The Hershey Press 1918-07-18

              Picker t Players at
Park Another Week
LARGER CROWDS THAN EVER ARE
GREETING THESE POPULAR
PLAYERS AT EVERY PER-FORMANCE
AT HERSHEY
PARK THEATRE
"Our Children" was the offering of the
Pickert Sisters Stock Co.s at the Hershey
Park theatre duringfthe last half of the
past week, showing before some of the
largest crowds seen at Hershey in many
days. The theatre on Saturday evening
was packed and extra chairs had to be
placed in the pit, to accommodate the
patrons.
Miss Lillian Pickert in the leading role
had a part to tax her ability to the utter-most,
a very strong emotional role, but
one that was just suited to her talents and
her handling of the part could not have
been improved upon.
Richard Foote as the son was excellent
having a very heavy acting part. He
was very much disliked by the audience
in the first part of the play, but managed
to win them before the close of the play.
Ralph Chambers demonstrated that he
was a comedian as well as a leading man,
and he and Ernestine DeMallo. as Mibbs.
were a scream.
Mrs. Pickert, the mother, and Clint
Dodson, as Dr. Remington, were up to
the standard.
"Our Children " was one of the best
and strongest plays ever shown at Her-shey
and taught one of the greatest les-sons
that any mother or daughter could
have learned, and no one after seeing this
wonderful play could help feeling that
they had been bettered by it.
The first half of this week the company
played Willard E. Mack's great New York
success "So Much for So Much," a play
that had a long run at the Long Acre
theatre with Willard Mack himself in
the leading role. All of the members of
the company had suitable parts and the
scenery and vaudeville were good. Mr.
Chambers in his impersonations and
Ernestine DeMello and Baby Carol in
their Hawaiian dance pleased .
The last halfi of this week "The Missing
Prince," another funny comedy, on the
same style as "How to Make a Million,"
that made such a hit last week will be
shown.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week "The Girl Without a Chance"
will be played and "Alma, Where Do
You Live?" on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday .
A SURPRISE FOR OUR READERS
The Hershey Department Store is plan-ning
something that is, in a way, new.
And, furthermore, they are doing some-thing
that it is said, cannot be done—
keeping the secret to themselves. Even
the girls in the. store are mum on the
surprise. All you can get out of them is
—Wait.
All that we know here in the Press
office is that our paper is being used to
tell our readers of a surprise coining.
Now, what is the surprise? And when
is it coming?
We are as anxious as our readers to
get the surprise. We will rush the Press
out next week on Thursday so that every-one
will find out what it is.
WAR REVENUE BILL CALLS FOR
RADICAL TAX ON ALL LUXURY
of money expended- for servants. A
family is allowed one servant. If it hires
more than one it must pay a tax on the
money paid in wages to the second ser-vant.
If as many as four servants^ are
hired the tax reaches between 90 and 100
per cent, on the amount paid out in
servant hire. Servants include butlers,
maid servants, cooks, hall boys, yard
boys, f ootmen, nurses and other persons
employed around the house. The auto-mobile
chauffeur does not escape. A
tax on the amount of money paid him for
driving the machine is also levied.
The tax on things to wear includes
every article over a certain price. Fancy
underwear, silk stockings, neckties and
other articles, which cost more than a
price fixed in the plan, must pay the tax.
All high-priced carpets and furniture are
included.
The Treasury Department's sugges-tions,
in a nutshell, are as follows:
Retail Sales Plan
' Fifty per cent, on the retail price of
jewelery, including watches and clocks,
except those sold to army officers.
Twenty per cent, on automobiles,
trailers and truck units, motorcycles,
and bicycles; automobile, motorcycle, and
bicycle tires and musical instruments.
A tax on all men's suits, selling for more
than $30, hats over $4, shirts over $2
pajamas over $2, hosiery over 35 cents,
shoes over $5, gloves over $2, underwear
over $3, and all neckwear and canes.
On women's suits over $40, coats over
$30, ready-made dresses over $35, skirts
over $15, hats over $10, shoes over $6,
lingeries over $5, corsets over $5. Dress
goods: Silk, over $1.50 a square yard.
Cotton over $1.50 a square yard and wool
over $2 a square yard. All furs, boas and
fans.
On children's clothing: Children's suits
over $15, cotton dresses over $5. Linen
dresses over $5, silk and wool dresses over
$8, hats $5, shoes $4, and gloves $2.
House Furnishings, Too
On house furnishings, all ornamental
lamps and fixtures, all table linen, cut-lery
and silverware, china and cut glass.
All furniture in sets for which $5 or more
is paid for each piece. On curtains over
$2 per yard and on tapestries, rugs and
carpets over ^5 per square yard.
On all purses, pocketbooks, handbags,
brushes, combs, and toilet articles and
all mirrors over $2.
Ten per cent on the collections from
the sale of vending machines.
Ten per cent, on all hotel bills amount-ing
to more than $2.50 per day per person.
Also the present tax on cabaret bills is
made to apply to the entire restaurant or
cafe bill (the present tax is 10 per cent).
Taxes on Manufacturer and Producer
Ten cents a gallon on all gasoline, to
be paid by the wholesale dealer. *
Ten per cent, tax on wire leases.
Big Levy on Drinks
The following taxes on soft drinks are
suggested:
Those now paying 5 cents a gallon
to pay 20 cents; those paying 8 cents
to pay 30 cents; those paying 10 cents
to pay 40 cents; and those paying 20
cents to pay 80 cents. Mineral waters
now tax 1 cent a gallon to pay 10 cents.
Continued on page 3
TREASURY INCLUDES CLOTHING
JEWELERY AND HOUSEHOLD
GOODS. WORK ON A BIG
REVENUE BILL
Hits Gasoline, Autos, and Tires—Em-ployers
of More Than One Ser-vant
To Pay Impost On Wages
The. plan of the Treasury Department
for taxing luxuries and semi-luxuries in
the $8,000,000,000 War Revenue bill
was laid bare before the House Committee
on Ways and Means and calls for a heavy
levy on fancy furniture, carpets and other
luxuries and semi-luxurious household
articles, and on moderately priced and
expensive clothes, underwear, hats, shoes
and other fancy articles of wear. Jew-elery
is taxed 50 per cent, of its retail
price, while automobiles are called upon
to pay a 20 per cent, tax on their cost
price and gasoline 10 cents, a gallon, to
be paid by the wholesale dealer .
High-Priced Articles Hit
The tax scheme is sweeping in its
scope. Hardly an article escapes which
a rich man or man of moderate means
buys for the comfort of his hbme and for
adorning his person. Only the household
articles and clothing which people of
moderate circumstances are forced to
buy on account of their limited means
are left untouched.
The list of articles which the Treas-ury
. Department tax experts class as
luxuries and semi-luxuries runs up into
thousands. They were specified on a
sheet of paper said to be several yards
long. Chairman Kitchen and other mem-bers
of the committee refused to make
public the list, because they held the
plan was incomplete, and returned it to
the Treasury Department for additional
information. They especially desired to
know how much money could be raised
under the plan.
The new tax proposition first draws
a price deadline between the necessi-ties
and the luxuries and the semi-lux-uries.
The necessities are not taxed,
but articles costing more than a certain
figure at retail are called upon to pay a
20 per cent tax based on the retail cost
price. As an illustration, the price
deadline on suits of men's clothes is fixed
at $30. If a man buys a $40 suit he ijjust
pay his tailor, in addition to the $4p, a
$2 tax, which represents the tax ot^cthe
amount in excess over $30. U
Deadline on Shoes, $5
This 20 per cent, tax hits the price of
all other articles in excess of the price
deadline. The deadline on shoes is ifixed
at $5, and anybody who pays more (than
that price for shoes must pay a 20 per
cent, tax on the amount in excess of $5.
In other words, if $10 is paid for shoes,
the buyer must pay $1 tax on the $5
excess. The deadline price on men's
hat's is fixed at $4.
The women do not escape. If a wo-man
wishes to pay a high price for a hat,
she must pay a 20 per cent tax on what
she spends in excess of $10, the latter
figure being fixed as the price deadline.
Two dollars is fixed as the deadline on
men's shirts. It was not stated what the
deadline is on women's shirtwaists.
.The scheme also taxes the amount
THE ADDRESS ON SUNDAY EVEN-ING
WAS LARGELY ATTENDED
COLLECTION TAKEN FOR
DRY FEDERATION OF
PENNSYLVANIA
. Rev. W. M. Woodfin , of Philadelphia;
addressed a union meeting in the Hershey
Park Theatre on Sunday evening, to an
audience that taxed the large theatre to
its utmost.
The Subject of Mr. Woodfin 's address
was "War as the Hun Wages It" and in
telling his story he was aided by stereop -
ticon slides which graphically brought
their own message without use of words.
They showed among other things, this
American boys, the Tommies- and th i
French soldiers engaged in digging trench-es,
earring amunition, doing Red Cross
work, the captured guns of the Huns and
the devastated territory in France, in-cluding
the places where much of the
heavy fighting is now going on.
While in France Mr. W.xxlfin spent
about a week along the French front see-ing
the devastated area, the troops ami
the preparation being made for the bi»
German drive. He visited the graves cf
the first Americans slain and saw the
ruins and reconstruction work in France.
Ambassador Sharpe secured an invitation
for him from the British Government to
visit their front. He was the only Ameri-can
civilian there at the time. He visited
Ypres, Messine Ridge and other points
of interest, was under fire five times in
the trenches with the soldiers and watched
actual fighting from an observation pos ;.
He was in Paris and London air raids.
His address consisted of three parti:
the address, a collection for the Dry
Federation of Pennsylvania, in which the
offering amounted to $203 in cash ana
$43.50 in pledges and the pictures. !
A WORD TO THE WOMEN OF HE
SHEY AND VICINITY
Guests coming to the Red Cross work
rooms go into raptures over the com-fortable
quarters in which to work, also
over the interesting work that the "Frorit
line packet" proves to be, then marvd
at the limited number of workers.
There are those working who have
boys at the front line and feel that they
cannot do half enough work; and there
are those, who do not have boys "over
there" but feel all the more that they
i want to dp all for those boys who are
protecting them and all womankind from
the fate of Belgian and French women.
How is it possible to be indifferent io
this work? Some claim they have done
their part by giving money.—it requires
both money and work, one without the
other is useless.
There are those who cannot come to
the Red Cross rooms and still others who,
through some misfortune—say nerves,
cannot knit, but there are still many
other things to do and to make for the
homeless and for the orphans that there
is not a woman, who can with a clear
conscience spend her time in idleness or
doing frivolous things. j
Every woman is asked,—yes, be-seeched,
to come to work for the boys
"over there," or those about to go "over there." I
War as The
Hun Wages It