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-
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traveling ;
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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
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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.
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Colds, Rheumatism,
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Take Time for
Play
A Lady of Distinction
nized by the
sweet, healthy skin
Hol; Day Observed Three Times
Week by Followers of Different
Religions,
The
Frenel
a day of rest, his religion
bidding anything save talking
day kK through the
quarter the Rabbath will
ones thoughts back many
Jew
on
years
pleturesqgue the street
ers, in
recall many
learned in childhood,
his oriental
appearance from the Jew ax we
him in the West
mRTOUnNS at
their rich,
Old Testament
for the
an
Jew
garb hax a very
Apprehensive.
“Why do you speak
pajama drama?’
“Anything to dodge bathrobes”
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