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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
UNCLE SAM IS ASKED
TO SEIZE PAPER MILLS
A REPORT RECOMMENDING GOV.
EMINENT OPERATION OF
PULP INDUSTRIES.
Action Against the Defiant Attitude of
Paper Producers Urged BY
Senate Committee.

Western Union Newspaper News Service
Westinghouse report recommend
ing Government operation of the print
paper and pulp industries during the
war and arraigning what it calls tn
defiant attitude of print paper pro-
ducers was filed by the Senate Print
ing Committee. 1t will await action at
the December session. The report
says the Federal Trade Commission
findings "show beyond any question
that the print paper industry, in its
greed for excessive profits, has i'm
posed a most unjust burden on the
American press, which faces a serious
disaster if relief can not speedily be
had from the oppressive prices now
exacted for print paper" 1t adds that
the commission, in it's recent lnVestl-
cation, exhausted every resource at
it's command to obtain relief for the
publishers, but has been able to get
only a small measure of relief owing
"to the defiant attitude assumed by
the principal producers of print paper
and lack of authority Of the commits
sion to enforce its finding as to fair
and reasonable price
Under a resolution introduced by
Senator Smith, of Arizona, and report
ed by the committee for passage, the
Trade Commission would be empow-
cred to control the production and dis
tribution of print paper and mechan-
ical and chemical pulp in the United
States.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
SERIOUS PROBLEM Is FACED
VIII Have to Weed Out "Misfits" That
Local Boards Sent In Anxiety
to Fill Quotas.

Camp Sherman, O.-Army officers
at Camp Sherman are facing serious
problem owing to laxity of local draft
boards in selecting men to fill the
ranks of the national army. Here is
the situation: Overanxiety on the part
of draft boards throughout Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania to fill quickly
their quotas and get the soldiers off
to camp" has resulted in thousands OF
units being dumped into Camp Sher
man. Hundreds of these already have
been sent home. These men, many OF
them disabled beyond repair; others
alien enemies, and others hopelessly
ignorant of the English language, are
here, and they are burden upon the
shoulders of Major General E. F. Glenn
and his officers.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19

Food Administration Warns Operators
of Mills To Adhere To United
States Schedule.

New York-A warning that sum-
mary action will be taken against a
few flour mills in the United States
which are seeking to accumulate prof
its in excess of that indicated by the
Food Administration where specific in.
stances of such violation are discov-
cred. was issued here by the milling
division of the administration. Aside
from these few infractions the state
ment declared that James F. Bell,
chairman of the division, is highly
pleased with the patience and cheer
full cooperation" shown by the mill
ing trade at large in fulfilling the pro-
gram mapped out by the division.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
VAST REVENUE BILL A LAW
Provides for Two BIIions-SenatS
Passes Measure Which Was Up
Before House Five Months.

Washington.-At last the two-and-a-
-billion-dOllar war revenue bill
practically is a law. 1t passed the
Senate without a dissenting vote, and
will go to President Wilson. Senator
Simmons said the bill, which has been
in the Congress five months, would
raise $685., 100000. There was not
even a roll call on the bill. Senator La
Toilette concluded speech against it.,
calling it unjust, and saying it was
framed unwisely. Vice President Mar
shall called for viva voce vote, and in
a few seconds the greatest tax meas
ure ever placed on any nation had been
passed. Senator Simmons, the FL
nance Committee Chairman, explained
that the decrease of approximately
$200000,000 from the estimate was be-
cause of revisions. He said the in
creases added by the Senate and con-
ference changes amounted to $1,102,-
100000, of which 12S,000,00O was in
serted by the conferees.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
INSURANCE FOR SOLDIERS
Senate Unanimously Votes to Provide
For Lives of Uncle Sans Fight
ing Forces.

Washington.-By a unanimous vote
of Il to 0, the bill to insure the lives
of American soldiers and sailors was
passed by the Senate. An important
amendment increases to $25 the pen
sions of all Civil War, Spanish-Amer-
lean War and the Philippine insurrec-
ton widows. This increase will cost
the Government $3,5OO,OO0. Four thou
sand Spanish War widows will receive
SIS more monthly, and 10000 Civil
War widows will get an increase of
S. monthly.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
SAFE BLOWERS ARRESTED
Peoria Police Believe They Have
Caught Members of Gang Which
Have Operated In Illinois.

Peoria, nl-The capture of alleged
safe blowers who, it is charged, have
been operating in Peoria and Central
Illinois towns for the past six months,
was announced by the Police Depart
ment here. Three men and one woman
are being held in custody as alleged
members of an organized gang, and
other arrests in Peoria and Springfield,
H., are expected within a few hours.
Those under arrest are Herbert Alt
man, Edgar Anstice, Charles Brown
and Frances Sawyer, all Of Peoria.
The arrests were made after an ex-
plosion had wrecked the safe in local
laundry office.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
Bunker Coal Denied Dutch Ship.

Washington.-The Government has
definitely refused license for bunker
coal to the Holland-American liner
Nieuw Amsterdam, because the Meth
erlands Government would not give
assurance that the ship would return
to the United States after discharging
her Belgian relief cargo. This action
is said to forecast the complete en-
barge of the large fleet of Dutch ships
now in New York Harbor unless Hol-
land permits them to carry cargoes
for the United States.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
BREAK DIPLOMATIC RELATION
President Of Uruguay Is Authorized
To Sever Relations With Ger
many BY Vote of Congress.

Observation-Disclosures diplomatic
break with Germany came to pass aft
er an all-night session of Congress. 1t
was greeted by outbursts of patriotic
fervor from the public and press
throughout the republic. The meas
ure adopted by a joint session of the
Senate and House authorizes Presi-
dent Viera, of Uruguay:
/. To break diplomatic and CONNER
tial relations with the German Empire.
.. To adopt measures to facilitate
aayigation, in cooperation with the
friendly nations. and measures to as
sure importation and expectation.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
SHIP CONTRACT
is now READY
TO PUT INTO IMMEDIATE FORCE
THE $s5o,ooo,ooo PROJECT APP
PROVED BY CONGRESS.
Preliminary Contracts Made With
Ship, Boiler and Engine Building
Companies, Providing for the Com.
pIeton of the Big Job.

Western Union Newspaper News Service.
hington.-Contract to put into
immediate force the $o50,000,00O de-
stroyer project approved by the Con-
gress Just previously to adjournment
were made ready to be signed by Sec
rotary Daniels. Preliminary contracts
made with ship, boiler and engine
building companies, providing for the
completion of the big job in not more
than 1S months, were of tentative
nature and some minor changes were
necessary. The plan, in general
way, is to build additional shops and
shipyards at which destroyers suffi-
cient to more than double the present
American fleet, built or building, will
be laid down. The private builders
could not undertake this unaided, and
probably more than half of the appro-
priatlon will go into plant construc-
ton, which either will pass to the Gov
eminent Or be bought by the COM
panies when the work is done.
The Navy Department has request
ed that the number of new destroyers
to be built be not published, although
there are indications that under it's
new policy of taking the public more
into it's confidence, where military pre-
cautions will permit, this information
and other facts showing the enormous
work progressing IN American ship
yards soon will be revealed. 1t is I'M
derstood that at least two of the new
destroyer contracts call for 40 boats
each.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
$4,000 FOR RELIEF WORK
Worst in Country's History-Red
Cross Cables Relief.

Washington.-Fifty thousand dol
lars for the relief of flood sufferers
in China was cabled by the American
Red Cross to it's workers in that
country 1t was announced that the
entire 100000 suggested by Paul
Raisch, the American Minister, will
be sent in the near future. Dispatches
received by the Chinese Legation said
conditions following the flood were
worse than those attendant upon any
other inundation in the country's his
tory. SO great is the distress among
the people of the flooded districts that
all of the Chinese officials have been
called upon to contribute 10 per cent
of their salaries for relief work.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
MCKINLEY MEMORIAL
DEDICATED AT NILES
NEW ERA IN LIFE OF AMERICA
WAS BEGUN BY MARTYRED
PRESIDENT, SAYS TAFT.
Were This Great Ohioan Alive His
Words Would Ring Against Patch
ed-up Peace, Ayers Friend.

Niles, Understanding at the great
marble memorial building and monu
ment erected to the memory OF Ohio S
martyred President, William McKin'
ley, in the city of his birth and dedi-
Gated to him, former President VIM.
clearly, when others were blind to it,
the real position of the United States
in the world.
Mr.. Taft continued
I'VE could not keep out of world
politics, if we would. That which af-
fects the world affects us. The Mon
roe doctrine is becoming a more seri-
Gus limitation upon European action
than ever before.
Were Mckinley alive today how
his patriotic heart, his broad vision
and his vibrant words would be united
in supporting the Government in it's
constructive measures to carry on the
great world struggle to victory!
With what firmness he would reject
all propositions to compromise by pro-
posal Of patched-up peace! He would
not fail to see that in the present is
sue no peace is possible until secured
by victory-that no solution is worthy
of our history but a defeat of militar'
ism"
Mr. Taft declared that it is better
to fight Germany in company with the
allies thcn to fight her alone later. He
insisted that had we been able to stay
out of the war we would have found
ourselves in continued friction with
Germany, until she thought the OPP
portunity had come for her to strike.
"Our present situation is mere de-
velopment of the disclosure Of our real
situation in the world which Mckinley
recognized and made preparation to
meet" continued Mr.. Taft.
mckinley began new era in the
life of the United States. His success
sors in office followed in this"
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
SINISTER HAND IS SEEN
Federal AGENTS Discover That Move
Had Eeen Proposed to Over
throw Program.

Chicago,-An anarchistic revolution,
having for its object the overthrow of
the United States Government through
the seizure of all agencies of pr0duc-
ton. distribution and storage facilities,
and which is closely allied with the
Bolshivik movement in Russia op-
posed to the new democracy there was
planned by the I w. w. in this nation,
according TO Federal officials here.
The belief, it was learned, is based
upon evidence obtained in the l. w. w.
raids throughout the United States
made several weeks ago, which result
ed in the arrest to date of 10 members
of this organization, following their
indictment by a Federal Grand Jury.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
MANY TRAPPED IN BUILDING
Flames Sweep Russian Theater and
War Hosp tai, Resulting in Death
of Many Persons.

Petrograd.-Fire in the Panayeff
Theater, in which from rs to 100 per-
sons lost their lives, is supposed to
have been caused by dropped cigar
cite. Most of the victims were SOL
diers in the hospital on the fifth floor
of the building and servants occupying
quarters above. When the FIRE De-
partment arrived the building was
completely developed in flames, the
fire having spread with great rapidity.
Victir?s trapped in the upper part Of
the building jumped from the seventh
floor and were killed. Falling walls
crushed several fremen to death. The
loss from the destruction Of the build
ing, which was used as field post
office and hospital, is estimated at
about 100000 rubles.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
TELLS OF SLAUGHTER AT SEA
Experience After Germans Cap
ture Belgian Prince.

Washington.-The complete story of
the murder of the crew of the steamer
Belgian Prince by a German subma-
rine commander, who took them on
the deck of his vessel and then sub
merged, leaving them to drown, was
told officially for the first time. The
narrative of William Smell, negro, cook
on the steamer, as taken down verba-
tim by an officer of the American navy,
was made public by the Navy Depart
ment. Smell was one of the three sur
vivors of the ill-fate; crew.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
Pursuing Revolutionary Bands.

Brownsville, Texas.-Revolutiona
were reported headed for Mendez, a
small interior town in Tamaulipas,
closely pursued by Government troops.
Reports from isolated points near the
border say a detachment of Gonzales
troops under command of a man
nemed Rodriguez sacked the town OF
Tresvino in an effort to obtain large
amount of money possessed by three
citizens, but failed, the men escaping
with the money. Citizens of Mier,
Mexico, learning of a prospective at
tack, prepared to resist it, but Govern
ment troops arrived in time to thwart
the attack.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
WARS GREATEST VICTORY
Thousands of Bodies Lying Amid Ruins
Left in Wake of Terrific Hurri-
cane of Shells.

London.-"The greatest British vic
tory of the war;" is the way CORE
spondents at the front described Gen
eral Haig's smash across German po-
sitions east and northeast of Ypres.
They say villages captured in the drive
are Broodseinde, Reutel, Noordenhoek,
Polderhoek, Molenaaresthoek and
Gravenstafel The total of prisoners
counted so far exceeds 5000. The
Germans did not counter-attack. In
stead they played unceasing rays of
hot metal from the heaviest guns upon
the new British positions, trying to
hamper the consolidation work.
Three principal obstacles remain be-
fore the whole remainder of the ridge
must automatically crumble before
the British drive. They are Zonne-
beke, GheluveIt and part of Polygon
Wood. 1t is confidently expected that
Haig will resume his offensive shortly
in order to place himself in complete
possession of all the dominating
heights before the weather compels
both sides to go into winter quarters.
The Berlin War Office described the
battle as relatively a German success.
1t admitted that the British made
gains to a depth varying between one
and one-half kilometers, the lost
ground being termed "a strip of land"
The statement ayers that the German
Fourth Army succeeded il withstand
ing the British attack" and inflicted
heavy losses upon the assailants.
and Gheluvelt villages, it is
added, remain completely in the pos
session of the Germans"
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
sIackers Nabbed at Border.

San Antonio, Texas.-Ten alleged
"slackers' were shipped out of Mexico
and delivered to United States au.
thorities. A reward of $50 for the cap
ture of every American Stacker is
said to have reused the Mexicans Of
the Durango section to organize for
the capture of a large band of Ameri-
:ans in that locality. Hundreds of
Americans of draft age are also said
to have taken refuge in Monterey.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
SENTENCE BOARD OFFICIALS
Two Years Given Physician and
Clerks for Receiving Money for
the Exemption of a Draftee.

New York.-Maximum prison SEN
fences of two years each we're imposed
in the Federal Court upon DR.. Henry
Seligman, physician of a Brooklyn
Draft Board, and Nathan E. Heilich
and Lazarus Jacobson, clerks, as pen
atty for receiving money for exempting
a man examined for the draft. Selig.
man in addition was fined $4,000.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
German Battle Cruiser Hits Mine.

London.-Arrivals at Amsterdam
from Hamburg, says a dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company, report
that early last week a new German
battle cruiser, while on a trial run of
Helgoland, struck a mine and was Sc
riously damaged. Three omcers and
twenty sailors were drowned Ths
vessel was towIi to port
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
rwo Socialists Indicted.

ST. Louis. Mo.-Thomas Carnell and
Arno B. Pallme, Socialists, we're il
dicted by the Federal Grand Jury on
charges of making Gisloyal utterances.
Carnell was arrested while making a
speech. Pallme was indicted for state
bsnts he is alleged 10 have made to q
graft exemption board.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
Germans Transferred.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-The 463 in.
termed German sailors and officers of
the commerce raider Prinz Eitel Fried
erich, confined in the prison barracks
at Fl. Oglethorpe for several manths,
we're transferred to the prison st Fit.
Mcpherson. The Fl Oglethorpe pris-
on win be used for civil aliens.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-10-19
Iananese Missions Arrive.

A Pacific Port-Special Japanese
parliamentary and school missions to
study commercial, financial and educa-
ton conditions in the United States,
arrived from the Orient. The Parlia-
mentary Mission is composed of DR.. T.
Masso. chairman; S. Yamani, T. Schi-
mazda. X. Mochizuk and E. Uyehara.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10
LIGHT AUTOMOBILES u
MAKE GOOD IN WAR

PARIS, France-The advantages
of the light small automobiles for SER
vice at the front is the one discovery
which the American Ambulance Field
Service has contributed to the war.
1t is now nearly two years since the
field service first sent section Of its
light cars into the mountainous re-
gion of Alsace, showing the possibili-
ty Of carrying wounded by automobile
UP and down the mountains in regions
where up to that time the wounded
had only been carried on mule-back or
in horse-drawn cars.
Since that time there has always
been one or another OF the American
ambulance sections in this region I'M
til fortnight ago when the last Sec
ton was transferred elsewhere. With
in a week after its departure the gen.
eral in command OF that region sent
word that no other cars could do the
work which had so long been entrust-
ed to the field service cars and asked
that another detachment of the light
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10
Increase of 1916 over 1915 80
Per Cent; Value of Cars More
Than One Billion Dollars

From the first, without lapse in a
single year since the beginning 81
years ago. the automobile has been a
maker of new records. Not all OF
these records. as a matter of course,
have been of equal significance; some
have been marked gains within one
period of development: others, fewer
in number but far-reaching In ef-
feet. have signalized the entry into
new periods of development in. the
making and distribution of motor
vehicles.
In the year just closed two new
goals OF this deeper significance were
reached. For the first time the mil
lion mark in motor vehicle production
IN the United States was passed, and
for the first time the total value of
passenger automobiles and motor
trucks manufactured went beyond the
billion dollar mark.
1,6f7,70e Cars
According to figures given out by
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce. which represents the
motor vehicle manufacturers of the
Country, the IOldi pTuuuCtluH Oh oil
classes OF cars was 1,617.70S. of which
! .525.57S were passenger automobiles
and $3.50 trucks or commercial We
hicles.. The total value Of this output,
based on the retail price, was $1,08S,-
o2S, a7S. represented by $921.37s,000 in
passenger cars and $166s650,27s : in
trucks.
In 1915 the total output of cars was
S92.61S. the gain in production over
the preceding year is. therefore, so
per cent. and this Increase is twice
as much as the average annual
gain since the foundation of the in
dustry. At the beginning of 1916 the
National Chamber of Commerce esti-
mated that the production fer that
year would be 100000. The proph-
cts of the automobile industry have
never been lacking in boldness and
Imagination. but those prophets worth
needing fell short of the actual output
in 1916 by more than 100000
1920 Exported
OF the 1.s17.7OS motor vehicles pro-
duced in the United States in 1916,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

spend in road building in the United
States this year. There is hardly a
state that does not realize the i'm
portance of connecting up by solidly
build roadways with the main high
ways that enter it from adjoining
states. Otherwise the ever-increas-
ing stream OF motor vehicle traffic
will pass it by. The federal govern
ment has joined in the work OF pro-
viding main highway routes adequate
for present-day traffice; $50, 000, 900
was voted by the last Congress to be
distributed among the states for this
purpose. with the requirement that
each state double the amount of it's
apportionment.
What will the production be this
year? 1t will be larger than 1916, in
the opinion of the manufacturers. 1t
is recognized that the last year was
phenomenal year, and while the auto
mobile has been treated to one phe-
nomenal year after another, 100 per
cent gain in 1917 is not looked for
One man in touch with the industry
predicted the increase OF 1917 over
1916 would be not less than 20 per
cent.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

To duplicate road conditions with a
stationary car, so that new owners
may learn to drive without going on
the road, the engineering department
OF Dodge Brothers factory and the en-
gineering department OF Bishop, Nc
Cormick Bishop, in Brooklyn, n. Y,
have designed the device shown above.
The idea has been so carefully work.
ed out that the operation of the ma
chine actually does duplicate road con-
ditions To bring this about the tires
are removed from the rear wheels
and heavy iron castings are substitute
ed for them These castings are so
constructed that water may be admit
ted to the INSIDE of the casting, and
there are also fins on the outside of
the castings towards the car, so that
cooling is accomplished both by air
and by water. These castings are ma
chined so that they are absolutely true
and in perfect balance, and their
weight is the exact equivalent Of the
momentum of the car al a speed Of
90 miles an hour, so that the operation
OF the gear shift lever is ever a trifle
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10

Easier than 1t would be in road opers
alton. Brake oands are run around
these castings and are equalized to
operate from the lever shown in the
picture These brake bands are lined
with maple wood blocks @..ss
The adjustment is such that when
the brake lever is in the first notch
the resistance against the wheels is
the same as the dead weight of the
car against the engine in starting, so
that when the pupil moves the change
speed lever into first speed he is re-
quired to give sufficient pressure upon
the accelerator actually to start the
car in motion as if ii were on the road.
IL he does not give sufficient gas to
the engine he will stall it. When the
pupil has successfully started the car
In first speed ne accelerates until the
speedometer, which is attached to the
transmission, shows speed of about
seven miles an hour; then he can
make his shift into second speed. Then
he accelerates the engine until the
speedometer shows about Is miles an
hour and goes into his high speed
When the car is operating in high