Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-22

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them and the ways of combating
them. The submarines, In addition to
sinking a number of steamers and at
tacking others, In some cases only
few miles from the harbor OF New
York, also destroyed considerable
number Of fishing vessels Off New Eng
land. Several fights with these U-boats
were reported and 1t was believed that
at least one of them was sunk. What
was believed to be a gas attack on
the coast guard station and lighthouse
on Smiths island, South Carolina, in
which several men were overcome, has
not yet been explained though the
theory that the poison gas came from
submarine was discarded. Presum-
ably the fact that our naval vessels
are pretty busy on convoy duty accounts
for the comparative immunity of these
U-boats along the Atlantic coast.
The steady decline of the German
submarine campaign is emphasized by
the official reports on sinkings and
shipbulldlng for July. The allied and
neutral shipping sunk during the month
amounted to 10000 tons, compared
with 534.S39 tons sunk in July. 1917.
During the month the allied nations
constructed tonnage in excess Of
10000 to that destroyed BY enemy OPP
erationS s
: The Administrators mai yef bin
extending thg dfzif age to eishtcen
and forty-five years was reported to
the senate Thursday and that body
prepared to take II up and act ON II
speedily. Chairman Chamberlain in
reporting the measure said General
March told the military affairs COM
mittee that he believed 100000 Amer
leans under one commander could 20
through the German lines whenever
they pleased and that IL the ages are
fixed as asked. the voluntary enlist
ment system automatically ends He
also said all the men called for active
service under the amended act would
be In France by next June. The new
I American war program, II wns re-
vealed, calls for 80 divisions, or about
3,OOOOOO men, in France and 1S more
divisions in training in America, by
June 80, 1919.
Mr.. Chamberlain told the senate
that President Wilson's program called
for concentration OF American forces
on the western front, including Italy,
and that the theory Of the fighting In
, the future is that we must force the
issue and win on the western front.
] The bill as reported contains work
/ or fight provision to which organized
labor, through Samuel Gompers, has
filed emphatic objection.
The immediate need for more fight.
Ing men induced the president to issue
I on Wednesday proclamation calling
for the registration, on August "A, of
all young men who shall have become
twenty-one years of age between June
last and that day. This extra enroll.
ment, II is believed, will include about
10000 men, one-half of whom are III
for military duty
Chairman Kltchln and other mem.
bers Of the house ways and means
committee being welded to the idea
that the best way to raise more rev.
enue is TO increase the excess profits
tax, rather than to impose war prof.
its tax, Secretary Of the Treasury Nc.
AdOo was compelled TO go before the
committee with u mass OF figures e
sustain his contention that the wal
profits tax method is the best and only
fair one. In reply TO Kitchin's asser
tion that a war profits tax was "only
camouilage 70 let out the big fellows
the secretary produced figures to show
that In great majority Of cases the
war profits tax would fall more heav
lily on the large concerns than would
the excess profits tax, which, II fixet
at so per cent as the committee pro
posed, he said would touch not more
than one Of the large corporations. He
favors the continuance of the existing
excess profits tax, with corrections hui
without Increase. He also urged henv
Ter levles ON unearned incomes thar
on earned incomes, and the imposition
of tax upon servants as luxuries.
The secretary impressed on tn,
committee the necessity OF passing tn,
new revenue bill before September 2S
the date set for launching the fourtl
Liberty loan campaign, saying tha
further delay would jeopardize tn,
ability Of the treasury to sell sufficient
treasury certificates to finance Il II
the intervals between the LII ert!
loans. In Washington most of the de
lay In passing the measure Is expect
ed to develop In the senate.