Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 110, 19 March 1919 — Page 2

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PAGE TWO THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, MAR. 19, 1919.

NEW INDIANA ASSESSMENT ACT FLAYED

Indianapolis Attorney Ques1 tions Recently Enacted Tax Reform Law. r . Ellas D. Salsbury, an Indianapolis attorney, has raised a question regard- - Inc the tax reform law enacted by the recent legislature, under which the -state board Is proceeding to assess all property at Its actual value. Salsbury says the legislature in passing the new act and In repealing all former tax measures, failed to retain tne 'saving ; clause" . without , which doubt arises whether there c?.n be any assessment of property this year.. He ; cites authorities to sustain bis posltion. . " John I Rupe, Richmond attorney, said Wednesday that Salsbury' point "might be plausible," although he has not thoroughly examined the law yet i " Eliminated by House. - Salsbury says the "saving clause" - was in Section 336 of the original bill and that It was eliminated by. the house and not put back by the senate. : In his statement on the subject he said: "Several questions now arise, In "view of certain provisions tn the act, and by reason of striking out parts 'of the original bill or amending the bill as Introduced. Some of the most serious of these questions are: "1. The Oeneral Assembly having enacted this 'Tax Reform Law' and -it being approved on March 10, 1919, . repealing all former laws, end striking out the saving clause, can there be any assessment of property under , the law as It now stands, before March 1. 1920? "2. What is the effect of the specific provision of Sec. 335 of the act, releasing all Hens for taxes accruing on or before March 1, 1919, on the first Monday of May, 1920? "3. Has the legislature granted a 'remission of sins' for all 'tax dodgers' 'who have failed to give in their property for taxation in former years? ;" "Under the specific wordlrg of the j provisos to Sees. 265 and 317, as originally Introduced, no assessments for omitted property were to be made " or added for any year prior to Jan. ' V. '1919. These specific provisions were stricken out of the bill by adopting the house commttte's report. By this same report, however, Sec. 336 of the original bill, or the saving clause, 'was also stricken out. Leaves Serious Question. "With the saving clause out of the act as passed and approved, and with a general repealing clause repealing 'all laws and parts in conflict with the provisions of this act,' it leaves a very serious question whether or not the 'sins' or all tax dodgers have not been affected Just as effectively as if the specific provisos to Sees. 255 and 317 .-And the saving clauee, as originally In the bill, had been retained. Striking out.thrse provisions, however, appears to have a more far-reaching effect. As Ithe law now stands, the state is apparently precluded, not only from colJ letting any omitted taxes, but from ; collecting any taxes for the year 1919. 5 "These matters are not saved by the 'general saving clause in Sec. 248 Burns, 1914, as that clause, as said by ;our Supreme Court, 'only relates to 'penalties, forfeitures and kindred HaAbilities,' and prior to the time that the j assessment Is made and placed on nhn duplicate, the claim of the state exists 'only in the right to tax.' If the tax reform law, therefore, -is a valid law. its effects are annarently most far-reaching and either the J courts must be called upon to deter--rinlne Just how far the people have J been relieved from taxation, or the .General Assembly be reconvened to 'straighten out these complications." 1 Four Concerts to be Given 1 During May Festival $ . May 9 is the date for the opening performance of the May Music Festi val for 1919. The Garfield orchestra ;and chorus will appear on this date. jTbere will be vocal and instrumental -solos. Miss Edna Marlatt will be in tcbarge. Z On May 12 the vocational classes "and the high school sextet will give ;tbe program. The third performance will be May 14, when the Apollo chorus of seventy picked voices from the high school -will sing. The last program of the series will Jre given May 16 by the high school orchestra under the direction of ;Ralph C. Sloane. 5 The programs have not been com--pleted. 5 The dates have not been set consecutively as it was thought the audiences would more thoroughly enjoy ;the concerts if they were not too close jtogetber. :Thornbarg Leaves to Take Chicago Position J Walter Thornburg, who pleaded -guilty to a technical charge of emIbezzlement in circuit court Monday, Aas gone to Chicago, where he is connected with a large wholesale house. ;The firm showed implicit confidence ln him during bis trial. -.Services for Lent at I St. PaaVs Lutheran Lpnten services will be conducted tat St. Paul's Lutheran church at 7:30 .o'clock. The topic will be "The Spiritual Kingdom". On account of increased attendance services will be conducted in the main auditorium of ,;ihe church. Lenten services will also be conducted on Sunday evening at ".7 o'clock when the subject will be the 'Story of Barabba8". 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News from Surrou Communities

-CHESTER Nelson Hunt barely escaped Injury when the car which he was driving turned over a he was attempting to pass another machine, in front of the old Martins home. The machine was badly damaged. Hunt was driving to high school at Richmond when the accident occurred. WHITEWATER The Ladies' Aid society of Methodist church will give a chicken supper Saturday night, March 22, at Masonic hall. 1 Juniors of Whitewater high school gave their annual reception for the seniors Saturday night at the school building. Colors of green and white were carried out in the decorations, and the tables 'were decorated with shamrocks and flowers. After a banquet toasts were given by ihe president of the junior class, members of the senior, class, the trustees and the high school principal. A short program closed the evening. NEW PARIS Guinevere, the small daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Shaw, underwent an operation for the removal of an eye at Dayton hospital Monday. The child was recently ill with a complication of influenza and the measles, and the eye was left in a serious condition. Rev. Shaw Is in Y. M- C. A. work in France. Leslie Sawyer, who is with the A. E. F. in France, has written friends that he .is on a sight-seeing tour in Italy. Preaching services will be conducted at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Velts, who recently moved here from Savona, died Monday of pneumonia. He was 30 years old. Members of the Thimble club entertained their husbands and children at the parlors of the Presbyterian church Friday. Seventy-five were present. CAMPBELLSTOWN Ed Erwin was injured Friday morning when he was struck on the forehead by a falling tree. Several stitches were re quired to close the wound.WEST MANCHESTER Announcement was received here of the marriage of Miss Josephine Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Miller of West Manchester to Scott Fox at Dayton, O. Miss Miller is a graduate of Miami Jacob Business college of Dayton and was employed there. Mr. Fox is a resident of Dayton, and they win make their home in that city. The Rev. R. H. McDaniels of Dayton will fill his regular appointment here at the Christian church next Sunday evening, March 23. A carnival and box social will be held next Friday evening at Monroe school. HAGERSTOWN A surprise party was given for Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mohler who were recently married, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mohler Saturday evening. Guests included Miss Elsie Hall, Miss Ruth Allen, Miss Esther Porter, Miss Thelma Sells, Mrs. Leona Ford, Mrs. Willard Stahr, Mr. and Mrs. Iris Hall, Everett Taylor, Garver Endsley, Delmar Mohler. Max Kitterman of Cambridge City was an out-of-town guest. The Woman's History club observed Guest Day Monday, at Litecroft, the home of Mrs. C. M. Teetor. Spring flowers and St. Patrick's Day decora tions were used. "The Follies of Fashion" was presented by the club. Refreshments were served. CAMBRIDGE CITY The body of Lawrence Shafer, who died at Great Lakes Training station from pneumonia, was brought here Saturday, and placed in a vault at Riverside cemetery. ABINGTON Fire at the home' of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilson Wednesday morning caused a small damage, covered by insurance. CENTER VILLE A meeting to further plans for the organization of the Farmers' Grain and Supply company will be held Friday, March 21. at the town hall. Twenty men attended the meeting. Monday evening to organize the company, and a larger crowd is expected Friday under more favorable weather conditions. Shares in the organization are sold from $500 to $1,000. The total amount of stock to be sold is $15,000. The women of the Methodist church pleared $120 on dinners served during the Methodist Centenary conference. The Cemetery association met Friday afternoon with Mrs. Ella Dunbar. Ten members were present. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Mary Morgan. EATON, O. Because there are insufficient funds in the tuberculosis hospital fund to meet payment of $3,000, Preble county's share of the expense of building and furnishing the Montgomery-Preble county joint tuberculosis hospital, near Dayton, the local board of county commissioners has petitioned common pleas court for authority to transfer $2,500 from the county election fund to the tuberculosis fund. The election fund has to Its credit $4,000, which sum there is no immediate us'e for, the petition states. Partition of lot 151 in Eldorado, belonging to the estate of Emma McCoy, deceased, is sought in an action filed in common pleas court by Leroy McCoy, who, as a nephew of the deceased, claims he is entitled to a onefifteenth interest in the realty, and he asks that bis interest be set off to him in severalty. Partition of farm land in Gasper township, sought in an action filed by OTHERS Reduce your doctor's bills by keeping always on band ICR'S VAPORl YOUR BODYGUARD" 30f, 6071.20 vNEW METHOD'S TUFF WORK SHOES 2nd Floor Colonial Bldg.

Oman B. Geoding against her husband, Adam H. Geeding, was ordered by common . ' pleas court, the wife claiming a half interest. Mrs. Geeding has a divorce suit pending against her husband in common pleas court. Suit brought by Elijah Ott against Isaac W. Wright toecover $176.59, alleged to have been owing on a note, was compromised and settled at the cost of the defendant, according to an entry in the suit filed in common pleas court. Funeral services for Morris Stache, 78, retired farmer, who died Sunday at his home southwest of here, following a fall in which he was injured, were held here Wednesday morning at the Catholic church, conducted by Father J. M. Hyland. Burial in Mound Hill cemetery. The deceased was born in Ireland, but came to this country when a young man. He is

survived by two sons, Charles and Edward Stache, and two daughters. Miss Ella Stache and Mrs. Emma Webster. His wife died about ten years ago. The body of Charles E. Cox, of this city, - former manager of the Eaton Telephone company, who died Monday at Gallipolis, where he had been a patient in a state hospital, had not arrived here Tuesday night. Until the body arrives, arrangements for the funeral will not be made. The body will be taken to his home. He leaves a family. ' . OXFORD A meeting of thirty automobile owners of this village and township has been called for the pur pose of organizing an automobile club, for the promotion of mutual interests and good roads. It is also stated that the organization may take the form of a civic league, and that questions of municipal betterment may be considered. Llewellyn Bonhan, local farmer and director in the Oxford Telephone company, is backing the movement. $10,000 REQUIRED TO REBUILD AT ASYLUM Rebuilding of the men"s hospital at Lasthaven, which was partially destroyed by fire March 5, was begun by a large corps of workmen Wednesday afternoon. Residents of the asylum will do the work. Between $8,000 and $10,000 will be expended in rebuilding the hospital. Dr. Smith said today. The walls are still standing and are thought to be in good condition, but the inside work, including woodwork and fixtures, must be rebuilt entirely. The hospital is two stories high and formerly accommodated between 30 and 40 patients. It will not be enlarged, Dr. Smith said HIATT GIVES $1,000 TO FRIENDS' MISSIONS . A gift of $1,000 for Friends' missionary stations has been received by the Friends Mission Board treasurer from Edgar F. Hiatt, president of the Dickinson Trust company of this city. Mr. Hiatt enclosed with his check a brief message of encouragement for the work which the Friends' church is doing in missionary fields, sayings: "I am enclosing a draft for $1,000 which I want to go to the missions to help on the fund to be raised this month. I am praying God's blessing to accompany this gift." It is understood that other prominent friends have taken similar action in regard to this work for which the Friends in the United States and Canada have been asked to contribute $150,000. Of this sum $39,616.63 is yet to be obtained. Sloane Will Attend Music Teachers' Meet Ralph C. Sloane, supervisor of music in the Richmond schools, will attend the Indiana State Music Teachers' as sociation in Muncie, April 29,30 and May 1. Mr. Sloane is chairman of the executive committee. This association includes teachers, supervisors, heads of music in schools and artists. Demonstrations in violin and piano classes in the public schools will be given. . One of the interesting features will be a demonstration by Prof. Carl Seashore of the University of Wisconsin, in testing the musical efficiency of the pupils. Prof. Seashore gave a day to this demonstration at the national meeting last year. He tests the pupils to the extent that he is able to ascertain he instrument upon which the pupil is best suited to perform. A picked choir will give the Episcopalian service and instead of a ser. mon there will be a lecture on choir music. . There will be a round table, artists' recitals and other interesting features. Miss Edna Marlatt and Mrs. Grace Gormon will attend the national convention in St. Louis from March 31 to April 4. The first Rotary club in South America was founded at Montevicdo in the year 1918. HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS Be Better Looking Take Olive Tablets If your skin is yellow complexion pallid tongue coated appetite poor you have a bad taste in your mouth a lazy, no-good feeling you should take Olive Tablet. - Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets a substitute for calomel were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. Yo will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you must get at the cause. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel yet have co dangerous after effects. They start the bile and overcome constipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nightly and qpte the pleasing results.

RUSSIAN STATES ECONOMIC HELP CAN SAVE LAND

Lifting of Economic Blockade Held Most Effectiye Way to . Aid Country. ' - py Asfconiated Frees) LONDON, March 19. Lift the economic blockade from Russia is the appeal which Alexander Berkenheim of Moscow, vice-president and general manager of the AH-Russian Central Union of Consumers' Societies, is making in England and which he intends to make soon in the United States. That is the only way, In Mr Berkenhelm's opinion, to cure Russia's troubles. ' Mr. Berkenheim left Moscow, the headquarters of his organization, in December. He confirms reports of the famine conditions prevailing in the cities of Northern Russia. The situation in Petrograd is particularly bad, he said. .Mr. Berkenheim intends to visit New York, Washington, Chicago and San Francisco. The principal object of his trip to America is to develop trade relations between the United States and Russia, and. to establish offices on the eastern and western seaboards. From the eastern coast he plans to ship large consignments of American products to the Black Sea districts of Russia, and from the Pacific Coast to Siberia. Heretofore, the organization has had only a few agents in the United States. Will Visit America. The All-Russian Central Union of Consumers' Societies is, Mr. Berkenheim 6ays, the directing head of various co-ODerative associations. It embraces 450 unions made up of 35.000 societies with an individual membership of 12.000,000 beads -of families. Counting five persons to the family, it Is reckoned that the Central organization is supplying the necessaries of life to some 60,000,000 peorle In all parts of the Empire. "On our organization," Mr. Berkenheim told a representative of The Associated Press, "devolves the task of keeping Russia alive. We believe that eventually our work will be the means of restoring and regenerating Russia. "In America I intend to make a study of the means of opening up to Russia the resources of your great country through trade. Our chief aim now, is to remove trade restrictions. The Black Sea blockade is still effective. No formal blockade exists with regard to Siberia, but the system of permits in force greatly hampers commerce." Need Manufactured Goods. Except in Northern Russia, the principal need of the country now is not foodstuffs but manufactured articles, and raw materials, Mr. Berkenheim said. "In theouth of Russia," he continued, "there is plenty of food, and that, is true of most of the agricultural districts. Vast stores of foodstuffs are being held by the peasants simply because they cannot exchange them for needed articles of like valu. Those food supplies will be released for distribution as soon as we can bring into Russia cloth, manufactured iron and steel articles, materials for soap making and agricultural machinery." Mr. Berkenheim refused to comment on political conditions in Russia or to discuss the Bolshevik government. "I can only say," he said, "that as long as civil war continues in Russia, conditions cannot improve. The actual cost of the war to the ' United States government from April 1917, to December 31. 1918. was about $15,250,000,000, not Including $7,750,000,000 lent to the allies. WEAKNESS KERIAINS LONG AFTER Influenza Reports Show That Strength, Energy and Ambition Re turn Very Slowly to Grippe Patients. - After an attack of influenza, doctors advise that nature be assisted in its building-up process by. the use of a good tonic one that will not only put strength and endurance into the body, but will also help to build up and strengthen the . run-down cells of the brain. One of the most highly recommended remedies to put energy into both body and brain ia Blo-feren your physician knows the formula, it is printed belw. . There's Iron in Bio-feren the kind of iron that makes red blood corpuscles and creates vigor. There is lecithin also; probably the best brain invigorator known to science. Then there is good old reliable gentian, that brings back your lagging appetite. There are other ingredients that help to promote good health, as you can see by reading this formula, not forgetting kolo, tiat great agent that puts the power of endurance into weak people. Taken altogether Bio-feren Is a splendid active tonic that will greatly help any weak, run-down person to regain normal strength, energy, ambition and endurance. ' Bio-feren Is sold by all reliable druggists and is inexpensive. For weakness after influenza patients are advised to take two tablets after each meal and one at bed time seven a day, until health, strength and vigor are fully restored. -' It will not fail to help you and if for any reason you are dissatisfied with results your druggist is authorized to return your money upon request- without any red tape of any kind. ' Note to physician: Ther is no ecret about the formula of Bioferen, It is printed on every pack age. Here It is: Lecithin; Calcium Gljrcero-phosphate; Iron Peptonate, Manranese Peptonate; Ext. Nux. Vomica; Powdered Gentian; Phe-n-olphthaletn; Olearsta Capsicum, Koio.

Friends' Missionaries In Chinfl Here Friday Mr. and Mrs. A. Warburtson, of England, Friends' missionaries in the Province of Szechwan. Western China, are expected to arrive in Richmond on Friday to visit the Friends' board headquarters here. The Warburtsons are well known in

; Richmond, having visited here about seven years ago. They are at present en route to China following a year at their home in England. , They probably will speak at the Earlham college chapel Friday morning on their work in China and impressions gained In England during the last year of the war. : Both missionaries have spent a number of terms in western China, where they have done a great amount of work among the natives. They represent the Friends of England and Ireland in this work. i STEEL MEN CONFER ' WASHINGTON, March 19. Representatives of the steel industry met today with the newly appointed industrial or price stablization board of the department of commerce for the purrose of agreeing on plans for reduction and stabilization of steel prices. The conference was the first of ' a series to be held by . the Industrial board ' with representatives of the basic industries. ' I ruurieeu uiuusttuu mree nunureu A A it. J A pairs of army boots manufactured In New Zealand were shipped to the Dominion's soldiers serving at the front. 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief ELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION I THIS STORE

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The British government has decided to retain the present organization for the sale of national war bonds and war savings certificates as a permanent part of the national machinery.

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