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TODAY By ARTHUR BRISBANE GOOflT WILL RETAIN FOUR MILL TAXES Commissioners to Act on Budget Saturday; Provides Expenditure of Four Millions Retaining a four mill tax rate, Berks county will spend three million dollars during '1926 for new developments and another million dollars to operate the county government. The budget for the year was completed yesterday by Samuel H. Rothermel, chief deputy controller, and will be submitted to the board of county commissioners for approval Saturday morning. The most important items building program include: 1. Fifty miles of 'new roads costing approximately 2.

New tuberculosis sanitarium on Neversink Mountain, $500,000. 3. New bridge at Uirdsooro, from to $500,000, The assessed valuation of the county for 1926 is $180,000,000, an increase of $3,000,000 over 1925. Com missioner AValter A. Kingler said yesterday in announcing that the commissioners would retain last year's tax rate.

No appropriation was made for a new courthouse or for the county's share in a combined county city building, as this will be taken care of through a bond issue, when the time arrives to erect such a building. Bond issues will also take care of the new hospital and the Birdsboro bridge. Estimates Receipts $1,160,800 Receipts for the year, Deputy Controller Rothermel estimates will be: Taxes, revenues from fee offices, $75,000: almshouse, prison, tines and costs interest on deposits bridge rentals, dog licenses, $56,700. The expenditures based on 1023 costs, will be approximately The sum of $134,600 is sefaside for interest payments on bonds: $98,000 is alloted to almshouse maintenance and $54,000 to the Berks prison. Provision for land condemnations for new roads is made in an appropriation of $40,000.

$2,000 Each for Hospitals Two thousand dollars each is appropriated for the Reading, St. Joseph and Homeopathic Hospitals. The Reading and Kutztown fairs will each get $750. For Memorial Day exercises, $1,000 is set aside. Other expenses provided for are: Assessment of county properties, $24, 000; elections, Penn st.

bridge repairs, Mothers' Assistance Fund, $30,000 to match state contribution; redemption of bonds, (Continued on Pafle Two.) Elmer Chosen To No Fooling Him On By ELMER PICKNEY "Well," says the boss, "write something about Lincoln, Pickney." Ther'a no reason why he shouldn't turn to his smartest reporter and say: "Write something about Lincoln," me knowing a lot about the Father of His Country, and all that. But it would have saved me a lot of trouble if he'd have turned to Sy and said: "Russ, write something about Lincoln." Then Sy could have written about "Llncolns I have met." And then someone would havo written in to ask about Baby Ltnvln. And that would have pleased Sy, I ho likes to get letters, and the because it was his idea, and me because I could have gone home early and listened to some static. Well, as everyone knows today is Kdna Wallace Hopper's 96th birthday and she is just 18. However, Mrs.

Hopper in an exclusive boudoir interview with Mr. Elmer Pickney (considered the best writer on the best morning paper in Reading) last night Informed this writer that the flags on all publio buildings today were more in honor of A. Lincoln. It seems Mr. Lincoln's birthday by odd coincidence falls on the same day as Mrs.

Hopper's every year. They are not related. "Yes," said Edna, as her old friends always call her, "I'll take the cash and let the credit go to Lincoln though I cannot advise whiskers as a means of retaining youth." By that she meant that Lincoln i I i ABRAHAM LINCOLN yf 'Sii if''' hi 'v Mv i a 4 It Ji vaj i i': vJa The Lincoln Homestead in Exeter township, birthplace of Moriecai Lincoln, great great grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is celebrated today. The section of the home on the right, was the original structure, erected in 1733, the right wing having been added some years afterward. To perpetuate the memory of the President's ancestors, the Berks County Historical Society has erected the huge stone marker in front of the home.

Down In Kentucky, in a distant, secluded district of the rolling foothills, there stands a rude, primitive log cabin. It is a desolate little building, almost a hovel, Nestled in another erie of foothills, beneath the shadow of the Pennsylvania Blue Ridge, is another dilapidated cabin of logs and rude mortar. In Washington, fronting a wide, placid pool of water, rises a fcuild ing which is everything the log cabin 4s not. It is spacious, stately, beautiful, built of marble to endure for centuries. And it was raised to honor the memory of the man who wae born in a squalid cabin.

Crumbling, uninviting and desolate, yet these rude hovels rank among the greatest buildings of the nations of the world. The Kentucky log cabin was Abraham Lincoln's birthplace; the other, the home of his great great grandfather, and the Uulldlng at Washington is the Lincoln Memorial, most beautiful of all the capital's monuments. Considering first these humble log dwellings and then the others, one wonders if people, centuries hence, will not almost think that Abraham Lincoln was myth. For the whole story of the man seems more like a tale that someone RE NOMINATE NYE BISMARCK. NT.

Feb. 11 (iP) By unanimous vote the Non Partlsan Republican state convention today nominated Gerald P. Nye as a candidate for the United States Senate. Write of Lincoln Gettysburg Address lost his Gillette Just like Jake Barbey, Dr. WW Haman, County Law Librarian Safford and the Koosevelt and Smith Brothers.

WTiat Edna didn't know was that Lincoln didn't alwaya have whiskers. That's why he said "Lafayette, here I am." Old Laff never would have recognized him but for that, and we might not have had a legal holiday today. A legal holiday is a day when alj of us work except bank clerks and the boys at the courthouse and city hall. In honor of Lincoln's birthday, an announcement is expected to the effect that Bill Elsenbrown, poular tombstone maker, is considering introducing the Lincoln automobile in this territory and is planning to give a few away to advertise his acceptance of the agency as a sideline to the marble business. He will give Lincoln cars gratis, it Is anticipated, to any little girl or boy presenting a Lincoln penny showing the rail splitter wearing a four in hand tie (similar, to the neat cravat of Art Glassmoyer).

As Honest Abe seldom used, this type of neckwear, the test may be more difficult the little folk than first appears. All in all, I guess the boss was right to pick me to do a good job on Lincoln. One of the smart Alecks around here only a minute ago said I should tell you about Lincoln's Gettysburg address. But he can't fool me. Lincoln didn't have any address there.

He never lived there. invented than the actual of a real man. It is perfect almost unbelievable. A boy bom in a mean hut in a primitive, backwoods eettle ment doomed, one would think, to a life of unthinking toil and an obscure grave; raised without education other than that which he dug out for himself by the light of a tallow candle; entirely without those advantages which the poorest citizens have today; we have this boy growing and expanding to the proportions of a Titan, rising in majesty and strength until he stands forth as one of greatest figures the new world has produced: Is that not like a fairy tale? And, as if that were not enough, we have this man retaining the common touch; a man whose sympathies were as limitless as his vision; a man homely, commonplace, one of the vast crowd; a man with whom, we feel, we could sit down and Joke as comfortably with as we could with the man next door. And that, perhaps, is the greatest miracle of all.

Lincoln is the one hero whom we, who never saw him, can truly love as well as admire. We feel that he is one of us, for all his greatness that his awkward, tender smile flashed for John the bootblack JURY WILL PROBE TWO FATALITIES Coroner Orders Inquests in Bou chat and Manmiller Deaths Mysterious drcura stances sur rounding the death of five year old William Manmiller. son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W.

Manmiller, residing along the Tulpehocken Creek, near Kissinger's Church, will be aired at a coroner's inquest Monday night. The child was shot and fatally injured while playing in the yard of the home of his parents January 30, dying the following day in the Reading hospital. A stray shot, fired at a target, was blamed for the fatality and county detectives found six boys who admitted shooting in that vicinity. Deputy Coroner Bauscher. was not satisfied when he found what he declares was a powder burn surrounding the bullet hole above the heart.

1 Following the Manmiller Inquest a Jury will hear testimony in the death of Mrs. Grtrude Bouchat, 917 Amity street, who died In the Reading hospital last Sunday, the result. Coroner Rorke says, of an illegal operation. Mrs. Martha Barlow is under $3,000 bail, charged with having performed the operation.

BLAMES JAZZ AGE FOR MISSION'S FAILURE PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11 A "jazz mad age" was blamed today by Miss Anna Milllgan, representative of the. United. Presbyterian Church, for the church's failure to interest young people In missionary work Miss Mllligan addressed the closing session of the conference on foreign missions of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches. "Young people in adolescent ages, Miss Milllgan said, "are im mune from the missionary microbe In a Jazz mad age." and Tony the street cleaner as warm ly as for little Tad Lincoln, who used to bounce on the great man's knee.

So we Lincoln's people have preserved the rude Kentucky hut from destruction simply, because he Jived there and we shall preserve the Lincoln homestead la Berks county' simply because here was his ancestral home, and we have built a dazzlngly beautiful building in our capital not to keep his memory alive, for it can never die, but to how to the world something of the depth of our feeling for the backwoods boy who rose to the seat of the mighty. And day after day the stone figure of the great emancipator sits in the marble building and looks out jover the blue lagoon to where the white finger of the Washington monument rises toward the sky. And as we look at the silent, majestic figure we feel that he is watching us, his countrymen, as we grow and develop and struggle on toward the distant, shining goal that he e.aw so clearly; watching us with love and understanding, even with tolerance for the flannel mouthed politicians who invoke his name so glibly; knowing that he was not mistaken in his people, and that we will go on and on, forever, in the path he found for us. YOUNG LAFOLLETTE STOPS SENATE ROW Halts Fight That Starts When He Is Presiding Pro Tern. WASHINGTON, Feb.

11 (X) Another storm broke in the Senate today around Senator Couzens, (R. chairman of the special committee which Investigated the internal Revenue Bureau. The Senate's youngest member, "Bob' LaFoIlette, of Wisconsin, was presiding. With quick decisions and vigorous enforcement of the rules, he restored order as Vice President Dawes, In a front row seat, gave smiling approval. The storm broke as Senator, Pine, Republican, Oklahoma, challenged a conclusion of the majority of the Couzens' committee that an oil company could charge more than 100 per cent depletion under the present tax law.

Senator Pine declared "that la not true." Senator Couzens said if Senator Pine would take his' seat he would prove the accuracy. "I have been in the oil business, and I deny those facts," retorted Senator Pine. "I do not think I will yield further to a senator who impugns the in tegrity of the Senate committee which (Continued on Page Two.) A MATTER OF SERVICE The Reading Times circulation department aims to please its subscribers at all times, tf delivery of your Times is not satisfactory or if you miss your paper please tall Bell 2900 or Con. 3, between the hours of 8 and 11 a. m.

apd another copy will be sent you. SENATE AGAIN RUNS AMUCK 1MB TAX COTS Warned by Mellon That Treasury Cannot Stand It; See Rejection by House WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The senate continued its liberal tax cutting ways today while Secretary Mellon sounded a warning from the treasury that a deficit was certain if the reductions already authorized became law. Without even a record vote, the Senate approved a slash in tne alcohol tax, involving an eventual loss of $8,000,000 annually, and by a vote of 48 to 13, it increased from 25 to 20 percent the amount of allowance to be given for depletion on discoveries of oU and gas wells.

Mellon Sends Warning Administration leaders made no attempt before going into the night session to reconsider the actions of yesterday when the Democrats and some Republicans wiped from the bill the levies on automobiles, admissions and dues. This action boosted the total reduction provided by the bill from $352,000,000 to $42, 000,000 for this calendar year. Secretary Mellon has set $330, 000.000, the amount of reduction provided in the House bill, as the limit which the treasury could stand but he has given approval to the cut. Another $100,000,004 reduction was declared impossible today at the treasury, where officials expressed the hope that the conference committee, which must adjust the differences between the Senate and House, would bring the total cut within the limit. Final Vote Today As the Senate completed work to day on the amendments proposed by the Finance Committee, Chairman Smoot laid plans to bring about a final vote on passage of the bill by tomorrow night.

He held the session tonight to start work on a score of amendments offered by individual' senators. Passage of the bill this week will assure tax reduction by March 15 when first income tax installments are due, Senator Smoot said, although considerable differences between the House and Senate will have to be Ironed out in the The reduction in the alcohol rax was the same as voted by the House, and provides for a 25 percent cut beginning next January 1, and for a total reduction of 60 percent begin ning January 1, 1928. The Finance Committee had disapproved this slash, but Senator Smoot announced It had rescinded this action. Couzen Opposes Cut In protesting against the alcohol cut. Senator Reed, declared "you are giving away another $8, 000,000 without the revenue to meet the loss." Senator Smoot'tilso told the Senate he could not vote for any more reductions.

iSenator Couzens, urged that the provision allowing deduc tions for depletion in discoveries to owners of oil wells and mines be wiped out entirely since it amounted to a "gift of $37,000,000 a year in taxes to the oil The Senate, however, voted to continue the allowance, but accepted the change proposed by the Finance Committee for basing the depletion to be allowed for oil and gas wells on A percentage of the gross income. The commltteo had recommended an allowance of 25 percent of the gross income, but after Senators Neely, W. and Harreld, had strongly urged a 30 percent rate, this figure was approved. Tho proposal to continue the Board of Tax Appeals with a membership of sixteen to be appointed for terms of ten instead of fourteeen as provided by the House, also was approved. Pass Tax on Beer Other items approved were: An amendment by'Senator Jones, to allow exemptions from taxation of the income of American citizens who live abroad six months during the year, and which income is recejved through the conduct of American trade.

The new tax proposed to the House of one tenth of ono cent a gallon on cereal beverages. This levy had been asked by the treasury to give prohibition enforcement officials power to inspect breweries. WEATHER i Fair with slowly rising temperature Friday; Saturday increasing cloudiness and warmer. THIS DATE Today is birthday anniversary of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. X.

E. A. 8tnk admdn im ReacBnj Full leaaed wfc" THE OUXST NZWSKFER IN READING. REUSIIZD CONT1MU0USLY S1KCE 1358 A Mouthful of Teeth. Honor to Spain.

Flying Maps. Gorilla's Club Feet Volifhie 67,, No. 299 Whole READING, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1926 3 Cents a Cop If (Copyright, 1926, by The Star Co.) TROUBLE MAT COME of Musso lini's threat to advance Italy's frontier farther Into German territory. His promise to make the Germans feel "a whole mouthful of teeth for a tooth." rY AwotiitW Prh o' id TOAY JLLa JLI II .11 II II. 11 I I 1 1 1 1 111 II Streseman replied to Mussolini in a speech before the Reichstag yesterday, earnestly and solemnly, his audience "was worked up to a high pitch by a serious effront from a supposedly friendly neighbor." Mussolini fortunately doesnt want war with Germany now.

Too expensive. The League of Nations wouldn't allow Germany to make war if she wanted to, for peace with financial recovery, Is even more Important than the irritation that other nations feel toward Mussoolint's powerful government. The Italian Gorman situation will be taken before the League of Nations, at the request of the Tyrolean Diet, and the League will solemnly fjscuss it. In Mussolini's case this doesn't mean much. AVheu the League tried to settle the quarrel between Italy and Greece.

Mussolini went ahead, seized Corfu, demanded and got an enormous cash indemnity, announcing that he "didn't accept orders from the League." It is a troubled situation over there find if President Coolidgo can keep the United States from going any farther into it, the United States will be much obliged. TT'ARLY yesterday morning, Ramon LJ Franco, the "Columbus of the air," left Kio de Janeiro for Buenos Aires, on the last "leg' of his fllgnt from Spain to South America. 1 Only recently, Lord Northcliffe in New York how he had offered JuO.OOO to anybody that would fly across the English Channel. Boys twelve years old, and girls, too, could win that prize now, and flying across the Atlantic is becoming commonplace. Flying around the earth will soon be a matter of course, and regular family trips through the ar from New York to California will replace parlor car travel.

Spain deserves honor for this flying achievement. Francis Bacon wrote, "It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are." in flying, at least, the Spaniards seem to be as wise as any race. They know how to make flying machines that wll last. Compare this achievement of the Spanish flier with the ridiculous attempt of our Navy, preparing three big machines, especially for the short trip from California to Hawaii, and making a miserable one hundred per cent failure of the enterprise. AVe might send a few of our rotund Navy gentlemen to study in Spain.

The royal air force of Canada, and the topographical survey, co operating, have photographed and mapped more than forty seven thousand square miles of wild Canadian territory during the past season. That is one more use for the fly ng machine hitherto used to plant seeds of trees on denured mountain tops, spy out forest fires, spray cotton fields, killing boll weevil, watching bootleggers on land and sea, carrying air mail, fast express and passengers. The word "Canada" means "the Louse" in Indian language. The old Indians that lived in that big house" would not, in live hundred ears of life, have mapped out the territory that a man in the air can ee and photograph accurately in a tew days flying. rp HE MISSISSIPPI House of Rep resentatives forbids teaching in any state school, tlit men come from lower animals.

That is satisfactory, since the majority wanted it. Vhat about teaching embryology in those schools? You can see with your own eyes in the dissecting room, it hat man, preceding his birth, passes through many stages of animal development, beginning with a simple combination of two cells. Embryology might shake the arguments of those that declare against evolution. It is startling to find that every man in the pre natal stage has two club I'eet, which change before birth Into normal feet, and to learn that every porilla goes through life wth two rlub feet. Perhaps that is arranged iv Satan, just to puzzle us.

CARDINAL O'CONNELL, one of the ablest, most powerful princes if the Catholic church, says compulsory prohibition is "flatly opposed to Hoiy Scripture and Catholic tradition." Recently Cardinal Hayes, of New York, said that It was wrong to teach children that wine used in religious services every day Is vile and illegal. These two statements 'by the highest Catholtc authorities In the United States would Indicate a Catholic movement against prohibition as It now stands. SCIENTIST TO GET HEAP OF VILLA CHICAGO, Feb. 11 Dr. James Whitney Hall, widely known alienist crimologist, expressed interest today in reports that the head of Francisco Villa was being brought to Chicago.

"Grafico" of Mexico City yesterday published the story that the robbery of the Villa tomb had been financed by an "eccentric millionaire" of Chicago. "We would want to see what the bumps look like," said Dr. Hall in response to queries concerning the interest criminologist would take in the matter. "I suppose Villa was the greatest criminal of the age, and, of course, that fact gives his scientific valua." Both Operators And Rj iners Are Called Full Conference Mediation by Coolidgte Rumored as Basis of Settlement; Men May Be Back at Work Within Ten Days WILKES BARRE, Feb. 1 1 On good, but not official authority.

The Associated Press learns that the plan of settlement now under consideration at Philadelphia, is as follows: First, that President Coolidge be invited to mediate the dhfernces between the anthracite miners and the anthracite operators. Second, that pending the mediation by the president that the miners shall return to work, or under certain conditions remain on suspension until the decision is made known. Third, that in the event the mediation decision is unsatisfactory, President Coolidge shall be asked to sit as a judge and make a decision on the question issue. This decision to be binding on both sides, with the proviso that either side may appeal on questions of fact within ten days. SCRANTON, Feb.

11. Announcement that the entire anthracite miners' scale committee has been summoned to Philadelphia, where the subcommittee is assembled, is accepted here as an assurance that the termination of the prolonged and disastrous hard coal suspension is but 24 hours in the offing. The fact that both negotiating committees have been in separate conferences this afternoon In the Quaker City conveys the impression here that a compromise Is being considered by the conferees and that the gap between the operators and miners has been bridged by an outside mediator. BELIEVE MINERS HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED TERMS The prevailing opinion tonight throughout the anthracite field' which has been the scene of several hard coal tleups In the past twenty three years is that the miners have accepted the terms of the compromise and that the scale committee have been called to ratify their action's. While optimism reigns in this city tonight, the chief subject of conversation among observers and those miners and those directly connected with anthracite production is the terms embodied in the "proposed" mediatory compromise.

The general opinion is that a contract of long durability of at least three years under the old wage scale and working conditions is under consideration. IMMEDIATE RESUMPTION OF WORK IS EXPECTED The miners objection to arbitration is thought to have been surmounted by either satisfying the operators' demands for continuity of operation by accepting revision of wages upward only or leaving all future wage disputes within five years to the decision of the anthra cite conciliation board exclusive of the umplre. It Is also generally believed that the miners' negotiating committee will agree to a immediate resumption of work and obviate the machinery necessary to ratify a working agreement. It has been the custom in previous strike settlements to have the contract ratified first by the full scare committee and then by a trl distrlct convention similar to the one which framed the demands in this city last June. Such procedure would require at least two weeks, time and It is believed that the miners will eliminate it If a settlement Is reached by their negotiating committee in Philadelphia.

WORKERS HAVE LOST SIX MONTHS AND The personnel of the miners' scale committee is made up of all the district officers, including sub district inspectors and three miners at large from each district. The scale com mittee of District Xo. 1 with hed ouarters in this city is made of President Rlnaldo Cappellini. V'xe President Michael Kosek, Alex Camp bell, pistrict Inspectors John K. Metz, John Ruane, John Boylan and Tames Gleason, John Coyne, Hubert Farrell and Frank Amratti.

The six months of id'eness lust closed have cost the miners $171, 000,000 in wages, based on available figures of total wages paid. In this time the production has been curtailed 38,376,000 tons. What the (Continued' on Pq Two.) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. H. All signs tonight pointed to a settlement of the anthracite strike tomorrow.

Unless the unforseen occurs, it is expected an agreement, subject to ratification by a delegate convention of miners, will be signed by tomorrow night. today leaders of tho mine workers summoned the full scale committee to Philadelphia for a meeting in the morning to act on the work of Its sub committee, Indicating that President John L. Lewis and his associates have agreed on a proposition to send the miners back to work. EXPECTED TO BE BACK AT WORK IN 10 DAYS After the scale committee acts, it is planned for the Joint committee of miners and operators to meet to formally sign the agreement If everything proceeds as tentatively planned tonight the mines will be in operation within 10 days, with peak production about the end February. No Inkling of the nature of tho agreement was permitted to leak out.

but it is known that it Is based on the old wage scale with come additions. Neither side likes to apeak of concession, but that there were some made appeared certain. DENY BEING IN TOUCH WITH GOVERNMENT The spokesman for the miners said there was nothing to make public It was not even admitted that a settlement was imminent. Tiie only positive statement made was that the. miners during, the day wer not in communication with "Washington.

The spokesman for the operators wa equally reticent, but gave an em phatlo when asked the sanm question whether operators were in touch with federal government representatives. President John L. Lewis, of the miners and Major Inglis, chair man of the operators negotiating committee, were in seclusion all day. Shortly after 7 p. W.

J. Richard president of the Philadelphia Read ing Coal Iron Corporation, one of the largest producing companies In the hard coal region, left the conference room. He said he would answer no questions but Indicated there would be no developments tonight. OLD WAGE SCALE WILL BE BASES, OF SETTLEMENT The miners, it was understood, came here to be in a position to taku up any proposition that might como from the operators. Mr.

Lewis and Thomas Kennedy, secretary treasurer (Continued on Pago Two.) PLAN ACCEPTED BY ALL, HAZLETON PAPER SAYS HAZELTOX, Feb. 11 (JP) "All differences between the miners and operators have been Ironed out and an agreement has been reached to which both sides have subscribed and only ratification by the miners' full committee "which meets in Philadelphia at 9 o'clock tomorrow, prevent official announcement which will tie clare the suspension lockout at on end," the Hazelton Sentinal K.1VS. "The source of information on which this statement is made," say.i the newspaper, "is regarded with such confidence, it advances the statement that all details of the settlement Man have been completed and accepted by the official spokesmen of both 1.