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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-11
PROPOSE PUTTING HEAVY
TAX on ALI. AUTOMOBILES

cory The theory OF such TAX is
that In time OF WAY. people ought 10
DC encouraged not 10 spend their
money for the higher priced cars.
Costly automobiles spinning along the
country roads give an impression OF
prosperity. and the psychological cf
feet OF thit in time of war IS bad. In
that it leads 10 the impression, wrong
though IL Sgay be. that some people
are making money out OF the war,
while others are giving OF their saw
ings to buy Liberty bonds and thrift
stamps. Hence the Treasury feels that
the sale OF expensive cars ought to be
frowned upon az strongly as possible.
and for that reason has proposed to the
committee a Federal license tax. rang
ing from SIS for cars OF twcnty-three-
horsepower. 10 $50 for those OF forty
horsepower and over.
Automobile men. appearing as wit
nesses before the committee. have de-
clared that such taxes would bankrupt
the industry. and this side Of the ques-
;ion must be treated with careful con-
sideration.
Another tax recommended by the
Treasury officials and directed against
the free use OF automobiles is that
which would impose n tax upon persons
employing chauffeurs. The rccommen-
dation is that one female servant in
family should be exempted. but the
employer should pay 4 tax on each adj
ditional servant. Thus family en-
ploying a house servant and a chauf-
feur would be obliged to pay an amount
equal to 10 per cent of the chauffeur's
wages II n footman and chauffeur
were employed IN addition to the house
servant 25 per cent of the combined
wages OF the two first named would
have to be pa:d. If there were more
than four servants above the exemp-
tion 100 per cen: would be paid
HERE IS LUXURY LIST
OF TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Preliminary consideration of tho
Treasury Departments luxury list has
already convinced the members of the
.rmmittee that it contains some ar
:=11fes which have no right 10 be there
S-hief among these is tho schedule for
taxes on wearing apparel The COM
mittee considers 1t ridiculous to ask
person to pay tax on suit OF
clothes costing moro than $50, shoes
costing more than IS, skirts costing
more than 81 and hosiery costing moro
than 50 cents. These prices are en-
tirely too low, the committee members
believe. and If these articles are sub
jected to any taxes at all the price of
the article in each case will be greatly
raised. In the opinion Of the commit
tee. articles purchased at the prices
named fall within the class of ncccssi-
ties rather than in the luxury class.
The prices established by the Treas
ury on women's wear are also rcga rded
rs entirely too low by the committee
Continued on Seventh Page.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-11
Twins Enlist In INV.

KNOXVILLE. TENN. August TO-
inseparable through their twenty-five
years Of life. Hobart Cupp and Nc
kinley Cupp. twins. who were born
tho year that President Mckinley en-
tered Office. came to Knoxville from
Rogersville. Tenn. and enlisted in the
United States Navy and also made a
request that they be examined together
and sent TO the same naval base.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-11
Peach Pits Helm WI, W.

fAhiMA. WASH. August Io.--pcach
pits from the orchards OF the Yakima
valley are helping To win the war in
the front-linc trenches OF Europe. 2,c
pits are used in the manufacture or
gas masks, the charcoal, produced from
them having superior absorbent au,l-
tiles.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

DR.. Nurse has for sometime been
the distributor of Mackey's Wonderful
Rhelmatic cure has recently purchas-
ed outright the formula for compound
ing the same and now has the sole
rights for the manufacture and distri-
button of this wonderful preparation.
This is the only ten days cure on
the market taking ten days for rheu-
matism two hours and immediate re-
lief for neuralgia, forty-eight hours for
lumbago, one day for throat trouble,
ten days for asthma and all pains and
stiffness in the body, ten days for lung
trouble in first and second stage and
a guaranteed remedy and destroyer
of appendicitis, absolutely guaranteed
under the Pure Food and Drug act,
serial No. 44333.
Sold only by Rev, ]. w. Nurse, D.
D., at his Laboratory and residence,
1882 Euclid Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
Bell phone East 1880. $1.00 per bot.
tle-Agents wanted.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
THE LIFE OF LEON rRorzkY.

The author of The Bolsheviki and
World Peace" in conversation with
some of his most intimate friends,
gave the following sketch of his life
a week or so before leaving New
York to return to Russia:
Il was born thirty-eight years ago
in a little Jewish colony in southern
Russia, in the government of Kher-
SON.. When about fourteen years of
age l entered the gymnasium of Cher
nigov, and live most of the impress
sionable youth Of Russia soon became
interested in the revolutionary move
ments, Here in America school bows
seem to spend most of their time in
sports, baseball and football. In Rus
STA, the boys and the girls too, for
that matter-use their leisure for
reading books like Buckles History
of Civilization Marks Capital 'Kaut-
sky's The Social Revolution and our
W great classics that throb with
the passion of revolt. Our pastime is
chiefly attending underground Social
list meetings and spreading the pro-
pa0dhud dhlOhB WOIhlusul6u III lu6
city and peasants in the country.
Il was no exception to the rule.
The revolutionary cause gripped me
early in life and has never relaxed it's
hold. There was indeed a great deal
of work to do. When l was little more
than twenty years old, the Russian
Revolution blazed up into a mighty
flame. Most of the young people of
Russia with any education were en-
listed in the fight against the unspeak.
able Czaristic system, determined to
put an end to the wrongs it inflicted
upon the long-suffering Russian peo-
pie.
my university education was inter
rupted, for l o o plunged deep in the
work of propaganda, which left no
time for anything else. 1 continued,
however, to apply myself to the study
of sociology, political economy and
history and SOC became a convinced
MARKHAM Socialist. Whe nthe Russian
Social Democracy split up into two
sections on the issue Of tactics | did
not identify myself with either the
Mensheviki or the Bolsheviki, but
continued to work for the general
cause, for the overthrow of Czarism
be applied in gaining the same ends.
and the of Socialism. Since the
division in the party was not based on
fundamentals, but only on a differ.
ence of opinion as to the method to
used all my efforts to effect a re-
Cancellation between the two wings.
However, l leaned strongly to the rad.
ieal side. In other words, l was a
Menshevik of the extreme left, or a
near-Bolshevik.
MY ability as a speaker and as a
writer soc drew me into the very
center of Socialist activity. / wrote
for the party press, composed pamph.
let's, and carried on personal propa.
ganda chiefly amogn the city popula
tions.
Naturally, ! did not escape the gen
eral fate of Russian Revolutionists.
was arrested and imprisoned, and as
] did not give up my work for the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

accepted for and enlisted in the Vet
Urinary Corps, National Army, and
sent to the Medical Officers Training
Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. or to
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, as may be
most convenient.
2. The following classes of men are
desired: horseshoers, 20; saddlers, 20;
pharmacists, 20; cooks, 40; typists or
stenographers, 40; veterinary stu
dents, agricultural students, farmers.
stable men or men accustomed to
handling horses, 1860.
8. The Secretary of Wal directs
that a recruiting campaign to obtain
men between the ages specified, not
subject to registration, and otherwise
ualifqied as indicated, be at once initi-
ated. w. 7. BATES,
Adjutant General.
1t is requested that the above be
given the widest publicity possible.
CHAS. A. VARNUM,
Lieut.. Col. U. S. A, Retired.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
WAR EMIT.
The Adjutant Generals office,
Washington.

G. r. s., January %, 1918.
Circular Letters,
1918 Series, No. IL.
To All Officers of the General Re
cruiting Service:
1. TO provide for the organization
of veterinary hospitals for duty over
seas, and for other purposes, the Vet
Urinary Corps will require at least
1000 additional enlisted men within
the next few weeks. 1t is desired to
enlist as many men as possible be-
tween 10 and 95 years of age, and who
are not registered under the Selective
Service Law. These men should be
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That when Judge Coon asked a
certain Negro the other day on trial
if he vas employed he said, "Yassah,
l am employed looking for work."
well, I will take the worry off your
mind" says the Judge, "Sixty days!'
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Mr.. n. c. Crews,

Mr.. n. c.. Crews,
Kansas City, Mo-,
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find check for pay
ment of subscription of The Kansas
City Sum-" for 1918.
If l want to know anything con.
corning the ace and it's progress, l
look for it in The Sun" 1t is one
of the brightest, breeziest and newest
papers published by our race any
where. 1t is a weekly, in the strict
est sense of the term, weekly"
Wishing you continued success,
am Truly Yours,
A. D. Butler,
st. Joseph, Mo.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

cause after my release l became what
the Russian authorities called an I'll.
legal person, and had to live under
an assumed name. My first jailer was
called Trotzky, and the idea occurred
to me to take his name.
when the Revolution broke out in
full force in 1906 l was made presi-
dent of the first Soldiers and Work
ingmens' Council in Petrograd to sue
coed the first incumbent to that posi-
ton. l remained president until the
defeat of the Revolution, when I was
arrested and sent TO Imprisonment and
exile in Siberia. From there / sue
ceeded in making my escape, and
went to live in Switzerland.
IN Switzerland l founded a Social.
list paper called Prada (The TRUTH
which was published both in Russian
and in German. | also established an
international news service for the dis
semination of truthful news of cur
rent political and revolutionary events
in Russia.
TN 1910 l went to Germany, where
my revolutionary activity incurred
the displeasure of the Prussian au.
thorities. I was arrested and SEN
fenced to Imprisonment, but escaped.
Three days before the outbreak of
the present war found me in Vienna.
On the advice of DR.. Adler, the Aus
trian Socialist leader, l left Austria.
Hungary, and was in Servia when that
country was invaded by the Austro-
Hungarian troops, and was present at
the Servian parliament, the Kuptch-
ina, when the vote for the first wal
credits was taken.
Il returned to Switzerlan d,and
was later summoned to Paris to edit
the Russian Socialist paper there.
When a Russian division of troops mu-
tinted and killed t hegeneral. l ad-
dressed a severe letter of criticism
of the French government to Jules
Guesde, a Socialist member of the cab
met, for the savage punishment that
was melted out to the Russian troops.
This so d~ispleased the French gov
eminent that I was ordered out of
France. l then went back to Swift
zerland. but Switzerland feared com
p~lications with hte Czaristic govern.
ment aud would not let me in. l then
turned to Spain. Spain would not
have me either. l was detained at
Barcelona, where l was to be deport
ed to Cuba, where I knew no one, and
where l should have found myself
completely stranded. Later the Span
ish government decided to let me &C
where l pleased, provided only I left
Spain. Every country in Europe prac
tically IA now closed to me, and 81
l turned by gaze across the Atlantic
and arrived at Ellis Island at the enC
of December 1916.
Here in New York I lived with m,
wife and two children in three room
in a Bronx tenement, wrote for tn
'Novy Mir the Russian Socialist dali
and spoke at Socialist meetings.
do not expect my stay here to be yer,
long, however, for a revolution i
bound to break out in Russia in
short time, and as soon as that hap
pens l shall hasten to my home coun
try and help in the work of Russia.
liberation.
MY book The Bolsheviki and World
Peace expresses in full my convic
tions on the world war. 1t is the re
suit of wide and deep study and the
program laid down there is the onl!
solution that I a see to the problems
that confront humanity"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

MONEY TO LOAN ON FURNITURE.
To Fooming house keepers and to
honest working men and women who
have an approved reputation of pay
ing their obligations when due. Don't
let your bills worry you; get a loan
from us and pay them. You a pay
us back in small weekly instaIIments.
Our business is strictly confidential.
Call Bell Grand 42o4. Ask for Manager.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

FOR RENT-in Alpha Apartments
22nd and Paseo l basement apartment
4 rooms with closets and bath; all
all rooms have full length windows to
the south, partly furnished. $500.
Burtch Investment Co. Homep hone
Linwood 20.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

In encouraging your children to buy
Thrift Stamps and exchanging them
for Baby Bonds you are simply teach
ing them to save their pennies and
put them out at 4 per cent interest.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

The democrats may cover up or eX-
plain away al | their blunders and
shortcomings in managing the war
preliminaries, but the best way to
carry this great enterprise to its de-
served success is to place it into the
hands of the Old Reliable Republicans
who have won all previous wars for
Uncle Sam.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That a recent scrap between two
prominent Negroes is being vigorous
ly investigated. Well something is
liable to happen.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That a lying woman is like a bit.
ing dog, both are treacherous.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

"Our Gruesome Customs by Prin.
Joe E. Hereford is being copied and
.favorably commented upon by several
of u exchanges. Now who will make
a tangible start toward the reforms
which appear to be so popular? How
would it do for the undertakers and
the ministers to ge t together upon
this important mater and ogether
work out something effective? We
are at least fifty years behind now.
So, hurry!
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That there can never be any real
equality between the X until men
are permitted to search their wives
pockets like their wives do theirs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

We respectfully suggest to the
Board of Health that a good way to
stop the spread of contagious diseas-
es would be to clean up and ventillate
the Vine street and the Fifth street
cars, compel either the closing or the
cleansing of the dirty picture shows
and filthy rooming houses in which
all these maladies are propagated.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That one should never talk about
his neighbor, or in other words do not
throw stones when you are living in
a glass house.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

"Y" Secretary Frank A. Harris re-
ceived a letter Wednesday from Camp
Funston saying that Father Vanloo is
slowly recovering from the meningitis
and is far from being dead.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

For sale by the Willis Investment Co.
2610 Highland Avenue
A solid brick duplex renting for
1880 per month. Price. $4,000.
7-room brick. rents $50 per month.
Price, $2,5oo.o0.
Cottage, $2.100. EASY TERMS.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That the death raate among the
Negroes of this city is exceeding the
birth rate. Well, what is the matter
boys?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

Have you paid your subscriptions
to the Hospital fund?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

FOR RENT Five-room modern
brick. Strictly modern. Call at 231S
Michigan Ave.-Mrs. S. l.. Hill.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

our best institutions the management
would be sure to get arrested on ac-
count of their unsanitary condition.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
FOR SALE.

One new 5 Don house, lot 8 feet by
140 feet, corner lot. All improve
ments in. One s o strictly mod
ern house, lot 100x2S5 with so bearing
fruit trees and several beautiful so
TT, lots, Terms to suit. W. G. Pink
ard, Bell phone 277J Rosedale, 1922
Adams street.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

WANTED-Children to care for by
the day or week. 1904 East Tenth
street. Bell Phone East 1147J.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That if the health i~nspector. SHOULD
go through the bath rooms in one o
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Classified Wants and
Rooms to Rent

FOR RENT-Furnished room, mod
ern, prices 81 to 1925 per week. Bell
Grand 4204.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

THE WILLIS REALTY G. INVEST:
MENT CO.,
261o Highland Avenue.
Bell Phone East 3440.
HOMES FOR SALE
For $1,000 up on Easy Terms.
Estates Administered
Properties Taken Care Of
Taxes paid for you, which you may
repay by weekly oil monthly Install
ments.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02

That the man who knows is the
man who can.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Negro Business and
Professional Directory
of Greater Kansas City
BAKERIES.
MRS. SUSIE OWENS, 1881 Vine street.
Bell phone, East 5O17.
HOME BAKERY. Mrs. A. Compton,
Prop. 1717 e. 18th street.
BARBER SHOPS.
LA6oRINe MEMS BARBER SHOP,
". F. O'Bonnon, Prop, SIS Grand
avenue.
BEAUTY PARLoRs AND hAIR
DREsSERS.

S-FNS NNNS NNFNNT
DREsSERs.
M. 3. JAcKSoN'S WONDERFUL
HAIR PREPARATIONS, 1913 East
18th st. Bell Phone East 3287-W.
MISS ELSIE ROGERS, Poro Hair
Dresser, 1874 Armstrong Avenue,
Kansas City, Kansas.
MRS. CORA D. WILLIAMS, Poro Hair
Dresser, 1919 Euclid Ave. Bell
phone, East 1851.
MRS. SUSIE P. GIBSON, 1725 Michi-
gan avenue, Poro hair dresser. Bell
Phone, East 3O5SJ.
CAFES.
MRS. H. W. DoTsoN, 1905 East 18th,
Bell Phone, e. 2214.
FLORISTS.
cRosTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1901 E.
18th. Bell phone, East 272.
LAWYERS.
c. II. GALLOWAY, COL Delaware,
Home phone NJ. So, Bell phone Main
44S. Practices in all courts.
w. C. HUEsToN, COL Delaware, Home
phone, MSS, Bell phone Main 44s.
Legal advice. Practices in all
courts,
e. A. sHAcKLEFoRD, Attorney at
Law, 511 Minnesota venue, Kansas
City, Kas. Bell phone, West 1866.
JEWELLERS.
j. A. WILSON, 1916 w. Ninth street,
Kansas City, Mo. Bell phone, Main
624SR.
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
]. e. MILLER STUDIO. 1922 East
Eighteenth street. Bell phone, E. 81,
/, REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT
coLoRED PEOPLES INVESTMENT
CO., Solomon Smith, Pres, 1926
Vine St. Bell Phone, East 1O11
Home Phone, East 4O11.
A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVEST.
MENT CO., 500 Minnesota avenue.
(Upstairs) Kansas City, Kas. Bell
phone, West 1743; Home phone,
West POI. c. W. Melons, Mgr.
II. L. KINsLER, 91S East Twenty
first street. Bell phone, Grand
4204A. -
SHOE STORE.
G. A. PAGES SHOE STORE, 1907 E.
Eighteenth street. Pell phone, East
1928.
SHOE REPAIRING.
ELECTRIC SHOE G. REPAIR SHOP,
]. c. Banks, Prop, 15l4h East Eigh-
teenth street. Bell phone East 1899,
. UNDERTAKES.
ADKINS BROS, Nineteenth and Vine
streets. Both Phones, East 4349.
East 4349.
II. 3. MOORE, 1104 independence ave
nue.. Bell phone Main 339SW. Home
. phone Main 3341.
WATKINS BROS, 1929 Lydia avenue
Bell phone Grand 9S7, Home Main
1889. Res, Bell East 1881.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Kansas City. Mo.

Kansas City, Mo.
I suffered with lumbago for a long
time and l heard of Mackey's Liniment.
l used one bottle of this Diniment and
was entirely cured, and I feel safe to
say it is the best Liniment made and
Liniment will do all it is recommended
to do. JOHN SAULSBERRY,
2414 Highland Ave, Bell East 1857.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
Kansas CITY. NJ

hansaS Clty, MO.
I want to say I used one bottle of
Mackey's Liniment and it has done me
more good than any medicine l ever used.
For Is years ! suffered with rheuma-
tism and for five years 1 suffered with
severe throat trouble, but am now cured.
For these complaints l find nothing to
equal Mackey's Liniment.
MRS. LIZZIE LOGAN,
500 Independence Ave.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
THE-Y SAY

That the Rev. Neal Range is a
powerful young preacher.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-18

Miss Mildred Johnson. a San Fran
cisco girl, who formerly visited Mrs.
Gath Freeman of this city and enjoys
an acquaintance here. has been In
France for more than three months.
Originally she was doing Red Cross
work It seems that she has been
doing canteen work lately. A letter to
friends follows:
Just a week ago saw my first hos
pital train had been as];ed by
Madame Fuller of the French Red
Cross here, to help. as l understood
French. l was to help with one OF
her trains, but thought it just a troop
train Then seemingly miles Of cars,
marked with Red Cross, came slow
ly and silently in, and l rushed for
pencil and paper, as there were likely
to be English on it. Before their names
we're taken and before they were re-
moved and put in our American hos
pital, instead of the French ones,
which they dread SO, we distributed
hot tea and rum, pouring it from huge
pitchers into their poor, battered tin
cups There were eleven hundred in
all-some pretty badly wounded-all
from the battle of Monday, May 81.
They had only first-aid dressings and
had ridden for two days and nights
on that crowded train without having
eaten, but never saw such pluck and
blood and mud-men without noses,
hands, arms, and with all kinds of
hideous wounds. which must have
been unspeakably painful, and most of
them "gassed"-all smiling and Joking,
or waiting patiently in long lines for
their share of hot drink, and not one
single moan or groan or complaint, but
instead. usually insisting on their pal
or someone else being served first as
they were worse Off
Rare Spirit Shown.
"Afterward l wondered how I could