The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-11
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD over
Happenings Of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
The NEWS OF The SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic.

Domestic. =,
Cook Clayton, clerk of the United
States court for the southern district
of Georgia, has been indicted by the
federal grand jury at Macon for the
embezzlement of $4,000 of govern
ment funds and for making raise
statements to the attorney general as
to his accounts.
Perhaps the most extraordinary rec
ord set in all the record smashing OF
the Sixty-fifth congress was the Vot-
ing of more than twenty-One billions
of dollars for the first year OF the war
without a dissenting voice in either
house.
Notice to the public to make its tax
returns to the government under the
new war revenue tax law has been Is
sued. All individuals receiving IN
comes of $1,000 and over come under
the operation of the new law. Per-
sons failing to make returns will be
prosecuted as slackers.
It is pointed out since congress has
adjourned that the administration has
had it's way in every instance save
one-that of censOring the neWspa-
pers. and the newspapers practically
volunteered to preserve the interests
of the country in the publication OF
war news.
Mighty few people, if any, can pos
siblv escape the new war revenue law
It is incumbent upon practically every
man and woman to make returns to
the United States authorities as soon
as possible.
Following a conference between rep
resentatives of the freight clerks OF
the N, G.. & St. L. and the w. & "A.
who walked out in Atlanta, officials
of the roads, at which no agreement
was reached, a formal order for
general strike of all members OF the
order of the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks on these two roads was ISSUED
by J. ]. Forester, grand president OF
the order.
The Greater Savannah Commercial
Club adopted resolutions asking fol
the expulsion from the United States
senate of Senator Thomas W. Hard
wick of Georgia., declaring that his
published utterances and antagonlsu'
attitude toward the government de
manded that such be done.
Twelve people were injured, the ma
iority only slightly when one OF the
big trolley cars of the Stone Mountain
: line turned turtle on a sharp curve
lust behind Agnes Scott college, IL
Decatur, Ca, killing negro and max
ing a mass of wreckage out of thu
car
In Newark, N. J., the offices of tn
New Jersey Freie Zeitung were raid
ed by federal authorities and the pub
Usher, Benedict Prieth, and two edl
tors, William Won Kaepezler and Henri.
Wechter were taken into custody. TIL
men were arraigned before the Unltet
States commissioner charged with pub
fishing seditious matter.
A price of 80 cents a pound to tn
farmer was agreed upon at meetln
in New Orleans of men interested i
marketing and growing of cotton
ten Southern states as being justifie
by the present selling prices OF mani
featured cotton products.
Southern farmers in a meeting a
New Orleans went on record as OF
posed to federal fixing of the price c
cotton and urged instead the creatio
of an official marketing board throug
which to obtain a correct estimate {
a fair and equitable price.