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patches. EM-TEES
lU'SSIA .U1K1UCA
A wind in the world! The dark de
parts; '
The chains now rust that crushed
men's flesh and bones,
Feet tread no more the mildewed
prlBon stones,
And slavery Is lifted from your
hearts.
A wind In the world! O Company
Of darkened Russia, watching long In
vain,
Now shall you see the cloud of Rus
sia's pain
Go shrinking out across a summer
sky.
A wind In the world! Our God shall
be
In all the future left no kingly doll,
Decked out with dreadful sceptre
steel and stolo.
But walk the earth a man In char
ity. A wind in the world! And doubts arc
blown
To dust along, and the old stars come
' forth
Stars of a creed to Pilgrim Fathers
worth
A field of broken spears and flowers
strown.
A wind In the world! Now truancy
From the true self is ended; to her
part
Buprome again she moves and from
her heart
A great America cries: Death to
Tyranny!
A wind In the world! And we have
come
Together, sea by sea; in all tho lnnds
Vision doth move at last, and Free
dom stands
With brightened wings, and smiles
and beckons homo!
John Galsworthy, In tho London
Chronicle.
WAR Ql'HSTIOXS AXSVi:itKI,
Dear Ed. About this Income war
tax. I don't think It's right. Why
should I, bocauso I'm making pretty
good money through my own efforts,
pay up a big tax. I know whnt I'll
do. When they send in for my tax
I'll write out a chock and not put
down any amount but Jst sign my
name. Don't you think that's a good
Idea and don't you think It will fool
theni? Iziy Wise.
That's a great Idea, lir.y. You bet,
you'll fool 'cm. Kd.
Dear Kil. I hear there's going to
be a war. Y'know I'm fond of trav
eling. I'd like to take a trip some
where out of tho United Stales, loo
land, tor Instance.
I'm Just crazy about traveling and
want to start right away. Where
could I get tickets? Max Chllly
pedals. We understand, Max. Sh-h! Just
run down to the recruiting offteo.
They'll fix you up. Hon voyage! Kd.
Dear Kd. I don't like tho Idea of
being drafted. How would It bo If 1
cut off my right hiind at the wrist
Wouldn't I bo exempt then? Archie
Ycllaspino.
No! They'I draft you as a short
hand writer, lletler way to tie ex
empted would be to fall asleep on a
railroad track. Kd,
Dear Kd, I'm a ukclclo player.
Friends tell me 1 might get in a mili
tary band and get a commission. H.
Flat.
They're not your friends. More
likely put you out of commission.
!:!.
A MTTI.K OF THIS AI Til AT
A Cleveland recruit went under ihe
dentist' drill for I S hours so he
could get In the army. Now he's go
ing to wor (o recuperate.
And ami In Hhermnn ynsn't Just
right with lil well known phrase.
Hlmn Turkey has put the kibosh on
us It may mean the lid fur us on
Turkish cigarettes.
With Modford trade U Medford made
muunlgar; right n.-ul,
. enter flelil, Schooler.
THE WAR
RICH and poor alike will
wnr tnvns. Tlir nnnr will
living. Q'he rich will pay taxes upon incomes as well as
upon luxuries. Business of all kinds must contribute its
quota. Postal increases affect everyone, particularly pub
lishers. . Internal revenue and new taxes reach to remote
departments of business and
The rich will pay liberal!',
erally as some of them have requested. There is no con
scription of incomes of over $100,000 as desired, though the
normal income tax has been doubled, the exemptions re
duced ana surtaxes on great
lhose attected have no reason to complain, unless the
tax is really confiscatory. Those with incomes have less
reason than anyone to object.
taxes in England, shows that American wealth will hardly
bear its proportion of the burden. A married man with an
income of $3000 a year, would pay $20 or 2 percent a year
on the excess over $2000 under the proposed law. In Eng
land the income tax takes $441 from such an income. On
an income of $5000, the proposed American tax is $90, but
the British tax is $920. Against an American tax of $440
on a $10,000 income, the British levy $2330. On incomes of
$1,000,000, the proposed tax is $319,106, and the British
tax is $415,000.
Ihe American schedule is
son ol small income than the British war tariff and
not quite as severe upon the large income and if the
war continues any length ot
you go is maintained, incomes
contribute as liberally as they
tnen tliey will not be contributing proportionately with
the poor, who in increased price of food stuffs are already
paying a great share of their incomes.
By conscripting all incomes above $100,000, this tax
ation of poverty could have been avoided. The avcraere
person has an income of less
continually decreasing in purchasing power and is already
hardly sufficientio meet the
tax them now to pay for the war is unjust when there are
so many other sources of revenue, and when there are so
many burdened with useless and needless wealth.
The viewpoint of one of these ' wealthy men, E. W.
Seripps, the newspaper publisher, regarding such taxa
tion follows:
" Some of us have very large Incomes, and wn are nromnter! and even
by tho opinions of society compelled to
employ servants who produce nothing
ister 10 our vices, we purchase costly and showy clothing, houses, food,
furniture, automobiles. Jewelry, etc., the production of which has taken the
labor of many hundreds of thousands of men and women, who. if thev
were not so employed would be producing other commodities In such quan-
uiy ns 10 cneapen mem ana mane tnem more accessible to tho poor.
"An enormously high rate of Income Tax would have the effect of di
verting all this Inbor, that Is given to practically useless things, Into other
channels, whore production would bo useful to tho whole people.
"In tho case of tho government of the United States, the income is so
onormous that out of it could be paid double the amount that the wnr is
costing England annually; and except for the disturbances and readjust
ment, me people or tuo country would
ho greatly benefited by the discipline
mm iieruups wonting naruer.
The government which taxes the rich and the poor,
snouiu protect botli lrom the
ulator, who does not hesitate
to com his dirty dollars. Such tainted money should be
marked and all food manipulators branded as traitors to
ineir country.
America Is a Humbug Says the Berlin
Tages Zeitung
"What can America do?" asks the
ncrlln Tagezoltung. "Sho has neither
soldiers nor ships; sho Is a turnlp-and-caudle
bogey; less she Is a mere
screech!
'(iernians need tako no alarm at
tho 'dread dangers' that threaten
them from America. Whatever the
Americans say and do, or say that
they will do, Is based on humbug.
That Is tho only power In their land.
"Itanium is much inoro a represen
tative American than Washington.
Humbug Is all the noise about leader
ship In Industry and commerce, hum
bug tho prating about equality and
freedom, humbug tho tlnselly sense
less display of luxury, humbug the
Imbecile christening of Insignificant
towns with names such as Home,
Ullea or Memphis, where they put up
mia.M-vHrvK leinimi or minai urc i an equally vain would It be to alarm
pyramid, and In that rubbish behold ' ourselves at the thought of a coming
the quintessence of nil that was great j collision with so Intangible nnd evan
ml lofty in thokulturof the ancients. I escent a thing."
UNFILLED STEEL
E A
NEW YORK, May 10. The un
filled tonnage of the flitted States
Steel corporation on April 30 lust
was 12,1 ss.osa tons, as announced bv
tho corporation today, an Increase r
471,4:1!) tons ocr tho previous
month nnd ag.iln breaking all prcvl-1
ous records
STOP RECRUITING FARM
LABOR, SAYS GOVERNOR
SALEM, Ore, May 10 Governor
James Wlthycembe today sent to the
war department a telegram urglns
that recruiting In the rural districts
be discontinued becauso of the criti
cal scarcity of labor on the farms.
"1 venture to suggest the vital In
advlsablllty of tho routlnued recruit
ing of farm labor," wired the gover
nor. "Harvest time will find us un
able to reap the crops already sown.
Acceptance of volunteers Is justified
In citlos, where food production is not
directly affected, but very ill-advised
in rural districts.
UlCymiW
TARIFF.
be mulcted by the proposed
twiv in flir incwncwl nmt f
household life.
but the verv rich not as lib
incomes increased.
A comparison with similar
far more lenient with the per
time, and the policy of pay as
can expect to be forced to
have to in Britain. Even
than $1000. This income is
barest necessities of life. To
Indulge in great extravagances. We
for the common good, and only min
surier not at all, while they would
and the necessity of thinking hard.
lood manipulator and spec
to traffic in human suffering
"Humbug are tho learned lectures
of Roosevelt and the mock humility
of Benjamin Franklin; humbug are
the 'heroic' deeds of the American
militia ; humbug the republicans who
do not fight against tho monarchy
nnd humbug tho democrats who do
not oppose aristocracy. Humbug, too.
Is tho Yankee talk of war, except
when there Is a prospect of making
sonio extra hundreds of millions of
dollars; and-finally, Ihe very name
America is humbug.
"True, to tho fight this humbug no
German gun has yet been cast, 110
German warship built, but as well
might we send our fleldgreys to bat
tle against the winds of heaven as
ngalnst the formless. Imaginary crea
ture w hich wo call American humbug
TO
EIGHT FOR GERMANS
Cnl'F.NH.UIKN, May 10. A rep
recnlative of tho tiermnn war de-
I'i'Nments has admitted in the rcic h-
h - lag Hint a number uf I'.elL'ian sub-
iccts resident in Cologne were drai't-
1 into the Ciennan nnnv, in spite of
tlieir protest- that thev were veterans
of the Helgian army. The admis
sion va- made in answer to an inter
pellation by a radical soeinli-t depu
ty. The war department ofln-ial
promi-cd that the iiucstion of cilircn
ship in these eases would be reviewed.
CALIFORNIA STUDENTS
SIGHT SEEING IN NEW YORK
NKW YOUK. Muv V Forty-two
rnivcrsiiy of California student
who arnve.1 here yesterday on their
way to serve n members of the
American ambulance corps in France
are to have
i niv in nave a weeK oi sight sccmc
and entertainment before their de-
J part urc.
ATLANTA. CA.
PRESIDENT'S YACHT IS READY FOR
ns
Tliree-iioiindei's at Uio stern of President 'Wilson's yacht, Mayflower, are ready to "pop off" any enemy sub.
marine that may poke its nose into view of tho slinrpshooters on close watch... Inset shows a close view of the
TANK MOTOR SHIP
ABLAZE AT SEA. SI
NEWPORT, R. I., May 10. The
British oil tank motorshlp Sebas
tian, which was being towed by an
American gunboat to a new England
port with firo raging fiercely in her
hold, sank today. Thomas Jones, a
marine gunner atached to a govern
ment vessel which had the Sebas
tian In tow, was lost.
No information as to how tho gun
ner lost his life was made public.
The Sebastian sent out "S. O. S." calls
Tuesday night, and a patrol boat
took the crew off yesterday morn
ing. The origin of the fire was not
nowrcvealed, , . I .' :.
U-BOAT CAMPAIGN MEANS
SPEEDY PEACE, SAY GERMANS
LONDON, May 10. Reuter's Am-
terdam correspondent, quoting Berlin f
advices says: WASHINGTON, .May 10. Orders
"The relchstag has begun Its sec- summoning Mnjor-General John J.
ond reading of the navy budget. Dr. ' Pershing, commanding the southern
Pfleger, naval reporter of the budget ' department, to Washington, have
committee, declared that the sub-1 aroused much speculation here. Of
marine loss for April would not be ' ficlals have declined to comment on
less than 1,100,000 tons and added 1 reports that the general's visit is con-
that tho relchstag looked forward to
the activity by the Gorman navy with
a confident hope of a speedy and vic
torious peace. Vice-Admiral v6n
Capelle, minister of the navy, who
followed Dr. Pfleger said:
"This recognition is new stimulus
to us to fulfill Germany's expects-
tions regarding the U-boats, which ;
havo faced enthusiastically the great '
task of decisively intervening along-!
side our victorious army. I assure1
you that the U-boats will persevere !
until tho end. We havo the necessary I
boats, a trained personnel, fuel, and
all accessories."
"Thousands upon thousands of
hands aro actively engaged in pro-1
during new submarines and new ma-j citizens here yesterday subscribed
terial for torpedoes and mines. Not;mo for the purchase of a "baby"
only is the numbef of submarines Liberty war loan to be presented to
continually Increasing, but the boats!
are always improving in quality; theyj
are always better types and of great
er efficiency. Officers and men are
crowding forward for submarine ser
vice.
BELGIAN RELIEF TAKEN
OVER BY UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, May 10. The
Anierican government today assumed
tho immediate financial burden or
ltelslan relief by arranging to lend to
tho French and He!gian governments
Jointly J 1 000. Oeo to be expended
by the American Itelglnn relief com
mission for food to go to Ilelglum and
northern Franc.
Tho money will be advanced In
monthly installments of $ 1 S.-'.iiO.OOii,
of which $7.,Mi.o0 will go to Bel
glum, nnd $.'.,0mv00 to France. The
way has been left open for the com
mission to npply for more nioney
w-hen tho loan is exhausted at the end
of six months.
Under the arrangement the Amer
ican commission will bear tho entire
cost of supplies, thus rellevin the
Hrltish and French governments
which hitherto have borne about ?0
rcr cent of it. Administration of the
relief abroad will be left In the hands
of Siwnish and Dutch agents for the
Helclans and the French themselves.
The money lent Is a part of the
3.fi0rt. eoo, 000 alll.-d fund being rais
ed here. i
With Med foid trade Is Mcdlord made.
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TO VISIT CANADA
WASHINGTON', May JO. Mem
bers of the l'ritish mission prepared
today to take part in the joint recep- , elcctrlcalj niechanical, civil and amo
tion with the French mission at New i nlo1,le engineering, and aviation, and
York and later make a tour o the ,s of forlns special Inducements to
middle west and n visit to Canada. mpn of this ind wno w!lnt to be the
Sub-committees continue to work on ..flrst t0 fiBht," according to an an
detailcd discussion of subjects i"e- nounCcmeiit made from their hcad
ferred to them and hope to report to ! rters t0,iav
tlie main body next week.
Mr. lliflfour called on Secretary
Baker at the war department tliisjmugt first ,"1IHiergo preliminary milt-
morning- to discuss collating the work ' ..., tmininE. but unon Its coni-l
distributed nmonir the sub-committees
on hospitals, material, muni
tions, intelligence and tiie sending of
an American expeditionary force to
France.
PERSHING HAS BEEN
CALLED TO WASHINGTON
nected with the subject of selecting a
commander for a military expedition
to France.
General Pershing is known to have
the confidence of administration of
ficials because of his record as com
mander of the punitive expedition in
Mexico. There are indications that
tho general was summoned here at
tho personal request of Secretary
Maker. The secretary said movements
of army officers were not proper
subjects for speculation.
LIBERTY BOND IS GIVEN
jn uoe KAISER
I
LIVINGSTON, Mont., May 10.
Mrs. W. J. Kaiser, a Gcrnian-Amer
jan mother of this city in appeccia
tlon of her patriotism In giving to the
nation her three sons, none ot them
2 1 years o'.d.
The youngest son, Wallace, aged
IS, enlisted a month ago as an ordin
ary seaman. Earl, aged 19, leaver
this week to join the coast artillery
service. Roland, aged 20. left here
'yesterday for the Presidio, San Fran-
Iclsco. to J.iln tho officers' reserve
corps. He was a senior in the high
j school and was given his diploma,
; wrapped In an American flag, jut
j before departing.
WIDE MANN'S
Ulllt(D ptlT
GOAT MILK
AT LEASING 0UG3iT ,SJ,
WIDEMANN GOAT MILK TO.
IJOHN A. PERL
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Idy Avi-tant.
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niows L 47 and 47-J-2.
Austomoblle Hearse Service.
Ambulance Service. Coroner I
fCK-iv- V",'V ; ,-oniparablc
! 1 .rrVtjU j! Baby Food.
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BUSINESS, 100
WASHINGTON, May 10. The ma
rine corps is especially in need of
' .l.ntnl n.An man .vnnrinni-Pil in
To isllre a completely uniform and
,,.ini i,n,iv nil mnrlnn corns recruits
pietion those so desiring are availa
ble for positions in which they are
best fitted.
WIFE'S CONFESSIONS BRING
FREEDOM TO VAWTER
CHRISTIANS BURG, Va., May 10.
Chas. E. Vawter, former professor
of physics in Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute, was declared not guilty last
night of the murder of Stockton Heth.
Jr., wealthy young society mand and
sportsman, whom he shot to death in
the Vawter home early on the morn
ing of March 13. The jury was out
two nnd a half hours, but, according
to one juryman, only one ballot was
taken. Vawter's defense had been
based on the unwritten law and self
defense. '
You never hear
of people having
headaches from
drinking
mmw
(NO CAFFEINE
"There's a Reason'
'or
Kitchens &
Stop at The
NEW HOUSTON HOTEL
1'iih mid Kverett Streets, Portland,
Oregon. New niiinau'enient. I'inmes
and elevator, liatcs ,"i0c, 7."ic, $1.00
and l.oO mr d.iv.
WINDOW SCREENS
SCREEN DOORS
LATTICE MATERIAL
Pacific Furniture &
Fixture Factory
71 Rj
m Costs less n
I Wears Better
J WATERS jn
How's This?
We offer One Huti'lrcd Dollar Reward for nny
t-at. nt i'atrrb tiwt i-auuut t cured by Hall
Citarrb Cure.
F. J. CUENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
We,
the under! Kneel, hare - known F. J,
Clu-u-r lor the iat """', a,,u -
,,..rf..Ptlr Lnnoralil.' In all bunlm-as transact oni
m .1 H riu nr l:l My JiUle.
carry uut any ubHiiatluiu
am tie tj LI tirm.
nHi rntarrh Cnre Is trkrn Internally, acting
Jlr.-cllr upon the u ami mwyu urw 01
IS lmu. T.-Btlumnial wit free, l'rk-e 75
Take Hall' Family ruw coomivbuub.
The Submarine
Question
The latest dispatches are that the
U. S. government had solved the sub
marine question. The Crater Lake
Motor Co. wishes to inform the pub
lic that they had nothing whatever to
do in solving that great problem.
They do admit that they have solved
the automobile question to a great
extent, where economy, good wora
manshlp and service are concerned. ,4
You have only to come once to as
sure the Crater Lake Car Co. of your
patronage. Welding and all kinds ot
gas engines repaired, country trips
made to repair spray engines, upen
Until 11 p. m. at nights.
rife:
a MinsrMMER
MUIIT'S DliKA.M
on a sleeping porch out in the free
dom of the open where the air is
clear and cool, beats anything you
ever tried. And, too, it will muffri
you strong in mind and body and
at that
SMCKPIXG POUCHES
are not expensive luxuries. Really,
you'll be surprised to find how little
they cost. We have all the material
you will need and will guarantee
Js9 quality ot every item you buy.
MEDFORD LUMBER CO
Howard's
Ashland-Klamath Falls
AUTO LINE
Daily Except Sunday.
Leaves Ashland 8. a. m.
It Costs More
and
Is Worth More
White's
Velvet
Ice Cream
Our Milk Shakes
are the best.
Try them
Phone 481 E. Main St.
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