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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
8
Washington reports the administration’s war revenue bill estimates to raise 1.5 billion annually with broad levies. It taxes stock transactions, bonds, insurance, freight, passenger tickets, automobiles, utilities, jewelry, amusements, liquor, tobacco, and more, plus higher income and inheritance taxes and altered tariff duties to fill a deficit.
The War Department outlines a plan to draft about ten million men aged 21 to 30, with 1,000,000 in a conscription force and 500,000 as the first quota. Volunteers 18 to 40 may join. Roosevelt’s volunteer project is blocked. pay raises for enlisted men are set. machine gun units and armored cars are added. registration shifts to population basis. Prohibition enforcement at camps is drastic. Three army medical officers join Ris Orangis hospital. two air squadrons are authorized. West Point class of 1918 to supply 154 officers for the first 400,000 draft army. Women’s loan committee formed under treasury.
A witty Leacock journalism-inspired quip from Truth is cited by Youth’s Companion. It presents a geometric joke: if two boarders share equal room sizes and the disputes with landlady are proportional, then their weekly bills are equal. If not, one bill exceeds its potential, which is deemed absurd.
A terse note recalls the Sphinx figure’s silence amid dealings in Atilio business. The fragment hints at discreet operations and sealed lips in a murky professional scene.
Washington outlines the universal service act with draft ages 21 to 30 and volunteers 18 to 40. It sets 2,001,000 total strength for emergency service, with pay scales from private to sergeant and provisions for exemptions and training camps.
Petrograd dispatch notes twelve members of the council of soldiers and workmen's delegates have gone to Schlusselburg to handle the autonomous district committee's actions. Skoheloff says he would meet Scheidemann and even the devil to restore the Internationale and end the war as Russian socialist pacifists push for participation in Stockholm talks despite British or French socialist withdrawal.
A brisk roundup of wartime actions includes naval secrecy over alleged German submarine supply routes, U S war loan push with vast subscriptions, formation of railway expert regiments for France, Belgian relief loans, and the creation of an official wartime gazette.
Billy Sunday delivered his Hot Cakes sermon in New York on May 10 drawing about 80 000 attendees across two meetings. The drive accompanied by large crowds underscores Sunday’s revival reach during wartime civic life.
Department of Agriculture shows Louisiana sugar crop in 1916 nearly double 1915. U S exports to Europe rose by 27 million dollars in March amid Germanys submarine warfare. Government crop report estimates 1917 wheat yield at 266 million bushels, down from 481 million in 1916. McAdoo announces Liberty Loan bond issue of 2 billion in 50 to 100000 denominations maturing in 30 years. Express companies lose 112 thousand dollars in January despite 25 percent higher receipts. January total reach 15.525 million.
British war office states the recruiting age will extend to men up to 30, including single and married. Submarine actions: thirteen Austrian subs sunk in the Mediterranean by Italian forces over three weeks. Parthenon sunk by a German submarine with $4,000,000 loss. German war department admits Belgian residents in Cologne drafted into the German army. Austria-Hungary may seek peace proposals. three politicians rumored to depart Vienna for Switzerland. Submarine losses and merchant vessels sunk reported. meatless day to be abolished to ease bread shortages.
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