McDowell Times

OKLAHOMA JIM GROW LAW UNGONS CONSTITUTIONAL No Decree Issued by the Supreme Court Because of Imperfec- tions in Brief of Peti- tioners. Washington, Nov. 30.—A majority of the supreme court today joined in the opinion that the Oklahoma "Jim Crow" law provision permitting the railroads to furnish sleeping, dining and chair car accommodations only to the white race was not constitutional but they did not so遭到 because of imperfections in the position on which the case reached the court. The case was one in which five Negroes claiming that the law was not constitutional sought an injunction to restrain the railroads of Oklahoma from enforcing it. The Oklahoma federal court dismissed the petition, holding the law constitutional. The majority of the court affirmed the dismissal today because the Negroes had not shown that they had applied to the carrier for accommodations under the law or that the railroads had notified them that they would be refused certain accommodation. The majority through Justice Hughes stated, however, that they could not agree wit the lower court that the provision as to the sleeper, dining and chair care was constitutional. A minority consisting of Ohio Justice White and Justice Holmes, Lamar and McRaynolds, concurred merely in order of affirmation but expressed no view on the constitutionality of the question. In the opinion of the majority Justice Hughes stated that previous decisions that the law for separate coaches for the two races was constitutional was not questioned. He then set forth the opinion that the lower court was wrong in holding the Oklahoma law constitutional. COOPERATION BRINGS CHANGED AND IMPRONED MINING CONDITIONS Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 30.—From a study of social and economic conditions in the coal fields of West Virginia and adjoining states, Wightman D. Roberts, writing in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, says: "The changed and improved conditions surrounding the mining camps in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky, which have taken place in the last few years, have been scarcely less than miraculous. Formerly a coal mining town was, first a commissary where merchandise was sold at about one hundred per cent profit or more; a straigging bunch of cheap hovels for the miners, surrounded by bogs of mud in winter, and by weeds, filth and dust and rusty tans in summer. Now all is different The store (commissary) is merely a convenience for the employees, but where the best of merchandise and table supplies are sold at prices generally lower than in the cities and towns of the country; the miners' houses are real homes, clean, sanitary, well built, and the grounds about them are kept clean, and even ornamented with trees and shrubbery. "In the transformation that has taken place the mine operators have set the pace, but the better class of employees have not lagged behind. In practically every mining town I have visited during the past few weeks the house of the really efficient worker was easy to pick out from the others by the appearance of the surroundings. The poor worker's house was as easily picked out by its sloven appearance; and the pay rolls in the companies' offices told the rest. In each and every case the men who were drawing the largest amount of cash on pay days were one whose homes were the best kept. And right here let me mention this: I find that employers place more value upon those who draw large wages in cash than upon those who spend all they make in the commissaries. This is another evidence of the charges that have occurred in the coal mining business. The operators say that the man who takes care to live decently at home and save his money is generally neat in his work and careful with the company's property, in the mines and out; a safe man and an dependable. "After studying living conditions in the cotton mill districts of the South, in the metal mining towns of the West, and elsewhere conditions among farmers, I confess that we were seeking any such employments my preference would be given to coal mining in West Virginia, Virginia or Eastern Kentucky; and I would never feel that it was either necessary or desirable to depend upon anything else than the good will and spirit of cooperation of the operators and their employees." publishers of the McDowell Times which grew out of the Bluffside police expense of more than a year ago. The first indictment was quashed in Bluffside at the October term of the United States court. A demurr to the second was contained at the opening of the Charleston term on November 17. A third was immediately made and Mr. Hill is answering that this week. Editor Whitico is in bed sick and could not go. The publishers are represented by former Congressman Joseph H. Gaines of Charleston, Attorneys A. G. Free of Welch and H. J. Capshall of this city. West Virginia's Deficit $616,000 Falling Off in Revenues Due to Prohibition. Charleston, Nov. 30. --According to a report of State Auditor J. S. Dart, made to the governor, West Virginia will have a deficit of $16,100 at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1915, sade from an indebtedness of $300,000 for buildings that have been contracted for. This shortage is due to the loss of revenue from the saloons, and comes about not-withstanding an increase of 10 cents on the $100 valuation made by the Board of Public works in fixing the amount of taxes this year. SACRED CONGERT At Presbyterian Church Interesting Program Large Crowd The sacred concert which was held by the Presbyterian Church in Calhoun's Hall Sunday night was one of the most interesting affairs of its kind ever held in this city. Rev. R. P. Johnson worked up the concert and the service was in charge of Rev. L. K. Johnson. A large crowd was present and listened to a splendidly rendered program The Unison Choir, under the direction of Mr. Thornton rendered music and was at its best. Solos were sung by little Kathryn Adams, Dr. A. S. Adams, Mr. J. H. Jpnes, and Mr. James Webb. An instrumental duet was redered by Mrs. W. V. Bridgeford, organist and Mr. Paul Gray, violinist, Mr. Ida Alexander Whittico gave an interesting reading. Dr. Jas. Webb discussed "The Duty of the Young People to the Church." The most interesting part of the program was the discussion of the subject, "Has the Church lost its Influence Among the Muses?" The subject was opened by Prof. J. O. Bryant, who very ably championed the cause of the church. He was ably supported by Dr. W. L. Colson, Dr. G. N. Marshall, Atty. B. E. Carter and T. Edward Hill argued that the church had lost its influence among the muses. The discussion was spirited and interesting, so much so that it was agreed that a special service will be held in Calhoun's Hall next Sunday afternoon as which the champions of both sides will discuss the subject and cite factors to bear out their contentions. The collection was taken by Misses Evelyn Simpson and Mary Bodlinson, who made an interesting and witty money talk of one half minutes length. Editor M. T. Whittico made the speech of thanks to the participants and contributors. Negro Minister Elected Justice of the Peace Nobleville, Ind, Nov. 10 --- Rev. Barney Bone, a highly respected Negro minister, aged seventy, was overwhelmingly elected justice of the peace in the recent election held here. Rev. Bone was born in slavery, knows the hardships of the overcrowded missions tasks. He served through the Civil War with credit and distinction, being a stanch Union man. He followed the fortunes of the Bill Moose party two years ago, but came back to the Republican party this year and was nominated and elected by that party to the above named position. He received the support of the best people of both races. Rev. Bons "was born in Kentucky. He came to Noblesville about twenty years ago. Johnson and M'Vey. New York, Nov. 19.—Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, has received terms for a fight with Sam McVey in Havana, it is announced by Billy Gibson, boxing promoter. Gibson, who is acting as representatives of Havana sporting men, said he has received a cabigram from Johnson agreeing to an offer of $30,000 for the match, win, loss or draw, and 40 per cent of the moving picture rights. Johnson stipulated that the fight will take place in April. TROTTER-WILSON EPISODE REVIEWED IN A COMMON SENSE WAY The New York World Scores in Favor of Editor Trotter—The Race is Not Inclined to Censure Trotter Without Clear Case Against Him Says Amsterdam News. (The Amsterdam News.) Press despatches report the President as telling Trotter he had "spoiled his case." Of course! Certainly! What anyone could have foreseen would have been the answer of Woodrow Wilson to a colored man telling him a few unpleasant truths, such, for instance, as throwing in his fare the burning fact that the colored people were not seeking charity from his Jincrow, Dixie-ridden Administration. Truly, Editor Trotter was indirect—according to President Wilson's ideas. And when the delegation mentioned Mr. Wilson's before election-promises—that the limit is? But even on the assumption that Trotter had been unnecessarily impertinent, does this follow that he should "spoil his case"—the case, not of Trotter individually, but of ten million citizens of this country? As the "New York World" justly says: "The bad manners of the chairman of the delegation, however deplorable, are no justification of the policy of Jincrow government, which certain members of the Cabinet have established in their department, and, as the President well knows, insolent conduct is not confined to the members of any particular race." Mr. Wilson found it necessary to explain the rotten actions of his administration with the words that "he had been informed by officials that the segregation had been started to avoid friction between the races, and not with the object of injuring the Negroes." He failed to explain, however, why no such rule had been necessary before during the forty years or more that colored and white clerks have worked side by side in the Federal departments at Washington. The Amsterdam News is not defending Trotter's actions in his interview with the President. We do not even know if his actions need any defense. We do know, however, that this race is not inclined toensure Trotter without a clear case against him. We have too many moral cowards in our ranks to quarrel unnecessarily with those who dare speak their mind to the highest in the land. JIM-CROWISM AT WASHINGTON Commenting editorially on the incident, the New York's Globe and Commerce said: "The manners of the chairman of the delegation of Negroes who called at the White House to protest against Jim Crowism in the Washington departments may not have been all they should have been. But some neat and freedom of expression are to be conceded to members of a race denied their rights under the constitution and the laws as they behold a new discrimination in process of establishment. The President could have well afforded to pardon the affront of his dignity when he heard the Negro spokesman say that two years ago many of his people saw in him another Abraham Lincoln and that such bad been profoundly disappointed by the countenance that he had given the segregation orders of Secretary McAdoo and Postmaster-General Burleson. The President, a man of southern birth and broad principles, should lose no time in ordering the rescinding of the McAdoo and Burleson orders. The rach-hatred fomenters will accept from him action they should blindly oppose if it came from a president of northern birth. He has a chance, just as the Negro orator declared, to be a second Abraham Lincoln by starting and leading a movement that will emancipate the race from disabilities under which it now labors, even as it was emancipated fifty years ago from involuntary servitude. The first and greatest of progressive principles is equality before the law. (The Savannah Tribune.) Wm. Monroe Trotter, editor of the Guadian and his associates who called of the White House, were only American citizens, although black. They sought and gained a conference with the President of the United States in behalf of their people as representatives of any other people might do. Representing as they did ten million thrity and constructive citizens of this country, citizens who have entered nearly every phase of American life and given their full quota of constructive endeavor to each, it was ell Times. FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1914 SON EPISODE R IN A COMMON ITORS SAY ABOUT OUSE TROUBLE not necessary, as some could have it appear, for them to appear as suppliants and cringers before the head of a government supposed to be democratic to the core; a government of the people, for the people and by the people. On the other hand, they appeared as they should have, as men. They felt that their people were not getting their at the hand of the present administration. They felt that the various segregation ordinances now in vogue for the first time in the history of the government in the departments at Washington and the various departmental harmony rules now enunciating so unceasingly from seeming authoritative sources, were a direct step in the faces of their people, a real bar to the open door and new freedom, the touch heralded pet hobbies of the powers that be. PLURALITIES ANNOUNCED FOR CONGRESSMEN IN WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling. W. Va., Nov. 23 —The pluralities of West Virginia Congressmen elect, based on canvassed figures, are follows: First District, M. M. Neely; Democrat, 462; Second District, W. G. Brown; Democrat, 1,351; Third District, Adam Littlepage, Democrat, 433; Fourth District, Hunter H. Moss, Republican, 521; Fifth District, Edward Cooper, Republican, 3,171. And promising a success. Netherlands, Republican, for Congressman at Large, is 9,164. For Congressman at Large the Progressive vote was 8,605; Socialist, 11,919; Prohibition, 1,801. The aggregate Progressive vote for Congress in the dye districts was 8,786. The total vote of the state was 235,934, a falling off of 14 per cent in comparison with the Presidential vote of 1912. Resolutions Adopted By the County Court Resolutions Adopted By the County Court At a term of the County Court holden for the County of McDowell, at the Court House thereof, Monday morning, 9 o'clock, November 9th, 1914. Present: Hon. James Elwood Jones, and R. K. Bragonier, Commissioners of said Court. WHEREAS, It has pleased an all-wise Providence to remove from our midst by death, Honorable BENJAMIN F. TIPTON, Commissioner of the County Court of McDowell County. THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the officers of said Court as follows: RESOLVED FIRST: That in the death of Commissioner Tipton, the County Court and citizens of said county have lost an able, upright and conscientious Commissioner of said Court, the county a most worthy citizen and the family a kind, indulgent husband and father. RESOLVED SECOND: That in his terms of 18 years as one of the Commissioners of the County Court of McDowell County he displayed in an imminent degree his fitness for said position, he having those qualities of mind and heart which the long service on the Court had shown him to possess. RESOLVED THIRD: While during the last two years of his term he labored under great physical disability by reason of ill health, yet his desire to faithfully discharge the duties of his position he made earnest effort to always be present with his associates at each term of the County Court. RESOLVED FOURTH: That the members of this Court and the officers of the Court tender to the bereaved wife and family of the deceased their profound sympathy in this hour of affliction. RESOLVED FIFTH: That a copy of these resolutions be furnished to the family of the deceased, published in the newspapers of this county, and in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, and also spread upon the records of the County Court of McDowell County. JAMES ELWOOD JONES, R. K. BRAGONIER. Women's Christian Temperance Union Attempts to Segregate- Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20.—The Negro question, which stirred up a bit of excitement in the White Home recently, has been injected into the national army. --- --- RE- N SENSE WAY vention of the W. C. T. U. in Atlanta through the arrival of four Negro wo- men from Texas who were totally un- expected. The corps of girl ushers who have the seating arrangements for this delegation asked that the four brunettes go into the gallery of the Baptist Tabernacle, where the convention is meeting. They indignantly refused to be segregated, marched down the main aisle and found seats between two delegations from the North, who gave the black sisters a cordial welcome. Just across the aisle is the Alabama delegation, and these ladies were highly indignant at the invasion from the black belt. One of the Alabama delegates left the hall, packed her grip and left for Alabama at once. It is reported that the lady who heads the corps of pages threatened to address the convention on the desirability of having a Northern and Southern W. O. T. U. in the future, with two conventions, if the color line is not drawn. None of this story, by the way, got into the Atlanta papers, the editors fighting shy of stirring up trouble. STATE MINING INSTITUTE TO MEET AT HUNTINGTON Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 23.—Several hundred of the leading coal operators of West Virginia are expected to attend the semi-annual meeting of the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute, which will be held at Huntington on Dec. 10th and 11th. By reason of the many interesting papers to be read, and the subjects to be discussed, this meeting will be of unusual interest. The last meeting of the Institute was held at Cumberland, Md. Neil Robinson, of Charleston, president of the Institute, will make the opening address, using for his subject, "A Plea for Postervily." Among the papers to be read will be "Cost Accounting," by Richard Smethurst, of Cincinnati, Ohio; "Co-operation," by Hon. Z. T. Vinson, of Huntington, W. Va.; "Mine Gases," by Frank Haas, of Fairmont, W. Va.; "The Pottsville Measures West of the Kanawa and New Rivers," by Ray V. Hennon, of Morgantown, W. Va.; "The Visiting Nurse," by Miss Mary K. Quick, of Moundaville, W. Va.; "Teaching English to the Foreigner," by Dr. Peter Roberts, of New York; "The Benefit of Good Roads to a Mining Community," by Hon. A. D. Williams, of Morgantown, W. Va.; "Storage Battery Locomotives," by G. H. Shapter, of Charleston, W. Va., and others. Many interesting subjects to be discussed at the Question Box session will be announced later in the regular program. Neil Robinson of Charleston is president of the Institute, and Prof. E. D. Zorn, of Morgantown, is Secretary and Treasurer. The Vice Presidents are George T. Watson, of Farmont; John Laing, of Charleston; R. S. Ord, of Maybury; J. F. Healy, of Elkins, and J. C. McKinley, of Wheeling. The members of the Executive Board are the officers and Hon. Lee Ott, of Charleston; Prof. Clement Ross Jones, of Morgantown; Daniel Howard, of Clarksburg; J. J. Lincoln, of Elkhorn; J. B. Hanford, of Morgantown, and Frank Haas, of Fairmont. JAGK JOHNSON FIGHTS WILLARD Big Black Signs Articles For Big Bout to be Held in March. Bout Likely to be Staged in Mexico. London, Nov. 17.—Articles were signed today for a boxing bout of from 20 to 45 rounds between Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, and Jesse Williard, an American "white hope." The fight will take place during the last two weeks in March at some place to be chosen February 15. It is said that the battleground probably will be Mexico. Each of the boxers deposited $1,000 to guarantee his appearance at the ring side. Johnson's to receive $30,000. UPLIFTING THE MINER The coal operators of the Guyan Valley field, this state, are engaged in promoting a movement that speaks well for them, and one that looks forward to a better understanding between employer and purpose. With the establishment of more cordial relation, the occasion for strikes and disagreements will be greatly lessened. But the selfish, commercial motive is not the only inspiration of the movement they have taken up. The social and moral uplift of the miner is the greatest incentive for a betterment of the mining situation. These operators purpose to employ a woman skilled in domestic science to engage in welfare work among the families of the miners, to teach them economy and cleanliness and to inculcate in them the principles of sanitation, and to pave the way for the social uplift of the miners as a class. Some time ago a colored missionary went among the miners of his race in the Kanawha field. He lived with them and studied their habits, knew how much they earned and how much they spent, and what they spent their money for. He came to some very wise and practical conclusions as to the reasons for their restless, improvident state. It was the waste of money, not the lack of it, that caused all their troubles, and the miner's wife was adjudgep in most cases a contributory cause to the misery. The husband spent more than he made, unnecessarily, and the wife wasasted more than she saved. In other words, the trouble was not so much the little that came in the front door, but the amount that went out the kitchen door into the garbage can. With such an aversion to the simplest methods of economy, it was no wonder the husband got in debt, and with drink added, he became morose and disatisfied, and naturally was easy game for the strike spirit. This particular description of the shiftless miner's condition can be applied to other industrial workers who, driven to despair by their own deficiencies, are only too ready to blame their woes on others. If in time they are taught the blessings of economy, not parsimony, and they are led to practice the simple virtues and their thoughts lifted to the higher things of this life, peace, comfort and contentment will follow, and humanization will succeed brutalization. That is something well worth striving for.—Wheeling Intelligence. HE IS WHITE. Briston, Va., Nov. 13.---Arrested on a charge of having criminally mistreated his seven-year-old stepdaughter, Watson Whittaker, 35 years old, is in jail hare, having been held to the grand jury, folelowing a preliminary hearing. It is charged that Whittaker ran his wife from home with a knife, having suspected that she had caused the warrant to be issued for his arrest. Cut Out "Religious Rags" in the Schools; Insult to Negro Race. Boston. Nov. 12.---The old plantation songs, "My Old Kentucky Home," "Oh, Susannah," "Mama in de Cold, Cold Ground," are insults to the Negro race, according to speakers, both black and white, who appeared today at a hearing before the School Committee. As a result of their protest, the committee voted immediately to withdraw from the schools a book of forty songs recently compiled by the Musical Director. The objections to the songs are based on the use of the words "darky," "nigger" and "coon." HONOR ROLL Of Northfork Primary School--3rd Month Grades 3rd, 4th and 5th, Ida E. Whittico, Teacher. Neither abstent nor tardy, 3rd grade—Arna Scott, Kashiyan Adams, Alvah Turner, and Tommy Davis. Fourth grade---Lona Bratcher, Lewis Wise, Weyman Pinkard and Lillie Bratcher. Fifth grade---Flora Mae Burger, Delia Hunt, Robert Huffman and Fanny Mae Claxton. Grades 1st and 2nd, Trulia Bridgeford, Teacher. Second grade---Beatrice Watkins, Lizzie Wright, Rosalie Adams and Virginius Watkins. First grade---Beatrice Brooks, Marie Davis, Savannah Harris, Helen Turner, Edith Turner, Alexander Hunter, Tommy Perry, Lee Thomas and Harvey Johnson. HEAR! HEAR!! HEAR!!! Everybody should be present at Calhoun's Hall next Sunday at 3:30 o'clock p. m. and hear the subject: "Has the Church lost its Influence Over the Masses?" discussed. Prof. J. O. Bryant, F. E. Alexander, Alyg B. E. Carter, T. Edward Hill, Dr. W. L. Colson, and other men of ability will take part in the discussion. The most interesting feature of the evening will be speeches on the subject by several ladies. Come, see and have them. There will be good music. Admission fee. --- LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. History Dept. NUMBER 30 NEGRO JUSTICE OF PEACE IN WHEELING Able Lawyer Files Expense Account; Elected by Large Majority. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 20—To Elijah J. Graham, colored, newly elected justice of the peace of Olay district, remains the honor of the first real expense account of the year. Of courses there have been others, but none over five dollars, which brings the whole matter down to almost a monenity. According to Elijah's account, it cost him $25 75 to get the election to the office. There were other reports filed yesterday with the county clerk, but this is the largest of any. The reports have not begin to come yet, in large numbers, and none of them have yet disclosed any real funny phases. Mr. Graham's expenses were: Ohas- trager, cards $180; Robert Thornton, distributing cards, $1; Martin Davis, distributing cards, $1; Wheeling News for cards, $275; Ohio County Executive Committee, assessment $10; Wheeling News, $1.25; E. E. Weitzel, for distributing cards, $2; Majority Printing Company, $3; New Auditorium Theatre Co., for advertising, $2; and the Majority Printing Company, $1.25, making a completed total of $25.75. NATIONAL CAPITOL Events of Interest From the Seat of Gov- ernment WHERE LINCOLN DIED. Washington, D. C., Nov. 28.—Directly across Tenth street from the old Ford Theatre building, in Washington, is a dull colored four story brick building, wedged in between surrounding structures that might have been preventions in the days of the Civil War. There are a number of restaurants in the block at the rear, and once an oil supply house did business close at hand. On two or three occasions there has been fire in the neighborhood. The dull colored brick building is decorated with a sign, an American flag always floats from one of the upper windows. It is the building in which Abraham Lincoln died. When the great emancipator was taken out of Ford's Theatre his condition was so critical that it was not deemed wise to take him to the White House, though that was only half a dozen blocks away. Instead he was hurried to the first house, immediately across the street, which served as a lodging house. There apparently was not even time to select the best room, for at the end of the hall entrance there opened a long and narrow bedroom. In this room Lincoln died nine hours after J. Wilkes Booth had committed one of the most dastardly deeds in history. The government of the United States purchased this building in 1897, paying $30,000 for the property. M. O. H. Oldroyd was induced to bring his Lincoln collection from the Lincoln home in Springfield, and install it in the building. For about a year the government paid him a salary, and then for the same peculiar inexplicable reason the stipend was dropped from the appropriation bill. Mr. Oldroyd was permitted to charge an admittance to the building, but for many years it was insufficient to keep up the expense, by burying the priceless reliics, and by "hook or crock" he kept the wolf from the door. He has over three thousand articles in his memorial collection pertaining to the martyred President, and many of these are almost priceless, but instead of parting with any of these when dark clouds hung low, he has added to the number of articles. The Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds keeps the old building in repair, but nevertheless it is neglected, melancholy looking sort of place. Mr. Oldroyd has for years urged that the adjoining buildings be purchased and torn down, and that the old house be enclosed in a new fireproof structure. He offers to sell his own priceless collection to the government at its own price. But there is no evidence that anyone is paying any attention, and while great politicians, including the President and Secretary of State, are worrying, themselves about the former home of Thomas Jefferson, which has been splendidly preserved under private ownership, they have evidently overlooked the fact that within a half dozen squares of the Executive Mansion a priceless relic—for such is this house where Lincoln died, is kept up by a patriotic Lincoln enthusiast, entirely on his own initiative and responsibility. To add insult to injury the local government of the District of Columbia exacts a tax of $180 a year on (Continued on page 4.) MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION WHITTICO & HILL PUBLISHERS & PROPRINTERS. M. T. WHITTICO, Editor. T. EDWARD HILL, Business Mgr. Articles of more than ten lines will be charged 10 cents per line. Published every Friday in the interest of the Negro Race---His Civil and Political Rights. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year in advance.....$1.50 Six months in advance......75 Three months in advance......45 One month in advance......20 Single copy.....05. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST Special rates to churches, schools and colleges. Subscribers changing their Post Office address must notify the publishers or else his subscription will be collected just the same as if he had not. Entered as Second Class Matter March 22, 1904, at the Post Office at Keystone, W. Va., under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1914. THE "JIM CROW" DECISION The decision handed down by the U. S. Supreme Court this week anent the Oklahoma "Jim Crow" car law is in keeping with the policy of that court with reference to questions effecting the rights of the Negro. Many years ago the highest judicia: tribunal in the country inaugurated the policy of refraining from rendering a clear cut opinion on questions effecting separate cars and disfranchisement laws wherever by legal technicality it could avoid doing so. Yet if the published report of the majority opinion of the court is correct something of material benefit has been accomplished because under the ruling of Justice Hughes railroad companies can be compelled to furnish Negroes dining, sleeping and chair car accommodations, but before they can get a decree they must show that these conveniences are denied by the railroad companies. The court does not rule upon the constitutionality of the separate car law but merely overruled the U. S. District court which declared constitutional the law which denied equal accommodation to all. It seems impossible to bring a case to the Supreme Court upon which it will hand down an opinion as to the constitutionality of these Southern discriminatory laws but the fight should be kept up until the legal status of the Negro in the United States is determined beyond a doubt. UPLIFTING THE MINER In another column of this is sue we reproduce an editorial under the above caption which appeared in the Wheeling Intelligencer. The subject is of vital interest to every person in this field because most of the people here either directly or indirectly make their living out of coal mining. The plan inaugurated by the operators of the Guyan field is a good one and should result in permanent benefit to the miner, his family and ultimately to the State and nation. A similar plan for uplifting the miner was introduced in this field by Rev. R. P. Johnson, pastor of the colored Presbyterian church at Kimball. The proposed plan was non-sectarian and had for its purpose the instruction of the colored people upon the various operations in their homes. The plan was tentatively accepted by the Peerless, Botton Creek, Tidewater and King coal and coke companies, but because of the opposition of Rev. J E. Pryor and other Baptist preachers some of the companies refused to participate and the good work was temporarily halted. The operators were willing to pay for this work of uplift but a few narrow, selfish and bigoted preachers opposed and thwarted a work which they knew to be good, because "I was not consulted." It is such diminutive souls as these that is bringing the Church and the ministry into disfavor and causing people to look to other influences for help and guidance. This plan should be perfected and put into operation throughout West Virginia; it will help the operator to get and keep better workmen and it will better the condition of the men and women living in mining communities. In whatever degree poverty, disease and crime are a solished society becomes safer, civilization higher and humanity better. TEACHERS, LEAVE YOUR SILKS AND SATINS, YOUR JEWELRY AND DIA-MONDS AT HOME WHEN GOING IN THE SCHOOL ROOM Teachers, leave your jewelry and diamonds at home when you start to the school room. Pull off those silks, frills, dills and dalls, and for common sense, dress correctly and appropriately before those poor little children you are commissioned to teach. Children are imitators and teachers, above all others, can best teach the folly, bad taste and gross ignorance of going in the school room either as teacher or pupil with your silks and satins on. Pull them off and put on good clothes, keep them clean and live within the bounds of your earnings. The Times is not presuming any undue authority, but believes it is right and timely to call attention to this matter upon which several persons have commented. Only a few of the well to do white people may be able to afford it, but we are satisfied none of our colored women teachers are able to do so on the salary paid in this county when food stuff is so high and times are as hard as they are under Democratic rule. You may get mad with us but that makes no difference. Take some of that money you are putting on your back and head, deposit it in the bank, buy your self a home, if it is no bigger than a "chicken house." Buy a home and stop aping the rich. We all know you. Stop it teachers, first, because you can't afford it. Second, because it sets a bad example. It encourages the child to want to live beyond ones means. Now this is applicable to but only a very few teachers. The most of them are using common sense along this line. Yet we know the verv ones to whom we refer will see this or else it will be shown her. Stop aping the opulent; live within your means; pay your debts and learn to "Be rather than seem to be." STATE TEAGHERS' ASSOCIATION The State Teachers' Association held in Bluefield last week was both well attended and much good was accomplished. Many able addresses by men of ability gave tone and dignity to the meeting. The teachers from all parts of the State showed that they were wideawake as to the educational needs of the race and by their annual increase in attendance, is an additional attestation of the importance of the responsibility recognized by the teachers in which they are held by the State. The local committee was equal to the occasion in their reception and entertainment of the teachers. They made everybody comfortable and happy. The Bluefield Colored Institute, under Prof. R. P. Sims and his excellent corps of instructors are to be congratulated for their royal, as well as cordial onertainment and commodious "halls" for the association's de liberations. Words of praise are being heard by all who attended and the meeting has been characterized as the best allround meeting in years. The young women and men are spending too much time, energy and thought on dancing, miscellaneous gaities and extensive wardrobes, and two little attention is given to the things that fit them for every day life. Many of them, and too often is it true that many of our women teachers don't read enough of current literature to give a decent answer on any phase of the European war, political matters, the result of state wide elections or any of the modern improvements in domestic affairs. Williamson News Williamson News --- The people of America, it has been said, like to be fooled; but this statement coming from a prominent showman must be taken cautiously. It may be true that the spectacular display of a big circus will catch the people, even those who have said, "Never again" But when it comes to intrusting a man with a high and important office, the average man, the man of labor and toil, will scrutinize his record before he risks his vote on him. And if after the election this man decries the people, he is dead politically, for they will hot give him a chance to twice deceive them. The men that have ascended to the steepest political heights in this nation have been the men who have been the idol of the common people. Washington, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, and McKinley are typical examples. These men were scrupulously careful not to break trust with the toilers of the land. Any party makes a mistake when it puts forward a man persona non gratia with the rank and file. They like a strong man to represent them and they trust him readily, but they expect the man they put, into office to commit no reasonable act against their confidence. We should congratulate ourselves here in the Sixth Senatorial District that we have such a solenoid character to represent us in the state senate. The Hon. Wells Goodykoontz has grown up from the ranks and has been tried and found sterling. He is a resident of Williamson, Mingo county, and there is no man in this county better beloved, and no man in Mingo, whose heart beats true for the common people. His high sense of honor, and this fidelity to trust will ever keep (Continued on Page 4.) New Coal Mining Company. The Lone Jack Coal Mining Company, of Iainger, McDowell county, with chief works in Sandy River district, has been chartered by the secretary of state. It has an authorized capital of $2,500 and its incorporators are John Damron, V. T. Strickler, Charles E. Horton, Eva Damron,' Calias Horton and Margie Strickler, all of Iainger. HONOR ROLL KEYSTONE ECKMAN GRADED SCHOOL Eighth Grade—E. L. Rann, Teacher. Neither absent nor tardy: Robert C. Berry, George Badget, Charles Penn, Letitia Epps, Jennette Morris. General excellence in studies: Jeanette Morris. Grammar: Letitia Eppe. Fifth and Fourth A Grades----Mrs. Annie R. Abbott, Teacher. Neither absent nor tardy: Hunter Johnson, John Goode, Arthur Crockett, Glady Taylor, Lorena Simpson, Ellen Canaday, Mabel Wilson. Spelling: Thaddeus Clay, Jos. Craft, Wm. Smith. Reading: Olivia Coleman, Angeline Rolberts, Mayme Sykes. Arithmetic: Lorena Simpson, Ned Slaughter. Three A and Four B Grades---Mrs. El mira F. Young, Teacher. Neither absent nor tardy: Wesley Clay, Jarris Howard, Nannie Witcher, Lillian Powers, May Marshall, Eula Powers. General excellence: Leona Hall, Jarris Howard, Madeline Stovall. Spelling: Norine Peatres, May Marsh shall, John Minnis. Arithmetic: Will Sawyer, Chas Smith, Mary Brooks. Hygiene: Jarris Howard, Darce Sawyer, Sallie Ootrell. Drawing: Lillie Powers, Minnie Willi iams, Elizabeth Lark. Three A and Two B Grades---Miss C. L. Sinkford, Teacher. (Report not given.) Two B and One A Grades---Miss N. L. Cobbs, Teacher. (Report not given.) One B Grate - Miss Rosa B. Bridgeford. Teacher. Neither absent nor tardy: Annie Mae Keeton. Reading: Annie Keeton, Irene Pendleton, Daniel Draft, Forest Hesser. Number: Benj. Lehod, Elizabeth Fountain, Daniel Dodson. Mrs. J. M. Lamkins and Miss Mary Robinson spent last Friday in Bluefield visiting. They called upon Dr. and Mrs. Rodgers at their home on Bland St. J. M. Lamkins and T. Edward Hill made a business trip to Bluefield Saturday and while there visited Dr. and Mrs. Rodgers, the "newlyweds." Among the teachers and their friends from Keystone who attended the State Teachers' Association in Bluefield last week were Mrs. Ida E. Whittico, Misses Rosa B. Bridgeford, Alberta Robinson, O. L. Sinkford. Prof. Roscoe Clarkson, of Bramwell, was a pleasant visitor in the city Sunday and was the guest of his many friends. Dr. J. M. Whittico, of Williamson is now in the Harrison Hospital at Kimball. It is gratifying to know that he is rapidly improving under the expert skill of Dr. Harrison. Dr. W. H. A. Barrett has been very busy this week since he returned from his pleasure trip to Raleigh, N. C. He was called to Bluefield to assist Dr. Lomax in an operation Tuesday. Dr. E. L. Youngue has made several trips to this city this week looking after the editor of The Times, who has been forced to his bed since Monday with La gripe and a touch of fever. He hopes to be out in a day or so. Joy and happiness with smiles and handshakes on the arrival of a fine daughter to Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Brown of Bramwell Tuesday. Dr. Harrison was the telegraph operator by whom the information reached our ears. Mother and daughter doing fine. Work is certainly picking up. It is gradually doing, but never theless is "picking up." Miss Nannie L. Cobbs returned ed Tuesday night from Lynchburg and Richmond whore she went on business with her brother and sister-in-law, Wilmur Cobbs of Bluefield. The Married Ladies' Social Club will entertain their "hubbies" at a reception given at Calhoun's Hall tonight. Attorneys Froe, Capehart and Carter have been very busy this week looking after the settlement of the estate of the late H. L. Lord. VULCAN NOTES The Search Literary Society is doing a splendid work. The society meets every Saturday evening. Subject for discussion Saturday night will be, "Resolved, that a man will go farther for the love of woman than for the love of money." ```markdown ``` Rev. Gamble, of Red Jacket, preached an able sermon here Sunday morning on the subject, "Life in Action." The young people are making rapid advancement in the B. Y. P. U. The following interesting program was rendered: Solo---Miss N. K. Coles, entitled, "If I could live to love you." Paper---Robert Dickerson. Solo---Miss Hazel Taylor. Paper---Miss Ethel Carroll, entitled, "An Ideal Suneay School Teacher." Recitation---Miss Lena Coles. Paper---Miss N. R. Coles, subject, "How to Influence Young Men in S. S. Miss Ethel Carroll, our school teacher, has returned from Bluefield where she attended the colored teachers' institute. She also visited her parents at Tazewell, Va. while on her trip. Miss N. K. Coles, our night school teacher, is showing a pleasing record of work. She gave an examination Friday night and the following records were made by the scholars in the 6th grade: Melvin Spicer, 90 pe cent Albert Anthony, 98 " " H. C. Coles, 98 " " W. M. Jones, 90 " Miss Valerie Pleasanthe, the teacher at Red Jacket, was visiting here Sunday. Stray Cow! Owner will please call and get her by paying for this add and feed. G. W. CLIFTON. I1-27 3t. Keystone, W. Va. Writing: Paul Day, Gay Holland. Grade One, Annex Building. Mrs. Helen M. James, Teacher. Neither absent nor tardy: Bernice Thompson. General excellence: Judson White, Vernal Moore, Gladys Martin. Reading: Fannie Dudley, Nathaniel Curry. Writing: Lula Bandy, Nellie Harris, Gladys Lybrooke. E. L. RAMN, Principal. DAILY-SUNDAY-WEEKLY West Virginia's Best Paper Circulates in every County in the State. Also in adjoining Counties of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Controls the Associated Press full reports; has a complete Staff of Correspondents; is represented in every town rnd State. Read the Register's war news if you want to keep posted on the European war For $1.00 The Daily Register will be sent from December first to March first, which will cover the period of the West Virginia Legislature. Better keep in touch with the State's Solons. SEND your ORDER fu NOW The Sunday Register NON POLITICAL Is conceded to be the best Sunday paper in West Virginia. It contains special articles. Special terms to Agents. $1,00 PFR YEAR Liberal Terms to Agents for Daily and Weekly THE WHEELING REGISTER JAMES S. TANEY, Geo'l. Mgr. WM. L. BRICE. Asst. Gen. M. Mcr. 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People from every walk of life have contributed their mite toward rescue work. Society has danced before the king; milady has decreed that the family wardrobe shall contain only cotton goods; the press has plead with the public to "buy a bale"; bankers have been formulating holding plans; congress and legislative bodies have deliberated over relief measures; statesmen and writers have grown eloquent expounding the inlandable rights of "His Majesty" and presenting schemes for preserving the financial integrity of the stricken staple, but the sword of Europe has proved brighter than the pen of America in rising value upon this product of the sunny south. Prices have been bayoneted, values riddled and markets decimated by the battling hosts of the eastern hemisphere until the American farmer has suffered a war loss of $400,000,000, and a hale of cotton, brave enough to enter a European port must pay a ransom of half its value or go to prison until the war is over. The Farmers' Union, through the columns of the press, wants to thank the American people for the friendship, sympathy and assistance given the cotton farmers in the hour of distress and to direct attention to cooperative methods necessary to permanently assist the marketing of all farm products. The present emergency presents as grave a situation as ever confronted the American farmer and from the viewpoint of the producer, would seem to justify extraordinary relief measures, even to the point of hending the constitution and straining business rules in order to lift a portion of the burden off the backs of the farmer, for unless something is done to check the invasion of the war forces upon the cotton fields, the pathway of the European postlifence on this continent will be known with mortgaged homes and farmhouse and poverty will stalk over the southland, filling the highways of industry with refugees and the bankruptcy court with prisoners. All calamities teach us lessons and the present crisis serves to illuminate the frailties of our marketing methods and the weakness of our credit system, and out of the financial anguish and travail of the cotton farmer will come a volume of discussion and a mass of suggestions and finally a solution of this, the biggest problem in the economic life of America, if indeed, we have not already laid the foundation for at least temporary relief. More Pharaohs Needed in Agriculture Farm products have no credit and perhaps can never have on a permanent and satisfactory basis unless we build warehouses, cold storage plants, elevators, etc., for without storage and credit facilities, the south is compelled to dump its crop on the market at harvest time. The Farmers' Unions in the cotton producing states have for the past ten years persistently advocated the construction of storage facilities. We have built during this period 2,000 warehouses with a capacity of approximately 4,000,000 bales and looking backward the results would seem encouraging, but looking forward, we are able to house less than one-third of the crop and warehouses without a credit system loss 90 per cent of their usefulness. The problem is a possible one—too great for the farmer to solve unadded. He must have the assistance of the banker, the merchant and the government. In production we have reached the high water mark of perfection in the world's history, but our marketing methods are most primitive. In the dawn of history we had agriculture plowing with a forked stick but with a system of wagons under governmental supervision that made the Egyptian the marvel of civilization, for who has not admired the vision of Joseph and applauded the wisdom of Pharaoh for stoling the surprise until demanded by the consumer, but in this age we have the many Josephs who dream and not enough Pharaohs who build. OVER A MILLION AND A HALF WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS IN THE UNITED STATES. Our government never faced so tremendous a problem as that now lying dormant at the doors of congress and the legislatures, and which, when accessed, will shake this nation from center to circumference, and make civilization hide its face in shame. That problem is—women in the field. The last federal cease reports show we now have 1,514,000 women working in the field, most of them south of the Mason and Dixon line. There were approximately a million negro slaves working in the fields when liberated by the emancipation proclamation. We have freed our slaves and our women have taken their places in bondage. We have broken the shackles off the negroes and welded them upon our daughters. The chain-gang or Civilization. A million women in bondage in the southern Fields form the chain-gang of civilization — the industrial tragedy of the age. There is no overseeer quite so cruel as that of unrestrained greed, no whip that stings like the lash of suborned destiny, and no auctioneer's black quite so revolting as that of organised avarice. The president of the United States was recently lauded by the press, and very properly so, for suggesting meditation between the engineers and railroad managers in adjusting their schedule of time and pay.. The engineers threatened to strike if their wages were not increased from approximately ten to eleven dollars per day and service reduced from ten to eight hours and a similar readjustment of the overtime schedule. Our women are working in the field, many of them barefooted, for less than 50 cents per day, and their schedule is the rising sun and the evening star, and after the day's work is over they milk the cows, stop the hogs and rock the baby to sleep. Is anyone meditating over their problems, and to whom shall they threaten a strike? Congress has listened approvingly to those who toll at the forge and behind the counter, and many of our statesmen have smiled at the threats and have fanned the flame of unrest among industrial laborers. But women are as surely the final victims of industrial warfare as they are the burden-bearers in the war between nations, and those who arbitrate and mediate the differences between capital and labor should not forget that when the expenses of any industry are unnecessarily increased, society foots the bill by drafting a new consignment of women from the home to the field. Pinch no Crumb From Women's Cruet of Board. No financial award can be made without someone footing the bill, and we commend to those who accept the responsibility of the distribution of industrial justice, the still small voice of the woman in the field as she pleads for mercy, and we beg that they pinch no crumb from her crust of bread or put another patch upon her ragged garments. We beg that they listen to the scream of horror from the eagle on every American dollar that is wring from the brow of tolling women and hear the Goddess of Justice hiss at a verdict that increases the want of woman to satisfy the greed of man. The women behind the counter and in the factory cry aloud for sympathy and the press thunders out in their defense and the pulpit pleads for mercy, but how about the woman in the field? Will not these powerful exponents of human rights turn their talent, energies and influence to her relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty enthroned at Washington hold the calloused hand and soothe the feverish brow of her selt who sows and reaps the nation's harvest or will she permit the male of the species to shove women—weak and weary—from the broad-line of industry to the back allays of poverty? Women and Children First. The census enumerators tell us that of the 1,514,600 women who work in the fields as farm hands 400,000 are sixteen years of age and under. What is the final destiny of a nation whose future mothers spend their girlhood days behind the plow, pitching hay and hauling manure, and what is to become of womanly culture and refinement that grace the home, charm society and culture man to leap to glory in noble achievements if our daughters are raised in the society of the ox and the companionship of the plow? In that strife between the ages of sixteen and forty-five are 950,000 women working as farm hands and many of them with suckling babies tugging at their breasts, as drenched in perspiration, they wield the sacky and guide the plow. What is to be come of that nation where poverty break, the war of the queens of the home; despair harms a mother's love from its throne and hunger drives innocent children from the schoolroom to the hoe? The census bureau shows that 155,000 of these women are forty-five years of age and over. There is no more pitiful light in civilization than these saintly mothers of Israel stooped with age, drudging in the field from sun until sun and at night drenching their dingy pillows with the tears of despair as their aching hearts take it all to God in prayer. Civilization strikes them a blow when it should give them a crown, and their only friend is he who broke bread with beggars and said: "Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." Oh, America! The land of the free and the home of the brave, the world's custodian of chivalry, the champion of human rights and the defender of the oppressed—shall we permit our maledicts fair to be torn from the heartstone by the ruthless hand of destiny and chained to the plow? Shall we permit our faithful wives, whom we covenanted with God to cherish and protect, to be hurled from the home to the harvest field, and our mothers dear to be driven from the old arm chair to the cotton patch? In rescuing our citizens from the forces of civilization, can we not apply to our fair Dixieland the rule of the sea—"women and children first!" There must be a readjustment of the wage scale of industry so that the women can be taken from the field or given a reasonable wage for her services. Perhaps the issue has never been fairly raised, but the Farmers' Union, with a membership of ten million, puts its organised forces squares behind the issue and we now enter upon the docket of civilization the case of "The Woman-in the Field" and demand an immediate trial. RAILROADS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT The Common Carriers Ask for Relief—President Wilson Directs Attention of Public to Their Needs. The committee of railroad executives, headed by Mr. Frank Trumbull, representing thirty-five of the leading railroad systems of the nation, recently presented to President Wilson a memorandum briefly reviewing the difficulties now confronting the railroads of the country and asking for the cooperation of the governmental authorities and the public in supporting railroad credits and recognizing an emergency which requires that the railroads be given additional revenue. The memorandum recites that the European war has resulted in general depression of business on the American continent and in the dislocation of credits at home and abroad. With revenues decreasing and interest rates increasing the transportation systems of the country face a most serious crisis and the memorandum is a strong presentation of the candle burning at both ends and the perils that ultimately attend such a conflagration when the flames meet is apparent to all. In their general discussion the railroad representatives say in part: "By reason of legislation and regulation by the federal government and the forty-eight states acting independently of each other, as well as through the action of a strong public opinion, railroad expenses in recent years have vastly increased. No criticism is here made of the general theory of governmental regulation, but on the other hand, no ingenuity can relieve the carriers of expenses created thereby." President Wilson, in transmitting the memorandum of the railroad presidents to the public, characterizes it as "a lucid statement of plain truth." The president recognizing the emergency as extraordinary, continuing, said in part: "You ask me to call the attention of the country to the imperative need that railway credits be sustained and the railroads helped in every possible way, whether by private co-operative effort or by the action, wherever feasible of governmental agencies, and I am glad to do so because I think the need very real." The conference was certainly a fortunate one for the nation and the president is to be congratulated for opening the gate to a new world of effort in which everyone may co-operate. There are many important problems in our complex civilization that will yield to co-operation which will not lend themselves to arbitrary rulings of commissions and financing railroads is one of them. The man with the money is a factor that cannot be eliminated from any business transaction and the public is an interested party that should always be consulted and happily the president has invited all to participate in the solution of our railroad problems. THE FARMERS THE CUSTODIANS OF THE NATION'S MORALITY. Co-operation of Church, School and Press Essential to Community Building. The church, the press and the school form a trialliance of progress that guides the destiny of every community, state and nation. Without them civilization would wither and die and through them life may attain its greatest blessing, power and knowledge. The farmers of this nation are greatly indebted to this social triumvirate for their uplifting influence, and on behalf of the American plowmen I want to thank those engaged in these high callings for their able and efficient service, and I shall offer to the press a series of articles on co-operation between these important influences and the farmers in the hope of increasing the efficiency of all by mutual understanding and organized effort. We will take up, first, the rural church. The Farmore Are Great Church Builders. The American farmer is the greatest church builder the world has ever known. He is the custodian of the nation's morality; upon his shoulders rests the "ark of the covenant" and he is more responsive to religious influences than any other class of citizenship. The farmers of this nation have built 120,000 churches at a cost of $750,000,000, and the annual contribution of the nation toward all church institutions approximates $200,000,000 per annum. The farmers of the United States build 22 churches per day. There are 20,000,000 rural church communicants on the farm, and 54 per cent of the total membership of all churches reside in the country. The farm is the power-house of all progress and the birthplace of all that is noble. The Garden of Eden was in the country and the man who would get close to God must first get close to nature. The Functions of a Rural Church. If the rural churches today are going to render a service which this age demands, there must be co-operation between the religious, social and economic life of the community. The church to attain its fullest measure of success must enrich the lives of the people in the community it serves; it must build character; develop thought and increase the efficiency of human life. It must serve the social, business and intellectual, as well as the spiritual and moral side of life. If religion does not make a man more capable, more useful and more just, what good is it? We want a practical religion, one we can live by and farm by, as well as die by. Power and Better Churches. Blessed is that rural community which has but one place of worship. While competition is the life of trade, it is death to the rural church and moral starvation to the community. Petty sectarianism is a scourge that blights the life, and the church prejudice saps the vitality, of many communities. An over-churched community is a crime against religion, a serious handicap to society and a useless tax upon agriculture. While denominations are essential and church pride commendable, the high teaching of universal Christianity must prevail if the rural church is to fulfill its mission to agriculture. We frequently have three or four churches in a community which is not able to adequately support one. Small congregations attend services once a month and all fall to perform the religious functions of the community. The division of religious forces and the breaking into fragments of moral efforts is oftimes little less than a calamity and defeats the very purpose they seek to promote. The evils of too many churches can be minimized by co-operation. The social and economic life of a rural community are respective units and cannot be successfully divided by denominational lines, and the churches can only occupy this important field by co-operation and co-ordination. The efficient country church will definitely serve its community by leading in all worthy efforts at community building, in uniting the people in all cooperative endeavors for the general welfare of the community and in arousing a real love for country life and loyalty to the country home and these results can only be successfully accomplished by the united effort of the press, the school, the church and organised farmers. CONGRESS DECREES DOLLARS IN DULGING IN LUXURIES MUST FIRST SALUTE THE FLAG. War Revenue Tax of $108,000,688 Levied—Bear Bear Brunt of Burden. Congress has leaved a war tax of $105,000,000 to offset a similar amount of loss on import revenue due to the European disturbances and of this ambulant beer is the heaviest contributor, having been assessed approximately $50,000,000; a stamp tax on negotiable instruments, it is estimated, will yield $31,000,000; a tax on the capital stock of banks of $4,300,000 and a tax on tobacco, perfume, theater tickets, etc., makes the remainder Congress has decreed that the brewer, the banker and the investor must shoulder the musket and march to the front; that milady who would add to her beauty must first tip Uncle Sam, and a dollar that seeks pleasure must first salute the flag; that Pleasure and Profit—the twin heroes of many wars—shall fight the nation's battles and by an ingeniously arranged schedule of taxation congress has shifted the war budget from the shoulders of Necessity to those of Choice and Gain, touching in its various ramifications almost every line of business. All the dollar that bleeds for its country; that bares its breast to the fortunes of war and risks its life to preserve the stability and integrity of the nation's credit. The market place has always been a favorite stand for war revenue collectors. The trader is a great financial patriot. His dollar is the first to rally around the star-spangled banner and the last to hear the coo of the dove of peace. He is called upon to buy cannon; to feed and clothe the boys in blue and each month cheer their hearts with the coin of the realm. Men can neither be free nor brave without food and ammunition, and money is as important a factor in war as blood. Many monuments have been erected in honor of heroes slain in battles, poems have been written culligoring its noble deeds and the nation honors its soldiers while they live and places a monument upon their graves when they die, but very little has been said of the dollar that bears the burdens of war. All honor to the dollar that answers the call to arms and, when the battle is over, bandages the wounds of stricken soldiers, lays a wreath upon the graves of fallen heroes and cares for the widows and orphans. All honor to the industries that bend their backs under the burdens of war; lift the weight from the shoulders of the poor and build a bulwark around the nation's credit. All honor to those who contribute to the necessities and administer to the comforts of the boys who are marching; cool the fever of afflicted soldiers and kneel with the cross beside dying heroes. A dollar may fight its competitor in business, industries may struggle for supremacy in trade and occupations may view each other with envy or suspicion, but when the bugle calls they bury strife and rally around the flag, companions and friends, mess mates and chums, all fighting for one flag, one cause and one country. The luxuries in life have always been the great burden-bearers in government. We will mention a few of them giving the annual contributions to the nation's treasury: Liquor, $250,000,000; tobacco, $103,000,000; sugar, $54,000,000; silks, $15,500,000; diamonds, $3,837,000; millinery, $2,479,000; furs, $2,024,000 and automobiles, $870,000. We collect $665,000,000 of internal and custom revenue annually and $450,000,000 of this amount classifies as luxuries, and to this amount we should add the $100,000,000 war tax now levied. The war tax is immediately effective. Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the industries are marching $100,000,000 strong and beneath the starry flag they will fill the treasury again while they about. "Hurrah for Uncle Sam!" In every field of human activity the demand for more competent men and women is growing every day. Especially so in agriculture. Home pride is a mighty valuable asset, and the farmer who has none is carrying a heavy handicap on the road to success. Work is the salve that heals the wounded heart. WE ARE LONG ON PRODUCTION, SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union The economic distribution of farm products is today the world's greatest problem and the war, while it has brought its hardships, has clearly emphasized the importance of distribution as a factor in American agriculture and promises to give the farmers the co-operation of the government and the business men the solution of their marketing problem. This result will, in a measure, compensate us for our war losses, for the business interests and government have been in the main assisting almost exclusively on the production side of agriculture. While the department of agriculture has been dumping tons of literature on the farmer telling him how to produce, the farmer has been dumping tons of products in the nation's garbage can for want of a market. The World Will Never Starve. At no time since Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden have the inhabitants of this world suffered from lack of production, but some people have gone hungry from the day of creation to this good hour for the lack of proper distribution. Slight variations in production have forced a change in diet and one locality has felt the pinch of want, while another surfeited, but the world as a whole has ever been a land of plenty. We now have less than one-tenth of the tillable land of the earth's surface under cultivation, and we not only have this surplus area to draw on but it is safe to estimate that in case of dire necessity one-half the earth's population could at the present time knock their living out of the trees of the forest, gather it from wild vines and draw it from streams. No one should become alarmed; the world will never starve. The consumer has always feared that the producer would not supply him and his fright has found expression on the statute books of our states and nations and the farmer has been urged to produce recklessly and without reference to a market, and regardless of the demands of the consumer. The city people have been urging each other to move back to the farm, but very few of them have moved. We welcome our city cousins back to the soil and this earth's surface contains 16,092,160,000 idle acres of tillable land where they can make a living by tickling the earth with a forked stick, but we do not need them so far as increasing production is concerned; we now have all the producers we can use. The city man has very erroneous ideas of agricultural conditions. The commonly accepted theory that we are short on production is all wrong. Our annual increase in production far exceeds that of our increase in population. Taking the world as one big farm, we find two billion acres of land in cultivation. Of this amount there is approximately 750,000,000 acres on the western and 1,260,000,000 acres on the eastern hemisphere, in cultivation. This estimate, of course, does not include grazing lands, forests, etc., where large quantities of meat are produced. The world's annual crop approximates fifteen billion bushels of cereals, thirteen billion pounds of fibre and sixty-five million tons of meat. The average annual world crop for the past five years, compared with the previous five years, is as follows: The world shows an average increase in cereal production of 13 per cent during the past decade, compared with the previous five years, while the world's population shows an increase of only three per cent. The gain in production far exceeds that of our increase in population, and it is safe to estimate that the farmer can easily increase production 25 per cent if a remunerative market can be found for the products. In textile fibres the world shows an increase during the past half decade in production of 15 per cent against a population increase of three per cent. The people of this nation should address themselves to the subject of improved facilities for distribution. Over-production and crop mortgage force the farmers into ruinous competition with each other. The remedy lies in organization and in co-operation in marketing. The Negro Civic League of Raleigh County, an organization not purify political in its nature, but so broad and flexible in its principles that almost immediately it can throw its great strength upon that side of any public question that tends towards the uplift of the Negro people. This league was organized in February, 1014, for the purpose of bettering the condition of the Negro citizens of Raleigh county through organized efforts. When the question of better schools arise, it furnishes a focus discussion; when public office is to be filled, "men and measures" is the slogan. It is designed to furnish the Negro citizen with information as to his economic and political strength as well as to use that strength in the interest of his home, his race and his country. Hercetofore boodle and booze have been the great inducements to pull out and poll a large vote in any particular direction, but henceforth business and broadness shall direct the course of the Negro citizens of Raleigh county. The Negro Civic League is designed to make plain that under our dual social system, the entrance of the Negro into public life becomes imperative. The man who neither eats at any table, sits at any fireside nor learns in any school is not prepared to represent men anywhere or in anything. When he is burdened with the responsibility of legislating for us, instead of becoming a stateman scientific and exact, he is forced to the class of the mere politician opportune and vacilating. It is the theory of the Negro Civic League that no man is capable of planning our educational system who does not know our aspirations and habits of thought. In other words we would not change the dual social system, but do advocate the theory that a representation in public office of each wing of the system will save the government of the people, for the people and by the people from perishing from the earth. The Negro Civic League meets on the third Saturday of each month at Beckley and is making a strenuous effort to secure the membership of every worthy Negro citizen of Raleigh county. Five and Ten Cent Store Opened in Kimball Five and Ten Cent Store Opened in Kimball The town of Kimball is boasting of having a first class up to date 5 and 10 cent store. Mrs. Phoebe T. Grimes and Miss Georgia Lockett, two of our industrious and energetic teachers are the proprietors of this new and novel enterprise. They have a full line of goods of every description. Don't forget now this is strictly a 5 and 10 cent store. You who want to save money in these Democratic hard times need only to call at the Five and Ten Cent Store in Kimball, run by Mrs. Grimes and Miss Lockett, next door to our popular Sq. Crider's office. Case Continued There was no action in the U. S. Federal Court at Charleston upon the third indictment against the publishers of The McDowell Times. The case was continued until the June 1915 term of that court. Mr. Whittico is confined to his bed because of illness. Mr. Hill put in an appearance at Charleston and returned home Thursday. To Our Readers We expected to have a full and complete account of the proceedings of the state Teachers' Association which was held in Bluefield last week and of the wedding of Dr. Rogers of Bluefield which took place in Kaleigh, N. C., on Nov. 20, but the persons designated to write them up failed to send their copy in. We will have a full account of both affairs in our next issue. (Continued from page 1.) the oldboy Lincoln Memorial Collection —a collection valuable because it contains 101 original varities of photographs of Lincoln, the last piece of handwriting by the martyred President, a brief note hastily scribbled as Lincoln started for Ford's Theatre that fateful night of April 14, 1865. There are books Lincoln used, articles of household furniture, caricatures of his administration, 255 funeral sermons and addresses an eulogies, an original black locust rail split by Lincoln in 1880 with affidavits attesting its genuineness, his mother's family Bible, and hundreds of other similar relics. "SEEING THINGS" IN WASHINGTON. Wandering about through the archives of one of the government Departments recently a correspondent scanned yards and rods of old state papers. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are among the "hand made" documents, and all of the old presidents and statesmen from Washington down to recent White House occupants have left legacies in the way of reams of public papers which prove, at least, that the old boys were not afraid to work. They did good work with their quills as one can see by examining the copies of Jefferson's famous masterpiece, which brought the soldiers of King George the Fourth to our shores where our colonial daddies made them eat dust. Passing into the very next room I came upon a dozen young ladies pounding the keys of Royal typewriters, a comparatively new machine that is plumping the older makes in many of the branches of the government, because it is said to have excelled the other standard machines in the government tests. As I stood and watched a young lady pounding out 121 words a minute of new matter on one of these machines I thought of what a dickens of a time the novelist whose name is spelled the same way, only with a capital D, must have had grinding out those volumes that we all bought "a dollar down and a dollar a month." But heaven perish the thought of what a literary gent with such a capacity would have done to humanity in this age of modern invention, deft typists, and the Goddess stenographer. And there in two adjoining rooms I had accidently run into a live story of the past and present. I recalled a press assignment that took me into a small town where there were none of these modern contrivances of maiden, note book, pencil and machine, and where I broke my wrist on three thousand words. Now Jefferson, Jackson and the original John Henry had similar experiences, but when I found this little blood turning out more words in half an hour than all of us old veterans could have produced singly in a whole day by the now primitive method of "doing it by hand," I was more convinced than ever that it is a blessed thing to live in this year and month when state papers can be made on Royals by beautiful young ladies. Williamson News (Continued from page 2) him above the small ways of the crafty politician. His reputation here in his home town where he has labored for years, is unimpeachable. He leaves a splendid law practice to serve the people of the Fifth Senatorial District and he will do it admirably. His political sum is just rising and I trust he may have a greater opportunity to serve the people of the Sixth Senatorial District and the nation. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Mattie Shannon was married to Mr. Sherman Webb on Thanksgiving night. The wedding took place at the A. M. E. Church, Rev. J. A. Gipson performing the ceremony. The church was crowded to its capacity. The electric lights were covered with red papers so that a most delicate, soft tinge fell upon the assembly. Many ferns, palms and other beautiful flowers decorated the alter. Miss Turner was brides maid and Mr. Hill was best man. A reception followed the marriage at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Jordan. Am not much on describing dress, but I want to say the bride certainly took presentable and fit for a king to take unto himself. --- "Our doctor," as the colored people of Williamson affectionately refer to Dr. J. M. Whittico, is in Dr. Harrison's Hospital, Kimball, confined with typhoid fever. Our heats and sympathy go out to him and we pray that he may be specially restored to us. Dr. J. E. Brown, recently of Bramwell, is with us taking care of Dr. Whittico's practice. --- Miss Georgia Warren and Viola Spencer have returned from attending the teachers' institute held at Bluefield. The choir of the A. M. E. Church gave a splendid entertainment at the fall on Thanksgiving night. Miss Susie Jones, the leader deserves great praise for the splendid showing of the choir, which is a credit to the city of Williamson. Will Vaughan spent Saturday and Sunday visiting friends in Huntington. Welch Undertaking COMPANY Funeral Directors and Embalmers WELCH, WEST VIRGINIA Telephone CHAS. H. 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This handsome structure is now owned absolutely and entirely by the Stock holders of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association and is a fine illustration of what can be done by concentration of effort and united action: It is indeed a splendid achievement, and should give new life, new hopes and new inspiration to every Stockholder, and every Member of the Order and the Race. Let no one hastate longer to subscribe for stock in this great corporation—The Pythian Mutual Investment Association—for in due time it is sure to pay handsome dividends on the money invested. TAKE STOCK RIGHT NOW $10.00 is the price per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask the agent in your locality about it or write to this office. THE PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION L. O. WILSON, President, Weston, WANTED 10 EXPERIENCED Good Salary or Comm MORE THAN $48.157. THE AMERICAN W NAAL INSURA Pays Sick, Accident Old Age Endowm further particulars D. E. V. 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Denny ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Real Estate and Insurance Box 101 Box 445 LESTER, W. VA. BEOKLEY, W. VA. Miners and C Can always Steady w Crystal Coal On Crane Creek Notice to Take Depositions. Kate Kesler vs Julius Kesler. In Chancery To Julius Kesler: and Coke Men Can always find Steady work at Crystal Coal & Coke Co. On Crane Creek Take notice that on Nov. 2, 1914, at the Law Offices of S. B. Moon, in the town of Wilcoe, Mc Dowell 11 county, W. Va., between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of that day, I shall proceed to take the depositions of myself and others to be read as evidence in my behalf, in a certain suit in equity, depending in the Circuit Court of McDowell county, wherein I am plain-iff and you are defendant; and if from any one the taking of the said depositions be not commenced, or, if commenced, be not concluded, on that day, the taking thereof will be adjourned from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall be completed. Kate Kemler.