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VOLUME XVIII.
CLEVELAND HIDES ON
WWE OF PRDSPERin.
ALL BUSINESS SOLID
War Orders Started the Money
Pjmp, but Now It Runs on j
Domestic Business, All Lines
Booming
BY HERBERTCOBET.
. <Copyright. 191$. by Herbert Corey.)
CLEVELAND. Jan. 24.—Here is a
glimpse at the good times they are ex
pecting in Cleveland. A manufacturer
came into the office of the secretary of
one of the commercial organizations.
•Tm tired.” said he. slumping into a
chair. “Been out buying land ”
The secretary knew that he had dou
bled the capacity of his factory a few
months ago.
"Not going to build another factory,
are you?” he asked.
"Not a factory.” said the manufac
turer. heavily. “A garage for my men.”
He seemed to feel this was not suf
ficiently illuminating. “To keep their
ears in. you know.” he added
Land for a garage for factory work
men must necessarily be about as costly
as the land for the factory itself Fac
tory workmen who ride to work in cars
must be making good money. Before
they buy cars they must be pretty cer
tain of continuing to make good money.
“We've got to do it.” said the manu
facturer. “All of us fellows. Before
long cars will be selling at $250. and
every mechanic who is worth his salt
will hate one. Then the boss who offers
garage facilities can keep his men- The
other man can’t.”
Other towns suggest that war money
millionaires are as common tn Cleveland
as field hands in Georgia. Cleveland re
sents the suggestion.
"Some speculators made money on war
•abies." Cleveland bankers say. "Many
• oncerns have -made a great deal of
money out of munitions. But we do not
know of any new millionaires. The war
orders did not flush Cleveland with mon
ey. They just helped us to get started
after the let-down.”
WAR CONTRACTS STARTED MOVE
MENT.
The practically universal testimony
■tere is that 1916 promises to be the
best year in the history of Cleveland.
Good times are coming. But good times
are not here yet. They might not even
be on the way if it had not been for the
war money.
"We were hit hard in the winter of
1914-15,” Cleveland says. "There were
more men out of work than we are ac-.
> ustomed to. We gave away more flour,
coal and blankets than is our habit. The
spring opened badly. It looked as
though the well of business had dried
up-”
Then —just as in other towns —the
war orders to come in. They
primed the pump of that business well.
Perhaps Cleveland got under way some
what earlier than the other towns, for
she tather specializes in iron and steel,
and it was iron and steel that fighting
Europe wanted. But those early orders
were not all for fighters' use Cleve
land specializes also in parts for auto
mobiles, which parts go to Detroit. She
did a thriving business in them for De
troit’s automobile business has never
been sp great. And Detroit insists to
the inquirer that she has been selling
pleasure cars—trucks for the soldiers
hardly at all.
“The line on the business chart here
is still rather irregular,” they say in
Cleveland. "Some of our industries are
running at their theoretical capacity,
which is rarely done even in the best of
times. Other lines are still below* nor
mal. The point is that an improvemept
is in sight everywhere. The was order
millions got this country’s business
started. We attended to the rest our
selves.” •
Woman Plunges
Sixteen Stories,
Put Still Lives
CHICAGO. Jan. 24. —Miss Minnie B.
Wener. a stenographer employed by the
Railway Age Gazette, plunged from the
sixteenth floor of the Transportation
building in Dearborn street today but
still lives. Her fall was broken by ar
automobile truck loaded with ppper box
es but her skull was fractured and she
was internally injured. Physicians said
she probably would die. An eyewitness
told the police that he saw the young
woman climb onto the window ledge.
The police said they believed- that she
jumped.
Last Friday she complained of illness
end went home. Her employers said that
they knew of no reason why she should
seek to end her life.
15 Are Killed
In Explosion at
Buffalo Plant
BUFFALO. N. Y.. Jan. 24.—Fifteen
workmen were killed and as many more
probably fatally injured in an explosion
it the plant of the Kelker Blower com
:>any in Harrison street here this aft
ernoon.
ARNOW LEAVESFOR
BLACKBEARD ISLAND
tHate Game Commissioner Charles D
Arnow, left Atlanta Sunday for Black
benrd island, off the Georgia coast,
where he will complete the arrange
ments, recent!** liegun. for instituting a
wild game and bird preserve.
Commissioner Arnow eras accompanied
by M. F. Boisclair. of Atlanta, who has
heen appointed keeper of the island.
The United States government has
turned Blackbeard island over to the
state of Georgia for a bird and game
preserve.
JOHN ALEXANDER HILL.
NOTED PUBLISHER. DEAD
NEJV YORK. Jan. 24.—John Alexan
der H.tl. prominent as a writer and pub
lisher of scientific periodicals and hooks,
died today while driving in an automo
bile from his home at East Orange. N.
J., to his office in this city. Death was
gue to arterial trouble. He was 5o years
old.
President’s Tour
For Preparedness
BeginsThursaay
Will Take His Program
Straight to the People in
the Hope of Arousing Con
gress to Action
(By AseocUted Free*.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—President
Wilson, apparently refreshed by his two
| day trip down the Potomac aboard the
' naval yacht Mayflower, today began the
task of clearing up all pending routine
business preparatory to starting Thurs
day on a speech making trip to New
York and the middle west to lay his
plans for national preparedness before
the country.
The president had business and social
engagements which were expected to
keep him busy from now until he leaves
for New York. His program called for
conferences today with members of con
gress, a cabinet meeting tomorrow and
several dinner engagements.
A complete program for his “swing
around the circle” in the interest of pre
paredness was laid before the president
today. It had been mappeed out by the
White House force while he was aboard
the Mayflower preparing the addresses
he will deliver.’ Scores of invitations
for the president to include cities not
on his scheduled itinerary had to be re
fused. At the White House today it
was said, however, that his route has
been arranged so that a brief stop can
be made at St. Louis.
Except for an unexpected visit to his-1
toric Yorktown the trip down the river
with Mrs. Wilson was uneventful. The
president spent most of the time work
ing on his speeches.
The preparedness issue, which has for
some time been overshadowed in interest
and discussion in congress by the Mexi
can problem and the international situ
ation. has again come to the forefront as
a result of President Wilson s decision
to make a personal appeal to the coun
try in behalf of his program. In con
sequence, friends and opponents alike
of preparedness look for stirring times
in congress.
Many members apparently are waiting
to hear from "back home" on the subject
of preparedness before deciding upon a
course of action and it is believed that
the president's trip not only will bring
out public opinion but arouse congress
to activity.
President Wilson decided today to
visit St. Louis on the trip. He will
make eight formal addresses.
Mayor Pierpont and Representative
Edwards, of Savannah, called at the
White House today and invited Presi
dent Wilson to visit that city on his
proposed speaking trip into the south
late in February.
Senator Tillman and members of the
congressional delegation of South Car
olina. today conveyed to President Wll
sonfthe invitation of the South Carolina
legislature to speak before that body.
The president told She delegation that
he would like to address the legislature
but did not know if his other appoint
ments would permit his doing so.
The president today was invited to
speak before the Virginia legislature by
Senators Martin and Swanson, Represen
tatives Glass, Flood and Carlin, and
committees representing the two houses
of the general assembly. The president
said he would accept if possible. No
date was set.
President Wilson wants the meetings
at which he will speak to be open to
the general public as far as possible.
The committees in charge have been no
tified that the president does not de
sire entertainments of apolitical char
acter arranged for him.
Indian Squaw, 150
Years Old, Dies in
Bakersfield, Calif.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Jatr. 24.—Mary ’
Tecuyas. an Indian woman reputed to'
bi 150 ye*ars old, * who died yesterday, |
was buried today by the few remaining!
members of iier tribe.
The aged squaw was the oldest mem- (
ber of an almost extinct tribe, known
as the Tejons. who live in a canyon
near here.
The tribe is said to include fifteen
Indians who are more than 100 years
old.
SAYS HOUSE WILL FIND
FRANCE IS
Paris Paper Comments on
Visit of President’s Friend
to Paris
PARIS, Jan. 24. —The Temps today
lengthily discusses the visit of Colonel
E. M. House, President Wilson’s per
sonal representative, to Paris, and says
he will be able to compare the present
state of mind of the belligerents to
what it was during his previous visit
last year. .
"Colonel House will find in London, as
well as in Paris," says the Temps, “the
same resolution as on his recent visit—
to fight without lassitude or weakness
until the final victory. He will note
with as much more impartiality our de
termination that this war shall have at
its conclusion a stable peace, based on
right and liberty and no thought of
mediation will guide his investigation,
lie will observe a feeling of syjnpathy
and recognition which has grown and
' become solid as America gives most
touching proofs of its friendship, and
ot the fact that the efforts of the
kaiser and his agents have not suc
ceeded in misleading a people who love
justice. If President Wilson has wanted !
t<» maintain strict neutralltj, neverthe
less he has forced Germany to yield
oefora his tenacity.”
The Temps pays tribute to the Ameri
cans who have given their lives in the
French trenches and concludes by say
ing:
"President Wilson is exercising ills .
powers with a high conception of his
responsibilities. The mission he has
confided to Colonel House shows a sin
cere desire to be exactly and directly
informed. We congratulate him on this
inquiry, the results of which for us
cannot be disadvantageous."
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PLAN INDEPENDENCE
DF THE PHILIPPINES
AT END OF 5 YEARS
President Wilson and Demo
cratic Senators Reach Agree
ment on Modified Form of
Measure in Congress
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Independ
ence for the Philippines in five years is
in sight. It was disclosed today that
certain Democratic senators and the
president have conferred ’ and have
reached an understanding whereby a
modified form of the Clarke amendment
will be put through if possible.
As modified, the amendment will pro
vide for independence in five years and
for a neutralization agreement between
the United States and leading world
powers whereby the islands will be al
lowed a chance ttf work out their destiny
unmolested.
The Clarke amendment in its original
form provided for independence in two
years. Senator Clarke canvassed the
situation and found this amendment
could probably be adopted. President
Wilson, who has watched the situation
closely, became alarmed lest this go
through because he felt that with the
| European war on the neutralization ar-
I rangement could not be made in two
years.
As a result, President Wilson and
Senator Clarke, conferred. The presi
dent walked over to Senator Clarke's
hotel the other night and they went
over the situation. Later Senator
Clarke was at the White House. An
agreement on independence in five years
was reached. It is predicted the bill
will be put through the senate in this
form.
Jury Holds S6O
Per Month Just
For Child’s Care
The cost of raising a child and caring
for it properly is approximately 860
per month, according to Mrs. J. M. Hall,
217 West Peachtree street, who appear
ed in Judge George L. Bell’s division of
the superior court Monday morning and
asked that her husband, W. T. Hall, now
of Asheville, N. C., be made to reim
burse her in the sum of $2,944, spent
on their son, Jack Hall, in the past four
years.
The jury found for the plaintiff after
but a few minutes’ deliberation.
On the witness stand Mrs. Hall, an
unusually good looking woman, attired
in a smart tailor suit, handsome furs
and quite a display of jewelry, told that
she and her husband/had been divorced
since 1910 and that he had agreed to
support their boy inasmuch as she did
not sue for alimony herself.
"I want nothing for my support,’’
Mrs. Hall told the jury, "and want noth
ing now, but I do think it is up to Mfr.
Hall to take care of Jack. He prom
ised to do this but has never given any
thing toward his support save $lO he
sent in a letter to me in Florida last
winter. On another occasion he wired
a like amount to me, bjut it was for a
debt he owed me and ndt for the boy.”
The husband, she said, made a salary
of $3,000 a year.
The suit filed by Mrs. Hall showed an
itemized account of every cent she has
spent on her son in the past four years,
including doctor’s bills, clothing, school
ing, and other items. The boy is now
over eight years old.
Historic Fan,
Years Old, Found
In Burglar’s Loot
(By Associated Press. )
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 24—An
ivory and mother of pear fan which, the
owner said, formerly belonged to the
mother of Pope Pius IX, and is more
than 400 years old, was recovered by the
police here last night among loot from
a number of Evansville homes following
the arrest Friday of Walter Scott, 36
years old, an alleged house breaker.
The fan was given to Miss Minnie
Henrich, of this city, by her mother who
had received it from her cousin, the Rev.
Mother Mary Magdalena, formerly con
nected with the family of Pope Pius IX.
Would Tax All
High Explosives
I •
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. —Senator
Robinson, of Arkansas, today introduced
a bill proposing a tax of 2 cents a pound
on all high explosives manufactured in
the United States, and a tax of 10 per
cent ad valorem on all implements of
war, ranging from bayonets to battle
•ships It would not apply to materials
for the United States.
Senator Robinson contended such a<
measure would provide sufficient revenue
for national defense and warrant, repeal
of the emergency stamp tax.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS
URGE PARTY HARMONY
Sub-Committee on Convention
Meets in Chicago to Ar
range for Big Noise
(By Associated Pres».)
CHICAGO, Jan. 24. —Necessity for har
mony among Republicans was empha
sized by members who are attending the
meeting here today of the sub-comniit
tec on convention arrangements of the
national Republican committee. A num
ber of the committeemen arrived in
Chicago Sunday and the remainder came
in on early trains today.
Routine matters only are scheduled for
today’s meeting, members of the sub
committee said, adding that in the in
terests of harmony it probably would
be decided to postpone the selection of
a temporary chairman of the convention
until some later date.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1916.
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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
THE INCOME 11l LiW
All Objections to Its Constitu
tionality in Whole or in
Part Swept Aside
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The supreme
court today uppheld the constitutional
ity or the income tax law.
Chief Justice White gave the court’s
decision, sweeping aside all the many
objection urged to its constitutionality
in whole or in part.
Chief Justice White announced the de
cision in the case of Frank R. Bur
shaber. stockholder of the Union Pa
cifific Railway company, who had sought
to enjoin the company from paying the
tax on the ground that it was unconsti
tutional.
Most of the opinion was directed to
ward proving the error of the contention
that the income tax amendment provided
a hitherto unknown power of taxation-
Advancing to other points, the court
held that tne tax was not unconstitution
al because retroactive.
The point that the statute was uncon
stititutional because labor, agricultural
and horticultural organizations were ex
empted, was held to be answered by de
cisions under the corporative tax law.
Chief Justice White said the point was
but another illustration of the erroneous
assumption that the tax was imposed
under a new power conferred upon the
government by the sixteenth amendment,
whereas it was a power recognized to
exist from the beginning of the govern
ment and thus decisions defining the
taxing power previously rendered were
appplicable to it.
Grouping a number of other conten
tions against the law, all based oh the
claims of the constitution requiring uni
formity in taxation, Chief Justice White
pronounced them all lacking merit, be
cause of previous decisions which had
determined that the clause exacted only
a geographical uniformity.
OBJECTIONS ADVANCED.
The group included the points that
the tax lacked uniformity because it:
Le* les of tax on incomes of individu
als up to $20,000 and a highei rate on
incomes above that amount, allows a
j.i eater exemption for married persons
than single ones, and bases the tax on
wealth alone.
Because it requires corporations at
great expense to perform the govern
ment’s work without compensation, of
collecting at the source.
Because corporations indebted upon
coupon and registered bonds are re
lieved of labor and expense involved
in deducting and paying the taxes of
individuals on the income derived from
bonds.
Because corporations required to pay
at the source would often pay taxes
for persons not required because of ex
emptions to pay.
* Because bondholders, huring the .in
terval between the deducting and the
laying of the tax on their bonds, are
deprived of the use of their money
withheld.
Because bondholders, during the in
which fail before they pay the tax would
be required to pay the tax, although
the ' corporation had deducted the tax
from the amount due to the bond
holders.
Because of double payment of taxes,
where corporations assume the payment
ot taxes on bonds.
« Because of amount of interest on in
debtedness to be deducted from gross
income of ceitain corporations.
Because individuals are allowed to
deduet from gross income dividends paid
them by corporations, but corporations
not allowed to make such deductions.
WILSGN FDR PERMTINENT
COMMISSION ON TARIFF
President Will Soon Recom
mend Enactment of '
Legislation
(By Associated Fress.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Pi esident
Wilson soon will recommend the enact
ment of legislation providing for a per
manent tariff commission.
An administration bill for the creation
of such a commission virtually is ready
now and may be laid before congress in
a special message by the president. The
objects of the (Commission would be to
gather data on the tariff and to co-ordi
nate similar powers now believed to be
held by existing governmental agencies.
The legislation is designed particular
ly to meet conditions which are expected
to arise when the war ends.
Five Rifts Are
Seen in North
Surface of Mars
(By Associated Press.)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Jan. 24. —Five
canaliform rifts in the north polar cap
of Mars have been discovered by astron
omers at Lowell observatory.
The observed position, it was said to
day, indicated that the most conspicious
of these lay along the course of the
known canal, Cadmus. The rifts show
the effect of vegetation coming through
the snow.
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PRESIDENT MIT REGISTER
: * PROTEST WITH TURKEY
■ Reported That Turkish Subma
rine Sunk the Steamship
Persia *
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Unofficial
. dispatches from abroad indicating that
- Turkey might acknowledge that one of
iter submarines sunl< the British liner
i Persia promise to revive the diplomatic
r features of that disaster.
i State department officials had no dis-
> patches on the subject today from Am-
> bassador Morgenthau. Neither had they
• received any official word from Ambas
sador Penfield at Vienna transmitting
i Austria s official disavowal of any con-
I i nection with the disaster, reported un-
I officially last week.
Until the intimation came that Turkey
might assume responsibility it was gen
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I of the war.
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I turn the case w'ill take in the light of j
the latest information. None of the
Teutonic allied except Germany and Aus
tria have been included in the American ■
government’s correspondence on subma
rine warfare.
It was indicated today that any in
quiry w’hich might be directed to Turkey,
would not be made until after Vienna
had been heard from.
NUMBER 33.
ITON FORCES IN
ALBANIA SERIOUSLY .
MENACED]]? ENEMY
Austrians and Bulgarians Start
New Offensive in Albania to
Menace Italian Experitionary
Forces . t
(By Associated Frees.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—1 n Albania,
according to a Saloniki correspondent,
there is taking place a renewal of the
Austro-Bulgarlan offensive which is de
clared to be menacing the Italian ex
peditionary’ force. Bulgarians and the
Austrians are said to have occupied
Berat, an important center in Alvonta.
Other Austrian forces are reported mov
ing toward Durazzo, where Albanian
troops under Essad Pasha are expected
to oppose them.
On the Greek border, the only offen
sive operation recently reported is a
raid by a squadron of 45 French aero
planes on Monastlr, southwestern Serbia,
where notable military damage is said
to have been inflicted on the quarters »
of'the Teutonic allies.
Such differences of a serious nature
as -may have arisen between Greece and
the entente powers would seem to have
been smoothed over, assuming the cor
rectness of a news agency dispatch from
Athens, which states that negotiations
for a loan by the entente powers to
Greece are nearing a favorable conclu
sion.
Dover, the great English channel port
through which the main line of commu
nication between Great Britain and
i''rance runs, was raided by a German
naval aeroplane Saturday night, the Ger
man admiralty announced today. This
raid is the one announced from London
yesterday as having been made on “the
east coast of Kent.”
The German statement reports that
bombs were dropped from the machine
on the station, barracks and docks of
Dover. The British account gave cas
ualties in this air-raid as one kijled and
six wounded. London later reported it
second attack in the same locality by
two seaplanes. No mention of this is
made in today’s announcement from Ber
lin.
Military operations in the Balkan* are ' 1
just at present mainly confined to Al- . 9
bania, Austrian occupation of Montene
gro having virtually been completed
with the taking of the Rdriatic coast |
towns of Antivari and Dulcigno reported
i yesterday. In the interior the disarm
ing ot Montenegrin soldiers is proceed
ing, according to advices from Teutonic
sources.
What the policy of the entente powers 3
may be toward attempting the reorgani- 1
zation x>f Montenegrin affairs has not » J
vet been made clear. King Nicholas ha- <
Reached Rome on his way to Lyons,
France, where the Montenegrin govern
ment has its present headquarters and 1
where plans for the future seem likely
to be developed. , # |
45 Frenjh Aeroplanes
Attack Bulgar Base
(By Anociated Frees.)
PARIS, Jan. 24. —Bombardment of Mo
nastir, in southwestern Serbia, by a J
squadron of forty-live French aeroplanes ■<
yesterday is reported by the Havas cor
respondent at Saloniki. Considerable
damage is said to have been done to
ammunition depots, the quarters of 'the
general staff, and the railroad station.
The correspondent also reports that
the Italian expeditionary force in Alba-
I nia is soon to be attacked.
Bulgarians who, in co-operation with 1
! Austrians, captured the Albanian town
!of Berat are reported to be advancing
toward Avlona, which is held by th<s / J
Italians. Austrian troops are said to
be moving in the direction of Durazzo,
where Essad I'asha. at the head of h;.«
Albanian troops, is preparing resistance. ;
Berlin Official Statement
Concerning Raid on Dover
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Jan. 24.—(8y Wireless to
Sayville.?—The German admiralty is
sued the following today:
“A German naval aeroplane during the
night of January 22-23 dropped bombs
on the station, barracks and docks of
Dover.”
