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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Personally Political.

Governor Ferris does not want to
be a candidate for a third term and
he is planning to take up his work
along educational lines at the end
of the present year However, this
does not mean that Governor Ferris
will not lead the democratic party
of Michigan in the campaign next fall.
as the chief executive, according 10
democratic leaders and close personal
friends, can be persuaded to carry the
standard again. il he is convinced that
his name at the head of the ticket
will keep the party organization in
tact and result in a greater number of
votes for President Wilson At the
present time. however, the governor
is planning to retire from political life
at the end of his present term. While
he is making these plans. democratic
leaders are actively engaged in urg.
ing him to make the race again.
They think Ferris is politically strong
er than any other man in his party.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Raises a Large Sum.

II the supreme court upholds the con-
stitutionality Of the new automobile
tax law, Secretary of State Vaughan
will cut a melon in the form of a tax
dividend of $425 900 which will be
divided among the counties and the
of the state according TO the number
OF machines credited to them on the
states books.
Already Secretary OF State Vaughan
has collected upder the terms of the
new automobile tax law approximately
$3.50. 900 If the law is declared valid
by the supreme court, half of this
money will be placed to the credit of
the state highway department for the
construction of trunkline highways
The remaining fifty per cent will be
divided among the countnes and the
money can only be used for the con-
struction and maintenance of high
ways.
When an automobile owner pays his
license fee TO the secretary OF state,
fifty per cent of the amount of the
fee is credited to the county in which
is credited to the state highway de-
partment.
Since the first of the year the state
department has issued approximately
$4,000 licenses and has collected near
" $3.50 900. Before the constitution
atty Of the law was attacked in
Wayne county, 1t was planned to make
the first distribution to the counties
April /, but when the matter got into
the courts, Auditor General Fuller
and Secretary OF State Vaughan de-
cided to withhold payments to the
counties until the constitutionality Of
the law had been affirmed.
When the law was attacked in the
Wayne circuit the judges rendered
an opinion to the effect that it was
valid. An appeal was taken to the
supreme court where the case was
argued several weeks ago. State Of
ficials are hoping that the court will
give the case early consideration.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
LANSING BATTERY PASSES
The Examination Was the Same As
That Given to Regular Army.

Lansing-The notification from war
department that Battery "A, First Field
artillery Of this city, had qualified un-
der the new rules and regulations OF
the department and had been placed
upon the list Of batteries in the mill
tia service, which are to be taken on
the same basis as the regular field
batteries, is considered distinct vic
tory for the Michigan National Guard.
The rules were that each officer
must qualify and that in addition II
OF the men must pass the inspectors
examination. The Lansing battery
not only had all Of its officers qualify,
one of them as an expert" but had
"a of its men pass the examinations.
All will be given certificates from the
war department, while they will also
be eligible to a national competition
which the government expects to stage
among those who qualified.
The examination was the same as
that given in the regular army. al
though not nearly so long a time was
given the militia for preparation.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Probable keYnoter.

Congressman Frank Doremus of De-
troit will be temporary chairman OF
the democratic state convention to be
held in Lansing, May II. The an
nouncement that Doremus had been
selected as presiding officer of the
convention was made by E. c. Shields,
chairman OF the democratic state cen
trail committee. Congressman Dore-
mus was recently reelected chairman
of the democratic national congress-
ional campaign committee, and in his
address as temporary chairman of
the state convention 1t is believed
that he will summarize the plans for
the national campaign in the congress.
ional districts this fall
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
WAYNE COUNTY
Will Be THE GOAT
RAISE OF VALUES WILL MAKE
THE COUNTY PAY HALF THE
STATE TAXES.
ABNORMAL CONDITIONS CAUSE
VIII the Equalization Board Give the
Case Fair Consideration? De-
troiters Are Alarmed.

Detroit-The valuation OF Wayne
county. now being ascertained by the
state board of assessors, based on
highly inflated value due to frenzied
real estate speculation and huge pro
duction increases, attributed directly
and indirectly to war orders, will force
Detroit and Wayne county to pay half
the taxes of the state, unless the
board OF equalization can be con.
WINGED that the final Wayne county
valuation is inflated and does not rep
present normal increase.
The question, which is beginning TO
alarm business men, Industrial heads
and small property owners is that the
valuation eventually determined by
the equalization board must stand for
three years and If the war should sud.
denly cease putting an end to the
volume of business tractable to war
orders or the boom in real estate
should slump, the burden would fall
on the small taxpayer.
Two years ago Wayne county was
assessed at $92S,72S ,0o0, eQualized to
1907 100000 in round numbers, and
the state was assessed at 1924 ,000,-
coo. equalized to s2,96S, 900, 900, so that
Detroit was paying approximately 20
per cent OF the states taxes.
The present situation is peculiar In
that nearly all the rest of the state
has already been valued by the state
board, during normal conditions, and
al
show a normal and fair increase, 1t
Is feared the boost given Wayne coun-
~ will be far greater proportionately,
on account of the unprecedented pros
perity of the city, a great deal OF
which is due TO abnormal increased
value OF industrial products shown on
books of many of the city's largest
industries.
Students OF conditions declare that
an accurate. normal increase for Wayne
county should be approximately $780,
100000, or a total valuation of about
100000. The board of Commerce
has been working on the taxation prob
lem for weeks. They have tabulated
startling statistics revealing enormous
individual increases of products caused
by the war demand. One factory alone,
the committee conducting the work
declares making war munitions, will
be given a value FIVE times its value
two years ago. 1t is shown that scores
OF companies are affected by the war
directly or indirectly. Companies
manufacturing metals and alloys, for
example, have contracted orders for
six and eight months delivery. the
cost of the materials for which will
exceed the price of the finished pro-
duct today.
The indirect effect of the war on
Detroit and Wayne county industries
is seen principally in the enormous in
crease in cost of raw materials and
consequent boost in price to the con
sumner.
Building materials have jumped 90
per cent in the past six months. Struc-
tural steel has to be ordered months
in advance for delivery at greatly in
creased prices.
All metals have gone to record
heights and most OF the raw materials
used in Detroit manufacture have fol-
lowed suit.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

77S72 and William Gerald Simpson
1895.
Theodore Roosevelt's name was not
printed on any of the primary ballots,
but 1914 electors voted for him by
writing his name on the republican
ticket. Charles Evans Hughes OF
New York received 1903 republican
votes and former governor Chase s.
Osborn was favored by 1879. Charley
Chaplin received one vote on the re-
publican presidential ballot
Although Woodrow Wilson's name
was the only one printed on the demo
cratic ticket, 124 admirers of William
Jennings Bryan took the trouble to
write his name on the ballot. Presi-
cent Wilson received a total of Si,972
votes, while Champ Clark police 90,
Henry Ford 55. Governor Ferris 3
and Gen. Carranza /.
The national progressive party was
without a candidate for president but
Theodore Roosevelt qualified when
1888 bull moose voters wrote the col
onels name on their ticket. Some of
the bull moose voters evidently con-
fused the candidacy of Gustavus D.
Pope Of Detroit, who was candidate
TOR national committeeman of the
national progressive party. and Pope
received "A votes for president on the
bull moose ticket William f. Fer.
guson, prohibition candidate for presi-
Gent, who was unopposed, received
272S votes.
Charles B. Warren of Detroit. who
was unopposed for denomination as
republican national committeeman, re-
ceived 160,037 votes. Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman f. o. Wood OF
Flint was renominated over William
A. Comstock of Alpena by a majority
OF 1901. Wood polled 4S,707 votes
and Comstock received 34,SO6. Gusta-
vus d. Pope was renominated as the
national progressive national commit.
teeman without opposition. Pope
polled 1919 votes.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Governor Paroles LIfers.

Judson Black of Richmond has been
reappointed by Governor Ferris as n
member of the state veterinary
board.
Governor Ferris has Issued a par
ole to Willard johnson, sentenced to
Jackson prison for life June IL, 1912,
for assault and robbery. Johnson.
with companion. attempted to rob a
party of automobilists near Grand
Rapids. and within as hours after the
crime was committed he had been
sentenced to jackson. He Is now %
years OF age.
L. A. Weeks, sentenced from Flint
September IA, 1901, to serve life
term. at Jackson for murder, was also
paroled by Governor Ferris,
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
European War News

The captain Of the Dutch ship
Berkelstrom, which was sunk in the
North sea by German submarine,
declared at Rotterdam that the Ger
mans intend to sink all ships OF
every nationality carrying food to
England.
The unarmed British steamer Teal
of London has been sunk by a sub
marine. The crew was rescued after
having taken to the boats. The Swed-
ish bark Niola has been torpedoed.
Mai. Gen. Charles Townshend has
surrendered at Kut-El-Amara, Mesopo-
tamia, with his entire garrison after a
siege by the Turks lasting 143 days.
British official announcements issued
at London place the strength OF the
garrison at 1870 British and 5000 In
dian troops.
All the leaders of the insurrection
are reported to have surrendered un-
conditionally. The Four Courts dis
trlct has been recapIureu
-
Loss and recovery of trenches north
of Mouravitz in a desperate fight with
Austrians and the capture of 600 men
is told in an Official communication is
sued at Petrograd.
Canture of a German trench north
of Dead Man Hill with 90 prisoners,
the election of the Germans from
trenches they hal taken south of Las
signy, and the repulse OF German as
saults in the Vosges, are reported in
the official statement issued by the
Paris war Office.
AL Cole, who returned to London
from Dublin, says a gunboat came up
the river and demolished Liberty hall.
the headquarters of the Sim Fem So
cietv. Three hundred Sim Feiners
we're said to have been inside the
building at the time.
The admiralty announced at Berlin
that in a naval engagement between
German and British forces a British
submarine, the E-22, was sunk and a
British cruiser was hit by torpedo.
The Dublin rebels have been driven
out of their positions in st. Stephens
Green with bombs, after sustaining
heavy losses, says the London Daily
News. Four hundred Irish rebels were
made prisoners.
LOSS Of the British battleship Rus
sell and large British patrol boat,
capture OF an English trawler and de-
struction of a German submarine was
announced in London. The loss OF
life is fixed at 124 men. The Russell
was sunk by a nine In the Mediter
ranean.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Some Political Dope.

Democratic leaders in the state
result of the primary vote for demo
cratic national committeeman as
shown by the board of state canvas
sers. The majority of National Com
mitteeman Z. o. Wood of Flint. was
only 1901 over William A. Comstock
of Alpena, out of total democratic
vote of S3,513, and administration
leaders are of the opinion that the
big vote for Comstock indicates trou-
BILE at the democratic state convention
in Lansing May II. Backed by Gov
ernor Ferris and every member of his
official family and supported by hun
dreds of postmasters throughout the
state, National Committeeman Wood
was expected to beat Comstock at
least two to one. Governor Ferris
passed out the word that the defeat
of Comstock should not only be an
annihiliation but a complete rout for
the so-called original Wilsonites.
Practically every democrat on the
state payroll was busy in his precinct
for Wood on election day but not
withstanding the work of the admin
istration forces Comstock polled 34.-
SOC votes to 4S,707 for Wood Nearly
twenty counties were carried by the
candidate of the original Wilsonites
and the administration forces have re.
ceived word that these counties are
planning to send delegations TO the
democratic state convention that will
be antagonistic to the Wood.Shields
faction.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS

The United States senate has con.
nrmed the appointment Of Samuel
Folz as postmaster OF Kalamazoo.
Michael Parks was killed in an ex-
plosion in the chemical plant of the
Saginaw Plate Glass Co. Two other
employees were slightly burned in an
attempt to rescue Parks. The cause
Of tho explosion Is unknown.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Primary Vote Results.

Henry Ford's majority over United
States Senator William Alden Smith
in the republican presidential primary
held in Michigan April was 5,1S5,
according to the official figures given
out by the board of state canvassers.
The three candidates whose names APP
peared on the republican ballot polled
1894 votes. OF which Henry Ford
received S2,o57, william Alden Smith
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

Count Max Lynar Louden, at one
time hunted by the federal authorities
as an alleged German spy, In state
ment to the assistant district attorney
at New York outlined the details of a
proposed invasion of Canada by Ger.
man army recruited in the United
States.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Mexican Revolt

MAJ. G6ub. I1uBn II. ONOll ahu II ASN
erick Funston met Mexican Minister
of War Alvaro Obregon in the Gus
toms house in Juarez. The meeting
was the formal preliminary to the
opening of the International confer
ence by which the right of the United
States troops to continue the pursuit
of villa and his bandits in Mexico Is
20 be settled.
Minister Of War Alvaro Obregon
will demand that American troops
be withdrawn from Mexican soil In
his conference with the heads of the
United States army. General Obregon
stated at Juarez that he will make
these representations to Generals
Scott and Funston.
Four Mexican prisoners at Casas
Grandes are reported in dispatch 10
Columbus, N. NJ, to have been killed
by American sentries on attempting to
escape.
Gen. Augustine Castro, governor OF
the state of Oaxaca, telegraphed to
Mexico City that on April "a large
force of insurgents surrounded the
capital and delivered an attack. After
terrific fighting the rebels were re-
pulsed, leaving 500 dead.
In an engagement lasting several
hours near Tomachio u. S. troops I'M
der Colonel Dodd routed superior
force OF Villistas, killing six and
wounded nineteen others. Two mem
bers of Colonel Dodd's command were
killed and three wounded. In an en-
gagement at Cocomorachic detach-
ment of Colonel Erwin's command
MORALLY wounded four Mexicans.
American Consul Coen at Durango
City has advised all Americans to
leave the city, and is himself consid-
ering the advisability of going to the
border.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Domestic

Letters to the Louisville & Nash
Vile and Nashville, Chattanooga &
st. Louis railroads, requesting passes
for judges, legislators, witnesses and
newspapers were read into the record
of the interstate commerce commits
sion's investigation held at Nashville,
Tenn, of alleged corrupt practices by
these carriers.
The Anchorage abor union reject.
ed the wage scale offered by the fed
eral arbitration board, endeavoring to
settle the strike among workmen on
the governments railroad in Alaska.
Mobilization Of American industries
and commerce as prime factor Of pre-
paredness for national defense was
urged at New York by Secretary Baker
of the war department in an address
before the annual banquet of the
American Newspaper Publishers asso-
citation.
Ira Nelson Morris, American minis
ter to Sweden, left Stockholm for the
United States on two months leave Of
absence.
A crowded street car ran wild on a
down grade for six blocks at Cincin-
natl, jumped the track, crashed into a
telegraph pole and caused the death
of one woman and injury to 3S others.
Mrs. Ronald Mclean, past-president
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, is sail to be sinking rap
idly at hospital in Baltimore, Md.
United States Senator Thomas Tag
CART was nominated for United States
senator for the short term, by the
Democratic state convention at Indian
spolis.
Two thousand employees OF the
Westinghouse Airbrake company
Joined the strike OF $4,000 Westing
house Electric and Manufacturing
company employees at Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Joint subcommittee of anthra-
cite miners and operators, which has
been attempting to negotiate a new
contract for the hard-coal fields, an
nounced at New York that a satisfac-
tory tentative agreement had been
reached.
DIR. f. II. Trezona, his mother.in.
law, Mrs. MacLesn, and Miss Ger
trude Shaw, all CT Gibson City, H.,
were killed instantly and Mrs. Trezo-
ma was badly injured when their auto
mobile was struck by a Wabash train.
Almost a thousand Methodists, rep
resenting a total Of over 100000 COM
municants in all foreign lands. gath
ereo at Saratoga Springs. N. Y, for
the general conference. Important
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS OF WORLD
BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Kernels Culled From Events Of Mo-
ment In All Parts Of the World
OF interest to All tho
People Everywhere.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

ana daisies by the congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage. The
flowers are the woman suffrage colors
purple, white and gold.
Admiral Dewey will recommend to
the house naval affairs committee at
Washington that a building program
be adopted which will pot the Ameri-
can navy in second place within three
years. The recommendation will be
a formal communication from the adj
miral containing the report of the
navy general board.
Submarine warfare upon commerce
was denounced by IN array of prom
inent jurists before the American So
ciety OF International Law at Wash
ington.
An envelope containing $4,000 ad-
dressed to the conscience fund" was
received at the treasury department
at Washington. No word Of explana.
ton accompanied the money.
In a stirring speech on the floor or
the senate at Washington, Senator
Husting of Wisconsin demanded con-
gressional investigation into the food
of kilograms pouring into congress on
the German-American situation.
Secretary Lansing announced at
Washington that the United States had
sent another note to Great Britain de-
handing the release of the 80 Aus
trians, Germans and Turks taken from
the American steamship China by
British cruiser off Shanghai.
The state department at Washing
ton inquired of the Turkish govern
ment whether Abram |. Elkus OF New
York would be acceptable as ambassa-
dor to succeed Henry Morgenthau,
whose resignation has been accepted
by President Wilson.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
Washington

Each member of the house judiciary
committee at Washington was pre-
scented with a boutonniere of violets
and daisies by the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage. The
flowers are the woman suffrage colors
purple, white and gold.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

Georgia's new prohibition law, de
signed to drive breweries, locker clubs
and near beer" saloons from the
state. became effective Saturday.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt brought
1900 lawyers to their feet in wild
cheering at the Illinois Bar associa-
ton banquet at the Hotel La Sale in
Chicago when he demanded universal
service in the United States, modelled
on the Swiss and Australian systems.
The demonstration came after he had
been urging for an hour the gospel
OF genuine Americanism" with no
hyphen.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

DIR. f. II. Trezona, his mother.in
law, Mrs. MacLesn, and Miss Ger
trude Shaw. all CT Gibson City, ILL.,.
were killed instantly and Mrs. Trezo
ma was badly injured when their auto
mobile was struck by Wabash train
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

The Dublin rebels have been driven
out of their positions in ST. Stephens
Green with bombs, after sustaining
heavy losses, says the London Daily
News. Four hundred Irish rebels were
made prisoners.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

Four Mexican prisoners at Casas
Grandes are reported in dispatch to
Columbus, N. NJ, to have been killed
by American sentries on attempting to
escape.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04

Almost a thousand Methodists, rep
resenting a total of over 1000, 900 com
municants in all foreign lands. gath
ereo at Saratoga Springs. N. Y, for
the general conference. Important
legislation that will vitality affect
Methodism will be acted upon.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-07-19
sunny Man 81 japan.

The "Tads," Bud Fishers. and Cold
beres are notsall confined to the realm
OF American journalism. for Japan,
too, says 4 writer In Cartoons Maya
zine, has her comedy sketch artists.
The endeavors Of these men. he says,
SHOW striking similarity to much
OF the work done BY our popular con-
temporaries. Clean, wholesome fun,
quite OF the order that one finds In
such series as the 'Katzenjammer Kids
and The Adventures Of Willie West
inghouse Edison Smith, predomi--
mates In the Japanese pictures. There
is only slight evidence Of that ele-
ment which to the American mind
makes large proportion Of European
work risque and vulgar. The hunor
is childlike, possibly even more 80
than our own, but 1t has the browning
virtue OF having cleanliness without
being sterile or insjpid.
"The Japanese have not created .
new style Of comic cartoon. On the
contrary, they have repained thor
oughly true to their pr0clivity Tor
initiating the ideas Of others. They
have copied the American strip close
y, and since We are promo to know
them Tor this trait more than almost
any other few persons ~ wo PM
at the sfect. 3