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gL. RAINEY.
RS PT
N OhR
GE TO HELP PAY THE GI
\NTIC COST OF THE FIGHT
wiTH GERMANY.
ANY ONE IS TO
ISCAPE THE TAX GATHERER
. Citizen in the United States
il Be Called on to Share the
rden—Pocketbook of the “Little
' low” Not Immune.
W . time milady touches her
! ;losv with a powder puff, every
M e brings a blush to her cheek
rouge, she will help pay the gi
. st of war. Likewise Mr.
S \an will contribute to the bil
i ihot are to be spent in battle
By (i he touches a match to a
‘\ eor takes the wrapper off a
\ of chewing gum.
B¢ imagine, Mr. and Mrs. Ulti-
L Consumer, that because you do
f own an electric runabout Uncle
() vill not ask you to “shell out.”
B ilc contrary. Every man and
l an in the United States and
S child must pay a part of the
Ity conflict. Not only are war
S t 0 be placed on all new motor
\ sold but even bicycle tires are
B assessed. A tax of 1 cent a
. ito be placed on every child
M 13 years old who goes to see
\bvie. The proprietor of the movie
t pay 2 tax of 1 cent a foot on
by film he shows.
Wl cry time you turn on an electric
R, cvery time you take the tele-
Wk e receiver off the hook, every
' you buy an ice cream soda, you
| be helping to pay the costs of
because all these things are to
R xed under the new war revenue
Morning Bath “Goes Up.”
ny persons have believed that
se the committee planned to
$600,000,000 more annually by
e and excess taxes than are
at the present time, the war
not hit the pocketbook of the
fellow.”
¢t Mr. Average Citien, for ex
. If he is a single man with an
eof $l,OOO a year he must pay
¢t tax on that of $2O a year.
get $3,000 he pays $6O a year;
if more than that the rate in
es by leaps and bounds.
en he hops into the tub for his
orating morning “bawth” he
pay a tax on the soap he uses,
v. His bald head is taxed if he
a little hair restorer on it. If
/es his mustache that costs him
dditional amount.
he is a married man earning be
s2,ooo and $4,000 a year he
ay a tax of 2 per cent. From
oto $5,000 the tax will be 4 per
and when his income exceeds
0 he will not pay the normal
{ 4 per cent. but a surtax as
the amounts increasing in pro
n to increase of income. At
0 an additional surtax, graduat
til at $500,000 and over it
es 33 per cent. would be impos
oW Incomes Will Re Taxed.
Marriecd man with a $7,500 in
b for example, would pay a tax
05. It would be assessed in:
Manner: An exemption of
0; a tax of 2 per cent. or $4O
¢ next $2,000 up to $4,000; a
f 4 per cent on the difference
€ 34,000 and $7,500, or $l4O,
oa.\: 0f 1 per cent. on all over
y Or $25,
Single man with a $7,500 in-
Vould pay $245. He would pay
L 2 per cent. on income between
) and $3,000; $lBO at 4 per
between $3,000 and $7,500.
- Average Citien must pay a b
Il tax on her curlers, hair
NS, toilet waters, powders and
: She cannot even put on a
qla“f'l' without helping to pay
st of war. When Mr. and Mrs.
8¢ Citizen go out to the table
Feakfast they will help again
B ' for war. If he drinks cof-
B Vil pay a cent a pound war
f she drinks tea she will pay 2
fi Pound tax. Sugar will cost’
‘“Cause of an increased duty.
Nickel Cigars to Pass. 1
after breakfast it doesn't
any difference whether he takes
¢ from the humidor.or “rolls{
\v,f“’m the “makin’s” he will
Var tax just the same. Cigarette
4re to be taxed 1 cent a hun
nf}“”x‘a!‘s as high as a cent
o day of the nickel cigar
(’)‘(‘,;‘.“‘-\'. Housewife takes down
e (¢ to order groceries she
(‘u‘l‘;“"d o per cent additional
]m: ‘u(;'the end of. the month.
"L'}'llt-‘l\' ;It{ht bill will be 5 per
[ she calls up a friend
| n,“’"“ she must pay 5 centsl
£ 1 0 every toll call in ex
-19 cents,
rrt‘ Will be no more two for a
ih, eer ale highballs at the
¢ 'li- They will be 15 cents
" . You ask a friend to join
(“‘ cold one” before lunch
'he W‘h".ake any difference
0 the Lepers “just a glass of
«, o Zentlemanly barkeeper
B \'}(‘Manhattan._” it'll cost you
M a half pint on the ‘hip
& JecsEhe il il
THE DAWSON NEWS.
Wikl , "#@Frp te.more, because the
ed an additiond %‘afif’;v llon
on whisky and sl§s‘fiéfig@ on
beer. :
Tax on All Games.
The fair debutante who takes a
seat at the soda fountain and orders
“a chocolate soda, please,” will help
to buy shells for the United States
that cost $5,000 each. Syrups and
other ingredients of soft drinks are
to be taxed 10 per cent. Either the
sodas will be smaller or they will
cost 11 cents in the future. It is es
timated that $20,000,000 annually
will be derived by the federal govern
ment from thi stax on soft drinks
Games of all sorts are to be taxed.
It doesn’t make any difference wheth
er you get your pleasure out of chas
ing the elusive golf ball over the
links or derive it from shouting “lit
tle Joe” when you roll the bones—
you are going to pay something.
Everything from tennis rackets to
dice are to be taxed 5 per cent on
their cost.
AGAINST BOLL WEEVIL
SOUTH GEORGIA FARMER WILL
ERECT 7-FOOT SCREEN FENCE
ARCUND TEN-ACRE FIELD.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—A. J. Strick
land, of Valdosta, has given a con
tract to Ed Hinson for a new idea
in the matter of protecting cotton
from the boll weevil. He is to have
a Jfield of ten acres enclosed in a
seven-foot screen fence, guaranteed
to stand ten years, at a cost of
$3,000.
Strickland says it is an experiment,
but he hopes that it will prove suc
cessful. He is of the belief that the
weevils do not fly very high and that
a seven-foot screen will keep prac
tically all of them out of the field, He
believes that if the weevils ¢an be
kept out he can make a fine cotton
crop on the ten acres and will be well
repaid for his expense.
He figures that on a small field the
screen may prove of value, but does
not believe that a large field would
be protected so well. The fence will
be put up at once.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND OTH
ER DEPARTMENTS GOVERN
MENT ARE CRITICISED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln begin
ning consideration to-day of the $3,-
390,000,000 war budget the senate
devoted the entire session to sweep
ing criticism of the executive branch
of the government. Seldom has the
chamber been the scene of such ve
hement attacks, continued for five
hours behind closed doors and renew
ed after the doors were opened.
The council of national defense,
composed of cabinet officers, its civ
ilian advisory commission and the
goevernment shipping board were spe
cial targets of senatorial wrath, and
President Wilson, himself, was sharp
ly criticised. The council was charged
with usurpation of authority and
with unlawfully delegating power to
the advisory board. The shipping
board was assailed for alleged in
tereference with private shipbuilding
and for insisting upon its wooden
ship program. The president was at
tacked for alleged lack of co-opera
tion and consultation with congress.
Amendment Adopted.
The upshot of the entire discus
sion was adoption of an amendment
by Senator Sterling, of South Dako
ta, setting forth that the powers of
the council of national defense shall
not be considered enlarged because
of war conditions. A section of the
bill appropriating $500,000 for the
defense council was the basis for
the debate.
PRICES HUNDRED YEARS
AGO WERE VERY STUNNING
Whisky and Wheat, and Corn and
Flour Were Reasonable, and Cot
ton Crop Very Profitable.
Read these market quotations,
from a newspaper printed in Georgia
100 years ago, and sympathize with
the man who speaks of the good: old
times. Here they are:
Whisky, 87 cents per gallon; cot
ton, 2612 cents a pound; tobacco, 13
cents a pound; flour, $6.50 per bar
rel; pork, 8 cents a pound; corn, 75
cents a bushel; fine peach brandy,
$1 per gallon.
In addition to showing that these
were considered the principal com
modities of the time, the prices are
of interest now in comparison with
the heart-breaking prices of present
day necessities.
Think of liquor at 87 cents a gal
lon in bone dry Georgia. And of
pork at 8 cents a pound. And of
selling cotton at 26% cents a pound.
And of fine peach brandy at $l.
“The good old times” is not so
much an empty phrase as some of
the leather-lunged optimists of 1917
are fond of making it appear.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1917.
TWO AND A QUARTER BILLION
DOLLARS ASKED FOR SIX
MONTHS’ WAR EXPENSES.
WILL NOT TRY TG RAISE :
ALL OF SUM BY PRESENT BILL
Measure Under Consideration to Pro
vide Over $1,800,000,000, Says
Representative Kitchin. To Make
Up Shortage Later.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Further
drastic increases were written into
the income surtax schedule of the
war revenue bill by the house in the
committee of the whole to-day after
announcement by Democratic Leader
Kitchin that Secretary McAdoo's lat
est estimate of one-half the cost of
the first year of the war, which the
bill is intended to cover, would be
about $2,245,000,000.
Increase 25 Per Cent.
The increases, 25 per cent. on all
the proposed surtaxes between $40,-
000 and $1,000,000, as reported by
‘the committee, and a 45 per cent.
surtax on incomes in excess of $l,-
000,000 as proposed by Representa
;tive Lenroot, of Wisconsin, were in
cluded by a vote of 146 to 107. Rep
resentative Kitchin and others who
were opposed to increased income
‘taxes voted formally against the pro
‘posals,
| Total of Over $1,800,000,000. |
No attempt will be made in the‘
house, Mr. Kitchin announced to
night, to raise the total of the bill
to $2,245,000,000. It is probable,
however, he added that the total will
be larger than $1,800,000,000 con
templated in the original measure,
and if it is found that more money
is needed another bill will be draft
ed at the next session of congress.
Many members believed further ef
forts to make the bill total $2,245,-
000,000 will be made on the floor or
in the committee.
Regardless of Secretary McAdoo’s
estimate Mr. Lenroot announced to
night he will seek to have stricken
from the bill the taxes on light and
heat. Opponents of the second class
mail rate increase also will continue
their fight.
Poor Versus Rich,
' Representative Lenroot assailed
the plan of taxing the poor on nee
essaries of life and permitting the
lrich to retain their wealth subject to
emergency taxes.
Efforts of Representative Curry,
of California to insert an amend
ment to increase the exemption of
single persons from $l,OOO to $2,-
000 and on married persons from
$2,000 to $3,000 failed by a vote of
100 to 50.
’ Safeguard Their Salaries.
' » Representative MeCormick, of Illi
nois, and Representative Lunn, of
New York, tried unsuccessfully to
iget additional exemptions for mar
ried men with children. A proposal
by Representative Paige, of Massa
chusetts, to turn over to the secre
ltary of the treasury 65 per cent. of
the salaries of members of congress
during the war, and another by Rep
resentative Burnett, of Alabama, to
assess a tax of 50 per cent of the
salary of every representative who
lvoted for war were voted down.
IN ARIZONA MOB RECITED THE
LORD’S PRAYER JUST BE
FORE HANGING MAN.
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Whether an ef
fort should be made to prosecute
any of the fifty or more men who
participated in the lynching of Star
Daley for killing James Ray Gibson
and attacking Mrs. Gibson on the
Apache trail rests with Governor
Thomas E. Campbell. The local au-!
thorities of Pinal county, in which‘
the lynching took place, and of Mari
copa county, from which Daley was
being removed by deputy sheriffs
when captured by the mob, said they
would not move in the matter unless
directed by Governor Campbell. |
- Justifiable Homicide.
County Attorney Richardson of
Pinal county said & coroner’s jury
had found that ‘“Daley was the vic
tim of justifiable homicide committed
by persons unknown to the jury.”
The prisoner was removed from
the jail here at midnight when the
officers got word that a plan was on
foot to storm the jail. The lynching
occurred four hours later at the scene
of the attack on the Gibsons. Daley,
who had retained his composure dur
ing the preliminaries to the lynching
and who showed a member of the
party how to make a noose, collapsed
at the last minute when he was asked
if he wished to pray and the mob re
%:d the Lord’s prayer in unison for
COIN OPERATES NEWLY
. INVENTED SODA FOUNTAIN
First Comes the Syrup, Then the Gas
Lud the lood Water,
An automatic soda fountain has
been patented by a Houston (Texas)
man. The fountain is operated by
merely dropping the proper coin into
s slof,
Contained in an attractive wooden
cabinet are three tanks, one filled
with syrup, another with carbonic
acid gas, and a third, which is sur
rounded with ice, is filled with water.
There is also a container filled
with paraffin cups. When a coin is
dropped into the slot it releases
three delicately balanced levers, one
after the other. The third lever al
lows a little less than a cupful of
iced carbonated water to flow into
the cup. In this way the drink is
properly mixed in a sanitary way and
supplied to the customer without hu
man aid.
WEALTHY - OIL MAN SOUGHT
FORMER SWEETHEAR" IN
SELMA, ALABAMA.
Flames of an old romance flared
across the horizon in Selma, Ala.,
when Bernard B. Jones, an oil mil
lionaire of Bristow, Okla., visited
Selma and sought out Miss Mattie
Wiliams, clerk in the Tissier Hard
ware company, and made her inde
pendent in her own name. Mr. Jones
provided that $250 be sent Miss Wil
liams each month as long as she lives
and he has offered to build a fine
‘home for his former sweetheart. Af
{ter arranging for Miss Williams’ fu
ture, Mr. Jones returned, %o Ok
lahoma, where he has a family.
The romance between Bernard B.
IJones and Miss Mattie Williams date
}back to the days when Jones was a
telegraph operator in Mississippi, re
ceiving a salary of $4O a month.
Miss Williams urged him to go West
to make his fortune and Jones heed
ed the advice. Miss Williams is re
taining her position as clerk, but ex
| pects to retire later.
DECISION IS RENDERED IN AP
PEAL OF DAWSON MAN FIN.
" ED IN ATLANTA.
ATLANTA.—The Georgia law
‘against bucket shops is declared con
‘stitutional in a decision handed down
Thursday morning by the state su
preme court.
This law, known as Seetion 4275 of
the civil code of 1910, makes it a
‘misdemeanor to deal in futures on
‘margins.
! The decision was rendered in the
case of C. H. Arthur vs. the State,
brought up from the criminal divis
’ion of the superior court of Fulton
county.
C. H. Arthur was convicted before
Judge Ben H. Hill for dealing in fu
tures on margins and of having an
office in Atlanta for that purpose,
and was fined $5O and costs
He appealed for a new trial, and
when his appeal was denied carried
his case to the supreme court on the
ground that Section 4275, under
which he was convicted, is unconsti
[ tutional.
~ One of his contentions was that
‘he dealt in futures in New York as
well as in Atlanta and that since his
.business was not unlawful in New
York it could not constitutionally be
‘unlawful in Atlanta.
In discussing this point the su
preme court said:
Bears Equally Upon All. |
“It is clearly within the constitu
tional power of the General Assem
bly of Georgia to make classifications,
and so long as the legislation bears
equally upon all in the same eclass
there is no violation of the federal
constitution.”
In reviewing the case the decision
recites that the evidence sHowed that
no cotton was received or delivered.
Orvis Brothers & Co., of New York,
were members of the New York cot
ton exchange, and established offices
in Atlanta, with Arthur as their rep
resentative.
THE BLACKBERRY JAM?
U. S. Quartermaster in Southern City
. Unable to Buy Any.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Unit
ed States quartermaster’s department
in a Southern city a few days since
was obtaining bids on 120,000 ra
tions for the army. Blackberry jam
was being sought as part of the ra
tions. It developed there was not any
to be had, and a substitute sweet had
to be devised, say Commercial Agent
Garrard Harris of the United States
bureau of foreign and domestic com
llr‘frce, writing from New _Orleans,
The purchasing officer stated that
first-class blackberry jam was well
thought of as a portion of the army
ration and would be bought when
possible. Bk
WASH LOTT ¢IN JAIL,
BEGS THAT SOMETHING BE
DONE TO GET HIM RELEAS
ED BEFORE DEATH.
AGED AND WEALTHY
MAN SLEW HIS OWN SON
Remains in Prison Cell and Cries All
the Time. Application Has Been
Filed by His Attorney With Prison
Commission For a Pardon.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—When inform
ed recently by a Savannah Press
representative that the United States
supreme court had refused a new
trial for killing his son, Washington
Lott, now in the Chatham county
jail, wept and begged that someone
get him a pardon, as he did not want
to die in jail and that his end was
near at hand.
The condition of Mr. Lott, who is
nearly 70 years of age, is critical.
It is a pitiful sight to see the aged
man lying on a cot in a room of the
jail. Since being brought to Savan
nah he has never moved from the
room, his condition not allowing him
to do so. He cries at all times, de
claring his innocence of killing his
son. Often, during the night, a phy
sician has to be summoned for Mr.
Lott as he suffers from all kinds of
attacks.
Killed His Son.
Mr. Lott was convicted of killing
his son, Warren Lott, two years
ago, while the two were engaged in
a fight in Coffee county. He was
tried and found guilty and sentenced
to life imprisonment. Since that
time his attorney, Mr. John R. Coop
er, of Macon, has been fighting for
a new trial. He received word yes
terday from the clerk of the United
States supreme court that Mr. Lott
had been denied a new trial.
Few Days to Live.
“Please see what you can do for
me. | have only a few more days to
live, and if I could see my farm once
more before I go,” said Mr. Lott to
the Press representative. The whole
time he was talking the tears trickled
'down the old man’s wrinkled face.
‘He was unable to get up from his
{c_ot, as his physical conditign is get
ting worse.
| Pitiful Case.
If the governor of Gebrgia, or a
pardoning board could see Mr. Lott
‘at the Chatham county jail, and the
‘condition he is in, no doubt a pardon
‘'would be given him right there. He
'swears he did not kill his son inten
‘tionally—that the pistol accidentally
!exp]oded while the two were fighting.
“My son often beat me, and on the
‘day that he was killed he was in the
‘act of beating me because he wanted
money, he said to-day.
Attorney Cooper has filed with the
prison commission a petition for the
pardon of Lott.
,WARM DEBATE PRECIPITATED
IN THE SOUTHERN CONVEN
TION OF DENOMINATION.
Women members of the southern
Baptist churches were denied the
right to serve as delegates to the an
nual convention of the denomination
by action of that body, which held
its annual session in New Orleans
last week. Robert H. Coleman, of
Dallas, aroused those present to keen
interest by suddenly offering for
adoption a proposed amendment to
the body’s constitution, making wo
men eligible as delegates to the con
vention.
Dr. J. W. Porter, of Lexington,
Ky., immediately and vigorously op
posed the amendment, declaring Mr.
Coleman was proposing, with only
eleven minutes’ time for discussion,
to overturn a provision of the con
stitution which had stood for 72
years. He moved to table the amend
ment. Numerous advocates of wo
man’s rights to seats sprang up and
warm debate developed on the ques
tion.
Foreign Work.
T. B. Ray, of Richmond, for the
southern Baptists have 458 churches
Southern Baptists have 548 churches
in foreign fields, one-fourth of
which are self-supporting. The 147,-
161 foreign members last year gave
$132,371 for all purposes, about one
fourth the amount the Southern Bap
tists expended in their foreign fields.
| Mission work abroad is being done
by 307 missionaries and 809 native
workers, seventeen medical mission
aries, six trained nurses, twelve na
tive physicians and 24 native nurses,
l'l‘he board has 18 hospitals in which
4,234 patients were treated. ;
More than 100,000 copies of thq
Bible and the New Testament were
distributed among the soldiers in the
Italian army. Two missionaries in
'Japan have sold enough Bibles with
(in the last five years to make:a
'stack 75,000 feet high, ;
| Dr. J. B. Gambrell, formerly of
Georgia and now of Texas, was.
.elected president of the conventicn.
THE SHRINER’S CONVENTION
' CALLED OFF FOR THIS YEAR
Million Dollars Intended for Hilarity
‘and Joy Be Given to Red Cross.
Mystic Shriners of North America,
numbering a quarter million of men,
have given up their journey to the
annual council to be held in Minneap
olis June 26, 27, 28, because they do
not consider it patriotic to engage
in expression of ‘“hilarity and joy”
while the two nations to which the
organization extends, Canada and the
United States, have a controversy
with Germany. They will give the
money they would have spent, ap
proximately $1,000,000, to various
war relief funds.
William B. Wood, potentate of
the Moslem Temple, is authority for
the statement that the Detroit branch
of the order will give $lO,OOO to the
Dettroit chapter of the Red Cross so
ciety.
iWHEAT EIGHT DOLLARS
| ) ;
'PASTOR DECLARES SIXTH CHAP
! TER OF REVELATIONS BRINGS
OUT THE FORECAST.
Wheat at $8 a bushel and barley
at $2.70 a bushel. .
| This is the price to which these
'commodities will rise following the
!war, according to the Rev. Norman
'H. Camp, who spoke on the subject
in the Edgewater Presbyterian church
'in Chicago. 1
The minister based his statement
lon the prophecy recorded in the Bl—]
ble, Revelations, sixth chapter and
fifth verse, which reads: “A measure
}of wheat for a shilling and three
'measures of barley for a shilling.”
~ “By this calculation,” he said,
“‘wheat will reach nearly $8 and
barley $2.70 a bushel. Following the
war will come a tiine of famine, dis
ease and pestilence. The Bible in
dicates we are nearing the end of
the church age.”
STATE 'ENTOMOLOGIST SAYS
COTTON BUGS ARE SCARCER
THAN WAS EXPECTED.
} ATLANTA.—The observations and
records made by the state department
Lof entomology this year shows that
the spring offensive of the boll wee-
Ivil army in Georgia has not been as
effective as was expected earlier in
lthe season.
~ The prevalence of weevils in some
sections is overestimated, said E. Leef
Worsham, state entomologist,
The department has kept many
cages of embryo weevils in winter
quarters at the experiment station
near Valdosta. The records of J. D.
Smith, assistant entomologist, in
charge there, were made to Mr. Wor
sham yesterday on the “emergency.”
The weevils' appeared for the first
time on February 21, and in three
cages none have shown up since that
time. The cold snap since May 2 has
kept the pet weevils in winter quar
ters, as none have emerged since
that time. .
Life of the Weevil.
The field observations of Mg. Smith
correspond with records obtained
from the caged pests. Although there
are hundreds of bugs in the cages,
the greatest number to appear on
any one day was four.
Mr. Smith kept a mortality record.
which shows that the average life
of a weevil after emerging is nine
teen days, when properly fed on cot
ton squares and allowed water. On
an okra diet the average life was
eleven days. A boll weevil can live
but five days without food. Mr.
Smith denied food and water to one
squad and found they could live but
five days.
The oldest weevil in the collection
lived but forty-five days after emerg
ing, and one “gave up the ghost”
lafter forty-eight hours,
“UNCLE JOE” CANNON
Despite His Years Apparently As
Vigorous and Active as Ever.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Represen
tative Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois,
former speaker of the house, is 81
years old. Despite his years “Uncle
Joe"” apparently is as vigorous and
active as ever. He received many
congratulations on his birthday from
members of congress, government of
ficials and others.
FOUR THOUSAND HOUSES
WRECKED BY MUNITIONS BLAST
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Four
thousand residences, thirty warehous
®s and several factories and public
buildings were destroyed and fifty
rersons were killed in an explosion
n the munitions sheds in Osaka, Ja
pan.
' The cause of the explosion has not
been ascertained, but alien plotters
are suspected. e
VOL. 35.---NO. 39
IHIIT AND PERSONAL
'WAR MEASURE HAS BEEN Fi.
NALLY ADOPTED WITH THE
ROOSEVELT AMENDMENT.
Passage Came After Long Debate,
Featured by Senator Stome’s Bit
ter Attack on Roosevelt, Who Was
as Vigorously Defended. #
WASHlNGTON.—Presgident Wil
son signed the army bill Friday night.
Col. Roosevelt will not be permit
ted to raise his volunteer expedition
in France. On signing the war
army bill President Wilson issued a
statement saying that, acting under
expert advice from both s{dea of the
water, he would be unable to avail
himself at the present stage of the
war of the authorization to organize
volunteer divisions. :
THE BILL AS APPROVED.
Final action was taken by congress
'Thursday on the war army bill, the
. second of the major measures of the
war.
The senate, by a vote of 65 to 3.
adopted the conference report sne
cepted by the house. :
As finally approved the bill pro
vides for raising, by selective econ
scription, a war army in increments
!of 500,000 men from 21 to 30 years
of age. It also authorizes, without
directing, the president to raise vol
unteer forces which Colonel Roose
velt desires to take to Framee, and
increases the pay of all enlisted men
from $l5 to $3O a month.
Draft Machinery Ready. ;
Machinery to register and draft
the first 500,000 men already has
been set up by the war department.
Immediately after the president lizgls
the bill, he will, by proclamation,
designate the day for registration of
the 10,000,000 or more men om
prescribed age. Registration hot
will be in the hands of state amnd
local authorities, who are to eo-%:
ate in the work, and Brigadier
eral Crowder, the provost m:
general, expects to have his comp
lists in Washington within five days
after registering begins. ;
Then will come the task of select
ing the first half million, exemptgg
‘the physically unfit, these with de
'pendents and men who are ‘nee‘iig
on the farms and in industries.
process of selection probably will be
completed long before the men are
wanted. Secretary Baker says that
because of lack of supplies the new
army would not be called to the col
ors for training before September.
Sour on Roosevelt Plan. ;
Whether Colonel Roosevelt shall be
permitted to raise an expedition
rests with President Wilson,
Army officers take the ground that
the Roosevelt contingent, if one were
raised, would not fit into the nation’s
military estabilshment at any point.
Congress is providing for a military
force based on the principle of uni
versal liability to service. It would
be unfair, the army officer contend,
to permit one maa to organize a vel
unteer contingent and to deny that
privilege to another, who might be
a much abler man from a military
point of view. P
President May Ignore it.
It is pointed out that President
Wilson could approve the bill con
taining the volunteer provision ang
vet ignore it. The amendment does
not direct the president to accept the
division; it merely authorizes %
do so. All the weight of the presi
dent’s advice is against the Roosevelt
plan.
| Roosevelt's Record Attacked.
| As during the early stages of the
long dispute in congress, the closing
‘debate centered upon the so-called
‘Roosevelt amendment. Colonel Roose
velt was vigorously attacked by Sen
‘ator Stone, of Missouri, and as ar
dently defended by his friend, Sen
ator Johnson, of California.
Senator Stone attacked the Roose
velt amendment on the ground that
“Colonel Roosevelt is unfit to com
mand a body of troops because he
has no respect for authority, consti
tutional or otherwise,” and deseribed
the provisions as “a scheme both per
sonal and political.” - o
“%olonel Rolomelg::g unfit to cém;
mand, certainly a rge be 0
men,” Senator Stone said, ‘g{om
velt is practically without training.
He commanded a regiment in the
Spanish war for a short time, it is
true. He led them courageously, but
did not command them with judg
ment. He got his men into bad
hole in imminent danger of being
fi“t to piec:sx,f and they wonld have
een except for a negro regiment
that came to the rescue and saved
them. ;
“This scheme is personal poli-
Lica],.’ It is smeared all over %fi& poli
tics. Bl e Bl
The senate’s approval of the army
measure agreed ugon by the confer
ees and adopted by the House ecame
late in the day after a vt Ww
it back to conference, and an earnest
appeal by Senator Chamberlain,
chairman of the military ' committee, b
for fi'lr‘ml gcti}(lm. W;o foca e
he Eight senators wh M ast the
negative votes were: - . W
4 Demog{rat?—-(-;Go‘rQ, ’Ea dlaho ~
ardwick o corgia, Kirby of Arx<
kansa, Stone of Makourt and ‘rammc
mel of Florida. Republicans—La Fol
lette of Wisconsin, Gronna of North
Dakota and Norrié of Nebraska, =