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EBNtAN SECOND SECTION Trade At Home The MaU Order kouse Has Never' Brought New Bern a Cent. PAGES NINE TO SIXTEEN ( -.NEW&BERNIAN APS BUILD; BUSINESS ASK THE MERCHANTS Volume 2; Number 31. NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1917. Single Copy; Five Cent: ;;THE :M(Wife Mew ; B : Sli?lM OF THE PROPOSED TAX LAW , , TJe Recommendations of Sub- : Committee for Raising War Funds. WASHINGTON, D. C, May 5. rrying taxes aggregating., about $1,30Q,00Q,000 and leaving open for later decision other taxes which will total probably $100,000,000 more, the War revenue bill as drafted by sub committee is being considered bythe full Ways and Means Committee of the: House. ' ' . ' The following is a summary of the proposed bill: ' ' -, , Income tax increases estimated to bring In about $460,000,000, based on the following changes n the present law: Reduction of exemption to sin gle men to $1,000 and of married men to $2,000. and a normal 2 per " cent tax; at 4 per cent tax on all incomes above: $5,000; an increased surtax on incomes over $20,000 reach ing 30 per cent, on incomes of $1, 000,000 or more. 4 Excess profits tax of 16 per cent of ', all profits ill excess of 8 per cent and r $5,000 estimated to produce approx imately $300,000,000. Miscellaneous stamp taxes on ne 'gotiable instruments of all sorts ex : cept bank checks and drafts, to bring $51,600,000. t Will Make Liquor Interests Pay Many Millions. Passenger transportation tax of 10 .'per cent, of the value of the ticket, to bring approximately $80,000,000. .This is a radical increase over the recommendation of the Treasury De partment, whjch .was for a tax of 4 per cent. Freight transportation "tax 6i pro bably 3 per cent, of the value of freight bills, to produce $70,000,000. .This is a reduction from the Treas ury recommendation, which was for 'a- 4 per cent tax. . Increase of tax on whiskey to $2.00 a gallon to bring $73,000,000. It is understood that there might be some slight change (n this tax. .'- Tax, on rectified spirits of.,25 cents a gallon to bring $12,500,000.'-' i Increase on fermented liquors tax Mm National-Bank LOANS AND INVESTMENTS :". '. . $ .909,794.05 OVERDRAFTS . V. :.. f. . .: . . I .: ; ; . . . . 6,507.66 . .'i. ;i.--v - V'- r: v , v' --v " -,: :''V-V'-o. ' v ') , V- : ; " : U. S. BONDS ..... . . , ...... . . ... ..... 25,000.00 BANKING HOUSE, FURNITURE AND FIXTURES !. ... 28,170.64 STOCK IN FEDERAL RESERVE BANK . ... . t ... i: 5,400.00 5 PER CENT. REDEMPTION FUND . . 1,250.00 : . . . . . CASH AND DUE FROM BANKS ; . . . . . . . ; . . v . 1 19,395.29 i ' ( .'.. - ; . ' TOTAL .$1,005,517.64 to $2.50. a barrel to bring $30,000, 000. ' , '" " , Increased tax on cigars to. bring $10,000,000.'' This tax has been grad ed so that the highest class -cigars will pay $6 aj thousand . and : lower priced cigars less. . This graduation is a modification of the Treasury De partment recommendation, which was for a straight tax of $6 a thousand. Tax of 5 per cent on automobiles at the factory to bring $75,000,000. Increased, tax on cigarettes to $2.60 a thousand to bring $17,000,000. In creased tax- on "manufactured tobacco to 16 cents a pound to bring $25, 000,000. v New tax on wholesale tobacco dealers and jobbers of $25 a year to bring $2,500,000. New ,tax on retail tobacco dealers of $6 a year to bring $4,850,000. "Increase in wine tax to double the present rates with slight modifica tions to bring $6,500,000. Baseball, Theatres and Other Amuse ments Hit, Too. Tax on musical instruments, graph ophones, piano players, etc., of 5 per cent to bring $7,000,000. Stamp boxes on theatre, baseball and other amusement tickets of 10 per cent to bring $75,000,000. Increase potal rates to 3 cents for first-class mail, and installation of the zone system on second class mail, to bring' $60,000,000. In addition to these items, the soft drinks tax and the proposed tax on refined petroleum, including gaso line, has been left without recommen dation, to be decided by the commit tee. It can be definitely stated that the following proposals of the Treasury Department have been definitely re jected by the sub-committee, al though it is possible that some of them may be adopted by the full com mittee: To make the excess profits and in come taxes retroactive. To increase present duties and levy new duties on imports. Consumption taxes on coffee, tea, and sugar. Taxes on glucose and denatured al cohol. License tax on automobiles. The prodigal son had just sneaked in the back way, between two days. "Owing to the greediness of the Beef Trust,' explained the old man, "we are entirely out of fatted calf, but here's a can-opener. Get busy." In dianapolis Star. AT NEW Resources: STRONG FOR SUNDAY Noted Preacher And . Editor Says Billy is Human and a Christian. NEW YORK, May 6. The oft-repeated and obvious fact that Billy Sunday draws all kinds of people to his tabernacle was never better illus trated than in the presence of two men who attended last night's service. One of them was a worn little man, unsteady of feet if not of voice, and filled with enthusiasm, among other things. The other man was the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of The Out look, a distinguished Congregational ism divine and long opposed to Billy Sunday's methods. And at the end of the service the 'worn little man "bit the sawdust trail" and Dr. Abbott de clared himself in favor of the spec tacular evangelist Dr. Abbott sat with the newspaper man at Billy's right and was an in tent listener throughout the sermon, the gist of which was praise for the preachers who aren't afraid to hit the influential sinners with the fat pocket books who sit in the front pews. When the sermon was ended Dr. Ab bott said: "Mr. Sunday is so human and so Christian in the great central drive for Christianity that no one should object to the way he does things. He doesn't use theological platitudes that mean nothing to the masses, but he illustrates everything he has to say and thus reaches the understanding of every one." The incident of the worn little man is quite different. He, too, on a side bench had been an eager listener to Billy's preaching. He had even leaned bo far forward to hear the evange list's ringing periods that with less faith in himself he might have top pled from his beat. And when the call to trail-hitters went ringing from Billy's lips, the worn little man was among the first to start for the plat form. A Little Unsteady, But Still He'll Stick He came down the trail with steps that were less certain than his de termination. He had his hand out STATEMENT CONDITION BERN, N. C, AT THE, CLOSE OF BUSINESS, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917 stretched for Billy's long before lie reached the evangelist, and as their hands met he cried in a voice that sounded above the : singing of i the choir; SV i7""'.. ';.-v...-;-. '! "' "Bill, I'm going to stick!" r Billy Sunday, leaning far out from his well, ..seemed to tighten his hand,' as he answered: "Good for you! You'll come out all right, old man!" The worn little man still clung to Billy's hand, although the other trail hitters were, pressing upon them. He seemed not to want to let go of it, and .finally one of the - guides who form the line as it approaches the preacher had to turn him aside and thus break the grip'. As the convert was only the sixth in the line he got a seat on the bench directly in front of Billy Sunday, and no sooner was he there than he started forward again for another handshake. The ushers pushed him gently back into the. seat and he straightened up and waved his hand at Billy. "Say, Bill, I'm going to try to stick!" he called again, with a deter mined nod of his head, and Billy, looking up from those who were grasping his left hand,, waved his right one in approving answer. The little man seemed all afire with enthusiasm and was not contented to remain quiet until another man, one who had hit the trail just then for the third time, came up and took a seat beside him, and laid a hand upon his knee. This newcomer was well shaven and tidily dressed last night very different both in appear ance and demeanor from what he was last Friday night when he heard Billy and himself hitched unsteadily for ward to hit the trail for better things. Gives His Sermon ay Patriotic Turn And when the little Testaments had been distributed to the trail-hitters by the corps of ushers, when the names of the new adherents of the evan gelist had been taken down, when the trail-hitters were moving out of the Tabernacle in the wake of the depart ing Sunday party, the third-time trail hitter and the worn little man still sat on the front bench talking. In a moment they got up, linked arms and went out with the rest At the door the. worn little man turned back for a last glance toward the place at which he had taken the evangelist's hand. Billy Sunday's sermon last night was not without its patriotism. As V' --':' soon" as he took the platform he re called to the audience that , the day was the nineteenth anniversary' of the Battle of Manilla Bay, and forth with he had the choir sing "The Star Spangled Banner.'1 ' The roar of applause which greeted the reference was slight compared to what thunderid out when Billy said, in following up the assertion that men without tempers were nonenti ties and that all the prophets of old carried big sticks. "If Theodore Roosevelt wants to take an army to France let him do it." . When the applause died he revived it instantly by adding: "I'd like to go with him just to black his boots!" A third time the Americanism of his hearers was arounsed to prolonged handclapping when Billy declared against press-gagging. "Oh, Washington, don't try to put fetters on the press," he pleaded, "don't make the bill they made in Germany, France and England. Am ericans must always know where they're going. Don't put blinders on us. Just let us know what we're do ing and we'll go to the last ditch.." Stealing "Bloody Bridles" Waite's Stuff The evangelist became decidedly sanguinary when he raised his voica against the lowering of the American Sabbath. "Well swim our horses in blood to the bridles before we'll allow that!" he cried. "We want our open Bible and our Sabbath, and woe to the gang that tries to take the Bible out of the pub lic schools." A great burst of merriment went up from the assemblage when a delega tion from a Manhattan laundry with a band at its head one of the many delegations which helped to fill the Tabernacle benches last night an swered a request for its favorite hymn by replying "No. 274." The au dience turned at once to its hymnals to learn the laundry workers' choice and it was "Whiter Than Snow." The bad weather of yesterday kept many persons from the Tabernacle in the afternoon, but the attendance at night was almost up to the mark. Billy's call for trail hitters was dramatically done. He began with the story of the warriors of King Robert Bruce bearing the heart of their monarch to place it in Christ's tomb, as he had wished. When sore beset of New Berne Liabilities: CAPITAL STOCK $ 100,000.00 s- v -. , , . .:',;-;;f, .!.;; ;I '':' ." ' SURPLUS AND PROFITS ; : ; 105,533.41 v-u; - -s. ' .. r . ': -3 :-..'t. x '' j -i,. ;V " l ' - , - - .-r y .- ' - ' ' i : ,., -;-v ," '-.''- .v'W y.?.'i,. . ' '" . .- l'" - !r-- '- v ' " CIRCULATION . r. 24,700.00 BILLS PAYABLE , . ' . ) . . r . 25,000.00 BiLLS REDISCOUNTED ......... .... ............ ; 71,800.00 DUE TO BANKS ....... J. ;A 34,400.56 ) t'V m : " INDIVIDUAL DEPOSITS .... ... . $734,033.6t v 768,434.23 ESCAPES WEDS ON BURGLARY Wierd Tale of Man Who Skipped From Sing Sing and Married a Good Woman. NEW YORK, May 5. A weird tele of escape from Sing Sing, successful burglary, marriage to a good woman who did not know his past, and final downfall, was revealed here after the capture of Elmer Schultz, who took French leave of the big penitentiary up the river on September 11 last. Incidentally, the story ' proves a vetran convict can be a model hus band, even if a bad recruit for the United States navy. Dective Fishel seized Schltz in a pawnshop here and said: "Come on down to headquarters. The boss wants to visit with you." "Now ain't that too bad?" observe J Schultz. "And me only married just a month. This'll be a knockout for the madam." He went quietly to headquarters. There he said he "might as well tell all about it." "The gateway job was easy." he said. "I hid in the condenser room, stuffed the siren whistle with rags, shinned over the wall when I saw the way clear and dropped in to the river. I swam three-quarters of a mile to a safe landing place and then hit the rails south. "I'd walked twenty-two miles tj Hastings, when I bumped into a con- per. 'Hey, where you going, all wet in battle by the Moors. Lord Douelas threw the golden casket containing the heart into the thick of the fieht and spurred his comrades in arms to greater effort by crying "Lead on, O heart of Robert Bruce, and we'll fol low!" "And I," cried Billy, springing to the edge of his platform, "I hurl into your ranks the Cross of Jesus Christ and cry 'Lead on, we'll follow to the last ditch!' Now, who'll follow; who'll come down here and say he'll fol low?" The trail hitters who responded numbered 829, and these, with those of the afternoon, made a day's total of 1,036. TOTAL ...... like that?' he' says to me. . 'Oh, my boat tipped over and I'm going home,' , I says, and he goes on about his bust- f ness . i -. "Knowing Id need some spare change, I went into a house and took . i. $500. I blew in the money in New York and then -sold the junk, didn't take long to go broke again. "Being broke, I enlisted in the navy ;? ': under the name of J. Ford, but I. ; didn't stay long. The work didn't 4uaf ain't wta awtA T hA. U t UA I ' " ' of two weeks. . They got after me hot ? loot lor deserting, and when they caught me, which was right off the bat, they gave me sixty-three days in. t i the brig." ; Schultz said he served just one day of that sentence. Getting out was .' .:. "like taking candy from a child." " Once free, he said, he went back to Hastings where he "turned off" a house for $350 and several rings. 1 ' After that he went from place to place, making a good living by his wits. A week ago, being about to mart. ' and needing cash, he returned to '', Hastings, where he made a haul of -' cut glass. He sold this and got 1 enough to pay his wedding expenses, "Where do you and the madam live when you're at home?" asked De- '' f tective Fishel. . ' J "At no. 72 Townsed avenue, Lau- ' ' rel Hill, L. I.," replied Schultz. "If y you bulls go over there be easy with . the wife." -v -V , Captain Herbert Graham went to the address and found Mrs. Schultz, an attractive woman of twenty-one. When she was told that her husband ' . was an escaped convict she became hysterical. After she had calmed down Mrs. Schultz said she had met Schultz in Manhattan, where she worked in a bakery, and after a rapid-fire court ship he married her April 2. He . seemed to have saving habits and they started a bank account. He was kindness itself, she said. The young woman departed, saying she was go ing to her parents in Manhattan. Captain Graham found in the room two watches, three rings, two watch chains, three jewelled lavalliers and two bracelets. On Schultz Detective Fishel found a bank book showing a balance of $125, a ring with three large pearls, a signet ring with the initial "C," a diamond pin and five cartridges. .$1,095,517.C4 -: ' i !W ' K5