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The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
BILL TAXES RICH TO LIMIT.
Additional Levy Must Be on Articles
CT Daily Necessity, Says
ondworth


Washington.-Wealt is taxed to
about the straining point by the new
war revenue bill, Representative Long
worth of Ohio declared in the House
when debate on the huge tax measure
was resumed. He warned his hearers
that any additional taxes levied here
after must be borne by people purchas-
ing articles of daily necessity and
pointed out that Congress is about to
exact from the American people sum
which would have more than paid the
entire cost of the Civil war, both to
the Union and Confederacy. Mr.
Longworth said the tax of 80 per cent
on war profits and the maXimums of
20 per cent on excess profits and II
per cent on incomes was mighty near
the danger mark He added that this
is a bill Ito raise war revenue and not
reorganize society,"" and warned that
the proposed war time national prohi-
bition legislation would reduce the es-
timated revenue returns from bever-
ages by ,500,O00,O0O, which, with the
lost revenue on beer from Dec. would
reduce the estimated revenue under
the bill to 100000 900.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
Showing Falling of in Corn and Gain
in Wheat Estimates.

Washington.-Heav decline in the
condition of the corn crop caused a
reduction of 317OOO,00O bushels in
Mondays Department of Agriculture
forecast of production compared with
last months estimate. Spring wheat
production, however, showed improve
ment, with an increase of 21,000,00O
bushels in the estimated production,
making a total wheat crop this year
of S99 900 900 bushels.
The forecast follows: Spring wheat,
343 100000 bushels; all wheat, $685.
100000 bushels; corn 2,G72, 100000
bushels; oats. 1,477 100000 bushels;
barley 236,OOOOO bushels; white po-
tatoes, 3S5,O0O,00O bushels; sugar
beets, 6,21O.OOO tons; apples, 196,O0O,-
600 bushels.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
TWENTY WIN OFFICERS RANK.
Coloradoans Named Second Lieuten
ants at Camp Zachary
TAYLOR Ky

Washington-The following is the
list of Colorado men graduated Aug.
81 from the field artillery central Of
ficers' training camp at Camp Zach
airy Taylor, KY, and eligible for com
mission as second lieutenants: James
p. Boylan, Charles NJ. Brown, Howard
r. Hayne, Edward c. King, Leo G..
Hetrick Murl ]. Ellison. Harold L..
Gayman, George E. Hollister, Jack A.
Chambers, William r. Chellgard and
Robert c. Edmunds, Denver; Paul G..
Hardie, Victor, Percy V. Fraser, Boul-
der; James l.. Bingham. Loveland;
Paul Ashby Black, Rocky Ford; Rob
ert F. Herdman, Rocky Ford; William
F. Carroll, Colorado Springs; Floyd f.
Ball, Fort Collins; Delwin V. Glens.
Olney Springs, and Harry w. Elofson
of Salida.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
Exemption UP to Dependents.

Washington.-Becau many men OF
the new draft ages are expected to re-
fuse to claim exemption from military
service, regardless of the need for
them at home, the provost marshal
generals office suggested that EN-
ployers or interested dependents
should not fail to file formal claims
in such cases. 1t is pointed out that
the form of the QUESTIONABLE purpose
ly leaves the exemption claim open to
be filled by others than the registrant
himself.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
KILL MANY AT MOSCOW
BoLSHEVlKI HOLD HOSTAGES
NEW OUTBREAKS EXPECTED.
Czecho-Sovak National Council to
Establish Headquarters in Prague,
With Eoukoup in Charge.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Amsterdam.-A number of arrests
have been made in Moscow under a
decree dated Sept. 5, ordering the TAX
ing into custody of all of the social
revolutionists of the right and the TAX
ing of hostages from the bourgeosie
parties and groups of former officials
as a precaution in case of new CON
spiracies. Those arrested were chief
ly revolutionists and high ecclesias-
tics. The eclesiastics We're arrested in
connection with the alleged British
plot The Pravada alludes to the sit
uation as extremely grave.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
u.soa. Torpedo Kills Montrose Man

Montrose, Colo.-The first Montrose
man to make the supreme sacrifice
OF war was Adelbert Elmer Armitage.
A telegram from the Navy Department
TO Thomas Armitage announces that
his son, an assistant fireman aboard
the transport Mount Vernon, formerly
the German liner Kronprinzessin Ce-
cile, was among those killed in the
engine room when the transport was
toySedoed 200 miles west of the
French coast while on return trip.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
CzECHS TAKE RAILWAY
GERMAN ARTILLERY LENDING
AID TO THE BoLsHEVlkI
Consul Heads Held Captive and Report
Thirty-Six Britons' Lives VIII Be
Taken Should Lenine Die.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Bri and French
consular and other officials through
out Bolshevik controlled Russia are
under arrest pending the outcome OF
negotiations now going on between the
allied governments and the soviet au-
thorities.
The allied powers have demanded
the release of the prisoners and
warned Bolshevik authorities that
they will be held personally respon-
slble for their safety.
Stockholm.-Thirty-s British Off
cials are imprisoned in Russia, under
threat of being shot if Premier Le-
nine dies, it was learned in message
from Helsingfcrs Monday. The Brit
ish prisoners are accused OF being
implicated in the attempt to kill Le-
nine.
Amsterdam. - The soviet govern
ment of Russia Is willing to prepare
for the exchange of diplomats with
Great Britain If the neutral powers
will undertake to guarantee that the
Bolshevik representatives at London
are given a safe conduct home.
According to an official announce
ment made at Petrograd and received
at Amsterdam, up to the present ol2
alleged counter revolutionaries, in
Guiding ten members of the Right So
cial revolutionary party, have been
shot as a reprisal for the murder oil
Moses Uritzky, chairman OF the Petro
grad commission for the suppression
of a counter revolution.
From Olovyanna to Penza, dis
tance of 1000 miles, Czecho-SlovaR
forces hold the railway, it was stated
This indicates the Czecho-S Slovaks
have penetrated more important areas
of Russia, loosening the BolsheviR
grip.
Dispatches indicate that German ar
tillery is lending aid to the Bolshevik
west of Volga, from Penza to north OF
Kazan These said the Bolshevik were
gaining strength there because of this
Teuton aid.
An official report is that the BoI
sheviki had retaken Samara. If this
report is true, Orenburg, Simbirsk anc
other important cities in that district
are in danger.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
GRANTED WINE PRIVILEGES.
House Committee Reports Prohibition
Measure.

Washington.-War prohibition
moved step nearer when the House
agricultural committee decided to re
port favorably the food production bill,
including the amendment added by the
July l, 1919. The committee inserted
a provision permitting the importation
of Italian wine until May 1. 1919, as re
quested by the Italian government
through the State Department.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
American Ship Torpedoed.

London-The American steamship
Dora, formerly under the Austrian
flag, was torpedoed and sunk on Sept.
4, approximately 400 miles off France
as the result of an attack on a cargo
convoy. The crew was saved.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

Washington.-An official dispatch
from Switzerland says the Czecho Slo-
yak national council will shortly es-
tablish headquarters in Prague, where
the Socialist deputy, Eoukoup, will be
in charge of all local councils in Czech
towns.
Reports from Petrograd received
through Stockholm say the Maximal-
ist papers are openly advising the
murder of French and English nation
ais in Petrograd.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
Call 5000 Delinquent in Roundup

New York.-More than 1,500 men
were inducted into military service
and $4,000 others were adjudged seri-
ously delinquent as a result of the
Stacker roundup in New York and
northern New Jersey, Charles F. De
Woody, chief agent of the Department
of Justice, announced. A total of Co.
1877 men were examined.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

Fix Gasoline Rate Under 26 Cents.
Washington.-The price of gasoline
will be government-fixed at less than
26 cents, according 10 the fuel admin
istration
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
FRENCH IN old
1917 TRENCHES
FRENCH AND BRITISH SWEEP
FORWARD TO oUTPosTs OF
HiNDEN5URo LINE.
ST. QUENTIN MUST FALL
ALMOST ALL GROUND GAINED
BY GERMANS IN 1918 DRIVE
NOW RECOVERED.

Paris, Sept 11.-Between the Somme
and the Disc the French have ad-
vanced beyond Hinacourt, despite
strong enemy resistance, according to
the war office announcement.
Near Gouzeaucourt and Havrincourt
the British pressed a little further to-
ward Cambria in the former region
after having put down counter at
tacks. To the south the French, from
the district west of st. Quentin south
ward to the western side of the St.
Gobain forest, have pushed eastward
toward the Disc river, which they are
virtually upon all along this front,
with their flanks now resting danger
ously near both st. Quentin and La
Fere.
st. Quentin now stands only little
more than three miles away, while La
Fere is so closely encroached upon
from the west and outflanked from the
north that seemingly it must soon fall.
In their latest endeavors, the Fran
co-American forces have made some
slight progress in the face of the eX-
tremely stubborn resistance of the en-
emy. Likewise, in the sector east of
scissors the French and Americans
have gained additional ground between
the Vesle and Aisne rivers.
Far to the north the British are so
nearly upon Armentieres that few
more strides forward seemingly will
place them in position to make the
one-time cotton-spinning center theirs
for the asking.
From a number of reliable sources
it is learned that the enemy is evacu-
ating the civilians from numerous
villages and towns in his rear and is
exhibiting his customary methods
while doing it.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
Pershina Awards War Crosses.

Distinguished service
crosses have been awarded by Gen.
Pershing to twenty-five additional
men of the army for acts of heroism
and gallantIJ while fighting in
France.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

Japanese Forces Occupy khabarovsk.
Shanghai.-Japanese forces have oc-
cupied the town of Khabarovsk, ST.
IBERIA, according to advices received
here from Vladivostok
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
Snow Covers San Juan Mountains.

Montrose, Colo, Sept. 11.-Heavy
SHOWS have fallen all over the San
Juan mountain district in the last
twenty-four hours. Rains in the val
leys have swollen all of the rivers
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
Baker Arrives in Paris.

Paris-Newton d. Baker, the Amer
lean secretary of war, arrived in
Paris Sept 8.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

London-British casualties pub
lished during the week ending Sept
I totaled 1889.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

Berlin, Sept. 9.-"On the battle front
we are everywhere in our new posi-
tions," says the German official com
munication issued Sunday.
The above dispatch indicates that
the Germans have taken up positions
in their old Hindenburg line on the
entire western front. 1t was from this
line they started their drive March 81.
This means that the allies since July
Is have regained all of the territory
which Ludendorff captured in his of.
fensives between March 81 and July
IS. The British and French official
reports announce captures of towns
within two or three miles of the Hin.
denburg line, and there probably re,
mains only the "mopping" up of the
strip intervening.
The British and French continue to
cut their way into the German lines
on the lower part of the battle line
in France. Notwithstanding the bad
weather. the British here encroached
upon Cambrai and st. Quentin, while
farther south the French armies are
pressing toward La Fere and Laon.
Between the Vesle and the Aisne riv-
ers, where Americans are with the
French, ground has been gained.
During the first week of September
Field Marshal Haig's forces have TAX
en- more than 10000 prisoners and
large numbers of machine guns and
quantities of stores.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

Paris, Sept THE French hav
occupied all their old trenches aloni
the whole of the front to the nortl
OF the Aisne river and also have cap
tured the towns of Ham and Chaun.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

Paris, Sept. 10.-North of the Somme
French troops have made another ad-
vance in the direction of Clastres and
have occupied Lomot farm, according
to the war office announcement, and
have crossed the Crozat canal oppo.
site Liez, three mSes southwest OF
Vendeuil.
Slow progress continues to be made
by British forces in the direction of
Cambria and st. Quentin and if the
operations of the French armies are
successful in encircling the st. Gobain
massif the German retreat must begin
anew and with greater rapidity.
The British are within six miles OF
St Quentin at Villevque and have cap.
tured Roisel and st. Emile. Along
the line between Cambrai and St.
Quentin the British advance has car.
ried them into their old positions.
from which they were driven by the
Germans last March
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14

Paris, Sept. 9.-The French have
occupied Vaux, Fluquieres and Hap
pencourt, north of the Somme, as well
as Hamei, according to the war office
announcement. They have also made
advances on both sides of the Disc.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
Our Great Merchant Marine

been foreseen. The Prussian mill
tary leaders, in their failure to see
the truth, brought about the very
condition which they predicted
would never arise. They brought
about the isolation of the German
empire from the rest of the world.
They multiplied the number of ma
tions fighting against Germany be-
cause they refused to recognize, or to
permit their people to recognize, the
inherent selfishness and cruelty of
their cause. They caused the ma
terial force of the rest of the world
to be vitaliZed against them.
"Out of the clearly expressed fears
of some of the German businessmen;
fears expressed publicly and which
only recently have reached this coun-
try-there can be found ample proof
of the causes of war and the possi-
bility of applying a cure in the
future.
"A writer in the Vossische Zeitung
recently said that Germany will still
be suffering want when those of the
Entente have returned to, COMPARE
lively speaking, normal conditions.
Our industry will be at standstill,
while that of our opponents will be
running full time. The industry of
the Entente will, therefore, be first
upon the markets of the world"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
Justice For Gen. Wood
1.-THE New York Timesl

"Oh, Mr.. President" exclaimed
Senator Johnson, the cruelist thing
in all this world is the humiliation
of a brave spirit. If it were neces-
sary to humiliate a brave spirit as
Leonard Wood was Inundated. for
the love of God ought not the people
of the United States to be told of
it? 1 criticise no man: l am saying
naught of hostility to any Admins
tration; 1 recognize the right of the
Commander-in-Chi to select whom
soever he pleases for official COM
mand; but there is one thing that
the American people have a right
to ask at this juncture, one thing
that have a right to ask and every
other man has a right to ask whose
blood is in France to-day, and that
is, why do you keep out of the fight
ing line a man whom we believed
to be a soldier of ability and intre-
pidity, a soldier who could render
valiant service in this hour? In ask
ing that, l do not ask that he be
permitted to go; / do not ask that
any decision be changed. but 1 say
in this democracy of ours why should
not the people be entitled to some
explanation?
And l say further, without the
possibility of contradiction of the
facts, that to-day there is not a gov
ernment upon the face of the earth
that would treat its ranking Major
General or its former ranking gen.
eral in the fashion that General
Wood was treated, without an ex-
PLANTATION to its people.
Il iterate and reiterate that I am
indulging in no hostile accusation or
criticism. 1 ask, just as 1 have a
right to ask, that when an extra
ordinary order of this kind is made
when a brave spirit be humbled at
! the very time that he expects to go
across the water and fight for his
nation that there be forthcoming to
the. American people some kind of
explanation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
EAT LESS MEAT

T VERY loyal, patriotic citizen
n, will adhere strictly to the gov
ernment's request that we eat
less beef.
And everybody will be the better
for this latest form OF self denial.
AS a people, We eat too much beef.
Beef is strong diet, too strong for
frequent indulgence, unless one is en-
gagged in constant muscular exercise,
and more high blood pressures, with
their attendant diseases, may be
traced to excessive meat eating than
to almost any one other thing. But
it is palatable and is a constant
temptation to both the housewife,
who prepares the meals, and to those
who are fond of the good things of
life. So the food regulation may be
a blessing in disguise.
But aside from that, we owe it to
our boys at the front not to eat the
things they need most-and beef at
this season must be conserved at
home if there is TO be a plentitude
of it abroad. Who would not give
up his roast or his steak to a hungry
soldier boy, if one should happen
along? Well, you give your meat
to the soldier just as surely and just
as truly by denying yourself of some
of the available supply as though
you yourself handed him his dinner
on a platter.
The Food Administrator, however,
offers the public the alternative of
pork products. Pork was scarce last
winter and beef plentiful. Now the
reverse is true, so we are told to eat
ham and bacon and fresh pork, and
deny ourselves beef.
We will do as we are asked, and if
next time the request comes for
''meatless weeks" instead of meat
less days" we shall do without meat
altogether, however disagreeable
that may be. The American people
are ready. indeed, to go much farther
than such trivial sacrifices as these
to win the war. All they want tc
know is what is necessary for them
to do. and why.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
THE PITY OF 1T

Where can a more treacherous,
more venomous reptile be found than
in the person of the German born
man, who to. escape the oppression
of the autocracy of the beloved (sic)
fatherland, flies to America, seeks
refuge in the haven offered here, en-
joys his liberty and peace and free
dom and opportunity here, prospers
and attains means and spending
here, and then, when the test comes,
turns against the country that has
sheltered and protected him and al
legiance to which he has taken oath,
and aligns himself with the auto
cracy from which he ran away?
Such a man is untitled to be al
lowed to remain a citizen of this re-
public. He is without honor, without
character, without principle. He is
beneath even the contempt of true
men.
But what about his son? Is not the
son even more of a reptile than the
father ?-Kingston Leader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
Under the German Veneer
kansas City Times. ]


Like so many things German, the
kaiser's yachting trophy, won by an
American some years ago and now
broken up by the owner for the Red
Cross, turns out to be bogus. What
was believed to be solid gold and
worth $4,000 is revealed as pewter
and worth about $40.
Probably this represents about the
average discount at which the world
should have taken all kaiser things,
kaiser treaties, kaiser promises and
kaiser protestations of peaceful in
tentions. Had the world been wiser
it would have scratched the surface
of all of them before accepting them
to make sure what was beneath.
And we now know what it would
have found. But if the lesson of the
plated trophy is Illuminating it is
valuable to us only if we remember
that this habit of thrift is under per-
feet control at Berlin. The kaiser
knows where to save and where to
spend. A bogus article was good
enough to give an American for
winning a yacht race, but the kaiser $
cannon are all genuine. No economy
enters into his shell making, even
though sawdust is cheaper than
powder and doesn't show from the
outside. What the kaiser saved on
the spurious cup went to build a sub
marine, Just as the time he gained
by making spurious treaties went to
perfect his army for the blow he was
preparing.
1t is the German method. Shiny
tin where show only is sought, solid
steel where the impact falls. The
world has learned to be deceived by
neither.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
The TW0 Parties NOD
[From the Ohio State Journal.


If there is any politics in this war
period it will not be the fault of the
Republicans. They will do every
thing they can to keep politics out of
the fight, and they sincerely pray
that the Democrats will do the same
thing. 1t is fortunate for the coun-
Try that the Democrats are in power,
for the Republicans can be just as
loyal to the country under a Demo-
cratic President as they would be
under Republican. And they are
showing It now. In a long article in
The Forum Senator Smoot said there
had been more opposition to Presi-
dent Wilson's ideas from the Demo-
Gratis in Congress than from the Re-
publicans. So, if there is really any
partisan question just now, it is
which party has been most faithful
to the President. Some day this
question will change, but it will not
be by the Republicans while the wal
lasts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14
FOR DRAFT" MEN

M EN- who are in the draft age
M will have opportunity to pre-
pare themselves for preferred
branches of the service and for nom
commissioned officerships beginning
Monday next, when special evening
opened in the Technical High School.
instruction in radio work, carpentry
and later in other branches will be
given. and the young man who avails
himself of the courses to be Of
fered will be far advanced along his
favorite line of activity when his turn
comes to be summoned to the coIors.
The public schools have been as
signed this work here, very properly.
Every citizen has an interest in the
schools and is entitled to whatever
benefits they may have to bestow,
since they are maintained by the
taxes of himself and others. The
government has shown wisdom in u.s.
ing these mediums of special in
struction and the special corps of
teachers trained for the purpose.
And what is true of pre-war in
struction applies to the contemplated
re-education of wounded soldiers
returning disabled from the front.
The public schools should be given
an opportunity to help all such to
useful pursuits where they can earn
a living for themselves and thus
maintain their positions in the com
munity and their self-respect. 1t
must not be said in the years to come
that any soldier in this great war for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-14

~ DWARD NJ. HURLEY, chair
n, man of the United States Ship
ping Board, in an address this
week declared that in 1920 America
will have a merchant marine of
25,OO000O dead weight tons. He
said:
"ParadoXical as it may seem, the
fact is that during the years when
Germany was making her vast mill
tary and naval preparations, her
businessmen were engaged in a sys-
tematic propaganda to cultivate good
will abroad for German products.
Germany's businessmen knew well
enough that among their best Gus
toners were the United States, Eng
land France, Italy and Russia. But
they were assured that the war would
be short and won by quick rush of
overpowering forces. They had
thought they could localize the con-
fiict without Great Britain coming in,
and they did not have the faintest
idea that events would bring the
United States and many other coun-
tries into the war.
Their theory was that a speedy
victory would enhance their prestige.
But what is the result?
The result is what might have