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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-11-23
TO RELEASE THOUSANDS.

GREAT LAKES. H.. Nov. 22.-ont-
GERS n, the Great Lakes Naval TRAINING
station today estimated that between
s. 900 and 5000 men will be released from
the station MS the result Of Secretary
Daniels order to accept requests for re-
lease from active service. There was no
sudden return to private life. however.
ns II will take several weeks 10 act on
the applications Men released will he
those who have needy dependents or
have businesses Of their own.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
THE GIRL AND
HER OWN HOME
Deep Sympathy Is Expressed
I For One Who Comes
/ Into City Alone
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX

come home from hard days
work, standing on my feet in the
store all day, and my mother expects
me to help with the housework, too,
There's always something asked of
me, and I never get a chance to go
out, like other girls, and have a good
time. I'm not appreciated and I'm
not happy. If stay here much
longer 1 believe I'll hate my own
Family. Woud you advise me to take
the six dollars a week give toward
the house and rent little furnished
room and try to manage that way?"
Writes Katherine.
Decidedly not II ever you had
tried life from which are eIiminat ed
the warmth of being surrounded by
your own, the Joy of belonging and
the comfort of interests shared, you
would see how unimportant your dis
Eomforts and sufferings are compared
with the ones you would have to en-
nure II you turned yourself into that
very sad thing, the woman alone"
There is no one for whom / have
Keeper sympathy than the girl who
must come alone to a big city and
there make her way without the COM
sorting knowledge that she is part of
q FAMILY, one of q group who have
natural common interests. l remem-
Der once when I was a girl alone in
New YORK woke in the middle of
the night in very dreadful pain.
lay for hours suffering tortures and
waiting for daylight. when I would
dare to ask some one to come and
help me. A mother or sister might
possibly have grumbled at being
Weakened from slumbers; but still
would have felt that had the right
TO call on them for add would not
have needed to so alone through
long, weary hours OF pain If 1 had
been at home with my own people.
To talk to an unhappy. bitter girl
about the protection OF an uncongen-
aal home 10 about as effective as to
insist that an eXcitable child swal-
low a tablespoonful of dreadful tast-
3ng medicine because it will do him
worlds of good. But home does offer
q girl splendid, warming protection.
The girl who is living with her own
people. who goes home to a family
circle at night, who is part of the
household, is saved from advances
and temptations and disrespect which
often come to the girl who is alone
and unprotected.
The girl who is trying to secure
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

A.-No, as such amounts are held
to be items of personal expense.
Q.-Are payments of alimony to
be returned, for tax purposes, by
their recipient?
A.-Alimony is not held to be in
come to the recipient, nor is 1t held
to be such an item as is allowable
as deduction to the person paying
the same.
Bonus Stock Taxed When Sold
On 1915 / purchased ten
shares of the preferred stock of a
corporation and received ten shares
of common stock as bonus. Has
the value of this bonus taxable
status?
A.-No; but when the stock re-
ceived as a bonus is sold, the entire
proceeds of the sale are income sub
ject to normal and additional tax,
and should be included in Your re-
turn rendered for the year during
which the sale is made.
Q.-Are commissions on renewal
premiums on insurance policies sub
ject to income tax?
A.-Yes; such commissions receiv-
ed by insurance agents on account OF
business written are taxable income
for the year in which they are re-
ceived.
Q-ln 1915 purchased prop
erty the title to which proved de-
fective, and in order to straighten
the matter out I employed an attor-
ney and resorted to court proceed
ings. Can l claim a deduction to COW
er the fee paid the attorney and the
court cost?
A.-No. Such items are held to be
part of the cost of the property
and, therefore, not allowable as de-
ductions.
Q.-Are amounts placed to the
credit of a shareholder in a building
and loan association subject to in
ccme?
Amy amount credited to a
shareholder when the title to such
credit passes to the latter at the
time of the credit has a taxable sta
tus for the normal and additional
income tax and should be included
in the return rendered for the year
| during which the credit is made
| Where the amount of accumulation
| credited does not become available
! to the shareholde~7 until the ma
| turity of a share IL need not be re-
! ported an income but upon maturiay
| of the share the amount received in
excess of the total amount actually
| paid in by the shareholder is to be
returned.
! GA" who is the employe ot
a corporation was injured, and un-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
INCOMETAXPRIM
TO SETTLE DOUBTS
Government Issues 143 Questions and Answers as
Help to Taxpayers, Based on Actual Queries;
Replies Are Internal Revenue Department
Rulings.

Washington. Jan. 25.-The In
| ternal Revenue Bureau issued to-day
the Income Tax Primer" which has
been in the process of making since
the passage of the War Revenue act
on October 8, 1917. The primer con-
sists of 14S questions with answers to
meet the desire for information by
possible taxpayers.
The questions are actual inquiries
received by collectors and the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau. Each of them
has received the benefit of expert
consideration and the replies given
may be accepted as having the force
of rulings by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue with the approval of
the Secretary of the Treasury
Specimen questions and answers
illustrate the difficulty encountered
in the administration of the law. For
some classes of taxes the office of
the Internal Revenue Commissioner
is engaged in sending out as many
as 20,000.000 blank forms.
Some of the questions and replies
given in the Primer" follow:
Q.-Can the amounts expended by
a businessman in entertaining out
of-town customers, or prospective
customers, be claimed as deductions? =?
A.-Yes, if the sole purpose of the
businessman is making suoh ex-
penditures is to cultivate the good
will of his customers and secure an
increase in trade they may be so
claimed.
Q.-I held an endowment life in
surance policy upon which I paid
premiums for twenty years. In 1917
that contract matured and 1 received
its face value, or $1,000. Must l re-
turn the entire amount received?
A.-No, return only the difference
between the aggregate amount of
premium paid and the amount re-
ceived upon maturity of the con-
tract.
Off I employ an architect to
prepare plans for building to be
used for business purposes may the
fee paid to the architect be claimed
as a business expense?
A.-No; amount expended for an
| architects services are held to be a
part of the cost of the building and
| not such items as may be claim ed
as deductions.
GA" who is employed in a city
has his home in a suburb. He pays
carfare between his home and place
of employment and takes his moor
lunch in the city. Can the amounts
| expended for carfare and lunch bC
claimed as a business expense?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

| employment and who writes on her
application slip that she lives at
| home. writes down with 1t series
| of inferences something like this:
Yes. 1 nave people to look out for
me and to resent any unfair treat
ment that is meted out to me. Yes,
l am a dignified, self-respecting girl
living with my own people. No, I'm
not desperately, Historically lonely
and ready to take any lark rather
than go home alone evening after
evening to my dreary little boarding
house room"
The fact that she has a home and
people of her own creates for girl
wholesome. protecting, healthy at
mosphere. The fact that she is part
of a household makes the girl her
self feel certain responsibilities. And
for the girl who lives away from
home there are for her big. tragic
longings and lacks such as the home
girl never has to feel.
The girl who works all day and
goes home to what seems to her a
selfish demand she help with the
dishes or mend her fathers socks,
fails to recognize that no matter how
hard she has worked, she has had
change, variety. new and stimulat-
ing atmosphere, glimpse of the
world outside of her home. But her
mother has been shut in with hum
drum of experiences that come over
and over again, inevitably, every day.
Routine work-no new faces. no
change. no colorful lunch hour, no
pay envelope at the end of the week
nothing but dull routine for
mother. It is surprising IL sho be a
bit peevish at night and forget that
daughter who has been out in the big
world may be tired, too? Helping
with the housework Is a change for
daughter-tired feet hurt bit of
course, but can they hurt as much as
an empty, aching. lonely heart?
To work all day and then come
home to an empty room! What does
that offer? No one to greet you, no
one to ask you if you want some
bread and sugar or maybe a glass of
milk! There will be no one there to
do a bit for you or to ask you to
do a bit. The stiffness and quiet of
your own room-deserted, unpopu-
lated, unfriendly in the midst of a
busy, self-centered city that does not
notice or think of you, will hurt
hurt frightfully.
a little cubbyhoIe of a room in a
boardinghouse-that means four walls
and bit of furniture. And you need
the warmth of human companionship.
has hurt you at the office that day
you want a sympathetic listener who
will say Poor Mary" or even just a
cross listener who will tell you it
was all your own fault. You want to
share your interests-you want to
belong. You need to hear voices. to
feel that there are people close to
you, caring for you. If there is pain
and suffering you want to huddle up
to some one you love and feel in their
nearness a certain natural, animal
comfort.
You need home, Katherine-and
home needs you. If you leave it you
gain only little selfish, cold-blooded
colorless independence. You will hurt
the family you desert and suffer your
self. The world will take a suspi-
clous attitude toward you. Why per-
vert or waste and destroy the beauti-
full, natural joy in home that is a
deep instinct? OF course you have to
pay for it-you have to pay for every
thing worth while.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

officers have all taken hold of the
organization of the militia with
spirit"
The meeting was addressed by
General Beary, who presented the
rifles and other equipment and had
men in the foresters' green uniform
adopted present for inspection; by
Chief Clerk b. w. Demming, on
the paper work." and General C.
T. Cresswell, the commander. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh welcomed the Of
ficers and praised what many of
them had done to form the National
Guard not in the army. He re-
ferred to the fact that the confer
ence was the first of the kind ever
held.
The reports were to the effect that
a number of units could be mustered
in and equipped in short time and
that recruiting was well under way
In every community where officers
had been named. Governor Brum-
baugh plans to name the remain
ing officers at an early day.
After the general conference the
colonels held regimental meetings
for the first time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
Be Careful In Using
Soap on Your Hair

Most soaps and prepared sha.n-
poos contain too much alkal, which
is very injurious, as 1t dries the
scalp and makes the hair brittle.
The best thing to use is just plain
musified cocoanut oil, for 1t is pure
and entirely greaseless. It's very
cheap, and beats the most expensive
soaps or anything else all to pieces.
You can get this at any drug store,
and few ounces will last the whole
family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with
water and rub it in, about a tea
spoonful is all that is required. 1t
makes an abundance of rich, creamy
lather, cleanses thoroughly, and
rinses out easily. The hair dries
quickly and evenly, and Is soft,
fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy,
and easy to handle. Besides, 1t loos-
ems and takes out every particle of
dust, dirt and dandruff.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
ONLY 2 OFFICERS
DIDN'T, GET HERE
Adjutant General Beary Is
Pleased at Interest Shown
in the Militia

Reports made at the conference
of officers of the Reserve Militia
were to the effect that two-thirds
of the organizations have the men
enrolled and I think inside of a.
month they will be mustered into
the service of the state" said Adju-
tant General Frank d. Beary last
night. The meeting was attended
by all but two of the forty-eight
officers thus far named and the
spirit manifested was splendid. The
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
What are YOU doing?
to help yourself with clothes by means Of
M 02zouo1
GM2M1sGmg

And the Army is 60
ing to be clothed =
and we'll, too - before
we folks at home get
ours. AS the Army
gets larger, the less
cloth at home for us.
Conserve.
Let us face the con-
ditions like the real
patriots we are.
Make the best of
your opportunity, buy
what you need, buy at
these genuine cut
prices.
The old tickets are
on the garments-you
see what you actually
save.
Mems and Boys
Suits and Overcoats
and Mackinaws are
In the Cut Price Sale.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

Until then our rule
GOES.
It's up to you-and
up to you NOW-to
conserve your re-
sources. And the way
to save on clothing is
to make your old
clothes do or buy at
these prices and save
the clothes until next
Winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator-Ad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
" -. : -
THE NEW STORE
OF
VIM. STROUSE
Lot :Hs'4'aI:oST
Size a.
.I,,:i,.....Cl Price .Cl&'QQaQA...1
1SS

Don't think we are
talking against our
own business when
we tell you to wear
your old clothes!
We know condi-
tons in the clothing
world! And we know
there's not any too
much clothing to be
had.
Well get our share
as long as there's any
getting, but no cloth
ing merchant can hide
the facts materials
are high and scarce.
And we're not try
ing to throw a scare
into you. The Army
must be clothed first.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

Do you realize way
in the back of your
head, that clothing
will cost more = a
great deal more-next
Winter?
And do you know
that the prices we are
asking now mean re-
ductions that by all
good rules we should
not make?
And we wouldn't
make these price cuts,
under such conditions,
were it not for one
thing; namely: We
don't carry goods
from one season to
the next.
Well adhere to this
rule now. What we
will do next season
cannot be foretold. IF
goods become so
scarce that they can
not be replenished at
all or in very little
lots, we might change
our plans to fit the
times and conditions.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
TRAVELLED FIVE MONTHS TOSAVE
 4 LITTLE T|ME.

II. s Tristan, who spent the past few months in Interior Alaska in tn" interests Of fur concern. left today for Vancouver. B. C. During hiS s'rN in the Northland he passed thTo"-lt some trying situations.
 Arriving at CordoNa the early pd" oi last December he went in over the trail as lar as Gulhana and 'nd"aN- orcd to cut across country tn the Forty-Milc country by way of Tanana Crossing and Lake Mansfield. MI went well with him until he left the beaten trail and tried to make his way through q Country unknown to him and sparsrly inhabited With a dog team and full equipment of camp outfit. he made good progress until he encountered many oNertloWs on one Ui the creeks on which he was travel ing. getting soaking wet all over. His supplies were also made unfit for use at the same time Owing to a high wind and cold weather, he was com pelIed to stay in his sleeping bag fer three days, suffering from hunger dur. iLg this period Completely lost. his position would have been d hard one but for the timely arrival of a party oi lndnns, who took him to their camp and made him comfortable until he was ready to travel again. Acting on their guidance. he succeeded in a". irving at Chicken creek. in the Jack Wade district. about thc middl" "t May, being five months making the trip and crossing country that even 2 hardy sourdough would consider some time before undertaking.
 With the experience he had passed { through he still entertained a good Opipion of the country, and his main | regret was that there was scarcity | of fur.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
PROH|B|T|ON|S
 SIDE TRACKED
 FUR WAR BILL

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2G.-The sen ate is considering the man-power bill as passed by the house today. and 1t is hoped to dispose Of it tomorrow.
 Tn prohibition bill has been tempo rarily sidetracked in the senate in favor of the man.power bill. The President. according to the senate prohibition leaders, is moi opposed to the legislation pending which provides prohibition during the war, but he has suggested that the time proposed for its becoming effec- tive, next January, be extended three months. It is claimed this would as sure passage Of the bill
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
COAL RAILROAD
 AT KATALLA |S
 WEARING |NISH

George W. Nelson and Charles D. Davis. contractor and manager r"- spectiyely of the Alaska Anthracite railway. arrived from katalla ycst".- day in their own launch, and will r"- main here couple of days on nn L. ness
 They report the work ot compI't- ing the road from the river terminal tu the coal mines at Carbon noun tain is progressing satisfactorily, In' surracins is being done on tn" last three miles of the road, and the track will soon be laid on account of in" scarcity of material in tn" states 1T was impossible to secure an carrier start on the railroad. but notWith- standing this fact the road will be lh operation this fall About one nun dred men are now employed
 A promising coal milte is also beng deyelooed bv Mir. Davis. who reports
 that a thirteenfoot vein or anthracite coal has been struck in tunnel NO
 I. which has been driven for dis
 tance of nearly r,ooo feet. There IS
 also four-foot vein in tunnel No. ,.
 Fifteen sacks oG run pl mine coal ncre brought over to Cordova and ore being shipped to the States as I specimens of the quality of to"I m , the Bering river country. It k "N pected that 200O or 4.ooo tons of cHa!
 will be shipped from the mine thls 1 fall before the river terminal freezes up. = ,ss [.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
MANY RETURN
 FR0MSTATESON
 STEAMERAL ALASKA

SEATTLE. Aug. 2G.-The Cordoya passengers of the steamship Alaska are as follows: Miss Elsie Ware, Miss F. Keever. Mrs. F. C. Caldwell Mrs. M. E. Russell Miss Hattie Joslyn, MT, and Mrs. F. C. Dimond. Mir. and Mrs. F. J. Duchancy. Mir. and Mrs, Edward Walsh, Mrs. J. II. Casey, Miss June Allen. T. B. McClelland Will Clayson, J. w. Graf, P. Spearman, Margaret Robinson, Sophie Sjobcrg, Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Gaskill and son, Albert Walker. Mrs. H. G. Walker.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
EXPLOSION ON TRANSPORT
 KILLS SEVERAL IF CREW

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 2G.- A steam pipe aboard an American transport exploded, killing several members of the crew. An officiql statement of the accident is not forth coming.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
RED CROSS PHYSICIANS
 GO ID MANCHURlAN FRONT

VlADNOSTOK, Aug 2G.--Four Red Cross physicians have gone to the Nanchurian front to establish an evacuation hospital and surgical de partment at Harbin. The military hospital there already has been taken over by the Red Cross.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
CONsTANT|NOPLE BOMBED
 BY ALLIED AIR sQUADRONS

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 26-A Turkish official statement says that two hos tile air squadrons attacked CDnstan tinople Wednesday night. It makes no mention of the casualties or the damage done.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
SEATTLE STEEL WORKERS
 STRIKE FUR MORE WAGES

SEATTLE. Aug. 26-More than a thousand employees of the Pacific Coast Steel Company, working on Emergency Fleet Corporation con tracts. went on strike for pay and working conditions similar to those of shipyard workers
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
ROYAL ENGAGEMENT |S
 ANNOUNCED IN GERMANY

COpENHAGEN. Aug %. King Leopold of Bavaria announced today the engagement of Grown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria to Princess An toinette of Luxembourg. according to an official statement from Munich
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
SUBMARINES SINK SEVEN
 DUTCH F|sH|NG VESSELS

YMUlDEN. Holland, Aug. 26.- Seven Dutch fishing boats have been sunk by the same German submarine off the fishing banks. The crews were landed
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26

SEATTLE. Aug. 26-Special build ings have been erected at Camp Lewis bad weather will not be allowed to interfere with training in field work.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
D ! A~>>>%~>% %~>>> .
GERMANS LOSE HEART IN MAKING
 LOSING FIGHT

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES, Aug. 26.-German soldiers believe that Germany is not planning any more of fcnsiycs. because of man power shortage, according to prisoners taken by the Amcri- cans. They say that German soldiers have no more enthusi- asm for the war.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
B0LSHEVIK TROOPS ARE
 ROUTED BY JAPANESE

LONDON, Aug. 26.-Japanese troops are completing ther concentration on the Ussar front according to Vadivostok dispatch which also states that at Eng'nueuEa the sailors" sup ported by amored attacked the BosheVk troops Ill the face of a heavy artillery fire and routed them
 Czecho Slovak Success on the Volga
 AMSTERDAM, Aug. 26-The Czecho Slovaks have re- occned the town of Kazan the Voga It is reported that the Bolsleviki retreated after heavy fighting.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
ALLIES NEARING OLD HLNDENBURC LINE
GERMANS ARE LIKELY TO LOSE BAPAUNIE SOON
HORDES OF HUNS
 TAKEN PRISONERS

PARIS. Aug. 2G. The British have taken twenty thousand prisoners since August 2l.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-26
WILL. BE RECEIVED AT
 ASSAY OFFICES

The assayer in charge of the United States assay office at Seattle has received authority from the United States government to accept deposits of platinum metals when of tered in the form of jewelry, dental scraps. etc.
 The authorization was received by Assayer J. w. Phillips at Seattle in letter from Acting Director of the Mint M M. O'Reilly, in which it is said:
 "The department has under con sideration a plan for permitting the establishments of the mint service to receive deposits of platinum metals when offered in the form of jewelry, dental scrap etc. the details of which will be communicated to you as soon as possible.
 Pending final arrangements you are requested to discontinue the prac- asice uf returning platinum to depos- ltors or notifying them of your in ability to make payment for the same. You will, instead, give every encour- agement to the patrons of your mint to deposit with you, for the use of the government, all forms of metal of the platinum group.
 Tt has been tentatively determined by the institutions of the mint service sent to the New York assay office, where an equipment is being installed Cor the ready determination of values fin platinum.
 "Irpon receipt of deposits from you he superintendent of the New York assay office will hnd a purchaser for the platinum who will utilize the metal for government purposes. The value of the individual deposit will be remitted to yoU for transmission to the depositOrs.'