4 * 1 ™U'H v' - . —...,. FRIDAY EVENING, H3CRRISBTJRG tgl&Qg TELEGRXPH 'JANUARY 25, 1918. [THE GIRL AND S HER OWN HOME )Deep Sympathy Is Expressed For One Who Comes Into City Alone By BEATRICE FAIRFAX "I come home from a hard day's standing on my feet In the fctore all day, and my mother expects pie to help with the housework, too. There's always something asked of >r.e, and I never get a chance to go ■out, like other girls, and have a good time. I'm not appreciated and I'm not happy. If I stay here much longer I believe I'll hate my own family. Woud you advise me to take the aix dollars a week I give toward the house and rent a little furnished room and try to manage that way?" (writes Katherlne. Decidedly not. If ever you had tried a life from which are eliminated the warmth of being surrounded by your own, the Joy of belonging and the comfort of interests shared, you ■Mould see how unimportant your dis comforts and sufferings are compared the ones you would have to en dure If you turned yourself into that frery sad thing, "the woman alone." There is no one for whom I have Beeper sympathy than the girl who *nust come alone to a big city and there make her way without the corn- Sorting knowledge that she is part of a. family, one of a group who have natural common interests. I remem ber once when I was a girl alone in >Cew York I woke in the middle of the night in very dreadful pain. 1 Jay for hours suffering tortures and ■waiting for daylight, when I w<juld dare to ask some one to come and help me. A mother or sister might yossibly have grumbled at being •wakened from slumbers; but still 1 *rould have felt that I had the right to call on them for aid—l would not have needed to go alone through long, weary hours of pain if I had fceen at home with my own people. To talk to an unhappy, bitter girl e.bout the protection of an uncongen ial home i£ about as effective as to Insist that an excitable child swal low a tablespoonful of dreadful tast ing medicine because it will do him Vorlds of good. But home does offer a girl splendid, warming protection. TFlie girl who is living with her own j>t-ople, who goes home to a fatnily circle at night, who is part of the household, Is saved from advances end temptations and disrespect which i>ften come to the girl who is alone end unprotected. The girl who Is trying to secure SKIN TROUBLES That Itch and Bum Quickly Relieved by CUTICURA SOAP and Ointment 25c. Each America's Heatless "Holidays" While the New York World calls Fuel Commissioner Garfield's conservation order the greatest disaster that has befallen the United States in this war," and other journals are equally emphatic in condemning it, many other American newspapers view the action with tolerance, as being a necessary war measure, the Boston Herald declaring that "we should not criticize military orders no matter how needlessly sweeping they seem, and in the same spirit we approach these provisions for the conservation of our resources." Ihe port of Xevv "\ ork is part of the battle-line," says Public Service Commissioner Whitney of New ork, in the limes, "And the people should realize this as clearly as if the bat tle-line lay in the C onnecticut \ alley. The coal situation is exceedingly critical and it is no time for public officials to rock the boat." In 1 HE LITLRARA DIGEST for January 26th, public opinion, as reflected in the news paper press from all sections of the country, is presented in the leading article dealing with Com missioner Garfield's drastic coal conservation order. All phases of the subject are dwelt upon in this article, arid a careful reading of it will make clear to the American people just why this order was necessary, how it will be carried out, and" what its probable effects will be. Other topics of pressing interest in this number of "The Digest" are: British Labor's Appeal to the German People Peoples of Central Europe, British Labor Entreats, "Do Not LeT Your Governments Drive the British People, as They Are Driving the Russian People, Into the Terrible Choice Between Continuing the War and Abandoning the Only Principles That Can Save the World." The Call For a War Lord News of Finance and Commerce Both Sides Veto President's "Free Sea" Austria-Hungary's Future Plan Where Adam Got His Brains The Next Battle-Thrust Shooting Through a Slot "U"-Boats as Peace Arguments Another Step Toward the Talking Movie Are Engineers Narrow-Minded? Art Beauty for Profit of the Blind Triumph of Secretary Daniels How the Schools Can Help Thumbs Up For Mathematics . Corn as a War-Time Food I he rallacy of Cost Plus 10% (Prepared by U. S. Food Administration) Plot Failures in Great Fiction High Moral Tone of American Soldiers A Man Who Thinks We Can Pray the in France Kaiser Off His Throne Our Conscientious Objectors Many Interesting Illustrations "The Digest" a Beacon to Puzzled News-Seekers In the darkness of night amid the quicksands and opinion, one steady beacon shines aloft, to direct him rocks that beset the coasts of the world, many a ship into the calm haven of sound judgment—THE would be lost but for the guiding flare of the lights LITERARY DIGEST. This great news-magazine, that the ingenuity of man has placed everywhere for unaffected by the winds or waves of opposing ideas, the service of sailors. For the bewildered citizen, gathers up for you the vital substance of the world's battling in the deep waters of politics in thess dark news, using source impartially, and makes of it days of world-wide storm and stress, urged hither and an illuminating beam of worUl-information. Get into thither by the thousand contrary currents of shifting the circle of its radiance to-day and know the truth. January 26th Number on Sale To-day—All News-dealers—lo Cents IB a Reader of I | | H ® ■ ■ J ■ J0 B m. U 1 VdSV i m wnn ■ / y "sssjas? / FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary). NEW YORK employment and who writes on her application slip that she lives at home, writes down with it a series of inferences something like this: "Yes, I nave people to look out tor me and to resent any unfair treat ment that is meted out to me. Yes, I am a dignified, self-respecting: girl living with my own people. No, I'm not desperately, hysterically lonely and ready to take any lark rather than go home alone evening after evening to my dreary little boarding house room." The fact that she has a home and people of her own creates for a girl a wholesome, protecting, healthy at mosphere. The fact that she is part of u household makes the girl her self feel certain responsibilities. And for the girl who lives away from home there are for her big, tragic longings and lacks such as the home girl never has to feel. The girl who works all day and goes home to what seems to her a selfish demand she help with the dishes or mend her father's socks, fails to recognise that no matter how hard she has worked, she has had change, variety, a new and stimulat ing atmosphere, a glimpse of the world outside of her home. But her mother has been shut in with a hum drum of experiences that come over and over again, inevitably, every day. Routine work—no new faces, no change, no colorful lunch hour, no pay envelope at the end of the week —nothing but dull routine for mother. It is surprising if sho be a bit peevish at night and forget that daughter who has been out in the big world may be tired, too? Helping with the housework Is a change for daughter—tired feet hurt a bit of course, but can they hurt as much as an empty, aching, lonely heart? To work all day and then come home to an empty room! What does that offer? No one to greet you, no one to ask you if you' want' some broad and sugar or maybe a glass of milk! There will be no one there to do a bit for you or to ask you to do a bit. The stillness and quiet of your own room—deserted, unpopu lated, unfriendly in the midst of a busy, self-centered city that does not notice or think of you, will hurt— hurt frightfully. A little cubbyhole of a room In a boardinghouse—that means four walls and a bit of furniture. And you need the warmth of human companionship. It is natural to want it. If some one has hurt you at the office that day you want a sympathetic listener who will say "Poor Mary" or even just a cross listener who will tell you it was all your own fault. You want to share your interests—you want to belong. You need to hear voices, to feel that there are people close to you. caring for you. If there is pain and suffering you want to huddle up to some one you love and feel in their nearness a certain natural, animal comfort. You need home, Katherine—and home needs you. It you leave It you grain only a little selfish, cold-blooded, colorless independence. You will hurt the family you desert and suffer your self. The world will take a suspi cious attitude toward you. Why per vert or waste and destroy the beauti ful. natural joy in home that is a deep instirfct? Of course you have to pay for it—you have to pay for every thing worth while. ' INCOMETAX PRIMER TO SETTLE Government Issues 143 Questions and Answers as a Help to Taxpayers, Based on Actual Queries; Replies Are Internal Revenue Department Rulings. Washington, Jan. 25. —The In ternal Revenue Bureau issued to-day the "Income Tax Primer," which has been in the process of making since the passage of the War Revenue act on October S, 1917. The primer con sists of 143 questions with answers to meet the desire for information by possible taxpayers. The questions are actual inquiries received by collectors and the Inter nal Revenue Bureau. Each of them has received the benefit of expert consideration and the replies given may be accepted as having the force of rulings by the Commissioner of In ternal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Specimen questions -and answers illustrate "the difficulty encountered in the administration of the law. For some classes of taxes the office of the Internal Revenue Commissioner is engaged in sending out as many as 20,000,000 blank forms. Some of the questions and replies given in the "Primer" follow: Q. —Can the amounts expended by a businessman in entertaining out of-town customers, or prospective customers, be claimed as deductions? A.—Yes, if the sole purpose of the businessman is making suoh ex penditures is to cultivate the good will of his customers and secure an increase in trade they may be so claimed. Q. —I held an endowment life in surance policy upon which I paid premiums for twenty years. In 1917 that contract matured and I received its face value, or SI,OOO. Must I re turn the entire amount received? A. —No, return only the difference between the aggregate amount of premium paid and the amount re ceived upon maturity of the con tract. Q. —-Jf I employ an architect to prepare plans for a building to be used for business purposes may the fee paid to the architect be claimed as a business expense? A.—No; amount expended for an architect's services are held to bo a part of the cost of the building and not such items as may be claimed as deductions. Q. —"A," who is employed in a city has his home in a suburb. He pays carfare between his home and place of employment and takes his noon lunch in the city. Can the amounts expended for carfare and lunch be claimed as a business expense? A.—No, as such amounts are held to be items of personal expense. Q.—Are payments of alimony to be returned, for tax purposes, by their recipient? A.—Alimony is not held to be in come to the recipient, nor is it held to be such an Item as is allowable as a deduction to the person paying the same. Bonus Stock Taxed When Sold Q. —In 1915 I purchased ten shares of the preferred stock of a corporation and received ten shares of common stock as a bonus. Hasj the value of this bonus a taxable status? A.—No; but when the stock re ceived as a bonus is sold, the entire proceeds of the sale are income sub ject to normal and additional tax, and should be included in your re turn rendered for the year during which the sale is made. Q. —Are commissions on renewal premiums on insurance policies sub ject to income tax? A.—Yes; such commissions receiv ed by insurance agents on account of business written are taxable income for the year in which they are re ceived. Q—ln 1917 I purchased a prop erty the title to which proved de fective, and in order to straighten the matter out I employed an attor ney and resorted to court proceed ings. Can I claim a deduction to cov er the fee paid the attorney and the court cost? A.—No. Such items are held to be a part of the cost of the property and, therefore, not allowable as de ductions. Q. —Are amounts placed to the credit of a shareholder in a building and loan association subject to in come? A.—Any amount credited to a shareholder when the title to such | credit passes to the latter at the time of the credit has a taxable sta tus for the normal and additional income tax and should be included in the return rendered for the year during which the credit is made. Where the amount of accumulation credited does not become available to the shareholder until the ma turity of a share u need not be re ported an income but upon maturiay of the share the amount received in excess of the total amount actually paid in by the shareholder is to be returned. Q. —"A," who is the employe o: a corporation was Injured, and un [ der the laws of the state in which] the accident occurred, he received 15,000 on account of the Injury he Buffered. Must the amount thus re ceived be reported as income? A. —Yes, any amount received un der an Employers' Liability act or Workmen's Compnsution act, 'or any other similar act or as the re sult of a settlement or compromise tor "pain and sult'ering," is held 10 be such income as is subject to the Federal income tax. This ruling is also applicable to any amount re ceived under the terms of an acci dent insurance policy. Q. —"A," is employed by a cor poration at an annual salary of $3,- 000. The corporation, being in fi nancial straits, only paid "A" $2,000 during each of the years 191t> and and 1916. In 1917 "A" received his salary in full plus the balance of the salary due him for the tw.o previous years. Must he include ' tne full amount received in 1917 in his re turn for that year? A.—Yes. Five thousand dollars should be returned, and that amount will be subject to income tax at the rates prescribed for the year 1917. Income of Children at Hume Q- —I have two children who live at home and are regularly employ ed. One is 17 years old, the other 21 years old. Am I inquired to in clude the amount of Tlieome which accrues to each during a calendar year in my own personal return? A.—As the first child has not 1 reached Us majority, and is still le gally under your control, the amount oL its Income is to be included in your personal return and is subject to tax in your hands. The income of the child which has attained its majority is not to be included in your | leturn, and is only subject to tax in the hands of that child. Q. —Is an Individual contractor! who constructs a public highway, a 1 bridge, a drainage system, etc., for the suite, county or a municipality, held to be an employe of the politi cal subdivision for which the work isi performed? A.—No; and therefore the income tax derived from his contract is not exempt from the Federal income tax. Q. —May a widower or widow whose wife or husband died during the latter part of the tax year, say December 26, claim the full amount of personal exemption allowed to a married person? A.—No; the martial status of the person rendering the return as of December 31 or the tax year deter mines the amount of exemption which may be claimed. Q. —An employe receives a per diem allowance for expenses in ad dition to his regular salary. Is this amount to be included as income in his return? A.—i r es. The entire amount of allowance received should be report ed as income The difference be tween the expenses incurred and paid while away from home and the or dinary expenses while at home may be claimed as a deduction. Q. —If X enter into a contract in 1917 which will not be completed until 1918 and which requires me to make expenditures for material and labor provide for possible losses, etc., must I include the advance payments I receive in 1917 In my re turn for that year? A.—No. As you are unable to determine what amount of gain or profit you will derive from the con tract until it is completed, the pay ments received thereon during 1917 need not be Included in your return for that year. When the contract is completed the net gain or profit derived therefrom should be report ed under "gross income" In your re turn for the year 1918. v. Q. —John Doe, whole driving an automobile, ran down and injured rtnother person He either paid over a certain sum or paid a judgment rendered against him, in settlement of the injury don. Can he claim the amount so paid as a loss? A.—No. It was not a loss which was incurred in the conduct of his business or trad£, or which resulted from a transaction entered into for profit. Q. —I bought a patent for $5,000 which under the patent laws of the United States had five years yet to rum As the value of this patent depreciates each year on account of the exhaustion of the patent period, may a deduction be claimed? A. —Yes. The cost of the patent divided by the number of years it has yet to run, yields an amount which may be claimed each year as depreciation. In your case this amount is SI,OOO. Value of Destroyed Crops Q. —If a crop which is ready to be harvested, but has not been gath ered, or a crop which has been har vested but has not been sold, is de stroyed by storm, flood or fire, can the value of that crop be claimed as a deduction? A. — So. It is understood, of course that the actual cost of pro duction so harvesting a crop which lias been so destroyed may be claim ed as a deduction under the head of business expenses. Q. —During 1917 I contributed SIOO toward the support of a needy family. May this contribution be claimed as a deduction? A.—Contributions or gifts made to Individuals do not constitute allow able deductions. Q. —If, on account of friendship or relationship I advanced a certain sum to assist a needy friend or rela tive, and at the time such advance was made I had little or no reason to expect that the amount so advanced would ever'be returned, may I now claim a deduction to cover such ad vance? A.—No, such an advance, partak ing, as it does somewhat of the na ture of a philanthropic donation or a good-will offering, is not held to constitute a bona fide debt. Q. —"A" claimed that "B" o\fred him SI,OOO. "B" contested the claim, but agreed to pay SSOO in compro mise. May "A" claim as a deduction the balance which he contended was due him? A. —No; where an indebtedness Is claimed contested, and a settlement is had byway of compromise, where by an amount less than the debt claimed is accepted in full payment, the difference between the amount claimed and the amount paid can not be claimed as a deduction. Sending 20,000,000 Blanks The Commissioner of Internal Revenue began to-day the distribu tion of 20,000,000 income tax blanks] known as "Form 1,099" This is the form to be used by any person liable' to the income tax either under the j law of September 8, 1916, or of Oc tober 3, 1917, It requires a return of every form of income over SBOO. although the exemption begins with SI,OOO for the tax under the law of 1917. This is regarded as the most im portant blank form In the whole process of collecting income tax. It will Involve an almost endless amount of labor on the part of many thousands of employers throughout the country, who will be asked to fill out a blank for every employe who earns SBOO or over. Owing to complicated methods of compensa tion where day wages, commissions, bonuses, time checks and various other arrangements are employed a great deal of bookkeeping will be required In order to comply with the law. Use McNeil's fain Exterminator—Ad. ONLY 2 OFFICERS DIDNT GET HERE Adjutant General Beary Is Pleased at Interest Shown in the Militia "Reports made at the conference of officers of the Reserve Militia were to the effect that two-thirds of the organizations have the men enrolled and I think inside of a month they will be mustered into the service of the state," said Adju tant General Frank D. Beary last night. "The meeting was attended by all but two of the forty-eight officers thus far named and the spirit manifested was splendid. The Yoar Money Our Policy : Bailt on Cheerfully Refunded Do It Better Bigger Values WM. STROUSE THE MAN'S STORE OF HARRISBURG What are YOU doing? to help yourself with clothes by means of Cul/^6C6x6a& Do you realize 'way Until then our rule And the Army is go in the back of your GOES. ing to be clothed head, that clothing ' and well, too before will cost more a It's up to you—and we folks at home get great deal more—next up to you NOW—to ours. As the Army Winter? conserve your re- gets larger, the less sources. And the way cloth at home for us. to save on clothing is Conserve. And do y°u know to make your old that the prices we are clothes do or buy at Let us face the con asking now mean re- these prices and save ditions like the real ductions that by all the clothes until next patriots we are. good rules we should Winter. not make? Make the best of your opportunity, buy And we wouldn't , , what you need, buy at make these price cuts. I, -- —| < these B enuine cut under such conditions, THE NEW STORE prices. Hl™ A™!,.!? 1 S)! WM. STROUSE The old tickets are thing, namely. We == _ = on the garments-you from one'Teaso^ 0 to MIS Sj aS"OIJ see what you actually the next a, U}' '' We'U adhere to this Suhs^aVovercoats rue now. What we | and Mackinaws are will do next season in the Cut Price Sale. cannot be foretold. If goods become so scarce that they can- yJIHHS / not be replenished at Don't think we are I all or in very little talking against our / lots, we might change own business when our plans to fit the we tell you to wear \\jl \ times and conditions. your old clothes! \ We know condi ttions in the clothing / world! And we know nj ; \X5)\ there's not. any too |. : L J? } much clothing to be j j f i , We'll get our share I / | \ as long as there's any / \ getting, but no cloth- 1 \ ing merchant can hide vj|| * the facts materials V are high and scarce. m*. N And we're not try ing to throw a scare into you. The Army must be clothed first. Wm. Strouse's Shirt and Tie Sale Ends Tomorrow Night . To act wisely and economically, to conserve on shirts and ties, to replenish your wardrobe for the least expenditure—buy plenty of shirts and ties here tomorrow. The New Store of Wm. Strouse—Ever New—3lo Market Street officers have all taken hold of the organization of the militia with spirit." The meeting was addressed by General Beary, who presented the rifles and other equipment and had men in the foresters' green uniform adopted present for Inspection; by Chief Clerk B. W. Demming, on the "paper work," and General C. T. Cresswell, the commander. Gov ernor Brumbaugh welcomed the of ficers and praised what many of them had done to form the National Guard not in the Army. He re ferred to the fact that the confer ence was the first of the kind ever held. Tl\e reports were to the effect that a number of units could be mustered In and equipped In a short time and that recruiting was well under way In every community where officers had been named. Governor Brum baugh plans to name the remain ing officers at an early day. After the general conference the colonels held regimental meetings for the first time. Be Careful in Using Soap on Your Hair Most soaps and prepared •h&ui poos contain too much alkali, which Is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is Just plain muslfled cocoanut oil, for it Is pnre and entirely greaseless. It's very cheap, and beats the most expensive soaps or anything else all to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in, about a tea spoonful is all that is required. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly, and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and is soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy, V-avy, and easy to handle. Besides, it loos ens and takes out every particle of dust, dirt and dandruff.
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