Slowl American Visitors Find Industrial Conditions Steadily Improv- ing in England. HIGH PRICES EVERYWHERE B4t Vaxes Are Higher, Too, Than | Elsewhere in the World—London Hotels Are Crowded-——How It Looks to Visitors. London.—Economig, financial and in- | dustrial’ conditions are steadily Im-| proving in England, but are still a very long way from being normal. Strikes are the bane of progress here | in these days. Demands for more pay | snd shorter hours follow each other | In quick succession from the various | branches of organized labor. The trou- ble Is that less efficiency seems to fol- | low the granting of each demand. Im- mediately one of the big industrial | companies settles with one section of | its employees by Increasing wages, | trouble starts in another section of the | workers till the change goes all] around. Then it begins again. Rail-| way fares have been increased 50 per | gent in the last three years. Now | another 50 per cent is to be added | to meet the increased cost of opera i tion. New rolling stock, however, has | been constructed and service has been improved considerably in the last year, and in of the high and @ropping of excursion rates the trains are packed ingevery direction Hotels Are Crowded. London still spite fares has an extra population which drifted there the war, and the pd that served rooms frequently have to dri tbout for tion. Prices Americans, ation million during hotels 80 crowd strangers who have not re vo | accommoda- for hours seeking are high, especially whom a apu- nN * 3 the ae » AAs 2 4 i traveling ; i out large | when called a i. The seems to a banks, always ready t sums best kn to American a day f f New Yorker it costs meals and ti] Women where sh more «i of cigs - use, an ters Engi pustomed hotel harges £10 2 hath ny : a bath, ana them HET ni olish ww oma ngusniwaoman has territory to such wr31? nds stlv seently » times ns many cigarettes as men and some are taking to pipes, Since the new tax | has come into force the quality of | cigarette tobneco has deteriorated, as | has that of cigars, except the very high priced ones, Most Heavily Taxed Nation, i English’ people are probably more | heavily taxed than any other nation in | They | do not complain of this, but protests are heard against arbitrary methods | adopted by the government in dealing | excess profits and against the | partments, Fool Is very dear and there is still a searelity of butter and sugar. Many people have become 80 | accustomed to going without the jat- ter during the war that they now dis- | pense with it altogether, which is well from the polut of view of economy, as’ sugar costs 30 cents a pound now and threatens to go higher. (mn June 15 | the bakers were Instructed not to | make any more white bread, and It] is considered possible that bread cards| will again be issued before Christmas, the big supplies of grain from Russia, promised by the soviet government to Lloyd George having proved to be! purely mythical, The housing problem in London, and in fact in all the large cities In England, is very serious and the sug- gestion that the authorities take over all empty houses, as they did in some towns during the war, is being agitat- ed. Shoes, hats and wearing apparel are vers of dear. the Realm Act ~ is still in foree generally The Defense in England, so It is Impossible to buy _. hooks ars, tohaceo, 1 and a great many other per. feet iratine Hanors hee intoxicating LHQUOTS fesnloong) are blie houses and between two hours selling 12 and 2:30 p. which tween mM. is after the ime for pom Clears Up Treasury Department Gives Ex- planation of Tax Problem. Total Possible Exemptions From Fed. eral Income Surtaxes and Profits Taxes is $160,000 Washington. — The treasury ment has explained the tax exemption limits on 4 and 434 per cent Liberty The total possil 2 federal Income depart- ile exemptions and bonds, from surinxes profit The following a aves la S18 INN) taxes i 168 . of tax ex- surnmary emptions imits was ' x given Five thousand dollars in the aggre ren at Play citizens In spite of thelr handicaps. on the carousel “y i Train Passes Over Baby; He Is Unhurt Pennsauken, N, J Commuters gasped In nmnzement when they saw two-year-old Ropert Olt, al most unhurt, erawl ucross the rail. after a traln passed over him ant the Union avenue Cross. ing near the Pennsylvanian sta- tion here, The train hand struck an nu- tomobile in which the e¢ehild's mother, Mrs. Eva Qftesand broth- er, Frederick Olt, old, were riding with Ehn, joth wera thrown out and hurt, Mrs. Olt, who was driving, saw those on the platform sig naling "wildly when wis near'v on the track and put on nll to before the train. The three were thrown in- to the air, and the baby landed between the rails, directly In front of the locomotive Mrs, Olt fell into a diteh and suffer ed fractures of both arms, Fred- erick was slighfly injured. she speed puss © chogolate. These hours are strictly observed, yet engaged In the retall liquor are mnkihg more those trade account of the high and drinking hours. Khak! uniforms have disappeared from the streets and malmed ex-gol- can no longer be on crutches, Most of these been furnished with artificial] arms and legs and provided with jobs In gov- ernment offices and banks, The women left thelr war motor and street cars, but there are few In the hooking offices of lways. England to look normal, prices “seen have have fobs on the buses still a the ra beginning gradually Is May Soon Know as Much as Kids. Lexington, Ky.~ A mother, two sons and two daughters are students at the Mrs. E. P entertal same school Gray, wife of a Chautauqua ner, hrought from Barbourville to Having 10 her four chilidren schoo! nothing «ise attend to do, she decided take a course in school herself, ‘and second ourth es fn avings certificates Th r second 4s, and fourth 43s untl vears after expiration of war as fixed by presidential proclamation. Thirty thousand dollars In pute, of first and second 4s, fourth 4148 as to Interest re- after Jan. 1, 1819, until five years after termination of war, Forty-five gregate of and $'4s and third 43 = Jan. until ’ termi ion of war irty thousand dol RERTe- third and colved thousand dollars in ag- 4s and terest ree first second + Ty LO aR 1918, n= two this original date nny after after ceived Years exemption conditional upon subscription to and return holding on of two-thirds as bonds of the fourth Liberty loan Twenty thousand gate of fiest and second 4s and 44s, and third and fourth 4%3{s, as to inter. est received after Jan. 1, 1919, condil- tional original snd holding at date of tax return of one-third many bonds of Victory of tax dollars in aggre upon subscription to ns loan. All Liberty bonds and Victory notes are hands of foreigh hold. ers, Liberty 3% 8 and Victory 3s are exempt from faderal, state and loeal estate or inheritance 41, per cent Vie exempt in fsxation taxes, and except 4 and pormal federal Income tax, Playful Mule Devours His Master's Pay Check Hazleton, Pa.-~-John Yudatis, a mule driver in the Oneida mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal company, demanded that head. quarters issue to him a new pay check for $3238 He said his steed made a playful effort to bite him and caught the side of his coat, taking pocket, pay check and all in its teeth and swallowing the mouthful Ee — so ARMY TO ENLIST ILLITERATES Will Educate Them as Well as Aliens In New Order lssued by Sec. retary of War. Washington.—On ana after July 20 filiterates and non-English speaking citizens and allens who declare thelr intention to become citizens will be permitted to enlist .in the United States army for terms of three years. Instructions to this effect were issued by Becretary of War Baker, These illiterates and non-English speaking recruits will be distributed to recruit educational centers, and In any case where enlistment ls for spe- elal assignment, the recruit as soon las enlisted will be sent to that recruit educational center nearest to the or ganization for which he enlisted. mransfers will be made promptly the completion of the course at the educational center. To carry out this policy recruit edu- cational centers will be organized at Oamps Jackson, Pike, Grant, Travis end Lewis, modeled after that at Camp Upton, New York. TEACH U. Oxford University to Have Chair With American Professor. Viscount Rothermere Makes $100,000 Endowment in Memory of His Dead Sons — London. Viscount Rothermere has given the University of Oxford £20,000 for the establishment and endowment of a professorship of history of the Uni- ted States of America, which will be known as the Harold Vyvyan Harms- worth professorship of American his- tory, in memory of his son, Capt. Har- old Vyvyan Harmsworth of the Irish guards, formerly a commoner of Christ Church, whe was killed in the war, Under the cogditions of the endow. ment the hol of the professorship must at the time of his election be a citizen of the United States. He shall hold the professorship for ten years and shall be eligible for appointment for another ten years, The appointment shall be made by an electoral board consisting of the American ambassador at the time of the election, who shall have a casting vote; the chancellor of the university, an elector nominated by the univer sity and Lord Rothermere, and each succeeding holder of the viscounty. Lord Rothermere has endowed two other professorships at English uni- versities. In 1910 he gave £20,000 to Cambridge university for the founda- tion of the King Edward VII. chair of English literature, and In 1918 he gave a similar sum to Cambridge as an endowment fund for the Vere Harmsworth professorship of naval history, In memory of his second son, who was killed in the battle of the Ancre, A watchmakers apprentice at play discovered the principle of the tale scope. A A a —— ~ Safety first! 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