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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
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Postape.-Three cents an ounce
or fraction thereof on letters for
other than local delivery; two
cents on all postal cards.
AdmIssions-Ten per cent tax
ON tickets to theaters, cabarets.
and other amusement places.
Dues-Ten per cent tax on
dues OF clubs exceeding S12
year.
Tobaeeo-Graduated taxes on
cigars, tobacco, cigarettes. cigar
ette papers and snuff.
Exprsss-Five per cent tax on
amounts paid for express trans
portation.
PaSsenoerS-Eight per cent OF
the cost of railroad tickets. ex-
cept local.
Bsrths-Ten per cent Of the
cost Of berths, staterooms, and
parlor car seats.
oiI-Five per cent tax on
amounts paid for transportation
Of oil by pipe lines.
MessaoeS-Five cents tax on
each telegraph, telephone. or ra-
dlo message costing Is cents or
more.
Insuranee-Elght cents tax on
each 500 or fractional part
thereof of each life insurance
policy; one per cent Of the pre-
MUM on fire, marine, inland.
and casualty insurance policies.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
WAR MESSAGE Of
WILSON DISTORTED
German People Not Permitted 10
Read Full Text of PreSi-
dents Address.
EFFECT ON PUBLIC FEARED
Copy Issued by Committee on Public
information Shows important
Passages That Were
Suppressed.

The German government did not
dare to communicate to the Ger
man people the full text Of Presi-
dent Wilson's war message Of
April 2, 1917. It'feared the InfIu-
ence which the unabridged text
Of this message might have upon
the opinion Of the people. There
fore the official message Of the
president Of the United States
was presented to Germany in an
abridged and distorted form.
The committee on public lnfor-
nation Of the United States gov
ernment has prepared a copy Of
this message showing the pas
sages which were suppressed In
the report Of the Wolff Telegraph
bureau when the message Of the
president was published to the
whole world, These passages are
shown In boid-faced type in the
following copy Of the message.
The Wolff Telegraph bureau Is nor
only under censorship control Of
the German government, but has
been consistently employed by the
government for the promuIoa$Ion
OF official opinions.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
Greatest Thing in the World.

Love has been called the greatest
thing in the world, but the greatest
thing in the world is not thing at
all; the greatest thing is a person.
Personality is tho greatest thing in
the world. The greatest thing in per-
sonallty is not strength of body nor
strength of mind. 1t is strength of
heart. "Clever people are as common
as blackberries, the rare things to
find a good one." 1t is not Daniel
Webster's brain, but Lincoln's heart,
that wins nations love.--ExchRnge-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
One More Question.

"Going far?" asked the talkative
one.
ITO London" roared the traveller.
"I'm forty-six and married; name, Ho-
ratio Brown; one daughter, nineteen
years old, In the civil service, gets
thirty shillings a week; father died
last July; mother is still living; one
of my nieces has red hair; our maid
has left, but we've got another one.
Anything else"
The talkative one thought for a mo-
ment.
"What oil do you use on your
tongue?" h inquired.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
Gained Fame While Dying.

Antoine Vatican; one of Frances
foremost artists, painted his celebrated
decorative panels while dying of the
white mans scourge. He sprang from
humble and poverty-stricken surround
ings, and was forced to work on the
brink of starvation for the greater
part of his thirty-seven years. just
MS his fame rose to national proper
tions his tubercular condition became
worse and he worked desperately dur
tng his last few years to complete MS
uch work as possible before he died.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
Indian Summer,

The term "Indian summer" is ap-
piled to period Of mild, open weather
that comes in the fall, embracing the
most Of October and sometimes ex-
tending into November, and character
lied by sort of dry mist or hazinesS
that differentiates it from other sea-
sons of the year. What causes the dis
tinctive features of the season, espe-
cially the hazy atmosphere, is un-
known, and the origin of the term
equally so. Different explanations
have been given of both, but they seem
to be largely fancifnl-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08

The war tax on facilities furnished
by public utilities is now levied as
follows:
Three per cent of the amount paid
II transportation by rail or water or
y any form of mechanical motor pow
er in competition with carriers by rail
or water, on freight consigned from
one point In the United States to IN
other.
One cent for each twenty cents or
fraction charged by express cOmpa-
nies for transportation from one point
in the United States to another.
Eight per cent Of the amount paid
for the transportation of persons by
rail or water or by any form Of me-
chanical motor power on a regular
established line in competition with
common carriers, from one point in
the United States to any point in the
United States, Canada or Mexico
where the ticket Is issued in the Unit
ed States. No tax is imposed on COM
mutation or season tickets for trips
less than 30 miles, or in cases where
the fare does not exceed 35 cents.
Ten per cent of the amount paid
for seats, berths Or staterooms.
If a mileage book used for trans
pOrtation or accommodation was pur-
chased prior to November l. 1917, or
If cash fare is paid. the conductor or
hn 10 vnnNNirn6
to collect the tax.
Five per cent on the amount paid
for the transportation Of oil by pipe
line.
Five cents for each telegraph, tele-
phone or radio dispatch originating
In the United States where the charge
Is Is cents or more.
The foregoing taxes are paid by the
persons paying for the services or
facilities rendered. A carrier making
no charge for transporting cOmmOd.
Ity because Of its ownership thereof,
or for any other reason, Is required
to pay a tax equivalent to the amount
which would be imposed II 1t received
payment, except in the case Of COM
mOdities which are necessary for its
use in the conduct of its business or
the business of another line cOnstitut-
Ing u part of the same railroad sys-
tenn. Service rendered to the federal
and state governments is exempt from
taxation. Persons collecting these
taxes are required to make monthly
returns and monthly payments to the
federal government.
The new levies upon insurance take
effect in the following manner:
On life insurance, eight cents on
each S100 or fraction of the amount
of the policy, except industrial insur-
Gnce policies not in excess of $500
issued on the weekly payment plan, In
which case the tax is 40 per cent Of
the first weekly premium. Policies OF
reinsurance are exempt.
On marine, inland and fire insur-
ance, one cent on each dollar or frac-
tIon of the premium charged under
each policy including renewals, but
not including policies of reinsurance.
Casualty insurance, one cent on each
dollar or fraction Of the premium
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
HOusekeepers Can Save
$500, 900, 900 on Food

In these days when the high cost of liv-
ing pinches nearly every home, no waste
should be overlooked. One Of the most
fragrant and the most easily prevented, Is
the destruction of food by rats. One at
will often do hundred dollars damage OF
food and property in a single night, and
careful estimate gives over $200J0O0,O00 as
the value of foodstuffs destroyed annually
by these pests. Exterminate them with
Stearns' Paste and save this enormous
loss of food. A small box of Stearns'
Paste costs only 30 cents and is usual
ly enough to completely rid the house of
rats and mice; also effective against cock
reaches and waterbugs. Adv
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08

mothers son wore a timepiece on his
wrist. But the convention said nay,
that the wrist watch was not to be.
When this country woke up very re-
Gently and began to get dressed for a
fight it was realized that wrist
watch was rather chubby young
thing to have ticking on ones anat-
omy. The soldiers put them on. Sol
diering subsequently became more and
more fashionable, and now anyone
who laughs openly at wrist watch is
regarded as slightly mad and possess
ing the malings of a Stacker. In New
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
Bald Men. Don't Read This!

Gladys-WhO was the old gentleman
who took you to dinner, Violet?
Violet-An old bachelor friend Of
papa's. He was delightful.
Gladys-I shouldn't think you would
find bald-headed old bachelor very
delightful companion at dinner.
Violet-Oh, but he was-he attract
ed all the flies.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08

York the demand has been so great
that jewelers. are sending men direct
to the various factories to plead for
larger orders. The price has been
raised in almost all grades, but the
folk who know good thing when
a whole nation shows it to them, con-
tinue to buy on and on.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
Just Missed IL.

An old gentleman from the cOun-
try, tremulOus with fear after hearing
bombs and guntire, in an air raid,
emerged from his hotel with his wife,
relates the London Chronicle. In the
street they inquired Of an imperturb-
able police constable If 1t was "all
over" The policeman, imagining they
were eager sightseers, said, "Well, I'm
afraid, sir, 1t is all over; but they may
return in 'ah an our" Rapid depart
ure of the "SightseerS."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
WRIST WATCH is POPULAR F.;

The wrist watch prejudice seems to
have vanished and everybody is wear
ing clock on his forearm, but 1t has
taken war to bring about the change.
Only couple of years ago delega-
tfon of wrist watch justifiers at
tempted to get the sanction of the
Jewellers convention. then in session
On New York. to see 10 1t that every
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
AT War With Yourself |!
HELP NATURE TO DEFEAT TISE
DISEASE m Y01R BODY.

Keep up the fight; do not give up
Mature Is trying 70 serve you In conquer
ing the wrongs that may exist
Red blood, vim, courage, vitality, al
seem lacking. No wonder you are neEv-
Gus and discouraged
Why not call TO ,youE aid Q strong,
dependable ally7 DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery has for over forty
years proven its merits as q most power
ful tonic and blood builder to the many
thousands who have been returned 70
good health By its use.
Clear the coated tongue, get rid Of
unsightly skin trouble. Let this remark
able remedy rid your body Of the i'm:
purities Of the blood, let IL tone and
strengthen you. 1t often cures the linger-
ing chronic cough.
DR. PieTee's Golden Medical Discovery
r. absolutely q herbal tonic, free from
alcohol or dangerous habit forming
drugs. All druggists. Tablets, go cents
CLEVELAND, ONO. -WSome years ago
DR.. Pierce's medicine saved my mothers
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08

sent and got DR.. Pierce's Golden Med.
ical Discovery for her, and when she had
taken the first bottle she was much i'm
proved. We kept up its use until she
had taken nine bottles, when she was
well, healthy and strong. Golden Med
ical Discovery also cured me of a chronic
cough which had bothered me for years.
do highly recommend the Discovery
to all who are in need Of medicine Of this
kind. d."-MRs. ALLIE OBERsTAR 1214
Norwood boulevard
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
Converting the Bird.

"a bird in the hand is worth two in
the BUSH" Trouble g - make the
bird believe it."-Louisville Courier
Journal
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08

w. A. Aiken of Milwaukee has some
corn grown from seed claimed to be
1900 years old.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08

Mrs. W. J. Tisdale, HobOken, N. J..
widow, has seven sons in United States
military service.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08

life. She had been
sick for some time
with woman's weak
ness and along with
this she contracted q
very bad cough. She
doctored but seemed
to get worse instead
Of better, when at Lass
she became bedfast.
She gradually grew
weaker until the doc
tors GA Ve her nm. We
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
THE NEW WAR TAX
HELPS WHIP ENEMY
Folks Have to Pay Extra Now
for Postage, Travel, Amuse-
mentS, Etc.
REMEMBER, KAISER TO BLAME
But fer Prussia's Mad Ambition and
eArbareuS Methods, World Prob
ably Would Be at Peaee-0on't
Forget Income Tax.

WaShlngton-How does the war tax
strike your How do you enjoy put
ting up three cents instead Of two on
all letters sent out of town? How do
you like paying the extra charge for
movies, railroad tickets, kilograms
long-dlstance phone messages7
And, by the way, II you are single
and earn more than $1,000 a year, you
have to pay a two per cent tax on all
in excess OF the thousand bucks. And
II you are married, you have to pay
two per cent tax on your annual In
come in excess of $1,000.
Didn't you know that? Well, It's
true, and the tax must be paid by
June 1. 1918 for the whole year 1917.
II yO1 fall to pay. the government can
exact heavy penalty. But remember,
folks. II is all done to help whip the
kaiser. II the tax makes you
grOuchy, cusS the kaiser, don't cuSs
our government.
All of the new taxes fall upon the
average man.. They have nothing to
do with the "conscriptiOn Of wealth"
They are n part of the program Of
taxation to make each man, woman
and child in the United States feel q
direct personal part in the war. They
apply to freight, passenger and ex-
press transportation, pipe lines, Pull
man seats and berths, telegraph and
telephone messages, insurance poll
cies, admissions to theaters and
''mOvies" and to club dues. The ef'
feet Of most of them is felt, therefore
In slight rise in the high cost OF
living.
The taxes are expected to net the
federal government the following rev
enueS:
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24
FANATlCiSM

We are not progressing, but turn.
Ing backward, when congress under.
takes to say whether q man shall
read a newspaper in which an adver
dsement OF liquor is published, and to
say that man must go TO the peni
tsntiary II he fails TO live up to the
prescribed code OF morality. A long
sime ago In England there were laws
under which many petty offenses
were punishable by death. Shall we
have In the future law under which
. man may be hanged, drawn and
Quartsred for smoking a cigarettei I
And In . period in which few persons
actually are punished, and fewer ade.
auately punished. for murder? A diff
ference In the form of government
not TO be overlooked, Is that in this
country and In this age the people
govern. The people may be. occa
oi0nally. fanatical, but there is hope
lor the same In the fact that fanati
eism 10 not a permanent condition.
Louisville Courier Journal.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24
WEST vIRo,n,A MAY VOTE wsr

Tho statement was made BY Del.
l.Ielans, recently, that West vln
ginia and Iowa already were tired
Of prohibition. This 10 borne eut|
by the following dispatch from
Wheeling to the Cincinnati En-.
quirer:
Senator o. J. Rosenbloom, OF
Ohio county, who 10 at home herr
during q recess Of the Legislature,
will ask during the present session
that tsa wet ard dry question again
be submitted to the people at the
next election, two years hence.
"The two years Of prohibition have
been farces, declared the Senator,
and ! believe the people should
have the right to vote on the mat.
ter again."
Fellow, In an Associated Press
dispatch from Charleston 10 one
reason why West Virginia is tired
OF IL:
"A bill aimed to stop the Impor-
tation CT intoxicating liquors into
the state was today introduced in
the West virg MIA Senate and
House Of Delegates. The bill would
make II nlsdemeanor for any per.
son TO bring into the State more
than one quart Of intoxicating liq-
uor during period Of thirty dsya|
Common carriers knowingly perl
hitting violaton CT the act would
be liable to a fac Of not less than
s2o0. since West Virginia became q,
prohibition State, large qusntitlad {
Of liquors have been brought into
the State from Maryland and KEN
tueky. special trains having beeN
run for that purpose on. some Of
tn, railroads" =
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24
the "B0NE.DRY" LAW WILL
MAKE ALABAMA
"WET"
SAYS A LEGISLATOR
Representative Henry Merritt
Is Sure Reaction viii Fol.
low Plan For Turning State
I Into a Desert - Declares
Congress Is "ROg Wild

IF bone dry law Is enacted in
Alabama. good bye prohibition" said
Henry Merritt. representative from
Macon county In the legislature and
chairman of the temperance commit.
tee In that body.
Mr.. Merritt reached Montgomery by
automobile from Tuskegee Thursday
afternoon and the chilling freezes en-.
eountered on the way made him think
about the times when one could find
something more warming than n
steam radiator at the Gay league
hotel where he Is staying.
Enough Dry Laws.
I'VE have enough prohibition laws"
said the gentleman from Macon.
What we now need is more law en-.
f0rcement. To pass law shutting
out the importation OF liquor entirely
from Alabama would bring about re.
action. sure, that would have the same
effect as the prohibition amendment
voted on In 1909. II was that word
forever In that amendment that
helped TO defeat II.
There are great many prohibit
uonists In this state who do not wish
20 see Alabama bone dry am not
one OF those prohibitlonists that drink
one way and vote the other, hut there
are enough OF that kind to make abso
Lutte prohibition politically unpopular
here.
Congress hog.Wlld.
Congress seems TO have gone more
hog-wi!d on the subject than the
latest Alabama Legislature was ever
accused OF being. We could not have
been induced to go as far as the
senate went today when that body
made II crime to even order whisky
20 be shipped into dry state."-
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24
QUOTES BISHOP
| ON PROHIBITION
Lawyer Takes Issue with
Preacher Who Voices DRY
Views In lenten Sermon

Attorney Henry Probsaco has sent
shs following letter to the Rev.
George w. Gunnell, who 10 deliver
ing MONDAY addresses at the Lyric
khis week:
heard you at the Lyric Theater at
the MONDAY services, and touching
what you have TO say in relation 10
prohibition, I want TO offer very can
AID criticism. A few mouths ago
wrote a letter to Bishop frttls, In
which I expressed generally my crit''
oism OF prohibition, to which l receiy-
Cd the reply In which he said:
yes, entirely agree with you
about prohibition. temperance!
BY ell means support 1t yourself and
urge It upon others II is '0elf con-
troll But prohibition is exterior con-
troll and Liberty cries aloud, have less
and less OF that entrest, rather than
more and more OF II, as civilization
and progress advance.
was surprised TO hear you advo-
cato the use of force" to obtain pro-
hibition. For everyone who believes
IN the Golden Rule repudiates the at
tempt to make good, honest or sober
by. force"
p. S.--I and my family are Episco-
palians. ns.-Cincinnati (O.) Times'Star.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24

take charge of the advertising col
umns OF the press, and this Is only
beginning. The worst Ia yet to come
and the press OF the country may as
well prepare for 1t. The abject sur
render OF the news columns OF the
press to these propagandists led as
naturally as night follows day to the
assumption that with that surrender
went a kind OF proprietary interest In
the advertising columns also.
The surrender In the first instance
had been so extremely abject, the
spirit OF toadyism so servile. that It
Is not strange II the regulators pre-
sumed that no demand they might
make would be refused. Under ell the
circumstances this presumption was
both natural and justified. Now that
the hand out Of which the great Amer
lean press has been feeding its news
and editorial columns takes vigorous
slap at the business once, there is
waiting and gnashing of teeth"
throughout all the land.--Ohio Valley
Times.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24

And now Prohibitionists, in confer
ence In Chicago, in addition to not
likiag John Barleycorn, dom. approve
Of the scant garb OF the Goddess OF
Liberty on Uncle Sans new silver
quarters. Frances Beauchamp. secre.
tary Of the party's national commit.
tee, declares: There is plenty OF
room for moro clothes on the figure.
I do not approve of its nudity" Mrs.
Virgil Hinshaw, wife of the national
chairman, said the government evi.
IDENTIFY wished to have the figure "in
style by putting so few clothes on
her."e
oh me! oh my!
And well bet a big red apple
against last years birds nest that
not one person in fifty who has re
ceived or seen this new coin has even
noticed whether it bears the figure of
Liberty or OF an eagle, or whether
Liberty is clothed and in her right
mind, dressed for the ballroom, or
IL The altogether
Some folks are so intent upon be.
ing shocked that they remind one of
the fastidous females who objected
to the "op swimmin' hole being so
near their home, and who continued
to object to 1t after 1t had been re.
moved half mile further down
stream because they could still see
'it-with epy glasses. Mansfield CO.,
News.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24
OUR CONGRESSIONAL FAL.
STAFFS.

The day may yet arrive when any
actor daring to appear as Fals.aff
or any other blbulous character on
an American stage will be hailed to
court In short order and incarcerat.
ed In a Federal prison on the charge
OF corrupting the public morals.
AZ Congress has passed law pro-
hiblting circulation through the
mails Of any publication containing
an advertisement Of alcoholic
liquors the next step, logically, will
be for u to pin the white ribbon
on the theater.
And Of course Demon Rum will
be chased on the movie screen. No
more will the comedians, so-eaIIed,
In baggy breeches and sIapotlok
shoes besmear each other with the
wedding cake after having drained
the nuptlal wine straight from the
bottle. Those thrilling scenes from
the Wild West films In which Red
Nose Pete and Booty Bill shoot up
the Palace Dance Hall after Inn.
billing freely Of its wares will be
deleted carefully by the eensors.
And vlsws Of the mountain moon.
sinner In hls romantic habitat will
bs barred absolutely. =
But while all this revising OF the
morals Of the country 10 going on
will the black bottles In the Con.
oresslonal antsrooms hs drained
"bone dry" That's the Important
ausst'on.-Nsw York Evening Gun.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-24
PRESS GIVES AHOWL-
1T LOSES LIQUOR ADS
Many Papers, Through Fear Surrendered News Columns
10 Prohibition But Now the Business Office
Is Being Hit and-H Hurts

The howl going up from the press
all over the country because OF the
move to deprive them OF wet" adver-
tising is both amusing and instructive.
The proposed Russianizing of the
press is merely the coming home to
roost OF that fine large fowl OF fanati.
cism which the press at the dictation
OF the Anti-Saloon League has helped
to raise.
This chicken OF magnificent proper.
tions seems to be crowding the cash
register on the press home roost,
hence the frantic howls from the bust.
ness office. The press OF the country
has been and still 10 subsidized
through fear, and added to this lack
of courage. this cowardice. has been
the base and ignoble idea that hypo-
critical pandering to- this element
would be profitable.
Censorship 10 COMING.
The press has catered to that cam.
paign to that spirit which has made
possible and inevitable this move to