Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 194, 26 June 1918 — Page 6

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Extend the Draft Ages The New York Times discusses the widening of the draft ages, as follows: That Congress was wrong when it passed the selective service law with the military ages ranging only from 21 to 31 is daily becoming more apparent. Already it has been necessary to amend the law in order to provide more men who could be called to the colors without seriously disturbing the economic condition of the country. Before the Senate Military Committee, General Crowder said that there are more than 8,000,000 men of the present draft ages in Class 4, most of them being in Class 4A because of dependent wives, children or both. To show just what it would mean to the country, in dollars and cents, to send these men to war, let us assume that 2,500,000 of the approximately 3,000,000 men in Class 4 are there because of dependency. .This would mean that there would be 2,500,000 wives left without adequate means of support, '. and who would be entitled to the $15 monthly al- ' lowance that is prescribed in 'instances of this -Ikind by the soldiers' and sailors' insurance law. .This, in turn, would mean that the Government's rmonthly bill for taking care of these women ; would be 2,500,000 times $15, or $37,500,000. In "a year this bill would grow to $450,000,000. Nor is this all. The same law that gives the wives $15 a month for themselves allows them ?$10 a month for each first child, $7.50 a month :for each second child, and $5 for each additional . one, with a maximum allowance of $50. Out of 2,500,000 wives, at least 1,750,000 must be mothers of first children. These offspring, at $10 each, would increase the Government's dependency account by $17,500,000 a month, or $210,000,000 a year. Add to this amount the $450,000,000 incurred in taking care of the wives, and the nation's annual dependency bill becomes $660,000,000. Combine this great figure with the further obligations incurred through the respective $7.50 and $5 monthly allotments for dependent second or third children, and a grand yearly total of close to $1,000,000,000 is reached. The monthly payments, under the provisions of the insurance law, begin at the call to the colors and continue until the death of the soldier in service, which introduces a new financial obligation for the Government, or until one month after the discharge of the soldier from service. Death of a married man in service gives his widow $25 a month if there are no children, $35 a month of there is one child, $47.50 a month if there are two children, and $5 extra for each additional child up to two, or a maximum of $57.50. These benefits continue through the life of the dependency. The total disabling of a man in service gives him $30 a month, if single. If married, his benefits range from $45 a month for '. himself and wife' (if there are no children) to $75 for himself, wife and three or more children. , These benefits continue as long as the disability lasts. Partial disability benefits are also provided for. And yet the story is not finished. Before

any of the men in Class 4 have been called to the colors, under the present regulations, Class 3 must be exhausted. In this class come three kinds of dependency, any or all of which must be proved to obtain this classification from a local board. They include men with dependent children, other than their own, but toward whom they stand in relation of parent; men who have

dependent, aged, or infirm parents, and men who

have dependent helpless brothers or sisters. In Class 3, according to General Crowder, there are about 400,000 men. If they are called, the 'government must take their places as providers. This, even on the low scale prescribed by law, would call for the expenditure of at least $50,000,000 a year in addition to the sum already being paid by the Government to dependents of men in service, the billion dollars that would be required to aid the dependents of men in Class 4, and the probable high cost of death and disability allowances. Does Congress feel that the American people can afford to pay this bill? Or will it vote to extend the draft ages to obtain more Class 1 men, who have no dependents ? -A War Savings Stamps The Wayne county committee handling the

War Savings Stamps campaign has addressed an j

urgent appeal to citizens to subscribe for the securities. The sum of $100,000 is required to complete the quota. , Many persons have the erroneous notion that they are asked to buy the stamps now. This is a mistake. All the government asks is that citizens indicate on the cards that are furnished how many stamps they will buy before the close of the year. Subscribers have until the end of the year to purchase the quota for which they subscribe. The blanks that were put in the mails yesterday should be filled out in generous manner. The government needs this money. It must have it. Wayne county is in position to subscribe the full amount. All it takes is the will to do so. A determination on all sides to subscribe for these stamps will mean' the accomplishment of the work. Friday is the last day on which you can act. Do it now, Do it liberally, Do it cheerfully.

ABINGTON

After the War in Germany From the Saturday Evening Post. FIGURES compiled by the Federal Reserve Board from official statements, where they are available, put the war debt of Germany and Austria-Hungary at thirty-nine billion dollars. In addition, they have just short of eight billion dollars of paper money outstanding, against which they hold a metallic reserve of less than seven hundred millions. The total debt mounts, daily. If peace comes this year the Central Empires will have to deal with war obligations amounting to nearly half the total estimated wealth of the nations at the beginning of the war. While liabilities have multiplied, assets have shrunk; for, to a greater extent than in any other nation, German industry was based on foreign trade, and far the greater part of the foreign trade was destroyed more than three years ago. The war debt of England, France and Italy stood at forty-three billions when the Federal Reserve figures were compiled about ten per cent greater than the Teuton total. Their wealth at the beginning of the war was more than twice as great. England draws upon the rawmaterial wealth of Canada, Australasia and South Africa. Her foreign trade, measured in money, is as large as before the war not to mention that the wealth of the United States is now pledged to the Allies' cause. To the rulers of Germany peace unless they can win a dazzling stake is a word of fear. They face a frightful reckoning. Governments have survived defeat. We do not recall a case in which a government has survived bankruptcy.

DINNER ST OR IE J A benevolent old gentleman was ptopped by a tramp who asked for

;. money to get a night's lodging. - "Well, look here, my man," the old gentleman said, ' what would you say If I offered you work?" "Bless yer life, sir," came the reply, "I wouldn't mind a bit. I can take a -joke same as most people!" The paper question, which is adding so many gray hairs to the heads of editors, would be solved once and for all if Thomas Alva Edison perfected an invention he hinted at some years ago. : "Nickel," he declared, "will absorb : printer's ink, and a sheet of it, one twenty-thousandth of an inch thick, is cheaper, tougher, and more flexible ;than an ordinary sheet of notepaper." ; Why not, then, he asked, substitute : nickel for 40,000 pages the whole of .the "Encyclopedia Britannlca" and only weigh a pound.

"I can make a pound of nickel sheets." he added, "for a dollar and a quarter."

Pick up the stitch I drop by chance, and mend the toes of you? Threading a loyal smile for France, the dainty stitches through? Or will those downcast maiden eyes see through a golden haze Some gallant lad, some khaki lad, with brave, audacious ways? Hear little lilting pipes that play, above the "Marseillaise"? Methinks it is the wisest thing to knit you strong and true, Lest Cossette or Adelaide or Jeanne with eyes of blue Should drop another stitch perhaps, and spoil the toes of you.

ALLEGE PREJUDICE IN FREIGHT RATES CHARGE

Moment

: The attorney had pleaded earnestly for the young married woman who

had been arrested for speeding her automobile at forty miles an hour

through the business district, but h9 could make no visible impression upon the court. . "Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you?" asked the Judge of the fair prisoner. "Well, you see, it was this way, your honor," she replied. "I had just bought a $40 hat downtown and I was trying to get it home before it "went out of style " : "That will do." Interrupted the court. "The case is dismissed for your husband's sake, if nothing else.". Song of a Yankee Knitting Girl. ;Vlli Cossette or Adelaide or Jeanne . ; j, with eyea of blue

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON'. June 26. Rates charged by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad for moving fuel oil from the Wyoming fields to Great Fails, Mont., were held by the interstate commerce commission today to be unduly prejudicial to that city in comparison with rates made by railroads in the same territory to Helena, Butte, and Anaconda. The commis

sion ordered the rates ravised holding that they were reasonable in amount but prejudicial In, arrangements. The wife who loses her patience must not expect to retain her husband's admiration.

Americans Haw Strong Nerves Nervousness and Nerve Troubles on the Decline

PROFESSIONAL NURSE

Tells What to Do to Regain Strength

After Sickness.

New York City. "I am a profession

al nurse, the grippe and bronchial

pneumonia left me with a cough and in a depleted, anaemic condition and no appetite. I cannot take cod liver

oil in any other form than in Vinol and in a short time after taking It my appetite improved, my cough left

me, I gained strength and weight.

That Is why I recommend Vlnol to

others." Miss E. M. Walker, R. N., 35 W. 38th Street. It is the Beef and Cod Liver Peptones aided by he Iron and manganese peptonates and glycerophosphates contained in Vinol which makes it so wonderfully successful. Clem Tblstlethwaite and druggists everywhere. Adv.

"Nothing wrong but your nerves," is a saying that is fast dying out in

this country. While nerve trouble is no organic disease, one of our leading

nerve specialists remarked: "A man or woman might better break a leg than have a shattered nervous system." Overwork and worry drains the nerve cells of their reserve strength and food, and then follows the sleepless night, indigestion, poor appetite, impure blood and general nervous break-down. The thing to do in such cases no longer troubles doctors and their patients who know from their own experience the value of Phosphated Iron. They know that a few weeks' regular

use of tnis nerve food and red blood builder will strengthen and brace up

the whole nervous system, because Phosphated Iron gives the tired, hungry, worn-out nerve cells phosphates and Iron in a form easily and quickly absorbed; as one happy user said: "You can almost feel it taking hold of the nerves and blood, after a short time you feel like a new person; life seems a pleasure and worth living once again. In every section where Phosphated Iron has been used there has been a big decrease of nerve troubles and it

will prove a welcome relief to any suf

ferer. You can bank on it for results it's pure. To insure physicians and their patients getting the genuine Phosphated Iron we have put up in capsules only, do not take pills or tablets. Insist on capsules. Conkey Drug Co., and lead

ing druggists everywhere. Adv.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Stevens spent Sunday afternoon at the Glen Miller park. ... .Mrs. Sam Stevens and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dynes spent Sunday afternoon In Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stevens of Centerville, Mrs.

Harold Clements of Richmond, Miss Anna Head lock of Chicago, Miss

Laurabelie Stevens of Centerville, and

Mr. Lester Hort of Naval Training

Station of Chicago, called on Mr. and Mrs. Ben Weiss and family Saturday

afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Elmer

Deer and Miss Frances Deer spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. M. McCashland ..... Miss Rhea Pyle spent . the week end with Miss Colleen Plankenhorn Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown and daughter Edith, visited Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Willard Rodenburg. . .Mr. and Mrs. Bert Waiting were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rollo Parka and son.. .Miss Neva Null visited Sunday with home folks. Earnest Stlnson and Miss Cuba Kinder attended a dance at Webster Saturday evening. . .Miss Helen Wood was on the sick list a part of last week . . . Paul Henry and Ervin Woods visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lon Woods and family Mrs. Rose Kinder and daughter Cuba returned from Anderson last week Mr. and Mrs. El in u Hiatt and Mr. and Mrs James Wilson of near Liberty, visited Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ham and family Sunday... Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ham and family spent Sunday evening in Centerville Ray Weiss and Miss Jeanette Merkamp and Robert Merkamp and Miss Eva Wissler attended Chlldern'a Day services at Centerville Sunday evening.. .Mr. and Mrs. Toney Thalke spent Sunday "afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ham and family Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tice and family were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Bertram and family Miss Mattie Snyder and Mrs. Sally Brumfield visited Sunday afternoon with Miss Eva Robins.

GETS MACHINE PARCEL POST

(By Associated Press) DUNKIRK, Ind., June 26. All kinds of schemes have been tried to get around freight embargoes and slow ness of freight movements recently, the express being the usual method in transportation of large articles. H". L. Nixon of this city, a mechanic, however, has ordered and is receiving an automobile by parcel post. The machine is being sent to him "knock down," and so far delivery of all parts mailed has been prompt. He says he believes by the time all parts axe received and assembled he will have saved much time over freight transportation, and possibly the express.

Things that interest some people are those that would better be left unsaid.

Indiana Mends Stride In Supplying Doctors INDIANAPOLIS. June 26. Indiana, which has been near the bottom of the list of states in the number of doctors supplied for military service, is fast nearing the top of the list, according to a letter from Surgeon General Gorgas, received by Dr. J. R. Eastmen, chairman of the Indiana committee, medical section, council of national defease. The demand for doctors continues and there is a constant call from the war department for more.

COMMANDS 10TH INFANTRY

. INDIANAPOLIS, June 26 Col. Eason R. Gibson, formerly at Camp Zach ary Taylor now is at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where be has assumed command of the 10th infantry. He succeeds Col. E. A. Root, ordered to the Philippines. Col. Ladue will continue in command of the several thousand engineers at the fort.

Metal workers unions In Germany have Increased their membership.

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Teacher Gets Raise of $4 in 52 Years ALDERTON, W. Va.. June 26. James W. Sample, 74, who has taught school for fifty-two years, has struck for higher wages. He says that during his years of teaching there has been practically no advance In salaries of teachers. At the first school he taught he received $36 a month and his salary during the past year was only $40 a month. , Texas Now a Desert; All Saloons Closed AUSTIN, Tex., June 26. The liquor business in Texas was abolished last night when the state-wide prohibition law becomes effective. Saloons closed at 9:30 not to open again.

RHEUMATISM Truster's Rheumatic Tablets bring relief when all other remedies fail. Why suffer? Ask your druggist about Truster's Rheumatic Tablets, the only purely vegetable remedy for that dreaded disease. Remember, we guarantee every boy. A 30 days treatment, 50c. The tablets are chocolate coated and easy to take. Any druggist should be able to supply you, or write the Truster Remedy Co., Huntington, Indiana.

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