Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 229, Lebanon, Boone County, 23 June 1917 — Page 4

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Mat ..nl-auur laisavUla. Tark -!- anil ltosston. Aamltit to toVmslTs ascnn'1-e)Ma wit-tar at lit piatufiic ai Lebanon. tn advance and. pawer mil b dlscoit' tlniif-i uniass aunacripuon is renawstii. By Vll, on rr a .) Kf all monthi I TS Br Mali, tl.ran month 10 br XoK. on mull ., , .jr. Ky Carrier, per mk It) Jijr Carrier, ona ysar l.tlO " Obituaries anitCarn-.i-of Thank arV ur.Jt to ft churn of Una of us word. t.'h abould ftowunpi-Tiy natter of tnl kind Advertising nnUtr of lotteriea or anything of a Ua Datura te-i i Adv-tl!flng rata nmda known Pforet erTXTvurl I itur. R spresT' Ota tiva American t'raaa Association, Naw lork and TVlelbonaie- IJuslneaa, "75; Nawa, li and it. crctary; Walter J 8utr. W. M. libation ctntpt.,r No. 28. Order Katarn Star. First Tui'Miiy aa.-lt moiue, V.'l't p. m. I..l'a Van Nuys, aecratar ; Hay Kchults. W. M. I Commamtery No. 41. Kn1et;t.Thlrd Monday each mot.-h. Ml) p. m. Ivory C. Toll. Keouruar, Leatar F. Jonas, ). C THAT IS F All! NOW. According tu t: c cttimaU - of tin trirtiuciit of I-.'jor ami uf the United Stated Iiurt.au uf I'ubKc Health it costs about $:iC0 a tar to support an average family in conditions of cle mentary decency. The average wage of tlic unskilled or acmi-skilled wotkinan who constitute a heavy majority cf An- n labor is still a few cents over f J a day, or somewhere about f 700 a war. The great masses of the working people of the United States nut only have no surplus wealth, but there ia a constant deficit which must lie met by cutting down on necessities. Vet a few blind or twili-h rich men propose to tax this delicti at tlie .-ante rate as great fortunes and xeccss corporate prufits urn taxed, to pay fot the war. In some inilusliics., like the munition factories, there huvc been startlirtJ increases in witpe-tj hut I It o ver age income has not risen in anything like the proportion of the rise in t't cost of living. FoakJ, clothing ani other basic necessities, if we may trust fitch conservative autbotities us the -Times Analyst" and Dun, hav aimply doubled, or in .some' cases tripled in price since la.-t year. Add to that the widespread unemployment in so-called "lighter" occulta tions, like otriee and c'erieal workbccaiiM; of retrenchments ocea-ioned by the war. Like England in the ye.n.i iminr-li-ately precedinj; the war, we are discoverinp tiiat the AmeiU-an working classea have been squeezed lry, thai they have no money to inve.-t and vrn less to lie ttm ti. Moreti r, hundreds of recent invt'-tijr.aions prove that creat ma-si of t':r peoidc are uiKlcrnnurtned, utt'l that their effort in pi-eduction is steadily dec'iniinr. Honever, Connrt-sit se-n, t th.nl. that U.x on i p.r n .n',.. neee tie.-t, like tea and coftee und la-er and pos.jie rtttnitm, and hi p'.eaure: like piorin pietui-e.s. ran be mad? t pay a larpe part of the cost of th war, while the surplus incomes of neh men end the fabulous war projiu o wr.iltby corpoiations mu,t not be t,er iou. ly d,p.tuibcd! Wo. Cohi'n lives in the Mi'tinx, ir one of these rickety new ap.tittiicr.t hoilst s, whn.e owners ai! ot tui;e tiipi about four month ru and raised the rent. on account of the war! S'iie has four jui'is and two dauritt rs. one of her bovs ju-t staged tu werk and now is asibject to the draft. Iter husband has been for years in the md'.ing departm'-nt of u t".s!iU hoit. c dvwntown. where h ; etc' '' veik, a wage which up to th: tmw baa tieen amply sufficient to feed and clothe t'.eiti. Put w Ithin ir4 (ear a.'rer the befitaninj of the war that Jb a wfi

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commiMivn house-, to he p trie drawms: uf contmcta, at $25 a week. That was a year ago. Since that time the rent of the Cohens' apartment has gone up twice, until it m now "MO per month; Mr. Cohen's and Sain'a car farea and luncheons cost about $44 a month; the home food budsret, which was by care ful management somewhere around 'J.i, has leaped to $54 a month; necessary summer clothes, shoes and other item!, with the strictest economy, have tost the whole family t'.iS this time; lh re's the bahy, who has to have pas teurized milk and other luxuries; and" last month, Ella, the second daughter. twelve years old, was taken ill with diphtheria, and the doctor took what ehe the family had managed to save. Three years ago the Collins were com ortable enough on $30 a week. Atm was in college, Ada and Ella in "oheol; food and clothing, though simp'c, were adequate. 'ov, W'th twice the income, the '.n.ii'y i. always lighting to keep even. -,nd when tne dnift eoie.es and r-.iir. ha:i to go the plot km will he made ,;ore tltiV.cult. Aiieaily Ada is looki'tg fr a job, and E!la is not going in :h ungli high school, as they had i! timed. Is it fair to tax the Cohens on the commodities they use to support life. o p:iy for the wai ? Why should not -e i u..t he partly born by the iwnn ivar indu.triis which have pi'ed jlp "ire than two billions of exees.lolils 1 Tiij t'ohtns are an example of e:idile ela.-s families. Hut take the 'Mi lira, who lie on the outskirts f.the eity. Tom U'Mciira is a pick and shovel the suhi .,::.'. a o'av. At home he has live lidnn, the eldest a of thirteen, r.-.edy selling papers on-the street. U in n Tom brings home hi.- J17 a " (he only kc ps ,V) cents for hunif, Mis, (J'.Meaia ilistcdititcs it ..My h aves of hre id a day. at l'i rents a loaf t ess of :almi.i-t (cheapest. R -.i dci at li c ut.j.tr peanut butler jar jam pmi.- of mil k, at 7 cents H,.:"s' f coal, at .',0 rents ar-'.ue for Tori VH'C. iia'f pur;d let for don.'.- !u nth 'ii.'huig fer ei.ti.-e family, weekly .aei tge i-h'-ol hooks, etc., for Maggie and ,!in, eil. .tion at rliuit h Sunday .. .1; '!r. i!i(r picture.- once a week . . .V, This budget leaves exactly :'J cents t v i ek for doctor and other emer.'"v.:is. A tax on the neees.-it;es o! d'( would wipe teli that pitiful surlu.. out. Ie the (TM.-a-n hou.e. mind you. I, en' is never i.ny such luxuty as meat or tim rest of the fjmily, never huter; the main staple of diet is pan'llker. I'ie writer prnp..-ts to C,iigie.,s to ,'ti no fiirth.-r m levying h,-uty taxepen the eoinin.slit es which su.-tain he life of the gn .it masses of the peo;ds. Th:; wrifr btltVves that the two '.illions ef ixie-.., war proiit... wliieli it a tax ef .Vi pr-r c-nt, would yield -Kiie than i billion dol'ars of revenue o pay for the win. alc the legitimate !:rst source of v.-ialth for (ongiess to lap. PASS THK lllllll I.IM.. Ti ii.ents used be Senator l!r "I aga n-t the Lever bill are th" iiguinrnts for its enactment without -Hay. To the senator's mind the pres. 'nt anarchy in our food niaikets viseie every man th it can get hi.ni: r in the pie is pulling out all tht slur- i:e van grab for himself, scrvi-i vfl the American aptitude for lut-,,e.-,, and s houlil be left undistucbe-l l-e doesn't lik- the idea of putting dr. Hoover in el'aigfi of ourfootl supplies because Mr. Hoover gained his 'xperienccj as an adiruni dialor of inod stipidie't ahroa'l, and, tiieref-tre V's n-it understand our Am-'rici.n way,-. The senator especially d'slikcs !hi: idea of treating ntces.-;ties of life :. itffectwl by tiie public interest and id -unjeet to public control. 1" nator Meed, like too many other men of his type, ha an eye single to the interests pf busmen. The suffer injs of the masses, of whose necsirie advantage ia taken by food specu

t s. a8 . it -oimer Iwyor; t,u tta.;.n in i,:;r,y e. mciina to Senator Jtced no mote ttian that American business men, free to do as they please, are making the most of excellent opportunities. Any attempt to interfere with their prerogatives as free business men he will tight to the lust ditch, even as our fathers fought against tyrannical interference with their trade rights. Senator Reed serves his country well, though unwittingly. More effectively than any npoke.man for the Lever hill he has shown the necessity if legislation that shall enable fl-.r government to do what r.'"''t '- lio.'.e to rentier conditie-- ... this country tolerable. Cy making plain his conception of the country as a happy hunting ground for the rapacious, a'Ip privileges arc sacred and must not be abridged if the heavens are to stand, he furnishes overwhelmnig x-.' ss for speedy action in behalf of h ph in people, who.-e right to live s ever, more important than the light t certain business men to make a .illing out of the w-ar. The sooner Mr. Hoover is put in harge of our food supplies, with full power to conserve and di.-trihutc them .iceoiding to the actual needs of our people, the belter for all concerned.

II Mil) TO RE(iAI KKI'I TATION Mayor Hell, at Indianapolis, makes : fatal admission when he says that everything is being done now to remuy conditions to make things better or the morals of the soldiers in amp there. He perhaps does not note that litis is an admission that things Mve not been dene in the pa.-t to nake conditions t h an and mo'al. and l.-o f-ii.'s to see that he admits that 'lungs can be remedied by the proper Hurts. There never was any question that he law rould be enforced by the proi'cr effort, and by the proper oi tiers !y the olficiala in power. If the law annot be enforced, then government 'i a failure, and this is true of cities. oiintii1.,, states and the nation, it is -veil for otJieers antl peopio to .cop conditions such at all times that when emergencies tome there is nothing to he -h.ne to make everyth-ng fit for the safety of young men and . ouien. Indianapolis must become "So .Mean ''ity" again, but it is a hard thing to u'gain a rr ptitalioii lost through lln i.iak .ess and inability of men in comr.and. SOME (, INS M IK. Tiie war has Iw-en of aihantagc to the world in some wavs, and thest advantages may partly repay for the terrible co-t. Kor one thing, there has been great . dvanee in the treatment of wounds and perhaps even of disease. Ilurn.no lunger terrify, and this will greatly simplify the treatment in such a-es. Men ran be patched up to be "f some service now after undergoing 'erriiiie wounds. The physicians and -urgtons of this country have already made th.-mselvcs ac.piainted with tin rew advance in the healing art, and -o the whole world is the gainer by 'he chante to study new methods. Th-n. think of the'advanee in the airship line. Moon there will be great lines of airships crossing the wean.-, carry injr commerce to all parts of tht world even more sandy than by the -hips of the sea. These and other advantages do not make up for the slightest losses of life, but it is some satisfaction that a little gootl has already come from the liETTEK THAN ASK III). I'nelc Sim's land always does bettor than the expected. The people oversubscribed the Liberty Loan, am! now they bid fail to oversubscribe he It-I Cross fund asked. Nobody - an find fault with a people that dot rmore than is a.-k- d. t.ven in the war itself tne boys in khaki will do more than the world could tlemund. They will be in the front ranks when the terriidc attacks are made, foe they are the sons of the men who went up Mission Pudge and went with .Sherman, who stood at Octtysburg, who never failed in any place or at any time. This is a country ami a people who will not fail to do a li'.tls bit more than asked at any time for any good causer. HKIXIAN TI3.I.S Tit I TU. The Ilclghn minister, speaking- at Washington, gives expresrion to & great troth when he said, in addres-

r '.. .m a .. - . . ' the right aiMiif, among nations, and her people have died and have, suffered untold agonies iather than surrender their honor as individuals and as a nation. This country ia in the great war from the same niotivc that prompted Belgium. It was not possible to go on with the aggressions of Germany, the murder of our citizens upon the sea and the invasion of our rights upon every hand, the flouting of our nation, li.- ' .:.' us from the sen, the - to stay at home without tiie permission of the German emperor. Yis, it is better to die than to live without honor.

WHO IS M HO BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE WAR ARMY Brigadier-Genera! George 0. Stiuier, Chief Signal Officer. Born in Michigan on March 21. 18li", and appointed to the Military Academy July 1, 188d. L pon his graduation, four years later. he was made a second lieutenant in the Third Artillery- In ,8'19 he was transferred to the Signal Corps as a aist lieutenant, having been advanced to that grade while in the artillery. In 1903 he was graduated from Johns Hopkins with the degree of Ph. D. WASHINGTON, June 2.1. General Souu-r is a man who achieves things. While in the Signal Corps as a colonel he w is placed in charge of aeronautics and with a limited amount of leotiey to expend he started out to deteinp tins service for the United Stales Army. His idea was to specialize in the various branches of this arm of the -'i--iee anil to put the members of his corps through a most intensive training. The result was that when 'l-jpgies.i finally awakened tn a true realization of what aeronautics meant to an army and increacd his appro-iriu-ion, General Sipiier fount! himself in a position to expend this app'opnatmn judiciously. The result is that the American titer today ranks foirmust among the fliers of the world. in the manufacture of aeroplanes the manufacturers of the country en-'ou'-tered obstat'os; there was not r.iiuh business coming to them to advance their work. Genera! Stpiier appointed hoard of specialists to overcome the various individual troubles; - ," ''attuier in prop ,rtion to his ability '') turn out midlines for the army. Iteieg the last trreat nation to adopt he nerop-Hnes for war purposes, Genaa! Stiuier was confronted in the ! esent rnnhVt with the realization -hat Aieer'can manufacturers were ent prepared to turn out air machines fast enough. He immediately perfectd arranger a-r.-s whereby the macl ues for this purpose -will he procured in Trance. All of the machines for I he training of aviators will be American made. He is regarded a a very brilliant . eientist ami is credited with several lodei n-iiay inventions in telegraphy and other means of transmission. 1-or a number of years prior to hi.oeiig ill tailed in aeronautics he was military attache at tiie American Embas.y in London. TKOOI LEADER. is Elected by liny Scouts Troop in ( lo- ( ontcst. SCOl'T IH.At KWKI.L, Pepoiter. Lay Sce.it - of Ameiira held their t it'll ir in, ctmg ai hod. mm It-is a.,t niidit. .-V- the troop has been without a tnop lender for some time, it war decided io e.,t one Inst night. The names of Parr, Hurt, Higgins, Henderson and Heed were nominated. The erst ha'lo: resulted in Heed antl Parr in th" , . nln n,,jihrr had a majority. An.,!'i. r ballot was taken in which He--I had a majority. Scout Reed is to he congratulated on getting this position, as it is the higlie-t position that an U placed on a stout bv a Ijcal troop. Mr. Pierre has received a letter loin the He,! !,.V Jr.-lfrr. f Whill-S-"ecn g.fcii-.g that the Scouts be at the Annual Red Men's picnic and to give a demonstration of camp life. The Scouts i!i a,,,., ,(, invitation. This it; one of the he.,t chances the Scoutr nave n reived to rreato interest m teoutwoik out of town. There is no rea-on. why Whitestown and other 'nun-. 0f tfcat sue should not have a troep. S'"Utina.,ier Pierce told of several things of interest from the Scoutmasters.' convention. .Scouts are to wear their m it, whenever possible at all. The coats ate l be laid away this summer. inn meeting ,ts closed by giving tae Ameritan yell. I IKST C.R or WHEAT. The first rar of vev crop wheat has ...... at .-n. uiupt sMt was. from Loui nana, in the. pink of condition, taking the highest grade and the best offer for it was $2.40. Whcut usually sees Its lowest price at harvest tune. Come to Dales' for chicken dtnnor, Sunday. 3a cent.

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Churches Arrange for Bit; Gath ering: Sunday Night Z. T. Sweeney to Speak. Sunday evening there will be a union meeting of all the churches nt which timn the fund for the Red Cross society will be closed. This meeting will be held at 7:30 o'clock at tho First Baptist church with Key. Z. T. Sweeney of Columbus, the speaker. Plans are being made for a routing meeting. The Rev. Mr. Sweeney n one of the moat prominent oratois in j tne rtate He has been nearcl nere before and is a general favorite with he people of Boone county. Thre should be a large audience to hear him. PEOPLE OF ADVANCE CERTAINLY KNOW WHAT "INTENSIVE" MEANS The Advance Hustler says: "There are always plenty of folks j experimenting and some of the j latest ones to try new projects are: A. H. Yager who has built a 6x8 pen ami 8 feet high and filled same with dirt and potatoes expects to harvest 4a busholf of potatoes, providing the season is favorable; James Iarne!l has a barrel drilled full of holes with strawberry plants peepin' out'n the holes and a dish pan with a leaky bottom set on top the barrel so Mr. Darnel! expects to harvest sever! quarts of nice berries provided Mrs. Darnell keeps the tlish pan full ef water; but the M-st of ail is one on Bill Kroshar who has drilled a hole in the obttom of each of the hen's nests, thinking that when the eegs scoot out of sight the hen will think she forgot her job anil she will keep up the laying stunt until the bucket runs over." CHILDREN'S DVY PROGinM. The following program for ChilIren's day will 1 given at the First Christian church Suntlay evening, at 7:4a: Son-; Choir Scripture reading. Song Choir Prayer Superintendent Song. "Room at the Front" .. School Reading, "Share and llaives" Eloist' Kernodle Song, "Sw ing Little Blossoms" Irimary Class "Evangel of Itvc" . . By Seven Girls Rainbow drill, The "Willing Workers" Recitation Ijtverne Harlan Song. "The Lit-up Way" .. Arthur Thompson, George Miller Violin Duet .. Cecil Partner and Verle Miller Duet .... Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Galvin Flag drill By Ten Boys Solo, "Sweet Beautiful Roses" , . Eloise Kernodle Recitation Evelyn Smith Swing Song, "The Sunshine Workers" Quartette Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. White Mr. Miller and Mr. Shaw Piano solo Esther Walls Offering. Tableaux. i , "Star Spangled Banner" . . Audience Mechaniesburg bathing beach is .w open. Bathing suits for rent. Lunch served at all hours. Come on, boys the water's fine. DON'T MISTAKE THE CAUSE Many Lebanon People Have Kidney Trouble And do not Know it. Do you have bs'iache? Are you tired and worn out? Feel Dizzy, nervous and depressed ? Arc the kidney secretions irregular? Highly coloi'd; contain sediment? Likely your kidneys are at fault. Weak kidneys give warning of dis tress. Heed the warning; don't delay L'se a tested kidney remedy. Read this Lebanon testimony. C. O. Evans, 1121 South Meridian street, I(ebanon, says: "Occasionally my back has become sore and lame ami my kidneys have acted too often. The kidney secretions are scanty, -cabling in passage and are unnatural. Just as soon as I notice these troubles coming on, I use Doan's Kidney pills, procured at the Red Cross drug store, and I am soon in good health again." Price fiOe, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Evans had. Eoster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.e Adv. NEVER NEGLECT A COLD A chill after bathin, cooilng off suddenly after exercise and drafts, give the cold germ a foot-hold that may lead to something worae. Safety requires early treatment. Keep Dr. King' New Discovery on hand. This pleasant bftlsarn remedy allays inflam mation, soothes the cough and r pair the tissue. Better be safe than sorry. Break up the cold with Dr. King' New Discovery before it ia too 1st. At your druggist, 60c,

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