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Show "'O Ml Ml JW" FOGli, (lARSdAL OF FRANCE, AND GEN. PERSHING ra?BttaEg-B- i WOMEN AND THE WAR By MRS. HENRY P. DAVISON href Treasurer War Work Council National Board Y. W. C. A. In an Illinois praiiie town lives t. widow who launders seventeen baskets of wash a week and every night thanks God for having put into the Pity hearts of women. To her came one day a letter from her only son. He was then at Camp At the hour when the enemy counted upon Imposing a German peace upon us, General Foch and his admirable troops vanquished him. These were 'the words with which Premier Clemenceau, the Tiger of accompanied the bestowal upon Genet al Foch of the ancient and honorable titlo of Marshal of Fiance in recognition of the halting of the German drive by the allied chief' commander. All the world knows of the gallant conduct of American troops, distributed along the firing line under the orders of General Pershing, in the great battles which ended the Hun advance. The next German drive will be toward the Rhine. YOU can have a share In it by buying Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds. France, ARMY PIGEONS GOING TO FRONT Funston, Kansas, learning to be a soldier. The letter begged her to come and see him before he was sent to France. The mother the tin opened bank In which she had been hoarding her dimes and quarters against this day. The money was scarcely enough. Nevertheless she started. She walked the first Then her strength eighteen miles. gave out, and she tcok a train. She did not know that visitors to Camp Funston stay in Junction City, eleven miles away. So she got off the train at Fort Riley. An officer set her right and she reached Junction City after da k. Somehow she found a rooming-house- . Some onu there stole five dollars from her five of the procio is dollars she had earned over the v ash tub and saved by walking. she crept o it of the house when no one was' looking. Later in the night a soldier found her trembling in tie street, and took her to the rooms of the Young Womens Christian Association, rooms which the War Work Council had for trouopened as a clearins-housbles. The poor frightened woman was put to bod, but she was too miserable to sleep. The matron got up at digbreak, built a fire, and comforted her. The tons commanding officer was read ed by telephone in the morn.rg, and the boy early rame to his moHc on the first trolley-car he could catch. The two spent long, hours together, jerhaps tie ldst s hours they filf side of heaven. Every moment was as precious as a month had been last year The old lady had still one present wory. The boys !:id cold might turn into pneumonia iishe left him. But she had not no:n y enough to stay another night and bay a ticket home. When the matron told her that her bed was tree, she broke down and cried and cried. I did not laow there was so much pity left in the woild, she sobbed. She s ay c d til her boys cold was better. Thar i.c went back to her cecenteen was hugs and her memoTerror-stricke- e low-voice- d " ive-t-hi- Car.ier pigeons are a valuable factor in the operation of all the allies, never failing to carry a message safely and quickly from the front unless actually killed by shell fire. .They are used at the most critical stages of battles, when all wire communication has been stopped and the barrage Is too thick for runners. Here is shown a motor-transpoformerly a London bus loading up with carriers to go to the British front. The casualties among the birds average I per cent. They are wounded by enemy shells, attacked by hawks, and sul fer from gas. it baskets and when gassed are treated at a hospita They live in There is also a piison cote for captured enemy birds. , A very tiny share of your Fourth Liberty Loan subscription will go to the oigeon service, but none will be more efficiently scant gas-pro- mOAIf -- ries. the o certainty of just ts at .ds vas Governmental sanction :,'n'i d the activities of the such cu War V, ak Co r.il cl! the Y. W. C. A. Fiom tic Irani lo the Alantlc its It. cry state in the field extend . r Union has its numbers. Urgent help are its cause and its Women of every race inspiration. and creed are its wards. The task of the War Work Council is tremendous. When the United States entered the great war the Young Womens Christian Association was, as always, With the working among women. call to new duties Its members did not abandon their old responsibilities. The War Work Council was formed as an emergency measure to take care of the women who were caught in some of the mazes of war, just as the parent organization has taken care of them through many years of The varied activities decided peace. upon by the War Work Council follow closely the needs of the different communities of the country. Secretaries trained in the methods of the organization out were sent broadcast. They were Instructed to report to the National Board of the Christian AssociaYoung Womens tions in New York the lines of work which could be best followed in the various localities. These secretaries work in close cooperation with ministers, womens clubs, chambers of commerce, churches, military officials, and charitable societies. The record of a of a secretary doings dys reads like a novel, an economic treatise, and a psychological essay all compressed into a entry. A secretary sent out by the War Work Council must be equal to any emergency. Miss Lillian Hull at close by Camp Sherman, hurrying along the street at nightfall came upon a forlorn couple. A Finnish soldier had found a job for his wife, so that she might come on from Cleveland. When she arrived she was refused the place because she spoke no English. Their money had been all spent on the railroad fare, and the soldier was due back at Camp. The situation was bad. Thanks to Miss Hull a Chilllcothlan housewife now has an industrious and grateful domestic, a soldier is happy, and a soldiers wife is safe. Army folks often benefit even more directly from the secretaries work. In Bremerton, Washington, a secretary was accosted on. the street by a sailor. She was a slender woman, and he had mistaken her for a girl. May I walk along with you? he asked. Surely, she replied with' mature What understanding and intuition. is the matter? Are you homesick? The lads slory came out with a lush. Yes, he was homesick, so hopelessly, despairingly heartsick that he was on the verge of deserting. But this woman gave him genuine She sympathy and encouragement. saved him to his country. From north, south, east and west sent in these pioneer secretaries their reports. The appalling size of the undertaking wa3 revealed to the War Woik Council. Systematization of the work was the first step. Out of the multitudinous phases certain lines of work were revealed. llne-a-da- y Chll-licoth- ap-fo- (Continued -- ) PARADE SWINGS THROUGH LG3S8I1 JENSENS GROCERY Dealers in General Merchandise and Notions MAIN STREET, HYRUM, UTAH. - ma mm OBJECTIONS TO THE TAX AMENDMENT TO TflE CONSTITUTION. e, First Objection. This Amendment is unconstitutional and unjust because It violates the rule in Article 13, Sections 2 and 8, which states that all property in the State shall be assessed and taxed at full value. Section 4 of Article 18 of the Answer. SecConstitution, clearly violates the rule of tions 2 and 8. It sets up an arbitrary rule tltht mines shall be assessed at the price paid the Government for land, for the value of their machinery and improvements, and for their net proceeds, and therefore, not for their full value. The proposed Amendment, on the other hand, states that metalliferous mines shall be assessed at $5.00 per acre, and in addition thereto, at a value based upon some multiple of their net proceeds, and all or other mines shall1 be assessed at full value. The Amendment thus plainly states that coal, gilsonite, maflile, cement mines, etc., shall hereafter be assessed at full value like all Metal mines shall be assessed other property. upon a value based on their net proceeds, and thus, they also may be assessed at full value. The conclusion must be Section 4 now violates the rule of Sections 2 and 8, but the proposed Amendment to Section 4 does not. (The measuring rod to determine the value of a metal mine should be net proceeds. This is the reason for the wording in the proposed Amendment.) Second Objection. But the Legislature or the State Board of Equalization may assess metal mines at more than full value or at less than fuH value. Answer. The Attorney General of the State, to whom the gislature and State Boards must look for advice, says, "My opinion is that should this Amendment be adopted, neither the Legislature nor the State Board of Equalization will have the right, thereafter, to assess and tax mines at more than full value or at less than full value but that mines must be assessed and taxed liks all other property, at full value, in accordance with the provision He further of Sections 2 and 8 of Article 13. states, The Legislature will neither be obliged nor permitted, under this Amendment, to confer upon the State Board of Equalization, the absolute power to assess and tax mines at a ate and value to be determined by them, ut the Legislature will determine what the ax rate will be, how net proceeds will be determined, and what the multiple or will be that is to be applied to net proceeds in order that mines may be assessed at full value.' This pretended fear that the Legislature or State officials will discriminate against mines, even if they had the power, is unfounded. We are obliged in a democratic government, to The assessor of trust our representatives. of the d Salt Lake county assesses properly of this State at full value in accordThe Board of Equalance with his judgment. ization now assesses $100,000,000.00 in property each year with no appeal allowed except to themselves and to the courts. Mines have the same protection. Are these objections sufficient to again postpone the adoption of this Amendment ? Each year since 1915 mines have saved to themselves How from the public treasury $600,000.00. Mr. Taxpayer fnuch longer shall we wait? vote "YES for the Amendment. JOINT COIIMITTEE OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND HOUSE OF DELEGATES. le -- one-thir- ANSWERS AND PLAIN QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION AFFECTING MINES. Joint Committee of School Boards and House of Delegates. Question. What is the basis of taxation in the Constitution of the State of Utah ? Answer. Article 13, Sections 2 and 8 of the State Constitution clearly states that all property in the State must be assessed and taxed at full value. Question. Are mines assessed at full value and if not, why not? Mines are not assessed at full Answer. value because of an arbitrary rule of Article which pro13, Section 4 of the Constitution vides that mines shall be assessed at $5.00 an acre 'for their land for the value of their improvements and for the value of their net proceeds, which all in all equals about 20 to ' 30 per cent of full value. Question. Why was this ersception placed in the Constitution ? Twenty-thre- e Answer. years ago, at the time of Statehood, mine owners claimed that mining was an infant industry and needed special help. (In those days the State gave the sugar companies a bonus on sugar). Moremine owners who were over the influential at Washington claimed they feared unfair treatment under Statehood in Utah and demanded this exception in their favor before consenting to Statehood. Question. Should this exception in the favor of mines continue? Answer. Certainly not. The Constitution should be amended to permit the Legislature to assess mines at full value like other property. A majority of two Republican Legislatures, one in 1911 and one in 1915, has urged the voters of the State to amend Section 4 of Article 13 so that mines may be assessed at more than the value of their net proceeds for taxation purposes. The present Democratic Legislature also urges taxpayers to amend Section 4 for the same reason and purpose. Vote YES for all the Amendments. One is for State wide prohibition, one reduces the assessed value of your home, and one equalizes taxes between mines and other property. Issued by the two-thir- ADMITTED CONCERNING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION AFFECTING MINES. FACTS R k. ELIASON, The Butcher Dealer in Fresh & Cured Meat, & Groceries MAIN STREET, HYRUM, UTAH. 'jjfe ,'s First. The Legislature of 1915 reduced tax rates 60 per cent in order to force all property to full value for assessment purposes, and thereby conforms to the Constitution and the law. Article 13 in Sections 2 and 3 of the State Constitution plainly states that all property shall be assessed and taxed at full value. Second. This law reduced the taxes of all mines in Utah 60 per cent because under Section 4 of Article 13, mines are assessed on a snip only a little in excess of their net proceeds and not on their value. Third. This has resulted in a loss in taxes to the State from counties and school districts of the vast sum of $1,857,966.00 in three years. Fourth. A majority of the last Legislature recommends to the voters of the State, for their adoption, the proposed Amendment to the Constitution as the best and pioper way to remedy this great injustice. Vote "YES for all the Amendments. One is for State wide prohibition, one is for a reduction on the assessed value of homes, and one is to equalize the burden of taxes between mines and other property. JOINT COMMITTEE OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND HOUSE OF DELEGATES. two-thir- SUBSCRIBE FOR - American troops really pouring through her ports to France, by tens and hundreds of thousands, her heart welled up within her and a welcome they will long remember was the portion of the arriving Americans. Above' is. shown an American regiment marching through London in parade.. Mark your enthusiasm in their passage to the front in your subscription to the Fourth Liberty Loan. When -- Britain reached the end of the rainbow and- found The South Cache Courier. The Peoples Home Paper' .r HYRUM, UTAH |