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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
CHRISTIAN MINISTER
REACHES THE CITY

The Rev John M. alley. recently
called TO Hattiesburg to take charge
fof the Christian Church here, has ar
rived in the city, and is located at SOS
Walnut street. He viii have charge
Of the services at the Christian Church
tomorrow.
MI. Tailey will be Joined BY Mrs,
l'Talley on Monday.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
IOld-Fashioned Slate May Replace Paper;
s4 i. i. ls-.,s J. i i. +++
Tablets Cost May Return Old Friend

But considerations of sanitation,
which are admittedly open to some
debate, are likely to give way before
stern necessity, as the cost of even
the cheapest grades Of paper has ad-
vanced more than 200 per cent in the
past IL months.
This advance, which the newspapers
were among the first to feel, is reflect
ed in increased cost of pencil scratch
pads for school pupils.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18

School children of Hattiesburg and
other cities may have to return to the
old-fashioned Slate which was used 90
years ago, if the cost of paper keeps
on soaring.
Most of the up-to-date municipal
school departments have discouraged,
if not actually forbidden, the use of
the slate, on the ground that it is un-
sanitary and calculated to spread COM
municable diseases.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
FARLEY AGAIN
ACTING MAYOR

Capt A. Farley was again acting
mayor this morning during the abb
sence of Mayor T. q. Batson, who was
delayed in Jackson, and who did not
return to Hattiesburg until late this
morning Capt. Farley presided in
Police Court this morning,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18

Inc nfSC round IN the legal DaCtle
of the First-National Bank of Com
merce of this city, and the Mississippi
Tax Commissioners over the increased
assessment ordered by the commission
on the personal property of the bank,
was begun in Hattiesburg today with
the filing of an appeal by the local
institution from the findings of the
commission.
The appeal was filed in the Circuit
Court. Ultimately it will reach the
Mississippi Supreme Court. Its out
come will be watched with interest
by the hundreds of banks and thou
sands of stockholders of the state as
the results will affect materially their
holdings.
The appeal is in the nature of a
test of the new law which placed the
State Tax Commission into being.
If the State Supreme Court decides
that the commission was in its rights
in raising the assessments of bank
property to any figure which it may
see fit, many Mississippi bankers aver
that scores of financial institutions In
the state will be bankrupted.
But One Appeal.
The First-National Bank of Com
merce is the only one of the three
Hattiesburg institutions to appeal, it
having served notice at the last meet
ing Of the board of supervisors that
it would appeal from the orders of
the State Commission.
Briefly, the Firs-National main
tains that the state board has ordered
the Board Of supervisors to assess its
personal property at a figure which is
$4,000 in excess of the book value
of its stock, and still larger t5au its
actual value.
It's grounds for appealing from the
orders of the commission, substantial
ly are as follows:
That the Tax Commission departed
a from and exceeded the powers con-
ferred upon it in the assessment Of
capital stock, surplus, undivided prof
its and accumulations of the bank, as
these are not Of such a nature as to
come within the review or correction
conferred by the statute.
The commission has no authority
to review the findings of the board
of supervisors, it having judicial and
not executive or legislative powers.
The law under which the commits
sion came into existence is unconsti-
tutional, because the statute response
sble for its being violates a section
Of the state constitution.
The State and the various divis-
ions thereof are not authorized or
empowered to levy any tax what
soeyer on the profits, assets, or
capital stock or surplus Of any ma
tonal bank, under a Federal act.
Because the property Of the banl
has, in the past, been uniformly as
sessed at rate not higher than q
per cent of its actual value, and az
increase would subject It to the pay
ment OF a greater proportion Of th'
burden OF taxation than other proper
ty throughout the country.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
MOTOR THIEVES ASK OWNER
FOR GASOLINE FOR HIS Cal

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Nov. 1S.-William
j. Cott druggist in Miners Mills, near
here, was reused out of bed early this
morning by two negroes who wanted
to buy gasoline for their automobile,
Cott accommodated them, but while
filing the tank Identified the machine
as his own.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
REcovERs MEMORY.

Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. lSs~- Robes
Hastings suffering from azunesza
wandered from his home He fouHE
his memory and himself lighting ss||
France. q letter from the somnaa ffoa|
says. 81
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
Runanlans cIaIm Advance.

Bucharest, Nov, is. The war office
today announces that the Rumanians
made considerable progress on the
ITransylvanian front in the region Of
Dragoslavele.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
zeppelin nnouaht Down.

!, Petrograd. Nov ls.-The Russians
near Harry. Southeast Of Pinsk,
brought down a large Zeppelin. cap
turing its crew Of sixteen
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
BANK APPEALS
FROM ORDER OF
TAX Commission
~
First-National Declares Tba
State Board is Discrlminat-
ing Against 1t,
BATTLE WILL BE FOUGHT
THROUGH TO HIGH COURT

Declaring That Commissioners Are En-
deavoring to Have Assessment Made
on Book Value of Property, Which
is Many Thousand Dollars in Ex5
cess of Actual Value, Local Institu-
tion Points out Alleged Unconstitu-
tionality of Act.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
RAIL BOARD TO
STOP RE|GHT.
GAR SHORTAGE.
Railway Representatives Have
Power TO Penalize Hiding
Of Equipments.
:, C. COMMISSIONERS ARE
n BECOMING ACTIVE TODAY

State officials Organization Names
Committee to Aid in Federal lnves-
tisation--National Association Of
Railway Commissioners Adopt Reso-
luton Creating Committee on Car
Service and Demurrage-Louisvile
Meeting on.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-11-18
'TEUTONS PUSHED
BACK IN DOUBLE
BRITISH ATTACK
Entente Campaign For Mon
astir Continues To
Progress.
BRITISH CLEAR AFRICA
OF ALL NATIVE GERMANS

'Hais's Forces Renew Their Attacks
Near the Ancre River, Where They
Make Many Advances-iEritish Raid
Enemy Redoubt North Of Ypnes, and
Take 20 Prisoners and Machine Guns
Fighting Continues Throushout
somme Area.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-09

HIGH CLASS TESTIMoNY.-You
can convert a few men through their
heads. You can convert many men
through their stomachs. You can
convert most men through their
poCketbooks.
Convert a man by argument and
he still has notion that he was right
in his own opinion and will not get
full results from that which was
argued into him. Convert a man
through filing his stomach with
pleasant things and you only tenn
porarily satisfy him, and he knows it.
But let your conversion sound forth
in the ring of good hard dollars in
his pocket and you've got him be-
yond all doubt or clubbing.
These remarks are simply prelim-
mary to some testimony from Mr..
Henry Ford, which we will now pre-
cent. Mr.. Ford is a business, man
and large employer of labor. He net
ted something like $60,O00,000 the
past twelve months and he says this:
Il say-and l speak from expert
onces and not from guesswork-that
the 8-hour law will help business.
Employers who are hostile to the g.
hOur-day do not know their business.
Eight hours is long enough for any
body to work. A man can't work
more than hours and do good work.
We've proved it often. We have had
the S-hour-day in force in the Ford
factory for three years and we have
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-09

ROOSEVELT, TAFT, HUGHES
1t ought not to be forgotten that
everything that Roosevelt is now say
ing about the supeThuman qualities
Of Hughes he said with equal vgoF
about Taft eight years ago.
Taft was the one man in the eounz~
try fitted by experience and temper
ament to continue my policies" He
was a paragon of all the statesman
like virtues and would make a rec
ord in the presidential Office I'M
euualIed since Lincoln.
Taft was elected and in less than
two years the great illusion was shat
tered,
There is nothing in Hughes rec
ord that puts him in class above
Taft. He is very much the same
kind of man, with much less expe-
rience in public affairs than Taft
had
Just because Roosevelt is willing
to try another experiment does not
seem to be a very good reason why
the rest of US should be made =
suffer such q calamity.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-09

made more money each succeeding
year under it. 1t has proved its own
merit"
Every man in business has one or
two mental attitudes toward labor.
He either believes that his employees
will do as little as they can for their
pay, and, consequently, he must get
all he possibly can out of them, or he
believes that if he is square and gen.
erous toward them they'll give him
the best there is in them. In the
quality of goods turned out an out
slider can often tell which of these
two mental attitudes the manufac-
turer holds toward his wOrkmen.
Goods slung together any old way in
dictate one attitude, while the same
goods, similar in quality and price,
may indicate the other attitude
through the neatness and skillfulness
Of their get-up.
Three years ago, Mr., Ford tried
something new-the S-hour-day, It
proved it's own merit, Observe Mr..
Ford's pockethook!
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-03-22

inlrrprr,ado Pi"n>an dur ~ fari.
Iar al pibIiro 10 que r)IoS nul"rru
como Interpretation Il" Ia vida. Sin
embargo. este cambio rn 81 ~rarurte.'
dc nur>iras novrIa,. irbr Nrnir d"s-
pui> he Que Il pueblo mi-mo taya
.ie-ado a adgUirir 81 SaItido de- Ia
importanrja de- Ia vida real. para
comparable ron Ia vida. sentimental
' irrrpcionalmrute rcjraiaIa.
Greco que nuc,tras no\r.as hoy
son mcjoros que 10 Que tu"ron nae"
- amos; mrjor dicIIo. no jrnrmo>
hoy HawUIorur:: prru Ia genera,
presentation d. nue>troS liDr"s -
mejur que 10 fut auIr>. Tenemos
muchoS biru cunnotadu~ cSrritorcS
ID hi>jorla> cortaS. Ali sta kal-
hrrlnr fullerton Grr0uid. QUO ad-
iuiraDlr arli>ta - "Sja mujer. Mary
L. Wilkins Ina eScriIo aI-unaS obra>
.en:gue intciprtta eSpl6ndidamentc
la vida dc la Nueya luglalrrra y la
>eHorild SrNrjt r~erIeja 81 alma y Ia
menlc De una parte de nue>tro pals =.
Joyce kiLMER.
Traducido de The New York Ii
mes Magazine.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-03-22

/ $500 - - NNf
mas crande acontecimiento de nueS-
ira 6poca, una rosa antidemocrati-
ca??"
La guerra no - antidemocra-
tea-rcpIic6 Ia S%elorita Glasgow.
Mas que ESQ. eS anti-autocratlca. y
mas bien, puedo drcirlo sin tenor
- ambaS cosaS: antidPmOcrat!ca y
| anti-autocratica. rs un confIict1
lie principles, una lucha 4 mueTtc
"ntra Ia Democratic y Fl ~imperiallS-
mo. Is I'm combatc del nucyO IS
piritu democratico contra 81 vl"jo
/ drs6rdnn d. las cosas: Mas ciaro: 20
! no pienso que IA democracia d"
/ Francia . Tnglaterra SEA p~erEecta:
pe1n con todas L imperfacioncs
esta mas cerca Ic Ia verdadera de
mocrac!a Tl,. 10 gu" puedo estar!"
! "a eSpiritu d. A!"mania.
No iebrmoS esp"rar Ut" Ia de-
mocracia d. nuDStCo pals sca per
| rrrtl: toiavia -" .i"mpO 10 h2 He
! -ado. II homDc- y" ~ a hombr"
/ .ciayia'. come 10 dijo Browning Ell
ii "~paracr.SuS'.
la guerra r>ta hacienda Il los pu"-
bios abandonar JOS faiSos mt,odo>
| NV, aD 81 ar4.. Y las lr'raS - han
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-03-22

PaSa a la Pag. Sa. Col. la
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-19
A Drift of Our Times

In earlier years when a youth was sent to
college it was thought to be settled in advance
that he was on the way to entering upon one Of
the three learned professions, law, medicine,
theology, or an educational career. There were
predictions of success or failure, according to the
mood and disposition. But such as opined that
there might be danger of spelling good business
man in making poor lawyer, doctor or preacher,
never dreamed it among the possibilities that a
college training could make better business man
out Of boy with talent for business than he
would be without such a training, or that the boy
who could not or would not memorize and deliver
a thunderous defamation on Friday afternoons,
but had a penchant for calculating things in the
mass or running straight and oblique lines, had
any need of college training
And during generations there was much to
justify such strange opinions Every matrcula-
ton showed serried ranks of youths anxious to
crowd into professions which began to be over
crowded quite number of years ago. AS late as
1904 there were, at Yale, 6,937 young pre-
pairing themselves for the law, medicine the min
istry and educational work, and but 4095 am
bilious to make careers in manufacturing, finance
mercantile lines and engineering During the
present year the young men getting training for
active business life have been crowding the pro-
fessonals much more closely. During 1916 the
number of Yale students equipping themselves for
the learned professions has been 854 and the
number getting ready for business pursuits 8,l65
Putting it in another way, the boys who are now
in training for manufacturing, mercantile, fnan,
cial and engineering work only 81 less in
/ number than those in the other group, while a
| dozen years ago they were 800 less.
The most striking growth in the number oil
matriculants in the business course has been il
the engineering department. In 1904 only S4e
young men went to Yale for that sort of techn
cal training. This year 2,2lS are there for thai
purpose, The number taking courses in manu-
featuring has more than doubled in the period
in financial training it has nearly doubled, anc
mercantile lines of study show about the sam,
increase In all probability other great educa
tonal institutions show the same drift which is
| in fact drift of our times
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-19
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Council Bluffs, Ia, Dec. 16.-To the
Editor of The Bee: l do not agree
with your expression in your editorial
on Our Right to Mediate" but do
agree with Senator Stone, also with
you in another editorial, Hopeful
Signs of Peace" / believe that the
president has not only the right but
is virtually requested (by Germany's
suggestion of peace) to state the po-
sition of the United States, for in
acting for the people of the United
States he knows an overwhelming
majority of our citizens want peace.
So, as our representative, Mr.. Wilson
has a perfect right to accompany his
transmission with an armistice rec
concentration to all belligerent nations
for cool and sane elaboration on how
to stop this terrible war, and then
through their commissions deyise
some ways and means by which war
in the future may be entirely done
away with and all nations settle their
disputes by arbitration, international
as well as external, for every sane
person knows to fight is a poor way
to settle any dispute. | hope that |
may live to see the United States, the
greatest country country on earth, to
lead in this, as it has in other re-
forms, and make war in the future
impossible. J. G. BLESSING.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-19
Law That Needs Overhauling.

Strict application of any law may become in
humane at times. Our immigration law and the
rules made under it afford many illustrations of
the suffering that may be caused by too rigid
observance OF the letter and indifference to the
spirit. The latest incident reported is that of
Spanish merchant, carried ashore from steamer
at New York in dying condition, while his son
was sent to the Ellis Island detention station be-
cause he was under 10 and 'unaccompaned by
parent or guardian" The inspector who ordered
the removal said he had no discretion, but surely
the safety of nation like the United States does
not require the separation of child from its
parent under such circumstances. Men of wealth
and influence undertook to secure the boys re-
lease, but without avail, and the nhuman applica-
ion of the regulation in its strict letter went on
This is not notable solely because Of the prom-
nence of the persons involved Many poor people
have suffered similarly. and with no more of JUS
tice, Omaha residents frequently have been called
10 exert themselves in behalf OF some deserving
person held up at Ellis Island because the govern
ment's machinery moves so inexorably. This law
| should be readusted to the end that the nation
may protect itself against the visitation of the
unworthy without causing needless hardships and
sorrow to the innocent
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-19
Both Sides Waking Up.

The railroads and the brotherhoods alike are
coming to realize the two-edged character OF the
Adamson law Crude and unavoidable as it is, 1t
yet contains the germ of law that will put the
big transportation companies and the labor unions
under the closer control OF the federal govern
ment This is one OF the unconsidered POSSIBLE
ties of the measure so hastily driven through con-
gress, the early effect of which was to produce
the political influence for which it was primarily
designed Only one phase OF the real situation
was then taken into account, but some OF ITS
other aspects are now gaining attention. his
is a natural outcome OF the prolonged and sense
less agitation that has disturbed the country for
months. The public deserves protection from
conditions that have prevailed for almost two
wears in the railroad world Continual chickering's
and threats OF strike have menaced business I'M
til the situation is unbearable and even though
the companies and the men do agree on some set
tiement of their present difficulty there is strong
Likelihood of either the Newands or the Adam
son law being so amended as to obviatc the dan
ger OF general strike the railroads The
remedy is drastic, perhaps, but the disease has
been acute Each side to the dispute has blamed
the other, but that both are at fault is clear to
any who has followed the controversy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-19

The Bee relies upon statements made by State
Engineer Johnson to support its contention that
good roads are to the benefit OF the farmer more
than any other citizen Of Nebraska. Here is
what the state engineer says on the matter of
hauling:
team that can haul 5000 pounds over an
ordinary road could haul $500 pounds over
well-graded road, 1000 pounds over clay
and gravel road and 1000 pounds over a brick
road On long hauls freighting is usually done
at ! cent per mile per hundred, but Tor short
haus, such as the farmer makes to and from
towns, it usually costs rs cents per ton
mile over ordinary roads By hauling the
amounts ! have heretofore stated, on different
classes OF roads, this would make cost of haul
ling on wel-graded roads 2l.4 cents per ton
mile; over clay and gravel roads, Is cents per
ton mile, and over brick surface roads, lO.7
cents per ton mile. This would make the cost
OF hauling over brick surfaced roads 81 per
cent less than hauling over ordinary roads.
If Mr.. Johnsons figures are dependable and
applying them to the wheat crop of the current
year, we find some mixing of what poor roads
cost the farmers OF the state. The wheat crop OF
the state for 1916 is returned at 6S,773,68l bush
els, or, in round numbers 203l, 6O3 tons, to move
which one mile at the rate Of rs cents per ton
would cost $50785l. II one-half of this could be
saved by good roads, it would be $25392S into
the farmers pockets. Capitalize this at pei
cent and we have $5,078,Sl0; il the average hau
for a ton of wheat on its way from the farm tc
the shipping point is seven miles, the saving thus
effected would pay per cent on SIS 100000, which
would under Mr.. Johnson's estimate construct Isl
miles OF brick surfaced roads. And this is the
wheat crop of the state alone and takes no &C
,f # of nj m ri a I
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-19

Lincoln, Neb, Dec. 10.-To the Edi-
tor of The Bee: The Russky Vyedo-
mostly, No. 246, October 20 tho. s.,
which is equivalent to our November
I, lust received from Moscow, prints
the following:
THE minister of national education.
Count p N. Ignatyev, has proposed
in the imperial duma a bill for intro
ducing into the empire a general and
later a compulsory education. Ac-
cording to the bill, all children with
out distinction of sex, from the age OF
8 to II are guaranteed the possibility
of training in the elementary schools
of the department of education. The
bill relates to general compulsory edu-
cation and is framed on the principle
of contributing from the treasury at
places of establishment. lndepend-
entity of contributing from the treas
ury of the localities, through co-opera-
ton of the minister of education and
other departments it is planned to lay
down a high and heavy obligation to
secure for each child living in Russia,
of school age, real possibility of get
ting an elementary education. We,
the explanatory memorandum says, do
not conceal from ourselves the whole
difficulty of that question. Believing
in the clear mind and resolute will
of the Russian nation the ministry
hopes to join in this common and diff
ficult task all classes and denomina
tons, all departments and institutions
for achieving that question, which in
its turn ought to serve as a basis for
further culture and growth of strength
and prosperity for the empire"
FELIX NEWTON
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-19
People and Events

The duke Of Manchester. who married Miss
Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati, was commit
ted for trial by London magistrate recently on
charge Of obtaining credit without disclosing that
he was an undischarged bankrupt.
Lieutenant Pollner, young and well-known
Danish military aviator, is planning to make rec
ord by crossing the Atlantic. He figures that
the distance from the Farce islands to Newfound-
land can be covered in about thirty hours and the
whole trip to New York in forty-eight hours
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands of the fed
era court of Chicago continues dispensing justice
with the bark on. In bankruptcy case now under
way FIVE witnesses who tried to deceive the court
as to the whereabouts of missing assets were
bound over to the grand jury for perjury under
bonds of $4,000 each. As rule frame-up testi-
mony doesn't go very far in that court without
getting the Trainer into trouble.