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The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-25
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The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-25

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engraved. Purchasers nan" ,...
b. engraved if so de.irsd-b"' pr !,
YOUR order early. See ''mp'e
tn. Reviews show window
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-13

branch Of tho work and who has been
connected with the Treasury for many
years. Together we went from room
to room watching the clerks handling
the securities with as little apparent
concern as though they were so
much waste paper. In ono place there
were fifteen girls cutting Off coupons
I was told that their wages were
about 800 . month, and Z observed
that none wore dress that cost more
than SIS. Still they were handling
fortunes and clipping of bits Of pa
per each worth I venture several
times Its weight in diamonds.
stopped in one room where they
were sending out the checks for lib.
erty loan interest. This is done By
machinery, through what is know Al
addressogrephs. The Addresso9raph
makes = stencil containing the name
and address Of each owner Of a bond
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sums Of money inta than. Some years
ago ono Of the vanderbilts owned
$45.000.000 of such bonds. They
brought 4 per cent interest. and every
three months he had check of
s45o.oo mailed to him BY the treas-
urer of te United States. His money
was absolutely safe. and the receipts
on the day fixed were as sure as the
rising Of the sun. It made one almost
a socialist when he heard OF the in
covetousness is coated with the thick
sugar Of the new income tax. which
takes about seven-tenths of such
money back to the government.
It Is impossible for thief to get
United States. II it il stolen or lost,
all one has to do 10 to notify the
Treasury Department and check
will be made on the index card show
ing that nothing 10 to DO paid on that
justed. The thief cannot sell the
bond, for the interest win go to tho
owner until the tranafer has been
made as above stated.
II q registered bond Is burned and
the owner can prove this fact to the
bond will be issued. and II he can
prove that his bonds have been stolen,
1t is possible that the same might oc-
cur. although in certain cases 1t re-
quires an act OF Congress to bring
about this result.
The biggest theft Of registered
bonds occurred about forty years ago
when the Manhattan Savings Institu-
ton Of New York was burglarized. A
part Of the loot carried away by the
robbers consisted of eight bonds OF
$4,000 each. and 100 bonds Of $4,000
each. representing altogether a value
OF $1.600.e00. All Of these bonds were
registered, but before the act Of Con-
gress could be passed authorizing the
issuance of duplicates. there was
run on the hank and 1t went into the
hands of receiver. The chief Of the
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burglars. Jimmy Hope. was finally cap
tured and sent to the penttentiary.
You may read the story Of his ad-
ventures in Inspector Byrnes' book,
THE Great Bank Robbery"
The most Of tho subscribers to the
present loan buy coupon bonds. ANA
to such I would say you had best
have not safe deposit box give them
over TO your bank for safe keeping.
Coupon bonds can be negotiated any
where, and the stories OF the unre-
deemed bonds Of the past would make
9 book Of exciting interest. Hum
dreds Of such bonds are lost. and there
has not records Of many such bonds
stil1 unpaid. TO show where the lost
bonds 60. take. Tor instance. the Aass
OF an old Irish washworaan who
bought n battered bookcase at auc-
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took them to the president OF the
Riggs National Bank thinking they
were receipts for taxes. Tho presi-
dent of the bank turned them into the
United States Treasury and received
for her the principal OF $4,000 and
$4,000 in interest.
ths ths
liberty bonds. have already de-
scribed the safeguards against any
one making or stealing tho paper. and
told how each sheet Is counted again
and again ~ Il goes through the bu-
hcna OF ana ana
and the engraving is done by the
most expert artists. The scroll work
on the bonds 10 cut by the same geo.
metric lathes which make the scrolls
on the bank notes, and every bond
bears the signature OF the Secretary
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and Register of the United States
T From This it will be seen that 1T is
almost impossible to counterfeit such
securities. Many attempts of that kind
really successful was that Of $4,000
worth of the coupon bonds known as
the seven-thirties. These counter
feits were sold to Jay Cooke & Co.
They were made by the aid of lead
one of the plates in the bureau Of
engraving and printing. It was only
when the bonds were sent in for re-
demption to the Treasury Department
that that they were pronounced
Cooke should have been deceived. He
was the greatest bond merchant Of
our history. He negotiated most Of
the loans of the civil war and sold
the bonds of such loans to the amount
OF IN more than S2.ooo.o0o.ooo:
wholesale counterfeiting of govern
ment bonds occurred in 1880 when q
band Of expert rascals headed by Will
liam e. Brockway made q large num-
Der of coupon bonds Of $1,000 each.
The secret service officials Of the
of this Job before It was completed.
They allowed the counterfeiters to
perfect their plans, and it was only
when one of them, James b. Doyle.
had alighted in Chicago from New
York that any arrest was made. Doyle
carried in his satchei counterfeit
the same time Brockway was ar
rested, and he turned states evidence
confessing to making the bonds and
guiding the officers to a spot in the
woods where was buried twenty-five
steel and copper plates for the making
ut ~
My Investigations Of tho bookkeep-
ing Of the liberty loan were made in
company with Mr.. Charles NJ McGro-
arty, who is now in charge of this
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Copyright, 1918. by Clinedinst.)

ton. She intended to use it as a
clean It she found in one of the
drawers five papers of greenish
tint, with figures and pictures upon
them. She could not read and she
gave the pictures to her children to
play with. Just at this moment the
dren showed him their playthings.
He told them that they were govern
ment bonds, worth $1,000 apiece. He
then went to the auctioneer and tried
to find from whom the desk came:
The auctioneer said that he had had
Der Of years and that all trace Of
the original owner was lost. There
upon the priest sent the five bonds
to Washington and got back $4,000
for his Irish parishioner.
Il X
Another remarkable find came from
the deserted cabin of q Sioux Indian.
1t was made many years ago by an
Army officer who entered the cabin
and found the wall covered with clip
pings from illustrated newspapers
and magazines. and among them COM
pound interest United States notes to
the amount Of $4,000. The notes had
probably been taken from the per-
son Of some white prisoner, and the
redman had valued them for the pic
lures alone. The officer looked up the
owner of the cabin and gave him
other pictures for those he took from
the wall. 1t Is said that he made an
effort to find out to whom they be-
longed, but failed, and thereupon sent
the notes in for redemption.
Many years ago Texas widow liv-
ing IN reduced circumstances at
found among her hus-
bands old papers government secur-
tiles to the face value Of $4,000. She
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Gloom.

THE Germans recent bad luck led
government official of Kansas
to say at dinner:
German defeats on the western
front and German disappointments in
the east have lowered the morale Of
the German people terribly. The Ger
man people are now as gloomy as the
broker.
"Did you have good day. lover
a brokers' wife asked him in the even
ing at dinner.
"'Rotter' the broker groaned.
Simply rotten. Everything 1 sold
went up. and everything I bought
went down.
"He ate soup in grim silence little
while. then he muttered:
., aThank goodness they couldn't go
Old Soldiers.
THE raising Of the draft age to
forty-fve years led John D. Ryan
to say:
"A soldier of forty-flve is quite a
young fellow in Austria. They draft
you there up to ffty-eight or sixty.
"They tell a story in Austria about
one OF these Rray-beard soldiers who.
on his evening OF. celebrated hilari-
when he got back to camp. in the
small hours. the sentry at the gate
challenge
"'Your-hic- came from the
darkness - your poor old - hic--
grandfather, my boy"
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A to registered bonds, they are
payable only to the persons whose
names are written upon them. They
are in the hands Of the owners and
the government has . record Of every
holder. They are without coupons,
but the Treasury mails the interest
to the owner ~ soon a. IL becomes
due. When . transfer occurs. the
bond has to be sent in to the Treas-
msut upon Il before witnesses fixed
By the government. A record Of this
transfer II then put down on the In.
dex card when the bonds become
due the principal II returned to the
bWnsr1.
Registered bonds are the safest Of all
env60tmsnts. and rfch men put large
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
HOLIDAY MELON
TO BE HAD NOW
AT FAIR PRICE

The season Of the Christmas
melon begins today with the arrival
Of the first on The local market. The
fruit Will no doubt he very popu-
lar as il has the delicious flavor OF
a cantaloupe and is easily prepar-
ed The melons retail at 80 cents
apiece
Florida oranges are in this wee K
selling for half the price OF the
California fruit. heretofore The only
orange on the market
Butter has advanced To 20 cents
a pound, eggs have reached IS cents
dozen. and butterine is bringing
from 80 10 A. cents a pound Sugar
has gone up to III. cents a pound
though no further advance is ex-
pected
Head lettuce is Of exceedingly
moor quality and very expensive at
this time Of the year Box apples.
OF which there is quite variety.
can be purchased for 40 to %
cents dozen New boxes of
washed figs are in. although the
supply is limited
Now that -four can be purchased
without substitutes. the govern
Uc7t is arranging "a take tbe un-
necessary supply Of of rho E-ocoIs'
hands
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
REVISED REVENUE
BILL WITH LARGE
CUT, is TAKEN UP

Wash juEton. Nov l5-The revis-
ed rev enue program of the treasury
department. providing for a bill
Welding $4,000 GOO 000 in taxes pay
able during the calendar year 1919
and not less than $4,000 900 600 in
1920. outlined by Secretary McAdoo
in letter to Senator simmons came
before the senate finance committee
today for consideration
Expenditures % the government
during the present fiscal year were
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

estimated by the secretary at SlS-
coo. 00O. 600 in comparison with esti-
mates Of S24 600 00o 600 made be-
fore there seemed to be any like
'lhood of peace.
Reversing his former attitude
against payment OF income and
profits taxes in instailments. Mr..
McAdoo in his letter recommended
framing of the revenue bills so as
10 provide for tax payments in four
ms ailments, saving this would give
great additional relief TO taxpayers
during the reconstruction period as
we'll as give the government a
steadier flow of revenue.
Delicious Wines. BeardsIey's
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

hat the purpose or the asreem aaj
did nor contemplate pubic sale Of
the lots IN the manner proposed hy
the defendants, and upheld tine con
ton that the action had the al
prararCc az an effort 10 defeat III
agreement Of the trust thar f.
should expire Dec I. regardless 8f
fl5 status Of the property.
This is Special Week for Men g
" ear. Boys Wear and Women S
Underwear at McCabe's.
Spark Plugs BsartsIsy's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
Hon. of Hart scAaffser & Marx Clothes

THE who We
the market conditions; of the
III the of everything that the
Our preparations
buy nowand buy qualities prices right
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

But when they come home, think how they
will appreciate its comforts What luxury
1t will be to sleep in real bed Ito eat at a
genuine dining table. Now is the time to get
ready for their return to prepare the good
cheer that will welcome them home
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

Our boys in France are still enduring many
of the privations and hardshps that are inevi-
tahlT brought about by war. They are under
gong countless discOmforts in their daily
duties in distant France.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

Spark Plugs BsardsIsy 8.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

Delicious Wines. BeardsIey's
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-30
The New CalOmeI
Is Harmless And
Delightful

All Sickening and Dangerous Quail
ties RevOmed-Medlcinal Virtues
Vastly Improved. New Variety
Called "CalOtabs"
Science has given us smokeless
powder, colorless iodine and tasteless
quinine--now comes nausealess calo-
mel, a new variety known as Calotabs
that is wholly delightful in effect, yet
more effective than the old style cal.
omel as a system purifier and liver
cleanser.
Your doctor prefers calomel above
all other medicines, as it is the best
and only suhe remedy for biliousness
Indigestion and constipation. Now
that calomel is delightful to take, ev
erybody is asking for the new variety
Calotabs. One tablet at bedtime, q
swallow of water-thats all. No nau
sea, no gripping, no danger. Mex
morning you wake up feeling fine
your liver cleansed, your system puri
fed. Eat what you please-no re-
striction of habit or diet.
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-fivt
cents. Your druggist recommends ant
guarantees Calotabs.-( Advt.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-30
FREIGHT SITUATION WORRIES
CASTOR BEAN GROWERS

Miami Aug. 30 Many castor bean
growers in all sections of Florida are
dissatisfied with arrangements made
by the government contractors for
pulling the oil beans, and some are
threatening not to harvest their crop
unless plans are made for handling
the beans at less trouble and expense
to the grower.
Herman r.. Walker, of the firm of
Helm & Walker, castor bean contrac-
tors, said today that the excessive
railroad freight rate on castor beans
Is the root of the trouble. Efforts are
being made to have the rates reduced,
he said and the assistance of all cas-.
tor bean growers is needed to secure
the reduction.
I'm order to get the castor beans
hulled at the lowest possible cost to
growers" explained Mr.. Walker, at
has been necessary for us to locate
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-30
GOVERNMENT POSITIONS

The following list was received
from Washington today:
Psychologists, men only, Salary
$500 to $500. Closes September
10th.
Horticulturists, (male) salary $1,000
to $276O. Closes September II.
Architectural Designer and Drafts
man, Panama Canal Service, closes
Setember II.
Addressograph Mechanician (male)
Salary $1,000 to $500, closes Sep
TENDER 18th.
Operative for Card Perforating Ma
chimes. Male and female. Salary
1920 to $1,000 Closes Sept IS.
Assistant Clinical Psychoatrist and
Psychotherapist, (male) Salary $1,000
and maintance. Closes September "a
Photographer, (male and female)
Salary $72O to $4,000. Closes Sep
TENDER oath.
Tabulating Mechanician. Salary
81 200 to $1,4O0
Local Assistant Inspector of Hull'
and Boilers. Salary $1,000 to $1,000
Inspector and Assistant Inspector
Of Chemical Plant Construction. Sal
airy $1,000 to $4,000.
Electrician. Salary $S40 to $1,000.
Elevator Conductor. Salary $72'
to 5000.
General Mechanic. 500 to 5000.
Steam Engineer, $500 to $1,000.
Automotive Engineer, Designer
Craftsman and Tracer. $1,000 to S.
900.
File application at once.
E. H. Gore, Secretary Local Board
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-30
AnplaneS To Be
Widely Used
After The War

central hulling plants at Jacksonville
and West Palm Beach, where large
machines are being installed to ham
die the beans more economically than
could be done otherwise. We will do
the hulling without any profit for our
selves, and have also offered to pay
the freight on unhulled beans to the
hulling plants, where beans are ship
ped in carload lots. Most Of the grow
ers however, want to ship their un-
huled beans in less than carloads, so
as to get quicker returns from their
crop, and the freight rate on less than
carload lots is so high that neither
the contractors nor the growers can
pay it without loss.
"It takes about 100 pounds of un-
hulled beans to make bushel of
hulled BEANS" said Mr.. Walker. For
each bushel of nulled beans accepted
by the government, the grower gets
So and the contractors get gross
profit of fifty cents Under the pres
ent freight classifications (promul.
gated just few days ago), the aver"
age cost of shipping the unhulled
beans to the hulling stations from all
parts of our territory, on less than
! carload lots, is about forty cents a
bushel. The carload rate for the
same average distance is about %
cents a bushel. The Bureau Of Air
craft Production has agreed to pay a
part of the freight on the unhulled
beans in carload lots, but so far has
refused to pay any share of the freight
on shipments in less than carloads. "
Although the present crop of castor
beans is being grown for war pur-
poses, Helm & Walker point out that
the freight rates on the product are
higher than on unginned cotton, cot
tonseed, cOwpeas, grain, rice, our in
sacks, many varieties of groceries and
provisions, and numerous other ar
ticles of much greater market value.
The freight rate is the same ON UNI
hulled and hulled castor beans. al
though nearly half the weight of tho
former is lost in hulling and the hulls
: have only small value.
"The average distance that unhulle(
beans will have to be shipped to oul
hulling plants" said Mr.. Walker "i'
about rs miles. The freight per 10'
lbs. on unhulled castor beans for thi
distance, under the latest classified
tion made by the railroad administra
tiontion, is 40 cents This is the sam
rate as on peanuts, which are nov
worth about Is cents pound a
against value of cents pound 70
nnhulled castor beans, while -four il
! sacks can be shipped the same dis
lance for % cents per 100 pounds, AM
i unginned long staple cotton, wort
y from forty to sixty cents pound, |
carried the same distance by the rail
$ roads for Is cents per 100 pounds.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-30
"a, 143 MOTOR CARS IN
THE STATE OF FLORIDA

The United States has a big job be-
fore it to classify automobiles sor
taxation.
On June l last there were 5,461, 791
motor cars registered in this country
44,143 Of them in Florida.
This state has more Than either
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana AMI
Mississippi among the Southern
states.
The total cost of license tags
amounted to $41,45,90S. The govern
ment tax will run into large figures.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-30
GOOD APPLES

When buying apples pick the heav
lest; also test the fruit by seeing IT,
when pressed with the thumb, il
yields with a slight cracking sound
Exchange. Yeah, thatlistens all 10
the good. but when you buy apples
int his city you'll take 'em as they
come at rice so seemingly extor
tionate that it makes it expensive to
even suck the stem in place of chew
ing gum. And il you pick up one nj
the samples and press it with the
thumb and the dealer should see you
do it the only cracking sound that
will be heard will be when the press
er pulls the cash from his pocket tc
settle for the fruit. Yassum.-Thorn
in Palm Beach Post
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-30

London, Aug. 30.-Airplanes will be
widely used, after the war, for pur-
poses of exploration and survey, said
Harold Brighouse, of the Royal Geor.
graphical Society, to representative
of The Associated Press, commenting
on the announcement that Captain
Amundsen's Artic Expedition, which
has just sailed, has taken three air
planes as part of its equipment.
Captain Amundsen will use these
airplanes for geographical and mete-
geological research in the Arctic,
said Mr.. Brighouse, land they should
prove very useful in this connection.
With peace will come large extern
sion Of the use of the airplane in
exploration.
There is no reason why the re-
hottest parts of Africa or the upper
waters of the Amazon should remain
unmapped. Aerial photography has
reached a stage when all that is nee
essary for exact map-drawing is a
continuous series Of air photographs
Tracts of Portuguese East Africa
which had never before been char
tered, were, in fact mapped by means
of the air photography Of British avi
ators.
"The undiscovered natural resour
ces of a new country can be observed
from airplanes The eyes of the oh
server reveals much; the air-camera
even now is an excellent guide in in
dicating the kind of wood growing jr
forest, and will be Of greater utili
ty still as the development of aeria
color photography progresses.
Railway survey through savage
lands, which, both in life and money
has been a tremendously costly pre-
liminary to construction, will become
safe, and so cheap as to present M
financial obstacles whatever, to sur
vey which uses aerial photography.
mot only can the course of river
be traced, but their navigable chan
nels can be ascertained, and the com
bined discovery made Of valuable mai
ural products together with the hes
means of transporting them by river
Water, then as now, will probabl
be the explorers chief guide and hi
machine is more likely to be of tn
seaplane type, which floats than tn
airplane type, with wheels. He wi
fly high, and should he have to max
a forced landing, will steer for lax
and river rather than for the rar
open spaces of tropical forest.
For the air explorer, the romano
of flying will persist! the value
the work he will do is obvious; an
there are many pilots in the allie
armies today who will find in aeri,
exploration play for the TYPICAL
British spirit of adventure.
in the future of aviation there
elbow room for all, the sportsma,
pilot will find in exploration by a
an enterprise made to his taste"