 kv VL III I l 1 i .31 '.93 .94 .94 .94 Delinquent notices published and paid for contrary to law. JAIL AND FINES FOR RUSSELLITES Men Who Distributed Circulars Without License at Daybreak Are Fined $200. u. s. A. L. B. Burtch, George Simpson and Lee Miller, Russellites arrested -while dis tributing: copies of the "Kingdom News," an International Bible Students' associa tion publication, were each fined $200 and sentenced to serve 15 days In the city jail by Municipal Judge Rossman this morning on the charge of peddling handbills without license. The "Kingdom News" 1j held by fed eral authorises to be an advertisement to boost the sale of "The Finished Mys tery," should its sale be allowed. The Question Is now resting with President Wilson. Commits loaer Castes Arrest Burtch and Simpson were arrested Sunday morning by Officer Crane when City Commissioner Bigelow telephoned the police station that seditious litera ture bad been left on his front porch. Miller was arrested by Officer Spivey. The men admitted that they had start ed out at 4 o'clock In the morning and testimony was given that a woman In the Alberta district found a copy of the publication on her porch about mid night. Saturday. F. McKercher. leading elder In the local church, appeared in the courtroom in behalf of the men and explained that the Russellites are minunderstood. He said they are opposed to war and to Liberty bonds but that the kaiser would lave no place in heaven. When asked by Deputy City Attorney Stadter how the kaiser was going to be overthrown without force, he answered that 100 Russellites had been lined up in Germany and shot. After hearing the case the judge or dered McKercher to ask for a license from the city council and let him know its verdict. The council refused to grant a license so the Judge imposed the pen alty today. City Ordiaanee "Violated In passing sentence Judge Rossman made the following statement: The cha.je made against these two defendants Is that they distributed hand bills without first procuring a license. To this charge the defendants have in terposed a plea ol guilty, which pre cludes the possibility of an appeal. The matter which the defendants were dis tributing has been before the United States attorney: no action was taken there, except that the defendants were remanded to this court uponithe above charge. "In fixing the penalty, I believe one is justified in taking into consideration the fact that the defendants' action was induced by a conscientious belief, that they were within their legal rights as distinguished from action which flows from moral turpitude. But now the time has come when every good citizen's conduct, if not his conscience, must come into accord with the conscience of the government Itself. "Men mast not sneak out at 4 o'clock In the morning and distribute matter practically forbidden by the govern- i ment. for the sake of their conscience. "We have in this court quite a few cases along similar lines; I have dealt ! severely with them In order to hasten the day In this country when we might have a unity of action. Let, therefore, each defendant pay a fine ef $200 and be Imprisoned in the city jail for the period of IS days. Impressive Silent Parade m Stockton Stockton, Cal., AprU 24. (U. P.) Thirty-eight masked and robed men mounted on white robed horses paraded silently through the main streets of Stockton last night and counter marched in front of I. W. W. headquar ters. The men gathered qu'etly att o'clock in front of a fire engine house and the horses were brought to them there. Two policemen were on hand. The horses were robed after the style of the Ku Klux Klan and the robed and masked men mounted and filed silently up the street without a word of command being spoken. The three men in the lead rode abreast and were robed in black. One carried a large American flag and one flourished a sword. Each rider carried a small American flag. No one could be found today to admit a knowledge of who the robed men were, what their organization was called or what its purpose is. ALDER STREET OPPOSITE PANTAGES Where These Two Big Stocks Will Be Offered to the Public at a TREMENDOUS Discount HERE IS THE REASON: With merchandise prices soaring: almost daily, it is compulsory that this big; stock be sacrificed. Mr. Si gel, being unable to DO JUSTICE to both stores, he was obliged to dispose of one, and having an opportunity to sell his lease and fixtures of his Momson-street store to good advantage, he made short work of it and has moved the entire stock to the White H6use, 342-4-6 Alder street, opposite Pan tages Theatre. But (Swing to the magnitude of this stock it is impossible to display ii e . . i ; .t i i: as e ; i ait or it ai one tune, ana as n is too cotiij to store away mci cuanuiac, mr. yigci , has concluded to accept a loss on this great surplus. And, bear in mind, every article in the store will be reduced! We Commence This Great Sale Thursday, April 25, 91 A. M. A Few Convincing Values Small PHI Small Dose Small price German Paper Adopts English Denver, Colov, April M.-(L N. S.) The Colorado Herald, German language i publication and official organ of Ger man born citizens of this city. Tuesday announced it will be printed in English as soon" as new equipment can be - In stalled. The paper also will change Its I name to the Daily. Herald. FOR CONSTIPATION have stood the test of time. Purely vegetable. Wonderfully quick to banish biliousness, headache. Indigestion and to clear op a bad complexion. CesTalse bears etgnetare PALE FACES Generally indicate a lack of Ire la the Blood Carter Iron Pilb Wa kl this coedHtoa SUITS Nifty little suits in chocks, tastily trimmed; also blue serges. A foodTalu at $20 for $14.75 A beautiful suit at $27.50 in serges, poplins and checks in all shades and sise, to go at $19.75 The bustle effect, flar and fancy ruffles, are found in this lot, and all the wanted shades and mate rials. A $32.50 suit at Ease babyls (roup- with rtr.M i vi for Coughs e Golds Don't let the little one suffer. Dr. King's New Discovery loosens the phlegm and gives quick relief, and being; mildly laxative it helps bring the child's physical condition up to normal. Dr. King's New Discovery should be kept on hand to nip "those fits ofcoughing". It has helped thousands of children during the past 50 years. Get it at your druggists $19.75 COATS A dandy Borela cloth coat with large col lars and fancy pockets. $17.50 value, at $11.75 Velour and Poplin Coats with convertible collars and styled like our highest priced models. $23.50 value at $16.75 Pompoms, Velours, ChiaeUr, Borelas and and Poplins, the classiest things in coats, well worth $27.50, at $19.75 DRESSES Ginghams, Plaids, Poplins, Serges in all shades. Values to $17.50, ge at $9.75 Pretty little street gowns in taf fetas, mass aline ; In dainty styles, well worth to $21.50, at $13.75 The most exquisite line of dresses ever shown Jerseys, Poplins, Crepes and Taffetas, handsomely trimmed. $25.00 values at $16.75 SKIRTS and WAISTS $14.75 One lot of waists ebout 100 in Crepe de Chine, Georgettes. Values te $6.00, at Silk Skirls in stripes and plaids in all the desired shades. Values $7.00, st $3.95 $16.75 300 Silk Petticoats, sold all over at $5.00, to go at $3.45 Handsome Georgette Hats, those pretty picture hats. Values to $18, Q QS to ge at Oe7ee7eJ Tailored Milaas and Lixseray Straw Sailors, well (PO 4Q worth $8.00, to ge at New for you who want a Dress Hat, the most fashionable hats shewn in the city at $10, to go at S4.95 342, 344, 346 Alder Street OPPOSITE PANTAGES THEATRE Constipation Causes Sidness Don't permit younelf to become constipated, as your system immedl ately begins to absorb poison from the backed-up waste matter. Use Dr. Kine's New Life Pills and keep welL There is no better saieruard aeainst illness. . Trv it tonight. All druggists. The Sigel Stock TheWIiiteHoMseStoclk Go on Sale Thursday, pril 25, 912 A. M.