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...Secretariat was instructed to collect suggestions for extending the principles of the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference...
...Associated Press states that the plan calls for the collection from Germany of progressively mounting sums over a five-year period. The plan fixes an annual minimum (amount unspecified) and provides means for its collection from: 1) Excise taxes on monopolies, such as matches, spirits, tobacco. There is to be no Allied supervision of collection of these taxes. Evidently it is felt that the Germans cannot ignore the easiest method of taxation that lies at any Government's hand. The Allies will only take a portion, so that the incentive to collect will be left untouched...
...cash reparations bill only from a large export surplus. The alternative to this is some from of capital levy. What Germany must pay in kind has nothing to do with what she must pay in gold. The only way, excepting a capital levy, in which Germany can collect gold is by selling more than is bought. That is the unchangeable A B C of the situation...
...regards the duties of this proposed Cabinet member, the bill says in part: "He shall collect, collate and report, at least once a year or oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics relating to the fine arts of the United States." Said Forbes Watson, able critic of The New York World: "Since the avowed object of the bill in general is to advance taste 'in America, and since the 'arts of design' constitute only a fraction of the arts, why should Governmental supervision go only half way? Let us have a Department of Poetry, directed...
...Ames-Gray Club, T. H. Adams 21, and E. S. Dillon 21, will represent the "Marine National Bank" which is trying to recover the amount of an altered check unknowingly certified by one of its cashiers, cashed by the "American Trust Company" and collected from the plaintiff bank. The defendant bank on learning of the frand withdrew the credit of the man who had brough in the check and deposited the money to his account. The criminal absconded. The plaiutiff bank credited its customer the amount of the check, and is now trying to collect with interest the money...