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'i'l'Si f , 4. ' ,,. . ,1 m.l.'. .. fc. Mjjk j. M'Jhtt' "'A' If. ' Sfr t s, i '' v 'iff . " r . THE GARDEN ISLAND TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1917 Your WILL or the Courts Do you know that when a person dies without leaving a Will and naming an executor, that the court appoints some one as administrator of the estate? k Do you feel that an administrator whom the court woud appoint would be one whom you would have selected yourself had you made a Will during your lifetime? This company has during its nineteen years of experience gained a reputation for itself throughout the Territory '", t : 1 t v-- ! ! I' 1 , . . . . w ' '' t.f Stocks and Bonds E. D. TENNEY, President J. R. GALT, Treasurer WILL THE GUARD BE CALLED OUT? Almost up to the day of the sign ing of the Selective Draft Bill by the President, at least, the inten tion was to call the national guard of Hawaii into the federal service, although the plans prepared and the order drafted for the signature of the secretary of war did not specify, a date for the mobilizing of the troops here, nor provide for the Hawaiian guardsmen to go in to any one of the main concentra tion camps provided for on the Mainland. The latest information obtaina ble is that the war department is waiting for "later determinations" whatever they are but inas much as the general order prepared for the' secretary of war, details of which were received in the mail yesterday, provided for the use of the Hawaiian guard, the idea that the local regiments are to be over looked altogether get a jolt. The general order which the se cretary of war had before him, ready for signature as soon as the Army Bill became law, contained n provision relating to Hawaii, as follows: The "in addition" refers to the guard regiments to be mobilized on the Mainland. The order pro vides tor the calling into the ser vice of the United States all nation al guard units not already enroll ed in the national service. While effort will be made to re cruit to war strcngh the additional units to be called out, the mobili zation orders will not be delayed until this has been accomplised. The guard on the mainland, it is understood, will be called at its present strength and sent to mobi "lization camps, where it will be whipped into shape, and it is ex- pected that a Presidential procla ' mation will issue setting forth and authorizing a quota of approximate ly 800 enlisted men from each sena torial and congressional district, as provided for in the National De fense Act, this strsngth to be re garded as the minimum peace limit. Those of the National guard troops not yet drafted into the fed eral service will be called in three increments, as follows: First Increment July 15; New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michigrn, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Second Increment July 25; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con necticut, New Jersey, Deleware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee, Illinois, Mon tana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washing ton, Oregon. Third Increment August 5; In diana, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, for its competent and economical manner of handling estates. Correspondence invited. Hawaiian Trust Company, Limited Honolulu, T. H. (CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OVER $450,000.) T" Real Estate Insurance Authorized by Law to act as Executors, Trustees, Administrators and Guardians. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS C. H. COOKE, Vice-President GEO. R. CARTER, 2nd Vice-President H. H. WALKER, Assistant Treasurer S. G. WILDER, Secretary F. C. ATHERTON, Director Food ' Values An exchange gives us the follow ing: "The food value of one pound of corn meal, grits or hominy, costing three cents, is equal to the food value of any of the following ccjinmonly used foods: "1 pound of wheat-flour, cost 6c "1 " rice, " 9c "ll2 " cheese. " 60c "234 " round steak. " 80c "2 " eggs, " 90c "H Peck potatoes, " 45c "6 pints' milk, " 30c "National prosperity has made us prodigal of our resources and wasteful of our substance, par ticularly in the matter of food, for which we have been paying more than is commensutate with food values, and I believe it behooves Americans today to consider the real nutritive value of the food which they purchase and to know the merits of white corn products which I believe to be the cheapest nourshing food which the house wife can buy on the market today ' ' Food Bulletin. The cheap and effective antispe tic made from sodium hypochlorite and boric acid, is the discovery of Alexis Carrel, a French arrav sur geon. A still simpler remedy is named by Dr. Erich Meyer, a Ger man, who claims that after cleans ing a wound, a dressing of granu lated sugar, renewed every two or three days, will effect a cure. The sugar cure is recommended, of course, only where no other quick er remedies are at hand. Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kan sas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizo na, Utah and California. Under the above plan it is esti mated that 24,700 men would be reserved for the naval militia, and the total of 402,965 men in the na tional guard would be oiganized into the following: One hundred and forty-four regi ments of infantry; sixteen regi ments of cavalry; forty-eight regi ments of field artillery; sixteen regiments of engineers; sixteen field battalions o f signal corps troops; fifteen aero squadrons, and the necessary sanitarv and supply trains. Supplementing the mobile forces would be two hundred units of cost artillery, and one extra battalion ot infantry, designated as coast artillery supports. It is also intimated that two caval ry divisions, while they will be mobilized as such, will be used dismounted. Further information received is to the effect that all guard troops will be mobilized and sent to divi sional cantonment camps, where they will receive intensive training for a short while, when they will be moved to other and larger camps the old cantonment camps to be used for other new troops drafted Into the service. In view of the foregoing it is be lieved that the local guardsmen need not yet begin feeling blue be cause they have been slighted, as there is a possibility that they will receive attention in the very near future. Advertiser. The New War Taxes The Administration War Reve nue Bill has passed the House by an overhelming majority; it will doubtless be held up in the Senate for some time, and perhaps ma terially, altered, but it is a sugges tive indication of the trend of things, and gives us an idea of wliat we are coming to. The main provisions of the bill are as follows: The income tax will be doubled, and the exemption lowered from $4,000 to 2,000 for married men, and from $3,000 to 1,000 for single men. The latest advices however in dicate that the exemption will be kept at $4,000 and $3,000 Example. A married man has an income, subject to taxation of $6,000; he will have to pay 4 on all above $2,000, or $160. In ad dition there will be a 2V2I0 on all above $5,000, or or $25. This lat ter however is" a graduated tax that runs up rapidly for large incomes'.' The Inheritance tax will be in creased very materially. The proposed Excess Profits tax will be increased to 16 on all profits above 8, which will hit the prosperous corporations very hard. There will be an excise duty on. sugar of half a cent a pound, and a similar duty on tea, coffee and chocolate. The liquor and tobacco taxes are to be doubled. Newspapers must pay 5'o on all advertising collections. Postage is to be materially in creased; and for second class mat ter is to be proportionate to the dis" tance, which will entail a heavy bur den on the large-circulation maga zines, a burden which ultimately the subscribers will have to pay. There are to be many minor tax es that will vield large amounts in the aggregate; taxes on insurance policies, on freight bills, on pas senger tickets, on seats, berths or state rooms on cars of steamers, on electric power, on telephone calls etc. Taxes on various manufactured articles, such as autos, musical in struments, jewelry, motion picture films, etc. Taxes on yachts, plea sure boats, motor boats, etc., etc. Besides these there will be the indirect customs duty taxes where every commodity will find its place; nothing will be retained on the free list. These various levies are expect cd to yield the vast sum of one bil lion eight hundred million dollars annually. They are to take effect mostly on the first of June of this year. While these measures will hit the wealthy classes most severely, as they are intended to, still in directly at least, they will affect everv one very materially; and the burdens' of war will begin very shortly to weigh upon us in manv ways that wll be quite tangible. Fruit pits, systematically gath ered by Germany's school children are turned over to chemists, who are converting them into rich lub ricating oils. Cherrv and plum stones are said to be the best for this purpose, L IBERTY 01 WAR 15 A reoent Outlook gives the fol lowing illuminating information in regard to the Liberty Loan and War Taxes. What the Secretary of the Trea sury really proposes is: 1. An issue of $5,000,000,000 2Y2 per cent thirty-year bonds. 2. An increase of the Federal revenue bv taxation that will yield $1,750,000,000 3. An authorization of the sale of $2,000,000,000 one-year notes J or certificates that will provide for any deficiency pending the collec tion of the increased taxes. The issuance of the short-time obligations is therefore a rather re mote contingency and aside from the additional taxation proposed, which amounts to but $17.50 per capita. The question to be chiefly considered is: How can we borrow fivetnillions without bringing about an inflation that is to be dieaded, or a contraction in the money mar ket that will be disturbing? It is doubtful whether there is five billions of disengaged capital available for the instant purchase ot the loan. To get so much mo ney all at once would involve the sale of other securities and a seri ous dislocation of the money mar ket. It is improbable that the Gov ernment will attempt it. The mo ney will be but gradually needed, and if it is paid in gradually there will be no disturbance. A non taxable investment paving S1 Per cent compares very favorably with taxable securities that yield but 5 per cent. The third question has to do with the proposed war taxation. The prevailing impression is that the suggested policy is novel in that it implies that a large portion of the war cost shall be paid out of cur rent revenue to be raised by in creased taxation. There is no novelty in this poli cy Professor T. K. Urdahl, of the University ot Wisconsin, is my autliority for the statement that "the Napoleonic wars were financ ed by England to the extent of fif ty-three percent by bonds and forty-seven per cent by taxes; the Crimean War, fifty-seven per cent bonds and forty-three per cent by taxes; and the Boer War, sixty-nine per cent by bonds and thirtv-one per cent by taxes." America has made large profits by the present war thus far, and it seems only equitable that she should now use some of these profits to hasten its ending! t Moreover, the proposed increase in taxation will add to the tax bur den of the people by an aggregate of only $1,759,000,000. This is equal to but $17.50 per capita, which will not be onerous, Safe R. B. ANDERSON, Direct- C. 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