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THE SAYRE HEADLIGHT
PANAMA CANAL
SHOWS PROFIT
♦ f ' • 1
Closes the Best Year, Financially,
in Its Six Years of
Operation.
Judge Landis Dictator of Baseball
Lloyd George Commends Constable for Bravery
MARKED GROWTH IN TRAFFIC
General Harding, Governor of Canal,
In Report Predicts Revenue of
Over $5,000,000 Annuaily
Soon.
Washington.—The Panama cnnnl
This closed the best year. Ilminelally,
In Its six years of operation, with an
excess of $2,387,Jit*!) In revenue over
the expense of operation and wain-
, temince.
Brig. Gen. Chester Harding, gover-
nor of the Panama canal, predicted
In his annual report to the secretary
of war, that within a reasonable peri-
od of normal world conditions, the
canal will earn an actual profit on Its
cost, which has been $3(56,050,000. ex-
clusive of expenditures for Us mili-
tary and naval defense. In the mean-
time, the general added, the canal Is
performing an Important commercial
service by stimulating American trnde
With tile west const of South America
and the Orient. More than 25 per
cent of the cargo handled through
the canal since its opening was In
transit between the United Stales and
South America, and 14'y per cent was
between the Atlantic coast of the Uni-
ted Slates and the Orient.
Traffic Has Increased.
Within the six years of operation.
General Harding's report said, there
has been a marked Increase in traffic
through the canal notwithstanding the
fact that the World war Interfered
with the normal development of ocean-
going commerce. After the entry of
Federal Judge K. M. I.andis has accepted the position of chairman of the
- r .as=S5 'ssaxs ^ ^ ■—
rnent with the magnates.
the United States Into the war there
was n decrease In commercial truffle,
due to the diversion of certain Hues
of ships to the transatlantic service,
hut this was more than offset by the
Increase In traffic growing out of the
war, chiefly on account of the de-
velopment of the nitrate trnde with
the Pacific const of South America.
Discussing the amount of money ex-
pended by the United States on the
canal, Governor Ilardlng said:
“In the year 2,7-15 vessels passed
through the canal, of which 2.478 were
commercial transits. Tolls and other
revenues amounted to $8,1)30,871. while
current expenses of operation and
maintenance totaled to $6,548,272. The
excess of revenue this year reduced
MILLION A YEAR
CLASS LOST 74
Internal Revenue Statistics,
However, Show Decrease in
Taxable Incomes.
shown in the number of returns filed.
The increase In the total tax was
$434,228,881.
Returns for Incomes of $500,000 to
$1,000,000 were filed by 178 persons,
while 1,516,938 persons filed returns
for Incomes from $1,000 to $2,(XX). In-
comes from $2,000 to $3,000 were
gtfiuwn on 1,496,878 returns, and there
were 010,695 returns on $3,000 to
$4,1X10 a year Incomes,
For Incomes of $5,000 to $10,000,
319,356 returned anti from Incomes of
$10,000 to $15,000 there wpre 09,992
returns. More than 30,000 persons
made returns on Incomes from $15,000
to $20,000, and 16,000 on incomes from
$20,000 to $25,000, while 9,996 persons
to $2,231,091 the excess of pxpense
and maintenance over revenues for ’
the six years the canal has been In
operation,"
At the rate of revenue this year It
Is expected that by June 30, 1921, the
collections for tolls nnd other cnnnl
revenues will exceed by $1,0(X),000 or
more the total current expenses of
operation and maintenance from the
opening to that date, after which, the J
canal authorities argue, tin#1 should
he an e«“ess of $5,000,000 or more
each yent
Auxiliary Services Utilized.
The auxiliary services of the canal
have been largely utilized nnd are
of great value In carrying out the
policy of making It attractive In all
of the Incidental services that are
considered by shipping interests In
routing their vessels, General Hard-
ing said, adding that It has not been
the purpose to make larger profits on
these activities, but rather to regulate
the charges so as safely to cover the
cost. From these miscellaneous serv-
ices the receipts for the year were:
Coal, $6,032,578; water, $55,412; oil,
groceries and miscellaneous supplies,
$1,274,566, nnd mechanical repairs to
ships, $3,803,933.
Landslide Threatens Pittsburgh Rail Terminal
View showing some of the big steam shovels which are w orking night nnd day In an attempt to repair dnma?*
caused by a huge landslide which buried n railroad yard building and two main and six side tracks leading Into tho
Pennsylvania terminal In Pittsburgh. The slide moves at the rate of about a foot an hour, nnd has compelled the
railroad company to re-route many trains and curtnll some service. Mayor Babcock of Pittsburgh, acting under la-
AVERAGE TAX PAIO $254.85
»_
Personal Returns Filed During 1910
Numbered 4,425,144, and Tax, Both
Normal and Surtax, Was
$1,127,721,835.
Washington, D. C.—Despite the loss
at 74 members of the country's million-
a-vear Income class, ihe taxable In-
come of the United States Increased ported Incomes of from $50,000 to
In 1918 bv over $2,272,UOO.ixx>, ns com- i *1W>00 ,in'> ^ ™ade reIurns f"r
pared with 1917, according to the In- lDWmes between *1WAW a,1(1 *150'-
come statistics issued by the bureau 1 ^
of Internal revenue. ^ Those Payln<> the Most' „„
Income reported for 1918 amounted lax. amounting to $147,- ........t ...........„
to $15,924.«.';9.355, against about $13,- -•■'jj'- rHS^') Murrny ,int only r,'Hrhf'(1 wlth
TUO.OUU.UUO in 1917, tip.ugh 141 piTMms '*' f r-m Y the high notes In arias <>f Galll-CuM
filed returns for incomes of $1.000,UUO on lnPome9 fr,,,u ,0
or over In 1917 and unlv 67 In 1918. I *W«» corning next. Incomes between
Average Tax Pa,d $254.85. ! ^ **5,481.000.
Personal returns filed during 1918 | The number of wives filing separate
numbered 4,425,114 and the tax, both
BOY, 12, STARTLES SINGERS etructlona from the city council, has sent for General Goethals, builder of the Panama canal.
Another Prodigy Reaches Highest N
Ever Reached by the Hu-
man Voice.
New York.—Among boy prodigies
I Edward Rochle Hardy, 12-year-old
I Columbia freshman, may boast the
| mastery of a dozen languages, and
I Samuel Rzeschewskl, 9-yeur-old Pol-
ish chess wizard, recently checkmated
nineteen West Point strategists In a
' row—hut neither of them can sing.
Robert Murray, 12, of Tacoma
Wash., can. Recently before a
group of famous Metropolitan stars.
Including Mine. Frances Alda, who
“discovered" the youth last summer,
Making Mail Bags for Uncle Sam
DR. KATHERINE HERRING
normal and surtax, amounted to
$1,127,721,835, the average tax for each
Individual being $254.85. As compared
with 1917 a growth of 952.234 was
Angry Farmer Hanged
Balky Horse; Fined S25
As a punishment for balking,
Edward Byrne, a farmer of
Crum Elbow, N. Y.. tied one end
of a rope around the neck of
one of his horses, threw the
rope over a tree limb and fast-
ened the other end to the bridle
of another horse, which became
frightened and pulled so hard
that It strangled Its mate to
death. Members of the S. P.
C. A. investigated and Byrne,
pleading guilty, was fined $25.
returns from their husbands was 35,-
942, the Income represented being
$333,218,749.
Of the Industrial groups from which
Income wn« derived agricultural nnd
related Industries led. with 372.336 re-
turns, reporting a total net Income of
$1,122,532,163.
Income derived from Investments
for the year was $4,847,914,000. Rents
rnd royalties paid $975,670,6*56; inter-
est on bonds, notes, etc, Including fldu-
Curies and foreign sources, $1,403,-
485,691; and dividends, $2,468,749,244.
and Tetrazzini fame, but, to the as-
tonishment of his hearers, lie trans-
posed those high notes to a higher
key nnd breathed them with equal
facility and resonance The singers
who heard the perforr ance asserted
that this was the highest note ever
reached by the human voice.
Pays for Slow Time.
Montgomery. Ala,,—The Louisville
fi Nashville railroad must pay Mrs.
Ellen Carey of Decatur, Ala., $500. bp.
cause the clock In the railroad station
;it Decatur was slow. She was ac-
companying the body of a son, nnd
missed her train because the clock
was four minutes behind time. She
sued for $3,000. The court figured
that her anxiety was worth $500.
Lightkeeper 72 Hours
Alone With Dead Wife
Midland, Ont.—Held to his
post by the menacing storm
which raged on Lt^ke Huron,
though nearly prostrated by the
death of his wife, for 22 years
his sob- companion, Alfred H.
Griffiths, keeper of the light-
house on "Giant's Tomb,” stood
solitary vigil over his lights and
his dead for three days and
nights.
After the storm subsided, he
summoned help from the main-
land, 12 miles away.
With a capacity of eight hags a minute, this machine, recently built and [
Installed In the mail shops of the United States post office department, dls- i
places the services of eight men. cutting, stencilling, folding nml stitching Ihe
canvas cloth ut a single operation. William Allen West, shown In the lllus
tratlon. who bus been putting the cords through mall bags in the equipment
shops since 1917, bus been blind for 20 years, lie has a capacity of 325 hags
a day.
Keeping Infected Rats From Landing
i
TEDDY BEAR SAVES CHILD
Clasped In Her Arms, Toy Shields
Body From Wheel ot
Automobile.
Defiance.—A fuzzy, brown Teddy
bear which she held clasped In h<-r
nrms, probably assisted In saving the
life of the four-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Alvert Degh-r. As the
father hacked his automobile out of
the garage one of the rear wheels
passed over the body of the little girl.
She was still holding the Teddy hear
In her arms when picked up, The
wheel of the car also passed over the
toy bear, which shielded the child's
body. Indications are that the girl
will recover.
WHEN MADRID IS GAY
Presence of King in Town Cause
of Wonderful Spectacle.
Brilliant Dally Display in the Palace
Yard as the Guard Is
Changed,
Madrid.—More color Is to be seen
In the palace yard of Madrid when ture.
various units carry out the smurt mili-
tary exercises.
Thousands of civilians, mostly visi-
tors to Madrid, gather around the pre-
cincts of the palace to watch the spec-
tacle. Numbers of them are from the
Spanish provinces, and ihelr bright
shawls and scarves mixed with the
more prosaic dress of the Madrilenians
form a tit setting to the bright pic-
Take the Safes With Them,
Lafayette, Ind.—There’s a new out-
door sport In Indiana. It consists of
stealing safes and hauling them away
King Alfonso Is In residence than
Is to he found In any other part of
Spain. The military spectacle alone
is brilliant, .with the striking uniforms
of red and blue hussars, the dark blue
of the artillerymen and the red trou-
sers and blue tunics of the Infantry
as the Old and new guards face each
Other at 10 o'clock, with the flags un-
furled In the center and the two regl-
from the store lo he opened at lels- | mental hands drawn up In circles play-
nre. A Int of yeggs have become ex- | log martial airs,
perts. Edward cipangler of West j The customary brilliant sunshine
Sonora found Ills safe In a field, after j makes the fixer! bayonets and un-
it bad been rifled of $250. ] sheathed swords flash In the air as the
Further details are added by the
Itinerant venders of peanuts ami hot
butter rolls nml other delicacies loved
by the children, who under the eye
of their nursemaids In their pictur-
esque costumes of varied hues run
hither and thither.
Sometimes the king himself comes
out on the balcony to salute his gunrd
and then all Is hushed while lie face*
the regimental flags, and after bow-
ing Ills head raises his hand to h!»
kepi.
The picture Is on view for about
an boar every morning.
Dr. Katherine Herr,ng. an inspector
of Immigration, who served In Wash-
ington during the war In the depart-
ment of Inbor, has been appointed
head of the new woman's bureau for
the bureau of Immigration. Doctor
Herring, who Is said to lie one of the
best authorities on Immigration In the
United States, Is known for her ex-
pert knowledge of psychology and
psychoanalysis.
Exercise Your Ambition.
Unexerelsed ambition Is like unex-
ercised knowledge. A great many col-
lege graduates Imagine that the inerp
possession of knowledge will Insure
their advancement. Bui knowledge
will remain mere Infnrmnlloii. mem-
orized facts, until It Is transmitted In-
to power by actual use. Ambition, like
knowledge, becomes ppwer the mo-
ment It Is used, and cot before.—Ori-
son Swc't Marden In "Yon Jutl. hut
Will \.ul"
Willing to Help
"My dear, I'm facing bankruptcy."
"All 'he more reason why we should
keep tip appeariinhes, Henry. Shall I
buy a now set of furs?”—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
In Its effort to prevent an outbreak of bubonic plague In this country the
United States health service has utilized large metal discs placed on hawsers
of ships In port, to prevent Infected rats from landing.
Paradoxical Dealing,
"So you are go'ng to si o'! to your
dealer through thick nml thin?"
"Surp. He treated me white ghoul
coal,"
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