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Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
Back Pay andBetter
Salaries for Board

With the increased work of the
new registration and the numerous
questionnaires that must be handled
since the men of 18 to 45 years OF
age were registered, added to the
three former registrations for army
service, the war department is work
ing out plan to more adequately
pay the members of the local con-
scription boards according to the fol-
lowing clipping from a newspaper:
"The draft boards will be well
paid for the service they will render
in the next three months. Each
member will receive 81 an hour, but
no more than $40 day. Appreciat-
ing that the boards were not fully
compensated for the services rem
dered during the first draft, Gen.
Crowder has directed that the boards
be given back pay at the rate of SO
for each man indicted into the SER
vice since last March.
1Many of the members Of the
boards are men of means, who have
declined periodically to accept the
treasury checks forwarded to them.
This money has been turned into a.
fund to be used to help the families
of men who have entered the SER
vice. The expenses of this draft will
be more, than was the expense Of the
first draft because Of the increased
expenses of the boards and tn ex-
ceptional care which viii be shown
in granting industrial exemptions.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
WILLIS TO SUCCEED
L. T. RICHARDSON

L. T. RithaEdson, slnitary inspec-
tor for the City of IBogalusa, has
rendered his resignation to take eff.
feet on October Is, in order that he
can devote his time to Personal af-
fairs. A a meeting of the City Board
of Health, held Monday afternoon, it
was decided to ask City Engineer
Willis to look after this work, in con-
pection with his regular duties, his
pay being $3.50 per month extra,
The job has been paying 500 a month
and those who are acquainted with
the details state that Mr.. Willis can
look after this work by devoting a
few hours a day to it. Mr.. Willis
was not present to state whether he
would accept the additional duties
or not.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
CITY BOARD OF HEALTH.
BogaIusa, La, Octobe, 9, 1913.
2:3OP. M.

TO THE PUBLIC:
The following telegram from Doctor Oscar
Bowling, President Of the State Board Of Health ex
plains itself:
''Your letter of the eighth. New Orleans closed
schools today. See circular mailed last night Urge
prompt action by your board closing schools places
of amusement and prohibit public gatherings of all
kinds, including churches; also soft drink and ice
cream parlors. Influenza getting strong hold and
growing rapidly worse. Prompt action necessary to
control"
This is effective at once. So far as it applies to
soft drink and ice cream parors it will be effective
at midnight tonight, the ninth.
]. H. SLAUGHTER,
President City Board of Health.
Approved:
w. H. SULLIVAN, Mayor.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
Two Local Boys
Missing in Action

Two young men from Washington
Parish, Lewis e. Pevy, Of Bogalusa
and Fred W. King, Of Mt. Hermon,
are reported as missing in action,
their names appearing in the casualty
list on Monday. No other details
have been given. Fred King, is
Ehought to be the son of a widow in
Mt. Hermon and the only record Of
any Bogalusa boy by the name Of
Peyy is the one Of the Great South
ern record of boys in service. is that
of Horace L. Pevy, who was employ
ed at the Great Southern plant.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
PARISH FAIR CALLED OFF; MANY
ERPUBLIC MEETINGS. OFF

Mayor Sullivan received message from Franklinton
late Wednesday afternoon from the officers and directors
of the Washington Parish Fair stating that the event
which was scheduled for next Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday had been called off, It may be possibly held at
a latter date.
The attack of influenza in every section of the South
has upset many plans. In Bogausa it will most probably
postpone several events which were scheduled for this
and next week Parish officials have acted the same
advice as the City of Bogausa when they received word
from DR. Bowling of the State Board of Health
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
Thomas to Speak at
Frankhnton on 18th

L. E. Thomas, one of the most
prominent citizens of Louisiana and
who has hundreds of friends in Wash
ington Parish, is going to speak at
Franklinton under the auspices Of the
State Council of Defense and every
citizen whom possibly can should go
and hear his address. Whether the
speaking will be at the fair grounds
or at the court house has not been an
nounced. The speaking will start
about noon, and Mr.. Thomas many
friends propose to give him royal
welcome on his visit to the parish.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
Elks' Dance Saturday
For Italian Red Cross

The local lodge of Elks are MAX
ing arrangements to hold a dance
in their lodge room on next Satur-
day evening to which the public is
invited. They are planning to make
the event one of the most enjoyable
of the fall season, and the sale of
tickets indicate that there will be
a large crowd in attendance. The
proceeds will be given to the Italian
Red Cross fund. The admission is
to be 81 per couple.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
Buy More Bonds--
ATTENDING CONFERENCE

Rev. A. Inman Townsley is attend
ing a conference of ministers in New
with Bishop ]. C. Kilgo presiding. He
the reception given the
Bishop Wednesday evening by New
Orleans Methodists in Rayne Memoir
ial Church. Bishop Kilgo has con-
scented to release Rev. Townsley for
pastorate First Methodist Church, for
Y. NJ. C. A. war work about Novem-
Der list.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
Rev. Chalmers VIII
Leave Here Soon

Rev. w. Palmer Chalmers has tend
cred his resignation as pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church. His
resignation has been accepted by the
church, and he will leave in a few
days for some field Of labor. Several
fine prospects are open to Rev.
Chalmers, but which one he viii ac-
cept is not certain.
During his pastorate of three years
in Bogalusa he has made many
friends and the membership of this
church has been doubled. Recently
he succeeded in uniting the two
Presbyterian congregations. The best
wishes of all Bogalusa follow Rev.
Chalmers to his new field of service.
Buy 9TH Liberty Bonds-
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
LA. FIBRE BOARD 100 PER CENT

The Louisiana Fibre Board Co.,
one of the largest manufacturing
plants in Bogalusa has the distinction
Of being 100 per cent in the Liberty
Loan Drive,
Every employee, white and colored,
purchased one or more bonds and H.
E. Baumgarten, who had charge of
the drive in that plant and Col Geo.
i. Wright, the president and Gen
eral Superintendent Cullen have been
fbusy receiving congratulations since
the announcement Of the results were
made public.
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Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
One More Bond -
UNION SERVICES HELD

The Union service last Sunday of
Methodists and Presbyterians was
neld in the First Methodist Church.
The sermon on the Suffering
Saviour" was delivered by Rev. A.
Inman Townsley.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
SCHOOLS, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT,
SOFT DRINK STANDS, ARE CLOSED

Influenza Here Not Alarming, But Mayor and DIR.
Slaughter Decide Not to Take Amy Chances Hav-
ing Disease Spread-No Serious Case in City and
Proper Cooperation by Citizens Will Rid City of
Dreaded Disease
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10

Upon the suggestion of Dr. Bowling of the State
Board of Health it has been decided to close the schools
Of the city all places Of amuseents cold drink and ice
next few days will be called off in order that the Spanish
influenza be kept under better control The action
was taken at meeting of the City Board Of Health
afternoon just the Enterprise going
TO press.
The situation in Bogalusa is not alarming, but upon
receipt from the State Board Of Health requesting the
above action the City Board of Health voted to follow
as suggested Following is copy of the
message received by DR.. Slaughter from DR.. Dowling
"Your letter of the eight New Orleans
closed schools today. See circular mailed
last night. Urge prompt action by your
board closing schools, places Of amusement
and prohibit public gatherings of all kinds,
including churches; also soft drink stands
and ice cream parlors Influenza getting
strong hold and growing rapidly worse.
Prompt action necessary to control"
"DOWLING."
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10

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Buy 4th Liberty Bonds.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10

4th Liberty Bonds
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
III" Sideways to Open
With Exercises AUG. I
Ceremonies, Probably, at 42d
Street-Through Trains
About 9 P. M.

After a conference yesterday be-
tween Travis H. Whitney and Charles
B. Hubbell, Of the Public Service Com
missions special committee on tina
operation of the III" subway lines. and
James L. Quackenbush, general attor-
ney of the lnterborough Rapid Tran
sit Company, it was announced that
preparations were going ahead for the
opening Of the "H" on the evening of
August /.
Actual operation will begin some
time between 8 and 10 o'clock. 1t is
proposed to invite a number of stats
and city officials to participate with
the members of the Public Seryice
Commission and the officials Of the In
terborough Rapid Transit Company in
exercises before the running o. the
first train at some uptown point ad-
jacent to the Grand Central Station
or Times Square.
The operation of the "H" lines will
put into service the new East Side and
West Side subways and the shuttle un-
der Forty-second Street. The East
Side subway is composed Of the old
tube from Brooklyn and the Battery
to Forty second Street and the Lexng-
ton Avenue line and its branches
north of that point The West Side
subway is composed of the Seventh
Avenue tube from Wall and William
streets and the Battery north to
Forty-second Street, and the old sub
way and its branches north of that
station. The Lexington and Seventh
Avenue lines are operated now as sep
arate units, requiring transfers to the
old subways
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

ence upon the minds of our ance.to~.
of the acts of princes and lords -
feudal times who compelled trihnt.
wholly out Of proportion to the mesns
Of the people or the rewards wh;ss
came to them by reason of goyernm.ntt
We no longer pay taxes as subiecss
but as citizens mutually interested =
our common government which l.
national copartnership. And yet ~
men will not voluntarily contribute ~
the maintenance of this copartnersb;n
1t is hard to pay taxes because you r.
not seem to get anything tangible /,
return. For the money which you nss
the grocer, the butcher, the coal mar
etc, something substantial is deliyers1
at the house. But the return for vou.
tax money is such mysterious. IN.
visible thing. You leave your lnonsv
with the city treasurer and he stamrs
his name and the date Of payment -
your bill, and you carry it back hon.
wor dering how much you were stuns
in the transaction. You are so a..us.
toned to the things which the tax
money supplies that you just sort q,
accept them as part of natural com
oitions which Providence sends us
like the sunshine, the rain, the gra..
and the trees, and you never stop Ia
Il INK that it requires money, and lots
Of it, to keep them coming.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Price Uncertainty
Restricts Trading
In Cotton Goods
Mills Lack Labor and Await
Washington Decision on
DifferentiaIs

Trading in cotton goods has been
generally quiet at first hands. Differ
entails are being figured out at Wash
ington on many lines of goods to cor
respond with the base prices announced
earlier in the monS>> and announce
ments of the results are yet to come
on several important divisions. To the
price-fixing uncertainty has been added
the effect of sharp declines in cotton
and further hesitation on the part of
jobbers and retailers. The mills con-
tinue as busy as limited labor supplies
permit. Further large government or
ders are being completed and sent on
to the mills, the allotments being
made by trade committees.
Mills are not selling gray goods
freely for future delivery, as many of
them prefer to await final decisions as
to prices. Some business is being
booked for the last quarter of the year
on the government basis, and a few
mills continue to accept orders on odd
goods, the price to be subject to re-
vision. Wash goods buyers and others
who must provide merchandise for the
coming spring are either making selec-
tlons, subject to price confirmation
later, or placing their business in mod
crate volume on the cloths of a fancy
or novelty character that can be made
only in limited quantities. Staple bust
ness is generally in small volume. Sec
ond-hand holders of goods are liquidat-
ing some of the high priced stocks
slowly.
Quotations are nominal and irregu-
lar. Print cloths. 28-inch, 64x64. 14c:
64x60, 1870; 38h inch, 64x64, 16Ac;
brown sheetings, Southern standards.
Csc; denms, 2.2O, Southern indigo.
371ac; tickings, 8 OF, 421kc; prints,
22c; staple ginghams, 221ac; dress
glnghams, 271ac and 32kc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Dyer Arrested as 'Loafer"
Court to Decide Whether His
. Work Is Essential

William McCrede, 81 West Eleventh
Street. commutes daily from Atlantic
Highlands to engage in his business of
dyeing rhinestones. beads and the like,
according to his statement yesterday to
Magistrate Corrigan in the Jefferson
Market Court when arraigned under
the anti-loating law.
McCrede said he was employed by his
mother in-law. who conducts a dyeing
establishment in the basement of the
apartment building where he lives with
the family. At present the family has
removed its summer establishment to
New Jersey. Detective Taczkowski de.
clared he hasn't seen McCrede work in
six years. Magistrate Corrigan decided
to allow the Court of Special Sessions
to determine the war value OF Nc
Crede's business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
New York Breaking
Employment Records

More persons were at work in June,
1918. at the various New York State
Industries than had been employed in
any previous June, according to the
report by the State Industrial Commits
sion. Payrolls for June this wear
were 8 per cent larger than the total
for May. In fact. June broke all rec
ords as to aggregate amount, and this
IS regarded as indicative of the inten-
slty, of industrial activity
The food, liquors and tobacco groups
of industries showed the greatest in
crease in number of workers Printing
decline. The metal industries had Is
per cent more employees than in June.
1917. Shipbuilding attracted a gain of
per cent in employees.
Since March, 1918. each month has
seen a new record in the average
weekly earnings per employee The new
high mark set in June is S2044, an in
crease of fifty-three cents over MAY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Imitation Expands
Cost Of the War
Economic Strangulation
Faces the Enemy

And incidentally, like most things,
the price OF war has gone up. 1t costs
a nation much more to fight now than
it did in 1914. Imitation is a factor
here. Moreover, as the war went on it
began to cover longer and larger area
and to affect more people. The larger
offensives on the battlefield soon in
PRODUCED new high marks in the con-
sumption Of wealth. In fact, the people
of the world have never spent as much
money on any other single enterprise
as they have on this war. Calculation
at this time Of the number of canals
that could have been constructed. arid
lands irrigated, slums wiped out. social
and educational experiments carried
on, drudgery eliminated would for all
practical purposes be like crying over
spilled milk. Yet in the future. per-
haps, when the people are considering
cost in connection with the adoption Of
some great humanitarian, constructive
reform. their boldness and financial
courage may be greater because Of tho
adventure in spending that they have
had In the last four years.
The trend Of daily war expenditures
is illustrated by Great Britain's record.
In the first six months of the war the
average daily cost was $1o,ooo,ooo. It
grew in the fiscal year 1915-1s to $1e,-
100000, and in 1851 to $27.b60 900
At present Great Britain's daily expen-
diture approximates s35.oooooo. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
TO CHILDREN eating chocolate

THO CHILDREN eating chocolate
candy fundamental principle
about the nature of things is
frequently revealed for the first time
They learn by experiment that, though
one piece of candy is good, two pieces
are better and five still better, fifteen
let US say-are not good at all, for
they produce no pleasure, but a
stomach ache. In all things there
is a margin beyond which an increase
in the units will not result in a gain
of satisfaction or of efficacy. Econ
omists call this principle the law Of
diminishing utility 1t applies to
steam engines and money accumula-
tons and Chautauqua lecturers as
well as to chocolate.
War finance illustrates the princi.
pie clearly. The debts of the nations
which are bearing the brunt of this
war have in the aggregate long ago
passed the point beyond which the
human mind can appreciate changes.
The enormity of the financial oblga-
tons has proved an an@sthesia to the
popular mind, which no longer can be
very much impressed by an increase
of few tens of billions of dollars.
The plain citizen is completely at a
loss to understand the meaning of
financial operations on scale never
before attempted. And the specialists
sre hardly more certain of the direc-
tion along which the unprecedented
rolling up of debt is leading. The &C.
cumulated experience of all mankind
in things financial offers little light
or guidance. Until the war ends the
men charged with managing the
finances of the belligerents will prob
ably continue along the general paths
they have followed for the first four
years. After the war the colossal
need of economic statesmen will arise
Problems of funding the floating debt,
refunding maturing long obligations,
meeting the ever-rising interest
charges without depriving the nations
of the resources they need for recon-
struction, hating imitation and stabi-
izing the value of paper currency
these and hundred others will chal-
lenge the best of thought and origi-
nality in the way Of economic plan
ming that the people of the world can
contribute.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
German Indemnity
Depends on Victory

"The greater part Of the war ex-
penditure 10 productive and Is eco
nomicslly employed in our country. It
therefore represents no loss. Whether
We obtain a wax indemnity or not can
not be said. That depends on victory
which We have yet to win, but the
bankruptcy Of the German Empire Is
unthinkable 30 long a. our enemies do
not succeed in smashing NJ. (This
speech WAS made before the Germans
started their great offensive on March
81. many months before Foch took the
initiative and foreshadowed the smash
ing Of the snemy.)
"one condition. however. must be
fulflled-the freedom Of competition.
A free way for German work In the
whole world must again be won. Then
We shall be able to carry our war ex.
penditure more easily than either Eng.
land Or France. Over the door Of Ger
manys future stand the words, Work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
The Economic Staying
Power of Nations

Meantime aside from the desire of
each nation to make its war financing
as sound as possible, the chief inter
est of the belligerents is focused on
the economic staying power Of it's
group of adversaries. If the nations
OF Europe were playing up to form
were fulfilling the pre-war prophecies
of economists and bankers-few of
them would be able to face a fifth
year Of world strife without CHASTITY
fears as to where the money was COM
ing from. Financial observers are I'M
pressed by the striking fact that, no
matter how near some Of the present
belligerents may be to economic ruin,
they are still able to retain the out
ward forms Of solvency and have as
yet averted the long anticipated COL
lapse.
From the Allied standpoint, the burn
ing question is how long can the Teu-
tonic alliance go before an economic
breakdown will come. Observers do
not seem to be able to reach any agree
ment on this subject. Some say that
Germany and her helpmates will be
able to finance the war until the bitter
end, and then she will be ruined unless
able to exact large indemnities from
her enemies. Others hold that Ger
many and her allies have already ex-
ceeded their financial limits, and only
the stimulus Of war activity is post
pon1ng the collapse which may come
at any moment. This view Is not held
only in irresponsible quarters. An
drew Bonar Law, Chancellor Of the
ESchequer in Great Britain, in pre-
senting the budget for tho current
year. said bankruptcy seemed immi
nent in Germany. After recounting
the broad details Of Germany's balance
sheet. Mr.. Bonar Law said: "If that
were our position, would say that
bankruptcy was not very far distant"
On the other hand, Herr Rudolph
Havcrstein, president of the Reichsbank
OF Germany, recently said, in urging
the people Of the Fatherland to nut
their savings in the eight German
war loans, that Germany's financial no.
s'tion was moro favorable than that of
the Allies.
The financial position of Germany"
the foremost Teuton banker said, "is
moro favorable than that of our enc
mics. Germany's war expenditure up
to the present time has been about LOT
milliards Of marks. Of which 10 per
cent is covered by long date loans. In
England tho percentage il only e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Joins Federal Reserve

WASHINGTON. July 27-The Coun-
ty Trust Company, of White Plains,
n. Y, with resources of S2,561 900, has
been admitted to the Federal Reserve
system.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
The American
Balance Sheet

When the United States entered the
war its national debt equalled 81 OOo
100000, or 5000 per capita. 1t now
amounts to $7,ooo,ooo,ooo, including
war stamps and temporary certificates
OF indebtedness outstanding, or s63.63
per capita. Interest on the debt before
the war amounted to s23.0o0,oOo a year
or $o.21 per capita, and now it totals
S49s,e1l 1920, or s4.24 per capita. The
debt is given exclusive of loans to AL
lies but the interest rate is figured on
the gross Indebtedness including loans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Enlists in the Navv

Thomas F. Herman, of the New York
Stock Exchange firm of H. F. Neon
nell & Co., has enlisted in the navy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

daily rate in France in the first year OF
the war was $780, 900, and it now ex-
ceeds $22,oOO,O00. For the first year
Italy fought her daily expenditures
averaged $3,Ooo,oO0, against $12,00o,o0O
at the present time. Germany's daily
cost in the early days of the war was
$4,000, 900 and now it is estimated at
$31, 100000. Austria's daily rate in
1914 was 100000, against $13,5oo,ooo
day four years later.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

Although there has been a reluc-
tFnce IN Germany to reveal the details
OF her war financing, more is known
about fiscal conditions in GERMANY
than in Austria Hungary, Bulgaria or
Turkey. The total debt of Austr;a
hungary on August 1 next, it is esti-
mated will be $1s,ooo,ooo, ooo or $40
per capita, compared with a debt four