The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 10, 1917, Image 1
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VOL. XXXII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1917. NO. 10 / jM
REVENUE BILL UP
IN THE HOUSE.
TENTACLES OF MEASURE REACH
OUT INTO EVERT HOME?$33.00
PER CAPITA WILL BE TAX
Washington, May 9:?-The war
tax bill extending its exercise to the
fabric of every American home, was
formally presented to the House today
by the ways and means commit
tee with plans for quick passage.
As a forecast of what may come
later, it proposes special taxes to
raise $1,800,000,000 in addition to
the present normal annual revenue
of $1,500,000,000. When its terms
are effective the American people
will be paying direct taxes of $33
per capita. The people of the British
Isles?half as many?now pay
per capita taxes of $60.
While the principal features of
the new war levy are increases in
income and profits taxes, internal
revenue rates and customs duties,
many of its provisions reach the innermost
structure of everv home
and make up a list of taxes probably
the roost formidable ever faced by
Americans.
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CONDITIO
FARMERS & MERCHANTS NA
As Shown at the Close
Condensed from a Report to thi
Rstourcss.
Bills Receivable $376,232 65
Bonds 118,300 00
Banking: House, Pur. and Fixtures 23,788 05
5 per cent Redemption Fund 5.000 00
Stock Federal Reserve Bank 3,900 00
Cash and Due from Banks 77,585 85
Total $604,806 65
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"ABSOEUTEEY SAFE"
Authorized by Federal Reserve Board to Act as
The household,^ight, heat and
telephone bills, admission tickets to
amusements, fire and life insurance,
railway tickets, automobiles, auto-l
mobile tires and tubes, soft drinks,
postage rates, golf clubs and baseball
bats, club dues and a host of
other everyday necessities or luxuries
come under the taxation.
Increased postage rates on newspapers,
arranged in a zone system
are such that publishers say they
will force many newspapers out of
business.
Already protests against many
features of the law are pouring in
and attacks upon it will center in
the Senate finance committee which
will conduct public hearings andprobably
make some amendments.
When Democratic Leader Kitchin
presented the bill to the House today
he announced that general debate
would begin tomorrow. It
probably would be passed the early
part of next week.
Tabulation of the enrollment for
the reserve officers' training camp
at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga. indicates
that 38 more Carolinians and Tennesseeans
have qualified for admission
than the camp can accommodate.
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of Business May 1, 1917
e Comptroller of the Currency.
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Capital and Surplus $130,000 00
, Undivided Profits 5,561 73
Deposits 293,920 42
Bill. Payable 55,000 00
Rediscounts 21,924 40
Circulation 98,400 00
Total $604,806 55
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EDISON BUSY ON
U-BOAT PROBLEM.
DANIELS BELIEVES AMERICAN IN
GENUITY WILL FIND WAY TO
COMBAT MENACE.
Washington, May 6: ? Advices from
the naval consulting board concerning
progress made toward finding a
solution of the submarine menace.
! referred to in New York yesterday
by Chairman W L Saunders, of the
board, had not reached the navy department
tonight, but were expectj
ed tomorrow. Secretary Daniels
' said that while no information would
be made public as to the nature ol
experiments which had been in progress,
he was satisfied that American
ingenuity eventually would
check the undersea boats.
Mr Daniels spoke, however, without
knowledge of the specific devices
with which the members of the consulting
board have been experimenting
and his confidence was basec
solely upon the record for mechan
ical inventiveness which Americar
j engineers and scientists have train
J tained for years.
Mr Lawrence Addick9, chairmar
I of the special problems committee,
has given out the following statement:
"While it is evident that specific
information as to progress made
would be contrary to public policy
at this time, a: chairman of the com
mittee of the board dealing specifi
cally with the marine menace, I fee
justified in saying that we have no*
under practical trial some naval devices
of great promise.
"This committee was formed al
the time of the break with Germany
to take over all problems relating tc
the destruction of submarines anc
the defeat of the torpedo and hai
under its direction the various ex
periu.ental stations devoted to this
work.
"In addition to this Mr Edison it
separately conducting a line of experiments
in his own laboratory, regarding
the results of which I are
not qualified to speak."
Mr Addicks' statement confirmt
the understanding officials of the
department have had of the progress
being made by the inventors. Th??
have been at work for months on
various research studies and since
the declaration of a state of war
with Germany have redoubled their
efforts to find a wav to cope with
the U-boat menace.
I In many instances naval experts
have been called into consultation
by the boartf members or have aided
in direct experiments. Every precaution
has been taken by the department,
however, to prevent any
knowledge of the nature of the experiments
from becoming public.
That policy will be pursued to pre!
vent Germany from preparing
against any new weapons in advance.
"I have great faith that American
ingenuity will find a means of comI
bating the submarines," said Secretary
Daniels tonight, "although I
have in mind no special device
among the hundreds which have
been proposed to us to fight the
menace. I truly believe something
will be developed that will be effective
against the underwater boats.
hJxperts or tne i\avai uonsumng
board and of the navy department
are working hard experimenting
with the devices which may go a
long way toward giving us victory.
Some probably have merit, the others
not, but all are given fair tests.
The precise nature of any cannot be
disclosed, of course."
The department itself ha9 done a
great deal of experimental work
j both with devices for the destruc:
tion or detection of submarines and
j also with interior defense for warships
against torpedoes and mines.
It is regarded as certain that if
i American inventive genius is sue
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3 OF 180,000 MEN FOR SERVICE IN ^
FRANCE, SUBJECT TO ACCEPT- 13
ANCE BY GOVERNMENT.
I Col lioosevelt's military plans, as le
. revealed in detail for the first time, c*
i will surprise the general public, in
. eluding even that portion of it which ^
hails the colonel as the most strenu- ai
i ous and influential campaigner of the
, age, says the New York World. gi
While it has been supposed that rr
he was raising one volunteer divis- in
; ion for service on the battle line in P1
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; France under his command, if the ^
i War Department should grant his
. application, the colonel has in realiSc
. ty tentatively recruited an army ap- e]
I proximately of 180,000 men, exclus- jE
j ive of officers, and has perfected ar- tl
. rangements so that his entire force a1
could mobolized in six weeks, and ^
t its first units started on the way to
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) Thi? Roosevelt Legion, now big ^
| enough in numbers to form two full 0)
3 army corps and an extra division by m
. way of good measure, is representa- w
3 tive of the whole Nation. Every ti
one of the forty-eight States has w
3 contributed volunteers, and not one
. of these volunteers, by reason of ef
. age limit, could serve under the n'
, new selective draft measure. Not a
one of them has been drawn from w
, the National Guard of any State. P
^11 this has been carefully super,
intended by the colonel, who is just
r as strong for the war measures of
i the Administration as he is for the M
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. Iiummeni 01 ms ;jwn nean b ucbiic
, f f
. to get into the big fight somehow
. just as soon as he can. tt
This army which the colonel now hs
offers to the government double dis- J ^
i counts the historic Rough Riders in ^
every element of human interest. It ?
is made up of substantial business ?
men in great measure, and includes
an astonishing list of persons ^vhose |
names are known throughout the i
country.
All of these recruit^, as the official
documents show, are actuated by
two convictions?faith in the leadership
of Col Roosevelt and faith in
the colonel's theory that they should j
be sent to the fighting front at once !
to fill the gap until the great army |
to be raised by selective draft isj
r^ady.
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cessful at any time during the pres- j
ent war in finding a means to check
the operations of German submarines,
the information will be shared i
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promptly with ureal Britain, r ranee !
and the other nations with which
the United States is aliened.
Ex-Slaves Lose Case.
1 Washington, May 7:?The supreme
court has dismissed the suit
of former negro slaves and their [
; heirs to collect more than sixty-eight!
j million dollars from the government
for labor on crops in the South from
eighteen fifty-seven to eighteen sixty-eight.
The money was collected
as internal revenue taxes on cotton.
The negroes claim that work was
performed while in a state of involuntary
servitude.
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Items of General Interest.
I
William Marconi.a member of the
alian mission to visit the United
lates, is taking a bronze wreath to
e placed on the tomb of George
Washington in the name of the Italn
nation.
Dr D B Johnson, of Winthrop colge.has
discovered that a good flour
in be made of millet seed. It
laKes a very nutritious Dreaa liKe
raham bread. It h?s heretofore
een used as chicken feed or thrown
way.
The Committee on Statistics and
tandards of the Chamber of Comlerce
of the United States, afterfcn
ivestigation nation-wide, has anDunced
that the United States will
? equal to the world supply food
emand.
The allies of the United States will
ive and a group of New York bankrs
will lose more than $100,000,000
i commissions on the$3,000,000,000
lat this government has approprited
to assist them in prosecuting
le war against the Central Powers
f Europe.
A banquet was held at Matamoras,
lexico. Saturday night to commem
rate the anniversary of the defeat
f the imperialistic French by the
lexicans. The Stars and Stripes
ere profusely used in the decoraons,
and several American guests
ere present.
Banks, insurance companies, real
itate firms and other lines of busi?ss
employing a large number of
ten in clerical positions in Atlanta
re beginning already to train young
omen to take their places when the
resident issues the call for regi3 ation
under the selective conscripon
act of Congress.
An Orangeburg citizen recently
;nt Congressman Lever $10 to be
iven to the war department and
lid he will send the same amount
lonthly during the continuance of
le war and would do better but for
iving a family dependent upon him.
[r Lever returned his money and
isured him that he is the stuff of
hich patriots are made.
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MISER'S POWERS
RESTRICTED. 9
A RESOLUTION FIXING CHANCELI
LOR'S RESPONSIBILITY IS
ALSO LAW NOW.' Y < 1
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A report from Amsterdam, May ->JB
5, says: jBrafl
A restriction of the power of the 'SI
Emperor of German^ has been deI
cided upon by the Constitution com- ^ '''JKj
mittee of the Reichstag, according
tn a' desnatch fVom Berlin. The M
' committee has decided to alter Ar- JB
tide XVII of the Imperial Constitn- 9
tion as follows: "1
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"Ordinances and decrees of the *
Kaiser will be issued in the name of v 9
j the Empire and will require for 4^
i validity the counter sipiature of the ja
Imperial Chancellor or his represent*
; ative, who thereby assumes respon- *. '
sibility to the Reichstag." V. !
| The decision of the committee was y
in accordance with a joint proposal .
| by the Centrists, National-Liberals J
and the Progressives. Four Con(servative
members voted against *
the change. '.j|
The committee ald6 adopted a res- ?
olution by the same proposers de- v. "
manding a bill fixing the Chancellor's
responsibility for any violation
of his official duty and the verification
of such violation by a senate
tribunal.
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Big Lots to Great Britain.
Washington, May 7:?The govern- / ^
ment has decided to lend Great ^
Britain $100,000,000 to meet her
needs in this country during. May.
A second installment of $25,000,000
was transferred to the British embassy
today, making with the $25,000,000
loaned her Saturday, a total
1 of one-half of the May loan.
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Mrs A P Jones, one of the oldest
residents of Darlington, died in that
city last week, aged 85.
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