new york tribune.(new york, ny) 1918-12-11 [p...

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palmer Warns German Trade Must Be Curbed Alien Property Custodian §ayS Industrial Invasión $as Menace to Nation Some Lawyers Rebuked Attempts to Hinder U. S. in Takina Enemy Concerns Seen Since the Armistice Declaring that Germany's so-called friendly industrial activity in this country rrior to tnc war íiací actuallv bee* a "knife at the throat of Ameri- \. Mitchell Palmer. Alien Property mstodian. in a speech before the New York City Bar Association last night, ¿«rned agaii ¦. >o great readiness to foreive Germany and accept her again an industrial rival. Uc astounded his hearers by pointing out the rami¬ fication.- of Germany's industrial cam- oaten in this country bef re the war. \\lr Palmer, incide tal y paid tributo to" the loyaltj of American lawyers. He declare,i that while it wa- true that manv of them did act as counsel to .lien interests when the latter were makitic desperate efforts to cover es after the adv Mit 01 war. variably innoci nt «rongdoin - and as soon ¦. showed prompt willing ess »o place the rights of the government cver and ¦< 'hose of any client. Palmer Reviews His Work "The oïï.cc of Alien Property Cus¬ todian was filled by the appointment of the President on October 22, 1917. so that the office has been in operation about thirt en months," said Mr. Pal¬ mer. "At the close of business Decem¬ ber 5. 191S, 32,684 reports of enemy property had been received. The num¬ ber of separat* trusts now being ad¬ ministered amounts to 29.Too. and have *n aggregate value of §506.400.500.94. When the :itire number of trusts re¬ ported si .i 1 have been finally opened on the books anel the readjustment of values, consequent upon appraisal shall have been :ompleted, it is safe to say that the total value of the enemy prop¬ erty in the hands of the Alien Prop¬ erty Custodian will reach $800,000.000. "Every device known to the law. as well as many unknown to the law. served the purp< se of evading the con¬ sequences of the war between Germany and the United States, which German business men. at least, seemed to have foreseen from the time the world war started. "In working >ut their plans,the German owners frequently had the assistance of capable American counsel, who in most case- carried out the details of the transaction ¡n entire good faith and withoul ulterior motive, being without knowledge of the under-lying purpose of the parties. "Most of these lawyers feeling that the interest tf their country was para¬ mount to those of their clients, assisted os in developing the real facts, from which we we oble to draw conclusions as to the actual ownership of the prop¬ erty. In very few cases have we dis¬ covered American lawyers active parties to conspiracies to defeat the belligerent rights of the United States, or to hide the property of enemies from the governmental authorities. "With the cessation of hostilities, lowever, something of a new fighting spirit has developed, and lawyers who, while the war was on. would have been unwilling to play any part in resist¬ ing the just demands of the govern¬ ment in the taking of enemy property, have not hesitated to throw all sorts of obstacles in the oath of the Alien Prop¬ erty Custodian and to invoke the aid of the courts to sustain transactions which, as patriotic Americans, they would have been first to condemn while the war was being fought. It seems not improper tor, me to say that law¬ yers ought fo be no less loath now tnan heretofore» to involve themselves in the machinations of enemv persons seeking: to prevent the agencies of the Forefathers' Cloth. Introduced to America ex¬ actly 299 years ago. Its reproduction restored a most interesting fabric. Dur¬ able. Out-of-the-ordinary. The wools are from the same County Norfolk, Eng¬ land. Modern methods, of course, are used in its manu¬ facture. No handsomer suits in our stores. Splendid for any man who's hard on his clothes. 'Registered Trademark. Winter overcoats . all wool ones; fur ones, too. Rogers Peet Company °roadway 13th St. "The /?.adwa.V Corners' « Warren Broadway at 34th St. Fifth Ave. at 41st St .^JHtOOKLYX ADVERTISEMENT ÛJJest Piano House in the City CHANDLER Ä1 PIANO CO. g UVINGSTON ST., B'klyn. Tel. 159 Main °<6i Manos, to d or rentad Tuning and ri'pairliiR a specialty '." t»d pond p¡anol .j p|ajrer p:aB0§ -nfl'T^-,, fr.om Ctt«-ryinK out the ex- ressed will of the Congress. Businesses individually owned, part- iships and branches of enemv con- erna have been generally liquidated oi¬ m process of liquidation. Mer- nan,llsc .,ul commodities running into 'lliona of dollars; making steel and ron products i. Pennsylvania and \. ,-si uginia, brewing heer in New York, ew Jersey, Illinois and Louisiana; anutaetunng chocolate, pianos, ma- crmiery, chemicals, dyestuffs, pharma- euticals. munitions, woollen, silk and otton goods and laces; dealing in recious stones and art. works; export ng and importing all kinds of goods tul commodities there is hardly a me of industry in which the enemy .as not engaged in America. In sonic he investment was large and dominat¬ ing; m others it was of a negligible mount, hut the grand total marks a old up,«» American industry and com¬ merce which is nothing short of amaz¬ ing. It constituted a real menace to ho industrial and commercial inde- endence of America. Invasion Was Studlei' "W hen we realize the important part played in modern warfare by industry tar back of the front line we can well believe this industrial invasion of America was a studied effort on the part of Germany to make effective her plan to colonize, subdue and control the world. "I cannot too forcefully repeat that the German industrial penetration of America has not been a mere friendly desire to trade and do business with the world. It has been a knife at the throat of America. In the days before the war and during the war most of the great German-owned industrial es¬ tablishments were soy centres tilled wi h the agents of Germany long pit¬ ting against the safety of the United States They were depositories of secret information gleaned by the ubiquitous spies in the German em¬ ploy, and without them these spies would have been almost harmless. Redfield Plans To Hold Trade After the War Proposes Expansion of Bu¬ reau to Aid U. S. Mer¬ chants in World Trade WASHINGTON', Dec. 10..Expansion of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to enable it to give effective aid to American manufacturers and merchants in taking full advantage of after-the-war world trade opportunities is the chief recommendation of Secre¬ tary Rediield in his annual report made public to-day. The Secretary also reiterates his ap¬ proval of the proposed development of a government owned intracoastal water¬ way to link up the great cities of the East, from the lakes to the coast and down the Atlantic seaboard. Dealing with post-war trade and the part the Bureau of Foreign and Do¬ mestic Commerce car, play, the report emphasizes especially the need for ad¬ ditional commercial attachés and trade commissioners. The balance of trade in favor of the United States for the fiscal year 1918 was $2.981'.226,238; the total of the merchandise export trade was $5,928,285,641, and of the import trade $2,946,059,403. "Measured by the economic needs of the country and by the giave respon- sibities of post-war competition," the report says, "the bureau should be ex¬ panded substantially in every branch of service. More Attachés Needed "New attachés should be assigned to a number of important capitals, es¬ pecially Athens, Rome, Madrid, Ottawa. Mexico City and Santiago, Chile. We should also establish at the earliest possible moment resident trade com¬ missioners in Sweden, Norway, Great Britain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Russia, Mexico, Bolivia. Uruguay, Brazil. Colombia and Venezuela. Dutch East Indies, China, Philippine Islands, British India, Japan, Malay Penninsula, Egypt, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The value of resident repre¬ sentatives is too obvious to require any argument for the extension of this feat¬ ure of our service. "Our country is looking to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com¬ merce to do its share in preparing the. country for economic security and prosperity after the war, when the chief industrial and commercial forces in both hemispheres will be ready to launch great organizations on the com¬ mercial seas in quest of trade. The instinct of commercial self-preserva¬ tion demands organized action. This is not the time for short-sighted thrift. Other countries are looking ahead and -pending money to organize for their commercial security." Importance of Waterways Of the inland waterways Secretary Redfield says: "An important step forward, which will be of great advantage to our com¬ merce, was taken when the Director General of Railroads assumed, on be¬ half of the government for the period of the war. the operation of the Cape Cod and the Delaware and Raritan canals, the latter being operated in con¬ nection with the New York State Barge Canals. Every economic, military and naval argument points to the impor¬ tance of the earliest possible develop¬ ment of a government-owned waterway corresponding with what is commonly known as the Atlantic intracoastal waterway, connecting all the great cities of our Atlantic seaboard with one an¬ other, with the New York State water¬ ways, reaching to the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, and with all the rail- read terminals along our eastern coast." Legislation to provide for the estab¬ lishment of standards for all lines of industry with the bureau as the deter¬ mining and classifying agent is sug¬ gested by Secretary Redfield. War work accomplished by the Bu¬ reau of Standards is extensively re¬ viewed in the report. Scientific prob¬ lems in nearly all branches of aero¬ nautics have been investigated by the bureau during the year, and much as¬ sistance given on airplane motor prob¬ lems. Munitions gauges were stand¬ ardized and methods of producing op¬ tical glass developed. Urgent needs of the department for the future enumerated by Secretary Redfield are: Two sea-going vessels and wire drag launches for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and officers and crews for them. Larger clerical force in the held ser¬ vice of the Steamboat Inspection Ser¬ vice and in the office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, together with more draughtsmen and computers at more adequate salaries in the latter service. Provision for housing the army of clerks needed during the three-year period of handling the census of 1920, which will be in full swing by next July. . .. . A laboratory aquarium for the Bu¬ reau of Fisheries. A government owned commerce build-, ing to house all services except the Bureau of Standards and the laboratory- aquarium. , . An assistant to the Secretary of Commerce to ai'd in the greatly in¬ creased volume of work. Estimates for the fiscal year of 1920 aggregate $39.727.740. A large part of the increase over the current year of $21,571.676 is for the Bureau ot the Census to provide for taKing the four¬ teenth decennial census. Republicans Open Fight On Tax Bill Senate Minority Files Its Re- port Protesting Against Making 1920 Rate Now K x p e c t Reductions Forthcoming Changes in the Eeonomie Conditions Are Used as Delay Argument By Theodore M Knappen WASHINGTON. Dee. 10. -The Sen¬ ate wearily took up the revenue bill to-dajr, and only n few harely Senators stayed throughout the session with Chairman Simmons of the Finance Committee as he discussed the meas¬ ure at length. Most of them were ab¬ sent, or fled early, and the galleries were not much better patronized thnn the floor. ', The Republican minority of the Finance Committee did not disturb the; somnolence of the occasion by reason of any spirit in its report, which was given out to-day. It was expected that! the minority's report would be stated; rather aggressively, anel consequently the mildness of its language is taken, as a criterion of the intensity of the opposition that will be offered to the bill. I The minority report, after stating the genera1 accorei of its members with the $fi 000,000.000 form of the bill for 1918-'19. proceeds to give reasons for opposing the enactment of a reve¬ nue measure for 1919-'20 at this time. Expect More Changes The fact that even while the present bill was under consideration in the committee circumstances arose that mad' it wise to reduce the amount to bo raised from $8,000,000.000 to $6,- (00 000.000 is cited as evidence that circumstances in the near future may invalidate considerations that now' point to $4.000.000.000 as the proper amount to be raised in 1919-1920. In answer to the argument of the need of promptness in dealing with the matter, the minority recalls that in July and August it was insisted that the bill must be passed by September 28 in order to avoiel disaster to the fourth Liberty Loan anel serious incon¬ venience to Treasury functions. These apprehensions turned out to be with¬ out foundation, it is declared. "Who will claim now," the report continues, "that Congress was not justi- fied or lacked wisdom in eleliberating upon this the greatest of all tax bills in history? The fact alone that changée! conditions made possible a reeluction of, S2 000,000 000 in the interest of the tax¬ payer.- justified the care and scrutiny given the bill by those charged with the constitutional duty of framing it. "In the light, therefore, of this re- cent valuable" experience and object lesson, it would be entirely without justification to attempt to prescribe for' the American people what amount of taxes they shall be called upon to pay in the year 1920. We cannot fail to be impressed with the many difficulties en- countered, even with every possible aid, in levying just taxes for the current, year, and to undertake to project our- selves into the future, so tilled with portentous changes, and arbitrarily rigidly tix taxes for the year 1920 is in violation of every sound principle of legislative procedure and economically is fallacious anel absurd. Estimates Are Uncertain "No one can foresee the full course of the events which will crowd the in- tervening months, and no one with any degree of definijcness can estimate the government's needs or the country's in¬ dustrial prosperity. Sources of revenue not now tapped may be made to yield a largo portion, thus relieving other sources from onerous taxation. Who can foresee clearly results from the re-1 adjustment and reconstruction pro¬ gramme .inevitably impending and bound to follow the retn-n of pence. "Tille problem of the high cost of liv¬ ing is not the least of those awaiting attention, and a wîse and carefully con sidored economic policy must be framed nt the proper time with ftill informa¬ tion as to the facts. Care must be exercised so as not to disarrange our industrial system in a way which will lender either capital or 'nhor less cm ployed in profitable pursuits than at the present time. "A sound policy demands that, no leg¬ islation shall be enacted which will suddenly or unwisely disturb values and prices.*' Strong Protest Made "Vast governmental undertakings and agencies made necessary by the war must »come in for a large share of consideration as to the policy to be adopted with respect to those activi¬ ties in the future thus presenting the most difficult domestic problems ever confronted by this nation," the report continued. "No programme for the near or dis¬ tant future has even been evolved. nothing but the merest outlnes, sug¬ gestions and preliminaries and yet on the threshold of these nebulous condi¬ tions it. is proposed to lay down a hard and fast scheme of taxation for the future. "The only argument advanced in be¬ ba f of this extraordinary propositior to fix arbitrarily the rates of taxatior in the present bill for 1920 is that the taxpayers are entitled to know the r.mount of reduction in taxes and tin character of the taxes for that year. "It does not seem to the minority tint this argument furnishes any jus tideation for violating the methods o orderly legislative procedure. Ever; taxpayer in the country Knows tha taxes will be reduced after this year a; the inevitable resu t of a reduction ii governmental needs following th decHration o:* peace. "Every business man knows the nex Congress can enact a revenue measure based on accurate information as t> the then existing conditions, which wil reduce the burdens of taxation as fa as the requirements of the governmen will permit. "Why, then, attempt to do so now ii this bill, with no knowledge of futur conditions and needs. Uphold Present Plans "As a 1918 measure the minorit members of the committee concur i the reporting of the hill, but the meas ure should stand as essentially a 191 measure, and the many changes whic will be necessary to adapt the tax la1 to the conditions to follow and foun to obtain in 1919 and subsequent yeai should be made at one time and in th light of as full information as it wi be possible to obtain." Senator Thomas, while concurring i the minority report, presented his ii dividual views on certain features < the bill, and Senators La Follette ar Smoot announced an intention of filir similar personal reports to-morro1 Senator Thomas found fault with tl excess profits provision, which he d clared to be arbitrary unjust and i defensible. He favored a straight wi profits tax based upon the excess war earnings over tin- average ear ings of representative corporations the pre-war period. Senator Simmons introduced his a dress with a review of the revenue si uation and with a presentation of t conflicting views of the majority a minority as to the proposition to esta lish now the tax rates for 1919 as w< as 1918. Predicts Extra Session "The minority," he said, "insists th tax reductions be made at some lat date. Unless an extra session of Co gross is call jd this must go over un the first of next December. Produce of revenue during the interim will unable to fix proper prices for tin products. The principles of self-pi tection as well as selfishness will pi vail. Unnecessary tax exactions w be made to meet unknown requi: ments. Producers will not take t risk. They will mark up their prices to conform to present rates and not to me'ot promised reeluctions. The pro¬ ducers will have $3 000 000.000 in their pockets, collected from the people, be- yond what will meet the requirements of the government. "Neither the government nor the people will get this money. Those taxes will remnin in the pockets of the great industrial taxpayers. They will go to increaso the great anel over- weening profits they make. "This situation is caused through the desire of one political party to perform the. gracious task of making the reeluctions in taxation. This will cost the people $3.000 000.000 and the government will derive no benefit from it." Seven Out of Fifteen Atlantic Cables Broken Seven of the fifteen Transatlantic cables are broken anel will not be available for use during the peace con¬ ference, it was stateei yesterday at the» office of the Commercial Cable Com¬ pany, 20 Broadway. The lines out of commission, accord¬ ing to officias, comprise four wires leased by the Western Union Company, one owned by a French comnany and two taken from Germany at the begin¬ ning of the war by Fiance anel Great Britain. The bréales, with one or two exceptions, are in mid-ocean, where the lines are laid hundreds of fathoms deep. "It will probably take months to make the necessary repairs," saiel William J. Deegan, secretary of the Mackay com¬ panies, the holding corporation of the Commercial Cable Company. "I under¬ stand that the Western Union boat, the Lord Kelvin, is out now trying to make splices. It is a long and difficult job however, and I'm afraid that news from the peace conference must be loaded on the eight remaining cables. Five of these are owned by our company, one by the French, anf four are leased by the Western Union. The broken cables are old and parted under a natural stress of time and weather. The Methu¬ selah of the group was laid in the early 80s." Man Who Smoked in Bed Found Burned to Death Charles Terry, Aged Official of Ward Steamship Line, Was Paralyzed Charles Terry, seventy years old, New York superintenaent of the Ward Steamship Line, was burned to death 'ast night in his bed at his lodging 1250 B'oomfield Avenue. Hoboken. Mr. Terry had a habit of smoking in beel. Late last night persons on the street saw smoke issuing from his window and turned '.n an alarm. Before the firemen arrived. Miss Madge Loomi's, proprietor of the es¬ tablishment, had attempted to open the door of Mr. Terry's room, but the heat had swollen ¡t so that it stuck. When it had been battered down, the body of the old man was discovered in the centre of the blazing bed clothes. Mr. Terry had not been to work for (wo weeks. Twice before he had suf¬ fered paralytic strokes. It is believed that he was smoking in bed, fell asleep, and waking to find his bed in flames suffered a third stroke. He was a bachelor. His relatives all live in Eng¬ land. Dr. McElroy to Speak At a luncheon to be given by the Woman's Municipal League at the Cosmopolitan Club this afternoon, one of the principal speakers will be Dr. Robert M. McElroy, head of the de¬ partment of history and politics at Princeton University. Dr. McElroy, who is now on leave of absence, is devoting his time to the chairman¬ ship of the National Security League's committee' on organized education. Dr. McElroy's topic will be "Safe Re¬ building." G. SCHIRMERS 3 East 43rd Street Adjoining Fifth Ave. THhis year of all years the * most appropriate Gift is a VICTROLA The inexhaustible repertoire of the Vietrola embodies the spirit of Victory in its Patriotic Records, the joy of Yuletide in its glorious carols and the pleasure of exhilaration in its Dance Music. Give a Vietrola The Instrument for Happiness in a Happy Season NEWLY DESIGNED, PATENTED AND IMPROVED VICTROLA X-A In All Finishes With 15 Double-Faced Records 102 75 Complete Stock of Other Models $22.50 to $395.00 Inquire About Our Deferred Payment Plan GSCHIRMER'S The Largest Vietrola Salesroom in ISew York Jewish Fund Here Passes $2,000,000; Poor Answer Call Jacob H. Schiff Declares Wealthy Have Yet lo Make Full Response to. War Contributions Plea The Jewish War Relief campaign total last night swept by the $2 000 000 mark on the way toward its goal of $5 000 000. Yesterday's contributions were $227 975 bringing the total of two days of effort up to $2,005 840. Jacob II. Schiff and Jacob Wertheim addressed the meeting of Workers at the Biltniore yesterday. They declared that while the rich Jews have not given their share, the persons in poorer cir¬ cumstances are loosing a shower of sil¬ ver which is swelling the totals. A contribution of $2,000 by the gins liv¬ ing m the dorm.tory of the Young Women's Hebrew Association was cited as an example. This money, given in nickels and dimes, had been originally for the purchase of an ambulance, but with the armistice the girls changed their plan, A $25 contribution from the children of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum sent a tear to the eyes of the diners. Gentiles Add to Fund Mr. Schiff extolled non-Jewish donors who made unsolicited contributions. These included $5 000 from Mrs. E. II. Harrjman and large amounts from Frank Trumbull, chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and C- C. Burlingame, former president of the Board jf Education. A contribution of $1,000 from "The Wall Street Maga¬ zine" also was recorded. A $10,000 contribution from Adolph Lewisohn and another from Adolph S. Ochs were among the largest received in the day's grist. Colonel H. A. Guinz- burg, chairman of-the meeting reported the highest daily total for his team, $27,779 having been collected. The team captained by Samuel Untermyer, although reporting only $18,800 yester¬ day, retains the lead among the teams, with a total of $391,4.06. Women Workers Busy, The BO-called "flying squadron "com- posed of women, has added $485,100 to the campaign total. Mrs. Samuel G. Lamport's team, with $31 106 gathered, leads the women's groups. To emphasize' among the Jewish peo¬ ples here need of relieving the intense suffering of tue Jews ;n the upset regions overseas a cablegram from ? he Holland branch of the Joint Distribu- tion Committee to Albert Lucas, the committee's secretary here, was made public. It described the attack on the Jewi h quarter of Lemberg following the Polish conquest. Legionnaires are describ»d as syste- matica ly pillaging the Jewish e¡uarter leaving 10 C00 Jews without shelter after 600 had been killed. Protects Are Unheeded "The fact is est'ib ished " the cab'e- gram states, "that permission had been given in advance to pil age for forty- eight hours. Jewish el/nutations ap¬ peared b.'fore Polish C airman Dr.: Adam anei State President Dr. Stcsch- lotitz friday morning, but absolutely1 without success. During conflagration water supply shut off. T ree syna¬ gogues destroyed. Desperate cry for ..e p Do everything; leave no stone unturned, as further jpread of po¬ groms will surely follow Po.ish ad¬ vance." John R. Mott, chairman of the exec-, utive con.m.tte'o and d.rector general of the United WarWork Campaign, has written to Felix M. Warburg, <.»f ù.e relief campaign, praising the Jews for their liberal contributions to the war work campaign. Lodge L'rges Independence Of Armenia and Lithuania WASHINGTON, Dec. 10..Two résolu- tions urging the independence of Ar- men a and Lithuania and that "some provision be made for the Syrians and other Christian popu ations of Asia Minor" were introduced to-day by Sen- ator Lodge and referred to the Foreign Relat.ons Committee. One of the resolutions also declares that portions ot Asia Minor where the (¡reeks predominate should be placed under the control of the Greek govern¬ ment. 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Page 1: New York Tribune.(New York, NY) 1918-12-11 [p 7].chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-12-11/ed... · 2010-05-26 · menthave in the taking of enemy property, obstaclesnot

palmer WarnsGerman TradeMust Be CurbedAlien Property Custodian§ayS Industrial Invasión$as Menace to Nation

Some Lawyers Rebuked

Attempts to Hinder U. S. inTakina Enemy ConcernsSeen Since the Armistice

Declaring that Germany's so-calledfriendly industrial activity in this

country rrior to tnc war íiací actuallvbee* a "knife at the throat of Ameri-g» \. Mitchell Palmer. Alien Propertymstodian. in a speech before the NewYork City Bar Association last night,¿«rned agaii ¦. >o great readiness to

foreive Germany and accept her againan industrial rival. Uc astounded

his hearers by pointing out the rami¬fication.- of Germany's industrial cam-

oaten in this country bef re the war.

\\lr Palmer, incide tal y paid tributoto" the loyaltj of American lawyers.He declare,i that while it wa- true thatmanv of them did act as counsel to.lien interests when the latter weremakitic desperate efforts to cover

es after the adv Mit 01 war.

variably innoci nt«rongdoin - and as soon

¦. showed prompt willing ess

»o place the rights of the governmentcver and ¦< 'hose of any client.

Palmer Reviews His Work"The oïï.cc of Alien Property Cus¬

todian was filled by the appointment ofthe President on October 22, 1917. so

that the office has been in operationabout thirt en months," said Mr. Pal¬mer. "At the close of business Decem¬ber 5. 191S, 32,684 reports of enemyproperty had been received. The num¬ber of separat* trusts now being ad¬ministered amounts to 29.Too. and have*n aggregate value of §506.400.500.94.When the :itire number of trusts re¬

ported si .i 1 have been finally openedon the books anel the readjustment ofvalues, consequent upon appraisal shallhave been :ompleted, it is safe to saythat the total value of the enemy prop¬erty in the hands of the Alien Prop¬erty Custodian will reach $800,000.000."Every device known to the law. as

well as many unknown to the law.served the purp< se of evading the con¬sequences of the war between Germanyand the United States, which Germanbusiness men. at least, seemed to haveforeseen from the time the world warstarted."In working >ut their plans,the Germanowners frequently had the assistanceof capable American counsel, who inmost case- carried out the details ofthe transaction ¡n entire good faithand withoul ulterior motive, beingwithout knowledge of the under-lyingpurpose of the parties."Most of these lawyers feeling thatthe interest tf their country was para¬mount to those of their clients, assisted

os in developing the real facts, fromwhich we we oble to draw conclusionsas to the actual ownership of the prop¬erty. In very few cases have we dis¬covered American lawyers activeparties to conspiracies to defeat thebelligerent rights of the United States,or to hide the property of enemiesfrom the governmental authorities."With the cessation of hostilities,lowever, something of a new fightingspirit has developed, and lawyers who,while the war was on. would have beenunwilling to play any part in resist¬ing the just demands of the govern¬ment in the taking of enemy property,have not hesitated to throw all sorts ofobstacles in the oath of the Alien Prop¬erty Custodian and to invoke the aid ofthe courts to sustain transactionswhich, as patriotic Americans, theywould have been first to condemn whilethe war was being fought. It seemsnot improper tor, me to say that law¬yers ought fo be no less loath nowtnan heretofore» to involve themselvesin the machinations of enemv personsseeking: to prevent the agencies of the

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actly 299 years ago.Its reproduction restored a

most interesting fabric. Dur¬able. Out-of-the-ordinary.The wools are from the

same County Norfolk, Eng¬land.Modern methods, of

course, are used in its manu¬facture.No handsomer suits in

our stores. Splendid forany man who's hard on hisclothes.

'Registered Trademark.

Winter overcoats. allwool ones; fur ones, too.

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-nfl'T^-,, fr.om Ctt«-ryinK out the ex-ressed will of the Congress.Businesses individually owned, part-iships and branches of enemv con-erna have been generally liquidated oi¬ré m process of liquidation. Mer-nan,llsc .,ul commodities running into'lliona of dollars; making steel andron products i. Pennsylvania and \. ,-siuginia, brewing heer in New York,ew Jersey, Illinois and Louisiana;anutaetunng chocolate, pianos, ma-crmiery, chemicals, dyestuffs, pharma-euticals. munitions, woollen, silk andotton goods and laces; dealing inrecious stones and art. works; exportng and importing all kinds of goodstul commodities there is hardly ame of industry in which the enemy.as not engaged in America. In soniche investment was large and dominat¬ing; m others it was of a negligiblemount, hut the grand total marks aold up,«» American industry and com¬merce which is nothing short of amaz¬ing. It constituted a real menace toho industrial and commercial inde-endence of America.Invasion Was Studlei'

"W hen we realize the important partplayed in modern warfare by industrytar back of the front line we can wellbelieve this industrial invasion ofAmerica was a studied effort on thepart of Germany to make effective herplan to colonize, subdue and controlthe world.

"I cannot too forcefully repeat thatthe German industrial penetration ofAmerica has not been a mere friendlydesire to trade and do business withthe world. It has been a knife at thethroat of America. In the days beforethe war and during the war most ofthe great German-owned industrial es¬tablishments were soy centres tilledwi h the agents of Germany long pit¬ting against the safety of the UnitedStates They were depositories ofsecret information gleaned by theubiquitous spies in the German em¬ploy, and without them these spieswould have been almost harmless.

Redfield PlansTo Hold TradeAfter the War

Proposes Expansion of Bu¬reau to Aid U. S. Mer¬chants in World Trade

WASHINGTON', Dec. 10..Expansionof the Bureau of Foreign and DomesticCommerce to enable it to give effectiveaid to American manufacturers andmerchants in taking full advantage ofafter-the-war world trade opportunitiesis the chief recommendation of Secre¬tary Rediield in his annual report madepublic to-day.The Secretary also reiterates his ap¬proval of the proposed development of

a government owned intracoastal water¬way to link up the great cities of theEast, from the lakes to the coast anddown the Atlantic seaboard.

Dealing with post-war trade and thepart the Bureau of Foreign and Do¬mestic Commerce car, play, the reportemphasizes especially the need for ad¬ditional commercial attachés and tradecommissioners. The balance of tradein favor of the United States for thefiscal year 1918 was $2.981'.226,238; thetotal of the merchandise export tradewas $5,928,285,641, and of the importtrade $2,946,059,403."Measured by the economic needs of

the country and by the giave respon-sibities of post-war competition," thereport says, "the bureau should be ex¬panded substantially in every branch ofservice.

More Attachés Needed"New attachés should be assigned to

a number of important capitals, es¬pecially Athens, Rome, Madrid, Ottawa.Mexico City and Santiago, Chile. Weshould also establish at the earliestpossible moment resident trade com¬missioners in Sweden, Norway, GreatBritain, France, Greece, Switzerland,Russia, Mexico, Bolivia. Uruguay,Brazil. Colombia and Venezuela. DutchEast Indies, China, Philippine Islands,British India, Japan, Malay Penninsula,Egypt, South Africa, Australia and NewZealand. The value of resident repre¬sentatives is too obvious to require anyargument for the extension of this feat¬ure of our service."Our country is looking to the

Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com¬merce to do its share in preparing the.country for economic security andprosperity after the war, when thechief industrial and commercial forcesin both hemispheres will be ready tolaunch great organizations on the com¬mercial seas in quest of trade. Theinstinct of commercial self-preserva¬tion demands organized action. Thisis not the time for short-sighted thrift.Other countries are looking ahead and-pending money to organize for theircommercial security."

Importance of WaterwaysOf the inland waterways Secretary

Redfield says:"An important step forward, which

will be of great advantage to our com¬merce, was taken when the DirectorGeneral of Railroads assumed, on be¬half of the government for the periodof the war. the operation of the CapeCod and the Delaware and Raritancanals, the latter being operated in con¬nection with the New York State BargeCanals. Every economic, military andnaval argument points to the impor¬tance of the earliest possible develop¬ment of a government-owned waterwaycorresponding with what is commonlyknown as the Atlantic intracoastalwaterway, connecting all the great citiesof our Atlantic seaboard with one an¬other, with the New York State water¬ways, reaching to the Great Lakes andLake Champlain, and with all the rail-read terminals along our easterncoast."

Legislation to provide for the estab¬lishment of standards for all lines ofindustry with the bureau as the deter¬mining and classifying agent is sug¬gested by Secretary Redfield.War work accomplished by the Bu¬

reau of Standards is extensively re¬viewed in the report. Scientific prob¬lems in nearly all branches of aero¬nautics have been investigated by thebureau during the year, and much as¬sistance given on airplane motor prob¬lems. Munitions gauges were stand¬ardized and methods of producing op¬tical glass developed.

Urgent needs of the department forthe future enumerated by SecretaryRedfield are:Two sea-going vessels and wire drag

launches for the Coast and GeodeticSurvey, and officers and crews forthem.Larger clerical force in the held ser¬

vice of the Steamboat Inspection Ser¬vice and in the office of the Coast andGeodetic Survey, together with moredraughtsmen and computers at more

adequate salaries in the latter service.Provision for housing the army of

clerks needed during the three-yearperiod of handling the census of 1920,which will be in full swing by nextJuly. . .. .A laboratory aquarium for the Bu¬reau of Fisheries.A government owned commerce build-,

ing to house all services except theBureau of Standards and the laboratory-aquarium. , .

An assistant to the Secretary ofCommerce to ai'd in the greatly in¬

creased volume of work.Estimates for the fiscal year of 1920

aggregate $39.727.740. A large part ofthe increase over the current year of$21,571.676 is for the Bureau ot theCensus to provide for taKing the four¬teenth decennial census.

RepublicansOpen FightOn Tax Bill

Senate Minority Files Its Re-port Protesting AgainstMaking 1920 Rate Now

K x p e c t Reductions

Forthcoming Changes in theEeonomie Conditions AreUsed as Delay Argument

By Theodore M KnappenWASHINGTON. Dee. 10. -The Sen¬

ate wearily took up the revenue billto-dajr, and only n few harely Senatorsstayed throughout the session withChairman Simmons of the FinanceCommittee as he discussed the meas¬ure at length. Most of them were ab¬sent, or fled early, and the gallerieswere not much better patronized thnnthe floor. ',The Republican minority of the

Finance Committee did not disturb the;somnolence of the occasion by reasonof any spirit in its report, which was

given out to-day. It was expected that!the minority's report would be stated;rather aggressively, anel consequentlythe mildness of its language is taken,as a criterion of the intensity of theopposition that will be offered to thebill. IThe minority report, after stating

the genera1 accorei of its memberswith the $fi 000,000.000 form of the billfor 1918-'19. proceeds to give reasonsfor opposing the enactment of a reve¬nue measure for 1919-'20 at this time.

Expect More ChangesThe fact that even while the present

bill was under consideration in thecommittee circumstances arose thatmad' it wise to reduce the amount tobo raised from $8,000,000.000 to $6,-(00 000.000 is cited as evidence thatcircumstances in the near future mayinvalidate considerations that now'point to $4.000.000.000 as the properamount to be raised in 1919-1920.

In answer to the argument of theneed of promptness in dealing withthe matter, the minority recalls that inJuly and August it was insisted thatthe bill must be passed by September28 in order to avoiel disaster to thefourth Liberty Loan anel serious incon¬venience to Treasury functions. Theseapprehensions turned out to be with¬out foundation, it is declared."Who will claim now," the report

continues, "that Congress was not justi-fied or lacked wisdom in eleliberatingupon this the greatest of all tax billsin history? The fact alone that changée!conditions made possible a reeluction of,S2 000,000 000 in the interest of the tax¬payer.- justified the care and scrutinygiven the bill by those charged withthe constitutional duty of framing it.

"In the light, therefore, of this re-cent valuable" experience and objectlesson, it would be entirely withoutjustification to attempt to prescribe for'the American people what amount oftaxes they shall be called upon to payin the year 1920. We cannot fail to beimpressed with the many difficulties en-countered, even with every possible aid,in levying just taxes for the current,year, and to undertake to project our-selves into the future, so tilled withportentous changes, and arbitrarilyrigidly tix taxes for the year 1920 is inviolation of every sound principle oflegislative procedure and economicallyis fallacious anel absurd.

Estimates Are Uncertain"No one can foresee the full course

of the events which will crowd the in-

tervening months, and no one with anydegree of definijcness can estimate thegovernment's needs or the country's in¬dustrial prosperity. Sources of revenuenot now tapped may be made to yielda largo portion, thus relieving othersources from onerous taxation. Whocan foresee clearly results from the re-1adjustment and reconstruction pro¬gramme .inevitably impending andbound to follow the retn-n of pence."Tille problem of the high cost of liv¬ing is not the least of those awaitingattention, and a wîse and carefully considored economic policy must be framednt the proper time with ftill informa¬tion as to the facts. Care must beexercised so as not to disarrange ourindustrial system in a way which willlender either capital or 'nhor less cmployed in profitable pursuits than atthe present time."A sound policy demands that, no leg¬islation shall be enacted which will

suddenly or unwisely disturb valuesand prices.*'

Strong Protest Made"Vast governmental undertakingsand agencies made necessary by the

war must »come in for a large share ofconsideration as to the policy to beadopted with respect to those activi¬ties in the future thus presenting themost difficult domestic problems everconfronted by this nation," the reportcontinued."No programme for the near or dis¬

tant future has even been evolved.nothing but the merest outlnes, sug¬gestions and preliminaries and yet onthe threshold of these nebulous condi¬tions it. is proposed to lay down a hardand fast scheme of taxation for thefuture."The only argument advanced in be¬ba f of this extraordinary propositior

to fix arbitrarily the rates of taxatiorin the present bill for 1920 is that thetaxpayers are entitled to know ther.mount of reduction in taxes and tincharacter of the taxes for that year."It does not seem to the minoritytint this argument furnishes any justideation for violating the methods oorderly legislative procedure. Ever;taxpayer in the country Knows thataxes will be reduced after this year a;the inevitable resu t of a reduction iigovernmental needs following thdecHration o:* peace."Every business man knows the nex

Congress can enact a revenue measurebased on accurate information as t>the then existing conditions, which wilreduce the burdens of taxation as faas the requirements of the governmenwill permit."Why, then, attempt to do so now iithis bill, with no knowledge of futur

conditions and needs.Uphold Present Plans

"As a 1918 measure the minoritmembers of the committee concur ithe reporting of the hill, but the measure should stand as essentially a 191measure, and the many changes whicwill be necessary to adapt the tax la1to the conditions to follow and founto obtain in 1919 and subsequent yeaishould be made at one time and in thlight of as full information as it wibe possible to obtain."

Senator Thomas, while concurring ithe minority report, presented his iidividual views on certain features <the bill, and Senators La Follette arSmoot announced an intention of filirsimilar personal reports to-morro1Senator Thomas found fault with tlexcess profits provision, which he dclared to be arbitrary unjust and idefensible. He favored a straight wiprofits tax based upon the excesswar earnings over tin- average earings of representative corporationsthe pre-war period.Senator Simmons introduced his a

dress with a review of the revenue siuation and with a presentation of tconflicting views of the majority aminority as to the proposition to estalish now the tax rates for 1919 as w<as 1918.

Predicts Extra Session"The minority," he said, "insists th

tax reductions be made at some latdate. Unless an extra session of Cogross is call jd this must go over unthe first of next December. Produceof revenue during the interim willunable to fix proper prices for tinproducts. The principles of self-pitection as well as selfishness will pivail. Unnecessary tax exactions wbe made to meet unknown requi:ments. Producers will not take t

risk. They will mark up their pricesto conform to present rates and not tome'ot promised reeluctions. The pro¬ducers will have $3 000 000.000 in theirpockets, collected from the people, be-yond what will meet the requirementsof the government."Neither the government nor the

people will get this money. Thosetaxes will remnin in the pockets ofthe great industrial taxpayers. Theywill go to increaso the great anel over-weening profits they make."This situation is caused through

the desire of one political party toperform the. gracious task of makingthe reeluctions in taxation. This willcost the people $3.000 000.000 and thegovernment will derive no benefit fromit."

Seven Out of FifteenAtlantic Cables Broken

Seven of the fifteen Transatlanticcables are broken anel will not beavailable for use during the peace con¬

ference, it was stateei yesterday at the»office of the Commercial Cable Com¬pany, 20 Broadway.The lines out of commission, accord¬

ing to officias, comprise four wiresleased by the Western Union Company,one owned by a French comnany andtwo taken from Germany at the begin¬ning of the war by Fiance anel GreatBritain. The bréales, with one or twoexceptions, are in mid-ocean, where thelines are laid hundreds of fathomsdeep.

"It will probably take months to makethe necessary repairs," saiel William J.Deegan, secretary of the Mackay com¬panies, the holding corporation of theCommercial Cable Company. "I under¬stand that the Western Union boat, theLord Kelvin, is out now trying to makesplices. It is a long and difficult jobhowever, and I'm afraid that news fromthe peace conference must be loadedon the eight remaining cables. Five ofthese are owned by our company, oneby the French, anf four are leased bythe Western Union. The broken cablesare old and parted under a naturalstress of time and weather. The Methu¬selah of the group was laid in theearly 80s."

Man Who Smoked in BedFound Burned to Death

Charles Terry, Aged Official ofWard Steamship Line, Was

ParalyzedCharles Terry, seventy years old,

New York superintenaent of the WardSteamship Line, was burned to death'ast night in his bed at his lodging1250 B'oomfield Avenue. Hoboken. Mr.Terry had a habit of smoking in beel.Late last night persons on the streetsaw smoke issuing from his windowand turned '.n an alarm.

Before the firemen arrived. MissMadge Loomi's, proprietor of the es¬tablishment, had attempted to open thedoor of Mr. Terry's room, but the heathad swollen ¡t so that it stuck. Whenit had been battered down, the bodyof the old man was discovered in thecentre of the blazing bed clothes.

Mr. Terry had not been to work for(wo weeks. Twice before he had suf¬fered paralytic strokes. It is believedthat he was smoking in bed, fell asleep,and waking to find his bed in flamessuffered a third stroke. He was abachelor. His relatives all live in Eng¬land.

Dr. McElroy to SpeakAt a luncheon to be given by the

Woman's Municipal League at theCosmopolitan Club this afternoon, oneof the principal speakers will be Dr.Robert M. McElroy, head of the de¬partment of history and politics atPrinceton University. Dr. McElroy,who is now on leave of absence,is devoting his time to the chairman¬ship of the National Security League'scommittee' on organized education.Dr. McElroy's topic will be "Safe Re¬building."

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Jewish Fund HerePasses $2,000,000;Poor Answer Call

Jacob H. Schiff DeclaresWealthy Have Yet loMake Full Response to.War Contributions Plea

The Jewish War Relief campaigntotal last night swept by the $2 000 000mark on the way toward its goal of$5 000 000. Yesterday's contributionswere $227 975 bringing the total of twodays of effort up to $2,005 840.Jacob II. Schiff and Jacob Wertheim

addressed the meeting of Workers atthe Biltniore yesterday. They declaredthat while the rich Jews have not giventheir share, the persons in poorer cir¬cumstances are loosing a shower of sil¬ver which is swelling the totals. Acontribution of $2,000 by the gins liv¬ing m the dorm.tory of the YoungWomen's Hebrew Association was citedas an example. This money, given innickels and dimes, had been originallyfor the purchase of an ambulance, butwith the armistice the girls changedtheir plan, A $25 contribution fromthe children of the Hebrew OrphanAsylum sent a tear to the eyes of thediners.

Gentiles Add to FundMr. Schiff extolled non-Jewish donors

who made unsolicited contributions.These included $5 000 from Mrs. E. II.Harrjman and large amounts fromFrank Trumbull, chairman of theChesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and C- C.Burlingame, former president of theBoard jf Education. A contributionof $1,000 from "The Wall Street Maga¬zine" also was recorded.A $10,000 contribution from AdolphLewisohn and another from Adolph S.Ochs were among the largest receivedin the day's grist. Colonel H. A. Guinz-

burg, chairman of-the meeting reportedthe highest daily total for his team,$27,779 having been collected. The

team captained by Samuel Untermyer,although reporting only $18,800 yester¬day, retains the lead among the teams,with a total of $391,4.06.

Women Workers Busy,The BO-called "flying squadron "com-

posed of women, has added $485,100 tothe campaign total. Mrs. Samuel G.Lamport's team, with $31 106 gathered,leads the women's groups.To emphasize' among the Jewish peo¬

ples here need of relieving the intensesuffering of tue Jews ;n the upsetregions overseas a cablegram from ? heHolland branch of the Joint Distribu-tion Committee to Albert Lucas, thecommittee's secretary here, was madepublic. It described the attack on theJewi h quarter of Lemberg followingthe Polish conquest.

Legionnaires are describ»d as syste-matica ly pillaging the Jewish e¡uarterleaving 10 C00 Jews without shelterafter 600 had been killed.

Protects Are Unheeded"The fact is est'ib ished " the cab'e-

gram states, "that permission had beengiven in advance to pil age for forty-eight hours. Jewish el/nutations ap¬peared b.'fore Polish C airman Dr.:Adam anei State President Dr. Stcsch-lotitz friday morning, but absolutely1without success. During conflagrationwater supply shut off. T ree syna¬gogues destroyed. Desperate cry for..e p Do everything; leave no stoneunturned, as further jpread of po¬groms will surely follow Po.ish ad¬vance."John R. Mott, chairman of the exec-,

utive con.m.tte'o and d.rector generalof the United WarWork Campaign, haswritten to Felix M. Warburg, <.»f ù.erelief campaign, praising the Jews fortheir liberal contributions to the warwork campaign.

Lodge L'rges IndependenceOf Armenia and Lithuania

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10..Two résolu-tions urging the independence of Ar-men a and Lithuania and that "someprovision be made for the Syrians andother Christian popu ations of AsiaMinor" were introduced to-day by Sen-ator Lodge and referred to the ForeignRelat.ons Committee.One of the resolutions also declares

that portions ot Asia Minor where the(¡reeks predominate should be placedunder the control of the Greek govern¬ment.

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