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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-01
STUDEBAKER AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS TAKE
MILLION AND HALF IN VICTORY LOAN BONDS

tomobile factories of the corporation
are located and some 90 odd automo-
bile and vehicle factory branches in
many important cities throughout the
country.
AS an indication of the popularity
of the fifth, or Victory loan, this ST.
100000 purchase of bonds is larger
than any of the corporations sub
scriptions to the previous loans. with
the exception of the fourth liberty
loan last fall s1,ooO.0O0 was subscribed
to the first, 100000 to the second
$1,S00,00o to the third, end. 100000
to the fourth.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-01
Congressman Smith Issues APP
peal to People Urging Hon
orable Action Towards Boys
Who Entered Service.
STATE WILL GO OVER
Headquarters Believes Coun-
ties Will Have Quota Sub
scribed by May 3-New
Bonds Garry Some Import
ant Exemptions.
SMITH ISSUES STATEMENT.

Before departing from Wash
ington Wednesday Congressman
Addison T. Smith gave out the fol-
lowing statement on the Victory
loan, addressed to the people of
idaho:
THE degree of liberality with
which the people are buying Vic
tory bonds is the measure of their
belief of a sure deal. Our boys
did their part most manfully,
many of them making the supreme
sacrifice and if we do not pur-
chase Victory bonds to our limit
we are not acting honorably to-
wards our boys nor periodically
toward our country"
Idaho is slowly but surely APP
preaching her quota on Victory
bonds and hope is still held out at
state headquarters that most of the
state at least will be across by May
s, the time urged by Acting Governor
Calkins OF the Twelfth federal re-
5000 SUBSCRIBE.
Bank returns this morning show
&3,004,350 of Idaho's Sill, 10000 al
1otment subscribed and Chairman
Gwinn expects many counties to re-
port their quotas raised by tonight or
tomorrow. Ada county has $4,000
of her s1,260,000 accounted for with
nearly 5000 subscribers registered.
Valley county pledged itself to pro-
duce its full quota yesterday. Meet
ings were held at Mccall, Roseberry
and Cascade and $4,000 was pledged
at the Mccall meeting alone. Active
solicitation is in progress in that dis
trict today. Twin Falls has $3.50, 900
raised on its total of $4,000, accord :
ing to telephone message from Coun-
ty Chairman Thomas.
Captain Albert III. Corners and Con-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-01

tract This case was tried a year
ago. The jury then stood to for
the defendant. At the trial this week
the Jury disagreed on the basis Of
to c for the defendant.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-01
HEAVY DOCKET NOW
BEFORE VALE COURT
Twenty five Cases Scheduled
for Trial, and Three Weeks
May Be Required to Dispose
of ALI Actions.

vale, May 1.-The Vale term of the
circuit court which opened Monday
Judge Dalton Biggs presiding. is the
heaviest one in years. This is due to
postponements In the past due to the
war and to the 'flu" scare.
Twenty-Five jury cases have been
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-01

gresham Addison T. Smith will be
in southern Idaho the last of the week
and Chairman Gwinn has arranged
for Victory loan meetings at the prin-
cipal towns in this section of the state.
State headquarters is calling par
ticular attention to the liberality
shown Victory bonds as regards tax
exemptions and which was provided
by the act of congress authorizing the
issue.
IMPORTANT EXEMPTIONS.
In the Victory loan act for the pur-
pose OF stabilizing the market for the
Az per cent Liberty bonds" Chairman
Gwinn said in statement this morn
ing. Congress provided special exem-
tions from taxation. In addition to all
other exemptions provided by law a
subscripber for notes of the Victory
loan will be entitled to an exemption
from surtaXes, excess profits and war
profits taxes as to the interest re-
ceived on and after January l. 1919,
on not exceeding $4,000 in the aggre-
gate of bonds of the first Liberty loan
converted, the second Liberty loan and
the fourth Liberty loan, provided that
he originally subscribes for and still
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-01

holds at the date of his tax return, at
least on-third as many notes of the
Victory Liberty loan. This exemption
does not continue for five years after
the termination of the war; but ex-
tends through the life of the notes Of
the Victory loan so subscribed for and
held.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-01
SECURITY ATTRACTIVE.

This liberal provision makes the
Victory loan by far the most attrac-
tive security vet offered by the gov
eminent and the tax exemptions added
to the interest rate brings the net re-
turn on these securities up to APP
proXimately per cent. AS a business
proposition, eliminating all sentiments
of patriotic obligation, no person able
to carry Victory notes of any sum
can possibly afford to miss this OPP
portunity to make the best, safest and
most satisfying investment imagin-
able.
Chairman Gwinn particularly calls
the attention of solicitors to this pro-
vision for tax exemption. 1t is an
argument that cannot fail to be of
great value in presenting the Victory
loan to the people
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-07

was playing in the war, and remark
ed how much our participation would
have delighted the field marshal.
he King as Human Being.
/ have already given my first inn
pressions of their majesties the king
and queen, and time only confirmed
them. Neither ever missed an oppor-
tunity to show their appreciation of
the part that we were playing The
zeal with which the king entered into
the celebration of our Fourth of July
made him very popular with all our
men. He even cultivated a taste for
our national game. Certain of our
early contingents of soldiers encamped
near Windsor; here they Immediately
laid out a baseball diamond and daily
engaged in their favorite sport.
AS our sailors and soldiers arrived
In greater numbers, the interest and
triendliness of the royal family increas-
ed. One of the kings most delightful
traits is his sense of humor. The queen
also showed a great fondnesS for sto-
ries and / particularly remember her
amusement at the famous remark of
the Australians-perhap the most fe-
rocious combatants on the western
front-about the American soldier
"a good fighter, but a little rough"
OF all the anecdotes connected with
our men, none delighted King George
so much as those concerning our col
ored troops. A whole literature of ne
gro yarns spread rapidly over Europe;
most of them, find, have long since
reached the United States.
Indeed, the most lasting impression
which l retain of the head of the Brit
ish empire is that he is very much of
a human being. He loved just about
the same things which the normal
American or Engliskman loves-his
family, his friends, his country, good
story, pleasant evening with con-
genial associates.
AS an evidence of the exceedingly
cordial relations existing between the
two navies the admiralty proposed, in
the latter part of May that I should
assume Admiral Bayly's command for
several days while he took a little va
cation on the west coast of Ireland.
Admiral Bayly was the COMMANDMENT
chief of all the British forces operating
on the Irish coast. This command thus
included far more than Queenstown;
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-07
QUEENSTOWN FROM THE HARRoR

| ton claiming to represent the "Irisb
republic is touring the United States.
| asking Americans to extend their SYM
| pathy and contribute money toward
the realization of their project I have
great admiration for the mass of the
Irish people, and from the best ele-
! ments of these people the American
sailors received only kindness. I have
| therefore hesitated about telling Just
, how some members of the Sim Fem
party treated our men. But it seems
that now, when this same brotherhood
is attempting to stir up hatred in this
country against our allies in the war.
there is certain pertinence in inform
ing Americans just what kind of treat
ment their brave sailors met with at
Sim Fein hands in Ireland
The people of Queenstown and Cork.
as already described, received our men
with genuine Irish cordially Yet in
a few weeks evidence of hostility in
certain quarters became apparent. The
fact is that the part of Ireland in which
the Americans We're stationed was a
headquarters of the Sim Fem. The
members of this organization were not
only openly disloyal; they We're openly
pro-German. They We're not even neu-
tral-they were working day and night
for German victory; in their mis-
guided minds a German victory signi-
fled an Irish republic. It was no Sc
cret that the Sin Feiners We're send
ing information to Germany and con-
stantly laying plots to interfere with
the British and American navies.
At first it might be supposed that the
large numbers of sailors-and some Of
ficers-of Irish extraction on the
American destroyers would tend to
make things easier for our men. Quite
the contrary proved to be the case. The
The Sim Feiners apparently believed
that these so-called Irish-Americans
would sympathize with the cause; in
their widest moments they even hoped
that our naval forces might champion
it. But these splendid sailors were
Americans before they were anything
else; their chief ambition was the de-
feat of the Hun and they could not
understand how any man anywhere
could have any other aim in life. They
were Disguised at the large numbers of
able-b bodied men whom they saw on the
streets. and did not hesitate to ask
some of them why they were not fight
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-07

it comprised several naval stations and
the considerable naval forces in Irish
waters. Never before, so 1 was in
formed, had foreign naval officer
commanded British naval forces in
time of war.
On May 81, therefore, I went to
Queenstown and hoisted my flag on
the staff in front of the admiralty
house. 1 had some hesitation in doing
this, for American navy regulations
stipulate that an admiraPs flag shall
be raised only on a ship afloat, but Ad-
mira1 Bayly was insistent that his
flag should come down and that mine
should go up, and I decided that this
technically might be waived. The Incl
dent aroused great interest in England,
but it started many queer rumors in
Queenstown. One was that Admiral
Bayly and I had quarreled-the Brit
ish admiral, strangely enough, having
departed in high dudgeon and left me
serenely in control. Another was that
I had come to Queenstown, seized the
reins out of Admiral Bayly's hands,
and taken over the government of
which had now determined to free the
island from British oppression How
ever, in a few days Admiral Bay1y re-
turned and all went on as before.
Hostility of the Sim Fem.
In the nearly two years which the
American naval forces spent in Eu-
rope, only one element in the popula-
ton showed them any hostility or even
unfriendliness. At the moment when
these lines are being written delega-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-07
RETURN OF THE "MAY-
FLOWER"

BY B. F. Gribbie, the English
marine artist, purchased by the
American governments. 1t portrays
the arrival of the first American
destroyer division at Queenstown
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-07

Lieut. Commander
(Now Comma der)
r. n. POTEET.
Who was in command
of the "Wainwright," a
member Of the first
nmerican fiotilla to ope :
rate on the other s'oe'
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03

Especial to The Reformer)
BOSTON, March 3.
kilograms have been sent by Edward
G.. Stacy, secretary of the Massachu-
settles chamber of commerce, to sena-
tors Lodge and Weeks and to the Mass
achusetts congressman urging that
they make an endeavor to secure special
legislation to provide at least so days
extension of time after March Is in
which to file income tax returns. They
have also been requested to oppose the
repeal cf the daylight saving law
This action has been taken in ac
cordance with the views recorded at
the meeting of the Massachusetts
chamber last Wednesday and after re-
ferring the matter to the board of di
rectors. 1t is believed, that congress
should extend the time for filing income
tax returns at least 80 days because
under present conditions it will be inn
possible~ for numbers Of large business
concerns to prepare even an estimated
return by March Is. The announced
plan by which an estimated return may
he filed with payment of % per cent of
the estimated tax is thought to be UNI
satisfactory and not q measure of re
lief as held by the government officials.
Hundreds of business houses are in the
situation where the preparation of such
an estimate would prove practically as
difficult and as laborious as q final re-
turn and will require fully as much
time. Under modern business condi
tions, also, it is a practical necessity
TO have the services of expert public ac-
countants in the preparation of the
return and legal counsel in interpreting
the provisions of the revenue law. 1t is
pointed out that lack of sufficient quail
fled experts to do the work, will make
it exceedingly difficult for thousands of
business concerns all over the country
TO have their returns, even though esti-
mated, prepared in the short interval
time between now and March Is
The ramification of any large business
today necessarily result in complicated
accounting methods, therefore it IL
hoped that some way may be found to
afford at least 80 days extension of
tii"e
Repeal of the daylight saving law is
strongly opposed on the grounds that
The experiences of last summer demon
'tra-e that the measure is of immense
benefit to the millions of persons in
his country engaged in manufacturing
and mercantile pursuits and that it has
not been satisfactorily demonstrated
hat it works unavoidable injury to the
agricultural interests of the country 1t
IS also believed that retention of the
law is desirable as measure of public
policy and as means toward better
industrial conditions through affording
the worker and his family greater en-
ioyment of his creation hours.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03
Fillibuster By Sherman and
LaFOllette Failed to
Stop 1t
SHOW NOW FOR OTHER
IMPORTANT BILLS
Expected Government Will Get Money
for Railroad and Wheat Schemes
Some of the Bills That Cannot Be
Passed This Session.

WASHINGTON, Marth 3.-Following
more than 20 hours of ceaseless debate,
the senate, at $40 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, adjourned, after passing by a viva
voee vote the Victory Loan bill, carry
ing a bond issue of $1,000, 900, 900.
The flibuster by the Republican sena-
tors ran out. Only La Toilette of Wis
eonsin and sherman OF Illinois remained
to carry it through, and they were tired
out.
The senate's action, taken in the cold
gray dawn, was a victory for President
Wilson, who insisted that the bond bill
be passed, and defeat for Republican
opponents and independent Democrats,
who contended that She measure ought
to be thrown out because of its feature
allowing the secretary of the treasury
to determine what interest the bonds
should carry
Senator Lodge, the minority leader
with Others of the Old Guard type, de
clined to engage in the fight to kill the
bill If the Republican caucus had de.
cided to stand against it, senate leaders
say, there is slight chance that it would
have been passed
The failure of the filibuster gives the
senate an opportunity to pass upon other
legislation before the session comes to an
end tomorrow noon. OF the pending
measures, it it believed that the only ones
OF any Importance that can be put
through are the general deficiency bill
which carries an addition of $3.50, 900 00t
to the revolving fund to maintain the
railroads under government control unit
congress takes further action; and the
wheat bin, carrying an appropriation OF
$1,000, 100000 to provide for financing the
1919 wheat crop, so as to maintain the
price of 1925 bushel to the farmers
All other important legislation pending
including the army appropriation bill, the
naval appropriation bill, the sundry civil
hin, with its appropriations for variou,
government expenditures, the coal and OF
leasing bill, and the water power bill
are conceded to be dead for this session o.
congress.
The wheat bill was ordered sent t.
| the joint house and senate conferecs af
ter the senate adjourned this morninl
and is expected back ON Tuesday. \,
disposition is manifest to delay it. Th,
coal and oil leasing bill, which was TALKED
out of vote by Senator La Toilette, yes
terday, before the bond bin came MP, can
not have another opportunity at Thu
| session.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03
HOOVER TO HAVE CHARGE.
To be Given Full Authority of Fund of
S1O0,O0O,0o0 for Relief.

WASHINGTON, March 3-Herbert
Hoover has been appointed by President
Wilson as director general of the Amer
lean Relief Administration, created UNI
der the new $100,000o00 European
Famine Relief bill, with full authority
to direct the furnishing of foodstuffs
and other urgent supplies purchased out
OF the relief fund and to arrange for
their transportation, distribution and
administration
Mr.. Hoover, who already has been
made director general of allied relief
under the commission sitting at Paris.
also was given full power by the Presi-
dent 70 determine to which of the popu-
lations named in the relief bill the sup
plies shall be furnished and in what
quantities. He also is to arrange for
reimbursement. so far as possible, as
provided in the relief act.
In making public the President 5 ex.
ecutivc order the food administration
announced that Edgar Richard and
Theodore F. Whitmarsh, who have been
directing the affairs of the food admin.
istration during Mr.. Hoover S absence
IN Europe, had been appointed by him
joint directors in the United States OF
the newly created relief administra-
tion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03
ORIGIN OF TANKS.
Several Inventors Worked on the Endless
Chain of Plates, but B. Holt Perfected It.

Years ago it occurred to certain
ingenious man that if wheeled machines
must have tracks or roads for their
wheels to run on, why not let them lay
their own traces, and SO he arranged his
track IN the form of an endless chain of
plates that ran around the wheels of his
machines. The wheels merely rolled on
this chain, and, as they progressed, new
links of track were laid down before them
and the links they had passed. over were
picked up behind them.
A number of inventors worked upon
this idea, but one man in particular, Ben
iamin Holt of Peoria, H., brought the
invention to high state of perfection
He arranged a series of wheels along
the chain track, each carrying share
OF the load of the machine, and each
mounted on springs so that 1T would
yield to any unevenness of the ground,
lust as a caterpillar conforms itself to
the hills and dales of the surface it
creeps over In fact, the machine was
its crawling locomotion. But it was mo
worm of a machine. In power it was a
very elephant.
1t could haul loads that would tax the
strength of scores of horses. Stumps and
boulders were no obstacles in his path.
Even bitches could not bar its progress.
The machine would waddle down one
bank and up the other without the
slightest difficulty. 1t was easily
steered; in fact, it could be turned around
in its own length by travelling forward
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03

on one of its chains or traction belts and
backward on the other
The machine was particularly adapted
to travel on soft or plowed ground be-
cause the broad traction belts gave it a
very wide bearing and spread its weight
over a large surface. 1t vas set to work
on large farms, hauling gangs of plows
and cultiyators. Little did Mr., Holt
think, as he watched his powerful me-
chanieai elephant at work ON the vast
Western wheatfelds, that they, or rath-
ar their offspring, would some day play a
leading role in a war that would rack
the whole world. "A Russell Bond, III
St. Nicholas Magazine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03
D1STILLER TO PLANT IVY.
Will Let Buildings Go to Ruins. Monu.
ment to Folly.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 3.-Distill
ers say that apparently millions of dol
lars worth of distilling properties in
Kentucky will be worth only their value
as junk when prohibition becomes effee
tive. 1t is the exceptional case where
plans have been made for converting any
of the 200 Kentucky distilling plants to
other uses, they declare.
The value as going concerns of the 200
distilleries, which have capacity of
MASKING 100 bushels of grain or more
daily, has been placed at $60,000,O0O
About half of the productive capacity
of the distilIeries is centred in Louisville.
One distillcr quoted the New York
owner of Kentucky distillery as saying
he purposad to plant ivy about his prop
erty and there let it stand in ruins. a
monument to the folly of this generation
for other generations to gaze upon
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-03
TRADE UNION OF MOTHERS.
Writer Suggests Organization Which
Would Eventually Become World Wide.

If ] had million dollars / would or
game trade union of the mothers of
America, eventually of the world. Every
one knows that in union alone there lie
strength and power. individuals can
10 nothing. And vet today each mother
keeps apart by herself, grooming OVER
her baby as her mother did before her.
If the baby is taken i'll she calls a doe
tor-sometimes a doctor who knows
many things about babies, and some
times a doctor who doesn't know so
much as he should.
The average mother does not know
about the advanced methods we doctors
have found in caring for babies. She.
doesn't know of the new things we are
discovering every day. There isn't any
way for her to find out. There would be
local unions, where mothers could meet,
and from the platforms the worlds most
advanced doctors could talk of he care
Of children.
| would suggest the grandmothers of
Americas babies as union organizers.
women who would travel from city to
,ty uHionizing the women who were
mothers.
After the trade union of mothers grew
into a strongly organized union it would
have great political power. 1t would
be able to put through good legislation;
milk strikes, and strikes holding back
baby foods could be averted. Prices OF
,aby-carriages, scales, blankets every
hing that a baby needs-could be made
inform. Fairgrounds would be built,
chools would be better, everything that
'eads toward the building up of body,
mind, and soul could be. obtained for the
future citizen. No group of politicians
would be able to oppose union of moth
re- introducing bills for the coming gen
ration.
In the schools about New York % per
sent of the children have some physical
defect And in the United States as a
ehole only 80 per cent of all the babies
aorn live to be over twenty three years
# age
The trades union of mothers would
look back of those figures with more in
terest than any charitable organization,
ar group of politicians. And the meet
| ings of the union, the lectures, the
courses, would lessen the percentage con-
siderably.
A million dollars spent in organizing
| 4 mothers union would do much toward
improving the United States III general
World Outlook.