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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-19
PUBLICITY OF INCOME RETURNS ESSENTIAL
IF UNITED STATES is TO WIN
ESSENTIAL


to the public, so that everybody can
tell who is paying his just taxes, and
whether the revenue agents are en-
forcing the law rigidIy and impair
TALLY.
mo one can pretend that we are
at the present time getting anything
like complete returns under the in
come tax. The secretary of the
treasury says we are not; the COM
missioner of internal revenue reports
hundreds of delinquents in the one
district in which he has made a thur
ough investigation; and every man
in the street knows of numerous
cases of men who are completely
evading the tax or are paying only a
part OF what they should.
UNLESS we make the returns pub
lie this scandaIous situation is sure
to grow even worse when we raise
the tax rates as we are certainly
going to do. The man who will dodge
10 per cent tax will certainly not re-
sist the temptation to make a false
return. when the rate is raised to 30
or 20 per cent. And when we begin
taking all or nearly all Of the incomes
over 100000, as hope and believe
we shall, every possible check on eva
sion will be required.
Under the state and municipal
tax laws, the tax collector goes into
the homes of the poor and lists every
piece Of furniture, every watch, every
piece of personal ornaments that
they possess. And these lists, show
ing the most intimate facts about the
household arrangements Of the fam
lies, are open to the inspection Of
all In asking for publicity of income
tax returns, we are not delving into
the personal affairs of private citi-
zens, but are merely providing
means Of knowing whether they have
paid their JUST taxes.
mo phrase ever received a more
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
Get the Habit.

Good cheer is great lubricant It oils all of lifes machinery. Good cheer is q great producer. It adds wonder fully to cn.'s active ability and in- creases mental and physical power. It makes host of friends and helps us to be interesting and agreeable. Good cheer will attract more customers, sell more goods, do more business with less wear and tear than almost any other quality. Optimism is the greatest businessgettcr, biggest trader, truest achiever in the world. Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. In the business office, in society, in politics, in workshops, everywhere, the favorite is always the cheerful fellow with the bright smile and bright thoughts. 3iS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
INQUIRY ON LEAK"
 CLEARS OFFICIALS

Washington, Feb. 27.--A unanimous report saying that no one save two Washington newspapermen, J. Fred Essary and w. w. Price, were re- sponsiblc for whatever Teak" there was on President Wilson's peace note, was presented tonight by Chairman Henry of the committe. on rules.
 All persons connected with the gov ernment, including Sec etary McAdoo and Secretary Tumulty, members of both houses of congress and R. w. Boiling, brother in law of the pres- dent, were specifically cleared of all suspicion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
Scientific Discovery of Value.

The British Medical Journal an- nounces that a remarkable scientific discovery is now on trial at the casual ty clearing stations in France. The in- ventor is James Shearer, ScOtchman twenty years old, employed as a ser geant in the medical corps. The new discovery succeeds just where X-ray photography fails. It produces pie lures of structures located far below the surface of the outer skin just at the point where X-ray photography ceased to perform effectively. By means of it, it is possible in broad daylight to obtain detailed pictures of the internal organs and to see at a glance by what gross lesions they may be affected. The apparatus works as long as the body is living, and even until molecular death has set in. After that it does not work.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
LIFE COMP PANIONS LAID ID REST
 IN ONE GRAVE
W. I. Johnson, Who Shot Wife, Dies From Effects
 of Poison Dose.

w. I. Johnson died about 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning, at a local hospital, from the effects of poison taken by him Monday night after he had slain his wife while she was asleep at their home at Locust Cot tage, and has gone to face his Maker, who alone will judge of his responsi- bility for the tragic deeds of Monday night, in the quiet farm homestead.
 The body of MT. Johnson was taken to Locust Cottage yesterday, after being prepared for burial. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were laid to rest in the same grave in the little country burying ground, with their neighbors and lifelong friends present at the last sad rites of the church. Services were con- ducted by the Methodist minister there, assisted by Rev. J. l. Norris, pastor of the First Presbyterian church here.
 Anomalous as it may appear, there were many persons in Pine Bluff yes- terday, friends and strangers alike to MT. Johnson, who breathed sigh of relief, in a way, when they heard that the well known farmer had suc- cumbed to the effect of the poison draught.
 "It is better so,' was a remark made by quite number, who had ln mind the mans earnest wish and de- sire, and the probable difficulties, in legal way, that would beset his future, should he recover his health.
 Because he had resisted so well the effects of the poison for more than "A hours, it was generally believed last night that MT. Johnson would re- cover The effects of the poison, however, could not be counteracted, due principally to the advanced age of MT. Johnson, and the fact that his system had had 12 hours or more in which to absorb the poison. Despite the strenuous attention of attendants, he sank into a fatal sleep yesterday morning, from which he awoke Tn Eternity.
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Joint Committee Named to Investigate Charges of
 Mismanagsment.
MILEAGE BASIS FOR
 SCHOOL. FOR BLIND
Rigid Regulations and Heavy Penalties fer Reckless Driving in Measure Adopted by KoUse-hirby X
 Castle Digest Bill Up.

Little Rock, Feb. 2S.--The house this morning by votA of 6S to 13, passed the bill by MT. Davis of Co., lumbia to appoint joint committee of three representatives and two sena- tors to investigate charses relative to the management of the state Hospital for Nervous Diseases. There was very little discussion of the bill, which had been thoroughly debated on previous occasions, and came up as unfinished business.
 A bill by MT. Harris of Madison was passed to make the terms of county commissioners of accounts three years, instead Of two, as at present.
 The bill by MT, Williams of Benton to exempt rabbits from the protection afforded under the general fish and game bill was passed by a vote of 69 to 3.
 A bill by Mr. Collier was passed inspector, deputy in the office Of the State Bank commission, from $1,- 500 to 1$2.400 a year.
 hcSulate Auto DIlfkilS.
 A bill by MT. Johnson was passed making rigid regulations relative to reckless driving of automobiles, and fixing heavy penalties.
 Other bills passed follow:
 By Doyle, to provide levy of one ninth of one mill for support of the State School for the Blind and three eighteenths of a mill for the Deaf Mute Institute.
 By Baxter, to enlarge the Hermit age special school district
 By Hardy, to prohibit pool rooms within three miles of Hendrix col lege at Conway.
 By Trawick, to provide for the ap- pointment of a state inspector of gasoline.
 MT. McFerrin made an effort to have his bill for the adoption of the Kirby &. Castle digest made a special order Thursday morning, but there was strenuous objection, and it Was voted down.
 resolution by MT. Norfleet was adopted, memorializins the military committee of congress. to have bill passed waiving the disabilities of First Lieut. Frank w. Gee, who has been chaplain of the First Arkansas infantry on the border, so that he may be appointed chaplain Of the regular army. .t
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Pet Animals Sold for Charity.

In these days, when nearly every body in Britain is giving up something to the cause of the war, pet animals have played a prominent part as form of war charity. People have giv- en their dogs and cats to charitable institutions to be auctioned off to raise money for wounded soldiers. So many unstable pets have been offered as to make them a burden to the animal protection societies. At a recent sale many of the cats and dogs were so old, decrepit and dirty that no bids could be obtained for them, that they were handed over to the societies to be put to death by gas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
Fish in Deep Mines.

Through accidental imprisonment, mines acquire surprising fauna from the surface. Live fish-a species of barbel-were lately noticed in a Trans vaal gold mine, $500 feet down verti- cal shaft and are supposed to have fallen into the mines as spawn. When discovered they had grown to a length of six to twelve inches. In very dry weather young bullfrogs have been seen to jump deliberately down the shaft, evidently after water, and seem to have survived the fearful plunge.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01

American Railway association today that unless the rule re luiring the re- turn of cars to owner pads is modi fled during the fertilizer moving period. between March 1 and May 1, there will he q fertilizer shortage in the South
 They proposed a suspension Of sixty days of the penalty imposed by the railroad committee for each empty car not routed back to it's owner line, so that southern rail- roads may use the cars of other roads on their own lines, for shipping ferti- lizer.
 The committee promised to con- fer with officials of Southern roads in the matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
TRAIN HITS BUS,
 KILLING { MEN.
 AND |NJURING F

Lima, Ohio, Feb 2S.-Seven em- ployes of the Ohio Steel Foundry company were killed and 12 injured, two probably fatally, when the auto mobile bus in which they were riding was struck by a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight train here tonight
 Twenty-two employees of the foun- dry were in the bus, on their way to their homes from work, when the vehicle was struck by the train and hurled into the air and under the wheels of the front cars of the train.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic has an area of about 10000 square miles and is larger than Belgium, the Neither lands, Denmark, Switzerland, or Tur- key in Europe, or than the combined territories of Massachusetts, Connecti- cut, Delaware, and Rhode Island. The population is estimated at about 7OO,. 900, which is about B people per square mile, while Haiti, it's neigh bor on the vest, has about POO square miles ahd Porto Rico has more than 300. Most of the fertile land of the country is still virgin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled into the foot bath. It relieves painful, swollen, smarting feet and takes the sting out of the corns and bunions. Nothing gives such quick and permanent relief for sweating, callous, tired, aching feet as Aliens Foot-Ease. the standard rem edy for 2S years. Sold by druggists everywhere, 25c Always use it to break in new shoes. Trial package FREE. Address Allen s. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Advt
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0LD S0LDlER
 WAS C0NSTIPATED
Says Biack- Draught Cured Him of His Troubles If i2 Years
 Standing.

Scottvilc, x. C. Mr. James Dick son, an old resident of this place and Civil war veteran, recently made the following statement: "I am 67 years old, and am an old soldier of the war of '61. l had constipation for 12 years. The doctors said I would never be any better. but now can tell them better. I had taken dollars and dol lars worth of blood tablets, but they got so they didn't do me much good.
 Then l got to taking your Black Draught, and I had not taken one full package until l found that it relieved the constipation. l took two or three packages, and it has cured me. and l praise it to all of my friends"
 Thousands of people in the past 70 years have found help for constipation in the use of Thedford's Black Draught Many families keep Black Draught in the house all the time, and use it at the least sign o. constipation, indigestion, biliousness or other liver troubles.
 Black-Draught is purely vegetable, reliable and without bad after effects. Good for young and old. Get pack age from your druggist today and take dose tonight. You will feel better tomorrow. Price, 25c package. Costs only one cent sc.-Advertisement
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
PRESIDENT HEARS
 PEACE ADVOCATES

Washington, Feb. 1S.--Presdent Wilson told peace advocates who called him today to protest against steps he proposed to take against Germany, that the country is faced by morlentous problem in the pres ent situation, that he had always been for peace and would do every thing in his power to maintain peace.
 T.se president received their sug gestions sympatheticalv members of the delegation said but told them the country must realize the magnitude and gravity of the question.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
Floatinu.

If ono would reflect, let him en- bark on some placid stream and float with the current. He cannot resist the muse. As we ascend the stream, plying the paddle with might and main, snatched and impetuous thoughts course through the brain. We dream of conflict, power, and grandeur. But turn the prov down stream, aad rock, tree. kline. knoll, as- suming new and varying positions, as wind and water shift the scene, favor the liquid lapse of thought, far-reach- ing and sublime, but ever calm and gently undulating.-Thoreau
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otters' Favorite Game.

The favorite game of otters seems to be that of sliding down hill. They climb to the top of high snow ridge, lie flat upon the stomach, with the forefeet bent backward, and giving themselves an impulse with the hind legs, glide down the hill head foremost. In summer they select a slOping river bank which has clayey soil, and where the water at it's base is of con- siderable depth. Climbing this bank, they start from the top, slip swiftly over the sloping ground, and plunge into the water.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01

operations of the German embassy ana Of persons responsible to it, never nave been permitted to become pub He, because officials preferred 10 thus guard against inflaming the public mlnd. The amazement of tho Ameri- can people, which a full expose of the evidence in the hands of tho severn ment would cause. can not be over estimated.
 Appeal in Behalf Aliens.
 Only today the Counci lof National Defense, created by act of congress, issued an appeal to all Americans. to snow every consideration to aliens in this country.
 We call upon all citizens" said the appeal, If any untoward event should come upon us, to present to these aliens, many of whom tomor- row will be Americans, an attitude of neither suspicion or aggression. We urge upon all Americans to meet the millions of foreign born with unchang- ed manner and unchanged minds.''
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LAND AGENT ASSASSINATED.

Waynesboro, Tenn, Feb 2S.-J. C.. Stricklin, 42, a land agent and trader, was shot from ambush on one of the prominent streets here last night. Nine buckshot entered Lis body below the heart and he died soon after.
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WOMAN WANTS JOB.

The Associated Charities is trying to find position as housekeeper for white woman, about 30 years of age. and who is unattached. A message by telephone to the Charities will bring information in the matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
Practice Rioht Livlna Now..

Many of us do not learn the secret of right living until 1t is too late to count for much--still single day rightly lived IS better than a lifetime of error.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01

Washington, Feb. 27-Representa lives of Southern fertilizer interests told the car service committee of the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
FERTILIZER MEN COMPLAIN.

Fear Car Shortage Will Cause Deartil
 of Fertilizer in South.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19
FEDERATED CHURCH.

At the Congregational Church Sunday the following services vii be held. Rev. John Parsons, pastor
 Il A. M. Bible School ann children service. R. B. Julian, superintendent.
 P. M. Christian Endeavor.
 8 P. M. A Luther day service in celebration of the beginning of the Reformation 100 years ago. An ad- dress is to be made by Mayor Lo- men on Luther and his Work. MT. R. B. Julian is to give short talk on the Spiritual Leadership of Luther; and Dr. Parsons will call attention to Dramatic Aspects of Luther.''
 Special music will be given by the choir, including Luther's hymn, "Ein Feste Burg.
 The public is more than welcome to all the services of the church.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19
THE MOONEY CASE.

still hanging over Thomas Mooney is the death sentence. Meantime although superabundant testimony has been collected to prove that Oxman was not only a perjurer, but as well a framer of perjury aganist this man, Mooney langush- es in jail, to be hanged by the neck some time near the end of the month unless some legal power in tervenes.
 All of which is calculated to give the workingman and especially the union man an abiding sense of the inviolable nature of California jus tice and the semi-divine nature ot the law All of which will be ap- propriated to excellent uses when comparisons are instituted and the question is asked what would hap pen Mooney were he not former union organizer, but a member oi say-the "Law'norder Committee" of the San Francisco Chamber Of Commerce one of whose members suggested the policy of filling the hospitals with unionmen".
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE.

There are numbers of public men who have been always opposed to second class postage for the news papers of the country. They be- lieved somehow that the second class postage provided an easy means of circulation for the radical papers and in every way they have tried to hamper this.
 They provided post office officials with arbitary power to keep out of the mails certain matter which was unwelcome to the powers that be, and numerous radical papers have been suspended upon that very ac- count
 Maybe it is because many of the more intelligent upholders of things as they are realize that radical pa pers will disseminate radical views, second class or no second class post age, and hence see no reason for this prohibition.
 But the present time seems to afford the reactionists an oppor- tunity of striking radical papers d hard blow and they are determined to make the most of it apparently.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19
CITY BATH HOUSE has the largest
 and only 6 feet Bath Tubs In Nome.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To John Reddin and John Moriarity their heirs, executors, assigns or personal representatives
 You and each of you are here by notified that l have expended in labor and Improvements the sum ot one hundred dollars each year for the years of 1915 and 1916 on Bessie Group, 60 acres off North Home claim, 2nd Tier on left limit Candle creek and more fully de- scribed in the records of the Fair haven Mining and Recording Dis trict Second Division, Territory of Alaska.
 The above amount has been ex- pended under the provisions of the law concerning annual labor upon mining claims, being the amount required to hold said claim.
 And you and each of you are further notified that if you fail to contribute your proportion of said expenditure within ninety days after the last publication of this notice, your interest in said claim will be- come the property of the under signed, your co-owner, under sec tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the United States.
 JOHN A. MURPHY.
 Co-Owner. Date of first publ, April IA, 1917. Date of last publ, July IA, 1917.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19

| law six Ulster counties out of the total of thirty-two in the whole oi Ireland, is so typical of British re- formists that it is almost startlingly characteristic.
 British officials handling the Irish question have done everything piece meal, everything by compromise, everything with "sops and doles' as John Morley in one of his Home Rule speeches said.
 The inability to proceed largely and generously and wholeheartedly upon a plan of settlement of the Irish question is apparently imposs- ible to Downing Street today as a half a century and more ago.
 If there was at any time a call for a liberal and tolerant policy towards Ireland it was when the war broke out. John Mitchell made the welkin ring in other days with the slogan that England's difficulty was Ireland's opportunity and that has never been really forgotten by a powerful minority at least of the Irish people.
 But much more so was England's s difficulty, England's opportunity in Ireland, although it has to be ad- mitted that none of the British statesmen were large enough and liberal enough and radical enough to realize it.
 They perist in tinkering and patching and repairing when the call is for a totally new policy; either the completion of the sub jection of the Irish race after the manner of a Cromwell, or the finer admission that the past was a past of error and wrong and the future would be future of Justice and Right.
 Ireland seems to have been pro- vided as a means of showing how petty can be the aims of men who are called to rule the largest empire in the world.
 In any event the latest proposal of Lloyd George will not satisfy the majority of the prliamentarians while it will more bitterly antago- nize the Sein Fein people
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19
Anything in the Upe of job work at the Industrial Worker Office. Satisfaction assured.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To w. A. Macomber and E Macom-
 Der their heirs and assigns.
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned has expended in labor and improvements the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each of the years Of 1914, 1915 and 1916 as the an- nual assessment required by law for the said years upon and for the benefit and development of each of the placer claims The Elizabeth Group and the Gertrude Group si- tuated on Bonita Creek in the Cape Nome Mining and Recording District Territory of Alaska and recorded In Vol. 19O page 326 and Vol. 190 paeg 325.
 And you and each of you are further notified that if you do not within ninety days from the final publication hereof cause to be paid to the undersigned your propor- tionate share of said expenditure as co-owners, you w. A. Macomber in the Elizabeth and you E. Macomber in the Gertrude and Elizabeth, your interest in said claim and claims will become the property of the un- dersigned under section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
 CHAS D. JONES.
 Co-Owner. Date of first publ, Feb. IT, 1917. Date of last publ, May 19, 1917.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19
GOING DOWN.

The sudden slump in wheat fol- lowing the prohibition or suspen- sion of speculative buying is signifi- cant. in that it reveals the fact that what people have been paying for this commodity is regulated by those who corner, or by buying and selling interrupt in either case, the relation of the supply and demand.
 In other words the people have to pay much or less for their bread according as some gentleman who will not go hungry is making or losing thousands by his gambling.
 But, the system exists for that purpose. It is for the end of mak- ing money that men buy and sell, manufacture and distribute and not to meet any great public need or to fill any general requirement upon the part of society. So only the critical war situation is to be thank ed upon the part of those whose daily bread became an uncertain proposition, for the fact that this important business" of grain brokerage is to be interfered with in the least.
 Let us be thankful for small mercies.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-19

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